The Joe Rogan Experience - #2468 - Luke Grimes

Episode Date: March 13, 2026

Luke Grimes is an actor and musician who stars as Kayce Dutton in the “Yellowstone” spin-off series “Marshals,” airing Sundays at 8 PM Pacific / 7 PM Central on CBS and available to stream on Paramount+. His new album, “Red Bird,” will be released on April 3.www.cbs.com/shows/marshalswww.youtube.com/@LukeGrimeswww.lukegrimesmusic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Joe Rogan podcast, checking out. The Joe Rogan Experience. Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. Is it? Yeah, I've been listening to the show for years. Well, I've been watching your show for years. Yeah. Are we rolling, Jamie?

All right, beautiful. I love your fucking show. It's great. Oh, thanks, man. It's really awesome, man. Well, I haven't watched Marshals yet. Is it out now? It is.

When did it come out? March 1st. Oh, okay. So they just had the second episode air. I like the binge, man. Yeah, yeah. Wait a little bit. Stay offline.

I like to sit down and binge them. For sure. Yeah, but Yellowstone's fucking awesome. It's such a great show. Did you have any idea it was going to be what it is? Not, no. I don't think anybody did. I thought it would find an audience for sure.

I mean, Taylor was really, you know, hot at the time. He'd been nominated for Oscars. And I was kind of, like, surprised he was even writing a television show. He was just, like, so hot in the film business. How the fuck does that guy even sleep? I don't know, man Where does he have the time Every time I look in the news

Or there's a new show That he's doing A new thing he's doing It's like, how are you doing all this? It's impressive, you know? It's insane. There's a lot of people I've worked with They do things that are impressive

But his is impossible. Right. You know, like someone would be like Could you direct a movie as good as Unforgiven? I'm like, maybe if I tried real hard But like could you write 10 television shows Single-handedly? No, no way, not possible.

He directed Unforgiven? No, I'm just saying, like, people that I look up to that I'm impressed by. It's like his is a different level. Right. His is like, it's like impossible. Who did direct Unforgiven? Clint Eastwood. That's the fucking greatest Western movie of all time.

It is. It's the best. Yeah. It's like, you know what it was like to me? It was like he was making up for all the silly westerns and was like, let me show you what it was probably really like. Yeah. What was really like when a man was about to get shot?

What was really like when a dude was a stone cold killer? What was it really like the hardships of living back then? Yeah. And it's interesting too because he starts out kind of a loser. Yeah. Those first, you know, like the first three quarters of the movie, he's this sort of timid guy who's lost his power, you know, and then he takes that one sip of whiskey.

And it's all over for everybody else. It's a crazy premise. It's such a good movie, man. It's such a good fucking movie, man. But yeah, Taylor is a, he's a real freak. And there's not a lot of humans like him. And his background story is so interesting. You know, like he was just kind of scrambling around until he was almost like 40.

Yeah. It's like a real life Rocky story or something. Like rags to riches, the whole thing. I know, man. It's just, I just don't. I guess that's why he has so much ambition because he knows what it's like to be poor. Right. You know, he knows it was like to barely make it.

Right. Then all of a sudden he's got a kid on the way and he's like, oh, shit. I got to buckle down and really get moving. And he kept his foot on the gas. Absolutely. Do you guys keep in touch? Yeah. Yeah, all the time.

I love Taylor, man. I love him. He's an awesome dude. I just worry about him. I'm like, you do so much. Don't have a fucking heart attack, man. Don't go crazy. You know what's weird is he does, he does, like, have a good time, too.

It's not like he doesn't hang out with his family or friends or, you know. That's the craziest thing to me is, like, the guy has a really fun life. And is able to do all that. I guess, like, the moral of the story is don't play golf. That I'll take up all your time. No shit, man. Tell that to Jamie. If I can get out once a week, it's great.

Yeah, he's an addict. Jamie's an addict. He's got a simulator back there. He's always whacking golf balls. Yeah, all my friends are trying to get me to play. I'm like, I'm not doing it, man. That's a six-hour commitment. Oh, man.

The amount of time it takes to get good enough that it's not the worst thing ever is too much time. Right. And my problem is I'm an addict. Like when I start doing things, I just start like, okay, I need to play in the PGA. I start going crazy. I'll start getting lessons. Fuck that. Yeah.

Don't do it. We need your show, man. We need you. Well, I'm never doing it. We can do both. No, no, no, no, no, no. We can try it. Try it out.

No, I know. All my friends who play fucking love it. Ron White and Tony Hinchcliff, they go out every day. It's like, it's too much. I can't do it. Yeah. Yeah, it's, you can't play golf and do what Taylor's doing. That's for damn sure.

No way. No. But how the fuck is Trump doing it? Like, he's in the middle of everything. He's always playing golf. But that's sort of the criticism, right? He's playing too much golf and not running the country enough. But don't they say that about every president?

Yeah. Like, I think it's almost like a prerequisite to be president. You have to play golf. You know, don't they all do it? I guess so. It's like one of those weird businessmen things. Like, they make deals out there. They have a couple of cocktails, they talk a little shit, do a bump.

Not my thing. Make some deals. I just don't, I don't know. Something about being on like a manicured lawn. I don't know. I don't know to be out in the middle of nowhere. I'm sure I'd love it. I'm sure, which is why I don't do it.

But I play pool, and I'm addicted to pool. I play pool all the time. It's a real problem. When I lived in New York, I was playing like eight hours a day. I was playing tournaments. I was traveling around. It was like, I can't. I can't get another thing like that in my life.

Are you done playing pool? No, I play all the time. Oh, okay. Yeah. But you can play pool for like a couple hours and stop. Maybe I'll try that. Pool's fun. Yeah.

Yeah. Like real pool, like tournament pool. Uh-huh. You know, like competitive, like real tournament pool. It's legit. But it's like it's another thing. It'll get in your blood and then you'll be thinking about it all the time and watching videos and taking lessons. I'm ready for something, though.

Yeah? Yeah. Not golf. Pool sounds like. Well, you have music and you have acting. Like you said, that's got to be kind of hard to manage. Yeah, it's proving pretty difficult. And I have an 18-month-old.

Oh, that's it. Yeah. So no sleep? Yeah, we're getting there. You know, the music thing is sort of, it's kind of nice because there's not a lot of pressure on it. You know, for me, I have a day job. You know, I have this thing that supports my family and the music I can do to, like, my passion level. You know, and I didn't do it to the point where I'm like away from my family too much, you know.

So I can, I like making the music. Touring is kind of hard, and it's also new for me. So learning how to do that at 40 was kind of interesting. You know, I feel like in my 20s, that would have been the most fun ever. Yeah. Sleeping on a bus with 12 dudes and just going from city to city and, you know, drinking backstage and playing country music, that would have been a blast. But I'm, you know, too old for to do that the wrong. way. Yeah. When you tour, do you go out or do you do like a weekend and then come back?

When you're on a full-blown tour, the way that it financially works the best is to just stay kind of going. So you're doing like three shows like Thursday, Friday, Saturday, because you've got the bus rented, you've got all the equipment rented, you got the guys, you know, on salary. So you just have to keep going. It's actually really hard to for it to pencil out when you're just doing a show here and there. Right. Yeah. That's stand-up comedy so much easier in that regard. I've only done one stand-up comedy tour tour. I did it with Charlie Murphy and John Hep-Fron.

We did this Bud Light Maxim tour back in 2007, and we did like 22 dates in a month. And so it was like I would wake up, and I wouldn't know where I was. I'd look at the ceiling. I'm going, where the fuck am I? I would have to think, uh, Columbus. You know, I'd have to, like, go through my head and figure out. where I am when I woke up. Was there ever like a period of stage fright

when you started doing stand-up? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. The first day. I was more afraid the first time I got on stage than I was the first time I fought. It was nuts. I was like, why am I so nervous?

I was thinking about chicken and out. I was thinking about not doing it. I do that every time I play a music show. I'm like, can I just call it off? Do you still get stage fright right now? Really bad. Well, that's the thing, man. I'd always played music.

And when I was playing in bands and playing out, I was the drummer. Oh. So, but I always wrote songs and stuff, but I never thought, I had never had ambition around, like, I want to be the guy in front of the microphone. That was never, you know, the plan. And then, you know, to be able to make an album,

which I wanted to do, you have to go stand in front of the microphone. And that's the hard part for me. I love being in the studio. I love writing the songs. I love making the music, recording the music. But there's something about knowing that all these people have shown up and bought a ticket to see you. And you're like, all of a sudden this thing starts happening in me.

We're like, they bought a ticket, imposter syndrome. You're not good enough for them to have spent their money. And, you know, it's just this whole thing. And it's like, dude, shut up. I know it's going to be okay, but it doesn't matter. Every time I still get a little bit of the, you know. I think everybody who's sane gets imposter syndrome. Yeah?

Yeah. Everybody that I've talked to that's sane. It's like the really kooky ones, like I don't think Kanye's ever gotten an imposter syndrome. You know what I'm saying? It's like I'm going to be also he's a genius But it's like the ones who were saying It doesn't make any sense

Like none of it makes any sense Yeah Well I get it in droves And way more for the music than the acting But it's again I've been acting in film and TV For over 20 years now When did you first get on stage to sing? How old were you?

The very first show I played I was 39. Oh my God. Yeah. Yeah. Like I had done karaoke before. Right?

But, you know, it kind of came about in the weirdest way. I literally was on set one day and got a call out of the blue from this manager, this music manager, Matt Graham, who's a great manager and a really good friend of mine. But he called and said, hey, I know you don't know who I am, but I know that you're a musician. And, you know, I love Yellowstone. I love you in that show. is that something that you would want to take seriously? And I was like, like, what does that mean? He's like, I bet I could get you a record deal.

And I was like, no, man, that's, no, no, I don't want to do that. And we talked for two years. And over the course of the two years, I really started to trust him. He sort of like explained to me what, you know, what would be required. And long story short, my father passed away somewhere in there. And sort of one of the last things he sort of conveyed to me and was like, if there's anything you want to do, what are here, do it, you know. and it's something about that moment.

I was like, I'm just going to fucking do it. You know, I don't care. What's the worst thing that can happen? I'm another actor who made a goofy album. Right. So what? I got to do it, you know? So I did.

And then immediately, it's like, well, now you have to go tour it. Otherwise, you know, they're not going to put up the money for you to make these things if you don't go sell it. You know, so the tour is sort of to get the music out there and get people buying it. And so, yeah, first show. It was in Billings, Montana for, I think it was 1,200 people. Whoa. This place called, I think it was Pub Station. What was that like first time, dude?

Dude. I blacked out. Like, not drinking. Like, I just blacked out on nerves, dude. Like, it started. My knees were shaking. My hands were shaking. This is before I knew about like beta blockers or anything like that.

And I, the show was over and I was like, how was, was that okay? How did that go? And it was good. You know, it was good. I was fine. The fourth show I ever played was stage coach. Whoa. Yeah.

That's nuts. It was crazy. I mean, it was earlier in the day. It's not like I had, you know, 100,000 people out there. But still, that's a big stage. That's a big stage. And, yeah. But, you know, little by little, it got somewhat better.

I don't black out anymore. I kind of, I know where I'm at and I'm there. But it's still something I deal with. Oliver Anthony, the first show he ever played live. in front of people was like 20,000 people. It's so nuts. That's insane. Wasn't it like that?

It was huge, right? It was like, it was a gigantic crowd. I don't think I'm exaggerating. Because he got really famous before he ever went on tour. That one song, Richmond, North of Richmond, that song, like, instantly made him famous. He wrote a rocket, dude. That rarely happens.

There's, you know, a few people know that feeling. I can't imagine. But he was freaking out. Like, I became friends with him, like, right when it was happening because he was, like, a little lost, and he said a bunch of people, I go, let's talk. So we got on the phone. Like, it was before he had, you know,

he'd gotten a ton of record deals and all these different people were saying, you know, hey, sign with me, we'll give you X amount of money in advance. I go, don't sign nothing. And he was like, everybody's telling me that I got to strike while the iron's caught. I go, no, no, no, no.

I go, dude, you got talent. I go, you got real talent. You're always going to have talent. It's just a matter of putting in the work, and you're going to be huge. You don't need these people. These people are all vampires. They're all just trying to suck on your neck. Don't let them.

Don't let them. Thank God he listened. Because he was getting offers like $7 million in shit. And he was a fucking heavy equipment salesman, you know? And so then all of a sudden, he's like, what the fuck is going on? One song with him and a guitar just standing in a feet. That's all it took. That's amazing.

I mean, it's how it should be, right? It's cool. It's cool. I have the complete opposite story. My story's not cool at all. I'm like, I'm a successful actor and I got a record deal for no reason. Yeah, but you had a record deal because you wanted to do it because you're interested in that too. Like, you can do anything you want to do.

Like, just because you're a successful actor doesn't mean you can't do it. Right. But I think, you know, a lot of the thing with music is the story of the person. So I knew going in, like, I don't have the best story. I do come from nothing, and I did work my ass off to become an actor and all that. But, you know, my way into the music was a little wonky. But sometimes that's good because it makes you work harder to prove to people that you're legit. Yeah, yeah.

Because you have this thing over your head where they're like, fuck that pretty boy, motherfucker. TV star, motherfucker. Fuck that dude. Fuck Casey Dutton. There we go. So the music's going to have to be good enough. Yeah. That's just sort of the thing.

That's all it is. It just will force you to work harder, but it's just, you know. everybody's story's different. That's what makes it fun. If everybody had the same story, you know? Yeah. I mean, you're kind of the king of following your passion, right? You've done that.

Yeah, I've been super lucky, you know. I'm just lucky that there's a job for all these things I like, you know. There wasn't. Well, there wasn't for this one. Yeah. This one, there was other people doing it already, but it wasn't a job for the longest time. It's kind of a fun story that me and my wife always joke around about because, like, one time she was taking the kid. We were all supposed to go to the day.

Disneyland, but I had to do this podcast. I'm like, she was like, you don't have to do it. I go, but I do. I do it every week, but it wasn't really making any money back then, but it was like, I promised people would be out. Like, I got to do it. Now she's like, thank God, you didn't listen to me. It's just, I mean, I got lucky.

I came in right at the right time. There was only a few people doing it back then, and I just did it for fun. I just thought that would be fun to do. Yeah. And then all of a sudden it became a. job. Yeah, and with the UFC stuff too. Yeah, that too. That was fun too. Did you think that would become what it became? No. When I first started doing it was in 1997 and it was in a high school auditorium in Dothan, Alabama, and we had to take a propeller plane to get there. And it was

banned from cable, so you could only watch it on direct TV. This was UFC 12. And there was no one in the audience and no one was watching it. And I was already on a TV show. It was on news radio. And the people on news radio, like the actors and the producers, they were like, what are you doing? You're flying to go do cage fighting? It was almost like I was doing porn. Or fucking snuff films or something. It's like, you're going to ruin your life doing this.

I was like, I don't know what you guys are talking about. This is what I've always wanted to see. I've always wanted to see all the best martial artists of different styles get together. Nobody ever did it. These guys are doing it. I'm going to go. Yeah. Like, this is.

I remember renting the. the first few from Blockbuster. Yeah. It was the best. It was like blood sport back. Oh, yeah. Oh, it changed my life. I got UFC 2 was the first one.

The first one wasn't available. You had to get two was the only one. And it was on VHS tape. And I had a buddy of mine who told me about it. He's like, dude, you got to see this thing, man. He goes, they got these guys. They're fighting in a cage. And this one dude's just choking everybody and he's wearing a guy.

I was like, really? What is it? And then I watched it. I was like, holy shit. Yeah. I was hooked, like right. away. I was like, they fucking did it. They actually did it. Because like when I was a kid, everybody thought that what they were, if you did karate, you thought karate was the best. If you

thought judo, you thought judo was the best. And nobody really knew what was the most effective martial art because nobody had ever put together anything like the UFC. Right. So once it happened, I mean, it was just such a huge part of my life. I was like, I'm not going to not do this just because it's bad for my acting career. I'm like, if my acting career goes away, I don't, you know, whatever. I'm only doing this for money anyway. So I'll just figure it out. You were the only person in L.A. with that mentality, by the way. That really served you well. Well, I wasn't supposed to be in L.A. You know, I mean, I only came to L.A. for money. And I would have moved back. I was living in New York, and I did a show called Hardball, and that got canceled. And the only reason why I stayed is because

I got a lease on an apartment. I was fully ready to get out of there. I was like, I got to get the fuck out of this place. I hated it. I hated being around actors. I hated being around producers and casting agents. I was like these people are so fake. I was used to being around fighters and comedians and pool players. Like the rawest, funniest, like outcasts of society. Like, those are my people. I was used to, like, cracking jokes with friends, and everybody was, like, busting on each other, and everybody had a great sense of humor, just silly weirdos. And then all of a sudden, I'm around of these people that like all had these like predetermined things that they thought they should say so they would say them you know and everybody had like it was all group think it was like oh this

is fucking horrible yeah i always say that felt like when i lived in ell i lived in ellie for 16 years and and you know i don't want to complain about it obviously good to me like it you know helped my life quite a bit but it always felt like everybody was trying to become the same person yeah but they don't know who that person is i'm like can we can you just tell me who the person is I can, you know what I mean? There's like a memo that went out that I didn't get or something. Yeah. So nobody got that memo.

They were all playing it by ear, you know? And they were just, it was all dependent upon what the producers and the casting agents wanted you to be. So everybody would sort of adapt. Like, whenever you got a place where everybody has the same politics, that's not a good sign. Like, something's gone wrong. And everybody has these progressive left-wing politics, regardless of whether or not any of their positions make sense.

They all just sort of spit it out. Well, I think it's just that there is sort of a desperation that gets bred from. I mean, these people left their families. They moved away. They left everything they've ever known and gave up a lot of comfort and security and love to follow this dream. Yeah. And so that dream becomes more and more and more important. You need it more and more and more because now you have nothing else.

Yeah. You've given everything else up. And so I think at that point, you can sort of mold people into whatever. Oh, for sure. It ruins comics. Because when comics start doing well, as soon as they start getting on television, the first thing they start doing is tempering their material.

They tone it down a little bit, take the edge off, don't say anything they can get you in trouble. And, you know, generally, those are the funniest things. The funniest things are the things that can go terribly wrong, you know, and get you in trouble. So they do that. And then just, you know, they become like an,

I always call it the Velvet Prison because you get locked, into that velvet prison. You get on TV, you get money, but also you become just one of everybody else. Yeah, it's hard not to do. I mean, that's where I'm at, you know, I still have a boss. Yeah. You know, my, my checks are written by a very specific company that, you know, I have to be careful sometimes. I know. You know, even doing this today, I'm like, just a little bit, I don't want to do that to you and sit here and, like, police myself the whole time, but I got to be like, just don't say this. Right. Oh, yeah.

No, I'm firmly aware of it. People come in here and I could see it in their face. Like, please don't bring up anything crazy. No trans talk. For sure, dude. Let's stay away from that today. Yeah, I mean, it's, you know, it's a tricky situation. And the thing about L.A. too, is everybody has to get picked for stuff.

Yeah. It's not, like, even like music, like, especially like, look at Oliver Anthony. No music deal, no nothing. Just put something on YouTube. to blows up. In this day and age, that's a real thing. But in acting, it's still, you have to get chosen. You have to get cast for something.

And just that weird thing alone, where you're going into this thing, and these people have to approve you. And most of the people that get involved in acting in the first place, a large percentage of them, they did it because they didn't get enough attention when they were younger. And this is like they just want to make up for, well, I became a comedian, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, for sure. You know, it's all the same kind of mindset. Like, there's something about you that wants to be famous, right?

Yeah. You know, unless you're, like, someone who's just in love with the craft of acting, you know. Right. Which how could you be when, you know, I made the decision that I wanted to be an actor when I was, like, five years old? Really? I didn't know what the craft of acting was. My thing, though, honestly, was I loved movies so much. I think I just because I liked them more than my life.

you know, I wanted to live in the movie. I didn't know what making them would actually be like. I didn't know what that career looked like. I didn't know what acting was. But I would go to the movie theater and want to be in it. And I'd also see the guy. And I don't know, whatever the skill set was, I was like, whatever they're doing, I think I can do that. I think I have whatever that is.

And, you know, thank God I was at least somewhat right or I'd be waiting tables in L.A. right now. Well, it's an interesting thing, right? because it's a craft that seems like you're just doing normal life, right? Like you're pretending, but you're acting and behaving in a way that people do act and behave. Like, that's the key to it. It has to be believable. Yeah.

So most people watch it go, I can do that. Like, this is normal life. They're just acting like they're in normal life. Right. But what you don't realize is that there's like a dude with a beard. with a microphone in your face and 200 people standing around waiting for you to be done

so they can do their job again. Sipping coffee, shaking their head. Right at their lot. If you fuck up a line like, oh, Jesus. Yeah. This fucking guy. Fucking unprofessional.

Yeah. Exactly. Yeah, it's a weird gig, man. It's a weird gig. And it's not what most people think it is. And you could tell that by like the masters, the real masters. You know, when you see like,

Daniel Day Lewis do it. You're like, okay, whatever he's doing. doing that. That's a fucking totally different thing. Right. This guy's in some weird place where it becomes... Gary Oldman becomes a different person. Every movie and you believe it. Yeah. That's the real craft of it, right?

Where like, I fucking know that's Gary Oldman, right? But he's different and now he's Dracula? And I believe it? He's amazing. Both of those guys. Amazing. You ever watched that show, Slow Horses? I love it. It's a fucking great show, right? Yeah, it's really good. It's a great show. I can't wait

for the new season. I've hooked. Tony told me about it, and I was a little skeptical at first. It's like, all right. And you never see, like, a lead, your number one, be like a total piece of shit. Right. Total piece of shit. Yeah, except Tony Zabrano. There you go.

Yeah. Yeah. That was a weird show, right? Like, a guy was a murderer and a thief, and you love him. He loved him. He was so good. Yeah. There was another guy.

Candelfini, man. You fucking believed him. And there wasn't acting like that in television yet. No. That was, like, the first of it. kind. Yeah. And even within that show, he was doing something that one else was doing. Right. And that's hard to, that's hard to keep up for, you know, you can, if you do it for a film, you're doing it for a couple months, you know, at that level of intensity. But to do that for seven years for months and months at a time is impossible. Well, there was a danger in his eyes, like a real danger. Like, there's something about that dude, that dude's got, or while he was alive, he had demons in his eyes. He had demons in his. his brain. Like, you could tell. Right. Like, there was moments, these menacing moments where he was, like, threatening

someone or doing something. You're like, that's coming from a real place. Right. That guy ain't, you know, there's some guys who play tough guys in movies, like, I'm not buying it. But with that guy, you're like, oh, okay, this guy could kill somebody. You don't want to piss him off in real life. Well, he's also out of fucking control. You know, have you ever see the list of the things that consumed before he died. I have seen that. It's bananas.

Yeah. And he was just off the rails. Crazy. Out of his fucking mind. Have you seen the Hunter S. Thompson one? Oh, dude. We narrated it. We read it.

And then this guy, what was the dude? What's the guy's name that turned it into a song? There's a, there's a dance song, like an electric music dance song. I haven't heard that. With me and my friend Greg Fitzsimmons were reading off Hunter S. Thompson's like a his daily routine. Beardy man. Yeah.

Shout out to beardy man. It's pretty dope. Play it. Fuck it. Can we? Are we getting trouble? Can isn't the right words to ask. We can.

What would happen? We lose, like, revenue changes and stuff like that. For sure? Yeah, 100%. Don't play it. I'll listen to it after. Yeah. Well, I'll send it to you.

But it's a banana's routine. And, you know, at the end of his life, I'm a giant Hunter S. Thompson fan, as you can tell, walking through all the artwork. But at the end of his life, like, he couldn't even talk. Like, he did an appearance once on Conan O'Brien. And it, to me, it was like one of the saddest things. Like, he could barely understand what he was saying.

He's just mumbling. And when he was young, he was so fucking smooth and articulate and interesting and fascinating. And it's just drugs. Just drugs and booze. just cooked his brain. I'll have to do a deep dive on him. I've never read any of his stuff.

Really? No, I haven't. Oh, just read, just start off with fear and loathing. Okay. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was a, he got an assignment to cover, I think it was a motorcycle race. That was the job. So I think it was for Sports Illustrator or something like that.

He got a job to just cover a race. And he goes down there and just brings every kind of fucking drug. known to man, drives through the desert and a convertible with his friend, and just writes this insane book. It's completely insane. It's nothing to do with this motorcycle race. It's just all about the chaos of being out of your fucking mind in Vegas. And it's brilliant. It's so good.

Check it out. Do you like Vegas? I mean, I'm there a lot for fights. And when I go, we go to a restaurant. I go play pool. I go to the fights. I don't do anything else. So it's like, for me, it's like, yeah, there's great restaurants.

You know, the fights are awesome. I love doing that. So it's like, but there's something about it where I ever, every time I go there, I'm like, can I live here? Like, I was actually talking to my friend Tony Hinchcliffe about it this past weekend. We were just there for the fights. And I was saying, like, what if a, because, you know, Kill Tony is this gigantic show now. It's huge. He sells out arenas all over the country with it.

It's on Netflix. And I was saying, like, what if a vague? Vegas Casino offered you a fucking pile of money. Would you, do you think you could ever live here? And we were just sitting there, he's like, I don't, no, I don't want to do it. I don't think I could do it either. Because I think it's like sleeping next to a vampire. Like, even if you know that the vampire's in the other room,

they're not going to bite your neck, it's like, he's right there. You know, that's like, I don't think it's good for you. Vegas to me is like, you know, when you have a big night out on a certain type of booze, and you get sick. And then anytime you drink that booze after that, that's Vegas. Right. Anytime I land in Vegas, I'm like, oh, I just feel gross. Because I remember the last time I was there or the first time.

Yeah, it's, I think the people that live outside of Vegas, like, people live in Henderson and places like that, they love it. Because it's really nice out there. Like, you go out to the outskirts of Vegas. It's beautiful neighborhoods and nice communities and, like, great stores and restaurants and stuff. It's nice. But you're still next to the day. Death Star. Right. It's like this big neon fucking vacuum just suck in people's money out of them. I've never been off of the strip. Maybe I should try that out. Yeah. Yeah. There's a there's there's

great restaurants and great neighborhoods. Like it's it's fine outside. But the reason why they're there is because of the Death Star. Like that's what brings everybody there. You know, everybody's there to just lose all their money. Yeah, make really bad decisions. Like I, all my friends who gamble when I would go there with them, I go, look at this place. See how big it is? How do you think they got that money? Suckers like you. This isn't like a fair exchange. Like they're giving you goods and you're giving them money. No, this is like, they're giving you this like crazy proposition where you think you're going to play blackjack and win a billion dollars. And if you win too much money, they kick you out.

Did you ever gamble? Was that ever? No. No, no, no, no, no, no. Not really. I mean, I've bet some money on fights. I've played Blackjack a few times, but I've never lost any real money. But my friend Dana White, he's a fucking degenerate. Like a crazy degenerate. I went to visit him recently. So he was at Red Rock's Casino, and

a couple of my other buddies were there, so we showed up and went into the blackjack room and he was there. And when I got there, he was down $600,000. When I got there. And it was a normal night for him. And he wasn't even nervous. He was like, hey, what's up? He's taking me.

Checking my hand, give me a hug. All these other people are there. And I got fucking massive anxiety. Yeah. I was like, this is crazy. How are you? And then so him and Jamie was there too. And him and Taylor Luan, the football player, he coaches Taylor how to play blackjack.

And so they got together. He tells them when to hit and one not to hit. And they did it right next to us. Within five minutes, Taylor was down $125,000. Jesus. I was like, what are you doing? Oh, man. Yeah, that makes me nervous just thinking about it.

He got up and then they quit, so he quit ahead. I think he won like 100 grand, and then he quit. You know they moved on the backerat because you can bet more per hand. That's what they're doing now? Yeah, it's like up to 500K per hand or something like that. Which one's backer at? How do you play that? I've tried to watch it.

I don't really quite understand. It's apparently not hard. You're betting on the dealer or the player. Is that the big long table with all the... I don't understand it. It's not as long as roulette. So Dana's onto that now or Taylor? Oh, yeah, yeah.

I think that room, they switched them all to back at Taylor. Oh, good. So you can gamble more? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, my God. He's mainlining the gamble now. He told a story on, I think it was, was it flagrant? It was flagrant where he talked about losing like $6 million in one night.

Yeah, what? Yeah. That's my theory about slap fight while they're doing slap fight. I think it's Dana's gambling money. That's what I think. I think it's like it needs some source of revenue outside of the UFC so it doesn't lose his UFC money. That's tough to watch, man. I don't watch it.

Yeah. I've watched a couple of clips. Sorry, Dana, I know, but it's tough to watch. I don't like it. People getting brain damage over and over again. Yeah, it's not my thing. I don't get it. And it's all like the saddest people getting whacked in the head.

It's not a good thing. Not good. Yeah. They call it fights too. Like, okay. I know. I mean, I guess. You should come up.

another name. It's kind of insulting to an actual fight. Right. But that's my theory. That's his gambling, because that fucking dude gambols. Because I asked him once. I go, you like living here? He goes, I love the action. I'm like, okay. He's a good friend of mine, but he's a different person than me. That's awesome. I'm not, that's not me.

Yeah. If I lived in Vegas, I'd live way outside of Vegas. Even then, I don't think I could do it. Because we've talked about, you know, we have a comedy club in town, the comedy mother And we talked about doing another mothership somewhere. And the two most likely places that we would be able to do it are New York and Vegas. So we talked about doing one in Vegas. But I was like, man, the only way it would work is I'd have to be there a lot. Like we'd have to be there a lot.

And we'd have to, you know, we'd have to make sure that it's run right. That let's like run with the same vibe that we run in it here where everybody's cool, no assholes. Everybody's real friendly and real supportive of new comedians. then I'd have to spend a lot of time there. I'm like, I don't want to do that. Right. Wouldn't New York be like returning to where you cut your teeth or something? Is that where you started?

Yeah, I mean, I started in Boston, but I did spend a lot of time in New York. New York would be a better option, really, because there's a lot more talent there. And in order to have a really good comedy club, you can't just start it out. Like, you can't just go to Columbus, Ohio, or Cincinnati or I guess Columbus has like a little bit of a scene. But you'd have to have a real scene with, like, real headliners and, like, top-level talent. Right. And the way we were able to pull it off in Austin is everybody moved here during the pandemic. Like, me and Tony moved.

Ron White moved here first, and then me and Tony moved here. And then once we started doing shows, we were talking to all our friends in L.A. And L.A. was shut down during the pandemic. And so everybody just kind of moved out here at least temporarily. Because comedians are junkies. Like, they want to go on stage. and it was taken away from them for a year and a half in LA. Couldn't perform in LA for a year and a half.

Made no fucking sense. And out here, we were just doing shows, like in November of 2020. Like, it was indoor shows and super spreader shows. And so because of that... Super spread. I forgot about that word. Tom Seguerr moved here. Christina Pisitsky moved here.

Tim Dillon moved here. I mean, it's just like Shane Gillis moved here. It was like, we had so many, like, national... headliners, we could pull off a club. Yeah. But you have to have that kind of thing where it's not just the weekends, but you have to have like Tuesday shows, Wednesday shows. It has to be like a lot of people around that you could have a show with.

The infrastructure. Yeah. I randomly lived in Austin during COVID. Oh, really? My wife and I, we got married in November of 2019. She's from Brazil, and I'm from Ohio. So we had no, there was nowhere where we were going to live. was going to feel like home, but we, you know, I'd lived in L.A. for 16 years. I was ready to get out.

We wanted to start a family somewhere else. And we didn't know where to go. So we came here and December of 2019. And we had the best two months ever. And then everything shut down and we're stuck in an apartment, don't know anybody. And, you know, it didn't really get a fair shake. We loved it while it was going. And then, yeah, I did about two months of lockdown. Couldn't do it anymore and then we bought an air stream and just started traveling around and then i had to be in montana for work for yellowstone and we parked the airstream up there and never left oh wow montana's fucking awesome it's the best it's so great it's so beautiful last time i was there was in the summer well actually last time i was there i was hunting with bourdain and went pheasant hunting there that

was pretty cool oh yeah yeah it was one of the last times i saw him what part oh i forget i forget where we were I'm pretty sure I flew into Bozeman, but I think we're outside of Billings. Okay. I forget. But the summer there is insane. Yeah, perfection. It's so beautiful. Perfection.

Everything's green. You see the mountains, and we heard wolves Halloween one night, and you see elk herds just chilling on the side of a hill. Like, God, this place is magical. And it doesn't get dark until like 11 at night. Right, right. It's very confusing to know when to eat dinner because you're just like it's light for so long. But then in the wintertime, the, you know, the exchanges, it gets dark at 4.30 p.m.

Right. But yeah, we love it, man. It's the best thing that's ever happened for me of just sort of like all the L.A. stuff we were talking about. It's the opposite of that. The opposite. I have no FOMO about anything anymore, you know. Oh, that's great. I can just think and sleep and read and watch films and it's the best.

Yeah. Well, your show made a lot of fucking people moving. out there though. That's true. Yeah, and they're not happy about it. The valley that I live in, we had some people come visit us, our friends from California drove out and we went on a hike and we were in their car and they had, you know, Cali plates and we get off the hike and someone had written Go Back in the Dust on their car. Like people are super weird about it. So I don't tell anyone like exactly where I'm at because they would get really mad at me. Dude, that happened in 2012. I was hunting in Montana. We went to the Missouri,

breaks and we we were going to this restaurant and one of the guys in the restaurant had a he had his car parked outside and it was like a rental car and someone had wrote go back home you know like Montana's for Montanaans or something like that they wrote it in the dirt right and which is dumb because if they have the plates they clearly aren't living there you know right yeah they're they're going back yeah but it's just retards you're gonna get retards in every state like if you have a hundred people one of is a fucking idiot.

Sure. Right. And if you got a town of, you know, X amount of 100,000 people, you're going to have a good amount of fucking dumbasses. For sure. Those are the ones like, this is our place. We own it. This is our dirt.

Meanwhile, someone moved there at some point. Exactly. You know, like somewhere along the line, someone moved there. And all you did was stay. Exactly. You didn't do anything that cool. Exactly. You know what I mean?

Exactly. Exactly. And that one guy, I can't go to bars there anymore because whatever that one idiot is is at the bar. Of course. And he can't wait to start a fight with me. Just like can't wait to do it. Because like it's a win-win for him. You know, he gets to sue me or something.

I don't know, you know, but it's a lose-lose for me. Well, it's just like his life is empty. And it's like, all of a sudden there's purpose and he's like, you ruin Montana. Fuck off. Right. Yeah. Or my favorite is when they call people colonizers. That's my favorite.

Like, bro, if you don't live in Ethiopia, someone in your ancestor was a colonizer. Oh, 100% percent. Period. Yeah. We all had to come from somewhere. Also, isn't it like the most American thing ever is that I can choose where I want to live? Yeah. That should be celebrated.

It should be, yeah. The idea that, oh, we were here first. Those are the same idiots that hate when a band become successful? It's like, oh, I knew them when they were underground. Now they sold out. Yeah. It's just a moron mentality. You're always going to have that, no matter where you go.

But Montanaans are, like, fiercely proud of being from Montana. Yeah, they'll always tell you what generation they are. Right. Third generation Montana. That's so silly. Yeah. And I'm not Montana, but my son will be, you know? Yeah.

He can say that he is. Right. Right. It's like an anchor baby. Yeah. Yeah, he can go fly fishing and no one's going to give him a hard time. That's right. I was born here.

Okay. Yeah, you're good. You got a hall pass. Yeah, but like people that live in like that Yellowstone place, you know, that... Yellowstone Club. Yeah, that place. Like, those are like fake Montana. to Montana.

I have a buddy who lives up there and he was saying, I don't know what that fuck anybody would live up there. Like, because it's awesome. What's wrong with you? It's still Montana.

Like, let it go. Right. They just had some problem with sewage being dumped into the river or something like that. The Yellowstone Club? The Yellowstone Club. Oh, God.

Yeah, the locals were very angry. And I don't know if that's locals like making some stuff up to sort of cause a problem, but they were saying that they were finding sewage from the Yellowstone Club in the local river there. Whoa.

Yeah, you have to look that up. Oh, whoa. Yeah, that's not good. That's the problem with rich people. Yeah. Rich people are like, fuck everybody else. I haven't been to that place, but I heard it's awesome. And the views, I mean, I've seen photographs of it.

God, the fucking views there are insane. Yeah. I have multiple friends that live in Montana. And the thing about it is, like, everybody will tell you, like, when you're surrounded by those mountains and you look out at them every day, it, like, centers you. And it humbles you. That's exactly right It's like the most spectacular natural art You're ever gonna see and it's around you all the time

And I drink my coffee every morning looking out the window And it looks like a painting And it never gets old You know if we need to go to the grocery store I'll do it because it's so fun to drive there You know you get out you put some tunes on It's the best thing ever Versus like living in L.A.

To go anywhere was the worst thing ever Right Yeah everything's a pleasure up there man It's really it's something But if you need any sort of like fast pace or socialization or if you're like trying to meet a babe or something, it's not going to happen. There's no people, dude. Yeah, I get that. There's a little of that in Austin.

They're upset that the Californians moved here. Yeah. They're upset. A lot of people blamed me. And Elon. Sure. They blamed us for moving here and ruining Austin. Like, sorry we made it more awesome.

Fucking pussies. Shut your mouth. It's all the same thing. It's like people that want credit for being here first. Like, fuck off. Now you have more restaurants, way more comedy. There's like seven comedy clubs on my street now. On the street where my club is, there's seven comedy clubs now.

That's amazing. It's like one of the big hubs of live comedy in the world now. Did it have it at all before? It had a couple places. There was a place called Cap City that actually went under before the pandemic. Or actually like right at the beginning of the pandemic. When I got here, it was for sale. And so I was looking at that place to buy it, but it didn't work out.

And then there was another place that's been around forever called the Velvita Room. It's a real small room. I think it seats like 100 or so. And then, you know, I think there was maybe a couple other bars that maybe had comedy. And there was like a small scene of some comedians, but nothing like what it is now. It's not even, not even comparable. I mean, there's like 17, 18 world-class comics that live here now. Wow.

It's crazy. And talk about stage fright. I think that is, that would be the hardest art form. It's getting up, you have no help. There's nothing to hide behind. Right. There's no music. Right.

There's like, you know, it's just silence and you and a microphone. You can't just get into your tune and fucking just play, close your eyes. No. No, there was a film actually one time that I was attached to to play a stand-up comedian. And I promised the director that if we got our funding and got the green light to go, that I'd go do it. that I'd actually go out and work up 15 minutes and just do it until I understood what it was like and that movie fell through

and I was very, very happy about that because I didn't want to do it. It's hard. I bet, man. It's confusing because the people are just talking. You're like, why is that hard to do? Everybody talks. You know, like everybody could tell a story.

Everybody could, and it seems easy to do until you do it. And then you're like, oh, this is, but I was hooked right. right away. Because I suck the first night that I bombed. But I was like, I got a couple of laughs on some things and I was like, I think I can figure this out.

But I was, like I said, I was more scared than when I was fighting. I was more scared before like a big fight. It was weird. I was like, why am I nerve? It didn't make any sense. My friend Whitney Cummings explained to me. She said, people have this fear of public speaking because in tribal societies back in the day, The only time you spoke in front of a large group of people was when you're being judged because they were going to kill you.

Oh, interesting. Right. Yeah. Doesn't that make sense? Yeah. Yeah. So, like, if you're front of all the people, they're all like, what did he do? You know, so you have to like, guys, I didn't steal the tomatoes.

Yeah. Yeah, I never thought about that. Yeah. That's what it is. Yeah, no place to hide, man. I don't know. That sounds scary. And especially if, like, it starts going bad.

Yeah. If you start to bomb, is there any way out of that? Or is it? People have recovered. Yeah, people have started off bombing and then pulled themselves out of it. I've done it a couple of times. Most of the time when I'm bombing, I'm bombing forever. But there's a good to that, all right?

The good is you have to reexamine your material. And every time in my career in the early days when I bombed, I always got way better afterwards because I was like, whatever the fuck that was, I don't want to experience that again. And I really focused and really, really wrote like crazy and went over recordings and buttoned down and trimmed things and changed things around. And you need losses. Losses are very important. They're important in fighting.

They're important in life. Like one of my kids just had a breakup recently. And I had a conversation with her. I go, I know this sucks. But this is actually important. Like, it has to happen. And I told her, like, about, like, first time growing up. broke up with me when I was 17.

I was devastated. Oh, the worst. Oh, it's good. No worst feeling. Couldn't believe my life was over. I'm only 17. I'm never going to recover. I'm like, it's so important because you realize, like, as time passes, you understand that this is

just a moment in time and there's other people you're going to meet. And it's just you have to develop some resiliency, some emotional resiliency. Right. And so you have to experience that. And you also have to realize that, you know, people. people, they don't know what they're doing either. Like, boys don't know what they're doing. Girls don't know what they're doing.

They're kind of figuring it out as they go along. The people break up and they make up. And these are these lessons that you have to learn in life. And loss is important because it makes you understand, like, why this person gets sick of me? Why am I annoying? Why, you know, am I selfish? Like, what is it? What is wrong with me?

You know, why, you know, why am I picking these people that are going to break my heart? Why don't I adjust? I don't know, like maybe I should spend some time alone and figure out what the fuck is wrong with me or figure out who I am and those moments where you have to kind of go through things and figure them out they're so important for you in life

and for a comic, bombing can oftentimes be one of the best like motivating factors to take you to another level in your career or wreck your confidence forever. Right. Just like fighting. Yeah, I was going to say it happens to fighters. Oh yeah. Some fighters lose, and they're never the same again.

And some fighters lose, and then a new version of them emerges in the next fight. You're like, whoa, this dude dialed in. Who would be a good example of that? Charles Olivera. Oh, yeah. Yeah, he's the best example of it. Because for the longest time, everybody thought he was a quitter. Like, he would just break.

And now he's like, one of the scariest motherfuckers alive. Yeah. You know, expect this last weekend, the fight with Max Holloway, like, good Lord. Like, Max Holloway was a two-to-one favorite in that fight, and he got shut out. Like literally every round was a dominant performance by Olivera. It was crazy. It's funny people complaining about that fight, too. It's like the...

Because it was on the ground. Right. Yeah. My daughter complained about it. Did you? She's like, me and that was so boring. You're a casual. My kid's a casual.

People love a slug fest, don't they? Oh, yeah. They do. They do. They do love a slug fest. Yeah. But, you know, that's the sport. The sport is like sometimes it's going to be exciting.

and sometimes it's just going to be a ground battle. But for me, it was exciting because I was trying to figure out whether Max could get up, what he could do to prevent from getting taken down, and whether or not he could figure out a way to reverse the position and get on top. And, you know, when you're watching, like, a guy dominate a world champion like that, it's just you're in Marvel. You're like, wow, this is crazy. I can't believe he's able to do this.

This is nuts. I wish I would have started jujitsu when I was small Because I tried like you know late 30s and I was like It was kind of like the golf thing where I was like Well first of all it's way cooler than golf But I was like the amount of time is gonna take me Until this doesn't feel like being smothered Yeah

It's gonna be a long time and I don't know if I have I don't know if I can start now You know what I mean? I'm sure Yeah like if well how long would it take for like a grown person Until it until it Until you actually know what's going on intuitively and it doesn't feel like chaos. Well, there's layers of knowing intuitively. Like there's guys like even as a black belt, there's guys that I could roll with and I would just get humiliated because they're just so much better than I am. Like my friend Gordon Ryan, that's his belt up there, Abu Dhabi champion. He's the

greatest of all time, like in these 30. Yeah. The greatest grappler that's ever lived. That looks like he man. He's a freak. He's amazing. But he trains 365 days a year. He does not take breaks off. Christmas, fuck you. It's your birthday? Fuck you. Happy Easter, fuck you. He trains every day. And he trains like twice a day, three times a day.

It's like, that is the only way to be the greatest. And, you know, and he's obviously a lot bigger than me, but it's not the best example. But he does that to heavyweight black belts. It just humiliates them. He writes down on a piece of paper what he's going to do to them and hands it to the judges before the fight. So he's like, I'm going to triangle this guy. That's crazy. And he's doing it to world champion.

It's amazing. Like, guys who have been, like, multiple-time world champions. Wow. And he's just predicting what he's going to do. And then he passes on every submission until he can get him in that. Like, he's having fun. He's like, he's playing with his food. You know, so there's levels to stuff.

So to be competent in rolling, you can get there in a couple of years, depending on how often you train. Like, Bourdain got really serious at 58. Wow. At 58. That's when he started? That's what he started. Yeah. Oh.

When I first met him, he wasn't training at all. When I first met him, he came to the UFC. His wife was really into the UFC. And she had just started doing jujitsu. And she was getting him into the sport. And he really got interested in it. And then she took him to jiu-suitzsche classes and like, fuck, this is actually kind of fascinating. Yeah.

And he had never done any kind of athletic things in his whole life. And then, like, when he was 60s, there's a photo of him, like, in his 60s. And he's walking down the street with his, he had gotten divorced. He was dating some new girl. And he's got a six-pack. And he looked shredded. And when I first met him, he was like doughy and he had a thumb ring. And he was like, you know, a chef.

And, you know, it was into drinking. And he just became a jiu-jitsu addict. And he was training every fucking day. And sometimes twice a day. He would do a private lesson and they would take a class every day. Wow. Yeah, he got a, and then he told me he was taking. He's like, when we're hunting in Montana, we were on the ground in Montana.

He wanted to like learn some. So I was explaining him certain bit like I'm like when you go for a darts there's a way to get there's a thing called the Japanese necktie I was explaining to him on the dirt I was like you guys all camoed out doing jiu-jitsu Yes on the ground but he was like he was so interested in it that he was like constantly asking questions and he had guys that were in the crew that had also got interested in jiu-jitsu because of him so like while he was there filming his show he also went down and was training he found a local jiu-jitsu gym And he went down there and trained while he was there. He would train everywhere on the road. Yeah, he would go to, like, foreign countries and train. Like, he didn't even speak the language.

And, you know, he's just fucking famous guy from TV. And he's just rolling in there with, like, normal people and getting strangled. 58, man, that's incredible. I have no excuse. I'm going to start. Yeah, do it. I want to put it in front of my kid for sure. Oh, definitely.

I mean, as soon as he can do it, I want him to try. You know, if he likes it or not. But it's like, I feel like it's one of those things. It's so good to connect with other people. people in that way from such a young age. You give you confidence. And then if you, if you love it, if he has a passion for it, you don't have to worry about him becoming a drug addict or something because you can't be both. Like, you know, there's a few things where like, you can't be both. You've got to really give that everything. Also, it becomes like a real source of confidence

for kids. If they know that they can fight, like they can avoid fights, people won't want to fight them because they'll have a reputation. It's very good to know. It's also like you can get out of things just by knowing how to fight. Because you know, like, what people are doing and what they're not doing. You don't say anything stupid because you're trying to trick a person into thinking that you're a tough guy. This is a quiet confidence that comes to these guys. And also, if something does happen, most people have zero idea of how to fight. Zero.

And they think they're just going to swing and hit you in the face. And you see all this shit coming way before it happens. Like, you see them moving their right foot back, like, oh, God. Yeah. Like, here we go. Like, it's, it's like they're playing a game, but they don't even know the rules. Like, they don't even know the skill. They don't know anything, but they've seen it on TV and they think they're going to be able to pull it off, especially if they're drunk.

Oh, yeah. There's a whole Instagram channel that's dedicated to fights on 6th Street here. Have you seen this? It's amazing, dude. It's incredible. You can just watch it for hours. I've seen a bunch. A lot of them taking place right in front of my club.

Fights on the street are so scary because guys fall and they hit their kids. head that's it's that's how people die people die where they get punched in the jaw and they go out and they just bang their head off the ground or there's a lot of people out there that'll when you're already out step on your head oh yeah you see that a lot yeah that's it be i don't understand anyone who has the impulse to do that right that's crazy to me like if you've won the fight already move on yeah that's that's scary stuff that's evil well some people that get red with rage and they lose their mind and then they wind up jail for the rest of their life and then just sitting in a cell going what the fuck one night drunk doing something stupid and now I'm here forever yeah it's crazy and there's someone's dead and someone's

dead and someone's parents are crying and someone's missing their father like fuck man because he looked at my girlfriend yeah that's crazy I know people are retarded yeah the best thing about fighting is it teaches you not to fight very few of my friends that know how to fight have ever been in street fights. It's almost never happens. It's just like, it's such a stupid thing to do. How many times in your life have you had to use it like practically in a real life? Never. Really? Never. Not since I was in like high school. I've never been in a fight fight. Like an actual fight since high school. I'll avoid them. Yeah. I'm not like if I know I can fuck you up and I could just get away. I'm like, I'd just get away. I don't need to prove like what's the

point? Also, here's the thing. People always say, oh, if I could fight, I'd fuck people out. Great and then they're gonna come back and kill you, you know, and then they're gonna run you over or shoot you or Don't be stupid like it's it's pointless. It's pointless You know, I've had situations where I thought I was gonna have to fuck somebody up and I didn't But you have to have self-control. You have to you know you have to be able to know and also like most people Like if they want to fight you all you have to do is kind of like put your hands up and move a little bit like they're not gonna be able to do anything They'll be swinging and you just like come on man What are we doing here? Yeah, what do we do?

doing and it's it's the only time people get hurt is when you engage like you're both swinging at each other if someone's swinging at you and they don't know what they're doing they have almost no chance of hurting me like zero unless i'm asleep unless i'm really drunk you're almost zero chance of hitting me right unless you really know what to do if you're really know how to fight most of those people are really not a fight aren't street fighting yeah yeah and i'm not going to provoke anybody I'm not going to start a fight. So it's like, I mean, I know a few of my friends that have had to fuck people up. Gordon had to beat the fuck out of a homeless guy in Austin.

What? Yeah. No way. Oh, yeah, some homeless guy. He picked the wrong dude. Boy, did he. And Gordon tried to get out of it. The guy wouldn't he put him to sleep. Wow.

Yeah. Put him to sleep and then call the cops. The cops came and picked the guy up. Humiliating. Oh, my kids are the wrong guy. Yeah. But that shows. you how fucking stupid people are

because Gordon's a gorilla. He's this big giant 240 pound jack dude who's I don't know how many time Jiu-Jitsu world champion and some fucking idiot probably high out of his mind. Drugs are bad. I think he picked a fight with him. I think he picked a

fight with his girlfriend first. I think he'd fuck with his girlfriend and fuck with another guy and just a problem. Some guys are just nuts man. Yeah. And you know, mental health issues but fights are stupid. They're They're so pointless. Organized fights is a different thing.

I mean, that's high-level problem-solving with dire physical consequences. That's what I call it. That's what a real fight is. Like we'll both agree, we're going to make a certain weight. We're going to meet September 7th. Here it is. That's a different thing.

It's a beautiful thing. It's like a chest match and you can't breathe. Yeah. It's crazy. Yeah, that's a good way to put it. Yeah. But in chest, the pieces can only move a certain way. Right.

In jiu-jitsu, what's nuts is there's like so many different variations and then you add in striking and wrestling and like oh my god it's so car i love it i'll never get tired of watching m mma it's the most exciting thing ever for me i like other sports like i've really grown to love football since i moved to texas and i can watch a good basketball game baseball's hard but to me it's all just downtime unless fights are on right it fights around i'm not watching anything else. Like I've been at football games, like at the UT games with the UFC on my phone sitting there while I'm watching the UFC. Man, I wish I had football envy. I went to a Christian school in Ohio and we didn't have a

football team. And I feel like if you don't like grow up around it in high school, you just don't understand like the nuance. I understand the rules and I get it. But I just, I don't know, I don't love it like people do. And I wish I did. I wish it the stakes just, I don't understand it. I don't understand the team sport thing as much as I do. Like, I love M&A. I love watching UFC because it's like the stakes are so high. Right. Something about one-on-one, who's the better person today?

You know, that's, you know, you can't, there's no one to blame it on. Right. It's just one person. It's a different thing. Like, I have grown to love it living here. My wife is a big football fan. And so she got me into it. And then I've gone to a bunch of UT games and they're fucking fun, man.

And it's like when someone scores a lot of, touchdown, everybody wins. Like the whole team cheer, like the whole audience, like 80,000 people, and there's something to do that. Right. Because like when fighters fight and someone gets knocked out, like people cheer and it's excited. But like, you know, you never know who's, like if you're watching Justin Gachie fight

Max Holloway, I don't know who's for Justin Gachie, who's for Max Holloway. You look out there, like everybody's wearing UT colors, right? Or they're wearing, you know, Oklahoma colors. Like, it's like you've got your colors. Everybody, you've got your outfits, everybody's pumped, they cheer when this guy scores, they boo when that guy scores. It's like more of a team, everybody wins together. Yeah. Whereas like with MMA, you know, there's, it's like you're just watching an individual.

You're appreciating an individual who's a rare human being. Type of human being that becomes a guy who could become an MMA world champion, that is a truly special human. like the amount of dedication and the amount of focus and discipline and the courage that you have to have to get in your fucking underwear and stand there with a cup on with little tiny pads on your gloves in front of another savage like another train killer who's been training for 18 weeks for this one moment and they bolt the door shut to the cage and then the referee goes fighter you're ready fighter you're ready let's go crazy and then the whole world is watching you're surrounded by 20,000 people and lights and cheering, and you're trying to keep your shit together and you're getting kicked and... How do you sleep the night before that? That would be my thing.

I don't think I could... It's hard. I wouldn't be able to sleep. It's hard. I would always get sick. I would get sick before tournaments because I wasn't sleeping. I was training really hard, and I didn't even take vitamins back then.

I was a dumb ass. But because I was young. I stopped fighting when I was 22. But for a lot of these guys, it is hard. It's really hard to just relax. And then they grow to learn how to relax. and then it's really scary and then it's really hard to beat them

because a lot of guys are terrified before they even get like Anderson Silva in his prime he would win fights at the weigh-ins because they would just like look at him and he'd be standing there staring at you and you're like oh my God I have to fight this guy tomorrow oh my what have I done

why am I doing this with my life imagine doing that stare down with Mike Tyson back in the day that'd be the most terrifying oh dude it was it was there would be guys look like they were going to faint when the referee was giving him instructions You know, I remember he fought Bruce Selden And Bruce Selden, who was a beast, man He's a fucking tank of a man

And he looked like he was gonna faint During the stare down I can't imagine Yeah Yeah, he was the scariest of all time He was, he was absolutely the scariest of all time The scariest boxer that I've ever seen in my life And there was a period of time

Between like 1986 and like Probably like around 1990 Where he was just fucking running through everybody It was so, you would buy the pay-per-view knowing that the guy was going to get knocked out and hoping that you get your money's worth because you look at paperview is like whatever it was 50 bucks or something you know like if it's like 30 seconds like oh that's bullshit people would get upset that the the payper view was so quick but i mean that's what you were that's what you're signing up for and those kind of guys i mean

when you got a guy that's got every box checked discipline focus training genetics, everything, all together, mindset. Right. He would beat guys long before they ever got in there because they knew that they were fighting this demon, this guy that just was so much better than everybody else. And there's no way you could catch up to him. No.

Is it true about his, wasn't it like his trainer died and then kind of he lost the whole? Yeah. Well, his trainer was Custamato. And Custamato was a legendary figure. you're in boxer. He had trained Floyd Patterson, Jose Torres.

He trained a lot of like a legit world champions. And he was also a hypnotist. And he adopted. Wait, what? Yeah, he was a hypnotist. Yeah. Well, he was really into the mental side of fighting. He was more, almost like as much of a psychologist as he was a boxing trainer.

It was all about tempering their mind and getting them ready. Like he would tell Mike Tyson, you don't agree. exist only the task exists. He would say crazy shit to him. And he adopted him when he was 13. So Mike was 13 and he came from Bedford-Stuy in Brooklyn. It was a horrible neighborhood. So his whole life was like crime and violence and no love and just terrible.

And then all of a sudden this man took him under his wing who was also a legendary figure in boxing. Legendary. Like he was like he was the guru. And, you know, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, basically it was like the perfect storm and then he was also his manager was this guy Jim Jacobs and Jim Jacobs was not just a manager he was an historian of boxing and he had this incredible library of all the great fighters so he would watch film you know like fucking those things he like have a projection screen and he would watch film of like Jack Johnson and Stanley Ketchel and you know

Sandy Sadler and all these great fighters from back in the day Roberto Duran he would have to sit there and absorb all these amazing fights. And when you can watch, like, that's one of the great things about today, like, especially with MMA, like, if you look at the fights from 1993 and the fights from 2026, the skill level is like magnitudes greater because all these guys have grown up watching all these fights now. Because from the time that MMA existed, it was on television, you could watch it on YouTube after that and it was like there was always fights that you could see so you could see what guys were doing so you had an understanding of the level so kids would grow up imitating their favorite fighters you know they'd grow up you know imitating john jones and imitating kane velasquez and all these guys and you would you you you could absorb a lot just by seeing the elite level of these guys and mike tyson was one of the only guys back then that had that ability interesting because he had this immense library of the greatest fights of all time.

And so he would be training with one of the greatest trainers that ever lived who was probably the greatest psychological trainer that ever lived. Also, the guy was hypnotizing him at 13, programming him to be this destruction machine. And then he was watching fights. So he was watching all these guys,

Jack Johnson and all these great old school champions and Jack Dempsey and like, and he just absorbed it all. Incredible. And he would get in that ring with fucking no socks on and no roe. and just like a throwback. He was like one of, he was like he absorbed the energy

of those old great fighters, the Sugar Ray Robinson's and the hardcore old school guys who would fight like once a week, once every two weeks. Dude, is that how often they were doing it? Oh, they fought so many times. I think before Sugar Ray Robinson ever lost a fight, he was 90 and 0. Something crazy like that.

Wow. Yeah. Ninety. Ninety. Fucking crazy. Just crazy. Yeah. That's wild.

And to be able to watch that kind of stuff when you're young, you absorb it, you know? Sure. It's like kids that play instruments now. Sure. I mean, you'll see an eight-year-old online who's better than any drummer in the 70s. Right. It's crazy. Right.

Just how quickly they can get better now. Oh, yeah. Because they have access to everyone all the time. So cool. I would imagine that's like that with all sports now. But, you know, like you can go back and watch. If you're a basketball player, you can go back and watch Jordan. You can watch Larry Bird.

You can watch, you know, LeBron, Kobe. You can watch all these great basketball players and see what they're doing. Whereas if you were young, you know, in the 60s or 70s, like, you only got to see the people you saw. Yeah. You were as good as the people you were around, which is why it was so important to be a part of, like, a great program in high school and college. Because then you'd be around, like, and then you'd go to the states and see how these guys are doing. Oh, these guys are better than us. Like, I remember that from wrestling.

Like, the only time when I was right. wrestling in high school. The only time you get to see really good guys, you'd go somewhere else. Like, I went to school in Newton, Newton South High School, and we had good wrestlers in our program, and I thought they were good until I would go to the States. And you go, oh, my God, these kids are going to camps every year. They were wrestling 365 days a year. They were, like, obsessed with it. And then if you go to, like, Iowa or somewhere like that, like, good Lord, it's a fucking religion there. And they've been doing that since they were babies. You know, it's like you, you absorb what you see and your brain rises to the level of the competition that you see.

The last time I was really into a boxer was Loma. Oh, man. I love watching him. He's got a cool story, too. Didn't his dad make him do ballet for a while? Ukrainian dance for two years. Pulled him out of boxing for two years. That guy moves like, it doesn't look real.

Right. Like people shouldn't be able to move like that. The Matrix they call. Beautiful. Yeah. Yeah, he would do footwork that no one had even considered doing before. The movement, the slipping to the side and the angles. And his ability to change direction was crazy.

Because he would be here and then he'd be here. And then you're swinging and he's here and he's hitting you. And he also was way smaller than everybody. He was way smaller than everybody. Like he was supposed to be a 126-pound fighter. And he went all the way up to the 140-pound division. Are there like a lot of younger guys doing that sort of style now coming up? Or is that like a one-off?

It's kind of a one-off. Ussick does it. But Usoc was trained by Lomachenko's father. They were trained by the same guy. So Usoc is essentially like a heavyweight Lomachenko. That's why he moves so much. It's dangerous. That guy's a freak.

He's a freak. He's a pleasure to watch. Watching that guy. I mean, he's beating guys that are so much bigger than him. When he beat Tyson Fury, Tyson Fury was like 280 pounds. And he's like a cruiser weight. He was really a 200.

pound guy that blew up to compete against heavy weights. He's much smaller than those guys. But he was so fast and so, and just his pattern recognition, his understanding of boxing, it's just elite, like so many levels above everybody else. And he's

38. Like at 38, you're supposed to be done. He's supposed to, yeah. No. 38 he's in his fucking prime. Amazing. Also, clean life, clean living, like serious Christian, like very, very religious. You know, doesn't doesn't party, doesn't fuck around, you know, and just trains with, like, rigid discipline.

Yeah. That Soviet-style discipline, the Ukrainian discipline, like, those guys, like, their program over there, like, you can see it, like, in Dmitri Bevall and a lot of the other, like, Soviet-style boxers. They have, like, a very comprehensive technical program that they put their fighters under. There's a style. Like, Bevall's the best example of that style. It's such a fucking difficult style, because it's so movement-based. And a lot of, like, American fighters were kind of rigid in their footwork and moving forward just trying to land the big shots.

And, like, Bevall is just moving around you all the time, popping you and, like, ugh. Yeah. Sort of like the Dagestani guys in the M.M.A. Same thing. Oh, yeah. You're not going to beat those guys because it's all they do. Bro. They're in eat and breathe it.

They're in Muay Thai now. There's this kid that I'm obsessed with. He's 22 years old. His name is Asadullah Imangazalev. I don't want to fuck it up. Ahsa Dula Imangazaleev. He's a fucking freak, man. He's 22 years old, and he's destroying world champions in Muay Thai.

Just killing them. He's Dagestanii? Yeah. Oh, wow. So the Dagestanias are taking over striking two now. Good. Well, this guy's nuts, man. He's so fluid, too.

It's nuts to watch him, man. He moves, like, nobody else moves. And he's real tall for the weight class, so you can't even get close to him. He's fucking you up from the outside and just this is the guy. This guy is a fucking freak, man. He's just doing things different than everybody else. Wow. And he's destroying people.

Just destroying everyone. Everyone he fights. He's so unusual, man. And again, he's from a hard part of the world, man. You know, you grow up in some fucking soft neighborhood and your dad takes you to karate classes. No chance You gotta fight this fucking dude This guy's fighting for his dinner

He's just murking people And it's also he comes from a culture That like reveres combat sports You know they have They're their champions Guys like Islamakachev Kabib Nurkimeirov They're legends over there

Yeah You know and everybody grows up Wanting to be one of those guys Where was Fader from? He's from Russia Is he? Oh yeah he was the first I love watching him growing up man

He was the first So I used to watch him before auditions Really? Yeah, there was just something about his mindset Where he was so even keel Yeah, stoic Yeah, it's like his heart rate didn't change or something Even when he won he'd just be like

And like sort of walk off Like that's so badass dude Yeah, his expression never changed Yeah, he was one of the all-time greats If not the all-time great He was different than everybody else And he was a heavy weight that could submit you He could knock you out

He was fast, he wasn't big I mean he was like 5-11 Very unassuming look at it You wouldn't know he was the most dangerous guy in the world. Belly fat, little... He didn't give a fuck

what he looked like. He was all about how he could perform. Right. You know, and he was a part of, like, that era where MMA emerged

and in Japan, it was so much bigger than it was in America. During the Pride days when Fador was running shit, there was 90,000 people in those arenas. Whoa.

Yeah. They were doing, like, the Tokyo Superdome. They were doing these gigantic arenas. And, like, everyone was a fan in the country. And then it all went away because the yakuza was involved and there was a big scandal.

And, you know, like, MMA was bigger in Japan than it was anywhere in the world. And it just kind of, like, pizzled out. Did you ever go to any of those in Japan? I went to a UFC once in Japan. We did one UFC in Japan. And I went there. It was really cool.

It was just, I was just really happy to be in Japan for a fight because, you know, I've been such a fan of Japanese martial artists and Japanese martial arts period. And look, I have a, I mean, I have Miyamoto Musashi tattooed on my arm. But being in there in Japan was like, it was interesting because they were so educated. Like they were really quiet while the fights are going on. But then when something would happen, even something really technical, like somebody passing the guard, they would go, oh.

And they would all clap. Like I was like, whoa, this is interesting. Like it was like, you could hear each corner yelling instructions. Like you didn't hear the crowd at all. Wow. There's 16,000 people in there. That's cool. It was wild.

Yeah. It was a completely different kind of audience. Like very respectful, very appreciative, and very knowledgeable. It was cool. Do you think if you didn't do what you did, would you rather watch, like, UFC in person, or would you watch it at home? In person's the best. You want to be there. You want to feel the crowd.

But I would want to be there where I sit. Like, I'm super spoiled. Yeah, you've got the best seat in the house. Yeah. I'm like, I can. reach up and grab the cage. It's right there. Like, I'm so spoiled. But, um, you know, if you're in the bleeders, if you're in like the nosebleeds, you're probably better off watching it at home, honestly, because then you get the commentary, you get to see replays. You get to see, you know,

like close up. If you got a big TV at home, you get to see everything. I just sat close for the first time. I went to the Patty Gachie fight. Oh, did you? It was amazing. That was a good one. It was amazing, dude. But yeah, it's definitely different hearing the sound. Oh, yeah. It's like a whole, when you hear like bone on bone, you're like, whoa. Well, my favorite was during the pandemic, we had fights at the UFC Apex with no crowd. It was insane. It was so, because we had world championship fights with no crowd. That's crazy.

There was maybe like 50, 100 people in the room. Wow. It was like mostly just staff of the UFC, the trainers of the fighters and some of the other fighters in the audience and some friends in the audience. And that's it. And the USC Apex has a smaller ring too. It was a smaller cage. So it's like, I think it's like, I want to say it's 40% smaller. It's a lot smaller.

Really? Yeah. I didn't know that. Yeah, it's smaller. How would that affect a fight? A lot. Practically, really? Can't move as much.

It's not as much distance to get away. You know, so a guy who likes to, like, move around a lot and get away from people. Like, I saw Francis Engano versus Stipe Amioch when Francis won the title in the apex with no crowd. That's crazy. And when Francis hits things, it's like, it's like hearing a baseball basketball. about hitting a pumpkin. It's just wump! Yikes.

And you're right there. You hear them breathing, you hear the grunts when they get hit, you know? Right. You hear the coaches yelling out, hands up, hands up, move, move, move. You know, hit them with the one, one, two. They're yelling out instructions and it's like, there's no one else there. It's silent. Wow.

It's amazing. So that's the way. Oh, that's my favorite. Cool. But there's something about an amazing crowd, you know, like when you're watching a big world title fight in a like in Vegas or in the Madison Square Guard it's an incredible place just because it's the history of the place you feel it when you're in Madison Square Garden but my favorite is the apex how you feeling about this White House card that's insane makes me a little nervous

I don't know it's the best idea yeah it seems like it would war open some yeah some room for some tomfoolery it seems like it yeah um the card is not what they wanted it to be for sure. They wanted to be like all world titles. But, you know, matchmakers have a very difficult task. It's very hard to find people that aren't injured, that are like, like, that are ready at this particular time because the brutal aspect of the sport is that guys are always hurt. They're always training hurt. They're always getting hurt. They're fight hurt. There's always no one, very rarely, is anyone going into the octagon 100%. Sure. There's always something going on. Guys are They're dealing with staff infections in camp and they're taking antibiotics and it fucks with your endurance.

And maybe they've got a muscle pull or a knee that's fucked up. And when Francis Ngano fought Cyril Gahn, he blew his ACL out. So he had to wrap his leg up. And he had one leg. And he beat him with one leg. That's crazy. Crazy. Guys have fought with broken hands, you know.

Alex Pereira, he's beating guys with a broken foot. He fights with a broken foot. Just stoic standing there. Knows his foot's broken. doesn't give him a fuck he fought with a bad knee his knee needed surgery like like there's a fight that he fought yuri prohaska where he's on top of yuri that they stopped the fight and he does a forward role to get off of him after he knocked down because he couldn't stand on his left leg i didn't know that did was that like a known thing while the fight was happening no oh no he

had surgery after the fight yeah yeah yeah he had surgery after the fight yeah he had surgery after the fight perada is really big in our house because brazil right oh yeah yeah those brazilians man they love each other. It's crazy. My wife, she doesn't, she doesn't care about MMA that much, but if there's a Brazilian fight and she's all about it. Oh, yeah. Yeah, very, very proud people. Yeah. And it's also like Brazil's where it all started. They were having MMA fights in Brazil in the 1930s. Really? Oh, yeah. Ilya Gracie, who's really the founder of all this shit, he's the father of like the Gracie clan, the Gracie family is like the greatest story in the history of martial arts. That one family has changed martial arts forever.

And it really changed it because of Carlos Gracie and Iliocracy and Carlson Gracie. These three Gracies who competed in these no rules fights. They didn't have time limits back then, no gloves, no nothing. And they were fighting in giant crowds in Brazil in the 1930s, 1940s. And they were figuring things out that nobody had figured out before. They figured out they took techniques from judo. Like judo was mostly about throws, but there was some submissions.

And so they concentrated only on the submissions. And they created Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Like, Jiu-Jitsu, which was a Japanese martial art. Right. But Brazilian jiu-jitsu is far more technical than Japanese jiu-jitsu. And even Japanese guys now trained Brazilian jiu-jitsu. I was going to say, are there any purists that only do the Japanese style still or not really? You can't really compete.

Oh, okay. I mean, you could, because everybody kind of knows everything now, because Brazilian Jiu Jitsu has made its way into every other sport. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu has made its way into Russian Samba, which is another combat sport, which is also elite. But Brazilian Jiu Jitsu changed the game

and the Gracie family changed everything forever. And the guy who fought in the UFC, Hoyce, he wasn't even the best guy in the family. He told everybody, my brother Hickson kills me. Hickson was the man. Like, Hickson was above and beyond everyone

back then. He was he was a guy who did yoga he was meditating he did this crazy thing with his stomach where he would do this breathing where his stomach would suck in he was like a real freak and he was undefeated like nobody could touch him

he would go and do these seminars so he'd teach a seminar and teach it to all these black belts and then he would roll with all of them nonstop and just tap out everybody everybody world champions they all be like ah this is a bunch of hype and they go in there

They all get an arm barred They all get leg locked It was crazy He was so much better than everybody else And so they wanted hoist to win Because Hickson also was like pretty jacked And he was like really fit He was really into strength and conditioning

And like I said yoga He was incredibly flexible Like he could stand there and do the splits And like hold his leg up in there on a balance bar Is he the one that wrote that book? Yeah Yeah I read that. It's awesome Yeah and he had that documentary It's a great documentary called Choke.

Phenomenal documentary about his rise through Japan Valley Tudow. And then he was the guy that he based the first pride event on. Oh, okay. He was the champion of the first pride event. He was the guy that the whole thing was based on because he was huge in Japan. I mean, he was a superstar in Japan. But he was the champion of the family. And they wanted Hoyst to do it because hoist was like smaller and he would show that jujitsu was about technique.

That makes sense. And the plan was, if Hoyce ever got beat, throw in Hickson. Oh, okay. Then everybody's fucked. But Hickson, like, his brother, Horian, started the UFC, and Horryin and Hickson had friction, and Horryen really couldn't control Hickson. And so they were like, let's put Hoyson. And if we need to call on Hickson, we'll call the boogeyman.

He was the boogeyman. Remember the guy, I think it was UFC one, who had the one glove, the one boxing glove? Yeah, Arch Imerson. Yeah. What was that about? Well, I think he decided he wanted to be. able to hold on to people and he wanted to punch him with his right hand. Weird tackling that.

Well, no, what the fuck they were doing back then? Michael Jackson, dude. Everybody had this idea of what fighting was and they didn't really know until they got taken down. Oh, there's his left hand. So that's interesting. So I guess he wanted to pop him with the jab.

It was that Hoyst just fucking put it to that guy. Amazing. But Hoyst was doing something that nobody had seen before. And that one event when he was doing that to people, it changed everything. It changed my opinion of martial arts. I immediately started taking jujitsu. I was like, oh, my God. You were Taekwondo?

I started in Taekwondo, and then I did kickboxing for a while. And then as soon as I saw the UFC, I immediately started taking Jiu-Jitsu. I was like, oh, God, I don't. And then when I started taking it, I was so cocky. I was like, I know how to fight. And then I took classes, it was just getting manhandled and mauled and tapped left and right. I was like, oh my God, I'm a beginner. Yeah.

This is so humiliating. And I was like, I got to get good at this. Yeah. I couldn't believe how helpless I was. I was running around thinking I was a badass and I was just a fool. Yeah, I'll humble you real quick. Oh, so humble. I've gone through that.

I did it for, you know, maybe a couple months. And I just, I never made it past the hump. I should probably try again. But get a trainer. Get a guy who can do drills with you. That's really huge. If you can get someone to do drills with you and like just go over. like on a one-on-one basis, the finer aspects of it,

and just do drills and drills, drills over and over again, and then slowly start working your way into group classes. Yeah. That's the key. I think the thing is with, you know, if you go do a boxing class, a Muay Thai class, you get to get some frustration out. Right.

Because you're hitting something, and it kind of feels good on your drive home. You feel like, I just beat the shit out of that bag, you know. Yeah. But then you do, you roll with somebody who's really good, and you go home and you're more frustrated. But the first time you tap, someone it's like it's such a revelation you're like oh my god i got an arm bar oh my god i got a triangle

like the first time you actually catch someone something and they tap i'll never forget that feeling i was like wow and then you have to just trust the process trust the process of showing up and and realizing it is a tall mountain to climb it's you're not going to get there quick it is a it's a weird thing to do with your body your body doesn't know what to do with it that's why drilling is so important. When you're drilling, you're going over the motions without resistance. So your body sort of gets programmed how to shift switch your hips and how to catch the arm and how to pull your body back and secure it with your legs and all the different things that you have to do. Where if you're doing just live sparring all the time, you're not going to learn because you're all panicking and

tight. You've got to be able to like train your body to move a certain way so it becomes automatic. And is there a way to do it where you can stay relatively, injury free while you're learning? Or is it like that's just part of the... It's kind of part of it. Yeah, I was going to say. It's kind of part of it. Yeah.

Everybody just sort of assumes you're going to eventually get hurt in one way or another. You're going to fuck your knee up or fuck your ankle up or whatever. Right. But the best way is to find good training partners. Don't train with any wild people because some people just tank on things. Those are dangerous. The really dangerous people are like blue belts who are really strong. who would just like really spaz out on you.

Like sure. Kind of avoid those folks because they could blow your knee out accidentally. Yeah. You know, I've seen that a lot. Like, I know people that are really good that won't roll with people that are spas. They're like, I definitely ran into a couple of the guys

that are like, they just wanted to choke out Casey Dutton. Of course. I was like, come on, man, I just started, dude. Of course. I used to get that when I was on Fear Factor. A lot of guys wanted to choke out the Fear Factor guy. Yeah. But, you know, that's just part of the fun.

Like, Bordane. He was a 58-year-old white belt. Nuts. Wow. If that guy did it, fucking kind of anybody can do it. What belt did he get to? He got to purple. He definitely got to blue.

I don't know if he got to purple. But he won tournaments. Wow. He competed in tournaments, you know? You know, I remember when he first started doing it, he was like, I'd really like to compete in some age-appropriate tournaments. I was trying to talk him out of it. I was like, don't know.

Get hurt, man. We need you out there. Yeah. He was obsessed. If he can do it, like that just goes to show you a guy with no athletic experience, not a worker, didn't train, didn't do any working out, wasn't a runner, didn't lift weights, nothing. And then at 50A is like, all right, I'm going to get good at this. That's amazing.

Yeah. Good for him, man. That's awesome. Well, he was a guy that had had substance abuse problems in his past. And the thing about being an addict is if you can focus whatever that thing is and get addicted to something really good, you can you can really excel for whatever weird reason

also there's a flip side so people that are addicted to a sport or a thing and they get really good at a thing and then they become drug addicts that same thing can kind of hijack your brain and then all you're doing is like chasing meth all day I've seen that happen too for sure yeah

I should get back into it it's a fun thing to do it's good for your head too because it's the hardest thing you'll ever do It's so hard because you're essentially The game you're playing is I kill you or you kill me Right so when a guy gets your back and gets your rear naked choke and you tap You're essentially saying you just killed me

I thank you for not killing me I give up And then when you do it to him he's saying that to you Yeah so hard that the rest of your life is easy Right everything else becomes easy Well all the stress of fame success and Hollywood and the bullshit it's nothing compared to some dude mounting you trying to get your you're trapped in an arm trying to try to get your hand down to protect yourself it's way harder and that that makes the rest of your life easier if you can choose what's hard in your life you'll be way better off

find a thing that's way more difficult on your mind way more difficult on your body way more difficult on your spirit than this other thing that you do. So it'll make that other thing, like, easier to tolerate. Yeah. I'm just stay humble, too. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Super humble.

You're not going to think you're cool for being able to say some lines. Some people get, well, that's the other thing, right? You get really intoxicated with everybody kissing your ass. Oh, yeah. Easy, easy, trapped. We've all seen that. We've all seen actors are just, like, inflated. Oh, for sure.

Yeah. Yeah, I'm a little blessed in the way that I've never thought I was very, great at anything. I enjoy doing the things, but I've never really, I'm never good enough for myself, kind of hard on myself a little bit, but I've seen it for sure. If you're waiting for someone else to validate you, once they do, you're screwed. Right. Because you're going to believe it. Right. You know what I mean? Yeah. Well, there's the problem of being a star is that like all these people need you and the world, their world of the show revolves around you. Yeah. So they're all like, you know kind of kissing your ass and reverent towards you it's like it's it's a little weird yeah yeah

yeah and that's new for me too you know i'd never been anything that was like a massive hit before yellowstone and now at this new show now it's a hit and i'm the number one on the call sheet which is very new and so i'm like a you know i'm an asset to them in a different way um it'll be interesting navigating that they'll probably try to talk you out of doing jesus yeah i probably have to sign something that i won't you know i'm not like i'm not like i'm not like to like ski. There's a lot of things because of the insurance. Like if I get hurt and production has to shut down, it's a lot of money for them. Yeah. That makes sense. Yeah. I don't know if that's one of them though, but it's like, yeah, skiing. Don't ask. It's funny because horseback riding

usually is and I have to do that for the show. That's the most dangerous. Yeah. Horseback riding scares a shit out of me. Dude, it's me too. It was not, it didn't come natural. That's not like a thing that I'm naturally good at or had done before Yellowstone. My oldest daughter did it for a little bit in California and she fell a couple of times and one time she heard her wrist really bad and I was like please stop don't do this because she was doing those things where you'd like jump over stuff

like oh that's so dangerous because they stop just shy of that thing and you go flying right yeah her friend she had a good friend that was really into it and they started doing it together and I was like please don't and she fell a couple times and she was okay but one time she really heard her wrist and I was like please stop

because your wrist they can fix your neck you get like Christopher Reeves, you know. Oh, I think about Christopher Reeves every time I get on a watch. I believe it. I wish I didn't. That was what he did, right? He was doing the jumping thing, right?

Was it? I believe so. Yeah. Yeah. Terrible. I just don't, I don't, yeah, I don't get it. Do you ride motorcycles? No.

No, I don't either. Almost did. Almost does. Taking lessons. Me and a couple of the other guys that worked on a crew at Fear Factor, we all took motorcycle lessons together. We were all talking about it. And so we took motorcycle safety courses, you know,

You basically ride, and it's kind of like a dirt bike, and they teach you how to, you know, shift and all this stuff. And I kind of got into it. I was like, ooh, this is really fun. And then three of my friends had motorcycle accidents. Like within a short time period, one of them wiped out, fucked up his shoulder. The other one got hit by a car, broke his leg. And then the other one was actually someone saw someone. It wasn't an actual motorcycle accident.

He was there when some guy got rear-ended by a car that wasn't paying attention. and just plowed into him and sent him flying and fuck this guy up. And I was like, no. No, no, no, no. I'm not doing that. I had a bike for a couple months in L.A. And I went on a ride.

And, you know, it's like one of those things. You have to have the bug. You're like either have or you don't. I was trying to get the bug. Because I wanted that to be a part of my identity. You know what I mean? I wanted to be a guy who rode motorcycles. So I rode up the Pacific Coast Highway.

And I was kind of riding up through like Ohio and going around this corner, you know, this sort of like cliff side. and that thing where if you stare at something, that's where you're going to go. And I just kind of was like zoned out, and I almost ate shit right into the side of this cliff. And I was alone.

Like if I would have done it, it would have been forever until anyone figured out, like what had happened to me. You know, and it was a really, really close call. And I got off the bike, and I kind of sat there for a minute, and I was like, yeah, I don't love it enough to die this way. You know what I mean?

I don't need this in my life, and I never did it again. I have friends that have never had a problem. I have friends that ride bikes that have never had a problem. I think if I lived in Montana, I might do it because there's just not that much traffic. No, but my 70-year-old neighbor just hit a deer.

Oh. Seven years old on his, like, one of the BMW, like, adventure bikes. And he was going 70 on the highway and hit a deer in. Yeah, and he's fine, dude, this guy's a tank. How old was he? 70. Whoa. Killed the deer.

He had road rash everywhere, and he was kind of like, you know, on the couch for a few. And he's fine? Dude, he is a tank. This guy, they make a dog. different out there, dude. He's my next door day. He's amazing. Shout out Steve. He's got a range in his backyard to 500 yards. Oh, wow. And has every firearm imaginable and things you didn't even know they made. And so anytime I can just, you know, ride over there on the side by side, we grab a few and go down and shoot in the back. Oh, that's nice. That's cool. Yeah, you find people like that in

Montana. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He's the real deal. Wow, but 70 years old, hitting a deer is crazy on a bike. Yeah. Killed the deer. And he, about a month later, he was all right. He was back on the bike. Oh, boy. Geez. I've seen some videos of guys hitting deer. Like, you see, like, from their camera,

and you see this thing leap in front of the road, then bang! And you just see, yeah. Yeah, deer's, they're everywhere out here, man. When I'm driving home, I drive slow. There's, like, a certain road near my house where they just pop out all the suicidal deer. Yeah. Just pop out, especially, like, around the,

The rut where the bucks are chasing the doze and they're not chasing straight. They're just out there like fucking pussy hungry, standing in the road, staring at you. I love explaining to people how the rut works because it works just like humans. I'm like the only time they're dumb enough that you're going to get one is when they're horny. Right. You know? But for them it's once a year, which is way crazy than us. Can you imagine if it all came on once?

Bro, if humans had a rut, I would go on vacation during that time. I'm like, I'm hiding. I don't want to be anywhere near. It's probably like murders, car accidents. Lock me in jail for that month or whatever. Exactly. Like, get a bunker. Get a bunker and lock down with Netflix for a month.

Fuck that. There is no way, man. That would be crazy. Imagine if the whole world had the rut at the same time. Oh, my God. That's a good movie idea. It is a good movie idea, right? That's actually a great movie idea.

Just call it the rut. Yeah, like human beings evolve or? Or maybe there's like genetic engineering because they decide the pot there's overpopulation and the solution to it is only have people breed at a certain time. And also like keep people from being distracted all the time because like how many people are on dating apps and how many people are like, you know, going to bars and trying to find someone. It's like it's a huge waste of your time.

Oh my God. My 20s and 30s were just blown because of it. It's all I thought about. Massive. Massive waste of your time. If there was like a solution to that, the solution is. be like everyone's only going to breed only during November. Maybe it's the best thing ever.

It'd be great if there was like a switch you could flip. You know, like a little boy you'd like flip it and then go out and figure it out. And then the rest of the year like you don't even care about girls. Yeah, because so productive, man. Bucks just walk by a female dough in like, you know, fucking June. They don't give a shit about it. And they don't have their antlers, so they look the same. Right.

You know what I mean? They lose their masculinity entirely. Right, right, right. I get it back pretty quick. those fucking things grow quick. It's like they fall off within a month or two they start growing nubs.

Isn't it the fastest growing bone material on the planet? I think elk is. Because that's nuts. I mean, you look at a 400 inch elk like some of those antlers that are out there. Imagine that that grows in a couple of months. It's bone.

It's crazy. And they fight to the death with it. Crazy. Like we find elk that have been killed by other elk. It happens all the time. Have you hunted in Montana? Yeah, not elk.

I hunted mule deer in Montana and a pheasant at the time I went with Bourdain. I've never done elk until I moved up there. I started hunting whitetail when I was like 10, like we're really young because we have big white tail in Ohio. And I thought hunting elk would be similar. And boy, was I mistaken. Oh, it is. Were you bow hunting or rifle hunting? I've done both, but my first was a bow hunt.

And we went out there. We were camping out there. Me and I just made friends with the contractor that built my house in Montana. He took me. We went public land around Dillon, Montana. And we went for a week, and I had to tap out day four. Like, I couldn't, my legs stopped working. I was like, I didn't know I had, it was like this.

So the next year I went, I was like prepared for it. But I didn't know, man, you really got to go for it. Oh, you got to get in shape. Yeah. I do a lot of shit before September. I do, I have this crazy routine that I do on an airdine bike. I do these tabadas on an airdine bike where you sprint for 20 seconds. Oh, yeah.

You rest for 10, you sprint for 20. The worst. And all I'm doing is thinking about getting over a hill, getting over a hill to get a shot. I mean, and then I do like box step-ups. I do all these different things with weighted vests and farmers carries with fucking heavy kettlebells. All I'm doing is just trying to condition my legs. Yeah. You have to, like those mountains are brutal.

There's no mountains here for me to practice on. Right. But in California, I used to run hills with my dog. Yeah, and you're at elevation, which makes it even harder. Oh, yeah. And a weird thing people wouldn't expect, like, just, you know, makes it even worse. You get up in the morning at zero degrees. Middle of the day, it's 50, 60.

And you're hiking all day. So it's like, how do you dress for that? You have to dress to be cold. Yeah. Like, once you start walking, you have to be cold. Yeah. Like, you've got to get down to your base layer and walk cold. And then if you ever have to stop, then you put it on.

And the other key, marino wool. That's the key. Because wool is different than cotton. If your cotton gets wet and then you're sweaty and then you get cold, you're fucked. Right. But wool's not like that. Marino wool is the best. Yeah.

Because if you have especially a base layer, because when you're sweating, it kind of keeps you a little cool. And then if you get cold, it doesn't feel cold. Yeah. Because it's not synthetic. It's organic. Makes sense. Yeah. It's a weird fiber.

Yeah, we used to walk to the deer stand kind of in half of our stuff. keep the other half in a pack and then like once I got in the tree stand I put everything on so that you wouldn't you know the sweat wouldn't freeze to you that's hard deer hunting in a tree stand is fucking hard it's like a silent retreat and you're freezing yeah you're freezing and you're sitting up there waiting for a deer to walk by and then you're so cold that when a deer walks by you go to pull your bow back you're like oh Jesus yeah like why why it's a weak yeah like you could barely pull your bow back when you're up in the tree yeah but nothing I mean no no challenge whatsoever compared to alconi that was like blew my mind how hard that was

And the guy I went with, you know, he grew up in Montana. He's like a mountain goat. I just like couldn't keep up with this guy, man. I'm like, this isn't, how do you do this? Just constant all day long. You can't just get out of your couch and go Elkhontica in the mountains. You can't do it. No, you got to get in shape.

Yeah, like my friend Cam Haynes. That's why he started running. He became an ultra runner. Yeah, he's doing like 250 miles stuff, right? Yeah, he does like these three-day runs. You try to get you into that? Have you done any of that? No chance.

I have one knee that sucks. I have one knee that I, fuck. up in martial arts it's missing meniscus and I cracked it uh skiing too I wiped out skiing got a fracture the top of my tibia so it's like it's if I started running it would get beat up real bad right but I do there's plenty of conditioning you could do without running you know but it's the pounding of running it's not good for my knee there's something so amazing though about getting to that first day in the morning when son's coming up and you're glassing and you're just like this is what I always wanted hunting to be like.

Yeah. It's the real thing. It's like, this is what it's supposed to feel like. You're so far out there, you know. I didn't get to go the last couple years. My wife was having our baby two years ago, so I wasn't allowed to be in the woods with no service. And then last year I was shooting the show,

but this year I'm going to be able to go. I got a good spot. And even if I'm shooting the show, it's like, it's right there. Well, they have phones now that have satellite service. I think you get, is that, does T-Mobile have that now? where you can get Starlink on your phone.

I know they're doing that soon. And you know, you can text message with iPhones. You can, I got done that in the middle of the woods. And you know what the best thing is, man, when we were in Utah last year, the last two years, I've had a Starlink mini. It is the shit. It's like the size of an iPad.

You just lay it down on the ground. You use the app, and the Starlink app will tell you which way to point it to. And you get high-speed internet. I have one for when we shoot. It's incredible. Because we're in the middle of nowhere. It's so awesome.

It's the best. It's so good. You can... Here it is. T-satellite. Yeah. That's the shit, man. Yeah.

So you can... Can you make phone calls? Or is it just internet? It's phone calls, too, right? Texting and select satellite-ready apps. Okay, just texting? Satellite service, including text to 911, may be delayed, limited, or unavailable.

So you can just text and some satellite. satellite ready apps right now. So that's like everywhere. That's cool. Yeah. So eventually they'll have, it'll be like Starlink will be connected to your phone and you'll be able to get high speed internet everywhere in the world.

If we don't have World War Thruh. Bro, blow everybody up. I did. But there's the elk-tunning thing that the thing that makes it all the more exciting is like they're moving around. You gotta sneak up in on them. You're playing the wind and then the sound they make. when they're screaming.

Bro. And you hear it, you're like, if you never knew what that was, you would think there's demons in the woods. Yeah, demons are like T-Rex. Right. It's crazy. The sound is so incredible.

It's so incredible. And it's so hard to do. It's like, that to me is one of the things that I love, like, every year because everything goes away. It's so difficult, it's so difficult to get in shape for it. It's so difficult to manage your way

into the mountains and to be, in shape to be able to do it day after day, and then to be able to pull off a shot. You know, like you have this brief moment that thing's 65 yards away and you draw back and trying to settle your pin. You could have done all of that just to like mess it up.

Yeah? One little tiny, yeah. It happens all the time. But when you're successful, oh my God, it's the greatest feeling of all time. And then when you're eating it and you're, you know, you're at home and you're on the barbecue, grilling these elk steaks.

Like, I can't wait to do this again. Yeah. It's so excited. Yeah. And it's just, but it's the being out there, it's like a vitamin. It's like a vitamin that you didn't know you needed. It's like your whole body's like, oh, this is so much better than regular life. You can't be mentally unwell.

No. It's like impossible. Right. Yeah. It's amazing. He just feels so much better. The air is better. You know, it's like, and you're more focused.

You're not distracted. And you just, you feel alive. Yeah. And then it's also the majesty of nature. You just around these trees and the mountains. And you're catching all these animals that are out there. And, you know, you see eagles flying overhead. The best.

God. You're like, day three, you're like, I think I'm just going to move out here. I'm just going to do this. And then you go back to real life and you're like, oh, yeah. I think that all the time. I think that all the time that I like to live in the mountains. My wife is not down with it, but I'd love it. Yeah.

I might get a place somewhere one day in the mountains, just to retreat, just to be able to just disconnect, shut off for a while. I think that's probably a good idea. I love it. I wonder though, now that I have a kid, like, we're going to have to start thinking about, you know, school for him and stuff. And there's really not, I don't know if, I don't, you know, once we get there, we'll figure that out. But we're going to probably have to get somewhere closer to some people. Doesn't Bozeman have good schools? Where are you near? What's the town you near? I'm about an hour south of Missoula. So I fly to Missoula to go home. Missoula has good schools, right? Yeah, but I'd have to move closer to Missoula. And at that point, I'm like, why don't I just, you know, move to a city, I guess, you know.

Ew. I know. I think the move might be getting somewhere, you know, a little more populated and then keeping, like, a cabin in Montana like you were talking about, you know, and then taking him out there whenever we can. That'd probably be the thing. Do you have a place in your house where you record? Do you have, like, a little recording studio or anything? Yeah, like just for me to record demos to send to people to actually record, just to be like this is something I've been working on or, you know,

kind of a setup like one of these and a computer. But yeah, I do a lot of writing up there. It's a great place to write songs. How do you write? Do you write on paper or do you just start strumming and singing? It's different every time. Sometimes I'll have like a, it'll be a melody. It'll be a guitar riff.

It could be like a lyrical idea, some sort of hook, you know. It comes in a lot of different ways. And then sometimes I'll finish something on my own. Sometimes I'll do a Nashville trip and sit with some other writers that I like and we'll kind of like banging out together. And that's the coolest part of the process, man. There's something about making something out of absolutely nothing.

It's like addicting, you know? Yeah. It's really cool. Yeah, jokes are similar in the way I bet. I've never really been a songwriter, but I'm guessing. So it's like creating something out of your mind. Yeah. All of a sudden it's a thing.

and then you're performing it in front of people. And it's like, I've heard you talk about this and any good creative person talk about this, but it comes to you. Yeah. You can't really take credit for a good idea. Yeah, exactly. I'll just be driving and be like, whoa,

where'd that come from? Like, whatever that is, give me more of it. I love it, you know? I was talking to Michael Paulin about that yesterday. We were talking about consciousness, and we were talking about how it just seems like you're not doing it. It's just coming out of the ether.

You know, it's just like, and you just have to show up and receive it. And if you show up enough and you, you know, pay homage to the muse and sit there. You ever read War of Art, Stephen Press. I haven't. I got a box of copies. I'll give you a copy over there. He always gets, well, I bought a box of copies. I bought a bunch of them, and I used to hand them out to comedians and artists when I was on the show.

I was like, just listen to me. You got to read it. It's a really small book. It's easy, but it's one of the best books ever about creativity. And it essentially just, he tells you, if you treat it like there is a muse, like there is a god, a goddess that will give you ideas as long as you pay respect to the muse. You have to show up on time every day, sit there and do it. And some days you get nothing. But you just got to keep showing up, keep showing up and trust in that process.

And eventually, you're like, oh, my God, this idea is so good. Where did it come from? That makes sense. Where did it come from? Yeah. Yeah, when I'm in a really good spot, sort of mentally, emotionally, spiritually, taking care of myself, sleeping, I get more of those. Yeah. And I know there's this, like, mysticism around, like, people who, like, you know, Anores Thompson or someone like that who just kind of spent a lot of time being fucked up and they still get it.

That never worked out really well for me. I've tried it. Trust me. It's not great. With those guys, they're trying to get out of their own head. You know, they're just trying to get blasted so they could just like, just release. themselves from their life. And then just

obliterated. Just start writing. Yeah. And then the muse starts talking to them. Interesting. Yeah. But Hemingway, or there's a lot of guys like,

Oh, yeah. Had to be sort of a little messed up. Stephen King. To do the thing. That's right. Yeah, yeah. His book on writing is fantastic, too. It's called On Writing.

Stephen King. I read that one. Yeah, it's great, right? It's really good. He was obliterated, like most of his great work. Most of the great stuff out of his fucking mind on drugs

and alcohol. alcohol and some of those guys like once they stop doing it they lose the thing and I don't name names but like him there's some there's some artists I love that they kind of got clean yep and you're like where'd the thing go yeah which is unfortunate you know yeah it happens with comics too does it some of them though get better like Dave Attell got way better when he quit drinking it's interesting it doesn't always it doesn't have to be that but for a lot of them like that crutch, whatever it is that connects them to the creativity. Once they eliminate that part and try to keep, try to stay alive, essentially, like Stephen King was like killing himself. But his later

work is just not comparable. What's your process like writing jokes? Like, how does that start for you? Like, how do you? It is a, it's, there's some ideas that just come to me out of the middle of nowhere. Like, I'll be just hanging out and then I have an idea or I'm driving in my car and I have an idea and I just have to write it down. And then a lot of it is just sitting down with a computer. Just sitting down and like, what am I writing about? I'm writing about immigration. Okay, let me fucking...

And I write an essay form, so I don't try to write like a stand-up comedy joke, which I've tried before, but that never works. But what does work is if I lose myself in just ruminating on an idea and just explore it from every different angle, and then I'll find one paragraph. I might write 2,000 words, and I'll find one paragraph. I'm like, that's it.

And I'll take that out, and I'll put it in there, and I'll try to introduce it on stage, and then I try to figure out how to segue into it, and then I try to figure out how to expand on it, and then I'll take that one thing,

and then I'll stare at that one paragraph, and go, what else? Like, what else? What's the other angle? Like, what if I was not like that? How do I feel about if I was on the other side of that? What if I'm the person that's going through this,

and what if I'm this? and then I'll try to just try that. And it's like, I always describe as like you're trying to, you're trying to build a mountain one layer of paint at a time. And it's a long and brutal. And then sometimes it's not. Some jokes just come to you in full form. Oh, wow.

Like the way I wrote it is the way I say it. It's perfect. But you can't count on that either. Right. And again, I don't think they're mine. You know, they're just coming from something. Yeah. The key is just showing up.

That's the key. The key is like sitting in front of that fucking computer. Or some guys don't like a computer. They want a notepad. They want pen and paper. They like it better that way, and I get it. But for me, I can type. Like, I don't have to look at the keys.

I can touch type. So for me, I can write a word out as fast as I'm thinking it, which is way better for me than writing down because I write slower than I type. And so I want to be able to get it all out. it all out. I want to, to me, it's like, it doesn't, and then I write it on paper eventually, but when I first write it, I want to write it down on a computer because I can capture it quicker.

Yeah. And he can cut and paste and move things to another file and start fresh and, like, explore it again. This last album I did, we tried a really different process than I'd done before. Usually, you go into a studio, you know, there's a lot of money behind it. You've got a big producer. You know, you're taking up their time. you have everything ready to go but on this new one we did

there's only two songs I'd had already written and eight out of the ten songs we wrote either the day of or the night before in the studio because I wanted to make something as personal as possible because you know the subject matter is stuff where I'm like if this is gimmicky or overthought it's not

then I'm sort of trying to like capitalize on grief or things I'm talking about so I want to want to go in and just be as open as possible and just get what we get and just try to, you know, tell the truth, which is, you know, that's the goal of country, really, or it used to be. And so, yeah, we would, we would cut. And then in the night after we'd cut, we'd sit and try to write the song for the next day. And if we didn't get it, we'd show up early the next day and try to write the song for that

day. And it was an amazing process. We called it the pressure cooker because it was just like, you better get something because you're on the clock. Yeah. Man, it was, it was, I don't, I doubt all ever. do that again, but what a cathartic, amazing process.

Because usually you'll write a song, you'll have a demo for it, something where you just sit down and play guitar into your phone or something, so you'll remember the melody, remember the chords, and you listen to it so much that you get sick of it before you ever even cut it. And with this, there was never a demo. There was never, it was straight from heart, brain tape.

Like, it was pretty special. I think there's something to be said for pressure like that where it forces you. It forces you. It forces you to come up with something Yeah, the pressure cooker man We just we had to You know Yeah

It was amazing Yeah just like forces your synapses to fire Yeah There's something to be said for that Like there's a thing about comedy too When you when you have a new bit Like part of the thing is like Take that bit when it's not really done yet

And just throw it out there in front of a crowd And find the beats Find where it is And sometimes in front of a crowd as you're saying it, you'll have a new idea. Like, what the fuck is this? Like, why are we doing? And then that'll be the biggest part of the joke.

Like, everybody will laugh harder at that part than anything else. And it just comes to you because you're under pressure. Yeah. Yeah. There's something about forcing your brain to do things. Like, forcing your, like, you just like, you have to do it. Like, you can't just dilly-dally, no procrastination. It's right there, right now.

Yeah. Let's go. Yeah. I mean, because you're directly connected to whatever the thing. Yeah. It's like a flow state. And then there's stuff that just comes to be. Like, John Mellencamp told me he wrote,

Hurt So Good in the shower. Really? He was just in the shower. Come on, babe, you make it hurt so good. And he's like, it was done. Best shower ever. Crazy. Sometimes love, don't feel like it should.

Watched his armpits. It was cool. He was an interesting guy to talk to, man. fucking dude just chain smokes. He's in his 70s just chain smoking. I was so happy he could smoke in here. And I was like, you're not going to quit that ever? He's like, this is what he said.

He goes, find something you love and let it kill you. Yeah. I don't know if I'll that that one kill me. That's a rough death, dude. That's a rough death, man. I've dealt with smoking for some time. I always promised my wife that I would quit when we had our kid. and we're almost there.

We're getting close. You got the nicotine pouches? I got the Zin. They do help. Yeah. It's a different delivery. When I have a drink, though, it's... Oh, yeah.

It's like I can't do one without the other. To quit smoking, I'm going to have to quit drinking. Really? Have to. Wow. I just can't imagine one without the other. It's like a package deal for me. But I'm okay to quit drinking at some point.

You've quit, right? Yeah. I'd quit and start it again. Oh, really? Yeah, I'm back. Nice. I quit for like eight months. I didn't miss it

But then when I had a couple of glasses of wine with dinner I was like ooh I like this This is nice Yeah I kind of missed it How was that first sort of hangover? I didn't get hungover I haven't gotten drunk

I haven't gotten a hungover since Nice And I've only been drinking again And even when I do It's rare Like I don't drink Every night I go on stage I might have like a drink

Before I go on stage Or I'll have a drink with dinner or maybe a second glass of wine, but that's it. I haven't been drunk. That's perfect. Yeah. The getting drunk is the problem. Yeah.

And the real problem with me was like I was, I own this comedy club and I was with my friends. And they're all animals. And they're all just like, let's do shots. And we'd go downstairs to Mitzie's bar and we'd be doing shots together. We'd have so much fucking fun. And then I'd wake up in the morning to work out, like, oh, fuck. Yeah. And I was just hurting.

So I'd be guzzling water and electrolytes. and I'd get in the cold plunge. It was just this struggle to try to get back to normal. Yeah. And I'm like, I hate that. I don't like that. Yeah. But I don't feel that with a glass of wine.

I have a glass of wine or two, and I feel great the next day. It doesn't bother me at all. As long as I drink enough water, take electrolytes, get a good night's sleep. I feel totally normal in the morning. That's good. Getting drunk is the problem. It is fun, though. It's the best.

Getting drunk is so much fun. Getting drunk with buddies. Oh, the best. It's the best. One of my favorite things is like going to a bar in the middle of the day and meeting everyone at the bar and just drinking, you know, even if they're strangers or at the airport bar or whatever. And just like getting to know people I would never have talked to to begin with because why would we talk? Right. I love that.

But again, I'm 42 now and the hangovers are starting to really smart, you know. So it's not really worth the price of admission anymore. It's not worth it when you get aware of your body. Especially if you're a person like you know I work out all the time and I'm 58 now so as you get older It's like most people at 58 are half dead. They're kind of falling apart. Yeah, and I've managed to stay healthy and fit and I want to fuck that up just for booze But you know like I said it's it's hard when you're with buddies and they want to do shots like Shane Gillis is the worst. He's the devil He's the devil he's the devil. He's that come on we're doing shots Fuck.

How can you not get drunk with that guy? He seems like the most fun ever. And you're having so much fun. When you're drinking with him, it is just like your face is red. You can't breathe. Everyone's laughing. You're fucking crying. You're crying laughing.

And it's just like you call each other the next day. Like, how are you feeling? Oh, my God, I'm dead. Like, there's a lot of times where we went out drinking. And we have a gym here. And, you know, we'd have these comedian workouts the next day. And he'd be like, dude, I can't make it. I'm like, come on, pussy.

You may be drink. night but he's just he's the life of the fucking party man and it's just it's fun but it's just it comes at a cost yeah that cost is rough man especially with the kid now and him being the age he is it's just nothing makes you feel like a bigger piece of shit than being hung over in front of your baby right and you're just like sorry dude right i'm your dad i'm sorry right right you kids want to play you're like i'm let me just sit here yeah it does it's not all right you Yeah. You can mitigate a lot of that stuff, though. Glutothion is a really good way to mitigate a lot of it. Glutothione actually helps your body process alcohol way quicker. So there's a lot of strategies if you're a drunk.

A lot of workarounds. Yeah, liposomal, glutathione, high doses is really good. Electrolites are huge. Like a lot of the hangover feeling. There's two things that are going on. One is that's why they say like hair of the dog that bit. you because you're actually craving more alcohol. That's why people like Bloody Mary's the day after they're hungover. That's not a great strategy, but it really does do a little something, but electrolytes are huge because another part of it is you're just dehydrated. Yeah. Your brain is dried out.

It's a dried out sponge because you're out getting hammered the night before. Yeah. So you got to drink a lot of water. A buddy of mine drank with Jean-Claude Van Damme once. And he said it was nuts. He goes, he's so disciplined. He said the dude had a gallon of water with him Like a jug of water

People take in the gym And with every shot he would take He would fucking chug water And he just was just super concerned With keeping his body hydrated While he was boozing Gotta do what you gotta do man I was like credit to him

This is the way to go He goes I never saw anybody do that before I'm like well look at the guy Yeah kind of makes sense Yeah You know it's like Have you interviewed him in here? No

No That'd be a good one That'd be fun He's kind of crazy crazy. He keeps talking about having a fight and coming back and, oh, damn. Bro, you're like 70. Yeah, no. Don't do that. I think he's just a little nuts. He's also, he's famously indulged in the Colombian marching powder. Uh-huh. And I think, you know, sometimes guys get ideas. Sure. They aren't really tenable.

Thank God I never had the taste for that. I never even tried it. Have you never? Nope. Definitely done it. But it's just, yeah, I have friends that they can't have a drink without wanting to go get a bag. And I'm like, Oh, boy. And those guys have to get sober, like Stone Cold A-A sober, because they'll disappear. Well, they'll also die today because you can get a bad bag and it's got fentanyl in it, you know. I don't get it. I just never, it's like five minutes of feeling good for like three days of feeling terrible. It doesn't pencil out for me, you know.

I got lucky that when I was a kid in high school, I had a friend and his cousin got addicted to Coke and I watched what happened to him. He was selling it, too, and I watched him completely fall apart. It was like he had been haunted, like something had taken over his body, like a parasite. He lost all this weight. He got super pale. He got real sketchy and weird, and he'd just hang out in his apartment. And they would just watch TV and do coke all day. It was nuts.

Oh, yikes. It was horrible. It's dark. And I was always terrified of doing anything that would turn me into a loser. That was my number one fear when I was a kid. I don't want to be a loser. Yeah. And so, like, I'm like, okay, stay away from drugs.

because that that'll turn you into a loser. Oh, yeah. Yeah, there's sort of, like, there's some sort of gift in, like, having some ambition. Oh, yeah. Like, wanting to be somebody. Yeah. You know, they can come with,

there's pros and cons of that, but one of the big pros is, like, anytime anything would get a little too dark, and I realized I was losing my grasp on, like, what I was after, you know, professionally or whatever, I would course correct pretty quick. Yeah, and if you don't have a thing,

then it's just about whatever is fun. And what's fun is continuing to chase whatever high or whatever drunk or whatever it is that your demons are. Yeah. That's rough. I've seen a lot of people lose their life that way. I mean, do they lose their direction?

They lose everything. You know, it's just substances can be fun, but they can take over. Yeah. And they can become your whole fucking life. Yeah. Yeah. Not good. No.

Yeah, I'm so happy I avoided Coke. I avoid it. But I am interested. It hurts you late, dude. When I heard Hunter Thompson, not Hunter Thompson, Hunter Biden, excuse me, talk about smoke and crack. He did this interview we were talking about how amazing smoking crack. I was like, wow, maybe I could try it once. I don't think, I've never heard anybody like try it once, though. No, that's famous last words, man.

Right. No one's done it once. I mean, everybody who tries it gets hooked. It seems like that's a problem. Must be pretty awesome. It's got to be. It's got to be the best thing. And he said, like, it's way.

better than cocaine. Like you said like the guy who's interviewing him. What's the guy's name again? Andrew Callahan. When he was interviewing him, he's like, what is the difference? And he explained like the delivery method, like how it affects you. It's so much different. Like the difference between like a Zen pouch and a cigarette. Cigarette hits you way different than a Zinn. Cigarettes like instantly like, oh. Yeah. Apparently that's what Coke's like smoking it. Well, it was Richard Pryor, too. I mean, he was essentially smoking crack. They didn't call it crack back then. They called it free basing. Right.

Same thing. Heroin, too, is another one. Like, those are the two big ones they tell you when you're like, if you do this once, you're done, your whole life's over. Yeah, I would imagine. Yeah. I've known people that have tried heroin once and be like, I can't do this again. It was too awesome.

Yeah. Yeah. I do that with like painkillers and stuff. You know, I've been prescribed and I'm like, oh, yeah, I love it. I had a knee operation. I had multiple knee operations. The first one I had was in the 90s. and they gave me a morphine drip,

and they give you a button, and you can press the button to get more morphine when you needed it. Oh, my God, I hammered that button. I was lying in this bed, and my knee had just been cut open like a fish, and there's screws in there, and my ACL had been reconstructed, and I was on this perpetual motion machine,

so the idea is to keep your knee from going stiff. You're on this thing that straightens your leg out and brings it back and straight. So I'm lying in this bed, my leg is bang, and I'm hammering that button. I was so happy. I was like, I get it now. I get it.

But that was only once, luckily. And they didn't give me, they gave me some pain killers afterwards. I think they gave me percocet's, but they were so, I took whatever the dose was, and I only did it once. It was so bad. I felt so dumb and so dull and so stupid. I'd like, I'd rather be in pain. So I sold all my pills to this dude at the pool hall. I gave them my pills and my tear.

You can buy these from me. One of my buddies was telling me. He's in the military, and they would carry these morphine lollipops in case they ever got shot. And you just pull it out in a moment, you start sucking on it. It's just like a morphine high. I was like, I kind of want to get those to fly it with. Because wouldn't that be awesome? Like the plane's going down?

You just start sucking on that thing. Yeah, I just put on the headphones. Do do do do do do do do. It'd be amazing, dude. Anytime I fly over the ocean, I'm just like, I freak out. I don't like the idea. It's actually no fentanyololololop. Oh.

So. Maybe that's what it was. Gotta be stronger. Either way, though, wouldn't that be, I mean, that's like, biggest fear, number one is playing going down. Yeah. Because you have, like, five minutes to think about it, and you're hearing, like, everyone's screaming, everyone knows they're going to die to, and you're stuck in this tube with a bunch

of strangers knowing they're going to die for five minutes. I mean, that is hell on earth to me. I can imagine anything worse. That's a rough one. I think getting eaten by a bear might be worse. because there's no one around you I wonder though if the bear thing if you're in so much shock

like are you feeling it I bet you are you think so especially if they start legs first because the thing about bears is they don't kill you they just start eating you oh my god

like a salmon they don't kill a salmon they just hold it down and pull chunks off of it yeah apparently that movie Grizzly man the audio was so bad that Werner Herzog

told the lady to delete it and burn it because they had a cop The guy's Timothy Treadwell, his girlfriend, his ex-girlfriend, got a hold of the camera. So the camera, apparently the lens cover was on, but the camera was running. Oh, right. Yeah, I've seen that, where he listens to it in the documentary.

He's like, burn this. Don't let anyone listen. Would you listen? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I would do it. Yeah, I'd do it. Yeah, everybody would listen. And then I'd hate myself for having to.

There's a fake version of it online. I've heard that. Yeah, it's not real, though. It's pretty obvious. It's fake. but people believe it's real. But it goes on for five minutes. Five minutes is a long time.

Like think of a round, an MMA round. It's five minutes. Oh, my God. And all that time, you're just getting chunks pulled out of your body. Bro. Have you ever seen a grizzly while you're hunting? Yeah, once.

Really? Yeah, in Alberta. Yeah, it was very scary. It wasn't a big one. It was like a six-foot bear. But it looked at me so different than any other animal. Like, I've seen a lot of Black Bear. And Black Bear look at you like this.

Like, who are you? What are you doing? Right. They look at you sideways and they're like, I want to get out of here. Grizzly looks at you like this. Oh. Like, locks on you. Yeah.

Like, am I going to eat you? And I was with my friend Jen. She's a guide up there. Jen and John, they run a hunting outfit up in Alberta. And they, as soon as, like, she saw it, she screamed. She screamed. Get the fucking. out of here, racks her shotgun,

cracks a stick against the tree to scare it off, and then we immediately bailed. They're like, let's get the fuck out of here. Yeah, I've never seen one. Don't want to. They see big ones up there sometimes. And John, her husband, he sprayed one.

He was in a tree stand, and he sprayed it with pepper spray, and the thing didn't even react. He's like, like, you think you're going to, oh, bear spray, I'm safe. And it was like, fuck you. Yeah. It's just like this fucking nine foot bear, this huge wild dog, you know, this fucking immense, super powerful thing that can run 45 miles an hour. Oh, man.

Apex. Fuck that, man. They're terrified. Montana's got a ton of them. Yeah. That's one thing I didn't have in Ohio is like the fear of getting eaten by something when you're out in the woods. It's dark and you're walking through. The first time that, that Bohan, I was telling you.

about I you bring a side arm when all you have is a bow in case you do see some mountain lion or something grizzly bear and my buddy was like what do you got on you and I was like it's a 9mm he goes well if you see one shoot yourself yeah you got to bring a 45 I guess there's a

10 millimeter with a special round you can take but yeah nine millimeter bounce off yeah I mean you're gonna hurt them I mean you've hit him in the face maybe it'll do something but you're not even and get through that skull probably no they say it won't oh it'll literally bounce off its skull that's crazy that's so crazy and cam hunts them with a bow hunts grizzly bear yeah yeah he's killed a few grisleysly with a bow yeah does he hunt out of a tree how do you do that on the ground no dude why spot in stock oof yeah i'm good on that yeah he's out of

his fucking mind and his attitude is well if this is how i go this is how i go i go doing what i love He's got some crazy pictures. See if we find some pictures of Cam with a grizzly bear. He's got one where he killed this massive one, and he's holding up its paw. And its paw is like as big as my torso. Wow. It's fucking huge. It's fucking huge.

There's such a, some guy recently, I think he killed the biggest bear that's ever been killed. I sent it to Cam. Oh, damn, yeah. Yeah. Look at that paw. Look at the claws. Look at the claws on that thing. No way.

Yeah. and there's a photo of him with the bear on the ground click on that the size of that fucking thing man do you know what state he's hunting that was in Alaska that's the only state you can hunt them I was gonna say is probably illegal in yeah it's illegal in the lower 48 for whatever reason they probably shouldn't be in like Wyoming in Montana it's gotten to the place where they

really probably shouldn't maybe there's just not enough of them other than in Alaska I would imagine um I mean, I don't think so. I think the real problem is, once they're not listed, it's very difficult to get them on a list,

you know, to get tags allocated for them. There's the video of him shooting it. Damn. Look at the size of that fucking thing, man. What if it's just right there gets pissed off? It can.

Well, there's a guy right behind him with a gun. There's a guy right behind him with a rifle, which is also weird. Like, anytime you're bow hunting and a guy has to have a rifle, I think you should probably just use a rifle. Right. This is my perspective.

Just wait a few months. Yeah. If I ever wanted to go grizzly hunting, I would definitely bring a rifle. I just don't see myself doing that. But I know a lot of my friends have. You know, and you have to kill a certain number of them just to keep the populations of the moose and the elk and everything else in check because otherwise there's nothing going to stop them.

And then you have a situation like you have in Montana or like you have in Wyoming where there's a lot of interactions with people. People wind up dying. And there's no fear because in Alaska, they're a little sketched out about people because people hunt them. Right. And that's the better relationship. Right. The relationship where they have zero fear of people, that's not good.

And that is Montana and that is Wyoming and that is Idaho. Look at that guy. So is this is the largest one? 1600. It's the second biggest ever taken by 100. It's 1,600 pounds. Look at the fucking. size of that thing.

Dude, that's terrifying. Yeah. Good Lord. That is immense. It makes me think. Have you seen these reports of Bigfoot being seen in Ohio recently? Yeah. A bunch.

I kind of think of someone fucking with people, obviously. But maybe not. I don't know what the, what are they seeing? Are there bears? There's bears in Ohio, I guess. There are. And they're black bears in Ohio. And they do walk upright sometimes.

It's probably a dude in a suit, man. It's probably mef. I've been various sizes I've seen up to like 11 down to 8 feet Yeah but they're just guessing You don't know how big a thing is You have a fucking tape measure You're excuse me Mr. Bigfoot stand still for a moment here Okay stand up straight

Put this under your heel Yeah I used to wish so bad Bigfoot was real man Oh I wish so bad I had a dude at a show last night Who told me his dad was one of the people that filmed The famous Patterson Gimlin footage No way Yeah yeah so his dad was that guy

I feel like we know now that it can't be real because of how many trail cameras there are in the world? Yeah. We would have seen him a few times at this point. I've never met a hunter that's seen one. No. Including guys that are in the Pacific Northwest all the time. Although I did a show back in the day with my friend Duncan where we went looking for Bigfoot.

We went to the places where Bigfoot's normally... It's a person in an eye. A person in a Zasquatch costume, obviously. I mean... No pictures. Please. I mean, if there's a whole bunch of them, it's probably someone fucking around. Six different sightings.

March 6, 7th, and 9th, and 10th. Wow. All different people? Yeah. Huh. Boy, I hope it's real. It would be awesome. That's what I'd also be like, maybe it's just a group of friends that are high.

I'm like, you know, we're going to do every night for the next fucking week. We're all going to call this fucking number and see what happens. Or we're going to run around the woods. But that's a good way to get shot. Like some crazy dude is like, I'm going to prove Bigfoot's real. Oh, for sure. And he just fucking blast you.

Don't do it during hunting season. Yeah. Big mistake. I think it used to be a real thing. That's what I think. Bigfoot? Yeah. You thought it, you think it was actually here at some point?

Yeah. Yeah. Because there's too many Native American words for it. Native Americans, I think, we looked this up. Didn't they, they have dozens of names that different tribes have for the same thing, a big, hairy wild man that lives in the woods. Hmm. I think it was a giganto Pythicus.

I think at one point in time, it was a real creature. Have they found any bones or anything? Yeah, the gigandopithecus bones. They've only found them in Asia. They've never found them in North America. But when the Bering Land Bridge was attached, a lot of animals came across from Asia and made their way into North America through Alaska and down through the Pacific Northwest. And a lot of people have seen them in Alaska.

Alaska is like a hotbed for sightings, too. I think those people are cracked out. I think that's probably bears. But I think the Native American stories, I think it's a thousands and thousands of years old thing. I think way back in the day. Like I was watching this guy named Michael Button. He's been on the podcast before,

and he's a historian who really focuses on ancient civilizations. And he was doing this whole video on YouTube about how little is left over, like how rare it is to make a fossil. I think about how the dinosaurs were around for literally like hundreds of millions of years, and yet we only have like thousands of fossils. What's the possibility of a fossil existing from a civilization, like fossilized human being from a civilization 200,000 years ago? It's almost none.

Most things never become a fossil. It has to be like the perfect conditions to create a fossil. And so we don't really know what animals did or didn't live here other than fossilized ones. And that's a tiny fraction. Oh, interesting. Okay. And so if there was some sort of big, hairy thing that lived here, because we know there was humans that were living in North America.

Now we know that they were here at least as far back as 22,000 years. Because of White Sands, New Mexico, they found footprints. And then they do carbon testing on the seeds and the different organic matter that's in those footprints. And they get a carbon date of like around 22,000 years, which is pretty crazy because they used to think it was like 13,000. years ago and now they've pushed that back at least another nine years. And they think it's probably these weren't the first.

There's probably people there even further than that. So if humans were here, let's say they were here 50,000 years ago, that puts it in the timeline where gigantopithecus could have been alive. Because I think the fossils that they found of gigantopithecus are 100,000 years old, which is just fossils, right? Like you never know. And that, they didn't find that until the 1920s or 30s. They found teeth in an apothecary shop in China.

And this guy was there who was an anthropologist. Like, where did you get this? Because they were a primate teeth, but they were fucking huge. And so then they took them to the place and they found jaw bones and a few other pieces. And this thing, they've determined because of the shape of the jawbone that it was bipedal. So it stood up on two legs. And it was like eight to ten feet tall. It was a giant primate that was in the orangutan species.

Wow. So that could be Bigfoot. That could be what these people saw. Yeah, absolutely. So it probably existed in North America at one point in time. But around the time of the Younger Dryas Impact Theory, which is 11,800 years ago, somewhere around 65% of all North American megafauna was eliminated. All the woolly mammoths, giant sloths, American lion.

We had a lion that was bigger than the African lion that was in North America. That younger driest thing you're talking about, that's a comet hitting there? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And that's what ended the Ice Age and that's what created the Great Lakes and that's what melted all the ice that was that covered most of North America back then during the Ice Age. And are a lot of scientists agreeing that that's probably what happened at this point? Well, there's definitely debate, but there's a large group of legitimate scientists that are 100% convinced that we were hit.

It's a matter of what impact did that have and was that responsible. Because there's a berserker theory. The berserker theory is that humans just killed off everything. We got so good at hunting. But the problem with that theory is back then, there's not even evidence that they had bow and arrow yet. It wouldn't be that good at it. No.

No. No, especially like the American lion and like mammoths and the giant sloths and there's so much shit that we don't even know how many people were here back then. And this is like ice age people like with stone tip spears. Yeah, I don't buy that. Did they kill these things? All of them? They killed all of them?

Right. They weren't even riding horses. They were just on foot. Like, I don't know. It's much more likely that they all were wiped out by this fucking comet. And if that's the case, maybe it wiped out Bigfoot, too. Oh, that's my favorite one. Me too.

Bigfoot's the best one. It's awesome. It would be a crazy thing to see, you know? Have you ever heard the recordings that these guys made that they said were Sasquatch recordings. No. I think they call them samurai recordings because it literally sounds like almost like they're speaking Japanese. It sounds so fake. It sounds so fake. But these people are, there's groups of people out there that you'll tell them this is fake and they want to fight you. Really? Oh, they're all in. They're so committed to Bigfoot. The guys that we met when Duncan

and I went Bigfoot hunting, they're so possessed by it. Where did you go? Where was the? Pacific Northwest. It was like right outside of Seattle up there. I met this lady that was really She said that she saw this thing. She's like, why is there a gorilla in the woods? And she's like, oh my God, it's Bigfoot. And like, she didn't seem kooky at all. But I think what she saw was a bear and a bear standing, like black bear standing up

on their two legs and walk all the time. Especially if they have a hurt paw, they'll walk on two legs. Huh. I think she probably saw it. But Pacific Northwest is so crazy because I'm sure you've been up there, right? Yeah. The woods are so dense that it's like a box of Q-tips.

That's how I describe it. Like, you can't hardly see anything. So if you're seeing some tall thing move between trees just for a few steps, that might be the only thing you see. Right. And your head just starts spinning and you start creating this. Yeah. This imaginary narrative. Here's the recordings.

Right there, right? Right? So this guy's talking. Oh, my God, it's Bigfoot. It sounds so fake. I don't buy that for a second. Not a second. But, man, people, the Bigfoot dorks.

Like that show Finding Bigfoot, I had that dude. What's his name, Bobo? Is that the dude's name? We had him on. And I told him I thought the Patterson footage was bullshit. He's like, no. He's like so upset. It looks so fake.

It looks like a guy in a fucking gorilla suit. And then the dude that they think that was wearing the suit, what is his name again? I forgot the guy's name. But the dude who they think was wearing the suit, he looked like Bigfoot. Like he walked like him. Yeah, he walked like that footage. Yeah, yeah. Like he was a big old cowboy, big old fucking tall-ass cowboy.

And he had a walk like a fucking gorilla. Roger Patterson. Well, Roger Patterson was a guy that filmed it, right? That's right. Patterson Gimlin footage. Right. I thought one of them was the one in the suit and the other one filmed it.

Maybe I'm mistaken. But there's a side by side of the actual stupid video that they're proclaiming to be Bigfoot and then this guy walking. And I think it was a different guy. Yeah, it could be. I forget his name.

But it looks... I'm like, that's him. Have you ever had a flat earth around here? No. Sort of. Some people that, like, want to dabble in it. Like, shut the fuck up. That's the craziest one.

I don't want to have that conversation with people. And people are, yeah, because you lose. Because the Earth is flat. Listen, everything else is round. Why would this place be flat? Yeah. We can see all the rest of it from here. That's crazy.

Why would the people that get up in the fucking the space station be lying? We know it circles. We've seen it. It spins around. Yeah. We have pictures of it. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

We have satellites. They think all the satellite images are Earth are phased. They think everything is fake. I think a lot of that's a schizophrenia. Sure. And then a lot of it is like somehow or another it's biblical. It's people believe that it's that we're trying to hide it from us because they don't want us to know that God is real. Oh, like the firmament and all the stuff that the Bible says is above us.

Yeah, but you know what the Bible doesn't say? It doesn't say the earth is flat. Right. Never. Never talks about it being flat. You know, like they figured out the earth was round thousands of years ago. like snipers have to calculate the curvature of the earth when they're making shots.

Yeah, there's too many things against it. Like the fact that we've seen it is the biggest one. We know exactly what it looks like. I had Roger Avery on the other day. The director is a really interesting guy. And he went down a bunch of maybe too many flat earth rabbit holes. And he was like, well, you know, pilots don't have to adjust for the curve of the earth. And then I talked to a friend of mine who's a pilot.

He goes, you know why? Autopilot. He was the fucking, it keeps you at an altitude. That makes sense Because you always You know You're the same Yeah

Distance from the earth So that would make sense That you would go on the curve Yeah Yeah fucking dur It's just that being Something that people would What's really interesting

Is there's this one guy Who takes people up to Antarctica To prove to them That the earth is round And like this idea That there's a So he like takes And there was one guy

And he flew him out there He's like I can't believe I believe this It's amazing He spends money He spends his own money. You're taking these guys up there for free, educating, flatter. How does he prove it from up there?

It just flies them up there and shows them. You actually can fly over an article. Like there's, you just don't, they don't want you flying over there because if you crash, no one's going to come get you. Right. You know, you're dead. Right. It's like, but people do fly over it.

The idea that you can't is stupid. There's no secret World War II base. There's no wall there. They're probably doing some weird experiments and shit up there, though. I do think that's true. Like there's some people that have some pretty convincing stories of direct energy weapons and things that they're developing up there. And there's a neutrino detector that they have up there that a lot of people think does a lot more than that. They think it might actually be able to cause earthquakes and affect the weather.

It's a weird rabbit hole to go down. Sure. But I'm sure the government's doing some slippery shit that we don't know about up there. Yeah. Man, it's so weird, like in this time that we have all the information. or like nobody trusts the government anymore? Has it always been like that? It has been a little bit that nobody trusts the government,

but now there's reason to not trust them because we've seen what they've done with real events, like the Epstein files and a lot of other stuff where you're like, JFK, where you're like, why don't you just fucking tell us what you know? In the interest of national security, some things must be redacted. Right.

Like, there's a reason to not trust them. Yeah, like growing up, you see, like, older guys are always, they didn't trust the government. The world's going to shit, all this stuff. And I'm like, am I just getting old? Or is this happening to everyone? Are we all doing this now? I think as you get older, you also take in enough information that you know that they're not being straight with you about anything. Right.

I mean, that was always been my argument about the moon landing. Like, you think that they're going to not lie about this one thing when they've lied about everything else, including how we got into Vietnam, Kennedy's assassination, fill in the blanks. Everything in the 1960s they lied about. Sure. Because they could. There was no, you know, they controlled all the information. Yeah.

But that's what's interesting about today. Like, that's why there's less trust in the government than ever. Because we have more access to information. So there's more reason to not trust them. Yeah. You know, it's like it's a squarely time. Right. Yeah.

That's why I like living in Montana. And it all goes down. I'll be way far away from all over. You ever see anything in the sky? Did you say like, what the fuck is that? Have you seen anything weird? Nothing crazy. No.

When we did decide to move there, my wife and I had taken a little bit of mushrooms and this guy put on a little performance for us. That was part of the, like, I think we're supposed to move here. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah, it was, you know, it was a little induced. But, yeah, it was, and we both saw it, and we were with people who didn't see it that were also on mushrooms. Interesting.

So it was a show just for you. guys. That's what it felt like. Yeah, and we both were like, are you, we were making sure it was the same thing and our friends were like, what are you talking about? Did they take the same dose? Yeah. Yeah, so I think that was like that was like, they weren't supposed to go there. That's right. Maybe it's a fate thing. Yeah. We felt very spiritually connected to it after that. Well, it's a good place to be spiritually connected to. It feels like you're supposed to be spiritually connected to it because it's so, it's one of the last places, like Wyoming's like that as well. It's one of the last places where it's not tainted.

Even though there's cities there, it's settled. It's like it's so much more wild than it is tame that you still get this feeling of like humble. Yeah. You get humbled by just the vast, spectacular nature of it. Yeah, it's almost like we feel like nature is the novelty these days. And it's like, no, man, that everything that we messed up and put a bunch of concrete on should be.

be the novelty. The nature is the actual thing. That's the way we're supposed to be. Yeah. You know, and we've all kind of like flipped that in our head. And obviously, I have the luxury to be able to live out in a place like that. But the more I live there, the more I feel like, this is how I was meant to live, you know, me personally. I can't talk for anyone else. But I'm just in a way better place mentally and otherwise. Yeah, there's this guy who lives in the Arctic, like above the Arctic Circle or near the Arctic Circle. He, they, they, They filmed him this vice documentary called Heinemann's Great Adventure. And this guy's been living there since like the 1970s.

He moved up there and he's got a log cabin and he just lives up there. All he does is hunts caribou and goes fishing. And he's a really smart guy. And this like nerdy reporter with glasses goes up and hangs out with this guy for a few days. And, you know, the guy was really like really compelling in the way he was described. I think this is how people are supposed to live. Like I'm so much more calm and at peace. It seems natural and normal.

Like this is how you're supposed to live. And all he does is just like hunting fish. And he gets like some supplies dropped off to him. Like canned goods and shit, baking soda or whatever. But most of his life is just living off of the land. The proofs in the pudding, man. When I'm in a city for a long time and I'm on my phone, I'm looking at Instagram and all that stuff,

it takes a week before I feel insane, like completely crazy. And if I just put that stuff away and go outside, even in a city, like if I just put that stuff down for a little bit and go outside and connect with the person, I feel, you know, infinitely better. Yeah. And if you just look at, you know, the stuff on your phone and you're so sucked into that,

you would believe this is, the world is a shitty place. But then if you don't look at that and you go outside and you live your real life, it doesn't take long before everything feels. good again. Yeah. Like you have hope again. You know, you're meeting your neighbors or going to the grocery store or going to the post office. Like everything feels pretty good out there. It's just your phone telling you that this place is terrible. Yeah. That's the, this is the big bridge to crazy. Much more than cities is these fucking things. Oh yeah. They're the bridge to crazy. And like,

that's what AI is learning from. It's only learning from all this terrible information we're putting online. So it's accelerated. It can't learn from the real world. It can't go to. to the grocery store and see that everyone's actually pretty good for the most part. Right. 99% of what you do out in your real life is fine. Right. You know? But it's only going to see the worst of all of us.

And then show us that even more, show that back to us because that's all it knows. Right. That's really scary to me, man. It is scary. And it's never going to really appreciate a great song. It's never going to really appreciate art. It's not going to appreciate love or community or friendship or any of those things. No.

It's not going to appreciate. appreciate the feeling that you have. You could just call your neighbor up and go over his house and shoot 500 yards and his backyard. You know what I mean? It's not going to get that.

Right. It's not going to get how cool that is that that guy's 70 years old. He hits a deer. He's like, he brushes it off. Fucking 70. 70 years old hitting a deer.

You're supposed to be dead as fuck. No, man. Not him. He looks like John Wayne. Yeah. That's crazy. I and you, we can appreciate that. Yeah.

That fucking AI doesn't give a shit about that. They got to get off the motorcycle. you shouldn't be on the motorcycle Dave Yeah and dude You're talking about music It can't make good songs though I've heard you play someone here And I

My friends will just You know whatever apps they have I don't really know all the new apps But they'll just give it a prompt And the song is incredible And it does it in 10 seconds It's spooky It's really weird man

But it's only doing it derivatively Like it's only taking The songs that other people have written And just making sort of a Some sort of a conglomeration of them spitting it out or it's redoing like an old hip hop song in like a blues style or you know something like that unfortunately that's 99% of what humans do too right you know it's all derivative anyway

i know but at least it's a person yeah like something to me about even if it's derivative it's if it's good if it's catchy at least i know a dude and his friends did that yeah you know yeah and you can get behind to a person as an artist and like their stuff until they aren't underground anymore, you know? Yeah, yeah, that's the silliness. That is so silly, isn't it? Like, if you really start to take off, someone's gonna eventually go, fuck that guy,

I knew that guy when he was just fucking just starting out. He was pretty good. His songs were good, and then he made it. It's going to be controversial, but the first Coldplay album is still amazing, you know, but they got so huge that everyone hates Coldplay now, and you're like, but they are really good. I like cold play.

I do, too. I like some nickel back songs. They can't do cold play because they're doing stadiums and your mom likes them now. I think that was one of the things that people didn't like about nickel back because that nickelback was almost like the first AI. You know what I mean? Like that rock star song that was like, that was like an AI version of like a lot of like, like Cypress Hill had a rock star song that was like, but Cypress Hill sounds so much more general,

like genuine, whereas the nickelback one is like almost like these guys are just too AI. It's almost like they were AI. It was the beginning of sort of like auto tune and all that stuff. But auto like really good auto tune that you couldn't tell. Not like the auto tune that's in rapper, you know their auto tune on purpose. It was like everything's so perfect. And it almost doesn't sound like humans playing music. Right.

And the subject matter is like I've heard all this stuff before. Yeah. That's a problem. Right down the middle. Yep. Yeah. It was AI. Nickleback was the first AI music

I don't know People are weird with their taste And they want you to like what they like That's what's really weird Like you have to like what they like Yeah Or they get mad at you Yeah

For sure What are you gonna do Well listen man I really enjoyed talking to you It's a lot of fun Thanks for having I love your fucking show I can't wait to watch Marshalls

Because I love you on Yellowstone It's fucking great show I'm really bummed out That your wife's dead now though That sucks Yeah it was rough I didn't I love Kelsey and we love working together

But, you know, ultimately, you don't want to just sit and watch a guy be happy That wouldn't be a very good show You know, you need you needed a motor You guys had a cool relationship though I know, fun But he had his dream life and they were happy together So you can't watch that for 50 hours or however long This ends up going

Well, he knows how to mix it up, I'll tell you that A dude knows, Taylor knows how to fucking throw a monkey wrench into things and make it crazy. Absolutely. Make it interesting. So I can't wait to watch it. Thanks, buddy. Thank you.

Thanks for being here. All right. Bye, everybody.