#2005 - Tom Segura

What's up, Tommy? What's up, man? How are you, my brother? What's crackin'? I'm super stoked, man. Thanks for having me. Lookin' good, lookin' lean. You fuckin' stuck with it, man. You fuckin' stuck with it. Tried to. Yeah, I've been working hard on it, actually. It's crazy. I mean, you've been so consistent. It's amazing. Isn't that weird how that works? That's what, uh... That's what I've said to a few people, and they're like, Yeah, that's what happened. I mean, I don't know. I just keep... I think I had this, um... I don't know if I told you, like, this mentality before where I would go, if I got to a number on the scale, I thought of it as, like, a finish line. I didn't realize it was doing it, but I was. I was going, Oh, I got there. Right. And then you just kind of go, well, if you're done, you're done. Yeah. And then you just kind of regress. So I just realize now that it's just... It is every day. It is life. It's life. It's part of life. Yeah. Yeah. If you can think about it that way, also, you got to think about it like delayed gratitude. Delayed gratitude is a very important concept if you want to have a happy life. You can't just have gratitude in front of your face all the time. No. You'll just be a mess. You want delayed gratitude, specifically for your physical health, because you don't feel good in the end of the day, like, unless you've... When I don't work out, if I have a day that I blow it off, which is rare, but it does happen. Yeah. If I blow it off, at the end of the day, I feel like a loser. I know that's stupid. I know it's stupid, but it's that feeling inside of you that you didn't get ahead. You didn't... It's one thing if it's like, I need a rest day. Rest days, I love them. Let me watch a TV. I watch a movie. Sure. And you got to listen to your body on that, for sure. And also your mind. Yeah. I think your mind needs rest days. Yeah. I enjoy a rest day now, really. I fucking... But if you don't do the things you know you're supposed to do, you have that fucking nagging thing in your head. That thing in your head, that nagging thing, that's hours and hours and hours and hours and hours of your day. Yeah. Whereas the workout, you could just get 20 minutes in and that feeling's gone. Totally. Just get 20 minutes in. There's the, I feel like a loser thing that also, but there's also this even like another layer to it, where on days when I don't do anything physical and it's like, it's towards the end of the day, I kind of go like, what's wrong with me? And like other, like Christina might be like, what's going on with you? And then sometimes it takes me a moment and I'll be like, I didn't work out today. Yep. That's what it is. Oh, I go, yes. So I have like this mental health. Yeah, it's fucking with my head. I also have this, like the anxiety has manifested itself physically. So I just have this like, oh, I didn't exert myself. So it's all together and I go, that's what it is. So I go, tomorrow morning, I just got to get it in right away. Yeah, it's just one of those things like brushing your teeth. You got to fucking do it. You don't want to do it. You do it and you feel better afterwards. Like in little bursts of that's how I feel every time again, that stupid cold plunge. Every time I want to do it, every time I do it, I don't want to do it. It always sucks. Sucks. It never feels good. We had this thing where we were doing, we had to bank episodes of our podcasts. So that means we were going into the studio at like, I don't know, nine or 10 and then just spending the day there. Right. And I knew that when I got home, I'd be wiped and we got, you know, we were with the kids and we got to do dinner and get them ready for it. So I was like, I'm just going to get up. And so every day I just got up a little earlier, cold plunge first. So it's like that was my morning cough. It's the first thing I did. Which right the fuck up. Right the fuck up and then right to the gym. And so that I would, I would arrive at the studio in the best mood. Yeah. Which is like really in a great mood. Yeah. And then I would zip through the day and I mean, even they were like, wow, you're like nice. You know, like the staff. Dude, it's like if you could take that in a pill form, it would be the most popular pill in the world. 100%. No question. Yeah. Yeah. And we're not talking about like being a bodybuilder. Not talking about killing you. No. Just getting your heart pumping, getting your sweat going, get those muscles moving, exert yourself. Yeah. Okay. I can get a fucking pretty good workout in 20 minutes. You can definitely get your heart going. Yeah. If I'm fucking super pressed for time. You know what's crazy is if you, when I work out right after cold plunging, sometimes you're like, wait, how come I'm not sweating? You don't realize that your core temperature has dropped like 17 degrees. And you're like, oh. You're at 34 degrees in three minutes. Yeah. What the fuck? Yeah. I work out outside after I do that. Oh, nice. So I do my, I do the series of 100 bodyweight squats and 100 push ups every morning. The way I do it is I do it as my warm up now. It's a good warm up to do right after you get out of the cold plunge. So by the time I'm done with those, I'm warmed up. Wow. Yeah. But it's nice to do outside. Yeah, that is cool. I, I, this is one of the only times that I really don't mind heat, like real heat is during workouts. Yeah. I like working out in heat. It's good for you. I do not like a cold gym. No. When the air conditioning is blasting in a gym. I don't like that. No. I don't like that either. I like, you know, Kronk Gym, where Tommy Hearns used to train. They always kept the temperature up very high. They did? Yeah, they kept it like 95 degrees. Yeah, in Detroit. And the reason, well, Manuel Stewart was a genius, boxing genius, but also a genius physically. He knew, it's just like working out in a sauna. Like the sauna actually gives you cardiovascular benefit just sitting there, because your heart's beating faster, because it's trying to, body's trying to cool you off. Right. You're hot as fuck. You know, I've, I've had the heart strap on in the sauna and it got up to 147 degrees. Or excuse me, 147 beats per minute. Just sitting there. Yeah, just sitting there. Yeah, your body's like, what's happening? Especially because you do it in an after a workout. Yeah. So I'm already fucking exhausted and then I get in that oven for 20 minutes. And at the end of that 20 minutes, my heart is jacked. Yeah. So it's all, you're getting static cardio just sitting there. Just sitting there. So if you're doing a boxing workout and it's 95 degrees, your heart is jacked. Yeah. You're getting, you're getting really worked out. That's hard. That's like running with weights on. Yeah, and then imagine that feeling right after that. Like when you're done. Yeah. Like, ahh. The relief. Like a hot yoga class. Remember when we were doing hot yoga? We did do, how many did we do? 15 in a month? We did 15. Yeah. That was nice, dude. That was nice. Yeah. Something about leaving those. I went to one here in Austin. Yeah? Yeah. I went to a hot yoga class and it was like, you just walk outside. You're like, this isn't any different. This is the exact same temperature. Yeah, it's just yoga with no AC on. God. Yeah. But it did, you do feel this. And then the way that a cold drink tastes right after that. Mmm. It's unreal. Yeah, just water. Yeah. Just the cold water is so good. It just feels so good. Do you take electrolytes? I do, every day. I travel with the packets and everything. Which one's you taking? I have liquid IV. Yeah. I take those pouches with me to wear. Yeah, I take those too. Yeah, and I also take them, I have a big one before bed. I fill up like a big canteen. Oh yeah? You have to get up to piss them all night? Yes. But it's annoying. It's annoying, not too, too much. I mean, I don't do it like right before bed, but like I have an evening one. Because I remembered even from like high school football in Florida that they would go, if you're cramping, it's too late to start. Like you start taking it, it's not going to help you then. It's all about like the prep for it. Right. So like you, that day before you exert yourself, electrolyte boost is what's going to help you more. So I always try to do it like at night too. That makes sense. Just keeping a steady state in your body. Yeah. Yeah, it should be something that you take every day. But the big thing dude, like I never hated, I wasn't one of those people who was like, I hate the gym or I hate working out. It really is being consistent with food too. That's a big thing. Yeah. Like I didn't realize how much I, well I knew I was eating poorly a lot. I was just like, had no sense of like portion control. What turned it around? Was it those contests? Was the weight loss contest? I guess it's a little bit of everything. I think actually getting severely injured and like just being like, first of all, I think hearing people being like, oh, you're really going to fall apart now. Like now that you've been injured, you're going to be a mess. You're going to gain like a hundred pounds. Like people would say that. Who said that dude, Burt? Actually, his wife. His wife said that dude? Yeah. Jesus Christ. I was just like in the moment saying it, but no, she wasn't even going to gain a hundred pounds. She was like, you're going to get real fat. You're going to be fatter than my husband. We're going to make fun of you. That's impossible. So, but it wasn't even just that, you know, it was like other people too. Other people would be like, oh yeah. I mean, I would see it. Like when I open up Twitter or something, they're like, this dude's about to be a fucking whale. Like, you know, like, yeah. Cause they saw you like, well you're laying in a bed, you know? So I think that kind of started it. And then what happened was my PT was, you know, we were doing all the rehab stuff and she was the one who was like, are people telling you you're going to like get like way out of shit? She goes, yeah. She goes, you know, it's going to be the opposite, right? And I was like, what? She goes, you're going to be in like the best shape of your life. And I was like, why? She's like, cause you're going to be so focused on rehab and you're going to feel better doing it and you're just going to want to get like, she was the one who, uh, Dr. Karen Joubert. So we have to break Burt's arm. We have to break multiple limbs. We gotta, we should hit him with a bus. You know, do you remember the moment of reflection after this last sober October, we're all out there and we were all going to go do a show and I said, come do the show with us. Yeah. And, and Burt was like, I can't go out. If I go out, I'm going to drink and I don't want to drink. I'm really going to get my shit together now. No, no, I don't actually. Where were we here? You might not have been there. You might not have been why he was saying it. We were right out in front. Oh, cause I left a few minutes before. Remember? Yeah. I was trying to get the kids down. Yeah. I was trying to get them to come to the show with us and he didn't want to do it. Yeah. You know, he just like, he likes the party. Hey, the party's great, but I think he partied during October when we had sober October and I still think he had a great fucking time. I saw his shows. It was like he was killing it. Yeah. You know what I mean? It doesn't, it doesn't make it more of a party to get fucked up every night. It's just unsustainable. That's what I worry about. You know, when we first did the sober October thing, that was part of the discussion. We're all like, Hey, Bert drinks too much. Yeah. Like what's, and I smoke too much weed. Let's try to work this out. Yeah. Turns out smoking too much weed is like way better for you. I think it is. He's on a bender right now too. On this tour he's on. Sure. Jesus. Bro, he looks like a moon pie. A moon pie with a beard. He's so swollen. He's so swollen. This reminds me of that Joey Diaz line where I go, you seen Bertie goes, Oh, he's so fat. I thought he was a Chinese guy. I used to swallow. He's having a good time though. He is having a good time. I'm very happy for him too. I'm happy for the movie and these arenas. That festival is a huge success. It's incredible. Watching him do his shows in these arenas and seeing these crowds, I'm like, wow. Yeah. It's pretty wild. It's pretty wild, dude. It is pretty wild. I love him taking that chance and leaving the travel channel. Yeah. It was a big risk on his part actually because that's the equivalent of, because we all knew comics like this and it's just the reality of what it is. When you start working as a comedian and you have like your circle of friends, there's this a number of them who like, as you start to do road gigs and these are low paying, I'm not saying you're not a ticket seller. You're just doing these gigs. You're like, are you going to do some of these gigs? They're like, nah, I have this job and the job provides the consistency and the comfort. It's reliable. They're like, oh, I'll get my paycheck. Then what happens is you doing these low, they're making more money than you because you're doing the bullshit comic. Your comedy starts to get better because you're doing stand up all the time and then you get more opportunities and then they go like, hey, I want to do that, but like five years have gone by and you're like, yeah, but you've been in this day job. Yes. Then all of a sudden you're getting opportunities to do TV specials or comics. They want you to just grab their hand and take them with you on the road. What happened? You're like, well, you didn't take the leap. You kind of had that comfort of that TV show. It's a good check. It's not a bullshit check. It's a good living. It's on TV. Yeah. But when he decided, I got to go make a full leap, that's a leap. That's a leap and then it paid off, obviously, tremendously. You know the story. I called him up and he was on the motorcycle in Vietnam. I was like, you got to quit that job. But I was right. First of all, it's just not healthy for you or your family for you to be gone three, four months at a time. It's crazy. I know you're working and you got to do what you got to do, but it's not good for you. Also you're not reaching your potential as a standup. You're a hilarious guy. Great on podcasts. That's where you should be focusing your energy. But back when he first got on that show, podcasts were bullshit. When he first told the machine story on my podcast, who the fuck is watching it? No one's watching it. Podcasts were bullshit. So it was like me saying, go do a podcast. Like, what the fuck? I have kids. What are you talking about? This isn't a job. I can't quit a TV job. It sounds insane. Because I started to do bigger shows and selling out clubs back then too. And he was like, how is this happening? I was like, I go up doing standup all the time. I do this podcast every week. I just got a special out. All of it combined together. And I was like, you can do this too. He was like, oh, I don't know. And then he was like, and then I remember him telling, he's like, I did it. I'm not doing the I quit. I'm not doing the travel. Amazing. I'm going to go all in. Well, worked out. Luckily. Yeah. I could go the other way, too. Yeah. But that thing about guys who don't take the leap, I bet that's in every walk of life where people just don't put whatever it is when you're not all in. But if you're if that's the fucking the haunting thing about the comedy world, if you're not all in and someone else is, I remember when I was on Fear Factor. So I was, you know, doing standup when I could. But God damn it, I was working a lot. I was working a lot. It was a lot of hours. And I remember I'd go to the store and I'd run into someone who was a full time comic and they're on the road. Yeah. I just did a West Palm. I was there Thursday, Friday, Saturday. I was like, oh, yeah, that sounds so much better. Sounds like so much more fun. Yeah. They're doing taping these shows. Yeah. I mean, it was like doing standup seemed so much better. It just seemed like a better life. Like that's that's what is more interesting. You also have to have like when I look back at the choices I made early on in standup, you know, you actually are in a bit of denial about how bad you are. Not just how bad you are, how bad your life is. I mean, I'm not living in a like all my friends with regular jobs have a much better quality of life. But here's the thing. It didn't even bother me really. Yeah, because you wanted it so bad. Yeah, I just wanted it so bad that you I'm saying you have a bit of you have a delusion almost right? Like people see where you live and they and they're like, how much money are you making? But you're used to it. You're so used to it. As long as you're used to it. It's fine. And one thing would be like, say if you had some white collar job and you're making six figures a year and then you decided to go to standup and then you were living in the place like you were living in when I met you, then it would suck a fat dick. Yeah, because you'd be like, fuck now I'm falling apart. It's very difficult for people to downsize with the intention of upsizing eventual. It's almost impossible. It's hard. Yeah, it's hard. That you would be so much happier if you could kind of get by doing what you like to do. And then you could eventually make more money doing that. But the more money thing, the most important thing is what are you doing what you want to do because we don't have much time. We just don't. I'm 55. I'll be 56 in a month. That's 56. That's old as shit. When I was a kid, I thought 56 year old people were archaic wrecks. Yeah. They could barely stand up. You're in the doctor's office every couple of weeks, something's falling apart. Yeah, but look at you, man. You're happy, you're thriving. Luckily. I got lucky. I hit the science and knowledge and fitness world and vitamin supplementation, hormone supplementation, all of it came right when I got old. It was like, reeee, I just rode the wave. That's true. Some of this stuff is just like the luck of timing, right? 100%. Yeah. 100%. Also, our lives, I think about this all the time. If we were exactly the same guys, we are now, but we're at this age in like 1999, we're fucked. This is totally different life. Yeah, totally different life. Different life, first of all, no phones. Well, 99, you had phones, but I mean, imagine 1919, you're fucked. You're fucked. Life is terrible. Life's shit. Yeah. I mean, we got, as much as people could blame about today, we got it fucking super easy. Oh, yeah. It's very nice. Well, if it was 1919, first of all, when I broke my arm, they'd just be like, we're just going to cut your arm. We just saw it off, bite this leather strap. Yeah. That's what happened back then, too. You broke things and they'd be like, well, you're just a cripple. Yeah. You're a cripple now forever. We'll give you this cane and this wheelbarrow with, like you can just lean on this wheelbarrow and kind of wheel that into town. When do they start setting bones? What year was that? But when they stop hacking people's arms off? No, dude, it's not that long ago. Have you ever seen that video? The guy who's playing the banjo and his arm is broken and he never got it fixed. So his arm is like floating around. It's so crazy, dude. Like he's got the detachment between the two bones. This guy, look at this. They never rehealed. No, and I'm still working stuff. Yeah, I still work. I still work in him. I mean, look, that is ridiculous. No. That is ridiculous. No. But you know how insane that is? You put that together and play the banjo? Yeah, yeah. Look at this. Wow. When I have it staying though, it keeps him straight. You know what I'm saying? That's amazing, dude. The muscles, it's... Well, that's one word for it. Definitely, that's one word. I mean, imagine how weak that guy is in arm wrestling. I bet you could fuck him up. You know what I'm saying? God bless. I mean, can he even open a jar of mayonnaise? Can he fucking... What can he do with that arm? It's really incredible because you know that, you know what's the thing that's kind of interesting? I had a double whammy, right, when I got injured. I tore my patellar tendon. Right, at the same time. Patellar tendon tear is not like a MCL, ACL. That leg is completely useless. There's no hinge anymore. Right. So your knee doesn't... It just hangs. Right. So you have to reattach the tendon and for that to heal and be able to use it again, it takes... Just for it to heal takes about two months, then your muscle has atrophied completely, like your quad is completely matrophied. So you have to learn how to walk and learn how to do steps again and learn how to... It's a complete, complete debilitating type of injury. So when I got... And they're both at the same time. So when I got injured, all the people in the hospital, doctors, PTs, they all looked at my arm. They're like, that's not going to be a problem. Right? And you think about it, you're like, yeah, you see people in casts all the time. They're like, you'll be fine with that. That leg. That's going to be your problem. And it ended up being the opposite. Really? Oh, that's right because of the nerve damage. I still have problems. Yeah. I still have nerve issues. Yeah. And I... How bad is it now? Well, you know, an interesting thing. Remember we did SOBRA October? Do you remember like I showed you me doing pushups with my shirt off? So like my left rhomboid wasn't even firing. Right? So what happens is when you have like a muscle, a nerve sends a signal to your muscle. If there's nerve trouble going to that muscle, the muscle just doesn't fire. So when I was doing pushups, because that wasn't firing, you have other muscles that compensate. That's the way your body works. Right? So like, if you're going like this and that rhomboid doesn't fire, then like your lat starts to pick up for it. Right? So it's like, and it's doing it like unbeknownst to your mind. It's just doing it on its own. So I had like insane... It took me like six months to recover from the hundred pushups a day. Wow. Because I wasn't able to use like the full strength of my body to do a normal pushup. Is it firing now? It's firing now because I actually have been like treating, I went to this place called Wired and they put these like... Oh yeah, neuromuscular stimulation. Yeah. Yeah, that's really good. That helped a lot. Electrical rather, electrical muscular stimulation. That EMS stuff is really good for injury recovery. That has helped me quite a bit. But I still, the thing that I have is like this great, like weird, I don't know how to even describe it, arm pain. When like, if I try to like, if we were to like, if I was to jam you like this, like hands, it sends an incredibly painful signal through my arm. Wow. Especially like the bicep tendon. Things like that. So I'm just always like, I'm trying new things. I do different things in the gym. I do treatments like that. I'm going to get another nerve analysis done where they send these signals through your arm. Have you done any hyperbaric chamber stuff? No. Yeah, I've heard that. That's supposed to be very good with people with nerve issues. I'm going to try it. You know, double the atmosphere. Yeah. It's a really nice recovery. You can just sit there, right? You can just read a book. Yeah. Yeah. I'll try that. It's very relaxing. It's no big deal. But it's funny though, because you think, oh, broken arm, just throw a cast on that thing and you'll be done. No. And it's been, yeah, it's been a couple of years. It's not completely healed. That's crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Injuries, the one good thing about injuries is when you do get over them. If you could remember, because when you're injured, you're like, God damn it, why wasn't I appreciating being healthy? Yeah. Same way I feel when I'm sick. Exactly. Yeah. Well, you said, you asked me about turning points. The other big one was that about a little over a year ago, I realized that I was just regressing again. And that was actually the big turning point for me. It was that I had kind of recovered for the most part from the injuries. And I was like, okay, I'm healthy again. And I felt myself regressing again. I went to shoot this thing and I was like, I just saw myself. I was like, oh, I'm going backwards again. It bothered me. Is it food? I think it was food, yeah. But I just, I kind of was like, oh, I can't go back again. Dude, that carnivore diet kills all that. You just can't overeat. You don't overeat. It's wild. Are you doing that right now? Yeah, it's wild. I know when to stop eating. If I am eating, say, a steak and mashed potatoes and french fries and other stuff and bread, bread and butter, I'll just keep eating the mashed potatoes. Even after I'm done eating steak, I'll keep eating fries. I'll have another piece of bread. And all that stuff is just empty calories. Yeah, it's carbohydrates. It's not empty. It's unnecessary. You're eating more than your body's going to burn off. It's just for me, it's gluttony. What's a normal day for your eating? Like what do you eat? Just breakfast. Today was Neil Guy's steaks and bacon. So I cooked a couple of these small Neil Guy steak. Neil Guy's an antelope that I shot in Texas. So I fried that and fried bacon first and then I cooked the Neil Guy in bacon fat. Because you need fat. Neil Guy's a very lean animal and if you're in a fat burning state, which is what I'm in right now, you have to have some sort of fats. So I like avocado oil. Some of that primal kitchen mayonnaise that's made with avocado oil. I'm not avoiding vegetables, per se, but I'm 100% avoiding bread and pasta and all that other bullshit. I'll have a piece of asparagus every now and then, but I'm not thinking about vegetables. I take a shit ton of vitamins. You take fruit, you eat fruit too? Yeah, I eat fruit when I want to. But most of my meals are steak and eggs. Most of my meals. Most of my meals are steak. Steak eggs, steak bacon. That's most of my meals. And I feel fucking great. What's wild is joint pain. I've had a left knee that's been fucked with me forever and I don't feel anything now. It's been two months on this diet, two plus months now, and it's like it just accelerated the healing. You feel way better. I think when you're eating a lot of shit, your body is in a state of inflammation. I think most people are in ... There's a scale of how much inflammation your body's carrying. And you don't think about inflammation because it's just how you are and you're not eating anything crazy. I had spaghetti for dinner and I had a Subway sandwich for lunch. I'm not eating McDonald's. And you think you're not eating inflammation causing foods, but you are. And you don't realize it until you cut those out of your diet. So much sugar. I think it's sugar, but I also think there's a lot going on with wheat. I think with the complex glutens and there could possibly be something with glyphosate. There's a lot of people that's ... What's glyphosate? Glyphosate is Roundup. That's that chemical that they spray on weeds that they found something like 94% of people have it in their blood. And the pesticide apologist will say, oh, it's just a small number. It's hardly anything. It's fucking poison. It's 100% cancer causing poison and 94% of people have it in their body. And by the way, if they're measuring it and you're getting an average of what these people have in it, what's the high end? There's got to be some zeros too. There's got to be people who only eat organic and they don't have any in them. So what's the high end? How bad off are those people? What are people that ... How about people that work on a farm? What's their ... They're just breathing that in all day. What's their fucking blood work look like? There's a better way to do it and they don't want to do it the better way because it's more expensive and it's difficult to do a regenerative farm. But if you do it this way with Roundup and they use it everywhere, this stuff is fucking sketchy. Yeah, I've never really spent time thinking much about how wheat affects me personally. You know what I mean? The one that I do think about a lot is sugar and also because I'm somebody who I can just ... I have to just deny myself because I get into a pattern where if I give myself ... And also it's like there's this thing where you realize that you can really fall into peer pressure kind of situation. Oh, for sure. You're just like you're hanging out and you're like, try one of these. And you go like, okay. You like it, whatever, some pastry or something. And then you see it tomorrow and you're like, that was good yesterday. I'm going to get it today. And then I get into a pattern where I just ... I have to deny myself. You get excited about that mouth pleasure. I do. You know what I used to get for? Chocolate croissants. Buddy, I used to be with you. Do you know where we used to get them? Buddy. At the fucking terminal five delta when that was ... They had that place. I remember I would get off the plane with you and it was coming back to LA. It was on the way back. And we would arrive in the morning and you're like, these are fucking good. And I was like, mm-hmm. And then you're like, it's just one. I can do this. And I was like, yeah, me too. I would think that we're the same. So I'd shove one down my throat. I was like, Joe's right. These are good. And then I'd go home and go to a fucking bakery and be like, can I get a dozen chocolate croissants? I mean, yeah, dude, I fucking ... That might be my favorite treat of all. Chocolate croissants pretty damn good. The buttery ones with the mushy chocolate inside. Bro, I was just in Paris and my ... Ooh, patty. That's a national channel. I didn't have a channel. Je nez pas le parfonser. But I always talk about ... I do have an affection for croissants. I really do. They're awesome. And I was like, we're in Paris. I was talking about ... I was like, oh, I got to sample some croissants in Paris. My fucking tour manager went out one morning, comes back and he goes, I got something for you. I go, what? He goes, I went and picked up the best croissants in Paris. Wow. And he gave me a sampling of these croissants. How good were they? They're unbelievable. They look pretty damn good. Yeah. They were so unbelievable. Look at you. You know how to say them? No, I stammered for it. Thrun de chocolate. Yeah. I think they told me that in Paris they say chocolateine for a chocolate croissant. They don't say ... we don't say croissant de chocolate. We say chocolateine. I said, okay. Chocolateine. Yeah, but we were definitely tearing them up in Paris. France is falling apart right now. Isn't that wild? Is it? France is falling ... Did you see what's going on? I mean, when I was there, there was ... The riots? Oh, when I was there, there was big riots. Did you see the riots from ... the police killed a guy? No. When I was there, it was about the retirement age. Oh, this is way worse. This is way, way worse. What's the issue? This is the last few days. What is the issue? Somebody got murdered. There's been fucking gunfire in the streets, lighting businesses on fire for like five days. It's been like the purge. Some of the videos are insane. It is ... French teen shot by police officer, pleads with rioters, stopped the violence. Something happened. I don't know the details of the story, but the police shot some guy. During a riot? No. I think they shot him in a ... was it a traffic stop? Oh. Tensions erupt in Paris suburb after a 17-year-old delivery driver is killed in a police standoff. I don't know what happened. He was shot and killed by a police officer Tuesday in a Paris suburb according to the family's lawyer. The death unleashed. Tensions between angry residents setting barricades on fire and police firing tear gas. Police officer was detained on suspicion of manslaughter according to the prosecutor's office in the Paris suburb of Nantere. It said the shooting took place during a traffic check. The victim was wounded by a gunshot and died at the scene. The prosecutor's office said in a statement a passenger in the car was briefly detained and released and the police are searching for another passenger who fled. So what was it that happened? Do we know what happened? Okay. The lawyer cited a video reported to be of the incident circulating online that shows two police officers leaning into the driver's side window of a yellow car before the vehicle pulls away and one officer fires towards the driver. The car is later seen crashed into a post nearby. So they tried to take off and he shot them. Is this what prompted these riots though? Yes. Okay. Yes. Isn't that crazy that description of what happened in the traffic stop seems so routine here? Like you always, like there's an endless series of videos that you can watch of something similar to that. Yes. That's always, it always feels like it's very US. Yeah. Like we always have incidents in traffic stops. Sure. Which are, you know, I'm not saying blame is always one way or the other. It's, you know, sometimes it's the person in the car, sometimes it's that. Sure. But that just seems like a really routine thing here. You know what people have to think about with cops? I know it's very hard to do if you're not a cop, but I want you to try. You know that feeling that you get when you're driving on the highway? There's a reason why people get road rage, road rage rather. There's a reason why they get road rage too. Yeah, there is. There's a reason why they get road rage. And one of the, the reason why they get road rage is when you're on the road and you're driving, you're in a heightened state because your car's going 60 miles an hour. So you're ready at any time to hit the brakes, to change lanes. So you're in this heightened state. And then when someone does something like, you fucking idiot, Jesus Christ, where you would never do that. Like it took me a while to realize this. I forget where I read it. And then when I read it, I was like, duh. Because I was always like, how come nobody treats people like that when they're walking? No one ever does that. No one protected by this. If someone gets in front of you when you're walking, oh, the guy got in front of me. It's not an issue at all. But in the car, you're like, oh, you fucking asshole. What are you, fucking cut in front of me? That's what it is. Because you're at a heightened state. Now imagine being a cop and every time you pull someone over, you are, you've, we've all seen those videos of cops getting shot. We've all seen those videos of cops pulling people over and then the windows explode and people fire on them. We've all seen those. They've seen them too. They know people who've been shot. They have no idea who you are. They have no idea what's going on. So when they come up to their car, they are at a heightened state. They have to be. They are literally to a criminal. They're the professional enemy. Their job is to be the enemy of the criminal. It's a fucking crazy position to be in in society and we don't treat it with enough respect. When the consequent, when it, when it goes badly, all we think about is that officer, that's a representative of all police officers. It's not true. It's true. I think a lot of people too, it's kind of hard, like a lot of people, they go into getting pulled over with a heightened sense of emotion themselves. Sure. Which if you are that person getting pulled over for whatever you got pulled over for, what's your like mentality in that moment? You are actually going to escalate things. You are as the person getting pulled over. And it does take an effort to go, okay, this guy, like you said, he's walking up here in a heightened state. Like I can diffuse things. I can diffuse them by how I conduct this. But some people, you know, first you have the people that are like the legal scholars who want to lecture the police officer on his rights. Like, yeah, you can do that, man. Or there's the, I have friends even. I have friends who are like, I hate cops. Cops are all pigs. You know, like, and I've watched them speak to police officers in a way where I'm like, Jesus Christ, man. Like, it's so disrespectful. So stupid. I go, yeah, I go, but you are making this worse. Right. That's a human being. Yeah, yeah. You gotta fucking chill a little bit. I know them. Yeah, you don't have to get on your knees. Right. But you know, just like, he's doing his thing. Just like, let's try to, let's try to smooth this thing out. Let's not try to make it worse. Let's try to make it better. Yeah, exactly. If I ever have an interaction with a cop, it's always how you doing, sir? What's happening, brother? Everything good? Yeah, I want it smooth and easy. Completely. Yeah. And just that whole, but I fucking, those kind of generalizations, all cops are pigs. Fuck off. No, it's not good. I don't like those generalizations with anything. Women are stupid. Fuck off. Fuck off. Fuck off. No. It's just annoying. No, you're like, most women are stupid. No. But if you go into this. Anything. Yeah, like that. Any interaction with the fucking, the retail worker or fucking auto mechanic. Anything. Any interaction. And sometimes, I think if this comes with age, sometimes you do meet a real piece of shit. Oh yeah. Like, it can be a police officer. It can be the mechanic. It can be- Car salesman. The cars, oh fuck. The car salesman, flight attendant. And I used to take, I used to, I would say, I call it take the bait more, right? Feel the rage, become like escalate things. Yeah. Well yeah. I'd be like, I mean, I've said some regrettable things. But I mean, like, I think with age now, one of the things that happens is you go like, you know, I think this person sucks internally. And I go, I'm just, like I had a flight where I've been on, I don't know, a million flights, right? And it was early morning cross country flight. And the flight attendant, I was like, she was like, you want breakfast? I was like, well, I'm going to zonk out here. So maybe when I wake up in a little while, and she goes, no. She goes, it's breakfast now. Whoa. And I looked at her and I was like, I was like that. I was just processing. I was like, that's like, it was super rude. When did that change? Pandemic? Did they just fire a bunch of people that would have been there for a long time and hire a bunch of new people and pay them less? I have a real trigger too for like disrespect or even perceived disrespect, you know, where I then become like I've, I almost got arrested at an airport one time for this, you know, I ended up calling the TSA agent a pig. But again, that was a few years ago. But this was like, this, I looked at her and I was like, and in my mind I was, I was, I could have said like escalated things. And I just thought, I go, you know what? This like, I don't know why she's an asshole. I don't know what's going on. I just went, yeah, I think I'm just going to sleep. I go, I'm just going to sleep. She's like, okay. I just walked away. And she was like, she was clearly rude. And like, I'd never been spoken like most flight attendants when you go. I was going to sleep. She's like, yeah, I'll check on you later. See if you want to eat then. Like, yeah, we'll keep it warm for you. They're, yeah, she was so rude, but I just was like, just why make this a thing? You know, I was just like, I go, I'm just going to sleep. It might be hard to find people to do that now. Yeah. You know? Yeah. Yeah. No, they have huge, the biggest issue in the, in commercial air travel right now is staffing. Really? It's still staffing. Really? It's still staffing. It's, it's why you'll, you're finding an incredible number of delays. It's not just staffing for airlines. It's also staffing at air traffic control. So all those, all that is together. If you fly commercially, you'll notice that like, I mean, it is a miracle to board and take off and land on time. Almost everything is delayed. It is delayed. You have, you have a lot of times you're, everything is functioning well. Then you get there. I can't tell you like how many flights are just like, well, everyone's, everything's ready to go. And they're like, yeah, the crew's not here. Crew's here. This crew has to swap out. They've maxed out their hours. Now we're waiting for a new crew. This is like over and over. And then it happens that air traffic control, but they are not fully staffed yet either. So this just is a huge delay thing. I mean, commercial travel just needs to be revamped. Well people are just doing a great job. Yeah. Sure. They're doing great. He's the best. He's the best at it. Mm hmm. He's handling it. Don't worry. He's got it covered. Who's this? Pete Buttigieg. Oh yeah. That's my guy. What is he, is he, is he the guy? He's the guy in charge of transportation. That's fucking shit. He's in charge of the fucking trains flying off the rails. You've, you've done a terrible job. Pete. So was it during COVID? Did people get fired and then they decided to do other things and they never took the jobs again? Some people got fired. Some people, I mean I think more people were even just let go. Like you know, there's a lot of places like that had to shut down their operations. They had no more revenue coming in. Right. So you let people go. And then you've seen what happened with, what's what happened with commercial real estate. Commercial real estate is upside down in this country. Is it? Yes. You know why? Why? Because people don't want to go to offices still anymore. Right. They want to do remote work. They want to do remote work. They want to work in their pajamas and jerk off. So the people who, if you have these big commercial buildings, I mean they, the, it used to be like this huge asset to own this commercial real estate and now it's like a liability. Because you have empty offices dude. You have empty offices all over the country. You can't fill them up. You can't force people. Then there's companies that have just, I know somebody that owns a company that said we, like a lot of people, goes, I wanted people to come here. I want them in the office. And he was met with like such total resistance because I just realized I had to allow it. Like if we were going to continue to operate. Wow. So he just gave in to his employees going, no, we don't want to do that. Wow. Yeah. And it's a sizable operation he has. Wow. So people just say, no, I want to work at home. Yeah. And they're like, and I've been working and I'm effective. And to a degree they are like in his case, they're correct. He's like, you know, the work was getting done. I just prefer to have everybody operating the way we normally had. But he was like, everybody was like, no, I used to, I had to, I used to do an hour and a half commute every day. I don't want, I haven't done that now in two years. I don't want to do it again. And then he had to go like, okay. As long as they're disciplined and as long as they're actually effective, I could see that. That's a stupid ass office. What do we do with this place? What are all these offices? Hence why this commercial estate business is like in the shitter. Wow. I wonder what happens with that because it doesn't seem like that's going to change. But there are a lot of CEOs that are supposedly pushing back on all this stuff. I keep reading articles every day. The interesting thing is, you know how people always adapt, right? Nothing just goes, if something's losing money, people don't just go, well, I guess we'll just lose money forever. So there is going to be a point, and maybe it's happening now, where you're going to start seeing something done with this commercial property. Like if things stay vacant, they're not just going to hold onto that for 15 years. They're going to turn that into something. I was reading some dipshit comedian on Twitter saying that they should turn all that into housing for homeless people. Yeah, that is very popular. That's really good if you don't own the building, you fucking communist. Yeah. What are you talking about? I mean, I got to say, that also reminds me of this, and I know this will be unpopular for a lot of people to hear, but the idea of forgiving student loans, it's a fantastic theory. But one thing that nobody considers who is a huge advocate of that is, okay, so somebody owns that debt. That debt is owned. So are you saying, when you say forgive, who are you saying, are you saying that the government will just pay all of that debt? Do you have an idea the amount of debt that that is? Somebody owns the debt. So if you go forgive the debt, to what degree? Are you just saying erase it? It doesn't just disappear. The debt is owned. So when you say just pay it, who? Who are you saying will pay it? In taxes? Right, everybody's going to pay it then. Right, so the debt just doesn't get erased is my point. But there is a bizarre issue with student loan debt, that student loan debt is the only debt that you can't declare bankruptcy. Yeah, that part is. That's crazy. That's crazy. That's crazy. That doesn't make any sense. But when you say forgive it, it's not just, I think a lot of people say that and they go, I just don't want to pay this. Yeah, of course, I understand that. But you realize that somebody has to pay it. It doesn't just go into the sky. Somebody owns that debt. So who's going to pay it? If you say that the government will forgive student loans, I mean, that amount has to be in the trillions. Wonder what it is. Let's find out. What's the collective student loan debt in the United States as of 20? I do know there is a differentiation in this conversation that it's federal student loan debt, not private student loan debt, which is a big difference. That's companies that do own that debt versus the government debt granted. So this is just federal. Health debt and stuff like that. I'm pretty sure of that. Okay, so there's two different types of loan debt. So I'd want to know what it is compared to the military industrial complex budget. Oh, yeah. Right. That budget is astronomical. As a budget boy, they accidentally paid an extra $6 billion to Ukraine. They're like, whoops. Whoopsie. See, this statement, I don't know if this is differentiating that either. It says it's $1.78 trillion in student loan debt. It's a lot, dude. To the US. That's more than people owe on any other type of debt in the US except for mortgages, though the Biden administration is trying to forgive hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan balances. That's more than people owe on any other type of debt in the US, well, except for mortgages. But I mean, isn't that like, you see what I'm saying? Like if you just say, hey, forget, erase this debt. Okay. I mean, I get that, but you do understand that that has to come from somewhere. Right. It's not just their... It's not air debt. Yeah. That is both. I guess that's all of it. 1.75 trillion. Click on that so we can see what it says there. It says on average, it says, cost of college is steadily increased over the last 30 years in that timeframe. Tuition costs at public four-year colleges grew from $4,160 to $10,740 and from $19,360 to $38,070. It's crazy. At private, nonprofit institutions adjusted for inflation. All costs have risen. So is the need for student loans and other forms of financial aid. Imagine if you're a person that makes a hundred grand a year and your kid is going to school and it costs $38,000 a year. It's fucking insane. And then your kid gets out and they get a $50,000 a year job and you realize they're never going to pay this back. It's insane. What they're doing, it is... I don't know if they wanted to get rid of it. It says 92% of all student debt are federal student loans. The remaining amount is private student loans. Okay. So it's a trillion. It's a trillion plus. Yeah. That's a lot, dude. And so how much have we spent on Ukraine and how much are we going to spend on Ukraine? But here's the thing. If you forgave that debt, wouldn't that spark the economy? If people have more money... The thing about when people have more money, people spend more money. When people spend more money, the economy does better. If people are straddled with student loan debt, I got to think that somehow or another cripples the economy. I don't think you're wrong in theory about that. It would seem that you'd obviously have more to do if you could do more with your money. But it's not like you're giving people money, you're just absolving them of debt. Which is a huge one. The real problem is the whole predatory student loan situation. That's a real problem. And it's also a real problem to saddle down a 17-year-old with debt that they will keep for the rest of their life. And they hit you at that same time at the student union with your first credit card and they're like, just use this. And it's got 29.9%. Yeah. You're like, okay. You don't know what the fuck you're eating. And you need to do it to build your credit. I need to. I need you to build my credit. Yeah. Yeah. And 26 bucks a month for a coffee you bought. It's crazy. It is crazy. Yeah. The whole thing is insane, but it's insane that we do it to kids. Because kids don't have a sense of the future. They just don't. They've only been alive for 18 years. 18 years is not enough time to figure out what kind of debt you're going to be in when you're 70. Don't you wonder to why, why, when we're in school? And it's still not a thing. When kids are in school, we don't really teach them about money. You don't learn shit about money. You don't learn shit. And I'm saying at any level, elementary school, high school. We don't learn shit about anything you need to manage life. No. You're basically learning how to say words and not form sentences. You don't learn about money? Yeah. You don't learn about nutrition? No. Nothing about that. You don't learn about thinking. No. I mean, you know how many kids could be saved from a lifetime of bullshit if you just explain to them why jealousy, why it affects them? Sure. Emotions. Yeah. Explain that these are just natural human emotions that we have all, but you have to learn how to conquer them. And you learn how to, you learn that, like one of the most amazing, it seems like it's something you should be taught in like middle school is feel feeling. Let them sit. Yes. Yeah. When you feel jealous, you're not supposed to never feel jealous. Right. But you learn to go, okay, that's the feeling. Yeah. And this is why I feel jealous about it. And guess what? All feelings, they dissipate. But they get worse, they extend when you fight them, when you resist. I don't want to feel it. And you don't want to actually process the feeling and deal with it. I mean, having that understanding that all those emotions are natural to have, it's like it really is something that could serve you so much better to learn younger. I don't want to learn that at 40. Teach me that at 13. Right. Yeah. It would make high school a lot easier to deal with. Yeah. And teach kids the value of exercise in terms of mental health, the benefits that it has on that. Nope. You have to figure that out on your own. Yeah. You figure that out through trial and error, through your own life. Totally. Yeah. Unless you listen to podcasts, nobody's teaching you that in school. How to think. No, no one's teaching you how to think. No one who you admire, who lives a good life, is teaching you how they do it. Yeah. That's another thing. People are real stingy with their own personal success formulas. Oh, yeah. Well, that's one of my big, the litmus test for a good person. When I go, this is a cool motherfucker, is people who are willing to share information. It's a gauge for a solid person. Yeah. Is when you go, how did you build this studio? There's the person who goes, it just takes work. I had my guys. And you're like, all right. That's them going, I'm not going to tell you. Right. That's mine. And then there's a person who's like, here's his card. Give him a call. He's awesome. It's like people who share information, whatever it is, are the people who don't have that insecurity that like, well, if you have it, then it's no longer mine. Right. And by the way, it's only good. It's good for the person. Like say if it's someone who does something, you need a mechanic. I have the best fucking mechanic in Austin. This guy's a shit. Yeah. I'll tell you about him. I'll fucking, you know, and then if you do that and then he gets work. Yeah. And then he goes, oh, Joe says you're awesome. Oh, that's nice. He feels good. Isn't that amazing though? How people, so many people are like, no, that's my mechanic. Yeah. But if I call, if I give you him, I need my fucking car worked on first. First. Yeah. First. Okay. It's such a stupid thing. So you got to tell me if you're going to bring your car in because if I need my car worked on, I called first. Yeah. It's gross. It's just famine, famine mentality. Yeah. It's common in everything. It's a stupid mindset. But it also comes from being around groups of people to think that way. If you get fortunate enough to be around someone who doesn't think that, I'm very fortunate in martial arts because in martial arts, it's a very meritocracy based thing. And it's also, you need really good people to get good. So everybody cherishes and also respects and celebrates people that are really good. Yeah. Because it's good for everybody. It is. It's good in comedy too. You see someone killing you like, damn, go watch this guy. Watch this guy. Fuck. Yeah. And then you get a juice, get a little juice out of it. Yeah. If you look at it the right way. Yeah, you do. Watching great standup is like medicinal. It is inspiring. Yes. Yes. And it makes you go like, I mean, I think I told you this that like when I was at the club and Atel was in town, it was just a great reminder, not just watching him on stage, which was fantastic, but just hanging out with him. It actually took me back to like, oh yes, like hanging out with somebody like this in the green room reminds you of all the things you love about doing standup. The green room at that club has been the greatest thing that I've ever experienced. Yeah, it's been great. Because I knew, well, first of all, I knew the setup was perfect because both rooms are right next to the green room is in the center. In the middle, yeah. In the center. It's literally, you mean you can go from the green room onto the little stage in 30 seconds. And then you can go downstairs to get to the other one and you're watching on the monitors and you got the balcony. It's so centrally located. It's so perfect. Yeah. And you're above, you can go watch the show from the balcony. So anytime like, you know, Shane Gilles is on stage, go out there and watch a set. We'll watch a set. And you go back inside and everybody's laughing. It's fucking amazing. It's a great thing. The hang is so good. Yeah. It's all about the hang because that was the best. You know, we used to always say that about the storage here. Yes. That's the best part of the store. You go to the parking lot. Yeah. It's standing in the parking lot. Yeah. Just shoot the shit with people. But this is, we have a parking lot with a bar. Yeah. And a private bathroom. Yeah. It's like the whole thing is set up. It's nice. It's awesome. It's so nice. But just to be able to be around those guys all the time. Rich Voss was in last week. Yeah. Oh my God. He's fun. I was a... I think Tony Woods is there this weekend. I was trying to, because I only came in for the night. But I was trying to make it last night. I got delayed. I couldn't get money. I was like, what's up? Tony Woods is a funny motherfucker. Tony Woods is a funny motherfucker. Oh my God. He's so good. I was so excited to get him in here. He went to the Vulcan. That fucking guy went on stage at the Vulcan with some shit that he was just talking about in the green room. Like, and something, not a bit. He did organic. Yeah. And then went on stage. It was killing for five minutes with it. Yeah. Just so smooth. He's so smooth. So, what a veteran. Tony was a veteran when I met him. Yeah. So, I met him in like, 92? 91 somewhere around him? And no, like, arrogance about that guy. Sends me Bible verses. Yeah. Sends me Bible verses and tells me God bless me. All the time. All the time, dude. There he is. People don't even know. He's so good, folks. If you get this... When is this coming out? Is this coming out tomorrow? Tomorrow. Yeah. So, if you get this July 7th through 9th, Tony Woods at the mothership, it's probably already sold out. Can't recommend it enough. He's so good. He's got a Shoreline Amphitheater in Northern California, I think is what it's called. Just north of San Francisco with Chappelle and like a lineup, you know, like a festival-style lineup. Dude, Tony Woods went up like fifth and did, I don't know, 20 minutes, 18, 20 minutes. And it was 22,000 people. Woo. And he got a standing ovation. God. And the rest of us just looked at each other and we were like, oh shit. We all had to go after him. We were like, fuck. And he got off and I go, what the fuck was that? I mean, standing ovation. He goes, it was a college set. That's what he... Because it was like a set that he did at college. He goes, it was a college set. I go, what the fuck, man? What are you talking about? It's a college. That's how it's a comedy. But also, Chappelle fans know, like real hardcore Chappelle fans know. Yeah, that Dave was really inspired by Tony and they've been friends. And Tony took him under his wing. Dave was like a teenager. A teenager. In DC. Yeah. And they've been friends for decades. Yeah. I'm so glad the internet sort of brought Tony Woods back in people's mind. Yeah. You guys don't know if you have not seen this guy. Yeah. Truly a masterful stand up. Masterful. And you're the best guy. Yeah. He's on the podcast Thursday? Thursday. Yeah. So fucking funny. I love that guy. He's the sweetest guy in the world, man. The funny thing is he's probably done what I just described to you so many times. And if you brought it up to him, he'd be like, oh yeah, you know, I'm out there killing. But it's that guy that has a total lack of promotion. He doesn't promote. He has zero promotion in him. He doesn't promote anything. Yeah. Unfortunately, because the talent levels through the fucking roof, he's one of the best comics on earth. Totally. Top 20 on earth. I bet he could also, is one of the guys who legitimately, like at your club, if he wants wanted to, could do like five different sets. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. He's been around forever. Yeah. And he's just, he's got material and everything. That's my theme park set. Yeah. Oh, that's Cowboys are in town. You know? What the fuck? Is that your new hour? That's from 96, man. Okay. Yeah. No, he's a murderer. Yeah. It's so good. But, you know, it's like, that's the beautiful thing about this business is you will run into those guys that are much more talented than they are popular. It's interesting. And then you run into people that are much more popular than they are talented. Yes. People that are really good at staying popular. That's a skill set. That's what you'll realize the longer you do this. And I think that is only relevant in the internet age. Yes. In the age of this, where like people, there are people who always have that thing of like they know how to get people talking about them. Yeah. And juiced up about them. And it becomes the thing that they actually worked on. Right. What have you been working on? They're like staying popular. Right. Like in my promotions. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a big thing. But then you look at their stand up and you go, do you got to do that with that stuff? I remember. I remember like an early version of this where this guy was like, can you get me on stage at this club? And he had, I kind of knew, I didn't know him well. I probably should have listened to my own inner dialogue about that. But I was like, you know, you feel the pressure when the person is right in front of you. So I go, all right. So the club owner is there. And I go, can my friend do a spot? And they're like, is he good? And I'm like, yeah. So he goes up and he pretty much just eats shit. And I was like, fuck. And so of course the club guy is like, the fuck was that? Right. And I'm like, I don't know. So I talked to him and I go, dude, you know, he goes, just if he'll let me do another set on the late show, I'll do a different set. And I was like, yeah. So I go, let him do a different set on the late show. And the club owner is like, no. Are you sure? And I'm like, yeah. And here's the thing. How many years in were you? A few, not many. Not now. And I go, no, no, no. And I go, all right. Here's the thing. The reason I even brought this up is that the guy, this is years ago, had like the best website I'd ever seen at the time. I was like, this website is fucking amazing. And like all his marketing tools were incredible. He had like cool business card and you went to his site and you were like, shit. Did he relocate? Yeah, dude. Like his site looked like fucking Nike building. I was like, this thing is fucking rad. And he goes up on the first second set. Not only does he eat shit, but he does the same set as the first. And I go, dude, you did the same shit. And he was just like, yeah. And I could see he was in the... And I actually left it. I go, all your shit is cool. Your website, I go, you got to work more on what you're doing on stage. So like that's your priority. Don't you think though that that's like a distraction because they're not working on that other stuff? A thousand percent. So they concentrate on the promotion because they're distracting themselves in the fact they're not working on the difficult stuff. And not only is that 100% true, but there's so many parallels in life to that. Sure. People go like, I'm working on this thing to avoid this thing. And especially if you get good at the side thing. And then people go like, oh, wow. Yeah, your cooking really has gotten incredible. And then you're just like not working on anything else. It's very easy to do. Very easy. And we can all trick ourselves. Very easy to trick yourself. Yeah, it's very easy to do. Yeah. With stand up, it's incredibly easy to be like, I'm working on this other project though. Right. And you can make excuses. I did that when I was on news radio, for sure. I was doing the same set for like two years. I wasn't fixing anything. Kills you. Internally. Killed me. Just my ability. I wasn't connected to the material anymore. I was just saying it. And then I had one set in front of some producers and I bombed, ate shit. And then I really felt bad. I really felt... Because I knew why I ate shit. I knew I had a flat set, which was not connected. And I knew I wasn't working on it. I hadn't written anything in a long time. And then I bored down and I got way better. Like within six months, I was killing. I was doing all this new shit. I was completely reinvigorated. I was also getting better sets too. Like the set I bombed, it was like 1 AM in the main room where you cannot be sucky. You have to grab those people and hang on to them. They have to know you're good. They've seen everything. It's one o'clock in the morning in Hollywood. And I was going on after people that were way better than me. Just ate shit. Yeah, you need those sets though. They're so good for you. Those fucking bombs. It's like heartbreak too. It sounds like a terrible counterintuitive thing to feel bad is good for you. You need perspective and the real perspective only comes the hard way. Disappointment. Yeah, disappointment. Heartbreak like you said. Failure. Heartbreak is a real good one. Yeah, failure. Yeah, you fail. Failure in a relationship, failure in a friendship, failure in a business venture, failure artistically, failure athletically, failure, failure, failure. Yeah, that shit right there. Dude, when you're saying the patella, I had a patella tendon graft on my left knee when I got my ACL reconstructed and they took a slice of the patella. They were like, don't worry about it. The thing's really big. I was like, now I'm thinking about it. I'm like, how big is it? It blows out. He goes, he goes like 90, I forget, 93% of patellar tendon tears happen at a connection point. Or there's two points of connection, either on the patella or on the, what is it, the tibia might be incorrect. He's like, you're snapped in the middle. He goes, which just takes a tremendous amount of force, which makes sense. And when you think about how, because I was leaping, he's like, you're leaping as hard as you can. Right. And you retired and you'd fucked it up a couple of days before, right? I fucked it up earlier that day. Oh, Jesus. And so, and he's like, so it's a really weird, like it's an unusual place to tear. Injuries, bro. Injuries, yeah. I've had so many. Yeah. But you know what? That's another good thing about martial arts and jiu-jitsu. It's like, I understand like that there's stuff you have to do to make sure you don't get injured as often. Like, that's one of the reasons why I stay strong. Like I don't want to be weak. When you're weak, you get hurt. And old people, that's one of the major reasons why they fall down is just they're feeble. There's an interesting video, not a video, photography series of cross sections of people's anatomy done through MRI. So they show a 70 year old sedentary person next to a 70 year old triathlete. It's wild. They show a 40 year old sedentary person next to a 40 year old triathlete. And there's all these, I mean obviously, I'm not saying you have to be a triathlete, but just being strong, being strong enough to do stuff is so important. The only way you get that way is lifting weights and working out. The only thing I keep preaching to my friends and my family, the circle of people I'm around, especially guys, guys and women, I want to make that point too, women too, is you have to have resistance, weight resistance. People get into their, when they hear that, they keep thinking tremendously heavy weight. Like, oh, I'm not going to be a power lifter. You're like, no shit. And you shouldn't even try to be. Yeah, there it is. Look at the cross sections. So the top is the guy who has the workout schedule and it's all muscle. And then the bottom is just mostly fat, the same size leg. And it's just this weak ass, bitch ass muscle around the fat. When I see that, I want to kick him. That bottom one, just a magical kind of damage. You know what you see too? Like slamming a shit into that. When you're in the hotel gyms and sometimes you see these dudes of all ages, but I would say starting at like 40 into the 70s is the guy who walks in, he walks in kind of like the beginning of dropped head syndrome like this. And immediately you know this guy's going to the elliptical or treadmill because that guy doesn't lift weights. And all you have to do, like not all you have to do, but if you want to avoid that path, weight training. Start lifting weights. Have some type of resistance training. Put your body under that stress, your muscles and your skeletal structure under the stress of picking up something and resisting. Build your muscle. I have like this conversation with my cousins and my siblings and my friends all the time who I see on the path of like not touching weights. Like dude, it's not going to, you're not going to be fine just doing the elliptical. Right. It's going to deteriorate. Even guys that I know that do jujitsu, especially as they get into their 40s, I was telling them you're not working out, you know, other than training, you're only doing jujitsu. And they're like, yeah, I go dude, at least once a week you should be lifting weights, at least once a week. You really should be doing it a little bit every day. The key is a little every day. That's the Pavel Tatsilin method. I think if you're doing something else like jujitsu, you can get by with a couple of workouts in the morning and a couple of workouts in the afternoon where you're not even killing yourself. You're just like doing some kettlebells, doing some chin ups, doing some pushups, but you're making your body do these things. Even if you do only one set of chin ups, you do 10 chin ups, do 20 dips, do 20 pushups, do 20 body weights. Just do that. Just do that. Just that. That's weight. That's body weight. Your body weight. And if you can get some kettlebells, get some kettlebells and do 10 clean presses each side. It's not a lot. It'll take you two minutes. Do it in the morning. Do it at night. Do it twice. If you do that all the time, your body just gets accustomed to doing that all the time. And then you develop tissue that protects your joints and your tendons get stronger. And then you have the ability to do stuff. Yeah. But you can tell, I mean, those scans are wild, obviously. Wild. Then you're seeing the real thing. When I see just regular dudes that are older and you see the guy that is active, it really blows you away. Just the way that they stand. They stand a different way. Their shoulders are back and you go, oh man, this guy, yeah, this guy's been active for 40 years. Yeah. And the guy that is fucking walking down the hall like this. I always find those dads. I always find those dads that when I have these parent teacher things. I'm like, that guy loves weights. Yeah. Hey buddy. Yeah. You click them. I met this Jack dude the other day. I was like, you're my new friend. Left out the 40 year old. It looks the same. Yeah. The 40 year old triathlete. I was trying to explain that, but that was just, yeah, it's basically the same. Same amount of muscle tissue. That's incredible. Yeah. Well. Was that a parent teacher thing? Yeah. Super Jack guy. Yeah. T-shirt shorts. I was like, look at you buddy. Yeah. We're hanging in there. That's cool. That's the thing though is you actually start to be drawn to people like that. Oh yeah. I know that guy's fucking putting in the work. A guy who can be that fit at 55 years old when I see him. All right. It's a winner. I can hang out with that guy. I want to hang out with that winner. Winner mentality. Yeah. That guy knows how to do it. If you're still, you haven't quit now and you're driving a Porsche so you have money. So like, okay, why? You haven't laid back now? Okay. You gotta get that Porsche. That's my buddy. Yeah. Yeah. You know, you cannot do it. You don't have to. But if you want, if you want, you'll have to be better. It's one of those things. It has to be done. Yeah. And you guys like who are in their fifties are just gonna, you're gonna be the guys that in your sixties and seventies people go like, you're fucking 65? Yeah. Holy shit. Yeah. There was this dude that was training with Tim Kennedy a couple months back. He posted on his Instagram and then his dad came. His dad was 70. Six pack. Fit as fuck. Really? This is wild. 70. That's what I used to say about Stallone. He was my canary in the coal mine. Yeah. He said, get fat as fuck though. One point in time. He did. He got a giant belly. I don't know if that was for a movie. He did. Is that for a movie? Yeah. There was a movie where they, he plays like a, either a police officer or a security guard and they told him, you gotta get fat. You gotta get fat. He did. And he was like, I was eating pancakes every day. You know, he went, that's a rough thing to do when you're 70. I think this was actually, it was a little while ago for this one. So maybe we're thinking about two different movies, but yeah. Oh no, no, no. I remember that. I remember that. That was a very good movie. Yeah. He got, he actually gave that. What movie was that? That Wait. Like there's like a flood or something, right? Copland. What was that movie? Copland. That was a very good movie and he was very good in it. He was. He can act. Yeah, he can. But I remember watching him talk about gaining weight for that. Right. So you're saying a different one. No, it's recent. Oh, okay. It's recent. He was on the beach and I think he was going through a divorce. He was probably drinking a lot of beer. Oh, okay. Because he got divorced for a little while. He did? Yeah, he stopped getting his, yeah. Why do I know this? But there's a, Sylvester Stallone belly on beach. He was real fat on the beach. See, we're used to him looking like in that picture where he's got the t-shirt. Yeah. How old is he now? He'll get him. Yeah. Well, that's not even a good, that's not even a bad one. Some of the other ones are like, yeah, there he is. Like he's fucking huge belly. Yeah. That's beer, son. That's beer and lasagna. Yeah. That's what that is. That's giving in to them Guinea instincts. Yeah, for sure. Dude, when we went to the Bronx, we went to New Jersey, had a UFC a month ago. Is this the sandwich thing you guys? Yes. It was so good. Do you know that my salivary glands watching the idea were like, like a dog? I think one of my favorite, when you talk about your favorite things to eat, for me, like an Italian sub, like a German Italian one with all the meats. This guy Giovanni from GNR Deli in the Bronx, these are real. Is that like a Caprese? Yes. Oh my God. Oh my God. That one right there, I think that was chicken, chicken cutlet with sun dried peppers and frets, fresh mozzarella. And that's just one of them, but there was a bunch of different sandwiches that he made. This was in the Bronx? Yeah. That's my man Tommy Jr. And this was one that they made with pork. It was fantastic. Do these people know how to eat? Italians know how to eat. They go hard. If you go to Giovanni, you go to his, see that one in the back? That's what they call the Bronx Godfather. That's fucking sensational. This is the greatest Italian sub I've ever had in my life. It was so good. Dude, I over ate so hardcore. I ate and they gave us, so they're so generous. They gave us like a tray of sandwiches and we brought them to the UFC. So I was telling all the other on air guys, I'm like, you know, DC, DC loves his food. I was like, come have a sandwich. He was like, oh shit. Oh yeah. They grabbed, look at my fat face. Yeah. That looks amazing. Yeah. So I'll go off the rails, bro. Yeah. Sometimes you have to. I'll go off the rails every now and then. Come on. Yeah. Yeah. I went out to dinner with Matt Serra and John Rollo the other day. So it was three guineas at Red Ash. So I had to go off the rails. I had the bone marrow with the garlic bread, but I'll do that one meal, maybe a week, but mostly not. Yeah. Well, you can't, I mean, if you do it all the time, it's just, it's a disaster. Yeah. You just have to make sure you don't do it all the time. When I take people to Red Ash, I turn into like an ambassador. I'm like, please, like show them what you guys do. And like, I have them bring like 10 dishes. Well, we've had a bunch of employee meetings there before, especially before we started the club, sort of bonding meetings. It's hard to not indulge at Red Ash. It's amazing. And we would tell them just have the chef bring over anything, everything. They would just bring over plates and stuff. It's incredible. It was amazing. I can't wait to go back actually. Yeah. It's a great place. It's amazing for food. Yeah. It's amazing. It's such a good place for food. There's so many good restaurants here. It's popping up all the time. Yeah. Those are already good places and they keep happening. New shit here just keeps opening that you're like, oh my. Have you been a lonesome dove? I have not. Oh my God. It's so good. What's the... Yeah, it's so good. They sell rattlesnake sausage. They serve, I should say, rattlesnake sausage. A lot of wild game dishes. There's a southern one that I went to here. So fucking good. I went with Phillip. Um, Phillip Lee. What was the name of it? I got to look it up. Okay. I'll ask him. There's so many places here, man. Yeah. I mean, his places too are in... Oh yeah. No, his places are insane. That Sushi by Scratch out in... Where's that at? What's... Oh, you're here Fixie? No. I've heard that place is the shit too though. Is it Olame? Is that Ctepiad? Oh, I think... I don't know. That Fixie? That place is supposed to be fantastic. Did you say Fixie or Fix? How do you say it? Whatever it is. F-I-X-E. Fixie is probably Fixie. I heard that place is fantastic. There's so many good places out here. There's good... Have you been to Abba? Um, yes. That place is great too. Yes. Amazing. Olame? There you go. Olame. Bro. Yeah. That place is outstanding. Damn, son. That's outstanding. Damn. Yeah. So, so good. I had an NADC burger last night. Which one? NADC burger. Oh, not a damn Chance Burger. It might be the best burger on Earth. Oh yeah, that's his too. It might be the best burger on Earth. The only person in contention is the Golden Tiger. I want to eat two, but... Golden Tiger's pretty fucking good too. That one I have not been to. And I almost got it after the club one night. Philip told me it was the greatest burger he's ever had. That's why Philip decided to make NADC burger. Really? It might affect the American cheeseburger. Golden Tiger, is it downtown? Eastside? Yeah, Eastside. That's open late, right? Yeah, real late. It's like a food truck and it has outdoor seating. It's amazing. I gotta try it. It's so good. Fuck. I think it might be also one of my favorite, favorite things in the world is just a simply made cheeseburger. Oh yeah. Yeah. When I was, last time I was there, I ate three cheeseburgers and a chicken sandwich. That Golden Tiger? Yeah. Three? Three. And a chicken sandwich. And a chicken sandwich. I might have been high. Yeah, that was an off the rails moment. I have my off the rails moments. Yeah, phenomenal. See, that looks so good. I like anything fried now just ruins me. And I don't think I, another thing I absolutely love is a fried chicken sandwich. You know what I really miss? Fried chicken and waffles at Roscoe's. Oh, Roscoe's. Come on man. L.A. staple. Yeah, with the hot sauce on the chicken and the maple syrup on the waffles and the butter, slice it up. Hope you don't get shot. Eat it all. Look at that. Oh man. Woo. That food is so good. It's so good. It's a wild place too. You go there, there's a lot of people, like last time I was there, there was a lot of people I knew there. A lot of comics. Yeah. I was like, the store was there. I was like, this is, it's such a classic L.A. place. Yeah, was it on Union? Well, there's one that was near us, I say us, when we had Sunset and Gower. Yeah, that's right. It was radio, it was right down the street. So we used to get it for lunch there. This is shit. And yet it's one of those things the first time you hear it, you're like, what are you talking about? Why would you make chicken with waffles? That doesn't even make sense. And then you sit there. And you eat it. But it's also like the perfect chicken. Like they're chickens off the charts. Yeah, fried chicken. But it's also, it's like that recipe, they got it down, they've been doing it forever. Yeah. They know exactly how to serve you a Roscoe's fried chicken. Yeah. You eat it like, oh, this is what I was waiting for. And then the sugar washed and waffles. Oh, and the fucking butter. Yeah. Oh, and then you dip the chicken in the oven. Oh, maybe a little hot sauce too. Fuck it, let's go. Woo! I need naps right after that. Naps. Yeah, your insulin crashes. Your whole body's like what? Your sugar crashes. What are you doing to it? What is this? And then you think though that there's people who eat like that every day. Every day. I remember one time I had a double cheeseburger with fries and a large milkshake. It was like a large milkshake. And by the time I finished a large milkshake, I literally felt like I got poisoned. Yeah. I was like, oh. Oh. It felt terrible. Of course. It was not worth it. The wildest trick your body does to you is to, especially with like a big heavy sugar meal. Yeah. Your body tricks you into thinking it's good while you're doing it. It does, it does. It's totally a trick. You know that when you eat the capacity feeling and you're like, I feel sick. I think I ate like that every day for 15 years. Yeah, that's my number one problem. Yeah, I was like. But I don't do that when I eat the carnivore diet. Yeah. I don't do it. Yeah. It's a satiety, I think is the word. Which means you get satiated real quickly. You know when your body's at enough, you're like, yeah, you've got enough. You've got enough. Yeah. Yeah. It's good. Then you just look over at that freezer, you're like, is there ice cream? You guys got ice cream? You got to earn that ice cream, son. Ice cream is a, is a. Yeah. That's, that's a hard one. Yeah. Ice cream. I get a whole fucking pint of that shit. I'll get in there. Yeah. I get a whole fucking pint of that shit where like I see them, you know, at the grocery store and I, I start grabbing and then all of a sudden, like the next day, Christine will be like, are there six different pints of ice cream? I'm like, I don't know. The kids are here. So they might like them. They're like, what are you talking about? The kids are here. The kids ate ice cream. Yeah. Yeah. Mews, mint chocolate chip. Really? Yeah. I actually love chocolate chip, not mint. Really? Yes. I like chocolate chip, not mint too. Yeah. That shit's my, that is my absolute favorite. I remember the first time I got high with Eddie, he took me to, we went to Baskin-Robbins and I had an ice cream sundae and I was like, this is the greatest thing the world has ever invented. A hot fudge sundae. Bro. I was like, it was insane. It's, whatever the fuck marijuana does to your senses, like especially your sense of taste, it's insane. Oh yeah. We used to in college, we used to get high out of our minds, like, like full bond rips, joints, like just eyes bleeding. Right. And then we would take, we would take a blender, put in like a whole tub of ice cream, milk and then scoops of peanut butter. Blend that up. And it just felt like you were drinking peanut butter. And when you're high, and I would do it until I vomited. I would drink them until I puked. Because there's no alarm that goes off, that goes stop. You're like, no, it's too, you feel like a dog, like an animal. It's like, if you leave a dog around the food at once, it just eats until it's sick, you know. Your body has to be so confused as to what form this food is taking too. Like if you're, if you're having like a, like a milkshake, there's so much sugar and it's frozen and there's milk. Like what is this? What is this? How the fuck is this? Your body has no reference. Like if your body's eating an apple, like others are very sweet apple, but it's an apple. I know what to do with this. Your body's eating that. It's like, what the fuck is this? What is this? It's not, yeah. Like an ice cold Coca-Cola. Oh my God, your body's like, give me more of that. What the fuck is that? Also that, that, everyone's, we all know it, that formula at McDonald's, why that's the best tasting Coke and Diet Coke on the planet. Why? They have it, because what happens is when you, when you're in an establishment, like a restaurant, you get, you know, a formula. Like the, the gun has a blend and there's definitely a different formula at the McDonald's. Oh, has there been anything written about this? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, interesting. I didn't know that. Oh, it how, go, if you drive by a McDonald's and you get a Diet Coke, you'll be like, what the fuck? Okay. Typically restaurants get their soda syrups in plastic bags, but Coca-Cola does something different for McDonald's. The fast food chain gets their Coke syrup delivered in stainless steel tanks. According to the New York Times, the material keeps the soda fresher and your tongue can taste the difference. A thousand percent it can. Right, but is it a more potent blend or is it just because it's in the tanks? I don't know, but it does taste so much better. This says their filtration system is top tier. It is superior. Wow, there's all these articles about it being superior. And I would say both, like regular Coke, you'll all of a sudden you're like, oh man, and diet is an article. McDonald's does. It says, there are many reasons the Coca-Cola tastes so great at McDonald's. We simply follow the guidelines set by Coca-Cola and take steps to ensure that we serve a high quality fountain beverage. Well congratulations, you do that. The water and Coca-Cola syrup are pre chilled before entering our fountain dispensers with the ratio syrup set to allow for ice to melt. Oh, so that it doesn't get watered down with the ice. So they are making it stronger. But that's smart. Doesn't this tell you something though, that how everything is in the details? You know what I mean? This is something that probably a restaurant would be like, Coca-Cola would say, you should do this. And they go, whatever. Right. You know, like whatever. We'll just put it in the gun. But I believe that McDonald's sticks to that because it is consistent and it is so much different tasting. Even what they said about their straws. Yeah. So their straws are typically wider than the typical straw. So you have a different amount coming in. Yeah, give it to me. Write my face hole, you fuckheads. Fuck my mouth with Coke. Yeah. Yeah. And then they go fat tube of it. So fucking good. Extra syrup because what if the ice melts? Yeah. What if the ice melts? Even their ice is better there. They have better ice? They have better ice. They have filtered water they said. There you go. By the way, we're not paid by McDonald's for this. No. I don't even eat that stuff. But if I did, it's filet of fishes. Filet of fish. I could eat five of those filets. Really? I love filets of fishes. I don't even know what that is. McDonald's has this thing too where there's a temperature swing where it goes from being the best thing you can eat at that moment to like this is... Unedible. Dog food. You're like, throw this down. I was in California a few months ago and I had a quarter pounder. It was actually quite a while ago, 10 months ago. And I had a quarter pounder for the first time in fucking forever. But I was starving and I had to eat and I was headed to the airport and maybe just pulling this drive through real quick or get a quarter pounder. It's so sweet. Yeah. Like I could taste the sugar in a quarter pounder. Their bread even is, I think, sweet. Yeah, it tasted like a pastry. Yeah. I was like, this is interesting. It was very good. Yeah. I enjoyed it. I really did. I'm a quarter pounder fan. Yeah. I don't know what they're doing, but it's fucking delicious. That's the thing I think you really notice about certain foods when you stay away from them for a while. Mm-hmm. Is that when you reintroduce them, you go, oh, I didn't realize that I was... This tastes way different. Yeah, way different. I thought it was going to taste like an In-N-Out cheeseburger. Yeah. Like a cheeseburger. Like In-N-Out is the gold standard for me. For fast food places, you can't fuck with In-N-Out. But they have a standard. And five guys. They have standards. I mean, In-N-Out has high standards. Oh, yeah. But whether or not they are for your palate, you can't negate that they have high standards. Some people hate their fries. I know. How can you hate their fries? They're what? You see them chop the potatoes in the back. I just wish they did it in beef tallow because they do in some bullshit seed oils. That's what they... Yeah, I'm sure. What does In-N-Out use oil for their fries? Everybody uses like canola oil, which is basically industrial lubricant. That stuff was invented to lube up machines. Really? Sunflower oil. Same shit. Yeah. You're not supposed to get that much sunflower oil in your body at one point in time. It's not normal. But they definitely... Sounds healthy, doesn't it? It does, actually. Sunflower sounds good. That shit's not healthy. They watch them. They're chopping the produce right there. Oh, yeah. Right in front of you. Right in front of you. The meat is fresh. It's not frozen. And you can taste it. Nice biblical verse on the bottom of the cup. Oh, that's so sweet. It's beautiful. You know what? I love flying Dutchman's. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I get. The secret menu. Yeah, that's what I get. The secret menu is really fascinating. I know, it's wild. Animal style and all that jazz. Yeah, nothing's not printed, though. Yeah, how do you find that out? I don't know somebody. Yeah, somebody told me about it the first time and then I Googled it. It's much more extensive than you... it's not like two or three things. Oh, yeah, it's a shit ton of things. It's a lot of things, yeah. It's one of the things I've never even heard of before. Yeah, that's a lot. Yeah. Yeah, but it's fucking delicious. I'm a fan. I'm a fan. I also love... But it is such a different taste, though, than a McDonald's burger. McDonald's burger is like... it was sweet. I'd like to know how much... how many grams of sugar is in a quarter pounder? It's gotta be... And I'm telling you, it's gotta be from that bread, too. It's gotta be from everything. It seems like it's from the ketchup, too. It seemed like the condiments had some sugar. Higher sugar content. Yeah, it just tasted like it had sugar in it. I'm real sensitive to that, so I eat it. I'm like, ooh. It was good, though. I also love a Chick-fil-A sandwich. Oh, I love a Chick-fil-A. Yeah. I love your wife's joke about them. She's so funny, man. She's great. Oh, she's so funny. 10 grams. 10 grams of sugar. Eight of it's added, though, so that might be the bread. Okay, so it's two natural and eight added, so it must be eight grams of sugar in the bread. Yeah. That's in a quarter pounder? Yeah, that's kind of a lot. Yeah. Like a really sugary drink. Maybe it's a ketchup, even. Mm, yeah, that's what I was saying, too. I felt like the ketchup was kind of sweet. So it's probably the bun and the ketchup. Good, though. So good. It's a good move to put that eight grams in there. Yeah, it's so fucking good. It makes it more delicious. If you're only looking for something delicious. You ever heard of the McDonald's secret menu? No. I think you can have some weird shit on here like this. The Land C and Air Burger? This is for Lay Chicken and Burger. The difference is, though, I feel like if you... They'll stab you if you order that. Yeah, if you order that, first of all, I think they'd be like, the fuck are you talking about? Look at this McCrape. The McGang Bang? Shut the fuck up. There's no way. I think these are real, I swear. Are you serious? I don't know which place is going to really know about them, but I've seen people ask, like, they follow through with a video and go ask for some of this stuff. What? There's a weird viral thing going on right now with them because they have a grimace milkshake. Yeah. I was like, I'm just taking some crazy videos about what happened to me after I drank this crazy bullshit. Oh, like Red Band did with... 100%. Whatever Red Band did with Pepsi Spice? No. Did you never knew about that? No. Oh. It's the greatest troll Red Band ever pulled off. Really? Red Band bought PepsiSpice.com and then he documented his enjoying delicious Pepsi Spice. And so as he's drinking Pepsi Spice, he's losing weight. He's getting blood in his diarrhea. He's dying. At the end he's making videos. This is like young Red Band, Pepsi Spice Project promo. I don't know what this has to do with anything. What does it have to do with Pepsi? Oh my God. Is he blowing himself? Yeah. He's doing stuff. But yeah. He's making Pepsi Spice for himself. So anyway, he bought PepsiSpice.com and he had to give it to Pepsi after a while. Oh really? But I mean, I think it still exists somewhere online. But they came to him and they were like, hey, you motherfucker, we'll kill you. Because he's kicked. It went viral at the time, like whatever viral is in the year 2001. Imagine the threat from a corporation like that. Oh my God. Oh my God. The Pepsi Spice Project. Wow. Yeah. It's very funny. Wait, continues to add, I liked the stamp yesterday. It says, I'm afraid to have sex. I keep thinking that my over caffeinated sperm would blow a hole through the back of a girl's head. What the fuck? It's just so stupid. It's so stupid. But that's the funnest thing to do is a stupid bit. That's Red Band. He loves silly shit. For him it was like the ultimate platform. He's like to find a non sophisticated company that doesn't recognize the internet. So you didn't buy PepsiSpice.com before you released Pepsi Spice, you fucking idiots. This is fucking idiots. Back then companies didn't even care about websites. What's a website? Even now people still can like hose. You see it on social media where they'll grab a Twitter handle and the company hasn't locked it down yet. They don't tweet like they're from that company. Well people are tweeting like they're from Bud Light now because there's Bud Light, if you go Bud Light underscore. So they're making these very subtle commercials that are almost as like nothing goes with weiners like Bud Light. It's like two hot dogs. I didn't realize. People are like what is this? Is this real as a parody account? It is a parody account but it's subtle. I didn't realize that that like what's it called? Them people abandoning it would be that. It's crazy. It really has stuck and there was a I saw an article about revenue and the share that they have of the market and how it has totally taken a shift. Like 26 billion dollars. It's crazy. Yeah. They really really did. That's the word I was looking for. They were boycotting it. Yeah. And then the trans movement got mad that they didn't support Dylan Mulvaney. So a lot of like LBGTQ and whatever the other letters are, those bars stopped carrying Bud Light. Because they felt like Bud Light didn't back them up. And then there was video footage of them sponsoring a pride parade. So it's like a Bud Light parade truck with a bunch of people dancing around like we like to fuck guys too. And I'm a girl. I like to fuck girls. Like whatever it is. It's like they're like dancing around inside this. So now they're advertising in front of the pride people. And so then the people are like oh they're fucking doubling down. It's like they can't win. So the pride people are mad. How weird is it when you say pride? People immediately think of gay. Pride means gay. How wild is that? Yeah. That they did that? Yeah. They own it. Like it's- Cain Velasquez has brown pride tattooed on his chest. Now people are like what are you trying to say? He's gay brown. What is that? What are you trying to say? You know you used to be you were proud. Right. Now it's gay. It definitely means- Why don't? It means queer. Pride month. Queer month. Imagine you don't even have to say gay pride anymore. Yeah. You say pride month. How insidious. They slowly took over pride. Like they took over the rainbow. It's yeah. Rainbows are that is it's so funny to think that University of Hawaii used to have rainbows on their helmets. Can't have it anymore. Well they also- Too beautiful. I think the football team was like can we get something. Like it was not even related to gay. They're like shouldn't we be the tiger shorts. Yeah it's like give us and they finally changed it. What do they know? Well I forget what the but they they put a like a more badass design on the helmets but for years it was a rainbow. Because it was like Hawaii you know. It was supposed to be and they're like come on man we're supposed to be out the yeah that was on the side of a helmet. Now it's the at like on the bottom. It's like that H you know. Isn't that crazy though. The rainbow has become I mean it's a it's gay. Rainbows a gay thing. Rainbows are gay. Yeah I mean that's what it is now. Pride it's a gay thing. The word is like you say you have straight pride. People are like really. Yeah of course. Do you really. Do you really. Yeah you should. First of all why. You're 99 percent of the people proud to be proud of. Fuck you proud. Like they had a pride a straight pride parade and I was like if I was a gay guy trying to fuck a guy in the closet that's where I would go. So I go that straight proud pray and see who's yelling the loudest. Let me see who I can get over here. You want to argue. It is such a weird time man. It's a weird time because unfortunately because of social media now anything that you do you can you can form an identity around it and then it can be like your identity in terms of like your source of like how you view yourself in the world. You no longer view yourself in the world as just a human being that's just accepted for whatever you're interested in. Now you're in like a very specific category or group and then there's other people in that group and you you think there's people that are opposed to you and there are people that are opposed to them. So then then you're in conflict. Now you're a part of a gang. You know it's going to go after those people that are against us. Fuck them. It's wild. Yeah it's exhausting too. Exhausting exhausting and people want to fight. They want to argue about shit. Don't you just feel like I mean like I don't know I get such mental fatigue from a lot of this stuff. I just feel like I'm an observer and I kind of put it to the side and go I just I can't you can't entertain and ingest every one of these things going on. Well that's the if you're a conspiracy theorist. Yeah this is this is the real conspiracy. The conspiracy is have as many social problems as possible to get distracted by the people concentrate on whether it's a pandemic whether it's masks vaccines pride trans movement drag show sponsor drag shows for kids if you want people to get mad and want people to get distracted right right. Let them focus on that. Get people to think that it's a good idea to do that and watch watch the outrage. You know get people to think that the oceans are going to be boiling in five years. You know right. Get get people to think that if we don't change it like that was one of the things that Greta Thurnberg said five years ago that we'll all be dead. Okay. Well it's five years later and we're not all dead. So you're definitely wrong and you're 16. So why are they flying you out to Ukraine. What is going on. So there's these so many of these fucking social distractions that are in our face all day long about everything. And I feel like sometimes it's sort of feeling about Supreme Court rulings. We're going to take away Roe v. Wade and everybody's like what the fuck what. Yeah. What. And that's another one. That's another one that comes to thing that people identify as the most important problem that they have to solve. And while all this is going on money's getting moved around decisions are getting made. And it's a brilliant cover for wild shit. Yeah. Because all you have to do ever really is follow the money on anything. Yeah. And you see what's actually happening and everything else is a distraction to that. Bro I've been following this Hunter Biden shit. You see the new he was smoking crack while he's driving 175 miles an hour to Vegas and a Porsche. Yeah. But to be fair it was a turbo S and those are thrilling to drive. Oh yeah. I can imagine it's probably easy to get 175 in that fucking car. EZ those are amazing. That's a rocket ship. It really is. That is a rocket ship. Those are incredible. And the way that thing handles. Oh my goodness. You get behind the turbo S and tell me you don't want to hit 175. Yeah. Especially if there's like no one there. Not only that if there's hookers at the end of it. And you're on crack. Yeah. And he's smoking crack while he's driving 175. Wow. Now he really has substantial issues. I mean with because I'm saying I. Or he's lived the dream. What's the dream. Yeah. What's the dream. If you're a fucking total degenerate what's the dream. Smoking crack getting hookers. Driving fast as fuck and making millions of dollars through illegal activity because your dad's rich. 175. But also this fucking thing of like he's always filmed doing this. This is always. He films himself. That's what I'm saying. He posted it. No. No. No. I think they found it. But who knows what's real anymore. That's another problem. Like any video you see today. Going through. So he's going through the desert doing. Uh huh. Yeah. But a lot of people do do that. Yeah. No no I know. People are. It's a famous place for people driving fast. That's booking though. That's different. Oh yeah. I've hit a hundred and a little over 175 is 175 is insane. Things are coming so quick. Really moving man. I mean what's the top end of that car. It's probably like 200. Yeah. It's probably like a little over that. 175 is so fast. Seriously. Life in the fast lane. How reckless hunter Biden photographed himself driving. And he's photographing it while he's going 172. God. While behind the wheel of his Porsche en route to long days. Days long Vegas bender with prostitutes and pictured himself smoking crack while behind the wheel. Wow. Oh so it was back in 2018. But he just. Oh he's just released it. Oh he's alone. It was just a few years ago. Damn. It was years ago. Look at him. Imagine partying with that dude. I almost had a chance to get that guy on the podcast. Really? Yeah man they reached out when his memoir was coming out. But then all the shit hit the fan about him. I was like I'm not really interested. And then I started reading all the stuff he did. Like oh my god he's insane. Yeah that's crazy. Yeah look at that. Hot. He's driving in a residential neighborhood smoking crack. Well he's in a residential neighborhood. And that's nope. That's nope turbo. So that's. What is that? Oh that's a turbo S. No I meant like if the odometer was if that one is. I think that's a different car. Yeah. Yeah look at it. Well it's an automatic too. But it says manual see M. Hmm it might have a. Yeah he's in D and then maybe. Who the fuck is that? Do they have. Yeah because they let you like ride it over. Power shifters. I don't know if that's the same car. I don't know if it is either. Whoo hoes. In different area coats. Why would you film it. Because he's having a party. That's true. When he's an old man he wants to look back. Yeah I didn't go to Bohemian Grove but you know what I did. I smoked street crack with hookers in Vietnam. Now there's a. Tells the prostitute he had a laptop stolen. Oh no. And then he's talking to her while he's recording it. Well that dude was off the charts out of his mind. Yeah crack is. I mean he was out of his mind. I mean he was basically like Ray Liotta looking for helicopters all day long. I talked to one time about Dr. Drew because you know he's worked with so many drug users about the different drugs right and like how they can affect your affect your brain. And he said that there's certain drugs that most people most could like do try and and basically you could try it and you might be able to just be like I did that and go on with your life right. And not have an addiction. And of course he's not saying to do that. Right. He's saying it's possible. But he said the one that has the highest probability to switch something in most people's brains where the chemical composition it's like a light switch hits where you'll never be the same is crack. He said crack people that are completely fine trying this and trying that. He said that's the that's the one where you can do it and just everything forever your brain has changed and will be in the basically in the pursuit of crack. The next sober October we should do do crack. We should smoke crack before October. Like right before it see who could not smoke crack through the whole month of October. That would be a real challenge. I don't think it would. Norman said he smoked crack once he said he hated it. But that's what Drew was saying is that. Oh no no wait a minute Norman ate crack because he thought it was Molly. Remember. Remember. Yeah someone gave him crack and he thought it was Molly. And so he just ate it was girlfriend at the Louvre in Paris. At the Louvre in Paris. Yeah. Was it the Eiffel Tower or the Louvre? One of them places. They're in Paris. So he's having a tear. He's like hey we're gonna have a good time. Take this Molly I got off a fucking stranger. It's crack. Fuck. I'm like Norman why are you doing drugs off strangers. Yeah. Yeah. But then he ate it and Ari tried to give me some acid once off a stranger. No. I'm gonna have some of this acid you want some. I go you're gonna give me acid from a stranger. I go do you know how that story turns out. Ari didn't give a fuck. Ari you don't give a fuck. I have a business to run. Yeah. I have employees. I have a family. People thirst it on stage. You don't have kids you fuckhead. Yeah. I'm not doing street acid with you. No way. If you do that acid and then tomorrow I'll do that acid if you're still alive. Yeah yeah tell me how that went. Yeah. Did he do it? He probably did. He did it. Yeah. Yeah we went to see Roger Waters. That was fine. Yeah. Pretty good acid. Pretty good. Missed out on the best time. Yeah sure. He wasn't a giggle fest. He did cry a bunch. He did? Yeah. He cried at how amazing the Roger Waters show was. It made me uncomfortable. Yeah but he was he was on acid. He was fine. He was so sad he sat right next to me. Jamie locked up. It was so good. Roger Waters was so good. They do. Oh yeah. Oh it was so good. And then we all hung out afterwards. Yeah that's so I was so jealous. You texted me like that day or the day before. Roger Waters is my homie. No I know. We text each other all the time. I wanted to go. I was like you were you asked me and I was like out of town and I was like fuck I would love to do that. It's one of the weirdest of my homies. Like my famous homies that text me every now and then. I get a text from Roger Waters. I'm like holy shit man. Yeah. That's Roger fucking Waters man. Yeah. First time I made out with a girl when I was 13 I heard Comfy to be numb. And now he's sending you texts. I've become comfortably numb. Oh my god what a band. What a band. What a fucking artist he is. And like a guy who's like a really well thought out guy really well versed in international affairs. Yeah he's definitely not just spooting spouting. He's not that old rich guy who like is detached. No. Famous now. He's not that guy at all. He's a real artist. He can play pool too. Can he? Yeah. Yeah he plays good. Yeah he plays good. Yeah he wanted to play. Oh really? He's like yeah I'll play you some pool. Come on let's play pool. I was like you play pool? And he's like I play very good. I was like no fucking way. I was like holy shit Roger Waters can play some pool. He knows how to move the rock. Does he have a set up table at the shows? Yeah but I got a fucking. The problem with this table out here is like if you don't know what that is it's a it's like a gimmick table almost. It's a super tight pro table. Yours. Yeah mine has four inch pockets. So like if you're like used to regular pool tables. What do they have? Five. Five and a half. Oh. Yeah and a bar. Yeah. Yeah these are four like. So it's for like good shit playing. Yeah. I mean the pros playing. Dominguez cut it's like it's like the perfect it's like it's a gold crown. You still do it a lot? Oh every day I'm not the chunky I'm a chunky. Oh you are. I've got a problem. I didn't realize that. Yeah two of my security guys are good. Oh really? Yeah yeah we play hard. Nice. Yeah. Yeah I don't know. We can be battle. Yeah we have good yeah I'm getting better. I'm probably better playing better now than I've ever played. Really? Yeah I'm playing really good. When did you start like getting into it into it? Well I tore my ACL when I was like 22 and that's when I first started playing pool. Oh okay. Because I couldn't do martial arts anymore. It was fucked up for a while. You got obsessive. And then I got surgery yeah I had to get surgery but I didn't get surgery for like it was a while maybe more than six months and then then there's a long rehab. The ACL reconstruction was a long rehab for me. But I wasn't doing martial arts at the time at all. So all I was doing was going to the gym. Like I went to like a regular fitness gym and I just lift some weights do the stair machine you know it was rehabbing my knee all by myself and then you know because I kind of knew what to do just doing mostly body weight squats and slowly building up my ability and being smart about it. And then during the time I got obsessed with pool. Just fucking obsessed. A buddy of mine worked at a pool hall. He had a part time job at a pool hall. This guy was my comic friend John. And so we used to play all the time. We both kind of sucked. You know it was fun just talking shit laughing playing and we do gigs together and stuff. And then I started meeting really good players. And then I started playing all the time. And then I started then I had a real problem to the point where my manager goes I think you're spending more time thinking about pool than you are about comedy. And you're like fuck you're right. I knew he was right. I knew he was right. So I was playing in tournaments like several times a week. Wow. Yeah. I was playing eight hours a day. Eight hours a day. Wow. I never knew this about you. Every day. Every day. If pool was a legitimate profession at the time like back then it was very hard to make a living. And then there was this camel tour and it wound up being a shit show and a lot of people didn't get the money they wanted. You would have gotten into it. 100 percent. If I could have been a professional pool player I was obsessed. I loved it. You know why? Because the balls don't give a fuck. They don't give a fuck who's watching. They don't give a fuck how cool you are. They don't give a fuck what you're dressed like. They don't give a fuck if somebody likes you. Because if you make that shot you make that shot. And to keep your nerves together and navigate around the table was a puzzle to me. I was fascinated by it. It's because it's just this you're in tune with these balls colliding with these other balls and trying to find the proper angle and plotting out the table in advance to get the good angle in the next ball, to get the good angle in the next ball. It was just obsessive. Did you get into trick shots and all that too? Nope. Couldn't give a fuck. Get out of here with that shit. I don't want to learn it. I don't care. It doesn't mean anything. It's just about cleaning the table. If you got a trick shot and you got to kill yourself if you don't make it then I'll watch. Okay. There's no consequences. There's no consequences if you miss a trick shot. I don't give a fuck if you miss a trick shot. I don't give a fuck if you make it. It's kind of cool to see someone has like a really powerful draw stroke and they can do these crazy trick shots. But you're talking about just. That's nonsense. What you really want to see is people playing pool at the highest level when you have to keep your nerve. Pool players consider, because I know there's multiple games. I've played amateur obviously like hanging out. But some people play what, eight ball? What's the standard game called? Well there's two main rotation games and there's one big gambling game. The big gambling game is a game called One Pocket. The reason why it's a big gambling game is because it's a very complicated game. It's boring to watch unless you're like a real aficionado. They can never put it on television. What One Pocket is, is say if this is the pool table. I have this pocket here on the right hand side. You have this pocket here on the left hand side. And I only can make balls in this one pocket. You can only make balls in that pocket. And so there's 15 balls. There's 15 balls in a rack. So when someone makes eight, that means they've made more than half so they won the game. And then to make handicaps, like say if you and I were playing and you don't play as good as me, I'd say okay I have to make 10 balls, you only have to make five. We'll do it something like that. Or I have to make 13 balls, you only have to make two. Damn. Yeah people make crazy matches like that. That way, and they gamble for a lot of money. I've seen one pocket games for thousands and thousands of dollars. Really? Yeah big money. I like what legit players play. Most people play nine ball. Well in leagues, a lot of people play eight ball. Like a lot of bar table eight ball. Which is a little complicated because bar table eight ball you have to have really good cue ball control because you're dealing with a lot of clusters. So you have to know how to move the ball around. It seems easier because you don't have long shots because the table's small. And it is. It's easier for that. But it's harder for position play because you have very small room for error. And so you develop a real good sense of where the cue ball's going. A lot of bar table players have a real solid cue ball. And then there is tournament play. And tournament play is generally usually either eight ball or nine ball rather and ten ball for the pros. So it's a rotation game. Nine ball I'm familiar with. Nine ball, the balls are wild. So nine ball, you break, you make the nine ball on the break, that's a game. You won. You make a one nine combination, you win. Ten ball. No balls are wild. So unless you play it wild, there's different ways people can play it. But generally speaking, it's call shot. You have to call every shot you make. So the one, if you're making a one five combination, you call the five ball combination. No bullshit. You can get lucky occasionally. And the way you get lucky is say if you call that corner pocket and you miss, but it bounces off the rail, hits the other rail and comes back in that corner pocket, it still counts. It's a fluke. You got the luckiest of lucky. But only because you actually called the pocket. I got you. You really shouldn't even count then. You should really say how you do it, but that's not how it works. And then there's games where you play the 10 ball counts on the break and that's a win, but most of the times they don't. Most of the time they spot it. You have more, I realize this, I've realized this over time, but even now, you have more obsessions than most people I know, I think. Yeah, I got a lot of them. A lot of people have none or maybe one, but you are kind of obsessed with a number of things. Yeah, I could get obsessed with anything. Yeah. I think good. But I mean you're kind of obsessed with stand up. You've definitely been obsessed with jujitsu. You're kind of obsessed with archery. Yeah, I just came from the archery shop. Yeah, that's a lot of different disciplines that you're, or things that you are trying to master. Mentally ill. Yeah. I'm not a man of a race, that's another one. But I'm mentally ill in a very productive way. That's true. It's not a mental illness where it wrecks my life. It enhances my life. Yeah. But it's just I know how to focus on it. It's like saying I have a 900 horsepower engine, that's why I keep crashing all the time. No, you need to know how to handle 900 horsepower. Sure. If you know how to handle 900 horsepower and you're a race car driver, then you have a massive advantage. Yeah. Because then you have all this horsepower. Yeah. You could fucking go. That's me. I just have to find things to put that in. If I'm just sitting around doing nothing, my brain just starts plotting chaos. I just start thinking dark things. I just start plotting scenarios. It's not good. I don't trust my brain to be by itself. It's why for me it's easier. When I say, just fucking work out, just go do it, you'll feel better. I know it's easier for me to say that. It's easier for me to say that because I'm crazy. Because I have to do it. I know I have to do it. I go out there and I do whatever I have to do and then I can manage all that other stuff. But if I don't, I can get locked into something. Like when I was playing pool for eight hours a day or I used to get into video games like that where I'd play video games or jujitsu. The thing about jujitsu is you can't really do it all day long. Your body breaks down. Yeah. I did as much as I could, but your body starts to break down. What's a good session for like? Couple hours. Couple hours. Couple hours. Yeah. You probably roll for an hour. Yeah. But yeah, more than that, your body's going to be like. You're so beat. An hour of trying to stop people from strangling you and breaking your arm and fucking ripping your neck off your head. It's fucking exhausting. That's real work. It's exhausting. You get so tired. That's why jujitsu people are so chill. They get it all out. They don't have nothing. You meet them in real life, they're like, hi. They have no bravado, chest puffiness. They're just fucking chilled out. Yeah, I mean like the bit of boxing stuff I've done too, it's completely exhausting. Same thing. Yeah, same thing. You meet a boxer in real life, they're generally pretty fucking chilled out. Especially when it's training all the time. Yeah. That training is great. There's nothing for me quite like hitting a bag for a workout that puts me in a great state of mind. Yeah. Like a great mood. Doing rounds on a bag. By the time I'm done, I feel so good. It gets everything out. I'm all happy. Yeah, it just drains all that monkey energy out of my body. It just drains all that caveman out. And when you hit like clean combos, boom, boom, boom, boom. At the end you're like, oh, I can't. Yeah. It's a good feeling. I like going ham. Yeah. Yeah, it's fun. What are you doing, the kicks too? Yeah. Finally I can do them again. My knees back. It took forever. That's another thing that happened with this fucking diet. It's like whatever weird joint pains I was having just went away. I used to have occasional joint pain in my right knee too, gone, don't feel it at all. Not at all. Same workouts, same stuff. I think I was carrying around a bunch of inflammation just from eating, I mean mostly clean. Mostly clean. You know, but I'll eat four cheeseburgers one night or mostly clean. I'll have a fucking large bowl of spaghetti. Mostly clean, but every now and then I'll go off the rails to not going off the rails at all. Remember one day I just felt like shit and I just decided, what was the last time I felt really good physically? It was like, this is the time that I did that carnivore diet. Yeah. So I'm like, let me do that again. The thing that's most astonishing to me is the mental benefits of it. When your brain is running on ketones, it's a different feeling. It's a feeling like you're on a nootropic. It's like you're on alpha brain. It's a feeling like you get a little extra room for thinking. A little extra room for forming sentences, for just even comprehension, understanding things. I have more mental energy. I think it's a more efficient form of energy than carbohydrates are. I did find that I'd have joint pain and when I was at the house and I feel that way, that was another benefit of that feeling after cold plunging was like alleviate. My knees would be sore from hitting the bike for a while or squats and then you're like, damn, it really does feel alleviated. Oh yeah, your body loves that. Let's get that inflammation out of there. There's a lot of people that talk about it not being scientific benefit. I literally hear it in their voice that they're trying not to go in there. Let's just say it doesn't do anything for you physically. What it does for you mentally is inarguable. It's inarguable. There's real science behind it. It ramps up your dopamine by 200% and it lasts for hours. Yeah, the epinephrine or epinephrine. It carries through the rest of your day. That's why I was, for me, a big proponent of in the morning. Start your day that way. Fuck yeah. It's a great way to warm up too. It wakes you up and then I warm up through, I make my body get warm while it's freezing. Yeah, that morning fog that we all feel, I keep telling people, there's no cup of coffee like that 30 fucking five degree water. Nothing. There's nothing that will get you going like that. Nothing. You can't experience a version of it if you've ever jumped into a lake or something. That feeling, you're like, whoa. Dude, I was kind of burnt out the other day. I did a bunch of podcasts in a row. I had real hard work out that day and I was just crashed. I came home, I was like, man, I got two shows tonight. I'm going to get in the tank. I'm going to get in the cold. I just got in there for three minutes. I got out. I was like, whoa. I'm going to fucking go. I went to the club and they're like, why are you so fucking energetic? Oh, dude, I was tired today. I was crashing. Then I got in that cold plunge. Now I feel fucking fantastic. Game changer. Game changer. Yeah. Yeah. If you only have a bathtub, get a bathtub, fill it with cold water, throw some ice in there. Just do it. It doesn't have to be complicated. Yeah, you really will feel amazing. Yeah. The fun thing is I've had people come over and you can't help. They're talking about it. They see it and they're like, what is that? I talk to them and then there's people who go fuck that. They have this one. They're like, I'm not doing that. Almost everybody. Yeah. Then I've had friends that go like, all right, I don't want to try it. They get excited about it. Everyone who's actually gone through and done it has a huge smile on their face afterwards. Yeah. They start laughing afterwards. Yeah, they love it. I paid my daughter and her friends $1,000 for every minute they can go in there for. What? They have 11 year olds. Did they get it? Yes. I'm freaking out. I'm trying to get $1,000 and I'm peeled off 10 crisp hundreds. Then they were laughing and giving and the parents were like, what are you doing? I'm like, it's fun. It's fine. It's okay. They're sure. Like, yeah, it's fun. Everybody had a good time. That's cool. I did it for fun. At 11 too. That's like giving an 11 year old $100,000. Yes. I was like, what am I going to do? That's why I wanted to do it. But it's also, they were all laughing afterwards. Yeah, it was like everyone was laughing and it was fun that they did it because it's a hard thing to do. Sure. But, yeah, that's not easy. Just a minute. Yeah. You can do it. I told Tony I'd give him $1,000 for every minute. Did he do it? He won't do it. He won't. I go, Tony, he can make 10 grand. He has like no body fat. He'll experience it differently than most people. His balls would crawl right up into his nostrils. Right up into his vagina. He's so thin, like lean. Yeah, he's very lean. Yeah. He's a little hummingbird. Yeah, he really is. Go, go, go. Amazing. That show we did with him was incredible. Insane. The fact that Kill Tony started out in the belly room at the Comedy Store to a half filled crowd where they were just kind of finding their legs, and I remember doing it back then to seeing it now where they did it in front of that sold out movie theater. Yeah. Yeah. Look at that. That photo was insane. These on stage like that, the roar from the crowd was fucking incredible. It was incredible. It was sitting on my lap. David Lucas and Ron White. It was amazing. But it was also like it felt so good to see this show become this immensely popular thing. They're doing the fucking HEB arena for New Year's Eve. When I had done the show before at the clubs, at the store and the Vulcan, when he's like, I'm doing it at ACL, I was like, really? I kind of didn't really understand what it would be. Dude, that show really was a flawlessly entertaining show. It was amazing. It was really, it was so, I told him this, it was so well produced. Yeah. It felt like this is a show that you guys put on in this space every week. Right. It was like flawlessly done from the music, the visuals, the video. Yeah. I mean, they had graphics for everybody coming out and it was timed well. It was incredible. It was really good. It was incredible. Yeah. Yeah. Holtzman went up and crushed. It's so nice having him here. So ridiculous. It's so nice having him here. It's so nice. Yeah, it's awesome that he's here now. Also watching people try to figure him out. What the fuck? Like people don't know where they're getting into. They don't know. These are jokes. Do you understand? I don't really believe these things. He's such a nice guy too. He's the best. He's a sweetheart. And finally he feels like he has a place where he can go up and he has big crowds and he's appreciated and he's having a great time. It's really cool. Yeah, the club you've built is amazing, dude. It's pretty wild, dude. It's pretty wild. It's wild. It's just weird. Even when I'm there, I'm like, is this real? Fuckin' It's a real treat. What chapter of the simulation am I in? Yeah. It's a fun thing to have here, man. Well it's beautiful what's become of this community now. It's like a surreal, thriving comedy community. I also think that having two open mic nights a week is huge. Yeah. I love the bottom of the barrel show you guys too. It's perfect with Brian hosting it too. Brian's the man. Such a great guy. I'm so happy he's out here. He's filming his special at the mothership in August. He is? He's one of my favorite comedians. He's fantastic. Yeah. I knew it the first time I saw him too. There's weird things like that where you could see someone and you're like, hey, wait a minute. Yeah he was a Tommy Bunn's recommendation. Yeah. Yeah, you recommended him to me. I was like, I'll check him out. The moment I saw him I was like, oh, OK. This guy's good. As soon as I saw him. Yeah. There's also specials. I was thinking about that. I remember watching specials and just knowing. First time Netflix sent me an advance of Burt's first special for them. And I told him, I was like, you're definitely going to go to theaters. And he was like, really? I go 100%. I could just tell watching. First time I was watching Nate Barghazzi's first one on there, I paused it at like 15 minutes. And I was like, you're about to go do big rooms. He's like, I hope so. I go, no, definitely. Nate Barghazzi just sold out 19,000 seats. Yeah. And like the Bridgestone or whatever it's called. Yeah. No, I mean, I feel like you watched them. And the same thing, I felt the same thing when I saw Shane's YouTube special. I remember I go, dude, I was it was like after the 15 minute mark, I was like, I'm really into it. Like I could tell the way I was watching it. I was like, oh, this is really good. Yeah. And I watched the whole thing. I was like, I never sit through specials. I was just laughing the whole time. I was like, these are all such good. I was so engaged, so entertained, laughing. I was like, this is this is legit a really good special. Yeah. You can just tell sometimes. Yeah, you could tell sometimes. It's nice. It's a good time for comedy. A lot of good comedy going on. Shane's new shit's funnier than ever. It's way funnier than his YouTube special. His YouTube special is amazing. His new shit is fucking insane. That's great. It's insane. I think that shoots soon. I think that's what it is. He just shot it. Oh, he shot it. Just shot it in San Diego. Oh, great. Yeah. Last week. That'll be huge for him. Yeah. It's amazing what that YouTube one did for him, though. I know. It's a wild time. Do you see that Roseanne's podcast with Theo got pulled from YouTube for hate speech? That's so funny. I had I had something with them like a year or two ago. This is so insane. I'm going to send this to you, Jamie, so we can go over what it is that got them banned because it's so crazy. I can't even understand it. I don't even understand how this could possibly be real. I'm going to send it to you here. So here is the there's a thing on Twitter. He put it on Twitter now because that's really the only place you can put something like that if it gets pulled from YouTube, which is so they pulled the whole episode. I pulled the whole episode for this for this clip. So we're going to watch this clip. And this is it's really I just don't understand how someone could think that this this kind of censorship is OK. Well, hopefully, like they'll go through the if you go through the flagging process. I don't know. Let's let's let's go. He's it can't post for a week. Make go full screen. In 2012, one of my platform things was I will outlaw bullshit. Because you know, and I know that that horrified people because what will they do now? Right. They're addicted to it. They'd rather have that than food or a happy family. They're so addicted to fucking bullshit. It's true. But you know, comics, I think we're the last free speech art form. And as long as we're performing, things end as bad as they could be. You know, I think that's true. As long as we're performing, things aren't as bad as it could be. Yeah. And that's always been the case throughout time, like with jesters or with people that we try and speak up and share. There's always been a ceiling on speech, hasn't there? In a way, of course, nobody wants to hear the real truth. They're horrified. They're ready to go with bullshit. It's easier. And like for the real truth that you know, and I'm glad that they did set up all these guidelines so that we only are allowed to speak the truth. And the truth is that Biden got 81 million votes by winning 36 counties. And that is just incredible. It really, really is. And that of these 81 million supporters who gave him more more votes than any president has ever gotten before, he came with a mandate from these 81 million voters. And I'm just glad that they were very careful to make sure that nobody could detract from that proven truth. You know what I mean? Like, what do you mean? Like that nobody... Theo's not getting it? Yeah. That they mandated that that was the truth and that nobody could say, well, what about no? Oh, it was made a mandate. Yeah. Oh, I didn't know that. So the government made it a mandate? Yeah. Well, YouTube did and so did all the social... Oh, so you can't speak? You can't even speak on that in those platforms? No, you can't say, you know... That it wasn't. You can't say that like, you know, there was election... The election was rigged or... Yeah, that's all a lie. The election was not rigged. 36 counties can give you 81 million votes. Right. That's a fact. So it wasn't rigged? Of course not. Yeah. 36 counties have 81 million people in there. See? That's the truth. And don't you dare say anything against it or you'll be off YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and all the other ones because we have, you know, there's such a thing as the truth and facts and we have to stick to it. And you know... It's scary. And that is the truth. And nobody died in the Holocaust either. That's the truth. Yeah. It should happen. Six million Jews should die right now because they cause all the problems in the world, it never happened. But it never happened. Yeah. Mandated. Well, you're... You're part of the Jewish... First of all, she is 100%. I'm all Jewish. You're all Jewish. 100%. And a lot of Hollywood is Jewish. Yeah. It's like a lot of Hollywood is a Jewish business really. Well, they started Hollywood. Yeah. Right. But so was it weird that... Just like rap. Black people started rap. Yeah. So I wouldn't go over there and try to get in rap and go, all these black people, you know, go on Saturday Night Live like Dave Chappelle. I'm just saying a lot of black people are in control of rap. Right. Hello. What? Well, you went there. Yeah. You try to get in show business. Of course it's Jewish. But, you know, and people should be glad that it's Jewish too because if Jews were not controlling Hollywood, all you'd have was fucking fishing shows. Yeah. See what I'm saying? That's hilarious. Oh. So that... That's kind of a full ride. Yeah. So the episode pulled and he can't post for a week and it's a strike against his account. Mm-hmm. And it's all based on the actual Holocaust line for sure. It has to be. But she's Jewish. She is. It's obvious she's Jewish. She's always been Jewish. It's also obvious if you're listening that when she says... Yeah. ...that the Holocaust... And that like that many Jews should die. And that she said it after she said this thing where she's clearly... Yeah, she's clearly... ...poking fun at Biden saying... But by the way, I think you can make 81 million if you win those counties. I don't know the math. I don't know the math on the... Somebody... Is that... Is that real? Like what is a... How many counties did Biden win? Does it matter? Look, if you don't think that people voted for Biden because they hated Trump and that 81 million people hated Trump, you're not paying attention. Yes. It's like, I don't know if there was some shenanigans with the election. I guarantee you it wasn't 0%. Yeah. Like if you said like how much voter fraud was it? It's never 0%. But it's never 0%. Right, ever. It's never 0%. But it's also in... I mean, if you do all the research that you can, the valid studies and the reports, even from like hardcore pro-Republican counties, it's like fractional voter fraud. People like to... Right. It's probably zealots that work inside the organization... Yeah. ...and figured out a way to like, oh, this county's got to... What's hiding it now? It's not substantial. It was a lot... A very small amount of counties. I don't know about 36 being accurate. Okay. So with over 81 million votes, Biden received the most votes of any presidential candidate in history. It's also true that he won a record low number of counties, but counties vary by population size from those with a few hundred people to others with millions of residents. So county wins don't correlate with popular vote. Right. But if you only win 30... If you have 81 million votes in 31 counties... 36. How many 36 counties? That's what she was saying. In this it says that he won 477 counties and Trump won 2,000 counties or something. So he won 477? Yeah. That's a lot more than 31. It's different than what she was saying. Okay. So why would she say that? She probably got just that information wrong. 509 versus 25. Oh, so he won 509 counties. Yeah. That's a lot of counties. That makes sense. Look, I know people that voted for Biden that wish they didn't now. Yeah. But I do know a lot of people voted for Biden. I don't know whether or not... Look, there's some real problems with these voting machines. I mean, the other thing that that article is saying right there that you're looking at is that Trump won like 2,400 counties. Right. So it's substantially higher number of counties, but he's also winning a lot of those counties in like rural areas. Yeah. Like they were saying. Yeah. Yeah. But there was a thing that they just released about the Dominion voting system that it's susceptible to being hacked. What was that? See if you can find that. There's something that just got released about the Dominion system. I'd say about when we got one, by the way, YouTube struck us. Struck you guys? For what? We had a guest on. Old podcast. This was like a couple of years ago. And the guest, I think it was Derek Delgaido. I think that's how you say his name. I don't want to get it wrong. But he was telling me about growing up and how he was getting taunted at school. This is like a serious conversation. And he's like, yeah, you know, getting bullied at school. Kids are calling me a fag. Blah, blah, blah. Took the episode down. Hate speech. Wow. But he's telling the story about being bullied. Georgia won't update vulnerable Dominion software until after 2024 election. See, that was something about the software being vulnerable. This is on CNN. Georgia election officials have been aware of existing vulnerabilities in the state's voting software for more than two years, but continue to insist the system is safe and won't be updated until after 2024. According to a report that was unsealed this week as part of a controversial court case in Georgia, the report's findings focus on weaknesses in software for certain Dominion voting machines. Those weaknesses were previously verified by federal cybersecurity officials who urged election officials across the country to update their systems. A lawyer for Georgia's top election official, Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger recently told a federal court that officials would forego installing Dominion security patches until after the 2024 presidential election. Why? Today election officials, Georgia election officials insist that it's highly unlikely that the vulnerabilities will be exploited in real attacks. Well when you're fucking right about it on CNN, doesn't that make it more likely? I mean, yeah, why are you sharing this? Upgrading the system would be a massive undertaking and our election officials are evaluating the scope of and time required for the project. Mike Hassinger, a spokesperson for the Georgia Secretary of State's office, told CNN when asked about the delay. So they might do it. And also we're spending this time evaluating. Right. It's extremely unlikely that any bad actor will be able to exploit our voting systems in the real world. The system is secure. Oh, well if you say so. Gabriel Sterling, a top election official in the Georgia Secretary of State's office, said in a press release from earlier this month, adding that safeguards are already in place to mitigate these hypothetical scenarios from happening. Well, I'll sleep like a baby now. Yeah, Georgia's fine. Yeah, man, they're people, right? And the same kind of fucking people that don't put their syrup in a chilled container and don't have an extra big straw, those fucking people, they work for Jack in the Box. That's right. You get that bullshit ass guy go. It seems like we're going to, you'll reference this article when something does happen and the system is exploited. And they'll go, well, we weren't aware. Well, that's the first that I've even heard of them even sharing how vulnerable their system is. I've never heard that. The systems are vulnerable because they're electronic. Yeah. And I would imagine all systems- Anything. Yeah, it's a computer system. Yeah, it's a computer system. People get in. But that was a big thing with the Republicans. This is a Republican too, right? This is a Republican. Yeah. But that was a big thing with the Republicans back when W was president because there was people that thought that John Kerry should have won. Remember that? Yeah. That was the dangling Chads. Remember that shit? Yeah, dangling Chads was, was it Kerry and then George W? Wasn't it? Yeah. Or was it him and Gore? Maybe it was Gore. There's a slightly different thing on the chat. Yeah, I think it was Gore. I think it was the voting machines in Ohio. There's a giant book with tons of data about this that I've found this way since and after the fact, but it was too, it was like too late. They were like, sorry, it's too late. Everything's already happened. Okay, look at this. In 2006, so- let's go back down. Let's go back down. In 2006, Ohio became the poster child for bad election administration when two lengthy reports examining- say that word. Cuyahoga. Cuyahoga County's election procedures uncovered multiple serious problems. The county lost 812 voter access cards that allowed a voter to cast a ballot on machines. It also lost 313 keys to the memory card compartments where the votes are stored on the machines. Oh Jesus Christ. And pick up the memory cards that contain the votes. Wow. They hired taxi drivers. They hired taxi drivers to drive to election precincts and pick up the memory cards that contain the votes. Taxi drivers. Cracked out taxi drivers. It's Cleveland. It's Cleveland. Cuyahoga County's Cleveland. So there was a documentary that HBO had on called Hacking Democracy and it was about the Diebold machines. Do you remember the Diebold machines? I remember that name. I don't remember when that was- Diebold is a company that made voter machines. I think they made ATMs too because I remember seeing an ATM machine and thinking about that documentary but they showed in the documentary that the machines were exploitable by a third party and that there was a third party access. It's like a third party could alter the vote and they altered the vote on the machine on the show. On the show. They showed on the show how they did it. But we didn't have like widespread abuse of this in the last election. I mean from everything that I've read and seen that like there's not been reported that this is even from like I'm saying from Republican counties. It's not something that I've heard where it's compelling enough to me to say that I know that that's what happened. Yeah. No evidence, flaws in Dominion voting machines were ever exploited. Well, if they're really good at exploiting it, would you know that you got exploited? And if you were exploited, would you tell everybody they're exploited and Trump should have actually won? Yeah. When that guy's been screaming like a maniac for four years. Yeah, he sure has. They stole my election. They stole my election. Yeah. It was a rigged election. Rigged. Even if it wasn't rigged. He's still saying it. But even if it wasn't rigged, let's say it wasn't rigged. Let's say it was a fair and that's who won and that's how it was going to be. Biden won. For sure it was rigged by the media. For sure. Just the Hunter Biden laptop case and the Russia collusion case. Just those two things. Yeah. Just those two narratives that they knew were not true, that they pushed out in front of everybody and that we know had to do with trying to get rid of Trump. That is. One over-reporting and one under-reporting. Yeah. That is in many ways. That's an attempt to. Manipulation. It's manipulation of a public narrative. It's manipulation of what the people think is real and not real. Everybody thought he was in collusion with Russia. It's what everybody thought. There were just all these mainstream except Fox News. They were the only ones that weren't pushing it. Everybody else was pushing it. Yeah. It was sold hard. Yeah. It was not true. It's proven to be not true. Then there's the Hunter Biden laptop thing, which they knew was true and they said wasn't true. They told you that they stopped people from sharing it on social media. They stopped people from sharing it on Twitter. Zuckerberg sat in that very chair and said that the FBI contacted Facebook and told them that it was Russian disinformation. They were getting a bunch of Russian disinformation. They limited the spread of that. People they could. I don't know how they did it. I don't know exactly what they did to limit the distribution of that. The FBI is involved in that. It's wild shit, dude. It's pretty wild. It's wild shit and no one cares. No one's up in arms. No one's freaking out because that is a way that you're going to rig an election without rigging an election. Whether you like that guy or not, we have to follow the rules. We have to. If we don't follow the rules because you don't like somebody and we break the law because we don't like somebody, we don't want them to win. No, I agree. Now this is banana republic. Yeah, that's not cool at all. That's scary. The fact that they were willing to do that and that there's no oversight, that no one can stop them from doing that. And then there's no punishment for them doing that. It also speaks to how much he's despised by this. He's spiced. Yeah, he fucked up. He fucked up. Well, you remember there was a time where Chuck Schumer was on one of those shows talking about how stupid it is to attack the intelligence community. He was openly saying it. They have 18 ways to Sunday to get you. Yeah. Guess what? That's what they did. But the fact that they did it, it's not good because it's the same thing that I feel about the censorship thing with social media. If someone is spreading some sort of fake information on purpose to hurt other people, that's one thing. But if someone is just saying something that you don't like them to say or something that's disputed or something that seems to not be agreed upon by certain people, but then there are also experts in the field that do agree. You've got to let people talk that through because if you don't and you silence debate and it turns out you were wrong, like the Hunter Biden laptop story or like Russia, if you were wrong and you were ruining people's social media channels, ruining people's YouTube channels, ruining public discourse, changing the way people think about something, would you have a responsibility to not do that again? Sure. Now you know you did that and this is why that is dangerous. Censorship is always dangerous. And then when they censor and it's undeniable, you usually just get like a lower third. Yeah. Sorry, whoops. We didn't mean to do that. We fucked up. Yeah. I mean, it's gross. It's gross and they don't understand that it's undermined something that is already a problem and that's public belief in mainstream media. The general public has lost a tremendous amount of faith in the news and what they're saying and what's true and experts and all sorts of things. And then it was all exaggerated greatly by the pandemic. That blew up. The people that were just hardcore lefties are now like moving to Texas. People that were like, I am getting out of here. This is fucking crazy. I see where this goes now. Huge shift has happened. And people that are like closet Republicans now, they come up to me because they think I'm one. They tell me I'm one, Brad. I'm like, well, I don't want, that's not what you have to do. You just got to get good people that really actually do care and aren't bought and paid for and actually have a fucking plan to unite people and not strengthen this one side to fight against the other side, but bring everybody together. Think everybody realize our differences are so small in comparison to the things we have in common, the things we want, the things that will help everyone's life. And then we have to think that way. We have to think as a collective group. We have to think as a community. A lot of people just don't want to think that somebody can have differing points of view about a range of topics. So they go like, oh, if you are pro-gun, that means you must be pro all these other things. Right. And you're like, not everybody really falls into that. People have all different types of points of views. It can be about any number of things. It can be fiscally, how the government should spend money. It can be about your civil rights. It can be, yeah, it can be guns and abortion. But that's not what defines people. No, it shouldn't. But it does because there's these predetermined patterns of thinking and ideas that people adopt when they join an ideology, whether they join a progressive ideology or a conservative ideology. In order to be in the group, you have to espouse a certain amount of things. And I see people say it when they might not even believe it. Oh, that's the big one. That's the one that actually is kind of the most disheartening is when you talk to somebody. You can see it in person and they're just saying the right thing. Like this is what my group says to say. And you can just look them in the eyes and you're like, you don't even believe what you're saying right now. The real one with me is Republicans and gay rights. The people that are anti-gay rights that are Republican, they think that all gay people are groomers and all that. Some people are just people who love people of the same sex. That is always existed. That's just what makes them come. That's the only thing about them. Well, and they're in love. No, but I'm saying when you go, what's at the foundation of this? It's that what arouses somebody is just different than what arouses you. That's it. Yeah, and they've existed throughout history. The idea that there's something wrong with that just because you don't like it. That to me is nuts from the people that are supposed to be about personal choice and freedom. That's what drives me nuts. And you don't think that somebody else deserves to be in love with who they love? Well, just imagine if being- And come super hard inside of them. Yeah, imagine if it was the gay thing that you had to do and heterosexuality was rare. And heterosexuality is like, look at these fucking losers breeding. What are you going to have a baby, you fucking idiots? Like, oh my God, that would be horrible. That's exactly what it's like if you're gay. That's the difference. No, it's crazy that we're even having that conversation. But they feel like they have to have that. Some people, especially if they want to attract the religious people, the very devout Christians. There's a lot of people that feel like that stance you have to take is the dumbest stance ever. It really is. It just doesn't make any sense. Everybody in every community should be judged on an individual basis. You shouldn't say, oh, the straight people do this, the gays do that. That's stupid. That's stupid. And to say you don't want them to have the same rights that you have, that's bananas. Yeah, that even exists. It's crazy. It's still being discussed. The people are talking about rescinding gay marriage. Now that they got rid of Roe v. Way, they're talking about getting- You got your fucking mind? Why? What does that get you? I think it's one of those things, like we were talking about before. If you're a conspiracy theorist, you want people to be upset about things, it's one more social- It's a distraction. It's a giant distraction. And now you're not paying attention to things that matter. It's a giant distraction. And anybody that wants to argue that, they should be forced to argue with someone who makes this rational argument against it. It's stupid. It's stupid from a perspective of someone who values freedom. We know gay people. We know a lot of gay people. They love it. They love cock. They love it. They love a fat cock in their mouth. Well, how could you not? They're delicious. I heard. Yeah. I heard they're delicious. I've heard too. But to say that that's a choice, like you're out of your fucking mind. It's not. I mean, it may be with some people, and that's fine too. Do whatever the fuck you want. If you want to just try it out, try it out. Try it out. That guy. Yeah. What's that guy? RPC. He's really mad at you. He's mad at you? So mad at you. Why? I thought he came on your show. In the last couple of months. What happened? Did you do something different? No. He's just like, he calls me, in every post he calls me Tom Ham Sandwich Sagura. That's what he writes in every... Why Ham Sandwich? I don't know. I don't know. That's funny. But every post he's like, okay, Tom Ham Sandwich. He goes, you didn't write that book. I wrote a book. He's like, you didn't write that book. It's all fake story. Like, just like... Oh, so he's schizophrenic? Yeah. And then he's just like, I don't, you know... Well, the kind of guy who invites guys to come over his house and beat him up and fuck him. Piss them and beat, yeah. What does he invite him to do? Piss on them, beat them, fuck them. Try it out. Try it out. Just give it a try. And he tells them like they could stay in his house. Yeah, you get a free lease and a key. There's food. You can bring friends. Did anybody take him up on that? I don't think so. Really? Yeah. That's how you name a crazy... And he gives out his full address and phone number in post. Like, full. Like, here's my full address. Wow. Here's my phone number. Just come over and... He's trying to get raped. Yeah. Oh, he literally asks for it. Did you ever hear about the drug called Reequip? Reequip is a drug that was a Parkinson's medication. And this guy won a court case against, I believe it was Galaxo Smith Kline, because he took this stuff. He was a normal heterosexual guy. He took this stuff and became a gay sex and gambling addict. He was having all these crazy... It's a... I think it's called a dopamine agonist. I think that's what the... It changed like his brain chemistry. It did something to him where he could not stop gambling and sucking cock. And he was picking up guys off a Craigslist and he was having, like, improv two meetings and he got raped by two different guys. Sounds like a great excuse to try something else out. That's what I'm saying. But apparently, this is not unheard of. So much so that he actually won in court. Really? Yeah, see if you can find the court case. I have the court case. I was trying to find the wording of what he... Yeah. So this guy just couldn't stop gambling. He was off the fucking rails with gambling and just wanted to fuck guys and meet guys and like chance crazy dangerous encounters. He was into danger. And it was all because his brain chemistry changed from his drug. Something happened when he got a Parkinson's drug. So he was a Parkinson's patient? Yes, he was a Parkinson's patient. Holy shit. Yeah. So he's got a little shaky hand. Next thing you know, he's sucking cock and playing bingo. He just fucking fell all in. Jesus Christ. All in, man. Sounds like a... Loving husband who claimed Parkinson's drug turned him into a gay sex addict wins $160,000 compensation in French court. But he's French. Yeah. If you ever know. He turned him into a gambler and sex addict who sold his children's toys for cash. His wife who stood by him throughout, rather, was with him as he wept with relief in court after the ruling. Imagine if a fucking drug does that to a Parkinson's sufferer who's won a six figure payout against a drug giant after his medication turned him into a gay sex and gambling addict. By the way, not a lot of money. $160,000 to get fucked by a hundred loads. To take 100 loads? Yeah. How many did he get? Within two years of taking the drug Reequip, he was so addicted to both his vices he sold his children's toys to raise money and advertise himself on the internet for sex. He's now been given $160,000 in damages after a court in... How do you say that? Rennes? Rennes? Rennes? Rennes. Rennes France upheld his claims. Wild. That is... Is that him? That's him right there. That's the guy? Oh my God. What a look of regret. Look at that guy's face. He's like, Jesus Christ. Come taste bad. What the fuck did you make me do? Poor guy. Jesus. Man. Okay, what does it say about the drug itself? Oh, they increased the damages. Yeah. Okay, hold on a second. It said, increased the level of damage to $197,468.83 after finding out there was serious, precise, and corroborated evidence to blame his transformation on Reequip. Wow. Yeah. It's been a seven year battle with our limited means and recognition of the fact that GSK lied to us and shattered our lives. What does it say about the drug? Scroll down. Does it say anything about the drug or how the drug does that? I would want to know how it does that. What is that stuff? It looks like he's saying. Oh my God. It says, in total he gambled away a total of 82,000 euros. So he still only made 80 grand. Mostly placing internet bets on horse races and engaged in frantic search for gay sex. Frantic. He began exhibiting himself on the internet websites and arranging encounters, one of which results in him being raped. I thought he was raped twice. Once. He said his family had not understood what was going on at first, but his behavior turned to normal when he stumbled upon a website that made the link between Reequip and Addictions in 2005 and he stopped taking the drug. He said, my life was hell. It still is because you cannot forget a catastrophe like that. Look at his face. You can't fake that. No. What does it say? If you're gay curious, you can blame it on Reequip. You can get your hands on some. It said the court had heard warnings that Reequip side effects had been made public in 2006. Mr. Jambert said the GSK should have informed patients earlier. He conceded that Reequip was a good medicine and offered undeniable solutions to people with Parkinson's disease. Okay. During the trial, Galaxial Smith's client said it had serious doubts that Mr. Jambert had developed his addictions after taking the drug. I would have serious doubts too if I fought something in court for seven years. But I mean for the court to agree? Is this another one? Well, so that article is from 2012, I guess what happened. Right. It's an update from 2015. But this is Pfizer. This is Pfizer settles lawsuits. Do they own Galaxial Smith client now? I don't know. This could be a similar drug or something different. That's why I was kind of, I didn't click this one first. Okay. It says Pfizer settles lawsuits tying sex and gambling addictions to dopamine meds. Class action litigation brought by patients who claim drugmaker did not adequately warn them of the side effects of drugs they were taking to treat their Parkinson's disease or restless leg syndrome. While this kind of litigation is routine, the side effects were not. The patients said patients are told, were said the drugs created addictions they didn't previously have, patients said rather, the drugs created addictions they didn't previously have causing them to gamble with their life savings or become obsessed with shopping or sex. Holy shit. So it's definitely triggering. Yeah. The confidential settlement with 172 patients said to be for millions of dollars was approved by a judge in federal court in Australia. The financial review reports, although payments were delayed until they assessed by, they were assessed by an independent review. Pfizer had agreed to the settlement late last year. The head of the trial of cases brought by people who took Pfizer's cabaser and dostenex between 1996 and 2010 to treat tremors associated with Parkinson's disease or RLS. That makes sense if you've got a neuro, yeah, dopamine agonist. The drug, drugs work by providing dopamine agonist that imitate the effects of dopamine in the brain, something Parkinson's patients lack. Wow. A study published last year in JAMA internal medicine found that the psychiatric side effects of uncontrollable urges were not as rare as first believed. It found they occurred in at least 10% of patients, but said they probably were underreported because patients were ashamed to talk about what they had done. That makes sense. Yeah. That makes sense. So terrifying. Mm. Okay. Yeah. So this is a class that includes re-equipped from GlaxoSmithKline, UCB's Nupro and Marapex from Boinger Ingelheim? Boinger Ingelheim. Boinger Ingelheim. The German company was sued by a New York man some years back who said that taking the drug had turned him into a pathological gambler who ruined him as he gambled away $3 million. Fuck. Wow. Wow. I'd never heard about that. Wow. That's like. Gambling addicts are wild to be around, man. You saw Uncut Gems, right? Yeah. Adam Sandler movie? Yeah. He was great in that. Great. Great movie though, but what a great movie to show what those people are like if you've ever been around one of those people. I've talked to a couple and they just talk about the impossible to quit drug. I know one that's like, it is substantial. Sports? I know a sports guy and I know a blackjack guy. Oh, yeah. How bad? Unbelievable. Does he have money? Not anymore. Oh boy. Millions. Millions. Dana White's a degenerate gambler. Yeah. He gets kicked out of casinos for winning too much. I remember I saw a video about it. Yeah. Like how some of the casinos were like, uh-uh. The one thing I've learned is I liked- Is that funny that they can do that? Yeah. Yeah, you're too good at this. The other thing is fucking hilarious about like, we did some blackjack on tour and in different casinos all over the place. It's like, you put your money down and it's like, whoop, give you your chips, right? And a couple of times I came out ahead, like had good- blackjack really, I mean, there are, there's by the book, but you realize you get good shoes, you know? Like a shoe is like what they pull the cards from. You just get like, you really do get good shoes and bad shoes. Like you're just, every time you're just, you're winning. And then there's shoes where you're like every hand you lose, right? And it's not, and you're playing by the book or maybe you're taking risk. It's like that dealer keeps hitting 20, you know, or 21 based on pulling out the cards. And then there's times where it happens to you. But these days where you come out ahead, you know, you win five grand, seven, you're like, oh, that's great. Then you go to cash out and they're like, I had the casinos go, where did you win this? I'm like, what are you fucking talking about? Where did I win this here? And they're like, which, what game were you playing? I'm like, blackjack. Where? I'm like fucking right over there. Hold on. Calling people, you know, verifying. Why did he win? Yeah. And then they go, all right, hold on. All right. You need to fill out. Now you need to fill out this information. You got to give them all your information. Give us your ID. I mean, you're sitting there 20 minutes later, like, am I going to get this money? And they're like, yeah, hold on. We got, yeah. And then another guy comes in the back and talks to them. They talk in private. Okay. It's like a, it's like a 20, 30 minute thing to get paid. Then they give you your cash. And then the funny thing is we noticed this a couple of times on when I would win. We're all walking as a group back to the hotel and like a pit boss cuts us off and they're like, how are you doing? And you're like, good. And they're like, do you want to come over here? And they're, yeah, they're trying to get you to come right back right away. It's like you won and they don't want you to, you know, like, well, we have this, we can private table over here. If you guys want to keep playing, I'm like, how much are we talking about? I mean, less than 10,000 winning, but like thousands, right? So, but it's, so it's not, no, it's not increased. It's not affecting their bottom line, but it's just like this whole thing of you go, well, this first of all, this is really hard to get paid. I think this would be like a simple, here's the chips, your chips. This is not Vegas. No, this wasn't Vegas. Yeah. I think that's the thing. And then they go, and then they go like, why don't you just keep playing? Wow. Okay. I think I'm good for the day. And they're like, okay, well, you know, just come back whenever you're ready. If you want to come back really soon, that'd be great. Wow. Yeah. They're trying to get you to stay. They don't want that. They don't want that loss. Yeah. Yeah. No, Vegas definitely. Also, if you're a gambling junkie and someone comes up to you and you're like, I'm going to do this. I'm going to get out of here with this money. Like one, the pull strong, what I can go. And then someone comes along and goes, why don't you play right here? And you're like, why don't I play right here? Why don't I bet it all on one fucking hand? That fucking feeling too. It is funny how a couple of times I went to the high limit room and I'm still, you know, this is not crazy numbers, but I would put like a few hundred down and you win. You're like, whoa, you get that hit and then you double it, you know? So then you kind of go holding onto the guy next, you're like, ah, and you win again, you start, you see how, if you're wired for that, yeah, that's especially the crap stable. I don't understand craps, but you're the life of the party. If you're winning people money, they're having the, they're having the best time. It's fucking Ebisa over there. Yeah. They're, yeah. What will nice, let's go screaming, cheering. Yeah. You got to know how to play that game. You know, we're, you know, we're, uh, oh yeah. Oh, I get the fucking complicated, the low ball and the high, yo, and the, you're like, what's happening? What is, how did you learn this? Like, this is a complicated game to get in on. So I, all these little side bets within the bed, I know there's the come line and then hilarious. I know. Flair called the come line. Come line. And then they go, that's all you need to know. But then you play with someone who knows them. They're doing 10 other side. How is it still called the come line? First guy ever. What does it mean? What does it mean? Lewis load there. What does it mean? Why is it the comp find out? Why is it the come line? I think I've read this before and it didn't, it didn't make any sense. I don't know. I don't know what that means. It's probably like, uh, the Flintstones like gay old time, old timey. I know a guy. Different way of talking. Come. Come is a bet made by a player after the point is established. By placing a wager and the come, the wager will travel to the box number, which is rolled next to win a come bet. The number that the wager traveled to must roll a second time before a seven. I get it betting on point hitting again, essentially, but I might've Oh, wait, I want to come or not. I'm too dumb for that game. I'm too dumb and disinterested. I know a guy who won 60 grand doing that. Just a fucking Saturday night. Do you know what he's doing? Yeah. How do you learn? I guess how much ADD would kick in if you were at a craps lesson. I would not remember any of it. I'd be like, I think it's probably just rapid, like over and over scene. Yeah. You start to go, okay. And then you get like the confidence to do that come bet. But then those side bets is like really where it's. The problem with it too is like you're betting against the table a lot too. Cause I think it hits if it's seven or 11 and that's craps. So people don't even want to think about that a lot of times, but some, sometimes you'll find a rebel who comes up to the table and just throws a bunch of money on that combat and you're like, wait, what is this fucking guy doing? Yeah. Yeah. And then it hits. You're like, well, he's not wrong, but fuck. It's going against everybody else on the table. It is a silly amount of money though. You can play a combat only after a point is made on a come out role. It's more complicated, but you don't have to place a pass line bet. Okay. I saw. You win if the next role is a seven or 11, or if the come point is repeated before a seven. You lose if the next role is a two, three, 12, or if a seven is rolled before the come point is repeated. Right. I watched it explain on a YouTube video. Like it was a YouTube for like a moron. Like here's how to play this game. Did they explain the way that I would understand it? Uh, well at the end I was like, I'm definitely not playing. I was like, this is way too fucking, I won money and played for four and a half hours one night. Yeah. I have no idea how I was winning money. I went a good amount back. At the time for me, it was a ton. I was like, I can go buy an Xbox now. Like I was so happy. I just copied some guy that had way more money than everybody else in the table. I was, I'm doing whatever he does and hopefully I'll figure it out. Wow. I never figured it out. And I've lost a ton of money back thinking it's really fun. Is that the best game to play if you know what you're doing or is blackjack? Oh, definitely craps. Really? Craps is higher end. Well, craps can, the multiples I think are, are, are much crazier, much crazier. You see the payouts and craps and they're, they're fucking bananas. Blackjack is just the best odds you have. Yeah. Blackjack is really, you know, there's strategies, like I said, there's playing by the book, but you know, there is just a real luck situation. Like it's not that much strategy involved to like flipping over and you have 20 and the dealer's like, I got eight. I mean, it's just, it's not knowing what's next, which is so exciting. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This, this thing, this card, this, might be it, this might be it. Hit me. And I found like, if I do $20 bet, there's just no rush. Right. You know, I just go like, cool. Right. And you get to a hundred and you're like, yeah, cool. Hit to 500. Then you start to go, this is real money. I'm gonna lose 10 of these. Yeah. Yeah. That's, that's, that starts to get you. But then when you win that, you're like, yeah, it's so stupid. It's so stupid. It's so stupid. I remember when I used to do gigs in Connecticut, I went to this casino in Connecticut. It's like one of them fucking, you know, one of those weird casinos. It's very nice for where it is. Yeah. And you're wandering around there. I'm like, what paid for this? What paid for this? Yeah. People like me don't know what the fuck they're doing. Banging on slot machines. I don't even know if they have slot machines in Connecticut. There's some casinos like in California where you can only play certain games. Yeah. There's, there's rules about that. Yeah. There's a lot of rules, but man. Poker casinos. Some of those things you go like, this is so much money they're making. Ari used to make a lot of money playing poker. Ari used to feed himself playing poker. Yes. That's skills. That's a skill game. That's a skill game. And I know there's a lot of poker places in LA. Yeah. You know, there's like the bicycle. There's underground games. People. Oh, yeah. I know about a couple of games where people play real money. Yeah. Cowan knows some people who do that. LA has a number of the underground games. And he said, the crazy thing is like these guys will just gamble you. Into a corner where you're talking about so much money you have to fold. Yeah. Like so much money. Yeah. Like they'll just keep upping it. And like he said, there's games where people are gambling millions of dollars. That's fucking wild. And they're real players. Yeah. Scary. Yeah. I'm staying away from that shit. I saw Philip was playing poker online the other night. Yeah. Oh, pretty good. Is he good? Yeah. Yeah. He's playing here. And his wife. They're both legit poker players in a tournament here. I think there was like a hundred grand in the pot or something like that. When I was a pool, I was a pool player. There was always like people players who like playing cards and pool players who hated card players because card games took away from action. When gambling addicts didn't want to play pool because they wanted to play cards. I want to play gin rummy. You know, and that takes away that gamble on that. Yeah. God damn it. Yeah. You'd be mad. Watch a game break out. If you told me right now there's blackjack game. We could go play. I go play right now. Really? Yeah. Yeah. It should be fun. It should be fun. Yeah. It'd be fun. Yeah. Dana White won $7 million one night. What? He lost a million one night. Lost a million. But he won seven? Won seven. I think that was the night they kicked him out of the palms. I mean, that's when they pulled the UFC. What kind of hands is he playing for that? Who fucking knows? Well, he's very rich, right? So for a guy like that, it's got to be juicy to get him excited. I stood around one time at the, uh, at the win and I just watched the guy who was alone at the table. His lady was right next to him. And he was just doing $10,000 a hand. And I was like, God, just watching them go like, boop, no, 10. Oh my God. 10. I mean, I was like, Jesus. That just gives me anxiety just sitting. Yeah. Watching that was like, Oh my God. Cause it's so addictive. And he wasn't, he wasn't reacting to wins or losses. Oh boy. He was just like, that can't be good. No, that can't be good. No, he's broken. I got to pee real bad. Yeah. You want to wrap it up? Sure. I have a special out. I should say that. I haven't even mentioned it. We haven't even talked about it. No. It's a, well, at this day, my fifth, my fifth special. It's called slash hammer. Look at you. You handsome devil. Um, do you notice the difference when you look back at your old ones? Do you ever see like Netflix recommends, look at that old one and go, holy shit. Look at me now. Dramatic. Yeah. Look at you. You fucking had some prick. That that's in November. I'm 10 or 12 pounds more there. Wow. You look great. Thanks man. And special is awesome. I mean, your fucking set is so tight. You know what it was too, Joe, is that extra year. I did an extra year. Yeah. Pandemic obviously influenced that, but it made me realize how much better this hour is than any hour I've done. Yeah. I toured another year with it. Yeah. I mean, that's a long time. Tight. My last show of this whole tour, I did 303 shows on this tour. That is so bananas. It's fucking bananas, man. What a great name though. I'm coming everywhere. Yeah, it's a good tour name. Was in Iceland. My last show was in Reykjavar. Yeah. Why Sledgehammer? My dick compared to my son's has looked like a Sledgehammer. But Netflix. Yeah. It's on Netflix now. It was, I realized something. I was like, it was the very final show and I had, I mean, it's a wildly different hour on the 303rd show than the first one, right? Like it's probably 40 minutes different, but I had, I was in such control. I realized that on that last show that like I was doing like, I did, you know, I opened with like some local stuff and I did some stuff I wrote in Europe cause I was touring Europe and then I got into like the meat of the hour set and I was like, yeah, this is when you tour for that long and do this many shows that you're like, I have like, I just owned it in a way that, and I was aware of it. I was like, I just owned this. I think it's a numbers thing. I really did.