The Adam Friedland Show Podcast - Episode 32

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It's the Adam Friedland Show podcast,

hosted by Adam Friedland and Nick Mullen.

How you doing, Nick?

I'm all right.

Are we starting?

Yeah, we just started.

Okay.

Yep.

We're here live at the studio in New York City, Manhattan area, New York City.

One of the five boroughs, one of the loveliest boroughs.

It's a winter day.

It's fully winter, Nick.

It's in the 30s.

It's chilly.

Our bones are chilly.

Why are you doing like a don't look at my face kind of thing?

Why are you doing it like this?

I was just trying to do ahead.

What's going on?

Guys, thanks.

We said it on the premium episode.

Thank you to everyone that watched you're the dragon.

Of course, it does say the year of the dragon on the show logo, as Nick made clear.

The correct name is You're of the Dragon.

Thank you to everyone who watched

Nick's new special.

Shout out to you guys.

We're getting a great response on it.

We're pretty excited about it.

Thanks.

And if you're a new listener of the show from Year of the Dragon, we also do a podcast, and this is what you're watching right now.

And we also have a talk show.

So, to the however many people that listen to,

this is the logo of the podcast that you're listening.

We have multiple verticals here at Adam Freelance Show Incorporated.

I think the way, because it's still people have trouble understanding the difference, is I'm I'm going to

build

some kind of table that says the show.

Yeah.

But it says podcast, and then we'll get different shares for the podcast.

Uh-huh.

And we should do different light, a different lighting setup.

Okay.

Yeah.

Well, the distinction of the suit also,

that's another visual distinction.

Eric Andre's suit.

Yeah, yeah.

It's not.

It's actually my father's suit.

He had it before any

before that guy was alive, actually.

When your dad dad was the same color, it's the same color.

When your dad had a talk show.

No, he didn't have a talk show.

Oh, you know, it's the man with the suit.

Oh, it's just a gray suit.

It's just a gray suit.

Oh, okay.

Oh, you could have mentioned this maybe nine months ago to me.

Maybe you'd have been like, yeah, get a different suit or something, perhaps.

Wow.

Because now you're saying it's the Eric Andre suit.

Well, that's just what you've always called it.

From the beginning, you were like, I have to have

it.

You were like, I have to get an Eric Andre suit.

We have to get it.

be black.

You were like, people need to know that this is the Eric Andrew.

The people need to know it's Eric Andre.

It is true.

I said, I don't know, Adam.

I thought maybe we should try to do our own thing.

And you said, What do you talk?

What is our own thing?

He talked me down from the idea of.

You were like, I literally have never

come up with a single.

I don't even know what it means to come up with my own idea.

Yeah, he did talk me down from the idea of calling the show the Eric Andre show.

It would have been tacky.

You were like, nobody's ever done that before.

I was like, Eric Andre did it.

And you were like, literally, when?

Yeah.

When?

No, listen, I don't watch.

And I'm like, I think you stole that from Eric Andre.

You're like, I didn't even say that.

I don't watch things.

How am I supposed to know?

And then you started screaming.

I didn't scream.

You're like, oh.

That's a singing.

That's singing.

No, you're a screaming.

That's singing.

You're screaming at the top of your head.

Okay, would you tell the Vienna Boys choir that

they're screaming?

I don't even, what's it?

O de joy?

What is it, Vienna Boys?

I'm thinking of a high-pitched choral singing.

Oh!

That's a scream or a sing to you.

I don't know.

You can call it whatever you wanted, but you started doing that.

So Christmas is right around the corner.

Dave quit.

No, that's not true.

Dave did not quit.

Dave did not quit.

David.

I don't know.

Dave, something else, how about Dave?

What does it quit?

He's just screaming at me, and then I'm like, I don't like that.

And you're like, he keeps saying it's singing, but he's screaming at me.

No, i did sing at him a couple times i did sing at him but it was not screaming for for sure and it was not in a high-pitched voice it was um you know you know go to sleep go to sleep why is your hair all like matted down matted down it looks like you put shampoo in your hair and then didn't wash it out i don't know

i wear a hat matted down i wore a hat on the way here maybe i have hat head maybe

What should I put a little bit more volume in my hair today or something?

I don't know.

Just like mush down.

I mushed it with a hat, bro.

You know, I wear it.

I'm just asking.

You know,

listen, the bigger the show gets, the more

attention we get.

So Hanukkah is on Friday.

Christmas is a couple weeks away.

So today we're talking about our favorite

gift options for the year.

Is that right?

That I would like?

Yeah, that you would like.

like.

I don't know.

I don't really think there's anything.

If I want something, I just go get it.

And then I've I kind of the first two years of the podcast, I got all the things that I wanted.

PS5?

PS4?

PS5 was the last of the things.

You got a OLED TV?

I do not have OLED TV.

What is yours?

I have a

S Sony Z9D,

which is a F-A-L-D display TV.

We've been over this a bunch.

Sorry?

Well, you got a television?

You don't know anything about TVs.

You'll read Wirecutter for a week and you'll be like,

I know everything about fucking blenders.

And it's like,

there's a whole world of people

that read these reviews all the time.

They're involved in the world.

And you now, because you decided it's time for you to have an air fryer,

I know, dude, it's like the sickest one I've recognized.

I did get a new one.

An air fryer?

I got like a new toaster of an air fryer combo.

Yeah, right.

Yeah, exactly.

Exactly.

You got a combo.

I got a cyber Monday.

You got a combo unit, and you're like, this is the best one.

I didn't check

cyber.

I didn't check

Wirecutter on that one.

I got to say, Wirecutter does not have a good hit rate.

I got to say, 50% of the stuff I've gotten that they've recommended, probably crap.

And I don't understand the amount of time they have.

in like they're like, we have 7,000 experts.

What was that?

That website originally it was like how to steal cable or something.

Was that what it was?

Oh, like cutting the cutting the

cutting the wire.

Oh, that makes sense.

I never put that together in my mind.

Yeah, I think it was like digital like T V antenna reviews or something.

Really?

'Cause when when they switched over from old broadcast T V to the new digital shit that kind of like ruined the experience of broadcast television,

which used to be it's like fuzzy and you gotta play with the yeah, the bunny ears.

Yeah, yeah, we used to have that at our house growing up.

Yeah, I mean, everybody did.

We're old.

No, no, a lot of people's pairs had cable, a lot of people's parents paid their bills on time, you know.

Anyways,

then when they switched it over to the new shit, then it's like you didn't have the right reception, then you would just get like green squares or whatever instead of the fuzz or it would like stop or glitch out.

Yeah.

And then a lot of, you know, know, they added channels, but then also the guide, it was presented as there was like, well, I don't know if it was wire cutter, but people would be like, well, check out this hack.

You don't even need cable.

You can get all these channels for free.

And it's like, yeah, that's just network television.

They already had that.

It's like, stop paying for gas by fucking riding the bus or walking work.

Yeah.

And bounce TV as well.

Yeah.

Have you ever watched any of those channels, like 7.3 and stuff?

It's just pretty much law and order SVU reruns all day long.

There's like a black one that's like I have cable now.

I don't have cable.

I do have a digital antenna actually, but I don't really use it.

I just use

login.

I pay for streaming services and stuff.

And then I can watch events for free.

Or not for free.

I pay for it, but then I could

watch them over stream.

But where I my internet not to work, I do have a digital antenna.

But it does kind of suck.

You do actually have to kind of move it around.

But it gets glitchy.

Oh, it's on.

I'm sorry.

What?

I didn't mean to put it on the...

We'll talk about that later.

Yeah, later.

We'll talk about that shit later.

Anyway,

yeah, so we're talking Christmas because so you feel like you have everything you want.

Yeah, but what it would be good gifts for people?

Yeah, so like a lot of these people don't have good relationships.

I'll steal a recommendation and it's a recommendation from

whichever one was the pedophile guy on Mythbusters.

Okay.

Who recommended

an optical center punch.

What is that?

It's like a bomb sight center punch.

What is a center punch?

A center punch is like if you need to put a drill hole in something, beforehand you use a center punch so that the bit centers

centers.

Also, it has like a laser that goes on the wall?

There's no laser.

It's like a little bomb sight you look through.

Oh.

And it makes a mark on the wall?

It does not make a mark on the wall.

No.

Instead of just using your eye and hitting a center punch, it's got like a

little glass tube that you can look through

and then it magnifies the area underneath the cup and then once it's centered you pull the glass out put the center punch in and then you

hit it so that's my recommendation also so it's just but that's just passed on from the

the myth buster was that one of the things you predicted correctly what that it was a that they were pedophiles i don't know if i predicted that you don't think you did let me see Mythbuster

Jamie?

Is that his name?

No.

Is it Jamie or Adam?

Adam is the...

Couldn't have been Adam.

That guy's got a really awesome name.

Adam, which one is pedophile?

Which one is Pedophile?

And he, so...

He gave this recommendation after he caught the case, or this is something he's been recommending for a while.

I'm pretty confused about what you're saying.

The Mistbusters I guess didn't like each other.

Oh

really?

Mm-hmm.

Which one is pedophile?

I can't find this now.

The information is not.

I think it's the Adam one.

Adam suggested our Adam Ginsburg.

He suggested that

an answer to our

to our problem with our brain

to

how we've lost our sharpness

intellectually.

Mythbuster star explains how the co-host survived 14 seasons without getting along.

We're not friends.

He said that after the other guy was a pedophile?

I don't know which one is a pedophile.

I've told you that multiple times.

I thought you googled which one is pedophile.

He did not give me an answer.

Really?

So maybe neither of them are, and we're kind of making some claims that are unfair.

It's called optical center punch.

I don't know what else to tell you.

Which one recommended it?

I don't know, but as you notice,

the show's logo is presented to you on this beautiful

graphite-colored sea salt frame.

Yes, that is correct.

That is correct.

This nice texture to it.

There's like a tactile thing I'm getting out of this.

Yeah.

I'll touch it.

You tell people what it is.

No, it is nice.

It has like a while I'm touching it, you can tell people what it is.

What is that?

Oh, look,

look at this.

Alright, folks, so today's episode is we were talking about holiday gifts.

The holidays are coming around,

and it's all about connecting with loved ones.

There's no better way to do that than with a digital picture frame from Aura Frames.

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This is one of the ones they got right.

And it's easy to see why.

You can upload your favorite pics of the family to one frame, relive all those happy moments, or share big news, like the addition of

like a new addition of the family, perhaps?

Nick,

that could be a good idea.

You give your parents a picture of this, and then you have your new adopted son, picture of him.

They open it up, They say, who the hell is that?

You say, that's my son that I've legally adopted.

Your father, he puts his hands over his mouth, he starts leaping, tears coming down his face.

There you go.

Throw that one in there.

There he is.

You're adopted.

You want to text it to me?

You're adopted.

Text it to me.

Yeah.

All right, so I'll show you how easy it is.

You have the Aura Frame app.

Nick is going to text me this picture.

I'm connected to the app, unfortunately.

so

yeah we had Adam try out the dude so so listen like folks I'm really bad at at phones and apps you know that right

so look how easy it is for even a

guy like me to use so Nick has just sent me a picture of his new adopted son I have added it

to

the aura frame app.

And now

here we have it.

Nick's adopted son.

So you want to practice?

Let's just do a practice.

Nick, you have.

I want you to put it.

I'll send you more pictures to add in there.

I want, no, but I want you to put it like this.

I'm going to play your father.

I'm going to play your father and your happy family.

Okay, say, guys, happy holidays.

Holidays are all about love, et cetera, et cetera.

And I want to show you something.

I got you this.

Happy Hanukkah.

I've gotten you this

picture frame now now

now nick of our son nick what the hell so my my son he's a he's a comedian folks um so what the hell you

what the hell you get me this uh this picture this uh this guy this little kid this little guy for this is our new adopted family member

you gotta

Well, you got it.

You got it.

I told if you want you want to do a whole bit, I sent you pictures to put in there.

I got it.

If you skipped a step or you put them in there, all right.

Clear out the other ones, put the new ones in.

Okay, all right, all right, let's let's take that again,

let's take that again.

Um,

um,

here, we're gonna

take these off of the slideshow,

all right.

And

Nick just sent me a couple

new pictures.

So right now, what I'm doing is I'm showing you

how the hell easy it is to use this.

I just added two new photos to the frame, and those should be active now, Nick.

So then you have...

Who the now, Nick, who the hell is that?

This is Chapo Trap House host Will Manor.

It is a friend of mine.

The camera that is our friend Will.

Yeah, it's Will Manner.

And, you know,

it's nice to keep in touch with your friends.

Sometimes

you can't talk to them on the phone.

So you get a nice picture of them when you're our friend.

It's been in a while, you know, and just.

I gotta say, this doesn't really look like a digital image.

There is something that looks like not a digital image.

It does look like a photograph to some extent.

Maybe I'm a stupid guy.

But that communicates in my mind like a photograph in the lighting right now.

I think there's maybe minimal backlight or something maybe minimal backlight it kind of seems like

now when you go to this one there's a heart that comes up I don't know

well

we love him

long press

shared by Adam

so these are a picture of our friend Will and then Will and then that's your son my son and that's Will

and that's your son and back to your son seems like it's a little you've randomized this stuff.

I don't understand why it's not in an order.

I'm going to have to fuss with the settings, guys.

So this is basically that's how easy it is to use.

You have an app on your phone.

It's connected via Bluetooth.

And then we can have pictures and memories with us all day long.

I'm sure we can time out how long each photograph is up.

and when it when it's random or whether or not it's randomized guys

uh wirecutter says this is the best digital photo frame they can't be wrong They have experts over there.

So if it's not personal enough, you could even upload a video message to play.

Do you know that?

So should you want to send me a video that I can maybe upload on that?

All right.

I mean, I guess, yeah, I'll try and find a video to send to you.

I mean, we could show it.

On short notice, I'll try to find the video.

Well, it doesn't have to be short.

I mean, I could look for a video too.

I mean,

no, I mean, we're mid.

No, it's fine.

Doing something here, and now you're talking about, oh, we'll just send a video.

Well, you know, send me a video.

We show how that works.

I don't know.

I think that's a good idea.

Here, I got some videos up.

All right, put a video in there.

These are called aura frames, by the way, everybody.

Aura frames.

Aura.

Aura.

That's what I'm saying.

Aura.

Aura.

Aura.

You say aura.

It's aura frames.

Pronunciation guide.

So here's a video.

I don't know.

So here's a video of me.

We'll do this one, huh?

I'll put this up on my aura frames.

Put this on Aura.

Here.

So I've prepared it, added it

here, and then uh

do you have a video, Nick?

You have video?

Mm-hmm.

Alright, um

and I'm going back to so I've uploaded it to the Aura Frames app.

Where is it?

Whatever.

So you can put a video in it.

We'll show you the next time they advertise with us.

You can play a video message on the frame as soon as they plug it in.

Oh, okay.

So, Nick, this is what you're going to want to do.

You're going to want to make a video.

Say, Mom, Dad, I've got news for you.

It's the holidays, right?

Here we go.

Put this one in there.

Okay.

Send that to me.

I'm trying.

But the fun trick is they can have this in the box.

You put the video message in it as a gift, they plug it in, then you say, Mom, Dad,

this is uh

oh, that's a beautiful video.

Where is this from?

Ginsburg, did you take this on your phone?

Where was this in Brazil?

That's cool.

So, they're daytime owls.

Okay, so here, I got a couple more.

Just put the one I sent you in, Adam.

Okay.

Let's see.

So you wanna...

So we put those in videos.

And

unfortunately, it's not saving to my camera.

Well,

on today's day, it's saving like.

So this is

what date is that Nick?

I don't know man.

Just play the video

Just put the video on

photos, okay?

Just put the video I sent you on

So it's okay, so that's uh so okay, so I'm going through my videos right now

This is a video Nick sent me

and then put that on there.

Okay, so it's not.

This is a problem with my phone, not with the app.

Okay, but here's a video.

It's actually not even a problem with your phone.

It's a problem with.

They call that user error.

Yeah, it's user error.

That happens with me quite frequently.

So this is now.

So I put the taking the video that Nick has sent me.

I've now uploaded it to the Aura Frames app, and

here we go.

Here it is.

And now it should be.

Are there speakers on here?

It says loading.

It's loading right now.

So obviously this is.

Yes, there are.

There's a speaker in the back.

There's a speaker in the back.

So how do we turn the volume off on that?

Okay, I touch this.

We don't both need to touch this thing.

All right.

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Awesome.

All right.

I watched Saw 1 last night.

Was it scary for you?

Well, I mean, it's kind of gross, but yeah, I forgot how much fun that first movie is.

What is it?

I might watch Saw 2 tonight.

Yeah?

Yeah.

I watched Chinatown.

I rewatched Chinatown for like the tenth time.

Okay, what does that have to do with Saw?

We're just talking about what movies we've been watching.

Alright, do you have anything to say about re-watching Chinatown?

Uh this time around I was like

I know the I know what that's all about.

Okay, so nothing.

Anyways, I watched Saw.

I didn't realize the guy in the room is the guy that wrote the movie.

Really?

Yeah.

Really?

And the reason it's like a guy with like brain cancer is because he was like a neurotic and he was convinced that he had brain cancer.

Really?

Yeah.

And then he was like, well,

what would you do if you found out you had brain cancer?

And I guess his instinct was I would kill people that didn't take their life

if they didn't appreciate being alive.

Yeah.

And

then, so, yeah, it was like just like, and then he wrote the movie.

He sounds like a real sick guy.

And the director is his friend who's Chinese.

And they they were Australian.

He's one of those Chinese-Australian guys.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I was like, all right.

Yeah.

And you're like, oh, I didn't expect that.

Let me get my shoes off here.

I didn't expect that accent.

How do we track any dirt into the house?

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, you know, that's a real, that's a real curveball when you hear that accent coming out.

Oh, I'll tell you, what I can't stand is anti-Asian racism.

Yeah.

It's something that really,

really gets on my nerves.

Yeah, yeah.

You're like, yeah, I guess it would.

It would if you were Asian and Australian, especially with all the racism they have going on over there.

Is that a racist country?

It's a pretty damn racist country.

But yeah, I remember when I was there, I was like, oh, I realized that this is like

they were like

they're closer to Asia, so of course they have more Asian immigrants than we do, almost, you know?

There used to be a camera place

when I would like PA and pick up camera equipment and I don't I can't remember where it was somewhere around here actually

but one of the camera technicians was one of those guys Asian Australian guy and he'd be like all right this one's all ready to go and I'd be like ah

that's bizarre yeah it's like it's it's like when you're in Chinatown and you see a guy with like a real like New York accent but he's wearing all like traditional Chinese stuff kind of

you don't ever really see that

sometimes.

Yeah, no.

I mean it's and it's different than that even.

It's like it is it's jarring and I'm trying to think what like a

another

you know like when a car has the wrong horn it's like a lakuka ratcha.

Yeah.

No, like a lakuka ratcha horn.

You're like, what?

Or like an awuga when somebody gets a novelty.

That's what I was trying to do, but my voice came out with

and you didn't just say a wooga.

Owooga.

Yeah.

Were that like in the kind of Dick Tracy days, everyone had a wooga going around?

That's what a horn sounded like.

That's how racist America was.

Because it was, it was the car, was just saying that.

I thought a wooga was more of a horny noise.

No, it was the n-word.

No, I think a wooga was like.

No, you would use it.

It'd be like, oh, look out.

See, you couldn't make it up.

Why didn't you just say a wooga?

What?

Why don't you just say a wooga?

That's what it sounded like.

Yeah.

I did say a wooga a million times and then to demonstrate that.

That's what I was trying to do.

I was trying to do the real wugah, but what came out was

yeah, which is way off.

Which is way off.

I understand.

I'm not.

So I was thinking, I was just saying before, Adam Ginsburg might, he was suggested that we might have long COVID.

I don't think I have long COVID.

I think we might have the woman disease.

You're saying something.

I think that this is, I think this might be a problem with our cognition.

You couldn't do something, and then you go, you couldn't do something, and then you also

did something wrong.

You did something wrong that led you to demonstrating that you can't do something, right?

And then I did something correctly, and then after that.

Or I did the right thing, and then after that, did a thing correctly.

And you acted as if I had done something incorrectly, but also that I did it in an inappropriate or inopportune time.

Both of those are inaccurate.

And now you're saying we both have long COVID in response to you trying to drag me down to the next one.

We're in it together with the long COVID.

And

we're going to be fighting this disease.

I'm not going to, I will not go silent into that good night.

Nick, listen, listen, we have a long lives.

We have our whole lives ahead of us.

We have a long life ahead of us.

I can't even speak, man, because of the long COVIDs.

My speech stuff has cleared up.

It has?

Yes.

Why did it clear up?

I don't know.

It's like I just haven't been stumbling over words anymore.

But I think for me, it was always

like health anxiety.

I can tell when my head's like, oh, you have...

this type of cancer.

And then you would write a movie about

what would you do?

What would your saw be if you thought you had this type of cancer?

And you're like, oh, I think I have this pain in my liver, right?

But I'm also like, okay, well, I know I'm under a lot of stress and I know I

will just convince myself of something.

So no matter how real it feels or how many symptoms I have,

I know that it's just my fucking mind convincing me of one problem because there's other things

that I'm not like, you know, like I just can't address or fix just at the moment because I'm too busy.

I've been known as eloquent in the past.

What?

I've been referred to as eloquent in the past.

Yeah, elegant.

Eloquent.

Yeah, people would

they were grooming you.

No, people were telling me I'm eloquent.

They were considering you an egg, I guess, in the

yeah, they sit on me.

You know, and

the egg is the term that I believe they use in the grooming community?

No, not in the grooming community.

the the

um anyways so today's episode is also brought to you by what's it called

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We don't do any of the shipping ourselves.

Let's put it this way.

You're going into e-commerce, and I'll tell you something, I did e-commerce myself.

The Adam Friedland Show shirts, I think that was a waste of money.

Yeah,

we've sold about 30 shirts, I think.

I mean, for real, though, I think that was a waste.

I think it's

easy my cut of what I spent on that back because I did not think this I think I think we I think

I said to you yarn I do know because they're a really stupid idea but people wore those two pro-Palestine rallies maybe three people did and that was important to show the show's logo on a Jew first of all that's solidarity second of all you're getting the name of the show out there okay third so listen we're paying for that yeah but then why not just buy three of them and give them to people because I don't know who's going to those rallies and buy a thousand of them I don't know who's going to those rallies you got to remember you got to send them out you got to send them out.

My point is this.

Maybe you want to get into e-commerce.

Our friends at Ridge Wallet,

which, you know,

they don't advertise on the show anymore, but only because we haven't asked them to.

And I think it's kind of outgrown podcast at this point.

But,

you know,

that guy called me up just to try to tell you, hey, you should get back into t-shirts because he loves e-commerce.

When did he call you up?

I don't know, like six months ago.

Oh, okay.

I've just had a a lot of trouble with print shops.

But when

I was doing it, like ShipStation is the, that's like the industry standard.

Yes.

If you're in e-commerce,

you kind of already know this.

So it's interesting that they're even advertising.

Well, I mean, I was surprised when I saw that they they that these reads came in because like it's there's I mean you have to use ship station.

It would be like

it would be like if you, I mean, it's not, I don't, I don't know if they even have competition.

It's just like, and if they do, nobody uses it.

ShipStation is the way to go.

It's definitely better than Spotify shipping.

If you get into e-commerce, Shopify.

What did I say?

Spotify?

Yeah, whatever.

Long COVID.

Fucking long.

Long COVID.

No, I always, even years ago, I always confused those two.

Yeah, long COVID.

All right.

I mean,

but in fact, it's not that because

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Yeah,

the way most of these places work is, you know, you buy...

you know, orders come in and then just give you a list of the order and what they bought.

But let's say you find some success, you know, you're new to e-commerce e-commerce and you make,

I don't know, let's say you make fucking chicken tikka masala.

You're selling that through the mail.

No one's ever thought of that.

Let me sell Indian food through the mail.

And,

you know, it's because it's a brilliant idea for a business.

No one's ever thought of it before.

You get 3,000 orders.

And, you know, you're doing fulfillment yourself.

And you're just looking at like a fucking list of orders.

That could could be a real headache Shopify it's a pain in the ass you get ship station you can also just set yourself up with like a one of those little

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The weights are calculated, everything's done.

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It's fucking, it's like, you know, when I started selling those shirts, it feels like, oh, I'm just printing money.

I spend a day like doing the art, which I enjoy doing.

I enjoy drawing the shirt.

Send it off to the print shop.

They send me, you know, I would usually buy like maybe 1,500 to 2,500 shirts of whatever type.

And then you put it up for sale.

And at the time, people were buying them.

So you get like, you know, all the money comes in immediately.

So you have a hit, you're looking at $45,000.

You're like, like wow But then it's like bell to bell for seven eight days in a row you wear I was waking up at 5 a.m.

And I would be bagging shirts and like labeling them and everything.

Yeah, and I would fuck it up all the time because I have like spreadsheets I was trying to do trying to figure out you had a ruler out you had to get everything right.

Well, not totally mess it up.

Yeah, just trying to trying to do it with just the built-in

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Yeah, because I mean, it's not, it's like a necessary.

You have to have it.

Well, that's what I mean.

That's why I said it's weird that they're even advertising because it's like having like business insurance.

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It's the holiday season, so this is a good time to advertise.

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I love those shipping labels.

I love printing them at home.

I love doing all the like.

It's peaceful to you.

Yeah.

There's a Zen.

uh it's like doing a raking uh the well in my head i just hear the like bump bump bump bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum dum dun dun dun dun dun dum dum dum dum dum dun dun dun dun yeah i love playing factory yeah

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See, he's our friend.

It really does look nice.

Yeah.

It doesn't look like you got this at CVS for your grandma.

It's a very nice thing.

We have some nice ads this week.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Nice companies.

Good companies.

They've been nice to us.

Good companies.

Not some shady, you know, whatever the fuck.

Yeah.

Some nice stuff.

Have you ever eaten any broccoli sprouts?

No.

I try to just get like the right serving of vegetables a day, and usually I do a green smoothie, but I've been reading that broccoli sprouts are the way to go.

But they're,

they look like, you know, like alfalfa sprouts?

They look the same, but they're, they're different.

Uh-huh.

I mean, they're broccoli sprouts.

Where do you get them?

Like, it's like healthy?

You get them at Whole Foods sometimes, but I guess you have to, like, the best way, you have to just do it yourself.

You get them.

You grow them in mason jars, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It takes like a week.

They grow pretty quick.

You have to buy seeds?

You buy the seeds, you put the seeds in, pour filtered water in there, drain them out, just get them wet, and then, you know, leave the jar upside down.

You don't need mud or anything in there.

No, no mud, no soil.

And then, but yeah, apparently they're supposed to be really good for you.

Really?

Wait, they stick to the bottom of the jar, and then you put them upside down?

Well, you kind of want to let it like drain, but they stick to the sides and stuff.

And then they just grow out of the sides?

Yeah, maybe that'll be my little project.

And then you put it in the windowsill so it gets done?

You don't even need that.

I don't think.

Yeah.

Really?

Yeah.

Well, because they're sprouts.

And it's good for you?

Yeah, it's good for you.

What does it do?

Makes your crap nice?

No, it's like the antioxidants and stuff.

What is it?

I never knew what an antioxidant.

Well, there's things that they're free radicals.

They oxidize or something, and then that makes your cells more likely to turn into cancer.

So you if you have antioxidants then it doesn't oxidize your cells.

I don't even like free radicals I thought they got the music in you.

No?

Very funny.

Yeah.

Good job.

Reference.

This is a band, yeah.

Courtney Love and Marilyn Madison

will kick your asses.

You remember that?

Yeah.

Yeah, very good job.

Sorry?

No, I mean, you know, it's yeah, you're just

I thought it was interesting what you were saying.

I interrupted.

Exactly

exactly

correct.

Yeah.

What?

No, it's you have the free radicals or

just like the band, Free Brad.

What if what if the thing we were talking about was actually the ba the band with the exact same name?

Yeah.

And said uh,

you know,

the kind that about cell.

Anyways, I don't know.

Instead of what?

Do you care or do you not care?

Do you want to know about it or not?

You just said that they're free radicals that could be cancer causing, so you need antioxidants to counteract them.

Something like that.

I don't know.

And they got the music in them.

Now, do you want to say some more of the lyrics, too?

I only know the Courtney Love in Maryland.

Maryland Madison, there comes them.

Beat your asses.

Do you know any of them?

Huh?

Do you know the lyrics?

It's a good song.

You get what you give.

You get what you give.

Oh, you get what you give.

All right.

Yeah.

That's the title of the song.

i don't remember

i don't know i just remember they were in the mall yeah they were rocking it's a good song it's also that was a good era i feel like that's an era that you you have some sort of nostalgia

yeah i don't know why i don't but yeah those years which late 90s no it's even past that it's like specifically

99 99 it's the year 2000 really it's just the year 2000 it's music that babysitters of ours would have listened to.

I didn't have a babysitter.

I wouldn't even listen to that music.

It's just the.

I think it, what year is that?

You've got the probably 2000, 2001.

And you

get what you give song.

1998 is when it came out.

Okay.

But the year I'm thinking of is 2000.

That's why I like

that.

Steal My Sunshine.

No, that restaurant in fucking Dumbo.

Oh, the iMac restaurant.

The iMac restaurant.

Yeah.

Yeah, something about, I don't know, like those years, it was, and like commercials were different.

What were they like?

I don't know.

They weren't that good.

What?

They were a lot more local commercials.

Well, I was, you know, the dancing fucking bitch commercial, like that kind of stuff.

What dancing bitch?

in the the mitsubishi eclipse the uh the one they made fun of on the chappelle show yeah the zoom zoom yeah i don't know you hate zoom zoom i no not zoom zoom there's a mitsubishi eclipse commercial now you're talking about the mazda zoom zoom commercial from 1996 you know goddamn well they're different things

sorry they're completely different i know yeah i know it's just the knowing like oh yeah oh i know what you're talking about and then immediately wrong.

Just completely wrong.

Sorry.

Just completely wrong, right out of the dark.

Oh, he's so wrong.

Yeah, no, we all know.

He's so wrong.

Oh, yeah.

Like

the Dodge Durango commercial with the dad from Gilmore Girls, right?

I don't like that one.

No, not like that, Adam.

Was there a dad from Gilmore Girls?

Yes.

Oh, yeah.

Laura Lee's dad.

Yeah.

What's his name?

Herman.

The dad from Richie Rich, too.

Yeah, we just talked about him, Edward Herman.

Yes.

He was in a Dodge Durango commercial?

He was the voice voice of Dodge after

Dodge Dodge I forget what they called that

era but yeah Dodge is done it doesn't exist it's just ram trucks yeah

you know when the Prowler came out those that era you would you drive a Plymouth Prowler only if it had the attached trailer and had a trailer for it they had a trailer that it was very like a rare accessory, but they had a trailer that looked like the back of the Dodge Prowler.

And it had a towing package that you could bring it with so you could go camping in your Dodge Prowler.

Wait, it was a Dodge?

I thought it was a Plymouth.

That's the same.

Dodge, Plymouth, Chrysler.

It's all the same.

Oh, it's GM.

Mopar.

Mopar?

It's not GM.

What's the Mopar?

Mopar is Chrysler, Dodge, Plymouth.

Well, I've never heard of that.

Yeah, it's Mopar.

GM is Chevy.

Chevy, GMC.

Yeah, Chevy, GMC, Oldsmobile, Buick.

Basically everything else except Ford.

And Ford is Ford, Lincoln, Mercury.

Oh, Chrysler was...

Chrysler is...

Mopar is Chrysler.

Chrysler is Mopar.

Yeah.

And then they merged with Mercedes-Benz.

And then

now that's all...

What is it?

Fucking...

The Chinese, probably, huh?

Yeah,

the Chinese just sold Volvo.

They got rid of their shares.

Really?

Yeah.

So I don't have a Chinese card anymore?

Volvo is not, yeah, Volvo is not doing well.

Why not?

I don't know.

Everyone loves those damn things.

China said we're out.

Really?

Oh, no.

Probably because

that new structure of lease to own thing they did was a failure.

Was it?

I think so.

I don't think people did it.

Well, I still don't have my fucking Volvo because it's still at the shop after it was wiped out by a Hasidic.

It's probably because you mentioned you had one on the show, and then people are like, oh, these are lame now.

Volvos suck.

I thought they were luxury cars, but they're for

they're an understated form of luxury.

Kind of.

Could you imagine if um

IKEA and Prada did a collab?

Pretty much what you're getting, the interior of a new

Volvo.

You don't like understated luxury?

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I love you.

I miss everybody.

I miss my life, and I feel...

What life?

I used to have a life.

What?

What did you do?

Well, most of it was sort of internal.

I mean, I spent a lot of time alone, but I had a rich internal world that I could retire to.

and now I feel like that's gone.

There's just nothing inside.

It's not that there's nothing, but it's mostly.

You go inside, what's the room?

What's your bedroom of your mind looking like mostly practical stuff?

I exist sort of in the city now rather than

Marvin's room.

Marvin's Playground.

That's what I called it.

That's what I called the world I occupied.

Marvin's room.

Marvin's Playground.

So there it was kind of like a toon town kind of situation.

Yeah, except the toons were all black artists and myself.

So it was a word that rhymed.

I would visualize,

yeah, just

a racist word.

Not why do you think it would be racist?

Because you're saying that you only hung out, it was like a black village that you lived in, or it was like Basqueat, and they would all encourage me.

James Baldwin,

Ava Duvernay,

Tyler Perry, Steve Harvey,

the whole gang.

The whole gang was there.

Chikak Shakur.

James Baldwin in particular.

James Baldwin.

Yeah, he was like, you're one of the greatest artists I've ever met.

He said, I don't think he talked about that.

That's what he sounded like.

No, I don't think he did.

You know, Lemon and Tommy.

I think he talked like this.

When I met you, Lemon, I thought.

I think you're thinking of...

I think you're thinking of Jack Donahue from 30 Rock.

No, that's a character that James Baldwin played.

No, that wasn't.

You're thinking of Alec Baldwin.

That's a character that James Baldwin played.

No, no.

James Baldwin is also one of Alec Baldwin's characters.

No, it's not.

No, it's not.

He was a gay black writer from

olden days.

That was the character.

And

he had debates with

William Buckley.

The shadow knows.

No, that's not James Baldwin.

There's a big James Baldwin line.

Why?

What does shadow mean in that context?

Well, he had a ring that he would give people.

Does he exist in the shadows?

And if he saved your life, you know, you'd get the ring.

Really?

Yeah.

Like an engagement ring or something like that?

No, it was a ring that would glow when you had to contact the shadow, and then you would have to contact them through a vacuum tube postal system.

Really?

Yeah.

I love.

Which they still have in Prague.

Did you know that?

What?

Pneumatic tubes?

Pneumatic tube post-a-tube.

Everyone's house has one?

I think most of the businesses in Prague still have, they have the infrastructure for that.

It's the only city still that has one.

But they used to have that?

Yeah, they had it in Manhattan.

It would go for, you could send something from the Chrysler to the

this building probably at some point back, you know, when this, because this building's been around a hundred years.

Whatever business was in here, I'd like to imagine, you know what I've been doing to make myself happy?

I've been convincing myself reincarnation is real.

Oh, yeah.

Which I did believe in as a child.

No one told me about it.

I just assumed it existed.

Now you come back as another guy or like as an animal?

I thought that I had lived another life

when I was a small child.

And what was what was your impression of what that life was?

Just see it.

You could feel it, you know.

But it's a very comforting thought.

That's probably the of any

it's weird that only Hindus

and I guess by extension the the Indian types of Buddhists rather than

the Japanese self-flagellating type of Buddhists.

I think like yoga bitches also probably that's also Indian.

That's like a Indian, they're just borrowed, they're like appropriating Indian.

What the fuck do you think yoga is?

Yeah, but what I'm saying is like a California smoothie type of lady.

She also is like, when I come back, in my past life.

Uh-huh.

Yeah, they love talking like that.

Well, it also implies, you know, you know, the people that you've lost, you'll see them again.

Well, and maybe you won't see them again.

Maybe they're going to be like a on your bug on your windshield.

Like your mom could be a baby right now somewhere, you know, and you guys could meet again

under favorable terms.

I don't mean like in a bad way.

Yeah, but there's so many people on earth, you know, she'd be like this.

Yeah, but you don't know.

She could come back.

I don't meet a lot of babies, though.

I know, but that's what it might

not be immediately.

Yeah.

In In five years or something, there could be like a five-year-old that's like waiting in line for ice cream.

Excuse me.

And while the mom is like

my grandma?

No, the mom of the five-year-old is like, we don't have money for ice cream.

We ain't got,

and then you're like,

for some reason, I want to pay for this ice cream.

And then you do it, and the five-year-old's like, well, thank you.

And you don't know, but like, you get a feeling, and you're like, oh, I just, I bought, I bought my mom who's now a black child ice cream.

And it makes up for all the racism, too.

You just think you're trying to make up for it.

Yeah, you just think you think.

But, you know, that's a pleasant thought, right?

Think about it.

Convince your, close your eyes for a second and imagine.

I'm like a little emotional just here.

It's nice, right?

It is really nice.

Yeah, it's no, that's what I mean.

I mean, that is.

And who knows?

It's like, it could be

a billion Indian people think it's real.

And the mom that doesn't have the money?

That's just some piece of shit.

That's just a shit mom piece of shit.

But what if she,

you know, what if I be like, I think you should be my grandma who's also dead?

That would be weird.

I don't think it comes back like that.

I think you just get, you get, you get like ships crossing, you know?

That's nice.

Ships crossing.

Yeah,

yeah.

Yeah.

I don't think it's.

You just get a little feeling.

It's not even like you know.

Oh my god, that's weird.

It's just a nice, warm feeling.

Yeah.

That's fleeting.

Yeah, isn't that nice?

Yeah.

And that would be the application to you.

And me, I'm thinking like I come back as some sort of warlord that kills.

Yeah.

Because I've always, you know, it's not going to happen in this lifetime.

You're just going to be EDME.

I was trying to remember.

I was trying to remember,

it got stuck in my head when I had a fever.

That line from the Master

where.

Where at the end of the movie he goes, Freddie, I remember where we know each other.

We worked together in Paris

at the Pidgin Postal Service.

And we would send unguided balloons with messages during a siege of the city by Prussian forces during the coldest winter on record.

And we sent 62 balloons, and only two went missing.

He tells him that.

And I had that in my head, and I'm like, what the fuck movie is that from?

I couldn't remember.

And what was coming to my head, and I was like sick in bed, and I would like fall asleep, and I'd wake up.

I'm like, what movie is that from?

And it's like, I thought the things I was thinking, I was like, is it fucking radio?

I was like, is it Michael?

I thought maybe it was Michael.

Michael,

the Angel movie.

Yeah.

Is it Dreamcatcher?

Because I was seeing like.

Is it a walk to remember?

Well, I was seeing like a main character that's magical but like disabled in some way, you know, Green Mile, something like that.

And then, and then I woke up.

I'm like, oh, it's Patton.

It's the movie Patton.

It has to be Patton because Patton believed in past lives.

He did.

Yes.

Really?

General Patton thought he had been a like in

just in every war.

Oh, that's cool.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He was just the sickest fighter in every war.

Yeah.

Well, there's that killing in the movie where they go out and he was like, I was here

thousands of years ago.

I don't remember that movie at all.

Yeah, I just remember the flag.

The speech.

Yeah.

That movie's awesome.

Yeah, George C.

Scott.

Yeah.

I want to see it again.

But I thought it was worth a a reason.

I thought it had come at the end.

I was like, is that at the end of the movie?

Does he say it to his assistant?

Because Patton believed in reincarnation.

But it was the master.

It was the master.

But then,

yeah, I mean,

you know, you think about it, it is a very comforting thought.

It is a really nice thought.

So you think you still believe in that or no?

Yeah, why not?

Yeah, why not?

Decide.

Yeah, fuck it.

That could be a nice thing to

give a person a little comfort.

If you're feeling pretty crummy yeah yeah it's better than heaven to be honest with you way better heaven forever right

what the hell is that well it's also too you still have to wait it's like oh i'll see you again yeah you know if you have somebody that you lost you can say oh i'll see you again it necessarily requires that you die as well right you know And it's like, okay, maybe.

Also, if I go to heaven, I'm not a good guy.

Yeah.

Or like, you could have a wife and she dies before you, but you don't know that she had a boyfriend that really meant a lot to her and then he tragically dies.

He's there.

And then he's already up there and then he's fucking her.

And you're like so excited to see her.

And she's like, oh, I didn't tell you about this guy from college who had a motorcycle accident.

But he would pick me up on this motorcycle.

He was actually on the way to pick me up one day.

He was kind of a rebel without a cause.

You get up there, you've been living, you hadn't gotten any pussy since your wife died 40 years, because that was the love of your life.

And you couldn't imagine being with anyone else.

And then you get up there and fucking James Dee is

banging her.

Mm-hmm.

That's no heaven I want to go to.

Oh, yeah, it's better to just be somebody you...

That's no heaven I want to go to.

You feel inspired to

engage in some kind of charity towards, and you don't know why.

And it's because.

Yeah, just for sure.

It was your landlord that

used to talk about movies with who shot himself in the head.

Yeah.

But he was a good guy.

Yeah, you're like, oh, that's fucking, that's Larry.

Yeah.

And you didn't have to pay rent the next month.

Oh, yeah, no.

You got away with rent for like two and a half months.

Well, you're the one that found him.

Because you found him.

And his kids were like, yeah, we're kind of

seen it in 30 years.

He's just owned this shitty apartment.

And I was like, well, I guess I was more of a son to him than you could have ever been.

Yeah, yeah.

I saw his brains on a wall.

Where the hell were you?

Right.

And they were like, he was a bad father.

He actually abused us.

Yeah.

I was like, that doesn't mean that I'm not a better son.

You know, he never abused me.

Oh.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No, reincarnation is nice.

And we both like the movie Gladiator.

We watched it together once.

Yeah, what other things can I convince myself of?

Because we just spend all day lying to yourself, anyways.

Yeah, sure.

You know?

Yeah.

That's the only way you get through your day is by lying to yourself.

Right.

Why not do it with something harmless?

It's nice like that.

Yeah, that seems really sweet.

Yeah.

like uh and

like it couldn't make you uh a gen well i guess in the instance of patent i guess maybe it could make you a genocidal maniac right

i'm saying like the thought of like reincarnation that could be really sweet but then if you're like i'm the i'm the best soldier in every war or even in terms of because doesn't it like uh zijak says that buddhism is a uh

sociopathic religion why well because you don't because there's no possession you don't have to take any responsibility for anything in the material world.

Right, right, right, right.

Yeah.

Is that right?

I kind of just guessed that.

Yeah, essentially.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay.

Well, not, yeah, not possession.

It leads people to inaction.

Yeah, yeah.

You know, it's like, why not?

They're like, not getting mad.

And with the Japanese, you know, you did have people that were Zen practitioners.

And then there was also that video of like a supposed Zen master in Israel that's giving instruction to the IDF on how to kill people and enjoy it.

Why?

I don't know.

Is he like a guy from Tibet doing that?

Or a Jewish guy that's

really good at Zen.

That is such a bullshit path for Jews.

They love doing that.

A lot of the

middle-aged Jews will be like, yeah.

They're like, oh,

actually, I'm very spiritual.

I'm getting into the East recently.

Yeah.

Actually, yes.

But I don't know if Zen's really heavy on the reincarnation stuff or even.

It's more that like Tibetan Indian stuff.

I don't know what the terms for it are, but I don't freaking know.

Yeah, but yeah,

you could say, if like, you know,

why I like to think about it, because then you don't really have to worry about time.

It's like, oh, there's all these things I want to do.

Half of them are just, oh, it would be nice if I had

enough money to do this, you know,

provide this.

And,

you know, it's like, okay, well, maybe if I keep working this way, I'll be able to do that when I'm 55 years old.

I'm

probably 20 years away from death.

But then if you're like, oh, I have multiple,

you can just come back and then start at zero.

Yeah, start at zero.

Start at zero.

Yeah.

You know?

And then spend another 55 years.

It's called reincarnation capitalism.

Yeah.

But no, I mean, that's a good, that's a perfect example.

Well, it is.

Of why, because it breeds, you know, like being,

you know, like

being beaten down by nihilistic or whatever.

If you are of the

thinking that

capitalism is evil, right?

Let's say that's like an evil or immoral way to structure society.

And if you did believe in reincarnation, then it would be like, well, there's no such thing as wealth inequality because, you know, you could just come back as somebody whose parents are rich.

You could just come back as, it's like this equalizer.

Right.

You know, like a like a caste system,

right?

Like, isn't the whole, I don't really know anything about it, but isn't the whole idea is like if you were, what are those low, the unstinkables?

What's the lowest one?

Um, the unsmellables.

The Ferengi?

The Ferengi.

Well, that's the one above it.

Who is it?

Oh, the Jedi are at the top.

The Jedi.

Right.

Well, the Jedi are like the.

And then it's the baristas.

The Berengi.

The Baristas.

The Baristas.

The Baristas.

And then the Ferengi.

and then the poo people, the poo-poo, the poo-poo boys, the poo guys, this lumdog poo-poo boys, yeah, the port-a-potty kind of the port-a-potty

Hindus and the port-a-potty house, and then below that is the unstinkables, yeah, unstinkable.

And then below that is like a cow, I guess.

Yeah, a cow.

And that's the most, that's the most sacred animal.

Yeah, yeah.

And then the bottom animal is the stink bug.

The stink bug.

Yeah.

What?

What?

Nothing, dude.

Why did you make a silly face of the camera?

No, I just saw the light and it took my distracted

me.

But, you know, you have a system like that where there's like, I guess, you know, it's like, oh, if you do a good job in this life, then you can be reborn into this other class.

Yeah.

Which the classes are, I'm assuming, determined by, like,

you know, like your material circumstances.

Correct.

Right.

Yeah.

So it's like, it's like okay We have this fixed social strata But the sense of justice is built into the idea of reincarnation So in that way it could be harmful.

Yeah, it's harmful because yeah, but it's only harmful if it's not real Which it could be yeah, if it's a lie that you're telling your work

who are losing their arms right because of your unsafe practices at your factory at your doo-doo-doo-doo-doo

factory yeah if you're yeah if you're not paying anybody and you're like look listen i'm fucking i'm gonna i'm gonna be i'm gonna be dead in 20 years i'm coming back as a doo-doo guy.

I know that.

I'm going to be a doo-doo bug.

I'm going to know I'm going to be a doo-doo.

I'm coming back as a stink bug, brother.

And

I'm going to be this little fucking just shit-eating bug.

And you are going to be a Ferengi.

Yeah.

And I'm cheating on my wife right now because she's going to come back as a woman that doesn't get cheated on.

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, it's going to be all right next time around.

And the girl I'm cheating on her with, disgusting.

Nasty.

But she's going to be hot next time.

She's going to be hot next time.

And guess who's trying to live in her pussy when they're a bug?

Yeah, and I'm trying to meet her when she's a baby and I'm a bug.

I'm a bug.

And I go, is that a pussy?

One day when I'm a bug and she's a baby, then we can truly be together.

Yes.

All right, I think is that it?

Oh, Nick.

I just got some word on some nice news.

What?

It's snowing outside.

Is it?

Yeah, let's go see the snow.

Oh, yeah, I read that it was supposed to snow.

See, that's a sign.

That's a sign.

Everything, I'm getting into signs.

My girlfriend just texted me snowing.

Let's go outside and look at the snow.

Okay, well, thanks.

Bye, guys.

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