WEBVTT - Adam Carolla 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.480 This is me, Craig Ferguson. I'm inviting you to come 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:05.920 and see my brand new comedy hour. Well it's actually 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:07.400 it's about an hour and a half and I don't 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:10.000 have an opener because these guys cost money. But what 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:13.000 I'm saying is I'll be on stage for a while. Anyway, 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:15.560 come and see me live on the Pants on Fire 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:19.720 Tour in your region. Tickets are on sale now, and 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:23.160 we'll be adding more as the tour continues throughout twenty 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:26.960 twenty five and beyond. For a full list of dates, 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:30.280 go to the Craig Ferguson show dot com. See you 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:35.000 on the road, My DearS. My name is Craig Ferguson. 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:39.440 The name of this podcast is Joy. I talk to 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:46.080 interest in people about what brings them happiness. My guest 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:51.320 today everyone is a gentleman who is outspoken. He knows 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:53.880 what he thinks, and he's not afraid to tell you 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:56.080 what he thinks. He's going to tell you right now. 0:00:56.600 --> 0:01:11.280 He is the singular Corolla Enjoy all right. So we 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:16.360 very briefly were talking about the right age to complain. 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.520 I feel like I'm sixty two. I'm going to be 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:22.480 sixty three very soon. And I think that's now I 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:25.559 can really start to complain. I can get people off 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:28.560 my lawn. I can say that young people are rooting 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:32.920 the world, and my hip harps and all three of 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:34.360 those things are maybe true. 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:39.280 Yeah, But the problem is is we've now enacted as 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:43.600 sort of demographic for complaint, which is, if you're heterosexual, 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:49.120 male and you have money, and you're over six foot 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:53.080 and you're white, then who are you to complain? Which 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:56.520 is I feel like I don't want that taken away 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:58.800 from me just because of the color of my skin 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:01.440 or just because of my bank account. I feel like 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:08.280 complaining is you know, maybe not uniquely American, but maybe 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:12.720 we've we've perfected the art of it. And I like 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:17.360 the notion of having all these things going for me 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:20.399 and still complaining, Like I feel like it should give 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:26.520 hope to other people that even with all the privilege 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:30.880 and all the money and all the luxury, I still 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:31.799 can't complain. 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:34.960 Well, I think that it's not. First of all, I 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:37.840 take I take issue with the fact there's a uniquely 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:39.160 American skill. 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:41.280 No, I agree. 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:43.639 Now, I say, I think we've perfected it, but I don't. 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:47.240 It's not it's it's worldwide but we may have put 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.520 you know, like cinema. You know, everyone's got it, but 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:52.200 we just we just perfected it. 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:56.160 Well, I see even then, I don't know, Adam. I mean, 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:59.160 what about the Italians. You're you're Italian people. The Italians 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:02.440 do some pretty good Let's be honest. It's just what 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:05.880 you're talking about is that you're aware of it because 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:08.360 you're in America. But if you were in Italy, you'd 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:11.480 be like, hey, what's the coming a go? I we 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:12.840 got some pretty good cinema. 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:18.400 Yeah, but I think this is a this is an 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:21.359 argument where you go, well, what about this great film? 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:23.880 What about Fellini? Or what about this great film out 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:24.400 of Paris? 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:25.000 Uh? 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:28.760 That all true, but but volume wise, I think I 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:30.360 think we're the heavyweight champion. 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.960 I think here's where the where the agreement is that 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:37.960 we in America have made a business of complaining that 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:45.839 cannot be matched for sheared size and money and uh 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:50.400 just the volume and scope of complaints. It makes everyone 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:52.080 else just look like specialists. 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:53.600 Yeah, I agree with that. 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:56.280 All right, that's fair enough. So listen, I was looking 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:58.720 at uh, you know that thing when you have someone 0:03:58.760 --> 0:03:59.920 on the show and you haven't told to them for 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.520 a while, so you google them. I don't know if 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:03.720 you still do that. 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:04.440 I did. 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:06.680 I googled you just before I come on, and I 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:09.840 and what I didn't know. And I've been aware of 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:11.600 you for a very long time. You and I have 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:14.119 bumped into each other on campus a few times over 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:17.360 the years. But I had no idea. And maybe this 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:19.760 is no true, maybe this is internet. You were a 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:21.760 boxer and a pretty good one too. 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:27.760 I was a trainer and a boxer, and a pretty 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:32.280 good one from a technician standpoint. But I wasn't ever 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:36.360 ranked or anything anything like that. I was just an 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:38.800 amateur guy. But I did. I did do it for 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:41.920 a lip. I did teach it as a as a 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:45.600 trainer for a living for a period of time. 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:48.719 Did you teach these Hollywood women with the mets? Did 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:51.880 you go like Beverly Hills housewives and just let them 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:56.160 head the mets and tell them how powerfully were Yeah? 0:04:56.200 --> 0:05:00.240 Well I what I did technically is I ran class 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:04.200 is for the Hollywood women and their you know, lawyer 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:08.279 husbands or producer husbands. And then I had some private 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:14.600 students where I ran the myths for them as well. 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:16.359 And I worked in. 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:19.080 A place called Bodies in Motion, which had a couple 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:23.600 of locations around Los Angeles in the day, and I 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:27.440 worked at the one in Old Town Pasadena, which I 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:31.159 built actually because the guy told me, if I built 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:34.279 the place, then I built it out. It was already 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:37.000 a structure, you know, then I could teach there. So 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:39.839 I wanted to teach there because I was a carpenter. 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:44.240 That I think that's very booch that you're a carpenter 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:47.440 and a books. I've never in my whenever, I like, 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:51.560 I've never full but I did books and training to 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:55.799 stay in shape, probably like lawyers and Hollywood ladies, and 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.440 I've never been in the kind of shape them in 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:01.600 when I was spa in and heading the bag and 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:03.400 running every day. It's unbelievable. 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:07.920 Yeah, it is. It's a it's a good workout. It's 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:12.360 kind of a sport mixed with the workout. And you 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:15.000 can you can. It's kind of nice about it is 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:18.159 you can skip rope for ten minutes and that's its 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:21.680 own thing. And then you could go shadow box in 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:24.680 front of the mirror for ten minutes and that's its 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:26.799 own thing. And then you could hit the heavy bag 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:29.040 for ten minutes and that's its own thing, and then 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.400 you could spa for ten minutes and that's and you 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:33.880 could hit the focus paths, you know, so you can 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:37.839 kind of move around versus sit on a rowing machine 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.600 for an hour, yeah, or a treadmill for half an 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:45.440 hour or whatever. That's super repetitive part of working out, 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:49.240 which gets really taxing. You can you know, when you're 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.760 skipping rope and you're being miserable, you go, oh, in 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:54.279 another four minutes, I'll be able to put the gloves 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:56.320 on and hit the heavy bag and that'll be better, 0:06:56.560 --> 0:07:00.360 and you can keep going from station to station. Still 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:05.440 do that, well, My hands are so screwed up from 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:10.880 so much boxing and so much carpentry that it's it's 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:16.080 really difficult. But what I do almost on a daily 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:21.640 basis is a shadow box, and shadow boxing is actually 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:26.240 probably better than hitting the heavy bag in terms of 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:31.880 technique because you're forced to kind of work your technique. 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:34.200 Sometimes when people get. 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:37.120 On a heavy bag that just kind of wail on it, yeah, 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:42.000 which isn't really technique. It's just kind of you getting 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:45.600 out aggression or trying to thump it as hard as 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:49.480 you can. I would I would say that most people 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:54.280 who wanted to get better at boxing. If they just 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:58.680 really worked on skipping rope and really worked on shadow boxing, 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:02.800 they would get much better versus you know, sparring and 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:03.800 hitting the heavy bag. 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:06.400 Well, I think it's too late for me now. I 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:09.200 think it's sixty two. I should just like maybe go 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:12.560 for a walk and have a coffee. 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:15.400 I'll tell you one thing I discovered recently, you know, 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:18.760 semi recently about I'm with you going for a walk. 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:22.800 I got, I got a weighted vest I got. I 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:26.520 did that, dude, Oh you did that, dude. Yeah, And 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:30.720 it's amazing. You go for a walk, and especially if 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:33.280 there's an incline. Man, if there's a hill by your 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:36.320 house or something, put that twenty five pound vest on 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:41.280 hike up the hill. It'll be a walk and a workout. 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:41.800 You know what. 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:45.360 I was doing a show once, like a comedy show, 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:48.320 and I had to wear a fat suit, like a 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:51.360 really heavy fat suit for this like bet and the show. 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:54.000 And because of the way it was, I was wearing 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:56.559 the fat suit all day. And I thought this would 0:08:56.559 --> 0:09:01.520 be a great like workout thing for somebody because not 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:04.520 only is it is it like really a lot to 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.000 carry around, but when you take it off, the day. 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:09.480 It's like you're before and after picture. You get used 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:12.280 to yourself being really heavy. Then you just take it 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:15.680 off and so it motivates you and sweats the ship. Yeah, 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:18.480 that's what I think. The the weighted vest is a 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:20.280 bit like but maybe it should be dressed up a 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:22.320 little bit so you look more portly. 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:28.520 Well, maybe they'll make a weighted vest with stretch marks. 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:33.920 I think. I think that might be the way to go. 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:36.800 That's my idea in case anyone wants to do it. 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:39.880 Yeah, I think that I own it now because it's 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:40.280 this is. 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:42.480 Yeah, well you suggested it. 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:46.000 I suggested it, so now I own it. So I'll 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:47.880 take it on Shark tank or something. 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:48.959 How did you. 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:51.920 Get into doing boxing? Was it because you went You 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:54.320 went to school in Hollywood? Right? Was it tough? It 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:55.960 was that? What it was was it self defense. 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:00.800 No, I went to school in North Holly, which is 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:04.480 like not Hollywood at all. It's just North Hollywood, you know, 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:09.160 it's kind of the valley like Yeah, yeah, No, I wasn't. 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:12.040 I was kind of the captain of the football team, 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:15.400 so I wasn't really picked on or anything. I was 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:20.400 picked on by my own jock friends and we picked 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:22.800 on each other. But we didn't really get picked on 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:24.840 outside of our friendship. 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:29.560 We just had I had very aggressive. 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:32.959 Friends who just did horrible things to me physically, but 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:37.120 but there were friends, you know. So No, it wasn't 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:40.440 out of a sense of self defense. It was more 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:44.840 like I did. I played football for a long time, 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:48.679 and then at some point I couldn't play football anymore, 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:52.880 and I wanted to do something that had some physicality 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:55.880 to it, you know, a contact sport so to speak. 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:59.480 You know, because football it was a lot of fun, 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:03.120 hitting people and getting into it with people and just 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:07.439 the physicality of football. I liked it, but I couldn't 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:12.440 really play football at that level anymore. So boxing seemed 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:15.520 like a physical thing to do that was like sort 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:16.720 of a contact sport. 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:19.000 And that's kind of when I took it up. 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:21.360 Are you still the fun of it? Do you follow it? 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:22.840 Do you watch the fighters coming up? 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:24.640 And yeah, I watch it. 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:27.199 I mean, a UFC is probably a little more exciting 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:31.120 than boxing, but I enjoy boxing as well. 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:35.040 And it's nice to see the UFC guys really coming 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:37.680 to their own in terms of technique with their hands, 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:41.199 because at the beginning they were kind of sloppy and 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:44.280 now they're getting pretty tight. And it just over the 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:48.080 last decade they've really cleaned up their form. You know, 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:50.199 in the in the hands world. 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.400 I've never really watched the UFC fight. Now I'm aware 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:55.240 of a biolays. I was always a bit of a 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.880 snob about it because I just liked the fight that. 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:00.720 You know, that box is all technique and to watch 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:05.480 guys who are so gifted and so fast that but 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:08.000 you know what, I should watch UFC a little bit. 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:10.400 It seems like it's a whole circus now as well. 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:13.480 It's huge. It's kind of like, did you get into 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:17.160 it early on? Yeah, I mean I liked boxing. I 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:20.640 liked the combat sports. You know, I was working in 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:23.800 that world a little bit. I mean I was working, 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:25.920 you know, I was always training and then working as 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:27.720 a trainer and stuff. So I was always kind of 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:31.679 you know, in that world, if there is going to 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.360 be a fight, someone will invite you over. 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:36.360 Hey, we're going to watch the fight. You know. 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:40.560 It's a kind of a it's a little fraternity of 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:43.480 you know, you work with guys that are trainers. You're 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:48.040 training guys who like boxing. A fight comes up, inevitably, 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:51.160 they say, I'm having people over come over Friday, we'll 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:53.240 watch the fight, you know, so you get sort of, 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:57.160 you know, kissed into it a little bit. 0:12:57.120 --> 0:13:00.680 Because that's who you're working with, you know what. 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:05.400 About in the world of sports radio and radio and 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:08.719 like podcast and I think of you as being one 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:11.320 of the real kind of oujis of this game, like 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:14.319 you kind of is one of the guys that started 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:15.839 the podcast world, weren't you. 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:22.079 I was one of the earlier podcasters. There were others, 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:24.880 but there were very few back then. 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:30.719 I kind of what I will. 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:38.400 Take credit for is not for podcasting, but for sort 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:44.720 of starting the business model of podcasting, of getting advertisers 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.959 and kind of formatting it in a way which isn't 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:52.120 really anything new. It's just the old radio format. But 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:56.600 sort of taking podcasting and kind of turning it into 0:13:56.640 --> 0:14:01.520 a business is something I'll take some credit for. And 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:06.240 also the live podcast. I started doing a live or 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:11.960 doing live podcasting fifteen years ago, more than fifteen years ago. 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:15.800 And now everyone does a live podcast. But when I 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:17.880 did it, no one knew what it was. They didn't 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:20.360 the people in the audience didn't know what it was. 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:24.360 It's such an odd thing because it's kind of the 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:30.280 dominant strain of of for people like you and I 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:32.400 do know, isn't it. It's kind of like it used 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:34.040 to be, kind of like a sight hustle, and no, 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:37.320 it's it's the main thing I can't imagine. I mean, 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:42.040 this podcast is you know I do with iHeartRadio, but 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:45.640 I can't see me, you know, doing that forever. It 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:47.480 doesn't seeven make any sense. You could just put it 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:48.760 up on YouTube and you're done. 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.520 Yeah, you know YouTube. 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:57.680 And the visual component of podcasting is turned into something 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:02.600 that wasn't anything when I start. Nobody really needed to 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:06.800 see you podcasts. They just need to hear you podcasts. 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:09.200 I still am a little confused as to why they 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:13.800 need to see you podcast but for some reason it's 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:19.000 turned into a large aspect of podcasting, which to me 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:25.000 I'm a little sad about because I really like the 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:28.680 notion of speaking and you putting earbuds in and going 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:32.640 for a hike and just listening to what I'm saying 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:35.840 versus you know, sitting on your phone waiting at an 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.440 airport watching what I'm saying. 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:41.240 Well, I think also as well, because it is the 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:44.880 funes that do it. I think that it's it's weirdly 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:48.320 less intimate, because I always thought like radio is really 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:51.040 kind of an intimate thing as a listener. It really 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:54.120 feels like, you know, you're you're much more involved in 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:56.600 it somehow, which is weird because you've not seeing it. 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.880 And then the other thing is I think now, is 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:04.600 that and I know this has happened to you that, uh, 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:08.520 there's such a hunger in the in the zeitgeis that 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:13.160 in the media for any kind of controversy or clickbait 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:18.000 or or something that will spike somebody else's a little 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:21.240 little headline that they'll take a tiny piece of what 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:25.080 you're saying and make it sound different to what you 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:30.800 were actually saying in order to create a problem. And 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:34.720 I think it. Do you think it's kind of you're 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:36.880 kind of more of a setting duck than you used 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:38.320 to be. Does that bother you at all? 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:45.560 It doesn't bother me. But I have a unique gene 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:51.240 of not being that concerned about what people say about 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:55.440 me or think about me, even as long as I 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:59.600 feel like I know what I feel about me. I 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.320 don't mean some bullshit about in my heart. I just 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:06.760 mean like, there are things I will say that are 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:11.119 that are deeply unpopular and get the ire of a 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:16.080 lot of people. But if if it's the truth, then 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:20.480 it's the truth, you know. So I look at myself 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:22.600 as a doctor and I'm just telling you you have 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:24.920 cancer and you don't want to hear that, and I've 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:27.560 ruined your day and now you're weeping, and maybe you're 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:30.960 angry at me. And my feeling is is I am 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:36.159 sorry to present you with this information, but that's my 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:39.359 job and that's my field of expertise and you should 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:42.199 know about it. And now at some point you're angry 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:45.480 at me, and I don't know what I I don't 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:48.720 have anything to do with that. I'm just presenting you 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:52.840 with what happens to be the truth. And I've I've 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:55.679 done it, you know, on the air, and I've done it. 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:59.800 I've had it happen socially as well, where you know, 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:04.600 I had a whole table of friends turn on me 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:09.200 while eating brunch, about ten people because I just told 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:12.560 them the truth about a certain topic, a subject we're 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:17.000 talking about, and they all started, you know, yelling at me, 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:19.000 and they got they got angry at me, and I 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:23.240 just told them, look, I'm sorry if you guys can't 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:26.040 handle whatever this thing is that I happen to know about. 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:29.840 But I'm just telling you and that's your business, and 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:33.280 yes I will be. I will ruin this brunch and 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:37.040 I will be the least popular person at this table, 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:40.119 but that's not going to prevent me from telling you 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:42.560 the truth and what I know about it. 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:49.640 Hello, this is Greig Ferguson, and I want to let 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:52.040 you know I have a brand new stand up company, Spatial, 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:56.159 out now on YouTube. It's called I'm So Happy, and 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:59.200 I would be so happy if you checked it out 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:01.720 to what's just basically just go to my YouTube channel 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:04.920 at the Greig Vergison Show and is this right there? 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:07.320 Just click it and play it and it's free. 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:08.480 I can't look. 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:09.840 I'm not going to come round your husband and show 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:11.159 you how to do it. If you can't do it, 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:12.720 then you can't have it. But if you can figure 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:19.120 it out, it's yours. Do you ever get angry if 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:22.080 someone tells you something and you profoundly disagree with it? 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:24.240 Does that ever make you meant? I? 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:30.919 Yeah, I mean there's for me. It's a kind of 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:34.159 a yes. I'll answer that. 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:34.520 Yes. 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:40.359 When Governor Gavin Newsom was sitting in here years ago, 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:43.679 over a decade ago, and I was telling him that 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:49.359 homeless people were basically drug addicts and or people with 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:55.439 huge psychological disorders or both, and that's who was sleeping 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:58.240 on the street, and that's what we need to focus on. 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:02.480 And he told me the real picture of homelessness was 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:06.119 a mother who was divorced, who had a full time job, 0:20:06.840 --> 0:20:09.280 who's got kicked out of her house because she got 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:12.120 divorced or something, and had two kids and worked full 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:13.280 time minimum wage. 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:15.880 I said, that's that's not it at all. 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:19.840 It's what I'm talking about, and then I got angry 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:23.480 at him because he's made the problem worse by not 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:27.440 listening to what the truth was about homeless So, yes, 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:32.200 I will get angry at these people because they're exacerbating 0:20:32.320 --> 0:20:36.399 problems and they're actually they're making the problems worse, you know, 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:39.879 So yeah, I guess I'll be that way. I've always 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:43.720 been pragmatic and just told people, here's what you need 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:48.760 to do, and but you know a sort of micro macro, 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:53.720 like I used to be a carpenter and I went 0:20:53.720 --> 0:20:58.040 to my mom's very tiny house years and years ago, 0:20:58.160 --> 0:21:00.760 and she said she was going to remodel the bathroom, 0:21:01.720 --> 0:21:05.600 and I said, uh, all right, and I went and 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:08.800 kind of looked at the space, and I said, you 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:11.920 need to make sure you frame in a pocket door, 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:16.200 sliding pocket door here when you're framing this out, because 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:18.800 if you open the door, it's just going to cut 0:21:18.800 --> 0:21:22.520 off the hallway, and if the door swings in, it's 0:21:22.520 --> 0:21:25.160 just going to hit the sink that's on the inside 0:21:25.200 --> 0:21:25.879 the bathroom. 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:28.639 So make sure you get a pocket door. 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:31.320 She said, all right, And then I came back like 0:21:31.359 --> 0:21:34.000 six months later, and I looked at it and she 0:21:34.040 --> 0:21:36.439 didn't have a pocket door. And I opened the door 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:38.880 and it opened and smacked my stepdad in the ass, 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:42.880 who was standing at the sink. And I just thought, Okay, 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:45.880 why didn't you listen to me? Why didn't you do 0:21:46.000 --> 0:21:48.440 what I told you to do? By the way, not 0:21:48.600 --> 0:21:51.879 for me, for you, this would have been so much better. 0:21:52.840 --> 0:21:57.359 But most people don't. Most people don't. But here's what I. 0:21:57.280 --> 0:22:01.800 Think that the head lane of that particular morality tailors do. 0:22:02.200 --> 0:22:06.000 You didn't see your mom for six months, there's your problem. 0:22:06.240 --> 0:22:09.600 If you had been there as the construction work was 0:22:09.640 --> 0:22:12.199 going on, you could have said, way, wait, we have 0:22:12.280 --> 0:22:15.119 to put a polka door in but because you neglected 0:22:15.160 --> 0:22:18.080 your mother for six months, so really you're to blame. 0:22:18.440 --> 0:22:22.439 You know what, I got to find a mirror to 0:22:22.520 --> 0:22:25.240 be fair, could have been three months. And also I 0:22:25.280 --> 0:22:28.159 could have met her for brunch two times in that 0:22:28.520 --> 0:22:31.200 that hero play that showed up at her house. 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:34.200 Brunch is a meal that comes up for you quite 0:22:34.240 --> 0:22:36.359 a lot, which is interesting because I think of you 0:22:36.400 --> 0:22:39.480 as a very kind of butch, straight down the lang guy, 0:22:39.560 --> 0:22:44.440 and brunch, let's be honest, is America's only openly gay meal. 0:22:44.840 --> 0:22:48.600 So I find that it's it's an interesting mix for you. 0:22:49.640 --> 0:22:53.359 I don't subscribe to that statement that you just made 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:57.359 about openly gay brunch. And I'll tell you why. You're 0:22:57.440 --> 0:23:03.760 old enough to remember a book, a very popular best seller, 0:23:04.800 --> 0:23:07.919