Bert Kreischer 2 | This Past Weekend #268
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 46 minutes
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221.0973
Summary
Burt Kreischer's new comedy special, "Hey Big Boy" is streaming on Netflix right now, and you should definitely check it out. In this episode of Secret Time, Burt talks about his new show, "The Burtcast," and what it's like growing up in the 70s and 80s in Los Angeles.
Transcript
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Today's episode is brought to you by Gray Block Pizza. Gray Block Pizza is a specialty pizza shop.
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And it's a shop where you can get that pie, boy.
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So what I'm saying to you is go get it. If you think you can get some, then you can.
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Gray Block Pizza, 1811 Pico Boulevard on the way to the beach in Los Angeles.
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Today's guest is the host of The Burt Cast and has a new comedy special on Netflix
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which you should check out right now called Hey Big Boy.
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Did he really? I've seen him swimming before. I've seen the way he swims. I'm not surprised he
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stroked his way into something. He swims well, but not like I would swim.
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You'd think those basketball players would be Olympic swimmers.
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Yeah, well you could really, first of all, getting in the pool, you're a third of the way there.
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Dude, I had a joke. Tell me when you're rolling.
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Okay, perfect. I had a joke in my last special Secret Time.
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Not this special, Hey Big Boy, which is streaming right now.
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Ralph Sampson, basketball player. He died of cocaine.
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By the way, it was the end of my Netflix special so no one watched it.
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But he gave a speech to us when we were at Villanova for basketball camp.
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And the two takeaways was, number one, he works hard.
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He said the whole time his sister learned how to swim, he just practiced dribbling and basketball.
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And my whole thing, I'm sitting and listening to this speech and I go,
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who the fuck needs to learn how to swim when you're seven feet tall?
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Anywhere in the pool, you're still halfway out of the water.
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But by the way, these basketball players would make such great swimmers.
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Manuk Boll, that fucking stroke, he'd be scraping his knuckles on the bottom of the pool.
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He could grab onto the pool and just drag himself across.
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By the way, all that's happening is Siri is going, you love Maui?
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If you set your phone and say, hey, Siri, turn my phone off, it can't do it.
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You have to hold both buttons, the other top button.
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It's that screen grab button, too, the whole time.
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Yeah, all this coronavirus going on, and my phone was like, you've actually spent 60% less
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It's because of the special, and all press was taken away.
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But now, were you excited because people are at home, they need something to watch?
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I wouldn't say excited, because it's true, but my parents and all my parents' friends
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are at home, but they're not at home in a fun way.
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And so, for me, I would much rather have done the press I had set up, done the promotion
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I was going to do the call and stick to work show.
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Call and stick to work show yesterday, St. Paddy's Day.
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Doors open at 10, show starts at 11, me, Bill Burr, Jim Jeffries, Sebastian Maniscalco,
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Just send it out to my fans on my phone number, 323-208-0844.
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We had all this shit planned, and then they called it.
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And by the way, now this is the inside baseball part.
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David Spade, Norm MacDonald coming by, stop by for the call and stick to work show.
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But my plan was, this is the way my brain works.
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And then all you ask for all your friends is, yo, give me a shout out on your social media.
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And then you get in front of like 70 million people on Instagram, fucking 20 million people,
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100 million people on Twitter that'll go, hey, check out my boy, Burr Chrysler.
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Do you feel like coronavirus is, are you really 100% sold on it?
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Here's what they just came out today and they said like blood type O doesn't get it.
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Cause you know, he was one of the five doctors going, Hey man, can you get me on your TV
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He's such a fucking, I know he's such a thought.
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Sanjay Gupta is probably the first famous Indian guy.
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It's like the, it seems like the easiest thing to do.
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Cause your parents don't want you to be hip Indian.
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This guy named Shonk that I know, this guy that used to go to UCLA, dude is hip, bro.
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So the thing about Indians, you don't know, stereotype that they don't get out there, big
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He's like, I don't know if you know this, but they got big dicks.
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Bro, everybody's starting to get on this big dick train.
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You know, big dicks used to be, that was a way to oppress minorities is to say they
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This whole podcast has gone that direction already.
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I don't know if you've seen Ari Shaffir's dick.
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But also, he looks like he would have a dick that doesn't look right.
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And his balls look weird and his asshole bleeds.
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It looks like it's trying to get off of his body.
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Because that's two totally different things, man.
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Oh, and he's got dick that goes right off the body.
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My dick's got body around it, like, pushing it back.
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So your dick's almost being held back by the sides of it?
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My body looks like it's stopping my dick from a fucking.
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Ari's when Ari, after Ari drugged me, I said, I don't blame Ari.
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And you know, his dad probably wasn't the greatest dad.
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So ultimately, it all falls on Hitler's shoulders.
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You know, you got to stop the cycle of trouble.
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You know, someone always learned it from somebody else.
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First time I ever heard the M word, I was in first grade.
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And these black kids came into our neighborhood.
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And there was a poor black neighborhood like across Nebraska.
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I'm like, damn, this dude did not live by black people.
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I saw a note in a bottle one time in the river.
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And they hit them from your shoulder real quick.
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So these black kids lived across this main street from us.
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And then they came into our neighborhood, I guess, and stole my football.
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My football had a Duke Jr. with a shoelace, a tan shoelace as the strings.
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So there was a little part of the shoelace sticking out.
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So they came into our neighborhood, and they asked if they wanted to play us a football.
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And these two brothers, Daryl and Darren, were like, yo, they must.
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I mean, when I remember this story, I feel like they were 18, 17.
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And they were like, no, this is his football, this other little black kid.
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I was wearing a loincloth and knee-high moccasins.
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I don't want to skin my knees when I suck your dick.
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Do you mind if I pull my pants down for some cushioning on my knees?
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Mind if I take my shirt off and just tie it around both of my knees?
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Hey, is it cool if I take my shoes off and put my knees in my insula?
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I don't even think you shouldn't even be gay, little guy.
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By the way, anyone who does that, you're like, this isn't your first time sucking dick.
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Just sitting on your feet and kneeling on your fingers.
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Oh, bro, actually, if you had to blow some, dude, that's not a bad.
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Like, I would go through all of those things before.
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I've gotten down with my wife on the side of the bed with my knees on the wood floors.
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But anyway, so these black kids come in the neighborhood, and they fight this kid.
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And I was like, I've never been in a fist fight.
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And then Daryl and Darren looked at me like, are we going to have to do this for you?
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And I was, in my head, I was like, give him the fucking ball.
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Daryl fights one of the dudes, or Darren, one of the younger one fights a black dude.
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And it's like five black kids and then seven white kids or eight white kids, more white kids because it's our neighborhood.
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And the dad starts chanting, fight, fight, and we're in a white.
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And here I am, just some first grader in a loincloth and knee-high moccasins, just fight, fight.
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And then I said the word in front of my dad, and it was fucking over.
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My dad took me down to their fucking house, walked me down, stood in the fucking thing.
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And we moved out of that neighborhood a month later.
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A month later, we were out of that fucking neighborhood.
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And he had a thing at Tubba, like a margarine bowl of gasoline.
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And there was this abandoned house that these people left.
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Why do people leave an abandoned house by children?
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Especially, did you ever break into a abandoned house when you were a kid?
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Dude, there was an Asian couple that my friend's parents were watching their house.
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He was like, you want to go in and see their house?
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But I'm saying like no one at Florida knew Asians then.
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Walls were like turquoise blue with big Buddha statues.
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He was like, oh, big feathers coming out of vases.
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He goes, yo, hey, want to go swim in their house?
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And he goes, meet me back in my house with your swimsuit.
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They got like a Doberdoodle or something like that.
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They had to mix them because the purebreds were getting all these fucking problems in
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their body because they were breeding, like overbreeding.
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If Hitler won the war, blonde chicks would be walking around with hip dysplasia.
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If I have to walk for a long time, like if I have to walk for a couple miles, it gets
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Yeah, just like I kind of get that shake, you know?
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But yeah, the N-word, man, it'll fly out of you, you know?
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That's why a long time ago, I used to have a joke where I said, I don't say the N-word
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I don't say it because if your tongue gets used to it, if you say it a bunch behind doors
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or whatever, and you feel comfortable saying it, one night you'll get drunk and your tongue,
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it'll slip out of your mouth and you'll be in the wrong fucking place.
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If someone says it, you go, all right, we're good.
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I'm just saying, you can't ever be the person to say it first, bro.
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But I think a lot of stuff where you can't use, like, yeah, you can't use the word, right?
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But I think also, like, I think sometimes, oh, fuck, I can't remember what I was going
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I think the only place that still really uses it is mostly music these days.
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I've never, I mean, I heard white people say it growing up in the South.
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I mean, all of us that grew up in the South heard it.
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And heard white people use it at a McDonald's or some shit, and there was no cameras around,
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But, yeah, the only place you really hear it's music.
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I mean, my bus driver's black, so I hear it all the fucking time.
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Yeah, but it's like I told the girls, one time the girls were in the car, and they go,
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So they tell me the joke, and they're like, dot, dot, dot, dot.
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And then the punchline, they're like, he's a midget.
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And I was like, hey, guys, you can't say that word.
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And they're like, no, it was just describing a person.
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But you can't say it, because if you say that word, and someone's, you know, a little person,
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And my daughters look to me, and they're like, they're not in the car, Dad.
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And I was like, yeah, you'd think it would work that way.
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And then Brad Williams came to my house, and I was like, I go, bring the girls in the man cave.
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And they lit up like, what the fuck are you doing?
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Yeah, dude, I remember they had, I remember fishing with a black buddy of mine named Devin,
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and he went to jail, actually, for murder or alleged murder.
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But we were fishing, and some kids were up on the, like on this railroad track,
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like up this embankment from this river, and they started throwing rocks and calling us the N-word, right?
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I mean, yeah, you definitely had some people that, like, I mean, I think racism is just kind of like,
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How crazy would it be if coronavirus, if black people couldn't get coronavirus?
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Someone said that they can't, but then Idris Elba got it.
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Why wouldn't they just go, ta-da, I don't have it anymore.
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He just stands there on stage and he's like, I'm aging.
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When I was growing up, you knew not to say the N-word.
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If somebody beat your ass, that's how you knew.
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Like, I heard it when we lived in that neighborhood.
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And then I never heard it in our new neighborhood.
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And all the kids that grew up with him would drop the word.
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Like in a Louis C.K. way, if it was the punchline of a joke, meaning towards Kari.
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And they were like guys that he grew up with his whole life.
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I heard it fucking, well, I went to Florida State and we were segregated.
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I ran into this woman the other day who went, a black chick my age, who went to Florida
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And I said, hey, did you ever take the Safe Escort?
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That's what I was, I drive them around campus in like a K car.
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It was like the fucking biggest beater you could ever have.
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It's like an old, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that was it.
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And so, and man, they would, what would happen is you knew if the black chicks called on a
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Saturday night, because you, it was just taking people to the libraries where you're supposed
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But if the black chicks called on a Saturday night, you knew they wanted to go to FAMU from Florida
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And we weren't allowed to drive to FAMU, but once they got in the car, you had to take
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So what would happen is they go, they go, we have a pickup at Devaney Hall.
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And so you'd pull up and then she'd like wave to you and you go, hey.
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And as she waved, they'd pile in the other side of the car and she'd get in.
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So I would just talk hip hop with them the entire time.
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It was like the funnest for me because I loved hip hop.
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And so we would just, I'd be like, what are you guys listening to?
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And I was driving them for like fucking 20 minutes.
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There was no player and there was no player in there.
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No, there'd be so many people in those seatbelts.
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What do you guys put your shoes in, your knees in your Asics where you blow a guy?
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I guess they had like, I didn't, I don't know if I felt like I saw a lot of racism.
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I never hung out in like a redneck type of area.
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Like I felt like there was more, there was also a lot of racism from black to white too.
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Like black kids weren't like, hey, like us, you know?
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It's funny, you always have anger from like previous generations.
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Like it's always like, the shit's always so misdirected, you know, I feel like.
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Like, I told a story in one of my specials about my first throw, Uncomfortably Dumb,
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about one of the first fight, like full blown, not fight, I say fights.
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Like in high school, there were fights where it was a big fight and you stood on the outside
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And then there were fights where you got sucker punched or hit with something.
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Dude, I got hit with a fucking, some dude hit me with a bunch of encyclopedias.
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And by the time he got to Ebro, I fucking gave up.
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I know everything about anteaters, arborgs, bees, caterpillars.
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The first fight I was in where it was like squared up one-on-one, bro, that is a terrible.
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You know Cowhead, you know Cowhead, Mike Cowhead, right?
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Found him and found his daughter and said, we'd love to have you come in studio and corroborate
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He would shake his fucking IROC to warm up for a fight.
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He gets in a fight with this guy Mario and there's a bunch of black dudes around.
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And I run in to see, I want to watch the fight, right?
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And the second I peek my head in, Mario's unconscious.
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And as soon as I put my head in, they go, here's another one.
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Yeah, because we're wearing the weight uniforms.
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That's the worst about people outside of a fight.
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I had never, like, I was just trying to apologize.
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And then I realized, oh, he was just going to beat me up.
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Squaring up's the worst, especially if you've never done it.
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I've had to square up twice against one dude, two dudes in my life.
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Do you remember the story when we were doing Reality Bites Back?
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Right when we were doing the So You Think You Can Dive episode.
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And for those who don't know, it was a show on Comedy Central that was, it was a great,
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But it was, in my memory, it was like $8,000 an episode.
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And so all of us looked at it and were like, it's a 10-order episode.
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All of us are like, we're getting 80 fucking grand.
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And the winner gets like a quarter of a million dollars, whatever, or $100,000.
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And then we got there the first day and realized, oh, if you get kicked off, you don't get eight
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So only episodes you were on, you got eight grand for each episode you were on.
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I did an episode of Something's Burning with him, and we ended up smoking weed and just bullshit.
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The first day, the very first day, we're sitting at that mansion outside in Encino.
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It's me, you, Red Grand, Donnell Rollins on the step, if I'm not mistaken.
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And Kyle Cease came up, and he had the hat that said, week one.
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He had a hat made out for every week, week one, week two, week three, week four.
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And he goes, and Donnell goes, yes, son, that's right.
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He goes, no, no, son, you should have a hat that just says week.
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And then Kyle goes, Donnell, I think it's spelled differently.
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Me, you, Red Grant got naked in the bathtub with Lunell.
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And the president, Lauren Correo, is at that shooting, president of Comedy Central.
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And what happened is, Me, you, and Reg get passage the next round.
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And they go, your reward is you get to shower and bathe with Lunell.
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And she just got fucking wasted with her and had a blast.
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And Lunell goes, I'm taking off my drawers or whatever.
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And pulls her bathing suit bottoms off and throws them out.
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Go back to that information, if you don't mind, Nick.
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Someone sent me a zip drive that has all the episodes, too.
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I have it on a drive someplace if either of you want that.
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That was when, like, look, people, I think a lot of people in this business take ownership
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of when they find, when they feel like they discover someone.
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You know, like, there's a lot of agents that do that.
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I will say, without a doubt, without a doubt, me and Amy Schumer became the biggest Theo Vaughn
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Like, I remember me and Amy looking at each other and being, like, you were so funny and
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I swear to God, I'd pay $100,000 to have all the footage, raw footage, and cut my own
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Because there were times where you'd leave Michael Ian Black just like, huh?
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He was like a white supremacist, I felt like, the way he dressed.
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I remember we go, we were all talking and we go, so what do you hope this show gets you?
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He goes, that's the only reason I'm doing this show.
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Yeah, he always had this white supremacist vibe.
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He does have a vibe of like the bad guy in a Harry Potter movie.
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He definitely looks like he would be giving a speech about, hey, you know, sorry.
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He looks like he doesn't blink his eyes at night.
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I remember we connected because both our wives are older than us.
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And his wife's older than him and my wife's older.
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I feel like what I'm hearing is you don't like the tacos.
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Mr. Boucher, come on in here and let's get a shot of this pudding.
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Now, if you'll excuse me, I got to whisper some sweet nothings of this pudding.
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You ever run into people like you were fans of as a kid that are fans of yours?
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Oh, I run into this lady from In the Heat of the Night.
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Can you bring up a picture of that show, actually?
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But when I saw her a couple times at different restaurants, I accosted her mildly outside of the credit union, outside of the SAG-AFTRA credit union.
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And I just told her, I said, hey, I'm just such the biggest fan.
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Man, you talk about the Me Too and all the fucking racism and fucking sexism in Hollywood.
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I bet she'd appreciate the fact that we at least knowledge it.
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No, Gary Goldman is teaching people how to fucking be comedians over daily tweets.
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Sometimes I see his advice and I'm like, I don't think I'm doing comedy right.
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Yeah, because he had the little guys get kidney problems.
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You know, they gave him a lot of grief towards the end of his life.
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They put him in a show called Midgets vs. Mascots at one point.
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Can you imagine the Michigan State Trojan fighting a couple of midgets off outside of a bakery
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I love how Hollywood acts like regular people are the problem when they're doing shows called
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If you choose my question, who at the University of Michigan was like, yeah, yeah, I think
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If a bunch of little people show up and say, hey, this is the show we want, you have to
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Why would they pick someone they definitely can't beat?
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Yeah, I think they put regular hiding people into the mascottery, into the uniforms.
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Can you believe that, that they have that kind of stuff, dude?
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Do you think that there's going to be, that we'll be able to get back to regular humor
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Because, yeah, because, right, like, I'll tell you right now, when this special, when
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we were editing this special, I have, uh, who is she?
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She got a question for us, actually, but we'll get right into that, about your statement.
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Let's get this question real quick right here from Allie.
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This is Allie from Niagara Falls Canada calling.
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Wondering if there's any topic that is off-limits or off the table regarding your daughters
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I'm always shocked when you see a pretty person that has seen your stand-up and you're like,
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There's only been one subject that Isla asked me not to talk about, um, but, like,
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I talk about her period, Isla getting her period in the special.
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Although, I gotta be honest with you, I don't know.
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He's flying around the country telling people about my period.
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Like, I, you know, you don't put any thought into it.
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So, I'm on the road with, at the time, it's me, Segura, and Ian Bagger doing Irvine and
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Brea every Tuesday, every Tuesday, Wednesday, right?
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The first joke I wrote about the girls was, um, Isla was a baby and she had, uh, she,
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And George is like, dad, you got to see baby Isla's new trick.
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And Isla takes her finger, shoves it up her ass, and puts it in the dog's mouth.
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And that's the first joke I wrote about my daughters.
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And so I go, and so I tell that story on stage and both the, Ann and Tom are like, bro, that's
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And so then, no, then Isla's maybe two or three.
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You start writing jokes about your kids and they're definitely not seeing it.
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And then I do the machine and I put all those stories I have in about the girls and it starts
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I do secret time and that's when they were like, they were like, hey, like, like kind
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This one, they were like, yo, run everything past us first.
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And so I had to run the period joke past Isla and she was, uh.
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Did you sit down and talk to her about it kind of?
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I told her, well, I put it, here's what, you know, me, man, I put her on fucking Instagram
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So the day it happened, she gets her period, she wants to throw a period party.
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I told just a part of the story on Conan and it got 20 million views immediately.
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So like, she's like, I mean, I don't want to ruin it, watch this special, but I get all
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Dude, you're going to love, dude, you'll love this bit.
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But my point is, I put it all on Instagram stories that night because I'm laughing.
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She's like, hey, big boy, I need you to take that down.
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I don't mind people knowing I threw a period party, but I don't want kids in my school knowing
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And then I go to Louisville that next weekend and I talk about it.
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And just that reaction you just had is the whole room's having it.
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But the weird part, you know me, I'm a meathead.
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Is women are connecting with it going, like cheering for Isla, which I think is cool.
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And I was like, hey, I want to do a part of that story on Conan.
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I think that the thing that you're doing is going to be good for little girls and other
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And if the trauma, the George, when George had her period, she was a fucking nightmare.
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And I said, the trauma George went through, you can help them avoid that.
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Because Isla didn't want to go through what George went through.
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So she just circumnavigated and went, I'm going to celebrate this moment.
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But then the next day, my email gets flooded with little girls emailing me, like their parents,
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their parents are emailing me from their daughters, like this, my daughter wants you to read this.
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And letters coming into my manager, like, hey, I was really scared about getting my period.
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And they go, and by the way, we just welcomed Daryl to our family.
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And so it was, so like, I don't, I don't have any limits.
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Whether or not it goes into a special is like another thing.
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Like, and I know it's getting, it's getting touchy for Georgia.
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Yeah, because they're, yeah, I could imagine, but yeah, I could imagine that that's a lot going on.
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And when she starts fucking up and you want to talk about it, you know, she's going to be like,
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can you imagine if you're, if all your fuck ups?
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Here's a white guy right here with something to say.
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My question for Bert is how excited are you for all that new material you're going to
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get for being quarantined with both your daughters?
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And then my question for both you guys is, do you ever go back and watch your old Netflix
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specials and try to build off that for your upcoming shows?
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Yeah, I'm, uh, it's only been two days, so I'm not super excited yet.
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You start picking out little things that you, I mean, you know that like there'll be something
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that happens where you go, that's not it, but this may be a part of it.
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And so like right now, Isla is, uh, obsessed with puns.
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So anything you say to where she replies in a pun, I guess there's this, some guy on the
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You can bring him up, but he does really good ones.
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Do you, when you prepare for a special, do you watch previous specials?
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I've never, honestly, I've never watched my old special.
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Um, you know, I saw it whenever we're editing it and putting it together.
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I, I wasn't really, I wasn't that super, that stoked about it, but.
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And when, before we changed our house around, I remember exactly where I was.
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Like, I remember seeing you getting ready for it at the Hollywood Improv.
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I mean, I think that's just my head, you know, it's like you want.
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So like, press has been very weird for this special.
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Cause did you have a lot of places to go that you were lined up together?
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I lined up across the board and then, and then, you know, everything happened and they just pull
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That's it for the whole special for fucking podcasts.
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You're one of the few people that didn't cancel on me.
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Can we push it like a week and just see what's happening?
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And I'm like, I'm like, man, unless someone's, you know, unless you're showing any symptoms
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and by the way, everyone's been fucking quarantined.
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The rules 10 or under it's 10 or under and they're being safe on that.
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So like me and Segura did a podcast this morning.
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Everyone's like, look, people are fucking working.
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You can't not make a living or entertain people that are locked up in their houses.
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By the way, I wouldn't mind one of us just getting it and spreading it to all of us and
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I wonder if at some point there will become a line where it's like the affected get to
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do stuff and the unaffected don't get to do it.
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Where you're like, ah man, if you don't have herpes, don't party with us.
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Dude, I thought if one day there was like a, what if one day they come out with a drug
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But only some people get it, you know, and some people don't.
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And there's just going to be that crazy like cutoff.
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Like they're going to decide like, well, you're over 45.
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So you don't get it, but under 60 gets it and the government has it.
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And it's like, it's just going to be this crazy.
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Right where they draw the line and you got to fucking pick it.
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And marriages, your wife would be two years, three years older or whatever.
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Ooh, that's not a bad way to get out of a marriage.
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I mean, it's the law, you know, what am I supposed to do?
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My point is, my point is to yours, because I loved your special and you think in your head
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you didn't like it or you're afraid that people didn't like it or whatever.
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And what happens when you do press for a special is it really gets your mind off of it.
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So these first few days when people are sending in tweets and Instagrams and you don't really
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look at it because you're busy working and promoting and texting and, you know, hitting
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And so then you don't really realize it until like come Friday.
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And then by the way, come Friday, everyone's there for the weekend.
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I mean, all you can remember are the jokes you're not proud of.
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And then this morning was the first time I did any real legit press where I called into
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radio stations and they were like, oh man, I love that joke you have about beating your
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Or the, I had a joke that, I had a joke that, uh, went that they memed like it.
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I wrote it 18 months ago, performed it, filmed it November and then 50 cent put a, put it
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And it was like, and I didn't get any credit, but you know, it's a good joke when it gets
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And so it's not until you get fucking texts like from like Segura or cow head or like my
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I thought that shit, I was so terrified that that special just sucked.
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That everyone was just being nice to me because I'm a nice guy and people like me.
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You're just like, oh, everybody's just saying that because people are like, I watched it
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I remember I did a podcast with Rogan and he goes, he said, I mean, you can find this clip
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Like, I'm looking at like, are you being serious?
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Like those compliments are like the way, like Tom Papa said, man, I loved your special.
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I have one, what's one joke that you wish you could take out of a past from that?
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You're just like, oh, it was just, it wasn't, it's not me anymore.
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I have, um, I don't like the way I named, I titled my, my first special.
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Cause it was back before clickbait was a thing, but I, but we knew what clickbait was, but
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we didn't know what it was and it wasn't, there was nothing really racist in it, but
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Now I'll watch old clips and like, oh man, that seems kind of racist now.
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It wasn't like, we've also gotten so fucking in Hollywood have gotten so sensitive on the
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I forget how it went, but I remember, I remember someone explaining it to me, like showing me
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from a woman's point of view, how that's tabid aggressive.
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I was like, I was like, I tried the sensitive approach.
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No, I go, I go, you know what women hate when you grab them by the back of the head and
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I go, I tried the sensitive approach, you know, slide it in their mouth while they're sleeping.
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Just like, you're dreaming, you're dreaming, you're snorkeling in the keys, feel the fish
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So like I, those, I remember this girl going like, it sounds like you're raping your wife.
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She's like, and I was like, oh yeah, I guess that is a little insensitive, but what are you
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It was actually, a lot of women were like, thank you for not waking me up to fuck me.
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I guarantee you if my wife could find a way that I could fuck her while she slept, she
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A lot of wives would consent in advance to saying yes, please.
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I had a joke in one of my specials about, I took it out because it just didn't sound
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I go, you ever had sex with someone who didn't want to have sex with you?
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Not rape, but like, ever fuck your wife when she doesn't want to fuck you and she's
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She's like, no, I don't want to be doing this at all.
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And you're like, no, I just want to go to Target and I don't want to deal with an asshole.
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Yeah, you've always been a big proponent of it.
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Yeah, but I'm a big, I was a better, I was, I'm a better married dude than I am single
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I mean, I look at like you and Delia, I know Delia's now got a kid, but like I look at
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you, Delia, and like that group of guys who all kind of were like untethered and I go,
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that must be nice to like go like, I'm going on the road.
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You know, I'm going to stay on the road and then just go snow skiing and then go into another
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city or I'm going to do a movie and disappear for a month or, or like, or like in times like
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this where you go, I don't have to worry about like financially, I'm good for a couple
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years, you know, but now as a, as a parent and these happen, you start worrying about
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your kids, you start worrying about finances and you're like, you're like, I know I'm
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good, but like for how long and how long, like if, and by the way, if shit goes sideways,
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Like say the economy never recovers, never for like five years and like, and no one goes
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I don't really have any more fucking skill sets, but you could disappear and go bartend,
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be the fucking funny bartender and make a hundred thousand dollars a year.
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Yeah, but no, I think there's definitely like, yeah, there's a, it's definitely, you
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start to see guys like Sebastian got married and started a family, you know, you start to
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see, yeah, Brett Ernst, you see guys start to have kids and stuff.
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You're like, oh man, I guess, I guess this is something that I have to do if I want to
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You know, I just have to, at some point I got to start to go down that road, you know,
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You don't want to find some Muppet, you know, you don't want to find some fucking
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dust Muppet out there who's, you know, copping grams when you're not around or doing shit
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I've had some chicks sell some of my shit, you know?
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When you were partying, did you date like sketchy chicks?
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Uh, I've always kind of dated some real, so a couple of real sketch balls.
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I don't know if I've made good girlfriend choices.
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It's just like the messing around choices where you're like, oh, wait, what's the worst?
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Don't tell me your name, but just tell me like the worst.
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So there was a girl that, um, I don't know if she was the worst really, but there was a
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girl who, uh, there was a girl who had taken a bunch of stuff from a holiday in, right?
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And, uh, and this is back when holiday and put wrote holiday and on their, like, uh, on
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the shower curtains and stuff in their showers and the soaps and everything.
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No, but I'd hooked up with her at her place and then I took all that stuff and redid her
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bathroom in it and put all holiday and shit in there, but that had nothing to do with
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I think she was, uh, there was, and then I cheated on her.
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You know, trying to think, I mean, I'm sure some, Oh, I remember one time hooking,
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up with this young lady and she's like, Oh, you can bust right inside of me, you know?
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And I'll immediately, I made me not want to even be around her as that just revolted
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me to my core that she was just, you know, just even like, I'm not going to ejaculate
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If I'm having sex, we have sex for a little while.
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What do you just, I'll just ejaculate later by myself or I'll, or I'll ejaculate, you
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know, at a future time, you weren't jerking off for a while, right?
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I've struggled recently, but I'm doing my best, you know?
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Uh, Oh, and the girl goes, yeah, you can bust inside of me.
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She goes, uh, I was like, I don't want to do all of that.
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That's what she yelled out of a fucking car window behind a fucking, uh, what's the place
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I'll just say me and an octopus didn't get along.
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Oh, so that still ruminates inside of me sometimes.
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It makes me sad that I ever hooked up with that girl.
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I dated sketchy chicks, but never, I never fucked them.
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I was, for a while, I wasn't even good at sex at all, man.
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And I'm still never, I've never been good at it.
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I'm like, literally, I don't think I can get AIDS.
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It's like the five second rule when you drop something on the ground and you pick it up.
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You should see pictures of when I was skinnier.
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And when I gained weight, my head looked normal on my body.
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Like, I have a big, I have a big head, like a size, like, put this on your head and feel
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I feel like I'm, no joke, I'm in a studio apartment, like, hold on, I'll go over here
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Normally it looks a lot better, but I'm starting to get gray streaks in my hair.
01:00:45.280
We got a question right here from a guy named Jean Gu.
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Given that Theo is in a 12-step program, and a big part of that program is acceptance
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and forgiveness, do you think that you would ever forgive Ari Shafir for unintentionally
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Do you think he wanted to do it like just – do you think there's something in him
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that's like, I got to get a rise somehow out of things?
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It doesn't matter if it's like, you know, just his vibe of humor with the Kobe stuff.
01:01:43.760
You know, like – or not just Kobe, but all of that.
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I'll say number one, I think Ari's always succeeded on those outer barriers of comedy,
01:01:59.200
meaning really pushing the edge, really finding the boundary, and then jumping over it.
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Case in point, the Kobe thing, the – I'm not going to go through Ari's list of the things
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But even the picture of him naked on the stage, like he's always at the – you know,
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he's always on the – he's always – he's on the dark side of the moon a lot of times.
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I think – I do think there's a part – I think there's a part of Ari that thought,
01:02:25.280
if we do a podcast and I slip him on Molly, it's going to be the most epic podcast ever.
01:02:30.720
Everyone will talk about it for the rest of their lives.
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And I think that was a part of his thought process.
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But I do think that part of his intent was, this is going to be a blast.
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Like, he was like, I should have checked to see if his kids were in the other room.
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My wife was making dinner for both of us to have dinner with the girls because my girls loved Ari.
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And he's like – and he didn't check that I was flying that night.
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So there's a lot of things Ari didn't, like, check the boxes for.
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And it was – I mean, it's super regrettable because I still love Ari, and we're still friends.
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But, like, if my daughter sees me texting with Ari, she'll take my phone.
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And that – I'll never release the podcast because I just don't – I know for a fact Ari thinks it's epic,
01:03:33.580
but I've talked too much about it, and if you watch it, you'd know too much about my feelings about what happened.
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As opposed to if I had never spoken about it and I just released it, it would have been – I mean, it would have – it would have – I think it would have probably gone off without a hitch.
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But I talked about it so much that I just – I feel like it's not fair to show – it's not fair to show Ari being somewhat insensitive to a friend who believes he was drugged and may die.
01:03:58.860
Because Ari's just – he's high and he doesn't care, and I'm freaked out and I'm having a panic attack, and you can definitely see all that.
01:04:07.060
Will you one day put him behind a paywall, you think?
01:04:19.880
Like, if you – say you heard – you were like, oh, there's outtakes on Reservoir Dogs where they lose – remember there's outtakes on Lily Tom and Losing Her Mind on Dustin Hoffman or someone during a movie?
01:04:37.160
And you, as a fan, as a fan of podcasts, as a fan – like, a perfect example, right?
01:04:43.000
When you and Bill Burr did a podcast and everyone was like, bro, what the fuck happened there?
01:04:54.960
It didn't register for me the way it did for other people, but I ran right to it.
01:05:17.480
I can pick up on hints of it, but, like, it wasn't what I wanted to see.
01:05:20.940
So I know as a fan the idea that you'd want to watch me and Ari – me get drugged.
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But I'm just afraid, protective of Ari, especially with all the Kobe shit that went down.
01:05:33.140
Had I released it and that Kobe shit gone viral, people would have grabbed that and it would have –
01:05:41.480
Now, when it happened, Dr. Drew said, you know, just so you know, by you telling me this, I have to call the police.
01:05:51.200
So if I put it out there, it would have been – I think it would have been a bad – Ari disagrees 100%.
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If he makes it big, which on the rate he's at –
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He's just fucking sabotaging himself left and fucking right.
01:06:09.100
He's the guy that killed Kobe Bryant pretty much.
01:06:12.300
And a lot of – yeah, and a lot of poorly written articles, you know.
01:06:15.080
Here's the guy – and look at this – the guy was flying the helicopter.
01:06:27.520
And I think that when he does film this special called Jew – I think it's called Jew.
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When he films this special, I think it's going to be huge.
01:06:38.700
And I think people – I think it'll really – I think people will see the artist as opposed to – like, the comic that we've all known.
01:06:46.620
The sensitive, sweet, fucking, hilarious Ari Shafir as opposed to bloody ass rag.
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By the way, that's still part of his personality.
01:06:54.700
Doug Stanhope will piss on you, and he's one of the most genius comics in the world.
01:07:06.520
We didn't – like, I remember asking if he wanted to talk about it one day on the podcast and just through texting, and then I never heard back from him about it.
01:07:22.340
Because here's what is frustrating to me is that – it's not even frustrating.
01:07:33.300
But, like, the part of Ari that apologized and the part that I talked to on the phone at the end of the month when we hadn't spoken for a month, and he had texted me every single day going, like, I want to talk to you.
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That guy talking about it and talking about his experience through that way is so fucking fascinating.
01:07:53.440
The part of him where it's – where he shuts off and deflects and goes, what?
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From more human space and not from a character.
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Like, his – like, me and him talking, the first time we talked, I was driving to a Planet Fitness in an Uber, and me and him talked.
01:08:21.180
And we were just back and forth, kind of having our first conversation in a month, but giggling and kind of like, like, yeah, that was a fuck deal.
01:08:29.860
Like, I'd say something like – and then instead of going, like, deflective, he was fucking – but you know what?
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That's me asking him to do comedy, and that's offensive.
01:08:40.160
For me to go, hey, this is how you should talk about it.
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My point is, I would love – that side of Ari, I would love to hear on a podcast.
01:08:49.000
I mean, yeah, he's such a – he's definitely a sweet, nice dude.
01:08:51.980
I think he just has this wild character that is –
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He's like the Jesse James kind of, like, thing.
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There's a part of Ari that's a fucking legit wild card.
01:09:12.200
Dude, how do you beat up Bobby Lee three times and then go back and beat him up one more time, though?
01:09:38.480
You and him are the two dudes in recovery that have never, ever been browbeady or like never been like –
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you know, like when I say shit like, oh, yeah, I'm not drinking right now.
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And you're like, yeah, I'm having a hard time sleeping or whatever.
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And I don't know what I said to you last time, but I said something about not drinking.
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And then I was like, all right, I'm out, I'm out, I'm out.
01:10:02.800
But both of you and Bobby Lee have always been cool about whatever fucking thoughts I have out loud,
01:10:10.680
So as you know, some dudes are a little bit like, hey, man.
01:10:18.680
You run an open mic out of Burbank, and I'm not trusting my life with you at all.
01:10:22.420
I'd much rather be a failed alcoholic than fucking your sidekick at a fucking AA meeting.
01:10:42.980
It gets like a little bit more sentimental, I think.
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The mixed ones, there's always that element of like impressing women or seeing what's going on a little bit.
01:10:52.340
You know, because they got a lot of bottle thoughts out there.
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A lot of chicks who give up the liquor just to get a man, you know?
01:11:00.420
By the way, I can see myself totally getting sober because of a chick in AA.
01:11:06.980
And then falling off with her when she wanted to fall off.
01:11:24.060
So it was like, I think it was Franklin and Highland.
01:11:28.260
So everyone went to the Starbucks and then walked across the street to the school or library or what it was.
01:11:33.200
It was in like an auditorium, library type setting.
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And you go in, they give you the book, and you're sitting down first, and then they're going around.
01:11:43.380
And then the guy I was with, this really cool dude, and he—
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We had been dating for like four months, and she dumped me because I got drunk at a party, and I wouldn't let a fight go, like an argument with her friends.
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And I got drunk, and then I couldn't rebound emotionally from that fight.
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I got drunk, and I lost a chick that I loved, and I don't want that.
01:12:14.840
And if I want to find chicks I love that I want to keep, I got to be sober.
01:12:20.000
I tried to learn French once to get a woman back.
01:12:29.260
I made a mixtape, and I drove down La Brea sobbing, crying.
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Sobbing, crying, and put it on her car like a mixtape with a letter.
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This is how bad I was hurt when Leanne dumped me.
01:12:46.200
I went into my shower because I didn't want anyone to hear me.
01:12:51.100
I didn't want to sit on the ground, so I brought one of those exercise balls in.
01:12:55.960
But it couldn't fit through the door, so I had to deflate it, crying, bring it into
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the shower, crying, re-inflate it, crying, and sit on it, crying.
01:13:04.960
You're trying to breathe deep when you're crying, too.
01:13:07.200
And so I'm sitting on ... I lived up on ... It's a street called Glencoe.
01:13:20.380
I was ... Not out of any other thing that I've been crying this whole time.
01:13:26.620
And so this dude comes out, lived up there, and he goes ...
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And I said something about it, because he was a ...
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So he used to be a sober coach, so they'd hire him.
01:14:01.420
They'd hire him to go with huge actors to their movie to keep them sober so that they
01:14:08.120
Denzel Washington is a man everybody talks about a lot of times he gets real sober for
01:14:15.340
So this guy, then ... That's what he did for a living.
01:14:23.500
No, yoked, good-looking dude, Harley, Connie Corso dog, like just the fucking ... He was
01:14:30.240
And so he just ... And he knew all the talk, man.
01:14:33.540
But he was like ... He had been sober for a while, and he'd been doing this so long.
01:14:37.440
And he tried to get you in, and he took you to a meeting.
01:14:39.300
No, all he said was, he goes ... I said, I'm thinking I'm going to quit drinking for a
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And he was like, hey, sometimes it's easier to just go, let's just take today.
01:14:54.920
And he goes, and if you need help today, why don't you come to a meeting with me?
01:14:59.580
And I was like, man, my fear was I was going to start drinking because I was so depressed
01:15:05.780
And so I said, I'll go ... I was like, I'll try anything.
01:15:23.960
And it's like four guys from me, and he hits me, and he goes, hey, listen.
01:15:29.440
If you want to talk, if you want to talk about what you're going through, everyone's
01:15:40.180
So I'm sitting, and then it gets to me, and I go to stand up, and this guy next to
01:15:46.340
He goes, actually, I'm having a really rough day.
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And so I sit back down, and he goes, hi, my name's ... I'm an alcoholic.
01:15:53.240
And everyone's like, hi, ... And he goes, oh, it's been a bad day.
01:15:56.560
I woke up this morning, I sucked my landlord's dick, and then I lit his car on fire.
01:16:00.600
And I, as a comic with Theo, I went, how do I follow that?
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And then I fucking ... I was like, never went back to another meeting.
01:16:13.640
And then I stayed sober for eight months, and Leanne and I, one night, we're in Venice,
01:16:24.780
My problem, if there is a problem, my problem is turning it on and off.
01:16:29.700
I don't really do it the way regular people do it, where I don't drink during the days.
01:16:39.300
So like eight o'clock or seven o'clock, Sun starts setting, I go, I wouldn't mind a glass
01:16:43.920
But once I stop drinking, like we do sober October, I have no problem not drinking.
01:16:48.980
And by the way, I have a hard time starting drinking again.
01:16:55.760
Like it's not every night, but it's pretty much like any night I'm on the road.
01:17:02.540
Being sober on the road was really tough because you get done a show, and you're just sitting
01:17:14.040
And so, and I was working, I was being so healthy, but you, I don't know, when I can
01:17:21.600
I feel like if I'm out there, especially like I'm out there on a tour bus and stuff like
01:17:24.500
that, I would just, yeah, I would probably just be getting hammered out there.
01:17:30.740
What was this question we had right here from a young fella or woman?
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But how do you drink so much and stop for Sober October?
01:17:52.860
I can't even imagine just stopping drinking like that without any program or anything like
01:18:03.480
I don't know, you just, you just make a decision.
01:18:06.540
I mean, you know, do you now ramping up until October?
01:18:09.500
Are you like, okay, September, I'm going to drink as much.
01:18:13.520
I got to, I got to, we're going to have this last night is going to be a big party.
01:18:19.700
No, actually, usually I'll quit drinking a couple days before.
01:18:23.800
No, just because like I go, I don't want to ramp up and be hung over October 1st where
01:18:30.000
I'm like, oh, I'd rather have that shit day here so that if I need a glass of wine to go
01:18:36.080
to bed, like if I'm like, you know, I'm going to have a glass of wine.
01:18:38.360
So like I'll kind of taper it off and then, and then I just stopped.
01:18:44.300
I got fucking wasted, uh, September 30th or whatever, and then turned it off the year
01:18:51.480
before I kind of tapered off a little bit the year before that.
01:18:54.300
I think I, I think I didn't drink because the rule is you can't, you got to stop drinking
01:19:01.280
So you can't, you can't build up to midnight and then go, I'm done.
01:19:05.560
So like I always tapered off a tad bit, but, uh, I don't know, man, I have a weird thing
01:19:12.540
I'm very punitive and I'm a little obsessive compulsive.
01:19:25.880
I'm not drinking right now, this time of my life.
01:19:28.600
And so we got a lot of work to do too right now.
01:19:33.700
I'm like, dude, last thing I'm gonna do is fuck a bunch of free time up with booze.
01:19:37.100
It's like when you go on vacation, my biggest mistake when I was younger is I'd go on vacation and get
01:19:42.040
Come home and be like more tired from the vacation than I was with my wife.
01:19:45.240
I went on vacation one time to Hawaii and my wife's like, no booze.
01:19:59.040
When I'm out there, I feel like I'm supposed to be out there.
01:20:02.540
You know what we did in Fiji, we kind of floated the reef where they drop you off and you just
01:20:21.460
I talked to Dr. Drew about it, why I get to this place where I shut it down and then
01:20:25.740
And then I'll tell you right now, man, if I don't drink for this whole time we're off or
01:20:29.740
whatever time we're off, I'll have a really hard time starting again.
01:20:33.220
Do you feel like you have to drink because of your show and because of your act?
01:20:35.960
I think people would be really, I think people would probably look at me different.
01:20:41.340
I think people look at my show as like a reason to tap out and have a good time.
01:20:48.020
I'm also the guy that like, when I go to a party, like with parents, I'm the guy that
01:20:52.720
gives everyone a license to get a little loaded.
01:20:55.120
And I don't, you can never tell when I'm wasted.
01:21:07.280
But, but yeah, I don't know how I, I don't know.
01:21:14.120
He goes, I think you're going to have health problems if you continue the way you do it.
01:21:24.720
I've been texting him about like mental health shit.
01:21:28.180
I've talked about it, but no one really knows too much about it.
01:21:35.320
I think that probably leads to me drinking, but there are times where I just like, can't
01:21:41.660
And when this coronavirus kicked off, I was like, I was like, I wouldn't leave in the
01:21:47.940
Like we, I like, I was like, yeah, I'm safe here.
01:21:53.220
And it's where it's just at your place right now.
01:21:56.640
But, uh, but like I wasn't like, we were driving across country with Drew from New Orleans
01:22:00.520
to, uh, LA and I just was like, I just wasn't getting out of the bus.
01:22:06.680
And I was, it was like, they didn't know what was going on.
01:22:08.880
So everyone's with me, but I could, my head was just chewing the same thoughts over and
01:22:20.380
He's such a really, yeah, just his tone and everything is a good way to communicate.
01:22:24.120
We had a question that came up right here from a young woman.
01:22:34.660
If there's no Tito's available, what's your, what's your other go-to drink?
01:22:40.300
And Theo, back in your, uh, your drinking days, what was your, what was your go-to drink?
01:22:49.060
Well, I like to do a Miller High Life was a beer that I really enjoyed.
01:22:56.660
And it's a beer that I always, that I thoroughly enjoyed was a Miller High Life.
01:23:00.180
And I, and I used to live with a man who would eat Tostitos at night and drink Miller Lite.
01:23:05.660
So sometimes I'd sit in the living room and watch him.
01:23:07.400
He didn't know I was sitting there in the dark watching him.
01:23:08.980
And he'd be on the computer looking at pornography and shit, eating fucking Tostitos and drinking
01:23:15.320
But yeah, when I was drinking, what else did we have?
01:23:22.920
A lot of the brothers would fucking let you hit that ripple jug, you know?
01:23:26.460
And, uh, but yeah, once we got into college, beer, you know, and then once I got out of
01:23:33.600
there, I went through a gin and tonic phase over there in Charleston, South Carolina.
01:23:41.780
If you don't talk too much about booze, like I'll literally get my hopes up.
01:23:45.520
Like I'll go, like you, you, you can sell me on a drink where I go, I got, I might need
01:23:50.420
I talked to someone today and he was like, I'm having a white wine.
01:23:56.640
And then my, it's like four in the morning to me.
01:24:00.440
And I was like, God, I want a fucking glass of white wine.
01:24:03.180
I don't, I don't have a problem getting back on.
01:24:05.960
Look, you'd like me walking my way into back drinking tonight.
01:24:19.700
We just had Georgia and we used to go over to her house in like, oh, down on Pico.
01:24:27.040
My sister and I would make gin and tonics and we'd make dinner.
01:24:32.360
My other sister would come home and we'd all grill out, have gin and tonics.
01:24:36.300
Gin and tonics remind me of Monday night football.
01:24:42.200
I don't remember what it was called and just stand out there and look at the grass and have
01:24:45.960
They had like, you know, like a lot of like marsh grass and palmettos and stuff like that.
01:24:51.860
So this is in South Carolina and we drink nine of them, 11 of them, man.
01:24:55.840
Fucking drink those bitches till your eyes wouldn't close, you know?
01:25:02.440
I couldn't get my eyes closed if I had enough, too much gin.
01:25:06.700
I don't really love the taste of Tito's and sodas.
01:25:12.420
Like, I love the taste of a Bloody Mary, a strong Bloody Mary, spicy.
01:25:23.520
Dude, I had a period where I couldn't drink IPAs because I was drinking one in the morning.
01:25:30.140
I had to jump off the stratosphere that day, that next day.
01:25:33.020
And I was in the shower in Utah, and I had a, they called it a gravity jug, and it was
01:25:36.760
like a really strong IPA, and I was getting ready to go on a plane.
01:25:39.480
I'm drinking in the shower because I don't want to fucking fly.
01:25:42.880
And I'm running late for the flight, and I drank too much, and I threw up an IPA, a
01:25:58.880
Because those tannins and stuff from that oak or whatever gets into your gills.
01:26:04.160
Because I can't drink it because I'm on blood pressure medicine, is grapefruit and vodka.
01:26:42.720
Yeah, man, I am really specific about how I take drinks.
01:26:45.280
But look, I think also, I think men, as they get older,
01:26:47.960
they get specific about how they take everything.
01:26:50.060
It's not like, don't give me this, just like I'm 19 again.
01:26:53.840
It was when you were a kid and you'd have to call your dad
01:27:00.560
Now it's like you know exactly how you want things.
01:27:05.560
It was like the first time you ever bought a car
01:27:18.480
But I think the guy stole it back, the guy I bought it from.
01:27:20.960
Yeah, I never really went into it, but I do think that.
01:27:31.380
And the guy showed you things and you were like,
01:27:35.220
And you had to make all these decisions on your own.
01:27:46.180
And I remember looking at it and going, this is the car.
01:28:00.140
Middle of the night, that thumb started hurting more
01:28:10.760
that's probably the most pain I've ever been in my life.
01:28:16.320
it's amazing kind of sometimes what's in there.
01:28:18.180
You know, you wonder what's in your hands all the time.
01:28:43.040
Surely we can squeeze a big bike ride or something out of you.
01:28:50.940
you hit the other end of the spectrum too, man.
01:28:55.460
I rode a bike from Philadelphia to Atlantic City.
01:29:02.040
Dude, that was probably the hardest thing I've ever done
01:29:06.480
but I was at my biggest I'd ever been weight-wise,
01:29:12.140
There's a lot of gunplay over there in Philly too.
01:29:30.740
We're talking about swimming in the Catalina Channel,
01:29:39.020
and Dave wants to swim in the Catalina Channel.
01:29:43.560
I might as well train for it and see if I can do it.
01:29:55.340
Well, get a couple tattoos of meat on your legs
01:34:22.560
And then I started getting obsessed with Norm MacDonald.
01:34:24.440
He's a guy that could write a knock-knock joke.
01:34:27.240
Who could take a standard structured joke and then,
01:34:51.120
I would like to challenge myself to write a guy walks into a bar joke.
01:34:56.640
And I think it's probably the best joke I've ever written,
01:34:58.260
but I don't think you'd know it's a guy walks into a bar joke until if I,
01:35:08.840
which I think is one of the better bits I've ever written.
01:35:37.320
there's definitely a thing of learning to be proud of things.
01:35:49.440
Take a look at where you've challenged yourself.
01:35:51.840
Like I heard a joke that you threw away the other day.
01:36:02.360
And I thought old Theo would have hung his hat on that joke.
01:36:06.300
he would have sat every night on stage where you are today,
01:36:08.460
because you've challenged yourself and taken fucking big strides.
01:36:11.420
Now you're fucking where you're at in standups next fucking level,
01:36:15.700
We always challenged ourselves when we were younger.
01:36:19.320
If you stayed where you were at an open micro and you were like,
01:36:42.760
there's a couple of cheap jokes that I really liked that.
01:36:54.140
in San Francisco and you sat down and you told a,
01:36:58.600
like a solid eight minute story about that Mexican man that went to school
01:37:05.540
You would have never had the balls to do that in what was like 800 people.
01:37:10.160
You would never have the balls to do that when you first started,
01:37:13.140
but you challenged yourself and challenged yourself.
01:37:15.560
And I think we have to keep doing that as comics.
01:37:33.060
I know that probably guys like Rogan will probably be like,
01:37:44.020
you don't have to fucking sit here like a workout class.
01:38:27.260
I'll do this exact same thing for the rest of my life.
01:38:59.960
And I literally turned a middle finger to everyone in Hollywood.
01:39:06.800
And then everyone came at me with a project and I passed on everything.
01:39:28.720
it's who the fuck wants to be a movie with Mark Wahlberg?
01:39:55.880
I can be in this lane and then do other stuff around.
01:40:08.380
And he's put us all over and gave us all amazing opportunities.
01:40:14.300
you also see that path that he carved through stone for himself.
01:40:43.260
so like maybe I should also try the things that I'm also really good at.
01:40:51.800
Like I'm definitely not saying that you're not as smart,
01:41:16.300
The last special I watched was Jim Gaffigan's and I really,
01:41:31.100
Some of my favorite jokes of his were dirty jokes.
01:41:35.420
you ever go back to high school and all the kids want to call you the
01:41:49.840
you ever go to the park on a Sunday and see that guy walking around with
01:41:55.160
his shirt off with a snake around his neck and go,
01:42:04.960
Jim Gaffigan is the funniest fucking guy alive.
01:42:28.600
I saw the one where he's the Uber driver though.
01:43:25.340
like being supportive over the years and being like,
01:43:47.180
maybe write a script or fucking shoot some shit.
01:43:50.140
I would be great if all of us did a project together.
01:43:52.300
It seems like if we wrote something and just funded something ourselves,
01:44:15.960
like it's sputtering out and that's like the last legs of it.
01:44:24.500
We get a wig for Rogan and he's got long stringy balding hair.
01:44:45.940
Somebody want to come in with a $2 million budget,
01:44:50.200
maybe not made totally because we can't be around each other in groups of 10,
01:44:53.820
but what if we did a movie where people all have to be six feet away from each other during the shooting of it?
01:45:42.680
but it's going to take a little time for me to set that parking brake and let myself unwind.
01:46:21.300
And now I've been moving way too fast on a runaway train with a heavy load of my hands.