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So when she was killed in a wealthy neighborhood... She had been shot twice in the head and in the back, behind the heart.
She had been shot twice in the head and in the back.
So when she was killed in a wealthy neighborhood... She had been shot twice in the head and in the back behind the heart.
She had been shot twice in the head and in the back.
Yes, that was a real horse's head.
Yes, that was a real horse's head.
Well, I mean, I don't know how locked in it was, but it was one of them. Yeah, remember? And I was like, oh, my God, was I drinking like puddles?
Don't worry.
We should go cook, they can talk cars.
Like, oh, what are you wearing?
My gosh, that's you.
Yeah, you got a little bit going on.
I still go say hi.
Yeah, yeah, way to kill the mood.
No.
I love how you just look towards her for all the approval on that one.
Eyes closed, too.
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Right.
All right.
You got a little bit going. You know what?
But there's sour cream on it, and I eat the sour cream.
It's got chocolate on it, raspberries, sour cream.
He's an indulger. He looks great. We were on Netflix together with the Christmas Day broadcast.
I was in studio watching your belly. It was phenomenal.
Yes, that is true.
It was... You know, first impressions are everything. Yeah. So they tell me, like, hey, tomorrow it's a full dress rehearsal. They said that. And I'm like, okay, so are we just going through the whole show? They're like, no, no, no. We need you to be dressed to the nines, whatever you're wearing on the next day, show up in that. I literally show up to the studio. Everyone's in jeans and t-shirts.
And I'm in a full suit. I don't have a change of clothes. Otherwise, I'd have changed.
I was in a tuxedo. With a cowboy hat on. With a cowboy hat on. Now, that's crazy. They actually... But that is a dressing room. I didn't have my hair done. Right? I was going to wear the cowboy hat. and they got me after the show and asked me to get my hair done so I wouldn't wear the cowboy hat.
On Christmas Eve. I'm like, hey, I can't find anyone, braider, barber. There was a braider and a barber at the apartment that we were at the Airbnb in an hour. Are you serious? They sent a hair braider and a barber to cut my hair and braid my hair so I wouldn't wear the cowboy hat.
I don't know. It definitely stole the show.
You know what I think it was?
I think it was reserved for Beyonce. Bet it was. Because she was wearing the Cowboy Carter and wearing the hat. This is exactly why they wanted us in full dress. Because they didn't want anyone to be similar to anything that was going on.
Okay.
No hard feelings, Beyonce, because my hair was flawless on that day, so I was very happy with the barber and the stylist. But, yeah, they went to the farthest lengths to get what they wanted.
It's a trade. They go to school.
Yeah, my mom did my hair for the longest, but she only knew how to do plaits, and most of my career I wore plaits, but then I had to grow up at some point, so I had to start wearing braids, and eventually I'll have to cut my hair off, because being a 45-year-old man with braids is probably not the best thing.
No hard feelings to snooze.
Oh, I see, okay. You had plaits. I had plaits my whole career, but then once I went to TV, I switched to braids. I just thought it was more professional looking.
I would pay good money to watch this man do a heptathlon.
All in two days.
Where'd you put your butter? Where'd you put your butter? Oh, those knots look good.
I got a knot in my shoulder, but it ain't that one.
No, she's not going to gas herself up, but let me introduce you to the record holder at Florida State in the heptathlon, three-time All-American, even though I like to add numbers to that all the time and call her a 20-time All-American at times, three-time ACC champion, the greatest young heptathlete in Estonian history. Wow.
Before she tells you about that, I got to give you one more story.
So, I didn't know how popular she was in Estonia. All right? So, Estonia's got about a million people. Okay. So, you know, small country, but... We go over to Estonia and people are running up to her. They don't know who the hell I am. Right. So she's super popular. I figured that out. I didn't know how popular, though, until I got back maybe my fourth time going to Estonia. Yeah.
And we had just been at like the beach, took some pictures, you know, paparazzi, whatever. We're just trying to do our thing. And we go to Estonia like a week later. And I'm sitting at the dining table in the living room, and there's a magazine on the dining table. And it's a blown up picture of her on the cover of the magazine. And I'm like, what are you, a damn Kardashian over here in Estonia?
Right?
She's literally a Kardashian in Estonia.
Wow.
Way down at the sex tape. Yeah, no sex tapes. You don't need it. I met a Kardashian today. Yeah. She always gets mad at me when I say a Kardashian, but I mean it in the sense of popularity, not in the sense of how you got popular.
Okay.
I mean, if you ran a 440, you're just putting in 40 more meters of work.
Oh!
Oh, seriously. The 440, were you guys running on dirt?
Thank you, baby. You guys are so great.
Both of us tore our ACLs. I tore my right, she tore her left. So we feel like we complete each other.
Oh, no.
I didn't know she existed. I didn't know where Estonia was when I first met this woman.
But I found out.
Oh. That's how you do it. Oh my God.
She's like, no!
Oh, shit. It's RG3. RG3.
Miss Poland?
Is that a city in Georgia?
Oh, my God. Have you ever heard of it? No. I've never heard of it.
No.
I just, you know. Isn't there a... There's a Paris, Texas.
So some people say they're from Paris, and I'm like, oh, really? Like, we, we, poo-poo, no, no? No, no.
No, no, no.
Sorry to interrupt you about track and field, but... No, I wasn't saying anything.
You should have somebody do an assessment on us and be like, what game should we play? Fortnite? Wait, do you play video games? No. She does play video games a lot.
Yeah, it's true. Very dark, very dark.
Yeah.
Via mail, you know?
It's crazy how far we've come.
Oh, here we go.
My country too, clearly.
She played video games before she met me in college. She used to play Tekken.
If we pulled out Super Smash Bros right now, she would be a baller at Super Smash Bros. She loves that game.
On how we met? Yes. You want the real story or the fake story? Tell me the fake story.
The real story is I slid in the DMs.
Someone try these. Slid in the DMs. Shot my shot. It went in. And then the first time we met, I traveled to St. Petersburg, Florida. St. Pete, Florida. And we met. She drove five hours from Tallahassee to St. Pete because I didn't know. that St. Pete was five hours from Tallahassee.
That's the one we played on the Switch and on Wii.
Because I'm not from Florida, so I just... He said, I'm going to Florida.
I was like, hey, I'm going to Florida. You know, come see me.
She's like, that's five hours away. And I'm like, ah. Then I thought she was a catfish because, you know, there was some stuff going on where she couldn't get there. So I was in St. Pete for three days. Yeah. And she didn't show up the first two days.
I'm like, I thought I got catfished. And I'm like, oh.
But see, here's the thing. She didn't tell me about the track meet until I was already in St. Pete.
So now, Bert, imagine this. You're going to St. Pete to meet this Estonian woman.
I DMed her, but there was some confusion in my mind that she might be a catfish. Oh, yeah, easy. I'm in St. Pete. All of a sudden, she's got to go to track meet. Coach told her at the last second. I'm like, all right, this person is not real.
I'd like to help. She's got Estonia in her bio. I'm like, where the hell is Estonia?
No way. Her picture looks like she's a Russian double agent. I'm like, all right. I just got botted, and this she's fake.
I got botted, and she's fake. My cousin comes up from Miami, my cousin Brian, who ended up marrying us because he was the first person in my family to meet her. And all of a sudden, last day, she's like, all right, I'm back from the track meet. I'll be there in five hours. She drove five hours down to St. Pete. Wow. to spend eight hours with me because I was leaving.
Well, I mean, I was there for two days without you, so I think it was a good compromise, okay? Okay, so she shows up, and I'm still in my mind thinking, she's like, I'm in the parking lot, and I'm like, I'm going to go out there, and it's going to be Bert Kreischer, you know, getting out of the car. I'm like, there's no way this person's going out. That would have been so good. And when I saw her.
There's no Estonian person. I'm sorry, bro. And I tell you, man, the smile that I got on my face when I saw her. We've been talking for over a month at that point. It just was love at first sight. So the fake story I tell everybody is that we met at Texas Relays, which is not true. We did go to Texas Relays together, but she competed at Texas Relays and you had one of your best meets ever. Yeah.
So I like to take all the credit for that.
I was there. She was, you know, ready to go. I was trying to show off. But that's the real story. And, you know, she saved my life. She made me believe that love could actually be real.
That's badass to hear. I did, but then I didn't.
But, you know, it was. It's a real question. It's a real question, and the answer is exactly what you got to. It was just a bad experience.
A bad experience, and you feel like you give everything to somebody, and you want that back. And when you don't get that, it can kind of crush you. I also believe that some of the biggest players in the world, not football players, but guys that are like, you know,
Players, you know, playa, playa, all that, were once good guys that got messed over by somebody so badly that they were like, I am never letting this happen to me again. And she saved me from that. And when you're a pro athlete and you have an opportunity to kind of just go out there and do whatever, it can be detrimental not only to your life, but also your mental health.
She saved me from from going through that.
Yeah. So 2016, I was in a really I don't ever think I was depressed, but I was in a really bad part of my career being in Washington. I didn't play that year in 2015 at all.
I got a concussion at the beginning of the year. And then when I got back healthy, they didn't give me give me the job back. So I was coming off of that year of not playing. So she actually went through free agency with me. I went to see the Jets. I ended up going to see the Browns. I went to the Jacksonville Jags and a bunch of other places. And I signed with the Browns.
So she went through that whole process with me. And she's been there with me through all of the downs. So she didn't get to experience Washington when we won Rookie of the Year and won the division. And they were saying I was, you know, one of the faces of the NFL.
Yeah.
She experienced me being in Cleveland, getting hurt first game and then getting cut and then being out of the league for a year and then going to Baltimore and backing up Lamar Jackson for three years, which I enjoyed that process. But she didn't get to see me be that guy. So some people like, oh, she's only there for the money. And I'm like. You don't know who she is and what her heart is.
She wasn't there when it could have been all about the money. She's been there through the grind, and now we're shining together, and I love it.
No, so for Jaden, Heisman Trophy winner, second pick in the draft, goes to Washington, D.C. Never been a D.C. kid. You know, he's a California kid. So he's traveling all the way across the U.S. to go play in a new city in a new town. That's my same experience. I just didn't come from California. I came from Texas.
And for him to do what he's done, the difference between him and me, there's two main differences. One, they went to the NFC championship game. Same braids, by the way. Same braids. Yeah, same braids, too. That's right. That's right. They went to the NFC Championship game. So we didn't get there. We played in the wild card round of the playoffs and got knocked out. I got hurt.
You know, the rest is history. But the other difference is the organizational structure. So I know you guys or anyone that's, you know, put together a team or had kids, anyone watching this had kids. How you set them up is going to help them be the most successful.
So I had an owner and a head coach that hated each other. The coach didn't want to draft me. Then they draft me. Now you got the owner, the head coach, and the GM all beefing about it. But we won the division the first year, so no one knows.
Right.
But then the next year we go four and 12. And it was because we didn't have that camaraderie. We didn't have that united vision.
Like cohesion.
That cohesion. Jaden comes in. He's got a new owner, a new GM, a new head coach, a new offense coordinator. And all of them are aligned because if one of them sinks, they all sink. Very rarely do you see a GM fire a head coach and that GM survives for eternity.
Right? So they're all aligned. They bring this young man in. They've set him up for success. And he didn't get hurt at the end of his rookie year. He's going to be phenomenal the rest of his time and be on a track to be there for 10 to 15 years.
Right.
And when you say, like, I'm the only one that's experienced the same thing or similar thing, that city, there's no better city to win in than Washington, D.C. Yeah. I tell her all the time, you go to the mall and you see these streamers nowadays getting mobbed by these kids. I live that.
I lived being the Drake in Washington, D.C., being bigger than the president of the United States of America in the capital of the United States of America. That's crazy. Jaden Daniels is bigger. I don't know if he's bigger than Donald Trump, but he's bigger. He's bigger than the presidential election at that time because he's so impactful. And that city has been longing for that.
Exactly. Now they're just watching them play and like, oh man, did you see what he did?
They haven't had a franchise quarterback since Joe Theismann.
For like an extended period of time. Right. So I just know for him that whole experience was great. And he's going in. He had a foundation that helps him grow a growth mindset. I think that's important. It's a great lesson for the other teams in the NFL, but also just anybody in general. You set a growth environment for your kid, for your business. It's going to grow.
Okay.
It's going to do well as long as everyone's aligned.
The knots are slapping, by the way. See, I'm so good. Slapping.
It's great in slang. Good, good, good.
Yeah, because I tore mine first in 2009, so... When we tore ours within a month or a couple weeks of each other, it was my second one. I tore my ACL first in college, and a lot of people don't remember that.
Yeah, same one. I tore it in 2009. I played four games in 2009 at Baylor, and then I missed the rest of the season. Came back the next year, and then the year after that, we won the Heisman. So I had already been through it, but just talk about your experience of coming back from the injury.
You hate that. Last one.
Oh, for real?
Yes, you can overcome anything.
It was much easier. But like you and Bert being apart for a long time, you know, and like you grow fonder of each other. Although I hear what you just said right now. I'm trying to stir a good pot here for you, Bert.
Oh, wow.
Great teamwork. All right. Are you about to flip it now? No, no, no, no, no.
That's good. I mean... I wouldn't say we're doing all of that in the locker room. Probably none of that. But that energy.
And that camaraderie of being with the guys. It's why when I hear, I heard someone recently talk about taking individual glory in a team sport over team glory. Like winning an MVP over winning a Super Bowl championship. You always want to win that Super Bowl championship.
Yeah, of course.
Because then you call up Tom, you're like, hey, yo, Tom, remember that one time we won the Super Bowl in 1995? Connected forever. You're connected forever.
It is.
Forever, yeah.
You're not going to call Tom and be like, hey, Tom, remember when I won the MVP?
Yeah, right.
In 1997. Meeting of the year. Bro, I was the fucking best, wasn't I?
That was what it was. I think she was distracted.
Yeah.
Exactly.
And if I walked around saying I won the Heisman, I said it right after the game when we beat Texas in 2011. They told us we couldn't beat them. Texas was a top 25 defense. You know, it's the Longhorns. Longhorn Network, they got all this stuff going for them. And they had never had a pass completed on them that season over 30 yards. We completed a 50-yard touchdown on the second play of the game.
Because, you know, you stand next to Pac-Man, you might get secondhand high, so...
And we did it on purpose because we wanted to show them, like, hey, man, this isn't the same old Baylor that you're used to playing. And after the game, Samantha Ponder, I think it was, interviewed me, and I said, I could be wrong, but I think Baylor just won his first Heisman Trophy.
And like for me, I've always held it that way because it is a team award. Like the individual gets honored. But every chance I get, I shout out all my teammates about that year. And we have stories that we talk about from that year where they were picking guys from other teams in 2011 in the offseason. Like I take this quarterback. I take this quarterback. Hey, hey, RG, who would you take?
I'm taking me. What do you mean? I'm taking me. Well, you should take me too. They're like, oh, you know, we were just excluding him. I was like, all right, this year, I promise you, you won't exclude me. And we went and we won the Heisman. And we have fun conversations about those things because it's the camaraderie. It's the lessons that you learn.
And we had a running back on the team named Terrence Ganaway, who was 242 pounds. He ended up winning the bowl game, the last game I ever played. And he won bowl game MVP because he ran for over 200 yards. But it was the work he put in the offseason to go from 260 to 240 that helped us be the team that we were. He helped us win the Heisman.
There's one back here.
It was an easy... That's a good one.
Got you pregnant twice. It's my fault. Really? I mean, I got you pregnant three times, but twice when you were competing.
And this is one thing I wanted to talk to to ask you about, because we've talked about that transition from being an athlete and and feeling the roar of the crowd. Right. So for athletes like ourselves, our shelf life is very short. You know, the average NFL career is two and a half years.
And you get guys like Brady who play to their 40s, but that's very rare. And then for track and field. You know, I don't know what the average track and field career is, but it's not that long. Can't be into the 30s. And even if it's, say, it's probably not 10 years, but say it's 10 years. That's 10 years of your life.
You still have, hopefully, 50 to 60 to 70 years of your life that you still have to live. So we don't really get that back. For comedians, it ebbs and flows and it comes and goes and you could be 20 and be the hottest in the world and then you have a couple years where you're not and then you show up at 45 and boom, it's all back for you.
Four girls. Nine, seven, oh my god.
And you're selling out, you know, stadiums and doing all that. I think the biggest struggle, not necessarily for myself, because I just embedded myself in my family and just made that my identity. A lot of guys, they struggle when they don't walk out of the tunnel and they got 90,000 people chanting their names, screaming for them. They score a touchdown.
It's like, oh my God, this guy's incredible. You don't get that when you walk into Walmart. You don't get that when you go to Target or when you pick your kids up from school. You don't feel that anymore. So they don't feel like they have a purpose per se.
We are in the thick of it. We are in the thick of it like cow lard. Yes, we are.
Let's keep cutting garlic while you talk. You know what, I'll cut the garlic. You know what, I'll cut the garlic.
Yeah. I think for me, she's a huge part of it. Because I think if your at-home life is in order, It makes you more adventurous. It makes you be able to take more risks and put yourself out there because you're comfortable with who you are because you don't go home and have to be a different person.
If you have to go home and be a different person, then when you step outside the house and your friends see you, that's the one thing I never wanted. I didn't want my friends to be like, yo, you're different around your wife.
Mm-hmm.
Right. Like I want to be able to be who I am, crack jokes, have fun around my wife in the same way that I do around my friends. And she provides me with that. But she also puts air under my wings because if I'm like, yo, should we try this? We have those conversations and it's like, I don't think we should do this, blah, blah, blah.
But then if it's like we should do something, she's 100 percent behind it. And so for me, in 2017, I was out of the NFL for a year. And a lot of people don't know that either. But in 16, I played for the Browns, got hurt, got cut in March in 2017, missed the whole football season. I didn't play football for an entire year. I went to workouts, didn't get signed. I'm 27 years old.
Heisman Trophy winner, second pick in the draft.
Wow.
Someone's going to bring me back, right? Yeah. Now I end up finding out that I was blackballed from the NFL, from certain coaches, so that kind of played into it. Why? The whole thing with Mike Shanahan in Washington. He's a very powerful coach. But regardless, I trained that whole 2017. I'm out at UCF throwing the palm trees.
It was a running joke on Twitter when I would say something, the fans would be like, oh, ha ha, go throw some more palm trees. When I hit like five in a row, I'm like, I don't know who you're really dissing here. I mean, this is impressive. I don't know what you're talking about. Okay, that's impressive work. Okay, this is just random.
And I ran on the track because I actually started doing the decathlon. I was training and gearing up to go back to track and field. I was 27. What a fucking great move that would have been.
I felt like I needed to still compete. I was so young and I wasn't getting the opportunity. So I'm like, I'm just going to go back to track and field.
Why? Five is Cat Williams trying me. Yes, yes, yes.
Correct. So it was like, well, she's doing it. I should do it. I lost 25 pounds. I got to 193 pounds at one point when I was 224 as a player. And I was running on the track, running the 400 hurdles because I was really good at the 400 hurdles. That was my thing. And I did a 10-hurdle breakup. You run one hurdle, come back, run two, come back, run three, all the way through 10.
You can imagine how tired I was.
I had full leg cramps, couldn't breathe after the 10. Damner walked across the finish line. I'm laying there. She looks at me. She says, why are you doing this?
Why are you doing this? Why are you doing this? You don't need to work. I had taken care of my money, so I didn't need to play. And I said, I'm doing it so that if I do get the call, it won't be because of me.
So my mindset was always, I don't want to be the reason I'm not successful. So I'm going to over prepare for whatever moment that pops up. And then when the moment did come with the Ravens, I was ready to go. But that year out showed me that if I ever had another year out, I needed a plan so that I could redefine who I am. So I put a lot of effort and work into social development.
and just showing my personality more and being more forthcoming with who I really am. Because if you met me 10 years ago, you would not know that, you know, I think I'm pretty funny. I don't know. I think I'm a good time.
You're very charming also.
I think I'm a good time. You are. You would have not known that because I was more in my shell because I was an NFL quarterback and I needed to make sure that I didn't do that. And back then it wasn't as acceptable. No, it was not. It was not. So that's how I made the transition and truly showed myself. So when I get on TV, they're like, man, you look like you're having so much fun.
Yes, because I prepare.
And when you prepare, you're prepared. Like, you know her background. You know my background. It's easy to have a free-flowing conversation.
Yep, so I picked it for her. That's all me. That's my fault. All my fault.
You think it's done? It's brown, yeah.
Yeah, I don't think that's going to stay together, Bird.
No, I don't think so. It is juicy, though. It looks juicy as shit.
Maybe it's a soup pizza? Scoop. Scoop or soup?
It's such a contrast because a two-year-old is like, you know, they still say when you say I love you, they say it back.
It's all about timing.
It's like, I love you.
Yeah. So cute.
I want another one.
It's in my mouth. What are his fingers made out of? That hurt instantly. Do you guys not see the steam? Right?
Those four bags of cheese are delicious, though.
Yeah, we definitely want another one.
No, we don't. Are you serious?
The cheese is phenomenal. Yeah. I don't even know what to call it. I wouldn't call it pizza.
Are you serious? We're going to use this show to go for the boy. No. We're going for the boy. We went for the boy. It was another one. It was a girl. You got to keep going. We went for the boy twice. Babe Ruth struck out on more than half of his at-bat attempts, but he's still a Hall of Famer.
I think watch. It's succulent.
Yeah. We don't want the juices everywhere. We've got to contain the juices.
Come on, Byrne. Show them what's up. Got to cut through all the way. There it is.
That actually does look good. It just looks like they made the pizza and then threw toppings on top. It looks like a blind person made a pizza.
That is true.
This is what happens when you make an upside down pizza. See, maybe the meat needed to go on before the cheese.
And the cheese can hold the meat in.
It did.
Oh, that's right. Then it would have melted it down completely.
No, we just created it.
You want me to bite into it?
I mean, it looks. It's delicious.
We're going to get our hands dirty, okay? No forks. No forks.
It's so fucking hot.
She learned from my mistake.
Yes.
No, it's not too hot. You and Bert can do it. It's not too hot anymore. Mm-hmm.
Is it good? A lot of dough.
That is a lot of dough. But it's great.
It's actually pretty fucking good. That's really good.
Oh, my God. It's like the sloppy joes of pizzas. That's a lot of cheese, too. There's a lot of cheese and a lot of dough. That's a lot of cheese. It's great.
I didn't know if you wanted me to use that.
I thought it was just for show.
Yeah, you have been sweating for quite some time. I didn't want to point that out.
Is that why you made that noise?
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
I was like... Ghost-eated. I've never heard that before.
I've never heard that saying.
What?
What south are you guys from?
Really? Yeah.
Out of Pocket. You guess. Whatever you're the expert at, that's what we're talking about.
That's great.
Yeah, Deion.
This man has more sayings than a fortune cookie. He was on it. He was on it. I'm a believer in Dion. I love Dion. I love Dion.
You mad that they didn't bring him to Florida State as a head coach?
I like Mike Norville as well. We think he's a great coach, great guy. Every time we've ever talked to him, he's been phenomenal.
I think some of the fans now are upset that they were so against Deion being the coach. Right? Because I know the administration had reached out to him, and we talked to Deion about it. I won't share anything that he told us, but... Mike's got an uphill battle. You know, now, after going, where'd they go? Two and ten?
It was for the aesthetics.
Oh, I got, I got luggage. You know, we coming and I'm bringing my Louis luggage with me.
So if you don't want to be, if you don't want to be a part or you're not ready to win, go ahead and jump in the portal. And so a bunch of kids just left. Just left. And like the whole team just left.
Yeah. It's kind of weird because Dion's like the streamer of coaches. You know how streamers are like taking over and doing the whole thing? Dion coaches differently. He brings the cameras around. He lets them show their emotion and show their swag.
My man went from straight bald to a fade. It's incredible. He pulled off a Brian Urlacher and a Tom Brady and a Drew Brees.
You're invited.
Yeah, nobody loves a jello fish.
At least a million people. He's tried it, and he was disgusted, and she was like, I have not tried a jello fish.
Oh, Jesus. Do you have OCD? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can tell. It's not a bad thing. I have it, too.
Are you sure? Yeah, 100%. I think our kids have it, too. Oh, my kids got it. Our two-year-old was lining the toys up on the ground the other day, and one of them was out of line. She ran all the way from the bedroom back to the living room just to move that toy a centimeter.
Oh shit!
Yeah.
He doesn't have the tiny kind. Cheers. Oh, he has the, appreciate you.
Did you want a drink, Leanne?
Okay, good.
Oh, Starbucks. There you go. White girl heaven.
Stupid. Am I y'all's black friend for the day?
You're my black friend every day.
And that would be a hit. It's just going to be a hit. Do you play video games? Yes, I do. What do you play? Madden. I'm more of a RPG game guy, though. What's RPG you? Dragon Age Origins.
There's different shades.
Blood sausage.
Fuck.
Robert hasn't grown to like it yet. I will eat the blood sausage, but it's not my first choice. Yeah. Oh, it's my actual first choice. Yeah. It's delicious. We had the family get together. Was it Thanksgiving or Christmas? Or what? When your family first met my family. Christmas. Christmas. My family's from New Orleans. Mom and dad both born and raised here in New Orleans, Louisiana.
So it was tough to explain to my family what blood sausage is. Oh. You know? Yeah.
I still don't know to this day.
So I believe it, but... We've got to try a blood sausage sometime together.
It's a role-playing game.
Like, you go on missions and you do things. Like, I love Call of Duty, but I love Call of Duty Story Mode more than I love Call of Duty Online with the 13-year-old in Japan who's a professional and can snipe me from 700 yards away. I don't really like playing against that guy. I hate playing against that guy. It's terrible. It's not a fun experience. But, no, I love video games.
Yeah. Now, the one thing I will not eat is they have this thing over there in Estonia, and I call it fish jello.
It's terrible, Bert. It's terrible.
It looks like dog food inside of jello. It looks like dog food.
34, 31.
I like fruit in Jell-O.
But meat inside of Jell-O.
25, 27. So we could probably get into it, and it'd be fun.
I think that's one of their sayings over there. You know, to get over the hangover, you just keep drinking. Yes.
Tell them about the cake. The cake that your mom makes. That is unbelievable.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What?
Yeah.
Just as he gets up, he goes, what's up, everybody? Everyone's like, whoa. Whoa, whoa, cut this, cut this. I go, hey, how's everybody doing? We like that. Oh, that's so funny.
You can get it on Amazon?
Let's go. You're fucking lying.
That wasn't real Vietnamese. Dude.
I knew that right away. We could tell.
Oh.
It is young and old.
And the numbers
Because again, like we've been chasing this left-right divide
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laura from california you shouldn't drink that much coke cola it's bad for your health and also peter from new york uh you mama loves you you shouldn't treat her like that okay and stephanie from texas don't set your new picture to the guy called marvin he's a boy he's talking to other girls as well That's all I have to say. Bye-bye, guys. Bye-bye.
See?
We can't just say, oh, it's okay for people to like super complicate deals. And to collude on deals and to not look at us as human beings, as artists and athletes and actors, that we have to be willing to like stand up for that to be able to change something. And we need to come together as a society to be the first civilization to actually became civil.
Thank you.
Hmm.
They're called blue zones.
Oh, there you go.
Oh, AI, tell us.
Ding, ding, ding.
All right. What is this?
Floor content of piped water in Soconawa, only one supply had value. Almost five, geez.
There is no water or flood, food fluoridation.
Okay, and how about Greece?
I like Greece. I want to go there someday.
Okay, fluoridated water contains... Okay, fluoridated water.
There was.
Nicoya. Now, is this because they chose not to or is it just that the rest of the world doesn't generally do this?
All right. Longest living people. No fluoride.
Yeah.
They get pretty big. Farmed tuna.
A hundred tuna farms.
Is that who it is? No, it wasn't Grant. Maybe it was. You sent me two.
Yeah, he did it for reals.
And that's with no wind.
There's trees surrounding him.
Well, he said that it's a... I mean, it's a heavier caliber, and it's just a better rifle.
Oh, that's a, that's a poor guy. He was an astronaut.
Well, he's sleeping with her.
No, no. He found love. I think I know who you're talking about.
Hmm.
That must be research funding.
What is his company called? I think he's got, is that longevity?
Cellularity.
Cellularity.
Yeah.
Fun fact, that computer was built with 2,800 vacuum cubes and weighed five tons.
I don't understand what it's saying here. It's saying, okay, the ILLIAC was built with 2,800 vacuum tubes, weighed about five tons. By 56, it had gained more computing power than all other computers at Bell Labs that represented 40-bit words in which, oh, I see, 40-bit words is talking about words. So 12,000 of those words were on a drum memory. Holy crap. You ever had kratom?
Yeah.
Von Neumann.
Greek. You wrote Greek. Ancient Greek. You wrote Greek. What does it say? Do you got it up there? Von Neumann.
Goodness gracious. What did you say? Science?
Dr. Mengele.
Can you look him up, Steve? I think it's on your notes.
Oh, gosh. We never had any body of Hitler, right?
What the hell is that? Oh, it's an actual link. I thought it was a corrector.
Yeah, it's going to be kind of tough. Keep going.
No, no, it's, it's Bill Clinton.
Fuck.
Yeah, it took a minute. It's embedded in this congressional thing.
Yeah.
Lives. So they'd feel pressured to get vaccinated. Can we run the audio clip on that, please?
Once people feel empowered and protected legally, you are going to have schools. universities and colleges are going to say, you want to come to this college, buddy? You're going to get vaccinated. Lady, you're going to get vaccinated. Big corporations like Amazon and Facebook and all of those others are going to say, you want to work for us? You get vaccinated.
And it's been proven that when you make it difficult for people in their lives, they lose their ideological bullshit and they get vaccinated.
Yeah, true. Immunity due to his work position.
Yeah. We have 400 ready to go.
The last nuclear test was done in 92 by the U.S., and it was halted? They were cut short in October 92, and they no longer used any, tested any more nukes. Wow. That was in, what, Nevada? Yeah.
53.
And it's a strange shape. And it was explained in a documentary why that occurs. But there's some type of vortex...
Yeah.
Right.
Boom.
That's sound.
Right.
Absolutely.
Those are my number one.
No.
Thank you.
What's up, Schwartz?
Yeah.
I already don't like this.
Yeah.
If you've got to protect the First Amendment, it's not much more important than that.
Yeah, so the question was in regard to FAA layoffs. So to be clear, the FAA has 46,000 employees. Okay. As you can hear.
It's time for, it's time for more black people. This movie wasn't good enough when it was white.
No. Hey, I'm Mickey Mouse. Yeah, I guess.
Is there perhaps a neighborhood for sale of gingerbread houses? Come drop bushes. I'm in love. He wants to Airbnb some of these gingerbread houses.
He was... Wow, there's some real supply sluts in the audience tonight. Jesus Christ. Yeah.
Get back on the line, bitches.
A little bit smoother than I thought he'd be.
This is absolutely incredible. A lot of two questions at a time. Do you read books? Do you listen to books?
All he can talk about is books.
My friends in my head say... Wow, Colin, you are your own thing.
He's literally one of the most profitable musicians in Austin, but he has...
Everybody's having a good time.
Dude, fucking, this weed is the bomb, dude. This shit is fucking nuclear, dude.
He's been sitting on that since the word Brazilian came up, everybody. You know, red band. That's what he thinks Brazil is.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Thank you. Amazing.
I was like, oh my gosh.
Was it helpful for people to come in when you were with like your ex-husband and be like, you should be with somebody better?
The wall. Cutting up.
She don't... Buff it up. Lee in Jamaica, she's strict.
She don't play this shit. No college. What they call it?
I like a little rough brow. We know. We know at least. We know. We know.
Oh, Lauren. Yes. I want to be in my man. Lauren is coming. I want to be in my man.
She ain't been gone for more than 24 hours. Why you just lying like that?
You almost finna get off my daddy. She is.
Yeah, I don't know. That's weird. Why do you care?
I want to know what you look like, damn. Right? Like, if you know how to do all that, it's true.
Because she was so mad about that chicken. Oh, my goodness.
Please tell the chicken story.
Happy birthday. Happy birthday. Happy birthday.
Get us together now.
I'm your girl. You're my girl. We are girls. Don't you know that I love you?
And he really getting stressed from the job and I ain't making it easy.
But I need my man. I don't think y'all understand. I'm telling you, girl.
We your girl. We your girl. Don't you know that I love you. Yeah. Come on. I can see it in your eyes. I'm on a leash. Girl, I've been knowing you since you were 10. You cannot hide from your friends. Girl. We your girl.
Galatized gals. Pure friends.
We got a lot of guests today.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Where?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Former MLB All-Star Sean Casey, a.k.a.
Mm-hmm.
100%.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm, yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
10,000?
Oh.
Yeah.
Hmm.
Yeah, absolutely.
Mm-hmm. How are the Egyptian families?
Look at his hair. Talk about where am I going?
Yeah.
Yeah. You've had the same situation Oprah had.
They messed up her name on the birth certificate and they switched the letters. So her name on her birth certificate is Orpah.
Orpah. Oh wait, no, I think her family wanted it to be Orpah and they put Oprah on the birth certificate.
I think Orpah is like some type of a goddess and some, I think.
Yeah, Orpah, but they just, you know, white people didn't care. They was like, Oprah.
Jay Jordan.
Yes.
Yeah. And you felt accepted. I mean, where does the separation there come from? Because I'm assuming it is the North African saying we are not black.
Okay.
Yeah, I've never really thought of that specific thing, but that would make sense. Yes, I am a descendant of slaves. I've been to my family's plantation. I've met my white slave owners.
Yes.
I have.
I have a cousin. I have a white cousin that I hang out with.
Yeah, through slavery, yes. I have a lot of white cousins, a lot of white family members.
For sure. That's what they did.
That's why my hair is, you know, not as coily as it should be.
Like we say, evidence of a crime. This is my skin being lighter than it should be is the evidence of said crime. So, but with that being said, race is a construct. So Black, when people say Black, they are referring to the descendants of slaves. So when we go to other countries, I mean, there are Indians that are Blacker than the Blackest person I know. I've been to Taiwan.
You know what I'm saying?
I've seen people, my complexion in Taiwan and a lot of, as Ali Wong would say, the jungle Asian countries when you are exposed to the sun. So it's like, I mean, I'm sure you have darker family members as well.
So that's the question of what is blackness, period. But also when they say colored, that's why it's like colored. People in the comments are like, where do the Latinos go? You're colored. Where do the Asians go? You're colored. The coloreds only was the discrimination against all of us. It wasn't just for black people. It was for colored people.
And while we at it, bring back sundown towns. They never left, but... What's up? Well, a sundown town was back in the day during Jim Crow where black people weren't allowed to be in a town after the sunset.
That's what I'm saying. We will be thriving.
LOL, Chet Hanks. Only if he is lifting heavy things.
Yes, he has to be doing some work and also pay a fee.
I mean, I don't... Lady Gaga. I don't want... Initially, let us chill for a couple of years. We got to figure all this shit out. So no white people for the first five years.
Absolutely. And then we could get a white passport. They got like safe, light auto glass. We're going to have the safe white auto passport. And you got to convince us that you are a safe white. You got to have three people of color representatives to come to the passport office.
I love that story.
Yeah. I mean, there were definitely some black people in the comments that were like, no, no, you're not welcome.
So those towns never left. They still exist in America, but they took the signs down. I want them to put the signs back up. I wanted to say 248 miles to the next town that likes colored people. Get your gas in Atlanta. Don't stop till you get to Savannah, all right? I'm with her. He with me.
A lot of people in the comments said you can't come. Wow.
I mean, and that's what I'm saying. Five years, leave us alone. Let us figure it out. We got to get our elected officials. We got to get the land together. We got to see who's going where, who is leading what, you know? And then we could consider it, you know?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah. That's not me. My first guess was Brooklyn. Let's give us Brooklyn and the Bronx and Harlem. And you can have Midtown Manhattan. And we're going to have a bullet train that goes straight from uptown to downtown. We don't got to stop in that middle part. And y'all can thrive in there.
They ain't been black. They ain't been, they were white since the Godfather. When the Godfather came out, because before the Godfather, when they was the olive oil people,
Yeah. When the mafia was taking over and getting money and getting power and being with the politicians, they were white then. That's when they became white. They purchased their whiteness.
Also, you know, crimes were committed. So they're white. Italians were white. Yeah. Sorry, y'all. And a lot of that we're like, does she not know about cured meat and olive oil? And it's like, yes.
And I love me some pasta. I truly do. But we got mad noodles. In the colored community.
Noodles and rice, mad carbs.
Yes.
Yeah, I mean, but they have their Black sections as well. Like Black New Orleans is amazing and beautiful. They also gave slaves Sundays off in New Orleans.
Which was a wild fun fact.
They gave it to the press. I can get down with that because especially like when these elections happened, there was a lot of liberals that were like, what? How? And I'm like, travel. Go to New Jersey.
How you doing? I like that Asian reference because my boyfriend is half Taiwanese. So I'm like a Sichuan pepper with the Subway take.
Go upstate New York.
Absolutely. If you go to the south of New Jersey, it is like you are in Alabama, bro. Okay. They are down there believing different things. So it's the same. I think it's the same vein of how I think everybody should be a server once in their life. It's to get a different perspective and to see, you know, humanity is trash.
People going to the South? Going to the South or becoming servers. I think people becoming servers would absolutely change being more human in situations, I think.
That was the first person that came to mind. You took the words out of my head. But also, he's a Nepo baby, so Nepo babies are kind of hopeless sometimes.
He is the uncoolest, richest person in the world. Like, you can't purchase swag. You truly cannot purchase swag.
I never. I never looked at that man and believed in him. You don't have emerald money. You don't have emerald mine money. I don't believe in you with emerald mine money. There's no way. He purchased all that shit. He's not brilliant.
He's rich.
Yeah. And then you're sweating and my palms are itching for some reason.
When I found out how many kids he had, I was like, oh, trash.
It's some crazy number. It's on some Nick Cannon level. And when you got that many kids, you're goofy. My father had that many kids like that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. My dad. My dad was a megalomaniac and a narcissist. So that's why I understand people like Elon Musk and Donald Trump. And I can see that a mile away. You know, I'm like, oh, that's a goofy over there.
So that's why I would never, I never fell for that because I was like, oh, he's goofy and he's going to do something dumb real soon. And here we are.
God don't like ugly. God's peeling that man's everything off. He got half a trillion dollars and you look a mess.
It really can't. And also it's like, nobody loves him. You can tell nobody loves him. The way you can tell nobody loves Donald Trump, like you can see people who have love in their lives and like someone helping taking care of them and telling them, you know, hey, maybe don't do that or say that. Nah, not Elon.
That's all any human being wants. We want love. We want to be able to take care of our loved ones and, you know, go have some omakase every now and again.
I'm obsessed. I love it. It's my favorite thing in the world. It's my happy place.
Oh, my gosh. See, I keep saying this. Karami, I got to shout them out because they're the best. And you got too much reach, man. I'm about to mess it up and I'm not going to be able to get a reservation up in there.
Oh, please. Can I take you to my favorite omakase? Oh, my God. Yes. I would love to go. Yes, I will definitely take you there.
Yeah, because they they parse it out. So it's kind of the whole, you know, eating with chopsticks. You eat slower. So you get full over a shorter period of time.
I mean, should you? But we are a chopsticks household. So we use, yeah, we use chopsticks a lot up in here.
So I'm going to go ahead. I use my fingers with omakase, so.
absolutely a thousand if you want to date full stop period if you want to be a human being period you need therapy everybody needs therapy i am the therapy queen therapy stan me and my partner have four therapists between the two of us what you got two each uh yes we had well he had we are couples therapists we have couples therapy today
I can do a medium.
Yes, we have couples therapy, and he does a thing called parts work. We examine the different parts of you, and then we both have individual regular therapists. So we are a therapized household. We be communicating. And it works? It works so much because I was single for almost two decades just doing stand-up comedy. You were married to the gang.
Exactly. Yes. Yeah. I'm a little Disney plus with my with my spice level. But my my boyfriend will be he'll go extra spicy and then he'll literally be sweating and he loves it.
absolutely yeah but the only people who would be attracted to us female comedians are other comics because uh male comics aren't emasculated by it because they're funny too but a regular dude in the street is like terrified a civilian a civilian yes absolutely it was so it was very hard to date um men like that and so you wanted to hold on to this love Yeah. And also, like, I'm rude.
And I will, you know, I don't like men. So I say rude shit all the time. And I can't do that. You can't do that when you love somebody. So our therapists teach me to chill out, Joyelle.
Or you just need to understand why you're doing the things that you do.
Any argument you've ever had in your relationship is based off something from your childhood.
LOL.
Therapy is a marathon, not a sprint.
Oh.
That's fantastic.
That is very brave of you. I do not suggest raw dogging. All of that. But also you had therapy. So you had it. So, you know, you did it.
But it's a very comfortable crutch.
Oh, yeah.
No. I know a lot of contrarians.
Oh, yeah. You can be convinced.
Truly. Yeah.
Oh, that's what I want too. And therapy makes you happy.
If you have the right therapist and also understand seeking a therapist is like dating. So shout out to all those people who thought I had terrible therapist. Therapy sucks. No, you just went on a bad date. So try to find somebody new and yes, you can put a time limit on it, but you could also just, I don't know, go once a month.
Go once a quarter.
That is a therapist that wants money. Our couples therapist, he's so funny because he's so good at what he do that we'd be like, oh, we're going to take a year off. He'd be like, all right, I'll see if I have an opening when y'all come back because he's so coveted.
It feels like it. It feels like it.
Listen, his price did go up in the break that we had. My partner was like, oh, he costs more money now. I was like, damn it.
I'm blaming everything on Trump.
Everything is his fault.
maybe he'll do a good job like i was trying to just convince myself that it was not going to be as bad as we thought it was going to be and boy was i absolutely fucking wrong yeah the way i've gone into like almost a zen about it has surprised me and i think therapy has been helping that but i'm like y'all go fuck around and find out and i'm gonna be in paris i'm about to move
That was one of the subway takes where the dude was like, you just need water. And everybody, every woman was like, no.
Oh, yeah. There's a lot of expats. My cousin moved to Bangkok. Wow. Might spend the next couple years doing a little Taiwan, a little Bangkok, a little Paris.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, they got a nice little artist visa in France.
Oh, yeah. Absolutely. And a lot of people were like, aren't you going to stay and fight? No, I'm not staying and fighting. The fuck? Fuck.
Staying and fighting? Are you kidding me? That is not good for my skin. I cannot stay and fight. I am not a soldier. I am not a member of the army. I am not a soldier. I am not. I'm an entertainer. Are you kidding me? Let me entertain you.
But I'm not fighting.
I will dodge a draft. What do I need? I got asthma. You don't want me in your army.
Bone, spur it up, baby.
I can't run to the danger. So I'm going to stay back here.
It's a segregated take. It's a straight man's take. And y'all can't be in these streets looking like nobody loves you. You better moisturize your skin.
Oh, yeah. The propaganda machine.
You in the trenches with full body armor.
Yeah, we probably shouldn't have voted for him.
Yes.
Oh. I want to be. You want to be that vice reporter.
I think that would be good for that to be a person of color.
Yeah. Because we got to get it from that perspective, but we definitely need, if we were to get our Wakanda, we need our colored army.
Mixed martial arts.
Yeah.
You belong to the subway, actually.
Princeville.
Ain't nobody fighting our army.
It would be a fire. Everything, every way you could slice it, you know? And I'm in for the de facto segregation amongst the people. Like, the Latinos can have the Bronx.
Heck yeah, de facto segregation so we can all be homogenous together and then come together at the restaurants and the dance parties. Damn it.
Hell yeah. I would have it be like zones, like districts, like the Hunger Games.
Yes, exactly.
Yes. I mean, I think it's all mixing, but living and learning together is a maybe, but... Let's learn alone. And then we can come together at college and discuss what we learned in high school and elementary school with our own, you know?
No, not yet.
Yeah.
Jewish people got tunnels too.
I... Yeah, I mean, I can understand how somebody would say that. I don't want to entertain audiences that are exactly the same. I want diversity in my audiences because diversity, I think, is a good thing. But when we have, you know, white supremacy working against us. Against?
Against us. That's where the problem lies. So I am seeking homogeny for peace. for peace of mind for the people who are seen as inferior so that we are not inferior amongst ourselves. If we lived in an ideal society, I would love for us to be, I would love for Brooklyn to be all over the world. I love Brooklyn. I love the diversity of Brooklyn. I love it.
But we also have segregation in Brooklyn and all you gotta do is travel up Bedford Avenue.
Absolutely.
It's fully invaded. And that's the thing that, you know, it's like we had our shit infiltrated. And it's kind of like the FBI with COINTELPRO. That's why we can't have no white people for the first five years.
Excuse you.
You came over here. Go to white land where it's quiet.
Roy Wood Jr. talks about this in his special, just how we're losing connection as human beings. And part of automation, part of people who think Elon Musk are cool, are the people who want to create an automated society where people aren't having relation. Colored cultures are big family issues. get together once a week.
When I got to college and I met a bunch of white people, they're like, oh, we don't talk to our extended family. And I'm like, you don't know your cousins, you don't get together with them. It just seems like a very indigenous thing to do, get together and have community. And when all of that automation takes place, you're losing connection with people.
Yeah, like I'm never talking to them ever again.
That's hilarious. You're getting tortured. Yeah, no. It's definitely a difference there. And I just... This is just so that people can have a peace of mind. This is where that thought process came from. Is a peace of mind. And I want community. I want the communities to develop. But initially... We need to be on our own.
in the uh colored people's club yeah that was my master plan um before i got on the show i watched every single episode and you only like disagreed in the beginning for like five of them yeah then the person got you on on their side and i was like this is what i want to happen and it was fantastic i really appreciate you hearing me out on that one because it was a crazy takeoff
People of no color.
We're the people and they're the people of no color.
We're the global majority. Exactly. Absolutely. And they are not, they don't outnumber us. And that's why we have the strength in these numbers to suppress white supremacy. I believe in us.
People of no color.
Yeah.
Yeah. I do envy that for you. I love that for you.
I love the places. I mean, because colorism is global, you know? Yeah, yeah. And the fact that I am that paper brown, paper bag test color, it's like, depending what happens to you in the summertime. People are asking that in the comments. What happens? A tan happens.
I knew you did.
I can't wait to see that.
We'll go get omakase in the summer.
I wouldn't know.
Okay.
He's a good white. We'll play his music. Are we playing his music in the restaurant?
Okay.
I have literally never heard a Harry Styles song.
Yeah.
It's in the house.
Um... 100% agree.
Because all you got to do is be skinny.
Oh, yeah, because everybody on Ozempic. Shout out. If you're on Ozempic, please let people know. Why do you have to let people know? Because you'll be hanging out with somebody and they'll tell you they're on Ozempic. And you're like, oh, that's why we haven't eaten all day. Like, I'm angry. I'm angry and I'm hungry. And I was like, oh, you're not hungry.
You don't eat. Guess what? Other people have to eat. Other people need things.
So, yeah, being skinny, I didn't realize that. My boyfriend was the one that told me, like, a lot of these people, a lot of these movie stars ain't hot. They just skinny. And you're like, oh, yeah, because their face is weird. And it's like, who's hot? Who's actually hot? And what makes somebody hot and skinny right now seems to be the thing.
Yes, I do think it's hard and it's quite miserable. When I was the best shape of my life and I was the skinniest I have ever been, I couldn't eat. I couldn't eat and I hated it.
That's the only way.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, I like my body type. I have been fat shamed by people before my mother.
Yes, I love my mommy. She's great. But she was like, you should lose weight. You're overweight. And I'm like, you know what? I'm comfortable with this size because people think, you know, only skinny is hot. And we're here to tell you, no, it's not. We like being thick boys and girls.
Shout out to Michelle Buteau, Survival of the Thickest, out on Netflix.
Oh, nice. Were you going to be the therapist?
Oh, cool.
Yeah, no, I think that counts. I think you could go for black roles. I don't think you could go for black roles.
I'm going to get roasted.
I do stand by what I said.
If you have a fro, if you can do a successful fro, we will consider your application. You might get an extra pass. You might need one less recommendation of a color person.
Yes, two instead of three. Because the fro counts. The fro is the third recommendation. Yes, we will consider you. But yeah, if you're just skinny... I hate all these shows that are telling me these specifically white women are so beautiful because they'll be saying that in the show. They'll be like, but you're so pretty, but you're so pretty. And I'm looking at her face like, where?
Oh, she's skinny.
I did.
Yeah. I actually love that show.
I love it. I love succession. I love a, I love a fighting white family. I love, I love discord amongst the whites. I love it.
It's yeah. It's like a voyeuristic thing. I absolutely love it. And Mike white stresses white people out to no end. And I love it.
Well, apparently Patrick Schwarzenegger wasn't acting. Apparently, he was like a monster on set. Oh, no, I didn't know about this. Yeah, one of my friends told me that. She read an article, but he was hilarious in the role. And then you realize, oh, most people aren't good actors. They're just being versions of themselves.
Oh, I thought the accent was like Southern white woman who's always either drunk on wine or on pills. That's because it was kind of like... Lorazepam. Lorazepam. I need my Lorazepam.
Yeah. We took away Jennifer Coolidge. We added Parker Posey. I'm a Parker Posey stan.
Yes.
Absolutely, yes. They had it available. It paid off.
No spoilers, but they landed that plane. And what people told me I did on my subway take, Rocky take off, but I landed the plane.
Yeah.
Not for the black people.
The two?
They made out. I was in the house screaming, cheering along. I kind of, I loved it. I loved it. I like mess.
Mm-hmm.
Oh, they can find me. The only social I have is Joyelle Nicole for Instagram. I heard I'm popping on TikTok, but had to delete that after they, you know, showed their ass. So I am on Instagram and you can see me performing all over. Got a show called Frankenbaby twice a month at Union Hall.
Union Hall.
She's a Jersey girl.
Union Hall.
It's a hole. There's holes in the walls in the hall. Yes.
Yay! Thank you. Thank you.
You in the club. Whether you like it or not with that name.
you absolutely belong in a club. I don't know, no white Kareem's. But it was just so interesting looking at the responses because that was the big thing for me. I just wanted black people to like it. I just wanted, I, that was my love letter to black people and how I believe in us. And I want us to be together. Cause I know we thrive that way.
De facto segregation is a real situation where we just go where we're comfortable with our people. And I, It allows people to thrive. And that's what I want for this world and this country. I want people to be comfortable and homogeny sometimes builds comfort. And then we go out and we mingle when we feel like it.
But specifically for learning purposes, I really want it for the schools because I had to learn about slavery from white faces surrounded by white faces. And that is my villain origin story.
We sure enough did it. I ended, remember, I ended in person saying reverse Brown versus Board of Education. Y'all cut that part out.
Absolutely, yeah.
I grew up in Union, New Jersey.
Yes. And my godmother was one of the people who desegregated the schools in Union. That was her class.
Yeah. So by the time my generation came, we were like that next generation of people that had to go to school amongst mostly white faces. And honestly, it was stressful. It was stressful.
I would love to undo it. I read Quinta Brunson's book. Quinta, shout out to Quinta. She went to school her whole entire childhood with Black people, learning from Black teachers, and that gave her confidence. That allowed her to do everything that she's doing right now because she's had the confidence in her complexion from a very young age.
When I was going to school with white people, I had to get coached the first time I got my hair braided. Because they were like, look, you're going to go to school and the white girls are going to try to touch your hair. These are my big cousins telling me. They're like, what do you say if a white person has to touch your hair? I was like, mind your business and get away from me.
They were like, OK, calm down. They said, say it a little nicer. And I was literally like six years old and I had to know about racism that early and discrimination and all that stuff. That's a lot for a six year old. And also I got to learn math.
Yeah. I mean, also, I just feel like... Everyone needs to learn about all history, you know, and history is vast. White people need to learn about Black history too. We need to learn about all the things that are happening. But when you allow the peace, because school's stressful. You're going to get bullied. I was bullied. I was bullied relentlessly.
Bring it back. I want to know where I'm not welcome, OK? Put them signs back up. Colors only, whites only. Let's do it, all right? Rip the Band-Aid off. Especially for a restaurant. Are you kidding me? Whites only? What do I want to do in there? What they got? Mashed potatoes? Mayonnaise hot dogs? Colors only, we got seasoning, turmeric, paprika.
I would love to remove the race element and just get bullied regularly. But my fellow black girls, you know, just bullying each other like, you know, your mom is so fat. Those little things. Not I'm – you are beneath me.
Yeah. And that's the thing that integration did. It made us think white was right. So instead of appreciating everything that we had, it was like, oh, you shouldn't go to Howard. You should go to Harvard because Harvard is better than Howard. Who says Harvard is better than Howard but white supremacy? Because they talk about Harvard being one of those schools that's difficult to get in.
But once you get in, you skating all on ice with roller skates because it's like, oh, we're all at Harvard and now let's just, I don't know, jerk each other off. But anyway.
Yes, exactly.
It should just be a week. They should make it a week again.
24 hours.
Yeah, it's such a ridiculous thing that that is Black History Month, and they're always like, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King. They don't mention Malcolm X. No, they don't. Not in the white schools, you know.
Target is selling blah, blah, blah. Yeah. Like, It's really just kind of truncated into this situation where I want to learn about Black leaders who actually transformed situations that benefited Black people.
You know, we're not talking about an Ida B. Wells during Black History Month because white people don't want you to know what she was doing, you know, doing research about lynchings in the South. They don't want to know that. And it's like, you can be ashamed about that history, but then just don't repeat it.
That's all we want. Just don't repeat it. But when I say separate, and this is the thing that people got on me in the comments, separate but equal. It's the Plessy versus Ferguson decision. Separate but equal. We want equal funds. That's what it needs to be. Equal funds and some land and reparations. But that's a pipe dream.
I mean, it's been done. They gave other people land.
Took it from people. So it's possible. Y'all have experimented on it.
Oh, come on. Give me. Just give us Brooklyn, Atlanta, Chicago.
That would actually be popping.
Wakanda part 2. Wakanda 2.0 B through C is the Black Vegas. Are you a gambler?
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
I'm thinking about casinos because I am not a gambler. I gambled enough with my career.
The colored excellence.
Yeah, this is a take.
OK, what's the playlist in the whites only spot? They playing Carrie Underwood and Kid Rock. We playing Babyface and Diggable Planets. Ain't no overhead lighting. What are you talking about? Wait, where am I going? colors.
I fully agree with that. That's fact. Black people are funnier because we have gone through more struggle and struggle, you know, pressure makes diamonds. So we're funnier because we've had to laugh in the worst circumstances possible. So I absolutely believe black people are funny. Our families are hilarious. That is how most black comedians became funny because of our families.
You make me moist.
I kind of landed the exact same place as you, what we saw in terms of how they handled Dallas. And I really enjoyed the breakdown, you, Jacoby, Kurt Goldsberry. I felt like it took you guys too long to get to the part where Luca sucked. He sucked, sucked. He just was a flat-out no-show. He couldn't go up and down the court. And what was crazy to me was...
In the previous three games, he looked fine. He looked like he was all the way back. But I don't know if it was a setback. I don't know where his head was at. He was out of that game before it even really got going, BS.
You know I do because we bet heavily on them in the preseason. We did. We imagined this possibility with their size and their versatility. And lo and behold, you know, every once in a while we get a couple of things right. And this was the team. We thought for sure that DeJounte Murray was an enormous addition by subtraction. Because what they got back in Dyson Daniels and Larry Nance Jr., like...
It's a mindset. It wasn't just, you know, sort of the player aspect of it, but they are long. They can, they defend from, from side to side. They defend full length and they, they are a team that can score late in games that I'm not worried are going to get good looks. The shots.
Well, I was going to ask you to clarify what you mean, whether it's going to happen or not, because my immediate response is it's happening. We are seeing it.
The only stat that matters is the assists. Like, if he continues to lead the league or be right up there top three in assists with this set of assets, then I would say, yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, this team has the composition of a team that can make some noise in the playoffs. They were so tough against the Knicks.
That's always, you don't know whether a team's going to show up and be prepared to have that bully instinct. They bullied the Knicks. They had 10 more offensive rebounds. They kicked the Knicks right in the front and the back of the lower section there.
Maybe.
I'm on record. I'm on record. I bought the gambling pod. It was already up. I played them on the money line and the points. I'll take them both ways. Yes, sir. Please. Oh, wow. A double helping of Hawks. The Milwaukee team continues to be, you know, it's just everything they can extract from Giannis and they need a good game.
Uh, good to great game from Dame just to be, they lost by 15 points a week ago. Now no Middleton, but you know, okay. And, uh, Dame shot very well from three had 25 points and Giannis did one of his 38 19s and they still got their ass handed to him. It's just a bad matchup. I think for Milwaukee against this Hawks team.
Yeah, well, I went through their list of wins, and please don't misunderstand. A nine-game winning streak is outstanding. It's excellent. But when you go through the teams that they've beat, I don't think you can get to a top 10 defense. I think you're hard-pressed to get to a top 15 defense.
Yeah, and I guess Cleveland would be the best out of that group, but right. So the thing about Pittsburgh and why I think it's going to be a shock to the system is their ability to bring a pass rush that these Eagles have not seen this entire season. And the Steelers are really rounding into form in terms of, you know, their quick pressure rate, their ability to disrupt.
And they have health at the linebacker position, both Herbig and Alonzo Highsmith, healthy. And I just think... We already know that this Eagles defense is one-dimensional. They are the least passing team in the NFL. The fewest number of attempts and completions in the entire NFL, Jalen Hurts and this Eagles passing defense.
You want to give this Steelers defense a one-dimensional look? Do you think that they'll load the box and say, please, try and run on us? And, you know, I think this is finally a matchup where the Eagles, very excellent offensive line. Again, don't misunderstand me. They're going to meet their match in terms of what this Steelers defensive front seven can bring to the table.
And Pittsburgh has a way better special teams. Yes.
You should have figured out a way to put him on a contender. I mean, you know, I understand the dynamics that are at work, but like, is Jon Hamm still alive? He could have done something nice for you.
Yeah, it's great.
That's a viable concern, and you're not imagining a game script here where Pittsburgh tries to get the ball way down the field, which has been one of their pathways to success with Russell Wilson. He's been throwing a very nice deep ball, but that's not the way. The way that they win this game is field position, special teams, defense, long drives.
You're absolutely right.
Another great one. As many of these as you want to do. I'm here for it.
I couldn't agree more with any of your handicap or assessment there. I want to just add a couple other layers. You mentioned the special teams thing. Tell me how many field goals Jake Elliott has made of 50 yards or longer this season. Oh, God. Probably like one. The answer is none. Zero. He is 0 for 5.
So if we're talking about, if we imagine a game script where it's tight, it's, you know, field position kind of game, those 50-yard field goals start to become important. And then the last sort of element of it is like, who do you trust more in a game like this? Nick Sirianni or Mike Tomlin? And, you know, that for me matters.
Fine.
Fine.
Yeah, so this is, again, kind of a razor-thin coin flip kind of game. And so you're trying to find the teeny tiny slices that might tip it one way or the other. And, you know, if you wanted to back the Bills and grab the points, you would talk about Detroit's secondary being susceptible to explosives. And the Bills are getting back both Coleman and Kincaid this week.
They're supposed to both be ready to play. And we saw... through the tremendous comeback against the Rams. Shakir was incredible. Allen is at the absolute peak of his powers. And if he is out of structure, you don't worry about Josh Allen out of structure getting the ball down the field. He is the best quarterback that Detroit will have faced this whole season with a pretty healthy quarterback.
offense and what i'm one of the things i'm interested in i'm looking at it right now james cook these nuts over because i do think that they are going to try and establish a little run we're going to go cook these nuts over 52 and a half rushing yards but that's just a side play for me um so that would be the case if the lions win this would it think 30 points for them at least
Oh, I mean, the points are going to be abundant.
Yeah, we won our bet because it was, you know, we got the three and a half.
Here's the thing that really tips it for me. If it's a tight game, we're in the fourth quarter, and it's time to start doing some math about the most efficient way to produce an outcome. We just watched it. Sean McDermott just has too many unforced errors in this regard. And Dan Campbell never makes a mistake.
It is like Dan Campbell and the Lions are at the same level as the Chiefs in terms of, like, it's an end-of-game scenario, and I've got it mapped out, and I know the correct call to make. We might not execute, and we might lose the game because of a failure to execute, but I know the call I'm going to make, and it's the right call, and that's how we're going to win –
McDermott just gets it wrong so many times too often. And I don't want to be in that position of watching this great game back and forth, back and forth. And, and the bills have the ball and dumb, dumb McDermott makes a dumb, dumb call. And then they're like, God damn it. Why did I invest in this team?
No, I don't think we're, I don't know if we're going to get to the chiefs, but I'm not after what we watched in that game. Oh, you think they get to the one seed? Hmm. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not ready to cross off that, that bigger game for Detroit. Detroit has to win this game. Fine. Fine. That's fine. Home game two, Campbell and golf at home. Last couple of seasons.
Yeah, and it is 100% the injury uncertainty. It was trending in a way that let me go ahead and get a little bit down on the Chargers minus three because I think it's a great number for the reason that you just laid out. I mean, the Bucs have a bunch of wins against nobody teams. They beat the Giants with Tommy DeVito. They beat Carolina in overtime.
Right. I mean, they they they handled the Raiders because Aiden O'Connell broke his leg. Like, you know, there's a bunch of wins. Now, again, you win. You got to play the games under in front of you on your schedule. Congrats to them. But brutal spot. What's the status of Bucky Irving? That will impact the handicap. And then what's the status? McConkie was running drills on Wednesday.
So I started saying, well, this is part of why I went ahead and got down a little bit on that Chargers minus three. But you can't have Herbert under any circumstances impaired at all because what Tampa has been doing these last three weeks very successfully against bad teams is blitz, blitz, blitz, blitz. They've greatly increased their blitz rate, and it's been successful.
Great.
Well, the Colts are, you know, sort of hovering around. Interesting matchup against the Broncos. But I understand your point with this Dolphins team. I just can't unsee what the Jets did to them. It looked like, you know, Devontae Adams was open on every play. It looked like Wilson was open on every play. Nine-yard outs over and over again. I just... And the...
Yes, yes. They put him on an island and they just cooked him. The Houston Texans do not deserve to be trusted, but I think we finally might be in a situation where you outlined it properly. We're not laying a ton of points. They're at home. It's off the by. We're dying for a C.J. Stroud game.
And, you know, we saw a version of Houston at the beginning of the season where Joe Mixon was super effective. Like, oh, look at this. This Houston team might be an 11 or 12 win team. They went through their injuries and stuff. Their offensive line is the issue. They can't really be trusted. But I like the spot for Houston. I'm in your direction on this.
Right. Exactly.
Yep.
Well, let me put this to you because you'll go through the stats and you mentioned this, them coming out fast. They are one of the top five teams in the NFL in terms of scoring in the first half.
And they don't have to lay very much in the first. We can look at the FanDuel Sportsbook to see what the first half spread is.
Yes. Yes, I do. I do think he's good.
I am a pro tour guy. Yes.
Under the right circumstances. When he's playing either indoors or in Miami when it's 80 degrees, I think he's good. And I do think that the DJ has created a playlist for him. They're spinning some smooth sounds down there where he can be super effective with those weapons. But under any kind of adverse conditions, as soon as they go outside, we watched it, forget about it.
Yes.
Yeah, I mean... You went through those games that they won, including the road games. Those are all high leverage games. Those are all like season determining games. They lose like really any of those. They're probably out of the playoffs. And it's a real testament to McDonald. And they did get healthy at the right time. The buy couldn't have come at a better time for them. So.
since the buy, 50%, you know, disruption rate. We saw it against the Cardinals. You love that set. I do because top five disruption. That means that they're going in and not letting the offense get itself set into a scheme that, you know, where they can execute what they have in mind. And they're certainly not letting the quarterback get set up.
But to me, you mentioned all the offensive side that they had a zone blocking scheme. We saw Zach Charbonnet look like the guy that was like, hey, look at him run the ball. That was really effective. It takes so much pressure off of Geno if they can run that way. And look, Geno from a clean pocket, nine touchdowns, two picks. It's like the diametric opposite under pressure. Five touchdowns,
10 picks, but the Packers don't generate any pressure. They're 22nd in pressure rate and 26th in pass rush win rate. Pass rush? You do it. You can do it.
Oh, okay. Fine.
That's one of my favorite legs of the week.
Sure. Great. In.
That is a problem.
That's true.
Well, you know who we didn't think could run the ball at all? The LA Chargers. Now, I'm not going to sit here and say that just you're not going to make the case.
I like the Browns. I like the Browns quite a bit. In fact, I think this is the Browns Super Bowl. And I think there's a decent chance to validate their season. If they have a season where they beat the Ravens, they beat the Steelers and they beat the Chiefs. They're terrible. They're not terrible. Their defense is. I watched them last week against Pittsburgh. They're terrible.
Those were short-field, mistake-driven scores. They held Russell Wilson to under 160 yards. He didn't have short field. I understand. But this this Chiefs situation is busted. And I said on one of our shows this week, I can't wait to find the opportunity to fade them in the playoffs because I promise you I'm going to fade them.
I'm not doing it. I can't endorse it. I think the variance with Jameis... You've been hanging out with JJ too much. No, I just can't. That secondary for the Chiefs has no solution. You can't name... Like five of the guys that the Chargers had on the field catching passes last week. And it just didn't matter. They were all open. They were open every time.
It's why the Chiefs had to run the Anaconda offense at the end of that game to win. They had to strangle the Chargers for five minutes and get to a field goal and kick that field goal. It was their only chance to win because the Chargers otherwise would have gone down the field and won. Maybe the Chargers are good.
They could be, but you can't name the guys that were catching balls at tight end or receiver for the Chargers.
They're so bad. Disley got hurt. It was stone.
To getting eight and a half against the Carolina Panthers? Yes.
I hate it. I hate it. You could say that about every team that the Chiefs, every bad team that the Chiefs have won by the tiniest hair on their ass in each of these last... They're one and seven against the spread. But...
That number has so much Deshaun Watson spilled all over it.
They had the backdoor cover staring them in the face. It was right there.
Now you're talking. Yeah. And look, you know, if you wanted to go ahead and grab my team and go from seven and a half down to one and a half against Spencer Rattler.
Spencer Rattler?
All right, fine.
That's fine. I'm not... I just wanted to put it out there.
That's a dead man walking team. I very much like this.
You didn't, but I love this. I'm dying already.
And because his career is over.
He's a gamer. I mean, he's $200 million by being a gamer. Not very good, but a gamer.
Oh, 100% down. And...
I'm not doing anything with Kansas City. I'm telling you right now.
You can do that on your own. I'm not endorsing anything with the Chiefs. You're really mad about it.
I laid three and a half points with the Chiefs on Sunday night and they showed flaws that are Unlike flaws that we've seen out of them. Yeah. So I'm out on them. They are super beatable. They keep telling us who they are. Every single week, they get down to a single moment, a single score, and they've been on the correct side of the outcome. I'm not betting on that.
I'm not betting on that anymore. I'm done with the Chiefs.
Okay. Ian.
Great. Love it. No argument. I think that defense is super legit. Like Green Bay in Detroit got a version of a Detroit defense. And we were like, oh, Detroit, they're really banged up. This is going to be a hard spot for them. And... They were gamers. It wasn't that Green Bay went out and flew all over them. But this Seattle defense is a different deal, and we're outdoors.
Now, I respect Green Bay's outdoor acumen. I'm not suggesting that they're going to have a problem playing outdoors. It's just a different kind of situation, different speed.
Pretty good.
Such a good defense.
You have to get Sean McDermott out of there, but yes.
Detroit, yes.
Great.
Yeah, we have to see whether Toronto Armstead's even able to go for Miami. Overtime game for Miami, all those extra plays. Houston off the bye, rested, and really ready to put their stamp on the back half of this season. They have a really tough schedule. They have to win a home game like this.
Oh, if we didn't have Daniel, sure. He would immediately be one of the best quarterbacks of the past 25 years in Washington.
It's a great bounce back season.
Good job.
Looking forward to it.
I mean, one of the other guys might jump ahead of me, but there's a lot of great choices, including the Cleveland Browns.
We'll see. We'll see.
It's the funniest outcome, for sure. It would be hilarious. And I do think, you know, the guys, the defense for the Raiders will be playing because they know they're really auditioning for the next head coach of the Raiders. They're not playing for that guy any longer.
Oh yeah, I mean, he just, he drinks till he collapses every time.
Brian and I would go drinking Pelican Hill Bar after, like, around 5 or 6 o'clock. Brian would get so hammered, he would start dancing on the bar, throwing his shirt up, and it was humiliating.
I don't have to be a lawyer. I can just be a fixer.
Let's go ahead and capitalize that F. It's usually typically with a business, and we fix the reputation of the business, of the owners. Any litigation going on, we try to control the narrative.
I mean, their legalities are that if I can find the loophole, so I am a master of loopholes. If I can find the loophole, I will do that and I will get things done.
We would actually go on, randomly go on a yacht with a guy who Brian knew and to talk business and to talk about this whole, you know, fixing business. And he said, oh, my sister can do this and she can do anything.
It was also billionaire trust fund boys who were in Orange County and wanted their girlfriend back. And I would literally take their phone and text message the girl for them. I mean, it was that small to millions of dollars people were trying to keep their public company alive.
Okay, I have a client who had lots of legal issues. So I helped clear up the litigation. And then he had all these issues with investments as well where he wasn't getting paid on them. And he needed basically someone strong to go and bully people to get what actually he deserved. He did deserve it. He did earn it.
Um, so I would go and I would just do negotiations with all these people and bully, I would bully them. I would just straight up lie and say, I'm going to take you to court. I'm calling the FBI on you. And boom, he got paid. So it worked out. And then, but those things also turned into. hey, my son got a DUI. Can you fix that? And I would. I absolutely would.
Or I need to go meet a senator so I can get this other job done. I would make the meeting happen. It's about as much as I can say on it because I know that any more that I get in trouble, yeah.
One of my, the fixing clients, he wanted to go to Las Vegas and he wanted me to go with him because first of all, he wanted puppies. I happened to have a puppy owner on my speed dial and I made an appointment and he said, I want to stay there for one or two nights and I want to gamble, you know, a little bit. And so I said, okay, I'll go with you. Let's go. So we stayed at Encore Tower Suites.
I paid for all the rooms. We drove out to Vegas together. We stopped at the puppy shop first and he chose two dogs out and he put the deposit down. I chose my dog, which is Kula, which I love her to death. Still my dog now. So we go back to the hotel, but he's like, okay, I want, I need a hooker. And I was like, okie doke. Well, I guess that's my job.
So I go online, some website to look to me to have a good eye on, how good looking a girl is. And so, you know, I would set it up and whatever they did and they transacted is on them. I didn't transact. Then when he was done, he would meet me for a cocktail at the bar. So, you know, I would hold on to his money while he gambled. He would drink so much that he would just...
Tens of thousands of dollars would go in a minute. But it turned out that I was there more to facilitate the strip clubs, the limos and the strip clubs. And I had to talk to the girls at the strip club so that they would go home with them. And and it became I was, you know, the pimp of the night, essentially.
Most of them are shady. That's who needs a fixer, typically. Otherwise, you can just use a regular lawyer. They knew they were playing with legal lines, right? They knew what they were doing is wrong, and I would be by their side to make sure they didn't get caught, and we could mitigate all potential liability.
I had to make the party go. But again, I made everybody sign NDAs. And I was actually at the strip clubs. I had to sit in there, which is horrible. I had to sit in the strip club in their little whatever private room to make sure that no one was going to pull anything because I'm a witness. Right. So, oh, yeah, I had to watch it all.
At first, I felt overwhelmed with what am I going to do? And then the second feeling that came over me is, wow, I'm one of the boys at the table who they trust me with these things. I'm going to make their life better and I'm going to become this big deal in Newport Beach who everybody pays millions of dollars just to go and hire.
I just I wanted to be the it girl. You know, I wanted to be the I wanted to have a seat at the boys table and without sleeping around. You know, I wanted to have the career moves that made it happen. I wanted my abilities to help me become the best. And and that's what they all saw me as. Everyone called me for everything.
I met him at a table with Brian Quinn, Joseph Medawar, with my ex-husband, Gerard Jamal, and myself and Cameron. We met to do a real estate investment deal.
Okay, but I'm in there too now, so shit.
You're kind of stunned if you're not used to that world. You hear this convict, right, this guy who's been in federal prison, and you just think to yourself, well, he's nice. He's never hurt me.
Oh, yeah. Joseph Medawar made him huge, right? This is the prince of Iran. He's part of our group. And he's, you know, he invested all this money into our fun.
At first, I was in awe, right? So I'm a lawyer. I don't know these types of guys. And I'm in shock. I don't even understand everything they're saying. I'm Googling words as they're talking. I don't know what EBITDA is at the time. And so, yeah, I was just taken aback by the pizzazz of it all.
We're all sitting at a round table and we're discussing, you know, the details of the real estate fund. And I start asking some questions. Brian asks questions. And that's when Joseph Medawar had introduced us to the head of the fund to try and help them and work through their issues. But with Cameron, he was there just eating chips.
He kept eating tortilla chips, like one after another and not saying anything and drinking rosé wine. That's his whole role was to just sit there and be like the Prince of Iran.
I said, but this guy has been in prison and, you know, what's going on? And he told me the truth. He said, I didn't invest.
We did a two-hour dinner at John George in Beverly Hills. And I felt something. I can't explain it. And to this day, I wish I never did. But I felt the connection of some sort. And we hit it off. He just kissed me goodnight on the cheek. He paid for the dinner. And I went home that night.
Yes. Great question, Michelle. Yes. Yeah. Because I paid for everything else.
He's actually like a very respectful, very classy person who we just started talking about everything and we clicked. There was a moment of like, wow, this is he's cute. And, you know, we're getting along really well.
I always felt like I was never good enough because he's like this prince, right? So he's had every supermodel girlfriend in the world. And I'm like, what do you like about me? But that's fine. I always tried to prove I was enough to him.
I went there to meet a girlfriend of mine after, it was probably at three o'clock in the afternoon, and just to meet up for a drink and catch up.
Oh my goodness, it's like a scene out of the casino.
He gets up, starts running around the bar, like just saying hi to everybody, telling everybody, I'm buying everybody drinks. So he literally had the bartender give everybody around. And he's just running around saying hello, saying hello. You know, he has a slicked back hair. He's got like Gucci clothes on. He's short. He's just like the Italian mobster look.
You know, he came to me and he's like, oh, I'm going to buy your drink. And I said, you know what? I'm going to buy my own drink. So I did. And after that, he was kind of impressed. We started talking. We found out we knew all the same people. And so from that, you know, at that day, I said, I know this sounds weird, but I'd like to be your friend.
It was R&D. We'd meet at Pelican Hill, the bar there. We'd meet at Fleming's Bar, just basically like the higher end bars we'd always meet up. And slowly but surely, you know, we became close.
So the one thing about Brian that everybody knows is he just gets hammered drunk and then he starts dancing on bars with his shirt off, like at Pelican Hill. We're not talking about, you know, strip club. We're talking about Pelican Hill on a bar dancing.
Oh, Pelican Hill's gorgeous. It's, you know, it's creme de la creme. To live in the villa is like $50,000 a month. It's nothing cheap.
He's a riot and a lot, a lot of fun. You just, you kind of feel safe, like nothing can go wrong when you're with Brian.
He knows everybody. You know, everyone said he was a crook, but a lot of people respected him. A lot of people respect him in big business. So I kind of just followed suit.
He was a dealmaker, so he was a third party between two sides of a deal. You know, someone selling something, he'd find the buyer and vice versa. But with public companies, so he was actually, it was a pretty big deal.
There's a lot of work and not a lot of money, not enough anyways. And so he's like, oh, I have a way for you to make a lot of good money. And that is you can fund these loans. I split the interest half and half with you and the interest is high and it's on these luxury items and the loans are short term.
So I started with a $50,000 loan, something small, and all got returned fine. And then I did, I put up to a million, I think it was 800,000 total cash in there.
I learned very quickly that everyone is very cash poor and everyone is a con artist in Newport Beach is also what I found out. So do you think it's like a big facade, the whole Newport Beach? Yes, 100%.
I called him one night and said, meet me with Gulfstream in Fashion Island.
It's all just kind of like old American, very high-end food and drink. There's a whole cigar bar outside at Gulfstream where like all these big players always sit and have cigars and talk business.
And he was being a good big brother about it. He said, I got you. Don't you worry about anything.
I mean, we had money. We both worked, so it wasn't a big deal. I just wanted to rid myself of him, so I signed over the house, the cars. I signed over everything. I had like a couple hundred thousand dollars in my bank account, and that was it. I was going on my merry way. I didn't care. That's not totally true.
Pelican Hill, I think their rooms start at $1,000 a night. So just to put it in perspective, we live there regularly. But it was two bedrooms. It was the bathrooms. I mean, we're talking big tubs, big steam showers, maids coming every day, changing your towels. It was living the life, like really and truly.
It took my mind off of the divorce, right? So he just had me drinking all the time, partying with him, meeting all these big hoo-hahs everywhere. And it felt impressive. I felt like I was bettering my career. I felt safe with Brian as my brother.
When I moved in with him, he said, oh, can you raise me $10 million for my lending company? And I said, I'll try. We'll see. I don't know. And then he just kind of used me for business. But he also was there for me as a friend.
So that's, it looks successful. He drove a white Rolls Royce. And here's some crazy shit. Sarah drove a white Rolls Royce too. I had the Don, I had the convertible and he had the four door. Yeah. So we were like brother and sister, like driving up to places together and actually looked, if it wasn't such a shit story, it was, it was cute.
We would go to the best nightclub in Los Angeles. Brian would buy the best table in the club. He would actually hire escorts to be sitting at the table. That's all I know. And so it looked like he had a big group of girls around him.
He's the guy, he's the it guy that everybody wants to talk to, everybody wants to be with or around. Says whatever he pleases, doesn't really give a damn about rules or anyone else. And these men, they fell for it. I mean, I don't want to say fell for it, but all these guys wanted to do business with Brian because of what he provided.
So Brian's this crazy party animal, right? And then everyone was comfortable with me because I'm like the sister, quote unquote, sitting in the corner, but conservatively dressed. I'd ever flaunt anything. Basically keeping people in line saying, it's okay, I'm watching everything. I'll handle anything legal that comes up. I was not sober, but I sounded sober.
So I'd answered a lot of the questions. I was just the go-to for the investors for the business piece.
They always called me the real deal because I, you know, I was always calm, cool, calm, collected.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Yes.
How do you maintain a sense of hope and levity when times change? How do you keep laughing through all that?
I try to laugh. I watch The Daily Show.
Out of all the interviews that you've had in these many years, is there one that stands out as the most profound?
What do you think about young people getting all of their information and entertainment from social media? Yeah.
Knowing what you know now, if you went back to... or anything you would have advised us or done differently, like different guests, like somebody that you didn't have or not?
Yeah.
TV is dying.
How happy are you to be back?
On TikTok, on your phone.
How old are you?
I think a lot of young people are a little bit not happy with the choice of candidates you have. I guess we feel like our vote, our voice doesn't matter.
navigating the political landscape, especially during election season and college campuses and engaging conversations with people from other offices?
They were Pentagon employees who leaked against their boss to news agencies in this room. And it's been clear since day one from this administration that we are not going to tolerate individuals who leak to the mainstream media, particularly when it comes to sensitive information. And the Secretary of Defense is doing a tremendous job. And he is bringing monumental change to the Pentagon.
And there's a lot of people in this city who reject monumental change. And I think, frankly, that's why we've seen a smear campaign against the Secretary of Defense since the moment that President Trump announced his nomination before the United States Senate.
We hope the Supreme Court will do the right thing, and the president has been very clear. He stands on the side of parental rights, and he believes strongly that parents should have a greater say in their children's education.
I authorized yesterday the renewal of military action against Hamas.
The idea of striking Hamas terrorist targets across the Gaza Strip aiming to achieve the war's objectives, which include the release of all our hostages, the dismantling of Hamas' military and governmental infrastructure, and the removal of the terrorist threat from Gaza to Israel's security and its citizens.
And listen to this. They said, no, we shut everything down. There is such an intense crackdown by the government right now. And we're under so much scrutiny and pressure that we're not cooking anything. We're trying to sell our cars and other property to try to make up for lost income because nothing is going on here.
I mean, obviously, the threat of military intervention in any way, even if it's just targeted strikes, is anathema in Mexico. But the threat of tariffs has long seemed much more credible.
I have to say, of the two, I think the tariff threat is the one that really spurs the action.
His hands are trembling in front of us. And he said, the only option for me right now is survival. No, we're not cooking. No, we're not making fentanyl. The main thing that has changed from when you were here last is that Trump is in office and he's making all of these threats and the Mexican government is cracking down like never before.
We're having direct talks with Iran and Iranians. They've started. It'll go on Saturday.
We've got to start to protect ourselves and we've got to stop having all the countries of the world ripping us off. We have a 1.2. trillion-dollar trade deficit, and the rest of the world has a surplus with us. They're earning our money. They're taking our money. And Donald Trump has seen this, and he's going to stop it.
The market will find a bottom. It will be soon. And from there, we're going to have a bullish boom. And the Dow is going to hit 50,000 during Trump's term. The S&P 500 is going to have a very broad-based recovery. And wages are going to go up. Profits are going to go up and life's going to be beautiful here in America. Trust in Trump.
Everyone wants to look at the stock market going down. You know what else went down? Oil prices went down almost 15 percent in two days, which impacts working Americans much more than the stock market.
Listen, we've got 50 countries that are burning the phone lines into the White House and probably the president's cell phone as well and probably Howard Lutnick's as well. Right now, we're two business days into this new American order. So I think we have a lot to be determined.
But the president is resolute in his focus, in his boldness, in his fearlessness, and in his relentlessness to ensure that we're putting America first by using these tariffs, along with deregulation, cutting taxes, energy dominance.
We're having direct talks with Iran. And they've started. It'll go on Saturday. We have a very big meeting and we'll see what can happen. And I think everybody agrees that doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious. And the obvious is not something that I want to be involved with or, frankly, that Israel wants to be involved with if they can avoid it.
So we're going to see if we can avoid it.
It's been a bad three weeks for the Houthis, and it's about to get worse. It's been a devastating campaign, whether it's underground facilities, weapons manufacturing, bunkers, troops in the open, air defense assets. We are not going to relent. The Iranians as well, they should not continue to provide support to the Houthis, and that message has been made very clear.
So we have a lot more options and a lot more pressure to apply.
You know, it's amazing that like the lead of a lot of our news headlines on this, our top health official says that the MMR vaccine is effective. I mean, that's just sort of like that shouldn't be news, but it is news when it's RFK Jr. saying it.
I would urge people to look at his statements, which seem to be on both sides of the coin. He did not have a full-throated endorsement.
Including superstars, Mookie Betts. Oh, is he good. Mookie, that guy can play, can't he? I mean, unbelievable. You really, Mookie, I've been watching it. I don't want to say I watched him when he was on Boston, but I did. I didn't think that was a particularly good trade when they made it, and I happened to be right.
And she was like, those are sex workers. We're not clapping for their, whatever, I don't know, in her head.
No.
Cut the mic, Bill O'Reilly.
What is the pee stand for?
That's the one word I don't say.
My God, she dressed up as Joseph Stalin.
Imagine if a foreign adversary, imagine if the Putin government somehow just do a thought experiment. Imagine they could somehow exert control or influence over the government of the United States. What do you think the Putin government would have the U.S. government do if he could control it?
What kind of headlines would you expect to see about the operations of our government under that kind of a scenario? And what would you expect the news out of the Oval Office and the White House to look like on a day like today?
So I think the easiest way we can kind of just ask this is, do Americans like the way that Trump's handling his job and compared to how they felt about Joe Biden? So this is the net approval rating. You look at Joe Biden back in 2024. He was 22 points underwater. Holy cow. You look at Donald Trump. It's just a different planet entirely.
I mean, the gulf between these two is wider than the Gulf of America or Mexico, depending on which side of the aisle you stand on. He's at plus two. And so on this simple question, I think Americans are saying, OK, Donald Trump's doing all right on this.
because that one, a quick end of the war, look at this. You go back to August of 2022, it was at 31%. Now we're at 50%. I mean, that is a rocket ship upwards in terms of the Americans who want a quick end to the war, even if it means Russia keeps the captured Ukraine land. One of the reasons why we're seeing this as Americans who say Russia is an enemy, you go back to 2023, it was 64%.
And that CBS News YouGov poll, It was down to 34%. Now, there is a chunk that believes that Russia is an unfriendly nation, but the percentage who believe that they're either an ally or friendly, that's up to 34% as well, basically equal to the percentage who say that they're an enemy.
Yeah.
Right. And it seems worth noting that UK's prime minister, even as he announced more money for Ukraine, said, we've got to be honest, we still need a backstop from the US. There's nothing approaching a true guarantee of Ukraine's safety unless the US is involved.
Okay, I gotta go.
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Joe Biden never should have been there in the first place, right? Number one, he shouldn't have run for president. I completely got so angry at Joe Biden, the man, when I read the transcript of the Hunter Biden trial. And when I realized that not one, not two, but three Biden children were all
dealing with drug problems in 2018, and Joe Biden said, now's a perfect time to run for president because who cares about our family? I have to tell you something about Joe Biden. There's this mythology about Joe Biden that the man cared so much, it's all bullshit.
This man supposedly cared so much about his family, it created a myth, and he did it for 40 years, God bless him, that he was this incredible family man. What he really was was a craven political animal.
that never was desperate, that man considered or ran for president every four years he was eligible.
I don't leave the kids with someone. And my choices are Hunter Biden. Or Ashley Biden. Or Don Jr. And Eric and Laura Trump. Like, I'm dropping the kids off at Don and Eric and Laura's house.
Naked.
Naked or clothed.
I mean, they should walk out, you know. Or is there going to be a laugh track, by the way? I think they should walk out. I think that a picture is worth a thousand words.
It would be joy to a certain extent. I actually don't think that they should show up at all. I think that when history resurfaces the photos of this first speech and this abnormal presidency. He said he was going to be a dictator from day one. And we warned about the demise of our democracy and the rise of fascism. And I think we've seen it in the first days of his presidency.
I think the record will show that the room was half empty.
There's a proposal.
And it's coming across the Canadian border. And that's the reason.
Joe Biden's administration foolishly gave him a tourist visa and that allowed him to unlawfully remain in our country. This individual should have been deported. Instead, he was welcomed here. And now three years later, after coming to this country under Joe Biden's administration, He is lighting Jewish people on fire who were simply trying to peacefully pay respect to the hostages in Israel.
The president is going to ensure that this individual is held to the fullest extent of the law. And not just this individual, but any individual, especially illegal criminals who engage in acts of terrorism, will be held accountable under this president.
and I do not defend it. It feels indefensible, and I do not defend it.
At a basic level, if you want rights in this country under this conservative Supreme Court, you better be a cis hetero white man or an Uzi, because those are the two things that this court believes have have rights.
Yeah.
I think we should welcome people wherever they come from, thank them for their contribution and see them as part of our families, our communities and our society and embrace that. The Labour Party has been a bit scared of making the positive case for immigration for quite a number of years and I think we need to turn that around.
What a massive loss it was for Elon Musk. Wisconsin clearly said we are not for sale. If you are a Republican candidate running in a swing state, you don't want Elon Musk anywhere near you. Yes, maybe you like the money, but you do not want his presence in your state.
You know what Donald Trump likes? Winners. And you know what Elon Musk was on Tuesday night? A loser.
You technically are a special government employee and you're supposed to be 130 days. Are you going to continue past that or do you think that's what you're going to do?
Well, I think we will have accomplished most of the work required to reduce the deficit by a trillion dollars within that time frame.
So in that time frame, 130 days. And the process is a report at some point, 100 days?
Not really a report. We are cutting the waste and fraud in real time. So every day that passes, our goal is to reduce the waste and fraud by $4 billion a day, every day, seven days a week. And so far, we are succeeding.
Elon Musk's special government tenure is coming to an end, 130 days, I think another month. Do you want him to stay longer or is it time for him to go back to running his companies in Europe?
I talk to President Biden, you know, regularly. His mental acuity is great. It's fine. It's as good as it's been over the years. I've been speaking to him for 30 years.
Joe Biden has vision. He has knowledge. He has a strategic thinker. This is a very sharp president.
The most difficult part about a meeting with President Biden is preparing for it because he is sharp, intensely probing and detail oriented and focused.
And I'm going to continue to move until we get the total ban on the total initiative relative to what we're going to do with more border patrol and more asylum officers.
President Trump? I really don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don't think he knows what he said either.
I don't know how you cut nearly a fifth of the workforce and say you're not going to harm patients, harm Americans who require good health. It's just hard to believe.
This will have a devastating impact on the health and well-being of Americans.
How does cutting a bunch of HHS solve that problem?
I think we will have accomplished most of the work required to reduce the deficit by a trillion dollars within that timeframe.
How are you planning to bring down the cost of being healthier in America?
China in particular is in need of a rebalancing. China's economic system, with growth driven by manufacturing exports, will continue to create even more serious imbalances with its trading partners if the status quo is allowed to continue. China's current economic model is built on exporting its way out of its economic troubles.
It's an unsustainable model that is not only harming China, but the entire world. China needs to change. The country knows it needs to change. Everyone knows it needs to change. And we want to help it change because we need rebalancing too.
By bringing it from the 37 as we're redoing the tax plan to perhaps 38.6, right, it would still be 1% less than it was before. So if you were to bring it up at one point, it brings about $15 billion in revenues.
I'm not going to vote for that. I've never met a tax break I didn't like. We need to look at going in and trying to find policies to spur the economy, to move things forward. And you don't do that by raising taxes.
I am here with my colleagues to demand that Donald Trump facilitate the safe return home for Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
And we want to be just very clear that he needs to come home. This is about due process. We're not going to be the last members of Congress and senators that are here to make sure that he's released and that our country is following our laws.
Well, I hope more Democrats continue to stand up for MS-13 gang members. Politically, this is incredible for us. You know, it's really rich. These are the same politicians that during the State of the Union wouldn't stand up, wouldn't applaud for angel mothers. And then they turn around and they want to defend an MS-13 gang member. It's quite amazing.
So I personally like the juxtaposition of where the Republicans are on this issue and where the Democrats are.
What will it take for you to be convinced that there's no white genocide in South Africa?
Bloomberg broke news today that the South African government is working around the rules on black ownership in order to allow Starlink in, and that is being done on the eve of the visit that President Ramaphosa is going to make to the White House. Do you recognize that as a conflict of interest?
And I think that's one of our core responsibilities in the Senate or in the government here to ever allow the government to shut down.
We don't agree with what's been sent to us. But, you know, if we withhold our votes, that is going to shut the government down. And I think that's one of our core responsibilities in the Senate or in the government here to ever allow the government to shut down.
We've got some conversations that are happening on the phone and in person with some of our representatives over the next couple of days. As the president said, we think that we're in a very good place where the Ukrainians have agreed to a ceasefire. And we're now going to see whether we can get the Russians to agree to a ceasefire, too.
It's a disaster symbolically as much as it's a disaster in reality. Think about a country whose president basically says as their first acts, I'm getting rid of education. Let's be clear. This administration is focused on destroying public education.
this magical, charismatic quality in person. She just, that was fierce and fearless. She is like, in my view, an undervalued talent. She's a very fierce communicator. That's who she is. But there is a character out there. There is, it's almost like public opinion hasn't caught up with what she is doing out there. And also, we live in a country that is sexist and racist.
When we have a flood of imports being dumped into certain key strategic sectors, steel, aluminum, chips, pharmaceuticals, as we learned during COVID, we have to take specific action. So what we're doing with chips, the problem, interestingly, for chips, because it's very complex stuff, is that we don't buy a lot of chips like in bags. We buy them in products.
So what Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick is going to do is doing as we speak is an investigation of the chip supply chain. The goal is stability and resilience. And you will see actions taken based on those investigations on copper. We've already have steel in a moment. We already have autos. There will be pharmaceuticals and there will be chips.
His tariffs on allies like Canada will raise prices on energy, lumber and cars.
Average American families can expect that these Trump tariffs are going to cost them about $2,000 annually. So considering the president ran on a platform about bringing down costs, he seems to be doing exactly the opposite.
Trump started this. This is not only going to put pain and suffering for Canadian families. It's also going to be for Minnesota families and families all across the United States.
You communicated fully with your counterparts in Mexico and Canada, for example, exactly what the president wants, I assume.
I want to ask about California Governor Gavin Newsom's comments saying that Democrats were in the wrong for allowing transgender athletes to compete in female and girl sports. What is your response to that after Democrats had opposed the women and girls in sports?
I haven't seen his comments. What Democrats opposed was unleashing sexual predators on girls throughout the United States of America.
But in the face of crisis, the lesson is don't scatter.
I think I speak for everyone at the White House. We encourage Kamala Harris to continue going out and do speaking engagements.
Three different people, the original source and two others, have confirmed that the plan now by the White House is to remove the National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, who was on Fox News this morning just not that long ago, and his deputy, Alex Wong, and much of the member current staff team at the National Security Council.
because of unhappiness throughout the national security establishment of how they're doing. The West Wing's unhappy, the State Department, the Treasury, unhappiness. And of course, this was around before Signalgate.
It was widely reported that Signalgate, ironically, may have saved Waltz's job because the president didn't want to be seen as if he were giving in to Jeffrey Goldberg, his new best friend. But there's lots of levels of unhappiness. And it's less about Signalgate than it is about, as I understand it from my sources, a general belief that it's not being run efficiently in an organized way.
Advocates of the approach argue intervention is temporary and reversible. A lot of politicians are out there shouting about irreversible damages, but blockers actually do the opposite. They prevent permanent changes. Their effects are also reversible.
There's a lot of misinformation around gender-affirming care in minors. Puberty blockers are safe. If it's to halt puberty, then there's no age at which the blocker is inappropriate.
The scientific consensus is clear. The risks are small and, crucially, manageable when they're not.
The West Wing's unhappy, the State Department, the Treasury, unhappiness. And of course, this was around before Signalgate.
Please allow me, friends, to digress for a moment. It's kind of dark in here, but I'm asking a show of hands. Who saw that video from a couple of weeks ago, the one of the elephants at the San Diego Zoo during the earthquake? So in the video, for those who haven't seen it, Here those elephants were.
And as soon as they felt the earth shaking beneath their feet, they got in a circle and stood next to each other to protect the most vulnerable. Think about it. What a powerful metaphor, because we know those who try to incite fear are most effective when they divide and conquer, when they separate the herd, when they try to make everyone think they are alone.
Shock. Yeah, well, I mean, so look, I think knowing Schumer, we speculate what he does, but I'm sure that he had poll numbers and all kinds of things indicating it was a huge problem for the party down ballot, obviously.
So I think he took advantage of it and had this conversation, ultimately didn't get the answer that he wanted. When he came out of the meeting, he said, good meeting, which to me immediately was a huge sign, right? If you're meeting with a nominee of your party 100 days before an election- And you don't say, I fully support Joe Biden. And you know he's twisting in the wind.
Yeah, I fully support him. Our conference supports him. We can't wait to vote for him in November. Something short of that indicates there's something else that happened. And then what we found out when we got to Milwaukee, it's the worst kept secret. Every single journalist, whether it's, you know, you name the publication, we've talked to him over the last few days.
Every single person knows exactly what happened. But they asked Chuck Schumer and it's a one-on-one meeting and he denies it. So they're not reporting it.
One thing that everyone's paying attention to is the cost of groceries and eggs in particular. The overall price of eggs still going higher and higher to all-time highs.
He promised lower egg prices, lower prices in the grocery store. Eggs are down, by the way. Okay, but not if there's a 10% tariff on everything. Right.
The original idea behind daylight savings time was to reduce energy consumption by making better use of daylight during the longer days of summer. The idea was simple. Fewer hours of darkness meant less electricity consumption for lighting and heating.
This concept might have made sense in the early 20th century when our economy and our homes relied much more heavily on energy consumption tied to daylight hours. Today, the data show energy savings from daylight savings time are de minimis, if not entirely non-existent.
But the back and forth between daylight savings time and standard time needs to change and needs to stop. We need to stop the clock. We need to find a solution and stick with it.
be winners and losers no matter which way the knot is cut. We recognize the sleep-related arguments for standard time, but the benefits of extended daylight for physical and mental health, outdoor recreation, and public safety are significant. Obesity, depression, and crime all have ties to reduced daylight. and sedentary lifestyles.
So in short, we urge the Senate to avoid the consequences of permanent standard time. We encourage solutions that preserve evening daylight for golf, for health, for recreation, and local economies.
The sun is one of the most powerful drivers of health and well-being, but the timing of sunlight is what's critically important. Without enough morning light or with too much evening light, our circadian rhythms delay. This disrupts our sleep patterns and our body and brain function. Permanent daylight savings time would cause sunrises after 8 a.m.
for two to four months every winter, depriving us of this critical morning light. This is why permanent daylight saving time would be exponentially worse than seasonal daylight saving time.
Dishwashers, toilets, sinks. But the showerheads are a huge deal.
So with this executive order, we're effectively going to be reversing that set of regulations to ensure that Americans have choice in the consumer market. If they want a low-flow showerhead, they can buy one. If they want a real-deal showerhead, they should have the ability to get one.
It's like, okay, this is a misdemeanor business records case. Stop it. And Trump has maintained his innocence, which is real, from the beginning. He's no remorse for the people he's hurt.
Bye, Justin. We will miss you a little. The she session and turn it into a she covery. That's a real person who exists and was running Canada. I mean, currently is running Canada. Welcome back to the Megyn Kelly show.
You know, it's like the people who say it's Herstory instead of History. He's one of those guys. This is not one of your guys, Jesse, who you'd be having a beer with.
It's very funny. I had not actually heard the Jesse Kelly explanation of that, but it makes a lot of sense, explains a lot of things. All right.
Look at her.
Anand, you really shouldn't be teaching this shit to journalism students in particular, that you need the government to protect you from the Hitler who just won re-election.
You can't, like, shoot with them? Or you can't shoot at them? You can't shoot... Are we sure he's not talking about, like, shots? You know what I mean?
Can we diagram that sentence? That's something that was stated as part of my remarks.
You don't think you have sway over the Republican Party can make them do that?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because he was holding on to a baby for dear life.
Yeah.
Boring.
He really leaned into the bit. Yeah. So great.
Right.
Yeah.
It's a lose-lose.
That's a really good question.
Body touching.
Yeah.
But ship logs show they were identified as drones, quote, at the time. Now hold the fuck up. By saying that the Pentagon did little to dispel, you're implying the Pentagon knew damn well what these were, and they're just not dispelling a rumor or a myth.
Well, we know that for sure, Jay Stratton, as an example, at UAPTF, was one of the individuals who collected a bunch of data on what was going on. We actually provided a bunch of data to the Pentagon when we did our releases that we obtained. But we know for sure that Jay Stratton
And under UAPTF that they looked at this with optical physicists and all this stuff and that it was not known and still is not known what these units were, where they were coming from, where they were launching, where they were landing. I'd call that a UFO, a UAP. I'd call that an unknown. And in some logs, they're called UAS, unmanned aerial system.
And when I asked the people that wrote that, I said, well, you thought it was spectacular. Why did you use that terminology? That's what was allocated to us in the kind of choices of what we could write. Why do you think there's this predisposition to refer to them as drones or call them that?
I'm doing great, man. We've been hanging out a lot, hitting the pavement, doing a lot of work together that I'm excited that we're going to be putting out.
Like you would hear rotors, whirling of blades, something like that. Conventional propulsion.
And you don't recall hearing that from these? What else in general just doesn't add up with the conventional drone idea?
So in the 60 Minutes piece, they're showing, I believe it was USS Russell, where on the night they're doing drone, because that's all you can write when you're seeing something that does not appear to be able to hold a human. It makes sense. Of course, it's a drone. But what you're trying to do is, one, say the Pentagon knew and didn't dispel speculation that they were UFOs or UAPs.
And that is absolutely 100% false. And then additionally, you're implying that the word drone had any meaning in these ship logs. It is not only false, it is disingenuous. I have to say, it really pisses me off because I could have put them in touch with... dozens of direct eyewitnesses that could have told them the real shebang, what was going on.
And instead, you're minimizing a national security issue that a lot of people were affected by. And you're doing it with sleight of hand. I'm not holding back words. That's how I feel. And I want to dig deeper into that. But whatever, you get the meaning.
Yeah, it was great. So Age of Disclosure is the name of the movie. And we were invited to go see the premiere at South by Southwest. I didn't kind of realize that every single UFO person that I know was going to be there. It was fun, man. It was really cool to get together with everybody and to be able to see the movie before it kind of hits the screens. I heard a lot about it.
Yeah, so look, the exact line, and this is like a real point for me, because what 60 Minutes is doing is they're perpetrating a lie on the American public, something that is absolutely not true.
And this is something that I saw percolating through media outlets trying to say that the Bass Strait, this Hong Kong freighter, was launching and landing, by the way, these significant size UAP or UAS, whatever you want to call them. And you can read it on Wikipedia. It was propagated. Maybe it was the drive. It was propagated this false, false narrative.
The Paul Hamilton was in closest proximity to a ship called the Bass Strait, which is a cargo ship that's run by Pacific Basin. And I want to start with an image that comes up about what the media has said, right? Which is that case has been solved. So Zach, can we bring up the first image from New York Post?
Their horrible, disingenuous, ridiculous, parroted reporting of an untruth because you're about to see it. So if people can see that. Mysterious drone attacks on U.S. warships solved. I don't agree with that assessment. And let's get to specifically why. But to tell you what that's saying. So there was a cargo ship that was right by the Paul Hamilton.
And it has been propagated this mythology that these 100 plus drones within a 100 mile radius were launched from and landed back to this ship called the Bass Strait. In fact, it's propagated so much you can even find it on Wikipedia now. If you pull up the Wikipedia, Zach, it's like it's already, you know, just OK, Wikipedia. There we go. Just go ahead and read it.
Yeah, so let's get that garbage off the screen because it's false. But here's the deal, man. The reason why you find it trickled down to Wikipedia is because this has been a false narrative that has been propagated by subpar journalists and subpar journalism sources, and they try to trickle it down all the way. Now, someone just reads that, they're like, oh, great, case solved.
Obviously, we know almost everybody that's involved with it. I think it was a powerful collection of strong voices, some you've heard from before, but many you have not, all kind of talking about the same thing, which is that this is something we're going to have to contend with, which is the reality and presence of UFOs.
So let's back the fuck up. Yeah, you got to wonder why. Here's the exact words from the 60 Minutes piece. And the Navy suspected they came from this Hong Kong flagged freighter sailing nearby, which was the Bass Strait. but couldn't prove it saying the Navy thought it was there, but couldn't prove it. Well, George, if you remember, I think it was episode two of weaponized.
We had our friend active Navy commander guts, John Gutierrez on, and we had a dialogue about some of these swarms. And one of the things that I believe it was in that episode we provided was audio from the individual in charge of monitoring through surveillance equipment, the bass straight in real time,
This individual, if you remember the audio, he wanted to be able to say, yep, yep, we see where they're landing and launching from. Problem is, they weren't. I want to talk about origin. There's been a lot of talk that these objects, if not launched from land, that they were launched from a merchant vessel. So the Bass Strait is a lot of people are trying to pin this on the Bass Strait.
Can you tell me a little bit about that, about origin and what you know about the Bass Strait?
Was it your impression that the contacts did not belong to the merchant vessel? And can you verify that you asked the merchant vessel and they denied that they were theirs?
So not only do we have the word of UAPTF, not only did we meet the FBI personally who boarded that ship and said no, but we also have on record testimony in one of our weaponized of the dude whose job it was to identify UAPTF. If these units were coming on and off this Bass Strait, how this lie continues to go is because people want it to be so that this lie will continue.
It's verifiably false at this time. So just to be abundantly clear, the events continued happening when in Port and Long Beach, boarded by the FBI. We've met people who boarded it. And these units were not coming from or leaving from or docking on the Bass River. It's an absolute lie. And we need to just absolutely get rid of that lie.
So I don't know if I drove that home enough, but I am sick and tired of mainstream media giving us these lies through things like 60 Minutes and Wall Street Journal.
Yeah, I mean, they were going in and out of the water. That's what the Hilo pilots have directly told me. That is what you're seeing on radar. That is what all accounts showed, that these were transmedium. Now, whose they are and all that, we're not talking about. We're just trying to tell the difference between what you're being told as fact, which isn't fact.
You know, the word drone is used, but that is not the point here. Now, FLIR footage, I think it's a matter of education in some way. You're talking about no... flight control systems. You don't have anything like wings, tail, rotors. And then you get into signatures and kind of signature intelligence. There's no heat plumes. There's no rotor wash.
We know that to not be true, not only from internal comms that we've seen, but from, you know, people high up in these regulatory bodies being like, if it was the FAA, we didn't know. So it's almost fundamentally ridiculous. But when you get Wall Street Journal in 60 Minutes kind of moving over parts of the topic, especially 60 Minutes, inaccurately.
So the shape you're seeing in the black and white footage, to put it clearly, and it's not just me saying it, it's experts that work with this footage. Even Commander Gutierrez said this in the episode, the shape you're seeing is the heat signature. What you're seeing there is what you get.
When you're looking at things that have traditional rotor propulsion, like we would think of as drones, although there's tons of different kinds of propulsion, you're going to get some exhaust and plume of heat. You see none of that, none of that. So when you see a black and white footage that is typically going to be FLIR,
And when you have a lack of signatures for heat, then you know that that is most likely some sort of propulsion system that is different than something you'd see with rotor or jets. I suspect we're going to see evidence of other swarm events from Navy ships with footage in the very near future that have similar signature or absence of signature in the black and white FLIR or thermal footage.
Like, not only do I suspect that, I know that because we're going there, George, and soon.
It's ridiculous. It's like the White House coming out and saying, oh, nothing to see here. All of these things were FAA approved.
Yeah, look, I don't care if it's the shape of Mickey Mouse. I don't even want to get into that right now. But yeah, absolutely. There were solid objects that were off the aft of the tail of the ship. They were used by, you know, I think it was range finders to other 700 feet off. There were two in particular. That was an element of the footage we put out, but it was a different version.
Again, people argue about things as if you're just seeing stars, but on all other sensors in the official documents, I mean, you know, they tell you these were units. That's why people went out onto the deck. And people dismiss the, what I call the deck footage that we obtained and released where you just see lights, but that off USS Russell.
But why that was so important to me, because if we didn't have that one piece of like iPhone footage showing self-luminosity, right? That people could get away with saying like, oh, these are just balloons or something like that. But when you see it's self-luminous, well, then you're dealing with something else.
So even though it's not visually exciting, that last piece of evidence we provided, and that's why we did it last, it does show self-luminosity. And again, just go back to the interview that we did with your pal Jay Stratton, because he does talk about them being self-luminous, triangle by angle of observation.
He had optical physicists look at that sensor system and others, and they came up with that it was pyramid in shape. Green footage from the USS Russell. which you know that George and I obtained and released. So you know somebody's filmed a screen and shouldn't have done that, but that's not me. It's journalists. There's shield law. Obtained and released. But you've seen it.
They played it in Congress. Okay. The question about that is, was that, to the best of your knowledge, is that a camera artifact of the iris? The shape that you see in the green footage, we'll call it green, Is that an artifact of the iris?
For sure. I think that's all up to us. You know, this is a time. I think what Dan did in his movie is he brought together all the people that have been talking again that you've heard from and some you haven't. Just saying the same thing, just drilling it home. And I think that's so important. Visually, it's beautiful.
It's a what?
You said three PhDs. You got three PhDs or you got three PhD people to look at it?
like optical physicists. Yes. But why go so far to show one video instead of three other videos that are out in the public that are corroborated visual evidence of one event and then say they're drones and quite I know who named them drones. So why did they do that?
And that's not me saying it. That's not you saying it.
However, we do know that these units were swarming these ships and that they were unknown, unidentified, still are, that they're not typical conventional drones, that they were awed with shape and morphology, that they had propulsion capability that seems different than what we know. And just to put an absolute extra little punctuation mark on that, one of the verbal testimonies that...
both me and active Navy commander got was one of the individuals off of USS Russell. And they saw it travel amongst, you know, kind of on the line of the ship. And the exact words are, boom, shot up, like to outer space.
So eyewitnesses that were there saw extreme instantaneous movement. You can dismiss it all day long, but the cumulative evidence over time is going to go against the idea of just traditional drones. Now, I'd love these to be ours. I'd love for them to know. I'd love for us to know whose they are, if they are ours. But you can't lie and say they were launching off fast, straight.
And I think the idea of having everybody in unison saying, this is something we have to contend with now. It will take the average person and it will make them say, hey, I have to address this. So I think the effects of any movie, because again, no single image, no single movie, no single thing. It's the weight, the body and the weight of evidence. It's how we respond to it.
UAP task force was a task force specifically dedicated to UAP has nothing to do with the type of work that NORAD does. Like we have great Raytheon technology out on Guam that have incredible capability to be able to perceive, you know, threats and things coming in even very small into our atmosphere. So yeah, that's a kind of slide a hand thing again.
So I do want to reel it in a little bit and I will be more encouraging. I do want to say I am, I am stoked that 60 minutes did a piece. you know, personal message to Graham. Keep it up, dude. We need you, you know, keep doing it.
I would just say, you know, treading into the territory of reporting on things that are as important as I believe the 2019 thing is that you want to get it right and not propagate false information. I know as journalists, if we make a mistake. We try to repent and repair, and we try to put that out.
But this is one of those situations where we need to call it out, like our friend Merrick did, saying, hey, if you're going to talk about this case, put the most important piece of footage out there with all the corroborative sensor data. Don't just mention it. Put out the radar. Put out the USS Omaha FLIR footage. Really dive in. Otherwise, we're doing a disservice.
So I do want to be encouraging... I do think it's so important that we keep this discussion going, but you're going to be fact checked. You're going to be fact checked if you get it wrong.
So the best we can do is we can hope to obtain and release and provide more visual evidence to the public on these mysterious, pesky UFOs, UAP. We hope that imagery like that, video like that, And testimony like that will help kind of move the ball forward with legislation, as well as with the general public's understanding of what it is they're seeing.
And I think also bringing forward whistleblowers. And I know we've had a busy number of months, George. And I just I will say this. I mean, we have recorded with numerous individuals who you will be hearing from who have a piece to the story, a piece of the pie, a piece of the puzzle. And I think that's really important. We have Dave Grush up there in Congress. We have everybody, Commander Fravor.
So I think the power for me, what I see in products like that is that it brings it into pop culture and starts the dialogue and even can influence, you know, congressional, it can influence policy. And that's what I'm hoping is that when you get enough people of high credibility saying, got to fucking do something, then influence policy.
We have everybody that came after that. We need to continue that. And I am hopeful for the task force. whatever they can do in four months on UFOs. But I am hopeful for the future of this because I do know for sure you will be hearing directly from people, not just you and me, repeating what other people say. And I'm excited for that, George. And I hope you are too.
Yeah, it's going to be a fun year. Can't wait. See you next week, George.
Look, first of all, it was an opinion piece. People put like weight on it because it's in the Wall Street Journal. It was garbage. It was just absolute garbage. And so, you know, that's the problem is that, you know, you get these like big media outlets like Wall Street Journal and you put weight in it. But the weight should be on the on the value of the content.
They were just completely inaccurate. Whoever they were, I don't know who the writer is. And not only that, being an opinion piece, one thing I did notice, the attacks keep coming. They described, this is the first time, a new low. They described David Grush as a, quote, mental patient. And then it was hotlinked. I didn't even want to click it. Probably went to that Clippin Idiots article.
But it's the attacks on whistleblowers. It's the attacks on people who testified in front of Congress, under oath, And just trying to, you know, personally diminish the testimony, the content of what they said by calling them mental patients. David Grush was never a mental patient. And so that was a real, that was a new low. I guess they got to swing low now.
Then we have a real, Houston, we got a problem. But ship logs show they were identified as drones, quote, at the time. Now hold the fuck up. Why do you think there's this predisposition to refer to them as drones or call them that?
Absolutely. So the Wall Street Journal article and the timing of it and the title of it and it coming out. It was to discourage, you know, it's the old thing. You know, serious people don't have serious discussions about something so unserious. You know, that was like the 60s mentality about UFOs. Yeah, it was to discourage, you know, real reporting on the issue.
It's going to have the reverse effect because people know too much now. I do want to say, I think David Grush is an amazing pick to have to help with this task force in whatever limited ability that they can get done remotely. regarding UAP, I think even if he can't disclose everything to them, what he can do is put them in the right direction.
I couldn't think of somebody better to help with a congressional task force than David. I want to make that really clear because I think that positive things can come from this. Now, 60 minutes, you bring that up. Now, look, man, I might have a different opinion than you on this because I'm looking at some details that it's not only...
poorly sourced it's it's it's a lie it's it's it's misleading and and it really bothered me so let me get your opinions first on the 60 minute piece and then i want to tell you what i think well i'll be good cop to your bad cop um
I don't disagree, essentially, but they fucked up and they fucked up and they and they created false associations. And I'm sorry, I'm going to have to call it out. You know, it's like that. That's just kind of what we got to do, man. We got to keep it. But I see your point. And we're getting personal now. I know like Bill Whitaker and I know Graham.
Yes, they're creating something in a big media platform that is important. And I do applaud them for that. But we got to get certain things right. So let me start with you just did a report about one of the incursions. And I just want to kind of hear your perspective on that and about what 60 Minutes came up with in your reporting.
On record testimony in one of our weaponized of the dude whose job it was to identify if these units were coming on and off this Bass Strait. How this lie continues to go is because people want it to be so.
Yeah. I mean, if you're doing what they call like a red force operation, you know, where you're trying to see the vulnerabilities by doing these tests to see how they respond, you're going to notify the base commander. You're going to notify the people that need to know so that they don't have some kind of unconditioned response that is bad. So it's foolish. It's ridiculous.
It's like the White House coming out and saying, oh, nothing to see here. All of these things were FAA approved. We know that to not be true, not only from internal comms that we've seen, but from, you know, people high up in these regulatory bodies being like, if it was the FAA, we didn't know. So it's almost fundamentally ridiculous. But when you get Wall Street Journal in 60 minutes, kind of,
Moving over parts of the topic, especially 60 Minutes, inaccurately, then we have a real, Houston, we got a problem. And so, yeah, want to talk about a couple of those problems just so people get the facts right.
Absolutely. And so like, you know, again, we have to like redefine the word drone and explain like what, you know, people can label things as like UAS started popping up, unmanned. aerial system, let's say, you know, all these words are given to them because that is what they identify and can identify them as.
But we've actually talked with the people who wrote those terms, who actually wrote those down on USS Russell, on USS Omaha. We know why they wrote the words that they wrote. So we'll get into that. But let me start with the first thing. In the 60 Minutes report, it says they were shadowed for weeks by dozens of drones. Okay, they weren't shadowed for weeks.
There was a three-day period with an arc in the middle. And we reported on that. And we showed the footage and the radar and all that stuff. It was over a smaller amount of periods. You got to get the details right on the amount of time, the duration of these kind of performances that you get with these swarms of Navy ships. Because, by the way, we just reported on something.
We had a bunch of footage that we could put out that we obtained and released. These events are happening all the time. There's almost like an immunity with Navy people because they see these things, record these things. They don't even report them up the chain of the command a lot of the time. So it was over a three-day period, over a hundred mile radius, and it was over 100 unknown units.
Call them UAS, call them drone, call them UFO. They're unidentified, so I don't fucking care. Call them UAP. Call them whatever you want. I call them units, unknown units. So anyway, that was one thing, was the duration. The exact quote in the 60 Minutes was, for years, and this one really pissed me off, for years, the Pentagon did little to dispel speculation these images were UFOs.
So like half of the cities in America, I'm like, these are scary.
In Sacramento fĂĽhle ich mich immer, als wĂĽrde ich in einem Hotel bleiben. Es ist wie ein Hotel, und du gehst von dem Hotel zum Punchline oder was auch immer.
Oh, ich denke, ich wĂĽrde es eher als Hampton Inn sagen. Oh, das ist gut.
I don't, like you do, like I hit a point where I'm just like, I don't care if I break even. I'm not staying in a disgusting place. I can't do it.
I feel like I'm like Eloise of like Hampton Inns at this point.
I know. So, like, yeah, there is a time when you're 20 doing stand-up where you're just so low maintenance.
Yeah, it's so true. We're just sitting, we're not only looking for it, we're just like there for eight hours in the day.
I always feel that when I go to Denver, because I'm like, okay, I'm going to rent a car, I'm going to go to one, I'm going to go to a little, I'm going to go to Steamboat or I'm going to go look at, no, I'm just in that comedy condo with the inflatable clown.
It's incredible. I started in Denver. You did? So yeah, I used to do the phone line. Really? From my memory, it took 12 weeks that first time where you had to call every single week. If you missed a week, they would drop you off the list. Oh, fĂĽr die Open Mic Night?
Und dann kriegst du die zwei Minuten auf der BĂĽhne.
Ja, das war es, weil sie wollten, dass du weiĂźt, dass du dir dedizierter bist, glaube ich. Ja, aber woher kommst du denn? Ich meine, ich komme aus Illinois.
He is alive, yeah. A lot of people don't know there's an epilogue on that too, that's like 12 minutes. I think I put too much time in between.
Yeah, he wrecked his bike. And I mean, I thought it was my sister called me and she's like, he's going to be dead. And so I went to go visit. I went to the hospital in Tennessee to go see him. And he was not dead. No, but he was like in. Yeah, it was like it was bad.
Ich weiĂź es nicht.
You stayed in this room? Yeah, exactly.
Ja, es war so chaotisch, wenn ich zurĂĽckblicke. Aber es war wie in Central Illinois. Wir lebten in einer kleinen Stadt namens Armington, die im Film ist. Es waren 350 bis 400 Leute. Keine Unternehmen.
Nothing, like seriously, there are no stores. So when I was growing up, there was a gas station.
And that was the, you know, they had some food there. Snacks. Mountain Dew, Code Red, that sort of thing.
And that's it. And now that's closed down.
She's in Illinois as well, but she used to work at that. She used to be the person at the turners. And she used to always get in trouble because she'd bring three of us. And sit there? And we'd be sitting there, yeah. Behind the counter at the gas station? We'd just be playing around and it's like, you know, at some point someone has to draw a line and say, this isn't a daycare as well.
I'm the second out of five. Five? Yeah, there's five of us.
Yeah, five with one dad and one mom. And yeah, it was chaotic.
Okay, also es gibt fĂĽnf Kinder...
Yeah, I mean, my sister is 15 months older, and so we were basically twins. So we were in the same grade. Yeah. So I have the memories where like my sister is 10 years younger than me. She doesn't know anything. Because when we left my dad, she was two. And so I have all the memories. And it was, yeah, I mean, it was just really, it was really poor. It was super poor, very chaotic.
But like, you know, everyone says like kids are resilient. You know, it's true. Like we were just like, if it's your norm, then you're like, this is my life.
Ich meine, das war auch das, was ich in dem Film gesagt habe. Es war wirklich so, dass mein Vater manchmal ausgehen wĂĽrde. Meine Mutter wĂĽrde sagen, dein Vater geht wieder auf den Weg. Und dann wĂĽrde er nicht mehr zwei Jahre zurĂĽckkommen. Und ich wĂĽrde sagen, das ist ein langer Weg. Echt? Ja. Und wir waren so jung, vier Jahre alt. Ich war vier, als er fĂĽr zwei Jahre rausging.
Und dann, du weiĂźt, wer das immer tut. Ja.
I mean, she was on, you know, government aid for a while. And then his family lived down there, like in the country, in Illinois.
And so they kind of took care of each other. Like, she was friends with his sister. And then his mom always took us in if we needed it.
Yeah. Okay. Ich meine, es ist einfach so anders da unten. Sie waren wie Jehovas Beobachter. Und es ist so, dass keiner von ihnen... Ich weiĂź es nicht. Er ist einfach weggegangen, glaube ich. Aber ich denke, ein paar seiner BrĂĽder waren es.
Es wird der nächste sein. Ja. Über deine Vaters Familie? Es wird einfach so sein, als ob ein paar Leute Oberhauern auf ihrem Tisch sitzen.
Sorry, kids. My mom said when he would leave and when he would come back, it would be harder for her. It was easier when he was gone in a lot of ways. And so it's like she had to take care of another person.
I feel like my mom was like very, you know, she's like super, she was super Catholic.
And very like afraid of conflict. Right. And I think she was more quiet than anything. Like I don't think she was like instigating any sort of fights.
Ich erinnere mich an Kämpfe, die dazu führen würden, wenn er es wirklich gemacht hätte. Wenn wir nach Chicago geflogen sind, war es alles. Ich war zwölf.
So he was in prison when my older sister was born.
Yeah, I don't even remember it. How long was he in for? I don't know, maybe three or four years.
Well, my mom was pregnant when he was at Joliet State Prison, which is closed down now. But she was pregnant and went to go visit him.
Und dann, als sie, als meine Schwester Michaela geboren wurde, war er im Gefängnis. Weil ich sie die andere Nacht gefragt habe, sie war hier besuchen. Und ich war so, war er zumindest unterstützend, wenn du deine Babys hattest?
Im Krankenhaus? Sie war so, oh nein. Sie war so, er war im Gefängnis, Michaela. Und ich war so, okay, also nein. Und er war trank, als du geboren wurdest. Und ich war so, okay. Und du hattest gesagt, dieser Typ, wir müssen mehr Kinder mit diesem Typ haben.
Und dann war sie so, ich dachte nur, er wĂĽrde kommen. Und ich war so, okay, das ist auf dich.
Right. Sometimes I feel like I'm waiting around on myself to change.
I've been here before.
I feel like that anytime I'm on stage and I really want to go into somebody talking or on their phone or something, and I just go, you're not seeing it, just don't look that way.
Ja, und ich denke, es ist, weil niemand mir Geschenke bringt, aber ich bin offen fĂĽr Leute, wo Leute einen Geschenk bringen wollen. Ich denke, es ist, weil sie wissen, du wirst auf der BĂĽhne, wenn du mit deinem Set fertig bist. Sie sind so, das ist mein Zeitpunkt.
Person who does his job. Yeah. You're like, let me get back to my act.
Es ist so schwer, weil es so viel interessanter ist, und wir alle wissen das, weil wir in den Crowds gewesen sind, um zu sehen, was passiert, wenn ein Heckler da ist. Und deshalb ist es so schwer, zurĂĽckzukommen, weil du sagst, dass nichts interessanter ist, als das, was wir jetzt sehen.
That's actually a really good idea, because it's going to be split focus.
I still think it's funny, somebody crocheting a toy. Hey, hey ladies, shut up. It's just so funny. Fuck your toy. You could have a whole 15 minutes at the end where you just accept gifts from everybody.
Checking all the cat toys, the paintings.
You leave a knife as a tip. That's great.
I know. Well, especially if it's homemade.
Ja, also wir lebten in der spezialisierten Show, der Haus, in dem wir lebten, der einfach zerstört wurde. Und das Haus war furchtbar. Und wir lebten dort. Es waren sieben Leute und 14 Pferde.
Ja, genau. Und es war wie, du weiĂźt.
Ja, es gab ein Wellen und es war furchtbar. Ich konnte das nie machen.
Ja, das war auĂźerhalb von Armington, Illinois. Ja. Das war meistens, wo ich geboren wurde, weil es auĂźerhalb der Stadt war. Ja. Ein bisschen auĂźerhalb der Stadt. Also, es gab nichts zu tun. Meistens hatten wir nichts, nichts zu tun, keine Kabel.
Ja. Aber, also, mein Vater, ich weiĂź nicht, er muss getrunken oder so. Ich erinnere mich nicht an alle Details. Ich erinnere mich nur an... Er ging auf eine Rampage, schickte einen riesigen Atlas-Buch und schickte die TV. Er schickte meine Mutter in die RĂĽste, als sie meine Sisters Rucksack verwendete. Eine wirklich schreckliche Rampage, wie ich es tue. Und meine Mutter sagte, das ist genug.
Sie schickte es und sagte, wir gehen weg.
So she gets in the car with all of us.
Und ich bin der Helfer. Wir haben einen dieser Stationenwagen, die Woody-Stationenwagen. Ja, wie ein Caprice-Stationenwagen.
Mit dem falschen Holz-Panel. Genau.
Und wir kommen da rein, er schieĂźt das Auto an, wir sind zurĂĽck. Was? Ja.
Yeah, and you're just like, and you know, she's trying to get everybody.
Yeah, and... So we try to get a hotel that night. We can't get a hotel. We end up staying with my granny, who's my dad's mom.
Yeah. And then she tries to convince my mom to stay.
And my mom's like, I'm getting out of here. Wow. So then my grandpa comes down. And he starts raging. Yeah. So then he starts throwing shit at us. My grandma gets in on it. There was a few things.
My grandpa from my mom's dad came down from Chicago.
Drove down, packed us all up, and then we moved in with them.
Yeah. And we lived happily ever after.
Yeah, I lived in the attic. I mean, right. Yeah.
Yeah. I mean, her family loves us.
Yeah, we changed the school, but I was, you know, I feel, I don't know if I'm like psycho or not, but I just didn't feel any trauma at this point or like I was excited to leave. I was excited to like possibly be popular at this next school.
Oh, das ist SpaĂź? In der Stadt? Ja.
Ich meine, es war viel, aber ich gehe von einer Rinky-Dink-Schule nach einem einfachen... Ich meine, tausende Kinder. Und du bist einfach... Aber es war gut. Ich meine, wenn ich zurĂĽckblicke, ich habe Freunde sehr einfach gemacht. Ich hatte Freunde, habe es schlecht in meiner Schule gemacht. Ich habe Freunde gemacht, bin auf dem Basketball-Team eingegangen, das Art von Ding.
Yeah, I did a little bit of the jock, a little bit of the art.
Ja. Ich glaube, ich habe alles versucht, um zu sehen, was mir passt.
Ja. Und ich war auch ein Flagg-Guardin, Flagg-Girl.
Ja, das ist richtig.
Pretty much, yeah. I mean, I don't think any of my friends ended up really doing any of those things. They were all just drinking in the woods.
No, can you imagine?
Nein, wir haben fĂĽr etwa sechs Monate oder ein Jahr geblieben. Und dann sind wir in einen Domestic Violence Shelter geblieben, fĂĽr etwa 18 Monate.
No, because they have, I mean, they had like a great program.
And so we had to apply for it first.
And then nobody like, you can't, the building's like unmarked, obviously. It's just like a brick apartment building.
And so, but they gave us, it's a full apartment. It was three bedrooms. It was nice. Yeah. Especially after living with your grandparents, you're just like happy to have, but we weren't allowed to have, because everyone in there was like, you know, it was a mom and her kids. There were like four or five apartment buildings.
So we couldn't have like boys outside, boys, men in that apartment building. So, you know, I'm like eighth grade.
Yeah, meet some of these boys on the marching band field. Bring them over. So yeah, we used to sneak boys in.
Yeah, they still weren't allowed, but we were just rebels like that.
Und wir mussten... Ich meine, wir mussten zur Behandlung gehen, also mussten wir als Kind jede Woche zur Behandlung gehen.
Ich meine, es war... Zuerst war ich in der Kindergruppe, weil ich zwölf war. Ja. Und dann wurde ich gezwungen, mich bitte in die Teenage-Gruppe zu bringen. Und die Mädchen hatten es. Die Geschichten, es war wie ein ganzes Erwachsenen für mich. Weil, ich meine, sie hatten viel Trauma, aber sie waren auch schon, weißt du, sie waren sexuell. Und ich war so, wow, das ist zu viel für mich.
Ja, es war. Ich wollte nur zurĂĽckgehen und das Spiel spielen. Die Spiele, die wir gespielt haben.
So then we get Section 8 housing.
And we live on Awesome Boulevard in Oak Park, which is Austin.
We went to Awesome. Living on Awesome Boulevard. And it was, you know, it's the border between Chicago and Oak Park. How old are you?
Yeah, well, we were 12 when we moved to Chicago.
Everything changes.
I'm having fun. Yeah. Yeah. I made all new friends immediately.
Der nächste Sommer, als Teil des Vertrages, gehen wir zu seinem Haus. Und dann war das der einzige Sommer, an dem wir da waren. Wir waren da für zwei Wochen.
I mean, we were having fun. He was just working the whole time. He had a girlfriend. Yeah, that's the summer I got my period, as I mentioned in the special.
Yeah, it was pretty exciting for me.
Well, I told him I lied and I was like, I think Sandra got her period. We have to go get her some pads.
Yeah, it was not somebody you wanted to talk to.
Yeah, he was scary. But, I mean, I guess he had his moments. He's very, like, quiet.
You find out, he's a great guy.
Well, he knew there was going to be cameras because we miked him.
But I didn't see him until the moment that I see him in the film.
And so he was nervous.
He was like, what's happening? Right.
Nein, er wusste es. Weil ich ein paar Freunde hatte, die das Projekt mit mir gemacht haben, die auch mit ihm in Kontakt waren. Und wir sagten, okay, wir werden dich mit dem Mikrofon aufnehmen. Und dann kommt er rein und sagt, ihr habt alle ein Bier. Und sie sind so, wir haben 7-Up.
Ich dachte, ich wünschte mir, dass ich einen hätte. Und dann war ich so nervös. Wir sagen, das ist die erste Frage, die ich ihm frage. Ich dachte immer, es wäre lustig, eine lustige Lüge zu mir selbst zu machen, all diese Arbeit und ihm eine dumme Frage zu fragen am Ende. Und so habe ich das gemacht. Und dann sind wir später abends in eine Bar gegangen.
He did. And then I was like, okay, that's it. And he was like, okay. And then we actually played catch. We didn't put that in there, but I wanted to play catch with him in that field. Why didn't you put that in there? It just looked wild. I mean, I was on adrenaline or something. Too tweaked? Yeah. Well, then he thought like, oh, are you just trying to make fun of me? Oh, right.
Because you can throw further than me.
Ja, ich habe all das in der Hochschule gemacht. Und ich habe Basketball gemacht.
Kein Theater, nein. Ich habe einmal im Sommer ein Spiel gemacht, aber ich hatte einen schrecklichen Stage fright. Es war schwer fĂĽr mich, meinen Namen in der Klasse zu sagen. But then outside of class it was fine. My friends, everything. But I was like the sweaty kid.
Yeah. No, I was the same. I could disrupt and I could be funny and I would be at the disciplinary center. But if they're like, you have to say your name and what you did this summer, I'm dead.
Ich meine, wenn ich zurückblicke, ist es lustig, weil ich dachte, ich brauche es nicht. Ich dachte, ich glaube, jeder sagt, dass sie Intimität und Sex brauchen. Und ich dachte, ich brauche das nicht in meinem Leben, um zu überleben.
Nein, es ist wirklich passiert, als ich Comedy begonnen habe. Oh, das ist wild. Es war fast so, als hätte es mich geöffnet.
Yeah, like my college boyfriend, I dated him for two years. Oh my God. And I had a high school boyfriend for four years.
I mean, I could count the amount of times on my hand. I was, yeah.
Right, I'm just like, this is, I'm like, all right, I guess some people need this. I mean. Ich dachte, ich könnte mein ganzes Leben ohne das machen. Ich glaube, ich bin einfach stärker als alle anderen.
Ja, wie du wieder?
Oh yeah, you're just like, I don't know, nobody tells you how hard you're supposed to pull.
Don't you like getting a handjob from a lesbian?
It's a rare gift. My wrist's so strong from that color guard.
Yeah, I went to the University of Wyoming. For no damn reason, really.
I got in, it was like basically 97% of the people that apply get in.
Yeah, but it was less expensive than any other, like for out of state tuition.
Also, ich gehe da hin und jedes andere Semester verliere ich, weil ich zwei Jobs habe. Ich arbeite an der Radio-Station, als Fotografin. Ich arbeite all diese Jobs, um mich zu halten. Ich kĂĽmmere mich nicht so viel um die Schule. Und dann, im ersten Semester nach dem Abschluss, ging ich einfach nicht zur Schule. Und ich arbeitete. Und dann habe ich Comedy angefangen.
Well, I decided, oh, I think I could do that. Like watching SNL stuff. It's like, oh, I wonder how they started. And then I go, oh, they did improv. So I called the improv theater in Denver, which is three hours away. And I was like, hey, I'd like to sign up for classes. So I start improv classes once a week.
Ich kann nicht glauben, dass das, was die Leute tun.
Und dann, ziemlich schnell danach, hat mir jemand gesagt, du sollst Stand-Up probieren. Ich meine, wahrscheinlich fünf Wochen später. Ja. Also habe ich dann in Denver angefangen, Stand-Up zu machen. Also fahre ich aus Wyoming, bombierend. Also gehe ich über mein Set für das offene Mikrofon, die ganze Zeit runter.
Yeah. And then I moved, and then I was like... That's crazy.
Yeah, I was writing jokes, trying to figure it out.
Yeah. Oh, yeah, because it was that thing. I had that thing where it was like first 10 times. I'm like, I'm not bad at this. And then at least two years straight, just like really bad, really. But I never, I just kept going.
straight jokes and just holding yeah just waiting yeah like isn't something supposed to are people supposed to laugh during this period this is where I thought the laugh was gonna happen I'm still waiting no you would do that recording yourself going down you really would give it time you're like okay give a little time just to make sure you make your time at the open mic yeah right oh yeah you get there it's done in 25 seconds because no one's laughing yeah
Man, ich habe es immer gemacht, es wurde einfach so ein Open-Miker. Und manchmal fühle ich mich, als würde ich noch warten, bis es klickt. Aber es hat zumindest zehn Jahre gedauert. Vielleicht fünf Jahre in Chicago. Ich dachte mir, okay, die Leute erzählen dir, wer du bist als Performer. Okay, ich glaube, das macht Sinn.
So we basically crossed a highway to get to the cemetery. We played in it all the time. We found our cat there. You took a graveyard cat? Yeah. You'd go to her little bowl. She had a bird head in it.
This girl died. This is actually when I stopped going to church. So we were at part of the Lutheran church. This girl died when she was 16. And in the doc too, I call her the Michael Jordan of the graveyard because she played three sports in high school.
No, I was a kid. I was in grade school. And she died. And you heard about it at church? No, I just heard about it in the town, because it happened in one of those roads. How did she die? She died in a car accident. Oh my God.
And so her tombstone has her etched in it, playing the three sports.
And so I was always sitting by that thing. I was always visiting her. And that is truly why I stopped going to church, because I was like, that's when I realized, there's nothing.
We play and I always remembered her and I always like would look, you know, even when then you get Google and stuff and I'm like looking it up. Yeah, exactly. Did she die? And I was like, I think I think about her like I'm a family member.
Die Unwissheit wurde verloren.
Ich sollte meine Konfirmation bei der Kirche machen. Und ich bin so, ich gehe nicht. Meine Mutter hat mich nie auf sie gefangen.
Yeah, so I moved back to Chicago because it was rough.
Yeah, I was like a hostess at a steak restaurant. I was like, I gotta get the fuck out of here.
Well, that was in Denver, but I was in Laramie, Wyoming.
Yeah, which I did a bunch of shows there.
It was actually pretty fun because they don't have any comedy.
You are going to, because I had a really early set in Wyoming. And I remember somebody with a, I mean, you know, the professional camera, like the news guys.
The big one. And I remember contacting them years later. I was like, you don't have that tape still, do you? Can you burn that?
But did he have it? No, he probably lost it or something.
At least if it's televised, at least it's your best stuff. These people are posting absolute garbage.
I'm always impressed with like how I, you know, how I was so like word for word with my jokes. And I was like, well, there was like, I really had like a work ethic to that where like now I'm a little loose. Even from this dad jokes, it's like I'm so much looser on stage. Even since the doc? Yeah.
The amount of people that have been there with their work backpacks that clearly got free tickets from the hotel and they're like, is this the whole thing she does?
So I start to do everything. I do I.O., I do Second City, I do all the improv theaters. As a stand-up? No, and at the same time I'm doing stand-up, which helped me because I had such terrible stage fright.
Yeah, I went through the whole program, but then I never would make the Herald team at the end.
Es hat mir geholfen. Ich musste wirklich auf der Bühne sein, weil ich so nervös war. Ich denke darüber den ganzen Tag. Ich bin drei Mal in den Kühlschrank gegangen. Oh mein Gott, ich habe einen Fünf-Minuten-Set.
Das ist der Grund, warum du einen mindlessen Job hast. Du musst einfach einen Job haben, den du nicht interessierst. Ja. Weil wenn du ein Arzt bist, was es schon gab, aber nein, du musst dich auf deinen Job konzentrieren.
This is me. It's my turn. Exactly. No, I feel the same exact way. I was like, I don't know. I have given my life to comedy. And I have been so like, you know, I just think about my bank account going negative so many times in Chicago. And I'm like, it's all like, and I'm buying these wigs and I'm doing it all. Wigs?
Are you doing characters? I'm doing sketch. I'm doing everything. Yeah, I would sometimes go on the show and instead of doing stand-up, I would dress as Larry Bird and just pretend like I'm Larry Bird.
I was an angry guy for years.
I feel like that's smarter in a lot of ways though, because I don't think I really was, I don't think I was like really improving as a stand-up until I let go of the wigs and the costumes.
It's weirdly so much easier, though, because you really get lost. Like, I get lost in Larry Bird, and I'm like, I'm so funny as Larry Bird. I'm so quick.
I still think that. Ich bin immer noch so, das ist verdammt dumm, aber es ist irgendwie lustiger als mein eigenes Selbst auf der BĂĽhne.
Ich habe das Show vor sechs Monaten gemacht. Manchmal bringe ich Larry Bird raus. Du machst das? Ja. Weiß jemand, wer er ist? Ich weiß es nicht. Manche Leute sind so, wer ist das? Also erkläre ich es.
Und ich sage, ich bin Larry Bird, ich bin nicht mehr traurig. Und dann versuche ich, fĂĽnf Spieler zu meinen neuen Celtics-Teams zu rekrutieren. Okay. Und dann habe ich Leute, die... Also es ist ein Crowdwork-Device? Ja, und ich meine, es ist wirklich SpaĂź, aber auch die letzte Zeit, als ich es gemacht habe, war ich einfach so, ich weiĂź nicht, was das war, ich mag das nicht.
I was like, I gotta put my clothes back on.
And everyone has to watch it. I do love like... You drag them in.
To my childhood. Yeah. Yeah, there was... I mean, I love the cringe moment. Like if somebody's doing comedy and there's that cringe in my stomach is like turning for them. I fucking love that so much. It's not that I want so much of that in my act, but I'm like, if I could get one moment where it's like, oh, I don't...
I feel like that's something I've always had on stage, just being able to bounce back, because so many of my jokes would not go. And so at least I was funny in the like, that didn't work. I learned that pretty quick. Most of my act was like, so that one also didn't work.
This is the last one. I'm out of here.
Ja, ich war in all diesen Clubs, aber dann bin ich nach Chicago gegangen, bevor ich ĂĽberhaupt etwas gemacht habe. Ich meine, ich war nicht wie ein groĂźer Fisch.
Ja, es machte wirklich Sinn. Und dann bin ich hier nach L.A. geflogen. Ein paar Jahre später habe ich angefangen, mit Jesselnik auf der Straße zu gehen. Okay. Und dann habe ich die Gigs so geöffnet, wie Theatertouren.
Also bist du solid. Und ich liebe es. Es ist der beste Job der Welt. Ich hätte es lieber, wie ich war. Ja, ich habe dieses ganze letzte Jahr auf einer Theatertour gedreht. Und ich bin so, ich liebe es. Mit Brett Goldstein.
Oh, yeah. I mean, all of those audiences were really different and they were all amazing to navigate.
Es war so lustig, weil ich schon einmal oder zweimal gebombt habe. Definitiv in London. Mit Jeselnik? Oh, du warst in London mit Jeselnik? Ja, und ich habe gebombt und er war so, ich habe gesagt, Gott, ich bin sorry, es war so schlimm. Und er war so, ich kümmere mich nicht, es ist egal. Er war so, ich werde mich trotzdem töten. Und ich war so, das ist eigentlich wirklich hilfreich für mich.
He's like, it doesn't matter if you do good or bad. I'm like, that's actually really helpful for me.
I'm sure he felt empathy when I came off with my tail between my legs.
Oh yeah, that's rough.
Yeah, I did a few bombs. Like, most of them were good. But there were, you know, each tour would be like two or three shows.
Ja, und dann komme ich hin und sage, ich bin eine Lesbin, weißt du was ich meine? Und dann ist es so, wer ist das? Aber sie waren sehr nett, als wir auf einer europäischen Tour gingen und so. Und wir haben Amerika gemacht und wir hatten so viel Spaß und seine Publikation war so gut für mich. Und es war definitiv schwieriger.
Es war eine schwierige Publikation, aber in einer guten Weise, wo sie waren. Ich hatte nur ein paar Shows, die waren wie, sorry.
But it's the best, I think it's the best gig in comedy. I know a lot of people are like, no, go to... To open for Theater Act? Yeah, because it's like, you don't have to get anybody out, you're staying in nice hotels, you're eating good.
And they feel like you're a treat, and they're like, oh, that's great, like, there's this person, yeah, going for 15 minutes.
We met in 2014. Oh, that's been a while. We met at a bowling alley at this event called Les Bowl.
Yeah, I remember calling it dyke hockey when I was completely in the closet. Yeah.
She is a writer. She started as a performer, like improv sketch. I didn't know her when she was a performer. And she's a writer. She does like kids TV, kids movies, kids musicals. Oh, really? Yeah. Who's that?
Oh, Samantha Martin.
Ich meine, viele Leute, die ich kenne, die in der Kinder-TV arbeiten, Sam auch, es ist so, sie hat nie aufgehört zu arbeiten, wo wir alle all diese Jahre von Gaps von Shows, die wir gemacht haben, oder was auch immer.
I could use some of that. Low expectations.
You want the same thing over and over.
Ein paar Jahre, vielleicht zwei oder drei Jahre. Ja. Ja. Und dann sind wir verheiratet in ihrer Elternhaus. Und ja, und wir sind jetzt schon lange zusammen gewesen. Das ist gut.
Ja, es ist eigentlich gut. Wir hatten ein Kind und, um, du weiĂźt, es gab einige schwierige Jahre in Covid fĂĽr beide von uns.
Wir mussten einfach nur auf uns aufstehen.
Aber ich glaube, wir haben es irgendwie geschafft.
Yeah, we'll see if we survive the fire. Like every few years LA gives us something.
Wie alt war die? Sie war fĂĽnf Monate alt, als die Pandemie begonnen hat. Oh mein Gott. Und ich bin gerade zurĂĽckgekommen. Ich war auf dem Anthony-Show, Good Talk. Und wir waren da fĂĽr vielleicht eine Woche. Du hast das geschrieben? Ja. Und ich war so, ich bin raus. Ich werde ein Gym-Memberschaft bekommen. Ja. Und ich bin zurĂĽck, weil ich das Baby hatte. Also bin ich so, okay. Du hattest es?
Ich bin so, ich werde mein Körper zurücknehmen und so. Und nein, geschlossen. Wirklich? Ja.
Es war wirklich wild. Es war wirklich schwierig für mich, weil es nicht meine Identität ist, krank zu werden. Ich habe nicht das Ding gemacht, wo ich immer den Bein rüttelte oder so. So beherrschend. Und weißt du, wenn Fotos von Frauen so gehen, wenn sie den Topf öffnen, um zu wissen, dass ich krank bin. Ich war immer die Arme raus, weil ich das nicht mag.
I need it out. Yeah, it was, yeah.
So I'm four years older, but also, I mean, I joke that it's because I'm taller, but I do think that it's, like, I felt like my body could take it better because her mom is petite and Sam's more petite than I am. And so I was like, I think actually I can hold this better. And we got tested and my eye was like more fertile than her.
Das hat Sinn gemacht, denn meine Familie konnte keine Kinder haben, kein Problem. Ja, ja, viele Kinder. Ja, ja. Und so, ja, ich dachte, okay, ich mache es, und dann macht sie einen zweiten. Und ich habe einen Witz darĂĽber, aber es ist wahr, dass sie mich gesehen hat, das Baby zu haben, und sie war so... Nein, das ist es. Ja. Because she was like, I... I'm backing out of the deal.
Which is funny, because when dads see it, they're like, oh, if I could, if I could. And she actually did get to see it and had the opportunity to do it, and she was like, no.
Ja, weil wir unserem Doktor gesagt haben, dass sie auf 9-11 geboren werden soll. Ja. Und wir haben ihm wirklich gesagt, wir wollen das so schnell wie möglich rausnehmen. Ich will nicht, dass sie auf 9-11 geboren wird.
Ich wurde induziert. Ja. Und er hat es gemacht. Er war so, lass uns das machen.
Ja, sie ist groĂźartig. Und wir sind, ich meine, having one kid is good. I would feel kind of weird leaving on the road, leaving like a newborn and a five-year-old, you know, it's a lot.
Ja, um ehrlich zu sein, war es so, dass du nie bereit warst, wegzukehren und wieder zu arbeiten. Ich war nicht bereit. Ich meine, mental war ich manchmal, aber emotional war es schwer, von ihr wegzukommen.
The special is good. It has a small audience that's watched it and now it's on Hulu, so maybe more will watch.
Yeah, he's functioning. We were texting a little bit, but then I think he saw the film and was like, he hasn't texted since.
So now it's back to normal. I mean, it doesn't matter to me.
No. Yeah. You know, he's just not a nurturing fella.
I don't think he was ever supposed to have children. So he had five. So he had five with my mom.
Und sie war immer so, er war so glücklich und er war heiß. Und ich war so, Mama, ich will nicht hören, wie du schmutzig warst. Das ist, warum du all diese Fehler gemacht hast.
Ja. Ja, sie ist, nein, sie ist, wir sprechen immer.
Ich meine, sie liebt ihre Kinder so viel.
Sie denkt, wir können nichts falsch machen. Jeden Tag sagt sie, ich verstehe nicht, warum du nicht auf SNL bist. Oder sie wird sagen, ich habe eine Fortune mit einem Netflix-Special gesehen.
Ja, also wir haben die Tour beendet und ich habe geschrieben und gespielt auf dem Office-Spinoff dieses ganze Jahr.
Ja, und gleichzeitig tourierte ich am Wochenende, weil es mir glĂĽcklich ist, dass sie mir noch viele dieser Dates halten lassen.
Ich denke, es kommt im FrĂĽhling.
Ich hoffe es war lustig. Es ist ein groĂźer Cast. Es war super lustig. Die SchriftfĂĽhrung war wirklich lustig.
Was ist das fĂĽr ein Angesicht? Wie ist es ein Spinoff? Es ist im gleichen Ton.
Nein, es ist ein anderer Ort. Es ist nicht Dunder Mifflin oder so? Nein, nein, es ist ein völlig anderer Ort, der sich zu einem neuen Geschäft auswirkt. Und es wird das Büro nennen? Nein, ich glaube nicht. Ich weiß nicht, ob sie es behalten werden, aber sie berichten, dass es das Büro nennen wird. Aber ich habe keine Ahnung, ob sie es im letzten Moment ändern werden.
Also ist es ĂĽberhaupt verabschiedet, wissenschaftlich gesagt, mit dem BĂĽro?
Und dann Michael Coleman.
Du hast deine WGA-Insurance. Ja, es ist wie jeder Job, der nicht Stand-Up ist. Die Interviews am Freitag, hey, du fängst am Montag an.
It was so great. I hope we survive these. God damn it. Getting our cars.
You go to Palm Springs, Joshua Tree.
Oh Gott. Because that's where we went and it was like, I don't know, it was like this wasn't happening.
Yeah. It seems like a lot of rocks.
Musik Musik Musik Musik
We went for three nights. Well, it's terrible. I mean, it's terrible for everybody in the city right now. But my in-laws lost their house in the Palisades. So at that time, like when we were going to do the podcast, it was like, oh, my God, we just lost our house. And then we're like, we're getting to the desert. It's like it was just smoke that next morning. So we're like, we can't have a kid.
I mean, smell like a campfire. It's like, yeah, got a five year old.
And where would you, so would you go further this time if you're going to head out?
Right. I mean, that's the thing. It's like you're like, okay, you go to the desert, you go to Vegas.
Right. I mean, it does, obviously, I mean, I've been here for like 12 years and, you know, we've never seen anything like this. Of course not.
Terrible. I mean, it was their dream house. Obviously, they're not, you know, they're from like Texas and Rhode Island.
Yeah, I just performed there. And you know when you stay in cities and you're on the road and you're staying in the downtown and everyone's like, don't stay downtown. You don't want to stay downtown. You're like, this is where we're performing.
They don't know your ranking.
Mm-hmm.
I love that. And I can just hear all the passion in your voice. And I teach marketing too. And something that I always tell my students is like, it's all about the nuance, right? It's like these little tiny tweaks that get people to make the decisions that you want them to make. So can you talk about subtle nuances that people can do within their funnels that can make or break their funnels?
So I take sales calls all the time.