The Joe Rogan Experience - #515 - Ari Shaffir (Part 2)

Episode Date: June 27, 2014

Ari Shaffir is a stand-up comedian and also hosts his own podcasts "Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank" and "Punch Drunk Sports" available on Spotify. ...

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Starting point is 00:00:00 The 209, bro. This is what happens when Brian's not here. The whole place goes to shit. Look at you, showing tank. Train by day, all night. You don't know what the fuck you're doing. You train and then the night comes and you stop training. Get it right.
Starting point is 00:00:14 Are you ready? Did you get it right? The sound is all fucked up. Oh, you're a mess. But can the folks hear us? They can hear you. Okay, well, we don't need that music. We already had the music once today.
Starting point is 00:00:23 Yeah. We probably, we got greedy. Tried to two, double music it. You can't do that. It We already had the music once today. We got greedy. Tried to double music it. You can't do that. It's not a two for Tuesday. R. Shafir has so many stories about China. We talked about so many other things besides the stories about China. We decided we have to keep going.
Starting point is 00:00:35 So you were about to tell some crazy noodle story. Oh, yeah. So they had these street meat, which is great. This is Shanghai. What was that? I knocked into this table. It sounded like a fucking truck fell over outside. Yeah, Shanghai.
Starting point is 00:00:48 But they were like, be careful. The meat's great. There's kebabs. You pick it up, they roast it, give it back to you. They point three,
Starting point is 00:00:54 two, whatever it is. For how much money? Yeah. You can get by with gesturing. I learned hello and thank you. Those are the only words I really knew. Huh.
Starting point is 00:01:03 Ni hao and shesher. Shesher. You know how I know that? What? Ni hao Kylan. It's a show my kids watch. Really? Kylan. Ni hao Kylan.
Starting point is 00:01:12 Yeah. That's cool. Ni hao. That's crazy. I can learn stuff from TV. Shesher. Yeah. So that's what you say?
Starting point is 00:01:19 Shesher? Shesher. It's like thank you. Ah, okay. It's also used some other way, but I don't know. So how do you... Gesturing. I got sick at gesturing. Really?
Starting point is 00:01:27 Yeah. Except a couple times I would be about to go into a noodle store or something, like a shop, and I'd have to call my friend. They gave me burner phones, which was nice, that I could use. And I was like, hey, how do you say noodles and how do you say beef? And they would tell me both words and I would just go in. I'd be like, what was it? I forget now. Mian is noodles and uh
Starting point is 00:01:46 one of the guys from the the matrix movie is was the word for beef who's the black guy from the matrix morpheus no okay uh what's the main guy from the what was his neo neo yeah neo yeah that's how you say beef neo now yeah and what's the other one what's the noodles uh mian mian you say beef? Meow. Meow. And what's the other one? What's the noodles? Mien. Mien. Mien. Did you say Mien, meow, or Mien, meow? I don't know, but I said that, and then they're like, and they point to the fucking menu.
Starting point is 00:02:11 Like, there's 18 things. I'm like, lady, come on. You see me struggling with, if I'm foreign, and I come in and I go, beef, noodle? Just pick something for him. Listen to who's saying this. Just pick something. Listen to who's saying this.
Starting point is 00:02:23 The amazing racist is saying this. Where if you would be like, learn the language, you fucks. Those are parody sketches. So true. Yeah. Of course, it doesn't really feel that way, ladies and gentlemen. The comments on those are the best parts of them. So many people got so angry at you for those.
Starting point is 00:02:43 The comments are the best. Yeah. Fools. Fools. They just for those. The comments are the best. Yeah. Fools. Fools. They just argue back and forth. It still goes. Angry. Angry fuckheads.
Starting point is 00:02:50 So the noodles. So they have these noodles, street noodles you can get. And I was advised the first day, like, you don't want those. And why? Show me this video that I can send you right now you can put up. Oh, gee. Jesus Christ. They are here.
Starting point is 00:03:01 Put your email in here and then just send it to me. You can just send it to yourself. So to get the oil, what they would do is they would go to the sewer. They would take raw sewage out of the sewer and then boil it down. The way they'd make wax, hash wax, they'd boil off the sewage. And whatever was left, that's cooking oil that they would use it's super fucking harmful and then sell to like a lot of the street noodle guys yeah that face is what i made that same face they were cooking with sewer oil bro
Starting point is 00:03:37 it was going around so it's not common but it was possible so it's not like that's the only way they do it no but the street places were like you run a risk here it's not common, but it was possible. So it's not like that's the only way they do it. No, but the street places were like, you run a risk here. It's cheaper oil. Oh, my God. And they're just getting it from that source. Oh, my God. What is this? China's food production up close.
Starting point is 00:03:56 Give me some gutter oil. The making of gutter oil. Give me some volume, Jamie. Jesus Christ. It's all in a day's work for this woman. She opens up a manhole cover and scoops out as much slop as she can, delighted by what she finds. What others might view as revolting, she sees as a bonanza.
Starting point is 00:04:15 She works in the streets of the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, a foot soldier in China's so-called gutter oil industry. a foot soldier in China's so-called gutter oil industry. I seriously almost threw up. I just gagged. She says she's made enough money to build a house for her family back in her home village a thousand miles to the north. People are just awful. She's scooping out sewer.
Starting point is 00:04:41 Her slop eventually winds up in a processing plant like this one, where it's combined with other animal fat refuse to create recycled cooking oil. Workers put the oil in barrels for delivery to restaurants at hotels. Somebody call Anthony Bourdain. How can you eat this? If you eat it, it can kill you. Cooking oil has long been a cherished commodity in China, where stir-frying in a wok is the mainstay of daily meal preparation.
Starting point is 00:05:09 The high profit margins from gutter oil production have proven irresistible. Chinese experts estimate that one-tenth of China's cooking oil is gutter oil, which has been found to contain carcinogens and other toxins harmful to humans. Gee, you think? Shit water's bad for you. Breaking news. And among street food vendors. Illegal production sites are often discovered
Starting point is 00:05:36 after people living nearby notice a nauseating stench and alert the authorities. That's where they're cooking your food in. Police have arrested scores of people across the country in recent years for engaging in the trade and seized thousands of tons of the material. Look at these guys fake destroying it.
Starting point is 00:05:55 Chopping it out a little bit. Barely swinging it. They've included harsh penalties for producers of tainted products. But many consumers doubt that China's dinner tables can be completely free of gutainted products. But many consumers doubt that China's dinner tables can be completely free of gutter oil. All we can do
Starting point is 00:06:10 is accept it. In our current society, everybody tries to swindle everybody else. There's nothing we can do about it. Wow. Yeah, that's disgusting. What the fuck? That takes disgusting to a whole new level.
Starting point is 00:06:25 I have never almost grown up. When you're pouring it from the bucket and you hear that... Go get that sound bite. No. Dude, I almost threw up. I had to look away. That's the first time I've ever had to look away on a show. Really? Nice.
Starting point is 00:06:39 Yeah, that's amazing. Because you knew where it was headed to someone's food. Dude, I almost threw up watching that. So I did not have any of the street noodles. I did have a lot of noodles, though. Oh, my God. Street noodles. Motherfucker, man.
Starting point is 00:06:54 But you might have had some gutter oil. Absolutely. I absolutely might have had some. Oh, what the fuck, man? I would like to know if you had gutter oil. I've got to assume when I see that, when it said where it was, I'm like, I probably had some gutter oil. I would like to know. How do you think we could find out? My friend was there,
Starting point is 00:07:09 said it was like, yeah, I ate it for a little while. I got a kick of eating it. It was way before the expose came out. He goes, I had a lot of diarrhea. It was a lot. Because you're eating shit. Because you're eating someone else's shit. Jesus Christ. We boil it. We put a flame under it.
Starting point is 00:07:26 It's not good enough. You know what China is to me? What? When you see the worst case scenarios about China. Did you ever see that HBO documentary about them selling bait? I think it was HBO. They were selling children. Like, guys were selling their two-year-old children.
Starting point is 00:07:41 This one boy was screaming because his dad sold his brother away. Whoa. Whoa. Yeah, deep, dark shit. And they were interviewing the guy who sold his kid. And he was like, look, I didn't have any money. I had a kid. I had to sell the kid. Wow.
Starting point is 00:07:52 Yeah. It's really fucked up. I mean, really fucked up. But to me, when I see stuff like that, when I see that guy that was saying that people swindle people, when you see the whole gutter oil thing. It's like, humanity, if shit gets bad, if people are in a bad spot, people go real bad. They go real bad. They get part metalized. They don't think, I'm not
Starting point is 00:08:14 concerned with who gets this. They just don't think about it. I'm sure it's okay. That lady was telling me, I bought a house. You bought a house by feeding people shit. How much shit did you have to shovel to get your house? You have to continue shoveling shit did you have to shovel to get your house? And you have to continue shoveling shit in order to pay for that house. I assume they have
Starting point is 00:08:29 mortgages over there. Do they have mortgages? She's not buying a house with cash, like showing up to bits. No, I don't think so. Big fucking stack of paper. Dude, that's insane. That was pretty gross. That's beyond gross. I almost threw up on a podcast. I've never done that before.
Starting point is 00:08:46 Plopping sound. Dude, I hosted Fear Factor for six years. I've seen some shit. I'm not a regular person in that regard. I've seen more disgusting shit than almost any other person who's a comedian. Yeah. Up close and personal. Right there.
Starting point is 00:09:02 And helped people get through eating things. And you got nauseous from that. And I got nauseous from that. I could smell the shit as she was scooping it up. That sound made it so descriptive. Yeah, the blump,
Starting point is 00:09:12 blump, really, I got that weird tingle in my throat. I know what you mean. I didn't think I could control it. Oh,
Starting point is 00:09:20 what is horrible? Yeah, that's pretty bad. Brian Callen told me he was in China, and they were at a restaurant, and the restaurant had pigs underneath the restaurant. Just running around?
Starting point is 00:09:30 Yeah, they were in containers underneath the restaurant. Then they realized, his mom asked, and realized that when you shit, the shit was going down to where the pigs were. The pigs were eating your shit. Your human shit. Oh, gross. And then you're being served that. And then you're eating the pigs.
Starting point is 00:09:46 Motherfucker. That's unfortunate. You think? I mean, and they're doing it old school style. You're shitting in a hole. You're squatting like you were talking about in the first podcast before this one. What old podcast we did? Yeah, we did another podcast a couple hours ago.
Starting point is 00:10:01 Ari was talking about how you go into these bathrooms and there's a hole in the ground. That's your toilet. Underneath that hole, pigs. Just waiting to get a shit in their mouths. So fucking good. Again, that's what happens when people go bad. Play that noise again, Jamie.
Starting point is 00:10:22 Don't do it. Just play that noise alone. Don't do it. Just that part. Just cue it up in case we need it. Oh, hurl. Just cue it up in case we need it. It sounds like we do need it. That plop, plop, plop, plop, plop. They said the hashish in Hong Kong was cut with up to 25%.
Starting point is 00:10:36 Gutter oil? Nope. Shoe polish. Whoa. It's too high a percentage for me. But there was some California weed there. 25% shoe polish. Up to. up to up to god damn just because they wanted to make it bigger make it make more god damn that's so gross it kind of looks like
Starting point is 00:10:52 shoe polish yeah it does so you can't really tell oh yeah it's like man it's fucking me up like yeah it's not good weed just imagine it's just fucking you up what does hash cut with shoe polish smell like i don't know it's gotta have a turpentiney sort of a smell to it you know that smell you know those cans you'd open up your grandpa's shoe polish and you smell it oh yeah there's a little you know and it was like those little circular cans turpentine keep it moist or something i don't know i'm saying yeah the circular ones i know we used to do that we We used to shine our Shabba shoes with those. Spit on a rug. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:26 Just rub it on there. We had those brushes, too. Or you can use an old, like, shmata. You see those guys at the airport now? Shoe shiners. Shoe shine guys. But you never see those anywhere else. It's the airport, and that's it.
Starting point is 00:11:40 They come around businesses sometimes. In New York. They'll go to D.C., too. This guy used to come to our law firm. He would go to each business once a week. Have you ever seen one in L.A. at a business? I mean, there must be some. When am I in a business?
Starting point is 00:11:52 When are you in a business? You know what I mean? In an office building. Whenever you're in your fucking apartment, you're in a business. That's the beautiful thing about being a comic. Yeah. I guess I'm technically in my business right now. You're in the business of writing fucked up things down that will eventually become jokes.
Starting point is 00:12:06 Yeah. That's a business. It might not be your business, but it's a fucking business. Get in the bed. Turn the heat on. That's business. I'm going to beat off on myself and watch cartoons. Bring my computer with me.
Starting point is 00:12:16 Research. This is write-off time. I'm hoping that in watching all this porn, I can come up with a joke about me watching all this porn. And if not, so be it. Tough shit. Yeah, that's the beautiful thing about being a comic. Anything you're interested in, like anything you pursue online, could potentially be a bit. All research.
Starting point is 00:12:34 Yeah, literally anything. Any idea that you read online that you find fascinating, you can find, if it strikes you, you can find a comic angle to it. Wow, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Exactly. Anything you can find a comic angle to it. Wow, yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly, anything you care about enough to look at. And it's almost like today we're spoiled because every day there's some new ridiculous story that goes on that could be like an awesome bit, and they just keep flying by you. They keep coming at you.
Starting point is 00:12:58 There's too many of them. They keep coming at you, and they're like, oh, no, guys, don't forget about the story because I'm already doing a bit about it. Well, even if people forget about it, you can reinvigorate the idea. But the idea is that you forget about them because there's so many of them.
Starting point is 00:13:10 Another one comes by. I'm constantly retweeting things where I'm like, what? Like I'll retweet it and go, I got to write a bit about that. But it just goes by the wayside because it's just too much shit. There's so much.
Starting point is 00:13:23 If you look online, like if you have a bunch of good Twitter feeds that you follow, you'll find some of the most ridiculous articles and stories. A guy got caught. A fucking American tourist got caught in a giant vagina statue in Germany.
Starting point is 00:13:36 Oh, yeah. They had to rescue him. I saw the billboard for that. Another billboard. Preview? Nope. Headline? Website?
Starting point is 00:13:42 Something. The headline. Just the one word. The top of the website. U.S. student is rescued from a giant vagina sculpture in Germany. You find it on my Twitter feed there. Dude, they laugh at us at how stupid we are. We're dumb as fuck.
Starting point is 00:13:55 They laugh at us. Look at this fucking giant vagina. Oh, he went in there? Yeah. He's got his legs trapped in there. Fucking idiot. The fireman had to come and get him out. What, did he step in and couldn't?
Starting point is 00:14:06 They should have just hacked his legs off with an axe. They should have came over. Left the leg in there. Fucking idiot. The fireman had to come and get him out. They should have just hacked his legs off with an axe. They should have came over and just grabbed the axe and he would have figured out a way to get out. No, no, no, no, no, no. Wait, I'll work harder. I'm sorry I called 911. Sorry I called 911. Chop. Chop. Hack. Chop. Chop.
Starting point is 00:14:22 Just let me try to get my right leg out. No. Chop. Chop. My right leg's not even stuck though. Let me just... Shut up. Chop. chop. Ah! Yeah. Just let me try to get my right leg out. No. No. Chop, chop. My right leg's not even stuck, though. Let me just... Shut up. Shut up. Chop, chop. Yeah, the vagina sculpture.
Starting point is 00:14:32 First of all, why do you have a vagina sculpture in Germany, you fucking weirdos? Like, what is that about? Come on, Germany. I'd be at Auschwitz. What an odd choice to have a fucking vagina sculpture. Outside. But meanwhile, vaginas are fucking super important and they're inviting yeah if it wasn't for vaginas there'd really be no people of course supposed to get inside it
Starting point is 00:14:51 but isn't that funny that for whatever reason like it's a bad thing to have a vagina sculpture you can have a you can have a sculpture of a woman's face yeah that's no problem no problem no controversy no controversy shoulders shoulders up to shoulders like this. Showing the boob off. Nah, boobs get tricky. People like to cover those. They like to cover the boobs. But as long as the boobs are colored and you're an angel, that's okay.
Starting point is 00:15:12 Oh, if you're an angel, forget about it. You need a thing like that in your town square. But a vagina? We're not like that. It looks like a vagina, too. Yeah, it does. If you scroll down, Jamie, there's a picture of this fucking poor slob with his goofy glasses. Yeah, the headline was that poor slob gets stuck in a statue.
Starting point is 00:15:30 Yeah, look at this. Vagina statue. What's that? Did you find the image? I found more photos of it. Oh, nice. This fucking crazy bitch got so far down and so stuffed into this thing that he couldn't move his legs. Like, they had to figure out
Starting point is 00:15:45 how to get him out of that thing. Don't play that. Just show the... Just go to photos because this is the kind of shit that gets us kicked off of YouTube. There you go. There he is.
Starting point is 00:15:53 Oh, wow. Look at this fuck. There's another one with his face. We should shame him. So... Oh, wow. So he fell over or something and then he couldn't...
Starting point is 00:16:00 Climbed in like an idiot and his legs got smushed. He got stuck. Or it's a gag. It could be a stunt. That looks pretty idiot And his legs got smushed He got stuck Or It's a gag It could be a stunt That looks pretty tight In his legs though
Starting point is 00:16:09 It does But so does You always gotta put Everything up Like it's possible It was a stunt Yeah Always
Starting point is 00:16:15 Looks like it If I had to guess Looks like a stunt Yeah 22 firefighters Had to pry him open Oh my god Wow
Starting point is 00:16:23 22 firefighters They probably all Jerked off on him to lube it up. Maybe. That'd be great. That'd be great. Imagine if there's only one way to do this. We've got to jerk off on him. The hard way.
Starting point is 00:16:32 Lube up his legs. That's the only way. Lube up his legs. It's fucking... Americans, what does it feel like telling people in another country like China that you're American? Do they just go, oh... Well, the other... It's something like Chinese people you didn't really they just go well the other stuff like chinese
Starting point is 00:16:45 people you didn't really talk too much you didn't talk to them much barely the only ones that spoke english did you hang out with the chinese ladies yeah one she was at this bar that i like i guess i performed at or like right next door in this area um i thought she was in my show, but then later I wasn't positive. Apparently, they have a thing, according to this guy who posted on the Rogan board. What? He lives in China. What thing? They have a thing for people with big noses.
Starting point is 00:17:17 Oh, really? White men with big noses. They go crazy for it. Yeah, maybe some people are like that. It looks so different to them. Yeah, she just sort of, we didn't, she didn't really talk English at all. And we just sort of like, she knew a couple of words, but then you got a vibe.
Starting point is 00:17:30 Still a vibe there. So you kind of knew. Did you feel like you were like, like some crazy foreigner, like some savage from another land? A little bit. It's like, tell me more. Well, that's the area where There's a lot of foreigners there. Right.
Starting point is 00:17:47 In that area. Leng Kui Fong. This guy on the Rogan board was saying, I should give the guy credit, he was saying that these women, you'd have to tell them that you love them. Oh, really? Yeah, but saying that you love,
Starting point is 00:18:02 saying that is different. Doesn't mean I'm committing to you forever. It just means I love you. Well, it doesn't mean like what you think it means here. Like people say it all the time. Yeah, there were differences like that. Yeah. And then he was also saying that when they break up, when you break up with them, they
Starting point is 00:18:15 go fucking crazy. He was saying that he had a real problem with that. When you break up with them, they go crazy? Yeah. Like suicidal or murderous. Oh, really? Yeah. His name is Ripple.
Starting point is 00:18:26 That's the guy. It's a very long thread. And it's on the Rogaboard. It's actually from July 23rd of 2010. So it's a four-year-old thread. And it just recently got bumped up probably, I mean, maybe because of you being there. Oh, really? Huh, that's cool. Maybe.
Starting point is 00:18:44 Maybe, I'm wondering. But it might just be coincidental. But either way, pretty interesting shit. This guy talking about his experiences being a white guy in China and just dating chicks. And he never was into Chinese chicks until he went to China. And then he got, like, super into them. Probably. They're there all the time.
Starting point is 00:19:04 They're not fat. They're all real thin. Like, too thin almost super into them. Probably. They're there all the time. They're not fat. They're all real thin. Like too thin almost. Too thin. Yeah. A lot of times you got to have some meat on your bones. No butt? Is that what you're trying to say?
Starting point is 00:19:14 Oh, no. Definitely no butt. No. Butts were scarce. That would be a problem. A lot of barbecue chicken claws. You know what this guy was saying though? Not enough butts.
Starting point is 00:19:24 What he calls McTits. He said that the Chinese people that lived there that ate McDonald's grew tits. Wow. Because of all the hormones they shot into it. Fuck. He said those were the ones. It was like one of his things that he was saying. Wow.
Starting point is 00:19:40 The McTits theory. They somehow have like nice B-cups. Ah, nice B-cup. But, you know, nothing crazy. McTits, that's funny. Yeah B-cups. Ah, nice B-cup. But nothing crazy. McTits, that's funny. Yeah. Isn't that interesting? Uh-huh.
Starting point is 00:19:48 That the ones who ate a lot of McDonald's food. Yeah. Yeah. That's so hilarious. It's his McTits theory that the foreigners have formulated over there. McTits theory of body type. Wow. Isn't that crazy?
Starting point is 00:20:01 But if they live off McDonald's, they have tits. But he was saying that they mistake 40-year- 30 year olds or younger yeah i think i've heard some of them are like they're looking well a lot of times they're also like um immigrant workers and when they get off they're just looking to fuck they're just looking to have a good time i mean i've never seen anybody party like that on sundays they get off and they have very little rights and but sundays they don't work And they just fill up the markets And they all dance They're all line dancing together
Starting point is 00:20:29 By the bay Drinking Yeah all sorts But like the Chinese music But absolutely They just know their things They party Like they are free
Starting point is 00:20:37 For one day For one day Wow that's interesting So do you think they like They're all bottled up And then they get that one day So they are just enjoying They're like we're going to enjoy this and then they get that one day so they just enjoy the fuck out of it? They're like, we're going to enjoy this.
Starting point is 00:20:47 We're going to enjoy our day off. No one's taking a staycation. Let's all get out there. Some comics have days off all the time and they get super lazy and forget to appreciate those days off. Get used to it. You know, Eddie Bravo always talks about that. Eddie Bravo always talks about learning to appreciate life. That sometimes in the middle of it, it's really difficult to appreciate it.
Starting point is 00:21:07 And that you've got to force yourself to really step back and appreciate how awesome this is. Yeah, once in a while, I'll get a new comic that will be like, like genuinely, like, man, you got your name on the wall at the comedy store.
Starting point is 00:21:20 That's so cool. And I'm like, oh, yeah, I mean, I guess so. Did they take my name down? No. They don't take names down? No, they don't take names down. They should. There's a lot of names they should take down.
Starting point is 00:21:30 Yeah. Yeah. That's true. So a bunch of fucking names where you go, come on, man. That dude's got his name up there. Fuck out of here. If they would take those names down, I wouldn't be mad if they took mine down. Right.
Starting point is 00:21:42 You got to get off. You can take mine down. Well, you can take mine down. Dom is up there twice. Is he really? Yeah. They thought he slipped through the cracks and they put him up another time and then he didn't slip through the cracks.
Starting point is 00:21:52 But that's how lazy they are about not taking names down. Wow. He's named up twice. I'm like, I guess it's up there. That's hilarious. Yeah. So what if someone did something terrible? Like what about that comic that was like a rapist?
Starting point is 00:22:02 Remember that comic about a rapist? He was going to colleges Name stays up Is his name up there I don't think he was a paid regular I would have heard that if he was Somebody would have run into him Fuck I had his name in the tips of my tongue
Starting point is 00:22:18 Yeah that guy's in jail forever right He's in jail for a long time A lot of rapes He would say like creepy religious shit them, like pray for me. Oh, really? Yeah. Just tell them to pray for him. Vince Champ?
Starting point is 00:22:29 That's it. There it is. Thanks, Tip of Tongue. I remember not knowing who that guy was, but the people that did know who that guy was were like, oh, I could see that. Adam Richman just got acquitted. Adam Richman, the food guy? No.
Starting point is 00:22:46 No. It's a comic. Oh, my God. Who's Adam Richman just got acquitted. Adam Richman, the food guy? No. No. It's a comic. Oh, my God. Who's Adam Richman? It's a comic. Scare the shit out of me. I don't know why I'm scared of the food guy getting raped. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:55 Or raping. What happened? It was something in Minneapolis. Ooh. Yeah, with a waitress. Someone accused him? Waitress. Who do you believe?
Starting point is 00:23:04 Well, a lot of people find Adam Reichman annoying. So a lot of the comedy community was like, I can see, I can see. I'm like, that's not equal to sexual assault. Annoying is not the same as sexual assault. Right, but isn't annoying a sign of being a clueless fuck? And isn't a clueless fuck a sign of being selfish? And isn't being selfish the type of person? Yeah, he's also drunk and he said he was getting aggressive to the cops
Starting point is 00:23:25 he said he was getting a little aggressive and then they have like some 911 like video like not video audio of him like her going
Starting point is 00:23:31 put your fucking dick away put your dick away get out of here but acquitted wow and what did he do well who cares what are we
Starting point is 00:23:42 fucking TMZ yeah but you know what man there's a real problem when you have sexual urges yeah idiots and alcohol all those things together adds to it yeah adds to it but also being an idiot you know you're not a sexual assaulter yeah you wouldn't you know you wouldn't hold someone down and do something creepy to them if you were drunk there's that one time i was drunk making out with amy kerfer in college just a friend yeah just kissing and
Starting point is 00:24:07 stuff and i was like come on trying to get in her pants and she goes no no like kissing was as far as it was gonna go right and i was like come on she's like no no come on stop um and then i got up to like as a joke to like lock the door like locking the door we're doing this and then as soon as i lock the door i took one step back i'm like oh this seems oh yeah unlock the door open it up this seems this seems yeah it's not. Unlock the door. Open it up. This seems weird. Yeah, it's not even funny. Yeah. It's like, yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:28 But we've all been in that situation where a girl's like, no. And you're like, please. Yeah, but what about please? Yeah, but it doesn't work sometimes. Some guys are assholes. What do you mean it doesn't work sometimes? It never works to beg for pussy. Sometimes it does.
Starting point is 00:24:43 Oh, and they just give it to you. You never know. Have you ever heard of the sympathy handjob? That's the greatest thing of all time. When a girl says, okay. Oh, yeah. You're like, yes! Finally, we can stop fighting.
Starting point is 00:24:51 Fuck yeah! Woo! Okay, they only put it in my ass. What? What? I've been blessed by the gods! Yeah, but you add, like, idiocy, sexual urges, and alcohol is a fucking terrible, terrible, terrible combination. It's a bad combination.
Starting point is 00:25:09 But it's everywhere. That's the weirdest thing about people. It's like the worst combination of drugs to dating is what you get. I mean, good in that it's a social lubricant. People relax, have a couple drinks. It loosens up the vibe. You might get a little loose and silly and have fun and be more more likely to fool around but not you know at a certain point you got to
Starting point is 00:25:32 realize that that's not everybody it's like we were talking about earlier in the podcast that i don't know what happens to some people when they drink but i've seen it yeah you see it yeah you've seen that switch that goes off and they're not there anymore. It's not you. You don't do that. I don't do that. But we all know guys who do do that. Yeah. One of them's got a portrait in the bathroom. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:49 Maybe it's one out of ten. Yeah. You know, whatever it is. When you see that man, you know that that guy shouldn't be drinking booze around women if he has a sexual urge because it's just going to be a disaster. Yeah. But that's the drug of choice. That's what you get. If you go to a bar, you don't get an option. It sucks to be a woman. Yeah. But that's the drug of choice. That's what you get.
Starting point is 00:26:05 You go to a bar, you don't get an option. It sucks to be a woman. You can take ecstasy. Yeah. Fuck yeah. Can you imagine being a chick and dudes are trying to drug you? Oh. How many girls have you talked to that have been roofied?
Starting point is 00:26:16 Oh. A lot, right? Yeah, all the ones I hung out with. I don't know. A lot. Well, the ones I roofied, but that doesn't count. Those fucking bitches had a cum. A lot of them wouldn't drink it. So, you Well, the ones I roofied, but that doesn't count. Those fucking bitches had a cum. A lot of them wouldn't drink it.
Starting point is 00:26:28 So, you know, the stats are all skewed. Wasn't Bill Cosby in trouble for some shit like that? Really? Yeah. No way. Dr. Cosby? Yeah, Bill Cosby. Second only to Martin Luther King, an important black man?
Starting point is 00:26:39 Not really. Bill Cosby, sexual assault allegations. Really? Bill Cosby sexual assault allegations. Why isn't anyone, why doesn't anyone care about the sexual assault allegations against Bill Cosby? It's allegations that people agree that once someone's famous enough, we're just not going to care. Yeah. I don't know, man.
Starting point is 00:26:59 I mean, who the fuck knows it's true? It also could be just, you know, it's, who knows? There was a girl at the comedy store who claimed somebody raped her. And one of the door guys. And it got really weird for a while. Because you don't really know who to believe. But at the same time, it's like, this is bad. You're not going to come out vehemently on the side of the door guy. You know, you might be like, I'm not going to get involved.
Starting point is 00:27:17 And then a few months later, she accused someone else of raping her. And then like eight months after that, she accused a third person of raping her. I was like, why do you keep hanging out at the rape house? I'm starting to believe that maybe none of this happened. Yeah. Well, that was the girl who claimed that Mike Tyson raped her. Yeah. She had made a false allegation when she was 18 about another guy.
Starting point is 00:27:42 I feel like, I think you did too. Michael Tyson, that wasn't a good conviction. He probably did a bunch of bad shit. But in that situation, it seemed like that girl went back up to his room wanting to fuck. She took her panty liner off. I don't know what happened.
Starting point is 00:28:00 I don't want to speculate because I wasn't there. Who the fuck knows? Yeah, you weren't there. But there's a lot of shit going on when when you have someone who's got a false Allegation it's like the problem is two players. It's way worse It's way worse to rape someone than it is to falsely accuse someone of rape in my opinion It's worse because the rape is a violent crime falsely accusing someone to rape although The rape is a violent crime. Falsely accusing someone of rape, although horrific, in my idea, my hierarchy of crimes, is slightly lower.
Starting point is 00:28:31 What if the same amount of violence happened to you because of... Then it's the same crime. Like if you go to jail and then guys rape you because you didn't really rape a girl. If the punishment for rape is a just punishment, if it's like, okay, that's about right. You know, like that eight months for purse snatching, like that's too much. Whoa, whoa, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. 13 women. Said Cosby. Accused Bill Cosby of drugging them.
Starting point is 00:28:52 With what? Pudding pops? Jello pudding. Oh my God. 13, that's a lot. This is insane. Where there's smoke, there's 13 fires. Wow. That's amazing. That's a lot. This is insane. Where there's smoke, there's 13 fires.
Starting point is 00:29:06 Wow. That's amazing. That's a lot. Yeah. I mean, who knows what the fuck happened, but, you know, and I don't want to be callous about it. I'm not. I'm just saying who knows because I don't know, but that don't look good.
Starting point is 00:29:19 Be callin' about it. Brian? Yeah. Go. Go. Bill Cosby's cock glistened. Dude, understand. Glistened in the sun. Hawks would land on it. That? Yeah. Bill Cosby's cock glistened. Understand. Glistened in the sun. Hawks would land on it.
Starting point is 00:29:27 Comes out. It just makes its own roofies. You don't even understand. They weren't drugged. They were fucked to sleep. It's a different thing. You're being callend about it. I like that. That's what he would say, right? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:29:47 Joey Deezer would probably say a similar thing thing Bill Cosby ain't drugging any of those bitches He just gives them that sweet dick That candy jello pudding covered pop That's not a good number I almost saw him recently 13's a lot Really? Yeah they were telling
Starting point is 00:30:01 Everybody keeps telling me You gotta go see him live You gotta go see him live Did it be their experience of like it was fun and like childhood like well also they say he's really good people were shitting on a special and people like how can you show especially as a legend like because we're not shitting on his on his legacy we're shitting on this one special yeah that's how you say everything he does is good now he's definitely a good he's definitely a great artist as far as like his his the bulk of his stand-up comedy history.
Starting point is 00:30:28 He's a million right now. Great. Who cares if he's not perfect. He's a great, great comedian for the longest time. Yeah. I didn't watch his new one. I watched a little bit of it on Comedy Central and I never got a chance to see it in Vegas. I was with too many people.
Starting point is 00:30:41 I was too scared. Scared to go see it live? No, to watch the Comedy Central thing. Because you hate it? I got enough respect for him. I don't need to watch it in Vegas. I was with too many people. I was too scared. Scared to go see it live? No, to watch the Comedy Central thing. Because you'd hate it? I got enough respect for him. I don't need to watch it. Yeah, but do you have more or less respect for him if he drugged 14 chicks? That seems like if his special sucks, that's not nearly as disappointing.
Starting point is 00:30:58 You've got to be more honest on stage. If that's what you're going to really do, you've got to deal with that from your act. Could you imagine if he's this squeaky clean guy, but he's really doing just dirty. Super filthy in life. Drugging chicks. Like that Price is Right guy? Not Price is Right. What show is that?
Starting point is 00:31:14 Family Feud. What did he do? The Hi8 cameras. Wasn't that a movie, Hi8? Oh, no, no, no, no. Hogan's Heroes. Yeah, Hogan's Heroes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:31:24 The other guy who was on Hogan's Heroes was the host of Family Feud. Oh, went on to it. Remember? Okay, yeah. Survey says. The British guy? Brad Combs, yeah. No, no, no.
Starting point is 00:31:32 Before him. Oh, really? The British guy. Yeah. I don't remember. Oh, yeah, I remember that guy. Right? He was the original guy.
Starting point is 00:31:39 Yeah. He was the original guy. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah. Who the fuck was that? I don't know what his name is. What was that dude's name, Jamie? Richard Dawson.
Starting point is 00:31:47 Richard Dawson. Richard Dawson. He would always kiss the fucking ladies. Yeah. Remember? He was in Hogan's Heroes. That's why he kissed ladies, because he was so fucking a fucking horndog. There was evidence from that movie. That's him. That's him. Yeah. Richard Dawson.
Starting point is 00:32:03 He was a British POW. Yeah. That's right. Look at him. Slinging dick with that fucking beautiful vest that's him yeah Richard Dawson he's a British POW yeah he says that's right look at him slinging dick with that fucking beautiful vest on I got a suit made
Starting point is 00:32:11 with a three piece like that I saw I saw you I retweeted it your pimp ass photos from no I retweeted you
Starting point is 00:32:16 poking Bruce Lee in the dick yeah that one got the most like favorites I've ever gotten he retweeted that what were you doing to his dick
Starting point is 00:32:22 doing karate on him yeah and I just like angled it so I was like right in his dick? Doing karate on him? Yeah, and I just angled it, so I was right in his dick. That's in Hong Kong? That was in Hong Kong. Is he the biggest star to ever come out of Hong Kong? International?
Starting point is 00:32:32 I gotta believe so. Imagine the other Chinese dudes, like, what the fuck do I have to do? This doesn't make any sense. I do karate, too. Two guys ever, Jet Li and him. That's it? That's it?
Starting point is 00:32:42 Oh, Jackie Chan. Whatever. Three guys. Some guy's like. I invented tables. I can't get a fucking footnote. Oh, look at you. Ballin'. Yeah, those guys made it. How long did it take? You go once, they measure
Starting point is 00:32:56 you. You pick out a fabric, they measure you. Rhodes told me about it. They love him. His headshot's on the wall there. That's hilarious. That guy's been there for 30 years, Rocky. The guy on the left. Wow. Your left or his? Yeah, that guy. The guy in the blue shirt.
Starting point is 00:33:10 Yeah. Rocky. Yeah. 30 years. Yeah. How old is he? Looks like he's 80. He's like 60-something.
Starting point is 00:33:16 So he's been there since he was 30. Yeah. His son's there. Wow. And that other guy has been doing tailoring for like 45 years.
Starting point is 00:33:22 Yeah, they pick out a fabric, they measure you, and then you come back the next day to measure it on your body and see what they've a fabric, they measure you, and then you come back the next day to measure it on your body, see what they've got to take in and stuff, and then you come back a couple days later, pick up your suit.
Starting point is 00:33:31 That's what they did for me for the UFC. Oh, the UFC finally told you, like, we're going to do this for you? Yeah, they gave up on me. Handmade suit? They just made it for you? Yeah. Great.
Starting point is 00:33:39 It won't fit better than that. It's kind of tight. It is? Yeah. I stopped wearing the jacket. The jacket was too much. I'm just, they don't make them for chimpanzees. Oh, right.
Starting point is 00:33:49 They make them for regular people. You can get it made for your fucking garbage can body type. Garbage can. It doesn't work. The jacket doesn't work. The clothes work fine, although they're a little tight. It's weird. It's like a stretchy fabric, so it doesn't feel bad that it's tight.
Starting point is 00:34:04 Yeah. It moves real good. fabric, so it doesn't feel bad that it's tight. Yeah. It moves real good. But, you know, it's like there's like a slim look that people wear in these days. Slim, trimmed sort of clothes. I pass those people in like the Lower East Side. I'm like, God damn it, you look good. And there's suits like with the one button. They're like, fuck, black man in like fucking cool suits.
Starting point is 00:34:24 Like, Jesus. Slick suits. Chicks do that man in, like, fucking cool suits. Like, Jesus. Slick suits. Chicks do that shit walking around with those stupid shoes on. They like that. Oh, yeah, those stupid shoes. Slippery. Uncomfortable slippery shoes. Oh, those are so ridiculous.
Starting point is 00:34:33 They try to get me to wear those. Slippery shoes? I'm like, bitch. Like, why? You're never going to film my feet. I should wear sneakers. You should wear ratty Chuck Taylors. That's a good move.
Starting point is 00:34:40 Yeah. Shit, but occasionally they see my feet. Wow. So I can't do that. So it looks like I'm trying too hard. Oh, yeah. You know if you're a comedian you were Chuck Taylor's with a nice suit Jordan Rubin, but it's like you're being a comedian, right? You're trying too hard. You're like look I'm wacky I'm a wacky guy. I had a meeting with a dude once there was a time. I don't know if I told you the story There's a time where they were giving out development deals like fucking crazy.
Starting point is 00:35:05 Left and right. Left and right. Mad money. Mad money. For comedians and, more importantly, for writers. Yeah. And this one guy was a writer. He was a writer on, like, Friends.
Starting point is 00:35:16 And he got a crazy deal. A crazy. And it was for, like, I think it was Michael Eisner's company. Wow. Remember when he had some company? Huge amount of money and an office. And they say, we got you for two years. Give us some ideas.
Starting point is 00:35:30 Yeah, and so I had a development deal with Fox at the time. So they wanted me to meet with this cat. So I met with this guy to work on a sitcom. This is post-news radio, right after news radio ended, I got this development deal. When you're done with this, you've got to tell another story. So I go, tell another story? Yeah. Okay.
Starting point is 00:35:43 You're going to tell me what it is? You're writing it down? Yeah. Okay. So I go, another story. Yeah, okay, you tell me what it is you write it down. Yeah, okay, so I go Freaked me out. What was I talking about? You got this development to you? Oh, yeah, okay, so I go in this guy's office And they gave him this giant fucking development dealer telling me how amazing he is one of the writers on friends guys I don't turns out he was actually a partner of a funny guy and he was a guy would write shit down and there was like a partner of a funny guy, and he was the guy who would write shit down.
Starting point is 00:36:11 And there was like a two-guy team, and this guy got a development deal, but he was horrible. So I go in to meet with him, and he's wearing bowling shoes. And I look down, and I see those bowling shoes. Why? Does that work? Oh, he's a wacky guy who wears bowling shoes because he's silly. Don't you get it? So this guy's like talking to me about plots and this and that and I'm looking at his bowling shoes he's silly silly mother and I got out of there Sussman said the same thing to me goes you see his shoes he's wearing bowling shoes and I go yeah
Starting point is 00:36:36 what's up with that he goes he's trying once you think he's wacky oh like who likes wacky he's a bummer wacky guy cuz he was thinking like that's how you become a funny guy. You've got to walk around with bowling shoes on. The script that he wrote was such a massive hunk of shit. Really? Oh, my goodness. Turned sensual?
Starting point is 00:36:52 It was about an immortal guy. An immortal guy who banged chicks. He got cursed in Egypt and banged chicks through the end of time to the future. And had all these sexual dilemmas. It was so bad. It was so, it didn't make any sense. It was like, you would read it and you would go, who could have thought this was funny?
Starting point is 00:37:10 I was in the office with the Fox people when they brought it to me. And, you know, they have this like, did you, they're like, did you read it? And so we have this meeting. I go, yeah. Did you read it? And they go, yeah. I go, I fucking told you. I'm like, I told you.
Starting point is 00:37:22 And they're like, well, I mean, it's important. What he's really good at is story structure. I go, what the fuck do you mean by that you just said nonsense what he's really good at story structure on a sitcom the idea is that like maybe you comedians know how to make things laugh make people laugh but what you don't know is how to structure a story like nobody really cares about the structure of the story when they say stuff like that like story structure you know what they're just saying words that sound right. You probably won't know what this means, so I'll just say it so you won't argue with me.
Starting point is 00:37:49 Well, there's guys who know how to write movies or books that are really good at story structure. Yeah, the guys who write 24. Yeah. That's hard as shit. Hard as shit. Really good at structuring stories. They spend a ton of time on it. But a sitcom is about being funny.
Starting point is 00:38:04 Stories are important, being funny stories are important but yeah funny stories are like larry david was the master of that you know because he would he knew how to make a funny thorough line it's funny the idea at itself is hilarious yeah exactly yeah i went on for audition for some for some part I told you this, but I read it. Some best friend character. And the casting director was like, okay, that was good. My only note, you didn't do any of the lines. You told me this.
Starting point is 00:38:39 I was like, oh yeah, those lines are terrible. I cannot do those. I was supposed to go out for that same role. Yeah, that's hilarious. I read it and I was like, get the fuck out of here. They're making a big push through the comedian community. Yeah. It got to me, and I was like, because I'm not completely out of the loop.
Starting point is 00:38:53 I don't audition for things. I don't want to act. I don't have any desire. So when it comes to me, it's coming to me completely out of the blue. I don't put myself out in that world. The only person I've ever acted with is Kevin James because we're friends in the last decade plus so I was like
Starting point is 00:39:09 well maybe it's just really good and you read it and it's like it ain't good and then I heard what you did and I was like
Starting point is 00:39:14 that's how to handle it I asked my manager like hey I said yes before I read it so now can I just fuck around
Starting point is 00:39:20 and have fun or should I just not go like how do you want me to handle it I don't want to get you in trouble with the casting director and she goes
Starting point is 00:39:24 alright I'm never going to tell you not to do what you want to do handle it? I don't want to get you in trouble with the guy who's going to direct that. She goes, all right, I'm never going to tell you not to do what you want to do. Wow. That's a good agent. Yeah. That's a good agent. Yeah,
Starting point is 00:39:30 but that's how they make a piece of shit sitcom. You never wonder how you take a funny guy and make a fucking terrible sitcom with him. Hook him up with some shitty writer
Starting point is 00:39:37 who just whips it out in a week and doesn't care about it at all. Some dickhead wearing bowling shoes thinking he's wacky. Ugh. Well, that's the beautiful thing about being a comic,
Starting point is 00:39:49 about detaching yourself from that ridiculous system. Like, for the longest time, we were all taught that we had to get a sitcom. You have to get a sitcom. You have to get a sitcom, yeah. Put together an act. Get your seven minutes together. Even if you just want to go on the road, that's the only way you're going to go on the road
Starting point is 00:40:05 and have a draw. Put a sitcom together. Yeah. That was the thing, man. We always were taught that. Yeah. And then suddenly you're like, I just lost faith in television.
Starting point is 00:40:15 Like I stopped even caring. It was like a girl you're trying to fuck all the time. She doesn't want to fuck you. After a while, it's like, I'm not even mad at you. You're irrelevant. I just stopped thinking about you. Well, one thing that I owe dane cook you know for sure is that dane cook inspired
Starting point is 00:40:30 me to use social media you can do this without without the tv the the approval of some guy well he inspired me to um to use like social media in a promotion way i never used it before but i saw the results that he got, which were insanely good. MySpace. I mean, he got results from performances for sure, but he also got results because of the fact that he had so many MySpace friends. Yeah, he capitalized on those results of the shows. He capitalized so hard on them. Yeah. Fascinating. Completely fascinating. So that got me really into MySpace, which
Starting point is 00:41:01 got me really into Twitter, which got me... I'd always had a message board but that's also when brian and i started working together and he started creating videos and that also oh yeah message was nice but it's not the same but i saw everybody yeah it's not the same that the message board is very exclusive yeah you're right you shouldn't say exclusive but you know limited but once you see he showed the way a little bit where it's like guys we don't need them anymore we can do some of it our own he was the first guy to break through and when i saw it i was like i was looking at what he created by by breaking through like that now and then i started seeing i was like oh there's gonna come a point in time maybe it's now maybe it's in the future where all that's gonna matter is how many people you can connect with online like what whatever you can create that people whether it's a one of
Starting point is 00:41:43 those videos that brian used to do or whether it's a blog entry, or whether it's a stand-up comedy clip, or whether it's a podcast, which didn't even exist back then. Yeah. By the way, I have a podcast called Ari Shapiro's Skeptic Tank. Oh, the Skeptic Tank, man, suck it!
Starting point is 00:41:57 Everyone should check it out. It's pretty fun. But that was one of the things that led us to doing those Justin.TV, those Justin.TV things. Oh, yeah, those are the first kind of podcasts we did. Turn on the green room. We used to do these. I used to have a thing that connected to my laptop that would stream the internet from a cell phone.
Starting point is 00:42:15 It was a long time ago. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, yeah. We didn't have Wi-Fi in the Cobb's green room. Oh, it was a long time ago. It was when cell phone data was first starting to make its way to laptops with these little USB things. And then they started making some ThinkPads, some certain laptops that had cellular connections built into them.
Starting point is 00:42:36 So they had a Wi-Fi cellular data. Like I have an iPad that's a Verizon iPad. It's synced up to Verizon. So even if there's no Wi-Fi, I can still get on. I can still look at websites and shit like that. I love it. It's synced up to Verizon. So even if there's no Wi-Fi, I can still get on. I can still look at websites and shit like that. I love it. It's really cool. Yeah, it's nice. It's way better than trying to look at something
Starting point is 00:42:54 on your phone. You can look at it on your iPad. It's like a real website. But back then, when we were in that room and we were streaming it from that little clunky USB thing that would stick in there. That all started off because of Dane Cook.
Starting point is 00:43:08 He wasn't doing that at the time. He wasn't doing that, but he did something online that I thought was extraordinary. I tell comics too, I'm like, when they're like, oh, first order,
Starting point is 00:43:16 everyone's got a podcast, it's not going to be big. It's like, it might not be big and it almost definitely won't, but keep doing things to move forward. You'll get a couple fans.
Starting point is 00:43:25 It's not going to make you massive. It could easily be big if it's good. The beautiful thing about podcasts is that it's about merit. Like look at Joey Diaz. Perfect example. Joey Diaz is not famous for anything other than being awesome. It all came from him being awesome. It didn't come from movies.
Starting point is 00:43:40 It didn't come from TV shows. It didn't come from anything else. And he did a lot of those things. He did all those things. Joey Diaz got famous for doing podcasts from people realizing what a funny fucking guy he is just from being awesome and that that wasn't available man when i when when dane cook popped out of the scene that was when i first became aware like whoa the internet isn't just for looking at stuff it's's for putting stuff out. I love it.
Starting point is 00:44:05 You don't need anybody's approval anymore. You just do your stuff. Give it to your fans. Give it to whoever. They can't take that back. Give it to them. It's over. And the way we use it is very unique, too,
Starting point is 00:44:13 because we all support each other, and we tweet each other shit, and we pump each other up. We do shows together, like you, me, Duncan Diaz, Red Band, Eddie Bravo. Everybody's all connected in this little thing. And because of thing and because of that because of that connection it's like it makes like for an even bigger force like an even bigger impact you know like triply's fucking cd was number two on itunes that was great that was
Starting point is 00:44:36 great he was so happy he was so happy took the gun out of his mouth for like a week and a half yeah like a whole week and a half yeah or happy. Like a whole week and a half. Yeah. Or a happy four. He's super happy. And also he sees the light at the end of the tunnel. You know when something like that happens. Finally I'm okay. I can get a little bit of like. Fucking headline all over the place on the road now. He did Edmonton. We did Edmonton the week before.
Starting point is 00:44:55 He did the River Creek Casino with me. And then he went back and packed that comedy club the next week. Yeah I was wondering that. The first couple times I did it with you where it wasn't like the next week. But it was like within some time and I'm like, well, let's call the club owner and make sure they're okay with it
Starting point is 00:45:07 because we already had this thing booked, you know. But then a couple of them are like, yeah, it's okay. And then you realize you're telling way more people. Yeah. And so a lot of people
Starting point is 00:45:15 will just come back. And you're going to kill in front of those 2,000 people at the River Cree and they're going to tell oh, we went to see this guy Ari Shafir, holy shit, was he funny.
Starting point is 00:45:24 Yeah. Oh my God, he's at the comedy club next week. At a club, if you get 30 people extra to show, they're like, thank you so oh, we went to see this guy, Ari Shafir. Holy shit, was he funny. Yeah. Oh, my God, he's at the comedy club next week. At a club, if you get 30 people extra a show, they're like, thank you so much. Here's some extra money. Yeah, they're so happy. Yeah. And a club like that that consistently gets- Edmonton's a good room.
Starting point is 00:45:35 Good people. Yeah. Like Brian Callen was there. Yeah. We were on the plane, and Adam Hunter was there. Adam Hunter was there. Yeah, I was going up to Edmonton a couple weeks ago, and I ran into Hunter on a plane. Oh, that was for the hunting. Yeah, the hunting thing. Oh, nice. Yeah, and Hunter was up there doing Hunter was there. Yeah, I was going up to Edmonton a couple weeks ago and I ran into Hunter on a plane. Oh, that was for the hunting? Yeah, the
Starting point is 00:45:46 hunting thing. Oh, nice. Yeah, and Hunter was up there doing that comedy club. Callan was there the week before. The Hunter was up there? No, Adam Hunter. Oh, oh. Adam Hunter, the comedian. I was like, you just got the Hunter to do. I had a few five minutes. Yeah, it's a good club. Yeah, I've heard it's a great club. That's owned by the same people who talked me out of jail time at Mall of America. Really?
Starting point is 00:46:02 Yeah. They talked you out of it? They got you Yeah, when I was, when I did the hide the edible there. So they allegedly, it wasn't really hide the edible, it was fake. Yeah. Right? We're not on trial.
Starting point is 00:46:13 Dude, this is the internet. The government, man. I'm concerned. I'm concerned about the future. I had a conversation with someone about this today. Yeah. Someone who was talking about medical marijuana and marijuana being legal
Starting point is 00:46:26 in Colorado and, you know, because I was just in Colorado. Legal. So I'm popular in the Rockies game until the fourth inning. Woo, woo.
Starting point is 00:46:32 Amazing, right? Yeah. Isn't that incredible? So what did he say? Worried about 2016. Why? Because of a couple things. The conversation went like this.
Starting point is 00:46:42 We were talking about all this shit that's going down in Iraq. And I said that if iraq gets really ugly and things start happening like really bad and then someone blames obama and they blame democrats and they blame weakness oh i see it switching over this time and then people dissatisfied with obama so hillary doesn't have a chance then it could go jeb bush style yeah and then it could go John Ashcroft style. And then that same type of thinking, it's like Chris Christie style,
Starting point is 00:47:10 that tries to like, medical marijuana will never be legal in my state. Marijuana will never be legal in my state. Children are losing. They're dying out there. Their fucking brains are rotting. Their feet are exploding. Their feet are bound.
Starting point is 00:47:22 Inside their shoes, their dicks are falling off. These guys, they're all like in that sort of vein like when you when a Chris Christie in 2014 is spreading disinformation as a guy who's
Starting point is 00:47:32 what is he disinfo crazy shit about cannabis and the effects on the human brain I heard Nancy Grace has been super into pot for the last like
Starting point is 00:47:40 six months has she been yeah she got super she likes doing pot she smokes it constantly. Just making that up? Yeah, but maybe. She's probably lighting up.
Starting point is 00:47:49 She probably realized she's got to get out of that business. It's bad karma. She's in the business. She keeps talking about the crime spree in Denver. Oh, the crime spree's here. What are you talking about? The crime spree is here. It's made its way to Florida.
Starting point is 00:48:00 What are you talking about? This guy that I had this conversation with, the conversation was worried about what happens in 2016 because if 2016 snaps over and becomes super Republican and then things sort of go in and out. You have pedulums. Yeah. I mean, look, they had the 60s.
Starting point is 00:48:20 He's worried about what will happen if it goes super Republican? Yeah. You had the 60s, and then you had the 70s, and then you had 80s, which and then you have the 80s, which is Nancy Reagan just saying no. I mean, that's all within two decades. This is your brain on drugs. Remember all that shit? Seems like when it snaps back to it, it snaps back harder. Harder.
Starting point is 00:48:33 They don't go moderate. They go hard. And then people are like, that's the one that goes super hard Democrat. And then eventually one of them will just win. Or the aliens land. Outlaw the other one. They'll burn the Reichstag. It'll be over. Or the aliens attack. The aliens land. We're going to outlaw the other one. We'll burn the Reichstag. It'll be over. Or the aliens attack. The aliens land.
Starting point is 00:48:47 And then we realize. Remember when Ronald Reagan said that? What? You never remember that? Uh-uh. Ronald Reagan gave the speech that all the wacky UFO dudes always point to
Starting point is 00:48:57 as evidence that the alien invasion is imminent. It was Ronald Reagan talking about how quickly we would abandon our differences if we faced a threat from an alien world. When he said it, people were like, what the fuck did you just say? It is an interesting way. There's no way he would say that
Starting point is 00:49:15 other than if there was aliens. Sort of. He was putting things into perspective. We would realize that we are citizens of the world if we were facing a threat from another world. It would be us versus them. The ultimate us versus them. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:49:29 It would be planet versus planet. Earthlings. Pull that up, Jamie, because it's quite fascinating. Gene Roddenberry's view of the world later was like, Earth comes together. Yeah. So it's a French region, but that's it. Listen to this, though. It'll freak you out.
Starting point is 00:49:38 Perhaps we need some outside universal threat. outside universal threat i occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world and yet i ask you is not an alien force already among us what could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war. That's a great goddamn speech, by the way. You know, Ronald Reagan was an old fuck and he died confused and selling arms to Iran and allegedly forgetting about it. He's one of the good Republicans, right? I don't know. Depends on who you ask. Yeah, I guess so. Back then he wasn't loved. I remember when I was a kid When Ronald Reagan was president
Starting point is 00:50:26 People fucking hated him Oh really Oh my god Oh wow They hated him Especially towards the end They hate all the guys All the presidents
Starting point is 00:50:33 Jimmy Tingle Piss somebody off Do you know who Jimmy Tingle is No Jimmy Tingle Oh yeah the political comic Political comic And back then in Boston
Starting point is 00:50:41 He was just starting to become political He was on a tape of like In the 80s Yes Exposé at the Comedy Store. Not Exposé, but just like new comics. Here's a show, New Comedy Night. And Doug Benson was on it.
Starting point is 00:50:51 Just eating it. It was hilarious. I mean, he was just starting. He was just starting. How many days had you been into comedy? Had he been in? Yeah. He must have just moved.
Starting point is 00:51:02 Less than a year. Less than a year. Yeah. And he was on tape? Yeah. And then you've got Arsenio Hall, because he's watching with Mitzi in? Yeah. He must have just moved. Two inns. Less than a year. Less than a year. Yeah. And he was on tape? Yeah, and then you've got Arsenio Hall, because he's watching with Mitzi in the back. He goes, sometimes you just, I forget what he said, Michael Long's like, you just don't got it. Go home.
Starting point is 00:51:13 Go home. He said that about Doug Benson? Well, they cut it to make it seem like that. I don't know. Wow. That's dark. It was pretty funny. But Jimmy Tingle had the best job.
Starting point is 00:51:23 2020. That was 2020. It was on 2020? Yeah. What was it about? The Comedy Store. Oh, it was just on the Comedy Store. And how Tingle had the best job. 2020. That was 2020. It was on 2020? Yeah. What was it about? The Comedy Store. Oh, it was just on the Comedy Store. And how Mitzi Pats is people.
Starting point is 00:51:29 And Doug Benson was up there bombing on 2020. I mean, he recovered. He recovered nicely. He recovered very well. He did very well. But Jimmy Tingle was on there too. Hey, if I was on. That's an example of someone who's a little bit more.
Starting point is 00:51:40 I would have eaten a plate of shit up there too. You would have jumped at the chance to be on 2020 though. Sure. Jumped at the chance. And ate a fat pile of shit up there, too. You would have jumped at the chance to be on 2020, though. Sure. Jumped at the chance and ate a fat pile of shit. Fat pile. Jimmy Tingle had this great joke about when Ronald Reagan got in trouble for that. He was testifying in front of Congress. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:52:00 And he said, did you sell arms to Iran? And he was like, I do not recall. That was his best way of not lying. And Tingle goes, Mr. President, when you sell arms to people who hate us,
Starting point is 00:52:15 jot it down. He goes, write a note. Put it on your refrigerator. It's like in that heavy Boston accent. That's funny. It's really funny that heavy, heavy Boston accent. That's funny. It's really funny. There's Jimmy Tingle.
Starting point is 00:52:28 There he is. How many, he's got 1,536 tweets. He's following 11,000 people. More people should follow him. He's a funny fucking guy. He's got more people, more followers than followers.
Starting point is 00:52:37 There you go. Oh, here's what I could tell you to say. Tell them the story of how you got that first development deal. What Sussman did. Sussman's a wizard.
Starting point is 00:52:46 Yeah. I had a development deal to do an offer to do a show on MTV. And how much was that offer, Joe? I don't remember. I don't really remember the money. The story I heard, I think I remember it being like $500. It wasn't much. Or it's like a technical amount.
Starting point is 00:53:02 Yeah. It wasn't much. It was somewhere around that. It wasn't much at all. It was like they amount. Yeah. It wasn't much. It was somewhere around that. It wasn't much at all. It was like they give you money for a week to do this pilot. It was really cheap. And then if you did that pilot, you were locked up for like years. You're locked up for like some long-term contract.
Starting point is 00:53:17 So Sussman decided to take my tape and then he would send it out to all these different development companies. I love this. Like, you know, NBC and CBS. Well, he's just a wizard when it comes to planning shit. So he sent this thing out and said, hey, this guy's about to sign a development deal for MTV. If you want to do something with him,
Starting point is 00:53:40 you've got to act now. So you create, like, this demand. Hype. Yeah. And then all of a sudden, my phone was ringing off the hook. I had to leave my apartment. I couldn't stay in my house because people are calling me. They were sending me saying, saying they're going to send a flight out for me. Wow. I'm going to fly out of LA tonight and, uh, meet us in, or fly out of New York tonight, meet us in LA in the morning. And, uh, we will have a 10 AM morning meeting with,
Starting point is 00:54:02 you know, this guy at this executive, this fucking network, this fucking thing. It was craziness. So I talked to Sussman. Sussman goes, don't answer the phone. Just go to the pool hall. I'll call you there. I didn't even have a cell phone back then. No one had cell phones.
Starting point is 00:54:14 This was 1993, right? Yeah. So I take off. I go to the pool. And within two days, it had just gotten completely crazy. And then I think a couple days after that, I had a development deal with Disney. takeoff i go to the pool when within two days it had just gotten completely crazy and then uh i think like a couple days after that i had a development deal with disney disney won out and the next thing you know i was fucking flying out there and talking to these guys yeah flying
Starting point is 00:54:35 to la and talking to these people gary valentine stayed in my hotel room with me because gary was uh out here yeah gary was out here huffing, and Kevin James had just won Last Comic Standing. So Kevin... Kevin James ever won Last Comic Standing? Not Last Comic Standing, excuse me. Star Search. Star Search? Star Search.
Starting point is 00:54:50 Kevin won Star Search, so it was like a big deal. He was on Star Search. He definitely won a few rounds, whatever it was. Maybe he won it. I don't know. He was really good.
Starting point is 00:55:00 Kevin James is a very underrated comic, very underrated stand-up. At the time, he was killing it, man. He was killing it. He doesn't do it much anymore because he does a lot of movies. But anyway, within, I got $150,000. That's hilarious.
Starting point is 00:55:15 Development deal. What? $150,000? $150,000? Yeah. Wow. $150,000. I went from being broke to $150,000. It was the craziest thing ever. And then from then he just used their ability to not be able to decipher themselves. Like, oh, somebody else likes you? Hold on.
Starting point is 00:55:32 Well, he was also pissed off because the executives at MTV had this idea. And the idea was that they had created stars. So they did it with Dennis Leary and Dennis Leary left. And so they were like, we're not going to do that again. We create stars. If you come it with Dennis Leary, and Dennis Leary left. And so they were like,
Starting point is 00:55:46 we're not going to do that again. We create stars. If you come with us, it'll make you famous. We don't have to pay you. So they didn't want to pay much money. It's still their thing. It's like, no, no, we make stars.
Starting point is 00:55:55 It's like, sometimes. Not anymore, you know. It shows you remember. Listen, that fucking boat has sailed. That boat is gone. It's not in the harbor. You can't even see it on the horizon. That's a joke. There's a million fucking cable channels now.
Starting point is 00:56:06 The idea that your one network is valuable is preposterous. Back then, it was valuable because there weren't that many fucking channels. There was no History Channel, Discovery Channel, Sci-Fi, Spike TV. All that shit didn't exist. So MTV. Fucking Netflix now. There's Xboxes starting their own channel. It's over.
Starting point is 00:56:23 It's over. DirecTV has their own shows. Back then it was like MTV had remote control and MTV created Jenny McCarthy. Remote. Yep.
Starting point is 00:56:30 And they created Chris Hardwick. A lot of people forget that. Oh yeah. With that Jenny McCarthy show. He was the fucking guy. He was on it with and for the longest time
Starting point is 00:56:38 Jenny McCarthy was the famous one and Chris Hardwick was the one that nobody knew who the fuck he was and he vanished. Wow, now he's humongous. Now Chris Hardwick is balling because of the podcast world.
Starting point is 00:56:48 Yeah. He took over the podcast world. And the nerds. That's Chris Hardwick. Yeah. With Jenny McCarthy and some chick who's got a nice ass. Very nice. Carmen Electra.
Starting point is 00:56:59 Carmen Electra. Pow, that's what I'm talking about. That's a booty for the ages. Carmen Electra was on that show? Yep. Oh, wow. Look at Chris Hardwick there. This is all when I was an open. That's a booty for the ages. Carmen Electra was on that show? Yep. Oh, wow. Look at Chris Harvick there. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:57:06 This is all when I was an open mic-er, this shit was going on. He had a good joke when we were in open mics together, when he was still drinking. It was, this weekend I learned something. At a wedding, it's never okay to spill beer on a baby. Ooh. It's true. Yeah. It's true.
Starting point is 00:57:23 What was that other show? MTV Remote Control. Remember that? Yeah, Remote Control. That made Colin Quinn. Yeah. It's true. What was that other show? MTV Remote Control. Remember that? Yeah, Remote Control. That made Colin Quinn. Yeah. Adam Sandler. It didn't really, though.
Starting point is 00:57:31 It made Adam Sandler. Colin Quinn. People didn't know who he was. It didn't even really make him. Saturday Night Live made him. It got them known to be on Saturday Night Live. Yeah. It got him a little fame.
Starting point is 00:57:38 Where's Ken Ober? Remember that guy? Did he do Remote Control? Oh, he died. Oh, congratulations. He died in 2009. Wow. Damn.
Starting point is 00:57:48 Fucking Verizon will not turn on my internet service. Wow. In New York. He died at 52. Complaining of headaches, chronic chest pain, flu-like symptoms. Really? Yeah. Wow.
Starting point is 00:57:59 Heart attack? I don't know, man. That's fucked. Look at Colin Quinn there. Holy shit. Where is he? On the far right Who's the guy laying down?
Starting point is 00:58:07 Probably a contestant maybe Wow I don't know That's crazy Remote control That was another big MTV show And it was supposed to be Taking place in like
Starting point is 00:58:18 Ken Ober's basement Like the idea was That his parents Had a basement And he always wanted To have his own show, so he put his show together. Oh, really?
Starting point is 00:58:27 Yeah, something like that. Yeah. They had a show with the chick from the Brady Bunch. It was a talk show called Ober and Olsen. Really? Yeah. Dennis Leary was on remote control, too. That's what launched him.
Starting point is 00:58:44 Wow. Yeah. And then MTV started doing these things with him. All these little promo clips. It's hilarious. Promo clips. Yeah, a little rant. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:58:52 And that's sort of what made him. And then his Showtime special, whatever it was. Showtime, HBO, whatever the fuck his special. Look at that fucking Adam Sandler. Look at the girl's hair behind him. Wow. That's interesting. That's like from his show, that 80s show, The Wedding Singer.
Starting point is 00:59:06 God damn, the 80s were weird. That is so weird. Look at the 80s, man. Yeah. What year was this shit? 1989, I think. 1987. Don't guess, son.
Starting point is 00:59:18 You're in front of a fucking computer. That's 89, I think. How dare you? I'm looking at a picture. Don't guess. Don't guess. Always look. It was in syndication, 89 to 90.
Starting point is 00:59:27 Really? Yeah. It ran for five seasons from 87 to 1990. They had five seasons in three years? I don't know how you do that. MTV seasons? Yeah. MTV's first original non-musical program.
Starting point is 00:59:41 Wow. Wow, really? Mm-hmm. New episodes were made for first-run syndication from 89 to 90. How do you convince an executive like, hey, I want to do something
Starting point is 00:59:49 on your network that you just don't do? I don't know. Well, they probably wanted to. Now they don't do any music. Break it up a little bit. The people that I talked to that were over there,
Starting point is 00:59:57 they wanted to break it up a bit. Oh, you know who it also made? Who? Carrie Wurrer. I'm looking at her. You remember her? Carrie Wurrer. You remember her? Carrie Worrer. She is still hot.
Starting point is 01:00:09 She's 47. Well, that picture has an age. Yeah. Look at the picture. That's her now? No. That's her from back then. But if you see, there's a picture of her now on Wikipedia.
Starting point is 01:00:21 God, she's cute. She's still hot. She's got that sexy milf thing going on is that her now yeah that's her today damn still in shape still in shape powerful carry i was on um politically incorrect with her oh? Way back in the day, like in 1990-something, I think. I think it was like, I want to say it was the Fear Factor days, but it might have been before that. It might have been the news radio days. I'm not even sure.
Starting point is 01:01:01 I know I was on at least once. Yeah, there's Carrie. Oh, wowrie carrie i don't even know who she is i don't remember her at all she's hot as fuck look you back in the news radio days sexy as fuck full head of hair almost yeah almost full starting to go where's where those kind of shirts too i love those big over the elbow yeah a little bit color. That I think was the news radio days. And then after that was the, uh, I did it again on fear factor.
Starting point is 01:01:30 Oh, that shirt. No, no, no, no. That show politically incorrect. That was before he got in trouble.
Starting point is 01:01:36 Remember he got in trouble for saying that we're cowards for fucking launching. That's why I lost respect for him. Why'd you lose respect for him? Not for that. Cause he didn't stand up for it. Why'd you lose respect for him? Not for that. Because he didn't stand up for it? No, because when I saw him this first show on HBO afterwards, he cursed and he goes,
Starting point is 01:01:50 this is why we wanted to come here. This is why we wanted to get off network and come here. I was like, bitch, you got thrown off. Quit pretending like you were responsible for that. You begged for your job back. What are you talking about? Dude, he's a rebel.
Starting point is 01:02:02 What the fuck are you talking about? Do you not know he's a rebel? He's irreverent. That's what I like about him the most. He's irreverent? Dude, he's a rebel. What the fuck are you talking about? Do you not know he's a rebel? He's a reverend. That's what I like about him the most. He's a reverend. Dude, he's a rebel. Okay. Fucking Verizon made me wait
Starting point is 01:02:11 three times all day long for goddamn technicians who never showed up. What does that have to do with Carrie Warwick? Nothing. I just keep thinking about it. You're all angry, bro.
Starting point is 01:02:20 I'm supposed to come on Saturday. Verizon? Verizon Internet. Are you fucking, you're really angry at them right now? Yeah, it's the worst. And you call them,
Starting point is 01:02:28 you're like, so I get so angry at like the customer service. I know they're not to blame, but it's like fucking, what time are they going to be? Stop saying you're sorry. Stop it. It's an insult.
Starting point is 01:02:40 Three days I've given up just waiting there for people to don't show up. I'm not going to serve you a guarantee. It'll be done. It'll be on by 5 p.m. today. You're very upset. Dude, you know how you go to someone's page and you know them on Twitter, but then they don't follow you and you get sad? Yeah. That's why I just went to Carrie Werwer's page.
Starting point is 01:02:56 Really? But I'm not following her. You just remembered her for the first time in 20 years. Listen, easy. I'm trying to be nice. Are you looking at her recent pics? No, I just followed her on Twitter.
Starting point is 01:03:07 Put up her recent pics. Put them up? Yeah. This is pretty, man. Yeah, let me see. She's hanging in there. You know what? I saw a TV show
Starting point is 01:03:15 the other day and Wonder Woman was on it. Oh, you can't put them... Oh, really? Linda Carter. How is she? Time is a motherfucker, dude. Aww.
Starting point is 01:03:21 Time's a motherfucker. Time is such a motherfucker. Linda Carter? Time, time, time. See what's become of me. motherfucker, dude. Oh. Time's a motherfucker. Time is such a motherfucker. Linda, Linda. Time, time, time. See what's become of me. Mm. Yeah. Look what's become of her.
Starting point is 01:03:30 Yeah. You ever see that chick? Oh, the Bengals girl? Yeah. Oh. Not so good. Really? Oh, no, no, no, no.
Starting point is 01:03:35 I'm confused. She's actually still pretty. For whatever reason. Hoff? I associated her with Grace Slick from Jefferson Starship. The tall black lady no that's Grace Jones
Starting point is 01:03:47 oh yeah that was the one who dated Dolph Lundgren no no no she didn't date Flavor Flav you should
Starting point is 01:03:54 eventually no Flavor Flav was the girl used to be married to Sylvester Stallone who was that Brigitte Nielsen
Starting point is 01:04:02 yeah oh she was the one who dated Flavorio Favre. Yeah. You're confusing everybody, man. I barely know you, actors. I barely fucking know you.
Starting point is 01:04:12 That's your legacy. Grace Slick was the lead singer of Jefferson Starship. I need to get a lot of those mixed up. Yeah. Grace Slick was hot at one point in time. And time's a motherfucker, dude. Yeah. Time doesn't wait.
Starting point is 01:04:29 Time gives no fucks. Time keeps swinging. Even if you're down, time kicks you. What's cool being, let's wrap it up, but this is a comeback to the beginning. It was cool being at that Forbidden City and the Great Wall of China and touching these walls. You're like, this has been here for a long time.
Starting point is 01:04:46 Yeah, what did that feel like? It just was this cool connection to the past. I mean, it's not real, but I just imagine this like emperors have been by here and touched this. How about the Mongols? They built it to fucking fight off the steppe people. That's what they did. They built it to separate. Imagine walking through the forest, trudging and marching through the forest, up and down mountains.
Starting point is 01:05:07 It's mountainy forests. And then you're getting not even close to their land. And then all of a sudden you're like, what? It's a giant wall? That you can see from space. How do we get the horses up there? Oh, go around. You march three miles.
Starting point is 01:05:21 Like, oh, guys, do we even know which way is the end of this? There's no end. How long is that wall? Look at you, you sexy bitch with no shirt holding the fucking Chinese flag. Respect! I love taking my shirt off there. They do this thing called Chinese bikini. They just tuck this up.
Starting point is 01:05:36 And the men walk around like that. Why did you like taking your shirt off? I love taking my shirt off. I know. You got a little sun in me. Okay. Yeah. All right.
Starting point is 01:05:43 Keep your clothes on. Don't get weird with me here. Yeah, I walked up to the top paths where people like stop walking and then this one guy's like, you go another this many kilometers that's like Tower 23, that's as far as you can go. And I was like, fine, I guess I'm doing it. So you walked all the way to the end.
Starting point is 01:05:57 It was so hot and so humid and so many steps, irregular shaped steps. It was so hard. How long is the Great Wall? What is the total distance? We got up somewhere. We got up somewhere near where there's a toboggan to get down. Okay, let's find out. But yeah, it's the only man-made object viewable from space.
Starting point is 01:06:14 The Great Wall of China. Jesus Christ. 5,500 miles. That's insane. Is that right? 5,000 what? 5,500 miles? This is... That's insane. Is that right? 5,000 what? 5,500 miles?
Starting point is 01:06:29 Is that right? Longer than the United States of America. It goes up and gets windy, too. It goes up and over things. Is that really right? Maybe. Oh, my God. What kind of undertaking was that?
Starting point is 01:06:42 That's like some pyramid level shit, right? If you really think about it. Yeah. It's 8,850 kilometers, which is 5,000. And it's not just a straight up wall. There's battlements that you can stick your arrow through and fire down without getting shot. Oh, Christ. It's all built well.
Starting point is 01:06:57 That's so crazy. I didn't know it was that long. It goes on forever. I figured it was like 100 miles. That's what I thought in my head i was like yeah 100 miles probably that seems like long enough that's the not so great wall that's a wall look how far it goes that's crazy oh my god we're looking at a map right now it's a greater great wall that's what it says is that what it says length announced by china 2009
Starting point is 01:07:24 extended sections what yeah why would they keep building a wall they do this a lot where Greater Great Wall. That's what it says. Is that what it says? Length Announcement of China 2009. Extended sections. They're making it bigger, I guess. What? Yeah. Why would they keep building a wall? They do this a lot where they go, we're going to redo all this stuff. We're going to upkeep it. And they just replace the wood.
Starting point is 01:07:34 They replace the stuff. They're just like, as if someone was still living here, we're just going to keep it going. Wow. That's weird. And it shows like date built and then date renovated. It will be like 45 years ago. Right. But why would they extend it?
Starting point is 01:07:47 I don't know. Make it more of a... I don't know. Is it a tourist trap? Is that what it is? They're extending it for... More tourist traps? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:07:53 I went outside Beijing. Wow. Jesus. Why else would they do that? It doesn't make any sense. Did you know that South Korea was smooshed up against China like that? Where is it? Look at that.
Starting point is 01:08:06 Oh. Right over there. Jeez. That's an insane. Look, it's so much bigger than Korea. It's fucking huge. I can't believe the wall was that big. Maybe they just hate Pink Floyd.
Starting point is 01:08:20 Tear down the wall. Don't tell me. No, I won't. I'll tear down shit. I'm going to keep building. I'll build it up. Even years after this is relevant as a defense force. Keep building.
Starting point is 01:08:26 Fuck you. Did you ever see the renovations they're doing to the Sphinx? No. What are they doing? It's kind of sad. Putting their nose back on? No. They're doing, they fix up the feet and shit.
Starting point is 01:08:37 And they're patching up the body. But they're not really. What they're doing is they're building their own version of it. Oh, really? Yeah. Because they're covering over the Sphinx. Like, they're making is they're building their own version of it oh really yeah because they're covering over the sphinx like they're making the feet all smooth like jamie pull up the actual stone has something to it yeah this is what's been here not the design this is what's
Starting point is 01:08:55 been here this object it's just a really soft stone and it's like it's all worn out and shit let it fall down yeah no shit but they don't that. See how long it lasts on its own. Look at these pictures because it's kind of gross because what they're doing is they're making the feet all smooth and shit and where the paws are was totally irregular. Jamie, let's go to the videotape. I'm trying. Survey says. What do you?
Starting point is 01:09:20 I found a page that was in Egyptian. Just look up images. Do a Google search on images. Jamie, instead of failing, why don't you not fail? How about you don't fail? Fucker. See the right-hand corner? Look, that shit is all just renovation.
Starting point is 01:09:33 That's not what the feet originally looked like. What is it? What do they go over it? See all those little bricks? Yeah. It was originally carved out of one unique set of stone. Oh, they're just putting new bricks on. Yes, they're smoothing it all out it was what's called a yardang what a yardang is is something that comes up out of the
Starting point is 01:09:50 desert and then they shape it it's like it comes up out of the ground like a rock structure this is just bricks exactly it's so stupid like back back see if you can get some other photos of it you can see the photos like before, see if there's that. But there's a full image of the Sphinx where you can see it from a distance and you get a real sense of, like that one in the right-hand corner, you get a real sense of what a travesty that is. What they're doing is really kind of fucked up. Because what they're doing is. It's just too bad.
Starting point is 01:10:20 They're making their own shit. Like those feet are not the original Sphinx feet. They're all smooth and bricks all over them. The rest of the Sphinx used to be, like, everything below the head, all jacked up and fucked up. Why did they make the Sphinx? Wore it off something like demon or something? No, no, no. Well, the thinking is, rather, that originally it was a lion.
Starting point is 01:10:43 And that one of the pharaohs was like fuck that lion head make that shit my head because the face is fairly african so they believe that it took place after the nubians conquered egypt because there were two different types of people that were ruling egypt there were the sephardic people the original egyptian people which are always depicted as you know like arab looking folks like cleopatra was always depicted that way or you know arabic a little bit yeah stacy dash well they actually look kind of strange you know like have you ever seen like what tutan common really looked like a recreation of tutan common no oh it's weird
Starting point is 01:11:20 yeah weird head man he's got He had like an elongated skull. His whole family had elongated skulls. And they had sculptures that were drawn of him. That was a recreation of what he looked like. But that doesn't look as weird as when you see a side profile. So you find that he died super young, too. I think he died like 17 or 18 or something. But look at what his skull looks like like they were freaks man damn yeah and i don't remember who his father was
Starting point is 01:11:54 see if you can find out who his father i think his father was uh i want to say tut moses but i might be wrong but whoever his father was like a chicken from Kids in the Hall. Yeah, Akhenaten. Akhenaten, yeah, that was what it was. And Akhenaten had this very strangely shaped head. And they have these sculptures that were created of Akhenaten. I mean, he looks like a goddamn alien. Look at it. Look at what he looked like.
Starting point is 01:12:18 Look at his fucking head. And they don't know whether or not that was a result of head binding. Oh, yeah, maybe it was that. Could be. But it also could be some weird genetic issue that some of those guys had. And that's one of the reasons why they head bound in the first place, to try to recreate that. That it might have been. Oh, right.
Starting point is 01:12:39 You know, like some people have strange lips. Some people have big jaws. Some people have, you know, they might have just naturally had weird shaped heads and they became bad motherfuckers and then they all interbred. There was a lot of that going on. Royal blood, fucking other royal blood. Some player at Florida State had a head like that.
Starting point is 01:12:55 Bob Suro maybe. That way? Yeah, it was all weird in the back. It looked like the alien from Enemy Mine. Look at that head. Hold on. That's the skull of... That's his real head?
Starting point is 01:13:04 Cotton. Wow. That's the skull of That's his real head? Otten Cotton. Wow. That's Tutankhamen. Is that Tutankhamen or Akhenaten? Tutankhamen. The JPEG says it's Akhenaten. Hmm.
Starting point is 01:13:14 Was Tutankhamen Akhenaten? Not the same guy. No. That's a crazy fucking head though. Look at his head. It's like an extra three inches wide or long rather.
Starting point is 01:13:23 Stop right there. So strange. So who was the dude? It wasn't Bopasura. It's like an extra three inches wide, or long, rather. Stop right there. So strange. So who was the dude? No, it wasn't Bob Surer. It was a black one. Pull up. Black Bob Surer's head. No, it wasn't.
Starting point is 01:13:32 It was this black player that he played with at Florida State that went to the pros afterwards, and he shaved his head. Fuck, I forgot where he played. And he had a crazy-shaped head? Crazy-shaped head. What would you do if you had a crazy-shaped head and you had your head shaved? Not shave my head. But what if you had to?
Starting point is 01:13:44 What if you're a black guy and you're going bald? Black guys can't rock the side. You can't have side hair and bald on top. It looks goofy. It looks like a Christmas wreath. It doesn't look good. What do you do? I don't know.
Starting point is 01:13:57 Do you think they do something about that? They put implants in there to shape the back of your head better? No. Think about all the shit they do do. think about all the shit that they do do. Think about all the shit they do for like the... Straighten their hair. I read an article recently about South Korea. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:14:11 And the thing about South Korea. Oh, my God. It's crazy. It's so common that... Yeah, they do it in China, too. Girls are getting their eyeballs done. It's like a rite of passage. You got to cut them so you can have an over lip on your eyebrows, on your eyelashes, whatever
Starting point is 01:14:26 that's called. An over lip? It's like ours fold over. Oh, yeah. Theirs don't fold over. Oh, shit. So they want to get them to look like they fold over. So they get the surgery.
Starting point is 01:14:35 What do they look like with their eyes closed? I think normal with their eyes closed. And then when it's up, it's like there's no lip. You know how it folds over on the top? Yeah. In South Korea. I think Bobby's mom got that over on the top? Yeah. In South Korea, I think Bobby's mom got that surgery.
Starting point is 01:14:48 Bobby Lee? Yeah, she's Korean. Boom. Boom, that proves it. Why doesn't Bobby get it done? How weird would that be if all of a sudden Bobby Lee had these crazy,
Starting point is 01:14:55 like, like, what weird eyes? Like, your eyes don't belong on you. Sam Cassell. That's it. Pull up Sam Cassell. Sam Cassell's head?
Starting point is 01:15:04 Yeah. See the one that won a Heisman and still played basketball? That was Charlie Ward. Put up Sam Cassell's head. Yeah, side angle of Cassell. Look at this shit. Yeah, it gets rid of their things. Before and after.
Starting point is 01:15:19 Wow. Let me see. Pull up a picture of that dude's face. Or a head, rather. It's hard to tell in that picture. Did you pull up Sam Cassell's head? Yeah, do a Google search, son. Learn how to internet.
Starting point is 01:15:33 Isn't this ridiculous? Yeah. Did an amazing job. With her whole face. Everything about her face was different. Well, yeah. I mean, she became super hot. So I guess it's worth it.
Starting point is 01:15:45 It's like one of the rare instances where some of these... She has George Mirrors on her head. Like, it's super effective. Some of these girls... You gotta get a little more back, but that still looks like the start of it.
Starting point is 01:15:56 That's pretty Akhenaten. Yeah. That's pretty nuts. Sam Cassell. That's a weird fucking head, man. That was a weird head, son. Look at this one. Want to see a crazy one?
Starting point is 01:16:08 Yeah. Look at this South Korean transformation. I mean, this is bad. Look at this. I thought you were showing me that. Look at this. Wow. Wow.
Starting point is 01:16:16 She went to what to wow. Yeah, look at that. What? That's crazy. Pull up some- She looks like an old lady. I know. She looks like an amazing 24-year And she looks like An amazing 24 year old
Starting point is 01:16:25 Yep She looked Disgusting And then hot And it's clearly If you see the jawline It's clearly the same woman They must have done
Starting point is 01:16:33 A lot of shit on her Look up South Korea Eye surgery And you can see that That image There's a bunch of them man It's super common What's it called?
Starting point is 01:16:42 There's a phrase for it Soccer pool? I don't? There's a phrase for it. Soccerpool? I don't know. That's a good question. Wow. Whoa, that's nuts. She's got rid of her chin.
Starting point is 01:16:52 She's a dime. No doubt I use the word dime like I'm a black guy. Yeah, like you talk to Ian Edwards. Ian, I'm a dime, son. She looks like she has Down syndrome in the first one. And then she looks gorgeous. Yeah. She looks like Down syndrome. Wow.
Starting point is 01:17:05 Yeah, there's a whole website dedicated it's called 30 startling before and after south korean plastic surgery pictures that's like it's like a advertisement for plastic surgery i guess that's why it's so common look at that look at that one wow because it works change your life yeah really i mean all of a sudden did you hear about that one guy who sued his wife because his kids were ugly? It turned out that she had gotten plastic surgery. Wow. That's rude. I think he won, too.
Starting point is 01:17:35 Yeah. Hold on. Man sues wife because kids were ugly. And we'll end with this. Yeah. Yeah, we're ugly Oh wow, the dudes look good too Whoa
Starting point is 01:17:47 Yeah, he looks a lot better Holy shit That's incredible Man successfully sues wife over ugly children Successfully? What country, America? Fuck no, son Okay
Starting point is 01:18:02 Please A Chinese man divorced his wife and sued her for giving birth to what he called extremely ugly baby girl. At first, he thought his wife had cheated on him because there was no way a good-looking guy like him could have or even produce such an unattractive baby. Is that a real article? Yeah, it's the same lady. That was the image, actually. It was her. That was her. What's that from? image actually it was her that was her what what's that was from arabia.msn msn it was msn and then they showed the image of the chick
Starting point is 01:18:31 uh and then the image of the kids and the image of the woman she was stupid hot at the end look at look at how hot she was she's there with him so he thought he had like the super hottie golly oh look at those ugly kids Look at those fucking ugly kids. Their mouths go down. Oh, they're fucking kids. How rude. Can't he take them in for a little chop and snip? Hell yeah.
Starting point is 01:18:51 Can't do it to babies, though. Oh, because they'll grow out of it. They'll fuck them up. Imagine a nightmare. What an asshole you'd have to be to give plastic surgery to a baby. Look at this fat little son. Isn't that weird, man? That's so weird that people are doing that. Fat little fat-faced little son. Isn't that weird, man? That's so weird that people are doing that.
Starting point is 01:19:05 Fat little foul-faced smile son. They're doing it so much that it's changing the way they envision a woman should look. So much so that it's super common. Wow. Super common.
Starting point is 01:19:19 Weird, right? Yeah. It's just a strange thing. And so oddly effective, too korea now has the highest number of surgeries performed per capita overtaking brazil as the plastic surgery capital of the world those all ass implants no they don't need any of them reductions probably south korean women have become so immersed in western celebrity culture that double eyelid surgery, that's what it's called, which creates the Caucasian crease many Asians don't naturally have, has become as common as going to the dentist. Wow.
Starting point is 01:19:55 Okay. I gotta go to sleep. Common as going to the dentist. Think about that. I want you to jerk off and think about plastic surgery in South Korea. Meanwhile, the doctor that does it. Yeah. Asian as fuck looking.
Starting point is 01:20:09 Yeah. Can't do it to himself. Nope. He's not interested. Doesn't trust anyone else with lesser talent than him. He's like, this is stupid. These people are crazy. There's no reason for it.
Starting point is 01:20:17 I can do it beautifully. I'll take their money and blend in. Debunked. It's debunked? Probably false. It rang untrue to me. I don't like it. I don't like it. I don't like it.
Starting point is 01:20:26 It's probably false. I feel like I just got ripped off. What did you get that from? What debunked it? The way he was quoting too casually. I'm in the way with a good-looking man like me. Probably you're right. Damn it.
Starting point is 01:20:38 Motherfuckers. Ari Shafir, where can the ladies and gentlemen see you doing your stand-up? Well, I'll be in Calgary in September, middle of September at Yuck Yucks, and I guess I'll be in Chicago. Calgary, Yuck Yucks, I heard is the shit. For one date on the 26th. Calgary's fun, dude. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 01:20:55 It's great. Didn't you do Calgary with me? A few times, a few times. Fun times. Saw your rise there. Those are fucking animals. My rise? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:21:04 In like two years. You sold out. You had trouble selling out that place. And next year, no press. Sold out two shows. Oh, that's right. That's right. Were those people behind us?
Starting point is 01:21:14 Remember? Jack Singer? Jack Singer, yeah. That was crazy. It was people behind us. Remember? They were up above. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 01:21:20 I turned around and waved to them. Like, all right. Was that there? Was that that one? Yeah. That was also the place where they oversold it and they didn't know what to do. So they put seats on the stage. On the stage. Yeah, that's what I mean.
Starting point is 01:21:32 You remember? Yeah. Like the giant stage. You don't need all that room. But they were going to not do it. They were going to give those people their money back and send them home. And so I said, well, you know, I don't, like, that's okay. Like, if you want to seat them on the stage, you can seat them on the stage. And so there was like a powwow and a meeting.
Starting point is 01:21:48 And they go, okay, we're going to seat, we're going to put the seats on the stage. They just ran out chairs out there. And there was like 200 fucking people on the stage. Good Canadian unions. They fucking got that shit set up in no time. How many people were on the stage? There was a lot of goddamn people on the stage. There was several rows.
Starting point is 01:21:59 There was at least 150, maybe 200. That was madness. On the stage. That was fun, man. Calgary's good. Those towns like Edmonton, Calgary, there's a lot of oil money. Those fucking folks have a lot of oil money.
Starting point is 01:22:09 And they party. They party hard. They go hard. We did Lloydminster. Lloydminster is like a mining town. Really? Hours from Edmonton. That's cool. They look at Edmonton like, oh, look at him up in the city.
Starting point is 01:22:24 We did a show in a hockey rink. Really? That's cool. Yeah, it's like they look at Edmonton like, oh, look at him up in the city. Ha, ha, ha, ha, yeah. We did a show in a hockey rink. Really? Yeah, Callan, Tony Hinchcliffe, and me in a hockey rink in Lloydminster. Had a great fucking time. Sound system was kind of dog shit. It threw me off a little bit. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:22:37 It was tough because it was echoing a lot, and I was on the side when Callan was on stage. So you could hear it not being clear? I couldn't hear him. Damn. I was on the side, and I could barely understand what he was saying, and I knew his act. Man, sound matters. The people in front got it good.
Starting point is 01:22:50 Fuck yeah, it matters. People want to be like, no, the crowd's here. I didn't have a good time. It's like, I know, and you're not making them have as good a time. As good a time as they could. All they had to do was set it up a little bit better. Put speakers in some different areas. But now we know.
Starting point is 01:23:00 They don't do shows up there. Yeah, it's a thing. They're trying to figure it out. Yeah. You met Harvey, the promoter guy? Yeah, I met Harvey. He's a good dude. So we did it up don't do shows up there. Yeah, it's a thing. They're trying to figure it out. Yeah. You met Harvey, the promoter guy? Yeah, I met Harvey. He's a good dude. So we did it up there with him.
Starting point is 01:23:09 All right. This fucking show's over, Ari Shafir. This is the second of two podcasts we did today. It was nice seeing you again, man. It's been a while. It's great seeing you always, brother. Hey, I sold that couch, so we've got to go to dinner sometime soon. The original couch from the original Joe Rogan Experience podcast, I gave it to Ari years ago.
Starting point is 01:23:26 He kept it in his apartment. It's great. It was the nicest thing in my apartment for five years easy. It's a very nice couch. Yeah. And so then some dude bought it. Yeah. How much you got for that fucking thing?
Starting point is 01:23:38 540 bucks or something. Holy shit. Was it an auction? We're going to a nice place. Yeah, eBay. Dude, let's go to like Morton's. Yeah, something really nice. How about a steak and a glass of wine like gentlemen?
Starting point is 01:23:45 Yeah. All right, let's do it. Yeah. All right, follow Ari on Twitter, Ari Shafir, A-R-I-S-H-A-F-F-I-R. And you can also get his stand-up comedy. You have two stand-up comedy CDs that are available, two comedy specials that are available. No, I have one. Now, Chill went down, so the past of the guests, I guess Comedy Central is going to buy it and put it up.
Starting point is 01:24:06 What went down? Chill, the website that did mine and Maria's and Proops'. So you can't buy it anywhere now? Can't buy it right now. What? Yeah. So Revenge for the Holocaust is still out. But there are illegal downloads that you can find.
Starting point is 01:24:16 Oh, good. If you go to Views Player and put in passive-aggressive Ari Shaffir, you can probably find a seed for it. But Revenge for the Holocaust is still out. That's a CD that's out, yes. That's out. And the other one is not out. Not out.
Starting point is 01:24:28 God damn. Yeah. Passive-aggressive is just out there in the ether somewhere. We're getting it up. So you give, but right now they got the green light. Yeah. To hit the torrents. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:24:37 Okay. Oh, absolutely. Beautiful green light. Yeah. Powerful green light. All right. Oh, and I have a storyteller show on Monday. Oh, shit.
Starting point is 01:24:41 At Union Hall, but there's only like 40 seats. New York? Yeah, New York. Oh, beautiful. Miss Pat's doing it. Oh, shit. Miss Pat's going to be on the podcast. Oh, she's have a storyteller show on Monday at Union Hall, but there's only like 40 seats. New York? Yeah, New York. Oh, beautiful. Miss Pat's doing it. Oh, shit. Miss Pat's going to be on the podcast. I'm going to pick Jay.
Starting point is 01:24:49 Oh, she's going to love her. Yeah. You're going to love her. I keep hearing that, man. She's going to be on the podcast on, I think. She's such a nice, warm fucking. 29th. Tuesday the 29th.
Starting point is 01:24:57 Really? Yeah, July 29th. Awesome. All right, you dirty fucks. We love the shit out of you. We appreciate you very much, and I appreciate it even more after being gone for a week. I enjoyed this. This is an awesome day.
Starting point is 01:25:10 All right. We'll be back tomorrow with the dude from Unbox Therapy and lots of podcasts coming up. Fight Companion on Saturday. Brendan Schaub and me are going to watch the fights together. All right. Much love. Big kiss. See you soon.
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