Whiskey Ginger with Andrew Santino - Blake Griffin

Episode Date: November 20, 2020

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Thank you. Blake, thank you so much for coming by. I know you're a busy dude, and I know it's the NBA draft and you're anxious because you might get drafted so yeah what team do you think you might want to get drafted to honestly man at this point uh it's been a lifelong dream so whatever team you know is willing to take a shot you've been working really hard lately I have I have and um you're a senior right now at Oklahoma yeah yeah and redshirt senior oh you're redshirt so five years yeah yeah so where do you think and you're a redshirt, so five years. Yeah, yeah, five years. So where do you think, and you're a small...

I went to prep school after high school, so yeah, I'm 25. Okay, 25. Yeah. And you're a small forward? Yeah. Small forward, Oklahoma. I mean, you could go anywhere. Where's the place that you wouldn't want to go?

Probably the Seattle Supersonics. Sure. Just mainly because it's not a team anymore. So it'd kind of be like, I'd be in Seattle and it'd be like... They're not a team as in they're not good competition anymore? Yeah.

They haven't won a game since 2008, I believe. Garbage. Yeah. They just need to get Sean Kemp and the glove back and I think they'll be fine. People aren't talking about how bad they've been since 2008, but... But you want to.

Yeah. Yeah. I have been following the draft. It's draft week. It's pretty hype. i'm very excited to see what the next i can't believe the rook these like next year rookies are already in nba 2k they put them in already are they really seriously will somebody have a report put something up that was like i mean they've already imposed their images so i'm sure they i'm sure they like did a thing where they had like everybody was draft eligible yeah and then like as soon as they got drafted, they just fed them in.

I think that's so – to me, when I saw it, I was like, I wonder if the algorithms that they have to make – the computer programmers are up for hours making the algorithm of what guy is in what jersey. And kind of like when a Super Bowl team doesn't win, they have to send the hats to Africa. What do they do with the algorithm? I want the video game of the algorithm of the guys that didn't get drafted.

Like, what do they do with the algorithm? I want the video game of the algorithm of the guys that didn't get drafted. The undraftables? And have all those guys play? That's the first thing when I saw it, I was like, I wonder what they have to make. I mean, honestly, they should make a G League 2K now. That'd be so dope. Like, you play with G League players.

You like, you know, it's like my NBA my nba two or whatever yeah like on the bus or like you have to be on the bus you're taking the bus to go play the game no no it's real no no dude we're making a joke listen my brother played in the in the g league it's a grind i have a lot of respect for those guys it's a grind you're busing the places you're you know how how long was your brother in the g league for uh i think he played like a total of like two seasons. That's a long time because most guys, they only stay in for like a season, if that, right? And then they end up either bailing or... He went overseas.

Right. So he was in the NBA for a couple of years with the Suns and then overseas and then G League, overseas. And just got tired of being in like a different place. Bouncing around. Yeah. Dude, there's not enough props. And we don't have to talk only sports because there's so much more depth to to you and our friendship than sports um comedy is probably the the real part of

it but the one thing i do want to say is there's not enough props that gets given to minor league in baseball g league um practice the web.com tour for golf yeah it's like no one cares about no one gives enough props to these people because the worst guy in those leagues could beat the shit out of the best guy still that you know. Yeah. You know, everyone's like, oh, there's a dude in the G League.

Like the guy at 24 Hour Fitness that's like killing, you're like, he's the first pick every time. Right. That guy's getting smoked by like guys in the G League. Smoked. That's always the thing

people need to keep in mind. It's like I knew, when I was living in Arizona, I've talked about this a thousand times, but I was living out there. So every year we would get a, a sloth, these young minor league ballplayers who were just like itching to try to

break through. Cause that's where all the ball ball is. And all of these baseball players, they all have the same intensity. A lot of them have a similar level of skill, right? It's just who gets through and who doesn't to me, baseball is the, is the weirdest. because there's guys that are killer.

They just don't have a place for them in the big leagues. And what's crazy is everybody knows like, okay, A ball, double A, triple A, but like there's different levels of A ball. Right. There's like even – it goes even beyond that. Right. It's like I had a friend's like brother was like trying to, trying to make it. And he's like, yeah,

I'm in a, like, I can't remember what it's called, but it's like the second a ball. Right. Their second, their second tier or whatever it is. Yeah.

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You know, I was talking about this with a friend the other day. Remember wall ball? A hundred. I love wall ball. Wall ball was like dodgeball, wall ball. No, you didn't want to see me. You don't want to see me a wall ball sign. One of the best of all time.

Kids at other schools heard about it. So word got around. Word got around. Dude, I was a tetherball. But like the best part about tetherball is all you need to do is learn how to angle a hit. Yeah, it's all. And then you ruin anyone. I mean, you watch their face get angrier

because they can't jump high enough. Oh, that makes me feel so good. Yeah. Just that perfect moment of it going right over their stupid head. Making people feel shitty about themselves is one of my favorite things to do. Me too.

All right, well, explain to the fans. A lot of people don't know this. You're a professional basketball player. Who not even that's not even a thing but moreover you're you're a lover of comedy you're a performer of comedy um and people don't know that you are half brothers with eric griffin another comedian that's your half brother yeah i'll get into that relationship a little bit later it's okay there's some new well i don't i don't yeah i don't want i don't want to step on toes i just i think the irony is that a lot of people just think oh well just because blake is you know a a mixed kid and griffin is a mixed kid that and their last name is griffin that they're brothers

and it's like coincidentally they are they are yeah and i think that should be noted you know yeah and um obviously he got it it's it you know? Yeah. Obviously, he got... Like I said, it's complicated. He got the athletic genes, I think. He got the athletic genes, and then I got sort of the comedy genes. I just never got that shot. Like we said, it was a grind,

but we sort of Freaky Friday'd it. And it's worked out for both of us. Sure, to some degree. I actually was the one who came up with Riffin with Griffin, his podcast. You came up with that name? Yeah, who came up with Riffin with Griffin, his podcast. You came up with that name? Yeah, I came up with it, and he stole it from me. I don't want to get in the middle of that, dude.

He came into my room one night and read my journal, and I had a list of podcast names. It was like Riffin with Griffin. And this is going to be your podcast? Blake's Takes, yeah. Blake's Takes? Yeah, Blake's Takes. Obviously, he had to go with the Griffin-themed ones.

Right, because of the share of the name. Yeah. Wow. I'm a little offended to know that somebody that I love so much is thieving a name from you. It's the first time I've actually ever talked about it publicly. Proud of you for getting this far? Yeah, it feels good to... No, you feel...

That's nice, right? Yeah. You got to clear the air, dude. There's no other way to live than to clear the air. We met while we were clearing the air in Montreal. We were outside passing gas in between shows um and the number one thing i think that i remember from that was um you know you meet people for the first time and you have to hold your reserve you know you have to take your reservations

back and go i want to learn who they are i don't want to just assume you know what i mean let's hear let's hear what and my assumption was here's this nba guy that i like that i've seen play that i'm a fan of that uh you know i i bet you he's a raging dick and sure enough i walk in you couldn't have been more polite you give me a hug you do a double kiss on the cheek i don't know if that's because you're kind of european but you do kiss kiss and we sit down you curtstsied. You curtsied. You bowed. And I thought I was like this guy.

No, I had no reservations about you. I was interested to know your depth of comedy because I learned so quickly that you loved comedy and that you were into it and you were performing comedy. And then I saw you and I was impressed. And I hate to say that because it really pains me to say that I was impressed. But I really was. It's annoying, really. Here's my stance when it comes to comedy. Good-looking, tall, athlete, funny.

You know, take a hike, pal. You just, is there more? That's it? That's it? That's all I got, dude. No, that was perfect. Smart and sweet, you know, lovable. A little bit of sassy.

Yeah, you are a sassy cat. Well, you're easy to bring home to mom. That's for sure. I know I could take, I bet I could take you home to mom and dad and introduce you. They'd love you. What are your parents' names?

Jeff and Maureen. Jeff and Maureen. Yeah. You know Mo Money. Mo Money. Me and Mo Money would hit it off. I know that. Jeff can be a little bit of a,

he can be sort of a tough cookie to crack. But once you get it, you know. He is. He can be a little bit of a dick. There's no doubt about it. And you know what it is, though? He doesn't mean it sometimes.

He just says it. Yeah. You know what I mean? I love that about him. I love that about him. He's forward about it. Maureen's a sweetheart. You know what's really funny about that?

Growing up as a kid, the one thing that bonded my family was I grew up in the Jordan era. We would sit, and this never happened dude we would have family dinners in front of the television watch my dad was like so against that shit was watching tv during he's like absolutely not yeah but if we would watch jordan that was like the only time that i was allowed to like eat in the living room in front of the tv and my dad would sit on the couch but it was such a weird moment that I thought we were getting away with something bad. Where did you grow up? Chicago.

Okay, yeah. Yeah. It was just like watching Jordan as a kid in our city. It was like a family affair. But never again did we do that with sports. It was like that was the only time that we ever were allowed to watch TV. Here's my theory about Michael Jordan. Greatest player of all time.

Fact. That's actually not the theory. The theory is that we will never allow – society will never allow someone to be Michael Jordan again. Oh, that's actually not the theory the theory is that we will never we will never allow society will never allow someone to be Michael Jordan again oh that's really interesting like at any

you mean just in basketball in sports or you mean in general I think in sports I don't know I think I can speak

to basketball better because we have these athletes we have like LeBron James we have these guys Kevin Durant like even like Kobe earlier on like RIPi.p man yeah r.i.p obviously like we don't and because our views

and our social media and everybody's opinions is out there and everybody like as soon as somebody has a bad game so many people shit on them instead of just like reading the paper oh michael jordan had a bad game or whatever it was so many many people are just over and over tearing you down. That like, I mean this from like sort of just like a societal view perspective. We're not going to like hold anybody high enough to like let them become this athlete that Michael Jordan became. So you think like, you know how they say that the video killed the radio star. You think social media killed like the modern day superstar or whatever the goat i didn't kill the

superstar i didn't kill a superstar i killed like the goat killed the goat the aspect of the goat yeah that's really interesting i think that applies to like literally anything else you take it to comedy is the same way the first thing they want to do was rip down chapelle for the last special yeah you're like what yeah you're you, you're trying to like cancel the guy for putting out a comedy special that you don't agree with? Right. I mean, it kind of starts, you're right, it started heavily social media and athletes, musicians, performers, anybody live putting out shit, right away, it's like the level

of criticism doesn't match the output, right? Like the output by the artist never can match the criticism. But for some reason, that gains some sort of resonance. For some reason, only, what is it? 16% of the world, or yeah, the world is on Twitter. But it feels like that's everybody. And then everyone agrees. Everybody. Blake, you were the worst in this game.

Oh my God. It's like everyone is conglomerately saying one thing. I love when people get so mad at me and send me like a hate-filled tweet that's like about how I'm bad at 2K. Or like, I'm so sorry. I have zero control over how good I am at 2K.

No, and you do. And you know you do. I know I do. I do a lot. I dog it when I go in there for the... Do you ever go back and forth with people like that? No, not really. Yeah, you shouldn't. Like during the season, I don't really look at Twitter that much. Or at least my mentions. I dog it when I go in there. Do you ever go back and forth with people like that? No, not really.

Yeah, you shouldn't. During the season, I don't really look at Twitter that much, or at least my mentions. I read Twitter to keep up with news. In the offseason, you have way more time. It doesn't affect my mood as much. But reading some of those messages, it's great. See, sometimes if it's good, mean enough, I'll engage because I think it's funny. Yeah.

It's got to be clever. You suck isn't clever. See, you probably have. I think people, when they go at you, they know like, hey, I got to come with something funny, something clever. Right. You know what I mean? When they come at me, it's just like, bro, get your dunk rating up, bro. You lost me a game in 2k i'm just like

i don't care like that you almost want to write are you okay bud is everything going okay man you good you good are you good buddy how you doing let's help you out is everything okay yeah i think that no because with we still get the same bullshit too yeah i'm sure you still but it but it's also weird to me that like at point in social media, I thought we'd be progressing, where now I think people would know just saying you suck or you're a hack or I don't like you. That's almost like I almost feel bad. Truly, I'm almost like, oh, man, is that really?

That's what you got online to say? One time somebody said to me late in the game, like fourth quarter, I think we were up, and he goes, Blake, you suck. And it was kind of quiet. And I turned around, I was like, that was the best you, you had three and a half quarters. You knew you were coming to the game tonight. You knew you could have thought of something great. And that's what you came with. You suck. That's it. Although you suck will come back in 20 20 30 years you suck will be cool again right i mean you can't do it now i get canceled yeah you yeah when you say you suck yeah it'd be great if a fan got canceled for yelling something at you you're trash everyone's like dude get this guy's

fired you that's it you lost your job daniel what was the guy version of they were trying to start of karen remember what was it oh god i know chad no no no chad is like the the frat bro is the bro chad's a bro karen's the bitch and who's her husband oh i can't remember i just saw it and i was actually like you know what yeah it worked yeah yeah i can't remember what it it was it was sweeping it was sweeping the interweb and i was like oh that it's almost like but it's sad for people that have those names. It does suck for a sweet lady named Karen. Karen, yeah.

I have lots of friends. My friend's mom's name is Karen. Well, she sucks. She's a bitch. I'm not even going to lie. Let's go back. She said some really egregious stuff to me. Yeah, she has.

No, she says, she goes, I don't not like black people. I just don't want to know them. And I was like,aren my god i mean have you ever tried to disguise it behind some some like i just don't need them near me as well i think she's that's what she said took a little she tried to do a little double negative thing i said i think i said this on another pod but i had been on a plane i'm not kidding and i was and i always avoid saying comedian oh or even like interacting at all with about comedy if someone's like what do you do i usually i say sales or marketing or whatever

and uh you were you're able to do that too right and this woman is like staring at me and i'm closing up my ipad and um i was closing the windows and one of the windows on the ipad and i reopened it was a video. It was like a Chappelle. It was my special. Yeah, I was watching myself. Yeah, I was like taking notes on my and I just wrote cool comments. Awesome guy.

Funny boy. It was like Chappelle special or something like that. And she saw and she goes, oh, comedy. Do you like comedy? And I said, I do like comedy. Avoiding any connection. And she goes, it's not as good now as it used to be and i was like here we go here we go one of these conversations and i was like no yeah you know

it's uh every i think it's subjective so you know it's kind of what you grew up with or what you love and she goes bill cosby was a good com was a good comedian i said he was a good comedian and she goes yeah i don't like any of this stuff today just a little gross and dirty and i was like i didn't want to get into it but i was like lady you think it's too dirty today but you're chill with cosby that that the amount of f words that they say is repulsive yeah they can't be stand-up citizens yeah it doesn't take away from cosby's comedy but it is so funny that like he was this moral high ground guy yeah and the irony was staggering but people still love dude people still people love him because generationally like i i loved eddie

eddie murphy i don't know if kids now would think eddie is funny because kids now probably just know him as like the shrek guy right like how many kids how many young kids in their 20 young 20s like late late teens early 20s funny unless they really are stand-up fans and they went back to watch old stand-up because he hasn't done anything in years yeah yeah i don't know i mean yeah if they but like i'm curious if you set a young 20 year old down and had them watch like Raw or like whatever it was. Would they like it? Would they like it?

Yeah, I assume so. I think for the most part. If they're into comedy, but like let's just say like a 19-year-old kid who's like embedded in the TikTok world of comedy and YouTube world, which is fine. That's just what they know because that's what's popular now. I would have a hard time believing you could show them raw and they wouldn't go uh this is whatever it just isn't the same do you like who's the funniest young comedian and not not stand up who's the funniest young person that's putting out content like that kids on tiktok and and stuff and and like and then like instagram and twitter and facebook and stuff like that um that's hard there's a guy that i really think is extremely

clever a guy named cole hirsch oh yeah you know that guy i think i don't know him but i know he is very clever dude i think he's very funny he did this video people have probably seen it he would call these communities community Community college was having, they were saying that their mascot was perhaps needed an update because they don't want to say it's racist, but it was. It was on a Zoom. Yeah, it was on a Zoom call.

I saw it. And he pitched this mascot called Titty Pussy. And it was genuinely one of the greatest. No, don't be. I bought the shirt. It was so good. And he pitched to a community college faculty staff about Titty Pussy

as the new woke mascot I saw that woke sloppy mean girl but Cole's one of those guys of a generation of guys that I think are making like cool clever but isn't he a little older

I think I remember him from from Vine he did Vine yeah I guess I mean dude honestly I don't know how old he is

but I would assume he's in his I think he's closer to like 30 I think he's closer to 30 than oh maybe I don't know who old he is, but I would assume he's in his, I think he's closer to like 30. I think he's closer to 30 than, oh, maybe I don't know. He just looks, yeah, yeah. Look it up.

He looks so young that I never know anymore. Well, also when I say young comic, I guess what I think of is a guy that hasn't blown up yet. Do you know what I mean? Like, um, he's 27. Okay. That's still pretty young. It is still pretty young. I mean, I, I say that cause I'm 37.

So I feel like anybody under 30 to me is still on this come is still pretty young i mean i i say that because i'm 37 so i feel like anybody under 30 to me is still on this come up yeah in the young comedy category you know but like but honestly i see a shitload of stuff online now but i can't keep up because for me as a comedy fan i love seeing new comics and new. I don't know where to go anymore of like, there's so many new groups and so many new things forming and clicks. Like who do you, is there somebody that you follow

that's funny to you that you really like? I have a TikTok. I don't follow anybody on it. I'll just go through. See me neither. I just go through. But what's nice is like, because the algorithm,

you sort of get, because I watch certain ones. So you sort of get those more often. There's this guy that his name's like druski too funny or something like that on on instagram i think i've seen him and he like some of his he does some he was like in a drake video he's kind of blowing up now right but he was doing this one like the first thing i saw i think he was doing this one where he's like talking about dog people and he's like so you gotta you gotta love your but you gotta love your puppy you gotta love your puppy he like it he like it right there he and his like his ability to do like to like sort of appeal to to a wide demographic

of people is very very good to me well that's important that yeah it was always like the if you can do you do you know ed bassmaster is like Do you remember that one? Like Ed was the best. Yeah. He's the best at categorically grabbing, you know, he does like the redneck thing. He also does like the stuck up staunch nerd asshole. Would you look at that? To this day is one of the funniest videos. Oh my God.

When he's selling a car or he's buying a car. Buying a car. Buying a car. I mean, sometimes you got to just say, would you look at it? And you just got to look at it. And the guy at some point goes, yeah, will you look at that? Yeah, look at it. It's great to bait someone into being in your party.

I think that's a great skill. When it loses me, when there's characters online, people that do character shit online, when it loses me when it gets so subversive and weird that you're like, I don't know, know man this is almost what do i mean unless unless there's a format like what eric andre does yeah there's a clear present format that it's shit chaos yeah but when someone gets too charactery in public or like does too pranky shit to people i kind of lose interest because i'm like i don't know this guy's

just trying to go to the bus tell you what i hate i hate the kids that do the like they go up to people in like a walmart and they like go right up behind me like yeah it's just like it drives me that was me if that not me but if like i was that person i would go nuts nuts i'd say don't don't do that yeah you're kind of like trying to make people look bad instead of like just being funny right you know what i mean like that's my big thing if you're gonna if you're gonna fuck around in public you should be the butt of the joke right and they should be in in it with you and when when they walk away they should be like that dude was nuts right i mean not like and in a way like where like they were the normal yeah exactly yeah i don't like when they make them look stupid uh because the best way to win in those situations

is for you to look like a an idiot and even if but also be smart right because of it right yeah and even if they're angry at your stupidity and they look stupid at your anger it's a duality that works that like you both look dumb that's okay but when it's like you know yeah taunting people with the the moaning thing my favorite is always when they go, it's always some like, at some point there's always some like little dumb suburban white kid that will go to fucking, that will go to the hood

and then go into one of these stores and do some shit and they don't put up with it. That makes me, when they're like, get the fuck out. That's my favorite shit. Like that I love

because it's almost like, well, this dude's willing to get fucking knocked in the head. It's so dumb, but I do want to watch them get hit. There was a kid on TikTok yesterday. I was dying. Do you remember his name? No, dude, it was so fast but i do want to watch them get hit there was a kid on tiktok yesterday i was dying do you remember his name no dude it was so fast i scrolled but he did the um uh uh he did the uh uh he there's a series of these guys that work at convenience stores or

bodegas oh yes yeah he's like all right baby baby girl yeah that was dude he goes all right sweetheart i just saw that half of the people go half of the half of the people are like what yeah but some people like the fuck like he's done it to them before yeah he goes cut it out with that shit or or they're like he's like uh all right here you go sweetheart and he's like all right thank hey man hey man i don't know he's too late but he's already out already out the door see there's there's another dude that does convenience store well there's a girl i think that started this trend the chick does it that she um has it's got it's someone i can't remember her bit though it wasn't the same thing no no no she's in the deep south and she asks like whatever questions but she invokes them to get angry and clap back at them but i do think it's a little set up yeah it's still fun though but she'll be like

uh you think you need cigarettes you only got three teeth and then it makes the guy be like i'll tell you another day i'll still eat your booty better than your boyfriend like it's great but you're like whether or not it's a setup i don't i don't care but there's those trends that i really like on there's also um we're in the tiktok hole there's also like a group of indian guys that do like death pranks to each other have you seen this is it are you talking about the ones where they like drop the i don't know the blood to each other have you seen this is it are you talking about the ones where they like drop the i don't know the blood in the water have you seen that no i haven't seen that weird it's like he'll he'll it'll be like three of his friends and it'll be like a rushing stream and they're always by like a rushing water source and he has he'll show the camera red dye in

his hand and then he'll pretend to jump i mean he'll actually slip in the water and pretend like he fell and got hurt and he'll let the dye go so it looks like there's blood flowing as he's now going it's like you know 16 miles an hour i mean he's already away from them and they're go running and then it cuts and this morning i was on the shitter and i saw the exact same group of guys and their friend is on a bridge and the water goes under the underpass and one of them's upside down with handcuffs around his back and he's face down in the water goes under the underpass and one of them's upside down with handcuffs around his back and he's face down in the water floating by them down this fast river.

And they're like, and then they jump in to go get him. But they're all doing this to each other all the time? Yeah. So it's just always set. It's either to them or the people that are around them. Like they don't know

if one of their pranks has screwed up or it's them messing with other people around them. I get it. I get stuck in holes, dude. My old lady doesn't like it. My old bag people around them i get it i get stuck in holes dude my old lady doesn't like it my old bag she doesn't like that i get stuck in tiktok holes dude i'll be sitting on there for yeah two hours i've tried to really like limit myself and i'll just like try to do it just for a little bit but i still think i think the creativity on there is so good and there's some people that i think are so funny oh yeah i'm like i look at the video and

they like have like whatever like 10 000 likes which seems like a lot but it's not it's not yeah like some of these videos that i think are so dumb getting like three million lives you know well let me be honest i'll say not to hate on the people that i will i can do it i don't get the two girls the young twins the d'amelio kids that are well i mean they're billionaires now because of it. But I watched it and they're dancers or they maybe were dancers when they were young. And that's how they got into it because they got early. But it really did blow my mind of like the lack of creativity and the amount of payoff. TikTok has really shown me that most people cannot lip sync. That's what I realized from TikTok.

Oh, people can't lip sync at all. It's very hard. And it's not like a very hard thing. You can edit it. You can do it over and over and over. You can do it till you get it right. And it's like a song where it's like, jumping out the whatever,

and they're like, you look, there's other takes. I know know there's other takes and you decided that was the best right my favorite is when the n-word comes up and the and white people cover their mouth are they shush yeah that's my favorite that is the fun it's like it's like a it's like just like a teenage girl who's doing this and then and then the emmer comes up and she's like that actually like you know have you seen the thing where it's like what what feels racist but it's not like that that's racist it does because you're like i'll say it later i'm gonna say it on camera i'll say it when they're not around my dad says it all

the time it's taking like an egregious word and putting like a cute, like the cute Japanese girl thing behind it. It's very funny to me, dude. Also, I thought for a while they were going to stop. There was rumors when they said that they were going to sell the app or that it was going to get banned or whatever, that they were going to only have edited songs because there's kids that are underage that are on there. So you can't regulate.

Right. There is no like only 18 could hear explicit lyrics you know what's the deal like are artists happy or are they i'm sure tiktoks drive more listeners to their actual songs but they're not getting listens right i've had a few people tell me that they there's no there's it's i don't think it counts as a listen unless you are capable of listening to the whole song right no no i might have just made that up i think it's. I don't think it counts as a listen unless you are capable of listening to the whole song. Right. No, no, no.

I might have just made that up completely. I think it's, no, I think, I think a friend was telling me that the only benefit for songs to be on there is if you're a new artist because it gains traction for your, for the outside career. Right, right, right.

But if you're, if it's a future song, they don't gain from it at all other than the perpetuation of your name in the media which i think can help you know what i mean like i saw the other day um somebody tweeted has killed me dude you know the um the 420 dog face you know that guy yeah uh he was with snoop dog or somebody and somebody goes this poor motherfucker always has to carry around you know he said this motherfucker always gotta carry juice around yeah and the poor dude he is it's almost like now it's a prop that somebody hands him and he's like fine you know i have they can't just take a real photo

with snoop dogg he's gotta have the juice of the picture yeah but that's what an ocean spray this is this is the dichotomy of the internet that i'm interested in of like at what point like as soon as your parents know a word like when a mom is like on fleek and you're like well that can't be used ever again now we can never have it so that's what happens when corporate america gets online i understand the benefit for both that guy deserves money right pay that man they gave him a truck and all this shit ocean spray and they wrote him a check dope pay him a lot because he made you more relevant but now they get to like have ownership of the idea a little bit of his his brand yeah that's when i go ah this is when it goes sour

yeah you know because they're like can you imagine an ocean spray corporate meeting where they're like and guess what 420 dog face is killing it us. I don't know if you guys have seen this one. So he's on a skateboard. Yeah. Any skaters in here? Any kids or skaters in here? I just imagined somebody but why does he have the whole bottle? Did he not want to pour a cup?

You're not getting it. Denise? Denise? Can I talk to you for a second? This is what kids are doing. They're taking whole bottles with them now. It's fleek, Denise. It's on fleek. The kids are all on fleek. In here, we pour whiskey.

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Like now, I've lost all my internet fun with Instagram because I'm not kidding. Every three photos is a fucking ad or it's a new update about we changed our terms or we've added some shit. Now it's going to be, I can't wait for the new thing to come out for me to get addicted to. Are you very active on Twitter? No, dude. Actually the opposite.

Instagram I used to be the most and now I've actually calmed down too because I'm just over it and twitter um so barely you saw how they just did stories i did see it just released this might be like too late to talk about it this was like three days ago so we might be late to the party but no we're on time i'm just so confused at where where i'm supposed to put things yeah no right i'm so bad at stories. Like I never, throughout my day, I never think, hmm, I should story that. This is a story. This could have been a story moment.

But I also like enjoy when people post, like I have friends who post good stories and I watch them and I'm like, that's cool. But I just don't have that brain to be able to do it. And I'm like partly jealous, but I also like,

there's so many different avenues for it. I'm not, honestly, I used to get jealous about it. And at some point I gave up because I was like, jealous uh but i also like there's so many different avenues for it i'm not i do honestly i used to get jealous about it and at some point i gave up because i was like it it's not a skill i possess i've tried it's not a skill i possess like i can be funny when i want it to be funny but also sometimes i'm walking my dog and i don't want to put up a story right like i just i want to go home and i have shit to do and stuff to some people have the click over there was a mom the one of these moms that makes me mad and i'm not it's like why but like when they're like show

us your um show us your daily routine it's like wake up at five work out at six the kids i make coffee i do my hair and i journal and then i do yoga again the kids are up at 7 30 they go to school i i then i take time to meditate do yoga a gratitude journal go help old handicapped people out and it's like they do 50,000 things and they're like 10 p.m time to read a book do another gratitude and look good for these people that have the mindset to like post stuff and be i'd be constantly involved but also fuck them too yeah like cut it out i don't stop making me feel bad and here's my problem too is like if i was gonna do that it would take me so

long because i would like okay i got okay i gotta do the wake up one so okay so how do i okay so you know what i mean like for real i would i'd be like in bed pretending to just wake up i'm like that was stupid. Don't smile. No one smiles. You know what I mean? It would take. What's up, world?

Just wiping the sweat out my eyes. Sweat. I got sweat. It would take me so long. So, like, is it worth it to me? No. No. But I also, like, sometimes I see, like, some that are, like, the day in the life of a D1

college athlete. And I'm like, that's kind of cool. Because it is kind of like a look at like what it was like. But like, I just can't. Well, who's, is there someone in the league that does it like day in the life story type shit that's actually good?

I don't know. Yeah, you don't follow. I don't think so. You don't follow anybody in the league? No, I don't. I'm actually not friends with a single person. Good for you. Yeah.

Honestly? I like to separate business and pleasure. Or, you know. Yeah. Once I walk off that court don't talk to me but the court is pleasure and life is business yeah life correct that makes the most sense to me well i get it i look there's comics that i'm jealous of and i don't want to follow them because they're good at instagram like they're good and it annoys me so i'm like i don't want to follow this guy i'm gonna see him doing funny shit and cool shit all the time who's who is that person i have to call him out on my own I'm like I don't want to follow this guy I'm going to see him doing funny shit and cool shit all the time who is that person? I'm going to have to call him out

on my own podcast no no I don't do that no no I will the biggest piece of shit on Instagram just somebody who like does puts out great stuff

on Instagram all the time well there's guys that know how to post very well too right like Segura posts constantly funny clips from their show or conversations

or that he's so good it's fucking annoying he's got I met him by the way the other day at a steakhouse Like Segura posts constantly funny clips from their show or conversations. He's so good, it's fucking annoying. I met him, by the way, the other day at a steakhouse. Oh, he probably lives at a steakhouse. Yeah, he probably lives above one. He had a nice jacket on. He does always have nice jackets, that guy. Dude, they're making good money over there at your mom's house,

and they're spending it all on jackets. I just realized I forgot to text him back. Tom, I'll get back to you. Don't. Honestly, don't. He doesn't deserve it. No, Tom. Sorry, brother. You know what's so funny?

Let's FaceTime him real fast just to tell him that you're here and that you had no intention. Because he asked me to do a spot. Damn it. No, you're fine. This is going to be good. I feel like this is a bonding moment that we need to have. We'll FaceTime Segura. He won't pick up.

He's never picked up a FaceTime. Some guys don't FaceTime. I FaceTime almost exclusively. I know. It's's the best you know how much we facetime why do black people love facetiming so much oh he did oh hey tom i was just telling a story and i go oh my god i forgot to hit tom back yeah what's up dude i'm sorry i sorry. I completely forgot. Here's what actually happened. I got the new iPhone 12 Max, and I was changing over all my stuff, and I forgot to get back to a lot of people. But I will text you.

So do you want to hear the real truth is that he came on my show. Here he is on Whiskey Ginger, and he goes, I love your show. I just don't know if I want to do Tom's stuff because his brand of humor is a little too rated R for me. That's bullshit. That's fucking bullshit. That's what he said. That's what he said. Tom, put your glasses back on. Don't do the glasses throw just because you're upset. Because I'm in a McLaren. I can't fucking. Oh, God. Show me. Show me that sexy car. Show me that sexy McLaren. The new 765 LT. Come on. God, you're such a... Okay, you know what?

Well, Blake only likes to come on podcasts with guys that are driving Nissans. I got a fucking Supermax deal too, man. It's all good. I get it. Tom, I'll text you

right after this. He's going to text you back. All right. Hey. You're not even equal when you get out of this bullshit. Hey, Tom, Tom. I love you, okay?

Say bye to my fans. Bye, dude. Bye. He's okay? Say bye to my fans. Bye, bye, dude. Bye. He's the best. I can't believe he really threw the McLaren thing in my face. He knows that I love cars, and it's really annoying because sometimes I text him and I see phenomenal shit he gets to drive, and I'm very jealous.

That's, like, crazy. The brand-new McLaren? This guy is popping just like did he buy does he buy a lot of cars or is he like he he does have a lot of cars he's a car collector but also people love to like let him test cars and drive cars and stuff i want to get to that place when they let me have stuff but with my luck it'll be something i don't care about you know hey man uh kia's coming out with a new uh a new soul it's an orange soul so we figured you like uh the nissan cube because we're willing to have you tour around town in one

there's definitely one fan in the comments right now i drive a nissan cube sorry i drive a soul no you know what that's your fault it's almost like when i see people driving a pt cruiser i get so mad that you bought that car i'm more i i get that i'm more mad about the kia soul why because i just because it always does it only come in lime green yeah it's the it is it's like it's gross if that's your thing and you're like hey i like that drive it right but like why i only see it in nuts you don't see a black kia kia soul doesn't exist tinted window. No. If you try to go

tint a Kia Soul get the fuck out of here. Can you imagine the tint guy's like what do you want me to do? You want me to like cut it in half or something?

No, no. Tint the windows. Yeah, I guess. I mean I get why you don't want people to see you in this car so maybe we'll You're driving a fishbowl

so why tint it? Let it be a fishbowl. Let's jump it let it be a fishbowl let's jump backwards real fast about a comment that i made that could be misconstrued as racist but i'm gonna stick to it okay every one of my black friends loves facetime why why do black people like facetime so much more than white people i don't i to me it's a younger older thing no no see i i don't all of my black friends they could be 50 years old. My buddy EP will FaceTime me. He's 50.

I don't know any. It is a, to me, it is a cultural thing that white people are nervous about being on camera. So they don't like the way they look. Yeah. I could. Okay, here's the thing. And the reason Tom answered is because you know he is half black. Yeah, obviously.

Yeah. And that's the reason he answered. Segura. Segura is traditionally a... Afro-American. It's an African... African... African... Haitian?

I think it's Haitian. Yeah. Yeah, he's from the island. Yeah. A lot of people... Somebody put that I'm Haitian on my Wikipedia page. I'm not. And now so many Haitians come up to me and they're like,

Pakam siaka, like or whatever i should know it i'm sorry pop pop pop sock them sock them boppers they say sock them boppers and i'm like oh i'm so sorry i'm not haitian they're like oh all right but we made these shirts oh fuck i guess it's uh send them send them with the the championship team maybe it is an age thing for some reason i'm not comfortable on facetime ever with almost anybody because i just i'm like i don't know why you want to see me i would that's how i feel when someone faced me i would just like to like i facetime all my friends my friends facetime me black white doesn't matter yeah but you're trying to be political because you have

black and white friends i don't like to associate anybody who isn't white that's my biggest thing yes you know so when a black contact in my phone facetimes me i get nervous yeah i say what are you doing what happened pal you don't even say hello you're just like what is it tell me how much fuck tell me how much what can i do oh dude i uh i started watching a new show last night that i just can't get enough of it's called 60 days in do you know what this is oh my god what people volunteer to go to jail as informants for 60 days i saw the netflix yeah yeah i saw yeah no definitely it was netflix they're all now my TV I don't know what it is anymore I was scrolling through and I saw that

so dude it's a comedy and it's not supposed to be right it's just how funny why would you want to go infiltrated jail to learn

the ins and outs okay so you watched it does it feel real no I mean everything today also feels overproduced that's my biggest beef is like

as someone that's worked in TV my radar goes up of going this is a thing they set up for the thing but honestly what what can you do that's real anymore because as soon as people are aware of cameras or aware of filming right you know there's um there's studies about the way people change the way they speak the way they talk because of the consciousness of a camera posture everything everything and now that we know our generation is surrounded by cameras, I think that it's become second nature to have a second personality with a camera and it's totally acceptable. So I don't even know what real is anymore when I watch reality TV. When

someone's like, it's fake. And you're like, yeah, but it's real for how fake it is. I think we're slowly getting to a place where at some point, someone 24-7 or at least while they're awake, it will be a show. Live. Like Truman Show. Yes.

It started out as like the Cosby show yeah it's a show your favorite comedian about his life right one of the greatest of all times

bad comedian good character that's what we say right right yeah decent comedian decent comedian

great guy great guy great guy but it's a show about his life the show is based on no it is it's a show about his life right and then you go to like somebody else who has a show that's like show about his life the show is based on more no it is it's a show about his life right

and then you go to like somebody else who has a show that's like more about his life like a larry david type of sure i'm sorry a curb your enthusiasm type of show right or then you go to like the actual reality show louis oh you mean oh to the real reality and then you start going to like the reality shows right and then now it's like what we were talking about like on tiktok you're showing every part of your day or stories you're you're people are are constantly getting content of their day right slowly going to get to a point where it's just like your life your ever every waking moment is just i know there's there's a um maybe it was a black mirror episode is that what it was what show was it where people where people signed off on um cameras following them 24 hours a day and like they have like it's

a it's like a thing to do it's like yeah you're part of a program i think that was black mirror where they had set in their room when they woke up and when they go to work and they have to check in with the camera once in a while and like tell them how they're doing because it also is right yeah but i do believe that's real close like i really do and you know try it for a week one of these people should try it for a week once you wake up the tv show starts when you go to bed tv show ends but like camera stays in there until you fall asleep god i'd be such a weird thing to i wake up at 3 30 to piss every single night do you Do you wake up to pee? Yeah, 5 a.m. 5 is your number? Yeah.

How old are you now? 31. Damn, dude, isn't that crazy? For some reason, I crux 30, and then ever since, I wake up to piss at night. I never used to do that, dude. I drink a lot of water. Me too.

Oh, nice. But I also drink a lot of alcohol. But I literally could have... But I could have, like... I don't know what it was. And by the way water does one of Blake's big sponsors

we should shout out is water water you can get it almost anywhere really nowadays actually so a while back

I signed with H2O and then they put me into like the water here you are you're bragging again it's so annoying when you bring stuff like that into my world

of like I get it dude you're successful you don't need to brag about having a water contract I wanted to give context well it's a little rude who was that guy that wanted to buy water what was that dude remember that guy he wanted to buy all the world's

water no it was like a ceo of some major company and he was he was trying to he was trying to buy like own the water which guy was trying to buy the world's water yeah he was trying to buy buy like have rights to buy t boone pickens billionaire t oh yeah listen to that name oklahoma oh you know t boone oh i don't know him personally he's like a huge oklahoma state sponsor the the stadium he's like he owns he owns more he's what an oil guy right yeah he owns more water rights than any other individual in america with rights over enough of the ogala aquifer ogala to drain approximately 200,000 acre feet, 65 billion gallons

of water a year. This guy owns the water and he wants to own all the water. He wants to buy all the world's water. He wants to buy more water. That's crazy.

T. Boone Pickens? You can only do something like that if your name is T. Boone Pickens. T. Boone Pickens. Can we, I mean, look,

again, remember that thing we said, it's not racist but it sounds like it? Yeah, yeah. T. Boone Pickens. I mean, what does he look like? Let guess um fat white guy i don't think he's fat old white guy well i mean aren't they all fat at some point yeah i mean he was fat let's say this he's too

old to be fat now yeah now he's 91 oh he died oh dude he died he died last year on 9-11 wow r.i.p i'm sorry dude unreal though he's trying to take like imagine the nerve to die on 9-11 like it's your day t-boon you got a lot of the pickens family rest in peace to t-boon grandpa papa t-boon his net worth wasn't wasn't that much it was only 500 million really and he was married six times me Me too. Six times. One, two, three, four, five. Oh, five. Sorry, five times. And of course, you know, some of his wives, Lynn O'Brien, Patrice Carr, Nelda Kane. Patrice, Patrice.

Yeah, Madeline Paulson. Madeline, of course. And of course, Tony Brinker, which was also, that was everybody's favorite. Yeah. I actually, honestly, I wasn't as big on Tony. Why? What's wrong?

Just the behavior? The drugs. Yeah, the drug use got out of control. I like this. This clip goes viral. Blake Griffin, Andrew Santino revealed to Tony Baker's Tony Binder's whatever name is

drug use. The family comes out. They're like, look, we have to address it now. These guys heard about it. Yeah. They were a big drug use family. He did a lot of great but in all seriousness did a lot of great stuff for university of oklahoma and oklahoma did he really yeah he's like a huge donor t-boon pickens the guy who owns the water world oklahoma state's

football stadium is i'm pretty sure it's t-boon pickens stadium yeah but he didn't pick favorites huh so he did oklahoma and oklahoma state no no just oklah Oklahoma State oh okay I just I just know that I'm Oklahoma I know that I was gonna say you don't like Oklahoma State do you still have that thing like do you still have that college thing in you at all no I mean like the like so football is huge in Oklahoma I love watching Oklahoma football obviously basketball but it's just not it doesn't quite mean like growing up it was like Oklahomalahoma oklahoma state it's like called bedlam right and like it's a it's a thing but like as you kind of get separated from it some people hold on to it dude it's like i have zero i mean also i went to arizona state you know the home of herpes it's like there's no affinity at all like they're none of my friends still close

with herpes uh we we we stayed in contact but we don't talk as much as we used to sometimes you just go he'll pop up once in a while and and and come back into my life and i gotta tell you when he is it's nice to reconnect and reflect it's almost like he never left when he's back yeah you guys just pick right back up yeah that's a sign of like good friendship yeah we're just buds you know what i mean and we met so unexpectedly which was the real big thing i would have never known met through a friend uh friend of a friend through a friend. A friend of a friend, actually. Yeah, a really close friend of a friend. That's nice.

And we're no longer friends, oddly enough. I'm closer with herpes now than I was with my friend of a friend. That's how it always happens. 100%. Newsflash, I don't have herpes. Coughs and cries. That's actually, yeah. No, but I have no affinity to my college whatsoever.

And no offense if this is your vibe but like whenever i was at the airport traveling for shows you know there's always the the traveling businessmen that you see constantly at the airport with they all have the same the same it's the same uniform it's nice jeans or slacks of some kind and a tucked in polo with their college team on it and and and and and i'm not hating on you but if it's fucking stupid it looks awful it's you cut it out you can't first of all you you only tuck in a golf polo when you're golfing otherwise you don't tuck in a golf polo yeah i don't but they have they always have their college logo but this guy's 58, and he's still got the Oregon State.

Or it'll just say Beavers, and you're like, you're 58. See, I'm from a – before the Oklahoma City Thunder got to Oklahoma in 2008, Before they were stolen. Yeah. Before they were jacked. Yeah. It's all Oklahoma State or Oklahoma.

Right. And everybody – and I still have have that i love oklahoma totally but it's i just like when i'm not like in it every day it's like you're just you it's not quite the same right i mean but i still love oklahoma football like i love it and like the thing is about when i came out here to la when i got drafted it was like usc was big at the time and I was like oh it's going to be interesting to see nothing because all people talk about

from like July even spring it's all Oklahoma football you know I know everything about the team just by just being there I don't have to like

research it I know the quarterback the race for who's going to be starting quarterback I know the new the new freshman who's a stud

you know what I mean that doesn't happen out here. No. Out here, it's a schedule of when Coachella happens to... People don't really care. There's good sports fans here, but people just don't... There's so much going on. It's too busy of a city, but it's also got...

We're all so young in terms of a city, right? Like New York and Chicago, where I'm from. There's so much history. And here, the team history of everything is so all over'm from. There's so much history. And here, the team history of everything is so all over the place. The Dodgers came in the middle of the night from Brooklyn. That's why the Lakers are so big. They have such a rich history and they're just like, that's LA's team.

It helps that they were fucking dominatory. I mean, if LA had a team that wasn't good, I mean, it would just be another... I mean, look, no hate, but the Chargers really do make me sad. That it's like, look at this little team that they kicked around. San Diego was like, go away. And LA got them.

And LA was like, oh, man, I don't know. You know, I guess you can. You know what I mean? It's like, come on. Come on. It's so weird. Hey, Rams, make some room. And the Chargers are going to come.

No, why? This is our room. Mom. Mom. That's exactly what it's like. Were the Rams here first? How did that happen? Wasn't it like bang, bang?

Well, it went, well, you know, it went Rams, then they left, then they came back. I'm saying when they both came back just recently. Rams first, yes, and then the Chargers thereafter. Yeah, the Chargers, well, the Chargers, they didn't want to build them a stadium in san diego they want to build them a new stadium and rightfully so also san diego is not a big enough city it's crazy that they have a baseball team and a football team at one point because i was like this isn't like a major it is a major metro but it's just a sprawling suburb yeah like downtown san diego the gas lamp or whatever it's basically where

comic-con happens and where college kids black out but i guess that's most places like austin texas the same way that's who i thought of i thought of matthew mcconaughey when i said guys that are still connected so close with their colleges he shows up to every game yeah and i shit on him today on twitter because there was an article that was like not on him i was just making a joke. But it was like Matthew McConaughey said before the pandemic, he was planning a stand-up tour. Wow, really? It says before COVID-19 hit, he was planning a stand-up tour.

And I tweeted and I said, stop the vaccine now. Let's not have that be a thing that exists. Come on. No, but you know, I don't have any hate for the guy. But it's just like, I don't know. Like to me, and you know this, this is something that you obviously had a gripe with the people being like comics being like, oh, Blake gets to come into the comedy world. But the real truth was what, what I learned, what everyone learns is when they get to know

you and they see you and they know that you love comedy, they have a passion for it, that you're actually someone that like is involved in the world, the level of respect, I think, goes through the roof. So the issue is getting over the barrier of initial judgment that people always have when they're like, well, what does this guy get to do? Yeah, see, my whole approach with comedy, and I would never, people are always like,

you're a comedian. I never say, I'm never, like, I'm a comedian. I'm not. I love comedy, and I got an opportunity to do it. And now, if I ever do it, it's because I'm hosting a show, and I get to give other comedians an opportunity. A platform. A platform.

And I'm not saying because, like, I have, like, just getting somebody in front of eyes, and also, like, I do a charity event every year. It's a stand-up comedy show. And I have five comedians come, and I love it because I get to I I brought a kid um Ron Taylor from Detroit yeah I know Ron I he was he he opened the show and people like loved him and it's like it makes me feel good that I'm able to like sort of like introduce a new audience who probably doesn't go to comedy shows a lot because it's sort of like the the charity event right show um you open the door yeah well sort of that's what i that's my only role is

involved in comedy is i i'm not i don't want to go show up to like the laugh factory and take someone's time like i was preparing for the roast and anytime i went and like did like a thing i was like please i don't want to bump anybody i don't want to i just want to go see if i can like work on these jokes for a little bit you're too good because i don't want to that it's and i but i like i totally get that if you're a comedian you've been like ron taylor talking about he was living in his in a van like so many comedians have that same story yeah they're grinding they're going to open mics they're getting booed off stage they're just bombing and it's part of like the it's part of just how you become a part it's part of what makes you good i mean i i'm like i've i'm old enough now where i can

i used to be more gritty about that whole like the pridefulness of being a comic and like you don't get to just yeah step in here jeremy piven but the truth is uh to me now it's like i've stopped giving as much of a fuck about that stuff because it's like the idea of the established well but also but the idea of them jumping the line um is kind of a misnomer it really isn't true because you know you really have to have a passion to continue right jeremy piven did jump into it like two years ago and he could and he did skip the line, so to speak, whatever that fucking means, using the fame to get in front of people.

But that doesn't, to young comics, that doesn't mean a, he's taking your spot cause he's not, I promise. And B, his audience is dramatically different from the people that are going to come see you.

So that's a thing that I give to young comics that I'm like, I know you can hate these things, but truth be told, a, they won't last. I promise they don't last. And B, if they do, well, fucking props. Like to me, it's like, if someone can kind of last through that thing, then I kind of go, well, shit, maybe they are dedicated. You know, like guys were given Steve-O beef because Steve-O jumped into standup, you know, but Steve-O has been grinding and I know it's a hard thing for people

to get over, but at some point you got to realize maybe this is their passion they just got into it at a different time than you did um but it's just stand-ups are so fucking prideful of living in our van and me being you know me making 20 bucks a week and trying to survive and at some point you just realize the cream is going to rise so yeah if whoever jumps the line is trash they will it's never going to work out right you know it is hard it is so hard like i always try to tell my friends like i don't you don't understand how hard it is to just come up with 10 minutes yeah and 10 minutes is so long yeah it's so much like not for you but for me to like go when i open my chair when i open my charity show i only i would try to do like 10 minutes you know like because it's my show like i have to like go, when I opened my charity show, I would try to do like 10 minutes, you

know, like, cause it's my show, like I have to like do something. And it's just like, I mean, I have, I have help, you know, I like, I'll send stuff to like my friends here and there, but it's still like, I don't think people appreciate enough how hard it is. Well, here's an example. Anybody who's at home right now doing business zoom meetings try to have you and your co-workers do uh 10 minutes of of comedy and let them everyone just watches one zoom square and see how well that fucking works out it's proof be told that like you know we're on a we're on a zoom health and safety meeting for for the fx show that i'm doing

and even then someone will try to make one joke who's just like a crew person or, you know, a corporate person. And everyone's like, what? And they're like, fuck. You know what I mean? That's one joke in front of strangers. And you're like, see? And every time I want to go, see? Don't do that.

Don't try to be funny in the Zoom. The Zoom meetings are great because a lot of times, like, if I'm not talking, I'm mute. Yeah, me too. I mute and I turn camera off. And so, like, I'll be doing something. Somebody will make a joke. And I start to laugh. laugh and i'm like oh i'm on mute so i just go yeah you have to pretend yeah yeah funny very funny dude i got on this health and safety meeting and you know how when you get invited to one i forgot to change my name like if i make one it's

my i had changed my name as a joke with other friends before and it was blumpkin and i'm in a health and safety meeting and my name is blumpkin like with corporate yeah and i was like oh my fucking god and my buddy mike texted me he's like are you blumpkin and i was like yeah and he's like way to go bud like with disney corporate i'm like disney executives who are like make sure we're conscious about the way oh oh my god you know what this was no dude this This was the health and safety meeting and the sexual harassment meeting that you have to do every year when you do this. So, of course, the sexual harassment guy is like,

what are some inappropriate things to say to someone at the office? Blumpkin is my fucking name. I have one. I have actually one. Yeah, I'm pointing down to my... These things are really weird. They legally have to give you a health and safety and a sexual harassment meeting

before you start a TV show. And without fail, without fail, and no disrespect, but there's always a couple of crew guys. Most people just shut the fuck up and you take it and you go, thank you, we understand. No questions.

There's always a couple of crew guys, a couple of grips, or someone that go, yeah, what if I'm flirting with someone and she's into it you know and of course the sexual harassment guy is like we are trying to encourage keeping a

safe and healthy workplace where there is no sexual miscommunication so perhaps that should be safe for outside of the work and then of course another guy pipes up who works with you know who's like a buddy of his that's like okay but if a girl pinches my butt that's okay it's like oh fuck you guys we just want to get out of this meeting it's every time every without fail dude every show i've ever done has someone that argues and you and when i

was in person when before the pandemic you would sit in a room and i used to do the thing where you turn you know the like a like a dad where you're like yeah you know that like come on man like can we fucking get off i want to leave the look of disappointment yeah we want to go but now you know now the zoom thing is great because i mute and i was made i was golfing i was actually golfing i just muted put the video off and i was golfing the whole time which is the new world we have to go golfing we're gonna go golfing soon what do you what do you shoot all right bad yeah but bad is still good i'm like i think bad for you is still good i think i'm okay enough to like not have a bad time you know what i mean yeah yeah like you're like you know how to you know how to do everything the right way it's not coming together yet yeah

all right well we're gonna go like at least i yeah i'll be uh i don't know i'll take some lessons man well you know we're gonna do you know about this i want to tell you this before we were doing a comedian's cup oh god burt kreischer set it up oh really you should come along and do something with it when is it it's gotta be next year sometime it's probably gonna be shutting down the thing who knows what will you be playing basketball yeah you don't think you want to take some time off i'll be uh pleasure seeking i'll be all right well look the season's coming up and good luck with the the hoop shoots um it's great you know how to you know put the orange thing in the cylindrical and uh one quick question for you tough guy how many basketballs can fit into the hoop at one time upwards of five

I think it's six actually yeah it might be six you gotta measure the circumference no honestly I just like my pride won't let me

it's two it is he knows if you angle it in the right that's exactly right you get it in there it's two

you heard it here first Blake Griffin knows how many balls can fit in his holes guys I'm gonna end the episode the same way we always do I'm gonna walk off camera you look in the camera and say one word or one phrase that going to end the episode the same way we always do. I'm going to walk off camera.

You look in the camera and say one word or one phrase. That's going to end the episode. Whenever you want, whatever you want. Go ahead. Blumpkin. In here,

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