The HoneyDew with Ryan Sickler - 355: Yannis Pappas - Childbirth, Coleslaw, and ChatGPT

Episode Date: October 13, 2025

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I'll give myself. Do it. There's only two of us, so I don't get enough of that. It's not a round of applause. Back yourself in. Yeah, a round of applause has got to be two or more. Got to be two or more. It's got to be two or more.

Good to see you. Good to see you, man. Good to see you. Good to hear that voice. Congrats on your new special right there. Promote everything right now. Yeah. Go watch it.

It's called Property Owner. It's on YouTube. Go check it out. Netflix passed on it because I think that they discriminate against people. against people whose eyes are too close together. I need to start some controversy to get people riled up to go watch it. So I think it's because of discrimination against people with cozy eyes. Cozy eyes.

Yeah, I got cozy eyes. That's nice the way you say it. Cozy eyes are watching you. People tell me if an afternoon nap had a face. That's exactly perfect. You do look like you just woke up from a nap. Always. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Shot at the mothership. Shot at the mother's ship. What's it called again? It's called property owner. Property owner. Yeah, it's basically about me moving from New York growing up. You know, my mother was a human rights lawyer, very left wing, obviously, in the city and then moving out to the country and sort of understanding the cultural divide between, you know,

the city and the country. Because if you break it down, I mean, it's not even generally. I would say it's probably a fact that urban areas are liberal. and, you know, suburban and country areas are Republican, and most of it's cultural. And so I'm stepping into that cultural landscape and understanding that it makes sense. It makes sense. And so the specials about the differences and me sort of stepping into those, into those, into those carhart boots, going from the sneakers to the car heart boots being a property owner.

So it's about that, basically. And being a girl dad doing that. So it's a little bit of both. You have two girls, right? girls. So you have two girls that you bought a house. Yeah, I thought you're about to say I bought two girls. No. I mean, two girls you bought? Your girls are under what? How old? Both of them. My oldest one now will be five. Oh, five. Five. And my youngest is turning is two right now. Two. That's when this comes up. She's two. During COVID 2020. First one was a COVID one. Yeah. And this one,

this daughter's two. So you got two kids under six and a new house. Yes. That's a lot. Yeah. Yeah. house. I got two dogs, two girls, and two wives, one that's nice, one that's mean. Depended on her, depending on her sleep. And I get it. I get it. Look, it's she's, she raises the kids. I'm off the bench. That's how it goes. I'm off the bench. Oh, she's home with them doing it. Yeah, she's, she's home. She's stayed home mom. And she does most of it. And she's just better at it. Just better at it. So that's just how it goes. I'm here to say women are better at that, and that's a good thing. Do you like being a dad?

I love being a dad. Does it feel good to be like a provider? I don't, yeah, I don't think of it. Does it feel, have you ever stepped outside of yourself for a second and be like, I got myself a house and got two little girls here, man? If it gave me some leverage in my home, that would be nice. Yeah, it does it. That's why I say you got to do it yourself.

You seen that real, that guy that was doing the, what was it, a spool or something? He's like, and I realize this is the lady and the lady's, like, clown them for it. And he was so sad, the internet fucking defendant. I can't remember what it was. I never seen it. He's like, yeah, I just realized, well, all the years, this is my life in this thing. And she's like, well, you're an idiot. He just looked at her like with tears in his eyes.

Like, I try to have a moment for myself. Yeah, no, it's the, the wife, happy wife, happy life is true. she runs the house she makes the rules she's the boss i'm kind of the enforcer uh but not really right so i'm the enforcer at good times because my wife's father is a doctor so it's like me being the provider means nothing to her you know she grew up okay so i can't use that i meant more for your kids though you know i thought you meant in the battle the sex no no no oh no no sorry not at all i just mean does it feel good to be like man i got you know two little healthy girls over here which we'll get into.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I, you know, listen, here's the thing about comedy. Her dad's a doctor. Yeah. No offense to anybody out there who's a doctor. But they have a program where if you do this, you become a doctor. That's right. And I always say, you know what they call the guy or person who finished last in med school?

Doctor. Right. Still a fucking doctor. You're a shitty one. Yeah. Statistically, there's going to be one of those people is going to be the worst. You're going to have two and a half star reviews, but you're still a doctor. Probably, yeah, maybe.

Comedy? No, there's no course, there's no anything. So to jump into this whirlpool and still fucking come out with a house and two girls and, I mean, that's got to feel good. It does. It feels good. And I think probably the thing that feels the best about it is the lifestyle of four is that we're able to spend time with them. So it's like, I'm able to do what my parents didn't do because they weren't comics. They weren't comics.

And, you know, they just abandoned me and left. me there because they were working so much and, you know, had their walls up from their traumatic lives. So it's good to break the cycle, be home, be a father first, make that choice. That's a choice because comedy and being a father are opposite. I mean, it's great because your schedule is like you're there when you're there, but then when you're gone, you're gone. And I don't like that when you're gone, you're gone part. It's sort of opposite like that. And so I just, I had a little bit of an existentialist crisis where I was like, what am I? Because you got to go full after comedy.

You got to be all on it, on the road, take everything. And so I just finally got to the point where I was like, I'm a father first. I'm a father. I don't, that's, I'm not going to struggle with two. If I have to choose, I'll go father. And then a calm came over me. And I was actually a calm about my career too. It's like, however big it gets it gets, but it's good right now.

and I pass up on a lot of stuff it's you know the agents get mad but it's like fuck you dude it's like whatever you know first of all most of the money I'm making myself anyway but so it's it's the best of both worlds like everything is that's the best you can hope for

but that aspect of it I appreciate is that like I can be there for a 24 hour 48 hours 72 hours span pick them up from school take them to school you know pre-K right now and so that part is good yeah So, and you're giving it to the family. You're giving in, hey, my wife, this is what I've committed to.

These are the choices I've made. I'm going all in on it. And so family first. And it just feels nice and cozy to have a family. I agree. I mean, also making the decision to be father first, I feel like as long as you make the right decision, it'll all fall in line after that. If you go after the wrong thing, it's not going to line up. I got to give credit to my good friend, godfather.

of my second daughter, Paul Verzi, a comedian, very funny, Paul Verzzi. Shout out Paul Verz. He said something I never will forget. It's like, he said a few things. But, you know, he's a family guy, a great father. He said, any decision you make for your kids is a right decision. And I was just like, whoa, because you get these things that come up, you know, and you're like, ugh, you know, I got to go here. Do I go, L.A. before we are, I got to go to Austin for two weeks, or I got this schedule of whatever.

it is and if you put your kids first and it's a decision for your kids no matter what you lost it's a good decision so that just put me at ease too because these things are confusing when you become a new dad especially when you're a comedian you know you're uh you're probably a broken toy to begin with so you're uncomfortable being a father then all your childhood shit starts coming up when you're looking at your kid and you're loving your kid and you're going oh that's all they had to do and they didn't do it yeah all they had to do was play with me and they didn't do it a hug yeah Yeah, my parents treated it like I was 40 my whole life. There was like, here's your brain injured brother, figure it out.

That's all you had to do, yeah. A kind word, a pat on the back. Yeah, I think of that all the time. Like, right here's where I would have, like, some encouragement. Yeah. I agree. I'm proud of you, girl. Yeah.

Well, that's why we do what we do is because we're trying to get it from strangers. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's a cliche, but it is true. It is 100% true. It is 100% true. So, yeah, it's being a father has a of two, because, you know, and Burr said something interesting to me once.

He said, when you have one, you're like, you got a kid. But when you have two, you have a family. And so, yeah, it feels that way. It's like there's life in the house. There's more than one person. You know, I don't just have a daughter I got. I'm not a father with a daughter. I have a family now.

You have two kids. So it's great. And yeah, you got the wife's there. and the wife is great and I love my wife but you know you need to you know I wish I couldn't I can't use that as leverage so what I do is I try to be nice to my kids as nice as I can to my kids

because I want them to grow up to be beautiful you know well-adjusted women but also if if me and her get divorced I have them as allies so that's good that's a good reason to be great to your daughters is if you get divorced you got allies yeah yeah

so I'm like you know look at her you know Look at what she doing? Mom with her anger again, you know, even though her anger is, you know, is appropriate at the time. They're doing something wrong. You know, I go like, well, look at her. He's getting angry.

He's got anger problems, even though it's the right thing. But just in case, you know, I got allies. That's what you got to do. And that's why I'm never getting like people, guys who get snipped or whatever, like Ari Shafir got snipped. Don't get sniffed, dude. Because now he's married, he has no leverage.

That's the one leverage men have. What do you mean? We can always leave and fuck. in doing Al Pacino and have another family at 80. So it's the only leverage we have. Nobody wants it, but I like to be able to threaten it. It's a car and I like to be able to threaten it. It's like to threaten you with this senior citizen call.

I mean, look, Mike, it can still, I can still do it. Yeah, you need to give me a dowels, baby, but I got one in me. I still got one in me. Yeah, that's the only advantage we have over women. So he snipped and married and has no more advantage. no he's got no leverage no leverage no leverage you need leverage you need a little bit of leverage that's fucking hilarious yeah um let's shift gears and talk about your daughter your youngest daughter yeah when she was born i guess there were some issues when she was born yeah so both my daughters

were born you know my first one was during covid so there was that fear i did we taught i think we talked about that yeah we not yelled at by the internet yeah my cousin just died of cancer that sucked um and uh you know while my daughter was being born i was going through that. And then also my daughter, as it turned out, first of all, my first daughter, we didn't know that my wife had what they call preclampsia, which is like can be very dangerous.

It was what the blood pressure spikes. So it was during COVID, right? My baby, my first baby was born. So they weren't even checking her for stuff like that. And, you know, that was during that. It was like COVID at the beginning. So, you know, back then, like we'd look back and it's like, if you didn't have COVID,

they just let you die. They're like, oh, you got a harkening. you're like you're in the back of the line yeah you're in the hallway because this person has COVID yeah yeah we got to see them first so um finally they caught it on her on my daughter's due date the first one and they we went right to the delivery because it's very dangerous preclampsia um and and ironically and i'll let you know why my first baby was born under six pounds she was very small right but she wasn't premature she was born on her due date um which mysteriously was my father's birthday a year after he died which still blows my mind that wait your daughter it blows my mind

your oldest daughter and your first daughter have to share the same birthday it's the craziest thing and and wait he was she was born on the anniversary of his first death after no his birthday oh shit she was born on his same birthday and it was her it was her due date her due date her due date was his birthday and then she was born on her birthday when my wife had the preclampsia like she wasn't exactly ready but because of the preclampsia they were like we got to do this now born on her due date they caught it on her due date that's a one in 365 chance of that and it was a year after he died my dad died in 2019 my daughter was born two thousand 20 on his birthday and i swear to god this is a true story i've become a lot more like humble in with spirituality

and stuff like that. I was about to say, if that doesn't make you some, at least think about some spiritual shit as a while. It's crazy. It's crazy. The man who gave you life to die, you give life to a child and she's born on that man's birthday one year after he dies. It's crazy. That's crazy, dude. And then I swear to God, we're in the hospital room, right?

And they're going to induce her, you know, because they had to get the baby out because of her preclampsia. We turn on television. and it means something to me. I don't know if it's coincidence. I don't know. I mean, even I get choked up to get because it just, I felt it when it happened. We turned on the TV and it was a cooking channel show on about they were making cold

slaw, right? Now, my dad grew up in his dad's diner. We're Greek, so, you know, stereotypes don't fall from the sky. And he loved coldslaw like nobody. Are you saying cold slaw, which a bee? Yeah, I'm sorry. I also call it Dracula. I'm from New York.

Is it cold slaw? It's coldslaw with an E. C-O-L-E-E-Slaw because it's cold. Kurtz, look it up. I'm pretty sure it's coldslaw. Now, you got to be wondering, no, it ain't coldslaw. It's not a wasp kid from Connecticut. What is it?

It's coldslaw with an E. Yeah. It's cold? Yeah, it ain't coldslaw. I've been calling it coldslaw this whole time. I heard it the first time. I'm like, are you hitting me with a cold slough? right now. Is it named after a dude named

cold? Why is it it called it? It would make so much more sense for it to be coldslaw because it's slaw and it's cold. I'm with you on it. I mean for a split second I was like, wait, am I fucking wrong right now? Coltslaw. I bet you there's a lot of people watching right now. Give me the hot

slaw. Yeah. I don't know I bet there's a lot of people who are fighting that out too or maybe I'm just the only stupidness to put it out there to see what they all think. Yeah, it's cold slaw. Cold slaw. I guess there was a dude named Cole. He loved it as much as my dad did. My dad loved him. I'm sorry. Now I've learned I'm glad I did this podcast. Now I know I've been saying it wrong for my entire life. It's Coleslaw,

not Coleslaw. And he loved it. Dude, he loved it to the point where... What is it really? Just cabbage and mayo is that kind of like liquid mayo or so. He would get another way. He'd go and sometimes it would be all he'd eat. We'd go to a diner or whatever and he'd get... He'd say, give me a bigger plate of the Coltslaw and then all he would eat is the Coltslaw. That's how much he loves coltslaw. That's a lot. Yeah, he would get that's like a salad of it. He would get a salad of Coleslaw.

He would, and they would look at him confused. Yeah, yeah. Because that's like, we give that away. Yeah, there's a couple times he'd be like, can you bring me another, bring me another? And he'd be like, can we just bring you? And he'd be like, yeah, just put it. So he would just get in a bigger bowl.

Oh, my God. He would be the only thing he ate. He wouldn't order anything. He would eat the coleslaw. No fries, no other. He would just eat the coleslaw. And they should have charged him for him. and uh so you turn the tv on and they were making it was like some chef making her coleslaw

and i just got chills because my brain went immediately to me my dad on his birthday and it's his birthday it's his birthday my daughter's favorite meal his favorite thing and it's a quite unique thing it's like you're not going to meet a lot of people most people don't even eat that shit i was going to say who gives a shit about making an actual recipe of it to me it's gross i mean i don't even know why they put it there i mean is there a demand for does anyone go like wait a second where's like money do it's the whole thing like no one really gives a fuck about it yeah you know what i mean yeah it's so weird listen i'm with you the day um my daughter was born um it's october 14th 2014 and the oriels were good that year hadn't been in forever

and they're in the alcs to go to the world series they're playing the royals and she's born they take us you know after the delivery and everything they take it to your room you know and i just put the tv on boom there's fucking baltimore camden yards at the same thing i'm like what are they haven't been here forever now they're here they lost but it didn't matter right sitting there hold my daughter and i'm looking at home and thinking about my dad who took me to my first orio game and like what are the odds of all this and i'm getting to see you know when they do the cutaways in between i'm getting to see the crabs and the b-roll of the city and I'm like, oh, this feels really fucking nice that I got this in my room right now while I'm

holding my kid and my dad's not here. Yeah, it's almost like it's like it meant something to you. So maybe it's subjective, but then also maybe it's the lining up of stuff or something we don't understand. I also think a lot of it, it's right there. As long as you look, if you look for it, it's there. Maybe it's that. It is.

Maybe it's like you're enough of these coincidences where you go, all right, let me start opening my eyes and paying attention to this. Maybe it's because your heart is so open because you're having this monumental change or you're having a daughter or whatever it is or that you can see it. And the rest of the time you can't see it because we're just like closed off. It's like you know you date a girl with a red Fierro GT. Yeah. Nobody has a red Fierro GT. And you break up, you start seeing that red Fierro GT everywhere, bro. See that red Fierro Gt. There was one. Now all of a sudden, everybody got one. What you do? It's so weird how reality is like a lot of it is just perspective. and what's going on internally. It's very, that is very true.

Yeah, so she was, so anyway, that was my first daughter, and she was born during COVID, so there was that worry. And she ended up becoming, being born, like, at a weight that, like, is a little nervous. She's under six. She was, like, five and three quarters, whatever. She was a squeak.

But she was on time, or she was premature? She was on time, because that was her due date. Yeah, I mean, she wasn't baked. Yeah, she wasn't ready to come out, but because of the preclampsia, they induced my wife on her due date. my father's birthday oh i'm sorry i thought you were talking about your younger daughter no so my younger daughter so then uh you know my younger daughter is two and a half years younger right so she's going to

be two so uh a two years ago right so uh and this is a little before two years ago um you know she was small she was like very small so they got really worried so when the baby's small now i know this you have to go in every week you get sent to like a specialist and they echo cardiogram and watch the baby every single week. And what are they looking for? They're looking for, yeah, development. Heart, heart beat, longs, all of her numbers, everything. Heart beats a big one.

And they tell you, you know, all the possible things. You know, we had a doctor who was very good, this African dude, who was the head of the department there, and he's really good, but he was really, the nurse was like, he scares his shit out of a lot of parents and a lot of times there's bad outcomes here and the nurse deals with that, right? You know, like he watches baby grow inside of you

and then, you know, something, the baby dies and, you know, whatever. And parents have to make a tough choice when they say we see this, it will be born and it'll have these defects or whatever. So we had to go through that. And so that lasted like, six months five months it was brutal so because i're also hearing worst case scenario worst case scenarios

and also she wasn't really growing like every week we were hoping when we went in and they were like look she could catch a growth spurt or because of your first daughter um maybe you just carry small babies and so the nurse was really optimistic that's another thing where you learn about faith like you know it's like there's faith and fear and you just choose one of the two because there's a point where we just don't know you don't know what's going to happen science doesn't know they can tell you the outcomes they can tell you the possibility and there's also the possibility that you're the first one of a brand new thing like guess what we've never seen this before you're like what and they name it after you

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where you cared about something so much and you were so helpless and all that was there was faith or fear have you ever been there because once you're there you're like you're how you realize I'm a human I'm helpless but I have these massive emotions and uh your heart's just wide open and all you have is either faith or fear there and so you got to choose one you can't just there's no well can i just say this i'm with you you can't sit on the fence but for me it's always been both yeah i mean i'll take faith all day but i'm not going to sit here and act like i'm not scared well other people's like i'm too scared to do it i'm like listen how do you how do you do that i'm like i'm terrified to do it but i'm not going to sit here and not do it right i'm going to walk

fucking forward diarrhea the whole fucking way and be terrified that i'm doing this but we're going to go goddamn do it if we need to fucking do it we're not going to just sit here. Well, they're two sides of the same coin, right? It's like you can't have one with the other and that's right. That's life. Yeah. But you can choose to like spiral in the fear or you can just you can just hope, right? And just like, I don't know, some people pray or, you know, whatever it is. But those moments are the things where I like don't believe organized religion needs to even be involved. It's faith, it's prayer, it's whatever. But You know, I'm not going to church on Sunday and dropping something into box for somebody.

You know what I mean? I will go downstairs in the hospital. I'll light a candle for you. I promise you. I'll do that. I still do that. I'll go down a light one. Did you do that?

No, I didn't do that. But I prayed. I hoped. I wish. I was optimistic. I was like, it's going to be fine. I just did it that way because the other choice is spiral and fear. And my brother is brain injured and his brain injury, I think I talked about it.

It on this show, his brain injury was from being born. It was when they were still using the forceps. So, you know, they happen to a lot of kids. Now they don't. They use a suction, but they used to use forceps. But it was how they were damaging, you know, the brain is soft at that time. And when a kid would have trouble getting out, they put the forcips in. And that's what happened to my brother.

And I grew up with that. And I don't, it's, you can't sugarcoat that. It's just a tough way to grow up. You feel it's just tough for him. It's tough for every. it's not ideal um so it made me worried even i'm saying you got a lot going yeah i was like is this i don't want to do this again um and also it's your daughter so there's the you know the instincts of love and i have another daughter and also the health of my wife who's carrying the baby and they're

checking her numbers because of her history of preclampsia and then all the time of course i got to continue to do stand up on the road and being fucking you know i did cancel a lot of gigs. My agent was great about it, because I had to go with her every week. I wasn't going to let her go alone. I wanted to be with her, you know, for those like very, you know, unpredictably sensitive times and scary times. And it lasted a while. You know, it was like they had to watch her monitor her for like five or six months every single week. And then around the seventh month or eighth month, I can't remember, she just hit a growth spurt. You know, there was one time she She would, um, uh, they took the, they did the echo and, uh, you know, the cord. Sometimes the baby will sit on the cord or whatever. So her heartbeat was off. Oxygen heartbeat were off. They freaked this out on that. Um, and, uh, you know, it was just that process of every week going in there going like, did she grow? She did. And then she did. She hit this growth spurt. And she actually ended up being born like close to eight pounds, which is the irony because my first baby who we had known.

notion of this because in COVID they weren't checking. They probably would have with her too because the baby was so small. But we didn't know because we weren't going in for those visits and they weren't checking my wife's blood pressure because of COVID. But she ended up being born like big, like eight pounds. Bigger. Yeah, she's bigger, even though she was the one we worried about being small. Right. So it all worked out. At the end, she hit this just growth spurt out of nowhere just boom we walked in one week and it was like we were crying i cried my wife cried is that the relief is just like it's like you know it makes everything stand up on you just like you know you can breathe again like literally you don't even realize you've been shallow breathing

for 24 hours a day for months with this thing in the back of your mind uh which i'm used to which is like my mom's Alzheimer's and my fucking brother and then my cousin got cancer and we the impending doom of knowing that she was going to meet her end, even though she was trying to fight it. It was my first cousin I was very close with. And she got a rare form of, you know, that's a thing. She got a rare form of what to pro, not prostate, stomach cancer or whatever, colon cancer, colon cancer.

Everyone get that shit checked. I would say, I don't know if I've said that on this show. Get that shit checked. The most preventable cancer, but the one that if you don't catch will kill you. So just say you have some stomach issues or whatever and go in. Even if you're 40, you should do it by 40. They've already lowered it to 45. I would say, just say you're having some stomach aches so the insurance will cover it or

whatever and go get it at 40. We just had a comedian named Mark Shimkitts. He came on the Patreon to share his story. He's been given a terminal diagnosis at 27. Yeah, I mean, it's brutal. It's the American diet. I've had like six polyps remove a few of pre-cancers, yeah. Go watch the Patreon.

We released the episode free. free for everybody. He comes on to talk about, he literally has, you know, days. Oh, my God. And he came on to share his story and talk about it and everything. And I told him, I'm going to tell everybody this watching or listening to, I just took it's called a gallery test. It's G-A-L-L-E-R-I. And unfortunately, insurance doesn't cover it. It's expensive. It's about $8,900. But what it does, it's a genetic pre-screening for cancers, like 52 different kinds of cancer. And, you know, cancers. And if they find something in you, it does not mean you have cancer, but it's got some detection of something in you where they can go and get ahead of it now. So I just did it.

It was simple. I went. They send you the kit. You set up a blood draw somewhere else that they work with. I go in. They do it. Send it back. Thank God. No. No cancers. I think we're heading into a time right now, which is going to be great because there's so much of that preventative there's those preventative scans you got the calcium scan now and there's another scan okay can we talk about that for a second as i haven't told this my brother might get mad at me for this i'll edit it if i'll ask them but so i've been going and getting calcium scans for years now my my family's italian both sides and knock on wood we don't have cancers but we got blood and cholesterol like a son of a bitch it's mootorello's fault really so

i've got the genetic blood disease factor five light and on top of cholesterol and everything my brothers however did not get it my dad gave it to me only my mom doesn't have it they don't have it right so my younger brother's talking to me and he's like um yeah i've just been feeling tired and stuff and my doctors aren't great and i just went to see this lady and she told me to go get a calcium uh scan on my heart and i'm like you haven't done that yet he's like no i was like no one's ever told you to do that or anything he's like no and he goes this poor dude he's got two fully clogged arteries you saved his life well no i didn't do it they did yeah but i mean tell but i'm sitting here telling them talking to them about i'm like i've been going

and getting those and he said um i no i had nothing to do with this he came to me with this he had already had the info two two fully blocked arteries yeah and the other one 70% blocked oh my and they're like you need to go have heart surgery now right so they set them up for a week and they say we're going to have you do a treadmill test and all this stuff. But he crushes the treadmill test. They said, you know what? Maybe we misdiagnosed it. Like, if your heart's that clogged, you shouldn't be doing the treadmill this way.

That was like his V-O-2 max, they text. Yeah. So then he goes back in on a Friday. And they say, if you have to have worst-case scenarios, old school, crack you open, open heart surgery, which we just had a guest on the Patreon, come on and talk about. And if not, technology is wild. we can put a stint in your arm right now while you're sitting here in this chair and you'll be good to go. I had a friend of mine get a procedure where his widow maker was blocked and he's like,

I didn't even go to a, I just sat in a room and they did it. And I was like, what? He said, I was back to work in two days. Yeah, it's crazy. How advanced they are in cardiovascular stuff. So my brother goes in and they're unfortunately, you have to have old school open heart surgery. So he just had it just last week. He just had old school open hard surgery. They cracked them open. They took arteries from his neck, made the triple bypass in his chest, took the veins from his legs. And I'm like, dude. And I'm going to see him at the end of June. And I go, I call him and I go, except for like being a little short of breath, you sound like yourself.

He's like, yeah, they tell me I look good. My color's good. This motherfucker had open heart surgery, triple bypass. And was out of hot. They sent him home in two days. Wow. Two days. Yeah.

So now he's just home doing his PT and all this stuff. And I was like, you need to be, he's like, I got the best cardiologist now. I'm good to go from here on out. And you've got to do some lifestyle changes. Lifestyle changes. And the doctor told him, too, like, listen, with this new heart, you'll be good for 50 years. Amazing. Take care of your diet and walk, listen to this, five times a day or week, 45 minutes a day.

Yeah. You don't need to be. That's what he said. You don't need to be marathon running. or any of that shit. Just walk your machine, move your machine. Yeah. Five times a week, 45 minutes a day.

Does he live in the country or the city? He lives in the suburbs. So he's walking out there now. You got to just walk. You got to walk. That's the thing I learned about moving out of the city is you got to, I never knew I had to plan to take a walk. Yeah.

You're not walking to go somewhere anymore. Yeah. And you're getting that walk in because I'm going to the club or the restaurant, whatever. Yeah. You got to go. I guess I'm going to go walk the call sack. Yeah. You got to plan that.

It's the walk around. A circle. Yeah. You got to, when you get older, you got to do that shit, man. Yeah, yeah, I never knew I was going to be, have to schedule recreation like a prison made. Yeah. Yeah, it's like, all right, it's time to walk.

And then just walk in a circle. I said, get the kids out there. Let them ride their bikes next to you and shit and just walk. Put your AirPods in. Walk for 45 minutes. Do whatever you got to do, man. But he had that like, it was like Tuesday last week or something like that. And he's already home and everything.

God bless. They're so advanced now with the heart surgery. Yeah, all that. We help out. I mean, podcasts help. I mean, look, everyone should be walking. Throw your earbuds in listening to the honey-dew, y'all. Well, not only that, man, I, after all this clotting shit I went through and stuff,

finding out I have this blood disease called Factor 5, it's genetic, whatever, a friend of mine. Last time I saw you, I was like, how are you doing? You're like, bro. You never expect that. You always just expect like, doing all right. You know, you're expecting, oh, bro, I'm dead and it came back to life. I was like, I'm good to see it. Damn mirror, bro.

Yeah. Well, yeah, I almost said. It was checked out. Good to see you. So that's good. But I find out I have it. And I just, you know, we're naturally talking about this stuff like you say on our pods and stuff. And a friend of mine from high score, names Kathy.

I don't know if she'll be comfortable with me giving her last name. But she starts telling me, like, I want to say her son was 17 at the time. And he started clotting and all this stuff. And I said, go have him checked for factor. five do you know this kid had it wow this kid had it so now it's genetic so now everybody's got to go get tested why wouldn't the doctor he's having all this clouding why wouldn't the doctor check for that i mean it's fucking crazy my doctor is so great my doctor is like listen you guys in podcasting he's like you've changed the medical game he said with huberman labs and the rogans and all these things

you guys are out there talking about right now he's like we're listening the medical world's listening and it is changing things for the better so you know, she heard it from a podcast, from a guy who happened to start a podcast she went to high school with also. Right. And the kid has it. So then she goes and gets tested. She's got it. Wow.

She's already had two twins. Her parents go get tested. They fucking got it. Wow. All from this clown who started a podcast about bullshit. Right. Well, not bullshit. I don't mean that.

I mean, low light is what I mean. Yeah. Not bullshit at all. Highlight to low lights. And it turns out it's helping people. Yeah. So, yeah. So, and so it's such a serious thing that my brother, when he was getting his surgery, he's like, look, I have to tell it.

They're like, do you have any genetic blood disease? He goes, I don't, but my brother does. They're like, what does he have? And they're like, factor five light. And they're like, listen, that's serious. Are you sure you don't have it? He's like, they told me, I don't. They're like, are you sure?

Right. It's a big deal. And he's like, tests that didn't have. And they said, we're going to put you on blood thinners anyway. I said, Todd, they didn't even put me on blood thinners. And I told him I fucking have. You know what I mean? Like, that's wild to me.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like, no, I got good doctors. I'm like, you have really good doctor. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's amazing. That's what, you know, they say, like, in 10 years, AI is going to, you know, everyone's scared of AI, but you're like, AI won't miss this shit. Well, that's the other thing, too.

They'll be on it. They're smarter than us. Instead of a medication, if you could put a microchip into someone to kill leukemia cells or whatever, I'm all for that for myself. I mean, if you don't want to do it, don't do it. But I'd rather do that. than take pills yeah you know what i mean get addicted to percocets or whatever if you could put a chip in your body that takes away the pain i'd rather look look at how they do eye surgery now when you

corrective eye surgery it's a it's a it's a machine it's a would you do that laser i'd rather that than the person i don't want some you know i don't want some dude who's you know getting over a drinking problem who didn't get a good night's sleep who's who's there with his hand not I want to give me the mathematically trained, you know, laser that has no emotions. Yeah, I'll take that. I mean, I'm glad we're humans and we have emotions. But if I need surgery, it's all about precision. Yeah.

Give me the machine, dude. Give me the machine. And they're saying, like, doctors now are able to sit, like, in Japan and work the machine over here. Yeah. You know, you're laying there, like, we're going to take your pancreas out. You're like, what? things like yeah and they use the machine instead of that guy coughing in there and shit and he's fucking a nurse and they're having a bad time just give me the clamp yeah yeah you know you just you don't know what they're going through so it's like I mean dude I mean I live in New York we don't have these self-driving cars yet but they're all over here all everywhere it's crazy when you look and there's nobody driving you they freak me out the first time I didn't even know they dropped them in the city and stuff they're everywhere crazy my daughter's been in one I haven't been in one yeah she went with her mom and stuff or not really. I've seen some. I've seen some. I've seen other things too. They're called

Waymo's and I guess there's like, yeah, the white ones. There's a hub in San Francisco, I guess. And they showed a video one night where they self park. But because they're all pulling in next to each other and stuff, they just start beeping and honking and stuff. And so all the people live in the area are like, fuck, there's hundreds of them down there. The one thing I've learned, I've tested it. I tested it out. I was like, let's see if this is not. not a person driving and it's a computer, let's see. You know what I do a lot? I cut them off to see what happens.

If one's coming, I'll pull out real quick and see, and it'll slow down. It ain't hit you. Another guy, I'd be mad. He'll hit bands up trying to get. I get in traffic to and I look over and I fucking get over and they back off. Or if I'm pulling out and it's one of them, I pull right in front of them, they'll stop. Dude, I have a Tesla. And so that last software update that they did, I don't know if you've heard about it.

The self-driving is crazy. I thought they were self-driving all the time. They were, but it was like shaky, right? It was like it would turn off or it would, it wouldn't stop at stop signs, it wouldn't read. It was like a little, yeah, it was a little nerve wracking. A few times it would jolt and you'd be like, you know, going to the tunnel and it would misread something. They have, like, it's leapt. Like, it took a leap forward.

It's there now. I mean, dude, I don't drive anything. Come on, you don't put your hands on the wheel. You have to keep your hand on the wheel. the wheel and they have AI that watches your attention, which means you've got to be looking forward. But also, you can just put your phone on the wheel and look forward and just watch the phone. I watch Denver, the Denver game six. You're just holding the wheel like this. Hold the phone on the wheel. You have to put pressure on the wheel so the car feels like you're

on the highway. So you can't just read a book? No, you cannot. Okay. But I trust it so much if I'm on the highway, like on the streets in New York. But you can drive it on the streets in New York too. And it stops. It makes turns. It stop signs. I mean, and then it goes when it's clear. I mean, but on the highway, it's just like, it just knows wherever. Dude, it, it drives you to your house. That's great. Can you crazy? Can you be at a restaurant? Mm-hmm. And have the Tesla come get you from a parking garage. Yeah. Not from a parking garage, but from like an outdoor, outdoor parking lot. Okay. So as long as it's not covered. Yeah. It'll come fucking get you. Come get you. Bullshit. I swear to God. And it'll self-park.

sometimes I'll just do it to let it, even though I can get into the spot because it's just so cool to watch the wheel. My car self parks, and I haven't done it yet. I got to do it. I got to take it to a park a lot and do it. Yeah. I mean, I grew up in the New York, so I know how to parallel park. Yeah. But sometimes you just like, yeah, I could see how we're starting to get lazy. It's like the same thing as when I just did a bit about it where I talk about how like AI is taken over and how I'm just softer now. And I, when I used to reverse, I used to push myself up, grab the seat here and leave back. Like we're pulling a guy up out of the fucking rice bag and fly it up. You know what I'm saying?

Like, what I got to do? What I got to do? No power steering. You're sweating your ass off. Yeah, like you file your parallel parking. You need a second. You're like, God damn. Dude, I grew up in the era where when you pulled in, you like, it was guaranteed you were going to hit the other bumper.

Like everywhere, it was like bang, bang. You just, you know, they were selling those like fake bar like the rubber bumpers put on just because it was like you're going to get hit if you're parallel parking. I got good at parallel. I was like, be, beep, beep, beep, yeah, no. Yeah. I got to tell you one time I was really, when it, when it first happened to me, I was proud, I was like, oh, here we go. When it's the one-way street and you got a parallel park on the left side. Oh, yeah.

Not the right one. You got to go over here. You're like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I got a different one. Yeah, yeah, you have to, it's harder that way. Yeah, yeah. The dude, when I drive a Volkswagen, Atlas, I got an SUV, a mid-sized one, and he showed me. this trick for city drive. And I had never thought of it.

So you can set the distance in your car. It'll give you an alert so you can get closer to bumpers or farther away. So you can set it for a cruise control where it's just safe enough the distance in front of you, but not to let a car in. And he goes, my buddy put it on. We went city traffic on purpose to Dodger Stadium. and nobody fucking cut you off or anything because it keeps crazy

it keeps right there it keeps right in the spot where no one can come and get you imagine what it's going to be in five years 10 years I mean 10 years really seems like everything is going to change it's going to be there's going to be

a lot of it's going to be good I think a lot of it I think we're focused on the bad because of the negativity bias that's just how our brain is but I think a lot of it's going to be good too I really do I mean we've created something smarter than ourselves

that's going to help us understand ourselves and help us so much. We know, I know you're right because we're doing it all wrong. I don't want AI to do my creative work. I want to write my script. Well, never take over that. Do my laundry. Right. Do my dishes.

Do the shit I don't want to do. Fold my clothes. Yeah. You know, I don't want to sit down and do laundry every fucking week and fold clothes and do my dishes. Do that, AI. Yeah. And we're just going to have to meditate a lot.

We're going to have a lot of time. to like be spiritual sit there because we're going to have time so it's like we're going to have to learn to live in the moment we're all going to have to take up more hobbies we're all going to have to learn jujitsu or whatever it is we're all going to have to box we're all going to have to learn chess we're all going to read we're going to have to figure out ways when it gets so intense where AI is doing so much we're going to get I think we may get more social again it may come back again where we're like let's do an activity together let's because we have to the robots are doing everything else yeah we got to do stuff let's you know

Let's have an adult... In 2025, we're in a fucking world where you can have a car with no driver, pick you up. It's crazy. You can have... Do you guys have the little... There's no way in New York. Maybe you do the Coco's little, you know, the delivery carts. No.

I feel like New York. I'm kicking them into the street and everything. Yeah, I love those videos where they're just fucking kicking them over. Yeah. We don't have those yet. but you can have a robot deliver you food you can have a car with no driver take you wherever you want like that shit's we're here we're there now here it's just the beginning it's going to get nuts and then when we fuse with AI in some way with these chips or you know it's good who knows

but it's not all going to be bad i mean it's not i agree i don't think it's all going to be bad it's not going to be bad but it doesn't matter what good is someone always makes bad of it anyway. There's going to be a cure for cancer one day and someone's going to do something horrible and shitty with. But here's the thing that I'm interested in, right? Because there's people now talking to Chad GBT like it's a therapist, right? Because chat GBT understands these patterns and mathematical probabilities and is just smarter in certain ways. What when, what happens when it gets to that level where you can't, most of the things that people do that are bad or unconscious from your childhood? Like, you know,

The more you learn about the brain and everything is all this trauma and these projection and, oh, you're angry, what's under anger, fear, and what were you feel for? And where was the first time? And, oh, I didn't get a hug or, oh, I got rejected. And so I'm now taking them, what happens when AI makes you conscious of all that shit? You know, what happens? What happens when everyone else becomes conscious of why that person's doing that? you know so the person can't rationalize it anymore and so what happens what happens if we get to a

point where we're like telepathically communicating or something like that we can't hide shit from each other anymore well they're saying that um i just saw this study yesterday about kids with autism are they're saying they have a level of uh telepathy and things like that well i i think i mean i have a joke but it's i'll say it on here it's like yeah AI is just us evolving to be in the AI era? What if it's a natural selection? We're all going like, ooh, we're worried about this

because we're like, what if the autistic kids are going, we're worried about you. You guys should go in away. Yeah. Because my brain's a computer. It's already there. Let me add this up.

Yeah, I count toothpicks like Google. You guys trying to, you guys try to cure autism. We're trying to get rid of you. Yeah. Yeah. For real. You guys are from a different era.

You got caveman brains. Yeah. But, you know, that's interesting. There's going to be an era of people who no longer die at some point. Like, we will be part of the diers. Yeah. Like, they will be like, yeah, my grandfather was a die. Sigma is this my 600-year-old dad?

Yeah. There'll be some asshole when you don't die anymore that we'll be. Yeah. I mean, it's going to. Like Dracula. Yeah, like Dracula. Like, Dracula, the guy who loves blood coldslaw. we had a moment on history hiatus recently where we were talking about Elizabeth Bathory

who was his empress she was an empress who like killed a lot of people so they say she's like the worst serial killer in history and that's when I realized I was saying Dracula Chris pointed out he was like did you say Dracula because I was and I was like you never heard it come out of you I always thought it was Dracula oh you actually thought it was Dracula I didn't know it was Dracula. Do you spell it with an R? I never had to spell it. But if I did, what about Cald Dracula? It's one of those things that maybe what I started to have to spell it in the digital age, it just auto-correct. Like I still don't know how to spell definitely. I just let autocorrect do it. I got definitely now. Which is maybe the downside of

AI is just will become so lazy and complain. We won't know how to do anything, you know. But the more they understand about the brain, like bad people won't be able to rationalize their bad shit anymore or trick us anymore because we'll know what why they're doing it you know this Charles Manson did this because of this all be laid right out somebody's going oh I'm doing this because this you're going no you're doing that because you hate yourself but now you think about this too I think about all the time you've had two kids you've seen the advancements in the medical world with just keeping babies alive early checking it in your your wife's womb and stuff is wild I saw a video not a video excuse me it was a picture it might have been on like time magazine and it was

a surgery being done on the infant in the womb they were correcting something on the baby in the womb before i mean small you know a little tiny hand in there and stuff it was tiny um but i think all the time like how in the fuck the people in the wagon wheel days ever even make it how did anybody ever have a baby back then that it was yeah they had different work back then then you think about how many of them actually didn't fucking make it yeah you know yeah I'm a dog lover and when you think about the unfortunate reality that like the dog has six puppies because it evolved to have that many puppies because four of them would die same thing with humans you look back until like you know a hundred years ago was like you learn about some dude in history

you're like yeah he had four kids uh well four kids that lived you're like he had 14 but they all died. Yeah, my grandmom told me, I think they're, I want to say the total number of siblings might have been about 15, but I think two or three did die at birth or right after birth. Yeah. And that's, you know, still in the 1900s. Yeah, I mean, it was common. And the mother would often die.

Yeah. Mother had a chair. And it wasn't like low probability. Like a woman got pregnant, you were like, hopefully. This could kill us. Yeah. Just kill everything. Yeah.

It's just. Women, dude, thank God for technology because they had it tough before, like, tough, just giving birth. That was one thing, watching birth twice. You're like, wow. Yeah, what was different the second time? I mean, they were both those moments. I was there from, I watched. You watched.

Yeah, yeah, I thought it was going to be. I didn't want to watch. I watched the whole thing. I didn't want to originally. Me too. And then the nurse said, or the doctor said, get over here and hold a leg. And I was like, what? You know, I made a joke like, it doesn't, we only got our package, all like,

with one leg holder? You know what I mean? Like, should there be one person for each leg? We're paying for this and I'm over there holding it. And then I'm watching and I see my daughter being born and I guess, you know, I don't know. Maybe when you watch it on TV, it's, it's gross or whatever. It's not yours. It's not anything. It's also not even real. But when you're there, it didn't bother me at all. Well, you know what it's like? It's like I've learned that too because I was scared because of all the blood and all that shit. I was like, I don't want to see all this cookie stuff and looking at her vagina get ripped open. But then you realize, you're right. you realize it's like a fart.

You like your own and you hate other people's. It doesn't bother you because it's your own. It's your baby, your wife. And, yeah, I was fascinated. Nothing bothered me. None of the blood, nothing. Did you watch the placenta come out? I watched everything.

I stared at the placenta. I watched everything and none of it bothered me. I couldn't believe it. Only thing I was surprised by, so my daughter was born, God, now I forget what it is. I guess she- Oh, wow. You forgot a birthday? She pooped in the womb. What's it called again?

I can't remember now. Taking his shit in the womb. She took a shit in the womb. Yeah. And so. Shit the runs. It's a problem because when she comes out, if she inhales her first breath in those fresh lungs with feces, it's an issue.

So they're telling us as soon as we get her out, dad, you got to cut the cord, give her to us, and we're going to suction her lungs right away. And we did. It was fine. But it's like, boom, so everything's moving so fast. You don't even get the holder for a second or you're passing it over. You're like, oh, my God, I'm looking down here. And I'm telling you, I don't know what the fuck it was.

I know it was like amniotic fluid or whatever. But it looked like there was a fucking dwarf inside her vagina. Oh, yeah. And through a bucket of water. Dude, it hit the doctor's chest. It was so, I'm not talking about a little foot. It was like a bucket. It hit her.

And she went, oh, my God. Even the doctor was like, Oh, my God. It's like a levee broke. I was like, what the fuck? And that lady is leaving this room to go to that one over there to do the same damn thing. And then that one and that one, like four of them that day. And I'm like, good God.

Isn't it funny, too, how the nurses do everything and the doctor just comes and catches it? Like the dentist. Yeah. Yeah. This lady's been here for an hour doing everything. You come in. It looks good. You're honest.

I'm like, what the fuck, I need you for? It was like a spiritual. It was like a spiritual. It just pulls you into the moment, right? Like when your wife's having a baby. maybe nobody has ADD. Like you can't, I didn't have any thought. Like, I wasn't going like, well, I'm thinking about jokes or podcasts or schedules.

You're just in the moment watching this crazy thing. And you don't even have to try. It just, it's such a crazy thing you're watching. You're just pulled into it. And then there's this feminine energy there, you know, because they give life. They're like mortal God. So, like, there's nurses in there and the women are talking to each other in a way. and they're easing the wife and they were making her move like they were moving her stomach

and easing the baby out and they were like moving her body and telling her how to body and you're just this dude and you realize like they're like mortal gods like women are like we're helpless we're like yeah we're just like a different thing it's a different thing and they're like wow what this thing's coming out of her body she nurtured it and then you watch it come out and it has the instig looking for a tit and it just wants her mom for the it's this whole thing where you realize like look gender is a spectrum especially in the modern world with technology and that's all that stuff's fine identity stuff whatever but there's some things that are just anatomically anchored that are just make us different for the first year i've had two kids now for the first year of both

those daughters i didn't matter that first year i'm just a dude and you know that because because I'm a guy, I'll tell you funny, I, what I do is I grow my beard and then I shave it. I don't keep shaping up the beard. I grow it and then I shave it off. And so I'm always in some variation of growing the beard. So, you know, when my, have my kids, I have a beard a lot. Once my baby got a little conscious, right? And for that first part where she's just a shit eat sleep machine, it's all mommy.

Like, she needs mommy. Daddy could not be there. It doesn't matter. There's no therapy that's going to ruin. be required lady later because of it it's fucking that daughter doesn't give a shit who you are doesn't even know who you are doesn't want you but then when it's my baby's got a little more conscious this is how little they care about the father at the beginning i shaved my beard and my baby did this to me who the fuck is that didn't even know i was a different person you know with the mother it's like

the smells and all that you know like if my wife got a haircut it would still know who my wife was My baby gave me the funniest look. It went, fuck you. And it was an un-unmistakable look. Like, get this fucking dude away. Who the one? Where's my titty? You know who I was.

Yeah. And so you don't really bond with your daughters, especially. I don't know if it's sons are different. I only have two daughters I can speak from experience. The bond starts to come like in the ones, like somewhere in the ones where the baby even starts to acknowledge you. Even when I would try to hug it or whatever, it would be like, Yeah, it would be like, always looking for mommy.

Always looking. Yeah. Yeah. So how is she now? How's her health? She's perfect. Everything turned out perfect. It was just those months of uncertainty, which is the worst thing.

In a lot of ways, it's worse. I don't want to say it's not worse than hearing the bad news, but that uncertainty plays a trick on your mind worse because your future trip in every day. Your future tripping all day long, you go, like, you know, is my, is this going to what, you, you start have to battle those the anxiety of that creates those worst case scenarios in your brain and um it was just brutal like just just brutal it was again it our job is great you know but that's why i love a podcast like this where we can vent these things because uh yeah we're people too and our job is to go cheer other people up and then it's like well who's who's who's it's like the superman thing i'm holding you i'm giving you you

you guys joy but who's fucking holding me because you know we're on stage and you see that but you don't see the pain that's going on in the life um which is you know i spoke about on this podcast like when my mom i'm on stage and my mom with dementia is just calling my phone leaving the same message and it's just i feel it vibrating and i know what it is and my brain is in two places at once and i got this face on and i'm making fun of you know i'm making people laugh here but like this horrible thing is happening at the same time and so it's good to you and the only way you get over the low lights is you highlight them by talking about them inventing them and bonding they're not going anywhere they're going anywhere they're part of your story they're part of your story

they're necessary they humble you i don't know they keep it keeps you grounded a little bit too it's two sides that's reality is for everything there's an opposite and they go together i mean you can't know joy if you don't know pain and uh but you got to be able to not be scared of the pain process the pain and uh and use it you know alchemize it into something great that's where it comes from that's where all the best things come i agree yeah thank you for doing this thank you for having me again yeah of course yeah i'm sure i'll have more tragedy forever yeah i'm sure i'll just wait i'll wait for so in fact i'll give you a call with the next worst thing happens um promote your special everything one more time go go see go watch uh go to youtube right now just put in property

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