WEBVTT - It's Like Pulling Teeth 0:00:00.330 --> 0:00:04.990 Hit that intro, go! Laugh with me when the rent's 0:00:05.050 --> 0:00:09.400 past two and the car won't start. Laugh with me 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:13.660 when the only sponsor is my broken heart. We're hanging 0:00:13.820 --> 0:00:17.139 on this janky stream. Two weird voices in the glow 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:20.800 of a screen. If the world won't sing, then let 0:00:20.860 --> 0:00:22.720 it laugh with. 0:00:24.900 --> 0:00:27.790 Me. It's J.O. and we are back with a brand 0:00:27.930 --> 0:00:32.269 new episode. This is Laugh With Me, the podcast. We've 0:00:32.310 --> 0:00:42.610 got producer Johnny Palermo here with us. You gave yourself applause. 0:00:44.250 --> 0:00:45.030 I was trying to hype. 0:00:45.590 --> 0:00:45.870 All right. 0:00:46.130 --> 0:00:52.660 And we've got producer Johnny Palermo with us. I am 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:53.620 Jeremy Odom. 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:56.880 Yep, Johnny. 0:00:56.980 --> 0:01:01.190 Johnny. That's where, yeah, okay. 0:01:01.610 --> 0:01:02.610 Yeah, thanks, yeah. 0:01:02.630 --> 0:01:02.790 Okay. 0:01:03.410 --> 0:01:07.850 Well, I'm feeling a little better. If you heard last 0:01:07.870 --> 0:01:11.390 week's episode, I was going through it, man, with an infection, 0:01:11.569 --> 0:01:15.690 an infected mouth, because this tooth, this bad tooth, I 0:01:15.730 --> 0:01:22.180 needed it pulled, and mission accomplished. We got that tooth 0:01:22.780 --> 0:01:31.020 pulled less than one week ago, finally. on the mend. 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:35.800 And we're going to talk about it. It was an experience. 0:01:37.180 --> 0:01:41.140 It's been a minute. It's been a couple minutes since 0:01:41.190 --> 0:01:43.490 I've had some dental work done. I've never had a 0:01:43.530 --> 0:01:47.510 tooth pulled. So this was quite the experience. I was 0:01:47.530 --> 0:01:51.190 a little nervous about the whole thing. What helped was 0:01:51.230 --> 0:01:56.410 how much pain I was in right before the tooth 0:01:56.430 --> 0:02:00.850 being pulled because of the infection and whatnot. But Still 0:02:00.870 --> 0:02:02.750 a little nervous. What I could have done and what 0:02:02.770 --> 0:02:06.610 I didn't do was talk to people who've had their 0:02:06.630 --> 0:02:09.270 tooth pulled. I refuse to Google anything about it because 0:02:09.310 --> 0:02:11.950 I didn't want, you know what it's like. You Google 0:02:12.190 --> 0:02:15.690 that your wrist hurts and then suddenly, you know, you're 0:02:15.710 --> 0:02:17.870 going to lose an arm. Like that's what ends up 0:02:17.950 --> 0:02:21.769 happening when you Google something. But I probably could have 0:02:21.830 --> 0:02:25.650 talked to people. You know, Eric, who's on the show 0:02:25.970 --> 0:02:28.910 all the time, has had a tooth pulled. My dad, 0:02:29.270 --> 0:02:32.180 he's had a tooth pulled. I believe this year, last year, 0:02:32.580 --> 0:02:34.600 very recently, and he was over watching the Husker game, 0:02:35.260 --> 0:02:38.100 I could have asked him about what it was like, 0:02:38.180 --> 0:02:40.120 what the experience, I didn't because I was nervous. I 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:42.600 was scared of what this was going to be like. 0:02:42.620 --> 0:02:46.670 I'll tell you what, the advances that have been made 0:02:47.389 --> 0:02:52.290 in the dental world made it so much easier and 0:02:52.450 --> 0:02:56.570 certainly made me feel a whole lot better about the 0:02:56.610 --> 0:03:00.040 whole thing. Hopefully I never have to have another tooth pulled, 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:06.470 but If I do, I'm fully prepared. Like, I am 0:03:07.930 --> 0:03:11.350 dialed in now to have a tooth pulled. But let 0:03:11.370 --> 0:03:12.950 me tell you about it. It was a Thursday morning. 0:03:13.010 --> 0:03:16.570 I rolled in. What I thought I would be doing 0:03:17.180 --> 0:03:20.200 was just sitting there waiting in the waiting room, you know, 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:23.520 until I had to go back in the chair, and 0:03:23.540 --> 0:03:25.520 then they'd be rocking and rolling, right? Because there was 0:03:25.540 --> 0:03:31.440 an hour scheduled for this thing. After living it, There 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:33.370 was an hour scheduled for this thing, I believe, for 0:03:33.410 --> 0:03:36.470 billing purposes. Because there was, we didn't need to do this. 0:03:36.670 --> 0:03:39.460 It was not an hour deal. But I roll up, 0:03:39.530 --> 0:03:41.450 I go, they had me sit in the chair, lay 0:03:41.490 --> 0:03:44.250 in the chair. And they had a classic episode of 0:03:44.350 --> 0:03:47.120 Price is Right on, though. Bob Barker, like one of 0:03:47.130 --> 0:03:53.380 his early stuff. I mean, he still looks 77. He 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:55.620 looks 77 years old, but I bet he was only. 0:03:57.220 --> 0:03:59.870 Oh, shoot. Probably at that time, what was he, 35? 0:03:59.870 --> 0:04:00.270 I mean, he. 0:04:01.790 --> 0:04:04.090 There was just something about that era. And I know 0:04:04.130 --> 0:04:08.650 I'm not inventing this joke. I know that this is 0:04:08.710 --> 0:04:13.620 not the first time something like this joke is being made. 0:04:13.660 --> 0:04:14.700 That's not the joke, Johnny. 0:04:14.780 --> 0:04:14.940 What? 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:19.520 You are out for blood today. No, the joke of, 0:04:19.779 --> 0:04:23.110 you know, people just looked older, you know, back in 0:04:23.130 --> 0:04:27.400 the day. I mean, this whole audience... And this had 0:04:27.420 --> 0:04:32.860 to have been filmed in the 80s. It just, they 0:04:32.900 --> 0:04:35.140 all looked old. The only folks that didn't look old, 0:04:35.779 --> 0:04:41.820 you know, was the gals that showcased the prizes. Everybody, 0:04:42.740 --> 0:04:47.560 even Rod Roddy. He looked like a young old, if 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:52.340 that makes sense. Like he looked older, but maybe took 0:04:52.380 --> 0:04:55.000 care of his skin differently than the rest. Like that's 0:04:55.020 --> 0:04:56.300 what it looked like. He looked like he was wearing 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:58.660 a bunch of makeup. That's what it is. That's what, 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:03.039 that's what it looked like. Anyways, Bob looked, Bob looked. 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:08.140 So I was cracking that joke with the, uh, with 0:05:08.180 --> 0:05:11.900 the dentist and the dental assistant. But the, the thing 0:05:12.020 --> 0:05:14.940 is they let me sit there for quite a while. Um, 0:05:15.060 --> 0:05:17.180 which was interesting cause I probably could have just been 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:19.940 sitting in the waiting room, but they, uh, they had 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.450 me laying there just waiting and thinking and that, that just, 0:05:22.790 --> 0:05:27.570 you know, elevates the tension. And then finally, a doc 0:05:27.620 --> 0:05:30.200 comes in, and I wanted to be up front about 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:33.480 two things with the doc. The first thing I wanted 0:05:33.500 --> 0:05:39.380 to be up front with him about was that in my, 0:05:39.550 --> 0:05:42.690 and again, it's been a couple minutes, but in my 0:05:42.790 --> 0:05:48.170 previous experience getting dental work, they've put the needles in 0:05:48.210 --> 0:05:51.700 to shoot, you know, try to numb me up. And 0:05:51.740 --> 0:05:55.620 I could have used more. And it has to do 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:57.700 with the red hair. It's like a whole thing, right? 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:01.960 We need more of the pain stuff. And I find 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:05.980 this every time I have a colonoscopy done as well. 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:07.300 I get one every year because of the Crohn's. And 0:06:08.460 --> 0:06:10.180 I find that then too when they're trying to put 0:06:10.220 --> 0:06:13.049 me to sleep. Like, it's a battle. Like, I'm not 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:18.170 going down easy. And I wanted to be up front 0:06:18.190 --> 0:06:20.570 with them about that in case we needed to ramp 0:06:20.730 --> 0:06:24.620 up the numbing. Right. The numbing situation, because I had 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:27.740 a feeling this was going to hurt. The second thing 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:30.839 was if he wanted to save some time, I was 0:06:30.940 --> 0:06:33.909 willing to tie a string around my tooth and let 0:06:33.930 --> 0:06:35.510 him slam a door so we can just get in 0:06:35.550 --> 0:06:40.130 and get out. But thank you. I thought you were 0:06:40.150 --> 0:06:44.200 going to miss that one. But he didn't like that either. 0:06:44.339 --> 0:06:46.060 So he was just ready to go with what he 0:06:46.100 --> 0:06:48.180 had planned, which is fine. I'm here for him. 0:06:48.260 --> 0:06:48.400 Right. 0:06:51.180 --> 0:06:55.380 The beauty of it, once they got going, the technological 0:06:55.420 --> 0:06:59.480 advances in dental care is incredible. They did the little 0:06:59.500 --> 0:07:02.220 topical on the Q-tip, you know, to rub around to 0:07:02.260 --> 0:07:04.990 try to numb it up before the numbing shots. I've 0:07:05.010 --> 0:07:07.870 never had that before, and that was awesome. I didn't 0:07:07.890 --> 0:07:11.410 even feel the shot go in. It was incredible. And 0:07:11.450 --> 0:07:14.590 then the shots, they did a couple of them, plenty. 0:07:15.070 --> 0:07:18.670 I was numbed up. which was one of my bigger concerns. 0:07:18.750 --> 0:07:22.100 So as soon as I knew that was good to go, boy, 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:23.980 that just kind of, like, relieved a lot of the 0:07:24.020 --> 0:07:26.700 pressure I had in my brain. The other thing, and 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:30.680 this is what I was most impressed with, this, like, 0:07:30.740 --> 0:07:32.900 mouth guard-looking thing that they put in your mouth now 0:07:32.940 --> 0:07:33.890 to keep your mouth open. 0:07:34.470 --> 0:07:34.950 Oh, man. 0:07:35.390 --> 0:07:38.090 They should have told me when we scheduled this appointment 0:07:38.110 --> 0:07:39.570 that's what they were going to use because that was 0:07:39.630 --> 0:07:41.990 one of my bigger worries, too, is I'm going through 0:07:42.010 --> 0:07:44.250 all this. I have to keep my mouth open. you know, 0:07:44.300 --> 0:07:46.680 for so long, because I always struggle with that. Then 0:07:46.700 --> 0:07:48.480 my tongue is out, you know, they're always like, do 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:54.480 this with your tongue, and I can't. And that's the 0:07:54.500 --> 0:07:58.140 thing is, they made it easy for you now. So 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:03.320 I couldn't have been more impressed with the technological advances 0:08:03.380 --> 0:08:10.200 in dental care. The only time I didn't care for 0:08:10.230 --> 0:08:12.350 it was when they had to take that out, they 0:08:12.390 --> 0:08:14.790 got the tooth out, and then it was a matter 0:08:14.990 --> 0:08:18.880 of putting in the stuchers, you know, the stitches into 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:22.540 my gum to get rid, sew the wound together. Because 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:24.180 then he's, you know, you take that out, and then 0:08:24.220 --> 0:08:26.120 I have to open my mouth, and there, you know, 0:08:26.140 --> 0:08:27.860 he's in there doing that. That was kind of difficult, 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:35.770 but luckily that was very brief. Very brief. But when 0:08:35.790 --> 0:08:39.530 I first got there, first thing he did, you know, 0:08:39.550 --> 0:08:42.510 I walked back, the nurse, she, or nurse, she, the assistant, 0:08:42.550 --> 0:08:44.570 she Wanted to take a quick x-ray because they needed 0:08:44.590 --> 0:08:47.839 to see where the nerves were. And they wanted to 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.059 make sure they avoided those nerves, which I'm very thankful 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:53.420 for that. I probably would have felt that one. But 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:55.439 they take this picture, and then I go back, and 0:08:55.460 --> 0:08:58.340 I'm watching Price is Right, and the dentist comes back, 0:08:58.380 --> 0:09:00.250 and he goes, here's the deal. And he takes his fingers, 0:09:00.290 --> 0:09:01.890 and he kind of spreads them like legs, right? And 0:09:01.910 --> 0:09:04.030 he puts a pen under it, and he's like, your 0:09:06.230 --> 0:09:08.770 roots are sitting right on top of your nerves, so 0:09:08.790 --> 0:09:11.030 we're going to work really hard to avoid that, which 0:09:11.170 --> 0:09:15.970 I appreciate that. But then he says, you have really 0:09:16.130 --> 0:09:21.080 long roots, which I said, I've been told that before. 0:09:21.100 --> 0:09:23.240 Okay. 0:09:23.980 --> 0:09:28.179 He laughed because it's funny. And I was so excited 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:30.300 for that joke. And I was so excited to get 0:09:30.540 --> 0:09:32.719 out of the dentist's office so I could put that 0:09:32.740 --> 0:09:38.500 in the group chat. And this is what I get. 0:09:38.580 --> 0:09:42.380 My brother, he says, you have long roots? Like, dude. 0:09:43.510 --> 0:09:46.490 he ruined the whole joke. I was like, dude, it was, 0:09:46.570 --> 0:09:49.470 it was a, it was a dick joke. Like, and he, 0:09:51.830 --> 0:09:54.770 he was not about that life. I, uh, I really 0:09:54.809 --> 0:09:58.220 thought I had something with the long roots joke. And, um, 0:10:01.020 --> 0:10:04.710 I don't know if I was more disappointed in that day. 0:10:04.790 --> 0:10:08.550 Having to have a tooth pulled. Fighting this infection, getting 0:10:08.570 --> 0:10:10.449 that tooth pulled. Or the fact that that joke didn't 0:10:10.490 --> 0:10:12.449 land in the group chat. I was really excited about it. 0:10:13.470 --> 0:10:18.969 Very excited. I also was, as I was laying there, 0:10:18.990 --> 0:10:22.710 I was kind of thinking... Price is Right, it was 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:27.130 fun to watch on the TV, but I was worried 0:10:28.429 --> 0:10:30.250 that it was going to ruin the Price is Right 0:10:30.270 --> 0:10:33.910 for me because now it's tied to this experience. Luckily, 0:10:33.950 --> 0:10:36.790 the experience went well, and if I had to watch 0:10:36.830 --> 0:10:39.470 some Price is Right now, I would enjoy it and 0:10:39.510 --> 0:10:46.790 not have some PTSD situation. So I am on the mend. 0:10:47.590 --> 0:10:56.329 We're bouncing back. We are officially bouncing back from this 0:10:56.610 --> 0:11:04.730 toot situation. I'm pretty excited about it. I don't know 0:11:04.890 --> 0:11:08.820 if it's all the meds, like the painkillers and stuff 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:14.339 that I'm on right now. But this is probably some 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:16.780 of the best I've felt here in a little bit. Now, 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:21.260 that is after this... The early days of the infection 0:11:21.340 --> 0:11:27.080 were just absolutely awful. The days right after the tooth 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:31.640 being pulled, you know, were just absolutely awful. But now 0:11:31.660 --> 0:11:34.240 we're almost a week out, and I'm feeling okay. You know, 0:11:34.420 --> 0:11:36.700 I'm feeling okay. I can get through three-fourths of the 0:11:36.740 --> 0:11:40.500 day feeling pretty good before I'm just outright exhausted. But 0:11:40.590 --> 0:11:45.270 it's a beautiful thing getting that tooth pulled. I can 0:11:45.290 --> 0:11:50.190 tell you that right now. One thing I did notice, though, 0:11:50.990 --> 0:11:56.959 when we were all done with that, and I'm home, 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.400 I'm resting, I'm on the mend, right? I'm getting all 0:11:59.420 --> 0:12:01.820 these phone calls. I don't know if you guys have 0:12:01.900 --> 0:12:04.720 experienced any of these spam calls that are coming in. 0:12:04.740 --> 0:12:08.240 They're offering you, like, big money, you know? They're offering 0:12:08.260 --> 0:12:13.819 you big money loans for whatever, and they act like 0:12:14.179 --> 0:12:16.329 that they've had all these conversations with you, and you've 0:12:16.370 --> 0:12:18.910 never spoken to these people. These calls, they're recorded. I 0:12:18.910 --> 0:12:20.750 don't know if you're answering any of these calls. You're 0:12:20.770 --> 0:12:21.890 probably checking the voicemail and. 0:12:21.850 --> 0:12:22.410 Being like, what is this? 0:12:23.150 --> 0:12:25.830 These are recorded. I have tried answering the call to 0:12:25.850 --> 0:12:29.309 talk to them, to mess with them, and they are prerecorded. 0:12:29.330 --> 0:12:32.010 They want you to call back the number. That's the 0:12:32.130 --> 0:12:34.750 whole gimmick. Now, where it goes from there, no clue. 0:12:34.850 --> 0:12:39.220 Not calling them. But I do know they're prerecorded. So here's, 0:12:39.620 --> 0:12:42.940 I've got one right here. Listen to it, and then 0:12:44.340 --> 0:12:45.860 we'll go from there. $ 10, 000 prep. 0:12:47.620 --> 0:12:49.500 If I were your neighbor, I'd have just walked over 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:52.860 by now. And since I can't walk over, this is 0:12:52.900 --> 0:12:56.300 me knocking. Here's the thing behind all the calls, and 0:12:56.350 --> 0:13:01.010 it's a little different from the usual. A personal loan approved. 0:13:01.490 --> 0:13:07.750 No games. $ 52, 000 on one flat fixed fee. No rate 0:13:07.790 --> 0:13:11.450 that moves on you. It closes soon. So if you'd 0:13:11.490 --> 0:13:14.230 open the door for a neighbor, open it for me 0:13:14.630 --> 0:13:15.510 and call this number. 0:13:16.300 --> 0:13:19.620 Then she reads off the number and they want you 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:23.760 to call them back. They're really smooth. They make it 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:26.440 seem like, oh, they're waiting to chat with you or whatever. 0:13:26.620 --> 0:13:30.929 And then, boom, oh, hey, you know, how's your neighbor? 0:13:31.530 --> 0:13:34.950 And there's been a few variations of them. I believe 0:13:35.170 --> 0:13:38.570 there's a different one every week. That's kind of what 0:13:38.590 --> 0:13:44.190 I'm gathering is that you get one style of one 0:13:44.750 --> 0:13:49.500 per week. I think I've missed my calling. Not the 0:13:49.540 --> 0:13:54.250 calls themselves. I think I missed my calling because this 0:13:54.260 --> 0:14:00.750 would have been fun. This would have been fun to 0:14:00.809 --> 0:14:04.190 record these calls or even call people and run the 0:14:04.230 --> 0:14:11.060 script because I just feel like this is something that 0:14:11.100 --> 0:14:13.920 would have been a lot of fun and probably would 0:14:13.940 --> 0:14:22.420 have sounded, I don't know, something a little like... $ 50, 000? 0:14:19.740 --> 0:14:22.800 If I were your neighbor across the street, I'd have 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:25.260 walked over just now instead of just watching you through 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:28.260 your window like I usually do. Man, you sure do 0:14:28.300 --> 0:14:29.760 watch a lot of reality TV. 0:14:30.070 --> 0:14:30.870 Ha ha ha. 0:14:31.570 --> 0:14:34.510 Not that there's anything wrong with that. It's just that 0:14:34.550 --> 0:14:36.890 you're elbow deep in that bowl of popcorn watching Real 0:14:36.910 --> 0:14:40.070 Housewives of Montana when we could be grilling a nice 0:14:40.130 --> 0:14:43.890 steak watching Mets at Yankees. It is 9-11 after all. 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:48.720 We're all New Yorkers today. Anyways, didn't want you to 0:14:48.750 --> 0:14:55.720 forget why I called. A personal loan approved. No eliminations here. 0:14:55.720 --> 0:15:00.980 $ 55, 000 on one flat fixed fee. No rate that moves 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:05.510 on you. Unlike your ex-wife. Sorry, didn't mean to mention it. 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:08.620 But I did notice that she moved out. By the way, 0:15:09.100 --> 0:15:12.900 who's the chick that's been coming by lately? Anyways, if 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:15.560 you'd open the door for a neighbor, open it for me. 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:21.600 And call me back. Call me back at... One of 0:15:21.620 --> 0:15:25.750 those things that I was watching and really dialed into 0:15:26.420 --> 0:15:29.470 while I was on the mend from this Pulp Tooth. 0:15:29.750 --> 0:15:34.510 That Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes documentary. It looks absolutely incredible. 0:15:34.570 --> 0:15:37.470 Let's start with this. Because I'm obsessed with this trailer. 0:15:38.190 --> 0:15:41.150 It's just a little teaser of Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth 0:15:41.210 --> 0:15:45.720 Holmes within a foot of each other's faces. They're in 0:15:45.750 --> 0:15:51.350 her home. And she's trying to prove that she's got 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:54.910 nothing to hide. She's no reason to be fake with him. 0:15:56.410 --> 0:15:58.310 And Nathan Fielder's trying to read her. He's trying to 0:15:58.330 --> 0:16:02.450 look deep into her eyes and her soul and read her. 0:16:02.530 --> 0:16:05.610 And it's like a complete, you don't bullshit a bullshitter 0:16:05.650 --> 0:16:08.980 situation because that's his gimmick. If you're not familiar with 0:16:09.020 --> 0:16:14.620 Nathan Fielder and his comedy, I mean, he takes real 0:16:14.700 --> 0:16:19.250 people And he puts them in real situations that they 0:16:19.310 --> 0:16:22.460 are familiar with, but then he completely flips it on 0:16:22.500 --> 0:16:26.900 them in just a stone-cold, like, straight way that they 0:16:26.940 --> 0:16:30.800 don't know if he's being real. Like, if he's being 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.740 serious or not, it's incredible. He's had shows like Nathan 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:37.580 For You, The Rehearsal, and then you can find those 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:43.100 on HBO Max. And now, Elizabeth Holmes, he is. 0:16:44.570 --> 0:16:48.370 I got this documentary, this secret documentary that was aired 0:16:48.550 --> 0:16:52.850 one time. Again, it was secret, even to the people 0:16:52.890 --> 0:16:55.070 that were going to the theater to watch this movie. 0:16:56.090 --> 0:17:00.190 Then the teaser trailer comes out after, and it's got 0:17:00.230 --> 0:17:03.950 people just absolutely going nuts. It's got Oscar buzz already. 0:17:03.970 --> 0:17:07.600 It comes out in October, and it's got best picture 0:17:08.020 --> 0:17:10.230 buzz right now. And the only people who have seen 0:17:10.250 --> 0:17:12.410 this movie are the ones that were in that theater 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:16.100 for the surprise showing. It's got everybody going crazy. And 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:17.960 people were watching this trailer and just trying to break 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:22.419 it down. These two have this incredible sexual tension. Are 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:25.260 they trying to read each other? Is she fooling him? 0:17:26.140 --> 0:17:27.460 What is going on? And if you don't know who 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:30.070 Elizabeth Holmes is, and I didn't before this. I had 0:17:30.590 --> 0:17:35.889 zero clue who Elizabeth Holmes was. But she was the genius, 0:17:36.010 --> 0:17:38.750 like super young, like in her 20s. She dropped out. 0:17:39.570 --> 0:17:45.129 of Stanford to create this device, this medical device. And 0:17:45.150 --> 0:17:46.820 it's just like this little box, like the size of 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:51.020 a printer or smaller that pricks your finger, no needles 0:17:51.060 --> 0:17:54.820 or anything, pricks your finger, takes a little bit of 0:17:54.859 --> 0:17:57.379 blood and test it right there, right in front of 0:17:57.420 --> 0:18:00.190 you for diabetes or. 0:18:00.230 --> 0:18:00.970 Anything, right? 0:18:01.010 --> 0:18:04.250 Like it just, it has these different like tests that 0:18:04.290 --> 0:18:08.550 it can do. I mean, your company at one point 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:12.560 Was valued at 9 billion dollars. 0:18:13.540 --> 0:18:13.980 It had. 0:18:14.260 --> 0:18:18.570 She had this machine. In Walgreens. In their wellness centers. 0:18:18.609 --> 0:18:23.990 Like she just was taking over. And disrupting the entire. 0:18:24.550 --> 0:18:28.670 Medical industry. With this one machine. This one device. This 0:18:28.790 --> 0:18:34.030 one idea. And all because she famously. Was scared of 0:18:34.050 --> 0:18:36.370 needles growing up. And as her mother was as well. 0:18:37.990 --> 0:18:38.170 Well. 0:18:40.619 --> 0:18:43.560 I was obsessed with finding out more about this lady 0:18:43.580 --> 0:18:46.700 because this sounded awesome. Turns out she faked the whole thing, 0:18:46.740 --> 0:18:50.369 and the device never worked. And she still went out 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:53.629 and sold and got investors, obviously, just hundreds of millions 0:18:53.650 --> 0:18:56.690 of dollars in investment money. She fooled them all. She 0:18:56.770 --> 0:19:01.330 fooled Walgreens. She got a Walgreens contract without even showing 0:19:01.590 --> 0:19:06.550 them her lab or proof, true proof, that the machine 0:19:06.630 --> 0:19:10.210 actually worked. I mean, everything was fraud. So she's in 0:19:10.250 --> 0:19:14.930 prison right now, serving her sentence for this. But this documentary, 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:19.340 Nathan Fielder, he spent two weeks living in her home 0:19:20.060 --> 0:19:27.720 leading up to her going to prison. It's just absolutely incredible. 0:19:27.780 --> 0:19:31.080 My son, Brayden, he's 16. He sees this trailer just 0:19:31.100 --> 0:19:34.479 going absolutely wild on Twitter. He sends it to me, 0:19:34.740 --> 0:19:38.420 and he's like, everyone's talking about this. I'm like, oh, yeah. Yeah, 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:40.160 everybody's talking about this. I'm like, do you know about Nathan? 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:42.530 And he's like, no. I'm like, well, you need the 0:19:42.550 --> 0:19:46.330 backstory on this. He's not so much cares about the 0:19:46.390 --> 0:19:49.940 Elizabeth Holmes backstory. of it, gets it, fraud, blah, blah, blah. 0:19:50.420 --> 0:19:53.679 But the Nathan Fielder of it is what's interesting. And 0:19:53.740 --> 0:19:56.280 so now he's doing a deep dive. He's watching all 0:19:56.300 --> 0:19:59.280 the Nathan For You's and then the rehearsal. I was like, dude, 0:19:59.300 --> 0:20:04.780 season two rehearsals, all-timer. No spoilers. I didn't give him anything. 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:07.290 I was like, you just need to watch it and 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:10.040 When you get to the end, it's going to blow 0:20:10.060 --> 0:20:17.000 your mind. But this Elizabeth Holmes, she thought she was 0:20:17.260 --> 0:20:24.200 the female Steve Jobs. She started dressing like him in 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:28.980 the turtlenecks, having a signature look. She lowered her voice 0:20:29.050 --> 0:20:34.369 a little bit to sound with more authority. And nothing says, 0:20:34.790 --> 0:20:42.850 trust my medical technology, sounding like Batman. explaining your cholesterol results. 0:20:43.690 --> 0:20:46.820 But that's what she was working with, literally. I mean, 0:20:46.859 --> 0:20:49.300 she had a lab, and she came up with the 0:20:49.340 --> 0:20:52.880 idea when she was a student at Stanford. And she 0:20:54.200 --> 0:20:57.800 was trying to get some of the, or no, and 0:20:57.820 --> 0:21:02.199 she got herself into the group that developed different ideas 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:06.129 and whatnot, the lab there, as a freshman, even though 0:21:06.530 --> 0:21:13.790 it was just for upperclassmen. Because she was super smart, obviously. 0:21:13.810 --> 0:21:19.310 So she had all these different takes on their current 0:21:19.390 --> 0:21:21.629 lab work and testing they were doing. And they were like, okay, 0:21:21.670 --> 0:21:27.100 we need you. Like, you're awesome. Well, when she drops 0:21:27.140 --> 0:21:31.720 out of Stanford with this idea, she ends up taking, 0:21:32.540 --> 0:21:35.080 you know, some of the lab folks there from Stanford 0:21:35.119 --> 0:21:40.980 with her. And then getting... Some of the teachers and 0:21:41.020 --> 0:21:45.810 their friends that were scientists to come in and work 0:21:45.880 --> 0:21:47.390 on this too. And it's a whole thing. She starts 0:21:47.410 --> 0:21:52.050 this company. But the whole thing ends up being a 0:21:52.109 --> 0:21:58.169 scam because the machine just never worked. I'm actually interested. 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:05.119 Because I'm sure, I'm sure by now, maybe they could 0:22:05.160 --> 0:22:08.580 get something like this going. Maybe something like this is going. 0:22:09.140 --> 0:22:11.940 But at the time with her IP, she couldn't get 0:22:11.960 --> 0:22:15.790 it going in time within which she was getting all 0:22:15.810 --> 0:22:19.930 the funding in. The investors were just not getting their 0:22:19.970 --> 0:22:25.750 return as fast as she promised that they would. But 0:22:25.830 --> 0:22:33.619 this Theranos, which is her company, and that was the box. 0:22:34.280 --> 0:22:39.230 I mean, in theory, you go into a Walgreens... and 0:22:39.250 --> 0:22:41.710 you go into the wellness center, and they just prick 0:22:41.750 --> 0:22:44.870 your finger, they put it in the thing, and you'll 0:22:44.890 --> 0:22:48.790 get a result. You'll get your cholesterol, if you have diabetes, 0:22:48.830 --> 0:22:54.010 that kind of thing, like immediately. But instead, they were 0:22:54.090 --> 0:22:59.190 sending them off back to their lab where they were 0:22:59.270 --> 0:23:04.699 giving false test results. Sometimes the blood samples were not 0:23:04.920 --> 0:23:07.609 kept chill, so they were warm. Sometimes, all the time, 0:23:07.630 --> 0:23:09.790 they were diluting them with water. They were using other 0:23:10.010 --> 0:23:19.070 IPs in order to run tests on the machines. It 0:23:19.109 --> 0:23:23.880 just wasn't working. But the thing is, the idea is brilliant. 0:23:24.340 --> 0:23:26.639 I mean, I hate needles too. Absolutely hate them. And 0:23:26.660 --> 0:23:32.120 I get my blood drawn a lot with the anemia 0:23:32.240 --> 0:23:36.200 and the tests they run for my Crohn's. I have 0:23:36.240 --> 0:23:44.830 it a lot. And I hate having that done. If 0:23:44.869 --> 0:23:46.690 I could have this machine, it'd be great. I also 0:23:47.330 --> 0:23:51.710 hate getting my colonoscopies done. So if any of you 0:23:51.730 --> 0:23:54.750 guys have like $ 700 million so I can invent an 0:23:54.850 --> 0:23:57.609 app that just guesses whether or not I still have 0:23:57.650 --> 0:24:01.210 Crohn's or not, I could avoid those colonoscopies altogether. I mean, 0:24:01.640 --> 0:24:04.230 that's kind of That's kind of the idea. I mean, 0:24:04.290 --> 0:24:11.389 that is literally her concept. I mean, imagine going to 0:24:11.410 --> 0:24:15.180 Walgreens and getting your finger pricked. And then it's like, 0:24:15.220 --> 0:24:17.740 good news, Jeremy, you don't have diabetes. But the bad 0:24:17.800 --> 0:24:25.440 news is the machine says you're a microwave. It never 0:24:25.570 --> 0:24:29.350 gave you what it promised to do. How did Walgreens 0:24:29.390 --> 0:24:35.290 get in bed with this? Absolutely insane. I just can't 0:24:35.310 --> 0:24:39.490 believe the company ended up becoming valued. That's quite the scam. 0:24:40.750 --> 0:24:45.950 To be valued at $ 9 billion? And their most reliable 0:24:45.990 --> 0:24:51.980 piece of medical equipment was Elizabeth's turtleneck? There was nothing 0:24:53.000 --> 0:24:58.700 that showed proof of concept. The documentary looks badass, so... 0:24:59.840 --> 0:25:01.580 I mean, that's all I need. And I tell you what, 0:25:01.619 --> 0:25:06.340 when I was recovering from this tooth being pulled, this 0:25:06.380 --> 0:25:09.600 was everything I needed. And then I started to feel better. 0:25:10.000 --> 0:25:12.160 And then I have to watch the freaking Chargers play. 0:25:15.810 --> 0:25:23.790 The Chargers. Who basically, after everything they built up this season, 0:25:24.050 --> 0:25:27.639 this offseason with the new offensive coordinator, Mike McDaniel, the, 0:25:27.630 --> 0:25:32.470 $ 100 million in cast space to improve the offensive line 0:25:32.490 --> 0:25:36.300 and wide receivers to only go and get manhandled by 0:25:36.340 --> 0:25:41.060 the Arizona Cardinals in week one. Basically, the Chargers are 0:25:41.080 --> 0:25:46.540