SUPERFLY #48 - BEST OF GUESTS

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Speaker 4 Woo, yeah. We sweet cobbled together some garbage.
I mean, some great stuff from this year. And listen, we had a really fun year on Superfly.
I have to say, I had a great time.

Speaker 4 And we got a lot of people watching. We got some people on YouTube.
So stoked about that. A lot of comments.
And we just kind of rotate in and out. Different people.

Speaker 4 Sometimes you don't have a guest, sometimes you do.

Speaker 5 A lot of fan interaction.

Speaker 4 A lot of fan interaction. Fan interaction.

Speaker 5 We must have done at least 100 hours of podcasting.

Speaker 4 It seems impossible. It seems like too much.

Speaker 1 Seems like no one could do that.

Speaker 5 Yes. And now we've distilled it down to the very, very, our very favorite moments.
We got

Speaker 5 Gronken Edelman, the superstar football gronkin.

Speaker 4 Gronken Edelman. Yep.

Speaker 4 Dr.

Speaker 1 Greer, the UFO expert.

Speaker 4 UFO

Speaker 1 Dr.

Speaker 5 Greer created a lot of a lot of picked up a lot of pickup with his

Speaker 5 controversial take on aliens

Speaker 5 we've got speaking of that we've got Nate Bergatzi

Speaker 4 Nate Bergatzi yeah he was very funny right off Saturday Night Live he came in the next day yeah and talked to us and he still is dressed as George Washington yeah that's what he does all day

Speaker 4 and then Danica Patrick, who was very interesting, different guests for us.

Speaker 4 She was fun. I don't even know who else we're just putting the kind of a best of.
So, if anything you missed anything, or if you want to see it again, check it out.

Speaker 5 And John Lovitz will make an appearance.

Speaker 4 Oh, yes, Lovett's. Of course, we love Lovetts.
So it wouldn't be it without him. So here you go.
Merry Christmas. Happy holidays.

Speaker 6 You have no idea how much of a pain in the ass it was to fit me in a car because

Speaker 6 we had to usually put

Speaker 6 like something to raise my feet up so that I could get closer to the top of the pedal so that I was putting my feet on the right spot.

Speaker 1 Again,

Speaker 6 I think it's because it's like ironically hailing here in the middle of the summer and it's like sunny, but a couple clouds, but it's truly hailing outside.

Speaker 4 I thought it was one of those things where you say to the dog, if it doesn't, if it feels like it's not going well, start barking, and then I'll say I have to leave.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 But that would be actually quite the skill set. It's like

Speaker 6 Marshall is going to get a beer for them. If I could get the dog to like get me out of jail-free card in uncomfortable situations, that would be a major skill set.

Speaker 6 But anyway, so turns out I had the balls to do it.

Speaker 4 You had the feet long enough and everything. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 Got the car fitted to me.

Speaker 6 so it was it was definitely um there were times where I was too high too far forward too far back too far down the whole time and not the whole time but usually at the beginning of the season after you got fitted you'd figure that out very very quickly in the first sort of time that you got in the car and sometimes like I would be like

Speaker 6 working on the seat myself and like shaving it down and taking pieces out of it and

Speaker 6 very

Speaker 6 very manly of me

Speaker 5 but yeah fitting in what was your height and weight in your prime race car driving what how small were you uh i probably um i was i've i've i'm 5'1

Speaker 6 never really grew past

Speaker 5 i'm gonna guess that was gotta be like ninth grade and uh i've been like around 110 pounds-ish my whole life so so did you ever consider if the race car driving didn't turn out you'd be a jockey Did you ever think about being a jockey?

Speaker 6 Just kind of kidding, but you know, I mean, I have ridden a a horse before. It was like once I got into NASCAR, so it was later.

Speaker 6 And I think one of the speeds, there's like loping is sort of like a speed with horses. And it's kind of scary.
I'm not sure.

Speaker 6 I'm not sure I would have been okay with it. Those horses, every time I see a horse like running fast or going through water or just carrying someone fat on their back, I just think,

Speaker 6 I feel so bad for their legs. And then when they break them, they have to kill them.
And I'm like, I don't know. I just, it doesn't make sense.
Like

Speaker 4 with those little legs body good job dana bring up the sore subject um but also you know danica i don't know if you're part of this scam i think i was promoting something and we went to darlington maybe

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 4 there was a guy that would drive idiots like me

Speaker 6 around the to do a lap or something do you remember this guy's name it was something funny they're they're they they've probably got someone that was a driver or has been at some point in something something.

Speaker 4 By the way, Dana, when you're going around the whipping around the corner and they want you to be scared shitless, they said you don't have to be in it.

Speaker 4 Then when I got there, they go, no, get in with the guy. And I go, well, don't drive or anything.
It's a scam every step along the way.

Speaker 4 Crawl in the window, put on this suit that the hardest part is for scariest for me is because Danica and I are drivers. Dana, it's hard to explain, but I'll explain it to you.

Speaker 5 I'm following. I'm riveted.

Speaker 4 Okay, so you get in and you go, put on this fireproof suit. There won't be a fire, but when there is, this will block some of it for a few seconds.

Speaker 1 And I go, okay.

Speaker 4 And then they,

Speaker 4 I don't know if I'm claustrophobic. I did find out when they clip me in with 18 clips.
I go, let's just say we roll. How do we get the clips? And the guy's like, oh, I'll be long gone by then.

Speaker 4 I'm like, I know, but with me, when I'm in the car burning, there's so many clips. I lost track.
I go, good luck. And then when he goes around, he's going, I don't know how fast, 700.
Maybe I'm wrong.

Speaker 4 And

Speaker 5 then he hits the wall.

Speaker 4 And I think Danica would know.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And that's fantastic.

Speaker 4 It's the Darlington stripe. They do it on purpose to make you shit your pants.
It works.

Speaker 4 He hits the wall. So when we get out of the car, the whole door is kind of ripped.

Speaker 4 And I'm like, why is the guy, first of all, that's not good enough to be out there with the real people is the one with my life. And this has, there's something wrong.
And

Speaker 4 it was fun in quotes.

Speaker 6 Well, now you can say, like, I didn't pee my pants, but you can say you did shit shores when you were driving.

Speaker 4 And I found out once I did it once. Now I do it all the time

Speaker 4 because it was fun and I liked it. And

Speaker 4 which part am I talking about? The driving?

Speaker 1 Yeah, which part are you talking about?

Speaker 6 I've got a story about a driver that did shit his pants. It was at Washington, New York.

Speaker 6 He was sick and he absolutely sharded himself and he won the race.

Speaker 4 And he had to run around with it.

Speaker 6 And then he had to go change before going to Victory Lane.

Speaker 5 Anyway, I don't want to put this image in your head, but there are Olympic marathoners, world-class marathoners, who have,

Speaker 5 and there's no hiding that.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's our team.

Speaker 6 Now we have anyone has ever run for like long, long distance and

Speaker 6 known about this whole half-to-shit thing?

Speaker 5 I was a distance runner as a younger person, but

Speaker 5 I never saw it up close. There was folklore about it.

Speaker 4 Usually you're healthier then, but when you get older, I could see things falling apart. But

Speaker 1 we just had a runner on.

Speaker 6 We should have asked him. Oh, yeah, you should have because I ran the Boston Marathon a few years ago.

Speaker 6 I don't know why. My one bucket list item was to run a marathon.
And so,

Speaker 5 well, I don't know what's wrong with me.

Speaker 6 But my friend said, hey, I think I can get us into Boston. And I was like, yeah, cool.
So she did.

Speaker 6 And I had to do a lot of training in Arizona where it was like, you know, I would go as soon as like barely sunrise.

Speaker 6 What I didn't realize is I should have gone in the dark, but it'd be like 100 and 100 to 105 by the time I was finished. And there's something about the heat, too, that really makes you

Speaker 6 want to go.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 that may make sense.

Speaker 6 that either.

Speaker 4 Danica, I don't want to brag, but when I used to walk from McCormick Ranch to my friend's pool

Speaker 4 on like Lincoln and 60th, Dana, this sounds like a brag.

Speaker 4 I would wear just raw dog it, just shorts, no sunscreen, no hat, three miles so I can go in the pool. And that was in the summer when I was in high school.

Speaker 4 And that's all. Just bragging.
That was my Boston marathon.

Speaker 6 Barefoot, too? I see.

Speaker 1 Not full raw dog.

Speaker 4 I had some Stan Smiths on. Actually, this story is partially a lie.
Anyway, back to.

Speaker 1 you're on a roll. Let's finish.

Speaker 4 I know. I was excited because I was like, look at, because I grew up in Scottsdale baking and boiling.
So I know Danica's story checks out. And my mom's there now.

Speaker 4 And the dog, so she drives them around for a walk. For a walk, she puts them in the car and then she rolls the windows down.

Speaker 4 And then she drives around and lets them bark. She drives up to people and they bark at them and then she drives off.

Speaker 4 And if she sees, I don't know. That's my mom, but it's fun for her.
She's, you know, it's fun. I did it once with her.
I go, I want to go on one of these.

Speaker 4 And then she found where they had horses and she pulled up and then they bark at the horses. And it's.

Speaker 6 Did you bark at them too?

Speaker 4 I sort of was the referee because then the horses would come to the fence. And then I said, okay, this is obviously just for fun.
Everything's for fun here.

Speaker 4 Because the horses didn't get what was going on.

Speaker 4 But overall, it's fun in Arizona. Dana, you know.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 6 12 months are fun.

Speaker 4 Yes. That's what, you know, my buddy sells real estate there and he says, I say, how do you just talk people into living there? Cause everyone's fucking moving there.

Speaker 4 And he said, well, I say in Chicago, there's three or four months you can't go outside because of snow. It's just the opposite.
And I'm like,

Speaker 4 I guess that makes sense. I don't like it when it's freezing, but I grew up in Arizona.
So I kind of can take it when it's hot.

Speaker 4 I mean, Dana, you know that I had my steering wheel was steel.

Speaker 4 This is before I was rich, everybody.

Speaker 4 So I had a steering wheel that was steel, and then I had oven mitts when I got in to grab it because they were so hot.

Speaker 4 And then they really came in handy when I pulled that pot roast out of the glove compartment.

Speaker 1 But that's not why we're here. I really want to know

Speaker 6 what's going on with the rest of the car if this steering wheel was steel.

Speaker 4 Steering wheel was steel, Danica. You know, because we're in the driving biz.

Speaker 1 Also,

Speaker 4 Danica, do you have road rage in Scottsdale?

Speaker 1 Do you get out?

Speaker 4 Do you carry anything?

Speaker 6 I

Speaker 6 thank God there's so many lanes on the highway these days because you can pretty much maneuver. I absolutely use the HOV at any point in time, no matter how many people are in the car or not.

Speaker 6 Good job.

Speaker 6 And I always think to myself, if I get pulled over, I mean, it's lapsed now, but I'd be willing to use an expired one. If I pulled out like my FIA racing license along with my

Speaker 6 ID, how would that go?

Speaker 4 They would probably let you go. You've got a couple things going for you, and they might give you, but there's more crime going on out there.
I don't, like me, I'm like, I'm not the big fish guy.

Speaker 4 Like, let's, I know where you can focus some policing, so don't try to drag me in. But I'm easy,

Speaker 6 yeah, yeah. It seems like, seems like going, you know, 85 on the 101 is not really, you know, worth the time of day.
They should probably, there's some other areas that need help for sure.

Speaker 4 Yeah, that's, I've been on a lot of

Speaker 4 Yeah, you know, when they say,

Speaker 4 I get text people, hey, you know, like more like friends of friends, not like direct friends, but they go, hey, you're coming to

Speaker 4 Kansas City. So how do we get tickets?

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 1 that's a good question. Hey, how do you get tickets?

Speaker 4 And can I just buy them off you?

Speaker 4 Well,

Speaker 4 so you give me your visa and then I go buy them and then I rack the little visa thing and then I call, I don't know. No, I said, well, it's probably easier if you just.

Speaker 5 What about this? Like I was playing a casino in Oroville, California, and I

Speaker 5 told people in the Bay Area and my sister, who I'm really close with, I said, just don't come. Please don't come.

Speaker 5 Just don't, just don't come. I mean, don't worry.
You're not going to win.

Speaker 7 What's a horrible person?

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 4 it's because. Are you doing the same stuff?

Speaker 1 I go, well, don't come. No, I didn't say that.

Speaker 1 And there was a 40, it was in my hometown, basically.

Speaker 5 There were 45 people backstage.

Speaker 5 And it was always, you know, Bill Slicklow, and you remember Bobby Foplop.

Speaker 1 And it was Adam Frankman.

Speaker 5 I just want to do the show and go home.

Speaker 1 Anyway, but that.

Speaker 4 Everyone's having more fun than you.

Speaker 8 Well, let's see. Yeah, Saturday night.
I had

Speaker 8 a buddy from high school that texts me and he calls me texts me and then uh i was like hey i'm i'm at saturday night live and uh we're taping and he goes all right just call me after

Speaker 8 and then that was it

Speaker 8 just like all right no like even acknowledge you that i'm hosting just all right well just call me after yeah just like just Just call me right after.

Speaker 5 All right, yeah, I'll be done. I'm on SpaceX.
We're just going to go one loop around the world. Okay.

Speaker 1 Call me at 101 a.m.

Speaker 4 He's like, dude, I saw you're over. Call me.
What's up? Where have you been?

Speaker 1 Where have you been?

Speaker 5 Because of texting, you

Speaker 5 did you get reviews at 8.30? Sorry? At 8, 8,

Speaker 5 during the show, because it's on

Speaker 5 the East Coast, but I get reviews from the West Coast

Speaker 5 while the show is going because they're watching it live out there at 8.30.

Speaker 8 Yeah, you try not to look at your phone, but you always end up having like around update and cold play.

Speaker 8 You have a moment and you kind of can just see it you know i had a big day because so i'm a vanderbilt fan vanderbilt beat alabama in college football so it was a it's a as a big vanderbilt fan we they were number one in the country it's the biggest win we've ever had in all of our sports uh so i mean i got text about that more than sure even you know more than your goofy gig on snl

Speaker 8 yeah I mean, it was just all day. It was, you know, then people were just like, you better say something on Saturday night.
Like the pressure I was getting,

Speaker 8 you better acknowledge it.

Speaker 5 Like, just you know, and you know, we're lucky we got our guy there tonight, so you can get the word out, at least wear a t-shirt during the good nights.

Speaker 4 Man, fuck, silence is violence.

Speaker 5 Did you have a Vanderbilt t-shirt on that?

Speaker 8 No, no, I had uh,

Speaker 8 I wore a jacket that was like the

Speaker 8 that had the hurricane, that's all the states that were getting hit by the hurricane, just like uh being with them.

Speaker 4 Yeah, but uh, how do they sell that?

Speaker 1 They don't.

Speaker 4 Uh,

Speaker 4 that's

Speaker 1 By the way, the first hurricane, the first,

Speaker 4 the Asheville and that whole area, all the heat is taken off of that now, and that should be talked off for another year.

Speaker 4 It switches right over to,

Speaker 4 it's getting too sad.

Speaker 4 But yeah, anyway.

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Speaker 1 Pee wee shirt.

Speaker 1 That's cool.

Speaker 4 No one's making pee wee carvings.

Speaker 1 You have great fans.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 9 I don't have that many, but

Speaker 9 they're strong. They're small, but mighty.

Speaker 5 I just love them. I just have Garth bobbleheads.
Can I get one more? Can I get five more? Can I get 10 more? Cut it out, dude. Fuck you.
And then they start to fight.

Speaker 5 Just Garth. That's it.

Speaker 4 Dana, let's get to the important matter at hand, which is one girl on TikTok saying something about SNL girls, and then we all talk about it forever. It's pretty funny.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Okay.
Here we go.

Speaker 4 Sarah, give us your strong opinion about it, whatever that is.

Speaker 9 Here's the thing. Here's, here's, here's what, here's what.
Wait, let me make sure that my, the human hand is in the background.

Speaker 9 And I'll take my glasses off for this. That's important.
Literally, like,

Speaker 9 what?

Speaker 9 What?

Speaker 9 What is she smoking?

Speaker 9 Like,

Speaker 9 some of the most beautiful, I can't, what?

Speaker 9 It's like, listen, I'm not funny, but I'm good looking. You know what I mean? Like,

Speaker 9 the women that she's talking, like, she brings up women who are like literally drop dead, ba, ba, va, vo, gag, gag, gorgeous. Yeah.
And I was mad at myself for tweeting.

Speaker 9 I shouldn't have fucking said fucking anything because she said some shit for attention.

Speaker 9 And then I, and then I was sitting on the train. Well, I woke up in the morning and everyone texted me.
I woke up to none of my friends care if I live or die.

Speaker 9 But then I woke up like a hundred texts from my friend being like, ha ha,

Speaker 1 look at this. LOL.

Speaker 4 And so I was like, LOL means fuck you, by the way, when people text me that. They're like, did you see this?

Speaker 4 And you're like, it's not really LOL. It's more like, I want you to see this.

Speaker 9 Yeah, no, exactly. Like, one time, I woke up to text from my friend.
There was like a Reddit thread. I had like opened for a band in Central Park in 95-degree heat in the summer.

Speaker 9 And then there was like a whole Reddit thread of like teenagers telling me that I'm so unfunny that I should literally shoot my own head off. And that's what my friends send me.

Speaker 9 My friends don't send me like anything good.

Speaker 9 So, like,

Speaker 9 I was sitting on the train just being like, I don't know. I just fucking tweeted it and I immediately regretted tweeting it because it's like, she just wanted, that's what people want.

Speaker 9 They just want attention for one second.

Speaker 5 Yeah. It's a tricky one because if you protest too much, it's sort of like, hey, wait a minute, we are good looking.
You know, it's I know.

Speaker 9 And I didn't want it to come across as like defensive or like, yeah.

Speaker 9 And then people thought like I was legitimately upset.

Speaker 9 And I'm like, no, I'm just,

Speaker 9 I woke up like ready to say something hilarious about grieving ugly.

Speaker 4 Ugly was maybe the funniest thing I heard last week. Yeah, it was so funny.
And ugly does not,

Speaker 4 it's not out there a lot, that word, and I like it. I don't think I've ever heard it.

Speaker 1 It's a new word.

Speaker 9 That's why I did it. If I felt compelled to bring a new word into the lexicon, but ultimately I wish I didn't say anything because then it just made it a bigger deal.

Speaker 4 No, it's great. That's why we're calling you about it.
It's totally gone away. That's why we're calling you about it.

Speaker 9 Well, also, I'm like, this got more attention than it than like

Speaker 9 every time I tweet. Every time I tweet, like,

Speaker 9 every time I tweet, like, hey, everybody check out this sketch that I made with my friends.

Speaker 9 Hilarious, it gets like two and a half likes and like

Speaker 1 block, delete,

Speaker 1 yeah. By the way,

Speaker 4 I just saw

Speaker 4 happenstance.

Speaker 4 I saw a, I think there's a delay on me. I think I saw Kristen Wake, her monologue.
What a stunner. I mean, just off the top of my head, forget it.
And who cares?

Speaker 4 Already, there's so many combo platters on that show of just really pretty and hilariously funny. Funny's harder.
You can't go get surgery to be funnier. I mean, it's really.

Speaker 5 Hey, women,

Speaker 5 is it okay for funniness to add to a person's hotness? Not just men, but women as well.

Speaker 5 Because women will say, I like a man who's funny, but what about a man who likes women that are funny? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Have to be. Yeah, that's

Speaker 9 like Rodney Dangerfield is like the hottest guy who ever lived. Is he, was he a looker?

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 4 to me.

Speaker 1 No, you're right.

Speaker 5 Oh, I tell you, I'm hot, Johnny. I'm hot.

Speaker 1 I tell you, I'm hot.

Speaker 5 All he goes like me.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 5 so I have not. That's my worst impression.

Speaker 9 I get too much respect, too much respect entirely. Every time a photographer sees me, he takes a picture.

Speaker 1 Every time a woman sees me, she takes my pants off. I tell you, I get a lot of respect.

Speaker 5 How does she take your pants off? I mean.

Speaker 5 the whole thing is fascinating i just i just for a second wanted to ask you about uh generative ai or ai which also

Speaker 5 is people are telling us they didn't tell us about the world wide web how destructive that was going to be in terms of social media and you know that but what what how does that intersect with what you're thinking because obviously it needs massive energy and you know, apparently.

Speaker 5 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 5 But it also will become kind of like this alien brain that we control. Or what do you, I mean, because what do you, what's your thoughts on that?

Speaker 5 AI, how it integrates with all this, this, the secret government and all those people. If, if you control it, you control the world maybe?

Speaker 7 Well, it can be. You know what I'd say about technology? You know, I just make this simple.

Speaker 7 As an emergency doctor, I've seen a knife put butter on your bread and slit someone's throat or stab you through the heart. So it's the consciousness of who wields it, who has it.

Speaker 7 So the technology is neutral. It's what men do with it, what humans do with it, right? So what does humanity do with the new technology? Do we turn it into a weapon?

Speaker 7 Do we turn it into something malevolent? Do we use it for the good?

Speaker 7 And see, this gets into something that sounds very philosophical and airy fairy, but really the foundation of having a sustainable civilization is that we have to have advanced technology, but it has to be guided by a higher consciousness.

Speaker 7 You can call it higher spiritual consciousness, enlightenment,

Speaker 7 some greater interest besides your own, can I become another trillionaire kind of mindset.

Speaker 7 And I think that is the real crisis because in the 20th and early 20th century, our technologies have gotten ahead of our social and spiritual development.

Speaker 7 And that makes humans at a very dangerous place.

Speaker 7 Now, this is why one of the other projects I run is the Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, where we actually train people to make contact with these civilizations and vector or guide them into a sighting or a landing or a contact event.

Speaker 7 And there's a movie out called Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, and it outlines all of this. And it's a bit out there.

Speaker 1 People go, what the hell is this?

Speaker 7 But it has to do with using this this higher concepts in kind of what Neuralink's trying to do, but on a much higher scale of the consciousness field to interact with extraterrestrial guidance and communication systems through what the CIA called remote viewing, using consciousness to see remote remote.

Speaker 4 Remote viewing is crazy.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Well, I know that I know

Speaker 1 viewers, yeah.

Speaker 7 Ingo Swan and I were friends before he died, and he loved what we were doing with that because we were doing it for peaceful contact as opposed to trying to spy on the Soviet Union back when he was.

Speaker 7 But, you know, I know Russell Targ and all the remote viewers and the top CIE people who are currently working those programs, I know. And

Speaker 7 they're very positive about what we're trying to do using those concepts.

Speaker 7 in what's called entanglement in physics or non-locality to remote view and contact these extraterrestrial civilizations and make a peaceful outreach. By the way, we're going to do it.

Speaker 7 It's open to the public. You guys should come.
We're doing a thing in July in Temecula.

Speaker 4 Temecula, yes.

Speaker 7 Yeah, we're going to do that.

Speaker 7 I think there are only about 80 places left, but we're also going to stream it globally.

Speaker 1 So we're going to do this global

Speaker 7 CE5. There's an app, by the way, CE5 contact app that trains you in remote viewing and doing this.

Speaker 7 I'm going to do a thing with Demi Lovato's

Speaker 7 about this. It's so much fun.
This is way fun.

Speaker 5 Describe what remote viewing is just for a second, just in quick remote viewing.

Speaker 1 Sure. Okay.

Speaker 7 So, you know, it kind of gets back to what Ben Rich, who was the head of the Lockheed Skunk Work, said in 1995. And he said,

Speaker 7 Someone asked them about this whole UFO issue. He says, well, just remember, every point in space and time is connected instantaneously through this quantum field.

Speaker 7 Now, that's known as entanglement in quantum physics. The ultimate field of entanglement, of interconnectivity, is the consciousness field.

Speaker 7 Now, you and I think of consciousness as what we're thinking of. I'm not talking about that.
I'm talking about the faculty of being conscious itself and the experience. It's like in meditation.

Speaker 7 where you, because I was, before I was a medical doctor, I was a

Speaker 7 golden boy meditation teacher, went around the world teaching meditation in my first career.

Speaker 1 I have a long track.

Speaker 1 I learned, yeah, oh, yeah,

Speaker 7 all these people, you know, a lot of, I won't say who, a lot of celebrities I've taught meditation to, but we went around and we taught people how to go into that deep state.

Speaker 7 But remember, if you're in that deep state of quiet consciousness, you can awaken to another point in space or time. So you can see with your, say, third eye, a remote place in space or time.

Speaker 7 So the CIA made a routine program of that in the 70s, 80s, 90s. But it can be used for very good purposes too, besides spycraft.
It can be used for

Speaker 7 knowing things that you need to know, for big discoveries.

Speaker 7 Many of the big scientific discoveries, like the founder of organic chemistry, went into a dream state and saw the structure of the organic system.

Speaker 7 And that's true. So it's a really amazing adjunct.
It doesn't replace science or intellectual science. It's an adjunct.
It's complementary to it. So

Speaker 7 one of the things that we're teaching people is that the civilizations, I'll tell you, you want to hear a funny story.

Speaker 5 No, no.

Speaker 7 So I was with,

Speaker 7 you do a skid on Sarah.

Speaker 7 By the way, I loved it when you did Church Lady years ago.

Speaker 1 It's an ass national.

Speaker 1 I mean, that was my favorite. Dana,

Speaker 5 we like aliens better than we like Jesus.

Speaker 1 I think that was Dana.

Speaker 1 It was me.

Speaker 1 That was my all-time favorite. Anyway.

Speaker 1 Thank you.

Speaker 1 Talk about consciousness.

Speaker 1 I just want to insert this, Doctor.

Speaker 5 It's just, you're reminding me a little bit of John Lennon's song, Imagine.

Speaker 1 Yes. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 5 Which was basically a plea for higher consciousness,

Speaker 5 what you're talking about.

Speaker 5 And I do think if you can get it together, whoever does this, so aliens come down, kind of like the day the earth stood still, that will propel a lot of forward consciousness in terms of my religion, your religion, you know.

Speaker 5 So,

Speaker 1 you live in a fast-that's what we're doing, yeah.

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Speaker 4 I have a few questions.

Speaker 1 Just quickly, you did this roast with Tom.

Speaker 4 Did,

Speaker 4 okay, first of all, like when we did the roast, I did the Rob Lowe one, we didn't know each other's jokes ahead of time. Do you guys, did you guys know each other's jokes?

Speaker 1 No, we're not, no, but we, we would have to tell our jokes to the room,

Speaker 1 and then they didn't tell us if someone had a joke that they would say, like, ah, you can't use that one.

Speaker 4 Oh, it bumps with somebody, yeah, yeah, and to what room, writer's room, writer's room, yes,

Speaker 4 oh, you had to get up and say them?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I went to the comedy store and fucking performed my jokes.

Speaker 4 Oh, I should have gone down there.

Speaker 1 I was

Speaker 1 terrified thank god there was 15 like frat kids there that love football so i could say anything and they were gonna laugh but i was up there and i was reading my jokes off of paper and i did like 50 i did 12 minutes i wanted to like test jokes that's a lot yeah

Speaker 1 and it was it was i was so terrified it was it was really stepping outside of my comfort oh that makes you sick that's so scary to go up in front of people and read those yeah that's that's normal for real who wrote did you have someone write with with you did you have someone help write with you in your order they have roast writers i think there's i have my own team and then we worked with their team and we kind of formulated and threw a bunch of shit at the wall and then i went to the store and and said them all and kind of said all right this one's a good one they didn't like this one and it's very hard to say hey guys

Speaker 4 We're roasting Tom Bray. It's not the same exact scenario because they're ready for regular.

Speaker 4 Now, when you go to the roast, everyone's lasered in. This is about this, blah, blah, blah.
So I've seen like Nikki go in, okay, guys, here's what I'm doing. I'm hosting the MTV Awards.

Speaker 4 Picture green day here. It's just, it's just not the same.
You don't get the exact same reaction, but you get a feel like this one might work. So that's good.
And Rob, you did the same thing.

Speaker 4 I'm sorry. Did you say that?

Speaker 8 Yeah, mine was similar. I actually had like three different phone calls with the writers.
I just wanted to understand the feel of.

Speaker 8 you know, of the type of material that I had for Tom and the other people that were going to be there. And then they kind of wrote some jokes for me.

Speaker 8 I actually have a friend who's an absolute maniac who, when he's on fire, he's on fire. He can come up with anything.
So he wrote four of my jokes.

Speaker 8 And then I actually wrote four of my jokes as well. And then all the other jokes were from the writers.
So,

Speaker 8 you know, it was just a team effort. But at the end, once you have your whole script, you tell the writers what you're going to say.

Speaker 8 And then they figure it out, hey, you can't say that because someone else is already saying, so it wasn't repeated.

Speaker 5 How much fear

Speaker 5 compared to when you're starting a football

Speaker 5 doing public speaking, going to a podium, you got all these comedians. It's a global event.
I mean, I watch, it was pretty, it was an amazing bros.

Speaker 5 And you guys are coming out there and you're following people. I mean, where was your nerve level? I'm sure you couldn't compare it to athletics, but it's intense.

Speaker 5 It took me years to get used to doing it. It took me three years without being just terrified to do stand-up.

Speaker 1 Dude, I was, I mean, it was, it was really scary because we're football players. We're not comics.
And then you're following fucking pros.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Huge event.

Speaker 1 I'm so thankful I had that rep before

Speaker 1 at the store because it gave me like a rep of it. But I was definitely terrified just because

Speaker 1 that's not what we do.

Speaker 5 I know. That's what I was just asking.

Speaker 4 When the size of the crowd is bigger than normal stand-up, it's crazy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, there was 10,000. What was it? The forum? There's like, but the cool thing about it was you only saw the people.
You didn't see the crowd. You saw like the,

Speaker 1 they had

Speaker 1 a bunch of

Speaker 1 tables for people that were going to be made fun of or associated with people. So you saw a lot of your friends in the crowd.
I didn't, you know, so that that was kind of cool.

Speaker 5 And also, everyone knows you're not a professional stand-up. So there is usually goodwill.
You know, because they understand it's not what you do for a living right now.

Speaker 5 But how was your nerve level, Rob?

Speaker 8 You weren't.

Speaker 8 Yeah, we're crazy psychos, man that's why we won so many championships together is that julian wants to be the best even though that's not his profession i wanted to be the best up there even though that's not my profession i mean bill wants to be the best you know when you sign up for something you know we want to be the best and we're super competitive and that's why i feel like that whole group right there we won so many championships and why we went to the playoffs every single year because of that competitive nature but my nerves were my nerves were cooking a little bit that's why between julian you know myself and kevin Hart, we were all three in a row, and we literally finished a bottle of tequila before we even went up there.

Speaker 8 And that definitely helped out because when I got up there, that tequila just went, it went, it went zoop, and it was just game on, baby.

Speaker 5 And also, wait, man, so before you went out, you had at least five shots, six shots.

Speaker 1 On stage, probably

Speaker 5 we were drinking. By the time he got to the podium, how many shots of tequila?

Speaker 8 I don't know, but Jules, what?

Speaker 1 Probably six to seven.

Speaker 1 Seven? Okay.

Speaker 8 Yeah, six to seven.

Speaker 1 i pre i had a prerequisite of my cocktail before so i i tried my cocktail of what i was going to do before at the store so i could dial in my

Speaker 1 wow you're

Speaker 4 i have to say that the nerves erase a lot of your buzz sometimes so you're really drunker than you think because You're so fucking giddy

Speaker 4 with all the energy and the adrenaline that you go, I don't even know if I'm drunk. I'm just

Speaker 5 if you're adrenaline.

Speaker 8 That's what happened to me. And also, it kind of sucked waiting your turn because once your turn was over you know you killed it it felt so good just to watch rest of the show like it was like

Speaker 4 or you get something stepped on that's what i was scared because nikki i thought was first

Speaker 4 and uh when someone goes before and they do jokes i'm like oh my god i'd be going fuck that steps on this joke oh do i got to take that one out and who do you tell it's live you're like do i text someone like get rid of that joke it bumps exactly with kevin hart's joke it's the same thing that's the hard part that's where the writers have to make sure unless you're ad-libbing or something but I'm sure ad-libs come out because it's live and just in the moment you want to add a tagline or something.

Speaker 1 I was watching, so I was really amazed with the professionalism of all the comics that went up there and with Kevin Hart and watching him, how he was off the teleprompter, like how he would hit a couple of things on the prompter, then ad-lib and then go back to the prompter.

Speaker 1 Scary. I was watching who was reading their jokes and who wasn't.
And Rob went up there

Speaker 1 and I'm sitting there looking at his prompter and then I'm looking and he went completely rogue he just started going on his own rant it was crazy it was like fun to see who was using their prompter and who wasn't and Rob went full rogue on the prompter and just started going rob on and then you don't know where you're coming back to because they're like the prompter goes down and they go are we is this this part and then you're like because you know live A lot of those roasts, like the one I did, they can, they trim it from three hours down to like an hour and a half.

Speaker 4 So they're cutting all the the fat out, all the mistakes. It's more fun to see the mistakes and see what's really happening.

Speaker 1 Definitely.

Speaker 4 I think so. Yeah.
Did anything shock you? Did you hear jokes that like you were like, oh shit, we're doing something.

Speaker 5 Were your feelings hurt? Or did you ever observe anyone else who you felt like their feelings were hurt? Because that's the live wire reality show aspect of roast.

Speaker 5 You're laughing, but then I've seen roasts. where, whoa, that person's really wounded right now.
You know, I guess that's part of it.

Speaker 8 But but did you witness or yourselves did ever you know did you get your feelings hurt at all no I don't think anyone got their feelings hurt and that's what made that roast that much more special and it also kind of makes you stronger as a person as well if you can just take those beatings and lashings in front of millions of people and in front of a crowd of 20 plus thousand people in front of all your good friends as well I mean it makes you strong mentally and that's why I loved it I mean I can go around anywhere now whatever people say about me it actually that roast literally literally kind of freaked me up i don't care what people say call me an idiot call me dumb like whatever i was in front of millions of people and that happened like so it's no big deal and i think that's what made the show so special too is everyone took the beating and no one was actually truly hurt about it that's what the really that's what the locker room is i mean no one's safe in the locker room everyone's getting made fun of it was just public

Speaker 4 Well, when I did the roast, they go, like, it's hard to see someone walk up and go, you know, everyone says Spade has huge ears.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, wait, what's going on?

Speaker 4 Wait, what does everyone say? Because you're never hearing everything people are saying. So whenever, when they start a joke, I think we're all in agreement.

Speaker 4 And then it's like some horrible thing about you. And you go, and you're trying to brace, like, oh, okay, that was too much.
I'm going to mark that down. I got to talk to them after.

Speaker 4 I got to mark that one down because there's so many coming at you. You just go, holy shit.
That's why I never did it for so long because I'm too much of a pussy to take it.

Speaker 4 It's just so out of left field.

Speaker 1 I think it's crazy to hear how you analyze

Speaker 1 the

Speaker 1 show. Like, we don't think about that.
You're sitting, you guys are pros. So you're sitting there like, oh, he hit that.
So I'm going to fucking bring this to him. Oh, yeah.
I want to go up early.

Speaker 1 That's a deal breaker.

Speaker 4 They go, I go, put me up early. Because by the time, like,

Speaker 4 Andrew Schultz got on, he has great jokes, but it's hard to just get the effect when you've heard. You're numb by this point.

Speaker 5 Nikki had the best spot. I think she was third or fourth.

Speaker 1 Kevin Hart warmed him up.

Speaker 5 People were very good.

Speaker 5 And then there's a wave that she caught and she was incredibly prepared. I mean, she worked like for six weeks or something, night after night, taping, recording.

Speaker 5 I have a question for you, too. Oh, boy.
I saw this video, this girl, and she goes, I'm a furry. And then she goes, here's Here's how I talk to my friends.
So if I'm happy, I'm like, meow.

Speaker 5 If I'm angry, I go,

Speaker 1 meow.

Speaker 5 If I'm the anyway, do you think it, do you think that

Speaker 5 human beings that identify as cats are actually cats?

Speaker 4 I don't, but do you?

Speaker 5 I ran into someone who said, my pronouns are they, them. And I said, my pronouns are, what's up, motherfucker?

Speaker 5 Well, those are my pronouns. What's up, motherfucker?

Speaker 4 John's are poo-poo-pee-pee.

Speaker 4 No.

Speaker 5 John's pronouns are

Speaker 5 sir and lord.

Speaker 4 Sir, lord.

Speaker 1 Mine are and

Speaker 5 they sound effective.

Speaker 5 I just know going up and says, What are your pronouns?

Speaker 1 I'd be, huh?

Speaker 1 Huh? What are your, I go, what?

Speaker 5 I don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 4 What do you call yourself?

Speaker 1 John.

Speaker 5 Listen, our transphobic much.

Speaker 1 Our viewers. No, I just don't.
I don't. It's like, what?

Speaker 4 I've never thought about it.

Speaker 1 We got three left. Second.

Speaker 1 All right. Well, I'd love to hear the end of that story.
I'm on court. You apparently mock people who think they're a dog or a cat.

Speaker 1 I met a woman

Speaker 1 with a visitor.

Speaker 5 I had a date with a woman once, and

Speaker 5 she said she was a cat,

Speaker 5 and she opened her shirt, and she had six nipples.

Speaker 4 And I said, Do you want to get spaded?

Speaker 1 Put your feet.

Speaker 5 The one John Lovetts on a date with a woman he finds very attractive. You will soon find out that she's a pussy cat.

Speaker 5 This is an imitation my friend would always do. This is a cat's butthole.

Speaker 1 Meow.

Speaker 5 How old are you?

Speaker 1 How old was he? Two?

Speaker 5 We've got to have a raspberry count. Anyone making this sound?

Speaker 5 We're probably double ditches. Ditches? Oh, and bitches.
Okay. Well, John Lovitz has been our guest today.

Speaker 4 The debate was great last night. We'll say it again.

Speaker 1 Debate was great.

Speaker 5 Harvey doesn't identify as a cat. He identifies as a pussy.

Speaker 5 For those listening, John is beside himself with joy. He's going in for the close-up with the big eyes and a huge grin.

Speaker 1 Huge grin.

Speaker 4 I'm doing my cat in the camera again.

Speaker 4 The ring camera.

Speaker 5 David Spade has a disease.

Speaker 1 It's called smallpox.

Speaker 4 Let's end on that one. That's not bad.

Speaker 5 That's a pretty good one, John. I don't know how you think of this stuff.

Speaker 5 All right.

Speaker 1 Thanks, buddy.

Speaker 4 This has been a presentation of Odyssey Superfly. It's executive produced by Dana Carvey and David Spade.

Speaker 4 Jenna Weiss-Berman of Odyssey, Heather Santoro, and Greg Holtzman. Hope you liked it.