The Church of What's Happening Now: The New Testament - The CHURCH: BEST of JOE ROGAN, Vol. 2 | with JOEY DIAZ & LEE SYATT

Episode Date: August 21, 2023

The CHURCH: BEST of JOE ROGAN, Vol. 2 | with JOEY DIAZ & LEE SYATT   #216 Part 1 - Recorded live on 09/23/2014.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R0OL5mnbqo&t=1s   #216 Part 2 - Recorded live on 09/...23/2014.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrXWBV2Cglw   #472 - Recorded live on 04/10/2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQyTfr8_auU&t=143s   This podcast is ALWAYS presented by ONNIT!   Go to https://www.onnit.com & Enter PROMO CODE: JOEY, JOINT or CHURCH The Mind Of Joey Diaz is on PATREON: http://bit.ly/TheMindOfJoeyDiaz  #JoeyDiaz #Madflavor #UncleJoeysJoint #TheJoint #TheChurch #LeeSyatt #JoeRogan

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Starting point is 00:00:34 And I'd still see them out from the night before. They have wait watchers meetings? Yeah, you have to go to meetings. I didn't know that. Yeah, you have to go to meetings. So it's like an alcoholic's anonymous thing? Yeah, you have to go. They weigh you.
Starting point is 00:00:45 And they talk about knowledge for an hour. How to avoid this? How to avoid that? When you go on vacation, eat the toast with the big potato, you know, a little shit like that, you know. Eat toast with big potato? I'm just saying, you know what the fuck. They just, it's like 35 minutes.
Starting point is 00:01:00 You go in, you pay your dues, and you get the fuck out of it. Huh. Some people weigh in, some people don't weigh in Some people go down there just to not lose weight at all They'll go there every fucking week just to get out of the house It really is an amazing thing, you know But they have them like at 9-11 Isn't that what happens with a lot of people
Starting point is 00:01:18 They get involved with almost anything Like there's a lot of things that people do Where they're just trying to get out of the house Whether it's going bowling And I remember I went to a Renaissance fair once And there was, you know Everyone in the Renaissance Fair Pretty much everyone took
Starting point is 00:01:33 talks like they're from another time. Right. They are, me lady, you know, does thou want, you know, they speak that way. But this one lady wouldn't do it. She was breaking character. Like she was just there to hang out. And she was complaining about her husband. Her husband won't take his medicine. I went to the pharmacy.
Starting point is 00:01:50 I got him all this medicine. And this other chick was pissed off that she wouldn't, you know, go along with it. She goes, sorry, I don't understand. What dost thou mean about medication and prescriptions? what are thy speaking about? Like she was speaking, you know, she was like trying to, and the other bitch was like mad at her.
Starting point is 00:02:09 Like, come on, cut this shit. I'm talking about my, I'm trying to complain here. She was just trying to complain. She wasn't into being in a Renaissance fair. She just wanted to get the fuck out of the house and bitch and wine. And so she put on some crazy European outfit
Starting point is 00:02:21 and went out to this Renaissance fair and was just trying to treat it like it was just a normal coffee shop, just hang out and whine about things. My dad does it in Florida. He retired. He moved down there. He was bored.
Starting point is 00:02:32 He does this. like community patrol thing in a police car, like the sheriff's office hasn't. He does it like four hours a week. They give him a real uniform. He goes around and he had to lend the codes for things. He's going to shoot a black dude. No, they don't go with the gun. What's his name?
Starting point is 00:02:47 Zimmerman. That's where he started out. It's, we had this conversation on your podcast about, I always believe that if you want to do something, you know, you just keep showing up, you know. And I thought about it after like when I lived in Seattle. Seattle was my real open mic era. So on Mondays and Tuesdays, let's say 20 people were there. That's what the list was.
Starting point is 00:03:09 20 people, everybody had six minutes, seven minutes. The last two guys probably had 10 minutes. I said that those 20 people, seven of them were just there to fill a void. But do you goof on them? No. That's what works for them. They have a local job. They just want to do common.
Starting point is 00:03:30 as a hobby, you know, but that happens in everything. I went to, today, I said, fuck it. I was sitting there. I had nothing going on. I said, you know what I'm going to try these knee pads? Because when I tried the knee pad first after the surgery, it didn't fit. So I put this knee pad on. I go, it fits.
Starting point is 00:03:46 I put my Gipan's on. Just go to Jiu-Jitsu and just do hip escapes. That's it. Just make the legs go that way, make them go this way. Once I'm getting tired, I'll get the fuck out of it. The dog I was drenched. And there's a big difference between elliptical sweat and jujitsu. too sweat.
Starting point is 00:04:01 Jiu-Jitsu sweat. You know when you got it's on your neck and shit it's coming out of your head, paws, and shit. It's tremendous. You're doing no ghee, right? No, I do gee. When you do a ghee and you know you're working out when you take that glee and you just fucking ring it out.
Starting point is 00:04:14 Oh, Jesus. When you get that big, heavy, thick canvas ghee and it just soaked. Oh, my God. I went to pick it up just now. Let's see if I could throw it in the hamper yet. The smell. The neck was still wet.
Starting point is 00:04:28 Oh, the neck was still wet. I was like it's six fucking hours later. But it's funny, I went down there today, and Tuesdays and Thursdays is a very small class compared to their night classes. But there's one guy that walks into class, dressed with his gear ready. No warm-up.
Starting point is 00:04:46 I've never been there at 12.30. Goes, sits down, his feet are always dirty. Sits down like Kung Fu. Doesn't do hip, doesn't do any of the warm-up. sits there watches the technique does it five times on each side gets up bows and walks off and that's all he does he just wants to do a couple drills
Starting point is 00:05:07 that's it and he works as a security where are you training that what place down the blacks right around the point it's called v mac there right around the corner I'll bounce like I'll go to v mac but vmack doesn't have all the classes and I can't do Wednesday nights I can't do Monday nights I'm doing this so Monday days I'll go to Higgins I'll shoot down the Beverly
Starting point is 00:05:27 Hills and I'll go to Hegan's. I went there for the whole month of August and a little bit of July. So now when this gets better, I'll go to Hegan's at 11. It's 11 to 1215 real quick. And where's Hegan that? Beverly Hills, behind the tuxedo shop. Higin used to have a place in like Redondo, right? I'm not sure.
Starting point is 00:05:42 No, no, no, that was the other brother. That was Hodger. Who's got the place by the ice house that we owe is John? John, yeah, I think. Carlos is in Dallas, and John Jacques is in Tarzana. And John Juck is apparently opening up a place in Austin, too, with Todd White. Yes. Somebody's opening up something in Austin.
Starting point is 00:06:05 Yeah, because Todd White was, he's one of John Jock's black belts. He's the artist. He used to work for Nickelode, and now he does this amazing cocktail style, like, 1930s and 50s, almost cartoonish. Really cool stuff. And he's super popular. Like, he can't turn out art enough. Like, everybody wants to buy Todd White's stuff. Right, right, right, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:26 I went to a friend's house. and she had a Todd White thing on the wall, like, years ago. It's like, this is crazy. It's my friend Todd's. Like, this is nuts. He's making bank right now. Is he not? Like, just kill him.
Starting point is 00:06:37 Like, his average pick, because somebody was telling me the whole thing, it's ridiculous. Ballin. Out of control. How art is. It's amazing. Well, that's that art thing is a weird world. Like, once you become, like, a guy that everybody wants to have a piece,
Starting point is 00:06:49 I want a original Joe Diaz. And, you know, it becomes like a thing that these art people, I was talking to a friend who explained it to me, And he was saying that they manufacture it. What they'll do is they'll get an artist. And then they take a bunch of people that they already have connections with, like really big people that buy $50,000 paintings, like nutty. And they buy them as investment or because they like art?
Starting point is 00:07:14 They buy them as investments. They buy them because it's a hobby. It's a thing for them. It's like, you know those crazy wine people? Those people that are like that with art. They're crazy art people. They just buy art. And the gallery will contact them and say, listen,
Starting point is 00:07:26 There's a guy who's coming up. He is phenomenal. And just I want to gift you a piece because you're such a loyal customer and I'm going to gift you a $25,000 painting. You know, because for a guy who's buying millions of dollars worth of art, because a lot of these guys actually do buy millions of dollars worth art from a particular gallery. Gifting a guy at $25,000 piece is just an investment. But it's not really a $25,000 piece.
Starting point is 00:07:52 It's a $25,000 piece because they say it's a $25,000 piece. So you gift four or five guys, these big high roller guys, these pieces. Now, they're in the art community. Well, who's that? That's an original Joe Diaz. Yeah, the gallery gave it to me. It's a $25,000 piece. The guy's incredible.
Starting point is 00:08:10 Wow. Yeah, he's having a, there's going to be a gallery show in October. So then they put on the gallery show in October. The prices have already been established. And then you see $35,000. Nobody flinches, and they just start buying them like hotcakes. Why? Because these big shots.
Starting point is 00:08:26 already have the $25,000 pieces. So they create this bizarre bubble, this bizarre market. And they do it by giving these really big high rollers expensive pieces. It's really fascinating. It really is. Yeah. Smart. I mean, they just, look, you know what it is?
Starting point is 00:08:43 It's like it's a hustle. They figure out how to get in with these people. They figure out how to just how to make it. Like, I was hearing about there's certain handbags that really rich broads are really into these certain bags. I don't remember the name of it. But you have to have a relationship with the people that sell the bags in order to even buy a bag. Like, you can't just go in off the street. You have to have already been a client.
Starting point is 00:09:07 So, like, you have to buy a bag to get a bag. So it becomes exclusive. So because it's exclusive, they're selling these bags for, like, $50,000. And I'm like, how the fuck is someone paying $50,000 for a purse? It's a bag. It's not a Ferrari. You can't drive it. It's not, there's nothing.
Starting point is 00:09:26 There's no. crazy engineering involved in this. It's not like a watch that some guy made by hand and he's got fucking giant goggles on. It takes six years to make a one. No, no, no, it's a fucking purse. But because they've engineered this exclusivity, they've arranged it and they just, they worked that market, that market of people with incredible wealth. Because especially where we are, we don't even realize it. You know, you grew up in a place where it was like blue collar and, you know, nobody was multi multi-millionaire, but there's places like Brentwood or, you know, Belair, where you might have a hundred people in a mile radius that have a hundred million dollars. Like, that's not uncommon. I mean, there's insane money in certain areas. When you're looking at these homes, there's a $25 million home. That's a $30 million estate. This house is going for $50 million. I mean, there's a lot of that in this area and all they have to do is tap into those folks because they have insane disposable income and what's expensive to you or I is not expensive to them it's nothing 25,000 dollars for a painting
Starting point is 00:10:37 ain't shit for them so they figure out a way to weasel into that world and then it becomes about that world then it becomes about that exclusivity you know this is an original Joe Diaz look at that on the wall very nice where'd you get it well you know the gallery you know they've got a show coming up a I love this use of color. They're just trying to find ways to spend their fucking money. I mean, they might have a house in Costa Rica. They've got a fucking house in Canada. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:11:04 Like, there's a lot of those people in L.A. That are just stupid rich. I heard that there's, like, a social network now that you have to pay, like, 10 grand to get into. Have you heard about that? No. What's it called? I'm trying to find it right now. Here we go.
Starting point is 00:11:19 Social network that costs 9,000 to join. Fucking idiots. Let me see how to find it. Facebook is free, stupid. Okay. What are you going to get out of this social network? Are they going to blow you? It's called Metropolitan.
Starting point is 00:11:32 Metropolitan. It's 6,000 to join and an additional 3,000 that renews annually to keep, to continue access. Oh, my God. Is anybody joining? You have to be 21. Let's see if it says. They're not sharing how many members. Of course or not.
Starting point is 00:11:47 There's two people in it. Oh, my God. You have to be a real asshole. I can't imagine. What if a. Hens breaks in a $50,000 bag. What if a nail polish thing spills? What if your dog pisses on it?
Starting point is 00:12:00 It's amazing. I went to the park. I go to the park every fucking day, but the other day I went to the park and I heard women talking. And they were talking about daycare prices in the area that they went shopping. But what about that one in Van Hise?
Starting point is 00:12:16 And she goes, oh, my God. I looked at the web page and it was just, I thought I was dizzy. I was on the swing. and they were on, you know, my baby was on the swing, and I was bunners, so I could hear them talking on the swing. And they were talking about how you have to get on a list to get your kid into this fucking daycare.
Starting point is 00:12:35 Like, you have to know somebody, and then they have to get you on the list. And it's exclusive in Van Nuys. And I'm going, like, how did they make it exclusive? Like, what do the kids do that's different? Is there a security guard? Do they fucking fish, you know, Give them a chef.
Starting point is 00:12:53 Right. I mean, are they gluten-free meals? I mean, you know, I think I want my kid to get a little fucking dirty. I mean, but they were talking, I heard them talking about like percentages. Like, let's say every other daycare around, there's 200 a week. This place wound up like 1,200 a week. 1,200? Like, something just fucking ridiculous.
Starting point is 00:13:13 Something just ridiculous in Van Nuys, you know? And it's the same thing, how they just make it exclusive. It's exclusive. Do you have to get on a fucking list? A list for what? So my kid could play with fucking blocks? Hmm. Maybe it's just, they just have a great setup.
Starting point is 00:13:28 I mean, maybe it's just like... How great of a setup could it be, 1,200 a week sounds insane. Well, that doesn't make any sense. With comparison to what a regular daycare is, this is how much more it was. Wow. And they had like, just you have to get on at six months.
Starting point is 00:13:42 And if your child's not potty trained, and I went home and I'm thinking about it. I asked my wife, but she goes, oh, yeah, they got them all over like that, that you, the one by the house, by Marie ETC. See? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:53 That's a Christian church that half the waiting list are Jewish people. What? From Orange County to put their kids in that daycare because the daycare is just that good. What about pet hotels where they give them like TVs and beds? Have you heard about that? Yeah. They put it like animal planet all day. Animal planet all day.
Starting point is 00:14:16 It's, you know, and listen, man, it's whatever the fuck you pay for, whatever you believe, man. you know it's just fucking amazing it's 25,000 for a picture or whatever a fucking artist and you sit there and I've been to those things my buddy in New York
Starting point is 00:14:31 is like a great framer his shop is in the lower east side and whenever I go back he gives me a hug and he kisses me on both cheeks I mean it's not his fault you know what I'm saying that's for a living
Starting point is 00:14:43 but there's a lot of really good shows and I think I don't think audio is the future of entertainment I think it has a future has a future But it's not the future because there's always going to be people that want to see things. I'm not saying videos going away. Obviously, videos great.
Starting point is 00:14:57 But when the name of the game is advertisers and advertising money, that's like the end goal for all of this, if you're losing people for eight hours a day. I think what's great about these podcasts is the people like middle class and are really listening to it. There are higher-level people doing it. But if you can't listen during the day, you're probably a little bit out of the loop podcast-wise. you would think. So if you can't watch video during the day, you don't have all those ads.
Starting point is 00:15:26 I just think there's going to be a lot more of that scripted podcasts, reality podcasts. I think there's going to be everything. Because you have so much more access. Yeah, you have a lot of possibilities. How many people do you think of really listening throughout the day? That's all I did when I came here.
Starting point is 00:15:42 That's how I found Joey. Through your podcast, I was listening all day at my job. But isn't that unusual to have a job that allows you to do that? How usual is that? You go on a plane, there's people watching a movie typing with earphones on. Okay, in today's market, people have an assignment or they have the type of report. They have you on.
Starting point is 00:16:00 They're not watching you on YouTube, but they're listening to you. They're listening to Bill Burr, listen to NPR. They're listening to the Comedy Central podcast. They're listening. They have 40 fucking hours to kill on that fucking computer gaining hemorrhoids by the day. You know what I'm saying? They listen to two podcasts. They get up.
Starting point is 00:16:19 for a walk, they smoke a cigarette, they drink a cup of coffee, they come back, they do a little work to listen to another podcast. You know, if you're a night security guy, you work fucking, you know, all those hours at night, you're lonely in a car sitting there. That's when you listen. So if we're each an hour and a half apiece, two hours, you got a lot of time at night to listen the podcast. We're the kings of the third crew, Joe Rogan. Yeah, right? We are the kings of the third crew. People that work midnight to eight, whether they're in Australia, China, New Jersey, California, that's who listens to this while they're stocking fucking trucks or, you know,
Starting point is 00:16:57 fucking product at a supermarket. You've got a supermarket at 2 in the morning? And the guys are stocking, they got earphones on with the black gloves, and they put an ice cream in the cases. They listen to everything. To Jim Norton's podcast, listen to Opie and Jimmy, you know, whatever the fuck, Jimmy and whatever, they listen to the dude that used to be on it.
Starting point is 00:17:16 It's amazing how much of a catalog they have to. choose from the first guy who ever recognized me was a sign spinner by my my by my job I was walking across the street he was saying he was spinning he went to the ice house a couple times I think he was gonna try to be a comic but yeah funny yeah ice spinner would be the perfect guy that's hilarious this is gone to places where it's you know you look at your map at the end of the month and you see where the people are listening to this across the world wow and you go what the fuck you know like when the army said he went to China He said, 200 people showed up, and they all listened to the podcast.
Starting point is 00:17:52 They're working for somebody over to Apple. They work for Apple or something like that over there. Well, Apple is Foxcon. That's over in China, right? Yeah, that's where they make the phones. But they have America's the next. I've known since we were 15 in summer school. So I play his game.
Starting point is 00:18:09 I go over there. When I was broke in 84, I fucking made deliveries from frames and pictures and shit. And, you know, every night they go to these things. I've been with them where they go. they sit and they look in front of a picture and they make believe they drink wine these people don't give you sodas they give you you you know sushi it's a social thing it's a social thing it's a it's a big social thing to be an art collector because it shows that you have a certain amount of taste you know like if you if you're into obscure art that's a jackson pollock mm amazing amazing
Starting point is 00:18:39 I love what he's doing here this concept is incredible I didn't know there were any current artist getting that much money oh I thought it was old people. No, you just have to be in that circuit. You just have to be in that. I was over Bob Gersh's house. Bob Gersh is the fucking guy who owns Gersh. He's the guy that I had to get on the phone with. They were trying to get me
Starting point is 00:19:00 to apologize with him and see him in the wig. And I'm out over his house in aspirin. It's a long fucking time ago. And he's got this thing on his wall. And it's like a bunch of pieces of paper. Like it looks like tissue paper glued onto other paper and like
Starting point is 00:19:16 a lot of paint. And I look at it, I go, I go, is this something his kid made? And someone goes, no, that's a blah, blah, blah. And I go, what's that? And he goes, that's worth $30,000. I go, what the fuck are you saying?
Starting point is 00:19:32 I mean, it wasn't even big. I mean, it was like as big as that longest yard frame poster you have up there, that thing. You know, I mean, and it wasn't like an enormous piece that took fucking 50 years to make, you know, no, it's like a normal size painting with like
Starting point is 00:19:48 bunch of fucking tissue glued to a thing and some scribble. It was abstract modern art. You know, that's what they call it. Abstract art. Dog shit. Nonsense. Unless it was your kid. You know, if your kid made it, it would be cute.
Starting point is 00:20:01 It made sense to me. I thought it was his kid. It's like, what the fuck is this? This is $30,000? That's like when they throw their fuck, like the counterfeit, to live and die in L.A., he would throw the art.
Starting point is 00:20:13 Yeah. And he would light him on fire. Yes. To live and die in L.A. That motherfucker movie was on the other morning at 6 in the morning
Starting point is 00:20:21 I put on KTOI news and I go let me see what else is on I fucking put that's why I remember I put that part on
Starting point is 00:20:28 it starts with him burning a picture he burnt the fucking pictures in the beginning and at the end you know there's those fucking guys that do the art and burn the picture
Starting point is 00:20:37 because it just meant my closure and you know and sitting there going you gotta get your shit together guy it's fucking all over
Starting point is 00:20:45 for you know it's the art world is filled with a lot of pretentiousness. But just art itself, calling yourself an artist, being an artist, wearing a scarf. When they call themselves an artist,
Starting point is 00:20:57 that's where my thing, and then they justify it by going, you know, you're an artist. And I'm sitting there. But there are artists. What? There are artists, but these really pretentious artists,
Starting point is 00:21:08 they fuck up the whole concept of being an artist. You know, like, look, Quentin Tarantito is a fucking artist. Okay, that's a guy who creates, badass motherfucking movies. It's an art to him. You know what I mean? Like, you know, fill in the blank. There's a little, Richard Pryor was an artist, you know, he was a real artist. He
Starting point is 00:21:31 created art on that stage. But some fuckheads, they say, you know, I'm an artist. And you just go, ugh, blah. And you just want to throw up on him. It ruins the word. It ruins the term. are. We're very fiddicky. What the fuck are you talking about? I'm an artist. I just, I can't be tied down. I'm a free spirit. You don't consider yourself an artist, Joey? Oh yeah, yeah. Every morning when I wake up, I'm going to go see artists and so how. Well, you are an artist, but you're a comic and the comic supersedes everything else. Being a comic is, you know, it's a different, I mean, it is without a doubt in art form, but it's, being a comic is the most important aspect of the art form and that eliminates
Starting point is 00:22:19 any possible pretension. There's no, you can't be pretentious to be a fucking comic. You're a fucking joke slinger. You know, and that's what we do. You know? Listen, I could never I got invited to this wedding. I think I told you, I got invited to this wedding.
Starting point is 00:22:37 Usually I won't fucking go to a wedding, but it was in town and I don't go and it'd be a nice date night for the wife. And we get to the wedding and the people like, oh my God, we're so happy you made it. We put you in the celebrity table. And I'm like, I'm not sitting. What?
Starting point is 00:22:51 And I go, I'm not sitting on the celebrity table. And I walked all the way of the back. And I sat there. You know me, dog. Celebrity. Who else was at the celebrity table? Fucking Gwen Stefani and a fucking husband and the black dude from Rocky. Apollo Creed.
Starting point is 00:23:06 Apollo Creed. Carl Weathers. And, you know, just a bunch of other people. Like, mid-level. Yeah, the black dude from Rocky. Mid-level celebrities. Yeah, like just, you know. Gwen Stefani is pretty big.
Starting point is 00:23:17 Yeah, this before she got pregnant Like this is about two years I'm gonna be in a half She still, she was huge Was she huge? Yeah, you know, I got peas right? No, no, no, no, no That's Furgy.
Starting point is 00:23:27 That's Furgy. Oh, no doubt, yeah. No doubt. But, no, it was just really weird that that word right there, no. I sat in the back. I'm no fucking celebrity table. No, no.
Starting point is 00:23:38 And it's just, you know, man, every time I, like, I hear shit like that, like somebody comes at shit, like today, I was washing the car and somebody came in and said, something about, oh, I saw you on this, and I want to say, I wish you would have saw me when I robbed that fucking. I really do, Joe, Rob.
Starting point is 00:23:54 I wish you would have saw me when I robbed the fucking, the change thing for blankets from a Carvel one day, because I was short four bucks for a fucking 20 sack of weed. You know what I'm saying? I went into a Carvel because I knew they always had like fives and shit. So I bought, like, the baseball cup with the ice cream in it to give you, like, the Kansas City Royals. you get pissed off. And I stole the fucking can with the goods.
Starting point is 00:24:20 And that's what I think about. Whenever somebody says, ah, wow, you know, that role you had in the movie and I feel like saying, God, do you even have a fucking idea?
Starting point is 00:24:28 Like, what are you getting? But why is it bad that they like you for a role in a movie? Like, what is it that you want to, like, redefine yourself? No, it's nothing about redefining myself.
Starting point is 00:24:40 It's just about, you know, we're talking about my uncle, taking me to this game when I tried to rob him, 25 years ago at gunpoint and whatever. We don't talk about that. Like, Ari wanted me to tell the story on the storytellist name.
Starting point is 00:24:53 I said, Ari, if you don't know my uncle, he don't talk about it. Like, he very, like, I apologized to him on the podcast, and he wouldn't even, he don't go there, bro. He's never told me, love me. I tell him all the time. I love you, Tia. All right, I'll see you. My uncle does nut fuck around.
Starting point is 00:25:10 So you know about that place? Yeah, yeah, but how many people actually jumped? Enough that they made nets. It wasn't just one guy. When you put the nets up... And building the cell phone makes you do this? They live there. They live there.
Starting point is 00:25:23 They work there. They have dorms. They stay in the dorms. They work all day. It's scary. I mean, it's a step above being a slave. And people tell you it's a lot better than what they used to have because they didn't have any opportunity. And this is just how industry works.
Starting point is 00:25:40 The way people describe it, they're trying to justify it. They say this is just how industry works. Industry works. You come into an incredible. incredibly deeply impoverished area, you provide them with a way out, like something or a better way. And so that better way of working 16 hours a day, people could argue, yeah, they're working $16 a day for a dollar a day, yeah, or whatever the wage they get, which is substantially lower than whatever they make here.
Starting point is 00:26:02 I might be exaggerating. You can probably Google it. Like how much does a Foxcon employee get per hour? But they say that that's how they're able to make these phones because they can make them in these factories when people don't get paid as much. But there's a bunch of people that jump off the roof. Like, they have to put fences, nets all around the roof. They have nets to catch people.
Starting point is 00:26:24 Like, it's bananas. And when they talk about it, you know what they say? They say there's so many employees at work. There's like a half million employees. And the suicides are directly proportional to how many, if that was like a population of a city, that it makes sense. That amount of people always kill themselves. But they don't do it at work.
Starting point is 00:26:44 and they live there. How many is it? The only article I found was a little old, but it was like $12 a day. You're going to get like $400 a month. Wow. That's dark. There was some dude last night on 60 minutes.
Starting point is 00:27:02 Pretty interesting. There was two dudes. The guy who invented the Greek yogurt. Yeah. He needed $700,000 and he saw a factory open up in New York and he went to these people. He borrowed the money. He bought the, what's the hot Greek yogurt now?
Starting point is 00:27:17 I don't know. I know what you're talking about. You know, I'm talking about it. Tremendous. And he had to buy a plant in Twin Falls, Idaho. And what he hires is, is refugees. He gives them jobs, and people got pissed off at him. And they call him.
Starting point is 00:27:32 This guy donated 10% of his factory to his employees. Like they get 10% of the earnings every month from the company. They break it up among, like company sharing and all this shit. It was pretty interesting. That story was interesting, and there was another one about a guy who's saying that these phones are programmed to program you. Huh? You got to watch this. How's that work?
Starting point is 00:27:55 How's that work? How's that work? How's that work? This guy's saying that the industry is programming you through computers and through the phone. His explanation, you got to hear it when you get a minute. It was on last night. Can you find out how much an iPhone would cost if they made it in the United States? I can Google it.
Starting point is 00:28:14 Yeah. Google that. Just out of curiosity. So how much would an iPhone cost there now? Well, what they cost now, I think a new... $12 a day, they get paid. I think a new iPhone, if you buy it in America is like $1,000, somewhere in that range. No.
Starting point is 00:28:29 Yeah, but, you know, the cell phone company subsidizes it. Retail it's $1,000. You get it for $200 because Sprint wants you to... Well, they subsidize it. Yeah. Not subsidize it. What's the word of it? looking for. They make like a lease and they put it over the term of the contract. So they spread out
Starting point is 00:28:50 the amount of money that you're getting paid or that you're paying for the phone. So if you're going to pay 600 bucks for the phone, they spread it out over three years. So you have a three year contract. So like you can get it for like $200 off. And so it looks great. It looks great. But it's just factored into your monthly bill. And you have them for like three years. I tried to pay the phone. They were like, no, they gave me all the time. Yeah, they don't want to do that. They don't want to do that. They don't want to do that.
Starting point is 00:29:14 It's probably more valuable to them. And then also you can't leave. I guess you can leave if you have like a phone that is a, what's the word? Without a unlocked. Unlocked. Jail broken. No, no, I don't think it's that. I think it's unlocked.
Starting point is 00:29:31 Jail broken is when you get into it and you can fuck with it, right? Yeah, yeah. So it says that if, If all the components were made in the U.S., it would push the cost up to $600, which they think would retail it for $2,000. Oh, so it'd be like $1,000 bucks more. Wow.
Starting point is 00:29:52 Hmm. We got to pay, what, a lot more in fucking wages. Yeah. More than $12 a day, more like $200 a day. Yeah, probably more than that, right? Yeah. What's a union wage for a factory worker? I wonder in America.
Starting point is 00:30:08 You know, and then people say, well, the cost of living is less over there like okay but so's the standard of living you know I don't know man I'm no perfect person I don't and where is this where they make these phones China
Starting point is 00:30:22 a certain city in China like a real fucking I don't know I don't know enough about it I probably should know more but it's one of the dark things about the cell phone industry I think they said the new one they're going to make somewhere else why did I read that somewhere
Starting point is 00:30:39 that they're going to make the new They changed suppliers of something recently. I don't know. Let's see. Is it Canada? Did I read that the new iPhone will be made in Canada? Did I read that or am I making shit up? I could Google that next.
Starting point is 00:30:51 It says the average assembly line worker makes about $13 an hour. Wow. That's not a lot. I thought it'd be a lot more for a warehouse working. Like 16, 18. Isn't it crazy that if you paid them that? Just paying them that, the cell phone would car. He lost another thousand bucks.
Starting point is 00:31:12 He told me right out yesterday. He goes, because I thought I couldn't go to the game. And when I went, he goes, you called my daughter and told her to take me to the game. He goes, the only person I wanted to go to the game with was you. Not even my son's. I like going to the game with you. Because I take him once a year. He's 76.
Starting point is 00:31:31 He's my mother's brother, you know. But yesterday on the way back, he goes, I wish your mother would grow up to see what you became. She goes at the funeral, you were a lost kid. But when you came here, every time I looked at your eyes, I thought of Charles Manson. He goes, that what he said to me? Charles Manse. He goes, I thought about Chapman.
Starting point is 00:31:49 He goes, he could be able to do. He goes, you were a killer. He goes, you were either going to kill somebody? He was telling me, bro. He, that's what he, you know, he called me out. Nobody had ever called me out until I was 21 years old. You know what I'm saying? Right.
Starting point is 00:32:03 After my mother died, he might be so sensitive. Don't say nothing to him. He might snap. Right. My uncle said, I don't give a fuck if your mother died. that was five years ago. Put it behind you. It's over.
Starting point is 00:32:14 This ain't a free world, bitch. I ain't giving you a fucking dime. But when he said that to me last night, that, you know, it really hit home. He goes, you got to kill his eyes. You were going to kill him. You were going to kill me that fucking night. You would have killed me.
Starting point is 00:32:27 He goes, you would have killed me for $500,000 that night. Well, we became friends. You were definitely a different guy in the late 90s. Oh, please. Yeah, yeah. But you reminded me of everybody that I knew from the pool hall. Like, I love being a restaurant. you because you were like what I hated most when I first came to LA was that
Starting point is 00:32:47 when I was in New York and when I was in Boston I was surrounded by you know East Coast people that were either comics or they were martial artists or they were pool players it was like there was a there was a grit to them there was a fun there was a I could talk to them you know there was real conversations to be had and then come out here everybody was like preparing for like we were downstairs and those people with their scripts they're preparing and they're sitting there and I'm and I'm seeing them going over their lines going over the thing I'm like this is hell this is hell like this
Starting point is 00:33:24 preparing for for a role and being in the the whole the whole Hollywood scene like trying to get people to like you and hire you for things it's just this weird world it's a weird world and here was this guy hanging out of the comedy store, there was a total hustler. I mean, you were a total hustler, you know, and we became friends, like, immediately. Like, we became friends, like, right away. I remember bringing you around the fucking news radio set. And they're like, who is this guy? There's this fucking menacing guy in a leather jacket that keeps eating all the shrimp. And, you know, for me, it was... Even the comedy store that we loved was very goofy.
Starting point is 00:34:07 Oh, it was goofy as fuck back then. Lee saw it a couple of weeks ago. I've been taking Lee with me, You know, I go, Lee, you want to come down? You know, Lee's going to go, oh, I'm out for the pocket. I'm going to come to the store. And it was great the first three or four times that he sat there when, you know, I got a tag for you. Oh, that was the worst. It was the worst tag. And I saw Tony, I had to call him and apologize the next day.
Starting point is 00:34:26 Tony Hinchcliffe. When he was with you in Sacramento or something, I had to call him and apologize. Why? Because how to get the fuck out of that? And Tony came up to me. I'm like, Tony, I love you. I see it. And I felt.
Starting point is 00:34:36 Who was telling you, someone was telling you, they had a tag for you? Well, one night. Me and Lee were getting ready to leave. Like, hold on. They're like, listen, man, I heard that joke, and we've got to give you this tag. You should say, me and we look to the church. I don't even know. And me and Lee's like, that was fucking weird.
Starting point is 00:34:53 And then the next night we went down again, and that's what the guys were saying. We have this idea for a TV show. Oh, my God. And you're like, I just get on stage. You know, you're walking to your car. You're not even thinking about a TV show. You're thinking about how you should have said the instead of cat. You know, just dumb shit.
Starting point is 00:35:11 Of course. And we have a word, and he was right there. We had this idea for you for a TV show, not even how are you, what have you been up to? And he looked at me, and we were as fuck, which really kills you when you're at the comedy. You know, somebody's trying to sell you something. And then Tony Hinchcliffe came, and I saw Tony and I'm like, I can't even, you know, I got to get out of here. Like my head was about to blow up, the highness, the set, the people trying to sell me a TV show. And the people that are trying to sell you things at the comedy store, most likely, they never saw.
Starting point is 00:35:41 sold shit before. They just have an idea and they think they're going to come to you and that's how they're going to do a TV show. Right, and it was just the idea we looked at each other
Starting point is 00:35:49 like, oh, they fuck. I mean, it was just, so I understand that. Like, at the comedy store there's always that one person that you find Warmsden. And I found it with you because everybody at the com,
Starting point is 00:36:02 everybody at that time was looking to get on a show to quit comedy. There was a big of that. People would get on a TV show and that was it. And it happened like four or five times. And here's this guy that tapes a great show.
Starting point is 00:36:22 And after the 10-hour, 12-hour shoot, still comes and does this $15 set in the original room at 12 o'clock. I couldn't figure it out. Most people would just go home and go, fuck standoff. That's below me. You know, fuck standout. I don't know write a joke, you know.
Starting point is 00:36:38 And it's really weird to people that have stuck it up and will always be stand-ups. like I always give those guys respect don't come back to it after the show got canceled and do stand-up while your show is on you tell your agents hey those weeks that you don't have me up
Starting point is 00:36:52 at Warner Brothers I want to be out the whole fucking summer I want to do this oh no well the show doesn't want you to curse on stage or say any fact jokes on stage no shit that's what they did in Tim Allen no shit you know Bob Saggett too
Starting point is 00:37:07 yeah no shit so you have to and here I'm watching this guy that's going against everybody else he's going against what everybody else believes everybody wants to use to call us some a means to the end and end for the means means a means to an end that's it I that in my life that's not how I felt to me if I got on a show that just helps me that'll help me get up there and it gets easier now when I go to a club in Iowa my dream was to get in the car and pull a Mitch Headbury and go to all these clubs just drive across country one time you know
Starting point is 00:37:41 be on a TV show, do the 26 episodes, but once that shit's over, we're getting your car and go, Bon Voyage, I'm out of here, and just go across the country, and you see a funny bone jump in there. You see a comedy catch jump in there. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:54 You see a comedy saloon jump in there. You see a pizza place with an open mic, and you're in Minneapolis? Fuck, jump in there. You do that for six or seven weeks as a stand-up comic. And people go, well, I just thought you were on TV. I didn't know you were this fucking funny, or this is what I do.
Starting point is 00:38:11 I didn't give a fuck. I didn't, I didn't, when I was growing up, when I was watching Charles Brons, I loved Charles Brons. I loved when he killed somebody. I loved all that shit with the cheer of me foony with the fly. But I never thought I was going to do that. I thought that I would always be an extra if they ever used me. I thought that they were going to come to the comedy store and say,
Starting point is 00:38:31 hey, you, you want to be in my movie? You know, I've watched Hollywood Nights. You ever see Hollywood Nights and Tony Danz and Michelle Pfeiffer? You see really all the people around them are? Comics in the Comedy Store. Arlis. T.K. Carter is the black guy
Starting point is 00:38:46 that's doing the fraternity run. The dude who had the show on married men, Mike Binder. He's the fucking, the kid who has to... Mind of a married man. Mind of a married man.
Starting point is 00:38:57 He's the motherfucker. Hollywood Knights is a famous place that's closing down on Hollywood Boulevard. But these Hollywood Knights, they have to... I don't forget. It's just, but there's scenes
Starting point is 00:39:11 where they take these black guys and they put sheets on them and they make them walk through a white nail. I mean, it was just crazy. And the people pissing the punch. But if you look at all the comedy in that movie, they just went into the store and picked up a bunch of motherfuckers
Starting point is 00:39:23 when they put them in there. The same thing with Gabe Kaplan, who we grew up with. The same thing with Jimmy Walker. You know, suppose they cut the deal to Good Time in the back in one of the boots there, Freddie Prince. That's what we came from.
Starting point is 00:39:36 But you always remain the standout. You always, that was your roots. When I came here, I got here and they said, oh, you got to go for an audition from my PD Boo. I didn't go to an acting. I didn't know nothing about that. I knew nothing about that, dog.
Starting point is 00:39:49 I knew nothing about commercials. I thought they shot commercials and fucking Mars. I didn't know the fuck they shot commercials. I came to me. Seriously, I'm not lying to you fucking commercials. I came in and they go, your face is great for commercial. Okay.
Starting point is 00:40:02 Yeah, I don't know. I know nothing. I didn't even know. I never even thought about shooting fucking commercials. I got a friend of mine. Was analyzed that? Was that your first big movie? Basketball.
Starting point is 00:40:14 Basketball. That's when I first started hanging out. That's right. I popped the movie and shit by mistake. I went to NYPD Blue, didn't get it. And as I was walking by a door, a lady pops out. She goes, you're here for your audition, I guess so. She gave me a sheet of paper.
Starting point is 00:40:29 I read it, and boom, I booked three weeks of five grand. I never saw nothing like that in my life. Wow. I snorted every penny to the fucking... And then I robbed the fucking roller skates. I robbed a different pair of roller skates every fucking day. All right? Every day I went and I returned them at five guys.
Starting point is 00:40:47 What is that? The five sports guys? I think I'm fucking kidding you. I would get to my room. There'd be a size 13. I'd wear them. I put them back in the box and clip them. The lady would come with a wardrobe.
Starting point is 00:40:58 Anybody see the roller skates on it? No, I put them in a wardrobe. Okay. Every day for three weeks? Every day. Come back again, size 13, and then they started giving me size 12. We don't know what happened to all the 13th? Me neither.
Starting point is 00:41:12 What the fuck? What the fuck's going on here? Then they ran out of 12. They went down at 11th. You got to put it 11? Oh, I was coming home with Band-Aids, but I didn't give a fuck. They're 140 a pop plus tax when I return them. And they were seeing every day, the same sporting guys.
Starting point is 00:41:29 How you doing? What happened? Your grandma gave me this for-cred. How'd you know? What do you want? Cash and check? Let me get some cash, you'll stop and get gas. By the time I quit, by the time I stopped,
Starting point is 00:41:40 Stop shooting. I was down for like a size eight and a half. But you know, I think if you look at who they were, they were amazing. I mean, their finished product, what they were able to put together was fucking amazing. And whether it came out of those four guys' heads or those four guys' heads and some other people's heads, too, it's the effort, the culminative effort of those artists to put all that music together and make these insane songs. The real problem is somebody didn't get credit for it. That's the real problem. The real problem is somebody didn't get paid, you know, and they definitely used it for
Starting point is 00:42:18 their end product. So if you looked at it, like, say if you had a car, you were putting together a car, and there's a bunch of different components, there's a transmission, there's the engine, but they want to put your transmission in, you know, but they don't want to pay you for your design. So they just copy it and put it in there. And then you find out, hey, but this is all my engineering. I did all this research and development, and all you did is copy it, exactly. They should, they're supposed to say, yeah, you're right, here's some money.
Starting point is 00:42:42 and then the question would be, well, how much money they deserve? That's the problem, because they probably deserve a fuck load of money. How many times they play it in concert? It's got, oh, it's kind of, they've got forensic fucking people in there. It would be insane. So it wouldn't just be a matter of a little bit of money. It would be a matter of economy-changing money. So it's going to be hard to get someone to sign off on it.
Starting point is 00:43:03 And for probably, I mean, I don't understand too much about how the legal system works, but I would imagine that the lawyers that represent Led Zeppelin, must be out of this fucking world. Yeah, no, they're big time. That's the record label. They sell their soul to save. Yeah, you would be betting against the most ruthless savages in the history. Listen, man, they fucking, relax.
Starting point is 00:43:29 They rob people to death, the music industry. Did you ever read that Courtney Love article that she wrote, where she explained she broke down the music industry? No. She broke down what everybody gets paid. it's really well written. It's so well written that they accused somebody else of writing it
Starting point is 00:43:47 and she got a ghost writer. That's how well written it is because it goes into detail about how artists get fucked and how musicians get fucked and where all the music goes or where the money rather for the music goes and how little of it actually makes it down to the artist and this is back when they were selling records.
Starting point is 00:44:04 Now it's weird because right now the touring is where I guess the artists make their money. And Joe, you said that you didn't think some court would find them. I think if they got the right jury, like a younger jury who didn't have as much attachment to Led Zeppelin, I think they might see it from that point of view.
Starting point is 00:44:21 I think it's well known now that artists don't make that much money from their music anymore. So I think like some people might... I mean, they tried to... They said they stole this in 1970. That was the problem right there. It was 47 fucking years ago.
Starting point is 00:44:38 47 years of owing them millions of dollars. millions of dollars. Like you were talking, for that song, you might be talking like $500 million or something crazy. It might be more than that. That might be like conservative. Like, you're talking about the, if not the biggest super band, one of the biggest super bands of all time. All time. That toured everywhere.
Starting point is 00:44:57 And you got to remember, in 1973 in this country, we did $2 billion in music sales. I saw it on the 70s. It was the biggest year tour. Everybody was on the road. everybody from earthling fire the temptations led zeppelin the stones pink floyd everybody was on the road in those days erosmith this was a fucking masterpiece of people ted nugent did you ever see searching for sugar man no the one that won the oscar about the musician yeah elvis or something like that well no he no he um was huge in south africa and he never knew it he was a huge star and there was all these legends about what happened to him and how he died and And his music is good, man. It's good.
Starting point is 00:45:42 It just, for whatever reason, it didn't hit in the 1970s when he released it. And so this guy became like a laborer, and he worked construction, and he raised a family, and he stuck around. But he still kept, like, practice in his music. And then one day, someone found him, and they couldn't even believe it was him. They thought that he was dead. And someone found him and told him, hey, man, you've, you've, been huge in South Africa forever, huge.
Starting point is 00:46:11 And he was like, what? And he went over to South Africa, like, after he'd been poor for like 30 years or something like that, you know? Like literally living in a place where he's got like a wood stove and he's burning fire in the wood stove, burning logs in there, stay warm. They show him doing this. He goes over to South Africa and sells out arenas. They can't even believe it when they see him.
Starting point is 00:46:30 They can't believe it. He starts singing songs. They know the words. They sing along with him. He's coming back from the dead. It's insane. It's more than he's coming back from the. dead it's like this guy was a huge superstar and he was impoverished like he was almost like
Starting point is 00:46:46 live in a fake life for 30 years they didn't even know how do they become a huge in south africa they played this music on the radio radio so one guy found it could be could be one guy found it sometimes that shit happens did he have an album out yeah yeah a couple and he made no money on him no they didn't give him a fucking dime They apparently made, he made one, that he had a chance to make the second one, and he really, you know, they gave it a big push, but it just didn't catch.
Starting point is 00:47:16 And they don't know why, you know, maybe it was what the album looked like, you know, maybe it was, people just didn't give it a chance. But it was good. He's a good musician. And after that, second album, he quit. But that music made its way to South Africa.
Starting point is 00:47:29 It made me cry. It really did. I just like, it was... I forgot all about it. Somebody told me to watch it, I have forgotten it about it. I'm watching it. I was getting tears.
Starting point is 00:47:38 I was tearing up because I was watching it. I was like, this is, this is, this is, this story is amazing. Because this story is about this guy that just became this weird sort of humble guy who's really philosophical and kind of zen about life. And he gave all the money away. All the money he made Torin after it became huge in South Africa. He gave it away. Went back to living just like how he was living before.
Starting point is 00:48:02 At least that's what they tell you. That's the legend. I hope not. Well, you know, I don't know. I mean, maybe he was happier. that way. Maybe he just decided that at his age, he's in his 60s, at his age, all of a sudden becoming this big star and going to South Africa and flying across the world and making money and not knowing why you're doing it, and you know, and everybody says you're supposed
Starting point is 00:48:21 to do it. He didn't like it. I think he just wanted a quiet, more peaceful life. Maybe still touring a little bit, but damn, I bought the album. I bought a whatever he has out there, whatever I could buy on iTunes. I think it's one, it might be two albums, I think it's one. Let's make sure he's getting the fucking money. Yeah, I hope so. They've been taking it for the last 30 years, these cock suckers. Now iTunes comes along and gives you a 40, 60 split. I wonder what they would give him in South Africa for all the times they sold his records.
Starting point is 00:48:51 Listen, man, I heard something that John Oates, Darrell, you know, Bowler, and Oates, in the end of 1990, they had sold 8 million records, and they both had $50 in their bank account. Whoa. Where'd you hear that? On Eddie Trunk, on Sirius Radio, that he's going to release a book now. The music business is as filthy as it gets. I don't get it. When we had Danny Brown, I tried to have him explain to me all this mixtape world and how I don't get it. I don't get it.
Starting point is 00:49:26 I see an album. I buy an album for $8.99. It sells a million albums. What's that, $8.9 million? I think, right? $899 million. No. $8.99.
Starting point is 00:49:39 $0.99. But just think of $9. Okay. It sells a million, $9 million. $9 million. $9 million. How much does the artist get? They get like $2 million.
Starting point is 00:49:48 I wonder. The record label. I walked into the weed store today and they were playing Billy Jean. The video. That's the first time I saw him. It was the last time you saw Billy Gene 15 fucking years ago. I started looking at it. I thought about the, that's when a record
Starting point is 00:50:02 label put up a half a mill for a video. Yeah. A half a fucking milk. You remember when Madonna had that like a virgin? No, no, like prayer. Is that what it was?
Starting point is 00:50:14 Pepsi and she brought the Black Jesus. Yeah, that's right. And people went fucking bananas. You know, all of them. And then Coke or somebody signed Michael Jackson's hair went on fire. Yes. Yeah. That's what started the pain pill addiction.
Starting point is 00:50:29 Because when he died, they realized that whole thing was a wig. Oh man, he burnt his hair off. The whole time it had been a wig. He had scars in the back and the whole thing. Oh, wow. They lit him on fire and burnt his hair off. That's why he sued Coca-Cola, whoever it was, Pepsi, Coca-Cola.
Starting point is 00:50:46 Wow, that makes sense. I mean, especially you consider all the chemicals he used to have in his hair, you know? In 84, yeah. The hair spray is super flammable. That's what started the pain. That's when he started telling people he was getting pain in his neck. He couldn't sleep at night, so that's how he, He was getting all his medication.
Starting point is 00:51:04 And then he'd go to these different parties and mingle, spread the word, and they tell him, stop by tomorrow. We got a fucking bag of goodies for your other house. Wow. And that's what led to him, you know, fucking shooting, whatever the fuck he was shooting at the end. Well, he was taking tranquilizers at the end. They were using, like, sedatives on them to make him go to sleep.
Starting point is 00:51:25 So essentially, they were putting him under sedation every night. They were using anesthesia. they were just conking them out. And I guess when you do that, you go out and shit, but you don't really sleep. Like part of what you need is not just to be unconscious. You need to go through those cycles, those cycles in your head. And when you're under anesthesia, you're not going through those cycles. I'm not a doctor.
Starting point is 00:51:51 No, no, no, I get you. It's like getting surgery. It's like when I got my nose surgery, one minute you're there, and the next minute you're gone. You don't remember shit about what happened. You wake up, you don't really know if you're tired. or if you're slept or not, it's kind of a weird feeling. It is weird. You kind of think about the lights, you see the lights,
Starting point is 00:52:07 and you can't remember what's going on. So I don't know how they get sedate. I know if you get fucking done one time, it's pretty fucking bad for you. If you get done? Like, if you get anesthesia, people watch it. People say it's not good.
Starting point is 00:52:21 And that's what people can't handle. That's where it goes wrong. When they come out here and they've been fucking killing in Iowa, whoever the fuck they're from, and they go on the comedy storm, they're sandwiched in between Rogan and Nick DePaolo, and it's post-time, bitch. It's Wednesday at 10.45,
Starting point is 00:52:38 and you got the 11 o'clock spot, and you're sandwiched, and you know, you know, it's a fucking nightmare, and it's your skin, and it's your pride, if you hang out, or whatever. For a guy like me, I didn't give a fuck. I knew it was about percentages, and I knew the more you got up there,
Starting point is 00:52:55 and you worked a little bit out, the better you get. Did you ever do stand-up in New York? Did you ever like, no? No. You're doing New York this weekend. This week. This week.
Starting point is 00:53:03 We're doing Gotham. That's a great club. Great club. But, you know, New York, I did New York in 94. What I did, but I'd go to New York Comedy Club. I go to stand-up New York. The dude that was sick didn't like me, a comedy, what is? Yeah, Lucian didn't like me.
Starting point is 00:53:18 And then there was these other little holes that I would go to. I would drive a limo, and in between driving limos, I would stop and get on stage. And I was terrible. And I knew I was terrible. But my options were I would go back and do Coke and cry, and look at stand-up comedy by Judy Carter. And look at the comedy newspaper, you know, that used to be just for last.
Starting point is 00:53:39 I came out of San Francisco, and I would read the articles. Like, I still remember the best articles I read in there were about Hicks, and, you know, they had different comedy scenes all over the country. It's very interesting to read. And at the end, they had all the active comedy clubs. And it was pages, you know, Arizona, Arkansas,
Starting point is 00:53:57 you know, whatever, what started would be, with a Canada, California, and you look at all Igbees and all these clubs and you had this dream that someday I might get good enough and I might be able to play at Igbees, you know? And then, what's her name,
Starting point is 00:54:14 did a contest at the Comedy Works. Wendy? Wendy did a contest, and the winner got $500 and a ticket to Los Angeles to perform him from Mitchie Shore at the world-famous comedy store. And there was this dude, Matt Wood, Matt Woods and Matt Berry.
Starting point is 00:54:34 Matt Berry sold shows. Matt Woods was his buddy. And he would work with comics on Tuesday night and take him to his apartment. And he wrote, and then you'd go through the open mic. I was always doing the sports betting thing. I couldn't get to his apartment. So he didn't really dig me.
Starting point is 00:54:48 So then I had the contest. I came in second. But the first place guy had Rob Seinfeld. And all these comics said he robbed Seinfeld. So Joey gets the redeem. I got the 500, but I never got the plane ticket. So he stole some Seinfeld's jokes to win the contest To win the contest
Starting point is 00:55:04 You know, and I was raised with the fucking old Interview sheets Remember when you apply for a job in the 70s It said five lines, your name, Adjutant Then there was a box and it said, don't answer the fucking questions Unless there's a check in that fucking box And my friend was at a sandwich place from time And I go, you need help, man, hire somebody
Starting point is 00:55:25 He goes, look at all these people who applied already I can't hire none of these dummies because they all fucking wrote in here and it says don't so if they can't get that right I don't want to do business with them when people don't listen I don't want to do business with them
Starting point is 00:55:38 like if I tell you something an hour and two hours later you call me with something stupid I just don't admit you from the phone like I'm done like I'm fucking done I can't deal with so I wanted to make people fucking listen again it's a great gift to have
Starting point is 00:55:52 I love to talk but I also love to fucking listen the other day when you and Dominic were talking for 40 minutes. Did I raise my fucking hand? Did I raise my fucking hand? No, I'm learning. I didn't have, I wasn't in the place to fucking raise my hand.
Starting point is 00:56:08 I'm amongst people who really know what the fuck they're talking about. That's a problem in America today. People want to chime in when they don't know what the fuck they're talking about. You think I went through Jiu-Jitsu because I like smelling assholes and feet? And you think I like choking people? I definitely don't think. It's not in my itinerary. But you know what, man? I'm sick and tired of listening
Starting point is 00:56:24 to MMA fucking analysts that never even tackled the fucking tackle dummy. How are you going to know what these guys feeling in the ring if you never got clocked in the face? Do me a favor. Shut the fuck up. That's with any sports writer. They sit there and they insult football players. When was the last time you play football, fuck-all? Do you know what they're doing out there now? No. You know, it happens with basketball. It happens with baseball. There's always these people that you look at them and they've never done nothing in their fucking life and they want to write about a sport. They don't know, oh, I was a fan of the game.
Starting point is 00:56:55 No, you were a fan, but you never played it. Do you know, Anik started taking jujitsu? You have to. You have to. Me just fucking around with you guys, I have to do something. I have to describe a hip escape. I have to know what it's like before I can sit there and judge a guy. What the fuck am I?
Starting point is 00:57:12 But that goes on a lot in today. Let me start up a blog because, you know, and talk bad about Michael's bids being, not fighting, whatever. What the fuck did you do? What the fuck did you do? A lot of it is them just trying to get attention. And the way to get attention is to be negative. and I've been very vocal fighting against that. I don't like insulting writers that shit on MMA in particular.
Starting point is 00:57:34 Don't like it at any level. They're not respecting what that thing is. That thing is an insanely difficult endeavor. To be a fighter and to put your emotions on the line. And then for someone to callously disregard that, look, you can pump up the person who won and you could criticize the technique of the person who lost, but they go way further than that.
Starting point is 00:57:55 there's some of them that they make a person look like a buffoon. I don't like none of that shit. There's no reason for that. We learned a lot with Ron de Rousey. We learned a lot about society. There's two things that taught me a lot the last year. When Ron the Rousey got knocked out, and when fucking Trump won and that fucking mutt went to his house for dinner
Starting point is 00:58:14 to try to interview for the job after he badmountain. That's right. No, no, not the fat fuck. The guy from Utah. When Rick Romney went on from Trump, and then Trump won and he went to his house, And you know why people didn't say nothing about it? Because people do it all the time.
Starting point is 00:58:29 They're just snakes. They're disgusting. We become disgusting people. You know, so that's why nobody ever said, wait a second. That guy's a fucking mud. He'll never get it. He should be banned like United. You talked about Trump.
Starting point is 00:58:42 I mean, you went out and blasted him. Not just said. Pre-rid speech. Yeah, pre-rid speech. And now you're going to his house to try to get a job. You should be shot and hung. He rehearsed that shit. Yeah, but Americans didn't see it.
Starting point is 00:58:55 they just let it go. That's why Lee's right. You know what? We all see this thing with United. I don't fuck. United's always my third choice. United is my fourth choice. Okay?
Starting point is 00:59:06 It's American. I go to Delta. I go to JetBlue. I try Virgin, but they don't fly everywhere. To go to Austin, you got to go to San Francisco first. I ain't got that type of time. So the only time I can use them is to go to fucking New York. That's the only use I got out of Virgin.
Starting point is 00:59:21 They're great to New York, though. But United, I look at every once in a while, like I'm like, Should I take the chance every once in a while they come through with like a short flight It's an hour and a half you can catch your night. You don't really want to go on Southwest But you know what? Fuck you. I don't like you motherfuckers anyway You can't wear your yoga pants Fuck I gotta help you guys with the sound I know you guys figure this out yeah you need a you need a whole board that takes this then
Starting point is 00:59:47 And it's short something's been going out with it But don't tell them compression don't tell them because then they all become sound designs I'll hook you up. I'll hook you up with Jamie. Yeah, we'll figure this out. I love you. I love you, brother. I love you.
Starting point is 01:00:00 Thanks for everything, man. Thank you. Thanks for this weekend, too. No, it was fucking tremendous. We got to eat those wings. That was great. We did fuck around. None of these fucking West Coast wings with rats.
Starting point is 01:00:09 Suck my dick.

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