Defending Lance Armstrong (The Adam and Dr. Drew Show Classics)

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In this jam packed show, we have very funny. Comedian Kim Coughlan, also Peter Antico, who's got thoughts about everything run, they'll catch you up on the whole SAG-AFTRA thing and and beyond. And we got news as well. We'll do all that right after this. Join Adam Carolla and his pal Jay Leno this October, along with fellow comics Alonzo Bodden, Harland Williams, Carol Lever and Caroline Rae. Together with some of the best writers from TV shows like Seinfeld, Friends, The Tim Allen Show, King of Queens, Two Broke Girls and more for a one of a kind experience for aspiring comedians. Comedy writers and everyone interested in comedy. Hey, it's Adam Carolla here, and I'm excited to announce our first ever comedy fantasy camp Thursday through Sunday, October 12th through the 15th in Hollywood, California. We're going to cover standup, improv, writing, podcasting and more. Plus a live performance of the famous Hollywood improv on the final day of camp. So get your chops ready. 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Yeah. Get it on. Got to get on a church, you're going to get it on. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for telling a friend. We love that about you. Kim Coughlan is here. She's comedians got dates coming up. Raleigh, North Carolina. Good night comedy club. That's coming up September 22nd, 23rd and then it's off the side splitters in Tampa, Florida, that'll be December 16th. And we'll give you some more info about where to go. Good to see you again. Wow, you guys are good. We're pros really professional. I was like, I have those shows. Oh yeah. I did the research for me. Who can I hire on your team? Can I have you got any extras? I'll take two of them. So thank you for having me. So Kim stand up. Started out on the East Coast and made your way out to the West Coast or actually started out. I was in college at the University of Florida. I got an internship at Fremantle Media in Los Angeles and I was staying with my cousin, who was an assistant at CAA. She was watching comedy shows. So I would come out and watch shows with her. And then I dropped out of college that summer and kept doing standup. You wrote for impractical jokers for a little while? Yeah. Quietly the biggest show ever. Yeah. Really huge. Massive, massive, massive. Yeah. I don't turn on. Other people know that 95 percent chance that it's going to be practical. And it's not just that. It's like it's impractical jokers and adapter. Then it's the after party and then that's inside jokes. It's like the whole network. That's them and going around the country, selling out stadiums. It's it's crazy. It's insane. So then you start making your way into doing standup. Mm-Hmm. And how long have you been doing standup? I've been doing it for about 10 years now. I started on the Kill Tony podcast. Mm-Hmm. I was doing a new minute a week on that podcast. I actually just started signing up for the open mic at the Comedy Store. And then I got on killing Tony the same night. So my first and I standup, I did a set in the O.R. and then went straight over in to kill Tony. Original room, original room. Yep, and then I started doing sets. Ever since then, I did two years of that, and then I became friends and family at the store. Were you always funny? Was it always around? Yeah, you know, actually, I just went back home to my parents and they were like, We found your old yearbooks and I went to go see what people wrote in them. And a lot of the things were like, You're so funny, you always make me laugh in cla*s. So I don't really remember. You know, I guess I was. But you know, I remember when it's yourself, you don't feel as funny as people think you are. I'm trying to think like, I always knew I was funny that we were sad. But what's what shall come of this? You know, like, how are you going to make a nickel? This thing, I mean for me, was like, I don't know, having a green thumb or being good with kids or something like that. Fine. But what are you going to do with it? How? How are you going to get paid? Yeah. So I was always pretty confident about my ability to be funny, but I had zero confidence in the world. Yeah, no. I get that. I didn't even realize you could do anything with it for a while. I didn't grow up watching standup comedy or anything like that. I didn't have any heroes or anyone I wanted to be. I kind of just showed up at the Comedy Store with my cousin one night and watched a comedy like a very well-known comedian do a joke that I had said to her that something that happened in the news that day. And I had said it better in a funnier way. And then he got like a standing ovation for it, and I was like, This guy sells out theaters and then it's like clicked and my it to your friend. I said it to my cousin. That right? But not the comedian, not the comedian. It was the day that the guy got eaten by the sinkhole in his living room. I remember that was when you remember the joke. Not really. I think the premise was just like, imagine like sitting in your house and, you know, you went through the whole day. What kind of person this had to be? How horrible this man had to be for God? Yeah, I feel the same way about people. If you get hit by lightning once, fine coincidence, but twice child molester. Yeah. You've dropped a digit on somebody with no pubes. If you are getting hit twice, yes. Or if I know God, hmm, you're going to do something horrible. Yes. Maybe you're going to take out the Statue of Liberty or take a commercial airliner down and God is trying to get you before. That's the God that I hope exists. I actually really like that. The peremptory strike God. Yeah, if a child dies from childhood cancer, you're like, Well, maybe he would have been a serial good chance. Now you don't feel bad. Well, look, they all weren't going to do charitable deeds. That's there's got to be a couple of wife beaters in there. Yeah, for sure. Statistically. Absolutely. Right. Right now, if you're sitting with your child, look him in the eye. Make sure he's not a wife beater. Look deep into his eyes. See if we see anything in there. Yeah, I mean, probably steer clear that during. A eulogy about what the nine year old could have gone on to do that was horrible. You know, it's probably going to be addicted to porn, probably going to be one of those guys that tries to rip off the food delivery services by pretending that home and sat down like a non tipper. This guy, he could be one of those guys who watches endless marathons of impractical jokers instead of spending time with his family. So a better place. I got a. And I never like these in a better place. Yeah, I don't like that at the funeral because my feeling is like, We're here. Yeah. Why should we live here? And they get to go off to a better place. Yeah. You know what? I don't like when they're like, it's peaceful. They're happy now. I'm like, Have you ever seen someone's face when they're dying? It's like, like, it's like looks f**king. It looks like a horror film. It doesn't look peaceful. Yeah, they always do that. They're finally at rest. And finally, these although that's always a euphemism for suicide. Yeah, yeah, that's true. So I don't know if you're aware of this. I don't know what your driving looks like. A Toyota something. Honda. Oh, Honda. Something sorry. And I don't know if it's electric or hybrid or whatever it is. I think it's a hybrid, but I just got myself a all electric Audi. Oh, and it's a plug in electric Audi, and it's my first foray into an all electric vehicle. And I was attempting to charge it at home last night, and I opened up the flap where you put the jack into to charge it. And it was infested with ants, and that's not like I'd had a picnic on the hood of the car. No, there's no chocolate cake or ambrosia salad. I just pulled in and I don't have an aunt prom at my house. I just pulled in Park one down 20 minutes later to open the flap, and it was teeming with hands and not the sort of hobo. Hey, let's check it out. And you know, right on the move, the explorer a little agitated running around, you know, full pace and getting right into the charging jack like right into the hall is like cocaine. Yeah. And I was like, Whoa, OK, this isn't. Take a stroll on the hood and they are being attracted. There's something that's drawing to them. They're all over the door jamb, which is weird because I can I can handle the possibility of an ant on me when I'm standing around outside like playing a softball game or something, driving no tolerance for insects. The idea that there and the problem is once you see a whole bunch of ants, yeah, you then feel ants on you for the next 72 hours. Yeah. So then you're driving the car going, Listen, there's something I can feel something on my shin. That's what happens when I get bad dick. Mean, for the next few days, I'm like, You're not right, he's still there. Yeah, yeah. What? We'll circle back when my aunt's story and a second for 45 on Bad Dick. What constitutes Bad Dick? Just like give us like three? No, no. It's the bad dick department. Bad hygiene. Oh, OK, that's the number one, right? Yeah, that's the number one. And honestly, and that counts for dick. It's bad if the bad hygiene, like if you're like, if you have bad breath or you floss. Mm. So yeah, hygiene is a big one for me. I guess I don't really know what the other one is, what I heard, any warning protocol, well, that's protocol. You guys have been out on the dance floor all night having c**ktails, dancing the night away and then the guy gets back to the apartment. There's kind of you tell him to take a shower because that's basically saying, we're going to f**k. It's not even about that. It's like someone who, like, takes care of themselves and keeps their like lives and their clothes and stuff clean. You can almost have a sweaty night, and it's fine. But there's a difference between, like a dude that is sweaty and clean and just like a musty dude. Mm hmm. Like the clothes he put on our an already fresh he didn't shower right before he left. It's like there's a different way of life. It's a way of life. You've just got to be clean a little bit. I mean, some people don't care. All right, I do. So now back to the answer back to the and their teams all over this Jack and I'm like, What are they doing? And I'm starting to surmise it's probably some magnetic electrical something. Something is attracting them that is beyond food. It's a it's a kind of siren song that is sucking them into this jack and then why they're all over the jack of this car. They just pulled up into my driveway 20 minutes ago. So I go back at a certain point. I'm like, Look, I'm not going to get a toothpick and fish, any ants out of there. If you're if you're in the if you're in the Jack, you're getting mash. And I just plug the thing in. Oh, and sent a message, sent a message and went out the next morning and there was a few sort of scattered around. But this it stuck in my craw. So I said to Chris, There's got to be some phenomenon here. This can't be a coincidence. There must be some stories on the internet about ants going nuts with electrical cars. There's a lot this is a common thing with people have electrical cars not discussed at the dealership. You know, I never heard it either at all. Like, I would have liked a little heads up about the phenomenon of the car being attacked by ants. There's always something. Yes, there is. So they love the the to crawl up into the port along the cable because they're track. They are attracted to the electronic magnetic field and the warmth like especially. But we just we just came off a hurricane. We're all survivors here and we understand that they want. They want the warmth, they want shelter. So they found their way in your garage and are going to their charging port. And by the way, they're bringing up lava in there. They're they're laying eggs. It's basically their car now. So we have to set off one of those holiday Fargas inside of my brand new Audi to get rid of the and they do this. It's called and they do it with AC units, electrical outlets. There is anyone talking remedies like they're there. If you're going to short, if you take a can of raid and just spray it into the jack, you're going to short the car out. Yeah, but are they to say like, sprinkle talcum powder along the hot shot? They won't prostrate gel just put on that? Yeah. Yeah, that also doubles as a lip gloss. Yeah, the world's meanest blowjob for the bad dick. Yeah. For the bad dick. So they they said Windex might work at Air Air Dusters just blown out of there. Hmm. You just have to. You have to buy this nice car and then blow an out of the whole jack hole every time you get it. I agree. Like a chore. Yeah. So long as you have some compressed air on you, you'll be you'll be fine. There are. There are humane and non humane ways. But then I've got one humane experiment to make sure. Yeah, so it's a thing. And I was lately unaware of this and never, never thought about it. But it was on like I pulled up and I went to a house. A turn around came back and covered with ants. All right. So other other questions, are you going to get your money back? All right. Are you going to try and do like I would be calling? I feel like you need to send me a couple of hundred dollars every month. I need something. I can get that working guy to ride shotgun now. Yeah, get the people to find out my schedule a call. They seem like they're on. They're on top of it. Yeah. Are you good with that? Like just calling to complain and get a little idea? I mean, I would love to. I just don't have the patience. You know, I'm like everyone else where I'm like, I'm going to complain about this. And then ten minutes later, I'm like, Well, already it's already over. And usually I want to go complain at my doctor's office. The other day, I was f**king pissed because I called my doctor and the lady answered the phone and I was like, Hey, I need to make an appointment. I'm a hypochondriac, so I thought I was dying of cervical cancer. So I was like, I need to get like checked. And she was like, OK, you can come in today. And I was like, OK, and then she just hung up shinsei by. Hmm. And the whole ride there are like, this b***h. Like, it's already I don't have great health insurance. I don't know if you guys know it doesn't come with comedy. And so I'm like people that are already going to are poor and they feel sick and you're going to hang up on them. And I was like, I'm going to say something. I was like, she needs to be better at her job as a receptionist at a doctor's office. Like, you should at least be nice. People are sick. Yeah. And then I get inside and I was like, Hi, thank you so much. He signed the thing and said nothing but the whole car ride there, I was like, I'm going to get her ass, which is good. I appreciate your candor because what I hate is the people that told the story when they tell the story and they go. This b***h was so rude when I got to the office, man. I just walk right up there and I told her, f**k right off. I mean, I didn't tell her to f**k off, but I told her that she needed to get her s**t together. I didn't say, get your s**t together, but I was like, When and what did you do? And then stopped giving me the cool version of what you didn't do, what you wanted to do? Yeah. And also, it's always funny when people tell their version of the story that kind of makes them cool. Yeah. And like, there's this guy. And he was at the Arby's. He was waving a knife around. I stood up and I was like, Hey, bro, you want some? You found some, you know what it's like, but I didn't really do that. But like, you know, it's not in this person's DNA. Yeah, but they're always like, they're kind of creating their own movie that they're starring in. Yeah. So the whole time about what they did. Yeah. All right. So other other subjects that I want to get into now that aren't aren't here something that's been bothering me? You watch Fast and Furious, you watch a franchise. I've watched a few of them. They get a little repetitive. I saw the first one, so I feel like I've seen them all. Oh, is that all you need to leave? Yeah. Okay. Sorry. I didn't mean to disturb the family in here. I was watching the beginning of one of my, well, family. That's the whole point. Vin Diesel's in the family, right? Like, he doesn't have friends. He has family and his whole life. It's all about this is his family. And he has crazy, crazy love for his girlfriend, Letty and Michelle Rodriguez. That's Michelle Rodriguez. A lot of people say I remind them of her. See, that was good, you know, more than you think about about the franchise. I saw a few people hot dude died, and then I was out, Oh, Walker, yeah, I was like, What's the point of watching anymore? Yeah, he was probably some good, clean dick to clean, clean, you know? I mean, look at that guy. And he liked Hispanic chicks. Oh, he did. Are you Hispanic? I am. I'm Puerto Rican. Oh, you had a shot, man? Yeah. So he's driving, and one of my favorite is Fast Five, where they're going along this mountain road. And like Colombia or Brazil or something, Argentina, maybe. And he's driving in his dodge challenger and Vin Diesel pulled up behind the truck and it's like a tanker truck. It's a tanker truck that's four or five tankers long. I guess that's illegal in the United States, right? And yeah, in Argentina, you can do but say it's the world's most unwieldy tanker truck and it's on a mountain road. And he's talking about how much he loves Letty and how much he loves him. And then at some point he just looks there and goes, It's go time, and she crawls out of the window because the door's welded shut climbs onto the hood of the dodge. That's going 65 miles an hour and then jumps to the back of the tanker truck and hangs on and then tries to fish her way on the top of the tanker truck to get to the first one, to get to the coupler, to break it loose. And I don't get it myself. Yeah, you really love this person because this seems insanely dangerous and I have never met a woman or I go like, Hey, you know how much I love you, right? Climb out under the hood of a speeding car and jump on it. By the way, but what are you going to do? Why can't she drive the f**king car and Vin B out on the hood? Yeah, it's also the got a roll cage in it. You know what I mean? Like, the car is the safest place you're going to be. The move of switching drivers like from passenger to driver that's been done a thousand times. They can easily do that or just get in the car with the understanding that this time, Vin. Yeah, because you love me so much. I will be driving this vehicle, which I have a rich history of driving. No one's complained about my ability to pilot this vehicle. And I can go down a mountain road at 62 miles an hour and stay within four feet of a tanker truck. And then you take your ball ass, crawl out of the window, walk across the hood on a mountain road and leap onto the back of this. You know, he would've been like, Babe, you're more aerodynamic. So good at it. You know, you're just so good at that. Oh, we have the women crawl better. They do. They do. But I'm just saying this is not love now. It's just somebody trying to collect on an insurance policy. If I was deeply in love with the woman, I wouldn't have her do something that was nearly as risky. This is the car racing version of taking your wife on a cruise. Yes. Yeah. Someone's going overboard. Yeah, this is it. All right, we're good to go. Got this? You bet your a*s mother bringing that love each other. I kind of think they're hot together. They are hot, but she's standing on the hood. Everyone in Britain is getting off to it. And that's the thing he likes and I thought we'd be robbing banks by now. That's some Deathstroke in the middle of nowhere down here. Got this gold bubble? Oh God, that's blowing off him, William Fallon. So I'm guessing you haven't seen this kind of movie. It's a film. Yeah. Chatter. Keep calm. I wouldn't piss off, guys. Now, if she misses the lead, you run over the woman you love, right? She's under your tires, under the transmission. All right. All right. A couple of things. The funniest thing, and I now think about the tapas twice. Fast and Furious, the whole franchise. It's not the driving down a damn. While the water is like chasing you or sending a Pontiac Fiero to outer space, a fake a*s thing about this whole series is how consistently well the walkie talkies work. Because every time I have a walkie talkie, the person can't hear what channel you are on. Like, there's no. They'll never be able to pull this always on you. The fake is thing is pretending Michelle Rodriguez likes men. Hmm. I'm like she actively hated that kiss. Did you say? Oh yeah, she was. She was kissing old fruit, much like she may have found a soul mate and Vin Diesel, I maybe that's why they had the pairing. All right. The other thing that struck me was I went and did Awni Adams podcast the other last week, and I had to take Forslund Drive, which I don't take all the time. But once in a while, you know, Waze tells you, you want to go to Arnie's house, you got to get off on Forest Lawn, drive you to take it every day. What is that for? Salon Drive is a long stretch of highway that runs along the cemetery next to the 101 Warner Freeway in the Warner Brothers and all that stuff. OK. And I've always complained that on one side, a forest lawn or a whole bunch of illegal Mexicans selling flowers out of a bucket. And then on the other side was the cop, with the radar gun given out the tickets to the soccer moms who are speeding. And I was like, You can't run a society that way. You cannot ignore illegal activity on one side of the street and then try to take down taxpayers on the other side of the street. Oh, this is me taking a picture of someone who got pulled over on Forest Lawn from a million years ago now. So I've always used Force Lawn Drive as a metaphor for why Los Angeles was turning into a piece of s**t. And as I was driving on my way to Orange House, I realized the first half, at least coming from the direction I was coming from was all illegals selling flowers and trash everywhere and all that. No permits, no business license, no taxes, no nothing. And soon as you got through with them, it was all Aave's and crazy fentanyl addicts living in these trees, and I was amazed. There wasn't six RVs. There was thirty five hour vs just taking up the entire right and left side of the road. Chris found a story that NBC News, ABC ABC two months ago. Two months ago, in the shadows of Mount Hollywood, next to Studio Lots in the L.A. River sits one of the city's fastest growing neighborhoods, zoned for open space and commercial use. These days, Forest Lawn Drive is almost entirely residential. When I became homeless during all the rain, so it was really, really rough. Lorna and her dogs live in a parked RV on Forest Lawn. She moved here after what she described was the worst week of her life sleeping on the streets during a winter storm after spiraling into homelessness. Her RV is one of 70 along this 270 corridor seven days of an estimated 4000 city wide, 4000 city wide. Now look, if you keep going down for Salon Drive, just pass the RVs and cross Barhoum. You'll be in Toluca Lake. That's where Denzel Washington lives in his 13 Million Dollar House like that is amongst the most expensive real estate in California. Maybe the United States there. There's literally a golf country club directly across the street. And as Dr. Drew pointed out, there's a tennis club as well. But you can't see it anymore because it's like RVs are park all in front of it and you can't see the tennis courts anymore. And then Drew was saying, Oh, I had a friend who got married back then back in the day at the tennis club. But you couldn't get married at that tennis club anymore, because where would people park? Where did your guest park dressing gowns and heels and tuxedos and stuff like walking through Damnation Alley to get to your wedding? We f**king completely lost it in this city. We have 100 percent lost that. That is that is not that's not the barrio, that's not Skid Row, that's not San Fernando. That's for long drive. That's the most expensive real estate in the world. Yeah, that's what they want to live there. I mean, I know this neighborhood where this one is an electric car and the homeless people are the aunts. That's that's the metaphor. And what about poor nana who's buried up in the cemetery? She's got to look down at these f**king homeless people living out of a van the entire time. It's also, I feel like it goes past all of L.A., too. It's like a lot of people in other states are shipping homeless people to Los Angeles. Yes, it's like kind of. Everyone's fault that this is happening, and also these are vs the what the story actually covers is that they're being rented out to these homeless people. They're called Van Lords, and they just, yeah, they have to hold our village parking for as long as they can live here for, you know, four bucks a month. I would like for that not to be happening. But then a little part of me, the like, the the the peace initiative, part of me and like, we want illegals like go through like documentation and do everything the right way and pay taxes and be like us and like we should be more like them. Let's all start paying taxes. I agree. I'll start stealing no arms. I'll get on board. I agree. If it's going to be Sodom and Gomorrah, then I'm not paying any more taxes, like if it's on its own and Starbucks, he took his meal and he left and I'm like, I want to do that. Yeah, I want to do that. Starbucks, the way the money that you owe me for how much I've paid for your f**king coffee, I'm going to it. So I'm with you. And this is what I always say. Either you have to enforce the laws for the folks that are breaking the laws or you have to leave the taxpayers alone and stop being up there a*s. Let me read it a little funky on my taxes. If you're going to let all this slide. Let me play around with my numbers. Justified crime. I would go your route like I would get. I would get Mel Gibson's car from Thunderdome or whatever that movie was on that road warriors road warrior. I would get. I would get the road warrior car. I'd get a I get like a dingo or hyena deer. I ride shotgun. I'd get like a sawed off shotgun and I just go full rogue. Like, it's now every man for themselves. No more paying taxes. There's there's nothing. We're just going for it. Well, during the pandemic, it got really bad. I know you guys remember how bad it was with like the the homelessness. It seems to have gotten a little bit better, but there was one point where I would go to my friend's house and he had a four way stop sign there and I was going with my sister and I just drove through it. And she's like, Why did you drive through the stop sign? And I was like, Look around right? There are no rules on this. If I get pulled over for not stopping at this stop sign, it would be a huge issue. Well, that's another. There's a man welding a two storey building next door to me, like on the sidewalk. Yes, that's an interesting point that I'd like to get into, which is first off, how would you even get pulled over on Forest Lawn Drive more? There's no place to pull over. It's all RV, so you know the Winnebago. So that's what I'm saying. Just go ahead and speed because there is no you could not pull over no one. But I'm also seeing less moving violation tickets being handed out, and I don't think it's an official policy. I think it's the cops silent protest, which is I'm not going to write this taxpayer a ticket while this guy is cookin fentanyl five feet away from us in an RV, right? So it is the time to speed everybody, either. I know right now I started looking around and like, there's just less people pulled over by the side of the freeway. Just less bulls**t chicken s**t. I've lived here my whole life. This is the chickens**t ticket capital of the world, much less in the chicken s**t, red light in L.A. in the middle of the night. And there's no cars. I just go good. I'm like, There's I have to worry about me. I may go wash my balls talking this way. I'm like, There are no rules in the city. f**k it. We had a billboard on Melrose Avenue that a giant black billboard on one of the busiest streets in L.A. that said, f**k the police. There's like no rules here anymore. Everything is, Oh, that's what I was worried about for the hurricane was like, OK, well, it's going to be like, do you remember when the riots are happening and people were on bicycles and f**king masks with baseball bats? It looked like the purge. But to what end? Like, it's some point. Doesn't somebody from the city just go? We cannot have a wagon train of beat up RV strewn times four thousand all of a city like we've got some intervention. Something needs to be done. Like somebody's got to make a move, someone's got to go down a fast line, put tags on everyone staying and go. You got 72 hours to clear the f**k out of here because we're showing up with bulldozers. Do you remember when you'd be like at work, like a day job and you would know all the details of what you needed to do to make the day run smoothly? And then this manager would come in that was never there and they'd be like, Do it this way, do it this way, and it would just slow everything down. I think that's what's happening with the homeless. I think the people at the bottom know what needs to be fixed. And then there's just people that are on tropical islands for months at a time that own this stuff that don't really give a f**k that I'm to work. Deal with it. They've been around here. They're disconnected. They don't see it isn't. Wouldn't it be off-putting if you were like the mayor or the City Council or something just to drive around and pass? 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Which I don't know if you agree with me. I thought he was probably going to step the horse's dick regardless. They've never been so high, I just wanted to blow an animal. I've never been so like, I don't even like regular dick that much to just be like, you know, wanted as much as somebody wanted a horse. Cox and second weird. I have a friend who's really slutty and at the same time, a really picky eater, which is like, b***h, you've had 11 dicks in your mouth this month, but you won't eat cilantro. Kim Condon is on the Adam Carolla show. That's funny. I know you didn't want to hear it. Kim loves that clip. I can't. I don't listen to my own stand. Well, you know, it's a fine line because as part of you that doesn't want to listen and that's healthy and you just cringe when you hear it. On the other hand, it's it's informative. Sometimes it can act like an air chick like in radio, and they'd sit down and play one of your shifts in the program director's office. And so you can glean some good qualities out of it, for sure. Yeah, me too hard on yourself. No, no. Yeah, I was like, I heard those. I was like, Oh, I forgot about those jokes. All right. So I got some faxes yesterday, and I I don't feel I feel not myself today. I got, let's say, I got a tetanus vaccination and I got a shingles vaccination. Now, I don't know why, but the doctor just said, you should get these and then you never gotten those before. I maybe I got a tetanus shot like, you know, 1977 or something. It's it's been. It's been a while ago. Tetanus? Yeah, definitely. Peter Peter sweating it out and shingles. I'm not up. I'm not up with all the facts, but I got the I got the vaccinations. And then the doctor said, your arm is going to be sore. And I said, No, it's not. He said, Yeah, your arms could be sure from the tetanus shot or other shingles shot. I said, Nah, I'm fine. I'm not going to deal with that. But I woke up today feeling off like, I think this is as close as I can come to being on my period a little bit, just off a little unsteady, little cobwebs in the head, kind of, you know, that move where you become like a woman? No, no, no. Don't like a woman, stupid. A little weaker. A little less funny. No. Only 26 percent of your life. Not all the time. Yeah. No. That movie, you know, you go the water machine and you're holding your coffee mug and you put water in your coffee mug and you're like, Oh yeah, coffee pots over there. Just a little off. A little achy. A little little weird. And I talked to drew about it and he's like, Oh yeah, that's a thing. And he does what he always says. It's going to be worse tomorrow, which I f**king hate. He does that, but he always does that. But it's never worse tomorrow. But but he said it will f**k you up a little bit and I'm not f**ked up. I'm fine. Been working all day, went and got my aunt's soaked Audi and pulled the plug and drove it. And I'm fine, but I'm off. You can just feel it. Yeah, I can feel it. Yeah. And I don't know if anyone's had that vax experience. But Drew said that's that's the experience. Little sore. Like a little achy. So your arm is sore now. My arms not sore, but like my calf cramped up when I was getting up at something or something. I think there's something chemically that happens to you. Yeah, there's something circulating. I don't like any of it. You don't like any of it. Did you get the vaccine? And fortunately, yes. Why do you say unfortunately, I just didn't want it. I didn't feel like I needed it. I was dating a guy at the time who worked in a hospital, and it was like a huge problem. Dr. Dirty Deck, the doctor of dating Dr. Dirty Deck. And he kind of pressured me to get a guy. Yeah, he vax raped me. No, I agree. Like what? Here's a real good question. There is there's like three groups, and I've never really broke it down this way. But there's the group that were enthusiastic about being vaccinated, and those are the folks that went out to Dodger Stadium and sat in their car for an hour and 45 minutes so they could get vaccine like day one. Those are the enthusiastic people. Yes. Then there were they. I'm never going to get vax. I don't care if you fire me for my job or the New York Knicks or whatever it is, I'm just I'm just not doing it. But I would argue that the overwhelming majority of people that got vax just got sort of shamed into it like somebody. You were like a leper. If you didn't get vax and they'd go, all make the appointment. I'll drive you there. Like at some point you're like, I just want you to shut up. Yeah, let's do this thing. I would bet you that's 50 percent of the people that got vax or the people who just didn't want to deal with this s**t. I think those are the most normal people. Yes. You're just like, Just leave me alone, OK? I would literally rather like, I'll take the heart condition if you leave me alone, like, I guess. But yeah, I didn't feel great about it. I didn't get any of the boosters. I won't get any of the boosters. I didn't feel like I needed it. You know, I felt like it was weird how quickly it came about and COVID was so now and then they had these vax vaccines so quickly. The whole thing was strange the pandemic was really f**ked up. It was really the most fun time of my life, but very f**ked up. Was it the finest time in your life? I had a great time. What was good about it? I really liked being able to not work and not feel guilty. Mm-Hmm. And I felt like there was something really magical about that. I spent a lot of time in nature. I went straight to Florida so soon as the pandemic hit, I stayed where it was open and I could just be outside without people. So I went to the beach every day. Quiet beaches, no one around went camping, fishing or just the middle of the ocean. It was the best. I got a boyfriend, big old vacation for. Yeah, and we got engaged. And then and then comedy started back up like a few weeks later and I was like, You know what? I have this thing. I got a good deal. So you broke off the engagement? Yeah, kind of. Well, this, you know, it's broken off. Yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah, we're going to move in together and stuff. And then everything opened up and I was like, Oh, I forgot. That's what people doing stand up again. I was like, Oh my dream. Yeah, I with every one of these situations, some people spiral and some people use it for something. I loved it. I baked got into archery, clay painting, you know, railings, poker. I started doing a bunch of stuff that I really good. That's a that's a healthy impulse. Mm-Hmm. Yeah, I I was unfortunately in California and I couldn't go to Florida and I was doing whatever it is I wanted to do. But I hated living amongst the Mariano's who were trying to force me into something or wagging their finger at me constantly. Like it was a weird scene to be surrounded by hypochondriac pussy sheep, you know, constantly trying to coach me up on what the science was and all that. So I didn't really. It didn't affect my schedule that much. I was just doing what I was doing. Well, I wouldn't wear a mask anywhere, wouldn't wash my hands, wouldn't do any of the protocols if I deemed everything a waste of time. And I've seen enough of this and been lied to enough times by these idiots. So I just immediately f**k all this. But but being again surrounded by people that were constantly, you know, coming at me and this is an interesting subject and I'll see what you think on it. I was talking to Amy Horowitz, and he comes in to show her once in a while, interesting guy. I don't know why he called me yesterday and he was complaining about something and he said, Because, you know, I hate the most. I hate pussies. And I said, I f**king hate policies. I hate policies. And then I said, You know, in the past, I've always hated dudes who are pussies. Same. But I felt a little bit sorry for them because there were pussies. But during COVID, pussy's became weaponized and now pussies were in control and post. These were like calling the shots, and I went from the sort of inert pussy like, I feel sorry for that f**king guy's a pussy, but it doesn't affect my life. Two pussies are now making protocols and telling you what to do, and that's like, Oh f**k, now my life is being, you know, the meek have inherited the Earth. It's like when I play Call of Duty, and it's like when I get on there and the men in the squad are like, Go left zone six, quadrant forty two. And I'm like, You're not in real war. I don't know. You got this opportunity to say something real quick and now you're like, It is just like that. They took advantage of their power for a second. But the crazy thing about the pandemic is I, like I said, I was a hypochondriac. So at first I was like, We got to be safe. I was bleaching my groceries. I was wearing them a*s. I was like, I believed it right away because I'm just so scared of getting sick and dying. So I was like, I'm going to believe it just in case they're right. And then there was one point I was in L.A. and everything was close, and I was like, Why the f**k are the Starbucks open, right? Why is my favorite coffee shop that's owned by a little family close? And why is every f**king Starbucks open? And they never closed? The Starbucks never closed. And why start? Why is Costco open and Kmart open? But all the MA and PA places cause even that kind of stuff. I was like, OK, that makes sense because people need to get things from Costco and like, maybe it's essential. But the the coffee shops were what did it for me? I was like, You can't fake the like. It is just so dumb that they would keep them open. It made it so obvious for me what it was, what was going on. I was like, You can't leave the Starbucks open. It's not essential. Coffee is not essential, but it's good that you have that ability to sort of recognize like starting. So I'm not a hypochondriac, and so I started off with this thing. I don't know if a 10 would have been the most worried. And one would have been who gives a f**k, let's say, two and a half, what's the highest I ever got even 10 minutes in, I didn't, I didn't. I never got above five on the worry scale or at all. I don't know, Chris, did you see any evidence of me? No, because I remember we would talk about the impending corona virus that's coming in and you didn't you the whole time you thought it was nothing. You actually never wanted to cover it that much because you didn't care about it that much. And then and then, then we started focusing more on the panic versus the actual issue. I knew about it, so I was so paranoid. I knew about it so early. I knew about it. I think right around the time Kobe Bryant died, which was like three months before it was on the news and I was telling people at work and practical jokers, I'm like, There's this disease. I don't know anything about it, but like, they're saying that it's going to hit us. Yeah. And everybody's like, You're insane. And then months later, I remember one of my coworkers being like, Do you remember that disease you were talking about? And I was like, Yes, but how were you able to shift gears? Our shift directions because most people just kept doubling down on their semi r****ded ness. And you start off as a hypochondriac and then got a peek behind the curtain pretty early and changed directions, which is that has been the biggest problem. No one context clues. It gets you through life, I promise you. I look around and be self-aware context, clues, context, clues and self-awareness. It's a powerful combination. Explain what a context clue. I mean, seeing everything closed, except for Starbucks that gave me a big context clue about the context of what's going on in the situation. Were you disappointed at the general comedy community at large for not saying a word and being f**king prices? I'm constantly disappointed. The comedy community, the fact that we're still getting paid the way we are, we don't have a union or disrespected constantly by clubs. Oh, and you're saying unionize standup? I think so. How would that work? I don't know. I don't know the details, but I know that I do know that it's crazy that the the amount of money the clubs make and and like the fact that the standup part is the talent like why people are coming and we make the least amount in every situation we make, we make less than the clubs we make less. And even when you're doing like stuff like this, I don't I don't know how you're business, but you're putting in so much money. You're not making money at first, right? It's just you're so poor for so long. And I know that's a lot of things, but it's hard to look at a sold out room and be like, I can't I don't know if I'm going to pay rent next month. And the clubs just aren't loading $10 drinks. Aren't you cutting those deals before you get to the club? Yes, we go. I need X amount percent of the door. Yeah, sort of. But like a lot of the times, even now, like I'll get offered things that are on TV. And you know, the thing is, they're like, I'll pay this much and I'll and I'll say, this is a crazy rate. Like, I need triple quadruple this. Like, it's insane that it would even be offered and they're like, OK, well, we'll give it to someone else. And it's like, OK, well, I'd rather be on that episode of TV than not have it and have that little amount of money. And that's how they get comedians. But there's no union. They can just kind of bully you, or then you don't have to take it, which is fine, but then you're missing out a bunch of stuff. Then you see your peers on that thing, then they get a second season. It's like sort of like everything is opportunity for so, so, so, so very long. It's too long. Wait, what's too long? Nobody else works f**king over ten years in a place before they start making anything they get paid in the beginning. Alisa Living Wage. Well, the thing about comedy, thing about show business, thing about music, thing about art, any form of art, it's just a low percentage job. You know you want to work at McDonald's, you can work, anyone can work in. Major clubs should be giving people $20, $10 a show at all. And that's oh, you're talking about for the sort of drop in size that's happening. That shouldn't be happening. Yeah. Well, it's pretty egregious that happens in L.A. and like New York, right? But it wouldn't happen in Anomali, Wisconsin, right? But why is it happening in L.A., in New York, when L.A., in New York have the most traffic for that kind of stuff, they're making the most money. So why are we getting paid the low? So you're talking about going to the Comedy Store, sold out on a Thursday night and not really getting paid. The Comedy Store pays pretty well. Oh, they do it. Yeah, if you're in the main room and it's a sold out show, you're getting pretty paid pretty well for the night I just got past, so I haven't gotten a lot of those. I just got past a couple of months ago, but I did work for 10 years for free and probably the next 10 years of paychecks will make up for all the money I've paid. I think trying, I think I'm not defending the practice, but I think the conceit is you can work out locally and not really get paid and then go on the road and get, but they're selling tickets to those shows. Yeah, I agree. So what are some of the people that are there watching you? So why not get paid out for that way? It's like and it's also another one of the things I like will book someone else. It's the same thing as getting on TV, is it? But are these shows are some of the ones? Being put on by people like other comedians and stuff like that, sometimes, yeah, those pay the most, you know, the comedians pay each other the most and then the clubs pay you nothing. Right? So if you're just going to go, you're just taking from someone else that need it or earned it. Also, so if you're getting paid, it's from someone else and not the people that should actually be paying out. Right. So you're talking about local going in, sold out, getting paid 25 bucks, if you're if you're having a show and it's sold out. I feel like comedians should be making less than $50 in show. Is that right? I think I mean, I think I've I've been to a club where they've handed me a $10 bill and I'm like, OK, I'll go shove this up, my f**king a*****e. Maybe they just wanted a blowjob. Not really dirty dick. It's just I think it's I understand some good ideas and stuff, but I think that like when when the price starts rising for everything and then you don't start paying even a little bit more. I don't think $50 a show is a crazy amount to ask. Well, it makes sense. I thought you were talking about going on a road and selling out about you. Do you make your own money and you set your own money? But I think that club should be paying more. Yeah, I'm not saying any specific clubs, but no. No. Well, what it is, you know, there's always that relationship, which is, you know, you go, this club should pay more and then the club goes, you should be paying us to perform at our legendary club. And I think that's kind of the I think that's a conceit like I used to be on MTV. That's kind of how they felt like this is MTV. We don't. We'll get someone else. You get to be on MTV does a club because the club thinks, No, this is our audience. It's not your audience, right? Yeah. Yeah, I guess the difference is when you can bring in 500 of your own people. But that's also like sometimes you know, I'm I'm 10 years in. I feel like a lot of things don't even start happening. I just stopped working a day job a few years ago, so I sometimes I think I'm like, Damn, if the club could just give me like five hundred extra dollars, I could actually promote the shows and sell them out. Mm-Hmm. And like on Facebook, so marketing budgets at these clubs and they don't use them. They have these marketing budgets and they f**king pocket them so they don't push for the comedians. You don't sell tickets, then they take your money and they go home. I never thought about it. It's a giant scam. Everything's a scam. Nothing's real. We're all going to die. I feel I I it's hard to argue with. We're all going to die because that's accurate. More people more mostly focus on when. Yeah. You know, that's a bigger issue. But yeah, I never really thought about it. I was just felt like if you do it here, you do it. I always thought of comedy is something you have to do for free for a long time because if it works out, then you can get a real good payday. And most things that involve real good paydays involve a lot of volunteer work, like early on. Yeah, but I never really thought, I agree. I don't think that new comics should be making a lot of money. I just feel like they should be making maybe just like enough to keep them out of like simple psychosis, just like a little f**king breadcrumb every once in a while. It's like sometimes the way you get treated as a comedian can be really discouraging to just you as a person. You're like trying to make people happy and you just feel like s**t all the time and you're broke. It's like, kind of. But it does make you funnier. So there's that. Yeah, same. Who's driving bad parent? Who's treating you like s**t? No one anymore. Oh, okay. Oh, at the beginning. Yeah, it's just like, yeah, the beginning to process the meanest guys at any comedy club are the guys who run the open mics. Yes. Like I remember way back in the day, like showing up to the improv on a Sunday night at like five o'clock, you know, signing up for the open mic. And they put all put your name in a hat. And because there's too many people and they pick out like 14 people and this guy's pep talk to us was like, You get three minutes, we're going to hit you with the light two and a half. You go three minutes and 10 seconds. I'll throw a f**king trashcan at your head and then a part, he editorialize. He's like and tell jokes. The people want to hear your stories. You know what it's like? I don't know. How do you know what kind of comedian I am? Is like, have a joke, have a point of view, tell your jokes and get the f**k off of the stage. And if I hit, I'll throw that flashlight at you. If you ignore it for more than 40 seconds, I was like, the meanest guy in this club is running this event filled with scared people. Yeah, who are not getting paid. Yeah. But then it was always explained to me that that guy's a frustrated comedian, and that's why he's running the open mic. And that's why he's so angry. Yeah, because he's hungry. Cause he's hungry. Yeah, he hasn't eaten in four days, and he has to listen to horrible open mic jokes. But now they're like, there's like a whole open mic circuit. They're all charging each other. It's gotten f**king it. And because they're not making money now, they're opening open mics and now pop mics used to be free. When I was doing them and. They're charging for open minded, you got to pay $5 a mic now, so you're doing paying rents worth just to get around the L.A. circuit because open Mike still are free at the comedy Chateau in North Hollywood. Five of them a week, they will never charge for an open bike. But to your point is, I auditioned at one of the local clubs around here. I had two minutes, I had a nice two minute bit. I went up there right after I went up. The guy comes me and he says anybody could have wrote that. Anybody could have told that joke. Oh yeah, but but I but I told it. Yeah, but anybody could have told it. Yeah, but I wrote it. Yeah, but anybody could appreciate the commentary. Yeah, the notes. But now they're charging for open mic. They are. Well, now I'm angry. We need to unionize. Yeah, bulls**t. Yeah. I'll tell you. Just got made over at the store. Yeah. Why don't you get a picket sign and head out front? See how that works. I will, but I'm tired. All is then when I get home and I'll have a TMZ film. Me bringing your pizza. Yeah, that's like the comedian. Like Chant for unionizing and like, we'll do it tomorrow. All right. What you can do for dates is you can go to Cam and I'll spell it out for you C O and G, D, O and dot com and find out when she's getting paid all around. All around the country. Yes. Yeah. Thanks for coming down, Kevin. This is fun. Talk to Peter Antico and we'll do that right after this. See what hit blockbusters are streaming free this month during Popcorn Summer movies on Pluto TV. Watch Django Unchained or Transformers Dark of the Moon for an action packed evening or The Truman Show and School of Rock for a good laugh when the whole family. Plus, Pluto TV has thousands of other free movies available on live and on demand. Download Pluto TV on all your favorite devices for free and start streaming now. It's time to check Adam's voicemail. Adam, get it on. James, from Oregon here, I heard you talking recently about seeing somebody smoking in a Tesla and what that meant for where we are in society. I've got a better one for you. I was flying a charter private jet from the Caribbean to the Midwest, and the passengers were smoking with a baby on board. Doesn't get much more lighter. Rich white trash than that? Get it on. You can leave us a message at eight eight eight six three four one seven four four. I'm surprised they let you do that. Peter Antico is here. He's got a whole bunch of stuff to talk about the documentary that's called The Paradigm of Money, and it's streaming now on Red Corral Universe dot com. And we'll get into that. We'll get into this whole strike with SAG and after and the unions and the streamers. Good to see you, Peter. How are you? I'm well, so no one has any clue as to what's going on with this strike. You are running for secretary, treasurer, SAG and after, so you might have some inside dope on this thing. But I've talked to some pretty major players in the space and they have no one has an answer. Well, you know, it's interesting. So I served on the SAG-AFTRA boards for over 10 years and the current technology chair at the Los Angeles SAG-AFTRA in the stunt safety chair at SAG-AFTRA. And you know, it's how we got here. First of all, our proposal that we're asking for the proposal that's on the table is the best I've ever seen in 20 years. So I support that. But you have to really go back in the history and how we got here. We got here from voting up for failed contracts. In fact, since 2008, since before the merger, there's two factions in the union, one called Unite for strength and one called membership. First, Unite for Strength has been the controlling party for 15 years, and in consortium they've voted to give away massive a massive amounts of the wealth that we previously negotiated, you know, in the last 60 years. When you say, give it away, give it away, to whom, well, the AMPTP, for example, in 2020, we don't know what the TPP or sorry, the producers. The AMPTP is the organization of producers that we're negotiating against in the bargaining table. They're the group of the consortium of producers that we negotiate our collective bargaining agreement with their on the other side of the table. So in 2020, our union gave up one hundred and seventy million in syndicated residuals in exchange for a horrible streaming contract, which we're now renegotiating now at the present time. In 2017, we gave up a sixty year old travel provision called Portal to Portal. What that meant was, you know, for 60 years, the custom and practice was if you flew as an actor from Los Angeles to anywhere in the country on television, your contract would start the day you jumped on the plane, and all of the money you earned from that contract would be contributed to your pension and health, which was great. So when they gave that up on television, now you fly and you basically work as a local, you don't get put on the clock, you get a you get a stipend of 500 bucks. Instead of being on a SAG Weekly contract. And when you get there, you don't get paid any any overtime from the time that the van picks you up and takes you to the set. And when you when you wrap at the end of the day, you get no more overtime when you're in the van and you drive you home so that it really acts like you're a local all over the country, right? So here's a question because I was talking to somebody about this other unions like NFL players and UAW autoworkers and stuff like that, they don't have the kind of chasm between the guys who are making millions and millions and millions and people that are literally not working like they're in a union and they're literally 96 percent of the union's not making any money like that's, you know, UAW doesn't work that way. NFLX, everyone makes the cut. There's 2500 players. Some are getting paid more than others, but everyone's got a good pension and they're in the union, but it's because they're on a team. SAG is a bunch of actors who aren't on a team that are in the same union as Matt Damon and Tom Cruise. How is that ever going to work out? Well, is there. You mentioned the NFL. I think the floor for a salary for NFL players about 460000 a year. I think that's quite a bit different than than SAG-AFTRA. Right. And when and when you're dealing with with scale players as opposed to players that are above the line like Tom Cruise, there is certainly a wealth disparity from our from our our members. Just to give you a little example, 86 percent of the entire membership of SAG-AFTRA don't qualify to earn twenty six thousand five hundred, which would qualify them for health care. That's eighty six percent right. Are our national executive director earns nine hundred and fifty four thousand dollars a year, right? And there's about a hundred and twenty four of our staff members that make that make or earning between ninety seven thousand five hundred thousand a year, and they get triple the pension payouts as the members. So here's the rub it appears like since we've continually voted away the protections that we've had, you know, for 60 years in our contracts since 2008, presently giving away residuals pre 1971, which affects seniors, you know, giving away trailer residuals every time you had Mannix or any of those old Simon and Simons, all those shows. If you're if you made the trailer and you're an actor and you made the little clip every week that they showed, you would also get residuals on that, they gave away first class airfare. It goes on and on and on syndicated or streaming residuals that were that we tried to negotiate in 2008. Then they removed a president whose name is Alan Rosenberg then. So we've had people that are running our ship that really need to be changed because they're not financially responsible. And it's really a popularity contest to who gets elected. It's not just Fran Drescher doing. I think Fran Drescher came in not ever serving, not knowing anything about the history of our union and was thrown into the mix because again, the president is a popularity contest. Not any of the activists that actually have served on the board who would be much better suited to be the president. So she's been a powerful voice in the room like Norma Rae. She's certainly not taking any, any bulls**t from from anybody, which I really appreciate. However, I think there's a different way. I think you have to study history to know how we got here. I mean, our national executive director has said in the press today that he's he's really admonishing the producers of the AMPTP for not giving us a fair contract. What he should do is admonish himself for settling for four failed contracts that he said nothing about. And here's the here's the rub in 2020, they came back to our members and said we negotiated a record $54 million into your pension and health fund. I said, Awesome, that's great. I've never seen that before. And and then two weeks later, 8200 seniors got thrown off their lifetime medical in the middle of the pandemic. But what these what our executives didn't say and our party called unite for strength that owns the room. What I mean by owning the room, if if your party has more votes, it's just like Congress, they can out vote you. Even if you're if you're voting to protect the contracts, which we did, we voted against Unite for strength contracts for the last, you know, since 2008. But we don't control the room. What what do you think the timeline and likely outcome is for the current strike? I think understanding what I know about about law, I think I think there's a good chance that maybe in October we could we can settle in October because I believe they should bring mediators into the room and mediators that that are negotiators that understand complex mathematical residual formulas because you can't go in there, you know? You know, under armed, you must go in there with very wise people. I'm not talking about federal mediators that are just ordinary. You need meteor's in specificity, which we have, which I know about. And there was a lawyer, a symposium or a panel put on by the secretary of the Beverly Hills, Barney and Randy Badman. She put on a symposium or a panel with seven elite negotiators that specifically deal in entertainment. So I recommended that they use some of these particular mediators because then they understand what our contracts are, do that they understand what our contracts are supposed to accomplish, and they do it in specificity and they try to negotiate for what you want. And if the other side doesn't want to accept it, they don't have to. It's not binding, but a mediator. It's like two people a divorce. They come in with so much emotion you need a neutral, a neutral party to come in and and negotiate it. So, so you could create a win win situation. And that's what I believe needs to happen. Two weeks ago, I wrote a letter to the membership and I stated The way to deal with this is you have to understand that we now are negotiating against technocracy is vertical corporations. It's not like you're just negotiating against a studio. So we used to have rules called FinCEN Financial Syndication Rules in a 1994 and 1995 they rescinded it. You used to be able to separate the powers like Steven Bochco, who did L.A. Law and Don Bellisario who did Magnum P.I.. They were only allowed to produce. The networks were not allowed to produce shows. Once they became partners, once they remove those rules and networks, we're able to. We're able to then produce shows that took away the separation of powers. So if you're doing feature films and Viacom owns Paramount and they create it, they have distribution and then they have Showtime. And then they have Paramount Television, Comedy Central Documentary Channel. They can then take the content, they can sell it at a price. They fix that. They fix. And how do you compete with that? Because they can sell it for much cheaper money? And then the writers get hosed on residuals, the actors get hosed and residuals, and this needs to get addressed, which is what I said in my letter. And then a week after I said it, the Writers Guild came out and stated that they want to break up the vertical corporations of Disney because they can't compete. Are people like Disney or Netflix or Hulu or whatever. Are they greedy or are they unrealistic? Are they evil or are they just doing business? Well, I think throughout history, you know, management has always tried to take advantage of workers. Yeah, and the only thing that has ever been victorious is dissent is intelligent dissent, and I think that is happening now. But the bottom line is that you have to look at who your management team is and the same negotiating team that has failed us, you know, almost five different times. And for certainly the last four negotiations, they want the membership to give them their vote. They shouldn't. They should replace them. What about A.I.? Everyone is always talking about age and how it's going to impact this field. Well, I would have to say, being a pragmatist, I would have to say the next five years. It's a good probability that maybe 30 percent of the workforce in the world will be replaced by artificial intelligence. And in regards to do your right to role you, right to likeness any performer like you do right now, you have a right to like this. If they wanted to use you in any kind of an ad without your permission, you can litigate them you had. There's a law that protects you. So it's very similar anybody that if they want to scan your reproduce you and it's close to what they're doing with CGI right now, they do video games. If they if they scan you and they want to use you for a particular show, they would have to pay you the rate, your rate and if they use it again. And then they would have to pay the residuals that come along with that particular exhibition platform. So in order to do it, they'd have to certainly put that in play. And then for the writers, it's even, you know, more nefarious, because how much could you use if you if you researched 20, you know, 20 pages and you used to have to go to the Encyclopedia Britannica, then the internet came, then you studied and you wanted to get a subject about the War of 1812 and you looked it up and you use that material to write. So what are you going to do now? Are you going to say there's ten pages that I want to write? Write me 10 pages on the War of 1812 in this format and Adam Sorkin's writing because you could say anything, you could program a chat GBTC to do anything that you wish. So it gets it's a little tricky there. The Directors Guild, when they negotiated, you can't use A.I. a period. No way I can be used to, to then to direct films or television. And the only thing the beef I have with the Directors Guild, respectively is that they're the smartest guys in the room. However, they've never, you know, litigated or struck, but they set the bar really low because the cost of living increase. They bargain was five percent, four percent, three and a half percent. Well, they gave people on Social Security and 223. Eight point seven percent and inflation. Sorry. And that's OK. They said 30 percent in the next five years. Like the workforce of the United States, maybe the world A.I. people were talking about, like self-driving semi-trucks ten minutes ago, putting all the truckers out of work. But it doesn't seem like those are the people are going to be out of work. It seems like the people who do the data entry and the lower level like attorneys and just any editors and things like, I mean, A.I. is going to be going after the white collar world. Not it's not the self-driving trucks that we have to worry about our flippy who's flipping the McDonald's burgers. Is that a correct statement? Well, you know, that's I think there's so much data and not being able to predict the future. But from what I've seen, there's a lot of automation in robotics. I went to the CEO show, you know, I didn't make the last one, but the year before and the year before. The automation with robotics is incredible. What they're what they're doing with. They're coming up with and and and there's exhibition platforms, you know, on fiber optics, on frequency. They also have I also saw technology where you can put your hand on some diodes and you would watch a screen where people were acting. And if they picked you up a cup of coffee, your hand would get warm and it was somatic. Wow. Which is. And I said to SAG-AFTRA at the time, You need to pay attention and you need to really jump in because you really want to look at technology that hasn't been invented. It hasn't put it out yet. You really have to front run the market. And I think the biggest mistake they made was like in 2012, when you had Netflix online and you had Amazon and you have Apple. What they have access is data. They have reams of data and they have your iPhone. They know what you do, how you how you browse, what movies you like when you watch them, what subjects you like. Studios don't have that and they should have got involved in 2012. And I believe that was a big mistake that they made. So now they're behind the eight ball. So at this point in time, I think the path forward is you really have to to look for a lot of untapped revenue like one is, one would be cable television and the other is YouTube. YouTube had one point seven billion views, and they take our actors likenesses and our and our places, like old shows like Adam 12 or the West Wing, and they play them under the guise of fair use. And it's not fair use because you can't play a nine minute clip or an eight minute. Clip of these shows, that's not fair use. You're basically using our actors performances for free, and SAG-AFTRA needs to negotiate for that because we're leaving massive amounts of money on the table. It's YouTube is basically the Napster of film and television, and that needs to be addressed. The film that you made many made films and you were a stunt man for a while. Yeah, I'm kind of curious about that quick or any any good, you know, any good stunt. Set yourself on fire. Roll a cop car. Yeah, I've been in set on fire. I've jumped off a 75 foot, you know, heights and air bags, crash motorcycles, crash cars. Then I've done a horse work. I mean, I started in 1979 and I trained with the original group of stunts and limited boys, and they were the best in the world at the time. And I have Tourette syndrome. I've had it since I was seven. And sometimes I had these strange that tics and movements, and for me, having having Tourette's and then and being accepted by these group of athletes because I was a pole vaulter in college and a baseball player in college and with the California Lutheran University. And then I went to, um, screenwriting at UCLA and I got to meet these group of athletes and they they accepted me. I was so kind because my whole life it was like, Yeah, you'll never amount to anything. And, you know, they didn't understand what I was doing. I got accused of being on cocaine when I first from agents, and none of it was true, you know, and it was just hard enough. Hal Needham Running Stunts Unlimited Yes, I met him at the time the man Hough's house in Saugus, California, when I was a kid, and he had these big bell bottom pants with big flames on him, it said. Stunts unlimited. He was like a legend. I saw, you know, films of him jumping out of a little Cessna onto a guy on horseback, and he's broken like more bones and any stunt person alive. But he put us on the map. Burt Reynolds also put us on the map by giving Howe an opportunity to direct like Smokey and the Bandit and Hooper. So the man made one hundred and fifty million on a film that was seven million. That was the smokey and film, and that gave some people the first bit of credibility. Hal created respect and in our in our business, and I think it needs to be, you know, return because some people in our contracts haven't gotten the gain in 15 years, but $200 in a flat television stunt coordinator contract. And we're working hard to get residuals for stunt coordinators on television. And I believe we should be able to achieve that. We have some good stunt people in the room negotiating that I approve of. And I think I think that going forward, they should understand that our profession provides billions and billions of dollars at the box office with action films. We also should be recognized at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which I am a member because, you know, it's it's certainly an art and science. The things that we do now that we create. We write, produce and direct sequences in major blockbuster films at studios. And it's about time the academy, you know, humble themselves and say, Hey, we should recognize our because we provide if they're going to have costume design and hair and makeup. Sure, you see the latest Mission Impossible movie give out a couple of awards to people that may die. Shout out to Tom Cruise for standing up for stunt people that he loves. Do that motorcycle stunt, as we saw. Yes, I have. I'm clapping for Tom cruise balls and skill and training. And he stands up for stunt people. Steven Spielberg did Martin Scorsese. You did. They all believe that that stunt coordinators should be recognized on stage at the Academy Awards, and I think it'd be much more exciting show because imagine showing trailers and all of a sudden you got guys lit lighting, getting lit on fire, coming out and giving, giving the envelope or dropping down from the ceiling or all the air rooms, all the rigs that we do when all the trailers they can promote because people love action and it really sells tickets. I challenge anyone to look at trailers of movies, try looking at Fast and Furious and take the action of the trailers. Now I was just looking at it. That's how people need to see the movie. Hooper, because it's great. It's it's it's like Burt Burton, Jan Michael Vincent at his best. Speaking of Jan Michael Vincent. I've watched one of his greatest offerings over the weekend The Mechanic, Damnation Alley, Damnation Alley. And it was really one of the worst movies you've ever seen in my life, and I like bad movies that the special effects were bizarre and bad. Everything was bad about this movie, but it came out a year before or at the same time as Star Wars and Damnation. Ali's budget was eight million and Star Wars was 11 million, which is more but not that much more considering the special effects and what it did at the box office. Now. I will challenge anyone to watch Damnation Alley and see if they can figure out what the f**k was going on and that that movie by the Damnation Alley Big Trucks star was always parked up on Kohanga at Dean Jeffries shop. Dean Jeffries, a brilliant rigger, he rigged more role cages in cars that protected stunt people. Oh, really? Jeffries brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. So Dean Jeffries there was there was Barris who did The Munsters Mobile and George Barris did Batman and and stuff like that. And then, like Dean Jeffries was his competition and he was just as the crow flies about two miles away. And he did. I don't know if he did the monkey's mobile. I like the Beach Boys mobile or something. He did something. He did those things too. And the Damnation Alley Super Rig was parked in front of this part that my entire childhood the most exciting thing I could do was drive over kohanga and look at the Damnation Alley mobile that was in front of Dean Jeffreys shop. So what did Dean do? He gave the monkey's Moby Dick the monkey. Yeah, but he did. He had the Green Hornet, the Green Hornet. He did Logan's run. Get a life in a life. Yeah, and he keeps some people safe. Oh, you did. Oh yeah. He built more roll cages for cannons and and turnovers. That's when you turn over a car or you have dynamite with a telephone pole. Well, it's that's the old school. Yeah. When you know, Hal Needham first tested it and he didn't have enough dynamite then and he did it again. He did it again, and the car blew up and went three rotations in the air and came down. Jesus Christ, this is early. This is early on. So you know, these people like we're innovators, but but you're putting yourself at risk in in doing that. But Hal Needham, respectfully, it was a legend, and I'm glad they gave him an honorary Academy Award. They should they need that category. Yeah, in the Oscars, for sure. Especially competing, campaigning for it for 30 years. What's the reason like? I mean, you know, they're snobs. Is that it? It's not a drama. Well, because they do like best hair and best costume and stuff, and you just see some Elizabethan outfit or something in the hear a violin and there's nothing going on. I do want to see Tom Cruise take that bike off the Grand Canyon. I do want to see all the great stunts that would be the greatest montage ever. Yeah. I mean, you certainly you certainly get people to view it because the viewership, you know, as has gone down, apparently because people don't want to see people preach to them, you know, because a lot of them, they view Hollywood as an elitist all the time. And the thing is the rank and file people like me that are that are just doing their parts and action and coordinating films where the rank and file they they probably making between 30 and a hundred and fifty thousand a year. But most people don't. Probably 15 percent of the of the people out of a hundred and sixty thousand even earn a living. Fifteen percent of those. So, you know, all you get is a picture of all these, you know, major stars and they think that's what Hollywood is about. But I'm I'm calling on those major stars to start getting involved in their union to help us. Because when Jimmy Cagney started, those group of actors really were proactive in the labor movement, and they really wanted to make sure that everyone had had a fair shake because, you know, if our contracts were better and I wanted to point this out in the financial crisis, we all got three and a half percent of accrual rate for a pension. What accrual rate is is the amount of money that the producers are. AMPTP donate or contribute to our pension health. That means if it's three and a half percent, it would be three and a half cents for every dollar. So on 100000 3500 in 2010, our national executive director took it away and lowered it to two percent. But he left the staffs at three and a half percent, which is respectable, in my opinion. Self-dealing. Then they merged the unions when they merged the unions. They had to do figure out where the money was going because there was two separate contracts after it and SAG. And what they said to sell the merger was if you merge, your pensions would be protected because all the money would be going in one place, which was a flat out lie because when they merged, they still had. The pensions are still to this day going into two different pots. So then they they made it created to split. In 2014, they gave 57 percent of the earnings to the SAG pension and Health and forty three to aftera. However, this was the rub if you went back 15 years and throughout history the last fifteen years, for sure, the rate of contribution in the SAG plan was ninety seven percent and the rate going in the afters plan was three percent. So the split should have been 97 for SAG and three percent to after. It is the most egregious theft that has never been talked about, and it should be. Because we basically bailed out after his plan and they hijacked almost 80 percent, put the 43 percent and the 15, which combined them together, it's close to 80 percent. What do you think about the actors showing up and guys delivering pizzas to sort of window dressing? Or are they sincere and they appreciate it? Look, I I want the I want those actors that are delivered pizzas. I want you to show up to the negotiating table and I want I want them to come to the negotiating table. And I also want, you know, Gavin Newsom to get involved in. I want Joe Biden to get involved because they're talking about unionism. Here's what we have. We have the largest economy California with Big Tech and then the film business, which gives us the most behemoth economy in the nation. If you're shutting us down and you're not even offering eight point seven percent, which the Bureau of Labor Statistics gave the seniors, you got to come in and say, Sorry, this is the flaw. You've got to treat people honestly because you have 6.5 percent of inflation, 21, 22, seven percent and you combine that is you get thirteen point five. So SAG-AFTRA is correctly, you know, has negotiated 11 percent in their interim agreement. But the directors only took, you know, five, four and three and a half. That's really, you know, bad, bad, bad economics. I don't know who their advisor was, Dewey Cheatham, how, but that doesn't make a lot of sense because if they had bargained just the floor of 8.7, it would have made it easier for the writers because they they haven't classically in the past on pattern bargaining and then sag after. It would have been easy for us to negotiate, but we're standing strong and I'm proud of our union's negotiators for that particular reason. But in year two and three, and they're only asking for five, that I believe is a mistake because you should still ask for the same amount close to 10 percent, because if you look at our economics, we have a thirty one trillion dollar deficit and there'll be another two trillion added under that deficit in the next 12 months. And then you have the the the debt to GDP in the United States is 126 percent. And then the global debt to GDP, GDP is 338 percent. So these numbers are unsustainable. You got to what about one? Biodynamics kicks into overdrive. I think they're I think they're fooling themselves. You got the BRICS nations meeting, I think today and for the next three days, talking about de dollarization and using a new form of currency backed behind by some kind of precious metal, gold or silver. And these are companies that want to start doing business and trade that without using the dollar. So there's a lot of things on the global stage, plus supply chain interruptions everybody sees in the world. They're trying to deal with farms and and in stop, you know, meat production, food production, if that happens, we're going to get continued food spikes. And the last two years, food inflation was 64 percent. So if you think eight point seven does, it really does. And so our our negotiators and Mr. Mr. Newsom and Mr Biden really should come in and give the people an opportunity to make a living so they can feed their families. Those f**k sticks out you. And yeah, they're just too f**king dumb. Yeah, well, they don't care, and they're done. So it's a it's a potent one two punch. Yeah, I was watching your movie and it was interesting the paradigm of money and that you were kind of going over all this covert stuff. And we're touching on it earlier today that all these big companies were allowed to exist and all the Mamas and the Papas got driven out of business. And I never really wanted to be in this place in my life where I keep questioning the powers that be constantly. But what is going on like is this nefarious is its stupidity, like what happened during COVID? So let's just talk about some data. So they call something a vaccination, by definition, is what's to stop somebody from being transmissible and keep being obviously contagious so you don't get and you can't give it to somebody else. But this is this was an experimental drug trial that comes with the laws of informed consent. So when you when you really looked at it from a from a macro picture, so you shut down all these small businesses, you causing billions and billions of dollars in damage in the United States of America? And then then then you did that, but you allowed the big ticket items stayed open, Home Depot, you know, and all all of these Kmart, Wal-Mart, all the big stores that people use Costco, there's thousands of people in those. But but it's too dangerous for you to come in to a mom and pop hardware store where there's maybe 100 people. That makes no sense. And then once you said liquor stores were that are they're necessary. I don't know how you could call it. The churches weren't, but yet liquor stores. So they basically, like, violated the Constitution. But the real rub is when they came out and said and Pfizer said in the European. Parliament, that they never tested for transmissibility, but they said they did. That's a fraud. And that meant that meant that do it for grandma. That whole line was based was false information. So that means lockdowns were false information. So the amount of economic damage because the whole film is basically about economics just has nothing to do with a pandemic. But I studied a lot of the economic, you know, detrimental effects. But when you're looking at, at, at a at an item that hasn't been studied, especially not to the gold standard, because every drug we take is approved that is approved by the FDA has to have a double blind, placebo tested pretrial study everyone we take except for vaccinations. There is no vaccination that comes with that gold standard of a metric. So when you're pushing something out there without any long term data and then you're telling people that they can't work as a condition of employment? Well, how is that? Because did any of those employers provide informed consent and say, Well, here's that. Here's the adverse reactions Pfizer never came out with their 191 pages of adverse reactions until well or a year and a half they had to get it subpoenaed, you know, from a freedom of information. So is this so two things? One is this when you return to SAG-AFTRA headquarters, could you tell all those posters, Adam Cole, that a kiss is f**king ball sack for being such f**king posters and caving and just cowering under the bed and shouting at everyone who didn't want to get vaccinated or questioned some of these things just asked questions could tell your constituency they were the tip of the spear in the power department. They could have done great things in terms of moving this thing in a different direction. And instead, they just got online and shouted at anyone who disagreed with Pfizer. Well, f**king coward hypocrite policies. Make sure and tell them that fine to tell you. We brought in Peter McCullough, Peter McCullough consented to speak and Duncan Trampy. He turned it down, turned it down. Fran Drescher turned it down. She tried to say she was a champion, but I emailed her personally. She a recall the guy as sort of an expert on this. I think he's sort of a major right, but telling them s**t they didn't want to hear like you are allowed to get out from under the bed. Or maybe the lockdowns don't work. Or maybe the vaccine isn't safe, or maybe ivermectin is effective. All the stuff those r****ded actors never stop vomiting out of their face, then want to hear any real and then accused everyone else of being anti-science. But here's here's the rub. When they were wrong, when the CDC even came out and said they were wrong and the whole do it for grandma and Pfizer said they never tested for transmissibility. So the whole return to work agreement zone A, where it said you had to be experimentally drugged or experimentally vaccinated was false, didn't matter anymore because that was false information. But they didn't change the right to return to work agreements when public policy changed in that return to work agreements. Specifically, we honor public policy. So the minute they came out seven or eight months ago and said there was no difference between people who took the jab and didn't take the jab, they didn't change it and they didn't allow people to work. So they discriminated against thousands of our members that didn't get to work, and we had to listen to a narrative that was voted up by a board, a safety board that doesn't have one doctor on it. It was. It was basically a kangaroo court that had no authority to vote, to vote over another's body sovereignty. And so there's a lot of people that were against this, but they wouldn't present the evidence. They wouldn't allow a debate to happen. And Fran Drescher is equally as guilty for as much as she says that she supports this. We gave her emails, she talked to Peter McCullough and they talked to Duncan Crabtree. They just turned it down because I don't know. I personally think they should be investigated because I don't know if they were paid money like comedians were in other people. That's the bigger question. Like how much of this was just a huge scam run on everybody by Big Pharma? But well, like, I think they've paid over $70 million in criminal criminal prosecution fines over the last 30 years. So if you wanted to look go back history, it's in my film. But obviously, when they when they testified in front of Congress about smoking, about nicotine, the president, all the heads of the of the tobacco companies came out and said that nicotine wasn't harmful or negligent. You know, to your health, addictive, addictive, sorry, not addictive or harmful to your health. All of them testified. And that was false information. All The Journal, The Lancet, the peer reviewed journals, they agreed with them. So if you're looking at a history where that's modeled and you do and you look at the history of like the DC Tuskegee experiments with the CDC did and then then you listen and you look at the data, the swine flu hoax of 76 77, where they vaccinated for 43 million people without one confirmed case. When you look at this kind of thing, you, you have to question everything. And to be vilified for not questioning things that that's inappropriate. Very being vilified for questioning things. Right? But sorry. Correct. You shouldn't be vilified. Are questioning civil debate. Yes, tell everyone it's sagging after a nice job for vilifying everybody who was asking questions. I have told them that the First Amendment freedom of speech is the cornerstone of the Constitution and democracy. You're out and you're never going to get voted for, and we're going to do anything with her without the First Amendment in play. All the other amendments do not work properly. They don't work, and everything depends on freedom of speech. Can you figure this out? Back in the day, actors like John Wayne and James Garner and Robert Mitchum, they were big dudes who drank and wore boots and are like a stereotype. When did actors turn into just these fake pussies, coward pussies? Like when did it take this turn? Because it was a lot of Macho Man stuff back in the day? And then all of a sudden you have these people burning foushee candles in the background and screaming at anyone who doesn't want experimental vaccination. The thing I think is I think there was a lot of fear porn put out. And I'll have to say, just as someone who just studies data, if someone put on the news every five minutes, tuberculosis is a tuberculosis outbreak, you got to be careful. Tuberculosis, tuberculosis, and they did that every five minutes. People would start going to their doctor and checking that, yes, if you if you if you if something was happening and you didn't know about it wouldn't be in your consciousness. So you wouldn't have the fear about it because you can never make a decision based on fear. You only can make a decision based on peace and, you know, kindness, kindness, because I have compassion for a lot of people. I think a lot of people got bamboozled. A lot of people got really cajoled without looking at at science, without know they got fooled. They got bamboozled and then attacked everyone who wasn't fooled. That's my argument. I don't care if you guys have a 10 cent head in your pussies. Fine, go get bamboozled all the time about everything, but shut your f**king mouth. The thing is, is that I always used to say that if we have a disagreement of or of of any kind of subject, we could speak civilly on it. However, when they shut you off and shut your mic off and say no, it's the only way since when does Apple Computer get to run roughshod over Dell? Dell has some bells and whistles Apple does, but if they shut off all Dell's points of view, that wouldn't be fair because I, as a person, as an intelligent person, want to see the bells and whistles that I could make at my own mind. They didn't allow two points of view. They shut it down, and that's I've never seen that before. And how much of it was useful idiots and how much of it was a sort of nefarious money grab if I was in the oligarchies or oligarchical system, I could probably answer that question. But, but but it appears there is a lot of things that are that are going on, you know, in this world that are are are an attack like like Robert Kennedy says it was a big Democrat, and he's basically saying what we have experienced. There's been an attack on our civil liberties and our human rights. Ron Paul, who ran for president, he was a Republican libertarian, which has been saying this for years. But everybody could see if you want to go on a plane and say, I need to take a, you know, a shot or have a pass to do anything. And it's like the Screen Actors Guild. After practice segregation in L.A., they were trying to put yellow bans on people, say, who took the jab and who didn't take the jab. And certainly no one should ever stand for that kind of information. And the fact that our our board allowed this to happen, they allowed our members to be discriminated against. And they're calling it a producer privilege. Well, I'd like to know if anybody on the producing side, if any of them provided informed consent to anybody, they said they had to take this experimental drug as a condition of employment because that's the law it's in Article 11 in the Nuremberg codes. Yeah. Also, people never stop complaining about McCarthyism. Tried to roll it out. Huge number way more than what McCarthyism was originally they wanted everybody who disagreed with them canceled and fired. I wanted to say something important, though the response was pretty. Now that we're in hindsight, it was pretty poor because people died of this horrible virus and people died for from of from this experimental drug that they were giving me. That's a fact that that has certainly come out. But the fact that they let people die alone in hospital rooms without refusing to give them ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, and these particular repurposed drugs that had 60 years or more of efficacy, one willing a Nobel Prize to do that, to deny it and saying How does that hurt? And for them to come out with that that needs to be looked at in the Congress of the United States of America really need to take a look at that because if those those repurposed drugs were given, according to Dr. Pierre Corey and the data that I've seen, you could have eliminated up to 70 percent of death in hospitals by using that drug in early treatment. Right. And this is by Rolling Stone said. It was horse paced, so we need to listen. Those f**ked arts. I'm just kidding, is Rolling Stone in with Pfizer? Are they just useful idiots? That's the question. What are they doing when Rolling Stone is showing us a picture of a bunch of people wearing parkas and hoodies and ski beanies in the month of July or August, saying this is a line of people out front of an emergency clinic. They're turning away gunshot victims because people took ivermectin. They're showing us stock footage line from clearly in the winter. This isn't what's going on at this particular time because it's a hundred and four degrees outside. What the f**k is Rolling Stones doing beside being wrong? Are they getting paid by Pfizer? Like, how is this working? What's in it for them to be wrong about everything and cook pictures and documents? And look, first up, no emergency room is turning away gunshot victims selves because somebody took ivermectin. You know, that's ridiculous. So what's Rolling Stone doing? I think Rolling Stone has lost its way. Many, many publications, yes. But why? What's in it for that to be wrong? You know, I think they are. They're getting paid. Are they just like being wrong now? Well, you can see. I think there's so much press ahead of of of how many shows and news programs that Pfizer sponsors and Big Pharma sponsors. So if you have a sponsorship and then you're speaking out against something that that's not efficacious. I mean, look at Vioxx, for Christ's sakes. They knew it was doing damage. They had it in the in the pre trials and they did it anyway because they figured the amount of destruction that it caused to human beings they had. They had the money to pay those people off and they figure the profit margins were too were too large. Yeah, which is unethical. Well, the point is is everything is now open to question because of how you reacted, how everyone reacted during this pandemic. All right, we need to take a quick break. Peter's going to hang out. We'll come back and do some news right after this. A big one, I take 81 one by athletic Greens daily, I gave 81 a try. 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I mean, sorry, the Writers Guild is actually following what we said, so we really would appreciate the opportunity to make a difference. But we also want the members to know that everything has to be run by data. This isn't a sorority, it's a business. It should be run like a business. So all of the actors that are involved, these big names are giving pizza, come into the negotiating room, show your power because these people are our producers as well as actors, so people are questioning where their loyalty rise. If Tom Hanks ever knew that our pension was really being hijacked, he would never back. He back at Unite for a strike party. He was the nicest person I've ever met. I did a film with him called The Money Pit when I started. I've never seen such a kind human being, and if he if he knew that our pension was really highjack at that hour, our staff gets almost three times the amount of a payout, which is two hundred and sixty five thousand a year, and they can retire after only 20 years. Service and the members like Tom Cruise, who is awesome he can retire at at age 65 with ninety six thousand a year. That's the cap. And if we retire retired early at 55, he would only get 70 percent of that because you get docked three percent a year for that. So it's it's highly it's there's no parity and it's not fair. We need our accrual rates back and the reason I want to run I'm running for secretary treasurer is because I want to remove the trustees who causes these problems because I initiated a lawsuit against our Our Health Plan for breach of fiduciary duty and our national executive executive director Duncan Crabtree. Ireland was one of the main defendants in that legal action because he never informed our negotiating committees in 2020 that our health plan had major financial problems. We had a commercial contract, TBE theatrical and a Netflix contract. Had he allowed them given that that information, then they would have had the knowledge to go in and negotiate more money so our seniors wouldn't have got kicked off. So we sued them and and we want a twenty point six million dollar settlement, and this is the same person that got voted. His contract got voted up. So I think the leadership now needs an ethical cleanse. That's why we're running to bring economic and all right, have in our three minutes. Thank you. Thank you. All right, nurse. All right. So Dick's Sporting Goods announced that retail theft is damaging its business and is going to lead to lower annual profits. It's really making a big dent now. The company blames shrink the industry term for theft and damaged inventory for its surprisingly poor earnings. And although other national retailers have also warned investors about growing theft, Dick's is among the first to blame its lackluster quarterly financial report, primarily on theft. Hmm. Yeah. So and of course, this brings up the subject of the new organized retail crime. Well, so years ago in Los Angeles, as I as I said out front of the Staples Center after watching a Lakers game and seeing all the illegal selling all the ghetto dogs on the steps and on the property. And I said to the guy who ran the place, I was like, What is going on here? Who are all these people? What's going on? It's like, Oh, these aren't like independent, poor women. This is a organized system. They get in a van, they load up in Chatsworth, they're driven out, they're women and they bring their kids with them so they don't get hassled, you know, by the man because you, you tend to leave the women alone and the more sympathetic sort of tableau. And but they're working. But and and when you hear, as we for mentioned about the vans and the RVs, those are people who parked their own RVs over there. Those are. This is crime. This is organized crime. And now now you get to all this mass theft stuff. These aren't random individuals that are all decide is they're working for like cartels and stuff. When can we get involved, like in a city? When when are we going to say we are just giving s**t loads of money to the worst people on the planet? And then we get back to the Rolling Stone magazine and Pfizer, like, is there something in it for the city council? Is are they profiting from in some way? Like, who are they worried about upsetting? When I said that the guy who ran staples, what are all these people doing on your property? You have retail here. People are paying a ton per square foot, square foot selling food across the street, but everyone selling his ghetto dogs and stuff go down to tell the city council, Hey guys, I don't want to get into trouble here. I get yelled at by the City Council. They defunded the Los Angeles Police Department $160 million. They they're causing this problem. And that's a huge mistake because we we need law and order. And by doing this, you're opening up a door for crime to run rampant. That's why you have a lot of people exiting the cities. So I think that needs to be addressed and people welcome a strong police presence to keep this order. And if that continues to happen, the degradation of society will happen until order returns. So we need ethical people that actually speak the truth that that actually have integrity to to bring this back. And we need to vote people in who stand for ethics, principles, morals and values instead of saying anything and doing anything just to get elected. And that's what we have. We have a culture of self-serving people instead of people that are actually serving the good, the good of God. We're ruled by a universe run by a divine creator, and we're desecrating its lands, its valleys, its rivers, its oceans with impunity. Well, I also think when it comes to the L.A. City Council, most scientists are f**king dingbats. I mean, these are 10 cent hats. They really can't think their way out of a problem. I mean, if you really break down that whatever woman from whatever district she was blaming Toyota for people stealing catalytic converters because the coyote made it too easy. She's a r****ded dingbat who should be just cast aside. You could not ask her about any subject and expect a decent, coherent answer. How long before we have these people and we hit a saturation point with these f**king dingbats, the whole city's not going to just break off and fall into the f**king ocean. I mean, how can you have people setting policy who think that way? I've been screaming this for a million years, and their whole thing is like, Oh yeah, L.A. City Councilman Nithya Raman. And then what we do is we go, Oh, she's a woman. She's Hispanic. Isn't that so progressive? That's great. Except for she's in charge of policy, and she's a f**king r****ded person. So we're going to have to get some people in there who can actually think, Well, there's there's no accountability. Everyone wants to blame when you blame you, put yourself in a victims category. When you, when you when you're accountable for your actions and your reactions because people want to say you pissed me off or you did this, that's why I acted that way. So you're basically admitting you're a puppet and you have no control of your own, your own spirituality and your own actions based upon what someone else does in order to take your own spiritual power back. You have to say, I am accountable for what I do, what I say for my actions and my reactions and those politicians you talk about are not accountable. Well, no, but L.A. is so god damn stupid or sort of obedient. I don't know what it is that they just vote for dumb cows over and over and over again. I mean, I was talking, What's that? Click sound I keep hearing is that it's coming from you as a coming from? I don't know. I've been trying to figure that out. I mean, crazy. Are you tapping your foot or? I don't know, it's like a click sound. All right, anyway, so if we hear it again, I was talking to a friend of mine who said he just went down to the grove and he said that place is locked down. Security safe. You take your family there, feel completely safe. They're not going to let any, you know, hooligans run around that place and rip off the stars because the guy who created the Grove also would have liked to run Los Angeles. But in our infinite wisdom, we went. Now let's have the career politician who doesn't know anything and have her run the county and Los Angeles. And now here, here we are. But it's our fault. It's our fault. There are competent people who raise their hand and go, I can help out. I mean, Dr. Drew tried to raise his hand and get on the homeless council because they didn't have any physicians on there and certainly none that specialized in addiction medicine. And they booted him off the council. They never let him on. There are competent people who could actually do something, but you idiots vote for these people over and over again. It has been said that the consciousness of the people directly reflect the consciousness of the leadership that they put in power. So we need to raise up and people. There's got to be a lot more transparency because there isn't. Yeah, we're not told the truth and the whole pandemic. There is no truth. Everything kept changing. And who is accountable? No, accountable, anywhere. Nobody's accountable now. Well, because most of the people went along with it and are shamed, and they should be. But they don't want to say they were wrong. All right. What's next? Jennifer Aniston did a big exposé on Wall Street Journal. The Nice big interview there and are some, some takeaways from it. I find us needlessly interested in Jennifer Aniston. She she's an icon. I know her a little bit. She's a sweetheart of a person. I've run into our few times. Her brand is as nice. She's a competent actress. Frances Fine. And she's cute. Not really hot. You know that Sofia Vergara hot butt, but good looking. Yeah. We're endlessly fascinated on the inner workings of Jennifer Aniston. What's she got to say about this and what she's thinking about that she strikes me as a very nice person who's a very competent actress who's a little, you know, and also, you know, trying to be diplomatic about things in this town when they can cancel. Anybody thinks she just won. I don't need I never sit around and think to myself, What is Jennifer Aniston thinking? Or something happened. Oh, man. You just hear about something, you know, there's some was Jennifer thinking Hot, hot subject? Yeah, like that. That woman went online and she had nine months to live and she went to have sex with her old boyfriend. I never go, What's Jennifer thinking? I want to get her take on it. I don't. I don't know why we want her take on everything. So I'm about to give you her take seriously. So first off, she said as she was talking about her relationship, she's very candid about that. She says that there's still a challenge because of her parents divorce. Oh yeah. So she says, quote, Watching my family's relationship didn't make me kind of go, Oh, I can't wait to do that. So she she thinks she she prefers to just leave with her dog. That's who she's sleeping with now. She she likes being alone. She yeah. And she just she's she's talking about her parents divorce as the reason. So and remember, she is married to Brad Pitt and Justin Theroux. She already married Brad Pitt. I mean, that's like, you've climbed Everest. Climb the mountain. You're good. Mm-Hmm. And then she also said that she'll try almost anything wants to look young. I mean, she actually, so she still looks very good. But she said that one of the things she tried was using salmon a salmon sperm for a facial. Hmm. I guess it's something they do in Korea. How they train that salmon, although it was fine this salmon. Yeah, I find that fish wrangler. I don't think I can get salmon. Do anything with a beat off on Jennifer Anderson's face. That's crazy. I know the guy trying to pursue him, and that's the guy we need to talk to. Yeah, let's get let's let's get him in here. So she doesn't know if it worked or not, but she admitted to trying a salmon sperm facial. Mm hmm. And then also she this is a big quote that everyone's talking about quote, I'm so over cancel culture. Hmm. I probably just got canceled by saying that I just don't understand what it means. Is there no redemption? I don't know. I don't put everybody in the Harvey Weinstein basket. Oh, well, Matt Damon said that a few years ago that a few years ago is problematic. Yeah, it's this to suggest that there's a difference between Al Franken and Harvey Weinstein, right? That that man needs to be taken out to the woodshed. So she's she said that. Yeah. Very. Matt Damon, you have her to say, but people are criticizing her because they're like, didn't just last week you you were involved in cancel culture with Jamie Fox. With that, you know that Instagram post that she liked or didn't supposedly like that don't know. But she has to get a computer forensic scientist to figure out that post because she said she didn't do it. Yeah, she liked it, but she didn't like the same person who tweeted for Joy Reid back in the ash and Reid with all the jokes about the gay community wasn't her, wasn't her jealousy. She looked into it personally, and it wasn't her. Wasn't Jeremy. Yeah. So anyway, so the forensic team thought it was her, but she knows well in her heart. She knows what kind of person she is. Yeah, you know what I mean? So we can't judge her because she knows who she is. Yeah, and that's what we bring. That's obvious fact off of now. Mm hmm. So anyway, Big Ol are calling Jennifer Aniston some key take unnecessary. Oh well, look, you watch friends still huge. Still huge, huge. And you can watch friends and I do watch friends. I never pick out one of them and go, I really need to hear what that one has to say, and the rest can go, f**k themselves. And look, they're all equally strong, but everyone is good in their role, right? And I, you know, I get the part where she's an actress and she's attractive and she's shown and so forth. I just don't like she's not, you know, Walt Whitman or, you know, I'm trying to trying to think Roy Rogers or something, right? Like our asset management. So Roy Rogers s**t. I'm trying to think of Will Rogers, Will Rogers, you're not like her takes. Aren't, you know, you don't go, Whoa. Mind blown. You know what I mean for a horrible society because they're so focused on, they're so focused on? Andersen has to say, Yeah. Not interested in Peter. When were you in The Groundlings? Oh, man, when I when I first started, I, my teacher was Mindy Sterling. Oh, I had her and wow. And she was cool. I had the most fun I ever had in my life was studying at The Groundlings, though it was so much fun. And you know, they were. Did you have a guy named Steve Hibbert, Steve Hibbert, Steve Hibbert and The Mindy Sterling? Those are the those are the C Cynthia Sagasti or Cynthia was Cynthia was there as well? Yes, sir. Yeah, man. Cynthia was there as well. They were the best. I mean, you go to the Friday night show is something. I mean, you go I mean, I'd be like mesmerized, though they were so really, really well trained. But as an actor, as a performer, it taught you how to listen. When you go to the Groundlings, you learn how to listen. It's a I said, Wow, this is the best freakin acting class I've ever had. Shut the f**k up and listen. And whatever someone says, build on it, you never say no, you just build on it. And I just said this to Arnie Adams the other day. I was like, Most people are not good listeners, and the Groundlings teaches you how to listen because the Groundlings will yell at you and tell you to stop the scene and leave and come back. If you try to power pass something that somebody said and it's training and it's training that most stand up comedians do not have at all. And then most even actors don't have it. But it's the listening part that nobody really understands because it's not sexy and it's invisible, but they teach you how to listen. And the yes and stuff as well. And the no denial stuff because of you listening powerfully and you're automatically just you're reacting, you're human or is it just takes place that's you get your human condition comes in and what you feel is what you feel. But if you're paying attention and you're just listening and responding, you're just recreating, you're constantly creating as opposed to mimicking like a lot of performance. Somebody will wait till someone spits out their line, and as soon as it comes in, they spit out their line. When you listen, then all the organics happen. And even if you don't say the correct thing and you know the story, you're just telling the story, you're listening and responding. That's what The Groundlings teaches you. And I think everybody should sign up. It's such a phenomenal, phenomenal way, this way to train, way to study. And all I do is I applaud them. Since since the spaghetti may, you know, may you rest in peace with a kind, you know, beautiful soul and kind of b***hy. Yeah, but still, but taught me. She loved me. She taught me. She taught me very well. She was a hard ass, but I learned really, she was like, Picture Roseanne and her most Rosanna East, you know, in 1991. Like this yelling from the bleachers now and I'm saying, Thank Jesus, I here, you know, she was just be yelling issues. A big woman with like frizzy hair and she just be screaming at everybody from from the dark bleachers while like you're on on stage all the time. But she liked me, but that's why she rode me hard and spent a lot of time yelling at me. And then, you know, later on when I became successful, I could tell she was kind of proud because you go to Adams, my here's my best thing, you know, now look at Amy's on basic cable, you know? So I always kind of kept in touch with her and I always thought she was fun. Yeah, I know. And she acted like you'd see her on sitcoms. And yeah, she's worked on a lot of people that she had like Seinfeld or something. I mean, you see her on the shows pop up all the time. She's doing Conan and I think Lisa Kudrow, too. Oh, really? That's right. Yeah, Lisa was there when I was there. I mean, it's a good place to start. No one cares what she has to say. You can do anything that I used to do when I'll see you tonight and my son, Michael. If a bolt of lightning strike in the. I don't blame some of the people in this room when I. It's the spaghetti reality after she threw a shoe at me. So do Marlon Brando with a spam commercial, so you just have to mix it up and do anything that's a good and it's like. Emma. Yeah, you know, just a mixed martial arts as a whole mix, you'll learn everything good to have on the street. All right. Shall we bring it home? Yeah, sure. Let's see. I'm got to have Broadcom. I'll be in Appleton, Wisconsin Skyline Comedy Club coming up this Friday and Saturday. Peter Antico Very interesting, subversive doc. The paradigm of Money Red Coral Universe Scam is where you can go for that. Kim Condon Well, you can find her doing shows all over the place at Kim SEO and G D O and Dot Com and tell next time the for Peter and Kim and Chris San Mahalla. Leave us a voicemail at eight, at eight, six three four one seven four and get you to CBAs, man. Get him right now. That's Adam Gurule at our call. 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