The Joe Rogan Experience - #763 - Action Bronson
Episode Date: February 23, 2016Action Bronson is a rapper and former chef. His show "F*ck, That's Delicious" can soon be seen on Vice's new cable network, Viceland. ...
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Yee-haw ladies and gentlemen yee-fucking-haw that's what I have to say to everyone in America
but dude when you get to call yourself a name like action like how dare you first of all how
dare you be so bold that that's your name, Action? That's my name, man.
That's who I am.
That's who I was born.
How did you get this name, man?
Listen, I'm just known to be doing things.
I'm just known for things.
It's just too cool.
It's too cool for a white person.
You know?
Dude, I've been watching your stuff on Vice.
And first of all, what a great idea What a great idea to come up with that hashtag
Fuck That's Delicious
Thank you, man
Because your Instagram picture is
It is one big Fuck That's Delicious
I know, it's crazy
Your Instagram page, rather
It's awesome
You wouldn't expect it from a rapper
Slash food-traveling human being such as myself I would expect it from a rapper slash food-traveling human being such as myself.
I would expect exactly that.
Yeah?
Yeah, that's exactly what I expect from you.
All right.
Yeah.
Good.
I think I've got you figured out.
You put the thumb on me already?
Shit.
It's a good thing, though.
All right, good.
I'm a fan.
I like what you're doing.
Appreciate it.
Well, do you think that people try to define you?
Is that what it is?
Is it like people look at you and they try to dismiss you or what is it i don't think they
try to dismiss me but i feel that people try to define you of course put you in a box of course
but i'm not the one that's ever to be put in a box you just there hasn't been any person like
me ever and they'll probably you know there will be someone like me coming along but are you the white kanye def i'm the i'm the i'm the slightly tan
adiano slani aka action bronson so you're you're traveling around how many of these restaurants
are you visiting how many of these shows you're doing for vice uh we already did eight episodes
of the first season we got picked up for a We're going to be doing 12 episodes for the second. Shit.
I'm trying to sign
a long-term deal.
Seven years,
$138 million around there,
a couple of incentives.
Well, it's a great idea, man.
In the future,
things like what you're getting on
like vice.com
or these YouTube pages
that people just can,
you can do your own show like that.
Yep.
And it can get gigantic
like you can it can get almost bigger than i could ever get on tv because you can download
it and watch it anytime you want well that's the issue i'm having right now because we've become
such a like a global show that we're now on vice's television network that is about to start on march
3rd i mean on february 29th called Viceland. And I have some quarrels about
it to tell you the truth because it's only going to be in North America. And I mean, people are
going to get what they want. So obviously they're going to download it, tour in it, whatever they're
going to do. But it's necessary for it to be on YouTube. I stress that with every video that I
ever do, it is totally necessary to be on YouTube
because everyone needs access to it.
You could be right here.
You want to show me something, boom.
Type it right in, you can show it to me.
We don't have to go to the TV, see what time it comes on.
I know they have on demand, but still,
it's a fucking process.
It's easier.
Yeah, it's so universal.
It's where everyone goes.
It's like you wake up in the morning You go to YouTube for some shit
You listen to some music
You put a mix on
You watch some highlights for some shit
You have it in your TV now
If you have Apple TV
It's one of the apps
It's so easy to use
It's pretty much making TV obsolete
Well between that and Netflix And Hulu and all these different online providers where you can access it super easy now on your television, and especially if you have one of those Apple TVs.
Yep.
It's so easy to get.
And this is just, what's it going to be like a decade from now, man?
I mean, you're going to be able to talk to your tv and say action brunson and they'll just pull up
what would you like to know you know i would like to listen to his best shit that's right
his best shit yeah i mean it's gonna be it's gonna be able to uh easily decipher what you're
saying because right now they're pretty fucking good have you like fucked with siri at all and
ask siri questions yep they i mean mean, it gets pretty next level.
This guy right here is, like, the tech guy, so I leave it to him.
There's, like, 7,000 apps and this shit and that.
It's fucking games all day long.
Do you have a flip phone?
I did.
Did you really?
My first phone was the StarTAC.
I had one of those, too.
Motorola StarTAC.
My friend Ari Shafir went back to the flip phone.
Yeah?
Yep.
He's like,
fuck all you people.
You're losing your mind.
He's a smart dude.
He is right.
He's right
because I'm a fucking slave.
There's no doubt about that.
I go on.
I'm on Twitter.
When I wake up,
I just put it on
to see what the hell's going on.
It's upsetting.
Everybody's a slave to that thing.
That thing's monstrous.
But awesome. Right right it's incredible
well the amount of data that you can just get on anything instantly tell me about kettlebells tell
me about airplane who invented the first drone just boom and you just start going through all
the weird chinese guy probably and we were talking about this yesterday, how like a YouTube video now recommends
and starts playing the next YouTube video.
Like you just sit there.
It's sort of like Netflix does with like a series.
They'll just start playing the next one.
It's like, sit down, bitch.
Where are you going?
You ain't going.
He trapped you.
Playing automatically, like playing for you.
YouTube does that all the time now.
Things related.
Yeah.
Things that are slightly related
Yeah
You discuss
I mean
Just
From make
To make music using YouTube
Has become a pleasure
You know it's like
It's a new age of digging in the crates
You have to search pages for rare shit
And see make sure no one
You know
No one else has used it
And it's like A never ending and see, make sure no one else has used it.
And it's like a never-ending catalog of musical talent from all over the globe.
Yeah.
It's unbelievable.
From the early opera singers.
Shit.
You can listen to anything.
They have, from the early 1900s, the first recording somehow.
That's insane.
You know?
Yeah. from the early 1900s the first recording somehow that's insane you know yeah it's insane to think that they figured out how to put sound on a black plastic disc that made it so awesome and they
figured out how to do that when we were apes you know i mean people were like in comparison to
today like the amount of technology they had then this is like the early 1800s they figured out how to do that, right?
What year was it they invented the phonograph record player?
Remember they used to have that big hoop?
Yeah, the hoop.
The big tuba-looking thing.
You had to just fucking turn it.
And you would sit on it, and the sound would come off the record
through that tuba thing.
Yeah, they had something before that I was looking up right now.
In 1877, Edison had this thing that they recorded on tinfoil.
I'll show you what it looks like.
Whoa.
So when was it?
I feel like it was.
1877.
It was all cylinders.
It was a video from like tech TV where some guy drops one.
It's like an old viral video from the early 2000s.
Jesus Christ.
He dropped it and broke it?
Yeah.
Oh, fuckhead.
What a fucking asshole.
Wow. broke it yeah oh fuckhead what a fucking asshole wow it's unbelievable it says it's a cornet solo on a wax cylinder well if that was done today i'd want my fucking money
back i'd be like you shitty audio engineer you for what did you keep your phone in your pocket
and record it from there?
But listening to that, when you consider the time, it sounds amazing.
So what was the first phonograph?
What year was that invented?
Why do I feel like it was the 1800s?
Am I wrong or is it way earlier than that?
I think it was at the end of the 1800s.
The end of it.
They used to look so wild with that big tube thing that came out of it yep
but they haven't really figured out how to make it sound better than the record does
no what is the difference because some people say it's bullshit some people say it's just fetishism
and and some people who are real audiophile type they they're all kind of agreed it's like
a different kind of sound well it's what everyone explains to me and now I understand is a warmth.
Yeah.
There's a warmth to it.
You know, it's easier on the ear than, say, the electronic music
and the digital shit of today.
It's a little bit more harsh.
The older stuff was toned better and, I don't know,
the plastic, the vinyl does something.
Something to it.
The people that are real audio freaks all seem to agree on that, right?
For sure.
But there's a lot of... It's something about tape.
Recording directly to two-inch tape.
Using this thing, this big machine.
Nowadays, we just go right into the computer through whatever.
I don't know what the fuck.
Like an M-Box or...
Right.
So, what... the computer through whatever i don't know what the fuck like an mbox or right so what what jamie you're you're one of the people that doesn't think it makes that much of a difference right
no it's just up to what at this point it's what you're hearing so like people today are trained
to hear things off of iphone's and itunes or list like mp3s that compression we're used to hearing
it so being told that something else sounds better it's like you're trying to tell them they don't, you know,
you can't, it's really hard to do that.
It's all about the compression.
The compression makes everything sound full and smooth.
Is it possible it's a more familiar sound?
Is that why it's...
Sort of, yeah.
Like they're even mixing things now.
You'll see it's mastered for iTunes.
It's mastered to be heard through those little two earbuds,
not through a giant sound system at home,
giant speakers with subwoofers and whatnot.
Absolutely correct.
Interesting.
Everything is more personal now.
No one ever drives down the street anymore
blasting the music.
The fuck happened to that?
You know?
It used to go, when you got the car,
you used to have to go and buy the humongous speakers
to put in the bitch.
I think people started going deaf.
Whatever. Whatever.
Whatever.
If you're driving around with earplugs on and you're blasting music, it's kind of a douche move.
Right?
If it's so bad it hurts your ears, you have to put earplugs in.
There's this guy in my neighborhood that just drives around every Sunday in a piece of shit Cadillac with a bow on the front.
Playing all types of Frankie Valli at the loudest volume
that could possibly be and just singing along.
It's incredible.
It's his ritual every Sunday.
You really are right because it used to be like every stoplight,
you would hear...
Yep.
Yep.
You'd feel like your car vibrate.
Those people that go crazy with the subwoofers
to the point where you feel it in the air around you.
Fucking mirrors are rattling.
Yeah, I love it.
Do you love it?
No, I don't.
It's terrible.
Have you ever been in a vehicle with the shit turned up all the way?
Yes.
If you sit in the back seat where the subwoofer is,
it feels like it's coming through your chest like your
fucking heart is about to explode with that bass yeah especially if you play like dip set or
something like some sort of some sort of edm you know like some crazy house music you literally go
through a trance well you know what else went out dudes with the crazy the crazy wagon rims
Well, you know what else went out?
Dudes with the crazy wagon rims.
Those wagon wheel rims. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Everybody was like, how many potholes are we going to hit?
Yeah, now the rims.
You can't have a 28-inch rim.
What the fuck is this?
These ridiculous rims.
These tires are like a piece of bubble gum.
Yeah, yeah.
The run flats, thinnows.
I can't do it, man.
I got some Schmitz on my car.
What's a Schmitz?
There's some German rims that you could fucking,
the tank could roll over them shits and they'll be all right.
You can literally drive the car without rubber wheels on it,
just on the rims.
What?
Yeah.
What kind of wheels are these?
They were Schmitz.
You could look them up.
Wow.
There's a Schmitz.
That's crazy.
You can drive them on the road?
Yeah, those over there on the left.
Yep, those.
That's a, what kind of car do you have, man?
A BMW Wagon, 5 Series 95.
That's a nice, those years are like the nicest years.
Yeah, for sure.
BMW M5s and the 5 Series
I love those
Doesn't Tony have one of those?
Hinchcliffe has one of those?
No, I don't know
They say that like
The 5 Series BMW from like
There's like two eras
Like there's the one they have now
The one they had before
And then the one they had before that
And that's where you're at? Yeah, I mean The 95 one is the one they have now, the one they had before, and then the one they had before that. And that's where you're at?
Yeah, I mean, the 95 one is the one right before they changed the body.
Yeah, those are like classic cars, man.
Yeah, man.
Tony has a 5 Series from there, and I have another friend who has a 3 Series from there.
Like those cars were something special, man.
They just figured out a way to make them.
They handle so good.
They brake so good. break so good they're the
right amount of weight they're not too heavy exactly you get like a good movement with them
and that's very precise yeah look at that thing they're fucking metal exactly that's the m5 from
that era that's just that car was a piece of genius that's a beauty right there's a fucking
crazy video that someone put out that i could barely watch, man. It's some asshole in some other country.
I don't know what country he's in, but he's in an M5, one of those, that series.
And he's driving through traffic like a fucking maniac.
Like you watch it and you just go, Jesus.
You're holding on to the chair, right?
He burns it into the oncoming lane, cuts in front of people.
I mean, he is doing some fucking crazy shit really fast, but driving
like a wizard. Like, going around
corners sideways. He must be a race car driver.
Yeah, yeah. There's no way he's not a race car driver.
Oh, this is it. Jesus Christ,
Jamie. How dare you?
This motherfucker is nuts.
Look at this. Damn. Watch this.
Look at this. Oh, shit. He's just
drifting. Yeah, he's drifting.
Oh, that's a beauty, too.
He's going around people.
I mean, look how he's driving.
Where is this?
This fucking guy's speeding while people are walking across the road,
and he doesn't give a fuck.
Look at this. Oncoming.
Doesn't give a fuck.
This guy is fucking crazy.
Look at this shit.
He's out of his mind. He's killing it.
Look at this.
Where is this? Austria?
I don't know where it is.
They have those crazy long European license plates, though.
But look at the way this motherfucker drives.
What is this, Jamie?
Some people, if they want to watch it.
BMWM5needfordrive.com.
Last illegal street racing and drift driver, Georgiorgio Tevzadze.
Oh, yeah, he just died.
Look at this.
Did he?
Yeah, he just died, I think.
He just did some crazy shit in the whip.
He died in this car, actually.
Come on.
Check it out.
Oh, my God.
I think it's R.I.P. Giorgio.
How do you say his name again?
Giorgio Tevzadze.
Tevzadze.
Yeah, Giorgio Tevzadze.
I think he's dead. R.I.P. Radze. Yeah, Giorgio Tevzadze. I think he's dead.
R.I.P.
There he is.
I saw he died in the burgundy Beamer.
Jesus Christ.
He died in the burgundy.
Infamous BMW street drifter dies in crash.
Outside the Barclay.
Oh, no.
Holy shit.
He was 26 years old.
Yep.
What a nut, man.
He was leaving a restaurant in Georgia with a sober driver at the wheel.
The M5 skidded at what appears to be a high speed into a tree on the right hand side of the car.
Tevzadzzi died.
The driver appears to be fine.
Oh, he wasn't driving.
Oh, shit.
That is ironic.
No, it's not.
That's like Alanis Morissette ironic.
Isn't it ironic?
That's not ironic, but it's kind of fucked.
You know, like, Kinnison was killed by a drunk driver.
And Kinnison used to have those bits about drinking and driving.
You know, we're going to do it. We're going to have those bits about drinking and driving. Mm-hmm.
You know, we're going to do it.
We're going to drink.
We're going to drive.
We're going to pull it off.
You know what?
We do it every fucking night.
The crowd would go crazy, and people would get so mad.
They were like, this guy is encouraging drunk driving.
Like, what the fuck?
And then, boom, he gets killed by a drunk driver.
I'm like, fucking karma.
Yeah, I don't know if karma's real, real But god damn there's a lot of evidence out there
You know it's just a saying
You know
One of those things
Like I swear to god
It ain't real
But it's one of those things
Like an American slang word
Karma is a motherfucker though
It is
And that statement
Karma is a motherfucker Is like one of the best statements.
As far as when shit goes down like that, you're like, oof.
Man.
But, you know, nobody wishes that on somebody.
Especially if you're a driver and you're like,
he's probably like, bitch, this would have never happened if I was at the wheel.
Never.
Fucking Georgie.
The way that guy drived, that was insane was insane i mean it's horrific to watch definitely shouldn't be allowed to
do it what about the videos of the fucking russian dudes climbing the
buildings i was just gonna say something about that some new dude um i put one up
on my instagram page i put like two of them in a row. They were fucking freaking me out.
And this dude contacted me through Twitter and said hi.
His stunts are, he's insane.
And he's got YouTube videos of these things too.
You just, they're insane.
I mean, he's on like the Eiffel Tower or some shit, right?
Oh, I saw that one.
Is that, what is it?
Is that in Paris that he's on the top of that tower?
He's insane. It makes your fucking palms sweat. It makes like, oh my God. It's like, what is it? Is that in Paris that he's on the top of that tower? He's insane. It makes your fucking palms sweat.
It makes like, oh my god. It's like, what the fuck?
Dude, it makes every fucking cell
on your body just starts vibrating
like, get away from me!
Get away!
It's heavy.
I don't get that, man.
If I was in that shape,
and I probably would try it too. Would you really?
Yeah, but they're in crazy shape. You see probably would try it too. Would you really? Yeah.
But they're in crazy shape.
You see them doing pull-ups.
Look at this.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Oh, this is in New York, I guess.
Is this New York?
Dubai?
Yeah, it looks like Dubai.
Oh, my God.
Look at the edge.
This is not good.
James Kingston's his name.
He's crazy.
American dude?
Oh, my God.
You know what a guy like this?
I would just like for him to just retire right now.
Look, he did it.
Congratulations.
Let's not keep doing this.
Let's just not keep doing this.
Look at this fuck.
Oh, my God.
Look at this dude.
Oh, my God.
He's doing chin-ups on this thing.
Oh, my God. He's one-handing it.
Dude, please stop.
I can't do this.
I can't do this.
Oh fucking Christ.
Oh my God.
Dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude.
Dude.
Okay.
For people who are... The description is like...
His name, TheJamesKingston on Instagram.
That's his page.
And I don't feel so good.
The way he was holding on the...
It was a thick-ass bar.
He's with one arm.
He's hanging with one arm.
He's like a mile in the sky.
Dude, stop it, Jamie.
Stop it.
I can't do it.
Stop. Cut it off. it, Jamie. Stop it. I can't do it. Stop.
Cut it off.
Fuck, man.
Oh, my God.
Flat-footed?
Word?
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
He just jumped from one building to another.
Look at this.
Not even a running start.
This is insane. This is insane.
That is insane.
How does he do that?
Like, I would splatter.
I would never make it that far.
How's he making it that far?
He has some good thrust.
The momentum and the thrust.
But that seems like an insane amount of distance to travel, doesn't it?
How the fuck does he judge that?
How does he jump and land like that?
You got a crazier one?
Look at Jamie's face.
Look at this.
Look at this.
Oh, there's no way.
He just jumps across a building.
How is that possible, man?
How is that possible?
And this is one of his favorite jumps in the city, apparently.
Come on, son.
You know, like, this doesn't make any sense.
At the end of the day, man, how is that possible?
If I could could I would like
when skateboarding like once Tony Hawk does the 900 right she had done everyone
else can just start doing it but I just look I'm I just I'm shocked by the
distance he's covering I guess I guess what's going on it's like the distance
of one building it's it's it far away, but it's also higher.
So in his leap, if he gets a good spring, his arc will carry him over.
But he's got to judge that perfectly.
There's no room for error whatsoever.
This is what it looks like sideways?
Oh, shit.
Look how far he's jumping, man.
That's insane.
That's an insane amount of space he's covering when he lands on that edge.
Like that kid, he must be like, I mean, I don't know how much he weighs,
but he must be insanely strong for his weight,
and he can just throw his body through the air like that.
He must have just a ridiculous explosion out of his legs.
And then land so lightly.
That's freakish shit i guess it's
those things like if you just concentrate on only doing that you can do it in a way that doesn't
make sense to someone like you or me or an up you know i can't even ice skate
are you serious i can't ice skate at all What the fuck?
I can ice skate incredibly man I'm fucking
I can't ice skate
285
On a good day
First of all I can't find
Shoot when I don't have
My own ice skates
So I have to rent ice skates
It's for the same
Same reason why I couldn't
Ski for years
The rentals are fucking shitty
Well it's not even just that
My feet are too wide.
So if I had a regular size 11,
my feet,
I have,
someone in my background
fucked a monkey.
I don't know when it was.
Big fucking,
big foot foot.
Long time ago.
Like when you shouldn't be able
to fuck monkeys anymore,
someone just went back in
for one more shot
and fucked a monkey.
Guaranteed.
It was like the last,
like last call
for evolution.
Last call for, and one of my ancestors just snuck back in and got one more nut off um but my feet are just too wide so i get in
those things i'm just in agony and i just never learn how and i'm not gonna it's not interesting
enough for me to go out and buy ice skates you know if i was like this is it this is something
i have to conquer then i would have to learn how to ice skate.
It was much more exciting as a youth.
Yeah.
Fucking roller, like, not rollerblading, fucking ice skating to Green Day, shit like that, you know what I mean?
That's right, they play loud music and you spin around on the ice.
Yeah.
See, I guess hockey would be the reason to do it.
Like, if you wanted to learn how to play hockey.
I'm saying you pretend you're doing hockey moves, you know, like you're on the ice, snowing,
when you stop and you throw the snow at people, you know, the shh.
Right.
That's a cool move.
Yeah, exactly.
So it's like, you wear the hockey skates, you definitely don't wear the figure skating
ones.
Mm.
No chance. No, you don don't wear the figure skating ones. No chance.
No, you don't.
What's the difference?
Well, they have the spikes in the front so you can do the triple toe lutz.
You don't want anybody seeing your spikes.
Definitely.
Well, when you go straight, you have to lift a little bit and you're going to fall on your face.
The hockey is a little curvature, like a running shoe.
It just allows you to maneuver through the ice
So it allows you to maneuver better
But it doesn't allow you to do tricks
You can't do a stop and then triple toe lutz
Or like a Scott Hamilton flip
So are they doing flips
When they do those spins on the ice
Are they doing them with special skates
Is that what the deal is
For sure, Brian Boitano
Do you remember south park what would brian boitano do
oh my god love it that was like one of their first episodes right was it the first one
god that was funny man that was going around as a vhs tape back in the day that was one of those
things where a buddy of mine said, you have to see this.
Check this out.
These guys made this video.
It was Jesus and Brian Boitano, right?
Mm-hmm.
Who else was in it?
Santa.
Santa.
That's right.
Whatever it was, it was fucking hilarious.
And it was way before its time.
You know?
What was the year the first South Park tape
was made when you find out how long those guys have been around this was
made 1992 Jesus Christ dude they've been killing it since 92 92 South Park came
out in 92 well no that the spirit of Christmas is what that was called. I think that show came out in like 97. Okay, yeah.
Did it come out that much later, really?
I think so.
God, it was so funny.
I must have got it after.
If they did it in 92, I didn't move here until 94,
and I know that I got it when I was living in Encino because I remember popping it in when a friend came over.
It was amazing.
He had to lend you the tape?
Somebody gave it to me. I don't remember how I got the tape, the tape? Somebody gave it to me.
I don't remember how I got the tape,
but I remember somebody gave it to me and said,
you got to watch this.
And then I remember popping it in a VCR for my friend.
It was so ridiculous.
It was super funny.
It was really crude.
I almost wish he would go back to doing it this way, you know?
Because it was so obvious that it was, you know, just really shitty animation.
Like, look at the mouth movements.
It's more, it's still shitty, but it's more sophisticated now, right?
It's sophisticated shitty.
Yeah.
I mean, this is, I bet the amount of time it took to do this is probably ridiculous, though.
You know, like the Team Americaica i think he said he would
never do uh one of those movies again because it was just way too time consuming i mean it was a
pretty incredible fucking movie it's one of my favorites ever yeah it's one of my all-time
favorites we're talking about like movies that are funnier than Tropic Thunder. And it's... Probably none are funnier in moments.
It's as funny as a movie gets.
But there's other really funny movies, too.
You think that's the funniest of all time?
It's one of them.
It's one of the funniest.
It's a stupid, funny movie.
But Team America.
Team America, too.
Zoolander's really funny.
Yeah, there's a lot of fucking talladega knights and i lost all credibility right there jamie when i
first saw fucking borat i pretty much shit my pants yeah borat yeah even bruno i didn't see
bruno i still haven't seen it my albanian father my fucking albanian father. Immigrant. Hardhead.
Like, only knows one way.
Ah, vuh.
Neanderthal.
Thinks that's one of the fucking funniest movies ever.
You know what I mean? It's just weird.
It's a crossover hit.
You know what's an underrated
funny movie? And Adam Sandler's
Don't Mess With The Zohan.
Oh yeah, that one's a good one too.
Underrated funny movie, man. Because a lot of people, they put Adam Sandler's Don't Mess With the Zohan. Oh, yeah. That one's a good one, too. You're right.
Underrated funny movie, man.
Because a lot of people, they put Adam Sandler movies into a category.
Sometimes they can get a little dismissive of an Adam Sandler movie.
But that Don't Mess With the Zohan is a classic.
That was a good one.
Yeah.
So tell me how your show works, man.
Do you just decide where you want to go?
Does somebody else suggest where to go?
Well, a lot of the times it's I go on tour for my music
And then while we're there
We end up shooting the show
If that's not the case
I just tell them, listen
I want to go to fucking Sicily
And then we're in Sicily
You know?
It's that simple
And we just
I bring my boys with me
And we just go in They put the with me and we just go in.
They put the camera on and we just act how we act.
It's up to us.
Wow.
Then you just get to pick where you're eating and just showcase different chefs.
You were a chef at one point, too?
I was.
That's how I really started. started i was uh my when i was like 18 i went to high uh culinary school and
fucked off after that for about a year and a half or two and had a child and went back into the
kitchen to start working and that was just it i thought i was just gonna be a fucking short order
cook or chef or whatever for the rest of my life out of nowhere i broke my leg just slipped on the floor broke my leg i you know
i was working a little bit with music before that but not in any capacity where i thought it would
be where i am now and shit here we are you know that took me out of the kitchen professionally
put me in the recording studio all the time that's crazy yeah fall changed
your destiny straight up broke my right leg my right ankle from a slip a very like i've slipped
much worse i've done much worse to myself and this one just cracked it that's so interesting
how something like that can happen or something that looks like a bad thing that happened to you
turned into, like, this amazing door that opened up.
Yep.
Then all of a sudden, you could do what you really want to do.
It's, this is what I wanted to do my whole life.
Nothing, you know, just what I wanted to do, you know?
So.
What is this?
We're watching, Jamie.
Niamh Jam? What is that? Oh, yeah, Jamie. Niam Jam?
What is that?
Oh, yeah. This is me in Jamaica.
Oh, wow.
I went down here to do...
What did I go down here to do?
I went down here to do some sort of exhibition with Mario Batali,
but he was in no condition to do anything with me that day,
so I ended up just hanging out pretty much at the beach the whole time.
Oh, so you were supposed to hang out with Mario and he got fucked up?
Pretty much.
I was hanging out with him, but we were just sitting at the bar hanging.
He was, you know, he was doing well.
He just didn't feel like doing anything.
He just wanted to hang out.
The weather was too good.
Oh, I get it.
The weather was just too beautiful.
So he just didn't want to participate in a show.
Well, nah, not this one.
Just in the entire
events
of the thing. I feel like we're dancing around
in this story. Yeah, nah, he was
bottom line is... I don't want to push you on anything.
Bottom line, I was fucking
I ate a macaroon, like one of these
edibles. Oh.
And I was just demolished walking around.
Did Mario get demolished too?
No, Mario doesn't get demolished.
That's too bad.
He just drinks wine.
That's too bad.
Yeah.
He's missing out.
He is.
I think that he's had his share.
You think so?
I would say.
You think he's done?
I would say.
I got to get back to the fucking kitchen.
I got to cook the shit out of some food.
I don't have time for these deep soul-searching weed trips.
Nah, he's just hanging out, man.
He's just living his life.
He's like a fucking superstar.
He's a rock star, that guy.
The world of chefs is a very different world.
And when I was younger, I didn't really appreciate it as an art form.
I think I just thought of it as more like, you know, just a cool thing that someone knows how to make really good food because you can go to that restaurant and you can get it there.
I didn't think of who is the creator of that food and what is that.
Is that an art form?
Because I think it really definitely is.
100%.
And guys like you, you look like a chef, which is like you're all tattooed up.
That's today's chef.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's today's chef.
They look like they could be artists.
Yeah, for sure.
Well, that's today's chefs.
Today's chefs are young, crazy, tattooed motherfuckers.
You can't really call who's the chef,
but a classic chef is usually the French guy
with the handkerchief around his
neck and a big hat it's not like that anymore the chefs are now rock stars well they definitely
have become because i think a lot of it's because of bourdain's show they definitely become more
highlighted in that regard like in his show he's always like interviewing these weird funky people
in portland that are yep you know raising their own chickens and shit and, you know, farm to table type restaurants.
He'll hang out with a lot of like weird experimental chef people.
And a lot of them look like you.
Yeah, no, that's a good thing.
He definitely opened the door for a lot of people.
But I feel like the celebrity chef started with Emeril Lagasse and people like that, like earlier with like.
Excuse me, what about Julia Child?
Exactly. There you go. with like... Excuse me, what about Julia Child? Exactly.
There you go.
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
You can't go Emeril.
You can't say it started with Emeril.
But I'm sort of like in this era, you know,
where it really fucking took off.
Julia Child was really the only one.
And that other guy, Graham Kerr or some shit,
whatever the fucking guy's name was.
So was there like a calm before the storm,
before Emeril arrived?
Man, I don't know. It was like Julia Child and and there was nothing the world was searching for a tv cook i was fucking driving around and fucking jettas and shit smoking weed in queens i had no idea
watching saved by the bell at 7 a.m emerald's supposed to be a super nice guy
that emerald lagasse everybody by all accounts like one of the nicest guys in the world.
Bam!
He says bam all the time.
Bam!
He gets hype.
By all accounts, like one of the nicest guys.
He just keeps scallions in his pocket, and every fucking time he says bam,
just throws scallions in your face.
Yeah, it's also interesting in the world of food and likes and cooks and chefs that
there's like different schools of food and cooks and chefs there's like the really experimental
artistic people make maybe even alternative in their musical choices and then there's like
guy fieri who's like you know a big bolsterous american drives a yellow corvette he's got frosted tips you know
what i mean it's like he's got his own he's a fucking classic character white snake version
equally entertaining you know what i mean like i'm a white snake fan you know i love him he's
he's he's incredible it's funny how those those guys don't like each other. And they get disliked. Bourdain and him go back and forth.
It's a beef.
It's hilarious.
Bourdain is fucking hilarious.
He's hilarious.
He's like a comic.
He's a real dude.
He easily could be a comic.
He's 100%.
He worked in New York Kitchen his entire life.
He started jujitsu at 58.
I know.
I see.
57, 58.
He's doing a good job.
He's rolling around over there. He got a blue see. 57, 58. He's doing a good job. He's rolling around over there, huh?
He got a blue belt.
Really?
Yeah, he got his blue belt.
That's a legit blue belt from Henzo Gracie's Academy.
That is about as legit a blue belt as there is in the world.
You have to earn that.
You don't just get that.
That guy, that's very impressive.
That's very impressive to do that at his age.
And apparently, he's doing it every day, man.
It becomes addictive, right?
Yeah, and I looked at your Instagram page.
You're working out.
You have someone trains you sometimes?
Well, yeah.
You know, like I've been athletic my entire life.
I played football in fucking high school, baseball.
You know, as time goes on, you get lazy.
You know, when I was younger, I was fucking juicing.
I was taking steroids and shit.
I was fucking buff.
I'm serious.
I believe you.
I was squatting like six.
I was fucking benching.
My highest was four and five.
You squatting 600 pounds?
Straight up.
No shoes on.
No shoes.
No wraps.
Just in the bucket.
You didn't wear shoes?
No shoes.
You know, you got to keep the flat, a good flat shoe.
600 pounds with no shoes.
That's crazy.
That's a lot of weight.
It was like 22 years old, 23 years old.
But it was probably because of the steroids.
Well, doing a show like this where you're traveling around the world and you're eating all that food,
I would imagine, man, it would be super easy to just get lazy.
Bro, I just literally lost 50 pounds and I just gained another 20.
So my whole life is fluctuation.
I just need to get to that point where I need to get past that fluctuating point
and just go down and start seeing all these fucking abs that I have under there.
You know what I'm saying?
I have like 32 ab muscles that you could possibly see.
All that needs to be done is shredded.
Do you really want to lose that much weight?
Of course.
Anybody that's overweight wants to have a fucking six-pack before they die.
It's a fact.
Is it a fact?
Yeah.
I have one vein.
You know when you gauge working out if you can see the vein or not?
Yes.
I have that good one vein over here, the squiggly.
Upper shoulder, Stallone, babe.
Exactly.
The squiggly one.
Yeah.
It's a good one.
That's a good one.
Like, what was the bodybuilder, the fucking, the French guy.
I forgot his name.
French guy? Paul De his name. French guy?
Paul DeLay.
I don't know who that guy is.
That's an obscure reference.
Exactly.
I have obscure Strongman references, all types of bodybuilder references.
Yeah, that's a ridiculous one.
Look up Paul DeLay and tell me that he doesn't have that fucking...
He's famous for the squiggle.
So have you thought about like hiring a nutritionist
i know what to do you know what to do i do know what to do it's just not easy doing it alone i
need someone to you know literally know you can't do that you can't have that at one in the morning
you can't eat a fucking in and out right now you can't have fries right now just do
just stick to it it's hard to stick to it so is it um just a self-control thing yes yeah but i i
have self-control in spurts which is weird there is paul delay there he is christ this guy's body
is insanity that doesn't even look real. Oh, my God.
What's with the suspenders?
That's two pictures in a row with him wearing suspenders.
They always have suspect outfits on and fucking body.
They always wear some wild, like, where did you get that?
Look at his jeans with the belt.
That's definitely Carl Canai.
Dude, he is a shwoll.
He's so swole.
That's ridiculous.
Yeah.
That guy's so big. i used to look at magazines and
want to be like that it's just crazy it's an like ronnie coleman and fucking insane science project
right there really that's a that's a science project it's amazing how many of those science
projects exist though i mean that's what all those magazines are it's the weirdest conspiracy
and it is a conspiracy,
that all those, like, if you're looking at those bodybuilding magazines and shit,
that none of them, like, I don't know, maybe they do now,
but back in the day, none of them were talking about how they did steroids.
You're right.
It was all dancing around it. But they were also talking about, like, you know,
I take creatine from, you know, muscle dick hard corporation.
And this creatine is guaranteed to pack on 30 pounds of mass.
And they were all, like, pretending that they got all that muscle from some stuff that, you know, it's like barely works.
Like, creatine works a little bit.
But if you get to the Paul DeLay levels.
No way.
You can't look like that. Like, levels, you can't look like that.
A human being can't look like that.
I don't think people understand that.
And I don't think I understand
why the fuck they used to not
talk about it. Why was it so taboo?
Because it was illegal.
Yeah, but now it's illegal and everyone knows
what you're doing. It's like more out in the open
now with all the baseball shit and this.
I don't think that it's wrong.
Every baseball player...
Oh, that's what he looks like now?
That's crazy.
That looks like a meme.
Oh, my God.
That looks like something on the...
Yo, what the fuck?
That is insane.
What does it say above that, Jamie?
He already experienced some atrophy
of his arms and back. why would it happen to him
and it just says he's clearly off anabolics and stuff oh i say wow jesus christ well you know
that guy when he was as big as he was at the top he had to be on just staggering amounts of that stuff. That's what people don't understand is even if you,
I do know one dude though,
I have to be honest.
I know one dude that I know who never took anything.
I know he didn't cause he didn't,
he wouldn't even eat vitamins.
This guy ate all his vegetables.
He's a very smart guy and he got really big,
like ridiculous.
He was my friend,
Brian Frazier.
He's a writer.
He's a comic out of Boston.
And at one point in time, he was fucking enormous.
And I know all he did was work out.
That's all he did.
He was just a, like, dedicated bodybuilder.
Dedicated to lifting weights.
He was fucking gigantic.
Yeah, man.
Some people just have those genetics.
But he was clean.
No, it wasn't even genetics.
He was just dedicated
Just dedicated
Just dedicated
Hard work
And he got
Was he shredded
Like he was
Shredded
Wow
He was entering competitions
He was ridiculously swole
So much so
That one time
He went up on stage
He had a
Like a
Like a golf shirt on
Like an alligator shirt
And he came off stage
And I pulled him aside
I said dude listen to me
You can't go on stage
with short sleeve shirts. He goes, why?
I go, because your arms are way too big.
I go, they're way too big. They're distracting me.
I'm like, I'm your friend.
And they're distracting me. You're up
there, like, you're so intimidating.
He was so swole.
I was like, you can't go on stage like that. Nobody wants to see that.
I feel like that's how I wanted to be
at one point. I feel like that's how I wanted to be at one point.
I feel like that's what I wanted.
Yeah, but- Maybe it's the height thing.
You want to be wide that way, and it's because you're a little bit shorter than the normal
man.
Yeah.
You want to be tall that way.
You and I, we go east-west.
Exactly.
We can't go north-south.
But I think that if you really wanted to do it though, you would be like Brian,
you would be dedicated to it and you'd really want to do it.
You'd get into it,
but it's one of those things where you want to do it,
but you're also like a guy who really enjoys life.
And there's too many things that I have to be dedicated to,
man.
It's fucking hard.
You don't have to be dedicated to music,
to this,
to that,
to food,
to the fucking everybody,
family.
It's like,
come on, man. Yeah. How many more things I have to be dedicated to music, to this, to that, to food, to the fucking everybody, family. It's like, come on, man.
Yeah.
How many more things do I have to eat?
Well, I think if you do decide to do something like that, I think what you're saying is what's really the true thing that a lot of people are trying to avoid when it comes to losing weight or changing your life.
It's like you have to be dedicated to that.
It can't be something you do like, hey, I'm dedicated to my music.
Hey, I'm dedicated to my golf game Hey, I'm dedicated to you know, whatever my golf game
But um, I'm gonna lose weight too like no you have to be dedicated
Yes, that has to be your main goal in life is to be doing that you have to focus on that
Because we one of them. Yeah, you know gonna try to change your chemistry and when people do it. It's so fucking impressive
I mean how many people have you met that have lost like a hundred pounds?
You just want to just shake their hand and go, dude, you fucking did it.
Bro.
You lost 100 pounds.
I lost 80 and I gained a fucking back.
This is what I'm talking about, my fluctuation.
It's crazy.
Have you ever thought about, I mean, I know you love food,
but have you ever thought about changing the kind of foods you eat?
Yeah, of course.
I don't think it's the fine foods that I eat.
I think it's the refined sugars and the disgusting shit that I decide to eat.
Why don't you try to just cut that stuff?
Like the chipwich that I had last night.
What'd you have?
A chipwich.
What's a chipwich?
It's a fucking two Toll House cookies with ice cream in between.
That sounds awesome.
It was good and it was melted and I still ate it.
Damn. That's fucking disgusting. It's pig in between. That sounds awesome. It was good and it was melted and I still ate it.
Damn.
That's fucking disgusting.
It's piglet shit.
That sounds great.
Piglet shit.
We actually, he actually had it in his pocket for about a half an hour before I ate it.
Oh my God.
Yeah, so.
I bet it was glorious when it was going down.
My friend Aubrey has the best way of looking at it.
We were talking about it, and he was like,
it's so crazy that just a few moments of mouth pleasure is worth fucking up your entire body.
Like your body, the thing that carries you around in this life,
the thing that you need more than anything.
And just for a few moments of mouth pleasure,
just muah, muah're just, and then you're
feeling your whole body going, what did you just throw in here and have us deal with,
you asshole.
It's crazy.
It's fucking nuts.
You asshole.
It's fucking nuts.
What a cruel, sick, fucked up joke nature has played on us, to make the things that
are the most delicious going down the worst for
your body that's a fucking conspiracy what a what a cunt nature is nature's a dirty cunt
what a bitch do you imagine man like like if you're eating fried chicken with waffles okay
fried chicken with waffles is one of the most fucking bang-up meals America's ever created.
Like a good solid-
You're going to put butter on the waffle, right?
Of course.
Like Roscoe's chicken and waffles.
Just the sheer amount of sugar you are taking in with the waffles-
What drink are you going to have?
What?
Coca-Cola.
I'm not even going to pretend to have a Diet Coke.
You got to get the fucking...
the fucking... It's like
10 times sweeter than
Kool-Aid. What is sunset?
It's like... It's orange
drink, red drink,
and yellow drink
mixed. Just throw them all together? That's the
sunset? It's fucking stupid.
But then if you want to get nuts, you throw
butter on the fried chicken.
Oh, God, yes.
Hot sauce, maple syrup.
Definitely hot sauce.
But then you have to have the grits as well that has mad butter in it.
And, you know, it's like, when does it end?
I think the issue is the sheer grams of sugar you're taking in.
From the waffle and the maple syrup alone, you must be taking in an ungodly amount of
sugar.
Yeah, straight off that stuff.
Yeah, because I drench those things, too.
The way I do it is like if I'm having some maple syrup-
You're going to go in.
It's going to be covered.
Going in.
Yeah, I'm not going to drizzle it and go, I wish I would have had a little bit more
maple syrup, but I'm being sensible.
No, fuck that.
Fuck that.
Fuck that.
I wish I would have had a little bit more maple syrup, but I'm being sensible.
Nah, fuck that.
Fuck that.
Yeah, if you're eating Roscoe's, you know, you probably already made some critical errors.
And you're doing a crazy diet right now, right?
Right now I am, yeah.
So that's what I'm saying.
Like, if you were, you can't even have a cheat day, can you?
You're not supposed to.
I had a beer yesterday.
That's what I'm saying. I don't think you're really supposed to have a beer.
See, you didn't go all out.
If you have a cheat day, you're just have beer but see you didn't go all out if you have a cheat day you should just like yeah i haven't gone all out i've just decided to
try it for 60 days and you know well i want to just see what it's but i don't think you really
evaluate i think i've i've been eating pretty healthy but one way my whole life and i took
some time off of gluten for a while. And I liked that. But what I
liked about it was that I felt like really what was going on was I was just taking in way less
sugar by not having pastas and breads, which I really love. I was just taking in way less sugar
and I lost weight. My face got thinner and I was like, this is interesting. It's like
how much of what I'm taking in is sugar? So I went back to occasionally eating bread and just trying to avoid it.
And then from the last 15 or maybe 16, 15 days, something like that, I've been doing this where I'm doing nothing.
No grains, no pasta, no bread, no sugar.
Nothing that's just nothing other than plants, vegetables, fats, coconut oil, shit like that, and meat.
That's it.
So it's kind of like the Atkins diet from back in the day, right?
Sort of, but more fats.
More fats.
Yeah, more fats even than proteins.
Actually, what the diet is saying is that we use too much protein.
Use too much protein.
And that, like, if you want to do, like, some extreme power lifting and you want to get to be the size of Paul Dillett.
Delay?
Delay?
Who knows?
Arnold Schwarzenegger?
How about that?
You got to, you know, you have to eat a lot more than the average person. But for the average person, the average person that's, like, reasonably athletic, your body doesn't really want to process all that extra protein.
And what it really needs to burn is fats.
And so your body will convert anything into energy that you eat.
But if you live off of a carbohydrate-based diet,
their argument is you're subject to more fluctuations.
Your levels rise and fall.
That's like when you crash after you eat.
And when you haven't eaten eat yep and when you know you
haven't eaten in a while you're starving and a lot of that i think is also related to gut bacteria
and i'm starting to learn more about that but not enough really where i can talk probiotic stuff
probiotics gut bacteria and just the amount of different things that you eat like what there's
certain types of gut bacteria that thrive off of unhealthy food.
And if you're eating a lot of sugars,
apparently what they're saying is that there's different types of gut bacteria
that crave that sugar.
And so when you haven't had it in a while, that gut bacteria,
even if you're full, you might have like pot roast and mashed potatoes
and vegetables and it was like nothing fucked up at all, right?
You eat that and your body's like, hey where's the sugar come on come on because they're
craving it's craving it like yeah those rumbles that you would get so i don't know what i don't
know if that's the case with me so i'm just giving it 60 whole days to see what it's like
you know and if i if i like how i'm feeling after 60 days, I'll tell you right now though,
just a couple of weeks in,
it's awesome.
I feel great.
I feel great.
Um,
I feel,
I don't feel very hungry in between meals,
which is interesting.
It's like I'll eat.
And then,
um,
I guess once you get fat adapted,
you don't,
you just don't have as many crashes.
I just don't know if it's like what I want to do sustainably because it's hard
when you go to a restaurant or
something like that. It's hard.
You can't even have rice.
There's a lot of delicious dishes that come
with rice. You can't even have rice with
a meal. That seems so
extreme. It's unbelievable.
But so far, so good.
Every time I've ever attempted to lose weight,
it was like I did that Atkins
diet back in the day, but it felt like I'm eating eggs and sausage and all this nasty shit and still losing weight.
Yeah.
I didn't understand that.
But I fucking ate a piece of bread and it would be over.
I put five pounds on.
Yeah.
Isn't that crazy?
It's just, it's not worth it.
And then you feel shittier than you did because you gained all that weight and you ate all that disgusting stuff that's got to be sticking to you somewhere, right?
Well, it's just hard for your body to process.
Exactly.
It becomes sugar.
And it fucking makes you shit really badly.
Really badly.
It's like you can't leave the house.
You have to run to the fucking bed.
The Atkins is a little bit different than this diet that i'm doing in that this diet
just has more fat but you still go into that same thing right the ketosis yeah yeah that's what they
want you to do yeah that's the point of these diets yep yeah so your body starts burning fat
and it's like it's fascinating the most fascinating thing about it is seeing people
argue it from both sides.
Seeing people argue that this is bad for your health and you're fucking up and don't do this.
People get upset.
They get upset like you're trying Satanism.
It's like all of a sudden, I'm thinking maybe Satan's got a point.
I'm going to go meet these guys and I'm just going to see what's going on.
That's how they're behaving when you're talking about just going on
this ketogenic diet they pretend like you're doing something evil I don't do
you're gonna fuck yourself up man cut it out yeah like anyone really fucking
knows and then they start posting all these pro carb like you know more carbs
hashtag carb up you know carb is brain fuel. Come on. Just relax.
Relax.
I said I'm trying for 60 days.
Listen, I'm not going to lie.
It's not the easiest thing to have to give up those sheep's milk agnolotti and fucking gnocchi.
I know.
Gnocchi is very good stuff.
Pasta linguine with clam sauce.
There's a place that just opened up directly across the street from my house.
Incredible. It has one of my favorite dishes ever. It's a place that just opened up directly across the street from my house. Incredible.
It has one of my favorite dishes ever.
It's like cacio e pepe.
Just cheese and pepper with pasta.
Oh, my God.
But she does it with the pink peppercorn.
So it's like you're eating a bowl of flowers.
Wow.
It's one of the most incredible things in life.
Wow.
I crave it.
God damn it.
This diet's bullshit.
Exactly.
My bad. I'm sorry about No it's just
It's definitely
Talking about pasta
Please
Keep talking
Take my pants off real quick
Pasta whore
It's
That's what you are
It's just something about pasta
That's
It's like
It's
It's the real comfort food
You know
It's comfort
I mean for you For me for me, for sure.
Yeah, like raviolis.
Like, just cheese raviolis with, like, a good sauce.
You like them fried?
Fried?
Fried ravioli.
I've never had it.
Just fucking do it as if you were doing a chicken cutlet.
Put it in an egg.
Really?
Breadcrumb.
You'll thank me.
Trust me.
Wow.
Like a chicken cutlet. It's unbelievable. Fried r thank me. Trust me. Wow.
Like a chicken cutlet.
It's unbelievable.
Fried ravioli.
Ooh.
It's unbelievable.
Jamie's shaking his head.
You've been all over this country.
I'm surprised you have never eaten fried ravioli.
Yeah.
It's a Midwestern thing.
There's some standards that I have that I have to, like, stick with.
Like, you know, like if I go to Philly, I'm having a cheesesteak.
100%. That's a standard.
I have to stick with that. Do you eat pork? to philly i'm having a cheesesteak 100 standard what about
do we pork yes but what about the pork sandwich that's that's i feel like the cheesesteak is a
bit overrated over there i feel like my guy listen to me the guy at my deli in queens
makes a fucking better cheesesteak what then who then all philadelphia not no no let's let's not
get crazy but that's not get crazy.
But you're saying better.
Because they're usually not flavored.
Oh, okay.
You know what I mean?
They just do the steak, the cheese.
There's no salt.
There needs to be salt.
A little bit at least.
A little bit of salt with meat is always good, right? You know, it brings out the flavor.
Yeah.
I don't want to have to drench it in hot sauce or ketchup.
Imagine that, like you're telling everybody,
everybody's fucking up, you need salt.
Get it together, bitch.
It's that simple.
Just throw some salt on that.
It's that simple.
And they've yet to...
Well, that's Fogo de Chão.
Do you ever eat at Fogo de Chão?
I have, yep.
One of the things about Fogo de Chão,
when you get a nice piece of picanha from them,
it's always got salt on it.
It's always got a nice salty...
They have a baste
That they baste the meat on
When they put them over the fire
That place is ridiculous
It's incredible
So good
When they bring out that whole side of beef rib
And they just
It's over
It's ridiculous too
Because you just get right after it
You sit down at one of those places
You have a red and a green
On your little card
Like a poker
chip.
Just flip it.
And you flip it over whenever you're ready to party.
You're like, let's do this.
You put it on green.
These dudes just start swooping in on you with skewers.
Straight up.
Skewers of meat.
And swords.
Woo.
Yeah.
Have you ever flipped a Tourette?
Flipped a Tourette?
No.
Have you ever flipped-
Flipped a Tourette.
Have you ever flipped the thing to it to red Have you ever flipped
The thing to red
Oh yeah definitely
Fuck that
Whoa
It stays on green
Wow
Until we
Literally
Gotta waddle out
You will
And this explains my issue
Yeah
We're all different
We all have different needs
I can't do it
Damn I feel like
I don't know Now I feel like no and now I feel
a little bit down don't feel down Ari Shafir is our undisputed world
champion of continuing to eat a foie de chow no one's been able to touch him
Ari out beats he out eats Joey he out eats me he just keeps going Ari Shafir
can put away food like probably almost no one I've ever seen. Shit.
At one of those Fogo de Chavos.
He's ridiculous.
He just keeps it coming.
I'm like, where are you putting this?
He just keeps it coming.
Does he go get the rice and everything or just goes for the meats?
Oh, I mean, he might have a couple of fucking pieces of lettuce.
He's there to party, you know?
That dude just, he keeps that fucker green.
Like, we all tap out.
I'm like, Jesus, Ari. And the guy's like coming by with like some lamb chops. He's like, sure, bring it
over. Do you have any of that jelly? You know, lime jelly? Is that what it is? What is the jelly?
The mint. Mint. How many of these do you smoke a day? A lot. I'm usually hitting the oil, you know, all day long.
Hitting that pure oil.
Taking some fucking mushrooms.
I just got some nice mushrooms in yesterday.
You mean like food mushrooms or magic ones?
No, magical ones, yeah.
Magical mushrooms.
How long before those are legal?
How long before, after pot becomes legal,
we all just get together and go, hey, cut this shit.
All the people that made it illegal, they're all dead now.
We know they were liars.
I don't even think it's illegal.
I don't know it's illegal.
I just think it's legal.
All it is is it's something that grows from fucking-
Your Honor, may I speak with my client for a moment?
I just didn't know.
I wasn't- What do you want me to say?
You're a registered voter.
You have a driver's license.
You have to know what is and is not legal as far as what you're being arrested for.
I'm a bad citizen.
You can't say that, sir.
So let's try this again.
Have you ever been hit in the head?
Once. So let's try this again Have you ever been hit in the head? Once
I have reason to believe
My client has sustained a head injury
Earlier in his life
And virtually never recovered
What he needs is our care
What he doesn't need is our judgment
I'm like Vincent Giganti
Walking around like I'm local
He only feels normal when he gets mushrooms in him
That's what Therapeutic use of mushrooms is on its way folks There's no doubt about that He's walking around like I'm local. He only feels normal when he gets mushrooms in him.
Therapeutic use of mushrooms is on its way, folks.
There's no doubt about that. It's going to happen.
It should have happened a long time ago.
It would be better for all of us.
My girl is studying now, too.
Is she?
Yeah, she's into holistic medicine and healing through psychedelics.
There's a lot of people that are involved in that now, including MAPS, the mult I don't know what it is, Multidisciplinary Association something, Psychedelic Studies.
They're acknowledging it, right?
Oh, they've made some massive strides in getting,
trying to get therapeutic use of MDMA for soldiers,
excuse me, and other people suffering from PTSD.
And they're showing all these applied uses of like really excellent compounds that have been demonized. And because they've been demonized, people that could really use them aren't getting them.
Can you abuse them?
But I think we've already established that's a dumb argument because you can abuse anything.
You can go to a store and buy a hammer and you can build a house with it or you could hit yourself in the dick.
If you're fucking stupid.
You can do whatever you want, right?
Like you can't, that's not a good argument that someone could abuse it so it shouldn't be legal.
There's massive amounts of shit to abuse all over us all the time.
So stop. Cars. I mean anything. Bikes. You can abuse everything. I think the use of them, they're
magic. There's a reason why we call them magic mushrooms. They're fucking magic. You can
have incredible experiences on them. And the fact that we are not allowed to, and that
we have to worry about someone locking us in a cage for doing some shit that's not hurting anybody.
It's not even hurting you.
Like mushrooms don't hurt you.
You have to take some insane amount of them for it to be like the LD 50 rate.
It's like you have to take pounds of it.
Right.
What's the LD 50 from micro from a psychedelic mushrooms or psilocybin.
It's really high.
It's like something stupid.
Like, you almost can't even eat it.
How many pounds do you have to eat?
Tell you this.
Two grams had me on my fucking ass.
This is for mice.
You killed mice with mushrooms.
Oh, my God.
First of all.
That's what they're going off.
Here's something fucked up.
Scroll down again.
Scroll up again, rather, so I can see the study.
The name of the study.
What's the name of the study at the top?
How many dried mushrooms would I have to eat to die from an overdose of psilocybin?
What is this on?
What website is this?
Shroomery.
Shroomery. Shroomery.
Just how fucking crazy is that?
The dude asks, he asks,
how many mushrooms do I have to eat before I overdose?
Using the data for rats and accepting a medium of,
a median of 1% potency,
it would require the consumption of 1,680 grams of mushrooms
to reach the LD50 for a 60-kilogram rat.
You have to eat a lot.
Whoa.
That's a lot of grams.
That's a lot of grams.
But rats are tougher than us.
Rats can eat rats.
Yeah, they don't fucking die.
Exactly. They eat each other, man. You can't even go eat rats. Yeah, they don't fucking die. Exactly.
They eat each other, man.
You can't even go off that.
I've told this story a hundred times.
I killed a rat once in my driveway, in my garage.
Went out in the morning to clean the trap and it was gone.
They had eaten him.
The others.
The others had eaten him.
Yeah.
Dude, I mean, down to nothing.
Down to like the tail.
It was insane. Yeah. Savages, man. down to nothing. Down to, like, the tail. It was insane.
Savages, man.
It was just...
They're survivors.
Yeah, but it was so creepy to think that I'm sharing my house with cannibals.
Like, these are rodent animal cannibals that when one of them dies, the other ones just burn through them.
And there's a bunch of them around me.
They're in my ceiling. I hear them crawling around in there. They're in the house. They're just too small
Or I'm you know they're too small for them to kill me that shit freaks me the fuck out man I had a squirrel in my house one time in the wall
And you hear them three in the more. I'm sitting at three in the morning naked with my fucking just watching SportsCenter
I'm sitting there three in the morning naked with my fucking, just watching SportsCenter.
And they start fighting, screaming.
I'm like, holy, what the fuck is that?
In the ceiling?
In the ceiling.
I'm like, I start hitting the ceiling with the broom.
Oh my God.
I start hitting the closets, like trying to scare them.
And then, eventually, the motherfucker ate through the wall.
One day I was laying on the couch and I just suddenly opened my eyes and look up.
And he's just fucking looking at me.
We make eye contact and it's like, it's a fucking, it's a standoff.
It's about to be, you know, like a Mexican shootout.
That is hilarious. It was about to be, you know, like a Mexican shootout. That is hilarious.
It was crazy.
So then my Greek landlord decided to put traps out, and I think that he literally slaughtered about 60 of them from the neighborhood.
Oh, my God.
It's not his fault.
It's not his fault.
It was in the trap.
The trap.
Now, listen. They did bad things to the neighborhood. They's not his fault. It's not his fault. It was in the trap. The trap. Now listen.
They did bad things to the neighborhood.
They would eat through lines.
Poor little squirrel.
Nobody gives a fuck about rats.
If he killed 60 rats, he would have been like, good, kill 60,000.
Man, I now feel bad about that fucking shit.
Don't feel bad.
Because if you kill...
Why is it if you kill squirrels, people get bummed out?
But if you kill rats, people are like, yeah, you gotta kill them.
Shouldn't fucking kill anything, but at the end of the day, shit happens.
Yeah, but if you're killing something with a trap, you're definitely trying to kill it.
Yeah, I had no involvement.
But I'm just wondering why we so readily accept killing rats but not squirrels
How do rats feel about that?
It's viewed as vermin
I feel like squirrels are viewed as vermin to a lot of people
Yeah
I feel like that's the case
Like an issue
Like a big feral hog
It's the same shit
No
In certain parts of the world they're considered just as much of a nuisance as a rat.
Wow, that's crazy.
Where?
Certain islands.
Squirrels are just, they think of them as rats.
What?
They think of them like rats.
I feel like squirrels, just in New York, a lot of people are just fucking scared of squirrels.
Well, do you know the difference between tree squirrels, those cute ones that everybody likes, and those ground squirrels?
Mm-mm.
Dude. Ground squirrels are fucking crazy ground squirrels i was on this ranch in california and they have a ground squirrel problem and we're driving down this road and as we're driving down
this road you're watching these little tiny creatures pop their head out of the ground
run across and jump into another hole there's holes all over the place and what are they saying craps over
there they were trying to get a bunch of different shit they're growing there
they have they have cattle that are grazing they have a bunch of different
things going on there they're fucking ruining this you can't do anything about
these things there's so many of them they say there's so many ground squirrels
that the biomass of these things is like a biomass of a giant herd of cattle or something like that.
There's so many of them.
It's like 100 cows.
That's how many of these little fucking ground squirrels are just running around this area.
So what do they do?
I saw that they do these where it gives them a shock.
They have these things where they put food in and it kills them humanely.
It shocks them. I don't know how many there are. I don't things where they put food in and it kills them humanely. They shock some.
I don't know how many there are.
I don't know if they know.
Like if you're driving down the road and you just keep seeing these little heads pop up and run across.
There's another one.
Bang.
There's another one.
Bang.
Pop up, run across.
Little tiny thing.
Little tiny rodent.
Boom.
Jumps in a hole.
Boom.
Jumps in a hole.
And you watch them scramble all across the ground.
You're like, whoa.
If these were rats i would
be freaking the fuck out right now i'd be going jesus look at all these rats if you were driving
down new york city and that's the kind of that's what you saw with rats just pop it up and run
across pop it in the hole everybody be like let's get the fuck out of here this place is overrun
we got to get out of the city.
It would be like that scene in Aliens where the dude was talking about nuking it from orbit.
Yeah.
Straight up.
We got to get out of the city.
We got to poison everything.
We got to take five years off the city and then we can return.
Just poison everything there for five years.
Heavy.
But these little ground squirrels, they're a little cuter.
Slightly cuter.
So they're more accepted.
Like all those little animals are cute.
Little rats, not that cute.
Not really into them.
There's something about them.
They're just too untrustworthy.
They're too rat-like.
People that have rats for pets, though, they love them.
It's the same thing. thing i mean if you have a
domesticated animal and it grows up with you in its care for its entire life then you become like
family you know just like a dog or a cat but if you've ever been around a feral cat you've ever
been around a feral dog like oh they can that can be really scary i I had a cat that I... My mother rescued a cat when I was younger,
and the fucking cat attacked me.
Ooh.
Was it a feral cat?
It was.
It was a white cat, and it was abused.
Jesus Christ.
And I wasn't, like, you know...
I was fucking with it a little bit, like, you know...
That's scary.
Grabbing its neck and shit,
like, you know, the back where it's skin.
And he fucking snapped and bit the shit out of me and scratched me.
Jesus Christ.
Went nuts.
He wouldn't stop.
Fuck, man.
But it's all right.
I didn't do it.
I fucked with him.
I deserved it.
They can be terrifying, though.
It's amazing how powerful a little cat is.
They're ferocious.
It's nonstop.
They're too quick.
You don't know what to do.
And you panic because, like, what the fuck is this?
A fucking thing.
He's attacking me?
What is this?
It's not a human.
And they're going to go full bore, bore Whereas you're gonna kind of pull back
They're gonna
It's such a better design
As far as like killing things
Their bodies are so well designed
When you watch that guy
That was like jumping across those buildings
Cats would be like bitch I do that all day
Easy
They do that so gently around my house
You know they just leap All of a sudden boom they're on the couch Leap boom they're on the table I do that all day. Easy. Easy. They do that so gently around my house.
They just leap all of a sudden.
Boom, they're on the couch.
Leap, boom, they're on the table.
Walk across.
Leap, boom, they're on the ground.
They walk on railings, balancing act on railings. What about those, I love watching those shows on National Geographic,
like when they make the kill, then they drag it all the way up into
the tree.
Oh, like leopards.
You know, like, you know, like leopards dragging a moose up into the fucking.
Like, are you kidding me?
They're so scary.
That's a design.
They grab him with their teeth.
Look at this leopard.
This is the recent one.
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
This was in India, right?
It got loose and was just jacking people.
Look at that Oh my god
I just jumped up
And bit that guy
Oh my god
Can you jump in the water
Is that safe or no
Like can they swim
I don't think they swim
I think that leopards
Won't jump in the water
But what if they do man
Oh my god
Look at this thing
Biting him
Oh man he's
That guy got
Someone threw him a fucking stick.
You saw someone threw him a stick?
Yeah.
Jesus Christ, that's terrifying, man.
That is fucking terrifying.
That animal's so powerful, too.
That's a big cat.
That thing looked like it was 150 pounds.
At least.
Oof.
Just imagine a 150-pound house cat fucking you up.
Yeah.
Fuck all that, dude.
Yeah.
Woo!
We're so poorly designed.
When it comes to being able to defend ourselves against something like that,
we're so poorly designed.
It's amazing.
Other animals have such a way better shot.
Athletically.
Like even chimps.
Chimps are so much stronger than us.
They have a way better shot at surviving a cat attack.
They're fucking swinging from trees going nuts.
That was one of the things they found about those big giant chimps in the Congo, that they nest on the ground like gorillas.
Gorillas nest on the ground because nobody wants to fuck with a gorilla.
Cats don't want to fuck with a gorilla.
It's like too much work.
You could easily get your jaw broke.
You could easily get your leg broke.
Yeah.
They can't fuck with gorillas.
It's too hard.
They might catch a baby slipping.
You know, they might be able to catch a baby.
Like, you know, something, if he gets separated from his mom, that's possible.
But a regular-sized gorilla?
Good luck.
No fucking way.
They'll have to be stalking.
Yeah.
So they sleep on the ground where chimps sleep in the trees.
Chimps still got to be careful.
But they found these big giant chimps in the Congo.
They call them the Beely Ape or the Bondo Ape.
They were just a legend for the longest time.
They were in that book, Michael Crichton's book.
Is that what it was?
The Congo?
Is that who wrote that?
Who wrote the Congo? I've seen the movie.
Was it Crichton that wrote that?
Did you see that movie, Congo?
Yeah.
It's kind of silly.
Yeah, it was terrible.
It was terrible.
But the idea behind it.
Who's that guy with the accent?
You know, the one that's always in all those movies, the weirdo?
Which guy's that?
Fucking weird guy.
He was like the...
He was the guide.
He was terrible.
He's in like...
I don't remember who he was.
You'll see his face.
He's like, oh, this fucking guy.
It was just not a very good movie.
Okay.
That guy?
That's not him.
That's not him.
But that was the guy from Congo.
Where's the doctor?
Her?
Nah, there's another one.
The one who was looking for...
Oh, there he is.
What?
Who?
There he is.
Oh, Timothy...
That guy?
You've seen him before.
That guy's great.
That's the guy from Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Exactly.
That fucking guy.
Tim Curry.
Tim Curry.
Tim Curry, thank you.
Yeah. Yeah,. Tim Curry. Tim Curry. Thank you. Yeah.
Yeah, I like him.
Well, that movie dealt with, see that monkey up there?
That one picture.
That's supposedly what these giant chimps look like.
So in the movie, they were these fictional animals that were super smart and they were really big.
But it's based on this
thing this is a real one wow this is a real one that uh someone had killed like at the turn of
the century that's one that they shot at an airport uh in africa look at the size of that
thing in comparison to those men you're talking about a chimp that could get to be like 400 pounds they're enormous that is ridiculous yeah and so they they sleep on the ground just like gorillas
do and there's a small population of them they just recently found them well there's a swiss i
think some swiss wildlife photographer named carl armand and he took some photos of them with a camera trap. Put up a photo. Camera trap, Bondo ape.
I think I'm saying his name right.
Carl Armand.
But he, yeah, the upper left.
That's it.
Those photos.
Yeah, that's the same thing.
See, one of them, what does it say?
Carl Armand.
It's Armand.
Just for everybody.
It's A...
Excuse me.
Carl, K-A-R-L-A-M-M-A-N-N.
And he got these camera trap photos of them walking upright.
And that was the most fucked up thing about it.
Holy shit, I didn't even realize what I was looking at.
Yeah, that's a six foot tall chimp that's walking upright.
I mean, they're really big.
They're way bigger than a regular chimp.
And they have a crest in their head like gorillas do.
You know, gorillas are one of the few primates that has, if you look at its skull,
they have a crest in the skull where these massive chewing muscles and biting muscles all sort of congregate
on their head they have these huge jaw muscles and these huge like clamp down muscles and they
have this cleft in the top of their head i pull up um bondo ape skull and they'll they had uh
they've found the skulls of these things and And at first they were like, okay, is this a hybrid?
Like, what is this?
See how it has like a crest at the top of the head?
So now that they know that it's a real animal, they're like, whoa, this is the first chimp they've ever found that has a crest like this.
Look at it.
And it's also, they were thinking it was some sort of a hybrid.
And it's also, they were thinking it was some sort of a hybrid.
They were thinking, like, maybe it was part gorilla, part chimp.
Is that possible?
But then the genetics, they've gotten, I think, from stool samples and some other methods of acquiring them.
They think that it's just its own kind of chimp.
Just a breed that only exists in this one area.
Pretty fucking crazy.
You think about it, like, they've only had photos of this thing since this guy, Carl Amon, in the, I think the 90s, he did that, right?
What does it say as far as when he first got the photos on it?
I guess it's apparently been like legend.
But the Congo is giant, man.
It's like the United States.
It's huge.
Like the Congo rainforest, if you look at it on a map,
they'll take the actual size of the U.S. and put it in the Congo.
You can put it in the Congo?
You almost can.
It's pretty close.
It's pretty close.
It's basically the size of the United States, give or take.
I mean, even if it was half the size, it's fucking crazy.
Who the hell knows what's in there?
Yeah, exactly.
You can never find everything that's there.
But this one area where this thing lives is, of course, they're probably making cell phones out of there or something like that and pulling minerals out of the ground that they need for uh you know the eye watch or
something so who knows i mean this is how big it is two-thirds the size of western europe
two-thirds the size of western europe j Christ. What does it look like in comparison to the United States?
I had a picture of it.
It covered about half the U.S., but I think it was the DR of the Congo,
so I'm not sure if it's a different size.
That's a fucking pretty heavy-duty piece right there.
Oh, my God.
Home Midwest.
I definitely exaggerate. But my God. Home Midwest. I definitely exaggerated.
But it's still unbelievably huge.
Just look, it goes from the bottom of the United States
all the way up to Canada,
but only, I would say like,
like a third of the size.
Slightly bigger than Alaska maybe.
Definitely bigger than Alaska.
Alaska's pretty big too.
How much is it? It's not really half really half doesn't look like half to me looks more like a third like scroll
down a little so we could see it and better yeah yeah that doesn't really look like half to me
does it looks like slightly yeah slightly less than Maybe 40% or something like that.
And almost 80% of people have AIDS.
Really?
That's what it says.
80% of the people in the Congo have AIDS?
More likely.
Are likely to have HIV AIDS.
Wow.
Heavy duty.
If you go into the Congo, wear a condom, right?
Well, we knew that.
You got to wear the full body condom like fucking Naked Gun.
It's just insane how diverse that part of the world is.
Like the amount of different animals that exist in that one crazy rainforest area.
They have all sorts of wild shit in there. We were looking at videos of that thing last night, that shoebill bird, that giant prehistoric
looking dinosaur bird.
That lives in the Congo, too.
The one with the long...
Yeah, crazy long hatchet face.
It's got like a long battle axe for a face.
It's like a five foot tall bird.
Oh, scary fucking things.
Imagine getting chased down by one of those.
Yeah, there it is.
Just two days in a row,
the shoe bill is made of... Look at the fucking size of that thing.
Ugh.
That thing looks crazy. It just looks like he's
demented. That one doesn't look nearly
as tall as five feet.
Is five feet as big as they get? Look at the fucking eyes
in that thing, man.
He's giving it a rat. Look at how stupid it is, too. Yeah, right? It's an idiot. Look at the fucking eyes in that thing, man. He's giving it a rat.
Look how stupid it is, too.
Yeah, right?
It's an idiot.
Look at it.
It's so dumb.
Just a dumb old dinosaur.
That's a dinosaur, man.
I mean, for real.
What are we looking at?
Is this a real animal?
Are you fucking shitting me?
This looks like Avatar.
This looks like some avatar shit it
really does the fact that that is a real animal that this lady is feeding this animal rats look
at it's gulping down mice and fish and shit look at the the face on that thing look at its eyes
it's like fucking hatchet face from cry baby look at its fucking eyes it's like fucking hatchet face from Crybaby. Look at its fucking eyes.
It's like, I don't believe that you really can tell how intelligent someone is if you look into their eyes.
But I do believe you can see when something's dumb as fuck.
You know what I'm saying?
You can't tell looking at somebody how smart they are, but you can definitely tell looking at that thing,
there's not a whole lot going on.
There's, like, some simple wiring.
Fuck that thing.
Jesus Christ, Jamie.
Yo, that's crazy.
Look at that.
Look at this photo.
Oh, shit.
Jamie just pulled up a photo of this bird.
That's pretty fucking amazing looking.
Dude, someone needs to make a horror movie where these things just,
you know,
someone lets them out
of a lab in Florida.
You know,
it was like a Florida
University lab
and they get out
and they start breeding
and they start talking
to each other.
That looks like
one of those angry birds
from the thing,
from the game, right?
What?
The eyes.
Did they use one of those?
The eyes.
Shit.
Those dead eyes.
Those dead dinosaur eyes.
Those eyes are the reason why we have houses.
Yo, that's fucking creepy.
That's creeping me the fuck out.
Those eyes are the reason why we have houses and weapons.
Those houses are the reason why we figured out fire and communication.
We had to figure out how to not get eaten by shit like that.
Look at that thing thing Jesus fucking Christ
Now imagine that this is in the same sort of vein as far as animals go as that terror bird
Except it's considerably smaller where that terror bird was like seven feet tall and lived in North America
Lived in North America while people were alive
These things were
Giant and they were running around like look at the photo of but with the soldier there Jamie look at this
Look how big these fucking things were what?
Yeah, what the fuck these things lived while people were alive right like when did these terror birds exist?
Fuck that thing just fuck that thing
Shit is crazy. Look what it's nine feet tall. It's a nine-foot tall giant fucking bird man
When did the thing live?
1.5 million years ago
Is that what it says
That's not that long
Does it say
What's it say Jamie
15 or 1.5
2.5 million years ago
2.5 million years ago
Alright
So
That's definitely not people
Someone was there
Someone was there
Some silly monkeys
Something was there
But what
What year do you think
Monkeys started figuring out how to start
using weapons and shit like what year was it that they figured out how like the very first
subhuman hominid that was smart as fuck that was figuring out how to like make a weapon it would
have to have been them picking up some sort of branch or some sort of yeah rock and
throwing it maybe that's the first thought of using a weapon no rock maybe i would wonder if
it would be that or a stick like to beat something with a stick or to throw a rock like which would
be the first one they figured out but what do you what year do you think, I mean, I wonder how long it was ago that our ancestors first started developing a weapon.
Like something to either kill, something to eat, or something to defend themselves.
I'm looking a little farther.
There's some reports from Uruguay saying that these might be dated to 450,000 or 17,000 years ago.
17,000 years ago.
Those claims are being debated.
That's what I had heard.
It's more in the realm.
That's what I had heard.
It was, I think I had heard it was like 35,000 years ago.
They think that some of them were living in North America.
It was written in Spanish or something.
I can't get through that.
It was all pre-Ice Age, either way, because the Ice Age was 10,000 years ago.
This whole motherfucker was just frozen solid.
That's hard to imagine.
Listen, I question everything.
I don't know what the fuck is going on.
Who knows what's happening?
But I like watching ancient
aliens I do too I wish it was real I wish it was all real I wish it was too I
hope they're right I hope they're right about a lot shit I it would be so much
more fun if aliens had been here and contacted us and left information it
would be so much more fun. It would be incredible.
And to actually be alive to find that out.
Yeah.
I think it's totally possible that something could get way smarter than us and can travel from some other place.
It's also totally possible that it's never happened yet.
It's totally possible that people are just full of shit.
It's also totally possible that our
experience on earth has been broken up a bunch of times by huge disasters and i think that this is
one of those things that this guy graham hancock is trying to prove and is doing a fantastic job
sort of documenting what the way he describes it that we're a civilization with amnesia
it's really interesting stuff man because he because he's saying essentially what probably happened was
human beings invented a bunch of really cool shit, developed a bunch of great technology,
had made sophisticated societies and cultures, and then boom!
A fucking rock from the sky comes down.
Start over.
Flattens everything.
Kills a giant chunk of the people. Fucks up all the infrastructure comes down. Start over. Flattens everything. Kills a giant chunk of the people.
Fucks up all the infrastructure.
Chaos.
Disorder.
And then things are fine for another few hundred years.
And boom!
A new one hits.
And they're all throughout Europe.
They've proven it now that there's this nuclear glass shit all throughout Europe and in Asia as well.
The vitrification.
And it's all around 10,000 years ago.
How crazy is that?
It's unexplainable, right?
It's insane.
They think that that's what happened, that 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, all of Europe
was like pelted with rocks.
It's fucking nuts.
And that people had to start over after that.
And that all of our stories about cataclysms and you know the noah and the ark
and all that shit about keeping keeping societies alive whether it's like the epic of gilgamesh all
these different stories that are real similar real similar tale of someone like trying to keep
humanity alive in the face of this chaotic disaster all of those represent the same stories
all those represents the things that ended the fucking ice age rocks from the sky 10 000 years ago jamie heavy shit too heavy for me you got me
too high you fuck there's fucking three joints left bro actually there's four oh we can't we
can't keep going we'll forget what we already talked about and we'll repeat ourselves.
We are a society with amnesia.
Oh, definitely wouldn't smoke in this kind of weed.
You get all kinds of amnesia.
This is fire, too.
No doubt about that.
So when you're going on these trips, do you base these trips on places you want to eat?
Do you base these trips on you're already touring there and you say say well fuck it let's combine the two together yep pretty much you know like i get to go to cool places for music
i get to go to a lot of amazing countries i've been to africa i've been pretty much all over
not yet not asia yet all over europe all over america and. And pretty much people want to take me out to these restaurants
because they know I appreciate it. They know what I'm about. Through my lyrics and through
seeing me and getting to know me on that type of level where you almost feel like you know me,
people feel like they need to show me the right way in their
city I have to be taken care of you know and it's only right I like to be taken
care of and you know I have an incredible team over at vice and munchies
and viceland that uh you know they get the job done they work well once you
start doing a show like this then then people start hearing about it.
Then, you know, you get all the people that are contacting you
with great suggestions.
And it sort of makes itself, like, you figure a chart
just based on all these people trying to get you to go to their spots, right?
Yeah.
Well, you know, a lot of it is organic, though.
People are genuinely fans of the music and genuinely fans of the show.
Yeah.
A lot of the times they don't want to ask to me on it
you know but i i feel i see people you know throwing the little hints come by you know
bring the guys is this something you planned out or is this just like something that sort of came
along it just seemed like a natural thing to do yeah it just came along you know i was i was
filming i was getting filmed in the kitchen cooking and it was like it was kind of cool
always you know growing up watching these shows being fucking these dudes being rock stars now
i was like why can't i do that you know look at fucking guy fieri guy fieri yeah that guy
what that my bad guy fierieri I said it with the
That's a Fieri
Is that what you're supposed to say
It's alright
It's his
Little accent
Look at him
Look at him
Look at him
Look at him
Look at him
Look at him
There he is
Look at this guy
What else is he gonna do
Besides what he does
He could be in Nickelback
He could be in Nickelback
He could be in What was the one could be in Nickelback. He could be in, what was the one?
I'm an All-Star.
He could rock, man.
Smash Mouth.
What is that one?
Smash Mouth.
Smash Mouth.
He looks like the lead singer of Smash Mouth.
Oh, hey now.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Well, he's got his, he figured out his own spot.
Can you just scroll up for a second?
Go to the one with the flames on his
shirt oh to the right yes he actually they were like get crazy while he was
taking these pictures and he did that and that's forever it's just hilarious Forever etched in time. That he's got such a crafted thing going on.
He's a rock star.
Rock star cook guy.
Let me ask you something.
Do you think-
Seems like a nice guy.
No, that's what I'm saying.
Do you think that this is a shtick?
Yeah, he's smart.
He decided to make himself-
Look, you look at a guy like Donald Trump.
Everybody knows that he has this crazy hair
you don't think that donald trump could get a better haircut oh yeah he plays into it for sure
yeah he's ridiculous it's part of his flair is that he's pulling it off with this goofy haircut
he's got billions of dollars and he's got this hair helmet that he's got on same with don king
it's a legendary hair yeah don king. A lot of guys did that.
They looked, they had like sort of a wacky look on purpose, right?
Mm-hmm.
I thought of this yesterday.
Is there any chance Donald Trump's trolling in some sort of performance piece for like a movie?
I think Donald Trump is a guy who has full belief in his ability to run this country.
Whether or not he can actually run the country, I don't think it's an act.
I think he has full belief that he can do it.
It is bizarre to see because it's freaking people out.
I think one of the more fascinating things about this election is how people are so freaked out
that he's pretty much in command right now.
There's thoughts.
There's like panic that he could, that there's a possibility he could be the president.
Oh, it's very likely.
You think that it's very likely?
I think if things keep going the way they're going right now, it looks to me like he's going to be the president.
Are the others putting their fucking foots in their mouth?
What is the issue?
Why is he shining?
I don't understand.
Is it the internet age?
Is it the social media age that's making this guy into this figure almost like the Jordan face?
The Jordan face.
The meme?
It's like an iconic thing.
Do you know about the pull up the jordan face
donald trump is becoming the fucking jordan face man the crying jordan well here's the thing when
people look for someone to be president whether it's rational or not they look towards someone
who they think is going to be a leader oh the crying jordan face yeah that's like them oh they put it on everybody if you
fuck up you get the crying jordan face people look towards someone that they want to be a leader and
the problem with donald trump is that he said a bunch of ridiculous stuff about like mexicans and
and some stuff some stuff that like not measured stuff measured stuff about Muslims coming into this country,
not measured and rational and, you know, it was way too show-busy, you know?
You fuck with the Mexicans.
They will shut the country down.
Restaurants will be closed.
It'll be over.
Yeah.
Things will be done. It'll be over. Yeah. Things will be done.
Yeah, very likely.
Plus, they're nice.
They're great people.
We're not having a lot of problems with Mexicans.
This idea that Mexicans are causing all these problems,
if they were really causing that many problems,
we would have a lot more problems because there's a lot of Mexicans.
All they ever do, they just want to come over to the country so they can make money to send
home to their family.
I worked with guys that literally slept in shithole rooms just so they could send their
salary, that $300, $400 from washing dishes all fucking week back home for their family.
And this is the people that you want to keep out of the country?
family then this is the people that you want to keep out of the country like the the honest working man riding his bike back and forth to work every day in the fucking snow the rain whatever
you know it's upsetting i work close with these guys you know i mean yeah we're in kitchens right
in kitchens yeah a lot of mexican guys want to be in chefs And incredible ones, too. And no, you could teach them any cuisine.
It's just unfortunate that he would say things like that
and that people would respond the way they've responded.
You know, people got kind of excited that someone is finally going to close the wall.
You know, close the borders.
Just fucking sick people out there.
They all come out when, you know, the freaks come out at night.
Well, it's just this bad people in every group, in every group.
And the idea that these people, because they're more poor and because they got stuck in this one spot,
they should be trapped there forever,
even though it's connected to us by dirt.
I mean, there's like a clear path between us and Mexico.
It's right there.
And we have to stop people from walking across to get jobs.
Can you imagine if Americans,
if you made them walk across the desert to get jobs?
Yeah, right.
How few of us would be employed if you had to walk across the...
You had to get in the river.
You had to fucking wade across the river.
You had to get to the other side
holding your baby over the rapids.
And then once you get to the other side,
you got to climb a wall.
And then you got to walk across the desert.
And then you got to find a job.
What, you don't have a job for me
when I get there?
No, no, no.
You better know somebody, too,
because, you know,
you can't speak their language.
What?
Yeah.
I'm going to live somewhere where they don't speak my language.
Do you want money or not?
Okay, I'll do it.
No one's going to do it.
No American would do it.
You know?
These fucking kids coming out of college today.
There's no jobs.
This younger generation's fucked.
The wall just got 10 feet higher.
Is this his new statement
from a couple days ago after he wants something oh my god he's hilarious it's
hilarious so the president of Mexico yesterday or the ex-president whatever
whoever who cares he said we will not even consider paying for the
wall you have to understand because okay you ready who's gonna pay for the wall
who oh my god oh my god percent a hundred percent so I get a call from one
of the reporters yesterday.
And they said, the president of Mexico said,
they will not, under any circumstances, pay for the wall.
They said to me, what is your comment?
I said, the wall just got 10 feet higher.
It's true.
It's true.
He fucked it up.
It's true.
It's true. He should have laid back on that. He had a strong delivery. He had it up with the it's true, it's true.
He should have laid back on that.
He had a strong delivery.
He had a strong delivery.
He just panicked while he was getting the cheers.
He got hyped.
That's how you can tell he's not primed for the spot.
What the fuck is going on, man? He got too hyped right there when he heard the claps.
That is crazy that a guy can say something like that.
That is so not measured.
Did you see that
please clap moment with Jeb Bush?
No. And it pretty much
ruined him and he's now out of the race.
No. What happened? I'll show it to you.
He's giving a speech somewhere and
he gets this real riled up moment
and he's waiting for an applause break and it doesn't come.
So he literally says to the crowd,
please clap. Oh my god.
Oh, the poor bastard.
Goodness gracious.
Fuck.
He's probably so happy to be out of this.
Better lighting.
We'll have the back of the military.
I won't trash talk.
I won't be a divider in chief or an agitator in chief.
I won't be out there blowharding, talking a big game without backing it up.
I think the next president needs to be a lot quieter, but send a signal that we're prepared
to act in the national security interests of this country to get back in the business
of creating a more peaceful world. Please clap.
I thought that was humorous.
I actually thought that was humorous. That wasn't terrible. I thought that was humorous. I actually thought that was humorous.
That wasn't terrible.
I thought that was humorous.
The way he did that, I thought it was awkward.
I saw an older guy in a yarmulke.
I saw a bunch of really old people there.
Maybe they just didn't catch it at the time.
I thought he was being funny.
I mean, I would think that that would be a good way to end it.
You say, please clap.
But maybe I'm just optimistic.
He's definitely not the guy.
You hear, just,
you can't talk like that
and be the guy.
No way.
You better be focused as fuck.
That seemed like,
I think he probably saw
what happened to his brother,
saw what happened to his dad,
and he was like,
fuck this job.
Trying to be different.
Yeah, they're trying to put,
no, I think they're trying
to push him into a job
he doesn't really want.
I don't think he really
wanted to be president. It just didn't seem like put... No, I think they're trying to push him into a job he doesn't really want. I don't think he really wanted to be president.
It just didn't seem like it to me.
He wants to be a carpenter.
Like, Bernie Sanders seems to want to be president.
I believe it.
I'm convinced Hillary Clinton wants to be president.
I'm convinced Trump wants to be president.
For sure.
How about that Rubio guy?
Does he want to be president?
No.
Chris Christie didn't want to be president. No way. No fucking way. Yeah, he's a fucking scumbag. Is he want to be president? No. Chris Christie didn't want to be president.
No way.
No fucking way.
Yeah, he's a fucking scumbag.
Is he?
How dare you?
Is he?
I'm not really sure.
This is what I hear.
I don't really know politics.
This is what I hear.
Yeah, that's all you need to know.
The judge has spoken.
Yeah, I just don't know. I don't know what's going to happen in this country if that guy wins it's going to be very weird if that guy wins like someone who
could say shit like that wins wow who knows man what would happen if he got into office and then
immediately gave like a calm sober presentation and explained that he did what he had to do to win,
but he's absolutely serious about being the president.
I wonder if that's possible.
America's pretty liberal.
I feel like, eh, give him a shot.
Yeah, but the wall just got 10 foot higher.
Like, what?
What is this, an episode of a movie?
Yeah, it's an episode of a movie.
He's a sick fuck.
Yeah.
That's what he is. He's a sick fuck Yeah That's what he is He's a sick fuck
He's sick
Do you think he's sick?
Mm-hmm
Like I was
100% he has one of the littlest dicks in the world
There's no doubt about that
I can't believe what I'm hearing on this program
You can just tell how he's talking
First of all
Say allegedly
Allegedly
He has one of the tiniest penis.
He has a micro penis.
I don't think that's the case.
I bet he's got a giant hog.
You think so?
I bet it's shocking.
That's why he's so confident.
I bet he pulls it out.
Well, he bought it, Dan.
What the fuck are you showing me?
Dan, he bought it.
There's no doubt.
Realistic nude painting of Donald Trump will make you gouge your eyes out.
Okay.
I don't know what you're putting up there, Jamie.
It came up.
I thought that's where he got it from.
Nah, just by his actions, by the way you, you know.
He definitely has micropenis syndrome.
I bet he's got a giant hog.
He's too cocky. But that's the thing
If he has one
He fucking bought it
And it's one of those
Where you have to fucking
Pump your nut
You know you
It's like a turkey baster
You fucking pump your dick up
All the Mexican actors
Got it from the soap operas
All of them?
That's what I heard.
I was looking into this for when I get older.
That was what Liberace had.
The mechanical cock?
Yeah, he had a mechanical pump.
It's like the Reebok pump.
It was in the movie.
Did you ever see that movie, the HBO movie?
Mm-mm.
Wait, who was he?
It was Leguizamo?
No, it was Michael Douglas and Matt Damon.
It was called something the Candle Opera Beyond the Candle Opera.
Is that what it was?
It was fucking amazing.
Really?
Liberace was a freak.
It was amazing.
It's so good.
First of all, Michael Douglas can act his ass off, man.
He's a good, he's a falling down.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
One of my favorites.
But this one, for whatever reason, I think they made it for HBO.
Or maybe they just sold it to HBO after they made it.
They might have financed it themselves.
I don't know what happened, but it was incredible.
Behind the candelabra.
Oh, wow.
It's so good, man.
That looks incredible. Oh, wow. It's so good, man. That looks incredible.
So fucking good.
And Matt Damon was his boyfriend, and it's just like, holy shit.
I'm going to have to watch this for sure.
Dude, he was a freak.
It's fucking great.
He made his boyfriend get surgery to look more like him.
How about that?
Wow.
His boyfriend was like this handsome guy,
and he made his boyfriend fuck his chin up
to be more like Liberace's chin.
How'd him get his chin done, dude?
That's fucking sick.
That's love.
Hit more.
No, no, I'm good.
Hit this.
Keep coughing.
You're in a constant state of marijuana.
I enjoy it.
Pretty much all day.
Yeah, for sure.
Do you take days off?
Yeah.
How many?
A year?
Not many.
Five a year?
No.
No.
Four.
I can't really count.
I don't know.
Less.
Yes.
One a year.
Yeah, maybe. No. No. I can't really count. I don't know. Less. Yes. One a year. Maybe.
Ah!
Not really sure.
I think this year I took off, I think maybe two days because I had surgery.
But then I was right back at it.
Well, I would think that it would probably be good for reducing inflammation.
Yeah, but the coughing is no good when it was the stomach, you know?
So the coughing is... Oh, this is when you had hernia?
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's a super common injury, man.
This shit happened in Alaska, too.
Ooh.
Yeah, it was crazy.
I was in Alaska doing a performance,
and I was playing NBA Jam against my boy,
and he was the Supersonics,
and he just fucking dunked on me and I got
upset and I felt something in my stomach and from there.
NBA Jam the video game?
Yeah, tournament edition.
You got a hernia playing NBA Jam the video game?
Can you believe that?
How fucking crazy.
You want to talk about ironic?
That's hilarious.
I was the Knicks.
He was the Sonics.
I wasn't happy.
That's hilarious. Mm was the Knicks. He was the Sonics. I wasn't happy. That's hilarious.
Mm-hmm.
Wow.
I might be the only one to ever get a hernia from playing a video game.
I doubt it.
No?
Nah.
Nah.
I bet people have died.
I bet they've fallen.
Playing a video game?
Yeah.
I bet they've contorted themselves, slipped, broken their head open on a coffee table and
died.
Yeah. People have died playing video games.
Millions of ways of dying.
Yeah.
Yeah, getting a hernia because you're freaking out.
That's a slight injury in comparison to, I'm sure, some of the shit that people try to avoid things.
They fall and fall out a window and fall 16 stories to their death.
You're right.
I guarantee you shit has happened.
You're right.
I've heard about these things.
Yeah.
People are ridiculous. You're right. I guarantee you shit has happened. You're right. I've heard about these things. Yeah. People are ridiculous.
Shit, man.
I'm going to stay away from fucking Windows, man.
Yeah.
Don't go near Windows while you're playing video games.
And don't blow out your hernia.
No, death, please.
If you haven't had a hernia surgery and you're like, oh, man, fuck, I don't want to get it
operated on, man.
I'm scared it'll take me out.
How much does it take you out?
Takes you out for a couple of months.
Does it?
Yeah.
I mean, you'll never feel... I don't know.
I guess it's not like I could go back and start power lifting right now.
It's just not going to happen.
How long has it been since surgery?
I had it in November.
So a few months.
Yeah, I feel good.
Like, now I feel good.
So now you're at the point where it feels normal?
Yeah. That's good. I feel good Like now I feel good So it's now You're at the point Where it feels normal Yeah That's good
I feel normal now
So you would recommend
It to someone
That also has had a hernia
If they have a hernia
Yeah just chill out
Get that surgery
Yeah absolutely
If you have the
Umbilical one
In the stomach
Yeah you hear that
Doug Stanhope
Get yourself
Stitched up bitch
You know you're always
Fucking walking around P pushing your stomach in,
and it's fucking not cute.
Especially if you have the other one,
fucking your intestines going to your nutsack.
It looks like you got elephantitis.
Yeah, my friend Eddie had it,
and he used to have to push down on his abdomen when he would talk,
like he was talking loud.
Because he'd pop out.
Yeah.
It's one of the worst things ever.
Yeah, if you're in a loud
place you know a jackhammer is going off he would literally have to push his hand
into his abdomen to like keep it compressed and go not perform let's get
the fuck out of here I performed for three two or three years already with
that popping out oh my god it was I don't know how to fuck it down oh so you
waited a long time before you got it fixed.
No, I got it fixed and then it broke one time.
Oh.
And I had to get it done again.
They put a fucking...
All right, so say the cut is about...
I mean, the hole in your stomach is about an inch or whatever.
They put an inch of mesh over it.
It's obviously going to fucking burst again.
You have to cover it with a little bit bigger piece.
So that's what the Alaskan doctor did.
Oh, so you had a shitty doctor.
I had a shitty doctor from Queens.
I tell this story all the time.
I'm in the fucking waiting room.
First, I shit myself because I don't know what they gave me.
Second of all, I made them clean me.
Third of all, I'm on the operating room about to get put under.
Fucking guy goes to the doctor.
Yo, you know who that is?
My dick is so shriveled because I'm scared.
I'm scared that I'm holding the blanket above my stomach.
Obviously, I'm going to get knocked out.
So I'm like, ah, fuck.
I thought that they were going to take pictures of my shriveled dick.
That was the last thought I had before going under surgery.
Think about that.
How rude.
Blew my mind.
How rude would that be?
Yeah.
Well, you got to, you know, people could definitely do that.
I'm saying.
If they were terrible people.
Whatever.
If they did that, would I have grounds to sue?
Yeah, definitely.
For defamation of character?
Definitely.
Because I wasn't at my finest.
No, poor representation of your penis.
Poor, exactly.
It was terrible.
Well, I know the people have...
There's definitely been people that have gotten in trouble for doing terrible shit to...
Like dentists doing terrible shit to their patients when they're under...
I heard about that from the Jerky Boys years ago.
He knocked me out.
He pulled my back and woke up with my pants down and my mouth all bloody.
I love that shit.
The Jerky Boys, people forgot.
That shaped my life.
They forgot how funny some of those fucking recordings were.
Frank Rizzo.
Yeah.
Sizzle chest.
Those were funny, man.
These young kids, if you've never heard of the Jerky Boys, go and listen.
They would call people up and pretend that things were going on.
Greg Fitzsimmons did some of those.
Really?
He did some of his own.
He did one of them where he called this rental car company with this heavy Boston accent
and was telling them the car they rented was on fire.
And he's got this, the car's on fire.
His fucking Sully, we went to the fucking gas station.
This asshole didn't bring the fucking gas tank.
So we had pots and pans filled with gasoline in the car.
People are going, what?
You had pots and pans filled with gas in the car. People are going, what? You had pots and pans filled with gas in the car?
Listen, the car's on fire.
You got to get over here.
Yeah, prank calls were always good.
Chinese restaurants, whatever you could call.
Do you remember Jimmy Kimmel had a television show?
Crank Yankers?
Oh, yeah.
Remember that?
Yep.
And it was all prank calls done with like sock puppets.
I remember it.
It was funny as a fuck.
Fuck yeah, it was funny.
You used to be able to do stuff like that in Vegas.
Like Nevada had like a different rule.
Like you could use people's calls for something like that.
Whereas you can't, in California, you'd have to tell them, hey, I'm going to use this,
I'm going to record this call, and then everything after that you could use.
Anything before you said that, you couldn't use.
It would be inadmissible.
Inadmissible, sir.
Excuse me, inadmissible.
Yeah, inadmissible.
Yeah.
I mean.
It's hilarious.
I know there's a lot, you know, I've been caught out there like baby mother trying to start drama with me over the phone, have me on three way.
And I say some crazy shit.
And then like six of her fucking family members hear it, you know what I mean?
Oh boy.
That should be inadmissible in life.
So you want the freedom.
Because it's a setup.
You want the freedom to say crazy shit.
I mean,
at the end of the day,
like,
if you provoke me.
It's funny because
there's two ways
of looking at it, right?
It's like,
you want the freedom
to say crazy shit.
She wants everybody
to know how fucking crazy
you really are.
That's true.
So she wants to have
people listen.
You know how crazy
this motherfucker is?
I'm sick.
Here it is.
Watch.
You're screaming and yelling and she's like, is? I'm sick. Here it is. Watch. You're screaming and yelling.
And she's like, see, I told you.
Yeah.
I'm an asshole.
Well, pretty much.
I'm a fucking asshole.
Do you want to change?
Do you want to come to Jesus moment?
No.
No?
You're happy with who you are?
I'm ecstatic.
You don't seem like an asshole right now.
You seem very friendly.
Thank you, man.
I appreciate that.
We're high.
That helps.
But I wasn't when we came here and we started playing pool.
You seem like a very nice guy.
I was all right.
You're a nice guy.
Yeah, I'm decent.
I'm all right.
Once you get to know me, you won't like me anymore.
No.
Really?
Nah.
I'm a good guy.
No, I think you're a good guy i am how high are you
right now i'm not that high way nah you know i'm high but you know i'm like i'm normal i feel level
i feel like we get we're getting trapped with the first few sentence few words of the sentences
we're saying and then we're committed to these sentences and we don't know exactly what we're
gonna say when we started talking so we're like making it up as we go along, that high.
That's how high we are right now.
Shit.
It's all this about good guy, bad guy shit.
You don't even know what you're talking about, and neither do I.
I have no clue.
I have no idea what's going on.
So don't commit us to any of these quotes, ladies and gentlemen.
That's my point.
Leave action alone.
He's not a bad guy.
I'm a great guy.
Good pool player too, man. You know how to play some pool
I might
You got a good grip on the cue
I'm decent
I used to be better
I can tell
I can tell
Yeah
You definitely have a more than casual understanding of how to play
For sure
I was taught
I was taught
I spent some time in pool halls in Queens you know
Stood on the wall.
Those places are important.
For sure.
They're dying out.
Star billiard.
Fucking millennium billiards on Frannie Lou Boulevard with the Asians with the fucking polo shirt.
Collar popped.
Asians with the collar popped.
Straight up.
Light blue.
Light blue motherfuckers having drag races on the strip in the Mustangs.
Yes.
Civics.
Acuras.
At Chelsea Billiards in New York, there was always a lot of really strong Asian players
that gambled a lot.
Oh, for sure.
And they would go in there talking mad shit.
There was a bunch of these dudes that were really colorful guys in the pool community
that were these Asian cats. koreans uh one guy was like one guy was chinese it's one korean dude
though gambled like crazy and he come in talking mad shit and he was just like that polo shirt on
looking preppy going right into the heart of the jungle and the pool culture which was chelsea
billiards yep it's crazy man Yeah. It's a funny culture.
It's, I don't know, Asians in general, I feel like they're good at, like, precision games.
Definitely good at pool.
Yeah.
Some of the best players in the world are Asian.
Mm-hmm.
That girl, the Black Widow?
Yep.
She's incredible.
Yeah.
There's a bunch of guys.
Ko Pee Min.
I think he's from Taiwan.
A bunch of guys from Taiwan that are really good.
A lot of Asians, especially Filipinos.
Like, Filipinos, that's pretty much the number one country
of the United States of, like, the greatest pool players ever.
Really?
Yeah.
For one spot, it's tough to fuck with the Philippines.
They have, like, some of the all-time greatest just from one island.
It's a bunch of islands.
I think it's like 1,000 islands, right?
Yeah.
Isn't it crazy?
But a gang of them come from the Philippines.
The USGIs apparently dropped pool off over there when they were in World War, what was it, II?
Was it World War II they were in the Philippines?
They brought pool tables over to entertain the GIs,
and that's apparently how Filipinos got involved in pool.
That's allegedly the story that the pool community says.
Well, in Vietnam, it seems like the GIs brought funk music
to fucking Vietnam and Thailand and all those,
like wherever they were,
because there's some funky motherfucking music that comes from the 70s
and in the Vietnamese, like this Vietnamese soul music
that just sounds like motherfuckers from Harlem are playing, you know?
Wow.
Incredible stuff.
Wow, and it's in their language?
Mm-hmm, Which is even crazier
Because it sounds
Amazing
What is
Give me a name or something
Just look up
Vietnamese
Or Thai pop
Or Vietnamese funk
There's this one specific
Album
I think it's called
Saigon Rock
It's pretty next level
There's a picture of a woman on it On the cover Saigon Rock. It's pretty next level.
There's a picture of a woman on it, on the cover.
Saigon Rock.
I'm going to find that.
I'm going to find that.
I love it. There it is.
Bam, Jamie, on the ball.
Saigon Rock.
Yeah, man.
Hit me with some of this.
Hit me with some of this.
Oh, my God.
1968 to 1974.
You know what I mean?
Holy shit.
Wow.
Wow.
Whoa.
You know what I'm saying?
Wow.
That shit sounds crazy.
Wow. Wow.
I was listening to this.
I don't speak Spanish.
And obviously I don't speak Vietnamese either.
So when I'm listening to that, it gives me this,
it gives you like a little extra kind of cool charge to it
because you don't even know what the fuck they're saying.
And you're trying to mimic it.
Just making noise.
Doesn't that sound like it?
What is Joey Diaz's band, Jamie?
Joey Diaz's nephew's band or his cousin's band?
Is it X?
I've got them on my music here somewhere.
I'm trying to find it, though.
But they had, they're a band out of Cuba.
Joey's family's out of Cuba.
X Alfonso.
M.A. Alfonso.
I think it's X, though, no?
Buena Vista Social Club.
No, that's one of them.
But there's the band that they're in is X Alfonso.
This is from his Twitter.
That's where I got that from.
Oh, that's his cousin, yeah.
The band, this I haven't seen, but there's a band that I was listening to.
It's called X Alfonso.
They are fucking badass, dude.
Oh, my God.
They're bad, and I don't know what they're saying.
It's really cool because when you're listening to it, these are, so I guess Joey's cousin's Emmy.
Is that it?
In the bottom here, he comments, and he says, all I know Joey's cousin's Emmy, is that it? In the bottom
here he comments and he says, all I know is
X Alfonso, thank you.
Oh, okay.
Someone asked him what the name of his cousin's
rock band was. He said, all I know is X Alfonso.
This was a couple years ago too.
Okay.
So I guess that's his cousin.
But whatever, man.
They're fucking badass.
They're cool, too, because I like listening to stuff like this when I write
because I don't know what the fuck they're saying.
It's just cool.
I don't have to follow their narrative.
I can just enjoy it.
I can just enjoy the sound of it.
Absolutely.
I agree.
This is, like, more of a traditional song.
Like, they have some crazy, wild rock and roll shit.
See if you can find, like, I don't want to give people the wrong impression like what kind of music they have
because i speak spanish i understand what they're saying you need to hear see if you can
find reverse yeah reverse this is a really cool video too. The video is really amazingly shot.
Like really bright graphics.
So what they're doing is they're playing this song forward and backward.
Did you fast forward it
to like deep into the song?
Yeah, interesting shit.
So this is Joey Diaz's
cousins. So
I guess there's fucking talent in them
genes. Have you been
to Cuba yet? Nope. Are you gonna go?
I would like to. I want to go there before it
becomes a tourist trap yeah as soon as 4g lte gets there it's over it's over i don't yeah i don't
want to be able to use my phone well you can use it now in some spots apparently apparently there's
like some spots where you can go where you could use your phone. It's fucking whack. It's weird.
But I want them to have phones.
I'm torn.
You know?
I mean, of course.
I think they should be able to have phones.
And the other way
our phones won't work
is if their phones don't work.
That's true.
Yeah, they should have phones.
For sure.
Now that you bring it to my attention
in that manner,
they should definitely have phones.
But there seem to be...
They put together a pretty amazing culture without it.
Shit.
It's legendary.
It's classic.
Look at the architecture and all those colors and old cars.
Yeah, the old cars, yeah.
Just the music.
If you watch that Buena Vista Social Club stuff and that documentary it's really mind-blowing
it's it's actually very beautiful the music that they make is unreal it's like unbelievable and
the way it's shot is like magical yeah they they definitely have a sound and a style of their own
and to think that all that was taking place over the last you last 50 or so years just 90 miles away from us.
We had no idea.
And on top of that, we weren't even allowed to visit.
For 50 years, we were kept from going to a spot.
And with no reason that makes any sense.
We were kept from going.
You could get in trouble, man.
In the 1980s, if you traveled to Cuba, you could get in fucking trouble.
The big daddy government
told you where you could visit.
Think about that.
You could go to Africa. You could go to the Congo.
They wouldn't give you a hard time.
But if you go to Cuba, they could lock
you up. Just for
visiting. I want to see what it's like
over there. I want to see some people.
Not allowed. You can't even...
That's the most ridiculous thing ever.
It's sick. There's no reason.
Like, you could... It's not for your own
safety, because there's some super dangerous spots
you could go visit right now.
No one's going to stop you from flying
Iraq. Nicaragua.
No one's going to stop you from flying to
a lot of places in this world that are
in a terrible
state
of civil
unrest you could just go you go or Cuban no yeah can't go to Cuba we can now it
was Russia's fault fucking Russia I like Russia there was there last year they
went hard at us they gave it a shot It was really gray to tell you the truth.
Yeah?
It was a fucking very gray place, but...
Gray like the weather,
you mean?
Like the color.
The weather,
like the way
it looked outside?
Yeah, like not nice.
Like no sunshine?
You in the winter?
It was sunny out
and it was definitely
not sunshine.
Oh, really?
It was a hard place.
Ooh.
It was... You could tell there was
hard times they braved some hard fucking people some fucking jaws man their jaws are fucking
defined some of the scariest mma fighters ever fedor yep and uh out of dagestan dagestan's another
place where just developing these killers This kid
He's fighting the UFC kid
Man
Man
Gentleman
Habib Nurmagomedov
He's an animal
Monster
Monster
Animal
Just ridiculously good grappler
Just destroyer
So fucking
So good
Think about it
They're all fucking old men over there
Just fucking wrestling all day long
In the barn
In the fucking wet and the cold
so all told with this show um do you have a deal to do it for a certain amount of time or are you
just doing it for uh as long as you enjoy it right now it feels like it feels like it could be going
on for a long time if it hits. I feel like it's going to.
People are going to enjoy this entertainment.
It's entertaining shit.
It's a different view.
If it's nearly as good as your Instagram page with the photos of it.
It's pretty good.
That's light.
The Instagram page is light work.
What was this steak that you ate that you had on your Instagram that was aged for seven months?
That was at my man Mario Batali's Steakhouse in Vegas.
Seven months?
Where you need to go because you're there a lot.
Seven months?
Seven months.
Right in the Venetian.
That's insane.
Carnevino.
How do you do that?
How do you age something for seven months?
You just leave it there.
You just leave that shit there and it becomes blue.
Oh, look at that
That was a good picture
Chris Grosso
My producer
Took that picture man
Oh shit
So that's
That's ribeye
That was
70 day aged
And like what's the temperature
When they age
No that's
That's 7 months
Excuse me
7 months
Not 70 days
That's a premature child
I don't want to believe it I don't want to believe it.
I don't want to believe it.
Seven months?
What's the temperature they put it at?
They fucking grill it very, very hot.
No, I mean to keep it to age it.
Oh, the aging.
I think that it was, they wouldn't tell you exactly,
but I would imagine it's in between in the 40s.
Really?
30 to 40.
How does it not turn into just rot?
Because there's so much fat cap on it
that the fat protects it
and the meat just rots inside
and all that fatty tissue breaks down
and just becomes nutty
and unbelievably fucking delicious
and deep and incredible depth of flavor and
developing all this earthiness and this this umami flavor you can't really explain but when you eat
it it just melts and it's like what the fuck is going on whoa yeah seven months of rot to me it's
like that if that wasn't real and we found out that the romans used
to do that oh they would be like of course but not with refrigeration if we just found out that
they used to do it we'd be like what in the fuck are these assholes doing right they would let the
meat rot away for seven months so that they could slice a sliver off the inside and present it and
present that i mean how much meat goes to waste?
A lot.
There's a lot of waste in that.
Like what percentage, you think?
Maybe 30% to 40% of the product because the bone is huge
and then the meat is just, the meat is like this.
That's how much, it's about five inches long and paws
and three inches wide.
Out of the whole cow?
You know, that's the rib eye.
That's that rib.
It's the fucking rib.
It has the big-ass bone.
It has that thick-ass fat they have to cut off.
So they must lose a substantial amount of meat.
Oh, that shit is like a fucking $200 an inch.
Wow.
So that's like the worst eco-friendly meat.
Ever.
But it's sublime.
Oh my God.
Sublime tasting.
It's like...
It's bizarre how far people will go out of their way to try to rig the perfect steak
to something like this, where you're letting some meat sit for seven months.
That means they had to take it up to like a year
and then they go,
look, we're back off.
We can't eat this shit.
No, there's 12 months.
No, there's not.
There is 12 months, man.
No.
How big is it?
They serve it to you.
It's like a fingernail.
Yeah, it's about the same thing.
It's a little bit smaller than that,
but...
It's the last remaining cells
that haven't turned to total shit.
Exactly.
The fucking new AIDS runs
rampant through your cooler. And that
is the most delicious bite
of food on the planet
apparently. Oh god. According
to these motherfuckers. And I just had that. The seven
month is mmm. Ooh.
Ugh. Like you can't
believe. And so there's a big difference between
the seven month and five months later?
Hundred percent. Are you fucking kidding me?
How much better is the one
that's a year?
You need to try it.
I haven't tried that one yet,
but I feel that it's going to be
a very,
you can't have too much.
Is it the size of like a flip phone?
Intense.
How big of a portion is it?
Yeah.
Like the size.
That's a good piece.
The smaller one.
Oh, a smaller iPhone?
But like I said, they're going to give you like a quarter inch or a half inch piece because it's 2OD.
It's like eating a whole thing of blue cheese.
What?
In one bite.
Oh, as far as like the amount of bacteria?
No, no, I'm saying like the taste.
Yes, I do.
I love blue cheese.
Almost tastes like you're eating silver.
Oh, yeah.
You know what I mean?
Well, that's because it's fucking fungus, man. Exactly. That's incredible. I love blue cheese. It almost tastes like you're eating silver. Oh, yeah. You know what I mean? Well, that's because it's fucking fungus, man.
Exactly.
That's incredible.
I love that shit.
I love funky shit.
Cheese.
We were in Paris eating two-year-old, three-year-old, eight-year-old cheeses.
Boy.
Cheese that's been buried in shit, hay, all kinds of craziness.
Yeah, the Paris folk have really figured out a way to make that stuff stink.
It stinks.
In a way that they love.
They love that stuff.
You know, that was like one of the main ingredients that we used to use on Fear Factor to make things smell worse.
Cheese?
Expensive cheese.
Really? Yeah, they would go to a place in Beverly Hills where they have just a giant selection of the grossest, rankest, fucking funkiest cheeses.
Where you open the cart and you're like, cheese, what the fuck?
And it's super expensive.
And that stuff, I don't remember what it was called.
They would throw that stuff in the blenders to make bugs smell worse.
No wonder they fucking threw up all the time.
It's like, ugh, are you looking in to start throwing up?
Yeah, the bugs itself was not nearly as bad as bugs blended in with cheese.
That funky ass cheese.
The smell was just, especially if you didn't know what you were doing.
Like, if you smell certain cheeses, if you didn't know what you were eating,
you'd be like, what the fuck?
Get this out of here.
But because you know it has a pleasant taste to it, you know it's cheese,
your brain goes, yeah, oh, this smells funky.
Like you'll smell some really weird cheeses.
Like, oh, wow, yeah, woo.
But then you eat it, you're like, whoa.
Oh, you feel the interesting flavors in your mouth.
So you associate it with a good thing, even though it smells funky.
There's a lot of cheese that literally smell like six-day-old nutsack, you know?
But like fat nutsack, like when you're overweight, like mine.
And it's not pleasant.
But once you get down to it, taste is very sweet yeah the taste is my
nutsack apparently how dare you um listen i gotta get the fuck out of here let's get out of here
i gotta go eat something i i can't i have plans you're going into fucking ketosis family stuff i
have to do no way what are you going into you're going into the other one what's the other one
you don't want to go into oh you don't i other one What's the other one You don't want to go into
Oh you don't
I don't know what the other one is
The one you don't want to go into
Whatever the one
The Carbo one
Psychosis
Action Bronson
Thank you very much sir
Thank you bro
It was a lot of fun
It was cool hanging with you
Incredible
You're a very funny guy
Good times
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I understand you.
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Thank you.
Appreciate it.
Thank you, brother.
Good night.
Tomorrow, Duncan Trussell.
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