Yannis Pappas Hour - WWE America

Episode Date: October 3, 2024

We're all living in a Royal Rumble in Vince McMahon's America. Everyone's cutting promos, but where’s the heat? Who’s the heel, and what’s the storyline? Yanni breaks down how the rise of leisure culture has turned our world into WWE culture. Come hang with Yanni & Jesse for their weekly, more timeless, bonus episodes here and support the production of this show: https://www.patreon.com/yannispappashour?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator   Support out Sponsors: Cayman Cigars https://www.caymancigars.com/yannis/

What's up everybody? Welcome to the Yanis Papas Hour. There is peace in the Middle East. Finally the peace process has begun. They've started the first missiles, have been launched in peace. Israel has, they've broached the border of Lebanon to get in there and go after Hezbollah for a peace agreement. That's what Netanyahu said is we're going in there with pens to talk. So they're going over the border in their tanks with loose leaf paper and pen to talk it out and start the peace agreement. So the bombs that are being dropped are filled with love and reconciliation and time to move

forward into a bright future so we can be unburdened by what has been for what may be. Whoever becomes president is really inheriting a little bit of a quigmer, a quigmer in the Middle East. At this point I would say, you know what, I'm out. At this point I'd say, you know what, I'm out. You do it. That would be, if I was in my debate, I'd be like, you know what, what are the questions,

what would you wanna, what do you guys wanna do about the Middle East right now? Iran and Israel are starting to really, really escalate their peace process. What would you do about it? I go, you know what? I'm out. I'm out.

I've had enough. How much negativity can we all take? Apparently a lot. 5 million people tuned in to the season premiere of SNL. So it's about half the amount of people who went to a Burt Kreischer tour. So it's about half the amount of people who went to a Burke-Creisher tour. Is anyone together with anyone else doing the same thing?

What unites us? Is it football? Is it wrestling? I think it's hate! Hate and spite for the other candidate. The way we all used to tune in to Walter Cronkite or all tune in for a particular big event like, I don't know, the lighting of the tree on television. The Thanksgiving Day Parade used to be a big one where all the families would gather around their pajamas and just watch. I think what gathers us together now is not the YP hour, but the hate from politics. We're a country united by hate and spite.

And I think that that makes for a lot of good wrestling promos. And I think we're all cutting wrestling promos. And I think Vince McMahon won, even though he's being taken down right now because there's a couple of sexual abuse charges, whatever, he paid some people off. I think it was all part of the storyline.

And what's more important, what's true or what's the storyline? What is true? What is true? Name of the episode. I don't know. Neither do you. I just want to be entertained

by the WWE storyline which has bled out into America onto the digital wasteland of opportunity where we can consume it in a fake little world into America, onto the digital wasteland of opportunity where we can consume it in a fake little world where we can ignore our families

or ignore the fact that we don't have families or ignore the fact that we hate our job or we hate where we live. That's where we go to forget. So we're here to remember that Yanni knows what the truth is and the truth is coming right after this quick rap song So let me charge up before we get started to talk about the most influential icon of American culture in the last 50 years. Goes overlooked, but no more. I'm here on the heels of the Netflix documentary about Vince McMahon to talk about Vince McMahon

and how somehow professional wrestling has bled out into the real world. And politics is now cutting promos. People are just cutting promos. Nobody knows what the truth is, but here's the more important part. Nobody cares. I'm not even interested. I'm not even interested. What are the charges against Eric Adams, the first, I think, and only New York mayor to be

federally indicted while he was in office? Here's the thing. Here's the best part. I read the articles and I don't remember. I don't remember because I found myself just looking for something juicy. What's the juice, baby? What's the heel? I need heat. We need heat. What's the heat? Where's the heat? Who's the heel? Who's the baby face? Is he a baby face turning heel? Then I'm interested. I don't care what he did, as long as he's a heel that's entertaining. Can we just give into the fact that we just want to be entertained at all times because none of us are really working that much. I don't know how Jesse survives, but he does. Do you have a full-time job? No. I work. I work here.

You work here? Yeah, one day a week. That's plenty. Well, yeah. Yeah. I don't know where all this free time is coming from. I don't. I don't. I don't know where all this free time is coming from for people to find times, find times to just be on the internet all the time. But there's, it's obvious there's a lot of free time.

It's obvious that artificial intelligence, technology, and digital technology has made it very convenient for people to have a lot of time. You used to have a lot of time at the office, right, because your job only took a certain amount of time and the rest of it was bullshit, but you were still doing something. You were still at the office, you were still within range of fielding a conversation that came up. Now, people are still working from home on a lot of days. They split time with the office, which I think accelerated the leap forward into leisure,

where poor people got a lot of stuff. Everyone's got a lot of stuff. Everyone's got a lot of stuff. Everyone's got a lot of stuff. I bet you even poor people have to call 1-800-GOT-JUNK. You remember when poor meant there was like a dirt floor? They all got heat, they all got air-conditioned, they all got iPhones, they all eat meat all the time. You know, there's a difference. They don't got Ferraris and stuff. They're in Hondais, Mitsubishis, beat up used cars, whatever. But they got cars, they're driving, you know. Everyone's got junk to get rid of.

They just look around, they go, this house is full of too much stuff. We bought too much stuff. We've been buying, we just buy. Sometimes people get depressed. They're like, let me get on. Let me just buy a used shirt on Poshmark. Let me get on on. Let me just buy a U-shirt on Poshmark. Let me get on there.

Let me get on there. Let me get a little boost. Let me get a little boost of dopamine. Let me go on Facebook and just, yeah, let me get a boost. Let me get a little excitement. Let me write something naughty. Boost. Let me check how many likes I got.

Boost. I'm feeling good. I'm doing something. No! Nobody's doing anything. Nobody's doing anything except Chinese factory workers. They're doing something. Everyone else has jobs, but they're like leisurely jobs.

They're not those hardcore manufacturing jobs. The people who are doing things are nurses, construction workers, and longshoremen. Everybody else is just building narratives and cutting promos. That's where we are. We're just cutting promos, building narratives, consuming content, making content, and just circle jerk, entertaining each other with drama and

gossip like a Yenta table. Of all stuff, that's just part of wrestling storylines. And that's where we are. That's where America is. There's not a lot left to do when you become king of the hill and you have basically other countries making everything that you consume. There's nothing left to do except to consume it at a very high rate. Whatever that is, information, plastic tchotchkes on Halloween for your house,

everyone in their home right now has boxes and boxes and boxes of Halloween decorations just in an attic that's a fire hazard. It's just there. It's taking up a storage room in the basement. There's just, you know, remember you used to get a tree, a little mistletoe, it died, and then it was out the door. Now everyone's got a plastic flammable tree.

They got a little Santa's, big Santa's. You go to Christmas tree stores. You just fill your house to make it look like the North Pole, if the North Pole was just made out of toxic plastic. It's just full of tchotchkes. What people lack in their soul, they're filling up with plastic tchotchkes. You know, you go to any home in America, you're just going to see things.

There's just a lot of things. Used to be your chair, your cushion, your TV, a table, a few coasters, maybe a magazine or two and that's it. Good luck going into a home and not seeing four Santas this coming Christmas. 15 pumpkins during Halloween. It's a tough word to get out, pumpkins. Good luck. Now you got these immortal plastic decorations

that just take up place in the house and eventually you lose your mind and you gotta call 1-800-GOT-JUNK. And they come over and what initially cost $6 out of Marshall's for a fake pumpkin, you realize costs you about $1,000 in removal fees. Because at some point you need room in your house. So whenever you're buying something

that you think is just going to be some cheap thing, you're going to have to pay to throw it out. And that goes with TVs. I mean, you can buy a TV for like six bucks now. It's not even hard to get a TV. We've kind of maybe lost a little perspective of like how spoiled we are now. You know, everyone's just so coddled and just young. It's like, I want a TV. You go get one. Go to Bob's and just get one for 300 bucks. There's nobody working there. You have to like put it on a cart, take it. You go to CVS, they're like, now you work here. You're putting it out. And just, there's no need for humans to do jobs. So it's time for us to harass each other and yell at each other and create wrestling storylines because the wrestling ring of WWE has gotten bigger.

It's a Royal Rumble and we're all in it. I know I laugh like goofy, deal with it. It's one of my laughs. It's the one, that one. I know I laugh like goofy, deal with it. It's one of my laughs. It's the one, that one. But that was a good line. It's a royal rumble, we're all in it. We really all are.

Especially if you vote for another political candidate. You better be careful who you endorse if you own Netflix. I mean, the guy endorses, I mean, people are serious. People are serious about their cult leaders now. They are really serious. You know, they're very serious. So the co-founder of Netflix endorsed Harris

and I think every Republican just canceled Netflix for a couple of months. It's not gonna last. They'll be back. Yeah, so there was a spike in cancellations after the founder of Netflix endorsed Hours for President. What are we doing?

Can't you just say fuck that guy? Can't you just say, oh, I disagree? How about this? I just disagree. How about I just disagree with him? We have a disagreement. They're both Americans. They're both Americans. They're both running for president. I disagree with that guy. Now I'm gonna sit down and enjoy another season of, you know, Peaky Blinders. Well, how about that? How about

not going fuck and seething in living room? Okay, give me that fucking guy fuck fuck. Yeah, you fuck fuck He didn't he just endorsed a candidate right he just endorsed one of the two candidates so everyone's just using just intimidation tactics harassment. It's just what people are doing to entertain themselves to feel part of things, because the only thing we have in common, I think, is that, fighting. I think that's what everyone's doing, is fighting.

I think that's the one thing we gather around to do. Everything else is just niche. Everyone's off in their own little world, consuming their own little thing, and nobody gathers around to listen to a song. Taylor Swift is the closest thing we have to bring us all together, and she endorsed Harris,

so she's probably got a security team of 15,000 people right now, because people can't handle that. They just can't handle her picking one of the two. You know, I just can't handle it. Both sides can. If she would endorse Trump, I mean, can you imagine? Can you imagine? There might have been bombs there. I gotta give it. It looks like the Dems are the ones who are

getting wild recently, taking a couple shots of presidential candidates. I mean, who knows what's going on? I mean, it's really, you know, it's really a, it's really a, it's a really free for all out there. And adults are not in not in control Adult it's an adolescent culture You know, I think our politicians are acting like kids. We're all just you know, cutting promos like hey, what's up mean gene? What's going on brother? Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something right now mean gene Kamala Harris is mentally disabled. She's got something wrong with her,

something missing, brother. Let me tell you that right now. Ooh, yeah. Let me see this right now. There's something wrong with that woman. She's missing something upstairs. And I say that with my gorgeous Elizabeth right here whom who knows may or may not be sexually assaulting in this culture that Vince McMahon has

created everyone's just cutting promos Eric Adams cut a promo going look it's all bull I'm gonna be I'm gonna be sticking to the day to day I'm going to be, I'm going to be sticking to the day to day. I'm sticking to the day to day duties of running this city by getting bottle service whenever I can get my hands on it and dress into the nines. Um, nobody knows what's true, but that is well established. Nobody cares. That's the troubling part is nobody really cares. Nobody cares. That's the troubling part is nobody really cares. Nobody cares. Nobody cares.

People not knowing what's true is one thing, but nobody actually caring is when you're going things are about to get really, really fun. If nobody cares, because then they're just going, give it to me. Give me what it is. Make it good. Just give it to keep. They're open just going, give it to me. Give me what it is. Make it good. Just give it to me. They're open to it. Give it to me.

What is it? Just give it to me. What did you say he said? Fine. That's what he said. Is that what happened? Give it to me. What did he say?

What did he say? Oh yeah, yeah, it's more like that. Okay, I know what he said. But tell me what he said. You're not actually checking if he said it. You're going like, oh, this is good. What did everyone say? What did everyone say?

Who's saying what? And people just have a lot of time on their hands to consume it, and so that's why people are providing it, is because there's just people everywhere are looking for their thing to fit in and feel good and fill their soul because it used to be mostly work. It used to be mostly work. That's what our culture was. I don't know if that's healthy either. We went from one extreme

to the other. We went from like this extreme hard work to like this extreme kind of leisure period where people are like getting out of college and like you know, where's the jobs? Like what do they do I gotta get a no I you know what we need yeah what are they gonna do what is there for them to do you know if they're not in construction they don't know how to be an electrician they don't know how to install solar panels they don't know how to take things off of a boat they don't know how to drive a truck, which is gonna be gone soon.

I mean, what do they do? I mean, how many lawyers do you need? They used to tell you to learn how to code, but you don't need to do that anymore. You don't even need to do that anymore, because AA will code for you. So what are people gonna do? And now they're not gonna be able to start a podcast,

because everyone tried that, and people were like, we only like the good ones. So all the bad ones aren't working. Some of them were working for a few hundred, few thousand people. I like this one. But like, what are people gonna do? Chatter bait.

Which chatter bait? So you jerk off online. You can jerk, I mean, OnlyFans had a, but then that, like, I don't think the Royal Rumble is big enough for that. The Royal Rumble is only big enough for fighting. That we can do. That we can certainly do.

And when people have nothing to do, the Idol Times and the Devil's Play thing, they're going to fight. They're going to look for fights. They're going to pick fights. They're going to harass each other. Everyone can be like a fake journalist and just fucking film everybody and, you know, entertain themselves that way. I don't know.

Pranks, they can pull pranks. I don't know what people are gonna do. I don't know what they're gonna do. It ain't raising their kids. They're not doing that. The kids are raising them, you know, the kids are always like, you just give in and you go like, here's the iPad. And then the kid just becomes a zombie. I mean, you know, it's not, you can't, you can't, the kids have taken over, kid culture

is just taken over through that, through that loophole of advertising going like, these are the most important people in the country. These are the people who are speaking to, so they're going to dictate the culture. And now it's into politics, which is what we all gather around the campfire to do. And it's not just to listen. It's to yell at each other It's to hate each other and cancel subscriptions so it's kind of where we are, but there's still a real thing and that real thing is unions and longshoremen and

As far as I can see those are still run by intellectuals from the Ivy League who like to number crunch. Is there a bigger position that is, that hosts so many eggheads as longshoremen and union presidents? Listen to this guy straight out of Brown University. This is the president of the International Longshoremen's Association and boy if you thought we had problems with all the vitriol, two assassination attempts on a

presidential candidate, the Middle East peace process getting getting getting some heat Wait till you hear this When my men hit the streets from Maine to Texas every single port a lockdown that's it You know what's gonna happen? What's that? What you tell me first week? Be all over the news every night boom boom second week boom boom boom bang. Yeah, if I can bang over here Then a boom over here You got a fucking bang boom. Hey the thing will look like remember that Batman TV show bang pop boom I got my guys over here those guys over there. Here's the thing, closed, closed. Shut down.

Shut down, that's what we're talking about. Christmas can't. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about right here. Can't sell cars, because the cars ain't coming in off the ships. Can't sell those. They get laid off. Third week, walls start closing down.

Disaster. They can't get the goods from China. Can't get those. They can't sell clothes, they can't do this. Everything in the United States comes on a ship. They go out of business. Construction workers get laid off. Ways of materials.

Because the materials aren't coming in. Ways of materials. The steel's not coming in. Why is it? The lumber's not coming in. They lose their job. Can you pause for a second? Everybody's hate.

This could actually be the best thing for America. If he closes and America goes, all right, we gotta stop shipping things in and start making the stuff here. This could be really good. This could be really good. This could be the shakeup we need. This could be the shakeup we need.

It'd also be nice too. It'll kind of wake everybody. I support this. You do? I just think we need a little, everyone needs a little reminder. COVID didn't do it because everyone was just stuffing their faces and wiping their asses too much.

It didn't do it. It wasn't the wake up call. It wasn't enough death. What you really need is absolute chaos from low supplies for a long period of time on everything. What you really need is absolute chaos from low supplies for a long period of time on everything. I think that'll shake it up a little bit and people will go like, wait, wait a second. Maybe we need to get back to work now.

Maybe we need to start making things. Maybe we need to not let these multinationals just make money the end all be all of their business. Maybe it's about where their business is, what borders they operate within, maybe they gotta listen to those laws only. You know, this might work, this might work.

Am I sounding like a MAGA guy? A little bit. Is that MAGA, America First? Who's for this? Who is it? Who are talking points am I talking about? We need people that can be busy. Right, make your cheap plastic shit here.

Here's the thing, I don't know about work and all that shit, we need people to be fucking busy. And being busy is not fucking being online just farting around. We need, if you're gonna be online fucking meditate go to a meditation app Get Sam Harris's app Read There's reading to be done there boring. Yeah, just fucking boring. It's not as good

It's not as good constructive things aren't as good. What I love is the people who are being manipulated by these online cultures and the infrastructure of the digital infrastructure of the social media sites that's set up to addict you, thinking that they're just having a good old time, not knowing that there will be a check. The check will come. The check always comes. You either pay up front or you pay after you sit down and have the meal. But the check will come and the check has come in Arkansas. Apparently Arkansas is noticing that its people are a little off. And you know if

Arkansas is saying our people are a little off and blaming the Internet, then you know their people are a little off. If it's something noticeable to Arkansasians, maybe there's a problem, Dad. Maybe there's a problem. Arkansas is presently suing YouTube over claims that the site is fueling a mental health crisis. It is, but that is a lawsuit that's dead on arrival. It's dead on arrival. So I didn't even know YouTube had a parent company. I thought it was

Google. But I guess it's Alphabet? They changed their name. Oh, so Google's no longer Google? Yeah. So what happens is when your company gets too much bad heat, you change the name. Well, it's the parent company. You remember that's what Blackwater did, remember? They changed it. What did they become? I don't know, probably like Pink Cloud. Right. Pink Cloud. Love, love. Destruction Capitalist. Yeah. Pink Cloud rebuilt countries that we lobbied the government to bomb. Blackwater is no longer Blackwater. A lot of bad press changed the name. Member Facebook, oh hey man, you're letting a lot of disinformation go here.

You're letting a lot of criminal stuff happen here. Facebook did that. Facebook did that. Not meta. We're meta. We are meta. It's a different, who are you talking to? Who are you talking to?

Right, it's like my old joke, like, you know, you switch genders, you're like, Bruce Jenner killed a guy in a car. Caitlyn Clark did not. I just called her Caitlyn Clark. Caitlyn Jenner. Is Caitlyn Jenner mad that a new Caitlyn came along? I am the most famous Caitlyn.

I think part of the hate for Caitlyn Clark is how white her name is. I think Caitlin, you know, Caitlin. Hi, Caitlin. If her name was like Judy. Her name was Brianna. But Caitlin, there's just no black Caitlin's. And that's the thing. In a mostly black lead, they're going like, Caitlin. Not many black Judys. Not many black Judies. Not many black Judies.

Not many Judies. Judy is one of those names that are on the chopping block with Bertha and Ethel and Judy. Ruth. Yeah, Ruth. Ruth Bader Ginsburg. So the attorney general is dropping this lawsuit in state court, accusing them of violating the state's deceptive trade

practices and public nuisance laws. They claim the site is addictive. It is. It has resulted in the state spending millions of expanded, unexpanded mental health and other services for young people. It has. That's why they're filing the lawsuit.

But that doesn't mean YouTube's not gonna go wait a second We're alphabet This is they are it the joke has been made by the great Ronnie Chang about how one day we're gonna look back at Social media like we do cigarettes, it's true. I mean, you know they know the studies. You know they know. You know they know just like the tobacco industry knew.

They're like, hey man, this is like rearranging people's brain chemistry. This is making everyone sort of have the spikes and the lulls of an addict. And that's what causes depression, right? Is those quick spikes of dopamine and then the depression when you don't have it and then you seek it out by going online.

It's a casino. We're all gamblers. Let me put this content up. I'll try another one. Da da da. Let me put this content out. Did anyone read it? Did anyone read it?

Because like I said, anyone who posts anything wants people to see it. So the hope is that it gets seen. No one's just posting to post. Nobody's anonymously posting, being like, I just wanna get this beauty out there. I just want it out there for me, because I'm an artist.

I am a comment artist. I'm a troll artist. It's just within me, and whether people see it or not, I'm gonna create, because my soul is that of an artist. It's just within me and whether people see it or not, I'm going to create because my soul, my soul is that of an artist. No, the point is stir shit up and be seen to get some sort of visibility with whatever you're doing. So everything is true. We were trying to find out what is true. Does anyone care? No, the thing is people don't care. But what I can tell you is that is true. That is true. They know it now.

Everyone knows it now. Everyone knows it. Okay. And we're not even at that point where it's like over the top known. It's like, but it will get there too, where people like, whoa, this is fucking way out of hand. This family just named their kid Farty Dicker Warner. We're going to, you know, this guy wants to be, you know, Elon Musk named his daughter a code. I mean, it's getting, the internet is not a real place, but it has tricked people into thinking it's a real place because of the amount of time they spend on it.

Once you get off, you realize, whoa, that was not good. It's like a mind ride that you get off and you're like, oh, my mind shouldn't have been living there, man. I'm back in the real world where things are balanced and you get the steady slow drip of dopamine that we evolved to want and need. Boring.

It's boring now. And that's the problem with Trump is people like him because he's not boring. And that's the most reason why they like him. They don't know that that's the reason. They don't know that that's the main reason They don't know that that's the main reason, but the main reason is cause he's not boring. It's the same reason, you know, it's the same reason why they liked Hulk Hogan.

It wasn't boring. You know, same reason why they liked Lex Luger. It's the same reason why they liked Dusty Rhodes, of the most charismatic guy it wasn't boring the wrestling business is all about charisma Charisma does he have charisma who cares? Remember when Shawn Michaels was talking about Bret Hart's family and all that shit You know Bret Hart's going like look the guy crossed the line. I hate the guy Do you think wrestling fans cared about Bret Hart's family? They like the promos. It's entertaining.

You only hate it when it comes to you, but it's not coming to me. It's Bret Hart has to deal with that. You know, Bret Hart was an amazing wrestler that came from an amazing wrestling family and was incredible at the athletic, the athletic aspect of being a wrestler, but he just didn't have the charisma of the likable heel. You know? You know? The strutter, the strutter. Your wife's a whore.

Fuck your kids. Ric Flair, baby. Yeah, people just got exposed to so much fake that they forgot what's real. And that's why it's always shocking when like, you know, you learn about Vince McMahon and you're like, oh, he used to show up to the door and open the door naked as a power move.

He would, you know, he was paying all these women off. Wait, what? He would open the door naked? Yeah, he would open, I heard a story, somebody, a comic used to work for him, because he does the storylines. Yeah, he would like open his front door naked. He's got confidence.

Yeah, it was like a power move. He must have a... Yeah, he would put you in uncomfortable positions. He also did a lot of great things for those wrestlers. He was a daddy to them. He was a good guy in a lot of ways. He's a complicated guy. Definitely a marketing... Here's his quote, and he admits it.

This is Vince McMahon. I cheat and I win. That's Vince McMahon. I cheat and I win. Is that not... That's Vince McMahon. I cheat and I win. Is that not, is there a better expression to summarize where we are right now? At least he's an honest cheater. I cheat and I win.

Yeah, he's honest. I cheat, I win. But he's not in a good place now. But he got it all in, a long run. He's in his 70s anyway. He's resigned. He's out of wrestling. It's over. You're saying it's as popular as ever, right?

It's as popular as ever. He's gone, but it's as popular as ever. Maybe he was a great family man. I don't know much about him. I just know some of the darker stuff that's come to light that was in the documentary. And I just love that I cheat and I win. And is there anything more American than that?

Is there anything more American? I cheat, but I win. And it's about winning. It's not about, like I've said before, it's not in the interest of principle. Fuck principles. They don't give you heat. You need heat.

It's the principle of interest, baby. Money. And money likes drama. Drama sells. Drama sells. Truth don't sell. And we're just for sale. Everything's for sale.

It's the only, like Chris Rock said, we worship, I've been looking for God my whole life. He we're just for sale. Everything's for sale. It's the only, like Chris Rock said, we worship. I've been looking for God my whole life. He's right in my pocket. That's America. That's American culture. And it's bled out into the real world. And nobody can turn down a dollar.

Nobody can turn down a dollar. You know, Eric Adams had a tough time turning down a dollar. He had a tough time turning down Turkish dollars. Is it Turkish? I think it was the Turkish embassy. Yeah, I think the Turks, oh, the Egyptians got Menendez, oh yeah, that's right. Senator Menendez, and the Turks got New York City's mayor, Eric Adams.

Nearly a decades, Adams sought and accepted improper valuable benefits. Who the fuck didn't see that coming? I mean, you look at the suit, you know it's gonna happen. But he's a vegan, so people are complicated. Valuable benefits such as luxury, international travel, including from wealthy foreign businessmen, at least one Turkish government official

seeking to gain influence over him, and yada, yada, yada. Tip of the iceberg, they released to the press. Obviously, you know, Diddy's got another 160 allegations or something against him. What I wanna know, the mayor engages in a long running conspiracy. So the other benefits from a Turkish official and later in exchange pressured, ooh, the

New York City Fire Department to open a Turkish consular building without a fire inspection. Look the other way, guys. Safe. He's in. No, no, no. I saw him swipe the tag. He's in. He's in. No, no, no, I saw him swipe the tag. He's in. He's in. Rest in peace, Pete Rose.

Died at 83. The greatest hitter of all time, right? Yeah, do you think he did that because he had money on him dying at 83? Yeah. He was so addicted to gambling, he was like, oh fuck, I forgot. If I'm dead, I can't collect.

Duck. Love Pete Rose, great baseball player but I mean a ruthless aggressive gambler. Yeah. That's a tough one. According to mental health professionals that's the toughest one to beat. Gambling yeah it's the toughest one to beat. High suicide rates. Yeah high suicide rate toughest one to beat, toughest one to beat and that's essentially what social media has made up kids is gamblers With their content put it up. Oh this one got a lot of hits come back to the table Come back to the table and try again. Try again. Try again. Oh, you got another pop

Okay back at the table back at the table. They want to keep you on there. They want to keep you on there so that that that's really what Social media has turned kids into is they have a gambler's brain We all gambler's brain you got to really remove yourself for a period of time to really recognize it. You took a break, right? Oh, I've been off it for a long time. Yeah. A long time. Yeah. Yeah. I mean I've been off a long time. I would check in here and there, you know, but oh dude the difference is crazy. I mean it's insane. It's insane. It's insane.

It's a real thing that you just experience and you go like, you know, and it's social media. It's not other stuff. It's social media. Those sites are designed to keep you on there, to hook you in, to give you these jolts and spikes and quick, it's just, that's what it is. The likes, you think those are there organically?

You think that they knew about the likes and the comments and the engagement? Like, you know, it slowly conditions you to know that you need that, so you increasingly wanna do something that's more dramatic, more out there, so people either could get pissed. You know what draws the most engagement?

Hate. That's what we, ah, fuck, I gotta get in there. You know? You're gonna get more of that than, I love it. You know, because the people who are saying I love it, they're a we, ah fuck, I gotta get in there. You're gonna get more of that than I love it. Cause the people who are saying I love it, they're a little off too, cause it's like, just watch it. You know what I mean? Like do normal people comment?

When I watch a movie, I don't have to go find the producer, write a review, find it, and be like, dude, I just need to tell you how much I love. There's a little something weird to that. I need you to know, I need you to know how much I loved it. Or if you hate it, you know? But you like when people compliment your work, right? People say the show was funny.

No, no, not anymore. No, no, I like when they enjoy it. I like when they laugh. I like stable people and there's a lot less of them now. Not a lot of people doing work on themselves. Like You know, not a lot of people doing work on themselves. Like I said, not a lot of people looking in. There's a lot less stable people out there. So I like stable people.

If someone comes up and says, I love your stuff in a stable way. Like today I was in a Starbucks and the guy said, let me buy you that coffee. You know? And here's the best part. At first I'm like, dude, you know, just getting a coffee. But he was like, man, you're hilarious.

Let me buy this coffee. It was at Starbucks. That's all he did. And I ordered just a black small. And he was like, man, you could have got something fancy. I was like, yeah, but that's what I was gonna order. I'm not, you know. But that's all he did.

And then he walked away. No, it was, you know, I guess that's cool, but also it'd be okay if it didn't happen. That would have been okay if it didn't happen as well. I'm just a fucking man getting a fucking coffee. You know? You know how many times I've seen, it's a New York thing. That's why I love fucking New York because that was a cool interaction. There's no, most of my family's has been New York, right? Especially because of Marisa. No problems, dude. No, we don't play that fucking game here for the most part. People do cool shit like that, you know? Just like, here's a

coffee, love your shit, you know? I can remember the other time I went into a Starbucks, the woman looked at me, she smiled, I knew she recognized me, she was a Hispanic woman, I know she knows Morisa, and it's funny, cause this was last week. So they're both in Starbuckses. And she made my coffee and she was like, is that all? And I said, I said, and that's it. Cause I knew. And she went, that's it.

And that was it. That was it. I got my coffee. That's nice. That's nice. It's stable. I like stable interactions. It also would have been nice if that didn't happen to

one way or the other It's fine. It's fucking fine, you know It's fine. I don't know dude. I just when I see people I like I remember seeing Ethan Hawke. I love Ethan Hawke I think he's a deep guy. I like a lot of things he says. I like his movies. I just didn't disturb him You know him a coffee No I wouldn't go to a show or a movie and talk in the movie like I'm aware of my impact on other people Well, that's a good thing about comedy because you know what the result you want the result and you're gonna laugh

You're the funnier you are is the more connected you are to your impact on other people You know who doesn't know their impact on other people? It's like young kids, because they're so narcissistic, they're so about their needs, that they do harmful things, they don't mean to be harmful, but it's just because they're thinking

about their own needs. It takes a while as your brain matures to realize your impact on other people. Right now, people don't care about their impact on other people at all. They just don't. It's a bitter, hateful society that is full of just narcissistic launches, just fights. Don't you think? I don't know, that sounds pretty dark.

Well dude, are you involved in the world? Not really. You're not involved. Well, you're friends, like that's your friends. Those are the people you hang out with. Dude, I'll tell you, it's scary that I think comedians are some of the least narcissistic people I've met recently. Yeah. Yeah. And that's how I know actually there's a fucking problem. It used to be the comedians who were all about look at me, look at me, look at me. Now everyone's like, look at me, look at me,

look at me on whatever small scare they are. Like, look at me, look at me. There's nothing at the end of that rainbow, dude. There is no joy in getting attention paid to you. It's like, you think Lady Gaga loves, she loves the music. She loves creating the music, whether she's doing it for a piano. The money's great, I'm sure.

But I bet you she hates the fucking fame. I bet you she's going like, Jesus Christ, I got a fucking, I got this guy claiming he loves me now and we need to be together. You know, some stranger is just, you know, it's hiding in my garbage cans. That's gotten worse. I think that has gotten worse because of the internet, because these people have ways to stalk more. It's unfortunate. It's an unfortunate thing. It's a spiteful, it's out of spite. It's what it is. We're a spiteful culture now and that's what's going on. And spite makes great drama, you know? So Adams is coming back, he's caught red-handed and he's going like, this is all bull and I gotta get back, I love that,

I gotta get back to the day-to-day of running the city, which I will be doing for 8.3 million people like I have been doing. Okay, I've been attending the day to day for some of the day, for some of the day. The rest of the day, I've been attending to Eric Adams and I gotta get back to that as well. I mean, that can't stop either

because attending to Eric Adams is what got me into City Hall. So if Eric Adams ain't doing Eric Adams, who's gonna do Eric Adams? Now if you excuse me, I got a reservation at Noble. These no-bid contracts and these look-the-other-way on fire code issues ain't gonna do themselves. It ain't gonna happen without Eric Adams giving a nod. Look the other way, safe on the replay, safe. Was it a catch? No catch. We did the replay, looks like catch. Wasn't a catch. That type of shit.

Reality ain't reality. He pressured the New York City fire department, firefighters. He went to the firefighters and he said, look we got to open this Turkish counselor building without a fire inspection. Here's the deal, burn it down. It's got no... Joking. I'm not. I'm joking. It's vulnerable. It's vulnerable. As a Greek came out, a Greek and I apologize I don't mean that at all. I'm not in that business. I'm in the love and happiness business. Life is hard enough.

You know, I'm in the love and happiness business. I really am. The cynic in me has died. I'm an optimistic guy. I really am. The cynic in me has died. I'm an optimistic guy. I really am. I want to return, I want to return to the days, I want to return to the early days of the internet. Is that possible when it was new? Not possible. Not possible. Eric Adams is a fun guy. You know, you could have predicted this, just by the suits, right? Sometimes you see a suit.

A con man's always got nice clothes on. Fun guy. He loves the club. He loves the club. Yeah, and he said he was not surprised by the charges. I wonder why. And he encouraged he was not surprised by the charges. I wonder why. And he encouraged the public to wait to hear out our defense before making judgments.

You know, it's tough not to make judgments because you just knew it by looking at them. And hearing rumors. The rumors happened fast. The rumors happened. I remember Jared Harvin was in here and his dad knew him because they worked together at some point. The thing he said to me, he said,

my dad said Eric is gonna do Eric. So whenever you hear that, you're going like, that doesn't sound like a principled public servant. You know, Eric's gonna do Eric. And Eric has been doing Eric. And he's been doing Eric first class on Turkish air with free champagne and a nice meal. He's been doing it. Probably got a nice special blanket. He'd been really doing it with champagne and a nice special vegan meal, all vegetable.

Doesn't have diabetes now. It overturned his diabetes, becoming a vegan. We interviewed Eric Adams on the history hyenas. Yeah, we did, we had him on. He's a good talker, right? Is he a good talker? I wanted to marry the guy. I mean, what do you think? That could talk.

What do you think, dude? I love his New York accent. Yeah, I mean, what do you think? What do you think, dude? I love his New York accent. Yeah, I mean, what do you think? What do you think? You think he was not a likable guy? He's very likable. Am I not rooting for him? I'm rooting for him.

I'd still take him over the last guy. Yeah, I mean, that's the thing. I mean, that's the thing. You go with him with Wilhelm, you go, dude, all right, the Turkish consulate doesn't have a fire code. Are there worse things? If there was one building, Yanis Pappas said, I mean, if you pull Greeks,

are they gonna say he did anything wrong? The only thing Greeks are gonna say he did wrong is not letting the Greek community know that there was a vulnerability there. You know? I mean, do we really care about the fire code of the Turkish consular? You know? Apparently Turkey doesn't care. They want the thing built. They don't want to have to jump through loops. They're coming from a country where, you know, there's not a lot of checks and balances, right? There's an autocrat running things.

So they come to New York and say, let's bring our Turkish culture, our administrative culture here. And Eric Adams said, obliged, obliged. Oblige my friend, for a couple of shekkies, we can make this happen. And he just is the type of guy who wants a couple of Shecky's we can make this happen and he just is the type of guy who wants a couple of Shecky's.

That's all. You need me to look the other way? What kind of champagne do they serve on Turkish Air? And that's all. That's all there is to it. So good for him. Now this longshoreman guy is an interesting guy because let's finish up this speech here because he really lets you know that the mob is still alive and well. Nice country you got here. It's a nice country you got here. How would you like it if you didn't get your things?

I can make it so your things stop. things. I can make it so you think stop. In the long show on me now because now they realize how important our jobs are. Now I have the president screaming at me. I'm putting a tough Harley on you. Go ahead. They're following these. I have to go back to work for 90 days. That's a cooling off period. Do you think when I go back for 90 days, those men are going to go to work on that pier? It's going to cost the money, the company's money to pay their salaries all in, go one from 30 moves an hour, maybe to eight. They're going to be like this.

Stock numbers. They're going to be like this. Who's going to win here in the long run? Like the guy that tried to walk. You're better off sitting down. They're going to be like this. He just did like this. They're going to be like this.

This happens to be the same position a guy who tried to cross the picket line the other day was in by my hands Let's get a contract and let's move on with this world and could today's world out cripple you I Will cripple you and you have no idea what that means. Nope literally and figuratively I love the NPR music that plays at the end of this, by the way. Yeah, those soft music after threats. Now, so he's upset, right? He's probably seeing in China

that they're using all these robots now. That's part of the negotiations. Yeah, he doesn't want those in there. Automation, yeah, it's a big part of it. He's like, listen, this is a Polish, Italian, Greek, Irish immigrant, bulky guy, millilite drinking job. And here's the deal, last I checked, Chinese robots can't drink millilites.

And back off. What are we gonna do with these people, dude, when it's all automated? What is coming? I don't know, people need to get a hobby. Is it just gonna be a country of hobbyists? Yeah, you gotta get a hobby. Yeah, what do you do?

What do I do? What are you from, 2023? I don't do anything. I be, I am. Are we gonna, the best case scenario is we all become a culture of Buddhists, like meditators, you know, because they don't do anything and they're fine with it.

That's why we need to start pushing that, pushing that on people, like pushing. Meditation, like just be, man. Seek enlightenment. What did you do today? What did I do today? Doing is so bad for your nervous system. I sat, I meditated, and then the meditations

would just get longer and longer and longer. You just gotta push people, go like what'd you meditate for, 40 minutes? We want you to meditate for a full work day. Hour for lunch, hour for lunch, eight hours. We want you to be. What do you do will change to what are you being? How's your state of being?

Because in America, that's the first question people ask when you're in a social situation, what do you do? I noticed it was cultural when I went to Europe, and that's not a question that's asked in Sweden, specifically, or any of those Scandinavian countries I went to, it's not important. They all got great benefits They're all educated and they don't look at it at this hierarchy of worth

They don't look at they don't look at a comedian as worth more than a garbage man They just don't culturally look at it that way. They both speak two three languages. They both have the same speak two, three languages. They both have the same health care benefits and maternity leave and all that. And just culturally, they just don't place that capitalist hierarchical structure on it. Although they are a mixed economy and they're capitalist, they don't place the value on the person with more money.

What I'm saying is true. I know it's not interesting because it's true. But it's true. And so it's a interesting because it's true. But it's true. And so it's a cultural thing here in America. We go, what do you do? It's like, maybe we'll just be a come of countries. Like, what are you, how are you being? How are you?

Will be the question, like, how are you? And then, person's like, I'm stressed out. My cousin's in the hospital. My sister's in a bad place. They just put a heal each other just put a hand Be like let's meditate together on that Let's meditate and we just become a country of neutered meditators Be real nice. Everyone sits Indian style. Everyone talks like this like a ASMR All podcasts start to talk like this

You're falling asleep I know you're upset because there's too many hours in the day and nothing to do But I want you to meditate I am here for your healing journey. You know they actually have AI voices now that do meditation for you? Really? And they're amazing. Is they tailor the mediation to you,

so you punch in what you wanna be healed from. And they go, Yanis, we are here to heal your inner child. And it's a computer voice? Yeah, well it's a person. It's a person but it's not a real person. Not a real person. Yeah, yeah. That's what's coming.

That's what's coming. Yeah, they can take my voice now and I can say anything. I could just say anything. You know, it's just, they can do anything. They can fucking clone, like this guy who's cloning sheep, which people are mad about but it's a great idea. If you're an animal rights person you're going like technically only one sheep is getting hunted right? Because it's the

same sheep cloned over and over again. So it's one sheep that has a very unfortunate fucking life where they keep bringing him back and he's got to get killed again. It's the same sheep. Yeah, it's the same fucking sheep. I mean, you know, what are you going to do? At least they just pick one person to purge on. I'm not one animal to purge on. So a Montana guy, to be honest with you, I am surprised there's someone in Montana

that is this sophisticated that he has cloning capabilities. But I'm sure he's a transplant from the Los Angeles area or some other place. But he happens to be 81 years old, so he's still working. Still working. I guess the longest job security, and if you wanna talk about longevity, you become president or you get into cloning because he's still working at 81

But he's been sentenced to six months in federal prison And ordered to pay $24,000 in penalty penalties for using tissue and testicles From large sheep. He's like I want this same sheep because got a nice fucking set of balls. I want these balls So he's using that from a large sheep hunted in Central Asia And the US to illegally create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunting so yeah, so Is it not nice though? So it's giving people something to do. You ever notice how rich people have nothing to do?

So they go hunt animals in Africa and they it's very important to's something to do. Trophy, you ever notice how rich people have nothing to do? So they go hunt animals in Africa and they, it's very important to have things to do. It's very important to have things to do. Meditation is something you can do. You're doing less, but you're doing it. Yoga is something you can do. It's the same thing with Eddie. He had so much money and he turned into a massive hedonist.

I mean, what can you do? You have to turn that outward. You have to try and help people you know You have to put that energy somewhere. Yeah, you gotta you gotta you gotta become helpful you gotta Just keep taking in no you can't keep taking in that's the problem The problem is you get to a certain point you gotta give back You gotta go help other people because I think it's fulfilling or something. You can only fill yourself up to a certain point before you start losing your mind. Next thing you know you got a thousand bottles of lube.

Next thing you know you're trophy hunting in Montana just for the thrill of the kill. You're just trying to get a fucking dopamine buzz. You're trying to get a rush. Nice little rush. Country of addicts in a big royal rumble that extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, from Canada to Mexico. It's a big royal rumble with some Game of Frogger. There's Frogger going on too. Whoo

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Yeah, put that in perspective. So, be careful of that. When you're going across the street, you wanna dodge that. Yeah, playing that game of experimented with drugs in college, those days are over. And that's kind of sad, because that's the time you do it. But people think it's killing like street people. It's not.

It's killing like college kids. It's killing like people who are partying who otherwise have great families and stuff like that. Didn't that happen to some comedians? Yeah, yeah, it's happened to a lot of people, yeah, it's happened to a lot of people. Yeah, it's happened to a lot of people. It's out there, you cannot take any pill that you just can't.

And they make them look like Xanax and they put the fentanyl in there. They say the hope is that it'll addict you because it's such a fast high and such a low down. So they say the cartels are doing it to hook you more and it's cheaper and all that shit and that's why they're mixing it in, but I think it might be more nefarious

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