Duncan Trussell Family Hour - 564: Ian Fidance
Episode Date: May 5, 2023Ian Fidance, hilarious comedian and incredible podcaster, re-joins the DTFH! Check out Ian's podcast, Bein' Ian With Jordan, available everywhere you listen to podcasts. Original music by Aaron Mic...hael Goldberg. This episode is brought to you by: This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/duncan and get on your way to being your best self. Athletic Greens - Visit AthleticGreens.com/Duncan for a FREE 1-year supply of vitamin D and 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase!
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Things are getting clearer, yeah I feel free to bare my skin, yeah that's all me, nothing
to me, go hand in hand, nothing on my skin, that's my new plan, nothing is everything.
Used to go to the park and look down at my skin, wonder what it would be like if I was
looking, then I found some cream in my life and came a dream cause I learned that nothing
is fucking everything.
Things are getting clearer, I can see an infinite void inside of me, nothing on my skin, that's
the new plan, nothing anywhere, I'm a Nihilist man.
No matter what they tell you, only one thing's true, there isn't really of me and there's
definitely not a you, from dust you came and to dust you will go.
Don't fill the highway on your grave and nobody will know.
Things are getting clearer, I got tricked into sucking the demiers, a giant dick.
Nothing is everything.
That is of course a track from the Richard Dawkins script that they just turned into
a movie.
It's called Jesus Christ Superstar 2.
I was really, really wrong and it stars Kevin.
I'm really excited to see Kevin in this film.
If you're wondering why my voice sounds like this, I will tell you why.
It's cause I updated my operating system which is something you should never do if you work
with audio.
You should just leave it alone.
If it works, that's great.
Are you updating?
What are you hoping for?
Nothing's going to change that much and yet I do it.
Every time I see that software update available, I get excited, I click it.
What the fuck am I looking for?
A new emoji?
What am I doing?
And now this is the price that I pay and unfortunately updates roll down hell.
You have to endure this intro with my voice sounding like I have a woman in a well that
I'm about to skin.
Children, I'm going to be at Helium in Portland this weekend.
Almost all those shows are sold out.
Probably by the time you hear this, it will be sold out.
So why am I even mentioning it outside of some cheap insecurity based way to inflate
my ego?
It's pretty gross.
But shows that I haven't sold out yet.
Copper Blues Alive, Phoenix.
That's going to be June 1st through the 3rd and then I'm going to be at the Dania Improv
in Dania Beach, Florida, June 15th through the 70th.
Look, I don't care where you live.
I don't care if you are one of those scientists in a deep underground military bunker in Antarctica.
I need you to come to this Dania Improv show.
I've never been to Dania Beach.
It sounds nice, but I need my people there.
So please, it doesn't matter.
Do you live in the Hall of Earth?
Are you someone who transcended when the great city of Shambhala reached a high frequency
and shifted into some alternate dimension?
Get the fuck back here.
Pack your bags.
We're going to Dania Beach, Florida.
Are you in Japan?
Are you in the Ukraine?
Are you in Russia?
Are you fighting on either side?
Don't care.
You're going to get in a caravan.
You're coming to Dania Beach, Florida, wherever you may be.
Even if this involves putting off dying during a certain phase of the moon, I need you there.
Dania Beach, Florida, all those tickets can be found at dunkintrussell.com.
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Now, today, Ian Fidance is here with us.
He is so, that was somebody texting me from Shambhala telling me they're coming to the show in Dania Beach.
Ian Fidance is so fucking funny.
He just opened for me at the mothership and he just keeps getting funnier and funnier and funnier.
Not only that, he's an incredible podcaster.
You want the proof? The proof can be found at Ian Ian with Jordan podcast.
Also, you must go see him perform.
He's going to be at Zenith in Nashville.
This podcast will go up on Thursday.
Just go Friday, Saturday.
He is so insanely funny.
I give him 9,000 pentagrams.
All right, I guess that's it.
Now, let's...
Oh, wait, it's not it.
Also, he's got a lot of other dates coming up.
You can find him at DunkinTrustle.com.
Just click on this episode and all of his dates will be there.
So, you could see if he's coming to a city near you.
Now, if he happens to be in a city near you at the same time,
I'm going to be at the Dania Beach improv.
Don't go to his show.
Come to my show.
Hitchhike.
Get in hot air balloon.
Do whatever it takes.
Crawl.
Crawl if you have to.
I need you at the Dania Beach improv.
All the dates, of course, are at DunkinTrustle.com.
Everybody, welcome Ian Finest, the EDFH.
Ian, welcome back to the DTFH.
Look at you.
You've got a background now.
You've gone pro.
It looks great.
Thank you, man.
I'm in my podcast studio for being Ian with Jordan,
and it is in the basement of my apartment.
So, it's a long trek to work.
It looks fucking great.
You've got your Ghostbusters background.
I'm seeing a lava lamp, Lucky Cat, Minora.
Some books.
Yeah, thank you.
My great books.
Yeah.
Thank you, man.
I appreciate it.
I have enjoyed making this my own,
and I feel like it's when we're down here,
it just feels like we're hanging out in a basement.
Your parents are in home and we're having big sleep over,
you know?
Ian, can you turn your mic up for me a little bit?
Is that possible?
Yeah, give me one second.
Oh, boy.
Let me know.
Let me know.
Let me know.
That's good.
Is this better?
Yeah.
Yeah, way, way better.
Okay, cool.
That's perfect.
All right, good.
That's good.
Yeah.
Well, the studio looks good, but the sound is shit.
That's the story of podcasting, baby.
You can decorate this shit out of your studio.
You can get a repaint.
You can get all kinds of props set up,
but the audio will fuck you every time.
And if the audio isn't fucking you, this shit will pop up.
Like right here, it says Ian is using a roadcaster.
I am.
Make sure they're using the right mixing settings.
Let's see.
Ian has been embezzling money.
Oh, yeah.
No, that just came.
That came with the warranty.
It says on a roadcaster pro enable mix minus audio processing
and use roadcaster pro stereo and Riverside.
Do you know how to do that?
No, I don't.
All right.
Well, it sounds fine to me.
Fuck you, Riverside.
Leave me alone.
Yeah.
Is this all right?
Yeah.
It's hard enough.
I don't need you telling my guests how to do their fucking audio.
Yeah.
Fuck you.
Fuck you, technology.
Fuck you, AI.
Yeah.
Fuck AI.
God damn.
Ted Kaczynski had it right.
What?
Yeah.
Ted Kaczynski was fucking right.
He called it from the get go minus the mail bombs thing.
He could have been a really great author.
I know.
I know.
He just had to take it one step too far.
You know, it's just, you know, the moment that you feel like you need to write a manifesto.
That's a warning sign.
That's like, we should be trained on that.
Like I know that.
I know where I'm at when I get in the manifesto mood.
All of a sudden you see me just taking stacks of paper and be like, yeah, I know what you
mean.
I'm just hiding them away from the camera.
Pushing an old typewriter away.
You, you can't write a manifesto on a computer.
You got to type it.
You got to get like a nice typewriter.
Oh yeah.
Anything on the computer.
It's passe.
You got to go old school typewriter.
Sign it in blood.
Maybe, maybe put newspaper clipping letters on the envelope, you know, another bad sign.
If you, it's like writer's block.
How you know you've got it really bad is when you're on eBay looking at typewriters, like
you're fucked.
You're so fucked.
Cause you're like, the problem is the keyboard man.
I'm thoughts, not my creativity.
I've got it all right here.
I just need an antiquated machine.
I'll give you one.
I'll give you one further.
Every time I go on eBay, I'm in a bad place.
I'm never on eBay buying things because things are good.
I'm doing it.
So I have something to look forward to or fucking jump off a roof.
I have never gone on eBay in a nice state of mind ever.
Like every time it's the, it's really though.
eBay is the bottom of the barrel for me.
It's like, this means I've gone through all of Reddit conspiracy.
This means I have doom scrolled everywhere and all that's left is go on eBay and look
at haunted dolls, which is a very interesting genre of, I'm serious man, haunted dolls on
eBay.
Have you ever checked them out?
No.
What is this?
This is called capitalism.
This is ultra capitalism.
So what people do is they go to a thrift store and they buy a creepy looking doll and then
they put it on eBay, like sell it for 5,000 times more than they bought it for.
And they just say, this is an extremely haunted doll and people want to buy haunted shit.
So they're like, God damn, let's buy a haunted doll and they buy this shit.
I'm haunted.
Somebody buy me.
My head is a haunted house.
You could money into me.
You've got to take the first step.
I'm telling you the haunted doll business.
It's hot haunted dolls, haunted boxes on the dark web.
You can get, I went through this whole thing.
Like you can go on YouTube, the opening of haunted boxes bought from the dark web.
It's a whole thing where people will order a fucking haunted box from no, they don't
know who it is.
Like this will, and it's horrible in like the sales pitch is just like it will ruin
your life.
There's demons in the box.
You should never open this box.
And then they film themselves opening the box, sent to them from some Eastern European fucking
entrepreneur inside is just chicken guts, ecstasy, yeah, there's drugs, they'll send
drugs in the box.
That's why I've got this, this Ghostbusters trap.
To get all the spirits.
You need it.
You need it.
You, you, I guess some people just want to be cursed, you know, like they're so bored
with their life.
I wonder if it's a thing of like, you know, they're, they're haunted boxes, but do they
ever do mystery boxes?
Like you don't know what spirit's going to come.
You just bid on it and it's like, you'll get a random spirit.
Yeah.
That's kind of what it is.
They don't say what comes in your shitty box.
They just say it's going to fuck up your life.
So there, there might be a thumb.
I mean, this is from like, this is, this is, dude, this is from, um, uh, what's that movie?
Uh, that, that hostile.
This is from the darkened lands.
You know, this is like people who, who do communicate with Odin and they don't, they
just are like, yeah, put Sven's thumb in.
What do you mean?
And then they'll just, yeah, body parts.
Are they just shipping out the ingredients of a witch's cauldron?
It's a great way to dispose of a body.
It's like, wow, somebody up, you're in, you're in wherever balleris, you're out there.
You have been, you know, you've got another body on your hands.
It's like you're sick of like the normal disposal methods.
You just chop them up and send them out in dark web boxes.
I mean, it, what is the shipping on that fucking expensive?
I mean, that's why the, that's why the box is on, uh, the dark web costs.
I mean, I don't even go on the dark web.
I went on there once.
I, I, I had my acting like I'm a hacker.
I've been on there once.
Like I got creeped out and never went on it again.
I was, I wanted to do a joke of like, uh, remember when there was that rumor that
Wayfair was shipping child sex slaves in furniture?
That was crazy.
Right?
Anyway, uh, does anyone want, uh, Shae's lounge unused Shae's lounge.
Yeah.
That was a real, that was a fun one.
That was like peak QAnon hysteria there.
Uh, I went on the, did you check it out?
I went on the Wayfair site to like sort of examine this overpriced furniture and it seemed
like it was like an AI had just fucked up.
Like they have an AI that kind of populates it with bullshit and AI had just gotten confused
or whatever.
Definitely.
Probably, I'm sure there's like better ways to sell your kid than to like go up, like
create a fake Wayfair furniture account.
Right?
Yeah.
I mean, literally, there's got to be a better way to sell kids.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't know, I'm, I'm a fan of the good old faction auction.
You know, yeah, whatever happened is bidding, bidding in the market, you know, whatever
happened to that, man?
I mean, I don't want to get political and everything.
And I, you know, I don't want to get all dismal and shit, but you remember those days you'd
go to the child market and it was like, it was fun.
You'd get caramel corn pizza and then you just, you know, child.
Who wants to, who wants to fucking buy a kid?
Yeah.
That's the other thing.
What are you doing?
Like it's like five million times worse than a puppy.
Like it's going to, what are you going to do with that?
It's good.
Oh yeah.
I mean, a puppy you've got 12, 16 years, maybe a kid 18 plus you're not, you got to
hide them.
You're going to spend all, I mean, it's just too much work.
Who's got the time we're so like the most naive idiots on earth.
We think child traffickers are like putting them through college.
Oh, that's so funny.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You got to get them to sporting events.
You got to sign them up for camp.
I mean, it's just such a responsibility.
It's too much.
Why are they doing that to themselves?
Kids are so expensive, the food, medicine, you got to get their vaccine, medicine, vaccine.
What do they need braces?
My God.
Jesus.
Yeah, that's got to suck when you, when you buy your kid and the shipment, the Wayfair
shipment comes and you open it up and you're like, Hey, you're home now.
Can I get you a smack and cheese?
Can I see your teeth?
Yeah.
Fuck.
Fuck.
You just got your braces off and now you got to get your wisdom teeth out.
When does it stop?
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You just got your braces off and now you're going to get your wisdom teeth out.
When does it stop?
Fuck!
I'm never ordering from Wayfair again.
Yeah, leaving a negative review about the child you received from Wayfair.
The child I received from Wayfair does not pay attention in karate.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They're not applying to themselves and they have really bad ADHD.
I don't like it.
There is some creepy statistic I read, maybe not true, that said human trafficking is
one of the number one industries on the planet.
Did you read that?
No, it's so bleak.
It's so sad.
It's so sad.
It makes me sad because I never traveled as a child and I feel like that could have
really helped me out.
These kids get to see the world.
But I mean, how does that even, I just, I guess I don't understand how it works.
Like first you got to procure the kid, packaging, like how do you even send a kid in a box?
What do they put them into?
Do they wrap them in bubble tape or is it?
I don't know.
Well, I mean, every kid's allergic to peanuts, so you can't use those, you know, styrofoam
peanuts anymore.
So how do you, how do you, I got to get a trafficker on the show.
Yeah, yeah, man.
Yeah, just hang out in a Greyhound station, you'll find one.
You know, this is I think why sex robots are a good thing.
I think it's going to take care of a lot of the human trafficking problem, like just
robots in general, like humans are difficult to work with, you know, but once we get robots
going, it's going to kill the child trafficking business.
It's probably going to fuck up the economy because who wants to order a human slave when
you can order like a robot?
It's legal.
It gets upgrades, you know what I mean?
No one's going to do it anymore.
Like I'm sure that there's a lot of human traffickers out there who are shaking in their
boots right now.
It's going to be interesting when self-driving Mack trucks deliver the robot child sex robots.
It's like, man, we've really gotten the human aspect out of everything.
Out of everything.
All that's left is just fucking self-driving cars, Mack trucks, baristas or robots and
just everyone's just inside fucking their sex robot.
That's all it is.
There's no one goes outside in every home.
People are just fucking their sex robot.
You go to your friend's house.
He's got a nicer sex robot than you.
You know, it's going to be that like, you know, the my least favorite kind of car commercial
is where the dude is in his driveway with his new shit car.
It's some dumb car and his neighbor is jealous.
You know that genre of car commercials?
It's so, no one cares about your car.
Do you know how many commercials I've auditioned for where I'm the jealous neighbor?
And they're like, okay, so you're mowing your lawn and you pop your head up over the fence
and go, uh, for tourists, it's the saddest, worst car.
It's a lease.
You own the fucking car.
You got it for no money down.
It's a shit car and your neighbor acts like the, the grail, the arc of the covenant is
in your fucking driveway car, car companies, man.
They really are like just the worst when it comes to social engineering.
They're just, they, they, they either play on jealousy or they play on the dream of a
new life.
Like somehow they try to tie that car up and like your life is starting over.
They're always, they're always driving in nice neighborhoods and the family's happy.
There needs to be a real car commercial where it's just a dad yelling at the kids to shut
up in the back.
Yeah.
The husband and wife are trying to not get divorced.
They turn the music up so the kids won't hear them arguing.
Yeah.
And he's like, just no more fucking Taylor Swift, you bitch.
There's, there's fucking cans, beer cans rolling around.
God damn it.
Do you know he couldn't afford this shit, you bitch.
It's not going to fix anything.
You fuck Darrell.
You're going to make me late for my GED class.
You're going to fuck Darrell.
You're going to fuck Darrell in this one too.
You're going to fuck him in the back.
Stop, stop crying back there.
I thought this car would fix everything, but it can't just doesn't do it anymore.
That's what, you know what, what they need to do is like the car commercial version of
that would be they're driving in this car, kids are in the backseat.
Taylor Swift is playing and the guy looks over at her and he's like, you know what,
it's okay that you fuck Darrell.
And then like happy music plays, like the car fixed the adultery.
That's what we need.
There are the other car commercial, which is a family related, family related one says
two things.
One, the car you're driving in is 100% going to kill your family to if you if you buy this
car, your family will live happily forever.
That's the other genre of it is my, I love the outdoors.
So that that's the other genre is like now that you have this Range Rover, you were going
to be like driving off road through the Grand Canyon or something with your, with your love
at a time when now more than ever, people are never leaving the house.
They're like, yeah.
This is so unrealistic.
The family's driving go camping.
It's like nobody does that anymore.
It's like the phone camera commercials.
Like whenever they're trying to sell a foot, no one gives a fuck about the phone function
anymore.
No one cares about the internet function.
All they have left is the camera and so those commercials give you the impression you're
going to get into extreme sports if you buy, you know, it's like it's all it's dudes doing
backflips on fucking half pipes and like doing like wing suiting.
You get this fucking phone.
You are going to be so active.
You won't even believe the reason you're not active right now is not because you're a flabby
pussy.
The reason you're not active right now is your phone sucks, man.
You have a better camera, but that's not relatable.
Make it for Americans.
Make it for us.
A camera that makes your dick look better in a dick.
Ah, now there you go.
Jesus Christ, Ian, you need to get on the phone right now with Apple because that, you
know what?
It's one of these fucking stupid phones.
I can't remember which one the selling point is it, do you know about this, the moon scam?
No.
Okay.
The selling point was you can finally film the moon.
Not only can you finally film the moon.
This fucker will zoom in on the moon, like the Hubble telescope and you're going to get
like, it's like a moon telescope.
It's not just a phone.
So people started getting suspicious because they realized that the moon it's zooming in
on, it seems to be kind of the same moon.
It's like not the moon they're looking at.
And all it was doing was taking and knew you were looking at the moon and then using like
augmented reality to superimpose a preset moon.
And you would zoom in and be like, Oh my God, this is insane.
Honey, come over here and look, will you stop fucking Daryl?
Look at it.
How good this picture is.
And it was fake.
It was a whole scam.
It was like AR moon.
That's so terrifying.
We're living in hell.
I mean, God damn it.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, the, it is interesting that like, I mean, there was probably a time there's
been, there's laws that are exist in existence now.
We just take it for granted, but at some point those laws didn't exist.
No one had made the law before the law existed.
I don't know what the law I'm thinking of, but I'm certainly there's new laws that get
at it all the time because people exploit the system.
But we, yeah, we don't have the laws we need right now.
There's laws we need that just don't exist.
And it's like, you know, the person who made the ozempic commercial.
Do you watch TV much?
No.
You know the song?
Oh, oh, oh, ozempic.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know that's okay.
I get that confused with O, O, O'Reilly's auto parts.
Is there an O, O, O'Reilly's?
Those motherfuckers stole the O'Reilly's auto parts.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh-oh-oh, o-oh, o-oh, o-oh, o-oh-oh, o-oh-oh, o-oh-oh, o-oh-oh, o-oh-oh, o-oh-oh, o-oh-oh,
o-oh-oh, o-oh-oh, o-oh-oh.
That should be illegal.
Like do you ever made the song?
The musicians involved.
The writer of the song.
The person who funded the song that should be like a five year prison sentence.
Like they should know and they're making the song.
Oh yeah, whoever made, whoever!
Whoever made the cars for kids commercials should be drawn and quartered in a public square
Listen, you're a little more extreme, but you would be welcome on our council of judgment
Thank you
Love to have you we could have it like the points of a pentagram everyone sits on a point
Then we all sort of we have I don't know blood marbles or something to vote marbles made of the crystallized blood of
People who've made shitty commercials and you just drop them in and then boom
Whoever is like making this MK ultra shit goes to jail for you or drawn and quartered
I won't protest if people vote drawn quartered with drawn quarter. I'll be the I'll quarter
I'll whatever the I'll tie the fucking rope to the hoof. I mean I mean why not two for one the the blood and body parts
We draw from them. We put in a box and sell them on the dark web and make
Millions curse curse boxes curse boxes from the council of six
We're the ones who put those in big I mean
You when you think about it though like the
The the studio sessions for recording the ozympics song like what's the energy in the room when you're recording?
Pharmaceutical companies music like it can't be good like the energy in the room is just or
My real fear is that like obviously I've thought about this too much. Is it
You know after a really good ozympic take somebody in the studio was like
Incredible that was incredible
You know like they're so oblivious to
What their lives have turned into that it's flipped to the other side. We're like Jesus God. I told you Greg would be good
Yeah, did you hear that it they they act like when the wonders from that movie hear their song on the radio for the first time
Running around screaming
Running around screaming babe, babe, it's me daddy. Is that you? Oh
God that fight the other one that is like permanently burnt into my head is
Nothing is everything. You know that one. No, it's guys. It goes things are getting clear
I can see bump bump bump bump up
Nothing is everything
It's for this. It's an eczema
Cream it's an eczema cream
It's
Man, you are healthy you ride bikes
You're out there in the world. You're anytime I talk to someone it's a test honestly like if you seeing the
The the Sky Rizzy commercial to someone and they've never heard it. It means their life is better than yours
It's just there's no way around it. Your life is better than mine
You're if you've avoided that commercial. It says so many things. You don't watch Fox
news you
Problem you don't you don't go on the internet that much you don't you're not blasting your mind with filth
Yeah, I mean instead, you know, I'm a pillar of health. I'm a two-pack a day's smoker
And I'm like, yeah, I don't need pharmaceutical commercials
Even though I'm gonna be on every medication ever when I'm dying from lung cancer
Well, look, I mean what look do you but you're but you're my it's you know
You see the shits of wild animals and they're just just worms you inside of wild animals
They're just yeah, I once I was on this this island and I saw a deer
Just covered in fucking mosquitoes and pox and pus and you know, this is like the real Bambi
This is a fucking creature that should be it's just a walking blood bag and it's a it's a host organism
Right, that's me for you're clean. You're pure. You don't have the sky or you don't wake up with nothing is everything
You don't wake up with it something that was definitely created by people who for sure spent time at the CIA
I do for sure have interrogated the Taliban and
Or poor people that weren't in the Taliban and they just
Couldn't have the an understanding of the language so they just assume they're guilt
Yeah, yeah, right that decision. You're you're out there
You're a farmer the next thing you know stormtroopers have thrown you in a cargo jet
And then you're just on some island that represents like a liminal space
It's not really the United States. Yeah, yeah
And they think because you're saying you don't know anything and you're pleading that you're just holding out and if they torch you enough
You'll tell us something. Yeah, you got all these new agents are like, hey, can we try my thing? I'm telling you
Please try my new
Synthetic cortisol mixed with PCP
VR will make this fucking asshole sing like a bird
Mm-hmm, you know, just people lining up to test their projects people lining up to
Like hey, I know this doesn't necessarily have to do with interrogating the prisoner
But I did notice he's got a pretty blazing case of eczema
I was just gonna say let's get some ozampic in them and see what he says
All of them all of them all of them ozampic sky Rizzy
These are just fucking interrogation medications that didn't work to manipulate the prisoners and now they're like, well
Somehow their eczema got better. Yeah, we could price fucking well, I I will say what I found interesting is um
With a lot of like depression and anxiety medications
They'll run these ads and you'll notice in every ad they go ask your doctor about
Slippity slap and
With psychiatrists, and I don't know how it is with you know
other doctors that are giving you like medicine and
antibiotics and stuff but with psychiatry and everything they don't really know how that
Medicine is gonna affect you and sometimes you have to say to your doctor. Oh, I've read up on a fexer
Can we try that and the doctor will be like, oh, yeah, you know, I haven't really thought of that sure
So it's like these commercials are putting your own
Livelihood in your own hands because the doctors are just throwing shit at the wall to see what'll stick and half the time
You got to be on a medication for six months
Just to see if the side effects go away and it works and afterwards you're like, oh, it doesn't work
They're like, well, let's start it over again. Just why so many people have a hard time with medication
Well, and don't forget a lot of these companies they they pay doctors they come in they have these PR campaigns
They lube up the docs. So you go in and you mention
Hey, oh Zempick, what do you think and the doctor will be like? Oh, yeah
Oh, oh, oh Zempick fuck. Yeah, because I don't know this for sure
But I think they're they might get some kind of bonus or you know if they prescribe it
They get the whole thing is insane like it's in other countries. It's illegal for pharmaceutical companies to advertise
You can't yeah, I mean, dude, there's a book called dreamland
I think Samuel Kenyonis. I may be
Butchering the the name of the author, but it's an incredible read about the opiate crisis and how
Doctors were incentivized and also at the same time
They were kind of bullied into giving opiates because at a certain point they changed
They kind of made
Doctor visits like a Yelp review where the patient would be like they would review the doctor
And if they didn't get the medication they wanted they would get the doctor a little review
So in order to save their job, the doctor would just give the patient whatever they wanted
so that then the patient would be like, yeah 10 out of 10 and
And then doctors would just and they were getting paid per visit
So if they saw 12 patients in a day in and out in an hour prescribing the medication
It'd be a lot faster than taking an hour or two to go through the patient's medical history
This at the other and it was just so insidious and it's got satan. We are it
It's worse than brave new world. It's where it would brave new world. This is kind of or is like utopian in this dark way people were
Fucking each other on these like awesome
Psychedelics this version of it is just like yeah, the doctor the doctors have been beaten down
They need the business. They got the student loan debt
They can't fuck off and like not prescribe synthetic heroin to people people don't want also they at some point
You just realize as a doctor. They don't want to get better. They want to get high. That's all they want
They they're not coming to me because they want to feel better physically and exercise it
It's not even gonna just give them the fucking oxy
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Dude, so did you know this little tidbit of data?
apparently pharmaceutical companies
They're 80 percent of the advertising of networks. Did you know that 80 percent?
No, I don't know if that's true. I I go on so many websites
Hold on. Hold on. This is so funny because you go. Did you know this?
Have you heard of the statistic 80 percent?
Of ads are from pharmaceuticals and I'm like, holy fuck. That's wild. You know, yeah, actually, I don't know if that's true or not
I might be talking down. Jerry's hold that up here. Hold on a second. Let me see
Let me see pharmaceutical companies. Jerry get on it you motherfucker
Farm pharmaceutical companies add revenue
companies
In 2020 the pharmaceutical industry spent 4.58 billion u.s. dollars on advertising
So that's a huge
I mean you you don't even have to like trust my hippie ass like and don't listen
But if you work at a pharmaceutical company, I love your many of your pills
So don't feel bad, but you know, if you whoa, hey, what the you're you're cutting out big time
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Or what?
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Okay, we're back. We are talking about
pharmaceuticals
We are talking about
Corruption, but most importantly we're talking about how good it feels to get
I went to a pillow. There was a pillow doctor
In la that people started hearing about they're like you go there. You just ask him
Whatever you want, he'll prescribe it for you. He does not give a shit about you
So I went there because I'd heard about this new speed that fighter pilots were taking and I was really curious
I read all these articles that said it enhances your IQ. So I go to this fucking doctor
The waiting room just filled with old people who need like
morphine or whatever. He had his own pharmacy
in the
Waiting room like the way in in front of the waiting room is a pharmacist. So I go in with this doctor
And I'm like, uh, didn't even did we didn't even pretend
He wasn't like, let me take your pulse or anything. He's like, so what what's what's going on?
I'm like, well, have you heard of this shit medoffin all or
And he's like, no, he had this dick exit and then I'm like, well, I want to take it
And he's like, what is it? And I'm like some kind of fighter pilot speed and he's like, whoa
And he looks it up. He googles it. He's like, well, he asked me he goes. What dosage do I give you?
And I'm like, I have no idea. Wow. I'm not a I don't I don't know then he googles it
And he's like writes a prescription for me right there and and then he's like, do you need anything else?
I'm like, no, this is good. When was it left? When was this this was
He got arrested. This was so long ago. It just didn't work. He was just writing scripts getting rid
But he got busted. They shut him down. Thank god. But yeah, I mean those doctors are out there, man
They they they're like the Sith lords of doctors. They just want to they just want that fucking
insurance money for
Did they get when you come in? Yes, it's wild in in so many industries
whether it's social services
Public servants or even, you know doctors
people stop
Becoming people to you at a certain point and you just are earning a paycheck and then people turn into paperwork
And I feel like your your soul and your consciousness leaves you and you're just
Doing a job instead of like sitting back and going. Oh
I think I'm truly facilitating evil right now
Yeah, yeah, well you you it's like I
I think you know a few rotten clients. I think you know you after
You you don't see the the normal sick people that you're helping
You just remember the person who sued you or you remember the
You know that somebody you fucked up your your doctor life a little bit or whatever and yeah, you just
I I mean, I think people like us make the big assumption
That everyone is like us, you know, like you assume like yeah, I know I'm not the best person in the world
You're no one's the best person in the world, but
We make the assumption that there's people trying after they yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, who they go home. They made a mistake. They said something rotten to somebody
They were in a bad state of mind and it bothers them as opposed to like people just the moment
The the interaction has happened where they said the worst thing they could say to somebody or or fuck someone's life up
They're not thinking about it two minutes later. It's not even on their minds. They're just
You you ever play like nasty monopoly?
No, what is that?
Well, it sounds a lot more fun than you know, just where you start playing monopoly in the game turns mean
Oh, I thought it was a version that like
Mattel was selling like adult monopoly. I was like, oh, what's nasty?
Instead of buying property you buy people and you sell them. Yeah
Yeah, nasty monopoly, baby. What are you willing to do for park plaza?
Yeah, there's no money in nasty monopoly, but it does dispense lube
You it's got lube dispensers on every the the you're getting out of pegging free card
The the
I just think some people that that's how they live like they when I'm like that moment you let yourself go evil on monopoly
And you know, this is just monopoly, but I'm gonna be evil. I'm gonna like be put play the part of a of a beast
And then the game's over and like, you know
Whatever your friends again. I think people
They play life like that. So they you know, if you look at trump the trump
The way he acts is the way I act when I'm playing monopoly and being mean, right?
You know the you look at like biden. It's like another version of like
Mean monopoly player
They I don't think they look at the world like we do. You know, I think you're totally right and and I think, you know
Unfortunately and also, you know, I'm not
a part of this group
And I don't plan to be but I think a lot of it comes from parenting
I think a lot of people anyone can be a parent, but to be a good parent
It takes a lot of work and instilling values and instilling these ideas of
Consequences and like actually really being in someone's life has long-term lasting effects
And I think a lot of people are poorly parented and it's just generationally repeated
And on top of that, you know, uh on the flip side
Anyone can be corrupted with money and power. So no matter how good you are or how good your intentions once you start
Getting money and power. You're going to completely change and if you aren't rooted in good foundation of growth and
You know something instilled in you you're your
House of cards is easier to fall. I will say
You know what we need
We need a summer camp for wayward billionaires where like you take these shitty billionaires
You put them in this camp
You don't get your phone
You're there with other wayward billionaires and you you do group activities
Learn to build fires together
Rowing I don't know uh prayer circles. Oh, you can do your anxiety coloring book, which is what I had to do in rehab
Anxiety coloring. Yeah, you draw what your anxiety looks like and for me it was just pictures of parents fighting
Oh my god, dude. Yeah, this is like you I think you nailed it. I mean, it's it's it's never one thing
But I do it's like why are parents bad parents or parents bad parents because they're evil? No, no
Parents are many parents or shitty parents because they're being crushed
Under the heel of capitalism
They fucking can't afford they the kids need cheese. They need bread. They need fucking milk
You got a it's like you got a pick. Do you want hungry kids or kids who aren't hungry but are at a
Garbage preschool. Totally. I've heard stories of these preschools, dude. Like the in in communism
uh
The idea was the state becomes your parents. So you you're your parent the the
What are the nuclear family or whatever? This is bull this is bullshit. It produces too much
Too many problems within a nuclear family. You you if you're you can't really control
stage one
Mental manipulation because the parents who knows what they are. They're gonna tell the kids that they're
Gonna go to hell if they die or they're gonna tell the kids that god is more important than the state or they're gonna fill the minds
With antiquated filth. So the idea is you separate
get the kids
educated early on to know the state is mommy and daddy and mommy and daddy are just
members of society, but they're
They're secondary to the state capitalism
It's this chaotic version of that like we like to think we're not separating the children from the parents
But we sure as fuck are but instead of sending them to like a state facility where they're like
whatever saluting general Mao they're in a
A preschool that smells like a fucking internment camp
It smells like a civil war hospital. I've heard stories man. These kids are just on the floor crying
There's too many kids not enough people. So
This is the this this so you see a parent out in the world
Who's just trying to like care for their the kids they love
And and they know that's happening. They have to go pick them up from there. They know that look on their kids face
Is not the glassy
Kids got the look on his face like he was at some famous world war two battle or something and he can't
Articulate to you what happened. He pulls his pacifier out of his mouth like a cigarette. He's like I've seen some bad things
Mommy I saw some shit
Yeah, yeah, yeah, they see sh- they and
and
Dude, we're touring schools man and like
Try to get our kid in a good school and like in front of us. There's like, you know a line of these kids
in front of us at one of these schools this
teacher
bends down gets in the face of a three-year-old
And and like does like prison guard shit to the three of you will behave
And then marches these poor kids to their to their classroom. It's like so you have like this combination of
Parents who want to be good parents
This is probably mine me being very naive. I think that's generally what parents want
But they can't they got they're working two three jobs
So they got to fucking offload these kids to preschools and god knows where else and so
So these kids are just getting bumpered around capitalism and that's the thing too
It's like you can be the best parent in the world
But at some point it's out of your control like you know what you can do everything you can
But once you put them on that school bus man
And then the other kids that weren't parented well will influence your kid and this and that and then you take them to the school
And they're not managed well and it's just like
I mean man
I
God bless you so much for being a parent and a good parent and there's so many out there, but it's just
I've I've kind of accepted the fact that I I know in my heart of hearts. I could be a good parent
I just also know in my heart of hearts. I don't have the dedication to it because i'm too
Self-involved right now
Hold on
Yeah, but that's okay boy
What are you doing in the fucking studio?
Go give me a fucking cigar
There's glass on the floor have mommy put bandages on your feet
I told you to wear shoes
Yeah, I love my kids
and
Um, you know
This is that what you're saying there. I this and I don't know if you really actually feel any kind of like non
reproducing guilt, but I think this is
Perfectly
Fine and and really good like like
Having kids is is like, you know it
When it's time like it's it's
It's very primordial like you your body you meet somebody
Your pheromones match up in some way that you will never understand
And something clicks in your brain and you decide to have kids like they they did a study where
They did genetic
testing on like a group of dudes and a group of women
and
they took
Matches they they basically like
I'm sorry. They took the clothes the t-shirts these guys have been wearing their stinky ass shirts
Put them in ziplock bags and had the women choose a mate based on the smell of their shirt. No
Yes, and like
90% or something of the women
Picked the perfect genetic match just from the smell of the shirt and it's beautiful the ones
Where it got fucked up
where it got fucked up
Is
Apparently I think the women on birth control. Yes, I was gonna say
There wasn't there a study about women on and off birth control with pheromones and smell
And it led to like divorce or some sort of like mismatch or something
Because it affects your your sense and smell and and biology so much
Watch out if your partner gets off birth control, which is probably not the worst decision
They might just suddenly be like you smell like shit
They they just they just will get they suddenly are just sexually disinterested in you
Because they now their body is telling them do not reproduce with that motherfucker
Like you are going to make some fucked up babies if you reproduce with that person
And then they all this is happening like in the subbasement of your
Body like you don't know you're just all of a sudden you're like god
I hate the way he holds their remote control, but really your your body is telling you you fucking reproduce with that guy
You know, you're gonna make a fucking goblin. Don't do it. Yeah. Well, I I'll say when I'm
So into someone and I'm in a relationship. I'm such a pheromone guy like I don't want them to wear deodorant
I want to like sniff their armpits and they'll like put their nose in my ear
And stuff or like I'll get done working out or riding my bike and they'll be like
Well, don't don't go in the shower. Like smell is so important
And it's so fucked up with birth control does to the female body and
With with hormones and changes and then you get off it and you have this whole new sense of smell and attraction
And it's just again back to pharmaceuticals and and how it just
Completely destroys humanity as it should naturally be, you know
Yeah, man. I mean we it's just so many different
Like
Untraceable factors are mixed in with us at this point. Like we got
You know, we're getting our dope. We're all dopamine addicts. Like we're all getting high on our phones. Yeah add to that
you know
birth control mixed in with
You know, I I I I believe in
Telepathy I believe that they're everyone puts out some kind of
I don't know pulse or or or whatever you want to call it quantum entanglement or some kind of general signal
emanates from a person
meaning that like the old model of meeting people at a bar at a restaurant at a club at a museum
It you you what's happening there are all these like natural
synchronistic
Patterns or convergences are happening and then you meet someone in this very normal natural way
That I I know this
Go ahead. I don't care. Make fun of everyone makes fun. I don't care. No. No. No. I'm listening
I'm telling you the I'm wasn't talking to you. I was just in my mind
I have a contingent of people on the internet who are like just
Rolling their eyes vomiting. I I you know, like when you have kids you get this weird feeling like
Did the kids have something to do with me meeting this person? Like how involved
Was I in this situation? How much control did I have in this situation?
How much of of of this was just some souls wanting to come into the universe?
Through this particular portal
For it to deal with the karma that I'm going to like inevitably like pass on to them
I don't know man, but you throw tender and grind or all the fucking electronic ways of meeting people and
You're you're eliminating this huge
3d space that's used at the spatiality that was involved in reproduction. It's it's like everything's getting compressed
to the screen
And then what kind of kids are coming out of that?
Well, also, you know, I and and certainly I'm not the first one to say it but the the whole meeting online thing
It's it's such a mind fucking terms of like, okay. When do we move?
From the app to texting when did we move from texting to seeing each other and then just am I texting too much?
I've heard of this thing called like a double text. You're not supposed to text two texts at once or like this or that
And now there's this new thing where girls get the ick where if they see you like
You know use your straw wrong. They're like, oh ick. I can't be with you and it's like what the fuck
What is happening? And and there was something to be said about like
distance even when you were living in a world where someone was
You know, maybe living in your same neighborhood or a 10 minute drive if you weren't constantly attached to them with the phone
You still at that distance
Which would make you look forward to seeing each other more
But I find for me the phone makes things so hot and heavy so fast that it almost runs out of steam because everything is so accessible
And it's listen to you you Chad. What you're a Chad. What's a Chad?
You're like dude, I've seen you you've got like serious game like you're assuming like that's the normal
Reality for most dudes like you've got like crazy mystical
Game like I've seen you do that. I've seen it man. It's like
Yo, shut the fuck. Did I get out you? I'm sorry. I didn't mean to
No, I don't know what you're talking about. Okay. Oh, I know you don't it's all a mystery
Isn't it? I don't know
I don't know how I do a triple back flip
I get that funny. I get that funny feeling in my feet and then I'm flipping back
Three times
How did I how did I break that world record? I don't know
It's a mystery. I guess it's just the mercury must not be in retrograde
You got people lining up to fuck you at shows
Yeah, but I
99% of the time I don't do it because I'm at the point now where I just kind of want a connection
And the the fleeting moment of coming is no longer
Attractive to me. Don't get me wrong. Sometimes I'll do one time after show a girl came up to me and she goes
You're such a weirdly attractive little man. Can I just smell you and I was like, okay
And she smelled me and was like look
I don't know what you're doing tonight, but I will do whatever you want. I was like, oh god
Wow, yeah, wow. Wow. Okay. Now. Let me tell you what you just did. So I I don't this I'm sure you've read the statistic
Uh on the amount of single dudes out there right now
It's horrifying like 70 for I think 70% or some massive percentage of guys are are single
hopelessly single completely depressed completely frustrated
What you just did
Would be similar like if we were doing a podcast in a famine
In a lake during a famine and I'm like, I don't want you to be eating
You know it's worse than that worse than that. You're just like, you know, I'm just not in it to be full anymore
I'm a foodie now. I'm looking for like that special
taco. I really just want a
A gourmet sandwich. I just don't want by the way, man. I think it's great
I hope I don't seem like I'm throwing shade. I like you deserve you deserve it. You're fucking hilarious. You're you're brilliant
You're a sweet guy like why not but yeah, man
I think that and and also I've been off the scene for
Five years now. So I don't even know what's going on out there. Like I don't even know
Any more
I I well, thank you. That was very kind of you
I love love and like I want
I want my heart to come. I'm tired of coming for my weiner. I want my heart to come and feel that feeling all the time
and yeah, I
But it is very hard to be in a relationship in terms of like
I mean, dude, I'm only in the city for like three days a week. I'm on the road every weekend
Which is wonderfully amazing, but it's just it's so hard to leave someone and to be away and not available
And whatever whatever but I love love so much
I would love to be able to be like a matchmaker and try to help guys come out of that depression and help them
Find someone and help women find someone that would like love them and support them like I love
Love and I love when my friends
Find people and they're they I can see their relationship blossom and I love
When like you you're in such a love relationship and and that love is building through other human like that
That makes my heart smile so much and I I hope for that for me one day
But I think for now I've kind of resigned myself to the fact that
I'm just uh
going to have to
In enjoy and embrace my solitude rather than my loneliness, but I would like like if I get approached after a show
I would be like, you know, that's very kind
Maybe but why don't we find you a guy here that you know
We can dish about and and I'll help you to be happy, you know
Yeah, yeah, why don't we find a guy here to watch us fuck?
Let's find a really not for you and me
I've turned into a Victorian woman of like, I don't know sir, please. I'll tell you
Get to know me. That's very
No, that's very that's very sweet. You know, you will they're out they're out there, man
It's like you will find them like and you do as a comic you you have to find
somebody who is
capable of
Not being so attached to you that they can't deal with the fact that you're you're a traveling person
and when you find that person then
You know, it's great. It's it's like you it's great because you know, this is another thing that gets left out
uh
And I the romantic love thing is
Is is that that's the
It's the one of the main reasons to be alive probably but
I'd do that
When you manage somehow in this insane universe to
And and with your neurotic
Programming at least my neurotic programming totally talk. I know you're open about your you manage to find somebody
and work through all that shit
And like accomplish harmony with that person
Then it's like the value
Of having someone in your life who like
Where you're both helping each other
Yeah
With all the little shit you're all just the shit you're doing yourself right now or suddenly someone is like, you know like erin
She will not let me cancel a fucking show like if if i'm feeling lazy
Which is very common for me. I'm getting that like you know that thing where you're looking at your phone and you're thinking man
It's not that important. Yeah, they have other comics. He'll go up. Yeah, she will be like no
No, you're going to go good. I need that. You're too brilliantly good to just silence yourself because you're a fat lazy piece of shit
He says shit get the fuck out there you motherfucker. I need another refrigerator
Well, you know, I will say you know talking about the cosmically connected and finding that
Partner and love relationship, you know, and I've talked about this before and you know it is that
around this time of year I always get kind of
My in may it'll be 30 years since my dad died
So this this time of year is very uh
You know and also I've outlived him. I'm older now than he was when he died
So it's like kind of heavy on my mind a lot, but
Wow, you know the the idea of like love and and cosmic relation
I I think I've told you before years ago. I found
Old journals of his when he was like 24 25
yeah
He would write in his journal there
There were all these entries there after day and for the date
He would write like December 3rd and then it would be crossed out and it would say November 3rd and and he did that like five
Times and then after a while he went I don't know why I keep writing December
Something magical must be happening in that month. I'll keep my heart my eyes open to it
But the month of December is calling me
And uh, he met my mom in December
Wow
And for some reason the whole month of november he kept writing the date as December and he recognized something was
Wow was coming and then he would call my mom his moon woman because he said when he when he spent time with her
He felt like he had known her for many moons. So
Wow
Dad was really romantic. Yeah, that's so cool. Yeah, so beautiful. You know the so
Talking about dead parents, uh, so
So
A few weeks ago
I got weird and you know, it's somebody would like to press gets depression and shit sometimes and like, you know
I'm pretty attuned to the warning signs. I try to be at least and like
But in a lot of times I could just make sense of why like it's it's inevitably my own fault. I'm staying up too late
I'm not exercising. I'm not taking vitamins. I'm not doing whatever
But this one I I I couldn't identify it and I'm acting like I'll grumpy and shit and Aaron is like
What is going on with you? Like what is happening? And I'm like, I don't know. I'm sorry. I just I got a guy
I just I'm gonna have to spend some time by myself and like figured out
Anyway, I'll all of a sudden I'm like, when did my mom die?
Google it I had to google when my mom died
It was that day
And like yeah, and then I talked to my friends as a psychiatrist. He's like, oh, yeah
That's a whole thing like seasonal triggers with grief and some people
They don't realize that happens. They're just all of a sudden they're all pissed and like angry and neuratic and
It's because they you know the moment I connected it because like I'd been for like a few nights. I'd been like
Laying in bed about to fall asleep and like, why do I want to sob? I feel like I'm about to start crying
What the fuck is happening to me? It was really a nerving man
But that's grief is so weird. So I get what you're saying is we get closer to when you're when you lost your dad
Because yeah, all the triggers the spring. Yeah, all these things the smells
everything is like
Bringing you back to that. Yeah, and and I was I I went back to visit my mom
And it's the same house we've been in, you know, and and it's you know, it's been me and her for like 80 years
80 years since I was eight for like 30 years and
I was sitting on the front step and I was smoking a cigarette the sun was going down
We had just eaten dinner and I'm like man, my dad used to do this
He would sit outside have his after-dinner cigarette and I'm like I'm standing in the same steps
I'm older than him. This is like a very I'm at the same house. It's like a very surreal moment, you know
And there's there's beauty in that but also at the same time, you know, you saying that kind of makes me realize
Man, I've been in this wavy funk lately and I have to recognize
A it just happens B
There are legitimate things and
I would always be I could spend so long get over it get over it and and I've made so much progress
but at the same time I am allowed to
To let it not affect me but kind of have waves of it and not get mad at myself for it
But that's so interesting that I mean, how long has it been since your mother died
2013 yeah
I mean in a way
That's almost beautiful that it's not weighing you down so much as to be dreading the day
Letting the date affect you like I had a beautiful. Oh, no, it's not healthy like that. It's not healthy like that
It's like me not wanting to remember it's there's nothing healthy of it
Yeah, no, I wish it was like a no, there's nothing really enlightened or spiritual about my relationship with that grief. It's still
fucked up
Well, there goes my theory. I was trying to
It was I wish it was sweet. Listen. I wanted to be I I would apply. I mean I wanted to be like, oh, yes
Yeah, that's probably why that's because it's your mom's dad's only a baby minds on minds
An old almost going to get a retirement check 30 years. Come on now
Oh, come on. There's no time and grief time the time space continuum does not work with fucking grief
Unfortunately, there's no time
It doesn't seem to be based in they say time heals all wounds. But guess what pal their clocks must be broken
Yeah, fuck you. Fuck you riverside. Fuck you ozympic
So, you know, man, the thing is
you
What I realized after this last bout with it is
It's like, okay
You can't see anymore
I had the perfect zit on my cheek. Okay, but it was like I could feel it was like a cyst
I knew if I popped it it would be the most glorious explosion
of pus
But I couldn't it was right. It was a little too deep to get out
So like I went meth head man. I was like trying to get in there. I just I
It was obsessively like I want this fucking thing to pop, you know, it's it's my subconscious
It's all my repressed everything just get it out and and and so anyway
Like the when when grief comes to the surface is no different and like the worst thing you can do is
Not
Not let it express itself through you because it is held in your body, man
It is held and and when you expel it, it's not just like you feel better than
But you're like so like I my I used to have back problems
Like the more shit like that you get out of you physiologically
The more like your body feels better because your your poor body is like holding all that stuff in it
and and then when you
Expunge it
Which is why anytime the grief zit shows up
Pop that shit like get it out. Let it let it explode
That's Alan Watts
Yeah, well, you know the back holds so much stress and everything and like the last time I saw you
In Austin a couple weeks ago
My back and neck weren't so much pain. I I couldn't leave my bed
And you you really helped me by by getting me that massage
but my best friends also my doctor and we FaceTime and he got me on these like steroids and
uh, you know, I'd be pro for and everything but
I was incredibly stressed out. My mind was racing. You know, I had just gotten out of my relationship
All this stuff was happening and it it just centered itself in my body, you know
Yeah, yeah, that's where the it's in there, man. It just gets in there. It's in there and and
Anytime you get to have like a breakdown or like, you know, anytime you get to volcano that shit out
It's such a good opportunity. It's so sad
the people
Hold that hold on to that stuff. It's you know, it's like I get it. It's embarrassing to weep
It's embarrassing. You're so you have to you have to weeping is good
You got to let yourself weep and shake and snot and ugly cry, you know ugly cry. Yeah, you got to do that
I mean, you know, you're gonna get you're gonna get like emotional blue balls
And that shows up as like fizzy that can show up is like fizzy. Sorry, man. I told my kids not to fucking
landscape
You know how hard it is to find a toddler fucking leaf blower like they can't carry the full-size leaf blower
so you got to get them this like
It has bro leaf blower and they are loud because there's I'll tell you what'll make them carry
You tell them use their fucking arm as an ashtray again, or I'll say
Fucking better get to going on carrying that leaf blower. You know what we do black coffee
We it's just black coffee. It's a dream for a parent. Are you
You get them fucking hyper caffeinated
Get them out there doing yard work. They love it. Teach them to push themselves. I make them listen to David Goggins the
I don't know if you know that is but hardcore athlete
So yeah, it's all about pain the glory of pain of pushing yourself and they do great yard work, man
They do great yard work
I love it. I wish I had a yard
in
Yeah
I think the leaf blower is our cue to wrap this thing up
You are the one of my favorite people to talk to you on a podcast, man
I thank you so much for your time and
And I can't wait for you to come to austin again. What are you coming back? That was so cool to see you
It really was man, and and thank you
I'm so glad I got to do the comedy mothership and do it with you and see run your hour and
That was so fun. I I I'm gonna be back at the end of may. I'm opening for a tell at the comedy mothership. So
Oh, you are okay. Good. Yeah. Yeah, so hopefully
Go ahead
Hopefully we can get together and maybe do a little cookout again
But uh, yes, you're the best man. I I love your beautiful mind and friendship talking to you
On and off is uh, always such a pleasure of mine. So thank you duncan
When in may
I think the 30th and 31st
You got any other shows to plug?
Yeah, my podcast be any in with jordan
Uh comes out every wednesday on youtube and patreon.com slash b and e and pod
And what a great podcast by the way, man. I you guys are in the algorithm. You you know what you just pop up randomly
That's a good sign man. You're like in the algo
We're having fun, man. I anytime you're in the city. I'll change everything around to have you on you
You got to come down in our the Delaware den and and have some fun
But yeah, I uh, I'm gonna be at comedy on state june 8th through 10th
I got a bunch of tour dates coming up e and finance dot com for all my dates
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Thank you, my friend
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