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In this episode, Sam Morril explores the unique culture and norms of New York City through a series of personal anecdotes and observations about urban life. He describes the city's chaotic energy as both irritating and energizing, noting that residents quickly adapt to constant noise, construction—specifically referencing Section 11 law drills—and general disarray. Morril contrasts this with his experiences in quieter places like Montana or airports, where silence can be unsettling for New Yorkers accustomed to ambient volume. He also touches on the city's dating scene and social dynamics, critiquing modern apps as shallow compared to meeting people in person, while humorously recounting a Spanish trend of finding romance using pineapples in supermarket carts. The conversation shifts to celebrity culture and relationships under public scrutiny, with Morril discussing Travis Kelce’s high-profile relationship with Taylor Swift and the conspiracy theories surrounding it. He contrasts this with Will Smith's career trajectory following his slap at an awards show, analyzing how fame amplifies personal conflicts and makes private life impossible for many stars. Morril also touches on Chris Brown's devoted fanbase despite allegations of domestic violence, highlighting the complexity of public perception versus reality in Hollywood. These examples illustrate his broader point about the difficulty of maintaining normalcy when millions are watching every move you make. Morril then delves into business ventures and media criticism, promoting his Bodega Cat whiskey brand alongside a discussion on alcohol culture and classic cocktails like Manhattans and Martinis. He expresses frustration with social media platforms' content moderation algorithms, which often flag innocent jokes or sarcasm as hate speech or violence incitement. To combat this censorship, he supports Danny Frankle's new platform "Punch Up," designed to host uncensored comedy clips and collect fan emails for tour announcements without the restrictions imposed by major tech companies like Meta. Finally, Morril reflects on historical events in New York City, including his memories of 9/11 at age fifteen when he donated blood despite having undiagnosed AIDS, as well as his experiences during Hurricane Katrina. He shares recommendations for films and TV shows that capture the city's essence or offer dark humor, such as the Argentine anthology "Wild Tales." Throughout the discussion, Morril emphasizes resilience in a high-stress environment, suggesting that while life may be miserable at times, embracing one's specific brand of misery can lead to comfort and creativity.
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this is delicious you haven't decided
whether I know I don't like it I don't
think but you keep drinking it I keep
drinking it God damn it I keep drink and
I'm like I don't think I like it but
I've had like 10 sips and I'm like maybe
I do I don't how long do it take to get
accustomed to New York City I mean I
don't know cuz I've lived you my whole
life but you picked like the worst strip
this is a really bad block I mean it's
like all the people just selling fake
bags who the [ __ ] thinks these are real
bags I mean if you're a tourist are
you're not an like you're like oh yeah
the guy who was in in 3 days and smells
like Bo that's a that's a real Louis
Vuitton Stocker retailer of come on
who's luxury items yeah just buy a
[ __ ] bag that's cheap that's actually
not going to break the second you buy it
I don't know I this place feels really
hard to adjust to as someone who's not
from here yeah I feel like a a medieval
Country Bumpkin going to the big city or
something to have to speak to the baron
or whatever and I come in I'm like just
overloaded it's so loud noisy everything
smells and then it's also energizing but
yeah it's just it's odd to adjust to and
people that live here are just like it's
just what life is that's exactly my
point I can't drive but I can tell you
which subway gets you to like Brooklyn
I'm you I can't really can't I can drive
but I'm bad so you have your license but
I it was a b here's what happened I I
took three tests I failed the first two
drivers tests I passed the third one
because uh I got in the car and I was
like please don't fail me I'm terrible
and the and the instructor the
instructor laughed and then I hit a cone
and she was like all right you you got
it took sympathy on you yeah and but
then it was like because of that I don't
drive out of like respect because I know
it's a [ __ ]
license oh okay so I like never drive
probably for the best yeah I I did it
the other day but it was like six
blocks Jesus Christ yeah I well another
thing do people raise children here yeah
because never SE well I don't know I
just never they don't look like they're
going to school why do they go to school
Underground
like Subterranean children kindergarten
area you see the little kids with the
rolly bags and the going yeah they look
like
businessmen it's great they're already
jaded they're already like [ __ ] I got to
go to school today this is terrible yeah
oh [ __ ] got a spelling test yeah they're
miserable my teachers being a dick yeah
dude no they're
uh they kids I was a kid here I mean we
grew up here it's but it's definitely an
energy like I when people are like this
City's terrible I'm like I can't argue
with you there's a lot of problems like
the amount of I feel like every
building's always falling apart there's
always like people drilling you just
walk around there's people just drilling
on the side of buildings to make sure
loose bricks don't fall out and land on
someone kidding yeah it's called section
11 law so they will have to drill on the
side of your build so if you're like it
could be like we could be doing this
podcast and there could be a guy just
like right outside the window just like
Drilling and what's he doing he's making
sure the bricks don't fall out by
weakening the Bricks by checking I don't
know enough about it but I know I know
that's what they're doing yeah I think
I've heard you describe New York City as
you're in a constant state of irritation
but you're always grateful yeah it's
well that's life it's like every day for
me is like I'll bump a stranger and I'll
be like what the I [ __ ] I hope this
guy dies for bumping me but then like I
go to bed every night and I'm like good
day that's like my energy it's like I'm
angry but I'm I am grateful yeah I I
yeah this city is a constant state of
irritation but then like sometimes I
think sometimes I think life is that way
but then maybe it's just cuz I'm a New
Yorker but I travel so much for work
that like you know I'm an airport after
airport so travel is is a constant state
of irritation I'm always frustrated what
about when you go you go to Montana or
whatever and you just this down
regulation and you hear these birds I've
heard stories about people that live in
cities not being used to silence is that
is that a real thing have you ever have
put on like a noise maker I put on like
white noise I can't sleep with just well
also though if you're in a hotel like I
need the like just the sounds of the
couple next door arguing or whatever the
housekeeper they're just having a
conversation from one room to the other
and you're like do you think this is a
good idea at 8:30 in the morning but but
on top of that you also need this sort
of ambient volume because of I need
something but is that that so you don't
need that that's a New York thing yeah
okay yeah not at all at all
needed I need pretty wild to think but I
guess it's just whatever you get used to
but yeah man I uh coming here the the
energy is fantastic but living here must
be a trip must be an absolute trip yeah
I guess I'm I'm away enough to be
grateful I'm away enough to like you
know but then you always no matter where
you live you're excited to go home I
think correct you know I think of that
movie up in the air all the time that
Clooney movie where he's just always
just staring at the the flights and
you're like well that's the life of a
comedian so whenever I land I'm just
like [ __ ] yes and then you get home and
it's miserable but you're like but this
is my misery you know this is the this
is the misery I'm comfortable with
Whitney uh taught me something where she
said that uh in order for art to imitate
life you have to live a life and kind of
brought on why uh comedians uh and other
artists if they start to get more
successful they start to spend more time
on the road and then the only things
that they have to talk about are
airports and dinners backstages and
stuff because that's their life is just
infused with that so yeah you don't want
to be that comedian where after every
show A Guy Walks Like A guy came up to
me after a show and he said and like
that's your whole act and you're like no
you got to have like real stories
yeah I speaking of Montana I went to my
first PBR professional bull riding I
thought that was PS blue rib Ribbon or
whatever the beer I went to a I went to
a professional bull riding thing have
you ever been to one of those I hear
it's fun dude it's wild so my favorite
part of the whole thing the Bulls
themselves have walkout songs they don't
pick them uh I don't know I mean it was
it's all associated with and they've got
highlight reels of like their best rides
ever and there the you know this bull
trampling on a Brazilian man and this
it's like he hasn't been ridden in four
years and this thing comes out and it's
just super but it's got when it first
comes out it's fully dolled up and it's
got like flowers around it then the next
time it comes out it's got this they tie
this stuff under its stomach that
irritates it that's why it keeps doing
the Bucking thing got this stuff tied
underneath it and uh yeah there's always
like a little Brazilian dude on the top
of them and uh they [ __ ] him up and then
they go off are the guys are the guys
little in that or they a little bigger
cuz the the horse racing there the
jockeys are tiny mixed bag a lot of the
guys seemed like muscular but pretty
pretty short I'm going to guess being
tall would be a disadvantage in that cuz
he's going to get ragged around I've
done him in the bars the the balls and I
don't last same thing yeah and you you
would struggle so yeah I mean your pivot
if the comedy thing doesn't work out
pivoting into PBR might not be a good
idea
one thing that I really loved there's a
a guy like
a compare that's also a clown had full
sort of face makeup on but a lot of your
experience is mediated through this one
dude CU he's explaining what's going
on they only need to stay on the bows
for eight seconds and most of them don't
so it's
a 40 8C periods punctuated with minute
and a half long breaks while this bull
is just trotting around round and
there's a dude with a lasso trying to
get it and [ __ ] it off into the pen so
that the next guy can come out that's
that's that's a worst job I think the
guy who has to bring the ball back in
with the lasso yeah yeah I they seem to
chill out for it depends on how well
disciplined the balls are but yeah I uh
the one that I did at Big Sky guy X Navy
SE Montana yeah it was sweet yeah guy
jumps out of a helicopter flying an
America flag behind him while a Angelic
12-year-old sings the national anthem
fireworks went off it's
like this is some America this is some
real Kevin spy tried to ride the
12-year-old yes yes he only lasted eight
seconds he didn't go that young that's
not fair it wasn't in Hollywood no
everyone was of age I have a Kevin spy
joke in my act right now so I always
think I have a joke about like I was
watching a Hitler dock with my
girlfriend and and she goes you know
who'd be a good Hitler is Kevin spacy
and I'm like oh yeah I could see that
and she goes but he can't because
canceled and I'm like he can't play
Hitler that would be that doesn't seem
fair well imagine imagine the pipeline
of cancelled actors to unspeakable roles
yeah but he can't for what he did isn't
Hitler he's not shittier than Hitler
right that's
true did you see the one of the actors
from Friends retrospectively sort of
canceled the show about a lack of
diversity he was that was that was Adam
Goldberg that was a guy who was on like
one episode right he's not one of the
actor from Friends really though
somebody that was once in friends said
that it wasn't sufficient look you can
have revisionist history right you could
be like we they it was a white [ __ ]
show it was a very white I was never
into the friends but like a lot of those
shows of that era were very white like
Seinfeld was very white you
know he didn't he say something about
how Italians can play Jews but Jews
can't play Italians I think he said that
in the same yeah so there's this weird
one I think we could I think Jews can my
friend uh my buddy's a Jewish actor he's
played in Italian uhhuh I think Jews can
play Italians for sure I think I think
it works both ways that was one of his
complaints that he can't play maybe he's
not a cool enough Jew maybe he's not
tanned enough maybe Jew with a tan
equals Italian is that the way that it
works I think no they work CU they both
have Mo they both have overbearing
mothers Jews and Italians we can both
tap into the same [ __ ] overbearing
mother but then like Jew with the
overbearing mother is like like Gloria
soprano is a very different mom than my
mom but my mom was my mom was it was
more like anxiety
than aggression than aggression yeah
right okay like Gloria soprano [ __ ]
hated her son she was it was all anger
and resentment my mom is more just like
ah like don't do this like my dad sent
me a [ __ ] email my dad sent me an
email about an apple juice recall the
other day and I was like I'm 38 you
think you think I'm you think I'm
pounding apple juice like those days
those days are
over but that's how much they worry
that's my like that's the Jewish my mom
true story we were walking on the street
once and I saw a dead pigeon and I go GH
dead bird and my mom goes don't touch it
and I was
like what do you think happens when I'm
not around Mom I'm not going to touch
the [ __ ] bird how old are you at this
point it's like five years ago six years
ago she's like she worries so much dude
she always on the road she's like don't
don't drink and I'm like I'm going to
I'm an adult I've made my own decisions
what age do you think your mother sees
you as I think they always see you as as
a kid you know I think they can shake
that you get to I don't have kids so I
don't know maybe3 and they just sort of
tap out at that and you've got this man
in front of you with a beard who's on
stage but it just happens to be your
12year old son my mom's so bummed by
some of my bits like they here's the
thing they insist on coming to shows and
then I see her like horrified look in
the crowd they for some reason they're
always sat with an eyesight like I had a
joke I had this long bit about going to
my uh it's like an old bit of mine but I
would go I went to this girl's house cuz
she was like come over and I'm going to
give you a [ __ ] basically and I was
like I'm there and what happened was I
go and while she's blowing me the door
swings open and a guy was there and he
like they set me up basically and I it's
a long bit but I remember looking at I
just turn to the crowd I see my mom's
face and she's doing this and I'm like
you want it to come this is a tap what
you expect yeah and but she's like I'm
your mother and then she asked me like
is that a real story and I was like I
could lie to you but uh yes it's all
real it's all real and she was is not
happy but you know I try to tell her
like look who's considered the greatest
comic ever is Richard prior and I'm sure
his mom want to love some of his [ __ ]
and my mom said well she his mom was a
prostitute I was like I still don't
think she wants to hear about her son
lighting himself on fire free basing I
think you're still a
mom like some of the [ __ ] you talk about
on stage is is regret and and you kind
of that's funny kind of like hearing a a
public therapy session solo therapy
session yeah regularly like just pulling
out all of the stuff that you wish that
your son wouldn't talk about anymore but
therapy very much hone cuz some Comics
make the mistake of being like I'm just
you know I'm figuring some [ __ ] out up
here and I'm like yeah the crowd doesn't
give a [ __ ] that's you pay a therapist
for that you know but you know if if I
just tell a story I went to a girl's
house and she blew me that's not funny
that's bragging but if I tell a story
about going to a girl's house and I'm
scared for my life because I was like
what the [ __ ] is a guy coming in here
for why you you know that's funny CU
it's weird and uncomfortable and
obviously that not just that is funny
the whole story is what made it funny
but you know you we're not supposed to
be winners in the end Comics aren't
supposed to win in the end of the story
one of my friends Michael malice said he
wouldn't be able to get away with half
of the stuff that he can if he was
taller than 56 it's 56 and I kind of get
it the sense that it's not too
dissimilar with that as well that if you
come off as too sort of perfect or
braggadocious it's just not that likable
who's the most famous insult comic ever
Don Rickles look at him he looks like a
hippopotamus you know I mean if he's
just like gorgeous guy on stage ripping
on people he'd be like this guy's an
[ __ ] Jimmy car's an interesting one
when it comes to that yeah cuz Jimmy's
kind Jimmy's not an insult comic Jimmy's
a oneliner comic who's just really good
with off the cuff like Heckler moments
that's true that is true Jimmy's Jimmy's
like Posh on stage and he's you know
distinguished he's distinguished but
that's that's who he is offstage too you
know I've never not seen him in a suit
went for breakfast Austin Texas 95
degree morning walk suit yeah it's weird
yeah uh speaking of relationships
Spanish supermarket Shoppers use
pineapples to search for love in a
surprising new craze have you seen this
no let me tell you a social media Trend
in Spain where people are encouraged to
seek out prospective Partners in
supermarkets with the help of pineapples
has led to some chaotic it makes your
[ __ ] taste better is that why I mean I
don't get it I haven't even got into the
oh so I I jumped the gun there in the
city of bilau Northern Spain police were
reportedly called by workers after a
flash mob of hopeful singles passed
packed a merad donor store and
overwhelmed it Singletons have been
drawn to the branches of the supermarket
chain where it is claimed that they can
find romance if they visit between 7 and
8:00 p.m. and put a pineapple upside
down in their trolley people are
encouraged to go to the wine aisle to
find others with the same fruit in the
same position if they like someone they
bump their trolley against theirs
indicating they're interested in
chatting to them if the feeling is
mutual they can bump back or just start
talking according to the spanish-based
English language News website Olive
press the Spanish are overco
complicating this how how about just
going up to someone and saying hey I
like you no you have this this beautiful
dance of upside down fruit and and
little carriages that it go is that not
so how did you and Mom meet oh in the
wine aisle of I don't think the
pineapple story great either you think
the pineapple I flipped the pineapple I
think your kid's going to be like you're
an upside down fruit dad the hell I
don't I think this stuff is so
complicated especially when you have all
these apps to get laid on just go on one
of the apps I mean I know it's not a
great story but like have some fun it's
quicker yeah what do you make of the
sort of you in a relationship
yeah from the outside perceiving it what
do you make of sort of the modern state
of of
dating well I sure as [ __ ] miss those
day naap days those were fun I mean it's
it's it's Relentless I mean here's the
thing The Grass Is Always Greener so I'm
happy my relationship but I also like
I'm like oh man that was awesome that
was you could just get laid like that
you could be a loser and still just be
putting up numbers because it's just you
know you see people just on the street
like you know and you're like holy [ __ ]
this is like like social media is
addictive this is like the only downside
is
really you are
pictures aren't everything right like
you meet someone in person there's an
energy you pick up on and it's
like it's pictures don't M you can't you
don't really you know count for voice
and then they have that voice feature
but that always feels weird you know to
send a voice note to somebody that
you've never met it's creep we a dick
pick exclusively the reason of trying to
get someone to think that you're cool or
sexy and then how many times you
re-record it or change the tone of your
voice in to be more sultry than you
actually are I know I've never used the
voice note message are you single I am
and do you are you are you cleaning up
Rya right now i' spend a little bit of
time on Rya but uh even that's it just
feels like Pokemon trading card game but
virtual and it's like well you've got it
the admin of being single is
so [ __ ] arduous dude like they you if
you've spent all day working and sending
emails backwards and forwards then going
into your private life and go oh you
better deal with the dating admin that
doesn't exactly feel like a I don't know
a fulfilling way to spend an evening
yeah and you get caught up in the text
and you have multiple and then you have
the dates and they get repetitive and
boring
and I think those apps are shallow CU
you're leading with the pictures so
you're going with who you find most
attractive more than most interesting a
lot of the time and then you're on the
date and you're like this [ __ ] this
chick sucks pry yeah this is I don't
care at all you're coming from like you
know podcast therapy then you go on a
date you're like I got to carry this
[ __ ] too I got to bring the heat on the
date the hell I'm tired well that's uh I
think that's definitely a byproduct of
growing up that getting a little bit
older as a guy that girls that are
pretty but not that interesting like I
can't do this I can't I you're tired I
can't do this I can't do it doesn't
really matter how pretty you are because
it's mind to me yeah if there's nothing
if there's nothing else that's why mean
everyone wants to meet in person but the
apps are so addictive but yeah meeting
in person's better always because you
get to know somebody I've a couple
relations I've been in we kind of got to
know each other over FaceTime because it
was just someone I kind of knew a little
bit before and they lived in another
state so we talk on FaceTime so I I
really got to know them before we even
had sex which I was like holy [ __ ] this
is so different than what I'm accustomed
to but that maybe that's why I did just
like my grandfather did yeah but I mean
I mean I jacked off on FaceTime to him a
few times but you know I didn't I didn't
I
it was wholesome it's uh it's strange to
think about
the like I think that there's a a market
for a dating app that's just video
messages so you don't have a profile you
don't have anything else and you just
get to see a video video message
backward and forward because within the
space of 60 seconds you can work out
whether or not this person is someone
that you're bothered about it's not just
the voice note thing you right
within 2 minutes of being on your date
you go ah should have bailed out that's
that's why the the dinner first date is
a terrible move cuz if you're not vibing
with the person locked in for I'll have
this appetizer this main course we're
sticking around for dessert and you're
like [ __ ] yep I already don't like you
yeah but uh no you got to do drinks or
coffee whatever you do but walking date
is highly recommended apparently that's
thing yeah because you side by side and
that means that you there's less sort of
intensity like this and also you can get
away with a 15minute you know 30 minute
we'll just test the water but then I
wonder whether you do seem cheap though
if you're like we should take a walk and
she's like are you homeless why the [ __ ]
are we walking you know I don't know
yeah that is true uh I do I do wonder
whether the subtext of going for a
walking date is I'm really unsure about
whether or not I can deal with spending
more than 20 minutes around you so let's
do something that I can oh I I must I I
have to get a grapefruit or two from the
supermarket I'll see you later on you
know what I mean got get a pineapp flip
it upside down find [ __ ] Spain with
it yeah yeah we'll get back to talking
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slod wisdom another new story that I
noticed this week Americans with a
passport yeah in 1990 4% had a passport
and now still less than 60% do so it's
like but 4% in 4% in 1990 that's crazy
yeah I don't know I don't know whether
it's the fact that it's such a big
country that you basically have 50
countries inside of one continent so
people don't feel the need to travel but
uh it's kind of not surprising that
America sees itself as the center of the
world given that most people for most
people who live here it is the center of
the world I don't know how many people
have ever traveled even the ones with a
passport you would assume that at least
50% has never left this country yeah
which is pretty wild well that is pretty
uh look I I I love America it's always
going to I'm always going to live in New
York but uh that is that's 4% is kind of
a sad
number I mean don't don't you want to
get out of here I guess you know some
people have stuff keeping them back it's
it's expensive to travel but [ __ ] man
that's a there's an awful lot of world
outside of 50 states yeah dude I mean I
guess it also depends what state you're
in right because if you're in Texas
Mexico's pretty easy if you're up north
Canada's pretty easy
but yeah [ __ ] what do what is your
favorite place to
travel uh I love Italy it I've never
been I I tried to I'm doing a Euro tour
and I tried to add it but it could I
couldn't add Germany and Italy to this
one and there two that I've never been
to and I really want to go so good I
went to Venice for the first time a
couple of weeks ago my thing is history
and culture and tours I want some
dusty 55-year-old ex academic woman to
who knows all of the history of a place
with big jugs with big jugs to slap a
headset on and walk me around telling me
unpr ible surnames of an architect
that's I could spend the rest of my life
doing that and Venice was just obscene
these tiny little streets that are not
that much wider than you are rickety
buildings all the buildings are held up
by bits of wood so they don't fall over
because the grounds shifting below that
I it's crazy I was I was in love so that
was awesome Florence kind of similar but
less water awesome and then Rome similar
but bigger so yeah my girlfriend was
born in Rome she she grew up in America
but she's born in Rome and she's you
know her mother's Italian so she has
this inred the Italian Jewish connection
there we go you can make it work we make
it work yeah I I love I don't know for
some
reason Italian I mean mob movies were
such a thing for me growing up because
my brother was obsessed with Good Fellas
and Godfather's like this iconic
American movie so there was this it
sucks that I'm reducing to telling
culture to mob movies for this point the
synthesis it's pizza and mob movies yeah
but Pizza is also very important to me
so we had a problem so this this drink
thing that we made we uh and I love
necron so uhhuh we tried to recreate in
the US I've heard a rumor that the same
problem we encountered which was the
hardness of the water has got something
to do with why is it pizza or pastries
or something P Pizza that's New Yorkers
will we will tell you your water is not
good enough is it true is that legit I
don't know I I've heard people say it's
not true I mean
look they've got they figured I've had
good pizza in La I can't be just you
know because of the water yeah but New
York yeah we have good we have good
water here for sure I mean you and I
should go to Flynn Michigan and try the
pizza out then we got to figure it out
we got to crack it it's got a lead lined
crust on the outside I'm like I'd still
try
it what do you're a big Sports guy yeah
what do football fans think about the
Kelsey
Brothers it's the first time in
as long as I've ever sort of paid
attention to American Sports where
you've had an acting Top Flight athlete
to multiple athletes with so much other
public facing stuff well podcast public
relationship I mean what what's that is
there a purist out there in the sports
world that thinks that no cuz he's still
performing I think if he was an athlete
who who lost the step and then you know
was like I'm podcasting I think when you
when you're playing like [ __ ] and your
podcas and your teammates are probably
like maybe stop the
broadcasting Super Bowls back to back
like [ __ ] he's a Phenom uh his brother
was a great lineman and uh he retired
but Travis Kelce is in the conversation
for best tight end of all time and he's
still unguardable and he's got the best
quarterback so I mean they're they're
unreal a lot of people are convinced uh
that Travis Kelce and and Taylor schwift
were put together
by like you know Democrats to be like
you know they're like it's it's not a
real relationship they were they're both
Democrats were they're using them to get
votes which is I'm like well then get
two [ __ ] Republican celebrities get
uh Kanye and Caitlyn Jenner to date
that's getting you some votes that's
more
eyeballs but my thing my thing is like
his performance hasn't slipped with this
Taylor schwift thing either that's the
other thing like we're talking about
like your his podcast and his
performance is
like it's funny how much sh [ __ ] he's
getting because every athlete Kim
Kardashian started sleeping with just
started to suck and he's still good you
know you think sleeping with Taylor
Swift is a performance
enhancer no no I think I think someone
that famous is probably draining you a
little bit but he's probably got endless
stamina he's a he's a world class
athlete yeah no I think just being
around that level of celebrity I'm sure
there's Parts where he's like [ __ ] I
should probably be list right now or
doing some training and I I got to put
on a top evading the paparazzi or
whatever it is got to do sacrifice child
blood at the full moon for a pentagram
on the floor with people in hoods I have
to dress like a sailor at the US Open I
should be lifting weights but you know
uh can you imagine if that is if that
was the truth if it is a Democrat
conspir or fiser or whatever gave gave
them both an unlimited amount of money
or something uh but you get the call
it's like Mr Kelsey um you have been
called up to do the duty for not only
your political party but the future of
your country it's like all right well I
guess you know kind of always wanted to
serve in one form or another what is it
that you need me to do it's like we need
you to bang Taylor Swift yeah not awful
does worse jobs yeah uh I think Katie
Holmes got the same call but from Tom
Cruz's people we need you to do a duty
we need you to protect an American movie
star you need to help him pretend he's
not gay
Will Smith same call to Jada pinket and
so on down the line the Will Smith Arc
is fascinating yeah absolutely
fascinating I remember this video of his
where he was on a treadmill there was a
dude next to him on a treadmill and they
were going to have a competition to see
who would quit last and will say
something along the lines of either I'm
going to pass out or I'm going to beat
you you know when will was kind of he
had this sort of almost Tony Robbins y
motivational sort of era or at least
this this was part of it I remember a
bunch of different videos I was like ha
like I really like that this is before
Goggins and Joo and kind of that world
of like you either win or you die stuff
came through yeah I was like huh will
was like a kind of a shredded guy
masculin hero I Am Legend he's jacked
he's done like a bunch of movies what
was that one Hancock where he was the
drunk superhero yeah the really Charming
kind of unique complex slightly complex
character that could have been so much
better that one movie premise yeah uh
yeah and then you just look now and I
don't know I so you know uh Danny and
Ryan from the boyscast they're both big
Will Smith fans yeah and they're really
worried like unironically this is not a
joke worried about Will Smith um and
it's weird it's just such a weird Arc
that to to kind of see what's happened
and then there's these weird videos of
him behind the scenes she got this um
I've told you not to record me do you
see that one no where this is my life
and you're sort of and it's her it seems
like sort of berting him a little bit or
it's really it's really really
uncomfortable to watch it's obviously
just in the house or something in this
guy just looks broken Dead behind the
eyes such a weird art isn't it amazing
that you you're so envious of some of
these people's lives it's only natural
when you see how much someone has going
on you're like wow and then they're
often miserable I mean he really seems
like an unhappy guy it's almost like
being that famous for almost 40 years
it's not
healthy what other outcome could there
have been after being famous for that
long I think he's Pro my guess is he's
probably probably gay I don't know I
mean could I get sued for this all right
allegedly gay
allegedly well it's like the marriage is
definitely bad you don't just slap
someone in the face after they make a
joke about your wife cuz things are
stable at home that's not it's just not
what you do you someone makes fun of my
girlfriend I'm just like hey don't you
know just don't do that I'm not or if
it's an award show i' probably be like
haha and then just fake it you know but
you don't be like keep her [ __ ] name
out of my mouth and then slap a guy on
live it's crazy it's crazy behavior
something's not right at home I mean she
was publicly talking about having an
affair right I wouldn't I would probably
wouldn't stay with someone who did that
I don't know what the divorce looks like
I don't know what the prenup situation
is I she she seems like
a absolutely Psychopathic person yeah
she seems like a legitimate crazy person
I I can't imagine someone I'm sure he
[ __ ] around too Lord knows with who
maybe women maybe with guy I don't
[ __ ] know what they're doing but uh
but if someone cheated on me and then
went on a book tour talking about
cheating on me I'd be like probably time
to wrap this up didn't she say something
was to do with rappers too didn't who
was it that she said that she was The
Muse
for don't you just hate someone who
[ __ ] huh Tupac was she apparently
that was part of the tour she might be
[ __ ] good then I mean dude she she's
responsible for uh Will Smith and T all
eyes on me me against the world and Men
In Black in the 90s go Jada she might be
good one of the things even with the
Kelsey Taylor Swift situation that I
think about and I guess Will Smith's one
as well is uh how difficult it is to
have a relationship normally mhm and
then how difficult it is to have a
relationship with a few hundred million
or a few billion people's eyes on you as
well I don't think mercifully almost no
one's ever going to really no matter
even like someone like Rogan like his
relationship his marriage is just not
any part of anybody's conversation no
one really gives a [ __ ] he's done a very
good job of mentalizing his private life
and keeping it private which I think is
I think it's crazy he's married to a
Filipino boy but he's done a great job
and uh good job
Joe I just navigating a relationship
that's that public must be essentially
um no it's it's
uh it's got to be hard I mean but
problem is the you're talking about
these people their spouse is also famous
so when you're dating a famous person
people are fascinated with it I guess
and I mean look at Bena like in JLo it's
you know what's they're currently about
to break up or breaking up I thought
they broke up I don't know right okay
there was a I saw I mean it must be
addictive like Ben Affleck got the
addiction thing so it must be addictive
to make what you know is a bad choice
and [ __ ] her is a bad choice for him
clearly it keeps ending right but he's
got to be like it must be like a drink
oh did they keep breaking up and getting
back together well they were dated like
like 20 years ago remember yeah like 20
years ago they dated and now back and
now broken up again yeah yeah it's
clearly not working but it's like it is
like a it's a beautiful thing if that
works out like I guess it was you all
along and then yeah yeah yeah yeah it's
a nice story uh one the one relationship
Jay-Z uh and Beyonce just seemed like I
don't know that that's the one that
appears to just be moving smooth they
everyone's got problems I I don't buy
that like not Ranna Chris Brown problems
that was oh yeah I was going to say that
wasn't a that seemed to be very smooth
cut and dry and uh yeah he uh man he
really bounce back from that huh some
some people have really stayed cancelled
who have done way less bad [ __ ] have you
ever checked out the Chris Brown Reddit
no it is cult likee people love him so
much it is it's a a real force of nature
to see and if you see um
any would you say that they have a toxic
relationship with him I don't know I
think they probably do I don't know it's
it's it's very exessive I don't know
what it is I I need to do a deep dive on
it I've seen a couple of videos that
kind of break it down but if there's
ever any criticism it's kind of this
swarm presumably it maybe appears on the
subreddit or some other channel of some
kind but yeah Chris Brown's a a uniquely
sort of positioned did he is it Chris
Brown that did the Super Bowl this year
is it him no no this year's Kendrick
Lamar's Kendrick Lamar that was it yeah
uh but yeah just wow um very very
obsessive fan base so don't get on the
wrong side of than I think don't do a
Cris Brown joke that would be a bad idea
for you I've done so many have you of
course how could you not it's like he
like he was like the insert domestic
violence joke guy for a while role model
for domestic violence yeah I mean you
had to like the poster child for
domestic violence you had to throw him
in I don't know I feel every comedian's
made a Chris Brown joke it's like
talking sprinting without talking usin B
you can't exactly don't [ __ ] don't
beat up
Rihanna and if you're not going to
expect Comics to make jokes about you
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on to breakfast the other day and said
that he'd just seen Ryan Reynolds
walking his dog oh nice like Ryan
Reynolds seems to be pretty much like
the perfect dude that he's just funny
and his relationship's great and he buys
a football club and he does stuff for
charity and he build billion dollar
businesses yeah the Gin the aviation Jin
that's what Mark and I are trying to do
with our whiskey you know tell me about
that we have our own Bodega cat whiskey
and we uh we we're we're getting St in
the states you need to get distribution
state by state it's it's a tedious
process so Mark and I you know Mark
Norman and I started on Whiskey Bodega
cat and it's you can get on bodegacat
whiskey.com but you know we're going
through 15 cases a week at the comedy
seller right now it's great we're at the
Strip House the steakhous on 12 Street
which is my favorite steakhous we're at
uh the stand the other comedy club New
York comedy club we're uh we're comedy
clubs at the country right now just I
think started up at The Comedy Store
The Improv got to get we got to get the
mothership in in Austin too but we're on
it we're moving and uh it's uh it's a
long process man liquor some mob run
[ __ ] really oh dude it's crazy just the
Rings you have to kiss and you know it's
it's been a process but well we did
taste testing and stuff for uh
productivity drink but I imagine that
the taste testing for getting a whiskey
right is a little bit more um we didn't
know were supposed to spit it out we got
[ __ ] hammered you're kidding usually
when you're take when you're sampling
whiskey you're supposed to be but we
were just like good you know
progressively got better it's like it's
weird the last ones that we try are
always the best ones these are this is
smooth yeah we were we were pretty
[ __ ] up uh but we went with one that
was like it's everyone has a bourbon
we're like let's do Rye it's a little
it's a Little's difference not whiskey
coniss or it's more Ry it's it's you
know uh I mean bourban is a little
naturally
more uh sweet like makers is more sweet
than like say like arai is typically a
bit more spicy R is not that spicy it's
got like uh it's kind of got like a
caramel vanilla type flavor it's got a
little spice perfect for a Manhattan
it's my favorite
drink I like a Manhattan a
Negron a
martini anything with anything I like
the classics they try to paper plain's a
good cocktail if you never had it what's
up it's whiskey apparo amaron Nino and
uh and lemon juice in equal parts it's
[ __ ] great is a man Manhattan's the
one that's got nothing in it that isn't
alcohol right there's no mixer I think
it's a good drink a martini is the same
way that's true that is but you do uh
yeah it's a Manhattan is whiskey sweet
vermouth a touch of Bitters and a
marcino cherry there that doesn't have
alcohol in it the the Cherry fruit it's
a fruit salad glorified fruit salad easy
yeah although by the time you have it it
has some alcohol in it because you dunk
it in it's funny that uh people end up
creating products that are built around
the thing that they do so for me I
wanted something that I could have
before a podcast that would be good so I
do this a lot of comedians drink I got
into alcohol because it was open bars I
was like 18 I was like I get to drink
for free
here I'll be a comedian that was
literally what I mean and then you were
like oh [ __ ] I have to work hard but at
the at the time I was like the thought
process was freee drinks oh my parents
were terrified remember they came to a
show and I was like blackout drunk on
stage I just was like I get to drink for
free I was young I couldn't control
myself you
know Secret Service accidentally
included the 9/11 hijackers in a tribute
post to the victims this year in a post
on X marking the anniversary of the
attacks the Secret Service included the
terrorists in the death toll o so the
flag hanging in our headquarters is a
solemn reminder of 911 and its mission
purpose Testament to freedom and
sacrifice Don has all
2,996 lives lost uh but the actual
correct number of victims is
2,977 they had to amend it and get rid
of the 19 hijackers a lot of people lost
their lives at day so let's not let's
not just you know you got to throw the
terrorists in there too I didn't know it
kind of does make sense you don't to
honor exactly the hijackers but if
you're going to cite how many people
died that day like are we talking
demographically accurate here or talking
in terms of tribute I've always said
that that terrorists and comedians have
a lot in common because we both get
bummed when not enough people make it to
a gig you know because I feel like
terrorists would be like three people on
a bus this is [ __ ] [ __ ] you know
I guess I'll do it tomorrow yeah yeah
but uh yeah that's insane man that's uh
geez you must have been here during I
was yeah can you recall the day of
course yeah it was like you know people
had cell phones but no one had service
so I remember New York's an amazing City
because everyone by the way in school
the morning the morning we F the the
planes hit I had a Spanish teacher we
all did not like and she decided to give
us a pop quiz and we're like we're under
attack we you're giving us a [ __ ] pop
quiz and uh and she was like yeah you
should have studied not not only from
the Middle East but also from
you that's so true I mean I was like
I was like what she's like you should
have studied and I'm just like I'm I'm
GNA [ __ ] fail a test because you know
I I should have studied but uh and then
I got out I think on the test I wrote
you suck because I didn't study and I
was like I I'm just going to take the L
here and then uh and then we got taken
out of school my dad was like let's line
up to donate blood cuz they might need
blood at the hospital so we went to a
hospital how far away were you were you
able to see no my dad saw it from his
office my dad worked in Time Square so
he saw the second plane hit from his
office and was like Jesus [ __ ] Christ
yeah and then uh he went to pick me up
at school we uh lined up to donate blood
every hospital we went to they were like
we're good unless you have this blood
type we're we're good because so many
people had done it too so many people
yeah that's how New Yorkers are we'll
say [ __ ] you to you in the street but
when [ __ ] gets serious we will we will
donate blood we'll help out but how old
were you geez I was uh 15 uses a 15 can
a 15-year-old give blood oh yeah yeah
it's a nice youthful I had AIDS but I
didn't tell them that you
know they didn't know
that but yeah no I uh yeah I I we all
lined up my whole family but uh crazy
day crazy [ __ ] day and I was in New
Orleans for Katrina so bad [ __ ] follow
me might be it might be God might be
trying to send me a message yeah uh yeah
no it's it's a while what was the
subsequent few I don't know month couple
of months in New York like after
that it was
uh it was there was a bit of tension I
think there was definitely some
uh looking back there was definitely
some islamophobia which is really
unfortunate and
uh I think there was everyone in the
city knew someone who lost someone you
know and uh 3,000 people that's C well
enough to touch a coup the terrorist but
uh it was crazy it it was it was
terrible it was a terrible uh thing but
you know it's a it's a resilient
City it's a wild thing I watched um was
it recently the 25th
anniversary
uh documentary started coming out and to
look
at just doesn't feel right to call it a
25th anniversary that's what they called
it 911 to 25 buckle up guys come back I
went on I went on a one of the planes
years it was like two years ago it was
the 20- year anniversary they did uh it
was it was uh you're going through
security and it said 911 never forget
I'm like I'm going through airport
security I can't forget while I'm going
through [ __ ] maybe don't remind me of
a plane crash when I'm at the airport
yeah going on a Boeing yeah oh my God
[ __ ] that's a that's another one
Alaska Air talk about you look online
and and they're like we're having a
discount the flights you go on Expedia
all the Alaska airs are like 500 bucks
cheaper a man that spends a lot of time
on planes I imagine that's something you
might pay a bit of attention to yeah if
a girl if it was a girl I'm not that
serious about I'm like I'll fly in on
Alaska Air you might make it you might
not who knows yeah uh I mean how many
times does Boeing want to face plan
they've got the uh astronauts that are
stuck in space as well it's like not
only although given how things are going
in our country right now they might be
better off chill out yeah uh but yeah
whether it's
InterContinental or transatlantic or
[ __ ]
interplanetary uh they're able to sort
of fail at each different step of the
way I have you ever been on a plane
where you're like this is going down the
worst turbulation turbulence I've ever
had was on a flight 17 hour flight from
Johannesburg to Atlanta and um that I
was laid flat trying to get some sleep
and I was lifted off complete like
absolute freefall air that's how much
like Exorcist level [ __ ] levitating
yeah uh and then Christmas this year
flying back to the UK tons of delays
taking off out of Austin and the uh
pilot came over and said I know that
we've been nearly two hours in uh being
delayed for take off but don't worry
because the jet stream Gulf Stream is is
really strong at the moment so we'll
we'll make the time up in the air by the
way that's not a thing we'll make the
time up it's the same distance but he's
able to go
faster I don't buy it he managed to get
us into like going down one of those
water park slide shoot things with a
pressure hose behind us but the entire
journey I I would have happily arrived
two hours later and not being dishwashed
for the entire Journey but those those
were the two that come to mind and when
you're in a really big plane when you're
in a little plane you're like okay this
is probably there's a bit of me in the
back of my mind that thinks yeah but
it's like a pingpong ball you know it
gets blown around a lot by the wind yeah
but if you're in a absolute monstrosity
with 500 people in it in order for this
to actually get shaken around a lot I
don't get that nervous but those are two
times where I sort of I've been I've
been in the little one where I was we uh
my friend Gary and I it's so funny I saw
this I saw a comedian Jim nordon at the
comedy seller and he goes oh where you
are this week where are you this week
and I said said I'm in um I'm in
Rochester and he goes oh I hope you're
driving I hate that flight that little
plane I was like no I'm flying it's a
long drive New York yeah it's like a 6
hour drive from New York but he's like I
hate it we're on the plane Gary and I we
book tickets sitting next to ourselves
or we're on the flight Gary and I we
book tickets sitting next to each other
and uh some woman like is like I'm
sitting here and I'm like oh no we
booked it but then I just looked at him
I'm like it's a 40-minute flight like
[ __ ] it just give her the seat who cares
and uh then we're in the worst
turbulence ever it's like shaking we're
going down and the instructor like he
doesn't even speak he's just I'm like oh
we we're about to German Wings this [ __ ]
this guy's about to kill us we're
freaking the [ __ ] out we I look at him
the woman who is supposed to be sitting
next in the back row starts
going and there was a moment where we
were like looking at her like [ __ ] you
[ __ ] you [ __ ] you if you die we
won't be that upset but but then he just
like top gunit so we just we're going
down he just flew right and we were like
what is he is like is he [ __ ] with us
is this like some cruel joke and then it
turned out uh like 10 minutes later he
comes on the speaker like sorry guys it
was too windy to land I had to I didn't
want to get on the thing I had to focus
so I want to get us around but then the
guy picking us up the airport's like man
one of those planes top gunned it we're
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there's a movie I don't know if you ever
saw this Argentinian movie called uh
wild Tales it's great it's a bunch of
really dark short like shorts basically
and one of the shorts is everyone's on a
flight and they start two people start
chatting and it turns out they have a
connection to each other and they're
like that's weird and then a person
behind them is like did you say you know
this person and they all kind of turns
out everyone in the flight knows each
other and then it's a guy who got them
all on a flight and kills them all oh
it's some sort of Vengeance thing yeah
oh that's cool it's a good one the whole
movie is great I I spoiled one for you
I'm sorry but the last one at the
wedding is the best one it's incredible
so people watch that I'm sure you can
just stream it like where you rent
movies wild Tales it's from it's from
like probably 10 15 years ago it's it's
awesome that's sweet every every one of
them is good yeah I wonder you know when
you think about um the media that gets
loaded onto planes so many movies have
got plane crashes in but there's no way
there has to be some sort of uh
limitation of what you can put on that
you can't put movies that have got
really extra plane crashes in because
it's cuz if you're sitting next to him
you're like I don't want to see that
[ __ ] right for sure yeah for sure
there's a you ever watch like a weird I
remember they had the movie secretary on
my flight once and I'm just watching
this and it's like a lot of BDSM it's
James sper and Maggie Gyllenhaal he
there's a secretary that he's really
sexually inappropriate to I mean it was
pre me too it's very dicey where he's
just making her do crazy kinky [ __ ] as a
secretary and I'm just watching this and
there's just like people next to me like
what the [ __ ] are you want you could
tell they're like this is not okay but
fun movie there's a uh a cool Insight
around airplanes where people that sit
in economy have to walk through business
to get there there's a nine times
increase in passenger agitation so the
number of incidents where somebody gets
logged as being disruptive or whatever
it's increased by nine times if the
people in economy have to walk through
business class it's called the poverty
parade that basically everyone that's
everyone that's really nice has already
sat on they've got their champagne or
their orange juice or whatever and then
everyone else has got to sort of trapes
ped with their eyes down does the
proletariat have to go into their blood
and feces and straw the back Point what
I do I think for years I I think flying
coach for so many [ __ ] years every
weekend like cheapest flight possible I
think it' [ __ ] my neck up because I
would just I'm 63 I would just fall
asleep like like and I was like I think
I have neck problems uh
but you
know yeah it doesn't make a lot of sense
I you see a lot of incidence I mean
people that woman had a whole career
made that woman who had like a meltdown
on the plane this is what we doele
[ __ ] there is not real yeah and
she's like got a following now of people
it's so funny how people instead of us
being like that person's clearly
mentally ill we're like oh we should
continue to lift this she was the
supernatural Hawk tour wasn't she she
was Haw T is a big one well I mean the
meme I've been at this something I've
been totally obsessed by over the last 3
months all of this summer the speed of
memes and news you know we went from Haw
tour to Biden's scile to Trump's shot in
the ear to Kamala Harris coconut season
to BR girl summer to you know it and
every single one erased all of the ones
that came previously no one's talking
about Trump being shot no one is being
is he got shot in the or it was a piece
of glass or whatever
the two months ago yeah and everyone's
already I'm way over it that's it's old
news yeah that was two months ago the
the assassination attempt 13th of July
what say 14th of September or something
like exact almost exactly two months ago
you know uh it's interesting Andy Warhol
used to say everyone will be famous for
15 minutes but he he didn't have this
type of social media when he was around
like you can parlay this into maybe a
lifetime of missed it with without
monetizing un only funds that was the
pivot but then but that she's so young
that I respect her for not doing that
because she could have done that she
could have been like I'm just going to
get naked and be a but clearly she's
like I want to I want to do some other
[ __ ] cash me outside check did pivot
into it I think she's one of the top
creators on only fans now oh my God I
think there was a cash her finger in
herself yeah outside uh there was a
breakdown of businesses their revenues
and the number of employees that they
have I think only fans has less than 60
employees and its revenues are in the
billions yeah per employee more than Pro
Sports they say yeah yeah all of every
NBA player put together is less than the
revenue of only fans yeah which is weird
because who only fans LeBron who's like
the biggest pay person I don't know I
don't know let me see if I can find out
Top This is Gonna I'm going to be
pixeled for the rest of my time by
searching top I've never done it I've
never like like subscribe to someone on
only fans only fans
creators I mean this has got to be by
the way it's so funny to call them
creators just some chick getting drilled
on her couch and we're like she's a
Creator creative uh Erica
Mena monthly earnings 4.5 million not
bad bad baby there's h a lot of hes in
that uh 4.33 million Tana M mongu who
are you jacking off to honey it's not
what you think it's it's a bad
baby was jacking enough to a bed well
they have a PornHub a really great their
data science team this sounds like a
this sounds like the dog ate my homework
excuse for watching PornHub but the data
science team at PornHub is actually
really really great and they'll tell you
what the top trends are and the top
search is and and what's changed your on
your and you know this particular one
state has got a a foot fetish is that
like Napster though for porn stars now
because they're they're not paying them
oh yeah that's a good point but so I'm
friends with a adult actress in the UK
and she said that the whole job of
PornHub now for most at least women
maybe guys too is it's the front end of
the funnel that drives the traffic into
so it's like YouTube for comedians is
porn PornHub for more like Instagram
where you've got your little short clips
and that's what'll go up on PornHub you
get to watch you know five minutes just
just her sucking a [ __ ] subscribe to my
actual Channel though honestly yeah to
watch the full video see below yeah you
get to see it in 360p but the full 4K
surround sound experience is available
on my website yeah I didn't know it's I
mean it's it's absolutely fascinating
but I used to have a joke about I I
would look at so much porn that it would
like funnel into my because on the
dating apps you can choose like what
kind of ethnicity you would want on some
of them so I'd be you know I'd watch so
much porn that it would funnel into it
I'd be like Asian uh mil neighbor hand
job
yeah yeah I do wonder what uh what the
future is going to end up being whether
we look back on this period is like an
odd every period's odd like but yeah
that's that is true I suppose you look
back at the Victorian era it's like you
showed too much ankle there Melinda how
could you you know what I mean like
that's a little bit well now well dude
everyone is in their own world right now
everyone like it's like that thing like
you know the meme [ __ ] thinks he's the
main character you know something like
that but you'll see a guy on a bike
riding by I almost got hit by a guy on a
bicycle a few days ago because he's
filming himself like talking for some
Vlog and I'm like some idiot he could he
could have gotten like badly hurt I
could have gotten maybe hurt but he's
like it's all for Content man and he
probably got me at the MB like [ __ ] you
I'm angry but like that's all part of
the video in the background of that
guy's cycling Vlog that's what I love
about this city I saw a woman scream at
a guy going the wrong way weigh in a
bike zooming by and she goes [ __ ] and
I'm like ah I love an an angry old lady
in this city they're fun well those uh
ebikes cuz I I haven't been in they're
fast and people wearing helmets dude
absolutely R it must be at least 20 mil
an hour maybe more that those they're
able to go dedicated cycle Lanes same
with the scooters yeah it's hard that's
dude I I learn to drive in New Year I'm
a bad driver but like I can drive in
Manhattan which I think is like one of
the hardest places to drive because so
many [ __ ] things are happening like
it's yeah you need to be one of those
whmo uh cars but you need that for your
head you've got eyes wrapped all the way
around your back I don't know there's
I'm still very much in even though I've
spent I know a total of a month in this
city across my life there is a
confidence that New Yorkers walk with
it's like a a rhythm self-assured
vibration that they move through the
city with that if you're not if you
haven't been indoctrinated you just do
not have I haven't got the people have
the right of way over the car so it's
like we're more confident like Colin
Quinn is like the quintessential New
Yorker to me he's a great comedian Colin
Quinn he's got a Netflix special called
New York story it's the one of the
greatest standup specials ever I think
and I love Colin and uh he has a joke
about how like people will be driving
like oh my God I almost got hit by that
person you know because we walk with so
much confidence but it it is it's the
truth we we feel like we run this city
and as it when you are driving you're
kind of like what the [ __ ] is wrong with
with that guy like I could have Hur him
you know do so if you're a New Yorker if
you're a a you know domestic born and
raised New Yorker do you walk everywhere
do you take the che or is it sort of a a
choice based on your preference for
whether you cycle I don't bcle I don't
like I my dad never taught me how to
ride a bike I'm worthless dude I'm more
I'm talking I'm like holy [ __ ] I have no
abilities no motor skills I can just say
rude
things that's all I got yeah um my dad
once took me to ride a bike in Central
Park and just let go of me and I went
down a hill and I crashed into a [ __ ]
tree and was like we're done with that
and that was it it was just like I give
up daily now yeah and so I've I've
ridden during Co I was when we didn't
know what was going on I rode the bike a
couple times downtown but I was getting
wiped out a couple I sucked at it and uh
no I don't do the I the tube was
basically just a a a homeless fight
permanently happening 24 hours a day
that you have no that's the media like
there look there's crazy [ __ ] happening
on there but they love when it does cuz
it's like New York's falling apart I
ride the subway everywhere okay uh I I'm
a walker I walked here I I I like the
subway but uh when I take if I do take a
car I try to always make it a Yellow Cab
because you know they [ __ ] over the
Yellow Cabs a city they the medallions
worthless so I try to they not just
pivot to becoming Uber drivers is that
not the solution the problem was if you
have a medallion that was kind of an
investment and you would The Medallion
so you can get the cab expensive yeah
they would retire on them they would
send them sell them for like over a
million dollars you know so it was
because there's a limited number of Taxi
spots available yeah right it's a scarce
Resort it's like the the original
Bitcoin it's the Bitcoin of the of the F
taxi world but then they just let Uber
people oh you have a car you can be an
Uber driver so that [ __ ] them over
completely so I try to stay loyal to the
cabs uh look every once in a while you
regret it cuz an award with no ratings
you don't know what you're walking into
sometimes so like I'll be in there and
the guy's like oh this guy's an [ __ ]
he's you know but I try to stay loyal to
the cabs what's your advice for people
flying into and flying out of uh New
York because For the First time ever I
flew into Newark coming here that's
pretty sweet yeah well you have options
you could you could take a cab you could
also take the train you could take
Amtrak in which is kind of nice and then
you know the subway you got
that JFK you got the you can take the
subway if you want to go public transit
but JFK is a tough that's a bad airport
which is wild because it must be one of
the busiest airports in America well
look at LAX that's a terrible [ __ ]
airport and that's it I've never had any
better exper I mean I hate the get on
the bus to get to the cab to get to the
city that that is insanity very painful
uh but it's like you look like you're in
like a detention Camp it's insane that
yes yeah that is true you're one of the
Wagers just waiting to be Shi off
somewhere yeah that's funny
ah where else have I been to that was
Atlanta is a wild airport that thing's a
city that just exists as a oh you it's
three miles to get to where you need to
get in Uber it's [ __ ] crazy yeah and
there's that big loop train thing now
now we're doing what what I said I
should do as a ComEd we talking about
travel airports all the time everyone
listening right now is like I'm going to
[ __ ] put a gun in my mouth what else
is coming up for you else have you got
well I got this special on Prime video
called you've changed I'm I'm proud of
that one it's got some really good jokes
in it uh a couple SP like over a year
and a half touring with that so I felt I
feel pretty uh good about that hour it's
got a really it's called you've changed
cuz there was a bid init where
um it's a true story a woman tried to
cancel me uh I had a trans joke in a
speci in a Netflix special and it was
actually a really positive joke it was a
fun joke it was very positive about
trans people and it went viral and all
these trans people started weighing in
like you know hell yeah one of them was
like this is how you do it I was like
I'm a [ __ ] good guy I guess the next
trans person was like this is our person
now and I was like uhoh you know this
could back I support but you don't want
me to be the voice of the [ __ ]
movement and then the next trans person
was like this is my least favorite
comedian and yes I know his work and I
was like who the [ __ ] is this P so I
start clicking on the profile and it's
someone who tried to cancel me in
2013 and uh and she hated my jokes and
and he used to be a she which I don't
give a [ __ ] about like it's your life do
whatever the hell you want but every
post that he writes about me now is [ __ ]
samarel he made bad jokes in 2013 so I
finally responded but you know that
people can
change very clever so that's the special
is called you've changed and it's a fun
special it's on Prime video I think it's
like hard jokes top to bottom I got the
rights back for my Netflix special so
that's on my YouTube channel that's
called same time tomorrow I've got uh I
got this which is a special I
self-produced on YouTube in 2020 which
I'm proud of that one too but then I'm
on tour I'm announcing a new theater
tour starting I believe first week of
February doing the the tour bus and the
whole thing and I'm coming literally
everywhere I this is probably coming up
after my Euro tour so uh I got Spokan
I'm doing a weekend at a club in Spokane
Washington October 24th through 26 I'm
doing a weekend in Cleveland at
hilarities one of my favorite clubs
November 21st through 23rd I believe and
I'll be popping up all over just to work
on the material before we go back to
theaters and I'm coming to every
American city truly every city so uh
sam.com and hit tour and I I'll be
coming to your [ __ ] City and I post
my [ __ ] on punch up. live samarel
because they don't censor me my friend
Danny Frankle started an app he used to
work at Facebook the issue for me at
Facebook and Instagram is I'm sure you
deal with this they they bury any post
that has anything problematic in it and
guess what they decide what's
problematic it's becoming
increasingly uh strict I put a I was
wearing a very like loud pair of track
pants yesterday that looked like uh what
a karate teacher from the 90s would wear
so I put can't wait to roundhouse kick
someone in the face wearing these bad
boys within 30 seconds my account had a
warning and I had to go through a bunch
of things because it had been
autodetected that I was inciting
violence it's insane wow that's really
it's getting dangerous dude and it
really uh for jokes like you know
sometimes sometimes you say something
sarcastically sometimes you're and but
guess what if you're sarting horor
Comedian says thing that he doesn't
really mean exactly but then you they
read that some robot that can't detect
sarcasm sees that as like a threat or
like something that's hate speech but
you kind of have to look at a person's
track record and what they actually
believe I'm not going to actually say
what I believe all the time but if you
know who I am you know what I believe so
what's the punch up punch up. live uh
and he's got an app now for punch up but
Danny's become my good friend he left
Facebook because he loves comedy and he
you know I think he did really well over
there but now he wants to he wants to
take down Ticket Master essentially cuz
he think they're taking so much I mean
you see what the government so what is
it it's it's a it's many things it's a
place where you can see uncensored
comedy like like YouTube like specials
sure you can put anything on there I put
I put a lot of Clips on there
that basically but I just asked for your
email instead of your money because I
just want your email for when I tour
so um yeah I post Clips up there that
will get flagged by Instagram and I'm
not super provocative but these are just
going to get flagged you know so I post
Clips there and I post all my dates
there and I collect emails there so I
can uh and I don't spam you I just want
to you know have your email so when I'm
coming to your city I'll tell you it's
geolocated so you give me your zip code
and I will be like hey come to your city
this week or something but I love what
he's doing it's nice to have like a free
speech platform that's not run by a
right-wing lunatic because then just
like well like it's free speech and then
you log on some of these and it's just
like the end word and you're like this
isn't really what I wanted hll and Jew
jokes all the way down yeah and guess
what I got lot of Jew jokes too and
they're not hateful so they're a little
hateful but they're about me self-hating
Jew different samarel ladies and
gentlemen dude thanate the heck out of
you thank you you too man this was fun
awesome if you enjoyed that episode you
will definitely love my conversation
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