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#426 - Mike Birbiglia

2013-12-09 | 🔗
Mike Birbiglia is a comedian, writer, actor, and director, and his latest special "My Girlfriend's Boyfriend" is available now on iTunes & Netflix.
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Confirm device all the time, young comedians and he just says right like right down, What's funny, don't be lazy, don't be lazy! Your disadvantages of ice right, especially from a heroin addict. It's very rare that you get like the non lazy heroin addicts I mean. Look, I don't make me laugh right. That was, I mean it's not funny, but it is true and I think it's important to talk about because that's why he's not with us anymore? He's one of the greats in my opinion, he's one of the most incredibly rivers mediums of all time. He was good and so clean, clean yeah, which let for no reason so inventive. It is because he wanted to so inventive yeah. He was a really neat comic, but he also had a problem with her one. He had, some drug issues. It seemed like I say that I never should run for office right now, all who might have say I I never. I was friends with much. I never saw him use drugs, that's
I well. I was friends with mention. I never some use drugs either and I saw him yeah. I send the final week- and it's just this very well, when Doug Stanhope and I were working together on the man show, the bastardized second version of the man show uh might remember was when he got gangrene in his legs. He almost access yeah yeah. He almost lost his leg and you know they I'm back from that an everybody was hoping that he was kind of clean up and get his shit together, but for whatever reason However, you know what's really important. Yes, he burned brightly and he's an he's gone was important, though about his his artwork. What he did was, he was so prolific. You know and constantly in his super disciplined. Very disciplined in his style is like a really difficult style to be prolific with yeah
'cause, it's not like weird observations that are non sequiturs, one nonce Ecuador after another yeah. I know I was his memory when and all was like a blur, but, like I remember when he passed away and there's a memorial service ' get Caroline's in New York, and I was with his. I was standing on the street with David tell and my wife and met his mother, Mary and she's passed away. Now and- and there Dave and Mary were smoking cigarettes Dave Because- and this is gonna sound trite, but the way I'm repeating it but Dave has a profound nest to him that it can. It gets away with this. He was just like hello. We have the albums, it will always have the albums in is truly. There is something that it's like. We lose a lot of people, but with Mitch we have this really special thing, like these beautiful comedy albums, which are like a moment in time that are perfect, jokes and like perfect, with like their wisdom like there.
Wisdom and images comedy as far as I'm concerned yeah, I agree that they're just they're one of those things where you know some of his jokes is so preposterous, but other ones. You know you'll you just you just listen to it and you just go. You know what the fuck like like my favorite is. How is somebody asked me if I want a frozen banana? I said no, but I want a regular banana later. So yes yeah, I think they're, just it is so there's so, uniquely him You know in almost like there's like a vein of that comedy that goes from. I guess, like Steven right, you know, who's got that absurdist weird way of looking at things, but then to take it to a totally new plane is totally personal place everything, is a joke and I'm going to kind of mess it up. But I don't remember peoples jokes, that well but like where he is he goes. I said I said thing and and then- and we didn't hear me that well in the is going to repeat it
and then uh is this, same boat operator- joke I'm forgetting gets to it, but but, but he is about being it's all. It's ultimately about being misunderstood. I feel bad. I feel bad. I went down that road. Thinking that my brain, maybe I need some these chemicals, you have that Hgh is not Hgh with all these things have a fancy coffee that is super guides that you that with the butter in it yeah bulletproof coffee, it's not working for me. Well, it's early man. A comedian here is there's a there's, a there's, a a joke. I'm trying to find the image goof, you Youtube Steve Mode operator, you'll find that joke yeah. That's why I'm trying to find I gotta say like one of the things I even like hearing you talk before we start picking the thing that I admire, but your comedy and Mitch is an Like Stanhope Stanhope's, my favorite comic, by far and the reason: why is it anything that you have and all the comics Maria Bamford. No one could steal their jokes.
Oh they do, but you, but you can't. You can steal them and have the other person, wouldn't it wouldn't go so well as well as it will, for you know. Well yeah, if you is not Beautiful thing about comedy when it comes from your personality, when you listen to a Mitch Hedberg joke, you know, like the Doubletree hotel joke. You know like he minds in a way that I would never mind you know like he minds for material in a way like another good example that is Patent Patton Oswald will take a bit too. Like I look at it like a listen to some of his cds and I go that's a bit that I probably would have abandoned. I would have started maybe working on it right it on stage three times and just we've done something with more meat to it, but he'll take an idea. That's like uh, an odd idea that maybe I would have abandoned and turn it into an amazing ten minute chunk yeah That is totally like that. Also one of the things I love about patent he's just genuinely passion about what he's talking about here,
is uh. I wrote a letter to my dad. I wrote a really enjoyed being here, but I is generally wrote rarely instead of really, but I still wanted to use it. So I crossed it out and wrote a rarely drive, steamboats dead, visualizing. You don't know about Maine quit trying to act like I'm a steamboat operator who's, let it took a harsh turn right away. That's like my favorite jokes of all time. That's a perfect joke. That was a great impression by the way it is not exactly like. That's like a piece of philosophy. Yeah yeah, I just a joke. I think that was a bit a piece to match it in now that that in and tells a way of saying it, you know we we still have the items we do. We have that yeah. We do have that yet is that that's one of the coolest things about the art form. You know the the insight into how a person and functions and how they put together material that you know like. Laugh again, like I don't think like African, is at his writing up there yeah. It's not great, I know believe people believe
documentaries. I don't believe in themselves. I know people believing goes with it believe in themselves. That's a great help, people with the- U r l as of that site, because it's a it's a unit is on you to This documentary, it's where Lynn, his widow and Jack off too, is a very funny comic as well is in the cab. That they shared and she takes out his notebook and she knowing what it was in his notebook yeah and their cabin was up in big, bear right like when he got a development deal. You know some people go out and they buy a Mercedes. He the cabin big bear. Yeah exact you know what he said to me once it's funny. Looking at this notebook night goes to me. I open firm, and the first time I have features Jokers Comedy Club in Dayton. Oh, I know the plan he goes. He goes, don't ever show a girl. Your notebook, because
she's not supposed to know about it. Just supposed to see the final jokes on stage. That's so true is that when you date Girls- and they see your act over and over and over again, and they just lose all the magic, you have to either marry them, or are you going to do one of the other 'cause? Otherwise, then tell their friends. He just repeats the same shit every night and then he gets it right. It's not that big a deal. I can do it. The mystique goes away the mystique the mystique of the writing, but he was in he was such a unique guy in that he did obviously had issues with drugs, but he also obviously was really fucking prolific and really wrote a lot. It was really discipline now. In that sense, he was just a an odd combination of things. Yeah no yeah Salute Lee was he's a he's. A phenomenon yeah people should live. I feel like. I should almost plug this. I was talking to Mitch altogether
made album you can get on Itunes or would have Spotify or whatever and strategic grill locations with his first album. I love, oh, that yeah, that's great, perfect strategic grill locations is an awesome awesome. Classic now you got a new album out coming out is now it just came out. It's yeah. It's called my girlfriend's boy, and it's about a lot of like heartbreak and love and how I decided to get married despite the fact that don't really believe in the idea of marriage yeah, it's a stupid idea, but it works for them and works for women. Women love it. I love being able to tell their friends are married, doing that sort of oh yeah. Definitely they like winning. They win and you might get married. They win. They enjoy that yeah. I've totally want that's an interesting perspective. I've never thought about it like that, but.
Yeah I mean I'm happier, though, are you happy yeah, but it's also because I'm going to great relationship, I would have been just as happy. If I didn't have some shit written down paper or wearing a, monkey ring, you know, that's all that stuff is, it seems secondary, but for women it means a lot that you go through that nonsense or for some women I should say I should never generalize like that. Some of them they want that Not that nonsense. They want that cultural nonsense. They want to be able to tell their friends are married yeah. I think well I think part of it is the family too. Yes, the families are like, what's going on, oh yeah this real people start to yeah. I mean I don't know. And things that people just don't like They don't believe unless it has a formal culture, Understanding like this is maybe a two. In general example, but, like my cat passed away this summer
and I'm sorry to laugh your cap passing over just trying to figure out how you got to connect so, like I don't know either yet, but my cat, passed away, my wife and I were so upset like so like like the whole summer was like our cat passed away. That people would be like. What's up, we like our cat, I haven't passed away really the whole summer yeah we were really upset by. He was seventeen years old. I have a seventeen year old cat right now, yeah. So like we were so so close to even an explaining your cat died, is a little bit like explaining that your imaginary friend died where you're like he Evans dead and they were like right. I ven you're like no. No really are cat. I've been there like right. Your cat, and I feel, like marriage, is a little bit like that two year like if you not married. You can be like it's my boyfriend and I love him and he loves me in there like right, your boyfriend and he loves you, but yes, you're right here maps exactly if you're married,
it's like. Oh, you got the document. He got the legal dot. Ok, bye, bye! yeah and then there's some people that they look at that as like there's like goals that they have to achieve. I am in a relationship, okay check. Now, next move you got to get this guy to sign this paper and and- and I hate that yeah- that's the part of, I have a friend who went through a fucking, absolutely brutal divorce. I mean a really really bad one and then his new wife. He started dating woman immediately afterwards, of course, and she didn't want to sign a prenup. And he lost everything- You know- and it's like I don't know how to deal with you. Don't know what to do. You know it. Do you hate yourself, can crazy, like marriage, doesn't always work out buddy. It doesn't always work out the prenup on the second marriage, that's interesting when he lost everything on the first mass, any lost everything in the first match and pretty sure the overlaps like his first marriage. As far as I have to ask him what this first marriage is falling apart and then he met her and there was like
you know he knew her while he was still with his wife and then he got divorced like he had like. You know that was that old expression about like swing from branch, to branch that you know most women, especially they don't like to let go of a branch there the swing and then no there's another branch there. When they let go there. First branch or you don't have to say women, just like people, yes, humans, humans, but like yeah, the marriage thing is weird now, particularly to be in light of all supplements and things that you talk about, because people are just going to live longer will not with stuff I mean really now I mean if you're lucky you get another five years or ten years alpha brain and protein vitamins. I don't know what studies have been done in life extension as far as like vitamins. Well, but I mean I guess all that combined with like hip replacements and heart transplants and all is well there's so much, futuristic stuff right now, that's going to make people live longer and then it's going to be like it all
Freddy was weird that we were married. Thirty years, what about who were married like seventy years? Well? In that sense, I think that if it works, it works and if you're married for thirty years- and you really happy and then you get to live for another one hundred, would you want to break up and start fresh with a new person and try to put it together? Like part of like it makes a marriage work or friendship, work or anything is you kind of stand, how each other works yeah? I can understand what the ins, the absolutely person in yeah, that when that happens so much theoretically in in in practice, we it's done perfectly, which it never is, but when it is done perfectly, that's makes it so cool was that you know each other. You know, you go to the store and, like oh, I know she loves this kind of shit. Let's go get her this or you know, you're going to go on a vacation. She's never going to want to do this or she loves doing this. You know each other, In that sense, would it really matter if you live to be an extra one hundred years? Probably not except you start thinking about all that extra pussy,
one hundred one hundred age, one hundred pussies crazy I've heard round ever gets different. It's different like like wine in a barrel or old scac. I've got. I just want to take that back from the record. I know this is live, but I just want to take back dot age, one hundred pussy line. These are just jokes folks. If you looked at this stuff written down on paper, you go these guys. Assholes statements are these yes, but in the moment this is great. Yeah. It's in the moment. This is exciting. I love that you have this. Studio the studio, and you have your people who listen and like you, don't even I have to go, I'm going Conan tonight, you don't have to go on Conan. You don't have to go in talk shows because you have like your I'd. Look on your website, you're playing that God, damn shit, Fargo, Theater, the Chicago Theatre Watt that so huge you can't get bigger than that and you're just here in your studio being uh, hey guys, I'm coming to Chicago Theatre, yeah this yeah I'm coming soon
January, 24th Chicago theater me and the great Arisha fear who should be good times. Yeah. I know that place is awesome arias, but he could close The irish affair is a legit headline. Now it's really annoying. You know ARI. Clerics yeah, yeah yeah. This thing is remember seeing in that video, the Carlos Mencia Video, yes yeah. He was one of the first guys that Carlos ripped off back in the day Ok, now I shouldn't say that I'm sure it Carlo started ripping guys off way before ARI, but one of the first guys that I knew that like suffered from it but yeah this place sort of is come together. Slowly but surely is pretty honey becoming more childlike. As I add special effects pieces when I look around here, I'm like I feel like you could be. I think you might be like a
tension in the future. Your feeling! No now how the do you get that look around you see a predator mask. You see an alien have as on be a lava lamp and a deer skull, and you, like you, know what you should be running. Here's what I here's right, here's how I look hi right there, so so you would get with JFK and the first president, who was on camera, he's good, looking and and before that you don't have to be good. Looking at the President, that's interesting! That is like a big shift in culture right and they say that Barack Obama is like the first president, where it's like he's like a rockstar president like people are like he's. Fucking cool, like you know, like a lot of people say like people voted for him because they're just excited it's like so exciting, I'm going! get a step further. Twenty years from now the president, this whole area is just not happening.
Something hilarious about running the military, industrial, complex and less. Some massive paradigm shift takes place where we no longer have war I don't see anybody running any country being hilarious, president is hilarious and he's in great shape and uh yeah. That's uh That's why I think you should be a politician in the future. That's it yeah! It's! The time is come well because I feel like if you are in charge. I would vote for you because I would feel confident would be like ok sure we smoke some pot little bit. Jerry boats motion wants implying that, but he's the strong physically strong, smart funny. That's enough for me, football, reasonable, reasonable, is probably the most important thing anybody. What do you think the most important quality you need to govern? I think it's. Probably not wanting to govern, not to be the guy that's in charge. I think that might be one of the best qualities and anybody could ever have. If you want to run things he should know.
I want to be the guy who runs things yeah. I think so I think yeah levelheaded, I think, is a huge quality. I feel like the reason I voted for Barack Obama is like I just felt like. Okay, he seems mark was the alternative. He seems level headed yeah dead man in a dumb comment, that was, it all turned, and so what was the old alternative? The next? It was a Mormon, a guy who's literally believes and one of the most preposterous religious stories in the history of humanity, and he his family was a part of the cult that moved to Mexico, so they can have more wives. You know that story about fucking his desire. Parents, Mitt, is parents. They lived Mexico, oh yeah. I didn't even know that you didn't know that. I think I had heard about it, but I don't know the full story. His dad could never be president because his dad was born in Mexico.
His dad was an american citizen that way it wasn't born natural born citizen, where You know Mitt is he was born in America, but his family comes from this sect of Mormonism that broke off from the United States back in the 1800s when it really didn't matter. If you lived in, you can live in Mexico. You live in America, doesn't matter, there's no cars, so that's what they did. They moved to Mexico Shit didn't! not so good for that bet that that sucked, like the bet that well it's nice down here, it's pretty much the same as it is in America. We're just going to go over here and have ten wives well Obviously, when invention of cars came along and it is the whole age of machines in the industrial era, machines- and you know the United States became this. Superpower in Mexico became what it is today and now they're involved in these. These are stand offs with the mexican drug cartels they get kidnapped. They have fortified compounds and they have sent reason, snipers and rifles and everything I mean it's
the crazy, crazy shit. Vice did like a piece on that yeah on the on the various more and families that are living in uh, but that was our other option or other option was one of those guys, a guy who believes in magic, underwear and fucking a con artist, who is fourteen years old, who MD found golden tablets that contain the LOS work of Jesus and at the American Indians were a tribe of Israelites that came over. I mean it's, that's a great book if you want to know about Mormonism at all, is under the banner of having your really the reason, I'm no good sample again. Did you see the Book of Mormon crack? Our is read it yeah the book Mormons greater such wise is fucking amazing. You know. The crazy thing is Mormons like Mormons advertised like when you get the playbill now this advertisement for Mormonism yeah for the that is so great yeah,
yeah now, you've seen the play you know come find out would be to Mormons really all about like they think they're going to like, like people go go watch that hilarious parody of what their religion is all about. I honestly think that maybe I'm taking it too far, but I feel like Matt and Trey, are the closest to TWAIN that we have yes, where it's like they're doing is brilliant satire it's completely over the top, an insane an perfectly written and their fucking gangsters. They get away with the crazy shit on tv. Did you ever see the slut off with Paris, Hilton and Paris Hilton in the gay guy? Who is the teacher and the gay guy wins? He stuffs Paris Hilton up his ass mean he after a bit if they can get away with so much because they're cartoons I now and they take on like it's like the the idea of drawing Muhammad, you know they had a home, it was a heady bear. I saw that episode, then. I think the take on things where you is this: the slot off my sis,
He shoves parasiliti up his ass. He jumped on her in a gay cowboy outfit on with a big, mustache and shoved her up his ass. I mean, and then they cheer the Kanye West Gay fish, one with the Connie W in Carlos Mencia episode, one of the greatest of all take downs, unlike in the history of that kind of stuff, is too good of part of of of yes, amazing yeah. That's what into you know it honestly intimidates me about LOS Angeles is, like you know, man Trey are here. You know like the people who I admire so much. They just all live here in this area and it's too much for me. I live in New York. I just I like being way from it in running away. Like intimidates you house, I feel like like I don't
it's almost like. I don't want to see Matt and Trey like eating at a restaurant or something like I don't. I don't want to think the real. I don't want to think that their mortal or something like it's like I love the mystique of show business so you like being in New York as you're outside of it. I live in Brooklyn. I don't I'm not part of show business really! That's Trusting your here on the Joe Rogan experience podcast to promote your new comedy cd. Yet you claim to not be in show business. What do you to Mister Bridger Mountain showed this. I travel around the country I'm going to other cities. Is here: oh you just travel your professional traveler professional traveler. I always say that I always say that traveling salesman, I sell comedy, get paid to fly in one, that's funny, because you're I'm going to find a hundred cities next year, wow, thank God for jokester, a hundred I'm going to I'm going to for your stir, which it's called, thank God for jokes,
isn't the name of that or or thank God for jokes tour. I thought you were saying, thank God for jokester, like jokes, she was like some think that thing com sends you out to these places that are like. You know, Friendster limit you get here, yeah yeah delegates of some kind, so you look, your shit way in advance it up, so you can see the photo. Maybe if we can bring it up, thank God for or just for big that I don't know. Did you you plan your shit out way in advance, then, if you're doing one hundred, I have announced thirty. What are the obscure places? God I can't now here you go, go to Fargo Minneapolis, I'm going to traverse city MI, EAST Lansing Fargo is not in Minneapolis Car goes in North Minneapolis Minneapolis is now obscure now now. I guess it was now few but like you know, but like Eugene or that's obscur. I want be obscured. That's a hippie place lot of like, but you
people in that audience of Troy, NY, that's kind of obscured its obscurus fuck. Where do you play there? some guys house. There's no place to play, go to some dudes house. I mean I'm going to Charles Charleston's kinda? Well, that's kind! and a name, though I don't think I could name. One hundred different cities mean it probably could if you sat down yeah someone put up blank map in front of you, get it Kentucky huh little Kentucky their fellow Kentucky Louisville's fund and there was a great town, so great town, here's a thing of I've found about traveling around America. I'm sure you probably found this lot of great little towns. Well! Also there might be a biglia fans, they know who you are they coming out to show you in a good mood, yeah they're already during a familiar with you yeah, you know. Thank you go to like Boise, Idaho, it's like! Oh, this nice town, boys, is great. The people make fun of these towns and you go there. You're like oh, no there's like five great breakfast by
you know what I mean like by the way might be a better place to live. It might be probably less tension, less stress, less traffic. Have one thing that stupid about LA is the mass of humans all gathered into one place since then? It's every place to have a podcast 'cause. You could always get guests. You know, there's always people here, but as far as like having sanity and having peace, Clarity is not the best bot. What is it about a? Let me try this to you. Do all right nurse doing anything, sweet I'll, try that assist the Viet super strong! It's a natural sweetener! Okay, only put a little bit in okay, so it's very powerful I already have butter in the coffee. So I feel like it's covered dishes, but, like LOS Angeles, is crazy. 'cause like coming here, for example, Google map everything on the way and it's like it'll, be like uh, it's two six miles and then for time it will be like it might take day. That's no joke! Either you can get
in bumper to bumper traffic at two. Could just a little dash of that stuff? Don't fuck around! Don't get crazy, don't get crazy, microlight trying not to miss you Journal Stevie in there. Just a little bit more that look a little crazy nigga stop right there. Amazing. It's really strong stuff, but this sounds crazy. It's it just. It It feels dangerous. It feels like I'm in risk of being car accident at any moment, you're a timer in a car. You know the Phasing, really when you stop and think about this really good, that's great yeah! It's amazing! When you stop and think about how few car accidents there actually are the one in my special, which I hope, you'll watch but I watch it yeah, it's I'm very proud. I say I hope well well, don't fucking watch, it might be late. There's no need for hopes. So I get talk about how I was hit by a car in LOS Angelus and then that was made to pay. The drunk drivers, car really
drunk driver has made to papers cars, written maddening, how you made to pay for his car, he technically the right away. I was turning right. He was speeding around a blind corner. He technically had right away and then, by the time he got to the hospital he blew delete the legal limit. Wow, while so I don't want to take before you get to the house, one thousand dollars for his car like a couple hours later, wow, that's hilarious, you don't test him right away in this instance now and then, and so thematically, what it's about it is about how I I couldn't let go uh but like it sounds like you have this free, you know when I listen to it on the podcast like certain time
you're, obsessive being right about something I couldn't let this go right. I like it was kind of like this with papers. It's like I had charts and graphs and, like I was like I was like an accident report, and this is the map. Does the Google map of the scene of the accident- and it was it- was sixty feet from here to the stop sign in the speed limit? Was thirty five and it was mad when you going on stage with like Lenny Bruce at the end of his career, when we go on with legal document you'll see in this special I project to the accident report, the actual LAX airport I project the extra in the show it's great, and so the guy was drunk he, but he technically had the right of way I'm trying to figure it out. In my mind you are going around a blind corner and he was coming around blank. He was coming around a blind people running blind corner in Venice Beach, and then you intersect, pulled into traffic I called into into a road, and then he T boned me driver side, wow, and then and then
spun around and then he um drove away, took a right turn at the intersection, try to speed way, but he's so drunk he drove into a tree so hit and run and hit and still didn't get in trouble for that. That's insane So I talked to lawyers in talked to private investigators. They were just like dude. It's cost you more in legal fees to fight this. You know I was like I'm going to sue this guy and I'm going to sue. The LOS Angeles police Department, like I was like Chinatown it was like Chinatown was mad ning Well in the effort to protect people's rights, things get kind of squirrelly like I'm, for protecting peoples rights, but I think that once you start driving, intoxicated and slamming into people like they need to figure out who is drunk right away after an accident. You can't let people go all the way to the hospital and find you need. That's that's something that needs to be dealt with on the spot, but the question is, you know
who is going to be the guy who deals with it is going to be some knucklehead police officer. That's you know says we're going to help. Which Dante's you and then take your blood. I mean how do how do they get it? They gotta have blood right, don't they have to? They can test your blood, alcohol content. They could do the breathalyzer thing right, but the Sacret ways is blood and that's way you could. We could be on pills too yeah. It's true, though. True. He could be on drugs yeah. I went to the hospital just to make sure I was ok. I went to the emergency room and they saw him first because he was more urgent case. I don't know what happened to him, but fucking tree. That's not example, and I said to the doctor I was like was the other guy drunk and the doctor says? Well, You know. I can't answer that. The same doctors are both of us right and I was like well was he you know and, and he goes well he's. Heading to jail now and at the time I was like case closed. You know, like I thought, like I was like it was like this isn't going to be an issue in a couple months later I get the the for his car doesn't say, is maddening, that's so cool.
Who is this asshole with his name? I can't say it perfectly. I fucked this guy, I don't know I considered bone. I don't say this in the show, but there are certain points I considered. I had this phone number. It was on the accident report. Consider just calling him being like. You should know that you are ruining my life wow. I think, that's being a little bit dramatic, doesn't really ruining your life is just making you crazy, but the fact that you have to pay for him. Let's be wanna sell, I'm just saying, as I felt the need to come up with jokes and that money is taken care of we're in a very fortunate position in life. Maybe she cut your losses thanks John but you got comedy at its two thousand and twenty insight. Hindsight. That's really easy reflection. Anyone wants his house and kick his ass and wind up in jail.
At least you got comedy out of it, though right I mean, I feel great, I mean honestly the holiday comedy is everything to me. I I that's what thank you, but thank God for jokes to our, My new show that I'm developing is actually all about how to like jokes are in a certain way. My religion like their little bit there that there, the full, possibly that I believe in I believe life is hard and then make jokes about it, 'cause it's all we can do and it makes more fun yeah, but still this day stand up. Comedy is one of my favorite things to watch. I still enjoy it very much as an audience member and if someone told me that I could never the form comedy for the rest of my life for some strange reason, but I could still watch it. I was still love watching it yeah. It's great man. I thought stand special this year. The beer hall putsch, I think, is how you pronounce yeah, who won the best comedy specials I've ever seen, was a really good one that was away from that were just like you look at you, four experience the two of us watching that yeah he's he's working hard man and one of the things that stand helps doing is he's like really is that guy he live
in the desert. He lives in this weird fucking town in Arizona. That's like seven miles, yeah Bisbee, Arizona, seven miles from the mexican border. He invite people over to his house for for Super bowl parties. I know he's a nut. I mean he's a legit nut he's a great guy too. Is really he's really like coming to his own as an artist as a stand up comedian. That special is, if there any aspiring comedians listening or watching, see that special before turning the gun on himself is a great one too he's gotta, the great ones he's got lots of good stuff. This is the one where he talks about letting his mother go. Yeah yeah, it's incredible story: yeah yeah, it's good stuff man! I couldn't live in Bisbee Arizona. I don't know what the fuck is. Thinking now is just ice. It was very strange I don't. I don't know how to describe what that is. Nothing there. Man he's got a great joke. About living there to the idea of it being an artist community in the diff.
Is it rain how his art there are, it doesn't really go together. They make turquoise belt buckles and he's making a joke about tsunami victims about how the found Japanese, they start to swell and they take on this korean look and I'm really butchering bit, but it's fucking helaire. This is a comparison between his art, what he considers art and what they consider art artist community. One of the things I love about him is hill. It keeps like twisting the knife in different directions, Yeah like he'll. Take you one way and you'll be like. Oh, I don't know if I could go there and then he'll take you back farther in the other direction farther right than you could think you could go and then I'll pull you farther left than you thought. You know what I mean like he just always has you on your toes? He works. That, did you see him sitting there smoking a cigarette drinking coffee banging away on the keyboard he works. And that is like you said, you know we're saying that jokes or your religion- that the discipline of creation is real
but it's all about whether you're writing books, whether you're writing Joe x, whether you're creating music, where I admire the discipline involved in creating things anything podcast, music movies, whatever the fuck you're, making Matt and Trey making South Park, and also Having some strange time to make the book of Mormon as well. You see that documentary about Matt and trees in South Park square nuts people should watch us on Netflix. It's called like six thousand and sixty seconds the air, or something like that. What is the sixty minutes air six days six days to air solitaire, yet super good yeah? It's amazing, for instance, inspirational too, and you realize what a bad mother fucker that well both of 'em but yeah, but trash bad mother fucker that guys yeah, it's just a nut, but I think he obviously gets off on it. I mean that's his thing: yeah he loves creating that fucking show it that shows such a perfect vehicle to, because by doing
cartoon, kids that don't look anything like reality and then also having them be kid. So there's like a certain amount of ignorance, you can get away with it apartment of child, so is it a beautiful vehicle for creating comedy when you write like all this shit, that you've got in front of you here where? Why do I feel heat? Where is he coming from? Oh that's what it is. I was like man. I know it heats broken. We have to get someone to climb on the roof turner, fucking pilot light on help retarded is that when you- right. Do you sit down and go okay today, I'm gonna write from eight am to ten am or what I mean. How do you do it? I build it from like, like us like I build, I brainstorm stories so like out a like I'll talk to my brother, Joe who co writes a lot of stuff with me and we'll just talk like one time. This happen to me. When can this happen to me one time this happen to me we'll talk about on the phone for like couple hours, you know
and then we'll talk about which, which ones are good enough stories that are worth telling. And then, and then I'll and then I'll go out and try it on stage I'll record it and I'll go back and transcribe what I said and then edit from that transcription that's interesting, so you Cowrite with your brother yeah how long you been doing that for ten years does your brother to stand up at all now. He tried lately yeah exactly, but he doesn't like me on stage, but he enjoys the creative process. Is writing super funny guy and But he doesn't like being on stage. What does he do for a living? He works for Maine. Oh really so he's a writer for you write a program. Pretty writer producer CO wrote my movie sleepwalk with Maine. Oh, that's so cool yeah sleepwalk with me, was really interesting for folks. Don't know MIKE for folks that don't know MIKE is
you're you're yeah sleepwalker? Actually I jump through second story window and I sleep yeah and you talked about that in the podcast last time you're here and that movie is sort of based on that on how weird that thing must be to have that in you. This ability to just get up and start do things while you're, actually asleep yeah. It's and I still deal with it. I sleep in a sleeping bag to this very day. I go to bed and I sleep in a sleeve you bring a sleeping bag when you go camping when you go to hotel rooms, yeah exactly camping when I'm at home. Can you zip yourself up so you can about myself, I used to wear mittens, so I couldn't open the sleeping bag. The doctor told me that's on the strangest things that doctors ever told me he goes. I want you to go to bed at night in a sleeping bag and sleep zip yourself up and then wear mittens, so you can't open the sleeping bag, a doc.
He said that to be strong wow. This is after jumped out the window window, yeah he's just as a woman. Actually, my doctor now is a male, but is Yes, she she was just like. I'm not sure what to tell you in the mean time. Just do this with floor. Do you live on in New York? We live on, I mean my bedrooms on the second floor, but we have these really like super reinforced shutters that we put in another pretty expense just keep you from jumping through the window, yeah yeah, wow, strange strange bird. Wow yeah, I know yeah, you don't want to jump in a second floor in Manhattan. Where did you jump when we lived in Brooklyn? I jump through the second story. Window of La Quinta. Inn in Walla, Walla WA. As a matter of fact, there's a plaque. If you should be able to google this La Quinta Inn per Biglie plan, I just played in awhile back there's a plaque on the door of the room. Why?
they could jump through this window and there's a movie based on it. No way it's like it's cool, because you're here and you're fine. If you died there and you know yeah it's some. IRA, glass, who co, wrote the movie and produced the movie with me, hosted this american life and publicly a he. He was insistent that we get the plaque put up. That was like he didn't care about, like oscars or gold gloves. He was just like here. Like the plans, you got the plaque and this room on January, twenty six two thousand and five comedian Micro Biglie Sleep walked out the window. That story became the basis for the book of the feature films walk with me seriously: Google, it is nickerie what a weird world we live in that that's a plaque seriously: Google! It is on the plaque wow. I rose really intent on us getting a plaque on the room like that. Was everything to him he's like where's. The plaque is the plaque up yet
like six months after wow sent it to him, and so that's on the door, so that was you're walking by that's on the door. People sometimes will go to that. Look. Quinta, Inn and they'll take photos in front of it and then tweet at yeah. That's awesome, but you get a lot more now, yeah, that's a Larry es! That's really fun well told us again because you're, okay yeah now when you, when you jump through the wall like when you jumped out the window to window through the window yeah, I think the actual glass itself yeah shatters come through and I have in the movie, in the final credits, there's actual photographs of after I jump through the window. I photographed it. There's a crime scene that was alone in Walla, Walla WA, and I was like nobody's going to believe me right right right at the hospital all this stuff. But I was like this is too crazy of a story. I need to photograph everything, so it's all in the credit. How did you get through that without even getting really badly hurt? The same reason that allowed runtimes drunk drivers aren't hurt
they're the ones not injured. You know they mean when they get in car accidents. 'cause, there's so relaxed there so relaxed that so crazy yeah the idea that tension is what hurts you. I drag dreamt that I was being there was a guided missile, headed towards my hotel room. There's all this Terry personnel in the room with me, and the missile could be the man that they told me to miss accordance or set specifically on me, and so I thought the only I can do is jump out the window so as to detonate outside the window. For the sake of my platoon, Wow, what are you are hero in your crazy story and their head? Wow, that's fuck! Now what was the extent of her injuries? I just I still have scars on my legs. There's a glass in my legs and they took out the glass and I was my arms were all cut up and I had about thirty stitches That's nothing! Nothing! Nothing compared to what it could have been wow, wild. Is I actually jump through the window, an land
and then got up and kept running? so you were still asleep yeah. Wow running I'm looking around and realizing. Oh I'm. I just jumped through a window Well, all Washington! I was like. Oh no and I was like I guess I got to go to the front desk and explain what happened. Oh my god, yeah and then I this is a funny addendum to the story. I feel bad for me, my fans, your friends, but maybe maybe have seen the movie, maybe having my friends of hers as a other times. I feel bad but I'll give dedendum to the story which is new, which is, I always say that I walk to the front desk to explain what happened. Fortunately, the person working at the front desk was, mildly retarded, and I say fortunately, 'cause he's completely unfazed what just happened three in the morning, the phones are ringing off the hook from people staying at the hotel, who just saw the jump out of the window screaming
bleeding in my underwear and I say hello because you have to start somewhere as I just I'm staying at the hotel. I had an incident where I jumped out my window and bleeding, and I need to see it. Their end, and that- and I was so relieved because the the for the guy working the front desk goes right- is a completely unfazed by what had just happened. So I drove myself to the hospital Where was the addendum? Is that guy who work the front desk Facebook messaged me and said: hey, I'm the guy at the front desk and I'm not mildly retarded zone. He said, oh, my God is great. Is that the the message is so incoherent that he sent Maine that it's like well
are you sure if I forwarded this to someone they might take my side on it? Oh, my god. That is such a crazy fucking story. So from did you were you there for a weekend like did you have to do stand up there? The rest the week performing at Whitman College that night and then I was performing at University of Oregon the next day, and I actually did the gig with all the broken and I didn't tell anybody wow she just did the gig is just did your stand out, the money's broke and you just mangled cut up and why wasn't nothing mess with my face, yep, so no one could tell. I was wearing long sleeves and everything. That's lucky it's unbelievably fortunate yeah. I was just there's a, I was honestly was a moment in my life. Where I was broke, I was hustling so hard. It all factored into the jump through the window of
dealing with a lot of anxiety, so the anxiety and stress the manifest itself in the sleep walking out. So so I I'm diagnoses ram behavior disorder, which is a chemical imbalance in means people who have a dope and some people who have a dopamine deficiency, which is the chemicals. Really from your brain in your body when you fall asleep that paralyzes your body, so you don't act out your dreams that Essentially, what happens when you sleep? Is your bodies paralyze? You can't do it. I have a dopamine deficiency and, as a result, I act out my dreams, and so since then misdiagnosed, so I take. I shouldn't tell people what I take by take. I met an anti overnight, a yeah and then in it calms me down, and then I don't feel like. I need in my dreams to run a away from things like. Why do you say you shouldn't tell people what you take? Well, 'cause, I'm not a doctor, so I do
I tell P, I don't want people to self, diagnose, okay and go. I have that and it's like you, don't really know. I did a sleep study. I slept overnight at the hotel at the hospital for nights like they really know what I have yeah. Well, that's very responsible. You and you know yeah the. So when did you start taking this medication, even though you're taking this medication? You still don't trust yourself. You still zip up yeah kind of like a condom over a birth control pill. Why? Well, I guess once you jump out of a fucking window, all bets are off yeah. We gotta get some reinforce shutters. Why do you have bars over windows? Many worried about break ends. Note breakouts, break how's. The crazy breakouts are trying to keep it in wow, so bye, anti anxiety medication is that changed. You like your regular everyday life. I'd like to think now. I fear sometimes, yes,
I mean, like you know, I I I feel like what I take for awhile. It felt like it made me a bit fuzzy. Feel like a way I wake up in the morning, I have to drink a lot of coffee to get to regular, which I don't love right. All because of that yeah. Is there any natural cure this or anything that you've been going? Okay, let's stick doctor recently under, so you don't think that's good and sources. Holistic doctor those mother she took. She took like ten my blood and did a whole thing on which vitamins I should take to counterbalance things and I feel, like that's, leveling the off a little bit Do you watch your diety fairly help, try to try trying to have protein in the morning and stuff like that, but do you do gluten and I'm trying to wean myself off of it? I stopped about six months ago. How do you feel about it? A lot better? Why
something else film in this show. I was having back problems from Jujitsu and one of the things that this woman is a physical therapist told me. She said in real good results, people that have injuries getting off of gluten reduces inflammation and a lot of the symptoms of the injuries side, and I was like you could tell me like bread like stopping bread, makes an in be better and she's like you really would be amazed, and so I tried it and uh My injury got better like slowly but surely on its own through a lot of different therapies that I was doing, but What was amazing was my energy level is different, yeah, my energy level, especially after meals. That was the most shocking thing like I would eat so much pasta and then it was realized it like after I eat, and I was like I got hit with a tranquilizer dart. I just thought: that's what it was. I thought I eat like a pig, and this is what happens after you. Eat like eating is like sex.
But no man not now now I eat and after I'm done eating, I'm full, but I'm not in a coma yeah. It's weird. It's a totally different experience for Maine, because my Basically, my whole life, I mean I'm italian mostly, and most of my life. I grew up eating like that eating pasta and bread with almost every meal and what I stopped eating. It is like. Oh, oh Oh, this is what have been dealing with my whole life for no reason like every time I eat I would eat these great giant meals and be like. I just kick back and yeah. I know that feeling that I'll get that anymore. Now I eat, and you know uh somebody is digesting, I feel full, but I don't feel like sedated. LOS. Angeles is great for that. New York is good for that, but like when you travel to have a hard time. Fine food that steak and salad thanks Al Chicken, sound, I'm not we did this about it 'cause I don't have celiacs disease. It's not like one slash two to avoid it, so some
is breaded or it doesn't kill me it just it just. I think it text me back a little bit I your body is not designed to pro there's there's that we eat today is very different from the wheat that people had one hundred years ago in the 1950s and 60s is when they started engineering wheat to be more hardy, so for better yields, and so it could survive pesticides and whatnot, and that we is much more difficult for people process. Just is the fact. That's a sign. Yeah I mean there is science behind that. So when you know, people talk about. Oh it's just another fat, it's just another fad! It's actually not! You know there. For most certainly fads, you know, as far as you know, Atkins Diet, all these various diets that can work. I think they can have an effect. You know you go and ptosis, I guess it's called, and you know you by suspending fat instead of carbohydrates, and I tried that I didn't like it at all. This is very
this to me seems like cutting out something that my body really just doesn't enjoy, processing and make sense. Now I mean I still I'm I'm not I'm not a perfect leader. I still eat ice cream and I still drink milk in what do you do about pizza gluten? Free pizza? I don't. I tried it style this dog, I'm at peace in a long sorry for not have pizza yeah I haven't had pizza and, like It's mentally six or seven months since I've had except some gluten free pizza, which was I just uh. I made a tweet about it. I said I'm having gluten free pizza to let you know that you don't have to never just don't it's not pizza. It's nonsense. Someone said, there's a good kind out there, but I think they just bills fucking people that don't want to believe yeah, but as far like, like health, I think the majority of people don't get enough. The big issue. As far as like nutrition is, is green, leafy, vegetables and and a lot of vegetables like people just don't eat enough vegetables and
if you don't eat enough vegetables- and you also don't take vitamins yeah good luck. Your body is just basically operating on proteins and carbohydrates and whenever the fuck it can find, but you're, not Anna vitamins you're. Just not like the idea of a balanced diet, most people's diet or they're, not even close to balanced friends like like on on the road like comics, I've been with them for every meal. You know and uh. What they eat and like you're, not getting anything like you got Megan there yeah there's some bread in that, and I think there's a piece of lettuce there like what the fuck are you getting your vitamins from man. I think I'm in that boat, do you take some Once you take vitamins. I just started to like two months ago: just started really wow you're, so disappointed. No sorry, it's interesting, Did you notice a difference once you start taking vitamins? I feel better. I feel better.
I'm starving common starved. I am vitamin starve yeah, but most of us are and if you, yeah average quote: unquote: average american diet, your vitamin, starved yeah, it's it's hard to travel and be healthy, fuck yeah. It is it's very hard. When I start doing nights are doing yoga. When I travel, I feel better. I feel a lot better doing that. Because all the girls at yoga pants in the class it makes you feel better too. Is that what is excited? Maybe I'm misunderstanding. The whole thing No, your goal, if that was the big I could just go to the yoga pants are yeah. You can just go to a strip club and feel great. Whites are going to strip clubs in the road, and I just I really really pick me answers the I. I wrote those Strip club name I'd Largo the other night and there's a place across from it. I don't know what it's called in the phone book, but the name on the outside of the door is
STAR Strip, is all the same: font and font size STAR Strip, totally nude live nude girls, girls, girls, the starship on La Cienega, yeah dude. I had a bit about that. A true story where the girl was dancing- and I said, hey you. Do you like doing this? She goes. I don't talk to guys come here, and I said well, why I mean it's an open door mean like nice. People can come through too and she goes, well, most guys who come here. The only come here. For one reason I mean: why did you come here like she was like shutting me down, and I said someone told me there was a place that I could do go where I could see a strange girls pussy for a dollar ok and that was the joke. Like I'm, the asshole I didn't show up where you work, I'm not a bad person, because you work now different. Go to different places. Different comes a lot and you know it turned me off. I was in
show once I saw a commercial on tv for a Strip club and I was like I would like that seems fine I'll go and down in a win, and then I gave the the guy my id when I walked in, and he goes hey piper pick Leah, I like your comedy- and I was just like I'm- never going to Strip club again. I've never gone back. Why? Because I don't want to know you like the anonymity of it. I don't want to be. I don't want anyone to watch me. Watch someone being a I just I'm not I I can't handle that you need a wig in a fake moustache and if you have any big or a fake mustache, everyone were in Hollywood, there's plenty of stores yeah. I that's why I'm here sorry, it took so long for me to get to the point. But yeah do you have like a cost Michael AIR, because 'cause I really want to go through the code. I need to go check up. No need to do you know it's funny 'cause. You should say that about you're asking like why why the woman was there and everything
that was when I used to go to strip clubs. That was what I was most interested in story. I want to know the story. How did you get here. And some of maybe it maybe it's kind of mean spirited summary, but actually it is interesting to me. I don't think it's mean spirited. No, I mean you can have a look. I have been to many a strip club in my day, and I've had some fun in conversations with girls who are dancers, where it was demeaning it wasn't meant it respectfully. When I would do it, I've talked to very nice people that just happen to be dancers. There's nothing wrong with it. Man, I think, there's a weird sort of the connection between stand up, comics and strippers anyway, because the our worlds are so odd in comparison to the average person. Oddly similar, I think in a lot of ways now will because stand up comedy your's naked's can be yes verbally and you're. Talking about your talking about your life, the best comedians potentially is like what you're like while watching naked in a certain way.
Absolutely you know and that's obviously, the strippers who literally yeah and you're also living this weird alternative life that most people can't relate to most people with nine to five jobs can't relate to intervene. Strange yeah, like your data print comes over your house at three hundred o'clock in the morning after she gets off work and you know she's gay. A little glitter bag full of money, and it's like we're both weird you know. I done telling jokes in and out drink on stage, and here you got off say: visits with their weird lives there being an actor's, a weird life. If you didn't act or strange, yes, but more less naked. Wait wait for girlfriends like making out with some guy in the day that strip work over and over again that's ridiculous to take fucked at yeah. I've seen that before I've seen people like watch their wives or girlfriends uh make out with other guys like tongue and everything
watch him and watch her and watch him and watch her and go. I don't wanna do that yeah, but the acting thing is like the opposite of being naked. It's like putting on a fucking outfit, I think so yeah. I don't think it's naked at all. The acting is is is putting on like armor it's putting on line This armor of this bullshit character that some right, who created and you're pretending to be this person, whereas no, but I think the best ones are opening up opening up yeah they're opening up their souls. I think the best and young, mean they become that guy, but I mean like ok, here's a perfect example christian bale in the machinist. He wasn't really an anorexic that was there couldn't sleep. I mean he He forced himself to do that. He just became that guy. For that role it was it was. It was an affectation, he put it on it was a costume. It was a you know, a role he played it wasn't him who does
I did to be. We can find areas in ourselves. That's one of the weirdest fucking that is so weird in both of those guys right now. It's him next to him as Batman when he was fucking Swoll, which is only like six months later. I think the the photo on the left- Israel, oh yeah, yeah. He starved himself. He ate in tuna in an apple like everyday, that's like all the eight and he got down, do an insanely small size. I think he was down like one hundred and thirty pounds or something ridiculous like that, he's a big and then he went up to two hundred plus when he played Batman, yeah yeah, pretty nuts man that guys, nuts, that that thing that they do like I just got back from last weekend, I saw Dallas buyers club yeah, I heard Matthew Mcconaughey fuck.
Looking fantastic, I have a friend who always shits on Matthew, Mcconaughey and thinks that Matthew, Mcconaughey Scripting is Taraba Lynn, Matthew, Mcconaughey's, like his. He goes transparent in his acting mostly 'cause, my friends in actor, but I said to you: gotta watch, Dallas buyers, club and then shut the fuck up the guy, knocks it out of the park, his fans. Again it. I saw two movies this weekend I saw I saw the catching fire. I liked it with catching fire. The hunger games movie. How dare you say by nothing. I know everybody makes fun of me. I like gravity, I don't know, gravity was good. I enjoyed it. You know. Thought found was fascinating. About gravity was watching Neil Degrasse Tyson Tweet, about everything is wrong with the movie and then watching people attack him, because I saw a lot of that because Neil Degrasse Tyson is like he one of those guys that I don't think ever takes heat. You
because he's such a nice guy he's so brilliant. He so like. Well, informed about the ways of the universe and so excellent at expressing himself he's like one of the representatives of science. I think we have today and he always gets love everywhere. He goes like everything is all these internet memes with pictures of him. Then this came out and he starts correcting the moving and the fucking hate. You can't correct a Sandra Bullock Movie, you just can't I hate on Sandra Bullock. They fucking went after him wow Neil Degrasse Tyson says his criticisms of gravity are complement to its quality huh. Well, that's that's because you took out took the hit the right to be there to earn the right to be criticized as a high compliment. In do
what that sounds. Like a guy who fucking feeling the heat he's talking nonsense, he's feeling the heat, some people criticize the story. The movie- and I was like you know I I felt like ten- minutes in I was like I got my fifteen dollars worth, never thought that I would know what it felt like to go to space yeah. I love the fact that everything was silent. Me too, like in the middle of explosions and all this shit, it's silent and yet you're still freaking the fuck out is actually more effective. I thought, did you see the directores movie, children of man chill? Yes, I saw there. Yeah did a phone yeah. That was the one where people are like. The males are like the people can't breed or something yeah. That's right now the The thing that I found was most fascinating about gravity was the just the idea, that people do really go up there and re.
You do stay up there for long periods of time and space and they really are in grave danger, and they in this this possibility of things colliding in space junk to very real real problem. Yeah this second thousands of things floating around above the earth. Thousands, no it's so insane on August. The screenwriter made this point. I think it's kind of brilliant about it, which is exciting about the movies. It's one hundred million dollar movie major budget movie, where the lead character doesn't save the world she just saves herself and that's powerful, yeah, people didn't like to a lot of people didn't like the George Clooney die 'cause? It was just so, and the other thing was like when he let's go when you have to let go because it's pulling him away. There's no momentum in space. People said the science of its rolling as science of is so wrong. I was fine with that, though 'cause I don't know much about science yeah the sign
is not just wrong about that. It's also wrong about the positions of the very space stations like they're, not anywhere near each other, like what she did by skipping from one to the next yeah. I would be absolutely completely impossible. There now they're, not in the same hemisphere, the nor near each other. I just give it. The band has dammit benefit the doubt because she had Weird. Divorce because of Jesse James. He gave this movie the benefit of the doubt. That's how it works in the world. Let it go with the science stuff. Just 'cause she's had a hard time last couple of years, Yeah, that's sweet of you yeah! Well, I'm! Well, you know I'm a big fan of anything space. I think space is probably the most overlooked thing in in in the history of humanity to kind we just don't have enough light. I feel that way about the sea. The sees another one yeah, the c in space are the two most interesting places. I think yeah the see less so for me, but still pretty fascinating more. You know it's basically like a jungle under water,
I loved what you were tweeting the other day about blackfish 'cause. I think that that's a great cause. Oh yeah, we had filled in who was a trainer over at a Seaworld or whatever? It was marine land in Canada? is depressing and shift miserable, but it's good that you're tweeting about it. 'cause, it's a good cause. Yeah! I agree it is the sea life very fascinating. Make an intelligence eat life even more. So I just think people are very Not funny funny or item here there, but I just think people are generally on going to accept, see life and Anna rules as having an intelligence that we just don't understand. Well, they certainly too There's no doubt about it when, when you talk to people who understand orcas or or dolphins, they're very telligent just intelligent in a different way, because they don't all their environment as we talking about space, about how fascinating spaces that
the real issue is. If we treat intelligent life forms on this plan that we can understand, the way that we do especially helpless ones essentially help us once like orcas and dolphins. They really can't do anything you know to to prevent just from doing what we want them to do it. We can't prevent us from kidnapping them. They can just try to run away, but they can't fight back. They really can't do anything what what what what is an alien race going to do to us all they ever get a hold of us, I'm so worried. They see how we treat intelligent life forms. Why would they respect us? Why would they want to do anything? Why would they be we know: why would they be kind? Why would they give us information? Why would they try to help evolve. Then go all it's going to go. Aliens is going to go and it's not an if it's a when when the aliens come or we arrive at the aliens it's going to go, it one of two ways we enslave them: they enslave us. Yes, it that's
only version of what can happen or we eat them or they eat us, but we fucked them. Mother, fuckers right. Do you Do you ever get a chance when you do it on your travel? Do you ever get a chance to go to any observatories the cat? Hawaii or you know any of the telescopes. I tried to yeah even it recently, but yeah I tried to one of the most life. Changing things have ever done besides psychedelic drugs and having kids is going to the cake observatory, is that it's on the big island of Hawaii, the fucking v two of the stars is so mind. Blowing you can't believe It's real? Well because you're on the island, it's nine thousand feet above sea level. Is the visitors place and then there's the main observatory, which is even higher than that you're literally, and I'm looking at the picture so will evil you're above the clouds? That's literally above the clouds, as we were driving, you know I'm I was
my family were like. Oh this sucks, it's cloudy we're going to miss it. This is not going to work because, we're going to we're going to get up there and we're not gonna be able to see through the clouds, but then you pass through the clouds and then you look up. Well, that's nothing with what you say: yeah! That's nothing well, last! Well, I'd only hearing your better. This is Alaska River in Alaska. Yes, like Mazen Vera, banks is unbelievable. I highly recommend people listeners, I've never been to Hawaii and I want to go there. People have never been to the this should go to Alaska. If you have a man yeah, oh no doubt because it is, you know they call it the last frontier and everything, but it really is it's under covered areas. It's uncultivated areas and it's stunning yeah. It's amazing! I went on salmon fishing with our should fear. While we went up there this year in July and we caught salmon and did a gig up there and I fell in love with the place. It's incredible thank which is incredible: Greeley fucking cool people to like there's a quality to the people up that live up
because they're they're living in a legitimate wilderness. They have a city. The city is surrounded by absolute legit wilderness. Like someone on the University of Anchorage Campus last year, got killed by a fucking moose. It happened, moose came on the campus, it stops someone to death and that's like part of their life. Well, that's the thing that the students are very competitive. I don't think that's what it was about. Micro, Biglie! Well, you think it was just say: Martin Wild now I talked to the guy. Was there my friend is actually a professor at First, I gotta head, I'm going to Conan right now, I gotta drive there might have to wallet. Lee has no wallet. So if you get in an accident, I'm screwed it's? The same sort of situation is the last time you'll be doubly screwed. I'm I'm worried about my whole day. To be honest with you, you on Conan tonight tonight. What time is a cone is not eleven on tvs and there's a new show after Conan now doesn't somebody else have a show now, PETE Holmes Feet heartbeat homes it hasn't started yet yeah he's really fun
yeah. I know I haven't seen it yet. It's not like you're telling him not not saying PETE Holmes isn't funny. You know it's very funny. No it's! How dare you it on TBS, I think, is in reruns right now, but it was on for a few weeks and then I think there waiting here whether or not it gets picked up, but it's that's great, so your new CD is called my girlfriends boyfriend. It's available now on Itunes or products. Five girlfriends boyfriend dot com is the site, but I am very big. Dot com is your website for big is your twitter, the yeah all that thanks for having me on anytime and I'm sorry. We we had little miscommunication. I thought we were going back and forth. I thought you. Last week or something I thought you meant this week that you were coming in town this week, but you were actually. This is your last day right here, yeah that worked all fine, though well next time you hear man. Let's do a longer one people love you. Thank you
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