WEBVTT - Not Wearing Pants with Michael Rapaport 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:03.920 Hi, Catherine, Hi Chelsea, how are you? And well, how's 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:07.240 your new abode? Catherine and Brad moved into a new house, 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:10.639 you guys, we did. We bought a house. You guys 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:12.440 heard about it here when we had put in an 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:15.480 offer on the house. But it's going great. There's so 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:19.120 many projects, but we're really enjoying doing the projects so well. 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:22.280 Isn't that just a happy homemaking story. What a success story. 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:24.720 And you sent me a beautiful picture of the sunset 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:26.840 from your house the other night that I was blown 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:30.760 away by. Yes, it it's gorgeous out there because we're 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:32.760 right at the base of the mountains and so every 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:35.560 night the sunset lights them up, all orange and salmon, 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:38.720 and then we just had this incredible from pinks to 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:42.680 oranges to purple's. It was just it was just gorgeous. Well, 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:45.360 that's great, and I mean there's also a red blood 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:48.919 moon coming tonight. We are recording this on Tuesday, November eight, 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:51.760 which is election day, to air on Thursday, November ten, 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:53.920 where we will know the results unless there are fifty 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:58.319 thousand lawsuits still happening at that time, which is a possibility. Yes, 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:01.080 but there's a blood red moon Hopefully it's not like 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:04.440 a port end of doom. It is. I after I 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:08.280 spoke to that astrologist, Jade Luna. He's on Instagram as 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:12.400 Jade Saluna. I did my annual forecast with him actually 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:14.520 last night, well go back, I did. I had some 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:18.200 shows this weekend, and uh, I did another reading with him, 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:21.080 and he was explaining to me how all the planets, 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:24.080 whether they're in your sign or not, can dictate what's 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:27.040 happening now. And I'm and I believe that. And he said, 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:30.160 if Donald Trump is able to run in, Jupiter is 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:33.479 through his sign, is moving through his sign that year, 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:36.440 which is almost unstoppable, which means he will have so 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:39.440 much good career fortune that he will be unbeatable if 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:43.880 he runs in. So hopefully he'll be arrested or put 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:47.919 down before then. I mean, I UM have some shows 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:51.360 coming up this weekend Rockford, Illinois. My sister in law 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:56.520 is going to a friend, Julie, who loves this podcast. Friday, 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:59.720 November eleven, I'm in Rockford, Illinois. Saturday night I'm in 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:05.400 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and then Sunday night i am in Rosemont, Illinois. 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:09.840 And then Thursday the following Thursday, I have two shows 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:12.880 in Tampa, Florida at the Hard Rock Casino, So what 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:14.880 else was I going to say? Oh? Yes, I got 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:17.919 very intoxicated this weekend and it was really hard to 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:23.079 shake it. Where were you partying, Tucson? Surprisingly, yes, we 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:26.120 unexpectedly went out after the Tucson show. We all got 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:28.280 very Actually, no, I think I was the one who 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:31.560 got the most intoxicated, and then we got up. I 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:33.160 went to the gym in the morning because I like 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:35.520 to do the gym no matter what happens. But I 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:39.440 quickly turned around and realized that I had no business 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.079 being inside the gym because I just did not feel right. 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:45.720 Some people can, like they swear, by sweating out your hangover. 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:48.360 That was my intention, and I can't do it. No. 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:50.679 I did about fifteen minutes of an ABS class and 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:54.240 then I gave up my exercise. With a hangover is 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:56.160 like going to the bathroom and throwing up and then 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:59.600 going back to bed. That's all I can do. So 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:03.560 so anyway, I finally recovered, but it took a minute. Yeah. 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:05.760 We went to a lot of Republican areas this weekend, 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.840 Colorado Springs and Tucson, and they were both awesome. Shows. 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:12.360 So it's just nice to have my people everywhere I go. Yeah, 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:15.600 I mean Phoenix and Tucson, like those areas. They're such 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:19.160 like fun foodie towns actually, and they've got cute places 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:22.079 to go out. It's kind of lovely. Well, the airport 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:24.440 in Tucson is a little bit like a correctional facility. 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:27.200 There's no one there, and the people who are working 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:29.639 there look like armed guards and are like and there's there, 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:31.239 and there may as well be cageous in the airport 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:33.760 because that's how it feels. My security guy was like, 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:35.680 you stay in the car, will be check you into 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:37.960 the flight. And I was like, okay, And usually that's 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:40.240 like five or ten minutes, and then it was thirty minutes. 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:42.360 I texted my sister and I was like, Hey, what's up. 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:45.120 And she's like, you don't want to see what's going 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:46.800 on in here. And she's like, there's a woman. There's 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:50.440 one woman working ticket counter for the entire airline and 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:57.880 she's never never done this before. Clearly than well, yes, 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:01.480 of course, of course, what else could I possibly do? 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:05.040 I just read a good book. If anyone's looking for 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:11.600 a good book. Signifiers, Okay, I just finished that over 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:13.080 the weekend and then I gave it right away to 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:14.920 a friend whose birthday it was. Yeah, that was a 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:18.279 really good book. So that's it's about life. It's about 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:21.080 all these different characters living on the street and like 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:23.240 different times in their lives, and it just kind of 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:25.480 connects everybody. And it's a lot about the stars and 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:29.440 the galaxy and how everybody's connected and how you know, 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:32.679 life is like how time is a continuum, and it's cool. 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:34.880 It was like I was open to that. You know, 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:37.039 I'm much more open to all of that stuff now, 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:38.560 so when I read it, I like it. I feel 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:40.840 like they're speaking to me. Yeah, it's it's fun. And 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.799 we've got actually some very fun sort of woo woo 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:46.880 guests coming coming up. Oh yeah, we do. We've booked 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:50.200 a lot of fun guests like that. I think recently 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:52.600 sort of found out that a lot of listeners to 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:54.680 show are into that stuff, which we are too, so 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.280 it works out. Yeah, we have Laura Lynn Jackson coming 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:59.800 on the show was one of my favorites, and then 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:04.200 the media, Yeah, we're going to book him. I do 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:06.200 have to say I'm a little bit of a skeptic 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:08.800 of his stuff in particular because I'm like, can't you 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:12.039 google that? But I don't know. Everybody gets really blown away. 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.880 Well maybe we can just have callers call in and 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:18.039 then he has no prior knowledge of them. I love 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:20.040 that because he can't do me or you because that's 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:24.080 easily researchable. Right, Okay, I like this. I kind of 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.719 want him to prove himself to me. I want to believe. 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:30.919 I want to believe. Yeah, I want to believe to Yeah. 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:32.800 I like to believe in that stuff because it just 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.600 makes everything more tolerable and it's more fun, especially when 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:37.960 people die. It's like there's nothing comforting you could say 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:40.080 to anybody wants somebody's dead, except for the fact that 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:42.200 they're not really gone and that they're always around you 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:46.120 and nobody's energy will ever really die. I fully believe that, 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:48.839 but it's also like proven by quantum physics. I'm pretty 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.880 sure yes it is. Whatever that is. Where where did 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:54.800 your other thermisco? You're one that you've haven't been able 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:57.400 to let go since ma Orca. I have to tell you, 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.920 I lost it. I went to Disneyland. Oh god, well 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:04.080 that was the first mistake. Catherine with your hard boiled eggs. 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:06.120 Did you take your hard boiled eggs to Disneyland. I didn't, 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:08.839 but I didn't have a smoothie in the car. But listen, 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:11.479 I was like, they're gonna have Christmas stuff up. I'm 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:15.680 not into it yet. Halloween just happened. I went ham 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.880 on all of the Christmas merch. I currently have a 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:22.320 Mickey tumbler for my coffee. He is dressed in a 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:26.160 Santa hat. Oh, I just I bought it all. Catherine 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:29.479 and I couldn't be more different. Would Brad take you 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.200 to Disneyland? No, I go with one of my girlfriends. 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:36.839 We do a podcast called Driving to Disneyland. Brad are 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:40.880 you there? Are you on board with this or what? Brad? 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:46.039 Men aren't allowed to talk on this podcast, muted him. Yeah, 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:48.240 never gone. Well we do, man. We have a straight man, 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:50.680 you guys as our guest today on the podcast. Is 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:53.320 that the first time, no, Mike Berbiglia, we've had some 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:57.080 straight yeah. Justin Long Oh yeah, Justin. I love him. 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:00.120 I ran into him and his girlfriend keep on with 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.760 at the airport. They're so cute. I love watching people 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:07.440 and young love. Yeah. They seem so happy. I know, yeah, 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:10.920 everyone's happy in the beginning. Okay, Oh yeah, our guest today. 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:13.360 You're gonna love him well, you know him because he's 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.600 He's one hot mess and I respect it. Our next 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:20.040 guest has the I Am Rappaport Stereo podcast. He's on 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:22.520 tour doing live shows. All tickets and dates are at 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:26.320 Michael Rappaport Comedy dot com. That's r A P A 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:31.200 p O r T. Please welcome the very disruptive Michael Rappaport. Hi, Michael, 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:37.400 you hello, what's up? Hoem? Skillet are better now that 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:41.960 Adidas dropped Kanye You look dashing as always, Michael. Ha ha. 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:49.720 This is my co host, Catherine. I'm good, I'm good, Michael. 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:52.040 Tell me the morning that we're recording is is the 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:54.239 morning I woke up and saw that Adidas finally dropped 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:57.200 Kanye West. What do you think took Adidas two and 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:00.400 a half weeks to drop Kanye West? I mean, as 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:05.560 far as Adidas dropping Kanye West, I'm sure his business, 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:08.720 you know, I'm sure it's business. I'm sure he's deep 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:12.200 in that company. Yeah, because him calling them out and 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:14.240 saying there there's no way that they can fire me, 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:15.880 There's no way they can fire me almost led me 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:18.560 to believe that he had some stipulation in his contract 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:22.440 that like allowed for either freedom of speech or something about, 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:25.000 you know, being able to voice his opinions or something. 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:27.840 Because he was so confident. I mean, not that anything 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:30.200 he says is that reliable, since he's clearly off of 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:33.079 his meds. But I was like, does he have something 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.120 going with Adidas where they're not allowed to fire him 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:39.199 for being racist and anti Semitic. It seemed like that. 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:41.720 That's that seems like why it took so long to me. 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:46.200 But you know, as far as Adidas in all these 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.280 places severing ties with him, and because I've been thinking 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:51.360 a lot about it and talking a lot about it. 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:55.760 The whole thing is he didn't invent anti Semitism. But 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:58.520 but what he did do in the last two weeks 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:01.959 with talking on these platforms and these platforms continuing to 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:04.800 let him speak, even down to this Lex Friedman, fucking 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:06.480 guy who put him on a two and a half 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:10.560 hour podcast just last night which I listened to. And 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:17.240 he's Jewish and he allegedly has family members that were 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:20.080 killed in the Holocaust And to sit there and you know, 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:23.360 be belittled and try to sort of massage this guy 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:26.199 office points and you know, and then those people at 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:31.400 the four or five freeway. That's the ramifications of him 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:34.360 talking that way. It's the same thing with Trump when 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.720 you sort of embolden these people. And you the thing 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:40.640 about Trump that's smarter than Kanye s that Trump is 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:46.000 the the king. He has the art of implication, implicative 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:49.040 speaking down to a t. He he does it better 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:53.160 than anyone I've ever heard. He'll say everything without saying it. 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:56.280 That's why he's never in trouble because he'll skirt around it. 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:59.240 Kanye's just sucking saying all the ship. And it's just 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:02.840 like to the point where Trump even said, this guy's 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:05.520 fucking nuts and he needs help. And you know, if 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:07.920 Trump is saying this guy's nuts and you need to help, 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:11.120 you're you're in bad shape. But may mean just the 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:14.200 whole thing is it's not good, you know, and you 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:18.040 have to do soul searching because if you won't accept 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:21.280 the anti Jewish talk, then you have to really be 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:24.360 down not to accept it across the board. It can't 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:26.640 be you pick and choose the people that you're gonna 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:30.560 stand by and defend or stand up for. I don't know, 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:32.400 it's been an interesting time because you never would have 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:35.760 thought Kanye West would have been sort of the spokesperson 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:39.439 for anti Semitism. Two. It's just a sort of a 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:41.440 far like a far out thing. It's gonna be one 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:43.640 of those things when you look back at the year two. 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.520 This will be like a highlighted part twenty years sort 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:49.480 of like, oh ship. Remember when Kanye West was saying 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.319 the wildest ship that I've ever heard about Jewish people 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:56.520 publicly from a successful person, Like he's saying everything. But 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:58.840 you know, then you think, like will he be back? 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:00.960 Will he is? They're coming back from him? Because mel 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:04.760 Gibson is is. I don't think mel Gibson ever publicly apologized. 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:06.600 I don't know if he did. I think he wrote 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:09.560 wrote a statement, but I don't know for sure if 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:12.280 you ever publicly apologized for his stuff. And you know, 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:14.120 I'm sure it's excuse to me he was on drugs 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:17.040 where he was drinking and and and you know, Kanye 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:18.960 probably said this, he was in a mental breakdown and 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:21.160 blah blah blah blah blah, and and whether you accept 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:25.040 those apologies is up teaching individual. I guess. So what 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.440 it was the podcast of the Freedman podcast, what what 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:30.600 kind of conversation. I mean, how did that go well? 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:33.719 The Freeman podcast. He's an engineer, he's one of these 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:37.040 smart guys, got a popular podcast. You know, he's one 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:39.200 of these sort of Joe Rogan has had him on. 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:43.200 He's one of these guys and their friends, and he's Jewish, 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:45.000 and he was trying to sort of explain to him 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:47.800 why he was doing a fair job. And he was 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:52.960 attempting to articulate why saying the Jewish media and why 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:56.520 saying these broad stroke statements are are not right, They're 0:11:56.559 --> 0:12:00.199 not good, they're not acceptable. Why don't you just name names? 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:04.000 You get more done if you just say Jim, Alex, 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:07.680 Frank and Tommy. Are these people from these companies have 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:10.240 sucked me over? And this manager has fucked me over, 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:13.160 like instead of making these broad sweeping shows, and he 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:15.240 was trying to do that. The thing that frustrated me 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:19.120 is that it was going nowhere to the point where 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:21.840 he convinced him you shouldn't say Jewish media. And then 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:25.200 Kanye West was like, Okay, I'll just say jam and 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:28.160 that's where you go. Suck my dick the interviews over, 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:29.920 Get the funk off my show. As far as I'm 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:33.280 concerned as far as I'm because they're because you're we're 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:35.680 handling this guy with kick clubs, because he makes good 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.760 songs and he makes good sneakers, and inevitably you should 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:40.880 just be told, just like everybody else, to suck my dick. 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:44.440 Interviews over. That's it, that's how he needs to be treated. 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:48.360 But because he's famous, I think people are like tiptoe 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:51.360 around it. This guy seemed like he was tiptoe around it. Yeah, 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:52.960 I mean, even to give him a platform at this 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:55.440 point just seems stupid, Like it's not like he's going 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.600 to be convinced. You're not dealing with a rational person. 0:12:57.640 --> 0:12:59.600 You're dealing with like a terrorist, you know what I mean. 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:01.760 And if say, if that's your friend, take him to dinner. 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:04.320 If you if you care about him, take him to 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:06.520 dinner and don't fill me like you know, like if 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:08.960 you want to explain to him your point of view 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:10.840 and that really is your friend, go I have a 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:13.880 private dinner somewhere. Take him to get a lobotomy, do 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:17.520 something you just can't rationalize with someone who's in their 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:21.680 mental illness choosing to not get treatment totally not rational 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:24.600 and having a manic episode. But we don't know, you know, 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:29.079 this idea of in their mental illness having a manic episode. 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:32.600 I haven't seen his paperwork, have you. I haven't seen 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:36.360 his diagnosis. Of course he's said he has bipolar disorder, 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.959 but we don't really know. It's not an excuse, it's 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:42.200 it's when I'm not on my lexa pro when not 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:45.080 when when I'm not hopped up on my twenty MILEXI pro. 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:47.360 I was just about to ask what kind of medication 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:50.720 you're on. I'm just on twenty mgs of a little lexepro. 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.599 That's all a little more stabilizing, just keeps me, you know, 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:58.120 keep in the pocket. I had to learn what that 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:00.720 me and that phrase Matt and keep you in the pocket. 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:02.280 Somebody said that. They were like, oh, you were so 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:04.040 in the pocket? I go, what does that mean? I 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:06.880 didn't even know what that phrase was. You didn't know. 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:08.920 I don't know how I missed that one. It's a 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:12.400 pretty big one. Is a music it's a music well 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:14.320 I think it's from a music thing. But you you say, 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:16.480 probably as a would somebody say to you in regard 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:19.240 to a performance. Yeah, yeah, it means like, yeah, you're 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:21.960 in the podcast, you're in this week Okay, copy that 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:24.920 you're in the flow. Michael, tell me about what you 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:28.400 think your best qualities are. What I think my best 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:32.520 qualities are. I think that probably one of my best 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:36.000 qualities is I have a dog like instinct to sniff 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:42.080 out bullshit. I think I'm generous. I think that I 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:51.240 am what babe, my wife is over here telling me. Yeah, 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:54.000 for better for words, I think I'm authentic. I think, 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:57.560 generally speaking, I think I'm I'm authentic. Wait, can you 0:14:57.600 --> 0:14:59.960 bring your wife over? I want to say hi, Bige. 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:03.920 They want to say hi. Do you in the podcast? Hi? Hey? 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:08.240 How are you hi? Chelsea? I was sitting row when 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:10.880 you did busiest podcasts and I just wanted to be like, 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:16.640 I fucking love you. I mean her show that busy tonight. Yeah. Yeah. 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:19.960 When I say when I said he's authentic, I didn't 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:23.480 mean in that new fangled hippie dippy like I'm authentic. 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:26.240 I mean truly, he is one of the most what 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:29.240 you see is really what you get, and and truly 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:32.920 for better for worse, for better for worse. She can 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.840 tell you that he is not. We I've known him 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:39.320 for thirty years. He is not. There's no phony Bologney bullshit. 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:41.960 He does not. He gives zero fox. He is who 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:45.960 he is, he doesn't change he's he is totally generous, 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:48.800 he is authentic. And you know what, Alexa pro is 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:59.520 not a mood stabilizer the press. Bye. That's how she 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:02.240 deals with you every day. She's like, listen, this is 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:04.560 what actually happened. She has to deal with every day. 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:06.920 I know, I can't even imagine. She must be cool 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:11.080 as fuck. Yeah, she's She's cool, impatient, and you know, 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:12.960 we we have known each other for such a long time, 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:16.440 so there is a good understanding of each other, and 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:19.160 we've grown, We've grown with each other. Yeah, yeah, well 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:21.120 you've been Have you been dating for thirty years or 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:23.160 you've just known each other for the No? No, no, 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:26.960 well we dated ship. Hell no, we dated when we 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:29.120 were young. We met when we were young, twenty one 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:32.360 years old, and we dated for about four or five years, 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:36.040 and then we went our separate ways and then I 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:39.440 wind up getting married, I had two kids, got divorced, 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:43.000 and then twelve years ago we got back together again 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:46.720 and we got married. Five years ago. I think, oh wow, 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:50.080 that's a love story. It's it's a good love story. 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:51.720 It's a good love story. I mean, you know, we 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:54.960 know each other very well. Yeah, yeah, she must bring 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:56.800 out the best in you. Do you think that's true. 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:00.440 She definitely brings out the best of me. She pushes 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:02.160 me to be the best I could be. I hope, 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:04.760 hopefully I pushed her to be the best I could be. 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.800 You know, she's a good you know, I I need boundaries, 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:10.560 So she's good at keeping boundaries but also letting me 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:13.399 be myself. And I think I do the same thing 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:15.480 for her. And I think we support each other and 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:18.960 and our patient with each other and continue to get 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:21.000 to know each other. You know, sometimes I say that 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:22.359 to her and she's like, what do you mean? I say, like, 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:26.280 our relationship is continue to evolve. I think once if 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:29.920 you stop evolving in a relationship, whether it's a boy 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:34.840 girl romantic relationship or boy boy or girl girl romantically, 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:37.080 I don't want to get canceled here, any sort of 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:39.960 romantic relationship or even just a relationship with you know, 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:44.000 with your parents, or relationship with friends. Relationships need to evolve. 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:46.560 They need to evolve, and when when they don't, I 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:48.840 think you could get into a slippery slope. Yeah, well, 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:51.400 that's a very important thing for men to understand. Actually, 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:55.600 you know, there is an evolution. And also it's important 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:58.680 to grow as a person, to not remain fixed in 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:01.720 your line of thinking or your opinions or your viewpoints. 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:07.000 Because every phase of our lives or personality traits, it's 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:09.120 not a state of being. It's a state of mind. 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:11.760 And your states of mind can change over time and 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:14.720 when you learn new things. Yeah, and I find that 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:17.760 to be a very recurring theme with a lot of guys. 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:20.000 I guess guys are different now, you know, there's and 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:23.720 definitely younger guys are more open to understanding that things 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:26.959 are not fixed, Like you don't have just a personality 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:29.560 trait and like that's just the way I am. Where 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:33.200 there should be a desire to grow and move and improve. 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:35.920 You know, if you're a jealous person, you should know 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:38.120 that that's not you don't have to be that way. 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:39.840 You don't have to live your life like that way. 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:41.879 If you're if you have no self esteem, or if 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:44.159 you're insecure, that's also a state of mind, not a 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:48.200 state of being. I agree, And for me age, you know, 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:53.280 I'm fifty two now. Relationships not just romantic, whether it 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:57.960 be business, whether it be on set relationships or personal 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:01.800 relationships or even relationships with my family. Athletes talk about 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:05.080 the games slowing down, and that's when they get to 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:08.200 get into the pocket easier where the game slows down. 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:11.920 For me, relationships in life have slowed down a little 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:13.920 bit so I could see things better and not just react. 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:17.720 Because I'm a very reactive person, as you could imagine. Yeah, 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:19.800 I used to be really reactive as well, and then 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:21.440 I went to therapy and realized I don't have to 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:23.919 live like that. And it's a it's a load off 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:26.159 my shoulders because it's like, oh, I don't need to 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:29.600 react to everything. I agree. I agree, And there's a 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:32.200 real power and feeling when you don't react. You know, 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:34.320 there's a real power to it, to going okay, I 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:37.880 didn't react to that, or not inserting yourself where it's unnecessary. 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:41.000 It's a great hub to have gotten past. And anytime 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:44.320 I am reactive, I catch myself I'm like, wait a second, 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:46.399 you're not even thinking about what you're saying right now? 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:47.800 Do you want to say it? I'm like, oh no, no, no, 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:50.280 So just the awareness of it is even, you know, 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:52.120 like it's a whole thing of like a new way 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:55.159 of thinking, So I appreciate that a lot. All right, 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:58.080 So retake callers people calling for advice, so then you 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:00.080 you have to tell them what yeah, and you're going 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:03.080 to give them. Some of them are summer letters and 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:07.520 Summer Live on Zoom. So get ready, all right, I'm ready. Okay, 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:09.720 We're gonna take a quick break and then Michael, I 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:17.479 need you to put your pants back on and we're back. Great. Oh, 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:19.680 because I actually don't have on pain I know, I 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:22.480 didn't expect for you too, and actually did you request 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:24.760 that he didn't wear? Okay, we want to bring this 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:28.280 look back for men. Okay, it's such a flattering look, 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:31.239 a sweater with no pants on. I was like, how 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:32.960 the fund did she know I don't have pants on? 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:36.840 You started sitting, you kept sitting. I do have to 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:39.000 say I was excited for you to come on the show, Michael, 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:41.600 because when I was talking to Chelsea about like various 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:44.040