#1662 - Tom Papa

[0] Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

[1] The Joe Rogan Experience.

[2] Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.

[3] Movie about it.

[4] Oh, yeah?

[5] It was like the big thing for David Frost.

[6] He got Nixon to actually break about Watergate.

[7] And the way Nixon tried to, the way that Nixon tried to throw him before the interview, they're just getting ready.

[8] And all the cameras and stuff, he was, did you fornicate last night?

[9] David Frost was like, why is the president, the former president of the United?

[10] United States.

[11] He was like, no. So he tried to rattle him before the interview?

[12] He was so, Nixon was so skillful and did you fornicate last night?

[13] What?

[14] Is that skillful though?

[15] It kind of fucked him up a little bit.

[16] It was like.

[17] It seems like a Hail Mary.

[18] Yeah, well, it didn't, yeah, he was, he was at the end of his game.

[19] Did you ever hear the time when Nixon was riding, they got a ride, Hunter S. Thompson took a ride with Nixon, I believe, to the airport in his limo as long as I don't talk politics he's like so they just talked about football the whole way was he president at the time yeah he was president oh my god i know that's how weird the world was back then yeah a fucking wackadoo like hunter thompson could get in a limousine with the president of the united states and uh to ride well i think nixon respected his football knowledge because hunter was a football fanatic yeah and so he said nixon was a real deal he said nixon knew about all these like draft picks from colleges and yeah he was like following everything he was really smart was he but just yeah yeah he was really smart and crafty but he was you know had a lot of fatal flaws did you phonicate last night he was the oddest dude he's such a weird looking dude like no one who's looked like that since you know Mike Dukakis had a little bit of that and I'm like a handsomer version of Nixon just like thick yeah yeah Right?

[20] Everything's thick.

[21] Like the skin's thick, the eyebrows are thick.

[22] Yeah, it's like leathery and always kind of like a lot of Vaseline or something in the hair.

[23] Yeah.

[24] I'm not a crook.

[25] I'm not a crook.

[26] And it's just awkward with this movement.

[27] Yeah.

[28] Yeah, so weird.

[29] Joints don't work right.

[30] Yeah.

[31] A political cartoonist dream.

[32] Oh, yeah, for sure.

[33] The big nose, the big jutting farhead.

[34] See, there's a problem with political cartoons today is that they're all liberal, right?

[35] And most cartoonists are liberal, and you're going to leave Biden alone, which is very unfortunate.

[36] Because it should be indicative of the dilemma that we find ourselves in in 2021.

[37] Right.

[38] Who's ever the guy is the butt of the joke or is the focus.

[39] But this is a very unique dilemma because we were willing to overlook like some serious problems with this guy because we hated Trump so much.

[40] Right, exactly.

[41] Oh, I know.

[42] My nephews are really, really left.

[43] They went to like Hampshire College and they're just like, it couldn't get further over there.

[44] And love them all.

[45] But they were just super loved.

[46] And in our family group text, every once in a while, they'll send a thing about Biden, going too far with Israel or like having a bad record at the border.

[47] And no one wants to deal, no one wants to discuss it in the family at all.

[48] They're so exhausted from Trump all those years.

[49] They're like, we know he's not perfect, but at least he's not that.

[50] And I feel like that's where the nation is.

[51] It's like, I know, I know, but he's not, he's not tormenting us.

[52] Some of the nations there, but the rest of the nation is like, it's eroding faith in the institution of the news.

[53] Because they're like, how come you fucking guys aren't paying attention to this?

[54] How is he allowed to say all this crazy shit?

[55] Well, that's...

[56] Like he's been saying ridiculous shit.

[57] Have you paid attention to the gaffs, the things you said?

[58] No. about what was the one recently about black people and businesses you know because black people can't get loans and black people was like whoa it was like so it's such a blanket statement right right right like he he says things sometimes like like like come on man what was the statement that poor kids are they they're just as smart as white kids like something along those lines remember that yes I do it's like Hey, Grandpa, the fuck off the microphone.

[59] I know, but at least he's not just tormenting us nonstop.

[60] But you're right.

[61] I mean, there should be, look, this is why there's a real problem is that there's nobody that just takes the center and just deals with news.

[62] It's all team -based, team -based.

[63] It's also woke talking points that they feed him.

[64] Yeah.

[65] And, you know, you - And then he butchers them.

[66] We butcher's them.

[67] And you compare to, like, things that he said in the past.

[68] This is not how you really feel about these things.

[69] Yeah.

[70] But we, yeah, it's, it's just the teams.

[71] It's the teams.

[72] Yeah, it's tribal.

[73] I know.

[74] It's like if you could just break down the teams.

[75] That's the, that's the most disheartening part of all of it is just that it's almost like we don't, I was thinking the other day, like when we grew up, we had Russia and you had Rocky movies and Reagan was going after him and they were going, and Stallone was going after Drago, whatever his name was.

[76] Like, we had this enemy that we all could focus.

[77] focus on.

[78] And now we have an absence of that.

[79] And we're looking at each other as the enemy, which has never happened in our lifetime, ever.

[80] It's so horrible that people are from different parts of our country are hating on each other.

[81] It's never seen it.

[82] Well, it's exacerbated by Trump.

[83] That was.

[84] Even with Obama in office, it was never that bad.

[85] No. Even the people that were ridiculous with Obama, like, do you remember when, I guess it was Fox News or whatever conservatives, they were furious that Obama had a...

[86] tan suit on.

[87] Yeah, that was the big controversy.

[88] That was the big controversy.

[89] That when he fist bumped his wife.

[90] It's amazing.

[91] Imagine those two things being controversial now in the wake of Trump.

[92] I know.

[93] So Trump was so exacerbated everything.

[94] Everything got so over the top that people on the left haven't calmed down yet.

[95] Remember when he got out of office?

[96] Like as soon as Biden get in, and they're like, we're going to make a list.

[97] If anybody supported Trump and you're never going to work again.

[98] You're never going to work again.

[99] Your kids are going to starve.

[100] It was PTSD.

[101] It was really.

[102] People are just like, they see his name and they, you twitch.

[103] Yeah, they go crazy.

[104] But we, really, it's like, so what is our, what is our new thing to folk?

[105] Like, China doesn't seem to do it.

[106] Like, that's like the bigger competitor, but they're not like, they're not like that cartoonish enemy that we had with Rostolone's not going to China and taking on that guy.

[107] It doesn't have that thing.

[108] But whatever it's, you got to temper down the, New York is not the enemy of Texas.

[109] Alabama is not the enemy of California.

[110] Like, we're united.

[111] The thing is, like, right now we're in a confused state, like a post -COVID confused state where things aren't totally normal yet.

[112] Yeah.

[113] And everybody's like, hey, hey, hey, it's weird.

[114] It's definitely weird.

[115] What's happening?

[116] Are we okay?

[117] Yeah, I know.

[118] Not quite yet, right?

[119] Yeah.

[120] No, it's really true.

[121] it's like this uh it's like fits and starts it's like even when it coming here i was like oh this is the land of no mask and i went into two places and was told to put on a mask and i was like oh we're not okay so you but your rules austin austin people wear masks yeah but when you get outside of austin you go to like round rock and you go like they don't give a fuck flugerville right they don't give a fuck oh the people in flugerville you go out that way you go out to like dripping springs they don't give a fuck right there's no more covid for them right yeah yeah They gave up, but by the way, it was like that, like six months ago.

[122] I'm not kidding.

[123] I believe you.

[124] No, there were a lot of places like that.

[125] Like, in the limited touring that I was doing, like, I would go to, I went to, like, Omaha, and I was in Kansas City.

[126] And I was coming from the perspective of California.

[127] And I'm like, hey, look at us.

[128] We're all out.

[129] And they were like, yeah, we've been out.

[130] They were like.

[131] Florida doesn't give a fuck.

[132] They really don't give a fuck.

[133] No. We just did an arena in Houston.

[134] for the UFC, and we did an arena in Florida before that.

[135] 15 ,000 people packed, and it felt crazy.

[136] It felt crazy.

[137] Like, are you really doing this?

[138] Yeah.

[139] It's really happening.

[140] But by the time we did the second one in Houston, it was like, yeah, we're back to arenas.

[141] Yay.

[142] Crowds.

[143] Full crowds for the fights.

[144] That's so great.

[145] Yeah, man. Just take your fucking vitamins.

[146] Just do it.

[147] Go.

[148] It's time.

[149] I mean, this is all the plan.

[150] It's like we're here.

[151] We're here.

[152] I was at the car watch the other day, and it's in L .A. and there's like the outdoor seating where you wait for your car and there's like 12 people in chairs and I came out and everybody had the masks down around their chin and I was like what's that?

[153] I've been kind of like walking around with no mask right?

[154] And then I went into and I sat down and so I had my mask in my pocket and I started talking to this guy next to me and I look over and all those people then had their mask lifted up and there was an older couple there with their mask on so everybody had it low the old couple walked out they all put it back up and i'm sitting there with nothing on my chin now i felt like the bad guy so i had to like rifle it out of my pocket it's like but june 15th that's all over right june 15th that's not going to be a thing california's crossing that threshold so all right if we're at june 15th like well what's today why am i doing right exactly what magic thing what is today's day today's the fourth oh we got just a few more days and it's normal and it's normal so down to normal so what game are we playing here well did you read the fouchy emails yes the freedom of information emails that's really crazy because well he first of all he's admitting in these emails that masks don't work he's was he yes yeah he talked about it talked about it openly uh wait i didn't know that part i know i only here's i thought you're going to talk about the uh well that too but here's the thing but part of the email was look part of the mask conversation with Fauci has always been that at the beginning of the pandemic he said masks didn't work but then he said the reason he said that is because there wasn't enough masks for first responders and hospital staff and he didn't he wanted to make sure that the supply wasn't diminished so he said that he didn't tell the truth uh -huh okay but in these emails he's also this is private emails he's saying masks don't work for real yes he's saying they're not effective for what you outside of a hospital setting uh -huh these masks like for personal use, the kind of cloth masks and paper masks that everybody's wearing, they're not effective.

[155] They're not, they can't, exactly what did he say?

[156] Let's, let's pull it up so we get exactly what he said.

[157] But that's not even the big part.

[158] The big part is he's talking about gain of function research in the Wuhan lab.

[159] And he's concerned about it and thinking whether or not they had paused that and whether they're still doing that.

[160] And he's trying to connect the gain of function research in the Wuhan lab with this COVID breakout and whether or not that.

[161] where it came from.

[162] Right.

[163] Why is that a big deal?

[164] Because that's, they funded it.

[165] The NIH funded these people who funded the gain of function research in the Wuhan lab, which means they're responsible for funding the very research that led to this outbreak if that's where it came from.

[166] Right.

[167] So all this time when he's been saying it came from nature, there's no way it came from a lab.

[168] Well, you know that's shifted, right?

[169] Now everybody's saying it came from a lab.

[170] Right, right.

[171] But then not confirmed yet.

[172] But the evidence is pointing as it's most likely that it came from a lap.

[173] But this whole time Fauci's been saying it didn't, but you see in his emails that he was concerned.

[174] Well, concern, but isn't that like just trying to figure out what the information is?

[175] Not really.

[176] Because he doesn't definitively know either, right?

[177] There's a lot of indications according to the email that he's talking to another scientist.

[178] Right.

[179] The scientist points out the variables or the components of the virus that seem to indicate that it possibly came from a lab.

[180] But publicly, he's been out and out dismissing that because he's connected to that research.

[181] Because he's connected to the very research they were doing there.

[182] It's really complicated shit.

[183] It's confused.

[184] Rand Paul's been grilling him.

[185] Have you seen those things?

[186] Hey, go, typical mask you buy a drugstore is not really effective in keeping out the virus, which is small enough to pass through the material.

[187] It might, however, provide some slight benefit in keeping out gross droplets if someone coughs or sneezes on you.

[188] I do not recommend that you wear a mask, particularly since you're going to a very low -risk location.

[189] See, this is just him saying that these drugstore masks are not really effective.

[190] But this is in an email after he has said publicly that you didn't have to wear a mask.

[191] because they didn't really help and then he's saying this and after that he said well he wasn't telling the truth there because he didn't want people to buy all the masks but then he's saying this after that right in an email that they don't really work but yet he's wearing a mask but that's kind of like that's there is shades in that there's like the gross droplets gross droplets and if you're in a low risk location like what's his motivation to like why would he profess masks if he thought part and parcel that they don't work.

[192] The narrative is everybody needs to mask up.

[193] But why?

[194] Well, because it makes people feel safer.

[195] A, it helps people get back to work, B, and it obviously is providing some benefit.

[196] Listen, this is my take on it.

[197] Something's happening because the flu cases are down so low.

[198] Oh, yeah.

[199] So is that because of people wearing masks?

[200] Is that because of social distancing?

[201] Because everybody's kind of freaked out and staying away from each other for so long?

[202] washing their hands everywhere they go, getting, having, having Purell at every spot.

[203] I don't think that's it.

[204] Because it's a, you're talking about something that's airborne.

[205] Well, for that, but for you to get a cold, you know, your hands and touching your shit.

[206] Maybe.

[207] All those things, all those things.

[208] Yeah, maybe.

[209] But there's something, something, there's very well likely something to masks that maybe we weren't aware of.

[210] So even what he's saying there, that it might just keep out gross droplets.

[211] Yeah.

[212] But isn't it at all about like viral.

[213] because, like, that's the thing they say about a hospital workers.

[214] Like, hospital workers, when they're exposed to so much, that's when it's overwhelming and they really get sick.

[215] Yeah, they get like a heavy dose.

[216] So maybe that's what these masks are good for.

[217] What is this?

[218] Yeah, get that.

[219] There you go.

[220] Which are the protective measures anyone should take against the new virus?

[221] Do masks work?

[222] He said, the vast majority of people outside China do not need to wear a mask.

[223] Read the Fauci approved response.

[224] A mask is more appropriate for someone who's infected than for people trying to.

[225] protect against infection right well I mean what's but like what's my whole thing with all of this is it's been very confusing we're all every governor's making decisions everybody's around the world is trying to figure shit out and calling a lockdown and calling not a lockdown everyone's like unlimited information trying to make the best decisions that they can like I don't think that as a governor of a state you're making a decision to screw up the economy on purpose I I don't think that Fauci is talking about mass to, like, harm people.

[226] You know what I mean?

[227] Like, I just feel like, I feel like they're just having limited information and are trying to muddle their way through the best that they can.

[228] Like what?

[229] That's not the real problem is the mass thing.

[230] It's a small problem.

[231] The real problem is this gain of function research shit.

[232] This is the very research that they were doing where they were juicing up.

[233] What is gain of function?

[234] They were juicing up these viruses to make them more infectious.

[235] And they were practicing, like, just.

[236] trying to use, I think they use human lung tissue and try to get the virus to be more.

[237] The idea is with, I mean, I'm going to butcher this for sure, but I think the idea is when they're doing this research, they want to find out what makes these viruses more infectious.

[238] And they were doing it on the original SARS as well, which has like a 10 % fatality rate.

[239] Wow.

[240] It's very scary.

[241] Wow, that is scary.

[242] This stuff is less than 1%.

[243] That stuff is way worse.

[244] And by doing this gain of function research, they run the risk of people getting sick.

[245] We just found out a couple of weeks ago that in November of 2019, three workers from the lab in Wuhan got sent home, or sent to the hospital, rather, really ill with coronavirus -like symptoms.

[246] And this was before they had COVID -19 tests, right?

[247] Uh -huh.

[248] So these people got sent home.

[249] I believe one of the guys' wives died from COVID.

[250] and they think this was the initial infection.

[251] So these people in the lab got sick.

[252] So all this time, while they were trying to dismiss this lab outbreak, that had been hidden from us, that these three people in the lab got sick.

[253] The fact that Fauci had something to do with that gain of function research and funding that gain of function research, that had kind of been hidden from us.

[254] Well, that makes it seem...

[255] Josh Rogan exposed that.

[256] But that makes it seem like Fauci's like putting on scrubs and walking down the halls of that place.

[257] You know what I mean?

[258] Like, is Fauci really, like, in there, like, you know what I mean?

[259] Are you defending Fauci?

[260] Yeah, like, I don't know.

[261] I think that he's been put up as someone we can take our fears and anger and throw it at.

[262] But is he, like, he may be part of, like, you know, these things are huge.

[263] Like, there's a big board of people that decide what they're going to research.

[264] You've got to read these emails.

[265] You've got to read these emails.

[266] I know.

[267] So do you think that he's evil?

[268] Do you think that he is?

[269] No, I'm not saying that.

[270] So what are you saying?

[271] I think someone fucked up.

[272] I think they're trying to cover up the fact they fucked up.

[273] Okay.

[274] I think the whole reason by they've been saying that this thing came from nature, it's a natural spillover, is, I don't think they're saying that because that's the most likely scenario.

[275] I think they were saying that because they fucked up.

[276] Right.

[277] And they didn't want everyone to know that they fucked up.

[278] And I think having the position of power and having the position of authority that he had, he could say it does no. indication this came from a lab who is they who fucked up like what is this well the lab in Wuhan for sure fuck okay so who runs that lab well I don't know but I do know that the NIH funded an organization they gave money to an organization which gave money to that lab that's the official story got it and this is the story that Rand Paul talked about when he was grilling Fauci this is also what Josh Rogan talked about right a journalist that investigated all this.

[279] What Josh, what Rogan was saying was that during the Trump administration, everything was so chaotic that they just kind of, they were able to restart this kind of dangerous research that Obama had put the brakes on.

[280] Obama apparently would like, what the fuck are you doing?

[281] Why are you making viruses more deadly?

[282] Oh, really?

[283] Stop.

[284] And then Trump was over there going, I'm number one.

[285] I'm the best.

[286] And they're like, I got an idea.

[287] Let's start that fucking research Let it fly.

[288] I don't know.

[289] Virus force.

[290] I mean, it's interesting because some news organizations are ignoring it completely and other organizations are attacking.

[291] That's when you see whether or not the news is really the news.

[292] Because you see the difference between the way the left wing news is covering it, which is a lot of them are just out and out ignoring it.

[293] And then the right wing news coverage, they're constantly bringing up these emails.

[294] Right.

[295] Pulling them out and hashtag fire Fauci and all this different shit.

[296] Yeah, yeah.

[297] Well, that's the thing.

[298] It's like once you start, once you start calling out, like, this is our side's thing.

[299] Like, I saw that there was a headline in the New Yorker or the New York Times that said why it's important to, why it's so important to figure out whether this lab theory is correct or not.

[300] And it was like, that was kind of the first time I saw it in those, in those papers of like.

[301] Oh, no, it was in Newsweek a couple of months ago.

[302] No, but I'm saying.

[303] That was like the first shot fired.

[304] Yeah, yeah.

[305] Because when you see it on the cover of Newsweek when they started to consider it again.

[306] Yeah, yeah.

[307] But it was political.

[308] Yeah, it was totally political.

[309] Trump was such, he was such a polarizing figure that, and people hated him so much.

[310] And anything that guy said, everybody was like, fuck him.

[311] Let's go the other way.

[312] Right.

[313] He said it came from a lab, but it definitely didn't come from a fucking lab.

[314] Yeah.

[315] Well, that's the boy that cried wolf syndrome, right?

[316] It became like, he kind of did that to himself.

[317] He just keeps saying such crazy shit And everybody was just in making it And calling everybody and yelling At them Meanwhile, Fauci just wrote a book So he's releasing a book on this now And making money off of a book Oh Yeah And he's also the same guy that told us We wouldn't never shake hands again I think he's adorable though He's little He's got like a little Like a Bronx kind of thing going I got an action figure Somebody sent me Fauci action figure Yeah With a mascot It has a mascot sitting on my desk he's adorable he's kind he put him out there he's like you know there's like look I would love to know what that will like okay so if we're trying to get into the truth of it which is what we need right we need to know obviously you and me are not going to get into the truth of it please I'll just you could tell me the fact right now and I'll forget it by the next subject but if they're trying to figure that out like who is behind Wuhan like who is making those decisions to do all this stuff like and how far is that a global thing like does the US a huge part of it was was was Norway really involved like who well they have a bunch of labs apparently that do this kind of work yeah and they do different kinds of work at different kinds of labs and the real fear is that in like some labs in the world some places in the world they do weaponized virus work god which means that's terrifying which they did that in Russia for sure we actually cover that on this sci -fi show that I hosted years back.

[318] Oh, yeah?

[319] We covered the idea of weaponized viruses.

[320] But the thing that they told me when we went to the CDC down in Galveston, Texas, they have this big building where they house basically every fucking terrible disease known to man, big thick -ass walls and ventilation systems, and everyone's wearing space suits.

[321] And me and Duncan are high as fuck wandering around this place.

[322] No. You brought Duncan?

[323] Yeah, me and Duncan went down now.

[324] Oh, that's great.

[325] And the guy was saying that what he's really worried about more than anything is things that come from nature.

[326] He's like, we could worry all day about weaponized viruses.

[327] And he goes, but the possibility of that is low compared to the possibility of something jumping from nature, which is very high.

[328] Well, that's why during this whole debate of like whether it's the lab or the bat, I would rather it be that it came from the lab.

[329] like the idea that so there's just a bat that's and then one person eats it or kisses it on the lips and now we're like you know what I mean that's so random to me it was like the lab thing I could get my head around it's like okay somebody's screwing up and they were go through the thing without being sprayed down and okay that's manmade you expect there to be mistakes but if there's just like some weird wombat that bites some kid on the ankle and then we're all screwed that is terrifying I'd much rather it be the lab story.

[330] Hmm.

[331] Interesting.

[332] Right?

[333] No. Yeah.

[334] No. No, because the lab ones, they kind of can see how they jump.

[335] I rather the nature spillover ones.

[336] They can kind of see how they jump.

[337] They see like intermediate steps.

[338] They see how it leaps from one animal.

[339] The idea was that it went from a bat to a pangolin.

[340] Right.

[341] To a person.

[342] But you don't, but you didn't know until we're all screwed up and people are having not able to breathe and then that it came from the bat like if we knew beforehand hey the bats are really bad then we can go out and kill the bats but we don't know that before yeah well you know what nobody's saying we're gonna kill the bats well we should if they're we exterminate the bats yeah i'm for yeah yeah yeah i think they're really worried about livestock that's what they're worried about the most right like these swine flus and avian flus those are the scary ones and those are the ones the that have like traditionally been like super deadly those have come from livestock a lot of them a lot of the pandemics that's where they jump they jump from mad cow disease no no mad cow disease is a totally different thing that was mad cow disease you have to actually eat the meat because it's a preon disease so what it is is like brain tissue that these cows are eating they're eating their own brain tissue yeah that's that's how mad mad cow disease is kind of fuck because it what it is like farmers feeding cows ground up cows Ew.

[343] Yeah.

[344] They did that to get more protein in the cow's diets.

[345] And cannibals, whether it's cows or even humans, it creates when you eat human neural tissue, I think that's what it is.

[346] It's brain tissue or neural tissue.

[347] It creates this thing called, what is it, Yucob's Krutzfeld disease, and that disease is the same thing as Mad Cow.

[348] It's also, it's a prion disease like chronic wasting disease, which is a disease that's infecting deer all across the country right now.

[349] And it's a real crazy issue because it hasn't jumped from deer to people.

[350] Like you can eat a deer that has chronic wasting disease, but you're eating preons that even though they don't affect humans, like you can't even kill them in a lab.

[351] Like when they take these implements, like instruments rather, like say if someone doesn't operate.

[352] on a person who has mad cow disease, right?

[353] Yeah.

[354] They've taken these instruments they use for surgery, and they've put them in a thousand -degree temperature for hours, and the preons are still alive.

[355] Why are you trying to scare me?

[356] You know, I try and say that it's the lab, and then you tell me that nature's not as scary, then you bring that out.

[357] That sounds terrifying.

[358] There's so much that can get us out there.

[359] There's a lot that can get us.

[360] There's so much.

[361] And not even like the big stuff, like just small, like poison ivy.

[362] How about tics?

[363] How about the Lyme disease?

[364] Fucking Lyme disease.

[365] Oh, my God.

[366] I have a friend that has had Lyme disease.

[367] He has wrecked, no exaggeration.

[368] It has wrecked the last 10 years of his life.

[369] Yeah.

[370] He's been like in a hungover fog for 10 years.

[371] Yeah, Lyme disease is horrible.

[372] Horrible.

[373] And there's real speculation that Lyme disease was actually a weaponized disease that got out.

[374] Ah, geez.

[375] Did you know that?

[376] No, I didn't know that.

[377] Who did that?

[378] CIA.

[379] Here it goes.

[380] 181, a scientist who was studying Rocky Mountain spotted fever, also caused by a tick bite, began to study Lyme disease.

[381] This scientist, Willie Bergdorfer, found the connection between the deer tick and the disease.

[382] He discovered that the bacterium called Spirochette, carried by ticks, was causing lime.

[383] The medical community honored Dr. Bergworf's discovery in 1982 by name, blah, blah, blah, blah.

[384] 82.

[385] okay with extensive backgrounds on Lyme patients and scientific discoveries that ensued doctors began to use several antibiotics to treat the disease what is the CIA part about it I jumped the gun sorry yeah give me the CIA part about it we do love the 80s but because this the CIA speculation is like pretty recent it's pretty recent that there was some work that they were doing with the idea of spreading diseases through ticks which is like, what kind of government do we have?

[386] Yeah, what are you doing to us?

[387] These guys are sitting around with cigars going, I got a fucking idea.

[388] Yeah, exactly.

[389] Some claim that Lyme disease was introduced into the northeastern region of the U .S. by a man -made strain of Borrelia burgodorferi.

[390] So it must be named after that doctor that escaped from a high containment biological warfare laboratory on Plum Island.

[391] However, there is ample evidence.

[392] evidence to indicate that both iexodes to what is that what does that mean cuts off there's so many weird words plum island that doesn't sound good that sounds like a place where they do tests on kids and like you know what i mean right they trick them with plums they lure them in to the van with plums drop them up on that island you can only get there with one boat and they do weird tests and it's creepy hallways and it's always wet there's one boat a day it's at 6 p .m. if you miss it you stay for the day.

[393] Yeah, did the U .S. event line disease in the 60s?

[394] The house aims to find out.

[395] Okay, the house is investigating this.

[396] In the 1960s on an 840 -acre island at the entrance of the Long Island Sound, scientists at the highly guarded Plum Island Animal Disease Center were at the forefront of a U .S. Biological Weapons Research.

[397] Wow.

[398] Specifically, they sought to create pathogens that could be deployed stealthily via insects.

[399] Listen, bro, for sure that got out that way.

[400] Skip ahead in 1975, when the nearby town of Old Lyme, Connecticut became the epicenter of a strange tick -borne illness.

[401] Oh, that's why it's Lyme?

[402] Exactly.

[403] Children began to report unusual skin rashes, chronic fatigue, and swollen knees.

[404] In 1981, the condition was named Lyme disease.

[405] A conspiracy theory spread like a fever.

[406] The researchers at Plum Island had engineered a new sickness, one that now affects more than 30 ,000 Americans per year.

[407] Yeah, I probably did.

[408] So why is it predominantly in...

[409] and deer.

[410] Because it's right next to that fucking place.

[411] No, like deer.

[412] Because the deer get infected by the ticks.

[413] So they've got the, so the ticks.

[414] They carry the ticks.

[415] The ticks carry the disease.

[416] Wherever the deer are, the ticks live.

[417] The ticks get onto people.

[418] People get the disease.

[419] You know, I just want to walk down the Appalachian Trail.

[420] Bro some marshmallows with my family.

[421] Don't get bit by a tick, bro.

[422] I know.

[423] Oh, my God.

[424] So that's the theory.

[425] And apparently there's some merit to it.

[426] I've talked to people.

[427] that are like in intelligence agencies and they think there might be some merit to that.

[428] Now let me ask you this.

[429] General question.

[430] General.

[431] Like that that creates like some sense of calm almost because you know like you get an idea like oh that came from Plum Island from those weirdos and they did the thing.

[432] With all of these theories of like where the stuff came from and all is it just it does it calm us down to have a story rather than live with the reality that we live on this crazy germ -filled, virus -filled planet that we have no control over and no real narrative.

[433] Like, we're basically living in chaos.

[434] Is that why people crave these stories?

[435] Do they crave these stories?

[436] Well, here's the thing.

[437] For sure, we live on this crazy germ -filled, predator -filled, dangerous planet.

[438] Yeah.

[439] That's a fact, right?

[440] And there's for sure a bunch of diseases and a bunch of poisons and toxins and things.

[441] That can kill us, for sure.

[442] But I don't know why it would give you calm to think some fucking spooks, some crazy CIA freaks invented some goddamn weaponized disease that infected bugs, and then they released it, and then it accidentally got to Lyme, Connecticut and started fucking up kids' lives.

[443] I don't know why that would make you calm.

[444] The same reason I don't know why, like, coronavirus coming from a lab would be better.

[445] Like, oh, it's better.

[446] It's better than it came from a lab.

[447] Because you could go, oh, it was that guy, that guy, those creeps on Plum Island did it, rather than it just came out of, like, the sewer and attacked us.

[448] I read about a lady who had, she had HIV, so she has a very compromised immune system, and she got COVID, and she had it for over 200 days, and the virus mutated in her body 30 times.

[449] Ew.

[450] I don't know what that means, but it sounds disgusting.

[451] The variance.

[452] You have to take into account all the variants.

[453] It isn't it amazing how the fear of words like that.

[454] Like, okay, so my family's vaccinated.

[455] We're all good.

[456] And I'm like, I am good to go.

[457] I'm going to the comedy store.

[458] I'm just like, I don't even have a mask in my car.

[459] And my wife's like, you might want to be a little more cautious.

[460] And I'm like, why?

[461] This was the plan.

[462] I got, I'm good.

[463] I've followed the rules.

[464] I did the things.

[465] I'm good to go.

[466] She's like, but the variance, and it's like, what do you know from the variance?

[467] Like, what do you mean the variance?

[468] Like, that's, but it's, I understand it because we're, you're locked on to the fearful words that they've kept spilling over us for all this time.

[469] And maybe it will turn out that a variant comes out of, but not now.

[470] There's no variant.

[471] There's no, but there's no variant that is able to perpetrate the vaccine.

[472] Incorrect.

[473] And it is not true.

[474] Yes.

[475] Correct.

[476] Incorrect.

[477] The South African variant 100%.

[478] People that, people that were vaccinated, or people that was either people that were vaccinated or people that had the antibodies from the original COVID encountered the South African variant.

[479] And it was almost like they had no protection at all.

[480] You know, sometimes I think you make things up just to scare me. That's what Fauci said.

[481] I'm repeating exactly what he said.

[482] But we're not supposed to believe Fauci, you said.

[483] I believe some of the things he said.

[484] Oh, come on.

[485] Now I'm really.

[486] In infectious disease expert.

[487] Can I go to the coffee shop without it?

[488] Is my wife right?

[489] I think you should take vitamin D. I think you should exercise.

[490] I think you should drink a lot of water.

[491] Take care of yourself.

[492] Yeah.

[493] I think you should take all the vitamins, Corsetan, zinc, fish oil, all those things.

[494] I heard fish oil is no good.

[495] That's not true.

[496] The reason why you don't die from the disease, like everybody doesn't die from it is because your immune system protects you.

[497] Right.

[498] The immune system fights off the disease and you survive.

[499] The key is having an immune system that's so strong that you never really get sick.

[500] But it's possible to do.

[501] It's just not easy.

[502] And it takes a concerted effort over a long period of time to protect yourself from not just COVID, but all diseases.

[503] This is what you're trying to do with an immune system.

[504] Right, exactly.

[505] It's just when something like this comes along that you can spread to people and there's a lot of people with compromised immune systems, a lot of people that aren't healthy and older folks, and it's fucking scary.

[506] Are you concerned that there will be a variant that is more deadly?

[507] Vali?

[508] No. Now, generally, when viruses mutate, this is, again, me, I'm an idiot.

[509] I don't know shit about viruses, but this is what I read.

[510] When viruses mutate, they tend to be less deadly but more transmissible.

[511] Because that is how a virus stays alive.

[512] A virus doesn't stay alive by killing its host.

[513] Yeah.

[514] A virus stays alive by keeping the host alive and then becoming more transmissible to other people.

[515] Ah, well, that's a glimmer of hope.

[516] Yeah.

[517] Yeah.

[518] Well, then it just comes down to people that have fucked up immune systems, you know.

[519] And this is, this is the big opportunity that was missed during this whole pandemic was like a concerted government effort to educate people on how to strengthen your immune system.

[520] How to get out there and get healthier?

[521] How to be healthier?

[522] Look, obesity is the number one problem.

[523] Number one.

[524] 78 % of the people hospitalized with COVID were obese.

[525] 78%.

[526] Yeah.

[527] Wow, that's high.

[528] It's terrible for your body.

[529] Yeah.

[530] And all this body positivity shit, it's nonsense.

[531] Like, it's, look, no one wants you to feel bad.

[532] Right.

[533] I don't want anybody to feel bad.

[534] No. But also.

[535] The facts.

[536] Yeah.

[537] The facts.

[538] The facts is.

[539] The facts is.

[540] The variance.

[541] You've got to take care of your body.

[542] Take care of your body.

[543] You take care of your body.

[544] You take care of you.

[545] That's what I'm saying.

[546] Eat Tom Papa's bread.

[547] I apologize.

[548] I screwed up the bake.

[549] I was going to try and bring you bread.

[550] You fucked up the bake?

[551] You still fuck up bakes?

[552] How do you do that?

[553] Timing.

[554] The timing.

[555] days and I just screwed up the order of it.

[556] My daughter came back from school.

[557] I was distracted.

[558] How much time does it take you to bake a loaf of bread?

[559] From the time I pull out the starter from the refrigerator, it's one, two, three days.

[560] Three days?

[561] Yeah, because you're feed it in the first day.

[562] You mix and make the dough and make it into.

[563] So when you say feed it, like, so explain this.

[564] You take the starter out.

[565] How big of a piece of the starter do you take?

[566] A big tablespoon.

[567] A tablespoon.

[568] two tablespoons basically and then what do you do with that two tablespoons i put it into a little bowl and i put equal amount of flour and water in it like like a hundred grams of each that's feeding that's feeding it giving it uh flower and water so the yeast in there can eat and do you have a specific kind of flour that is i do what is it i get from central milling out of uh utah and uh i order 50 pound bags of flour it costs more to ship it than it does to to pay for the flower.

[569] That's hilarious.

[570] Yeah.

[571] And I get these big, these big giant things.

[572] Is the flower like a specific kind of flower?

[573] Is it?

[574] Yeah, there's different, and you're always kind of exploring these different types of flower.

[575] I almost said variants.

[576] Variants of the flower.

[577] I use a, I use a malted wheat flour and an all -purpose flour and then mess around with spelt and some rice and some stuff like that.

[578] Do you, you know, there's like old world wheat, like that Italian pasta, when you get it in Italy, they have that old, what is that called?

[579] Doram.

[580] No, but there's a numb, like it's double zero.

[581] Double zero, yeah, that you use that for pizza doughs.

[582] Yeah.

[583] It really tastes better.

[584] It really tastes better.

[585] It doesn't, like, upset your stomach as much either.

[586] No, no. I mean, my bread is predominantly wheat, and it does not hurt your stomach.

[587] It does not cause you to...

[588] My wife actually had a bagel the other...

[589] It, like, kind of hit her.

[590] She had a bagel, just a pure bagel, and went to school, she teaches and crashed, like in the middle of, you know, before lunch.

[591] But when she eats my bread, she's not hungry, and she doesn't crash because it's already breaking down all of the sugars in the process of it.

[592] So she...

[593] Well, explain that.

[594] It's because it's sourdough, right?

[595] Right, exactly.

[596] And sourdough, it's very low gluten, right?

[597] Sourd dough?

[598] I don't know if it's, no, not necessarily.

[599] It's not?

[600] No, not necessarily.

[601] Because that's the structure of it.

[602] But I thought that was the whole idea of sourdough, was that sourdough has lower gluten because there's something about the starter and the whatever that.

[603] What is the fermented, what would you call it?

[604] The starter, the mother.

[605] What is the actual organism that's growing in there?

[606] The yeast.

[607] It's yeast?

[608] Yeah.

[609] There's something about that yeast.

[610] apparently they were saying with sourdough that makes it have less gluten I don't think it has less gluten I mean because gluten is the structure it's like those strands that will make the bread have its shape you know it's the protein yeah and it makes it have that shape let's Google but the thing but the thing about like my friends who were gluten intolerant and it was all the extra stuff that was in the breads that was bothering their stomach and when they if you just eat my bread which is flour water salt and yeast it doesn't have anything extra in it There's some sugars.

[611] Like preservatives?

[612] Preservatives and sugars and glucose and all this other stuff.

[613] And that was making people sick.

[614] And I have friends that had gluten issues that eat my bread and have no problem with it because it's just pure.

[615] You know?

[616] And so my wife was, she wasn't crashing just from eating my stuff.

[617] But you eat a bagel, which has some added sugar in it.

[618] And it has all these sugars that are breaking down, your body's breaking down.

[619] Yeah, you don't realize how bad that stuff is for you until you do feel.

[620] that crash and you're like oh oh here it goes fermentation process used to make sourdough breaks bread down some of the gluten and inflammatory compounds and wheat yeah however it still contains some gluten and no scientific evidence suggests that it's easier to digest yeah but what kind of science are they doing on digestion yeah how's it make you feel but it is see it does break down some of the gluten and the inflammatory compounds whatever the fuck those are yeah the The digestibility of sourdough bread may depend upon the individual and various factors.

[621] Huh.

[622] Yeah.

[623] I mean, there's different flowers that you can use that are low gluten, but they're very tough to work with.

[624] Yeah, it says it right there.

[625] Go back to that.

[626] It says it right there.

[627] There's several brands of ready -made gluten -free sourdough bread on the market.

[628] Yeah.

[629] The fermentation process improves the taste, texture, and shelf life of gluten -free bread.

[630] So you may find you prefer gluten -free sour -dough over.

[631] regular gluten -free bread.

[632] But you're working towards trying to get gluten -free at that point.

[633] This is a sourdough propaganda website.

[634] Check the source on that.

[635] So then I feed it and then I feed it that day.

[636] I'll feed it in the morning and then feed it in the afternoon and then it starts to bubble up.

[637] Like it really becomes active.

[638] Yeah.

[639] It becomes this real bubbly thing.

[640] It's like the yeast is eating it and it's shooting out gas and it becomes this bubbly stuff that's ready to be making a dough which you do the next day and then you make that into your dough you take that you take more flour and water mix that together and then you add the sourdough starter that you have in that weird little bowl and you mix that together and then after four hours you shape that put it in baskets put in the refrigerator and then the next morning you bake it so it's three days yeah wow yeah so it's a you have like you really really plan it out like you you do like during those times once you get that starter out and you start feeding it like you have a process a hundred percent and I have to work my day around it like if I know I'm going to the store that night at nine I can't mix I can't mix four hours before that right because if I'm going to come home late I'll miss the time it'll overproof and then I got something that's too loose to work with so I like literally have to make sure like that I shape it before I go do my spots or like I'll literally work my I won't hang out I'll like I've got to get home because I've got to get the bread shaped yeah it's a baker's life it's it's kind of crazy which is why anytime I think about like starting a bakery or like doing it bigger like I do four loaves a week I was just going to ask you that yeah it's a hard it's a real hard dedicated life that you have to it's not easy work it's a hard not life get it Like garlic Yeah, I was going to ask you If you ever thought about starting up a bit Because you really are an artist Like your bread really is special Whenever I eat it I'm like god damn This is really good Like if I had a bakery near me I'd get a fresh loaf of your bread I'd be pumped I'd be there all the time I know And it wouldn't really It's not bad for you I mean you can't eat it all the time Stop wanting people No you can't It's fucking bread It's bread, bro.

[641] It's bread, but it's not the bread that you're used to.

[642] It's not eating a baguette.

[643] It's not eating this other kind of stuff.

[644] I'm not as good.

[645] Do you know this for a fact?

[646] Are you just guessing?

[647] I'm, no, I know it for a fact.

[648] Yeah.

[649] I know it for a fact.

[650] And anecdotally, for my life, I can't eat it every day.

[651] Like when I do, when I do cut all that stuff out, when I cut completely out, that's when I lose weight for sure.

[652] Yeah.

[653] But if I'm going to eat that stuff, if I am going to eat a bread, product like to eat my bread and that's like your one carb thing that you get for the day yeah you're in good shape when have you ever gone on like a full health diet like I'm gonna not eat any sugar I'm gonna not drink any alcohol yeah not eat any garbage food uh -huh have you done that yeah how long for like 30 days yeah how was it it was uh it was hard in the beginning the the the stuff that I really missed like that's what the cool thing is that you can actually see what you abuse yeah right and uh for me it was dairy products it was cheeses really yeah interesting i like that was like the thing that was hard for me to are they bad for you cheeses yeah i guess who tells you that the internet i think uh raw cheese not because it's isn't that a processed food i mean a lot of things are processed just This process doesn't necessarily mean bad, right?

[654] Like what means bad is preservatives.

[655] Preservatives are a real issue.

[656] I don't think process.

[657] A lot of healthy foods are processed, you know?

[658] But if you eat a lot of cheese, aren't you going to be a little?

[659] I saw a study recently that connected cheese with lower instances of Alzheimer's.

[660] Really?

[661] What the fuck does that mean, though?

[662] There is nothing, I just accept it.

[663] There is nothing greater to me than wine, cheese, and bread.

[664] And throw in some pepperoni or prosciutto.

[665] Like that?

[666] Charchutery.

[667] How is that?

[668] Charcottery.

[669] Charcoutary.

[670] Yeah.

[671] Like that, if you tell me that that's okay to eat, we'd eat it every single day.

[672] There's a place in town called a Lonesome Dove, and they have rattlesnake salami.

[673] What?

[674] Yeah.

[675] Is it good?

[676] Fuck, yeah.

[677] That place is really good.

[678] That's amazing.

[679] It's a delicious restaurant.

[680] They have all kinds of cool stuff there.

[681] Wild game.

[682] They serve all kinds of interesting foods and dishes.

[683] Really good stuff.

[684] So when I did the 30 days, like I dropped probably 10 pounds.

[685] And that was like kind of the lesson that I had.

[686] Like alcohol, it was okay.

[687] Meat even.

[688] I don't eat that much.

[689] It was really the, that kind of cheesy.

[690] stuff you know that that uh but you know look anytime i want to dial in like during the pandemic when i was like you know i worked out the whole time i was doing everything i could to like be healthier and when i just didn't have any bread pro like none of that stuff you know feel better yeah for sure raw cheeses uh apparently were very hard to get and uh i knew a dude who's He's from France.

[691] He was from France.

[692] He was an oncologist from Paris.

[693] And he smuggled raw cheese back from Europe.

[694] Really?

[695] Yeah, because in Europe, cheese is not pasteurized and homogenized.

[696] Yeah, why is that okay?

[697] Well...

[698] And why do we think it's not okay?

[699] Well, I think the whole thing is shelf life.

[700] It's the same reason why raw milk is difficult.

[701] Yeah.

[702] Like, they were arresting people for selling raw milk at places in California.

[703] Yeah, it's a big deal.

[704] I was once on the road in the Northeast with a, my opening act wanted raw milk.

[705] And she was like, can we just stop?

[706] And, like, ask the farmer.

[707] And we did.

[708] We pulled into this guy's little, you know, place that was in like New Hampshire or Vermont and asked him if we could have a glass of milk.

[709] And he gave it to us.

[710] What a weird fucking request.

[711] I know.

[712] A couple of comedians pull up to your house.

[713] Can we have a glass of milk?

[714] Milk?

[715] Just milk right from the cow.

[716] And it was like kind of warm and...

[717] It was warm?

[718] Yeah, it was kind of...

[719] Like right from the cow.

[720] Yeah, like right from the cow.

[721] Wow.

[722] And, uh, yeah, it was weird.

[723] I don't...

[724] How long did you talk to this guy before you asked him for milk?

[725] Ten seconds.

[726] First of all, when you're pulling up to like someone's barn or house, like you're coming up that gravel road with the dust coming off the back of your car.

[727] They're probably like this, looking out the window.

[728] Someone's coming up.

[729] Yeah, he looks like a bread maker.

[730] Two comedians pop out.

[731] We want some regular milk.

[732] You bread eating fuck -o.

[733] Yeah, I'll give you some bread for some milk.

[734] I'll trade you bread.

[735] Open up my case.

[736] So is that all, but if it's shelf life, that's just commerce.

[737] Well, yeah, there's commerce, but there's the worry that people are going to have milk that's raw and they're going to let it sit and they're going to drink it and they're going to get sick.

[738] I mean, the whole reason why homogenized and pasteurized milk was made is so that they could stay fresh or stay drinkable for longer.

[739] Right, right.

[740] But the way it's been described to me, like all the natural enzymes that are in milk, they help your body digest it.

[741] A lot of the problems that people have with like, you know, people have like lactose intolerance.

[742] Like one of my daughter says lactose intolerance.

[743] So she has to take like a little pill before she has anything, a lactate.

[744] Yeah, my daughter does too.

[745] Her butt becomes a trumpet.

[746] Which is fun sometimes.

[747] Yeah.

[748] But this lactose thing apparently is not nearly as much of an issue when they use raw milk.

[749] Oh, interesting.

[750] So people that have a hard time digesting milk normally.

[751] Again, we should probably Google this.

[752] Is it easier for people with lactose intolerance to digest raw milk?

[753] I'm already looking at something It says like the ease The ease of digestibility of raw cheddar Gives those that experience discomfort With processed cheese products A delicious and natural option So yeah That's the whole reason why But can you get it in Texas Like because California is like Regulated through the fucking roof There's a lot of weirdness with the raw milk Like I remember you used to be able to buy it places But then I saw that certain places Were getting like people were literally getting arrested But then I was like Well is that because they don't have a license for it Is it like if they skirted the regulations, what's happening, you know?

[754] Has the dairy, it seems like, it seems like the nut milks is what most people are eating now.

[755] You are such a Californian.

[756] No one in Texas is drinking that nut milk.

[757] Really?

[758] Oat milk and.

[759] It seems like the nut milks is what everybody's drinking in my Silver Lake community.

[760] Oh, really?

[761] That stuff's disgusting.

[762] First of all, it's not milk.

[763] Did you ever drink milk?

[764] Yes.

[765] Do you ever drink milk?

[766] Regular milk?

[767] You do?

[768] Dude, peanut butter and jelly sandwich with a glass of milk is sensational.

[769] And then what is that?

[770] There's a vegan cookie company that you get at Whole Foods.

[771] I think it's Uncle Eddie's.

[772] Is that what it is?

[773] Uncle Eddie's vegan cookies?

[774] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[775] God damn, they're so good.

[776] Those are good.

[777] I don't care if they're vegan.

[778] I don't care.

[779] Yeah.

[780] They're so good.

[781] The peanut butter chocolate chip ones are like, oh, with milk.

[782] Oh, my God, sensational.

[783] Yeah, well, I think that, I mean, look, this is because I live in.

[784] California now I think everyone's drinking the oat milks you're going to tell me that nut milks aren't pissing off the dairy people it's first of all it's not milk it's some weird thing you're doing with water you just soak in these I always think that when I put it on like cereal or something I'm like I'm just wetting it I'm just using this to wet the cereal yeah there is no breasts on almonds you're not getting milk out of almonds well it's not milk oh milk's pretty good yeah it's it tastes good, but most of that stuff is sugar.

[785] Yeah, I found a place you can buy it, and it delivers to you.

[786] Uh -huh.

[787] Oh, look at that.

[788] It even comes through the mail.

[789] That's got to be good for you.

[790] Look at that one gallon raw milk.

[791] They deliver it to you.

[792] I don't think it comes down.

[793] Dude, I have not had a glass of milk in 20 years.

[794] They have raw butter, eggs?

[795] Oh.

[796] Cheddar, Osceago.

[797] Send me a link to this place.

[798] Okay.

[799] This is nice.

[800] It is nice.

[801] Okay.

[802] Barn todor .com.

[803] And then you find a local.

[804] farm.

[805] It's like Uber eats for farms, I guess.

[806] And they have raw butter, raw milk.

[807] It doesn't come like, so this just says it will come like in three days.

[808] I think you have to like pre -order it.

[809] Sure.

[810] I get it.

[811] Well, seems like that makes sense.

[812] I go to the specialty shop and get this butter from France.

[813] I get this French butter.

[814] Oh my God.

[815] What is that stuff?

[816] Oh, Gouda.

[817] Look at that.

[818] Slav of Gouda cheese.

[819] Ooh, look at that.

[820] Raw.

[821] Raw cheddar.

[822] Raw Gouda.

[823] So good.

[824] Oh, they sold out of the fucking pepper jack.

[825] I'm a big fan of raw milk.

[826] It tastes really good.

[827] Yeah, man, I don't even think about drinking milk.

[828] It's a weird thing, right?

[829] Because it's only really for weaning animals.

[830] It's only really for, like, young animals that are sucking on their mother's teeth.

[831] Right.

[832] That's what it's for.

[833] Here, I kind of left out the big part of this thing.

[834] When I did this, this was like 15 years ago.

[835] and I did like, it was the 30 days of like cut everything completely out, my allergies went away.

[836] I, my whole life I thought I was allergic to cats or I was constantly chasing.

[837] Is it seasonal?

[838] Is it whatever?

[839] I mean, my whole life.

[840] And when I stopped, it was, I had no more allergies.

[841] I was not blowing my nose 24 hours a day.

[842] It was crazy.

[843] And then when I weaned all those things back slowly to see like what it was, it was those.

[844] It was the milk products.

[845] It was like ice cream, any of that kind of stuff.

[846] If I had it, total allergy attack.

[847] I wonder if that same thing would happen if you had raw.

[848] Yeah, good question.

[849] I wonder.

[850] You've got to think.

[851] Give me that.

[852] Your body gets a hold of some, like, processed, homogenized, pasteurized, pasteurized milk.

[853] So it's getting this weird liquid and this dead protein.

[854] And it's probably like, what the fuck is this?

[855] Yeah.

[856] What are you doing?

[857] Hold on.

[858] It's like it's coming out of your ass.

[859] It's like it's all this gas build up.

[860] You feel bloated.

[861] Bloated.

[862] Your body can't process it.

[863] It's, yeah.

[864] But it tastes pretty fucking good.

[865] Nice cold glass.

[866] Chocolate chip cookie.

[867] Dunk that cookie in that milk.

[868] Not everything's good for you.

[869] No. But what's amazing too, I was thinking, like, how little amount of something can whack your system.

[870] Yeah.

[871] You know what I mean?

[872] just a little cup of espresso and you're like so then when you like that wax your system yeah so then you take like a big giant size of it or like a whole plate of nachos or a whole whatever substance like we're very sensitive and then you're just loading the shit into your system it's like of course this stuff has impact yeah yeah there's like there's a lot of things that you take in your body that you think are not that big of a deal but over the course course of a day, like if you, if most people could see the amount of sugar, if you could have like a box, like a small box, it shows you the amount of sugar, the average American eats the day, you'd be like, holy fuck, right?

[873] Like apple juice, right?

[874] Little kids get apple juice.

[875] Yeah.

[876] My daughter had one of these little apple juice containers.

[877] They're very small.

[878] It's like four ounces or something like that.

[879] It was like 20 grams of sugar.

[880] That is so crazy.

[881] It's so crazy.

[882] It's all sugar.

[883] It's just sugar.

[884] It's sugar water.

[885] My wife was it, again, at her at her job and she was getting these like sparkling waters and she's like wow these are really good and she was like pounding them 30 grams of sugar 30 grams that was the thing about duncan dunk was like dude this almond milk's amazing and I go what do you got what is it and so he tells me about this almond milk and I go hey I go do me a favor I go look down at the amount of sugar per serving yeah he's like okay hold on hold on holy fuck I go yeah that's That's why it tastes good.

[886] You're drinking a milkshake, buddy.

[887] I know.

[888] It's not even milk.

[889] You're drinking an almond, weird water.

[890] When I, I couldn't, so I was trying to not drink milk anymore after my allergy problem.

[891] And I kind of found the cure.

[892] And I was like, all, I was like, but, and then I was on, I was opening for Robert Schimel on the road.

[893] And he, and he's like, do you want to go for a Starbucks?

[894] And I was like, he was just such a great.

[895] guy and uh he was so kind and i was like no i i don't know i'm just so bummed out that i can't like have like a latte because the milk thing he's like no you can come on we'll go you can get almond milk in that and i was like what he brought me like in between shows he brought me around to the Starbucks and got me an almond milk latte and i was like so grateful i was like oh yeah this is so great it's delicious and for years i was literally a couple of years was like so great and it and i had the attachment to Schimel like he showed me this thing and i was all so excited and uh same thing when they started posting all the amount of sugar and stuff that was in their drinks yeah i was like a grande latte has how much sugar in it i was like i'm just this is a milkshake yeah this almond milk milkshake well most of those like screw you shimmel those frappuccino things yeah those things are just all sugar all sugar all sugar but that's why they're so good i know those will make you crash hard.

[896] Big time.

[897] What does this say?

[898] Visualization of sugar consumption.

[899] The average American consumes 45 grams of sugar.

[900] The amount found in one of today's 12 ounce sodas.

[901] That was in 1822 every five days.

[902] Yeah, I'm reading.

[903] Oh, sorry.

[904] I thought you missed the 1822 part.

[905] No, no. I'm like in 2012 Americans consume 765 grams of sugar every five days.

[906] So they went from consuming a tiny amount, 45 grams of sugar, which is two, a little bit more than two of those my daughter's little apple juice containers, which is hilarious.

[907] Every five days, they would have two of those, which is basically one 12 -ounce soda every five days, which is nuts.

[908] Now every five days they consume 765 grams of sugar.

[909] The average American can consume 130 pounds of sugar every year it's so sneaky you know i've said this before but like when i was buying regular bread for my for my family the healthiest bread i could find had all the sugar in it yeah you don't think like that dave's bread what's that oh yeah yeah delicious yeah but it's full of sugar yeah it's like it's what is it called yeah it's uh yeah it looks like healthy it looks really it's fucking good yeah i'm gonna lie to myself keep saying it's thank you it's killer Bread?

[910] Yeah, I love Dave's Killer Bread.

[911] If I'm looking to make a sandwich.

[912] Yeah.

[913] Yeah, I like that.

[914] Yeah.

[915] I like to go peanut butter, jelly, and banana.

[916] I like those sometimes.

[917] It's such a simple little joy.

[918] Oh, it's so nice, but there's so much sugar in that.

[919] Yeah, the jelly.

[920] I sit on the couch and go, oh, why?

[921] Why did I sacrifice the next few hours of my life for just a few moments of mouth pleasure because it's so great it's so great it's so great that you're talking about it all these weeks later you're like oh my god that peanut butter and jelly sandwich was so good and if you try to have that like fake stuff yeah i know keto desserts those are all dog shit substitute i know you can lie to yourself all you want yeah stop lying but sometimes you got to dial it in sometimes you got to take care of yourself you know and that's okay it just have to be just got to pick your times of when you're going to let yourself go off what did you do unusual during this pandemic did you do anything where you like made a shift in your your daily routine uh yeah it was the creation of a routine was kind of the thing it was like the like the creating structure where there was no structure i found that that was so important like to have that plan every day like i wasn't waking up in this weird haze of what's happening.

[922] Like, I got really dialed into how I was going to go after each day.

[923] And I had the radio show that I do with Fortune.

[924] So that was two hours of my day, Monday through Thursday.

[925] And then from that, I built out.

[926] So I would, you want me to go through it of like what a day was?

[927] Like, I would wake up a little earlier so I could, get the first meditation in before the day started because I do that twice a day.

[928] So I would do that for 20 minutes.

[929] Then I would do the research and whatever I had to do for the show, do the radio show that brought me to noon.

[930] And then I would work out immediately after that, regardless of how I felt I would have to work out immediately.

[931] And then the afternoon was kind of loose, was kind of structure -free, because you're dealing with the family or whatever and then at night when i was normally going out and doing stand -up that's where i was working on the writing some were working on the next book and i was like where is that going to fit it's hard to fit it in before the day so when i would normally go out and do spots at night from like eight o 'clock to 10 that's when i would do the writing.

[932] So it gave you, so even though you're not doing the normal stuff like stand -up, it gave you like a real strict sort of schedule to look forward to every day.

[933] Totally.

[934] And the writing was like the creative kind of thing, like where I wasn't getting the everything that you got from performing, like the adrenaline and all that kind of like great stuff.

[935] I was sitting with my comedic thoughts.

[936] But at least you're creating.

[937] Creating.

[938] And I'm sorry, I would do the second meditation was like at the end of the day like that's usually around four and that gives you a little more energy to go and do that writing or that spot like so you do two two to a day two twenty minute ones a day how many minutes 20 20 um yeah how long did you take off stand up not that long like i i i went out kind of i would do like i did like one a month starting in june oh really i went to wise guys in salt lake city I picked places where I knew the owners and knew the city was seemed like it was under control and it calculated risk.

[939] I just had to do it.

[940] Did you test yourself or get tested anywhere?

[941] I would get tested, yeah.

[942] I would get tested.

[943] When you'd come back?

[944] When I came back.

[945] Yeah.

[946] Did you hide from everybody before you got tested?

[947] Or did you immediately?

[948] It was Lucy Goosey.

[949] My wife would sleep in the other room.

[950] They wouldn't kiss me, yeah.

[951] They hid from you when you came back from the room?

[952] A little distancing, you know.

[953] Oh, weird.

[954] A little bit.

[955] Because it was weird back in June.

[956] It was weird.

[957] It was weird.

[958] We didn't know.

[959] Like, you know, these people were like leaving their mail outside.

[960] What made you want to go out so early?

[961] Because a lot of people like shaming other comedians that were doing gigs, even if it was, the health department said it was okay.

[962] It was like, that's ludicrous.

[963] If I'm going to a city where that city has decided that it is safe for this business to operate this way, and those people in that city have agreed to go out and participate in that show, and I come in.

[964] and everyone's following the rules and doing the thing, that makes everything else is emotional.

[965] Well, that is what it is.

[966] Yeah.

[967] It's emotional, but those emotions were very prevalent with the Twitter sphere of stand -up comedians.

[968] I didn't.

[969] I don't participate in it.

[970] Yeah, I don't participate in it either.

[971] I just find it fascinating.

[972] The thing that I got out of it is most of the people that didn't want people performing weren't doing so good anyway.

[973] They were the people that weren't doing good on the road to begin with.

[974] Oh, that's interesting.

[975] And then other people start going out again.

[976] They almost like want everybody's life to suck.

[977] Yeah.

[978] I talked to one guy who actually admitted it.

[979] Really?

[980] Yeah.

[981] His basic take was he didn't, he was never comfortable.

[982] And one of the things about the lockdown was it made everyone uncomfortable, made everyone's life kind of fucked up.

[983] Uh -huh.

[984] And then once everything started going back, he resisted.

[985] Oh, interesting.

[986] Yeah.

[987] I think that's a lot of, you know, the angst.

[988] Yeah.

[989] Yeah, yeah, I didn't, I honestly didn't catch any of that.

[990] Like, I didn't see that kind of shaming stuff.

[991] I remember I ran into, I did, I put on some shows in L .A. I had this warehouse space that was really open.

[992] We could open up the doors.

[993] Where'd you do this?

[994] And in the valley.

[995] Oh, yeah?

[996] When did you do that?

[997] I did that in like June, July.

[998] No shit.

[999] Yeah, I did two of them.

[1000] And I just opened up the doors.

[1001] I had Fitzsimmons there and the Scalar brothers and Erica Rhodes was on it.

[1002] And she came up to me with their little mask on and stuff.

[1003] And she said, you got to kind of be, you got to be, like, kind of secretive when you do shows.

[1004] People, like, attack you.

[1005] I was like, oh, really?

[1006] I hadn't.

[1007] Because when I went out, first one was Salt Lake City and Wise Guys.

[1008] It was just pure joy.

[1009] I was so happy just to be doing it.

[1010] The staff was like, thank you so much for coming.

[1011] We were, like, there were legit people not able to make their rent.

[1012] getting kicked out of places not having work yeah total they were so grateful that we were doing anything and it was cobbled together and you know limited capacity and the same thing in Portland I went up to helium and did that one and I brought my daughter with me in July and it was just so euphoric it wasn't any noise about any negative whatever I didn't see it and I just loved it and I did it June then I ran my own show like in July then I did Portland then I did comedy works why just stopped doing the same the your own show I just got time and just got kind of tricky I just didn't it was just trying to put it all together I had to I had to pay for people to be able to do it like I paid all the comedians and I gave them all the microphones my friend Greg Grunberg it's his space he's an actor and uh we gave them like my microphones from blue microphone and you know it costs us probably five hundred dollars to put up the show you mean everybody got their own microphone yeah we gave everyone a microphone yeah because i figured it was a cool thing to do for the and it would and i figured like this is what comedians were so great and they just wanted to work they wanted to do it and it was like if if everyone got their microphone i knew they were going to go use it somewhere else when they did whatever shows that they were cobbling together wouldn't he Cummings did it in her backyard i did it with her i thought that was wild it was so funny people got mad at her for that meanwhile she tested everybody there yeah tested everybody there did it outside in the backyard and people were still like you're super spreading super spreading and you look back at those stories from Whitney's thing from going to wise guys from going to hilarities doing all these shows what's the story the story was people came out, they were calculated, they made their own decisions, and they had a great time, and they didn't get sick.

[1013] Yep.

[1014] That's the truth.

[1015] Well, I'm not sure nobody got sick.

[1016] You got all those people together in a room.

[1017] It's possible somebody got mad to get sick.

[1018] But here's the thing.

[1019] At that point, you should be able to do whatever you want to do.

[1020] You know, like we, this thing is basically just run through the population.

[1021] I'm not saying you should do things that are reckless.

[1022] No, not at all.

[1023] This was not thoughtless.

[1024] If you want to take a chance, if you want to take a chance and go out.

[1025] Do whatever you want to do.

[1026] Yeah.

[1027] That's essentially how they do it here in Texas.

[1028] In Texas, like, it was in, what was it, like, March when the governor said, that's it.

[1029] We're done.

[1030] No more, no more masks.

[1031] No more mask mandate.

[1032] Yeah.

[1033] Everything's open 100 % capacity.

[1034] Do whatever the fuck you want to do.

[1035] And Biden was like, that's Deanderthal thinking.

[1036] And meanwhile, it's worked out great.

[1037] There's been no issues.

[1038] Yeah.

[1039] I mean, it's going to be interesting to see what the stories are when we look back at this.

[1040] like, you know, with some perspective.

[1041] Like, was Florida, were they worse off than California?

[1042] They definitely weren't.

[1043] They're better off.

[1044] Are they better off?

[1045] Their economy's better off, and they have less cases.

[1046] Right.

[1047] And they have older people, older population.

[1048] But, you know what?

[1049] They're also outside.

[1050] Like, you know what this, I was watching this video from this doctor, and he was saying, this idea of flu season.

[1051] He said, you know what the flu season coincides with?

[1052] People being locked down indoors.

[1053] It's like flu season coincides with low vitamin D. Right.

[1054] Almost no sunshine.

[1055] Well, you're not going out.

[1056] Like, where's flu hit you the worst, northeast, right?

[1057] Yeah.

[1058] Why has it hit you the worst?

[1059] Because that's when it's cold out.

[1060] Yeah.

[1061] Everybody's indoors.

[1062] And if you're not supplementing with vitamin D, his take was you're not getting enough from being outside.

[1063] You're just not.

[1064] Right.

[1065] What do you have exposed?

[1066] Your face?

[1067] Yeah.

[1068] You only have your face exposed?

[1069] Yeah.

[1070] No, it makes sense.

[1071] I mean, look, I really do believe that people were doing their best and just trying to do whatever they thought and their communities they were just trying to make the best decisions to keep people safe and keep their businesses going and doing where some of them you're going to look back and say well maybe some people went too far maybe people didn't do enough I don't know but Canada's the craziest yeah what a crazy story I know still locked down they were doing so well early on it doesn't make any sense yeah makes no sense I know I have a friend that's filming in Vancouver and he's double vaxed for over a month double vaxed what does that mean he got both shots oh vaxed and uh he's for over a month but he flew from new york to vancouver and he's in a hotel room for 14 days before he can go on set yeah and when i mean in his hotel room they just came and gave him good news you can leave your hotel room for 20 minutes a day 20 minutes a day he's just sitting in this airport hotel in this tiny little room so stupid it's crazy it's so stupid poor guy i know well it's just they're treating it like it's march of last year yeah you know they're not treating it based on the the current data right right it's sketchy tom it is sketchy but going out and performing was just so was great and the people were were awesome and now it's like holy cow we just put in all of the dates of like going forward I'm going to do like some small stuff like in the next couple of months and then I hit Vegas in July and from that point on all the shows that were rescheduled from before I'm sure you have this they were all rescheduled plus some new dates it's like from July to like March it's just all on full capacity go time I'm not going to be home ever yeah I did a full capacity show in Houston for the first time that was like a couple of weeks ago i was a little rusty yeah it's like you feel it you feel a little tight sure you feel a little just a little yeah and then uh i'm doing arenas soon with chapelle we're doing the mgm in Vegas wow in the eighth and ninth of july yeah wow that's gonna be great yeah that's gonna be good how many shows we're doing two two shows one on the eighth one on the ninth because there's always that thing when you go and you did clubs like you would get there Thursday and that would always be like you're dust off a little bit even for though you were performing before then right it was like getting your feet back and like where's this hour go you know and so like to not do it for like months at a time and then come back of course so it's got to be like a weird feeling when you get the the return to the big set you're in an arena full of people looking at you well the good news is there's a lot of clubs here that have been open for a long time that's good so we've been able to the work here forever yeah like this is how often you going out all the time yeah yeah three nights this week oh that's good i went up last night i was up the night before the night before that nice where are you playing what different places uh i've been doing vulcan vulcan gas company i've been doing that i've been doing the um uh creek in the cave oh yeah great little place yeah everyone loves that great little place it's so tight yeah so it's so like everything i like about like i mean no disrespect but it's dingy i like but i like it's good i like a little the o r yeah it's kind of like kind of glued together yeah it's the best it's great and they pack people in there and it's real enthusiastic crowds yeah and you know rebecca do you know rebecca who owns creek in the i don't think so she's great yeah she's like one of them matriarchal comedy mom figures oh nice everything together did she was that related to the brooklyn one it was her so she started And moved out here.

[1072] And then moved out here.

[1073] Got it.

[1074] Oh, that's great.

[1075] Yeah.

[1076] The scene out here is strong, man. There's a lot of comics out here.

[1077] Yeah.

[1078] A lot of open micers, too.

[1079] So they have a lot of open mics they go to.

[1080] A real good community.

[1081] That's awesome.

[1082] It's so good.

[1083] I was so, I mean, I was so proud to be a comedian during all of this.

[1084] Just watching everybody doing whatever they could.

[1085] Figuring it out, right?

[1086] Just, they just wanted to work.

[1087] They just wanted to relate.

[1088] They just, they were just courageous.

[1089] They were smart.

[1090] They were just like just trying to do shows.

[1091] It just was like, this is what makes comedy so great on rooftops and zooming the things and doing whatever they could to create content.

[1092] They could have held back on the Zoom one.

[1093] Yeah, but you know, I know, but you know what?

[1094] I did one for a charity in Montreal last week.

[1095] I've only done like three.

[1096] Was it good?

[1097] It was good.

[1098] It wasn't good for me. you know what i mean like charities i couldn't it was a charity for for a hospital and uh you know it was a it wasn't a good one because there was like it looked good i guess but i couldn't hear anything so i'm literally doing my own rhythm taking my pauses of where i know the laughs are it wasn't like i felt satisfied but they did a meet and greet after like a zoom meet and greet and they had all these people in their home they were so grateful they were so happy they hadn't laughed that hard blah blah blah like for them it was great yeah so like look it's not awesome for us by any means but if you're able to make these people have a good time in montreal during their lockdown whatever that is you know why not why not they had a massive protest up there recently did they Yeah, they're fucking streets were filled with people.

[1099] I think it was Montreal.

[1100] It might have been Toronto.

[1101] What was going on?

[1102] They're sick of it.

[1103] They're sick of being locked in.

[1104] They're like, it doesn't make any sense.

[1105] Man, it's so unnatural.

[1106] It really is such a thing, right?

[1107] Well, I think it's in Ottawa where you have to have, like, I think it's Ottawa where you have to have papers to show that there's a need for you to be outside of the house.

[1108] Oh, my God.

[1109] Yeah.

[1110] It's that bad?

[1111] Yeah.

[1112] Like, you have to show some reason why you're doing.

[1113] driving so weird we can't slip back we just got to go forward but this is the thing that with the united states versus Canada like they don't have the same laws we have they don't have the same rights that we have they don't have the first amendment oh oh really yeah they don't have freedom of speech it's not like a it's not like an amendment the way we have right right they have human rights councils that's why people get sued for jokes up there that's like mike Ward got sued for doing a joke up there remember that yeah yeah someone in the audience sued him and won right that's a i think that's a different one um mike ward got sued because he made a joke about a kid that was sick and then the kid was still alive like a couple of years later and he made a joke about it and you know just typical dark comment right right yeah but the one who got sued because of an audience member was somebody in vancouver there was uh some people that were heckling And he went after the hecklers.

[1114] I guess it was a lesbian couple.

[1115] And, you know, he said some nasty shit to them.

[1116] And he got sued and lost.

[1117] Right.

[1118] Jeez, that's scary.

[1119] They don't have the same rules that we have up there.

[1120] It's just a different place.

[1121] You have to, you know, you have to recognize that.

[1122] Like, it seems like it's America.

[1123] But it's not, I mean, that's why they're still locked down like this, where it doesn't make any sense.

[1124] You saw the thing where they were, they sent 200 cops to.

[1125] to shut down a church no you never saw that no bro it's it's the nutty of shit you've ever seen jeez cops and swat gear to shut down a church oh my god 200 of them like what are you doing canada yeah get it together what's going on what are you doing it really it really just through yeah it's not natural it's just like you know you can't like put your put your uh your boot on people's neck like that for too long it's just like it's just not natural you just watch with your kids like not being able to go out and do stuff and i just want to go back to joe beef in montreal yeah they you turn me onto that place maybe they're open up a little bit man that place that place is sensational so good yeah shout out to fred and david yeah holy cow place is amazing i love that joint those guys are artists you know yeah like legitimate genuine artists a hundred I don't understand how you can be an artist like that and keep the consistency, like, for all those people that are showing up every night.

[1126] Yeah.

[1127] There's like Chris Bianco in Arizona is a pizza artisan, and it's just everyone is like he's worked on it for a month.

[1128] You know what I mean?

[1129] Like if I can make that bread and make it really well and put my heart and soul, it's great.

[1130] That's like one loaf of bread.

[1131] Right.

[1132] now you have to make a thousand of those and have that same thing but i really do think that it comes because those people care so much that i know it sounds corny but like the love comes into that process it's not corny it's not corny that's that's that's that's really what it is yeah like you can tell when those when you walk into a place that oh there's an owner involved here who really cares yeah joe beef's a perfect example of that because like those guy I was introduced to those guys through Bourdain and you know he was adamant that I had to meet them yeah you know he was like you gotta meet these guys really this place is incredible he's like they just they just do it the right way and then you go there and you go oh okay I get it's not a big place yeah you know it's like the perfect size oh you ever sit up like where it's like kind of open in the back like yeah by that grill mm -hmm oh that's a great seat the staff staff there is incredible everybody's like they they recognize that they're working in a special place Yeah, so good.

[1133] I love it so much.

[1134] It really, just those, like, you remember those meals, like, forever.

[1135] Like, you really, like, it's some of those places stick.

[1136] You're eating every day, but when you go to a place like that, and you're just like, man, oh, man. So if you go up there right now, you have to go to a hotel for 14 days where you can go wandering around.

[1137] Yeah.

[1138] 14 days.

[1139] And, like, serious shit.

[1140] Like, you can't mess around with it.

[1141] So dumb.

[1142] I know 14 days I wonder what they're going to do when America fully opens up when America like in the summer when everything's just 100 % opened up That's what I keep wondering Like June 15th in California It's supposed to be That's it That's it Yeah So what does that meet So I just But how is that June 15 How about right now bitch Well that's what the car That's what I was saying Like the car wash It was like What are we doing Yeah You know Well, you know, people who have been vaccinated still get COVID.

[1143] Right.

[1144] Yeah.

[1145] But they don't get as sick.

[1146] Some of them have died.

[1147] Yeah, that's like two.

[1148] No, it's more than two.

[1149] Three?

[1150] I don't know.

[1151] We could find out how many.

[1152] But the idea is that what's odd is that they're calling those breakthrough cases.

[1153] And they're only counting the ones that are hospitalized or dead.

[1154] Uh -huh.

[1155] And they're calling the people that died, most of them dying with COVID, not from COVID.

[1156] COVID because they have some sort of comorbidity.

[1157] But the problem is that's not the way they counted the COVID deaths before vaccination.

[1158] Before vaccination, they counted you dying from COVID even if you had comorbidities.

[1159] And now I think the average amount of comorbidities is like four, four comorbidities that people died with COVID.

[1160] Right.

[1161] But the number of people that died just from COVID was only 6%.

[1162] So 94 % died from something else.

[1163] and COVID, but they called it COVID.

[1164] Now they're calling it a different thing.

[1165] So now if you're dying and you've been vaccinated, you've died with COVID, but it wasn't a COVID that got you.

[1166] It was cancer, diabetes, whatever it is.

[1167] But it's an interesting way, is an interesting distinction of how they're deciding to.

[1168] Yeah, yeah.

[1169] What's so puzzling, and I think it was so unsettling about it, was how almost like everybody got their own version of it.

[1170] You know what I mean?

[1171] Like, I had a friend that got it in New York, and once a month, she can't get out of bed for two days.

[1172] I have another friend in California who got it pretty mild, lost sense of taste and smell.

[1173] Still doesn't have it back.

[1174] How long ago?

[1175] A year.

[1176] Over a year.

[1177] Everything tastes like tin and coffee, our beautiful, sweet, sweet luxur.

[1178] Elixir is like rubber, like burnt rubber.

[1179] There's something about the process of, I had someone on my podcast talking about it.

[1180] She's a food expert.

[1181] There's a thing when coffee gets heated up, when the bean gets heated up and it has that aroma that pops from it.

[1182] That's a process.

[1183] And it's the same thing with meat.

[1184] I have some.

[1185] And, oh, is that coffee right there?

[1186] Could you imagine if you got up in this sweet coffee tasted like rubber?

[1187] Smelled like was repulsive to you.

[1188] Cheers.

[1189] Cheers, jokes.

[1190] Good to see you.

[1191] I'm very happy to see you.

[1192] Good to see you, in all honesty.

[1193] There's something strange about you not being out there.

[1194] Not for me. Because, I mean, we would run into each other, you know, not every day.

[1195] But there's just something about knowing that your friends nearby.

[1196] I do feel that.

[1197] Like, I ran into Eric Griffin last night.

[1198] Eric Griffin came by the Creek in the community.

[1199] I was like, ah, it was a big old love fest.

[1200] Yeah, I know.

[1201] It's like, I mean, we move around so much that it shouldn't be a big deal.

[1202] It's a big deal.

[1203] I just missed having you around.

[1204] That's a big deal.

[1205] I miss it, I miss it, but I just don't, I don't miss living in California.

[1206] Yeah.

[1207] I don't miss the amount of people.

[1208] I don't miss the traffic.

[1209] I don't miss the tension.

[1210] I don't miss the anxiety.

[1211] Yeah.

[1212] I don't miss the way the states run.

[1213] I don't miss the attitudes.

[1214] It's just, there's a different vibe out here.

[1215] People are just much friendlier.

[1216] There definitely is.

[1217] I mean, look, those changes are real.

[1218] I have a friend that moved from, another friend, an ex -brother -in -law, who I ran into, who I was doing shows in North Carolina last week.

[1219] And he moved down there from New Jersey.

[1220] And New Jersey has a very L .A. feel to it.

[1221] It's packed with people.

[1222] There's a lot of angry drivers.

[1223] There's a lot of tension.

[1224] All those things you're mentioning.

[1225] Yeah.

[1226] And he looked great.

[1227] He was like, man, I have been so stress -free since moving to Raleigh, North Carolina.

[1228] Yeah.

[1229] He goes, I can't tell you.

[1230] It's just the stress is gone.

[1231] It's a real thing.

[1232] It's a real thing.

[1233] And, you know, you've done a very, you've done a thing where you've made us all think about it when we're there.

[1234] Like, it definitely is on my mind because we talk a lot about, you know, and I think you've made a great move.

[1235] And you've definitely have given us an alternative to, like, put all that stuff against, you know?

[1236] Yeah.

[1237] It's, but there's still great things.

[1238] I still love California.

[1239] There's still a lot of great, you know, I love.

[1240] love being by the ocean i love you're a glass half full kind of guy i am i could be that way in in omaha especially when my family's around the greatest thing about california is the comedy store that's the greatest thing for me yeah i mean my friends for sure but my friends and you know most of my best friends were in comedy yeah so all of them we would all go to the comedy store joey dyes moved to new jersey i know our ri moved to new york a long time ago tony Tony's out here with me. Tim Dylan's out here.

[1241] You know.

[1242] Tim's here now?

[1243] Tim's here.

[1244] Tom Sigur is out here now.

[1245] Wow.

[1246] It is, it is, I don't know if it's just in our heads, but it feels, I mean, it's also, the store is a little different anyway because it's still, like, limited capacity and stuff.

[1247] But, yeah, I don't know.

[1248] I think having you guys not be there is, you can feel it a little bit.

[1249] Yeah.

[1250] You can feel it.

[1251] everybody that's there and there's like there's some people I didn't really know who I'm seeing more often that are is exciting like it's all good it's all great and you know you guys will pop in all the time I'm sure but it's uh yeah it's just the day to day it'd be like going to the comedy seller and having all of a sudden Colin and Norton are not there anymore it's like oh it's it feels like a different place it's yeah I used to so look forward to go into that back bar and just hanging yeah just open up the door or who's there.

[1252] Tom Papa, what's up?

[1253] Everybody was, it was just a great vibe of being there.

[1254] Yeah.

[1255] But one of the things that this move taught me was that it's like, wherever you are is where you are.

[1256] It's your home.

[1257] That's your, wherever you are is where, you know, whatever you decide your base is.

[1258] Yeah.

[1259] That's, you know, you set up your life and that's how you live.

[1260] Mm -hmm.

[1261] And if you can live in a place with less extraneous factors that are fucking with you in terms of like traffic and noise and pollution, the air here is so much clearer.

[1262] I know.

[1263] It's so much cleaner.

[1264] You don't deal with the kind of pollution that you dealt with in L .A. And it's an illusion in L .A. Like there's like you see sun and palm trees and you think, this is so great.

[1265] When we have friends over, we have like a little back patio.

[1266] excuse me and we have to wipe it down every day and I'm telling you when we wipe it down like it is a black residue on our rag just that's in the air that you don't you're breathing that shit in every day every day and it lowers your life expectancy by about 10 years 10 yeah come on people that live in crowded congested cities like Los Angeles have a life expectancy that's about 10 years less really same for New York that's a lot of years you don't trust me I trust you I trust you but I don't want to believe you 10's a lot I'm pretty sure that's whatever so people in New York City are dying 10 years yes sooner than the people so if they would have made it to 80 they only make it to 70 are we going to start are we going to be around long enough I was talking to Duncan about this yesterday oh hey man Man, I'm telling you what this vaccine has showed us is that there's a new way to go in and mess with our DNA.

[1267] And we're going to be able to, we're so close, man, to the singularity.

[1268] We're going to be, we're going to live to 150 for sure.

[1269] Is that what you're saying?

[1270] Uh -huh.

[1271] Have you seen all the wackadoos that think that the government is putting chips in your arm because magnets will stick to the vaccine sites?

[1272] What?

[1273] Wait, say that again.

[1274] There's literally hours of videos online of people putting a magnet on the site where they got vaccinated to get the magnet to stick, thinking that there's a microchip inside of the vaccine.

[1275] Oh, that's so brilliant.

[1276] It's so crazy.

[1277] But there's so many videos, man. It's so funny.

[1278] Is everybody trolling?

[1279] Like, what is going on?

[1280] Yeah, the whole, right, exactly.

[1281] Exactly.

[1282] What did I ask you to live up?

[1283] I found contradictory information.

[1284] Okay.

[1285] Children born in Los Angeles County.

[1286] Today I can expect to live more than 82 years, which is longer than the average American.

[1287] Yeah, but that's not what the question was.

[1288] Keep going.

[1289] The question is there was a study that showed that people that live in high population polluted cities have a life expectancy of 10 years less.

[1290] Yeah, but non -specific.

[1291] The problem with LA that may balance it out as Los Angeles people are particularly athletic.

[1292] or rather exercise -oriented.

[1293] Health conscious, eating their oat milks.

[1294] That shit ain't good for you.

[1295] Three years, this says.

[1296] Freeing polluted air shortens people's lives by an average of three years, a new study finds.

[1297] Yeah, that makes more sense.

[1298] Ten's a big thing.

[1299] Okay, yeah, I fucked it up.

[1300] Tends heavy.

[1301] How can you tell three?

[1302] Just think about how many people go down quick because of stress.

[1303] And how do you measure those things when the pollution levels have changed so much within those people's lifetimes?

[1304] What I'm saying is, like if you live in a city that's a high population city look for us we live probably a much nicer version of LA than a lot of people oh yeah we don't have to get up in the morning and cut through the traffic every day holy cow going down that four or five every single day to go do your thing I used to take my convertible to the store and sometimes they get caught in traffic in the corvette yeah I would be dizzy by the time I got to the store because I'd be just breathing fumes I would I would my like sinuses would be all messes Just think about what you're doing if you're in a convertible.

[1305] You're sitting on the 405.

[1306] You're sitting on the 405 and everybody's just burning gas.

[1307] I know.

[1308] And it's worse than a motorcycle because you can zoom through everybody on the bike.

[1309] But in a car, you're just stuck there.

[1310] You're just sitting there sniffing people's burnt gas.

[1311] The convertible is a dumb idea in L .A. I had one too.

[1312] And it's also so goddamn hot that the amount of days you can put the roof down, you're just sitting there baking on the 405.

[1313] You know what I used to love it?

[1314] I used to love it driving to the store in the winter at night because it would be cold.

[1315] And it would be like, when at the time I get there, I was alive.

[1316] Yeah, yeah.

[1317] That's, I like that car because it doesn't have any entertainment.

[1318] The only entertainment is the car itself.

[1319] There's no radio in it.

[1320] He just, br -r -what year?

[1321] 65.

[1322] 65.

[1323] Do they have belts?

[1324] Do they have?

[1325] Sort of.

[1326] Yeah.

[1327] Let's stop fucking around.

[1328] You get in an accident and that fucking piece of plastic.

[1329] It's literally made out of plastic.

[1330] Right, yeah, that fiberglass car.

[1331] I have a Volkswagen, a 67 Volkswagen, and it just has a lap belt.

[1332] Oh, yeah, that's what my Corvette has.

[1333] Yeah.

[1334] It's a joke.

[1335] Should you put in, I always think, like, I should just put in a seatbelt.

[1336] Like, why can't I?

[1337] Point harness.

[1338] Yeah.

[1339] But then Leno, I did Leno show.

[1340] Eh, what are you bet?

[1341] When you're your time's up, you time's up.

[1342] You say, oh, you got a, you got a Volkswagen, that's great.

[1343] He said this to me in the break, like, on the break of a show.

[1344] He goes, you got a Volkswagen.

[1345] and I was, like, excited to talk car with him.

[1346] Like, this was one of the first times I was on.

[1347] And I was like, oh, yeah, I got a 67 Volkswagen thinking in my head.

[1348] He's going to think I'm cool.

[1349] He's like, yeah, those things are death traps.

[1350] You know, the whole gas tank is right in your lap.

[1351] You get hitting that thing.

[1352] Goodbye.

[1353] All right, welcome back.

[1354] We got Tom Pobby.

[1355] He's talking about his new show.

[1356] I don't think he would be into Volkswagen's anyway.

[1357] He's into, like, big, loud things.

[1358] He's got everything.

[1359] He's got everything.

[1360] That place is amazing.

[1361] Oh, my God, it's incredible.

[1362] Isn't it amazing, too, that this really speaks to doing something that you're really passionate about?

[1363] Because although he was obviously a very good host of the Tonight Show.

[1364] Yeah.

[1365] The Tonight Show's not representative of the real Jay Leno.

[1366] The real Jay Leno you meet when you do his car show.

[1367] Right.

[1368] Like, when I did...

[1369] Messing around.

[1370] The garage, I did Jay Leno's garage with my Corvette.

[1371] Oh, nice.

[1372] And, you know, he and I were talking and the passion that he has for these cars.

[1373] is like so contagious and he's talking about suspensions and the fucking steering giant look at that oh god what is that I said a good smile on his face oh is that the um it's like a jet car begin with a bee right the uh it's amazing whatever it is look at that thing uh look at the smile though that's like that is a as real a smile as a human being has ever smiled it really is he is so happy he fucking loves cars man so like when he does when he's doing that show.

[1374] Bugatti?

[1375] Is it?

[1376] It could be.

[1377] Maybe like an old school.

[1378] Tank car.

[1379] Tank car.

[1380] Turbode up for 1 ,600 horsepower.

[1381] Oh my God.

[1382] Reggie Watts sent me this fucking car.

[1383] Dude, you want to see something wild?

[1384] There's a drag race between this car and a new electric car and there's a drag race between that new electric car and there's a drag race between that new electric car.

[1385] electric car and a Ferrari.

[1386] Oh, yeah?

[1387] Yeah, let me tell you.

[1388] It's, uh, it's, uh, I'll just send this to you, Jamie.

[1389] This is the actual YouTube video itself.

[1390] Oh, oops.

[1391] The Rimac Navarra?

[1392] Yeah.

[1393] Got it.

[1394] Yeah, I'm gonna send you the, I got it.

[1395] Oh, you got the, the drag race ready?

[1396] Yeah.

[1397] Okay, yeah, this is it.

[1398] So it's Car Wow, that's the show.

[1399] Car Wow.

[1400] And, uh, in this, these crazy assholes, take this, uh, this new insane, I know, I don't know who makes that.

[1401] Is it a small?

[1402] boutique company but it goes up against the newest dopest Ferrari and when I mean it burries this fucking thing like watch this back it up it's going to be right around there they're going to do the 3 -2 -1 go so watch this watch how fast this thing buries the Ferrari like goodbye wow that's the fastest Ferrari and it literally gets left in the dust looks like a like a Prius it leaves it in the dust.

[1403] Wow.

[1404] And it's it looks like a Ferrari too.

[1405] I mean it looks like a McLaren or some you know, holy cow.

[1406] Similar supercar.

[1407] That's electric?

[1408] That's all electric.

[1409] Yeah, it says new drag race world record.

[1410] But that drag race world record from June 1st, 2021, I don't think that's the world record anymore.

[1411] I think the Tesla Model S Plaid just beat that.

[1412] Oh really?

[1413] Yeah, because the Tesla Model S Plaid just got the fastest ever quarter mile time.

[1414] Really?

[1415] A fucking family sedan.

[1416] What's the Plaid?

[1417] I don't know the plaid.

[1418] The Plaid is the newest version of it that has five engines and it's, is that what it is, five engines or three engines?

[1419] What does it have?

[1420] Jeez.

[1421] Something, three?

[1422] I want to say three.

[1423] Yeah, maybe three.

[1424] Maybe mine has two and this one has three.

[1425] Right.

[1426] But it has zero to 60.

[1427] Ready?

[1428] One point nine seconds.

[1429] One point nine?

[1430] 1 .9 seconds.

[1431] 060 for a family car.

[1432] It's like a sedan.

[1433] Yeah, that's I -A -M -EAS.

[1434] Yeah, it's fucking incredible.

[1435] Super comfortable, four -door, rocket sled, spaceship.

[1436] Holy cow.

[1437] The term plaid is a playoff of space balls.

[1438] It's from the movie Spaceballs.

[1439] He loves space balls.

[1440] He really loves space balls.

[1441] He really is.

[1442] How many fucking people are like him?

[1443] Do you know he made his rocket?

[1444] He shaped his rocket closer to the rocket on space balls.

[1445] He literally made it less aerodynamic because you wanted it to look like the rocket from space falls.

[1446] You got to have fun.

[1447] You got to enjoy yourself.

[1448] Do you know how much that car costs?

[1449] Let me guess.

[1450] $900 ,000.

[1451] No. Way more.

[1452] Way more.

[1453] Okay.

[1454] Two million dollars.

[1455] Way more.

[1456] What?

[1457] Come on.

[1458] How much is that car cost?

[1459] 2 .45 million dollars.

[1460] Because they made only two of them.

[1461] Wow.

[1462] That seems a bit excessive.

[1463] Yeah.

[1464] I was thinking.

[1465] about it at 1 .5, but that seems a little excessive.

[1466] Maybe this was for the prototype.

[1467] It doesn't say, though.

[1468] It just says that's how much this could.

[1469] It says 2 .45 or Rimak Navarra, electric hypercar, but it ran a quarter mile in 8 .6 seconds, so that's why it doesn't make sense.

[1470] Well, it's probably handmade.

[1471] Handmade.

[1472] It's probably one of those.

[1473] Four motors, 1900 horsepower.

[1474] Nineteen hundred horsepower.

[1475] Jeez, Louise.

[1476] What in the fuck.

[1477] That's so great.

[1478] It's so weird, man. It used to be back in the day that if you had 400 horsepower, a lot.

[1479] I have the SpaceX app on my phone.

[1480] Do you have that?

[1481] No. You got to download it.

[1482] It gives you an alert.

[1483] Every time they're launching?

[1484] Every time they're launching.

[1485] And you can watch?

[1486] And you can watch.

[1487] And it is the coolest thing because this is exactly what you wanted space travel to be.

[1488] They literally show you like, okay, and they don't waste time.

[1489] It's just so efficient.

[1490] They'll key you in with 10 minutes to go.

[1491] And there's a smart duo who look attractive and they're just giving you all the information and they've got the whole live feed of the thing getting ready to launch.

[1492] And they're just so smart.

[1493] They're just telling you all this great information.

[1494] And it just all looks like the future.

[1495] It doesn't look like the old NASA.

[1496] It seems like current.

[1497] And then you get to watch this liftoff.

[1498] Or, like, when the guys were coming back from the space station, I was like, I got home after being out with some friends.

[1499] I'm a little drunk.

[1500] I'm in my bed.

[1501] Bling, SpaceX.

[1502] And you show these guys coming back and landing and watch the whole thing of how they get the spacecraft onto the boat and the right there in the palm of your hand.

[1503] It's like, this guy's the coolest.

[1504] It's pretty dope.

[1505] It's so great.

[1506] Is it available for Android 2 or just for iPhones?

[1507] I'm sure.

[1508] I'm sure it's available for everybody.

[1509] Not things aren't.

[1510] No?

[1511] I don't know.

[1512] Does Elon not like Android?

[1513] I don't know.

[1514] I bet it's for everybody.

[1515] He's the people space company.

[1516] Would you go?

[1517] Fuck yeah.

[1518] You want to go?

[1519] Go blast off?

[1520] Oh, no, no. I'll go watch.

[1521] No, no, no. Would you do one of the space tourism things go up?

[1522] I'm going to wave.

[1523] Loop around the planet a couple times.

[1524] No, legitimately, if it did get safe to the point where they do on a regular basis, just like plane travel, yeah, I would go.

[1525] I think just for the perspective.

[1526] Yeah.

[1527] Because I remember going to Hawaii and going to the Keck Observatory and seeing the Milky Way and seeing how clear the stars were.

[1528] Oh, yeah.

[1529] That adjusted my perspective.

[1530] Really?

[1531] Yeah, because it was so radical, so bright.

[1532] The stars were so incredibly vivid.

[1533] Wow.

[1534] The Milky Way is so clear.

[1535] I remember thinking, like, oh, my God, like, this is up here all the time, and we never see it.

[1536] This is amazing.

[1537] Like, light pollution fucks us so bad.

[1538] I know.

[1539] So bad.

[1540] This amazing vision of the heavens is available.

[1541] And it's so awe -inspiring.

[1542] You see, like, wow.

[1543] Can anyone do that?

[1544] Yes, anybody.

[1545] You can just travel up there.

[1546] Yeah, you go to the observatory.

[1547] You don't even have to go to the top where the observatory is.

[1548] You go to the visitor center.

[1549] And they have satellites or, excuse me, telescope set up out there.

[1550] But you don't even have to use the telescopes.

[1551] I'm telling you, man. It's just so dark.

[1552] You just look up.

[1553] Yeah.

[1554] That's what it looks like.

[1555] And no bullshit.

[1556] That is literally what it looks like.

[1557] but you want to do it we never see that but you want to do it you want to make sure it's with uh what is it a new moon is what they call it when it's dark uh -huh yeah you want to go up there when the moon is not out which island is that that's the big island i went up there and i fucked up and i went up there and i went up there with my family a long time ago yeah we went up there and it's amazing and then we went up there a second time years later and unfortunately we caught it while the moon was out i didn't think i was like oh this right this blows Right.

[1558] Yeah, that's exactly what it was like.

[1559] It's not a...

[1560] Oh, wow.

[1561] This eat shit.

[1562] Yeah.

[1563] I can't believe I travel up here to look at the fucking moon.

[1564] I see the moon all the time.

[1565] The only thing I see is the moon.

[1566] Exactly.

[1567] It just dulls out the rest.

[1568] But when the moon is not out, it's spectacular.

[1569] Because you drive through the clouds.

[1570] Like, when we were driving, we hit cloud cover, and I was like, oh, fuck, there's clouds.

[1571] We're not going to be able to see anything.

[1572] But you keep driving, and then all of a sudden, poop, you pop through the clouds.

[1573] And you're like, oh, my God, this is.

[1574] above the clouds and then you keep going and then you make it to the observatories oh my god it's wild it is amazing how how how much light where they call it light pollution yeah it's how brutal it is like any time you see like oh there's going to be a new thing or this comet's coming through you're like i can't see it here yeah no way yeah it's not good for us yeah i think it fucks with people's perceptions of what life really is too yeah so would you go like would you go like would Did you go up there and a couple loops around?

[1575] Why, are we going together?

[1576] Are you trying to talk me into something, Tom Poppo?

[1577] I'm thinking about it.

[1578] Do you want to go?

[1579] Do you have loyalty?

[1580] I probably throw up.

[1581] What if Jeff Bezos offered trips for us?

[1582] Would you go with them?

[1583] Sure.

[1584] Would you?

[1585] Yeah, why not?

[1586] He has our best interest at heart, doesn't he?

[1587] Would you go in one of the, some company bought 15 of the super.

[1588] We were just talking about the supersonic jest to go three hours across the, Newark.

[1589] Yeah.

[1590] Three hours where?

[1591] Newark to London.

[1592] Uh -huh.

[1593] Oh, like the Concord?

[1594] Yeah.

[1595] The new supersonic jets can do four hours to any spot on the planet.

[1596] Four hours.

[1597] Four hours.

[1598] Four hours to anywhere you want to go.

[1599] Whoa.

[1600] You want to go to Mongolia?

[1601] Four hours.

[1602] Wow.

[1603] You want to go to Russia?

[1604] Four hours.

[1605] Does it look like the Concord?

[1606] Uh, they look pretty dope.

[1607] Yeah.

[1608] They don't have the pointy downward nose thing.

[1609] That was cool.

[1610] It was pretty cool.

[1611] Yeah.

[1612] But they look pretty dope.

[1613] And they're, you know, they're starting to develop.

[1614] I'm starting to, I think different airlines are going to start offering them up.

[1615] So what if it just went higher instead of to somewhere and just came back and you got to see space?

[1616] Yeah, you get to leave the earth for a bit.

[1617] It's kind of cool.

[1618] I mean, kind of cool.

[1619] Yeah, real cool.

[1620] Real cool.

[1621] When does space start?

[1622] It's, like, technically.

[1623] Technically, we're in it.

[1624] Oh, right?

[1625] That's deep.

[1626] I don't know.

[1627] There's a lot of air.

[1628] You've got to break through the atmosphere.

[1629] I think it's like, I want to say it's like 90 ,000 feet.

[1630] Yeah, it's not that high, right?

[1631] Because when I look at my SpaceX app, it seems like they do it pretty quick.

[1632] I think you want to go into the upper atmosphere.

[1633] That's where.

[1634] Technically, okay, so it says U .S. military, NASA, to find space differently.

[1635] According to them, space starts 12 miles below the Carmen line at 50 miles above Earth's surface.

[1636] That's pretty fucking far.

[1637] That's pretty fucking far.

[1638] So a mile is 5 ,000 feet?

[1639] Yeah.

[1640] Yeah, that's a lot.

[1641] But you're there pretty quick because you've got a rocket.

[1642] Look at you.

[1643] You're selling it.

[1644] He's like a COVID salesman.

[1645] He's a rocket salesman.

[1646] What do you got?

[1647] He's not worried about Lyme disease.

[1648] It makes me comfortable that they did it and released it.

[1649] I feel good about it.

[1650] 60 miles?

[1651] Somewhere between 50 and 60.

[1652] 60 miles, yeah, so.

[1653] Hmm.

[1654] What else did they do on Plum Island?

[1655] NASA picture.

[1656] Dun, dun, da.

[1657] I don't know if that's like the fake the line here.

[1658] So what is that?

[1659] 35 ,000 feet?

[1660] No, 350 ,000.

[1661] 350 ,000 feet.

[1662] Duh.

[1663] 350 ,000 feet.

[1664] And the really high planes go to what?

[1665] 40 ,000 feet?

[1666] Like 40.

[1667] 40s?

[1668] Yeah.

[1669] 40's high.

[1670] One of those UAP things I saw that said they went over above 200 ,000 feet and they couldn't track it anymore.

[1671] And I was like, how high is that?

[1672] God.

[1673] My ears would definitely pop on that.

[1674] So what is that right there we're looking at?

[1675] It says...

[1676] How high is that?

[1677] It doesn't say here.

[1678] It just looks pretty.

[1679] It comes up when I Google it.

[1680] So that is like probably the edge of space.

[1681] So that's like where some of those trips will take you.

[1682] So you're really high up and you get this amazing view of Earth from above.

[1683] But you don't have to do re -entry.

[1684] But then I was thinking of this because that guy just broke the record of falling without a parachute.

[1685] Oh, yeah.

[1686] Oh, yeah.

[1687] It was just like a gnarly.

[1688] imagine why what do he do he fall into a net he literally fell from like the edge of space into a net with no parachute into a net a net how did he how do you navigate that well he's got lyme disease and covid so he's got superpowers nothing's getting me he only eats bread nothing's getting me we can do it it'll be fine it'll be fine he's a fucking crazy person He said he had like in his helmet He had oxygen for the beginning Because you can't breathe up there And then at a certain point There's just like a beep in his helmet That tells them hey you're halfway there And then another beep get ready Because ground's coming up Come on See these four together The problem is If these people collide And sometimes they do It just rips their limbs apart Yeah that wouldn't be It's like you're going You know who knows how fucking fast Like people have done that before While skydiving Collided into each other Oh, so he just keeps falling.

[1689] Everyone else is hitting their parachutes now.

[1690] Right parachutes are now.

[1691] He's still got 5 ,000 feet, I think, on his own.

[1692] And he has to...

[1693] How does he know he's going to hit?

[1694] He's going to aim down to get to that spot.

[1695] Oh, my God.

[1696] How they had a live camera feed off of his helmet, which is...

[1697] That's pretty gnarly technology, too.

[1698] So when he gets towards the bottom, he has to turn upside down so that he falls into it.

[1699] Watch this move.

[1700] Whoa.

[1701] It's a pretty slick move.

[1702] See it?

[1703] Look at that.

[1704] Whoa.

[1705] And he only caught it on the edge, dude.

[1706] He caught it on the edge.

[1707] did like he almost missed it that's insanity oh my god how do you get past that head rush that's like those dudes that jerk off with a noose around their neck yeah like hey calm down you're you're just reaching too high buddy right exactly this is you don't need this in your life yeah think you need it you don't need this you need love you need a hug you just start a family right exactly you need someone else to think about yeah i bet he doesn't have kids no way Yeah, it doesn't seem like something you would do if you have kids No, no way Jump into a fucking net with no parachute And almost miss That's why I have kids It's just to say no to all crazy shit My friends are like, we want to go do this Nah I'm a father Net could have been a little bigger Way bigger Wikipedia says he has one shit Oh really?

[1708] Like I mean that seems like If there's a little wind What'd you say?

[1709] I was about to say something terrible the same guy helped David David Blame with his stunt Oh with the balloons Yeah but That was nuts too God That's so crazy Fuck all that I don't need to jump from a plane No I don't need to jump from a plane A train or a bus Or a doctor Seuss I don't Yeah I don't I don't want green eggs in hand But the space thing It doesn't intrigue me I do get kind of nauseous with travel sometimes even like in the car to the airport yesterday looking down at my phone I was like yeah but that's just because you're looking at something while you're getting driven so just I can go to space just don't look at my phone when we're taking off yeah if you look at your phone I almost threw up in the back of a car once because I was reading I started I'm like oh my god imagine you know I'm going to get picked up in a town car and I hurl in the backseat because I'm trying to read I know it's so unfortunate But sometimes you can.

[1710] Sometimes I'll look at my phone, no problem.

[1711] For a little bit.

[1712] Yeah.

[1713] The problem is when things get bumpy, your brain gets disoriented and it says like, oh, my God, this guy's sick.

[1714] Right.

[1715] He's not seeing things right.

[1716] Let's get rid of all the food because something he ate must have been poison.

[1717] That's what it is.

[1718] Oh, really?

[1719] Yeah.

[1720] That's what it is.

[1721] Your body is confused as to why you're looking at things, but everything's bouncing around, but yet you're not going anywhere.

[1722] You're sitting still.

[1723] Oh, this guy's poisoned.

[1724] Right.

[1725] Okay.

[1726] Let's get rid of all the food.

[1727] Oh.

[1728] Such an awful feeling.

[1729] Yeah, so your body's like, let's go, everybody out of the pool.

[1730] So when we're in our spaceship, not looking at something, we probably won't throw up.

[1731] One day, space travel is going to be something real, where you're going to be able to take a trip, just like you'd fly to New York.

[1732] You could fly up in space, and it'll be cool.

[1733] Yeah.

[1734] Then Tompapa, you and I will do space shows.

[1735] Oh, that would be the coolest.

[1736] Imagine if you do a show on an actual spaceship.

[1737] Like, imagine if they have, like, a stage set up.

[1738] Yeah, exactly.

[1739] Like, the fucking comedy store is a comedy store, spaceship.

[1740] And then you get to live stream it back to Earth.

[1741] Like, you rent it out.

[1742] Like, you rent out an event space.

[1743] You run out of a spaceship and you do like, like, how many people are on a flight normally?

[1744] 300, 200?

[1745] Plenty of people for a show.

[1746] Oh, for sure.

[1747] Low ceilings.

[1748] Yeah.

[1749] All we need is good acoustics.

[1750] Good sound system.

[1751] Those people in Southwest are telling jokes every day.

[1752] All the time.

[1753] They have songs.

[1754] Do you see how they're going to not serve alcohol on Southwest American?

[1755] Oh, because they've been having brawls lately.

[1756] Because people are losing their shit.

[1757] What's going on, Tompapa?

[1758] Why is everybody losing their shit?

[1759] Joe, I thought maybe we're going to come out of this isolation a little better and a little kinder and a little more grateful.

[1760] But I think the majority have just been snapped.

[1761] Well, I think a lot of people lost so much.

[1762] It's hard for them to feel normal.

[1763] You know, so many people lost most of them.

[1764] of their savings, most of their job.

[1765] I mean, how many people lost their jobs?

[1766] It's some crazy number of people that are unemployed, right?

[1767] Right.

[1768] And imagine if you're in the restaurant business.

[1769] You work for 30 years to put together a restaurant.

[1770] Yeah.

[1771] And then all sudden, it's gone.

[1772] You just have no job.

[1773] I don't know how Fred and David are doing up at Joe Beef, but, you know, I know, I always say that my favorite restaurant is in Venice.

[1774] Oh, yeah?

[1775] Yeah.

[1776] Have you ever been to Felix?

[1777] No. It is sensational.

[1778] Really?

[1779] It is as good as a restaurant is.

[1780] Wow.

[1781] It's so good.

[1782] In Venice.

[1783] Yes.

[1784] Is Janet Zucorini and Evan Funky.

[1785] Janet owns it and Evan Funky is the head chef.

[1786] I've had them both on the podcast before.

[1787] Oh, yeah.

[1788] Dude, the food there is so good.

[1789] What would you have?

[1790] I've had everything.

[1791] I've eaten there a ton of times, but it's perfect.

[1792] Yeah.

[1793] It is the perfect restaurant.

[1794] I'm not exaggerating.

[1795] Why?

[1796] First of all, handmade pasta.

[1797] It's sensational.

[1798] can watch them make it.

[1799] They have a pasta making room that's all glass.

[1800] So you watch like Evan or one of the master chefs there put together this pasta and it's this laborious process of folding it and rolling it and dusting it with flour and rolling it and they just do it over and over again.

[1801] And you feel it in the food when you get it, when you get a place like the Cacho de Pepe, when you get a plate of that, oh, it's so good.

[1802] There, dude, you'll, you'll, you're going to be in heaven.

[1803] Really?

[1804] You gotta go.

[1805] All right.

[1806] I'm going.

[1807] I had a steak there might be the best fucking steak I've ever had in my life.

[1808] Oh my God.

[1809] It's everything they do is perfect.

[1810] I mean it's just, it is insane.

[1811] And Evan is just a guy who is one of those head chefs that's just obsessed with doing everything perfect.

[1812] Oh my God.

[1813] And every, you know, he's like studied in Italy and, you know, and to talk to him about like his pat, there's Evan right there.

[1814] Oh, wow.

[1815] Bad motherfucker you.

[1816] He's so good.

[1817] He's such a good chef and such a good person.

[1818] Man, I fucking love that guy.

[1819] I want to go.

[1820] You feel it in the food.

[1821] You completely do.

[1822] I'm telling you, anytime you visit these places, like when I tour around and you go to like these bakeries that have been there forever or like that old restaurant that's been there forever, you feel it.

[1823] It's because of that person's passion.

[1824] It has everything to do.

[1825] Yeah.

[1826] And also the deep knowledge of how to cook correctly and a respect for the old world style of cooking and I mean he goes to the fucking the farmer's market and gets fresh produce yeah and develop the menu based on what's available you know it's just like Jesus you eat there and you're like ah I don't want to leave yeah you just wind up drinking too much wine oh the best the best yeah it's so great when a restaurant like gets it right like that yeah you know and then they have forced to shut down for the long as fucking time well that's yeah I know.

[1827] And they were forced to shut the outdoor, they developed this whole outdoor dining space.

[1828] So when I was still living in L .A., you could go there outdoors.

[1829] And then they shut down the outdoor dining.

[1830] It's like, why?

[1831] Why are you saying outdoor dining is bad?

[1832] Oh, you're saying Venice, California.

[1833] Yes, Venice, California.

[1834] Oh, I thought you meant Venice, Venice, Venice.

[1835] It's on Abbott Kidding.

[1836] Oh, geez, I can go there when I get back.

[1837] Good luck getting a reservation.

[1838] Well, I'm going to tell him I'm friends with Joe.

[1839] Good luck.

[1840] How do you think I got into Joe Beef?

[1841] Joe Beef is another one of my favorite restaurants.

[1842] But Felix is...

[1843] Oh, that's cool.

[1844] Felix is so good.

[1845] That's so great.

[1846] There's restaurants like that that they redefined what food is.

[1847] Yeah.

[1848] Now you realize, like, oh, this is basically an art gallery that you can eat.

[1849] Caccio Pepe is one of the dishes that I've tried to perfect because I try and just work on a couple things and get them as good as I can get them.

[1850] You know what you should do?

[1851] You should start making your own pasta.

[1852] Yeah.

[1853] Because you make your own bread.

[1854] There's something about pasta that you buy that's fresh, like the way they cook it, which just has this bite to it that's so satisfying.

[1855] I know.

[1856] You know, it's just like there's something to it that's different than a dry pasta.

[1857] I know.

[1858] But the dry pasta is, you know, it's pretty close.

[1859] Says the COVID salesman.

[1860] Look at this fucking guy over here.

[1861] Jesus.

[1862] How about Lyme disease?

[1863] Not bad.

[1864] Lime disease makes me comfortable.

[1865] It's coming from a lab.

[1866] Well, I like to know the source.

[1867] I like to know.

[1868] Makes me happy.

[1869] Plum Island.

[1870] Plum Island.

[1871] Like handmade pasta is...

[1872] No, it is better.

[1873] It's better.

[1874] It is better.

[1875] It tastes better.

[1876] It feels better.

[1877] I know.

[1878] I took a class in Italy and learned how to make pasta and I was like, when I get home, I'm going to do this every night.

[1879] You're already halfway there.

[1880] I know.

[1881] With the bread.

[1882] I mean, it seems like it's right up your alley to make your own.

[1883] My grandma used to make pasta.

[1884] Oh, really?

[1885] Oh, my God.

[1886] My grandmother made everything.

[1887] She made her sauce from tomatoes that grew in the garden.

[1888] My grandfather would pick the tomatoes from the garden.

[1889] My grandmother would stew them.

[1890] In Jersey?

[1891] Oh, yeah.

[1892] Make the sauce.

[1893] The sauce was all from scratch.

[1894] She would make all the pasta from scratch.

[1895] She had a table that was just a pasta making table in her kitchen.

[1896] And she had the rolling pin and she would make, and she would make lasagna and all my.

[1897] God, it was insane.

[1898] It was insane.

[1899] My nephews and I, my sister, my sister has this farm in New Jersey.

[1900] She has a nonprofit called City Green, where she feeds, grows vegetables and feeds Patterson, Passake, all of these places and learning gardens, all this amazing, amazing nonprofits work.

[1901] And the cool thing is that we get cooler than helping people is that we get all these tomatoes in August.

[1902] and last year we did it for the first time where we cooked down the tomatoes into sauce we had a giant thing we got the wooden stirrer and we just hung under the house like real Italians underneath the house all day and just cooked down all and then canned them all oh man must be so good it felt Joe it felt like without even like we never saw our grandparents do this but we know that they did like it felt right that we were doing this, that we're doing this process of taking these plum tomatoes, making them into this sauce, canning it.

[1903] It was such a, like, a religious experience.

[1904] It's something so satisfying about that, right?

[1905] Like, putting in the effort and then getting that reward, like an artisan created, you know, Which is really just going back to the roots of it.

[1906] It's just going back to the most simple form of it.

[1907] Yeah.

[1908] And it just takes all that other bullshit away, and you're just left with the pure doing and the pure ingredients of it.

[1909] Yeah.

[1910] Oh, it makes it so worth it.

[1911] It does.

[1912] And now we're going to do it again in August.

[1913] I literally set up the time to travel back with my family just around when the tomatoes will be done.

[1914] What is going on with New Jersey tomatoes?

[1915] Because they've always been known for their tomatoes.

[1916] They have the New Jersey beefsteak tomatoes.

[1917] Yeah.

[1918] And there's like a darkness and a juiciness to those tomatoes.

[1919] It's legendary.

[1920] Blueberries and tomatoes from New Jersey.

[1921] Oh, they're great blueberries too?

[1922] Yeah.

[1923] but what is going on with the soil i don't know why that is i have no idea i guess it's the you know it's like anything it's like why is wine great from a region it's a combination of all those things of yeah the way the wind comes through the amount of sunlight that it gets i wonder if it's also like the seeds that they brought over yeah maybe you know because you got to think jersey was a particularly italian area like that's where my grandparents settled yeah mine too a lot of italians came from italy straight to jersey yeah I wonder if they brought seeds with them.

[1924] I'm sure.

[1925] I bet they weren't here until we showed up.

[1926] I just found out that my, someone in my family, like my great -grandfather, lived above Manetta Tavern right next to the comedy cellar.

[1927] Really?

[1928] Yeah.

[1929] My mother did a deep dive in the history and put together a book for all of us.

[1930] Literally, my grandfather was, like, in a little apartment, probably with, you know, 10 people.

[1931] Wow.

[1932] And I'm downstairs performing at the cellar.

[1933] All this time walking.

[1934] walking up that street, Manetta Lane.

[1935] Wow.

[1936] Yeah, isn't that cool?

[1937] When Fitzsimmons first moved to New York, he used to have an apartment that was right above that mafia social club, the one that John God.

[1938] On McDougall?

[1939] Yeah, that's where he had a place right there in the heart of all that shit.

[1940] Wow.

[1941] Yeah, he said he saw mobsters all the time.

[1942] Oh, that was like the 80s, right?

[1943] Yeah.

[1944] Well, no, I think when I...

[1945] Early 90s?

[1946] Yeah, early 90s was when Fitzsimmons was living there.

[1947] Yeah, that was prime time, right?

[1948] That's when Giuliani was going after the mob and all that stuff was happening.

[1949] Yeah.

[1950] Yeah, Fitzsimmons lived, like, right in the heart of Little Italy.

[1951] Oh, man. What fucking great restaurants down there.

[1952] Oh, my God.

[1953] It's a shame.

[1954] It's really so small now.

[1955] Well, it's also a wrecked now because of the pandemic.

[1956] I mean, who knows how many of them will never come back.

[1957] Yeah.

[1958] But even before that, it was, I mean, it used to be that whole.

[1959] area and it was down to like mott street and a couple little ancillary uh gendusa is the pizza place there that one's doing really well that's a good spot well pizza is a good thing to take out the thing about a lot of the restaurants that have to go food yeah it makes sense to order pizza to go yeah yeah what's the last time you're back in new york last week oh what you did two weeks ago it was so great what you do stand up no which place uh the seller and i did my radio show i have the serious xm come to papa show which is like a old variety radio show like with sketches and comedy and music and stuff and i've been doing it forever and uh and i always do it at the village underground there as part of the seller oh you do like a live version a live version yeah and uh and i went to do it just to do it you know like they we were able to and uh like half capacity probably a little more it felt great but literally the day i landed was when the cdc said we we don't need masks anymore so it was popping like I stayed downtown and it was just the sun was shining people were out they were just drinking and it just you felt like it's bad this joy yeah oh my god and I did see that new wild park that New York City's created called the island no it's really wild it's like a man -made park where like it's uh I think it's somewhere near one of the harbors um but it's this wild thing where it's like on a platform it's like these you got to see it to see what it is it's really strange oh wow it's like like you would imagine if you were on a spaceship and they created a park uh -huh like a leesium park inside the spaceship right right right mother ship traveling with all the population through the galaxy well that's so cool yeah it's weird looking it's weird new york is weird man i mean the the the the Skyline from New Jersey is completely different.

[1960] Look at that.

[1961] Look at that.

[1962] Oh, wow.

[1963] Look at that.

[1964] It's like concrete mushrooms.

[1965] Yeah, so that's what it looks like.

[1966] So it's a fake island.

[1967] It's like a skate park.

[1968] Right.

[1969] It's suspended, though, in the water.

[1970] So the entire thing is made in the water.

[1971] And it varies.

[1972] Like, the levels vary.

[1973] Like, see how it's got like different.

[1974] Go back to a place.

[1975] You see how, like, it's all, yeah.

[1976] Like, they made artificial.

[1977] like varying heights of the, the ground.

[1978] They made it look like a real park.

[1979] It's amazing.

[1980] And if you look how small the people are there, you've got to get a sense.

[1981] Yeah, it's massive.

[1982] That is cool.

[1983] And that's open now?

[1984] Yeah, yeah, it just opened.

[1985] The city has changed so much, so quickly.

[1986] Between the new buildings that went up, the skyline's completely different.

[1987] Like, looking from New Jersey, it's like there's like a whole other city on the west side.

[1988] And then, When Blueberg was in, they took away all of these access roads for cars.

[1989] They don't want cars on this island at all.

[1990] And now that...

[1991] Which island?

[1992] Manhattan.

[1993] They don't want cars in New York City?

[1994] What do you mean?

[1995] Dude, there's like parts of Broadway that are just, you can't drive on any longer.

[1996] Oh, really?

[1997] Yeah.

[1998] And that was before COVID.

[1999] And now with COVID, there's all these outdoor dining places, which they may keep.

[2000] There's no parking spaces.

[2001] The number of cars has gone down drastically.

[2002] Interesting.

[2003] It's that kind of thing.

[2004] It's like they're trying to eco it up and it's like a future city in a way.

[2005] Who owns the spot in front of a restaurant?

[2006] Is that public for the sidewalk?

[2007] Because it used to be.

[2008] Right.

[2009] It stopped being the public's for the sidewalk.

[2010] Then it became the restaurants because the restaurant needed space to stay open.

[2011] They made accommodations.

[2012] But now that things are going to go back to where you can eat indoors.

[2013] Yeah.

[2014] I don't know if they're going to keep those spaces or not.

[2015] They did that outside in front of the stand too, didn't they?

[2016] Didn't they have shows outside on the street?

[2017] I don't know if they, I don't know about the shows.

[2018] How do you get people to pay tickets for that when you can just sit there?

[2019] It's a few feet back.

[2020] You give them a soda.

[2021] I think they did that.

[2022] I think the stand did that.

[2023] Because I'm pretty sure Ari sent me a picture of someone on stage.

[2024] Yeah.

[2025] Yeah, it's like they had this set up outside.

[2026] Right.

[2027] Yeah, like that.

[2028] Look at that.

[2029] Oh, and like looking into the stand.

[2030] Oh, that's funny.

[2031] And the stage is right there.

[2032] kind of wild right yeah but this is this is the thing it's like people find a way I know they use ingenuity I know they find a way to do it the store but that store didn't have fucking shows that just was linked because it's a comedy oh yeah they fuck that looks like the La Jolla one yeah they fucked us there I know but the comedy store in the back parking lot they're like no you don't have a license to do this yeah that's even crazy it seemed like the watts perfect spot over regulation yeah it's doom California from, you know, from the beginning of time.

[2033] I know.

[2034] California is one of the most over -regulated cities.

[2035] It really is.

[2036] I know.

[2037] It's terrible.

[2038] I know.

[2039] I know.

[2040] It's so beautiful, though.

[2041] Some parts of it.

[2042] There's a little view of the Venice Beach, not so much.

[2043] The street.

[2044] Yeah.

[2045] Yeah, you could just stand there for sure.

[2046] Yeah, you totally could just be like, hey, I'm going to watch the show from over there.

[2047] Yeah.

[2048] So now there's all of these, it feels like, I don't know, kind of like Venice, Italy in a way.

[2049] It's like there's all these outdoor places.

[2050] for seating and it'll be interesting to see you know the weather's not great there for most of the years so maybe it will go away Tim Dylan told me the crimes off the hook he said it's crazy he said he was walking through Times Square and he said he felt like a victim oh really yeah you said it felt remarkably different there's a big difference between midtown and downtown like downtown like in the village bustling young people just it felt like that was returned to normal somewhat normal go to midtown and there's nobody there because they're still waiting on the return of the tourists and the return of the business people like the offices aren't open that's crazy until you until you tilt those numbers and bring all those people back what you're left with are the people that are you know roaming the streets and it is it is and there's some concern from a lot of people that that's never going to come back because a lot of people like working remotely I know it's going to be interesting I don't know I mean people thrive being around other people though like there's a you know there's a difference yeah you know it's a big difference i wonder what's like where you're more productive together in an office with people watching you in your home right your home set up for you know what's amazing fun and relaxation how many guys got caught jerking off to zoom on zoom calls like didn't know that their camera was still on and they pull their dicks out tubin the jeffrey tubin guy what i mean you can't wait until you're done with this i know men it's all men right it's addiction it's pornography addiction right that's what it is yeah it's pornography addiction is it's so it not only is it's so real it's also it's so taboo because uh for whatever reason like there's shame and pleasuring yourself and then there's shame and being caught pleasuring yourself which must have been devastating for him.

[2051] Oh, brutal.

[2052] And he's a legitimate journalist.

[2053] I know.

[2054] And fired for a mistake like that.

[2055] Yeah.

[2056] Which is, and everyone's going to remember him for that one mistake.

[2057] I know.

[2058] It's become like a verb.

[2059] I got caught tubing.

[2060] Oh, really?

[2061] Yeah.

[2062] Don't tubing it.

[2063] But multiple people.

[2064] It's terrible.

[2065] I love that guy.

[2066] Just there's an interesting guy to listen to.

[2067] It's just like coming into all this political times and oh.

[2068] Well, you know, how come you can't make a mistake?

[2069] I know what is that why are firing the guy it's like do you think he's evil is that why he beat off who got hurt yeah who did who got hurt no what I mean like from that like feelings well his feelings yeah but that's what I'm saying that's it other than that no one got hurt right I mean maybe some people saw it and laughed yeah but the reality of the rest of that experience right it's just a guy beating off just made a mistake and by the way guys are doing that all across the country all day long and this is the thing you find out when you let a guy work from home some people just can't they can't resist that temptation that's right that's why we got to get back in the office click on that porn hub tab any free time guys are going to fill up with something bad well louis lucey told me that that was uh one of the ways that he avoided any kind of distractions uh on his writing laptop he's like his writing laptop literally can't connect to the internet uh -huh it doesn't it doesn't allow it to connect near it so it's only yeah so that's how he keeps from looking at porn keeps from staring at car videos right distracted he only writes right smart yeah i never downloaded uh iTunes or any of that stuff onto my laptop that I write with yeah but then it got to it got to it was a tool that I needed to use to email and Do whatever stuff.

[2070] Next thing you know, you're watching porn.

[2071] Bum chika waka, wauwauwau, wow.

[2072] Yeah, it's so tempting to just watch YouTube videos to just Google things.

[2073] Yeah.

[2074] You know, just see what's going on in the world.

[2075] You've got to stop yourself.

[2076] What's happening in the news?

[2077] Picking up your phone.

[2078] But more than the computer for me, like I can stay off of that stuff pretty easily on the, but having the phone next to me is the problem.

[2079] Picking that up and just going to check Instagram and then you just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

[2080] That thing is, I don't like.

[2081] Really, it's such a time suck.

[2082] It's a time suck, and then if you start reading comments and reading people's opinions about you, and then you get - Forget it.

[2083] Then you get weirded out.

[2084] I stopped going to the Twitter's, like I never read Twitter anymore, like for years, just stop going to the feed for it.

[2085] It's a bunch of mentally unhealthy people throwing shit at each other.

[2086] It was so healthy to not do it.

[2087] I don't, I literally, really, when we were talking earlier about like the people hating on people performing, I literally did not see it.

[2088] I'm not making it up.

[2089] No, I'm like literally did not know it was happening.

[2090] That's the way to be.

[2091] But Instagram, because it's a little more joyous, I think, seeing people's faces and seeing your friends performing and all that kind of stuff.

[2092] Like, I will scroll through that.

[2093] Yeah, Instagram's definitely more interesting.

[2094] Yeah.

[2095] I thought it was dumb at first because I thought, what, it's just pictures?

[2096] I want to see pictures.

[2097] Right.

[2098] see pictures anyway but then i realized like pictures with captions is actually kind of more indicative of like a person's thoughts than just just the draw just the caption itself right right yeah i get it i get it you would have a funny one today with that artist how crazy is that i had a fucking i sold a sculpture for i think it was like 18 000 an invisible sculpture yeah it's just nothing it's air does not you have to imagine what the sculpture is so when you buy it what do you do you put it in your you have to get a car well here's the thing like how can you stop him from selling the exact same one to everybody it's invisible but the fact that it was an auction it someone was so dumb how much did they pay was it 18 grand when I looked it up though to try to find the article about it to be like this can't be real is it I've stumbled across an opinion piece about it on the advertising world saying this happens in the advertising world all of the time.

[2099] Like people will pay a bunch of money, even at an auction type thing, for their ad to go out to X amount of viewers, they think on a blog or a popular video or whatever.

[2100] Right.

[2101] And they'll see results that show, this was viewed X amount of times, but they never know that that's an actual human.

[2102] They're being sold essentially the same thing as what this guy's article was sort of saying.

[2103] And I know that that's true, but I don't know that the artist is making a point on the advertising world or like we're not going to fake shit to people.

[2104] He's just a scam artist.

[2105] Just a dirty LACMA style scam artist.

[2106] The L .A. County Museum of Arts.

[2107] You know that?

[2108] You ever go to Lackma?

[2109] Yes.

[2110] You want to hurt somebody.

[2111] When you go there, you're like, what is this?

[2112] What are you doing?

[2113] When you see what are they calling art?

[2114] Yeah, one of them was a plexiglass box that was just sitting on the ground.

[2115] And I was just joking.

[2116] around and I said yeah that plexiglass that's the art that's the whole thing it's like amazing look what they did there yeah I was joking and this woman said actually that is the art piece why do you what are you saying that's not art it's a piece of plastic yeah you don't get it the problem is you don't get it you're not sophisticated and your taste of art right but modern art like one of the art pieces was like someone throwing a ball and then the other person catching it, just playing a loop of people throwing balls at each other.

[2117] I'm like, what the fuck are you doing?

[2118] I know.

[2119] The art world is very...

[2120] But not the regular art world, like art art, like people's paintings and interesting shit.

[2121] I love that stuff.

[2122] I'm fascinated by that.

[2123] But it's these scam artists that sell invisible sculptures.

[2124] Like, you can eat shit, you fuck.

[2125] What do you got there?

[2126] This is the piece, I guess, on the guys, the artists' Instagram.

[2127] It's a video playing.

[2128] Oh, it's a video of...

[2129] Of empty space?

[2130] It shows, yeah, there's like a chalk outline on the street.

[2131] There it is.

[2132] That's the piece.

[2133] That's the piece.

[2134] Okay.

[2135] The sculpture I installed here.

[2136] That's the sculpture.

[2137] Shut the fuck.

[2138] Shut the fuck up.

[2139] What about the person who bought it, though?

[2140] Like, who wanted to buy it.

[2141] Probably some crazy dude who has too much money.

[2142] Some oil barren.

[2143] I'll buy it.

[2144] Fuck you.

[2145] I win the auction.

[2146] Right.

[2147] It's probably doing coke and just doing random auctions all day long.

[2148] We got 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, going 16, going 16, 16, 16, 16.

[2149] 18 sold Johnny Fat Cigar Did you ever see that movie Uncut Jims?

[2150] Parts of it, half of it You didn't see the whole thing?

[2151] No, I got distracted and I never got back to it It was a fucking amazing movie But it was fun In it there's a scam auction Where he's got a buddy Like bidding for something To try to raise up the price Then he fucks up and wins Oh really?

[2152] Spoiler alert How great was that movie?

[2153] Tick -tick -tick -tick -tick -tick -tick -too.

[2154] frantic I still as a person who really likes the NBA and is a little bit into gambling I go it's good it's fun but like they've built up some fucking drama that doesn't exist and can't exist because you can't do that stuff the bet he makes is a bet you cannot make oh and really that seems like a big oversight he sends his girlfriend on a on an Uber blade that didn't exist until like three years ago Uber blade yeah the helicopter thing oh the helicopter Uber he sends her to a casino that doesn't have a sports book uh -huh so like there's a couple that but i'm like sounds like a little nitpicky little hey sounds like a little sometimes it takes you out of the movie though when you're watching like uh you can't even make this bet that was that teddy bergeron joke about uh the person that goes to the theater and watches peter pan he's on a wire there's no santa claus and he's on a wire what a great joke when i was an open micer um i did my very first open mic night.

[2155] Jonathan Katz was the host.

[2156] Wow.

[2157] And, you know, it was a bunch of scrubs like me. And then Teddy Bergeron came on and did a set.

[2158] Oh, my God.

[2159] I made you, we just want to quit right there and then.

[2160] Oh, God.

[2161] I feel like, I'll never be as funny as that guy.

[2162] I did a lot of gigs with him, too.

[2163] Really?

[2164] Oh, yeah.

[2165] I saw him when he came through the cellar probably in, like, 98, 99.

[2166] Yeah.

[2167] He was like a little older, and he came through, and it was just like, you know, that weird space you're in like this little thing and he was so different from everybody else age wise and performance wise but there were just these moments that were just like it was kind of like it was like watching like a lion in a way like he was kind of like finding his way and then we just would just you would see it yeah you know what I mean like that that's where I got that joke from he's on a wire yeah he's on a wire yeah that was his style he was such a brilliant guy like a really intelligent guy yeah and his comedy was so polished so smooth yeah yeah you know it's where you get to see like the different styles of delivery that different people have and yeah no i mean he was uh i was just went down a rabbit hole of uh bernie mack the other day oh my god he was a monster a monster the passion when he went on stage his deaf jam yeah he was like i ain't afraid of you motherfuckers the best the best the best the best Everyone's bombing before him, and everyone's, like, the audience is rough.

[2168] And when he went out there like that, boom.

[2169] When he went out there like that, everybody was like, oh, like you feel the energy shift in the room.

[2170] He was energy, the belief, like the, that was the really, like, lesson that you always have to relearn these lessons all the time, right?

[2171] And just that he was not up there being passive.

[2172] He was letting you know that what he was talking about right now is the most important thing in the world.

[2173] Yep.

[2174] That thing.

[2175] Yep, yep, yep.

[2176] Preacher confidence.

[2177] Yeah, like almost like he's talking about a religious thing.

[2178] Yeah, yeah.

[2179] When people have that kind of like Sam Kinnison -style delivery, that's just fucking dynamic, powerful delivery, it's so, it's just so gripping.

[2180] It's so catchy.

[2181] Yeah.

[2182] It's like you've got to, how can the, I think there was a Kinnison quote actually.

[2183] It was like, how can the audience, you expect the audience to give a shit.

[2184] if you don't.

[2185] Right.

[2186] Was that Hicks or Kinnison?

[2187] I think it was Kinnison.

[2188] Maybe him and Hicks shared.

[2189] Yeah.

[2190] I mean, they hung around together a lot.

[2191] I mean, it's something we should all be saying over and over again, you know.

[2192] But you do see comics sometimes get up there and be like, well, yeah.

[2193] And it's like, well, yeah.

[2194] What else?

[2195] What else is going on?

[2196] One of the things that taught me that I learned rather from Boston is people's attention spans are very precious.

[2197] you have to pay attention to people's attention spans.

[2198] You have to appreciate it.

[2199] Right.

[2200] Because in Boston, you know, they don't have a lot of tolerance for meandering.

[2201] Right.

[2202] And all the comedians on the shows, like if you're dealing with a guy like a Lenny Clark or a Steve Sweeney, they're all rapid fire, real tight axe.

[2203] Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, punch lines coming at you.

[2204] Yeah.

[2205] Guns blazing.

[2206] Like, growing up in a place like that, you develop this sort of Bill Burr style, the Patrice O 'Neill style.

[2207] You know, there's a lot of guys that come.

[2208] Like, those guys are two Boston guys.

[2209] Yeah, yeah.

[2210] Nick DePaulo.

[2211] Yeah.

[2212] There's, you know, so many, Louis C .K., so many guys from that area, Bobcat.

[2213] Yeah.

[2214] So many guys from that environment.

[2215] And then you get Stephen Wright and Jonathan Katz.

[2216] Yeah, yeah, very different.

[2217] Yeah.

[2218] Well, Stephen Wright's the most different, right?

[2219] The most different.

[2220] But in his own way, he's bringing that belief, that passion, that thing.

[2221] He's not, his, his cadence is so much slower than Bernie Mac.

[2222] Right.

[2223] But, but there's a slow burn to the intensity.

[2224] Yeah.

[2225] Yeah, slow burn.

[2226] Yeah.

[2227] Yeah.

[2228] But there is an intensity.

[2229] Maybe that's the key word.

[2230] I always really admired people like him because his style is all non -sequiters.

[2231] Like you can't feed off of something.

[2232] Like you and I, we can talk about something.

[2233] Like say if we talk about coffee, we can just kind of go on about coffee and then lead it into wine and lead it into wine and lead it into this and then you know there's so many different places you can take an idea but when you're just doing non sequiters you know i got a job at a place that makes fire hydrants you couldn't park anywhere near the joint right that kind of that's it's your thing it's your mind fire hydrant factory i fucked up yeah yeah stephen right would do all non sequiters right which is kind of crazy kind of crazy who do we know that does that anthony jessel neck yeah yeah but kind of but he he kind of he he stays in it it's all lines yeah right it's all but it's always jokes dark real dark stuff well is it yeah he's doing his he has a twist on it but it's still like he's not gonna I've never seen Anthony just kind of like break off and just start you know no no no it doesn't riff yeah yeah like who but who else does like completely non -related like Mitch Headberg did that Mitch Headberg was complete non -sequiters yeah I always think Like, how do they remember whether they told that joke yet?

[2234] I know.

[2235] Because every joke is like 30 seconds, and you have 150 of them.

[2236] Like, how do you remember?

[2237] I know.

[2238] It's, yeah, it's a whole different thing.

[2239] Do you ever do three shows and you can't remember whether or not you've done that joke for the...

[2240] Yeah.

[2241] That's terrifying.

[2242] Terrifying.

[2243] Three shows are weird.

[2244] That's the weird...

[2245] That was, like, the goal of...

[2246] It was like to never do three shows in a night.

[2247] Yeah.

[2248] That was brutal.

[2249] no one wanted to be at that last show the audience didn't want to be there they were tired and drunk you were tired it was they fucked up and didn't get tickets for the 10 o 'clock yeah it was terrible midnight show so the midnight show by the way you don't go on stage to like 1240 right exactly it's almost 1 o 'clock in the morning and you're getting on stage a nightmare show us your tits a nightmare okay I'm here to make you laugh oh the worst just being in those lion dens Just trying.

[2250] That's why you had to go fast.

[2251] That's why you needed to keep going.

[2252] You needed to hammer.

[2253] Well, those late night shows on Friday night, too.

[2254] Like, those are the worst.

[2255] Because the people worked all day.

[2256] They worked all day.

[2257] They worked all week.

[2258] They got to the last day of the week.

[2259] And now.

[2260] They've been up since six in the morning.

[2261] And then they got drunk and due to whatever they did.

[2262] Eight, drink, did what it got high before your show.

[2263] Yep.

[2264] A nightmare.

[2265] A whole chicken.

[2266] And everyone did those shows for a long time.

[2267] I did them forever.

[2268] They don't exist anymore, I don't think.

[2269] Some places still have them.

[2270] Some places still do a midnight show.

[2271] Not many.

[2272] It's not good.

[2273] It's only good for the guys selling them the booze.

[2274] Yeah, I forget who the last person asked me if they should do a midnight show.

[2275] And I said, well, I mean, look, it's money.

[2276] If you need the money, do it.

[2277] But I fucking hate those.

[2278] I don't think they're ever worth doing.

[2279] The worst.

[2280] And so they said, I'm going to do it.

[2281] And then they text me the next day.

[2282] You were right.

[2283] Fucking terrible.

[2284] I'm like, yeah.

[2285] It's like, you're dealing with the most.

[2286] hired most drunk people.

[2287] Yeah, you just want to send people home at that hour.

[2288] That said, every now and then, you'll have a midnight show and it's fucking fire.

[2289] Yeah.

[2290] Every now and then, every now and then, you'll have a late night show.

[2291] Yeah.

[2292] Like, some of those late night shows at the store are fucking incredible.

[2293] Yeah.

[2294] Never know.

[2295] Can't go that long.

[2296] No. Can't go that long.

[2297] You can't drag it out.

[2298] You have to be conscious of how much they've got left in the tank, too.

[2299] Yeah.

[2300] You know, it's going to be...

[2301] That's why when I see those guys, like when Dane and Chappelle and...

[2302] and all those guys were doing, like, five -hour sets.

[2303] They were, like, breaking the Guinness Book of World Records.

[2304] I know.

[2305] I think Dane broke the record, but I think somebody broke it and went, like, 24 hours on stage.

[2306] Right.

[2307] I wonder if they peed.

[2308] Yeah, good question.

[2309] I bet there was pee breaks.

[2310] Maybe we have a water jug.

[2311] Just turn.

[2312] Ew.

[2313] Like a trucker.

[2314] Yeah, like a large gallon trucker.

[2315] 40 hours and eight minutes.

[2316] For stand -up?

[2317] Mm -hmm.

[2318] When was this?

[2319] April 30th, 2013.

[2320] United States.

[2321] How much of that is real comedy?

[2322] A guy named the Midnight Swinger, David Scott, at the Diamond Jocas, you know, in Dubuque, Iowa.

[2323] His name's the Midnight Swinger.

[2324] Go for it.

[2325] And he was on stage for 40 hours.

[2326] Let me see what he looks like.

[2327] Let me see what he looks like.

[2328] Wow.

[2329] Yeah.

[2330] I like his tie.

[2331] He looks like he's got energy.

[2332] He looks like he might be funny.

[2333] You know what I'm saying?

[2334] Yeah, definitely.

[2335] So he holds the world record.

[2336] It doesn't have any information about it.

[2337] I was going to look that up next.

[2338] Well, Google his name, David Scott.

[2339] By an individual.

[2340] I'm sure he has a website.

[2341] I'm sure he's got a different David Scott.

[2342] It's a congressman.

[2343] When Mr. Showtime.

[2344] It's like you want to see his set.

[2345] I think he's wearing mascara.

[2346] What's he got going on?

[2347] It's the same guy?

[2348] I don't know.

[2349] I don't know.

[2350] I don't know.

[2351] It's the same guy.

[2352] Is it?

[2353] That looks like a...

[2354] Maybe.

[2355] Got a crazy haircut.

[2356] It looks like an older.

[2357] Tim Minchin.

[2358] That looks like one of my mom's friends.

[2359] Yeah, does it seem like the same guy?

[2360] It doesn't, though, does it?

[2361] Just with different hair.

[2362] Oh, yeah, it's just a different look.

[2363] I mean, that was, so that picture is 2013, that's eight years later.

[2364] You could have long hair now.

[2365] I have long hair.

[2366] He's still cranking.

[2367] He's COVID hair.

[2368] Yeah, maybe.

[2369] Yeah, but how much of that is comedy at that point?

[2370] You're just kind of standing up.

[2371] You're just in a place.

[2372] He's got the world record.

[2373] Big news must watch.

[2374] Go back?

[2375] You just happen to be in a comedy club.

[2376] Go back?

[2377] I can't.

[2378] You can't?

[2379] Oh.

[2380] It's like the Facebook.

[2381] Wacky Facebook interface.

[2382] You whack I do.

[2383] But it was cool being at the cellar again.

[2384] They were cranking out shows.

[2385] All the comics were there.

[2386] They were doing Vax shows.

[2387] You had to show your vaccine so they can admit more people.

[2388] For comics as well?

[2389] No. Store has it for the comics.

[2390] Yeah.

[2391] It's hilarious.

[2392] Why can't you just show a negative test?

[2393] With the Facebook just banned Donald Trump for two years.

[2394] They said he can't come back to Facebook for two years.

[2395] Yeah, I just read that.

[2396] There's something he could do, though, to get back.

[2397] I didn't know what it was he could do to get back, but like there's something he can do to come back, though.

[2398] Like parole?

[2399] I don't, yeah, a little bit of a parole hearing?

[2400] Tell us you're sorry.

[2401] Let me see.

[2402] I'm sorry.

[2403] You have to.

[2404] I almost caused the United States to collapse the end of democracy.

[2405] You have to just give us inspirational quotes for the next two years and we'll let you back in.

[2406] Like what kind of fucking...

[2407] They made a ruling and some people are like, this is bullshit, he should be out forever.

[2408] Why are you letting him back in two years?

[2409] Yeah.

[2410] Because in two years it'll be even older.

[2411] It's like imagine how dumb he'll be in two years.

[2412] More reckless.

[2413] It would be a mess.

[2414] In two years, and then the two years, the effect of all the amphetamines, he's just like, He's going to be taken from now until those two years.

[2415] Deterioration of the brain, McDonald's food, no vitamins.

[2416] I know.

[2417] He just said, well, the opposite.

[2418] He's going to live longer than everybody.

[2419] Yeah, I wonder.

[2420] I wonder.

[2421] Wow, they just came down with that ruling?

[2422] Yeah.

[2423] Well, that's pretty heavy.

[2424] I'm trying to find out the way that says he come back, but does say that he's in two years they're going to reevaluate even, so it might not be that.

[2425] Yeah.

[2426] He's fucked.

[2427] kick the can it's very interesting how they can just remove someone from social media like that though yeah you know I mean it's a it's a real eye opener for a lot of people when they can move the president in the United States off of Twitter and go that's it you're done and then you don't hear from them anymore yeah imagine if he was still on social media right now oh it's so exhausting you would never hear a word and apparently he quit his blog after only nine days because the fucking view count was so abysmal Yeah, who wants, yeah.

[2428] No one wants to go into the president's blog.

[2429] You know?

[2430] Yeah.

[2431] But that's the thing that's interesting, though, is like people are locked into these ecosystems.

[2432] Right.

[2433] Facebook or Instagram or YouTube, whatever it is.

[2434] They're locked into those things.

[2435] Yeah.

[2436] And nobody wants to go to your website anymore.

[2437] No, I know.

[2438] Exactly.

[2439] Yeah, they just want to see.

[2440] Just feed it to me. Well, make it a part of what I already eat.

[2441] Don't make me go to a new restaurant.

[2442] You don't, right, exactly.

[2443] That's the thing.

[2444] People don't want to go anywhere.

[2445] Like, just even switching over from YouTube to Spotify, so many people are like, what the fuck is this?

[2446] Oh, really?

[2447] I got to download a new thing.

[2448] They're mad.

[2449] Really?

[2450] Yeah, for sure.

[2451] That's weird.

[2452] It's not weird, though.

[2453] People get, like, trapped in a habit.

[2454] Yeah.

[2455] Have a routine that you follow.

[2456] You go to iTunes.

[2457] every day at iTunes you get the latest podcast there it is I'm already subscribed press play yeah now you got to do the same thing over at Spotify but what's so weird is how it's moving like it's always changing there's always new things coming up and now Spotify is more podcast viewers and listeners than any other app Spotify has surpassed Apple wow yeah that's impressive yeah it's a new thing man they really did that quickly yeah make sure that's true I'm 90 % sure it's true though that's amazing yeah well it's a really good interface you know I won't say anymore because I work for them no but it is I mean just watching for my daughters they were looking at me using Apple music like ew I was like what like no Spotify it says that they will surpass Apple this year will when was this March oh that's quite a long time ago isn't it that was a forecast too I think the The latest one was something they sent.

[2458] Well, I might be wrong.

[2459] Just got to follow where the kids are going.

[2460] Maybe it's worldwide, but in America, it's still, Apple still has the lead, I think.

[2461] Mm -hmm.

[2462] Like Google worldwide use of Spotify.

[2463] But then I got a message from a friend of mine who said his friends in some parts of the world can't get Spotify.

[2464] It doesn't work.

[2465] Oh, yeah.

[2466] That's true, yeah.

[2467] Like Iran?

[2468] Ron?

[2469] I was going to say if I've gotten a message, Facebook is adding podcasts so that people can listen to podcasts on that.

[2470] You imagine with the censorship that those motherfuckers pump out.

[2471] I mean, they just now allowed you to talk about the lab leak theory again.

[2472] For the longest time, if you talked about the COVID possibly leaking from a lab that studied COVID, that just happens to be in the exact same location as the fucking weird disease that is inexplicably sickening people in.

[2473] different ways and all the shit that we talked about before.

[2474] Just happens to be there.

[2475] If you put that on Facebook, they would literally delete it from Facebook.

[2476] Really?

[2477] Yeah.

[2478] It's legitimate scientists and biologists, we're examining this.

[2479] Epidemiologists, we're examining this.

[2480] And they were saying this very well may have come from the lab that is right there in that same area.

[2481] So what's their interest in that?

[2482] What was their interest in that?

[2483] Who the fuck knows?

[2484] Who the fuck knows?

[2485] Who knows what these people are up to?

[2486] Mark Zuckerberg, if there's anybody on this planet, that's a robot It's him You ever see him drink water?

[2487] No It's very weird Oh really?

[2488] Yeah like this Ready?

[2489] Yeah I'm gonna drink like Zalka right away Yeah, I use two hands Yeah, he used two hands But maybe that was Trump That used two hands Trump used two hands And everybody was speculated He's shaking He's shaking he's got the shakes Watch him sip Watch him sip this water Watch this, watch this watch this Watch this, ready?

[2490] This is how people drink the water Like how he puts it down What is that?

[2491] That is a guy that secretly...

[2492] That's weird.

[2493] That is a guy that secretly wants all the power in the world.

[2494] He's trying to keep it together.

[2495] Just don't...

[2496] Don't fuck this up, Mark.

[2497] Don't fuck this up.

[2498] Take a sip of water.

[2499] Don't let them see.

[2500] We are normal.

[2501] We are just like us.

[2502] We are just like them.

[2503] It's so weird.

[2504] Bro, that is the weirdest sip of water.

[2505] It's so bizarre.

[2506] That's so weird.

[2507] That's why he was able to do it, I guess.

[2508] But, I mean, why didn't you even want that much water?

[2509] Yeah.

[2510] Do you even notice if you had that much water right after you have it?

[2511] Go ahead, try that.

[2512] Ready?

[2513] Let's do a Mark Zuckerberg said.

[2514] He looks at it first.

[2515] He looks at what he's putting in.

[2516] Probably because he's worried they're poisoning him.

[2517] He probably has a bunch of people that test his food.

[2518] We can't even do it.

[2519] It's the king's food.

[2520] You trying to be more robotic doesn't come close to what he was doing.

[2521] Like, you're doing your best to be like a robot.

[2522] And still there's so much just emotion coming out of your body.

[2523] Is that his sunscreen?

[2524] Is that legit?

[2525] Yeah.

[2526] That's real sunscreen?

[2527] He went surfing, yeah.

[2528] Oh, my God.

[2529] All 100%.

[2530] What?

[2531] He did his whole face and zinc?

[2532] Bro, he's so odd.

[2533] It's so weird.

[2534] I love that that exists.

[2535] When you have the kind of money that guy has and the kind of power he has by being at the helm of Facebook, and then you have a bunch of people that want you to step down as a CEO.

[2536] Like a lot of people want him to step down as a CEO.

[2537] Facebook oh yeah a lot of people they think he fucked up things during the election with all the Russian propaganda and all the shit that happened in 2016 and selling all our information to people that was a big kerfuffle there's so much going on and they want him to step down but he's like fuck you I'm drinking water yeah I made this I'm gonna keep it but like Jeff Bezos stepping down is he yeah what's he gonna do spend that money man you get bored would you if you're that kind of head that got you to that position right he wants to do something else don't you think you could do something else with 150 billion fucking dollars you could basically just know if it would change me at all you set a billion aside and start doing wild shit with that billion dollars yeah just decide i'm i'm going to do this do whatever the hell you want yeah what would you do what would you do what would you do if you're bill gates you just got to divorced.

[2538] Why did they get divorced?

[2539] Because he likes to fuck.

[2540] Is that it?

[2541] Probably.

[2542] I'd imagine he's got caught tubing in his thing.

[2543] 150 billion dollars.

[2544] Yeah.

[2545] Probably wants to fuck.

[2546] I'm like listen Melinda.

[2547] I love you but I can't.

[2548] It just seems so weird at that age to like at that time.

[2549] What do they call that?

[2550] They call that.

[2551] There's a certain type of divorce they call it.

[2552] It's like there's a term.

[2553] Is there?

[2554] Yeah.

[2555] It's got to be because it's so weird.

[2556] You're just the old jellyfish people it's like a sunset divorce or some show right right the end of the day yeah i quit enough god at that point who cares i think there's uh to make some tea the speculation is it had something to do with his relationship with geoffrey epstein which uh turned out to be far more extensive than he had let on oh geez everything always comes back to that guy that guy had his claws and everybody i know so creepy don't you don't you feel very real fortunate that you never went to one of his parties.

[2557] I never, you know, and I tried to get invited all those years.

[2558] Imagine if you did them.

[2559] Oh, my God.

[2560] You know, like, just a snapshot of you at a party with a drink.

[2561] A lot of famous people were at his parties.

[2562] I know.

[2563] A lot.

[2564] A lot of famous people traveled with him.

[2565] Really?

[2566] Yeah, a lot.

[2567] I mean, that was part of the gig.

[2568] Whatever he was doing, let's not speculate about who he worked for, what intelligence agencies or what have you.

[2569] Oh, geez.

[2570] But for sure, there was some of that going.

[2571] on and he was curating influential people that's so weird isn't it fucking that's weird god people had too much time on their hands what's weird is that that was like the craziest conspiracy theory ever if you went back in the day just like a few years ago and someone like some Alex Jones type dude was telling you about a conspiracy where super wealthy people and famous people fly to an island to have sex with underage girls you're like what What?

[2572] That sounds like Looney Tune stuff.

[2573] Yeah.

[2574] And now you're like, oh.

[2575] Ew.

[2576] Oh, it was real.

[2577] Goy.

[2578] It was real.

[2579] And then he got literally hundreds of celebrities and scientists and world leaders.

[2580] Well, maybe they were coming because they heard it was a good buffet.

[2581] That's what I heard.

[2582] I heard it's a great buffet.

[2583] I only flew with him 26 times.

[2584] I don't know what the problem is.

[2585] Everybody's so fucking judgmental today.

[2586] I hear he's got a bunch of jet skis.

[2587] I hear it's a really fun time.

[2588] He's got his own game room, I hear.

[2589] He's got his own...

[2590] Shuffleboard?

[2591] The shuffleboard?

[2592] Let me find this real quick.

[2593] How's that Jolaine?

[2594] Creepos.

[2595] I was just looking it up.

[2596] Who?

[2597] Denied her fifth bail charge yesterday.

[2598] Who?

[2599] Or bail.

[2600] Trying to get out.

[2601] Yeah, yeah.

[2602] Oh, his partner?

[2603] Who arranged all that stuff?

[2604] Bail, not parole, right?

[2605] Yeah.

[2606] What is...

[2607] That was a documentary I didn't get through.

[2608] When is her, um, fucking...

[2609] November?

[2610] Why is it so long?

[2611] Probably because COVID.

[2612] No, they're trying to murder her.

[2613] They're just doing it nice and slow.

[2614] They just keep putting a rope into her cell.

[2615] Just going to leave this on the tray.

[2616] Well, how about the fucking people that were guarding Jeffrey Epstein's cell?

[2617] They falsified records, lied about it, and they just got like community service.

[2618] Like, whatever.

[2619] No big deal.

[2620] I pulled up the wrong clip.

[2621] Remember that show like Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, but it was later of VH1.

[2622] It was sort of like cribs.

[2623] It was a little bit of mixture of both, but VH1 did.

[2624] it.

[2625] Pimp my ride.

[2626] They did a...

[2627] Champagne wishes and caviar dreams.

[2628] It's just like that of Jeffrey Epstein.

[2629] Oh, yeah, that's right.

[2630] I saw that online the other day.

[2631] And they're showing, like, his cool house.

[2632] I'm trying to find the video, though.

[2633] Oh, they featured him on the show.

[2634] This is the massage room where all the action happens.

[2635] Everyone is of age.

[2636] You're not being filmed.

[2637] Creepy Yeah The word that Galane said That they had like films of everyone Films of all those people That's the old spot Single residents in all of Manhattan Yeah A whopping 51 ,000 square feet That's a dope house Look at them On Earth video from Jeffrey Epstein's feature from 2007 It's gone massively viral on social media It just sells them almost like you guys were doing like he was like a cool guy always sweet parties and fabulous life of billion dollar Wall Street ballers dives into Epstein's fixation on owning private oh there it is led French of Bill Clinton was spotted on the infamous Lolita Express chat in 2002 dun da -dum Wow you know what none of those people are making their own pasta I'll tell you they're right now that's what's up right?

[2638] Right no one's learning how to shoot a bow and arrow they have nothing to take up their time so they just run around with their wieners out you greatly benefited from my move to austin texas you got a freezer full elk dude how's that like joe you have a full freezer you i mean it was the greatest gift i i open it just even when i'm not eating it just to look inside i have that giant freezer it fit perfectly it's like it was it's like my house was waiting for it it's just perfect nook right in the garage and it's just so much elk Isn't it nice?

[2639] I don't, I have not bought meat.

[2640] I don't buy meat.

[2641] Do you feel better when you eat that meat?

[2642] A hundred percent.

[2643] Really do, right?

[2644] No joke.

[2645] Yeah.

[2646] No joke.

[2647] So good for you.

[2648] It's so good.

[2649] I love it.

[2650] What's the ones in the camouflage?

[2651] Oh, tubes.

[2652] Those are, that's ground beef.

[2653] Excuse me, ground elk.

[2654] That's ground elk.

[2655] Is it different from any of the others?

[2656] No, it's usually it's a tougher cut, like shoulder meat.

[2657] Uh -huh.

[2658] You know, and they ground it up to me. at Canberg, it is sensational with eggs.

[2659] Oh.

[2660] What I like to do with it, I like to, I take some butter, put in a pan, and I take the ground elk, and I put some garlic salt on the ground elk, and just kind of like get it browned, and then I push it to the side and crack a bunch of eggs in there, too, and I have like four eggs, and either I mix it all up together, which sometimes I do, I make like a scramble, or I just get the eggs sunny side up, push them to the side, and then put the ground elk.

[2661] a pile on the plate and then mix it in with the yokes and everything.

[2662] Oh, nice.

[2663] You just lit me up.

[2664] It's so good.

[2665] And then you get a little piece of that bread.

[2666] Oh, a little, and put that French butter on it.

[2667] Come on now.

[2668] That's living.

[2669] So we're going to eat tonight at Red Ash.

[2670] I organized a comedian's dinner.

[2671] Nice.

[2672] Ron White, Eric Griffin.

[2673] Nice.

[2674] Everybody.

[2675] Tony, Red band.

[2676] Adam's going to be here with that too.

[2677] Wow.

[2678] We'll have some fun tonight.

[2679] Oh, that's great.

[2680] Red Ash is a great place in town.

[2681] They have, like, a real fire, like wood fire grilled steaks where they have the thing, like the Argentine -style grill.

[2682] It cranks.

[2683] Oh, really?

[2684] This is up and lowers.

[2685] They have handmade pasta there, too.

[2686] I think I want steak.

[2687] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that too.

[2688] Yeah.

[2689] You can have all of it.

[2690] Both of those things.

[2691] All right, we should wrap this up because I got to get out of here.

[2692] What do you got to do?

[2693] Come on, man. Don't you...

[2694] I don't want to go.

[2695] Don't you want to do other things as well?

[2696] No. I just want to keep doing this until dinner.

[2697] When are you working again?

[2698] Out here.

[2699] Out here in Austin.

[2700] Any gigs?

[2701] Yeah.

[2702] I'm doing the...

[2703] Was it the Capitol?

[2704] What's the theater here?

[2705] Paramount?

[2706] Paramount.

[2707] Paramount's great.

[2708] Is it like a third capacity now?

[2709] I think they may have...

[2710] I may have upped it up a little bit.

[2711] I think I'm doing it in the winter.

[2712] It's a great place.

[2713] Yeah.

[2714] I've done it once before.

[2715] beautiful theater um dude they put on my website all of my dates on the map like they have like all the little pins there it is look at all those dates look at you you fucking animal oh i hate i don't like seeing that why i don't because i'm going to go to all those places between now and december does it give you anxiety yeah you go to modesto california you don't give a fuck dude i go everywhere you get out there st paul minnesota what what red bank new jersey yeah the win in Las Vegas I'm so I'm so this makes the encore theater at the win I've never done that yeah the win it's my first time there July 30th I always usually do the mirage the mirage when I yeah I love that place a lot of comics do that big but it's uh it's like really perfectly set up yeah that's the Terry Fador theater the guy who won oh yeah what is it America's got talent is he still going I don't know I saw him there I took my family see him there because it's like a family friendly show you can see little kids can come and watch.

[2716] Oh, that's cool.

[2717] Have you seen hacks on HBO?

[2718] No, what is that?

[2719] It's good.

[2720] I've only seen a couple episodes, but Gene Smart plays it like a Joan Rivers, Rita Rudner kind of a comedian.

[2721] She plays a Vegas comic, a legend Vegas comic who's trying to hang on.

[2722] And this young hipster comedian comes in to help her write.

[2723] And it's the two generations of comedy.

[2724] Like the young comic gives her a little.

[2725] like these jokes she's like these aren't jokes there's no punchlines and it's like it's such a good look at comedy oh this is new yeah it's new she's so good she's really how come I god damn there's so much on television I haven't fucking seen it I know and I don't see she looks a little like Joan Rivers I don't see anything and uh I was able to see a couple of these really well done no shit she's amazing and it just like it's obviously written by comics because the stuff about the different generations of what comedy is and trying to kill like we were talking about like that Bernie Mac kind of a thing and the new kind of hipster like floating around this is in the world of kind of funny it's it's a pretty good a pretty good look at it's crazy when like a show could be really good and you never heard of it like how many shows are out there dude I know everyone's talking about the mayor of Easttown or whatever that is yeah I've heard that's great I hear Yeah.

[2726] That's what I hear.

[2727] I've never seen the thing.

[2728] Didn't even know what it was.

[2729] I thought it was the mayor, like M -A -Y -O -R.

[2730] M -A -R -E.

[2731] Yeah.

[2732] Yeah.

[2733] Yeah.

[2734] It's so much shit out there.

[2735] My friend John Dudley told him it's the shit.

[2736] Yeah.

[2737] All right.

[2738] Really, I got to pee really hard.

[2739] And I've got to wrap this up.

[2740] Tommy motherfucking Papa.

[2741] Wow, wow, wow.

[2742] You can find him on the Instagram is the only thing he reads.

[2743] So talk shit about him there.

[2744] No, no, no, no, no, no. Tom Papa on Instagram.

[2745] Come to Papa.

[2746] is a podcast and the other podcasts.

[2747] The Breaking Bread Podcasts.

[2748] Yeah.

[2749] And Duncan Truffles on this week.

[2750] Oh, is he?

[2751] Yep.

[2752] You guys made bread together?

[2753] No, he was, we did it remote because he's far away.

[2754] That's right.

[2755] I just love him so much.

[2756] The hillbillies and the mushrooms.

[2757] He's so great.

[2758] He's the best.

[2759] But yeah, Tompapa .com for everything.

[2760] Okay.

[2761] Bye, everybody.