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#0148 _STORY INSPIRE: Decisions that transforman, Ehsan Ahmad · INSPIRE STORY

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  Speaker 1: The Joe Rogan Experience.
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  Speaker 2: Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. Hey, fella.
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  Speaker 1: Hey. What's going on, brother?
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  Speaker 2: Good to be back, Joe.
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  Speaker 1: Good to see you, as always. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: This time I have something to actually promote.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're always promoting. I mean, any kind of appearance
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  is sort of a promotion.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: You're promoting the audience gets to see you. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Right.
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  Speaker 3: It was so funny because it got me thinking. So
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  I started watching Patrice's Opie and Anthony appearances because there's
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  a list of.
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  Speaker 2: Them on Spotify. And what was so funny to me
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  was like.
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  Speaker 3: That, you know, how they have these like these group
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  of like mentally disabled people that they kind of fuck with.
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  Speaker 1: Obi and Anthony?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It was rough.
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  Speaker 2: Like a carousel. It's like kind of mean.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of horrible. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of like, ooh, I'm kind of glad we're
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  past that. But what made me laugh is every single
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  one of them at the end of the thing was like,
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  and here's my website. I had a website. And I
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  was like, damn, I've been on the Joe Rogan Experience
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  twice and I don't even have a website.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't have a website?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't have a website. This is the first time
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  I had a website. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: What did you do? Did you make it yourself? No.
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  Speaker 3: I realized like, oh, I got to pay people to
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  do stuff like that. That's out of my wheelhouse of
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  like things I can do. Ironically, I'm terrible with technology
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  for a guy who looks like me.
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  Speaker 1: There's some things you could do like Squarespace has a
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  great setup. It's pretty easy to do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think that's just pure.
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  Speaker 3: It's like pure laziness on my end for sure and
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  a little bit like I spend so much time on
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  my brain space and this is dedicated to my jokes.
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  I kind of shut out everything else.
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  Speaker 1: It's a fun time to be alive. One of the
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  things that's really exciting about The Mothership is for someone
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  like me who's been doing comedy for so long, it's
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  really exciting to watch people's careers launch. See guys like
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  Cam Patterson go from getting a spot on Kill Tony
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  to being a regular on Kill Tony to being on
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  fucking Saturday Night Live.
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  Speaker 2: Boom. It's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Some of them, like Christina Mariani now just sells out
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  rooms at the comedy store all the time.
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  Speaker 1: She's killing it.
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  Speaker 2: And then you have Peyton Ruddy and Dylan Carlino.
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  Speaker 3: These are just guys who were just at the club
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  and just made a way social media-wise.
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  Speaker 1: And you get to see people get just tighter and better,
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  like McCusker's new set, like what he did last night.
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  Really fucking good, man. Super solid. Really fun. It's just like,
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  we got a good thing, man. It's a good thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just a fun place to be around. Everyone
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  just working jokes. That's what it is, really.
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  Speaker 2: It's so funny.
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  Speaker 3: There is such this narrative outside of the ship about
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  what Austin comedy is.
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  Speaker 2: And it's really just a bunch of people just doing jokes.
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  Speaker 1: The narrative is only with jealous people. It's not based
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  on any reality. It's not based on people go there
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  and hang out.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's always these people who love to talk about Austin,
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  but they don't talk to anyone in Austin.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: It's like there's a bunch of comics willing to hang
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  out and talk to you.
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  Speaker 1: I think I've told you this before, but I have
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  a friend of mine who's, you know, somewhat of a philosopher,
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  an online friend. I don't even know what he looks like.
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  We've been going back and forth for years. But he
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  warned me about this a long time ago. He said,
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  you've created a walled garden. And he goes, and you've
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  got all these friends and you're all supporting each other
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  and you're all having fun. But there's a lot of
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  people that feel on the outside and they feel like
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  left out of it. And so they're like, fuck those people.
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  That party sucks. You know, it's kind of along those lines. And,
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  you know, if you could find some connections to other
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  negative things, you know, like me and Tony, we have
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  this connection to Trump and so does Shane. And, you know,
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  there's there's all sorts of that. Oh, fucking you got
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  to be a right winger to be. And then the
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  narrative comes up. Oh, you got to tell jokes about
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  fucking trans people. You have to like it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You can't be a liberal. You can't be this. You
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  can't be like.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that the whole the whole like you have to
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  be a right winger.
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  Speaker 3: That's like to me, that's like massive projection because there
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  are these spaces where like if you're a right winger
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  in comedy, like there's like leftist spaces that you just
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  can't be in.
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  Speaker 1: For sure. You'll get pushed out.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: You'll get you'll get treated badly. More importantly, whereas at
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  the mothership, like that fucking green room, like 80 percent
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  of the time, it's mostly gay. like progressive people.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah oh and then left-wing people a lot of people
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  most of the people who work there are mostly left-wing
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  yeah yeah it's a place where it's a place where
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  but because right-wing people i guess are allowed to be
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  here or like also allowed to be here it's it's
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  all of a sudden this right wing nazi haven well.
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  Speaker 1: It's also it's like what does that even mean right
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  like what is right wing like because you don't think
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  that that candidate and what they were doing by like
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  storming the fucking gates with illegal immigrants. You don't think
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  that was a good idea? You don't think, like, rampant spending,
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  completely unchecked with no documentation, like what's going on in California?
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  You don't think that's a bad thing?
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  Speaker 2: What Tim Walz is doing.
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  Speaker 1: There's so much of it, man. But then it's also like, yeah,
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  what ICE is doing, like, fucking shooting that lady seems
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  kind of crazy. You know, like, grabbing people that happen
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  to be American citizens and fucking dragging them out onto
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  the snow and asking them for their papers. That seems...
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  Kind of fucking crazy too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that seems insane.
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  Speaker 1: But it's also like they have a crazy job. Like
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  imagine you're an ICE agent. Just imagine what happened. Okay.
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  So we tried– we used our sponsor Perplexity the other
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  day and tried to figure out through AI what the
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  exact number is. But when you deep dive, you realize
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  they don't know the number. They really have like an
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  estimate of interactions with illegal immigrants. And it's somewhere around
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  11 million. for four years, which is fucking wild. That's
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  10 Austins.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: At least of illegal immigrants were allowed to get in
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  this country, aided to get in this country, and then
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  moved to states. They moved them. They flew them out
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  to certain swing states. This is all Mike Benz has
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  documented all this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: There's all.
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  Speaker 1: You can see they gave him EBT cards. So imagine...
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  You can imagine two things. One, imagine you're one of
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  those people. You're like, dude, they're asking me to come.
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  Speaker 2: This is awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm in America. I'm going to get a good job.
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  I'm going to be able to support my family. And
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  then all of a sudden you have these fucking dudes
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  in bulletproof vests looking for you on the streets.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I thought you said it was okay. I thought the
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  Red Cross gave me a map.
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  Speaker 2: You gave me a.
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  Speaker 1: Fucking cell phone and now you're hunting me.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Now you're just like caught in the crossfire.
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  Speaker 1: But now imagine the ICE agents.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. This is your job. Your job is to go
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  out and find these people. And one of the things
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  you don't get about this, it's like because there was
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  like a recent clip of mine that got like highlighted
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  where I was criticizing ICE. One of the things that
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  you don't think about when you're into this is just
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  like regular police interactions. The ones that you see online
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  are the horrible ones. So you think all cops are horrible.
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  What you miss is the millions of interactions that people
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  have with cops. Like, how you doing today, sir?
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  Speaker 2: Good, sir.
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  Speaker 1: How you doing? Can I see your paperwork? Sure. Here
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  it is. You in a hurry? I fucked up. I'm
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  late for work. All right, man. Just slow down. go
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  like all right thanks brother everything's nice that happens too
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  like there's nice interactions with cops there's people that save
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  people from bad guys it happens all the time there's
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  people that are thankful that they called the police and
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  they stopped the burglar who was breaking into their fucking
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  mom's house or whatever it is right there's so many
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  more of those but you're not seeing those videos and
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  so with the ice thing what you're only seeing and
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  you're only hearing about American citizens that have been arrested,
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  the lady that got shot. You're hearing about all these negative.
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  What you're not hearing about is the number of violent
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  criminals that they've caught. And it's a lot. It's in
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  the thousands. It's not like thousands of American citizens have
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  been shipped out to other countries. That's no, it's like
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  net positive. If you look at it that way, like
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  the see if you can find out how many, because
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  I know There's probably going to be a bunch of
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  various sources that are not totally accurate. But find out, like,
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  what are the number of violent criminals they've caught since
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  they started doing this?
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  Speaker 3: Well, also the– there is a question on– this is
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  how– because I know this is how they recruit some
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  ice agents. It's just like there are ads on local
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  TV just offering like a signing bonus. During the UFC,
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  there's an ice ad. Yeah, and it's like these are
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  just like also regular people. How much training are they
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  really getting?
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Because when you watch the shooting video, you're like, why
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  is the guy shooting also recording with his phone? Like
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  there's no way that's like anything you're trained to do.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe for his own safety. Like, just to make sure
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  that you could see this lady's unhinged. Is he not
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  wearing a body camera? He's not a cop, right? Yeah.
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  Because I bet he's not wearing a body camera.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So I bet that's why. Mm-hmm. I bet that's why
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  he filmed it. And also, that same guy, it turns out,
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  was dragged by a car just recently. So, like, he
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  almost lost his life. Or someone did try to run
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  him over. He's hanging onto a car for dear life.
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  I think he got dragged. 300 feet.
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  Speaker 2: He got dragged 300 feet.
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: 300 feet, that's a long way to get dragged. Yeah. Right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: 100%. That's a full football field. There's a full possibility
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  that you may die. There's no single public record number
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  of violent criminals captured by ICE raids just over the
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  last few months, and available data suggests those cases are
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  a relatively small share of recent ICE arrests and detentions.
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  One analysis, ICE internal data, said that only 5% to
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  8% of the people booked into ICE detention in late
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  2025 and early fiscal year 2026. had violent or serious
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  property crime convictions. But even if it's 8%, they've gotten
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  rid of a half a million people already, and then 1.6
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  million voluntarily deported. So in a half a million people,
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  8% is a lot. That's a lot of violence. criminals.
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  So this is weirdly phrased. As of January 22, I
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  would say 8% is a lot. Like if you have
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  cancer in 8% of your body, I would say you're fucked.
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  You know what I'm saying? Like if you're saying, oh,
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  it's only been 8% that are violent criminals. That's a
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  lot of people.
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  Speaker 3: But now the question is, are these 8%... And then
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  the nonviolent people sent to the same place.
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  Speaker 1: Ooh, that's a good question.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: Because, like, you do want the violent criminals out, but
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  then I don't want the nonviolent criminals to be sent
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  or nonviolent people who are here to be sent to
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  a prison.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. It says ICE no longer voluntarily publishes detailed case-level
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  arrest breakdowns by offense type and independent project's So imagine
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  if you're a dude from Mexico that just walked up
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  here because you wanted a better job and then they
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  shove you in a prison.
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  Speaker 2: And now, yeah, in some prison in El Salvador.
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  Speaker 1: And you never did anything bad your whole life. And
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  now you're in some– well, the El Salvador thing, are
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  they still doing that?
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  Speaker 2: I don't– that I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: That was a bad– that's bad optics.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean there's a lot of– optics with ICE
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  has been terrible.
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  Speaker 1: It says recent enforcement has involved thousands of arrests nationwide.
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  but available analysis consistently indicate that only a small minority
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  of those... Is that in italics?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: Is it not? Is it? Maybe. Weird, right? Yeah. It
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  looks a little funky.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's not. It's just that's perplexity showing its bias.
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  Small minority of those, that's a tone, of those in
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  ICE detention arrested by ICE in late 2025 and early
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  2026 have violent criminal convictions. Most have no convictions... But
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  when they say small minority, they indicated previously that that's 8%.
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  That still means a lot of human beings.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's a lot of violent human beings. Like if you
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  could sign a piece of paper that said that we're
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  going to allow a bunch of people into this country,
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  most of them have no violent convictions, but about 8%
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  of them are monsters, evil, sociopathic murderers, drug dealers. Eight
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  percent is a giant ass fucking number.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: That's a giant ass number.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: The real problem is that they have to do this.
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  This is a real problem because the Democrats did what
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  they did. They did a crazy thing. They opened the
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  border up and told people the border was open and
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  then let people– and then when people tried to stop
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  them from doing it, they used court orders. Like what
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  was that thing they did down in Texas at the border?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, because Abbott tried to put up something, some
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  like wall or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: They said you can't stop this. Yeah. Which is, wait
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  a minute, we can't stop people from breaking the law?
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  What are you saying? There's a method to stop this
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  and you don't want it stopped? Because the dirty secret
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  is the census doesn't count citizens. It counts everybody. It
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  even counts illegals. So if you live in a community
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  that's half illegal aliens, you get way more congressional seats
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  from that district than if you are in a community
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  where all those people don't count. They said that I
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  think they said that California, if the census did– see
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  if we can find out what the number is. But
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  if the census did not count illegal immigrants in California,
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  I think they would lose a shocking number of seats.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Damn. Which is kind of crazy.
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  Speaker 2: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: You're rigging politics by moving humans into place.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you got to do something. It's a very– something
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  that no one really talks about a lot is like
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  the Democrats– Every single minority group shifted right in 2024.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Every single one.
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  Speaker 3: And no one really is like actually trying to figure
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  out why that's happening. They're like, well, if we just
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  import more people, we can overcome that deficit.
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  Speaker 1: But they could.
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  Speaker 2: They could.
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  Speaker 1: If it was successful, they could overwhelm the political process.
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  They could make it just like it's California forever where
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  you get half the people are like massively disgruntled and
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  so confused about the politics. But they're stuck there. And
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  that would be the whole country. It would essentially be
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  that kind of a thing. And then they do what
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  they do in England and what they do in Canada,
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  which is they slowly start clamping down on your rights. Right.
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  And England starts arresting people for social media posts.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, hopefully that the free speech stuff is
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  so ingrained in who we are as a people. Because England,
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  like at the end of the day, it's not like
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  that country was built on that principle.
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  Speaker 1: This says that they would only lose two House seats.
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  It says California would lose– I called it Canada. It
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  was like Freudian. Would lose an order of one to
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  two house seats if people in the state without legal
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  status were not counted in the census used for appointment
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  based on recent expert simulations.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: What's this? Here's the thing.
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 1: How many illegals are in California? Let's find that out.
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  Like what is the estimated number? Put that in there, Jamie.
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  What's the estimated number of illegals in California? I don't
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  know where I'd be without this kind of shit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so hooked on using like perplexity for any question
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  I have all throughout the day. It's like my smart friend.
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  Speaker 2: It's like better Wikipedia because it can really like– you
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  can use it as like.
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  Speaker 1: Way better than Wikipedia because it scans the entire internet.
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  And sometimes it does– catch some bullshit articles in there
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  and says, it might be this. And you're like, wait
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  a minute, what, let me go to that article. That
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  might be bullshit. Cause it's only pulling from the internet, right?
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  Speaker 2: Undocumented 2.8 million in 2007. That's what, yeah, that, that,
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  that would be around two seats, right? Cause there's like
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  30 million in California.
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  Speaker 1: Something like that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That makes a difference. And then you do the same
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  thing in Seattle. You do the same thing in wherever,
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  you know, places you have massive numbers of undocumented people. Cal, um, uh,
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  Ohio is a big one. This is one of the
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  reasons why they had this thing where– like why are
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  there so many Haitians in Ohio? What do you think?
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  I think they just decided that Ohio is a spot
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  and they all had a group WhatsApp chat. No, probably
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  somebody is moving them there because it's a swing state.
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  Speaker 2: It was funny when– the Somalian thing when Waltz was
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  like this is– white supremacy.
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  Speaker 1: It was crazy.
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  Speaker 2: But it's like, hey, but then who's the most supreme
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  white man in the state? Governor? You, bitch.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Like, that's a crazy Freudian slip.
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  Speaker 1: But it's also like, what a crazy attempt at misdirection.
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  White men commit most of the crimes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's part, I think I told you, that's part
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  of the reason why I think, like, minority groups are
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  shifting away because it's like, one, I don't think that's something,
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  the whole victimhood mentality, that's not something that minority groups
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  really experience.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Or like, Especially not minority groups that are immigrants that
• 16:45
  are in the middle of the hustle.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: We got to go to work.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: We got to overcome. That's the whole point. Regardless of
• 16:51
  the hand you're dealt, you got to just play it
• 16:52
  and overcome. And so that victimhood mentality really kind of
• 16:55
  pushes people away from the left, I think, in that manner.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: And then like, you know, when Biden was like, you know,
• 17:04
  if you. don't vote for me, you're not black. That's
• 17:09
  kind of how they view the minority vote. It's a
• 17:11
  hostage vote. It's like, vote for us or else. No
• 17:14
  one likes that energy coming towards them. And to lash
• 17:17
  out and go in a different direction.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: Such a wild thing to say.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, unbelievably funny. Unbelievably funny. Man.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: I can't believe he fucking said it. And he said
• 17:31
  it with that fucking crazy pulled back face. And it's like,
• 17:35
  this is madness. Whatever they did to him to make
• 17:38
  him try to look younger. Yeah. It just doesn't work, kids.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: No.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: It doesn't work.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. All that.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: We know what you used to look like. You're on
• 17:47
  TV all the time. And all of a sudden, you
• 17:49
  have a completely different face. Like, your face is different. Like,
• 17:53
  all your- Everything's pulled back and it doesn't look like
• 17:55
  anybody normal that's 80 years old.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: No, all plastic surgery ages, you look like an alien
• 18:00
  when you're old. There's just no way around it. I
• 18:03
  don't know who lip fillers are for because I don't
• 18:05
  know any guy who's like, yeah, I like that look.
• 18:08
  Like that much, but it's crazy how they age.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: The facial fillers are crazy too because sometimes those things
• 18:14
  become a problem and then you got to get them removed.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Well, now they're doing that buckle fat thing where they
• 18:19
  look like ghouls.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Why would they do that? Why would they take fat
• 18:23
  out of their face? Fat in your face is what
• 18:25
  makes you look youthful. What are those ladies going to
• 18:28
  look like when they hit their 60s? They're going to
• 18:30
  look like ghosts.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Maybe. Because their face will be all sunken in.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: By the time they're 60, I think medicine is going
• 18:37
  to be at a level where they're going to be
• 18:39
  able to reverse aging. They're pretty close to being able
• 18:42
  to do that. They've already done some stuff with mice
• 18:44
  and they've done some stuff where they're understanding like what
• 18:48
  genes are causing you to have these problems, what things
• 18:52
  can be done to mitigate it. And they're treating aging
• 18:56
  not like an inevitable aspect of life but as like
• 18:59
  a disease that you get over time.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Instead of like accepting the fact that your body is
• 19:03
  going to age at a very specific rate and then
• 19:06
  when you're 60, it's going to suck. When you're 70,
• 19:07
  it will suck worse. Instead, it's like what's causing that?
• 19:10
  Let's reverse what's causing it. And essentially, if you can
• 19:15
  do that. And I think they can. If they can't
• 19:19
  do it now, they're going to be able to do it.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: Whoa.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Jesus. What happened? Okay, but this is like day one.
• 19:25
  This lady just had surgery.
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: I just popped up on my feet a few times.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: She's 69, almost 70. Holy shit. That lady does not
• 19:35
  look even close to 69 or 70. Is that true, though?
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Kind of uncanny.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Is that true? Is that Dr. Crazy? He's making it up.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: She's like, I'm fucking 40, asshole! It just feels like
• 19:46
  one of those human dolls.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: What did she look like before?
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: There you go.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Whoa, that's the same lady? Bro, that's crazy. You could
• 19:56
  pick her up at a bar, and then you're like,
• 19:57
  why do you smell old?
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: God, that's crazy.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: You get that old people smell?
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: The mothball smell?
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Just spray perfume all over their body. I remember there
• 20:08
  was this episode of... that show autopsy. Did you ever
• 20:11
  see that show? There's this guy, Michael Badden, and he's
• 20:15
  a famous forensic scientist that like examines cases and says,
• 20:20
  this is actually a murder. And he catches people. And
• 20:23
  one of them was this guy who was really crazy
• 20:26
  and his wife died. I don't know if it was
• 20:29
  his wife or a lady he knew died. I forget
• 20:33
  the circumstances, but he kept the corpse in his house
• 20:37
  and had fashioned the some kind of an artificial vagina
• 20:41
  that he attached to the corpse and then had cases
• 20:46
  of perfume. And so apparently the bot, he just kept
• 20:50
  fucking it.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Is this like an older guy, an older story?
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: It's like some Cuban doctor and it was like some
• 20:54
  girl he fell in love with.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: And then she died.
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: But it wasn't his wife, right?
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: No, it was like, it was like in a plaster
• 21:01
  case thing. And it was a, yeah.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: And then it had a mask on it. So it
• 21:06
  was like a corpse that was like years old with
• 21:09
  a mask on it and an artificial vagina and cases
• 21:13
  and cases of perfume. So this guy's just fucking covering
• 21:18
  this thing, perfuming, getting his fuck on.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got to find the picture of it.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: He even inserted a paper tube into her decrepit corpse
• 21:27
  to serve as a vagina for making love. Yeah, that's
• 21:29
  what I'm talking about. That's the fake vagina. I think
• 21:32
  it was, yeah, it was like something he made. Like
• 21:35
  he made something. He made a thing to fuck.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: People go through lengths to get their rocks off. That's crazy.
• 21:41
  That's like ingenuity. That's like, man, if you had that
• 21:44
  energy towards anything positive.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: You could get to Mars.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you could figure stuff out.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Find us a photo of the corpse.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: There we go.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, no, that's Carl Tanzler. That's a different guy.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's a different one?
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: But he did the same thing.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, God.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Key West.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Same thing secretly took her body or use French plaster,
• 22:04
  preserve her skin rigged wires and hangers to support her skeleton.
• 22:09
  And then pumped a continuous stream of perfume to mass,
• 22:12
  the stench of the scent of decay, disturbing arrangement continued
• 22:17
  for seven years. Till it's finally discovered by her sister. Oh, God.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: What a horror story that is. Oh, God.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: You find your sister's body and there's a continual stream
• 22:30
  of perfume to keep people from knowing there's a rotted
• 22:32
  body up there.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Oh, God.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: He did it for years. God, men are fucked.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know, any sort of, like, weird predator
• 22:40
  will end up in that situation where they can do
• 22:43
  their thing, right? So, like, if you, like, fuck dead bodies,
• 22:45
  you're gonna be in a corpse. Like, same thing, like, there's, like,
• 22:49
  female pedophiles.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Just become middle school teachers.
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: Those in the 30s.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: That's what they do.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Jeez. Carl Tanzler. Oh, God. And that's Dr. Michael Badden,
• 22:58
  the HBO show. That show was awesome, man.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, and he did Epstein's Autopsy.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he did. He's one of the ones that said
• 23:06
  that the... wounds were consistent with ligature strangulation, not with hanging.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we talked about this last time.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: So I recorded my special on the 25th of October,
• 23:17
  and I have a bunch of Epstein jokes in there,
• 23:19
  and in the meantime, they said they released the files,
• 23:22
  and I was like, oh no, but they still haven't
• 23:24
  released them, and I was like, oh thank god, the
• 23:25
  jokes still work.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: I was like, oh my god, thank god.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: Because I have like, at least two separate times where
• 23:33
  I bring them up, because it was even bigger back then.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Well, it's going to go on for a long time,
• 23:37
  I suspect. I mean, they said they released them, but
• 23:39
  what did they release?
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: No, they're still not all out yet.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: What did they release? Yeah, yeah. Like, it's weird. The
• 23:44
  whole thing's weird.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: It reminds me of that Onion article where they're like, oh,
• 23:49
  CIA realizes they've been using a black highlighter this entire time.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: It's like that. It's like, oh, okay, you just blacked
• 23:57
  out pages.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Redacted the shit out of everything.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: It's like, what did they release? Did they release something recently?
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: No, they haven't released anything in a minute. They had
• 24:05
  that initial release where everything was blacked out, and it
• 24:07
  was that picture of Winnie the Pooh, which was hilarious.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: But isn't there talk about some new releases that are
• 24:12
  happening soon? Have they?
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: It feels like everything's been drowned out by everything else
• 24:15
  been going on.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: With, like, the Somalians and the ice shooting. It feels
• 24:19
  like that's completely drowned out. Anything about it.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: I think some of that's on purpose.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Oh, 100%. Yeah.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: 27 minutes to go. Update story. A federal judge blocked
• 24:29
  the effort to force the release of more files.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Oh. Okay. The federal judge– we said it a little
• 24:41
  bit wrong. It's the federal judge blocked the lawmaker's effort
• 24:44
  to force the DOJ to release the Epstein file. So
• 24:47
  they're trying to force the DOJ.
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: They already were forced to. They've missed deadlines.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: And a federal judge blocked them from forcing them to
• 24:56
  release it. So a federal judge said, no, you can't
• 24:59
  force them to release it, even though you campaigned on it.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: He ran on it. Even though you stood outside of
• 25:07
  that courthouse with a bunch of binders. We've got it.
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: He ruled that he lacks jurisdiction to appoint an outside
• 25:15
  expert to ensure his own.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Okay, that's a little different. So the federal judge Wednesday
• 25:19
  ruled that he lacks jurisdiction to appoint an outside expert
• 25:22
  to ensure the Justice Department complies with a law that
• 25:24
  makes all files confidential. Pertaining to the prosecution of Jeffrey
• 25:27
  Epstein available for public view. Okay, that's different.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but still, the law chess that they play to
• 25:32
  make sure it still can't come out is pretty crazy impressive.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: I don't have the jurisdiction.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: But if you're a federal judge, you can't step outside
• 25:41
  of your boundaries.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Don't they kind of just do that sometimes, though?
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you're not supposed to. Just because some of
• 25:49
  them are unethical or some of them— Right, that's fair. Yeah,
• 25:52
  I don't understand all this, so I'm going to be
• 25:54
  charitable about it.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: I'm going to be charitable about it. But I just
• 25:58
  don't understand how anybody can go to jail for sex
• 26:00
  trafficking when you don't have anybody they sex traffic to. Right. Like,
• 26:05
  that don't make any sense. Like, if I was Ghislaine's lawyer,
• 26:08
  I'd be like, to who? To who? Like, how did
• 26:11
  he not do that? Like, you want to tell me
• 26:13
  there's some sort of a compromise trial. How do you
• 26:15
  not have a lawyer that goes– Who did she sex
• 26:19
  traffic to? Right.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: That's clearly– there's some sort of backdoor deal that was like, hey,
• 26:23
  spend this time in jail and we won't kill you.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Of course.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Or also she's working with them. Right. How do you
• 26:31
  have– I mean in any way, shape or form, how
• 26:34
  do you have a person convicted of a crime when
• 26:36
  there's– like especially that kind of a crime where there's
• 26:40
  a person– That hires you or gives you money or
• 26:44
  that you use to get influence from and then you
• 26:47
  sex traffic to them. So there's another person involved and
• 26:51
  that other person is completely eliminated from the trial because what?
• 26:55
  Because they're billionaires? Because they're heads of state? Because they're
• 26:58
  prominent scientists? How is that okay? That doesn't even make
• 27:03
  sense that you could get through a whole trial like that.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: I was saying this earlier. I think this is just
• 27:10
  a function of government. These intense blackmail sex rings that
• 27:14
  everyone just kind of gets away with it.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: It just happens over and over again. Look at it
• 27:20
  this way. Imagine if you were selling hash.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: And you had like pounds and pounds of hash at
• 27:27
  your house and you've been selling hash and you got
• 27:30
  caught selling hash. They charge you with distribution and you're like, okay,
• 27:36
  but distributed to who? Cause you're only selling to like rich,
• 27:39
  famous people. You're only selling them to like heads of
• 27:42
  JP Morgan. You're selling all your hash to those guys.
• 27:45
  And they're like, well, who did he sell the hash to? Nobody.
• 27:48
  Somebody bought $ 100 million worth of hash. And there's nobody?
• 27:53
  You have no purse? That doesn't make any sense. There's
• 27:55
  no crime. So he didn't really sell it. You could
• 27:58
  say he possesses it, but maybe intent to distribute. But
• 28:02
  if you want to get him for actual distribution and
• 28:04
  selling of hash, he's got to sell it to somebody.
• 28:08
  At least an undercover agent. Right.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: But in this situation, it's like, did we ever really
• 28:13
  think anyone was really going to go to jail for this?
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: I feel like with continual constant pressure, it has to
• 28:21
  slowly leak out.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Man, I wish I was that optimistic about it. They've
• 28:28
  done a good job of keeping the names out of
• 28:31
  the press, even after they said they would leak them.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: It says here, FBI and DOJ records from 2019 reference
• 28:37
  about 10 individuals described as an alleged Epstein murder. co-conspirators,
• 28:41
  including Maxwell and French modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, who died
• 28:46
  in French custody in 2022.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: That's a way to get out of it, too. Be like, oh,
• 28:50
  he sold she sold it to a dead guy.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah. But it's also this is not saying that sold
• 28:55
  it to them. They're co-conspirators. So they were probably involved
• 29:00
  in facilitating. They're probably involved in acquiring these girls, making
• 29:04
  connections because that guy owned a modeling agency. So he's
• 29:07
  or he's a modeling agent.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Right. Right.
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: So that guy's getting him girls. So he's a co-conspirator.
• 29:12
  It's not saying that he was John. You know, he
• 29:15
  was a John that was getting the girls. He was
• 29:18
  a co-conspirator. So there's at least 10 individuals who are
• 29:21
  also– which makes sense. If you have this giant blackmail ring,
• 29:24
  it's not going to be like one guy.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: I also find it funny the whole– that Mark Epstein guy,
• 29:31
  his just brother came out of nowhere for.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Like a little bit.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: For a little bit.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And he's like, fuck this.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: It's like, wait, first of all, what do you mean
• 29:37
  a brother that just knows everything that happened?
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: Because he came out and said that wasn't like the
• 29:42
  email that was like, oh, Clinton, Trump's son sucked Clinton's dick.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah. He was like, no, Bubba wasn't Clinton. But you
• 29:48
  didn't say he didn't suck someone's dick. You just said.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Trump sucked some guy in the above his dick. Some
• 29:55
  truck driver.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: What were you just showing us?
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: That a few of those people were protected by the
• 30:01
  2008 non-prosecution agreement.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: That's a little slap on the wrist, protected a bunch
• 30:09
  of people. And so they continue to be protected? Is
• 30:11
  that the idea?
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: That's where no, I don't know if anybody knows.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: Nothing's better in law than a technicality, huh?
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: That's a slippery one. So what did Epstein's brother wind
• 30:21
  up saying?
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: He said it wasn't Bubba, which implied that he knew
• 30:26
  exactly what was going on on the island the whole
• 30:27
  time and was just out and about.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: But he's still saying that Trump sucked someone's dick?
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: And then he just straight up disappeared. Where the fuck
• 30:38
  did he go? We just learned about him.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Man, I believe a lot of things. I do not
• 30:43
  believe Trump sucks someone's dick. Because he doesn't do drugs.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: When Charlie Sheen was saying he sucks some guy's dick, like, okay.
• 30:50
  Charlie was doing so much crack. It was out of
• 30:52
  his fucking mind.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: I feel like that level of power is a drug
• 30:55
  at that point.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, maybe. I don't think so. I don't know.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: It's a very fun world to believe that he did.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's going to get a guy like
• 31:02
  Trump to suck a dick. It just doesn't seem... That's
• 31:05
  a guy who's fucked up on drugs. It's like when
• 31:07
  Diddy was doing it, they were all doing drugs. Right, right, right.
• 31:10
  It's a drug thing, right? Yeah. Unless you're a gay man,
• 31:14
  it's a drug thing to go around sucking dicks. So
• 31:16
  we're assuming that Trump's been hiding the gay the entire— not
• 31:19
  a chance in hell.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: That would be the most impressive hide of all time.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Also, why would he do that?
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no reason.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: If you're open and you're gay, side with the fucking Democrats. Like,
• 31:29
  that's the move. You would probably do all the exact
• 31:32
  same things when you get into office. It's all horseshit.
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: I'm trying to follow up a question that does not know.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: Who's in charge of Epstein's estate.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: It's thinking.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Look at it thinking. Your laptop's about to blow up.
• 31:45
  I would stop.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Fucking drones about to hit the building. The mothership's going
• 31:50
  to be on fire.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: Tonight when we get there.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, man. It's so funny. It's like it's an
• 31:57
  attempted cover-up of corruption that would have been successful in
• 32:00
  the 70s.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: If they had pulled this shit off in the 70s
• 32:03
  or the 80s, gone.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Well, it's the whole Franklin scandal.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Sure.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they killed that reporter.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: They killed that reporter. There was definitely some.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: Underage sexual thing going on there, and they were like, dead.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: You and your son. That's what you get for fucking around.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, man.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: We'll kill both of you.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, Tucker's talked about this and a few
• 32:25
  other people have talked about this. There's a bunch of
• 32:27
  secretly gay politicians.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: And then there's probably a bunch of secret pedophiles as well.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, definitely.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: For sure.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: I pulled that once on Bottom of the Barrel, just
• 32:39
  secretly gay Republicans. That was my thing.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: And then I was like, can you imagine how good
• 32:44
  that sex feels? Especially after you spent all day being like,
• 32:50
  it's bad, it's wrong.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: And then that sex is extra hot. Yeah, because you're
• 32:55
  going against God and your party at one time.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Some twink with his converse on.
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: And then you go back and be like, family value. Like,
• 33:06
  that level of.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of them that are putting
• 33:10
  on a show. A lot of them. They're putting on
• 33:12
  an act, and you're never going to get to know
• 33:14
  who they really are. And that's why when something comes out, it's, like, shocking.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: Like, oh!
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Right. They're all fucking weirdos. They're all weirdos. You have
• 33:23
  to be a weirdo to want to run the... Or
• 33:24
  you have to be, like, this amazing person. Like, it's
• 33:27
  two options. You have to be Gandhi or you have
• 33:29
  to be a weirdo. You know what I mean?
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: And speaker of pedophiles. We had a speaker of the
• 33:33
  house that was a pedophile for like eight years.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A real one.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: A real deal pedophile.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: A real deal convicted pedophile.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: What was his name again?
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: Hastert?
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: Hastert.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: I think it might have been Hastert.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: I think so.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: I feel like we should look that up.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Let's look that up.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: I don't want to be like, oh, Hastert was like
• 33:49
  a nice guy and we're calling him Red Bull. Speak
• 33:51
  of the house.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: He was involved in a very big scandal of it, right?
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Dennis Hastert. Yeah. Yes. It was like some Sandusky shit.
• 33:59
  It was at a school that he was teaching at.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Exactly. Allegations that Senate– scroll up a little bit.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: Sorry, Russell.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Senate candidate Roy Moore spent his 30s dating, propositioning, and
• 34:08
  sexually assaulting high school-aged girls. It was shocking but not
• 34:12
  without precedent. There have been plenty of congressmen who carried
• 34:15
  on sexual relationships with teenagers from Thomas Jefferson. That was
• 34:18
  back when people died when they were 18. Yeah. Strom Thurmond,
• 34:21
  perhaps more dastardly, Illinois Rep. Dennis Hastert served as Speaker
• 34:26
  of the House from 1999 to 2007.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: And a little further down the line, and additionally agreed
• 34:30
  that Hastert sodomized a fourth-grade boy in a school bathroom
• 34:34
  and threatened him if he reported assault.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: That's like Sandusky stuff. Jesus Christ.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Since the statute of limitation had expired on these crimes,
• 34:41
  Hastert was instead convicted of evading bank reporting requirements in
• 34:45
  order to Secretly pay off his victims.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: That's so funny.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: He served 15 months in prison. That's it. Holy shit.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: That's so crazy to pay off your victims and not
• 34:55
  do it in cash. What? Yeah, that's a lot of money.
• 35:00
  That's fair.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: I bet it was. I bet it was quite a
• 35:02
  bit of money. Holy shit, dude. Yeah. And so if
• 35:05
  there's one kid that got a fourth grade boy in
• 35:09
  a school bathroom, how many more did he do that to?
• 35:13
  How many just don't want the shame? Of it coming
• 35:16
  out publicly. How many guys are struggling with it right now?
• 35:18
  They're 35 years old. They don't want to tell that story. Right.
• 35:21
  That ruined their life because the Speaker of the House
• 35:24
  fucked them.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: Crazy.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Crazy.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: Crazy.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: So he's not alone.
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: No.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: No.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: That's the Franklin scandal.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: And there's no way that wasn't uncovered beforehand by people.
• 35:36
  Just the way the political machine works. But that's like
• 35:38
  sort of like. You get me for this. I'll get
• 35:40
  you for this. So you keep that under wraps. You
• 35:42
  just have that in your back pocket.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: I think it's just part of that game that they play.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, for sure.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: It's like Game of Thrones.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: For sure. It really is.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: It really is like Game of Thrones.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: It's just a whorehouse.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: And also House of Cards, right? It sucks that Kevin
• 35:58
  Spacey got busted because that show ruled.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: I know, right?
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: But, you know, it's so funny because thinking back on it,
• 36:05
  like if you looked at movies, my genuine take before
• 36:08
  he got busted for this is he plays the greatest villains.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: He's like the greatest villain actor of all time.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: He's the greatest creep.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: He's like a brilliant creep, like with darkness behind his eyes. Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: And then can turn it on the charm, that southern charm.
• 36:24
  How about when he did that fucking weird video in
• 36:28
  front of the fireplace?
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, dude.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Like, in character? Kill him with kindness.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: Right after the witness to his case died? Like, another
• 36:38
  witness to his case died?
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: Like, what? People were dropping or, like, flies around space either. Bro. Crazy.
• 36:45
  Real deal villain shit.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Acting out the literal plot lines as the character. Being
• 36:53
  the character while he's tending the fire.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: Goes to show you, he's still a genius artist.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Amazing.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just like a wow. Amazing. And at any other time,
• 37:02
  he would have never gotten caught. That's just how the
• 37:05
  machine worked at the time. Yeah.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's just one of those guys that got
• 37:09
  an immense amount of power and he was just a
• 37:11
  dick grabber. Like, dude, I'm a dick. And I bet
• 37:14
  a lot of guys are like, okay. That's the problem
• 37:16
  with wild pitches. You know, you fucking swing at every
• 37:20
  pitch and You're going to hit a few.
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: You know, but he's probably, you know, for all these
• 37:25
  guys that he grabbed dicks and said, you know, probably drunk,
• 37:28
  probably fucked up. How many guys like let him suck
• 37:31
  their dick? A lot, I bet. I bet it was
• 37:33
  an effective strategy.
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Especially for famous in Hollywood.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: He did it to gay guys. But he was like
• 37:39
  the one guy that the story broke was a young teenager, right?
• 37:44
  When he was like 14 or something like that.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: And they were working together or something like that.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: It was definitely a minor thing.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: But it's also like, why is that teenager at a
• 37:53
  minor with a bunch of drunk gay guys? Like, hey,
• 37:56
  where's your dad? The fuck is going on? What are
• 38:00
  you doing there? But it's, you know, it's not excusing
• 38:04
  him for doing it. The thing about people in the
• 38:06
  gay community is they look very differently at teenage boy,
• 38:12
  gay teenage boy, men relationships than we do at like,
• 38:17
  teenage girl men relationships. They look at it very differently.
• 38:21
  Like Milo got in trouble for that is Milo on his,
• 38:25
  on my podcast was talking about this guy that molested him.
• 38:27
  He was like, trust me, I was the predator. Right.
• 38:30
  That's what he said. That's a crazy thing to say,
• 38:34
  but they look at it differently.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: That's a, I remember someone was, uh, I was living
• 38:42
  in LA and we had this gay dude who was
• 38:45
  sleeping on the, uh, you know, we had a, uh,
• 38:49
  bed in the living room for guests to stay over.
• 38:51
  So he was, he like lived there for like two
• 38:53
  months and they were, we were watching call me by
• 38:55
  your name. And he, it's like a, it's like a,
• 38:59
  it's army hammer and maybe it's Chalamet.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: I forgot. I was in and out. My roommates were
• 39:02
  watching it, but it's like a, about a gay story
• 39:05
  between an older man and a, a younger boy.
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: And, um, yeah, he, he would say, he said this red,
• 39:11
  like he was watching it like, Oh, this reads like
• 39:13
  a fan fiction of an older gay dude being in
• 39:16
  love with like a younger gay guy.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like a– I remember that. I remember him
• 39:22
  telling us that. I'm like, oh, okay. That's interesting.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: I mean it kind of makes sense, right? Because we
• 39:26
  think very differently of like a high school football. player
• 39:30
  that winds up banging a really hot science teacher.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: You know, you're not mad.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: No.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: You're just like, this is crazy. That lady's crazy. She's 35.
• 39:39
  She's got two kids. She fucks a 17-year-old boy in
• 39:42
  the bathroom.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I said that earlier. Female pedophiles become teachers. That
• 39:46
  is what they do. They find the way.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: It's very, very, very different than... the scenario of like
• 39:51
  the football coach that's banging the cheerleader. That's crazy.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: That makes you want to lynch him.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's way gross. It's weird, right? Yeah.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: It is weird. Yeah.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: It's like, yeah.
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: With every, every time there is that there's a South
• 40:04
  Park episode about it. Every time you hear that story about,
• 40:06
  you know, the, the, the older teacher fucking the young boy,
• 40:09
  every guy's kind of like, nice.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, you know how the best joke about it
• 40:13
  was Zach Alphanakis. He said, do you hear the boy died? Yeah,
• 40:17
  his friends high-fived him to death.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: Man, that live at the Purple Onion.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Oh, fantastic.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: That was a fucking great special.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: What is he doing these days?
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: I have no idea.
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: He was on that show for a while on FX Baskets.
• 40:36
  That was really good about the clown. Louie Anderson won
• 40:37
  the Emmy on it.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: He owns a farm somewhere. He has, like, a farm.
• 40:41
  I think he's, like... He's very smart. Have you ever
• 40:45
  talked to him?
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: I've never met him. I've never. The only time I
• 40:49
  saw him live was at Brody's Memorial.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was real tight with Brody. He is one
• 40:55
  of the ways that I found out that Brody was
• 40:58
  off his meds. He contacted me. Do you remember that
• 41:01
  one time when Brody got real kind of like almost
• 41:05
  aggressive crazy and was like yelling at people in the
• 41:07
  audience sometimes? And it got weird. It wasn't like performance
• 41:10
  already anymore. It was like what's happening with Brody? And
• 41:14
  then he got back, and he, like, bounced it out.
• 41:17
  Brody had, like, a legit problem. Whatever it was, whatever
• 41:21
  his mental health issue was, like, he needed medication. Like,
• 41:25
  he was legit crazy. And Zach contacted me and said,
• 41:28
  it seems like Brody's off his meds, so just don't
• 41:30
  engage with him. Damn.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: Damn.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: So it's like you got to kind of figure out
• 41:36
  a way to corral him, get him back on his stuff.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: But, man, when he was in that main room.
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: When he was in that main room and what was
• 41:44
  left of the crowd was rocking with him. It was
• 41:46
  just so much fun just watching him play drums.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: He came into the improv one night. We were doing
• 41:52
  a later show. So it was like a 10 o'clock show.
• 41:54
  And he was on late. And the show was kind
• 41:56
  of Peter now. You know how it does. At the time,
• 41:59
  it was probably like about half full. And then, ladies
• 42:04
  and gentlemen, please welcome Brody Stevens. Brody takes his shirt
• 42:07
  off and starts swinging it around in the air like
• 42:10
  a flag. He goes through the crowd. Let's go! Energy!
• 42:17
  He just gets everybody fired up. He immediately breaks out
• 42:20
  the drumsticks, starts fucking drumming on the seat, and then
• 42:24
  starts telling jokes and just changed the whole tempo of
• 42:28
  the room. Everything lit up.
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: It was awesome.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: It was like, that's what Brody can do. Yeah. With
• 42:33
  pure charisma and talent and just personality.
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: And anytime I see him, like, anytime I see a
• 42:40
  person in the audience like this, arms crossed, negative.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: That's all I can think. That's all I can think.
• 42:45
  It's like, wow, you are giving me negative energy right now.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: For no reason.
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: For no reason. You're at a show. Come and enjoy it.
• 42:52
  You know, especially when you see it, because I cold
• 42:54
  open a lot, you see it like, like, you see
• 42:56
  people be like, why are you.
• 42:58
  Why'd you come here, like, impress me? Like, you're already here.
• 43:01
  Enjoy the energy.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: It takes a while sometimes for people to loosen up.
• 43:04
  You have the hardest job when we do those Joe
• 43:06
  Rogan and Friends shows and you cold open. I've only
• 43:09
  cold opened a few times over the last few years. Yeah.
• 43:12
  Or over the last 10 years.
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: It's hard.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: You've got to hypnotize those people. You've got to slowly
• 43:17
  work your way into the rhythm of jokes.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: You have to sort of like– I like it because
• 43:21
  it's energy matching. You have to find out where they are,
• 43:24
  catch on to them, and then bring them to the energy.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: That you want.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: You know who's really good at it?
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: Hans Kim.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: Really good.
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: Well, it's just straight jokes. Uh-huh.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: It's just straight jokes. And he's funny looking, you know,
• 43:36
  like he's got a big smile on his face. He's
• 43:39
  having fun. You kind of get into his groove real quick. And,
• 43:42
  you know, he did so many arenas with me and
• 43:44
  so many big places. And he was the perfect guy
• 43:47
  because he would just go, let me tell you something
• 43:49
  about myself. Right away, he would take control of the room.
• 43:54
  It was awesome.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: Derek's great at bringing him into it. It's fun watching.
• 43:57
  It's fun watching the different people like their different cold
• 44:00
  open strategy.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: Derek is just like getting everybody fired up. Excitement. And
• 44:04
  he's so lovable. You know, he's got, again, so much charisma.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: Right. Yeah.
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: But it's the cold opening for as long as I
• 44:12
  have done. And my career even pre this club, it's
• 44:15
  just it made me I feel like so much stronger
• 44:18
  because like almost like running with ankle weights on. And
• 44:20
  then now, like leading up to me releasing the too soon,
• 44:24
  I was like, oh, I was like all these spots
• 44:27
  I was getting at the end of the shows.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: These were material.
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: This is all material that I tested at the beginning
• 44:31
  of Rogan and Friends, which especially at the beginning of
• 44:35
  the club, a lot of people were like, Wait, you're
• 44:38
  not Rogan talking.
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: To a friend. Like, they thought they were coming to
• 44:41
  a live podcast. You know, it took a while before
• 44:43
  the shows were like, oh, yeah, this is a stand-up show. Really? Yeah.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: People thought it was going to be a podcast?
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: At the very beginning, there were some episodes where you
• 44:51
  had to, like, introduce the concept of this is going
• 44:53
  to be stand-up. That's crazy.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: Now it's not like that. But, like, at the very beginning,
• 44:58
  it for sure was. But, like, it was, like, I felt...
• 45:01
  My material was, like, battle-tested.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: Well, it certainly is. I mean, that's—the running with weights
• 45:07
  is a great analogy because I think that's exactly what
• 45:09
  it is.
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it makes the jokes so much stronger.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: You know what else is really good for your act
• 45:14
  is hosting.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: Because you go up so often. Like, one of the
• 45:18
  things that really helped a lot of guys at the
• 45:20
  store was hosting potluck because, you know, you have to—
• 45:25
  There's all this chaos. Someone just bombed. Something crazy just happened.
• 45:29
  Someone just did something completely fucking insane. You have a
• 45:32
  chance to make fun of it.
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: Reset the room.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: Reset the room. And there's a comfort level that comes
• 45:37
  because you're essentially doing stand-up from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Yes.
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, when I first started, when I lived in, first
• 45:45
  was a door guy in Hollywood. Derek was booking the
• 45:47
  Madhouse and I would come down and host the weekend shows.
• 45:50
  So every day I'd host from every weekend or two
• 45:53
  weekends a month, I would host from five to two
• 45:55
  in the morning because you'd host the open mic afterward.
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: And you just host the entire night. It's a full
• 45:59
  day's worth of hosting.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: That's awesome.
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like, it's because the opening spots suck, but
• 46:05
  like they make you better.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: It's the ones that suck that make you better.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: It's definitely– well, you realize where the sloppy parts of
• 46:11
  your bits are. Like you're saying them, you're like, ew. Right.
• 46:15
  It gets you. You're like, ew. Right. Whereas when the
• 46:18
  crowd's popping and they're laughing at everything, they want to laugh.
• 46:21
  You can get that through and actually get a laugh.
• 46:23
  But then when it's quiet and it's the beginning of
• 46:26
  the show, you realize, oh, this bit sucks. Right. I
• 46:29
  got to bring this bit to the garage.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got to not put it up front.
• 46:34
  What was I thinking? Yeah.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: I got to tighten this motherfucker up. But it's, you know,
• 46:39
  there's plenty of other spots. That's the beautiful thing. I mean,
• 46:42
  we're running four shows a night, every night. And so,
• 46:45
  and then.
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: And there's so much around the scene. There's so much.
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: I was telling someone in LA, it's like, oh, if
• 46:51
  I chose not to get up 10 spots in front
• 46:54
  of an audience member in a week, at the very least,
• 46:57
  then I chose that.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: Because it's so easy to just go out and get spots.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: There's so many spots.
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: With people and like.
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: Around in downtown alone, there's like 12 dedicated comedy rooms.
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: It's insane.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: Did you see was it Rappaport that got kicked off
• 47:09
  of a show at Cap City? They canceled the show.
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: They canceled Rappaport.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: And let me see what the post was, because they
• 47:15
  said something like there's another big club that will have
• 47:18
  you or something like that.
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: Are they insinuating that we would have him and that
• 47:22
  he's racist and we would have him?
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: They just assume the mothership is full of racist people.
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: They don't.
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, people do.
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: But the guy that owns that is the guy that
• 47:30
  owns helium.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but no, not just that.
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: I think that's pervasive around comedy for sure.
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: It's nonsense. They're pretending they think that. There's no way
• 47:39
  they think that. If you just look at the lineup, there's.
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: No way they think that. Well, no one's looking at
• 47:42
  the lineup.
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: They're really like, oh, Joe and Tony support Trump, so
• 47:45
  this must be filled with racist people.
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: That's what it is.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: What did they say? Can you pull up the– Yeah,
• 47:50
  it has to– I mean– I think they phrased it
• 47:53
  in an interesting way. So Austin for Palestine Coalition.
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: That's a rap-a-pore. It's pretty funny.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: That's a rap-a-pore. That's actually pretty funny. He's done canceled.
• 48:04
  Thank you, Cap City. Comedy, and Helium Management for listening
• 48:07
  to Austin and canceling the racist provocateur Michael Rapaport show
• 48:12
  at your establishment. And so.
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: Hey, Michael Rapaport, there's a... Make sure... Yeah, yeah, that's the...
• 48:19
  The caption is like... There's another club insinuating that we
• 48:22
  would take him.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: But what is this? This is just Austin comedy. That's
• 48:25
  just someone's account.
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: It's just someone's account, yeah. When I first moved here,
• 48:30
  that's how I figured out where all the open mics
• 48:31
  and shows were.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: But they're not accusing us. It's pretty sure there's another
• 48:34
  club or large venue space that will welcome you that
• 48:39
  aren't run by helium. There's a lot of places that
• 48:43
  that's not necessarily they're saying to us. If you still
• 48:46
  want to make a stop in Austin, just let them know.
• 48:48
  Most of us here are friendly and won't use politics
• 48:51
  and hate to cancel silence performers. So that seems like
• 48:55
  they're kind of saying, like, hey, Michael, come do another spot.
• 49:00
  Do it somewhere else. I don't think they're accusing him
• 49:04
  of that.
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: That sounds more supportive of him coming here and saying
• 49:08
  most of us are friendly and won't use politics and
• 49:11
  hate to cancel silence performance. Right. So that's not helium
• 49:15
  saying that.
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: I guess he's outspokenly pro-Israel for this to happen.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: I'm not paying attention to that, dude. Because I feel
• 49:22
  like a lot of it is needy.
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of trying to get attention too hard.
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: It's like... He's not a dumb guy. He's got some
• 49:34
  really good points. But the problem is if you try
• 49:36
  too hard and you're doing it all the time, then
• 49:38
  the good points miss me.
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: They miss me because you're already connected to all that
• 49:42
  other silly shit.
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: They're just lost in a sea of like, yeah.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: Which is good and bad depending on whether or not
• 49:48
  you want to be taken seriously. Right. I don't want
• 49:50
  to be taken seriously. So like if I do UFO
• 49:53
  shows or Bigfoot shows, like good. Oh, he believes in dragons.
• 49:56
  Speaker 5: Good.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: Good. Don't take me seriously.
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: But.
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: When you're talking about something like Israel and Palestine, I guess,
• 50:05
  because it said something citizens for Palestine.
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it had to have been. They're not canceling. The
• 50:10
  coalition for Palestine is not going out of their way.
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: I had no idea anybody was calling Michael Rappaport racist.
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, well, yeah. This is the first Michael Rappaport news
• 50:19
  I've heard in years, if I'm going to be honest.
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: I had no idea. There was an organized campaign to
• 50:24
  stop his shows?
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: There must be. If it's happening here, it's happening everywhere, right?
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: It has to be. Okay. Since early November, our coalition
• 50:33
  sent several emails. That's all it took. No, it says
• 50:37
  they were ignored. While employees had privately shared that they're uncomfortable. Oh,
• 50:41
  they privately shared that. With anti-Palestinian hate monger Rappaport being hosted,
• 50:46
  management seems unwilling to listen to their community. That's not
• 50:49
  necessarily their community. That's just some people in the community.
• 50:53
  Rappaport isn't just a fanatical Zionist with political views we
• 50:56
  disagree with. He's a racist. who cruelly mocks dead civilians
• 51:01
  and children. He mocks immigrants and supports ICE detentions of
• 51:05
  people whose viewpoints he dislikes. Additionally, he has a reputation
• 51:08
  for being generally disliked by people he's worked with, doxing
• 51:12
  his political opponents, and has been accused of working with
• 51:14
  Fox News to spread fake propaganda. Okay, this is like
• 51:17
  a lot.
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is, yeah.
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: Who wrote this?
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: Austin for Palestine Coalition. So maybe it's just in Austin. Oh, yeah,
• 51:22
  that's it. Austin for, yeah. And then they got him
• 51:24
  out of Cap City. Yeah.
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: So what is it? Go back up to the top
• 51:31
  of that thing. What is the original? No, no, no, no, no.
• 51:35
  The original thing that I read. It said he's mocked.
• 51:41
  He's a racist who cruelly mocks dead civilians and children.
• 51:45
  Is that true? I don't think that's true.
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: We'd have to go through his. Yeah, that's the thing.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: It's like when you say something like that.
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah. You just have to take that for face value
• 51:54
  that he does that if you want to believe that.
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: I've never seen anything like that. I would imagine that
• 51:58
  if he did something like that, it would go viral, right?
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: Maybe not.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: Mocking dead children?
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, yeah. Maybe not.
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: Probably. In this day and age?
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah. He's famous enough for sure.
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was straight up mocking.
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: If you're mocking dead children. Look at the people that
• 52:13
  mock Charlie Kirk. The fucking hate came strong.
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. They all like lost their jobs.
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: They felt the heat.
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, immediately.
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: Immediately. Yeah.
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is– like the internet makes people very comfortable
• 52:26
  with putting their initial emotional reaction out for everyone to see.
• 52:29
  And it's like– there's something that Derek talks about. It's
• 52:32
  like we got to go back to the times when
• 52:33
  like people were like, oh, you can't post yourself with
• 52:36
  a red cup. Cause like a job might see that
• 52:39
  you won't get the job.
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: Like that used to be drinking.
• 52:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: That used to be like, and now people are like
• 52:44
  just full on sketches of like people dying and like, Oh,
• 52:48
  you see so many people die just constantly too. So
• 52:50
  it's like, everyone's just desensitized to everything.
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of desensitization. There's a lot of people
• 52:55
  that also live in these echo chambers and they think
• 52:57
  when they say things like, well, who was that one
• 53:00
  lady that was a, she was a CEO somewhere. She
• 53:02
  had a very high level position somewhere. And she posted
• 53:05
  on her Instagram story, I think. Something like that. She posted,
• 53:08
  rest in piss, Charlie Kirk.
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: Like.
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: Like you're a.
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: Regular person with a real job. You're talking about a
• 53:15
  guy who got murdered and you just wrote rest in
• 53:17
  piss on the internet because in their bubble, they were
• 53:20
  saying that kind of stuff. They thought it was a
• 53:22
  cool thing to say.
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, your algorithm is so designed to just show you
• 53:28
  what things that agree with you. So everyone gets more
• 53:32
  and more like, oh, everyone believes this. Everyone– because everyone
• 53:35
  around or everyone I perceive to be around me believes
• 53:39
  that when really it's just– It's like half of it's fake.
• 53:42
  Most of it is just some Pakistani guy.
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: Right. Yeah, somewhere with like.
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: A million phones. Have you seen a new AI where
• 53:48
  you can– It's just constant. No, no, no. The new
• 53:50
  one where you can be any celebrity and it looks
• 53:54
  exactly like that celebrity. So all your movements, you could
• 53:57
  be like Mike from Stranger Things.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: Damn.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: And it's super accurate. Damn. Like crazy accurate.
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: We're getting to the point where like– surveillance videos won't
• 54:09
  be admissible in court. Like it's going to be, it's
• 54:11
  going to be up to there.
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: It'll, it'll all have to be on the blockchain. But
• 54:15
  even that, like, I don't understand the blockchain. Do you?
• 54:18
  Who knows? Manipulated.
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: See if you can find that video of, cause there
• 54:22
  was a one performer who did a series of different
• 54:26
  people from stranger things. He did like L from stranger
• 54:30
  things and Mike from, and it's fucking nuts. So the
• 54:33
  same person, just moving their hands around and talking, and
• 54:36
  they look exactly like the other person.
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: Right, so now you're seeing heavily manipulated content. Unless you
• 54:45
  go out of your way to look for another opinion,
• 54:49
  you're just going to become entrenched in your own opinion.
• 54:52
  That's sort of the problem with what's happening right now.
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: Or entrenched in the opinion that they want to promote.
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: Yes, they want to promote.
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: You're just sort of like, oh, you're just being fed
• 55:00
  this constant line of like, bullshit you gotta do some
• 55:02
  like algorithm cleanses that's what like fuck like you know
• 55:06
  like you go on juice cleanses you gotta do that
• 55:07
  with your algorithm well.
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: I think honestly what you gotta do is stay offline
• 55:11
  yeah you're gonna get got no matter what your your
• 55:14
  algorithm is eventually gonna catch you again it's like i'm
• 55:15
  gonna do a little heroin this time and the next
• 55:18
  thing you know you're a full-on heroin junkie right right
• 55:20
  for me it's like there's so many videos of people
• 55:23
  getting killed by alligators and lions that are fake and
• 55:26
  they just look a little off Like the lion jumps
• 55:30
  in the car and pulls them out. You're like, no.
• 55:32
  You're like, something's wrong with this.
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: The way people react. Right now the reactions of people
• 55:36
  in the background don't match.
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: Because it used to be you could see the fingers
• 55:40
  and the fingers would be all fucked up. But they
• 55:42
  got the fingers pretty down now. They're getting better at that.
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: Now it's like you got to look in the– if
• 55:45
  the people in the background aren't reacting, you're like, okay.
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: Like if I was– people in the background would react
• 55:51
  to a guy getting eaten by a lion.
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: I guess they could probably fix that though with a prompt. Well,
• 55:55
  that would be the next generation. And everybody in the
• 55:56
  background scatter.
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: That's the next generation.
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: I don't even think it's the next generation. I think
• 55:59
  it's just you got to just ask it to do
• 56:01
  a better version. Keep correcting it. Asking it to do better.
• 56:04
  Fix this. Fix that.
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: Have you ever done that with a video where you
• 56:07
  ask it to keep fixing things?
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: No.
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: It gets overloaded and it just gets worse and worse
• 56:10
  and worse. If you ask it to fix it, it's
• 56:13
  not good at making an edit on the video you
• 56:16
  already have.
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: So you can be like, let's say it'll just generate
• 56:19
  another thing. And because it's making a video about a video,
• 56:21
  everything gets fucked up.
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: Look at this.
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: Holy shit.
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: This is crazy, dude.
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: That one looks kind of AI. That looks a little AI, too.
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: A little smooth in the face. So it's probably better for...
• 56:36
  Do it again? Run it again from the beginning?
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: The first couple ones might get you.
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: It's when one seems obviously really fake.
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: You know what the thing is, too? I think it's
• 56:45
  really good with young people. Like him, it looks fake
• 56:49
  for some reason. Yeah, when it got there.
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: He looks fake. But then you realize they all look
• 56:52
  fake after you see one that looks fake.
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: But not that fake. No. It's just if they did
• 56:56
  the lighting a little better, you know, it looks a
• 56:59
  little too bright.
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: But yeah, see, I wonder if our perception, because the
• 57:02
  first three look real. I wonder if our perception would
• 57:04
  change if they put the one of the guy that
• 57:06
  looks fake first.
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: You feel what I'm saying?
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know because this one looks real. Like that
• 57:12
  looks like her. Like if you just had that one
• 57:15
  and had her saying a bunch of things, I would
• 57:16
  think it's her saying a bunch of things.
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: Well, that's fucking crazy. We're fucked.
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: We're fucked, man. Anybody who doesn't think we're fucked isn't
• 57:23
  paying attention. It's going to get super weird.
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: And how much of that are they going to use
• 57:29
  on us in the news, you know?
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: The news is already fucked. I was thinking about this
• 57:37
  the other day, how it's crazy that because our algorithms
• 57:40
  are so different, I think this is why everyone gets
• 57:42
  so charged over news things now, is news is the
• 57:44
  only thing we have in common anymore. There's not really
• 57:47
  a show that everyone's watching or a set of shows
• 57:51
  that everyone's watching. Your algorithm sends you things that you like,
• 57:54
  so you're completely disconnected.
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: Entertainment-wise to the people around you. And the only thing
• 57:59
  you really have in common is... What's going on in
• 58:03
  the world. Right. Because that's the only thing that's consistent.
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: And your opinions on it.
• 58:06
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: What side are you on?
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: Because everything becomes divided.
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: Yes. And you have to have a take on everything.
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Vaccines, food pyramid, Gaza.
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Everything has to have a take. Oh, yeah. Oh,
• 58:16
  we were cooked as a– like companies have to do it. Yeah.
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: I've been saying like we've been cooked as a country.
• 58:22
  I've known we've been cooked as a country ever since
• 58:23
  Ben and Jerry's had a take on Gaza. It's like
• 58:25
  there's no reason for this.
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: There's no reason for this. You're a company trying to
• 58:29
  sell stuff.
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of incentives for companies to like whatever.
• 58:34
  What is that ESG score? Is that what it is?
• 58:38
  What is the score that they give? So companies have
• 58:40
  DEI scores for favorable loans and for government money. It
• 58:46
  gets real weird when you start intertwining the– it gets
• 58:51
  real communist-y. ESG score evaluates a company's sustainability and ethical impact,
• 58:56
  measuring its performance in environmental, social, and governance areas such
• 59:00
  as carbon footprint, labor practices, and board diversity to help
• 59:05
  investors and stakeholders access long-term risk and potential. Excuse me.
• 59:10
  long-term risk and potential. Calculated by specialized agencies like MSCI
• 59:15
  and Sustainalytics, scores often from 0 to 100 or letter
• 59:22
  grades gauge how well a company manages risk in these
• 59:25
  non-financial areas, influencing reputation, access, To capital. This is what's important.
• 59:32
  And long-term financial performances. So climate change impact, resource use,
• 59:39
  waste pollution, energy efficiency, employee relations, diversity and inclusion, labor standards.
• 59:45
  So you're essentially forcing the company to act a certain way.
• 59:50
  You can't do it completely as a meritocracy. You have
• 59:53
  to have a representative board of people, which a lot
• 59:56
  of people agree with. None of those people are exceptional.
• 59:59
  None of the people are exceptional at their job that
• 1:00:02
  agree you should have specific categories of race or gender
• 1:00:05
  replace meritocracy.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: No one really good, male or female, black, white, Asian, whatever,
• 1:00:11
  no one really good at their job wants that.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: No, no, because that just gets in the way of
• 1:00:16
  the job. It gets in the way. It's like I
• 1:00:18
  have to worry about this social score.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, fuck off.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: That's kind of what we're like heading towards, right? Well,
• 1:00:24
  it's left now.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: With Trump in office. There was a guy who was
• 1:00:27
  a CEO of some company that was talking about the
• 1:00:29
  gigantic shift in dealing with the government that had occurred
• 1:00:32
  right after Trump took office. He was like it was instantaneous,
• 1:00:35
  like all the restrictions, regulations. And this is one of
• 1:00:39
  the problems with California in particular. It's incredibly overregulated. So
• 1:00:43
  it's really difficult to do anything. Which is one of
• 1:00:45
  the reasons why so few people have even begun attempting
• 1:00:48
  to rebuild their fucking house.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: There's regulations everywhere for everything. It's just over-regulated.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: Well, didn't the government buy a lot of that land
• 1:00:55
  or are they trying to buy that land right now
• 1:00:56
  in the Palisades?
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's government. I think there was people
• 1:01:00
  that were interested in doing like low-income housing and then
• 1:01:06
  there was like whether they were going to carve out
• 1:01:08
  things without their speculators. And there's that famous video of
• 1:01:11
  Newsom standing in front of the rubble of a burning
• 1:01:13
  house going, There's been some discussions. He's doing that little dance.
• 1:01:17
  Remember that?
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: What a sociopath. What a freaky dude.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: He's running for president. There's no way he's not.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, good luck, dude.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: He's absolutely running for president.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: Good luck, dude. You think there's a lot of fucking
• 1:01:28
  fraud in Minnesota? Just wait till they start digging deep
• 1:01:31
  into the fraud in California. It's going to take an
• 1:01:34
  army of people to do. It's going to take a
• 1:01:37
  long time. But look, man, there's so much money missing.
• 1:01:42
  They spent $ 24 billion on the homeless and they can't
• 1:01:47
  account for it. Is it true that Gavin– let's find
• 1:01:51
  out this because I saw this whole article about this
• 1:01:54
  that said Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would do
• 1:01:57
  an audit of where the $ 24 billion to the homeless went.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: Well, if their goal was to create more homeless with
• 1:02:03
  that money, they did a great job. They did a
• 1:02:04
  great job. They did a fantastic job.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: The crazy thing is they're literally incentivized to have more
• 1:02:09
  homeless because the more homeless people they have, the more
• 1:02:11
  money they get.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: The money goes.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: Yep. which is what? And then you see the salaries
• 1:02:15
  of the people that are working on it. Coleon Noir,
• 1:02:18
  my friend that's a Second Amendment advocate who's a lawyer,
• 1:02:22
  he was the first guy to tell me about that
• 1:02:23
  because he's a lawyer and he was in San Francisco
• 1:02:25
  and he was like, why is there so many homeless
• 1:02:27
  people here? It's like, do they need more money? And
• 1:02:29
  his friend who was a lawyer goes.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: This whole thing is a racket. The more homeless people
• 1:02:36
  you have, the more you have to fund the homeless
• 1:02:37
  initiative and then you have this entire ecosystem that's built
• 1:02:41
  around The homeless.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: Right. And it's just money is going to executives.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: Millions and millions of dollars. In California, $ 24 billion. Okay.
• 1:02:49
  David Spade was talking about it. This really happened. He
• 1:02:52
  blocked bills for an audit multiple times. Bipartisan bill AB2903
• 1:02:55
  unanimously passed 72 to 0 in the assembly, 40 to
• 1:02:58
  0 in the senate. And would have forced annual public
• 1:03:07
  reports on where the money went. And Newsom vetoed it.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 3: Is there no system in the state? Because it's like
• 1:03:12
  if the president vetoes at a federal level, I'm pretty
• 1:03:16
  sure if it goes back to the Senate or the House,
• 1:03:20
  they can do a two-thirds vote to pass it anyway.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: I don't understand.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: There is legislative ways to override a veto.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: This veto?
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: Federally.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: I don't know about a state level. It says Gavin
• 1:03:31
  Newsom also vetoed similar bills. AB 2570 and AB 2093. Wow.
• 1:03:41
  That is crazy.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: Hey, that money's just gone.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: $ 20 billion plus in missing homeless money went. That is
• 1:03:50
  really wild, man, that you would veto that, that it
• 1:03:53
  passes unanimously. And you're like, nah, playa.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: That's fucking gangster, dude.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: That's why you become a governor. It's probably a good
• 1:04:01
  move if you're a really shitty mayor of a place
• 1:04:05
  like San Francisco and you ruin it. But it'd be
• 1:04:06
  the governor. Yeah. Tighten up.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: And stop the investigation.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: Stop all the fucking loopholes.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: You know, that's what I would call that good gameplay
• 1:04:14
  on Newsom's part.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: That is what you're doing.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 3: I like looking at politics from an outside perspective. That's
• 1:04:20
  some good gameplay right there. If it's a game, that's
• 1:04:22
  exactly what you should do.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: Great moves.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: It's a great move.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and now you sort of can launch yourself as
• 1:04:27
  this anti-Trump guy and you're like– it's trying to get
• 1:04:31
  on this pod.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: The problem with that dude is– The presidential run is coming.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: He lies so much he doesn't remember that he lied. Like,
• 1:04:39
  he gets busted on, like, we've never used the term
• 1:04:41
  Latinx because Latinos do not like that Latinx bullshit.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 5: No.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: You want to fucking alienate the Mexican-American community? Yeah. Start
• 1:04:51
  calling them Latinx. They're like, bitch, what the fuck are
• 1:04:54
  you saying?
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: Well, that's fundamentally.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: It's a gendered language.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fundamentally against their language.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: Yes. That's the whole point.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: There are female and male things in their language.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: It's a gendered language.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Latinx crap. Crazy.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: That's crazy.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: Stop.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: The really crazy thing is, you know, we were talking
• 1:05:12
  last night with Jimmy Carr's friend.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: What was his name? I forgot his name.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: Sorry, sir. Fun guy. Interesting guy. But we got to
• 1:05:21
  talking about the different people that lived in America before
• 1:05:28
  Columbus got here and before Cortez got here and before.
• 1:05:31
  All these Spanish explorers turn the entire country into a
• 1:05:35
  Spanish-speaking Catholic country, which is really nuts, man. You want
• 1:05:39
  to talk about colonizing. Like those people in Mexico, oh,
• 1:05:44
  we respect their religion, their culture. That's the culture of
• 1:05:47
  their oppressors from just a few hundred years ago. They
• 1:05:51
  lost a hundred different native languages, man. They had so
• 1:05:55
  many languages in what is now Mexico, but wasn't even
• 1:05:59
  Mexico until 1820. Like whatever it was, whatever they called
• 1:06:03
  it in the different areas, they had like over 100
• 1:06:06
  different languages. Lost in the wind because the fucking conquistadors
• 1:06:10
  came through.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And outnumbered they were able to do that. Bro.
• 1:06:15
  This is crazy.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: Way outnumbered.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: Crazy.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: Bro, they had 13 muskets. That's all they had. 600 dudes,
• 1:06:22
  13 muskets. They burned the boats and took over Mexico.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: Crazy.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: Crazy.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: Crazy.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 3: Just the gift of gab, too. Just able to convince
• 1:06:31
  Montezuma that they were God.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: Well, they showed up with metal. Yeah, that's a fair point.
• 1:06:35
  They're wearing armor and they're riding horses. They're like, this
• 1:06:37
  is crazy. These guys are riding horses?
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: And there's like a famous, what was it, La Malinche?
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 3: It was like a female native to the area who
• 1:06:47
  helped them take them down.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: Oh, there's quite a few people that helped them. They
• 1:06:50
  were very clever what they did because there wasn't united
• 1:06:53
  tribes because the Aztecs were absolutely brutal. One of the
• 1:06:58
  Spanish chroniclers, some– I forget his name, something Diaz, but
• 1:07:08
  one of these Spanish chroniclers before the arrival of Cortez,
• 1:07:12
  he was there at the celebration of the completion of
• 1:07:17
  one of the temples. I think it was Tenochtitlan. And
• 1:07:20
  they killed somewhere between 20,000 as the low end and 80,000
• 1:07:25
  as the high end. 20,000 to 80,000 people sacrificed in
• 1:07:27
  a four-day ceremony.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: That's pretty gangster.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: So these are the people that were there. So those
• 1:07:38
  are not loved people. Right, right. So it was really
• 1:07:41
  easy for them to get the other tribes and go, hey, guys,
• 1:07:44
  we got horses. We got 13 muskets. With your help.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: We can take them down.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: We can speak Spanish.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: Carnitas.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: That's so wild.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: It is a fucking Mexican word, but it's a Spanish word.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: It's like the language. They had names like North American,
• 1:08:02
  Native American names.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: Like one guy was a cacao lightning god. That was
• 1:08:08
  his name. I did a whole bunch of research on
• 1:08:10
  these people because I just got fascinated because one of
• 1:08:13
  the things about the Aztecs is a lot of these
• 1:08:17
  like super complex temples, they didn't build them. They found them.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. We talk about like– They.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: Called it the place where the gods were born.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 3: These sort of like civilizations that like clearly probably existed before.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: Because this is something that I think about is like, okay,
• 1:08:37
  so do you know.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 3: The story of the Achaemenid Persian Empire like succession?
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: I don't know it in detail, but I'm aware of
• 1:08:46
  a lot of it.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 3: So you have Cyrus. He has two kids, Cambyses and Bardia.
• 1:08:52
  He splits up the realm between the two. Cambyses goes
• 1:08:55
  off to conquer Egypt, but he's like, well, Bardiya is popular,
• 1:09:00
  so let me secretly kill him and then go off
• 1:09:02
  to Egypt. A Magi priest then impersonates Bardiya, takes over.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: The Achaemenid Persian Empire. He is the ruler now.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 3: Cambyses sort of dies on the way back mysteriously. And
• 1:09:18
  then a Achaemenid nobleman named Darius is like, hey, this
• 1:09:23
  is a Magi imposter.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: Kills Bardia. He's now ruling.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 3: Darius leads the Achaemenid Persian Empire to be as big
• 1:09:31
  as it can be. And he's the father of Xerxes,
• 1:09:33
  the bad guy in 300.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 3: But that is the only official narrative story we have
• 1:09:40
  that's from a primary source. And the only reason we
• 1:09:45
  have that is because Darius carved that story in himself
• 1:09:48
  into a rock relief. It's called the Behistun Relief. So
• 1:09:51
  that story is basically propaganda. But then 50 years later,
• 1:09:55
  it gets picked up by Herodotus and that becomes the
• 1:09:57
  story of the Ascension.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: Right. There's no other primary source on what happened there.
• 1:10:01
  You just have to take Darius's word for it.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 3: And that's in the fifth century. And the only reason
• 1:10:07
  we know that is because someone carved it into a rock.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 3: Like we're not carving anything in the rocks now.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: So if– yeah.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 3: So if something– let's say like something happens to the
• 1:10:18
  internet tomorrow and it disappears and then our civilization just
• 1:10:20
  vanishes off the earth. A couple people survive and they
• 1:10:24
  build a whole new civilization.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: There's all those lines. Is that writing or is that erosion?
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: I believe that's writing.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: I haven't really– Go back to that primary– the original– okay.
• 1:10:34
  I think it's writing. It looks like cuneiform.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 3: And it's the way it's, yeah. But that's the only
• 1:10:43
  reason we know something that happened from that time is.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: Because this exists.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: And we have no idea if it's true.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we have no idea if it's true. But no
• 1:10:49
  one's even carving anything into stone for us.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Look at it.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah. There's no way.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: How dope is that language?
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: Look how cool that looks. Look how cool that looks.
• 1:10:59
  That's how people used to write things.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: Down, man.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: Right. Can AI, like, find... There's got to be some
• 1:11:06
  of these– like I know there's one from Easter Island
• 1:11:09
  that they can't decipher. Have you ever seen that one? No.
• 1:11:13
  Graham Hancock explained it. And what he said was essentially
• 1:11:17
  the island– it was a very small island. They got
• 1:11:18
  raided by slavers and they took everyone except for like
• 1:11:22
  100 people. And the people that they took and enslaved,
• 1:11:24
  they were the ones who knew how to read this
• 1:11:26
  language and then this language was lost forever.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: There's one piece of like wood where– yeah, that's it.
• 1:11:33
  where it's written on, look how dope their language looks. Like,
• 1:11:37
  zoom in on like, how crazy is that, man? Like,
• 1:11:40
  what are they saying? And we don't know. Like, I
• 1:11:44
  wonder if they could throw that through AI and get
• 1:11:47
  sort of an understanding of what these symbols, but you'd
• 1:11:49
  have to have a base, like, that was the thing
• 1:11:51
  about the Rosetta Stone. The Rosetta Stone really helped people
• 1:11:54
  in Egypt because you're like, oh, this is how it's
• 1:11:56
  written in Greek. And this is, okay, now we know
• 1:11:59
  what it's said in multiple languages.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: Now we get an understanding of it. Yeah.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 3: But so the overall point being, though, is like in
• 1:12:08
  our time, if the Internet disappears and we're gone, there's
• 1:12:12
  nothing from this time that's really being recorded.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: It'll just be lost. Oh, yeah. All the hard drive
• 1:12:17
  stuff gone.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Just be lost.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: We'll have to relearn things.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 3: But our time, the Americans, they'll just be some ancient
• 1:12:23
  thing that people might not know ever existed.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: It says about the it's called the wrong. Rongorongo, a
• 1:12:32
  glyph-based script from Easter Island, remains undeciphered despite over a
• 1:12:37
  century of study. Imagine you're studying it for a century.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: You can't figure.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: Out the language.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: People's whole lives have been dedicated to this.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: No one knows exactly what it says, as all attempts
• 1:12:45
  to translate it fully have failed, with scholars debating if
• 1:12:48
  it's true writing or proto-writing used as a memory aid.
• 1:12:53
  A memory aid.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, lines alternate direction, often upside down. Oh, so that's
• 1:12:57
  so hard. Even the direction is.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: Ever-changing. You're not writing right to left. You're just kind
• 1:13:03
  of going wherever you want with it.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: What is the latest on the Voynich manuscripts? Has anybody
• 1:13:08
  thrown that through AI to try to see if it
• 1:13:10
  makes any sense? Do you know about that?
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Were they found on a guy? Was that one
• 1:13:14
  of them?
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: No, it's some weird book. And the question is whether
• 1:13:19
  or not this book is just complete gibberish and nonsense
• 1:13:22
  or whether it's some lost language. And it's really detailed, too.
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: What was it found?
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: It's a good question. I don't remember. Published Nobby Cipher,
• 1:13:34
  is that what it's called? Published November 26, 2025 in
• 1:13:39
  Cryptologia by science journalist Michael Greshko introduced the Nobby Cipher,
• 1:13:46
  which uses 14th century Italian playing cards and dice to
• 1:13:50
  encode Latin or Italian text into glyphs mimicking dice. The
• 1:13:53
  Voynich manuscripts, Voynichese. This cipher replicates key statistical features like
• 1:14:00
  glyph frequencies, word lengths, grammar rules suggesting a similar medieval
• 1:14:06
  method could have generated the original 15th century text, although
• 1:14:09
  it does not decode it.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: Have you seen it? See if you can find images
• 1:14:15
  of it.
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: It's freaky. Where was it found? That's what I'm curious about.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: That's a really good question.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: Let's find that out now.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: The Voynich Ninja. There's like groups dedicated to this.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: People are obsessed with it. I mean, they've been studying.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: This is a fun thing to be obsessed with.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: Just do me a favor and just go back to
• 1:14:29
  perplexity and say, how was it discovered? Yeah.
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: I'm curious.
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: Because I feel like someone had it and someone bought
• 1:14:40
  it from someone. I thought.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: I could have been wrong. I thought it was found
• 1:14:44
  on a body. I could be wrong about that. I
• 1:14:47
  might be thinking of another thing.
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: It was rediscovered in 1912 by Polish-American rare books dealer
• 1:14:52
  Wilfrid Voynich. Okay. He named it himself. What a clever guy.
• 1:14:55
  I like that.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: Fuck it. Something of mine survived.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: It's mine, bitch.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: They say you die. The second time you die is
• 1:15:00
  when someone says your name last, so we're just keeping
• 1:15:01
  him alive.
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: He acquired it from the Jesuit college in Frascati, Italy,
• 1:15:09
  as a part of a batch of 30 manuscripts discreetly
• 1:15:11
  sold amidst the Jesuits' financial difficulties. How many of these
• 1:15:15
  motherfuckers in the Vatican are sitting on some shit that
• 1:15:18
  they don't have to sell?
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. That would, like, change the world completely. Yeah.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: Carbon dating places its creation around 1404 to 1438, likely
• 1:15:26
  in northern Italy. Emperor Rudolf II bought it in the
• 1:15:32
  late 1500s for 600 gold ducats, possibly from John Dee.
• 1:15:38
  It later passed to Jacobus. How about this guy's name?
• 1:15:41
  Jacobus Horsiki Depenex.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 2: I taste in European stuff.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: That feels like. Depenex. But you can't even. It looks
• 1:15:51
  like Hungarian. The problem is there's some names like Ioana Janjacek.
• 1:15:55
  If you saw the way it's written. written. There's no
• 1:15:57
  way you would pronounce it correctly.
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: Any of those Eastern European names, it's like how did
• 1:16:00
  you even get that?
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: Stayed in Jesuit hands until 1912. He publicized the Undeciphered Codex,
• 1:16:06
  now at Yale's Beinecke Library, sparking global interest despite failed
• 1:16:13
  decoding attempts. Pull up some images of it so you
• 1:16:17
  can see what it looks like. It's real weird, man.
• 1:16:20
  It's real weird and it has detailed illustrations.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: Of like plants and stuff.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: Oh, here we go. Here's a little video. So you
• 1:16:28
  can see how cool it looks when they're opening up
• 1:16:30
  the book. Anything that you're getting that's a book that's
• 1:16:33
  from the fucking 1400s. 1200? When is it from?
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: 1500s? So 1400s.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: Any book that you're getting from the 1400s is fucking
• 1:16:44
  wild as it is. Just imagine these fucking people living
• 1:16:48
  back then, writing this shit down with a feather.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 2: Just touching it with her bare hands, huh?
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you have to. It's actually worse to do it
• 1:16:55
  with gloves.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they found out that gloves, the rubber is more abrasive.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: Than your finger?
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: The oils of your finger is actually more protective or
• 1:17:04
  something along those lines. Wow. Look how cool that looks, though. Yeah.
• 1:17:07
  And they don't know if that's a real language. That's
• 1:17:10
  what's nuts. You can't decode it.
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 2: This is a good YouTube rabbit hole.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: It's a good one.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: It's an interesting one because- People say it's a hoax,
• 1:17:19
  but the thing about it is if it's a hoax,
• 1:17:21
  it's like really well done and very complex and like
• 1:17:25
  incredible amount of time.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: The fact that it's still tripping up people now, it's
• 1:17:29
  like this all time great hoax then.
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: Sort of. But think about how many languages we've lost.
• 1:17:34
  Like we just talked about a hundred languages were lost
• 1:17:36
  somewhere around that in what is now considered Mexico. Now,
• 1:17:40
  you know, think about the rest of the world. Like
• 1:17:42
  here's another instance. Um, mobs of indigenous people in Australia,
• 1:17:48
  the aborigines.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: So they call themselves mobs and that, you know, instead
• 1:17:52
  of a tribe.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: And, um, they have mobs that will live six, 10
• 1:17:57
  kilometers away that speak a completely different language and they're
• 1:18:01
  all over the place and they don't have these things
• 1:18:04
  written anywhere. So there's a bunch of their languages that
• 1:18:07
  are just spoken orally and just disappear and they will disappear.
• 1:18:11
  And we don't know how many languages there are. Like
• 1:18:14
  my friend Adam Greentree, he used to own a mining
• 1:18:16
  company in Australia and he employed a lot of Aborigines
• 1:18:20
  and he knows a lot about the culture. And he
• 1:18:22
  was like, dude, it's the craziest history because a lot
• 1:18:26
  of it is not written down and there's a lot
• 1:18:28
  of horrible tragedy and genocide attached to it. There's a
• 1:18:32
  cave that you can go to where they gave this
• 1:18:35
  mob of Aborigines poison food on purpose, like a whole
• 1:18:38
  crew of them. And so there's like just their bones
• 1:18:41
  are in this cave still to this day. He goes, dude,
• 1:18:43
  it's the darkest fucking thing you've ever seen in your life.
• 1:18:45
  You think about this family and their children, they're starving,
• 1:18:49
  and these people, these you know, white people in Australia
• 1:18:52
  were essentially prisoners that England shipped over there.
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: Just gave them poison.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: And just, damn.
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: Damn. Damn. Damn.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: Damn.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: And they got, bro, they got some crazy rock art.
• 1:19:06
  You ever see the glyphs of alien-looking dudes and shit?
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's people that look like they're on rocket ships
• 1:19:14
  and spacesuits.
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: What information, what stories, what is their version of the
• 1:19:18
  Bible that we missed?
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 3: Because they never wrote it down. Yeah, there's something to
• 1:19:22
  do with a large flood. That seems to be consistent.
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: To hope he had that.
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, something to do with a large flood and something
• 1:19:28
  to do with some sort of either dragon or serpent
• 1:19:30
  type bad guy. Those are the two main consistent things
• 1:19:37
  across most cultures, some large flood event and some snake.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, that's all.
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  Speaker 3: And I wonder what the snake in the Bible really
• 1:19:46
  looked like because in the Adam and Eve story, anytime
• 1:19:48
  you see a picture painted of it, it's painted as
• 1:19:51
  a snake. But the snake's punishment was it lost its limbs.
• 1:19:55
  So this was a dragon.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 3: Right, because the snake's punishment was it has to slither
• 1:20:02
  on the ground.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: But is that the snake's punishment forever? Is that, like,
• 1:20:06
  why God did that to the snakes, period?
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: I think so. I think that's the whole— Right, but
• 1:20:11
  doesn't that.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: Just explain what a snake looks like rather than describe
• 1:20:15
  a dragon? Like, why does it have limbs? God took
• 1:20:18
  away its limbs.
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: Mm. Okay, I see what you're saying. Maybe it's reversed.
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: It seems like it's reversed.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe I just really wanted to be a dragon.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems like, how come they don't get to
• 1:20:27
  have legs?
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: How come you don't get to have wings, bitch? You know?
• 1:20:33
  Because if you really think about it, like, there are
• 1:20:36
  so many different stories. This is why, like, you know,
• 1:20:39
  The View, like, that's that famous Joy Behar clip where
• 1:20:42
  she said, he believes in dragons.
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 2: Great clip.
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's awesome.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 2: Great clip.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: It comes out of a conversation that I had with
• 1:20:47
  Forrest Gallant, who's a wildlife biologist, who's like, There's a
• 1:20:51
  lot of depictions of these flying serpents and large serpents
• 1:20:56
  with wings all over the world. It's weird.
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: It is really weird.
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like a thing.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: It's really weird. And we know some dinosaurs flew.
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 2: So there might have been some. Do you think there's
• 1:21:07
  some sort of cross?
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing. The Congo has had a legend
• 1:21:13
  of some sort of a large dinosaur-like creature forever. To
• 1:21:18
  the point where explorers have made their way into the
• 1:21:20
  Congo to try to find this thing that resembles– I
• 1:21:23
  think it resembles a brontosaurus.
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 2: That could fly?
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: No, no, no. That was in the jungle. So the
• 1:21:30
  question is, is it possible that a creature could live
• 1:21:35
  for an extended period of time and then maybe in
• 1:21:39
  the 1100s or 1,000 years ago or 2,000 years ago,
• 1:21:42
  they slaughtered them all and killed them off? Like maybe
• 1:21:45
  they have a long gestation period like an elephant.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 2: Maybe.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's possible they realized these things were a threat.
• 1:21:51
  They knew where they'd end up. There was a small
• 1:21:53
  population anywhere and they killed them off.
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: Maybe.
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: Maybe. It's not likely. There's no bones. There's no nothing.
• 1:22:01
  But there's no bones of most things. That's the thing.
• 1:22:04
  Most things that die do not leave a fossil. And
• 1:22:07
  then they find things that they thought were extinct. Not
• 1:22:11
  just extinct but extinct for millions and millions of years.
• 1:22:14
  One of them is the coelacanth. You know about the coelacanth? No.
• 1:22:17
  So the coelacanth is this crazy-looking dinosaur fish that is
• 1:22:23
  unchanged from, God, I want to say tens of millions
• 1:22:28
  of years. I don't know how old. But when you
• 1:22:30
  look at it, you're like, yo, look at that thing.
• 1:22:32
  And then they caught one once. They caught it. I
• 1:22:35
  don't know if it was a fishing net or a
• 1:22:37
  fishing boat, but they caught one. And then they realize, like, oh,
• 1:22:40
  my God, these things are still alive. Like, we thought
• 1:22:42
  this was a part of the fossil record.
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 2: Damn.
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: And then they realize that there's parts of the ocean
• 1:22:47
  that we just haven't explored and these things. And then
• 1:22:49
  they've caught a bunch of them since. And then other
• 1:22:52
  fishermen have caught them. But it's a very deep, deep
• 1:22:55
  sea creature that is really ancient. How old is the coelacanth? Like,
• 1:23:00
  how long has it been around for? Man. I hope
• 1:23:06
  I'm saying the word right.
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 2: That's so wild to not find one for years and
• 1:23:08
  then all of a sudden you just find a bunch.
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: Well, they found a few. Well, now that they know
• 1:23:12
  they exist, they're looking in that area.
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 2: They kind of know what to look for.
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: And then they're fishing in that area and they caught them.
• 1:23:16
  But can you show me an image of the coelacanth?
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 3: Oh, I think there's a YouTube channel that I think
• 1:23:22
  you'd really like called like– I think it's called– it
• 1:23:26
  just goes and looks through what the earth looked like
• 1:23:32
  in different eras.
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: So that's that freaky fish.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, I've seen this.
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: It's armored. It's got, like, these crazy scales on it.
• 1:23:38
  It just... It looks like a throwback. So, three... Hold up,
• 1:23:45
  go up. Relatives being the first left seas, 385... Okay. So,
• 1:23:52
  they're not our direct ancestors, but they're still relatives of
• 1:23:55
  beings that first left the seas. They left the sea
• 1:23:58
  385 million years ago and became four-legged terrestrial animals.
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 2: Damn, and this is, like, this is, like, a common link?
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: So... What they're saying is there's creatures that left– so
• 1:24:08
  something like that left the sea 385 million years ago
• 1:24:12
  and became four-legged terrestrial animals from which we sprung. And
• 1:24:16
  these relatives are still alive today. So how long has
• 1:24:19
  the coelacanth been around? So it says in 1938, floating
• 1:24:28
  off the South African coast in the Indian Ocean, fishermen
• 1:24:31
  from the urban caught an unknown creature. weighed 188 pounds,
• 1:24:35
  five feet in length, dark blue in color, and unabashedly
• 1:24:40
  chomped its jaws. This was not a fish, not just
• 1:24:44
  any fish, it had scales, fins, and limbs, or more precisely,
• 1:24:48
  rudiments thereof. Moreover, there were seven of them, two in
• 1:24:53
  the back, three on the belly, and another pair on
• 1:24:56
  the head. They had limbs on their head?
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 2: Whoa.
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: Damn. Should we know the local population occasionally caught these
• 1:25:01
  creatures that didn't even come up with a name for them, gombessa,
• 1:25:05
  which can be translated as bitter fish.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 2: Love that. Just eat it first. Find out later.
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: The residents knew that it was nearly inedible. It was
• 1:25:12
  consumed due to the belief that its meat helped to
• 1:25:14
  cope with malaria symptoms. Yo. Although it was possible to
• 1:25:18
  make something like sandpaper from the extremely strong and bristly scales.
• 1:25:22
  So when did they think, when, look at what it
• 1:25:25
  looked like. That's crazy.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 2: That's, that's wild.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: That thing looks scary.
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 2: It looks like a monster.
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: With all those weird appendages.
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: Eventually made its way onto the shore.
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: Nuts, man. How long ago was that? Like, how long
• 1:25:42
  did they think that thing had been extinct for?
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 2: You'd have to look that up.
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Just put into perplexity the history of the coelacanth. Okay,
• 1:26:00
  here we go. How old is this motherfucker? 420 million years. Wow.
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 2: Rediscovered. Damn, bro.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: That's wild.
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: They thought it had been extinct for 66 million years.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 2: And it was just living.
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 1: Whoa.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 2: Dude, to live that long, that's pretty crazy.
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: That's incredible. Yeah, that's... That's incredible. So, this thing... That
• 1:26:28
  was alive 400 million years ago is still alive today.
• 1:26:31
  They thought it was extinct for 68 million years. Is
• 1:26:34
  it possible that there's something else like that that's on land?
• 1:26:38
  Like less likely, I think. I think ocean is more likely.
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 2: Well, it's more undiscovered, right?
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: Not just that. It's also like more protective of environmental change, right?
• 1:26:48
  So it's probably less dependent on all that. Like especially
• 1:26:52
  if you're a sea predator. You're probably less dependent on
• 1:26:56
  all the plants growing and nuclear winter that's happening on
• 1:26:59
  the fucking surface. Right. Where everything dies off and the
• 1:27:01
  ice age comes and it's fucking meteor dust everywhere. Right.
• 1:27:05
  You can survive.
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 2: You can survive a lot of stuff like climate change.
• 1:27:07
  You're not worried about that really.
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: Probably you are, but it's probably something– more things would
• 1:27:13
  probably survive in the ocean I would imagine.
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes more sense.
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: Like how old are alligators and crocodiles?
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 2: Aren't they like, aren't like, isn't like, aren't like sharks
• 1:27:21
  older than trees or something?
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: Older than trees.
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: Older than trees.
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 2: It's such a mind fuck to think about.
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah. There's something could be older than trees.
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And they still are essentially in the same form.
• 1:27:33
  Mm hmm. Just fucking swimming, eating machines.
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 2: Apex predators forever.
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: You hear about that lady off Santa Cruz that got
• 1:27:39
  got the other day?
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 3: No, but have you read that book about the I
• 1:27:42
  read that book about the shark attacks in 1916?
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. New Jersey.
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Close to shore where it's like, oh, damn.
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: Like a river.
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 2: It went in a freshwater river.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 2: But they also didn't think sharks were dangerous at that time.
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 3: Like that was– in that time, there were people like, oh, sharks,
• 1:27:58
  they're just like sea puppies.
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 2: They'll leave you alone. That was the thought.
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 3: Part of the reason why that stuck out to people
• 1:28:04
  were like, oh, sharks are like dangerous creatures.
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: Especially bull sharks because bull sharks are the ones that
• 1:28:09
  can swim all the way up to– like they made
• 1:28:12
  their way to Illinois.
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, and they're just as– they're more aggressive than
• 1:28:15
  the great whites, right?
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. They're hyper-aggressive. But they make their way all
• 1:28:19
  the way up freshwater rivers, all the way up into
• 1:28:22
  like cold environments. Fucking Illinois had bull sharks in fresh water.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 2: Just a fresh water shark. It's just, how bad luck
• 1:28:31
  do you, how much of a bad luck do you
• 1:28:33
  have to be in a river and get attacked by
• 1:28:35
  a shark? It was your time to go.
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: You got your legs dangling out of an inner tube.
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: Just all of a sudden you feel this sharp pain
• 1:28:43
  and you see red in the water and you realize
• 1:28:44
  your legs gone.
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah it takes you a second to realize your leg
• 1:28:47
  is gone too because it's so sharp and so yeah.
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: Slices through and you don't expect it.
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 2: Geez yeah well we're not expecting a shark in the lake.
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: And you look down you see the white of your
• 1:28:56
  kneecap everything underneath it is just torn tissue and Fuck.
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 2: They didn't think it was dangerous at the time like that.
• 1:29:04
  Isn't that crazy? That's so wild.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: It's so wild.
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 2: All the way up until 1960.
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 3: In fact, some people thought sharks were just something that
• 1:29:09
  sailors made up.
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: Whoa.
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 3: Just like, oh, this giant sea creature that'll eat you.
• 1:29:14
  They don't know what they're talking about.
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 2: Like, this is just a sea myth.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: Well, it's also when you think about it, when people
• 1:29:19
  came to America, because there's no sharks in England. There's
• 1:29:22
  no sharks in Ireland. Right. They don't have a problem
• 1:29:24
  over there. So when they came to America, there was only, like,
• 1:29:29
  We're talking about this shark attack was in the early 1900s, right? Yes, 1916.
• 1:29:34
  So think about that. There's only like a couple hundred
• 1:29:36
  years of people even being here.
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 3: And that year was like a perfect storm of like
• 1:29:42
  the beach became like an acceptable thing to go lounge at.
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 2: Before that, it wasn't a thing.
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 5: Tried to twist it to say that it was trying
• 1:29:50
  to attack a dog not the person.
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 3: No It does lay out certain things like if you
• 1:29:59
  are swimming with a dog you're more likely to get
• 1:30:01
  attacked by a shark And it's like something like a
• 1:30:05
  full moon like the moon really regulates sharks emotions So
• 1:30:08
  like more shark attacks happen on full moons. Oh, there's
• 1:30:11
  certain things. Yeah, apparently having the dog. They never attack
• 1:30:14
  the dog. Oh But the dog attracts the– something about
• 1:30:18
  how they.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 2: Swim attacks the shark.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 1: Dogs don't get killed by sharks?
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 2: They will attack the person. Really?
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 2: The book lays it out. There is something– there is
• 1:30:27
  like a.
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 3: Coordinate– like there are a bunch of different factors that
• 1:30:33
  sort of apply to that.
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 2: Whoa. Mm-hmm.
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: I don't think there's anything alive right now that is dinosaur-like.
• 1:30:42
  But I wonder how long they stuck around for. How
• 1:30:46
  long some of them stayed?
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 2: Just the last vegetables.
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: If crocodiles and alligators didn't exist, like let's just imagine
• 1:30:53
  crocodiles didn't exist, the big ones, the Nile crocodiles. Let's
• 1:30:56
  imagine no one thought there was a crocodile. It's nonsense.
• 1:30:59
  And then one day someone got a video of one
• 1:31:02
  in the Congo. You'd be like, no, dinosaurs are real.
• 1:31:06
  That's a dinosaur. That is a straight up dinosaur.
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a giant lizard. That is technically what's left.
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: This dude, Josh Bomar, he's a bow hunter and he
• 1:31:17
  just killed a world record crocodile. And I think it
• 1:31:19
  was in Tanzania. Actually, I think he might have did
• 1:31:22
  it like two years ago. This thing is so big.
• 1:31:27
  I think it's like 17 feet long and it's probably
• 1:31:32
  over 100 years old. He killed it with a bow.
• 1:31:35
  Look at the size of that thing.
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 2: Good God.
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 1: Now. Imagine if that thing didn't exist. If no one
• 1:31:41
  thought that that thing existed.
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 2: And then you saw that.
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: And then you saw that.
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 2: You'd be like, yeah, that's a monster that I saw.
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: Like, look at the size of that thing, man. Like,
• 1:31:50
  if nobody went to Tanzania ever. If it was just
• 1:31:53
  a place that no one went to. And then people
• 1:31:56
  went there and they saw that. They're like, oh, my God,
• 1:31:58
  dinosaurs are still alive.
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: Because that's a fucking dinosaur.
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: Period. Full stop.
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you'd be absolutely afraid of that.
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: You can call it a crocodile, whatever. It's a species
• 1:32:07
  of dinosaurs that made it. It's still here. Like, when
• 1:32:11
  did crocodiles first evolve?
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 5: 83 to 95 million years ago, late Cretaceous.
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 2: Younger than the coelacanth.
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 5: Up to 250 million years ago.
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 2: Still younger than the coelacanth.
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: Well, it's probably the ancestor that came to shore and
• 1:32:25
  started eating shit. If everything came out of the ocean, allegedly.
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 3: Okay, there is something. There's something that I do. It's
• 1:32:34
  like a gratefulness thing that I do. This is like
• 1:32:37
  a big moment for me in my career. I just
• 1:32:38
  released a special. I'm walking away from it. I'm not
• 1:32:42
  working social media at the club anymore. I'm making steps out.
• 1:32:45
  This is a YouTube video that I watch. Every time something, like,
• 1:32:49
  sort of big happens to me, or, like, I'm on
• 1:32:51
  a crossroads, and it's, have you ever seen this Mr.
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 2: Rogers Emmy acceptance speech? Have you seen this?
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: No.
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 2: Okay. Can we pull that up, Jamie?
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 3: And it's, like, a three-minute video, but, like, genuinely, because
• 1:33:03
  I'm going to do it, too, I want you to
• 1:33:04
  do what he says.
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. It's just a quick little thing.
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm, yeah, yeah.
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: Let's see it. Yeah.
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 6: For giving generation upon generation of children confidence in themselves,
• 1:33:34
  for being their friend, for telling them again and again
• 1:33:40
  and again that they are special and that they have worth.
• 1:33:44
  It is my honor on behalf of everyone here and
• 1:33:48
  on behalf of the millions of children whose mornings you
• 1:33:52
  have brightened with your kindness to present you with this
• 1:33:55
  Lifetime Achievement Award.
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 4: Oh, it's a beautiful night in this neighborhood. So many
• 1:34:17
  people have helped me to come to this night. Some
• 1:34:20
  of you are here, some are far away, some are
• 1:34:25
  even in heaven. All of us have special ones who
• 1:34:30
  have loved us into being. Would you just take, along
• 1:34:35
  with me, ten seconds to think of the people who
• 1:34:40
  have helped you become who you are, those who have
• 1:34:46
  cared about you and wanted what was best for you
• 1:34:50
  in life. 10 seconds of silence.
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 2: I'll watch the time.
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 4: Whomever you've been thinking about, how pleased they must be
• 1:35:15
  to know the difference you feel they've made. You know,
• 1:35:19
  they're the kind of people television does well to offer
• 1:35:24
  our world. Special thanks to my family and friends and
• 1:35:30
  to my coworkers in public broadcasting, family communications, and this
• 1:35:36
  academy for encouraging me allowing me all.
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 5: These years to be your neighbor. May God be with you.
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much. He seemed like the real deal.
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: I'm glad nothing ever came out about him.
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for real, right? He wasn't like a Jimmy Savile.
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 1: I'm happy he was the real deal. He really does
• 1:36:00
  seem like he is.
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 2: Who'd you think about?
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 1: Oh, do I want to say it publicly?
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you don't have to. You know, family, personal people,
• 1:36:10
  you know.
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 1: But, you know, you and I in particular are very fortunate.
• 1:36:15
  We have a lot of people that help us be
• 1:36:17
  who we are.
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 1: You know, and that is like the one thing that
• 1:36:21
  I think we really highlight at the club is that
• 1:36:25
  we really are all happy. We really are all lucky.
• 1:36:28
  And we really enjoy our time together.
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: Feet off of each other.
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 3: I'm so happy to like the way this I would
• 1:36:37
  say the scene is like incredibly, incredibly supportive of each
• 1:36:41
  other in a way that like it's nice, I guess,
• 1:36:43
  in this sort of new system that we live in, too,
• 1:36:45
  where like you can just make it on your own.
• 1:36:47
  You don't need like I'm not auditioning for a spot
• 1:36:50
  that like Fuzzy's auditioning for because we're both brown.
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Like in the old days.
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 2: There's no reason for me to be like, damn, I
• 1:36:59
  hope he doesn't get this. Right. You know? It's a
• 1:37:02
  system of like, oh, dude, we can all just create
• 1:37:04
  and then help each other.
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 2: Like piggyback off each other. And it's such a refreshing
• 1:37:10
  experience to have.
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: It really is the rising tide lifts all boats. And
• 1:37:13
  that's how it should be.
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 3: And it happens everywhere, too, because obviously you're at the
• 1:37:17
  mothership and you see how hard the door guys there crush.
• 1:37:20
  But I'll go to Sunset. And Sunset has some fucking
• 1:37:24
  killers as door guys now, especially because like they came
• 1:37:27
  up in this experience where Sunset, you know, famously the
• 1:37:30
  ceilings are high and like the room can be cavernous,
• 1:37:33
  can feel cavernous when it's like tight. And so they
• 1:37:36
  come up in a harsher like mothership. The rooms are
• 1:37:39
  set up for comedy. Sunset, it never happened that way.
• 1:37:44
  The guy died before he could make it what he
• 1:37:46
  wanted to make it. And Redman came in and just
• 1:37:48
  sort of saved it so he can open at the
• 1:37:50
  very least. So it's like they come up in these
• 1:37:52
  harsh situations and like there's this one kid at Sunset.
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 2: His name is– well, kid is very funny to say.
• 1:37:57
  He's the grown man.
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 3: But Mumford Davis, he closes every single death squad, which
• 1:38:06
  is like 18 hours long. So he closes every single one,
• 1:38:10
  goes up in front of a tired beat audience. And
• 1:38:14
  now he's just an absolute monster.
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 1: Running with ankle weights on.
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's running with the biggest ankle weights on.
• 1:38:20
  To go at the end of that in that room.
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 2: They're tired. They've been there forever.
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 1: But you think about it. like that's how kinnison came
• 1:38:25
  up kinnison was the they that was the kinnison spot
• 1:38:29
  was the last spot at the or you know and
• 1:38:32
  right think about his style that's screaming yelling in your
• 1:38:35
  face that's designed to shock an audience back to life
• 1:38:39
  right just trying to keep going that's don barris that's
• 1:38:42
  brian holtzman Like, those guys that developed that act, they
• 1:38:46
  could just jolt you out of your complacency. It's kind
• 1:38:50
  of by necessity. Right.
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 2: How to just, like, keeping someone's attention.
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 3: Like, bringing it back is just so impressive. That's what
• 1:39:00
  I miss about the comedy stores. I left before I
• 1:39:02
  got passed, so I never got those, like, late-night OR spots.
• 1:39:06
  Those one-in-the-morning, six-people... Just survived. I mean, some of my
• 1:39:11
  best sets, favorite sets I've seen people have are in
• 1:39:13
  those spots. Damn, you really made this work.
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 1: Well, sometimes like reality shines through. Like they have a
• 1:39:20
  real moment on stage where the comedy is just like
• 1:39:24
  people like, oh, shit. Like I remember Laura Bites had
• 1:39:26
  a set one time and I even posted it. Me
• 1:39:29
  and Burt Kreischer sat in the back of the room
• 1:39:31
  and she crushed so hard. In front of, there was
• 1:39:33
  only like 25 people in the room.
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: And by the time she was off stage, there was
• 1:39:36
  50 people in the room because people were coming in
• 1:39:38
  from other places to come and watch her set.
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 2: When you hear that noise, you're like, okay, what's going
• 1:39:42
  on here?
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 1: She was just on fire. She was killing.
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 3: It's like those spots are nice because it's like, you know,
• 1:39:49
  your jokes, you have to work your jokes to get
• 1:39:51
  to a certain point where like my jokes are funny
• 1:39:53
  enough to showcase and work at the club.
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 2: And now that I'm at this level, I got the jokes. Now,
• 1:39:58
  can I be funny? Right.
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 3: You know, beyond like what my written, can I be
• 1:40:03
  just funny, me as a person?
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 3: You can kind of really hone that in those sort
• 1:40:08
  of late night tough rooms.
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you got to do those. Yeah.
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 3: And that's why, you know, the store at the end
• 1:40:14
  of the day, even through hard and like good times
• 1:40:16
  and tough times at the store, that's the reason why
• 1:40:18
  they always create monsters.
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah. The store creates monsters.
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 1: And Mitzi knew what she was doing. She had a
• 1:40:23
  method to her madness, and she tweaked it and got
• 1:40:27
  it to the perfect form. We essentially used a similar
• 1:40:29
  form here.
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of like the method to make comedy happen.
• 1:40:34
  It's like just people in these tough spots over and
• 1:40:39
  over again.
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 2: Can you follow monsters?
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 3: Can you follow monsters? The best part about being at
• 1:40:45
  the ship is I've had to follow Theo and Shane
• 1:40:49
  and be like, damn. I just got to do this.
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 3: And then you have to follow, like, the emerging stars, too,
• 1:40:58
  because then they have a whole separate energy to them. Like,
• 1:41:00
  I remember following both Cam and James McCann after they
• 1:41:04
  both started, like, popping and being like, whoa. Just watching
• 1:41:07
  the energy around them shift.
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah. We lost McCann to Australia. I know.
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 2: He'll be back.
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 1: He's got to be back.
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 2: He'll be back.
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 1: I can't believe he had to go back.
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 2: So funny, though.
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 1: He's the best. He's one of my favorite guys out
• 1:41:21
  there because he's got such a unique– like it's his perspective.
• 1:41:25
  It's like you don't expect it. It's coming out of him.
• 1:41:28
  If you think the way he does, you get it.
• 1:41:30
  It's really smart, really funny.
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 2: High energy too.
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 3: Because usually the hyper-intelligent go low energy. It's very rare
• 1:41:42
  that a hyper-intelligent person who's intelligent on stage on purpose
• 1:41:45
  like he is goes high energy.
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 2: That's what makes him unique to me, too. Yeah.
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 3: It's because usually when comics are being smart on stage,
• 1:41:56
  and I'll do this, too, they go soft.
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 2: They go, look at me think. Mm-hmm.
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 3: McCann's like, I have the energy of I'm in a
• 1:42:04
  bar yelling at you, but it's about Kyrgyzstan.
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're lucky, dude.
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the scene is thriving. Yeah, there's so many places
• 1:42:19
  to go. That's why I did mine at Black Rabbit.
• 1:42:21
  Just a small little black box room that's been like...
• 1:42:24
  I've had sets there and it's like 10 people and
• 1:42:27
  they're amazing.
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're just there for comedy. A lot of them
• 1:42:31
  are like, they tend to be like these sort of
• 1:42:34
  just out of college kids. Who can't really afford to
• 1:42:36
  go to any of the clubs. They just have money
• 1:42:39
  for the first time. We're like, oh, we can go
• 1:42:40
  to this little spot. Like $ 10 tickets. Just get introduced
• 1:42:44
  to comedy. It's a bit of a younger audience there.
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 1: How many spots are just on our street?
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 2: On our street? Within our street.
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 1: Within close. You can count Cap City because it's one
• 1:42:56
  block over. Not Cap City, I'm sorry. Vulcan. No.
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 2: And Sunset.
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 1: Creek. Creek in the Cave.
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 2: Creek.
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 1: Creek in the Cave is one over.
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 3: In that area, you have Vulcan, Sunset, Creek, Velveeta, and
• 1:43:13
  then Bulls. These are bars that run comedy at least
• 1:43:16
  three to four times a week.
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 1: Bulls.
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, fuck.
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 3: I'm forgetting one of the places. I'm blanking on it now.
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 2: But Bulls, Black Rabbit.
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 3: If you want to count Roscoe's in East Austin, they're
• 1:43:31
  a little bit down the road, but they're still kind
• 1:43:32
  of in the downtown area.
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 2: So it's nine right there. Narbar, that's the one I
• 1:43:36
  was thinking about. That's ten.
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 3: Shakespeare's runs it a bunch, and Maggie Mae's runs it,
• 1:43:41
  I think, three times a week. So there's at least
• 1:43:42
  12 pretty much dedicated comedy rooms, and that's not including Mike's.
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 2: That's not including mics. Just in the area.
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 1: When you say mics, for people who don't know, you
• 1:43:51
  mean open mics.
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just open mics.
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 1: You're talking about booked clubs of professional comedians.
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, these are shows with people. And some of them
• 1:43:58
  are rough bar shows, but they're shows and they're booked.
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you can get on... There's so many ways
• 1:44:05
  to come up. Oh, you can walk.
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 1: You can walk.
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 2: I've had nights where I've had five sets and none
• 1:44:11
  of them were at the mothership.
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 2: You're just out and about. Yeah, it is.
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 3: it is so, and it's just different people getting up
• 1:44:20
  in different places. It's each, each of the, each different
• 1:44:23
  place has their own ecosystem of comics who, you know,
• 1:44:25
  cause you, you go, you go where it gives you,
• 1:44:28
  what gives you time.
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 2: That's where you always, that's the right way to go.
• 1:44:31
  No matter what. Yeah. Just whatever is feeding you go,
• 1:44:34
  that's where you go.
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 3: So there's different ecosystems in each places. And this is,
• 1:44:38
  it's really, it's really fun. And you just get to
• 1:44:40
  see people like, man, just figure it out. And it's
• 1:44:45
  fun to watch, and they'll figure it out on the
• 1:44:46
  podcast end. They'll figure it out on the comedy end,
• 1:44:50
  and it all sort of works together.
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 1: It's got to be extra dope for you, too, because
• 1:44:53
  you were an early settler.
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 3: Man, I feel like I got to the gold rush
• 1:44:58
  in 48. I feel like, because when I got here,
• 1:45:03
  there was only three.
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 2: It was me, Hans, Kim, and Derek, and Dylan. Dylan
• 1:45:08
  was eight years in.
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 3: But those were the only four of us that were, like,
• 1:45:11
  not famous headliners that weren't.
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 2: New comics basically.
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 2: So we got to just do so many shows cause
• 1:45:21
  there was no middle class. It was all, it was,
• 1:45:23
  it was like California. It was all upper class and
• 1:45:25
  all like lower class. It was very, that would now,
• 1:45:29
  now it's robust.
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 3: Now there's just a bunch of killers that are like
• 1:45:33
  just moving here all the time. There's this guy, Nick
• 1:45:35
  Murphy moved from Atlanta. What year did you move here?
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 1: Uh, 2021.
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 2: I moved here early. I got on a zoom.
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 3: I got in a, With Dylan Sullivan, I used to
• 1:45:45
  play this– I used to play– we used to play
• 1:45:48
  Game Nights in the pandemic online with our friends because
• 1:45:50
  we weren't allowed out, right? And so he pulled me
• 1:45:52
  aside one day on Discord and was like, you got
• 1:45:54
  to move here, and he made the pitch. And then
• 1:45:57
  I was like– I was pretty much there, and then
• 1:45:59
  Derek moved here, and he was like, you got to.
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: And this was just when we were doing shows at
• 1:46:02
  the Vulcan.
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 3: This is just shows at the Vulcan. This was just–
• 1:46:05
  but it was indoor shows, man. And so I moved here,
• 1:46:08
  and then I was like– because the way I looked
• 1:46:09
  at it was like, look, either I'm going to– Like
• 1:46:14
  LA is going to reopen and I'll be working at
• 1:46:15
  the comedy store again and we'll have at least gotten
• 1:46:17
  up in that time and gotten paid to go up
• 1:46:21
  because they paid for every spot here.
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 2: If you're booked. So it's like at least got paid.
• 1:46:26
  And so I was like– and then I'll go back
• 1:46:27
  to LA.
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: A little glitch. But– So when you came here, it
• 1:46:33
  was just like, look, I'll get some spots, I'll get paid,
• 1:46:35
  and if the comic store reopens, I'll go back.
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll go back.
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 3: The club was still two years away from opening, but
• 1:46:42
  it's like, I'll stick it out to the club and
• 1:46:43
  see what happens.
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 1: We were just starting to talk about a club back then. Right.
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you would put it on the universe, and that
• 1:46:49
  was enough for me to be like, I think he's
• 1:46:50
  going to get that done. And so I took a chance,
• 1:46:53
  and it ended up working, and then I ended up
• 1:46:55
  being one of the first people passed.
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 2: Through there, which ended up being a huge success.
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 3: Huge blessing because now there's so many killers that it's
• 1:47:03
  like hard to get into the mothership. Yeah.
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 2: There's so many like people who have moved.
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 3: It's like it's I almost tell people like it's a
• 1:47:10
  major city in that way in the sense of like
• 1:47:12
  if you can get good where you are first and
• 1:47:15
  then move to Austin. That might be better now than
• 1:47:19
  a blind move to Austin.
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 1: Right, as an opener.
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 1: As a beginner.
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 2: As a beginner.
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hard as a beginner.
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 1: It's like L.A. was for a while. Oh, L.A.
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 2: Is super tough. I imagine New York is super tough
• 1:47:30
  as well.
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 1: The store was really tough. If you wanted to go
• 1:47:32
  from open mic to actual spots, like, bro, you got
• 1:47:35
  to do spots somewhere else. Right. You really should be better.
• 1:47:38
  You're better off coming there with potential. Like, you've already
• 1:47:41
  gotten a few years under your belt.
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 2: Than, like, trying to figure it out.
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 2: Because the LA mics are especially brutal.
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: The thing is, man, if you guys didn't come, it
• 1:47:48
  wouldn't have worked. Like, that was the thing. It's like,
• 1:47:50
  the people that really are responsible for the movement, the
• 1:47:54
  crazy new scene here, are the ones who came before
• 1:47:58
  the club was open. Brian Simpson... Tom Segura, Segura was
• 1:48:02
  here early, man. I told him about it. He's like,
• 1:48:05
  I'm fucking moving. And then bam, I was like, whoa.
• 1:48:08
  And when Tom moved, I was like, that's a big deal.
• 1:48:10
  You know, because Tom was already doing arenas. Yeah.
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 3: It required a certain amount of people to buy in.
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 3: And and that I, you know, I'm very because of
• 1:48:19
  that I'm very pro Austin of because like man if
• 1:48:22
  you buy in look what can happen like yeah there's.
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 1: You shouldn't no one should not be pro Austin it's
• 1:48:27
  funny because Lewis and Tony were going back and forth
• 1:48:30
  and arguing like Lewis shits on the Austin scene right
• 1:48:33
  the This New York versus Austin thing is the stupidest
• 1:48:36
  fucking thing. It's like they should both be awesome.
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 2: Who cares? Yeah, it's unnecessary. It's unnecessary. Like in fight.
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 3: It's like catty girl fighting. It's like why we both
• 1:48:45
  clearly can exist in a space where we can also
• 1:48:48
  help each other. New York guys are always here. And
• 1:48:51
  we're I feel like we're always there.
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 1: But the point is what Tony and Lewis were going
• 1:48:55
  back and forth. And Lewis said, well, L.A. isn't even
• 1:49:00
  into consideration anymore. What's the best place for comedy in
• 1:49:03
  the country? And Tony goes, agreed. And why do you
• 1:49:07
  think that is? What do you think happened? Where did
• 1:49:11
  those people go? And Lewis is like, oh, shit.
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 2: But, you know, I will say this because I was
• 1:49:19
  just in L.A. I like where the L.A. scene is at.
• 1:49:21
  It's rebuilding stronger.
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: Of course it is.
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 2: It's the store.
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 1: It's L.A.
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 2: It's Hollywood.
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 1: It goes through dips. It's done it before. When I
• 1:49:28
  got there, it was at a low. When I came
• 1:49:30
  in 94... The OR was half empty. Main room was
• 1:49:33
  never full. Oh, and then there was no big talent there.
• 1:49:36
  It's always like that. It comes, it goes. New people
• 1:49:39
  come up. It's legendary. It's got a vibe to it.
• 1:49:41
  It creates comedy just by existing.
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like it's still– every time I'm there, I'm like, man,
• 1:49:47
  this is the fucking place.
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 1: It's the fucking place, man. That's been the place since 1970-something.
• 1:49:50
  I mean– That place is crazy.
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah. The building is alive in that place. That's crazy. Yeah,
• 1:49:57
  you feel it.
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 1: It's soaked with the memories of Kennison and Hicks and Pryor.
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 2: Here's what's crazy. You know the bucket seats in the back?
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 3: If you go during the day, they might have repainted
• 1:50:09
  the wall. So this is when I worked there. But
• 1:50:10
  when you go during the day, because I'd get there
• 1:50:12
  early and like right or whatever, and you can look
• 1:50:15
  where the bucket seats are. The outline of all the
• 1:50:18
  heads because of all the oil of the people leaning
• 1:50:21
  back was just there. So you were just there and
• 1:50:23
  it's just the energy of all these great comics just
• 1:50:26
  in the room with you.
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It was an interesting place to like be during
• 1:50:32
  the day because you could sort of feel it.
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 1: The store is a very special place. Very special place.
• 1:50:36
  You never get to take away from that. But the
• 1:50:38
  thing is it's like. It should be and it will
• 1:50:40
  be even better than it used to be, I'm sure.
• 1:50:43
  But the point is it's like denying that Austin is
• 1:50:45
  an amazing scene is just stupid.
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 1: It's just stupid. And also, don't you want another great scene?
• 1:50:52
  Do you want a limited amount of options for comedians?
• 1:50:55
  Don't you want more comics and more comedy?
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 2: Right, and more places for you to end up performing.
• 1:51:01
  Shut up.
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 3: Like now you can go to Austin and spend a
• 1:51:03
  couple weeks there and get a lot of time and
• 1:51:06
  learn how to talk to people here.
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 1: This world. So many bitches. And those bitches never get
• 1:51:12
  anything done. They just sit and bitch.
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 2: Nothing ever gets done. They never progress.
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, man, just video essays. I watch all the video essays.
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 2: That's so funny.
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 1: Why would you watch those?
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 3: It's just so funny to me because they all start–
• 1:51:30
  the whole concept that Austin has ruined comedy is very
• 1:51:34
  funny to me because there's so many comics that are
• 1:51:37
  blowing up outside everywhere all the time.
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 1: It's just silly. It's like my friend said. It's a
• 1:51:42
  walled garden. That's what it is. It seems like the
• 1:51:45
  people are having too much fun. And if you're not
• 1:51:47
  there and if you don't have aspirations to be there,
• 1:51:49
  you feel bad about it. When I lived in Boston,
• 1:51:52
  the store was like Mecca. People would talk about it.
• 1:51:55
  I was like, yeah, I had to make the pilgrimage
• 1:51:56
  to the comedy store. It was one of the first
• 1:51:57
  things I did when I came to L.A.
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 2: Oh, no, it's a big deal.
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 3: The first time you go there, I remember looking at
• 1:52:02
  it and being just the feeling in my heart.
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: The first time I went there, I hadn't even moved
• 1:52:06
  there yet. I went there just to watch. I told
• 1:52:08
  them I was a comedian from New York. I'm like,
• 1:52:10
  can I go and watch a set? They're like, yeah, sure.
• 1:52:12
  They let me come in. I sat in the back
• 1:52:14
  and watched. It was like Bodax.
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 2: It was terrible.
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 1: It was really bad. Really? It was like a bunch
• 1:52:19
  of cruise ship acts, like a bunch of guys who
• 1:52:21
  had the same act from the 1970s. They had never–
• 1:52:24
  you know those dudes that like– you'll see them at
• 1:52:25
  the store occasionally now that have an act from the 80s? Well,
• 1:52:28
  these dudes, it was like a decade earlier. Yeah.
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 3: When I worked at La Jolla, there was one guy
• 1:52:32
  that they booked that they had like some deal with
• 1:52:35
  Mitzi that he got to perform once a year at
• 1:52:36
  the La Jolla. And man, you could just tell, man,
• 1:52:39
  it's been– you haven't changed this act since the 70s.
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah. They just never evolved at all. And they weren't
• 1:52:47
  getting spots when Kinison was around. The place was packed.
• 1:52:50
  And then Kinison left. And then he had a billboard.
• 1:52:53
  He put a billboard right in front of the comedy
• 1:52:55
  store of his new album that was coming out.
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 2: Why did he leave the store? Oh, I don't know.
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: He probably did something stupid.
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 1: I think he definitely fired off a gun. Because remember
• 1:53:05
  he shot the... The bullet hole is still there.
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 1: I heard they fixed the sign, though.
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 2: No, it's back.
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 1: They fixed the plastic.
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they might have. I think the plastic was falling apart,
• 1:53:15
  but they kept the bullet hole because the bullet hole
• 1:53:16
  is still there. Okay. Yeah, I went and looked. I
• 1:53:19
  made sure.
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 1: Pretty crazy.
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 2: The Kinnison bullet hole is like part of the thing there.
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 1: But the cracked glass was also part of the thing.
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think eventually it just fell apart. It's
• 1:53:28
  been like 40 years since that happened.
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, that might have been what got him banned.
• 1:53:33
  Not sure.
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 1: But then he was banned and then when I came,
• 1:53:37
  it was 94, so he was already dead. He was
• 1:53:39
  dead and Hicks was dead. So it was weird. Okay.
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 2: And so that's what the lull was from? They were
• 1:53:45
  just kind of missing that top level guy?
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 1: There was a lull. And guys would occasionally drop in
• 1:53:49
  to work out, but they didn't put their name on
• 1:53:51
  the marquee. No one ever knew they were going to
• 1:53:53
  be there. Like Chris Rock would come in and work out.
• 1:53:55
  Damon would come in and work out. But the big
• 1:53:57
  comics that were there, like Don Marrero would stop in.
• 1:53:59
  There was guys that would stop in. But then it
• 1:54:02
  was mostly us younger guys. Holtzman was a big part
• 1:54:05
  back then.
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 2: I can't imagine Holtzman as a young guy.
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, me and him, we're only a few years different.
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 2: It feels like he's just looked like that since he
• 1:54:13
  was a kid.
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 1: He was a throwback. He looked like he was from
• 1:54:15
  the 1950s. When I met him in 94. Yeah. Like,
• 1:54:19
  slick back, dark hair.
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 1: Always the best. Always a nice guy. Yeah.
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. He's the sweetest guy in the world.
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 3: There's something about guys who are like that on stage
• 1:54:28
  are always super sweet off stage. Because they, like, truly
• 1:54:31
  get all the venom out. It's like William Montgomery. If
• 1:54:34
  you watch William Montgomery on stage, he's a raving lunatic.
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 1: Look at that picture. Oh, wow. Look at Holtzman to
• 1:54:41
  the right with a suit on.
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. And a poly. Who's next to you?
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 1: Look at that. Freddie Soto.
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 2: That's Freddie Soto.
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 1: Damn. Boy, that was probably like 96. Whoa.
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 2: Crazy. Crazy. Yeah, Brian does look the exact same.
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 1: He looks the exact same. He had jet black hair.
• 1:55:00
  And he would, you know what it kind of looks like?
• 1:55:05
  That's his headshot.
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 3: There's this guy on Instagram where his whole, his whole
• 1:55:09
  thing is it just, he pretends to be a greaser.
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 2: Oh, really? Yeah, but, like, unironically. And that's kind of
• 1:55:15
  what he looks like. But it's really funny because all
• 1:55:18
  his comments are just like, yo, show us that hog. Like,
• 1:55:21
  that's become the— he does, like, greaser shit. And then all
• 1:55:25
  the comments are like, but how come— where' s the hog reveal?
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 1: Why his hog?
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's become, like— That's funny.
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 3: He's so unironically trying to be a greaser that the
• 1:55:34
  comments came up with.
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 2: Their own sort of culture around him.
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 1: So it's comedy accidentally. Yeah.
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're kind of mocking. They're all kind of making
• 1:55:41
  fun of him. But he's genuinely trying to portray this guy,
• 1:55:45
  this greaser guy. It's like Mike the Greaser or something
• 1:55:47
  like that.
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 2: It's so funny.
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 1: Well, Holtzman was just, I thought he was going to
• 1:55:51
  blow up, man. I really did. I was like, oh,
• 1:55:53
  this guy's going to be fucking huge. This guy's going
• 1:55:57
  to be gigantic. There was a few guys back then
• 1:55:59
  that I was like, that guy's going to be big.
• 1:56:01
  Did you ever see Mike Ricca?
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 4: No.
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 1: The early 90s, Mike Ricca was great, man. I don't
• 1:56:08
  know what happened. I don't know what happened with him.
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 3: I don't even know if he does comedy anymore. Yeah,
• 1:56:13
  it's so easy. People fall off all the time. Because
• 1:56:16
  it is brutal. The game is brutal.
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 1: It can be.
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 1: But you have to have something brutal outside of the
• 1:56:22
  game to keep you centered. You should do something else
• 1:56:26
  that's also difficult. For me, it's obviously working out. That's
• 1:56:29
  a big part of what keeps me sane. I think
• 1:56:31
  it's important for mental health. The people that are the
• 1:56:33
  most mentally unhealthy and unstable that I know all have
• 1:56:38
  no control of their body. None of them exercise. They
• 1:56:41
  don't eat well. They eat terrible food. They take medications
• 1:56:45
  and they're all fucked up in the head. And then
• 1:56:48
  little things can send them off a deep end. Once
• 1:56:50
  a person makes a mean tweet about them and a
• 1:56:52
  couple of people pile on, they want to jump off
• 1:56:54
  a building. Right. You know, there's a bunch of those
• 1:56:56
  people out there. And I think like with the pressures
• 1:56:58
  of this job, you have to for your own sanity.
• 1:57:02
  You have to find some sort of an outlet, find
• 1:57:04
  some sort of a thing.
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 2: Or like take a walk.
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 1: That too.
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 1: That'll help, but it should be something that's a little
• 1:57:11
  bit that you exert yourself.
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 3: Well, that's like– I was like that's a good place
• 1:57:15
  to start if you're one of these people that like
• 1:57:17
  don't– like just a simple walk can really get the
• 1:57:20
  ball rolling.
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: Don't jump right into CrossFit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nothing, couch
• 1:57:25
  to CrossFit.
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, just be outside and like smell the air and
• 1:57:28
  be– or so because like does your phone send you
• 1:57:30
  the screen time updates?
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 1: What do you mean?
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 2: Like, so my phone will send me, like, a weekly, like,
• 1:57:35
  this is how much you spend on your phone. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 3: For me, it's like, damn, this is like a full-time
• 1:57:39
  job that I'm spending on my phone.
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 1: It's a lot.
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 3: It's disgusting. And I have to just remind myself, like, oh,
• 1:57:44
  the reason I feel bad is because.
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 2: I'm on this.
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 1: 100%.
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 3: I'm on this, and I'm consuming a fake reality that, like,
• 1:57:52
  I think one of the most dangerous things that the phone, like,
• 1:57:56
  the online existence does is it calls, like, People call
• 1:57:59
  their fans and stuff a community, and it's not really
• 1:58:02
  a community.
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 2: Your community has to be people you see in person.
• 1:58:05
  It can't be this online, possibly fake community. fan club, basically.
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 1: Well, it certainly can't be a large percentage of your
• 1:58:15
  interactions with people. That's nuts. But, I mean, there is
• 1:58:18
  some sort of a community that you kind of cultivate
• 1:58:21
  by interacting with people on social media. It's just at
• 1:58:24
  what price. Right. And then how much are you doom-scrolling?
• 1:58:28
  other than interacting with people and having, like, semi-positive experiences, communicating, like,
• 1:58:34
  sharing ideas, how much of it is just doom scrolling?
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 1: For me, it was a lot. And so I backed
• 1:58:39
  off it heavy. So I still spend a lot of
• 1:58:42
  time on YouTube, though. My distraction time is almost all YouTube.
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 3: No, I'm a doom scroller. Yeah, because you get caught.
• 1:58:50
  You see one thing, and you're like, it's so easy
• 1:58:52
  to just do that.
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 1: It is, but I don't want that because it makes
• 1:58:55
  me feel weird. But YouTube doesn't make me feel weird.
• 1:58:58
  So if I watch some really cool video on ancient
• 1:59:02
  history or something, I never feel bad at all. I'm like, oh,
• 1:59:05
  that was cool. I don't come out of it with
• 1:59:08
  any negative feeling. I just come out of it like, oh,
• 1:59:10
  that's interesting.
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 2: I learned something. YouTube is like the modern television now.
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's fucking phenomenal.
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 2: That's the one. Phenomenal.
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 3: There are people making high-quality things. Sometimes I'll get caught
• 1:59:22
  up in things that I don't even care about. I'm
• 1:59:26
  not a huge horror movie fan. I like movies, but
• 1:59:28
  I found this one page called Nightmare Movies, and he
• 1:59:30
  just explains his favorite horror movies, and he has a...
• 1:59:33
  great voice and I've watched like all of his videos
• 1:59:36
  zero interest in watching any of the movies I'm interested
• 1:59:38
  in watching him react to the movies really yeah yeah
• 1:59:41
  what's really dope.
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 1: On YouTube also is these little short horror movies that
• 1:59:46
  people make on their own like real super low budget
• 1:59:49
  but like really interesting ideas there's a ton of them
• 1:59:52
  man right some of them are fucking great they're really
• 1:59:55
  cool they're like eight minutes long they're two.
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 2: Minutes long and they can just get you yeah yeah.
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 1: There's so much entertainment. I like watching people make furniture
• 2:00:02
  for some reason. I really do. I love watching people
• 2:00:06
  make live-edge tables and shit.
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 2: I don't know. It's just like, oh, this tickles me.
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 1: I like watching people cook. I watch a lot of cooking.
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 3: Everyone's entertainment is so in their own lane that you
• 2:00:21
  can come across a video and be like, 8 million
• 2:00:22
  views and you've never even seen it. True virality is tough. Like,
• 2:00:27
  in the future, are there going to be even, like,
• 2:00:29
  A-list celebrities like that?
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 2: You know? Or, like, it's going to be... There's going
• 2:00:34
  to be less and less, like, A... Like, what would
• 2:00:36
  you describe as, like, an A-list celebrity, right? Sure, right.
• 2:00:38
  Because everyone has their own sort of lane.
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 1: Well, there's more celebrities now than there ever have been before.
• 2:00:43
  For sure. There's more... Let's just say famous people.
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 1: There's more people that are known... Than ever before because
• 2:00:49
  of social media. Yes. Like, think about all the streamers
• 2:00:51
  and YouTubers and podcasters.
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, Austin has a huge streaming scene.
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's insane.
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 1: So there's that. So that muddies the water. Because, like,
• 2:00:59
  you go back to, like, let's go back to, like,
• 2:01:01
  1960 when Paul Newman was a superstar making movies. Right.
• 2:01:05
  How many fucking Paul Newmans were there?
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Was it 10? Yeah. On Earth? Right. Like, if
• 2:01:10
  you wanted to make a big movie, you got Marlon Brando,
• 2:01:12
  Paul Newman. You know, you have a few people. Mm-hmm.
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 2: Like a star on Sidney Sweeney's like level now. Right.
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 3: Back then, that would be a name to sell movies. Now,
• 2:01:23
  like there's movies that she's in that people don't watch.
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 3: And that's like what like an A-list celebrity is now.
• 2:01:28
  It's like there's so much stuff you're competing with.
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 1: There's so much content. Just period. I'm always watching a
• 2:01:35
  new show. There's always a new show, and they're fucking great.
• 2:01:39
  There's so many great shows.
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, or not even just random Instagram accounts. Dude, I
• 2:01:43
  watch this guy's Sandwiches of History. All he does is
• 2:01:47
  he finds a sandwich book from, like, some of them from, like,
• 2:01:50
  the early 1900s and just makes a sandwich in them.
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 1: Is any of them good?
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 2: Some of them are amazing, and some of them suck ass.
• 2:01:56
  Some of them are, like, Depression era, you know what
• 2:01:59
  I mean? It's like bread and sawdust or whatever, you know?
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 1: Like.
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 3: But some of them are like, damn, that's like a
• 2:02:05
  good sandwich. And I just watch this guy eat sandwiches
• 2:02:07
  and be like, this is a great use of my time.
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 5: Making an orange peel sandwich from 1921 here.
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 2: 1921.
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 1: So you take orange peels, you mix it up with mayonnaise,
• 2:02:17
  and you spread it on bread. Let's see his face.
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 2: He always goes, I'll give this sandwich a go. He
• 2:02:25
  has like a catchphrase. I'm all about it.
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 1: Hmm. Okay.
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 2: It doesn't look like he likes it.
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 1: It's a terrible idea.
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 2: That's a terrible idea.
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 1: Orange peel sandwich the fuck out of here.
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 2: Well, that's what people ate.
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're starving. You're starving, you eat an orange peel sandwich.
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 1: The sandwich was made by a guy who was in
• 2:02:43
  a hurry, right? Wasn't that the idea? He just threw
• 2:02:45
  some fucking meat in some bread to eat it all together?
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. And then the people were like, wow.
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 1: Wasn't his name sandwich or something?
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 2: He was like the Earl of Sandwich. I think it
• 2:02:52
  was a sandwich with a place. Something like that?
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 2: As I'm saying that.
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 1: Is that real, though?
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 5: Is that just like goofy?
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 1: We definitely searched this before.
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 2: Isn't there an Earl of Sandwich?
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 5: No, there 100% is, but it's also like a store,
• 2:03:05
  and I'm just like, is that even maybe just like
• 2:03:08
  a silly myth?
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you what, if the sandwich didn't originate with
• 2:03:12
  the Earl of Sandwich, what a mighty coincidence that is.
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 2: What a real deal crazy coincidence.
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 1: If there is an Earl of Sandwich, what is the
• 2:03:20
  origins of the term sandwich?
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 5: I'm stuck looking at the Earl of Sandwich.
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 2: Okay, so the Earl of Sandwich exists.
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 1: But just put into perplexity, what are the origins of
• 2:03:29
  the sandwich? I'm pretty sure it was like a military guy. Yes.
• 2:03:34
  And he was like, fuck it, just give me the
• 2:03:36
  bread and the meat. I'll put it together. And he
• 2:03:38
  cut the bread open, stuffed it in there. Because I
• 2:03:40
  think they used to just eat bread and eat meat
• 2:03:42
  and eat bread. They just ate bread by itself. They
• 2:03:43
  were too stupid to combine them.
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, very autistically. Keep the food separate.
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 1: 18th century England named after John Montagu.
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 2: The fourth Earl of Sandwich. Aha.
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 5: John is the Earl of Sandwich.
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 3: During a prolonged card game in 1762. Oh, that's right.
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 1: He was gambling. That's right. Now I remember.
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 3: Oh, well, now that gambling is so fucking massive now,
• 2:04:07
  what cool food is going to come out of that?
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 1: That's already here. All the fast food Uber Eats will
• 2:04:13
  deliver it right to your table. Allowing him to eat
• 2:04:15
  without interrupting play, the practice creation popularized the handheld meal
• 2:04:20
  among England's elite. There it is.
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's so funny. It used to be an elite food.
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 1: Oh, so it looks like the Romans had it before.
• 2:04:29
  It says similar concepts predated Montague, such as the Roman ophela,
• 2:04:35
  which involved meat or cheese between bread slices. That's a sandwich.
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 1: They just didn't call it that. Hmm.
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 2: Huh.
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 2:04:45
  Speaker 2: They finally had a name that stuck. Is there a
• 2:04:47
  current Earl of Sandwich?
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 1: I bet there is. Imagine if he's gluten sensitive.
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 5: That's what I was digging through was this, but I
• 2:04:55
  didn't get any good information from it.
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 1: Well, now we know. You want to talk about places
• 2:05:02
  to eat? Austin has an amazing fucking selection of places
• 2:05:06
  to eat.
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 2: During the day, the night leaves a little... Yeah. There
• 2:05:11
  needs to be a late night diner out here.
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 1: Well, we were talking about that last night. Like one
• 2:05:14
  of the things I really miss about LA is the
• 2:05:15
  Jewish delis. Like Cantor's. Yes. We used to go there
• 2:05:19
  after a club. We'd leave and we'd go to Cantor's
• 2:05:21
  and I would get a pastrami Reuben with steak fries.
• 2:05:25
  Oh my God. Have you ever had a pastrami Reuben
• 2:05:28
  from Cantor's?
• 2:05:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Good Lord. That's what you get at Cantor's.
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 1: Good Lord.
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 2: It's good. Yeah.
• 2:05:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, it might be the best pastrami Reuben on earth.
• 2:05:35
  It's right up there with Cat's Deli in New York City,
• 2:05:38
  which is maybe the king.
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 2: Oh, I've never been there. Oh, Lord.
• 2:05:42
  Speaker 1: Cat's Deli in New York City is fucking legendary. First
• 2:05:44
  of all, you get a ticket when you get there.
• 2:05:47
  I don't even know if they accept credit cards. You
• 2:05:49
  might have to pay in cash. Oh, I like that.
• 2:05:51
  You get a ticket when you get there, and you
• 2:05:52
  can't lose your ticket. If you lose your ticket, you
• 2:05:54
  got to pay like 50 bucks. Because you take that ticket,
• 2:05:57
  and on that ticket, they write all the things you get.
• 2:05:59
  So you go up to the counter, and they're like,
• 2:06:01
  we're going to get you. And there's guys that have
• 2:06:02
  been fucking chopping meat since the 20s. They'll slice you
• 2:06:07
  off a couple of pieces of brisket, slice you off
• 2:06:09
  a couple of pieces of pastrami, and you get to
• 2:06:11
  eat it while you're there, while you're waiting for your
• 2:06:13
  sandwich to be made. And, you know, you tell them
• 2:06:15
  what you want, and he pulls the fucking pastrami out
• 2:06:18
  and starts slicing it up in front of you. It
• 2:06:20
  steams coming off of it. He's piling it on that
• 2:06:23
  rye bread. You're like, you can't wait.
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 7: And then he gives you a couple pickles in there,
• 2:06:27
  and then you're like, what else do you want? And
• 2:06:28
  then you move down the line. Like, can I get
• 2:06:30
  an order of fries? Can I get an order of fries?
• 2:06:31
  I want a root beer, pa-pa-pa. And then you get
• 2:06:33
  to the end, and they put it all on your ticket.
• 2:06:36
  And then when you leave, after you've eaten, then you
• 2:06:39
  bring the ticket up to the counter.
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 2: Ah, okay. So it's food plus accountability. You have to
• 2:06:45
  keep track of stuff.
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 1: It's a weird old system, so nobody pays attention. So
• 2:06:51
  everyone loses their fucking ticket if you're from out of town,
• 2:06:53
  if you've never been there before. You're like, what? The ticket?
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 2: What? What happened?
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 1: How much is it?
• 2:06:58
  Speaker 2: It's a way to scam the tourists a little bit.
• 2:07:00
  It's like a tourist fee, not a scam.
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 1: Well, I just think it's how they used to count
• 2:07:03
  back then. They just never changed it. It's kind of
• 2:07:06
  the charm of the place. They just got this weird thing.
• 2:07:08
  Show me some canter sandwiches, son. Show me some of that.
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 2: When I was a door guy, we were big swingers guys.
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 1: Show me cats.
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 2: That was the diner we went to.
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 1: Swingers was great. That was a great diner. That was
• 2:07:24
  a great diner. Really good food. And that was open
• 2:07:26
  pretty late, too. Look at that, son. Are you fucking
• 2:07:29
  kidding me? Look at that pastrami with Swiss cheese. Oh, Lord.
• 2:07:34
  That's so good. And they pile it up high, and
• 2:07:38
  they've been doing it that way since the fucking 1800s.
• 2:07:40
  How old is Cantor's? 1888. 1888? Jeez.
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 2: 1888.
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 1: Look how good that looks. Oh. You can see how
• 2:07:50
  she's pulling it like that. The flavors. Oh.
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, see, this is what Austin is definitely missing. Yeah.
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 3: They need something late night, something that we can all
• 2:07:59
  eat where you can go.
• 2:08:00
  Speaker 2: And hang out.
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 1: Now, I had heard that someone was opening a Cat's
• 2:08:04
  Deli in Austin.
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 1: But I don't think it's Cat's Deli from New York City.
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 2: No, it's just called Cat's Deli. Cat's never closes?
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 1: Oh, coming soon. Hold on, go back. Coming soon on
• 2:08:18
  6th Street. How far is that from us?
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 2: Well, we're on 6th.
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 5: It's on West 6th.
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 2: It's on West 6th. So it's like near. It's taking
• 2:08:24
  over our current spot.
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah. What's that?
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 5: It's taking over us. I think there's like a bar
• 2:08:28
  there or something now.
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of near where.
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 1: Opening in the same location as the OG Cats is
• 2:08:33
  operated for 32 years. So it's. Way down by Jay Carvers.
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but this says.
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 1: That's a five-minute drive.
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can walk there. We do that all the time.
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 1: Cats never closes.
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 2: But that was August 18th. Has there been any news since?
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 1: Is it open?
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 5: No, it's going to take a year.
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's going to take a year.
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 1: Oh, they're building it out? Yeah. Whoa.
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 5: There's a few places like that that got the name
• 2:08:56
  out and it's going to be open in a year.
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 2: And a half.
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 1: So was there an original Cats is never closes? That's
• 2:09:01
  the one. That's where it was.
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 5: It closed in 2011. So they lied. No, what do
• 2:09:06
  you mean?
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 1: Fucking closed.
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, cats sometimes closes for 15 years.
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 1: By the way, I would have never allowed them to
• 2:09:14
  use a K for closes. Like, guys, we're not kooky. Stop.
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not Krispy Kreme.
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, why are you doing that? So, expected in 2026,
• 2:09:24
  maybe 2027. Oh, okay.
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 2: Well, hopefully they, yeah. Because that's the big hole right
• 2:09:30
  now in the Austin game. Look at it, though.
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 1: This is it. New York-style deli menu with sandwiches like Reuben's,
• 2:09:35
  Day-long breakfast dishes like waffle egg sandwiches and blintzes. Entrees
• 2:09:40
  including pork roasts and meatloaves. Oh, my God, it sounds amazing.
• 2:09:44
  Open 24-7. Alright, that'll be it for us. That'll be it.
• 2:09:48
  Speaker 2: Finally. Finally. Because that was the big hole.
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 3: Outside of that, Austin has, like, amazing food.
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 1: We should help them.
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 2: But, yeah, after 10 p.m., it gets rough pickings around here.
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's blow them up when they open up.
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 2: A lot of halal carts, which I wouldn't expect in Austin.
• 2:10:01
  That's such a funny... Going through there, I wouldn't be like, oh,
• 2:10:04
  halal carts would be a good way I get late-night food.
• 2:10:06
  Speaker 1: Entrepreneurs.
• 2:10:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 1: Dudes recognize the need.
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, those are the only things you can get.
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 1: Oh, there's Golden Tiger. That's great. They're open pretty late, right?
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 3: They're open until like 1.30. Yeah, that's pretty late.
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 1: That's pretty good.
• 2:10:21
  Speaker 2: The comic life, you're like out at 2. I know.
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 1: Looking for food at 2.
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, at 2. And you're like, well, thank God the
• 2:10:28
  Mexican hot dog carts people are here. Right. Yeah, that
• 2:10:30
  happened recently. They started showing up.
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's always smart people that capitalize. Because there's always,
• 2:10:35
  I mean, there's just so many people walking around drunk.
• 2:10:38
  Speaker 2: Right, just looking for stuff.
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 1: Especially 6th Street. You got a taco truck, you can
• 2:10:42
  kill it.
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 1: On 6th Street?
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 2: Oh, at 2 in the morning, all the fucking zombies.
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 1: And there's that road when you go up to 7th
• 2:10:48
  where when you're headed towards Creek, there's a whole parking
• 2:10:52
  lot that's got a bunch of food trucks up in there.
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 2: My favorite place is called Diddy Dog. They got bulgogi fries.
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 1: Bulgogi fries.
• 2:11:02
  Speaker 2: Bulgogi fries.
• 2:11:03
  Speaker 1: Isn't there a really good cheeseburger place over there, too?
• 2:11:06
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, there's the Yala Burgers. They're pretty good. But
• 2:11:09
  for me, downtown, if I'm eating downtown, I'm eating the
• 2:11:12
  bulgogi fries.
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 1: That good, huh?
• 2:11:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. There are a lot, so I can't get
• 2:11:15
  them very often. Now that I'm older, then I'm like, oh, yeah,
• 2:11:18
  I have to take care of myself. But when I
• 2:11:21
  first moved here, I was on that bulgogi fry diet, son.
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 1: It's kind of insane how many great restaurants there are here, though.
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 1: The number's nuts.
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 2: And good casual eating places, too. It's like you can really...
• 2:11:33
  Everyone who moves... When you move to Austin, there's the
• 2:11:37
  Freshman 15.
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 1: Just from eating here?
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 2: Just from eating here. You just get it.
• 2:11:41
  Speaker 3: And then after you live here for like five years,
• 2:11:44
  I think you just get so tired of brisket that
• 2:11:46
  you can't look at it again for a while. I
• 2:11:49
  eat so much brisket that I only go now when
• 2:11:52
  out-of-town people are here.
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 2: That's funny.
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 1: I could eat it 24 days a week. Out of
• 2:11:57
  a month. I'll take six off.
• 2:11:58
  Speaker 2: Oh, no, no.
• 2:11:59
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 2:11:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Sometimes the Terry Blacks will come to the green
• 2:12:03
  room and I'll be like, I can't look at this
• 2:12:04
  right now. Oh, no. This is like day three in
• 2:12:06
  a row of Terry Blacks. Not to complain, but it
• 2:12:08
  is funny.
• 2:12:09
  Speaker 1: Terry Blacks has those beef ribs, dog.
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 2: That's their best.
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 1: Those beef ribs are insane.
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 3: I do describe it. You got to take every tourist.
• 2:12:15
  It's like the Disneyland of Austin.
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. It's a line that moves quickly. You can
• 2:12:19
  see everything's made.
• 2:12:20
  Speaker 1: And it's a fucking huge place. I think they're like
• 2:12:23
  the highest volume restaurant in the country.
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 2:12:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think in terms of like brisket and barbecue
• 2:12:29
  and stuff, I think they were telling me that. I
• 2:12:32
  forget what the exact statistic they told me, but it
• 2:12:34
  was like the volume of food that they serve there
• 2:12:37
  is like as high as anywhere in the country.
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 2: That makes sense. There's always a line there.
• 2:12:41
  Speaker 1: Giant line.
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they always move quickly, so they're
• 2:12:44
  always getting people like in and out.
• 2:12:46
  Speaker 1: Well, you can only eat so much. Like when you
• 2:12:48
  sit down and eat barbecue, you ain't sitting there for
• 2:12:50
  three hours, bitch.
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 2: No, no. And you also always get more than you
• 2:12:54
  can eat. Yeah. Yeah.
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 3: You always like, yeah. Cause it looks so good up there.
• 2:12:57
  And then like the second you have like their cornbread,
• 2:12:59
  you're so full.
• 2:13:00
  Speaker 2: What the fuck is that?
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 1: Those beef ribs, man. They're so rich. You can only eat, like,
• 2:13:05
  so much of it before you're.
• 2:13:08
  Speaker 2: Like, oh. Oh, yeah, yeah. Not before a show. That's
• 2:13:11
  always a mistake that people make.
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 1: Bro, last time we had a whole group of us,
• 2:13:14
  I made the mistake of sitting next to Metzger, and
• 2:13:16
  I was in the corner. I was fucking looming over
• 2:13:20
  me with conspiracy theories. I'm like, Kurt, you got to stop.
• 2:13:23
  Try and enjoy these ribs. You got to stop.
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 5: I don't know if it's just the Terry Blacks in Austin,
• 2:13:28
  because I know they have one in Dallas, I think, too.
• 2:13:30
  But it says 18% of America's brisket is served by them.
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 2: 18% of America's? That's so much brisket.
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 1: That's crazy.
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 2: Metzger's a fun one. In the green room, he says.
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 3: My favorite is when he'll be like, I thought this
• 2:13:46
  was common knowledge.
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 1: You don't know?
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't know.
• 2:13:48
  Speaker 3: There was something he said in the green room the
• 2:13:50
  other day about Morgan Freeman. Some deep conspiracy about Morgan Freeman.
• 2:13:55
  And we're like, what the fuck are you talking about?
• 2:13:56
  I thought this was common knowledge. It's like, no, no
• 2:13:58
  one knows anything What are you talking about?
• 2:14:00
  Speaker 1: Is it the Morgan Freeman dated his granddaughter or some
• 2:14:03
  shit like that?
• 2:14:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, step-granddaughter.
• 2:14:04
  Speaker 1: Step-granddaughter.
• 2:14:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, dated her and then the boyfriend went crazy and, like,
• 2:14:10
  killed her.
• 2:14:12
  Speaker 2: And he was like, I thought that was common knowledge.
• 2:14:13
  It's like, what do you mean?
• 2:14:15
  Speaker 1: Is that true? The boyfriend went crazy and killed her?
• 2:14:17
  Speaker 3: That's what he said. I looked at it afterwards and
• 2:14:19
  I was like, I don't know where. Kurt gets his
• 2:14:22
  news plugged in straight from the Matrix, I think. I
• 2:14:24
  don't even know where he finds his stuff.
• 2:14:26
  Speaker 1: Well, he's on that Jimmy Dore show.
• 2:14:27
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 2:14:30
  Speaker 1: And Jimmy Dore show, the entire show is about exposing
• 2:14:32
  corruption and conspiracies and it's a lot.
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 1: You live in that world all the time.
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 2: Then everything becomes a conspiracy and everything.
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 1: It doesn't leave a lot of room for sunshine. Also,
• 2:14:43
  here's the thing. There's enough– like we talked about the
• 2:14:45
  Franklin scandal. There's enough conspiracies that are absolutely real and
• 2:14:48
  provable that if you go into it, you will kind
• 2:14:50
  of go crazy. Right. I mean this is what kind
• 2:14:52
  of happened to Alex Jones. This is what happens to
• 2:14:54
  a lot of people that get involved in conspiracies. It's
• 2:14:57
  like you find out how many of them are true
• 2:14:59
  and you start losing your fucking mind. You're like, what
• 2:15:02
  is real? Like, what really controls the world? Like, what
• 2:15:05
  fucking lizard people are really at the center of this
• 2:15:07
  whole thing?
• 2:15:08
  Speaker 2: Right. Yeah. This is kind of better to just stay
• 2:15:11
  away at a certain point. Just be like, eh. Well,
• 2:15:13
  you should.
• 2:15:13
  Speaker 1: Probably pay attention a little bit. But some people must
• 2:15:17
  have an obligation to do it because if it doesn't
• 2:15:20
  get exposed, then it's going to continue. And the only
• 2:15:22
  way that you can kind of put a stop to
• 2:15:23
  this stuff is people have to get busted and they
• 2:15:25
  have to be held accountable. Yeah. The public has to
• 2:15:27
  get outraged. So someone has to be making these videos.
• 2:15:30
  But it doesn't have to be you.
• 2:15:31
  Speaker 2: Right. It doesn't have to be you. Yeah.
• 2:15:33
  Speaker 1: For your own personal mental health, it's just not good
• 2:15:37
  to absorb all of the evil of the world. Yeah.
• 2:15:41
  Speaker 2: There's no reason to take that on. There's no reason.
• 2:15:44
  Just find happiness in your lane.
• 2:15:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 2:15:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I feel like that's pretty easy to do. Yeah.
• 2:15:49
  Speaker 1: I feel like that's pretty easy to do. Yeah.
• 2:15:51
  Speaker 2: A lot of people just be happy with where you
• 2:15:53
  are and work from there.
• 2:15:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's just like some people feel obligated to
• 2:15:57
  be a part of something. The thing about like with
• 2:16:02
  Metzger is like he wasn't always like this. I was
• 2:16:05
  friends with him long before I started working with Jimmy
• 2:16:08
  and he was– Fun and crazy. Always like the same
• 2:16:13
  kind of guy. But now it's like the obsession is
• 2:16:17
  all on deep corruption and conspiracies. It's like, yo. But
• 2:16:21
  he's right. He's right about a lot of it. Right.
• 2:16:24
  Which is nuts. And he maintains a lot of it
• 2:16:27
  in his fucking brain just bouncing around in there like.
• 2:16:31
  Speaker 2: But, yeah. But, I mean, it just takes over. I
• 2:16:34
  do think White Precious, his Comedy Central special, that's low key.
• 2:16:40
  One of the most underrated specials of all time. That
• 2:16:42
  special is great.
• 2:16:42
  Speaker 1: He's very funny.
• 2:16:43
  Speaker 2: That special is great.
• 2:16:44
  Speaker 1: He's very good. His writing is very good. He's just
• 2:16:46
  very smart. He's a great podcast guest too. Basically just
• 2:16:50
  got to kind of corral him a little bit because
• 2:16:54
  he'll go from one subject to the next subject to
• 2:16:56
  the next all in like one rant. You're like, okay,
• 2:16:59
  go back to that first one. Queen Elizabeth did what?
• 2:17:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 2:17:03
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 2:17:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 2:17:04
  Speaker 1: He's just– well, we have a lot of– I mean
• 2:17:07
  he's another one that lives in Austin now. We have
• 2:17:08
  a lot of them. It's pretty cool.
• 2:17:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so fun watching, like, all these, like, young kids, dude, like,
• 2:17:15
  rise up and just, like, find themselves. It's so, like,
• 2:17:20
  I mentioned Fuzzy earlier, but just watching him on stage, like,
• 2:17:23
  he does it.
• 2:17:24
  Speaker 3: It's great watching him just, like, figure out to not
• 2:17:26
  give a fuck and then see what comes from that.
• 2:17:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 2:17:30
  Speaker 3: Like, right now he's doing these things at the end
• 2:17:31
  when he closes out, like, Fat Man. he'll also do
• 2:17:34
  a Q & A but he's not famous so the
• 2:17:36
  questions are so much.
• 2:17:38
  Speaker 2: Funnier and like the answers are so much wilder because
• 2:17:41
  it's just some guy that they all.
• 2:17:42
  Speaker 3: Just met that's hilarious yeah so it's a very fun
• 2:17:45
  dynamic to watch his Q & As. Because the whole
• 2:17:48
  audience is like, wait, we're doing a Q & A?
• 2:17:50
  Speaker 2: Why? We had no questions coming in.
• 2:17:52
  Speaker 1: That's funny.
• 2:17:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 2:17:53
  Speaker 1: The first time I ever saw anybody do a Q
• 2:17:55
  & A was Seinfeld.
• 2:17:56
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he did a whole set. He did like 45 minutes.
• 2:18:00
  And then it was at the Paradise in Boston. The
• 2:18:03
  Paradise was a small club. It was a rock and
• 2:18:04
  roll club that was connected to Stitches. And Stitches was
• 2:18:08
  the comedy club. So for the comedy club, like if
• 2:18:11
  you're a regular comedian, I think Stitches probably seated maybe
• 2:18:14
  150 people. It was like a little bit bigger than
• 2:18:18
  Little Boy. And so if you were a regular comic,
• 2:18:22
  like a road headliner, you would do Stitches. And then
• 2:18:25
  if you're a big guy like Jerry Seinfeld who had
• 2:18:27
  been on television, you'd do The Paradise.
• 2:18:29
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 2:18:29
  Speaker 1: So I was with a date. I think I was
• 2:18:32
  maybe 20, and I went to see Jerry Seinfeld before
• 2:18:35
  I ever did stand-up. And he did stand-up, and then
• 2:18:37
  he came back out. And he answered questions. And he
• 2:18:40
  would just riff with the audience. And it was fucking great.
• 2:18:43
  It was really cool. He just started riffing about stuff.
• 2:18:46
  And I guess that's like how he was creating material
• 2:18:48
  and coming up with new premises. Yeah.
• 2:18:50
  Speaker 2: Do you get bits when you do that?
• 2:18:51
  Speaker 1: Sometimes. Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not an exact science.
• 2:18:55
  Like we'll have a whole fun Q & A session
• 2:18:58
  for 20 minutes and there's no bits.
• 2:19:00
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 2:19:00
  Speaker 1: And I'll do it five times, six times, and then
• 2:19:02
  one time, bam, I got one. And then you just
• 2:19:06
  got to grab that sucker. And reel it into the shore.
• 2:19:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and just work on it.
• 2:19:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then figure it out. But Bottom of the
• 2:19:13
  Barrel is the best. Bottom of the Barrel is the
• 2:19:15
  best premise factory ever.
• 2:19:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 2:19:17
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 2:19:18
  Speaker 3: I feel like because there's certain people who do it.
• 2:19:21
  I mean, you're great at it. And I feel like
• 2:19:23
  if you were thinking about doing a special, would you
• 2:19:25
  ever consider doing a Bottom of the Barrel type special?
• 2:19:27
  Speaker 1: No, because I'd say too much wild shit that I
• 2:19:29
  wouldn't want to get published.
• 2:19:30
  Speaker 3: That's a very fair point. The most insane shit I've
• 2:19:33
  ever said has been on Bottom of the Barrel. And
• 2:19:35
  just like, I'm so glad there's a place where I
• 2:19:37
  can get this thought out. Because they'll look at you like, yo,
• 2:19:40
  what the fuck?
• 2:19:41
  Speaker 1: And you're like, hey, this wasn't my idea. You fucking
• 2:19:44
  wrote this down.
• 2:19:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they get mad at you for it.
• 2:19:49
  Speaker 3: I remember one time I got bestiality and it reminded
• 2:19:53
  me of a story. So the way we consume porn
• 2:19:56
  as kids, because you guys had like magazines and you'd
• 2:19:58
  find in the woods.
• 2:19:59
  Speaker 2: You have a bit about that. Yeah. Yeah.
• 2:20:00
  Speaker 3: That was not so weird. There was these, this was
• 2:20:02
  like pre-porn hub. So these pre-YouTubes of porn as I
• 2:20:05
  call them, but there are these like dedicated sites. They'd
• 2:20:08
  be like, one of them was like Mr. Choose Asian Beaver.
• 2:20:10
  I think you can tell what that's about. That one
• 2:20:14
  was great because- Probably run by a Jewish guy.
• 2:20:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
• 2:20:17
  Speaker 1: Definitely not a Mr. Chew.
• 2:20:19
  Speaker 3: There was a, there was at the very end, there
• 2:20:20
  was this very racist cartoon beaver and he would have
• 2:20:23
  like the buck teeth and the rice hat. And then
• 2:20:25
  he would rate every girl at a fortune, like out
• 2:20:28
  of five fortune cookies at the end of each video.
• 2:20:31
  Speaker 2: That was the whole premise of the site.
• 2:20:35
  Speaker 3: That's what we were coming up with important. And then
• 2:20:37
  one day, and we'd watch that together in like seventh grade.
• 2:20:39
  Like that's the, our, our huddling around the magazine.
• 2:20:42
  Speaker 5: Hmm.
• 2:20:42
  Speaker 3: And then one day we invited the weird guy and
• 2:20:44
  he had found one where people fuck animals.
• 2:20:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It was like wild.
• 2:20:50
  Speaker 3: And there's been very famous videos. I think there's one
• 2:20:52
  called like Mr. Hands or something like that.
• 2:20:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. There's very famous. Like those originated out of
• 2:20:56
  those sites. And so he was showing us that.
• 2:20:59
  Speaker 3: And then what I said on stage is it gave
• 2:21:02
  me the life experience to know that sometimes when you
• 2:21:06
  watch people fuck a dog, sometimes the dog enjoys it.
• 2:21:10
  Speaker 2: And they all looked at me like I was horrified,
• 2:21:12
  which is a kind of horrifying thing to say. But
• 2:21:13
  I was also like, well, you brought it up.
• 2:21:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 2:21:15
  Speaker 2: I wasn't going to tell the story unless you asked me.
• 2:21:18
  Speaker 1: Some dogs must like it. There's probably a girl dog
• 2:21:21
  out there that likes some dick.
• 2:21:22
  Speaker 3: Oh, I mean, there's probably a guy dog out there
• 2:21:24
  that's giving some dick right now.
• 2:21:26
  Speaker 2: For sure. Oh, yeah. To some crazy ladies.
• 2:21:28
  Speaker 1: I've seen videos when I was a kid. There was
• 2:21:30
  like this video that a friend of mine had. And
• 2:21:33
  I remember one of us had to watch the door.
• 2:21:35
  So it was like there's a century. Yeah. Cause there's
• 2:21:39
  a door down into the basement. So one of us
• 2:21:40
  had to stand up at the door and the rest
• 2:21:42
  of us were huddled in front of this fucking 12
• 2:21:45
  inch television with a VCR attached to it.
• 2:21:48
  Speaker 2: Damn.
• 2:21:49
  Speaker 1: And you put the VHS tape in there. We're watching
• 2:21:51
  like a copy of a copy of a copy of
• 2:21:54
  barnyard Betty and barnyard Betty was this crate. They took
• 2:21:57
  some crazy crackhead and they gave her money to suck
• 2:22:01
  a dog's dick and get fucked by a German shepherd.
• 2:22:04
  It's crazy.
• 2:22:05
  Speaker 2: Weird to watch man yeah you come across some weird
• 2:22:08
  shit out there dog just.
• 2:22:10
  Speaker 1: Pump nut into this fucking poor drunken sad alcoholic drug
• 2:22:15
  addict lady.
• 2:22:16
  Speaker 2: Jesus sad yeah sad yeah that's a but that's yeah
• 2:22:22
  that's that's how fuck well porn's fucked it's just so
• 2:22:26
  it's so crazy how it's just moved towards I guess
• 2:22:29
  it's more empowering I guess what it's about individual creators.
• 2:22:32
  Speaker 1: Right, like OnlyFans?
• 2:22:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 2:22:34
  Speaker 1: Do you know the numbers? You ever seen the numbers?
• 2:22:36
  Speaker 2: I saw the one lady that makes more than LeBron.
• 2:22:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that, but I mean the number of actual girls
• 2:22:42
  that are on OnlyFans.
• 2:22:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, it must be depressing.
• 2:22:45
  Speaker 1: It's crazy.
• 2:22:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it must be depressing how many people are
• 2:22:47
  selling themselves to like nobody.
• 2:22:49
  Speaker 1: Exactly. That's the thing. The vast majority aren't making any money. Right.
• 2:22:53
  And then their pussy's out there forever.
• 2:22:55
  Speaker 2: Just forever.
• 2:22:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah. They're getting fucked by a dildo in front of
• 2:22:58
  the whole world. And the guy saves it on his
• 2:22:59
  hard drive forever and ever and ever and ever.
• 2:23:01
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 2:23:02
  Speaker 1: And you were 19 and you just didn't want to work.
• 2:23:05
  But I think the number between girls of 18 to,
• 2:23:08
  I forget what the age is, something in their 20s,
• 2:23:09
  it's like 10%. That's crazy.
• 2:23:14
  Speaker 2: That's wild. But it's content creation.
• 2:23:15
  Speaker 3: It's like that's a genuine market that people are going for,
• 2:23:18
  and that's the way to do it.
• 2:23:19
  Speaker 1: It's also pornography.
• 2:23:20
  Speaker 2: It is pornography.
• 2:23:21
  Speaker 1: Right, but I mean content creation is TikTok, Instagram.
• 2:23:24
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 2:23:25
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Like that's content creation.
• 2:23:27
  Speaker 2: I think they view it in the same vein. Wow. Well,
• 2:23:31
  it depends on what you do, right? I know that
• 2:23:33
  top lady, and this is something.
• 2:23:35
  Speaker 1: Sophie Rain.
• 2:23:35
  Speaker 2: Sophie Rain.
• 2:23:36
  Speaker 3: And this is something that's just interesting across all Gen
• 2:23:38
  Z is that her thing is that she's a virgin.
• 2:23:40
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 2:23:41
  Speaker 3: And that's how she sells, which is like, yeah, which,
• 2:23:44
  you know, take it for what it is. But like
• 2:23:46
  her and that the Nick Shirley guy, virgin Nick Fuentes, virgin.
• 2:23:50
  It's like that's like a thing that you can sell
• 2:23:52
  to Gen Z is virginity.
• 2:23:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you were talking to me about this in the
• 2:23:56
  green room that like this incel problem is unrecognized. There's
• 2:24:00
  a giant percentage of people that are like voluntarily celibate
• 2:24:03
  in this country.
• 2:24:04
  Speaker 2: Yes, I think so.
• 2:24:05
  Speaker 3: And it's like a lot of it is maybe this
• 2:24:07
  sort of new religious, this sort of religious fervor that's
• 2:24:10
  sort of developing with them as well because Gen Z
• 2:24:12
  is more religious.
• 2:24:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but aren't they horny? I don't get it.
• 2:24:14
  Speaker 2: They're not. There's something like some crazy amount of women
• 2:24:18
  under 25 have never been approached by a guy their
• 2:24:20
  age like in public. What? Yeah, yeah.
• 2:24:24
  Speaker 3: The game is DM, so it's all online, so it's
• 2:24:26
  all fueling that sort of loneliness.
• 2:24:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they don't go out. They don't go out.
• 2:24:31
  Speaker 3: Alcohol consumption from Gen Z to millennials is like they
• 2:24:33
  drink 800% less, some.
• 2:24:35
  Speaker 2: Crazy shit like that. Third spaces, you know the concept
• 2:24:38
  of a third space?
• 2:24:39
  Speaker 1: No.
• 2:24:40
  Speaker 3: Okay, so you have work and home. That's space one,
• 2:24:43
  space two. And a third space is like, you know,
• 2:24:47
  when I was in college.
• 2:24:48
  Speaker 2: We'd go to the bowling alley every day for one summer.
• 2:24:51
  Speaker 1: It was stuff like that.
• 2:24:51
  Speaker 2: It's a place that you can all go. The library,
• 2:24:53
  the mall, places to exist outside of the two spaces.
• 2:24:56
  Those places are completely disappearing. Whether people are staying inside
• 2:24:59
  all the time or they've become too expensive. Like movies
• 2:25:03
  now are like very expensive. So it's like kind of
• 2:25:05
  priced out of being a third space on top of
• 2:25:07
  all the things that are going on with movies. So
• 2:25:09
  those are also disappearing. So places where you can meet
• 2:25:12
  someone in person are gone. So they're not meeting in person.
• 2:25:17
  A lot of it is app driven and And, you know.
• 2:25:22
  Speaker 1: And then you got to wonder about like sex drive
• 2:25:24
  drop off because.
• 2:25:26
  Speaker 2: Well, you can access porn. Like, like instantly now.
• 2:25:31
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 2:25:31
  Speaker 2: So you can at least play that part of your brain.
• 2:25:34
  Give it something.
• 2:25:36
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 2:25:36
  Speaker 3: Give it a rush of some kind that it would
• 2:25:38
  kind maybe get from like a lesser version of sex,
• 2:25:41
  but still feel, fill that void.
• 2:25:43
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 2:25:43
  Speaker 2: You can, you know, there's.
• 2:25:44
  Speaker 1: Also testosterone levels have dropped. Like, Fertility levels amongst women
• 2:25:49
  have dropped. Yeah. Miscarriages have risen.
• 2:25:52
  Speaker 2: The West, the West, the fertility rates in the West
• 2:25:56
  are like massively concerning. Like it's, you know, people like
• 2:26:00
  worry about bringing in migrants. But at the same time,
• 2:26:02
  there's the only ones having kids at replacement level like
• 2:26:06
  the West isn't having that. I had my I had
• 2:26:08
  my 15 year high school reunion recently and I was
• 2:26:11
  in town. I was like, I'll go to this. And
• 2:26:13
  I was like, damn, I'll probably be the only one
• 2:26:14
  who's like not married and doesn't have kids. And most
• 2:26:17
  of the people weren't married or didn't have kids. How
• 2:26:20
  old are you now?
• 2:26:21
  Speaker 1: 33. Wow. Most?
• 2:26:24
  Speaker 3: Most of the people there just, I would say, yeah,
• 2:26:26
  didn't have kids, which is wild. 33 at any other generation,
• 2:26:30
  this is a late time to not have a kid.
• 2:26:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 2:26:33
  Speaker 3: This is pretty, for people who grew up middle class millennial,
• 2:26:37
  I would say this is pretty standard.
• 2:26:40
  Speaker 2: To not have a kid. And there's certain, I think,
• 2:26:42
  driving factors too. The fact that a house is unbuyable
• 2:26:47
  for a lot of people my age and younger. Because
• 2:26:50
  you're sold the dream on a house and two kids. Well,
• 2:26:52
  if you can't get the house, it sucks to be
• 2:26:56
  renting with kids.
• 2:26:57
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 2:26:57
  Speaker 2: You know, the instability.
• 2:27:00
  Speaker 1: Average home buyer age is increasing while the median age
• 2:27:03
  for all U.S. home buyers reaching 59. Whoa, that's pretty late.
• 2:27:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, record high.
• 2:27:08
  Speaker 1: Late 2025.
• 2:27:08
  Speaker 2: 40. 40.
• 2:27:10
  Speaker 1: Median age for first-time buyers hit a record high of 40. Wow.
• 2:27:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's like that's how long you have to, like,
• 2:27:16
  it's hard to raise a kid without a house, you know?
• 2:27:19
  Speaker 1: That's crazy.
• 2:27:20
  Speaker 2: And the American, I.
• 2:27:21
  Speaker 3: Think the American community in that way is dying because, like,
• 2:27:24
  you know, it takes a village to raise a child.
• 2:27:26
  So you raise a child in a house you bought,
• 2:27:28
  your neighbors generally say the same. There's a certain level
• 2:27:31
  of comfort and, like, you know, oh, my mom can
• 2:27:34
  do this thing for me.
• 2:27:34
  Speaker 2: I can go to my neighbor's house. And you know
• 2:27:35
  what I mean? There's safety in that. But if everyone
• 2:27:37
  around you is a renter, then your community kind of dies.
• 2:27:40
  of disappears yeah there's no like set community that's a
• 2:27:44
  really good point and it's like bringing up a kid's
• 2:27:48
  need consistency so bringing up in a world that's constantly
• 2:27:52
  shifting it's it's probably anxiety inducing to people who can't
• 2:27:57
  afford homes For sure. Definitely on that. And then child
• 2:28:00
  care is expensive.
• 2:28:01
  Speaker 1: Then if also your friends aren't doing it, you know,
• 2:28:04
  and then women are waiting later and later because they
• 2:28:06
  want to prolong their careers. Right. And then it becomes harder.
• 2:28:10
  And then you get into in vitro fertilization.
• 2:28:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's definitely some this this with this wave of
• 2:28:16
  feminism and capitalism. There's definitely some like insidious ties there
• 2:28:20
  of just like you can you can like work. create
• 2:28:26
  capital for us, and then make it so it's impossible
• 2:28:30
  or very hard for one working house spouse to, like,
• 2:28:33
  just if the man is working.
• 2:28:34
  Speaker 2: To raise a kid.
• 2:28:35
  Speaker 1: Do you think it's on purpose?
• 2:28:36
  Speaker 2: I think.
• 2:28:40
  Speaker 3: Maybe it didn't start on purpose, but I think it
• 2:28:42
  sort of became intertwined.
• 2:28:44
  Speaker 1: Well, isn't it just a.
• 2:28:47
  Just a side effect of if women want to pursue careers,
• 2:28:50
  you're going to have less children.
• 2:28:51
  Speaker 3: But that is for sure. But there's a thing about it.
• 2:28:56
  There's this like almost demonization of the women who choose
• 2:29:00
  to stay at home.
• 2:29:00
  Speaker 2: Like, you know, it's like, oh, a trad wife. It's
• 2:29:02
  looked down on.
• 2:29:03
  Speaker 1: But isn't that just because of the women that are
• 2:29:05
  pursuing careers that give them that look down on?
• 2:29:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
• 2:29:10
  Speaker 1: And it's probably because they secretly feel like maybe they're
• 2:29:13
  missing out.
• 2:29:14
  Speaker 3: Maybe it's to me, it's like, it's so funny that
• 2:29:18
  both can exist. It can be the woman that go
• 2:29:19
  for their careers and the woman that want to stay home.
• 2:29:20
  Speaker 2: It's just for one group to demonize the other. I think,
• 2:29:23
  I think it's just very interesting.
• 2:29:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It is weird, but it's also like population drop
• 2:29:27
  is a real thing.
• 2:29:29
  Speaker 3: It does look like the humanity. Have you ever seen
• 2:29:31
  that population curve of the deer?
• 2:29:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 2:29:34
  Speaker 3: It's like, so I think humanity is kind of at
• 2:29:36
  that point where it levels off.
• 2:29:38
  Speaker 1: Hmm. Have you? Yeah.
• 2:29:39
  Speaker 3: Cause I remember my bio classes there, which that would
• 2:29:41
  be the popular, like, Yeah, the exponential growth and then
• 2:29:44
  the level off. And we've had the exponential growth and
• 2:29:47
  we're looking like that part of the graph.
• 2:29:49
  Speaker 1: Well, the thing is like there is still exponential growth.
• 2:29:51
  It's just not in the West. That's what's kind of weird.
• 2:29:53
  Speaker 2: Right, right.
• 2:29:54
  Speaker 1: It's poor people. Poor people want to have a bunch
• 2:29:56
  of kids and they're having them all the time. Right.
• 2:29:59
  And then they want to come over here.
• 2:30:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 2:30:01
  Speaker 1: Take over Minnesota.
• 2:30:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 2:30:04
  Speaker 1: And then have their kids in daycare that doesn't exist.
• 2:30:07
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 2:30:07
  Speaker 3: But yeah, there is something happening in the West or
• 2:30:10
  like the way that like the South Korea and Japan.
• 2:30:13
  Speaker 1: Oh, they're fucked.
• 2:30:14
  Speaker 3: They're like fucked. They're like actually fucked. They're like a
• 2:30:16
  couple generations away from like how you're going to support
• 2:30:18
  this whole thing.
• 2:30:19
  Speaker 2: Right. Unless you let people in.
• 2:30:21
  Speaker 1: Well, or you encourage people to have kids. If you
• 2:30:25
  turn it around with the youngest people and then you
• 2:30:27
  have like a blip for a while, but then it
• 2:30:29
  gets back to it. But man, you have to like
• 2:30:31
  make a concerted effort. And how do you encourage people
• 2:30:33
  to have children? Because you're going to have to have
• 2:30:35
  women that don't pursue careers.
• 2:30:38
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 2:30:38
  Speaker 1: If you're going to have five kids, what are you
• 2:30:41
  going to do? You're working all day?
• 2:30:43
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 2:30:43
  Speaker 1: That's kind of crazy. When you have kids, you realize
• 2:30:46
  how nuts that is because it's like, man, your kids,
• 2:30:48
  they want their parents. That's good for them to have
• 2:30:51
  their parents around, especially in this world of predators and
• 2:30:54
  creeps and weirdos and things that can happen at daycare. Yeah.
• 2:31:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, it's– I don't know how they would– incentivize
• 2:31:05
  that to happen.
• 2:31:05
  Speaker 1: How do you?
• 2:31:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah. You can't, you can't really.
• 2:31:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Because people are selfish. They want what they want
• 2:31:11
  in their life. And you know, when Elon's like, Oh,
• 2:31:13
  we're experiencing population collapse. They're like, so not me. Bye. Right.
• 2:31:17
  I'm going to the movies with my friends. You know
• 2:31:19
  what I mean? Like the idea of changing diapers. Like
• 2:31:21
  I don't want, I don't like her that much to
• 2:31:24
  stick around with her for the next 18 years. Yeah.
• 2:31:26
  Speaker 3: You also, you also, when you have the ability to
• 2:31:29
  choose everyone at your fingertips, you It's like Netflix. When
• 2:31:32
  you can watch everything, you watch nothing. So we can
• 2:31:35
  choose everyone.
• 2:31:35
  Speaker 2: You don't commit to anything. Right.
• 2:31:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just because everything is these sort of superfluous, like,
• 2:31:41
  kind of deep relationships.
• 2:31:43
  Speaker 1: I know a lot of people that have used the
• 2:31:44
  apps and then found someone and got off the apps.
• 2:31:47
  So there are people, but generally they're a little older.
• 2:31:49
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 2:31:50
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 2:31:50
  Speaker 2: Yes, they're, like, at a certain age you sort of, like,
• 2:31:53
  Look for that.
• 2:31:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 2:31:55
  Speaker 3: But like in your early 20s, when people were like
• 2:31:57
  settling down in their 20s beforehand, it made sense. They
• 2:32:00
  were the only person around maybe like– but now you're
• 2:32:02
  in a city. You can just– it can be like
• 2:32:04
  in a big one in New York where there's like
• 2:32:06
  an endless stream of people. There's no reason to make
• 2:32:10
  a choice if you don't want to.
• 2:32:12
  Speaker 1: I saw a video of a lady who created an
• 2:32:15
  app where a man is allowed to pay for her
• 2:32:19
  preparation for the date. So the man sends her money
• 2:32:23
  so that she can get her nails done, get clothes
• 2:32:27
  for the day, all these different things for the day.
• 2:32:29
  And this lady set up this app.
• 2:32:31
  Speaker 2: Damn.
• 2:32:32
  Speaker 1: A mic. Smart. It's kind of prostitution. I mean, it's sure.
• 2:32:36
  I mean, it's kind of without the guarantee of sex.
• 2:32:40
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 2:32:40
  Speaker 1: It's weird. You're not just showing up. These are my clothes.
• 2:32:43
  I drove here in my car. I'm meeting a person. No,
• 2:32:46
  it's that person is paying me to prepare for our date.
• 2:32:49
  Speaker 2: Right. And creating me into a person in his head.
• 2:32:53
  Speaker 1: Well, you're going to get a very different kind of
• 2:32:55
  person that's going to meet you. You're going to get
• 2:32:57
  a kind of person that's willing to give you money immediately.
• 2:33:01
  Before he has any connection with you at all.
• 2:33:03
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 2:33:03
  Speaker 1: Like he might meet you and you're fucking super annoying.
• 2:33:06
  And he's like, God damn it. I gave that bitch
• 2:33:08
  a hundred bucks.
• 2:33:09
  Speaker 2: That's so funny. That's a Richard.
• 2:33:10
  Speaker 3: Well, I think it was Richard Feynman. He was talking
• 2:33:12
  about getting girls cause he was good at it. And
• 2:33:14
  he was like, yeah, I never paid for the drink
• 2:33:16
  on the first date.
• 2:33:17
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 2:33:18
  Speaker 1: Never.
• 2:33:18
  Speaker 2: Something like that.
• 2:33:19
  Speaker 1: That seems kind of crazy.
• 2:33:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 2:33:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah. That's not going to get a lot of quality women. Ah,
• 2:33:23
  well maybe it was back then it was different. Yeah.
• 2:33:25
  Speaker 2: And you're kind of famous in your world.
• 2:33:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah. He's a, famous brilliant guy the scientists back then
• 2:33:31
  were all like rock stars isn't that.
• 2:33:33
  Speaker 2: Crazy yeah yeah they're all like just fucking everyone around
• 2:33:35
  them yeah yeah yeah and that was just making the
• 2:33:38
  atomic bomb just fucking losing their minds.
• 2:33:41
  Speaker 1: That was the crazy thing about the Oppenheimer thing right
• 2:33:44
  Oppenheimer was a freak Good for him. It's just out
• 2:33:47
  there getting his fuck on.
• 2:33:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 2:33:48
  Speaker 2: Fucking communist chicks. Yeah.
• 2:33:51
  Speaker 1: They're probably fun. Oh yeah.
• 2:33:53
  Speaker 3: That's living, especially back then, that's living dangerously. That's the,
• 2:33:55
  that's the same level of, that's the same level of
• 2:33:58
  come as the gay Republican Senator.
• 2:33:59
  Speaker 2: It's like, this is, this is banned. Right.
• 2:34:02
  Speaker 1: Right. How many gay Republican senators do you think there are?
• 2:34:06
  I mean, Not zero.
• 2:34:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah. For sure.
• 2:34:10
  Speaker 1: In the closet, not zero.
• 2:34:11
  Speaker 3: No, definitely not. It is usually the ones that are
• 2:34:14
  like the most pro. Like anyone who's like still very
• 2:34:16
  pro anti-gay marriage now, like loudly, it's like, what's going
• 2:34:19
  on here?
• 2:34:19
  Speaker 1: Or really into war. We got to get those Iraqis
• 2:34:25
  out of their homes.
• 2:34:27
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 2:34:28
  Speaker 3: The fucking just so just war hawks with Iran's going
• 2:34:32
  through it right now.
• 2:34:33
  Speaker 1: What's going on right now?
• 2:34:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 2:34:34
  Speaker 2: You don't know what's happening.
• 2:34:35
  Speaker 1: I know about the protests. I know about killing the protesters.
• 2:34:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, that's what. Yeah.
• 2:34:39
  Speaker 1: And it seems like there's some sort of a strike
• 2:34:41
  that may be imminent. Doesn't it? It feels like it.
• 2:34:45
  Like from the United States. Yeah.
• 2:34:47
  Speaker 2: I think the U.S. is kind of going to stay
• 2:34:50
  back for a little bit.
• 2:34:50
  Speaker 1: You think so?
• 2:34:51
  Speaker 2: A week in Iran is that they're weak right now.
• 2:34:54
  Because they're dealing with internal strife.
• 2:34:55
  Speaker 1: It's kind of crazy to see how many people are
• 2:34:57
  on the streets.
• 2:34:58
  Speaker 3: I mean, the average Iranian civilian has gotten a pretty
• 2:35:03
  raw deal since the 50s, since we installed the Shah.
• 2:35:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 2:35:09
  Speaker 3: We installed the Shah, and then Khomeini comes and is like, hey,
• 2:35:13
  remember the democracy they stole from you?
• 2:35:14
  Speaker 2: Because we had deposed an elected leader. well, we'll bring
• 2:35:18
  it back. And they're like, okay.
• 2:35:20
  Speaker 3: And then the clerics just took over and fucked them.
• 2:35:22
  And they've just been a constant stream of like the average,
• 2:35:25
  the average of any incident is just getting fucked by
• 2:35:27
  outside forces for so long.
• 2:35:29
  Speaker 1: Well, it's all about the nationalization of their oil. Yep.
• 2:35:32
  They wanted to nationalize their oil. And we were like, no, play.
• 2:35:36
  Speaker 2: Fuck that. Fuck that. You think you're going to have
• 2:35:39
  control over your own state? Get out of here.
• 2:35:40
  Speaker 1: Did you, you heard Metzger's theory about Venezuela last night? No.
• 2:35:45
  He's like– he goes, I think, I think Maduro is
• 2:35:49
  secretly working for the CIA. He helped them arrest him
• 2:35:53
  and then he is going to testify that the 2020
• 2:35:56
  elections were rigged.
• 2:35:58
  Speaker 2: Wow, if that comes true, what a Babe Ruth call.
• 2:36:00
  What a point to the sky that is. That's crazy.
• 2:36:04
  Speaker 1: If that comes true, I'm buying you a car. Find
• 2:36:07
  a car you really like. We're going to get you
• 2:36:09
  a car.
• 2:36:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's crazy.
• 2:36:10
  Speaker 1: You need an American muscle car. I'll get you a
• 2:36:12
  Mustang GT or something.
• 2:36:13
  Speaker 2: But I will say this. When the Iranians protest, it's
• 2:36:15
  like admirable because you know they're going to die.
• 2:36:18
  Speaker 1: A lot of them have already died. They killed thousands
• 2:36:20
  of them.
• 2:36:20
  Speaker 2: A lot of them died.
• 2:36:21
  Speaker 3: And the same with the hijab protests where just women
• 2:36:23
  were disappearing for not wearing a hijab.
• 2:36:25
  Speaker 2: It's like, damn, bro. That's how bad it got. They
• 2:36:28
  really like it. They've gotten a raw deal historically for
• 2:36:32
  the last half a century and they're still fighting. Yeah.
• 2:36:35
  Speaker 1: Crazy. Yeah.
• 2:36:36
  Speaker 2: I read when I was a kid, I read this
• 2:36:38
  book called Persepolis. It's in my like greatest books of
• 2:36:40
  all time.
• 2:36:41
  Speaker 3: But it's I read Persepolis and I was like maybe
• 2:36:45
  in high school, early, late middle school. And I just
• 2:36:47
  realized like, oh, man, because you get. bombarded especially at
• 2:36:51
  that time we're in fighting in the middle east you
• 2:36:52
  get bombarded with propaganda of like what these people like
• 2:36:55
  over there and i'm reading persepolis i'm like oh right
• 2:36:57
  they're just people like she has a scene where she's
• 2:36:59
  just wanting to listen to music with her friends but
• 2:37:01
  the islamic police is like we'll fucking fuck them up
• 2:37:06
  if they get caught and they just have these secret
• 2:37:08
  parties with just listening to.
• 2:37:09
  Speaker 1: Music secret listening to music just listen to music jail
• 2:37:13
  yeah just regular things what is this venezuela opposition opposition
• 2:37:18
  litter maria uh Corina Machado, insists that Maduro rigged the
• 2:37:23
  2020 U.S. elections against Donald Trump and many other elections
• 2:37:26
  in the region. What?
• 2:37:28
  Speaker 2: How? How?
• 2:37:30
  Speaker 5: Saw that going around, too, so I don't know that
• 2:37:31
  Kurt's too crazy on that one.
• 2:37:33
  Speaker 1: What?
• 2:37:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, this isn't even the first one. This is just
• 2:37:36
  how I'm showing you the data.
• 2:37:37
  Speaker 1: How could Maduro rig United States elections?
• 2:37:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, where is that power coming from? All of a sudden,
• 2:37:45
  because if the power to rig election, do you think
• 2:37:46
  he would be able to stop himself from getting arrested?
• 2:37:48
  Speaker 1: This is from the Gray Zone. It says Hugo El
• 2:37:52
  Polo Carvajal is likely to serve as the star witness
• 2:37:57
  for the U.S. against Maduro. Max Blumenthal reveals Carvajal is
• 2:38:02
  a coerced witness who cut a secret plea deal to
• 2:38:05
  save himself. He's even indulging the Trump Trump's conspiracy theory
• 2:38:09
  that Venezuela rigged the 2020 U.S. election.
• 2:38:15
  Speaker 2: What's the gray zone?
• 2:38:16
  Speaker 1: I think that's Max Blumenthal's show.
• 2:38:18
  Speaker 2: Okay, so that's like a source?
• 2:38:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 2:38:21
  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay.
• 2:38:22
  Speaker 1: He's legit.
• 2:38:23
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 2:38:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Anti-war guy. So if he's saying that, maybe there's
• 2:38:29
  something to it. Damn.
• 2:38:33
  Speaker 2: In what mechanism would Maduro be able to.
• 2:38:36
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying.
• 2:38:36
  Speaker 2: To do an election.
• 2:38:37
  Speaker 1: Okay, let's find that out. How do they think Maduro
• 2:38:40
  had a hand in rigging the 2020 election? What's the conspiracy?
• 2:38:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, was it like he did all the, like he
• 2:38:46
  helped with the mail-in votes?
• 2:38:48
  Speaker 2: Right. Because that's the only way you could steal that election, right?
• 2:38:50
  Speaker 1: Like, Venezuela's pretty far away.
• 2:38:52
  Speaker 5: Here's a tweet from before the election even happened.
• 2:38:56
  Speaker 1: Nicolas Maduro's campaign manager... This is from 2024. Just went
• 2:39:00
  on national TV to declare victory despite exit polls showing
• 2:39:03
  a historic loss for their socialist regime. They're setting up
• 2:39:08
  to commit a bigger election theft in the 2020 election
• 2:39:11
  in the United States. That's not that's just someone's opinion. Yeah.
• 2:39:16
  Speaker 2: How does that add up?
• 2:39:17
  Speaker 1: They're stealing the election.
• 2:39:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because they stole it in Venezuela.
• 2:39:20
  Speaker 1: But they did steal it in Venezuela.
• 2:39:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's for sure.
• 2:39:24
  Speaker 1: What does it say? It says he did clearly stole
• 2:39:30
  Venezuela's election, threatened bloodshed if he lost, restricted... What is that?
• 2:39:38
  Speaker 2: Intel?
• 2:39:39
  Speaker 1: International observers. Blocked transmission of results.
• 2:39:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that definitely happened.
• 2:39:46
  Speaker 3: I mean, it was very telling how happy the Venezuelans
• 2:39:48
  in America were when he was gone. That was a
• 2:39:52
  genuine thing if they were very very pleased about that
• 2:39:56
  yeah and then you had people you had like white
• 2:39:59
  leftists be like this is bad.
• 2:40:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah you're supporting a dictator it's like in the
• 2:40:04
  way they did it was so unprecedented going and stormed
• 2:40:08
  the fucking castle and steal the.
• 2:40:09
  Speaker 3: Guy yeah kind of shows the power like it kind
• 2:40:12
  of tells also the other countries like hey back off.
• 2:40:15
  Speaker 1: Well it's pretty crazy what they did if it's true
• 2:40:18
  with that whole sonar weapon or sound weapon whatever it
• 2:40:21
  did that like literally like makes your organs bubble Everybody, like,
• 2:40:25
  falls to the ground. They're writhing in pain and agony.
• 2:40:28
  And then they just stormed in. And everybody was incapacitated.
• 2:40:31
  Speaker 2: Damn.
• 2:40:31
  Speaker 1: Stormed in, fucked everybody up. And that was a wrap.
• 2:40:34
  Speaker 2: Well, if that's what war is becoming, that's kind of better.
• 2:40:37
  Speaker 1: It's kind of crazy.
• 2:40:38
  Speaker 2: That's kind of better than, like, ground troops and nonstop
• 2:40:41
  fighting and 20 years in Afghanistan.
• 2:40:45
  Speaker 1: Okay. Here's lawyer Sidney Powell in 2020 talking about Maduro
• 2:40:49
  having access to voting fraud technology. Maduro is going to
• 2:40:53
  sing like a canary and the Democrats are screwed. No
• 2:40:55
  wonder why. Okay.
• 2:40:56
  Speaker 2: Is that lady even real?
• 2:40:58
  Speaker 1: Who?
• 2:40:58
  Speaker 3: That looks like a– The avatar? The person tweeting this. See,
• 2:41:05
  this reeks of bot to me.
• 2:41:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Follow me for breaking news.
• 2:41:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. What do you know? Or just guy
• 2:41:14
  clearly– account clearly just making stuff up.
• 2:41:17
  Speaker 1: See if you can find an account of how they
• 2:41:19
  did it. Because there's an account by someone who was
• 2:41:22
  a witness that was there at the scene that said
• 2:41:25
  how fucking crazy it was. These guys came out of nowhere.
• 2:41:28
  The helicopters came out of nowhere. The drones, they shut
• 2:41:30
  down all the radar. Everything got shut down. And then
• 2:41:33
  all of a sudden there's drones flying everywhere and helicopters.
• 2:41:37
  And these dudes, 20 guys, killed, you know, who knows
• 2:41:41
  how many fucking humans.
• 2:41:42
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 2:41:43
  Speaker 1: No one got killed on the American side. They captured
• 2:41:45
  him and his wife, stuffed him back in the helicopter.
• 2:41:48
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 2:41:49
  Speaker 1: And they were in and out in 10 minutes.
• 2:41:50
  Speaker 2: In 10 minutes, yeah.
• 2:41:51
  Speaker 3: There's a very famous video of a Twitch streamer in
• 2:41:54
  Venezuela just out in the streets, and then everything just.
• 2:41:59
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 2:41:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 2:42:00
  Speaker 1: Whoa.
• 2:42:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It just goes dark.
• 2:42:02
  Speaker 1: That's crazy. Damn. That's crazy.
• 2:42:05
  Speaker 2: And yeah, you can, and you're a human. You can
• 2:42:06
  tell like, Oh, something's up. Yeah. This is not a normal,
• 2:42:09
  everything like all the street, like it went just dark.
• 2:42:11
  Speaker 1: Well, it's crazy because we knew they had some really
• 2:42:13
  wild technology, but they didn't know. We didn't know what
• 2:42:16
  they were capable of until we've seen this. And I'm like, Oh,
• 2:42:19
  what's really interesting is my friend Evan Hafer was talking
• 2:42:22
  about that like a year ago on the podcast. He
• 2:42:26
  was talking about it maybe less than a year. He's like,
• 2:42:28
  if we go to war with the cartels, like, they
• 2:42:31
  have no idea what kind of ultraviolence they're in for.
• 2:42:36
  He's like, the shit that these guys are going to
• 2:42:39
  do when they're going to plan this out. They built
• 2:42:42
  a replica of his house and they went through it blindfolded. Yeah.
• 2:42:47
  So they know exactly where every turn is, where to go.
• 2:42:51
  They war planned this for a long time.
• 2:42:53
  Speaker 5: The last thing was– false story.
• 2:42:55
  Speaker 2: Oh, it was false?
• 2:42:56
  Speaker 1: Which one? Oh, the live stream going out?
• 2:42:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 2:42:59
  Speaker 1: Right, but find the account of the witness.
• 2:43:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I was looking for that and I stumbled across
• 2:43:03
  that on the way to it.
• 2:43:04
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 2:43:05
  Speaker 1: The account of the guy who said he was there,
• 2:43:07
  if it's accurate, is crazy. Because he basically said they
• 2:43:11
  just incapacitated everyone and then just went in and murdered
• 2:43:15
  everybody and pulled out Maduro. Like, no one could move.
• 2:43:19
  You can't do anything. And then these guys land in
• 2:43:21
  helicopters and everyone's writhing in agony like... Just running through. Damn.
• 2:43:27
  Whacked everybody. No one got shot back at. Crazy.
• 2:43:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think that's what warfare, outside of what's
• 2:43:33
  happening in Russia and Ukraine, that's kind of what warfare
• 2:43:35
  is now, right? Like, oh, is Israel going to go
• 2:43:38
  to war with Iran? We'll just quickly just take out
• 2:43:41
  all their generals real quick. And the threat of war
• 2:43:44
  is done.
• 2:43:45
  Speaker 1: You're dealing with. Venezuela versus the United States of America.
• 2:43:49
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 2:43:49
  Speaker 1: But if it was the United States of America versus Russia.
• 2:43:51
  Speaker 2: Or China, it would be a lot different.
• 2:43:53
  Speaker 1: It's a lot more fucked up. Yeah. Venezuela doesn't have
• 2:43:55
  nuclear bombs. That's why you can get away with shit
• 2:43:58
  like this.
• 2:43:58
  Speaker 2: Right, right. Yeah, that's a fair point.
• 2:44:02
  Speaker 1: That is part of the thing, you know. And then
• 2:44:05
  it's like the whole thing is so transparent. Trump's like immediately,
• 2:44:08
  we're going to take the oil. There's plenty of oil.
• 2:44:11
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 2:44:11
  Speaker 1: Working on a deal.
• 2:44:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think it was a coincidence that all
• 2:44:14
  of a sudden I had gas under $ 2 last week
• 2:44:17
  in the gas station across the street. I was like, huh,
• 2:44:20
  I wonder if that's Venezuela related.
• 2:44:21
  Speaker 1: Not in California. California gas companies are pulling out. Valero
• 2:44:26
  pulled out of California. It's going to cost them $ 1 billion.
• 2:44:30
  And they're like, yeah. It's not worth it. Rather leave.
• 2:44:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 2:44:34
  Speaker 1: Damn. Fuck you.
• 2:44:36
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, the cost of living there is so high too.
• 2:44:38
  Speaker 3: It's like, like when we talk about like young comics,
• 2:44:41
  it's like, it's what you have in Austin is like
• 2:44:45
  at least a way, a much cheaper quality of life.
• 2:44:48
  Speaker 1: And better.
• 2:44:49
  Speaker 2: And better. Yeah.
• 2:44:50
  Speaker 3: Where you have space and like, you know, things are
• 2:44:52
  more expensive than anywhere else in Texas, probably for sure.
• 2:44:55
  But like, it's still like gas was under $ 2. You
• 2:44:57
  can get, you can like rent is stabilizing. It's going down.
• 2:45:01
  It's going to go down.
• 2:45:02
  Speaker 2: I think, A lot of California and New York developers
• 2:45:04
  came in here, and they were like, Austin's where people are,
• 2:45:07
  so we can just build a lot. But in New
• 2:45:09
  York and California, you have a finite amount of space.
• 2:45:12
  And Austin, you can just build out. And once you
• 2:45:14
  build out, the rent at my place went down because
• 2:45:17
  people were like, oh, just buy a house out there.
• 2:45:18
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 2:45:19
  Speaker 2: And no one's living in the apartment complex.
• 2:45:22
  Speaker 1: If you live in Dripping Springs, it's way cheaper, and
• 2:45:24
  it's only 30 minutes away.
• 2:45:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
• 2:45:26
  Speaker 1: Everywhere in the country, 30-minute commute is normal.
• 2:45:28
  Speaker 2: Right. Right, yeah, it's normal. Here, what's nice about here
• 2:45:32
  is you'll see something that's 15 minutes, it'll be 15 miles.
• 2:45:35
  You'll be like, oh, that's normal. That's normal. Elliot, it's
• 2:45:39
  an hour. Yeah, it was an hour and a half. No,
• 2:45:41
  it was almost two hours.
• 2:45:42
  Speaker 3: I went from Redondo Beach to fucking Burbank after a
• 2:45:46
  podcast at five.
• 2:45:47
  Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, I just... I should have
• 2:45:48
  just killed myself. That would have been a more effective
• 2:45:50
  use of my time.
• 2:45:52
  Speaker 1: Locked up.
• 2:45:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 2:45:53
  Speaker 1: When the 405 or the 5 gets locked up, it's depressing.
• 2:45:56
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's hell.
• 2:45:57
  Speaker 1: That trip down to San Diego, if you want to
• 2:45:59
  do the La Jolla store.
• 2:46:00
  Speaker 2: You got to leave early.
• 2:46:00
  Speaker 1: You got to leave at noon. Leave at noon. Because
• 2:46:03
  that means you'll be down in San Diego right around
• 2:46:05
  the time rush hour starts.
• 2:46:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Crazy.
• 2:46:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just a cheaper place for a young comic who,
• 2:46:14
  if it's time to move to a place.
• 2:46:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 2:46:17
  Speaker 3: It's like Austin does offer a cheaper quality for quality
• 2:46:20
  stage time as well.
• 2:46:22
  Speaker 1: It's also just a better vibe. There's less tension. There's
• 2:46:25
  less people. Yes.
• 2:46:26
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 2:46:27
  Speaker 3: I feel like there are times where I would take
• 2:46:30
  a day off in LA and I feel like I'm
• 2:46:32
  falling behind because everyone around you is so frantic.
• 2:46:35
  Speaker 2: And here it's like, oh, I can breathe. I can
• 2:46:37
  actually just enjoy this day off.
• 2:46:39
  Speaker 1: Which is important. You got to have some kind of balance. Yes.
• 2:46:43
  You want to be a little bit frantic. But then
• 2:46:45
  you got to achieve some balance and let your brain
• 2:46:47
  sort of recalibrate, come back on, just get a new perspective. Yeah.
• 2:46:53
  Speaker 2: Rest is so– this grind culture? Oh, here we go.
• 2:46:57
  Speaker 5: Get into this though. Same kind of thing.
• 2:46:59
  Speaker 1: I'll check the account. Fucked up account. Main proponent for
• 2:47:03
  the drive to recall Gavin Newsom, California needs to rebuild
• 2:47:05
  a better– So it might be a fake person.
• 2:47:07
  Speaker 5: And then there's no evidence to like a link or
• 2:47:11
  where they got the information from, which is why I
• 2:47:14
  just checked first. But they just have a long story here.
• 2:47:16
  Speaker 1: It just says interview security guard. So it could be
• 2:47:18
  total propaganda, right?
• 2:47:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 2:47:20
  Speaker 5: Made up from, you know, you could ask AI to
• 2:47:22
  make up a story.
• 2:47:22
  Speaker 1: Right. A good story to put on Twitter. Right.
• 2:47:26
  Speaker 2: And then, yeah, just.
• 2:47:26
  Speaker 1: Have you tried to find it anywhere else? Is it
• 2:47:28
  only from this one guy?
• 2:47:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what I was finding. It was Caroline Levitt
• 2:47:33
  shared it.
• 2:47:34
  Speaker 1: And this is the. That's the main account where she
• 2:47:37
  shared it from.
• 2:47:37
  Speaker 5: Stop what you're doing and read this. I Googled that
• 2:47:42
  and she said that a ton of times.
• 2:47:44
  Speaker 2: How long has Carolyn Levin been the press secretary this
• 2:47:46
  whole time? How quickly do they move past those?
• 2:47:50
  Speaker 1: They usually last about two years except for that last lady.
• 2:47:52
  Speaker 2: Except for the last one, yeah. I wonder if that
• 2:47:54
  set a precedent.
• 2:47:55
  Speaker 1: She decided to hang in there to the bitter end.
• 2:47:56
  They were trying to get rid of her. She sucked. St.
• 2:47:59
  Speaker 2: Pierre, right?
• 2:47:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, whatever her name was. It wasn't St.
• 2:48:01
  Speaker 2: Pierre. It wasn't St. Pierre. I thought it was something
• 2:48:02
  like that.
• 2:48:03
  Speaker 1: Karine Jean-Pierre.
• 2:48:05
  Speaker 2: Okay, it was something Pierre. It was something Pierre, yeah, yeah.
• 2:48:07
  Speaker 1: Bro, she was terrible.
• 2:48:09
  Speaker 2: She did it forever.
• 2:48:09
  Speaker 1: And again, the president is committed. The president, like, she
• 2:48:13
  would do, like, the Obama thing.
• 2:48:14
  Speaker 2: With her fingers. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 2:48:16
  Speaker 1: Get the fuck out of here. They just try.
• 2:48:18
  Speaker 2: She had a lie all the time. Like, that's her job.
• 2:48:21
  Dead person.
• 2:48:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 2:48:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's hard to do.
• 2:48:24
  Speaker 3: That's pretty, like, you know, you have to keep juggling
• 2:48:27
  a lot to be like, oh, this dead person's still alive.
• 2:48:29
  Speaker 1: I thought he was going to die, like, immediately after
• 2:48:31
  he left office. I'm like, he's going to die soon. Like,
• 2:48:33
  real soon.
• 2:48:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of wild he's kept going.
• 2:48:36
  Speaker 1: But every now and then they'll trot him out and
• 2:48:38
  he'll start talking.
• 2:48:39
  Speaker 2: He'll be at an Eagles game. He'll be like, yeah,
• 2:48:40
  you know what's going on.
• 2:48:41
  Speaker 1: But every now and then he'll talk. They still let
• 2:48:45
  him talk. There's been a few of those where he'll
• 2:48:48
  talk like, thank God you didn't win.
• 2:48:50
  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ.
• 2:48:52
  Speaker 1: If you came back and they never replaced Kamala with
• 2:48:55
  you and you won or you and Kamala and you
• 2:48:59
  won and you're this guy now.
• 2:49:01
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah. Well, he fucked them by– not bowing out. Yeah.
• 2:49:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like, at least let him have a primary.
• 2:49:09
  Because then it just became Kamala versus Trump and the
• 2:49:12
  whole like, oh, vote for me to fight fascism. But
• 2:49:15
  no one voted for you in the first place.
• 2:49:16
  Speaker 1: The thing is, if they had a primary, who do
• 2:49:17
  you think would have been it? They probably would have
• 2:49:21
  made her. The Democrats would have decided on her anyway,
• 2:49:24
  I think.
• 2:49:24
  Speaker 3: Because it would have been too soon for Newsom to run.
• 2:49:26
  He still has that stink of COVID on him. So
• 2:49:28
  that's why he waited for this go around. Yeah, it's
• 2:49:30
  been enough. People have forgotten COVID enough.
• 2:49:32
  Speaker 1: Correct.
• 2:49:33
  Speaker 3: It's been half a decade since. People's minds, like, people's
• 2:49:38
  political memories are so short that, yeah, 2028, that's so
• 2:49:43
  far away from COVID that he can just be like, ah,
• 2:49:46
  I did fine or whatever the fuck.
• 2:49:47
  Speaker 1: Do you think so?
• 2:49:48
  Speaker 2: I think so. Enough to run, enough to probably get
• 2:49:52
  the nomination.
• 2:49:53
  Speaker 1: You think he's going to get the nomination? Who else?
• 2:49:55
  I feel like someone else can rise over the next
• 2:49:57
  three years.
• 2:49:58
  Speaker 3: Someone else would have– if it had been an Obama thing,
• 2:50:01
  it would be like someone would be rising in this
• 2:50:03
  upcoming midterm. So if there's someone like that, maybe.
• 2:50:07
  Speaker 1: But all it takes is someone who's a compelling speaker
• 2:50:09
  who's not demonstrably full of shit because the thing about
• 2:50:13
  him is he's so vulnerable to any kind of a debate.
• 2:50:15
  When someone starts talking about the fraud and waste in California,
• 2:50:17
  how about the high-speed rail? They spent billions of dollars
• 2:50:20
  on this fucking nothing.
• 2:50:21
  Speaker 2: Nothing.
• 2:50:22
  Speaker 1: Like, soon. We're going to get it done soon.
• 2:50:24
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 2:50:24
  Speaker 1: There's so much fraud. So much waste.
• 2:50:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah. But I don't think they have anything. Because you can,
• 2:50:30
  right now, all you can run, you can just run on, like,
• 2:50:33
  I'm not Trump. And that'll be enough to get people
• 2:50:36
  to be like, yeah, he's not Trump.
• 2:50:37
  Speaker 1: What about that Josh Shapiro guy? The guy who's governor
• 2:50:39
  of Pennsylvania? Maybe.
• 2:50:41
  Speaker 2: Maybe. I don't know. To me, it's just like a
• 2:50:45
  popularity contest, and he's making a lot of noise.
• 2:50:48
  Speaker 1: A lot of people upset with the Jews right now.
• 2:50:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a fair point. Shapiro? Hmm.
• 2:50:54
  Speaker 1: It just seems like... Hmm.
• 2:50:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 2:50:57
  Speaker 2: That's a good point.
• 2:50:58
  Speaker 3: It just seems like he's the one making the most noise,
• 2:51:01
  and we're getting towards crunch time. Not really, but it's
• 2:51:06
  the closer we get to the midterms, and there's no.
• 2:51:08
  Speaker 2: Other big voice around. It makes me feel like it's
• 2:51:11
  going to be him.
• 2:51:12
  Speaker 1: Well, clearly he wants to do it.
• 2:51:13
  Speaker 2: He definitely wants to do it. And he might just
• 2:51:16
  be powerful politically enough to win that nomination.
• 2:51:19
  Speaker 1: Imagine if that guy fucks up San Francisco, fucks up California,
• 2:51:23
  and then goes on to fuck up the whole country.
• 2:51:25
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's very possible. Maybe not very possible, but I
• 2:51:29
  think it's an outcome. It's an outcome. He's definitely running.
• 2:51:33
  It's going to be... I don't know what that ticket's
• 2:51:36
  going to be, but... They're going to make us all trans. Yeah,
• 2:51:40
  it's going to be like a Newsome Crockett. That's my
• 2:51:41
  early call of what.
• 2:51:42
  Speaker 1: They're going to try to run. No, shut the fuck up.
• 2:51:44
  Are you kidding?
• 2:51:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think so.
• 2:51:46
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 2:51:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think that's who they're– because she's very revered.
• 2:51:50
  Speaker 1: Not AOC?
• 2:51:51
  Speaker 2: Maybe AOC.
• 2:51:52
  Speaker 1: I think AOC is more reasonable.
• 2:51:54
  Speaker 2: AOC is much more reasonable for sure.
• 2:51:56
  Speaker 1: Have you ever seen when Crockett and Marjorie Taylor Greene
• 2:51:58
  start going back and forth with each other, insulting each
• 2:52:01
  other and yelling at each other? No, that's– oh, yeah,
• 2:52:03
  I did.
• 2:52:04
  Speaker 2: I did see that. That's a very fun moment.
• 2:52:09
  Speaker 1: Nobody wants to be a representative. That's the thing. It's
• 2:52:12
  like all these successful business people and academics, like they
• 2:52:15
  don't want to do that.
• 2:52:16
  Speaker 2: No, it's all like lawyers and like– yeah.
• 2:52:19
  Speaker 1: And creeps.
• 2:52:19
  Speaker 2: And creeps.
• 2:52:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the only– well, it's like it's one of
• 2:52:22
  those things where– you're right. The person who wants to
• 2:52:24
  do it probably isn't– or person who should do it probably.
• 2:52:27
  Speaker 2: Isn't going to want to do it.
• 2:52:27
  Speaker 1: 100 percent.
• 2:52:28
  Speaker 2: Because you do have to make decisions that negatively affect
• 2:52:31
  millions of people's lives sometimes.
• 2:52:33
  Speaker 1: And you've got to grease the pockets of your donors.
• 2:52:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And to be like a regular guy and want
• 2:52:38
  to do that probably would tear you apart. To be like, ah,
• 2:52:44
  here's a decision that will kill people. You've got to
• 2:52:45
  be kind of a sociopath.
• 2:52:47
  Speaker 1: What's really fucked is how much of an impact people
• 2:52:49
  like us have on elections now. That's what's nuts. Like
• 2:52:52
  podcasters have a big impact on elections now, which is
• 2:52:56
  really weird.
• 2:52:57
  Speaker 2: That's how much the mainstream media has kind of lost
• 2:53:00
  its lead.
• 2:53:00
  Speaker 1: Dropped the ball.
• 2:53:01
  Speaker 2: Dropped the ball hardcore.
• 2:53:03
  Speaker 1: Well, it's just by being unreliable, by being people that
• 2:53:06
  you can't trust.
• 2:53:07
  Speaker 3: And uncensored conversation is like people are going to trust
• 2:53:10
  them more because this is how people talk to their
• 2:53:12
  friends more often than not.
• 2:53:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Than like, oh, I can't say this because this
• 2:53:16
  sponsor is going to be mad at me.
• 2:53:17
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 2:53:18
  Speaker 2: You know, like this is just a much more accessible
• 2:53:21
  way of finding out people's real thoughts.
• 2:53:23
  Speaker 1: And a lot of it is just how we talk.
• 2:53:25
  I mean, there's been so many times we've been in
• 2:53:28
  the green room that totally could have been a podcast.
• 2:53:31
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 2:53:32
  Speaker 1: Just put a camera on it, live from the green room.
• 2:53:34
  It would fuck up the vibe. Right. But it would
• 2:53:35
  be a great podcast.
• 2:53:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it would.
• 2:53:37
  Speaker 1: It would fuck up the vibe.
• 2:53:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it would lose that quality that would make it
• 2:53:40
  a good podcast if we were trying to actually podcast.
• 2:53:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 2:53:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 2:53:43
  Speaker 1: Definitely. Definitely. All right, brother. Well, I'll see you tonight.
• 2:53:47
  Speaker 2: I'll see you tonight.
• 2:53:47
  Speaker 1: And tell everybody your special. It's out.
• 2:53:49
  Speaker 2: It's on YouTube.
• 2:53:50
  Speaker 1: It's on YouTube.
• 2:53:51
  Speaker 2: It's called Too Soon. Check it out. I'm very proud
• 2:53:54
  of this material.
• 2:53:55
  Speaker 1: It's great material, man. And you've been killing it. You've
• 2:53:57
  been killing it at the club. And the new stuff's fantastic, too.
• 2:53:59
  Speaker 2: Thank you. And yeah, go to Asana.
• 2:54:00
  Speaker 1: Look at that hair.
• 2:54:01
  Speaker 2: Look at that hair. Every time I've been on here,
• 2:54:03
  I've had different hair. Today I went cornrows. Yeah.
• 2:54:08
  Speaker 1: You've had the cornrows for a while now, right?
• 2:54:10
  Speaker 2: Just a week or so.
• 2:54:11
  Speaker 3: I did it for a sketch, and then I was like,
• 2:54:14
  I kind of like this. Yeah, it's crazy for this
• 2:54:17
  hairline to have cornrows.
• 2:54:18
  Speaker 1: All right, my brother. Appreciate you. See you tonight.
• 2:54:20
  Speaker 2: See you tonight.
• 2:54:21
  Speaker 1: Bye, everybody. Bye.