Erik Griffin on Breastfeeding & Lumber + Neal & Jeff Harmon on Angel Studios' Hollywood Disruption

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If you have 30 minutes, you never have to worry about break ins ever again. Just go to simplisafe.com/adam. Get all the sensors you need, all the help you need as well to set it up. Custom system's gonna show up post haste at simplisafe.com/adam. From Carolla 1 Studios in Glendale, California, this is the Adam Carolla show. Adam's guest today, Eric Griffin, and the co founders of Angel Studios, Neil and Jeff Harmon, plus the news and trending topics with Chris Loxamana. And now to him, every day is Earth Day. Adam Carolla. Yeah. Get it on. Got to get on the chairs. I'm gonna get this done. Eric Griffin back in studio. Always great to see Eric. Yeah. My brother. How you doing? Eric's got dates. Good. It's gonna be at the, comedy mothership over there in Austin. That'll be, April 26th through 28th. That's wait a minute. That's coming right on up. Yeah. That's this weekend. Laugh Factory for Netflix as a joke. That'd be, May 9th. And, The Comedy Zone, that'll be June 14th to 15th or, and 15th, depending on how you do it. It's always weird we do the to and the to whether it's a day apart or 2 days apart. It's alright. Yeah. Yeah. Technically still true. It's technically true. But because I'm rhythm based, it always makes me pause. That's what I tell people all the time. So good to see you, my friend. And I wanna thank you for the wagon. He gave he got my son a little wagon. It's great. Little red wagon. Yeah. What is your son? 2 3 months old now? 11 11 weeks. 12 weeks on the of every Thursday. Perfect. A little less Yeah. Than, 3. Yeah. It's great. How's that going? Oh, man. I don't you know, you don't know you need it till you got it. Right? I don't know. It's a it's a it's it's different. It's different, but I I I love it. You know? It's inspired me. I work out 3 times a week now, and I, I don't know. I just I don't know. It's, you think you know love until you, you know like, I love my wife. I really do. She's, like, the best. But I would drop her into a volcano. Yeah. Well, look, the problem is It's the temple of doom. You know what I mean? I think Alma. You know? You you cannot here's the thing. The love that you have for your baby is almost equivalent not equivalent, but it's it's sort of in the same realm as the love you have for your dog in the sense that they don't talk. So you can love the s**t out of a Corvette, a dog, or a baby because none of them talk. Yeah. The second whoever you're dealing with starts talking, then you have to hedge it a little bit. So at the way gonna start saying s**t you don't wanna hear. They're gonna disagree. They're gonna I mean, it could be a friend. It could be a guy behind the counter at Home Depot. Like, when you it's unfair to compare creatures that can't talk or entities that can't talk versus ones that can talk. So at 2 or 3, you were done with your kids. That's what you're saying? I'm saying So like 2a half, you were like, I'm done with this little and then get get them out. Is that what's happening? If you what if your dog what if you walked into the bathroom in the morning and your dog's like, well, someone's put on some weight? Like, then you would not love your dog as much. You would still love your dog, but it wouldn't be that straight across the board, unconditional. Conditional. I understand. Everybody goes, well, you know, I love my wife, but we have our yeah. She disagrees with s**t you say and do and argues about stuff and has different takes on whatever. And she voted this way and you voted that way, and now there's stuff. But if you can't talk, then there's love. Unconditional love. Who hurt you? Well, this is why people love their kid with severe autism all the way through life because he's just he's just there. You know what I mean? He just love look at him. Look at his eyes. Oh, he appreciates. Oh, look at him smile every time I come into the room. Never talking s**t. They don't you know, doctor Drew has 3 kids. They went off to college. And when they got home, they were talking s**ts over the college he paid for. You know what I mean? So it's a little less love. Okay. Well, in in 19 years, if I'm still alive less blood. Then they well, now you're not a 100%. Can I enjoy this right now, though? Can I enjoy this? Like, just just because you're a veteran, you're looking to take all my joy away. Let me enjoy my little boy this. But be prepared for when they start talking, and then things will change. But again, if the Corvette could talk You might not like that. It would change your relationship. So you so I not this is this this would be a great, like, remake of Knight Rider. It was starring Adam Carolla as Kit Carr. Kit. Yeah. But his car would be someone that would be like, oof, you know. Those political rallies, you know, it could just be like What are you listening to? Oh my god. Paul Abdul. What the f**k? Are you kidding me? This straight up sucks, bro. You know what's crazy about what we're talking about? It's funny that, like, they have this thing for the phone now that you could connect it to a machine. It it turns your phone into an AI robot. Oh, no. I mean, I think that that's the future of, like, what if you're I think our phones are gonna be like that. I think that, like, you know, there's gonna be a thing like that movie him or her, whatever it was. And then where your phone because you're what who knows more about you than your phone? Phone knows too much. Your phone knows everything about you. Like, what you like, what you want, the things you're not supposed to be looking at, the people you're not supposed to be calling. Imagine if you had a little robot and there was your phone who was just like, oh, hey, or, you know, what what's going on? Are we go are we going to that site again? I didn't even trust memory foam. So forget about the phone. Oh my god. 8 oh, you're you're hilarious. Well, think about your foam mattress knowing Yeah. And without memory. Yeah. Your foam mattress. My foam mattress would be like, ugh, are you gonna fart again? Right. Right. Again? When it comes to a party, starts drinking and starts running its mouth about who's beating off every day. I used to have a a a Android phone and it would it would, like, at a certain time of day, like, do this reminder, like, hey, are you gonna call so and so? Could you usually call them around this time? And I was like, oh, that's not good if you're a cheater. Right. Right. It's like, are you calling Samantha? You know, you know what I mean? Like, you usually call her at 11:30 PM from the other room. What's going on? You know, it's like, I don't know if I like all where where we're going with the AI and everything, man. I don't know if I like it. Look. It's a digital trail that is hard to argue with, You know? With the plausible deniability of that digital trail is really gonna be hard to argue with. Do you, do you let anyone track you? I don't know. I don't think so. Yeah. I well, my wife, we like, to the point where, like, let's say I'm on the road Mhmm. You know, and then, like, she knows I'm gonna be gone. She'll send me Target orders. Mhmm. You know? The store. Yeah. She'll send me, like she'll send, like, oh, here's some, like, snacks and water and whatever for your room. I didn't even tell her what hotel I was staying. Alright. This s**t just shows up. And I'm like, okay. I think it's a little message start from to me, like, I know where you are. Right. Right. But I don't mind it. I I I like to her knowing, you know. I I I think in this day and age, you kinda have to be on the straight and narrow. Otherwise Oh, yeah. You are f**ked. And and you're also I think you're you're you're screwed in your own relationship, but if you think you're running for public office or something and you got a couple of outstanding warrants out there in the me too department or something, it's Wait. Wait. Outstanding warrants. You mean, like, a a weird tweet when you refer to Right. Right. Yep. You're done. Just you're done. So everybody You know, it's so funny you say that I I remember in our way back in the day, if a person knew they wanted to be into politics, it was a lifelong commitment. They knew they knew, like, I will eventually wanna be president or whatever. Right? So then they started it was the straight and narrow from 20 Yeah. And you were, like, you were working on your political career until it was time to you you it was time. And then, you know, they they weren't doing this. I don't know how anybody can run for anything now. Oh, they were when they were getting into Kavanaugh's hearings Oh. You ever open up his high school yearbook, like, reading, oh, beers and boffing? What is what is boffing? What is boff it's just 17 writing in a yearbook. They're pulling the yearbook out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is like pre Twitter, but we still got a record because bring her in as a witness. Yeah. Let's bring doctor Ford in here, and let's talk about what we were up to. Yes. Yes. Yes. Of, 81. Like, oh, Jesus Christ. It is it is on, which all all that's gonna do is eliminate any decent person from wanting to run for anything Yeah. And attract sociopaths who don't who do not care. Yeah. That's all. That's all this is gonna do. And that's And that's the 2 choices we have. Speaking of sociopaths, oh my god. Did I have what happened? I you know, there's a certain breed. You know, you guys, the somebody ought to do a series called Malibu Real Estate Agent because real estate agents are up there with like sort of publicists and just folks that have sort of a broken moral compass who talk out of their ass, who'll say about anything all the time. Every single one of them's got a picture of themselves from 20 years ago on the bus stop or on their card or whatever, and then they're insane. Like in Malibu, there's always a picture of a dude. He's he's got he's like surf dude and he's got thing and he works Malibu and he'll get it for you and stuff like that. And Malibu's insane. Like I looked at a condo in Malibu like 3 or 4 years ago, and it was like $2,000,000 And and it was, like And you had to share a bathroom with us with another neighbor. With another family. Yeah. And I said I walked in and it was like surfer dude, you know, and I said to him, what's the square footage of this place? And he goes, yeah, let me check on that. It's like $2,000,000 and we gotta check you can't commit 1900 square feet to your the number one thing you need to commit is square footage. No. Price, number 1, square footage, number 2. That's it. Yeah. That that and then we can get to the the new garbage disposal or whatever else. But that, I had to go check. Didn't didn't didn't know about. So yesterday, there's this house that goes up for sale up at the top of my street in Malibu. And I'm like, alright. I'm gonna go it's they're having a open house. So I go, well, I'll go over there and see what see what $6,000,000 looks like at the top of this hill. Right? Literally. So I go up there, and as I get to the house, I'm like, oh, I looked at this house. This house was for sale in, it was, like, 22,020, maybe mid 2020, Because I have a very distinct memory of during COVID, like right in the middle of COVID, my daughter was like, wouldn't it be great if we had a beach place and blah blah blah? And just like my dad did before me. Hey. You did well and you, you know, you you you you raised some spoiled kids. Oh, my dad. My dad. Dad, can we eat at sizzler in 6 months? Are you nuts? Are you f**king nuts? No. Why? No. No. Yeah. So so she's like, during the COVID sort of, you know, the the height of the lockdown, she said, like, let's go look at places to rent or buy or something in Malibu. So I remember going up and going up this hill, and there were tons of houses for sale. I don't know why, I know it was a COVID thing or whatever, but I went to the neighbor's house, then I went to this house. So then I walked in and there's Malibu realtor. Thin, tan Yeah. Yeah. Good looking. You know? And I go I go, yeah. I I saw this house when it was for sales. You know? I don't know. 2020? He goes, no. No. We sold it before COVID. I said, oh, well, that's so strange because I've looked at this house and I didn't go out before COVID. I went out in the middle of of COVID. I went out like a 2 month window, 2020, like, you know, July to September or something, I was looking around, but I never went and looked at a house before that. And he's like, no, no, we sold it before COVID, like 2019. And then he checks with his hot blonde co realtor chick. And she, of course, jumps in and goes, yeah, yeah, pre COVID. Well, this is I can't wrap my mind around this because I've been in this house and I walked this house and I remember the house. We also know you're not gonna let it go. No. Because it was the middle of COVID where I went out. It's the middle of COVID that I go out looking for houses. They keep saying we sold this thing pre COVID, and I'm like, but I've been in this house, and I looked at it, and I looked at the neighbor's house, and I looked at that one up the hill. I know exactly every house on this hill that I was in in about a 3 week period right in the middle of COVID all for sale. For you to have these memories if it was before It's impossible for me. So I asked him for about the 5th time. He does the pre COVID again, checked with his partner. Yep. Pre COVID. And then at some point, phone comes out August 2020. Right? Smack later. Mid mid mid. Right? Right? Then he does the, oh, yeah. Guess we did. Here's the answer I want. I'll never speak again, at least in your presence. You you know what I mean? Not oh, yeah. I said it 5 times. Five times, I said I've been in this house, and it was after COVID or during COVID. Now so that that's basically my life. Now what shall I do when somebody tells me something that I know is untrue because I was there? It couldn't possibly be that way. What do I have? Let me step in here. See, if he couldn't talk, we'd be having a great relationship. Now you already had an interaction with this guy and you already knew he was an idiot. So the second I didn't know. I didn't know. You knew. You had an idea. I I had an The other guy was from 3 years ago. But yeah. Alright. So you now you run into this guy again or someone similar, and you're and you're surprised? I'm here's how here's Chris has been around me millions of times. I remember being in this house mid COVID. Right. I have 2 professional Malibu real estate agents who sold this house the last time it was sold, both looking at me going, sold it pre COVID, and we sold this house. Yeah. Now what am I to do? Claim I know more about this house than the person who sold it last for 3 point $7,000,000? What am I to do at this point? I have experts telling me stuff. Oh, I literally You can only an expert because you sold this house the last time it was sold. You know you know what? And you were telling me along with your partner that I'm wrong. So what am I to do? Well, this is just like when when I was younger, you would go to RadioShack. Mhmm. And these people, you would be like, hey, this thing isn't working. And that person would be like, oh, aisle 7 And they would, you know, they would know every they know every transistor. They know every name of everything. Cut to 2,000. It's just like Yeah. Malibu Barbie and Ken that you're selling they could be at data check and they will be like, I have no idea. Oh my god. I have no idea what you're talking about. I just work here. That's what that is, man. Mhmm. Go in and look at an 86 $1,000 car and say to the guy, you got the 3 liter v 6 versus the 4.2 v 8. What's the difference in horsepower? Oh, though they're peppy. They're peppy. It's like $82,000. You couldn't commit to the horsepower to memory? No. You cannot. Alright. You've never sounded older. I'm angry. Alright. Now what to do in this situation? Well, I think that, I think we're all feeling like maybe you just let this go. You know? It's like Alright. It because there's no To be fair, he found it on his phone. Oh. And then did the I've got I think he looked for it on his phone because he was gonna put it in my face, but he looked for it on his phone and went, you know what? August, dude. By the way, August 2020 is a full year after he was thinking he sold this. I know, but he had to look it up because you wouldn't let it go. I wouldn't let it go. Yeah. You didn't let it go. So the guy was like, this guy is not gonna let this go. And he f**king looked us up and see what exactly You know what I mean? That's what happened. He was like, this f**ker is not gonna let this go. Alright. And then he and then he looks and he goes, and then and then you really put him on the spot. Because when he saw he was wrong, he was like, oh, god. Yeah. Yeah. And then he tried to play it off like, oh. Well, there you go. Look at that, I alright. But but but what did you do when you when he the guys the guy saw he was wrong. Yes. What was your reaction at that point? I, I did a victory lap around the house. He was running around. Shut off. What a feeling I am. Yeah. Yeah. It was like fame. My dad pulled up my cab, put a big speaker on the roof, and started blaring my tunes. You got in a chair and, like, throw the water on you. That's right. I think we got 2 movies going on. That's right. You're right. I'm doing it. We're it's fame and the other one is dance. Oh, s**t. What is it called? Oh, oh. Flash dance. Flash dance. Yeah. But I'm sorry. Eighty eighties dance movie. It's it's a montage. Yeah. It's just okay. That's I I can't help it. I know it. I know. I don't feel like a man. Listen. I get yelled at all the time, like, leave it alone. Yeah. And I'm like, why is this on me? I happen to remember what happened correctly, and I'm bringing it up. Why is this my burden out? Or or just walk away? Like, why am I walking away? We didn't tell you to walk away. Alright. But the thing is it's like, society what does that information do for, like, how does that information help you in that situation looking at this house? I'll tell you how I'll tell you how it helps. Yeah. Because let's just say and I wanna say this to everybody because I was thinking about this, like, you know, like, when Joe Biden starts telling stories, he's like, my uncle Suss was a airplane pilot and was eating my cannibals and stuff like or this realtor guy, they tell stories like it's 18/71 and we're by a campfire. They don't tell stories like I have a supercomputer in my pocket and can check this in 40 seconds. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. You're telling these stories like we're around a campfire, and it's, you know, it's it's the bronze age or something. Like, no. No. Everything could be verified and checked immediately, so slow your roll. You're allowed to say, I don't remember. You know, let's check it out. Now now here's my downside. Okay. Here's my downside. If I could not verify this, I would then go home and I'd sit on my sofa with a 1,000 yard stare, and I would think to myself, how is it I was in this house in the middle of COVID, but yet the person that sold the house said he sold it well before COVID and he sold it? And I would start thinking I was going insane. This would consume you. Yes. It would make me think I was going insane. Okay. I you know what? We get it. Okay. Alright. You have a thing. Alright. Well, let's move on. Let's move on from my thing. I wanna know. Because now But I just wanna I just wanna say this. This is the thing though. These people that are doing this now, like, you know, we both come from an era where people had to know what the hell they're talking about. I'm saying there's too much of this going on now. I do. I think Chris has said it a thousand times. I've been in reckless. When I asked for a third time, that's your window to stop and go, you know what? Let me check. Not keep going. Don't keep going. Are you yelling at me? I'm yelling at everyone. No. You've been with me when I've said to people for a 3rd time. Are you sure? Are you sure? Just go, I don't know. Let me check. Right. Not at don't stop staying. What the promise is people dig in. Why they dig in? By the way, why the other realtor think she sold it before COVID? Did she not remember either, or she just dug in? Was she influenced by it? She's defending her partner in digging in with him. Don't do it. Just go, man, let me channel. Well, I don't know. Well, here's the thing that they realized immediately. That they that their attraction level was not going to affect this man. And, well, also, I'll tell you what they know. You know what I mean? Because that's what they're there for. They're there for. They're there for. They're there for. I don't have to be like, hey. You know, this is they're there for people to rich guys come in there and they impulse buy. No. They well, what they know is I passed I passed at 36. So now that's 6,000,000, it's a hard pa*s. So they know that So they know, one, you're not gonna buy this house. No. I'm eating cookies and kicking ties. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's Yeah. So why you know, and I'm with you on this. If they know you're not you're not a real customer Mhmm. Why engage with why even fight with you like that? Well, what's Like, you're not even a real customer. Better fight. But I'm just saying, like, why even why die on that hill? I don't think they were trying to die. I mean, I they it's not like they were trying to let it go, but Adam They remembered it differently. Yeah. No. I'm saying if to let it go, they should have been like, oh, okay. I think it was that. That's letting it go. No. I agree. No. No. It's like when a homeless guy comes up to you and starts to rant about the Jews. And you go, yeah. I know. And then you keep walking. You don't go like, I'm gonna coach this guy up. He's insane. He's got a loan in his pants. Man, I was someplace, speaking of a homeless guy, and, I had a sandwich. I was in, where was I? Oh my god. It was like I was in DC. I can picture you almost anywhere with a sandwich. Yeah. I had a sandwich How dare you? In the shower. And AIDS Hospice No way. So I had a sandwich and I I I had half a sandwich. I'm walking back to my hotel. This guy says, hey, man. Can I, he was like, man, I'm looking to get something to eat? And I was like, you know what? I have a sandwich. The guy goes, yeah. I don't eat bread. Wow. I looked at him. I was like, what? Wow. Well, he wanted money. But then don't tell me you're looking to get something to eat. Okay. No. No. I I became you right there. I wanted to be like, okay. So you want something to eat and you think you deserve a menu? Do you just Right. Right. Well, speaking of a menu, I got another I got another conundrum for you. Here. Talk to me. Alright. Went and saw a movie over the weekend, one of those luxury movie theaters with the full menu and the full bar and the recliner seat, the whole whole 9 yards. Right? Sitting in the recliner seat just as the movie starts, right at the movie, right at the beginning, and Chris can look this one. It's the gentleman or the ungentlemanly warfare of the World War 2, of the thing, whatever that guy, Richie. Oh, no. No. Come on. Come on. Come on. Was so pretentious. Yeah. Civil War. Yeah. The gentleman of the war World War 2. Guy Ritchie, gentleman, the league of gentlemen, and There's some stuff the middle street of ungentlemanly warfare. Yeah. Which, by the way, that's I wasn't It's a great. Fun movie, except for it's weird because they okay. Couple things. They they do the thing where the thing is cast. It's got Asian. It's got Hispanic. It's got black. And then at the end, they do that the best part of all war movies where they show the actual picture of captain Collins you know? Yeah. Yeah. And there's not one minority around here. White people and then you're sort of like, well, alright. They're trying to even it out, but it's like yeah. But if you're a descendant or a family member of that guy and you're being played by Hispanic woman or something, it's gotta be a little weird for grandpa who gave his life for World War 2, who is, you know, named, officer Johnson who was just this guy with blonde hair and a mustache. Like, it's it's it's it's it's nice. They're, this is funny. I think I'm curious because no there's no way Byron knows anything about World War 2. So he thinks he's showing he thinks he's showing the 2 guys that are. Byron, what did you think you put up on the screen just for fun? I looked up, the actor versus the real guy, and that's what came up. And you're right. I don't know anything about world Right. But that guy wasn't playing Winston Churchill. And you don't know Winston Churchill looks like. That's the sad part. I know he likes cigars. Yeah. Except for you put up Winston Churchill in the commando leader, not Winston Churchill in the actual guy. The actual guy is not play Winston Churchill's there's a character called Winston Churchill in the movie who looks like Winston Churchill, but he's not that guy. Yeah. Alright. Anyway, Byron, you can that that was a sad testimonial on whatever whatever the education system is in this this country. But also, why did the computer make you hate that? You hired him. Him. I dropped out of multiple community colleges. Okay. So now did you drop out of the college, or did the college just pick up and move once they saw you? Now was this a culinary college? She showed up on a Friday. They were gone Monday. 2 art schools. I kinda feel like I know where this story's gonna go. No. Does some fork clinking start happening? No. You don't? No. What happens is is it so it's one of these movies that's like front loaded at the beginning with all the type, you know, in 1941, an elite group of people. So dispatch by Windsor. The Nazis had just invaded France. The Star Wars movie. The Star Wars thing. Right? The second that preamble starts up, the dude next to me decides it's time to order with with the waiter 11 things off this off this thing. You know? So they're doing this thing where they're doing the scroll and the thing and the whole thing, and he's like the whole thing. The whole thing. I'll take the nachos with no peppers, and I'll take the wings with the tang and the spot. Yeah. Oh, I have what do you have 2 kinds of white wine, or is it one kind of white? And they're just talking the whole time. Like, okay. First thing's right. If you get there and you haven't ordered and the movie started, f**k off. Yeah. Or wait or get up and go walk it out and go find the f**king guy and tell him what seat you're at and go talk it out in the hall. A hundred it's verbal. Like, these s**t just It's work well, he's holding the the menu up. Well, yeah, he summoned him. Yeah. You you press a button. You press a button to get the flight attendant. Order. Like, there should be, like, an iPad or something. You just No. No. He's got this. He's got a shiny white menu. Right? It's white, and it's laminated. Right? So he orders everything, which f**ks up my whole preamble of what year and who dispatch and who these guys are and everything. It's all right next to me. Hold on. They're having this conversation. And by the way, the waiter's 644 and he's bent over the guy's seat, and I kept looking at his a*s. And then the waiter leaves. And then the guy gets his phone out, turns the flashlight on Oh my god. And continues to peruse the white laminated menu, which is just reflecting the light right back in my face because I'm sitting 8 inches away from it. That's a bounce. And he's holding it the whole time. This sounds like a curb episode. Now he it is. Already placed a substantial order. He's alone. He's alone. He does his order. The guy leaves. What more reading does he need to do? He's checking on dessert. He's memorizing this f**king thing. Now we're getting into, like, minute 5 of him staying with the flashlight, just staring at it. And then at some point, it becomes abundantly clear that he's looking up at the screen. He's watching the movie with the white reflect reflecting menu and the flashlight on the phone on the menu. Just seeing that they're creating, like, a a glowing orb to my to my right. And he just then he's he's looking at the screen. And then at some point, he puts the menu down, but he doesn't shut the flashlight. He doesn't realize it's so He forgot? He just the flashlight's just on and he's just watching moon. There's this flashlight on. This should be called WWACD. Oh, sorry. No. Just the reason why I let that breathe for a little bit. Let it sink in. You know? Because this because like What would what would Adam Carolla do? So I hate bumping people on the shoulder and going and I like I always I like to give people the benefit of the doubt and that he's got a plan. He's doing something with this. But, no, he's just forgotten that the flashlight was on, and he's done memorizing the menu, which took a long time. Then I sir Boyd, I just I just say to him, can you shut your light off, your phone off? And he goes, oh, yeah. Yeah. Sorry. Shuts it off, waits about another 10 minutes, hits the blue light to summon the waiter again because we're doing round number 2 of ordering. Oh, that's a wrap. My question. My question. If this guy's by himself By the way Is he a large man? He's he's he's not a large man. He is by himself. I am sitting up watching the first 10 minutes of moving before I realize, oh, I gotta get in full recline. But I'm 6 too. And when I go into recline, if you're walking down the aisle, I gotta move my feet and come up a little bit. Well, the waiter only comes from my side. He doesn't come from the other side. So now this guy keeps summoning this guy, and every time I gotta lift my feet up and he's got all throughout the movie, the blue light is on. The summon light, I'm like, oh my god. The sum I'm I'm the summon light. Here he's getting again. Gets a glass of wine. Now he's coming in for a second round of ordering. And it's like, what the? Alright. So Didn't get to enjoy the movie is what you're saying. It's a good movie that I did not enjoy because of a constant distraction of this guy or now listen. I don't know. You you gotta make some sort of rules at these theaters. If you're gonna have a full menu, you gotta get your order in before the movie starts cut off. Or you can walk your a*s out to the concession stand and order up. But this is not on me. You know what I mean? Go watch, like, a Broadway film. They won't let you in after a certain point or unless there's a break. Right? Like, they're trying not to interrupt the rest of the audience. But the issue here is you have this man here fuming in his seat. Like, I mean, I already see what was happening. Like, the 3rd time the waiter came and you had to go like this. Oh, s**t. To defeat. Yeah. Yes. I I I totally get it. But you know what you know what the thing is? Mhmm. There's 2 things here. You can't like, if if nachos are on the menu Mhmm. You you go to a different theater. You know? Mhmm. It says, you you can't go to the dine in theater because because the other side of this is this. This is a if there's a button that I could call the waiter, then that's free game. There's plenty of other theaters to go to that they don't do that. But the one they do do that in, there's gonna be because I can't stand the the fork clinking and stuff. Yeah. I can't stand people are having a full on because I've been to one where you could get a $75 steak. Yeah. That hurt. At the movie theater. So you're having a full on it's in La Jolla. It was it was I forgot the name of the theater, but it was like a really nice like, I was like, wow. You can't do that. So I'm in this movie theater, like, you know, can I get some steak sauce? Like, if I need some steak sauce, I'm gonna go ask for steak sauce. I just spent $75 on my food. Right? On just a steak. So I just feel like maybe these two worlds shouldn't be combined. I do love Like, there's a there's a laziness to this. It's like, let's just remove that process. They haven't figured it out yet. They haven't. They haven't. They haven't figured it out. They haven't worked out the kinks. I do love the idea of Adam just coming back from that Malibu house looking to decompress. With this guy. Watch a movie. Let me tell you something. A company out to get here. When you take a white menu and you laminate it and you put an iPhone 6 inches from it, it's like literally signaling. Like, in the movie, they're signaling from the boat. That's what this guy was doing with me. And the other thing is is he gets the hot wings, and I do this thing where I'm like, look. We're gonna see the movie, then we're going out to dinner. Yeah. We're not gonna be ordering in the movie theater. Someone eating a plate of hot wings 14 inches from me for 2 hours. I'm just sitting there going, yeah. Yeah. Oh, f**k. Take one of those hot wings. Oh, but He should've kicked me over a couple of wings. You know what I mean? Just like a little something for the effort. You know what I mean? I realized I was interrupting. Like you would've taken this guy's wings. I would've taken his rummets. I would've taken his rummets. If the guy would've been like, hey, you want a couple of wings? Yeah. I would have done it. You would have done it? The Vic. You know what I mean? For what I was put through emotionally. Yeah. How old spirits do you? Hey, guys. And you know what we have here today? Bob's here from the from the movie. Come on in, Bob. You know, he's like The guy oh, I forgot another key component component. Oh my goodness. The guy was 55 to 65, single, male, slight build. There's constantly texting on his phone so the light of his phone would then Oh, this is like, it was like jingling keys next to me the whole time, like, with his phone. Like, this guy's a monster. He there was no f**king I just kept to a different seat. It was filled up. Oh, god. There's nowhere to go. It was my burden. Yeah. You know To bear. You know, I've been I've been there. I remember watching Schindler's List. And I'm in this theater and there was a older couple sitting, like, in front of me, but, like, to the right. And they're yapping during the movie. Like, we're watching like, there's horrible things going on on the screen, And everybody's side of focus, and people are crying, and people are, like you know? And so I just said, excuse me. Can you guys please be quiet? That's what you gotta do sometimes. Wow. Yeah. I mean, I just I just it was just like And I should've done it. You should've done it. Should've done it. What are you doing? You should've said to the guy you know, it is a way to go like, hey, man. Well, he did it. Okay. He was incremental. First, the the first thing he did was order. Like, I he sat down right as the movie started and then started ordering. So I when I can't interrupt. Like, I don't need to be doing orders. Then then comes out the flashlight in the menu. And I don't know what to say at that point because he's looking at the menu. But at some point So he was late to the movie. He was late to get his order. Well, technically, his a*s hit right as the movie started. That's late to the movie. Okay. It because if you're going to a dine in theater, you gotta get there early, establish because I by the way, I want people to already be eating, finished eating. That's what that 20 minutes of credits are for. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The pre roll. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now we're now we're enjoying the movie. I don't even like when when somebody sitting to me is eating, like, loud a*s popcorn Yeah. Or nachos. Like, nachos in a movie is outrageous. Yeah. It is outrageous. Yeah. Yeah. I I don't know. Maybe I don't like eating in the dark either. It's weird. Alright. The point is is no serving once the movie Well, so Danny McBride at Dish did an interview at GQ about this too. And he said that he hates those move those movie theaters that serve all the food and the booze just because but he says because the booze will put you to sleep. He's like, why why would you drink that much? You're just gonna makes you wanna fall asleep or you just wanna get especially when you can recline the way you can recline. Right. So it's like, he doesn't want people to just watch movies and and just start pounding. Well, the thing is is because movie theaters And see, it's have no other way to make money. Right. Yeah. It's it's a way to make money for sure. And then, you know, listen. If you want a glass of wine, I don't think any everyone is in there getting loaded or wasted, but if it's, you know, Saturday night, you want some wine? Yeah. Fine. But we just said we need to we need to establish boundaries and perimeters. I agree. Okay. Next thing to talk to you about, Eric. Alright. I'm here. I'm here for it. I love me some California because I've always said this, you know, we got rules and more rules and tons of rules and tons of regulation, tons of stuff, or we're Thunderdome and it's the f**king Wild West. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it's Or the rules lead to that. Well, so you if you own a home and you'd like to add a deck onto the back of your house, that's permit city and soils reports and we gotta get the neighborhoods, gotta weigh in and see if you they're okay with you having a deck in the back of your house and then you have to get some guy and then there all these other odd jobs pop up like I I you pay this guy as an expediter. He'll get it through the city in 4 months. You know what I mean? Like, you have to pay a guy for that? Yeah. Well, he'll get it through. Otherwise, it'll take a year to get the permit for it. And then there's the deputy inspector, and you'll pay that guy and he'll show up. Like, there's all this It's the hardest thing in the world to do to try to build something or to do a business or or anything. Well, you know, when Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Perry Lang opened up their steak place in, in Hollywood some years ago, few years ago. And I remember I was talking to APL and Perry Lang or maybe I was talking to Jimmy about it. I was like, how's the business going? They go, well, we're we're we're not open. The the restaurant's not open, but we're selling sandwiches. We do a steak sandwich. You know, Adam Perry Lang does a, $80 steak sandwich but it's f**king out of this world, right? But they were telling me we couldn't start selling the sandwiches yet because the blower fan that went over through the drive through window, the pass through window at the front that you would hand the sandwiches to was like on back order, and the city won't let you open a window and hand a sandwich to somebody without the blower. Unless there's some downstream of air coming? Yes. Because a fly could get in and land in the mayonnaise or whatever. But I'm like, yeah. But 20 feet down the streets, an illegal Mexican selling ghetto dogs and and and Modelo's out of a cooler. Right? Yeah. They're not they're not interested in that guy. They're not interested in that guy. There's a Spider Man with a fanny pack. Right. Right. Who's stabbing somebody. Yeah. Okay. Not interested. You know what I mean? But but this guy's selling food out of a lawn chair up the street that he made himself in his backyard. It's like, yeah. Yeah. No interest. Right? So we have this crazy chasm between here are the rules for the people to pay the taxes and wanna start a business and follow the rules and then there's the wild west of the homeless. Then there's just guys who do, oh, we do the bridge takeover. We just get in our dodges, do donuts in the middle of the f**king bridge and people film us and we hang out of the f**king dodge and film them. You know? Like or we go to the SoFi stadium. We just sell beers out front with hot dogs. You know? We just do what we want. So there's a a group of, like, wild renegades that just don't follow any rules, live wherever they want. And somebody tweeted me that somebody's building a house on the, was it, the 110 Yeah. By the side of the freeway? The the You can't build a deck in your house, but but you can build a house this. On the side of the freeway with no permits and no problemo. Is it a news story? Yeah. Oh, let me watch that. Now at 10:30, living on the edge, man builds a makeshift home in between the 110 freeway and the Arroyo Seco in Highland Park. That home has electricity, a garden, even a front door, all put together using items that other people have discarded. So what do neighbors think about the home located not far from their own homes? KTMRA Fanoleo joins us live from Highland Park with a closer look. John? Cher and Sandra, good evening to you. The encampments along the Arroyo Seco, which runs right next to the 110 freeway, have swelled in recent years. And as you're about to see, some people have gotten very creative when it comes to building a suitable shelter. The LA River. Property may be hard to come by in Los Angeles, but for some people living on the margins Riverview? This is where they call home. There are many makeshift structures built with scrap material and trash along the Arroyo Seco next to the 110 Freeway near Highland Park. Oh, man. They are among the more than 46,000 people experiencing homelessness in LA. A drug drug addict addicts and not experiencing homelessness. It has a stone wall. Wow. Front door, powered lights, even a hammock for relaxing. It appears well kept. People living here do not want to speak on camera. What? They don't bother me, this resident tells us, echoing neighbors who say most of the people living along the arroyo seco are quiet and keep to themselves. Some of the instructors are pretty illustrious. They are. And, you know, just admiring the work that they're doing out here. And I get, you know, lightly attacked by these guys. But clearly not everyone agrees that this waterfront living is okay. You want the city to do? Clean this mess up. This does not belong here. This this is public property, but but that's not what it's supposed to be used for. Yeah. This is dangerous. As you can see down there, someone's cooking with an open fire out there. They're stealing electricity. I mean, come on. Feel bad for those folks? Yes. I know because, you know, it sucks to say I know some of these people are here, you know, for some reasons that they put themselves here. So, you know, I do wish better for those people, but I cannot be sorry for those mistakes that they made. Others say just getting by in the city of Angels is becoming too difficult. It's messed up. I mean It's messed up. They should not But let's stop talking to people on the street that never say anything. Especially here in LA. It's this messed up, yo. Yeah. Okay. We had to go to we have to f**king talk to the local gentry to find out it was messed up. Yeah. All I did was messed up, but now I know. Now know it's messed up. Alright. I I tried to build, like, a storage floor, whatever, mezzanine storgy thing in my place in Glendale, and the inspector just f**king walked in off the street and, like, shut it down. Shut it down. Get out there. What are you doing? Whose is this? Get down. No more. You stop. Go pull permits. Go get an extra $100. To say, can you just do it and just, like, you know, ask for an apology, you know, say something here. Pay taxes. Yes. You you can build by the side of the freeway. This is what I'm talking about. Rat you out, do you think? If somebody calls, like, I think there's some illegal building going on over here. How'd they know? Well, because what because what they'll do is they'll cruise around. Right? And they'll cruise around, and they'll look for, like, a dumpster parked out front of a property or a lumber drop or something like that. I told you once, I went to the Home Depot in Hollywood, and 15 years ago, I was pushing a big cart of, like, 2 by fours. You know, there's a difference. You go to Home Depot and you buy a barbecue and a lawn hose, they'll leave you alone. But I'm pushing a cart with, like, 25 2 by fours and 10 sheets of drywall. And this dude, ombre, Mexican mustache, like cowboy hat, boots. He, like, stops me, and he's like, where are you going with that stuff? I'm gonna bring it back to my house to build. You got a permit? I go, who are you? Because I'm from the city. I'm they're cutting it off there. Meaning You can't just build something in your own place. f**k no. You cannot just build something in your own place. Yeah. Your your land, your property. Mm-mm. Not even close. Not even close. And so this guy looks at me, and he goes, you got a permit for what you're building? Because it's hard to lot you know, when you got 25 2 by fours and 20 sheets of drywall, you can't go, I'm building my daughter a crib. Right. You know what I mean? It's like, you're putting on a f**king second story. I'm not so bad at this. I'm building a dream catcher for my daughter. It's like, you're looking at sacks of concrete. Right. Right. Right. And so the guy goes, it was funny. The guy goes, you got a permit? I go, yeah. I do have a permit because I did have a permit. I was building a house in the Hollywood Hills. Oh. Working on a house, but I had a permit. The reason I had a permit is because I started doing what I started doing, and the inspector showed up and shut my desk. Right. Right. Went and got a permit. So he goes Do you think he was trying to shake you down? No. I I don't know. So it was funny because he goes to me. He goes, yeah. You got a permit? I go, yeah. I got a permit. He goes, what's the what's the serial number on it? Because when you get it issued, it comes, you know, with a number. I go, that's a 8 digit number. No one memorizes that. And he goes, okay. And I left because he f**king knew. He wanted to see what my face did when he asked what the permit number was. Was. Oh, god. This guy's like the TSA, you know. But but memorizing your permit number would be an insane Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Thing to to do, You know? So And what would be insane is if you actually memorized it. That would be insane. Right. I should've just made one up. But but, but yeah. So they don't want you to do anything. But here's my whole point. If you'd like to sell beers out front of SoFi and shots of tequila, you can do that without any harassment. And if you'd like to build a house at Arroyo Seco, then you can do that without harassment. And then picture this. You wanna talk about regi f**king lation. You wanna talk about regulation. So, I'm building I'm building some upper deck shelving in my garage, you know, the storage. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. They sell these, like, baskets and s**t that you can hang from the ceiling. Yeah. I I can do it cheaper and easier just the way I'm gonna do it. But but I'm gonna take I sent you a picture, Chris. I think we got it somewhere. I'm gonna take 2 by fours, and I'm going to screw them to a concrete wall. Right? Right. Now if you take wood and you put it against masonry, you want treated lumber is what they call it or you want redwood. You don't want regular wood like Doug fir or something like that because it'll rot or it'll get termites or whatever. Are speaking Japanese right now. Yes. Don't worry. Okay. There are people listening right now that are like, what? Let me explain. If you are going to take a wall Uh-huh. And you're gonna frame that whole wall out, frame it out with 2 by 4 studs. But the one stud that goes on the bottom that makes contact with the slab or the concrete or the footing or whatever that is, that should be pressure treated lumber so it doesn't rot. Got it. Understood? Yes. I got a concrete sort of subterranean garage so I'm getting pressure treated wood and putting it against the concrete. Okay. Got it. I call the, Malibu Lumberyard. Right. And I call them yesterday and I get on the phone and I go, you got 3 quarter plywood CDX, good one side, like shop grade ply. And they go, yeah. We got that. And I go, you got 2 by 4 treated, 2 by 4 studs or pressure treated 2 by 4 studs? They go, yeah, we got that. I go, you got 1 by 6 or 1 by 4, whatever it is. Yeah, yeah, we got all that stuff. I go, okay. Then I say, all right, I'll come over tomorrow and pick it up. I got my truck. Then the chick goes, listen, we can cut the plywood for you. See, what she's doing is plywood is 4 foot by 8 foot and half these Malibu a*****es are driving around in g wagons and s**t. They don't know what the f**k they're doing. And so there's probably a lot of guys coming in there going, I just need with lots of bracelets. Yeah. You know? Piece. Yeah. I just need, like I'm building my thing. I'm that's, like, 3 foot by, like, 4 foot. I I don't have a circular saw. I don't have a table saw. I don't drive a truck. You know what I mean? I don't buy a sheet of plywood. Could you guys just rip it down to 32 and then cut it? So they it's Malibu. You know what I mean? They're not doing that in Sylmar or whatever, but there's probably a lot of chicks and dudes with bracelets who want s**t cut down because they're just doing a thing, you know? So she tries to head me off at the pass and she goes, we can cut the plywood, we can cut the 1 by 4, but we cannot cut the treated because of OSHA. And I was like, yeah, perfect. Because the treated stuff has some kinda chemical in it, right, to make it moisture proof, you know, vermin, you know, to make it to make it Right. Right. Right. It has a chemical that that says you know, basically says termites ain't gonna eat this. We've infused we've turned it into pressure treated green lumber, And there's some and it it has, you know, orange dye number 7 or benzene number 5 or some trace particle in it. And, of course, because we're so insanely regulated, they will not let the guy who works at the Anewalt Lumber in Malibu cut that thing with a miter saw. He will not let him do that. Now everyone who buys it can go home and cut it, which is exactly all I did was take all the s**t home and then I cut it in my garage because you have to cut it. You're not just running 8 foot lengths of you know, you're framing something, you're putting a ledger up or whatever. So it will be cut. It's just regulated that they can't cut it. And I'm like, okay. So you can't cut this pressure treated wood, which by the way, I'm sure you could cut in any other state but California, But you're okay with guys building home units by the side of the freeway. That that's where we're at. So that's where California's at. And my thing is that ain't gonna f**king work. That's not gonna work. But I knew the second she's like, yeah. I hope you don't play plan on cutting. We can't cut. They cannot cut that pressure treated wood, which again, it's cut all day every day because everyone who buy look, people build whole decks out of pressure treated wood because it's outdoors. You know what I mean? It's like imagine building a deck and never cutting the wood. Sign that says do not lick the wood. Right. Right. But it's the same thing they put, you know, on the gas pump, you know, if you're pregnant, you know, whatever. So we're insanely regulated and have no laws all at the same time. Yeah. Well, didn't you guys remember a couple years ago, the mayor of, some place in Alaska was saying that it is cheaper for us to fly the homeless people to Los Angeles? Mhmm. Mhmm. You know? Because when you're at a place that has, like, weather, the city now becomes responsible. They can't have people dying on the street. Mhmm. So they have to now we have to get these homeless people and house them, then they have to pay for all that. And it becomes like they're paying for all that stuff. It's easier to send homeless people to a place where there there there's a less likely for them to die because of the elements. Mhmm. And just kinda leave them to their to to their own devices. Yeah. But you know what's when I see a house like that, I think, like so there's even a hierarchy amongst the homeless. Mhmm. Yeah. Like, there's a good there's a good homeless neighborhood. He's the Jeff Bezos of homeless guys. That's the Malibu of the homeless He's got a high younger homeless girlfriend now. You know? He he got her boob job. He probably did it himself. I live I live in Culver City on the west side, and then they they they had this freeway on ramp, you know, the under the freeway, under the 405, and then off Venice Boulevard. And it was just crazy encampment. But, recently, there was they found 3 dead bodies, and then they boom. Done. Really? Moved it all. Oh, yeah. So I mean, that's what it I mean, that's what it's gonna take. The point is is if these guys started cutting pressure treated lumber in Malibu, the f**king city would be up their a*s. But if you wanna sell beer out front of SoFi or Hotdog That's okay. That's okay. Well, they already got their tax because they they the the city feels like we already got our taxes from them because they had to buy that stuff. Yeah. We need we need a guy out in front of SoFi with a circular Pressure treated lumber. Fighter saw. Like, just And have a cut and sell off. Imagine if you have some secret business that you're just cutting pressure treated wood. Like, you know, you're you're that guy. I got a guy. Speak easy. I got a guy. The guy comes up and like, hey. Where's your wood? I could cut the wood. Yeah. I got a radio alarm saw in my van. Come around back. Alright. Well, let's see. We got some news to do. Certainly. Why don't we take a break? Eric will hang out. Yeah. We'll do the news right after this. Tommy John. Well, here's an upgrade. Tommy John. It's a life hack. Upgrade with Tommy John. 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Celebrating 15 years of podcasting, here's a memorable moment from the Adam Carolla Show's ACE Awards archives. Dude, there's, like, this 11 page thing I read about. The it's, like, a transgender manifesto. It's, like, the manual. You should say this. You shouldn't say that. You say this. You shouldn't say that. I was like, where is the manual for the f**king Jews when they came out of Nazi Germany? That's a trauma. How do you speak to them? But you're transgender. Like, if you say the wrong thing, you're you're you're literally you could be, like, ostracized from from everything. It's bulls**t. And if if somebody's walking down the the street and they had one leg and they they suffered from terrible burns on their face and they were disfigured, you're gonna be, like, oh, s**t. Because it's unusual. And it's not saying that that's good or bad, you shouldn't be, but like, how are you gonna act like everything is so right? Like, everybody's so politic like, they fake, like, they're politically correct that they have no off color thoughts and I have no off color thoughts and I have no off color. Tired of them. No. That you're right. It's sanctimonious and bulls**t and nobody gives a real s**t about it. I love black people. I love Chinese people. I love Mexicans. I love Isis. I love everybody and I don't judge anyone. Get the f**k out of here. Now, for some new memorable moments, let's get back to the Adam Carolla show. Let me ask you a question, Eric. That was that was intense. Does everybody know a guy in his group, trying to think how to delicately word this, who's like weird cum guy. Now hold on. Let me explain myself. I had a woman Are you are you the weird cum guy in your group? No. No. But here's what's on your group. We're proud of you. Go find a mirror. Okay. I had a woman say to me the other day, she goes, you know, when you're like getting a lap dance, because what we're talking about is, like, women are pissed off by lap dance, but they go get a massage every other week. They get totally naked, lay down, have some dude oil oil them up, put their hands on them. You know, why is a lap dance? You know, I get a lap dance is sexual, but your clothes are on. You're totally naked and some you're naked in a room with a with alright. Whatever. It's all in tears. I'm not gonna judge. But then she goes, you know any guys who come during the lap dance? And I'm like, I didn't know a guy, like, who did this. I know what you're talking about. Was always kinda I'm always jealous. But then I realized in every click or crew, there's one weird cum guy. So it's with guy he comes, not Well yeah. Did you mean it sound like weird come like it's green? No. No. Do you know what I mean? I mean the guy who bust the nut at the strip club. Yeah. The guy who only can, like oh, he's got a bang between his mattress and his box ring. You know? He's gotta do it or his his his beanbag chair. You know? Like, weird weird do it in a weird way guy. You know that guy? Yeah. Well, that's the person. Crew have, like, one weird yeah. That's the guy that goes to the strip club in sweatpants with no underwear. Right. Right. That's what it is. If you have on basketball shorts Right. At the strip club, you know, you you know what you do. First of all, I I just never been a strip club guy. But this is the thing people need to understand when you go to a strip club. The moment you walk through the threshold of the strip club, you are now a piece of s**t. Mhmm. Okay? Mhmm. And it and it's fair game for those women to to do to try to get as much money out of you as possible. Okay? Now the thing is this. You know who gets it the most at strip clubs? Who gets treated the most? The the most terrible is the nice guy at the strip club. Mhmm. Because once you walk through that threshold, they look at you like you're not supposed to be here. But the guy And we're gonna get all your f**king The guy's getting his money's worth is weird cum guy in that sweatpants. Exactly. Yo, he's on everybody else. Yes. The guy that goes in and that is like the guy that goes in is like, nah. You know, put this quarter in your butthole. You know what I mean? And he's like, we're gonna do it like that or or that's it. That guy the a*****e guy is the guy that's gonna do well at the strip club. Bust a nut and sweatpants guy is essentially going out and being with a prostitute, ostensibly. We're all looking at a peep show. He's actually being with a woman, if you think about it. Well, yeah. Anytime you're doing, like, you know, any kind of, like, physical like, it's to me, it's like see, I always say, like, that is very much prostitution. Okay? If it's not prostitution, it's prostitutie. You know what I'm saying? Mhmm. It's prostitution adjacent. But there's a lot of things like this in society, man. Let's go back to your original thing. What is why are 2 hot people selling houses? What's up with pressure treated lumber? Yeah. But Here it comes. No. But I'm saying this what I'm saying is, like, like, when I go to a restaurant and the I remember going to Vegas one time, and I'm at the Gordon Ramsay burger place. The waitress had on a dress you could see the outline of her pussy. Okay? What does a*s and titties have to do with food and beverage? Mhmm. Oh, yeah. If I blindfolded you Mhmm. And I was the waiter and you ate the burger, you wouldn't be like, I feel like a fat guy brought me this. No. That is a form that's that's lingering around prostitution. They're they're they're dressed all sexy to what? To get more tips? You're saying hot chicks shouldn't be allowed to work. No. I'm not saying that. I'm saying, like, it is what it is, you know. I'm saying, like Hold on. I don't know what you're doing. You know what I mean? Like, when you like like and this is what and that's why sometimes when you're at a restaurant some that's why sometimes you're at a restaurant and then, like, the waitress is dressed like a like, super, like, whatever. And you're and as you're a guy, you're you're like, woah. Like, you know, And then they give you that look like, you know, can you just order? And I'm like, wait a minute. This isn't government assigned. You know what I mean? They didn't send you a letter in the mail like, yo, you have to, you know, dress really slutty at the restaurant. This are you gonna get arrested? Yeah. It's like, you know so everybody's put in this weird situation, but there's a lot of things like that. Like, why do we why why do we have cheerleaders at at games dressed dressed the way they use? They don't do it anymore, actually. If you start to look at the the things, there it's less and less slutty outfits. Yeah. It's less of this, like, a lot of good suits at the at the, at the cheerleading games now. Yeah. You know what I mean? But anyway, my point is, that's what that is. You know? You go to the strip club and someone I will care. Look. What do we want? I don't know. Does anyone have does everyone have weird cum guy in their group? That that's all. There's always a a dude who's you can you can tell because they bust a nut at the strip club when no one else can do that. Yeah. But he's also weird as to tell you. Is it Yeah. It's not me. No. But But you know that. Got a guy we got a guy, at a bachelor at a bachelor party Oh, well, that's amazing. When, you know, the 2 chicks are going at each other, and they really wanna see who wants a dance or whatever. This guy stripped down to his underwear and laid down on the floor so that in front of all of us dudes, he just said, I'm losing my clothes, man. I'm I'm getting into this. Like Well, I don't know if he's still that I don't know if he's that guy, though, Dawson. Well, I would say I Okay. Yeah. I mean, you're just you're just talking about a guy got drunk at a bachelor party. But do you no. No. No. But the guy looks like he must have not. He's that guy. I don't know if he does. I never asked him. Yeah. That's okay. Dawson, I don't think you know what we're talking about. Yeah. But what's weird We're talking about hold on a second. Just a second. I'm just trying to get Dawson, a guy goes to a bachelor party, drinks too much, and gets wild. That's that's every guy. That's that's That's not what I'm saying. He busts a nut. That guy. That guy who bust a nut? Yeah. Oh, he did bust a nut? Well, I I don't know, but he also took somebody into the back room and had fun with her back there. It just I Well, that's that's have that's not weird cum guy, though. That's have sex with someone guy. Right? Then then I don't know. Forget it. Alright, Dalton. You're not allowed to be offended because I brought up the premise. Not offended. And then you jumped in with what every 22 year old does at a bachelor party or wants to do. That's all. Guy was in his forties. It's not weird cum guy. Weird cum guy is busting nut at a strip club guy. But that's not unusual. I wouldn't say that's weird. Uh-oh. You're being Uh-oh. You're being sexually open at We're being sexually aroused at a strip club. It's not do that. I don't know what you're talking about. I'm saying a weird con guy would be like You're supposed to at the movies or something. You know what I mean? Bodily function. No. No. No. Weird come guy would be like doing a love scene in a movie. You just you hear There's another weird thing where like in high school, he was screwing something weird like a pillow or does some weird face. I have there. He does it, like, beats off laying on his belly Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, with a weird rub against the throat pillow. Couch cushion's so Yeah. That's what I'm saying. That's weird cum guy. Yeah. Yeah. I had a I had a Who was that guy for you? I can't we had a guy in the man show who, when we go to a strip club every once in a while, I would show up in sweatpants with the paper towels down, his shorts, you know, that guy. There was that I can't I I wish I could remember his thing, but well, that guy knows the game. He's prepared. I used to prepare. Yeah. Yeah. But that's I mean, that's I don't even know if they even allow you in the strip club. I mean, I don't I don't know if there's a dress code at the strip club, but that's clearly like, what are you doing? Alright. This this guy this guy's defined by an unorthodox way of orgasming through masturbation or through a lap dance or I had He's the beat off on laying on his belly hump up throw pillow guy from high school. He's the guy that's in the pool, you know, having sex with the with the bubble. With the the little Yeah. Yeah. Is this strictly solo? Yeah. I I if you're with a woman yeah. If you're with a woman, then no. All bets are off. You're with a stanket. Yeah. But your paint your your pants are on, and she's just rubbing on you. The only reason why his pants are on is because the strip club establishment would kick him out. No. I get it, but he's able to have an orgasm with his pants on is what I'm is what I'm saying. Oh, well, that sounds like a guy that, you know, that that sounds like a gift. I get it. He's just he's unorthodox. You're not thinking about the future. Alright. Let me let me alright. Let me let me see if I can make this clear. For everyone, listen. There's 10 people. 10 of your buddies. Got it. You all go to the spearmint rhino in the city of industry. Only one guy busts a nut. Yeah. One guy. That's weird come guy out of that group. It's not like you all leave and 7 of you busted a nut. That's not how it works. It's 1 guy and then that guy has a weird relationship with the he started masturbating when he's 14 by, like, humping the cat box or something. There's something weird in that guy's past. You know what I'm saying? I I think they were all kinda, like, not on board fully with you because you're talking about a strip club. Now hold on. This guy is an extra horny guy or frequents prostitutes guy. That's that's just a horny that's just the guy the f**king guy's label. That's not rub and tug guy. That's it's not that. This is weird orgasm guy. Gotcha. That's what I'm That's what I'm saying. Fetish guy. Like, maybe he wants to, you know, have sex with treated wood. You know what I mean? Like, he just rubs his He's he's You know what I mean? He's unconventional. I do. I do. That's one that I can imagine. I have not gone to strip club with him, but there's no doubt in my mind that that would happen. And, I also had a friend growing up who was who was, he he had wet dreams. Oh, that happened. That happened to me when I was, like, 15 or something. Yeah. But I feel like weird cum guy would be the guy that, like, you know, he would, like, at the strip club, need to put his dick in a beer can. You know what I'm saying? Like, you know, like, this would be beer, and he would be on the side, like, you know you know you know what I'm saying? Like, that's the guy we're saying that this is that's, like, unconventional, or he needs the stripper. He would be like, no. You don't need to be on top of me. Can you just, like, you know, pull my earlobe or something? Or you know what I mean? No. You're getting into fetish guy now. This is sounds fetishy. There there's a kid in my It's fetish adjacent. Right? There's a kid in my grade school who got kicked out, for I know you're music. You're talking to the society of my friend. Sorry. There's a kid in my, grade school class like It's your first rodeo? Mhmm. Yeah. Yeah. Great. I'm so nervous around a star like Eric. And this kid in my class would masturbate frequently during class and stare at the girls. So I'm sure he grew up to be that guy. Could be. That's different. But that's not the same guy. Freaks out at a bachelor party guy or takes a chick back to the room or any he's not that guy. This is just in an unconventional he's able to orgasm unconventional. Okay. Okay. Okay. Alright. And I think what we're saying is at a strip club with sweatpants on is not a weird place to have an orgasm. What I'm saying is is if 10 guys walk into that Okay. Okay. And one of them only one has an orgasm, then it is straight. No. No. I don't think so. I think that he's enlightened because the other guys that are there, I I would venture to say that they all would love to have an orgasm. I'm not making that argument. But they what I'm saying is, but they can't because of whatever's holding them back. This guy at the strip club sounds free. Well, let's call this guy Eric for the sake of argument. Just a strict example. Wait a minute. I I I can't empathize with the guy. It's not a value judgment. Right. I I Okay. So Eric with a k. Eric with a k. Oh my god. You're gonna jump on board with it. This is just something that I guess every guy would like every guy who went into a subway and ordered a sandwich would like to come before he left. There's no doubt. I'm just saying most of us most of us can't do it. This guy can. That's what I'm saying. I think you all can. Oh, so you can do it? No. I'm not maybe. But what I'm saying is this. Oh. If if this people you know right now, if the 4 of you Mhmm. Decided to go to a strip club after this k. The reason why you can't come is because you know each other. And you don't want that vibe you would come back to work and then you would, I can't look at you the same or something. You think like that. What I'm saying is this guy is just kinda like, guys, register club. He's free. I'm free. This, he's emotionally This beautiful lady is in front of me with big a*s titties This is all okay. Rubbing rubbing on me. What? I got to the point and I finished. No shame. There's no shame in it. You feel shame. That's why you don't orgasm at the strip club. Well, listen. Let's take a commercial. Listen, doctor Ruth. Biggie Ruth. I'm not I mean, it's not a value judgment, and I'm not saying who wants to do what or who can't or for what reasons. That's between you and your god. I'm just saying one guy can do it and that's weird cum guy. What I'm saying weird cum guys weird cum guy would be the guy that, like, he he can go to church and when you, like, during the time when you're on your knees in front of the pew and he can rub himself on the pew and he has an orgasm. Then you're like, okay. That's weird. Cum guy. I just what I'm saying is the the strip club element doesn't make it weird to me. Uh-huh. What percentage of guys who frequent a strip club have an orgasm? What do you think the percentage is? That's a good poll. I wanna say 37%, maybe. Right? It could be higher. That we're knocking on 40%. Yeah. That's a tad. I think it's I feel like that's a 40%. That's alarmingly high. And I feel like that's high. That's a high nut rate right there. I feel like the health instructor had to get involved. Great. I love it. But that's what it is. Alright. You think it's I don't think it's that high is what I'm saying. Yeah. I I I I think that I why wouldn't it be high? We gotta talk to some strippers. Yeah. We gotta that's the you know what? You I saw a Strippers Chronicles article and the strippers were saying these are weird stripper experiences they've had. And then one girl was saying that, like, her father's friend when she she turned 18 and she was stripping, and the father's friend paid paid her $20,000 to have sex with her, you know? What do we, So I'm saying is, like, you know, you I'm sure if you would talk to, like, any number of strippers, they'll tell you crazy stories You got a 37%? I I think it's 37%. What do you got, Chris? 5%. Dawson, what do you got? I'd say 10 maybe, but lower than 30%. The 1 in 10 guys. Yeah. Yeah. This is like Yep. Yeah. I gotta believe it's a lower. I I'm single digit and lower because I've been to a lot of strip clubs with a lot of dudes and just there's one there's the one guy. But it's just thinking of somebody too. I can't think of his name, but there's there's always weird sweatpants guy. Yeah. But how would you know, like, you're you're like, unless you're in there looking around, but that guy's coming. You know, you're not doing that. You're you're watching the strippers. Alright. I alright. Well, we'll agree to disagree. Now let's do some news. 30 7. That's what happened. The 30 7. Alright. Alright. Changing gears here. So we just obviously heard about Eric's baby. Mhmm. Are you guys breastfeeding? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So that's a lot of work. For long breastfeeding. Every few hours. So there was this, this mom in Australia who went to a comedy show watching comedian Arch Barker. Mhmm. I know Arch. Yeah. Yeah. Arch. And, he was performing on in Melbourne on Saturday night and Is Melbourne and Melbourne the same place? Say it in Australian. Oh, they say Melbourne. Melbourne. Alright. And in, and during the show, this woman is breastfeeding a baby. Mhmm. And then the baby started getting fussy. And he said about at about 50 minutes in the show, Barker 50 or 50? 50.50. Yeah. 50 minutes into the show, Arch said, we gotta you gotta you gotta have to leave. I'm sorry. You have to leave. The baby's just too loud. It's ruining the rhythm. And the whole crowd was cheering on. So it was a it was very controversial decision. She was humiliated. She leaves. A lot of other people leave on her behalf. It becomes this huge thing. Yeah. And he he he's gone, on, like, other shows saying, look, it wasn't necessarily the breastfeeding. It was just the baby was just being fussy and loud, and it was just like, it was the audio of it. Like, it was just messing up with my rhythm, and I didn't think that it was appropriate for the rest of the audience to have to suffer through that. This is so infuriating. Mhmm. Like like like but she's saying she's saying I never get to go out anymore. I used to go to commercials all the time, but I have my kid now and I just wanted to enjoy it. That's the choice you made. What's the venue here? What did you do? No. What here's what I'm saying. Stadium theater in Melbourne. No. No. I I don't. What I'm just saying is is this at night? You know, not like what I'm saying is is there there's some venue where you could be playing a food court at a mall or something, some pop up beer garden or something, and there's general populace around or whatever. That okay. s**t can happen. Yes. Daytime, whatever. Open seating. Show? But a theater at night, you do not bring show show. You don't bring your f**king infant. Baby. No. No. No. You see and that's what I'm saying. The problem here is the origin story of this. And the origin story is this theater allowing a woman to walk in with a baby. That's what he's saying. Like, look. My my my show is for audience 15 and up. Why did they let the baby in? That they didn't they didn't act in time to where it became a huge thing to where all these guys were, like, yelling at her to get out and she felt Listen. We went nuts. Here's what happened with, what happened with breastfeeding is basically what happened with the trans community. Let's hear this. At the beginning, it was weird and shame, you know, like, hey, freak. Get away from me. f**k that, you know. And like that's what we did with breastfeeding. Like, hey, come on, put your titty back. We're outside. You know what I mean? Hey, we're at the zoo, lady. Go go f**king in the bathroom, Madu. No one wants to see this. Sorry. I shouldn't be able to see this. Like, we went full shame. We went shame with breastfeeding the same way we went shame with trans s**t. Then at some point, we decided that everyone who breastfed and everyone who wanted to get their c**k and balls cut off and call themselves a chick was a hero. And then the last 10 minutes, we went, now we must celebrate these people. It's like, listen. We don't need to celebrate trans, and we don't need to celebrate bread. There's a place to do it. There's a place not to do it. You're not allowed to f**king walk into the c**kpit of a commercial airline and breastfeed. You know what I mean? Like, there are places you should do it and places you shouldn't do it. And at a nighttime concert, it's comedy show in a theater is no. And then you can go, and f**k y'all, as you would say when they go, oh, what's your deal with breastfeed? I have no f**king deal I don't have anything with breastfeeding. But like anything else, there's a place and a time and the restrictions. When you have kids, you go, I don't get to go out. Well, then you have to pump, and you have to hire a sitter or whomever or not go out. You don't get to just go, what the f**k? There's nuance. Yes. There's no nuance in the law. This is exactly what what what what is there more to this story? Oh, there's there's there's she, you know. So she goes on shows now talking about how humiliated she is. Right. But but what she gets God. What she gets is the sympathetic, f**king pussy whip, hand packed, f**king, spineless douche who sits there and goes, oh my god. Oh my god. Are you okay? Heard of that. Are you okay? Like, where they go, hey, b***h. Don't bring your f**king toddler. Don't bring your infant to a comedy show. Yeah. That and and and that's it. And it has no and it and it has nothing to do with breastfeeding, nothing to do with women, nothing to do with anything that they wanna make it. Mhmm. This is about consideration. Yes. I I could I could even read you, like, these descriptions. See, this was a inconsiderate action. It was selfish. It was like the guy was ordering the whole f**king menu next to me in the during the movie. Boom. He was inconsiderate. He was inconsiderate. But yes. And people are saying, thank god I came in my shorts before he left. Weird cum guy. Weird. He he he orders nachos when the movie starts. So somebody who was there at the show wrote an Instagram post saying this is a master class in what not to do. A baby was somewhere towards the front being noisy. It was throwing off the rhythm. I would argue comedy isn't the place for babies. Arj made a couple of jokes and involved the baby. In turn, the baby got louder and Arj asked the woman to take the baby outside. What ensued was a tense silent standoff of confusion between the woman, not not sure if it was a joke. She had to leave an arch trying to get the show back on track. What then happened was what made this whole thing awful and gross to witness. Men in the crowd loudly loudly started telling the woman to get the f**k out. Loud aggressive male voices. Arch did not intervene or tell the men to calm down, to not speak that way, to treat these people with respect in any way. The woman then got up and left with her friends. Shortly, she was followed by other women in the crowd. And for the rest of the show, groups of people continue to leave. It was the worst performance I've ever seen to encourage or condone male mob mentality as part of the wider problem of aggression towards women. A wider A wider problem of aggression. What was gross was ours and made jokes about how he loved the power. It's the power of perception of power that continuously puts women in danger. Men do f**king better. So that was a post from somebody who went there that went viral. Everyone that says to do better, by the way. And then so now let's watch her on the show. So here's her okay. So I'll set this up. She was she's being interviewed. While being interviewed, she's breast she starts breastfeeding the child. Oh. She has I mean, you gotta you gotta breastfeed every few hours. You gotta get make sure that baby gets to You're doing a 7 minute interview. But what's great is this is gonna be a breastfeed. You can't time that one out. Listen, I like that s**t and I like to eat, but I can carve out 4 minutes Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. When I pop on yeah. If if if I go on Sean Hannity's show for 4 minute hit, I'm not s**tting and eating. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, I can go, you know what? I'll take it down. Better. I'll do better. Yeah. Well, so she just finished breastfeeding and she's talking about the story and the baby just starts getting really fussy. Oh, perfect. It's great. I'm gonna expose myself. Yeah. So I just thought it'd be really nice to do something that I hadn't done in a while. And just sort of get back to sort of a pre baby me. Oh, was this happening? Yeah. Yeah. And, hey. People are cranky right now. Okay. Ma maybe she can go to dad just for a quick second. But, like, you know, a mom between your little kids. I'm gonna try. I reckon you need a laugh. No. You just make me Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The baby you can tear that baby off. Get that baby out of here for this interview. No. No. No. You know what? This is perfect. Perfect. No. No. But again, let me say this. Let me say this. 2 things can be true at the same time. That's the thing that's that's weird about this. People like to think that there's some sides. These two things could be true. Okay. 1, this lady should not have had her baby at a f**king show. And 2, the people in the show could also could be rude and aggressive. Okay? Okay. So maybe they're wrong, She's wrong. And it would all the origin of it is them allowing, like, don't have babies at shows. And and and, like, she's look how her baby's acting right there. Like, that whole interview was, like and these f**king f**ks, the right they wanted to be, like, oh, they wanted to be woke. But then they were, like, oh, this is actually f**king annoying. Yes. You know what I mean? That's when the lady was like, she was gonna be like, you know, men. Right? Men. And then she was like, oh, actually, your baby's f**king annoying. Get it out of here. Right? Yeah. So the what I'm saying is that it doesn't have to be absolutes. Yeah. And here's the thing too. There was a story about, in Chicago, there's this really fancy restaurant where it's like $1,000 or something like that. And, you know, there was a baby in there. Now the parents are like, look. We made this reservation. Our our our, our babysitter canceled so we had to bring the baby. Okay? Now the other people in the restaurant are like, hey. We came here to get away from this kind of s**t. So it's like 2 things can be happening. Right? But, like, there's no conversation anymore. Like like, we had it has to be this. It has to be this, like, men are terrible. And, you know, all this s**t is opposed to, like, having, like, a real nuanced conversation of, like, hey, ma'am. We know you wanna go out, but you can't anymore because your baby doesn't know how to act in public. So maybe get a babysitter. And hey, guys. At the show, when this kind of stuff is happening in a society right now where women feel whatever, hey, maybe let's not be a*****es. Let's have the conversation like that, but they don't wanna do that. And it's these woke f**ks that make it the they make it the worst Right. Where there's no conversation. It's always us versus them, and it's like, nah, man. Let's just have a conversation about this s**t. A lot of people were wrong in this situation. Mhmm. Right. Yeah. Well, listen. First things first. Go on. She brought the kid. She's wrong and nothing else woulda happened. It's like they're they're what happens is the cop pulls over the guy and he tells him to get out of the car, then the guy doesn't get out of the car, then the cop calls for backup, then they try to pull the guy out of the car, then they pull the guy out of the car, then they start wrestling. And then at some point, an overzealous cop shoots the person they're wrestling with and then they go, what's up with the cops? And it's like, don't wrestle. And they go, but you think it's okay for a cop to shoot an unarmed citizen? Like, no. But it can all be avoided. Do not wrestle with the cops and do not bring your baby to a comedy show at night, and we can avoid all of this. I know but it's like the yeah, man. That's what I'm saying. I agree. I agree. Well, it's just well and it and also when you got drunk, especially Australian guys, at a comedy show Oh, yeah. And some s**t happens in the crowd, s**t's gonna happen. So people are gonna say s**t that's not tied. It's such a weird thing. It's like this. It's like, you know, you go to a comedy show Mhmm. And you make people buy 2 drinks. Right. So we're saying to people, hey, drink, but don't get drunk. Right. Have a good time, but not that good of a time. Right. You know? Because that's because that's what happens. Right. You know? Right. It's like when you go to a strip club, you get aroused. But don't have that Oh, yeah. You're that guy. So we got it. Get aroused. I got you. You're that guy. But he's like, get aroused, but don't come. Alright. One more. Alright. Well, so did you hear all the stuff that's happening with USC in the, valedictorian speech? No. I didn't see that. Oh, brother. Yeah. You saw that? So, the valedictorian the valedictorian is Asna Tabasem. Uh-oh. And they, USC has Oh, we're free in Palestine or something? Well, we won't we won't know because USC has, decided to skip the speech. Why? Because so the the reason is, because there's a been alarming tenor of reactions to her selected as valedictorian along with intensity of feelings surrounded the military strikes in Gaza that created substantial risks relating to security. Yeah. So she That that was the reason they gave? Yeah. So, yeah, she's taken on an alarming tenor as activists objected to her minor, which is resistance to genocide. Oh, she And she's a pro she's gonna be pro Palestinian. She's gonna do some and they just they're like, look, We don't want that here. We're going to just not do the speech. And now so there's a lot of hubbub about that. And so they canceled this year's valedictorian speech. And now, because of that, they're like, you know what? Let's just cancel all the speeches. So they were supposed to get commencement speeches from John m Chu who directed Crazy Rich Asians Uh-huh. And Billie Jean King. So they have also been canceled just because they're like, look, no speeches. Let's just let's just move on with it. That sucks, This is where we're at. Yeah. No host for the Oscars. Yeah. You know what I mean? It was just get rid of everything. Yeah. They should. Any anytime they do something, they get accused of racism or something. Should. Yeah. I do it. We're just getting to a point where you just have to get rid of everything. Yeah. Listen. Or they could let her give the speech and if she stays on track and starts talking about the future and spreading your wings and finding your passion and being your best self, she's fine. But if she starts straying off into some Hamas talking points, we just have a guy with the paintball gun. Right? Right off just just right stage right. You know what I mean? Yeah. I like the rain chair. And it's pretty easy. You just go, look. If you if you're inspirational, motivational, if you're talking about the story about coming here as a 9 year old and dreaming one day of going to college, be the 1st girl in your college. If you wanna get into, you know, where I'm from, girls don't get to go to college or whatever, that that's fine. But you start straying into some pro Hamas propaganda bulls**t. There's a guy. He's an ex Navy shield. He's got himself a paintball gun. From the Israeli army. He's got about a 100 and yeah. He's got about a 170. He knows Crowe Magraw too if he runs out of f**king pallet. And he'll just be staying about 12 feet off. By the way, he ain't missing from here. So just give your speech. Relax. His match. Give him his mind. Just relax. Just stay on point, b***h. This is like such a oh, man. I don't even know, man. It's like, again, I'm I'm a I'm a nuance guy, you know. And this is one of these things where it's like, is there's a time and place, You know? Oh, the time is now and the place is everywhere with everyone's sanctimonious speeches. No. But it's like this reminds me of, like, you know, this reminds me of it's not I know it's not the same, but it's just it's similar of, like, you know, if you're Colin Kaepernick and you wanna, like, you know, speak out about the the cops and all this stuff, and you wanna do it like, hey. You don't do this s**t at work. Yeah. I I agree. And and only do that work. Lead the rules. You've ruined all the institutions because all they all turn into some sort of politically based something. And and people go to escape Super Bowl, sports, Oscars, whatever, any's, winning clubs, or we'd like to be uplifted a little or motivated. How about like I always say like, listen, there are there are right wing people who enjoy movies too. So now they can't watch the show because it's gonna be a whatever. So even in this situation, it's like, it's a graduation. Now there was some would say, like, you know, the house will your voice be heard up. It's like, well, find a different way. Right. I'm just saying, is this the time for that? It's 65,000 people there. So all the people that, like, all the other graduates, now they don't get to enjoy. I mean, it's a it's a it's such a a, like, I hate that this is the thing that's happening right now. And then and then everyone goes, well, discretion's a part of valor, so let's just cancel everything, and then we'll never be accused of anything. Yeah. Right. Alright. Safety. And they're still being accused of We got Jeff You know? And Neil Harmon out there. They run Angel Studios. They've made tons of movies, but Sound of Freedom, you guys probably know. $14,000,000. 250,000,000 gross. I'd say massive success. Yeah. Oh, wait. Oh, yeah. I made the hammer. It was like $900 and we made like $900. You still owe craft services? I still owe crafty. That's right. Alright. Let me give a plug to Eric. Eric's gonna be at the mothership over there in Austin doing maybe. Doing comedy. That'll be, April 26th to 28th. Yeah. And include the 27th. And May 9th at the Laugh Factory for Netflix is a joke. I'm doing Eric and Friends, so come check me out there. You know? I might even wanna get you on that show if you wanna come, do a I gotta believe that's a Thursday or Friday? Yeah. Friday or something like that. The 9th? Yeah. So, I'd love to. We're not doing it. At the laugh factory. Oh, I'm sorry. I saw it right here. Yeah. At the laugh factory. So, come check that out, guys. Get your tickets down. Netflix is a joke taking over LA. Love to check that out. And then The Comedy Zone, which is, June 14th to 15th. Alright. I will talk to Jeff and Neil. We'll do that right after this. Rosetta Stone. Oh, my kids are heading off to college soon and they're they're gonna wanna travel. Maybe see the world. Well, they're gonna have to learn a new language wherever they go and that's where Rosetta Stone comes in, the most trusted language learning program available. 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There's a lot of that going on or more of it going on now, which I always sort of argue they created this. You know, they they tried to force everyone's hand and everyone went at a certain point, they went, I don't agree with this. And so they essentially all the things Hollywood hates, you know, CNN hates Joe Rogan, but they created Joe Rogan. By by going so hard, They didn't they didn't need to be a Tucker Carlson or Joe Rogan or or, Elon Musk didn't need to buy Twitter. That's why is audio okay or something sound weird on on this thing? Or is that just me? Alright. Either way, he he didn't need to do that, but he had to because you forced him to. And so they've created this cottage industry of alternative voices because they went so hard in the nut job to the left department. Right? Does that sound correct? Yeah. I when we decided to create Angel Studios, it was just how do we give our families we we have kids. How do we give our families the content that we want them to experience? How, entertainment changes culture And our we don't have much control over the culture that our families and our our kids and our grandkids are gonna have unless we step in and say, you know, we're just gonna make our own. Right. Which has now turned out to be a nice business, I think, for you guys and a lot of many others, and I think it's now turning. I I think that a few years ago let's let's say you go back 5, 7 years and you go or somewhere toward the beginning of COVID or something like that, because I live out here, and I have to deal with these people. You know? And there's a lot of, like, don't say this and don't say say that. And because it was considered sort of a death knell, like, okay. You're gonna lose your livelihood. You're you're speaking up about something that's not popular, and there's plenty of instances where they will cancel you and remove you from your livelihood. Now it seems like, oh, you can go somewhere else if you think differently. It's no longer financial devastation for you to go, sorry, I don't think the vaccine's a good idea for my 14 year old son. Like, that that that used to be, okay. You can no longer work in Hollywood, and now it's like, well, alright. But I'll go somewhere else and work. Yeah. Yeah. We one thing one of the things to think about is after Sound of Freedom and after this last year, which is our first, Angel Studios' 1st year in the theatrical, we we ended up in the top 10 studios domestically for box office in our 1st year. After that, we've been in meetings with directors that would, they're frankly shocking us, the beatings that we're having. And directors are saying, I have been in the closet in a way, trying desperately wanting to get out of this system. And if you guys can give me a landing pad out, I'll jump. Yeah. It's like everyone's in an abusive marriage, but they're scared that if they report it to their neighbor in the apartment building, she's gonna rat her out and then get another beating, you know, that she's upset. You though. It'd surprise you, the people that hold this list. Look. Here's the thing. There are more pragmatic people than there are nut jobs. There just are. It's the way we do it. Now there's a handful of nut jobs who are super loud and they've convinced the majority of the pragmatic people that they need to agree with them. Otherwise, they're gonna be destroyed. So the pragmatic who are always in the majority, because people are basically wired in a pragmatic way, Listen to this very small minority of super loud people who, by the way, will, you know, take ahead and put it on a pike every once in a while to send as a reminder to the majority of pragmatists, here's what we're gonna do to you. They never do. I mean, they will That sounds like our story. They're they're the same as, listen, Scientology. Scientology, when I started in radio, and I've told this story before long before Leah Remedy Hero spoke out. I'm talking 1996, I was talking smack about Scientology. And everyone looked at me and said, do not, they will destroy, they will destroy your life. And I was like, I don't care. And I started talking s**t about Scientology. And I got letters from Scientology basically going, walk it back or we're not gonna, you know, but you better walk it. And everyone looked at me and went, do not do this. But it turned out they didn't have any power. Nothing happened. They couldn't do any. They work off the fear. They're a nation without an army, but a but but but they have inflatable tanks and inflatable battleships, inflatable missiles, inflatable everyone goes, oh my god. Don't mess with them. Don't mess with them. But she realized they don't really wield any power. And then soon as people step up and say, nah. Not gonna do it your way, they back off because they're the same as Scientology was. People were scared to death, and now no one cares. Someone will say anything about Scientology now. It's the exact same arc as Scientology, as Hollywood. Interesting. Yeah. It actually we look at the we look at the Hollywood, like, LA as like a bubble Mhmm. That you've got a handful of executives sitting in their plush offices, making decisions about $100,000,000 budgets for the rest of the world, and they're out of touch. They don't know what people actually want. They're sitting in these studios, just a little tiny group of people. They live in a bubble. Everybody they know ideologically thinks like they do. And they make these decisions that are Not very pragmatic. Yeah. Yeah. Well and they're creating. But thank goodness for them because they paved the way for people like you. Mhmm. And that's the way entrepreneurship works, and that's the way pragmatic entrepreneurs work. And they go, oh, there's this whole segment of this society that's not being catered to. Perhaps I should come up with a product that this half that has been sort of cast out, who is, you know, the middle of the country and most all the pragmatic people. I mean, it's essentially what Trump did, you know, if you if you think about it. In politics. Because when, you know, when Trump beat Hillary Clinton, everybody in Hollywood was like, oh my god. What? I don't know one person. You know? Like, they're literally believe it. Here's how they do. They're sampling in Hollywood. They go, I'm gonna talk to every single one of my friends in Santa Monica, and I will see if one of them is gonna vote for Donald Trump. And they go, nope. I've talked to everyone in Santa Monica and parts of Venice. And That tracks. And not one person is gonna vote for Donald Trump. So then they go, what do you predict the outcome's gonna be? Figure 7% margin for her. 93% for Hillary Clinton and 0 for Donald Trump. And then he wins and they go, what's going on? And it's like, what's going on? It's you don't get out much. Nothing's going on. Yeah. Then that's how they think. And they run their businesses that way too. There's a really good book called The User Method by Jeff Schwerting. And it talks about how most of the huge brands you know about today were built by people using the user method. They just made a product they wanted in their life. Mhmm. Whether it was Steve was, or sorry, Wozniak, built a computer that he wanted. Right. And Steve Jobs says this is great. We're gonna make this work. Or the Airbnb founders were in San Francisco, couldn't pay their rent. There was a convention coming by, and they rented air mattresses on their floor that they bought at Walmart and paid their rent. And then they were like, what if we make an Airbnb where you blow up air mattresses and you make money the way that we just made money? Oh, that's where the air comes in. Yeah. And then they went around to all the conventions around the country and sold people on putting up air mattresses in their house Mhmm. To pay for rent. And that's how it started and it turned into well, it's bigger than any hotel now or, Zuckerberg just wanted friends. Right. But but the, the what happens is is when you build something that you want, that you really, really want more often than not, there's other people who want it too. Yeah. And and as someone who makes documentaries, you just go, what's a story I'm interested in? Exactly. You know? And then your job is to make it interesting to other people who may not have initially had that thought. Mhmm. And if you do a good job of telling your story or making your doc or whatever it is, then you'll then convince others to then take interest in this thing that you formally only had in you know, you're the only one who had interest in this subject. Yep. So yeah. Most I I I I believe but that's that's what stand up is. You know what I mean? Like, you have to go, what makes me laugh? What makes me think about things? How now I have to convey it in such a way where people go, oh, yeah. I never thought of that. Or I know what he's talking about, but I never thought of it in that order and that. Yep. I never I never put a joke to it, but I yeah. I know what he's talking about. You know? So it's sort of like it's personal. It's something you wanted to say, it's something you wanted to do, and I mean, I think that's the only I I think whether it's an invention or art, it's probably where all the best art and the best inventions and the best stuff comes from. Mhmm. It is sort of organic. It's over in the book, it's it's over half of Fortune 50 companies that were started by people who are just trying to solve their own problem. Yeah. The vast majority of unicorns come from people do the user method. Yeah. No one there's no great stand up who just rips off other people's jokes, as far as we know. You know what I mean? Like it just doesn't work. It's not their stuff. They can get by, they could work. You know, you could start a factory and sell some widget or something that you don't use or care about, but like ultimately, you gotta be into it. And, I agree. But but again, it's either it can be an it can be a widget or it can be art, which you guys are taking it the art road. Well and we're taking the art road, and what we wanted were really compelling stories that matched our values at home. And the way that we came to that was by allowing the people who invested in our company. So over 8,000 about 8,000 people invested in Angel Studios, and we made them the initial members of a group we call the Angel Guild, and those people get to decide what Angel takes to market next. That group has now grown to over 270,000 people, and it's growing very quickly. And, the and we sample every single project, every single show. We send it to a sample of them. We have them vote, And then based on those votes, we decide whether to take it to market. So what form do you send it to them in? Because you can make treatments, you can make outlines, you can make pilots, you can make animatics. You know, there's versions of of everything you can make. It has to be narrative storytelling. We won't do trailers. We won't do sizzles, but we will do animatic. So if it's a script that's written and it's it's to an animatic, Tuttle Twins does this all the time where Jeffrey's wearing a Tuttle Twins hat. Well, they'll submit an animatic to the guild and then get a score based on the animatic. It's it's you know, I I was laughing about it, but Dawson can find a Grand Theft Submarine. Alright? I had a better name, which was subterranean parking, but it was a I was pitching a made up movie on the radio. Oh, must have been Loveline even. God. It was probably, like, 20 something years ago, but I was just pitching this fake movie Mhmm. Idea. But Michael Nairn, who's an animator, who's a who just animated the pitch. Mhmm. You know what I mean? He's a fan of Loveline. He's He's a fan of Loveline. Yeah. And then, like, I realized, like, it it's a joke, but then when you watch it, you go, yeah. I I never would make a movie. Like, I I could see Exactly. You know? Like, you should do a 3 you do a pitch and you animate the pitch. You kinda can watch it in this sort of 3 and a half minute kinda bite sized digestible morsel, and you have a very strong opinion, like, whether this is a good movie idea or not at the end of this versus a sort of verbal elevator. Okay. Here's what we're doing here, people. Mhmm. You you know what I mean? Yeah. And and if you go back, the original the original crowdfunding campaign was done to build the Statue of Liberty. Most people don't know this, but governments didn't fund the Statue of Liberty. In France? In France. Frederic Bartoli, French guy trying to build the statue. He wanted to build the biggest statue on the biggest idea. Mhmm. And he couldn't fund it, and so he got just enough money to build a torch. And a hand and a torch. If you, if you Google this, you'll see these black and white pictures of a hand sitting up in a park in Paris. And then he crowdfunded $15,000,000 by letting people go up in the torch, and he'd take black and white pictures of them. Wow. And that is That's so amazing. I should have known that. And so this is how the Statue of Liberty was funded. And so we actually called the short films or the prototypes or the animatics that filmmakers submit to the Angel Guild, torches. Oh. You you get enough. You scrounge up enough funding just to create a torch like this one. Yeah. And then you see the statue of the abandoned torch that got attached to the rest of the body later. Yes. But he had to build that because that's all he had the money for. Yeah. Amazing. And then he goes to the United States, and he's trying to figure out how to build a pedestal to sit the Statue of Liberty on because the French funded the the top, the the the actual statue, and Americans needed to fund the pedestal. And he couldn't get Americans to crowdfund. Like, they weren't as excited about art as the as the French were. Mhmm. And Pulitzer said, you know what? I'm gonna take the world newspaper and every single person who donates to the Statue of Liberty's pedestal, I'll put them in the front page of the newspaper, their name, the next day. Mhmm. And they raised all the rest of the money after 15 years in about 3 months. Wow. Because businessmen would put, like, 1p every day to get their name in the US. Why not? And and they built the pedestal. And so between those 2, we've taken some of those elements and we call it the torch. And if you watch the opening credits of an Angel movie, like if you watch Sound of Freedom or Cabrini or The Shift, you'll see at the opening credits, there is a Angel logo and it's in copper. And behind it, you can see copper oxide in the robes of the Statue of Liberty. Oh, wow. That's really cool. And then the spotlights, the negative space on the spotlights make the Statue of Liberty. So everything's inspired by that original crowdfunding campaign. And so what we tell filmmakers is bring a torch. It needs to be at least 5 minutes long. It can be an animatic. It could be a lot of filmmakers bring, like, a short 2 minutes of final finalized animation, and then they'll bring an audio script with storyboards. Mhmm. And then they put it in front of the guild to see if the guild likes it. Right. And the idea is to do risk. And, like, email it out to the No. It's inside the Angel app. You can download the app. Oh. Guild members. Right. But the guild members will just look it on up on the app and sort of They'll on it or Yeah. They'll they'll get they'll get 3 questions. How would you 3 answers. How would you feel if this never became an Angel Studios original show? Mhmm. They get very disappointed, somewhat disappointed, or not disappointed. Mhmm. It's very like, it's kind of a negative question. Mhmm. And the reason for that is to switch the mindset because we we found that people, when you ask them, is this a good show? They'll say, what do I think other people would think of this film? Mhmm. And then they answer, I think other people would like this or I think other people wouldn't like this. And so we needed to shift them out of that mindset of what would other people think of it to thinking about what do I think of this? How would I feel if this was taken away from me? Mhmm. Smart. Very disappointed. Geniuses. Somewhat disappointed, not disappointed. And that's how we get a score and if they score it well, then we can consider it. Mhmm. If the guild doesn't pass something, I can't I'm the chief content officer of the company. I can't even consider it. It's a governance system. Right. So no matter how much you may love it. Right. And there's stuff that I love that hasn't made it. Well, be prepared to add another log to your loved fire because I'm gonna show you Grand Theft Submarine. Alright. And the guilt guilt had any sense at all. Yeah. Let's see Adam's torch. It's time to do a big budget action film. There we go. Alright, Drew. Here's my idea. Yeah. Yeah. I'm on Pebble Beach. Yeah. I'm at the, concourse today. There's, like I said, there's gotta be $100,000,000 worth of cars Yeah. Yeah. Up there. Maybe more. Submarine surfaces right in the bank. It's an old Soviet nuclear class of submarine that's been bought cheaply on the black market commandeered. And they've removed all the torpedoes and stuff and all all the missiles and everything, but it can hold, like, 22 cars now. Perfect. 1st guy. 1st guy. The cone the the front cone was up. Cone open. Cone open. You know, and they got that guy with a crazy accent. He's good looking. He has long hair. You know? They they take the 50 millimeter. Yeah. Start spraying all the gentry. Yep. People dress and period car. Period. So twist out. Sometimes they do dress that way. I should make it look like fat rich guys. Fat rich guys. Yeah. Whitey. Yeah. Spray. Champagne going everywhere. And he does that thing where he goes, I hope I've got your attention now. You know, he's very understated and everything. Yeah. Yeah. Alright. My guy could be me, could be Steven Seagal or something. This guy's he's been drummed out of the service. Not because he didn't get the job done, because he punched out a superior officer when he left some men behind. He had good men that he left behind. He he was framed for a crime. That's right. Drummed out of the military. This guy was seals and green beret in special forces. Now he's dressed in a, old twenties, kind of chauffeur outfit. And he's he's been demoted to just dusting like a Bentley. You know, he's got the dust thing on there. You're saying but he sees what's going on. And these guys take these, multimillion dollar cars, and they'd start loading them on. And the thing that take him to Ford market. But what motivates him is a bullet hits one of his favorite cars. You've seen foreboding. Now he's done it. Now he's done it. See you. My shooting with Frank to review me. This car means something. Stows away in the car as they load them on the submarine. Yeah. Now it's out there. He's on the sub, stowed away in a, Duesenberg. Yeah. Yeah. And then they're going to some, Arab country to sell them to, like, a or something. Nice. Yeah. Yeah. He's in the trunk. Oh, yeah. Action ensues. It's very exciting. Come on. You guys will watch that. I mean, we're just gonna have to have you fill out a, 3 question survey. If if you went if you go to Pebble Beach and you go just along the Ferrari section that's like along the shoreline, every car is $20,000,000 minimally, and there's some that are like like like a 110,000,000 I mean, you just go about a 100 yards, and you got about $700,000,000 worth of product, like, right at the edge. And there's no security. There's no They're dirtying that. They're they're they're Carmel. They got like Rent A Cops, like, standing around with pepper spray. There's nothing there. Uh-huh. There's no real security. It's the perfect ties. It would take a long time to get some federal marshals or something down there. Put them on the sub. This is Carolla's user method. I did an animatic for you. We've done it already. Let's let's put it in the guild and see what they do. Who wouldn't watch that movie? I mean, the item do you pitch, like do you do you go, like, it's this meets that, you know, when you when you do your pitch to the It's it's a like, under siege meets, you know, gone in 60 seconds? Like, is there some It's a description. A description is what you have and and then the narrative. Yeah. And it has to you the only thing is this one's less than 5 minutes, but I would love to put it in the guild just to see what they vote. I just wanna see. But the, yeah. Usually, it's a 5 minute prototype or sometimes it's full length movies. Like, if, Sound of Freedom went through the guild or Cabrini, These feature length films go through the guild. The Shift was a movie that was built by crowdfunding, and they put it through the guild, I think, 12 times. Oh, so it was a completed full length film? And then they edited it, and they edited it until it got to the point that it was ready for theatrical. Wow. Yeah. That one's got Neil McDonough in it, and they just upped the score each time. Yeah. And this is like a sci fi version of the book of Job. Yeah. Neil's a good dude. He's, he's been in here a few times. Looks like Sean Astin's in it. Yeah. Sean Astin's in it. You've got Liz Tabish from The Chosen in there. It's a it's a phenomenal movie. Yeah. And I was gonna say, I think that just the more people sort of who are willing to kinda cross the street and go, well, I'll do business, you know, with these guys because I know because, you know, I do business with the Daily Wire, and it's like the first reaction is people go, I don't know, man. I don't I don't want any trouble. You know? And then at some point, they see people going across the street and getting paid, and they go like, well, alright. I guess, I'm gonna get and then the more sort of recognizable people that do it, the more becomes okay for the for the others that are sort of the pragmatic middle. Yeah. So we did, a show. Our very first show was called Dry Bar and trying to get Drybar Comedy. Drybar Comedy. And then trying to get the very first comedians to come and perform was like pulling teeth. Yeah. And then and then the show took off, and, and now we're paying out royalties to more than half the comedians that have come and performed. So we cover their their production and give them a a minimum and everything, and then they come and perform. And then the best ones, rise to the top. And, now that people are getting paid, it's it's really easy to get people to come. Are we watching Hollywood just losing all of its power then? Because, like, studios like you, I mean, Mark Wahlberg's building Vegas out to become a a studio now, and everyone's just kinda doing their own thing. We're all moving to fill the gap. Right? It's a void. Dissolving? Drybar has over 5,000,000,000 views now. Yeah. It's huge. Yeah. Yeah. Well, they were bitten by their own snake. I mean, they they caused it. They went hard. They didn't have to. They didn't have to do what they did. You know, they didn't whether it was Disney or whomever, Nike, the NBA, you know, they didn't all things COVID, like, they didn't have to go nuts. And they all went nuts, and there's gonna be a price to pay for that. And they're they're praying they're paying the price for it, and I don't think they really counted on people outside of their system having an entrepreneurial background and spirit and a creative background and spirit. They didn't they didn't count on potato farmers, Kelly. Right. And and that's how you guys started. Always worry about the potatoes. Yeah. They start I mean It's the first place to look. They never and, you know, they were kind of correct at the beginning. It was hard to find good talent, not so much in the drama, like comedy. It was hard to find conservative comics. And and if it was, it was like a kinda get 'er done, you know, sort of caricature, whatever. There was no John Stewart version on the on the right. You know? And they they they were having a hard and they're right because there wasn't a a triple a and a double a and a and a incubator for for comics that were, like, conservative. There's no middle ground that the circuit doesn't have any space for somebody who's, like, family safe. Right. But now you're seeing that now that we're getting it's sort of like when the UFC started, it's like there were, you know, sort of bouncers and bar stool guys and sort of big dudes, tough it was, like, a tough guy competition. You know? And then it became, well, this guy's got jujitsu skills, and this guy's a kickboxer, but it wasn't its own sport. It was like this guy's skill sets against that. But now that it's been around for 20 years, everyone knows mixed martial arts. Mhmm. Right? And and in a in a way, comedy and creativity sort of in the conservative realm is that. It didn't really exist. People didn't have the training. There wasn't anybody who was really who had the training for it. And when we when we started Dry Bar Comedy, we saw this exact same problem. What you're describing is that we started out and we said, okay. Brian Regan's huge. Jim Gaffigan's huge. Jerry Seinfeld's huge. Cosby's huge, but with a big asterisk. And these these guys are family safe. Like, you a mom can listen or a dad while you work around the house, and you don't have to worry about your kids hearing the the comedy. You're not diving for the volume knob. Yeah. Yeah. You're not diving for the volume knob. And it was like, well, how could we build an ecosystem around this? So our first effort was, let's go get some, like, Christian comics. And we pulled in some and then we just realized they're not any good. Like, the the there's there's rare exceptions, but that these these these, like, these Christian comics, family comics are not that funny. And we're like, oh, this is the reason why. This stuff isn't very big and and then we the solution was going to comics who are really funny, have learned how to been battle hardened by this by the by the the the comedy circuit, the the the clubs, and then say, out of your 3 hours of content, can you just do 40 minutes without innuendos or language for Drybar? Mhmm. And then they would come in and they would crush it. And and most of the comedians that are on Drybar Comedy are not normally family safe. Right. They are off doing other types of comedy and we have blown up, like, Shane Smith. He he became monstrous because of Drybar. Lianne Morgan just did Netflix special because of Drybar. Jeff Allen. Mhmm. Like, we have created a whole bunch of very, like taken these upper medium world comics that are in the this mid world and elevated them. And now we've done 650 comedians. It's a moneyball approach. It's a moneyball approach. Yeah. Right. And now it's got 5,000,000,000 views and a 150,000,000 viewers worldwide. And it's working. And it's because you can listen to it in a minivan and your kids can be in the back seat and you're not and you can still, like, be present with your kids. You don't have to stick on noise canceling earphones or something to to listen to it. Our tagline is funny for everyone. Yeah. But some comics have actually switched. They've said, you know what? I've got kids. I started before I had kids, and now I wanna actually wanna change my comedy because I can see there's a market for this. Well, you know, for comedians, as somebody who's not done dry bar, but I'm sure I'll be asked shortly after this show, belong to the rights of Grand Theft Submarine. You do you know, so you do something like dancing with the stars. You know? Yep. And they go, okay, Adam. But, you know, you understand this is a live network, you know, whatever, and you have to go, okay. I have to be friendly for this time period on on ABC. And or you do a you know, you do The Tonight Show, you do a late night show or whatever and you're gonna be, you know, you're gonna have to say you're gonna have to speak differently than when you're on stage perhaps, and then there's but there are people who go, we need a 5 minute set for Jimmy Fallon show, and it's gotta be clean. Yep. You know? And all of a sudden, you're now tasks tasked with a with a challenge of of tweaking this and maybe rewording that or getting rid of something altogether and coming up with a premise that it's family friendly or at least, you know, network friendly. Yep. And then but, ultimately, it ends up being a challenge, and you probably become a better comedian than fall sort of falling back on whatever the easy stuff is. You know? So I it's it's hard. And so I would think that, you know, when you're doing you know, I used to do a bunch of sketches for Dancing With the Stars after I was on Dance With the Stars, and they're like 4 or 5 minutes long, But it wasn't demand show stuff. It had to be prime time, ABC, clean, you know, and all of a sudden, you're you you have restrictions, but they're really just kind of challenges. Yeah. That box, that creative box makes for Yeah. Unlocks. Yeah. Unlocks some stuff you can't unlock otherwise. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's it's a challenge, and and you grow from the challenge. And most people sort of steer clear of a challenge, but it it's interesting. Like, I I'm passing it through my filter, which is I'm, you know, medium dirty, but but understand what it's like to get it together for 10 minutes of of clean because you're in front of this group or you're doing that this venue or that venue or network TV or whatever it is. So it's like, I I get it. And we've dropped it, the requirement, to 20 to 25 minutes. Just I mean, if that helps. Well, I have 42 seconds I can think of off the top of my head. It's really close. No. I I would find it a challenge. Like, I would go, okay. What what do I I got 4 hours of material. What what could I use out of the 4 hours? And then what could I tweak Yeah. Out of that 4 hours? And then what's new and different that I've never even thought of, but because there's new parameters now, I'm thinking I'm approaching it Yes. In a in a different way as if I'm telling a joke. I you know, my once in a while my son comes home with his friends, you know, and they're like, hey, mister Carolla. You know, tell me a a joke, you know, whatever. And I have to go, okay. Let me see. Let me shift the first half hour. No. Nothing there. Oh, now your mom's your mom's off the table. Oh, for now, I got nothing. So yeah. But but I would think, I mean, I remember a 1000000 years ago when I was at at the Groundlings in a riding lab with Cynthia Seghetti, and and she just said to all of us, she goes like, alright. You got 5 minutes. You gotta write a premise, and the premise is you're talking to someone through a glass, whatever that means to you, and you got 5 minutes. You write it, write the beats, memorize it, and get up and do a monologue. You know? And I remember going, that that you can't do a monologue in 5 minutes. Like, nobody's gonna be able So many nuances. And she's like, you're you got 5 minutes. You know? So many nuances. And she's like, you're you got 5 minutes. You know? And then I sat there in the class and watched as almost everyone did a really funny monologue, some of which turned into, you know, bigger things and different things and got into shows and stuff like that, including myself. And I was like, I was amazed at what everyone could do in this really short period of time with these parameters. But but in a pinch, when forced to, they kinda came through. And they would've always they've all said that's impossible. I need more time. It's not gonna be any good. No one's gonna be any good. Everyone was at least decent and some were really funny, and everyone stumbled on to something that was that was interesting. You know? And and I that's when I sort of realized that people have sort of capabilities that go a little beyond the way they think, and they're they're a little self restricting in the way they think. Though. Right? It's a little bit painful in the restricting in the way they think. Though. Right? It's a little bit painful in the mind. Well, your your first impulse is like, no way. No way. Come on. 5 minutes? I'm not gonna be able to do this. Memorize a whole monologue that's something I never even thought of and now there's a restriction. You gotta be talking to someone through gla*s. Mhmm. Yeah. I remember my first impulse is I was cleaning an aquarium. But I end up making my character an air traffic controller who was trying to deal with a bunch of planes. One only spoke Spanish, and he couldn't really he was trying, and nobody listened to him. But I was talking to him through glass in my in my mind. And and a bunch of, like, super creative stuff, like, just came out in in that 5 minutes. Constraints. They're powerful. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think constraints and then pain makes good art. Yeah. Agreed. Alright. Well, let's give you guys a plug for that. Angel Studios, where should people go if they want to be a part as angel.com? Angel.com. If you wanna join the Angel Guild, go to angel.com/guild. When you become a guild member, you not only get to vote like, I tell I tell my kids when they're watching too much screen time, I say, Harmons live on the other side of the screen. We make the content others watch. We live on the other side of the screen. And so with the guild, you actually get to become on the you gotta go to the other side of the screen. Mhmm. You get to give feedback. You get to you don't just get early access when movies are done. You actually get to watch rough cuts of movies and give feedback. And then when the director reads your comments, you see you get a notification saying, like, the director just read your comment. Mhmm. And and they change the movies for you, and then you get 2 complimentary movie tickets to every single movie in theaters. So the Angel Guild members are getting 2 movie tickets. So it's like a movie pass to be part of this community that's deciding what the future of Angel Studios content looks like. So angel.com/gild. If you're a filmmaker, go to angel.com/create, and you can submit to the guild. Oh, good for you disruptors. Yeah. I hate those terms. But and and and it's sort of like the way I feel about you guys is the way I feel about I hate lawyers and I hate litigious people and I hate lawsuits, but anyone who got fired from their job unnecessarily for not getting vaccinated or whomever it was, sue away. I support you, and I feel that way about you guys and your disruptions. Disrupt away. It's it's now and it's necessary. Well, and I I think this goes beyond, like, the the the disruption's happening, but this is an idea that would work even if Hollywood wasn't Yeah. Going off track. And it when you have you ever read the book Wisdom of Crowds? I've heard about it. In it, he talks about this this guy named Francis Galton who in 1906 he's Darwin's cousin. And he believes in Darwin's theories so much that he says there's an elite group of people who should kinda rule the world. And he goes to this fair, and he sees an ox that they're doing a raffle for. And 800 people are putting in their raffles of guesses of how much this ox weighs. Mhmm. And if you win the closest guess, you get a prize. And he just asked, can I have the 800 raffle tickets? And he goes home, tabulates them, and he finds out that £1197 is the average guess for the ox and £1198 was the weight of the ox. And not a single expert, not a butcher, not a cattleman, not a, Baker, Yeah. Any well, any of the people who deal with cattle Mhmm. None of them guessed even close Right. To compare to the average Right. Guesses of the general crowd. And he was like, well, this doesn't really support my theory. The experts have to rule the world. Right. Right. And the same thing happens later in, who who wants to be a millionaire. Mhmm. There's 3 different questions that come up in who wants to be a millionaire or 3 different options when when you get stuck. First one is 5050, ask a friend, and ask the audience. And ask a friend basically means you ask the most expert person in your life that you're hoping and guess your life that you're hoping and guess how what percentage of the ask an expert is right? Yeah. I mean, to be fair, it's ask the smartest person, you know, that may not be an expert. Yes. And As far as conics. But it's in the sixties. Yeah. 60% right. Mhmm. And then as the audience is 91% correct. Really? Yeah. It's about it's the one you wanna save till the end. And the the crowd gets it right. Right. And and it's over and over and over again. The crowd is better than a little group of executives in Hollywood as long as you give them enough content to make a vote. So they need to vote, independently from each other. Right. Right. So the more diverse the group and and then they don't know about each other's yeah. Yep. And the guild is consists of 270,000 people from all walks of life, from a 155 countries, the Angel Guild. Oh, wow. And so when we send a movie into theaters, we know pretty well within a give or take a little bit, a few percentage points, what the audience score in Rotten Tomatoes is gonna be. Right. We know it before it comes out. The audience. Critics. Critics. Crap. Crap. We have no idea. Right. Angel.com is where you go. I'm gonna be in Salt Lake City at Wise Guys, May 3rd 4th doing stand up over there 4 shows, and then I'm doing Netflix as a joke out here at the Kookaburra Lounge. That'll be May 8th, then we'll figure it out. After that, Jeff Neal, enlightening, thanks for coming by. Thank you for having us. Well, you, you know, you can sleep on Grand Theft Submarine, or we can just hash it out in the hall since the show's over because, it's going to the highest bidder. I also wanna thank Eric Griffin for coming in. Until next time, Sam, for Eric and Jeff and Neil and Chris saying, Mahalo. 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