The Joe Rogan Experience - #1998 - Ali Siddiq
Episode Date: June 14, 2023Ali Siddiq is a stand-up comic, writer, and public speaker. His new special, "The Domino Effect II: Loss," is available now on YouTube. www.alisiddiq.com ...
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How you doing?
I'm doing great.
You are a perfect example of how sometimes the universe throws you a little curveball
and it turns out to work out better for you.
We were talking about it before, right before the show, and I wanted to congratulate you on the success of your special thank you because you were
in this position where hbo had decided not to air it because you had opinions and they said well we
don't agree with your opinion so you can't have opinions that are different than ours
you didn't even say anything i didn't think it was your feelings on things
which I feel like you're allowed to have
and boom you put it on YouTube
and boom how many views does it have now
first one
8.8 million
million 8.8 million
you know what the odds of you getting 8.8 million
on HBO are
zero
it's zero
unless you're on the fucking
game of thrones premiere i was ready to do math in my head and everything
i was thinking it was like zero don't even think about zero it's never i mean maybe
you gotta go back to like sam kinnison maybe he's got 8 million. Maybe. Wow. Yeah, I mean,
not that many people watch those shows, but
YouTube is beautiful. I mean, they
fuck you on a lot of different things.
They'll pull you for discussing
legitimate medical studies.
This guy got pulled. Did you see that thing?
I tweeted it.
He got pulled off of YouTube.
They killed his whole channel
for reading Lancet studies on psychiatric drugs.
Bro, it's crazy.
It's crazy.
They did a study on him.
Well, it was on children and psych medications.
It was on children, and I believe it was SSRIs, which was antidepressants.
Are they prescribing those to children now?
They've been prescribing them for children.
They've been doing it for a long time.
But they do not like when people discuss the negative side effects on YouTube.
I would assume advertising pressure.
That's the only thing that makes sense to me.
You can discuss getting the belt or getting whipped, but you can't discuss the negative side effects of a drug.
Isn't that wild?
Yeah, you could openly discuss being abused as a child, being beaten.
Yeah, so this gentleman, what's his name?
Roger McFillin, Dr. Roger McFillin.
He was, so this is what he said.
Our YouTube channel was terminated in less than 24 hours.
No warnings, explanations, or strikes.
After we posted a video highlighting published science, black box warnings, and known adverse reactions of antidepressants for youth.
Why do you think this was censored?
And then, what's weird as a YouTube
responded underneath it they responded hey here to let here to help you know
YouTube channel URL we'll see what we can find here's how to find it like no
they kill his whole channel he said you terminated my I don't like saying you
it's probably a person right it's probably not that person it says you
terminated my youtube channel for posting published scientific literature it's for
reasons like this that youtube is losing the public trust man it's that that dance of advertising you
know that's the dance the dance of advertising and government control it's kind of spooky it's kind
of spooky well i'm um well i've been living in the neighborhood it's been of spooky it's kind of spooky shit well I've been living in a neighborhood
that's been government controlled for a long time
not really spooky to us
we like oh regular
government nonsense
not good
this is the reason why we don't trust
anything
brown people, black people, we just don't.
Ah!
Like, as soon as you say it, like, as soon as you not trusting it.
Well, it's for a good reason.
It's not like everything's going great and nobody trusts the government.
Yeah.
Like, but a lot of people are pro-government.
Like, government everything.
Well, I think they just sold a narrative.
You know, I think they sold a narrative and they think anti-government is bad.
So they're pro-government.
And I've had some maddening discussions with intelligent people that I respect where they're saying the government should regulate the Internet.
Like, what the fuck are you talking about?
The same people that are engaging in insider trading, they should regulate the Internet.
Are you out of your fucking mind?
You know how crazy that is?
Who said that?
That guy used to be the publisher of Rolling Stone magazine, man.
In the 60s
and the 70s when Rolling Stone
was the counterculture.
He was telling me that they should regulate the internet.
We had the most maddening conversation and I respect him so much and I love him so
much for what he did in the past I think that was connected to you know the
internet kind of destroying magazine sales mmm it could be but it's also I
think it's an ideology man I think it's an ideology I think these people have in
their head that good government with good people is good.
And the problem is bad government and bad people.
But we've never had, I mean, what was the fucking last time where you were 100% satisfied with all the things the government was doing?
They were doing everything they said they were going to do.
Even if the president wants things done when they're running for office, those things never happen once they get in office.
That's a very white question
We ever satisfied like never never well maybe Kennedy, you know Kennedy gave people hope
Seems like he was giving people hope
But I mean that was before my time those before your time. He was killed four years before I was born. Did you like Carter?
Well, the thing about Carter is if you listen to Carter talk, and this goes back to Rolling Stone magazine because Hunter S. Thompson went to Jimmy Carter's campaign speech.
And it was so moving to him that he actually went out to his car and got his tape recorder and brought it back in and started listening and recording it.
I don't think any president has the ability.
There's a reason why the government is set up the way it's set up.
It's set up so the president can never become a tyrant.
The president can't make his own laws.
This is how the government is divided. This is laws so they can't make the this is how the
government is divided this is the concept behind the beginning of the country the beginning of the
country i think even if you're a good person you're in a bad job you're in a bad job with a
bad machine and that machine wants to make money and if it's making money by selling people drugs
or it's making money by going to war it's making money by finagling the economy in some bizarre way
anytime there's something to gain on the other end without public knowledge
it's going to be a problem of course that's the game the sleight of hand that's the game that's
the game they're in i mean to pretend they don't do that. I felt like some things shouldn't be on the internet, though.
So I'm like, damn,
is nobody regulating this shit?
Like what? Like a lot
of things that people just...
I don't know what a lot of people
have followers
for, because they so
fall to the craziness.
It's insane. You're like, what? That's true.
That's true, but what's the hell? That's true. That's true.
But what's the alternative?
The alternative is like,
here's the best thing
about those crazy people.
You and I can talk
about those crazy people.
Look at these crazy bitches.
And then people can listen
to us talk about them
and they go, yeah,
these people are crazy.
I kind of thought
the world was flat
for a few minutes.
Yeah.
It's the people on the internet.
I'm like, say, man. God. like say man damn what are you talking about
like
then there's other people that have some sense
but so
you gotta be able to figure it out yourself
the problem is most people don't think
and rightly so don't think that most people
can figure it out by themselves
a large percentage of our population that's easily swayed that's why cults work oh you know I always
wonder like like like when people say they selling dope I'm like like for real
like it's passe like what a cult is like I'll be thinking at his foot like what
when why would I join the cult when it's never been proven to be a good thing?
Like, it's like, show me all the good, successful cults.
It's just like, man, all I got to do is see one bad cult and I'm like, you know, I don't want to go.
Well, if you want to expand that.
That's crazy.
Religion.
Religion is successful cults
because they someone's listen if if there is let's just imagine just for the sake of this
conversation that there is a religious scripture that is 100 translated directly from god well if
that's true if there's one that means all the other ones are wrong and all the other ones are cults.
See, the thing is this.
People don't know where things tie in together.
Now, you have some side stories, some people who just created some side things for their own benefit.
Like the Mormons.
It's like a longevity of, hey, this is all the same line of things.
It transcends to the next
generation.
Then it's these things that
once
the prophecy stopped at some point
and then it's like people can claim themselves
to be prophets with none of
the other attachment.
All the other prophets got the same
thing.
Some spoke to them at night.
And they have some power at that particular time.
It's like, these people can just say, hey, I'm a prophet.
Well, who spoke to you?
I don't know.
There's a voice coming through the wall.
Maybe you live in theater apartments. I don't know. And then they voice coming through the wall. Maybe you live in theater apartments.
I don't know.
And then they can just, what is your power?
Who are the people that you're supposed to have?
And it's no power.
All you had to do is be charismatic.
But that's not the, in prophecy, that's not the criteria.
It's like, hey, I'm looking for somebody cancer.
That's not what God's doing.
That's not the job.
Right, that's not the job.
But with this society, it's the job.
But don't you think it's always been like that?
No, I think they didn't even want to do it.
Noah didn't want to build no ark.
He was doing something else.
See, the thing about Noah and the ark, though, if you go back to that,
that story is very similar to a story that's in the epic of Gilgamesh.
And most likely what that story is about, the great flood seems to very much be real.
Very much be real.
And there's a lot of physical
evidence. And there's a gentleman named Randall Carlson who's been on my pod. Have you ever seen
any of those episodes? No. He's been on my podcast many times. He's an expert in asteroid collisions.
And this time in history where after this time, there's all these stories of floods,
it aligns directly with this thing called the Younger dryas and the younger dryas impact theory the younger dryas at a time period around
11,800 years ago where they think the earth got hit by comments and they think civilization got basically wiped out and it makes sense
Because it first of all makes sense physically
So sorry if people have heard this before I beat this fucking horse to death
But there's a lot of evidence when they do core samples on the earth at that time period there's a high level of iridium
which is very rare on earth but very common in space and there's also nano diamonds which which
occur when there's an impact when something hits and this is all over the world I 100% believe in this but every time I hear nano diamonds
what do you think
what do you think
when you hear nano diamonds
it's like you're selling jewelry
in the middle of the mall
hey buddy
these aren't diamonds
these are nano diamonds
these are nano diamonds
they different
but yes
I believe that
the earth has been hit
by comets
we in the space
how can you not
there's evidence.
There's evidence.
There's tons of evidence.
There's tons of evidence.
They found, was it Greenland or Iceland, that massive impact that they found?
The Earth's been hit so many times, man.
It wasn't just the Yucatan one that killed the dinosaurs.
It's been many, many, many, many, many, many, many times it's been hit.
many, many, many, many, many, many, many times it's been hit.
And in fact, this comet shower that we go through every year,
31 kilometer, 19 mile wide meteorite crater discovered under a kilometer of Greenland ice
had long puzzled scientists.
The Hawatha crater was exceptionally well preserved
despite glacier ice being incredibly effective at erosion.
That's interesting.
Damn, that's big.
19 miles, is that what it said?
Yeah, there's a ton of those, man.
They're all over the world.
There's a big one that's outside of Australia that they found.
Giant craters where it just, it totally makes sense.
It totally makes sense.
So this guy, along with this guy named Graham Hancock, who's also been on the podcast many times a good friend of mine he has a documentary called uh ancient catastrophe
is that it it's not apocalypse right ancient apocalypse i always fuck those up ancient
apocalypse that's on uh netflix it's amazing and it's all talking about like these insane
structures that people built in africa in asia all over the world in turkey that is insane structures that people built in Africa, in Asia, all over the world, in Turkey.
These insane structures that predate modern civilization.
These are like 5,000 years before we think Mesopotamia emerged.
Huge stone columns, huge structures that they know for sure were 11,000 years old.
The show's amazing.
It's an amazing show.
I think I've watched this.
It's really good.
And it's, you know, he only goes, he only touches the surface
because there's so many of these all over the world.
And Egypt is the best example.
The best example.
Egypt is a fantastic example because there's stuff that's under the sand
that's even older than the massive stuff that's above the sand that's even older than the massive stuff
that's above the stand and the stuff under the sand that they find when they dig deeper
it's a totally different style of building this is what the x-clan used to rap about
yeah yeah and poor righteous teachers that whole brand new vian this is the this is the pyramids and building of the stones
and Egypt, the
whole Egyptian culture, Timbuktu,
the whole thing.
Yeah. Been around for a long
time. That's the wild shit. The wild
shit is that if it wasn't for those stones,
if everybody lived like we live today
in glass houses and shit, there'd be nothing left.
There'd be nothing. What would you find a regular
house made out of wooden glass? What the fuck is going to be there in 10 000 years zero
zero there'd be nothing left but you'd find nails oh look i found a nail what would you find you'd
find a few things but most of it would be consumed by the earth yeah most of it but those guys they
figured out they figured out something that no, they bullshit that they could figure out
how to do that today.
They don't know how to do that today.
Well somebody just came up with the whole
this building with wood.
But it was probably stone, like in Haiti
they build with stone, they still build with,
Jamaica they still build with stone,
with the whole house made out of cement.
Most places do that, it has, you know,
tropical plants. Well they have hurricanes.
Yeah, they have hurricanes yeah they have hurricanes their
houses have to be sturdy as fuck so i don't know what was going on in egypt at that time when they
was building like that i think they were beyond advanced i think we are graham hancock has this
amazing quote he said that human beings are a species with amnesia. Oh, yes, for sure. For sure. Oh, for sure.
And I think the way we've gone today technologically with, like, phones and microphones and video cameras and shit, like, we've gone into an electronic technology.
I think they went into another technology that was different, a different path, but way more powerful.
They were able to move stones out of the mountains and move them 500 miles.
They don't have any fucking idea how they did it.
The necessity, you know,
we're figuring out things from necessity.
That, but I think thousands of years of thinking.
I think, you know,
when we think about the Industrial Revolution
and we think about the way the world was
just 2,000 years ago to now,
I think those people were recovering. I world was just 2,000 years ago to now, I think those people were recovering.
I think those people 2,000 years ago were recovering from shit that happened
thousands of years before that where people were just knocked back into barbarism,
just survival of the fittest, just wild shit because there was nothing left.
We live in a Mad Max apocalypse, even worse.
Nuclear winter.
When those things hit into the ground, the massive floods come.
It also kicks up dust in the atmosphere.
Nothing grows.
People are probably cannibalizing each other.
It was probably horrific.
You ever read the book The Ice Age and Inheritance?
No.
This is where it talks about people, how they went into the ice age and then they had to start
cannibalizing each other because there was nothing growing in all of these other things like wow
that's that's which do you think we survive that now like that's what is that i think you and me
might be we might survive i know a lot of people are gonna get eaten some people keep it together
and some people can't you know yeah it's gonna it's
gonna be hard and it's not gonna be fun and life might not be worth living in comparison
in comparison so that's the thing like if you were if you lived on the great plains in the
1800s and you're a native american that was your whole life that's all you knew you knew how to
hunt buffalo you know how to make teepees you know to live off the land that's all you knew if you took some fucking person from the east side of manhattan some person that works
some cushy office job and he said jerome this is your new life you're gonna live on the plains and
you're gonna make your own arrows and you're gonna go fucking run around and try to shoot
them into buffalo and there's no doctors. So is this what Naked and Afraid is about?
Are they getting ready for the apocalypse?
No, they're just exploiting dummies.
They're just having fun with people's dicks.
Blurring them on the TV.
It's crazy.
That show's crazy.
That show's crazy.
It's so dumb.
Naked and Afraid XL, they got like 13 people up yeah meet up in the former
tribe yeah they could do something like that people would go they would go evil real quick
if there was competing tribes people would go evil real quick i think it's gonna if it if it If it jumps, no, okay. Well, during Katrina, it was survival of the fittest.
Yes.
During this flood in Houston, it was survival of the fittest.
Yes.
It's been some times where people have shown their colors.
Yes.
In small pockets.
Yeah.
Like my friend, he used to brag about having this maserati
and when the flood happened his maserati was floating down the street and i was in my truck
i'm like hey you want me to come pick you and your maserati up because you you're in a bad position
my boy because in texas you need a truck you know and, and it was survival. He couldn't move nowhere.
So he needed help.
Yeah.
When the freeze came out here, I was having a time of my life.
I loved it.
When it was snow everywhere and ice on the streets.
Because I have a 1995 Toyota Land Cruiser that I had built like an apocalypse vehicle.
It's lifted.
It's got off-road tires.
It's got steel bumpers. It's got a winch. It's lifted. It's got off-road tires. It's got steel bumpers.
It's got a winch.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, yeah, you was having a good time.
Big-ass gas tank.
Huge gas tank.
You was having a good time.
I was having a great time.
Because that car's meant for that.
It was like my golden retriever when he sees the snow.
When he sees the snow, he's like, woo!
He rolls around on his back.
It's like he's having a party.
It's the best thing he's ever seen. That's what it's like when my truck saw that snow
my truck was like yee-haw everybody else is like in corvettes they're sliding into oncoming traffic
that's what happens when you have one of them little low built cars or sports car
and you don't have a off-road vehicle something that can really that's sturdy that can
move things like i have a truck and this yeah my truck is built for that if you're only gonna have
one vehicle in texas a truck is the way to go oh yeah it really is it just in case just in case
it's the sign of the most pampered society that people have cars that you can't even fit luggage in
and they're just fast
and they,
you have a race car,
sir.
Why are you driving
around town
in a fucking race car?
Where are you going?
Hey, man,
nothing like getting
out of a truck
in a tuxedo.
Oh,
yeah,
right?
With boots on.
That's what I see
guys,
I'm like, man, that's crazy.
But, man, a truck is the way to go.
People don't want to think about things going sideways,
but they have all throughout history.
All throughout history there's been natural disasters.
There's been wars.
There's been crazy shit all throughout history.
So why don't people want to think about that?
Because we like to think about what's in front of us right now.
The human mind is set up essentially for survival.
Right. It's it's and we have the exact same brains as people that live 10,000 years ago.
So the people who live 10,000 years ago, if they in fact were hunter and gatherers and they probably were hunter and gatherers because the people before them were far more advanced and they were like rebooting society.
That's what I think.
before them were far more advanced and they were like rebooting society.
That's what I think.
But those people, that life that they lived was all about get some fucking food, find out what the dangers are around you right now in terms of your enemies and predators
and get some fucking food and feed your family and try to stay alive.
That's all anybody wanted.
They just wanted to stay alive.
So we have that in our head and shit like climate change and UFOs, it's like, what am I going to do with that?
Shit like, what if the power goes off?
Yeah, but the power's on now.
Shut the fuck up.
I got to deal with now.
I got to deal with right now.
We're designed for the now.
I don't think like that.
I think long term.
Your guys experienced some very difficult moments in your life.
That's what it is.
You've experienced a lot of adversity.
I guess that's the reason.
But I'm thinking, I'm always thinking long term.
I always got to, you know, like I'm Jason Bourne.
Like I'm on the move.
Come on, pass for the cash.
Yeah, I'm not, I can't live for the now.
I used to be like that.
And that was,
that was too fast.
Mm.
Way too fast.
Well, that's a young man's game.
Young man's game is the now.
You know,
talk to a 19-year-old kid.
They ain't talking about
fucking climate change.
Oh, I wish somebody
would have told me in 19, hey, listen, climate change oh i wish somebody would have told me
in 19 hey listen climate change yeah maybe my tomatoes would be able to survive i i think
you know with having a a healthy love for the elderly because i i would you know prefer to be
one one day you know i would like to set things up for those people that's doing
it now for when I get
there. I don't want to wait and then
get there and be struggling.
I'm 65 and I don't understand
what's going on because comics, most comics
don't have a retirement plan.
Most comics don't even have a monthly plan.
Comics are the wildest
fucking people I know.
They're the wildest people I know
they spend all their money
and it was crazy
that's very true
that is very true
I can't even think of all the comics
because I'm a planner
how many comics have come to me
because they know I'm a planner
and they just went out and did some wild shit.
I'm just, hey, man, I'm living in L.A. now.
What?
I just saw you Tuesday.
Yeah, I know.
Where you living at?
I don't know.
I'm just out here.
What the hell are you talking about?
And then a month later, hey, man I'm calling you from somebody else's phone.
You think you can send me $300
so I can get a ticket to come home?
Oh, how am I gonna get it to you?
Hey man, you gonna have to wire it to this and that.
Some comics think that if they go to a spot,
things would be different.
You know?
My wife and I lived in Colorado once for a little while,
and we lived in like a log house on the top of a mountain.
And my wife had this idea that when she got in that log house,
she'd start making bread.
Joe, you wild, man.
You just moved to a log house.
Yeah, I did.
The only thing that fucked me over was she got pregnant,
and when women are pregnant at very high altitude,
this is at 8,000, I think 8,800 feet.
It's very high.
It's real rough on them, real bad.
It's like the flu every day.
And we went back to L.A.,
and when we went back to L.A. for like a week or two,
she was fine.
And then we went back to Colorado,
kicked right back in.
I was like, oh, no no and then I read that Colorado specifically
Denver has a very high rate of unusually high rate of premature births because
they did the attribute to the high altitude is rough it's rough on women so
we had to get out of there if it was for me it was just me by myself I'd still be
up there I would have never started a podcast I still be up there living in
the woods make it I love it I love a podcast. I'd still be up there living in the woods.
I loved it.
I loved it.
I love that Land Cruiser.
I'd just be like sitting there chilling.
Man, because that's the life that I'm going towards.
I love it.
Just being somewhere, being able to farm and grow my own vegetables.
Yes. Go outside and have my own pigs and goats and things of that nature.
Yeah, that's very satisfying. There's something very satisfying just even about and things of that nature yeah that's very satisfying there's something very
satisfying just even about the idea that that's very satisfying not having to be some I think
that's the I'm I'm gonna slow down in 2025 I have a plan knockout domino effect three and four um and then kind of relax for a while because i don't think people
know this about comics you probably experienced it i'm my body is on some type of clock where i
have to be somewhere even when i don't which is troublesome to me like I've gotten up and
packed all my things up and didn't
realize that I was already where I'm supposed to be.
Because
my body is like,
my mind basically is, you're supposed to be
somewhere.
If I go on vacation, it has to
be for two weeks because the first
week,
it's crazy. My mind is set on this
clock of you got a performance you got to be somewhere you got this to do you had it and i
don't i don't like that feeling i got out of that i got that took it took me a long time to get out
of that but i got out of that where i can enjoy vacation i can just chill i got out of that where
i could just sit in my backyard sometimes just sit down have a have a
cocktail and just relax that's what i want to do just be able to just sit and have nothing to do
yeah yeah i think there's a there's real pleasure in that if you earn that and you definitely have
earned that there's real pleasure in that but people like you and people like me that are constantly on the road and constantly working on this and working on that, it's like you're on this momentum.
And it's hard to hit the brakes going down the hill.
Jesus fucking Christ.
Like Flintstone brakes.
You know, it's hard.
Yeah, it is.
It's hard to slow down.
And you got to get to a place where you feel like or have a plan to get to a place where, okay, this is it for
a while. And then
detox
for that month. A month
of not doing shows is
horrible.
It's weird.
It's horrible.
You get addicted to it, right?
It took me a while to get it. It took me about
two months to really get into the pandemic pandemic but once i got into it i didn't want to come out of it i was like man
i'm i'm cool man i can be with my family every day i'm growing my vegetables looking good i'm
i'm having a good time i don't have to be anywhere i just go to the front and pick up my camera.
Hey, what's happening?
And talk for a minute and then be done.
It was beautiful.
It was beautiful.
So why'd you go back?
The addiction of being a performer.
Killing.
Addicted to having to finish the story yeah you know domino effect
you know was in my mind and domino effect 2 was in my mind so i was like man i gotta get back to
to work i think they were tired of me they like hey he's here he's been here too long maybe
maybe i i was feeling cool and they was nah, he needs to go work somewhere.
He's doing everything.
He's painting and building.
I was building something every week.
It was great.
Well, that's why it always drives me crazy when people say they get bored.
Like, how are you bored?
I get bored.
There's so much to do.
You just got to find the thing.
And if it's not, if you don't have anything to do, just go experience something.
Yeah.
Go check something out.
Get moving.
Don't stay home.
Don't just stay put.
That's why you're bored.
There's nothing coming at you.
Go somewhere.
Stay put.
I haven't heard that in a long time.
My grandmother, she would say that because back then
you couldn't go into
couldn't take children
to liquor stores
and my girl
would get out the car
she'd leave us in the car
hey hey
stay put
be right
my girl told me
be right here
when she get back
or she gonna beat our ass
like
like what
like how did that even
come into the conversation
come into the conversation
but
we was right then when she got back.
Yeah.
We stood put.
Stay put.
Yeah, staying around and being bored.
I mean, of course that's what's going to happen.
People wonder why they're depressed.
I mean, there's a lot of reasons why people are depressed.
But some people are depressed just because they're not doing anything.
Oh, man.
You just fucking fill with anxiety and just nothing.
You're just, just like alone just
trying to think of something to do bored out of your fucking mind which is crazy how you can't
think of nothing to do when it's all outside like you can just you can well i can walk out because
i'm from that era but we used to play outside yeah so if i go outside, I'm going to find something to do. If I find another person, we're going to find something to do.
If we find another person, oh, no, this is a football game.
All we need is three people and a ball,
and we're throwing this ball up in there.
It's a hot ball.
We're going to do something.
Something's happening.
Do you remember children's playgrounds,
how fucking dangerous they were?
With those metal contraptions, those houses you would climb inside of?
You thought that was dangerous?
Do they have those today?
I think they do, but they made out of rope now, and it's really dangerous.
Oh.
It's some little corded rope.
You tear your hand up.
I prefer the balls.
I grew up with the balls.
You could swing from them. That was my I prefer the balls. I grew up with the balls. You could swing from them.
That was my thing, the balls.
Even the spinning.
Oh, man.
I think I know people who dislocated their shoulder on the spinning thing.
Some big grown kid would come and spin all the kids.
If you didn't hold on and they'd keep spinning it,
and then you'd just let go because your head,
you can't hold it no more.
Ah,
those are the days of concussions,
good concussions.
Yeah,
well you learned,
you definitely learned what hurts.
Oh,
you definitely learned what hurt.
Yeah.
Like you never let the big kids
spin your head ever again.
Those little big kids are mean.
It was crazy.
you six,
this kid,
hey man,
you know you're 13,
right?
Like, why are you even over here?
Especially boys.
Teenage boys are the most fucking dangerous animals on the planet.
Man, do you understand? I lived in some apartments where these guys, they were old.
They was high teens.
And when you went to go check check the mail because the mailbox was
by the pool they would try to throw you in the pool and you go take the million
mother say hey don't bring my damn bail back here wet and you have to sneak to the mailbox and open the mailbox so quietly get the mail
and you hope didn't see you because if anybody saw you they're gonna say hey you hit the mailbox
and now you gotta run now you gotta run they're gonna throw you i remember once i got thrown in and i tried to hold the bell up i hate the performance man i hate them teenage kids they're fucking dangerous
because they have man strength and they just got it they just got it it's like lottery winners
they're like lottery winners they start spending all their money.
Lottery winners, they go broke quick because they're like,
they never had this before, and all of a sudden they have it.
When you're 13 and all of a sudden you kind of have a man body,
and you're 14 and you're strong as shit and little kids,
you could just yell at them and tell them what to do
and make them do shit and smack them around.
The problem is this
when you do that and then one of the kids that you hurt have uncles that's like close to your age
like you yeah you 14 15 and his uncle is 19 and he don't care nothing about nothing and he's like yo hey man you heard my
you heard my little cousin and then yeah and he definitely he got a little more skill he got a
little more attack to his yeah newfound male strength yeah they know how to use it. A 19-year-old is very different. You get 19 and 20, and, you know, those are men.
I was different.
I was a pretty good fighter at 19.
I started fighting maybe around 10.
You get some good ones. I remember when I knew the difference between being 13 and being 19.
When my cousin got into a fight with these guys, and this guy was thick.
All this was like really, he was a man.
And he pushed me just in the stomach.
He just pushed me. He wasn stomach. He just pushed me.
He wasn't even trying to fight me.
He was, everybody get back.
And he pushed me and knocked all the air out of me.
I was like, man, what is happening?
And I slowly started going to the ground.
Like, if he would have actually punched me,
like if he was trying to, oh, yeah, he would have wiped me out.
Yeah.
Because body shots are something different.
That's a different shot.
Oh, yeah.
People think that a body shot don't look as pretty as a shot to the head,
but it's just as devastating, if not worse.
Oh, yeah.
Like that Ryan Garcia one where Javante Davis caught him with that left hook to the body.
People were saying that he quit.
No.
He never been hitting the liver.
Oscar De La Hoya quit the same way with Bernard Hopkins.
With the same thing.
Same body shot.
Same body shot.
And he tried to take a step out that corner and not the front of his foot even moved.
He just went down.
He was like, man, this this is it and if you get
kicked to the body oh my god oh my god a kick to the body is so goddamn devastating especially a
spinning back kick you could literally pick someone up in the air it's like they get hit by a car
any kick yeah to that oh you want to see me when i was 19. show me that show that video of me knocking
that dude out when i was 19. this is from a tight window tournament i hit this kid with a spinning
back kick to the body so you can see how hard man i'm 150 pounds on 155 pounds 155 pounds spinning
around coming at you full force that's not that's what i'm saying i'm saying even though i was light
like fairly light in comparison the the amount of power that you can generate with your legs and
what your ribs are me and my daughter were doing this little art project and we're uh
drawing zombie this this zombie thing we're making this painting together and while we're doing this
we took a photo uh from the internet of an actual rib cage so we could do it right and draw it correctly. And I'm looking at it, I'm like,
look at this fucking weird protection
of all your squishy organs that are underneath there.
I mean, when you really think about it,
these little skinny-ass bones are the only thing
that's protecting your soft lungs and your liver.
Like, this is me in the blue this is me when i was 19.
that dude was done you get kicked in the body like that you just
there's no volume on this.
But you get kicked in the body like that, it's the worst feeling in the world.
Everything shuts down.
You can't move.
You can't move.
Everything just goes.
It's an electrocute.
Electrocution goes through your body.
Electric power, just the thump. Just the compression of your organs.
Just your whole body going into shock.
Your whole spinal column getting jolted.
Your legs don't work anymore.
That's the problem.
Your legs don't work.
They just feel like... They just stop working.
They're just nothing.
You could tell them whatever the fuck you want.
They're not listening.
You're trying to send shock waves from your brain to your legs.
And then your legs are like, man, if you don't get the fuck out of here
I'm going down the most shocking to me was when I would get hit on the chin
Because one time I got dropped I got hit on the chin with a left hook and my legs just went like this
But they just shut off like it wasn't like I got hurt like oh my god. I'm hurt. I'm going down
They just went shut off The legs just shut off.
And I was like, Jesus Christ, what the fuck was that?
They just stopped working.
It's like my whole system got short-circuited.
They just go, boink.
What a stupid design.
Just the jaw.
The jaw is really the turning of the.
Sometimes not, though, because sometimes a straight shot just on the tip of the that's sometimes not though
because sometimes
a straight shot
just on the tip of the jaw
knocks people out
it's the whole
compression of the head
compression of the head
going back
I think there's something else
going on too
specifically with the jaw
because you could
spin someone's head around
in other ways
like on the cheek
and it doesn't seem to have
the same effect
the jaw does
jaw's
I think the nerves behind the jaw because let me tell you was that whatever's going on in the
jaw i had a crown put in and in the heat the guy went too deep when he we did a root canal nobody when he tried to um numb me up to put it in so he damaged the nerve
that's in the lining of the jaw and it took like two months for that shit to heal really and it was
excruciating like it was excruciating nerves are rough Nerves take a long time. It was excruciating. Yeah.
It was like, and then I had to still perform, and I was doing meet and greets, and I was having the smiles.
And this crown here, oh, my goodness.
So did it make your face paralyzed?
It was.
I was down my, I had to get all type of massages down because it of my jaw, they had to adjust it maybe four times.
It was terrible.
It was terrible.
It was terrible.
A lot of people get that.
What is that called?
What's that disease when half your face goes?
Bell's palsy.
Bell's palsy.
That's crazy.
I know a couple guys with that. Half your face just starts working.
I know a couple guys who have. Half your face just starts working. I know a couple guys with a mad bell problem.
Yeah.
You don't realize how lucky you are to be healthy until you're not.
You got to take advantage of health.
God, it's the most important thing, and that's another thing.
People, they put all this effort into life,
and they don't put effort into that.
Into health, which is crazy.
It's crazy and then don't
don't even try to look at the things that can make you more healthy like it the amount of the amount
of research that people do they rather scroll on their phone than just look up something that can
be helpful to them something personally yeah yeah which good for you. Yeah. Which is weird.
It's the same thing.
I think people don't think
about the future that much.
I mean, they do a little bit,
kind of abstract.
I hate that whole
you gotta die from something.
Well, you ain't gotta die
fucking miserable.
You ain't gotta die.
It's a lot of stuff
that you don't have to die of.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's...
You know, there's more people
dying today because they eat too much than starving to death for the first time in history.
Wow.
Yeah.
You know, Texas is a fast state.
Good food.
Terry Black's Barbecue.
What's up?
Food here is fantastic.
You know, people die from eating too much
what's up Terrence Blackford
I definitely eat too much
when I'm there
we recreationally eat
yes we do
we go just
let me go see what this is about
in Texas
we are the kings and queens of let me just go check something out.
Yeah.
And going there like, oh, man, they got a new donut place.
Let's go see what they talking about.
Yeah.
Like, why?
Because we have the currency.
We have the.
Got a nice surplus.
Oh, man.
Yeah.
See, we have the.
Got a nice surplus.
Oh, man.
Yeah.
It's hard to go on the road once you.
Texas is my home.
It's where I grew up, Houston especially.
We have great food.
So then you go on the road to other places,
and then they, I'm going to take you to the best barbecue place.
I'm going to take you to the best.
And then you get there, you're like.
You're spoiled.
Damn.
There's some places that have good barbecue.
Apparently Kansas City
has good barbecue.
No, not really.
No?
It's a different thing, right?
Not like here.
No.
Do you know where it came from?
L.A. has the worst
Mexican food of all times
to me.
Really?
Yes, the worst. Do you like Tex-Mex me. Really? Yes, the worst.
Do you like Tex-Mex or regular Mexican?
Well, regular Mexican.
I lived in a Mexican neighborhood in Houston,
and they had the best food.
So I'm like, I don't know.
It must be different.
They're Aztecas.
I don't know.
They're different Mexicans.
There's some spots in California.
You just got to go to the spots where the Mexicans go.
That's what, like, when I'm in LA it's some food I'm like this is y'all
bed I used to go this place in the valley called the big burrito they got
like Mexican soap operas plan nobody speaks English they have like lengua
queso Diaz and see this everywhere yeah yeah so it's like that's the real shit
yes yeah well I'm ago like I learned the spot. Yes, that's where I'm going to go.
Like I learned how to make tamales.
I learned how to make tamales in this store called Fiesta
from this Mexican lady who did not speak English,
and she had her granddaughter translating what she wanted me to write down.
And that's how I learned.
I got the pots.
I grind them.
I saved the whole nine.
So it's hard for me to go places and say that.
I was in, well, I was at St. Louis, Kansas City.
They was talking about, oh, they got the best soul food, seafood place.
I was like, okay, cool.
I'm going to go.
We eating,
it was like this, hey man,
when you don't
season your batter,
that's a normal
thing everywhere in Houston.
It's too many fish places
that I can go to
eat. Then when Maryland
told me, we got the best blue crab.
Man, I live on the Gulf.
You don't think we have blue crab here?
Like, you know what I'm saying?
We got a lot of food here.
A lot of food.
Yeah.
A lot.
It's a lot.
It's a good place to eat.
Yeah.
There's some good spots in the country.
There's some great food places in the country.
I'm picky.
Yeah. You got a specific kind of food you like to eat? I eat. That's the country. There's some great food places in the country. I'm picky. Yeah.
What kind of food
do you like to eat?
I eat,
that's the problem.
I eat everything,
all cultures,
if your food is good.
I live in a place
that happens to have
all cultures
and they have great,
if I want any type
of African food,
I can just go on
Bissonnette in Houston.
I can start at any end
of Bissonnette and I'm going to find good African food.
We have five Chinatowns in Houston.
Really?
Yeah.
There's five Chinatowns?
Five Chinatowns.
Isn't Houston the third biggest city in the country?
Yes.
That's a big country.
That's a big city for this country.
Man, it's a place.
Yeah. It's a place that has all food i got cuban food i got
colombian food oh man well houston was the best comedy scene in the world at one point in time in the 80s i still think that houston is the greatest comedy scene we put out a lot of great
a lot of great comics we don't have the the clubs anymore, though. That's the thing.
Yeah, that's the thing.
Yeah, improv is there.
Secret Group is there.
They used to have the Laugh Stop.
They used to have the Laugh Stop, the Laugh Spot.
Yeah.
The Laugh Spot went under, too?
Yeah, both.
Do you remember Spellbinders?
I heard about it.
I never went there.
Yeah, Spellbinders.
We had Spellbinders, and then improv bought out what the Spellbinders i heard about it i never went there yeah spellbind we had spellbinders and then the improv bought out what the spellbinders is so it's the improv and the um secret group
and then i think they got a new comic called rise then comedy lounge on the north side
yeah well the improv is a great club that's a great club I did that was the first
club I did coming back I did that in July I did one weekend and then I got
real high and I got paranoid that I was gonna give people kovat like my guests
because I'm so selfish and I want to do the road even though I was getting
tested every day I was like what if what if it slips what if I get a false
negative so I stopped but I had a great time there speaking of great clubs I stopped in
last night
at the Mothership
that's pretty wild right
pretty nice
that's a nice
comedy club
yeah
very
comic
friendly
yeah
well
yeah
the comic built it
yeah
yeah
and I built it
specifically
just for us
I didn't build it
like a business
It was like if I was a my accountant I'd go crazy because I just the whole idea was I just want to break even
I just want to build it and make it the most friendly place ever for comedians. So the comedians make plenty of money
Everybody's happy every place is packed. It's a beautiful room. That's a beautiful curtain in
Thank you the waiter
Like yeah, this dope then
the name fat fat man and little boy yeah you know that's from but you know why no
I don't know why you did it because that's when the UFO started coming
that's when you guys are yeah it's part of UFO folklore that's why when you walk
in the middle of the lobbies that giant UFO. That's what that's for. That UFO is a replica of that and that is a replica
of the the craft that Bob Lazar, a guy who was a propulsions expert who was a
whistleblower who worked at Area S4 and Area 51 in the Nevada desert back
engineering alien spacecrafts supposedly. But this is what he described and that's what we
put in the the whole club the whole idea of the comedy mothership the whole idea is it's the club's
themed on ufos that's the whole idea behind it that's why is this that crazy gateway over the
over the stage it looks like a starport yeah when that. When they detonated the bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
that's when UFOs started coming.
And all the UFO activity ramped up substantially.
Why do you think that is?
Because I think they realized we have nukes.
Like, these crazy motherfuckers.
They just wipe out whole cities with nukes.
These fucking assholes.
They had to come down and go, whoa, whoa, whoa.
What are you doing, man?
What the fuck are you doing?
That's why you think they came like, hey, they fucking nuclear weapons.
What the fuck is going on?
Who gave them nuclear weapons?
Well, I think they realized we reached a level of technological sophistication that we could kind of kill everybody on Earth.
Oh, you think one of them went rogue and taught us?
I don't think one of them went rogue and taught us i don't think one of them went rogue and taught us because there's a very like if you go and look at the manhattan project and you go
and look at the history of splitting the atom there's a very clear academic uh paper trail
of how they figured this out and all the trials that they did and what they did when they detonated
the trinity bomb which by the way was one of the first times they ever discovered
those nanodiamonds it's called thing they called trinitite and it's it's like
nuclear glass they call it as well and it's what happens when a massive impact
hits sand and it turns it into this kind of glass think that because when you come with all the visits, what were they visiting to do?
Because I know they all say, like, we caught one or something like that.
Yeah.
You know, if you did, did you try to torture him and get stuff out of him?
What would be the thing?
But what were the visits if they wasn't teaching something?
Because I believe in it.
I just don't know what they were visiting to do.
Well, the way I describe it is there's a great show on Netflix called Chimp Empire,
and Chimp Empire is all about these scientists that are embedded in this chimp tribe,
and they've been there for 30 years.
Because these scientists have been there for 30 years,
the chimpanzees behave like there's no people there.
They can get within 20 feet of these chimpanzees chimpanzees as long as they don't eat in front of them and as long as they never present any sort of danger raise their
voices as long as they just stay back the chimps don't pay attention to them at all they just go
throughout their life and so these scientists are observing these chimpanzees and then the
cinematographers captured all this i think the way we treat
chimpanzees is probably and they let them kill each other they do wild shit to each other these
chimps they engage in territorial warfare they fight over access to fruit i think they the aliens
would treat us the same way i think they would observe us but not do anything and i think if we
did something fucking dangerous like nuclear bombs
then they would go whoa okay because i think every if if alien societies do exist an intelligent life
is out there in the universe i think what happens is they keep getting more and more and more and
more sophisticated and in the beginning they they they engage in tribal warfare and as they become
more and more sophisticated their technology becomes far too dangerous to keep doing that same shit.
And that's when they observe them.
Because it's this perilous tipping point where we could completely wipe out life on Earth.
Or we can evolve and get to the next stage of existence where we could coexist harmoniously all in throughout the universe and join some
global you know some rather universal group of beings it's possible but the only way that's
possible is if we don't nuke ourselves so with the chimpanzees they observe it they the sciences
are there they observe them yeah and they there, they observing them. Yeah.
And they see them,
but they don't pay attention.
See,
the problem with us,
that we scared,
if we see an alien,
I'm not going to not pay attention.
Of course.
I'm going to,
ha,
who the fuck,
because it's like,
being in black,
like,
it got to look normal.
I believe that it's,
it's definitely, other life forms,
definitely other civilizations is happening that we just not ready for.
I don't think we ready.
I don't think.
I mind.
We got to be groomed.
Do you think that there's like all these UFO sightings
and the government talking about UFOs and these most recent,
this whistleblower that came out and said there's a crash retrieval program and we have crashed
Vehicles and they've recovered alien bodies you believe and I believe but it's the old man like hell now
I'm not messing with it. Yeah, and because he not ready for
The difference let me he is so he to just now get used to seeing black people.
He's ready for shit else.
He's like, hey, man, what else, man?
God damn.
He got like six eyes, man.
What is this shit?
He's not ready.
He's not ready, man.
I wonder if that's what they're doing not ready, man. I wonder if that's
what they're doing
by these sightings.
I wonder if it's like
a trickle effect.
Like, give us a little bit.
Like with the Jetsons.
We still don't believe
in the Jetsons.
And we,
like,
nobody,
so,
they were already
pulling people up
on big screens
talking to each other
and shit
on the Jetsons.
Yeah.
And my mother was watching the Jetsons. Who thought that the Jetsons. Yeah. And my mother was watching
the Jetsons.
Who thought
that the Jetsons,
so when it happened,
you just,
you just went and got it.
Ah,
it's $800.
You just got excited
about having it
instead of,
what the fuck?
Now you,
because it's the Jetsons.
It's,
it's,
you in this time frame.
It has to be a grooming.
It's like,
okay, let's see how they act with E.T. Okay, you in this time frame it has to be a grooming it's like okay
let's see how they act with E.T.
okay they seem to love that movie
um
shit let's throw Alf out there
let's see if they ready for a furry one
Alf?
I forgot about Alf
then it's like hey maybe the Muppets
maybe the Muppets big ass bird
just rolling around and talking, snuggling.
It's some then we go, we advance up to, what was that?
The Man from Mars and then the Great Gazoo.
And then now we up to Men in Black.
And this shit is all right.
You know, because, you know, the man, it's a trickle.
I've got to keep feeding it to him.
And then all of a sudden, you just see somebody just come down the spaceship at McDonald's.
I'm like, hey, what's up, y'all?
Y'all good?
Let me get two of these Big Macs.
We love you.
It's earth food.
And then you like, and then you as earth food and then and you like
and then you saw that yeah I saw that shit man we is there and now you get a
cut you got to get accustomed to it what year was the Jetson supposed to be I
just looked I just made 1962 and let me get years in the hundred years in future
okay 2062. Wow.
And here's some of the stuff they had.
They had flying cars.
They'll never get us that.
Hell yeah.
They'll never get us that.
Robotic dogs.
Yeah.
People drunk flying.
Hell nah.
They had robotic vacuums, video calls, tablet computers, robotic house help.
They had tablets?
Yes.
I don't remember that.
They worked for Spicey Spockets.
Flying cars, smart watches. They had smart watches.
Drones, holograms.
3D printed food.
Oh yeah, that's right.
They had a pill cam.
When you swallow it,
it sees your body. Oh, look at George.
He knows that's going up his ass.
Flash screen TV.
Flash screen TV. Flat screen TV.
Jetpacks.
Yeah.
There's a few other articles that do the same thing.
The jetpacks they have now,
it's that one dude that's got wings on his jetpack
and they've caught him flying around buildings and shit.
I don't think they last long I think you
can only stay up there for a few minutes but you can fucking fly till you run out
of gas what is this one was ten years ago what's the most recent what can they
do now I've seen that guy I think in it might be Dubai Jetwing suit
yeah
that's the best one
there is right now
that's it
that's it
what the hell is
that is fucking wild
the jetwing
what type of
is there a video
of these guys using this
I figured it would be
on their website
on their Instagram
you definitely
gotta have on
a fireproof pajama set
look at that
look at this motherfucker
oh yeah
look at him
he's flying around buildings.
That shit crazy.
Like, what are the odds of those things failing?
I mean, that's not like a Toyota Corolla.
Those things aren't reliable.
That's fucking emerging technology.
You're going to be risking your life flying over highways?
That's wild.
Hell no.
But if that happens
in the future
the problem is
people are just
going to be doing it
just like you see
people on the highway
riding wheelies
just flying down
the highway
just wild shit
wild shit
they're going to be
doing that in the air
slamming into houses
that's why they're not
going to give you
flying cars
I'm really not
messing with this car
just get in
and just let the car
drive for you
I'm not trusting it like that.
Yeah, I don't trust it.
I have it.
I don't trust it.
You have it?
Yeah, I have a Tesla.
Then you just get in and just-
I can.
And just-
And say, hey, take me to-
You enter in your address that you want to go to, press auto-navigate.
Yeah.
And it take off by itself.
Stop some red lights.
Woo!
No.
Nah. You're supposed to keep your hand on the wheel, though. You're supposed to keep your hand on the wheel though
you're supposed to keep your hand on the wheel yeah just in case man i'll be seeing people
you know laid back you know like no i can't i can't do it so that's a driverless taxi i've
seen them around austin i just i've seen them too not do they just drive real slow
man i'm not i'm not checking for a fam i'm not
i'm not doing it yeah that's the future no we're looking at that we're saying i i think people
don't realize that they get they trying to get rid of you yeah with this like like i don't do
self-checkout because it doesn't make sense to me like why am i helping them get you out of here
and i know i want to talk to a person if something's go wrong i don't do self-checkout and plus i don't come nowhere to work i just got off work why would
i come in here to work well you're from a different generation and the generation of kids that are
coming up today do you know how many of them uber they don't even have cars lazy a lot of people
uber now they just take lifts and okay okay what okay so this generation uber then the next
generation uber who knows how to drive the car in the third generation?
Well, then you're going to be having these things.
There's going to be a generation, whether it's our grandchildren or their grandchildren, that never drives.
No one drives their own car.
Everybody has an automated vehicle.
That's like writing.
They take writing.
Kids don't learn in school how to write.
They don't learn cursive.
And they don't learn cursive. They don't learn cursive.
That's crazy to me.
That's insane.
That's insane.
That's insane.
They're all just typing on their phones and typing on their computer.
That don't mean get rid of writing.
That's crazy.
They took the clock out of the school because people have digital.
But you still want them to be able to tell.
You know, America is not the world
like you know you're gonna
probably go somewhere else in the world
and you're gonna have to write something
like that's crazy
and you see a clock and you're like what the fuck is that saying
you're used to digital
and then when you used to get offended
when people said stupid Americans
now you're like I understand
what do you mean
this country is crazy man well I think there's some Americans stupid Americans. Now you like, I understand. What do you mean? It's crazy, man.
Well, I think there's some Americans that
go abroad, they just act like fucking assholes.
You know, they think they're allowed to
because they're in another country.
They ruin it for everybody else.
No, I think locked up abroad
has changed that whole ideology.
Oh, yeah. Locked up abroad
has changed. Oh, I go anywhere and do whatever I want to do.
Like, you've seen the show Locked Up Abroad?
No.
Watch a couple episodes.
Yeah.
Watch a couple episodes and then go over to Yugoslavia
and see how you feel about that, man.
And then when people get taken.
Yeah.
Like, man, I don't go anywhere and don't check in with the embassy.
Really?
I need to know.
I need somebody to know where I'm at.
So when you go to a country to work, you check in with the embassy?
Yeah.
Hey, I need to know where y'all at and what's the rule.
Yeah, I need to know because I'm not going somewhere and don't know where the embassy is.
Why is Jason born?
At least you can run to the embassy and you're safe
at least in that but if i go to dallas i live in houston i go to dallas i'm checking in with
the embassy i'm not i need somebody i know i'm at man like i'm just not i'm just not rocking with
um being in this world without somebody knowing my whereabouts.
Even though I'm a grown man, I'm going to say something to somebody.
Hey, I'm going to roll over here.
I need a witness or an alibi.
I need something.
I don't believe in being in the world by yourself.
I just don't.
That's a good move.
The world is definitely not America either.
Yeah.
That's the thing.
It's not.
Like, look what happened to Brittany Griner.
That would not happen in America.
Russians come to America and they do all kinds of, like, Russians fight in the UFC almost every weekend.
And no one cares.
No one gets mad at them.
No one screams at them.
No one throws things at them.
They go out there.
People cheer when they win.
There's a ton of Russian fighters that are in the UFC
Me and a friend of mine was talking another comic
Gerard G and
We was talking said man. This is this country is crazy that
We remember when Floyd
May well default Manny Pacquiao.
Yes.
In the same country where they, I'm talking about holding up the flag
and the United States all the way, the Senate there.
We was talking.
He said, man, this was the first time he was at a fight party, a white fight party.
And this lady said, I hope he kicks the shit out of Floyd.
He said, what?
He said, you couldn't find one Filipino in the world that was going for Floyd Mayweather.
Not one.
But you could find a bunch of Americans.
Somebody who was born and raised right in Michigan.
You could find a bunch of Americans who was wanting the Filipino to beat him.
That's true. That's a very good point
Filipinos are very proud very national people they love Manny Pacquiao yes my
son my son is a very gentle soul and Manny Pacquiao was one of the ones I
showed him cuz he I don't know it to be a my 12 year old he doesn't really want to beat you up like I'm like
but I saw you don't have to hit people but damn you know I'm just I don't I said let me show you
one of the most gentle people in the world but until he gets in that ring I know and I showed
him Manny Pacquiao and Mike Tyson I I was like, look, these are gentle people.
And then they get in the ring and another button happens.
That's how you're going to have to be.
Yeah.
Did you see the Mayweather-Gotti thing yesterday?
No, I didn't.
So John Gotti, the mobster, his grandson.
The brawl.
Yeah.
So what happened was this is the end of the fight.
But see if you could find what caused it.
I was just reading it.
Because there's a video that shows the end of the fight.
And in the end of the fight, what happened was if you just Google,
just tweet, like put Mayweather Pacquiao in Twitter, you'll find it.
Excuse me, Mayweather Gotti.
What caused it? He was holding, so he
wouldn't stop. Floyd was boxing him up. Yeah. So Floyd is just piecing him up. So Floyd, you know,
I mean, even at 46, he's the greatest of all time. And this kid is really an MMA fighter.
He's a tough guy. He caught Floyd a couple of times, some little shots, but mostly he's just getting boxed up, right? Boxed
up by literally the greatest boxer of all time. But he was holding on quite a bit and wouldn't
let go and was trying to like hold and clinch and hit, which is something like right here,
which is something you can do in MMA. So he's protecting himself from Floyd, but he's not
letting go. And so Kenny Bayless gets tired of him not listening and not letting go,
and he pushes him off, and he says, that's it.
I'm stopping this fight.
That's it.
You won't listen to me.
I am calling this fight.
So he goes crazy and gets away from Kenny Bayless
and just starts wailing punches at Floyd.
Look at this.
Floyd catches him with a counter right there.
Bang.
Knocked him way over the head yeah well the other guy got
the one too but you know
I mean it became a melee
and so then there's fights in the ring
and then there's fights outside the ring
there's all this cell phone footage
of footage of people brawling
and sucker punching each other
that was crazy
there's sometimes this beat
um
yeah here's the brawls outside
just random brawls just people just screaming and yelling at each other but at the end of the day
just you know he was just getting frustrated before he was just boxing him up
which is what he does that's what you you came into his sport yeah got into his arena you crawled into
the snake hole and then got mad the snake will bite you yeah you can't bite me like that like
you're in my hole yeah i don't know why he didn't listen why he didn't let go i don't know if they
were talking shit to each other i don't know what was going on but kenny said that's it that was a
rap and then everybody went crazy.
That's crazy.
Including him.
I bet he didn't expect that.
Probably thought, well, there's no points, right,
because it's an exhibition.
So what's interesting is Floyd's making more money than anybody,
and he's boxing people who have no chance of beating him, and he's doing it as an exhibition.
It doesn't even hurt his record.
Because of the drug of boxing.
Also money.
Just like the, but I don't even think he needs,
he don't need any money.
He spends so much money.
Yeah, but he don't need any.
Are you sure?
Yeah, Floyd good.
I bet he's, if he's playing for the future,
you got to keep it coming in if you're going to keep spending
the way he spends.
Yeah, but I think he has a lot of other business interests that he can get
money from hopefully and not just boxing but it's the it's the drug of getting
Floyd still trains when he even when he doesn't have a fight he posted so we
could go of all of the Air Force ones he buys he only wears them once and then
gives them away to someone one fresh pair a day
come on man he needs that money that money has to keep coming in if you're going to live like this
it's not that expensive though but he's only 46. but he does this with everything man he's got
million dollar watches i don't think he buys every every pair he's giving to him yeah because because
then you get a video like that right that's smart and then you get Floyd's
Air Force ones giving away for charity that's a tax write-off yeah you got a good point but
those million-dollar watches they're not giving you those they they still you know worth whatever
they were it's like you got eight of them yeah that's ridiculous
that's millions of dollars worth of diamonds I mean that is that's bonkers
yeah he's like that's like that that watch right there is not like I wouldn't wear it because it's not my thing.
Yeah.
Even if, you know, I had, I wouldn't wear it.
It's just not attractive to me.
No, I'm not into blinged out watches either.
Nah.
I like mechanical watches.
I like them metal.
Yeah.
That's what I like.
But, you know, I get it.
Yeah.
Metal. Rattle. Yeah. They work. I like dive watches. Yeah. but you know I get it yeah metal
metal
yeah
they work
I like dive watches
yeah
that's why I wear
a watch that you can dive in
well I wear them
so you can set a timer
like if I want to do something
I spin that little bezel
and I can set it
for 15-20 minutes
so I always look down
and know how much time's passed
it's very convenient
to have a little tiny watch
very convenient
it's great when someone's going on stage you're like how long has he been up for because sometimes you
forget you're in the green room i just look at my watch boom yeah i don't have to remember what time
he went on stage okay one of those days 907 so what time is it now i don't have to do that as
soon as someone goes on stage all right bam now i know It's perfect
Perfect
Dive watch literally is designed for comedians
It's great
Someone's going on stage
They're doing 15 minutes
You can go outside
Hang out
Smoke a joint
Go
He's at 7
You know
And that's the perfect thing
People don't understand
And that's
And these are the things that we get away from
Using your brain Cause you you know take the clock down insane well
that's the least of what's insane about schools today the biggest the biggest
insanity is that it's not a cherished position to teach people it's not a
position where you have the most qualified the best people possible and
they get paid really well because they have an incredible job.
They're educating the young children, and that education can literally form the path that you go on for the rest of your life.
Your experiences that you have in schools with good teachers, they can shape and form you in a way that changes your whole life.
They can expose you to ideas that you never heard before, and it changes the way you think about things. It changes the path of whole life. It can expose you to ideas that you never heard before and it changes the way you think about things.
It changes the path of your life.
Yeah, it can do all of those things.
Or, okay, let's go to this point first.
New Zealand has the best school system,
has teachers who get paid,
and they also have the best teachers because they have people who want to be
teachers i think that if it's not a position in this in this country where it's made attractive
where people can one survive and actually have the where they really want to be teachers.
I think that sometimes we have a lot of people.
Like I grew up when if the kids of the day had my teachers,
I think everything would be cool.
Because I had teachers that inspired thought and creativity
and they wanted to be teachers.
thought and creativity and they wanted to be teachers.
That's the biggest thing
when you have people
who want to do their job
or it's more like a passion to them.
Every teacher I ever known
that was great,
you used to tell me
that this is a labor of love.
I love teaching.
I'm a teacher.
This is what I was designed to do.
I'm not waiting to do anything else. And if you have teachers that'll walk out for more money,
you should also walk out for a better curriculum as well. If your desire is to teach children
and to inspire the youth to be, and I accredit teachers for everything that I am.
You know, my mom's a teacher.
So it's like I'm, my friends are teachers.
My sister's in Thailand right now teaching English.
It's like I come from that, and I always loved,
my science teacher was my coach, too.
He wasn't just the coach.
He was the math.
One year was the math teacher.
One year was a history teacher.
You know, it was people who desired and wanted to.
Nourish children.
And the pay.
It definitely has to be increased, but you have to increase the things, the quality of what you're paying for.
But don't you think that that's how you do it?
If you want to get better teachers,
the better curriculum,
don't you think you incentivize them with more money
so you would get more motivated people?
I think you do both at the same time,
that you change the criteria,
you change the pay,
and you change the criteria of what it is to be a
teacher agreed at the same time yeah i agree and and then you you put these kids in a in a in a
system to where it's everything is nourishing even down to the food you take all these cafeteria
workers out and you put chefs back there you put some people and you teach them and and give them
time to dodge it.
Just change the whole system.
They should have an hour to eat and they should get a four-course meal
and they should be taught things while they're eating.
They should be in a very clean environment that you have.
I used to love that the custodian, when I was growing up,
he took pride in keeping the school clean.
It wasn't a job that was looked down upon because he did everything.
He was the maintenance man and the custodian.
And he used to be like, hey, man, I got this bathroom clean here.
Now y'all going to stop pissing all over the damn, that's how he used to talk to us.
We were in the fourth grade.
Hey, stop pissing all over the damn thing.
And I'm like, yes, sir.
And he taught you hygiene in the bathroom.
I think that you should change.
Like, I see all these things where they changing how they house prisoners.
I get that.
But change how you teach children so where you don't have to house prisoners.
Yes.
That's the goal.
You're doing the shit backwards.
Right.
And I don't get that part of it.
That's where I get worried.
And that's where I worry that, you know,
I don't know how many times we talked about it on this podcast,
but it came up recently because there was a man named Bruce Bryan,
and he did 29 years for a crime that he didn't do.
And my friend Josh Dubin, who used to work with the Innocence Project,
now he does his own thing, and he releases, he gets prisoners released.
He's an attorney, civil rights attorney.
And he goes to these places, he finds these people. He's an attorney civil rights attorney. He goes these places finds these people
We've talked about so much if they really wanted to fix it what they would do is
They would figure out the areas that have the most crime and dump a shitload of money in it and it's shitload of time and effort
And try to figure out how to mitigate all these problems in these places and And you're going to have less people that go to those places. And until they do that, they don't care. And then you've got these fears of
things like the prison guard unions that literally lobby to keep marijuana drug laws so that people
keep going to jail, so they'll have more people in their jails, so they don't lose jobs, which is
crazy. That's crazy to think of of something as innocuous as marijuana and
you got prison guard unions who are actively trying to keep the laws in
place so they're employed okay so you got a private prison system so you got a
prison system where you can make money which is terrifying so it's like this
then talk about this for years glad you're talking about it
glad other people start talking about it
so
how do you boost up our economy
when
in a small town
so you got
in Texas
you have a lot of small towns
and there's a place called LA, Texas
so
if you decide
or Hondu, Texas so what you do is you put a prison in Hondoo,
which you employ the townspeople of Hondoo because they go through your system of training.
You don't have to have law enforcement.
You just train them in how to run your system.
So you get some people that come from san antonio mz and you get some people from hondur and then you boost the economy of hondur
then you do that in multiple towns that's why the prison system is going to constantly do that
because you're trying to boost the economy around you're thinking think it will what? It's maybe 200 prisons in Texas.
Is it really that many?
Yeah.
With that and private facilities where you have what they call transit units,
which is all of this stuff will be in domino effect three years
because I'm going to go through the first three years and then the last three years and show people how this system, you know, populates itself.
It's an industry.
Yeah, it's definitely an industry.
That's what Bruce is explaining, that the town in upstate New York where the prison he was in was located in, everyone relied on the prison.
The people that generational, people that their families had worked as prison guards.
You know how dangerous this is?
So you get into it with a guard on first shift.
On the first shift, you get into it with a guard on first shift. So you get into it with Officer Smith on first shift. On the first shift, you get into it with a guard on first shift.
So you get into it with Officer Smith on first shift.
Second shift,
Officer Smith's mother
and Officer Smith's brother
work on the second shift.
Officer Smith's father
works on the third shift.
Then he's a captain.
Do you know how much,
you know how treacherous this becomes?
Because now,
something that happened on first shift,
which is over because he's gone.
But it's been told to his brother and his mother so now you got a problem
on second shift now and you have a problem on third shift so with a high ranking person
that's in a system that has no police outside of the warden or the captain that's over them, that's on another shift, that's related to them, that live in the same town with them.
Or that's married into them or that's neighbors with them.
And then you who do you how do you get contact? You got to write somebody. Who you write and they
review every letter
in the people that's in the mail room.
How you even know your letter even got
out when his niece
is working in the mail room?
So you don't know.
Nobody knows that you even got
beat and thrown in solitary
confinement. They could kill you
and make up something because everybody
is relying on the same
thing. You can't close a prison now
over one person
getting killed, two people, ten people
getting killed. Okay. It happens in prison.
That's what
people think that happens in prison.
No, it don't.
But when you put people in a small town, in a prison where everybody's related, everybody knows each other, this is what happens to people.
So it's not just a you not inside with one danger.
You inside with a lot of dangers.
Like most of the time, people don't think that they could get killed every day or die every day.
They ain't your first thought.
But in this place, this is the thought.
Now you can be killed by or I can be killed by the whites.
I can be killed by the Mexicans.
I can be killed by somebody black that don't like me.
That's from a different side of town.
I can be killed by the officers.
That's a lot.
That's a lot of mental strain on you every day if you don't learn how to navigate this.
But that's the system that you live in, especially if they're building prisons in a small town where everybody is.
There's nobody to oversee this that has some other invested interest.
Like if you was from another place and you were like, I just want my prison
to be ran right,
and if I get any of these complaints
or if something happens on this, you can regulate
that, but when it's all the same,
oh man, you in trouble.
You in trouble.
And then you make people work
for 16 cents a day.
Where you get 16 cents at?
Not in Texas. Whatever it is. $16 a day?
What did Bruce Bryan say it was?
No, $0 in Texas.
$0 in Texas.
Zero.
No, you see,
I know about other places.
That's why I'm saying
they may get that in other places,
but in Texas,
it's $0.
What was it in Sing Sing?
They said $16 a day?
That's what he said, right?
Something insane.
In Texas, it's $0.
That's crazy. work it and you work you make you make things and they sell them you make things you sell them
they sell them for sure and you make and you and you do you clear fields and you
grow crops and you do all and some of that stuff did you you you eat what you
grow you're saying so it's? So this has been a place.
This place is like no other place.
Like, it's different.
And most people aren't aware of this.
And they are unaware because Texas is very closed-lipped
about how they operate.
They don't, like, on their show Lock Up,
you've just seen every other prison, every other
prison system open their doors up to, hey, come and see how we do things. Not Texas. Not one time.
Texas is like, man, y'all better get out of here. And they can. And they can. It's its own place.
Like, if the people that come from other places and they get into like in Houston, there's a lot of people that's coming from other places that doing crime.
And then they understanding that once the law enforcement system in Houston is different and is big and they crawl in a crosstalk.
It's not like you can't be in Iowa County and not in Missouri, in Missouri City, in Sugar Land, in Harris County, in
Bel Air Police, all these people, and the constables and the sheriffs, like all these
people coincide with each other.
It's not like one system.
So when you get caught, they put you in Harris County system and it's not no cakewalk.
And you're going to learn fast that it's not like, oh and you're gonna learn you're gonna learn fast that it's not
like oh they don't slap you on your wrist like other places no you can man you can get a life
sentence in houston easy i'm easy do do something do something out of pocket like you was doing
somewhere oh you're gonna you're gonna you're gonna to just carjack. All right, that's a capital offense.
You had a weapon while you was carjacking?
Okay, capital.
What'd that start with?
35.
Whatever it is, it's going to be 35 years and up.
So get that wrapped around your mind.
Oh, you watched him come out the bank?
Oh, you premeditated robbing?
Oh, okay.
Sure got you on video too and you had a weapon oh yeah
another capital like damn like like as soon he man you get hit with so many charges and then they
find out you got a weapon you got a weapon like this is how they point at you you had a weapon
capital they ready to throw capital on everything wow Because they need more people to put in these jails.
How scary is that?
How scary is that?
Texas is like this.
I only had to go once.
And it's nothing ever in my life that I do to ever get back to that position.
Nothing.
Nothing.
Like, I hold court in the street before something like that happens
look I'm not in favor of carjacking
or armed robbery
not in any stretch of the imagination
but until we address
why this is all happening
until you address why some people
have zero need to rob people
and some people that's the only way they can get by
or the way they've learned to get
by and it's been in their their neighborhood for so long they've been dealing with gang violence
and drug dealing and chaos all their life so i ask you this being formally from this position
have i not seen anything else like ever see sometimes sometimes i can rationalize
when people say i don't know anything else
you have a smartphone how did you find out about smartphones because they didn't come to the hood
and drop a bunch of smartphones in the hood so how did you find out about smartphones? Because they didn't come to the hood and drop a bunch of smartphones in the hood.
So how did you find out about it?
What you was watching?
Where you was at?
Okay.
So you was somewhere?
Okay, cool.
Were they doing what you were doing, what you're doing right now at that place?
Like, were they, were you found out about a smartphone?
Were they gangbanging at the place?
Or were they shooting and robbing people and cutting up dope?
Like, what movie haven't you seen that shows you the results of this?
What person haven't you heard speak?
speak like even when I was even when I was doing wrong I had a sensibility of I heard public enemy why I was doing wrong like I I heard run DMC I heard other things that had
positive stuff why I was still doing wrong and I can't say it's all I know because now I wouldn't have never thought about a smartphone
if I was in the street.
So I would be in the street.
So it's not all you know, but it is what you're accustomed to.
If you grow up in a terrible neighborhood, I don't, I don't even think if you don't have
good role models, if the people around you, I mean, you tell me.
This is what I'm saying.
I think that
it's a lot of parts to this
that but when
it's also like
when raising kids.
Like my oldest daughter,
I used to tell her mom,
don't say this in front of her because then you give her that option as an excuse.
Yeah.
Something she probably never would have even thought of using.
But when I give her the option to use it, that's the thing.
Like with me, I'm very transparent about man I didn't have
to be in the street selling though my mom had a job
my
desire for what I accepted
outside of what my
mother was saying to me
because nobody
mother is saying to them
get out in the street and gang bang
and create ruckus nobody
so when does that voice become them get out in the street and gangbang and create ruckus. Nobody.
So when does that voice become less important to you than whatever you're seeing in the street?
Because nobody in my community, not one black mother I ever even known in my life said to
their child, this is the only way for you to go and get it.
It's to rob, pillage, steal,
kill,
sell dope.
Not one person.
I've never heard that story while I was in,
while I was in prison from nobody.
And when people would tell me,
man,
it's all I know.
How in the hell is that all that you know,
it's impossible for that to be all that you know,
because you were doing something before you were doing that i see what you're saying i see what you're saying you're a person
that takes extreme responsibility though you're also a grown man and you're also a man with a
fully formed brain and your your frontal lobe as a kid as. As a kid, you knew this. Well, you were wise.
As a kid, I wasn't.
Man, Joe.
Man, with me, we was out in the street doing stuff.
We knew that it was wrong.
That's why we was trying to hide it from our parents.
Of course.
I wasn't trying to hide my basketball championship from my mother.
Of course.
I wasn't trying to hide.
When I was working and earned something from working,
I wasn't trying to hide when I was working and earned something from working I wasn't trying to hide that from her I knew exactly
what I was doing
because
of how
we were going about doing it
and all of us knew that we were wrong
and the consequences
what was ridiculous
was we thinking that
we just go in and get a slap on the wrist,
not understanding what you got to go through to even get that slap on the wrist.
Because when you want, you got to get arrested first.
And when you go to the county jail, the county jail is not a place,
this is full of grown men.
And they don't care nothing about you being 17.
They don't care nothing about you being 18.
Care nothing about you being 19.
Because whatever you were doing in the street, you didn't care.
So why would we care about what you got going on in here?
And we're going to put you in the worst position.
So maybe you can say that you don't want to be in this position.
Maybe it's the people who love you will come get you out of this position.
Like my mother did the first time.
When my mother bonded me out the first time, I should have learned then.
I should have learned then.
This lady has a job.
And I'm making it harder for her.
I'm putting my mother in the hole
$2,000. I got a
$20,000 bond. How old are you then?
I'm 16.
You know what I'm saying?
And I have no reason
because I want
a goddamn
UNLV jacket.
Well, you know that now, but what did you think when you were 16? You know what? a goddamn UNLV jacket.
Well, you know that now,
but what did you think when you were 16?
You know what happened was,
how I even get in this situation,
I'm in the car with some people that's really petty.
They really petty.
And I know these people petty because they robbing people.
And I'm not no robber.
I'm a hustler.
And I know better than be with I'm not no robber. I'm a hustler and I know better than be with
somebody that's a robber
because it's two different categories
on things. I'm hustling
for whatever I want. You're taking
something from somebody.
You're a thief
and I'm in the car
and he snatched his lady purse and
I don't say nothing. I'm in the car.
It's on camera in the parking lot. Everybody that go in the car, don't say nothing. I'm in the car. Based on camera in the parking lot,
everybody that go in the car,
we go in there.
I'm not going to snitch on you.
But I didn't take no purse.
And I told my mom,
I ain't take that lady purse.
But did you get some Jordans
from the credit card that somebody used I'm with them
but I ain't take nothing from that lady
I told them that's stupid
and boom now I'm on probation
being hey I'm working at the
grocery store
but I still got
bread from my hustling.
So I'm trying to,
I'm in a position
and I'm trying to figure out
how to give my mother
this $2,000 back
for some dumb shit
that I done did.
Man, I'm not supposed to be
with nobody even like this.
And see, nowadays
people got this weird loyalty to people who they don't even fucking know
that's the crazy you gotta you got loyalty to somebody who you don't know that i ain't got as
much to lose as you i only hang i only really hang with me and they got things to lose like me. So you make better decisions. Yeah.
Hey man, I'm not, hey man,
you got in the, man,
what
are you responsible for?
Or who are you responsible
for?
That means a lot to me
as a character of your person.
Oh, I'm just out for self.
Oh, nah, bro.
I ain't got me and you ain't got nobody to just be responsible for you just yourself no hell no like you ain't got
no like nobody you don't think your mama your father like no no great aunt nobody you ain't
got nobody in your life that's hell nah. Hell nah.
Like, man,
my agent, Joe, Joe don't
have no kids, but he still love his family.
He got
somebody that he's responsible.
My role manager, Dre, he take care
of his parents. He got kids, but he take care of his parents.
He got somebody else.
He can't be in the streets wiling.
He got two grown-ass people he gotta look know what I'm saying he got two grown ass people
he gotta look after
I'm sad that his dog died
cause he ain't been home
lately cause his dog
ain't at the house
like I'm gonna get him
a new dog or something
he gotta be responsible
for something
cause they responsible
for me
they responsible
for different aspects
of what go on in my life
so you gotta care and love something because you know that I care and love something.
Yeah.
So you want the best for me because you want the best for yourself.
Yeah, the wildest dudes I know, they have no responsibilities.
Not a goddamn thing.
It gets real weird when they get in their 40s.
Oh, man.
Like, it's...
Real weird. real weird when they get in their 40s oh man like it's we're real weird do you know how weird it is
to have somebody that's that's 45 years old 50 years old coming to your house for your kids
birthday party and he's coming in hey what's happening if you don't get your grown unresponsive
like it just like man you gotta that's a part of, yo, man, at least bring your mom or somebody, man.
Bring somebody else that love you, man.
Like, we have people in our family that don't have any other family, but they've been around a long time.
They've been around before I even had kids.
Like, if you want to have a successful civilization, you have
to have families. Gotta have families.
You would never have a successful civilization
of all single men
with no responsibility that
move to a spot.
I'm throwing that shit at Paris so fast.
I'm throwing that shit at we be
over. Yeah, that's not gonna work.
It's not. Families. I mean, they've always said that. would be over yeah that's not gonna work it's not families i mean
they've always said that that's that's like something that emperors have they've written
this down you know that you you have to you have to have families people have to have family that's
how you can control them as well that's how they stay controlled and it's how you can control them
well i would prefer not to look at my family as some form of control.
No, no, no, it's not that way.
It's also, you know, Dave Chappelle said it best.
He said, having children didn't just increase my love,
it increased my capacity for love.
Yeah.
It's a beautiful quote.
I think it's perfectly described because that's exactly what happens.
It changes who you are as a person when you're responsible for young people.
It just fundamentally changes you.
Yeah, you think on a different level when you're responsible for young people.
And when I am at my best, I'm the most charitable to everyone because I think of people as babies.
Like this is a baby that grew up to be this dude I'm in front of now. I think even if they're annoying me,
I try real hard to just imagine what the fuck they went through
to get to be this person right now.
This is not fun.
It's not fun to be annoying.
It's not fun to be them.
You know, you're talking to a moron that's saying stupid shit
and they're annoying.
It's not fun to be them where no one's impressed with you,
no one's interested in what you have to say.
You're fucking spitting in people's faces and you're drunk and stupid. That's terrible. You don't want to be that guy no one's impressed with you no one's interested in what you have to say you're fucking spitting in people's faces
and you're drunk
and stupid
that's terrible
you don't want to be that guy
that's terrible
but I try to always
imagine
the description is even terrible
yeah
happens all the time
I've had some doozies
they always want to tell you
about their business
they always want to tell you
how good their business is doing
like Jesus Christ
I don't even know you man
this is crazy talk
crazy talk get Crazy talk.
Get me the fuck out of here.
And then when you're talking to someone and they want to get the fuck out of there
and you know they want to get the fuck out of there,
then you feel insecure and you try to be more entertaining or nice,
try to turn them around.
And they're like, eh, eh, eh.
That's not fun for them, that poor little baby.
That poor little baby grew up to become an annoying 45 year old dude
that poor little baby
that poor little baby
he 45
but he's a poor little baby
poor little baby
is a goofy
socially awkward dude
it's just annoying
and they say weird stuff
they do
the problem is you're used to talking to comics.
That was part of the problem.
I'm so used to talking to comics.
It's so fun.
It's my favorite people to talk to.
So when I talk to people, the stories suck.
You got great stories.
You're a master storyteller.
You tell a fucking story.
If you're at a party and you're telling a story, people are going to listen.
It's going to be interesting. It's going to be funny as shit some people
suck at stories and there's nothing worse when you've heard a real good story to go back to
listening to a sucky story that's that's true that's true that that is true are you like
so because and i'm I know because I'm labeled
as a storyteller
when people
try to talk to me
they try to tell me stories
and I
and I be kind of
rushing it like
and uh huh
and what
cause it's like
you like
like all this part is
this could be interesting
but this
you are losing me
in all of this part
right here
for no reason
for no reason
like man speed it up
like
you got there in two words
and then I say, so after that happened, what happened then?
I try to speed up the story.
And man, I went back.
And then I don't like when people repeat the first part of this.
Man, I heard you the first time.
Because this is how I listen to people's story.
I just listen.
Like I'm not the,
mm-hmm,
then go ahead.
And yeah,
no,
I'm just,
man,
are you,
did you hear what I said?
Yes,
because I am actively listening.
I'm not listening to respond.
I'm just,
I'm locked in. Actually locked in.
And, well, you're not saying
nothing. I'm going to remember all the
points that I want to say
when you're done. Because you
may cover
something that I'm thinking. Right. So I
don't want to interrupt you in the course of it.
I'm just listening. And then, oh, I can mark
that off because he just said why that happened.
Okay. Podcasting. Okay. Okay. I'm just listening and then oh I can mark that off cuz he just said why that happened. That's good podcasting
Okay, okay, okay, and okay so all that happened right okay cool so going back
That's what I do cuz I know how to actively listen yeah, there's a mighty story
I love doing Tony and I do that all the time with comedians
Where we're like this whole thing you don't need that part that whole part is just wasted time
You know that whole setup part everyone knows what that means just say this
And that's what killed Tony is right yeah, and I'm supposed to be doing that you doing tonight. Yeah
Oh, it's gonna be great great. I did it Saturday night.
I did the big one that they did the 10th anniversary.
The 10th anniversary.
It was wild.
The fucking, the rabid fans that they have.
It's crazy.
Man.
It's crazy.
3,000 people.
It sold out as quick as they could sell the tickets.
It sold out in under an hour.
Oh, wow.
And you get there and they're like. It sold out as quick as they could sell the tickets. It sold out in under an hour. Oh, wow.
And you get there, and they're like,
I haven't experienced that yet.
Oh, my God.
I'm waiting.
2024, we're supposed to be doing a theater tour.
I hope it really just sells out.
Oh, you're going to get like 8 million?
What?
How many?
8.1? That's the first one.
The second one, we're trying to get 10 million, 16 million.
You're going to have to change to bigger venues.
It's going to happen so fast.
You're going to be in arenas.
You're going to be in arenas, 100%.
When you do an arena, do it in the round.
In the round?
Yeah.
You know why?
Believe it or not
It's actually more intimate. It seems weird, but when it's a stage
It's a big tall ass stage and you're looking down on people and they're all in front of you. It's weird
It's like you got to almost project to like bring them in to you like come on
Well, I know there's a lot of us, but we're all just hanging out, you know
But when it's in the round
Everybody on this side is looking at everybody on this side,
and everybody on this side is looking at everybody on this side.
Everybody sees everybody laughing, and everybody's laughing at everybody.
And the sound is insane.
And you just walk around, and you get used to it.
You just walk around and talk.
And while you're walking around, you do your jokes.
And there's giant screens everywhere, so people could always see your facial expressions.
And it's intimate. You know what's insane?
In this business, just wanting to be a good comic, just wanting to develop that skill,
then getting to this point where we even talking about 2024, we going to theaters.
And we taking some big swings in some big places, in Chicago and in New York.
You doing Chicago Theater?
We hoping.
That's a great fucking venue.
And then in the course of trying to shoot Domino Effect 3 and 4 in september trying to find a venue for that um
the thought of doing arenas and getting to that getting to that point and when people say man
are you you've been doing something 25 years are you tired like i get bored like you don't
get bored with the elevation of doing things on a bigger a bigger scale like
doing all these shows that sold out and adding shows and when you walk out and people coming to
see you but now doing arenas or doing a theater when people coming to the theater to actually see
somebody tell stories i'm not
coming to see you do no tiktok clips or because that's not i'm not coming to see you do crowd
work i'm coming in with the whole mindset of he's about to do an hour and 30 minutes of compelling
stories and this is what i came for. To get that type of
locked in that's on an audience,
I'm...
Once I achieve that, I think I'm...
I'm gonna be very, very
happy. You're gonna slide
right into that. It's no different.
It's no different than clubs.
It's no different. The only thing that's different is the
environment. But the experience
of doing it is the same thing. It's just killing. It's the different. The only thing that's different is the environment. But the experience of doing it is the same thing.
It's just killing.
It's the same thing.
Just the challenge, what makes it interesting for me, 30 plus years in, whatever my, I'm like 34 something, 35 years in, something crazy.
The challenge is jokes.
It's new jokes, new bits, getting better.
You always get better.
You figure out a way to tighten it.
You figure out a way to do This one better every new bit is a new living thing that you're feeding and growing and trying to make it the most
palatable and the most exciting and the sneakiest and the funniest and the most outrageous get the biggest laughs with it like what's the
Funniest way to say this and every day you fuck with it a little more and every day you're adding to it and every day
You're putting a new piece here,
a new piece there.
I love it.
I don't have to do it.
I do it just because I love it.
Yeah.
That's why I opened up the club.
That's why I tour.
I'm supposed to be coming to the club.
I'm excited.
When are you here?
I don't know the date, but I assume.
You're going to love it.
You're going to love it.
It's like the end of July thing.
It's a fucking great place, man. It's set the end of July thing It's a fucking great place man
It's set up just for us
It's set up just for us
Everything about it
Everything about it
From the way you move
Around the club
Where you don't have to
Go through the crowd
To go from room to room
To the way the green room
Is set up
The balconies
So you can watch the show
This black curtain
Is so
Beautiful right
Beautiful
You know we had to change it.
It was a blue curtain at first, but then we put on the monitors.
Like, it looked really nice.
The guy, the architect who did it, Richard Weiss, is amazing.
And he did the whole building.
Amazing, amazing job.
But he wanted to make it pretty, right?
So he had a beautiful hardwood, like light hardwood floors and a blue screen, a blue curtain rather.
And we were watching on the screen.
And, you know, I'm fucking with everything, right,
in the beginning especially.
We need a light here and a light there.
We need timers underneath the monitor
so everybody knows how much time you're doing.
And so you know how much the time the guy's on stage,
how long he's been up.
And also we want a light for each room.
So when you're in the little room,
it's a green star in the green room.
So when he gets the light, you see the light.
So there's a green star that lights up in the green room. And if it's in the big room, it's a green star in the green room so when he gets the light you see the light So there's a green star lights up in the green room, and if it's in the big room. It's a blue star
So it was all this tweaking and shit
We did and we were watching on the monitor Mike that floor has got to go
It's got to be black carpet black carpet and a dark like sparkly black curtain just like in the little boy
There's a smaller room so we put that in there now. It's
Yeah, now. I don't want to fuck with anything.
Now I'm like, we're good.
I looked from the balcony yesterday.
It's amazing.
It's amazing.
It's amazing.
It's amazing.
I can't wait to come.
It's right on 6th Street.
Yeah.
All lit up in the front.
It looks great.
And everybody's so hyped up.
They're so hyped up.
Because we were talking about doing it for two years. Yeah. in the front. It looks great. And everybody's so hyped up. They're so hyped up. It's such a,
because we were talking about doing it
for two years.
Yeah.
I had actually
bought another building
and I had to get
out of the deal.
There was like
some shit wrong with it
and I got out of the deal
and so it took
a whole extra year
to like get this other place
and then once I got the place,
I had to.
You want some coffee?
You know what's amazing is that when you have friends that say something like,
yeah, I bought another building.
I know, it sounds stupid.
Then I grow up with that.
Yeah, so I had a whole other building, and then I had to get out,
and I had to sell that building.
They're like, who buy buildings?
I'm like, that's dynamic.
Go ahead, though.
It's normal for me now.
I know it sounds fucked up, but I'm just being honest.
So the building that I bought was owned by a cult.
Get out of town.
Yeah.
I didn't know the extent of it until I was already in the deal to it already signed the contract my friend Adam
Called me up. He goes. Hey, man. You watch the documentary on this cult
Adam Adam get our talent coordinator. I
Go no, he goes. Oh, it's bad. You should watch it. He was it's fucking crazy. It's called. Holy hell
Yeah
It's about this dude
His name is Jaime Gomez and he was a gay porn star and a hypnotist.
And he started a club, or started a cult, rather, in West Hollywood.
He was teaching people yoga.
And he got a bunch of young disciples.
They believed that he was a guru.
And he was God energy.
And he convinced them.
And he ran this game for like 10 fucking years.
Maybe he was hypnotizing people.
He was, 100%.
That's how he got in trouble. They all started talking because one guy left the cult. And when he left the cult, he was hypnotized people. He was a hundred percent. That's how that's how he got in trouble
That's they all started talking because one guy left the cult when he left the cult sent a mass email saying hey man This guy's been hypnotized me fucking me for the past ten years
This and then they all started talking about it
And they all started sharing the email and they all started sharing their stories with them
They had all kind of kept it under wraps and this guy was doing this and he
escaped la because they were after him it was right around the time when waco went down and
the cult awareness network was like going after cults and so they escaped he changes his name
again his name was jaime gomez he changed his name to michelle and then he changed it again to
andreas that's when he moved to austin And he built this place called the One World Theater.
And this is the place I bought.
So all these poor, lost kids,
they built this place for him.
They were his disciples.
They didn't have contractors.
The cult members built the place.
Under hypnosis.
Well, I don't think
that was under hypnosis,
but what he would do
is he'd give them therapy
every week.
He'd charge them money.
Charge them 50 bucks for therapy. and then he'd fuck them.
This guy.
You should watch the documentary.
The documentary is wild.
Holy hell.
Yeah, because we were talking about cults.
Here's the thing.
In the beginning, it was working.
In the beginning, it looked like fun.
Because I think in the beginning, he was young and hot.
He was a beautiful man, especially when he was young.
And he had this crazy body, six--pack that's when he's getting older but when he was young he was a when
he was a gay porn star he was a beautiful man and i think he probably got plenty of dick already he
didn't have to fuck his disciples and he just had these people that were like washing his feet and
he was teaching him yoga and telling them that they're all god energy and everyone's god and i'm
god and he even got so far with the hypnosis that he convinced these people
that he could give them the enlightenment.
He could touch them.
I think he called it the knowing.
And it would be like this big thing.
You had to earn the knowing.
But when he gave it to these people, just the power of suggestion.
These people were like,
they were having these ecstatic, psychedelic experiences.
Like they encountered God and it lasted for days.
These are people talking about this after they left the cult, after they knew he was a con man,
after they knew that he'd just been hypnotizing people and fucking them,
and he was just full of shit and getting plastic surgery and all kinds of wild shit.
Even though they had gone through all that that they still went back and talked about
when he would do that to them early in their life and that they really did like experience god
they was on strong i don't think they were i think it's the power of suggestion because i've seen it
at have you ever seen a comedy hypnotist yes they can do some wild shit to people that's a comedy
hypnotist in front of an audience yeah if you're a real hypnotist like this guy was and did nobody know it? Yeah doing and you you're you're trained in
hypnotherapy you you you know how to
Get people to think if you've learned how to get people to think that there's this thing that you have and you can give it to
Them and you hold it over their head for a long fucking time until you actually do give it to them and when you do give it to them
they believe it wholeheartedly and so they actually experience it because your brain can produce all
kinds of wild chemicals your brain can produce legitimate psychedelic chemicals like full-on
tripping chemicals yeah so if this guy can convince you that that's happening your
brain probably does dump all those chemicals out because you think it's actually happening
that's crazy crazy so he's kind of telling the truth which is the most fucked up thing
he's kind of giving you this experience and it is a real experience but the whole thing goes off the
rails it goes off the rails and eventually he has they, they actually fly him to Hawaii to get rid of him.
Damn.
They can't get rid of this guy.
Like, why he can't be arrested for the nonsense that he's doing?
See, the thing is, if you're going to arrest him, like, those people are there because they're willing to be there.
They want to be there.
They believe in him.
20 people went with him to Hawaii.
When the cult broke up, a bunch of them flew to hawaii with him and he got mad we started a whole new cult
over there and he's old by then now he's old and he looks like shit when he was young and he was
like this beautiful guy who was convincing everybody you are love we are love and they're
like yeah we don't have to go to regular work we can grow our own food
yeah
this is why I don't believe in
I don't believe in cults
things like that
and I'm not
like I believe they happen
I just don't believe
the person who's saying it
just like I don't believe
in anybody who's trying to tell me
how to get rich quick
yeah
cause like
why would you tell me
right
like you're not that
damn gracious
where you like oh I'm a billionaire.
I want to make you a billionaire, too.
Come on, man.
Get the—
The get-rich-quick scheme that they don't want you to know about.
That's always what it is.
They don't want you to know.
Man, and any type of group thing, like something comes around all at once and everybody's doing it
anytime I see a regular ass
person doing something
like yo man you can invest in this
get out of here man
get your regular ass out of here
you know what I'm saying
I'm not
for me to believe in you
you definitely have to look a certain type of way
I'm just not impressed.
Even if you look homeless, it's still a way to look rich at the same time.
Burt Chrysler showed me that.
I did Burt's podcast, and he came to my room.
I was in Tampa, and he came to my room with, like, no shirt on.
Flip-flops.
Nails.
He didn't even have on shoes.
And his toenails was painted, and he come with all this equipment,
and he walks in my room.
The first thing he said, can I use your restroom?
I said, yeah, go ahead.
It's right there.
And then he comes out of the restroom, he's wiping his hands,
and he's saying, Ali, no disrespect, were you raised by a single mother?
I said, yeah, why?
Because your room is amazing.
I've been in my room for four hours.
I've been squatting for two months.
And he does, we do the podcast, and then he's walking out,
and I'm thinking because he don't have on shoes and no shirt,
he's clearly in his nice Toyota Camry right here.
And I'm walking towards his Camry, and I look back, and he's like,
is that your rental car?
I'm like, no, I was walking around, I thought this was your car.
He's in his huge, like, pearl Benz.
It's a beautiful car this is a beautiful bins
and he's putting the
podcast equipment in the back
and he just like slams the door
like okay see you later
drives off with no shoes on
like that is a rich ass homeless
person right there man
the richest homeless person I ever seen.
Yeah, Bert is Bert.
Bert's leaning more into being Bert now that he has money.
Like, you think he was, like, more conservative when he didn't have money.
He looked like he was more wealthy when he had no money.
You know, he looked respectable, looked normal.
Now, if you're not looking at his watch, you look at him like, who the fuck is this dude?
With a Rolex.
Is that a Rolex?
Rolex is going down.
How the fuck did he get that Rolex?
Anybody's getting a Rolex.
That's a Sky-Dweller.
What the fuck?
He looked good.
I was at his premiere.
Yeah.
He looked good.
The machine.
Yeah, Burt. I called Burt up once. He was at his premiere. Yeah. He looked good. The machine. Yeah, Bert.
I called Bert up once.
He was on a motorcycle in Vietnam.
I called him up.
I was in the comedy store in the back green room area.
And I was about to go on stage soon.
And I just felt like calling him out of nowhere.
And he answers the phone.
I go, where are you?
He goes, I'm on a motorcycle in Vietnam.
This is amazing. And I go, what are you doing? Are you there for your Travel Channel show? He goes, yeah. I go, where are you? He goes, I'm on a motorcycle in Vietnam. This is amazing.
And I go, what are you doing?
Are you there for your Travel Channel show?
He goes, yeah.
I go, dude, you got to quit that show.
I go, you're too funny.
You're too good.
You're a funny comedian.
You should be making money doing stand-up comedy.
Not doing that show, man.
I know it's a velvet prison.
You got to quit that fucking show.
I would love to do a Travel Channel.
Oh, it's too many months.
He was gone for like three, four months at a time
when his kids were young.
Ugh.
Yeah, it's like not good.
It's also, it's like, it was limiting him.
It was a great opportunity initially,
but then it was limiting him.
I'm like, Burke, you could, with just podcast
and stand-up comedy, you're gonna be fucking huge.
Like, you don't need to be saddled into this organization.
Because they're also gonna, they're gonna be upset if. Like, you don't need to be saddled into this organization. Because they're also gonna be upset
if you talk about certain things.
Travel Channel was a very conservative channel
at one point in time.
I don't know how they are now,
but I know Anthony Bourdain had a problem with them as well,
a similar situation.
It's like, Burt, you're fucking bent against yourself.
If I find a great producer,
I'm probably gonna do a podcast. You should do a podcast. If I find a great producer, I'm probably going to do a podcast.
You should do a podcast.
It's just a...
You don't need a great producer, man.
Well, I need a producer
because me coming in and setting up camera...
So don't do it on camera at first.
Nobody can do all this by themselves.
Just do it audio at first.
Do it audio at first.
Real simple.
Get an audio recorder.
Get one of those little fucking...
What are those?
Rones?
What are those things called? What are those things called?
What are those things called, Jamie?
Zoom or Rodecaster.
There's a bunch of them.
They set them up now.
They have pre-made podcast setups that you can buy.
That's how popular podcasts are.
You don't need any bullshit.
You got a mic like this.
These are Shores.
These are my favorite ones.
We've been using these forever.
You put it on a fucking stand it plugs into that thing you press record and you do a podcast you got an audio file you upload it to itunes it's free and then boom it's up there
you let everybody know it's up there people start downloading it at least what is the percentage of
the amount of people that just listen to us what what would you say it is? I think it's
over half still. Yeah. It's a majority
still just listen. Most people
just listen. So that's
this, and this is, you know, a giant
podcast. When you first start out,
people like to listen to podcasts when they're driving,
they like to listen to podcasts at the
gym, when they're on vacation,
you're on a plane, six hours, easy.
Just chill out. You got a couple of podcasts before on a plane, six hours, easy, just chill out.
You got a couple of podcasts before you know it,
six hours is gone.
Just do that.
And then it's easy.
It's easy.
You're already great at it.
You're great right here.
You're great at it.
Just do it.
Simple.
I think that's my next thing.
100%.
Do me a little podcast.
Before you know it, it'll be huge.
My friend Cameron Haynes, who was just here the other day,
same thing
I talked him into doing it forever. I'm like you're great. You could be great at this and then you don't have a boss
Now he's killing it
Yeah, same thing with Bert and all those guys Tom Segura. I talked to him into doing it
I talked to Ari into doing it. I talked to all those guys into doing podcast
I know I know I didn't do a podcast. You can have a great success record. Oh, I'm pretty good at it.
Yeah, I know.
I know when someone can do it.
Yeah.
Yeah, so that's my thing.
And putting these specials out, that's the other niche of it.
That's another.
The way you're doing it is podcast style in a way because you're doing it yourself now.
And doing it yourself and putting it up on YouTube is the way to do it rather than going through some big corporation, some Netflix or HBO or whatever it is. Like you're almost betting against yourself at this point because the numbers that you get when you put
it up where everybody can get it anytime they want. And then someone could say, oh my God,
have you seen this? And then they could share it and they send it to you. Oh my God, this dude's
hilarious. And they send it to you. And then people just start sharing it. They share it on social media. They share it in text messages.
Boom.
Boom.
Boom.
Yeah, you don't need anybody anymore.
And podcasts just add to it.
It just adds to it.
And it's easy.
And it's fun.
It's fun to do.
Have a friend come over.
Have a drink.
Smoke a joint.
Start talking shit.
Laugh your ass off.
That's basically what it is that's what it is having a
having a great time yeah it's it's um it's amazing it's amazing the amount of
power in sitting up talking it's it's amazing well i think think one of the things that's happening to people
when they're stuck in an office all day or stuck working all day
is they're not getting to have long conversations
about things they really think about.
And if you are in a situation where you can listen to people
have those conversations, it's the next best thing.
And sometimes you can listen to those people have conversations
with people that you're never going to get to meet. Oh, that's the best. Yeah, that's best thing. And sometimes you can listen to those people, have conversations with people that you're never going to get to meet, you know?
Oh, that's the best.
Yeah, that's the thing.
You know, I think that if you have great guests
or you have great opinions or great thoughts
that you can podcast.
Some people ask you to do their podcast.
You're like, man, who the hell?
What the hell are y'all even
over there talking about it's not for everybody but it's for you yeah that's what i say about a
lot of things but that's most things most things that i like are not for everybody you know that's
comedy yeah i remember when i the the only time i've ever not wanted somebody to be good
ever was at the comedy the comedy stop but let the last stop in Houston in
Houston that was the only time I ever wanted somebody not to be good why is
that I was I came there you had to get on a list when I started you had to come
in get on yeah so I'm there and it's Monday and I sign up, and I was like 26th on the list.
I'm like, man, 26 people are going to go up.
And the guy in front of me was like, yeah, man, I've been doing this 20 years.
And I was like, oh, shit.
He is 25 on the list, and he said he's been doing it 20 years.
And I'm thinking, yeah, I know a lot of comics, man.
I've studied this game a lot.
Oh, I hope he's not funny.
Because if he is, I got a long ass way to go.
I'm four months in.
He's 20 years in.
He goes on stage and he was fucking horrible.
And I was
like, yes. Like, no
wonder. You're still
getting it together.
It was one of them things.
And I still see him around
now. Do you really? At open mic nights?
At open mic nights.
I pop in every
blue moon at an open mic.
And when you go in there, you see the same people in there.
You're like, what the freak is going on?
Yeah, what is going on?
Do people not?
Okay, like.
You know what it's like?
It's like if you are in a boxing gym and this dude's been KO'd the last 16 times he sparred,
you got to go mic.
You can't. You can't
do this anymore. You can't do this anymore.
This is bad for you. This is bad
for you. Nah, bro.
You know, I'm working on my head movement. Let me in there.
Dude, I'm laughing.
Because that Main Street Boxing
is guys that come in there, and
you just in there, you're like, hey, man.
What'd he do? He's like, hey, man.
He get
beat up professionally.
Sparring partner.
Like, what?
Like, hey, man, like, he's never won a fight.
Like, every fight he's ever been in, he has been out of there.
And then in the sparring, but he's a sparring partner.
Yeah.
And in there just taking it.
And then he'll take fights where he knows he's supposed to lose.
There's a lot of those guys out there.
Wow.
In the early days of a fighter's development, they will, you know, that's one thing that boxing has over MMA.
They'll kind of almost be setups where, you know, this guy's like 20 and you know 20 losses and like 2 wins
there's guys like that that are out there
legitimately they have the craziest records
you've ever seen and they're licensed
and they'll go in and they'll fight some
young Arturo Gotti looking dude
and that guy will light them up
or you go in like them 2 wins
them 2 wins
it's like
you fucking know you're supposed to lose
I was just in there I was trying the guy was so bad he ran into my job win. Them two wins. Hey, man, you fucking know you're supposed to lose.
I was just in there. I was trying.
The guy was so bad, he ran into my job.
That's terrible.
You're just 2-25. You say, man,
how you win them two fights, man?
I would be
pissed. Have you ever seen a fixed fight?
Not knowingly.
Not knowing while you're watching it?
Not knowing.
Until I'm in the middle of this shit.
Like, man, this shit's fucking fixed, man.
There was some fixed fights in the early days in Japan.
In MMA, there was some fixed fights.
Japan was real weird, because you had
real fights, for sure.
And then you had some fights where
the hero wins, the local hero wins,
and you're like, how did he get
him in a heel hook?
Why is it tapping like that?
Why is it so dramatic?
This is pro wrestling.
This is like...
There was some weird moments
and there was a there was a boxing match i remember this one there was some i believe it was in
remember the guy who had a bunch of weird surgery he had like muscle implants and he he boxed this
guy and it was so clear that the guy took a dive. It was like the worst acting of all time.
Who was the guy that the bald head, big white guy that Tyson fought when he got out of prison?
Oh, he wasn't bald.
Peter McNeely.
Peter McNeely was the white guy.
Oh, you mean Franz Botha or Andrew Gulotta?
Was it Andrew Gulotta you're talking about? The Polish guy?
He had on some American shorts.
He had on some shorts with some color on them.
I can't remember.
Not that guy that had on the green.
If it's Peter McNeely, Peter McNeely is the guy who fought right out of jail.
That's when Tyson had a six-pack.
Oh, not him.
Because that dude had on green shorts.
Did he?
So this is the guy.
So the guy on the left, is he like some rich guy or something?
But look at him.
He's some rich guy, and he's got fake muscles.
Yeah, he got implants.
I can see that off the rip.
Yeah, but it's wild.
Look, his shoulders are fake.
Everything's fake.
It's weird.
And so it's like this is the clearest, like,
fixed fight you're ever going to see.
Look at this.
I mean, come on.
How fake does that look?
That looks so fake.
That looks so fake.
What just happened?
He hit him with a left hook.
I know.
But watch it again.
Let's watch it again.
Look at this guy holding his hands up and watch.
Watch this. He like literally shows
him his chin. And just
goes like what? And he goes down.
Yeah. It's so fake.
Watch. I mean this guy's a terrible
actor. Crazy. Terrible actor.
Right? So he moves forward
and then Muscles over here
is going to move in for the kill with his zero
skills. Look at this.
Look at, I mean, he's got nothing.
It's like a guy who just learned boxing yesterday,
and he's holding fake boobs.
It's crazy.
Like, this is one of the weirdest videos, I think, on the Internet. He must be a billion trillionaire.
I don't know, but he's got to be an insane person.
Like, he's definitely insane with these fake muscles.
But also the fact that
he wants people to think that he had a boxing match
and that he won. I mean, this is crazy.
This guy can't even fake go down.
And then the referee waves it off. That's it.
What a conqueror. I mean, this is a crazy video.
It's Fixed Boxing Fight.
You can find it on
YouTube.
Oh, man.
Look at this guy.
That's a crazy person. Look at this guy that's a crazy person look at this guy he's insane
yeah that's it that is a weird thing to do to be a man and get a neck implant that's so crazy man
do you understand i i don't i i think people don't think that these people have problems they just
think that they just oh this is they just want to enhance their body. Everybody wants to enhance their...
Okay.
All right.
That's crazy.
You just...
You know what I'm saying?
Just me stuffing
some shoulder pads
under my skin
and it's just like...
You see the one guy
who has like the most of it?
He's like a human Ken doll.
Yeah, what's that dude's name?
I don't know.
He's a weird dude.
Oh my God.
He's got everything.
He got calf implants
and bicep implants.
Like, man, what is wrong?
And then his neck all skinny.
Like, it's crazy.
It looks so weird.
Oh, man.
But it's one of those things.
Oh, boy.
Yeah, it's one of those things like anorexia.
They can't see how other people see it.
They have body dysmorphia.
Show a photo of his body because he's got all these implants all over the place.
Like, that's crazy town.
All of his quads, his quad implants and calf implants.
He either digs it to the surgeons.
Yeah, and look, his shoulders.
I mean, it's kind of nuts, man.
But then the neck is all thin.
Yeah, look at his neck.
Like, that's crazy town.
Is that two different people, or is that the same i don't
know that that one looks even scarier click on that one that's a different person click on that
different person what is that oh my god that one yeah click jesus christ man oh my god that is wild
that is wild man oh my god that's so crazy that that's a real person.
And I know more people, I know a lot of people just, hey, just want to take the picture, which is feeding into the craziness.
Well, yeah, because it gets you more attention, right?
He says he's sinking after 11 nose jobs.
Oh, that's the other thing.
They all get addicted to it, so they keep going.
Like Michael Jackson.
Oh, man. Yeah. Like we were talking about addicted to it, so they keep going. Like Michael Jackson. Oh, man.
Yeah.
Like we were talking about the other day.
Michael Jackson's plastic surgeon, that dude never advertised.
Just kept going.
He just kept going.
Oh, my God.
And to Barbie.
Oh, my God.
And then he became Barbie?
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
And now he's dressing like this.
Oh, Jesus Christ.
Everyone's insane.
And that's what he used to look like with the pants? I would assume so. Should I say she? That's what he used to look like with the pants
Should I say she that's what she used to look like what a wild world we live in man. What a wild world
Wait until people could change gender with like gene therapy wait till they could do that
People gonna be bouncing back and forth
How many times been a woman?
well
I was a woman for two years and I didn't like it went back to be bouncing back and forth. How many times have you been a woman? Well, I was a woman for two years, and I didn't like it.
Went back to being a man.
And I decided to be a really big man for a while, but my joints hurt.
So then I became a little man.
See what it's like to get picked on.
Then I went back to being a woman.
Yeah, I mean, we're going to be able to bounce back and forth.
I think so.
I think not us, but I think future generations.
and forth I think so I think not on not us but I think future generations I think they're gonna be able to manipulate biology in some very like
like flexible way I really do yeah they're already fucking around with with
gene splicing with humans and animals they're doing all kinds they're doing
wild shit and this is what we know they're doing yeah who knows what they're doing in other countries where we don't have fucking eyes on the lab, you know?
Because this is why I believe in Bigfoot.
I don't think because Bigfoot is some science project they got out that is crazy.
And they know it exists they know it's
on the on the level they know it's just crazy i think bigfoot used to exist i think it's
absolutely it's definitely a new one i don't think so you don't think it's a new one out there no
it's some grizzly bear sheep that's you know why you know why i really don't think it because the
people that i know that are like real hunters that go deep, deep, deep into the backcountry for weeks at a time, real dudes.
Dudes are in Alaska.
Guys are in the mountains of Montana.
Guys are in the Pacific Northwest in the rainforest up there.
Those dudes never say shit.
They've never seen shit.
Everybody just sees bears.
You see bears.
And I think if you're a person that's not around wildlife a lot you see a bear walking on two legs in the deep
forest especially if it's dark out
you think you saw a fucking Bigfoot
but at one point in time it was a real
thing you know that
the whole story? I knew it was a
real ass Bigfoot
Gigantopithecus
this is the thing
with these scientific experiments
do you remember it was a while back i think we talked
about it well i talked about it somewhere where these um orangutans got out of a nuclear lab
in san antonio a biometrical lab in san anton Antonio you can look this shit up now
it's no telling
what they did
to them orangutans
while they was in there
but they were smart enough
to get the fuck out
so it's no
where did they go
they was just
they was just out loose
did they catch them
I think so
imagine if one got away
just
just hide now
they don't
they don't even know
what they came in contact with
so it was a was a it was a biomedical lab they do i didn't know they do experiments on chimpanzees
that's that fucking it's it's like i got i almost have like i have a lot of sympathy
towards any animal brilliant baboons escape from tex Texas bio lab using their captors own barrels
Yeah, baboons using just a 55 gallon barrel the three baboons liberated themselves that confines the biomedical research facility this weekend
For about a half an hour before they were captured and returned to incarceration
Incarcerations a fucked-up word
They never did anything wrong
That's fucked baboons are freaky. They're different in orangutans baboons that never did anything wrong. That's fucked. Baboons are freaky.
They're different than orangutans.
Baboons freak me out.
They use the barrels.
Because they got almost like a wolf mouth.
It's like a monkey with a wolf mouth.
But on Saturday, one baboon learned to put a barrel upright
and use it to get to the top of the wall.
Then the three other baboons, monkey saw and monkey did.
And so they just hopped over. and the four baboons scaled the wall,
but one returned on its own volition.
That's a bitch-ass one.
He told on everybody.
This motherfucker's got to help.
Remaining three were apprehended by members of the animal care
and animal capture team, which wore protective suits and masks.
San Antonio news outlet KSAT reported that witnesses were concerned
that the baboons were carrying infectious
disease. A news release from
TBRI stated the baboons weren't
infected. What does that mean?
They weren't infected.
Infected with what?
What are you doing over there?
What the fuck are you doing over there?
You know?
That's the premise of the movie
28 Days Later.
Outbreaking.
Yeah.
And when the story happened, I said, man, y'all don't realize at the end of the world,
that's the start of every zombie apocalypse movie I've never heard of.
Well, you know what's fucked up?
There is a real zombie virus that everyone is aware of
This it's called rabies. Yes rabies rabies is a zombie virus for animals
I mean, they're not dead, but they might as well be they're trying to get to you and bite you
They're trying to literally that their brain is hijacked. They're so aggressive
They're trying to bite you to infect you with the rabies. So the rabies
has convinced these animals
the baboons hop a fence
so here's these guys chasing them.
They're running, chasing after the baboons.
Hey bro, get back here.
What if that baboon just turned around and just
fucked them up? That dude does not look
like he's wearing a suit. He looks regular.
Yeah, those are just guys on the street.
These are just kids. These kids are out of kids are either fucking mine bro these kids are getting
close oh my god these are just dorks yeah where is this it was in wherever it
happened and outside of San Antonio oh my god that's Texas people very close to
you these wild dorks chasing after a baboon that thing will fuck you up like
fuck you up either clearly people who have never seen a possum
yeah they used to see them in the zoo
they used to see them in the fucking zoo
a baboon
is way vicious
but a possum
oh my goodness
they have covid masks on
they're not even the good covid masks on
those gloves aren't going to do jack shit.
What are you going to do with those gloves?
What the fuck are you going to do?
Unless that thing just is used to people handling it.
Good luck.
Good luck.
You can't even pick up a feral cat.
You ever try picking up a feral cat?
How the fuck do you think you can handle a 50-pound baboon?
Bitch.
There's a a fan
oh man
that's great
that's way more than 50
they
they about
80 pounds
the big males
how much
a normal baboon
weigh
like
I would say
they're like 50
60 pounds
cause my
they look to me
like a Belgian
Malinois size
my cane corso
is a big dog
that's a big dog
that's a big ass what that's what you got 120 pound
dog 140 140 pounds i had a mastiff that was that big a regency master he was 140 pounds
you know harry's lost like seven pounds that okay 88 pounds for a big one wow
wow oh my god What is this one?
That's the kind that gets that big.
Oh, it's a specific kind that gets that big.
They didn't say what kind those were.
There's a psychologist named Robert Sapolsky.
He is a psychologist, right?
Is that what his profession is?
Sure.
Who studied baboons.
And a fascinating thing happened.
With this troop of baboons, They were dominated by the alpha males.
And the alpha males always got first access to the food.
Was there a researcher and author?
Neuroendocrinology researcher and author.
Professor of biology.
The alpha males always had access to the food first.
Well, they were getting food from a dumpster that this resort was using.
And the alpha males had access to it first,
and one of the dumpsters was filled with bad food,
tainted food.
And these baboons ate it and died.
So the ones that ate it first
were the ones who had access to it,
and they died, and the alphas were all dead.
So when the alphas were all dead,
in the absence of the alphas being dead,
the betas never assumed an alpha position.
They just got along with each other and it lasted for like I think quite a while
it lasted for years I believe until probably they went back to their normal
way of behaving but for a long fucking time they behaved in a way where there
was like there was no brutish cuz like in those packs of baboons, they're fucking horrible to each other.
Maybe they didn't think they were waiting on him to come back.
And he was like, hey, don't nobody do nothing because you know they're going to come back and beat us.
Right.
Don't pretend you're the boss.
And then somebody came and said, I don't think they're coming back.
And then they started with the bullshit.
Bitch, yeah, I said it.
Jamie, see, you can find that study.
Bitch, you can't eat first.
Did you find it?
So when the top-ranking males died off in the mid-1980s,
aggression by the new top baboons dropped dramatically,
with most aggression occurring between baboons of similar rank
and little that directed towards lower-status males
and none at all directed at females.
Troop members also spent a large percentage of time grooming,
sat closer together than in the past,
and hormone samples indicated that the lowest-status males
experienced less stress than underlings and other baboon troops.
More interestingly, these effects persisted at least through the late 90s. So wow,
it's more than 10 years. Well after the original kinder males had died off. Not only that,
when the adolescent males who grew up in other troops joined the garbage dump troop,
they too engaged in less aggressive behavior than in other baboon troops.
As Sapolsky put it, we don't understand the mechanism of transmission, but the jerky new guys are obviously learning.
We don't do things like that around here.
So at least by baboon standards, the garbage dump troop developed and enforced what I would call a no asshole rule.
Isn't that amazing?
Oh, this is prison oh yeah
because you can come in see i see what happened now the other guys was like no you see what
happened to the mama end up in the dumps and so we're not gonna go that route
so that that's basically what happened they they they saw hey man these other
guys gone they did we don't and then you see they say that the other guys who were were um less
stressed they they was they was getting their ass whooped their fur they're getting slapped around
they're getting slapped around so when the kinder males like hey man look let's just have a peaceful
situation we ain't gotta do all that, man.
You can come talk to me.
I'm not slapping nobody.
When you're on what we call a Cadillac tank,
that's what a Cadillac tank is,
where you come over there and everybody come and lay it down to you.
Look, man, we ain't with with nothing that bullshit over here man all that
whatever you're gonna do all that stealing and whatever you have you got moved over here it's
Cadillac over here they let you know because it's it's you don't want none of that wild shit over
you don't lose your tv you don't lose your coffee pot you don't want to be locked down you don't
be none of that shit you amen you need some come tell somebody you ain't gotta steal nothing
You know yeah, this is a colleague. It's a convict tank basically you know where people
Understand how to do their time you want to do your time less stressful
I don't think people would appreciate like the average person thinks about a jail. They don't think of that. I think they probably wouldn't
They probably wouldn't imagine that that would be the case but
that makes sense you you know what's weird about jail i don't understand why jail is so brutal when
you're not in when you're not found guilty yet right because when i went to jail i'm gonna talk
about it in the special but when i went my whole thought was how to get out you don't even eat for the first four days you're saying you
don't eat nothing like they be bringing food and then you like no i mean y'all gonna have that
shit because you thinking i'm getting out so i'm not i'm not i'm not acclimating myself to prison
food i'm not even eating none of this shit none of this jailed food right and then after like four
days you don't get out then you're like well hey man let me get my juice y'all haven't had the rest of this yet then it's like day number seven you like now you're eating your all your food
because you didn't you know you're not getting out just yet but you're still going to court
i wouldn't be thinking about doing nothing wild because i'm still trying to fight my case
and i don't think most people don't even think like that.
I don't know what they be thinking, but it be some wild shit on their brains,
especially when they there for a long period of time.
I've been in here a year fighting this murder case.
Okay, but are you guilty?
So why are you acting like you're guilty?
You in here doing all the rest of this nonsense.
I think it's a stigma that comes along with prison
that people try to act out when they go there.
But I've been in other jails where it's not like that.
It's like, hey, man, I'm in here trying to get out.
And I was there on traffic tickets,
but it was still like even if you go to Harris County
on a traffic ticket, it's like you're in full-fledged.
Like, why am I even around anybody who could?
What you in here for, capital murder?
Why am I even in here with you and i'm in
here on traffic tickets like we don't we're not supposed to run into each other right
shit and it's just crazy like you're not even supposed to run into those people until you go
to prison because jail and prison are actually supposed to be different now I understand you getting a you don't want
to be in either place but I don't understand I don't understand the
animalistic behavior that jumps off as soon as you get locked up it is and it's
only with a certain ethnic group do you think they think they have to do it that
way because they've been told that that's what it's like when you get in
that's the stigma that comes. Even though I was somewhere
that I knew that was bad,
I didn't go into it with the, I'm
going to be bad too. No, man, I'm
already, if somebody
try me, then I'm going to defend
myself. But other than that, I'm not
going in there trying to bother
nobody. But see, that's the whole thing.
I've never started a fight though
too. I have to remember that by myself. I've never started a fight though too I had to remember that by
myself I've never started to fight even though I can fight when I can fight well I just never
started one but if you start one with me then you figure out like oh shit he can actually fight yeah
I just don't start them and I think most people that can fight don't start them. Because it becomes a, I'm not the same person in combat that I am as normal.
Like, this shit is different with me.
And I'm locked in.
The scary thing is people who can fight, who like to fight, who do go looking for fights.
And those are real, too.
Those are real, too. So just don't't fight it's the dumbest thing to do especially
you want to let me want to fight learn how to fight go to a gym you can get
plenty of fighting in the gym you don't even have to have a fight it was most
sparring matches are basically fights yes and in and you did I didn't tell you
but people know I did I tell you when I when I spar with Todd manual I didn't tell you but people know did I tell you when I sparred
with Todd Manuel
I don't know
man Todd Manuel
beat the shit out of me
like
and I was fucking with him
like I came in
and fucking with him
like
he had just fought
Victor Ortiz
or some shit like that
and I just walked in
fucking with him
and I just got in the ring
with him like
what's up Todd
shit
he ain't here
talking shit
Todd
Todd Todd
Todd
took it to my ass
too
like
but people know
I can fight
but Todd was on one
Todd took it to my ass
and it
and it was that first
two body shots
that I was just
and I was
fucking with him
and
I was like
oh shit
yeah there's good
and then there's
professional good
right
and then there's high level professional good yeah And then there's high-level professional good.
Yeah.
High-level professional good is fucking scary if it's boxing.
Yeah, like, Gotti just found that out about Floyd.
Like, that shit is different.
Now, you can say a lot about Floyd, but once them gloves get on and you across from him,
oh, that shit's different.
He's still very, very fast.
Very fast.
And that shit hurt. Oh, yeah. All that shit hurt. Oh, yeah, of course. and it should hurt oh yeah all that shit hurt yeah
of course like even if he playing that shit hurt yeah i mean he fought logan paul logan paul weighs
200 plus pounds and he turned the shit out logan paul neck like he's crazy like wow and then he
and i think he held him up like hey man don't fall because you'll mess the money up i think he's just
too big i think lo Logan was just too big.
If they were the same size, I think Floyd would
have knocked him out. But Logan was so
big. He was so much bigger
than him. But them shots though. It's so
crazy to see a guy
who is the best boxer
of all time having a fight
with this super athletic
gigantic YouTube kid.
I mean, look at the size difference.
It's insane.
Yeah.
It's insane.
It was like when he wrestled. Who the fuck else is that?
It's like when he wrestled with the big stuff.
Yeah, pro wrestling.
But at least that's theatrical, right?
This is an actual fight.
He turnt his neck.
Even when he fought. At least that's theatrical, right? This is an actual fight. He turfed his neck. Yeah.
Even when he fought... Look at the big show.
When he fought Canelo.
With boxing gloves on.
Yeah.
When he fought Canelo, Canelo's a big-ass dude.
Yeah, Canelo's a big-ass dude.
But he was very smart with that Canelo fight.
He made Canelo drop down to, like, 152.
I think that's what the weight limit was.
Canelo, you know, he really had to drain himself
to get down there and also like you watch canelo before floyd and after floyd and you just go oh
he learned he his head movement is superb now canelo gets in there this this fights of his
where you see his head movement you're like oh my oh my God. I just saw his last fight with Canelo, and he big.
Yeah, he's a big fella.
Well, you know, he's doing 175 now when he knocked out Kovalev.
Yeah, so he got real small for that fight.
You know, Floyd is smart, man.
Like see Manny Pacquiao, he waited and waited and waited and waited and waited
until after Marquez knocked out Manny, and he's like, okay, we can fight now.
I think that was mostly promoters.
These promoters just be.
They're brutal.
They just are.
And then everybody blamed the fight.
Oh, you didn't want to fight him.
No, they couldn't get this shit together.
The most disappointing one to me is Tyson Fury and Usyk.
I was really looking forward to that fight.
That was an interesting one to me because Tyson Fury is
the biggest in the division.
He's got insane skills.
He's fucking huge. He's 6'9".
He's arguably one of the greatest
heavyweight boxers ever.
And Usyk is this phenom
of technique and footwork and movement.
But how is he going to fuck with that 6'9
guy? How is he going to fuck with that
jab? Can you even get close to him?
He's so much bigger than him.
It's a fascinating fight.
And they fucked it.
Even gave him 70-30.
Tyson said he wanted 70-30, which, you know, makes kind of sense.
He's the big star.
Usyk even said yes, and they still couldn't get the deal done.
Still couldn't get it done.
I don't know what the fuck happened.
I know this Crawford and Earl Spence is going to be.
Thank God they got that done now.
Because I was worried that they were going to wait until Terrence was older.
You know?
Because it's like, if it happens two years from now, what is he, 36 now?
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's a fucking good fight.
Regis.
Regis.
Rugaloo. is coming up.
Terrence Crawford is the slickest switch hitter since Marvin Hagler.
Yeah.
And this is going to be a problem.
This is a hell of a fight.
28-0 versus 39-0.
That is wild. And I think that, oh, what you predicting in this fight?
I would never
predict a fight like this. Because a fight like
this to me is a let's see.
Let's see.
It's definitely a let's see.
It's a let's see because they're both at the top
of the top in boxing today.
The pinnacle. Both of them.
Both of them had
their strength. This is one of them let's see.
I didn't think Ryan... I didn't think Tank and Ryan was just going to be this electric fight.
I just didn't.
I just thought Tank was just too much.
Yeah, I thought he was going to be too much, too.
It's just he has too many tools, and his style is so weird.
His style is so weird.
He's so conservative in the beginning.
He's not throwing hardly any punches.
But the fucking threat of danger always looms.
It's terrifying.
That's the problem with him.
He's like, you could be doing all that.
He just, you're like, oh, my God, if he hit me with any of this shit.
You're still throwing very tentatively.
If I throw this jab at you, I need to get this shit right back.
I need this jab at him, I need to get this shit right back. Right back. I need this shit.
Do you understand how fast I need to get this jab back to my goddamn face?
I need this.
And people won't even throw it all the way out there because they need to get,
like, I can't give, because he's already up under you.
Yeah.
And that's the problem, that you see that he's up under you,
and you're like, oh, shit.
If I throw any goddamn thing yeah he gonna turn he gonna blow my shit up like straight from the floor yeah with crazy speed it's it's like it's like
Tyson yeah it's more like people don, like, this shit is like a small Tyson.
Yeah.
Because Tyson was so leveled up under air.
Like, as soon as you throw anything out there, like, if I throw my jab out there, I got to have my knees bent.
And then she got to, I need my elbow to guard my goddamn bread basket, my liver, my kidney, all this shit.
Because, ah, it's just bad.
It's bad news.
It's just bad news.
Terrifying.
The consequences of any mistake are so big.
The consequences.
Pull up a Gervonta Davis highlight.
Let's watch some highlights.
KO highlights.
As soon as you open any of that shit up, he is, ha!
How many fights does he even have that have gone to decision?
It's only a couple.
It's one when he broke his hand.
It was one fight where he
won a decision where he broke his hand. That might be the
only one that went to a decision.
The only guy
who I think has a
higher knockout ratio
that's a champion is
Archer Betterbeev.
That's the light heavyweight guy.
Count two.
So he's got one in 2014.
And then one up here, Isaac Cruz.
27-0.
And all of them except two are by knockout.
Or excuse me, 29-0.
And all of them except two are by knockout 27 knockouts
look at that like look at that that shit that shit oh my god and it's skillful right up under
right up under your shit that fucking uppercut is so nasty i'm right here and soon as you throw
something out there that i think is okay uh uh-huh, you finna go.
Oh, look at that right hook, man.
Right on the tempo.
It's just he hits people different.
Watch it.
Boom.
Right over.
Right over.
Oh, my God.
The speed and the accuracy.
It's the power, and it's also the technique.
It's like everything is there.
It's not like he's just a slugger.
He's a scientist. He's like everything is there. It's not like he's just a slugger. He's like a scientist. He's like dissecting
in there.
He's downloading data
and then applying it and moving
on you in a way you never had
anybody move on you before.
Look at that body shot. Oh my God.
He will not let you breathe.
Watch that. You throw yours
and I'm going to throw mine.
I'm already up under you.
And when you look at him, I mean, he looks super athletic and fit,
but it doesn't look any different than a normal super athletic fit guy.
You know what I'm saying?
Very doable.
Yeah.
It's not like some weirdness about his body that you see like if you see like Yoel Romero
He's so ridiculously huge when he knocks people out. It kind of makes sense
But Gervonta looks like a regular guy
But he hits like a fucking Mack truck that is the rolly fight look at this reach
Oh, I mean look at that left hand
Play that again. Because that was crazy.
Boom.
I mean, it's picture perfect.
He's coming in and he catches him coming in with a perfect left hand.
Look at this.
Boom.
You don't even.
I mean, some dudes from a shot like that, they're never the same guy.
He ain't the same.
Yeah.
That shoe is leaning.
Boom.
I mean, incredible.
Look at this shot.
Yeah, he's so dangerous, man.
He's so dangerous.
It's like that body shot is what set all that up.
Because he is.
What's the guy that went to his corner and's like man I can't see the guy before Ryan the guy went to
his corner after after the round is like I can't see I don't know what which guy
it was I don't think it's him but either way I mean this is how hard this kid
hits it's insane they he's on like
some crazy situation where the judge sent him to jail because he was under house arrest but they
put him in house arrest in a house and it was too small for his security detail his family
and his kids and so he got a suite at the four seasons and his house got robbed, apparently. And his house got robbed while he was in prison.
That's insane.
It's insane.
He's so fucking talented.
There's so many fights for him now.
After the Devin Haney-Lomachenko fight and Shakur Stevenson, that division is just stacked.
What'd you think about that Lomachenko fight?
I didn't agree with it.
It's close, though. If you go back and watch it, it's a close fight. But I think Lomachenko fight? I didn't agree with it. It's close, though.
If you go back and watch it, it's a close fight.
But I think Lomachenko edged him.
I think Lomachenko should have got the decision.
He was pushing it.
He definitely had more significant moments.
But Haney did land some very good body shots.
And showed his heart because he got pushed further than anybody's ever pushed him before. He's looking at what he did to Kambosis, two fights in a row.
I mean, he boxed Kambosis' face off.
I had to go back.
Yeah, this guy.
Hector Luis Garcia.
That guy.
Yeah, he's like, I can't see.
He goes, I didn't know where I was.
That's how hard he is.
It's crazy.
I had to go back and hang in Lomachinko fight to go to.
Because I saw, I saw watching in five,
in the fifth.
So I had to go back and see,
was it,
what type of damage did he do in the first four?
And I say,
well,
I guess they just go on these body shots,
because Lomachico,
from round seven to the end,
I thought that he was winning this fight.
Yeah, I thought he was winning too.
When I watched it without the sound, I thought that he,
clearly eight, nine, and ten were clear Lomachenko rounds for me.
Eight, nine, and ten.
me eight nine and ten and then 11 and 12 it was a toss-up because of the vicious body shots but he did land some good what are those body shots worth if you if you look at like a gervonta davis
body shot knockout blow it's obviously worth a lot but people tend to think that hitting someone in
the face is generally scores more than hitting someone in the body.
I don't know if that's fair.
It was a very, very good fight.
It was a good fight.
The problem with a fight like that is when the decision comes
and most people don't agree with it,
it kind of, like, taints the effort.
You know, it's like everybody, like, looks at Haney
like he did something wrong,
and he fought an amazing fight against a guy who's a ghost.
Lomachenko's a ghost.
Yeah.
I mean, what he does in there
is wild shit, man.
And he's a hard-hitting...
And he pushed the fight.
He pushed the fight.
He pushed the fight.
Yeah, he definitely pushed the fight
and he definitely did some wild shit,
but he definitely got hit
with some hard body shots.
It was a good fight,
a very, very good fight.
I think the fact that
he was trying to absorb the body shots with coming off a good fight, a very, very good fight. I think the fact that he was trying to absorb
the body shots
with coming off his feet.
Yeah.
And it just don't look good.
It looked like somebody
knocking you off your feet.
Right.
Instead of you...
You're jumping with it.
Yeah, you're jumping with it,
trying to take the impact off,
and the shit's still hitting you.
Mm-hmm.
And if he would've stayed down, I think it wouldn't have looked this bad, but shit, if he would have stayed down i think it wouldn't
have looked as bad but shit if you would have stayed down would you have went down right you
he's doing the right thing you gotta you gotta go with those shots especially devin haney devin
haney's a big lightweight he's big he's big and he hits very hard and he's so skillful his jab is
top notch when in the combosis fight i was I was, Combosus is good, man.
What he did to Teofimo when he dropped him in the first round,
I was like, woo, he's fast.
Haney's jab looked crazy.
It looked crazy, but he also technically looked so good.
Everything he did was so good.
Everything he did was, he's so well-schooled.
Yeah, he is.
That was good.
That Loma Chico, I just want to see them fight more.
But I think Crawford is going to.
That is a big one.
I think Crawford's going to pull it out.
Well, it's going to be interesting to see.
To me, that is a who the fuck knows.
I'm excited to see it
Errol Spence
is a bad man
he's a bad man
he hits hard
I think he's underrated
by a lot of people
for some reason
but
Bud is
that's another level
but this is the highest level
both of them have experienced
I think
like who
I mean
who do you think
out of people that Bud
has beaten
he's beaten everybody's fought
but who do you think
is on the level of Earl?
Arguably, this is the best fighter he's faced.
Yeah, I think this is the best fighter he's faced.
I think this is the best fighter he's faced.
And there's no disrespect to any of the other fighters he's faced.
Yeah, no disrespect to them.
But I think right now Earl is like at, he's in that state, that Sugar Ray Leonard in his prime stage.
You know, there's a stage where a fighter is so elite that you're like,
I can't wait to see what happens when he fights Roberto Duran.
I can't wait.
There's this level where you're like, how good is he?
I just saw Sugar Ray at his benefit for diabetes.
And Sugar Ray looks fit right now.
He works out on Instagram.
Sugar Ray looks like he ready right now. You can see his workouts.. He works out on Instagram. Cigarette looks like he ready right now.
You can see his workouts.
He puts workouts up on Instagram.
And you know, when you run into a fighter
and you don't realize how small they are,
certain fighters, and then the other ones,
you don't realize how big they are.
I ran into Sugar Shane Mosley at the same benefit,
and he's smaller than me
but he's rocked up
like up on his sweater
with so many knots.
It's like a pillowcase
full of shoes.
It's like you just
all these rocks.
I'm like,
hey man,
Sugar Shane,
you good?
What's up brother,
you good?
I'm like,
good lord,
you strong man.
Like why?
Right now,
and then Benoit Hopkins was there in a suit, real tailored.
I was like, hey, champ, how you doing?
Hands was just stone.
Yo, I'm good, brother.
But talking soft.
He was like, hey, brother, you good?
But Sugar Ray, man.
Sugar Ray.
It's Sugar Ray.
Still working out.
And he's.
Look at him.
Oh.
All that hurt.
It's like at Midtown, at Main Street Boxing Gym, right?
It's this man.
He is 79, and he comes there every day.
He cleans up in the gym.
And try it.
Try it.
Think that you're going to get a win off of him.
Hey, man, let's box around
this is gonna be
the worst day
of your whole
entire life
because I don't know
I don't know
who he used to fight
what he was doing
with that bell call
it is
a problem
like
hey man
you know I just
me and you just
talk like we friends
like
this shit is bad really yes wow Hey, man, you know I just, me and you just talk like we friends. Do-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do.
Like, this shit is bad.
Really?
Yes.
Wow.
And it's, man, it is a melee.
Did you see George Foreman hitting the heavy bag at 74?
Oh, my God.
Did you see that?
Yes, I saw it on the internet.
Find that. It is insane.
Insane.
Do that.
Do that.
Do that. Insane. And then, do that Mike Tyson working out
oh my god
does his trainer
does it not look like he's killing him
his trainer is
Rafael Cordero he's a legendary MMA
trainer he runs Kings MMA in
California
Rafael Cordero is the man
it's like them blows are coming so close.
And he's wearing a body suit and eating those body shots.
Fuck that.
And then also you got that just knowing Mike Tyson has boxing gloves and he's in front of you.
And somehow or another you're in a fucking ring with him and he's moving towards you.
Like, what does that feel like?
But check this out.
Look at George. And that's the big one. Yeah, give me that feel like? But check this out. Look at George.
And that's the big one.
Yeah, give me some volume on this because we got to hear this.
You still got that power?
Yes.
Oh, watch it.
Watch it.
What happened to the volume?
I don't know.
Oh, we got to hear it.
Oh, you got to hear it.
Oh, this doesn't mean anything.
Let's fix that.
Let's fix it.
Whatever it is.
And that's that.
I'm quite sure you have been on the biggest bag in the gym. Yeah, that's a's fix it. Whatever it is. And that's that. I'm quite sure you have been
on the biggest bag in the gym.
Yeah, that's a big ass bag. And that shit don't
move. Like you...
And the bag not moving.
Jamie, what's going on? I have no idea.
Can we try... No, it's not even
getting to my computer. I'm trying to figure out why.
Oh, okay. But it did before.
No, that was on my laptop.
Oh, so there's something wrong with the connection to the computer. There it is. Here it is. Okay knocked his head off. But it did before. No, that was on my laptop. Oh.
Oh, so there's something wrong with the connection to the computer.
There it is.
Here it is.
Okay, back it up.
Back it up so we can see it again.
My dad still got it.
Here it is.
You still got that power, dad?
Power doesn't age.
Are you ready?
Let me see what you got, champ.
Sounds acted out. Let's go, champ? Sounds acted out.
Let's go, champ.
Let's go.
Watch the head come off.
Bro.
Look at this.
Look at this left.
Dude, and that's one of the things that George Foreman used to practice.
Go to young George Foreman hitting the heavy bag.
George Foreman, like, he would hit the heavy bag different than a lot of people would.
One of the things that he would do is he would always just practice walloping the heavy bag.
Just stand in front of it, full blast, winging punches.
Not like setting things up, moving around.
No setup. No, no, no no what all right we're back um see if you can find uh young george foreman hitting the heavy bag why
did he have his his face on that bag joy's coming around the other dudes because he's never had
george foreman hit the heavy bag with him before. It's hard to hold the heavy bag without doing that, though.
Yeah, here it is.
Look at this.
So this is what he did a lot of this.
The volume's dead again?
Here it goes.
I got it now.
Look at this.
But who hits the heavy bag like this?
He's just winging punches.
He got his hand out the way.
Yeah.
Look at the dents.
Yeah, I mean, even the way he does it,
he's just throwing power shot after power shot.
And that's just to break you.
Yeah, I mean, and not even really bending that much at the knees.
That's what's crazy.
The kind of power this dude had.
Look at this.
I mean, this is ferocious.
Ferocious.
When he gets his legs into it.
My God.
This thing, Ali was taking it.
Took it all.
Took it all.
Dodge him.
I want you to pull up George Foreman knocks out Joe Frazier.
Oh, it was crazy.
I thought Frazier was going to die.
He knocked him off his feet.
That was a crazy one because that was when Joe Frazier just beat Muhammad Ali.
Yep.
And then you see what Foreman does to Frazier,
and everybody thought that Foreman was going to crush Ali, and they were scared.
Because it was like this is a real – it's like this is the first super heavyweight or something.
Yeah.
So this is the second round.
So this is when he's already hurt, I believe.
I don't remember how many rounds it was.
Oh, let's try to replay this.
So this was like he had hurt him the round before.
Yeah, here it is.
Watch this.
It's just crazy.
The power.
Even the way he's boxing, he boxes the way he hit the bag.
Look.
Yep.
It's just the power is so extraordinary that if he catches you at all,
he thumps you with that jab and then just swings at you.
And he hits you.
Oh, look at that uppercut.
Oh, my God.
Look at that right hand.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Look at that uppercut. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Look at that uppercut.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
So the round ends.
He doesn't know where he is.
Now the round is about to end.
Two knockdowns in the first round of Joe Frazier.
Down again.
No saving by the bell.
So he gets up and he goes back to his corner.
Now, this is what's amazing, that they didn't stop this fight.
They didn't.
That's amazing that his corner didn't say, that's it.
That's it, champ.
That's it, champ.
Because they know.
Because he's a warrior and you can't let him go out there.
But this is a different time, too.
This is a different time, too. This is a different time, too.
I think today they would have stopped the fight.
Yeah, they probably would have stopped this.
I think today they would have stopped the fight.
Especially knowing this type of power that's coming.
So this is afterwards.
What's going on?
What's he warning them about?
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God, this power.
Here it is.
Boom.
And see, the problem is you can't even block that with your gloves.
No, it doesn't help.
There's too much power.
It's so much power.
And it's skillful, too.
It's like he wings those to the body, but he's also skillful with the jab.
Oh, look at that left.
Oh, my God.
Frazier couldn't even throw his.
For the fifth time he's down.
This is crazy, this fight.
And he's still.
Boom, boom, boom.
I mean, what a warrior Joe Frazier was.
And that leg, he gone, too.
Yeah, oh, for sure.
But he's still in there.
Oh, look at that.
Oh, man.
Oh, my God, it's not stopped.
Okay, they're stopping the fight.
Crazy. It is over. Crazy.
It was crazy.
And Ali's sitting on the couch like,
here's my shot.
This is who I want to fight.
Do you know that Hunter S. Thompson
flew to Africa to watch that fight
and was so scared that Ali was going to get killed?
And so he didn't want to see Ali
get the fuck beaten out of him so he stayed in his hotel he stayed in his
hotel and he got drunk and he floated around on the pool on a pool floaty and
then afterwards he found out that Ali once we'd flown him to Africa to do to
write to report Rolling Stone flew that's crazy he just completely failed
didn't go there at all
he's like no i'm not put on a mix a nixon mask and he's floating around on a pool
it's like video of him doing it because i don't want to see because he doesn't want to see his
hero get killed everybody thought he was going to get killed everybody saw that fight and they
thought he was going to get killed they said there's no way how is he going to beat him
to get killed they said there's no way how is he going to beat him oh here we go but i mean the video's over yeah but it's cool um but my god man that era that era of boxing the ha the haggler is
still haggler and tommy hitman herns yeah they it's like they hate it it's like whatever went
on between them like hey man i'm not coming to box you. I am coming to a fight
with gloves on.
This is the only thing
that's,
it's like,
you thought that Hagler
was out of there.
And Hagler's like,
nope,
nope,
I'm going to kill him.
Do you understand?
Like,
I don't care about being down.
Well,
he didn't get knocked down.
It's like,
he was in the,
like I'm saying,
down in the,
behind in the fight.
He's like,
I'm not concerned about none of that.
Hey, man, second round, we going to see about it.
It was, that first round was crazy.
Crazy.
Crazy.
And Hearns broke his hand in the first round.
Yeah.
Crazy.
And Hearns cracked him a few times.
That's what I'm saying.
He was like.
But Hagler had a legendary chin.
Legendary chin.
And that's why he hated
how Ali beat him.
I mean,
how Sugar Ray beat him
with the pity pat shots.
Yeah.
It's like,
you can see him looking at him like,
what the fuck are you doing
with this pity pat shit
that's lasting a second day?
Like,
yo man,
what the fuck is he doing?
Like,
why does he keep massaging my arms?
Like,
it was terrible.
That wasn't the best,
but I do respect the fact
that he left.
He's like,
that's it.
I'm gonna go to Italy
and be a movie star.
I'm done.
I'm done.
I'm done, yeah.
There's only a few guys
that have ever just said,
that's it,
and never came back.
Did you see anybody better
than Peniel Whitaker?
No.
No.
Never. No.
Never.
Not defensively.
He was a fucking genius.
He was a genius.
He got robbed against Chavez.
Yeah, he did.
Damn sure.
If I did a movie,
I know a movie that I want to do about me coaching girls summer league,
but if I did a movie,
I would want to play Peniel Whitaker.
Oh, my God.
Sweet Pea is like, that's one of the most phenomenal boxers.
He was so creative.
Oh, man.
He was so slick in there.
Like, his movement was so, like,
see if you find a Peniel Whitaker highlight.
He was a bummer man when he died.
His footwork was phenomenal.
Yeah, he was a part of that crew that was like Meldrick Taylor,
Mark Breland.
Remember those guys? Yeah. Dude. But he was a part of that crew that was like Meldrick Taylor, Mark Breland. Remember those guys?
Yeah.
Dude.
But he was just so slick.
Just so hard to hit.
Oh, this is him and Chavez.
Oh, the highlight's a part of it.
Look at that.
I mean, come on, man.
I know.
That was a real bummer, man.
That decision.
Most people disagreed with that decision.
He was so slick.
And hit so hard.
Oh, so accurate, too.
Look at that.
Oh, my goodness.
He was amazing.
Yeah, he was an amazing boxer.
That whole era.
Yeah, that was a lot of great fighters.
Look at this.
Look at this.
De La Hoya
he said
look at that
that's amazing
look how slick that is
I mean
come on man
who fucking moves
better than that guy
look at that
that's insane
nothing
you get nothing
and it's Oscar De La Hoya
I mean it's not a regular dude
it's the fucking golden boy
yeah look at
this it's saying he literally dropped down to his butt I mean he's so slick
like nobody else man look at this rolling shots. It's like as the shots are coming at him, I mean, amazing.
Slip, slip, and then slip, miss, then boom.
Let me give you one on the way out.
Nothing is touching him.
It's insane.
Look at him.
I mean, this is incredible.
That's how good he was, man.
He was so fucking good.
So good.
So was Magic Taylor in the early days.
Yeah, Magic Taylor. man he was so good so good so was meljor taylor in the early days magic taylor alger taylor was
winning against leo cesar chavez until he landed one punch that one punch in the last round and
then richard steele stops the fight with two seconds to go richard steele that was crazy
it's like um when you when the best ever do it, you watch Kid dropped.
Roy.
Man.
Yeah.
Man.
He was so.
Then he started rapping.
And Roy Jones Jr. started rapping.
It was over.
I was like, damn.
I said, man, he got to stay with boxing, man.
He started playing basketball and doing everything else.
And then he get rocked.
Tarver was fucking good.
Tarver was fucking good.
Remember when Tarver talked to him right before
the fight? Got any excuses tonight, Roy?
Any excuses tonight, Roy?
I'm like, whoa!
Tarver was a... You seen it.
It's gonna be a problem.
It's gonna be a problem. It's going to be a problem.
Tarver was competitive at heavyweight.
He went all the way up to heavyweight.
Tarver was a good fighter.
Very good fighter.
Very good fighter.
Very difficult to deal with.
And when he knocked out Roy, everybody was like, holy shit.
And then Glenn Johnson did it, and that was a scary one.
Remember that one?
Yeah, his mitt was up a pretty long time.
They were sweeping and
everything those scare me those kind of scare me when someone stiffens up yeah and to have it
happen after the tarver ko that's those are the kinds that scare me because sometimes a fighter
is still recovering from the initial knockout and they've just convinced themselves they're okay
and they're not ready no man they you, that's why Manny Pacquiao,
after Marquez knocked him out,
Freddie Roach said,
I want you to take a year off.
A whole year.
You want to still work together?
I want you to take a year off.
That was a bad knockout.
That was.
That was a bad one.
That was a bad one.
Marquez is a bad man.
He's a bad man.
And shit.
It looked like he was on all the good stuff.
It looks like his piss would melt the styrofoam cup.
I want everything that I'm not supposed to be taking.
Yeah, bro.
Because this shit is, I'm ready.
Bro, if they drug tested him, it would ding like a carnival bell.
Ding!
Like one of them Bugs Bunny ones where you get the big mallet.
Ding!
It juiced up.
He was working with the guy that Pacquiao used to work with.
That juicer Pacquiao.
Yeah.
The guy, the Pacquiao, the strength and conditioning guy,
which is always the juice guys.
Yeah, always the juice guys.
Always the juice guys.
Those are the guys.
They're 70 and they got abs.
I was just eating this banana.
I didn't know what was in it.
He ate my food.
I had no idea what was in it.
Canelo said he got some tainted beef.
You know, how'd you get the fucking steroids in your body?
Tacos, bro.
I just had a tainted taco.
It is sprinkling on the taco.
Like, this shit is crazy.
Frank Mir, who is a UFC heavyweight champion, look at that.
Yeah, he was Jack City, son.
Jack City.
And that's at the weigh-ins.
And they had real weigh-ins back then.
So he looked a lot bigger the next day.
So those weigh-ins, like the UFC, we don't have real weigh-ins. We have real weigh-ins back then. So he looked a lot bigger the next day. So those weigh-ins, like the UFC, we don't have real weigh-ins.
We have real weigh-ins, but when the public sees it,
it's a ceremonial weigh-in.
And it's oftentimes many hours after the first weigh-in.
So what happens is they weigh in at like 8, 10 in the morning,
and then they get to rehydrate until 4 p.m.
when they get back on the scale for the ceremonial weigh-ins.
They've been drinking water and electrolyzed all day
and eating all day. So they might be like 10 pounds for the ceremonial weigh-ins. They've been drinking water and electrolyzed all day and eating all day.
So they might be like 10 pounds heavier.
Like no bullshit by then.
And then they look good.
So Marquez on fight night, though, show him Marquez versus Pacquiao.
Was it three?
It was the third one, right?
That was the last one.
On fight night.
It was four.
That's right.
It was four.
And they wanted to have a fifth one.
And Marquez was like, no, I'm good.
I got it. I got this one. Sorry. four. And they wanted to have a fifth one. And Marquez was like, no, I'm good. I got it.
I got this one.
Sorry.
You got me, but I got you, motherfucker.
I got you where it counts.
I mean, he was jack city, son.
Man, look at his arm.
Yeah, man.
He was like fucking jacked. And he was doing a lot of crazy workouts for that fight, too.
A lot of dumbbell shit.
Oh, my God.
Look at the fucking power behind that shot.
My God. Look at Manny. Manny was like, God damn. Oh my god, look at the fucking power behind that shot my god
Look at that. Look at the power behind that shot
Pac-man was getting packed and then when he literally like that's it right there Jamie. That's it
Yeah, he literally ran into that shot looking
to land a shot and marquez timed it perfectly to watch a great like him get flatlined is always
so strange yeah you know like you you're so used to seeing him doing that to like ricky hatton
right right yeah that fight holy yeah ricky hadn't got it. Ah, Ricky hadn't got it.
He got it from Pacquiao.
He got it from Pacquiao.
And then when he got it from Floyd, he ran into the buckle.
I'm like, man, what the hell is going on?
Floyd got him first, right?
Yeah, Floyd got him first, and then Manny leveled him.
Yeah, Manny flatlined him.
Oh, my God.
Look at the power behind this.
Watch this.
Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Look at the power behind this. Watch this. Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
I mean, the way his head snaps back and he falls.
Look at this lady over here.
Look at her.
It's like, oh, my God, he's dead.
Yeah, look at her.
Look at him.
He's like, yeah.
Viva Mexico.
He has zero concern.
Look at him.
I mean, Pacquiao is out cold.
Is he down? Is he down?
Is he down?
Yeah.
Okay.
Hey!
He didn't give a shit.
I mean that's like a gunshot wound.
Look at this.
Boom!
Boom!
I mean it is the perfect punch.
That might be one of the great, I mean it is, one of the greatest punches, one punch
knockouts in the history of boxing.
With the consequences on the line, with all on the line with these two guys
being world champions did that one shot like that cracking is that what it said it's thinking
you got cracked you just got what you asked for that was a that was a wild wild four fights
between those two guys get cracking on his shorts he's a hell of a pool player he is yeah
like world class yeah yeah like professional level pool player legitimately yeah like minnesota fat
side minnesota fats wasn't really minnesota fats minnesota fats was new york fats and then when
the movie the hustler came out with jackieleason and Paul Newman in 1963, I think.
Was it 63?
When that movie came out, the movie was so popular that New York Fats changed his name to Minnesota Fats and said the movie was all about him.
But it wasn't.
He was just a good – his name was Rudolph Wanderone.
And he was a good pool player.
But he was not at the level of like Willie Moscone,
who was like the world champion at the time.
I don't know.
He was just a really good talker.
He was just a smooth-talking hustler character.
Man, there's some guys that grew up in pool halls
that would beg to differ.
They was great.
If who was great?
Any of them guys.
There's some guys who never even got noticed.
They just been playing in pool halls all their life.
Like, yeah, because you know them, I know them guys who talk like, I wish Minnesota
Fats would come down and I'd wear his ass out.
Yeah.
Well, they probably would wear Minnesota Fats out, but he would play in one pocket.
He really didn't gamble in anything other than one pocket, I think.
That was like a, I'm sure he played nine ball too, but I mean like when he would play big games against people, he liked anything other than one pocket, I think. I'm sure he played nine ball, too.
But, I mean, when he would play big games against people, he liked to play in one pocket.
He could play everything, though.
He was like a real professional class pool player.
He was a hustler.
But Willie Moscone was like the world champion.
Willie Moscone, his high record of running balls in a row was like 526 balls in a row.
It lasted for decades.
That's the person that's in public, John.
That's the public person.
That's not really true.
It's not really true.
Because in the pool world, no, in the pool world,
everybody gets found out, especially today, because they gamble.
Because the great players, the best players, they all gamble.
You ever heard of Minnesota Red?
I'm sure there is a Minnesota Red.
But believe me, this is my world like i literally came up in pool halls my dad i know a lot about pool hustling this is my dad on his own
stick and all this and he and you always say man if i don't go shoot we don't eat which is which
wasn't true because he owned the company but he was a pool shark i'm sure i'm sure there's a lot of pool sharks and there's
some guys out there that i used to be in the pool hall i'm like dang if they went public like if
that was yeah they got into you think everybody makes it too like it's some it's some basketball
legends that they played at ruckus right right and everybody's mind you talk about dr j they're
like come on man will. Willie Earl? Right.
Willie Earl was the coder?
You know what I'm saying?
But only people there know about Willie Earl.
Yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
Well, there's guys like that in pool.
Yeah.
But here's the thing.
Everybody knows about them.
They might not be in the professional tournaments or not in the tournaments, but everybody knows
about them.
They folk legend.
Everybody knows about them.
They're all hustlers.
They're all gamblers.
So they all gamble.
To get that good, to get really good, you have
to play for stakes. You don't get that good
playing funsies. Oh no, ain't no
funsies. You gotta play for real bread.
When you play for real bread,
people find out.
Because the pool wire is like the quickest wire
in the country. If someone is playing for
$25,000 at hard times in
Sacramento, people in New York City hear
about it. Oh hell yeah. Instantly. People text each other. There's no secrets. If you're playing for $2, people in New York City hear about it. Oh hell. Yeah instantly people text each other
There's no secrets if you play over $2,500. I'm here about it. So guys
Guys are good. Everybody knows about it. Yeah, there's there's local legends. There's like this guy named Justin Bergman
He might be as good as anybody alive, but he doesn't play in too many tournaments
But everybody's scared to gamble with him
He goes and gambles with world champions and robs them and he's like this dude He never leaves his town and people come to him and try to gamble with him. He goes and gambles with world champions and robs them. And he's like this dude who never leaves his town.
And people come to him and try to gamble with him.
It's folklore shit.
Yeah, you know.
But they're all known.
You know what I'm saying?
Remember, what is this sitcom that somebody's son got hustled?
I think it was either Good Times or it's going to be.
It's probably Good Times.
And he came down and Jay came down.
Fresh Prince.
Oh, yeah, Fresh Prince.
See, don't nobody know about Phil.
Don't nobody know about Uncle Phil.
Uncle Phil come down and, okay, this is what y'all doing.
Y'all ain't heard about me.
This is what I used to do.
So that's what I'm talking about.
Yeah.
Yeah, this, that.
But I'm telling you, in real life, unless he's playing every day, he's getting robbed.
Unless he's playing every day, he's getting robbed.
Unless he's playing every day, it's a perishable skill.
Jeffrey, go get Lucille.
Look at this.
Oh, my God, he's terrible.
He's hustling.
He doesn't know anything.
Now he's pretending?
Yeah, yeah. Okay.
He's hustling.
He's hustling right there.
He's pretending.
Okay, so when does he actually play?
Let me see what he actually does when he's actually playing.
Okay. When does he actually play let me see what he actually does when he's actually playing Okay
Now he screws his cue together. All right, so now they're hustling let me say
Okay, yeah, they're not gonna show you
See that's the most embarrassing shit ever is when they try to get someone to pretend they can play pool and they can't really play pool.
That's why the color of money is so impressive.
Oh, yeah, the color of money.
Because Tom Cruise looked like he could kind of play a little.
Yeah.
I mean, he didn't look really like a world champion, but he looked like he could play a little.
Like, it looked reasonable to assume that he could play pool.
That's like with any skilled thing thing like pool and any other thing when they have somebody acting
like this right like like like boxing like boxing like i was gonna say creed like creed man i saw
creed creed is the worst goddamn boxing movies like i'm like man will smith did better than
muhammad ali than creed will Will Smith did good in Muhammad Ali.
That's what I'm saying.
He looked good in Muhammad Ali.
But Creed, I'm like, man, if you don't get these dance steps the fuck out of here.
Like, I'm like, that is fucking terrible.
Like, this is like, you can tell they were just doing, hey, count all the pad work.
Like, hey, look, one, two, three, turn your body.
One, two, three, turn your body.
Like, God, this is so terrible.
Creed is awkward.
It's so stupid.
It's so stupid.
Like, can you, I can't particularly watch, like, if you watch me watch Oz or any drug dealing movie or any doctor thing it's the most
excruciating thing happening to my face I'm like that's that this is how I feel
ah man this some that don't even go like that like It's like, it's terrible.
Like,
I'd rather watch something else
that I don't know anything about
and just be intrigued.
Like,
oh,
maybe that could,
you know,
maybe that could be happening.
But this,
I'm like,
man,
what the hell am I doing?
Whereas I would watch it
and I'd be like,
hmm,
I guess that's how it goes down.
Hmm.
And I'm sitting over there
so frustrated next to you.
It's whispering.
You're like,
yo, that's not how it go.
Man, I'm trying to watch the movie.
Yo, that's not how it actually goes.
Explain it to me later.
I'm enjoying this.
I'm like,
I'm going to go to the lobby.
I'm going to go to the lobby
because I hate this.
It's got to drive people crazy to play piano when they see because I hate this. It's got to drive people crazy to play piano.
They see someone faking it.
That's got to drive people crazy.
That's not even your fucking body movement.
None of this is your body movement.
I would hate that.
Nobody plays piano anymore.
Think about that.
You had Ray Charles.
You had Little Richard you had
no no no no John Legend still played piano oh does he people definitely play
piano yeah but not like back in the day Jerry Lee Lewis got more instruments now
Billy Joel judgment I'm not saying it's not a judgment I'm just saying it's
interesting like there used to be so many Elton John.
There were so many piano acts.
There were these big piano acts back in the day.
I think Usher may play one of the two songs in his Vegas.
I don't know, but it is people that play.
John Legend definitely plays the piano in every commercial and everything.
He is definitely. I'm out of the loop. I knew commercial and everything, he is definitely...
I knew what you meant, but there's also
a lot of people.
There's other stuff to do.
What I'm saying is that it used to be a viable
kind of music.
Guitar is still prevalent. Most people still
play the guitar and the drums.
Most people don't pull out. I get what you're saying.
But it is people who...
Is something super sincere about singing a song
While you're playing the piano
Like goodbye
That's very personal You know what I'm saying?
That's very personal.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Like, the guitar don't give you that type of feel.
Right, right, right.
They're sitting down.
They're sitting down.
It's very emotional.
Good by Norm G.
You know what I'm saying?
It makes you cry. If he's just standing there.
That's what John Legend, that's why John Legend do it.
Yeah.
What is his song, Ordinary People?
I think he always leans in.
We heard you and you just, as soon as you hear it, you're like, we are just ordinary people.
I got a John Mayer was doing, he was doing something live where he was just doing like a live storytelling show.
And he had like a piano.
You know what's weird about this?
There's no back to that piano. How about you face the audience, you fucking...
It's like I see his stomach before I saw the piano.
Like, straighten your shirt.
If he turned his back, you would think he's faking, maybe.
Just like you were just saying.
He's just moving his hands.
I don't know if that's why they're sideways.
But everybody knows he's super fucking... John Mayer is super talented. You would think he's just moving his hands. I don't know if that's why they're sideways. But everybody knows he's super fucking John Mayer.
Super talented.
You would think he's taking the night off.
He's a very nice guy, too.
I think Elton John does his on like, he kind of slightly turnt, but he's on like a platform.
You can kind of see him.
Elton John is...
Oh, my God.
He's the man.
Elton John, back in the day.
What's that song, Saturday Night?
Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting? Yeah Fighting what is the actual name of that song
his shit's Sideways 2 I don't understand that
I think it must be to show
that he's playing it which makes sense
I think is Stevie
wanted to Sideways 2
also you get to see more of him
that way you get to see his hands and his legs
moving and everything it's probably better
cause I was not thinking, like, every time
I see anyone play piano, I've never seen him
turn forward. It's 100% always sideways.
Maybe because it'd just be all knees.
Yeah. Knees and crotch.
It's just getting all
knees and crotch. Kind of weird that he wears
glasses. Like, why is he wearing sunglasses?
He always does. Isn't that odd?
I mean, he always used to wear the big crazy glasses.
That was when he was going bald.
Maybe his eye's bad now.
He's got his hair fixed.
Because he's definitely not going bald anymore.
Like, nice little lace front.
I don't know what that is.
But it was pretty good.
Stevie Wonder.
Yeah.
I don't know if Stevie played.
Rachel, I've never played to the side.
I mean, the front.
Either.
I think they always played that way.
I think it was probably because, you know,
there are those pianos that will play themselves.
So people probably want to see you moving around.
They want to see you actually doing it.
See if you could find.
That's what people don't play no more, the harmonica.
So here he's sitting behind keyboards.
Is he facing the crowd?
I can't tell.
Yeah.
Yeah, he is there.
Okay, he's facing the crowd. I think he got keyboards and then he turns to the piano what about uh try to find Ray Charles
how did Ray Charles do it because Ray Charles didn't even know where the when
he only knew by sound where they even work
that's you have sideways yeah he sideways too I guess they all do it that way
Makes sense
Here
Nope
I guess the maybe better answer
Is that when you open
The piano up
That's where the sound comes out
Oh
It should be going
Towards the audience
Because it goes like this
Yeah yeah yeah
Oh that makes sense
And then maybe it's just traditional
That they all just do it that way
Oh that's that top thing
Yeah we're just thinking about it
The top acts as like Sound sound bounces off of it.
You point the sound the other way,
it's gonna be not a good concert.
Oh, that's pretty badass.
Probably most of the reason why.
Oh, that makes sense.
That's pretty cool that they designed the top like that.
It's like a sideways harp, an enclosed harp.
Yeah.
Okay.
But these pianos don't do that,
so that kind of defeats what I just said.
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