This Is Important - Ep 288: An Episode Full Of False Accusations

Episode Date: March 3, 2026

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This is unlike anything I've ever seen before. I'm Stephanie Young. Listen to Love Trapped on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, host of the On Purpose Podcast. I'm joined by Luke Combs, award-winning country music artist, and one of the most authentic voices in music today. The guy that says he's always going to be there and that will do anything to be there is the only guy that's not there. No matter what, I'm going to prioritize my wife and my children. I dread the conversation with my son.

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what is most obviously very crucially important. Today on This Is Important. Let me get some eyes out of your butt crack. We're kind of doing the tight thing right now, dude. I like freaking partying and drinking beer. Nah, you're not gonna get me with that shit. Let's go. Yeah, he's...

That shit's important. Their boys are bad. Legal is comedy. Everybody's coming. What's up, fellows? Not much. What's up with you, Epstein Files? How is that how you open the show, dude?

What's up with you, dude? What's up with you, dude? Epstein. You bring it up every single. pod. Well, because I know you're in him. Because I know you're in them, dude. There's no way. I'm not that elite. I'm not that elite. Yeah, none of us are, dude. None of us are. Hey,

funny Epstein story. Oh, God. Okay. So, here we go again. Today, I get lunch with he who shall not be named. Voldemort. Oh, Jezelline Maxwell. Giseline. Close. Kyle Neuich. Okay. Speaking of Epstein.

Speaking of Epstein. We're sitting, we're sitting at like an outdoor table. It's a little chilly here. We're the only people outdoors at this, like, cafe getting some brunch. Water trash. And this guy walks up and I go, hey, look, looks like Kevin Etton. And it kind of did. Kevin Etton was the showrunner of workaholics. Showrunner of workaholics. Very, very funny. For people that don't know, this is inside baseball. Very funny man. Wrote anaconda. The new one, not the old one. And Kyle clocks the dude walking up. And he comes up to like a door that's locked. And he goes, is it closed? And I'm like, no, it's

open, you just have to go to this door behind me. And he goes, okay, how about the latest with the Epstein files, huh? Oh, Kyle's in deep, isn't it? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. The guy. The guy. What guy? What guy? At the door? Sorry. The guy who walked up that looks like Kevin Netton. This is the story that you decided to open the podcast. Well, you said Epstein. You said Epstein. What are we talking about here? Well, I was zib-zab zopping. I could just tell in Blake's eyes that he's always thinking of Epstein. I'm yet, and I'm yes anding. And I'm yes anding. Okay.

So sorry. Sorry. Sir is writing your way. This is your way, Adam. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome. Welcome to your show.

Thanks. And Adam, off the pod afterwards, let me know what stories to tell. This guy walks up, door locked or closed? No, door open over here. Oh, thanks. How about the latest with these Epstein files? Okay. Kyle just goes, huh?

I'm like, this dude just out-keiled, Kyle. Right? Yeah. And then Kyle goes, I don't know. He goes, have you seen it? Are you guys paying attention? You've seen the latest? And Kyle's like, a little, we're thrown.

This dude's coming in. Why are you so thrown? Why are people so afraid to talk about Epstein? That's a weird thing for a stranger. Adam, Adam, you're saying what comes next. Yeah. He goes, Kyle's like, I don't know. He's like, what do you mean?

You don't know. You don't care? And like, I turn around full me. And I just go, you know, I haven't seen my buddy in a real long time. and I'd really like to just continue the conversation we're having. Did you say, wait, did you say continue first or did you say continue? I said both. And then he goes, oh, interesting.

You don't want to talk about the Epstein files, huh? This is a stranger at the door. This is a stranger on the streets. This isn't Kevin N. This is a curb your enthusiasm character. And then he goes, he goes like, he's like, why are you, are you, scared about the, um, not Satanism. He goes, Luciferism or Luciferous.

Lusifurology or some shit. And Kyle's like, I don't, I don't really know anything. We're just trying to have some brunch here. And then I was wearing like an, an Arcteric's hat. And he goes, my man, you know who wears Arcteric hats, huh? What? Secret service under undercover agents. And I was like, all right.

Somebody help me. I'm trying to have brunch with this guy. This guy is cool. I actually like this guy. Yeah. He's coming in with takes, man. He's like dressing you down. Yeah.

I mean, maybe in his weird universe, for sure. He goes in the restaurant and then through the window he's just... He points at me as he walks. Okay, this guy is a crazy, an absolute insane person. Off the wall. Was he, did he look totally normal and just was... Yeah, what clothes is? What was he wearing?

He looked seemingly normal. But like look, I'm sure if I got like, if I had five minutes to just look at this guy over. He appeared normal. He looked like our buddy, Kevin. And so then he's not normal. He's pointing at me as he walks to the restaurant. And then he just goes out the front door. So does eat at the restaurant.

Oh, yeah. And then walks past outside past me and like is pointing at me. I'm, I'm ready. I'm like looking at my. Oh, I'm not to fight. to defend my life. I'm ready to fuck this, Kevinette and look like, I'm sizing up utensils on the table.

I'm ready to just grab a fucking knife. I'm like, this dude was unbelievable vibes. What's Kyle doing? And the cool thing of that story is that people working in the restaurant will be like, yeah, this guy was like pressing them about Epstein and then Ders got so scared. That's interesting.

That he grabbed a knife and stabbed him. That's interesting. I wish he. whatever, man. So maybe he's in the files. And by the way, I was just like, I just don't want to talk about it with you. I'm trying to talk to my buddy. Yeah, that's all you are going to talk to your buddy about, but not with this stranger. That's all I, we just want to clear our names. That's all you want to talk about. It's a necessity. But dude, the right out of the gate, watching Kyle be out, Kyle, and he was like, I hope that guy doesn't know who we are because all you guys talk about is how I eat babies and stuff. Yeah, no, Kyle's, Kyle is not. about that life. When it really, when push comes to shove, he's not about that life. I know, but what, fighting a man or? No, just like truly going down the rabbit hole. I do think Kyle has common sense. I do think he is a normal human. Oh, sure. As soon as he is, is presented with a true, like, wormhole dude, he cowers, he cowards. Yeah. Which as we all should, as we all should.

But also just like a science experiment. He did go a little Q and on during the pandemic. He Well, the pandemic was interesting. Technically he was Q&O. Yeah, he is cute. If we were, if you watched the documentary, it's the same guy. Yeah, see, he looks exactly. But dude, total just like psychological experiment where you're like, I guess if you're this guy who has probably had something absolutely horrible happened to him that has made him the guy who goes up to strangers and just opens with that. I'm sure this is like the biggest thing that's ever happened to him because he's like, I told you.

this is the thing. Freakly see ya. See, I also think L.A. is a weird place. And L.A. L.A. is a very weird place. You must remember that. The weirdest. And here's why. He maybe was a failed actor or a writer

who is putting on a character and going out the way they do, the way they tell you to do. In acting class, they're like, put the character on. You are this person for an afternoon. And go test it out. And they would tell you. that in improv class and an acting class

to like be a different person, put on a different skin. He's hired. Walk about. And then this guy weirdly, his different character is very much about the Epstein file. Is pressing people on their knowledge of the files?

Was it Miles Teller? Was it Miles stellar in character? I mean, he gave me whiplash. Oh, hello. Hello. Why? Because Miles is such a great actor. Is that what you're saying? Yeah, absolutely. He was in a movie called Whiplash. Yes, points!

Well, I know. I know what you're saying. No, but he has a top gun. He was a real Maverick. He was in this movie called Top Gunn' Maverick. No, but was he Elvis? I hope he lives for eternity. That's his newest movie.

No one saw it. Was he Elvis ever? He should have been. He was not. No, no, no. What a should have? Little Monsters. Coulda?

Is he in that? No. Real monsters? Ah, real monsters? That was before he was a lot. Fred Savage. I think that might have been Fred Savage. Do you remember Little Monsters?

Do you guys remember that movie? Yeah, that's the one with Howie Mandel That they go under the bed Yeah, that one was sick Truly frightening The main bad guy Like has the back side of his head Like his brain exposed

That shit fuck me up, dude Yeah, awesome bitch shit Yeah, but you're up Bitch, that was a movie you watched When you were sick, right? I'm always sick That was a, you're at home You were sick

You get the clicker Yeah You get the power of the clicker And then you stumble on like the daytime HBO that your parents would get once a year for a month when they would give it to you for a month for free. That little sampler pack. Little sampler. And then all of a sudden, was it little monsters?

Is that what we're going with? Maybe it was little monster. Little monsters is what it's called. Little monsters. I think it's little monsters. Plural. Because both the boy and the monster are monsters, right? Isn't that the moral of the story?

Aren't we all? I mean, hey. Is that we're all monsters? Oh, and David's. Stearns in this movie, too. This is a classic. Who's David Stern? The NBA president.

Oh, sorry, Daniel, Daniel Stern. Daniel Stern is the dad? Daniel Stern is the father in this movie. So if you don't know, this is a really cool, very weird. 1989, so it's old. The makeup. And essentially, this monster lives underneath the bed. He catches him in his room.

He's like, yo, come. with me in the underneath world. He goes with him. I don't know, really remember the plot. Because he's getting bullied in the real world. He's like, I'm sick and tired of the real world. I'm going to go where you're from. I don't know. I don't know. I think most 89 to 90s movies were about little boys

getting bullied and how to overcome that. Yeah, yeah, karate. And then by the late 90s, the kids figured out guns. Just shoot them. Let's just go. Shoot them. Don't even

use your imagination. Honestly. You want to see my money. my little monster. Then all the sudden, yeah, then all of a sudden it got a little real video games got too good is what happens. It ruined the youth of America. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was the first person shooters really fucked up our children and it does suck.

We used to get our aggression out with puppetry and makeup and imagination, but then that all stopped. And that is. That all stops. But Howie Mandel, he was like a cool monster. He had like high tops on. Yeah, he was cool monster. Like a cool gene vest. Yeah.

A little earring. He had a little, yeah. He was so cool, dude. It was almost before, was it before or after Aladdin? Because it reminds me of the same kind of thing. It was before. It was before. It was before.

But only a few years. So do we think Aladdin ripped it off? A blue guy who's really like fast and funny. Oh. Oh. You know what? That was probably, this came out in 89, so they filmed it in 88. Oh.

And then Aladdin came out in 92, which means. means they were working on it the previous four years or so. Yeah. I bet it was a, I bet it was a green genie, right? Oh. Yeah, yeah. Would you imagine it was a green genie?

Then all of a sudden, little monsters comes out and they go, uh-oh. They're like, it's testing well. Let's get the eraser. Squish, squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, squeeze,

squeeze. Well, do you remember when, like, it used to be like movies, like identical movies would come out at the same time just to confuse kids? Dude, I remember. I remember.

I think we may have talked about this. Was it? It was like, Wyatt Earp and Tombstone came out, like, within days of it. Yeah, and I feel like the movie theaters got sales just because people were like, I think I want to see that movie because that's the one they're talking about. So which one you all kick me situation?

It was a very rush hour. Which one of y'all flicked me? Exactly, exactly. Hung out with Chris Tucker the other night, by the way. Well, he's in Epstein Files. It's science. Save it. Oh, he is.

I actually think. No, I know. That I actually am willing to bring up. I wouldn't just open the pod being like Epstein files, but like that is worthy of talking about. But why not? It's weird that you don't. Are you afraid? Are you really afraid? They're going to release more.

It's not like we're random guys on the street who are coming up to you being like, did you hear the latest? We're your best friends who love and support you no matter what. Almost. And we refuse to get in the same room. Okay, why were you hanging out with, uh, I wasn't hanging out. I wasn't hanging out. I wasn't hanging out.

I wasn't hanging out. But I was at the NBA All-Star Slam dunk competition. There we go. Get them, boy. That must have been the whole damn list there. That deserves a... That's cool. That's cool.

You got to see all those players that nobody knows their names do slam dunks. Dude, what was that even about? What sucked is the three-point contest was way more interesting and fun. Was Jackson Hayes in the slam dunk contest? Yeah, who...

Shout out Jackson Hayes. We do fuck with Jackson. He's the man. What a freak athlete. I know he's. He's a fan of the show because one time I went to a Laker game and he geeked out on me and I was like, oh shit, this is the homie right here, Jackson Hayes. Shout out.

I would love him on The Warriors as well. He's a very good player, young talent. Okay. I don't know if, what do they call that? Okay. So the, the looks like Kashad Johnson. He came out with E40. Yes.

And they were fucking throwing it down. He 40 was also sitting by me. Yeah. You're so lucky. Yeah, dude. It was pretty sick. And then Carter Bryant, he's a Spurs. Like, none of these guys.

And no offense. No offense. These guys are not the stars of the league. And that's what we want to see. We want to see the stars or at least, and maybe I'll bought my tongue in a few years when these guys become the big stars. But when Blake Griffin, he did it as a rookie and he won as a rookie. Star. But you knew he was going to be a star.

Yes. You already was a star. He already was a star. And this is halfway. Maybe Lob City wasn't a thing yet, but he was like jumping out the gym. Yes. Yes, yes, yes. He was acting like it was an and one mixtape.

It was dope. Like some of these dunks, you're like, I mean, I couldn't do any of this, but you're like. But if you had a week, if you had a week to try. I also, I don't know if you saw, I was kicking with my boy Mugsy Boggs. Saw that. I tower over and I've never felt better about something. Yeah, you did this to him, the too short sign. Uh-huh.

Yeah. And then he just met. And then he copped over at top of me. No. But Mugsy Bow. Slamdong competition. Yeah. Dwarfed what any of these guys did.

Literally dwarfed. Literally. Good word. No. Stop it. Don't. Good word. But yeah, it was a bit of a disappointment that there were bigger stars. Did you see who, I can't remember who had the take, but it was essentially, or maybe it's like

a out there in the ether take. The NBA All-Star situation, the whole game, the whole weekend changed when Kobe stepped to LeBron and was like, let's go. one on one. This is why we're here. Like, we get to do this and there's no like game on the line. It's just us. And LeBron was like, uh, and passed it, just dished it off.

Because he was like, what? Why would we take this seriously? But, and then from there, it's become kind of like, well, and I'm not saying LeBron couldn't have won the dunk contest. Sure. He very much could have, but what if he didn't and what are those optics? And it's like, see, the bitch maintenance of that.

You actually have to win. You have to sign up for it because you're the face and you're arguably more athletic than Jordan was at your size. Oh, absolutely. You have to win the dunk contest because you're LeBron. Yes. Well, I think it's the whole argument of maybe like as a person, LeBron doesn't want to fail publicly. Like so is that, I don't know. Like what else could you?

He puts his hand up to the camera when he's playing basketball. He's like, so what if everybody approached life like that? Like I would rather not fail publicly. I would rather not do it. Like, you have to. Like, it's okay to fail. Too late. Like, what?

It's too late. What? What? You failed. No, that's what I'm saying. That's the bitch maideness of LeBron. And why he, in my eyes, he'll never be the greatest. Yeah.

Is that one long word? Yeah, bitch maideness. Is you have to be able to step up in those moments and dominate. And do dominate. Okay. Because you are the best. Okay, but like, okay, remember that guy? And if you don't beat Kobe, then he's Kobe.

And you were a young kid and then you came your own later. Remember that guy at the dunk contest who like hit the side of the backboard and like fill on his back? What if that was LeBron? So would that have? I guess my point is you just don't be that guy. Well, you never know. That's that's what, but no, you do know. That's what made Jordan Jordan is that like even if that would never happen.

Kind of Kind of Right, right But even if it did happen He would get up And jump from the free throw line And look fucking cool When he did it

Exactly something Adam 100% Something Or he'd come back And go He'd go to the camera And he'd look into the barrel of the camera To the universe

And he would say That will never ever happen again And then guess what It wouldn't I think you guys are speaking as old heads, bro. Like Jordan didn't have social media like breathing down his throat.

He, I don't, I don't think if he knew stuff would get out that quick that he would have done it. Are you out of your mind? Yes. No, I don't think. Blake, are you out of your mind? Social media is smaller than Michael Jordan.

Oh, hello. Michael Jordan, if you go anywhere in the world, Michael Jordan hasn't played basketball forever. But that's because he's from. I'm from Chicago. They still say Michael Jordan. But he's from a different time when we used to uplift people so high that the whole world cared. Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson, like, these were people that the whole world cared out. I feel like Michael Jackson didn't get lifted up forever.

He did. He did. Michael Jackson was the biggest star in the whole entire world. I don't disagree. So we don't uplift people like that anymore. We would rather see them broken down. Yes. Yes. So that makes me go even more so.

Be that guy. Defy the odds. Be that guy that steps up in the moment and isn't afraid. Who cares, dude? I like that. Get embarrassed. Get embarrassed. Fall down.

If you, by the way, if you do land on your head in the slam dunk contest, you're LeBron James, you get up, you rub it off, you try it again. And hopefully you pull off something cool. I'm like, I would rather see them try and fail than not try at all. I think it's so bitch made. to be so worried about your legacy or whatever. Image. But so you're saying you're like Team Jake Paul

where you like getting a ring and get your fucking jaw broken half and you just get smoked live. I mean, sure, but I, but like I'm not talking. It's not. That's the man that's apples you're talking about. No, no, no, no, no. But that's apples and oranges because he shouldn't have been fighting a ex-world champion.

Jake Paul should have. Because you got to ask. Arguably. Arguably. And they said it was a pretty good fight, But, LeBron James should have been dunking a basketball in the All-Star game. Or the Slam Dunkin'on context. The classic line is like, it's not about getting knocked down.

It's about getting back up. Oh, very chumble-lum. And look, and look. We've watched sports stars our entire lives have like massive fails, right? Sure. But it's the ones who come back and do something. greater that you're almost no longer like oh yeah they're known for

that thing it's like you forget about the thing I'm sure Tom Brady has some whack-ass fucking fumble bumble what that like whatever but he out did that when it's like sun kiss him on the mouth that was weird that was a fumble bumble champ

he kind of fumble bumbled was that is that a fumble bumbled to you I don't know bro it was a weird kid but you know I'm saying like Jordan's missed shots but then he made more he he worked hard to not miss the shots. But we are defending Jordan a lot.

And I don't know if you guys just saw the video of Jordan grabbing the little boy's butt a lot. No, don't spread that. Don't spread that. It was already debunked. No, no, no. It's already debunked, dude. How was it debunked?

It was an AI video. Teba called me with this. He's like, yo, Jordan's like grabbing butts out here. It's not real. There was ice down this little kid's pants and he's getting it out of his pants. It's not. It's nothing to talk about.

Life hack. That's a life hack right there. Let me get that ice. I didn't think he was a child predator. He absolutely is not. He absolutely is not. Yes. That's what I'm saying.

I'm just saying it's funny. We're defending Jordan so much when Jordan just had some shit where the video is him like pinching a boy's butt. No. It's no. It's already. No, it's already debunk. No, but we can defend aspects.

We can defend aspects of anybody. Uh-huh. You can defend some aspects. But then you're like, maybe he's, maybe a guy. Jeffrey Epstein. Go for it. Hey, Jeffrey Epstein. Horrible guy.

Rapist. Stop. Stop. The worst. He's Satan. Probably one of the best, one of the best mental manipulators of this time. Legendary. Legendary mate.

Dude, he's so good at Blackmail. He has a power. Used it for evil, right? He used it for evil. That's an evil power. Blackmail is an evil power. You can't make that. I'm not, I didn't say, I'm saying like, I'm saying,

we didn't say it. had to be a good power. Getting people to do things. He's a super villain. Getting people to do things is a superpower. Steve Jobs got people to make phones fucking this thing. Right? Jeffrey Epstein, I'm not even going to re you, hey,

did you read the newest latest files? I don't know, man. No, I'm out. He went for evil. He went for evil. I'm done with that guy. I don't. So what I'm saying is if Jordan's getting ice out of this butt or not, he still had this. It's not being done with that guy. That guy is dead. It's about... The world needs to be done with that guy. We need

to eradicate him from the history books. Oh, wouldn't that be nice for you to just move on? He's dead. He's eradicated. He's been eradicated. What was the... What was your word you used for LeBron bitch acidness? Get his bitchacidness out of here, dude. Yeah. I'm done with that guy. Bitch as... I'm not

going to uplift him in any way. I'm done. As far as we know, he bitch assed himself out. I'm just saying he's really good at blackmail and being a super villain. Yeah. He's got six rings for sure. Yeah. He's got six rings. Fair enough.

Well, little more. Tracking rings. Doesn't that what they call him? A traffic ring? He's got six rings. That's not even, don't, and don't even give me points for that. Don't want him. Don't quote him on that. Do you not quote him on that? By the way, this is the kind of conversation where like there's the comedians who go like, anything can be funny.

I don't care. Nothing's off limits. There's nothing that's taboo. Ah, man, I love how cutting edge we are, dude. Because I don't think this is that actually. This is nothing. But at least we tried. At least we tried.

At least we, this is our dunk contest. We came out here and we tried to dunk it. Yeah, we all fell in on our head. See? And if we don't say anything funnier than what just transpired, we're done. We're done. Netflix, thanks for having us. Good done.

Can you do the... All I'm saying is Blake's word. He's in the files. I definitely am not. I'm not high caliber like that. Let me get the ice out of your butt. Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, host of the on-purpose podcast. I'm joined by Luke Combs,

award-winning country music artist and one of the most authentic voices in music today. Luke opens up about success, self-doubt, mental health, and what it really takes to stay true to who you are when your life changes overnight. I hate fame, I hate the word celebrity, I hate those words, they made me uncomfortable. But I think when you get to a certain point, the fame or the success or the influence, it just accentuates and exacerbates the inherent person that you are.

The guy that says he's always going to be there and that will do anything to be there is the only guy that's not there. I'm in Australia when Beau is born. My whole identity is that no matter what, I'm going to prioritize my wife and my children. over my job. I dread the conversation with my son. What do you think you'd say? Listen to On Purpose with Jay Chetty on the Iheart Radio app,

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. In 2023, a story gripped the UK, evoking horror and disbelief. The nurse who should have been in charge of caring for tiny babies is now the most prolific child killer in modern British history. Everyone thought they knew how it ended. a verdict, a villain, a nurse named Lucy Letby. Lucy Letby has been found guilty. But what if we didn't get the whole story?

The moment you look at the whole picture, the case collapses. I'm Amanda Knox, and in the new podcast, doubt the case of Lucy Lettby, we follow the evidence and hear from the people that lived in, to ask what really happened when the world decided who Lucy Lettby was. No voicing of any skepticism or doubt. It'll cause so much harm at every single level of the British establishment of this is wrong. Listen to doubt the case of Lucy Letby on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. China's Ministry of State Security is one of the most mysterious and powerful spy agencies in the world.

But in 2017, the FBI got inside. This is Special Agent Regal, Special Agent Bradley Hall. This MSS officer has no idea the U.S. government is on to him. But the FBI has his chats, texts, emails, even his personal diary. Hear how they got it on the Sixth Bureau podcast. I now have several terabytes of an MSS officer, no doubt, no question, of his life. And that's a unicorn. No one had ever seen anything like that. It was unbelievable. This is a story of the inner workings of the MSS and how one man's ambition and mistakes opened its fault of secrets.

Listen to the Sixth Bureau on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Clayton Eckerd, and in 2022, I was the lead of ABC's The Bachelor. Unfortunately, it didn't go according to plan. He became the first Bachelor to ever have his final rose rejected. The internet turned on him. If I could press a button and rewind it all I would. But what happened to Clayton after the show?

made even bigger headlines. It began as a one-night stand and ended in a courtroom with Clayton at the center of a very strange paternity scandal. The media is here. This case has gone viral. The dating contract.

Agree to date me, but I'm also suing you. Please search for it. This is unlike anything I've ever seen before. I'm Stephanie Young. This is love-trapped. This season,

an epic battle of He Said She Said, and the search for accountability in a sea of lies. Listen to Love Trapped on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Wait, why did you... Oh, that's why you were with Chris Tucker. Okay, I'm remembering. Yeah, the Slam Dunk Contest, Chris Tucker.

He makes me... I was like, I look at Chloe and I'm like, should I start wearing like sparkly jackets? Like his jacket game was so... So on point. Like his jacket, you couldn't help but notice that he was in the arena. I think NBA All-Star weekend is the like the place to debut your awesome jacket. To show out.

Your jacket. I wasn't showing out enough. Yeah, like what did you wear, bud? What did you wear? Just a regular jacket. Were you court side? Were you close? You got to.

Why aren't you? I was, dude. I was court side. Yeah. I don't have any sparkly jacket. You got to get one for the occasion. It's not too late, Adam, for you to get like. And Blake helped me out here.

Was it Jerry Lawler who dressed like a king or whatever? Yes, absolutely. Jerry the King Lawler? Yes, great pull. It's not too late for you to just wear your clothes and the like cape or whatever we call that and the crown. Dungne. I get dressed like the candy, candy crush king. Is that what you're saying?

Yes. Why not? Why not? Possible. Just saying. Not too late. Just saying. That seems kind of cool.

Anything's possible. That, hey, that's showing out. That's really showing out. But the bummer was, is they asked me, they're like, do you want, they didn't give me both. They were like, do you want tickets to the slam dunk contest or the actual game? And it was Bo's birthday. Yeah. Big number two for Big Bo.

He, uh, on Sunday. So I couldn't go to that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I was like, well, go to the slam dunk contest. But then someone dunked him. The actual game. was pretty fucking cool. Wimbunyama showed the fuck out.

Kauai had like a legendary performance. This is great. And Obama was sitting there at a court side. I could have been sat next to Obama. Adam Devine. Did I get your vote? I'm pissed now. You voted for me, right? I would have been sat so far away from the actual people that are taking

photographs. Let me get some eyesight of your butt crack. It's all good. It's all good. Yeah, I wonder how close you could have sat next to Obama Well, they would have given me court courtside seats Well, because you and you and Biden are ex homies, so

X. Hey, dude, I did the video Is he dead? I don't know if Biden's still fucking with him. Did he die? I don't know if Biden's still fucking with Adam the same way. Why wouldn't he? Why wouldn't he? Yeah, I don't understand what's happening. What did I do? FaceTime him, face time right now. He's your homie. I would love to, but Can you imagine that dude

on FaceTime? You're like, Oh, poor guy. You're, you know what? You're going to the bathroom. You can just, we can do this later. Huh? Huh?

Sack cam. Yeah, when I did that video, my dad, I think I told you guys this. I was like, my dad voted for you and Barack, you mind if I give him a call? He's a fan. And he's like, oh, sure. And then for Biden. And then I call. And my dad, I go, dad, I have someone that wants to speak with you.

And he's like, Mr. Devine, this is vice president. He was vice president at the time. Joe Biden, I just want to say, you know, I'm working with your son. He's a really funny guy. My dad hung up on him. Goodbye. And then...

I like your policies. He hung up on me. And then I was like, what? And then the Secret Service comes and like, we got to take your father away right now. Or we got to take Biden away right now. And he's like, I'm like, can I call him back? And he's like, I'm sorry.

They're taking me. And they take him. And I call my dad back. I'm like, what's that about? And he goes, nah. you're not going to get me with that shit. And I'm like, what? And he's like, yeah, oh, yeah.

Like, that's Joe Biden. And I'm like, it is. And he, and I was like, why would you think it wasn't? And he was like, well, I just thought it's one of your Hollywood friends doing an impression. Is Adam Ray? And I'm like, fair enough. Yeah, for sure. But I'm like, you knew that I was going to the White House to do this video today.

Hollywood friend. No. You knew it. Nope. And then he was like, no shit. Oh, okay. wish. Yeah.

You know, whenever I hear those stories on talk shows where they're like, they're actors and they're like, so Spike Lee called me and I hung up on him because I was like, there's no way Spike Lee is calling me. I'm like, aren't you like an actress? Like, don't you get calls from people? I never understood those stories. I get spam calls. That's it.

Nobody calls me. Spike Lee never called you? No. It's weird you mentioned Spike Lee because that was the one number way back in the day. that somehow Kyle got Spike Lee's number. Sure. And we were very stoned. Remember when we had that fire pit illegally in our backyard?

And we would just burn, we would just burn like broken furniture in it. Fuck it. And we'd just basically be getting high from the fumes. Cast away into it. The lacquer. And we, yeah. And then we called Spike Lee got his number and, uh, and like would prank call him. And it was just a fun thing for us to do.

I'm sorry, Spike, I didn't know. You really think that was Spike? It must. How did Kyle get that number? Oh, this is a reverse? I don't know. I don't know. I'm just wondering.

I know he was a teacher at the LA Film School, but I'm like, how did he come upon that? Who Spike was? No, Kyle. Maybe there was a way. I was like, doesn't that? I forget exactly how it was like a friend, it was like friend for friend passed out. I like to think there's just a lot of like voice mails that Spike Lee has saved of us being like, dude

we're sitting next to the bonfire right now dude dude dude the right thing was so good dude he got game was so good

dude we're lighting it on fire like the fucking pizza place dude what's it called this is an honor this is an honor

of you dude we got a fucking boom by this was for radio rime we're kind of doing the tight thing right now dude by like freaking partying and drinking beer

Can we do the tight thing? Did you guys ever prank anyone? Well, yes. I remember I spoke about it with the Blaine Andy. So yeah, but I got in trouble for that. Oh, okay. Yeah.

And if you're listening or watching, go ahead and find that episode somewhere. That memorable story. No, that's a very iconic episode. You guys got to dig in the craigs for that. Which one? I don't remember this story. story even a little bit.

If they don't, Blake, maybe tell it one more. I don't want to. Maybe. I don't even want to. Okay. I don't really want to. Okay. Dude, and this is exactly what improv teaches you.

You just sort of throw the e-break on the conversation. Yeah. Big on, no, never. No, never. No, I'm good. That wasn't really my thing, but I did have a homie who, this isn't even really prank phone call, but it was almost funnier. he would call the like phone cell phone company cell phones are brand new at this time right so like

no kea there's like a certain like minutes situation right there's like a minute situation if you go over he would he would call sure every month and like beg not to be charged and then he'd be like you know what fuck you i'm gonna cancel my whole thing cancel it right now and then they'd get like uh because if you cancel then you're losing money down the line right sure and just listening to the him negotiate with this people and like get real personal and be like come on put yourself in my shoes like we were out party i was really drunk trying to hook up with this girl's calling her and they're like sir i look i don't he's like come on be human and like very funny to just hear these people cave and be like okay we can delete that charge from your all right and can i get like a bonus month and you're like this dude's

fucking going for yeah come on dude i love her can i get a bonus month if i don't call her please let me get that bonus mom if i don't call her she's going to he's going to break up with me All right, fuck it. Cancel it. Now, Blake, this artwork over your shoulder there, now is that you put that on an altar when you sacrifice children in the Epstein files? Oh, boy. Oh, man. What's the deal there?

No, come on now. I told you, this is a place where I can have any sort of sponsor. This is a sponsorship. Basically patio. Is that a shelf? It's a sponsorship patio. Okay. But then also maybe you, is that the skulls of.

Children or what is the deal there? Children? No. Very siny, very small. This is my buddy neck face. It's a, it's a lamp. You can put a little bulb in here. Yeah.

Light bulb. Oh, you can insert from the bottom. Got it. Yeah, it's going to be great for Halloween, but it's also good for the podcast. So. But if, is that, you know, if there's. I was just wondering why you're so kind of nervous about the FC files.

And then I look over your shoulder and kind of know. I'm not nervous. It looks like moosephorism. Yes, sir. Yo, wait. Is that a music stand that that's on? Yeah, it is. It is actually.

Well, no. Look at you having a music stand. I think I got this for like to put a projector on, but I never, I never set it up. Yeah. I never set it up. Classic. Classic Blake. What were those things?

What are the, what are the, um, the music stands called? I think they had a really cool name, actually. All right. Let's just take a moment to let you remember that. Oh, it's called the music stands. I can't. So the episode, if people, if you want to hear what Blake Anderson's... Clamory.

Was Blaine Andy Soe? Whatever this story was, he refuses to tell it again. It was in episode 72. Truck stops where fun starts. Episode 72 of This Is Important. Perfect. Classic. So apparently it was a classic.

Yeah. I don't remember that. Go back. Check it out. Check it out. I mean, that was a long time ago. What are we on now? I might go listen right now.

What are we on right now? What episode is it? 2000? Yeah. Damn. This is episode 288. So over 200 episodes ago and you refuse to tell the story. Yeah.

I kind of don't remember that well. Why don't you just say, fuck you to our new listeners? Absolutely. Just go ahead and say it. We're on Netflix now. If you're not, if you're not day one, we're not really. And that's a cool attitude. On this side.

That's a great. No new friends. That's a cool attitude. I got it. I know it's good. I think that is Blake's attitude. I'm very Drake in that way. I'm very Drake in that way. Yeah.

Except you're not as big as Drake. So Drake's whole thing is he has, he's so huge that he doesn't want any new friends. What are we talking about here now? Drake, we're talking Drake. He's not as big as Drake. He's so huge. What are we talking about now here? I'm going to come.

Oh. Blake's penis. Yeah. Yeah. What? I'm always talking about Blake's penis. Blake, Drake, Drake. Obvious.

There's something happening there. Blake and Drake. Something. Maybe. Blake and Drake. Dude, that's the spin-off. Get your own fucking podcast with that guy. You don't need us.

Me and Adam will yell at each other. Drake and Josh, but it's like Blake and Josh? That could be kind of sick. No, Blake. It's Blake and Drake. Mm-hmm. Okay. Fair enough.

Dude, I'm in my new office. There's weird haunted noises happening at my house. What do you mean? Okay. I'm in my new office. Okay. And it's a new house. Mm-hmm.

A totally new place. Mm-hmm. there's pounding and like, oh, sure. It's nice. Epstein. It is a bit echo. It sounds like a church almost.

Yeah. Well, there's no furniture or anything in it. Blake was just here for, for Beau's birthday. Anders. He told me you couldn't make it, and I respect him. I respect him for it.

I said I could, and then I said I couldn't. And I'm choosing not to. And choosing not to is what he said. And that was awesome. Thanks for coming. We had a great time. A lot of kids.

A lot of kids. You know what I'm. I'm hyped. They collect them. At about two, they start to collect little friends. Okay. Don't say collecting kids. Yeah.

And Blake collects little skulls. Yeah, it's just like that. Don't start. Don't start. Well, it's weird that you're so scared to talk about it with that shrine behind you. Don't say collecting kids. That's weird. No, I mean, he collects little friends.

He has like, because he goes to like a little gymnastics crew. So he's got friends from there. He has friends in his little swimming class. Adam, I know this is your new. dad. It's making friends. It's making friends. Yeah. You don't collect. You gotta collect a month. Gotcha, bitch. But then now it's weird. They're all too. So then you have like 15, 20,

two-year-olds running around your party and it's absolute chaos. Insane. And so I live on the beach, right? So there's just a open body of water there. So it's just parents playing goalie against the ocean. It's potentially deadly. Yeah. You have to be honest. You have to be on. full alert. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I'm, I'm hyped that I got to it because you're, you guys send out the RSVP and it was on like, what is it? Part of all. What is that? The app, Partifle. I can't do it. There's so many part of the whole. Why? Why not just I, I'm so glad that it worked out for me,

but that is extremely hard for me to figure out. The Partifle app. Oh, do we think it's you're an idiot? No, dude. I'm the same. I'm the same. Why, dude, it's so easy. Why can't I just text? Like, I'm coming. Well, you could, but you didn't. You could have done that. I told you, well, I told you at the Super Bowl, I'm coming. Yes, you saw me. But then you're like, well, you have an RSVP at the Partifle at, like that, that's, like, why do we have to do everything through our phones?

I just. So my wife can see the headcount. It's for the wives. You think I care about Partifle? I don't care about Partifle. I don't work for Partifle. I don't, yeah. You couldn't give a shit about Partifle after this pod.

You seem like you're very pro Partifle, dude. It is weird. Well, no, dude. So the wives know the headcount. And so they don't have to go through. Do you want to use Partifle for anything? Yeah. I have used it.

It's very easy. You just click, I'm coming. There it is. Yes, no, maybe. I don't like it. I'm not a big Partifle guy. I find it to be very hard to navigate. All I'm saying is this episode is brought to you by Partiful.

I got a question about Partiful. I got an invite literally today, a Partifle invite from a person. from like 2010 that I'm like, is it just because I'm in your phone still that like you sent me this? We haven't spoken in 15 years. We were like acquaintances. How am I getting this now? What is happening?

Was it for like a something you for sure wouldn't go to? Something like a little housewarming party or something that you're like, I don't know this person. A baptism. Yeah. This is a person I knew for 10 seconds who's like, Run it back, run it back? Allegedly.

Can we run it back? Well, no, the question is, is it like, hey, I'm doing a show. And I want you to come check me out. Right. Or is it like I'm getting married. And I can see him just trying to throwing out as many. Not clicking on it. Not clicking on it.

Oh, you don't even know what it is. You don't even know what it's about. No. Okay. Well, you know you can click on it and they can't tell that you've clicked. It's like you have to respond. Yes. What?

I'm not. No, I don't know that actually. I don't know the rules of part of full. I'm not scared, okay? Well, that's just the rules. I'm not scared to click on it. I have really scared. I have zero interest in clicking on it regardless.

You're scared of clicking on it. Blake is scared of the Epstein files, and you're both scared of so. I'm just confused where the fuck part of all came from. I'm a little, I'm a little shot. I am too. Because Aco and Atiba also sent one to us. And I was like, so everyone's doing this? My New Year's invitations, my Christmas parties, birthday parties, everything is part of full.

I don't want it anymore. Everything is part of all. You have to sign up. You have to get a code. It's like you don't know who's coming until you say yes. Like, I don't want to say yes until I know who's there. Like, what if it's just a bunch of, what's a bunch of whackadoodle? That I don't have a problem with.

I don't make my decisions based on other people. That's stupid. That's just, that's whack. That's weird. No, that's just weird. Maybe, hey, maybe I'm an old head. That's you not wanting to do, that's you not wanting to do the slam dunk contest. Exactly.

Exactly. Bitch eight. Bitch madness. Bich-assiveness? No, it's not bitch-assiveness. It is not bizad. Like, people should just know what they're signing up for. Oh, I want my, I might come for.

You know what I'm signing up for? My life. And where I go, I go. Who's there? I don't know. We'll find out. I don't know. And you'll know when you get there.

I don't know. I don't know. It just seems. It just seems odd to me. The partfulness of the party is, I don't, it's feeling very. I agree that it came out of nowhere and is suddenly the one. I'm like, I can't just get an Evite. What were the others?

Evite. Evite. Evite. Classic. Well, they're had to. What happened to Evite? It's just old now. It's just old.

Bring back Evite. I respect the, uh, the entrepreneurs who saw a hole in the market. What was the hole? Bend over. I'll show you. The long toothedness of Evite. of the Evite and saw the long toothedness. I get it.

They basically go like, okay, Starbucks is hell of old. What's a new fucking coffee place? They just look for the old thing and swoop in and go, this is going to be what Starbucks was in 1990 for now. Yeah. And we're going to charge. Airwine is the new Whole Foods. It's a third place.

Like as if Whole Foods wasn't expensive enough, Eram was like, hold my groceries. Who is? Okay, we get it. Who is, what is Partifal doing that Evite wasn't doing? Why is- I don't know! It seems way harder. It seems way more, it's like party cops, dude.

And see, see, this is the energy, this is the energy that Anders and I want from you for every topic. No, no, no, no, no, no. Your blaséiness of every topic. This I'm passionate about. When we ask you to tell a story that you've told before that we're like, oh, yeah, remind us. of that. Go to F-72. You refuse to do it.

I'm talking now. You never take a stance on anything. We're like, maybe you take a stance. You don't even take a stance on the Adstein files because you're afraid of something. I'm taking a stance on an FD file. I don't want to hear it anymore. It's evil. It's terrible.

The guy. Partiful. Yes. Don't we think it should all come out so we can then arrest all the evil thoughts? They are out. No, they're not. They are out. They're not.

They're not. You dumb fuck They're redacted and yeah Adam I'm pissed now Adam's combed them Right I'm fucking pissed now Adam's combed him

I'm combed him I'm combed him Dude Croomed him Come the hell out Everybody is bad Everybody is fucking bad Listen

No Yes Everybody's bad What? No By How about we stick to Partifle

Okay You're Everyone's bad Are you about to go Like philosophical like... Yes, I think he was, and then he backed off of it. Are sharks evil if they eat people, or are they just hungry?

No, I mean, like, what stance are you guys asking me to take right now? Do you really want to really dissect the Epstein files and get really real about the Epstein file? I don't, no, no, I don't think you're listening. Adam is telling you... We just got off the cruise, and this is the first thing you want to talk about. We haven't gone on the cruise yet. No, we're just got off the cruise, and this is what you want to talk about. Technically, I know.

This is airing, but I'm transparent. I guess you like hiding things, redacting things. Yeah. Okay. I think you're missing the compliment that Adam gave you. He was just telling you how great it is that you're taking a stand on Partiful and you're misinterpreting it.

He was hyping you up. Taking a stand isn't necessarily a good thing. Maybe being neutral is a good thing. For comedy? You think being neutral in comedy is? That's your, no, that has always been Legalized comedy. You have to have a point of view.

Maybe you don't. Maybe not having a point of view. Maybe anti-comedy is the new comedy. Hey, let's try that on the cruise. I mean, we tried that on the cruise. We already did. And it was hit. And people loved it.

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Listen to Love Trapped on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. So I'm with yours and I'm about transparency. And we have not gone on the cruise yet, but we are about to. We leave this Friday or Saturday? We leave Saturday, right? Saturday. We ship out Sunday. So excited.

Yes. I hope we're still alive. It's looking way colder than I wanted it to be. Yeah. And I hope we come back all tanned up and be like, actually, it wasn't that bad. I really want it to be hot. Do you think they have a tanning salon on the boat? 100%.

But what did I, what did I test you guys? It's something like the high of 59. No. Our first day on the boat. Very shaggadellic. Yes. And the week before, it was like 82 degrees. It's like a store.

That's okay, though, because it's not. It's super windy on the deck of a cruise ship on an open ocean. Dude, in the Gulf of America, it's warm. It's hot, hot, hot, hot, hot. You would say it. You would say that. That's the other stance you take. It's a Gulf of America.

Hot, hot, hot, hot. It's what it's called. Look at a map, dude. Brought you by a stance. Isaac is saying the highs in the 70s, okay. But where? I think lows might be 59. No, no, no.

The high of Tampa, our first day. That night, it gets cold on. water. We're not in Tampa. That's just where we're shipping out from. We're nowhere near Tampa. But the first day we will be within range of Tampa. That's the closest city. So I don't know how else to... Dude, you know how fast these cruise ships are? We fucking ship only goes about... Okay, we leave what Sunday? Okay, well, it's raining. We already came back. It was great. Okay. Okay. It's raining and the highest 74. The next day, Monday. So we will...

will be in the ocean will be a high of 57 and then the next day high of 60 and then next day high of 60 that's colder than where we currently are so I'm hoping and by the way I you're you're I feel like Blake is throwing this on me like I'm the bearer of the bad news yeah I'm just looking at the weather app homie I'm just looking at the weather app and who owns that the people who own part of full like I don't fuck with apps anymore decent I'm gonna get there I'll look at the weather And it's going to be warm. I have a really good feeling about it. Hot, hot, hot, hot, hot.

I hope so, too. It's going to be really warm. I'm going to get sunburned. So, Isaac then gives contradictory information. To he goes, himself. The ship only goes 10 meter knots. I don't know what that means. Oh, good. Oh, okay.

It only goes 10 knots, which isn't that fast. 10 knots is pretty damn slow. Like when I take my boat out, I go 25 knots. Yeah. Oh, shit. This goes 10 knots. And I know that these things exist because it doesn't translate exactly, but how fast are we talking here? I don't know.

Yeah, what's a knot? Is it 10 miles per hour? What's a knot? I don't know. Why do we call them knots? Is it nautical mile? Is it a nautical mile? Yeah, that's a great guess.

So then Isaac, once again, doesn't answer the question and goes about 12 miles an hour. 12 miles an hour is one knot. Don't you stroke one knot? No, I think that's 10 knots is about 12 miles. I got a knot for you. I got a knot for you. Balloon knot. Which isn't that fast.

Balloon knot. Not, not, not, not. Which is not that fast. But then he said that's Tampa weather that I'm looking at. And I'm like, right, because there's no way to look up the weather in the middle of the ocean. Or at least not that I know. Is that true? It's not the middle of the ocean.

It's the Gulf of America. Please call it. I'm so sorry. Please call it. The Gulf of Mexico. I'm going to come. Hey, how have we not done like a Gulf War, like, kind of like themed, cruise how do we not do that and we just do like paintball on deck and have like uh paint grenades

i don't know if we're the guys i don't know if we're the guys veterans can come on that's more of like what is that uh those guys that make infinitely more money than us uh and are way younger than us and all they do is trick shots everyone dude perfect dude perfect you know the dude perfect guys if they had a cruise it's going off dude oh absolutely you know you know the trick shots yeah actually how boring would a dude perfect cruise be? It's just throwing marshmallows. It's just watching a guy like throw the basketball from across the ship like 200 times and then finally hit it and they're like, thank God.

And then you come back with your beer and you just missed it. You're like, oh, shit. Oh, fuck. He got it. They finally hit it. I'm not doing it again. I'm not doing it again. I can do it again.

That's the bitch assiveness. Yeah, my shoulder hurts too bad. So one knot is 1.15 miles an hour. Oh my God, that's really slow. So we're going 10 miles an hour so everyone sees you, basically? Damn. Hello. And then Isaac's point, he's saying, is we won't be in Tampa.

We're going to go 10 miles an hour. No, sir, I don't like it. South. And it will get hotter the further south we go. Okay. Which, sure, but we are going 10 miles an hour. So, and it is raining the day we leave. Well, we might have Ders get his ass.

out there and start kicking, dude. I might have to put a fucking anchor in my teeth and swim. Dude, now, Jers, are you going to bring, like, a little banana hammock? Are you going to go out? Is that an official request? You need another four inches. I would love. And if you want to bring, uh, what's over.

Two extras? Two extras? My thighs are juicy. I'll see what I got. I've been back on the bike. My thighs are juice. I don't. I don't know if I can.

You don't believe me? I don't. I'll put some ice down your. What are the real? Oh, my God. You need to get a little sun on those. Netflix? Should we tell him? Holy moly. That looked like a ham hawk.

Now Blake, now Blake, see, this is why you just had to, my man's showing up his legs and you got to just nag him. You got to say, oh, who's going to go to sunshine? Just let him shine. Hey. Now, now, I'll, I'll respond to the, all RSVP to the part of full to that thing right there. Dude, the few things that you take a stand on are partiful and my thighs. But then we talk about the Epstein files. All of a sudden, you wish.

You wish we weren't talking about it. I'm on the fence about adding that to the... Yeah. It's good. I love it, but it's very long. You told me to put it on. I know. Well, you know, it's a pallet cleanser.

It's a pallet cleanser. It's a pallet cleanser. It does reset. Well, that's how I feel right now. That's how I feel right now. Adam, here's an example. Adam, here's an example of something that is part offul adjacent that you probably don't love, even though I don't even though I don't even think you're

looking at it or you give a fuck. Right. Which is this Riverside fucking studio thing that we're on right now. We used to just do a Zoom. Now we got to have a Zoom and Riverside open. Riverside's weird. We don't know how to work it. Turn!

It seemed like we're doing fine for years on Zoom. I don't even look at Riverside. What are you talking about? I just dip it in my tab. I'm looking at Riverside because my looking insane on Zoom now. I don't know what's happening. I think I'm going to looking at you on Zoom. You look totally.

Me? You look how you always look. I thought I looked like orange. You look like you wear sunglasses outside and you have. have like raccoon rings on your... That's all very true. It looks like you just went skiing. Did you go skiing recently?

Did you recently go skiing? No, my family did. They left me. Just like my original family. No, I went back to Chicago. I did go running outdoors with the sunglasses on. So maybe that gave me a little... So maybe that's it.

So the reason Durance wasn't at my son's second birthday, which I'm holding you guys to these little kid birthdays. He didn't get the part of full. I agree. It was a phone call. like, God damn it. Yeah, went home to my mom's birthday. It was because it was his mother's, his mother's birthday, which I totally respect.

Now, some of these friends, they didn't give a response. I did. Not even on Partiful. They missed a banger of a party. Was there a bounce house? Was there Mountain Mike's for days? Was there mountains of Mike's pizza? There was mountains of Mike.

Tell me what Mountain Mike's is. That's pizza? You don't know Mountain Mike's? I love. I fuck. I fuck. I drove past it the other day. I was really surprised you did Mountain Mikes.

Mountain Mikes is kind of a deep cut. I'm kind of hyped on that for you. Oh, yeah. Oh, I like Mountain Mikes. Yeah. What's tasty. Pizza's not my favorite. And I know I've talked about this a lot.

See, and Mountain Mikes is doing what Partifle's doing. They were like, no one wants fucking Papa Johns anymore. They want something new, something fresh, Mountain Mikes. Fuck it. Yeah, it's just good. Chloe, Chloe likes pizza. She'll get it sometimes. and I'll be like, okay, I'll have a slice.

So when Chloe orders pizza, she goes Mountain Mikes? She just will try a new thing every once in a while and she'll... Let me ask you a question, Adam. Huh. In her phone, is there something that says Mountain Mikes and that calls her? And is she telling you that she's... She's just getting pizza. Mount Mikes always call at her.

Mountain Mikes calls her? Calls her. It is always asking if she wants the pizza. You want that. You want the full breadstick. Yeah, you hungry, you want the deep dish Uh-huh Uh, extra cheese

It's just Mount Mike It's just Mount Mike It doesn't even say Apostrophe yes It actually just says Mount Mike Again Huh Pizza's really good

And you did get charged for the pizza, right? Uh Mm-hmm Yeah And then I gave them a lot of business Yeah, yeah Um, it was good And you always over order

in these. Emma gets a call from Ace is hard, and I assume it's Ace's Hardware. But it says Ace is hard. I don't know, but she's fixing something. Because I can hear her grunting from the garage. Sam gets Slim Jim. Slim Jim beats him.

Anyway, she's building something. Slim Jim. Yeah, she's used to it small, so she gets a slim gym. Yeah. It's funny. I mean, hey. Some people like a little slimmer. Jim.

Jim, long and slim. Yeah, so we ordered way too much pizza, but I was like, Chloe's like, I don't want to order too much. I'm like, well, that's what we have to do. Because the last thing I want is a two-year-olds to not have any emblem out of it. But two-year-olds are not eating pizza, correct? Pizza pizza, no. And you know what, I over a little, like the cheese pizza, you might cut it up and give them some chunks. but you just throw chunks out

chunks like put them in a bowl right you feed them like seagulls yeah yeah he just throws I overestimated how much these kids were going to be eating pizza yeah oh come on it was almost zero right yeah it was almost zero yeah there wasn't a lot they're occupied I went to a party where someone ordered like really expensive fancy sandwiches and I think I left and like wraps I think I left with

$100 worth of sandwiches because she was like, you've got other kids, right? Because it was for the youngest. She's like, they're older like here. And I was like, walk into the car with maybe a 10 to 20 pound tray of food. And I was like, that's my dream. I love sandwiches, dude. You know what would fix that is if in part of full in the app, if you said whether you're going to eat or not.

Like you should probably check the box. What are you going to do at the party? Are you going to eat? Are you going to drink? Like, you should just say everything you're producing. Are you going to drink too much? But Blake, you don't even know if it does say that. It does.

You wouldn't know. But if we're really going to, if we're really going to grill people on, on if they're coming or not, you might as well say what you're going to do. Are you going to grill? Are you going to dance? Are you going to, like, what do you want? Oh, so it's, you have to do a whole checklist. You have to know exactly what you're going to do before you get there.

You don't know. That's what it feels like. That's what it feels like to me. That's what it feels like to me. Offline, I'm going to ask you who, here, I'm going to just ask you right now, Durs. Is this the person that invited you to a thing on? Don't put Epstein. Don't blow him up.

I just want to party. On Partifle? Don't put Epstein. I don't want to blow him up. Don't put Epstein. Here, I'm putting him in the chat because I don't know this person, but I was just invited to a party. And I don't know who this is or what this is. I don't know who that is.

That seems like a fake name. That seems like a name from D&D. Yes. That is the person. What? Okay, so I must know them too. What? You guys, this is the same person?

And by the way, if they came into my home right now wearing an outfit that had not aged and wearing the exact same clothes the last time I saw them, I would not know this person. I would maybe. That literally looks like a name for like a character if you play D&D and you have like an elf. And by the way. That it looks like a fantasy name. I'm not saying anything negative about this person. What I'm saying is this is just not, I just, haven't we moved on, bro? Yeah, I haven't met this person.

By the way, I'm looking at, I've been invited to do a lot of things on Partifle. It's out of control. I never check it. The island? It needs to be stopped. It's out of control. You never check it either. Yeah.

No, I don't check it. That's what I was saying. I'm like, dude, this is just for my wife. Yeah, but you. straight up came up to me and like you you approached me in San Francisco and said like respond to the part of all you grabbed me by my collar no I did and the reason I the reason I did that is Chloe was right there with Bo Jackson was right behind you. Chloe was next to me and so then I go I make a show of that's not true that's not true

because we talked about it before she was there yeah this was at the Tongaroo I think you're redacting certain things that happened here pal I think you're redacted you I'm not a redacture. I'm here to show the files. She was on my ass to get people to respond to the particle. So you're the muscle. And Adam, if you think that was a seamless cover by being like, I didn't mean she was there.

I meant she was on my ass about it. That was amazing. I'm a dude. I thought, no, I thought she was there with us. No. No, you grill me about RSVP. But I guess I get it now. You get sent.

You're kind of the muscle. and you give people to respond to the kid's birthday party, she invites. Yeah. Well, she wanted a headcount, dude. What am I supposed to do? It's not true battle. I'm fighting battles on all fronts. I'm just trying to.

I kind of hate it. My whole thing is, look, invite all these people, buy enough food, and if people don't show up, they didn't show up. But then you end up with the how many leftover pizzas did you have? It doesn't matter. But I just want to know how many leftover pizzas. You give them to the seals. Probably like eight.

God damn. There's a lot. God, God, God, day. Eight pizza? Holy, that's a mountain of pizzas. How many did you keep? How many did you keep? Could you're like, I'll distribute these like across the next week.

Well, by the way, I don't even like pizza, but my mom kept like eight pizzas. There's so many pizzas. No, no, no, no. Since we have an extra. You can just freeze them. So she's like, you could just have them. That's exactly what she said. Just freeze it.

I'm like, I don't want to. We're not freezing this pizza. No, you got to keep that attitude, though. As soon as you freeze Mountain Mike, it turns into complete asshole, right? Like, no pizza that gets delivered freezes well. It doesn't reheat. I would not think it would taste great. I've never frozen.

Isn't cold pizza a whole culture of its own? Cold pizza, but frozen pizza is a whole different. And then defrosted pizza. I'm not a big freezer. If something goes in my freezer, it goes there to die. Yeah, yeah. I will not look in that freezer. My parents, they live and die by this freezer.

I'm like, if I put it in my freezer, you know what I have in my freezer? Forever that I was trying to get into. Don't tell. Don't tell me. Let's try to get. Oh, boy. What do you got? Dude, you beat me to it.

I was going to say. Oh, I'm sorry. The redacted files. Got it. The unredacted files. But I do have Cornish game hens. in my freezer. I was trying to get into

grilling. This fool got a shredunk in his freezer. Yeah, it was like, it was like I ordered something from Omaha steaks and I'm like, hey, we can throw these Cornish game hens in for cheaper and I'm like, I'm never going to I'm never going to grow the Cornish game head. No.

It's not going to do it. No, I wouldn't even know where to begin with the Cornish game hand. It would take me months to learn. Have you guys thought about becoming like grill masters? Is this something? every guy goes through where you're like, maybe I'm just going to like learn how to make the perfect steak, but you got to eat

like 10 steaks to like really become the guy. Maybe, I don't know, maybe the three. I'm a dude. Oh, by the way, I'm pretty good on the grill. I'm pretty good on the grill, but you know, then you got to get the smoke. Yeah. And you got to get to this. And then you got to get to that and it's a lot. And you know

what? The one part I do want to get though. I want to, I want to be able to cook a brisket and then have those black gloves that they wear. you know the grill master always has like black gloves and then they can use those for other things too a wood block and then you you chop it all up that's what I want to be able to do you know what he's putting in the freezer with those black gloves

are those the black gloves where you can like literally like why are you saying that like what what else can I do with those black gloves is something that you learned from no no no no no I'm not on the list at all allegedly I would never be are these the black gloves where you can like every part of me no way okay you keep

Matt, you keep bringing them up. We're not talking about that. Are these the black gloves where you can like literally reach into a fire and like grab like a hot coal kind of thing? No, they're just rubber. No, I think they're just rubber gloves. They're just the rubber. Oh, they count me out. Disgusting.

It's really. I gotta have the ones where you can grab the logs. It's kind of crazy like with barbecue. Like anytime you start to like really get passionate, you just teeter on, it starts to get corny. You know what I mean? Like you're like all of a sudden you're just barbecue die. Like, well, I don't know. I don't think you never stop talking about the barbecue.

Like, it's okay. You can just commit to something. It's okay to just... I don't... But the passion is what gets a little corny to me, man. Passion is the only thing that keeps society from exploding into the files. And Blake, who are you trying to impress, oh me?

I'm just like, all of a sudden, I'm like, I'm hitting you up with... Corny to who? I'm, like, hitting you up with the part of full invite. And I'm like, come try my fucking cornish game. game hand. I'm like experimenting this weekend. And it's like every weekend. I would love that. And you know what I do? I would text you. I'll be there. And I'll be eating. And I might be dancing if there's karaoke, one song. I will say like barbecuing is probably the coolest trickle-down thing because if the homie is like experimenting with barbecue, you're, you're going to

want to be there in the splash. So I thought being on pilot would be cool. So your friend Sean B. Sean B is a great. Who is a great. So you think he's corny? Is it? Is that what you're saying? Get him. You think your boy, Sean B's a little. You think he's corny? Is that what you're saying? I kind of felt like Sean B was like born to do it.

Like me, if I'm like learning, I just, maybe I have like low expectations. Like I will never actually be good at it. Hey, Blake, no one is born to do anything except eating shit. Yeah, you just figure it out as you go. You kind of realize pretty early if you're like good or not. And then you sure have a, then you develop your passion. and then you become good at it. And no one thinks you're corny unless you're corny about it.

You don't think there's stuff where you're like, I'm going to do this and you're just obviously are never going to be good at it. But that's fine. That's fine as long as you like to do it. And also, it's grilling food. I guarantee you you can grill a steak, right? You can.

Look, and I understand the complex of not being, of being like, of not doing, not continuing something you are not good at. Like if you just don't get good at it. Like, why am I trying to be this guy? But, but it's not being a guy. It's being you doing something. Unless you want to, unless you hate yourself. I do.

And you don't want to be yourself. I do. And so you're like, if I start cooking, I'm on record. If I start cooking burgers, I'm going to lose myself and I can become this new guy. It'll be beautiful. But maybe you like yourself so much. You don't want to learn anything new because then you'll become a different guy. I'm perfect.

Got it. Perfect. That guy, pal. Any takebacks? Any apologies? Any epic slams? How let Blake have the floor? No, you guys have a lot to take back before I take back.

Any redactions? No, you have a lot to take back. You have a lot. What if I take it back? What do I have to take back, Blake? Yeah. You tell me, brother, I can't walk it. I can lead the horse to water, but I can't make it drink.

All right. That's not your passion. Okay, lead me to water it then, and then I'll decide whether or not I drink it. Okay. So I'm using your, what you just said. I'm just saying you made a lot of accusations today that are false. What, that you are allegedly in the files? Yes.

Oh, I'm just calling it as I'm seeing it. No, no, no, no. All I'm saying is, all I let you do the water and you shit in the water. You shit in the water. You die. Why are you so nervous? Why are you so scared to talk about the FOSC? That's just all I'm saying.

It's not right. It's not right. It's not something to joke about. What is it? It's not something to joke about it. I'm not joking about it. I want more of the files to come out because I want these guys to go to jail. When you keep saying, I want it all to go away.

Why are we still talking about this? What? It's a Democrat hoax. What? I didn't say that. I didn't say that. I'm reading between the lines. You're the friend with Biden.

All right. You're the friend. with Biden, not me. He's not me. He's not in the files. He's not in the files. True. Yet. I don't know how to work your goddamn computer. All righty. Adam, are you going to be up in Hollywood this weekend before the cruise or not?

Are you down? Are you down? I'm down. Damn it. I was going to tell you, they're doing for Monarch Legacy of Monsters. We're back with season two. And they're doing a fucking, like, Guinness Book of World Records drone situation on Friday night. where they're going to have like 600 foot tall, like Godzilla fighting another monster, like in the sky over Hollywood Forever Cemetery, which you would probably be able to see from your crib. Amazing.

If you're up, but you're down. Way tight. Which you know what? It sounds way tight. And the kiddos would love that. And the kiddo meaning plural. Yes. Which the old Godzilla movies are also just so sick.

When's the last time you watched old Godzilla movies? They are. So good. Every night. I'm so entrenched in the monster verse. Yeah. I don't like them. Like Godzilla versus Mecca Godzilla or whatever is so good, dude.

It's literally the best. No, the OG Godzilla is fucking kind of sick. And you can't believe how old it is for how good it looks and for how like you're like in it. You're like, whoa, this is fucking good. But the ones in the 80s and the 70s, I know what you're talking about. It's like, it's a dude doing karate dresses. like a dog from space. Yeah.

So cool, dude. It's so cool. Dude, the 70s, it's a bottom. It got pretty weird. The 70s were pretty rad. Like, did you guys see the, the thing I posted the other day? It was like,

when you have, you think, that was another episode. I blocked you. I blocked you. When you're, when you're in your 40s and you have a toddler thinking it'll be fun.

It'll keep me young. Yeah, yeah. And then it was a little person like doing. karate but being absolutely insane and like coming down the uh coming down the curtains and like scratching down and then like doing flips and i'm like the 70s were insane how was this in a movie it first of all looked horrific and secondly uh maybe offensive to toddlers they're just they're just doing whatever they can man or to little people too little people to little people yeah well that wasn't on the

map yeah that wasn't on the map isn't it all relative when like you first saw jaws, you're like, oh my God, now you watch it, and you're kind of like, well, it looks like a styro from Shark. It's just like, it's, it's what you've seen before versus what you haven't. I don't know, right? Okay. Isn't there stuff we grew up on? I mean, Jurassic

Park still holds up, except for when he leans on the belly the Triceratops, and you're like, that's just like... Jamongi? Yeah, I, uh, I'm watching a lot of, like, kids movies, you know, just bo-style and, uh... Why are you watching kids movies? Because of my son.

And Toy Story is still so fucking dope. But you do see a difference between Toy Story 1 and Toy Story 3. Wait, hang on. Do you think those are real toys? No, Toy Story 1 has a lot of like negative space. Like the area is not used. It's just like a lot of just color. What's real dope, I just watched three the other night, which is a fucking masterpiece.

If you look at the characters who are, from Toy Story 1, they're still very simple. And then the newer ones are way more detailed than all that, which is sick. They kind of kept them period or whatever you want to call that. And that was another episode of... This is important. It's important.

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