Transcript for #2007 - Adrienne Iapalucci

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Yeah, there's some of these, it's weird because they're the same company or the same, the same chair, but I think different people made them and some of them get real low. This one doesn't get very hot.

Oh, that's the shit. That's how it works. No one's paying me, so that did a shit. Some age room? How you doing? Did a see, yeah. Should I move this closer? Yeah, right there's good. I want some coffee.

Last night was really fun. It was really fun. I am awesome. Thank you very much. Um, I'm really excited that we got to meet. And I'm really excited that I got to see you stand up, you know, because the Ari Shafir has been singing your praises. I know.

He's a little misunderstood.

Does he really? Yeah. Well, it's because he loves you.

Right. He is the guy that does put pressure. Yes. That's house. Yes. Does to add his house when he's supposed to be hanging out with his family and getting Molly.

I think Bird had the fucking time of his life. He just doesn't want to admit it. I could see that. I think ultimately it was like a really bad thing that already did that. But there's a, I bet he had a good time.

It was terrible for their friendship. The wife was furious at him and rightly so, right, at least so.

Oh my god, what psycho?

What if you just are sending pussy pictures?

It's on and you started sending the wildest shit that you have on your hard drive.

I know, and then Ari has it. They text it to you later.

Can you imagine being your ex-fiancey and then seeing a response to you in his email? Yeah. And then he's reading that going, what the fuck did I do? Right. Like, he thinks, oh my God, it was on drugs. Did it black out? I don't remember writing this.

Hmm. Well, that's the benefit of having some like Ari. Yeah, plausible deniability. Sure. Your tap. You're just like fucking Ari.

He's a great guy. I love that dude. But I don't think he's autistic. I think it's not a hard childhood.

He does.

He's such a comedian that he has a really hard time interacting with regular people. Maybe. I think he's so used to, like, the fun of chaos. Are we shit in a Tupperware container and brought it to Skankfest? Yeah. And then, opened it up on stage in a crowded room where people were gagging and throwing up. It was Legion's Skanks, right? It wasn't Skankfest. Whatever it was. with the Legion of Skanks guys. Ari shit in a Tupperware and brought it to the stage.

But that's his level of like acceptable behavior. Like to him, that was the thing that you should do. Right. Right. So like all this other stuff is just funsies. That's true. It's just funsies.

I met Ari when he was a door guy at the Comedy Store. We became friends when he was just really just starting out. I don't think he'd been doing comedy like more than a year.

I knew he was really smart. Yeah. He was just fun to be around like he's a fun kid. He was like, you know, I knew after a while what it was going on. But he was like recently divorced from religion. Right. So he's like super orthodox. Jew, you know, went to Israel was studying the Talmud for like 12 hours a day like wild shit. And then he has this real break from it. And then a few years later, he's hanging out with us smoking weed at the comedy store.

What a mind fuck to do to a kid. It's such a mind fuck. Because you're saying you absolutely know that this is how everything went down. Right. And there's no way that can be real. Even if the concepts of Christianity today as I'm even if they're like They're real. That's what God really wants. There's no way you know whoever wrote that. Like what they wrote. You know what? This is human beings.

I believe that until six. Yeah, I'm first one. I had one teacher. Sister Mary Josephine. She was such a con. I bad. She was so mean. She was so mean that I knew as a little boy. Though there's no way this could be connected to God. Oh, there's so many. This is an evil lady who threatened you if you didn't do something you would have to sleep on a nail in the closet. You'd have to stay home and never get to see your parents again. She would yell stuff like that. It was like she was evil. She tortured kids.

Oh my God. It probably does. It probably does in some very unusual religious circumstances. You know, it's just back then when I was a kid that was how they taught you in Catholic, at least that lady. My sister got a great lady though. My sister got a great lady, a lady in the same school that wasn't a nun. She was just a regular lady who was Catholic, who was teaching in the Catholic school. It didn't have to be nuns or priests.

So it was a mix. Yeah. So my sister got lucky. She loved her teacher. My teacher. She taught me everything I needed to know. I was like, about religion. I was like, there's no way, what it not about, it's just a possibility that someone like that exists. Everyone was nice to me. I was five, six years old, whatever else. My parents were nice to me, my grandparents were nice to me. Everyone was nice to me. And then all of a sudden I'm in this room with this lady who is representing God. And she's fucking evil. She's mean. She wants you to cry. She would like try to get kids to cry. Yeah. It was weird because it was like a really good thing. It was like a really good thing. Because when I was like five years old, My parents were breaking up and I was like, you know, when you're young and you're insecure, you're like, oh my god, like, there's no stability in the world and I started thinking about God and I started like really getting into God. It's like a five year old. It's crazy. Yeah, it was like I was looking for someone to make sense. Yeah, you're looking for someone to look after you. Someone who makes sense of this because it's like the parents in your life, if the chaos in your life, you're like, there's gotta be something, maybe it's God. and then going to that church and going to that Catholic school, I was like, okay, maybe it's God, but these people, this lady is not doing the work of God. Like, there's no way God knows about this. There's no way God's cool with this. There's no way God's like she's ultimately, unless it's to be so fucking mean that you make people think for themselves.

Oh, my God.

First of all, bitch, how do you know?

Yeah. It's like, yeah, why wouldn't you say that?

Because then you'd be trapped with this animals have souls, two thing, then you can never eat meat again. Right.

Imagine if you had to go to heaven and confront every chicken you ever ate.

Imagine that pissed you off. In the next dimension, if reality was flopped and everything that you ate gets to eat you.

It would suck.

It really is crazy if you think about like your whole life from the time you're a baby to now. How many animals you've eaten?

They can be very cute. So we're pigs. Yeah, pigs can be really cute.

Isn't interesting that wild pigs aren't cute at all? No. They're not even a little cute. They're ferocious looking.

Yeah, my agent said the same thing to me.

Yeah, she's like, I don't mind if you hunt pigs because they're ugly.

They are, but I even wild pig babies are cute. And that's interesting. What's the evolution? It's not like eagles care if something's cute. No. It's like a thinking animal that discerns cuteness and doesn't want to harm cute things.

But what do you, is that for us? It must be for us. It's just for us. It's just for us. It's the only thing it works on.

Like, think about it like a little wolf puppy. They're so cute. So adorable. And it's adorable to us. Oh, yeah. Those things are gross. It's disgusting. So this is adorable to us, little wolf puppy. Yeah. So that we don't kill it. So we can grow up to be able to kill us.

Oh, yeah, for sure. But it's a trick, but it's an interesting one, because I think it only works on us. I don't think Champs give a fuck about cuteness.

Sure, but all animals do, all animals do. But it's not because they're cute. Right, but for us, when we see other things at babies, they think they're cute. Yes. Like we, oh my God, we want to protect it. otters are really good. Yeah, puppies. puppies are the most adorable thing of all time. They are. Look at those little guys. They are cute. They need a roof puppy.

They're so different than dogs. It's so interesting. They're so different than dogs. And they look kind of like dogs until you get them around dogs.

I was at a dog park once when a guy brought in a wolf. Are they legal? Yeah, you're gonna have a wolf. You're gonna have a dead park. Yeah, you're gonna have like a seven eighth timber wolf as a pet. Yeah, I had friend about a couple of them and one of them even got out and killed a bunch of sheep. Like their wolves like real wolves. Yeah, I don't think it should have a death. So I'm at the dog park and this fucking dude comes in with a wolf and it was the wildest thing where every dog was like What the fuck, do you know what that is? Every dog was like, hold Jesus Christ. They all like slunk down and moved away from it. It was like he was walking through a tide, like everything like it pulled back. That's like their Jesus. And his presence. Well, that's their monster. Yeah. Swelves eat dogs.

Yeah.

Oh my god. Did you see that? Someone did that to someone. Welcome back in Manhattan. What? In Central Park. Someone stabbed, there are two dogs got in the fight and they got stabbed. Someone else's dog.

I don't know. I think his dog bit the other dog was what the woman who's, I don't know, the details, probably shouldn't say it. So it's new details and shocking deadly stabbing of a dog in Central Park. And the woman, like, filmed the guy running away and she goes, you killed my dog, you piece of shit. Baffling incident occurred in the area around 163-5th Avenue, a spot popular with dog walkers and B.C. New York spoke to a man, who said that he and his wife were walking their 13 year old German Shepherd Pitbull mixed named Ellie, and their other dog, Sadie, on leashes in the area on 830 pm, a man. The man who only wished to be identified as Brian said they walked by a man with three pit bulls, at least two of which were unleashed.

One of his dogs tried to bite my little dog and he tried to tell me that's that it's okay. And I tried to talk sense into him. Brian told News 4, he and the man started to argue as his dogs attacked Ellie. Ellie. I kicked one of the dogs off my dog at one point Brian said, but then he took out a knife and started carving. And my dog growled. He stuck him. And I was helpless at that time. Brian said he took a photo of the man as he walked away below. The couple then took their dog to the veterinarian where Ellie had to be put down. Wow. So that guy with those dogs just stabbed someone's dog. That's why I can't have a gun.

I don't know if those are pit bulls.

My mom has... No, American bulldogs are actually larger than pit bulls.

Those look more like... They do make these little bullies. You ever seen those bullies? That's my mom's. Like miniature bullies?

Yeah. I think those aren't like... The really, the really scary pit bulls believe you're not, are not the ones that look like the scary pit bulls. I mean those are scary too, but the really scary ones are the smaller ones, because those are the ones that really raised for dogfighting. Brian Cowling got one of those ones. He had one as a pet. It was a real problem. And it looked like a regular dog. It looked like a regular dog. Like they don't have big giant heads. They only weighed like 35 pounds. That's a little fun. That's it. So those, those little things, they're weird, fucking, breeding choices that people have made to make these little tiny pitples, but I don't think those are aggressive.

Yeah, that's gotta be traumatic to dog.

It's just, it's to him. The dogs are just being dogs.

Yeah, he's not like, you know, I know what you're saying.

That's the thing about taking dogs in public like you never know. Like I got there's this guy that I used to run these trails with and I think he worked for this lady because I don't think he really had good control of the dogs and oddly enough one of the dogs was like golden lab and he was really aggressive. And he went after my dog and bit my dog. And I had to like kick the dog off him and it was like it was awful, but I'm like a golden lab just just snapped at the dog. I'm like, and the guy couldn't control him.

Oh, this was horrible. Yeah, that was horrible women. Yeah, the guy I didn't have control of his dogs and they were attacking his woman dogs need to be on a leash.

Right, but why is that dog attacking people? Why is that dog just attacking a lady for no reason? What would they train?

God damn it, that's scary.

That's terrifying shit. So it just fucked up way to go.

It was a long time ago. Um, you know, it was, uh, it was real weird. But there people have those things. They have those wolf breeds wolf dogs. There's one guy, I knew I had three of them and you would go to the house if you made noise. They would all just hollering. They're not dogs. It's so interesting. There's no telling them what to do, sit, lay down, fuck you.

In this guy, I'm in a yard. It's kind of crazy. That's not where they should be.

It's also kind of crazy to fix them. You just caught an off, they're just tossed around supplies.

They're not the same. They're definitely not the same. When I get it, they don't want them to have puppies, but you should just be in control of your dog. They're such a weird animal wolves. you know, because we killed them off. And then we're like, let's bring them back.

Well, that case that guy, you know, had it supposedly as a pet. I just think people get pet sometimes. It's like, you don't have to really know what you're doing to get like a German Shepherd. You can get a police dog German Shepherd, like a really aggressive, very smart thinking, like almost like a predator of people. Yeah. And you can just get it. Anybody can get it.

I think it dudes in the Bronx had a tiger. Sure. See that. It's fucking house. Sky at a tiger is house.

Where was this? This is his alligator found in New York City Lake. Oh my God. So what do you think happened there? Do you think that was like a pet?

That's the story of Florida. Florida's an amazing story. Florida is just overrun with Python's. There's a half a million Python's in the Everglades. They say that 99% of all of the mammals are gone. of everything, raccoons, deer, everything, rabbits, they're all gone. Foxes, pooms, everything.

Yeah, well, they are doing that. What's crazy is in California, Python skins illegal. So you can't, you can't, you can't get Python in California. Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, they're overrun with Python's. Like, they literally have wiped out all of the native wildlife. They're eating alligators now. That's crazy.

I think they're the most beautiful animals.

No, it's the same. It's the same person. It's like some dude who met some dude and I was a guy and get you. Of course. Do you know there's more tigers in Texas, in private collections than there are in all of the wild of the world?

Yeah, Texas is very strange when it comes to wildlife. You can kind of own anything.

Get you a zebra, Adrian.

Yeah, there's that's apparently like a couple thousand more tigers in Texas than there are in the wild.

I was so great. Not so secretly hoping that Trump would pardon him.

Talk those trick guys in the fucking I'm so respect.

I guess with some guys. But everything, it's like what works on everybody, you know? Because like, some things don't work on some people. They work on other people.

Sure, but like some people are really dumb. Like some people can get them with a pretty simple cult. Oh, yeah. Not even that good, you know.

Yeah. I thought about doing and seeing who would show up. People would show up. Boyle. I was the first. I was with Adrian when she became a woken in the beginning.

You can start a cult. 100% you can start a cult.

Oh my God. It's such a weird thing, cults, because it seems to be like a natural pattern of behavior that people have, whether willing to believe fucking total nonsense, as long as everybody in the group believes total nonsense.

Yep.

Yeah. And there's something that are good at it, like Scientology's good at it.

Remember that guy?

Everybody on a castrate themselves.

I think he was. He might have done it himself and got people to do it. It was, um, it was a weird one. They all wore the same Nike's. And they had to have themselves because they liked the thought that the spaceship was coming to take them to kill themselves.

Well, it's weird, right? Because it's like it's so dumb, you're like, who's buying into this? But even something that dumb, there's someone out there who's like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're

I loved wild wild country. Do you see that one?

That's the one where the Indian guru, he set up shop in this town in Oregon. They took over the whole town.

Yeah, and they started busted in homeless people so they could vote out everybody. So the homeless people would know it was amazing. But then it was really sad because those homeless people had a sense of purpose for the first time in their life. And some of them were like, I'm fucking all in. These are my people. You know, and they were fucking doing hard work and they were really like, they felt it. And then, at the end, after they voted, they'd get the fuck out of here.

Well, that's editorialized, right? That's someone else's. Yeah. But this is part of some history channel, thank you.

Hmm. I fucked up. I had a chance to get Hunter by on the podcast and the very weekend. I think you can. I can't.

I'll try it for the first time.

He's like, it's amazing. Well, it's cocaine. It's free-basing cocaine. Dr. Carl Hart, who's a brilliant guy, who's a legitimate academic, but also a drug user. And he's like, there's no difference. It's pharmacologically, it's the same drug. You're free-basing. I can see that. Yeah. It's like, the real thing that's different is the policy, because it's the most racist policy in the history of drug war. Absolutely. They're like, if you get busted with cocaine, it's one. One thing. If you get busted with crack, you get a crazy sentence. Yes. Like way, way, way more. It's just racist. Well, it's not just racist. It's like, when you really go into the origins of, you wear the freeway, Rick Ross story. No. Rick Ross, not the rapper, but the real Rick Ross was a drug dealer in South Central LA and he couldn't even read and he was making millions and millions of dogs. He was like a star tennis player and figured out how to make money doing. It's just a smart, smooth dude who knew how to move cocaine, but he didn't know he was moving it for the CIA. He didn't know he was moving it to fund the conscious verses the Santanistas in the Caragua. Interesting. So this is the whole Oliver North thing. So they lock him up. He learns how to read and jail and becomes a lawyer. And then realizes they got him on three strikes. But it can't be three strikes in one crime. It has to be three different crimes, three different arrests. Right. So he got out.

He's an awesome guy, too. And that, but that's where crack was coming from.

It was, it was rogue. I should be real clear about this. Probably rogue outlaw entities in our own government. It's not like our government approves that.

Reagan did it himself. He went in the middle of the night like Santa Claus. Well, you know, the whole fucking The drug wars just bananas when you're actually still selling drugs. Like the call of the disease uses a war on drug competition as all it is. It's not a drug war. The drugs are making billions of dollars. Like, okay, no more money for drugs. Drugs are now illegal to sell. Like, what are you talking about? No way. Look at the amount of money that people make on just drugs that everyone agrees they listen. I don't take Adderall, but I 100% support your right to take Adderall. Sure. I hear it's awesome. And people would take it, they can't shut the fuck up about it.

But guess what, kids? That's a drug. Yeah. That's a drug. Absolutely. I mean, just think that you're getting it from your doctor.

Well, the thing about benzodiazepine is it's very difficult to kick, very difficult, physiologically. It's one of the only drugs like alcohol that'll kill you if you just go cold turkey sometimes. Some people just get wrecked by that stuff. Jordan Peterson got wrecked, like physically wrecked for like over a year. It took him so long to build his health back up.

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I had a buddy that was a comic. It was like just having anxiety attacks. It just couldn't fucking control it and start taking zanx. And all went away. And then also, it was fun again. It was weird. It was like, anxiety is terrible. It's terrible. And I know it was his health deteriorated after. But he was drinking while he's doing it, which are not supposed to do. Which a lot of people do do. lady said this to be on an airplane. She had a glass of wine. She goes like glass of wine and is annexed. And I don't give a fuck about the world.

It just knocks you out. Yeah, I would imagine to good move for a 16 hour flight. But is the come down bad?

Right. Yeah, I would make me think that if you took it before you went on stage, that wouldn't be good either.

I think he was doing that though.

I wonder though, like, how it's interacting with whatever individuals level of anxiety, right? Like, we are all assumed that people have the same anxiety, but my level of anxiety differs throughout the day, and depending on what I'm doing, depending on my activity level, whether I have exercise, whether I slept well. Yeah. So, I don't have a lot of anxiety, but if someone had a lot of anxiety, like, like, we, I don't even know what that feels like. Like if Zanix is the only thing that takes them out of that, like give them some fucking Zanix.

I just wish there was something that had that sort of an effect, but wasn't like so ferociously addictive. I mean, probably mushrooms.

I better do any of that. It's like grossing. It's carrot. Why?

How many milligrams?

There's people never aged.

Oh, the rest of the room.

Well, that's a big dose. It sounds like. I think someone, the problem with those addables I just have a bit about is they're not consistent. They're not making the same place. They make Tylenol. They tricked. Yeah, they should. They should be legal. They should all be legal. So we'd know exactly what the fuck you're taking. I mean, how many people have to die of fentanyl before they realize like, we have to figure out like there's a demand for these drugs people want these drugs maybe it's education maybe it's counseling maybe it's drug rehabilitation centers that we need to open everywhere and then there's a business in that but you should be allowing people to have access to the actual drug not Coke that you're getting on the street that's cut with fence and all that's going to kill people. And then coming to people after fucking die before you realize you're not going to stop people from doing Coke with just say no campaign. So what are you going to do? Why don't you let reputable companies sell that and sell pure versions of it and tell them what the fucking dose is going to kill you? Let people know what's going on and then make it so that you have to be 21 to buy it and educate people like we're going to open up the country to legal drug sales. Because if you don't, all you're doing is arming the outlaws. You're giving them money, all the outlaws. And it's right south across our border. The Mexican cartels are fucking killing it. And they're not killing it because just say no worked. They're killing it because we don't have legal drugs. So they sell illegal drugs. it's fucking bananas that are problem so so obvious it's like this it's it's an uncomfortable solution but you got to rip off the fucking bandaid and you got to make everything legal

Dr. Carl Hart. I love that dude. He's been on the podcast a few times. Yeah, well, he does it recreationally. Yeah, and he talks about he says it's wonderful. Says I love to just be with my wife and listen to music.

Well, one of the things that he talked about, that's interesting, he's like, this heroin withdrawal myth. He's like, it's like getting sick. It's like, you're sick with a cold for a couple days. He goes, that's what it's like. It's not like you're dying. He goes, it's not that bad. because it's just very exaggerated in media depictions of films and people are like, oh, but that sounds awful. Sounds like it sounds to be a cold for a few days, but then you're not addicted to heroin anymore.

Well, also, you got to realize, like, what does sick mean? Like, if you're sick, and you've been doing heroin a lot, and so you're malnourished, and your immune system is dead, and, you know, you're very little sleep, and you're just all fucked up and poor, and then you get withdrawals, and you get really sick. That could fucking kill you, depending upon your health.

People do heroin recreationally and they have for a long time. There's his buddy mine who was a long shorman in Boston and he worked with this guy who would buy a bag of heroin at lunch every day and he would go in his truck and he would shoot up. And so. Well, I mean, I don't know how much, you know, he did at a time. But this guy was functional. He said he would go in his car. He would shoot up. Everybody knew what he was doing. He'd go in his car and shoot up and he would sit in his car for his hour lunch break. and they go back to work. No problems. Insane. Insane.

It's a weird thing that I met a guy who was a pool player once. He was like a very prominent, like top-level pool player, where you're gamble for a lot of money. And we're at a pool hall in White Plains, New York. This guy that they call them buffalo bills, one of his nicknames, water dog, was another one of his nicknames. And this dude, he had to do heroin before he played. And everybody knew. And so this guy was gambling with him, and this guy, water dog, goes into the bathroom. Locks the door, he's in there for 10 minutes. He comes out and he just sits on the chair like this, like a billiards chair sits like this. I feel like 20 minutes, just sits like this. And we're just looking at him. And I was, you know, 23 at the time or something like that. I was like, look at this motherfucker. Look at him. And then he would get up. And it was like, yeah, shark eyes. There was like no one there. There was no one there. And then he would play pool and he couldn't miss. He couldn't miss. It wasn't sane. It wasn't sane to watch. pockets, this table, these really tight pockets, and they're gambling for a lot of money. That is not legal. He has no nerves. He's no nerves. He's not feeling any pressure at all. He's just playing perfect. And everybody watches like, holy shit. And it made people want to do heroin.

You're talking about pool. in the pool world, everybody does drugs. Really? I mean, there's elite players that are completely clean and sober on a professional level. Absolutely, but in like pool hall gambling, drugs are ubiquitous. Drugs were like things. Yeah, drugs. And fedemines were like the choice pill for people when they gambled like 20 hours in a row. They would just take him fedemines and keep gambling.

I have enough issues. Yeah, I hear you. I don't know if drug addiction is, I think some of it's got to be physical, some of it's got to be genetic, it's got to be. It just makes sense. People from some parts of the world where they don't have a history of alcohol, they experience alcohol, they have real problems with it. Part of it's got to be genetic, but then part of it's got to be cultural, too. When you're around all these people out there, it becomes like learning behavior, it's, you know, release at the end of the day, give me a fucking beer, and yeah, it's just become something that, you know, It gets very ingrained. And then also the patterns of behavior that come with alcoholism, the fucking up and the fucking life falling apart and disastrous choices you make.

Like there's so many, yeah. Yeah, all that, all that. Just, ugh. I mean, how many lives have been lost to drugs that you could buy legally? Like booze. Jerk, booze is fucked up more people. But I like it. Yeah, I like it. I like a little drink every now and then. I don't think it's like, but the idea that we're protecting people by keeping some drugs illegal. I just, I think what we're doing is we're making a nanny state that we can't get out of. And we've gotten ourselves into this box as nanny state box.

It's, it's going to be because it's illegal now in certain states. like Oregon is essentially decriminalized everything. They've decriminalized cocaine, mushrooms, whatever. You're not supposed to sell it, you can't sell it, but you can have it, which is wild. Where do you get it from? Yeah, it's a good point. You know, I don't know if they're specific about that. I don't know if there's like legal distribution, so I know they have legal marijuana, but that's like 18 states now, have legal weed. Legal weed is pretty, pretty well accepted as a good thing. And I think even though there's a lot of right-wing people that smoke weed. And I think that was a big change. Because I think a lot of left-wing people were always associated with marijuana and laziness. And then right-wing people are like, fuck, fuck, fuck, putters. But now a lot of right-wing people, like maybe your dad's got arthritis. And he smokes a little weed before he goes to bed. And maybe you have an edible. And you really like hanging out with your wife and watching movies. And then, you know, you're like, okay, maybe this pot's not that bad.

I think so. I mean, I know so. I know a lot of people are doing Coke. Yeah.

Yeah, but I think psychedelics, well, not anymore. I used to say psychedelics more likely to be tried by the left, but God damn does a lot of soldiers that have had great benefit with psychedelics, and they've shared those experiences with a lot of other soldiers. I've had quite a few talk about it on this podcast, but one of the things that maps is doing is using MDMA for soldiers with PTSD, and that's a amazing result. So I think the right is opening up their eyes to more too. It's like it's a quality of life thing that's probably been here forever. And if you believe in God, he probably put all that stuff here for us. It's just managing it correctly. You know, the ones that can be beneficial like mushrooms, like MDMA, like all these things They have a positive effect when done correctly with the right person. And to deny that, it's just stupid at this point. To make them schedule one drugs in 2023 with chat GPT and everyone's got 5G. We know what the fuck is going on.

Fuck, dad can. Yeah. And I supported it.

And when I first started playing pool, that's when I first started being around gamblers. I never been around gamblers as a child. And so I'd never knew like what that addiction is like to watch it play out. Oh, yeah. It's crazy.

Just always wanted a gamble.

It gets anybody. No, I know. It can get anybody. Did you see uncaught gems? No. It's fucking amazing. Is it? Yeah, it's Adam Sandler plays a gambling addict. Oh, I know. You will get such anxiety while you're watching, but like, oh, Jesus fucking, what are you doing? What are you doing? It's so good. Adam Sandler's so good in it. And it's a dramatic role. It's not a comedy at all. Adam Sandler killed it. It's a great move.

He's a jeweler.

Yeah. And he's just, it's great. It's great. It's great. But those guys are real. I know those guys. I knew a lot of those guys. They would come into the pool hall and just start talking about the loss and the this and I'm going to get it back and I'm going to end the fucking the bulls are down by six and they weren't just. They were just in it all the tunnels like this is crazy.

I had a friend of mine who adopted a Greyhound. That was one of the ones that was like Easter Race. And I had an apartment at the time, but I was going to get one too. They were so cool. They're so sleek. They're so... Yeah.

Yeah, well, not only that, um, when my friend took his out, he didn't realize, first of all, they're so fast. Oh, yeah. They're very fast. When they go, like, you are not catching them. And when he saw a cat, he just went after it. And so he was off leash in this, like, empty park. It's gotta be fine. And the fucking Greyhound just went for that cat.

Yeah. It's like, he didn't realize like, oh, they're not cool with animals. Like, that's the whole thing about racing is they're chasing a rabbit. Right. If they see an animal, they fucking sprint towards it.

No, no, no. So he realized like, oh my god, I gotta be really careful with this thing. Can't just like, ever let it go without a leash.

What's he, Jim?

You know what the weirdest dog is? Which one? A whip it with a mild statin inhibitor. I don't even know what that is. A whip it is this cute dog. Oh look at their cuteie. Yeah. That's adorable. That was a little cuddle dog. They're fast. Look at them go. Look how they cross their legs like that. They just get so much fucking torque.

So this is a dog called a whip it and every now and then they have a genetic anomaly. It's a milestone inhibitor and it causes them their uncontrollable growth of muscles. What do they look like? Freaks. They don't even look like they're real. They look like like a comic superhero like if you would inject it a comic book superhero dog with like Hulk serum. I just want. Are they fighting those things? No, no, no, no. Look, that's what it's called. Oh, gross. Isn't that crazy? Look how jacked it is. That's not, that's like natural. Yeah, it's just a natural genetic anomaly.

Well, it's not really is much about the strength of your like all those extra big muscles. Those are going to like cause you to get tired quicker. And then on top of that, it's really the bite of the jaw. That's true. The strength of the bite and then also the game instinct. So some dogs when they get hurt, they want to get out of there. And pit bulls don't care about them. And that's bread into them. So when a dog would cow her away, they wouldn't allow that dog to breed. And a lot of places they killed the dog. That was the whole thing. Whenever they catch dog fighting the horrible things, like what they do, the dogs lose. They don't let it out. Because they don't want them to breed. Like if a dog quits, they just killed that dog.

Yeah, he was involved in that stuff. I knew a dude at one point in time, he had like 13 dogs in his yard. And I think he was an Oklahoma. And my friend was like, I think he really likes dogs. I go, nah. I go, he's got 13 pit bulls on chains and his yard. I go, they're like, I fight dogs.

I hate that. He was a dog fighting gambling guy. So he's breeding dogs for dog fights. That's still going on right now in this country. Yeah. Underground dog fights.

I think horrible. What's really fucked up is the dogs are wagging their tails.

Yeah, they enjoy that fight. God damn it, it's so awful. It's just so crazy that that's going on right now.

Right now, right across the border.

Oh, right. Fuck. It's just so hard to believe that some people are that evil.

They have no other choice but to sex traffic. Can you sell stuff?

I think it's the amount of money, too.

Knife's door to door. Imagine having enthusiasm for that job. No. Fuck. This is how you have to feed yourself. So knives.

Did you develop strategies? Only kind of talk to people?

It might be. Have you seen it before?

No, shit. For right-up shows. I wonder if they got it from New York. I wouldn't, I wonder. I don't know. I haven't paid attention. I always heard of it, but primarily as a New York thing, I knew a lot of New York guys used to do that in the early days.

Manhattan's an interesting place for comedy, you know, because there's so many clubs.

Yeah. And there's a lot of comics there too.

Well, if your job got taken away from you during the pandemic, I would imagine that would be a good time to try stand up. If you'd always want to.

How many open mic nights of that? Do you have a lot of open mic nights?

Really?

You have to pay to do stand up.

You think we would weed them out? We'll kind of an audience who's talking about like how many people are supposed to be there.

So you're paying to do comedy to your peers. Yes. Wow.

Well, I think it is. It is stand up school, but it's like there's no teacher. Right, but it is stand up school. It's just like you're on a path.

Do any of the good clubs of open mics? Like does the seller have an open mic?

think you kind of have to have an open mic like this the seller doesn't it seems like it would be better if it did I know it wouldn't be better financially you know it's always but if you did it during the day when you're not having shows anyway it's just people need places to go up and it's like if you're growth processes dependent upon you doing stand up in front of 15 comics

You to intern?

So you would intern me and you'd work for free. I'd work for free.

So you'd work for free and never get compensated.

Wow. So you'd work for free for 10 hours? Yeah. For a five-minute spot.

Well, that will fucking weed out the week.

Just used to disappointment.

Well, do you find your tribe?

It's just so interesting when you meet someone like Ari, like when I met him at the very beginning and to see him now. It's funny. It's fascinating watching these broken toys me under their way through our society.

It's not the worst idea. The idea that you have to be in the same house together. It's like, says who?

It doesn't seem like the worst thing in the world, but whenever you see a couple, when they don't sleep in the same bed anymore, you're like, rules.

That's Mark's room over there. I sleep over here.

Yeah. And then also some people I just sleep with the room really fucking cold. Mm-hmm. That shit's annoying if you don't like that.

I like the noise. Yeah. Yeah. There's something about like static noise that does help you sleep.

I slept at this house in Malibu once, by the ocean. And I'll be rented around for a couple of months. And when you're in bed and you just hear the shhh.

It is, so it's weird. It's like it's like hypnotic. Yeah. And it's also, it's so powerful. You're laying down at the base of just insane force of nature, just immense body of water, and you've got the audacity to sleep. My close to edges at the edges were this impossible amount of water laps up. That's where you want to put your house.

I loved being at that place, but it was very illuminating. It's a very illuminating, wide-rich people want to live right on the water in Malbo, because I was like, why don't you want to live right next to each other like that? That's crazy. And then you like ran a house there and you're like, oh, I get it. This is like magic. There's something magic about the water. I've been running front of on a beach. It's magic. It's like it gives you magic energy. It's crazy. This is something about it. Like being right there, it's like, wow, this feels, it feels like I'm on a drug. It's so calming. So calming. but at night time it's terrifying. The same water that looks so inviting in the daytime, what's blue and you see the seagulls and it's beautiful, at night time it becomes an angry monster that can swallow civilization. Just dark, dark black, you don't know what you can't see anything, you don't know what it's an immense thing. At any point in time the earth could just have a little shift and then a fucking big one comes in. And it just all the way to Arizona, just all the way to Arizona.

I know. The different things, some things are really scary, but only in certain circumstances. Like babies are never scary, but If you were in a moonlit forest, and you walked through the forest, you saw naked baby just staring at you by itself. You would shake your pants.

If you saw a baby just standing upright, just looking at you naked, you're a moonlit forest in the middle of nowhere. You had a hike in, and you see a naked baby like I got to get the fuck out of here.

Right, for sure. For sure, if you were this kid's parents, but you'd also be like, why is there a naked baby staring at me like a grown person?

Right.

If I was a demon, I would disguise myself as a baby. It's a good move. Everybody thinks you're cute. Or cute dog. Or cute dog.

Yeah, they were kind of cute. They're still like cute face. You know, they never mean like pitbull looking face. They don't like it.

They have cows like that, too. Really? Yeah, when I'm Jack, they look like, yeah, they care. Yeah, they do. Whip it's a really fast, too. That's true. That looks like a great house. Yeah, well, somewhere. So what is a beauty? Look at that little QD. It's just myel statin inhibitor gene. This gene is fucked up on some of them. Oh, it's related to the ground. It makes sense. It looks like. And apart from a smaller size, closely resembles it. Sometimes describes the poor man's ground. They're fast little fuckers. What is that myel statin gene? Like, what causes that? Because it happens in cows too. They've had an in dairy cows. It's crazy. Like you see, cow just forgot. Super cool.

Kids about it too. Human kids got it. Really? Yeah, what's crazy. You see like a baby that looks like a bodybuilder. It's weird. It's a deficiency. Deficiency. Yeah, it's a milestone. And maybe it's a milestone in deficiency. Whip it types and hairy muscular disorder effecting. Whip it's dogs and hairy two copies of the mutation associated with milestone in deficiency. Whip it type have broad chest and overly developed muscles, especially of the neck and legs as well as an over bite. See if you can find that in cows. Mile statin just wrote milestone in cows. Yeah, so look at that cow. This is a dairy cow. That's a girl.

I wonder, right? I like that one. Like a guy who's in a CrossFit chicks. Yeah. Yeah. Look at that, is that wild? Look at the size of that guy, damn thing. Yeah. Born without the protein milestone. Yeah. So milestone, I guess, is what regulates muscle growth. And if you don't have it, it's not regulating. That's why they were experimenting with that with human beings, too. And I know I'm sure like Eastern block countries are doing that for the Olympics and show like that. I would imagine. But, yeah, they did it to mice. Look at the muskutra and these mice. Crazy. What's crazy is they just skin these mice and we don't give a fuck.

Look at that fucking back on that dude. What they've done it, but like people have been born with it too. I know that there was like a German boy that was born with it. It was fucking jacked. Like a little kid. It's crazy. Yeah, so like how's that kid gets played sports? Like what's gonna happen? That's not fair. So you're playing sports with the Hulk. I mean, we'll find out in like 15 years. Yeah, the greatest running back of all time I just like playing chess I really don't want to be I don't want to be other football team He's like the whole playing chess. Yeah, we have maybe maybe he rebels because everybody wants him to get into physical pursuits and he's like you yeah, look at that kid that nuts Vietnamese boy So he's got it that dude's gonna be popular in high school That is crazy nuts Isn't that nuts? Imagine going to school with that kid, you'd be so jealous. I got damn it.

Unless your brother wants you to fucking eat shit.

Yeah, if he's a good brother, but if your brother's mean and he's got that, you're fucked.

I know guys that had terrible brothers who beat them up all their life.

If someone's beating you up, but they protect you from being occasionally beaten up by others. It's a precious pay. Because I'm not willing to make that. You have to sleep in the same fucking houses that asshole.

Oh, now you're unrealistic. He's going to make a fighter. Yeah, do make fighters. That's what I'm talking about. A lot of the guys that I'm talking about are fighters. They were just really beaten up by their brothers. And they're the scariest guys because they're not afraid to fight because they fought their whole life.

Yeah, when the best guys ever in the UFC Matt Hughes, former Walter White Champion, had a brother who's his twin, and they were both like elite wrestlers, and they both just beat the fuck out of each other. And it led to him becoming the UFC Walter White Champion of the world. And one of the greatest of all time. I mean, that is... It's just like they got it under pressure. It can happen that way.

Yeah, I can see it that way. I knew another dude though, he got beat up by his brother and it just destroyed his confidence, his whole life. His whole life, I became friends with him like in my 20s and... That sucks. It was a bomber man, he could just like not get past it. He couldn't, you know, I wonder if he'd never done MDMA. I had neither at the time. I wonder if that would have helped him in any way to just recognize what the root of it was, but it just like really fucked with his confidence. He would get like really close to getting good at stuff, but he almost had like this self defense, self sabotaging that we kick in because everybody had already always taken things from him. Like it had always been like he thought things were going to go well and his brother just fucked it up and beat him up or took things from humiliated him. And so he never felt like real success. So he's always scared to like progress in life. So you always self-salt my life. Because he just thought everything is going to turn to shit. But he was a good guy in a smart guy and just trapped by this childhood, you know, repeated beatings that he got.

Sometimes it's good, though. Sometimes it's good. If the brothers are good guy, if you're both good good people, like, you know, brothers fight and they make up and they apologize. Sure. Just like friends do, you know, friends fight and make up some new and new young.

They've accomplished nothing. Oh my God. I watched a shooting over a high school football game.

Oh, it's so horrible. So sad. Just such a fucking, just a terrible thing where just people with their kids and emotions and sports, people get so nutty with their kids with sports. You know, I am, I like, like, big on saying you did a great job. and cheering, and stuff like that. But I would never yell about the other team.

Yelling, like, that's a six year old. Like, the out of your fucking mind, like, let them play. Is this play? You should clap when they do a good job. She said, was it fun? Did you enjoy it? What was it hard? Was it hard to make that goal? Talk to them. But don't get to goddamn emotionally invested in a fucking game, your kids in. Like, cheer, be enthusiastic for them. But fuck, people get so hyped. That's a bad call and they jump up and next thing, you know, gunshots.

So well, there's also like your kids gonna do the thing that you didn't do. Right. Yeah, you want to do, but you didn't do it.

Just when when did you first think about doing stand up?

Really? Yeah. What was the people on SNL? Like what era was this?

Yeah, that was great crew.

Had you done a drama or anything in school?

And then where'd you start out?

Where did we just started a bar or we just started?

What year was this? 2004.

And then when you got off stage, did you think this is something I'm gonna do more of?

That show went well and there's four people. There were four people.

And so then when was the next one?

Yeah, I would imagine a guy that would fit in there. Just everything like where they would only requirement would be just wear your clothes till you get on stage.

Half of that.

Half of that. Half of that. Half of that. Half of that. Half of that.

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Were they encouraging?

Yeah, and the guy you're dating.

It's interesting people that you meet when you're doing open mics. It's a fascinating, fascinating introduction to like this weird world.

Of weirdos and desperation and mental illness and mental illness. Lots of mental illness. Like really nutty people.

Wow. And you can get upstairs and show your balls.

Did anybody ever try to do that? They would have had regular balls after that. Could imagine if they found out there was a place you could just get naked in front of people and they had to look at you.

Yeah, I mean, like, that's what I'm asking. Like, once a precedent is set that you could be on stage naked. Like is it only if you look weird?

Thank God for people like that running those kinds of establishments. It's fun.

Right. Yeah. I remember a lot of people that were really talented in the early days. I'm like, why is this kind of making it? And then there was a lot of people that were really talented and then they were on their way to make it, like they were doing well and headlining and then they just fell apart. Like something in their life happened or like, yeah, schizophrenia, like there's that with some of them, you know, or some other sort of mental disease. Yeah. Sometimes people crack, there's a lot of pressure involved. I mean, it's thinking that just the pressure of constantly performing, doing sets, writing new material, having to sell tickets, doing radio. Sure, yeah. There's a lot of stress in that. And then I think for some people when things start getting more and more hectic, whatever problems that they, and as you get older too, like people that are like tend to have mental illnesses, they get better, they get worse rather when they get older.

Yeah. So a lot of these people, like, You would meet them and then, you know, you did open mics together. Like you, you were in the trenches together started and then you see him like 20 years later and it didn't work. Like they, you know, see him in an open mic night again and they're still doing kind of the same material.

How many people out of the starting class of what were you were at where the people you remember in the early days are still around?

That was it.

You have to be really mentally ill to stay the path.

Yeah, I didn't have a path that was nearly as hard. I was really lucky that in Boston in the 1980s, there was a lot of open mic nights at legitimate clubs. So I started Stitches, which was a legitimate club in Boston. It was a great club. And on the open mic nights, not only was it an open mic night, but it was hosted by a professional. It's got George McDonald. And then a lot of really good professionals from town would stop in. So you get to see people. There was so much better than you. You could see like these brilliant comedians. And so it was a real good scene for development. Because all the clubs had an open mic night. Every club had an open mic night.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You would go to an open mic. Like the when I went to an open mic night, there was like 50 people in the crowd. Oh, yeah, that's a lot better. It was good. It was good because first of all, they called it comedy hell. It was George McDonald who was a known stand-up in Boston. So he was like headlining all over the place anyway. So people knew who he was and then he would go on. And he was like a real veteran. He'd been doing comedy forever. And he was one of the guys that came up through the Ding Ho and that whole when stand-ups stood out documentary version. Amazing. That was all about those guys. Right. And so you could always get people to go because he would always be funny anyway. It's only like fucking five bucks to get in or something like that and you go and have a couple of drinks and hopefully somebody funny will come by and you as an open-micer got to go on stage in that environment. It was incredible. It was amazing.

No, mostly what happened was I did well enough in open mics that one guy took me on the road. That was actually George's brother Warren, Warren McDonald took me on the road. That was the first time I ever got paid. And the second time I ever got paid, someone had introduced me to this guy, Mike Clark, who was Lenny Clark's brother. So I got to open for Lenny Clark the second time I ever got paid. It was insane because he had already done HBO and Lenny super sweet to me so I don't really funny he gave me a bunch of advice and then his brother started to use me so his brother would use me to open in these like weird little bar shows all over the kind all over like the New Hampshire area of Connecticut he had like gigs everywhere and he would go and do these fucking crazy bar shows so I learned how to stand up from mostly from going on the road mostly doing barships, right? So like a year-in I was just traveling doing a half an hour. That's how people are going to stand up outside of the New York.

So, uh, about this. That was kinetic. That was kinetic.

How many minutes were you in before you put it? 15. So you'd kill him for 15 minutes. Yeah.

Oh my god, you were making fun of them and you're being mean.

Well, it was probably just one guy. Yes.

The pedophile with the rich people pedophile ring is one of the scariest conspiracies.

Yeah, well you don't have to at this point

You would have been fine.

There's no way to know it. The joke was fine if it wasn't for that one neighborhood where that actually happened. How the fuck could you know that?

Yeah, how could it be done? That's great story though. Yeah. Sounds like they were okay. They were at home.

Yeah. They probably didn't know anybody who knew somebody who had a kid that got fucked.

Yeah. Like, don't get mad at me. Not only that. I'm sorry that joke was accurate.

Yeah, anywhere else, you do that joke in Montana. People are laughing their ass off. You do it there. Yeah.

What was the adoption joke?

Oh, so is an excuse.

They're just saying that, yeah. I don't know.

One of my best friends lives in Connecticut just for just... So does what am I? I love him, but Connecticut can suck it.

This is the problem with Connecticut. It's not a real state. It's a highway between Boston and New York. Sure. And the problem is, there's no hope there. Like, nobody like hopes they move to Hartford.

Yeah, you could see could be with all those boat riding pedophile type people. Maybe. Well, there's a lot of rich folks that live in those havens, right? Where everything's like tucked away and grand manners and huge houses and great gatsby type shit. There's a lot of those folks, but they're just like people that have a house on an island. You know what I mean? Are you really from Hawaii? Or do you have a fucking house in Maui? You know what I mean? Yeah. It's like they've they've kind of incorporated into the area.

It's just a weird place because I mean, I met a lot of fun people from Connecticut, but it's the place itself has a low vibration. It's like there's not a lot of hope and exciting things. It's not like going to Manhattan. It's not like going to Boston. It's not like going to LA. It's not like, it's not like even like Austin, which is only a million people. It's not like Dallas, where it's fun. It's fucking gloomy. There's something gloomy, they have amazing pizza, new Haven though.

There's a lot of pizza reason to hate that.

Yeah, buddy Lyon disease. I don't know if that's true. Isn't it like Lyme Connecticut? Is that where it was originally? And that sounds like that? There's a CIA conspiracy about the Lyme disease.

No, no, no, no. I mean, not real, not like the CIA saying. But like the cooks. And I don't even know if the cooks that it was a bioweapon that accidentally got released, that these infected ticks were part of a lab program.

But they definitely do things like that in some countries somewhere. They're definitely make bio weapons, but whether or not Lyme disease is one of them. But goddamn that's a terrible one to get. I know a lot of people that got Lyme disease.

You get fucked up if you don't get it treated quickly.

Oh, debilitating. Depending on, you know, the severity, obviously. But I know people that have had horrible joint pain, neck pain, spinal pain. That sucks. They're just in agony all the time. Yeah. And then people have just lost all of their, all their like energy. They just feel depleted. That sucks. And a lot of times they don't even recognize it in people. Because if you don't get it treated, if you don't get it diagnosed while you still have like there's like a bull's eye ring around the tick bite, if one initially becomes infected. Okay. And if they don't catch that, if they don't find that, then they don't know its Lyme disease. So don't start treating you with antibiotics. They might think, you know, it seems fine, your vitals check fine. And then it progresses worse and worse. And my friend's son was five years old and he developed Bell's palsy. So his face went numb and then finally they realized it was, it was a tick bite. And finally, the real estate had Lyme Zee. So they gave them antibiotics and he recovered. My friend was fucked up for at least a year. He had lost a shit ton of weight. You got real skinny. I mean, it really wrecked him. Lyme disease is rough. That sucks. And it's everywhere. There's so many ticks that have Lyme. It's all over the place in the East Coast.

No, but if there's deer, if there's deer, there's ticks. Yeah. Anywhere there's deer. If you see deer and a lot of other animals, there's ticks. Anyplace through there's ticks, you might have one.

You guys have coyotes though.

No, actually coyotes in the bridge. They're really they've photographed coyotes in the Bronx.

Like anything? In abandoned houses and shit. It's crazy.

They're all over the world now or all the country rather. They're in every single state. I have never seen a coyote in the Bronx. coyotes spotted in the Bronx. Hear that.

Well, just like just because you saw him there, he's on a street. He doesn't know he's in Bronx Light. He doesn't know. He's in the Bronx.

He's looking for the Bronx light. Some places with someone throughout pizza. Okay. Over the last several decades, Coyote has been expanding their natural range and response to ample food and open habitat, the parks departments have an estimate. Coyote is a living within the city limits, where aware of Coyote is living in the Bronx, Queens, and Manhattan. Fuck. Yeah. How about that?

If you tell them they just make more babies. That's why they're here. That's literally why they're here. And when you kill coyotes, the female coyotes know that one of them's missing, so they make more pups.

I don't think it's by itself. You think it's with other people. Oh, another 100%. 100%. They're pack animal. They're also cute, too. They're adorable. Till they're jumping over a fence with your chicken in their mouth.

Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. No, it's not legal. Unfortunately. That's not why.

Maybe she moved a character.

Would you live in one of those houses when the great guys be houses?

Those houses are crazy.

Show me some of them crazy. What is it? What's that one town?

That's nice. Yeah, I don't know. That's like an estate. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Succession type shit. Yeah, that house. That is insane. That's Connecticut.

That's a wild money. You'll get that one in Yureka, California. Holy fuck.

That's where they found gold, the guaranteea. Yureka! That's New York. What's buried? Wow. Look at that beautiful house. But that's 200 acres.

I want to see the ones in Connecticut though. Can you see like mansions? There's like one area of Connecticut where my friend that I was talking about earlier actually works at a school there. He lives in Connecticut and he said like all these people are billionaires. They all have like these preposterous houses.

There's not like a website that details them, because they're like pretty famous for being extravagant. And they're also, everyone's keeping up with the Joneses. So there's like, you know, the guy who's the CEO of Biotech down the road, he's got a better house. We're going to expand our pool until they, they're all going ham.

Yeah, you're not going to stop doing comedy.

Yeah. Not all animals, obviously. I should have brought Marshall. I don't know. You should have brought Marshall. I just animal over. You'd want to steal him.

Oh, yeah, yeah, me and him. Yeah, his dog brand it. She's awesome. Or he's awesome. He calls it a girl sometimes, so I think it's a boy.

Is it? I'm pretty sure it's a girl. He calls it a boy sometimes, too, though.

It's a girl, though.

My dog here also. Yeah, that is weird. I don't even, he could die. Like people would die.

I bet he's shit in his pants the last few hours.

Well, we're not going to know. What they said is that if they made it all the way to the bottom, unfortunately, the bottom is just mud, just undulating mud, and they might have just sunk right into it. It's horrific when you hear that they've had moments in the past where they lost contact for hours with with other subs and they're still doing it the same way Like that that whole thing is so insane that sub camp pilot itself There's no line attached to it. It just goes down to remote control that's controlling the boat has to be above it for it to work

Like I can't do that. Brian Simpson poured this out yesterday. This is what's even more insane. They're not even seeing it through like a big window. All right, you were saying that. You're seeing it through screens. They're these cameras on the outside of it as they piloted around the scene and on screens. It's like one small window. What is the point? People like to do dangerous shit to say they did dangerous shit. They want to experience things. They want to go to the bottom of the ocean and see the Titanic.

Well, one of them was one of the guy's son. He's 19 year old son. Yeah. Fucking Jesus. Crazy. Jesus Christ. It's so scary. What a scary way to die.

Yeah. That's the other thing. Yeah, you chose to do that. And not only that, there was a small window of time where they could do it because the weather was really bad.

No, this company has sent, I think, was it 100 voyages? They've done 100 voyages.

Well, there's a company to build it and the company apparently there was a whistleblower who had complained that the the hull was not really established to be able to tolerate the amount of pressure that they were putting it under by several thousand feet A remote operated vehicle found five major pieces of debris from the submersible about 16,000 feet from the bow of the Titanic, the Coast Guard said, other dead. The debris is consistent with the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber. Coast Guard, rear admiral John Mogger said, he said, it's not yet clear when the implosion took place. The family of those on board were immediately notified about the discovery. We're now believing that our CEO stalked and rushed. Shazda Dawood and his son, Suleiman Dawood, Hammish Harding, and Paul Henry, Nargalal, have sadly been lost. The titan sub operator Ocean Gate said in a statement. These men were true explorers who shared a distinct spirit of adventure and a deep passion for exploring and protecting the world's oceans. Our hearts are with those five souls and every member of their families during this tragic time. We've grieved the loss of life and the joy they brought to everyone they knew. Look, it says they're unclear now if the victims can be recovered. I don't think people even understand the scope of what you're searching for, like the amount of area you're talking about.

Yeah, you do. I mean, this is If that whistleblower was correct and it imploded because it wasn't really set up to tolerate the depths that they were putting in under it meant that is insane. That's insane and it's so scary. So scary that people would do that. So scary that like there was they fired the guy who was the whistleblower and apparently there was a bunch of other people that complained as well.

Yeah, no, it was a serious thing. What was it pull up that article again that we looked at? It was, uh, it's not like everyone was like, we all agree this is safe. There was quite a few people that were like, this is not safe. This is not the way to do it. And they had said that they were, um, cleared by one certain body of, you know, some, some group that was examining, but they hadn't been cleared by them.

Fuck that. Fuck that. Whistleblower raised safety concerns about ocean gates submersible in 2018. Then he was fired. Original carbon fiber hull wasn't rated for titanic depths claim the operator's director.

Yeah. Yeah, because you, you'll actually knew what you were doing. You're actually going to the bottom in a submarine. They were on something. They thought was going to float. They were going to like drink tea and like look out of the icebergs and shit.

Make 3D scans of the Titanic? Yeah. Oh wow. So they can recreate it somewhere? Yeah.

people are to do things. They don't have to do difficult shit.

I know, but you can't tell people that. That's true. Like, you know, you can't tell people, hey, stop climbing Everest. Stop.

Yeah, of course. But, you know, what makes people skydive? Well, it makes people like real secrets. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, it's not totally safe. There's no way it's totally safe. Hey, Jamie, have you seen that ball that they call God mode? So many sent me this video of there's this bull that they paid $25 million for because it's so insane when they try to ride it when you see what this bull does to the guy who's ride it's I didn't know a bull could do that. I didn't know a bull could move that way look at this bull The most name is God mode. Watch how high the bull gets in the air. It's insane.

But look at this guy trying to hang out to this bull. Look at the height this bull's reaching. I mean, that's since that bull's flying.

Look at that bull fly. That's the Michael Jordan of bulls. Yeah. Look at the height it's getting. That thing's six feet in the air. Seven feet in the air.

This bull is still jumping and no one's on him anymore.

You ain't doing shit. You ain't doing shit. But just the fact that the bull keeps jumping like that, even after no one's on him. Like, get the fuck off me. That's why he's got mode. Yeah. But people want to ride that thing. There's someone out there going fucking, I'm gonna ride God mode.

Not you, huh?

This is song by Zach Bryan. It's a great song called Open the Gates. And it's about a guy who died riding a bulls and his son goes and rides the same bull and dies.

Yeah, what is going to happen?

Well, that could be hard for shit. Whatever that bowl can do is like Jesus Christ. Those guys, that's a rough life. That's a rough life, bull riding.

to set with so weird with people choose to do with their life.

Yeah, 100%. Yeah, 100%. This is also like the culture of it, I guess, like who's the biggest risk taker?

Bob is going to do it. He's fucking crazy. That's right, boys.

Well, I would imagine that riding bulls don't get hurt very often.

Right, but I bet they can do that anytime they want. Like if you just see them a couple days off, I bet the riding bulls get right back after it. I don't think I'm good. Yeah, I'm good. Yeah, the riding bulls get right back. A little puny person riding it's back. Why is it worth 25 million? Because it's so preposterous that everybody's going to want to see God mode and everyone's going to see God mode's children. That's what they do with those things. I know, but that's what they do with those things. Those those riding bulls when they're really dangerous. They, uh, they breed them. They breed the mo- just like they do with dogs. They breed the most dangerous ones with the most dangerous ones. It makes them the most wildest bucking insane psycho bull because that's what everybody wants to see ride.

I believe you. Yeah, I'm sure it's something to talk to you.

It's a good question. One of the specific type of bulls.

How do you know? We made people ride bulls on fear factor. And it was one of two times in the history of the show where I was trying to tell the producers don't do it.

I was like, don't do it. Don't do it. And they're like, they said it's a stunt bull. That's the fucking stunt stunt guys get say it. He's a stunt bull. I go, that bull does not know he's a stunt bull. No. That's a fucking bull. They're like, hey, tell me it down for us. And the bull's trying to get out of the cage before the people got on it. And I was like, no way. Don't do it because you could get stomped. You 100% can get kicked in the face and it'll change your life. Don't do that.

A hundred percent. And they just don't care. They roll the dice. They roll the dice. I'm guessing. Yeah. That's what they did. The other time I told them not to do it, the people had a drink come.

Yes. Yeah, you wouldn't die.

A lot. Like beer style. Like this one. More. Like that. Donkey come.

No, why don't you come? Why? Because donkeys don't breed because donkey comes down. It's not good for anything. Because donkeys are a hybrid of a mule and a horse. So this is people that drink donkey piss. I'm a throw up right now.

Yeah. No, they throw it up eventually. After they swallowed it, then they were going to throw up.

They actually stick a cattle prod up their asshole and they shoot like a fire hose.

Yeah, they do something with a stick it up his asshole and just he likes. Yeah, I know.

It was thick.

Yeah, and these guys are checking. So someone got a hold of the footage, like TMZ or something like that, and then NBC pulled the episode from America, but they didn't pull it overseas. So I think it aired in Holland, or someone like that. So find out where it aired.

Oh, yeah, you can definitely get it on YouTube, yeah. So that was a kill to show. Then they're like, that's a wrap. That was the end of the show. Yeah. They canceled that episode. They never heard that episode, and then they canceled a show.

It was awesome. It was perfect. It was perfect. Oh, gross. Perfect way to end.

A lot of people saw it on YouTube though.

So more people ever saw it, then they would have seen it if it was on TV. For sure.

No, it's probably better. But it did air.

Yeah, but it airs on YouTube. I'm trying to find out. Drinking calm on YouTube is you're going to get some hits. You're going to get some.

Well, you one of the twins, because it was twins. And you're like, no, that's my sister. My sister did it. So one had a drink pissed the other one had a drink come.

Yeah, it's a lot. A lot of protein. Mm-hmm. I would imagine it would affect your, just everything in there. Tripiss is just dirty water. If you're drinking water, you're drinking dinosaur piss.

Do you know that? Like, all water on earth. At one point in time, if you just think statistically, the hundreds of millions of years of dinosaurs were around, all that water, at some point in time was filtered out of a dinosaurs dick.

Let's see. I don't know. Okay. All water. How would you Google that?

It's a separate browser. Yeah, well, how would you phrase that? Every glass of water you drink originally was in dinosaur urine. Oh, originally was dinosaur urine. I wanted to be urine. I wanted to be real specific. All the water you drank came from dinosaur urine. Just be ridiculous.

Yeah, you are drinking dinosaur pee every day. Here's why, from Tech Times. The average American drink's four cups of water every day according to U.S. Department of Agriculture. This is far short of the recommended eight glasses, blah, blah, blah. Whether it's tap filtered bottled sparkling or source from the Himalayan glaciers and sparkled with gold dust, you are actually drinking the liquid waste of an ancient beast. So as a science centric, YouTube channel curious minds. A video explained this theory says that every small percentage of all the water in the world is available for drinking purposes. But it's still a huge amount of water to provide for the needs of every human being that's ever walked in the surface of the earth for the last 200,000 years. Every year around 121,000 cubic miles of water, about the equivalent of 42 lakes per year, falls down on earth, constantly flows to the river's lakes, ground reservoirs, and everywhere else. It passes through including inside the guts of people and the animals that drink it. So, what do dinosaurs have to do with all this? Unlike humans who have been on earth for a tiny fraction of the 186 million years that dinosaurs ruled the planet, The beasts were here far longer than we have ever been. In that long span of time, it's very likely that dinosaurs had drunk all the water available back then. And then all the water available now is simply water that has passed through a dinosaurs kidneys, making its way through the never ending water cycle.

Yeah, they're around forever. It wasn't rock, they'd still be around.

That's what's interesting about life on other planets. Like if something like the dinosaurs does exist, it takes something like the Yucatan impact to kill them. and then the little scrambly little rodents and shit eventually evolved to become humans. But if that doesn't happen forever and ever and ever, it's just dinosaurs fucking things up and no one ever built a house and no one ever gets a Tesla.

Yeah, every time you go outside, raptors tear your apart, you live in like tiny caves and they try to find you in there and they drag your kids out. Yeah, they send a little raptor in there and they grab your kid by the feet. You crawl into little tunnels and holes as they nip at you and try to claw away at the rocks to get to you. You never develop tools. You never develop anything. You barely stay alive. You probably go extinct.

If you lived in that era, I think everything ate everything. Probably. And the only way you didn't get eaten if you were like a stegosaurus where you just covered an armor just to keep things from eating you. I mean imagine like what kind of fucking hard life you have to be living in to develop the kind of skin the stegosaurus as. Just armor everywhere you are. Like a triceratops. Everywhere you're armor. Just to keep you from getting consumed. That's crazy. Yeah. So that's the bright side of the impact. I'm drinking dinosaur pills.

Yeah, we're drinking dinosaur pills. And that's the the bright side of a apocalypse caused by an asteroid impact.

It's way better than dinosaur still being around.

Yes.

My coffee is dinosaur pills.

No, just coffee.

I started getting into it when I became friends with my friend Evan Hayfer who runs black rifle coffee. It's like his company. And he, well, there was a guy I had a podcast a long time ago that was actually a coffee expert. What was that gentleman's name again? Giuliano. Giuliano, right? Yeah, Peter Giuliano. Very interesting guy, but he's like a legitimate coffee expert. And I always wanted to, I was, I was like, I'd like talking to people that just know a lot about one thing. Sure. Like it's weird. Like how much this guy knows about coffee. And he brought a bunch of different coffees to sample. And there's this Ethiopian coffees that tasted almost like like there were lemony. And you're drinking them all black, everything black. Like he's like real coffee drinkers drink coffee black. And so then my friend Evan, who runs black rifle coffee, he's a real coffee nut. Like he literally goes to these places where they grow it and samples the beans and like they have different kinds of roasts and blends and amazing stuff. And he drinks everything black. And I just started drinking the black. I think it's an acquired taste.

Yeah, I like it I don't know, maybe I'll get there one day. It's just the thing where I know it doesn't taste good, but it tastes good to me. Like, I like that sort of bitter, warm liquid taste. I like it.

But tea with honey is better, isn't it?

Yeah. Well, um, I try to avoid sugar as much as possible. And I feel like when I put even if I put like sweet and low or stevia and something, it makes me want more sweet things. Oh, yeah, I get that because I like sweet stuff. You know, of course, just avoid it.

Yeah, for sure, but sugar isn't so many things. You don't realize how much you love it. It is. Live off of it. Yes.

You know what I mean?

Yeah, have you, you said that, do you have, how many people in you, you have many people in your family that've had a dick to person? Now is it a addiction issue?

Drogs and gang.

Are you worried that as your life gets greater and greater, that you'll have less things to be upset about?

Maybe he just wants to keep you there. Maybe.

Stand up comedy is such an interesting thing because everybody came from like a place of lacking. But everybody's thing, like everything that got them to that is different. But the result is the same with all. It's all just like, how do I figure out how these fucked up ideas into people's heads and illicit a response?

When you were other prefer fucked up people that joke around a lot to like stuffy people and Connecticut.

Yeah. That's probably good. Like you may. I think there really sucks people up and they're like, they're poor and they're around rich people because it's like right there.

But yeah, I didn't like slightly doing better poor.

But it has a comic, like, god damn it. You know, comedy is like the best thing to do. It's so much fun. And that's the superpower. Fucked up childhood is the superpower.

You didn't realize until you started doing therapy?

So, is doing stand-up? Is that the most joy you ever experienced?

When does it go well?

Yeah. You'd quit doing so.

One partner up with Whitney. Do you know Whitney?

He would love her. Yeah, I mean, of course.

Yeah, she's always fostering dogs. She has a horse. Yeah.

She would still take in. She took people in during the pandemic. She turned her house into like a flop house.

Yeah, she's awesome. She had outdoor shows at her house.

Really? Yeah. People's yards and stuff.

When did you get back into an indoor club again? What was the first time? How many months out?

Did you have to get vaccinated? You had to be in those clubs too, right?

Yeah, you had to have a booster to go there, too.

I was like, what am I going to do? Well, a lot of people did that. They made that choice because they wanted to work. Yeah. Very clear that it was going to stop you from working, especially some jobs. You know, a lot of people forced into it until I worked hard, good.

Yeah. And it's like 65% protection. But it's all of it was shenanigans. If you really study the actual paperwork on what the studies actually showed versus what they were saying it showed, it didn't stop transmission. It didn't. One point person in the fucking vaccine group died of COVID. I guess my thing is like so does it work like because we have antibodies now like how does that works it works initially it works initially and it like for a lot of vulnerable people it probably was a good idea to get vaccinated old people fat people people that were the had various diseases yeah The problem is it didn't last for very long. It didn't last for nearly as long as they wanted and then you'd get your second shot and that didn't last for you. And now, unfortunately, what they're finding is through this latest study with the Cleveland Clinic, they showed that with their healthcare workers, the more vaccines they got, the more they got COVID.

Yeah. Well, there's a lot of weird things that happen with your immune system.

How bad?

You know, some people, it's fine. Some people, it's like any other medication. Some people, they take that medication, they don't have any problems with it. And then other people take it and they get wrecked by it. And that's the problem with making something mandatory where some people are going to get wrecked by it. Like really bad vaccine injuries. Those are real. We all know about them now. We've all seen people drop dead of heart attacks that should be. and then there's people that it might have saved their lives. That's an uncomfortable sort of conversation that people that are against it have to have and people that are pro-adeptable. You have to look at the actual data of what really did happen. And it's particularly for non-vonable people like children. It was not a good idea.

But there was also people wanted you to do what they did. I did the right thing, you should do the right thing, your selfish, you're not doing it. Mm-hmm. I mean, it doesn't hurt that too. It was like the one time in our lives, we weren't allowed to be skeptical about pharmaceutical companies.

We should be. They have a long history of criminal fines. Yes. They've been fined fucking insane amounts of money for lying at about drugs that wound up crossing people their lives.

Dope sick. Dope sick, yeah. Yeah, I didn't say it, but I know the whole story about the soccer family. Yeah.

They just paid the way out of it. They paid the way out of it. They gave like $6 billion, you know? Then they can't be prosecuted.

Easy. They did that with there was another medication that they did viox that wound up giving people a give friend of mine a stroke, but it gave like it killed 60,000, 50,000 people. What is that for? It was an anti-inflammatory medication. It didn't even work well. And they knew it in their internal emails. They said there's going to be problems, but we think we'll do very well with this. So they knew that it was going to cause cardiovascular issues with people. The news is going to cause blood issues with people and strokes and shit. And they still released it. And they got fined, but they got fined less than they made. Yeah, so I think they made 12 billion and they got fine, like five or something. Right. You're like, I still have the surplus of billions. Something like that. Don't quote me on that. Those numbers. But it's something to point where like, you made money on this. You still made money. This is like, yeah. It didn't work. It wasn't a good. It was like, there's other, there's other available things that work better. It's just a spooky thing that they can do that. It's spooky and that people just go along with it.

Yeah. What is in it that's giving people cancer?

It's like a mineral, right?

Yeah. What is what what caused people to cancer from that? The Johnson Johnson vaccine was the one I was going to take.

The UFC had allocated like 150 vaccines for their employees. And we were doing shows during the pandemic. They had this total bubble situation where you got tested. Okay, what does it say? When the talk on powders linked to cancer, it's important to stay in between. Talk that contains us best us and the talk that's as best as free. Talk that has us best us is generally accepted as being able to cause cancer if it's inhaled. What about, just go to that, go to the lawsuit, Johnson and Johnson, cancer, lawsuit, baby powder. Because it was something with women, right?

Okay, was it saying? Mm. So there's some sort of Jane J. lawsuit. settlement. Okay. Johnson Johnson said on Tuesday that it had agreed to pay $8.9 billion to tens of thousands of people claim the company's talcum powder produces product products caused cancer. Proposed that lawyers for the plaintiffs called a significant victory in a legal fight that has lasted more than a decade. Why?

Maybe they're just telling people don't put it on your who haul.

the one with the fastest. So I'm trying to figure out why does this have his bestness. The proposed settlement would be paid out over 25 years through a subsidiary which filed bankruptcy to enable the $8.9 billion trust Johnson and Johnson said in court filing. So if a bankruptcy court approves it, the agreement will resolve all current and future claims involving Johnson and Johnson products that contain talc, such as baby powder the company said. So how is it's ovarian cancer? Okay, significant victory for the tens of thousands of women suffering from gynecological cancer is caused by the Jane Jay's talc-based products. So, but what is in it that's causing cancer?

Ovarian cancer and Mesothelioma. You saw them, what? Like TV commercials, my whole life. Yeah, right. Thanks for Mesothelioma. Oh, number now. I wonder if it goes right at Johnson Johnson.

Oh God. Where's the other five billion? Oh God. What's a fine? It goes to government. Okay. That's good. Listen, we have to deal with our homeless crisis. No one's gonna ever trans kids don't have homes.

Yeah. Maybe. I'm sure. They didn't say well.

Um, so what what is it that causes cancer though like what's it in the talc that's causing cancer?

How is anybody selling anything with asbestos?

It, well, there's definitely some corrupt people in the government without a doubt. And there's definitely a bunch of people that run these corporations and try to figure out how to make money with stuff that they have to land around. Sure.

Baby powders possible as best to slink for years.

Oh my god, look at this. An executive of Johnson Johnson said the main ingredient is best selling baby powder could potentially be contaminated by his bestest. The dangerous mineral that causes cancer. He recommended to senior staff in 1971 the company upgrade its quality control of talc. Two years later, another executive-raged red flag, seeing the company should no longer assume that its top mines were as best as free. The powdery said, sometimes contains materials that might be classified as as best as fiber. The carcinogen which often appears underground near-towk. has been a concern inside the company for decades and hundreds of pages of memos, executives worried about a potential government ban of talc, the safety of the product, and a public backlash over Johnson's baby powder, a brand built on a reputation for trustworthiness and health. And it had asbestos in it.

I don't think so. I think they're saying it's in the same minds as the talc.

They're cutting it just like the Mexican cartels cut the coke with the fentanyl. Yeah. The cutting it with top. Like if you have like a bunch of bestas and you're gonna tell cuz we're 10 bucks a pound. We're gonna go it in there.

It's very cheap and it's also really potent. So you need a very, very small amount of fentanyl. We'll fuck you up. But I'm sure it's not consistent. They're not really good at quality control. And also, I think sometimes they leak fentanyl lace cocaine specifically designed to kill people to target rival gangs. They do it like if one gang is selling coke and they'll sabotage their supplies so that they kill their people. There's a lot of stuff on the internet. Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah. Or they use it to target certain people. Interesting. We learned a lot today, Adrian. I did learn a lot. I did do.

Yeah, we're all drinking it. I spest this. Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. What the come? We learned a lot about your origins of comedy. My origins of learning about your mom. My mom, yes. He loved dogs. I love dogs. I should have brought Marshall. Yes. Next time. Next time we do it. We'll do it again. We'll do it again. Yes. Okay. Um, give me the club tonight.

Thank you for having me. It's fun.

My pleasure. I'm excited when Louie texted me. I was so pumped.

Yeah. It's a set up to film already, too.

Yeah, they're both different, but really fun. And the whole setup is Louie actually helped me quite a bit. He gave me some really good advice when we were in the middle of construction. He told me to make the stage in a smaller and smaller. It was larger. They just designed it. Yeah. Yeah, it is perfect. What he designed his perfect. He said just cut off four feet on each side. And I was like, yeah, we don't need it that big. And so it was really fun because you could kind of walk around in this, you know, once we had gutted it, you know, you're going, why don't we do this? Why don't we do that? And so Louie came in and I just said, what do you think? And he was like, you know, like, make this lower.

He knows how to do all that stuff. I listen to everything he said. Every single piece of advice that he said. Every recommendation I did.

I love them both. They're different. The little room is really intimate. The little room is like your party and you're having a good time with people. They're right there. They're on top of you. It's really fun. It's also very honest. Like if you feel performative or clunky, it will feel gross in that room. And a little one? Yeah, and a little room.

Oh yeah, I guess, but I mean, if you do come off clunky, it's more obvious. It's very intimate. It feels fake. You know, it's just a different room. The other room is pretty intimate too. The way I describe it is like they're both like hybrids of the Comedy Store, original room, and the belly room. Yeah. So I've never performed there. I've only visited it.

Next time I'll go bring you.

Even though it's like a pretty big room. Yeah, it's we it's well designed. We mean we put a lot of thought into it. We'd raise the floor. We had the stage set at the perfect height. We're like right at table height. No, not a bad seat in the room. We were like meticulously went over it for a long time.

Right. Yeah. Well, I don't know. There's only a few other clubs that are owned by comics.

But that's the thing. It's like, you're dealing with, there's like the owners and owners tell the managers what to do, the managers tell the comedians what to do.

No, the vibe is it's for all of us. It's our place.

If you're funny, it's very welcome. If you're not funny, it's very unwelcome. If you're not funny, they're fucking brutal. Yeah, if it's just, there's a lot of competition for stage time, there's a lot of comics, there's a lot of young people. Yeah, I could see that. You know, all the staff, like aspiring comedians, like this door staff, and they all auditioned with their actual comedy to get the jobs. To be the door, like to work at the door?

Yeah, and they get stage time, so they get to go up, and they go up to showcase nights, open mic nights, two nights a week,

Yeah, so you're still not doing that here. Still kidding us. But then even more importantly, the creek in the cave is right next door. That's right up the street. And then you've got sunset room, which is right next door. Sunset, Brian Redbans Room is three doors down. Oh wow. And the other day, we did a show like last Thursday. We did a show at my club. And then guys were going back and forth. And Redbans show was sold out too. And then there's the Vulcan, which is also just a half a block down. And, you know, they do comedy there too, and then you also have Cap City, which is in the domain, and you have a bunch of little places like the Velvita room. There's a bunch of spots that are all around town, all kinds of mics.

Yes. Yeah. There's a lot of good comedy here. And the fans are great. Well, they just love the fact that it's here. It's like, you know, out of the pandemic, this thing sprung. Yeah. And it really is like a weird thing that happened where we're all like, fuck this. We got to get the fuck out of LA. Yeah. And I was particularly motivated because my children were at the time 10 and 12. I was like, I don't think I want him growing up in that way. Like, I already dodged that bullet when I told him to start that. It's just creepy. It's like, there's so much chaos and freaks and just, look, you're gonna get out of here. You know, and then during the pandemic, we had this opportunity to move to Austin, and I was like, I want to do this. And it was a crazy time to do it. Because those are the middle of this big Spotify deal. And, you know, the whole world was shut down and I have everything running smoothly and I'm like, fuck it, let's up root. We're going to start from scratch and we came here and I've never been happier. That's great. And then when all the other comics started coming here too, and I was like, all right, I think this is going to work.

Yeah, it's pretty awesome.

Well, that is one of the cool things you can do with money. You know, if you have money and there's something you really love, like I love stand up, you can actually do something like that. You can actually make something happen and make it good for a lot of people. It's not just good for me. It's good for so many comics. Yeah. It's good for the audiences. It's good for the people that work there. It's fun.

Oh, yeah, for sure. Yeah, that whole area is packed now.

Oh, and Adrian, we'll see you tonight. Yes. I'm excited. Thank you for having me. Excited. And you got a tour coming up.

What's your website?

It's an eye in Appaloochi.

Alright, go see your folks. She's very funny. I'm really happy to meet you.

I'm pumped to the show tonight. Yes. Let's go. Thank you. Alright, bye everybody.