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Ep. 229 – People, Products, & Other Such Synonyms w/ Comedian Mike Valdes
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This week we welcome back one of our absolute favorite podcast pals, Mike Valdes! Mike is a actor, musician, and a very funny comedian who always gets us giggling, and this episode was a really fun opportunity to catch up. Mike always has a lot of irons in the fire, and right now he’s doing a lot of shows with Don’t Tell Comedy, a group which puts together amazing secret lineups in all sort of unexpected places across the US, so keep an eye out for upcoming shows in your area where you might just run into Mike and friends! To find out more about Mike’s upcoming shows and links to his various social media pages, go to www.thekidfromup.com!
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Transcript
Introduction and Guest Welcome
00:00:00
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And this guy walks, I'm there waiting for my food. This guy walks in. And this is a, this is how I realized that I am. I'm not ready for the revolution guys. And there's a lot going on.
00:00:10
Speaker
There's a lot going on in this world. And, um, I like, I like to bring one. I have, I have gripped it out. So many arguments in my head. So many. Dude, that was such, by the way, that was such a good joke.
00:00:25
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I want to say it again. said, said, do you want to take back your whoop whoops from Kirk Franklin? Because he said, I'm not ready for the revolution. and That's an insider joke for sure.
00:00:42
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but yeah, the only, the only place I could do it it is here.
00:01:05
Speaker
Hey everybody, we are back with another episode of Growing Up Christian. I'm Sam. I'm Casey. And today, we're just hanging out, catching up, telling some stories with our old pal, Mike Valdez. What's up, man? Hello.
00:01:21
Speaker
What's up, guys? I'm so happy to be back. I know. It's great. You're a fan saver, dude. always love having you on. thanks ah I feel very relaxed when you're on. Um...
00:01:32
Speaker
Really? Why is that?
The Art of Likability and Social Dynamics
00:01:33
Speaker
I don't know. You have a relaxing vibe. I'm not like, all right, I need to have a couple. I need to have these questions go. Like, I know when we start talking that we're good for an hour and a half. Hands down. Oh, yeah. hundred percent.
00:01:44
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And yeah, I have to like have the questions and like try to. Is there anybody that doesn't like you? There can't be many. I'm sure there are plenty of people that don't. um None of them are in this ah Zoom meeting right now. But yeah, like there' there's plenty of people. I mean, I have a list of women that don't like me for sure.
00:02:10
Speaker
um i was going to say all the dudes whose girls you stole, but...
00:02:17
Speaker
Yeah, that's probably true, too. But like, yeah, I don't know, man. I, I, I, eight a buddy of mine a long time ago was just like, you know, because I was talking about how like, you you know, i I have a very likable personality. And he's like, you know, you shouldn't, you shouldn't downplay your personality. You've actually worked really hard to be very likable.
00:02:40
Speaker
Yeah. And I was like, you're right. It's a skill set that some people do not have. Yeah. it' so I could name five. And one of them is sitting right here. Well, what's funny? struggle with a comfortable personality in a setting that I'm not interested in being in.
00:02:58
Speaker
Yeah, what's what's so funny is you start to realize like how like different everyone is. And and granted, like you know and this kind of goes with you know what ties to like the show in general, but like you know especially growing up Christian, you start to realize that there is there are people that just like living in a box.
00:03:20
Speaker
And that's completely okay with them like their lives. They're completely okay with that. And the older I've gotten, the more I've just been like, the questions are where it's fun, man. Like, if two plus two equals four every time, then what's the point?
00:03:37
Speaker
You know, like, why are we wasting? Why are we wasting our time? But then there's people that really like... that finite like oh this is the answer like this is and and that is why you know yeah and to where it's like i don't know man but like how does how does that four make you feel like is that like does that four like remind you of your dad leaving like you know like why like what does that number four do you know um so oh so yeah like i uh
00:04:11
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Yeah, I don't know. i I hope this makes sense. but The only thing I hate to break to you, man, because I was moving, but two plus two does always equal four. Yeah. And that's something you're going to have to have to come to terms with. I do apologize. No, I know. No, know. No, I do know what you're saying, though. In that...
00:04:34
Speaker
It's like the the patterns, the consistency, the easy answers. I just, yeah, it's just my life. I just need, I like the way this works and I'm, I'm happy to go through these motions and there's really nothing inherently wrong with feel like everybody's subjects.
00:04:48
Speaker
Like they've got yeah subjects where they appreciate the certainty. And they just want to view things in a black and white context and not entertain. Like nobody entertains questions about every single thing.
00:05:00
Speaker
It's just that some of the people that you talk to, like when you finally figure out what subjects they are willing to like entertain questions on, it's just sometimes it's just not a thing that you want Like you're not willing to, you know, like, yeah. What do you think about having an open relationship?
00:05:18
Speaker
Yeah. Big question. Yeah.
Opinions and Expressions: Movies, Musicals, and Music
00:05:21
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um Not one that other, not one that always is received well that people are open to. yeah Not with humans. yeah well Well, something that I realized, and it's going to sound funny, but it's just kind of true. I was talking to my therapist about this because I was talking to my parents yesterday, and I was like, I just don't think my parents have opinions. Yeah.
00:05:43
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i like And she was like, what in the world does that even mean? And I was like, I just don't think they have opinions. Like, like, it's just like, you know, even, even if I talk to a certain, like a random person on the street and I go, Hey, have you seen Oppenheimer? And they're like, yeah. And I go, what did you think?
00:06:03
Speaker
They'll give me at least, you know, a five second review of it. And my parents are just like, yeah, it was good. Or it was bad. And that's it. I was trying to explain.
00:06:14
Speaker
So we were talking the other day and I forget who was there, but we were talking about Dune, the movie, and i I was talking my my dad and my my mom and dad were there and they were like, yeah, I just I don't know. it's a I don't really understand. We didn't watch the whole thing. And I'm like, well, you know, I went into the whole thing like, well, it's kind of like about this, like this guy who's you know struggling with destiny and his like he's fated to become this like, you know, ah universal dictator figure, you know, messiah.
00:06:49
Speaker
You know, whatever. And, ah you know, he wants to avoid it because he knows all the bloodshed, blah, blah, blah, blah. And so it's kind of about the struggle this and this and that. And my dad goes, hey too much thinking.
00:07:03
Speaker
there um Fair enough. Dude, that is exactly my parents. I thought your dad was going to go, ha too much sand. Which,
00:07:13
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which like, hey, man, I get it. like you know like Watch Waterworld or something. like you know There's too much sand in that movie. you know But, like yeah, you're you're certainly not watching a Benid-el-Dieu movie.
00:07:31
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if you're looking to turn your brain off you know yeah but then again read between the lines a little yeah and then again like you know ah you know i'm sure your parents are are the same casey and maybe even you sam where like i You know, there's certain movies there's certain movies where you watch trailers to them, and you're just like, who is this for?
00:07:56
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My parents. Every time. Every time. ah like All the fast movies. Yeah, when it's just real meta. it's like It just follows the same... Anything starring Cameron Diaz, like anything like, you know, and nothing against Cameron Diaz or like, you know, I will say one thing against Cameron no or whatever.
00:08:17
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Yeah, we watched the new all new it's years old now, but there was like any remake ah with Jamie Foxx. Sure. That was one a a terrible movie. The movie sucked beyond reason. um And it didn't have to, but it was hilariously all about like, it really, the end of the message is is like, if you just work real hard and put your mind to things, you can become a millionaire like Jamie Foxx's character did. And it's like, right. It's really like pretty cringy, but Cameron Diaz is like the, the Miss Hannigan character in it.
00:08:54
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yeah And I didn't remember until watching that with my kids. I was like, I looked at my wife. I go, oh my God, she is a, a terrible actor.
00:09:06
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Like, and sure. Yeah. This this is not good, but there's, it's a musical and she sings in it. And like the whole, everyone in the, in the movies, it's like talks about how like she had her chance in show business and she's a wonderful singer and it comes up all the time. And then you, she gets to her song and I'm like, I can't tell if this is,
00:09:26
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a bit like that was it comedically written in to fluff this because it was bad it was bad you picked someone put it in the right you picked the right person to start bitching about musicals with because here's because here's the thing like like dude i haven't seen any but there are some movies where auto-tune is the second built character in that goddamn movie
00:09:53
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and you were just like jesus christ yeah this is so bad like for like like hey don't cast you know dwayne the rock johnson in your remake of the producers for real you're just gonna like if you're just gonna put auto-tune in it like just oh my god hire someone that's good you know like And so like, and granted, of course they haven't done that and I hope they don't, you know, but I'm just, and I'm mostly just doing that to so to deviate away.
00:10:28
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I usually don't like to talk poorly about actors cause I feel like my life is that if you talk shit about them on a podcast, you're going to work with them one day. yeah and
00:10:41
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So I try to not talk badly about people online. but but like i could never ask her to be on this now i i i have a running list of everyone i've bad mouthed on this thing that i can't reach out to is as bad as cameron diaz is she's no gal gadot yes and and to be fair i i'm okay with saying that because gal gadot is good at a lot of things and one of them isn't singing and that's completely okay like there's there's standing guard atop a wall yeah you don't need to you don't need to be a good singer to be wonder woman like that's fine that's okay you know so like be a one-trick pony in hollywood too i mean sure yeah i mean i think it's so really cool that she was in the idf i mean so there's that i don't know what
00:11:32
Speaker
It's kind of neat. i just like white ah cook ah You know, Kamita chops, but you got to sell yeah You
Influencer Culture and Authenticity Online
00:11:40
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got to admit one thing. She's a one tough cookie. right Yeah,
00:11:46
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especially when it's just children dressed in rags on the other side.
00:11:52
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but even even like even like wicked which like you know i i really enjoyed wicked i thought that movie was great i mean you know it's it was you know it was avengers end game for musical kids and you know it was it was what it was and that's fine that's you know it's okay you know Well, it wasn't Endgame. It was Infinity War. like we're We're waiting. Dude, there's three and a half more hours of that fucking movie. Oh my god.
00:12:18
Speaker
I can't believe it. But it was it was great. It was great. But even then, they're still like, really? They're giving her a song? Okay. you know like like you know where it's just like why are we using auto-tune like why why do we like just because this person was in a great i mean granted great actor you know all this stuff but like and now i'll i'll say who i'm talking about it's the the actress uh i think it's michelle michelle yo no not michelle yo um
00:12:53
Speaker
goodness it's it's the actress from everything everywhere all at once and crouching oh yeah dragon and she's phenomenal an amazing actress and she's great when she's not singing you know and like but to be fair like she's barely singing like she's like what i call drake singing which is it's okay to make fun of drake now we've made fun of him on a platinum like i i don't think he's gonna get Well, I mean, I don't think he's going to get butthurt by this podcast. I'm pretty sure the Super Bowl did it. We'll be OK. This could be considered charitable.
00:13:26
Speaker
Yeah, I'm not going to talk about his pedophilia. but like But i ah you know the thing about like Drake singing is like drake singing is like just talking, you know where it's like you're not really singing, you're just like...
00:13:44
Speaker
And then the auto-tune is kind of fixing all of those issues. And granted, that is a way of doing something, and that is... for lack of a better term, that is painting it because like T pain did coin the, the idea of, I can sing, but I could also use this tool as a completely different tool to sound like something else as a career, you know,
00:14:09
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Yeah, as a
Service Industry Insights and Empathy
00:14:10
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career. and like and And this is the thing that a lot of people who don't sing don't realize because they watch that NPR of T-Pain not using autotune and they're like, wow, I can't believe he can actually sing. And it's like, you need to be able to sing good to sound the way he does like in with autotune on. like It doesn't correct all your problems.
00:14:30
Speaker
It just makes you sound you know a certain way. And if you... It's almost like you sound like a melodic robot if you sound good. You know what I mean? And so if you if you at least have the notes right. like But if you get every... if you get you know Not to go into music theory talk talk here, but like you know if you're completely off kilter of everything, like eventually the autotune just...
00:14:58
Speaker
kills itself like you know because it's like i can't fix this you know what i mean so so like and then it's just and then it becomes this weird talky thing which has become a very popular you know i mean the whole genre has become yeah and i mean at the end the day you're also like and in musicals you don't like not like ah people who participate in musicals, there is a musical way of singing where you don't have to be like a top tier singer to like cut it in a musical. Like there is space for different types of voices.
00:15:35
Speaker
Um, and ways to do it. hundred percent So that's fair. i just, I think what I'm hearing is like, and probably also how I'm feeling is if you're doing a movie,
00:15:47
Speaker
That's a musical. let's just like we We know what people want. but people they're You're putting ballads in that. You're not just doing the talk singing to progress the point as much. like Top tier.
00:15:59
Speaker
Top tier singers it for film versions of musicals. Is that what we're saying? I think so. Absolutely. do you see any of T-Pain's comedy set?
00:16:11
Speaker
Did he have a comedy set? I didn't know that. Yeah, he he he was doing like a stand up thing for a minute. I feel like I heard a clip of it and it sounded like he was having a rough time.
00:16:23
Speaker
yeah I know. I know. I know T.I. has been doing comedy for a little bit and he's been having a tough time. So it wouldn't surprise me. It wouldn't surprise me if there's now there's more rappers that are wanting to become comedians. Man, who is it? T.I.
00:16:40
Speaker
T.I. Oh, OK. um Yeah. He's trying to stand up in between his ah his consecutive gun charges that he keeps piling up.
00:16:51
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, he's probably going to record his stand-up special from jail, but yeah it's it'll be fine. It'll be fine. like there's There's some rappers where you you look at their life and you're just like, do you want to record an album in jail? like like it's It's almost like you might as well just get Ableton fired up on the phone because like it's that's how we're going to record this album.
00:17:16
Speaker
The acoustics are pretty good. Apparently so. That's, ah that fe you know, Fetty Wap is in prison for whatever, and he's still making music, and ah Lil Wayne made music in in prison, so, like, it's possible, you know? wonder if they got a booth in ah the El Salvador one.
00:17:37
Speaker
but I don't know. yeah I don't know. I mean, i I have a feeling that a lot of these celebrities are going to celebrity prison. And that's just my opinion. you They'll be taking the the long plane ride to...
00:17:54
Speaker
El Salvador. Yeah, i don't really hear I don't really hear about my Cuban tios talking about how they are going to record an album next week. So, um you know what I mean?
00:18:05
Speaker
it is ah That seems like a very, I'm a celebrity kind of problem. Celebrity prison is like Canadian prison.
Nostalgia and Musical Evolution
00:18:14
Speaker
to Sure. You just record albums all day. It's just chill. Finland, Finnish prison.
00:18:23
Speaker
I hear their prisons are pretty sick. Yeah. they just I don't know. like We're just removing you from the world because we're not going to treat you like a caged animal, though.
00:18:33
Speaker
um so and Every once in a while, the pictures float around like a United States, ah like a U.S., ah publication they're like these are the prisons in other countries and it's like it doesn't even look good like it looks like that shitty like door it looks like a shitty dorm room you know and you're just kind of bumping it up with a couple like it's not awesome but there's just a tv on a dresser and people are like that is too much that's what the yeah like i mean when when they're showing like anders brevik playing playstation 3
00:19:05
Speaker
It's a little annoying. Yeah, it is. It's like maybe just, you know, gas that turd. Yeah. i mean that's The black metal guy that killed that dude.
00:19:18
Speaker
Isn't it moments... Burzum, right? Varg Vickerson. Varg, varg yeah. Varg Vickerson. how We could have went with so many bands. Because just... um I just got done listening to a Burzum album because my album, one of the other album review club that I'm in is, uh, my friend put two, two black metal albums in and one of them was a Burzum album and he, we got the full history of Varg and how he split away from, I don't know. He was in mayhem or something like that.
00:19:51
Speaker
Um, i don't know. The other album was a Dark Throne album. I'm not familiar with black metal too much. I don't particularly like it. Me neither. But the history of it is always interesting. I don't like it at all. It's interesting because these people never... found out that lot of these bands never even played live shows. It was just a movement, a cultural thing that started.
00:20:10
Speaker
It's been happening a lot lately, man. Where like a lot of these bands are like just like... popping off on like TikTok and stuff and like they haven't even played a show.
00:20:21
Speaker
yeah And yeah like they're just they have like however many hundreds of thousands of fans and they've never even played a show. It's kind of it's kind of crazy because like I grew up, you know, even being 14, like it was the opposite. Like it's like nobody's heard my music and I played 400 shows like, you know, yeah.
00:20:45
Speaker
and and like now it's so different it's just like oh i have this many fans and i'm just never gonna play a show because i just don't want to i have anxiety it it's like what dude i love the tiktok artist like do you have anxiety are you gonna i am rectangular yeah i love that guy I like the guys that are like ah that Catatonic Youth always post.
00:21:14
Speaker
There's like this long-haired dude that does like suit you know kind of metal-y type stuff, and he always gives like a quick description of what he's about to sing, and it's like word for word. He's like, this this song's about a ah an artistic girl with a dark side that she's a little afraid to show people.
00:21:33
Speaker
And then it kicks off, and it's like, you're a dark little artist with pink in your veins. And it's like, oh my gosh. And it's fa popular.
00:21:45
Speaker
you know i what this is a guy named peyton parish oh yeah what's even what's even worse about this is that when we were 13 or 14 on myspace and something like that came out we were like yes her her veins do have ink in them like we're just like like that's what she gets for defiling her temple there's There's a level that the voice goes through the nose passage where when you're 14, it just sounds so good.
00:22:16
Speaker
Like, ah you know? It's like that inner earpiece just vibrates it right to frequency. Yeah. It's that MK Ultra note. Sometimes I listen to, like, you think of bands who still do that, um and like it feels like it shouldn't be good anymore. Like, New Found Glory.
00:22:34
Speaker
Like, it feels like that should have been played out by now, but I'll still... Dude, I was just talking to someone about this and and and I was just like, man, there was really a time where I legitimately thought the way that men needed to sing was, but you're getting worse.
00:22:53
Speaker
Like, I like literally thought that was the way that you're supposed to sing. Like I went and I went to school for music and they're just like, and they're just like, no, like you're supposed to sing like this, you know, and granted I never ended up singing like either one, but you know, I ended up having my own voice, which is great.
00:23:12
Speaker
You know, You just spoke in a Tom DeLonge accent. Yeah, just I did. Yeah. who Yeah. I, what's, I'm trying to think of that, that the the The song, the the The Voice Inside My Head. What is it?
00:23:29
Speaker
The Voice Inside. Oh. the Yeah, the I Miss You song. Don't call it for I'm all ready. the Voice Inside. yeah the one that used to kill me was he he had a ah he had a ah side piece project called Boxcar Racer. Side piece.
00:23:49
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, yeah. you i You remember Boxcar Racer? No, I i've heard of it. Angels and Airwaves. Yeah. Well, that was that was another one, too. But but there was um he had this like I mean, and at the time, dude, this was like I'm going to get married to this song.
00:24:07
Speaker
Like it was like it was that song. Do you clarify? I don't know what you say. When you sleep tonight, will you think of me?
00:24:19
Speaker
That song, you know what I'm talking about? They are ass. I've heard that song. They're playing acoustic guitar and in the rain because of course they are. like and like you know Everybody's wearing like Macbeth because that was his shoe brand or whatever.
00:24:37
Speaker
like it was... Yeah, the the thing, it is it ah is it I miss you? that the meme The meme at the time, but before it was a meme, but the meme at the time was was making fun of the way that he says spiders in that song.
00:24:52
Speaker
The webs from all the spiders, catching things and eating there in slides. Like, it's like, who talks like that?
00:25:03
Speaker
No one talks like that, but some people do. The Etsy! Spire! What up the water spell? Like, what? My sister, ah she would she would get a hold of some an album and then play it until you wanted to kill yourself.
00:25:20
Speaker
Sure. Slit your wrist with the CD. v and like yeah she did that with angels and airwaves i think because i just have like a visceral one more time
00:25:34
Speaker
when she was really young she had the lizzie mcguire movie soundtrack so did i denni so annoying Oh man, who didn't? i i This is what dreams are made of, dude. I love it.
00:25:48
Speaker
Hey now, hey now. This is what dreams are made of. Yeah, honestly, honestly dude, like of course, when i was when i was growing up, no like she was Hillary Duff was my ah was one of my crushes.
00:26:04
Speaker
Me too. Her music, low-key kind of slapped. And dudes don't want to admit that. Because... Because they're just afraid. They're just afraid that they're going that people are going to call them names or something.
00:26:19
Speaker
And it's like, no, you just like, like go outside, let the rain fall down and come clean because this is you, you should be, you should be so happy about that album. Like that, that music actually low key, pretty slow. Like it slapped.
00:26:37
Speaker
It was good. was good. It's like, they were catchy songs. Yes, there was always just a she was just like a millimeter flat in like every sustained note.
00:26:48
Speaker
And it always means like just like it just like poked you in the eardrum. I mean, ultimately, and because of that, it is crazy that you still occasionally hear a Hilary Duff song in like Walmart.
00:26:59
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Well, Walmart's the perfect place. Dude, i was I had a conversation with my best friend about this, and and it you know it was back when we were writing music heavy, and one of the things that he, ah like, heavy as in we were writing it very, very...
00:27:16
Speaker
constantly not we were writing heavy music but we were writing music a lot and ah he he goes dude you know you know where the money is the money is when when you walk into a macy's and they're playing your song was like And I was like, you know what You're not wrong.
00:27:38
Speaker
You're not wrong, dude. Like, think about it. Vanessa Carlton's A Thousand Miles. Like, she's still making money because um'm I'm buying a pair of pants and I'm listening to that piano riff. It is a great song.
00:27:50
Speaker
Of course it is. Of course. And the same thing's happening with Hilary Duff. We're going to get, you know, in five years, it's going to be the Hannah Montana soundtrack. Like it's going to be very similar. Like we're, you know, these are going to be like, what is the new, like, I went to, I went to the pants store and this is the song that I got. Cause it won't be Macy's forever, but like, you know, I went to go buy pants and this song was playing and it reminded me of when I was 13. Yeah.
00:28:16
Speaker
you know What is statistically shown to spur purchases at DSW shoes? yeah Well, that's why paradise put up a parking lot. Yeah. And believe and and honestly, in in as much as we might make fun of it in about three years, we're going to start hearing songs like face down at Dick's Sporting Goods.
00:28:38
Speaker
Like, you know, like just like, you know, just the dudes buying knives and it's like, what? Yeah. you're talking casey yeah You know what I mean?
00:28:53
Speaker
Casey, you won't have to have that in your headphones anymore when you're buying knives. That's going to be good for you. That's true. Yeah. It is going to be nice. You can't go deer hunting without listening to Ohio's for Lovers.
00:29:03
Speaker
You know? So... I have to say, you i I know we've ripped on it before, but I was like there was like Spotify had a like a top tracks for the week or month or whatever, you know, playlist that you can listen to.
00:29:20
Speaker
And like one of the top songs is a Drake song. I think a new one. And of yours, you're just a general. What's that of yours or just in general?
00:29:33
Speaker
I don't know. I think it was a new release. but Okay. Every time I intentionally like hear a Drake song, like i I know that it's him. I'm just like, i don't get i don't get it.
00:29:45
Speaker
i don't get why he's popular. It doesn't make any sense to me. I've never heard a Drake song that I thought was still better. He's not anymore. He's trying to deal with the Illuminati. He is still popular. He actually is.
00:29:56
Speaker
Is he really? so chart I believe I just saw an article about him charting with some new music. He's a sad boy. it's It is crazy because he is like the biggest bitch boy of all time. The way he filed a defamation lawsuit because he lost a rap beef he started.
00:30:14
Speaker
What a pussy. It's crazy. Like, how do you how do you even show your face anywhere? um and then when he went viral for walking out on stage with that like that the t shirt that had the bullet holes in it and it was all steaming and stuff and he's like acting like he's just walked away from that unscathed it's like dude you're making so much worse for yourself i don't think kendrick gave two fucks about playing the super bowl originally and then worst oh here we go kill shot like such a cool move
00:30:46
Speaker
um Yeah. And speaking of kill shots, I want to pivot, guys, because something happened a couple ago to me, and it made me realize things about myself that I wasn't quite ready to to admit were true.
00:31:01
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It has to do with kill shots? ah Maybe it has to do with taking up arms. Were you in Pennsylvania, say, I don't know, August?
00:31:12
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no Yeah. Were you and at the White House, say, January, maybe the 6th of January? No, and that would have been a great time to realize I was not made for this.
00:31:24
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um Yeah. No, so I was... ah I recently had to drop a an old cable box off at a UPS store for my wife's grandmother.
00:31:39
Speaker
And I was in an area of Worcester and that I don't normally go to. And my favorite, favorite Chinese food restaurant was right there.
00:31:51
Speaker
And I was like, I need to go there. So I go in. It's Panda Express. yeah it's come I'm going to give it a plug. If you live near the Worcester area, it is called Dragon Dynasty. and yeah It is so good.
00:32:06
Speaker
It's one of those ones you walk in and like all the linoleum tiles are peeling up. It looks dirty as fucking ever. and like Oh, yeah. Those are the best ones. There's another store that was like starting to be made in it, but they just have like...
Service Etiquette and Dining Experiences
00:32:19
Speaker
like it would look like it was yeah coffee like somebody's random dry cleaning is up in the ceiling you're like what is happening du that's how you know it's good that's that's like that's that's like new york chinese food that's the best chinese food is there a couple cute little eight it's doing schoolwork in a booth in the front yeah yes if there's a kid doing schoolwork in the front that's how you know yes so i walk in uh i place my order ah sometimes you go to a Chinese food place and they have someone who's like either really like probably you could based on their accent grew up in this country or they have like a white college boy like working the front counter like sure yeah definite this plays none of that it it is all like
00:33:08
Speaker
More authentic to me. Super hard ah like for me to understand. um And this guy walks in I'm there waiting for my food. This guy walks in. And this is ah this is how I realized that I'm not ready for the revolution, guys.
00:33:22
Speaker
And there's a lot going on. There's a lot going on in this world. And um I would like to take your whoop whoops back from Kirk Franklin. I have gripped it out. So many arguments in my head. So many. Dude, that was such, by the way, that was such a good joke.
00:33:38
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I want to say it again. i said, do you want to take back your whoop whoops from Kirk Franklin? Because you said I'm not ready for the revolution.
00:33:49
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is...
00:33:51
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and That's an insider joke for sure. But yeah, the only, the only place I could do it it is hard yeah that one on stage.
00:34:01
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Yeah, I'm sure it'll work well at a black church, but like, other than that, like nobody's going to know what I'm talking about. So this 50 something year old ish, whatever white dude walks in and he had weird vibes to begin with.
00:34:17
Speaker
And He places his order and she tells him how much it is. And he hands her money. And it's not it's not enough. it's not It's only short by like 15 cents. But he she's like, she you can tell she asks him if he has 15 cents.
00:34:35
Speaker
He doesn't say anything. He just shoves the money towards her. And then she asks again. And he goes, i already told you if I had 15 cents, I would have given it to you. Yikes.
00:34:48
Speaker
Immediately I go, I should say something. I should. Sure. I should. I should stand up for this lady. I like. yeah mean so It's just so clear that like he just doesn't even like ah um I might be making some conjecture here, but like maybe he just had a bad.
00:35:08
Speaker
day if I wanted to be as kind as possible but I have a feeling that he just doesn't view people who don't talk like him as is equal to him um sure they're immigrants they're whatever so I'm and he just like he keep but he keeps arguing with her about it and finally she just like I mean this woman was the sweetest you could be she just takes the money and then hands him back some change and Because why he gave her, I don't know.
00:35:41
Speaker
He gave her something else. but I forget what it was, but it was of it it was kind of just like a misunderstanding. It was like, um he gave her, free I don't remember what it was. they But after RU had the change, she handed him back one of the dollar bills that he ended up throwing at her.
00:35:58
Speaker
um Okay. and he And then he goes, um this isn't my dollar bill. I don't want this one. This one has a rip in it. And I would i didn't hand you a ripped dollar bill. And then i just, all wanted to do was be like, you're the biggest fucking asshole on the planet.
00:36:14
Speaker
I wanted, what as soon as she handed him his food, I just wanted to fucking spike it to the ground. That would have made me feel yeah so powerful. I wanted to do any, all I was there for like 10 minutes. That saying something. And I didn't and I didn't say anything.
00:36:27
Speaker
And I felt like absolute shit for the rest of the day just thinking about it. And then on his way out, he yelled something back like, don't know, maybe he parked weird in the parking lot. Maybe someone dinged his car, but he like started yelling at them because his car got scratched in their parking lot. I'm like, what the fuck is even going on at this point?
00:36:45
Speaker
You know, you know what really sucks about somebody like this is that their life sucks and they think it's the world's problem. And and they don't realize that they're the problem.
00:36:57
Speaker
Like, no, really does. No, just no chance he's ever been introspective on that. Like maybe if you, you know, and, and granted I wasn't there, I have no idea, but there are, there are people like that. Like, just like, dude, I'll never forget this. One time I was at, and I was at a mall in Northern Florida.
00:37:16
Speaker
um The, which by the way, if you remember Casey, you and I talked about this part of Florida. It's the part where you, you realize things start to change um economically. And um there's, there's a lot less of me and way more of the scary whites. Um,
00:37:32
Speaker
And um and I was in a parking lot at a very impressive, like, you know, not impressive, a very like elite, you know, mall or whatever.
00:37:44
Speaker
And this woman, for whatever reason, you know, I was I was sitting in my car. i think I was talking to someone on the phone and this woman parked next to me and ah opened, opened the door, slammed my car with her door.
00:38:02
Speaker
got out, looked at me like parked weird, slammed her car back and was like smoking a Corella DeVille sized cigarette. Like just like humongous, like, you know, like ah Virginia super longs or whatever. Virginia Slim 400s. Yeah, like 4000 or whatever. Like and she and and all this happened.
00:38:29
Speaker
And then ah Oh, I remember what this was. I went to that. I remember why I went to that mall, because at the time i wanted to see Bo Burnham's movie eighth grade.
00:38:40
Speaker
And the only place that it was playing was at this mall. And so I went to i I drove all the way over there because I wanted to see it in a theater. And I drove all the way over there. And and and even when I came back.
00:38:53
Speaker
the woman The woman was... was ah ah i i Something happened where I was talking on the phone again, or I was sitting there, and she came back and slammed my car again.
00:39:08
Speaker
And it was just like, come on, dude. Like, I don't... And I'm so like... I'm so like, I i am somebody who um I'm very like the stereotypical millennial. Like, it's like, if you spit in my food, I'll apologize to you.
00:39:26
Speaker
You know what I mean? Like, I'm just that kind of a human being. sorry for my food there. Yeah, sorry I put my food in the middle of your loogie and, you know, whatever. But, like, yeah because everything, like, for all I could think of is what what I would have done in a situation like that where I was 15 cents short.
00:39:45
Speaker
i would just be I would just be, like, apologizing to this woman. Like, just, like... I'm so sorry. Is it okay if I go to my car and count pennies that aren't there? Like, I mean, i would i would figure something out. Like, I would ask the person behind me, hey, by any chance, do you have a dime and a nickel? Like, I would do anything before I made it their fault.
00:40:07
Speaker
You know what I mean? And so, like, it's just... it's so weird how people treat people in the service industry, which is like, dude, all I got to say is like, God bless you guys. And, and thank the Lord that you're married because you have to deal with people like this when you're dating so often. Cause like, you're like, Oh, like and people are just awful to, to wait staff.
00:40:34
Speaker
Like yeah I've got, I've got like a, it's not a long list, but I've got a short list of people that I'm like, I will not, ever go to dinner with again. Sure. I will. i will not sit there and listen to that crap again. it it drives me crazy. Like when yeah you when you when you're sitting with somebody who's obviously like kind of cheap and they're like looking for reasons to not tip the person or they're sending food back and stuff.
00:41:01
Speaker
We were out at a work thing and they took us to like a steakhouse in Las Vegas, like a real nice one. It was great. It's fantastic. And one of the dudes, he's odd. He's I get along with him fine, but like he's a little strange.
00:41:17
Speaker
He orders like the most expensive cut. you know, on the menu. And it's like this, this weird, it comes out on like a, like a gallows thing, basically like yeah wheel it out on this little cart and it's like hanging from this little hook thing. And it's how they, something to do with how they cook it or whatever.
00:41:38
Speaker
And he like cuts into it and he goes, Oh no, no, this isn't, this is a medium rare. This, this is, this is medium. I can't eat this. And sends back like a, I mean, it's like $150 steak. God.
00:41:53
Speaker
Fantastic. And I was just like. Probably perfect. his And that's like, to some level, that's probably subjective, right? it Well, and and also. Medium to medium rare. Like, come on.
00:42:04
Speaker
Another thing I was going to say was this is probably a meal he wasn't paying for. Yeah, exactly. So that so that makes him an even worse person. You know what I mean? Because it's like, well, I can't complain. Like somebody's paying for this.
00:42:16
Speaker
Some people are just so weird about like restaurants, though, where it's like, no, no, this is about this is an experience and about me. And needs to be the way that I want it.
00:42:27
Speaker
And if find fault, I'm going to I'm going to let you know and I'm going to like not tip you well. And it drives crazy. This is, and and I think this is the divide. um have Have both of you worked in the service industry before?
00:42:43
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. That's why. yeah Because Daniel Tosh has best about this. No, that's what I treat them even worse. I go, I know what I went through, and I'm better for it, and I just want to make them stronger was so much better than you are right now.
00:42:58
Speaker
Yeah, daniel daniel tosh daniel Daniel Tosh has the best joke about this, where he's like, every every person in America needs to work at least one year in the service industry so they can realize their ranch dressing isn't that important.
00:43:11
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah.
00:43:14
Speaker
And it's just like, it's, it's so true. Like, it's just like, bro, like it is not that serious. Like you, you're not going to give somebody a tip because they don't have diet Coke here. That's not their fault.
00:43:27
Speaker
Like, you know what I mean? That's so stupid. you know, like it's been in a situation where you were like telling yourself you got to say something here and then either did or didn't.
00:43:41
Speaker
I feel like I normally don't. And I still think about I mean, this was like four weeks, probably three or four weeks ago. And I'm still like, what am I supposed to like when you when I think of like the things that are going on and like, uh,
00:43:56
Speaker
You know, a lot of conversations are coming up about were like ice raids here and there. I work at a school. What are you to Like, I don't know. I can't I don't stand up for myself very well. So I certainly don't stand up for others too well either.
00:44:09
Speaker
And I go, I'm just. Yeah. It's something that's been on my mind since that happened. When I go, there has been so much conversation about how to stand up for people or. or in certain situations given the new landscape. And I realized that I am, I think I just need to stay home guys. I need to just not leave my house so I don't have to worry about it.
00:44:29
Speaker
Um, because I will fail. I will fail people and they will remember my face when they're being deported. I think the, the, the thing is like, I stand up for myself, um,
00:44:43
Speaker
in comedy all the time you know but to be but to be completely fair um i think the only reason why i have the balls to do it is because i'm in my head i'm playing a character and and it's just like this isn't real mike this is comedy mike I get that. Okay. I can see that. takes a lot of sense.
00:45:02
Speaker
ah So I, yeah. ah And I think maybe to what, you i think what you're saying though is interesting because I think a lot of people walk through life playing a character. Maybe they think they're like, I would say everyone does that.
00:45:14
Speaker
Yeah. I've seen a lot of characters. Like, you know, when you see people flex, like when you see that dude just ordering McDonald's, like fully strapped, you're like, all right, you're playing a character. Like this isn't,
00:45:26
Speaker
Nothing about this real life. have you seen Have you seen that guy that looks way too much like Kevin James and like his whole thing is that he wants to get the people at Starbucks to say Merry Christmas and he has his guns on him?
00:45:40
Speaker
Have you seen this? Nope, but I think I have a new favorite page coming up. It is fucking insane. Like, this guy's like, he he's just like, what's up, brethren? It's ah it's whoever, you know, Johnson.
00:45:59
Speaker
And he's just like, I got my Glock strapped. I'm here at a Starbucks. Can I order a Frappuccino? Try to see if they say Merry Christmas. Here we go. Like, it's like, cool what? like You can pick any lane, though.
00:46:12
Speaker
It's insane. Like, it's like, yeah, it's but I mean, look, man, everybody's I have a joke about it in my stand up where I'm like, look, everybody's an influencer. Like at the end of the day, like, you know, that's why I don't I don't make fun of people that have like Instagrams for their dog, because it's just like, look, man, if you can find a way to get free dog food, I don't blame you.
00:46:34
Speaker
Like, that's fine. That's fine. Like, I get it. Like, there's there is a way to to make your who you are a business and get free stuff. And that's OK.
00:46:46
Speaker
You know, but it's like, what are you getting out of those showing people that? Yeah, of course. It's this world. I hate it so much. My friend sent me of course the other day that said, ah isn't it cool how every facet of American society and every service and product has become a complete shakedown scam that you have to navigate?
00:47:06
Speaker
Yeah. Well, I mean, the truth, everything's do everything is like, you know, you know, what's funny is like to me, to me, and this is why it isn't weird to me, but like, ah to me, it isn't weird to peddle products because I'm an actor.
00:47:24
Speaker
And that's what actors do. They peddle shit. That's the whole thing. You know, if you're not peddling a product, you're peddling a character. You're peddling some sort of bullshit for whatever it is that you're peddling.
00:47:36
Speaker
The thing that grinds my gears and makes me feel weird is that now that is everyone. You know, so it's just like, what is the separation between an actor and just Greg?
00:47:49
Speaker
and But we're also the product, too. like Exactly. i mean Companies make money on us just looking at their ads. like that I mean, it doesn't... 100%.
00:48:00
Speaker
We're the buyer, the seller, the the product. that where i don't know. It is. Everything is a shake. Everything is a hustle. Everything is...
00:48:13
Speaker
I don't know. it's it's We live in such a wild fucking landscape, and it's like, but also I get, like, to your point, Mike, yeah, if you need free dog food and the way you'd had it is you got 10,000 followers because you take a video of your dog taking a piss and shit every day.
00:48:29
Speaker
Cool, I guess, because also rent is unaffordable, so might as well get your bag somewhere. don't know. I get that. Like the, the, the, yeah, the, you know, not to, not to talk about that joke, but like, that's the premise of it. Like that, that's the, that's the start. And then the punchline is like, what I don't understand is people that DM other dogs as their dog. Like that. And and so like, like those people need the fuck right off. Like, yeah.
00:48:57
Speaker
yeah Life's yeah light's rough. Want a bone? Get your hand out of my dick. Like what is like, just like, it's just awful. But like, but yeah, like it's, some I don't know, like, to again, to me, it isn't, it isn't weird for me personally, but it is weird for other people, like to see other people.
00:49:20
Speaker
i ah I don't know, man. everything Everything is just a product of it of its thing, and that's just... I mean, i'm like I'm in sales, so yeah it's pretty second nature to me. and like Of course. I think we're... don't have a problem with people selling stuff. like It doesn't really bother me for people to be peddling a product. I mean, I'm not going to listen to your ad or whatever, you know for the most part, but... like I think that the like one of the most just irritating things to me is and like you can't even really like judge people for it because everybody needs something.
00:50:03
Speaker
But like these like cut and paste identities that people just throw everything into. You know, like, yeah, but you talk like the open carry to a guy with the Blue Lives Matter, you know, sticking on his on his Jeep.
00:50:18
Speaker
He's got 30 ducks like rubber ducks stuck to his dashboard because it's a Jeep. It's a Jeep thing you understand. And sure, it's so annoying me to watch somebody just like take something like that and run with it.
00:50:33
Speaker
it the Nothing is more irritating and like and fascinating, though, than watching someone like. like change which one they're they're gonna be yep and Oh, nothing to me. Nothing is more fascinating than seeing a police officer with a Punisher thing on their on their cars, thinking that they're like, that's me. And it's like, no, sitting outside a classroom you clearly have never read it.
Online Personas vs. Real Life
00:51:02
Speaker
You've never read a comic book in your whole life because that is literally everything that skull is against is what you do. well hope guys with The plug and play identities don't even make sense.
00:51:16
Speaker
It's just, uh, everything is what you think it is. I, I, I do want to clarify if you have a product, like a lot of people come up with cool ideas and they and and Instagram is a great way to get that stuff out there. Like,
00:51:28
Speaker
I bought cat litter. I bought a new cat litter on Instagram. And I love it. It works great. And it's dusty. know exactly what you mean. So, cool. I'll use it.
00:51:39
Speaker
i um I really don't... Like, make a product, make it good. But when, like... but when you see like a um When you see a new product pop up and then like within five days you see 15 different versions of the exact same thing, and you go, oh, that's not even unique. you' You all just found that same factory in China and put your own fucking logo on it.
00:52:02
Speaker
And now it's going to be cheap anyway. There's $700 to get that shit here now. but There's that, and there's also the fact that your phone is listening to you and it knows that you want cat litter. Yeah. um So, like, to but dude, one of my favorite, by the way, not to, I've been quoting so many people's jokes, but, like, one of my favorite Pete Holmes things, oh my god, dude, I was just, like, as soon as I saw it, I was so jealous of it.
00:52:28
Speaker
He just... Out of nowhere just goes, I want to buy a dildo. I want to buy a dildo. do Listen to me. I want to buy a dildo. I want me. I want to buy a nine inch purple, if necessary, dildo.
00:52:44
Speaker
I want to buy a dildo. Listen to me. I want to buy a dildo. Have fun with those Amazon ads. but
00:52:54
Speaker
yeah a friend of mine is um a teacher uh he teaches uh history uh but he's like the kids always have their phones and stuff and he's like one of my favorite things to do is like whenever kids walk away from their desk and like leave their phones there or whatever i like walk up to him and whisper i adult diapers like just with ah and i'm i'm waiting for the day that one of them points out that they got a weird unrelated ad to anything that's part of their life and uh i love that you know to to kind of put to kind of put this you know kind of like put a button on this whole thing i think what we're all trying to say
00:53:37
Speaker
is that at least it's, it's okay. It's okay. If you're selling a product on the internet, what we're saying is that now it's weirdly becoming a like Truman show thing where we don't, where, where some of that is seeping out into reality.
00:53:54
Speaker
And it's okay for you to do that online, pedal your shit online. But like, be yourself in the real world. Yeah. And like, and, and yeah, like it goes back to what I was talking about where it's like comedy, Mike and singer songwriter, Mike, and all those mics are the mics that you're going going to see on my Instagram. Like,
00:54:14
Speaker
real vulnerable Mike, you're going to hear more on a podcast and like, you know, things like that. Cause this is who I really am, you know? So like, I'm not always at 11 on a random Tuesday. Like, you know, sometimes I am and sometimes I'm not, you know? So it's just like, you know, and, and also who's to say that I'm not at 11 right now. Like who's to say that the things that we've been talking about have been, know,
00:54:39
Speaker
interesting or not interesting or whatever like it it's so a case-by-case basis on everything you know so um so yeah like that's all we're saying is just be be real and in real life be yourself yeah all right wait i have so real quick yeah uh on a satisfactory instant karma sort of note uh okay there's been like a spree of So IRL streamers are like the...
00:55:09
Speaker
just a plague in this world. You know? yeah just Just demons from hell. And there's like a whole subsect of those people, especially on Kik, which apparently Kik is like the dark web streaming service sort of thing. I didn't like know that was a streaming service. I thought that's so the app that you used when you wanted to talk to your your ah your family members in another country.
00:55:39
Speaker
I think there's two. I think there i think there might be two. That's WhatsApp. Yeah, that's WhatsApp. Yeah, because there's a deal called Kick that's like the alternate Twitch, and if you get kicked off of Twitch, you go to Kick. Yeah, that's what thought.
00:55:59
Speaker
So there's a bunch of streamers on there that are just... It's just the worst people alive, basically. Sure. there's been a couple of them recently who have been, like, making a fool of themselves and just being, like, ah a you know a nuisance in other countries.
00:56:15
Speaker
And the first one that was, like, a big story was this this guy called himself Johnny Somali. Okay. And he was running around Japan and just being, like, just the worst person alive.
00:56:27
Speaker
I mean, it, I think they, they call it like prank streams, but it's, it's really just like, nothing makes me more upset. Yeah. He's just like screaming about Nagasaki and Hiroshima to like Japanese people who are being super polite on a plane, on a train or like walking with a Bluetooth speaker in and playing like porn soundtrack or something like that at full volume in a restaurant.
00:56:52
Speaker
But he like trespassed on this construction site and ended up getting arrested. And he's serving jail time in Japan, which Japan jail, probably not that big of a deal. But he's stuck, right?
00:57:04
Speaker
theres But also to be to give credit to give credit to Japan, Japan is great at like, hey, man, like you don't disrespect people.
00:57:16
Speaker
Like, yeah like be ah be a symbolized human being. Like, you know, like, yeah, they have they have weird stuff in Japan, but a lot of that is very, like...
00:57:28
Speaker
I don't know. Like, it's very it's very specific. It's like, yeah, yeah. You want to be weird and get used underwear. There's a vending machine. But also, like, don't like throw dirty diapers at people on the street.
00:57:40
Speaker
Like, just don't do that. Yeah. you know And like people were infinitely generous with this guy for a long time until he finally like broke a law and then got arrested. But there's another guy called Vitaly.
00:57:53
Speaker
I guess he's like old school YouTuber. He's done like 16 different things. He's kind of a Russian guy. He's got like a, you know, buzz cut. He's just a prick. But he was doing like the Johnny Somali routine in, I think it's, I think in the Philippines.
00:58:11
Speaker
And he got arrested and is going to jail in the Philippines. And I watched this video where they were showing it's either the Philippines or Thailand. I can't remember which one, but they were showing video from inside the jail.
00:58:26
Speaker
And it is dude, it is hell. It's like, elbow to elbow people sleeping on the ground, wet floor, no mattresses, rats, roaches, like, you know, tons of stories about like people getting sick in there and dying just because there's no like medical treatment or anything. And like this guy could he could be there for like a decade.
00:58:49
Speaker
Like he literally could. What time is he stream? I'd love to watch.
00:58:56
Speaker
No, it's so nuts. actually there's like ah there's like a reaction to people doing this whole routine where they just go in and be a nuisance in public and like the thailand was like no we're not we're not playing these games you're going to jail Yeah, I'm not a big prank person. i grant granted there's I did, you know, I I'll pull the the veil back, to be honest, because this is how much like I could I really don't care about this stuff. But like, I just had no idea.
00:59:28
Speaker
um i was auditioning for a commercial um and i went to to universal to to do the the casting and and while i was waiting the person i was reading with was this you know kind of cool guy and i was just like hey man what's going on you know what let's we we read you know together a few times and then i was just like so how long have you been doing this and he's like i don't really act man like my thing is like i just do tiktok live And I was like, OK, cool, man. That's really awesome.
01:00:00
Speaker
And he goes, what do you like? Are you an actor? you know And I go, yeah, I've kind of just been doing this for 15 years. This is kind of my job. Like, I'd rather do this than tick tock live, you know, but he was like he was like, no, man, like I make like I make like a lot of money on tick tock and like I do like prank YouTube and all this stuff. And I was like, oh, cool, man. You know, like whatever.
01:00:22
Speaker
And like, you know, just pretending like I feel like I feel like my best acting gigs are are pretending that people are interesting when they're not. and um And just hear that.
01:00:34
Speaker
And just like, you know, I'm like, where is the camera? This is Oscar like nominated acting right now. um So um and it could have been there. He might have been pranking you. You might have been on his tick tock live.
01:00:48
Speaker
ended up We ended up doing the commercial or we ended up doing the the audition, and we leave, and he just goes, hey, man, i ah you know you seem like a really fun guy, and like you know you're you're really funny, you know because i i usually whenever I do commercials, I improvise, and the people at Universal love it when I improvise, so they're just like, just do whatever you want, doesn't matter.
01:01:14
Speaker
And I was like, OK, great. And the people were there and they were laughing at the things I was doing. so I was like, OK, cool. And so he was, you know, and and he thought that I was funny. He was breaking a little bit. And then, you know, later on, he goes, man, you're really funny. You want to do you want to shoot something? You want to collab on something? And I go, sure. Yeah, absolutely.
01:01:31
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And he goes, all right, so here's what's going to happen. I'm going to get in my car and um I'm going to film you and I'm going to ask you ah directions to somewhere.
01:01:42
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But I'm going to speak in only gibberish and you're just going to be like, you know, reacting to my gibberish. i I think I saw this video. Yeah. And this video is on my Instagram right now. It has...
01:01:55
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so many millions of views and to this day i'm like why like like why this funny i don't get it like what is this ah like i get so many comments that are just like where's your netflix special this is the funniest prank i've ever seen and i'm just like what is this i don't oh my god And what's so funny is like, you know, my best my best friend DM to me and he was like, bro, like you're you know, your your improv is really funny in that. And I go and I go, yeah, the only reason why the video is funny at all is because I'm doing jokes. Like as the guy is saying something, I'm saying what it sounds like or whatever.
01:02:38
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And then and that's what's making it funny. But apparently people are like, oh that you know, they're giving credit. You know, it's like they're giving the person they're giving the meme credit instead of the person who wrote it, you know?
01:02:50
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Yeah. And so so it is what it is, whatever. But I end up. I end up looking at this dude's Instagram and this guy has millions of followers.
01:03:01
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and And apparently this is a thing that he does. And granted, it's okay that he does it because it's a very harmless thing. He just goes up to people. And from what I understand, these people are actually in on it because I was in on it.
01:03:14
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You know what I mean? Like I knew what was going on. you know Right. and and so and and so like he's just like hey i'm just going to say some weird stuff i just want you to react that's all and and it was like okay and every video is different you know and some people are are you know can joke around with him and some people you know give him actual authentic reactions And that's fine. Like, I don't care about that, but it's just like, because that's very harmless. That's just like, you're not, you're not doing anything to anybody except like asking for their time, you know, which is like a minute of their time. Like you're not really doing much, you know?
01:03:52
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It's the people that are like doing stuff, you know, like, like Moses storm says, you know, like these prank channels where, where they'll just be like, Oh, today me and my buddy Skylar, we're going to take this old lady's insulin and see what happens.
01:04:07
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Cause
Social Media Content: The Good, The Bad, The Bizarre
01:04:08
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it's a prank. Like, it's like, that's not a prank. You're just an asshole. Like, like, you know, so yeah, it's, it's weird. That make fake movie trailers.
01:04:19
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They should be burned at the stake. Yeah. bill a almosts two one When it's like, I do Facebook all the time when you open it, it'll just be some AI like a movie poster and be like, Whoa, this is finally coming out. And it's just, you know, it's not real.
01:04:37
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You know, it's not real. it's animos wartropes adam yeah at this be like Adam Sandler in the Power Rangers movie? How is this possible? yeah like it always is It's always some wild casting. like You're supposed to have your jaw hit the floor.
01:04:54
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that or like yeah Facebook is all AI. like People like AI-ing a giant squid next to a cruise ship and everyone not reacting to it and people acting like they found...
01:05:06
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the craziest thing ever. Or it's like, uh, videos of, uh, I learned this from a college roommate. I learned this from a chef. I learned this from my mother.
01:05:16
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i learned this from my dad. And they're like the most fucking stupid quote unquote hacks you've ever seen. Bro, nothing nothing is worse than the Facebook video rabbit hole that you always, you always, like, so it it will start with something great. like you Like, you're watching, you know, you're watching something great. Like, somebody get a gold medal at ah at the Olympics or something. Like, something incredible. And then the next video...
01:05:47
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is this dipshit putting like, like they're like, Oh, I, I, I make this at every party. And it's like, they put like burgers from McDonald's in their sink. And they're like, you know, putting fries on top. It's like, you know, cut, cut a watermelon in half and just throw it in there. And they're just like, everybody loves this at my parties. And I'm like, what is this? Like you eat it directly out of the sink.
01:06:16
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Yeah, you eat it out of the sink. My kids love this. like it's like It's like if Water Talk was worse. like you know Dude, i hate myself what i that that I see that so much because we know there's an algorithm. And if I didn't open Facebook when I'm like – when it's night and I'm drunk taking a shit and just watch fucking those videos over and over and over again, I'd stop seeing them. I would maybe get things that matter, maybe get things that are a little bit cool, but instead i I see it and I get angry and I go, I should watch this and get super angry before bed.
01:06:52
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Well, this is the downward spiral that you're on when you're a night pooper. Yeah. yeah Poops are for mornings. I actually i do prefer a morning poop.
Hot Sauce Challenges and Celebrity Features
01:07:02
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my i got a little messed up on vacation.
01:07:05
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um Okay. I also did... um You guys are familiar with the show Hot Ones. um Yes. I bought the hot sauce, the 10-pack of hot sauce for this current season. Oh, wow.
01:07:17
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To bring on our family vacation, so we all... We cooked a bunch of wings and nuggets and we sat around and we went through all 10. Uh, and did you ask questions and stuff.
01:07:30
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No, we didn't end up asking any questions. We just kind of, we had a lot of people and we didn't want to spend that much time doing it. We had like 10 people in on it. Um, okay. So we just, yeah, I, we just, everyone like held their plate out, put a dab on everyone's plate, slid a nugget or a chicken wing through it and took a bite. And, um,
01:07:50
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Very fun. I really enjoyed the experience. I i think well i think there's there's like there's something to be said about like possibly like bringing the hot sauce or the Hot Ones challenge to like marriage counseling.
01:08:04
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And like and like you just gradually move a wing every time. And then once you're at 10, you've got every all your problems in your marriage solved.
01:08:14
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You know? like Yeah. I can see why that heat is disarming. I could... You could probably get me to confess to a murder I didn't commit if i you gave me enough of that. you know like Well, that's that's why like whenever I see that challenge, I'm always like, I don't want to do it just to taste the sauce. I want to do it while people are asking me questions.
01:08:35
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because like Because again, i think like this is stupid, but it's just the way that I think. I think like an actor. And my thought is i will one day be... in the hot seat and I will need to answer questions, you know, that Sean Evans provides the same thing happened to me. I, one time I went to a gun range with my best friend and i we were holding, where you know, we he had like a bunch of different rifles and pistols and all this stuff.
01:09:04
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And i really like I really liked firing handguns. And I found out very quickly, the reason why I liked firing handguns is because I liked having my friend film me so it looked like I was in an action movie.
01:09:16
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thats good And he's like, he's like, do you have to, every time you reload, you keep saying Sarah, why are you doing that? And I'm just like,
01:09:34
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But yeah, like it was, it was, ah it yeah, I don't know. The Hot Ones challenge is interesting. So what happened? Did you, I mean, the next day, did you walk by construction site and you were just like, oh, they look like they need welding and you just like took your pants off and you just, waited for an open flame.
01:09:55
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The next morning I was asked how I was feeling and I was like, I'm actually feeling okay. And then 30 minutes later I was like, I was like, I gotta take a shit.
01:10:08
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And, oh, it's great how the body does that. Right. Where it where it makes you think you're okay. It was. And then you're just completely not. and Yeah. It was bad. It burned. It burned. So like I, I, is it was diarrhea?
01:10:20
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Don't, I mean, let's, we're not going to mince words here. We're going to be specific. i had diarrhea and this is the show that i think first we feast needs to do enough on the after the after show we need the after show like we need the after show the day a day later yeah we need the day plan last episode yeah last we squeeze yeah sean evans will host that and it'll be it'll be like me hosting the the shit show like a shit so it's the shit show with mike valdez like it's like good oh great i was literally wiping after every bit of shit i did i was like yeah it hurt when you were filming marvel's thunderbolts
01:11:06
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that's it you you just talk to them while they're on the toilet yeah just like just Just talking about Saoirse Ronan's Oscar. And she's like like. And it was like that for like a good, you know, five or six hours. It wasn't until that like late afternoon that it wasn't.
01:11:33
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painful anymore uh but i like a lot of those hot sauces i so a lot of them are really good i've heard these things said but i've you know it was nice to try up until you hit like seven or um oh or eight, it's like, they're all pretty good.
01:11:50
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Um, good. Well, I, from what I understand as, as someone who watches that show very often, um number eight is the bomb. Yup. And that's rough.
01:12:02
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The bomb is the one that like sucks ass. it It tastes it's like, it doesn't even, it doesn't even taste good. It's just hot for the sake of hot. It's a bitter lingering, uh,
01:12:14
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it's terrible it's a terror it's a medicinal it's like a it's just a bad bitter taste yeah it's it's not for like that's not what you use it for it's like the sort of thing that you put like three drops into a big bowl of chili yeah and then it's great but like it's not for david on wings it's the same yeah it's certainly not for conan o'brien to rub his nipples with you know like well which by the way is the best episode of hot ones like like i don't know if you guys have seen it have you guys seen that episode of hot ones i've seen clips from it with where he was conan o'brien conan o'brien is the best like
01:12:59
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it It was that. And then, i mean, he didn't write the joke, but like just saying the whole joke about like, you know, we're halfway through the Oscars. So now it's time for somebody to call Drake a pedophile. Like, just like this guy's the funniest guy on TV.
01:13:11
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Like, like, period. He's the funniest guy on TV. He's got like Keanu Reeves stability. Yeah. Like, yeah. Yeah. And I mean his I mean, he literally like started, you know, once, once he got out of the Harvard lampoon was like ah SNL, the Simpsons, like just, just great stomping grounds. And like, now he's just like one of the biggest comedy people ever, you know, yeah doing whatever he wants, whatever he wants, literally whatever he wants, whenever he wants. Exactly. Yeah.
01:13:44
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I started watching a video last night about, uh, the trials and tribulations of Andy Dick. Oh, no. whole and that's That was just a sad downfall.
01:13:57
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That was a sad downfall because he he actually had a really awesome like come up.
The Rise and Fall of Fame: Andy Dick and Pamela Anderson
01:14:03
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you know because like he was He was very funny you know at the very beginning like when he was working with Ben Stiller and stuff like that.
01:14:11
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and man yeah I think that's just what drugs does, man. It's unfortunate. but won't stop just groping people. Yeah. Like, dude, yeah the the amount of groping and like unwanted sexual advance.
01:14:25
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Like allegations against him. Yeah, it's insane. I mean, it's like everyone who's ever been in a room with him is like, yeah. And then he tried to like stick his fingers in me.
01:14:36
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she just like kept hiring him because like I mean, I think you're right. Like he's a super funny guy, but like, oh, my word. It's just crazy that it went on that long.
01:14:47
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There definitely was a point in the 2000s where people were like, enough is enough. Like, this guy's, like, nuts. Yeah. You know, so like something's like now it's getting to a point where it's like, yeah, funny is like he's funny, but like there's what we can find a a whole bunch of other funny people that don't grope people.
01:15:06
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Yeah, was you know, crazy. Like ah ah they they played a clip from like the Pamela Anderson roast. And oh, yeah, that one's real bad. His is that he's a doctor.
01:15:18
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oh yeah doctor And he's just like goes behind her chair and is just like groping her breasts like yeah going. I mean, it's it's crazy.
01:15:29
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Like, would be crazy do it once. I mean, he's literally just like all but peeling her clothes off and stuff. And she's clearly uncomfortable and trying to be a, you know, a good sport about it, I guess. But like then he tried to he tried to grope Courtney Love after that. Sure did. And she just like smacked him in the face.
01:15:49
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Mm-hmm. yeah Yeah. I mean, one one thing one thing is for sure, like, speaking of Pamela Anderson, have you seen her recently? No. no Dude, it is it's quite the opposite, where she's now having a huge come up. Oh, really? Yeah, because she's like she's like, you know what? like i'm I'm taking my... like She took her ah her implants out, and like she like took all of all of basically... like everything that was fake out of her out and is just aging like a normal human being now minus and the exorbitant amount of microplastics that are now in her body that are yeah that are yeah that are definitely in the ocean somewhere but like regardless you know she's just kind of letting it she has a documentary that that's on netflix and stuff and it was just it was so interesting because like
01:16:47
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In a weird way, it's it's actually it's actually a really beautiful thing because essentially she's like, I i was so many people's men. I was so many men's fantasy. And like now I'm taking that back. like this is This is me.
01:17:04
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And you don't own me. You don't own my image. you know like That kind of thing. Because she got famous so quickly. think she owns most of her images at this point. Well, I just I just mean in the sense of like, you're right, but and also Hugh Hefner. But like, I was gonna say that, you know, you, you know, for for the most part, she she got famous so quickly, but also she got famous only on her looks.
01:17:29
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You know, like she literally she literally was found. i don't know if you guys remember how she was found. She was literally found because this woman was literally at a at a baseball game and and somebody who was was ah using the camera for the Jumbotron ah got her.
01:17:50
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And Hugh Hefner thought she was so beautiful that she just became a Playboy model instantaneously. And that's how she got famous. She got famous because she went to a baseball game.
01:18:01
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Like, that's sound wild. I actually thought it was Baywatch because I don't know anything. of No, no. Baywatch was after all this stuff. Like, it's it's insane to think about it. Well, I mean, and it's kind of like she she's what Kim Kardashian is now, where where it's like kids were going to be like, hey, why is Kim Kardashian famous? And people will be like, because of her underwear.
01:18:22
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No. um Because of the Kardashian show? No. ah Because of ah her former dad possibly have doing doing a lawsuit?
01:18:35
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Kind of. But really, it's because of a sex tape. like That's why she's famous. you know um And it's just weird that that's the thing that has made people...
01:18:49
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huge in this country which is like waiting for mine to be uh for mine to be discovered it' free yeah you leaked it like years ago nobody now nobody's been watching send it to me and i'll give you some feedback i keep trying literally nobody cares it's crazy yeah what do you want feedback for you're in it casey like what do you It's just like the gun story. I just want to see myself on screen. Yeah, I get you. I get you, man. Why is he screaming Sarah?
01:19:22
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Why is it Luke Wilson made this big for us? Luke Wilson would love that. yeah if your if your friend was like i'm starting an only fans i'm really nervous about putting this stuff out here can you just look this over and just just give me give me some honest feedback on it would you do it it depends on the friend oh man it depends it depends on it depends on the friend and like it also just depends on like how poorly things are going in their life.
01:19:55
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It's Jeremiah. Because if it's like, yo, like... um because ah week because is
01:20:08
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because if it's like yo like Come on, man. Like, what are we doing? Like, ah you know, but yeah, I mean, there's there's a there's someone I'm sure there's there's a couple people who would like make me feel bad enough to check it out. Jerry, I got you, bro.
01:20:31
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You said it to me. And I'll tell you if you're shaving close enough. How about that? Yeah. Yeah. like that' The right millimeter to avoid razor bumps.
01:20:42
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Yeah. part I mean, honestly, part of me would feel like weirdly... um Kind of like I would feel weirdly like complimented by it because it's like, oh, like you want my opinion.
01:20:58
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ok cool. You know, that's kind know good fucking. All right. Yeah. And then he's like, yeah, I mean, if ah yeah I don't know if she'd have much to add, but, you know, you could show your wife and see what thinks.
01:21:13
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And then you'd be like, oh, oh, what's going on here i also i also find it so funny i also find it so funny that in that all three of us assumed that it would be one of our guy friends and not a girlfriend
01:21:30
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yeah we we know the problems at least for casey and i i mean if the three of us you know and the three of us know anything it's that if our friends are calling us about an only fans it's a guy yeah if
01:21:50
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you know to open the pandora's box of a female friend being like hey do you want to check out my no i'm good i i don't i don't need that in my life that's gonna cause thank you that's not gonna be helpful and it's not gonna be beneficial for you at all i'll be completely honest even as a single dude i couldn't do it i couldn't do it if it was a female friend because i just wouldn't see them the same If it was a dude, completely different. Because I can look at a dude.
01:22:17
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It is different, weirdly, because you're like, these are the same parts that I have. So, like, there's nothing to it, at least for me. You know? Like, and I'm not attracted to it, so I'll look at it from a critical lens. yeah This is so stupid that we're having this conversation.
01:22:34
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I'm like, well So like like that you like, you'll be more, yeah, you'll be more critical of it because you're like, well, I have that and it's not as nice as mine or it's worse or it's nicer than mine or whatever, you know, so you have something to gauge off of.
01:22:49
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And like, if it's a female friend, you're just like, you know, what if, what if it isn't as good as you thought? What if it's better than you thought? Then it gets even weirder. Like, it's just, it gets like, it's just like, uh, uh, exactly what you said. A Pandora's box of just like yeah awful stuff that could happen, whether you're single or married. Like, it's just like, you just don't want to do that with a, with a friend,
Religious Reflections and Theological Discussions
01:23:14
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you know? So like, yeah, it's weird. Yeah.
01:23:19
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Yeah. Anyway, remember when the show was about Christianity? Yeah. but Yeah. What is God doing in your life? What's more Christian than being there for your brother? Yeah, that's true. That is true You know what? I think that most Christian response is, I don't want to, but because they care about you, brother, I will do it for you ah as a brother in Christ.
01:23:42
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Yeah. I was listening to a pretty interesting – thing on the subject of Christianity shows listening to a podcast discussion about um was it was like an Easter thing, but it was about the book of Job and stuff.
01:24:00
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But one of the questions that he brought up is is. ah Like, does does God change? Throughout the the the Bible.
01:24:12
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You know, because I think like Chris, like, I mean, we all know the stock canned answer is no. God never changes. He's unchanging. He's perfect. He's all knowing he's, in empower you know, all powerful this and that and the other.
01:24:24
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There's nothing about him that changes. And then you go through this like big elaborate, you know. ah explanation of why the law is fulfilled because of Christ and this and that, and that makes God's character, you know, towards us different. All of that.
01:24:43
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And like this guy who is a Christian, you know, and kind of, and maybe in a kind of an unconventional sense, but he's like, I think he undoubtedly changes throughout the Bible.
01:24:55
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And he uses the book of Job as like a, like an example of that where he, he you know, his his argument is that God is the, uh, is the antagonist in the book of Job.
01:25:07
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Yeah. And it's so, it was really interesting because it's like, so contrary to what you had heard about Job, like growing up the like typical evangelical, like explanation of it, because he kind of takes it from the, the example of like, you know, the,
01:25:25
Speaker
Satan baited him into like torturing this guy who was like his good and faithful servant. and he more or less just, I mean, hammers away at this guy's life. And like, you're kind of made to think that he brings it all around and makes it okay. And no, he got a new wife and new kids and this and that and the other, you know, that was like always the way around it and, know,
01:25:50
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in church and stuff, but it's like, everybody knows that it's like a really unsatisfactory answer. I mean, he wants, didn't want to, I mean, who would want a new wife and new kids as a, as a re reconciling. Careful with that question.
01:26:07
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so yeah I know people with some pretty shitty kids and wives they seem to hate. so ah Don't show me, God. Please, don't show me. yeah some Sometimes I feel like ah Satan is telling God to do something in my life just to see if I'll...
01:26:26
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follow his word um but when your friend asks you to critique his only fans video yeah yeah yeah that's a i i mean i don't know man that's i e test i certainly can't i certainly can't answer that question you know because it's just yeah that's that's like a ah constant you know, just thought provoking kind of discussion to have, where it's just like, you're right. Like that is a good point that like, you know,
01:26:59
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and Satan does basically bait God into doing that. And he's like, no, like he's, you know, and, and, and to be completely fair, you know, as somebody just, just coming from me personally, like, you know, ah when I, when I love somebody, like really love them, like I love them hard.
01:27:20
Speaker
And if they're taken away from me, a new person is not going to solve that. Yeah. You know, like, because the person that I loved really hard is gone, you know, so um that's just me, you know, but um i I don't know, you know, I, again, I wasn't there, you know, I wasn't, you know, I can't really,
01:27:44
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Can't really answer any of that. You know, I, it's funny. I, you know, to, to bring it back to religion, cause that is what this whole thing is about, you know, Easter and all that stuff kind of brought a lot of these questions in my head of like, you know, why do I believe in God and why do I believe in Jesus and, you know, all this stuff. And what's so funny is that when I was a kid, I was so scared you jeff And I was so scared of the rapture and just scared of scared of it all, which I'm sure at the... at I'm talking to the right crowd here, especially with you two, where it's just like...
01:28:28
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you know you There is no rhyme or reason for a 10-year-old to be scared that they are going to be snatched from Earth you know and and just like disappear off the state off the face of the Earth for whatever for whatever reason or be scared that you know or be told their entire lives that we're living in the end times and it'll happen any moment. and you know You're just living your life thinking that we're you know that were it we're in the midst of an apocalypse, you know, and and, I'm sure that there are a lot of Christians either listening to this or, or whatever the case that truly think that thought that 10 years ago, thought that 20 years ago and think that today, you know, and, um the thing that I have realized as a 30 year old is just, um,
01:29:23
Speaker
And I'm i more than I'm over 30, but still, you know, in in my in my 30s, the thing that I've realized is just like, I don't believe in God because I'm afraid to go to hell, which is something that I couldn't say when I was 10.
01:29:36
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You know, like i I don't believe in God because I'm afraid to go to hell. I don't implement the actions of Jesus and the love of Jesus because I'm afraid to go to hell and I want to go to heaven.
01:29:48
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I do them because I do that because living a life as Jesus would have wanted me to live makes me happy with my life, you know, and it makes me happy that I'm making others happy and I'm putting joy in other people's lives.
01:30:03
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I feel like my I feel like my personal ah gift and my personal ah job in this world is to spread joy.
01:30:14
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Now, everybody has probably has a different thought process, but me personally, that is, and and that's why that's the thing that makes me happy. like The thing that makes me happy is making people laugh. you know And it's always been like that. like it's it's Since I was a kid and before I even knew I wanted to be a comedian, the thing that I love doing is making people happy because I knew what it felt like to be sad and I didn't want people feeling like that, you know?
01:30:39
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And man, I, this is getting super real, but I'm just being, I'm just being as as honest as I can, you know? And, and just like that, that's just, that's just the truth where it's just like, I, do the reason why I believe what I believe is because,
01:30:58
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I believe that it's for the betterment of myself. And also because it reminds me to treat people the way that they should be treated with love as opposed to some sort of reward that I may or may not get.
01:31:15
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And if I was to get it, who's to say that I would even care because my consciousness will be gone. So like, you know, it's just like, it's, it's this like,
01:31:29
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it's and and to be honest man like you have to understand that so much christianity is not just christianity it's also just like american christianity yeah because like it's an evolving culture ever it's dumb it's it's so incredibly american to be like if you if you do this at a church for no money you're gonna get a jewel in your crown and when you get to heaven and like oh people are doing much of it at churches for no money anymore either I'd respect you if you'd believe that some of this bullshit and they're poor.
01:32:01
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Yeah. So like, but well, and, and, and, you know, I, I, I'll let you get to your point, Casey, but what I was going to say was just like, you know, and And so much so in like, I don't want to alienate anybody as far as like what they believe and and like what politics they believe in or whatever. But like, I've been thinking a lot about this with our recent presidency, because it's our our recent most recent president is so the thing that he cares about more than anything is money.
01:32:32
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And that's the thing. and and we're, we're finding that out really quickly that he mostly just cares about money. And even more than that, he cares about what that money has to do with him. And, um something that I've realized is just, you know, the words of Jesus is that there, you know, there are more, there are more chances of, of you getting, what is it? Getting, getting a camel through the, the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven.
01:32:59
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Yeah. And it's just like and and but but the truth of the matter is and that's not and look, that's not to say that we all need to be poor and like, you know, all this stuff. No, of course not. But it's just like.
01:33:13
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it's so incredibly American to be like, well, Jesus wants the American dream and heaven. And it's like, well, some of us just aren't made to do that. Some of us are made to be, you know, some of us are made to be comedians and, and we make our money later. And some of us are made to be, you know,
01:33:36
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firemen some of us are made to be lawyers and whatever and and those jobs paid differently in whatever it is that they do and god blesses us regardless of finances in my opinion i believe god blesses us through a million different things as opposed to finances you know Um, I've, I've actually, my, my whole life, all I've, all I've ever known is people being like, and I'm sure you guys have similar things where you guys will go to church and some pastor is just like, you know, I, I was in debt and I was, I was $175 and 45 cents short.
01:34:15
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And sure enough, I went to my mailbox and there was a check that said cash and And it was for $145.75. Can I get
Wealth, Power, and Christian Values
01:34:27
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an amen? This is a story. 100% believable.
01:34:31
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And you only got that after you tithed over $7,000 over the course of your life. Yeah, and that's and that's part of the thing. where and And that's like, you know, they're trying to teach whatever it is that they're trying to teach, and that's fine.
01:34:44
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But what the thing that I've noticed is that... God has never spoken to me through finances. God has spoken to me. God has spoken to me. and i will and i And I have my moments where I feel like God has spoken to me and I have felt a spiritual presence, but it has never been through through the sense of like, oh, I got some random check made out to cash, you know, or like, or like you know, I got my GoFundMe, you know, paid off or like whatever. Like, it's just, I i have gotten...
01:35:16
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I've gotten my my sense of of like, oh, this is how God is speaking to me through other things. And sometimes it's through music. You know, i feel like I feel like music is a really big factor. um I'm still a big music person as far as like listening to it.
01:35:35
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So like, I feel... I feel, you know, I feel a lot of and and funny enough, it's it's usually never Christian music that I that I feel like God is talking to me. You know, it's usually other.
01:35:48
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Me go inside Christian music. I can't with Christian. I really can't. Well, Christian. music anymore well christian well in in all reality and and and i mean i i haven't checked in in a really long time when it comes to christian music it might be completely different but like my my whole argument is like these people are just giving more and more reasons for jesus to turn the temple tables over again i was at a funeral today and we sang uh amazing grace and the only thought i had was that it's so fucking sick that like we're not it's
01:36:24
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It's tough to listen to R. Kelly. It's a little challenging, even with Michael Jackson. it's ah Drake's not going so great, ah but then you have the guy who wrote Amazing Grace who wrote it while actively slave trading and never really changed his mind about that.
01:36:40
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And we're like, this right song's an actual absolute Christian banger. That's all thought about today. I was like, this is stupid. like i watch We're still singing it. and Anyone who fucking missteps, we go, their career's over. and then But they wrote Amazing Grace, so we're going to sing that every week for the rest of our lives.
01:37:00
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yeah Nobody cares about that guy, though. i e yeah and that I think the thing that was... saying like yeah No, go ahead, Casey. Well, like one of the... So kind of like touching on...
01:37:13
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On that, too. Yeah, the guy was so they were talking about faith and like, what is faith? And I feel like that's a question that always kind of gets glazed over with like a stock answer when you sure about it.
01:37:27
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But he had like the best explanation of faith that i I think resonates with me more than anything else. And I'm like completely outside of all that. you know, sure And he said, ah he said, people think that faith is, is believing in something, even though you suspect it might not be true.
01:37:45
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And he said, what, what faith really is, what it comes down to, like in a meaningful sense is doing something, even though you suspect it may be pointless. Yeah.
01:37:55
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Loving your neighbor may not pay off, but it's, it's a thing you should do, you know? Sure. And like, and it makes so much more sense, you know, when you look at it that way, cause it's like, nobody cares what you say you believe it. Like, what does it even mean? You believe in this, you believe in that. Like, I don't know what you're thinking. I don't know how the, how, what that like stirs inside of you when you say those things, whether it's like, you know, some ongoing, like meaningful relationship you have with like the, you know, this idea or this entity or whatever you want to call it. Or if it's like,
01:38:32
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One time, ah you know, my kid was drowning and ah I heard a voice to, you know, do CPR. I don't know. You know? Yeah.
01:38:43
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Like, yeah I'm sure it means all sorts of things for different people, but I think that's where it comes down to with, like, you know, the whole, like, rich guy entering the kingdom of heaven is, like, you have a you have a corrupting influence And, you know, before we started the podcast, we were talking about like some disgraced politicians and stuff.
01:39:03
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Sure. And, ah you know, when you climb the ladder as hard as some of these people do, like they're so singularly focused on it. ah feel like that in and of itself is probably evidence of some serious character flaws. You know, like you have some really dark parts of your personality.
01:39:23
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That you're, you know, you're, you're, you're astroturfing in order to, you know, make yourself look a certain way and whatnot. Like, I think that's the corrupting influence. Like, if if you're willing to go to the lengths that some of these people are to, like, attain power and attain money and all this kind of stuff, like, you just, your faith...
01:39:44
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from a work standpoint, from a what what does it mean to other people? It's what you do. Like that is going to take a back seat. and you And you justify it by being like, well, I i give to charities and i I started a foundation that raises money for this and that. Dude, I have to go to some of these charity banquets for like customers that have a foundation and stuff. And they are the just the most nauseating garbage.
01:40:09
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You know, like. Yeah, you have to go to them. I have to do comedy at them. oh my god i can't even imagine dude the worst people alive yes yeah like i just did one a couple weeks ago i felt like i was i felt like i was in a cage i was like oh i'm clearly the hired talent okay all right well okay but it's like it's a contract that these people make with themselves where like and it's not always bad but like Let's face it. Some of them are actually really good. There's a contract to make themselves where it's like, I can be prick in business.
01:40:47
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I can backstab partners and different stuff like that. you know i can I can constantly like put my interests above other people's or friends or acquaintances or whatever because I'm i'm about to give $20,000 the...
01:41:04
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you know buy a little black kid a bed fund. Yeah. Which is yeah ah okay. It's not called that. It's literally what the last one of these was that I went to. I, I will make sure to but to get pictures that they thought would get the most mileage out.
01:41:20
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And it's just like, that's yeah still gross, dude. I hate it. That's really gross. There was a recent study that I just saw that was about it. Uh, After psychologists um interviewed like 200 and something CEOs, it was like the level of um clinically significant psychopathic traits um was it was like over 50 percent of people who are in those positions. Yeah.
01:41:52
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rep have attributes that are clinically significant for being a like ah basically a psychopath. And because that's American business. that like Yeah, you can't... It's just what people are.
01:42:06
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but It's like it's but not even strictly an American thing. It's just what... That's what human beings do. but And business rewards the people who are able to, like you said, ah like...
01:42:20
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take advantage of people here and there, make this promise, but then, oh, well, this happened. Like the age old adage of it's just business. Like if you, the more you you seem to align yourself with that mentality, um the more likely you are to ah have attributes that are clinically significant for just being a psychopath.
01:42:40
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We all know there are good CEOs out there. If you're a billionaire, you're probably not one of them, but yeah. I was I was just thinking about this as as you were talking, Casey um and Sam. But but like I was I was thinking, you know, when we were kids and I'm sure a lot of people who listen to this podcast remember when we were kids, there was this cute little song that we would sing. It was Zacchaeus was a wee little man and a wee little man was he.
01:43:08
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Yeah, it's that song about the little person that kleinel climbed up in a tree because he couldn't see Jesus. And his hands yeah got really sappy. Yeah. but the the whole The whole thing, in all in all reality, I was actually thinking about it, is like...
01:43:26
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that song in a weird way and granted who knows if this was the person's intention i probably i doubt it but i'm just over analyzing it because that's what i do unfortunately uh with music but and with anything um is it is it could also just be a metaphor of just climbing up the social and economical ladder of just like i'm going to get as high as humanly possible because that's the only way i'll be seen by jesus and And then Jesus finally sees him to go to his house to be like, hey, man, you really fucked up. He calls him out in a crowd. He basically pants is him in front of his like ah tax base.
01:44:05
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Exactly. Look at the douche in the tree. dude i want to make me dinner, dummy. can i Can I tell you, i nothing would make me happier than if Jesus came back and did that to Donald Trump.
01:44:21
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Nothing would make me happier. Oh my god, dude. yeah i don't think Trump's ever clotted a tree for any reason that wasn't masturbatory.
01:44:32
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i Get off that tree and make me dinner, you stupid idiot.
01:44:39
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I'll make you dinner. It'll be the best dinner you've ever had, Jesus. Yeah, cut to McDonald's flown in. Nasty, nasty savory.
01:44:51
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Jesus is just turning it into a five-star meal with wine. like These are very sick people, and they're going to El Salvador. Yeah, like it's just oh my god, you know, you know what I was thinking about i I was I was curious, you know, because we were talking about like prison and stuff and and like, unfortunately, you know, I, I, I've been thinking about this recently because there's a very popular show on YouTube ah called Last Meals. Have you guys seen it?
01:45:21
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No, I've heard of it. i haven't watched it. It's a great show. It's it's a show. It's a half cooking show, half interview show. And the whole thing is that um it's it's the mythical guys and they the Rhett and Link guys. But it's the ah the chefs from Mythical Kitchen.
01:45:38
Speaker
And they have celebrities come in and they interview them while they're eating their favorite things. Like like if they were eating their their last meal on Earth.
Food Preferences and Childhood Memories
01:45:48
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okay and i was just And I was just curious as to if you could have anything in the entire world. And and to be fair, that there they literally say could have anything in the entire world. it like If you want something from, like they're in l LA, so they're like, there's this place in New York, like nobody knows about it. They're like, we can literally just have it either sent in or they can give us the recipe we'll make it here. Yeah.
01:46:13
Speaker
And nine times out of 10, it's always, it's, it's always either exactly right or they just get it flown in for more ever. So like, this isn't, you know, a, um, like it isn't, it isn't a, uh,
01:46:28
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like money isn't an issue time isn't an issue like like just like oh like there's this soda from 2001 but nobody makes it anymore like it's like no like you want it you can have it what would that meal surge before they took the fentanyl out yeah yeah That answer does not shock me at all.
01:46:53
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I knew was going to be some old soda recipe. and just I can tell you for sure. ah Very quickly, the first thing that came to my mind is... um And I don't know if it's... <unk>s I wouldn't even like rate this as one of my favorite meals. I'm a big wings dude. I love a good wing. like Oh, by the way, they have multiple courses. like It is beyond... like it's It's like five courses. So you can literally have anything you want.
01:47:20
Speaker
I wasn't going to stop at wings, but... Yeah, it's not like you can only pick one. You literally have whatever you I think... But what made it cross my mind is the best wings I ever had and that I would get is regularly as I could um from a restaurant that no longer exists. They closed down like four, three or four years ago. Okay. And I haven't, up until I ate their wings, they they these smoked wings, nothing, nothing came close.
01:47:52
Speaker
And to this still, since they shut down, I haven't had a wing that compares. So, yeah. I don't even know how I would get that, but that's the first food that comes to mind because it's just not accessible anymore, and I want to taste it one more time.
01:48:06
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Well, I mean, obviously, from what I can understand, was smoked, right? So you would have to just, like, try to have wing. Yeah, but I've had smoked wings. These ones were something else.
01:48:17
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I would have to – I follow the chef on Instagram. Really, they'd have to get in touch with the chef and fly him out. It's possible. wins That's what would happen. They have like 13 million viewers. they they're They have the money. yeah yeah They will do it. How many courses of yours is cereal?
01:48:34
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of yours is a serial I was going to do one course of cereal. an appetizer ander series I actually, I actually think you and I are going to agree the second that I say it, Casey.
01:48:47
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um i I want the Rice Krispies Treats cereal, the blue box. Oh, dang. Yeah. I'm on board with this too. Rice Krispies Treats cereal is. Dude, it was the Heisenberg of cereal, dude. It was so good.
01:49:04
Speaker
so my mom never bought it my mom would never buy it as soon as i went to college i was buying oh no i should every everybody that has ever eaten it ate it at a friend's house nobody ever nobody's mom ever bought like that's the thing about that cereal that's so special is nobody's mom ever bought it but we always found a way to get know know so like yeah we always found a way to eat it and it was usually like a kid who like looking back at it had a really sad life you know because like they're like oh like well my mom and my dad you know work three jobs and i'm usually just here home you know and they say i could have whatever cereal i want and it's like okay cool like you know you know and never see it as like a sad thing this is this the only kids
01:49:53
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I only had two kids houses and both of those kids also were definitely autistic. So I don't know what you want. I'm not making claims about what Rice Krispie Treat cereal does.
01:50:08
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um I believe RFK might have some ideas. Sure. Well, I will say that they don't make it anymore. um And it could be for reasons that I mean, there the a reason why they stopped making a lot of stuff is because they realize like, oh, this is like doing something to the biological chemistry of people's body. Yeah, like much tan number five is bad for your gut biome.
01:50:32
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yeah like definitely impacted the number of clearly doing something yeah yeah it's the it's it's the red skittles that are just making everybody lose their attention um yeah like um but what would what would yours be casey oh man that's
01:50:54
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i He would have to kill it. Surge with fentanyl and Rice Krispie Street cereal. But what else? What would you wash it down with? want him to fly in pepperoni calzone with marinara from the Sbarro at the 12 Oaks Mall in Novi, Michigan.
01:51:13
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Just
01:51:21
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Just the stupidest. I would like for you to fly specifically. did have that and who did you have sex with right beforehand?
01:51:32
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I had sex with the calzone. Yeah. Tell me about it. That's the only warm pocket I need at 13. Yeah. That's the old water wiggle treatment. Those don't pop. Yeah, dude.
01:51:44
Speaker
Oh my gosh, dude. You remember, I remember how old I was when I discovered a calzone. That was, that was a life changing event. Calzones are the shit.
01:51:55
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I think I've gone 36 years without ever ordering a calzone in my life. Really? delicious. I've tried a bite of other people's. I've never been like, I'll get the calzone.
01:52:06
Speaker
No, you have to. You can't take a bite of someone else's. You need to have a certain level of depression to order one for yourself. That's crazy. They don't definite have them in small sizes.
01:52:18
Speaker
No, they don't. They don't have a manhole cover. It's almost worth you getting a divorce with your wife just for the calzone. Yeah.
01:52:30
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I'll take your word for it. ah so um No, i would never i obviously kidding. but So you I remember you having some very choice words about Magic Spoon.
01:52:43
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Yes, they suck. like i can I don't agree 100%, but I understand where you're coming from. Sure. But I have to ask you. Have you had the ghost cereal?
01:52:57
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Yes, and it gave me a rash.
01:53:04
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i my body rejected it immediately.
01:53:10
Speaker
it's too much protein my body re rejected it immediately look it's the greek yogurt of cereal but <unk>s it's a good compromise and i've been eating i mean by the bucket load but honest honestly dude like i um i i'm a big fan of ghost um i I get their their regular whey protein powder and stuff like that.
01:53:37
Speaker
I haven't really like dipped into the energy drink market that they're really blasting off on, apparently. um later sound bad. not an energy drink person. Yeah, but like I'm not an energy drink person anyway.
01:53:50
Speaker
But like the most caffeine I really need is in a Diet Coke. And like Diet Coke is is my ride or die. Like like I'm married to Diet Coke. But um yeah, like I am.
01:54:04
Speaker
Yeah, I've I've had the cereal. I feel like one of them was better than the other. The peanut butter one, I think, was better than i like marshmallow one. I like the marshmallow one better, but April likes peanut butter better.
01:54:17
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yeah but I think the peanut butter one is a little bit easier to hide I think it's a little bit easier is it's easier to hide the like artificialness of it which like I know it's all artificial at the end of the day but like the the weird like film that it leaves the the film of filth that it leaves in your mouth the oil slick in your milk bowl yeah yeah the oil slick rainbow sheen Yeah, and I think i think it's because like they probably use some sort of like dehydrated peanut butter, like ah like a PB Fit or something like that. I can like a be fit dude i could see the the like the World Wildlife Foundation just like like scrubbing that stuff off of a ah duck.
01:55:04
Speaker
you know, yeah after like an accident at the plant. and Yes. Yes. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. It's, it's that. And like, and they're, they're, t they're scrubbing the bile from like ghost cereal and people's raisin brand shit.
01:55:22
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Like just like awful awfulness, but yeah. Like, I don't know. I really liked, i I don't, I've never really been a fan of like the protein.
01:55:34
Speaker
cereals um cheerios had one that was not bad um but also like cheerios also made one that was like fruits and veggies and i'm like what are we doing cheerios like what is happening like i don't want that Well, it's just like, I think it's it's the, it goes back to the water talk kind of situation of it all, where it's just like, people people are just trying to do anything to disguise the fact that they're eating fruits and vegetables, or disguise the fact that they're drinking water. Yeah.
01:56:07
Speaker
To where it's like now becoming like, you know, you're you're just making a drink with regular sugar in it. Like, you know, like because Water Talk, they're like, you know, oh, well, I get a bottle of water and then I get powdered pineapple and then I put two squirts of coconut, three squirts of of vanilla, four squirts of raspberry. And then I put some half and half in there and I'm like, you've got a regular ass drink.
01:56:35
Speaker
Like that's enough sugar. Like you don't. that's That's like liquid renal failure. Yeah, but like, but tell, but tell me how that isn't any different from like having a drink from anywhere else. It's just, you're just, again, people just want to hide the fact that they're drinking water or whatever. And it's the same thing with like, oh, well I like eating cereal, but I don't like eating fruits and vegetables. What if I got Cheerios, fruits and veggies? Like, it's like, I'm really not looking forward to the conversation with my doctor someday where he looks at like my, my, my data and he's like, yeah,
01:57:12
Speaker
how how much alcohol have you been drinking? And I'm like, yeah none. And he's like, well, then why is your liver failing? And it's like, oh, it's vitamin B12. yeah your your doctor's like, this prostate feels like it's been eating too much ghost cereal. Yeah.
01:57:35
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He's a little bag heavy. the yeah It's the texture. He could just on the tip of his gloved finger, he goes, oh, that's a ghost cereal prostate. If I ever felt one. Yeah. Dude, you got to lift that prostate with your knees.
01:57:47
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he He calls his finger the magic spoon. That's what he calls it.
01:57:53
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yeah
01:57:58
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It's no different. I mean, the prize in the box of magic spoon is a guy sticking his thumb up his butt anyway. he's so
01:58:07
Speaker
here you go here's here's the word diarrhea misspelled and on a napkin here's your prize magic spoon like it's so bad like what are we doing here man it's like at least i i will say this about like healthy cereals like the thing that the thing that i respect about certain healthy cereals is like bro Like if you're going to be a healthy cereal, really tell me like like put a Bible verse and a picture of a farm on the back of the box. Like tell me, tell me what's happening. Some Ezekiel bread flakes.
01:58:42
Speaker
Yeah. Like Dr. Bronner's soap. Yeah, Dr. Bronner's flakes. you have you read alman oil Have you read all the words on Dr. Bronner's Castile soap?
01:58:55
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ah shit's No. You read it and you go, oh, this is made in a cult. Oh, yeah, for sure. it's It's so... That's so funny. i ah So I have i have um this bit that I've been doing. I do this bit all the time, but I i found... It's a crowd work bit, and I found this...
01:59:16
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at a show because i i ask everybody what their favorite cereal is and i have a joke about every cereal and for the first time i had a cereal that nobody had ever said before and they said honey bunches of oats uh no one has ever said that because that cereal box No one has ever said that. Yeah, no, it does. It does. But usually, like, the tip of everybody's tongue are, like, the the regular breakfast club. Like, it's, like, you know, the Lucky Charms, the the Cookie Crisps, you know, the the you know the the regular, like, sugar cereals, like the Fab Five of of sugar cereals. That's usually on the tip of everybody's tongue, and I'm ready for that.
01:59:57
Speaker
But I always want a wild card in there. And I heard somebody say Honey Bunches of Oats. And I loved it. And I really sat with it for a second. And I realized that one of the reasons why that cereal, because it does fuck as far as like tasting, but here's the reason why it fucks even harder than that.
02:00:15
Speaker
The mascot of that cereal is not a cartoon. It's just a lady that works at the factory. like really your cereal's gotta that cereal's gotta be good if your mascot is an underpaid black lady who's just ps like who's like on jemima for 45 years i've been working here for 45 years and i make 350 an hour but those maple flakes make it all worthwhile like it's just like my goodness it must be great
02:00:46
Speaker
You know, you actually kind ruin the cereal for me. I'll be honest. I don't know if I can eat it anymore. I feel like I feel like it's going the way of ah our America's favorite maple syrup, you know?
02:00:59
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No, she she actually I will say this. She did because I did a deep dive on this woman because I was so interested because I was just like this woman literally works at the factory and she became the face of the cereal.
02:01:12
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did she get compensated for this? And she didn't. And um she went on like the Steve Harvey show. Yeah, of course. She's still, she's still getting, she's, she gets no money from it. She's a local hardcore man who thought she made Yeah. And,
02:01:29
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And she like, ah she went on the Steve Harvey show and Steve Harvey like gave her a brand new car. I mean, granted, I mean, let me tell you guys, if you haven't seen this commercial, she is the sweetest lady of all time. Like you're just like, like just love comes out of the screen when you see this woman. Like you're just like, wow. Like if she, if she was selling me my own shirt, I would buy it.
02:01:54
Speaker
Like, it's like so sweet how this woman is. And yeah, To find out that she didn't get paid for any of it is like a scam, you know? And then you find out she has to go to like a Steve Harvey talk show to like get a brand new car and like a trip to Jamaica, you know? And it's like, this woman had to like...
02:02:15
Speaker
ah go through 10 years of general mills commercials because they i mean they ran that commercial for years and years and years and she made no money off of it i mean you have to understand an animated b is getting paid more than a real lady like that's insane right i don't know i don't trust you yeah know she clawed her way to the cereal box and then into steve harvey's arms like i'm worried about what she might be hiding I feel like she could be a psychopath.
02:02:46
Speaker
I think she might have been one of Steve Harvey's many affairs. I think the car was money. i I will tell you this. If if Steve Harvey had an affair with the honey bunches of oats lady, there is no funnier thing that could ever happen on the face of the earth.
02:03:03
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like Two of them should be the mascot for Magic Spoon.
Friendship, Authenticity, and Podcasting Joys
02:03:12
Speaker
yeah just like the steve harvey face ah like you think it's protein cereal oh okay like yeah i can't think i can't see him without thinking of that meat canyon cartoon where he hears like a lewd joke And then it just like zooms into him going to hell. And I can't see his face without thinking I'm at a Ramada Inn.
02:03:36
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like
02:03:41
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That's that's how I feel whenever I see whenever I see Guy Fieri. I'm like, am I on vacation right now? Like, what is happening? like I should only be seeing your face if I'm on vacation.
02:03:52
Speaker
That ties in perfectly to what you were talking about earlier. That's parent TV. Yeah, dude, tell me. it but no parent TV is CBS. Like, that's real parent TV.
02:04:04
Speaker
Like, I think nothing. i I didn't understand the Food Network until I went on vacation, like as an adult, you know, where I went on. I went on a vacation like and I and I did um actually it wasn't even vacation. It was work.
02:04:18
Speaker
But it felt like vacation because they were paying for my they were paying for my stay. i was I was shooting. i was shooting a project and they were like, oh, we're we're going to have you stay at this Marriott or whatever.
02:04:29
Speaker
And I stayed at this Marriott and I would just watch like diners, drive ins and dives all day. And I was like, I get it because this is so it's so easy to turn your brain off and watch this like it's vacation TV.
02:04:42
Speaker
It's great. Oh, yeah. It's a visual podcast. Yeah. Well, Mike, we got to wrap up, but man, it was awesome. I love having you on. I feel like every time we have you on, we could talk forever and ever.
02:04:57
Speaker
um Yeah, dude. Probably the kitchen, we should have you on more often. ah But I'm always game to hang out with you guys. I, I will say this.
02:05:08
Speaker
um i had to, I had to come to Sam Because Sam is so busy trying to get A-list celebrities on this podcast. And I was like, can I please be on the podcast again? i miss talking to you guys. Nothing that makes me happier than when people do that. Because I am always in like this constant spiral of like, all right, here, you know try to get...
02:05:27
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guests try to do this i'm finished like i'm finally done with grad school after next month so like that's no longer on my plate but i feel like i always have my wheels turning on like what to do next with this and then ah so when people reach out and they go can i do it i'm like oh my god i don't even yes of course you can do it i'm so happy you asked i'm like and I forget to just kind of like dip back into our pool of friends.
02:05:53
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Um, yeah. For, for the listener. When you reached out, I was like, Oh, I was like, I was fucking beyond excited. i was like, I, it made me feel like I should have reached out sooner, but I thank you.
02:06:04
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And, uh, no, that's, that's good to hear because part of me, part that's good to hear. Cause part of me was like, cause I got, I got a response from, I got a response from Sam that was like, yeah, like we're planning on getting Max Bemis, but like if he cancels, you can be on. And I was like, uh, okay. Like it was just like, and then just, and then like part of me, part of me is like imagining,
02:06:30
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Part of me is just imagining Sam just interviewing Max Bemis from Say Anything, which is just a hilarious thing for me to imagine. Just like when you wrote that song and you said I called her on the phone and she touched herself. What did you mean by that?
02:06:44
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Like.
02:06:49
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it's like the most emo chris farley show like just like remember when you guys made is a real boy that was awesome yeah like
02:07:00
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ah i'm complete i'm i'm just throwing sam under a bus but i'm completely kidding i literally he was nothing but nice to me but like i'm i'm just kidding around he really is trying to get max bea mess with But I was kidding about everything. And working, so we won't cut all of this out because he is the flightiest motherfucker on the planet.
02:07:22
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Yeah, fair enough. It's fine. um But yeah. um No, I'm always... Dude, I'm always happy to be a part of this. I mean, i you know you guys are my family. you guys are my tribe. And i think that you know being on is super fun because you guys make me laugh and I hopefully make you laugh. And that's the whole point of...
02:07:43
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friendship sometimes you know it's just sort forget all the bad stuff yeah dude absolutely i love it i love uh i love that you call us friends i love that we're friends uh sometimes you of course man guests on you're like yeah there's this like we're there They're reoccurring. yet But like i I do appreciate that. i I appreciate feeling like we've made friends ah ah hundred thousand old people yeah i don't along with along this route.
02:08:11
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I definitely don't see you guys as like, as like oh, they're they're a podcaster. like if it If this makes you feel anything, I didn't want to be on this podcast because I was trying to promote something. I wanted to be on this podcast because I want to be with you guys. I see Kim's millennial Anthony Cumia.
02:08:29
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yeah
02:08:32
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Well, I love it. You know what? i All I heard, and this is, ah I didn't want to be in your podcast because I thought you could do anything for me. I just like you for who you are.
02:08:44
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yeah That's not what I meant. I'm just kidding. yeah it's like when a girl's like i look i it's not i i don't care what you look like i just love you like well that's nice
02:09:05
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no i don't mind it doesn't bother me that you look the way you do i just like you for who you are Yeah. i don't Personally, i love I love ugly people, personally. I'm not like a muscle person, you know?
02:09:20
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that we See, most people love people with big dicks. I'm not like that. like I'm not like that. That's not me. i think I like three inches or or smaller.
02:09:33
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so stupid well um good hanging out man thanks for coming on yeah thanks of course anytime we're uh where can people find you um So I'm performing all over. I'm working um a lot with Don't Sell Comedy ah down in Florida.
02:09:52
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So um just go to ah the kid from up.com. That is my website. and And that has everything that has everywhere where you can follow me on social media.
02:10:03
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and um have some cool things coming up i can't talk about i can talk about with you guys offline but i cannot say in public yet um but yeah there's that and also um really fun thing i got um i got a scholarship uh to ucb uh and yeah out in la so yeah so i'm gonna be uh doing some improv with ucb so i'm excited about that and um fuck yeah yeah Mike can't talk about it, but I can talk about it for him.
02:10:36
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He's excited because he just scored a a starring role in the live action Br'er Rabbit and the Tar Baby remake. Okay, well, I wasn't going to say anything, and and And this is thankfully this isn't a video podcast so they can't see me nodding right now. But they were looking they were looking for a slave and I did audition. that i was I was extremely surprised that I got the role.
02:11:16
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ah
02:11:19
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i love her i love more than anything casey says something and then makes himself unable to breathe yeah i think he's mostly laughing at the fact that i had the balls to yes and
02:11:36
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how's that used to be That's that UCB, baby. That's what that is. He's a heroic character. That's a UCB person that got a scholarship. It's someone who yes ands a Song of the South joke.
02:11:52
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Oh my god. They don't they just call me as soon as this podcast comes out. We're good guys. it's that does
02:12:04
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All right. Well, thanks everybody for listening and we will see you next time.