Ep 175 | Is THIS the Most DANGEROUS Man in Comedy? | Dave Landau | The Glenn Beck Podcast

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Really, since the 1970s, you were a comedian that made it if you were on Saturday Night Live.

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These days, however, when he watches SNL,

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And he wouldn't make the roster because he's actually funny.

He is extraordinarily irreverent, to say the least.

The phrase comedian's comedian gets overused.

You know, Bill Hicks is a comedian's comedian.

It usually means that the comedian is too edgy or subversive for non-comedians to understand.

I'm not a comedian,

but I understand him and he is still comedian's comedian.

He is

brilliant writing.

Unbelievably offensive, but brilliant.

His latest special, a Prison 10,

is all the proof that you need on that.

This man does not care about any lines.

His comedy is so dark

that you're kind of like, well, the apocalypse isn't so bad.

The world is ending, and there's nothing funny about it.

Well, until you watch his special, and then it's a little funny.

There's no telling

how his jokes are going to end,

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If you're a fan of Steven Crowder, you'll find this nice to reminisce with an old friend.

You will recognize him.

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Your perception of me, do you think I would be a fan of your comedy or not?

maybe the old you

i'm such a fan i am such a fan

but the

good wholesome trying to be better part of me hates me for it you know i watch i'm so conflicted because you are

which my humor has always been

very dark

You are the darkest cavern I've ever experienced.

Thank you.

Your comedy is so dark.

You said,

you were talking about, you know, end of the world, and you brought up your son.

You know, do you remember?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Can you just

express this?

Yeah, where he just says, you know, dad, you know what I want to be when I grow up.

And I said, it doesn't matter.

You know, it's

just explaining to him how the world's going to end.

It's going to end.

It just doesn't.

Yeah.

Good night, son.

It just doesn't matter.

Yeah, he's seven.

He seeks the day.

So funny.

And then,

you know,

what the good part of me hates is that I just love all of your humor.

And you are

offensive in every possible way.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Because I don't know why.

No, but it is.

You know it is.

Yeah, of course.

Because that's, I mean, that's,

is that what you're striving for?

Or you don't know.

That's the odd part.

Like, I never want to look at, because it's not necessarily that it's dirty.

It's more that it's filthy.

It's no, it's honest.

Yes.

And that's the way that I look at it: a lot of times, honesty is going to be that way.

So I don't necessarily go to be offensive.

I just go for the joke.

But in today's world,

I mean,

it is.

There wasn't one.

Sometimes, Sometimes the way you craft jokes, it's like, oh, that's going to piss off people.

Oh, here's another group of people.

That's going to piss off.

All in the same joke.

You'll have like three levels of people that just want to set you on fire.

Yes.

What I like to do is I like to, like the end of the joke with a tag.

Yes.

I like to find eight more things that are more offensive that make the beginning offensive part less offensive.

And that's what I enjoy is watching a crowd.

Oh, my gosh.

Because you get an honest break, though, from people.

Right.

Because if they're cracking at something like that, you know that there's this honest part of them that actually enjoys that.

Right.

Because there's so much we have to hide now in our society and like what we think is funny.

Yeah, why not just say it?

Why not just have fun?

Because even with that.

But it's not.

I mean, the things you say are true, but some of the things are

really

offensive and it's not as true as it is.

I want to be able to laugh at that.

Yes.

You know,

it's clearly, at least I hope some of them are jokes, but it's clearly a joke.

But

you give us permission to laugh, and nobody is doing that.

At least, I mean, Chappelle does it, but

I think you're a level down from LeChelle, I mean, into the dark hole.

You're a level down.

You are more dangerous with your comedy than I think anybody else out there.

Thank you so much.

Honestly, and I worked with Chappelle a few times when I started, and he's one of my

Yeah, yeah, and this was when he was like I opened for him for 7,000 people where it was, you know, people were just going crazy, but they were all heckling it.

It was at a time when he was supposedly going insane.

And then when he, you know, when I remember those days, and then he awoke, right?

And then when he came back, it was amazing.

And it was, and now he's.

What was the difference when he, when he left?

Because I remember this.

He, didn't he sign to do a show?

And everybody thought he was crazy because

he left behind all that money and possible stardom.

And I remember thinking, he is either crazy or I really like him because he knows the price of his soul and he just sold out.

Yeah, he always said, he said his mom told him she made 30 grand a year as a teacher.

He said, if I can make that as a comic, I'm happy.

Everything else is icing on the cake.

So when they offered him more money and more money to do things that he didn't agree with and censor him, which is part of his contract to not do, he walked.

And then when he came back, he did exactly what he wanted to do.

And now he's

oddly enough, a white supremacist, and people attack him and try to stab him on stage.

And it's like, he's only arguably one of the top five greatest comedians ever who we try to take down.

Oh, it's amazing.

So he, yeah, he's such a hero to me, you know.

And with the darkness, that's just my life.

That's who I am.

So if I wasn't talking about something that is dark, or I take a nugget of truth that like my wife and I, or my uh, my son and I, when we're sitting at our house pre-COVID, is one of the jokes.

And he wants, I have to teach him about death because I take him to meet my parents at the cemetery.

And, you know, one of the lines is they still vote.

And, you know, he gets in the cemetery.

And then he's like, oh, you get him a goldfish.

That's how they learn about death.

You flush them.

So instead, I get him a cat.

Oh, my gosh.

You know, and I'm like, he completely clogged up our toilets.

And we were sitting there.

You know, like, we have to tell you,

it's just so perfectly crafted.

And thank you.

And

for somebody who is, I think, a connoisseur of dark comedy,

there's just nobody better at it than you.

That means the world.

Seriously, thank you.

Yeah, you're welcome.

So,

do you know who Kurt Garon is?

I don't.

Okay, you should.

Okay.

He was

the biggest, most powerful star in the 1930s.

And

he would go to, he was a movie star, but he was also a comedian.

He was kind of like Tom Hanks

of his day, you know, or Will Farrow.

Everybody loved him.

And he went into the cabarets and he started doing Nazi jokes from like 1928 to 1933.

Right.

He ended up.

A little edgy.

Yeah, he ended up in a concentration camp

and was killed.

It was a horrible, horrible, horrible story.

But if things go poorly, if we don't turn around.

Good news.

That could be you.

I know.

I'm excited for it.

I'm excited for the comedian camps.

Right.

Are we getting further away from that?

Because

I don't mean that literally, but I I mean maybe, you know, we're going maybe.

But

there was no one.

There was,

I kept saying, where's Lenny Bruce?

Is there not one Lenny Bruce that is willing to stand up to this?

No one, it seemed.

And now

it's a renaissance.

Yes.

Well, and you have people, and you know, if they've been on the show, you have Jim Brewer,

you have people that are willing to step up, and I think it's not even so much to make a stand as much as it is talk about the things that are going on.

And even when I talk about, for example, trans,

I do it from a point of I talk about me.

Like, if I was to compete as a woman,

it would make no difference whatsoever.

And I'm able to point that out where I just talk about, you know, I'm at the end of the swimming pool, my balls are hanging out.

They're like, who's this fat girl?

I think she has emphysema, no sports skills whatsoever.

You know, and there's a way to point out the lunacy of everything that's happening, you know, without necessarily being antagonistic in the sense of you have to be offended, I think, in certain ways because you're choosing to be.

You're choosing to be a part of something that is brainwashed to be offensive.

You know, the currency of today is to be offended.

The currency today is to be a victim.

It makes no sense to me at all.

It goes against what I think human nature is.

So eventually, I think, yeah, we're going to have to

either either comics are going to have to step up, start growing some balls, and go back to being comics that are actually

doing what they're supposed to do, which is genuinely making people laugh with their own beliefs and their own jokes.

And also,

you know, artists, but I think comedians more so, are usually the ones that bring us into revolution.

And they're the ones who bring us out of the dark side because of that.

You know what I mean?

Because

they poke at our conscience.

George Carlin was brilliant at that.

100% right out of Vietnam, too.

Right.

And

he made you think, you'd laugh your ass off, but you'd go,

maybe he's right on that.

Maybe I should recon, you know, he had a message to him.

I hate messages, but he did it well.

He did it really well.

And

there we went for a while where

there there was no one willing to stick their neck out yeah for a long time well and carlin died in 08 and some of the stuff he said you could do on stage right now and it would be just as important oh yeah that's what's that's what's so crazy about his last special and with carlin it It wasn't so much about a message.

He just wasn't pandering to anybody.

So he was saying, this is what's wrong with everybody.

This is what's wrong with all humanity.

And this is the problem.

And he went out and he said it first.

It's why Pryor is so well liked because he brought attention to a group of people that weren't really being, you know,

shined on in any mainstream light other than Cosby, who was very, very likable up until some incident.

Something happened.

I watched that with my kids when they were younger, and I felt so bad.

I kept watching it and going, when do I tell them?

When I found out

my wife was pregnant, I bought that.

I didn't buy it.

I used my dad's copy of Fatherhood that he had had, and I read it on the plane.

And then three days later, I was like, oh,

that's good.

Maybe I shouldn't take all the advice.

I'll never forget.

My kids, they'd watch Cosby, you know, for 10 years.

We watched the whole thing.

And,

you know, episode two, I'm saying to my wife, I'm not sure if this is a good idea because at some point, we have to tell them who he is.

And I remember after

all of the episodes, I'm like, okay,

this is a good way and a good time to talk about

you may not,

you may like someone's work,

but the person,

and they were like,

he did what?

He raped

Bill Cosby.

Yeah, who

was

for like 30 years.

But that was it.

I mean, it wasn't, it wasn't his, well, it was most of his career.

He's in jail, right?

Well, not now.

Oh, he was in there for a while.

No.

They did take away his fake college degrees, though.

That taught him.

That's what I loved about it, where they're like, we're taking your fake diplomas.

Oh, good.

It's going to learn them.

Yeah, it's hard because you watch himself and you go, it's arguably, no matter what you say, one of the greatest specials ever put on tape.

I mean, it just is.

But you wonder, is this a guy who's such a sociopath, he nailed being a comic that's perfect at being this family-friendly, you know,

no one would suspect.

Yeah, there was no edge necessary.

It wasn't that it was no edge because it was good, but there was just this

perfect, like, I'm catering to human beings in every way possible.

And no one's ever done that.

Nobody has ever been as likable as a comic as Bill Cosby, in my opinion.

So if you go by that, how many people have Jim Gaffigan raped?

I mean, oh,

because he kind of has, he has Edge, but he's the same guy.

He's

everybody kind of likes Jim Gaffigan.

Everybody loves him.

I just got a real problem with food.

Yeah, that'd be weird if that came out.

Thank God he has like 50 kids, I heard.

So maybe that's

his wife and he's getting it at home.

Yeah, yeah.

His wife's like, listen.

You could be Cosby quickly.

Let's just.

Yeah, he's just putting on a mask and trying to get out to the BTK van, and she's like, look.

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Five best comedians can be of all time or today.

I would say Dave Chappelle,

George Carlin,

Robert Schimmel.

boy, that's tough.

There's so many.

Eddie Murphy.

What happened to him?

I think what happened to Eddie Murphy was just he was attacked so ruthlessly by the press that you have to look at a guy who was so unbelievably talented, made some bombs, and they couldn't stand that he didn't live up to his own hype.

Like, he was a 19-year-old kid, 20-year-old kid when he did Delirious.

People forget that.

So they were insanely unforgiving to him whenever he made something that wasn't good.

So which ended up being a lot of things, but he still made some really good movies.

He made great movies.

It was really funny.

Yeah, and I remember

when he got nominated for the Oscar for Dream Girls, and they said it was when he looked at the camera before he was about to shoot up, the way that he looked at the camera,

during an interview, and he's like, you know, I was in a movie where I played nine people?

You know, like like he still had it where it's like, no, the talent was always there, is always there.

I think with him, they just cut him down in such a way because he was the first

sort of megastar to break at that very young age in the 80s in that comedy boom.

And every movie you make is not going to live up to Beverly Hills Cop and 48 Hours.

These are like masterpieces of comedy.

So you can't expect everything to be.

what does he do now?

I think he just does voiceovers in his basement and makes 40 million dollars.

You know what I mean?

I don't think it's too bad.

No, I'm not saying that.

Does he want to exercise that muscle anymore?

He says that he does, but I can only imagine having been trashed the way that he has been, why would you want to go out and go, okay, I have to make something that live up to delirious and raw, where you're, you know, 20 and 25, and now you're

he's got to be what, approaching 60, I would assume.

Yeah, but he should, I mean, Louis C.K.

is still out there.

You want to be talking about trashed.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, and Louis C.K.

proved that it did, and I was so glad he came back.

You know, I'm going to put Louis in the top five as well.

I think he's phenomenal.

So I'm going to put him obviously in the top five as well.

And Patrice O'Neill, actually.

I don't know if I've named six.

Louise O'Neill.

I don't think I've seen her.

Him.

Him.

Him.

Patrice O'Neill, big black dude always

a male uh always a name guy whole guy no no he passed a few years ago yeah yeah yeah always always a dude um he put out an album called elephant in the room

or a special one of the funniest specials ever where he's talking about uh a girl who went missing in aruba and he's like well what's her name and the whole audience goes natalie holloway he goes right right and he goes and the other girl he killed the um the the the hispanic girl what nobody says anything he goes yeah exactly No one cares.

They just sent some guy out to the end of a pier to be like, hey, we don't see her.

He did this.

It was one of the most, it's one of the best specials I've ever seen.

It's perfect.

It's offensive.

It's great.

And he was somebody who took a risk every time he was on Mike.

I think one of the best comedy writers and comedians, and I'm surprised he wasn't on your list, is Ricky Gervais.

Oh, Gervais, for sure.

I mean, that's why it's so tough to...

And Gervais has heart, too, in a way, especially with his show that he put out recently and the way that his, yeah, 100%.

Have you seen,

what is it, the BBC series that he did, Derek?

I think.

Have you ever watched that?

I haven't seen Derek.

No.

You should watch it.

I'll watch it though, for sure.

First of all, it's very dark, but it's about a guy.

He plays a handicapped guy, and he has to live in a nursing home with a bunch of old people.

And there's this one character that is so offensive, so offensive that it's hard to watch.

And he doesn't fit.

You know, it's just all of a sudden everything's going to, and then this guy comes in so offensive, but you watch the arc.

I mean, he's brilliant with heart.

He is just brilliant.

Yeah, there's like a

Hughes.

What was his name?

He made the comedian.

He made a bunch of stuff with John Candy,

the director and writer.

Oh,

not Harold Rames.

No, no, no.

Oh, John Hughes.

John Hughes.

See, that's what's missing today.

John Candy is one of my all-time favorites, not stand-up.

And I think John Hughes is missing because Uncle Buck, Trange Planes, and Automobiles.

These are movies.

Yeah, they don't make those anymore.

I've been saying it forever where you just love the character.

There's this schlub.

There's a reason these people exist.

There's no heart anymore to anything like that.

I think that's him.

But no, but Gervais, his last one about the one where his wife dies, and he's completely,

you know, he just hates everyone as a result of it.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And there's

what is it?

I forget the name of it.

Afterlife.

Afterlife.

It's brilliant.

Brilliant.

And you turn around at the end, and there's so much heart there.

And that's what I love about Gervais,

that's the underlining thing.

There's always this theme.

So, you know, Red Skelton.

Yes.

So Red Skelton said,

you can go see a clown at the circus, and you will just remember you saw a bunch of clowns at the circus.

Yeah.

But the clown that can make you laugh and cry, you will never forget.

Yep.

And that's Ricky Gervais.

I mean, he's brilliant.

So did you ever see Life's Too Short?

No, I don't think so.

It was a show he made with Warwick Davis, who played like Leprechaun and he was in Willow.

And

they just hate him.

So they do stuff like they make the door on their office, they put the knob a little bit too high so he can't get in.

It's just, it's just, it's like deliberately cheap, but it's so funny because Warwick is willing to get away with it.

What's it called again?

Life's Too Short.

Life's Too Short.

I gotta look that up.

It's brilliant.

In one episode, he's being trolled by this kid constantly on MySpace, attacking him for being a dwarf.

So he finds him, goes to the school, walks into the classroom, and just starts ripping this kid apart where everybody's laughing.

And then it cuts back to the kid, and he's just in a wheelchair with a blowstraw.

And then he realizes he starts feeling bad.

So at the end, he's like, Well, you know, I just felt he kind of deserved it.

And like behind him, it's just the kid in the blowchair with like kick me on the back of it.

Kids are chucking backpacks at him, and it's just like this.

It was so funny.

And like, only like Gervais and somebody with enough vulnerability like Warwick Davis could have pulled it off.

Yeah.

Um,

you

have a very dark sense of humor, but I know where that came from.

Gervaise has a very dark sense of humor.

You're one of the darker ones I've seen.

Where does that come from with you?

A lot of places.

I grew up in Gross Point Woods, which bordered Detroit.

Okay, that's enough.

Yeah, right there.

Right off Eight Miles.

You saw a lot of stuff.

My dad was, well, my mom was kind of like a bipolar nurse.

And my dad...

A nurse for people with bipolar norms.

She had bipolar nurse.

She was a great nurse.

She just wasn't good at treating her own bipolar.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

And my dad got Agent Orange in Vietnam.

And

he ended up with a brain tumor.

And the government was very kind.

They gave us absolutely nothing.

And they didn't address it at all.

And his insurance company was.

I know it sounds bad, but I kind of wish we'd returned to those days on a lot of fronts with the government where they did nothing for you

anyway yeah they just well they didn't help at all yeah yeah the the insurance company as well was like sure you've been paying us but maybe you've had it forever so he ended up having to pay out of pocket my dad was my hero.

He ran Babe Ruth Little League for everybody.

He was everybody's coach.

And he got sick when I was about 14.

He ended up passing away, which then led to my mom's suicide.

And that's where mine came from.

So we have a very lot in common.

Yeah.

Your mom as well?

Yeah, when I was 14 or 15, yeah.

I'm very sorry to hear that.

Yeah, I was a little older than my mom did, but my dad died when I was a teenager.

Yeah.

Bad.

Yeah, I was on stage a couple days ago and a kid in the crowd said he had been in the back of a police car.

I said, why?

He said, well, my girlfriend's mom killed herself.

I was like, oh, I

dug myself quite a hole.

Probably not as deep as the one they dug for her.

And then I said, don't worry, my mom.

I said, my mom, my mom killed herself as well.

Don't worry about it.

But it was right after we had our kid.

And she would be like, could I babysit?

And I'd be like, I don't know, mom, because if you get depressed like an hour in, you're going to have to at least hang yourself from the ceiling tan.

So he's got a mobile to look at.

And it's the only way that I could justify like the

because I loved my mom.

Right.

I just,

she lost her mind after my dad passed.

And because she was older, she worked as a candy striper and then became a nurse.

And she would work in mental wards.

And as a result of that, she never got help.

And she knew how to, she would attempt suicide and then talk her way out of it like that.

Because she knew what to say.

Right.

She was smarter than them.

So she would just say whatever.

And they'd go, well, yeah, you shouldn't be here.

Obviously, you clearly drank a bottle of Vicodin on accident to go home.

Right.

You know, and so my dad would go around the country trying to to pay out of pocket.

So my dad, who went from nothing when we were born to a millionaire, lost everything.

And I ended up being raised by my aunt,

my aunt, various aunts.

The woman who was watching us was a very close family friend.

She ended up killing herself.

Did you ever start to think maybe?

I thought maybe it's me.

I'm going, am I the common denominator?

Do I see that?

A lot of people killing themselves around me.

Yeah,

she had been stealing pills from work.

She was an ER nurse.

And she got caught.

And one day she didn't come home.

And I'm like, this is weird.

And then she didn't come home again.

But because I was now a teenage drug addict, I was like, well, I'm not going to ask any questions.

I'm just going to throw parties.

And then when I went to her house to check, she had, you know, she had swallowed a handful, died in her bathtub.

And then I was watched by other ants and stuff.

And I remember it because she got very mad when she found out that I had smoked pot.

Very angry.

And I was like, this is weird.

She lets me smoke cigarettes and shoot pool and like what you know.

But she got nuts at me.

And I realized it was a projection of her own addiction.

So after that,

I just kind of didn't go to, I gave up on going to school.

I didn't really have any ambition other than possibly going to Second City to do comedy, but I didn't really believe in much.

And I was arrested 13 times over the course of.

From what age to what age?

I was arrested mostly from 16 to 20, and then once at 27, and that's when my sobriety started.

And jail time?

Just jail, not prison.

So for you, I'm not some mom.

Good for you.

I'm not a monster.

I didn't break federal laws.

No, I mean, come on.

It was just some theft and 4D UIs.

That's it.

Passing out at a red light in a toga.

Yeah, I thought it was a stop sign.

Actually, no, I thought it was a stop sign.

I thought it was a red light.

I was like, this thing, oh, that was a bad day.

Because I was waiting at a stop sign, and I thought it was a red.

So I started snorting ketamine off of a roadmap, you know, an animal tranquilizer, you know, to wake me up.

And I passed out.

And who hasn't done that with their roadmap?

Clearly, it's what they were for.

Yeah, kids are not kids today.

Where do they do their ketamine?

You know, off their phone?

That's why it's so amazing that it's for depression now.

I'm like, what do you think i was doing it for

i i could have told you that in 98.

so like i uh i ended up uh getting woken up by the police and they're like what are you doing and i said my my car stalled and they said it's running

and i said it must have restarted and then they arrested me and they walked me into the jail because it turned out i was in front of the police station

so it was these different things where i would get and then whippets was another one where

nitrous was very popular in the 90s in Detroit.

And in the late 90s, I went, probably like 2000, I went to a store in Detroit and I was trying to buy like 30 cans of whipped cream in like mid-August.

And the guy's like, what are you going to use these for?

I'm like, ice cream social.

And mind you, I'm wearing like a full track suit.

I have a sideways hat and chains.

And the guy's just taking them behind the counter.

He's like, I'm not selling you these.

I'm like, yeah, you are.

He's like, no, I'm not.

So I'm like trying to reach for him.

He's like, I'm going to call the cops.

Like, okay.

So I walk outside and I start giving him the finger.

And there are these two leaders.

And I just started filling my car with the two leaders.

Like, these are mine now.

I'm hammered.

And then I notice a cop.

And I'm like, oh, so I start waving to the guy all politely.

Like, thank you for all the two liters, sir.

And I get in and I drive away.

I get pulled over a few minutes later.

Dude, the day I got my license, I got a DUI.

The day I got in a high-speed chase and crashed my car into a tree.

On the day.

On the day I got my license.

Yeah.

My dad let me borrow his car, and he regretted it.

Yeah.

And it was a little bit after you just got diagnosed, so you can tell that.

So you hadn't proven yourself to be

a complete moron.

No, not yet.

No, no, no.

He was worried, but my dad, fortunately,

at that time, I shouldn't say fortunately, but I think his brain hadn't been going yet.

And my dad was very funny.

He was like Dangerfield.

Like he would really make jokes about anything, really had a great sense of humor and was tough as nails.

I mean, he had a halo in drilled to his head for a year and a half, and he would go golfing.

And he didn't take painkillers.

It was crazy.

But he, the day he loaned me the car is when he started to worry about me because I had never been arrested before.

I was 16.

And I got in a high-speed chase because I was giving people lawn jobs, going onto their lawn, you know, ripping it up, you know, and I decided to do it in front of a guy who was sitting in a BMW and I had a Buick Regal.

And so we ended up in this high-speed chase and we were having a family reunion at the time.

So I smashed into a tree.

Now, all my friends who were still conscious run.

I'm unconscious, by the internet.

So it's just me.

And what I didn't know, even though he had gone down to the hood to get liquor, was the trunk was filled with a bunch of party supplies for the party the next day so the the trunk pops open and for like a half a mile is potato chips and beer and liquor just leading to me unconscious in a car and and then i wake up and i see my dad and i walk out and my dad's never been violent to me And I walk out and I go, dad, don't worry, I'm okay.

And he just hit me in the face

and knocked me out the second time that evening.

And then I get woke and I finally wake up and the cop seriously goes,

he's awake if you want to hit him again.

Completely on my day, you know, they knew exactly what had happened.

Six months suspended license, though, at that time, kind of a slap on the wrist, different time.

And then from then on, the more my dad was gone, the more my family was gone, I just, I had

abandonment issues, which was not their fault, but I was just kind of lost.

I had, you you know, I just sort of went to a You're saying family is important?

Yeah, it's weird.

Yeah.

You know, it's almost like you need them.

Right.

And yeah, so I was being raised by my friends who could stay out all night.

And a lot of them, the ones who could stay out all night, were dealing with certain issues at home.

And the ones that had good home lives were going home.

And I ended up addicted to drugs and alcohol for years.

How far down that rabbit hole did you go?

Very, very, very.

I mean, 13 arrests, and I I was a sh I, if I didn't drink, and this is by the time I was a senior in high school, I remember I went to eat rice at

Eastland Mall in Detroit at a food court.

And when I went to eat the rice, my hand was shaking so bad from withdrawals.

It was like

going everywhere.

And my friend Stu's like, Do you have Parkinson's?

He's just like ripping on me.

And I'm like, I got to go to the bathroom.

And I drove down the street, grabbed some liquor from the liquor store, and I just slammed it to drive back so I could sit down and finish eating my food.

Wow.

And that was the moment I'm like, I realized I was a severe alcoholic.

And then when I finally ended up in rehab and felt what it was like to detox, I knew that I had some serious problems.

So you were

really just addicted to alcohol?

Alcohol is my main thing, but I did, I mean, I was a dry sold weed.

I did everything, but

alcohol is my main thing.

Eventually, cocaine because I wanted to stay up to drink.

Right.

And LSD was everywhere.

I mean, I did,

we ballpark at like 350, 400 hits.

Jeez.

Yeah.

What do you think of this new trend where LSD is cool again and it's good for you?

I don't believe it.

I mean,

if there is some sort of idea to micro-dosing with mushrooms that actually cures depression and there's people that believe it, it can prove it, I'd be interested in truthfully seeing it.

I like to see the facts.

LSD, because of where it comes from and the way that it was made and the way that it's sort of a mind control,

I don't think it was good for me because I have a thing called HPPD

and I still get the occasional, you know, something will move.

I don't understand things.

I have a concept of time that's not necessarily

right.

Oh yeah.

There's like a division of like when I started doing hallucinogens versus when I didn't.

And I have like two separate lives.

And I didn't know that.

Yeah.

I didn't know that until my doctors, you know,

diagnosed me with it.

So I just wouldn't do it.

You know, and I've had friends who are like 40 now who are like, I think I want to try acid.

And I'm like, at 40?

Like, when you're 16, you don't have to worry about it.

See, I have the different advice.

I became an alcoholic.

And

now, as an adult with teenagers, I need those blackouts.

I wasted them on nothing.

Oh, I'm not saying I don't miss a good one.

Don't piss those away, man.

You only have so many of those.

Yeah, I can still get a hangover, though.

You just have to eat ice cream and then wake up the next day, and I feel like I've been doing egg stands all night.

It's wonderful.

So, yeah, I guess, you know, really, though, I guess

how it went was just different dark things happen in my life and making jokes with my friends.

That's how I just dealt with it.

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A lot of people know you as, you know, the co-host with Steven Crowder.

Yes.

You

still talk to him?

Because he's fallen off the map.

Yeah,

he, well, he had the issue with the Daily Wire.

That was very public.

I believe he's coming back, though.

You do?

Yeah.

Good.

We miss him.

Yeah, I know a lot of people.

He's very funny.

Yeah.

A lot of people really want him back.

Yeah.

When you look at

people who are doing comedy, let's say Saturday Night Live, and you see the people that are on there now,

do you think they know they've sold out, that

they're shills?

Or

have they just finally just hired a bunch of people who are really not funny, just not, you know, it used to be everybody was really funny, they just didn't know how to finish it.

Yeah.

Now it's like it's the ending of every scene is the whole scene.

Yeah, I agree.

It feels like it's written by the CIA.

Every time you watch it, doesn't it?

It does.

It really is uncomfortable.

Yeah.

And then you see update, and I kind of go, okay, they're comics.

I do think they are.

You know, I think Colin Joes knows what he's doing.

You know, I think.

But the rest of the show, it just feels like it's a forced thing.

It's like, I used to like Colbert.

And then once you saw the dancing vax needles, I was like, why would you allow that ever?

Can you imagine even Johnny Carson coming out there or even Leno?

Anybody.

Nobody would have done it.

It's insane.

Nobody would have done it.

That's an agenda.

It's propaganda.

And

you've also, it's not that, that is, that screams propaganda.

It was so terrifying in a way to see those dancing needles.

But it's like people just write off half the country now.

Yes.

Where Carson would have never done that.

No.

Never done that.

It was for everybody to enjoy.

Yeah.

And that's the part where if you don't enjoy something on accident or because by default you're offended or you don't like it, that's fine.

I mean, comedy's not for everybody.

Not everybody's going to like you.

But now it's deliberate division and that's what they want.

Yeah.

And that's what the, it's what the entire mainstream outlets are.

It's to make a group of people hate another group of people.

And unfortunately, everything in the mainstream is designed to make you detest.

It's not even just right.

It's anything outside of their dogma.

Yes.

It's a religion.

Yeah, for sure.

It's extreme.

It's hard to even call it left.

At this point, because people can look at liberal and I can look at liberal and go, well, I'd say I was liberal.

I don't, that's why I don't call it liberal anymore.

I don't, I'm uncomfortable calling it Democrat.

There are Democrats that I know that vote Democrat.

Right.

And they don't buy into all this crap.

They're strangely not standing up against it,

but that's different.

There is the power is in the uber dangerous left.

Absolutely.

And that's why it's where they land.

But we're at a point now where

people are doing things to be liked, but what they're doing is extreme.

And what they're doing is it's violent, it's wrong, and it's very much to be liked.

And we're living in a thing where outrage is currency.

So why?

Why is that something you want to be a part of?

And it's not even, you know, it comes down to we have arguments of.

People use trans or they use this or they use that and they want to use victimhood and they want to use everything else or be a part of this.

I don't feel that this is how everybody feels.

I don't feel that there should be this constant training of division to make you feel like you're nothing.

And that's what it is.

It is.

I've talked to several people and many of them atheists or agnostic.

I'm like, you know, this is a very religious word, but I don't know how to describe telling people you are nothing.

You will never be anything unless you get them.

Yep.

That's just evil.

want to blame somebody else that's the idea you're never going to be anything because of that guy why would you believe that and then you have an entire institution you have college all that higher learning and the idea is you go there and a professor teaches you that you can never amount to anything because you were born into a color and then this other color has everything but doesn't deserve it And this has to somehow be switched.

So you're being trained that you should never be anything because you can't be.

Unless you take it.

Right.

And the other part is being taught that they are worthless and that they need to check themselves in every way possible.

And I have a son.

It's like, I don't buy into that.

How old is he?

He's going to be eight this weekend.

So judging by the way the world's going, it's going to be a good last birthday.

Good last year.

You have to be.

I mean, I have teenagers.

I'm terrified for the world.

And they have gotten to the age where they have asked me,

So,

Dad, I know you're really pessimistic.

What's my life going to be like?

And

the honest answer is: I don't know.

It could be really great, it could be really bad, but I grew up in a time that was a blip in human history.

It's always been that, you know.

Yes.

But

do you think the American age is over?

I think social media ruined it.

I think because

I think technology ruined it.

I think technology evolved a lot quicker than people did.

Oh, yeah.

And I think that's the dangerous part is I do believe in freedom of speech and that everybody should have a voice.

When did we stop saying, I so strongly disagree with you, but I'll fight to my last breath for you to be able to say it.

Right.

And the problem is, is I've learned, though, that a lot of the people on social media

maybe shouldn't talk.

I've always thought of it as

we've all, we know these people were around us.

I mean, we always had the guy on the street or the family on the street that everybody else on the street would go, kids, do not play.

Don't go over there.

Just don't go over there.

If they're talking to you, just keep walking on.

Pretend you didn't hear.

Everybody had that.

But now they have connected with everybody else's person on the street.

And so they have this voice.

It's the same voice it's always been.

It's just in our face and

being used now

to terrify all of us.

And everything's being used for fear, including a ring doorbell app.

Like I have that where all of a sudden I just want to make sure everything's safe in my house.

I have cameras in the back.

You know, it's, I had to, I had to become a gun owner for my own safety.

And it was because of threats that I had gotten from being on like the Kumiya show.

And so all of a sudden in my ring doorbell app, I'm getting stuff from, you know, other people that have it like, there's an ambulance on this street.

Does anybody know why?

It's like, I think you're a little too worried.

But it's people that are shut-ins that are always worried about everything.

And now they're afraid because they're telling the whole neighborhood what to think and feel and they're worried.

And it's this, it's a market of fear.

So are you, I mean, I might be one of those ring people

that are like,

because I want

to say,

I want, I love that technology.

I love the ease of everything, but I don't trust the gathering of all of that information when it comes to those companies now getting in bed with the government.

You're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, I don't want you having,

you know, a complete visual contact of me all the time.

Not like I'm coming home, you know, drenched in blood, but no, I could.

He could.

I mean, yeah, and then I really don't want it to work.

Right.

But I just don't want that intrusion and there's no one to trust, it seems.

No, and they're selling your information out.

Yeah.

I remember when I got a pager and I was, I don't know, 16.

And my dad's like, excuse me, doctor.

And I'm like, what?

He's like, why do you have a pager?

And I'm like, you know, my friends want to.

Yeah.

I'm like, yeah, exactly.

I'm like, my friends want to to get a hold of me, you know, in case they're near a pay phone and need a dime back.

But he's like, why do you really need one?

And I'm like, I don't know.

It's what we, we have them.

He goes, don't you think it's dangerous how easy it is for people to get a hold of you?

Yes.

And this is in the 90s.

But it really bothered him because then it was right when like the internet came out and he liked technology, but he just kept finding it scary how there was this beginning of no privacy.

And this was, you know, he passed long before any of this stuff.

Yeah.

But even then, he was warning me about what was going on, how this seems like it's a very, very slippery slope into where you will never have a moment of a day where you can be left alone.

Well, if you look at what the World Economic Forum is saying, if you look at even Ray Kurzweil or Stephen Hawking,

we're talking about things.

that are so far beyond our understanding because man's never faced anything like this.

With AI and all of the stuff is coming, that could be the most dangerous cage that nobody ever gets out of except the ruling elite.

But they might actually be trapped by, you know, a form of AI that grows beyond them.

It is.

The acting elite in Hollywood may be ruined by AI because it's like, oh, we have actors with no ego.

Yeah.

They're like, oh, that's great.

We don't have to pay them.

Right.

Oh, it's wonderful.

That can

completely happen.

There's no doubt about it.

I mean, in a very selfish way.

I mean, when it gets good enough, I thought, I'm going to fake my death, you know,

and just hide it.

And then

I'll just have me, I'll just get up in the morning, take two minutes and go talk about this.

And I'll be on TV and radio talking about that forever.

It's getting pretty solid.

I've been making a few porns of me.

It's just me and me.

They don't sell well, do they?

No, no.

I'm the only buyer.

Right.

It's like a fine wine.

You know, you have to develop a taste for it.

Is there anything that

is off limits?

No.

Yeah.

I used to say to my writers when we were doing, I was doing comedy shows early in my career.

And

I said,

I don't know,

this might be over the line.

And I I look at him, is it funny?

If it's funny, never cut funny.

Ever.

That's the difference.

Like, there has to be this level where it's like, if you're doing something for complete offense, just to be offensive,

why?

But if it's hilarious, who cares?

I mean, I've never felt that anything should be, if it's done the right way,

no.

Never.

And I've, and I've heard the most offensive jokes in the world.

And everyone I've heard is funny.

To me, I mean, I'm not saying everybody would like them.

Right.

But, you know, to me, funny.

But yeah, I don't find anything to be over the line.

And maybe I'm somebody that can take it a little more.

Like sometimes I'll be hanging out with people at a party and because I'm jaded, I'll say something and I'll be like, oh, man, yeah, yeah.

And you're like, well, that's

the one I should have gone with.

You know, and that's, and you realize to reel it in amongst other people.

Yeah.

Like, oh, right, you have a soul.

so it just depends but for me yeah no there's no line

um

you look at uh social media today and tick tock and you see i don't know if you saw the new app that came out this week

this is terrifying it's a new app it's a filter

it makes it doesn't work well with men just women yeah but it makes you

absolutely model beautiful and so i don't need it

no i can't work that many miracles look it's weird it doesn't seem to work really well with men yeah but with women i mean you'll see these people and there's a couple they're like oh i don't look like that at all and it you know just they take the filter off and you're like really

put a little bit of makeup on and you look like that right but then there's some that are just

woof.

Yeah.

And they are beautiful in the filter.

And every single woman that I saw doing it said the same thing.

This is so bad.

Is it called Tinder?

That's terrifying.

It's terrifying.

All of the women are saying, this is so bad.

They want it.

But they know this is horrible because I don't look like that.

We're living in a time where we have this impossible standard of beauty while we're also trying to embrace the worst things about somebody.

Now, I shouldn't say the worst, but if you happen to be obese, you happen to be these things that people might find on a true, whatever it might be.

I don't care, but it's like for other people.

That's something that they might look at, however they are flawed, where we don't embrace flaw, but then we're supposed to embrace flaw.

That's what I don't understand.

We're living in a time where you go, okay, Lizzo's gorgeous.

We want to love her for her body, whatever it is, while simultaneously saying, you're not good enough.

You're not worth it.

You should look this good.

That's why we created this app.

It's a confusion and a consumerism that I'll never understand.

So it just makes people feel like they don't.

But they're both lies.

Correct.

They're both lies.

That's what I don't get.

And then you have this reality in the middle that isn't acceptable, which is who you are and who you should be.

And there's nothing nothing like, and men, we're gross anyway.

I don't, I do not understand why women would even like.

I don't understand why other guys are interested in other guys, let alone women.

I don't get it at all.

Like, where you're like, because, yeah, I grew up around guys.

It's like, I do, they're disgusting.

Disgusting.

Just awful creatures.

And then you look at women and they're just works of art.

And it's like, you don't even need an app to realize how beautiful you are.

Like, you're like, you're made to be perfect.

And then to have this on top of it, it's this competition with themselves that they don't even need to be having that creates an insecurity amongst them that they don't deserve.

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One of the things I fight with all the time, because

I realized

at one point last summer, I think our family, we were on vacation, and I think it was like the third day when I realized we hadn't said

a genuine kind thing to one another in three days.

It's just

wrecking.

And I mean, all of us are just, we just keep stepping it up, you know?

And

I thought, I don't know if this is real healthy.

Sarcasm is,

and I also realized a few years earlier, unfortunately, and I wish, I mean, this is tragic, but I have a daughter with cerebral palsy and she's very very literal.

Okay.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

And

I didn't

realize with all the sarcasm that's going on,

you know, I know she's very literal, but I didn't think like, yeah, but she gets sarcasm.

Right.

No.

And I just, I, I find myself in this place where it's like, I don't know.

Is that good or bad?

Sarcasm.

It's, yeah, it's tough.

I mean, if you know it, it for sure, I think it's

my favorite.

It's good, though, to me.

I mean, yeah, especially my son is very sarcastic, who's like seven or eight.

Like, I'll be excited about something, like an accomplishment I had.

Yeah.

Oh, I just did this and it went really well.

And, you know, my son will just kind of go, like, oh, yeah, dad, that's really good.

You should be really proud of yourself.

And he's

seven.

I know.

And he just walks away, and I'm like, I'm like, that hurt a lot.

It's like, why did she just kick me?

And they get it, though, at this young age.

And we were driving the other day and we were late

going to my brother's house.

And he goes, that's fine.

Your brother's always late.

Why don't you just blame it on him like you always do?

I was like, I'm like, do I have two wipes?

You know, it's just, he'll just say stuff.

So yeah, I think it just depends.

But I enjoy it.

I think it's a fun way to be dry.

I love it.

Yeah.

I had

a meeting with an executive at Premier Radio when they were first hiring me to do syndicated talk.

Okay.

And he was the vice president in charge of the talk industry.

And so I had to go out and meet him.

It was the last interview I had to do.

And I sat at the steakhouse in New York City.

And Paul Castellano was shot outside.

Sorry.

And he was,

everything he said, and I knew nothing about him and nobody warned me about this.

Everything he said

was either sarcastic or he was an ass.

You know what I mean?

And I walked out of that building and I said, I either love that guy or hate his guts.

You know what I mean?

Because if he's serious, he's a monster.

But he's the kind of guy, a little like Kaufman, that he just enjoyed it himself and he wasn't doing it for anybody else's laughs.

He just likes to just watch people.

Yeah.

And turns out

he was very sarcastic, which worked out well for me.

Otherwise, I probably would have been on a killing spree with him.

But

it's bizarre.

Let me ask you.

I had Jim Brewer on, I don't know, a couple months ago.

Okay.

Yeah.

I saw the interview.

Yeah.

He is funny.

Yes, he is funny.

He really is.

And we talked afterwards, and I said,

because he's very spiritual, very spiritual.

Yes.

And

I said,

you got to do a comedy special on religion because he can approach it in such a way where he's skeptical and, you know, all the true stories that he went through that I think a lot of people, because

religious people are always perceived as having a stick up their butt.

Yeah, of course.

Yeah.

Are you religious?

Because you grew up Catholic.

Are you religious or are you spiritual?

Are you nothing?

It's odd.

No, no, I believe in God.

I do.

I pray.

I do.

But I have battled with it at times.

And it was kind of being sober and finding a God, you know, that I believed and sort of taking pieces of what I thought different religions worked for me.

And it's not that I don't believe in Catholicism.

I was very, very angry at the church for what they covered up.

That's just the truth.

You were an altar boy.

Yes.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Still

can't sit.

No, it was my brother.

But that didn't happen to you.

No, no, no.

Thankfully.

Thankfully not.

I wasn't that cute enough.

Which made you feel kind of like.

Yeah, hello.

No,

that.

It's not that I want it.

I started dressing sexier.

I would put glitter on before mass.

Yeah,

that was disheartening to me, though, because even when my mom would kill herself, she was very devout.

And we would go to church sometimes three times a week to the point where even God was like, you want to slow down?

Like, you know.

You're really becoming kind of a groupie.

Yes, pretty much.

You know, it's like, look, I get it.

you you're doing it right right yeah you know um

but i am yeah i am and i do go to church here and there and i i wouldn't say that i'm you know certainly this very very devout in the sense of i follow all the rules do everything right i'm not i very much just believe on believe very strongly in treating other people well being kind to other people and just praying to God knowing that I am completely flawed in every way imaginable.

And I try to do work on the side that I can do privately to help other people do what I do.

This is not, this is now it feels kind of like

kind of like you're you're saying too much.

Like

I'm covering.

And I help people on the weekends.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Look, I killed a guy

on the way.

Two bottles.

Look, when I used to drink, you know, you wake up in the morning and you go, well, I hope that's deer blood on the hood of my car.

I guess deers wear shoelaces.

Yeah, I am, but it's like, I can't say I'm a particular religion, to be honest with you.

I guess is what I'm trying to say.

But I don't hate the Catholic Church like I did for a minute, and that's the truth.

Because I was very, very angry at what happened.

But now that I've had priests come to my shows that are fans, they find the jokes funny, I've been able to open my eyes to go, well, there was a serious problem going on.

There may still be.

So the fact that they go to your show and find your filthy comedy funny doesn't make you question them as priests even more.

Yeah, it's kind of true.

I'll even go on to them and go, sorry about that whole altar boy part.

And they'll be like, I'm just glad it went by quick.

Glad I wasn't wearing the collar.

Yeah, they'll be in like one of my shirts.

Yeah, I guess

it's hard for me to answer, you know, than a simple yes or no, because it's like, yes, I do believe in God and I do believe that there's something

that has created us.

But I, I, at the moment, I'm trying to figure out not so much what that is, but what I believe fully.

Yeah, is the best way I can.

I mean, I keep,

but yeah, it does sound more where I'm like, no, I try to be nice.

I don't,

yeah,

I don't,

I, I, I do stuff.

Yeah.

Um, I've not, you know,

I don't traffic no more.

You know, it's just sort of.

I don't traffic no more.

Yeah.

But I do believe in God.

Yeah, I think

my father, when he died,

he was so open-minded on almost everything.

And I really loved that about him.

He

He could find the joy other people had in things that he didn't necessarily agree with, you know, but he thought, this is great.

And towards the end of his life, he became just so calcified and he became a different man.

And

I think the secret...

to never getting old and also

probably to a better afterlife is just

always question, always, I don't know.

I don't know.

I mean, I know what I believe, but I could get to the other side and it's like nothing like that.

Maybe it's that, you know, the elephant and the eight-armed woman up there.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'd be shocked.

I'd be shocked if it was.

But think about that.

If I'm, you know, if I'm up there and I'm dead, and that's the reality, I guess I'm like, I'm Hindu or whatever that religion.

Yeah, you're like, oh, is that close enough?

yeah.

You just, yeah, you wake up and you're a lizard and you're like,

yeah.

And I thought about that too, where I think that's, that's the part that bothers me sometimes about religion where it's like, I know exactly what happens and I judge you very hard for it.

Right.

And I don't know.

All I know is

nothing.

And I was raised to question everything.

It's like when I was young, my dad was, I saw JFK in the theater when I was nine.

And like we would go to Gettysburg.

We would go to all these history places.

And that's where we, and I actually had interest in it as a kid.

But it was basically my dad saying, hey, the CIA killed this guy.

I'm like nine, you know, and it's like, don't trust anything.

Don't try.

And I always learned like, don't necessarily believe anything that you see as fact.

And that's how I grew up to believe everything is just don't necessarily believe what's on the surface.

And like you said, always

question.

That's how I was raised.

Crazy.

I mean, I remember

the JFK thing,

you know, there was more shooters, blah, blah, blah.

He was a CIA agent.

When I got older, I could look into those things and go, well, maybe, I don't know, but maybe.

But now it's starting to come out and you're like,

good God,

it looks like the CIA or somebody involved in the government did kill him.

Yes.

I mean, it's almost as if everything you believed is crumbling, and that is so dangerous because you got to hold on to something.

Is there anything that was real?

Do you feel like that ever?

Yes, all the time.

Because everything that I look at is somehow related to something that you were supposed to believe in.

You were supposed to believe in some level of decency and some level of protection.

And the reality is, is all along it's been a level of power.

And that's what bothers me about everything that's going on.

It's the same thing with if people look at a global thing or everything that's going on right now.

What is the benefit of everything that's happened in the last few years?

Power.

Power.

That's it.

What does power want?

More power.

That's it.

They don't care.

It's the same as, you know, I know that you talk about certain things people had to take.

You know, you look at Woody Harrelson the other night on SNL and how people are getting mad.

And it's like, for what?

For saying what happened?

He just said what happened.

That's all I said.

And people are outraged.

Why are you outraged?

It's just what happened.

That's the part I don't understand.

Why did you not question it?

Why did you think that that was a good

again?

I have every vaccine imaginable.

The one that I didn't take was the one that seemed a little odd.

Like even in my special when I talk about, you know, if I got the polio vaccine and the next morning I woke up and I'm like, why are my legs all noodly?

You know, I'm just, you know, FGRing across the floor.

Yeah, it's like I would have questions.

So I just kept noticing everybody was getting sick.

So I'm like, well, this isn't effective.

And I kept flying and I would go to like Florida or Alabama that would let me do shows.

And people are like, you're the biggest germaphobe I know.

Why are you flying?

I'm like, there's no one on the plane.

I get first class.

I pay $80

and then they bump me up.

No one's on the plane.

I can still make money as a performer.

I'm like, this is absurd.

Like you putting a mask on with your germy hands is absurd.

And it's because I grew up with somebody who was teaching me about germs constantly.

So it all didn't add up.

And the way that people didn't question it and politicized it made no sense and then switched.

Like the left was completely against Trump.

He was at warp speed, all this.

Don't take the vaccine.

Don't do this.

Don't do that.

Yeah, then in one day,

they were like, yeah, you got to take Biden's vaccine.

But you got to do this.

And they were against big pharmaceuticals.

But

in the worst pharmaceutical incident that I think maybe since Bayer in Germany,

you're seeing that this is collusion with the government and it's all cover-ups.

And yet those same people who were right to question pharmaceuticals

are now like,

don't say that about Pfizer.

How dare you say that about Pfizer?

Yeah, why would a company ever,

ever do something against you?

It's not like they created an epidemic of opioids.

And I'm young enough to, or you know,

I'm old enough to remember where I worked at a pharmacy in the 90s, which is a great place for a drug addict to work.

It's really especially when they weren't really counting anything because you could just get a handful of Valium and just throw some nickels in there.

But

it was, I remember, though, the

Oxy reps and the Vicodin reps.

And I mean, you could have have an OxyPen at the doctor's office.

You know, like this was something that they were selling.

Oh, yeah.

They were really pushing it.

Everything, and I'm not against opioids for the proper use of them.

Right.

I don't believe that anybody should have to live in pain.

Not at all.

You know, there's enough stuff to kill it, but

fentanyl

is an end-of-life drug.

That's what it says on the box.

It's for hospice.

End-of-life uses only.

For husband.

And sadly, I've lost, oh, man,

at least 15 friends in the last two years to that.

Oh, yeah.

Because it was in cocaine.

And I don't know why people are still doing cocaine.

But then it's in there.

There's the tiniest bit.

They don't know what it's for.

They don't know if it's for, because they make it for a different degree of, you know, some's for people, some's for elephants, some's for the, you know, and then it ends up killing them.

It's like, I wouldn't touch any of that stuff now.

But that's a drug that is designed to kill you peacefully,

and it's just being made and pumped out.

Um, you're on the road now, yes.

Where are you going?

Uh, I will be in, let's see, where am I going?

Um, I'm going to the ice house in Pasadena, California, and then I will be at the Comedy Zone in Greenville, South Carolina.

When do you let milk through your nose?

Uh, I will be

what?

Uh, every other Wednesday, every other Wednesday.

Okay,

Sounds like a club that would exist.

Yeah, I'm at Yuck Yuck's and milk through my nose.

Yeah.

I'm at Barn Yuck's Pucklehouse.

Well,

I hope we see more of you.

You're very funny.

I really enjoyed talking to you.

Comedy specials, just

unbelievably offensive, but very funny.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

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