Sloss and Humphries On The Road - Ep. 2.32 Cream has another friend
Episode Date: April 6, 2018Daniel is finally showing off his array of friends as his road takes him Muggins free through Australia. Here he is at it again keeping up his end of the Podcast, this time with the charasmatic yankee... Alex Edelman.
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Sloss and Humphrey's on the road!
Muggins and cream, cream and muggins, straight thuggin', livin' the dream.
That's our intro.
Fuckin' muggles!
Ticklin' the clit inside your head that makes you laugh.
Woohoo!
They said it can't be done!
We're in the same seats.
That's hack.
Aww, muggles.
Accidental rent job in the park.
Kiss, kiss, kiss.
Or might just be cynical.
Just muggled it up on fuckin' Mugglepedia.
Where have you been since 9-11?
What's up, Cans?
It's me, Daniel Sloss, back for another episode.
I was sick of Cans saying I've got no friends,
so I've now knocked out.
This is my second podcast in as many days,
and it's a brand new exciting guest.
It's Alex Needleman.
Hi.
I'm only doing this because you paid me some money.
Yeah, yeah.
I've got a...
I'm getting a hard time on the podcast
because apparently when I'm in America, I don't have any friends, so I don't do podcasts. That's not true, though. You were away. Yeah, I'm getting a hard time on the podcast because apparently when I'm in America I don't
have any friends so
I don't do podcasts.
That's not true
though.
You were away.
Yeah, I was away.
And Eric was away.
So my only two
friends were gone.
Oh, that's, well
what about Hammy
and Mike?
Well, it's pretty
much a comedy
friend.
Yeah, yeah,
comedians, yeah.
Even though we
have had a couple
guests on who
aren't Kyle's
best friend,
Matty, we just
bring him on the
podcast.
Is he hilarious?
He is very funny.
And we just say horrible,
horrible things about him.
And he's got to sort of fill up with it.
Perfect.
Um,
yeah.
So we're both in Melbourne.
I got off a plane less than two hours,
about two hours ago.
Are you,
do you get jet lag?
Do you do a lot?
I'm so fucking jet lag.
But I mean,
like it's one of those things where like,
if you can't power through in three or four days,
fuck you.
Yeah. Yeah. I feel like what I just did was a very muggly question that's the
one that's the second you go are you jet lagged it's like first of all i've been off the plane
for one hour i have no idea i have no idea i have no idea you know you travel more than i do man
you travel you travel just professional yeah i tend not to get a jet lag though because what i
always do is i'll look at what time i land right so if i
landed like seven in the morning i'm like right so i need to sleep on the plane and i've got no
problem sleeping on planes for two reasons one i've trained my body to just like associate planes
with sleep sure and two i drink like a goddamn fucking i just told you yeah so i told you the
one i don't get drunk much but like before i got on the plane here's the thing i have i have enough
points that i can like get into a or i'm in a status with some airlines where I can just get into the business lounge automatically.
What I always do is try the first class lounge just in case someone is not paying attention.
So I was walking into the first class lounge and there were – just was like saw me and lots of you recognized me.
It was like, you're good.
You're good.
Like didn't even check my ticket.
So while I'm in the first class lounge, I ordered an old fashioned and then another old fashioned because our plane was delayed.
And then the guy was like, need to try a gin martini.
And I drank it.
And he went, that was vodka.
This is a gin martini.
Enjoy this.
And then when I was finished, he was like, wait, wait, wait.
We have a 40-year-old bottle of Lagavulin scotch.
If you don't try it, you're out of your mind.
So I had like not just five different drinks.
I had so many.
I've been mixing.
And a little bit of an edible.
So I'm sitting there on the plane.
I felt bad for the people sitting around me because I kept trying to shut my window, the shade on my window.
I was doing it for literally five minutes.
I'm like, why can't I shut the shade?
And then this guy from another row got up, walked and he went it's a button there's a button
oh man i wish you'd watch that guy just him just getting so frustrated like he's clearly just been
watching you do it he's like there's a button like his wife's there she's like dude just don't
he's not i've got to tell him i've got
to tell just ignore him just i can't i can't ask for help it's just the guy in front of me was like
i'm just not getting relaxed out of the window so i'm just stroking the top of the window
and trying to pull it down and just everyone around me
he was a hero on the plane that's like when in public if somebody tells somebody who's being it down and just everyone around me. See, like just, yeah.
He was a hero on the plane.
That's like when in public, if somebody tells somebody who's being rude to like shut the fuck up or whatever, and I was like, great.
That, that guy was the hero in that situation.
The best thing I've ever seen in an airplane.
Do we have time for this?
Yeah, of course.
So the best thing I've ever seen in an airplane was a few months ago, I was on this plane.
It was like London to somewhere, London maybe to New York.
And it was one of those things
where first class or business class
ended at row eight
and economy started in row 11.
Yeah.
So someone had said to them
when they got on the plane,
these people,
she got,
oh, you're two seats behind,
you're two seats behind row eight
or you guys are in row 10.
So she just looked at the ticket
and went, they're in row 10 because she just saw them as two seats behind row eight or you guys are in row 10. So she just looked at the ticket and went,
they're in row 10
because she just saw them
as two seats behind.
And they got to it
and even though their tickets
were clearly said like 13
or whatever,
they looked
and the number that the woman
had said to them
was between eight and 11.
So they're like,
oh,
well,
she just must be in row eight,
the last row of business class.
Of course,
that's what she meant.
So they sat down
even though they very clearly not. And like, you could tell that they don't belong there because i was in
primitive economy and i could see them like behaving a certain way just like yeah the way i
do whenever i get upgraded yeah it's happened very few times the first time i got even bring
the economy to me was an upgrade i was like oh my god yeah i'm a prince you're just touching
everything and like except except for the shut the window fucking but of course she's over the jack because you're blitzed but like the woman comes over and
she goes or the stewardess comes over and she goes you guys aren't sitting here you're in row 13 so
the two women who had upgraded themselves get up and they walk back initially with no protest
and then they realize what a downgrade it's been, and they're like, no, no, we're going to make some travel.
They lived the life for three minutes
and then became entitled to it that quickly.
Exactly. It's like, the grass is greener.
I've tasted the next one. I can't go back.
We're there for three and a half.
Excuse me, we belong in Elysium?
I've sat in the chair
now. It's memory foam. Come on.
It's mine. It remembers. Yeah, exactly.
So she starts making a
fight and then another issue arises
which is they've opened their blankets
and they don't have extra blankets on
the plane. So what's going to happen
to these two? So the stewardesses are
both holding blankets and they're
standing there genuinely not knowing
what to do.
Wait, they don't have spare blankets
for a person? Maybe business class don't have spare blankets for a business class.
Maybe business class don't spill.
Maybe that's the thing.
They didn't have spare, yeah, they had no spare blankets or maybe there were supposed
to be spare blankets on the plane.
So then we start getting delayed.
We're delayed by 20 minutes.
And someone in premium economy goes, I bet this is because of, I bet this is because
of the blanket situation.
They're waiting to restock our plane with more blankets.
I bet this is because of the blanket situation.
They're waiting to restock our plane with more blankets.
So now everyone's angry at these two women because they're sitting in premium economy, but they're loudly protesting.
So economy starts, like, picking a side, basically, because one of those things in premium economy is just the rows ahead of economy.
So economy is picking a side.
Business class is picking a side.
The two sections of the plane are fucking yelling at each other.
Just going, 30 years.
No, 30 years.
No, but the economy was like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
They should be upgraded.
They definitely should be upgraded.
And then, meanwhile, business class is like, fuck that.
We don't want that scum down here.
No, business class was like, yes, business class was like, we don't want that scum. And economy was like, fuck you.
This is a class issue.
And like two of us belong up there because they were told the wrong number.
I mean their tickets didn't say the number.
Yeah.
So that's a small mistake but not one that there's any retribution for.
So there's a separate crisis brewing, which is that the stewardesses are also upset about the delay.
They have no idea why they're being delayed.
No one has told them anything.
And one of them thinks it's because of the thing with the blankets because now the blankets are open.
So one of them says loudly enough for, like, the passengers to hear, like, why don't we just use the blankets?
Why don't we just give the blankets back?
Or, like, why don't we just, like, leave the blankets there in case, you know, like, that's acceptable enough, right?
Yeah, who gives a shit?
They've just been touched.
They've not been
spilled on yeah exactly and but the two passengers sitting there go no no we want these blankets and
there are two empty seats anyway so like why don't we just take those blankets and they're like you
can't take blankets we need enough blankets and like it's our policy that we have to have enough
blankets now so like we need to wait a little bit yeah so one steward starts loudly complaining
about how his boss has handled it and all of us are like you shouldn't be like
to the passenger's like can you believe this fucking idiot who's my boss yeah and also behind
me on this enclosed vessel who hears him the boss comes over and he bitches him out in front of us
and all of a sudden everyone is like invested in this drama like it's totally encompassed the entire
plane. Because it's the only thing on
at this point I'm assuming. Oh yeah there's no
the entertainment systems aren't yet.
There's one black woman narrating the entire
thing basically like as it's happening
she's like I remember when
that guy was complaining I just remember her
going he should not be complaining
and then the boss came up and she went
oh shit
so then the boss there up and she went, oh shit!
So the boss steward is bitching out the plan that's ended.
Just meanwhile, the world's greatest
running commentary.
I'm enjoying the whole thing and I'm also trying
to start some shit because premium economy is in the
middle, so they're not business class, but
they're not economy, so the opinions
are mixed and I'm starting to lobby
for... It's literal class where it's the Tordy's versus the Labour Post. Lefty's in the middle are mixed. And I'm starting to like lobby. It's literal class words.
The Tordes versus the labor post.
All the lefties in the middle just being like, I hear points and points.
Yeah, absolutely.
I can hear from the upper classes.
You don't want to be saddled with the lower classes.
But it would be nice if the lower classes represented in the upper classes.
And like also all of us were hoping like we hope the compromise here is a premium economy.
Then this is what ratchets it up.
We just see a woman, a female flight attendant, comes steaming down the aisle from business class.
And she stops right in front of the two girls, the two passengers.
And she goes, where are the toiletry kits?
And the two girls, like, pull out the toiletry kits and business class.
They're like, like oh you mean these
like you know
the toilet
gets to get to
business class
and they open up
the toilet
and the woman's like
don't you dare
don't you dare
and the black woman's
like exploding
don't you dare
she's like oh my god
oh my god
oh my god
oh my god
and she goes
don't you dare
and they start like
opening stuff
and the toilet
trees gets
and like
they had it
brushing their teeth
they genuinely all of a sudden went like this had her knees on the seat start like opening stuff in the toiletries kits and like brushing their teeth and stuff.
They genuinely all of a sudden
went like this, had her knees on the seat, was like
leaning back looking towards economy and brushing
her teeth. People in economy are
cheering at this point. They're like
yes, these are our people!
Represent! Yeah, exactly.
It was one of the trashiest things I've ever
seen. It was the most petty.
Just barely brushing your fucking teeth.
The woman across the aisle from these two people in premium economy is vocally anti-them.
She's like, you're disgusting.
Sit down.
Shut up.
Like, to the point where we were like sort of on the girl's side for a minute.
Then they get the blankets on the plane.
The stewardess does.
The one who got bitched out by her boss. Yeah. Or the guy. I'm sorry. does. The one who got bitched out by her boss.
Yeah.
Or the guy.
Sorry.
It was a guy who got bitched out by his boss.
But the stewardess who challenges them at the toiletries.
Sorry.
That was fun.
She gets on the intercom.
And I've never seen this.
This ends it.
But it.
We went bananas.
She upgrades.
To those two empty seats in business class.
The two women sitting across the aisle
from the two ladies who had upgraded themselves.
It was a spite upgrade.
She upgraded herself.
And I just remember the black woman going,
Oh!
Just like, Oh!
And not just the rest of the flight.
The whole plane erupted.
It was like, we couldn't believe what had just happened in front of us.
And like...
How did the teeth brushers deal with this?
They settled down in exchange for the blankets they had ruined in business class.
So they sat in regular economy, each holding in business class. So they sat and were in the economy, each holding
a business class blanket, and
agreed to be quiet for the rest of the flight.
But they were like little heroes for the rest
of the flight. Every 20 minutes, someone would come up
and be like, hey, what happened back there? We were hearing
it in the back of the plane, but what really happened?
And of course, they would lie and revise
histories, and by the end of the flight, we hated them.
I was getting a pedicure at the back
of the bus, and they rudely moved me. My father works in law yes but they were saying stuff like that like
these were like big big like one was a woman and the other like a larger heavyset woman the other
was her daughter with like a real pinched face and they were just like the embodiment of like
white privilege just like you know if we were sat like the kindiment of like white privilege. Just like, you know, if we were sat, like the kind of people who would put their feet up with no shoes on the tray table.
Or the girls that put their hair over the back of the seat so it goes out in front of your fucking.
Oh, God.
Like people are trying to watch that and you're just like, why does this tiny theater have a fucking curtain?
Like just her hair.
Oh, my God.
It's the worst.
But you know what's so funny though?
Because it was so weird because it was like
a microcosm of America
a little bit.
People who didn't feel strongly
about the gals
were polarized
by other people being like,
hey, what do you think?
They're like,
well, I kind of see
the girl's point.
Well, then you're fucking idiots
because they insult them.
They're like,
no, no, we're really
team gals at this point.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Now you force me to double down.
It was crazy.
It took like an hour
for us to get up.
I didn't even register
that we were delayed.
I just registered
this ridiculous amount
of class warfare
happening in front of me.
It was crazy.
Sorry, that was a long
No, no, no.
Good fucking story
but I've never
and also this podcast
is largely just talking shit.
Sure, sure.
That's why we get high for it
and you know
trust me
you should listen
to some of the
episodes these poor
cunts had to listen to.
We did one in Amsterdam
apparently with me and
Kyle.
We're so stood.
We thought it was the
funniest thing we've
ever done.
Apparently it was just
unintelligible.
We released the podcast
and people were like,
we have international
fans from Estonia and
New York and stuff.
They're like, no idea
what any of you were
saying.
That's so funny.
I'm going to bring up,
I've got a couple of things.
Sure, sure.
First of all, congratulations on joining the Conan Club.
Thank you.
It's so funny.
It's like I feel like Jerry Seinfeld.
It's like, hey, you got a guest episode of Seinfeld.
Good for you.
You're like, oh, you mean the thing that bears your name?
Yeah.
But you know what?
I really genuinely think that –
I thought your show was great on it.
Thanks, man.
It was – the nicest thing about it – there were three really nice things about it.
One, the guy who books at J.P. Buck.
It's just the greatest man on the planet.
As well as you very much well know, his taste in comedy is impeccable.
So it's really awesome to do Conan, but it's also cool to get the stamp of approval from that guy.
And also all the people that have done it before and all the people, especially in your generation, who have done it before.
Like I think of myself in terms of like you and Andrew Santino and other young guys who have done Conan.
So it was really amazing.
The third best thing was Conan and I are from the same hometown.
So he was so freaking nice to me.
He was so nice.
And he came over and they left his reaction in the clip online,
which I like when he kind of came over at the end of my set.
And I got a DM from someone saying that like it was a gift from the Conan people to me basically.
Yeah.
His reaction.
He was so nice and he was so effusive.
It was so cool.
First time I did it,
if you watch the end of the video, when he comes over to me,
there's genuine shock in his voice about
how well I did. He was like, that was great!
He thought I was going to...
He was like, that was great!
I think they must have so many
guests on that networks
make him have for PR, so whenever
good comedy happens in front of him, he's like,
oh my god, yeah! And he's mastered it, the comedy. I whenever like, good comedy happens in front of him, he's like, oh my God, yeah.
And he's mastered the comedy.
I did like,
that was my one joyous moment
of trolling you this year.
Did you know,
on your Facebook,
you did a really nice
and sincere post about like,
oh,
this was a dream come true.
I was on Conan tonight.
You can watch the thing.
I was really,
being opposed,
and then just underneath,
I just wrote eight.
Oh,
yeah,
yeah,
yeah,
yeah,
yeah,
yeah.
Because I've done it eight times.
I love just watching the likes
come in just to see who understood
the dick. Because it looks like I've just done a little
typo, but I'm actually being a giant
arsehole. No, no, no. It's so
funny because I didn't want
to post anything because I feel like that is
it won't count
as my muggle corner, but that is a bit of a muggle
move.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like, for comedians to post something they're doing in a sort of subtle way.
Like, I'm an absolute muggle for that.
But whenever I did Conan for the first time, I just took a photo of my name on the Conan sign.
But that's what I put up.
I put up my name on the Conan sign.
I'm like, I'm trying to pretend this isn't a big deal.
You undersell it all the time.
It's like, so Ian Ian Sterling one of our fucking
good friends
is amazing
he's doing the
Hammersmith Apollo
right
which is fucking huge
for the Apollo or something
no no
for his own show
for his own solo show
oh my god
yeah yeah
well that's Love Island
isn't it
yeah
so it's Love Island
it's always been so funny
yeah
and
every post he's done
is absolutely
just been like
just gonna try and fill out this little thing.
And it's like,
because you've got to sometimes at this job,
undercut.
You stop at a grandizing.
Yeah, that's a humble brag is the worst kind of brag.
Yeah, yeah.
That's why I always go for earnest now
instead of being like,
well, I can't believe I'm going to have to try to kill on Conan
where many of my friends have also.
I just go full arrogant.
Yeah, you do.
I hate full humbleness, and I hate real genuine humbleness. I'm just like, have also like it's i just go full i go full arrogant i think it's yeah you do i hate i hate
full humbleness and i hate real genuine humbleness i'm just like just act like conor mcgregor 24
hours a day a hundred percent i'm so into that because like yeah that's the fucking uh i just
see i get so sick of like there's a type of comedy that's happening which is good right there's not
even besmirching it in any way but just one thing that really annoys me about a lot of comedians just going on and acting beta right i've been like i'm a beta i'm a beta i'm
like no comedian regardless of fucking gender or anything is better you are standing on stage
you're standing on stage but there's a whole bunch of comedians uh you know like that sort of that
sort of like you know you know it's worse When people go – well, I really dislike the word awkward.
Everyone in that room is listening to just you.
Even if you're shy and bashful, in that moment, you're not fun.
You've got all those people to sit and face in the same direction for you.
Oh, if you're getting heckled, then yes, you're beta in those situations.
No, no.
But hold on.
When someone goes, I'm a beta, that's – that always – it's always – because like I don't think there's anything wrong with being a beta.
But self-identifying as a beta to me feels like wrong because like a beta is someone who – let's say this kindly about someone who's classically defined as a beta. There's someone who is like not the
most physically fit person
and perhaps spent more time
playing Dungeons and Dragons
than working out.
I'm just using the most basic example.
Yeah, Elliot was too.
What you're supposed to do
is, the reason you're supposed
to do that isn't because you think,
I'm a beta, so I'll do beta shit.
You're supposed to think, my priorities are flipped versus other people.
So you're supposed to think, I'm an alpha.
But the things that I choose to do aren't jock stuff.
They're like fucking, you know, classic nerd shit.
But fucking, yeah, I play fucking stupid games.
I play Fortnite constantly.
It's a super little game I play.
Even in little cards. Like, we've got little games. I play Fortnite constantly. Sure, sure. It's a super low game I play. Even in low cards.
Like, we've got low cards.
We've got double.
I go alpha in those situations.
Sure, but you're definitely an alpha.
But like, those people, no one should ever go, I'm a beta.
They should go, I'm an alpha with different priorities.
Yeah, absolutely.
So like, whenever anyone goes, I'm a beta, they're lying to you.
Because no one thinks they're a beta.
It's like thinking you're the like everyone thinks
so that unless you live in north korea you think you're the center of your own universe yeah yeah
so like a beta is someone saying i'm a background player in my own universe that's not fucking
happening like we're not in packs anymore there isn't a fucking leader like you know it just yeah
i just find it so very very weird yeah well on the topic of a comedy i want, I'm going to do what I imagine happens to you all of the time.
Anytime something Jewish comes up in the newspaper,
it's a comedian.
Yeah, of course.
Of course.
But we'll get a Jewish perspective.
So, Count Dankula.
So for the listeners that don't know what's happening overseas,
this guy posted a video online of basically,
he was like, my girlfriend loves her dog.
She thinks it's the sweetest thing in the entire world.
So he then taught it to raise its hand like a little sea Kyle and then,
uh,
would say gas the Jews.
And then the pug would do the sea Kyle.
Now it's,
he,
his,
his claim is,
you know,
that it was a joke.
It went viral.
People complain,
but he's not being,
he's been found guilty of hate speech or some shit like that
and they're going to recommend some sort of like custodial sentence yeah yeah he might go to prison
for this now as a comedian uh for me look i look that for me is one of the jokes that you just
don't go out there i'm not saying i've not said horrific things in my whatsapp group specifically
in front of people i know i know i can't't shock my friends. Sure, you and I do, you make jokes about my Judaism
all the time. All the time.
I would never say, I would never say that
because in public it would be me condoning it.
I know this is about to be a big but, though.
Your but is, your but is that
it's a joke and no one should go to jail for a joke,
right?
Well, I mean, yes.
Yes. Alright, well, let me say this.
I think you should go to jail because i think
all youtube comedians should spend some time in prison yeah but that's just where they've got to
stream it's fucking ridiculous he shouldn't be first of all it's not a great joke if it was a
really good joke what he would do is buy a little hitler outfit for the thing and then say sieg
heil and then just like yeah then just have it because then it's
then he's doubled down. Here's the
thing. I, but I also
like, I laugh at the idea
of like a pug doing
it and I'm not like, here's the thing. I'm
not offended by the joke, but even if the
joke was offensive, that's still not
a criminal offense. There is
a genuinely
hateful comic on the planet. His name
is Doudanet. He's French.
And he's got this little...
You know how Dane Cook has that, like,
Sufi gesture? You know what I'm talking about?
Yeah, yeah, sure. He's got a
gesture that's a downwards...
That's like a downwards...
It's an inverted Nazi salute.
Oh, okay. So, like...
So, it's the other half of the dab. It's the other half
of the dab, yeah. It's the dab without the outstretched arm.
But like, Nicolas Anelka,
you know the French football player? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He used to play for Chelsea.
I know this. So he did the salute.
He did it as a goal celebration, and he got
suspended for like a whole bunch of games.
Because, you know. But in that situation,
I don't feel like that was a
joke. No, no.
No. It's a comic who also does hate speech,
dude, and he's been,
not in prison,
but he's been convicted and fined
for it a bunch of times.
So jokes can be hate speech.
But that thing with the pug,
that's a joke.
That's clearly just a joke.
And the joke is that it's slightly offensive.
Yeah, the joke is it's an adorable pug.
It's the juxtaposition.
It's an adorable plug.
I'm going to teach it to do the worst possible thing.
I do think he could have chosen much better language to use.
And I think there should be absolute ramifications because you have to be held accountable for your jokes, but not to a criminal degree.
No.
Like if I was to make a horrible joke, I would, let's say I'd fucking misread the room or something like that.
And I just, I think I something like that and i just i think
i'm being clever and i just i just get it wrong what's happened before can i ask your question
have you ever genuinely crossed the line not like in terms of like offensiveness but in terms of
offensiveness that was hacky that when you finished it you're like you know i wish i hadn't said that
do you know what i mean yeah yes your jokes in your past you're like i wouldn't do that now
yeah there's plenty of jokes in my past that i're like, I wouldn't do that now. Yeah, there's plenty of jokes
in my past that I just,
yeah, wouldn't do anymore.
And there's also been times
when I've definitely said,
it's not only with hecklers,
just like,
because I hate hecklers so much,
I'll just say the worst
possible thing.
I love that Chappelle joke
about Michael Richards.
Which was a?
He goes,
as a black man,
I was offended by him saying
the N word a bunch,
but as a comic,
I was like,
damn, he's having a rough set.
Hang in there, Kramer.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've heard a bunch but as a comic I was like damn he's having a rough set. Hang in there Kramer. That was it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I just there's so many
things that I have said.
The thing is
he made it public
so I think there
should be ramifications
in the sense that
yeah he should deal
with the consequences
of it if he is a comedian
he doesn't fucking
get booked by certain things.
Sure he probably
shouldn't be allowed on
not shouldn't be allowed
on YouTube but like
I don't think he was
massively famous anyway. I don't think he was massively famous anyway.
I think he was.
And also, apparently he is also, I've not read too much up on this just because I got bored by the conversation instantly.
Yeah.
Apparently he is apparently a big alt-right boy.
Sure.
But even then, I would much rather, look, you don't silence people I disagree with.
Allow me to argue with them.
Sure.
I also feel like, there are a whole bunch of things that bother me about this.
One of them is that this is an easy hill for us to die on.
Do you know what I mean?
I don't think it takes that much bravery for us to be like jokes shouldn't – you shouldn't go to prison for a joke.
Yeah, yeah.
So a lot of people are using it on both the left and the right are using it as easy points for righteousness. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so a lot of people are using it, on both the left and the right, are using it as easy points
for righteousness.
Do you know what I mean?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Self-grandization.
They shouldn't go to jail.
You know, like,
on the other hand,
I've seen comedians,
and this surprises me,
who,
who seem to be like,
yeah, he should go to jail.
And in my opinion,
it's a very clear-cut issue
that he
shouldn't so like any community that's doing that is just what it's going to be one of those
social justice or just shit comedians like i think they'll be the ones that just like you
know they don't like offensive comedy which is absolutely fine uh and they don't like you know
they don't like certain stuff but yeah it's the social justice one's been like no there should
be consequences and you go absolutely but it's the social justice one being like, no, there should be consequences. And you go,
absolutely. But it's not jail time. You can't.
Of course not. The government can't.
Socially, we can punish him. Socially, we can
punish him by, you know, the way he has been.
Like, he was fucking hounded. He got fucking
abuse and death threats, which I don't condone.
But like, that's still a consequence
of his actions. Sure. Yeah, that's right.
You say it's a shame.
Yeah, yeah. Look, yeah.
His name is going to be tarnished for the rest of his fucking life. his actions. Sure, yeah, that's right. You say tons of shit. Yeah, yeah, look, yeah, and I, you know,
his name is going
to be tarnished
for the rest
of his fucking life.
And, uh...
Unless he becomes
a free speech hero,
which I would rather
he not.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because I'm sure
there's some people
who are like,
we have Count Dankula
from the, like,
from the...
But yeah, you're right.
Yeah, yeah, because
now he's going to become a,
like, if he gets out,
he's going to become
a fucking spokesperson
and if he is,
alt-right,
like some people claim
again I'm not saying
he's is or isn't
I just haven't
fucking read enough
here
sure sure
but yeah
I don't want him
to fucking become
like if he is
I don't want him
to become
Katie Hopkins
I don't want to
fucking watch this
cunt on a
celebrity
I can't imagine
how annoying
it's going to be
if he has
like a second act
like
oh yeah
like if he
I'm sure he worked
at like a car phone
warehouse or something
like that
and now he's like
now he's like a public figure he's like it's so funny because like I think Julian he worked at like a car phone warehouse or something like that and now he's like – now he's like a public figure.
He's like – it's so funny because like I think Julian Assange is like – has done some like genuinely heroic stuff.
But I look at him and I'm like, oh, this guy is just a real piece of shit and I'm so annoyed that he is the guy that we have to be like, oh, thank you for exposing some like stuff the government wanted to keep quiet.
But being sort of like creepy.
And with this guy, I don't –. But being sort of creepy about it.
And with this guy, I've never heard of him before this.
So he might be the nicest man in the world.
He might not be.
I've got no opinion on that. I think he's probably not the nicest man in the world, but I also bet that he's probably not the fucking supervillain.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's probably – yeah.
Probably just a dumb guy who – like he's doing his open mic comedian with slightly...
You've been to open mics where, like...
It's where the comedians, what they've done is they've watched Jim Jefferies and...
Bill Burr.
And Stan Hope and stuff.
And they've heard these comedians talk about such, like, sexual assault and prostitutes and murder and death and stuff.
And even...
Because those comedians talk about intelligently all these dumb open spots here is that
oh, rape is a punchline
and then I killed her as a punchline.
But there's a reason for that.
They're not as intelligent about it because they missed the actual mark.
But I don't even know that that's just that.
It's also that comedy is so much...
And a lot of your comedy in particular, by the way,
is about generating tension and then relieving it.
And if you do it really well,
people who really know comedy, like the jokes about your sister,
people go, wow, it's great that he's built the tension and then he's relieved it in an
expert way that doesn't make you feel like he built the tension artificially.
You know what I mean?
So open spots don't understand that.
They just know how to build the tension, but they don't necessarily know how to relieve
it, which is why you go to see an open mic in London or New York or Los Angeles. And it's just people making rape jokes without ever really figuring out how
to skillfully talk about it in a unique and fresh way.
So like,
yeah,
I think this guy's a fucking YouTube open spot.
He was like,
Oh,
I'll do a thing that's like edgy and funny and weird,
but he doesn't know how to like,
like I looked at that video
and I was like,
I can make this so much funnier
with like 15 to 20 minutes
of just chat.
All I needed was another couple of takes.
Yeah, it's probably hard
to get a Nazi pug uniform,
but you can find them online.
Oh, Meg, honestly,
nowadays I was just like to do,
that's the thing,
RC Max has definitely gone out.
I always think one day
I might learn how to
sew or stitch and stuff.
Make your own Nazi pug thing.
I'm not specifically doing it for that.
It's not like I watched that video and was like, there's a hole in the market!
It's like, I'm not!
You're really driving the
protest because six to eight months
from now you really want people
taking photos of your Nazi pug uniform?
Absolutely. I want it to be viral in the sense
that I want to, like, the week before
Halloween, I just make a fucking killing
people are just going
they're dressing up as him
they're dressing the dog up
here's my question
like
what a stupid world we live in
where you have to be like
do you defend
Count Dankula
like
oh yeah
there's again
she's like
yeah
yeah
it's just gonna be a shit conversation
after a while
I don't think you should
Lenny Bruce
George Carlin.
Constacula TV.
Yeah.
Oh, God.
And just before we move on to my recorder,
a genuinely interesting thing.
You went to the Korean Olympics.
Yeah, I went to the fucking Olympics.
Because you're fucking...
So first of all,
I've got so many questions about Korea itself,
but then also let's get the story out.
Your younger brother.
Yeah, AJ.
AJ was competing for Israel in the Skeleton Bobsleigh.
Which is terrifying, by the way, to watch.
Oh, I can't imagine.
They're going at like 82 miles an hour.
82, 85, sometimes 90 miles an hour.
I just hit this thing where there's brakes.
Head first.
No brakes.
No brakes. There there's brakes. Head first. No brakes. No brakes.
The brakes are, at the end, it goes slightly uphill and you just sort of, like,
coast to a stop. Jesus. I mean,
like, I can't imagine doing it
would terrify me. Imagine this. I'll say
this because he's finished with the
sport, so I feel super comfortable saying it in public.
I'm really impressed that he made it for one reason,
which is, it is the
fucking dirtiest sport I've ever heard of.
In the sense that the top athletes.
That's actually, they've come for us.
They just kicked out the door.
They're like, if you want to dress up in the fucking uniform.
You said gas the Jews.
I was in context, but we don't take context anymore.
No context.
It's a dirty sport and people
they cheat like
madmen.
How do you cheat?
That's 100% equipment.
Is it?
So much of it is equipment based.
So people cryogenically
freeze the blades to make them
more resistant to the ice
and people rub their
runners with glycerin
so that it doesn't get wet.
It's a really dirty
sport. And the guy who...
You're not allowed to do any of that. It's all meant to be...
You're not. It's so funny. You're allowed to do certain things
but you're not allowed to do other things. It seems to
arbitrarily change from race to race.
Yeah. But it's not... By race you mean the seems to arbitrarily change from race to race. Yeah.
But it's not crazy. By race, you mean the type of race, not the color of people's skin.
The color.
Well, yeah.
If you're black, you're not allowed to do anything.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Though they did do a movie about it.
Yes.
Although it's so weird because, like, it's also odd to see these people, including my
brother, by the way, competing for countries that they're not from.
Yeah, so you're...
My brother lives in Israel,
and he loves Israel,
and it's a big part of his thing.
He wouldn't do it if someone was like,
hey, you can automatically make it if you compete for this country.
He would never do that.
He just does it because he loves Israel.
He couldn't make the U.S. team,
but if you gave him a choice
between the two countries
who he'd like to represent,
I think for him, Israel's a bigger thing
because he's a much more culturally conscious Jew than I,
I have my own issues with that.
But like,
um,
it's weird to like,
you meet the guy from Italy and he's just like a cop from New Jersey.
He just really wants to make the Olympics.
And like,
he knows you can't get in the American team.
So yeah.
So he goes to Italy or like the guy from Ghana,
a quasi frimpong had like never been to Ghana before he was like named their skeleton athlete.
And like he made a really big deal out of it.
And like –
He's like, Dan, that's where my heart is.
Point to it on a map.
Yeah.
I genuinely thought – I genuinely wish that would be one of the questions.
Be like, can you point out Ghana on a map of Africa?
And he'll be like, oh, yeah.
No, I know it's in Africa.
I'm like –
Yeah, no.
He actually thinks Africa is a country. Yeah, no, I know it's in Africa. Yeah. No, he actually thinks Africa is a country.
Yeah.
He's like,
it's in West Africa.
It's North and West Africa.
But like he came in,
he was like 125th in the world and automatically qualified for the Olympics.
Like,
like your brother had to go through.
My brother had to,
I was going to say the audition process.
That's how in Hollywood.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Did he audition?
He turns up with the casting. He did audition. He just pretends. He did auditions. I'd say the audition process. That's how in Hollywood I am. Yeah, yeah. Did he audition? He turns up with the cast?
He did audition.
He just pretends?
He did audition.
Qualify.
I'd say the entire qualification process is one big Harvey Weinstein.
And it's like, you spend a lot of money, and you definitely, there's some rape going on.
It's like a really bad, I feel really bad for a lot of these athletes, because for,
let me say this real quick, sorry olympics is all about expectations so there are some people who go into the olympics
in any given event only about like six to eight people can really win yeah like in figure skating
only six people can win because if you don't land quads, you won't win a medal. And only like six to eight people on the planet can do a quad.
What's a quad?
Like a quadruple jump.
Oh, right.
Jump and spin four times and then land, which is crazy.
And only a few people on the planet have the strength to do it.
So like same with skeleton.
There are only a few people who can actually win.
And in the last three Olympics, the winner is always the person from the country hosting the Olympics.
Any reason to guess why?
They've got the most money to spend on equipment?
No.
They've done the course so many times.
Oh.
So, like, this year, the guy who won was a South Korean.
And four years ago, the person who won was the Russian because it was in Sochi.
And four years before that, the person who won was Canadian because it was in Vancouver.
So like they'll have literally like 1,500, 1,600 runs on the track and every other Olympian is only allowed to start training when the Olympics begin.
So, you know.
And then you're in a fucking queue.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
So like and the South Koreans don't even practice during the practice
days to the Olympics because they don't want everyone to see
how they run the course.
Okay, because they've done it for so long.
I mean, how much...
Because for me, Bob's like, it's one of the
many things I don't... I watch her
and it's very fascinating to watch.
But I'm just like, I don't see how you get good at it.
What control do you have over the thing?
Other than holding on and not screaming. It's 90 90 pushing like that start at the run where you run and like uh you know
you know where like all the little frozen dips are on the course on the way down that's called
piloting your sled and that's not easy but like so you're shifting your weight you shift your way
you lean into a thing you where you start based on like how high you let yourself go in a turn.
Like, yeah, it's all about body control.
And keep in mind, these guys have to keep their legs lifted the entire time and their head pointed straight.
Oh, yeah.
I can imagine it's an excellent fucking core workout.
It is the most ridiculous core workout.
Is your brother just ripped?
He's so ripped.
But he had to change
the way he was ripped
because he was ripped
before he started.
He's always been like
a fitness guy
but he was upper body ripped
like most douchebags.
So like,
he had to redistribute
that weight to his legs
so that he could become
like a bit of a sprinter.
A lot of them
are former sprinters.
I did a bit of like
fucking,
it was the timer,
the sound timer.
The hourglass?
Yeah, hourglass.
He had to do that to himself.
He genuinely did.
He had to totally redistribute his weight to like here, here, nothing up here.
So like it's so weird to watch him do it and like – what was I saying?
Also, the qualification process is genuinely crazy.
There's strategy and numbers and events that are worth different points. You go to the events based on
who else is going to be there and how many points you think
you're going to be able to get.
There's so much paperwork. The dude who
qualified after AJ was this guy Jeff
from Luxembourg.
The famous Luxembourgian name.
Yeah, Jeff.
You know Jeff.
You know Jeff.
Luxembourg forgot
to send Jeff's paperwork and accept the Olympic spot.
So it went to another guy.
Oh, from?
From Jamaica.
Oh.
From Jamaica who had never left New Jersey before.
Yeah, of course.
So you get far enough down the list.
But how gutted would you be if you're that guy you spent tens of thousands of dollars doing nothing
and you've been
offered the spot
they said you're going
to the Olympics
you have told your
friends and family
because you've qualified
they booked flights
yeah
they've qualified
for the Olympics
and then the Olympics
goes bad news
no one accepted
the spot
when it was offered
to you
so you don't get
to go to the Olympics
oh fucking hell
and what is
South Korea like it's crazy and did you meet any North Koreans offered to you so you don't get to go to the olympics oh fucking hell and what what is a
south korea like it's crazy and did you meet any north koreans were they allowed yes i met some
north koreans this was nuts i'll show you some photos and some video after after this so
here's what the south koreans think they could give less of a fuck about the North Koreans.
And to be honest,
they think we're a bit obsessed with it and they wish we'd let it go.
Oh really?
They find our obsession with North Korea.
Just like genuinely odd.
You know why?
Cause North Korea doesn't bother South Koreans for the most part.
They think of them as really irritating and truly evil.
But like,
you know,
60 years ago,
the countries were split. So for, you know 60 years ago the countries were split so for you know so people
probably there are people still alive in korea who remember being united with their families but
they're over 60 yeah so the younger generation is like we don't care they don't often like poison
south koreans or shoot at us across the border so like unless you're like crazy conservative you
never think about it they're never really threatened by a missile because South Korea and North Korea are so close together that if they bombed Seoul, then Seoul would – like it would still hurt North Korea.
Yeah, yeah.
You can't talk about atomic war in countries that small because the radiation of a whole lot more.
Exactly.
They're sort of – it's like they're inside the punch radius of a really
beefy guy so they don't understand why like everyone else is so threatened by him yeah they
do they did get really pissed when north korea and south korea announced that they were going
to do some olympic teams together oh really they weren't fond of that well they were like they're
taking credit they're like we don't need to make nice now why are we doing this like this is our
olympics which is it's the o Olympics just being like, go play with your
brother. But mom, I want to play with my brother.
My friends are over. Go play with your brother.
Exactly that. Nobody doesn't know the...
Let him play the PlayStation. He doesn't know
the buttons. Yeah.
It's my PlayStation.
No, it's your PlayStation.
Oh, just...
But that's... I do get the point because it was built
as the... First of all, they built the entire city for the Olympics.
It's bullshit.
Which is weird because you imagine North Koreans are very good at manual labor.
Like, the fee is way down.
They should have just –
They should have had North Korea build the thing.
They built a $3 billion train from Seoul just to get to this place.
has a three billion dollar train from seoul just to get to this place and it's so funny because some of it was so new and then everything else was just like this is a mountain town that should
not have had anything going for it it's like it's like they picked a random place or like that's
cold that's a cold part we should have a winter olympics there they had a summer olympic 60 miles
away yeah in 1988 so it's like it was so weird they could have reused it? They thought about it.
They thought about having an Olympic village in Seoul, but the Olympians rebelled.
They're like, we're not having an Olympic village that's 60 miles away.
As it was, it was still, or 600 miles away.
As it was, it was still very hard to get from place to place.
It's like any fucking event, Dan.
You've been to like these, like Glastonbury.
You know, it's all queues and buses.
And you got to get to one place. So is it sitting fucking round?
It's round.
It's random people from all over the world, which is kind of beautiful.
You see countries you never think of represented.
Everyone's obsessed with collectibles.
So everyone's trading pins for the various nations that they're from.
Muggles.
And like.
You muggles.
A hundred percent.
And looking for like, you know know ice hockey celebrities or whatever the fuck
oh yeah like
they'll get like
they'll get really excited
about someone
who's got like
2,000 Twitter followers
yeah exactly
they're like
dude I swear to god
I swear to god
that is
the Swedish
fencing champion
but they really do
no way
they really do
my brother got approached
all the time
they'd be like
Adam Edelman
like people were coming up
to him
fucking hell
I mean it's great
but you just never
because I'm not
into that level of sports
in the same way
that if I saw
if I saw Didier Drogba
I would lose
my fucking shit
but for me
there must be
some Olympic fans
these people are
their Didier Drogba
but you know
what's so funny
imagine you spent
a week
just totally
as not a sports fan
totally immersed at like the FIFA World Cup.
After a few hours even, you'd be like, I'm all about soccer.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because this – because it does to people.
I see the Turkish laugh back and I'm like, oh my god.
Yes, because he's a big deal in your little universe that you're there for.
So like you're right.
It means nothing.
But like I sat next to a woman because we would buy tickets and then just sneak down to the best seats every time because they
were fucking empty the whole stadium was empty every time because they send the tickets to
sponsors the olympics is one big corporate fuck fest yeah so like they send uh like it's sponsored
by like mcdonald's and coke and procter and and Visa. If you don't have a Visa card, you can't use a credit card
anywhere at the Olympics. Oh, really? So it's
owned by the sponsors. So all
the sponsors have all the tickets. So like
they're empty because the tickets to that
game are sat on like some
middle manager's desk.
Yeah, yeah. Like a thousand miles away.
He said he was going to come, but he's just going to get killed. He's like, I'll get the second
round. Yeah, but they don't. So that's
exactly it. They were like, we're going to come, but they don't come.
So like no one ever goes.
So we were sitting down at some of the seats.
And I looked to my right and Prince Albert of Monaco was sat there.
I have no idea who that is.
He's just like a prince from –
Oh, okay.
And I introduced myself to him because he's sitting next to me.
Is he like a – does he look princely?
Has he got a lot to bling on?
sitting next to me.
Does he look Prince Lee?
Has he got a lot to bling on?
No, but he's got the most expensive
normal clothing item
but the most expensive version of it.
A cashmere scarf.
When you look at the scarf, you're like,
that scarf is worth probably $10,000.
His shoes
are the most beautiful brown leather
you've ever seen.
Yeah, they're
fucking made from dodo it's just something that's extinct exactly that's a better joke than i have
time to give a credit for but like yeah yeah you're right like that's exactly how it is and
like you can tell his cufflinks were like passed down from generation to generation or shit like
that but like they're all around there so it's on one hand it's the most muggly people on the planet who eat nothing but soft pretzels for a week because they don't want any ethnic food.
And they're like, I do hear that about British people who go to like the expats in Thailand.
They'll be like, you can't get a decent hamburger around here.
I'm like, it's Thailand.
They're like, a guy makes noodles for 50 fucking cents.
It's fresh and frothy.
What are you talking about?
And these are the same ones that were like fucking Brexit's going to ruin Britain. It's fresh in front of you. What are you talking about? And these are the same ones
that were like,
fucking Brexit's going to ruin bread.
It's like,
you don't live there.
So I'm at the figure skating.
I'm at the figure skating
and like,
and I notice the entire section
next to where I'm sitting
is empty.
I'm like,
that's interesting.
The entire section is empty.
And then 250
North Korean cheerleaders
that have been flown in
for the event come walking in.
Each with a guard with a gun pointed at the back of his head.
You know what?
So the aisles were filled with these cheerleaders.
But sitting on either end of every aisle to make sure they didn't go anywhere were people in like the most serious face people I've ever seen in plain clothes.
And you could tell that they were like the binders.
So I was on the aisle next to them, and I was like,
I'm going to get a selfie with one of these cheerleaders if it kills me.
Yeah.
And it might.
And it might.
It will kill you.
It will just kill her.
But that's exactly what happened, because I learned from the person sitting next to me.
I said, how do you say, are you having fun in Korean?
And so he tells me a me. I said, how do you say are you having fun in Korean? And so he says,
he tells me like a sentence. I keep practicing
it. And then they get up to go
after like the scariest
coordinated song and dance
routine I'd ever seen in my entire life.
They train them with no
joy or skill. Oh, it's probably like
the water glass on the head
posture, the whole fucking thing.
They were clapping in like perfect unison
with like
their elbows
totally locked
in like
like
for joy
it's so crazy
and they're looking
they were trying
not to do this
but every time
anyone held up
a smartphone
to take a picture
they were like
not taking a picture
of them
they had been prepared
for that
just like a picture
in general
because
I didn't know this
North Koreans
aren't allowed
smartphones oh wow so to them they're like holy shit had been prepared for that. Just like a picture in general because I didn't know this. North Koreans aren't allowed smartphones.
Oh, wow.
So to them,
they're like,
holy shit,
everyone's got a computer.
They don't even tell them about it.
Oh, so they're still playing
fucking Snake on the Nokia 3310.
They don't even,
I doubt they even have
those capabilities
because maybe a snake
can be seen as a symbol
of resistance.
No, no, what it is is their game of Snake is they've changed it's no no what it is
is their game of snake
is they've changed it
it's Kim Jong Un
which is
instead of little
sweets
it's just little
American
flags
it's just Kim Jong
Il
which one's this
Kim Jong Un
like
Kim Jong Un
has never pooped
he's never pooped
that's why he gets longer
when he eats
he's never pooped
exactly the mentality though is like Kim Jong Un's He's never pooped. He's never pooped. That's why he gets longer when he eats. He's never pooped. Exactly.
The mentality, though, is like Kim Jong-un's – they had a few North Korean fans, but it seemed like everything North Korea was there for had been bought and paid for.
Someone was telling me – I'm like, what happens when they go out in public?
They're like, are you crazy?
Here's what's happening.
They're keeping them on boats in the harbor, the cheerleaders and the athletes
to prevent them from defecting.
Then they
get them to shore.
They put them on buses under armed guard.
The buses drive to the parking lots of the venue,
let them off into the venue. They're
herded into their section.
Then they get back on the buses and go back to the boat.
These poor people don't even know.
What an oppressive, horrible life these people have.
Yeah, yeah.
So they're coming down the aisle and I'm like standing there shamelessly.
I was like, I won't be shamed like away from this.
And like they're clogged up a little bit as they're getting up.
And one woman is standing right next to me.
And I said to her in Korean, are you having fun?
Yeah.
And she looked at me.
And then the person next to her burst into tears
and I was like,
oh,
I can't talk to these people.
Holy shit.
I'm like,
I can't do it.
She's just like trying so hard
not to look at me.
I follow them out.
I follow them out
just to like see them
and they're standing in front of,
they were there
as purely as a media prop.
So I'm standing behind them
as people are like filming them.
And they're all a solid block, like a row of
troops. Yeah, literally
trained to be in the fucking army. And they're waving.
They had these little North Korean flags. The handler
had a little North Korean flag. Whenever he waved it,
he would stand right behind the cameras.
Whenever he waved it, they would wave at the flag
and the cameras would take a whole bunch of pictures.
The whole display was for the press.
Jesus Christ. They're jangling keys with a baby.
Genuinely.
Jangling nationalist keys with a baby. Genuinely. Oh,
like nationalist keys,
the baby.
And there was a woman walking around behind them with a bun wearing their uniform,
but she wasn't a cheerleader.
She was like their trainer and she would jab one of them with two fingers if
they weren't like straight up enough.
So what the fuck?
Oh my God.
I'm filming this on my camera phone,
on my smartphone.
And I looked behind me and I notice there are three security guards who look murderously upset, like really upset.
One of them's got one of those surgical face masks.
It's on, like a black surgical face mask.
And I just see him look like – I don't turn, but I see in, like, the reverse angle of my Instagram video.
I see him look at the other security guards and i realize like
oh i am the only person in this block of north koreans facing this giant block of cameras and
civilians and then i'm like oh that's weird yeah there are no other civilians in this area i'm
in the middle of this block of north koreans and i'm like well why aren't they moving me out and
then i realized like the cameras are videoing everything.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I'm like, I need to get out of here before.
Yeah.
Before.
While the cameras are still on.
Because the second they go, you disappear.
I genuinely was like, for a second, I was more scared than I'd ever been.
Because I had just watched 200-something people act like not human beings for a solid hour
and a half.
Yeah, yeah.
And you filmed it from the angle that they don't want that 100 and so i start edging towards
the thing and they start like moving to sort of like box me like box me like out like they want
me to leave yeah so like they and as soon as like uh they stop waving this guy in the black surgical
mask he just puts one hand really firmly on my, like, left arm and, like, one hand behind my back and he just gives me a solid
but, like, very efficient push out of the, like, out of their circle.
Like, he...
Oh, my God.
I was terrified, though, for, like, a solid few seconds.
I mean, in that situation, what the fuck did you think was going to happen?
Like, I...
In terms of, like, you have minimal sympathy for me.
Like, if I start going to the North Koreans, I'm going nowhere near them.
You know what the problem is?
The Olympics are one giant spectacle.
Yeah.
And so it's just weird shit just happens around you all the time.
Brass bands start playing 10 feet from your face for no reason.
Someone throws T-shirts into a crowd.
Everyone goes mad.
Like, you know, New Zealand dancers will, like like rip off their shirts in the middle of the street and do like one of those.
Hackers.
Yeah, do a hacker.
And so you're like, this is just another bit of spectacle.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
It's such an unreal little, it's like it's a small world that Disney come to life.
And this is just the only dark part of the ride.
Yeah, yeah.
So like.
There is no North Korea on that ride. I wonder part of the ride yeah yeah so like there is no
there is no North Korea
on that ride
I wonder
I wonder
I gotta feel bad
for just a civilian
from North Korea
oh man
it sounds fucking
dire
right
let's go to
Muggle Corner
I'll allow you to go first
no you go first
because I'm still
you know
okay
so my one is
and I've got experience in this,
muggles do paintball.
They're like stags ahead.
So the reason I was thinking about this
is because me and Matt,
you're organizing Kai's stag do at the moment,
and we're sort of thinking of other things to do
apart from just get absolutely mullered
and try and kill Kai.
Like our genuine mission is to make sure
Kai doesn't get to his wedding,
even though his fucking stag do
is at an undisclosed location.
He doesn't even know the...
He doesn't know when or where it is.
All he knows is
it's happening at some point.
We'll get him the information
when he needs it,
but for now...
It's on a need-to-know basis.
That's such a good muggle
to do paintball
for a stag do thing.
Because for me,
I used to be a paintball referee
when I was my first ever job, right?
In Edinburgh, that place where we've gone.
Oh, no, no, no.
Way, way up north.
No, no.
This is like way up near Aberdeen.
Okay.
I used to have to...
My boss was like an ex-army commander.
He'd pick me up Saturday morning at 6 a.m.
Fucking...
Was it fun or was it...
It was awful.
I mean, I enjoyed the thing.
If you ever get hit, you'd get hit.
All the fucking time.
So I'm in bright red, right?
Because I'm a marshal, right?
I've got a yellow mask on.
And I have a marker.
That's what we call the people.
They're called markers.
And I take the fucking things out.
The people out.
So it's two.
I'm 16.
There's two groups of fucking 20 on either side.
Like drunk, hungover, fucking mad.
Bad at shooting.
Bad at shooting, coked up.
And of course, if they can't see them, they're just fucking shooting.
Because there's nothing I can do
my marker doesn't have
paintballs in it
this is just a spare
this is if your marker breaks
I give you mine
we swap the hopper
which is the
yeah no the ammunition
on top
and then I'll fix your marker
so I'm always walking around
being like
you go ahead
you go ahead
and if you tell someone
all the fucking time
you go
you go ahead
but it didn't burst
I'm like
it doesn't fucking matter
I saw the thing hit you
it's an honor base system you're out you go away and you just get one in the fucking time you go you go hit but it didn't burst I'm like it doesn't fucking matter I saw the thing hit you it's an honour based system
you're out
you go away
and you just get one in the fucking back of the neck
and there's nothing you can do
because I'm 60 years old
and he's a 45 year old man
on a heap of cocaine
and I just
don't get me wrong
paintball is fun
it's an absolute scam
no we haven't
oh no sorry
we've done laser tag together
we've done laser tag together
which is
yeah yeah
significantly more low impact
yeah low impact.
Yeah, low impact.
When I was 16, because I didn't tell anyone I had the job at first, just because
I just couldn't be arsed.
Whenever you get hit on the neck.
Yeah, you're a welt.
She thought it was a love bite.
She was like, is that a love bite?
I was like, no.
If this is a love bite, you're assuming anything else
that looks like this is a love bite.
She's like, yeah, absolutely.
Why do I have one on my inner arm?
Why do I have one on my ankle?
Why do I really kinky cheating?
Why do I have one right in my fucking cleaves?
You're right in one of my faces.
It's just a girl just sucking in the middle of my fucking tase.
That's so funny.
Like in what world is that fucking thing?
Oh, man, they used to fucking kids, like troubled kids,
like if they'd been good for three weeks they were rewarded with fucking live
munitions and I'm the fucking referee
so they're just getting fucking
at one point I had to take a fucking stick
off someone because they were just like
they covered it in paint
he covered the stick in paint and was running at his friend
with it being like his logic was
it's a paint sword I put paint on the thing
so if I hit him with it that counts, his logic was, it's a paint sword. I put paint on the thing.
So if I hit him with it,
that counts.
And I'm like,
no,
that's physical assault,
you fucking... Did it work though?
No,
I had to fucking,
I pretty much rugby tackle the cut.
Like it was a big stick.
Like it's a fucking punch.
It's about to be
an absolute genuine assault.
That's genius.
Have you ever done paintball?
I'm,
same with laser tag.
It's one of the few things I'm good at.
It's so useless.
I'm so good at – I remember when we went in Enneagram.
I was really, really good at laser tag.
That was when Anna Glompierre started.
Yes.
And Joel Dahmer.
I just remember going, Adam, what the fuck?
Like why would you be good at this?
Like I do also that thing where like like, you slide and shoot upwards.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
And people hate that because it's bullshit.
You play like a hyper nine-year-old at his birthday.
The most I'll ever hear the words, if I ever want to know where you are in a Laser Quest game, I'll just listen to the Marshal go, no running.
No running.
No running. No running.
There he is.
That's where Edelman is.
But you know what?
Stop jumping.
Get off the wall.
The thing is like not with Laser Tag obviously but in Israel, paintball, like we did basic training and the way to make it fun for us was –
Did you get conscripted?
No.
I just did – I guess three courses of basic training while I was there.
Do you have to do it?
No, but I lived there in a time where, I lived there in 2008, 2009,
and there were a whole bunch of terrorist attacks at schools right around mine.
And one of them was a school that I would study at every Thursday.
And like, something like seven or eight kids were killed on a Thursday,
and they offered us a chance to do it again.
So you live to America America where that never happens.
Yeah, where every school
is saved. That's so funny.
I never think about that.
I enlisted basically.
I volunteered to do basic training
and the funny thing is they were like,
at the end of basic training, they're like, so how do you feel about the army?
I was like, I would never do the army here.
It's crazy. It's politically problematic.
They're like, okay, as soon as you bring up your politics, when asked a question about joining the army, they're like, we don't want you in there anyway.
Just in case.
Just go get the fuck out.
We don't want you being like, everyone here.
You can see both sides, right?
They don't want that.
But I became really good at paintball for that.
The one thing that always frustrates me is
the limited amount of ammunition oh man it's an art it's an utter scam as well right i used to
go there it was 50 you turn up you get 125 paintballs you're playing fucking eight rounds
right it's not that is you go through it in about 45 seconds and it's 15 quid for another 100 every
time it doesn't cost that much to no man i was i was filling up these
little tiny tubes from huge bags these bags can get about 10 000 paintballs cost about 100 quids
i'm doing one cup full of going 15 quid 50 quid it's an utter utter scam so i always hate that
because like if you really want to this will sound so wanky this is very muggly but like if you
want to run a proper paintball exercise where like you cover for a teammate or you try to like
pins like you try to like yes you've got to be firing the whole time or you need to like
not firing the whole time but you need to at least be able to
not have to be like, how many was that?
And also these guns
unless you have an angel gun of your own
or something, these guns sometimes don't fire.
Yeah, and they veer
off to the left and right.
So you don't know how accurate you're being.
So I know some guys
who when we do paintball
training in Israel, they would lie lie down and then focus on a fixed point, fire at the fixed point and literally figure out which way their gun was biasing.
So like if it was to the left, they knew their gun fires a little bit to the left.
So they did it a little bit to the right.
But like you can't spare that in like everyday average paintball.
So there were plenty of paintball games where like I was the last one left or something and then you just run out of ammunition yeah and
you're just there it's like and that's when you get a little knife out a little stick and you
just cover it in paint and like paint you know the worst thing is like when you're trying to do
rambo paint and the second you put it on your face i'm like you're out that counts
you're just there i'm like no rambo you're out that's paint on your face that counts oh that's amazing i should imagine what kimmy is like yeah he's just there i'm like
no ramble you're out that's pain in your face that counts the worst thing about paintball is
being hit by friendly fire you just get so fucking angry like you're like you knew i was funny i i
think i've had people do it on my team who just didn't like me or people if they would mix up
teams after a particularly contentious paintball game they'd be like right well i hate you from
the first round it doesn't matter that you're on my
team.
I would, like if I, because sometimes
obviously paintballs don't burst, they would fall down.
If I ever saw a paintball on the ground,
me and my mate Adam would just pick it up and put it
in our pocket, and at any point somebody
was fucking us off, you just slip it into the chamber
of your
broken marker, and you fire at someone in the back
of the leg, or the back of the neck,
you know,
you got hit
and they're like,
what?
I'm like,
friendly fire,
someone on your scene must have,
I'm like,
if I don't want to fucking
deal with you anymore,
trust me,
if anyone of this
play paintball
is a stag do,
I guarantee you
at least one of your marshals
has shot you.
Are you serious?
That's the coolest shit I've ever heard.
Man,
if you're pissing me,
if you piss me off,
I'll shoot you in the fucking,
fuck it.
I got paid five pounds an hour.
Really? Yeah, to take fucking shit. I'm not fucking kidding what also those although i'm telling you a dirty paintball i always would tell like teammates like it's never worth the
trouble it's not like you think you're picking it up it's got a pie needle there that's gonna ruin
your day like just don't uh don't do it but yeah hey that's a good model corner people should i do
should i do one yeah do one we'll – because we've not got much time.
So we'll do one more and then we'll move on.
Okay.
I'm going to pick one.
Where you make this joke, someone offers you weed and you pat your stomach and go, I'm trying to cut down.
I mean it's 100% in but I would genuinely laugh at that.
It's like a – so this has come with the podcast, and I'll always defend it.
It is 100% muggly.
I love lame jokes.
Oh, sure.
I love lame jokes.
Sure, sure, sure.
The other ones that I have, we don't have time for them.
I'll only get into one.
Have you put serious thought into shopping for a greeting card?
Yeah.
Oh, God.
Being like, oh, yeah, Dad does like top gear.
But do I get something more festive?
Is it festive or is it a serious occasion, this christening?
The way I look at greetings cards is how can I make this funnier?
Like what's, I would, and this is probably Mugly as well,
I will absolutely, for my male friend's birthdays,
get them princess cards with a badge.
I do that all the time.
It's literary and it says
13 on it because that's that is muggly though it is muggly there's also if you make reservation
days in advance for a restaurant a restaurant but not even a good one no no never a good one
like pizza express can i get a table can i get a table for six on thursday uh at 7 p.m and they're
just like yeah yeah
there's a hundred
fucking
just calm down
I love that
when you call
because you don't
know the restaurants
in another city
and they're like
just come
just come in
we're never crowded
we're not
we're not important
there's nothing
in this
we are a pizza hut
what are you doing
unless you've got
a fucking kids
birthday party
you don't need to vote
it's a pizza hut
it's going to be
small it's a hut
look it's very popular we live in a big Italian community this is I imagine where they all go It's a birthday party. You don't need to vote. It's a pizza hut. It's going to be small. It's a hut.
Look, it's very popular.
We live in a big Italian community.
This is, I imagine, where they all go.
I want to hear your dad jokes.
Well, first of all, before we go on to them, plug your shows.
This will come out on Thursday.
I'm doing Melbourne Comedy Festival.
I'm here for the entire month.
What's your show called?
It's called Just For Us.
And where is it on? It's on at the Greek Center
every night at
9.30. Sweet.
And I am on every day at
9.15 at Acme.
Are you doing Mondays?
No, are you? No, fuck.
Absolutely not.
There's always overlap
with everyone I want to see.
Alright. Your dad went to see. All right.
Okay.
Your dad went to Comic-Con as Hitler.
Okay.
Your dad's so basic his favorite novelist is God.
Your dad's Facebook profile pic is of a baby that isn't his.
Your dad owns a tea kettle, but he only uses it for urine to drink.
Your dad has stabilizers on his car.
Your dad doesn't like The Simpsons because he finds it disrespectful.
He's just there the whole time being like, I'm not like that.
Eskimos have 500 words for snow, and your dad has 700 words for Muslims.
Your dad hums when he eats,
and if you lived in a rougher neighborhood,
he'd be dead because of it.
Your dad dips dog biscuits in his tea.
Your dad gets boners from seeing an apartment store mannequin
whose body type he likes to describe as surprisingly supple.
from seeing an apartment store mannequin whose body type he likes to describe
as surprisingly supple?
Your dad puts a notch in his bedpost
every time he cries himself to sleep.
It looks like a 15-year-old emo's wrist.
Your dad thinks Bradley Cooper is very handsome
and he's brought it up too many times for it not to mean anything.
Your dad has light-up underwear.
Your dad tries to get a Mexican wave going
at every sporting event he's ever been to.
But he has never failed to this.
Your dad calls oysters nature's vagina.
I'm never getting seafood with him ever again.
Your dad has started ascendance with
as a white man.
And once used the phrase
you gotta hand it to him when talking about
Bill Cosby.
Your dad wrote a Me Too status
after his prostate exam.
That's really good.
Your dad's favorite movie is Happy Feet and you don't want to know why.
Your dad puts a bobblehead of the Pope on your mom's back during doggy style
so it looks like the Vatican is approving the whole thing.
I think I'm out.
I think that was good for me.
Perfect. That was great. Amazing. That think that was good for me. Perfect.
That was great.
Amazing.
Thank you.
That was a lot of fun.
They are great.
We've changed the game.
Your mom jokes are sexist
and fattest and whatnot.
Your dad's jokes are just
your dad's life.
Yeah, your dad's mom.
And a lot of times
slightly racist.
Thank you for having me on, man.
We'll get you on later on
in the festival.
And also,
you would not believe
how many of these fuckheads
actually come and see
shows of the case
it's a small fan base but they are
disgustingly loud
please come and see me and please go
continue to see Mr. Sloss
talk to you later cats, bye