#2007 - Adrienne Iapalucci

35:13Scared. Why? I don't know. I reacted so badly. When I was, I did an edible one. I was at Moon Tower like last year. And I never done before. And it was like the worst experience. How many milligrams? I don't remember. It was like in a bag that they gave you. And my friend was like, this is, she was like, no, it was like from a company though. She was like, this is very weak. I know, but it wasn't just like some guy off the street handed it to me. So I was like, oh, this seems legitimate. And I took it and I remember going to sleep and waking up to hearing the ocean. I mean, it was so wild. I thought I was in that movie with Russell Crowe.

35:48What's that movie where he's like, he thinks he's in the CIA, but he's just bipolar. Where's Gets a Fronac? Oh, yeah. So the whole time I thought I was like that situation. I mean, my, I go, it's not good for me. Like my friend came over and I was like, I used the same logic he used where he realized those people never aged. Where I was like, okay, well, you're, you're the same now. Like it was so crazy. I can't do, I can't do drugs. Where's people never aged? In that movie, he's like, I guess he sees like a little girl and he has this roommate, the Russell Crowe mate. Oh, the Russell Crowe mate.

36:18Yeah, so, but he realized they're not real because 10 years later, they're still the same age. And I used that logic to think that like my friend, I was like, well, you're still exactly the same. Like it was just, I went there. It was so crazy. Whoa. That's why I was like, I'm not good on drugs. Well, that's a big dose it sounds like. I think someone, the problem with those adibles they should have a bit about is they're not consistent. They're not making the same place. They make Tylenol. You know, they should. Yeah, they should. They should be legal. They should all be legal. So we know exactly what the fuck you're taking.

36:51I mean, how many people have to die a fentanyl before they realize like, we have to figure out, like there's a demand for these drugs, if people want these drugs, maybe it's education, maybe it's counseling, maybe it's drug rehabilitation centers that we need to open everywhere. And then there's a business in that. But you should be allowing people to have access to the actual drug, not Coke that you're getting on the street that's cut with fentanyl that's going to kill people. Sure. And how many people have to fucking die before you realize you're not going to stop people from doing coke with a just say no campaign?

37:21So 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 it's going to kill you, let people know what's going on, and then make it so they have to be 21 to buy it and educate people. Like we're going to open up the country to legal drug sales. Because if you don't, all you're doing is arming the outlaws, you're giving them money, all the outlaws, the people that... 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.

37:58So they sell illegal drugs. It's fucking bananas that are problem so obvious. It's like it's an uncomfortable solution, but you've got to rip off the fucking bandaid and you've got to make everything legal. Remember that professor that was doing heroin recreationally? Dr. Carl Hart. Oh, that's the same guy. Yeah, I love that dude. He's been on the podcast a few times. Yeah, well he does it recreationally. Yeah, and he talks about it, he says it's wonderful. Says I love to just be with my wife and listen to music. I just feel like once I did that, I'd be like, well this also seems like a good idea tomorrow.

38:36What you got? I know that. I would stop. That's a problem with addiction. Like it's just like that guy can do it, but like, right. Well, one of the things that he talked about, that's interesting, he's like this heroin withdrawal myth. He's like, it's like getting sick. It's like you're sick with a cold for a couple days. He goes, that's what it's like. It's not like you're dying. He goes, it's not that bad. He goes, it's just very exaggerated in media depictions of films and people are like, that sounds awful. Sounds like he wants to have a cold for a few days, but then you're not addicted to heroin anymore.

39:13But then if you just keep doing heroin, you just keep feeling better. Well, also you got to realize like sick, 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're very little sleep and you're just all fucked up and poor, and then you get withdrawals. And you get really sick. That could fucking kill you, depending upon your health. Depending on how healthy of a heroin person you are. Like I wonder if he calls and sick and everyone's like, he's doing heroin. People do heroin recreationally, and they have for a long time.

39:50There was this buddy of mine who was a longshoreman in Boston and he worked with this guy who would buy a bag of heroin at lunch every day, and he would go in his truck and he would shoot up. That seems like a lot of heroin. Well, I mean, I don't know how much 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 would go in his car and shoot up, and he would sit in his car for his hour lunch break, and then he'd go back to work. No problems. Insane. Insane. I mean, with Zanix, I want to fall asleep. It's a weird thing that I met a guy who was a pull player once.

40:27He was like a very prominent top level pull player, where you gamble for a lot of money. And we're at a pool hall in White Plains, New York. This guy, they called him Buffalo Bill, was 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 like 10 minutes. He comes out and he just sits on the chair like this. Like a billionaire's chair sits like this. It's like 20 minutes, just sits like this.

41:06And we're just looking at him, and I was 23 at the time or something, I thought I was like, look at this motherfucker, look at him. And then he would get up, and it was like, he had shark eyes. There was like no one there, there was no one there, and then he would play pool, and he couldn't miss. He couldn't miss. It was insane. It was insane to watch. It was like playing on these pockets, this table, these really tight pockets, and they're gambling for a lot of money. And he has no nerves. He has no nerves. He's not feeling any pressure at all. He's just playing perfect. And everybody watches like, holy shit.

41:39And it made people want to do heroin. I didn't know that I shouldn't have been legal, but I'm saying like if you're playing him and you're like against him, I'd be like, he can't do heroin, that just enhances his performance. You're talking about pool. In the pool world, everybody does drugs. Really? There's a leap players that are completely clean and sober on a professional level. Absolutely, but in like pool hall gambling, drugs are ubiquitous. Drugs were like, yeah, drugs and fettamines were like the choice pill for people when they gambled to like 20 hours in a row. They were just taking fettamines and keep gambling.

42:17I just think like, I would be scared to do that. Addiction is so rampant in my family. Like my biological father was a drug user. My uncle was a hell's angel. He was on tons of drugs and stuff. So I just feel like, I don't know. I have enough issues. Yeah, I hear you. I don't know if drug addiction is, I think some of it's gotta be physical. Some of it's gotta be genetic. It's gotta be. It may just make sense. People from some parts of the world where they don't have a history of alcohol, they experience alcohol, they have real problems with it. Part of it's gotta be genetic. But then part of it's gotta be cultural too.

42:51When you're around all these people, it becomes like learn behavior. It's release at the end of the day, give me a fucking beer and yeah, it's just become something that gets very ingrained. And then also the patterns of behavior that come with alcoholism, the fucking up and the life falling apart and the disastrous choices you make. Driving drugs. No, yeah. All that. 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. Booze is fucked up more people. But I like it. Yeah, of course. I like it. I like a little drink every now and then.

43:32I 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, this nanny state box. Maybe down the line it will be legal. 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. So where do you get it from? Yeah, it's a good point. You know, I don't know if they're specific about that.

44:12I don't know if there's like legal distributions. I know they have legal marijuana. Right. But that's like 18 states now. I have legal weed. Legal weed is pretty well accepted as a good thing. And I think, there's a lot of right -wing people that smoke weed. And I think that was a big change. Because I think a lot of left -wing people were always associated with marijuana and laziness and then right -wing people like, fuck that, fuckin' potholes. 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, maybe his pot's not that bad.

44:54I don't know, do you feel like a lot of people are doing coke? Like on both sides? I think so. I mean, I know so. I know a lot of people are doing coke, yeah. So it's like, I don't know. I feel like both sides do everything. Yeah, but I think psychedelics more, well, not anymore. I used to say psychedelics more likely to be tried by the left, but God damned us 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 showing amazing results.

45:32So I think the right is opening up their eyes to it 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. 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 is 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. Like stop. But even something like gambling that's legal can still ruin your life.

46:11Fuck dad can. Yeah. And I support it. Yeah, my dad is a gambler. Let's go. We had nothing. He's the gamble with our lives pretty regularly. Guys, that crazy. When I first started playing pool, it's when I first started being around gamblers. I've never been around gamblers as a child. And so I never knew what that addiction is like to watch it play out. Oh yeah. It's crazy. My dad was like just emotionally unavailable. We just always wanted a gamble. Always wanted a gamble. We used to go to the OTB as kids. Like the late, we went there so often. The lady behind the thing had my school picture up.

46:48That's how often we went there. God. Yeah. Oh my God. Yeah, he was a bad gambler. But he also didn't make a lot of money, which is crazy. Right? It's like you can't be a mailman and a gambler. It gets anybody. No, I know. It can get anybody. Did you see uncut Chams? No. It's fucking amazing. Is it? Yeah, it's Adam Sandler plays a gambling addict. Oh, I want that. And you will get such anxiety while you're watching. You'll be like, oh, Jesus, fucking cr... 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. I like it. I'm not a comedy at all.

47:26Adam Sandler killed it. It's a great move. Is he like a rich gambler in it? He's a jeweler. Oh, OK. Yeah. And 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, and the fucking, the bulls are down by six. And they were just, they were just in it all the time. I was like, this is crazy. My dad's thing was like, OTV and gambling and the metal ends and any of that stuff. I mean, he also, I think, gabbled on football and stuff, but mostly like the horses.

48:03Yeah, the horses are crazy. But you like the Lanx City too, stuff like that. Dog races. I don't know if he did that, but I'm sure he would. I feel like he'd gamble on anything. I had a friend of mine who adopted a Greyhound. Oh, 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. My friend was trying to walk it. The leashes come off their head, he said. Yeah. Well, not only that, when my friend took his out, he didn't realize, first of all, they're so fast. Oh, yeah. They're very fast.

48:40When 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 empty park. It's how to be fine and the fucking Greyhound just went for that cat. Well, he's really free now. Yeah. It's like, he didn't realize, like, oh, they're not cool with animals. Like that's the whole thing about racing. Is they're chasing a rabbit. Right. If they see an animal, they fucking sprint towards it. Yeah, you can't see program that. No, no, no. So he realized, oh my god, I gotta be really careful with this thing. Can't just like ever let it go without a leash.

49:16You ever see the little ones, the little Greyhounds? No. They've been at your Greyhounds. Miniature Greyhounds? Yeah. Oh. They're cute. Let me see, Jimmy. They're cute. They're like just big Greyhound, they have the same thing. You know what the weirdest dog is? I'm trying to. A Whip It with a Myel statin inhibitor. I don't even know what that is. A Whip It is this cute dog. Aw, look at that. They're cute. Yeah. Uh, that's adorable. That was a little cuddle dog. They're fat. Wow, look at them go. Look how they cross their legs like that. They just get so much fucking torque. There's so much energy.

49:53So there's a dog called a Whip It. And every now and then they have a genetic anomaly. It's a Myel statin 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 a comic superhero. Like if you had injected a comic book superhero dog with like Hulk serum, it just went, Are they fighting those things? No, no, no, no. Look, that's how it looks like. Aw, gross. You're not crazy. Look how jacked he is. That's not. That's like natural. Yeah, it's just a natural genetic anomaly. But like why wouldn't you fight that?

50:29That thing is huge. Because they're nice. They don't have fight. No, I know, but they're like teaching other dogs to fight. I'm sorry, they don't use these guys. Well, it's not really as much about the strength of your, like all those extra big muscles. Those are gonna like cause you to get tired quicker. And then on top of that, it's really the bite of the jaw. That's true. The strength of the bite and then also the game instinct. So some dogs, when they get hurt, they want to get out of there and pit bulls don't care about. And that's bred into them. So when a dog would cower away, they wouldn't allow that dog to breed.

51:02And in a lot of places, they killed the dog. That was the whole thing. When they, whenever they catch dog fighting, the horrible thing is like what they do, the dogs will lose. They don't let them, because they don't want them to breed. Like if a dog quits, they just killed that dog. I remember when everything was going on with Michael Vic, and I didn't know what he looked like. And I just seen this guy on the front of the newspaper and go, who's this guy? He's hot. And so I was like, that's Michael Vic. And I was like, oh, that hurts so much. Yeah, he was involved in that stuff. I knew a dude at one point in time, he had like 13 dogs in his yard in, I think he was in Oklahoma.

51:41And my friend was like, I think he really likes dogs. I go, no, I go, he's got 13 pit bulls on chains in his yard. I go, that guy fights dogs. Yeah, that's gross. I hate that. He was a dog fighting gambling guy. So he was breeding dogs for dog fights. That's still going on right now in this country. Yeah, underground dog fights. It's cool. I can't see that. Like nothing makes him more upset than that. That's horrible. What's really fucked up is the dogs are wagging their tails. Well, because they think that they're doing good. Yeah, they enjoy that fight. God damn it, it's so awful. It's just so crazy that that's going on right now.

52:24So much stuff is going on right now. Yeah, someone's getting sex traffic right now. Right now, right across the border. Yeah, whenever I go to the airport and they have those signs in the bathroom, like if you're being sex trafficked, I'm like, you think they want them going to the bathroom? Oh, right. Fuck. It's just so hard to believe that some people are that evil. Money makes people do crazy stuff. And I think your circumstances too. If you don't have money and you're like, this is something I can do, it's still shitty. But I think some people are like, I have no other choice. Yeah. Doesn't make it right.

52:58They have no other choice but the sex traffic. Can't you sell stuff? Yeah, they're selling the women. I see it's all of it. I think it's the amount of money, too. Yes, I think of your selling knives, door to door, you're not making it as much. It's like I tried doing this for a year. I wasn't making a lot of money. Knives, door to door. Imagine having enthusiasm for that job. No. Fuck. This is how you have to feed yourself. Sell knives. I remember when I first started doing stand -up, I would bark for stage time, which is basically like, hey, do you want to come to a comedy show? And like, I was so bad at it.

53:31Because people just be like, no, I'm like, all right. I'm like, I get it. This is so, I mean, I felt so dumb doing it. Did you develop strategies? Like how to talk to people? No. Though. I just hated it. I like, it's weird to just be on the street as a salesman. Like, hey, come to this show. I think that's only a New York City thing. It might be. Have you seen it before? Where? I'll sit here on six street. Oh. In Austin? For other things, too. For stand -up shows? For stand -up, yes. And I've seen it for other shows here. No, shit. For other shows. I wonder if they got it from New York. I wonder.

54:04I wonder. I don't know. I haven't paid attention to it. I've always heard of it. Primarily as a New York thing. I knew a lot of New York guys used to do that in the early days. Yeah, and especially in Manhattan, everyone's walking. So you can't just catch people like that. Yeah. But I was not good at it at all. Manhattan's an interesting place for comedy, because there's so many clubs. So many clubs, even so many good bar shows and lounges. So you can get a lot of stage time. Yeah. And there's a lot of comics there, too. There's so many comics. And a lot of people kind of sprung up after the pandemic, too.

54:39Like a lot of people that had like social media, big social media presence, and then they just kind of switched into stand -up. Like if you're just doing funny videos. Right. So I think there's more people like that, too, doing stand -up. Well, if your job got taken away from you during the pandemic, I would imagine that would be a good time to try stand -up. If you'd always wanted to. Sure, while you're getting money from the government, of course. How many open mic nights are there? There's a lot of open mic nights. Oh, there's mics every night. Really? You can do probably like six a night if you like set it up, right?

55:10I know. You could do a ton of mics. Wow. But they're expensive. What do you mean? You got to pay. You got to pay like five bucks or buy a drink or... Because like, what are they getting out of it if you don't do that? What is like this bar getting better? You have to pay to do stand -up. Yeah. Wow. And you're doing it for other comics. So you're not doing it for like audience usually. Oh my gosh. Most of the time. And people still don't quit. Wow. So you think we'd weed them out? What kind of an audience you're talking about? Like how many people are supposed to be there? I mean, I haven't done it a long time, but when I was doing it, you say there's 15 comics on the mic.

55:45You're doing it for those 15 people. And if it's a random bar, maybe some people will come off the street or like at the bar, but yeah, you're doing it for comics. So you're paying to do comedy to your peers? Yes. Wow. Why am I surprised by that? I don't know. That doesn't happen. What? Go ahead. It sounds a lot like that. You want to just go to stand -up school then or classes or whatever. Well, paying for time. 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. Yeah, I mean, I know another place of like my friend had come from Seattle and was doing stand -up.

56:22She said like in Seattle, there's an actual audience. There might be 100 people, so it's a show. Yeah. But in New York, that's not. It's a lot of comics in the audience. Hmm. Comics were like looking at their own notes and not necessarily paying attention. Do any of the good clubs have open mics? Like does the seller have an open mic? No. I know the stand has an open mic night and maybe near a comedy club. I think you kind of have to have an open mic night. This seller doesn't. It seems like it would be better if they did. I know it wouldn't be better financially. You know, it's always... No, but if you did it during the day when you're not having shows anyway.

57:02It's just people need places to go up. And it's like if your growth process is dependent upon you doing stand -up in front of 15 comics. Well, that's why you start barking or I would intern for like 10 hours on a Friday night seating the customers and then like get a five minute spot. You get an intern? Yeah, I did wild stuff. Like that's how I came up doing stand -up because I was like the open mics are just like other new comics. So... So you would intern meaning you'd work for free? I'd work for free. So you could do a five minutes set. And then a lot of times that's said it's going to get canceled.

57:37So you'd work for free? Work for free? And then you never get compensated. No, that's... You either sometimes got a spot or sometimes didn't. Wow. So you'd work for free for 10 hours? Yeah. For a five minute spot. That may not happen. Well, that will fucking weed out the week. Yeah, but like not... Like my family life was so dysfunctional that that seemed normal. I was like this seems like... Okay, this seems average to me. Like it. It's just used to disappointment. Yeah, you just used to it. You're like this seems average. This seems like what I've been dealing with. Wow. Well, you found your tribe.

58:16I found my tribe. Yeah. Wild tribe. It's just so interesting when you meet someone like Ari. Like when I met him at the very beginning and see him now, it's funny. It's fascinating watching these broken toys meander their way through our society. It's funny. I mean, him we're talking last night at your club. And he was just talking about like, I guess dating people and stuff. And he's like, well, you and I are broken. I was like, what are you talking about? He's like, Adrian. He's like, nobody's going, they want to date somebody like you. He's like, you need a lot of time to yourself. And I was like, oh, he's not wrong.

58:57And he's the same way too. Like he just, he's telling me about like this couple he had met that they lived, they're married 40 years, but they live in different houses. And he's like, they have a great relationship. They don't fight about like the little things that a lot of people do when you live together. And he's like, they have a great relationship. And I was like, that's not the worst idea. It's not the worst idea. The idea that you have to be in the same house together, it's like, says who? Like people in like a little space. Yeah, I mean, at one point I had a two -biter apartment. Me and my ex -boyfriend slept separately.

59:29I mean, we were also had a terrible relationship. But like we had our own bedrooms. Like I wouldn't be opposed to that. It doesn't seem like the worst thing in the world. But whenever you see a couple when they don't sleep in the same bed, anymore, you're like, we're all sad. I know, we all judge them, but I'm like, they're sleeping great. That's Mark's room over there. I sleep over here. I know, but if you say it like, that's his room, this is my room. I think you gotta figure out how we were saying it. Yeah. And then also some people like to sleep in the room really fucking cold. And that shit's annoying if you don't like that.

1:00:03I like a fan all year round. I like the noise. The noise. There's something about static noise that does help you sleep. Yeah. I just like it. I like the sound of an air conditioner, like in the summer. I slept at this house in Malibu once by the ocean. And I'll be rented out for a couple months. And when you're in bed and you just hear the shhh. That sounds like really relaxing. It is. It's weird. It's like it's like hypnotic. Yeah. And it's also so powerful. You're laying down on the base of just insane force of nature. This immense body of water and you've got the audacity to sleep close to edges.

1:00:53At the edges where this impossible amount of water laps up. That's where you want to put your house. I've had nightmares about like just a tsunami. Just like engulfing my house. I'd loved being at that place but it was very illuminating. It's a very illuminating why rich people want to live like right on the water in Malibu. Because I was like why do they want to live next to each other like that? That's crazy. And then you like rent a house there and you're like, oh, I get it. This is like magic. There's something magic about the water being around front. It's magic. It's like it gives you magic energy.

1:01:26It's crazy. There's something about it like being right there. It's like, wow, this feels like I'm on a drug. And it's so calming. So calming. But at nighttime it's terrifying. The same water that looks so inviting in the daytime. With blue and you see the seagulls and it's beautiful. At nighttime it becomes an angry monster that can swallow civilization. Just dark, dark black. You don't know what you can't see anything. You don't know what it's an immense thing. At any point in time the earth could just a little shift. And then a fucking big one comes in. And just all the way to Arizona. Just all the way to Arizona.

1:02:10I think anything at night is a lot scarier. Oh yeah. I got come home three o 'clock at night and off the park two blocks away. I'm just like, you know, pepper spray in my hand. Did I have the whole thing? Yeah. Where's during the day? It's like just different. I know. The different things, some things are really scary. But only in certain circumstances. Like babies are never scary. But if you were in a moonlit forest and you walk through the forest, you saw a naked baby just staring at you. By itself, you would shake your pants. I would definitely not help it. If you saw a baby just standing upright.

1:02:47Just looking at you naked. Yeah. The moonlit forest in the middle of nowhere. You had to hike in. And you see a naked baby. I got to get the fuck out of here. Yeah. First of all, where is this kid's parents? Right. For sure. I hate you. We're sure you'd be where this kid's parents. But you'd also be like, why is there a naked baby staring at me like a grown person? It's got to be evil. Right. Anything at night like that, it's evil. You think it's a demon? I'm going to day away. Look at this baby. It's standing. If I was a demon, I would disguise myself as a baby. It's a good move. Everybody thinks you're cute.

1:03:20Or a cute dog. Or a cute dog. Yeah. Definitely not that whip it. Yeah. They're kind of cute. They're still a cute face. You know, they don't have a mean like pit bull looking face. They're like a cute whip face. Yeah, I know. I would pick something else over it. They have cows like that too. Really? Yeah. When not on jack, they look like they're cute. Yeah, they do. Whip it's a really fast too. Wait. That's what they look like. That looks like a greyhound. Yeah. Real similar. So what is a dirty cutie? Look at that little cutie. It's just my own statin inhibitor gene. This gene is fucked up on some of them.

1:03:53Oh, it's related to the greyhound. It makes sense. It looks like it. And apart from its smaller size, closely resembles it. Sometimes it's described as the poor man's greyhound. They're their fast little fuckers. What is that my own statin gene? Like what causes that? Because it happens in cows too. They've had any in dairy cows. It's crazy. Like you see a cow just walk on super high. So if you drink that milk, are you getting it? No. No, it's a gene thing. It's an inherited muscular disorder. Kids have had it too. Yeah, it's got it. Yeah, really? Yeah, it's crazy. You see like a baby that looks like a bodybuilder.

1:04:27It's weird. It's a deficiency. A deficiency. Yeah, it's a myel statin inhibitor. Myel statin deficiency, whip it types, inherited muscular disorder affecting whipits, dogs, and inherit two copies of the mutation associated with myel statin deficiency. Whip it type have broad chest and overly developed muscles, especially of the neck and legs, as well as an over bite. So you can find that in cows. Myel statin, just wrote myel statin cows. Yeah, so look at that cow. Because it's size of a dairy cow. That's a girl. Look how jack she is. I wonder if that's more attractive to the bulls. I wonder, right?

1:05:04Yeah, they like that one's hot. Bulls are in the, like a guy who's in a crossfit chicks. Yeah. Yeah. Look at that wild. Look at the size of that goddamn thing. Born without the protein myel statin. So myel statin, I guess, is what regulates muscle growth. Or it has something to do with it. And if you don't have it, it's not regulated. 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 muskutcher and these mice. Crazy. What's crazy?

1:05:42They just skin these mice and we don't give a fuck. If I see one of those in my house I can move out. Look at that fucking back on that dude. What they've done it, 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 going to play sports? Like what's going to happen? That's not fair. So like you're playing sports with the Hulk. I mean. We'll find out in like 15 years. Yeah. I guess the greatest running back of all time. I just like playing chess. I really don't want to be on the football team.

1:06:21He's like the Hulk playing chess. Yeah. Yeah, maybe he rebels because everybody wants him to get into physical pursuits. He's like, fuck you. Yeah. Look at that kid. Net nuts. Vietnamese boy. So he's got it. That dude's going to be popular in high school. That is crazy. He nuts. Isn't that nuts? Imagine going to school with that kid. He'd be so jealous. I got damn it. When you love it if he's your brother though. And anyone picks on you. Unless your brother wants you to fucking eat shit. Well, that's true. He makes you eat shit but he also sticks it up for you at school. Yeah. If he's a good brother.

1:06:55But if your brother's mean and he's got that, you're fucked. I feel like you torture your brother as a sister. You don't let somebody else do it. I know guys that had terrible brothers who beat them up all their life. But do they let other people also beat them up? If someone's beating you up but they protect you from being occasionally beaten up by others. It's the price you pay. I'm not willing to make that. You have to sleep in the same fucking house as that asshole. You're parents hopefully are there sometimes and they're stopping it sometimes. Oh, now you're unrealistic. He's gonna make a fighter.

1:07:33Yeah, you 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. And it doesn't matter if they're little either. They're scrappy. 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 greats of all time.

1:08:07I mean, that is... It's just like they got it on the prison and they can't have it that way. A negative turn into a positive. Yeah, I can see it that way.

1:08:18I knew another dude though got beat up by his brother and just destroyed his confidence his whole life. I became friends with him like in my 20s. That sucks. It was a bummer, man. He could just like not get past it. He could, you know, I wonder if he had never done MDMA. I hadn't either at the time. I wonder if that would have helped him in any way. I just recognized 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 sabotage thing that would kick in. Because everybody had already always taken things from him.

1:08:54Like 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 him. He humiliated him. And so he never felt like real success. So he was always scared to like progress in life. So he always self sabotage his life. Because he just thought everything was going to turn to shit. But he was a good guy and a smart guy. And just trapped by this childhood, you know, repeated beatings that he got. All right. Well, maybe it's not great always. Maybe it's not always going to turn out well. Sometimes it's good though. Sometimes it's good.

1:09:31Sometimes if the brother is a good guy, if you're both good people, like, you know, brothers fight and they make up and they apologize. Sure. Just like friends do. You know, friends fight and make up something new when you're young. Me and my sister would fight a lot. Fist fight? Yeah. You're three years apart. I remember my mom was like still hitting me until I was like about 16. And then at one point I was like, hey, I'm going to hit you back and then she stopped. Because at some point you become almost like, right. Yeah. But that's kind of how like we grew up. Like my mom got into a fist fight at my sister's kindergarten graduation.

1:10:06Like I'm like you fighting over fucking kindergartners, no one cares. They've accomplished nothing. Oh my god. I watched a shooting over a high school football game. Oh my god. I saw that too. Oh. That was terrible. Oh, it's so horrible. So sad. Just such a fucking, just a terrible thing. Or 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, like saying you did a great job and cheering and stuff like that. Yeah. But I would never yell about the other team. No. And some parents are like, what about him? What about offense?

1:10:52What about, you know, what about that foul? What about that foul? He's a cheater. He's a yelling. Like that's a six year old. Yeah. Like you out of your fucking mind, like let him play. Is his play. You should clap when they do a good job. Did you say it was fun? Did you enjoy it? Was it hard? Was it hard to make that goal? Like 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. Fuck. That's crazy. Now you've really ended the game.

1:11:32There's no way to even recover from this right now. You've ended your whole life. You've ended your whole life. Like the games all fucked up. I think two sometimes like parents also think they can push their kids to be like great athletes and then they'll be famous. Well, there's also like your kids going to do the thing that you didn't do. Right. Yeah, you wanted to do it, but you didn't do it. It's interesting is my mom kind of got me into stand up because she did stand up and then she quit. And then she got me into it. And then when she saw I was doing some stuff, she was like, I'm going to go back into it.

1:12:04Yeah. Yeah. Is she doing it now? She does. She does a lot of urban rooms. Really? Yeah. Is she good? She's funny. I mean, like we're a little bit different, but like she still has that same dark sense of humor, but she won't. She doesn't really do those jokes. Like sometimes I should think of something and she's like, you could you could do this. Like she, one time we were clotheshopping and she'll always say something like, if she'll take two larges and she's like, well, one large might be bigger than the other because the kids that are making them maybe one of the kids was tired. Like so she'll say stuff like that.

1:12:37And she's like, I can't say that on stage, but you should. So she'll do stuff like that. My whole family was funny though. Growing up. So it was out just when when did you first think about doing stand up? I was probably like in my early 20s. Like I always want to be on SNL. I never really wanted to do stand up comedy. I wanted to be on SNL. And then my mom was like, well, if you want to be on SNL, you have to like do stand up. So then I just started doing stand up and then I started liking it. But like I didn't want to be a stand up comic as a kid. Really? Yeah. What was like, who was the people on SNL?

1:13:14Like what arrow was this? Will Farrell, you know, Chris Farley, those guys. Like that was the people that I kind of grew up with and loved. Molly Shannon, Sherri O 'Terry, like that whole crew. Yeah, that was a great crew. Yeah. So that's kind of where I was like, oh, I want to do that. And she's like, well, you have to do stand up. And I had zero interest in doing it. Had you done any drama or anything in school? You know, we did like places as kids. I was like in the sound of music. I played that lady. Do a deal. A theme. Yeah. So like I did stuff like that. But I just, I don't know, I was always kind of like a class clown as a kid.

1:13:55Oh. So then I wanted to do that. And now I'm like not really the same as that. It's weird. Because you get it all out on stage? No, but I'm just saying I was like a class clown, but I was also like loud and like boy stress, where I'm not that same person anymore. Or I don't think I am anyway. What calmed it? I don't know. I think just depression. I don't know. I think as a kid, I just, even though my life looking back was not ideal, I still felt really happy. You know, like I didn't realize like all the issues as a kid really. So. I don't know. And then where did you start out? Oh, um, New York City.

1:14:39I'm from New York. I've lived in the Bronx my whole life. So I started in New York. So it's also weird too. Because you're like starting in a place where people won't move until they're really good. So I started in New York, uh, just being shitty. Where did you, did you start at a bar or we just started? The first place I went to was in Brooklyn. It was, I guess, an open mind. It was in like a big Italian restaurant. There were four people there. What year was this? 2004. My mom was there. My mom went on. She did well. And then I went up and I was like so high energy because I was so nervous. And I remember one of my jokes was about like I was working in the South Bronx as a crimes victims advocate at the time.

1:15:21And I got pulled over for not wearing a seat belt while someone was selling drugs right near me. And I was like just the lunacy of it. Or I was like, why my game? This guy's clearly selling drugs to somebody. That was like one of my first jokes. Something like that. And then when you got off stage, did you think this is something I'm gonna do more of? Were you? Yeah, I think because that show went well, even though there were four people. I was like, I'm gonna keep doing this. That show went well and there's four people. There were four people. And it was in a huge Italian restaurant that was like closing.

1:15:53Like they were like going out of business. So there was nobody there. Wow. And so then when was the next one? I didn't wait that long. Maybe a couple days later. I remember like driving into Manhattan and going to do this open mic called Collective Unconscious. And it's like wild. Like there was a guy there at one point that had like elephant Titus. So he would go on stage naked. And his balls were humongous. And he had like this tiny dick. And he was making people uncomfortable because he was doing, he was like naked the whole show. Like sitting in the audience. If you were like, you got to wear clothes until you get on stage.

1:16:32And he was like, all right, but like he would just be sitting there like his bare ass is on the chair. Right. So people were like, hey, can you put your clothes on? Yeah, what if I drop a chip? Yeah, can you just wear your clothes until you're on stage doing that? God. But that was like a weird collection of people. Yeah, I would imagine a guy that would fit in there. Just everything like that. Where the only requirement would be just wear your clothes until you get on stage. And not at first. They let him do that until he was creepy. So like if he didn't act like a creepster, he could have just, he could have just been naked the whole time.

1:17:04Like a creepster. Yeah, but like they were okay with it at first. They were like, all right. And it's not like he did anything great on stage. It was just seeing his huge balls. Which is nuts. I don't know how you're like elephant Titus. They're like this big. They're huge. So like as big as a head. Maybe like half of that. Half a head. Half a head for one though. And so like yeah, maybe that whole thing. And then like you can't even see the dick. Wait, what's your fill bad form? I didn't even feel bad. I was just like gross. I don't really care about your fucking big balls. Did you find out about the different mics from your mom?

1:17:44No. I went on to like, there's a couple of websites you go on to where they have a bunch of different open mics. And you could do a couple. And I remember it was a lottery. So if there's 30 people and you get picked first, you can pick one line up you want to go. And I would just pick like 30. Because they're so nervous. I just stay there for hours. Wow. Yeah. It's an interesting group of people though. And then sometimes my mom would come to come with me. And at that time I was dating a guy who would also come so the three of us would go. Yeah. Interesting. With the encouraging? Yeah. Like you mean my mom?

1:18:20Yeah. And the guy you're dating? Yeah. I mean, me and him met. We were both brand new. And then my mom was encouraging because I think she was just like, well, maybe you'll hit it and you'll help me. And I was like, it should be the other way around. It's interesting to people that you meet when you're doing open mics. It's a fascinating introduction to like this weird world. Weirdos. Weirdos and desperation and mental illness and mental illness. A lot of mental illness. Yes. Like really nutty people. Yeah. And you could do anything there. So you could not only do comedy. You could do like poetry.

1:18:56You could sing. So it was like a variety of open mic kind of. Wow. And you can get upstairs and show your balls. Yeah. That guy was doing that. Did anybody ever try to do that? They would have 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 it. I mean, not all I was there. I never seen anyone that was like following him with like regular balls. They're like, here's the big ball guy. Another small ball guy. Yeah. I mean, like that's what I'm asking. Like once a precedent is set that you could be on stage naked.

1:19:27Like is it only if you look weird? I think they would let you do whatever you wanted there. As long as it wasn't like creeping people out. Like they'd probably let you go on stage and spread your ass cheeks and stuff in it. Like I think they would be open to whatever you wanted to do. But you had to try. You could set a precedent every time. Thank God for people like that running those kind of establishments. It was fun. Yeah. And there was a lot of like, you know, my mom would come sometimes. She'd be like, that guy's really talented. But he would just be like an alcoholic. She'd be like, he's not going to go anywhere.

1:19:59I never seen him after that. But like, yeah. A lot of people in comedy. It's not the funniest people that make it. Right. Yeah. Oh, I remember a lot of people that were really talented in the early days. I'm like, why is this kind of not making it? And then there was a lot of people that were really talented. And then they were on their way to making it. Like they were doing well in headlining. And then they just fell apart. Like something in their life happened or like. Yeah. It gets a frenia. Like there's that with some of them. You know, or some other sort of mental disease. Yeah. You know, sometimes people crack.

1:20:32There's a lot of pressure involved. I'm just thinking that just the pressure of constantly performing. Doing sets, writing new material. So 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 exacerbate. They get better. They get worse rather when they get older. I could see that, especially if it's not treated. Yeah. So a lot of these people like, you would meet them.

1:21:05And then, you know, you did open mics together. Like you were in the trenches together, start out. And then you see them like 20 years later. And it didn't work. Like they, you know, see them out of an open mic night again. And they're still doing kind of the same material. I've seen that too. People that were really talented. And they just, you know, lost it to drugs or alcohol. Yeah. I mean, I got that's a shame because that person definitely could have went far. How many people out of the starting class of you, where you were at? Or the people you remember in the early days are still around?

1:21:39A bunch. I mean, no, no. I guess I went to a lot of different open mics and shows. So there's a lot of people I kind of started with, I guess. I don't know. I guess I remember like some, I've also watched people quit. And I've seen the moment they've quit. I remember being in a show and this guy was like, pumping the stool. And this other guy couldn't get on the show and he saw that. And he's like, I can't believe I can't get on the show. And then he quit. That was a, he's like fill in his downpest stool. And then that guy, who I thought, what do I want for? Because he was, he was talented. I mean, not pumping the stool wasn't great.

1:22:18But like he was talented. And then like all the clubs he worked at closed and he quit. Like he didn't just go to another club. He just was like, all right, I'm going to sell real estate. Yeah. You have to be really mentally ill to stay the path. Absolutely. That's why I think I did all that stuff and just thought it was normal. Like I, I didn't think like I shouldn't be treated like this. Yeah, I didn't have a path that was nearly as hard. I was really lucky that in Boston in the 1980s, there was a lot of open mic nights at legitimate clubs. So I started stitches, which was a legitimate club in Boston.

1:22:51It 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 get to see like these brilliant comedians. And so it was a real good scene for development. Because all the clubs had an open mic night. Every club had an open mic night. Was there audience? Oh, yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. You would go to an open mic. Like when I went to an open mic night, there was like 50 people in the crowd.

1:23:23Oh, yeah. That's a lot better. It was good. Yeah. And it was good. Because first of all, they called it Comedy Hell. It was George McDonald, who was a known stand -up in Boston. So he was like headlining all over the place ever. Anyway, so people knew who he was. And then he would go on. And he was like a real veteran. He'd been doing comedy forever. And he was one of the guys that came up through the Ding Ho. And you know, that whole, when stand -ups stood out, documentary, or something like that. That was really good. That was all about those guys. Right. And so you could always get people that would go because he would always be funny.

1:23:53Anyway, it's something like fucking five bucks together. You could 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. Did you mean a lot of comics that like took you on the road? No. No. Mostly what happened was I did well enough in open mics that one guy took me on the road. That was actually George's brother, Warren, Warren McDonald took me on the road. That was the first time I ever got paid. And the second time I ever got paid, someone had introduced me to this guy, Mike Clark, who was Lenny Clark's brother.

1:24:30Okay. So I got to open for Lenny Clark. The second time I ever got paid. It was insane. That is insane. Because he had already done HBO. Mm -hmm. And Lenny, you know, super sweet to me. So I'm really funny. He gave me a bunch of advice. And then his brother started using me. So his brother would use me to open in these like weird little bar shows all over the kind, like a Connecticut. He had like gigs everywhere. And you would go and do these fucking crazy bar shows. So I learned how to do stand up from mostly from going on the road, mostly doing bar shows. Right. So like a year in, I was just traveling doing a half an hour.

1:25:09That's how people are going to stand up outside of New York. Yeah. Did you say you don't like performing in Connecticut? Connecticut sucks. Do you know I did like a charity show there and I got taken off stage. Ah! This was you off stage? Yeah. For what? So. I don't know about this. That was Connecticut. That was Connecticut. Okay. So what happened? So I, you know, it was like 500 people there. There's, I guess they were making odd. It was for kids that were like, you know, less fortunate. I guess given them food or, you know, opportunities or whatever. And I was like, I don't know how this is going to go.

1:25:45So the girl before me is doing really well. She did a joke about pedophiles. I get on stage and I was like, oh, I wasn't going to do my joke about that. But I was like, oh, these people love that joke that she did. And this is allegedly. So I don't know exactly why but allegedly this is why I think I was taking off stage. So I'm going, I'm doing well. I'm getting like a plausible break. So I'm like, oh, I could definitely do this joke. And the joke is about how I want to be rich, but not too rich. I want to stop right before it's okay to fuck kids. And these are very rich people. And I didn't think they were that rich.

1:26:22And one of the punchlines, it's like about comparing like poor pedophiles to rich pedophiles. And how like a poor pedophile is like a guy that works at UBS, a fucks a kid and it's sad. But like how rich people fuck kids and it's like a party. You know, they want to boat high -fiving each other. And I did that joke and I lost a lot of the audience. And I was like, okay. And then I did a couple more jokes and it was like definitely different in the room. And then somebody came on stage and got me off. And I was like, what's weird is like everyone's like, aren't you mad? I'm like, no, this is not my first charity show I've gotten taken off stage.

1:26:53Like I shouldn't do these shows and whatever people ask me. I'm like, I don't think I'm right for this. How many minutes were you in before you told them? 15. So you'd kill them for 15 minutes? Yeah. And I think I can definitely do this joke. Because this girl, now her joke wasn't as specific. But what I was told later is like allegedly there's a guy in the community who was a rich pedophile with a boat that was fucking kids in the community. And I was like, I'm like, how, why would I know that? And I was like, oh, that makes a lot of sense. Oh, damn it. If you didn't do that joke, you would be dead.

1:27:24If I didn't do that joke, I would have been fine. Because they liked me. They really did like me. Oh my God, you were making fun of them and you're being mean to them. I didn't think they were rich enough. I didn't think they were fucking rich. You know what I mean? Well, it was probably just one guy. Yes. Well, okay. But maybe. I don't know. But the pedophile, the rich people pedophile ring is one of the scariest conspiracies. I mean, so I get off stage. I'm fine. Because I think I would be more upset if I didn't get taken off stage in another charity show. And everyone, the other comment, Cory Rodriguez, like fucking pissed, he was like, aren't you mad?

1:27:59I'm like, hey, listen, if they want me off stage, I'll get off stage. I've already gotten paid. I get that my comedy is not for everybody. And I know that. You know, maybe as an earlier comment, go to her, my family's one, like, I get that. So he goes on stage and he's like, he's upset about what happened. And there are people in the audience that are also upset. It was like, I split the room, which is what I do a lot. And then he was like, well, Adrian's still here. So if you enjoyed her, like, let her know. And then people were standing and clapping. So it was like people that I had those people and then people who were clapping when I got taken off.

1:28:29So I was like, yeah, I'm just not doing anymore charity shows. Yeah. Well, you don't have to at this point. No, and I just don't think I'm raffer. But I always ask these people too, because the guy that booked it, Eddie Brill, who, uh, I know Eddie. Yeah, he's great. Boss, you got to. Yes. And he was at the, when I opened for Louis at Madison Square Garden, he was there and saw it. And he was like, I said to him, I go, do you the raffer this gig? And he was like, yeah, they can't take a joke, fuck them. I'm like, are you sure? You, but because he had seen all the jokes that I did. Yeah. And he was like, yeah, I think you'll be fine.

1:29:03You would have been fine. I would have if I didn't do that one joke, but I didn't. How would I know that? How would you know? There's no way to know it. Yeah, the joke was fine if it wasn't for that one neighborhood where that actually happened. Yes. How the fuck could you know that? I mean, I, I've made a mistake of doing a school shooting joke too close to somewhere, so then I would start looking that up as has there been a school shooting in this area. I was like, I guess that's a new thing to look up. Jesus. There's no way to know that. Yeah. How could you do that? That's a great story though.

1:29:33Yeah. Sounds like they were okay. They were okay. So we could hold on. And there were a lot of people in the audience that were still okay. And they were like, we laughed. We thought it was funny. And they're like, fuck them. Yeah. They probably didn't know anybody who knew somebody who had a kid that got fucked. I think they were just like, hey, I also was like, well, that's even like a you problem. Yeah. Like, don't get mad at me. Not only that, I'm sorry that joke was accurate. Yeah. That's what's crazy. That is what's crazy. Yeah. Anywhere else you do that joke in Montana, people laugh in their ass off.

1:30:04You do it there. Yeah. And that, yeah. So they were like, no, that's not why you got taken off stage. You got, they are saying that I got taken off stage for an adoption joke. What was the adoption joke? You don't have to tell her. I don't know, but there was a lady who had also adopted a kid and they thought she was interacting with me. They thought that she was angry and she wasn't. Like, when I was talking her after, she was like, I wasn't upset. Oh, so it was an excuse. I don't know. They're just saying that, yeah. I don't know. So, allegedly, that's what happened. And they're just like, that's not what happened.

1:30:33I'm like, all right. One of my best friends lives in Connecticut just for just. So, that is what I'm mind. I love him, but Connecticut, you can suck it. It's weird because like, I've gone there and done shows opening for Louis and they've been great. Like, there are people that are fun. But then there's also the other people that are like, don't get comedy at all. This is the problem with Connecticut. It's not a real state. It's a highway between Boston and New York. Sure. And the problem is, there's no hope there. Like, nobody like hopes they move to Hartford. I mean, there are people out there who they moved to Greenwich, though.

1:31:09Yeah, you can see you can be with all those boat ride and 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? Yeah. 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 kind of incorporated into the area. Yeah, if Connecticut like ceased to exist, nobody would care. It's just a weird place because, I mean, I've met a lot of fun people from Connecticut.

1:31:48But 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, you know, going to LA. It's not like, it's not like even like Austin, which is only a million people. It's not like Dallas, which is fun. It's fucking gloomy. There's something gloomy. They have amazing pizza in New Haven, though. Oh, yeah. I know about that pizza area. Shit. There's a lot of pizza areas in New Haven. I like going to Connecticut because I do like how it is a slower pace. Like I've lived in New York City my whole life.

1:32:27I like hate it. If I wasn't doing stand -up, I wouldn't live there. That's where Lyme disease came from. The Bronx? Or Connecticut? That sounds about right. That's their contribution. No, to everybody in Lyme disease. I don't know if that's true. Isn't it like Lyme Connecticut? Is that where it was originally? Is that something like that? There's a CIA conspiracy about the Lyme disease. What is the CIA saying? 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 bio weapon that accidentally got released. That these infected ticks were part of a lab program.

1:33:05I don't know. Maybe it was like COVID. Just made it all up. But they definitely do things like that in some countries. Sure. They 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 don't die from it, right? You get fucked up if you don't get treated quickly. Is it like physically debilitating? Oh, debilitating. Depending on the severity, obviously. But I know people that have had horrible joint pain, neck pain, spinal pain. That sucks. They're just an agony all the time. Yeah.

1:33:41And then people have just lost all of their 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 bullseye ring around the tick bite, if it initially becomes infected. OK. And if they don't catch that, if they don't find that, then they don't know it's Lyme disease. So they don't start treating you with antibiotics. They might think, oh, you know, seems fine. Your vitals check fine. And then it progresses worse and worse. And my friend's son was five years old, and he developed Bell's palsy.

1:34:16So his face went numb. And then finally they realized it was a tick bite. And finally they realized they had Lyme disease. So they gave him antibiotics and he recovered. My friend was fucked up for at least a year. He had lost a shit ton of weight. He got real skinny. I mean, it really wrecked him. Lyme disease is rough. That sucks. And it's everywhere. There are so many ticks that have Lyme. It's all over the place on the East Coast. I feel like that's not something in the Bronx. I don't know if it's in the Bronx. There's not a lot of grass. But if there's deer, if there's deer, there's ticks.

1:34:55Yeah. Anywhere there's deer. If you see deer and a lot of other animals, there's ticks. Any place where there's ticks, you might have Lyme. If there's deer in the Bronx, they're lost. There's a story about a deer that was in Locust Point. And they're like, this does not belong here. Yeah, they fucked up. Yeah. That's exo. You guys have coyotes though. You mean people? No, actually coyotes in the Bronx. Where? They're really, they've photographed coyotes in the Bronx. Where? Like Van Collar Park or something? Like in abandoned houses and shit. It's crazy. I wonder where they're coming from. They're all over the world now or all the country, rather.

1:35:31They're in every single state. I have never seen a coyote in the Bronx. Coyote spotted in the Bronx. Look at that. Where in the Bronx? Riverdale's not really the Bronx though. Right there. Yeah, but that's Riverdale. What's Riverdale? It's like Bronx light. That's what people call it. Well, just because you saw him there, he's on a street. He doesn't know he's in Bronx light. He doesn't know that. He thinks he's in the Bronx. But he's not. He's in Bronx light. Some places were someone throughout pizza. Okay, where? Over the last several decades, coyotes have been expanding their natural range in response to ample food and open habitat.

1:36:05The parks department said in the statement. Coyotes are living within the city limits. We're aware of coyotes living in the Bronx, Queens and Manhattan. Fuck. Yeah, how about that? Might have to kill a coyote. If you kill them, they just make more babies. That's why they're here. That's literally why they're here. When you kill coyotes, the female coyotes know that one of them's missing. So they make more pups. I mean, you don't think someone know you think they know this one's in the Bronx by itself? I don't think it's by itself. You think it's with other people? 100 % with other. 100 % their pack animal.

1:36:35They're also cute too. They're adorable till they're jumping over a fence with your chicken in their mouth. Fuck. If I had to, I would kill it. I'd say it my dog. For sure you would. You'd have to. It is really cute. Looks like a dog. Well, if you live here, you can carry a gun. The coyote runs up on you. Blast them. The coyotes out here, they don't even yell. I went to a gun range. I was like, oh, I love this. I was a love of gun. But I think I would, I couldn't have it in the Bronx. No, it's not legal. Unfortunately. That's not why. I think I would just, anytime someone did something. You choose people?

1:37:08Yeah. I have a very bad road rage. I think it's just from living in New York City, my whole life and driving. Yeah. Yeah, it's not good. Maybe she moved to Canada. No fucking life. I have a nice rural life. May I have to be rich to live there? Would you live in one of those houses, one of them great gaspies houses? I don't want a big house like that. Those houses are crazy. Yeah, I don't need something extravagant like that. Show me some of them crazy. What is it? What's that one town? It wants the gilded age. But what is that one town? I don't know the one. I don't know the one to us. It's still pretty close to that.

1:37:40It's just a good one. That's nice. That's like in a state. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Succession type shit. Yeah. Look at that house. Where is that? That is insane. That's Connecticut. Those people are fucking pissed. These people are wild. Yeah, that's insane. Those are wild money. Look at that one in Eureka, California, holy fuck. It's cool though. Where's Eureka?

1:38:03I don't know what it is. I don't know what it is. It's where they found gold or garadilla. Eureka. That's the New York. What's Barry? Wow. Look at that beautiful house. 200 acres. Who wants that? Me. Yeah, I don't. I've lived in like one... What a helicopter. That's actually cool. 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, he 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.

1:38:39I mean, that's so much of a house to keep up with. It definitely is. I guess you're rich though, so you're not keeping up with it. It's not like a website that details them. Because they're like pretty famous for being extravagant. And they're also everyone's keeping up with the Joneses. So there's like, you know, the guy who's the CEO of Biotech down the road. He's got a bigger house. We're going to expand our pool. And so they're all going ham. You got to do some with that hedge fund money. Yeah, I guess. I don't know if I do that. What would you do? I don't know. Am I still doing comedy? Yeah, yeah, I guess I'm doing comedy.

1:39:11I don't know. I would like, I honestly love animals. I would love to have like a sanctuary for like animals. Yeah. Not all animals, obviously. I should have brought Marshall. I didn't know. You should have brought Marshall. I didn't know such an animal lover. You'd want to steal him. I know. He's really cute. Are you saying that aren't you guys going to bring your dogs to go play? Oh, yeah, yeah, me and him. Yeah. His dog bandit. She's awesome. Or he's awesome. He calls it a girl sometimes. I think it's a boy. No, I think it's a girl. Is it? I'm pretty sure it's a boy sometimes too though. Yeah, he's that's yeah.

1:39:43It's a girl though. He makes out with it. Yeah, he's making out with my dog. My I took my dog here also. Yeah, that is weird. I don't even he could die. Like people would die. I would be okay with that. I think R .A. feels like he lives his life to the fullest. And if he died at any point, he'd be like, okay. I better be shit in his pants the last few hours. Like if he was on that submarine. Yeah. Those people finally died I think. 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 you know, they might have just sunk right into it.

1:40:23It's horrific. When you hear that they've had moments in the past, where they lost contact for hours, with other subs, and they're still doing it the same way. Like that whole thing is so insane. That sub can't pilot itself. There's no line attached to it. It just goes down to remote control that's controlling it. The boat has to be above it for it to work. What's interesting to me is, like these people in down there go see the Titanic. If you told me I could watch that on TV, I still wouldn't want to watch it. Like I can't even do that. Brian Simpson poured this out yesterday. This is what's even more insane.

1:40:58They're not even seeing it through like a big window. All right, you were saying that. They're seeing it through screens. There are these cameras on the outside of it, and as they pilot it around, they're seeing it on screens. There's like one small window. What is the point? People like to do dangerous shit to say they did dangerous shit. They want to experience things. They want to go to the bottom of the ocean and see the Titanic. I know, but like there's a billionaire, but who are the other people that are with him? One of them was one of the guys son. He was 19 year old son. Yeah. Fucking Jesus Christ.

1:41:33Jesus Christ. It's so scary. What a scary way to die. I know, and it's like it's your own fault. Yeah. That's the other thing. 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. Oh. Fuck. But didn't they also make it themselves? No, this company has sent, I think, was it 100 voyages? They've done 100 voyages. No, but I'm saying the actual summary. Didn't they like make this? Yeah. Do you want people saying they got it like stuff at Home Depot? Well, there's a company to build it. Mm -hmm. And the company, apparently, there was a whistleblower who had complained that the hull was not really established to be able to tolerate the amount of pressure that they were putting it under.

1:42:22By 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, Stockton Rush, Shazda Dawood and his son, Suleiman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul Henry, NAR Galalt, have sadly been lost.

1:43:03The Titan sub -operator Oceangate said in a statement, these men were true explorers who shared a distinct spirit of adventure and a deep passion for exploring and protecting the world's oceans. Our hearts are with those five souls and every member of their families during this tragic time. We grieve the loss of life and the joy they brought to everyone they knew. Fuck. Fuck. It says they're unclean 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, and then I wonder if you also put more people in danger if you go looking for them?

1:43:41Yeah, you do. 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 an underarmament that is insane. That's insane. And it's so scary. So scary that people would do that. So scary that, like, they fired the guy who was the whistleblower. And apparently there was a bunch of other people that complained as well. Interesting. Yeah, no, it was a serious thing. What was the, pull up that article again that we looked at? It was, 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.

1:44:23This is not the way to do it. And they had said that they were cleared by one certain body of, you know, some, some group that was examining them, but they hadn't been cleared by them. I don't know. So many propose that to you. Wouldn't you be like, absolutely not. Fuck that. Fuck that. Whistleblower raised safety concerns about Ocean Gates Immersible in 2018. Then he was fired. Original carbon fiber hull wasn't rated for Titanic Daps. Claim the operations director. It is interesting to go look the very Titanic. And then you also have the same fate as the people on the Titanic. The worst fate.

1:45:01Yeah. Yeah, because you actually knew what you were doing. Yeah. 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. Well, also the rich, a lot of the rich people I think made it off. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Apparently the company had plans to make 3D scans of it. That's the first time I've heard of that. I don't know if that's what they were doing there, but that's what the company's goal was at some point. Make 3D scans of the Titanic? Yeah. Oh, wow.

1:45:37So they could recreate it somewhere? I get it. Yeah. The exact VR computer. Oh, wow. Fuck. What is honestly the purpose of doing that? People have to do the things. They'll have to do difficult shit. I know, but it's like do something else. I know. 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. That's true. But at least you're doing that by yourself. You kind of know the risk. I don't know. I mean, this also seems crazy. If somebody's like, would you want to do this? I'd say no. Yeah, of course. But, you know, what makes people skydive?

1:46:16Well, it makes people really bullseagr. Real seekers. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I guess I would, if I was into doing those things, I know right away I'm going to probably, like, I know exactly what could happen, but something like that, or someone's like, hey, this is totally safe. We're going to be together. I don't know. I just... You fucked that. Yeah. Yeah, it's not totally safe. There's no way it's totally safe. Hey, Jamie, have you seen that bull that they call Godmode? Somebody 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.

1:46:54When you see what this bull does to the guy who's riding, it's... I didn't know a bull could do that. I didn't know a bull could move that way. Look at this bull. The bull's name is Godmode. Watch how high the bull gets in the air. It's insane. But wait, you have to know if you do this, you might die. 100%. But look at this guy trying to hang onto this bull. Look at the height this bull's reaching. I mean, that's, that's bull's flying. That's crazy. Look at that bull fly. I mean, that's the Michael Jordan of Bulls. Yeah. Look at the height it's getting. I mean, that thing's six feet in the air, seven feet in the air.

1:47:31He's eight feet in the air. He's cute. It's adorable. It looks like he's going back. He's just jumping. Not this, but there's a, I don't know, 20 girls standing in a bull ring. And they just let a bull go? Yes. And they're all like a couple of them got jacked. Yeah, of course. What is wrong with these? I don't even take the subway. I mean, why would I ever do anything like this? This bull is still jumping and no one's on him anymore. How are you gonna, what are you gonna do? You ain't doing shit. You ain't doing shit. But just the fact that the bull keeps jumping like that, even after no one's on him, like, get the fuck off me.

1:48:06That's why he's got the mode. Yeah. But people want to ride that thing. There's someone out there going, fuck it. I'm going to ride God mode. Yeah, I guess. Yeah. Not you, huh? No. Why would I do that? 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. I mean, it's like, what do you think is going to happen? It's a great song. The song sounds great, but I mean, come on. Yeah, what is going to happen? I'm already ticked. This sounds like some tick -tock stuff. We saw it go crazy, but I can't find anything else online that says that a bull is sold for 25 million named God.

1:48:48Well, that could be hard for shit. But whatever that bull can do is like, Jesus Christ. Those guys, that's a rough life. That's a rough life bull riding. That is for me below getting sex traffic. I'm like, send me in a container somewhere. I don't trust this bull. It's so weird when people choose to do with their life. Yeah, I mean, I guess two of you are a real thrill -seeker and you keep doing bigger and bigger things. It must be the same way you get endorphins from it. 100%. Yeah, 100%. It's also like the culture of it, I guess. Who's the biggest risk taker? Yeah, I guess. Right. Bob is going to do it.

1:49:29He's fucking crazy. That's right, boys. But that guy might even be scared. And he's like, I got to fucking do this now because everyone is like, come on. It's fake. Well, not fake because obviously we saw the video, but the most expensive bull sold is 1 .5 million in 2020. That one doesn't look like a kid. But is that a breeding bull or is that a riding bull? Even still, a riding bull would be the less valuable than a breeding bull, wouldn't it? I do. Because you just ride in it for a couple weeks and then you have to sell so many tickets to get the money back. Well, I would imagine that riding bulls don't get hurt very often.

1:50:04They only work six seconds at a time. Right, but I bet they can do that anytime they want. So wait. Like, if you just give them a couple days off, I bet the riding bulls get right back after it. I don't think that's the time. Yeah, I don't think the riding bulls worry about a little puny person riding its back. Why is it worth 25 million? Because it's so preposterous that everybody's going to want to see God mode and everyone's going to see God mode's children. That's what they do with those things. I know, but that's what they do with those things. Those riding bulls when they're really dangerous, they breed them.

1:50:34They breed the most, 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 just don't think there were that much. Oh, I believe you. Yeah, I'm sure it's some tough stuff. Let's just ask them question. How do you determine which bulls are going to be like riding bulls like them? Which ones are just going to be like beef bulls? It's a good question. I wonder if it's a specific type of bull. Does he just act crazy at birth and they're like, that's the one.

1:51:02Right. 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. Yeah, it sounds like a bad idea. I was like, don't do it. Don't do it. And they're like, they said it's a stunt bull. That's the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the stunt guys get to say, he's a stunt bull. I go, that bull does not know he's a stunt bull. No. That's a fucking bull. They're like, hey, turn it down for them. And the bulls try trying to get out of the cage before the people got on it.

1:51:27And I was like, no way. Don't do it. Yeah. Because you could get stomped. You 100 % can get kicked in the face. And it'll change your life. Don't do that. Wouldn't that also be a huge lawsuit for fear factor? 100%. And they just don't care. They rolled the dice. They rolled the dice. I guess. Yeah. That's what they did. The other time I told them not to do it, the people had a drink come. But at least that you're not going to die from. I mean, it's gross. You're going to die. You can't die from too much calm. I don't know. I mean, you could definitely die from bull steps on you though. Yes. Yeah, you wouldn't die.

1:52:00Did they do that episode of drinking calm? They did. How much come a lot like beer style? Like this much more like that. Donkey come. So someone's just jerking these. Donkey come. Why? Because donkeys don't breed because donkey comes. Not it's not good for anything. Because donkeys are a hybrid of a mule and a horse. So this is people that are drinking donkey piss. I'm a threat right now. That's crazy. That's crazy. Do these people have to keep it down? Yeah. No, they throw it up eventually. After they swallowed it, then they were allowed to throw up. So somebody for this show had a jerk off donkeys.

1:52:41They actually stick a cattle prod up their asshole and they shoot like a fire hose. At least someone doesn't have to jerk them off. That would be shitty. Yeah, they do something with a stick in his asshole and just yikes. Yeah. I know. It's gross. I gotta be honest though, was it mixed with water? It seemed very liquidy. It was thick. It seemed liquidy. I thought it would be more like a milkshake consistency. Yeah, then these guys are chucking. So someone got a hold of the footage, like TMZ or something like that. And then NBC pulled the episode from America. Well, they didn't pull it overseas.

1:53:18So I can think it aired in Holland or someone like that. So find out where it aired. I mean, one of the fear factor YouTube channel, that's where it is. Oh, yeah, you can definitely get it on YouTube. Yeah. But so that was a kill the show. Then they're like, that's a wrap. So they, they can't see that episode. That was the end of the show. Yeah, they canceled that episode. They never aired that episode and they canceled the show. It's so crazy over Donkey Kong. Isn't that nuts? It was awesome. It was perfect. It was perfect. Oh, gross. Perfect way to end. Yeah. And nobody saw it except in Holland.

1:53:51A lot of people saw it on YouTube though. We've talked about it again. I think it's a lot of time. Oh, okay. So more people ever saw it than they would have seen it if it was on TV for sure. It did. I don't know. Is it worse to be the person that like drank all that common that it's in there? No, it's probably better. But it did air. But did you say to aired only in Holland? Yeah, but it airs on YouTube. Oh, yeah. I'm trying to find out. Drinking calm on YouTube is you're going to get some hits. You're going to get some. Imagine going on a job interview and they're like, did you drink that Donkey Kong?

1:54:22Well, you one of the twins because it was twins. I mean, you're like, no, that's my sister. My sister did it. So one had to drink piss. The other one had to drink calm. What would you drink? Piss. Come is chunky. Yeah, it's a lot. A lot of protein. I would imagine it would affect your everything in there. Piss is just dirty water. If you're drinking water, you're drinking dinosaur piss. I love it. Do you know that? All water on earth. At one point in time, if you just think statistically, the hundreds of millions of years of dinosaurs were around, all that water at some point in time was filtered out of a dinosaur's dick.

1:55:00That sounds insane and not true. I think it's true. I don't think that's true. Let's see. I don't know. Okay. All water. What did you go with that? Is your work computer just like have the worst stuff on it? It's a separate browser. Yeah, well, how would you phrase that? Every glass of water you drink originally was in dinosaur urine. Dinosaurs drink the same water as us. Originally was dinosaur urine. I wanted to be urine. I wanted to be real specific.

1:55:34All the water you drink came from dinosaur urine. Just be ridiculous. Well, the way I asked it, or here, someone did ask the question you're asking. You are drinking dinosaur pee every day. Here's why. Ooh. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, you are drinking dinosaur pee every day. Here's why from tech times. The average American drinks four cups of water every day according to US Department of Agriculture. This is far shorter than recommended. Eight glasses, blah, blah, blah. Whether it's tap filtered, bottled, sparkling, or sourced from the Himalayan glaciers, and sparkled with gold dust, you are actually drinking the liquid waste of an ancient beast.

1:56:13It says a science -centric YouTube channel, Curious Minds. A video explaining this theory says that every small percentage of all the water in the world is available for drinking purposes. But it's still a huge amount of water to provide for the needs of every human being that's ever walked 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 years, falls down on earth, constantly flows through the rivers, lakes, ground, reservoirs, and everywhere else. It passes through, including inside the guts of people and the animals that drink it.

1:56:42So, 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 would drunk all the water available back then. And then all the water available now is simply water that has passed through a dinosaur's kidneys, making its way through the never -ending water cycle. That's crazy that dinosaurs were around for 186 million years. If you told me they were around for 100 years, I would have believed it.

1:57:18I don't know. Nothing about dinosaurs. Yeah, they were around forever. It wasn't for rock. They'd still be around. That's crazy. And now it gets to drink their piss. That's what's interesting about life on other planets. Like, if something like the dinosaurs does exist, it takes something like the 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 builds a house. No one ever gets a Tesla. Just pissing. Yeah, every time you go outside, raptors tear your part.

1:57:55You live in like tiny caves, and they try to find you in there, and they drag your kids out. Yeah, they send a little raptor in there, and they grab your kid by the feet. You crawl into little tunnels and holes, as they nip at you and try to claw away at the rocks to get to you. You never develop tools. Yeah. You never develop anything. You barely stay alive. You probably go extinct. Somehow that submarine thing sounds less worse than that. Yeah, probably. You need to horn a part by a raptor. If you lived in that era, I think everything ate everything. Probably. And the only way you didn't get eaten if you were like a stegosaurus, where you just covered an armor.

1:58:31Just to keep things from eating you. Imagine what kind of fucking hard life you have to be living in, to develop the kind of skin the stegosaurus has. Just armor, everywhere you are. Like a triceratoms, everywhere you are 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 piss. And that's the bright side of a apocalypse caused by an asteroid impact. It's not that bad. It's pretty good. It's way better than dinosaurs still being around. And it's way better than Donkey Kong. Yes. Not that I know, but I assume this is better.

1:59:14My coffee is dinosaur piss. Yeah. Yeah. It makes for another crap. No, just coffee. Do you don't put anything in it, like none of them look or anything? No, just black. Black coffee is tough. I like to put something in it, so it's not like sour. I started getting into it when I became friends with my friend Evan Hafer, who runs black rifle coffee. It's like his company. I don't know. And he, well, there was a guy had had a podcast a long time ago. There was actually a coffee expert. What's that gentleman's name again? Juliano. No. Juliano, right? Yeah. Peter Juliano. Very interesting guy, but he's like a legitimate coffee expert.

1:59:52And I always wanted to, I was like, I like talking to people that just know a lot about one thing. Sure. Like it's weird. Like how much this guy knows about coffee. And he brought a bunch of different coffees to sample. And there's this Ethiopian coffees that tasted almost like, like they were lemony. And you're drinking them all black, everything black. Like he's like real coffee drinkers, drink coffee 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.

2:00:26And he drinks everything black. And I just started drinking it black. I think it's an acquired taste. I've done it before. Like drink it black with nothing in it. Like if I'm in a hotel, they don't have anything. But I don't know. If the coffee is good quality, then you can. Yeah. For me anyway. But if it's like crappy, I can hold it. Yeah, if they fuck it up. If they don't know what they're doing, they fuck it up. But even if I go to a diner, I just drink black coffee. Yeah. I like it. I don't know. Maybe I'll get there one day. It's just the thing where like I know it doesn't taste good, but it tastes good to me.

2:00:58Okay. Like I like that sort of bitter, warm liquid taste. I like it. I like tea with nothing in it. I do too. Yeah, but coffee is real bitter. But tea with honey is better, isn't it? Yeah. But I don't mind that plain as opposed to coffee is like not great. Yeah. Well, I try to avoid sugar as much as possible. And I feel like when I put, even if I put like sweet and low or stevia and something, it makes me want more sweet things. Oh, yeah, I get that. Because I like sweet stuff. You know, so just avoid it. Mm -hmm. Whatever I can. Definitely. That's why I try and cut sugar out because I'm addicted to it.

2:01:34Everybody is. I think it's like some people aren't though. It's like people I could have one or two drinks. Like I think certain people like process everything differently. I don't know. Yeah, for sure. But sugar isn't so many things. You don't realize how much you love it. It is. It's just live off of it. Yes. Yeah. But like some people can have one cupcake. Right. Yeah, I mean, some of you were like, I need to chase that sugar. Yeah. Have you, you said that you have, how many people in you, you have many people in your family that have had addicted personalities or addiction issues? Addiction issues, yeah, for sure.

2:02:06Drugs and gambling. Drugs, gambling, drinking. Yeah. Food, just like everything. Yeah. Also, I think when your life is in that great, you look for an escape. So. Absolutely. You know. Are you worried that as your life gets greater and greater, that you will have less things to be upset about? No, I think I have quite a few things to be upset. I think I'll never run out of stuff. I asked my therapist if he thought I'd ever be cured and he left and he goes, no. Whoa. He's like, absolutely not. Maybe he just wants to keep you there. Maybe. But I, he's not making that much off of me. I think he would, he's like, I think he'd rather me be like in a good place.

2:02:46Over getting the little bit of money I give him. Hmm. But he's funny. He's really a funny person. Like, because I did think I had a good childhood and then like I started going to him and he's like, you had a terrible childhood. Like I literally sent him and I was like, I thought I had a good childhood because nobody molested me as a kid. And he was like, no, he's like, actually if somebody did, they would have been showing you attention. He's like, it would have been better. Like he's joking though. Right. But I was like, I see what he's saying. Like, yeah, me and my sister just ignored. Yeah.

2:03:14But I don't know. I think I'll always have stuff to be upset about. Stand up comedy is such an interesting thing because everybody came from like a place of lacking. Right. But everybody's thing, like everything that got him to that is different. But the result is the same with art. It's all just like, how do I figure out how these fucked up ideas into people's heads and elicit a response? Sure. But a lot of comics, you know, have a lot of mental illness. Yeah. Um, fucked up childhoods. Sure. You know, you're pulling like, I feel like my family was always very funny because we were always struggling like financially and just like with different stuff.

2:03:54Mm -hmm. You just kind of always are funny and joking around. That's what I think. When you were other prefer fucked up people that joke around a lot to like stuffy people in Connecticut. I mean, it would have been nice if like we had money. Like I think I would have preferred having like some some financial stability. Yeah. In terms of just having like laughs. Yeah. I mean, maybe not now because I do stand up. But like, yeah, when you're younger, I mean, I also didn't realize how rich people were too until I went to college and seemed like people have lots of money. Like I didn't really realize that as a kid.

2:04:29Yeah. That's probably good. Like, I think it really fucks people up when they're like, they're poor and they're around rich people. Cause it's like right there. And the Bronx, there's like varying degrees, like when I was growing up, there's like varying degrees of poor. You know, like, like some of my friends parents did have a house, but like, you're still in the Bronx. It's not like, you know, Connecticut or. Right. But yeah, I didn't really. It's slightly doing better poor. Yeah, you're doing a little bit better. But it has a comic like God damn it. Like, you know, comedy is like the best thing to do.

2:05:05It's so much fun. And that's the superpower. Fucked up childhood is the superpower. Sure. I see that. But like we also did like things that were like, you know, on vacation, we would go visit my aunt who was dying every year. Like that was a, that was like a vacation from the rest of our life. Oh God. Which is a crazy thing to do as a vacation. Yeah. So that sucks. Yeah, but as a kid, I didn't realize it sucked. I realized it sucks now. You didn't realize until you started doing therapy. No, I realized it once I got older and realized like we should not be, you know, in a house where someone's dying in the living room.

2:05:43You know, like, well, there's like her and then another aunt, but yeah, this is not great. We're going to Crescent, Pennsylvania. That's like the worst. So is doing stand up? Is that the most joy you ever experienced? Sometimes sometimes not. When it doesn't go well. I don't know. I think that if I had a lot of money, I might just work with animals. Like I really love animals. Yeah. You quit doing stand. I don't think I quit doing stand. I think I'd always do it. But I do love like helping animals and like even people too, you know, like I make a lot of dark jokes, but like I think everyone just thinks I'm an awful person.

2:06:18I'm like, well, these are just jokes though. Yeah. But yeah, I would love to work with animals like Rehome animals like take, you know, ones in that you can. One partner up with Whitney. Do you know Whitney? Not really. I mean, like we follow each other on Instagram, but she's awesome. He would love her. Yeah, I mean, I found her account. She had, you know, that one dog that looked like an alien. What's the dog's name? Dragon or something? Violet. I think it's violet. But yeah, so like I would love to do that. I wish that stand up like get to a place where I could be afforded a situation like that.

2:06:51To like help animals. Yeah, she's always fostering dogs. She has a horse. Yeah. Yeah, I would like if she fostered me. She will take in. She took people in during the pandemic. She turned her house into like a flop house. Yeah, I saw that. Yeah, she's awesome. Sedge outdoor shows at her house. They were doing them in New York too. Really? Yeah. People's yards and stuff. Oh, like Central Park. They did some shows. I did shows on roofs. Like it was just people getting real creative. When did you get back into an indoor club again? What was the first time? How many months out? I know I was doing it about six months after like outside.

2:07:30And then I think I waited to get vaccinated to do it inside. Like the first vaccine, maybe. Did you have to get back to it? You had to to be in those clubs too, right? Yeah. And I think I, I think you had to get, I had to give vaccinated to definitely go to Europe when I went on that tour with Louis. So we definitely need I think three at that point. You had to have a booster to go over there too. Yeah. You had to have three. And I think the clubs you might have only needed to, but I'm not sure. There were some comments that refused to get vaccinated too. Yeah. There's a couple of them. But I was like, I mean, when I took the vaccine, I was like, I'm not 100 % confident.

2:08:06And that's what I was like, but like whatever I do want to work. Yeah. 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. And it was very clear that it was going to stop you from working, especially in some jobs. You know, a lot of people were forced into it. Until I worked hard. Yeah. Yeah. What did you, did you get a vaccine? No. I got, which one did I get? Not the Johnson and Johnson. That seemed like the worst one. Where's like one vaccine? And you're like, why is this one vaccine? Yeah. And it's like 65 % protection. But it's all of it was shenanigans.

2:08:40If 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 work? 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.

2:09:17And then you 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. Interesting. Yeah. Well, there's a lot of weird things that happen with your immune system. I got very sick from the vaccines. How bad? Like, I think, I don't remember which one fucked me up the worst, but like, there was a time where I was like home for two, three days, where I was like, oh, I'm really sick. I had fever. I was really sick.

2:09:48And then I got COVID and I was really sick from it. But I was, I feel like I wouldn't get anymore. I won't get any more boosters. I have to, I know people are like, I'm on five. I'm like, great. That's good for you. You know, some people it's fine. Some people, 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.

2:10:20We've all seen people dropped out of heart attacks that shouldn't be. And then there's people that it might have said their lives. That's like that's an uncomfortable, like sort of conversation that people that are against it have to have. And people that are pro at have to have. Like you have to look at the actual data of what really did happen. And particularly for like non -vonable people, like children, it was not a good idea. Yeah, I guess I just didn't understand like say you didn't want to get vaccinated and somebody is vaccinated. And why does that matter? Like it's actually because it didn't both.

2:10:53I mean, also there's a huge money to be made off the vaccines. But there was also people wanted you to do what they did. I did the right thing. You should do the right thing. You're selfish. You're not doing it. And you were able to prepare that too. It was like the one time in our lives we weren't allowed to be skeptical about pharmaceutical companies. Right. We're skeptical over everything else that they produce. We should be. They have a long history of criminal fines. Yes. They've been fined fucking insane amounts of money for lying about drugs that want up crossing people their lives. Was it was it doped up?

2:11:24Doapsic? Doapsic, yeah. Yeah, I didn't say it, but I know the whole story about the Sackler family. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you look at something like that and you're like, yeah, we should be questioning. They just paid the way out of it. They paid their way out of it. Like they gave like six billion dollars. And now they can't be prosecuted. And they priced out so much money. Oh, God. That's crazy. Billions and billions. We can lose six billion dollars. And there still be a billionaire. Yeah. Easy. They did that with, there was another medication that they did. The violence that wind up giving people, they gave a friend of mine a stroke, but it gave like it killed sixty thousand, fifty thousand people.

2:12:01What is that for? It was. An anti inflammatory medications didn't even work well. And they knew it in their inn their internal emails. They said, there's gonna 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 new is going to cause blood issues with people and strokes and shit. And they still still released it. And they got fined but they got fined less than they made Yeah, so I think they made it's crazy 12 billion and they got fined like five or something Right, you're like I still have the service and billions something like that.

2:12:36Don't quote me on that those numbers But it's something to point where like I could see 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 op up. There's other Available things that work better It's just a spooky thing that they can do that it's spooky and that people just go along with it Well, Johnson and Johnson have that lawsuit against their powder. Yeah, like because a lot it has I guess talc I mean, maybe some other stuff and women I guess we're putting it like you know in their private areas Give the cancer so they have a big lawsuit for that.

2:13:07Yeah, what is in it that's giving people cancer? I don't know is it just talc because I know talc is not great for you It's like a minute wrong, right? What is tal? I guess I don't know but I just know like I used to use Johnson Pattern all the time and I was like oh, that's like something you would never even think of yeah What is um what what caused people get cancer from that? The Johnson Johnson vaccine was the one I was gonna take I was put that's the one Bridget God I think the UFC had allocated like a hundred and fifty vaccines for 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?

2:13:47The talc on powder's linked to cancer. It's important to distinguish between talc that contains us bestus and the talc that's as best as free talc that has as bestus is generally accepted as being able to cause cancer if it's inhaled What about um What was so we'll just go to that start to go to the lawsuit Johnson and Johnson cancer lawsuit baby powder Because it was something with women, right? Yeah Okay, what is it saying?

2:14:22So there's some sort of J and J lawsuit Settlement okay Johnson Johnson said on Tuesday that it had agreed to pay $8 .9 billion dollars to tens of thousands of people claim the company's talc on powder produces Product products cause cancer Proposed that lawyers for the plaintiffs called a significant victory in a legal fight that has lasted more than a decade Why so are they still using the same talc though? It's a good question. Maybe they're just telling people don't put it on your Who hall but didn't say just breathing it in is bad the proposal Yeah, but the one with this bestus. So I'm trying to figure out why why does this have his bestus 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 filings if the bankruptcy court approves it the agreement will resolve all current and future claims involving Johnson Johnson products that contain talc such as baby powder the company said so how is It's ovarian cancer.

2:15:21Yeah, okay Significant victory for the tens of thousands of women suffering from gynecological cancers caused by the J and J's talc based products So what what is in it that's causing cancer? Ovarian cancer and mesothelium you saw them what TV commercials my whole life Yeah, I prefer for mesothelium Wonder if it goes right to Johnson Johnson The one thing I was gonna ask I was reading about the appeal for the secular thing mm -hmm five to six million they have to give up billion Billion I'm sorry 750 million is paid out to the individuals. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Well, it's a fine. It goes to government.

2:16:04Okay That's good. Listen. We have to deal with our homeless crisis No one's gonna ever trans kids don't have homes Is that that's an issue right now? Oh, I guess yeah, maybe They didn't say what I'm a sanctuary and taking all the dogs and all the the trans kids only two billion of that 8 .9 goes to the plaintiffs So what is it that causes cancer though? Like what's it in the talc that's causing cancer? I guess this is in I guess the asbestos is How is anybody selling anything when it's best? Well, they probably took it out of paint and we're like let's get rid of it this way. Oh Imagine if that's what they did no who knows I mean I think the government's pretty It well there there's definitely some corrupt people in the government Mm -hmm without a doubt and there's definitely a bunch of people that run these corporations and try to figure out how to make money with stuff They have laying around sure New York Times article I don't see a date But this says that they know about it since for 129 years that says Johnson Johnson fear baby powders possible asbestos Link for years so there is asbestos in it What?

2:17:08This is a 1971 they recommended to upgrade the quality control. Oh my god Look at this an executive at Johnson Johnson said the main ingredient in his best -selling baby powder could potentially be Contaminated by his bestus the dangerous mineral that causes cancer He recommended to senior staff in 1971 the company upgrade its quality control of talc two years later another executive raised red flag Saying the company should no longer assume that its talc mines were asbestos free the powder He said sometimes contains materials that might be classified as asbestos fiber the carcinogen which often appears underground near talc Has been a concern inside the company for decades in hundreds of pages of memos Executives worried about a potential government ban of talc the safety of the product and a public backlash over Johnson's baby powder a brand built on a reputation for trustworthiness and health and it had asbestos in it That's it is they took it out of the paint I don't think so I think they're saying it's in the same mines as the towel They're like let's just keep it up.

2:18:07No, we'll just get it from the same mines. They're cutting it just like the Mexican cartels cut the coke with the fentanyl Yeah, cutting it with tal like if you have like a bunch of asbestos and you got a little talc is worth ten bucks a pound Yeah, I'm a piece of priceless not in there. Yeah, isn't a fentanyl expensive? Why they mix up with that now? It's very cheap and it's also Really potent so you need a very very small amount of fentanyl will fuck you up But I'm sure it's not consistent. They're not you know, they're not really good at like quality control Yeah, and also I think sometimes they leak fentanyl 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 that they kill their Yeah, uh -huh.

2:18:59Yeah That or they use it to target certain people Interesting we learned a lot today Adrian. I did learn a lot. I did do I did do I learned about dinosaur piss. Yeah, we're all drinking it asbestos Get out of your privates that episode of Fear Factor mm -hmm come We learned a lot about your origins of comedy my origin the fun about your mom my mom. Yes, you love dogs love dogs should have brought Marshall Yes, next time next time we do it. We do it again. Yes, okay. Um get it at the club tonight Gonna be at the club tonight. That's fucking. Thank you for having me. It's fun. You're hilarious Well, I mean Thank you for letting me fill my special air my pleasure I'm excited when Louie texted me.

2:19:43I was so pumped. That's yeah, cuz we were taught he was like where do you think you want to do it? And he was like I was like I don't know I'm not sure and then he was like what about like Austin. I was like well, I love Austin He's like well about Joe's club. I was like yeah, yeah, it's a setup to film already too Yeah, the audiences are great. Both shows were so fun and that cuz you're like what room do you want to do? I was like I don't know I was like I got to see which one I like but I like them both though Yeah, they're both different but really fun and it's the 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 the small room smaller.

2:20:17It was larger. They just designed it. Yeah, yeah It was perfect when he designed it's perfect He said just cut off four feet on each side and I was like yeah, why do we don't need it that big? And so it was really fun because you could kind of walk around in this You know once we had gutted it, you know, you're going why don't we do this? Why don't we do that? Yeah, and so Louie came in and I just said what you know what he think and he was like You know like make this lower. He's like a good director He knows how to do all that stuff. I listen to everything said. Yeah, every I took every single piece of advice that he said every recommendation I did do you like one room over the other?

2:20:55I love them both they're different though 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 it's also very honest Like if you feel performative or clunky it feels gross in that room and the little one yeah in the little room I feel like the little room is freer. Oh, yeah, it is But I mean if you do come off clunky. Yeah, it's more obvious It's very intimate it feels fake. Yeah, you know, it's just a different room the other room is the other room is pretty intimate too The way I described it is like they're both like hybrids of the comedy store Original room and the belly room.

2:21:33Yeah, so I've never performed there. I've only visited. Yeah, I've only I've only gone there to like visit I've never performed there next time I'll go bring you all right. Let's party. Let's party. Let's go Why do you like about the big room is that it isn't because everyone does seem pretty close to you even though It's like a pretty big room. Yeah, it's we it's well designed We mean we put a lot of thought into it would raise the floor We had the stage set at the perfect height where it's like right at right at table height No, not a bad seat in the room. We were like meticulously went over it for a long time.

2:22:03Yeah I think too what I think Ari was saying last night is like when you go to some clubs sometimes like the owner shows up It's just like it changes the vibe. Yeah, it's like that's not here and I'm like yeah, you're right It's not like you come around people like oh put that away or let's stop talking about whatever we're talking about Yeah, that happens in other clubs. Sure. Right Yeah, well, I don't know there's only a few other clubs that are owned by comics Yeah, I guess I'm just thinking about clubs and maybe even a hat and you know right, but that's the thing. It's like You're dealing with there's like the owners the owners tell the managers what to do the managers tell the comedians what to do Right, so there's still bosses.

2:22:38Yeah, even though you are the boss or the owner. It's not like that vibe. No, the vibe is it's for all of us It's our place. Yeah, it's very welcoming like I don't know most of the comics like I'm getting to know them But I felt very welcome there if you're funny. It's very welcome If you're not funny, it's very unwelcoming. You know funny. They're fucking brutal Yeah, it was just that there's a lot of competition for stage time. Sure Comics there's a lot of young people. Yeah, I could see that you know all the staff like or 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.

2:23:13Yeah, that's actually pretty good Yeah, and they get stage time so they get to go up and they they go up to showcase nights So open mic nights two nights a week. That's great. Whereas I was intern for free. Yeah So you still like to do that here still like getting a stop up then even more importantly the Creek in the cave is right next door It's right up the street and then you've got Sunset room which is right next door sunset Brian Redban's room is three doors down Oh, wow and the other day we did a show like last Thursday We did a show at my club and then guys are going back and forth and Redban 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 Do they do shows that Esther's folly is also right?

2:24:03Yes. Yeah, they do show there's a lot of good comedy here Yeah, and the fans are great. Well, they just love the fact that it's here. Yeah, it's like You know out of the pandemic this thing sprung Yeah, and it really is like a weird thing to happen 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 them growing up in LA like I already dodged that bullet my oldest It's just creepy. Yeah, it's like there's so much chaos and freaks and just Like 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 in the middle this big Spotify deal And you know the whole world was shut down and I have everything running smoothly and I'm like fuck it Let's uproot we're gonna stuff from scratch and we came here and I've never been having That's great and then when all the other comics started coming here too I was like all right.

2:24:59I think this is gonna work. There's a lot of comics here. Yeah, it's pretty awesome That's so crazy that everyone's coming here. Yeah, it's like becoming a real hub for comedy. It's so fun It is fun. Well that is one of the cool things you can do with money You know if you have money and there's something you really love like I love stand up You 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 good for the people that work there It's fun. I mean it helps the economy.

2:25:29Oh, yeah for sure Yeah, that the whole area is packed now. Yep It's awesome. I'm Adrian. We'll see you tonight. I'm excited. Thank you for having me. And you got a tour coming up Yeah Come see me on tour. What's your website? Adrian Appaluchee .com spelled out for these people because ADR it's there's an eye in Appaluchee. Yeah Appaluchee's IAPALU CCI All right, go see your folks. She's very funny. I'm really happy to meet you. Yeah, no. Thank you for having me this time I'm pumped to the show tonight. Yes, let's go. Thank you. All right. Bye everybody You