#2007 - Adrienne Iapalucci

You're back, it's like you don't really you have to kind of stay These are the best I like it the other one was just like so tall Yeah, the other there's some of these it's weird because they're the same company or the same cop They're the same chair, but I think different people made them and some of them get real low This one doesn't get very well hag is the main company. I guess also this they've changed like twice and a few people sell it Oh, that's the show works No one's paying me say that do the shit What's up, Adrian? How you doing? Good to see you. Should I move this closer? Yeah, right. There's good All right, you want some coffee? I might just had some coffee last night was really fun. It was really fun I was awesome. Thank you very much I'm really excited that we got to meet and I'm really excited that I got to see your stand-up, you know Cuz Ari Shafir has been singing your praises. I know for so long. He's the best what's he loves you I know when I first met him, I did not like him Like I was like this guy's a dick He's a little misunderstood He can be a dick. Well, yeah, even when you text me, I was like, is this Ari playing a joke? Cuz he's always doing stuff like that to me. Does he really? Yeah, that's cuz he loves you No, absolutely, but I'm always skeptical of some things in his orbit. I'm right. Mmm He is the guy that dosed Bert treasure. Yes house Yes dosed him at his house when he was supposed to be hanging out with his family game Molly At least he did it at his house in a safe environment. I guess I think bird had the fucking time of his life It just doesn't want to admit it. I could see that I think ultimately it was like a really bad thing that already did that but there's a I bet he had a good time I'm sure I mean, yeah, I think it's probably not great for their friendship It was terrible for their friendship. The wife was furious at him and rightly so Rightly so Ari does stuff where like you're like, hey, that's not cool Do you know what he did to me? so He got into my ex fiance's Computer wrote an email from him to me. Oh god, where it was like I'm still in love with you We should get back together and like I know and I was like I didn't know the boyfriend at the time I was like, I don't feel like this at all. So I just deleted it and then Ari later was like you check your emails I was like you're a dick. Oh my god. Yes psycho. Yeah, I was like, what if I still cared about Send in pussy pictures. Oh my god It's on It's odd and you started sending the wildest shit that you have on your hard drive. Oh my god, that would be terrible I know and then Ari has it when he texts it to you later. I Think that he got in his his email and then left like that's the thing I he's I've had my phone open by him and he'll like great. I love black cock on Twitter Like he just does that could you imagine being your ex fiance and then seeing a response? To you in his email. Yeah, and then he's reading that and going what the fuck did I do? Like like he thinks oh my god was on drugs that I black out. I don't remember writing this I think he would just I think at this point anything that goes crazy. I think is Ari So I think he would also just be like who is in my office Well, that's the benefit of having someone like Ari you have plausible deniability sure tap you're just like fucking Ari He's such a psycho. It's all right Damn, it's Ari. He comes across sometimes as a dick because he's probably like autistic, but he is like a good guy He's a great guy. He is love that dude, but I don't think he's autistic. I think he just had a hard childhood Yeah, but like I don't think he like he'll say stuff where you're like Ari. This is really inappropriate He does so that's the only thing where I'm like he might be on this spectrum You don't think even like the tail end like I think he's such a comedian That he has a really hard time interacting with regular people Maybe I think he's so used to like the fun of chaos Ari shit in a Tupperware container and brought it to skank fest Yeah, and then opened it up on stage in a crowded room where people were gagging and throwing up It was legions of skanks right wasn't skank was it skank fest Whatever it was with the legion of skanks guys Ari shit in a Tupperware and brought it to the stage Sure, but that's still not as bad as some of the stuff he says, but it's his let that's his level of Like acceptable behavior like to him that was a thing that you should do right right so like all this other stuff is just funsies That's true. It's just funsies when I was on the road with him one time. He took out one of his bloody ass tampons And he was showing me I go don't touch me with them He goes okay like if you ask him like not to do something he will respect that but if you don't it's he might be It might be game on yeah, he'll do whatever but like if you're like hey, please don't do that He's like all right. I'll respect that cuz you said that I met Ari when he was a door guy at the Comedy Store We became friends When he was just really just starting out. I don't think he'd been doing comedy like more than a year What what did you think of him as a new comic? It's funny. I knew he was really smart. Yeah, and He was just fun to be around like he's a fun kid. He was like You know I knew after a while what was going on But he is like recently divorced from religion right so he like super Orthodox Jew You know went to Israel was studying the Talmud for like 12 hours a day like wild shit And then he has this real break from it and then a few years later. He's hanging out with us smoking weed at the Comedy Store Under what he was like he was great. No no before when he was like religious What a mindfuck to do to a kid It's such a mindfuck Because you're saying you absolutely know that this is how everything went down right and there's no way that could be real even if the concepts of Christianity Judaism even if they're like Real they're real. That's what God really wants. There's no way you know Whoever wrote that like what they wrote you know what this is human beings Yeah, I mean I went to Catholic school my whole life, and I just never believed any of that stuff I believed in it till six yeah, and first one teacher Sister Mary Josephine she was such a cunt. I bet she was so mean she was so mean that I knew as a little boy Though there's no way this could be connected to God There's so mean this is an evil lady who would threaten you if you didn't do something you would even have to sleep on a nail In the closet you'd have to stay home. You're never gonna need to see your parents again She would yell stuff like that. It was like she was evil. She tortured kids. Can you imagine that existing today? Oh my god, it probably does it probably does in some very unusual religious circumstances You know But it's just back then when I was a kid that was how they taught you in Catholics Well at least that lady my sister got a great lady though My sister got a great a lady in the same school that wasn't a nun She was just a regular lady who was Catholic who was teaching in a Catholic school It didn't have to be nuns or priests right well. I was in elementary school It was like some teachers, and then I was some nuns and some priests. It was a mix Yeah, so my sister got lucky and she loved her teacher my teacher. She taught me everything I needed to know I was like about religion. I was like there's no way what it not about the really just a possibility that someone like that exists Yeah, because everyone was nice to me. I was five six years old whatever it was my parents were nice to me My grandparents were nice to me everyone was nice to me except this and then all of a sudden I'm in this room with this lady who is representing God and She's fucking evil. She's mean she wants you to cry. She would like try to get kids to cry Yeah, it was weird because it was like a really good thing It was like a really good thing because when I was like five years old My parents are breaking up, and I was like you know when you're young and you're insecure you're like oh my god like there's no Stability in the world and and I started thinking about God and I started like really getting into God It's like a five-year-old. It's crazy. It was yeah. It was like I was looking for someone Yeah, you're looking for someone to look after you someone who makes sense of this Sure, it's like the parents in your life if the chaos in your life You're like there's gotta be something maybe it's God and then going to that church and going to that that Catholic school I was like okay Maybe maybe it's God, but these people this lady is not doing the work of God like there's no way God knows about this God's There's no way God's like she's ultimately Unless it's to be so fucking mean that you make people think for themselves Yeah, we had a priest maybe father Joe I don't know he came and we're about seventh grade and people were talking about like if their dogs die and they go to heaven and He was like they don't and we went ballistic Imagine telling like a seventh grader your dog dies and doesn't go to heaven oh my god We were just like so angry and mad like he had to leave the room first of all bitch How do you know they don't know anything, but I'm just saying it's like just like yeah, of course yeah Yeah, why wouldn't you say that no he never even was like well, maybe he was like no They do not go to heaven because then you'd be trapped with this animals have souls to thing and then you can never eat meat again Right, so this is good. Yeah, they all go to heaven Just every or whatever imagine if you had to go to heaven and confront every chicken you ever ate I Mean I would just probably ignore them like you do on like trolls on the internet. You're just like alright. I get it You're mad I'm adding that pissed you off in the next dimension if Reality was flopped and everything that you ate gets to eat you I Mean I think you're just like this is my fate like what am I gonna do? It would suck it would but you'd be dead It really is crazy if you think about like your whole life from the time you're a baby till now how many animals you mean Probably a lot and the thing is I like I don't feel bad eating the ugly animals like chickens are not particularly cute But like cows are so cute. They can be very cute. So are pigs. Yeah Pigs can be really cute So that's the one thing where you're like, oh, I love all these videos on Instagram, but I'm still gonna eat a steak Isn't interesting that wild pigs aren't cute at all No, they're not even a little cute. They're ferocious looking. Yeah, so those are the ones that you want to eat ugly ones Yeah, my agent said the same thing to me to eat ugly ones Yeah, she's like I don't mind if you hunt but you should hunt pigs cuz they're ugly Not the babies the babies are so cute they are but Even wild pig babies are cute. Isn't that interesting? What's that? Like evolution? It's not like Eagles care if something's cute Well, it's like a thinking animal that discerns cuteness and doesn't want to harm cute things Sure, like lions don't care about yeah hunting something. But what do you is that for us? It must be for us It's just the only thing it works on Yeah, I think it's just for us like think about it like a little wolf puppy. They're so cute So adorable and it's adorable to us. Oh, yeah, those things are gross disgusting. So this is adorable to us little wolf puppy Yeah, so that we don't kill it so we can grow up to be able to kill us Yeah, I don't I think that we just like our reasoning and thinking about it But like there's people that would probably kill it still. Oh, yeah for sure But it's a trick it but it's an interesting one because it really I think it only works on us I don't think champs give a fuck about cuteness. No, but they do love their like offspring sure But all animals do animals do but it's not cuz they're cute, right? But for us when we see other things at babies, yes, they're cute. Yes Like we oh my god, we want to protect it Otters are really yeah puppies puppies is the most adorable thing of all time. They are look at those little guys They are to you. You need a wolf puppy, but I also realize that they would kill me. They're so different than dogs It's so interesting. They're so different than dogs In and they look kind of like dogs until you get them around dogs Yeah, I mean they're cute, but they're not as cute as Like a husky I was at a dog park once when a guy brought in a wolf Are they legal? Yeah, you can have a wolf you can have a dog park Yeah, you're gonna have like a 7 8th timber wolf as a pet Yeah, I had friend who had a couple of them and one of them even got out and killed a bunch of sheep Like they're wolves like real wolf. Yeah, I don't think you should have so I'm at the dog park And this fucking dude comes in with a wolf and it was the wildest thing where every dog was like What the fuck do you know what that is every dog was like, oh Jesus Christ, they all like slunk down and moved away from it It was like he was walking through a tide like everything. Yeah, it pulled back. That's like their G's in his presence Well, that's their monster. Yeah wolves eat dogs. Was your dog there? Yes. Did you take your dog out? Oh, I got the right fuck right the fuck out of there Yeah So I live in the Bronx and there's always like people have pit bulls and you know dogs and like some of them are really Nice and some of them they just walk off the leash So this one day I had a boxer and this pit bull got loose I was with my ex-boyfriend at the time he jumped on a car and I just picked my dog up Oh Jesus Christ, I was just getting ready to get he jumped on the car to get away from the dog Yes, it left your puppy. Yes, but I think that's also maybe Culturally like he was black and I think like that's a whole thing where he's just not raised the same with dogs and stuff I don't know. He just jumped on the car and I just held my dog And I was like, I'm ready to get attacked. Oh my god The dog did nothing but then he showed me how I cuz I was like, I'm scared to walk my dog Yeah, so he showed me how I could like kill a dog and I would walk around with a knife Oh my god. Did you see that some someone did that to someone? In in Manhattan What in Central Park someone stabbed there two dogs got in a fight and they guys stabbed someone else's dog I mean was he killing the dog? I don't know I think his dog bit the other dog was what the woman who's Details I probably shouldn't say it so it's new Details and shocking deadly stabbing of dog in Central Park and the woman like filmed the guy running away And she would she killed my dog you piece of shit Baffling incident occurred in the area around 106 Street and Fifth Avenue a spot popular with dog walkers NBC New York spoke to a man who said that he and his wife were walking their 13 year old German Shepherd pit bull mix named Ellie and their other dogs Sadie unleashes in the area around 8 30 p.m A man the man who only wished to be identified as Brian said they walked by a man with three pit bulls At least two of which were unleashed Fuck back. I hate seeing dogs off the leash One of his dogs tried to bite my little dog and he tried to tell me that's that it's okay And I tried to talk sense into him Brian told news for he and the man started to argue as his dogs attacked Ellie Ellie I kicked one of the dogs off my dog at one point Brian said but then he took out a knife and started Carving and my dog growled he stuck him and I was helpless at that time Brian said he took a photo of the man as he walked away below the couple then took their dog to the veterinarian Where Ellie had to be put down? Wow, so that guy with those dogs just stabbed someone's dog back like his dog Bit the dog. Okay, that guy would be fucking dead That's why I can't have a gun. There's so many people I would kill. I don't know if those are pit bulls They said they look like a bull dogs. Yeah, they couldn't know I think they're American bull dogs No American bull dogs are actually larger than pit bulls American bull dogs are like this though Those look more like they look they do make these little bullies. You ever seen those bullies? Bullies. Yeah, it's like low to the ground. But like that. Yeah, I think those aren't like The really the really scary pit bulls believe it or not are the not the ones that look like the scary pit bulls I mean those are scary too But the really scary ones are the smaller ones because those are the ones they're really raised for dog fighting Brian Cowan got one of those ones He had one as a pet it was a real problem and it looked like a regular dog They look like a regular dog like they don't have big giant heads and only weighed like 35 pounds That little fuck. That's it. So those those little things they're weird fucking Breeding choices that people have made to make these little tiny pit bulls, but I don't think those are aggressive My mom's dogs not aggressive, but she's like scared of everything Because another dog got loose and attacked her so she's like scared now of everything But like if I live if that would drive me not survive as I guy any I would do I would do terrible things to His dogs. It's just not it's to him. Fuck the dogs are just being dogs. I know but like put him on a leash Yeah, it's not like yeah, I know what you're saying. But yeah. Oh, yeah, if you could kill him then do it That's the thing about taking dogs in public like you never know Like I got there's this guy that I used to run these trails with and I think he worked for this lady because I don't think he really had good control of the dogs and Oddly enough one of the dogs was a golden lab and he was really aggressive and he went after my dog and bit my dog and I had like kicked the dog off him and it was like it was awful But I'm like a golden lab just just snapped at the dog. I'm like and the guy couldn't control him I'm like you were talking about this video. Oh, this was horrible Yeah, that was horrible woman. Yeah, the guy didn't have control of his dogs and they were attacking this woman Dogs need to be on a leash. I mean, that's just you're not in the mountains There's a guy that used to have three German shepherds who walked them all off the leash in the Bronx Right, but why is that dog attacking people? Why is that dog just attacking a lady for no reason? What maybe they're trained Yeah, what is going on? Are you if you rescue them and you don't know where they're from? God damn it. That's scary. That's very scary. That's terrifying shit. Oof Such a fucked-up way to go Well, that's so weird that that guy came into the park with a wolf. It's like what are you doing? It was a long time ago you know, it was It was real weird but there people have those things they have those wolf breeds wolf dogs There's one guy I knew had three of them and you would go over his house. Have you made noise? Oh, yeah, they would all just howling it's they're not dogs. It's so interesting They like there's no like telling them what to do sit lay down. Fuck you those dogs should be out in the wild Yeah, and this guy out of in a yard. It's like it's kind of crazy. That's not what they should be You know, these dogs are wild. They should be out and you know, it's also kind of crazy to fix them You just cutting off their testosterone supplies Let's get I bet they're still pretty aggressive. They're not the same They're definitely not the same. I might get it that you don't want them to have puppies, but you should just be in control of your dog They're there it's such a weird animal wolves You know because we killed them off and now we're like let's bring them back And have them in the park with other dogs that are have no fighting chance against if it goes nuts Well that case that guy, you know had it supposedly as a pet I just think people get pet sometimes it's like you don't have to really know what you're doing To get like a German Shepherd you can get a police dog German Shepherd like a really aggressive Very smart thinking like almost like a predator of people Yeah, and you could just get it anybody can get it. I mean somebody I think in Manhattan had like an alligator Oh, yeah, you get these like little animals where they're cute and then it like gets to be humongous and you're like This is a real problem. I think a dude in the Bronx had a tiger. Sure. See that happening fucking house This guy had a tiger at his house Yeah, people are nuts Imagine likes telling a girl at a club you have a baby tiger Like you just you don't want to fuck this guy. Like I do want to see this baby tiger Where was this? This is his alligator found in New York City Lake. Oh my god But so what do you think happened there? You think that was like a pet probably a pet and it got too big and somebody was like I don't know what to do with this and he put it in this park in the water. That's the story of Florida Florida's an amazing story Florida's just overrun with pythons There's a half a million pythons in the Everglades They said that 99% of all of the mammals are gone of everything raccoons deer everything rabbits They're all gone Foxes boom as everything everything. Maybe that's what you need to be hunting them. Yeah. Well, they are doing that What's craziest in California Python skins illegal? So you can't it's banned. You can't get Python in California Meanwhile on the other side of the country they're overrun with pythons Like they literally have wiped out all of the native wildlife. They're eating alligators now. That's crazy. Yeah Oh my god. Yeah, that's the story. I mean imagine showing up to that and you're like I'm out of here Oh my god, I'm not getting paid enough for this. I think they're the most beautiful animals They're beautiful. But like what are you doing in a tiny studio apartment? No, it's insane. It's an insane person It's like some dude who met some dude who knows a guy and get you a divorce. Do you know there's more Tigers in Texas? In private collections than there are in all of the wild of the world Are they just like in their private? Backyards and stuff Tiger World. I mean when they attack people I'm like, yeah, I get it Why are you you're caging this animal? It should be in the wild. Yeah, Texas is very strange when it comes to wildlife You can kind of own anything Texas this is like it you get you a nut here anything goes Get you a zebra I want a baby zebra not when it gets big once it gets big I'm gonna put in that lake with that allegation Fend for yourself Yeah, there's that's apparently like a couple thousand more Tigers in Texas than there are in the wild Did you ever watch Tiger King? Oh, yeah, I mean just like such trash I was great not so secretly hoping that Trump would pardon him Yeah, do you like that? Yeah, do you like this guy has like a prior third-level education Well, she's trying to make money talk those straight guys into fucking them. So respect Yeah, but I feel like rich people can get away with that. It's like why women right hot women fuck ugly dudes that are rich You're like, well, hopefully guys. Yes Absolutely. Hmm. I guess with some guys but everything it's like what works on everybody, you know Because like some things don't work on some people they work on other people. I Think money always works on everyone Sure, but like some people are really dumb like some people you can get them with a pretty simple cult Well, oh, yeah, I'm even that good. You know, you just post on Craigslist that you're starting a new religion Yeah, I thought about doing it and seeing who would show up people would show up Loyalists they would be I was the first I was with Adrian when she became awoken in the beginning That'd be so crazy You could start a cult I'm a hundred percent you just article I would do that and then just start a landscaping business and that would be what I tell them our religion is Just cleaning people's yards and stuff. Oh my god It's such a weird thing cults because there's it's seems to be like a natural Pattern of behavior that people have where they're willing to believe fucking total nonsense As long as everybody in the group believes total nonsense Sure, it's also wanting to like belong to something. Yep, you know, especially if you feel like an outcast Yeah, and there's some that are good at it like Scientology's good at it I think at the root of every cult there is a guy that wants to fuck everyone So like that's generally generally most of those cults start out We're like you have to fuck me and that's how you get like to this higher level or or the Heaven's Gate guy You have to cut your balls off Remember that kind I do but I don't remember everybody castrate themselves was he castrated also. I think he was He might have done it to himself and got people to do it. It was It was a weird one. They all wore the same Nikes Else cuz they're like they thought that the spaceship was coming to take them there to kill themselves What's crazy is I watch a documentary and I was bored by it Well, it was it's weird, right because it's like it's so dumb You're like who's buying into this but even Something that dumb. There's someone out there. That's like It's a weird one click on that how it really happened It's such a strange story Cuz like I don't know what the guy's origin was like how he got all these people It's not playing I Just remember watching and being very bored by it I was bored by this guy that started a cult and got everyone to kill themselves. I loved wild wild country Did you see that one? Yes, is that the one where they're going through a drive-thru? That's the one where the Indian guru? He set up shop in this town in Oregon. They took over the whole town Oh, yes. Yeah, and they started busting in homeless people so they could vote out everybody. So the homeless people It was amazing But then there was home It was really sad because those homeless people had a sense of purpose for the first time in their life and some of them Were like I'm fucking all in These are my people, you know And they were fucking doing hard work and they were really like they felt and then at the end after they voted like get the fuck out of UFO codes Well, let me hear when I said that the big surprise could come that Space crafts could come in by the thousands Maybe come in in March 1990 that music I'm out Well, that's editorialized right that someone else like yeah, but this is a part of some history channel thing I think did you hear about the sanctum cult stuff today was Hunter Biden? What is that? Yeah, the story I saw was that the leader of this LA sex club that cost $175,000 a year was kicked out of the club because he shared that hunter biden was once a member And all he shared was like an a social media post that said I kicked him out because he was weird But then they kicked him out of the club. It's like, you know, I'll talk about the club. They're quite cool Mmm, I fucked up. I had a chance to get hunter by on the podcast in the very beginning I can't wait for him to get back on crack. I can get Do it that's when you get him back. I'll try it for the first time Well, I hear my friend did crack He's like it's amazing Well, it's cocaine. It's free-basing cocaine. Dr. Carl Hart Who's a brilliant guy who's a legitimate academic but also is a drug user? Mm-hmm And he's like there's no difference. It's it's pharmacologically. It's the same drug you're free-basing. I could see that Yeah, it's like the the real thing that's different is the policy because the power it's the most racist policy in the Drug war they're like if you get busted with cocaine, it's one one thing this if you get busted with crack You get a crazy sentence. Yes, like way way way more. It's just racist. Well, it's not just racist. It's like When you really go into like the origins of you were the freeway Rick Ross story No, Rick Ross not the rapper but the real Rick Ross was a drug dealer in South Central, LA Okay, and he couldn't even read and he was making millions millions of dogs he was like a star tennis player and Figured out how to make money doing it's just a smart Smooth dude who knew how to move cocaine, but he didn't know he was moving it for the CIA He didn't know he was moving it to fund the conscious versus the Santonistas in Nicaragua Interesting. So this is a whole Oliver North thing So they lock him up. He learns how to read in jail and becomes a lawyer And then realizes they got him on they got him on, you know, three strikes But it can't be three strikes in one crime It has to be three different crimes three different arrests, right? So he got out It's crazy crazy, but like look what they did for him but that guy learned to read became a lawyer What a fucking great story that is He's an awesome guy too and that but that's where crack was coming from. I Mean it was our fucking government. Oh, yeah, it was it was rogue. I should be real clear about this Probably rogue outlaw entities in our own government that the other it's not like our government approves that Didn't Reagan like put crack into the community pretty much Reagan did it himself. He went in the middle of the night like Santa Claus Well, you know that the whole fucking Drug wars just bananas when you're actually still selling drugs like the call it the Jesus a war on drug competition is all it is It's not a drug war the drugs are making billions of dollars. Like okay, no more money for drugs drugs are now Illegal to sell like what are you talking about? No way with amount of money that people make on just drugs that everyone agrees That listen, I don't take Adderall, but I 100% support your right to take Adderall. Sure I hear it's awesome and people who take it. They can't shut the fuck up about it Yeah, it's like me. My friend used to take stack or two. I think it's the same thing We would like do everything in the office. Everyone would love when we took it, but guess what kids? That's a drug. Yeah, that's a drug. Absolutely. I mean just fact that you're getting from your doctor I mean doctors prescribe so much tell the doctors sell coke Why not I Tried to get prescription for Xanax and my doctor looked at me where he was just like I'm not giving it to you And I was like, are you serious? Oh my god, really? Yeah, cuz I wanted to flies like I'm not doing it He's like they're really cracking down right now. So you can't have any well the thing about benzodiazepine is it's very difficult to kick very difficult Physiologically, it's one of the only drugs like alcohol that'll kill you if you just go cold turkey Sometimes yeah, some people just get wrecked by that stuff Jordan Peterson got wrecked Like physically wrecked for like over a year. It took him so long just to build his health back up Well, my friend that was doing crack was also doing Xanax So and he was like his doctor just made him go I guess cold turkey But he had been doing so much that when he stopped he went ballistic. Oh, yeah, that's supposed to be horrible Horrible horrible withdrawals, especially when people go crazy and they're eating it all day long. Oh, yeah, he was taking it all day That was rough for him that's when he started doing cracker probably there was a comic it was like just having anxiety attacks I just couldn't fucking control it and start taking Xanax And it all went away and In that and then all sudden it was fun again. It was weird. It was like anxiety is terrible. It's terrible and I know it was his health deteriorated after but he was drinking while he's doing it Which you're not supposed to do which a lot of people do do Ladies say this to be on an airplane She she had a glass of wine. She goes a glass of wine and a Xanax and I don't give a fuck about the world Yeah, I've taken Xanax if I went to Australia and I took it and I slept most of the flight Yeah, it just knocks you out. Yeah, I would imagine it's a good move for a 16-hour flight, but is the come down bad You're exhaust. You're like so tired the rest of that day. You're like, you know, you're done. There's nothing you could do That's why I would only take it if I like was flying Right. Yeah, I would that would make me think that if you took it before you went on stage though, that wouldn't be good either No, it's like a real downer. I think he was doing that though I'm amazed by people that could like do so much drugs and drink and go on stage Well, I wonder though like how it's interacting with whatever individuals level of anxiety, right? Like we all assume that people have the same anxiety, but my level of anxiety differs Throughout the day and depending on what I'm doing depending on like my activity level whether I've exercised whether I slept well Yeah, so it I don't have a lot of anxiety But if someone had a lot of anxiety like or like a hot we I don't even know what that feels like That like if Xanax is the only thing that takes them out of that like give them some fucking It's just for me. It makes me like a zombie. That's why I really can't take it I just wish there was something that had that sort of an effect But wasn't like so ferociously addictive. I mean probably mushrooms. I Don't know I'm scared to do any of those drugs and scared why I don't know I reacted so badly When I was I did an edible when I was at moon tower like last year and that and I never done it before and it Was like the worst experience how many milligrams? Um, I don't remember it was like in a bag that they gave you my friend was like this is she was like No, it was like from a company though. She was like this is very weak I know but it wasn't just like some guy off the street handed it to me So I was like, oh this seems legitimate and I took it and I remember going to sleep and waking up to hearing the ocean I Mean it was so wild. I thought I was in that movie with Russell Crowe What's that movie where he's like he thinks he's in the CIA, but he's just bipolar or schizophrenic Oh, yeah, so the whole time I thought I was like that situation I mean my I go it's not good for me Like my friend came over and I was like I used the same logic he used where he realized those people never aged Where I was like, okay. Well, you're you're the same now. Like it was so crazy. I can't do I can't do drugs people never aged In that movie. He's like, I guess he sees like a little girl and he has this roommate the Russell Crowe Oh the Russell Crowe. Yeah, so but he realized like they're not real because ten years later. They're still the same age I use that logic To think that like my friend I was like, well, you're still exactly the same like it was just I went there It was so crazy. Whoa That's why I was like, I'm not good on drugs. Well, that's a big dose. It sounds like I think someone the problem with those Edibles I used to have a bit about is they're not consistent. They're not making the same place. They make Tylenol Yeah, they should they should be legal they should all be legal so we'd know exactly what the fuck you're taking I mean how many people have to die of fentanyl before they realize like we have to figure out like there's a demand for these drugs If people want these drugs, maybe it's education. Maybe it's counseling Maybe it's drug rehabilitation centers that we need to open everywhere and then there's a business in that but you should be allowing people to have Access to the actual drug not coke that you're getting on the street. That's cut with fentanyl That's gonna kill people and it how many people have to fucking die before you realize you're not gonna stop people from doing coke with It just say no campaign. So what are you gonna do? Why don't you let reputable companies sell that and sell? Pure versions of it and tell them what the fucking doses is gonna kill you let people know what's going on and then make it So they have to be 21 to buy it and educate people like we're going to open up the country to legal drug sales Because if you don't all you're doing is arming the outlaws you're giving them money all the outlaws That's and it's right south across our border The Mexican cartels are fucking killing it and they're not killing it because just say no worked They're killing it because we don't have legal drugs. They sell illegal drugs. It's fucking bananas that a problem So so obvious it's like this. It's it's an uncomfortable solution But you've got to rip off the fucking band-aid and you got to make everything legal Remember that professor that was doing heroin recreationally? Dr. Karl Hart. Oh, yeah. I love that dude. He's been on the podcast a few times. Yeah. Well, he does it recreationally Yeah, and he talks about he says it's wonderful. So I love to just be with my wife and listen to music I just feel like once I did that I'd be like well, this also seems like a good idea tomorrow What you I don't know that I would stop. Well, that's a problem with addiction Like it's just like that guy can do it but like right Well, one of the things that he talked about that's interesting he's like this heroin withdrawal Myth he's like it's like getting sick. It's like you're sick with a cold for a couple days He goes that's what it's like. It's not like you're dying. He goes. It's not that bad He goes it's just very exaggerated in media depictions of films and people are like That sounds awful. Sounds like it's not like you have a cold for a few days, but then you're not addicted to heroin anymore But then if you just keep doing heroin, you just keep feeling better. Well, also you got to realize like Sick for what does sick mean? like if you're sick and you've been doing heroin a lot and so your malnourished and your immune system is dead and you know, you're you're very little sleep and you're just all fucked up and poor and Then you get withdrawals and you get really sick that could fucking kill you Depending upon your health depending on how healthy of a heroin person you are Yeah Like I wonder if he calls in sick and everyone's like he's doing heroin people do heroin Recreational and they have for a long time There's this buddy of mine who was a longshoreman in Boston and he worked with this guy who would buy a bag of heroin At lunch every day and he would go in his truck and he would shoot up And so a lot of hair. Well, I mean, I don't know how much you know He did at a time but he this guy was functional. He said he would go in his car He would shoot up everybody knew what he was doing He would go in his car and shoot up and he would sit in his car for his hour lunch break And then go back to work No problems insane insane. I mean with Xanax. I want to fall asleep It's it's a weird thing that I met a guy was a pool player once he was a like a very prominent Like top-level pool player where you'd gamble for a lot of money and we're at a pool hall in White Plains, New York This guy that they called him Buffalo Bill was one of his nicknames water Dog was another one of his nicknames and this dude would have he had to do heroin before he played and everybody knew And so this guy was gambling with him and this guy water dog goes into the bathroom Locks the door. He's in there for like 10 minutes. He comes out and he just sits on the chair like this Like a billiards chair sits like this For like 20 minutes just sits like this And We're just looking at him and I was you know 23 at the time or something like that I was like look at this motherfucker look at him and then he would get up and it was like he had shark eyes There was like no one there. There was no one there and then he would play pool and he couldn't miss He couldn't miss it was insane. It was insane to watch was they playing on these pockets this table with these really tight pockets And they're gambling for a lot of money. That's not legal. He has no nerves. There's no nerves He's not feeling any pressure at all. He's just playing perfect and everybody watches like holy shit And it made people want to do heroin. I did not that shouldn't have been legal But I'm saying like if you're opposed if you're playing him and you're like against him I'd be like he can't do heroin that just enhances his performance. You're talking about pool in the pool world Everybody does drugs really there's a lot. I mean there's elite players that are completely clean sober on a professional level Absolutely, but in like pool hall gambling Drugs are ubiquitous drugs were like staying. Yeah Emphatamines were like the the choice pill for people when they gambled like 20 hours in a row They would just take amphetamines and keep gambling. I just think like I would be scared to do that addiction is so Rampant in my family like my biological father was a drug user. My uncle was a Hell's Angel He was on tons of drugs and stuff. So I just feel like I don't know. I have enough issues. Yeah, I hear you I don't know if drug addiction is I think some of it's got to be physical some of it's got to be genetic It's got to be it may just make sense People from some parts of the world where they don't have a history of alcohol they experience alcohol They have real problems with it part of it's got to be genetic But then part of it's got to be cultural to when you're around all these people It becomes like learning behavior. It's you know release at the end of the day. Give me a fucking beer and yeah It's just become something that you know gets very ingrained and then also the patterns of behavior that come with alcoholism the fucking up and the fucking life falling apart and disastrous choices you make driving drunk Oh, just like family. There's so many. Yeah. Yeah all that all that Just I mean how many lives been lost to drugs that you could buy legally like booze Pus is fucked up more people But I like it. Yeah, I like it. I like a little drink every now and then I don't think it's it's like but The idea that we're protecting people by keeping some drugs illegal I just I think what we're doing is we're making a nanny state that we can't get out of and we've gotten ourselves into this box is nanny state box Maybe down the line it will be legal. It's it's going to be because it's illegal now in certain states like Oregon is essentially decriminalized everything they've decriminalized Cocaine mushrooms, whatever means you you're not supposed to sell it you can't sell it, but you can have it which is wild So where do you get it from? Yeah, that's a good point You know, I don't know if they're specific about that. I don't know if there's like legal distributions I know they have legal marijuana, right? But that's that's like 18 states now have legal weed legal weed is pretty Pretty well accepted as a good thing And I think even though there's a lot of right-wing people that smoke weed And I think that was a big change because I think a lot of left-wing people were always associated with marijuana And laziness and then right-wing people like fuck that fucking potheads Now a lot of right-wing people like maybe your dad's got arthritis and he smokes a little weed before he goes to bed and maybe you have an edible and you really like Hanging out with your wife and watching movies and then you know, you're like, hey, maybe this pots not that bad I don't know. Don't you feel like a lot of people are doing coke like on both sides? I think so I mean, I know so I know a lot of people are doing coke. Yeah, so it's like, I don't know I Feel like both sides do everything Yeah, but I think Psychedelics more like well not anymore. I used to say psychedelics more likely to be tried by the left But goddamn, there's a lot of soldiers that have had great benefit with psychedelics And they've shared those experiences with a lot of other soldiers and I've had quite a few talk about it on this podcast but one of the things that maps is doing is using MDMA for soldiers with PTSD and that's amazing results So I think the right is opening up their eyes to more too It's like it's a quality of life thing that's probably been here forever. And if you believe in God He probably put all that stuff here for us. It's just managing it correctly You know the ones that can be beneficial like mushrooms like MDMA like all these things they have a positive effect when done correctly with the right person and And to deny that it's just stupid at this point to make them schedule one drugs in 2023 with chat GPT and everyone's got 5g we know what the fuck is going on, right? But even something like gambling that's legal it can still ruin your life. Yeah, I can yeah, and I support it Yeah, my dad's a gambler. Let's go. We had nothing He's the gamble with our lives pretty regularly guys that crazy When I start first started playing pool this when I first started being around gambler's I did I've never been around gamblers as a child and so I never knew like what that addiction is like to watch it play out Oh, yeah, it's crazy. My dad was like just emotionally unavailable Just always wanted to gamble always my gamble we used to go to the OTB as kids Like the late we went there so often the lady behind the thing had my school picture up. That's how often we went back Yeah Yeah, he was a bad gambler, but he also didn't make a lot of money, which is crazy, right? It's like you can't be a mailman and a gambler It gets anybody no, I know it can get anybody. Did you see uncut gems? No, it's fucking amazing is it yeah, it's Adam Sandler plays a gambling addict Oh, I'll watch you will get such anxiety while you're watching like oh Jesus fucking crew. What are you doing? What are you doing? It's so good. Adam Sandler so good in it, and it's a dramatic role I Don't know comedy at all. Adam Sandler killed it. It's a great move. Is he like a rich gambler in it? He's a jeweler. Oh, okay. Yeah, and he's just it's great. It's great. It's great. But those guys are real I know those guys I knew a lot of those guys they would come into the pool hall and just start talking about The loss and the this and I'm gonna get it back and I'm a then the fucking the bulls are down by six And they were just oh They were just in it all the time. I was like, this is crazy My dad's thing was like OTB and gambling and the metal hands and any of that stuff I mean, he also I think gambled on football and stuff, but mostly like the horses But you like the landing city to stuff like that dog races I'm sure he would I feel like he'd gamble on anything. I Had a friend of mine who adopted a greyhound one of the ones that was like, yeah race and I had an apartment at the time, but I was gonna get one too. They were so cool. They're so sleek. They're so My friend was trying to walk it the leashes come off their head. He said yeah, well not only that When my friend took his out, he didn't realize first of all, they're so fast Oh, yeah, they're very fun when they go like you are not catching them and when he saw a cat He just went after it. And so he was off leash in this like empty park It's how to be fine and the fucking greenhound just went for that cat. Well, he's really free now. Yeah It's like he didn't realize like oh, they're not cool with animals Like that's the whole thing about racing is they're chasing a rabbit, right? If they see an animal they fucking sprint towards it Yeah, you can't deep program that no, no, no. No, so he realized like oh my god. I gotta be really careful with this thing Can't just like ever let it go without a leash. You ever see the little ones little gray hands No, they have miniature gray hands miniature. Yeah. Oh, they're cute. Let me see Jim They're cute. They're like just big gray. They have the same thing. You know what the weirdest dog is Which one a whip it with myostatin inhibitor. I don't even know what that is. A whip. It is this cute dog. Oh Look at the little cutie. Yeah. Oh That's adorable. That was a little cuddle dog Their fat has look at him go. Look how they cross their legs. Yeah, they just get so much fucking torque There's so much energy. So there's a dog called a whip it and every now and then they have a genetic anomaly It's a myostatin inhibitor and it causes them their uncontrollable growth of muscles. What do they look like freaks? They don't even look like they're real They look like like a comic superhero like if you had injected a comic book Superhero dog with like Hulk serum. It just went are they fighting those things? No, no, no, no look Gross, you're not crazy. Look how jacked is that's not that's like natural. Yeah, it's just a natural genetic Anomaly, but like why wouldn't you fight that that thing is because they're nice No, I know but they're they're like teaching other dogs to fight. I'm sorry. They don't use these guys Well, it's not really as much about your the strength of your like all those extra big muscles Those are gonna like cause you to get tired quicker and then on top of that It's really the bite of the jaw That's true the strength of the bite and then also the game instinct So some dogs when they get hurt they want to get out of there and pit bulls don't care about right and that that's bread Into them. So when a dog would cower away, they wouldn't allow that dog to breed and a lot of places They kill the dog. That was the whole thing when they whenever they catch dog Fighting the horrible things like what they do the dogs would lose They don't let because they don't want them to breed like if a dog quits. They just kill that dog I remember when everything was going with Michael Vick and I didn't know what he looked like and I just seen this guy on The front of the newspaper go who's this guy? He's hot. I'm so like that's Michael Vick and I was like, oh That hurts Yeah, he was involved in that stuff I Knew a dude at one point in time. He had like 13 dogs in his yard in I think it was in Oklahoma and My friend was like, I think he really likes dogs. I go. No, I Go, he's got 13 pit bulls on chains in his yard. I go that guy fights dogs. Yeah, that's gross. I hate that He was a dog fighting but gambling guy. So he's breeding dogs for dog fights That's still going on right now in this country. Yeah underground dog fights. I Can't see that. I'm like nothing makes me more upset than that. I think horrible What's really fucked up is the dogs are wagging their tails. Well, cuz they think that they're doing good. Yeah, they enjoy that that fight God damn it. So awful It's just so crazy that that's going on right now So much stuff is going on right now. Yeah, someone's getting sex trafficked right now right now right across Right across the border. Yeah, whenever I go to the airport and they have those signs in the bathroom Like if you're being sex trafficked, I'm like you think they want them going the bathroom Fuck It's just so hard to believe that some people are that evil money makes people do crazy stuff and I think your Circumstances too if you don't have money and you're like, this is something I could do It's still shitty, but I think some people are like I have no other choice. Yeah, it doesn't make it, right? They have no other choice, but the sex traffic can't sell stuff. Yeah, they're selling the women I think it's the amount of money too. Yes. I think if you're selling, you know knives door to door You're not making as much It's like I tried doing this for a year. I was making a lot of money knives door to door Imagine having enthusiasm for that job. No Fuck this is how you have to feed yourself Sell knives. I remember when I first started doing stand-up I would bark for stage time which is basically like hey Do you want to come to a comedy show and like I was so bad at it because people just be like no I'm like All right Like I get it. This is so I mean I felt so dumb doing it Did you develop strategies on like how to talk to people? No Though I just hated it I like it's weird to just be on the street as a salesman like hey come to this show And I think that's only in New York City thing. It might be have you seen it before? In Austin for other things to the stand-up shows for stand-up Yes, and I've seen it for other shows here. No shit right out shows. What if they got it from New York? I Want I wonder I don't know. I haven't paid attention I'd always heard of it primarily as a New York thing I know a lot of New York guys used to do that in the early days Yeah, and especially in Manhattan everyone's walking so you can't just catch people like that. Yeah But I was not good at it at all Manhattan's an interesting place for comedy, you know, cuz there's so many clubs So many clubs even so many like good bar shows and like lounges so you can get a lot of stage time. Yeah And there's a lot of comics there, too There's so many comics and a lot of people kind of sprung up after the pandemic to Like a lot of people that had like social media big social media presence And then they just kind of switched into stand-up like if you're just doing funny videos, right? So I think there's more people like that to doing stand-up Well, if your job got taken away from you during the pandemic I would imagine that would be a good time to try stand-up if you'd always Getting money from the government of course How many open mic nights now they have a lot of open mic nights others mics every night Really can do probably like six a night if you like set it up, right? You could do a ton of mics Wow But they're expensive. What do you mean? Yeah Pay you got like five bucks or buy a drink or cuz like what are they getting out of it? If you don't do that, what is like this bar getting you have to pay to do stand-up. Yeah And you're doing it for other comics, so you're not doing it for like audience usually sometimes Most of the time and people still don't quit Wow, you think we'd weed them out. What kind of an audience you're talking about Like how many people are supposed to be there? I mean I haven't done in a long time, but when I was doing it You're say there's 15 comics on the mic you're doing it for those 15 people and if it's a random bar Maybe some people will coming off the street or like at the bar, but yeah, you're doing it for comics So you're paying to do comedy to your peers? Yes Wow Why am I surprised by that? What good a lot like that's why not just go to stand-up school dinner classes or whatever, you know Well, I'm paying for I think it is it is stand-up school There's no teacher right, but it is stand-up school. It's just like you're you're on a path Yeah, I mean that's I know in other places like my friend had come from Seattle and was doing stand-up She said like in Seattle. There's an actual audience. You know, there might be a hundred people so it's a show Yeah, but in New York, that's not it's a lot of comics in the audience. Hmm Comics are like looking at their own notes and not necessarily paying attention Do any of the good clubs have open mics like does the seller have an open mic night? No I know the stand has an open mic night and maybe New York comedy club Think you kind of have to have an open mic night This the seller doesn't hmm It seems like it would be better if they did. I know it wouldn't be better financially, you know, it's always No, but if you did it during the day when you're not having shows any it's just people need places to go up and they It's like if your growth process is dependent upon you doing stand-up in front of 15 comics Well, that's why you know you start barking or I would intern for like 10 hours on a Friday night seating The customers and then like get a five-minute spot you'd intern. Yeah, I did wild stuff like that's how I came up doing stand-up because I was like the open mics are just Like other new comics so so you would intern meaning you'd work for free I'd work for free so you could do a five-minute set and me and a lot of times that's that's gonna get canceled So you'd work for free work for very never get compensated no, so you either sometimes got a spot or sometimes didn't Wow, so you'd work for free for 10 hours Yeah for a five-minute spot. Mm-hmm. That may not happen Well that will fucking weed out the weak Yeah, but like not like my family life was so dysfunctional that that seemed normal. I was like this seems like okay This seems average to me Used to disappointment. Yeah, you're just used to it. You're like this seems average. This seems like what I've been dealing with Wow Well, do you found your tribe? I found my tribe. Yeah Wow Wild tribe It's just so interesting when you meet someone like Ari like when I met him at the very beginning and see him now It's funny It's fascinating Watching these broken toys Meander their way through our society. It's funny. Me and him were talking last night At your club and he was just talking about like I guess dating people and stuff and he's like well you and I are broken Like I was like, what are you talking about? He's like Adrian Like nobody's nobody's going they want to date somebody like you he's like you need a lot of time to yourself And I was like, oh he's not wrong. Mmm And he's the same way too Like he just he was telling me about like this couple he had met that they live they're married 40 years But they live in different houses. Mmm, and he's like they have a great relationship They don't fight about like the little things that a lot of people do when you live together He's like they have a great relationship and I was like, that's not the worst idea. It's not the worst idea The idea that you have to be in the same house together. It's like says who? Yeah, people like a little space. Yeah, I mean at one point I had a two-bedroom apartment me and my ex-boyfriend slept separately I mean we were also had a terrible relationship, but like we had our own bedrooms. Mmm Like I wouldn't be opposed to that It doesn't seem like the worst thing in the world But whenever you see a couple where they don't sleep in the same bed anymore, you're like I know we all judge them, but I'm like they're sleeping great. That's Mark's room I sleep over here. I know but if you say it like that's his room. This is my room I think you gotta figure out how we were saying it Yeah, and then also some people like to sleep in the room really fucking cold Mm-hmm. That shit's annoying if you don't like that. I like I likes like a fan all year round I like the noise the noise. Yeah. Yeah, there's something about like static noise. It does help you sleep Yeah, I just like it. I like the sound of an air conditioner like in the summer I slept at this house in Malibu once by the ocean and I will be rented it out for a couple months and When you're in bed and you just hear the shh That sounds like really relaxing It is so it's weird. It's like it's like hypnotic Yeah, and it's also it's so powerful here. You're you're laying down at the base of just insane force of nature this immense body of water and you've got the audacity to sleep like those two edges at the edges where this impossible amount of water laps up That's where you want to put your house. I've had nightmares about like just a tsunami just like engulfing my house I'd loved being at that place, but it was very illuminating It's a very illuminating why rich people want to live like right on the water in Malibu because I was like why do they want Live right next to each other like that. That's crazy. And then you like rent a house there and you're like, oh, I get it This is like magic. There's something magic about the water. I'm running for a run up beach. It's magic It's like it gives you magic energy. It's crazy. There's something about it like being right there It's like wow, this feels it feels like I'm on a drug. It's so calming so calming But at nighttime is terrifying the same water that looks so inviting in the daytime What's blue and you see the seagulls and it's beautiful at nighttime? It becomes an angry monster that can swallow civilization just dark dark black You don't know what you can't see anything You don't know what it's an immense thing and at any point in time the earth could just a little shift And then a fucking big one comes in And it just all the way to Arizona just all I think anything at night is a lot scarier. Oh, yeah, I got come home three o'clock at night and off the park two blocks away I'm just like I'm like, you know pepper spray in my hand and I have the whole thing Yeah, whereas during the day, it's like just different. I know the different things some things are really scary but only in certain circumstances like babies are never scary, but if You were in a moonlit forest and you walk into the forest. You saw a naked baby just staring at you By itself you would shake your pants. I would definitely not help it if you saw a baby just standing upright Just looking at you naked. Yeah moonlit for in the middle of nowhere You had a hike in and you see a naked baby. I gotta get the fuck out of here. Yeah First I'd be like where's this kids parents right for sure for sure you'd be where this kids parents But you'd also be like why is there a naked baby staring at me like a grown person? It's gotta be evil right anything at night like that. It's evil. I think it's a demon. I'm during the day You're like look at this baby. It's standing if I was a demon. I would disguise myself as a baby. It's a good move Everybody thinks you're cute or a cute dog or a cute dog. Yeah Definitely not that whippet. Yeah, they were kind of cute. They still a cute face You know, they never mean like pit bull looking face I would pick something else over it. They have cows like that too. Really? Yeah, when not Jack they look. Yeah, they cute Yeah, they do. Whippets are really fast, too. That's really looks like a greyhound. Yeah, well similar So what is it beauty? Look at that little cutie? Um, it's just myostatin inhibitor gene. This gene is fucked up on some of them It's oh, it's related to the greyhound. It makes sense It looks and apart from a smaller size closely Resembles it sometimes described as a poor man's greyhound. Yeah, they're fast little fuckers What is that myostatin gene like what is what what causes that? Because it happens in cows too. They've had an in dairy cows. It's crazy Like you see a couch super you drink that milk. Are you gonna get no, no, it's a gene thing. It's an inherited muscular disorder Kids have had it too human kids gotten it really? Yeah, what's crazy? You see like a baby that looks like a bodybuilder. It's weird It's a deficiency Deficiency. Yeah, it's a milestone inhibitor myostatin deficiency whippet type is inherited muscular disorder affecting whippets dogs that inherit two copies of the mutation associated with myostatin deficiency Whippet type have broad chest and overly developed muscles, especially of the neck and legs as well as an overbite See if you can find that in cows myostatin just right myostatin cows Yeah, so look at that cow this size of a dairy cow that's a girl look at Jack she is Wonder if that's more attractive to the bulls. I wonder right like that one Like a guy who's in a crossfit chicks. Yeah. Yeah Look at that wild Look at the size of that goddamn thing. Yeah born without the protein myostatin. Yeah So myostatin I guess is what regulates muscle growth Or you don't have it. Yeah, it's not regulated That's why they were experimenting with that with human beings too And I know I'm sure like Eastern Bloc countries are doing that for the Olympics and shit like that. I would imagine But um, yeah, they did it to mice. Look at the musculature on these mice crazy What's crazy is they just skin these mice and we don't give a fuck if I see one of those in my house I'd move out look at it fucking back on that dude Um What they've done it with like people been born with it, too I know that there was like a German boy that was born with it. It was fucking jacked like a little kid It's crazy. Yeah, so like how's that kid gonna play sports? Like what's gonna happen? That's not fair It's like you're playing sports with the Hulk. I Mean, we'll find out in like 15 years. Yeah The greatest running back of all time I just like playing chess. I really don't want to be I don't want to be on the football team He's like the Hulk playing chess. Yeah. Yeah, maybe maybe rebels because everybody wants him to get into physical pursuits He's like fuck you. Yeah, look at that kid. That's nuts Vietnamese boy So he's got it that dude's gonna be popular in high school That is crazy nuts Isn't that nuts? Imagine going to school with that kid you'd be so jealous God damn it when you love it if he's your brother though, and anyone picks on you unless your brother wants you to fucking eat shit Well, that's true. He makes you shit, but he also sticks up for you. It's yeah if he's a good brother But if your brother's mean and he's got that you're fucked. I Feel like you torture your your brother or sister, but you don't let somebody else do it. I Know guys that had terrible brothers who beat them up all their life But do they let other people also beat them up? If someone's beating you up, but but they protect you from being occasionally beaten up by others the price you pay That I'm not willing to make that you used to sleep with in the same fucking house as that asshole Yeah, but your parents hopefully are there sometimes and they're stopping it Now you're unrealistic teaching up he's gonna make a fighter Yeah, do you make fighters? That's what I'm talking about a lot of the guys that I'm talking about are fighters They were just really beaten up by their brothers And they're the they're the scariest guys because they're not afraid to fight because they fought their whole life And it doesn't matter if they're little either they're scrappy Yeah, one of the best guys ever in the UFC Matt Hughes former welterweight champion had a brother who's his twin and They were both like elite wrestlers and they both just beat the fuck out of each other And it led to him becoming the UFC welterweight champion of the world and one of the greatest of all time I mean that is it's just like the guy that went to prison can happen that way Yeah, a negative turn into a positive. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I can see it that way. I Knew another dude though. He got beat up by his brother. It just destroyed his confidence his whole life this whole life I became friends with him like in my 20s and that sucks. It was a bummer man He could just like not get past it. He couldn't you know, I wonder what if and he had never done MDMA I had neither at the time I wonder if that would have helped him in any way just recognize what the root of it was But it's just like really fucked with his confidence He would get like really close to getting good at stuff but he almost had like this self-defense self-sabotage thing that would kick in because Everybody had already always taken things from him I get it It always been like he thought things were gonna go well and his brother just fucked it up and beat him up Or took things from him humiliated him and so he never felt like real success so he was always scared to get to like Progress in life. So you always self-sabotage his life because he just thought everything's gonna turn to shit But he was a good guy and a smart guy and just trapped by this childhood, you know Repeated beatings that he got All right. Well, maybe it's not great always Sometimes it's good though. Sometimes it was good Something if the brother is a good guy if you're both good good people like, you know brothers fight and they make up and they apologize Sure, just like friends do you know friends fight and make up something when you're young Me and my sister would fight a lot Fist fight? Yeah, you're three years apart. I Remember my mom was like still hitting me until I was like about 16 and then at one point I was like, hey I'm gonna hate you Back and then she stopped because at some point you become almost like right Yeah, but that's kind of how like we grew up like my mom got into a fist fight at my sister's kindergarten graduation Like I'm like you fighting over fucking kindergartners. No one cares. They've accomplished nothing. Oh my god. I Watched a shooting over a high school football game. Oh my god. I saw that too. Oh, that was terrible. Oh So sad just such a fucking Just a terrible thing. We're just people with their kids and emotions and sports people get so nutty With their kids with sports, you know, I am I like like big on saying you did a great job and cheering and stuff Yeah, but I would never yell at you But I would never yell about the other team and some parents are like what about him? What about offense? What about you know, what about that foul? What about that foul? He's a cheater. He's a joke yelling like That's a six-year-old. Yeah out of your fucking mind like let him play it says play You should clap when they do a good job. She said was it fun. Did you enjoy it? What was it hard? Was it hard to make that goal? Talk to them but don't get too goddamn emotionally invested in a fucking game your kids in like cheer be Enthusiastic for them, but fuck People get so high. That's a bad call and they jump up and next thing you know gunshots fuck That's crazy. Now you've really ended the game. There's no way to even recover from this right now You've ended your whole life. You've ended your whole life. Your whole life is also done I think too sometimes like parents also think they can push their kids to be like great athletes and then they'll be famous So well, there's also like your kids gonna do the thing that you didn't do Right. Yeah, you wanted to do but you didn't do it It's interesting is my mom kind of got me into stand-up because she did stand up and then she quit and then she got me Into it and then when she saw I was doing some stuff. She was like, I'm gonna go back into it Yeah, she doing it now She does she does a lot of urban rooms really? Yeah, is she good? She's funny She I mean like we're a little bit different but like she still has that same dark sense of humor But she won't she doesn't really do those jokes like sometimes she'll think of something and she's like you could you could do this like she one time we were clotheshopping and she'll always say something like If she'll take two larges and she's like well one large might be bigger than the other because the kids that are making them Maybe one of the kids was tired like so she'll say stuff like that And she's like I can't say it on stage, but you should Just do stuff like that My whole family was funny though growing up. So was that just when when did you first think about doing stand-up? Um, I was probably like in my early 20s like I always wants to be on SNL I never really wanted to do stand-up comedy I wanted to be on SNL and then my mom was like well if you want to be on SNL You have to like do stand-up So I just started doing stand-up and I started liking it But like I didn't want to be a stand-up comic as a kid Really? Yeah, what was it like was who was the the people on SNL? Like what era was this Will Farrell? You know Chris Farley those guys like that was the people that I kind of grew up with them loved Molly Shannon Sherry Oteri like that whole crew. Mmm. Yeah, that was great crew. Yeah So that's kind of where I was like, oh I want to do that And she's like well you have to do stand-up and I had zero interest in doing it Had you done any drama or anything in school? You know, we did like places as kids. I I was like in the sound of music. I played that lady I did stuff like that But I just I don't know I was I was kind of like a class clown as a kid So then I want to do that and now I'm like not really the same as that it's weird because you get it all out on stage No, but I'm just saying I was like a class clown But I was also like loud and like boisterous where I'm not that same person anymore. Mmm, or I don't think I am anyway What calmed it? I don't know. I think just depression No, I think as a kid I just you know my life looking back was not Ideal I still felt really happy You know, like I didn't realize like all the issues as a kid really so hmm And then where'd you start out? Oh New York City, I'm from New York. I've lived in the Bronx my whole life So I started in New York, so it's also weird too because you're like starting in a place where people don't move until they're really good So I started in New York. I'm just being shitty Where did we just started a bar or we just start the first place I went to was in Brooklyn. It was I Guess an open my it was in like a big Italian restaurant. There were four people there. What year was this? 2004 My mom was there. My mom went on she did well and then I went up and I was like so high energy Cuz I was so nervous. I Remember one of my jokes was about like I was working in the South Bronx as a crimes victims advocate at the time and I got Pulled over for not wearing a seatbelt while someone was selling drugs right near me And I was like just the lunacy of it where I was like why my game This guy's clearly selling drugs to somebody that was like one of my first jokes something like that and Then when you got off stage Did you think this is something I'm gonna do more of we yeah I think cuz that show went well, even though there were four people I was like I'm gonna keep doing this That show went well, and there's four people there were four people and it was in a huge Italian restaurant That was like closing like they were like going out of business So there was nobody there Wow And so then when was the next one? I? Didn't wait that long maybe a couple days later. I remember like Driving into Manhattan and going to do this Open mic holds collective unconscious, and it's like wild like there was a guy there at one point that had like elephantitis So he would go on stage naked and his balls were humongous And he had like this tiny dick in it He was making people uncomfortable because he was doing he was like naked the whole show Like sitting in the audience if you were like you got to wear clothes until you get on stage And he was like alright, but like he would just be sitting there like his bare ass is on the chair Right so people are like hey, can you put your drop a chip? Yeah, can you just wear your clothes until you're on stage? Doing that God, but that was like a weird collection of people Yeah, I would imagine a guy that would fit in there Just everything like where they were don't the only requirement would be just wear your clothes until you get on stage and not at first They let him do that until he was creepy so like if he didn't act like a creepster He could have just he could have just been naked the whole time Creepster yeah, but like they were okay with it at first They were like alright, and it's not like he did anything great on stage. It was just seeing his huge balls Which is nuts. I don't know how you're like Elephantitis they're like this big they're huge so like as big as a head Maybe like half of that Half a head for one though and so like yeah, maybe that whole thing and then like you can't even see the dick Oh Wait once you feel bad for him I Didn't even feel bad. I was just like gross I Don't really care about your fucking big balls. Did you find out about the different mics from your mom? No, I went on to like There's a couple of websites you go on to where though they have a bunch of different Open mics, and you can do a couple and I remember it was a lottery So if there's 30 people and you get picked first you could pick where on the lineup you want to go And I would just pick like 30 because I was so nervous and just stay there for hours Wow, yeah It's an interesting group of people though And then sometimes my mom would come to come with me and at that time I was dating a guy who would also come so the three of us would go Yeah interesting with encouraging Yeah, well you mean my mom yeah, and the guy you're dating yeah I mean me and him that we were both brand new and then my mom was encouraging because I think she was just like well Maybe you'll hit it and you'll help me and I was like it should be the other way around It's interesting people that you meet when you're doing open mics It's a fascinating fascinating introduction to like this weird world of weirdos of weirdos and desperation and mental illness and Mental illness lives mental illness. Yes, like like really nutty people Yeah, and you could do anything there so you could not only do comedy you could do like poetry you could sing So it was like a variety open mic kind of Wow, and you can get upstairs and show your balls Yeah, that guy was doing anybody ever try to do that Though it had regular balls after that could imagine if they found out there's a place you could just get naked in front of people They had to look at you. I Mean I not while I was there. I never seen anyone that was like following him with like regular balls They're like, here's the big ball guy another small ball. Yeah I mean like that's what I'm asking like once a precedent is set that you could be on stage naked Like is it only if you look weird? I think they would let you do whatever you wanted there as long as it wasn't Like creeping people out like they'd probably let you go on stage and spread your ass cheeks and stuff in it like I think they would be open to whatever you wanted to do but You had to try you were just you could set a precedent every time, you know Thank God for people like that running those kind of establishments. It was fun Yeah, and you know, there was a lot of like, you know, my mom would come sometimes She'd be like that guy's really talented, but he would just be like an alcoholic. She'd be like he's not gonna go anywhere I never seen him after that. But like yeah, a lot of people in comedy. It's not the funniest people that make it, right? Yeah, well, I remember a lot of people that were really talented in the early days I'm like why is this guy not making it? then there was a lot of people that were really talented and then they were on their way to making it like they were doing Well and headlining and then they just fell apart Like something in their life happened or like yeah schizophrenia Like there's that with some of them, you know or some other sort of mental disease. Yeah, you know sometimes people crack There's a lot of pressure involved. I Mean just thinking that just that just a pressure of constantly performing doing sets writing new material It's having to sell tickets doing radio. Yeah, there's a lot of stress in that And then I think for some people when things start getting more and more hectic Whatever problems that they and as you get older to like people that are like tend to have mental illnesses They exacerbate they get better they get worse rather when they get older. I could see that especially if it's not treated. Yeah so a lot of these people like You'd meet them and then you know You did open mics together like you you were in the trenches together start out and then you see him like 20 years later And it didn't work like they you know see him at an open mic night again And they're still doing kind of the same material. I've seen that too people that were really talented and they just you know Lost it to drugs or alcohol I got that's a shame because that person definitely Could have went far how many people out of the starting class of you where you were at or the people you remember in The early days are still around a Bunch I mean No, no, I guess I went to a lot of different open mics and shows So but there's a lot of people I kind of started with I guess I Don't know I guess I remember like some I've watched I've also watched people Quit and I've seen the moment they've quit Mmm Like I remember being at a show and this guy was like humping the stool and This other guy couldn't get on the show and he saw that and he's like I can't believe I can't get on the show And then that guy who I thought would have went far cuz he was he was talented I mean that humping the stool wasn't great But like he was talented and then like all the clubs he worked at closed and he quit like he didn't just go to another Club he just was like alright. I'm gonna sell real estate You have to be really mentally ill to stay the path Absolutely. That's why I think I did all that stuff and just thought it was normal. I I didn't think like I shouldn't be treated like this Yeah, I didn't have a path that was nearly as hard I was really lucky that in Boston in the 1980s. There was a lot of open mic nights at legitimate clubs so I started stitches which was a legitimate club in Boston was a great club and On the open mic nights not only was it an open mic night, but it was hosted by a professional It's got George McDonald and then a lot of really good professionals from town would stop in so you get to see people There was so much better than than you you can see like these brilliant comedians And so it was a real good scene for development because all the clubs had an open mic night Every club had an open mic night was their audience or it was oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah Yeah, you would go to an open mic like the when I went to an open mic night There's like 50 people in the crowd. Oh, yeah. Yeah a lot better. It was good It was good because first of all, they called it comedy hell It was George McDonald who was a known stand-up in Boston So he was like headlining all over the place ever anyway So people knew who he was and then he would go on and he was like a real veteran He'd been doing comedy forever And he was one of the guys that came up through the ding-ho and you know that whole when stand-up stood out documentary Have you ever seen that? Amazing that was all about those guys, right? And so you could always get people that would go because he would always be funny anyway, it's only like fucking five bucks to get in or something like that and you go and have a couple of drinks and hopefully somebody funny will come by and You as an open miker got to go on stage in that environment. It was incredible It was amazing a lot of comics that like took you on the road. No No Mostly what happened was I did well enough in open mics that One guy took me on the road. That was actually George's brother Warren Warren McDonald took me on the road That was the first time I ever got paid and the second time I ever got paid Someone had introduced me to this guy Mike Clark who is Lenny Clark's brother So I got to open for Lenny Clark the second time I ever got paid It was insane. He had already done HBO and Lenny, you know was super sweet to me. He said I'm really funny gave me a bunch of advice Then his brother started using me So his brother would use me to open in these like weird little bar shows all over the country all over like the New Hampshire area Connecticut he had like gigs everywhere and you would go and do these fucking crazy bar shows So I learned how to stand up from mostly from going on the road mostly doing bar shows, right? So I got a year in I was just traveling doing a half an hour. That's how people are stand up outside of New York. Yeah Didn't you say you don't like performing in Connecticut? Sucks, you know, I just you know, I did like a charity show there and I got taken off stage Close you off stage. Yeah for what? So I heard about this. No, it's Connecticut. That was Connecticut. So what happened? So I you know, it's like 500 people there There's I guess they were making it was for kids that were like, you know less fortunate I guess giving them food or you know opportunities or whatever and I Was like, I don't know how this is gonna go So the girl before me is doing really well. She did a joke about pedophiles. I get on stage I was like, oh, I wasn't gonna do my joke about that but I was like, oh these people love that joke that she did and This is allegedly so I don't I don't know exactly why but allegedly this is why I think I was taken off stage So I'm going up I'm doing well. I'm getting like applause break. So I'm like, oh I could definitely do this joke And the joke is about how I want to be rich but not too rich I want to stop right before it's okay to fuck kids and these These are very rich people and I didn't think they were that rich and one of the punchlines it's like about comparing like poor pedophiles to rich pedophiles and how like a Poor pedophile is like a guy that works at UPS that fucks a kid and it's sad But like how rich people fuck kids and it's like a party, you know They're on a boat high-fiving each other and I did that joke and I lost a lot of the audience and I was like, okay and then I did a couple more jokes and it was like definitely different in the room and then somebody came on stage and got me off and I Was like what's weird is like everyone's like aren't you mad? I'm like, no, this is not my first charity show I've gotten taken off stage Like I shouldn't do these shows whenever people ask me. I'm like, I don't think I'm right for this How many minutes were you in before you 15? So you'd kill him for 15 minutes? Yeah And I think I can definitely do this joke because this girl now her joke wasn't as specific But what I was told later is like allegedly there's a guy in the community who is a rich pedophile with a boat that was Fucking kids in the community and I was like, I'm like, why would I know that and I was like, oh that makes a lot of sense Damn it if you didn't do that joke if I didn't do that joke, I would have been fine cuz they liked me They really did like me. Oh my god, you were making fun of them and you're being mean I think they were rich enough I didn't think they were fuck kids rich Like well, it was probably just one guy. Yes. Well, okay, but maybe I don't know pedophile We're the rich people pedophile ring is one of the scariest conspiracies. I Mean so I get off stage. I'm fine because I think I would be more upset if I didn't get taken off stage in another Charity show and everyone the other comic Cory Rodriguez is like fucking pissed. He was like, aren't you man? I'm like, hey, listen if they want me off stage, I'll get off stage. I've already gotten paid I get that my comedy is not for everybody and I know that you know, maybe as an earlier comic or whatever my feelings I'm like I get that so he goes on stage and he's like he's upset about what happened And there are people in the audience that are also upset It was like I split the room which is what I do a lot and then he was like well Adrian still here So if you enjoyed her like let her know and then people were standing and clapping So it was like people that I had those people and then people who were clapping when I got taken off So I was like, yeah, I'm just not doing any more Yeah, well you don't have to at this point No, and I just don't think I'm right for but I always ask these people too because the guy that booked it Eddie Brill who? I know Eddie. Yeah, he's great. I too Yes And he was at the when I opened for my Louie at Madison Square Garden He was there and saw it and he was like I said to him I go do you think I'm right for this gig? He was like, yeah, they can't take a joke. Fuck them. I'm like, are you sure? But cuz he had seen a lot of jokes that I did. Yeah, he was like, yeah, I think you'll be fine You would have been fine I would have if I didn't do that one joke, but I didn't how would I know that? I there's no way to know it the joke was fine if it wasn't for that one neighborhood where that actually happened How the fuck could you know that? I mean, I've I've made a mistake of doing a school shooting joke too close to somewhere So then I would start looking that up as has there been a school show in this area I was like, I guess that's a new thing to look up There's no way to know that yeah, how could you done it? That's great story though. Yeah, sounds like they were okay They were okay, and there were a lot of people in the audience that were still okay And they were like we laughed we thought it was funny and they're like fuck them Yeah, they probably didn't know anybody who knew somebody who had a kid that got fucked I think they were just like hey also I was like, well, that's even like a you problem Yeah, like don't get mad at me. Not only that I'm sorry. The joke was accurate. Yeah That's what's crazy. That is what's crazy. Yeah, anyway anywhere else you do that joke in Montana people laughing their ass off You do it. Yeah, yeah So they were like no, that's not why you got taken off stage You got they're saying that I got taken off stage for an adoption joke What was the adoption joke? You don't tell um, I don't know but there was a lady who had also adopted a kid and they thought she was interacting with me They thought that she was angry and she wasn't like she when I was talking her after she's like I wasn't upset Oh, so it was an excuse. I don't know. They're just saying that. Yeah, I don't know So allegedly that's what happened and they're just like that's not what happened. I'm like, all right one of my best friends lives in Connecticut just for just So does one of mine. I love him, but Connecticut you can suck it It's weird because like I've gone there and done shows opening for Louie and they've been great Like there are people there that are fun, but then there's also the other people that are like Don't get comedy at all. This is the problem with Connecticut. It's not a real state It's a highway between Boston and New York. Sure. And the problem is there's no hope there Like nobody like hopes they moved to Hartford. I mean, they're people they move to Greenwich though Yeah, you can see you could be with all those boat riding pedophile type people. Maybe well there's a lot of rich folks that live in those havens right where everything's like tucked away and Grand manners and huge houses and yes great Gatsby type shit There's a lot of those folks but they're just like people that have a house on an island You know what I mean? Like are you really from Hawaii or do you have a fucking house in Maui? You know what I mean? Yeah, it's like they've they've kind of incorporated into the area Yeah, if Connecticut like ceased to exist nobody would care. It's just a weird place because I mean, I've met a lot of fun people from Connecticut, but it's the place itself has a low vibration It's like there's not a lot of hope and exciting things. It's not it's not like going to Manhattan It's not like going to Boston. It's not like it's not like, you know going to LA It's not like it's not like even like Austin, which is only a million people. It's not like Dallas where it's fun It's fucking gloomy There's something gloomy they have amazing Pizza New Haven though. Oh, yeah Shit There's a lot of pizzerias in New Haven I like going to Connecticut because I do like how it is a Slower pace like I've lived in New York City my whole life I like hate it if I wasn't doing stand-up I wouldn't live there That's where Lyme disease came from the Bronx or not again. That's it. It sounds about right. That's their contribution No, everybody Lyme disease. I don't know if that's true. Isn't it like Lyme, Connecticut? Is that where's originally? And that's something like that There's a CIA conspiracy about the Lyme disease What is the CIA saying? No, no, no, no, I mean not real not like the CIA but like the the kooks and I don't even know if the kooks that it was a bio weapon that accidentally got released that These infected ticks were part of a lab program. I Don't know maybe it was like kovat just me Oh But they definitely do things like that in some countries somewhere they're definitely make bioweapons But whether or not Lyme disease is one of them But goddamn, that's a terrible one to get I know a lot of people they got Lyme disease You don't die from it, right you get fucked up if you don't get it treated quickly Like is it like physically debilitating? Oh debilitating depending upon you know the severity Obviously, but I know people that have had horrible joint pain neck pain spinal pain That sucks. They're just in agony all the time Yeah, and then people have just lost all of their all their like energy. They just feel depleted And a lot of times they don't even recognize it in people because if you don't get it treated if you don't get it Diagnosed while you still have like there's like a bullseye ring around the tick bite if when it initially becomes infected Okay, and if they don't catch that If they don't find that then they don't know it's Lyme disease So don't start treating you with antibiotics they might think oh You know seems fine your vitals check fine And then it progresses worse and worse and my friend's son was five years old and he developed Bell's palsy so his face went numb and then finally they realized it was It was a tick bite and finally they really had Lyme disease so they gave him antibiotics and he recovered My friend was fucked up for at least a year He had lost a shit ton of weight. He got real skinny. I mean it really wrecked him Lyme disease is rough. That's and it's Everywhere there are so many ticks that have Lyme. It's all over the place on the East Coast I feel like that's not something in the Bronx. I Don't know if it's there's not a lot of grass But if there's deer if there's deer there's ticks Yeah anywhere there's deer if you see deer and a lot of other animals there's ticks And when any place where there's ticks you might have line if there's deer in the Bronx. They're lost There's a story about a deer that was like in locust point and they're like this does not belong here fucked up. Yeah That's exo you guys have coyotes though You mean people no In the matter there is really they've photographed coyotes in the Bronx where like Vancouver Park Like anything in abandoned houses and shit. It's crazy. I wonder where they're coming from They're all over the world now or all the country rather they're in every single state I have never seen a coyote in the Bronx coyote spotted in the Bronx. We're that Where in the Bronx Oh River River do not really the Bronx though right there. Yeah, but that's Riverdale. What's Riverdale? It's like Bronx light that's what people call it. Well, just like just because you saw him there. He's on a street He doesn't know he's in Bronx light. He doesn't know that he's in the Bronx But he's not Bronx light someplace with someone throughout pizza Okay Over the last several decades coyotes have been expanding their natural range in response to ample food and open habitat The parks department said in the statement coders are living within the city limits We're aware of coyotes living in the Bronx Queens and Manhattan Fuck yeah, how about that? Might have to kill a coyote if you kill them. They just make more babies That's why they're here It's literally why they're here and when you kill coyotes the female coyotes know that one of them is missing So they make more pups. I mean, you don't think someone know you think they know this one's in the Bronx by itself I don't think it's by itself. You think it's with other people? With other 100% their pack animals. They're also cute too. They're adorable till they're jumping over a fence with your chicken in their mouth If If I had you I would kill it. Oh, yeah, for sure you would you'd have to it is really cute Looks like a dog. Well, if you live here, you can carry a gun Coyote runs up on you blast them the coyotes out here. They don't even yell. I Went I went to a gun range and I was like, oh, I love this I would love a gun, but I think I would I couldn't have it in the Bronx. No, it's not legal Unfortunately, that's not why I think I would just anytime someone did some I just people. Yeah, I'm very bad road rage I think it's just from living in New York City my whole life and driving. Yeah. Yeah, it's not good Maybe she moved to character. No fucking way of a nice rural life May I have to be rich? To live there. Would you live in one of those houses when the great Gatsby houses? I Don't want a big house like that. Those houses are crazy Yeah, I don't need something extravagant like that. Show me some of them crazy. What is it? What's that one town? Well, it's the Gilded Age, but what is that one? I don't know the watch tester. It's just it's still pretty close to Manhattan. That's nice. Yeah, somebody's taken a state Succession type shit. Yeah, look at that house. Well, it is saying that's Connecticut Those people are these people are wild. Yeah, that's insane. That's why I had money Oh, you're that one in Eureka, California. Holy fuck. Well, where's Eureka? I don't know like it's in Orange County. That's where they found gold to guarantee you Eureka That's in New York. Let's bury Wow. Look at that beautiful house. But that's 200 acres wants that me Yeah, I don't I've lived in like one any bad. That's actually cool Well, I want to see the ones in Connecticut though. Do you see like mansions? There's like one area of Connecticut where my friend that I was talking about earlier actually works at a school there He lives in Connecticut and he he said like all these people are billionaires. They all have like these preposterous houses. I Mean it's so much of a house to keep up with it. Definitely. I guess you're rich though So you're not keeping up with it It's not like a website that details them because they're like pretty famous for being extravagant and they're also Everyone's keeping up with the Joneses. So there's like, you know, the guy who's the CEO of biotech down the road He's got a bigger house. We're gonna expand our pool and so they they're all going ham Gotta do some with that hedge fund money. Yeah, I guess I don't know if I do that. What would you do? I don't know. Am I still doing comedy? Yeah, you're not gonna stop doing comedy I don't know. I would like I honestly love animals. I would love to have like a sanctuary for like animals Yeah, not all animals. Obviously, I should have brought Marshall. I didn't know you should have brought no such us animal lover You'd want to steal him. I know he's really cute Are you saying that aren't you guys gonna bring your dogs to go play? Oh, yeah. Yeah me and him. Yeah his dog bandit She's awesome. Oh, he's awesome. He calls it a girl sometimes. I think it's a boy No, I think it's a girl. Is it? I'm pretty sure they call it a boy sometimes too, though, you know Yeah, he's that's yeah, cause a girl though. He makes out with it. Yeah, he's making out my dog. I took my dog here also Yeah, that is weird. I don't even he could die Like people would be okay with that I think Ari feels like he lives his life to the fullest and if he died at any point back, okay I better be shitting his pants the last few hours. Like if he was on that submarine. Yeah People finally died. I think well, we're not gonna know What they said is that if they made it all the way to the bottom, unfortunately the bottom is just mud undulating mud and You know, they might have just sunk right into it It's Horrific when you hear that they've had moments in the past where they lost contact for hours With with other subs and they're still doing it the same way Like that that whole thing is so insane that sub can't pilot itself There's no line attached to it. It just goes down to remote control that's controlling the boat has to be above it for it to work What's interesting to me is like these people on down there to go see the Titanic If you told me I could watch that on TV, I still wouldn't want to watch it Like I can't imagine doing that Brian Simpson poured this out yesterday. This is what's even more insane They're not even seeing it through like a big window All right. You were saying that they're seeing it through screens There's cameras on the outside of it and as they pilot it around they're seeing it on screens. There's like one small window What is the point? People like to do dangerous shit to say they did dangerous shit. They want to experience things Yeah, they want to go to the bottom of the ocean and see the Titanic I know but like it's a there's a billionaire, but who are the other people that were with him? Well, one of them was one of the guy's son 19 year old son. Yeah, fucking Jesus Jesus Christ It's so scary What a scary way to die I know and it's like it's your own fault Yeah, that's the other thing you chose to do that And not only that there was a small window of time where they could do it because the weather was really bad Oh Fuck but didn't they also make it themselves? No, this company has sent I think was it 100 voyages. They've done a hundred voyages No, but i'm saying the actual submarine didn't they like make this one people saying they got it like stuff at home depot Well as a company that built it and the company apparently there was a whistleblower who had complained That the the hull was not really Established to be able to tolerate the amount of pressure that they were putting it under by several thousand feet A remote operated vehicle found five major pieces of debris from the submersible about 16,000 feet From the bow of the titanic the coast guard said oh, they're dead The debris is consistent with the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber coast guard rear admiral john mauger said He said it's not yet clear when the implosion took place The family of those on board were immediately notified about the discovery. We're now believing that our ceo stocked in rush shazda dawood and his son suleiman dawood hamish harding and paul henry Nargalot have sadly been lost the titan sub operator ocean gate said in a statement These men were true explorers who shared a distinct spirit of adventure and a deep passion for exploring and protecting the world's Oceans our hearts are with those five souls and every member of their families during this tragic time We grieve the loss of life and the joy they brought to everyone they knew fuck Fuck it says they're unclear now if the victims can be recovered Yeah, I don't think people even understand the scope of what you're searching for like the the the amount of area you're talking about Yeah, and then I wonder if you also put more people in danger if you go look yeah you do you do I mean this is If that whistle blower was correct and it imploded because it wasn't really Set up to tolerate the depths that they were putting it under I mean that is insane That's insane. And it's so scary so scary that people would do that So scary that like there was they fired the guy who was the whistle blower? And apparently there was a bunch of other people that complained as well Interesting. Yeah. No, it was a serious thing. What was it? Pull up that article again that we looked at it was uh It's not like everyone was like we all agree. This is safe There was quite a few people that were like, this is not safe This is not the way to do it and they had said that they were cleared by one certain Body of uh, you know some some group that was examining but they hadn't been cleared by them I don't know if somebody proposed that to you wouldn't you be like absolutely not fuck that Fuck that whistle blower raised safety concerns about ocean gate submersible in 2018. Then he was fired Original carbon fiber hull wasn't rated for titanic depths claimed the operations director It is interesting to go look for very titanic and then you also have the same Fate. Yeah as the people on the titan the worst fate. Yeah Yeah, because you you actually knew what you were doing You're actually going to the bottom in a submarine. They were on something they thought was gonna float They were gonna like drink tea and like look out at the icebergs and shit Well, also the rich a lot of the rich people I think made it off yeah titanic. Yeah Yeah, apparently the company had plans to make 3d scans of it which that's the first time I've heard of that I don't know if that's what they were doing there, but That's what the company's goal was at some point make 3d scans of the titanic. Yeah. Oh, wow So they could recreate it somewhere okay, yeah the exact vr computer. Oh, wow Fuck what is honestly the purpose of doing that? People like to do things they love to do difficult shit I know but it's like do something else. I know I know but you can't tell people that like that's true Like, you know, you can't tell people hey stop climbing evarist stop. That's true But at least you're doing that by yourself. You kind of know the risks. I don't know I mean this also seems crazy if somebody's like would you want to do this? I'd say no Yeah, of course But you know what makes people skydive? What makes people right? thrill seekers. Yeah I don't know. I guess I would if I was into doing those things I know right away I'm gonna probably like I know exactly what could happen. But but something like that where someone's like, hey, this is totally safe We're all gonna be together. I don't know. I just you fuck that Yeah, yeah, it's not totally safe. There's no way it's totally safe Hey, uh, Jamie, have you seen that bowl that they call god mode? Somebody sent me this video of uh, there's this bowl that they paid 25 million dollars For because it's so insane when they try to ride it when you see what this bowl does to the guy who's riding It's I didn't know a bull could do that. I didn't know a bull could move that way. Look at this bull The bull's name is god mode watch how high the bull gets in the air It's insane. But like you have to know if you do this you might die a hundred percent But look at this guy trying to hang on to this bull. Look at the height this bull's reaching That's that bull's flying That's crazy look at that bull fly Unless the michael jordan of bulls. Yeah, look at the height. It's getting that thing's six feet in the air seven feet In here. It's cute. It's adorable Uh, it looks like he's going back. He's just jumping. Not this but the there's a I don't know 20 girls standing in a Bowl ring and they just let a bull go. Yes, and they're all like a couple of them got jacked. Yeah, of course What is wrong with these I don't even take the subway i'm in that why would I ever do anything like this? This bull is still jumping and no one's on him anymore. How are you gonna? What are you gonna do? You ain't doing shit You ain't doing shit But just the fact that the bull keeps jumping like that even after no one's on him like get the fuck off me That's why he's got mode. Yeah But people want to ride that thing. There's someone out there going fucking i'm gonna ride god mode Yeah, I guess yeah Not you, huh? No, why would I do that? This is a song by zach brian? It's a great song called open the gates and it's about a guy who died Riding a bull and his son goes and rides the same bull and dies I mean, it's like what it's like. What do you think's gonna happen? It's a great song The song sounds great, but I mean come on. Yeah, what is gonna happen? I'm already this sounds like some tick tock stuff We saw it go crazy, but i'm I can't find anything else online that says that a bull is sold for 25 million named god Well, that could be hard for shit, but whatever that bull can do is like jesus christ Those guys that's a rough life That's a rough life bull riding that is for me below getting sex I'm like send me in a container somewhere. I don't fucking I don't trust this bull Just so it's so weird what people choose to do with their life Yeah, I mean I guess too if you're a real thrill thrill seeker and you keep doing bigger and bigger things It must be the same way like you get endorphins from it. I don't know. Yeah, 100 It's also like the culture of it I guess like who's the biggest risk taker Yeah, I guess right kind of like bob is gonna do it. He's fucking crazy. That's right boys But that guy might even be scared and he's like I gotta fucking do this now because everyone is like come on Well, not fake because obviously we saw the video but the most expensive bulls sold Is 1.5 million? Uh-huh in 2020. That one doesn't look like but is that a breeding bull or is that a riding bull? Even still I would a riding bull would be less valuable than a breeding bull, wouldn't it? Because you're just riding it for a couple weeks and then I mean you have to sell so many tickets to get the money back Well, I would imagine that riding bulls don't get hurt very often But they only work six seconds at a time, right, but I bet they can do that anytime they want So if you just see them a couple days off, I bet the riding bulls get right back after it. I'm good Yeah, I like the riding bulls worried about that little puny person riding its back Why is it worth 25 million? Because it's so preposterous that everybody's going to want to see god mode and everyone's going to see god modes children That's what they do with those things. I know but that's what they do with those things those those riding bulls when they're really dangerous They uh, they breed them. They breed the most just like they do with dogs They breed the most dangerous ones with the most dangerous ones that makes them the most wildest bucking insane psycho bull Because that's what everybody wants to see you ride I just don't think they're worth that much. I believe you. Yeah, i'm sure it's some Question how do you determine which bulls are gonna be like riding bulls like that and which ones are just gonna be like beef Bulls, it's a good question. I wonder if it's a specific type of bull. Does he just act crazy at birth and they're like that's Right, how do you know? We uh, made people ride bulls on fear factor And it was one of two times in the history of the show where I was trying to tell the producers don't do it Yeah, it sounds like a bad idea. I was like don't do it. Don't do it. And they're like they said it's a stunt bull That's the the the fucking stunt guys can say he's a stunt bull. I go that bull does not know he's a stunt bull No, that's a fucking bull They're like, hey tone it down for this and the bulls try trying to get out of the cage before the people got on it I was like no way Don't do it because you could get stomped you 100% could get kicked in the face and it'll change your life Don't do that. Wouldn't that also be a huge lawsuit for a fear factor? 100% and they just don't care. They rolled the dice They rolled the dice. I guess. Yeah, that's what they did The other time I told them not to do it the people had to drink cum But the least that you're not gonna die from I mean, it's gross. You're gonna die. You can't die from too much cum I don't know I mean, you could definitely die for both steps on you though Yes. Yeah, you wouldn't die. Did they do that episode of drinking cum? They did How much cum a lot like beer stein like this much more? Like that donkey cum So someone's just jerking these don't know why donkey cum why because donkeys, uh don't breed Because donkey comes not not it's not good for anything because donkeys are a hybrid of them of uh Mule and a horse So this is people they drink donkey piss I'm gonna throw up right now That's great. Do these people have to keep it down? Yeah, no, they throw it up eventually After they swallowed it then they were allowed to throw up So somebody for this show had to jerk off donkeys They actually stick a cattle prod up their asshole and they shoot like a fire hose. Uh, well at least someone doesn't have to jerk them off That would be a shitty job. Yeah, they do something with sticking up his asshole and just like yikes Yeah I know It didn't I gotta be honest though. Was it mixed with water? It seemed very liquidy. It was thick it seemed liquidy I thought it'd be more like a milkshake consistency Yeah, then these guys are checking here's so someone got a hold of the footage like tmz or something like that And then uh nbc pulled the episode from america, but they didn't pull it overseas So like I think it aired in holland or somewhere like that. So find out where it aired While the fear factor youtube channel, that's where it is. Oh, yeah, you can definitely get it on youtube. Yeah So that was a kill the show Then they're like that's a wrap. So they they cancelled that episode. Yeah, they canceled that episode Uh, they never aired that episode then they canceled the show So crazy over donkey come isn't that nuts it was awesome. It was perfect. It was perfect Oh gross perfect way to end Yeah, nobody saw it except in holland a lot of people saw it on youtube though I didn't even know it existed at times. Oh, okay So more people ever saw it than they would have seen it if it was on tv for sure I don't know. Is it worse for to be the person that like drank all that common that it didn't air No, it's probably better But it did air But didn't you say it aired only in holland? Yeah, but it airs on youtube Oh, yeah, i'm trying to find out drinking cum on youtube is You're gonna get some hits You're gonna get some magic on a job interview and they're like, did you drink that donkey cum? Were you one of the twins because it was twins and you're like, no, that's my sister My sister did it. So one had to drink piss the other one had to drink cum. What would you drink piss? Come is chunky. Yeah, it's a lot a lot of protein. I would imagine it would affect your everything in there Piss is just dirty water If you're drinking water, you're drinking dinosaur piss I love it. Do you know that like all water? on earth At one point in time if you just think statistically the hundreds of millions of years of dinosaurs were around All that water at some point in time was filtered out of a dinosaur's dick That sounds insane and not true. I think it's true. I don't think that's true. Let's see Okay All water Would you google that is your work computer just like have the worst stuff on it Yeah, well, how would you phrase that every glass of water you drink originally was in dinosaur urine Or originally was dinosaur urine I wanted to be urine I wanted to be real specific All the water you drink came from dinosaur urine just be ridiculous Um, well the way I asked it or here someone did ask the question you're asking right are you Are yeah, you are drinking dinosaur pee every day. Here's why? Oh Yeah, there you go Yeah, you are drinking dinosaur pee every day. Here's why from tech times The average american drinks four cups of water every day according to u.s department of agriculture This is far short of the recommended eight glasses, blah blah blah whether it's tap filtered bottled sparkling or sourced from the himalayan glaciers And sparkled with gold dust you are actually drinking the liquid waste of an ancient beast Says a science centric youtube channel curious minds a video explaining This theory says that every small percentage of all the water in the world is available for drinking purposes But it's still a huge amount of water to provide for the needs of every human being that's ever walked on the surface of the earth For the last 200 000 years every year around 121 000 cubic miles of water about the equivalent of 42 lake superiors Falls down on earth constantly flows through the rivers lakes ground reservoirs and everywhere else it passes through including inside the guts of people And the animals that drink it So what do dinosaurs have to do with all this unlike humans who have been on earth for a tiny fraction of the 186 million years That dinosaurs ruled the planet The the the beasts were here far longer than we have ever been In that long span of time It's very likely the dinosaurs have drunk all the water available back then and then all the water available now Is simply water that has passed through a dinosaur's kidneys making its way through the never-ending water cycle That's crazy that dinosaurs were around for 186 million years. Yeah, if you told me they were around for 100 years I would have believed it. I know nothing about dinosaurs. Yeah, they were around forever. If it wasn't for that rock They'd still be around. That's crazy. Yeah, and now we get to drink their piss That's what's interesting about life on other planets Like if something like the dinosaurs does exist it takes something like the yukatan impact to to kill them And then the little scrambling little rodents and shit eventually evolved to become humans, but if that doesn't happen Forever and ever and ever it's just dinosaurs fucking things up and no one ever builds a house No one ever gets a tesla just pissing. Yeah, every time you go outside raptors tear you apart There's you live in like tiny caves and they try to find you in there and they drag your kids out Yeah, they send a little raptor in there and they grab your kid by the feet You crawl into little tunnels and holes as they nip at you and try to claw away at the rocks to get to you You never develop tools. Yeah, you never develop anything. You barely stay alive. You probably go extinct Somehow that submarine thing sounds less worse than that Yeah, probably torn apart by a raptor if you lived in that era I think everything ate everything probably and the only way you didn't get eaten if you were like a stegosaurus where you just covered in armor Just to keep things from eating you. I mean imagine like what kind of fucking hard life you have to be Living in to develop the kind of skin the stegosaurus has Just armor everywhere. You are like a triceratops everywhere your armor Just to keep you from getting consumed. That's crazy. Yeah So yeah, that's the bright side of the impact i'm drinking dinosaur piss Yeah, we're drinking dinosaur piss and that's the the bright side of apocalypse caused by an asteroid impact It's not that bad. It's pretty good. It's way better than dinosaurs still being around and it's way better than donkey come Yes Not that I know but I assume this is better my coffee is dinosaur piss. Yeah Yeah mixed with other crap No, just coffee. You don't put anything in it like no milk or anything. No, it's just black Black coffee is tough. I like to put something in it. So it's not like sour. I Started getting into it when I became friends with my friend evan hafer who runs black rifle coffee It's like his company. Oh, okay And he well, there was a guy I had on a podcast a long time ago. There was actually a coffee expert What was that gentleman's name again? Juliano Juliano, right? Yeah, peter. Juliano Very interesting guy, but he's like a legitimate coffee expert and I always want to go I was I was like I like talking to people that just know a lot about one thing Sure, like it's weird like how much this guy knows about coffee and he brought a bunch of different coffees to sample and there's this ethiopian coffees that tasted almost like Like they were lemony and you're drinking them all black everything black like he's like real coffee drinkers drink coffee Yeah, and so then my friend evan Who runs black rifle coffee? He's a real coffee nut like he he literally goes to these Places where they grow it and samples the beans and like they have different kinds of roasts and blends and amazing stuff And he drinks everything black and I just started drinking it black. I it's a I think it's an acquired taste I've done it before Like drink drink it black with nothing in it. Like if i'm in a hotel and they don't have anything But I don't know if the coffee is good quality then you can yeah for me anyway, but if it's like crappy Yeah, if they fuck it up if they don't know what they're doing to fuck it up But even if I go to a diner, I just drink black coffee Yeah, I like it. I don't know. Maybe i'll get there one day It's just a thing where like I know it doesn't taste good But it tastes good to me like I like that sort of bitter warm liquid taste. I like it I like tea with nothing in it. I do too. Yeah, but coffee is real bitter but tea with honey is better Isn't it? Yeah But I don't I don't mind that plane as opposed to coffee is like not great. Yeah well um, I try to avoid Sugar as much as possible and I feel like when I put even if I put like sweet and low or stevia and something It makes me want more sweet things. Oh, yeah, I get that because I like sweet stuff, you know, so I just Just avoid it Whatever I can definitely that's why I try and cut the sugar out because i'm like addicted to it. Everybody is I think it's like some people aren't though. It's like people that could have one or two drinks. Like I think certain people Like process everything differently. I don't know. Yeah for sure. But sugar isn't so many things You don't realize how much you love it live off of it. Yes Yeah, but like some people could have one cupcake You know what I mean? And then some people are like I need to chase that sugar Yeah, have you? You said that do you have how many people in your you have many people in your family that have addictive personalities or addiction issues Addiction issues. Yeah for sure drugs and drugs gambling drinking. Yeah food just like everything Yeah Also, I think when your life isn't that great you look for an escape. So absolutely, you know Are you worried that as your life gets greater and greater that you'll have less things to be upset about No, I think I have quite a few things to be said. I think i'll never run out of stuff I asked my therapist if he thought i'd ever be cured and he left at me. He goes. No Whoa, he's like absolutely not maybe just wants to keep you there Maybe but I he's not making that much off of me. I think he would rat. He's like, I think he'd rather me be Like in a good place over getting the little bit of money I give him But he's funny He's really a funny person Like because I did think I had a good childhood and then like I started going to him He's like you had a terrible childhood. Like I literally said to him I was like, I thought I had a good childhood because nobody molested me as a kid And he was like no, he's like actually if somebody did they would have been showing you attention He's like it would have been better like he's joking though Right, but I was like I see what he's saying like yeah me and my sister just ignored. Yeah, but I don't know I think i'll always have stuff to be upset about Stand-up comedy is such an interesting thing because everybody came from like a place of lacking But everybody's thing like everything got them to that is different But the result is the same with odd It's all just like how do I figure out how to get these fucked up ideas into people's heads and elicit a response? Sure But a lot of comics, you know have a lot of mental illness. Yeah Um fucked up childhoods Sure, you know you're pulling like I feel like my family was always very funny because we were always struggling like financially and just like with different stuff You just kind of always are funny and joking around That's what I think Wouldn't you rather prefer fucked up people that joke around a lot to like stuffy people in Connecticut? I mean it would have been nice if like we had money like I think I would have preferred having like some financial stability Yeah in terms of just having like laughs Yeah, I mean maybe not now because I do stand up but like yeah when you're younger I mean, I also didn't realize how rich people were too until I went to college and seemed like people have lots of money Like I didn't really realize that as a kid Yeah That's probably good Like maybe I think it really fucks people up when they're like they're poor and they're around rich people Because it's like right there in the Bronx. There's like varying degrees like when I was growing up It was like varying degrees of poor, you know, like Like some of my friends parents did have a house but like you're still in the Bronx. It's not like, you know, Connecticut or right But yeah, I didn't really slightly doing better poor. Yeah, you're doing a little bit better But as a comic like god damn it like, you know comedy is like the best thing to do. It's so much fun And that's the superpower fucked up childhood is the superpower. Sure I see that but like we also did like Things that were like, you know on vacation We would go visit my aunt who was dying every year like that was a that was like a vacation from the rest of our Life, which is a crazy thing to do as a vacation. Yeah So that sucks Yeah, but as a kid, I didn't realize it sucked. I realize it sucks now. You didn't realize it until you started doing therapy No, I realized it once I got older and realized like we should not be you know in a house where someone's dying in the living room You know, like well, there's like her and then another aunt but Yeah, this is not great. We were going to crescent, Pennsylvania That's like the worst. So is doing stand-up? Is that the most joy you ever experienced? Sometimes sometimes not when it doesn't go well I don't know. I think that if I had a lot of money, I might just work with animals Like I really love animals like yeah, you'd quit doing stand-up. I don't think I'd quit doing stand-up I think I'd always do it but I do love like helping animals and like Even people too, you know, like I make a lot of dark jokes, but like I think everyone just thinks i'm an awful person I'm like, well, these are just jokes though um But yeah, I I would love to work with animals like rehome animals like take, you know ones in that you can't Partner up with Whitney Do you know Whitney? Not really. I mean like we follow each other on instagram, but she's awesome. He would love her Yeah, I mean I follow her account. She had you know that one dog that looked like an alien What was the dog's name? dragon or something Violet I think it's violet but yeah, so like I would love to do that I wish that stand-up would I get to a place where I could uh be afforded a situation like that to like help animals Yeah, she's always fostering dogs She has a horse Yeah, yeah, I would like it if she fostered me She would still take in She took people in during the pandemic. She turned her house into like a flophouse Yeah, I saw that yeah, she's awesome. She had outdoor shows At her house. They were doing them. They were doing them in new york too. Really? Yeah people's yards and stuff Uh, like central park. They did some shows. I did shows on roofs. Like it was just people getting real creative When did you get back into an indoor club again? What was the first time how many months out? I know I was doing it about six months after like outside And then I think I waited to get vaccinated to do it inside like the first vaccine maybe Did you have to get vaccinated? You had to be in those clubs, too, right? Yeah, and I think I I think you had to get I had to get vaccinated to definitely go to europe When I went on that tour with louis, so we definitely need I think three at that point You gotta get you have to have a booster to go over there, too Yeah, you gotta have three and I think the clubs you might have only needed two, but i'm not sure There were some comics that refused to get vaccinated too. Yeah There was a couple of them But I was like, I mean when I took the vaccine I was like I'm not 100 confident in this but I was like, but like whatever I do want to work Yeah, I was like, what am I gonna do? Well, a lot of people did that they made that choice because they wanted to work And it was yeah very clear that it was gonna stop you from working, especially in some jobs, you know A lot of people were forced into it And it didn't work that good Yeah, yeah, but did you did you get it vaccinated? No I got Which one did I get not the johnson and johnson that seemed like the worst one Where's like one vaccine you're like, why is this one? Yeah, and it's like 65 protection, but it's all of it was shenanigans if you really study the actual paperwork on what the studies actually showed versus what they were saying it showed it didn't stop transmission it didn't One more person in the fucking vaccine group died of covet I guess my thing is like so does it work like because we have antibodies now like how does that work it works initially it works initially and It it like for a lot of vulnerable people It probably was a good idea to get vaccinated old people fat people people that were that had various diseases. Yeah uh, the problem is it didn't last for very long didn't last for nearly as long as they wanted and then you'd get your second shot and that didn't last and now unfortunately what they're finding is Through this latest study with the cleveland clinic They showed that with their health care workers the more vaccines they got the more they got covet Interesting. Yeah. Well, there's a lot of weird things that happen with your immune system. I get very sick from the vaccines. How bad? Like there I think I don't remember which one fucked me up the worst But like there was a time where I was like home for two three days where I was like, oh i'm really sick I had fever. I was really sick and then I got covet and I was really sick from it But I was I feel like I I wouldn't get anymore. I won't get any more boosters I know people are like i'm on five i'm like great. That's good for you You know some people it's fine Some people I mean, it's like any other medication some people they take that medication They don't have any problems with it and then other people take it and they get wrecked by it And that's the problem with making something mandatory where some people are going to get wrecked by it Like really bad vaccine injuries. Those are real. We all know about them now. We've all seen people dropped out of heart attacks that shouldn't be And then there's people that it might have saved their lives. It's like that's an uncomfortable like sort of conversation that People that are against it have to have and people that are pro at have to have like you have to look at the actual data Of what really did happen and it's particularly for like non-vulnerable people like children. It was not a good idea Yeah, I guess I just didn't understand like say you didn't want to get vaccinated and somebody is vaccinated Then why does that matter like if this person because it didn't well I mean also there's a huge money to be made off the vaccine But there was also people wanted you to do what they did. I did the right thing. You should do the right thing You're selfish. You're not doing it I mean, I guess i've heard that too. It was like the one time in our lives We weren't allowed to be skeptical about pharmaceutical companies, right? We're skeptical over everything else that they produce. We should be sure of a long history of criminal fines Yes, they've been fined Fucking insane amounts of money for lying about drugs that wind up crossing people their lives. Who's that? Was it doped up? Dopesick? Dopesick. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't say it but I know the whole story about the Sackler family Yeah, yeah, I mean you look at something like that and you're like, yeah, we should be questioning They just paid their way out of it They paid their way out. They paid their way out of it Like they gave like six billion dollars and now they can't be prosecuted And they price off so much money. Oh god, that's crazy billions and billions You can lose six billion dollars and still be a billionaire. Yeah, yeah easy. They did that with um, there was another um medication That they did vioxx that wind up giving People it gave a friend of mine a stroke, but it gave like It killed 60 000 50 000 people. What is that for? It was uh an anti-inflammatory medication. It didn't even work well and They knew it in their their internal emails. They said there's going to be problems, but we think we'll do very well with this So they knew that it was going to cause cardiovascular issues with people They knew it was going to cause blood issues with people and strokes and shit And they still they still released it and they got fined but they got fined less than they made Yeah, so I think they made 12 billion and they got fined like five or something. So right you're like, I still have the surplus and billions something like that Don't quote me on that those numbers But it's something to the point where like I could see you made money on this you still made money This is like yeah, and it didn't work. It wasn't a good it was like there was other There's other available things that work better It's just a spooky thing that they can do that. It's spooky and that people just go along with it Well johnson and johnson have that lawsuit against their powder Yeah, like because a lot it has I guess talc and maybe some other stuff and women I guess are putting it like, you know in their private areas getting cancer. So they have a big lawsuit for that Yeah, what is in it that's giving people cancer? I don't know. Is it just talc? Because I know talc is not great for you. It's like a mineral, right? What is I guess I don't know But I just know like I used to use johnson and johnson powder all the time and I was like, oh That's like something you would never even think of. Yeah What is um, what what caused people to get cancer from that? The johnson and johnson vaccine was the one I was going to take That's the one bridget god, I think the ufc had allocated like 150 vaccines for their employees And we were doing shows during the pandemic. They had this total bubble situation where you got tested Okay, what does it say when uh, when the talcum powder is linked to cancer? It's important to distinguish between talc that contains asbestos and the talc that's asbestos free Talc that has asbestos is generally accepted as being able to cause cancer if it's inhaled What about um? What so just go to that start go to the lawsuit? johnson and johnson cancer lawsuit baby powder Because it was something with women, right? Yeah Okay, what is it saying? So there's some sort of j&j lawsuit Settlement okay johnson johnson said on tuesday that it had agreed to pay 8.9 billion dollars To tens of thousands of people who claim the company's talcum powder produces product products cause cancer A proposal that lawyers for the plaintiffs called a significant victory in a legal fight that has lasted more than a decade Wow, so are they still using the same talc though? That's a good question Maybe they're just telling people don't put it on your Whoa, but didn't say just breathing it in is bad the proposal. Yeah, but the one with asbestos So i'm trying to figure out why why does this have asbestos? The proposed settlement would be paid out over 25 years through a subsidiary which filed bankruptcy To enable the 8.9 billion dollar trust johnson and johnson said in court filings if the bankruptcy court approves it The agreement will resolve all current and future claims involving johnson and johnson products that contain talc such as baby powder The company said so how is it's ovarian cancer? Yeah, okay Significant victory for the tens of thousands of women suffering from gynecological cancer is caused by the j&j talc based products So what is in it that's causing cancer? And mesothelioma i've seen that on ovarian cancer and mesothelioma you saw it on what tv commercials my whole life Right suffer from mesothelioma. I'll call you I wonder if it goes right to johnson johnson Uh, the one thing I was going to ask I was reading about the appeal for the sachler thing Five to six million. They have to give up billion billion. I'm sorry 750 million is paid out to the individuals Oh god, where's the other five billion? Oh god. What the fuck is that? Well, it's a fine. It goes to the government. Okay, that's good. Listen, we have to deal with our homeless crisis No one's gonna ever trans kids don't have homes Is that that's an issue right now, oh I guess yeah, maybe I'm sure They didn't say what caused the cancer and taking all the dogs and all the trans kids It's only two billion of that 8.9 goes to the plaintiffs Um, so what is it that causes cancer though? Like what's it in the talc that's causing cancer? I guess is there a chemical I guess the asbestos is in it. How is it? How is anybody selling anything with asbestos? Well, they probably took it out of paint and we're like, let's get rid of it this way Imagine if that's what they did. No, who knows? I mean, I think the government's pretty corrupt Well, there there's definitely some corrupt people in the government Without a doubt and there's definitely a bunch of people that run these corporations and try to figure out how to make money with stuff They have laying around sure the new york times article. I don't see a date But this says that they know about it since 429 years It says johnson johnson feared baby powders possible asbestos link for years. So there is asbestos in it What? It says in 1971 they're recommended to upgrade the quality control Oh my god Look at this an executive at johnson johnson said the main ingredient in its best selling baby powder could potentially be contaminated by asbestos The dangerous mineral that causes cancer He recommended to senior staff in 1971 the company upgrade its quality control of talc Two years later another executive raised a red flag saying the company should no longer assume that its talc mines were asbestos free The powder he said sometimes contains materials that might be classified as asbestos fiber the carcinogen which often appears underground near talc Has been a concern inside the company for decades in hundreds of pages of memos executives worried about a potential government ban of talc the safety of the product and a public backlash over johnson's baby powder a brand built On a reputation for trustworthiness and health And it had asbestos in it. That's what it is. They took it out of the paint I don't think so. I think they're saying it's in the same mines as the talc but they were like, let's just keep it up Well, we'll just get it from the same mines. They're cutting it just like the mexican cartels cut the coke with fentanyl Yeah, they're cutting it with talc. Like if you have like a bunch of asbestos and you got a little talc is worth 10 bucks a pound Yeah, i would be surprised it's not in there. Yeah, isn't it fentanyl expensive? Why are they mixing stuff with fentanyl? It's very cheap and it's also Really potent so you need a very very small amount of fentanyl. Well, fuck you up But i'm sure it's not consistent They're not, you know, they're not really good at like Quality control. Yeah, and also I think sometimes they leak fentanyl laced cocaine specifically designed to kill people to target rival gangs They do it like if one gang is selling coke and they'll sabotage their supply so that they kill their People will stop buying it from them Yeah Or they use it to target certain people Interesting. We learned a lot today, adrian. We did learn a lot. I did too. I did too. I learned about dinosaur piss Yeah, we're all drinking it asbestos Get out of your privates that episode of fear factor with cum We learned a lot about your origins of comedy my origins learned about your mom My mom. Yes, you love dogs. I love dogs. I should have brought marshall. Yes next time next time you do it We do it again. We'll do this. Okay Um, you're gonna be at the club tonight. I'm gonna be at the club tonight. Let's fuck. Thank you for having me. It was fun It was hilarious Well, I mean, thank you for letting me film my special there. My pleasure. I'm excited when louis texted me I was so pumped. That's yeah, because we were taught he was like, where do you think you want to do it? And he was like I was like, uh, I don't know i'm not sure and then he was like, what about like austin I was like, well, I love austin. He's like well about joe's club. I was like, yeah Yeah, it's a setup to film already, too. Yeah, the audiences are great Both shows were so fun and I because they were like which room do you want to do? I was like, I don't know. I was like, I got to see which one I like, but I like them both so yeah They're both different but really fun. It's the the whole setup is louis actually helped me quite a bit Um, he gave me some really good advice when we were in the middle of construction He told me to make the stage in the small room smaller. It was larger. They just designed it. Yeah Yeah, it was perfect. What he designed is perfect. He said just cut off four feet on each side And I was like, yeah, why do we don't need it that big? And so it was really fun because you could kind of walk around In this, you know, once we had gutted it, you know, you're going why don't we do this? Why don't we do that? Yeah, and so louis came in and I just said what you know What do you think and he was like, you know like make this lower He's like a good director. He knows how to do all that stuff. I listened to everything he said. Yeah every I took every Single piece of advice that he said every recommendation I did. Do you like one room over the other? I love them both. They're different. The little room is really intimate. The little room is like you're partying You're having a good time with people. They're right there. They're on top of you. It's really fun It's it's also very honest Like if you feel performative or clunky it like Feels gross in that room and the little one. Yeah in the little room. I feel like the little room is freer Oh, yeah, it is. But I mean if you do come off clunky, it's more obvious because it's very intimate. It feels fake Yeah, you know, it's just a different room The other room is the other room is pretty intimate too. The way I describe it It's like they're both like hybrids of the comedy store, uh original room and the belly room. Yeah So i've never performed there i've only visited. Yeah, i've only i've only gone there to like visit I've never performed there next time i'll bring you. All right, let's party. Let's party Let's go What I do like about the big room is that it is intimate because everyone does seem pretty close to you even though It's like a pretty big room. Yeah, it's we it's well designed. We mean we put a lot of thought into it We raised the floor We had the stage set at the perfect height where it's like right at right at table height No, not a bad seat in the room. We like meticulously went over it for a long time. Yeah I think too what I think ari was saying last night is like When you go to some clubs sometimes like the owner shows up and it's just like it changes the vibe It's like that's not here and i'm like, yeah, you're right It's not like you come around people like oh put that away or let's stop talking about whatever we're talking about Yeah, that happens in other clubs for sure, right? Yeah Well, I don't know. There's only a few other clubs that are owned by comics Yeah, I guess i'm just thinking about clubs in maybe minhattan, you know, right, but that's the thing it's like You're dealing with there's like the owners the owners tell the managers what to do the managers tell the comedians what to do, right? So they're still bosses. Yeah, even though you are the boss or the owner. It's not like that vibe No, the vibe is it's for all of us. It's our place Yeah, it's very welcoming. Like I don't know most of the comics like i'm getting to know them, but I felt very welcome there If you're funny, it's very welcome If you're not funny, it's very unwelcoming. You're not funny. They're fucking brutal Yeah, it was just there's a lot of competition for stage time. There's a lot of comics. There's a lot of young people Yeah, I could see that you know all the staff like are aspiring comedians like this door staff and they all auditioned With their actual comedy to get the jobs to be the door like to work at the door. That's actually Pretty good. Yeah, and they get stage time So they they get to go up and they they go up to showcase nights. Let's open mic nights two nights a week That's great. Whereas I was interning for free. Yeah So you're not getting a spot even more importantly the creek in the cave is right next door It's right up the street and then you've got sunset room, which is right next door sunset Brian red band's room is three doors down. Oh, wow. And the other day we did a show like last thursday We did a show at my club and then guys were going back and forth and red band's show was sold out too And then there's the vulcan which is also just a half a block down And you know they do comedy there too And then you also have cap city which is in the domain and you have a bunch of little places like the velveeta room There's a bunch of spots that are all around town and all kinds of mics. Do they do shows that esters follies also, right? Yes. Yeah, they do shows. There's a lot of good comedy here. Yeah, and the fans are great Well, they just love the fact that it's here. Yeah, it's like You know out of the pandemic this thing sprung and it really is like a weird thing that happened where we're all like Fuck this we got to get the fuck out of la And I was particularly motivated because my children were at the time 10 and 12 I was like, I don't think I want them growing up in la like I already dodged that bullet with my oldest daughter It's just creepy. Yeah, it's like there's so much chaos and freaks and it's just Like I gotta get out of here, you know And then during the pandemic we had this opportunity to move to austin and I was like I want to do this and it was a crazy time to do it because I was in the middle of this big spotify deal And you know the whole world was shut down and I have everything running smoothly and i'm like fuck it Let's uproot. We're gonna start from scratch and we came here and i've never been happier That's great. And then when all the other comics started coming here, too, and I was like, all right. I think this is gonna work There's a lot of comics here. Yeah, it's pretty awesome That's so crazy that everyone's coming here. Yeah, it's like becoming a real hub for comedy. It's so fun It is fun Well, that is one of the cool things you can do with money You know if you have money and there's something you really love like I love stand up You could actually do something like that. You can actually make something happen and make it good for a lot of people It's not just good for me. It's good for so many comics. Yeah, it's good for the audiences Good for the people that work there. It's fun. I mean it helps the economy. Oh, yeah for sure Yeah, that the whole area is packed now. Yep It's awesome. All right, adrian. We'll see you tonight. I'm excited. Thank you for having me. I'm excited. Um, and you got a tour coming up. Um, Yeah Come see me on tour. What's your website? uh, adrianappaluchi.com spell that for these people because uh Adr it's there's an i in appaluchi. Yeah Uh, uh, appleuji is i a p a l u cci All right, go see her folks. She's very funny. I'm really happy to meet you. Yeah. Thank you for having me This i'm pumped to show tonight. Yes, let's go. Thank you. All right. Bye everybody