Rogan & RFK vs Big Pharma, Messi goes to the MLS, & McGregor Allegations with Chris Distefano

announcements London mandem boys from the ends it's time it's been five long years but I'm coming back the life tours coming to Royal Albert Hall October 19th tickets are up for pre-sale right now code is Andrew go get him while they're there I can't wait to see y'all now let's start the show what's up everybody Welcome to flagrant and today we are joined by the one the only Chris DiStefano di Stefano the man is on a tear Right Now Radio City already sold out damn they had to add the garden oh [ __ ] okay that's close yep okay yeah the next new tour I mean it's crazy right now we'll get to all the other stuff but most importantly um you came in a little hot yep still still got the Puerto Rican white feed yes is it wife yes yes or yes the the yes uh the Puerto Rican wife [Laughter] we have children and but we're not technically married but we aren't married in spirit okay yeah we're not married by the law okay but you know listen I live on Staten Island now where they're just there's different laws out there we have children she's you know if someone has happened to me she gets the money she's in my living will and testament in Staten Island this is your wife you know yeah listen I I gotta you know my neighbors you know watch this at home I'll reveal here that she is in fact Puerto Rican I've told everyone on the Block she's Italian but we already said it's Puerto Rican so I can't it's what it is and she's my wife now that is big if she passes away or if you pass away she gets everything now if you decide to break up then what does she get because that's also a big part of marriage um yes so she I didn't even catch that one if I die she gets everything if you guys break up she gets [ __ ] nothing go back to Puerto Rico my kids are taking care of you she can figure it out yeah she gets she gets it thank you for everything you should have killed me she gets it thanks for everything message from Fat Joe and and no so she has we have kids so you're incentivizing her to kill you crazy this is why Puerto Ricans kill their husbands I know I know you know it is my lawyer said that too my lawyer was like you know this year he doesn't have a lawyer State appointed yeah so but she she you know we have children together so for me I'm just the kind of person I guess because I'm a child of divorce yeah I'm just type of person to me having children with the woman that to me brings her at a higher level than my like if I had a wife if we broke up and then I got married to a woman but we didn't have kids jazz would still be in first place because we got the children that's the spiritual oh yeah there's a spiritual connection yeah yeah the thing is to get Chris as a doctor yes good and here's the truth and I'm happy that you did this because a lot of times I'm like let me hold back you know I don't want you know she tells me all the time don't mention anything about us and you mentioned the first 30 seconds so now let's just have three hours of fun I'm gonna get in trouble regardless okay so you said this morning things got a little this okay yeah testosterone so so no so I I was saying before I was talking I was talking to Akash um outside uh and we were talking about how how you know we're all flawed as humans right and and I try to you know do this but I thought you said Florida in the New York yeah yeah [Laughter] so I I you know was talking how like always trying to self-improve trying to you know I've been uh you know Ryan holiday yeah the daily Stoke that guy I tried to look for someone who mirrors a life like me you know his husband uh he's two kid two three care cut haircut Metallica yeah all that and he's and he I was like this guy lives a similar life you know from the circumstances let me see what he does and I've been sucked into his podcast suck news books great guy um and so I'm always trying to self-improve and read a you know flawed or whatever and one of the biggest things you should never do is fight in front of your children because they absorb that whatever and I've been practicing that and preaching that and then today they got some trauma and then today there was just an argument that if I would have been thinking about his principles and thinking about out the stoic philosophies of just you know you know and you know choose you know instead of being angry to sympathy delay your anger you know uh the best the best the best thing you can do for anger is to delay you know just think about your the dichotomy of control control what you can control and don't worry about the rest What epic Tia says and just you are in control it is not your life it is the choices that you're making that make up your life you are reacting to everything life is reactionary all that stuff and I snap and I just snapped when she asked me about a chore that I didn't do about throwing out the garbage and we just got into it and the kids were right there and then I I just had to walk away and I took a shower and I told Akash I was screaming into the towels in the attic to just trying to get upstairs as far as you can go into his head screamed into town my children were in the basement they were doing like an activity down there that's where their playroom is and I went up to the top layer and I screamed as loud as I can into the annex and just yelled obscenities at myself took a shower came back downstairs and I said you know what I already met I messed something up I did not control my reactions in the right way but what I all I can do now is show the children that if you make a mistake if you make a mistake all you can do is try to be better for it this is going to tie into Juneteenth [Laughter] and so that's what I tried to do and and I said you know what I'm gonna go down there the Jazz are still with the children I'm gonna kiss her and tell her I love her in front of the kids so they absorb that but went smart smart and but she was still angry I was still angry and we gave one of those kisses where if I would have slipped some tongue she would have bit it off and you know but it was good to see that because the kids hopefully absorb that like how do you turn a negative into a positive try the best we can and that's what I think has fundamentally changed about our relationship is we're not at each other's throats anymore we're not looking for ways to get away from each other we're looking for ways to make it all work and kind of be better examples for the kids so what is your advice uh to people who don't have an attic who don't have an addict yeah that's um an addict like you mean a drug addict no no no no no okay who can't go up two or three stories just scream into a towel yeah one bedroom apartment two-bedroom apartment then I think you got to go outside I think you got to go outside and take a walk but I do have to be honest with you after experience someone experience today if I didn't have an addict I would have been that guy that you read about and threw himself in front of the E train really I think a lot of people I think a lot of people throw themselves in front of the Subway have just they didn't throw out the garbage when they were responsible I was working on Wall Street and when he would have like a horrible day we're talking about like losing hundreds of thousands of dollars he would just walk on the street and bump Bankers with your shoulder you just walk up to people bump him hit him have a little bit of a little aggressive interaction get it out of the system and then get back to work yeah yeah well I think that I think that you have you have to you have to get it out somewhere they go to the gym he's pretty selective with who he bumped oh yeah yeah but not Alex I said Bankers you've got a lot of bucketheads yeah yeah hit somebody who looks like they have psoriasis yeah so things are good at home though they're good at home they're good vaccinating the kids I need to know this is Chrissy chaos we are in the news I know you've been Googling it I know you're a big fan of RFK Jr a man of the people you know how the Kennedys are yeah yeah just people of the working class the Kennedys I support the cath folks I'm sorry can I tell you I just I listen the RFK dude is quite interesting yes everything's you know I watched the Rogan stuff and I'm curious about it but I do get a little bit of um I don't know a discomfort at Kennedy saying that they're like out here for the working class right because they're like the young Kennedys have you know been partying in New York for a while sure and they don't exactly party work in class and I won't say which one but there's an iconic story in the city of one of the young girl Kennedy's trying to go out to a nightclub and they wouldn't let her in and she said out loud the airport's named after me [Laughter] she didn't say one of she said that's true I don't think I know what's going on because I have I've been a little bit outside the news because again with kids you don't you can't really do what you want to do you're in fourth place in your own life what's going on what's going on he went on Rogan and what happened are the Kennedy's coming that yeah it might be I don't know okay I think we're seeing why they're all dead they like to push the buttons a bit you know they get killed a lot oh yeah he's taking shots at everybody yeah yeah yeah I gotta watch that Rogan episode I haven't been uh I have because you know what they say he's saying the covid vaccine might be a little fugaze I don't really I'm gonna say something smart posture this is the you know when you cross the leg I don't really no no I'm not I I do think though for me with the getting the kids vaccinated I personally yeah personally because you know I believe in God the Creator so I'm like listen if whatever God's Little immune system God made my kids fat he vaccinated them before he sent him down down the shoe yeah so my thing is like let my children's immune system do their job if we reach a point where it's very clear that we need to get modern medicine involved we'll get modern medicine involved yeah this whole thing of here's the thing I have zero issue it's the same reason why I I picked you know Ryan holiday and the daily stoics advice because it's 2 000 years old it's battle tested as opposed to a new age thinker who may or may not be right but they haven't got the years of experience so for me I'm like that certain vaccines have got those years of experience I got no issue giving my kid this certain vaccines a flu shot or anything like that that's been around battle tested battle tested the new vaccines it just hasn't been battle tested to be battle tested yeah I just need it I need some years before I can do that you can buy the first iPhone they get the Kinks out of it yes yes so that's so for me I think there's some kinks in the latest coveted vaccine I think if you get boosted do they even sell that instead on you go to the booster there's two guys in leather jackets oh we got some Biden voters yeah Tour Updates London you already know tickets on pre-sale right now code is Andrew uh also this weekend we're gonna be in Temecula California that's already sold out and Reno we had a second show a few tickets left for that one uh we're gonna be adding more cities very soon so stay tuned thank you guys so much for coming out to all these shows uh incredibly excited and Toronto thank you guys so much that was unbelievable man uh both shows at the Scotiabank Arena sold out uh thank you so much incredible incredible incredible and uh let's keep cooking man more dates to be added very soon peace also guys big announcements tour wise first of all I am taping my first full-length one hour special in Houston at the White Oak Music Hall September 1st the first show sold out within 24 hours y'all are amazing so we added a second show but those are almost gone as well so hurry up and buy your tickets akashding.com also there's a lot more dates on there that you can find including some new dates I think we added we moved Salt Lake City we added Poughkeepsie but more importantly Zanies y'all sold that [ __ ] out so fast that we added two more shows so July 13th is sold out but we added the 14th and 15th I believe you might need to check your calendar but the Friday and Saturday shows we added to Zanies so go to Akash singh.com buy your tickets for Zanies buy your tickets for the special taping we're elevating the [ __ ] out of this year I love y'all thank y'all so much now let's get back to the show you know it's unfortunate the government put put us in that predicament it's unfortunate that they did that not us yeah and and uh but yeah but I'm not I don't think you know the booster now you know you hear about all these problems I'm just like you know what I'll take shot I'll take a shot at you know my own immune system doing what it does you know and uh and there's no part of you that's like it'd be kind of cool like seeing the success of of a lot of autistic peoples there's no part of you that like you see it as an advantage oh make no mistake I when I was this is our way to compete with China like we need to audience about some kids yeah make no mistake when I was a pediatric physical therapist you know I I worked doctor yes doctor yeah I mean of physical therapy so it's like bro come on come on come on man gas you up yeah fine let us pick you up here on the pot a little bit doctor all the real doctors at home are saying the same thing because we have a medical professional to talk about that yeah yeah but I'm a nurse in the same way here but so the only thing my man just took away his doctor dude it's like if it if it was that important to me I would have the diploma I don't even know where my diploma is I have no idea where that diploma is I'm not [ __ ] on physical therapy I think it was a great profession but yeah you're not a real you have to be very clear I have a clinical doctorate is so different from what actual real doctors or even nurse is dude I would argue like if somebody went down right now you should go to the guy in the bucket hat before you went to me I would go to that then go to Duff because yeah the Jewish guy then the physical therapist um but but yeah I uh when I worked with the children who had autism dude I almost felt like they're so smart and they're operating at such a different wavelength that it's not so much that wait why'd you work with the kids with autism oh because Physical Therapy it out of them no no I tried I'm about dodgeball and just let one rip I know you're faking it you know you got all different kinds of kids you had kids with cerebral palsy so those you know the kids throw them in there no physical second day on the job this principal calls me to the office she goes Chris how's everything I was like it's good I'm loving it having fun she goes it's great because we're having a good time because I just have to remind you again you cannot run up and down the hallways with the kids holding them like footballs you're not allowed to do that and then Spike them into bean bags because I was the only male that's a very female oriented profession yeah so I was the only guy I was the only guy there so I mean I was having so much fun with these kids but she was like again you know they some of these kids are feeding tubes they have issues and you're having a good time and we're not but it's a liability yeah so but the children with autism you would work with them you know they needed you know motor skills or they needed to you know they would have weaknesses here and there and I was like man these kids they're they just can't communicate but I would always Fascinate I'm like what is happening in their brains because they'll be able to like focus on something for like you ever seen like The Blair Witch yeah when uh like I forgot which one it was where like there's the the the witch is just looking at something for four hours like she's just and it's creepy to see someone just stare they would do that sometimes like yo something Monumental has to be happening in their brain for them to just be staring at something you whatever for uh and you cannot break their concentration I'm like some some something wild so the witch just had autism that's what it is the witch just had autism a bit umbrella this the term autism I think the spectrum they don't even call they're just on the autism spectrum and also it's it's a spectrum but not in the way that like it gets worse no or that's not what they mean by Spectrum it's not like oh you got a 99 out of 100 or you're like a 200 they're just different ways you could be autistic so some people got the math autism some people they're just staring and then they do nothing autism steak I mean make but doesn't it seem a little umbrella like I feel like there's different things that are also wrong and we're just oh no you you can go the the talent so many talented people on the Spectrum I mean Zuckerberg Elon Rock Chris Rock Rock I knew Chris Rock I felt weren't they ruining it for actually autistic people yeah because now we look at the autistic people and we're like what the why aren't you smart like call yourself something else or just be quiet about it because you're not normalizing them right they're just looking like losers right right like you're kind of an [ __ ] if you're successful and you claim autism right so that you can get even more pass on the back like you're the richest guy in the world and you're autistic oh yeah yes you're so hard I think a lot of people now lean into something there they lean into autism like and now everybody's you know if you do something good or bad I'm autistic yeah you can blame it on autism it's like you're not can't you just be weird but Heaven is being a little weird yeah there's autistic people sometimes I think I think they do it for playing time like remember at the end of the season in high school where you throw the autistic kid in oh yeah like I think that some of the the worst basketball players in high school are just being like yeah I got it bro like can I get a few minutes time yeah I remember I remember one time when I was I played college basketball and you know it was division three very low division three so I was playing like it's you always discredit yourself if you were all American were you not it's not it's not were you not All-American I want division three I just wanna I just want to be clear just like I'm a doctor I'm not a doctor like just like I want to be clear from what he said in the beginning please come out September 23rd to serious but it's the baby garden okay it's not it's the little let's see the big one okay but but we're but first of all together it's a it is a big huge venue still we're not talking about it it's about five thousand feet yeah come on okay so let's not just I saw I took the kids to see cocomelon there last year oh yeah cocoa melon is huge yeah um but uh but yeah so I don't mean to crap on myself but but I just I think I was saying a story about uh my coach you know I was the I the the leading scorer the best player and I remember if we were getting a big lead on a team uh he would all of us right away take his take the the best players out to give the bench you know uh uh playing time yeah and for me like I remember he did that to me once and he was like I was like what like you're you're now you're you're not incentivizing me to even want to score more because the more I score and the more we beat this team you're gonna take me out why are you taking me out he's like do you think the players at the end of the bench deserve time don't you think that they deserve time I'm like no they suck that's why they're sitting at the end of the bench they deserve 30 seconds why are you taking me out I'm working harder than everybody here right now and I'm like come on dude so you're keeping the games close yeah yeah it was one of the last bastions of meritocracy if you're the best you get rewarded yes I think it's just by the way with my kids preach that to that to all compete against one another 100 percent I have my little one I have my eight-year-old in Jiu Jitsu with my 12 year old stepson wow and I have him go hard I'm like break her arm I got health insurance because because I don't I want her to understand not only to be able to protect herself but understand that come on man like nothing you know because sometimes the people that are like preaching and it's not a racing just people I want it about to be a racist no no I swear to God anytime anybody goes it's not a race because it's a trigger thing now anytime you hear equality it goes to race but it's like a lot of people just want to be superior and they'll use the thing of equality to be superior I'm like sure no this is a [ __ ] meritocracy the best of the best get it always you know like I never hear uh so so I was like you know with athletes it's just that's the perfect example it doesn't matter what you're you know complaining about it doesn't matter what you look like it's the 12 best players in the NBA they're going that's who wins and that's what I want my daughter to understand man is like bro you're living in this [ __ ] world we're getting pulled you're living in this world where words speak louder than actions and that's a very slippery slope I need you to live in the world where actions speak louder than words and you control your actions and you go out there and do the best you can and only control what you can control and the rest of the stuff because we're living in this world now man where it's getting a little flimsy it's like we're living with emotions and I'm like hey man I live with I live in a factual world still so I'm trying to preach that onto my daughters but you're an emotional guy I am I am but I but I unders but I'm not going to expect something because of my emotions so there's an entitlement oh my god with the emotions and that's your frustration of course I think that if somebody works hard they should feel entitled to what they get 100 and I don't you know I don't care what you look like smell like what religion you're from if you're the best I want to go with you I couldn't care less I think I I you know and but but but that's how you know I I guess was raised I just say smell like yeah all right he was looking at me when you see it I've never heard anything what you look like what religion you are smell like a second yes yes I uh I've lost my sense of smell from having coveted and you wonder why we call you terrorists [ __ ] prophecy baby get out here yeah but it's different I think I you know that's why for me against people that have kids I tend to listen it's not that anybody's better than the worst but when you start to have children your whole outlook on life is I'm just seeing the world differently I'm in getting the world differently I'm getting my information differently so that's why I tend to try to listen to people that have kids not to say people that don't have kids are not very smart and well Adept all you guys but but I'm like you don't see the world I see the world so you may have a very different emotion on something than I have 100 yeah it's almost like could you trust a politician oh yeah wipe them down oh yeah 100 I like it yeah it's like it's the ozone pick could you trust a politician that doesn't have kids no and that's the tricky thing it's just like how do I know that you're looking out for the future when you don't have any roots to the Future you have no ties for the future right right like out there doesn't have kids most of them have kids so I think for that reason I think it's really important like if seed is not AOC does not yeah we don't trust her yeah yeah yeah speaking of Latin women what did you say to your girl when she asked you to take out the trash I really need to know how this fight escalated well no no it wasn't it was that I forgot I forgot to do it okay um and then why did you forget this is where it gets well it gets fun yeah first of all yesterday was Father's Day okay so yes wow so you know wow it's your Juneteenth yeah exactly uh that's why I was in blackface and I I'm like can I get a day where I don't have to do you know the the father stuff can can you you know can I just like whatever like I'll I'll not take out the trash I'm not gonna do anything and I just and but I was still gonna do it but I forgot okay drinking a little bit we had a couple of whiskeys with my dad watching the Yankees Red Sox uh you know it was fun you know listen my dad's been been at the house for for a couple of months and um it was fun to just listen to you know what his view of the world is after a couple of whiskeys and then you're like uh you know go to sleep because I just feel like my phone's recording this and and I just feel like I shouldn't be around what you're saying and so and so because it's making so much so much I was like yes I kept going amen that's how you know it's a crazy thing somebody just said when you get Colonials well said sir and so and so um so I forgot to take it out and then it was it was just a thing that again and I do the same thing I'm very guilty of of doing this as well because you just get into attack mode and and but more women get into a little bit attack mode but by the way I used to get upset by this but I do understand it because they are the ones who need to be more vicious because their nature has given them the responsibility to have the children create the children bear the children and then take care of the children so they are always like are you attacking my kids and they can't just turn that off so I respect you know a ferocious woman like that but she said you know she was like you know if you wouldn't if I said I'm sorry to take a trash and then you know it could should have been I wish it would have been oh I'm sorry I'll just take it out and then they'll fight but what she said was she was like instead of spending all that time on your phone you could remember to take out the trash and then and that's when because I think I've been doing a better job of not being on the phone I've been leaving my phone in the draw I've been put taking technology away from me I've been trying I've been trying to do all that I got off Instagram I barely go on PornHub anymore I only have one or two only fans it is it's not a taking over my phone is not taking over my life I don't look at it for the first hour I wake up anymore because that's what Ryan holiday said to do and I'm not doing that anymore and and then so I was like how give me a little bit of credit for trying for trying to control what I can control and and that didn't happen it was just a moment of weakness and I had an opportunity right there I had an opportunity to not react I could have said Chris don't react remember this is your it's how you react is what is what you know there'll be consequence to your reaction so you are you can't control what she said but you can control your reaction and I forgot that epictus went right out of my brain and what I saw my father do came right into my brain I took off my shirt and I wasn't even realizing I was wearing a wife beater it was a saw State no and I just started exploding you know you never I became a little [ __ ] want me to be honest with you and women don't want to see that what would have better been better is to me to just say something to her like all right I'll do it and show her calmness because then it's like she can't win but instead I caved got into a big argument you know proved her right and then you know [ __ ] up uh because I've been also another thing we've been doing here's another here's another little insight I've had ready for this here's another answer I have for people with kids out there Chrissy sweating like his comic dude hey my name is Lavelle Crawford September 23rd the baby one no so another another because again this went right out the window but again this is going back to we're all flowing here okay we're I'm trying the best I can but I'm always gonna make mistakes that's just you have to accept it as a human being but I I said and we talked about this my grandma and I Jazz and I talked about this we said rather than because you know in the morning I don't know if you guys have who has anybody have kids no nobody has kids so people out there once you have kids in the more the mornings with children very tough a weekday morning very tough we got the 12 year old you know waking up late he's gonna miss the bus we got my eight-year-old waking up right on time you know she doesn't want to do anything she doesn't want to do her hair she doesn't want to eat then we have the two-year-old waking up who's just being two who's just being crazy drunk lunatic person just yelling screaming wants to be held wants to be put on the floor she bites so you have to just there's a lot of chaos going on and then that would a lot of times unchecked we would just start yelling at each other yelling at the kids sprinting to the bus and be like Delilah come on get on the bus all that and then always negative sending them out into the world on the bus and I said hey let's use these moments of Crisis to show the children how you react during a crisis this is a crisis because because with children they can't really communicate their behavior is the language how they're behaving is is what they're telling you so I'm like okay how how they're they're behaving in a way that maybe they're hungry maybe they have to use the bathroom maybe they're up they're scared because they have a test whatever there's but they can't speak to you that way they behave so we have to as parents do a better job I I said to her I said to Jazz I said we these are moments of Crisis they can articulate it we can let's show them to be calm let's give them a confidence boosting activity before they get on the bus like with my my older daughter I'll have her like balance on the curb and have her do it two or three times she goes into that bus happy she a challenge make her bed something confidence and and we've been doing so great at that we've been doing so great at that we're showing the kids in moments of when they're causing a crisis how you react and we've been doing so good and that's great yeah for some reason today but I woke up I was like [ __ ] everything I just did last month I'm going back to the old me and that's and then and then I like that confidence boosting activities I do a confidence boosting activity with my with my eight-year-old uh because she's the one I take to the bus every every day have them go into a situation where they would be potentially insecure yes with confidence I mean you're a young person going into school you don't know if people like you they don't like you yeah so I went into uh because I would notice that like if you know she has to be on the bus at 705 and the bus drivers there on the corner what kind of confidence boosting activities would your dad do for you when you were going to school yeah my dad how would you how would he make you feel really confident right before you got onto the bus yeah yeah yeah my dad probably honestly back then his his idea of a confidence booster I would say would be telling me like taking me to the racetrack um you know take me to the racetrack and I if I picked a horse that that didn't win rather than hitting you over the head with a rolled up newspaper or calling me a fail or a loser he would be like there's better luck next time but we do have to go right now because Daddy just all the money and these men are looking for it so let's confidently get take an Amtrak to Lancaster Pennsylvania if I would just know but again it's just noticing like every time we would rush her to the bus I noticed she gets on the bus she doesn't talk to the people sitting next to her she's like want to give her a hug and tell her I love you she like pushes me away but you can children as quickly as you know it their brains are so malleable that as you can make a bad day that they're having a good day in literally 30 seconds just do have them you know race to five things green on the corner have them you know uh count backwards from a hundred anything it can build and then all of a sudden they're happy they're confident I love you and then it becomes jumping into my arms hugs kisses all that where'd you live and then get them on the bus um where did I think to be honest with you I think from that daily stoic stuff again shouting out Ryan holiday he didn't say that but I think just putting together shout out Marcus Aurelius please shout out yes okay you're giving Ryan a lot of credit I think Marcus did the hell yeah lifting epictus all these guys but I will say but but but when you read Marcus Aurelius did he even do it no that's the other thing oh you think somebody else did it I mean I think you just give credit to the guy in charge so back in the day it's like all the smartest people that's a good point too yeah that's true well I think but he does a good job holiday of modernizing their words because a lot of times you're reading it and I'm like dude yes God teasing Ryan yeah yeah no but no but there's truth to it actually let's go with that Marcus [ __ ] well we're having we're having I don't know which episode we're having this conversation on but like the whole thing with Shakespeare have you heard about that like maybe it was a collective of people yeah it kind of makes sense when you look at it's like breath of work yeah oh that's right that's right that's a word for Edison Tesla was the one that came up with all the stuff and Edison just knew how to Market it yeah Addison Edison was a more marketer I mean maybe there was 20 people on that team as well so I would imagine if your uh Marcus Aurelius who's the I think what is the Emperor he was the emperor yeah so I imagine you you have a bunch of people if you want them to live this more evolved life which you could say the stoicism promotes right it's a better life you look at almost like religion like do these things you will enjoy your life more and if those things are being brought to you from the guy in charge right maybe if you were one of the citizens of Rome you'd be like no I want to kind of live like that yeah that makes good sense okay the emperor wrote it yeah I don't know if that was literally his life like he just happened to be the smartest guy ever who had all this wisdom right yeah he might be and also the only one that could read or write at that time yeah he was like listen you know you're all and there's weird stuff happening like with the Emperors in Rome right there was what was that guy uh Xeno Xeno he was the one that they all looked up to but then he went crazy he did one Euro that went crazy but that wasn't yeah I guess work for me I think epic teams used to work for Europe see that's the thing with it wasn't Nero's fault though they said that uh no it was the pipes okay because they had the first it's like lead pipes they had they didn't realize that there would be the lead in the fights would cause the same lead issues that we have today yeah right so apparently he went crazy while he was in control yeah but the only reason that happened is because he was rich right right most people didn't have lead pipes funneling water into their beautiful homes so the poor people weren't getting the lead boys yeah yeah and same thing with the Salem witch trial they didn't think the when the witches you know that whole time it was that and same thing happened in France oh it was lead poisoning no it wasn't lead poisoning it was a certain flower that was growing a certain uh weed that was grown going infecting uh uh uh the crops and for whatever reason it reacted in women because of you know they're different bags of chemicals than men yeah and caused 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well I mean listen we were able to do you know she was like you know cooked a great breakfast we had a great time um uh went to the park with the kids but yeah you don't there's no days off um with the parenting I mean mom's more though dude I gotta I'll be honest okay you know it's fun you know you know we could make our jokes but when I when I look at how hard of a job being a mom is I'm like I can't I just can't [ __ ] do that like dude the children just want their mom for every thing it doesn't matter what I do it doesn't matter at all the mom is the only one that can calm them down and the mom life is the one that's on hold the longest because it's like like I get I get kind of back in the day his historical times when guys were like listen you just stay home and take care of the kids I'll do everything and now with feminism sometimes feminism makes it harder for women because you're like yo I gotta take care of these kids and do this thing and then also now you want me to have a nine to five and try to live my dreams it's like for whatever reason nature decided okay the women are going to be have to be the ones to take care of the kids and no again no matter what I do I can't help the kids as much as the mom can here's a take if you can afford it okay not everybody can afford it but if one can afford it right if one can afford a woman not going back to work right if it's not her passion it's not her love it's not something she's really interested in and then she's a witch [Laughter] immediately Devil's trumpet isn't it isn't it kind of beneath once a woman has children isn't it beneath her to go back to a job if she doesn't have to like I get it's your it's your career your passion It's Your Love but just like if she doesn't need them if she doesn't need the money and not everybody has the privilege to not work but if you can not work going back to a job that you it to me it's kind of beneath you like you're gonna make copies of the [ __ ] paper for your boss like you just created a human being yes and now you're doing these medial tasks yeah it's like it's like it's a good point because it's like even watching you know what's stupid the Jazz went through it's like hey babe you blew your [ __ ] off yeah these people that have changed my life in the most positive way you're not gonna go back to working at Target exactly that's you know what you just won 40 Years of Freedom that's it that's it your [ __ ] blew off it blew off like you know I watched them sew it back on yeah I literally watched that happen again that's how crazy it is your vagina blows like almost off yeah and then you're so numb from the pain that they just start sewing it yeah giving you open vagina surgeries sewing it while you are non-nomed yeah and so and so for me I that's a good point and that but I just think it's beneath them if they can afford not to do I understand that a lot of people cannot afford to do it and that's a huge luxury but yeah just going back to a job you hate after you've created a human being but I do think it seems stupid I do think though most people and again I'm not saying you know not everyone can have a full you know House of servants I'm not saying that yeah but most people can delegate and they're choosing not to delegate what does that mean delegate meaning like give responsibilities of the child no no like like of your parenting like you we have this thing in today's society for some reason where if we're not doing it all then we're failing at something oh no get help you know get help get help you know whether that's a family member whether that's but that's on women cleaning lady once a month anything because women feel guilty though they feel like they're not doing their motherly Duty and it's like shorty if this was [ __ ] a hundred years ago you'd be living with your mom your dad your brothers and your sisters well kids your [ __ ] grandparents there'll be your whole family take like you guys do you told me that that's a common thing yeah yeah right so many together yeah because like they say that saying goes back to it takes a village to raise a kid yeah because it does but now we try to be like Oh I'm a single mom or I'm a single in this city when we're all living in these apartments we can't have two generations of families in the apartment Yeah It's Tricky yeah a friend of ours I I don't want to shout them I don't want to say who he is because he might want to keep [ __ ] on the low but he was just like yeah the second I have a kid like my parents already told me they're moving into my into the city where I live well let me just remind you what Benjamin Franklin said like house guests are like fish after three days they begin to stink so just know just know that your dad's name with you yeah that's why I said that so it's like we you know I will say though having the village with me now it's been such a Monumental hope and I'm happy and fortunate my dad and stepmom are there helping me because it's such a huge help but with that being said kind of having even a house in general what I'm saying before is like you know people used to have houses and mansions and all that because they had a team of servants that would run the grounds for them now it's like you'll go get a big house which would be a modern day Mansion which would be a mansion to someone from 300 years ago even if you have a three four bedroom house it's huge I'm like we don't need all this what we've just given ourselves more work you think that you upgraded but you actually downgraded your life because now all this time I could have been hanging out with you family when I had hanging out my kids when we had a little apartment we could clean that thing in 20 minutes make it a team activity now we spent entire days cleaning trying to maintain the house when the kids are sitting on their iPads and so that's why I'm like get rid let's get rid of the house let me sell and let's move here and in Oil City to the city because at least we have an apartment and we're there and we're in community and we don't have to spend all day worrying about cleaning this and doing even the pool like once you have it the children how often are you even using the [ __ ] it's been summer it's been you know warm out what the last 15 days we've used it once or twice because the kid's like I did it yesterday exactly when we make the pool a big activity like we're going to the community pool great time and then it's over you wipe it up and it's over and also what is a pool for me for me a pool is something else to worry about I got little kids constantly worrying are they going in there I have alarms floating in the it's it's do you teach them how to swim well they're Puerto Rican they know how to swim that's how they got here so so no but yes yes I've seen those videos of the infants just throw them in yeah they just dump their clothes on I throw you that you have to do that I watched them do that with my the baby throw them in with the oh you tried that yeah it's a survival swimming class and then they have a mechanism just like dude when you get if as soon as the the baby comes out of the birthing Canal immediately they put it on you don't even call it a [ __ ] anymore yeah it's I know like Panama down there yeah yeah dude let me anybody who's going who's got a girl pregnant right now you maintain eye contact down the barrel like James bondsman no no I did it for the first one and that was some stuff okay yeah you got to be over by her what to do now I looked at her I just look eye contact look beautiful because you do not want to look down there you don't want to look down there and go barefoot because I've ruined I ruined two pairs of sneakers with both of my kids because you just it's a one mess yeah placenta all over so I go in I went in there barefoot and it's fine and and so um wait what was I saying or you were making eye contact not looking down making eye contact yes with yeah but there was something else that I was saying before that God damn it I got distracted by myself swimming oh swimming yeah oh swimming yes swimming is you know they they have the survival Instinct yeah as soon as you throw them in the water they flow to the top and with the baby as soon as you put her on the chest like she's my daughter's worth 30 seconds old she knew to move her little squid body down and get to the nipple uh that's why nipples get darker when they're pregnant yeah because it's easier for babies to see where the nipple is and that's why Blood that's why women too get that and it's a byproduct of blood flow because the blood flow stop they start to get um women towards later in pregnancy start to get very cold arms and legs and go numb all the blood is right because literally what it's it's very fascinating pregnancy because you realize like you don't really have any control of your body at that point because the body the human body all it's doing is a period is is preparing every month for pregnancy and every month it's not pregnant it's like [ __ ] you moving on to the next one but when you are pregnant especially towards the end it's literally your body is saying to you if anything happens at all I am 100 saving the baby the blood flow is gone your wrists [ __ ] up your feet yeah because it says what do you not you don't you can be a torso and deliver this baby so we're not giving and feet to your hands we're not doing any of that the baby the baby the baby and that you know when mothers would die of childbirth it was simply a lot of things you know would be blood pressure issues you know back in the day before modern medicine because there's like all the blood's going to the baby and then that messes with your flow and then the mom dies because that's what nature is nature is saying hey we had our fun with you we gave you an opportunity you didn't work out so now we got the next one coming out and we're gonna try with this one it's very ugly nature you just look if you really just want to like know about nature just watch these animal videos dude I saw a video Once of a zebra okay this is why it's very hard to be a step parent but I'm doing I think a pretty good job because being a stepdad is harder than being a a biological dad because I have to show the same love and compassion to a child that's not mine and I do it because being a step parent is the most thankless job in the world but had a great stepmom who gave me that advice to be like you're gonna get the props for being a step parent when the children get a little bit older because it's I get it my stepson is is in nature he's like you're not my dad and I'm like great I'm not I keep that fighting Spirit to protect your sisters great be protective I like that but it's thankless because you aren't it goes against nature and and when you without you know rules of society and and and kind of you know our social awareness actual pure nature when you watch it I saw this video of a zebra that got impregnated by you know a male that male died in the course of the gesticulation the the baby developing a new male came in and was the head of the zebra Clan as as the mother was giving birth however many months later stomping it out and that baby was alive for maybe five seconds and it's not because it's like that ain't mine we're going to know something crazy my Offspring don't know something crazy about that with I don't know with zebras but I think with certain uh primates it turns the mom on interesting there is a biological reaction that induces like her I don't know sexual urges yeah it's like oh yeah this is the person that's going to get me pregnant and then this is the person who's going to look after my kids how can you want the strongest Offspring yeah how crazy is that your own seed yeah getting demolished right and that makes you horny it's unbelievable yeah I like it make that an only fan okay what do we got we got some feelings no facts here yeah we got some wild [ __ ] Bro the Conor McGregor situation did you see that wild did you do you know what we're talking about yeah I know he knocked out the mascot and then I know he got sexual assault allegations in Miami right yeah yeah big girl and girl and this is the this is you know that's how funny the internet is the internet heard the news and they saw him knocking out the mask out the day before and they're like yo maybe he was so yayed up he probably did this and then the video of the girl came out and then the whole internet was like nah she's lying bro there's no way he's forcing himself on that there's no [ __ ] way I mean she was a big she was a big girl oh yeah yeah solid so maybe he thought the mascot was the girl too yeah yeah yeah he felt heat bro that's what it was so what do you think is going on with Connor because there's video of him going into the the bathroom shorty is changing her story a lot he and his team is saying the exact same thing the whole time they're like no this is [ __ ] she's just trying to listen I don't know anything about I don't know anything about what happened here I mean I've seen the videos but again who knows but it's this this is why in Gladiator times the Gladiators weren't allowed to be free in society you were not allowed no you still watch the movie you stayed in a cage you just [ __ ] stay you were fed and then that's it because you can't you know uh uh give somebody millions of dollars for being an animal and beating the [ __ ] out of people and wearing modern day what do you think he's gonna do it's like you know you pay people to hit people that's funny even with Zion it's like yeah to the amount of testosterone to make a human being like Zion do you think he's not gonna [ __ ] every single girl that's in his past with sheltered like remember Dwight Howard yeah super shelter when it came out yeah let's change the logo to Jesus yeah yeah yeah yeah I think those guys in Zion is like a really adorable sweet kid and then all of a sudden he's a millionaire with tons of testosterone and then access to all this [ __ ] he didn't even [ __ ] that's the thing it's like a super crazy Society we reward the athletes in in in you know a big way with money and fame and all those things and kind of glorify what they do like football players hitting people as hard as you can and then get mad at them when they go into society without you know you pluck them from school early you incentivize them to leave school not get educated and and you know uh and be around you know [Laughter] why did you blow through 150 million dollars uh in in in 10 years it's like well I was going to Georgetown and then you made me leave the last year the best school Finance School in the country arguably you took me out of it and put me with the 76ers I think I was going to do I'm going to blow my money because you made it you made it appealing to me so I think that's something with Conor McGregor now again there's other UFC fighters that don't do that stuff so I understand that argument but when I see things like this I'm like dude what do you think is going to happen man don't you know then keep you got again go back to alt the Gladiators they got kept in cages yeah that's what you're not you're not watching let's say it's all [ __ ] and the girl just you know trumped it up to you know basically try to get a link watch your mouth that's my pressure but like what should happen when there's a false accusation like that right there has to be some kind of punishment right but I feel like I think so he should be like the NBA and each fighter have their Handler to make sure he's like a big guy but nobody's handling Connor that's the thing like Connor's gonna do whatever Connor does and you also have to understand where he's coming from because every decision that he's made in his life is the most insane decision ever hey I'm this guy from Ireland and I'm on [ __ ] welfare but you know what I'm going to be the greatest fighter in my generation complete revolutionize the sport and make hundreds of millions of dollars and everybody looked at him his entire life and was like you're out of your [ __ ] mind yeah and then it worked right so there's nobody that he's gonna listen to and he's a champion he's like you know what I'm gonna make a whiskey not even gonna be good I'm gonna make hundreds of millions of dollars off of a whiskey and everybody's like what it's not even good yeah hundreds and millions of dollars yeah so it's like I'm almost like yeah don't listen to anybody yeah why should you ever take anybody's advice well it is too it's one of those things too it is a very trumpy in a way where McGregor he does so many wild things that you're like which one do I pick like he knocked out the mascot that's all anyone was talking about that would have been a thing and then he's like you know what let's bring on the sexual assault allegations and I guarantee you in the next week for now something else happened you'll forget about the first two yeah so I don't know if that's a tactic or what but I think that yeah I mean I don't know because now the only thing that I saw was that she was seen hours later with him right so then that you know it's tough but then you also got to put yourself in the woman's shoes it's like why do you want to get your name dragged through the mud if something didn't happen it's tough I I bro that's a thing right I don't even know if there's mud anymore for women right like I don't even know that like I don't know what they can't come back from like they can do porn yeah it doesn't matter and it's okay like what is mud for women now trying to ruin a guy's life is different if he finds out you were lying about this that's tough to recovery I agree as a liar for sure but if you're not exposed as a liar if you're exposed as a victim it's like that yeah I mean that's just I don't know I don't know like to be repercussions both ways yes like I think you have to get the punishment that he would have gotten if it was true okay yeah otherwise if you if you just slap on the wrist you go bad girl you can't do that why wouldn't every single girl that hooks up with a famous successful rich guy claim this I think I think too but the other side the the point then it's like well what happens then now it women won't come forward right this has a good lawyer then they'll say that old case that'll help that'll make less women come forward with actual allegations because they'll be fear of well if I'm wrong I'm gonna get in trouble but I was right but I guess this is but I don't know I think this girl makes more girls not come forward yeah I think this girl makes less girls come forward right because she's clearly lying and then other girls are going oh they're gonna think I'm a liar right right right yeah it's like if the more people that fake it the more it takes away from the girls that it actually happened if no women are out there faking it and a woman does come forward and every other circumstance we've heard the women come forward it was true we're gonna believe it every single [ __ ] time well that's what but it goes back you know again this is this country that's why I love this country we have the best justice system in the world we just have number one so I think no matter what the media says we are numerals Justice for three months yes you know one month that wouldn't have happened to her okay you've been you would have been uh yeah yeah I thought it was back on so no but but so no but so you know and I think whatever if it goes to that if it goes to that but how do you prove it he said she said that's the definition if a girl so say you accuse a billionaire he's got the best lawyers he's got the best whatever so is it just he wins you lost you go to jail now because then you definitely won't come over we'll come forward yeah there's also like a gray area where it's like okay they're both drinking she's like yeah let's hook up I'll give you a head and then he's like oh we're gonna have sex now and she's like I don't really know but then she's feels insecure and intimidated then she does it like is that consent or is it not consent like it's all great but this is why I think too what you gotta especially why is he single he's just he just cheats on his wife right I guess they have an agreement him and his wife must be that's where it gets more interesting well but I think that his wife probably I I'm sure like because he's not coming out being like I'm so sorry I cheated like he's just open about like so I think he must have some type of agreement yeah with his wife yeah but this is where it goes about my father advice he said you know he was like listen the the The House Always Wins you can beat the house 99 times out of a hundred but the one time that the house wins negates the 99 wins you just keep your numbers low that's what he said when it comes to women when it comes to drinking eating and he he's preaching keep your numbers low that's what he said to me my whole life now I didn't listen at all times exactly but yeah he was fat fat fat but I am listening I was talking about the gambling but I am I I have you know listened to that now and that's that's the truth because the less you know listen bro Fame is it's gonna catch up to you it's gonna catch up it's gonna catch up so if you keep living the wildlife is going to catch up it's going to catch up and dude you know like you're you know very famous now and and it's not you know I bet you there's a small part of you a small part of you that would give some of it back to have a little bit more anonymity right a small part of you the fame is not something I've ever cared about I think Fame just follows the things that you care about like I think people who just want to be famous that's their only desire I think that's super gay but like being great at something or being you know really successful there's gonna come there's notoriety that's going to follow that always right right and um but it's not necessary like I don't know maybe I'm just in a good position where like people are really cool to me they're always really nice when they meet me it's like it's been it's been really good I've been very fortunate I think there's a level that's beyond it where like people don't even treat you like you're real right and I think that's probably really yeah well and it's good you know you're married you're you're staying you know like yeah I don't have any drama well that's good because I think I think you know sometimes with you're a single wild boy you're out there these things are going to come that's the tough part because sometimes I look at like the freedom of like say my friends from home like the freedom like even some of the things they text or some of the things they'll say in public when they're drinking like nobody cares about them like they can live completely free of any real consequences where in entertainment sometimes or whatever you're doing if you're well known we live in a society now where they will say you have to now live to higher standards and you can't really be as free as you would want to to be and I don't know sometimes I struggle with that I think you also are coming from a different position where you have kids right so your freedom is restricted by providing for your children and your family right right you're like I can't say this wild [ __ ] on this TV show because if that takes all these other things away from me then my kids are going to starve and then I'll be a familiar and then I assume you'll hit an amount of money like you probably have a number in your head where it's like I'm good no matter what when I hit this number right and there's some Freedom there then you create whoever you want say whatever the [ __ ] well I was talking Akash before this before we started it's like but then you always move the goal post back it's like I probably have that number there's there's a you know yeah but there's still a number where it's like at least to me it's like I never have to work again and I'll be okay right and then after that it's like I'll never have to work again and I can buy a couple more houses yeah I have to work again yeah I'm playing private like but right it's that do I ever have to work again and can I pay for my children's life can I take care of my parents can I take care of my friends yeah yeah because I'm not and and by the way I'm not talking about I'm not talking about like being able to like be an animal and say horrific things and do it for things because like you don't do that anyway you have more you talk about making jokes I'm talking about making jokes or just doing anything and then it's like what you do or say get scrutinized where like I look at some of my friends and I'm like man they are having a better even though yes maybe I have more money I'm the one that gets recognized I'm the one that whatever but it's like they're actually living a bit better life than I am also in our career that's why I think what you have is so amazing when you want you have children because you can make a living enough for them here with doing what you're doing just here in New York and them being close by where you know the trade-off in our careers with going on a world tour doing doing all these stand up dates is it takes so much time away from your family and yes you have 20 million or whatever it may be but that time if you value time and money has the same currency or time as a more valuable currency than money you're like dude I gave up that cost me way too much actually that 20 million cost me so much money because I lost it all with them so I'm trying to find the balance of that dude it's interesting we had a pbd here on the podcast and he said uh something great when it comes to to children and I've always felt this with my parents but he said more is caught than taught right meaning like what you tell them and teach them specifically isn't even going to be close to as much as they're going to absorb from just watching you yeah right oh yeah and uh and in my mind I had always been you know like okay I gotta stack up as much as I can right now so I can be so active in my kids lives I can be to every second whatever and when he was talking about that and I started reflecting on like what I saw from my parents I I was like holy [ __ ] no no I still need to like work hard so that my kids catch that right I've seen people whose parents I have enough money where they don't have to work and then they just kind of hang out and what do the kids end up doing yeah hanging out hanging out with a bunch of money with a bunch of money right and it's just like in order for them like all my work ethic comes from my parents seeing my [ __ ] dad wake up at seven in the morning go to sleep at two in a [ __ ] two in the morning the next day like right I mean you're just seeing that and that being normal and regular I'm like okay well that's how hard we have to work same thing with my mom did you feel like you saw your mom and dad a lot though and bonded with them they were the best they were there all the time they just made everything they made it that's a good example but I also like seeing them together wasn't always the case we might have had dinner for like an hour but my mom would work at night and my dad would work during the day but that was a good day it was amazing they were awesome I'm so lucky in that regard but I'm just saying like in my mind I'm going okay what I'll do is I can take all my time and just put into the kids but now I'm thinking no no I need them to see what work is I need them to be around I need to be working it doesn't matter what it is if it's if it's on the road or if it's developing a stand-up or if it's making a movie or whatever the hell it is but like they need to see me grinding while also I need to be at every single game like my parents were right but they still need to see me work right but they will think that you'll have to but what I'm saying but in order for you 100 agree but in order for you to be at their games you're going to have to sacrifice some money and some Showdown can't wait but we live in a we live in a society where more and more and more you get valued by how much money and fame you have or how many Twitter followers or retweets you have when really it's like if I've tried I've tried to make my life a lot smaller and be like who am I to to my family that's what matters so it's like yeah yes maybe that means you know you know I could have more money if I went out every weekend but it's like but then that's going to require way too much time away from the kids so I'm not willing to do that but we have but the people I said do and it's not until you're older even to your thanklessness thing earlier like uh oh being your step parents being a parent dude yeah it's like that you're fourth in your own life yeah but like yeah I remember my dad was at every single basketball game that I would even let him come to he'd bring a [ __ ] camera and tripod and film it so we would all be able to watch our highlights right right before you could even monetize it I don't subtitles yeah so he'd come through right yeah and it wasn't until like maybe he was in I was always grateful I was I I love my dad [ __ ] my hero he's the greatest guy ever met he's [ __ ] but Jamil you know Jamil yeah right so Jamil and I went to high school together and he said something that was like a couple months ago he was like we were talking about like my dad and how he was really active in everybody's lives and just like he was always there and and he's like did you not notice that there were no other dads at the basketball games and it didn't even dawn on me right that he was the only dad at the games yeah and like to be fair these games are right after school they're probably 3 30 and 4 30. a lot of dads have jobs where they just can't get there he was able to you know maneuver around his schedule they had this little dance studio so he could work things out but like I I'm like so grateful as a [ __ ] 39 year old dude that I find myself every time I see my dad like I'm like you're the best dad ever like yeah like I feel like I need to ingrain that in him that I know now maybe I'm late but I I know what you did right before you go God forbid it's not soon before you go you need to know I know right yeah it is we're a good man you don't appreciate till you get older especially as a I think both genders is a man you realize what it takes to be a good man and as a girl you realize how many ancient men there are out there well it's like you're like oh I had a good one unbelievable well it's one of those things too well and also too you know going to your kids games and all that like you said your dad Not only was he there because it's great to show up but he was present and active you know you got it yeah so you can go to your kids games and I found myself doing this like yes I'm at all my daughter soccer games but sometimes I was on my phone doing work sometimes I was locked in so but now so now when I go to the games or the events the phone is in the car because I'm like even filming it I'm like other parents are filming it and we don't have to live every like it's I I don't it's too too much Tech technology so I'm like let me be present so every time she looks up in the stands at me I'm watching her because a lot of times she would we'd have a great day but baby was so great and she's like you one time she said to me swimming she's like you weren't even watching but I was there the whole time but I didn't even realize but that's the thing technology allows us to be there and not present so but sometimes sometimes I'm like you know what I'm almost again thankful she said that to me a few years ago because it's like you only have to say that [ __ ] to me once and that's it happening again and so and again and then I think two you know I I look at you know uh with being a parent like you said like you you you there's another stoic thing it's about the third thing you know what the third thing is so they say be wary of the third thing the first thing is doing the deed right doing whatever the good deed is whatever complied to a million situations the second thing is somebody benefiting from that good deed again whatever it is the third thing and this is the thing to be weary of is needing validation eating validation or needing to be told how great you are for doing that thing the third thing is based in the ego and that's the thing you don't want to do and that's what parenting is is like yeah if you want to be recognized for being a good parent you've missed the point yeah it's the point of what it makes you know it makes you feel good to be a good parent you are validating Yourself by doing that you don't need everybody down to be like oh what a great job right and it's hard it's hard with kids because kids are inherently narcissists yeah you know what I mean like intrinsically from a young age like everything is about me getting me things and then it's not think because that's the nature of being children yeah yeah like even with my you know kids I you know I always tell them I love them and I always try to say Hey you know when someone says you know especially mom or dad say I love you say you love them back if you feel that I was I always say if you're feeling it you say it and most times they say it back but the times that they don't I'm not like I just I'm the adult so it's like I need to let them know before they leave that I love them so they have that if they're not feeling because like you said there's a narcissism in in all of us but really pronouncing children and I'm like uh because I think we all have it still it's just society and civilization makes it you know we have rules and we have you know trying to be proper you know but kids don't give a [ __ ] they'll tell you right off the bat this sucks because they're a little bit more animalistic but um yeah I think uh I think needing needing to be known needing to be glorified for everything you do always is not necessarily good and that's tough Christmas are the gifts from the parents or Santa so the so the the that's gonna be a tough one yeah so that's gonna be a tough one yeah yeah so the that's going to be honest that's gonna be a tough one no if I'm waiting online for six hours outside Toys R Us to get through some [ __ ] that ain't from Santa I do I do Santa I do Santa he she gets my the older one because my 12 year old he knows now he's he's over it but the the eight-year-old she's kind of on the fence so she gets less gifts from Santa more gifts from us the two-year-olds you guys do a few for meal yeah we do so we're just kind of putting the idea yeah or just putting the idea out there yeah know that like hey this guy he's not as he's not real what Santa's not real the vaccine is so let's get it straight yeah let's get it straight okay bend over uh what else we got Mark I mean this messy deal is crazy he turned he turned down a billion dollars from the Saudi government to go play in the United States what does your dad think of that dad probably I would say even though Messi's from Argentina if I told my dad about that my dad would say Messi's an American hero for turning down the sound um what I think at that I get it but I think at that point it doesn't it's not about the money right I mean Messi has more money he's free as you were saying before Messi's free he's he's reached Financial Freedom I would think there's yeah there's a couple things with this that I was talking to a buddy of mine Who's involved in sports and he was like a lot of times these athletes validate themselves through the contract that they get even if they don't need the money right right and I and these these contracts that you can get from Saudi or some of these uh oil states are so exorbitant it makes you feel in the Twilight of your career that you're still that dude and maybe that's why Cristiano accepted it but what's really interesting really the third thing that we just spoke to that's what they're doing yeah they need that yeah that's exactly what that is but it's kind of cool yeah now don't get me wrong this deal and you probably know the intricacies of the deal mark But like this deal is also very lucrative because he could get what like pieces of the pie a little yeah exactly so he basically like the American royal family basically like the corporations that exist within America stepped up to basically match or beat the deal right oh brilliant so Apple has all the streaming rights for the MLS and they said hey messy if you come over we'll give you a piece of the stream and he deserves it because that's the only reason we're gonna watch Adidas says hey you're coming over we're gonna give you a piece of all the shoes that we sell with your name on all the all the soccer all the jersey sales for the MLS he gets a piece of oh no okay wait so check this this is so interesting so I am like uh outside of being the number one you know football journalist in the world I'm also quite a casual fan of football but I said to Emma on the way home yesterday we're in some Uber and I was like hey do you know who Lionel Messi is and she's like oh yeah yeah the soccer player and I'm like well he's going to play for this team in Miami would you want to go like see a game when he comes to play in New York and she's like that would be awesome let's go do it that's why you pay him yeah yeah the casual and the even more casual barely even aware of what the sport is are like I need to go see this guy I want to go I've never watched an MLS Match in my life yeah if they come well I'm sure they will come to New York corporations unite and they find a way to pay him as much I think he's able to purchase a team eventually for like the same time no messy sort of gets a similar deal when he finishes I assume the president once it's set like that was a big thing I've seen air yes at the end of the movie uh how real this part is I don't know but as they're about to close the deal Michael Jordan's mom was like oh there's clearly some oversight in the contract you guys forgot to mention that we would get a percentage of all the shoes he sells and the reason Nike was like really like [ __ ] is this set to precedent and now this is just what dude do you know Jordan only made 93 million dollars in his career but is worth 5 billion today yeah so talk about that Roi in what it so I mean 93 million is insane but you really people need to give credit to Michael Jordan's business because I know he makes 400 million dollars a year off the sneakers 93 in his whole career yes and keep in mind the last contract he signed I think was like a 36 million dollar a year contract remember Jerry Stackhouse was like aren't I worth a third of Jordan Remember Jerry stack yeah yeah yeah and uh and he was like aren't I worth a third and now 12 million we look at the contract yeah Jerry was worth 12 million but back in the day you're like what 12 million the highest played player in the [ __ ] illegal no no that he really is like Brian Moore you know Brian Moore and he's the one that sent me that yesterday shot up Brian AKA Lancelot he's got his dude this guy's got you've never seen a midi this guy's got a haircut like a medieval Knight yes but he rocks he looks good and and and so he sent me that article and I was like whoa dude like people like why is it he not why is he he should be the one on Shark Tank yeah like he should be the one because he's not taking anybody's deal yes he's gonna another deal yeah make them feel bad did you see the Magic Johnson thing so in the 80s he was offered a deal with Nike and they were like Hey we're going to give you a percentage we're gonna have your shoe blah blah and then he was also given a deal from Converse at the time there were two separate companies and the conference deal was basically like a hundred thousand annually or some [ __ ] and Magic Johnson was like just in the beginning of his career and he took the converse deal for 100 000 a year annually instead of the Nike deal which now would have been points in Nike oh yeah what's his reasoning did you say his reasoning was this was more popular at the time Converse was more popular he's like I didn't have any money I was like a kid just playing in the league so I had to take the guaranteed money and I couldn't bet on this like fledgling okay late 70s Jordan was 84 and even then when Jordan got drafted Nike was nothing for basketball yeah so imagine even bearing for that yeah yeah but that deal now would have been worth like three billion and he talks about he's like [ __ ] I really it's so funny because magic is business-wise yeah he did yeah he's a billionaire two problems but in the moment he made the right choice if you look at all his [ __ ] but in in hindsight the equity it was like crazy that's what you yeah yeah I heard Kevin Hart say I think on the Logan Paul podcast work try as much as Ken's work with companies not for companies and I feel like that's that's that mindset that makes you super rich is when you're just we're all in this together give me a piece I'll take less money up front but let me you know Bank on you know that's what Warren Buffett does Warren Buffett's just like banking on the co on the companies that he thinks are going to go the further she's like give me a piece and then you know become you become uh rich like that everybody wins yeah yeah you need to have a certain amount of like Financial stability to take that chance and Cloud to even allow you to allow the company to even allow you to do that so it's easier said than done yeah but you can get there I mean speaking of crazy deals xqc one of the biggest streamers on Twitch just took a deal a two-year deal 100 million dollars with kick wow what's kick kick is another one of these streaming platforms okay yeah it's basically a direct competitive twist bro but you know what's so interesting so it's a direct competitor with twitch it's owned by Amazon it's hosted by Amazon web services which is quite common most websites are but the actual skeleton for the streamer is just rented from Amazon so it's twitch yeah and they just give it to you to build your own streaming platform yeah and then you pay for I guess the skeleton and then you also pay for the web services and I wonder if this is Amazon not concerned about competing because they're like we'd rather have the Apple Store for streaming yeah when you've got the Apple Store like apple doesn't need to make all the apps they'd rather just get a little piece everybody was like yeah oh my God Spotify is going to take away Apple music and Apple's like good yeah we don't want to stream your music work smarter not harder exactly yeah own the [ __ ] own the uh what is it the souk or the souk what is that place yeah own the shook own the place where everybody is selling their goods right not each one of the individual Goods yeah and so I wonder if they're not if they're not even upset about it but it's it's crazy like the amount of money that Kik must have yeah so I guess the guy who owns kick owns steak steak which is the gambling site that I don't think is legal in America I'm not sure I know it's popular in Canada yeah I don't think it's legal I think it's owned by like this Australian guy I think steak is the reason why Steve will do it got kicked off of YouTube yeah and um but yeah it's interesting man like throwing that type of money 100 million dollars that's a lot of two years for two years 50 schmill a year yeah nice and I don't think it's all up front my theory is that a lot of these new um streaming sites that are trying to break into the market they're throwing these big dollars just to try to get people to come so we talk about it yeah but also I don't think they're gonna last like I think it's gonna be what was the one that it was you watch TV turned up or whatever yeah but you know how they were throwing a lot of money in the beginning right now but now's the time to get paid like it happened even with podcasting when Spotify was giving up all that money now so go get the bags now before because I think you're right it's just all going to close down but and I that number I think is a little inflated I think you got a signing bonus and basically he has to stream it doesn't have to but if he streams a certain number of hours per year they broke it down to 10 000 an hour though so if so that's what like yeah so he's getting paid per hour basically he's getting like an hourly wage and if he does the same amount of hours that he did last year he could earn up to that amount exactly so it's not just cash up front but it is the headline is the capital headline and that makes everyone go holy [ __ ] she would be on Kick yeah I mean yeah getting that bag getting that bag right now and you're right they all might fold or you're good they all might fold or they could end up being successful who knows which one wins what I thought that was interesting about this deal is it was non-exclusive right so you could take your streams and put them on other platforms or chop it up which is important because now you're still a part of culture right right like when you go to these alternative platforms and that's the only place they could see you you don't affect culture in the same way yeah right you want to still affect culture you want to still be posted on all the blog that's a smart move by them everybody the first reaction is I'm gonna give you all this money I need to create a moat no the moat kills you right let it be popping over there and have everybody go access it like what Rumble did with the uh stream and uh Kai uh the speed and Kai thing yeah it's like it's available in Rumble but you're gonna see it on all these other places right and then people can run over there and Rumble they don't have to pay for the access to rumble yeah I think uh they learned from Spotify because Spotify was giving out all this money for exclusive deals and it didn't really work out no no I don't think anybody I don't think that worked for anybody except Brogan Rogan is the only one and you know that like that shows you what a beast he is is because everybody else who's went behind the paywall fell apart yeah right and he grew yeah yeah so you can't say [ __ ] right you think Spotify made their money back on them then bro not only made their money back the show group right nothing goes behind a paywall and gets bigger right right the idea of a wall yeah is to keep people out you're right but this is just [ __ ] unbelievable yeah and Spotify is the home for podcasting like to me it's like undeniable audio three years ago you wouldn't even think about it yeah but all audio I go listen to music there I listen to podcasts there everything and it's yeah the way that they bought a market share is [ __ ] brilliant yeah right and I think yeah yeah I mean just what a crazy thing because everybody else who's gone behind it was I don't want to say flop but it's just not the same cultural imprint right like the girl the caller daddy girl is a caller Daddy call her daddy yep call her daddy girl she's done well yeah and she's had massive she's had massive interviews that have kind of like hit the the mainstream right yeah there's a few people that do well because they actually were that talented like call her daddy was the biggest female because they were that good yeah and I think like you have like then I think they just pulled it from Meghan Markle because she wasn't coming in with the fan base I think they had given her a deal and they pulled it away what a useless Bunch they are I I I I it's like it's like they I don't know who's making these decisions and maybe because Spotify is like a Swedish company or something like that like they they're closer to the monarchy so maybe they think that there's value there but like Americans don't care about the monarchy we've never cared about the monarchy we don't give a [ __ ] about it I care about the gossip but I don't even want to hear them talk for an hour a week bro yeah yeah the gossip I guess and then maybe that's a generational thing I don't think our generation or the generations below care I think our parents generation did it maybe there was a little bit more proximity you know with or a little more connectivity when the queen died I saw it all over the time I think everybody was comments that's paid ads bro ain't nobody watches no way yeah I wonder like a young taxpayer and like you know England if they're like why does my tax money go to these people oh apparently it's like split down the middle apparently a lot of people really love it it's tradition whatever and then a lot of people like this I would assume the older people like the younger people maybe I wonder if that's why and maybe we've had this comment here before but I wonder if that's why there's like a cultural Synergy in in Great Britain because there's like these people to look up to that are the example of what it is to be British like America doesn't have that like what it is to be from the south is different than what it is to be you know from New York or what it is to be from Boston from California like every little state has their own thing and don't get me wrong there's cultural diversity within Great Britain and it's also a much smaller place that being said like there is this example of what is British right and we don't have that like every president is [ __ ] different right and yeah I wonder but that's the whole point of this country that's why I think sometimes when other countries [ __ ] on us or even we [ __ ] on each other it's like the whole point of it is to be able to [ __ ] on one another it has to be different and fight it out yeah the whole point of this place was to you could minorities to work and then we're not a homogeneous society a lot of these other societies are it's like but they're you know we are always been different that's also easy to be uh monogamous uh homogeneous when you have three million people yeah or seven million people when you have 300 of stuff 300 that's why it's like the country's too big there shouldn't have also a 3 000 mile long Empire never works it's never worked any and not once ever in society it is two in history it's a long Empire like I'm saying like from you know New York to California is roughly 2 000 miles you count it why in Alaska it's five thousand and it's like that's never what it's too much land it's too much land it's how can you expect someone from you know Montana to to think the same and and maintain the same American ideals as someone from Southern Texas it's not it's never going to work you huh you think we need like an EU like an American Union isn't that kind of what we have though so like that's the the system is kind of like an EU right it's each state makes up their own rules yeah and currency it reflects what their interests are and their needs but then that even goes more to the point of than it's not United because now the rules have been become so radically different state by state good certain examples right I like that but no I do too but they do vote for one president where the EU doesn't have like an EU president that everybody votes for and it seems to determine because they don't get to vote for the president like there is a there is someone who's in the head of the EU but I think they're decided by a bunch of [ __ ] people in Belgium or some [ __ ] like that they just don't have the ability to vote for who makes the decisions for all those people that's why it's [ __ ] up that's why they use goofy we at least can go I don't want this guy to be president yeah but I don't think anybody everybody should vote with you on this we should elect we should be elected landowners just lights I had a bit about this there should be like a spelling test or something yeah some kind of period we should I think I forget who it was somebody in history said it not everyone it might have been like Socrates or somebody like this because Socrates hated the idea of a democracy or Plato which one which one of them was like yo democracy is not going to work these people are too [ __ ] stupid there's no way they could do it yeah they said they yeah he said you know and that's why they abandoned greased abandoned democracy for years they're like this doesn't work I think he said if you put two people up there and just allow the people to vote if you put one guy who's saying all I want to do is give you candy I'm the candy guy and then you put the other guy saying I know everybody wants candy but it's going to kill you it's going to rot 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not working and it's [ __ ] hot in here so don't judge me now let's get back to the show tricky thing with like getting educated enough to vote is that it kind of cuts out a lot of poor people that are working two jobs and they don't have the time to do it I understand your point like you want to make sure that there's a certain aptitude to make those decisions it can be small I'm telling you easy yeah yeah know how to spell there there and there you got it you got it yeah I'll be [ __ ] that up myself that's true yeah but or maybe you just gotta accept the fact that dumb people should have the same rights to make decisions as quote unquote smart people and that's just what it is to be a democracy and that's just the cost of Freedom oh well too yeah I think I think you know the media does a great job of cherry picking stories and and making things seem way worse than they actually are like we're on the brink of a Civil War and you go all the time you're like oh we're not most people yet there's a few radicals on each side there's a few radicals from each race and then other and those are the ones who get to get to speak a lot of the times but for the most part the common man no matter what he she they look like are pretty much we're all in line with the same things yeah and the same wants but the media doesn't the media would make no money if there was peace they only make money in war you could you could and you could speak on this way better than any of us can because you have children but like oh okay say the Republican party no no no no no no no like the gray Zone guy maybe you know what if you just let people who have kids vote right I think because your life I imagine becomes much smaller once you have children just talking about for people who have yeah for my friends who have kids they're just like yeah it's like how does this affect my kid yes I don't care about plastic straws I don't care about Greta Thunder I care about my kid getting an education I care about what my kids learning I agree with that because it's like you know I'm the one you know my me and my girl are the ones we're like where now pushing generation forward we have little ones that we have to deal with I can't you know my friends you know who are 43 years old with roommates talking to me thank you for upping the age a little sure uh yeah I I know the podcast fan so I wanted to not disrespect any of them I know just but me I'm 39. I'm four years away so it's like you know I listen to them talk about you don't have a wife you have a roommate until you have kids yeah you don't have a wife you have a [ __ ] you know I'm like I'm like who what does it matter like sometimes like some of my boys were home like what why are you even [ __ ] talking like my tax money my I have to pay for your [ __ ] life I agree and I'm like why are you why do you even have an opportunity to say any you're not doing anything but being selfish and taking taking I'm giving we have too much I think that's the thing we have like this huge gap well you should probably have kids and I'm guilty of this right but like we used to probably have kids a much younger age right and then you have people that are occupied with their kids lives right they're not protesting milk no you can't protest milk talk to any pain yeah no parent that cares about their kids is a vegan yes there's just not it's like you want your kid to eat anything it doesn't matter what the [ __ ] the calories and we're not I don't have to time our energy all this make a difference it's not gonna happen there's good activism that's very important and then there's goofy activism yeah the goofy activism I believe only exists or the majority of it only exists amongst people who do not have children sure and are between like 30 and 40. it's like just they're bored yeah they need to find it exactly it's starting to be a vegan I'm going to be a uh what is it uh my favorite one is when people go uh uh I don't want to have kids because there's too many people just say you were molested yeah and you say that you had a rough childhood stop acting like you're this [ __ ] hero and you want to clear up traffic you had a horrible childhood that's why you don't want to have kids yeah it's that simple yeah you're not a [ __ ] hero who's saving the world because of overpopulation yeah shut the [ __ ] up yeah it's I agree there's something the most annoying thing it's even a guy code hell yeah that is the most annoying like Arc Type of a human being I'm Gonna Save the World by not having kids you were [ __ ] up yes you were [ __ ] up or you had a horrible life because your parents suck and now you're trying to be this [ __ ] hero who's helping us all but not having one [ __ ] kid yeah Stefano be uncomfortable that's the first time you know it's in two hours I've stopped sweating [Laughter] but isn't that an annoying point I just it is yeah if you say you went through something I get it and I go okay I understand that you're worried about pushing this trauma on your kids and I think that that is like a beautiful thing to care about I think it's like really beautiful acting like you're a hero to mask your trauma yeah is the most annoying [ __ ] thing yeah because now we gotta be like oh you're so brave to sacrifice not having kids when no one will [ __ ] you in the first first place exactly you say it was trauma it's probably not selfless it's probably I don't want to work through my trauma yeah I'm not willing put in that work that seems scary that seems daunting let me just not have kids yeah yeah I I think too you know like that I get it too like you know with the media or social media it's like you know the guy who's you know uh uh working a nine to five got kids a family is exhausted then he listens to the you know national news and they're infecting his or her brain with like these radical ideas I get it how they the next thing you know they're storming the capital because they're like I don't have the timer to fact check yes I can't do it two jobs yeah that's why I feel sometimes with comedy we are so lucky if he pulls these [ __ ] kids I gotta start it yeah exactly what are you doing buddy yeah yeah exactly yeah so like I I get it I I get it all but sometimes I do agree like with certain you know with with the people that don't have children and again I know there's different reasons for whatever but some me as a parent I'm like I I just want to live like I that's why to pick Republican Democrat it's very difficult because I like I like some things the Democrats saying like something's a republican say it's like I'm all for a woman to have the right to choose her own body because I have daughters but I also might need a wall up if things get crazy so I'm all about protecting my children you know so so it's like obviously not a wall but you know what I mean like I'm I'm for protection and also Freedom at the same time so so it's difficult but you're a [ __ ] real human being but that's it but the people who start to get older a little bit older starts to get a little scary when they have no children and they make they start it's this inherent narcissism you just said it when they have no children yeah they have nothing to look after no well because I think we all have to have an identity right we all look at having some type of political identity or we need some reason some purpose for life and when you have children children your purpose clearly becomes I'm here for the kids when you don't have children then you start well is my purpose green you're not having the green deal it's my conspiracy theories yes it's my purpose being conspiracy theories but all that stuff goes out the window when you have kids I mean we still watching or whatever but I'm like nobody with my purposes the kids like knows about George Soros [Laughter] yeah I was gonna say you haven't been to Staten Island no but I think we know about it but I don't get consumed by it like you know they meant that therapist that would do all the comics I forget I don't want to say it out for something something like that every Community every New York every New York Comic was going to the same thing that's so weird yeah and this guy had to know every comedian it was all comedians that he would have you would wait in the waiting room which was mad small and the door is paper thin I could just hear everything that commented before me was saying and upset I could hear this guy caught the greatest lick bro yeah he got the greatest list he said his pay was on a sliding scale so he would watch to see if you were doing better like yeah it won't talk about the garden it used to be 25 an hour but then he saw well I was on Guy Code back then that's what I was going to which which obviously mtv2 is no money but to the people thought it was a lot of money next thing you know that 25 was 250. wow right wow and it's just oh whatever but I remember he said I went to him for a year and and I had you know I've just had uh you know my daughter whatever and he had said you know Chris you're one of the only Comics that comes in here and doesn't talk for an hour about their comedy he said that's a good thing you're talking about things outside of Comedy you're talking about your family or kids because this is why having a child is a great thing or having a wife or a husband maybe this guy's good to take you out of comedy and it doesn't have to be kids if you don't have kids but you have to have something out you can't let your career identify you that's why the Japanese have such a high suicide rate because they identify themselves with their career and when their career is done whatever it may be they have no purpose to live and they kill themselves and so and so that's what I think for me having a kid is it takes me outside to that point when there was that earthquake or it was a tsunami yes that hit the nuclear Factory I think yeah the old people offered their lives essentially to go clean it up they knew that they were going to be around the nuclear waste the news going to shrink their lives but they were like listen this is our responsibility you have your whole lives ahead of you please let us sacrifice this for you guys like I thought that was the most beautiful and then Marie kondo made that show about cleaning yeah it was right after that you learned from that she was like here's how you tidy up the best way that's when I came from I think that's true I don't know what I mean I think yeah yeah I know my boy who was a doctor um you know during the whole covid stuff in the beginning when it was like really bad he said he act he saw on hospitals in Brooklyn older people seeing younger people and being like give them the mask they were acting more selfless you know where now you might have all you know because I think this is the first generation maybe ever where like the like you said people are having kids way later in life like way later like you know 30s the new 40s 40s the new 50s all that stuff and and it's just you know the ones of us that don't have kids again it's all good but there is something like nature knocks the selfishness out of you quick I mean I still obviously am selfish and you know almost I get flawed human but it's like I'm way more selfless than I ever because again I'm fourth place in my own life so it's like and again I'm curious I agree with you 100 about like you know us waiting later to have kids and I wonder I'm glad not that I waited but I'm glad that I waited to to to to to do it with the person that I love and I think that I can bring a child into this world with in a good healthy way but I wonder if like your kid allows you to be selfish because your kid is you right in other words like do you look at looking after your kid as a selfless thing or does it tap into the same selfish desire well in like I'm saying this is a positive thing like yeah almost like God or Evolution or whatever it is found a way where even if you are selfish I'm gonna use that right for you to raise this kid right yeah yeah I think I think it's like you know yeah because really what you're looking at when I'm looking at my kids is an extension of me somehow I'm looking at my cells and just reading it's like beautiful yeah it's just how can you not be selfish when you're looking at your kids eyes and you're like holy [ __ ] you look like me but I think like me like what but that's what I think I think you know like selfish the word selfish has a negative connotation and I get why but positive selfishness like if you use selfishness in the right way it only leads to selflessness selfish and selflessness is like that cycle explain that because because for example like me you know I need for me to exercise right I need to exercise and you would say so I can be better to the people around them yeah I need to take time away from my kids selfishly to read and and try to make myself the best version of myself so I can selflessly pass on the nature to my kids I need to go leave them for a weekend to work so I can make the money and invest it properly so that I can give them a better life and more freedom for them so selfish just leading the selflessness what do you what do you guys think about that with uh with relationships I I would hear I would hear even my mom talk about this but like the parents need to invest time in one another so that they can be the best so they can have the best most healthy relationships so that the kids see that right do you do you believe that I do I do um I think that makes sense it makes sense but I think that you know we're living now in a world do you feel like you get time with with uh yeah I I but but we have to make it like we have coming up on Thursday like a planned date fire if you yes yeah we have to if you don't do that then what's going to happen is months and months and months will go by well all you've done yeah is is is given time to the children which was necessary but you're gonna start resenting you need to fill your cup we never do anything that's when somebody cheats because they want to get a thrill outside of their marriage or relationship so if you have to actively you have to act like they say relationships are work well parenting when you're in a relationship is a relationship when you're a parent is work too because it's like I there is actually no time you have to physically carve it out yeah and again being selfish yeah saying it's me Mommy and uh yeah so you're going to be with Grandma and even though they're upset why are you leaving you know they'll say to you why are you leaving no guilty yeah have to let it go because you say but this is to give back to this is so we can be a little bit fresher and be selfless for them and that's what we're having family that's a part of the whole taking a village to raise a kid is yeah we can take our time and they're with Grandma they're with you they're fine it's like I forgot who says this but it's fundamentally changed too with jazz and I we don't say we're raising kids anymore we say we're raising adults because you're not you know you have to understand like I'm doing everything for them to be a better adult not a better kid a kid is a part of all of our existences that we're just you know it's usually a lot of bad things it's it's you know she just slammed the bottle in the back is that jazz here I was talking to uh Jordan Peterson I think it was and he said something like uh if you don't like your kids you're always going to love your kids but if you don't like your kids that's your fault why are you allowing them to behave in a way that you don't like right like you have to raise them so that you like them and then other people will like them right but if you put up with the behavior they that you can't even tolerate why would anybody else tolerate yeah it's your failure if they're not like you and I was really like cool thing to even consider for a second like it's on us to make them [ __ ] likable yes yeah I I think you know and it and it really at least me as a parent the fund the reason why I feel so strongly it almost is from nature and spirit whatever you want to do is they're the only people my children are the only people in my life that's why I feel such a responsibility to them that I didn't choose they were given to me I did not choose them I chose the partner I choose my friends you know I was not I was just some higher power gave me these two Souls I'm like this is your job you are you are in protection so it's very like deeply connected where I'm like how do I give the best version of it to them as my parents I you know feel about me I believe so that's why it's like very and that's why I'm trying to spend so much time being like how do I be that's like my goal right now it's like not being the best comic it's not being the best YouTuber whatever it's like hopefully those things happen but most of my energy is like how am I being the best dad to them and you never feel guilty about dedicating to that time huh to what to your kids like no I feel like what's the point this is what I'm this is what my duty has become I've I feel guilty scrolling because you're like oh I could be working I could be pursuing my career I could be coming better comedy when you're doing the nonsense or playing video games but I when you're with your kids and don't and dedicating that time to the kids there's never a guilt to them listen I really believe at the end of my life whenever you know if we have time to you know whatever lucky enough to be on like a death bed right I really doubt I highly doubt I'm gonna if I have any regrets I'm going to be worried about you know my YouTube subscribers yeah my ticket sales I'll be worried about time that I didn't get to spend with my kids or if my kids have a negative outlook on me I'm sure that would be more horrific than if I've sold less tickets I'm very comfortable with the idea of selling less tickets and being less famous and making less money yeah but giving myself back time to my family because again time and money for me it's like the bank account is really not that big I mean there's a certain number as we said yes that you need even that is is freedom for your family and it's all like listen dude we live in a world you live in a society where it's like you know all you got to do I mean not all but you just if you just compounding your wealth is like it's very simple just open up a Vanguard account this is not Financial advice but just open up a Vanguard account and invest in Index Fund now and the stock market historically will give you 20 to 30 percent and you only have money at the end of your life like it's really with our modern day tools and apps just put the money in an index fund and you're fine and and and you know but we have this idea of like I need more I have to have the bigger house well the I have to have the the fastest car it's like all you get to a point where like you start to realize like I'm buying things to impress people I don't even know this is not for me almost everything you start to do after a while is for somebody else when it's like yeah what's the point of all this kids also don't need much no no they for example I took my daughters to Disney right blue you know to you know uh you know plane tickets top Hotel speed passes all that stuff my girls are little and my stepson we get there we're in the in our hotel one of the Disney hotels had a little playground that was you could hang out and wait for this shuttle bus to take you to Disney his favorite part my daughter slides down the slide gives me the big hug she said dad I love Disney so much this is amazing she thought that was Disney yeah and I'm like I just spent 90 grand on this and then I realized oh [ __ ] they don't need it I don't and I learned a valuable lesson too when I had a CBS um pilot that didn't go it became my whole life it became all I talked about it became my identity everything you know less moonves telling me I'm gonna be the next Ray Romano you're having all these delusions of grandeur blah blah blah blah blah doesn't happen I feel like a shell of myself I feel like I've let my family down my daughter was two at the time two and a half at the time and I'm like baby you know I remember how Daddy was going back and forth to LA and and all that and I'm like it's not going to happen we didn't get that show and she gave me like the biggest hug and she was like I'm so happy and I was like what and she goes because that means you don't have to go to La anymore and so she took it as a positive where she was like oh I'm getting my dad back and then it kind of just like it was almost like a wall like a like that that fourth wall came down and I was like oh [ __ ] I have been going after the wrong thing for a long time and again we still do fall back into habits and it's okay to be ambitious but I'm trying but I'm all about percentages now like even what you know I I lost like 40 pounds because the intermittent fasting I was like yo rather I think it was John Steinbeck that said now that you can't be perfect go be great so or something like that where it's like you're not we're perfectionist it's like if I don't have six pack abs after three months of working out I'm quitting it's like no no trust the process it's like um I'm trying to be 80 better each week with things I'm trying to be 80 better at my diet 80 percent better with working out 80 better as a father like all those things so but there will be 20 of [ __ ] slip UPS it's part of life how old are you do you have your first kid I was 29 were you scared oh sure yeah that you mean that it was mine oh uh of course I was terrified because I had at that point you know Guy Code was popping off and we just you know we weren't I wasn't selling any real tickets yeah but you know we had the guy code thing we had [ __ ] that we were like we were doing Benders yeah you know the day my daughter was born was the first table read of Benders to show shots and I did so I was like this is it you know I thought like my career is popping I'm on IFC and I was like I'm popping mtv2 IFC I can't be stopped and I had other comedians you know older than me being like all it was the same notion they were like you ruined your life uh uh uh your just careers just getting started now you have a kid you're gonna make everything so much harder blah blah blah blah blah and it was my father who was like listen let me tell you something he goes having a child only makes you better if you wouldn't nature wouldn't have given you this child if you couldn't uh if you couldn't handle it so he was like I guarantee you this is gonna make your career even bigger because now you have something to play for on there he said told me that in the hospitals now you got something to play for so and it's so true because biblical term because now I do every baby comes with a basket of bread a basket of blessings yeah so because I'm you know I under because you'll hear a lot of people say oh I'm just waiting for the right time it's always the right time whenever whenever the gift is given to you it's the right time because I feel like you know you'll have a 14 year old single mom that can make it work and produce you know a great child and then you'll have a 45 year old billionaire that produces a heroin addict shout out Joe Biden do you you know you know you grew up in the city I'm sure that you're like rubbing shoulders with the rich kids that are going to private school and you went to Catholic school I went to Catholic school so you're different than private yeah yeah yeah a little bit a little you probably had kids in the school that you know came for money and like yeah uh yeah not it's different yes we're not talking about fieldston and [ __ ] the other ones right but I will say this it is it is interesting you know people that don't know New York like being for like you're from Manhattan yeah right so that's different than me being from Brooklyn yeah and queen means like it's almost like someone who's from Manhattan like what New York City the epicenter is almost sometimes doesn't even have an accent where somebody from the outer boroughs it's like you know where the [ __ ] I'm from it's interesting but this is the interesting thing that is like when people think of New York right they think of where I'm from right when they think of New Yorkers right they think of you where I'm from right yeah right and it's just this interesting thing because the the the the the what is it uh what is what like the neighborhood right the neighborhood there's a few of them in Manhattan right but it's not like it is in Brooklyn it's everywhere not or even the Bronx it's not even [ __ ] close but it is interesting with the there are like the three tiers of schools there's the public schools there's the Catholic schools and then there's the private schools right the private schools are like a direct funnel to rehab the percentage of these kids no I mean you grew up in the city it's shocking bro the the the the percentage of these kids that end up in rehab and I used to think it was a money thing I used to think oh yeah you got money and it's more problems or whatever it is I now think their parents in order to make that money were not in their kids lives at all right and but when you're a kid you don't really notice it right and I was like I you know my parent I went to public school my parents were [ __ ] in my life all the time like I would feel guilty if I was doing drugs or something like that I remember like dude my mom told me this story the other day where my dad loved piano and he wanted me to play piano and I had to go to my mom separately as a kid I'm like Young Elementary School and I was like Mom I really don't like it but I don't want to let Dad down and like feeling guilty about letting your parents down like these kids that are doing drugs and that kind of [ __ ] resent the [ __ ] out of their parents that's why they're doing it because they're not in their lives so it was this I I don't think private school is necessarily bad well I used to think it was bad and I was like terrified to even put my kids at private school I don't think it's bad I think it's how much you're in your kid life in my opinion the private school the Catholic School the public school that is not the issue that's whatever right it's what happens when you come home that is and the issue now there are many good parents whose kids just fall into something and there's nothing they can do that's why it's hard to make a general statement about anything really parenting race religion it's hard because we're individuals but I I know for sure for sure yeah the more love and more uh compassion and the more you pay attention to your kids at home it doesn't matter what school they're going to they're going to be more loving they're you're going to be more love that's why I don't drink that's funny you say that I remember I got buzzed on like New Year's one year like college and then I was like dude I cannot do this to my mom right everybody my dad was drinking too much my brother was drinking too much and I was like I cannot damn that's why it's not even about you you just feel so guilty yeah I never touched it again dead ass from that day I was like I can't do that yeah that's why I don't gamble my dad had like a gambling addiction and so it's like I you know I come from a neighborhood though where it's like everybody's talking about vigs and playing poker and all this and I get offered all the time yo you'd be they offered me like a real good thing to be like the face of like you know not the face but like high up like my bookie like yeah real money like you look like the kind of guy that gets people to gamble I was like I I really can't because you saw the pain because my dad told me he was like listen gambling ruined a lot of things in my life uh you know in in in in in his life you know with my mom with you know he had gotten to a lot of trouble with it and he's like that's the one thing like do not gamble like do not that is the one Vice that I'm worried if it's in you it's gonna ruin your life and destroy you so I'm very like I'll let you like I don't if you gave me a deck of cards I'm like which one's the four I have no idea what any of it even means like I have no clue at all numbers spreads you know sport like all my friends are talking about oh you know who's got this the spread I I it's a foreign language to me because it has to be on purpose because that's the one thing my dad is about dinners look I some cards and sports yeah I was like very clear to me do not do that and I think too even doesn't matter if your parents are together or separate my parents were divorced but they both individually showed me so much A lot of them were there for me at every turn where if people are just staying together to stay together because they think they're supposed to yeah it's like well if you're not going to show your kids any love and you're not going to be there for them you're better off I want my kids to see just like my mom and dad show me two individual people who loved their son so much yeah and if they were together guess what would have happened they had so many issues with each other that love all the time yeah so do you think like like when when I was growing up I I saw a Catholic School in a lot of ways is like a lot of times people who are working class and they were terrified of sending their kids to public school because some of the public schools when we were coming up were really rough like that wasn't like an illusion it was it was a little crazy like yeah and they would kill themselves to make enough money to put their kid and [ __ ] have a school they couldn't afford the private because Pride was [ __ ] 40 Grand a year or whatever it is probably even more now would you send your kids to Catholic school after your experience there yeah my kids go to Catholic school and the reason why is because to me the it's not even that it's bad schooling it's not even that it's bad teachers it's like as a matter of fact the teachers who teach at public school oh I believe are required to have master's degree so you would say that they are even more Adept to teach the young minds but it's it's an overcrowded underfunded system and that's why I think also a problem we've gone to in education which has been out this is why like you know people protest I understand as a parent even on you know all four trans rides you know I live in New York City it's very hard to be you can't even be anti-lgbtq if you wanted to you're just going to see the people you don't like in the next block yeah just accept it all and you know the people that are anti that in this city I'm like you're an [ __ ] so whatever I'm accepting of everything but I do understand when a parent is like hey I don't I'm protesting you teaching my child about masturbation and things like that because you're a stranger so not at all I want you to do is teach my kids reading writing and arithmetic and obviously history and things like that all this other nuanced stuff that's my job as as her mom and dad that's so I get it and then people who don't have kids come out and be like look at these people they're so anti this it's like no no no you don't have children my child there's certain things that are like you just teach them the basics my job this child wasn't given to you is given to me yeah I'm just saying again the basics we have a standardized education system even though I think that's [ __ ] the standardized test it's like some of the most genius kids might not be able to pass an s.a.t or get flying colors on it because the way the questions are asked basic sex education would you be in favor of that yes at a certain age yeah like you know like I think I just I don't need you to teach my kid who's five about gender norms and and and and masturbation and those things and people are like you know again it's mostly people who have some other type of political identity or some other type of political motive that are so anti that because and most of the time they don't have children we're like that's not that's the last thing all you're doing is giving my kid anxiety when the last thing my child should have is anxiety let the parents have the anxiety yeah you could play a video for that that everyone signs off before it's sent to the parents that's what was done at our school it's just like here you go yeah teacher care you can watch it too they actually Daddy masturbate in my elementary school or maybe it was Middle School I remember they gave everybody a uh a letter as a sign no no they gave everybody a letter to sign and the kids who didn't get the letter signed for the sex ed class just didn't go to that class it's fine and there was no big [ __ ] issue about about it those kids just weren't in it yeah it's great we were it was what it was I'm totally okay at least give the parents the choice then we went to public school like this is not like some fancy [ __ ] private school where they're bringing these people but do we know they're not doing that right now that you know they might be exactly I think there's a lot of like it's also that we you don't remember we all watched the same video I feel like there was thought there to say if everyone in public schools watching the same thing it's like yeah there's no Rogue teachers going off and saying I want to give a little bit more on so the reason the reason why like the tricky thing is there was a girl in my middle school right and she was a year below and she would blow guys during lunch this is a real thing to happen right and it was like hero yeah right and and in eighth grade you're hearing about the seventh grade girl who's like going and then like my boy's coming up to me he's like yo she's blowing guys at lunch do you want to be one of the guys when I was like and I was like nah I'm good and I remember even in eighth grade being like yo this is a little I mean sounds kind of awesome but also like I don't know what's going on here that girl is dealing with some crazy [ __ ] at home and she might need the sex ed class to be like yo if it goes more than blowing there's going to be a [ __ ] problem for you and you're gonna get pregnant you don't know what the hell is going on so there is the argument for education in that regard right she might not know the costs of it and her parents are clearly not telling her what's going on she might not even have parents like who the [ __ ] knows not every parent is like you pick exactly so I understand why there are some people that go well they need some sort of Education because not everyone is going to have a dedicated parent to do it but to have no empathy for the parents who are involved and now are concerned about what they're being educated at least have some empathy at least enter the conversation like I understand how awkward this is this is really difficult we need to figure out the way to do it and you're 100 right to be anxious if you start the conversation like that I'm sure you're gonna sit down and be like okay let me hear you out what's the deal when you go sorry you're getting [ __ ] well this whole idea I mean listen this whole idea of the state or government even be being involved in the Affairs of a family is pretty modern it's like 100 like the founding fathers they did they they were very clear like you do not get involved with the states of a family we have certain things like if you kill somebody in public obviously but if it's on my lawn mind your business yeah like this whole state getting involved with family stuff it it slip I understand why there's times to do it but then if it becomes this overall thing where it's like you're always getting involved it start then does it lead to well if you don't if I don't send you to the sex education class you can take my kid away from me yeah like does it get to that no and even in the whole education the whole even education system we have today is new do you know what it is I really think it's people that don't have kids making decisions for people that do and they don't under you shake your head let me just get the idea out and then I think that a lot of these people that don't have kids are making these decisions for the the people that do so they don't understand the anxiety that the parents have about those decisions so they don't even know to have empathy for it I don't think they're making bad decisions I don't think they're like how can we Infuse this information and corrupt America's youth I really just think they don't know the anxiety that comes through it and they have good intentions they're like well if we give a fair education to these kids it'll be more well-rounded individuals and young kids that are dealing with these you know uh certain sexual proclivities will be a little bit more understood like I think they're coming from a good place I just think a lot of them don't have their own kids I think it's what you said before where it's like they are working in the system and they see the difference between kids that aren't getting it at home necessarily so they're like we need to provide this for the ones that aren't getting it at home 100 I think that's what they're doing 100 agree I just think if you couple that with them not having kids themselves right they won't understand the anxiety that that could induce in a parent that's why I think they do understand like from a lot of these conversations they would not be more empathetic to your parents they're like yo what's going on here almost at the start of every school year they're having like these meetings like Hey we're prepared to teach our child this here's a meeting so you can see what we're going to teach them and then you get to decide that's happening on almost all public schools well if that's happening I love it and then if the parent rejects that respect the parents yeah and because they're going to be certain parents that like are religious and because of that like they might not want their kids taught certain things yeah and I'm okay with that we just hear the loudest voices which are the parents are just like I don't want that [ __ ] nowhere and they didn't even go to the class yeah right they didn't even go to the class where you find out what they're going to teach goes back to the point that we made in the beginning of the show where it's like most people aren't just normal people like Alex said most people it's just normal most people are like you hear these loud voices and these Fringe voices but that's what the media wants to put on that's what will cause the Civil War that's what causes the vibe because that's what makes the most money on the ad revenue for them so but most people even me going to a you know coming from Staten Island which is stereotypically like you know it has an a if you don't know it's like a conservative Borough and we're like you know Trump and all that it's not really true it's conservative for New York for New York like you go down to some other places and these guys Staten Island gonna feel like the [ __ ] lgbtq friendly what do you mean I do my eyebrows we're gay that's a funny sketch the Staten Island conservatives go into Tennessee yeah and then being like Oh we are not yeah yeah think we're there for a pride parade yeah yeah I think um but I think yeah I think even in my school our kids like most of the parents are pretty and we're from many different like you know races and well religion mostly Catholics but different races and it's like we're all kind of just like hey we just want our kids it's all girls school we just want our girls to have the best education and you know we talk about you know what and the school tells us what the curriculum is going to be you know there's none of you know there's none of that my kid is still young but as they get older they'll be more into sex ed and one but the parents can be involved and it's good and that's a benefit of Catholic School which again I know not everyone can afford but I think it's what's happening at home is the biggest thing sorry but yeah I think there's like this erosion and Trust for institutions in America right now and I don't know if that is like a function of other countries trying to erode that trust and take advantage of that because if you have no trust in your institutions you have no trust in your government then it's very hard to have national pride and then when you you have no national pride there's nothing to fight for to me I'm just saying like if I was another country that's what I would do but I also think that there are failures of these institutions so we have a right to not want to trust them and I was talking to uh Dave Smith you know Dave sure I love Dave brilliant holy [ __ ] and he was saying that like that this is something that happened after the Cold War essentially where we took out our biggest competitor and when you take out your biggest competitor and at the time China wasn't as robust as it was right now you really have nobody that can check you not even your own people and when you start thinking about having no one to check you it's almost like a business that's a monopoly right when there's no competitor out there you make whatever rules you want and the people got to deal with it so in a weird way we might be dealing with our generation in the generation blow us might be dealing with a government and institutions that just have never felt like they needed to get checked and now with the Freedom of Information on the internet we're hearing some things that are maybe potentially unsavory maybe some of them are misinformation maybe it's not true maybe it's some that are true but we have every right to question our institutions and it's up to them to restill the faith sure you know like that's why I think it's even if the guy RFK Jr whatever is is spouting [ __ ] let's say he's spouting [ __ ] the fact that there is some erosion of trust is not on us right it's not on misinformation right it's on you guys you say the vaccine for covet works and then all of a sudden a few months later it doesn't work you can't be like well you should still trust us right fam you sold me a car that doesn't work right right like that's on you I'm taking it back to the dealer so you should you should if you were part of the institution or the hotels guy or whatever it is you should go not have this fiery debate have a conversation and tell us why we should trust you give us all the information yeah to me it's like you know it's the same thing like once 24-hour news came in we started to stop trusting the news because they're incentivized to always have news and a lot of the stuff they're spouting is [ __ ] or not well thought out and not fact checked but they got to get the product out same thing with financial aid once financial aid came into the situation now everybody can go to college College was like this is real money so we're gonna have to start to get people in here we're gonna have to start to have more classes more teachers more ways of thinking and it ruined that whole idea of what education really supposed to be and how college is not necessarily needed for everyone but they've pounded that message down your throat like you can only get a good job and have a good life if you go to college because the college companies make the colleges make money off us investing in that statement but that is so not true we all know that that's not true now I have I it is not a requirement for my children to go to college if they would like to go I'm saving money for them in a 529 savings plan if they have if they would like to not worth as much as it used to be no it is not exactly it is not worth the price of investment unless they really want to do it and I'd much rather them follow what their passion is or go to a specialized school Harvard means absolutely nothing to me anymore and it means nothing to most people out there that I remember the school I went to was small so it's 1200 kids so they charge a lot it's like 25 000 a year when I graduated which is crazy tuition I went back into the show there in like 2011 it was 43 000 a year yep like the inflation of college tuition is [ __ ] bananas it's on unchecked because we just get a loan we don't think about it but it is hey you're supposed to go to college I'll go to college let me get a loan I'll think about that later for you to be as successful as you are and you just paid off your college it's [ __ ] crazy dog you sold out Radio City Music Hall that before you paid off your college loans I just paid it off I was 9 140 000 in debt between undergrad and Grand Avenue went to grad school yeah I went to grad school but grad school in itself because my parents did help with undergrad but grad school in itself was you know nearly a hundred thousand dollars to cover your job at 53 000. yeah you know do you uh you have like an insane cultural pressure for education but you still would I don't yeah I mean I think because I I got a Bachelor's and I'm doing okay thank God yeah and and thank you uh but uh I don't I'm looking at what college is becoming cost wise whether you're getting benefit-wise and I'm like yo and I do think when like like when nimesh Patel friend of ours all of ours got those off stage at Columbia because they didn't like his joke I was legitimately not even on the side of Comedy like this is supposed to be an Institute of higher thinking the highest thinking in the country somebody says something you are somewhat uncomfortable with and you just yank them off stage yeah I remember that being a big moment for me and being like what the [ __ ] is going on at that an Ivy League school is doing this right so what is college becoming also and again I don't know if this is from the media or I don't know if this is real life because my children are not in college I'd have a more accurate you know uh statement if they were in college but from everything I'm hearing also College was supposed to be the part for young adults to have good discourse well you can't have that anymore yes because if you say something that goes opposite of what the mainstream thought is even if you have that backed up with facts and forever to reason or passion that will get slammed down so what I then see is well now you're going to indoctrinate my child for a hundred thousand dollars with whatever views you have that may not line up with me I'm not doing it unless my child really wants to do it as a really valid reason then they're 18 they're an adult they'll make their own decisions I'm not worried about the doctrine because I am paying enough attention in college to be indoctrinated like most people go to college they just try and get some [ __ ] and pass you know what I mean like so I if if you get indoctrinated in college you're a nerd right you know what I'm saying like I'm out here taking like the [ __ ] intro to dancing class because there was girls in there that's where dubbing up dancing Through the Ages was what mine was what was ours different classes history it was like that and the professor went dancing every single exactly period costume for the times it is a different College than what we went to we graduated almost 20 years ago no no that that is true I understand that but like there's kids are still going to want to party and I don't know I wonder if there's like a short in it yeah specialized schools are going to be on the rise you're only four years and everyone decides in their third year unless you were going for like med school or things like that and but sometimes you do it for your parents like I know it's probably like my mom my mom stopped going to school she was like 15 years old so like I think it was a big deal for her that I got a further my education like I wonder like did did your parents either your parents go to college yeah so it was expected that you go yeah like my mom tried to talk me out of it no oh you told me that yeah yeah yeah yeah what was that what was that neither my parents went to college so they were like and they saw my older they're very successful wait a minute I thought your mother was a nurse she went to nursing school so she did the two-year oh she never actually like a four-year degree and so she went to like they saw my older siblings go to school it wasn't really beneficial for them like one of my brothers was just like in a fraternity partied and didn't really get anything from it so they were like look we can spend money to go to school it's gonna be [ __ ] 40 grand for you to go for four years or whatever or we'll just give you the money to start a business this is fire so they're like yeah we'll just give you the money and then go do something with it and see what happens that's see I think that's something that's a lot of confidence in you from your parents I didn't listen though yeah I went to school it was my girl's mom that was like well you should check it out and so I ended up do you regret it no I mean I think it would have worked out either way did you feel pressure because that would make me feel pressure like bro if I blow this money on a business it doesn't work I get nothing out of it and then I have to live with that failure at 18 years old that is it's a great move but it also does put pressure on the kid unwittingly of being like Oh if I fail at this I got nothing to show for it but to me I'm like you have safety nets like my parents really if it fails like just come move back into the house there's also there's interesting other schools like Northeastern you you start working right away like it's all connected with the company in undergrad which is cool I like that and also or you could just be super that's why I think all of you guys are going to be offered honorary doctorates at some point so do well in something and then I'm gonna take my job I do think college is really important especially when you don't know what you want to do yet right it's like imagine if you just you say you're not going to college at a young age but you don't know what you want to do after high school so now like all those years you're just kind of just stagnant so it's like at least you can be getting higher education and trying to figure it out I agree with you 100 I don't but even if in the case of the child that doesn't know what they want to do yet spending seventy five thousand dollars a year on that yeah I don't think it's worth it like you could vary the price point you want to do from a state school as opposed to you know going to UPenn so do you know how many people that would get their mbas that would actually go and work in the workforce their companies would pay for them to get their MBA and then they'd come out come back with a higher salary there is a price where it makes sense like if College was 10 grand a year or whatever you go this is a good time for me to explore and like look at different topics when it gets up to the 75 and you're you're just kind of like burdened with that debt for the rest of your life yeah and you still don't know what you want to do after four years of college then you're just getting [ __ ] and now that everybody has a degree you don't make the you're not making as much yeah I mean like it's worthless well because you know to the government is a business too like they're like they're a business just like Apple's a business so they're incentivized to be like we need your money we we want we want to you to rely on now so college and engine well this is actually really interesting what's the guy who does those great video essays explaining random topics oh [ __ ] I forgot it might be cgb gray he did something about the importance of education for a democracy okay the government like you said makes money off of what I mean taxation Taxation and yeah let's assume its taxation is the only thing yeah so the more money the constituents make the more taxes they collect sure so it behooves them to educate us so we get better jobs that pay more money so we pay more taxes to them if you live in like a tur uh if you live in uh what is it called uh well there's a dictator a communist tyranny a tyranny if you live in tyranny like you own the rights to all the minerals already there all the money's going to one royal family like you don't need the people to be educated it's like getting in the way but when you don't and the only way the government can get money is if we make money they're like yo go get smart go be an engineer go do something so we could collect that bread the government is like our agent our manager right you know what I mean get a Montreal audition yeah maybe you'll get a sitcom I need to go collect yeah so it's interesting like way to look at it like that yeah right and that's why they're trying to do like the debt payback and stuff and like trying to like absolve people with student loans in order to get them to buy houses and start businesses instead of being 100 Grand in debt oh that's right because now it's not worth it because you're worried about paying off that debt instead of creating and when you're paying off debt I guess you can't uh oh women is paying off your college debt tax free can you write that off I do think it's a deduction I do yeah if so if it's a deduction that's less money that they are taking from us in taxes yeah right interesting deducting your loans can you deduct them oh you can't anyway I thought that was kind of certain I should just pay it off right yeah yeah yeah but it is [ __ ] everyone up and I think people are realizing it now I mean Neil Brennan has a joke about this like like student loans is just a small business loan and the call like you're going to a college being like hey my business is [ __ ] chicks and drinking and they're like yeah we'll support that business like it's insane that they're just giving unlimited money to all these people to apply for it yeah interest is is deductible up to 2500 yeah okay there you go yeah so you never pay that off listen yeah um Chrissy I love you I think you're brilliant um Happy Father's Day Happy Father's Day you're in a wonderful place man yeah like if you came on here a few times and I'm not saying you're in a shitty place then but like just to hear you talk now I'm like wow I said this exact same thing to him and I said this to you off everyone I remember when he started there was like a we all had I had so many flaws again not criticism but you had like a restlessness about you and I feel like you're so much more at peace now and that's cooler to see than MSG as [ __ ] cool as it is as much as that's a dream this is even cooler to see that's because I've fully given up yeah I think it was epic tea as you said the path to peace is just to stop trying to basically want events to happen the way you want them and just let them happen the way they happen and then now you'll be peaceful surrender that's his religion right there that's it and that's what it is I went full Indian yeah Chrissy we love you and uh we are here for you if there's anything that you need man I can't wait till you sell out all those shows and if I'm in town and you'll uh put a couple ticks to the side we'd love to be there to support man beautiful baby hopefully uh the [ __ ] will go out there and get those tickets right now and uh this is Chris this Stefano tell them where they can see you tell them they could watch you tell them they can get tickets tell them all the things chrisdcomedy.com for all my chicky wikis just put a whole fall Tour on sale Atlanta I'm coming to you for uh special we'll announce that soon and then theater at MSG September 23rd Radio City sold out September 22nd thank you so much baby do what's right

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Published: Tue Jun 20 2023