Rob Schneider: "I'm A 90s Liberal — Which Makes Me A Fascist"

0:01 Mexican waiter was really nervous.

0:03 And I said, you know, are you okay?

0:05 He said, Mr.

0:06 Schneider, I nervous because I no have legal so I worry that they

0:10 they the ICE to come come take to take me back to Mexico.

0:14 You know, these are the guys we want here in this country.

0:16 People working hard.

0:18 Then he completely[ __] up our order.

0:19 And I was like, get this guy out of here.

0:21 You can't[ __] up lunch.

0:23 That's the most important meal of the day.

0:25 As soon as I got the check,

0:26 I called ICE and said, table 47, got to get over here.

0:29 I'm conservative.

0:30 Well, I mean, I'm a '90s liberal which makes me a right-wing fascist now, right?

0:35 We all are.

0:36 God forbid we stick to those you know,

0:38 free speech and you know, women's rights and things like that crazy stuff.

0:42 The the idea that you can silence other people just because you disagree.

0:46 I mean, that that has to be I mean,

0:48 I'm still waiting for the Democrats to say that's not good.

0:51 I think he might be waiting for a while.

0:56 California either has a huge homeless problem or a gigantic camping success.

1:01 Maybe it's both.

1:02 I don't know.

1:03 But Rob Schneider Welcome back.

1:08 Thank you so much.

1:09 Brother, it's only been about a year.

1:11 Last time we had you on the show, uh, it was right after the election.

1:15 Yeah.

1:16 Pre- pretty much the biggest episode we've ever done.

1:18 2.5 million views.

1:20 People absolutely loved it.

1:22 Thank you.

1:22 Very honored.

1:23 It's been 12 months and like so much has happened.

1:26 It's crazy.

1:27 No, it seems like the Chinese uh,

1:31 the what it's not a proverb, but it's basically the curse, yeah.

1:35 May you live in interesting times.

1:36 We are living in very interesting times.

1:38 A lot has happened since then.

1:40 I think uh, the realization um,

1:43 still sinking in to the liberals that they've lost power and um,

1:48 they are not uh, giving up easily.

1:51 It's the uh, uh, demonstrations,

1:53 the no kings leftist demonstrations as the former

1:56 Soviets called them, the useful idiots.

1:58 So, they're doing that and also there's a wake-up.

2:00 I mean, the the fact just because the Republicans are in power

2:04 that they can actually do all the stuff they want to do.

2:06 It's it's just it's a wake-up call to realize, you know, you you can't.

2:10 There's a there's some impediments to it.

2:12 Love.

2:14 We can't do everything we'd like to, but we'd like to very much there.

2:17 Well, all the only conversation you and I Booker have is

2:20 basically you impersonating his English accent and ripping him a new one.

2:25 We all enjoy listening in as that happens.

2:28 No, I just like he just assumes like No,

2:30 I told you yesterday we're coming at 1:30.

2:32 Oh, yeah, but I didn't agree, you[ __] No,

2:35 but I said I sent you a message, which means it's going to happen automatically.

2:38 I'm English.

2:39 I make things happen.

2:40 You still use our rules.

2:42 Well, you kept the rule of law and property rights.

2:44 We owe you.

2:45 So, when I send a message, you just stuck with it.

2:47 I mean, he's not wrong, is he?

2:49 No, he's not wrong.

2:50 But it it it is lovely though because I find myself to be a an Anglophile

2:54 and all the best humor was that cuz we didn't get the shitty stuff, you know?

2:58 Truthfully, I was never I mean, no offense,

2:59 but I was never into Benny Hill, but Monty Python,

3:01 I mean, the you know, it's all right,

3:03 Jack, those great comedies are the Ealing comedies.

3:06 I mean, that was the basis of like great comedy.

3:08 And it's because your people were so angry cuz

3:12 I don't think you participated in the Marshall Plan.

3:14 So, you didn't get banked out like Germany.

3:16 So, you guys were still rationing like into the uh into the '50s.

3:21 Yeah.

3:21 And they were pissed.

3:22 WE WON THE[ __] WAR WAY OUT.

3:24 YOU KNOW.

3:25 SO, THAT WAS KIND of um similarly how like in I just

3:28 got back from Hungary and like in and the war never ended there.

3:32 It just new new occupiers came in.

3:34 But it's so So, there was a beautiful thing that happened,

3:36 I think, in English humor,

3:37 correct me if I'm wrong, but whereas there was still like an intensity like,

3:41 you know, after the war and all the the pressure leading up to it,

3:45 you couldn't wait to get rid of Churchill and then, you know, the next thing.

3:48 So, the comedy had an edge to it.

3:50 Mhm.

3:51 That I think led to like eventually 19 I think

3:54 it was '61 when Peter Cook went on the the Footlights.

3:58 And then that was uh you know John Cleese and Eric Idle I think

4:03 we're watching that night and didn't didn't

4:04 realize you can make fun of the establishment.

4:07 You can make I think he made fun of the Prime Minister Peter Cook.

4:10 And that was that was the beginning of uh the rise and I think that led to you

4:15 know to a another level the high watermark

4:18 of comedy in the 20th century English Monty Python.

4:22 Well Peter Cook was one of our greatest ever satirists.

4:25 Him and Dudley Moore of course had that famous partnership.

4:28 But one of the things that people were taken aback

4:31 with by Peter Cook at the time was how savage he was.

4:34 And you know we were very much no no these are our betters.

4:37 You can't talk about them like that.

4:38 That's very and he just went in.

4:41 He did not care.

4:42 And they they was quite shocking at the time.

4:45 But but one of the things that I've

4:46 noticed about American humor and I love American humor.

4:48 I love your stand-up.

4:49 Comedies are great.

4:51 Ours we it's kind of the difference between heavy rock and jazz piano.

4:55 Jazz piano is English.

4:58 Because it's the notes you don't more subtle.

5:00 It's more subtle.

5:01 It's the notes you don't play.

5:02 That's where the humor comes in.

5:04 Whereas Americans you like your power chords you know.

5:07 It's a hammer.

5:08 Mhm.

5:09 But I think that I like the the subtlety of both.

5:12 You know when when you could um I like telling joke

5:16 where I'm the best thing for me when I'm doing stuff is

5:18 like it's like the audience go I'm going to say I'm

5:21 going to just want to get this out of my way first.

5:22 It's to get the joke in.

5:23 You know when I go like you know it's good to be back in California but like I

5:26 had to move because you know I got little

5:27 kids and it's dangerous to have kids in public school.

5:30 You know in California you know in the morning you

5:31 drop off a girl and after you pick up a boy.

5:33 You know so you just kind of get to it

5:35 and then you know the um the subtleties of it

5:40 And again in the same way you know you just

5:42 you you get them off balance as best you can.

5:44 But I'm definitely influenced by that English humor and the way that you

5:47 could it's it's I hopefully it's a good combination of of both.

5:51 And stand-up is a particularly just like jazz,

5:54 which you guys stole from America.

5:56 And stand-up comedy, I believe um you know,

6:00 it originated I guess you'd call Mark Twain was original stand-up humorist.

6:04 And he would charge a dollar cuz he also would

6:07 he would get rich and go broke and then you know,

6:09 he um uh there were you know, Ulysses S.

6:12 Grant had cancer, was dying and like you know,

6:14 back then they didn't give money to the former president.

6:16 So he helped him pen his auto his autobiography

6:20 so he can make money for his wife, pay for the farm, blah blah blah.

6:23 And then he would go blow all his money,

6:25 come back and then he'd get money again by performing

6:28 like a town hall or something or a library.

6:31 I don't know if there was a library.

6:32 I'm just making that up.

6:34 But he'd charge a dollar to talk about faraway lands like Hawaii.

6:39 Yeah, no idea that they have over there.

6:41 You got to take several weeks to get out there.

6:44 But now like you guys can fly wherever you want and do the things.

6:47 So So for me the nice um joke that I

6:50 could relate to was based on something that really happened.

6:52 It was it's really fun.

6:53 It was um really fun.

6:54 Listen to me.

6:56 But I was in Vegas.

6:56 I was playing Vegas and you know, the um MGM Grand, which is a good gig.

7:01 On the strip.

7:01 That's a good one.

7:02 Um and I had went out to lunch with the guys, the the band I'm working with.

7:08 And uh the Mexican waiter was really nervous.

7:12 And I said you know, are you okay?

7:14 And he said Mr.

7:15 Snyder There is I nervous because I no her legal.

7:20 So I worry that the the ice to can can take to take me back to Mexico.

7:25 I felt terrible, you know, and um you know,

7:28 these are the guys we want here in this country.

7:30 People working hard, you know.

7:32 Then he completely[ __] up our order.

7:33 And I was like, get this guy out.

7:36 You can't[ __] up lunch.

7:37 That's the most important meal of the day.

7:39 You know what I'm saying?

7:40 You can[ __] up breakfast, dinner.

7:41 But like as soon as I got the check,

7:42 I called ICE and the table 47, got to get over here.

7:46 But it's um But I like it cuz it just plants a little seed in there, you know?

7:50 And people can feel either way they want.

7:53 But I'm not going You can't lecture them about stuff.

7:55 And that's the I would say American comedy now we have to be careful that it,

8:00 you know, we've come out of that COVID tyranny.

8:03 We want to, you know, I think to, you know, which was the best for me,

8:08 the best part of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore was the silly.

8:11 You know, the best money part they would just the silly is king.

8:14 As Cleese, John Cleese would say.

8:16 But then all the one-legged Tarzan.

8:19 I mean, that Peter Cook and Dudley Moore sketch,

8:22 it doesn't get any better than that, you know?

8:23 No.

8:24 He's auditioning for the role of Tarzan and he's got one leg.

8:28 I was just like, wow.

8:29 It's just you know, it shook everything up.

8:31 So are you saying now you feel there's there's a lot

8:34 of seriousness creeping into comedy and kind of people are,

8:36 you know, going very heavy on their opinions?

8:38 Is I think so and I think the audience is so I mean,

8:40 I have to be careful of that, too.

8:42 You know, because I'm a conservative.

8:44 Well, I mean, I'm a '90s liberal,

8:46 which makes me a right-wing fascist now, right?

8:48 We all are.

8:49 God forbid we stick to those you know,

8:51 free speech and you know, women's rights and things like that crazy stuff.

8:55 Um so I have to be careful, too, that, you know,

8:58 I don't fall into that easy trap of just,

9:01 you know, throwing slop to the conservative, you know,

9:06 masses, which is what kind of late night TV was.

9:08 You know, the late night TV you can it's there's no individual voices.

9:13 You can replace and do like, you know,

9:14 Jimmy Kimmel could say the same joke as, you know,

9:16 Seth Meyers and then you could put like,

9:18 you know, you know, and then you know,

9:21 the other Jimmy can the So it doesn't The other Jimmy.

9:24 So they you can you can have it's the same thing.

9:28 It's like, what is it Where is the point?

9:29 Is there any individual voices?

9:31 Right.

9:31 And it's just it's too easy.

9:33 You know, what Norm Macdonald, you know,

9:35 saying during the pandemic, you know, easy.

9:37 You make uh make make a joke about Trump.

9:41 They'll just applaud, you know, you do that, you know.

9:43 Where is the uh you know, where is the danger there?

9:47 And I I do think it's it's definitely more fun.

9:50 But it is more dangerous.

9:52 You know, I mean they they're killing uh there's a violence happening, you know,

9:59 and so that's uh we have to have gun checks at comedy shows.

10:04 We really Yeah.

10:06 Yeah, but why wouldn't you?

10:07 I mean, we were talking not to change,

10:09 you know, direction, but unfortunately we kind of have to.

10:10 You we were talking before we started about Charlie Kirk.

10:13 I mean, that's one of the things that happened since we last saw you.

10:16 Yes.

10:16 friend of yours.

10:18 Charlie was is irreplaceable.

10:20 Um Charlie was such a uh he he I mean,

10:26 I I honestly as a comedian and as a um a humorist and and as a real cynic,

10:32 I I think you have to be cynical in uh uh when you to approach comedy.

10:36 What's really behind the So, I would get these calls from from him

10:40 uh from his organization and then from him saying,

10:43 you know, we want you to be involved in, you know, Turning Point.

10:45 And I was like, what is this 28-year-old kid?

10:47 What is he what What's going to be something behind this?

10:49 There's always something, you know, whatever.

10:51 And um and I didn't realize like what he had built.

10:55 This is this incredible organization of young people.

10:58 If you want to change the future or if you

11:00 want to return the future to some traditional American values,

11:04 um Christian American values, then then you you know,

11:08 you better got to build an organization to remind people

11:10 what what what is the potential loss of not maintaining that.

11:15 So, I I I I've learned um pretty quickly.

11:18 I was still a little um you know,

11:21 I'm still questioning it going like, I don't know, what is it?

11:24 But then I found it to be um really sincere and his his uh

11:30 his organization and his uh what his quest was was to keep um you know,

11:36 America a a nation under God and and free.

11:41 And that was a um a tremendous loss.

11:44 I mean, his we were supposed to go cuz I said to him cuz it was fun.

11:47 You show up at a university with Charlie Kirk.

11:49 And I'm telling you the kids will come up stuff,

11:51 they ask questions, and I really liked it.

11:53 The it was such a generous thing that he would do,

11:55 he'd put the microphone down and said,

11:58 "If you disagree with me,

11:59 come to the front." And he was saying that he's constantly saying,

12:03 "When the conversation stops,

12:05 that's when the violence begins." And he was right,

12:07 you know, they uh the leftists, you know,

12:10 if they can't be they they can't be in a debate, they would shut you down,

12:14 they'd prevent you from speaking, and you know this specifically.

12:18 You know, they how dare you disagree with that.

12:21 um And uh that voice is silenced,

12:24 so I'm hopeful that that that will uh you know,

12:28 his his organization will continue to inspire young people.

12:33 Um we I asked him I said uh I said, "Well,

12:37 I want to I want to go to the craziest places to go.

12:39 Where is that?" He said, "We said, 'What?'" I said, "No,

12:42 I want to go to the craziest university where they'll be And he said,

12:46 "Well, then we'll go to Berkeley." They go,

12:47 "Let's go to Berkeley." And then I had to go to Berkeley without him.

12:53 And there was riots to stop a comedian for talking.

12:56 Just a riot, literally a riot.

12:58 I'm I'm suing the University of Cal Berkeley

13:01 for I don't know what the number will be, but more than a dollar, I promise you.

13:06 Cuz it's and that was the and thankfully Peter Boghossian and and you know,

13:10 your countryman Andrew Doyle was kind enough I invited

13:12 him to come with me to buttress my ignorance.

13:15 And um but there's an interesting thing cuz about free speech,

13:20 it isn't just what our lawsuit's about,

13:22 it's not just the ability for you to speak freely and somebody stop that.

13:26 It's also free speech, the other side of that is the the ability for someone

13:31 to to have the right to the freedom of speech to hear the speech.

13:36 And that's the other side.

13:37 So, I think that's important because the university they were such[

13:39 __] They insisted Cal Berkeley Regents in the in the you know,

13:45 I don't know who was in charge of that over

13:46 there whether it was the dean or somebody made the decision.

13:48 They said we insist on getting 500 tickets and they would give

13:51 it to this liberal organization so just so the 500 people couldn't come.

13:56 And then there's 500 empty seats.

13:57 We could have easily had 2,000 people there.

14:00 And and then they also called people who had tickets

14:03 like friends of mine cuz I'm I'm from Northern California.

14:06 Interestingly that used to be the free speech

14:08 that's where free speech on university campus started 1964.

14:12 Um and and then they told them oh your tickets are no longer good.

14:17 So, then there's really a riot coming in and the police coming.

14:19 It was just it was just unreal.

14:22 But um um the the idea that you

14:27 can silence other people just because you disagree.

14:29 I mean that that has to be uh I mean

14:31 I'm still waiting for the Democrats to say that's not good.

14:34 I think you might be waiting for a while.

14:38 You know, I mean there's there's some Democrats that I

14:41 think have potential Josh Shapiro for instance have been talking so.

14:44 Yeah.

14:45 You know, you he talks about what the Democrats used to talk about in the '90s.

14:49 He seems like a decent guy.

14:50 Yeah.

14:51 You think you know, if the Democrats actually put him

14:54 as and maybe he got a little bit of a headwind, he might stand a chance.

14:58 Well, I think you know,

14:59 if the if Americans have proved anything they have no memory of anything.

15:03 They just move on to the next thing.

15:05 You know, uh 25 years after 9/11 you got

15:09 a uh Muslim mayor and you have like prayer outside which

15:13 is a as you guys know it's a form

15:15 of dominance and conversation may take a turn at this point.

15:20 So, we'll see.

15:21 I mean um I'm still buoyant.

15:23 I mean, I do think that uh for sure

15:26 the weak leadership seems to bring about more difficult times.

15:30 And I think we're seeing um a reset, a global reset.

15:35 And I think you're seeing with with Donald Trump.

15:38 I would just say to the people who um they dismiss him,

15:43 I say you do that at your own peril

15:45 because it's very um strategic what he's doing right now.

15:50 The There is a global reset happening right now with Venezuela.

15:55 Um You know, you know, people worried about the you know,

15:59 Venezuelans as far as they're going to you know,

16:01 these are people they're going to protest.

16:02 They're going to say, "No, no, no, no." Here's what you never hear about.

16:05 They're Catholic.

16:06 You never hear this.

16:07 "A Catholic guy jumped on a train

16:09 and stabbed nine people today." You never hear that.

16:11 You never hear like,

16:12 "A Tibetan monk hijacked a an airplane and flew it into a building." You know,

16:18 you don't hear "A Chinese woman drove

16:20 a van into a Christmas market." Well, you do.

16:23 Well, only by accident.

16:24 Yeah, yeah.

16:24 She was looking for a Sorry, did I steal your punchline?

16:26 She was looking for She was looking for a parking space.

16:28 You know, like That's a parking space.

16:30 And he had No, I know.

16:32 Yeah, I used to When I go on Jay Leno, he used to do that to me, too.

16:34 And he'd figure out the joke.

16:35 It's like, "Of course you figure out the joke.

16:36 You're a comedian." Sorry, brother.

16:38 I apologize.

16:39 Yeah, it's the same way it was like being on Jay again.

16:42 No, but you Comedians, they know that.

16:44 They know what the joke is.

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18:17 We had Jay Jay Leno on the show actually.

18:20 Yeah, a while ago.

18:20 We recorded in his car garage.

18:22 Oh, fantastic.

18:24 It was fun.

18:24 He's an incredible guy.

18:26 He's such a nice guy.

18:27 He was the best comedian of his generation.

18:29 He was also really helpful.

18:30 He was like he would tell you guys like, "Hey,

18:32 how much time you got?" I remember like you know

18:34 in the '80s like I said I got about 8 minutes.

18:36 Good.

18:36 Yeah, I'm glad you 8 minutes.

18:38 Most comedians had they got 2 hours.

18:40 You know, who wants to hear 2 hours of comedy material?

18:42 You know, if you have if you don't have 5

18:44 minutes to kill anytime everywhere you go, you got nothing.

18:46 And he was right.

18:47 He gets it.

18:48 All you need to become a star in LA is 20 minutes.

18:50 20 minutes to become a star.

18:51 And it's true.

18:52 And it was just like I mean it seemed like a long time when you're 20.

18:55 But by the time I was 24 all I had was 20 minutes.

18:57 It was the most I ever had.

18:59 At that time.

19:00 And the only other guys who had 20 minutes was like Chris Rock,

19:02 David Spade or maybe Chris Rock had 30.

19:04 But David Spade, Adam Sandler,

19:06 and me we all got on you know, that was the beginning.

19:08 You only need 20 minutes to become a star, huh?

19:11 But uh he was great.

19:12 All those guys would be helpful, the greats,

19:15 like um you know uh you know Jerry Seinfeld,

19:19 one of the greatest uh comedians we've ever had.

19:21 Just the the structure, if you look at it,

19:23 it looks You could build a house on the way he forms jokes, you know?

19:27 And he would say to us young comedians cuz

19:29 that back then they're like in the early '80s,

19:31 they were like bars that they would turn into comedy clubs.

19:33 And 120 seats, you know,

19:35 if you do enough shows and my clock 10,000 bucks You might get enough.

19:40 And that was like if he would do the By that time by '84,

19:43 I think he'd done or '83, he'd done like 42 Tonight shows.

19:47 Wow.

19:48 42 5-minute spots.

19:50 Wow.

19:50 And then we we'd watch him and it had

19:51 the structure of his stuff was so great, you know?

19:54 And he would just have like the simplicity of his thing,

19:57 which is almost like an English thing with like He would say a little joke like,

20:01 "Magic is just to make you feel stupid.

20:03 Here's a quarter, now it's gone, you're a jerk." This is a wonderful simplicity.

20:10 And then and then after we'd all hang out, you know,

20:12 try to get some uh you know, some nuggets of wisdom by the master, you know?

20:18 And uh Did you?

20:19 Yeah, he said to me, "Listen, guys, you got to take the swearing out.

20:23 If you take the swearing out and it's not funny without the swearing,

20:26 then it's not funny." And I was like, "Wow,

20:30 he's right." Cuz we can rely on it too much.

20:32 Then I shook his hand, you know, and then "Thank you,

20:34 Jerry." And then he went to leave and I went to shake

20:36 his hand and he was like "It's the same hand." Very funny,

20:42 though, cuz about a It literally 2 years later I got on uh David Letterman.

20:48 And he's such a great guy.

20:49 He He just literally is an awesome guy.

20:51 He really appreciates comedy.

20:52 And then and he chased me out of the Improv after I did a set.

20:56 He goes, "Just so I am um um Dave on David Letterman." He said,

20:59 "You have balls of iron." And he shook my hand.

21:02 "Oh, man, a really good set, man.

21:03 Nice to see young people doing some stuff." And then

21:06 I waited and he went to go shake my hand again.

21:08 I was like, That's the same man.

21:11 I didn't say it, but I wanted to, you know.

21:13 But he's he's one of the masters and it's really frustrating

21:15 to see like a guy who's still performing at a very high level.

21:19 And like there would be protesters.

21:22 It's like, come on.

21:24 Can't you see that the Isn't the LBGTQ plus for Hamas protest?

21:28 Did you have to protest Jerry Seinfeld,

21:30 one of the greatest comedians who who still doesn't have to do it,

21:33 but he's still doing it cuz he loves it?

21:35 So that's kind of a bummer.

21:36 So we have that at the same time,

21:38 but I do think that uh this friction and this stuff,

21:42 I think the the woke kind of thing is is collapsing.

21:45 I think people are exposed to enough of it.

21:47 So hopefully it'll usher in something new.

21:49 I don't know what the new thing is, but you know,

21:51 it's it's been um it's been an interesting time.

21:55 I would say the most interesting time in my lifetime for comedy.

21:59 Cuz there were people yelling at you.

22:01 People like get paying money to yell at you.

22:04 It's during COVID, too,

22:05 cuz COVID is is really cool cuz we have a republic over here.

22:08 I strongly suggest you guys consider it.

22:11 You break it different states, you know,

22:13 that way the states would have different rules.

22:15 A lot of the states went along with it, but some states hung in there, you know.

22:18 So you I would go to a place and they'll perform and they'd be like,

22:21 you know, they you'd have to have, you know,

22:23 somebody sitting not across from you or something.

22:25 So they had half the comedy club.

22:26 And I so I would just perform in those places until those places closed down.

22:30 And then instead And then believe it or not,

22:32 it wasn't Americans the reason that we got out of COVID.

22:35 It was It wasn't the Americans that figured out the protesting again.

22:38 It was the Canadians.

22:40 The Canadian truckers reminded Americans about protesting and a good protesting.

22:45 Protesting against actual tyranny, not this fake tyranny that the the these no

22:49 kings paid protesters are uh the useful idiots.

22:52 So but real protest against tyranny, which is what the COVID lockdowns were.

22:56 And these you know, the truckers that went there, what did they do?

23:00 They they literally closed their bank accounts.

23:04 And uh you know that that seemed to be you know If that's

23:09 not authoritarian and calling them um

23:13 and calling them terrorists, that's pretty bad.

23:16 You know, I was so but but what it did though is it woke

23:19 people up here in America to it like enough of this crap which was good.

23:22 So whether people like the um the COVID vaccine or not.

23:27 I mean obviously it has has some problems and stuff.

23:29 It's not a vaccine.

23:30 It's a according to Robert Malone who invented the or co-invented the therapy.

23:34 It's a it's an experimental gene therapy.

23:37 So you know and forcing everybody to take

23:39 an experimental gene therapy is not good.

23:41 But what it did though, Thomas Cahill who is the designer of it

23:45 who was asked by the Trump administration.

23:47 He's a genius.

23:47 You got to meet Thomas Cahill.

23:49 And he what it did was it gave an off-ramp.

23:52 Like hey, we got something.

23:53 We can open up society now.

23:55 Here we go.

23:55 We got we got the jab.

23:57 Let's go.

23:58 So that that gave an off-ramp to it.

24:00 So and I don't know if people will It's interesting

24:03 how the next What is the next attempt to tyranny?

24:07 But that they've backed off this zero carbon initiative.

24:12 You don't hear about it anymore, right?

24:13 you do in all countries.

24:14 Yeah, well it's actually an interesting situation cuz in the UK

24:18 the only people who still believe in it are the government.

24:21 No one else believes in it.

24:23 But the government really really believe in it.

24:25 And actually the worse things get, the more they believe in it.

24:27 So they're like oh okay, this war in Iran is going to cause global price oil

24:32 prices to spike and stay up for God knows how many months.

24:36 Yeah.

24:36 That shows you we can't be relying on fossil fuels.

24:40 Oh yeah.

24:41 Yeah, exactly.

24:42 Except we still have to be relying on fossil fuels.

24:44 No, it'll impoverish the whole planet.

24:46 If you want to go have start mass starvation right away, go off fossil fuels.

24:49 But what Trump is doing what President Trump

24:51 and you know with is that global reset.

24:54 If you can control the oil.

24:57 It's not about having all of it.

24:59 But if you can control it, and then all of a sudden China has to work with you.

25:02 Because unfortunately, what you really had was you can have all

25:05 the sanctions against Russia and China that you want,

25:07 you know, but but if they're able to get oil from Iran and Venezuela,

25:12 then they can circumvent all these problems.

25:14 But if America has got a nice, healthy stranglehold on Iran and Venezuela,

25:21 then the Chinese will have to to work with us

25:24 in a way that they don't want to, but they'll have to now.

25:27 So I think in that way it is um you know,

25:30 the idea that we uh it's actually strong men

25:33 make the world uh I guess there's a revulsion

25:36 from it from the 20th century experience of World War

25:38 II that anytime there's a strong man that comes up,

25:40 it's like authoritarianism comes.

25:42 I would just say we should be aware that when weak weakness happens,

25:46 that's when authoritarian comes up as we witness under COVID.

25:49 You know, it's so funny when you

25:51 talk to Venezuelans about what happened in Venezuela,

25:54 cuz you hear people going, "Oh,

25:55 this is a coup, this is terrible." You talk to a Venezuelan,

25:58 they're like, "I know, I like it." He very good.

26:01 No, no, no, we not like Maduro.

26:03 Bye-bye.

26:03 Well, that's what you have to We have to We have to weigh

26:06 like what how much freedom if you want complete freedom, it's chaos.

26:12 And so we have to we we'd rather

26:14 have more chaos than if you want complete control,

26:17 then you'd have tyranny or something.

26:19 But then you have something that was so chaotic and so

26:22 out of control like if you look at uh El Salvador,

26:25 that was just, you know, the murder capital,

26:27 the kidnapping cap People could kids couldn't go

26:29 to school and it was just it was just, you know, you couldn't open up a little

26:32 stand and sell food without being somebody coming in.

26:35 So uh you know, Bukele has changed that country.

26:38 He calls himself the coolest dictator.

26:41 And I would just go, well, how much freedom if it it's destroying your society,

26:46 uh what are you willing to give up for some control?

26:49 And that's that's the gaze, you know?

26:52 That's the That's what we're That's kind of what we're we're looking at.

26:56 But to go back to comedy,

26:57 it's a very interesting time because we're talking about,

27:01 you know, the woke and the backlash and they you're trying to silence voices.

27:05 But hasn't that always been the case?

27:06 I mean, take Bill Hicks.

27:08 I mean, Bill Hicks used to go to the deep south and do jokes about Christianity,

27:11 laughing again laughing about Christianity when it wasn't cool,

27:15 when it literally, you know, could have endangered your life.

27:19 I don't know about that.

27:20 I don't know I don't think it would have I mean,

27:23 I think it would have protesters,

27:24 just like there was protesters when The Life of Brian came out

27:27 because it was just happened to do be the um you know,

27:31 be because it had to do with Christianity at all.

27:33 But I thought that, you know, that, you know,

27:35 it was consistently rated the greatest comedy British comedy of all time.

27:39 And it was hilarious.

27:40 But it was But I I you know, as as John Cleese and Michael Palin would say,

27:44 he wasn't they didn't change one word of the Sermon on the Mount.

27:48 But they it's just the fact that what

27:50 was funny is that somebody couldn't hear it.

27:51 You know, "I think he said blessed all the cheesemakers." That that's funny.

27:56 You have to have an open mind to that.

27:58 But I don't believe that that that even

28:00 Bill Hicks in that day was life was endangered.

28:02 I think he had people who were angry at him.

28:04 But not in the same way like you'll have as Ayaan Hirsi Ali says,

28:07 "You know, you can have the Book of Mormon,

28:09 but let's see you guys write the Book of Muhammad and see

28:12 how long that stays open." I'll pass on that one, thank you.

28:16 But but but isn't the cultural fear the cultural fear of that?

28:19 You can't even you can't even say it.

28:21 You can without without saying, "Well, yeah, you could never do that."

28:23 Well, Jimmy Carr has a great joke about this, which is, you know,

28:25 a lot of Christians complain that you make fun of Christians,

28:28 but you don't make fun of Islam.

28:29 And he's like, "Well, stop blowing[ __] up." You know,

28:32 then I'll I'll not make fun of Christians, either.

28:35 That's so perfect.

28:36 But I think though with this challenge,

28:39 I think it's good because what you're seeing now

28:40 in the United States and what I'm talking about now in state,

28:43 which is I think is you have to challenge them, push them.

28:46 That's Otherwise, it's not fun.

28:47 You got to be some kind of contrarian.

28:49 So, it's nice talking about the interesting

28:52 that's happening is women like white liberal women.

28:55 Here we go.

28:56 Here we I love the way you said that.

28:58 It's women.

28:59 White liberal women.

29:00 Yeah, there we go.

29:02 to do with that I'm divorced now.

29:03 It's women.

29:04 No, it's women.

29:06 It is.

29:07 No, but is that they were doing things that are against their best interest,

29:11 putting themselves in danger, whereas, you know,

29:14 men you know, traditionally that's what they do.

29:17 And men have that.

29:18 They're used to it.

29:19 Every guy by the time they're teenager, you know,

29:21 you meet another guy, at some point you what you know,

29:23 you still you go you you still think a little bit like

29:27 if I have to kick this guy's ass, I mean, could I?

29:28 I mean, is it going to be my ass, you know?

29:30 If he has cauliflower ears, you go, "Okay, this guy doesn't care about his face.

29:33 I'm going to leave him alone." There's a part of his face

29:34 he doesn't he's not prob- doesn't have a problem with looking messed up.

29:37 And so, but women don't have that.

29:38 So, I was saying that's why women put themselves

29:41 in positions of danger that they're not used to.

29:44 That's what happened in in uh know, in Minnesota, you know,

29:47 and um and it's that women could be emotionally manipulated to uh

29:53 do something that puts them in danger because for the cause.

29:56 Now, that manipulation that but the emotional

29:57 manipulation like this woman wasn't even a lesbian.

30:01 She was like she was straight.

30:02 Mhm.

30:03 For the cause she became, you know, into this she got roped into this become

30:08 a lesbian through you know, for the cause.

30:09 And I was like, that's the difference between men and women.

30:11 I don't care what the cause is.

30:13 I'm not taking a dick up my ass.

30:16 Pretty much.

30:16 So, but but yeah, but what I tried to build to the point

30:19 about how women could be emotionally manipulated and I said you know,

30:22 85% of white liberal women voted for Kamala Harris to save democracy,

30:26 even though Kamala Harris wasn't even put in democratically.

30:29 They just, you know, they just took Joe Biden out, you know,

30:32 the Joe Biden basically a corpse attached

30:34 to a car battery and like they you know,

30:37 but the Democrats still don't admit to that his brain wasn't functioning.

30:40 And they just put Kamala in to save Which is what the joke is, you know,

30:43 I'm um Replacing Joe Biden with Kamala Harris is

30:48 like changing your shirt cuz you[ __] your pants.

30:49 And then And everybody feels like they got their money's worth.

30:56 Well, you know what?

30:57 The point about Bill Hicks is interesting though,

30:58 because the threat side I don't know about, but you do know, you must know

31:01 this, that his final Letterman appearance was canned.

31:04 They didn't publish it until after he he passed away.

31:08 Because it was too controversial.

31:10 At that time, yeah, it was too controversial.

31:12 You're right.

31:12 So there there was a um Yeah, there I think it was a stricter time.

31:17 I I I think uh but I I think that's obviously a mistake,

31:22 but I don't think it's the same kind of jeopardy as like Charlie Hebdo,

31:26 you know, so I think the um But I I anytime you go up

31:30 against we we have to go up against the societal uh whatever the constricts are.

31:36 We have to be contrarians, otherwise we're not doing our job.

31:38 But it is um it can be dangerous as far as I mean,

31:42 I have to have gun checks at shows.

31:43 And it's dangerous the leftist, you know.

31:45 So um I mean, it's it's nuts to me.

31:49 I mean, not nuts that we have a guns in America.

31:50 I'm all I'm all I'm all for it.

31:52 You know, I didn't used to be, but now I understand.

31:55 Do you have the audience lock their phones in a pouch?

31:58 I don't do that because I don't think it matters anymore.

32:01 I used to think they could get canceled,

32:02 but once they tried to cancel so many times and you survive,

32:05 you're like, "What can they do to me at this point, you know?" Yeah.

32:07 Um and also if they want to do it, I mean,

32:09 I I think it's kind of a childish I I do think though for the you know,

32:13 the guys who are making like, you know, $40 million on Netflix,

32:16 they don't want to get their jokes out too early.

32:17 I get that.

32:18 But at this point, I don't think it's um I used to do that.

32:23 But it's expensive.

32:24 Yeah.

32:24 You got to bring the pouches and then it's also a pain in the ass for them.

32:26 You know, I always like,

32:27 "Let them be adults." If they want to go on their phone,

32:29 people are addicted to to their to their phones.

32:31 No, no, the reason I bring it up is um

32:34 and it's something I think about with podcasting now as well,

32:36 because what happened was you had the mainstream media,

32:38 which basically thought that everyone in the world

32:41 had the attention span of a mosquito, right?

32:44 And they whittled the sound bite down to like this, right?

32:48 And then the opposite is you guys.

32:49 And then the podcast came along and went Yeah.

32:52 But now what's happening is and we've even had

32:55 had guests who shall remain nameless who'll go like,

32:57 "So, was there a clip in that?" And you just go No.

33:00 Like with all respect, I mean, I understand I have clips of mine,

33:03 you have clips of yours going out and things.

33:05 That's totally cool.

33:06 But it changes the the act of making it this changes the thing.

33:12 It does, yeah.

33:12 And the same with stand-up, I think, and it's the same with like, you know,

33:16 you're trying out material, recording something out of context,

33:18 putting it online, all of that.

33:19 That's why I was asking.

33:20 No, you're right about that because, you know,

33:22 cuz I do ask at some point um for women

33:27 to I try to get them to a point where I'm manipulating,

33:30 you know, subverting them to, you know,

33:33 It's like, is there emotionally manipule that you can manipulate,

33:37 you know, for that So, I try to get their empathy and go, "You know,

33:39 it's because you're so, you know, you're so much empathy and compassion.

33:43 That's why you raise children.

33:43 That's why there's so many of us.

33:44 You're incredible." But but then I get to the point where you

33:46 can be manipulated to use this empathy for people who don't deserve it.

33:50 And then I ask them to reconsider their right to vote.

33:57 But then I say, "No, no, no, there's still plenty of things to vote for.

33:59 You can still vote I'm not saying you can't vote.

34:01 I'm just I'm just saying just not for the important things.

34:03 But there's still plenty of things you You

34:05 can still vote for Dancing with the Stars,

34:06 America's Got Talent, Britain's Got Talent,

34:09 whatever." But um the idea is it's just to challenge them

34:13 a little bit and try to get them off and then,

34:15 you know, you you you take some ideas and then, you know,

34:18 it's the idea is to poke them a little bit and see where they go.

34:20 And so, a lot of the women agree.

34:22 A lot of the women, not all of them,

34:23 a lot of them agree and then some people complain,

34:26 but I I think it's um I think it should be a well-constructed humorous argument.

34:32 Yeah.

34:32 And otherwise it's not it's not fun.

34:34 Yeah.

34:35 So then it's nice that they agree.

34:36 Sometimes I'll screw up.

34:37 Sometimes I I I did not do my job

34:39 by getting them there cuz it's still kind of new.

34:42 And then you go like you know and then it's

34:43 like I got to kind of get them back, you know.

34:45 Yeah.

34:46 But it it's um it's a good challenge and then you can Wait,

34:49 how do you get a woman back once you've pissed her off cuz I

34:51 can't even I I I I haven't worked that one out my entire life.

34:55 I'm proof of that.

34:56 Yeah, you can't.

34:58 Very painful.

34:59 But it it um it it's fun though because, you know,

35:04 there's some really interesting intellectuals in the um like you know Jordan

35:07 Peterson's been such a gift to the to the male spirit, really.

35:12 And he had this wonderful thing that I talk about now on stage.

35:15 It's great because I'm not going to have

35:17 to interfere with his him doing stand-up,

35:19 but I can uh you know you you talk to him And uh I'll say, "Oh, yeah.

35:23 Well, let me tell you the women um that we have today,

35:26 we have uh they're all survivors of the barbarian hordes that came in.

35:31 And they all the barbarians would come into the new armies,

35:34 they kill all the men, cut their heads off, and say, "Okay,

35:37 we're going to cut your heads off or you want to come

35:39 with us?" And the loyal women who got all their heads cut off,

35:43 they stayed and died next to their husbands.

35:46 But the ones But the ones that said,

35:49 "I've always been interested in seeing Germany.

35:51 Let's go." Those are the ones that survived.

35:55 So all And I said this, "All the women here tonight in this audience,

35:59 you were the survivors.

36:00 You were the ones who left with the new husbands." I

36:03 said and then and then you know and what was too far

36:05 was when I'd say to them uh "Every woman in here

36:08 is a traitor." And I was like uh that was too much.

36:11 But you have to try that, but then and I go um But it's it's fun to uh

36:17 then I have them do my favorite thing is I I'll tell the audience to look at it.

36:20 So I want you to look at the guy Guys,

36:22 I want you to look at the woman you're with right now.

36:24 Just look at her.

36:25 Tell her, "I know what you're capable of.

36:29 But anyway, I don't know.

36:30 I mean I hope this doesn't come off like it's angry,

36:32 but it's it's definitely um angry.

36:36 But it's fun and I I hope it's it's a it's

36:39 a challenge and to try to to do things that are interesting.

36:42 It's April, which means the days are getting longer,

36:44 the weather is convincingly pleasant,

36:46 and I am still the person who gets to 2:00 in the afternoon

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36:53 One cup, maybe two if I'm feeling cheeky.

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38:08 But that's that's the beauty of stand-up comedy.

38:10 I was watching a few months ago,

38:12 actually, Richard Pryor Live at the Sunset Strip.

38:14 Unbelievable.

38:15 Recorded in 1982, in the red suit, the famous red suit.

38:19 No, I think it was earlier than that one.

38:21 Was it the Live on the Sunset Strip,

38:23 I think his first one was Richard Pryor Live and that was late '70s.

38:26 That was in Long Beach.

38:27 Still, as much as comedy's progressed since then,

38:31 it's still basically the same guy.

38:32 There's a They had a guy standing by the stage.

38:35 You know, it's interesting that first one where he had the red sweating

38:37 and the thing sort of all kinds of cocaine coming through the thing.

38:40 But, um that was still We're still doing the same kind of thing.

38:45 We're still He's He was the guy the statue of David.

38:47 We're all cheating.

38:48 But, what the other one the Live on the Sunset Strip that maybe that was 1982.

38:51 It was yeah, I Yeah,

38:53 and he was talking about going to prison and he was saying about,

38:56 you know, I've met you know, you met Muslims,

38:58 but in prison they've got these double Muslims.

39:03 And he did a bit about Islamic fundamentalists what

39:06 in 1982 in jail and you're going this you know,

39:10 this is what comedy is and should be.

39:12 That's why he was the greatest.

39:14 Double Muslims.

39:15 The greatest comedy performer ever, for sure.

39:17 I got to meet him once.

39:19 Uh when he was doing Donahue.

39:21 Like this is like 19 I think '91.

39:25 Um That's when Phil Donahue before Oprah.

39:29 And and they said, "You know, Richard Pryor's in the building." I said, "What?

39:32 Pryor?

39:33 Richard Pryor's in the Where is he?" He said,

39:35 "Down Donahue." I said, Go you know,

39:37 and I had uh He said, "Go go get a comedy album." I said,

39:40 "I got to sign something." They didn't get in in time,

39:42 but and I went down and you know, because I was it's 30 Rock is where Saturday

39:46 Night Live was and I was a writer performer there.

39:48 So, like I go anywhere I want.

39:50 So, I get the security you know, Donahue's like, "Hey,

39:52 can I go through?" He's like, "Yeah, come on in, Rob.

39:54 Yeah." And then his dressing room and I said,

39:57 "I'm Rob Can I get in there?" And he said, "Yeah,

39:59 come on in there." And then Pryor was just sitting there himself,

40:03 you know, and um and I said, "You know, Mr.

40:07 Pryor, that stand that first stand-up performance in Long Beach,

40:10 that was like the greatest stand-up.

40:11 We're still stealing from you all these years." And he didn't deny it.

40:14 And and I said um "That was just incredible.

40:18 And, uh, I said, "That's the greatest performance ever.

40:20 No one's going to top that." And he said to me,

40:24 "You should have seen that[ __] 6 months later.

40:28 I'll just start to figure that[ __] out." I believed him.

40:32 Yeah.

40:32 Cuz it just grows and grows.

40:34 I'm sure I would have loved to have seen it 6 months later.

40:36 But then he did that live in the sunset, which was good.

40:39 Didn't have the like the danger of that first one.

40:42 You know, I said that that first one he made fun of white people.

40:45 screamingly funny.

40:46 It was Long Beach.

40:47 Most of the people at the show were white people.

40:49 And he said, "White people,

40:50 some white people don't play that[ __] like, all right,

40:52 cut the shit." And you know, and there was like and that's

40:55 the the quintessential black impersonation of a white guy.

40:59 And I like to do impressions of of black people,

41:01 even though it's not uh, de rigueur anymore.

41:04 It it's uh, it's not allowed,

41:06 but I would say like my favorite, you know, people who recognize me.

41:10 It's you know, cuz you people come up to you cuz

41:12 they cuz I'm the same size as I am on TV.

41:16 Yeah, my favorite black women come up to me.

41:18 I said, "Black women are different than other people when they

41:19 come up cuz black women make you prove who you are." Like,

41:23 "Tell me why I know you." "TELL ME WHY I KNOW YOU." I'M AN I I I'M A COMEDIAN.

41:31 "THAT AIN'T IT.

41:32 Tell me why." And I was like, so that that's kind of fun.

41:36 And then, um, So, what do you say?

41:38 I said, "I'm a comedian." "That ain't it." And I went like,

41:40 "No, no, no, I am a comedian." "Okay." So, it's uh,

41:44 but I This thing is like It's we got to make fun of everybody like there's a one

41:48 thing my favorite thing is a good laugh

41:49 in the audience cuz I I talk about being, you know,

41:51 my mom's Filipino, my dad I don't get into that too much,

41:54 but I talk about being Asian and be,

41:56 you know, it's a system of white supremacy, you know,

41:58 whatever surprise I said, I said,

42:00 "How come Asians are making more money then?" And you never

42:02 hear about it cuz Asians don't want you to know in America.

42:05 Asians are no, let the black and white people kill each other.

42:07 We're going to hang over here.

42:08 We stay over here in the suburbs.

42:11 And, um, but I said, you know, that's what I talk about for what is, you know,

42:15 for years saying about like we got to get rid of diversity, equity,

42:18 inclusion if you want to have the best society,

42:20 we need the best at each position.

42:22 So, you know, that's why you have You don't see Filipino

42:24 Jews like me in professional sports cuz you want to win, right?

42:27 Right?

42:27 You want to win, right?

42:28 And um you see Filipinos we're good nurses.

42:33 That's what we do.

42:34 You know, we're good at that.

42:35 And usually there's a Filipino in the audience

42:37 and and usually they work at a hospital.

42:39 If they don't, that's when I say,

42:40 you know, you're not living up to your potential.

42:42 You seriously need And I said and and it's it was based on a true story.

42:46 I said, "I'm sorry.

42:46 I don't want a 7-ft black guy.

42:48 It's not racist, but I don't want a 7-ft

42:49 black guy trying to take blood out of my arm, you know?" I'm all like, "Shit!

42:53 Come on,[ __] What's wrong with you, vein?

42:56 Come on!

42:57 __] Get out of there, man!

42:58 Let me see that vein!" And I'm all like, "Dude, your finger's as big as my dick.

43:02 Can you go find an Asian person to finish

43:05 this shit?" But everybody kind of They can relate to that.

43:09 And it's it's fun and and hopefully disarming and Do you know,

43:12 I miss that so much.

43:14 We were talking with the with the young guys that work with us as well.

43:16 It's just that I miss that world where people

43:19 made fun of each other and it was cool

43:21 because we made fun of everybody and everybody made

43:24 fun of everybody and everyone knew that it wasn't malicious.

43:27 Yes, no no mal intent.

43:30 Right.

43:30 That's the key That's why Adam Sandler's film is so important.

43:32 He makes fun of people, but there's there's not he's not trying to hurt anybody.

43:35 But I remember there used to be this bookstore called B.

43:37 Dalton.

43:38 And right by the cash register,

43:40 there'd be these rows of of of comic of just books,

43:43 comedy books, simple jokes that'd make fun of every nationality.

43:46 It's like Italian joke book, Polish joke book, Irish joke book.

43:50 And I just remember you before you'd buy it,

43:52 you'd look before you whatever thing you're going to buy,

43:54 you'd look up the Italian one.

43:56 How do you Italian Italian airline?

43:57 It's the one with the hair under the wings.

43:59 You go, You know, and but that was uh acceptable.

44:03 And then I I'd like to go back to that.

44:06 But I think we've been um beaten down

44:08 by the people who with the most um you know,

44:11 as as your countryman John Cleese said,

44:13 I don't think the ones who most sensitive should be

44:16 the ones deciding what everybody else gets to listen to and watch.

44:19 You know, and and he's right about that.

44:21 But it it was a thing but I but I think I had a conversation with Jerry

44:25 Seinfeld at the 50th anniversary of SNL cuz I

44:28 I really took umbrage to what he said like,

44:30 "Those now the woke doesn't stop you from doing comedy.

44:32 What are you talking about?

44:33 I don't believe it." And I said, "No, they do.

44:36 They you cancel them and they try to get you to not be on." And he said,

44:38 "No, that's not what I meant.

44:40 I meant you just have to work harder to get around to get to your joke."

44:43 He didn't say that in that interview but but um I think it is.

44:48 I do think you have more opportunity for it.

44:50 It's just you don't want to get, you know, shot.

44:55 By a crazy[ __] leftist, you know, that that takes things too seriously.

44:59 And that that was the problem of like, you know, for you know,

45:03 for Charlie Kirk was like,

45:04 these people are accusing him of racism without any actual racism.

45:08 He was just asking young people to ask more

45:12 from themselves and to think for themselves as opposed to being,

45:16 you know, what's happening at the universities and academia

45:18 is they're not teaching you to think critically,

45:20 they're just cranking out advocates to and a liberal agenda that uh

45:27 that that doesn't have the best interest of these young people.

45:29 So, it was um as that's happening, I am um you know,

45:34 we have to be positive and we have

45:36 to uh uh to to move move this country forward.

45:41 Um and that's uh that's my job.

45:45 And I know the best way to do that is with jokes.

45:48 If I write a good joke, I know I'm making the the country better.

45:51 Like this is um California is a great place cuz you have a lot of liberals here.

45:56 And the conservatives,

45:58 they don't get and I come out and tonight is really funny cuz I go,

46:00 "Hey, it's so beautiful in California.

46:02 I get it.

46:03 I get it.

46:04 It doesn't matter that your votes don't count.

46:06 It doesn't matter cuz it's so beautiful.

46:07 It's so beautiful in California.

46:09 Maybe women do have dicks.

46:10 It's so beautiful." But You know what?

46:13 It's how we feel every time we come here.

46:15 Cuz you know the the most common thing Francis

46:18 and I say to each other when we arrive in California,

46:20 spend a couple of days soaking in the sun, well,

46:22 I see something in the news over on the other

46:24 side of the world and I just go, "Francis,

46:26 do you give a[ __] about what's happening?" He's like,

46:28 "No." And I'm like, "I don't either." I know.

46:31 It's hard to care cuz it's so perfect.

46:33 But that said, you know, every time we've we've been coming here for years now,

46:37 it gets like less populated.

46:39 I mean, people people are leaving.

46:41 I know.

46:42 They[ __] ruined paradise, man.

46:43 They did Well, they have this People who stay here go like,

46:46 "It's so[ __] beautiful.

46:47 I got enough money.

46:48 I'll just eke it out.

46:49 Break you know they can tax They want to tax you per mile on your car.

46:53 The The Democrats cuz they have a supermajority Democrats,

46:55 so they don't want to fix any real problems like homelessness and as I've said,

46:59 you know, um publicly I said, "No, look, maybe I'm looking at this wrong.

47:02 Maybe California either has a huge homeless

47:05 problem or a gigantic camping success story.

47:09 Maybe it's both.

47:10 I don't know.

47:10 But they they they want to they'll stay

47:13 here no matter what cuz it is so beautiful.

47:15 Like, I'm almost retired.

47:17 The kids are here.

47:18 But the grievance tax, the uh the billionaire tax,

47:21 the wealth tax or the what about me tax, why my money, my hopes, my dreams?

47:25 It's grievance.

47:26 And instead of fixing things,

47:28 instead of fixing the homeless situation, uh you know,

47:30 when when when uh Chairman Xi of came over from um China,

47:35 they got rid of the homeless in San Francisco in one day.

47:38 But then they're like, "Ah, let them come back." Cuz I do think that it's

47:40 disruptive and I I think in that in that point,

47:42 the disruptiveness is is uh is necessary to cause enough strife.

47:47 But California, they keep creeping up in these incremental

47:52 creep to where like I tell this joke

47:54 and I got I got you it doesn't get as big a laugh here because it hits a nerve.

47:59 And the joke is pretty um I think I'm giving away all my jokes here.

48:04 This one go out for a few weeks, so you'll be good.

48:06 You'll be good tonight and well,

48:07 the thing is that I said I remember seriously like my my grammar school,

48:12 the police came to our grammar school like third grade and they told the kids.

48:16 They said, "Listen, anybody adult says to you,

48:20 you got to keep a secret between you and them.

48:23 Anybody wants to keep a secret that's an adult between you and a child,

48:26 that person's called a molester.

48:27 Okay?

48:28 You call the police.

48:29 We'll come right away." Now that person's no longer called molester.

48:34 Now that person's called California public school teacher.

48:38 And it's people go, "Oh." And then you get and then I get into the Yeah,

48:42 it's not that funny anymore, is it?

48:44 It was Sorry to ruin it.

48:45 Sorry.

48:45 I'm not having a go at your joke, but it's like it's kind of serious.

48:48 No, people go, "Yeah, that is." Like, "Oh, yeah." But they it doesn't get like

48:52 a And maybe it shouldn't because there really was

48:55 that legislation went all the way to the Supreme

48:57 Court and the Supreme Court just last month said,

48:59 "No, no, no, no, parents can rule can can raise

49:02 their children the way that they want and not the school.

49:05 It's not you know I didn't co-parent with the state." But that's

49:09 a thing and then and then you got to you know,

49:11 you come from another place which is which is fun,

49:13 which is um cuz it's a true story.

49:15 It does happen.

49:16 We have a big population here, you know.

49:18 Uh and this crazy[ __] does happen.

49:20 And I don't know why the specifically for women that maybe

49:23 because their relationships aren't safe or whatever, but you know,

49:26 there are these these women fragile women who uh

49:30 teachers who have um sexual relationship with uh their students.

49:36 Now just a woman just got arrested in New Jersey last

49:39 week and uh she's And here's how I feel about that.

49:43 In all seriousness, like if a guy does it,

49:46 you know, takes advantage of a of a girl student,

49:49 you know, that they should cut his weiner off

49:51 and the weiner and him never get back together again.

49:54 That's it.

49:54 If that guy should, you know, kick that out of society.

49:57 However, if female teacher decides to provide some

50:05 extra-curricular activities for her male students off school grounds.

50:10 I just I just remember the '80s,

50:12 you know, remember "Hot for Teacher", that song?

50:14 Remember every movie, you know, "Weird Science", all the movies was about this.

50:18 I just feel this way, you know, respectfully.

50:20 Like all I know is if my classmate called the cops

50:24 before I get a chance to get my[ __] I'd be pissed.

50:26 That's all So, Do you know what?

50:28 As a former teacher, I don't agree.

50:31 Because she should be having sex with me.

50:34 Not the[ __] kids.

50:35 That's the way I feel about the other teachers,

50:37 like the science guy or the gym coach.

50:39 I was available.

50:40 My dick was available.

50:41 I was ready for Yeah, that'll be the clip from this episode.

50:44 I I was My dick was available.

50:47 I'm here slaving it away with my crap salary.

50:51 I'm trying to get these fat kids in shape

50:52 and this woman could have a decently had a relationship with me.

50:55 Yeah.

50:55 But I I I do think though um out of context like that one might be problematic.

51:01 Like, "You're for pedophilia?" I'm like, "Well, you know,

51:04 it's a joke, but it's also, you know,

51:06 doesn't seem to be I um But that's just it though,

51:10 that there can be You can be get umbrage about anything.

51:13 But I think the jokes should be, you know,

51:15 like to me like That's why Dave Chappelle is such a master

51:19 cuz he said something that like I would have never gone there.

51:23 Uh but he is comedians who do cuz when he said the joke about like,

51:27 "These guys are complaining about getting molested

51:29 by Michael Michael Jackson." It's like, "What?

51:31 A lot of people molested.

51:33 How many people could say they got molested by Michael Jackson?" And I'm like,

51:38 That guy is a genius.

51:39 Yeah.

51:40 You know?

51:41 Yeah.

51:41 And he gets away with it, of course,

51:43 cuz you know, there's something beautiful about that joke.

51:46 Well, Chappelle was the guy who helped break woke.

51:48 I don't think he gets enough props, actually,

51:50 because when he came out and he did the special,

51:53 I think it was called The Closer.

51:54 Yes.

51:55 And we've also got to give props to Ted Sarandos and Netflix.

51:58 Yeah.

51:59 Um Ted, I've got a book coming out soon.

52:00 We can work together.

52:01 And but No.

52:03 But genuinely, because what happened was they would you remember the protests?

52:07 And they would and they were saying that we need to take down The Closer.

52:11 Uh it was transphobic.

52:12 And there were protesting Netflix employees.

52:14 And Netflix They should have fired every one of those employees.

52:17 You get your Hey, I'm sorry you don't like it.

52:19 You know what?

52:19 You don't have to watch it.

52:21 You know what?

52:21 You can do this thing.

52:22 Turn it.

52:23 Or you can turn it down.

52:24 Or here's another thing.

52:25 You can find another job.

52:26 Sorry.

52:27 But, you know, I understand, you know, Ted is a great guy.

52:30 And he's doing trying to do the right thing.

52:32 And he did stand up, for the most part, for for Chappelle.

52:36 I mean, he did.

52:37 Then later apologize.

52:38 Do you notice?

52:39 I didn't know I didn't notice he apologized.

52:41 But, Ted's great.

52:42 And I love you, Ted.

52:44 And seriously, you're the greatest.

52:45 Um but I No, I think I'm 100% behind you.

52:49 Yeah.

52:49 But I I you know, and I don't mean to but I'm going to.

52:52 They did The The Dave Chappelle last special that he

52:55 did where he um where he[ __] on Charlie Kirk.

52:59 To be honest with you, I thought that was Did he?

53:00 I haven't I I thought it was I thought it was terrible what he did.

53:03 I I honestly like cuz he was talking about the comparisons to, you know,

53:07 to Martin Luther King and the and the So, hey, woah woah woah woah.

53:11 You know, that's that's not Charlie.

53:14 There's other people who did this.

53:15 And And um Charlie was an incredible And he wasn't like an influencer.

53:21 That's totally That's the guy who,

53:24 with all his largess and his incredible success and his incredible,

53:27 you know, he he is, you know, our greatest comedian in America.

53:31 Um but I think though that that largess is is managed

53:35 to keep him in a in his own gigantic successful echo chamber.

53:39 Whereas Charlie was just trying to get kids to talk.

53:42 He wasn't an influencer.

53:43 He was a Christian.

53:45 A Christian who wanted to bring people closer to Christ.

53:48 He was someone who was a nationalist and a Christian.

53:51 They they He's a Christian nationalist.

53:53 No, he was a Christian and a nationalist.

53:56 A Christian first.

53:58 He was a believer in Jesus Christ as his Lord and savior.

54:01 He's my Lord and savior.

54:02 I'm a Christian as well.

54:04 Now, but he's also a nationalist.

54:05 Now, nationalism has this this this thing where

54:09 I I don't like the negative connotations to it.

54:11 Yes, nationalism, if you're trying to expand your nation,

54:14 that could be bad, you know, they're like We need more room.

54:17 We need to sedate the land on half of Poland.

54:19 Well, that that's in its expansion.

54:20 It can be, you know, a negative thing.

54:22 But, if you're trying to protect your nation, national nationalism is required.

54:27 So, I I didn't I didn't like that description

54:29 and I would just say that, you know,

54:31 Charlie Kirk was was uh wasn't like these other leaders.

54:37 That's the thing that was to me I'm still wrestling with it.

54:40 Like you know, 6 months, 7 months later.

54:44 He wasn't like um RFK.

54:47 He wasn't like Martin Luther King.

54:50 He wasn't like JFK.

54:51 He wasn't like these leaders who did amazing things.

54:55 And I I in my mind it was like, well, God needs people who have these flaws

54:59 that to do things because they're risk-takers.

55:01 They can put themselves out there more than others.

55:04 In a way that's could be beneficial to society and, you know,

55:07 God's plan, whatever.

55:08 And um Charlie Kirk was an exception because he didn't

55:12 have those that he didn't have those flaws in his personality.

55:18 He was just a genuinely incredible guy.

55:22 And I think that that's an exception that I, you know, that I didn't see coming.

55:27 That is a uh uh gigantic loss for us.

55:31 So, we'll see.

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56:27 And what what's weird about it is you would have thought, I think,

56:31 when something like that happened that people would rally around,

56:34 pull together, uh honor his memory.

56:38 Yeah.

56:38 But I saw you making some jokes, you know,

56:40 about uh some of the people who are having a go

56:43 at his wife claiming she's I mean what do you make of all that?

56:47 Well, I think if the right if the conservative movement can do anything,

56:51 they can try to destroy itself.

56:53 And so anytime it gets we got power, how do we ruin it?

56:57 Well, um there is a divisiveness happening because there is a void, Charlie,

57:02 uh that void and people trying to take it take it and and fill it.

57:06 And sometimes in a negative way.

57:08 And I do think there is a negative thing happening

57:10 and and it happens with with any group that would take power.

57:14 The liberals obviously abused it and now it's the conservatives' turn.

57:18 But there is a certain ugliness.

57:19 There are people that are um you know,

57:22 there's my our good friend Frank Turek, who's was Charlie's biblical scholar.

57:29 Cuz I I was I had a um

57:33 a public speaking um engagement with uh Charlie's um beautiful,

57:40 wonderful wife uh Erica who's taking over the organization.

57:43 It's not something she wanted.

57:45 It's something was thrust upon her.

57:47 And she's doing um and had a conversation.

57:50 I asked Frank, I said, "What are the you know,

57:53 give me some help here uh some biblical you

57:57 know points of interest that I bridge in the conversation.

58:02 And he's he brought up um Exodus 22:22 and he brought up Deuteronomy 19.

58:08 Basically, it talks about how God will uh protect and seek vengeance

58:14 on those who um take advantage of the fatherless and the widows.

58:19 And it's it was very powerful.

58:21 And so yeah, I I think you're seeing that.

58:23 I mean, I think if evil is anything, it's a degradation of something good.

58:28 So, it's um you know, something beautiful like lovemaking and man and a woman

58:35 and the the the sacred thing that could be degraded into pornography.

58:39 You know, beautiful sanctity that God's marriage divorce, you know?

58:44 So, I think also, you know, a pride in country um a divisiveness uh to divide

58:50 it into into sections instead of bring uniting people together.

58:54 I think it's to divide it would be an evil um way to degrade that.

58:59 So, I think we're seeing that as well.

59:01 I I I hope people enough will will look for the good in it.

59:05 And and I think that uh luckily, there's a lot of there's so many instances

59:10 of of uh Charlie speaking and listening to young people

59:14 that I think you um I think it's a it'll

59:18 it hopefully will will continue because we need it.

59:21 He was personally responsible for I mean,

59:24 along with Elon Musk freeing up Twitter for a 22.5%

59:28 bump in young people in the in the election.

59:31 That's unbelievable.

59:33 So, we'd like to maintain that and keep the uh

59:37 keep the young people because this is their country.

59:39 This is your you know, it's for you.

59:40 Just like your nation, the young people, it's up to them.

59:43 So, we we want to preserve it and do the best we can to pass it on.

59:47 Uh and at this point, it does require sacrifice.

59:49 It does require you have to put yourself out

59:51 there and you have to go against the cultural hordes.

59:54 And you have to go against sometimes the the tyranny that's that's at bay.

59:57 And it's it's interesting cuz I is it

59:59 there's if you look up Rob Schneider right now,

1:00:01 there's a lot of hate and stuff online cuz I

1:00:03 think we should um this is something that uh it's controversial,

1:00:08 but I think we should reinstall the military draft.

1:00:11 And for sure.

1:00:12 I mean, a lot of other countries do it.

1:00:13 I mean, I would say many many countries do it.

1:00:16 We used to do it here cuz what it would do is be a cohesiveness again, a union.

1:00:20 And bring people together because, you know,

1:00:22 there are no separate religions in foxholes,

1:00:24 no separate beliefs, there's no party affiliation.

1:00:26 It's just we're all in this together.

1:00:28 And I think we need to for once get people kids in shape, get people, you know,

1:00:31 to to realize for young people that they

1:00:33 need to freedom comes with uh eternal vigilance, but it it comes with sacrifice.

1:00:39 And if you just, you know, I took my kids to Rome.

1:00:42 We went to the military cemetery outside Rome, United States military cemetery.

1:00:46 And we said, "These is This is

1:00:47 the ultimate sacrifice." is what Lincoln said, you know,

1:00:50 this is the um the final um he described it

1:00:55 as the last full measure of devotion for our country.

1:00:58 And that is.

1:00:59 You see that guy is 19, this guy is 26.

1:01:01 This is Lieutenant Colonel.

1:01:02 He died here for our freedoms.

1:01:05 These is This is what the sacrifice is.

1:01:07 So, I do think it it does take a shared sacrifice and I hope that we'll

1:01:10 be able to do that and it'll accomplish

1:01:12 a unity that we do need with young people.

1:01:15 That's the concern is that we we do seem to be more and more divided.

1:01:20 And maybe we do need something like this, something to come in and go,

1:01:23 "Look, if it we can't achieve it naturally,

1:01:26 we need an artificial policy to come in and and help

1:01:28 it people." Especially when people are on their phones Yeah, I all the time.

1:01:32 I think so.

1:01:32 I think if you can bring people together regardless of whatever money they have,

1:01:36 regardless where they came from.

1:01:38 Here's another thing that it'll do.

1:01:39 If you have sent No one is excluded out of this.

1:01:41 So, if you have a senator's son, if you have, you know, Mark Zuckerberg's kid,

1:01:45 it's going to they everybody's going to think twice about putting

1:01:47 these kids instead of a selective service or or, you know,

1:01:51 instead of just somebody volunteer service,

1:01:53 you have this this selective service where you you have to join.

1:01:56 It's going to make people and leaders and hopefully the public think

1:01:59 twice about any foreign wars because it's not just some other kid's kid.

1:02:03 It's your kid.

1:02:04 And I think that that will be a positive thing for foreign policy as well.

1:02:08 You'd have to really think, "Is this really in our national interest to do this?

1:02:11 Is it really?" You know,

1:02:13 and so I think that that um uh mitigates some of the the negatives

1:02:17 of it like "I don't want to have to go here.

1:02:20 __] that." You know, and I do think it'd be good to get kids off their phone.

1:02:24 It'd be good to get kids united together as one nation.

1:02:28 This this this divide that's happening, this multiculturalism, this diversity,

1:02:32 it's just it's all a ruse to uh to divide.

1:02:36 And I think we need to unify.

1:02:37 If you're going to have a If we're going to continue to keep this country going,

1:02:40 if we're going to continue to have Western civilization going,

1:02:42 there are some pretty darn good

1:02:44 things to Western civilization that we're saving.

1:02:46 Rome, London, Londonistan, What do you guys call it now?

1:02:51 But um what are your ideas to save it, Western civilization?

1:02:56 What are our ideas to save Western Wow.

1:02:58 Now, there's I think number one is installing

1:03:01 getting people to be grateful for what they have.

1:03:04 I think we live in a in a place where we are permanently anti-gratitude.

1:03:08 I think Yeah.

1:03:09 social media, Instagram really worsens that, exacerbates it.

1:03:13 You go on Instagram, you're like, "Why don't I have that?

1:03:15 Why don't I have a yacht?

1:03:16 Why don't I Yeah, there's a grievance.

1:03:18 Yeah.

1:03:19 Envy.

1:03:20 Yeah.

1:03:21 Which you which I think most people experience at some point,

1:03:25 but the trick is to convert it into aspiration.

1:03:28 That's what I think I mean about the United States that I

1:03:30 think was so It's what you have here even still even now.

1:03:35 You have an aspirational culture.

1:03:36 You do and it's you know, cuz I remember when I was in England

1:03:39 in the 90s I remember um hearing somebody saying something

1:03:43 and I had a difference of saying your country

1:03:45 in my I think I did an Aussie accent.

1:03:47 Or I'll do like more of a Cockney one, you know?

1:03:49 I love that the London has four different accents.

1:03:51 Just London itself.

1:03:52 That's These people didn't go over here.

1:03:54 This people But I remember saying like um you know,

1:03:57 the difference in the United States generalizing this is this from England.

1:04:01 This is an English guy.

1:04:02 In the 90s.

1:04:03 So Don't attack me.

1:04:06 Uh but the in America like if a guy's driving a pickup

1:04:09 truck and he sees somebody but he's driving by the Cadillac.

1:04:12 Oh man.

1:04:13 Someday I'm going to drive a Cadillac just like that dude.

1:04:16 But in England it'd be like some guy's driving

1:04:19 a pickup truck and some guy goes drives by the Bentley.

1:04:21 He just like Someday that asshole's going to drive a pickup truck just like me.

1:04:26 __] YOU, YOU RICH.

1:04:28 __] YOU KNOW?

1:04:28 So I don't know.

1:04:29 Is that Is there anything to that?

1:04:31 That's entirely accurate.

1:04:32 Yeah.

1:04:33 We talk about all the time, man.

1:04:35 And it's only when we came to America we actually

1:04:37 realized that we thought we were just weird in England.

1:04:42 And then we were like oh,

1:04:43 we're just we just have that attitude that most people in America have.

1:04:47 It's why It's why we love coming here and it's not to[ __] on Britain.

1:04:50 Britain's amazing amazing place.

1:04:52 But the one thing that we lack in the UK

1:04:55 that we try and bring back with you know,

1:04:56 with our team and the way we do trigonometry and the people

1:04:59 we talk to is that which is like go for it.

1:05:02 If you If you don't have what you want, go for it.

1:05:05 Don't blame other people.

1:05:06 Don't point your finger.

1:05:08 The opportunities thanks to thank God for the internet.

1:05:10 Yeah.

1:05:11 The internet is there now.

1:05:12 Just go for it.

1:05:12 Go and make it happen.

1:05:14 You can.

1:05:14 That's what so That's why I think it was so frustrating

1:05:16 for the Democrats they lost this one when Oprah Winfrey's like,

1:05:19 "It's a system of white supremacy.

1:05:21 You will may never get to vote again." It's like, "Shut up.

1:05:24 You're a black woman who's a billionaire because of this system

1:05:27 that you're[ __] on right now." It's a It's just It's just ridiculous.

1:05:31 It's absolutely hypocrisy to its zenith.

1:05:34 And I think people saw that.

1:05:36 You know, and it's like and I and I think it's um so I think it's a good thing.

1:05:40 I think it's but I want to keep progressing and and kind of going back.

1:05:43 And I think if anything, there's a cycle that kind of comes back.

1:05:46 And I I would like to see that cycle come back

1:05:48 with with the sense of young people taking pride in their nation.

1:05:52 And and in the culture that they have.

1:05:53 It's beautiful.

1:05:54 Cuz I remember like the difference is the the hordes

1:05:57 that came in back by until 1921 in immigration,

1:06:01 they came in from Poland, they came in from Italy, they came from Ireland.

1:06:04 They and they came with the a flag.

1:06:06 We are all American.

1:06:07 We don't speak any English, but we're going to be here.

1:06:10 I'm here with the the the flag.

1:06:11 We're American.

1:06:13 And they came and they gave to the culture

1:06:14 and the culture took from them and it was an exchange.

1:06:17 As opposed to you know, what's dangerous is people coming into the culture

1:06:21 that are taking more out and not putting in.

1:06:23 So we have these Somalis who've been here for not to pick on Somalis,

1:06:27 but I'm going to pick on Somalis 10 years

1:06:29 10 years of being welfare still stuck on welfare.

1:06:32 And it's a you know, it's a different system.

1:06:35 And you know, that you don't realize like the I mean seriously,

1:06:39 the most gullible people in America Minnesota.

1:06:41 Like God bless them,

1:06:42 but they're I remember I was I'm doing comedy there in the '80s

1:06:46 and they go like I was getting gas with our you know, our car.

1:06:49 We back then we didn't even rent a car.

1:06:51 It was just comedians got a car,

1:06:52 he's going to drive and I'll pay for gas, whatever, you know.

1:06:54 And then they said, "Oh,

1:06:56 you can pay with a check if you want." It's What are you guys morons?

1:07:01 People just bounce a check.

1:07:02 That would never happen in California.

1:07:03 But in Yeah, you still pay for the to the '90s

1:07:05 they were still paying checks at gas stations and I was like,

1:07:08 these are very vulnerable, gullible people.

1:07:10 If any Somalian ever gets over here,

1:07:12 they're going to rip these people people blind.

1:07:15 Um but yeah, I mean we have to be careful

1:07:16 of people who don't come in with the um Well,

1:07:19 that's what we're susceptible susceptible about in free society.

1:07:24 People coming in who are bad faith actors.

1:07:26 They don't really want to come in to be part of the society.

1:07:29 They want to come in and abuse the society and take as much out

1:07:32 as they can not and or or have no part to do with it.

1:07:34 Just kind of separate or even worse conquer your society.

1:07:38 That doesn't sound like people who are uh good faith

1:07:41 and I think I think people are waking up to that.

1:07:45 So I I think with that in mind,

1:07:48 the bad faith actors we just need just to recognize them

1:07:50 because I do think there's a blind spot in the West.

1:07:53 I definitely think there's a blind spot with Kier Starmer.

1:07:55 I think for sure he's got a huge blind spot for this, you know.

1:07:58 Um And I I think it's happening in in the West,

1:08:01 but there it was interesting to see with Victor Orban and hopefully uh

1:08:05 by the time this comes out well you'll he'll have his victory there.

1:08:09 Um You know, I think it's a culture.

1:08:13 Each individual culture in Europe is worth saving

1:08:16 and is worth having a representation and having a sovereignty.

1:08:19 And um that um I think is the most important issue now.

1:08:24 So you are white supremacist.

1:08:26 I'm a absolute white supremacist.

1:08:28 I am a white supremacist in a system of white

1:08:30 supremacy and I want I look forward to benefiting from it.

1:08:33 Filipino white supremacist.

1:08:34 A camera kind.

1:08:35 And keeping the non-Filipino Jews down as low as they Suppressing the others.

1:08:40 Uh Rob, always great to see you, man.

1:08:42 Thank you.

1:08:43 So I'm glad we got to catch up a little bit.

1:08:44 There's still so much more to talk about next time.

1:08:47 I'll come over there.

1:08:47 Yeah, tell him to the UK.

1:08:49 If I don't get arrested when I get off the the Yeah, we'll get arrested.

1:08:51 You'll get we'll get you bailed and we'll take you for a curry.

1:08:53 That's right.

1:08:54 What were some of the silly like What were some

1:08:55 of the impressions you got this time as opposed to your last visit?

1:09:00 I mean, it's this is very superficial, but it's hard to get past.

1:09:04 Before we came, we had 60 consecutive days of rain in Britain.

1:09:09 So, it was nice to see the sun.

1:09:11 Okay.

1:09:11 Yeah.

1:09:12 Uh I know this isn't interesting to anybody but us,

1:09:14 but it's the only thing I can think about right now.

1:09:16 What What else has been there?

1:09:18 Do you know what?

1:09:19 I just And we've touched on it, but I just love it.

1:09:22 I'm like, you talk to an American and they go,

1:09:24 "So, what what are you doing, man?

1:09:25 What's going on?

1:09:26 Tell me." And you're like, "Oh, well,

1:09:27 we're thinking about doing this." And they're like, "Sure." Yeah.

1:09:31 Instead of the UK, we're like, "Oh, mate, don't[ __] do that.

1:09:34 What's the point?

1:09:35 Don't bother with that." Do you know Do you know Yeah, just You know,

1:09:38 just stay in your lane, be miserable,

1:09:40 get on the antidepressants,[ __] kill yourself.

1:09:42 Job's a good 'un.

1:09:43 You're like And it's nice coming here cuz people are like you say,

1:09:47 "I want to do this." And they go, "Sure." Well, you guys are welcome.

1:09:51 We welcome you as uh political free speech refugees from your country.

1:09:56 Well, one other thing as well is And I

1:09:57 think it ties into this is like in Britain,

1:10:00 I uh you don't know this, but our studio is a little outside of London,

1:10:04 one of the studios that we use.

1:10:06 Like, it's a hard thing to get people to drive half an hour.

1:10:10 Here, people will will we We just had someone on the show.

1:10:12 We're like, "Where have you come from?" And we're in California.

1:10:14 Well, we should have said actually we're

1:10:15 at the Irvine Improv here in California.

1:10:18 Uh we're filming in LA.

1:10:20 Where have you come from?

1:10:20 Florida.

1:10:21 You just flew all the way across the US to do our show.

1:10:24 In the UK, we can't get any[ __] to drive half an hour, basically.

1:10:26 It's So, it's it's that attitude

1:10:29 and that cultural aspirational go-get-it mentality that's just infectious.

1:10:34 And that's what we love here.

1:10:35 You know?

1:10:36 And that is something you guys have that's so precious.

1:10:39 And I hope you hold on to it cuz it

1:10:40 it's It is what make the made America what it is.

1:10:43 America loves to build people up.

1:10:45 They also will tear you down, but it's a weird thing where they you know,

1:10:48 the the the French will say that there's

1:10:50 no second acts in American lives, but I'm hopeful.

1:10:53 I think there are and I'm I'm living it.

1:10:56 So, we'll see.

1:10:56 I'm I'm I'm excited about what the future holds.

1:10:59 I really really am.

1:11:00 But I do think it will it's going to require some some vigilance

1:11:03 and some people to to be proud and say I'm proud of America.

1:11:07 This is an incredible accomplishment.

1:11:09 I mean they really pissed me off when you go to like friend of mine called me,

1:11:12 you know, producer Hollywood producer.

1:11:14 He calls me and he said, "I got to tell you I'm pissed off.

1:11:17 Can you talk to somebody in the Trump

1:11:19 administration?" Everybody thinks I can just talk.

1:11:20 Oh yeah, I'll get on the phone.

1:11:21 Can I talk to Trump?

1:11:22 Hello, is this the Trump administration?

1:11:23 You're conservative like You can you get Trump on the phone?

1:11:26 I said, "No, I can't." But he said, "I was just at Monticello,

1:11:29 Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States.

1:11:32 This guy the Declaration of Independence is

1:11:34 incredible to be And here's what they say, the um the you know, the guide.

1:11:40 He said, "Welcome to Thomas Jefferson's home,

1:11:44 third president and slave owner." Like that's the second thing he's saying?

1:11:49 That's the second thing you say?

1:11:50 He's like, "I think he did more than just that." So I I

1:11:53 I do think there's like a we have to wrestle back our history.

1:11:57 And just it's pretty darn good.

1:11:59 You know, I seem to remember Thomas Jefferson doing

1:12:01 a lot more than just being a slave owner.

1:12:03 Seem to remember him going to Paris and going

1:12:04 to London and then deciding looking around going,

1:12:06 "Hmm, I don't like the way these streets go.

1:12:09 Let's not do that in the states." You know, He was an inventor as well.

1:12:13 Yeah.

1:12:14 Yeah, but he he he's one we're he's we're on a grid.

1:12:16 When you drive back, you're going to go you can thank Thomas Jefferson.

1:12:19 You're going straight you know, like there's a little you know,

1:12:21 I like the little I do.

1:12:23 I like the little windy roads.

1:12:24 Let me ask you a question.

1:12:25 Seriously, let me leave you with this.

1:12:27 How terrible do you feel for the guys who had to learn the knowledge and then

1:12:31 you don't have to anymore and it's

1:12:32 all the guys You're talking about London cabbies?

1:12:34 Yeah, yeah, the black cabbies.

1:12:35 You see them driving in the '90s they were

1:12:37 still there driving around with the big blue book

1:12:40 on a bicycle learning the knowledge of how to get

1:12:43 around London cuz it's impossible to get around London.

1:12:45 Now they don't have to do that, right?

1:12:47 Yeah, they still got to do that.

1:12:48 And you see Yeah, they still got to do that.

1:12:49 And the thing is because London's not on system,

1:12:51 it's got these nooks and crannies, so you still go there.

1:12:54 And it's great to chat with the black cabbies cuz, you know,

1:12:56 you'll sit down, they'll be like, "Mate, it's not what it[ __] used to be."

1:12:59 They're not actually black necessarily, just for the American audience.

1:13:02 They're talking about the black uh uh uh uh uh uh uh Yeah.

1:13:04 taxis.

1:13:05 Like The more you explain it, the worse it sounds.

1:13:08 There's a yellow taxi, yeah.

1:13:09 No, that's not taxi, they they they're the ones that always crash.

1:13:12 Anyway, I'll come see you over there.

1:13:14 Yeah.

1:13:14 On your side of the pond.

1:13:16 Yeah.

1:13:16 If they let me in.

1:13:17 They will let you in, I promise.

1:13:18 Whoever we're with, we're good.

1:13:19 Well, great to see you, my brother.

1:13:20 Great seeing you, and thank you for all your your incredible

1:13:23 knowledge and your your your your your your contribution

1:13:28 to the culture and to especially right now

1:13:31 is needed and welcomed and I appreciate it.

1:13:33 You guys have been great for Well, that's very kind.

1:13:35 We did a little handshaking, but we're actually going to go to Substack where

1:13:38 you'll get to ask the questions from our audience.

1:13:39 Oh.

1:13:40 So, that's going to happen.

1:13:40 So, we'll shake hands one more time.

1:13:42 Go to triggerpod.co.uk where Rob's going to answer your questions.

1:13:46 And you're going to see more handshakes.

1:13:51 Rob, as a supporter of Israel, why do you think so many famous people,

1:13:55 including our Shawn Ryan and Joe Kent,

1:13:57 believe that Israel controls President Trump and what

1:13:59 can be done to reverse this point of view?