1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:04,640 Speaker 1: Now Here's a Highlight. From Coast to Coast AM on iHeartRadio. 2 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:09,440 Speaker 2: Sam Tripley is a fearless comedian and podcast team Powerhouse. 3 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:13,319 Speaker 2: He's been a headlining comic for over thirty years. He's 4 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:16,880 Speaker 2: released six comedy albums. His latest comedy special is Why 5 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:20,759 Speaker 2: Is Everybody Getting Quiet? Sam has appeared on Comedy Central, 6 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:23,760 Speaker 2: The Late Late Show, The Comedy Store on Showtime, and 7 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:27,320 Speaker 2: Mysteries to Code It on CW. He's a true og. 8 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 2: Sam has been featured on The Joe Rogan Experience and 9 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:38,280 Speaker 2: The Ice House Chronicles podcasts. Sam's podcast Empire includes Tinfoil Hat, Conspiracy, 10 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:42,159 Speaker 2: Social Club, and Broken Simulation, all consistently ranking in Apple's 11 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 2: Top two hundred comedy podcasts. Sam also hosts Punch Drunk, Sports, 12 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:50,680 Speaker 2: Cash Daddies, The Union of the Unwanted, and Zero with 13 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 2: Sam Tripley, offering everything from conspiracy theories to sports and 14 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 2: financial advice. On stage, Sam is a whorldwind, relentlessly questioning 15 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 2: authority and finding humor in life's strangest corners. His comedy's 16 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 2: raw and unfiltered, and often the voice in your head 17 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:08,839 Speaker 2: that you're too afraid to say out loud. As Sam 18 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:11,759 Speaker 2: puts it. I'm the little voice in your head, but funnier. 19 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 2: Sam's career started with a dare in Las Vegas, where 20 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 2: he became a key figure in the comedy scene, co 21 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 2: founding the Mutiny Improv Troupe and hosting a weekly show 22 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 2: on the strip. For Sam, comedy isn't just a job, 23 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:28,759 Speaker 2: It's a calling, Sam TRIPLEI welcome to Coast to coast, Am, 24 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 2: How are you? 25 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 3: Honor and a privilege. Good to be back with you, Richard. 26 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:38,680 Speaker 3: You make me sound good. Dude, you make me sound good. 27 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:40,560 Speaker 3: I might need you to call my mom once in 28 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:42,080 Speaker 3: a while and tell what I'm doing. 29 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 1: All right, how are you? 30 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:46,559 Speaker 4: Brothers, I'm terrific. Thank you. I'm such a square. 31 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:48,640 Speaker 2: I got to ask you, what does it mean to 32 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 2: be an og of the Joe Rogan experience? 33 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 3: Well, well, I'm one of the original guts from way 34 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 3: back to the day. I was actually one of the 35 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:00,160 Speaker 3: I used to go to his house when he did it, 36 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:02,440 Speaker 3: way way way back in the day. He used to 37 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 3: do in this side room. I was actually one of 38 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 3: the original podcasts on a podcast network called death Squad 39 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 3: and which I think changed the game. I think Desk 40 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 3: Squad was in the Nexus the nucleus or the movement 41 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 3: of the content creators away from Hollywood and legacy media, 42 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:29,960 Speaker 3: and it's never been the same since. And I've been 43 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 3: blessed to be a part of it. And here I 44 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:34,360 Speaker 3: am on your show. If I could give a quick 45 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:37,959 Speaker 3: shout out to one of my favorite comics working today, 46 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:42,799 Speaker 3: Dustin Yarbro. He's on listening. He's a conspiracy comic. He 47 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 3: he crushes it on stage, and you know, just he 48 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 3: texts me that he's listening. So I want to give 49 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:49,960 Speaker 3: him a shout out. So here, let me look good 50 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:51,960 Speaker 3: in front of my friends, Richard, I appreciate that. 51 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 4: All right. 52 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 3: Now. 53 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:54,960 Speaker 2: I don't want to get political, because you know, here 54 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 2: I am a Canadian interloper speaking to a primarily American audience, 55 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 2: but I am I am sure is to get your 56 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:06,640 Speaker 2: thoughts on the ascendancy of the podcast during this election cycle, 57 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 2: the power and influence circumventing the legacy media, particularly you 58 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:17,760 Speaker 2: know with Joe Rogan and others. I mean, I'm not 59 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:19,800 Speaker 2: sure anything is ever going to be the same after 60 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:21,800 Speaker 2: this election cycle again with the podcast. 61 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 4: What are your thoughts? 62 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 3: Well, you know, when I started a Tim Faull hat podcast, 63 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 3: I had a t shirt which said the Revolution will 64 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 3: be podcast and it turned out to be true. I mean, 65 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 3: the game changers the you know, my good friend Phil Vaughn, 66 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 3: my good friend Joe Rogan, one of my favorite people, 67 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 3: Tim Dillon. They are the new media and people listen 68 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:49,520 Speaker 3: to them and it changed the game. You know, people want. Really, 69 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:54,120 Speaker 3: the future is authenticity in my humble opinion, and we're 70 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 3: entering a wonderful, wonderful time riture. I don't know if 71 00:03:57,360 --> 00:03:59,600 Speaker 3: you saw Trump's big I know we're not getting a 72 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 3: politic I'm totally fine with that. But you know Trump's 73 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 3: big video we put out today talking about free speech. 74 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 3: I mean it was, I mean that is That is 75 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 3: the greatest New Rockney speech I've heard from a politician 76 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:17,280 Speaker 3: in a very long time. So I believe the future 77 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:19,120 Speaker 3: is great and I'm excited. 78 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 4: Man. 79 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 3: We live in a time where the masses can exchange 80 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 3: ideas and to me that that's a beautiful thing and 81 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 3: it's a wonderful time to be alive. 82 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 4: It is exciting, It is exciting. 83 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 2: I remember you telling me a story about how your 84 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 2: whole world view changed. I'm not sure how old you were. 85 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:46,280 Speaker 2: You saw two professional wrestlers who were supposedly bitter adversaries 86 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:48,720 Speaker 2: in the ring, and then you saw them hanging out 87 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 2: drinking beers, and that just changed everything. 88 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:52,120 Speaker 4: Tell me more about that. 89 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:55,279 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, everyone always asked me when did I 90 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 3: become a conspiracy theorist? What was the first conspiracy? And, 91 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 3: like I told you before, or one of the first 92 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:05,600 Speaker 3: conspiracy to me is Santa Claus. That's a giant blackmailing 93 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:08,800 Speaker 3: scheme to get kids to pay attention to the parents. 94 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:12,360 Speaker 3: And then the second one is is when Hacksaw Jim 95 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 3: Duggan and the the the one of the most amazing wrestlers, 96 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:18,880 Speaker 3: one of the nice people you ever met, the Iron 97 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:24,960 Speaker 3: Sheet got busted in a pickup truck together drunk, and 98 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 3: my world shattered. I'm like, oh, it's all a theater 99 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 3: and it's so funny because later on in my life, Richard, 100 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 3: the next time I felt that was when Bill Clinton 101 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:43,599 Speaker 3: went to the the the hanging up Trent Lott's picture 102 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:48,480 Speaker 3: in the Library of Congress. He's getting his portrait put up, 103 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 3: and they all showed up. So it was Trent Law, 104 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 3: Newke Gingrich, and Oral Hatch and they're smiling. With all 105 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:58,280 Speaker 3: of them. Was Bill Clinton, and I remember going dude, 106 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 3: you're supposed to hate this guy. You got girls first, 107 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 3: I hate each other, and I go, ah, dude, it's 108 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:07,600 Speaker 3: the Iron Chic and half saw Jim Duggan. It was 109 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:11,160 Speaker 3: all a show. And you know, even you know, we 110 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:13,280 Speaker 3: can get into my thoughts on Trump, but you know, 111 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:16,320 Speaker 3: when I saw Trump at the Catholic event and you know, 112 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:19,720 Speaker 3: and he's just padding. No, I forgot who the Democrat 113 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:23,640 Speaker 3: was on the back. I just say, oh, there it 114 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 3: is Matt's theater again. It's all theater again. And that's 115 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:29,920 Speaker 3: why I just kind of I find it interesting. But yeah, 116 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:32,599 Speaker 3: one of the big wake up moments for me. My 117 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 3: father raised me very paranoid. He said, never believe anything 118 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:37,280 Speaker 3: in what your year and half what you see. And 119 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 3: now it's almost do you believe anything what you see? 120 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:42,839 Speaker 3: And so my dad raised me that way and it 121 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:45,760 Speaker 3: turned out to be right. It's a real blessing. 122 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 2: Is comedy and conspiracy. I mean, are there is it 123 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:55,480 Speaker 2: a natural sort of convergence when you're on stage, and 124 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,680 Speaker 2: because I think one of the things that comedians do 125 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:04,359 Speaker 2: is they tell us the truth and and that that's 126 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:07,000 Speaker 2: what you know, Conspiracy theories are sort of trying to 127 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 2: do as well, talk to me about that convergence of 128 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:13,000 Speaker 2: the blending of comedy with conspiracy. 129 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 3: Uh. You know, it's very interesting to me because you know, 130 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 3: we're the we're the gestures. You know, there was a 131 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:21,720 Speaker 3: time in the in the past when the gesture it 132 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:23,600 Speaker 3: was the only person could be honest with the king, 133 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 3: and even that would get him in trouble. So the 134 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:30,520 Speaker 3: whole key to this what I do, and you know 135 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 3: we have some interesting moments on stage, is get him 136 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 3: laugh and slip them the truth. You know, it's a 137 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 3: weird blend right now to it's a it's an interesting 138 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 3: time in comedy. You know, I think everything else is extreme. 139 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:48,080 Speaker 3: And you know, the the cancel culture, the the shadow 140 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:51,120 Speaker 3: in the cave that is cancel culture, meaning everybody thinks 141 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 3: it's everywhere all the time, has done a little damage 142 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 3: to comedy. Uh, in terms of mad people scare to 143 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:00,560 Speaker 3: talk the truth. Me, I'm not there. I always stay 144 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 3: in the pocket, dude. And you know, I've said this forever, 145 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 3: mostly to myself because no one listens to me. But 146 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:10,240 Speaker 3: I never change. People come to me. You know, I've 147 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:13,239 Speaker 3: always I've always been the conspiracy guy for the last 148 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 3: you know, my podcast is almost eight years eight years old. 149 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:19,440 Speaker 3: That's a long time for a show. And you know, 150 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 3: I was doing conspiracies before that. So now I'm seeing 151 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:25,320 Speaker 3: everybody do conspiracies on stage and I love it. It means, 152 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 3: you know, my work is happening here. And you know, 153 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 3: it's always fun when you hear friends like Joe Rogan, 154 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:33,280 Speaker 3: you know, talking about stuff either I talked on my 155 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:36,440 Speaker 3: podcasts or things I tweeted before, and you get to see, 156 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:39,080 Speaker 3: you know, he's out there talking to a much bigger group. 157 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:41,720 Speaker 3: It's like a real blessing. I've always said this, man, 158 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:46,720 Speaker 3: a paranoid population is the best population. You want a 159 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:51,000 Speaker 3: paranoid population. You want a paranoid population that ask questions, 160 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,880 Speaker 3: that puts the politician's feed to the fire. You know, 161 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 3: we got to be support but there at the same time, 162 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:59,960 Speaker 3: we have to really be on the lookout for them 163 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:00,920 Speaker 3: pulling some stuff. 164 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:01,320 Speaker 1: You know. 165 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:05,720 Speaker 3: It's like I saw the saying today, expect the worst, 166 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:07,800 Speaker 3: hope for the best, and that's kind of how I 167 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:11,360 Speaker 3: live my life. I always I'm gonna treat Donald Trump's 168 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:16,959 Speaker 3: presidency like my favorite football team, the the Las Vegas Raiders. 169 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:20,320 Speaker 3: I'm gonna treat them like every new season, every new season. 170 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:23,400 Speaker 3: I believe the Raiders are gonna win the Super Bowl. 171 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 3: Three weeks in the train goes off the tracks. So 172 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:29,840 Speaker 3: that's all I'm gonna do with with uh, with Trump's 173 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:33,079 Speaker 3: new next four years, I'm gonna have hope it's all 174 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:35,200 Speaker 3: gonna work out. I'm gonna give it them all this 175 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:38,360 Speaker 3: positive energy, and but I won't be surprised if the 176 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:41,040 Speaker 3: trains go off the tracks. I always want to be positive. 177 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 4: Well, I can relate. I'm a Toronto May Beliefs fan. 178 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:47,160 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, through it. You guys are going through it. 179 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:48,600 Speaker 3: You guys need to win a cup. 180 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 4: Come on, yeah, just one more before I die. 181 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:56,840 Speaker 2: As we say, you know, speaking of comedy and conspiracy 182 00:09:56,920 --> 00:10:00,359 Speaker 2: and truth bombs and so forth, isn't it amazing now 183 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 2: the all of these old George Carlin clips on social 184 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:08,920 Speaker 2: media and how they have so much currency again, yeah, 185 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:10,439 Speaker 2: on him. 186 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 3: And Bill Hicks is very much like that. You watch 187 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:16,520 Speaker 3: anything they do, it's like, oh wow, that is totally 188 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 3: you know, that would totally fit in today. The only 189 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:23,720 Speaker 3: difference between what Bill Hicks and Richard Pryor went through 190 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:26,360 Speaker 3: was comedy is a little different right now because of 191 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:31,480 Speaker 3: social media, because there's so much there's so there's so 192 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 3: with with Twitter and everything, there's there's a lot of 193 00:10:35,559 --> 00:10:38,320 Speaker 3: like doom scrolling going on. So when people go to 194 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 3: comedy clubs, they sometimes want to have a little break. 195 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 3: They want a little break from uh, from the news 196 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:47,920 Speaker 3: all the time. When when Carlin was roaming, you know, 197 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:50,080 Speaker 3: you get your news one hour at night, then you 198 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:52,719 Speaker 3: read the newspaper and that was kind of done with it. 199 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,839 Speaker 3: Now it's like people are just saturating in the news 200 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:58,720 Speaker 3: all the time. So you have to walk a fine line. 201 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 3: People are there to be entered, so again, you gotta 202 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 3: get them laughing, slip them the truth. That's how I operate. 203 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:07,559 Speaker 4: It's a very stude observation. 204 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 2: Do you have to tailor your act differently depending on 205 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 2: what part of the country you're playing? So, for example, 206 00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:19,560 Speaker 2: are there certain regions of the country that are and 207 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:22,240 Speaker 2: either more hungry for the conspiracy stuff other people just 208 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:24,800 Speaker 2: want to laugh, Like you know, whether you're playing in 209 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:29,920 Speaker 2: I don't know, Iowa versus Chicago, La versus I don't 210 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:30,560 Speaker 2: know Tucson. 211 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:38,120 Speaker 3: Great question, dude, great question, And the answer is it's changed. 212 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:41,120 Speaker 3: Like it used to be you could go for in LA. 213 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 3: That has changed. Now you have to kind of dumb 214 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:48,200 Speaker 3: it down, you know, not to scare that they're scared. 215 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:48,600 Speaker 1: In La. 216 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:50,480 Speaker 3: It used to be you could drop the hammers here. 217 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:53,000 Speaker 3: Then you go on the road, go to Middle America, 218 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:54,840 Speaker 3: and you'd have to dumb it down a little bit. 219 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:58,319 Speaker 3: Now it's like totally slipped. Now you go these red states, 220 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 3: you can just totally drop hammers. Now when because of 221 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:04,720 Speaker 3: Tim Foulhattan, I have a I'm blessed, have a little 222 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:07,160 Speaker 3: bit of a following. You know, they come to hear 223 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:08,559 Speaker 3: what I have to say, so I can go a 224 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:12,160 Speaker 3: little farther with people than most comedians. But like I'm 225 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:15,680 Speaker 3: telling you, La, dude, you get into some wars with 226 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:18,719 Speaker 3: these crowds. Like last night at the comedy store, they 227 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:21,120 Speaker 3: like they were in on something and then the bottom 228 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:23,840 Speaker 3: just dropped out, and I'm out there just trying to 229 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:26,160 Speaker 3: press them, like and this whole thing about leaving the 230 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:31,280 Speaker 3: country and going on like love making bands and just 231 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:34,480 Speaker 3: all the ridiculous baby stuff's going on. I'm talking about. 232 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:38,160 Speaker 3: They're getting quiet, They're not happy. You know. It's like 233 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:40,720 Speaker 3: the whole city of Los Angeles is in like mourning. 234 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:44,040 Speaker 3: Kamala Harris and I just don't get it because you know, 235 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:47,240 Speaker 3: La was these used to be the outlaws. This is 236 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 3: where the outlaws came to create art because it was 237 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:52,840 Speaker 3: the only thing they could do, you know, whether it 238 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 3: was mainstream or alternative entertainment. This is where you came. 239 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:59,240 Speaker 3: And now that's all dead, dude. It's it's like the 240 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:03,600 Speaker 3: cancel call culture, the me too movement just h everything 241 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 3: just kind of destroyed what was happening in La. Now 242 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:09,600 Speaker 3: you got your places like Austin and you know, Tampa 243 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:12,440 Speaker 3: is great. There's these other cities. There are a lot 244 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:15,120 Speaker 3: of fun. Man in La. It's like it's it's it 245 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:17,319 Speaker 3: can be. You can catch the wrong crowd and they 246 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:20,120 Speaker 3: just stare at you. And it used to suck because 247 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:22,440 Speaker 3: La is where all the rock and roll was. It's 248 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:27,440 Speaker 3: not like that anymore. These big cities are just it's changed, 249 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 3: like the wolf virus has rotten it. You go on 250 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:32,360 Speaker 3: the road, you go to Dallas, you go Austin, you 251 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:36,800 Speaker 3: go you know, Florida. There's so many great places to go. 252 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:42,320 Speaker 3: Kansas City is a fire comedy market. There's so many 253 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:45,080 Speaker 3: great markets out there. It used to be La was 254 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:46,840 Speaker 3: the place you want to be in New York's this 255 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:49,640 Speaker 3: place you want to be not like that anymore, not 256 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:50,480 Speaker 3: like that anymore. 257 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:52,200 Speaker 4: Things are so divisive. 258 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:57,520 Speaker 2: Now, do you still feel a responsibility as a comedian 259 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:02,600 Speaker 2: to try and to bring people together, maybe to heal 260 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:03,840 Speaker 2: that rift. 261 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:06,320 Speaker 3: This is a great, great, great question. 262 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:06,680 Speaker 4: Dude. 263 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:11,440 Speaker 3: You're crushing this interview, Richard, You're crushing it. Okay. One 264 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:13,160 Speaker 3: thing I want to say is like you're talking about 265 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:16,480 Speaker 3: the busiesusness and people that get along. Uh you know, 266 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:19,320 Speaker 3: I had guested on and she brought up this point 267 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:24,120 Speaker 3: about how the New Tower of Babel is basically the Internet, 268 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:29,400 Speaker 3: but more specifically algorithms like these algorithms are digging us 269 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 3: into a place where we live in alternative realities and 270 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:36,880 Speaker 3: we don't live in the same world, and therefore it's 271 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:39,600 Speaker 3: hard for us to talk to each other. My data 272 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:42,600 Speaker 3: points in your data points to be totally different. It's 273 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:44,400 Speaker 3: probably more like because we're both kind of in the 274 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 3: conspiracy world. But like my girlfriend, I love her the pieces, 275 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 3: she's a shell shock of what happened in the election. 276 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:54,680 Speaker 3: I'm not shell shocked at all. But her data points 277 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:57,840 Speaker 3: and my data points are totally different. So it's like, uh, 278 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:01,960 Speaker 3: we we it's dividing conquer man, and that is the 279 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:05,320 Speaker 3: conspiracy rate there now. In terms of bringing people together, 280 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:08,320 Speaker 3: all I do I do, and I have a weird 281 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:11,360 Speaker 3: way of doing it. You know, there are some great 282 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:13,880 Speaker 3: comics who just go up there, like my buddy Dust 283 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:16,840 Speaker 3: and listen, guy's a crusher. I watch him. I wish 284 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 3: I could do the comedy does. I'm just not wired 285 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:22,160 Speaker 3: that way. But my whole way of bringing people together 286 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:26,320 Speaker 3: is saying the stuff that nobody wants comics to say, 287 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:29,280 Speaker 3: because they have these like weird views in life, these 288 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:31,920 Speaker 3: woke views. And I like to say it and then 289 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:35,080 Speaker 3: point out that the walls aren't bleeding, their world doesn't 290 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:37,400 Speaker 3: shatter that we can talk about each other, we can 291 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:39,520 Speaker 3: laugh about each other. You know. I had a buddy 292 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 3: of mine who's got a really big YouTube channel, and 293 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:45,680 Speaker 3: he's leaving LA because it's too woke to go to Austin. 294 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:49,520 Speaker 3: And I go, yeah, man, it's like it's great out there. 295 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:51,440 Speaker 3: You know, they're kind of letting it go. And then 296 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:53,960 Speaker 3: he starts talking about how like he doesn't want to, 297 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:57,720 Speaker 3: he doesn't want to, you know, conservatives to take over comedy. 298 00:15:57,760 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 3: I go, you mean back when you can make fun 299 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:03,000 Speaker 3: of people in the eighties, in the early nineties, in 300 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 3: the seventies, But what are you talking about? So so 301 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 3: for me, man, it's like I come from a place 302 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:12,440 Speaker 3: of love. I have no hate in my heart. I 303 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:16,360 Speaker 3: love everybody and I love I love the You know, 304 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:20,160 Speaker 3: if you hear from Toronto, you know this, Like, diversity 305 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 3: is beautiful, It makes a it makes for a wonderful 306 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:25,680 Speaker 3: world to live in. But they've weaponized it and they 307 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:28,280 Speaker 3: turn us all against each other, and I think that's dying. 308 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:32,120 Speaker 3: So I don't try to bring people better together through 309 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:34,960 Speaker 3: a Kumba Yas situation. There's a lot of great comics 310 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:36,640 Speaker 3: to do that. 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