The Joe Rogan Experience - #2090 - Bobby Lee
Episode Date: January 23, 2024Bobby Lee is a stand-up comic, actor, and podcaster. He's the co-host of "TigerBelly," with Khaylyla Kuhn, and "Bad Friends," with Andrew Santino. www.bobbylee.live ...
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The Joe Rogan Experience It's just like, what a blessing. No, no, no, no, no. Let me finish this. What a blessing.
Over the years, people on the internet were like, why don't you do Rogan?
I was like, I don't even know how.
And I'm here now.
And I just feel so present.
And I feel mindful.
It's going to be a great one.
Anyway, thanks for having me.
I'm so happy you're here.
You too, man.
Yeah, we talked about doing it fucking a thousand times.
A thousand times.
Yeah, and it never happened.
And people thought we had a problem with each other or something.
No, we know. In fact, here's the deal, Joe. Yeah, and it never happened. And people thought we had a problem with each other or something. No, we know.
In fact, here's the deal, Joe.
Okay, Bobby.
Not only do we not have a problem with each other, right?
Right.
You've been a really big asset to me over the years on the phone.
Like when I'm in trouble, you call and you're so helpful and you've got me through a lot of difficult situations.
I love you, Bobby.
We're the opposite of trouble. We're in a
family. Yes.
That's how I feel. Yeah.
I just didn't know how to do it.
Well, I always said anytime you want to do it, you were like,
okay. But there's no number?
Who do I call? You call me.
I don't know who to call.
This whole thing is literally
booked on my phone. Oh, it is?
Yeah. Well, now I know.
I have a guy, shout out to my man Matt, who I contact when I want someone to get, like
if I want to reach out, like to Cat Williams or something like that, like reach out to
this guy, try to get him on.
And that's it.
And then it all gets booked on my phone.
Wow.
Well, now I know, and knowing's half the battle.
You know what they said?
G.I. Joe just said that.
What?
Yeah.
That way, it's like the whole thing.
Because I go to Tom's.
Have you been to Tom's?
Tom's?
Oh, yeah.
It's like they have a real production staff.
There's all these people running around with clipboards.
I went to Bert's house the other day day he had eight people behind computers yeah just typing
away what the fuck they're doing emailing social media going crazy promoting arena shows everyone's
going nuts me no i don't want that in my life why would you don't need it i don't want it you have
white guy yeah just some average white guy not no offense, but you're not, you know. With all due respect, Jamie does take the place of, like, at least two regular people, if not three.
He's great, dude.
How many people?
I don't know.
You tell me.
I say at least two.
Maybe three.
Jamie might take the place of three people.
Wow.
What do you got there?
What are those?
These are pouches.
They're called Copenhagens.
Oh, okay.
I got these little rogues.
I like these.
Is it tobacco?
It's just nicotine.
It's not tobacco.
Yeah, it's the pouch.
Those are tobacco?
Yeah, they are tobacco.
So you have to spit.
Yeah.
And when it blisters, I stop.
Oh, okay.
But it burns through your teeth.
How did Money White was telling me that?
Yeah, yeah.
It made his gums recede.
Yeah.
Chewing.
Chewing. Yeah. But then when you take a break, they grow back. It's like a It made his gums recede. Yeah. Chewing.
Yeah.
But then when you take a break, they grow back.
It's like a plant.
Your gums. Oh, like a little plant.
Yeah, yeah.
You're trimming it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, like a bonsai.
Yeah, like a bonsai.
Maybe you get better gums that way.
Yeah.
But I quit smoking two years ago, so it's like, you know, that was tough.
Was it?
Cigarettes?
Yeah.
Well, I quit drugs and cigarettes.
Well, you went clean.
You were clean for a long time.
17 years.
And then what was the first thing you did?
Well, I relapsed twice.
So after the 17 years, my dad died.
And he died.
And then my mom goes, selfie.
So I took a selfie with my mom and the family.
And my dad was dead.
And I decided that was so weird
that i took a gummy i brought one just in case how many milligrams at that time it was like 10
milligrams okay but then i had other stuff in my mom's house you know i mean and i took the rest
and then i relapsed for like four months then i got sober again. And then when things got crazy in my life, I did it again.
What did you go with again?
Did you go with just weed?
Weed and drinking.
And it's fine at first.
I remember taking Edible, going to Hawaii because I was shooting Magnum PI or something.
And it's fun for a couple of months, but then I overdo it.
And then it's like 24 hours a day day and I'm drinking 24 hours a day and then
like people are like Andrew you know Santino was concerned like one time he
knocked on my hotel room and I walked out I'd poo all over my body
whoa yeah and I was in a blackout drunk and he goes you had poo all over your
body clean you clean me up yeah he's the yeah he cleaned me up you know yeah he's like
i'm just the best he's the best well he was mad you know he gets mad of course he's like
you're a bastard you know i mean yeah yeah you're covered in shit because i didn't abandon you like
i would have i don't think you would have i probably wouldn't you would have cleaned it
but you would have said clean up and then 10 minutes i would have chucked you into the tub
yeah like a cold plunge yeah Yeah. Just hose you down.
So it got bad, and then what happened was Bob Sackett died, and then Louie died.
And for some reason, I was drinking and doing, and also when I was coughing up blood.
Oh.
I had these chunks of curdled blood.
Oh.
Right, like a ball. And I had convinced myself that I had fucking cancer.
Oh.
And I always,
I go,
death comes in three.
Not that I'm that big,
like those guys,
but in my mind,
it's like,
I'm next.
Oh, shit.
And I couldn't sleep.
I couldn't eat.
It was fucking terrible.
Oh, fuck.
And then I got sober
and things are fine.
Whew.
What was the blood?
Did you ever find out?
Then I got an x-ray done
and it's like,
it's fine. I just, when I, I x-ray done and he's like it's fine
I just when I smoke so much weed and cigarettes at the same time
I would cough into it like a like a towel or something and I would send it to my axe Kalilah
Just the photo or the actual tattoo?
Okay, okay.
Yeah, yeah.
Just the photo.
And I'd be like,
I have cancer.
Because if you send her the whole thing,
that's like bio-terrorism.
That's weird.
Oh, really?
I don't think so.
No, I mean,
if you thought you had
like some crazy disease,
like, oh my God,
did you see these ladies
in Denver today?
They took a live Ebola vaccine.
There's not even Ebola cases here.
It's in Africa, right?
But this doctor was encouraging people to take this Ebola vaccine just in case Ebola hits.
Why does everybody want to freak me out?
I know.
Why does this lady want to freak me out by taking this thing?
Who knows what the fuck is going to happen to you now?
And why does everybody want to freak me out at the fucking possibility of some new disease coming along and killing everybody?
But Ebola's
old school. It's a scary one.
Hot zone. It liquefies your organs,
right? Denver Health Medical Team
receives Ebola vaccine.
The team became some of the
first people to receive the live Ebola vaccine
for preventative measures in case of a future
outbreak. The first people?
Oh my God.
Wait a minute.
Is the Ebola vaccine new?
Did they not have a vaccine before?
And now they do?
I don't know.
What the fuck, people?
But back in the day when they had it,
they just bombed a village, right?
That's a good question.
What did they do?
I don't know what they did.
I don't think it's that easy to spread.
I think Ebola has to be spread by bodily fluids.
It's not airborne.
Right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But they could fix that.
You think they're Chinese?
They're Chinese guys.
A little bit of this, a little bit of that.
And look, now it flies through the air.
Oh, man, if it was like COVID, like that easy?
Yeah, but Ebola.
We're fucked.
But that's what scares the shit out of me, man.
They keep talking about it.
These fucking creeps at the World Economic Forum, they all get together and talk about
preparation for disease X.
They're calling it virus X or disease X.
They're scaring the shit out of me.
But do you think it's...
Let me ask.
I don't know.
Can I just ask you something?
I don't know.
You know me.
I don't know much.
Okay.
I don't know about nothing, right?
But do you believe that it was man-made?
Well, it was definitely man-made.
Okay.
Yeah, I wouldn't say definitely because I'm not really an expert.
But every expert that I have talked to that examined the virus itself,
the cleavage sites, the way it skipped all animal forms.
You can't find that virus out in the wild.
And then also it made a leap to person.
It apparently has all of the earmarks of being engineered.
Wow.
But this is something that they do.
This is not like science fiction.
So when we say that, it's not like we're just making up some story about some lab where they're making viruses
No, no, they fucking 100% absolutely do it and they lied about funding it. That was the big thing with Fauci in the NIH
They lied about funding gain-of-function research and Rand Paul grilled them
You could watch it on YouTube and then they lied about whether or not this, first of all, was happening,
whether or not they were doing gain-of-function research, and whether or not they funded it.
They funded it through another organization.
So they fund another organization, and the other organization funds the Wuhan lab.
And there's a bunch of labs.
That's not the only lab.
There's a shit ton of them.
I visited one with Duncan.
We went down to one in Galveston, Texas. It's
fucking terrifying.
And I don't know if they're doing gain-of-function research there,
but I know they have some of the most
deadly viruses and diseases known
to man, all with these crazy
ventilation tubes, and everyone's
walking around in these hazmat suits and shit.
They let Duncan and I there. Why?
Oh, and by the way, we hadn't slept.
So, Duncan and I, this is when we were doing Joe Rogan questions everything for sci-fi.
Duncan and I, we flew together.
So we had to fly together to go to Texas.
And both of us got barbecued.
I mean, we took like 500 milligram edibles and totally missed our flight.
In the airport, we were just talking for like hours.
Like, oh my God, what time is it?
Like that bad.
And they're like, this flight's gone.
The flight's gone.
Like, oh no.
Yeah.
So the next flight we had to take place was like five in the morning and it got us there
right before we're supposed to film.
So we literally stayed up all night, flew it.
I think we got a hotel for one hour.
I think we actually got a hotel for one hour.
Yeah.
And then we flew, woke up in the morning, and just got in the car, rather, and just went straight to this lab.
So we're delirious.
We're still probably high.
And we're in this crazy bio lab where they have Ebola.
Wow.
They have everything.
You name it, they've got it.
Everything that kills everybody.
And it's all these big, thick, plexiglass walls.
Oh, my God.
Wow.
It was freaking me out.
Wow.
And me and Duncan were both like, oh, my God, dude.
Are you in a suit, too?
Are you in a suit?
No.
Oh.
No, no, no, no.
We only went into the administrative offices.
They did not let us onto the floor.
We didn't go anywhere near any diseases.
They just let us through the office. didn't go anywhere near any diseases they just
let us through the but the doctor scared the fuck out of me because what he was saying to me is he
because our our our piece was all on bioweapons and one of the things that i interviewed this guy
who was formerly from the soviet union i believe it was the Soviet Union, it might have been Ukraine. I think it was Soviet Union.
And when he left,
he was saying that they at one point in time
had literal vats of anthrax.
Just like a giant fucking swimming pool
filled with anthrax.
He said they had so much of it.
They had so, like,
bioweapons were a big part
Of the strategy
Like if everything goes fucked
If we just decide to start killing each other
If we decide to start nuking each other
That was one of the things they were going to do
Did they use anthrax and nom?
I don't believe so
What's Agent Orange? The same thing?
No, no, Agent Orange is a defoliation
It's Agent Orange
They would spray on the plants So they could find the people in the jungle.
Is it orange?
That's a good question.
Like if I saw it?
Right, that's a good question.
Why orange?
Right.
Why not yellow?
I don't know what it looks like.
There was another word for it, right?
What was the other word for Agent Orange?
There's like a technical term.
Because if they use it in Vietnam, they should just call it Agent Yellow.
Bah!
No? Bah! No?
Bah!
Cut that out!
I've always said that Asian people take jokes better than anybody.
You know why?
Why?
All emojis are yellow.
No one complains.
It's true.
They don't complain.
Yeah.
Yellow thumbs up, yellow smiley face guy, yellow girl.
Everyone's yellow.
No one complains.
People get mad at me because I allow comics to do Asian accents in front of me.
And I laugh at it because I think it's funny.
But then people think that I'm like an Uncle Chang.
You know what I mean?
Right, right, right.
No.
Listen, first of all, those people are all your friends.
And friends mock each other all the time.
Yeah.
My friends mock me for being short.
They mock me for being bald.
They mock me for being old.
It's fun.
It's fun.
If they mock me for being...
See, the thing is, mocking me for being Italian, it doesn't work.
Like, no one cares.
Yeah.
It's not a bad one.
Yeah.
That's why you can call Italians guineas.
And nobody gives a shit.
They'll call each other guineas.
You can call them guineas.
No one cares.
Because people don't really hate Italians.
Yeah.
They find them annoying.
A little.
Like the gold chain ones.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Those guys.
Some of them are a little,
but that's also part of the flavor of that culture.
It's fun.
You know, but Asian hate is a different kind of hate.
Because Asian hate, like legitimately,
people will walk up to Asian people
and punch them after COVID.
Oh, yeah, I saw it.
Yeah, I saw it.
It's fucking wild.
Wild, yeah.
I mean, that's just strict racist hate
walking right up to someone
and punching them just because.
Like an old man.
Old men, old ladies.
Yeah.
It's wild.
And they don't even know
what kind of Asian it is
it could be someone
from the Philippines
it could be someone
from China
they have no fucking idea
they're just
just hitting people
it was fucking terrible
yeah
terrifying
yeah
that shit's real
yeah
but when it comes to like
comedy
like back in the day
like you're backstage
with a bunch of comics
we see all kinds
of fucked up shit
we try to make
each other laugh
and it's hard to make us laugh
or shock
yeah or shock
yeah yeah
well shock to make you laugh yeah the shocking thing's hard to make us laugh. Or shock. Yeah, or shock. Yeah, yeah. Well, shock to make you laugh.
Yeah.
The shocking thing is just so you go, what the fuck is wrong with you?
How many times will we be in the green room and Joey Diaz will say something like, what
the fuck is wrong with you?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And we're on the ground laughing.
Yeah, yeah.
But that's what he's trying to do.
He's not a bad person.
He's trying to make you laugh.
And then we do it publicly on podcasts and publicly around, you know, on podcasts and stuff.
And people just get fucking crazy.
You know what it's like?
It's like being around any person that's used to a certain thing.
Like, have you ever been around soldiers?
Like, especially like special operator guys, like Navy SEAL type dudes.
They get a couple of drinks and then they start talking war stories
yeah holy shit yeah they're funny they're funny stories about people getting blown up yeah like
they have funny stories about it and you guess what you can't bring that up at the fucking pta
meeting you know you can't wait where you're gonna where you're gonna you have to be around
like-minded people that understand those kind of experiences to be able to talk about the
cops some of the cops i know have the most fucked up senses of humor yeah they've seen so much they
need a release valve man you need fucking something to let out all the gunshot victims and
all the deaths and highway act all the things they see man they see so much yeah also these
port cities back in the day right you'd have different races and stuff and they didn't
speak the language and the way they would connect is make fun of each other and people's accents
and it was a it was a you bonded that way but that was the nicest thing they could do to each
other back then those port cities were just filled with violence yeah probably yeah violence it's all
gangs in new york yeah that's what it was like man. That's real. Yeah, that's when people came here from other countries like
My ancestors came here or my grandparents came here in the 1920s Wow
They came from Italy and on my father's side they came from Ireland one one from Ireland. He was from Ireland the mothers from Italy
They're all immigrants. Everybody's in there those people that came to that place
They all were so wild they were willing to get on a boat with their kids and travel across the ocean.
You didn't know if you had a job.
You didn't know what it looked like.
You had to look at a drawing of it.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, somebody had to tell you.
You had to get a letter from Uncle Pete that, you know, I made it to America.
I got a job in the shipyard.
It's great.
I'm making, you know,
50 bucks a month.
And then they're like,
oh, 50 bucks a month.
And then they get in their boat
with their babies.
Yeah.
Those were wild people.
And like the Chinese, right?
Oh, yeah.
Back in the day,
they had three options.
I could do laundry, right?
Dynamite detail railroad, right?
Opium den.
Restaurant.
Oh, restaurant. I'm opium den. Restaurant. Oh, restaurant.
I'm opium den.
Yeah.
Back in the day.
Yeah, you would have
the best one.
Yeah, you'd play
with Mr. Jones, right?
I'd lay them down
on a nice like,
you know what I mean?
Felt mattress.
Oh, you'd have cool lighting.
Yeah, great lighting.
Yeah, yeah.
Ride the dragon.
Right.
Ride the dragon.
I would stick it in their mouth.
Yeah.
Light it for them.
Yeah.
Right?
And then touch their head
as they're going under.
Right. Just like, oh. Right, right. Whoa their mouth. Yeah. Light it for them. Yeah. Right? And then touch their head as they're going. Right.
Right, right.
Whoa.
Whoa.
Yeah.
Like in that movie, Once Upon a Time in America.
Yeah.
De Niro was like fucked up on opiates.
Everybody got fucked up on it once you did it.
Yeah.
They get fucked up. But that's what's wild about social media.
Social media is addictive and it doesn't even feel good
Opium at least you feel great. Yeah, you feel great look at all those dudes in an opium den Oh my god, mine would look so much better than that. I had Peter Berg on you know Peter Berg did that
You know he's amazing. He's done a million things. He's that guy's the shit, but he did
that Netflix series, Painkiller, the one on the Sackler family.
Didn't see it.
Holy shit, dude.
I see.
Okay, I'll see.
The opioid crisis.
But he told me that he tried it once.
He said, I tried Oxycontin once, recreational.
And he was like, oh my God, get this the fuck away from me.
He goes, it was great.
Yeah.
It just makes you feel so good that's the
problem that's the problem those goddamn things well when i was on mad tv and i relapsed because
at 13 years i got on mad tv all i got addicted to the vicodin and i was taking 30 or 40 a day
and then yeah and when i got off of that shit dude right it was the worst detox I've ever fucking felt and then I had to do
a Connie Chung sketch
on Mad
two days
into fucking detoxing
and I shit my pants
on camera
and they didn't air it
because you shit your pants
yeah I went
good evening
I play Connie Chung
right
and I'm shaking
oh boy
good evening
I'm Connie
as I said Connie
I pooed
and I had stockings
and then I had a wardrobe wipe it.
Oh, boy.
It was fucking terrible.
It was fucking terrible.
Oh, boy.
And I got sober then.
But it's like, yeah, if I get it, opiates are the worst.
What other job can you do that?
And they're like, just clean them up.
I know.
It's really good.
At McDonald's?
You're out.
You're out.
You're gone.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We try to finish.
You're working for Apple?
That's a wrap.
That's a wrap.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Even on stage. You're in the Genius Bar. You shit your pants Apple? That's a wrap. That's a wrap. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Even on stage.
You're in the Genius Bar, you shit your pants.
That's it, Bobby.
Yeah.
No more.
Even on stage, you can go to a guy and go, fuck you.
Yeah.
In comedy, you don't get fired for that.
It's fucking amazing.
It's amazing.
If you did that at Jamba Juice, you're done.
Right.
Right.
But I remember you telling me a story how you had been up all night and you got back to Mad TV.
Had to get there for something.
Was it a table read or what?
You had a giant knife on you.
You're super paranoid and tweaking.
Oh, yeah.
He said you were carrying like a Bowie knife. Yeah, Bowie.
And sometimes a Klingon.
You know those guys that love Star Trek?
Yeah.
So I had a Klingon knife. One of those curves. How big was it? It was like a Bowie knife. Yeah, and sometimes a Klingon, one of those Klingons, you guys gotta love Star Trek. Yeah. So I had a Klingon knife.
One of those curves.
How big was it?
It was like this long.
I still have it by my bed, right?
And I would stick it right here, right?
And an open Hawaiian shirt.
And I was breaking out.
That's what it looks like?
That's what it looked like, yeah.
Oh, that's pretty dope.
Yeah, yeah.
That is actually pretty dope.
That's what Klingons would carry around?
Yeah, and then they would,
isn't that crazy?
They have spaceships,
but they still need knives first of all they
didn't even have the fucking internet right it's the dumbest show ever and
they had walkie-talkies they hadn't even figured out phone I never thought of a
Kirk out click right you would have like a nothing yeah something yeah yet they
could beam you up.
Yeah.
They could literally take your body and reach out to you.
It's still a good show.
It's a great show.
It's still a good sci-fi show.
Listen, I love Star Trek.
Next Generation?
No, first one.
No.
The real one.
Old one.
I'm sorry.
I'll back up.
I'm sorry.
You're wrong.
I'm not wrong.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Can I just say something?
I can't be wrong for liking something. I understand that. I think that you're wrong. I'm not wrong. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can I just say something? I can't be wrong for liking something.
I understand that.
I think that you're misinformed.
How so?
Because, and do me a favor, season five.
No.
All right.
Okay, right now.
I know, but can I just, just open your heart.
It's open.
Okay, so may I say what I'm going to say?
Right.
May I?
Yes, please.
All right.
Season five. Okay. Second to the last episode. Okay. The episode's called Inner say what I'm going to say? Right. May I? Yes, please. All right. Season five.
Okay.
Second to the last episode.
Okay.
The episode's called Inner Light.
I'm not going to watch it.
I'm not asking you to, but I'm asking your fans to check it out.
They're going to yell at me.
That episode is the greatest piece of sci-fi ever filmed.
And Adam Egan hated Star Trek.
I forced him to watch this episode.
He watched every episode after that.
Really?
Yeah.
Okay, I'll watch it.
It's a great episode.
Okay, I will watch it.
Okay, thank you.
Now I changed my mind.
I will watch it.
See, your heart was open.
It looks interesting.
Yeah, yeah.
It looks interesting because he's walking around.
Okay.
See what he's got to say.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Maybe he's on like a vision quest.
No, the concept is great. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe he's on like a vision quest. No, the concept is great.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I believe you.
Okay, good.
Thank you.
I like the old one just for nostalgic purposes.
Yeah.
Because I'm old.
And because when I was a kid, that was on television.
I remember watching Star Trek and Captain Kirk.
Like, oh my God, he's the coolest.
Yeah, he was the best.
You know?
And it was also, it's so corny.
Like, if you watch it today, it's gone to this point where it becomes funny.
It's parody.
Yeah.
Like, there's a scene where Captain Kirk has a fight with, like, a lizard man on a planet.
Yeah, I remember that one.
I remember that, yeah.
It's the dumbest fight scene ever.
It's right up there with the six million dollar man versus Bigfoot.
That's the dumbest one.
Yeah, this one.
But this one's pretty dumb yeah look at him he was so
handsome first of all this lizard is so goddamn slow I'll fuck this lizard up I
would fuck look at that I would yeah I would fuck look at it bro I would fuck
him up I'll be leg kicking him right now whop whop I take them knees out oh that
would a shitty body kick.
Wow.
And he just threw him.
He fights like Brendan Schaub a little bit.
But all he did is throw him.
Brendan Schaub was a good fighter.
I'm kidding.
You better shut your mouth.
He knocked out Mirko Kroko.
I'm kidding.
I'm kidding.
I love him.
So look at this.
He's right next to you and he's not even biting you.
Yeah, yeah.
This is the biggest pussy lizard of all time.
He's not even biting.
He's not biting. The neck is even biting. He's not biting.
The neck is right there.
He's got a giant mouth full with teeth.
Easily he could bite.
There's no restraint keeping him from biting.
Yeah.
Oh, that was a good ear move.
Captain Kirk, he hit him with the ears.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, he hurt him with the ears.
Yeah.
So what does he do?
He runs away like a pussy.
Now he's going to throw rocks at him.
Yeah. You got to hit him in the ear bro get close the guy's slow as fuck look at him this is so dumb this is so dumb this is so dumb it hurts
my feelings but imagine shooting that that day it's so hot that guy in the lizard suit oh my god
he's sweating his dick yeah yeah he's having rough. Because that's probably Burbank or somewhere.
Yeah.
Those stones.
Like, that totally looks like it could be California.
Doesn't it?
Yeah.
They must have shot it.
Oh, he's going to pick up the rock.
Look how fake that rock looks.
Watch him throw that rock.
All you have to do is just get out of the way now.
Don't stand there.
Wait for the...
Look, get out of the fucking way, bro!
Oh, Jesus Christ. How casual did he get out of the way?, bro! Oh, Jesus Christ.
How casual did he get out of the way?
Because he knew it wasn't a real rock.
Yeah.
It reminds me of when that guy threw the shoe at Bush.
This is picture-perfect terrible acting.
Yeah.
Picture-perfect terrible choreography.
Everything about it is hilarious.
Does it end?
That was it.
He doesn't kill him?
He ran away.
That's it?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Whoa.
How dumb. He's throwing boulders at him. I love that show. Yeah. It doesn't kill him? He ran away. That's it? He ran away. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whoa. How dumb.
He's throwing boulders at him.
He had to get that guy.
I love that show.
Yeah.
It reminds me of old Godzillas.
You remember when Captain Kirk hooked up with that green lady?
It was a big deal.
Would you have?
Yeah.
I wouldn't have fucked the Avatar lady.
So if you and I had a-
The Avatar lady?
That lady's hot.
On Pandora?
I don't know.
It looks blue.
The one-
I don't give a fuck.
The one that he eventually
winds up with yeah she's hot but you know how like the creatures connect with the tails where
then they communicate yeah does that come out of the vagina too i don't know i don't think they
have a vagina oh i think you just link up like that oh you're coming you come oh yeah i'd love
to come in my nose how the baby's even yeah there I can't. Can I ask you? They don't have.
I mean, they have things over their dicks, so they must have dicks, right?
They all had loincloths.
Yeah.
But I'm 52, Joe, and I can't come.
You can't come?
I come every other time.
Every other time.
That's good.
That's good enough.
I like edging.
But how much are you fucking?
Are you trying to fuck every day or jerk off every day?
Maybe you're running out of jizz
Maybe you just have a small factory you know and you're just demanding too much out my factory's pretty big
Do your balls are big for my size? Yeah? Yeah, but like for normal humans when you hit 52 like how often are you coming?
Every other day, that's reasonable. That's reasonable, but when I'm in the sack with a woman Oh psychologically, I can't do it
So do you just fake it? I pull out our no, I think I dim the lights
Yeah, and I do it back. I go back you go back. So this way. Yeah, okay
Oh, oh, and I'm gonna back to the back of the wall. Good move in the dark or enacted out
Good actor right epilepsy, right?
Right see and I go straight to the bathroom like I'm washing it. Whoa.
So they can't see the cum.
That's a good move.
Thank you.
It's a good move if you want to be deceptive.
Yeah, yeah.
I guess that's not a terrible thing to deceive people about, whether or not you cum.
Yeah, I mean, but I feel bad.
Girls are all guilty of it.
Yeah, but I don't want them to feel bad like they're not hot.
It has nothing to do with them.
I get it.
Right?
I'm just being like a nice guy.
You're a sensitive person.
Yeah. That's so sweet of you yeah i'm super sensitive yeah but it's like because i was in a 10-year thing and now i'm like single so i'm just experimenting i get it yeah i get it you do yeah
yeah yeah it's still fun though yeah you're having a good time bobby yeah i am as long as you're
enjoying life that's what you should be doing you should be enjoying life you. You know, Joe, may I say? Yes. I am.
That's beautiful. Because when you weren't enjoying
life, it bothered me. It bothered me because I
love you and you're such a nice guy and you
get weirded out by so many different things.
Like what?
You were just always paranoid that people didn't
like you and you were always
weirded out by stuff.
Even me and you.
We hadn't seen each other for six months.
Do you still like me?
I'm like, I love you.
What are you talking about?
Give me a hug.
Because we have history.
Yeah, but our history is all beautiful.
It's a beautiful history.
We have history of,
we've never been in an argument.
No.
We've never yelled at each other.
No.
We've always had good times.
Yeah.
We've had a lot of laughs.
We have.
Oh my God.
Some great laughs.
Oh my God, have we had laughs?
Yeah.
Oh my God.
We've had moments where I even recall that you probably don't even remember.
Like one time, you and I were at the comedy store.
We're in the patio and Eddie Griffin bumped us.
Right?
And we were talking shit.
So this must be early days.
Early days.
Back in the day.
90s, right?
90s, right?
Wow.
And then I remember there was a black guy near us listening.
And he told Eddiein that we were talking
shit about him and he confronted us yeah i remember that and we were like fuck off you
know i mean but it was like because you know he used to do hours yeah well he would do three hours
he would go on at nine o'clock and your spot would be at 9 15 and he would do three hours
it was him dice would do it sometimes Mencia would do it all the time.
Oh my God, oh my God.
Yeah, but the thing is, it was kind of the culture of the comedy store, in Eddie's defense,
is that if you reach a certain level of fame, and at the time, Eddie was definitely more famous than us,
and he was, when, I still to this day maintain that Eddie Griffin's set on Def Jam was one of the best fucking, I don't know, was
it 10 minutes, 15 minutes, whatever he did?
It was one of the best sets I've
ever seen. He had shorts
on, remember?
And he had so much
energy, man. I remember
I'm pretty sure I was in New York at the time
when I watched it. I was like, god damn
this fucking dude is talented. Yeah, I'm not questioning
his skill set. But it's the culture thing. This is what I was gonna say. Yeah, there was a thing at the store when you reach a certain level of
Prominence you were allowed to just do whatever the fuck you wanted and people would show up and apparently
Kennison used to do that a lot of guys used to do that but do hours I get it man
I don't I don't agree with it. You wouldn't do it
No, but there's certain guys did.
Certain guys that are really good did.
Chappelle did it.
There's a bunch of guys who did it.
It was a thing that you're allowed to do there.
You know what I'm saying?
And it was like, I think we probably all should have talked about it.
Yeah.
And said, this is kind of crazy.
Yeah.
I still, to this day, went to Emily and I go, give me a list right now of the people that are allowed to bump me
Right, right. She goes I'll get back to you, right?
Nobody should be allowed to bump you if someone wants to do a set if a like a famous person is in town
They should ask you if it's okay. Yeah, that's how I feel. I never bump anybody, but it still happens
No, I know but it's I don't I don't it's a also
It's a thing that was the comedy stores
like mark that you had made it to a certain level.
If you could show up and some guys would try to get it, they would try to bump people and
like, you're nobody.
Some people are crazy.
Crazy.
Crazy.
Delusional.
Yeah.
They're like a YouTube person or someone who's on some show.
Literally.
Yeah.
Someone who's on some show that you've never heard of that was on like the WB
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, what are you talking about?
Yeah
There's a few guys that like wanted to try that juice before because it was that thing
Like when someone would show up whoever it was some Chris Rock would show up. He would just go on stage
That's it Chris Rock goes on stage. He's on the list. I have a list of people that are like you're on the list
Okay, you wouldn't do it, but you're on it. Yeah, I don't do it. Yeah, Chris Rock's on the list. I have a list. Of people that are allowed to box. Yeah, you're on the list. Okay.
You wouldn't do it, but you're on it.
Yeah, I don't do it.
Yeah.
Chris Rock's on the list.
Chappelle's on the list.
Bill Burr's on the list.
Makes sense.
Right?
But then there are people, you know what I mean, that aren't.
And they do it, and it drives me fucking crazy.
Well, it's a weird thing.
It's like you're trying to appease the talent.
You never know who's really going to make it big, and you don't want to piss them off now.
I'm so glad I don't have to deal with that.
I know.
I always told people, be nice to comedy club owners because you don't want to be one.
That was my advice always to comics, because they always get mad at comedy club owners.
I go, listen, man, you do not want to be one of these people, and we fucking need them.
This is a crazy job.
You're dealing with maniacs that may or may not take their flight, might show up drunk,
might get arrested Friday night
after the first show.
Imagine you're feeding your
family based on these fucking maniacs
that come in every week. I know, I know.
These people are regular people. I would go to comedy
clubs and I would look at the off and see the
calendar and it would always
say Pablo Francisco with a question mark.
Oh yeah, Pablo was a rock star. Yeah, so it's's like i get it yeah look pablo's fucking insanely talented he's so
talented oh my god pablo goes to the basement he gets in there he goes and looks around those
dark corners son you know i he goes out there he goes into the tunnel and i've you know i just feel
so sad about it but he could have been the biggest thing
He should have been yeah, he should have been that's how tell should have been huge in the 90s. Oh my god Oh my god crusher destroyer and so fun to be around. Yes, sweetheart of a guy. I got just nobody hated Pablo
Sweetheart of a sweetheart every time people around him you want to hug him?
Yeah
But he had a skill set on stage that was like a combination between impressions and act out and he had everything and funny jokes. Yeah, I joke
Yeah, yeah, all of it all of it together and just so likable so like great. That's a nice guy. Yeah
Yeah, but yeah, it's I see that still to the same
Yeah, I was really lucky that the thing that I was into was weed.
And that the thing I was into made me terrified.
It made me paranoid.
It was the opposite of giving me courage.
It gave me no courage.
Like marijuana was a courage killer.
Like it made me feel like courage was foolish.
You're so vulnerable.
Life is vulnerable.
And it made me appreciate people more, like legitimately.
Do you perform when you're high sometimes?
All the time.
Right.
Do you ever lose your place or no?
No.
That's what I found.
I take a lot of nootropics.
That's one of the keys.
Can I have one?
Yeah.
Take four of those.
That's Alpha Brain Black Label.
That stuff is the shit.
When I ever see a show on your online, I always want to try your little things.
That's a good one to try.
I'm affiliated with this company, obviously, but this is not the only one that I try.
I'll tell people about some stuff that I have no affiliation with.
NeuroGum is one of them.
We always keep NeuroGum in the studio.
Can I have a packet of NeuroGum when I leave?
We can have one right now.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Give me a packet, please.
I'm not going to do it.
I'll do it later.
We have plenty.
We should get some more.
We're probably running dry.
We go through four or five fucking boxes of that stuff.
And NeuroGum really works?
Oh, yeah, 100%.
Oh, wow.
It's got theanine in it and caffeine and a couple other things.
And what it does is it enhances your memory.
It enhances your brain's ability to form sentences.
Whoa.
Yeah.
Well, with AlphaBrain, we did two double-blind placebo-controlled studies
at the Boston Center for Memory,
and it showed increase in alpha flow state.
It showed increase in verbal memory,
increase in, I think it was reaction time,
but it does something.
And we did it at a dose that's half of what I take.
I take four.
Sometimes I take six.
If I'm feeling fresh.
If I'm talking to a scientist.
Does it hit right away or no?
No.
Okay.
No, it'll take a while.
If I'm talking to a scientist, I'll take a shitload of them.
I'll take six.
Like Lex?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, yeah.
I love that guy.
He's awesome.
He's awesome.
But I mean, any scientist.
Anytime I'm talking to someone who's like explaining to
me some very complicated things about the universe.
Yeah.
Like I don't want any fogginess.
I want to be like locked in.
See, that was one of my fears of doing your show is science and the things that you guys
talk about.
I'm not talking about science.
I know.
I'm just saying.
Yeah.
I was like, I don't know nothing about anything.
You don't have to.
Okay.
No, no, no, no, no.
I know film. I know some film. Listen, you
are my friend, and we have had conversations
thousands of times.
That's all this is. It's just you and I having a conversation.
Do you remember when we first met?
Remember when we first met at the strip club in San Diego?
Can I say something?
Alright, alright.
But can I just say something about it? Yes.
I think I might be wrong the way you're saying it, maybe.
How so?
Well, I don't...
Let's go by...
Okay.
You were headlining La Jolla.
Yes.
I was a doorman.
Yes.
Right?
And I think Diaz was there.
I believe so.
Yeah, I think it was there, right?
Yeah.
I knew Diaz.
Right.
So he goes, hey, let's go to the strip club with Joe.
And I was trying to be a host was this 95 yeah 95 96
Okay, right and I was a kid right I was enamored by you you know mean not enamored
But I was like I wasn't even famous back then no, but still you were a headliner
I was an MC right so then we go to the strip club okay, right and it's deja vu
Okay, okay, okay, and I wanted to go like I'm from. Okay. Right? And it's deja vu. Okay. Okay?
Okay.
And I wanted to go like, I'm from San Diego.
I know the ropes.
I know the people.
I didn't.
Okay.
Of course I didn't.
That's not really what happened.
No, but we sat there.
Okay.
And then there were gang members there.
Right.
Right?
And then, I don't know what the problem was, but there was a problem between.
I'll tell you the problem.
Okay.
Okay, there's one of the gang members who's dating one of the strippers.
Okay.
And when he was over there talking to the stripper, you went over and tried to get the stripper to give you a lap dance.
And when you did that, I saw the look in his eyes and he had, I'll never forget, he had long straight black hair.
Yeah.
This Mexican dude with tattoos on his face.
In 95.
Only two teardrops. That's fine. Okay okay that's only two people killed okay and this is 95
okay and you went over and I said Bobby what the fuck are you doing what the
fuck you doing I go did you take a look at that guy's eyes yeah I go Bobby these
are like real real people and you're like oh shut the fuck up this nothing's
gonna happen they gonna do shit, I'm out of here.
So I said, I'm leaving.
You can either come with me or not.
And I got up and left.
I saw where this was going.
They were getting up, Bobby.
They were moving around.
They were thinking about coming over to you.
And I got us right out the door.
And you barely got in my car.
You barely got in my car in time.
You were dilly-dallying, and someone had to yell at you.
And then we got you in the car, and we took off.
I go, hey, Bobby, you were going to get a shot.
Like, for real.
Well, you saved my life.
I don't know if I saved your life, but I definitely saved you an ass kick.
But also, if she's working there, she's on the clock.
No, just hear me out.
No, you're-
If I'm at McDonald's, right, and some woman-
Technically correct.
I'm technically correct.
Technically you're correct.
Ethically correct.
But she was over there talking to her gang member boyfriend and you went over asking
for a lap dance and you, you just like stormed your way into their conversation.
You were going to die.
Can I just say something?
Yes, please.
I want to say something.
Okay.
At the time, I found this out later.
I thought the teardrops meant that he was emotional or something.
I didn't know about death.
Okay.
Even if he didn't have teardrops on his face,
the look in that guy's eyes,
like the whole group of them,
they were serious people.
I don't want to make assumptions about people.
Okay.
Do you have any self-preservation instincts whatsoever?
What do you mean?
Did you have any self-preservation instincts?
We recommend danger.
Why from the suburbs?
We don't know danger that way.
We had no homeless.
We had surfers.
You should be just inherently like a child sees a dog's teeth and is scared of them.
You should see that guy growling and go, okay, this is real.
Joe, I'm 52 now.
I've never had anything happen to me.
So I feel like my instincts are on point.
You're also very likable.
I'm likable.
People decide not to kill you.
I smile.
So what the fuck, dog? I go that's a good move that's a good move
yeah yeah but that that was our introduction that's how we became
friends okay it didn't right right fuck up our relationship fucking no
stayed friends yeah and they came to LA and then I think that would grew what
year did you come to LA?
97 or 98 like in that time here was it what a weird time at the store that was huh the Dark Ages It was weird, but it was really good for us
Yes
You would go on stage and the OR and it'd be half full and it was it was like a real good place to fuck
around and practice. Oh, so the people that
Did it really did it because there was no light at the end of the tunnel?
Not anymore.
I think the store goes through eras, and it had gone through the Kinison era.
And when Kinison died, I think there was a big drop off.
It was terrible at times.
On a Saturday night in the OR, they couldn't start the show without four people being in the audience,
and there would be sometimes no show.
On a Saturday fucking night.
Yeah, it was crazy.
It was crazy, dude.
But then it came back it
came back when the internet came around came back in like in the early 2000s yeah yeah it came back
and we i reaped the reward i'm so glad it didn't quit yeah i'm so glad you didn't quit too yeah i
saw dude i saw some crazy i saw one time at two in the morning i was working the door there yeah
and i saw people in purple robes go up into the belly
room uh-oh with candles oh jesus right so now you know you can sneak up to the belly room through
the green room with those offices and stuff right were they supposed to be up there yeah oh i'm not
lying this is the 90s yeah okay right i peek through. They formed a circle and they had candles up.
What?
No, no, no, no, no baby eating.
Okay.
I don't have to report that.
Okay.
Okay?
And they were doing seances.
The Comedy Store, if any place is haunted, the Comedy Store is haunted.
They were trying to seance Andy Kaufman's ghost.
Oh.
And when I went back downstairs, the people that went with the robes,
they came back down,
and they were in their regular clothes.
Lily Tomlin, Bob Zmuda.
Whoa.
I saw it with my own eyes.
Whoa.
It was fucking crazy.
Whoa.
Yeah.
Well, why not?
You know.
Yeah.
You get a little high.
Someone comes up with an idea.
Yeah, yeah.
Why do we have to wear the robes?
Because it'd be fun
It sounds like something me and Duncan would do
Yeah, nice robes probably too
I'm sure
She's not going to wear some bullshit robe
Have some respect
Speaking of Duncan
When I got sober, when I had that 17 years chunk
Anyone out there
Listening, right
I needed to get all my drugs out of my house So he was the only one I wanted I got sober when I had that 17 years chunk. And anyone out there listening, right?
I needed to get all my drugs out of my house.
So he was the only one I wanted.
He was the only one that could do it.
So when I called him, he came under my house in five minutes.
He cleaned out my apartment in like 20 minutes. And then he made me a fish dinner.
Aww.
And then he took all my drugs and went away.
But I want to say, Duncan, if you're listening, thank you for that.
Duncan's the man.
He's the best.
Yeah. We lived together once for a while. if you're listening, thank you for that. Duncan's the man. He's the best. Yeah.
We lived together once for a while.
Where?
In my house.
For six months.
In Austin?
Really?
Yeah.
Wow.
He got kicked out of his apartment.
Or the house.
He was dating this lady.
And she got tired of him playing video games all day.
Really?
And he calls me up.
He goes, dude, I don't know what to do.
I'm in a hotel.
She kicked me out.
I go, come live with me.
Yeah.
I got this big ass house.
Yeah.
So Duncan lived with me for like six months.
And I had a sensory deprivation tank in the basement.
I saw that.
Yeah.
Duncan would go down in the basement and trip balls and sort his life out.
Was he messy?
No.
No.
Duncan was a great roommate. Really? He was awesome. Yeah. Did you have to kick him out he messy? No. No, Duncan was a great roommate.
Really?
He was awesome.
Yeah.
Did you have to kick him out or no?
No.
No, no.
He eventually got back on his feet again.
Right.
And, you know, we had a great time.
Like, he had stayed there for years.
We had a wonderful time.
It was a lot of fun.
Wow.
It was like, Duncan's one of my best friends.
So, like, having one of my best friends in my house.
And the house is big.
So, it's not like we were on top of each other
I would be way the fuck the phone didn't even work in the whole house
I'd have to transfer phones to go to the parts. Wow. Wow. It's a big-ass house
Yeah, so if Duncan's over in that side, I'm on over in this side like we're not even in each other's hair
Yeah, didn't even bother each other. So it was really cool man
It was cool like having meals with them hanging out with them so for like six
months we were roommates and to think that he was not even a stand-up at one point he was a talent
coordinator well he was a stand-up he was trying to do stand-up when he was the talent coordinator
we became friends because i would call up and give my veils and then we would have crazy
conversations yeah you know he's like did you see this thing with Ram Dass? And he looked at me like... And we would talk about UFOs and Bigfoot and shit.
That's why when that Joe Rogan Questions Everything show,
that's why I did it with him.
I'm like, oh, he's the perfect guy to do this with.
And Ari, too.
Ari did some of the episodes as well.
Wow.
But Duncan was always trying to do stand-up.
He was just unorthodox you know yeah but but
then he got good like that fucking doll oh my god little hobo is one of the best
sets one of the best bits I've ever seen it was so good it's so good yeah the
mothership oh yeah yeah it's incredible yeah he's got a new little hobo to
somebody stole little hobo no yeah some piece ofo was like an antique doll, too, right?
Yeah. So how...
I don't know. I don't remember how someone
stole it. Yeah, but where do you get another Little Hobo?
Oh, you go on eBay. Oh, you can get Little Hobos
on eBay? Oh, yeah. The new one he's got is creepy
as fuck. Oh, really? I want to get a Little
Hobo. Yeah, you can
go online and get antique puppets.
Oh, they have them? Really?
Yeah. It's thousands of dollars probably.
I don't know.
There it is. Is that the new little hobo?
That's the new little hobo. Oh my god.
He's cute.
He's fucking creepy. He lives here now, right?
Yeah, Duncan lives here. Everyone's
asking me to come. You should come. I know you were
talking shit about moving to Austin, but
listen. No, I didn't. Yeah, you did. I watched a video.
No, I didn't. Don't lie. You did. I'm not fucking moving to Austin, but listen. No, I didn't. Yeah, you did. I watched the video. No, I didn't.
Don't lie.
You did.
What'd I say?
I'm not fucking moving to Austin.
I don't leave my neighborhood.
I don't go to Compton.
I stay right here.
Could I say something?
What?
You know what, man?
No, no, you know what?
You know what, man?
You know what, man?
What?
Listen.
What?
You have to understand what you guys did.
What did we do?
You guys took half
of the talent out.
Yeah. So I was just butt hurt. We brought another
bunch in too. Like Shane
Gillis lives here. I know.
I know he does though. We're doing great.
I know you guys are killing it. I went to the club last night.
Come move here. I know but
Paulie's thinking about it. Paulie's here a lot.
I know. Paulie was just here the... Pauly's thinking about it. Pauly's here a lot. I know.
Pauly was just here the other day. Theo's thinking about it.
Theo's thinking about it.
Yeah.
They're all just worried that people go,
oh, you moved there to suck on Rogan's nuts.
I would never suck your nuts.
I don't ask.
I wouldn't do it.
If you did, it would be a problem.
Yeah.
I'd be like, why are you doing this?
I'd have to be asleep.
Would you hurt me?
No.
Okay, we were camping.
If I woke up and you were sucking my nuts,
I wouldn't hurt you.
What? I would yell at you. Let nuts, I wouldn't hurt you. What?
I would yell at you. I wouldn't hurt you.
I'd be like, what the fuck, dude? That felt good.
I was in the middle
of a dream. What if I was in the middle of a sex dream
and you sucked my nuts and I came? I would be so mindful, too.
That would be a real problem for the rest of my life.
The hardest I ever came.
I wouldn't do it.
I was sleeping.
I was having a sex dream and Bobby Lee was sucking my nuts. I don't know why he was doing Yeah I would never do it I was having a sex dream
And Bobby Lee was sucking my nuts
I don't know why he was doing it
It was just for fun
He didn't know
I've sucked nuts before
But like you know
I get it
Yeah
But um
Yeah I mean
Santino will maybe
Talk about it
Listen man
It's a great place to live
It's a great place tax wise
It's a great place traffic wise
It's a great place
The most important thing
Is people wise
The people here are so friendly Austin people are great people They're really nice Tax-wise, it's a great place. Traffic-wise, it's a great place. The most important thing is people-wise.
The people here are so friendly.
Austin people are great people.
They're really nice.
They're nice.
They're not shitheads.
They're not Hollywood people.
They're not lost in this fake world of leftist ideology that everybody's trapped in.
They're just people.
They're just regular people, man. And those people exist outside of these blue bubbles where everyone's gone insane.
Well, I used to be a part of the blue bubble.
I was 100% a left-leaning person who lived in Los Angeles.
I was 100%.
I never voted Republican my whole life.
I was very left-leaning, especially with any social issues.
When it comes to financial things, I'm a little bit more conservative,
but at the end of the day,
way more left than I am right.
But California went nuts, man.
It's gone like full communist.
It's out of its fucking mind.
And their approach to law enforcement
is so insane.
It's so insane.
The no cash bail,
the letting people out
for committing violent crimes, the fucking not
stopping people for stealing up to whatever money it is.
What is it?
$900 now.
I think they raised it.
I think they made it a little higher.
San Francisco is non-existent.
San Francisco, most of San Francisco is emptied out of like big chain stores and big department
stores.
I wouldn't even do stand-up there anymore.
It's crazy.
They ruined it.
They ruined the city.
You can bring it back.
The structure's still there.
But you'd have to have some hardcore Rudy Giuliani type motherfucker
to come in there and knock heads.
And nobody wants that.
Nobody wants that.
They're peace, love, and granola and fucking wear a mask.
I'm in the middle now.
I'm in the middle.
I'm in the middle.
I never thought I would ever say that
It only happened in this last year
I just went
I can't do it anymore
People that you thought were aligned
with you are like now
mad at you about shit
They're in a cult
It's got all
Mark Andreessen
who's a brilliant venture capitalist guy explained it to me in very clear terms.
Like what the definition of a cult is, how you can get excommunicated, how you get shamed for having differing opinions, the group think, the whole, he's like, it's a cult.
And he's right.
He's 100% right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's just hard to say because then people in the cult will attack you.
100% right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's just hard to say because then people in the cult will attack you.
But they're not attacking you for a reasonable, it's not logical.
Yeah.
The way they're attacking you.
They're attacking like someone attacks religious beliefs.
Yeah.
And some of these religious beliefs, it gets into these weird gray areas, like trans people in women's bathrooms.
Like, says who?
Says who?
How do you know that's a real trans person
how do you not know that's a fucking creep they don't want to pull his dick out in front of kids
yes those are real we spa yeah and if all that guy was a convicted uh sex offender yeah yeah
and he was doing that look those guys are real it doesn't mean trans people aren't real also but
those guys are fucking real yeah and to even say that those guys are real you get excommunicated. You know treated like you're a Nazi. I
Never even cared about it didn't care at all. Yeah, I mean whatever you are. I'll give a shit
You're mean, but it's like I can't do it anymore. I think it's engineered
I really who by China and by Russia. Oh, no Chinese. Yeah, I think what's engineered. By who? By China and by Russia. Oh, no, Chinese.
Yeah.
I think what they're doing by manipulating social media, manipulating algorithms, I think some of it is natural.
Don't get me wrong.
I think some of it would have happened either way.
It happened during the 70s with the hippie movement.
There's always these people that want to live completely outside of the norm of
conformity of society and there's always people like that but what's going on now is very different
and it's accentuated by social media and i think it's accentuated by algorithms naturally because
people are inclined to go towards things that upset them but also but also it's done purposely. And I think it's done, if you have enough stuff about like whatever the thing is,
whether it's Black Lives Matter or whether it's Ukraine
or whether it's free Palestine from the river to the sea,
if you have enough of that online, it moves the needle.
And the way I described it the other day, it's like if two ships are going a certain direction,
this is a ship where people logically work through things and this is a ship that's adjusted by the
algorithm affected by the algorithm it just moves that much over time this is what we're seeing so
over time you and I who used to be on the left are now like where's the left where are you guys
you guys are so far away yeah I can't even see you. You're out of your mind.
You're fucking chopping dicks off and giving little kids hormone blockers.
You have no idea what the long-term consequences are.
You're ignoring the health risks.
You won't even talk about the health risks.
You use things like gender-affirming care.
What are you saying?
What are you saying when you're talking about children?
Why are you saying yeah what are you saying when you're talking about children yeah why are
you just accepting this because it's a noble thing to blurt out so everybody goes you're on the right
team that's what it is it's not like oh my god what are we doing to kids it's not like oh my god
what are we doing to san francisco it's not like oh my god why are we letting these violent
criminals out of jail oh my god why are we defunding the fucking police what are you doing
yeah you can't say any
of those things you say any of those things you just said it yeah you get nervous no okay i live
here right this is texas texas 99 of the people agree with me even the left-leaning people here
are way more reasonable even last night there's a joke that i tell that if i say it in a liberal
city it dies you know and it's a joke about I tell that if I say it in a liberal city, it dies.
And it's a joke about, you know what I mean, Down syndrome people making love.
And they make up their own moves.
Right?
And they have, they know traditional moves.
And I did it last night.
It crushed both shows.
And I felt like, oh, this is, you know what I mean, what I've been, I think, maybe looking for. Well, that club is specifically designed and nurtured just for what's funny.
That's it.
Yeah.
There is no message here unless you have a message and it's funny and it's in there.
Yeah.
You want to do it?
That's fine.
But what's valued is comedy.
Just like if you go to a music show, you don't want those in between the music speeches about
climate change.
Shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up and play the song entertain me we want to develop stand-up comedy like real
stand-up comedy because i think it's a worthy art form i think it's very valuable to people
in terms of enjoyment and in terms of mental health and in terms of society it's in it's a it's an important part of society like the Lakota had a person in their
tribe that was called the Heyoka and Heyoka was the sacred clown and that
this is the person that made fun of everything because if you couldn't make
fun of something it was bullshit like if this is one guy we can't make fun of him
well that's probably bullshit he probably has a in has an inappropriate amount or an inappropriate amount of power.
Yeah.
A disproportionate amount of influence.
It's like probably some ego going on here too if you can't make fun of something.
Yeah.
Because if you can make fun of something and it's not funny, then you're not funny.
But if you can make fun of something and it's funny and people laugh and someone gets mad, they're the problem.
Yeah.
They're the problem.
And I want to say something.
I never said this before. I want to say something i never said
this before i would say it now right is just for my personal life some of the bullying that i
received was necessary for me to get to where i am now well you don't want it i don't want it no i
didn't ever want it but i wouldn't like go back in my past and change anything right i wouldn't
either yeah yeah because i feel like everything, like my dad was
fucking violent as
fuck, dude. Like he would knock my
mom's tooth out. She has a missing tooth right here.
You know what I mean? And we witnessed all this
trauma, right?
And he was like, dude, it was like
it was fucking terrible.
I had done EMDR on just him.
Trauma therapy, right?
And it's like, and then, you know,
I was a little guy in
an American high school, and people
would bully me. I lived in Minnesota.
They thought I was an Eskimo. They threw ice chunks at my
head. Crows would... Anyway,
my point is that all those little things, and
even in comedy, it was hard being
me, this little
guy, you know what I mean, doing it. People, you know, comics
would, black comics would sometimes come up to me, Asians little guy, you know what I mean, doing it. Black comics would sometimes come up to me,
Asians aren't funny.
You know what I mean? Well, there was always that
knock on Asians. Yeah. Let's be honest.
Like, Henry Cho was like the first
guy that went mainstream. I love him.
He was the first guy that went mainstream. I love him.
Wasn't he? Yes. Ronnie Chang's
fucking hilarious. I love Ronnie.
That dude is so good. So funny. He's so funny.
He's got so much attitude on stage.
Johnny Yoon was before him.
That's right.
Johnny Yoon.
He's funny too.
Yeah, he's very funny.
There's, but there was a knock, you know, but dude, nobody thought that when they saw you
on stage.
Like you're, you're a really funny guy.
You're very good.
Thank you.
Very good comic.
Thank you.
You're a very good comic.
Yeah.
And I also want to tell you the reason why I didn't want to do this now is because I'm doing a special and I want to promote it.
Okay.
And I thought maybe I could only do it once every five years, but then your people said that I could do it when I...
You could do this anytime you want.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I feel that now.
You have my number.
I'm going to call you.
I'm going to text you.
I'm going to text you.
I'm going to do it.
Anytime you want to.
I love you.
It's going to be great. Listen, I love you. I love you too. I love you too. I love that now. You have my number. I'm going to call you. I'm going to text you. I'm going to text you. I'm going to do it. Anytime you want to. I love you. It's going to be great.
Listen, I love you.
I'm happy we do this.
Yeah, I get it.
All right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I get it now.
I know now how it works.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But yeah, I was like, I have to do one.
I have to do a special.
You really should because it will also force you to write more and fuck around more.
But you need a place to do
That and that's why you should move here. Well, that's why I'm with so much stage time here, dude
That's why in March I talked to Adam I go I'm gonna do
Shows here in the little room to do a Bobby Lee new joke night
Yeah, and then me and Adam are gonna do a Star Trek podcast. Oh boy. Yeah, and at that point you're gonna watch the inner light
podcast oh boy yeah and at that point you're gonna watch the inner life that's a big ask it's 40 minutes you really think that's the best science fiction ever better than alien the first
alien movie the sigourney weaver but you have to think though that it you know because obviously
the budget is an alien budget right so it's cheesy television right but if the concept you know i
mean was mind-blowing at the time. When I saw
that in my early 20s, it
blew my fucking mind.
Yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah. And it's like
I don't want to give it away now, you know what I mean?
Maybe I could try to sell it to you real quick
or no? No. Why not?
I'm sure it's okay. Yeah.
Alright, I won't say, but you're gonna watch it.
I'll watch that one episode that you told me to watch.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. And then make fun of me about it.
I will.
Yeah.
Most certainly.
But that's not the best science fiction ever.
That's crazy.
If you Google the best television sci-fi episode,
the Interlock is in the top three.
You know what's a super underrated television sci-fi show?
What?
Battlestar Galactica.
The new version?
So good!
So good.
I've seen it twice already,
all the way through.
It's incredible.
It's a really good show.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You think of it as a science fiction show,
but it's a really good psychology show.
The way they had it set up,
it's fucking terrifying.
I just got goosebumps when you said it, dude.
It's so good,
and it's so appropriate to watch today.
And they kept jumping every hour
because they're so scared. Oh my God, it was so good, and it's so appropriate to watch today. And they kept jumping every hour because they're so scared.
Oh, my God, it was so good.
And also the combination of artificial people and real people.
Oh, my God.
It's really different because that's something that we're going to have to navigate.
They didn't have AI then.
They didn't have that aspect of it worked out.
There wasn't like a terrifying force that they were dealing with as well.
But the Cylons were awesome the the robot
Murderers yeah, oh my god
And they also kept some of the old school Cylons there too, but the new school ones were like you couldn't tell yeah
Yeah, yeah, there was new school Cylons. Yeah, old school Cylons. That's a great fucking show. I can't believe I'm crying
And you know I love it. What's the pop pot face guy with it? Oh?
Shit almost I'll cry. And, you know, I love it. What's the pot-faced guy? What's the... Oh, the head guy.
Yeah, what's his name?
Shit.
Almost.
Edward James Olmos. Edward James Olmos.
He's amazing.
Yeah, yeah.
So good in that.
Yeah, yeah.
He's amazing.
Yeah.
It's a great fucking show.
Like, great acting, great stories, great special effects.
It really flew under the radar.
I think it was on, like, FX or something like that.
Sci-fi channel.
Sci-fi.
Sci-fi channel.
That's what it was.
So, like, not enough people were on that channel. But, now, you know that I saw it was on like FX or something like that. Sci-fi channel. Sci-fi. Sci-fi channel. That's what it was. So not enough people were on that channel.
But now, you know that I saw it, right?
I'm telling you, the inner light rivals it.
Rivals.
Okay, that's more reasonable.
You'll watch it and go, okay, that's like the same kind of feel.
Rivals is reasonable.
Yeah.
What's your favorite sci-fi movie?
Oh, shit.
In terms of like entertainment? Yeah, what's something like you just loved? My favorite sci-fi movie? Oh, shit. In terms of entertainment?
Yeah, what's something you just loved?
My favorite sci-fi, Aliens is one of, the original Alien was good.
Yeah, because Harry Dean Stanton was great.
Here's what I loved about it.
The cast was so believable.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
And that was also the first time there was a female action star that you didn't feel like they were
shoehorning it in your face that she's
female. She was stuck in that role.
That's not the role she wanted.
She wasn't some badass.
She was someone rising to the occasion,
becoming a badass in the
face of this horrific thing
that killed everybody else on her
spaceship. Spoiler alert.
They also felt like real truckers almost like
The ship lived lived in right right oily almost. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it was fucking amazing. It's a great
It's a great movie, but it's aliens to
Not as good not as good but still entertaining different kind of movie
That was like the aliens were easy to kill all of a sudden and there was like a lot of them. All right
Yeah, well the Marines oh, zones yeah but it doesn't matter the aliens were so the alien the first
one was so clever and so fast and so sneaky yeah yeah and then all of a sudden they're not
all of a sudden they're just fucking idiots just running at you like like the the british with the
fucking white cross on their chest target yeah yeah didn't make any sense their characteristics
were completely different they were the dumb aliens.
Yeah.
And then the big one, the big female, the mama, the queen.
That was fun.
She should have fucked Sigourney Weaver up like that.
It didn't make any sense.
Oh, okay.
With that stupid, you bitch, with the robot thing.
Your whole body's exposed, Pope.
Now you're dead.
What are you talking about?
Okay, okay.
And why is it moving so slow? All the above. It should have been. Well, she has babies in her belly. Now you're dead. What are you talking about? Okay, okay. And why is it moving so slow?
All the above.
It should have been.
Well, she has babies in her belly.
I don't know.
You ever see a praying mantis kill a hummingbird?
I don't watch stuff like that, man.
You should watch that.
Because a praying mantis is like the human or the earth-like equivalent of what one of
those alien things are.
The alien thing is an enormous praying mantis,
probably even more violent and more deadly,
and I just don't buy Sigourney Weaver
with a stupid fucking robot crane suit on,
kicking its ass.
Does it make me a pussy when I watch Planet Earth
and I see a lion chase a gazelle or whatever,
and I fast forward?
No.
You just don't want to see the suffering.
I don't want to see it.
Does that make me weak, though? No. No, it's not weak. You just don't want to experience see this suffering. I don't want to see it. But does that make me weak, though?
No.
No, it's not weak.
You just don't want to experience it.
Yeah, I don't want to experience it.
You know what it is.
You've seen it before.
Yeah, I've seen it happen.
You don't have to see a lion eating a fucking gazelle guts first over and over and over again.
Or hyenas.
The hyenas ones are the wild dog ones.
Those are the ruthless ones.
Yeah, those are crazy.
Because they're pulling the guts out while the thing's trying to stand up.
It's good, it's good.
Fuck, man.
Yeah.
At least the lions kill you first.
The cats always kill you.
They don't just eat you.
Cats grab you by the neck and they fucking kill you.
Wow.
But dogs, wild dogs and hyenas and bears, they just start eating you.
And then the alligator, you have to do a twirl with them.
Yeah, you might not.
You do a little dance. You might not die
for an hour. With an alligator?
With a lot of different creatures.
Oh, really? It depends on what, well,
alligators will take you underwater. They'll drown you
because they want to stuff you under a log
so you can rot. Yeah. So you're easier to consume.
What animal
could I think I could survive, you think?
A mouse. Maybe a mouse.
Maybe. No. A really angry mouse think? A mouse. Maybe a mouse. Maybe.
A really angry mouse, you'd probably
run into a wall.
With a bear, maybe.
You don't think so?
A bear. Yeah, but I would just not freeze.
I don't think that works. Freezing doesn't work?
Depends on why they're there.
If they're there to eat you, no, that's not gonna work.
If they're there to scare you away
from their children, maybe. But do you know what to do? no, that's not going to work. If they're there to scare you away from their children, maybe it'll work.
But do you know what to do?
No, there's no what to do.
There's not a lot to do.
Because when you go to Hawaii and you swim with the shark, they give you rules.
You don't splash.
Did you hear about that kid that was just in the shark tank?
Was in the Bahamas, got bit.
They had some shark tank experience and some kid got bit by a shark.
Some kid, I think, from Maryland. Really? Yeah, don't fuck around, man. They don't know that it's a shark tank experience and some kid got bit by a shark some kid i think from maryland
really yeah don't fuck around man they don't know that it's a shark tank they just they're sharks
they're sharks yeah and a bear is like to think you know what to do maybe maybe if you spray it
with pepper spray to run away maybe maybe it won't maybe if you shoot it you'll stop it in its tracks
or maybe you only have like a nine millimeter it you'll stop it in its tracks or maybe
you only have like a nine millimeter and you could pump it full four five six holes and it still
tears you apart wow yeah you you if you're gonna shoot it with a gun you want a large caliber
rifle you want like a 300 win mag yeah you want something big something boom boom yeah put large holes in that gigantic
Monster predator what about sword no no
You'll fucking bounce it off its nose and
Yeah, you'll miss you'll panic. It's just the speed that it moves that will astound all your senses
It's just hard.
The speed that it moves at will astound all your senses.
You'll panic because you'll realize you don't have the reaction time.
You don't have the physical movement time capable of dealing with how fast it's coming at you.
Your body doesn't work good enough to do that.
You know, I would run toward it and just get it over with.
That might work.
I'll just run and I'll just jump right into the head maybe.
It depends on where it bites you.
The thing about those things is they don't necessarily kill.
They just hold down and eat.
They just hold you down and start eating.
All right, okay.
You know Grizzly Man, that documentary? Oh, yeah, I saw it.
Yeah, yeah.
Wow.
That video where the lens cap was on but they have an audio of him dying.
It's like-
It's so horrifying.
I know.
It's like five minutes long.
Yeah.
Five minutes of that thing eating him alive.
Five minutes is so long before you're dead.
You got to think of how long it is.
It's something just weighs a thousand pounds, putting its paw on your chest and just pulling
your guts out, screaming, eating you dick first.
I bombed for five minutes and that seems like 20 minutes.
Right.
Imagine getting eaten.
Oh my God.
Right. Forever. Yeah. Oh my God. Do you minutes. Right, imagine getting eaten. Oh, my God. Right.
Forever.
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
Do you bomb anymore?
Oh, a juggle bomb, yeah.
Yeah.
We also do Bottom of the Barrel.
You know Bottom of the Barrel?
No.
It's like one of those shows where the audience has suggestions, and you reach into the barrel
and pull out the suggestions, and then you just riff.
Boy, I bombed on those shows.
Oh, really?
Yeah, you can.
Sometimes there's no suggestion. Yeah. Sometimes it's like green sneakers. Oh, really? Yeah, you can. Sometimes there's no suggestion.
Sometimes it's like green sneakers.
Oh, my God, it's so hard.
The fuck am I going to do with this?
Yeah.
Because sometimes people are trying to trip you up.
Sometimes people have good suggestions.
Yeah.
Some of them are actually almost in the form of jokes.
Some of them are really funny.
Wow.
Yeah.
So you just randomly pull out a topic.
Randomly.
And the audience fills it out?
Exactly.
Wow.
And it's like sometimes it's an amazing premise factory because sometimes, because you're
on the spot like that, every now and then, an idea will pop into your head.
You're like, oh shit, that's a bit.
Yeah.
And then that bit, you get home and you listen to it and you write it down.
Like, there's three or four bits that I've gotten that are actual bits now because of
that show.
I want to admit to something to you right now if I may I?
Do I want to admit something to you right now if I may okay the reason why I haven't done a special
Is because the fear of?
Doing new shit yeah of course
Of course, but it's shameful. I guess yeah, but this idea that you have of a Bobby Lee new joke night.
I'm forcing myself to do it.
Perfect.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Perfect.
Perfect.
Because, you know, when you guys left the store, and I don't want to make fun of, I love all the comics, dude.
But it's like, you know, sometimes when the headliners, like the guys with names, leave town for the weekends, you look at some of the lineups there, you know what I mean?
And so when I'm, they're not as strong.
So when I'm in town,
I'm in the main room,
I have the prime spot,
it's packed.
I have this fucking pressure
to crush.
Of course.
You know,
because I just know
that they're there to see me
and I want to give them
a good show.
Well,
you can do sets
other places too,
you know?
Do sets other places.
Go to the Ha Ha.
Fuck around with the Ice House.
Go to Flappers.
Go fuck around
in other spots.
Flappers?
Yeah.
I know you're saying that,
but it's like,
go up there.
It's a crowd.
Yeah.
You know?
Fuck around.
Burr fucks around there.
Oh, well, yeah.
Yeah, Burr likes to do that.
He likes to go to Ice House
or fuck around there.
Yeah.
You gotta kind of fuck around.
You gotta, like, come up with ideas and and sit down like like last night i was
i told myself i'm gonna go to bed early uh but i was in front of the computer at 10 o'clock and i
was like i'll i'll stop at 12 and i'll go to bed but i caught an idea i caught an idea and i wrote
it out till like 3 30 in the morning i was was just writing. Wow. And when I do that,
I'm like,
okay,
that was productive.
Even though I'm tired and I woke up late today,
even though I'm tired,
I'm like,
but that was productive.
Wow.
And if I can force myself to do that three,
four times a week and sometimes dude,
I'll just sit in front of that fucking computer and it's just nonsense.
It's just nonsense.
It's nothing.
It's embarrassing.
It's terrible.
There's nothing to this.
I'm trying to work it out.
I'll fucking take a little of that, go over it again.
Sometimes nothing.
Sometimes I got nothing.
But when you write something, though, and you look at it, right?
Do you go, okay, this is like a 60%?
Do you do that?
It totally depends.
It depends.
Sometimes it's like 100%.
Some bits, as I write them, that's exactly how I perform them.
It's not normal, but it happens.
And then some bits are just seeds.
It's just a seed.
And I got to throw that bitch on stage and see where it goes.
And sometimes it doesn't go anywhere.
Sometimes I think it's funny.
Like Ron White was telling a story the other day about this joke that he had that he thought was really funny.
And he had planned, I had it planned in my mind when it was gonna be applause break he goes he got fucking nothing
yeah yeah it happens yeah it does yeah but that's the beauty of creation because every now and then
like i have this new bit that's killing and it's so exciting to get to it because it's like this
is like this bit is alive it's like it just it was just born yeah it's just flexing you know
it's fun yeah yeah yeah it's fine but it's it's also it's hard but you gotta you know you gotta
pay devotion to the muse to sit down and and try to like let the ideas come to you if you don't
have a moment where you're just sitting down and just letting the ideas come to you you're gonna
miss those ideas.
And some people say, oh, I only write on stage.
I only write with my friends.
That's great.
You should do that too.
But there's nothing wrong with like sitting.
It's not going to hurt you to sit in front of a computer and go over your ideas.
And every now and then, maybe every two times or five times, every ten times you sit in front of that computer or that notebook something pops up that wouldn't have popped up without it
Yeah, and you gotta like suffer through the ones that suck that drudge of not being able to come up with anything
My problem is I do I have these second addictions I have like video games right in your front of the computer
You start playing video games. Yeah, and I'll just start
playing Starfield or something
and 16 hours later
I'm on a planet
and I'm making an outpost, right?
Yeah.
And I feel guilt.
Right.
Or I'll play Stardew Valley,
I'll create a farm.
Yeah.
Right?
But it's a haunting thing.
Like, what the fuck are you doing?
What the fuck are you doing?
What the fuck are you doing?
Right, you're wasting your time.
I'm wasting my time.
I know this,
but for some reason
I can convince myself.
Well, here's the thing.
Yeah.
If you do the work first, like say if you sit down and you say,
I can only play computer games if I write 1,000 words.
So when you get to 1,000 on a Word document, you look at the bottom,
it'll tell you how many words you've written, and then you can stop.
That's what I'm going to do.
Yeah, just earn it.
Earn it.
That way you'll actually enjoy it.
That way when you're playing the games, it won't be in your head, oh, my God, I should
be writing.
Oh, my God, I should be doing something else.
And by the way, it doesn't have to be you write something funny.
You could just write something about something and then try to extract funny things out of
it.
Like you could just write a story about
like how violent your dad was like that. What you just told me, which is horrific, right? Yeah. You,
if you wrote that out, I guarantee you there's going to be a seed of something in there,
something. It might even not even be about your dad being violent. It'd be, maybe it'd be about
how you react to violence or maybe how you react to you know
angry people i just want everybody to be nice you could find like a premise in there so just
write an essay just write an essay and write an essay with no expectation of whether or not it's
going to be funny yeah i used to do morning pages you ever do that no just get up in the morning
and write right when you wake up apparently apparently, when you just start writing.
That's supposed to be the best time to write.
Yeah.
Where you don't have those filters and stuff, like this sucks.
Just freely write it, and then just pages of it.
Maybe a couple, you know what I mean?
And then later you look at it, you know what I mean?
Maybe I'll start doing that again.
I don't fucking know.
That's how most writers do.
When they write, they write in the morning, and then they go for a walk.
A lot of them do.
And they listen to some of their notes.
And they'll go over the idea that they wrote down, and they'll take voice notes while they're walking.
There's something about walking, they say, because it's like a very mild aerobic exercise, so it stimulates your circulation.
It gets everything flowing.
You actually think a little bit better when you're walking.
Oh, okay.
You're not tired.
It's a mild thing.
So you're just out there walking and your heart is pumping and you're not sitting there
sedentary just trying to think.
You're actually walking around.
Okay.
I'll try hiking then.
Yeah.
Hiking is good.
Hiking is good.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Hike after you.
Then you really have earned your video games.
Right?
Right?
Yeah.
And then hike and think about what you write.
And then when you play,
you'll be playing for fun. You'll be enjoying it.
So from this day forth,
from this day forth, I'm gonna
wake up, I'm making an announcement.
I'm gonna wake up, I'm gonna write for an hour.
Okay. Right? Hike,
and then I'm gonna play video games.
I'm gonna see you four months from now, you're gonna be cracked out
with a Klingon knife.
You went off the rails.
It was too much pressure.
I was getting up every morning.
I was writing and I was hiking and it was just too much.
Yeah.
No, my fish died.
I have to do it because now it's incredible.
Like, you know, when I do shows with Segura or me and Andrew, you know, because I'm on
a podcast called Bad Friends.
It's a funny podcast.
Thank you.
You guys are good together. I want to talk to you about an episode that I saw but you you having to go to Israel was that on that or was that somewhere else
yeah what was that like tell me what happened you know I want to talk about
it do it because I'm not saying anything that's like wrong it's just something
that happened I get a call from steve burn okay
and steve goes you want to go to israel how long ago is this
14 years ago maybe oh oh okay yeah okay 12 14 i don't know and i go why i don't want to do a show
there and he goes no you know i got a call and they're flying out a bunch of comedians and actors and it's a free trip.
And I go, why?
I don't know.
They just want to show us the country and their culture.
And you get nice hotels, free meals, and you get a tour of like.
Are you not performing?
No.
Okay.
So I went there with Jamie Chung, Brian Greenberg, they're actors, and Steve Lopez went out, George Lopez.
Okay.
And we went out there, and then when we got there, they were like, welcome.
We're like, thanks.
And they were like, but every day you have to tweet how great Israel is.
Every day?
Yeah, like put out a tweet.
They told you you have to, and they didn't say anything about that before you left?
I don't remember them saying it before.
But they might have?
They could have.
Maybe they said it to Steve, and Steve conveniently left it out.
I don't know, but I do know that I feel like if they did say it, that I would have questioned it.
Right.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
So I don't know.
So this is the early days of Twitter, right?
Yeah.
So when was, Twitter's only like 12 years old.
It was 10 years ago then, I don't know.
How old's Twitter?
Oh, there it is.
2006.
Israel unfiltered.
So 2006.
Yeah, yeah.
Look at that.
So 2006, when was that?
Look at your face.
Yeah.
I'm like, I have to tweet?
Yeah, yeah.
But here's what happened.
As soon as I tweeted the first thing,
I already knew like, oh my God, I think I'm in trouble.
Why? What'd you say?
I just said, Israel's great.
They're beautiful people.
You know what I mean?
Okay.
And then like, it was just like,
and they flew us out here for free.
And then you would just get a thousand like,
you know what I mean?
That were like, you know, Palestinian, you know're mean that we're like you know Palestinian you know and go you mother you know and just it
was a negative negative negative and there was these gigantic Wars that would
go on in the comment section it's got really uncomfortable and then I just
remember you know yeah there I am you nice hat you should wear that all the
time I look cute with it is that You should wear that all the time.
I know, I look cute with it.
Is that the famous wall?
That's the wall, yeah.
What did it feel like to be around that wall?
That wall's old as fuck, right?
How old's that wall?
I put a note in it.
Wow.
You could write little letters, you know what I mean?
Letters to Jesus?
Yeah, yeah.
And you put it in there.
Dear Jesus, when you come out. I think mine was like, let me get more pussy or whatever.
Nice.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That wall, how old is that wall?
19 BC.
19 BC.
Yeah.
Wow.
But then toward the end, I was just like, I got to get the fuck out of here, I think.
I was just like.
How many tweets did you make?
And did you keep going after they were attacking you?
Yeah, I think so, yeah.
You have to.
You have to.
Otherwise, you don't get your hotel.
Yeah.
It was like a free thing.
What the fuck are you going to do?
And I didn't know the significance of it until later, almost. You have to. Otherwise, you don't get your hotel. Yeah. It was like a free thing.
And I didn't know the significance of it until later almost.
Like, you know what I mean?
Or the significance, but like what the impact of it, you know?
Right.
Because I, you know, obviously, you know, I mean, obviously I have my opinions about it.
You know what I mean? That I'm keeping to myself.
But it's like, you know, it's not fully aligned, you know what I mean, with what people think that I should be, you know.
You have to be careful because I live in L.A. and, you know.
Oh, I hear you.
Look, it's a complicated issue.
It's so complicated.
And it's terrifying.
Yeah.
When you look at the video of when they do an overhead of what Gaza used to look like and what it looks like now.
I just, I mean, it's just, it's insane.
It's fucking insane. It's going to take over a year to clean up just the rubble oh my god but it's like 25 000 now at least at least they don't know how
many people are dead they have no idea and just the half the population is women and children
and the trauma uh-huh and the fucking you know famine it's just it's just i just can't
even comprehend it really yeah and the israelis tell you that it's necessary and then they they
have to get rid of hamas and this is the way to do it but just i mean i believe that i believe i
believe that i believe that maybe that that should be but I think the approach could be different.
Yeah.
Right or no?
I don't have any expertise in war.
Me either.
But I'm horrified that they can just shoot missiles into buildings.
And they tell people to get out, but then they bomb the areas where they're going to.
I mean, the whole thing is nuts, man.
It's nuts and it's so dangerous.
It's nuts, man. It's nuts and it's so dangerous. It's so dangerous. These free Palestine marches that are happening all over the world, those are all organized too, by the way.
When you get on social media and you see the free Palestine people and the pro-Israel people, what percentage of those people are bots?
Right.
It's not zero.
It's not zero.
There's a lot of what's getting stirred up, a lot of the hateful things that are being said a lot of the crazy things that Are being said I guarantee you a lot of that's being instigated by foreign countries
And that's what's scary about social media and the influence it has on people and the way they feel about a particular issue
And that's on top of the horrific nature of the issue itself both of October 7th
Which is undeniably horrific horrific and this, and then on top of that,
you have this open anti-Semitism that we never saw before,
where it's just open everywhere.
It's wild.
It's fucking terrible.
It's so scary, man.
But it's also an issue that will never be resolved.
But it's not just that it'll never be resolved.
I never thought it was going to be an issue
where the presidents of, like, major universities
were standing in front of Congress
and they were justifying people saying
death to the Jews,
that it wasn't harassment unless it was actionable.
I'll tell you, that's insane, yeah.
Like, what...
And then when the congresswoman
was trying to get them to expand on that,
do you mean actual genocide then
it's harassment when they commit actual genocide yeah what the fuck are you saying yeah but it's
the same thing we were talking about it's the cult they're in that leftist cult and it's not
reasonable it doesn't make any sense it's all crazy oh and when they were like osama bin laden
could have been riot or whatever that do you remember that fucking trend oh yeah fucking insane what are you talking about and these are people right that weren't that i was
there that's a tiktok thing too by the way yeah osama bin laden in 2000 right or two when 2000
2001 i was on mad tv 9 11 happened i went to work the next day and Andrew Daly, one of the actors, his cousin was on one of the flights. Oh, Jesus.
Right?
And I could feel the pain.
Right?
And, you know, we were inundated with the fucking footage.
Yeah.
And just in the moment, it was fucking horrifying.
Yeah.
It changed America.
A hundred percent.
A hundred percent.
And now people that weren't even around then, kids, which is fine, but now they have these grand ideas about, it's insane.
Well, it's also, where did Osama bin Laden come from?
Well, he came from the CIA funding them, the Mujahideen, to fight against the Soviet Union.
They were trained.
They were trained by Americans.
Yeah, yeah.
Look, there's a certain reality to American imperialism
It doesn't do anybody any good to deny it. Yeah, yeah military bases. You're right
Everywhere right now if you were a foreign country in a nationalistic foreign country, of course you'd hate America
Of course you'd hate what we do
I mean look at what's going on right now with this Ukraine Russia thing look at how much money is being funneled through that
How much insane amounts of money? Yeah, and most of its second basalt, right? with this Ukraine-Russia thing. Look at how much money's being funneled through that.
Insane amounts of money.
Yeah, and most of it's like embezzled, right?
Who fucking knows?
But again, it's not zero.
It's not 0%. It's getting embezzled.
And the fact that all of a sudden
no one wanted to admit that Ukraine
had always been a very corrupt country.
There's a crazy Twitter exchange
between Candace Owens and the New York Times
where Candace Owens was talking about how corrupt Ukraine is.
And then the New York Times says to her, like, what evidence do you have that Ukraine is corrupt?
She goes, oh, you mean the links from your fucking newspaper?
And just from like 2016 and before that, there's all these fucking stories about how corrupt Ukraine is in the New York Times.
They didn't even bother looking it up because when you're in the cult,
the cult says you support Ukraine.
Do you want Ukraine to win or do you want Russia to win?
Like, what the fuck are you even saying?
How much do you know about why this thing was instigated in the first place?
How much do you know about NATO?
About how much they're moving arms closer to the Soviet Union?
About how Ukraine joining
NATO was always a red flag.
Do you know?
I don't know.
I don't know nothing.
Most people that are talking about it don't know either.
I don't know nothing.
That was the red line that you could not cross.
Ukraine joining Russia, or joining NATO, rather.
The whole thing's fucking terrifying, because we're dealing with nuclear superpowers.
When Xi Jinping tells Biden that Taiwan will join China again, like that means they're going to take Taiwan.
What are we going to do if they take Taiwan?
Are we going to – and then Biden says we're not going to do anything.
Like, okay.
First he said we're going to stop them.
Now he says we're not going to do anything.
Like, oh, my God.
And he's only saying whatever the fuck they write down for him.
The whole thing's nuts. It's like, who's
deciding what happens and doesn't happen?
It's not that guy, right? So if it's not
him, who the fuck is it? Is it the
Secretary of State? Is it the
Press Secretary? Who's...
Is it the Military-Industrial Complex? Are they completely
at the helm? Will they ever let
control of that wheel to anybody else
now that they have it? Is this the shit
you think about when you lay in bed at night?
Mm-hmm.
How the fuck do you sleep? Sometimes I don't.
That's a real problem at night.
At night, I have my
most anxiety-filled moments about this stuff.
I've talked about it openly. Wow.
I'll really freak out at night because I
legitimately think
we are one or two events away from living
in the Stone Age again.
And I think it could happen in our lifetime and it could happen to you and I.
Like, I'm really convinced that the fabric of society is way more fragile than anyone
appreciates.
Yeah.
That most people appreciate, rather.
I mean, I feel it in the air.
Yeah.
Well, you saw it during the George Floyd times in L.A.
Oh, yeah.
I felt it.
That was Mad Max times.
Right.
When they were burning those cop cars on the highway.
And I remember seeing that going, I got to get the fuck out of here.
Yeah.
This ain't going to get better.
Was it that or COVID that made you?
Both those things.
And the money, probably like taxes.
No.
That was not even a consideration.
It was nice, but it was the freedom. It was these fucking dipshits, like the mayor of Los Angeles, telling everybody what businesses they can and can't have open, what's essential and non-essential.
It says who.
And after a while, when a bunch of people had had COVID and then gotten over it and they were fine, I was like, well, wait a minute.
How scary is this?
And why are we closing everything down?
Why aren't we giving people choice? And when it never opened. I bought into it., wait a minute. How scary is this? And why are we closing everything down? Why aren't we giving people choice?
And would it never open?
I bought into it.
Of course you did.
I didn't even leave the house for two fucking years.
I didn't even go to the grocery store, and I had to spray everything down.
Doritos, spraying it with, it was insane.
Well, my whole family got it early on, before there was anything,
before there was a vaccine, before there was anything.
And I didn't get it.
And I didn't do anything different.
I hugged my kids.
I fucked my wife.
I hung out with them.
I just took care of myself.
You've had a COVID though, right?
Yeah.
I got it eventually.
Yeah, I got it too.
I got it when the Delta variant was around.
I got it when I was doing arenas in Florida.
And I got it because I was hanging out with my friend John Shulman.
My friend John Shulman is a buddy of mine who makes pool cues,
and he lives right there, and I got to see him after the show,
and we played pool until like 3.30 in the morning, and I was exhausted.
I had like fucking five margaritas, and then I got sick.
But even then, it wasn't that bad.
But my point is, like, my whole family got it, and I didn't get it.
They weren't vaccinated?
No, no, there was no vaccine back then.
Okay, so, yeah.
And I didn't do anything different, man.
Yeah.
I remember I worked out two days where I was tired, and I realized I was fighting something off.
Like, there was two days where I was in the gym.
I was like, you know what?
I'm just going to go through the motions here.
I'm just going to lift light weights and just, like, let my body, like, break a little bit of a sweat but no exertion
just get some circulation going so i did like some some kettlebell exercises like 35 pounds
nothing strenuous like yeah just nice and light and just get the body moving and then the next
day i went back in the gym i feel the same same thing today same thing did some push-ups did some
chin-ups nothing crazy like five reps of five chin-ups, not just a little bit of
exercise, nothing extraneous. And then the next day, I felt great. The next day, I had a full
regular workout. So whatever it was, I fought it off. And so then I was like, well, what is at play
here? Can your immune system stop this? Or is it something that you 100% get? No, it seems very
infectious, but it also seems like if
you have a healthy immune system, this isn't a death sentence. This isn't Ebola. This isn't...
So what the fuck is going on? And then the vaccine came out and I signed up to get vaccinated. The
UFC had this whole allotment of vaccines, but I was there on a Friday for the UFC and they said,
you have to go to the clinic. And I said, I can't, I don't have the time.
They said, can you come back Monday? I said, no, but I'll be back in two weeks.
So I was going to get vaccinated in two weeks. And in the two weeks they pulled it. They pulled the Johnson and Johnson for blood clots. And two people I knew got strokes. Two people. Two people.
Within the 10 days of taking that vaccine, two people I knew had strokes. Like healthy people,
like weird blood clots.. Like weird blood clots.
People were getting blood clots.
Weird people.
I mean, it is true that if you were older, though, like 70,
and you had some sort of like, you know what I mean, comorbidity.
What's the word?
Comorbidities.
Comorbidity, right?
That they could die, right?
I mean, that's a true thing, right?
Like Herman Cain, he died.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They die of the flu, too.
I mean, it's a bad cold.
It's not dismissing what it is. But it's dismissing this control
that all of a sudden the medical
industrial complex and the government has
over you and your job
and your choices in your life.
For something that now they admit
they could have never contained, that it was
never going to stop transmission, that it was never going to stop
infection. It was all just lies. They lied about the efficacy. They lied about the protection in parts
They but they put it out on MSNBC Rachel Maddow the virus stops with you you can't get it. It's not true
It was not true. There was no evidence that it did that. Yeah, not only was there no evidence
They never even tested it for trans. Wow
They just tested it try to see if it makes antibodies, but what scared me was when Michael evidence, they never even tested it for transmission. Wow. They just tested it to try to see if it makes antibodies.
But what scared me was when Michael Yeo, you know Michael Yeo?
Oh, yeah.
When he was in the ICU because of COVID.
In my mind, I don't know why, because I know that Michael Yeo is athletic.
Yeah.
I thought to myself, oh, if he's in the ICU, I would have died.
You know what I mean?
Meanwhile, his mom got it, and she was fine.
It's Michael Yeo. He's weak. I don't know what I mean? Meanwhile, his mom got it, and she was fine. It's Michael.
Yo, he's weak.
I don't know what it is, man.
It could have caught him absolutely exhausted.
Maybe, yeah.
That's what I've heard of people getting it really bad.
It catches them when they go on a bender.
And that's what happened with me.
I was drinking until 3.30 in the morning.
I think when drinking, first of all, is absolutely terrible for your body
and terrible for your immune system.
And if you're drinking like I was drinking these five super sweet, super potent margaritas, we were hammered, you know.
And then I was actually I came from a show, too.
So I did a show that night.
I probably had a couple of drinks at the show.
So it's like you're not in a good place to fight off anything like that.
You're exhausted and drunk.
And then I've been sick that way many times.
The times in my past when I've caught a cold or caught the flu,
it's almost always when I'm run down.
Almost always.
So I don't know.
Maybe Michael Yeo was really run down when he got it.
I know a guy who got COVID really bad because him and his buddies were drinking.
They were drinking and they were partying and he was really fucked up.
And then the next day COVID hit him bad, but he was weak.
His body was weakened by a bender.
Like they were drunk all night.
And then in the morning he started feeling like shit and then it caught him bad.
Yeah.
But what I got, I was really bad, but I lived through it.
It was fine.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's a lot of different things that were at play there.
First of all, there was just general metabolic health that was completely ignored.
People told you all you have to do is get vaccinated.
That's horse shit.
Your immune system is complex, and it relies on a bunch of different things to keep it effective.
It relies on good nutrition.
It relies on sleep.
It relies on low stress.
It relies on vitamins and nutrients, healthy diet, exercise.
All those things were huge factors, and they ignored every single one of them.
When you look at the number of people that died of COVID, something like 90-plus percent had four-plus comorbidities.
Four-plus.
Cancer, diabetes, heart attack risk. Fill in the blank. Four comorbidities. Four plus. Cancer, diabetes, heart attack risk.
Fill in the blank.
Four comorbidities.
90 plus percent of them.
Yeah.
It's not that it's not bad.
Of course it's bad.
But you know what's worse?
You motherfuckers telling everybody what they have to do and not have to do.
You motherfuckers telling people they could shut their businesses down and they have to
take this experimental medication regardless of whether or not they have natural immunity
Dude, it was Gestapo shit. I'm with you, but I'm with you. It was yeah, it was fucking mind control. It was
totalitarian authoritarian tactics they were limiting people's livelihood limiting people's ability to travel
Shaming people The fucking government released
during Omicron, which is nothing but a cold,
they released this thing.
For the people who have been vaccinated, you did your job.
For those unvaccinated, you
experience a winter, what is it?
Severe illness and death?
You're looking towards a winter of
severe illness and death?
When Biden's on TV,
our patience is wearing thin. We've been's on tv our patience is wearing thin we've
been patient but our patience is hey motherfucker our patience is wearing thin with you you can't
even form a goddamn sense yeah you fucking zombie yeah what are you talking about your patience is
wearing thin you're not even looking at data you're not talking about reality you're talking
to the cult can i ask you why are they so reluctant to not give us a different option there?
Because it's control.
Because whenever there's anything that happens in the world, whether it's 9-11, and through 9-11 they passed the Patriot Act.
And there was a devastating blow to free speech and control and just your ability to have privacy.
The government had full reign to listen to all your phone calls,
read all your emails, and they're doing it right now. And the NSA is doing it right now. They can
listen to any time you make a phone call to someone. It's all getting recorded.
Yeah, but when we complain, like, Biden's a little too old. Maybe can we find a different
option? They're not even open to the idea of it. It's just like, no, he's the guy.
He's not in control right now, right? So if the people who are in control are in control right now, why would they want to swap out a new person?
Deep state boom for real is a deep state listen
Yeah, you could put whatever words you want, but if you don't think that these corporations that donate
Insane amounts of money to political campaigns have an influence on what happens in the world. You're naive
That's a silly way to think of things.
Now, if you've got a guy who basically has no mind and he is your figurehead, if you
can keep him alive for four years, you just run it the way you're running it right now.
Wow.
All you have to do is get that other guy arrested a ton of times.
Just keep arresting them.
Keep trumping up new charges.
Yeah.
Put him out there in the fucking news every day.
Terrible things he's done.
He's an authoritarian.
He's going to lock all the gays up.
If you just say that enough, the people that are uninformed and aren't paying attention,
they're going to listen.
And then if you have mail-in ballots and if you have a voter machine shenanigans,
if you can fucking sway things one way or another, then you stay in power.
Do you stay in power?
So you believe the same person stays as a figurehead and the same people run it now.
Do you believe the election was stolen then?
No.
OK.
I believe that there are without a doubt in every election.
There's election fraud.
Sure.
It's like, what's the number?
Yeah.
So that's what I say.
I don't know what the number is.
I know Trump apparently released a whole bunch of documents showing irregularities, showing
that the mail-in ballots were incorrect.
The mail-in ballots is something Putin talked about recently.
He said the 2020 elections were stolen and they used mail-in ballots.
But who knows why he's saying that?
But these things happen every cycle, right?
Every election, these things happen.
There's irregularities.
Hillary claimed that she won.
Right, right.
I mean, John Kerry claimed that he won.
Al Gore claimed that he won.
Remember the dangling chats?
In Florida.
In Florida, yeah, yeah, yeah.
The idea of people denying—
But the difference is that Al, though, went, okay, I'm going to concede and—
Sort of.
It took a long time.
Okay.
You know, the Al Gore, George Bush won. how long did that go on before he conceded?
I want to say it was a few months.
I don't think it was as simple as just conceding.
Okay.
I think the Al Gore, George Bush one went on for quite a while, if I remember correctly,
because I remember being confused, like, wow, this never happened before.
A month or so.
A month.
A month or so.
Okay.
So think of that. Think of like a whole month where they're trying to decide if it's true, right?
It's fucking weird and there was a documentary that HBO did back when Bush was president during these times
Well, this was when it was okay to deny the election because it was Republican that was in office
And there was a documentary called Hacking Democracy. And in that documentary,
they were using, I think they were using Diebold machines. And Diebold, they also make a lot of ATM
machines. They make various machines. But what they had found in this documentary was that there
was the ability to have a third party input. So first party input is you, you're the voter. Second
party is me. I collect the vote. Third party input was also there.
And so they used that on the documentary to change the vote.
So they used it to change the numbers.
Wow.
And they showed that they can do it.
Wow.
I'll send you something, Jamie.
I don't know if this is true, but someone said that someone had just done this recently.
Here, I'll send you this because this is just something that someone tweeted.
I don't know if it's true, but I wanted to send it to Jamie so Jamie could research it.
computer scientist and engineering professor J. Alex Halderman was able to hack a Dominion voting tabulator in front of U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg using only a pen to change the vote totals.
That happened this time?
Supposedly.
Wow.
This is a tweet from just a couple of days ago.
Wow. That was a tweet from, actually a tweet from, when was it?
Anyway, I don't know if that's true,
but that's crazy if it is.
Yeah.
This is actually from two days ago.
Wow.
This person tweeted this.
Now, we'll look, see if that's horseshit,
and see what, but here's the thing.
When you have computers, if you have a phone,
like with Pegasus, Pegasus was the first one that,
by the way, the Israelis created Pegasus,
and Pegasus was a software that,
that's what they used to get Jeff Bezos
when they got his dick pics and all that shit.
Oh, yeah, the good ones, good ones, good ones.
He's got a solid heart.
When they did that with him, what they did was
someone sent him a link in WhatsApp.
I think it was the head of Saudi Arabia.
Sent him, allegedly, sent him a link in WhatsApp.
He clicked the link and then Pegasus was downloaded on his phone.
Now, you don't even have to click a link anymore.
Now, they can get Pegasus on your phone.
All they need is your phone number.
I could have Pegasus now?
They probably do.
You probably do.
You have it?
I'm sure. Oh, no. How can we detect it? Is there an app? I don have Pegasus now? They probably do. You probably do. You have it? I'm sure.
Oh, no.
How can we detect it?
Is there an app?
I don't believe so.
Okay.
I think, according to Gavin DeBecker, who's a securities expert, these things are constantly
evolving, and they get better all the time.
They don't tell you when they're better.
Yeah.
They just have better technology.
Yeah.
But he's aware of Pegasus, too.
And he said, with Pegasus, 2, all they need is your phone number.
Yeah.
Hey!
But Joe, can I ask you something?
Mm-hmm.
What?
Can't you just shut it off and not...
I mean, there's so many people in this country just walk around,
and they just don't...
All these things that we're talking about right now,
they don't think about it, they live their lives don't you think that
that's a happier life or no depends on whether or not your voice actually
matters so if you can change the way people think and you can change the way
people look at things and then those people vote in such mass numbers that you can't make stealing the vote possible.
Because enough people realize it's horseshit to the point where the overwhelming majority.
You would have to have fraud that's so apparent that no one would buy into it.
It would be a national scandal.
We need whistleblowers.
We have them.
We put them in jail.
Look at Edward Snowden.
He has to live in Russia now. Look at Julian Assange. We have them. We put them in jail. Look at Edward Snowden. He has to live in Russia
now. Look at Julian Assange. She's
fucked. They've been prosecuting
that guy forever. And if you ask what the
crime is, it's nothing.
He's a journalist. I just feel so
stressed out right now.
Why?
It's stressing me out.
That's the reality that we live
in. We live in a very dangerous, complicated world.
Yeah.
Halderbin, a University of Michigan computer scientist, changed results of a hypothetical referendum on Sunday alcohol sales.
He flipped the winner in a theoretical election between President George Washington and Benedict Arnold, the Revolutionary War general who defected to the British.
He rigged the machine to print out as many ballots as he wanted.
Wow.
to the British. He rigged the machine to print out as many ballots as he wanted.
Wow.
All he needed was a pen to reach
a button inside the touchscreen,
a fake $10 voter card that he had
programmed, or a $100
USB device that he plugged into a cord
connected to a printer,
rewriting the touchscreen's
code. Haldeman delivered his
presentation during an election security
trial, evaluating whether
Georgia's voting system is vulnerable to manipulation or programming errors. All in-person
voters in Georgia make their choices on touchscreens that print out paper ballots. I believe Georgia
was supposed to update their machines. And then there was a talk of when they were going to do it.
And I think it's also taken into consideration other than just corruption, it might also be a budget issue.
The headline says election officials say these vulnerabilities are...
Merely speculative.
Oh, merely speculative.
It's safe and effective.
Our election is safe and effective.
These people dropping dead.
Yeah.
40% increase in all-cause mortalities.
Yeah.
Ages 18 to 34, there's
nothing to concern yourself with.
That's normal.
It's merely speculative, really.
These people all have your best interest in mind.
Is that a cigar?
These are little baby cigars.
Can I have one?
Yeah, sure.
Okay.
You're okay with nicotine cigars?
I'm not going to inhale it.
You want a real cigar?
A big one?
No, the little ones.
You want a real cigar?
I like them. Yeah, why don't you have a real cigar? A big one? No, the little ones. You want a real cigar? I like them.
Yeah, why don't you have one of these?
Is it Cuban?
Yeah.
No, these are from Nicaragua.
These are JRE cigars.
Oh, fuck.
They're actually really good.
Yeah.
Here, I'll open it for you.
This is what I think, man.
Okay.
I think evil's real.
And I think evil exists in many forms, and it exists in callous disregard for loss of
life for profit.
That's evil, right?
And that's a real thing.
Like, you could say evil is the devil.
Here's a little lighter here, buddy.
You could say evil is Satan, and evil is demons, and evil is, you know, exorcisms and shit.
There you go.
Look at that, baby.
But also, evil is profit over human life, which is real.
Evil is cobalt mines in the Congo.
When you watch pregnant women mining for cobalt and getting toxic fumes in their lungs.
Some of them have babies on their back.
That's evil.
That's evil.
They're living in dirt floors with no sanitation.
It's horrific conditions, and that is in everybody's cell phone and everyone's cell phone
is the labor of essentially people so poor they don't have to choose whether they're slaves or
not they just have there's no other option for them to work but there's a power of powerlessness
that one feels like what is little bobby lee gonna do about any of this so it's like a lot
of times i'm just like you know everything that everything that you said, I'm with you.
But I'm just saying that, like, it stresses me out.
It should.
Yeah.
And I want to walk around a little bit more free and, you know.
You deserve that.
Yeah.
You're a comedian, man.
You provide laughter and you help people.
And if it's fucking you up, knowing about all this shit that's happening
in the world that can get in the way of your job yeah yeah look it's it's not an obligation to pay
attention to everything okay but it is something that i think would help people break out of the
cult because that call it's like you think you're a good person if you buy hook line and sinker
everything that the left says. That's crazy.
These are the same people that want war.
These are the same people that are encouraging censorship.
These are the same people that are trying to silence dissent.
That's all totalitarian shit.
And just because it's done for trans kids or for Black Lives Matter or for any social cause that you think is like undeniably
worthy it's still the same thing at the end of the day the patriot act still controlled people
in a way that was never allowed before and it did it under the guise we have to stop a terrorist
attack yeah so even if they don't do evil shit to make these things happen once these things happen
they take advantage by doing evil shit.
And they enact control over the people that they never had before.
And that's what they did during COVID.
And the redistribution of wealth was insane.
The redistribution of wealth to big corporations and companies.
Gates profited that.
Oh, my God.
So many people did.
Billions of dollars was moved.
Yeah.
Wow, it just stresses me out.
You want to talk about the movie?
Yeah.
Can we talk about the movie I'm promoting?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What's your movie, Bobby?
Oh, I'm barely in it.
And they're making me, you know what I mean?
But they're making you do promo and you're barely in it?
Well, I have four scenes.
What's it called?
It's called Drugstore June.
What's it about?
It's about a girl, Esther, right?
And she works at a pharmacy.
I play the main pharmacist.
And it's basically, she plays sort of like a Gen Z, you know what I mean, girl that's kind of out of touch.
It's kind of like a Juno, you know what I mean, girl that's kind of out of touch. It's kind of like a Juno, you know what I mean, but it's more modern.
And what I like about it, Joe, is this, okay, is that, you know, can I talk about Hollywood
real quick?
Sure.
There's still gatekeepers, right?
And for me, it's like, I think I'm perceived as dangerous.
I don't know why.
Because I'm on a podcast, I say shit.
Yeah.
Right?
Right.
And it's like, I'm always the fourth option.
It goes Ronnie, Jimmy, Ken Jeong, right?
And I like acting, right?
So it's like, I think this is cool because it's like,
everyone that's involved in it are dear friends of mine.
You know what I mean?
Pretty much everyone in the movie are people like Miss Pat
and people that I know.
Oh, cool.
And it's cool to like have...
Look at you. Yeah. Let's watch the trailer okay if you were gonna give me a consultation for
plastic surgery it's not what i do here but just if you were what do you think you would do to my
face i'd probably start with your mouth like lip filler no I would sew that sucker shut.
I'm a loser! Your Facebook group is right.
I have no life.
What did you ever see in this psycho?
One, two...
Oh, I messed it up.
I need a coffee break.
You're not even clocked in yet.
I haven't been getting paid for any of this.
Give me a double macchiato.
I brought you some hot chocolate.
You're interrupting my stream.
Okay, bye, June Squad.
Oh, well, thank you, Chad.
What? Ew!
I heard the pharmacy got robbed.
Miss Potts.
What the hell happened in here?
What's your name?
At forever June on everything except Snap at June forever.
No, honey, your real life actual name.
June.
June.
This is not Queen June's private castle.
June the Almighty.
Oh. June? Oh,. June the Almighty. Oh.
June?
Oh, I got the poor man that ends up with her.
I think I'm gonna start doing some investigatory work.
Y'all heard anything about a pharmacy here, Rob?
I don't watch the news.
All I do is smoke weed.
Do you feel safe here?
I'm gonna have to get you!
I'm looking for information. Hey baby boo. June Squad has a lot of time on their hands. Take it easy. I'll tell you
what you want. What are you doing here? I'm collecting evidence. You watch too many movies.
You are not a police officer. Help us out here. God, mugshots are so
sexy. Can I take this home?
No.
Why not?
Did you watch it?
No.
So that's the first time you've seen the clip?
Yeah. Well, Abby, you know Abby
Levito, my manager, she saw it.
She was like, it's pretty good.
And when she said that, I was just like,
oh,
I don't want to watch it.
Yeah,
yeah,
yeah.
But you know,
I got to promote it.
I got to,
I'm sure you're great in it.
I'm sure you're great in it.
Yeah,
yeah,
you're hilarious.
But I want to say though,
that it's like,
you know,
it's all our friends.
It's like,
you know,
you and your friends got together
and we made a movie
and I heard it's great and it's going to go into theaters.
There's all these things.
I'm going to see it.
I'm going to eventually see it.
I can't watch myself.
Can I say something?
I've been to movies.
I get invited to premieres.
I leave.
Yeah, I don't want to watch me.
This was pretty good.
Oh, that's me in Death and Roman.
Yeah.
I'm pretty good in this.
It's in a short that just came out on YouTube.
It's like 15 minutes long.
Okay.
Yeah, but I'm okay in that.
Yeah.
So you want to get into acting.
You're enjoying it.
Can I ask you, you don't like it?
No, I don't like the process.
I love movies.
You're great in news radio.
Thank you very much.
Huge laughs.
It's fun.
Yeah.
Stand-up's more fun.
It is, but why can't you do all of it?
Because I don't want to deal with all those people.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's why I did Fear Factor.
I didn't want to deal with actors anymore. When Fear F yeah, yeah. That's why I did Fear Factor. I didn't want to deal with actors anymore.
When Fear Factor came along, I was like, oh, this is perfect.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
And the cast on NewsRadio were amazing.
Incredible.
It's just you deal with a certain kind of person that is 60% insane.
60% of them are insane.
Yeah.
40% of them are cool as fuck.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But it's just like, I don't, they can't, they're not fun to joke around with.
They're shitty.
They backstab.
They fucking, they undermine you.
They go to producers and, you know, try to rewrite your words and say it conflicts with my lines.
Yeah.
It's like weird ego shit goes on with them.
They're weird, man.
They're weird people.
They are weird.
But what, the jobs I have now, like I did Reservation Dogs.
I did I'm On Sex and the City, the new one.
Oh, how's that?
I said no to it for the first couple of times.
They were like, you want to do it?
Because I just didn't think that it was the right fit.
I had never seen it.
I know it's a big cultural thing.
Yeah.
But I just basically said, all I want to do is feel comfortable, dude.
I said that to MPK, the showrunner.
Because I don't want to go in there and feel like people are mean and I'm stressed out.
I don't need it.
And he comforted me.
He was like, no, we want you on the show.
And I would go to New York and everyone was super sweet.
I put myself in situations that aren't that.
I've had fucking directors call me a pan face gook what yeah I had a director call me that was
he also no he was a white what yeah how long ago in the 90s I don't want to call
the director he's a big director holy shit and he called the other actors a
whore oh my god he's a get on your mark you pan face gookok. Yeah, yeah. This is back, you know, when it wasn't
woke. Is he alive? Yeah.
So he's doing movies still? I want to
so badly tell you who it is. What's his
name rhyme with? I'm not playing this
game. I know the internet. Will you tell
me later? Oh yeah. Okay.
Oh yeah, yeah. Well they're gonna go through your
IMDB and they're gonna find some likely
candidates. Maybe we should do that. Yeah.
Let the internet do it. Maybe we should do that. Yeah, let the internet do it
Maybe we could play warmer. Yeah
One time this director, I worked for this director. Is he Italian? No, I'm not playing this game. Fuck you. Okay
One time I fucked up on a line and he made the whole
Everyone like the cameraman everyone and the wardrobe form a circle
They put me in the middle of the circle, and he goes, point your finger.
And they all pointed their finger at me, and he goes, repeat after me.
You're the worst actor on planet Earth.
Oh, my God.
And they all did that, and tears welled up in my eyes.
And I remember a wardrobe lady looked at me.
She goes, I'm so sorry.
Oh, my God.
Yeah.
I mean, I've had Michael Bay do something to me.
Wow.
What did Michael Bay do to you?
He grabbed my face aggressively.
Whoa.
Why?
What did you do to him?
Did you grab his balls?
Did he wake up with you sucking on his balls?
I don't do that.
I do that for comics.
Okay, okay.
Yeah, I don't do it when I'm like on a...
No, I did this.
So I booked this commercial with Eric Stonestreet.
Right.
You know Eric?
He's on Modern Family.
Okay.
He plays the fat gay guy.
Sure, sure.
So we played Tower Boys with Kim Cattrall.
So it was a Pepsi commercial, I think.
And she was in this bathtub.
And I'd never acted before.
You know, Joe, I'm a stand-up.
I come from the same place you come, which is open mics.
Stand-up. Yeah, I is open mics. Stand up.
Yeah, I didn't learn how to act.
I don't know the fuck that.
Right.
I didn't know what a jib camera is or a mark or any of that shit.
Right.
So I had this scene where I had to bring these.
Oh, fuck.
I had to bring these towels into a.
It was like stacked.
That was the joke.
And he would go, your face needs to be in the light.
And I go, oh, I don't know.
So I try to tilt every take.
The light!
The light!
Right?
And then, like, by the eighth one, he came from behind the thing,
and he grabbed my face like this.
He goes, here!
Here!
And, like, tears.
Well, no, don't feel bad for me.
I'm a survivor.
That's your Holocaust.
That was your Auschwitz.
Being in a movie and Michael Bay tells you to put your face towards the light.
Yeah, but in the 90s, I experienced that shit, right?
Well, that seems like you really weren't putting your face towards the light,
and he was freaking out because they could only do that take so many times.
I'm kind of on Team Bay.
Really? Yeah, he just turned your face. Oh, you're right. You're making it sound like you're right. You're right. You're right
You're right. You're right. You're right. You're right beat your ass. You're right. You're absolutely but but also when you
When you come when you come from a background like me yes with your dad fucking I get it
Yeah, when people scream right it fuck triggers if you Triggers. You feel it. You got triggered.
Yeah.
What's his name?
The original Robocop?
Peter Weir.
Peter Weir, yeah.
He's a screamer.
Screams?
Yeah, so I was on Magnum. Screamed at you?
Yeah, I was on Magnum.
He does it to everyone, right?
Oh, yeah, back in the day, we wouldn't have sides.
You can't remember one line?
He would yell shit like that, right?
Really?
And every time he would do it, I would, like, tense up.
I'm not a pussy, dude.
I get it.
I'm a warrior, okay?
Wow.
Yeah, and then...
And then, right?
I just went to the showrunner.
I go, next time I'm on the side, maybe not him.
So they just did it, you know?
But anyway, now I do shit that's like where I feel like I'm
wanted and I'll do it.
So it's not like that crazy
bullshit where I need, back then I needed it.
Right. When someone would say something
horrible to you, you just had to swallow it. You would absorb it.
But there was also no recourse back then.
I mean, that's how you get to
like a Harvey Weinstein.
A guy who has just ultimate control,
can do whatever the fuck he wants yeah, and does ruins people's lives and careers if they don't accept his advances
That's where that mean that whole business has always been about
Powerful people abusing the people that they that had to listen to them
From casting directors all the way up to producers it was different then yeah yeah look tarantino was in here and he's talking about this old school director who had his office
had a bedroom where he'd take the starlets all the starlets had to fuck him oh my god in a bedroom
in his fucking office oh my god so everyone just assumed if a casting you know thing was going on
and a girl came into his office
He fucked her and 20 years ago. I would have done that. I think you think so. I think that if
I think that it was a huge director. Mm-hmm, right? You know, I would suck his dick maybe really
I think I wouldn't say I wouldn't tell you well
There's definitely I would just cry could have feel like some offers if that just cry. You could have filled out some offers if that was out there.
What?
You could have gotten some offers if that was out there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Maybe you weren't like open enough with your desire to make it.
Yeah.
I just think that back then I was like so like, I had no money.
Right.
And in my mind I'd be like, oh, this is the way it's supposed to happen.
Right.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, imagine if you're an actress, right?
And you come out to Hollywood from fucking Kansas.
You're 20 years old.
And you are all of a sudden in this producer's office.
And he's 50.
And he's been banging stars for 20 fucking years.
And you don't know how it all works.
And he explains to you, listen, honey, this is how it works in this business.
You're like, well, I mean, okay. Do you want to be be an actress and you're kind of mentally ill anyway oh right and you're
like yeah i do so much yeah yeah no one has to know about this oh okay you won't tell anybody
it's terrible it's fucking terrible yeah and that's probably what they did forever it's so
fucking terrible yeah and i mean i mean i know you know we have problems with the word woke, but I think in many ways, Hollywood
wokeness is also good.
Yeah, that way.
I think-
Now in a stopping the abuse way.
But the problem is there's like, in Hollywood in particular, there was an overcorrection
and crazy people like Amber Heard got involved.
Right.
And started manipulating the truth to sort of gain sympathy.
You've got a lot of those cases, too.
The Chris Hardwick case.
There's a lot of those where the reality is so different than the truth.
Right.
And everybody just assumes that the woman's not insane and that she's telling the truth.
But you're going to have to have a few of those if you're going to have to have real change, like a real correction of actual abuse.
to have to have real change, like a real correction of actual abuse.
It's just like if you're going to accept trans people, you're going to have a bunch of instances of perverts pretending to be trans.
If you're going to say, hey, we have to stop abuse, you're going to get fake abuse.
You're going to get people that come out and say they're abused.
I know, man.
And that's the way Hollywood is bad.
It's the way humans are.
It's the way humans are.
Yeah. Hollywood is like bad. It's the way humans are. But in the sense of a show like Beef getting
greenlit, which are mostly
all Korean or Asian cast,
I think in that way it's good,
right? But there is an overcorrection
in terms of like... It's good because that show
is good, right? That's why it's
good. Yeah, you're right. It's good when the show's good.
Even if the show was good back then,
20 years ago, they would never... That's true.
They would never wrote it. That's better about acceptance.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But it's still, I think art has to be, particularly stand-up is the best example I can speak about that.
It has to be a meritocracy.
It has to be what is actually funny.
At The Mothership, we have a fucking very clear mandate.
No one gives a fuck if you are gay, if you are straight, if you are trans, if you are black, if you are Asian, if you're white.
They don't give a fuck.
Are you funny?
That's all it is.
Are you funny?
And that's our goal.
Yeah.
The goal is and that's what comedy used to be.
I had this conversation with Ali Wong once and she was like, do you think comedy is a meritocracy?
And I was like, ultimately it has to be because at the end of the day, what's funny is what people are going to come see again.
And you could pander and you can get away.
You can kind of like be half-assed and be treated like you're better than you are.
You see that all the time when they make those lists of the best stand-up specials of the year.
And some of them are like, what the fuck are you saying?
You're so crazy if you think this is good.
And they're only saying it because it's the right demographic.
Yeah.
And you can say that if they're talking about the right points.
Even if the stand-up is clunky and awful and unoriginal and just garbage, they'll tell you it's amazing.
And I don't want to kiss your ass.
May I for a second, though?
Just accept it.
Okay.
All right?
I feel like like here we go
i love it i love it i love it just just hear me out okay i just feel like you know in a way
you carved the way for me specifically because before i did Tiger Valley and Bad Friends
I mean Joe I'll be honest
with you I mean I would do half rooms
you know what I mean even though the eight years
of Mad TV and all the things I had
done right and I couldn't
get an audience right
and now I mean it's just like
it's night and day I mean
it's you I mean the path
that you laid down.
And even back then when you used to do, when we used to do it at the Ice House and they
used to pop in back in the day, right?
It's sort of like, I think it just kind of like subconsciously absorbed it and it became
a path for me and it changed my life.
That's beautiful to hear.
What?
That's beautiful to hear.
And when I go on the road now, it's like I get people that are like really.
They're fans. They know me. Yeah. They. And when I go on the road now, it's like I get people that are like really. They're fans.
They know me.
Yeah.
They love me.
And I love them as well.
And it's a different fucking deal.
You are a creature of the internet.
I am.
Yeah.
And you should be.
And the internet changed the game.
The internet also made it, instead of a famine thing, people had an abundance mentality.
Because when we first started in the 90s there was
only a few shows you could get on you got on mad TV I got a news radio there's
only a few shows and you were really lucky if you were on a show I remember
we would talk about it all the time oh my god I'm so lucky miracle crazy we're
on TV oh my god we're so lucky but there was other people that didn't get your
spot and they hated it and they were mad at you like they're like if you cast for
Mad TV and other comics at the club, you know, I know you experienced that
Oh, yeah, and they were fucking jealous and bitter and they would talk shit about you
He fucking sucks on that show. He doesn't do anything and they just angry that it didn't happen to them because it could have happened to them
Yeah
now instead of that now we're valuable to each other because now we're a community of podcasters and comedians.
And instead of us being like in competition with each other, we all feed off of each other and we all support each other.
It's a much better environment for stand up.
It's a much better environment for comedy clubs.
It's like everything's better now.
It's also the connection with East Coast, too.
It's like before, I felt like there was a rivalry almost, right?
And now it's like when I go to New York,
and as soon as I land, I don't even call.
The seller will call me and go,
what spots do you want?
Yeah.
And then all the comics will come by the pod.
You know what I mean?
It's like a family.
It's fun.
It's fucking amazing.
Yeah, that happened during the podcast revolution.
That's what changed everything.
You think it's going down now?
Going down?
The podcast revolution.
Yeah, are we still on?
It's happening.
I know.
Are we on downswing or upswing?
No, it's not a downswing at all.
If you pay attention to the numbers, more people are listening now than ever.
Yeah.
All the podcasts.
Yeah.
It's awesome.
And it's awesome because you get to see
people for who they really are no bullshit no filter no nonsense you can't nonsense people
for three hours you know at a certain point in time your fucking demons will show their
it's really who you are yeah and it also shapes who you are because you get to kind of like
experience feedback and examine how you think about things and why you say the things you say.
In the early days, like how much of what we used to say was just for shock value.
Like you would go on a morning radio show.
Yeah, I know.
We would try to say as shocking things as we could because that was the way to get attention, especially like Opie and Anthony.
I know.
I know.
I know.
We don't have to talk about it.
No, I could vaguely go around it.
I'm just like, at the time.
We all did it.
Yeah.
I was a survivor.
Yeah.
And I'm like, oh, this is the culture.
Yeah.
This is the culture.
And also I'm like an LA comic.
I'm in opening Anthony with beasts.
Patrice.
Patrice.
Norton.
All those guys were fucking beasts.
Yeah.
And it's like, you know, and then, you know, at the time, you know, and then later and then now, you know, but it's like.
But now it's a much more honest thing.
Yeah.
Because now you do your own thing, right?
And if people want to see Bobby, they know how to find Bobby.
And they go, they seek you out.
So it's not like some random person's tuning in.
Like, who's this guy?
And then you have to say something crazy to get attention.
Yeah. Now it's just you could be yourself. You know, that's the difference like if you got a million views on tiger belly
That's a million people that really want to watch your show. Wow. That's not random
Yeah, you know if you get a million people that are on like some Comedy Central show a million people watching that they're flipping channels
Yeah, they like how many of them are looking forward to it. How many of them just stumbled upon it? It's probably
quite a bit. Most shows
don't have loyal,
dedicated viewers.
Unless they're streaming shows.
If you're watching Stranger Things, that's what you want to watch.
But there's a lot of things that are just not
that popular, and the numbers
are still not as good.
I know.
The podcast thing is a wild thing.
I drive down the street in LA and I see a show.
I'm like, who the fucker?
Who's on that?
No one's going to watch that.
I mean, maybe.
Maybe.
Maybe it's good.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, I like that they're still doing them.
I don't want them to go away.
They tried to kill that, man.
This fucking last strike.
Dude, I had so many friends that stopped doing stand-up and just been writing that went into
a panic because they had mortgages and they just started doing stand-up and just been writing that went into a panic
Yes, they mortgages and they just started doing stand-up again, right Wow. It was hard He hadn't done stand-up in seven years Wow, and I know Owen Smith was getting back on the road again
We had him at the mothership, but he's a guy that I was always saying like that guy
That's a velvet prison for that guy. He's too good. Yeah, He's too good at stand-up to not be huge.
Yeah, I love him.
He's one of the best comics
in the country.
He's like top 20
in the country
without a doubt.
No question at all.
Owen Smith.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If I'm making a list
of top 20 in the country,
Owen Smith's on that list.
He should've wore
sweatpants on stage, though.
Who gives a fuck?
Let him wear sweatpants.
He's got a big ass dick.
He's a big dick.
Let him sweatpants.
Yeah, you're right.
He's funny, man.
He's so funny, that guy. He's so good. Big dick, too're right. He's funny, man. He's so funny, that guy.
He's so good.
Big dick, too.
That's a good thing.
He was in town just a couple weeks ago.
We all sat in the balcony and watched his set.
He did my show, and then he did my show on Thursday, and then he did the weekend he headlined.
He said it was awesome.
I just also want to tell your fans, I have a pretty medium-sized dick.
It's regular.
Thank you.
I've seen it at a gang of times.
I know.
Online, they're like, it's like a minion. No, no, no. No, it's normal. It i've seen it a gang of times i know but online they're like it's
like like a minion no no it's normal it's a regular it works it's great squirts the whole
thing yeah yeah yeah thank you so much every other day it squirts yeah everything yeah yeah it works
it's great yeah yeah it's fine i got that out there you know yeah yeah you're rude judging you
by something you can't control yeah but it's been a real blessing man It really has and I podcast things a blessing for all of us obviously
Yeah, it's in a change stand-up. It really did it created way more theater acts
There's so many more theater acts and arena acts guys like Schultz and all these guys
And they just releasing their stuff on the internet doing podcasts becoming popular through podcasts. Yeah, it's an amazing way to live
I was in Hawaii with,
Sigur was in town. I was just there vacationing
and Sigur goes, I'm doing a show. Do it.
So they didn't announce me. Oh, that's great.
Right? It was like 6,000 seats or whatever, right?
And when they, and I don't want,
it's not a bragging thing, but when they
said my name and I walked up there,
I had never felt that
before in my life. It was a pure love.
What was you in town for?
I leave tomorrow morning.
Shit.
I know.
Change your flight.
Do my show tomorrow night at 7.
Really?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, okay.
Okay.
Beautiful.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
I'll change.
Bert's going to do it too.
Oh, he is?
Yeah.
He's in town?
Christ is in town.
Oh, I'll do it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It'll be fun.
It'll be fun.
Oh, my God.
They're going to go bananas.
Okay, good.
That'll be great.
The beautiful thing about those shows, Shane will be on the show, too Oh, it's gonna be awesome. Okay
Here's the thing, yeah, and this is what's great about it. I'm not afraid. No, you shouldn't be afraid. I'll follow you
It'll be hard. Very difficult. You don't have to do that. Yeah, but I would try I wouldn't be afraid of doing it
Listen, the show's gonna be amazing. It's gonna be amazing. All right, pinch clips on would try. I wouldn't be afraid of doing it. Listen, the show's going to be amazing. It's going to be amazing.
Hinchcliffe's on the show.
It's going to be amazing.
Brian Simpson's here.
I love him.
Oh, he's the best.
Yeah, yeah.
He's so good, dude.
It was good to see also old friends last night.
It was great.
Yeah.
Like, I miss them.
Yeah, man.
We took all the good people.
You fucked us.
I didn't.
I made life better for these folks.
It's a better place to be, man.
It really is.
It's a better place to live. There's less less traffic and so many people last night after the show
We're like move here you moving here, and I'm like I'm gonna talk to Andrew about it
You should but we have to move together. Yeah, but look we could have a like a house that we come every once
So I should yeah, I should look Santino would love it here. I know you love it here
He likes doing TV shows too though that fucking idiot
I know but it's a different craft
and it's, you know, I'll tell you something.
He always wanted to be an actor. No, but guys like
Schultz and these young guys, right?
It's not a part of their dream. Right.
But when I came to LA, I was like, I want to do
movies. I love movies. I get it. I love
watching it. But here's the thing, Bobby. You can always
still do movies. I still get offers for movies.
You can still do them. No, I am doing them, yeah. 100% could go back and do them. Yeah.'s the thing, Bobby. You can always still do movies. I still get offers for movies. You can still do them.
No, I am doing them.
100% could go back and do them.
Yeah.
You're a free man.
I know.
And you've got some cash.
I know, but comics make fun of me about it.
You should see Hinchcliffe's apartment.
Oh, my God.
Hinchcliffe has this fucking insane apartment.
I know.
With this giant balcony, which you can get here in Austin, would cost you $20 million in New York.
Wow.
Oh, my God.
It's incredible.
The life there is amazing.
The life in downtown Austin, there's so many great restaurants.
I know.
People are cool as fuck.
Tonight, we'll go to the Pasta Bar.
It's going to be great.
Oh, that place is great.
Great, yeah.
Dude, it's incredible here.
I know it is, dude.
And there's so much live music here.
I mean, Gary Clark Jr. has a club.
He has Antone's.
He's one of the owners there.
He's there all the time.
Last night after the show, this tall blonde that would never talk to me in L.A.
came up to me and gave me a side hug.
Ooh, side hug.
And we connected eyeballs.
Yeah.
And if I lived here, I think I could.
Yeah.
Right?
And I'm like, that also is an incentive.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Because I'm single.
Texas girls.
I love Texas girls girls They're so nice
I know
They're so womanly
I love womanly womanly
Yeah that's what I like
Yeah I love it too
Anyway really good to be here
Great to have you
You can bail if you want
You're gonna keep going
Yeah
Keep going
Why
We can stop
It doesn't matter
It doesn't
No Two and a half hours That's good enough That's huge That's plenty Yeah yeah yeah We could stop. It doesn't matter. It doesn't? No.
We're talking.
Two and a half hours.
That's good enough.
That's huge.
That's plenty.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But if I leave, you're going to keep going?
No, no.
All right.
I'll stop.
Let's just stop now.
Okay.
So the next time I have other things I want to talk about.
Perfect.
All right.
Perfect.
Thanks for having me on.
It was a beautiful podcast.
It was great.
It was beautiful.
Thank you so much for having me.
My pleasure, brother.
Watch Drunk Sergeant.
So now that we cracked our ice and we did this, we'll do them more often, right?
Yeah, 100%.
Yes, 100%.
And please, consider moving here, man.
You do an awesome addition.
It's a thing.
Like I said, Theo's considerate.
Pauly's considerate.
We have some tour.
Pauly Shore is a different human being now.
I know.
Pauly Shore is so loose and so friendly and so silly on stage.
Oh, I love him.
And he's killing.
I love him.
He went up in the little boy, the little room, and
I hadn't seen him in years. And I go, dude, that was
so funny. You were so loose.
And he's like, at the comic store, I was always tense.
It's like, it's hard for me to
be free. He's a different
person. Also, I wouldn't be in this
business without him and that family.
Oh, her. I mean, that's why she's
here. She said two things to me as a young
comic.
It's a sin to support mediocrity.
Right?
I still don't know what it means,
but I still have it in my heart.
But then one day I was at Bully's restaurant
in La Jolla with her.
When Freddy Soto used to drive her down,
he would go, come eat with us.
I miss Freddy so much.
I do too.
Yeah.
And so one day we were sitting there at Bully's restaurant in La Jolla.
And she goes,
do you know what makes a star?
I go,
what?
She goes,
50% of the people have to love you,
but it's okay for that other,
the other half hates you.
It's all in the same.
Right.
And it's like,
when I read bad comments now on,
you know,
cause I get some because I'm like,
I've risen. Right. I just take that into the thing that it's like when I read bad comments now on you know cuz I get some because I'm like I've risen right
I just take that into the thing that it's like it's attention
Right, it's not personal. You know what I would tell you to do what don't read them. Yeah, I haven't don't read it
Yeah, yeah, you don't read no no yeah, yeah, I don't read articles about me. I don't read shit
But if you read it would hurt your feelings it could yeah, could. Yeah, it could. Okay. It could bother you.
All right.
You're a human being.
Yeah, yeah.
Someone says something, especially if it's not true, and it's influencing people in a
fucked up way, or it paints the least charitable version of you.
People also don't realize that I'm a sensitive guy.
We're all sensitive.
Right.
We're sensitive, too.
That's why they're lashing out.
The reason why they're writing mean shit is because they know what hurts them.
A kind person, a kind person a happy
person wouldn't be writing shitty things about you they're doing it because they're it's that
old expression hurt people hurt people but when they make shit up dude the other day i read i'm
sorry i read this is what i read i heard bobby lee abuses his animals okay like why are the because
they want to hurt your feelings They want you to get angry
I get my cats Nobu
I believe you
Shishimi dude
Yeah
I get them the best
I go what's the most expensive shit
The healthiest shit
But should they have all those oils and stuff on
It's not an everyday event
Like you know every other month
Every now and then
Yeah yeah yeah
You know what I mean
Isn't it weird that cats hate water but they love fish
It's kind of crazy, right?
It's crazy, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's weird.
They love fish.
They love fish, yeah, yeah, yeah.
They don't want to go nowhere near that fucking water.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Anyway, I don't abuse my animals.
I love animals more.
Of course you don't.
Yeah, I know, but it's like insane.
Of course you don't.
Of course you don't.
Yeah, yeah, so I don't read it.
Yeah, just don't read it because even if you read a hundred things that are awesome, one
that sucks is going to like stick
in your head because that's how a human mind is designed. It's designed to find danger and
conflict and look out for it because it could hurt you. And so when you see that one thing,
that's the thing you're going to concentrate on. It's the one person that hates you. Why do they
hate me? Oh my God. What if they're near me? That feeling of hate is the same feeling that you would
get if there's someone that's dangerous. It's from another tribe that's looking at you over the hill and you think they
might want to kill you like, ah, fuck. And you have to think about them. You don't think about
your friends that love you. You think about the danger and that's natural. It's a natural
inclination of the human mind. Right. So you do that with social media too. You don't seek out
the danger then. No, don't do it and don't spread it either. The people that spread it too you don't seek out the danger that no don't do it and don't spread it either the people that spread it
You you don't realize what you're doing
But you're also affecting yourself because you know that what you're doing unless is like the person you're going after some
Legitimate Nazi or something I mean like most of the time when people are attacking
They're they're they're attacking someone to try to hurt them because they know that they can be hurt too
It's like a lot of the people that are doing this shit on social media all day long there
We know them they're mentally ill people. I don't need to name any names
Severely mentally ill people yeah that are just liars. They're insane. They're full of shit
They're on medication and in therapy and they're just lashing out at other people's behavior.
And it's like they don't realize that like to be a good person also means to be nice to everybody.
It doesn't just because someone has a differing view on something.
You can't demonize them and turn them into a non-human.
But people do that because they're terrified of that happening to them.
Yeah. And I also don't, like, when people
try to do things like that, I'm not mad at
them either. I don't have, like,
thoughts of revenge or, you know what I mean?
You know what I mean? I just, you know, I just feel bummed
that, like, they feel that way or whatever.
You know what I mean? But I have no, I have
love for people.
I know you do. Yeah, I do. I have love for you, Bobby.
Okay. Anyway, thank you. Bye, everybody.
Bye. Bye, I do. I have love for you, Bobby. Okay. Anyway, thank you. Bye, everybody. Bye. Bye. Thank you.