Going Deep with Chad and JT - EP 421 - Classic Solo (Holidays Recap)

Episode Date: January 7, 2026

Today is another Classic solo with just the bros! We start off the ep talking about our NEW youtube series coming out this Sunday - Hope you all can check it out! Then we recap the holidays. JT talks about his experience down in the Florida Keys with his family and Chad talks about his movies nights with his GF. Chad also dives into a new business proposal he got from a middle east six flags to be the face of their new roller coaster. This is a chiller of an EP! JABWOW!  We are live streaming a fully unedited version of the pod on Twitch, if you want to chat with us while we're recording, follow here: https://www.twitch.tv/chadandjtgodeep Grab some dank merch here:https://appreeshapparel.com/ Come see us on Tour! Get your tix - http://www.chadandjt.com TEXT OR CALL the hotline with your issue or question: 323-418-2019(Start with where you're from and name for best possible advice) Check out the reddit for some dank convo: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChadGoesDeep/ Thanks to our Sponsors: HIMS: The Best Hair Loss solutions for men. Go to https://www.hims.com/godeep and get started today with an online consult with a professional. PRODUCTION & EDITS BY: Jake Rohret

Should we plug the YouTube series? Oh yeah, yeah, guys. This is big. We got a new YouTube series coming out. We've been working on it since, I mean, we've been talking about it since last spring. We've been filming it since June. We've got 10 episodes in the can, premiering on the Chad and JT Go Deep YouTube channel this Sunday. You want to talk about it?

Dude, I'm so fired up on this show. I think it's a great distillation. of what me and the dog like to do. We're trying to help bros, man. And some of the guys we've kept in touch with, we have helped them. Their lives have improved. So I'm very proud of the show.

It's been an honor, as always, to work with Chad. And we got a great producer on at Jack Price, kids a stud. Legend. And they're so fun to shoot. Yeah. It's been a blast. And I think you guys will feel how fun they've been to shoot

when you watch them. We're very proud of it. Go check it out. And, you know, if you guys like it, We can keep making them. So come on, baby. Yeah, Chad and JT go deep YouTube this Sunday. Bigups, bra, bra.

Big ups, bop, bop. And we have celebrities on. Did you mention we have celebrities on? Oh, yeah, we got celebrities who, we got Robbie Hoffman on the first one. We got Bobby Lee. Don't say that to the Stokers. They're all, at least the ones who comment or like, I don't like this chick.

She's got an opinion. Bobby Lee. She is mean sometimes. You got Chet Hank. She's a good person. Yeah, Bobby Lee, Chet Hanks. Onders. Noel Miller.

We'll leave some surprises in there for you, too, but it's a murderer's row of heavy hits. Yeah. And, hey, if any of you guys want to come do an episode, come do an episode. We might even fly someone out for one. We fly in in the morning. We help you during the day, and then we fly you out in the evening. Dude, you had cream jeans almost did an episode. Why do you bail?

Because he thought we went too easy on Rokana. Exactly. Because he thought we were, that's why we weren't. he's driving down and he's listening to the Rokane interview and he's like he did it

you I love you I love you cream jeans I'm going good going to go in what's

I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to it's not in dream I'm going to Well, let's spring into 2026 for the big job. Wow.

What's up, Stokers? This is Stoke Nation. This is Chad Kerger coming up with the Going Deep and Chad JT podcast. I'm here with my compadry, Jean-Thomas. What up? Boom clap, Stokers. And we are back in the new year. Took a week off?

I don't know. When was the last time we took a week off? It's been a minute. I mean, well, I guess two years ago, we took a little, like, we were doing less episodes. Yeah. which was helpful yeah but yeah it's been a minute and uh it was but you know it's great i did miss being in the groove of my day-to-day life but it's also nice to uh step away from everything decompress and just uh enjoy the empty time it is uh i i felt that too during the the holidays i was

i was like i don't know what to do with myself it was kind of tough to just i sat and watched a lot of movies which was awesome but it was kind of tough to do it what were your favorites one battle after another sick so good uh watched taken last night very good movie so good uh what else that watch um watched man on fire that was great dude anaconda i don't we saw anaconda i had a blast it was really fun you mean strider yeah dude that i was uh i was like smiling from ear to year after that because like i didn't laugh in a theater like that i don't even know how long it was really um i don't know if it was surprising but i was like i went more to support brad you know i'm like my boy made a movie that's huge like how cool is that yeah and then as the movie started

cooking i was like this kind of fucking rips yeah and the theater was electric loving it it was a great theater going experience yeah and then you had a great moment because there are these kids who were kind of talking over to the right hand side and the guy in front of us probably 20 minutes into the movie he leans over he's like you Oh, shut up. But he was more bitchy about it. He goes, you have to shut up. Is that?

Yeah. And then one of the kids, his phone went off. What did you say? His phone went off. And I didn't want the one guy to get mad again. So I was like, I'll help him out. So I went, oh, come on, man. But then it was funny because then you laughed for like 10 minutes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, it was so good. And I saw the guy who had yelled at the kids, his wife, like, I was worried. he thought I was making fun of him, which I kind of was a little bit for how he yelled at the kids, but I also wanted the kids to shut up. And she put her hand on his knee to like, oh, really? I didn't even notice that. I mean, I was like, I might be over-evaluating, but I was like looking for micro-express.

And then she gave him a little touchy touch. And he said, and then he was laughing soon after. And I was like, you know what? Everything's in perfect order. Yeah. And I like yelling at preteens. I think it's my duty as an adult. You got to do it.

A lot of adults, they abdicate their responsibility. They think they can just let bad behavior go, you know, unaddressed. I'm like, you're kind of contributing to a bad world. So if I see something, I say something. You know what? I never thought about that before, and I'm going to start yelling at preteens. You got to do. You'd be responsible about it, too.

I trust your judgment. I'll try. You're way better at it, though. I mean, the way, your tone, inflection, the authority in your voice, you know, you could tell they really felt it. Then, dude, when I went to the bathroom and when I came back up the stairs, they were all looking at their phones and I went, oh, come on, guys. they're just little cuties having a good day yeah yeah um yeah so I mentioned this dude Steve's on so I love that guy yeah he was your favorite right like you came out of it you said he was your hero he's my hero I love I loved him in White Lotus too I just I just he seems like

a great guy your mom's not Putin I love that guy he's an amazing actor and then dude Paul Rudd and Jack Black, I mean, they've just been crushing it for, you know, the better part of three decades. And they were hilarious. I thought Danny Newton was really good. Yeah. And then, dude, the Brazilian guy, the snake trainer. Oh, yeah. I don't know if he's actually Brazilian, but he was hilarious.

Yeah, that's salted mellow. Yeah, well, you click him and see where he's from? Carlos Santiago. Is he actually, oh, he's actually from Brazil. Oh, he's Brazilian. Oh. Yeah. He's so fun.

man. Dude, it was so good. Oh man, yeah, that was a blast. Yeah, great. Congrats to Brad. It's already made back its money. It's a hit. Yeah.

So he went from horror movie hits to this is his first comedy. It's a big deal. Dude, it was great. I was really happy after her. I was telling Candy after I was, I was like, that was awesome. But she's never seen Anaconda, so I was like, we got to watch it. Yeah, it does help. Yeah.

I think it's still good even if you haven't, but better. Yeah. you went to Key West how was that yeah so um I was a little bit north of Key West I didn't even know how the Florida Keys work yeah but there's like um there's like it starts off it's key lago then it's the next kind of big town is Isla Marada then there's marathon then you go over the seven mile bridge it's just seven miles of bridge which is ocean on both sides right there look at that thing and then uh is that just did you feel like you're in Miami Vice you feel yeah a little bit like that when he takes the boat with her to havana you also just feel like

you're in the middle of nowhere and you feel super exposed you're like man if a big wave comes we're all washed away yeah but i think that brings out good things in your psychology yeah and the food's amazing great conch fritters great mahi mahi everyone serves killer key lime pie those are like for me the top key lime is it because you're in key wet in the keys you know what i didn't put it together that is what it is but every place has like a really good key lime pie and so we're in marathon it was like super family oriented great spot um was with my mom her and her boyfriend my stepdad he doesn't call himself my stepdad but i call him my stepdad uh they're the best and then so we drove down from marathon to key west key west is amazing it's like new orleans like everyone's partying

there was like a strip club and during the day the women were on the outside they're like we do couples too and my my fun fiancee was like oh frisky yeah and then uh we went and got some great grub I saw Hemingway's house that was sick I saw that he lived down there he wrote a lot of his best stuff down there you can kind of feel his sadness when you're at the compound and so he also had cats that had a

little genetic mutation like six toes and so a lot of the kitty cats that run around six fingered really they're still they're still breeding they're still there they're still breeding and they're like you can pet them if they come up to you but don't like seek them out yeah you can't give people any kind of permission like that

People are just chasing those cats around. They're running them down. And, yeah, he was an interesting cat. I'm a Hemingway fan. I love his writing. Artour guide, killer guy, good prep. He kept kind of picking on a pre. This is reversing on what I said,

but he kept using a preteen as like his foil for comedy. He's like, you probably even heard of this, have you? And I kept making the kid talk. And I was like, why don't you leave him alone, buddy? Yeah. But, yeah. You got to give him a talking to because like he doesn't understand the code. He's not shepherding him.

into a better direction. No. And yeah, I love it, man. It was one of my favorite places I've ever been. I think you would like, not great surf. It's more of like a boating culture and the beaches aren't like as accessible as some other places, but I think you would really dig it. Oh, I'd love it.

I'd love it down there. It just makes me so happy. But you do, I was like trying to place where you would live and like where we could like vacay together. And I was like, I think maybe we go up a little bit more like Palm Beach or Boka. Yeah. Boka sounds nice. Palm Beach sounds. I mean, I love it all down there. I could, you know, I like Orlando, too.

Orlando, too. I like the other, the Gulf side, like Tampa and St. Pete's is probably my favorite. Yeah. I didn't get to check out St. Pete's, but it looks sick. The beaches are beautiful. Clearwater taken over by Scientologist. I don't mind it. Has it really? Is the man? Yeah. Wow. Does he live down there? He must visit sometimes just to get his, you know, shots of super juice, whatever he's doing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, like the blood they pull out of the younger Scientologist that they reboot him with. Right.

You almost did that, right? I want to. You know, I'd love to. But you almost, like, I remember when you were starting on comedy, you volunteered yourself. I just wanted a fraction of me to be a part of him. Yeah. It was crazy, too. I was complaining to my stepdad's son-in-law about how California is overregulated.

I was like, I was trying to be like, hey, look, I'm not like the other California guys. So I was like, yeah, it's like, you know, we don't build enough house. and like you know we can't get anything done like our high speed rail because like there's just so much just bureaucracy to get there and he was like yeah you know we're kind of the other way in Florida we have and I was like yeah you guys are loose it's nice he's like it's a little too loose sometimes I was like what do you mean he's like yeah basically where I live if you got an acre of property you're allowed to just shoot guns on your property as long as you got like a backstop for it yeah but he says basically he'll be driving home sometimes and the neighbor will just be

wailing an AR and like people are like tucking and getting down that sounds nice it is crazy to think though like you got like because an acre is big but like you can clearly you're still within kind of throwing distance you're like are we all just going to be out here shooting guns like that seems a little dicey like maybe just take it to the range brother no totally that's like in i watched a den of thieves another movie where he he in the main where gerard butler and the main villain kind of square off in the gun range where gerard's like i know you're about to pull a heist and the guy's like well i'm shooting my gun right now and the guy just shoots you know perfect aim and um yeah it's a good way to square up on someone how about when he also to get the upper hand

on gerard Pablo schreiber leof schreiber's younger brother oh is he really yeah oh i didn't know that when he um sacrifices his woman yeah she's like hey you got to bang him yeah so he knows i kind of like had him in a vulnerable spot yeah i mean what a moment when he walks in and if you're like if you're a if you're a professional thief and you know that this cop is hot on your ass and you come home and he's just banged your woman i guess i kind of got it but i was also like did how much did it help the mind games yeah right of like of like detective where'd you go he's like i wanted to go fuck his girl i fucked the perps girl i didn't know is his girl i guess he did it to mess with me. I feel great.

Did you like the scene where Big Nick goes to his ex's house and she's on the date with like the... Wait, wait, so just to backtrack. So maybe I misread the movie but I think you're totally right. So he told her to seduce him. Like, Gerard Butler didn't know. I don't think Gerard Butler knew as his chick. Oh, okay. And I think

Pablo Right. Told her to do that. Yeah. So to like get in his head a little bit. Right, right. I don't understand. You could actually be right. That's what I mean.

It's confusing. Like, you're watching it, and you're like, why did he do that? Yeah. I bet the script, I bet the scream writer was having a blast. He's like, then he walks in and Gerard Butler's just hanging dong. Why did Pablo Schreiber's? I'll look it up later, but I'm going to look that up because I need clarity. Just banging.

Very European to leave it ambiguous like that. And then where were you going? Sorry, I interrupted you. Oh, I was wondering, did you like the scene where Big Nick goes to his exes? house and she's on a date on a double date and she's with kind of like a knobbish like corporate stooge and then Big Nick comes in

and he's like if you end up dating this chick I'm gonna be in your fucking head and face all day long baby and I'm a fucking lunatic I'm a cop I'll kill you and just like you know imprints his uh his animal alpha all over everything and the wife's like oh my God I'm never gonna have a normal life

that's like in her head you know but she's acting more like just like uptight and bitter about it and Big Nick's just like dude I fucking I can get away with murder. I can just fuck your day up forever. He's got that beard. You know, like all those big alpha, like Gerr Bueller, you know, he's got leather on, big beard, heavy breathing. I think that's a big alpha move.

Yeah, because Gandalfini does that too. Yeah, heavy breathing. Yeah, sleep apnea. If you're going to be an alpha, you sleep mouth open and you're going to, you're going to, dude, yeah, you walk in on the lead detective who's a huge alpha and he's got a CPAP machine. You're like, damn, dude He comes out of He sleeps with the stripper

He walks out in the morning with this machine He's embarrassed He's like, yeah, I have to wear it I don't wear it most nights That's good Help him get a somaticrit down Yeah, Stoker See Denna's thieves if you haven't seen it

That was a fun one Good twist at the end too Yeah, Donnie? Yeah, he was the mastermind Do they have a shootout? Oh, it's so sick. The shootout is sick, but it's also like it's a bunch of civilians in the cars. Oh, 100's dead.

And they're just, the cops are just indiscriminately shooting at the cars. It is interesting too, because like they're kind of even in numbers and like in firepower, but the cops just destroy them. Yeah. So they were just better, I guess. Yeah. I thought Pablo and his boys might be able to, I don't know, I thought they'd get the jump a little bit better. Yeah, especially 50 cent. I mean.

come on dude they mentioned some local they mentioned torrents high and stuff i respect it when there's some local yeah i like i like i like i like i like la movies yeah that's a good one yeah i didn't have you uh have you listened to bill simmons top 50 movies of the 21st century no you told me to too too i just listened to his top sports movies of the 21st century what did you go number one i think his list was right at the top like he got it right at the top i think he got it right at the top. I think he had Moneyball number one, he had Creed number two. I would say those are probably the two best. Yeah, good call. Of the 21st century? Mm-hmm. Okay, yeah, yeah. I mean, do honestly, I would put them up there like all time, but it's also like I came of age during those

ones. Yeah. I mean, to me that year, Creed and Hamilton came out the same year. And to me, that was like the peak of like that idea. Yeah. Like that was like, to me, me those are the two most emblematic artistic pieces of like Obama right where it's basically it's a black guy inheriting the authored white dream of America but it's working and combining for a moment right but then the world rejected it on all sides we were like no we prefer this tribal idea that it's kind of us and you're taken from us and we're going at you and it's it's a zero-sum game yeah but i think in that year with those two things we were saying no there can be a kind of like multicultural transition of these like

incepted ideas from like the declarathe. Yeah. But it just was not to be for then. Maybe we'll be again, but not now. That was well said. Thank you, dude. Thank you so much, man.

Remember the time? Yeah, he left, he didn't pick, what did you think about Simmons doing that? What? He didn't count 2000 for the 21st century. He said it counts for the previous century. I mean, but he did pick proof of life which i thought was 2000 i think he was also inconsistent in his

thing his number one pick for the top 50 movies i guess 50 most rewatchable movies not top 50 um it was interesting uh uh devil wears prada it's it's i've seen it a bunch yeah it's not number one but it's an amazing movie he said the family element played a big role it's like his His wife loves it. His kids love it. He's watching it all the time. His daughter's like 20. She's like the perfect age to like watch that movie with her a bunch.

Yeah, he had Miami Vice high up in there. I was so stoked. It's a good family movie. I watch that with my kids all the time. Do you? Nice. Dude, that's a great. Can you imagine if that's your first memory?

My two and a half year old daughter loves it. Dude, your first memory is Colin Farrell. I dress her like Colin Farrell. You know, she got to get there. Yeah. Sick. Dude, she should be sunny for a holiday. You know what we really will do that next year is do.

They were Borg and McEnroe this year, which I never had smartly called me out. It was like, so they like that stuff? Yeah. I was like, no. Yeah, that'd be really cool. Do them like that? Dude, we were going to do some, do you have some stuff prepared? I do.

Do you want to do your first thing? Yeah. I went to Reno. I went to Reno for Christmas We drove there On the 23rd Came back 27th And we were just hanging

I hit the gym with my future father-in-law How's that? It was good You know I was lifting heavy in front of him I was doing military press Grunting Um Did some did some light

Did like a couple miles And then I was like I'm just going to lift And um did it right in front of him grunting offered to re-rack his weights and stuff like that he respected it and I was like I'm gonna go get a steam I made him wait like 30 minutes why you steamed yeah good yeah I was like I'll be in the sauna and he just sat out there anyways and then I came back on the 27th dude I was just chilling I was watching movies, as I said earlier, trying to figure out what to do with myself. But I do

have some cool stories for the holidays because we're doing our, some five, our stories for the holidays. Yeah, Jake, because you asked him what he did, but that was kind of what I was, it made it seem like I didn't care what he did, but we had agreed that we would do five stories from what we did over the holidays. Yeah, sorry. No, I just want a clear guy, get insecure. Yeah, Jake's got the flu. Well, yeah, not, I'm recovering them. Pretty much over it now. You still, yeah. No, we're glad you're back, baby.

Yeah, yeah. Because you had it, we'll get to that too. Okay. Do you want me to go first? Yeah, go, baby. Oh, dude, so this is actually sick. So I got this DM from this guy, Mohammed bin Salman.

I guess he's Saudi Arabian. And he's like, dude, I want you to come and ride our new roller coaster, Falcon Flight, which is the fastest and highest roller coaster in the world. And he's like, we'll pay you, you know, it will come from the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. And you'll basically be like the face of this Saudi Arabian sponsored roller coaster. Say his name again? Mohamed bin Salman. Yeah, I think that's MBS.

Yeah. I think he's kind of a controversial figure. really yeah he's in the news a lot and like when people work with him it's like like when entertainers work with him it becomes a whole thing it seems is that that roller coaster though it's like built into the rocks it's a super sick roller coaster like i like i really want to do it how much are they offering to pay you if you don't let me ask a crap ton like six figures yeah you gotta do it almost almost seven to ride a roller coaster yeah and just strap a GoPro to my head do you want to know what he's been accused of or would you rather me

just not tell you no i want to know i guess they like killed a journalist and like chopped his body up and that's how they like tried to get away with it damn i gotta be honest i did not get those vibes from him Oh, he seemed cool. Yeah, he's like, hey, bro, I know you love roller coaster. I want you to ride this. I don't know if I'm getting an accent, right. He's like, hey, bro, I want you to ride this roller coaster. You're going to love it.

We'll pay you upwards of $900,000, and it'll be from the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. You'll be the face of Saudi Arabian Six Flags. And then, you know, they want me to strap a GoPro to my head. so you can see POV but also my face during it and then that's going to be they're going to use that for Saudi Arabian

media well I think that's a good thing like people can say what they want about like him or what he's done but if you're helping promote roller coasters that could help a lot of people especially if they live in like a restrictive regime where they don't have the freedoms we appreciate

to hit coasters whenever and to hit them with our chicks and our chicks can wear halter tops like you could help get them there if you do his coaster but do you think it's immoral to take money from this dude to ride his roller coaster dude any money that's the thing know is like who's to judge because all money is immoral all money is equally immoral so you're saying I should do it yeah and we don't know if that reporter was even cool yeah totally a lot of journalists are whack dude I'll read articles sometimes and I'm like I didn't agree with any of this I mean I was and I didn't want to learn any of this either actually you've put me in a bad mood by teaching me these things I'm yeah like I was DMing with this guy and he seems super chill

like he was he's using a lot of he's like he's like he's like he's like you really want me to do this he's like dead ass like he's using using words like that oh he seems like so cool that's very relatable and we all know journal like you were saying we know we all know journalists they don't say dead ass no unless they're doing like to camera but even then I'm like you're trying too hard like I didn't have to say on the record or off the record you know he was like He's like, bro, I am the record. Whoa. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's like, I could hear, you know what? That reminds me like Timbaland or something. Dude, yeah, he gave me Timbalin vibes. Yeah, he sounds sick. Secure the bag, child. Dude, I got an epic tale. I love Floridian, some of the best folks. We had our flight out there.

It was the best my kids ever did on a flight. They were super chill. And what we did is we deprived them of screens for like a week. So then when we did screen them on the plane, they were just like locked in yeah um good move was that tough no a little bit i guess i couldn't watch football but like i was like it felt worth it and then um and then i still did watch football because nothing's gonna get in the way of that but then um my my darling fiance she also had a really smart plan where every time they started to kick up she had a gift wrapped for them and she

would give it to them and then they would unwrap it and it would like they'd be so stoked and it would keep them like stimulated for like another hour so we went through the whole flight and they were like perfect and then we go to we walk every walk to a rental place at a airport's like a half mile now we walk to our car and we're getting a big van and they give us the two car seats bro installing car seats impossible it's just always something not impossible every sometimes every time something's going to go wrong so we're trying to strap it in it's like not fitting it's not getting in there tight it's too loose we're working on it for like 20 minutes i'm sweat button and then we my my fiance is like this one's no good i go exchange it i bring it back

another one and they never you know it's rental cars they never have all the supply like they're like you make a resi but you're just hoping they they honor it we bring it over and then my fiance looks them she goes oh dude these don't work they're like a 25 pound weight limit the kids are heavier than that like they we can't use these ones and I'm like do we try and I'm like no because I don't want my kids to get hurt like I can't live with that so I go back to the guy and I'm like hey man these two don't work we need ones for bigger kids and he goes and looks at his supply he's like well man no we ain't got it we ain't got it and I'm like well dude what am I gonna do he goes come on get in the car I'm like what he's like

just get in the car so I hop in a car with him he starts driving around to the other rental places checking their supply I'm like are we allowed to do this he's like don't worry about it so we drive down a floor I've been gone for like 10 minutes now yeah my fiance calls him like if victor is taking me he's like he's nice this guy he's like super trying super hard to help me so we go to another one he's like he goes up to a guy's like philip help me on man I need to grab two of these for this guy we need the big ones we need the uh the super supreme ones you know he's got bigger kids he won't work we need the toddler size yeah it's right here he finds two for me I'm like dude you're a legend we go back and we did clip in one of the car

seats and now we can't get it and so my fiancee's just furious she's like just trying to rip out the base and she can't get it and what happened is is the clip went through the leather of the seat when we locked it in yeah so there's no way to get it out and then uh victor caesar working hard he's like what's the problem and she's like we can't get the car seat down i'm like do you don't got to help us it's all good he goes no i got you so he goes in there he's trying to get the thing out yeah can't do it he's like can't do it then he turns to me goes you got a knife i go i just got off a plane no i don't have enough he's like oh shit man all right smartly, just unbuckles, like unscrews the clip from the thing, takes the seat out.

He's like, just leave that. Yeah. And then he puts the other two car seats in for us, better than anyone's ever put car seats in a car, did it all for us. This dude, Victor. Yeah. And I'm like, I didn't have cash. I'm like, honey, you got to give me some cash.

I got to tip this guy. So she gives me 20. I'm like, you got to give me more. I got to give him more. So I go to give him 30 bucks. He goes, no. I'm like, dude, please take it. He goes, no, I won't take it.

I'm like, Victor, please. And then finally goes, all right, fine. He takes it. we leave and this didn't actually happen but I kept joking with my fiance I go as he walked away he disappeared he just dissolved like a guardian angel nicest guy in the way I never met a rental car guy more solid than this dude isn't it awesome when you like just when there's good when you're traveling or whatever when there's just good people so solid yeah and it was the holidays he was probably jamming like just tons of work tons of people complaining yeah he was just cool the

whole time yeah above and beyond that's awesome you got another one yeah let's see so uh i was uh showing my fiance canady some stuff on my instagram i was showing her some reels and stuff and then you know i'm like going around and then after a second she goes why is your explorer page all ass and I was like I don't know because honestly I don't search for ass on Instagram and I was like babe I don't honestly like look at my feet

I don't search for ass Instagram must have mind reading abilities she's like that's worse and I was like damn but hold up though just to be on your side a little bit yeah did the

asses look like hers like were they the same color and stuff yeah it's kind of flattering dude thank you i'm gonna text her that right now i think that's the most important thing right yeah you're fantasizing in the same direction yeah dude good call that turns it all around because for a while a few days there i was just fuming at instagram i was like dude you guys are like you know not only are you you guys like literally are trying to like get me in trouble you're just you're just

you're just funneling ass onto my explore page but I showed her my feed you know my feed is Florida guys playing with snakes base jumping and roller coasters totally

you know and I showed her that and she's like that's even weirder and I was like well fuck you can't win huh dude I'm just getting totally boned I was like what would you prefer

and she's like self-defense videos how to stop a break in videos and puppies I was like that's pretty good yeah I was like you got a good point there babe that's tough to beat I was like but here's the thing I would know how to handle a king cobra if it came upon

me you would or wouldn't i would what would you do uh you get like one of those hook things and you just you know hook it and then you know you lift it up and then you just grab it and then well said brother no wasted action so that's what i would do anyways yeah do I got something connected to that. Yeah. And I think this would actually, like, fix America. Maybe not all the way, but it would help a great deal.

I'm now logged into your TikTok account. And so I'm on TikTok for years. Yeah. And I'm just seeing what I see. And I think that's all at TikTok. Right. Then all of a sudden, I see TikTok through your eyes. Yeah.

I've been on your Algo for the past couple weeks. Yeah. Totally different than mine. What's the Algo? Because I rarely go on TikTok. What's on there? It was super positive. I mean, some of it was like industry insider stuff.

Some of it was like advice on like how to post and like what's good stuff to post. Then like just different news, you know what I mean? Some of it was news coverage, but more from like your vantage point than what I would have liked. So it was new information to me. Yeah. And some of it was just positive stuff. Like just like, hey, be amped. And I was like, hey, this is like a nice vacation.

Yeah. Like I get to live inside Chad's dome for like a couple weeks. And it kind of opened my brain up. And I was like, dude, like, it should be mandated that once a week you have to switch algorithms with a stranger. Yeah, good call. Well, what's your, what's your algo right now? I'm on TikTok before that. Mine was probably some, like, political talk, a lot of sports stuff.

Yeah. Like a lot of, like, Jason Williams to, like, a kid Leroy song or something. Yeah. Um, I don't even remember it was so long ago. Like, hot chicks, but different than the hot chicks you look at, which is all too interesting. Right. Like I was like, oh, okay,

that's like the kind of girl Chad thinks is cute. I would be clicking more like this kind of girl. You know what I mean? It all tracks. I was like, this all like makes sense.

But it was nice. I was like, it's been connecting for me. Yeah, that's cool. So, yeah. It's a whole new world out there. It is. Yeah.

And you get, you know, we're just bearing deeper into our own like kind of like, this is what I like. Yeah. And it was nice to be like, just move me over a little bit. Get to see what this guy likes.

Did you see this guy cracks me a Crystal Jesus? He's an Australian guy. And he's got like long hair. And he's like, I've been sent from the universe to rid you of negative thoughts. He's Australian. He's like, if you accept, you either nod your head or say, I accept. And then he just does. You have more of that stuff too.

Yeah, Crystal Jesus. Like I would say you're more spiritual than I am. Yeah, yeah. And so I'm getting more of that stuff too, but it's very nice. Like I like seeing it and it does kind of fill you with like a little bit of like, I don't know. Like I think some of it is good where I'm like, no, you should be in touch with that stuff. Yeah, it's positive. It's super positive.

Yeah. I love Crystal Jesus. Oh, that's cool. I don't even know what my ego is, but I just knew I was an interesting. new place I do have a beef I don't want to be negative in the new year you know I'm trying to this is going to be a big year

I think it's going to be big for all of us and for the stokers 2026 is the year of the stoke um bro I got a beef yeah if I have to pre-wash my dishes before I put them in the dishwasher then you're not a dishwasher

like the amount of times I do like give them a spritz after not even a heavy duty sticky meal put them in the dishwasher and then the next morning I pull them out and they're like more dirty I'm like what do you even do and then I'm talking to you know

my fiance and my brother and they're like well you know you really got a you really got a pre-wash I'm like then why even put it in the dishwasher like are you just i'll just hand do everything it and i think it's it's been a trend whether it's like planned obsolescence or it's just like the material reality of america's downfall like our dishwashers are getting worse i don't like when anything trends negative

everything should over the course of history should be getting better dark age is not included like we got to fix it dude we need dishwashers that wash well that's like what uh peter thiel uh talks about how we've gotten so ingrained in the digital world and we're seeing so many upgrades digitally like new iPhones new algorithm new social media new blah blah that we're not taking notice of the external world and it's pretty much he's you know he's he's He's like, it's pretty much the same. The Dark Lord is smart. He knows.

Yeah. And that's why, you know, him and Jamie Diamond, they're like, we've got to invest in hard, tactile things. Yeah. Dude, this on the Peter Thiel thing, not to be conspiratorial. The guy who owns this German entrepreneur who owns Morning Brew, whose news I like, and Politico, whose news I see, his son was like, Peter Thiel's. assistant and he just started a venture capital firm and guess who put tons of money into it peter deal so are they going to are they going to go hard in the paint on big pt are they going to give them an old passola come what they gust of my comida i mean that's what

a lot of these head honchos do right they kind of buy out the media just friendo i mean They say that about a lot of big dudes. Jeff Bezos owns Wapo. The Post? Post-Po. You said Bill Gates and Post Malone. And Post Malone. Yeah.

Do you know that? Yeah. Post Malone is a propaganda arm of Bezos. Yeah. And Bill Gates funds a lot of, he pays for a lot of media. I like that that's our second bit about Post Malone. We've said he's black now. and that he's own

but I like that we just keep picking on him Did you know that Bill Gates also funds Ed Sheeran? I didn't know that but I'd heard that and people don't want to know that but that's where it comes from

and it all benefits him and his malaria nets Jeff Bezos What else dude? Okay I talked about Anaconda So I did my annual three-day water fast. Oh, dude, I saw how to go.

It was good. It was tough. You know, I was, I think I was doing longer walks with the dog. So I was burning more calories. So I was like, you know, first day is tough. Second day I was kind of cruising, but, you know, it's tough. third day I got so cranky and I think it's because I was like burning more calories than I should have

like I should have just kind of sat there and so I was like by the end of I was so hungry and Kennedy made me a steak which was sick at first I had bone broth and that was fantastic and candy made me a steak and I cut into it And she's like, is it too rare? And I was like, no, it's, no, it's fine. And she's like, is it, is it rare?

And I'm like, I'm like, you can't. I'm like, you can't get sick from beef. And then my dog came up and started sniffing and trying to lick it. I was like, Lola, leave. And then I had the steak. And I was like, I'm so sorry, guys. You're angry. I was incredibly angry.

And I was like, this is. is yeah that that's but dude during the water fast what's cool is so you go into ketosis so you know first day all the glucose from your body just gets burnt so you're running on ketones i got ketones flooding my dome and i was just feeling like just on another level intellectually I watched Nuremberg, of which is great. Russell Crow, have you seen it yet? No. Check it out.

It's good. Russell Crow and Rami Mollick. Russell Crow plays a great Nazi. And then totally understood what was going on. Even cooler than that, I watched the first Dune. I knew exactly what was happening. Whoa. I knew the names.

I could remember the names. I even wrote it down. I was like, because my fiancé and my dog were confused. And so I was like, babe, here's what's going on. House of Trades has arrived on Iraqis and they're trying to rule fairly. But Paul's visions are intensifying. He sees war, destiny, and the Freeman. And then the Harkonans attack and they're aided secretly by the emperor.

So House of Trades is destroyed. Duke Leto is killed, not related to Jared Leto. Paul and his mom, that's Shalame and his mom, flee into the deep desert, they encounter the freemen who say, you know, Paul, your prophesied figure, and then Paul begins to accept his future that's tied to the Iraqis

and possibly something much bigger and darker than he actually wants. Yes. And that all came from my dome, not Chatchipt. You are the son, Al-Gaipe. I've... Thank you. Yeah, and, uh,

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It's so boring. Really? It's so drawn out. Oh. it's like you can tell there's like a really smart dude behind it but uh it's bad and the chick is like so unlikable oh which is like the point but also like it needs to have more to it than just that i feel for her so i was everyone was talking about it but i heard it was off to a strong start and then it does not the first two ups are solid and then after that you're like

like dude please have something happened and then they're like something the actors literally deliver lines like something may happen soon and it might be interesting yeah but you'll have to stick around to find out and then that just keeps happening again and again so you wouldn't recommend it i'm out i i ditched and then on this same tip landman it's off the res it's really season one ripper season two what is happening Yeah. And the chicks are just crazed horn dogs, lunatics, retards. Like, they don't make no sense at all. Yeah. I'm just like it, dude, it literally, you feel it. You're like, uh, Taylor Sheridan is like, I bet you his wife's smart as shit, but like he, you can tell like she'll do she must be doing some little things that bug him. And then he just amps them up to like crazy telenovela levels and like it's just crazy back and forth on the show. You're just like nothing there's like no oil, no fun, exciting stuff anymore. It's just like, dude's just being like, man, this trick's crazy. That's like the show.

Damn. I mean, he is writing like 100 shows at the same time. Dude, him? Like, he's on a limitless drug. Yeah. He's writing like 10 shows. It's insane. With no room.

Like, he co-created some stuff, maybe hands some stuff off. But like his work level, I would love to watch him because I'm like, how do you do that? He's no doubt a beast, like ultimate beast. But. it's got to be hard to keep it all good when you're doing that much yeah I think I think he's on something I think he found like the new Adderall I'd love to get it from what else dog

there's something I was going to say but I totally forgot Taylor Sheridan Landman um pluribus fuck dude did I tell you about my failed dude have I told you about my failed soul cycle edition no so when I was starting comedy I wanted to be a soul cycle instructor and I thought it would be a great job I get to the audition and they're like all right when you get up on the bike so you so you audition to be a sole cycle instructor you do a song

on the bike for the whole class. So I get there and they're like, all right, when you get up on the bike, pump us up and talk about your trauma. I was like, what do you meet? They're like, talk about your hardships and how you came over them. That'll help us all get over the hill.

I was like, okay. So the first guy goes up before me, there are 30 other people. First guy goes up, he's crushing it. He's like, oh yeah, you know, feel this tiesto. Feel it in your bones. and then he goes all right we're coming up on the hill guys let's crank that knob and he's like you know the pain of this hill reminds me of the pain from being a refugee in Yugoslavia

and from being a single dad and I'm also gay and I was like damn this guy's crushing it yeah he's got a lot going on yeah it's very cool I was so good I was just flying over that hill. I get up there. I'm like, yeah, feel this David Getta. You know, let it soothe you. All right, we're coming up on that hill, guys. Let's crank that knob. You know, the pain of this hill reminds me of the pain from when I miss my flight to Cabo. Yeah, United Airlines has this insane flight where you have to arrive two hours before an international flight. I'm like, Is Cabo even considered international anymore? And then...

But it didn't make you gay or anything? No. And then SoulCycle was like, look, man, you can cycle, but you've got no soul. that's you know what dude you may not have had the trauma required to be an instructor

but that became a traumatic event and you saying it on the pod that's going to give a lot of people listening on their bikes right now the strength and courage to pedal harder thank you still would have been sicker if you were like a refugee from a gay place with kids I know

dude how about how about dude it is pretty wild a podcast when you're just chilling and then we just like take over Venezuela though yeah dude I know like it's crazy it makes me wonder

like so like in older times like we're the dudes who are podcast casting in like 1800s England like being like oh bro we're just grabbing countries dude like we got the West Indies boy yeah and like were they able to still talk about like the local fair and like just the grub that they're getting on like beans and eggs or whatever and then like without like letting it be totally taken over by the the larger machinations of the world right like were they the larger machinations of the world like were they stick into the hot goss and not

ruminating on imperialism? Yeah, and like were the other people who were norm listeners, like when they got on their horse and bugging they popped in their headphones, they were like, oh, come on, dudes, don't talk about it. Like, stick to what you're good at, all right? Yeah.

Just review the beans and eggs, bro. I don't need to hear your, like, perspective on, like, the Indian trading company. Like, no politics. Leave it alone, dude. Yeah. I don't listen to you when I'm, you know, clearing out,

and on my horse to hear you talk about, you know, what's going down. It's just not your biz, bitch. Yeah, I mean, I heard that B. Franks had a sick podcast where he just gave dating advice and he reviewed pubs in the towns, in the colonies. He reviewed all the pubs in the colonies. Yeah. And then he's like, I want to go into politics now. And that was a really tough transition for him because his audience was like not for it.

there were all these like, you know, male podcast gossipers in colonial times who were like, B. Franks has lost the plot. Yeah, he used to be so much cooler. Yeah. Before everything was like, oh, the tyranny of the British and taxation without representation. They're like, dude, stick to what you're doing, review the stouts from O'Broyles, and just leave it alone, dog. We don't want to hear you wailing and whimpering about King George.

Like, oh, King George is such a bad guy. You sound like a pussy, dude. Yeah. Sack up, dude. a man would just be like whatever yeah that is the manliest thing you can do is just stick to your shit and whatever you're gonna let like a fucking bad king or fucking leader fuck with your head i don't know to me that's like that's not what a masculine man does a masculine man sees the world going in a bad direction with tons of potential for misfortune and you just like later or don't don't bitch to

about it. Yeah, totally. You know, I got to work out. Yeah. Stay in your lane. Stay in your lane and hit your sets. Yeah. And just worry about, you know, getting your chest bigger and like, just, just, whatever

muscles are lacking. Worry about that. Yeah. I heard they were like, there's a, there's like, in that time, there's a competing newspaper that would gossip about, you know, all the male podcasters in colonial times. And like one of the biggest things It was like Benjamin Franklin's political now

Not funny anymore Lost it And also there's one that was like Thomas Jefferson Um Is looking at John Adams' wife weird Oh yeah he's into her

Because yeah Adams was a cuck too Yeah Adams was a huge cuck He was getting cucked by his wife Yeah and he was not alpha at all Like she was only with him Because he had like Like his career was good Yeah, and so like she went on Thomas Jefferson's pod

And he was spitting mad game Oh dude, their eye contact was ridiculous, bro She looked dizzy Dude, dude, who's insane? Have you seen that pod? Yeah That was a good one They were cool

They just did too many ups Yeah, cream gene says Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin talked about jerking off a lot That's when he was the best. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then he tried to be smart and, like, make it about other stuff. And I was like, dude, just...

Just talk about Jack and... I know why. Why'd you ruin a good thing? Yeah. All right, I was recasting Gangs in... I watched Gangs in New York with my fiancé lovely experience. That was maybe the best experience in my life. But I do think the movie, like, Cameron Diaz not great in it.

She feels very modern. It's tough to put her in an old-time thing. And the red hairs. it's a very good call you're so good with aesthetics and you really understand the importance of it and then Leo and her there's points where they like put a knife to each

other and you're like you're not going to kill each other it feels like cute it's like kids almost yeah so I think the movie would have been better if they recast it so I started going through it in my head all right peep says gangs in New York keep Daniel Day Lewis obviously keep all the supporting characters

replace Cameron Diaz with Helena Bonham Carter because she's got that wildly psychotic energy. Like you're like she might kill you. Yeah. And she does feel like she could have grown up on the streets and like been like a teen prostitute but like learned how to like fend for herself. And then replaced Leo Christian Bale.

Wow. That's a banger. That's good because Christian Bale feels tough enough to really. Oh yeah. You could see him roaring at, uh, day Lewis and like their roar off would be like pretty gorilla. Dude, that's a genius call. That's a genius call.

have you heard um have you heard uh leo talks about when they he went to go talk to daniel de lewis about doing the movie and i guess you know danel day louis was cobbling shoes and he goes up to you know his place in new york or something he knocks on the door and dano dan lewis opens the door and he's just silent he's like should we go for a walk he said they just walked for 10 minutes complete silence That's awesome. To Central Park, there's a bench. He's like, this looks like a good bench. That's how it started.

That's true. Dude, by the way. Pure artist. How about that Steelers win? Oh, that was crazy. I mean, that fourth quarter was one of the most exciting fourth quarters ever. I mean, the truth of it is, I thought, I'll just be totally candid. I'm a Steelers fan.

This team was kind of weird and hard to love. They were kind of like a prickly bunch. A lot of new guys. it never fully gelled. I'm stoked during the playoffs. I'm always proud of Tomlin for the job he does. But I don't think either of those teams deserve to make the playoffs.

Like they made a lot of mistakes. They were some slop, slop football. And, you know, my preseason pick was Lamar and the Ravens. I thought they were going to win the Super Bowl. I kind of thought it was their year. So I was a little bit bummed for them, but I'm stoked for the Steelers

and it was a crazy, crazy win. I felt bad for that kicker, the Ravens kicker. Yeah. I mean, both kickers, whichever way it went, Not Boswell. Boswell carried the Steelers all season. He's been a monster. That was a huge miss.

But I wouldn't have put the season on him. But I was curious, was there like a wind there or something? Pittsburgh always notoriously a tough place to kick. I think three rivers was even harder. We had this kicker when I was in fifth grade. Chris Brown, he went like one for five against the Ravens one time

and we lost. I started crying. That was really tough. But I think it's still there. I think they say because of all the rivers, the wind kicks off in a lot of different directions and it can corkscrew you. Okay.

But, yeah, the Ravens rookie missed. But again, not his fault. Both teams were kind of shit this year. But Tomlin's the man. He always finds a way to win ugly. Hopefully he's got to win a playoff game. He has to. I'll bring him back forever,

but I think even though Steelers never do it, I think they might can him if he doesn't win a playoff game. Really? I don't know. They never do it, but I think they will. this time. I think they'll fire him or they'll amicably break if he doesn't get a playoff dub. We're playing the Texans. We should be able to do that. Yeah. And then they're good, but their defense has been a little slop lately. Although they won like nine in a row

or something crazy. The bears are in the playoffs. Are they? Good for Joe and Chuds. Cut that. Send it to Joe. Dude, who's sweet. I called Joe and his dad. to wish him Merry Christmas and his dad's the best Joe's dad's like he's like

sweet he's like the way Joe is like cranky Joe Joe Joe's dad is like sweet Joe he's just the sweetest guy and it was right after they beat the Packers and that come from behind win

and his dad they were both so jacked but his dad was like it's the best win of my lifetime and Joe was like dad it's not the best ever he's like it's the best of my lifetime

and they were getting me hyped I was like that's sick yeah you want Chicago it's nice seeing Chicago do well is nice we got a lot of friends who rep them I mean I've been I was way off on that one

I was saying they weren't going to make the playoffs for weeks I thought they were total Fugazi and they're in there and Caleb's playing good yeah he's slinging BBs baby do you have a prediction Super Bowl I got no finger on the pulse

if I had to pick who's gonna win the Super I mean it's crazy Denver's this one seat in the AFC yeah I don't think it'll be them All these teams are I feel like in transition

Are the Chargers in the playoffs? Yeah, I think they play The Patriots Oh, that's tough Do you think the Chargers can win it, Jake? No, I don't think so They got a terrible O-line And

Yeah, they lost Slater and they lost Joe Alt, yeah And they've had the worst Ranked O-line all year And they've somehow find ways to win But in the playoffs, I don't think that's going to work. I don't know. And I guess we'll see if we beat the Patriots this week, it could be anybody's game. I mean, Patriots look good. I could see it being them.

Yeah. I was a good coach. May's a good incredible QB. They got the MVP with Drake May, but I don't know. Like I looked at their schedule. Their strength of schedule is terrible. They've been playing like the Titans, the Falcons, the Dolphins, like all year. They're just, they haven't played anybody good. Yeah. So it's kind of hard to say. I mean, their record looks good, but they also play nobody so who knows we'll see i don't really have a suggestion i mean the the bills i think could be do it but they don't look as good as usual it's the worst they've looked in a couple years yeah i mean i don't know and they got nobody they got cook is good but if they're down it's not going to be him and then they got alan but they got he just doesn't have anybody to really to throw to yeah they's

got no weapons besides cook yeah i um i mean Shakir's good but i don't know no d's not great yeah i think If I had to predict, I'll go Patriots coming out of the AFC. I haven't looked at anything. This is totally off the dome, so it's a wild prediction. But I'll go Patriots, and then NFC, I'll go, you know what? Yeah, I'll do it. Just because it's the most fun. I'll go Patriots first, the Bears.

Yeah. And the Battle of the second year QBs in the Super Bowl. Wow. I don't think it'll actually be that, but that's the most fun for me. And, dude, those two competitive fan bases, Chicago versus New England, Yeah. All of our friends, a lot of loons from both sides. I'd be happy for a lot of these teams.

Of course, the Rams, Jaguars, got a route for them. Oh, yeah, your two teams could play each other. Yeah. I'd wear a Jags hat and a Rams jersey. Bro, yeah, why pick? Why would someone force you to pick? You can't love everybody? I can see it being like a Seahawks Texans

because the Texans have like the best defense in the league and then the Seahawks have just been pretty dominant most of the year Yeah So I don't know it's like two teams and I don't want to say smaller market But I just feel like the Seahawks have like the 12th man biggest fan base there But I just don't really see them like being like a nationally loved team you know I don't know It'd be weird

I mean the last one's the last time They made it when it was Hasselback And Sean Alexander Hutchinson on the O line Yeah Walter Jones That was a D's team Who'd they lose to in the Super Bowl

That's right The Steelers The refs kind of gave it to us Yeah the Seahawks team is good I guess I'm just You know what I have questions about everybody But like I'm like Can Darnold win

Three in a row in the playoffs? is he a little inconsistent he's played bad in some big spots but he's good he's definitely you know the vikings got rid of him and i think they really regret that i do because i had justin jefferson and he had j j j mccarthy throwing on the ball he's a rough dude who else we got we got the buccaneers kind of like they started off really strong and then they lost like six in a row it made no sense I don't know what the hell happened to them. Niners always look good.

They just lost a mecca and then they just like fell apart. Yeah, Niners are a good, great job by Shanahan this year. Dude, I have a prediction for this year outside of sports. Yeah. Dudes have always been talking about testosterone, right? How do I get it up? It feels like it's like the most important chemical compound when we're thinking about fitness and health and like what we all desire.

I think there's going to be a new brass ring. I think there's a new thing in our body that's going to be the thing we all want in our body more of. Cinovial fluid. Oh, yeah. Talk to me about this. 2026 is the year of synovial fluid. That's what keeps your joints from feeling like creaky and dry and cracky with crepitous. This is the good stuff, dude.

It's the non-Newtonian fluid that's egg white in its consistency. and just helps your cartilage. And this is what we're all gonna be going after. Because I'm getting up there, brother. So for me, motion is lotion. Right. I'm preheating everything in the oven so I can move well throughout the day.

And look, you can go exogenous with it. You can go BPC 157 and just start, you know, hyping it up the fast way, maybe the easy way, long term. Maybe the way that hurts, but hey, go out on your shield. So you can inject this? I think BPC 157 does help produce it in your body, yeah. But I'm just doing it through, I'm doing a lot of banded lateral steps. I'm doing 90-90 hip switches.

I'm doing glute bridges. I'm doing some jump rope. I'm doing a bunch of stuff to just kind of... So those are exercises to help increase it? Yeah, so basically it does. The more you move, the more your body... starts to spin it around oh okay but it is like a kind of like if you don't use it you lose it kind of thing this is why i think you hear older guys like ray louis be like if you stay ready

you ain't got to get ready i think he's talking about this like as you age your body starts to atrophy but if you keep the engine running the parts don't break down yeah i uh do you think um do you think yoga helps with that oh for sure yeah yoga's got to be one of the better things for it i i mean i i i don't for sure, but that sounds, when you think about what you're doing in yoga, it does seem like it would be really helpful for that. Yeah, because I was kind of researching during my fast that the biggest thing in terms of slowing aging is muscle, building muscle. Yes. And that's where testosterone's huge. Yeah. And because when you get old, like people, because people are like, no, it's about cardio. It's like, well, most old people get hurt. Yeah. And that's,

that's when they fall apart because their body's not moving. So it's like what a lot of these guys will say, you got to do squats because guess what? When you're 90 and you got to get off the toilet. Yeah. You need a sturdy foundation. Yeah. You got to be strong.

But I think you need the synovial fluid too because you're not going to be able to get those muscles big if the engine doesn't have any oil in it and it's just crunching. And you don't got shock absorption. You know, you're taking a step off and you're like, yeah. No, I'm done with that, brother.

Yeah. I started doing Xer squats. What is that? Yeah. Dude, they're sick, bro. This is a new thing. Or maybe not new, but new to me. You put the bar in between your arms.

Oh, interesting. Like this. And so it front loads you a little bit, so your core's got to be strong. And you can get deeper. So they say you're going to hit more glutes on it. And then you just come down with the bar and then you bounce up with it.

It looks nice. You can go pretty heavy on it, too. That looks like it. feels nice. In wrestling practice, we used to have to do those, but we just held a plate, like a 45-pound plate on the front and do like front squats. Yeah. And bitch is hurt, bro.

It's good for you, brother. You're moving people. You got to be able to move people. Jake, how was your break? That was pretty good. You were in Iowa for a while. Yeah, like 19 or 20. I mean, I haven't had five flights.

canceled so I kind of forgot how many days I was there but uh yeah it was wild at first there was a lot of snow and then all the sudden this rain came along and melted all the snow so I was kind of mad about that I was hoping for like a white Christmas you know it's nice when you go back to the Midwest you get a little white Christmas going uh-huh then the weather just like completely changed it like was so foggy I couldn't even like see across the street at my parents house which is what was like hurting the planes um but no it was It was good to see, good to see my family, good to see my friends, took a break from everything in L.A. pretty much. I haven't smoked weed in like 30 some days.

Wow. Hey, really, man? Yeah, that's a good start. That's amazing. And you were sick during that time, which always, like, makes it hard to stick with stuff like that. Yeah, well, I think that's part of the reason why I haven't done it yet still. Right. Yeah, my, like, throat is all fucked up and shit I don't want to smoke and make it worse. But I don't know. I tried to quit while, or I did quit while I was there. And I think once I'm back here and now I kind of have a little bit of a grasp on it, I might do it to sleep because my dreams have been so fucking insane without it.

I've been having like crazy nightmares, which I really? Yeah, I don't like. What are they trying to tell you? Exactly. That's what I'm saying. One of them was like, the one that I like kept reoccurring is my brother is a private jet pilot. and I kept having this dream that I was like on his private jet and it was like going down and I don't know why I yeah I kept like having that like wild dreams and I was like what the fuck dude that's should I be tethered to this guy as the dude I look up to or is this a sinking ship or a crashing plane do I got to abort and just go my own way

yeah so I don't know if do you think that the dreams tell you stuff like that like uh sometimes I think oftentimes it's just like adrenalineized emotions and I don't think there's any truth to it. Yeah, like just maybe I was like fearful for him and then Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And then we look into it that there's like a deeper like kind of like psychological issue that we haven't worked through. But I think a lot of times it's just what you're already feeling and then it just

like puts it up on screen and juices it up with as much action as possible. Yeah. But I think you're good dude. Yeah. I just I just would rather not have crazy nightmares. I don't know why it's like so intense when quit smoking i guess because when you do smoke you don't dream at all so i don't know yeah i did i had a nightmare last night that i was naked in front of roblo which now that i think about it is actually a pretty sick dream that's awesome but i think a lot of it was you know can you be naked in front of one of the most beautiful men of all time how big was your penis in your dream um pretty

big. Good. Keep it up. Yeah, all I remember is him looking and being like, not bad. Nice. And I woke up and made some coffee. That's perfect. Should we call it? Should we call someone? Should we talk about Nick Shirley? Who's Nick Shirley? Dude, the friggin Mormon 23-year-old reporter who uncovered the Minnesota daycare fraud.

Oh, yeah. I listened to him in an interview. He's like a kid. Really? He sounds like kind of dumb. But he uncovered something remarkable. That story to me was like because I'd been reading about that case has been a part of it since like 2022.

like where there was like $250 million in fraud like they were filling out fake sheets saying they were feeding help in autistic kids and it was all BS and uh and then he uncovered it even like more massive but like watching people's psychology around it was like insane like because he uncovered it he's like trying to go to daycares they're like no you can't come in here it looks like suspicious like they're like they misspelled the word learning on one of them yeah but then he's also like it's proof because they wouldn't let me in that there's no kids here. I'm like, well, I drop my kids off a daycare. They're not going to let a random dude come in. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Especially with three other guys in cameras.

Like, it was so obvious that they're not going to let. And like so, but people are watching them. And a great deal, like the majority of the people involved in this were Somalian people. Like in the criminal case, like the main lady was a white lady, but then like 82 out of the 86 people under that were Somali. And so like people who don't like, immigrants really fixated on that. Right, right. People come into our country, they steal, and then they send the money back to Somali. And Somalia is all pirates and terrorists who were coming here to attack us and hurt us.

And then, but it was a genuine massive fraud. But then people on the left, like I had friends on the left who saw how, like, people were kind of fixating on the Somalian aspect. And then they were like, they're going into daycares all across the states that are run by immigrants and, like, attacking the kids and stuff. And then they went so far with it because they felt like the Somaliant. Malians were being bullied, that they were like, there's not even any fraud going on. And I was like, well, there's for sure fraud going on.

Yeah. But everyone went so hard in the paint into like their like reactive protection tribe stuff that like it just got totally distorted. But it is wild what he uncovered. Like Tim Walt stopped down or he's not running for reelection. I saw that. Because the state of Minnesota, they said they didn't have files on it so they couldn't prove or disprove a lot of his claims. Yeah. Which is either, you know, they're lying, which is bad, or they're, like, incompetent, which is really bad, too.

Damn. And now, now I think it's just going to increase this. Like, I mean, I guess we sort of do stuff like this, but there's just going to be, like, citizen journalists everywhere. Yeah. Like, a lot of our friends who are comedians were, like, online being, like, CNN was like, because then I think some of the big media people were, like, upset that this kid, like, uncovered it. There was a little bit of, like, jealousy. Yeah. So they were like, well, he didn't.

him follow journalistic standards when he did this and that and this and that and i think that's true i don't think he had like a like i heard him in an interview on all in and he's like i don't have a lawyer like i just kind of make big claims and like i don't want to get into the lawyer's stuff he sounded a little young you know but then like other people are like you're just jealous to cnn and like they're like some of our friends were like he's doing your job you pussies yeah yeah like just talking shit damn it was wild it is a wild wild and the the numbers are crazy of the fraud it was like four billion right yeah i mean people have speculated up to that number i i would i don't know who knows i think it'll land somewhere in the middle but like

it's still insane yeah yeah it's it's it's a new world too where anyone anyone can kind of anyone can be a journalist you can you can you can research a topic so well that you end up on a huge podcast or the new like oh yeah where there it's like Dave Smith or something like that yeah like Dave Smith he's like a comedian right but it yeah it sounds like you're burning a bit yeah yeah it is factually it yeah we're like uh Ian Carroll was on that Tucker Carlson that kind of freaks me out bro yeah well I I heard him on I think it was Rogan or something and he's like I just started making TikToks about uh conspiracies. Yeah, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's, his interest is what freaks me out. You know what I mean?

It's not that he freaks me out as a person so much. It's that like, like, I'll be watching him on Tucker and he's like, the connections between Charlie Kirk and like the Vegas shooting. And it's just always like the most like horrific spectacles of violence and then him like with the, the real story that's underneath it. Yeah. I've never been naturally drawn to that stuff. I'm more to like I don't know like I guess like like the housing stuff interests me more whatever maybe because it's less bloody yeah but yeah it was wild to uh it just feels bottomless to me I'm like are you ever going to satisfy like right a conspiracy seekers like uh what they think they need for the truth are you ever going to be able to really make them believe that you found the

truth of something that's that's a thing with all this stuff right now there's just so many different stories out there, you know, where you just, you just don't, I'm like, you reach a point where you're like, I don't know, you know. Yeah, that's my thing. You're never going to know. I do like learning about it though, and it is fun. And it can be entertaining to like that. I love diving into conspiracies just to like for the entertainment factor. Yes. But I mean, Candace's on, she's done 50 straight episodes on the Charlie Kirk thing. Oh, I know. And it made her the number one podcast in the country. Wow. But she's a great presenter.

I think she's out of her fucking gourd, but she can talk. She's hot, too, but she is fucking a lunatic, dude. She'd just be talking about dudes in maroon shirts and, like, extrapolate this whole, like, historical arc from it. And, like, I know people hear this and, like, you just don't know. And then they'll call me a Jew. Dude, I picked on Nick Flint. I didn't even pick on him. That clip was so funny.

I wasn't even trying to pick on him about that. I thought what was interesting about it is that, like, people think he's gay. Yeah. He speaks, like, he doesn't speak well of gay. people you know he thinks that like they have an outsized influence in our culture and he thinks they should be more limited and small sized yeah whatever he doesn't like gay people so that's what was interesting to me about it and it was also interesting that people even care but then dude his freaking people got mad at you yeah they do and then and then and then some people are like you're

being too sensitive to it and maybe i was maybe it's my own bias and i was like kind of expecting DMs or DMs and messages yeah yeah yeah and then um they kind of reminded me of Taylor Swift fans right where they're very protective of their person yeah and that person has convinced them and validated their feelings that they've been wrong by society and by the opposite sex yeah and there's something very empowering about that yeah but the thing is they yeah and some of them were like he's more of a man than you and I was like I didn't want to go there but I'm like but I'm not a virgin and like I've reproduced and I have a wife and kids yeah like you think being a dad like makes you a man I'm like it kind of helps like a little bit not to like I guess not like

but you know and then and then the thing is they all call me jew yeah everyone calls me because i look so jewish right right right and there's a lot of anti-semitism out there and it's obviously gotten worse because Israel's terrible war and like the fucking insane amount of people they've killed you know and um and then so everyone's just like oh you're just like a jew and I'm like, A, I'm not Jewish, I'm Colombian. And like, B, I don't think that's okay to say. But then, like, it does feel like fighting a losing fact. Like, a lot of guys have distilled down their worldview to just, like, Jews are bad.

That's like their number. That's like their only issue that they're voting on. And I know people think I'm being sensitive. And then so, like, one guy would be like, yeah, of course you think you're fucking funny. You Jew. And then I'm like, I'm actually Catholic. And they go, oh, really? Nice to meet you, man.

Really? Fliap. Hilarious. And then I'll be like, I'm non-practicing. And I'm like, oh, yeah, that's not as good. You should find your way back to Christ. Man, what a weird world? You know, it's in times like those when you just got to go to guys like Victor.

Victor's a great guy. You can realize there's victors in the world. Dude, great guy. And Cuban, I just finished this book about Cuba and the Bacardi Rum Company. I didn't even know it's from Cuba. Cubans are amazing people. Yeah. They've been fighting.

The fucking funniest thing we did to, sorry, I'm all jacked up now. But the funniest thing we did to Cuba, that's not funny, is that Cuban independence in like 1900 or whatever, we called that war the Spanish-American war, and we took them out of it. Like, we renamed the war and didn't even include the country that got freedom because of it. We're like, nice try at a revolution, Cuba. We're renaming it. It's us. It's America versus Spain. Sorry, dude.

the um dude i'm um i'm um i'm listening to a book on how netflix was started do you know it started in santa cruz really yeah dude let's go santa cruz great town i used uh he was talking about he's like yeah you know me and um was it reed hastings it's not read it's the first guy who like ted serandos not ted serran the guy who left after like oh really i didn't even know yeah seems like this is like the sid barrett of the band uh mark randolph interesting Seems like a great guy. He's like, no, I'm done. I'm happy.

But, yeah, they would meet in Santa Cruz. They would drive down the 17 to, like, you know, Cooper Tino and stuff like that. He surfs, he, Mark Randolph, he'd surf the lane. He did steamers? Yeah. Dude, Beast. And then he got out early and he's like, yeah, I'm good. Get a little snug Zilla, dude, then hit a floater and then still catch a barrel, dude.

Yeah. Interesting. Why do you leave? I'm not there yet. I like those books. I like books about, like, big old tech empire stuff. Yeah. I did the super pumped one about, uh, oh, yeah, yeah.

Oobes. That guy's a sick puppy. He went to college up here. He's the Northridge guy. Oh, really? Yeah, went to you see Northridge, like David Dorowitz. guys aren't freaking pumped you gotta be pumped baby i'm trying to be more pumped this year do you have any what was your do you have one do you know what i'm talking about do you have a resolution

new year's oh new year's resolution um trying to speak backwards yota bro um you know what it i it's kind of like not very entertaining but i was like what my resolution is focus on the craft on the results. I'm right there with you, brother. Yeah. I feel the exact same way. Yeah. Because that's...

It's all you can control. Yeah, and it's so much, it's so, it's, that's what, that's, that's what it is. And everything else will get you away from who you are. Yeah. Then you start doing it as something other than you. Yeah. And you, and you, and you, and you, something works in terms of like public recognition. Then you start chasing that, you start chasing that, you start chasing.

that more and more and losing sight of like you know magic what actually is good about it yeah and you like you know um then you can become like a caricature or it's just sort of like a regurgitated same joke and there's something in the energy where it's like I need this a little bit yeah and that that's no but I to me the thing I'm thinking about too is like how do I protect that yeah that like that the craft is it and it's like stillness and quiet and like having a routine in a place I go I got you help me a lot with this because you go on your walks right yeah like you take your yellow legal your little uh note book and you walk with the dog yeah and that's like clear headspace so i go to i go to the library no phone yeah and i love the library i love all the people in there i love

the texture of it and i just walk around i bring my laptop so i can read some sub stacks and stuff but then i'm just reading books writing and i just mosey around there for like just two hours you don't even need that much time that's awesome yeah an hour or two just just stillness just breathing room Yeah, it's the best. Yeah, I've been trying to write more. I've been, it feels great, writing more, getting on stage more. And one thing I've been wanting to do is, is like, capture, like, just moments in life. This is just in terms of, like, content and stuff.

like like um the poetry of the mundane a little bit yeah or like a stoke moment or something you know like i made a video where i like candy and i were watching um marley and me and we ordered sushi uh with the dog which bro marley and me we ordered sushi and i like just capturing that i was like i was like i think it'd be fun to just like that's a drake though highlight those moments you know what I mean where it's like it doesn't have to be so it's just kind of

yeah we kind of go in different ways where I like to tackle but I think that's so beautiful like capturing just a beautiful simple stuff yeah that makes life worth living that connects you to other people

yeah because it's that to me that's just like that's just the best I had a good moment like that we were in Marathon Florida big love to the Florida Keys and I was like

I wanted to go on a date with Elizabeth and I was like we should get our we should go on wave runners together so I went I went to a place and I was like hey I want to rent two wave runners it's pretty expensive yeah I was like all right I guess it's like America would be like cheaper in Mexico

I'm like all right sign up they're like we got them available 10 for I'm like that's weird but okay let's do the four I find out later it's a guided tour you go on a wave runner with like eight other people on wave runners and they give you a tour of the keys

yeah takes 90 minutes and it's a guy driving you around I'm like, dope, bro. Yeah. I don't get on a wave runner to be in school. Yeah, yeah, to be in mind. Yeah, I get on a wave runner to be free to a blast off into the distance. And like, you know, me and my lady are just like two dolphins on our machines, just like crashing and bashing.

Yeah. I'm like, I can't do this. And they're like, well, it's a 48 hour cancellation policy. So you're going to get charged full. Yeah. I'm like, bro, I call the guy who leads the thing. I'm like, dude, can he give me a refund? He goes, listen, man.

I can hear his kid in the background. He needs the bills. He's like, if I find two replaces. for you, I'll give you a refund. He didn't have to do that. He could have charged me. Send me the money the next day, dude. Wow.

Legend, dude. A guy who gives you a refund when he doesn't have to, just because you misunderstood the fucking deal. Yeah. I was pissed, dude. I was sad. When I found out it was a tour, my wife was laughing at me because I was like, I was like, it's a tour.

I was like, I don't want to do that. The lady working behind the place was like, I'm sorry, man. I was like, yeah, I didn't know it was that. I was a sullen little teenager. Dude, it was a lot of money. It was fucking expensive as fuck. And I was like, bummed. And I'm like, and then my mom was like, don't go.

And I'm like, yeah, I don't want to go. So I'm just going to burn this money. Yeah. And then the guy goes, bro, I'll get you back. That's cool. Come on, man. Those are good moments. When you're connecting with, connecting with other humans, it's the best.

When people are being nice and they don't have to. Yeah. That's what's in common. The Victor and the Jetsky guy. They didn't have to be nice. Yeah. It was not in their best interest to be nice. Dude, even though I was like, I was at the ER.

I got some stitches and, and it sucks getting stitches. But even just like connecting with the nurse of like, you know, getting stitches and like they're giving you the shot and they're like, and you know, especially your woman's right there, you're getting a shot, you're getting stitches, you can't, you got to be tough. You're beholden. Yeah, you can't make a noise. No, so what I would do is if it hurt, I would grab my shirt like that. That's tough.

And you got a nice stomach. Yeah, I thought of like James Bond. I thought of James Bond when he does his own stitches or something. Yeah. Or he has like Moneypenny to do him with no anesthesia. It just makes some outball. Yeah. And he just goes, time.

You're like, good? Yeah, keep coming. And so, you know, the doctor was like going in and stuff. And I'd be like, I'd be like, good. I'm like, yeah, keep going. But even like, and a- So you were at. Yeah, I was tough, but also just like kind of making Kennedy laugh and the nurse laugh

where I'm just like, I forget, I was like, it sucks me, it's the tip of your nose. And like, they're giving me a shot. I don't know. It was like, and even in those moments where they're shitty, like objectively, it's like you connect where you're like, after you're like, get the nurse's names and you're like, thank you so much. You know what I mean? 100% dude I had that flying home yeah my daughter she's it was past her bedtime she'd never been up so late in her life yeah she was delirious she went nuts she was screaming crying she was throwing her head against things I was like she might get a concussion so I'm like I got to get her to the bathroom I pick her up this is worst case scenario you're on a six hour flight and your kids losing their shit like two hours in yeah I'm walking in a bathroom everyone on the plane staring at me I'm so embarrassed and I go dude this is awesome yeah go everyone's staring at me I love attention yeah yeah yeah I go, just, you know, it sucks, but whatever. And then it did.

But then we got to the end of the flight and I was like, that was hilarious. That was fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, if you can find the good and the bad and just type two fun, everything. Yeah. The dream, dude. It's the best. It's the best.

Yeah, I love that. Because you'll look back and be like, oh, it was a great memory when I got the stitches. Yeah. Oh, I didn't know that one. Yeah, that's good stuff, man. That's what it's all about. Oh, man. Man.

One thing, dude, my fiance, we haven't fought. And like, I keep calling my fiance and my wife. She's my wife. But we're just not officially married, but we're getting married. Love it to death, sweetie. We went great couples counseling today. But, dude, she did upset me, bro. We haven't fought in months, but we came close.

I'm very proud of that. Knock on Woody. But we came close one night because I'm reading this Cuba book. And it's about the Picardy people and they're business people. They make bills. They make money. But they're brave, good people who really love their country. And I was like, yeah, like, I like that this book's about, like, capitalist, but, like, ethical capitalists.

And she was like, well, all business people just care about money at the end. I was like, that's not true. I was like, some business people just care about making a good product and they'll put other things above their business interests in certain moments that are critical and important and actually help guide our world to a better place. And then she was just like, dude, I don't want to argue about this with you. And I was like, I'm going for a walk. But I was fired up. But I do feel that way. I do feel that way.

I don't like when people are all out on business people. I think some business people are rock-solid individuals. And of course they've got to make a buck, but I don't know. I don't think they're all devils. No, I agree. You got some good dudes out there for sure. Dude, Emilio Bacardi went to jail twice for Cuba. Really?

He didn't need to do that. They sent him to Spain. Damn. On a boat, he was stuck. And he was just like, fuck it, dude. I was just trying to rip my nation and trying to put us in a better spot. Good for him. Tough-ass motherfucker.

That's nice. Oh, man Oh, did you see Marty Supreme? No, have you? I haven't seen it yet. I want to see it. All right, should call it? Yeah, let's do.

That was fun. It's good catching up, man. Yeah. And congrats to Brad Fuller on Anaconda. What a success. Dude, yeah. Go see it if you haven't. It's awesome.

Really, I'm going to see if you're going to hear There's lots and have the gross things that are you? Go in deep Go in deep. I'm going to be. I'm going to be. You're going to see.