Theo Von
Appearances
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
So a lot of it is that we have a cap on certain salaries, right? And that we also don't have a law that stops people once you work for one side that you can't work for the other. Right, right.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
And I'm not saying that there's – I don't know the answer. I'm just saying that that's one of the reasons why that happened.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Right. That's a good point. Yeah. It's like no one's going to do anything perfectly. I don't know.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
You're going to war with the CIA. He's like that drunk uncle, dude. Bro, what about Barron Trump, dude? There's no credit. Whatever you think about this election, the whole thing to me is fascinating. First of all, because Dana White made so much stuff happen.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
And why in the article? Hey, well, when you herald it, say, hey, this could be a possibility.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah. Well, I think, like, to me, everything kind of started to feel like this privatized communism, right? Like, once the post office didn't work, I was like, the government's fucked, dude. I was like, these bastards can't even get a package to fucking Toledo in two days, dude, you know?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Right, but you go in there, dude, it's like a West and they're serving liquor at the counter. Are they really? Yeah. The post office? It's gone downhill. They have liquor? I mean, they don't, but you could probably score a gram up there at the counter. It's gone. The doors, there's no hinges. Really? Dude, it's the Wild West over there. Which post office you going to, bro? Every post office, bro.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
All of them are bad? Bro, it's... 75% of the post offices are – it's gotten – but I just use that as an example of like a – it just like started to fall apart, right?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah. And how many – you mailed in 20 million of them apparently. How many – And at that time, was there a saloon happening in there?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
They don't want to make the election real. I don't think either one of these parties is what the, people say like Democrat, they're not the same parties it was 15 years ago.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
But they also believe things that mean something to them. So they're not like – because –
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Well, the same people that own this own the publication company. It's just starting to be so obvious. It's like... I don't know.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
At what point does money mean something over the fact of somebody's peace of mind and health and wellness? That's the thing I don't understand.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
That wasn't cool, man. I never took it, and guess what? Doing great. Crazy. Yeah, I'm depressed. I'm suffering from depression. Yeah, had a lot of issues and back pain today.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Fuck, that's a story of my life, dude. Calling people to make sure we're okay.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, unless it's Pam Anderson's baby, dude. I wouldn't put anything in that kid, you know? And I don't even know if she has any kids or not. And I love Tommy Lee, so I shouldn't have said that.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Well, I think part of me, I've always just wanted to do my own thing. But then you start to realize that there's... That you, yeah, you're doing it by yourself. And I think that goes for like, whether it's work relationships or personal relationships too. You know, I think it's just like, it's been the same psychology for me. You know, like I'm the, I'll think, I never thought about this.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
I'll think to myself, I want to be in a relationship, but I want to do it on my own. I just realized that, dude.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
But it's, that's how, there's something, it's just like. Well, you can marry yourself. People do that. I would hate that, dude. I'm always just chasing myself trying to jerk me off. I wouldn't get any sleep, dude. That would be a nightmare.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Oh, the other night, even just being there, being able to laugh with Tony and like, Ron White was right there. You got Brian Simpson. You got Kurt Metzger. Everybody's just watching and dancing and figuring things out.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
He's like, you don't know about the Vanna White conspiracy? You don't know what's behind the E's? You don't know what's behind the E's?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Jimmy Dore's cool, huh? I never got to see him for years, but I've always been kind of admirable about him.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
It was fun. Yeah, that was just fun to see. Who else was there?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Derek's the best, dude, because you tell any joke, if it's good or not, you can look at Derek, and if he's laughing, it's good.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
He's a great green room hang. Yes. He'll let you know on his face immediately. To me, he's the be-all, end-all if something's funny.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Well, I just want people to tell us what's really going on. If they can't really do anything because the lobbyists are controlling everything, I wish somebody would just tell us that.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Well, back then, you could kind of kill somebody, and it was easier, you know? Think about, like, the Wild West, right? Like, if you killed somebody, they drew a picture of you.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Bro, you could literally go across the fucking behind a boulder, shave, come back to the town, get a job as a sheriff, and look for yourself for 20 years.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
I don't know if I saw that. I'm trying to think of what I saw. Tony was nervous, remember? Tony better be fucking nervous. Dude, I kept just going up to him and going, Feliz Navidad. To fucking get his vibes.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Have you seen that show From on Amazon Prime? I haven't. Pretty good. Yo, you know what I've been watching, though, on Netflix? What is it?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, I guess... can stress be that compartmentalized inside of you and it comes out like that?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Fuck. Usually it's the second season before you get a handicapped kid.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Right. I'm sure there's something in most people that feels like, hey, that's not right. Let's shut it down. Let's go outside instead.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
You know, well, people say this a lot. I mean, I'm from obviously Louisiana. People say, you know, they're always like, hey, you know, you ever fucked your sister?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
And the thing what happened was people didn't live close to each other. So if you you're not going to travel. you're only gonna travel so far to- Are you advocating for fucking sisters? Fuck, no, I'm not. What are you saying? It seems like that's what you're doing. No, I'm saying this is what happened back then. People aren't gonna get a train ticket to come.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
People are only gonna have sex within a certain distance of their- Right, good call. Right, that's why it happened.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
You know, it's like, if a guy, it's like. There's no one there. Right. There's nobody there.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
They didn't have to, but at a certain point they got lost and ended up back at, right by the house. You know, like something's got to happen here. I'm not saying it's cool. I'm just trying to tell you how it works out. Like, you know.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Oh, yeah, dude. I was staying at my buddy Brad's house one night, right? We're dead asleep, right? And they let a bunch of puppies loose, dude. Those things are fucking gangbanging you. I didn't have a chance, dude. I didn't have a fucking ounce of milk on me, and those things are fucking sucking me off, bro.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Right. It's crazy how it goes from animals to people, man.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
We're animals. Do you think there's a certain purpose for us, like there's a magical purpose for us, or do you think we are just an anomaly?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, I almost feel like I know more. I wish I didn't know more stuff. Sometimes I miss knowing nothing.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Oh, yeah. You're a library, dude. I'm more like a red box where you rent that one movie.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
But you are a library. There's certain types of people that can make it through certain things.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Oh, that's interesting. You don't think about the side effects of somebody being able to have a memory that records so much.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Right, but if you know that exists, then it's always a possibility.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, it's crazy how therapists make like $150 an hour, right? Right. But cops, who are basically therapists that also have to shoot at people, make $40 an hour.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
That's crazy, dude, when you think about that. It's crazy.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
But if you paid them like heroes, I feel like that they would more more fucking gladiators would show up and do it.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
And they would have a real force out there, you know, and you would fall asleep at night knowing that severe warriors were taking care of your fucking community.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, get fucked. When that kind of shit happens, they shouldn't be helping these other countries. I don't know why we send money to Israel, Ukraine. I just don't understand why we there's just people suffering here. You know, there's people that have been taken advantage of in our own country. And it's like you don't want to be selfish.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Oh, yeah. I'd be at home out here. Somebody opened a jar of Pringles and I'd fucking pull on them, you know? Yeah. You hear that top pop? Yeah. What's going on? Dude, we had a police officer on a few years ago or about a year ago. Can you look this up? Jamie, is it okay to ask him to look something up?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
But if you don't take care, if you don't know your inventory, then your business is going to fail. Right. That's a that is. That is a law. If you don't take stock of your own inventory, your business will fail. And we don't have stock of our own inventory and we don't have a healthy inventory.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
You know, it's like, it's just like, I don't understand how it's so, I don't, the weird thing is I start thinking, is that a radical idea?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
And some people... Yeah, we try to pretend that don't exist.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
We try to pretend that don't exist. Sorry if I stepped on you.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Yes. This guy, retired police officer, Sergeant Brad White. This guy was super unique. He lived in Los Angeles, but he told this story. He he he was he didn't have any political thoughts. He just told stories of what it was like being a police officer. And he told the story of his first day on the job. They're chasing a guy. The guy runs into traffic, gets hit by a vehicle and killed. Right.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
This year's just been, it's just been, it's been like every time I'm not doing a podcast, I have to like, I'm traveling for work or it's like, it's just been a busy time.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
No, I think it would be good because I think there's enough people there where you could do it.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Well, that would be cool, man, because at least I know the area. I could be, you know.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
I love you too, man. Thanks for being inspiring. And thanks for, yeah, sometimes you would like, I would do a podcast episode and you would just say, you would reach out and say, hey, man, I like that episode. And it just meant a lot. I just want to let you know that.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Well, thanks. Thanks, man. Yeah, I think it means a lot to people when somebody they admire says something nice to them. It's just nature.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
So even as just a human being, you're just doing a job, but then you're trying to compartmentalize or what effect did I have on this? He told this story of a mother had called and said that her son was... was thinking about committing suicide, right? The mother meets him in the yard. He shows up. He's a police officer. It's outside of Los Angeles, I think in Whittier Police Department.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
I could be wrong. He shows up. The mom meets him outside. They see the son comes into the doorway, right? It's like a glass door with another door behind it, kind of. Takes his own life, right? Kills himself right in front of them. So now he's standing there with the mom.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Now he has to go, he has to go, he has to console the mother, then go inside of the home. He walks inside. The door won't open because the man's body is there, right? He's having trouble getting it open. Even just that moment. He gets it open. Something falls off of the ceiling down the back of his shirt. And it's part of the guy, his brain matter. He had shot himself on the ceiling.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
So I know that's graphic and stuff. But and then for the next three or four hours, he has to take care of this scene with this little feeling between his bat wings or whatever. What is that? No, inside of your body.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
And it's just like, that's just a regular guy. He might not even have finished college or something. So just the baffling amount of stuff that police go through. Anyway, I was trying to just like, those are stories that stuck with me when I spoke with that guy. It was like unbelievable.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah. And they don't even... I think the highlight, like they usually, they used to play like softball in our area against like the fire department. That was like the highlight of it. You know, it was like having like competition, you know, but I don't even like if you defund them, they're not even super funded. You don't ever see a cop with like a boat or, you know what I'm saying?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
This was like when I got that hair surgery. You know what I'm talking about? They play music in the background?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
That's true. I think a lot of cops will start making albums from their cars. Yeah. But there really should be some there should be a great producer that goes on a ride along with a police officer this is gonna happen watch and makes a Dope track with a cop right and the and you could make a dope need of so much great visuals right and the proceeds go towards Supporting the police department.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Oh, yeah. That's crazy right there. That's 50. I think 44.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah. My Grammy won't nominate anybody. She liked Traveling Wilburys.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
I mean, I didn't. I mean, if my grandfather showed up and said, hey, they're good, I respect that a little bit more, but that's just me, you know. Lainey Wilson I love. She's great. Red Clay Strays, Stephen Wilson Jr.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
What was I thinking? I feel all over the place today, Joe. You ever feel like that?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Well, did they say that the most people they'd ever seen at voting stations were this year?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Maybe because people were sitting at home and so bored and they said it's that much to do, you think? Could be.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, I mean, they give Christopher Columbus as a holiday, dude. The Lieutenant Dan of the 1400s. That dude gets a fucking holiday, okay?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Well, then why do you think the cities and states are so much different then?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Celebrate it. It's a great day. People can rejoice. Cookouts. Yep. It would take a lot of stress off people, too. It's like today's also a day of celebration. It's not this day that I have to sneak away from work. and be sneaky or whatever, and pee in my car.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
I don't have his number. I don't know. There's a guy in his department. I have his number. We could hook it up.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
My brother, actually, my brother's a lot smarter than me, and he said, hey, man, I just want you to think that there could be some reflection from people if you have him on, right? Like you could – some people could be upset about it.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
You know? And I thought about that a little bit, and I was like, well, I don't really – Like, I don't know, you know, like, I have political thoughts and beliefs and stuff like that. And it's like, it's hard to find a group that really embodies them. And if anything, right now, for me, it seems like I don't even feel like these new parties are the same as the old parties.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
It doesn't seem like this isn't Democrats and Republicans. There's something else transmorphing right now.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
And so I thought, like... I thought, well, I think I'm... I just want to be able to have a chance to talk to this guy, you know? And the main thing for me was like... Like you talked about Dana White earlier. He's really... You know, I know that you guys work together and he... You know, I knew that Trump's brother suffered from addiction. Right. I knew that. Right. I heard that or something.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
And I looked into it is like, OK, he lost his brother. His brother died of addiction. So I was like, well, that's interesting to me, you know, and I wish that people I wonder if there's more to Donald Trump.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Like, is there more of a way to talk with him about something that means, you know, try to get an emotional well, like more of an emotional well to him that then it seems like that's in the public.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, that's the same thing they asked us. Is there an edit?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
I like to meet people where they're at. If I see somebody, I'll be like, what's happening, my friend? I like to meet people where they are.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
I remember that shit. I'll fucking make a nest in my living room, dude. That shit, boy. I'll scoot over to the neighbors and steal some twine in my beak, homie. There's nothing worse than being locked out of your place on cocaine, man.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
She's still all right. She got that thang on her, I bet. So this... You know what I'm saying?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Because a lot of brothers love her, too. Everybody seems to love her. Look, if the brothers like it, she got that thang on her. That's all I'm saying, you know?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
He told us the other day that it was just the other day. Yeah. But meanwhile, he said it three weeks later. It wasn't just the other day. It was three fucking weeks ago, dude. You're repeating the same shit.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, you got too many leap years, white boy. Yeah, shit like that.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
You know? But the thing is about Trump... You're not following the Grateful Dead here. Trump rambles. Trump has a lot, though. Trump has a lot that are repetitive.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
I've been to Lincoln's bedroom. How was it? It was okay. I think you can bring it up, actually. It's in Springfield, Illinois.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Oh, no. I've been to just his childhood before he got elected.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
It's really interesting. He used to keep his notes in his hat.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Well, I think a lot. It seems like a lot like a lot of Democrats. I don't know like a ton about politics, but it seems like a lot of Democrats like it's I understand a lot of the voting because it's hopeful voting. It's like wishful thinking.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
No way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the guy from Monopoly, too, right there.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
They should have a diaper round. We have to fight and shit at the same time.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Dude, I don't think there's a way you can shit and punch at the same time.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Look that up. Very hard. Because, yeah, think about it. Yeah.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Look, you're getting your liver pounded on. You're getting kneed in the guts. Oh, I got in a car accident once and it happened. You shit yourself? I didn't want to. I didn't have a choice. It just happened. It wanted to.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
You think... Yeah, I went to that fight with you. Or no, I went to that fight. Remember when me and Joey Diaz went? Which one? In New York. Oh, it was... Oh, I was thinking of your fighters. Well, I went and saw the James J. Braddock statue before. It was in New Jersey. Before Dustin and... That last fight that he had. No, the one before the last fight. Justin Gaethje? No, after that.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Which one was in Jersey? Islam? That one was in Jersey. He didn't beat Islam in Jersey. Right.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, I went with Joey, and I went to the James J. Braddock statue before. It was awesome, dude. Islam's a monster. He's so good. Yeah, it was crazy. And Joey was like, dude, he was awesome. This is all love, dude. He's fucking tremendous. He's one of a kind. And his book is great, too, if you haven't read his book. But he's sitting there. He'd been eating mushrooms, you know?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
And a lot of it is... People are robbing each other on Facebook Marketplace.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
And once he even started eating a little, you could see Aaron Rodgers start to look over. He was getting curious. He's like, what is happening? That's hilarious. But by the sixth quarter or whatever, I don't know how the fights go, but it's like by the sixth quarter, he's just rubbing on his thighs, right? He's fucking... He goes, who's winning dog? That's what he kept saying to me.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
It's one of my favorite things that I ever learned about him.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, it's almost like a football player kind of putting on their helmet.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
I'm going to come back and look in about a week and a half.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
You're just talking to plumbers or whoever's got a decent attitude or whatever, you know, decent sense of humor.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
That was insane, man. I think that's one of the... But yeah, people are robbing each other on Facebook Marketplace. My buddy was going to buy a couple of walkie-talkies off a guy, right? Gets fucking mugged, right? Really? Yeah. He was going to buy a couple of... So he meets the guy to go get the walkie-talkies and the guy mugs him? That's like the seventh story I've heard.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
26% more Puerto Ricans voted for Trump. Bro, he had the Puerto Rican app open on his whoop bracelet. I'm like, they have that? What is that? He was like, how many plantains have sold tonight?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
He said that Puerto Rico was a pile of garbage. These are human beings.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
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The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
So it was like both sides would have disliked Tony Absolutely, absolutely He would have had to go to Puerto Rico or Costa Rica.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
But it's like, you know, people are doing crime, you know, people are resorting to crime. And that's when it's not good, I feel like.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
I could see that because you're both Latino cultures and you want to be the best, you know?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
I'm trying to think if I've ever been to a boxing match or not.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
And it was like two guys beating each other up in baby diapers or whatever. Baby diapers? Yeah, bring it up. They were wearing big diapers or whatever.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Maybe I'm not thinking about it. Maybe I'm thinking about something else then. But it just kept hugging.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Who would you rather knock you unconscious, you think, if you had to pick a good fighter?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
That's crazy, dude. I can't even get a fucking medium jacket off of my body, and this guy's doing this shit? That's what blows my mind, dude.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Oh, yeah. If I'm a criminal and they're like, hey, it's crime time or whatever, I'm going to fucking put on my cleats or whatever.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
He was terrified. Tony was terrified. Right when I walked in, I hadn't seen him in months. I'm just fucking grilling him. I'm like, there he is. I'm like, who's an island now? That's what I said. He's fucking sitting there.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah. And here's the best thing about Tony, though. He laughed. Like, Tony is for the joke, right?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Like, even if he's, like, going through it, he respects the joke.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
There's many layers to that whole thing. It's like, Tony is who he is. Yeah. And you almost, you respect that to the core. Was it the best timing? Probably not, right? No. Was there a lot of supervision over what he said? No.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
It's disorganized, but it's also real. So it's like there's two ways to look at it. It's like, yes, it's like nobody proofread it.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah. It's like catch and release. It's almost like the fishing rules or whatever.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
We did it. Yeah, he's just so silly. But he's the guy. But he laughs at himself. Oh, totally. But also he's, it's weird because it's like, do you want things to be tailored or do you not want them to be tailored? You know? Yeah. It's like you could have a group that goes through every single joke and says no to everything. Right. And then you get nothing. You know what I'm saying?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
It's like how many layers of like when you drain spaghetti or whatever I'm talking about. Like how many layers of. Spaghetti. Nah, shit. I don't know. It's been a long year.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Some of the speeches were like, what do you... Yeah, they had 40 minutes of ASMR in there. They were fucking letting people do anything.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
We had a brother. He would slash everybody's tires. But then here's the thing. We were giving him a ride home. So it was like, well, now we're all fucked. But that's who he was. You had to respect him. He was a power forward, you know?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Nick Bosa got brave and shared his political thoughts the other night. You see that? No, I didn't. It's just crazy how on mainstream stuff, if you share anything one way, it's okay, but you share something another way, it's not okay.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Where Jimmy Kimmel called Donald Trump that? No, no, no, no, no, no. Bautista. That Bautista did?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Did you have a good time? Yeah, you know what I did? I thought it was like... Let me think about what I thought it was like. Uh...
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Is he the Intercontinental Champion? I haven't watched wrestling in a bit.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yes, it was like, excuse me, fish. Yes, gentle cast. Yes. It was like, hey.
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#2226 - Theo Von
It was baffling, man. I mean, here, I'll tell you. It was, uh...
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#2226 - Theo Von
Well, Hollywood's just crazy to me, dude. I just don't understand it. Like, it seems like they hate white men.
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#2226 - Theo Von
You can't, like, if you have a kid or whatever, you can't do it. Right. Like, if you're just fishing on the bank, you can have your kid, and you can be sitting there smoking or whatever your kid likes to do, you know? But if you're in that, you have to constantly be moving it.
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#2226 - Theo Von
You know? It's very kind of like... It's kind of homoerotic almost. It's like, hey, fish, or whatever.
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#2226 - Theo Von
But they're treated better than the people in Gaza, though.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Look at Fyre Fest. Remember Fyre Fest or whatever? Yeah. What the fuck was that, dude? That was a dude trying to make money. Right, but still, those people got carded over there. Yeah. Nothing to eat, nowhere to sleep. Definitely different than slavery, but still, it's like, yeah, it's funny. You think just because things happened a long time ago that it's not slavery today, right?
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#2226 - Theo Von
Well, I wouldn't say that Fyre Festival is a form of slavery.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Because a lot of them gay producers trying to crank out them twinks, homie. That's why, bro. Keeping my slaves? Yeah, bro. Every now and then.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Every now and then a frickin' some twink fucking clambers out of an air vent.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah. Speeding, you need to have a car, and you're like, you're speeding.
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#2226 - Theo Von
No. Prisons are owned by corporations. Okay. So prisons own corporations.
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#2226 - Theo Von
What about the Excalibur in Las Vegas? That place is a fucking private prison, dude. You ever been there?
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah. Oh, shit. I think we got one. Oh, shit. It's like Jaws all of a sudden.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, and we need a few more in there, too, I think. Yeah. To be honest, bro, freedom is, hey, some people can't handle freedom.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Oh, that's Zenz or something? Yeah. Breakers? You scared of it? You have a vape on you? This is non-alcoholic. I have this. What is that?
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#2226 - Theo Von
I'll take a hit of anything, dude. I'm about to fucking jerk off just to get high, dude.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah. My grandma used to take us fishing, dude, and she was like a...
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#2226 - Theo Von
malignant fisherman or whatever and she would um degenerate yeah like very she was like a staunch fisherman like staunch like we're fishing you know oh aggressive you better not fucking not fish you know she would like kind of have that kind of behavior yes she was very you better fucking fish white boy whoa you know she would kind of be like that yes very aggressive right about fishing for little kids yeah
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#2226 - Theo Von
I mean, one of my eyes just shut down. Yeah. And I like it. It's like, how far can we go? There's something about doing something. It's like, I think when you have addiction, you want to do something that harms you. Is that what it is? Yeah. You want to fucking... Because it's control. It's like, I want to control how I feel.
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#2226 - Theo Von
So even if how I feel isn't great, there's a weird juxtaposition where it's like, if I have control over it, then that's... It's almost like you're the devil that's trying to kill you, you know? Does that make any sense?
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, there's something about having control about how you feel. So even if you feel damaged, you still did it to yourself. There's like, I don't know, man, I'm doing the worst job.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, self-destructive. It's like just things feel so hectic right now. At least if I damage myself, then I'm the one doing it. I'm not just letting the world do it, right? In the moment, you don't see that that doesn't have any value.
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#2226 - Theo Von
We had such a good time. That green room was so positive. My favorite part, at one point, they were playing that song, you talk about a revolution. People were dancing. People were smoking weed. I think there was a baby smoking weed. Everybody was like, people were like, it was crazy, dude. Adam and Eve were in there.
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#2226 - Theo Von
And we'd have to be quiet and look straight out and wait for the bobber. But she was really, she loved to fish.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, I mean, Mothership's fun, man. I've been wanting to look for a place where I just haven't had the time.
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#2226 - Theo Von
This year's been the craziest year. It's just been a crazy year.
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#2226 - Theo Von
It's been scary. It's been fun. I appreciate the couple times. You've messaged me after a couple episodes and said, hey, man, I like that or something. I really appreciate it. I want to let you know that I really appreciate that.
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#2226 - Theo Von
So it's like, well, I just want to have a voice, you know, I always just wanted to have a voice ever or not even, I just want to, I don't know.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yep. She liked to skin them and grill them and everything.
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#2226 - Theo Von
I just wanted things to be fair and I just want to express. I just like, yeah, there was always this feeling inside of me. Like I don't have a, I can't speak up for myself, you know?
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#2226 - Theo Von
And even if I'm just listening to somebody, but letting them speak, it's like, there's still like something that, you know, it means it's like, I can't even explain it, but it's like, it's so, it's like, I don't know. It means something to me.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Mostly catfish, bullheads. We used to fish up in like Spoon River up in like Illinois.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, man. Dude, I had a lady who had been driving cats across the country for two years in a fucking tour bus, right? And they perform and they do musical acts. And, bro, I'm not even joking to you. It was one of the most fascinating things I've ever heard in my life.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Because her commitment to it. Imagine she got her CDL so she could drive the fucking bus because it was so expensive. What's a CDL? Commercial driver's license. Oh. And she goes around doing feline shows around the whole country. And she's been doing it for 15 years.
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#2226 - Theo Von
We would get out there. We'd have a little thermos full of chicken liver.
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#2226 - Theo Von
I used to live with this dude. Right. And I ended up doing fucking a lot of drugs or something, whatever. And I fucking cut a window into my closet, dude. And it was to the neighbor's apartment. I thought it went outside. I got kicked out. Oh, my God.
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#2226 - Theo Von
My grandfather would say anything and she'd fucking look at him. He wouldn't talk for a month after that.
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#2226 - Theo Von
It's so weird. Well, yeah, dude, I'll say some things. Here's things that, like, whatever you think about, the guy is as resilient. No one could go through all that shit. When the Justice Department started to fuck him over, that's when a lot of people were like, you know what? the only thing we should be able to believe in in this country is at least the justice system.
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#2226 - Theo Von
And if they're fucking him over, and then he got shot at a couple of times, dude, he's a quarter of 50 cent. You know what I'm saying? He's like, so it's like, what else does it, you know, at a certain point, you're just like, I gotta bet on this dog. You know, even if it's like you don't even like him. It's like, this motherfucker, this dude, you got to bet on that dog.
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#2226 - Theo Von
She was. The fisher woman. Yeah, she loved to fish. I think she liked catching her own meals. She didn't like to hunt, but she liked to fish.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, fight, fight. Dude, I stubbed my toe. I called my assistant a faggot. So yeah, there's something special about that guy.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Well, why? I don't understand why left-leaning media, which is mostly Jewish, are calling people white supremacists, dude. Jewish. Did you say that? Yeah, I just don't understand. Left-wing media is mostly Jewish? I mean, according to my Jewish friends, it is, you know?
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, you're just being a little secret care bear or whatever.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Oh, yeah. If I was ever in office, dude, Native Americans are getting a lot of shit back immediately, dude.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, but did they want casinos? I want them to have back whatever they want.
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#2226 - Theo Von
They're getting the rivers back. They're getting the lakes back. They were taking it from each other too, dude.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Everybody acts like Native Americans were like everybody's just like whistling and just shaking hands, but they were fighting. Yeah, 100%.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Imagine not being able to surrender because you have no choice but to fight to the death. That's wild.
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#2226 - Theo Von
So if you so so is it weird that we feel bad about that? Like, is that a trap? Like, that's what I'm wondering. Does that make does that question make sense?
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#2226 - Theo Von
Because sometimes there's this vision that you romanticize that culture, right? I do that a lot. I romanticize things that I don't know about, right? Because there just seems like something like, oh, that's romantic or something, you know?
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#2226 - Theo Von
You're a fucking warrior, right? Suddenly you get a fucking couple of bumps.
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#2226 - Theo Von
It was like the first Burning Man, dude. That place was a dump, dude. I heard the penta didn't even have any chicks on it, dude.
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#2226 - Theo Von
I romanticize nature so much, and it's really vulgar, isn't it?
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#2226 - Theo Von
Right, like we're civilized on the outside, but there's a part of us that will always be uncivilized?
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, Memphis, first of all. Is Memphis that bad? Memphis is bad, dude.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Actually, Graceland, you know what's crazy about Graceland, dude? It's in Memphis. And it's cool. You go out, they let you in the backyard after the smoke, and Elvis' grave is right there. You could smoke right in front of Elvis' grave? You could smoke 17 centimeters from Elvis' grave or 80 centimeters.
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#2226 - Theo Von
No, there wasn't. Well, yeah, there was. Jesus, probably. Who else? Maybe Jesus.
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#2226 - Theo Von
What do you think you, what do you, what are you going to do when you die, dude?
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#2226 - Theo Von
First thing you're going to think is this dude's gay as fuck, I think. With that robe. Yeah. Some dude has a checklist or whatever.
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#2226 - Theo Von
I might walk up to him, but I put sunglasses on first, dude.
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#2226 - Theo Von
You have to stay up late to do it, I feel like. I feel like it's like a late-night activity.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Until past 1. Yeah. Past 1 a.m. I like to get to bed at a decent hour.
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#2226 - Theo Von
It wouldn't be fair if he did that. It wouldn't be right. I think the craziest thing is I think if you – the first gay dude must have been like, what's going on? Like he's sitting there with his wife or whatever and his buddy comes over to just look around or whatever because they didn't have that much stuff back then.
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#2226 - Theo Von
And his buddy comes over just to look around or tell him about an animal he saw or something. And he just starts thinking, man, I'm going to fucking – I bet I'm going to get this little rabbit.
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#2226 - Theo Von
What do you think if the thoughts have to come into your head? Something puts the thoughts in you. I think it starts in the thoughts. I don't think it starts in the DNA.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, Jeff, what's his name, used to party there. Jeff from the comedy store.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Just spray and stray kind of thing. Like Monsanto or whatever.
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#2226 - Theo Von
And just as there's people that's gay, there's people that are non-sexual at all, really.
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#2226 - Theo Von
if you're being plural, you're, I don't understand it. Like if you're being plural, are you being like, there's more of me kind of like, that's what I understand. Is it like an ego trip? Like that's, you know, like that's what I don't understand about the.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, what if you're just jerking off at your house? Are you in that or what? Like, what is that? Who are those people?
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#2226 - Theo Von
You see that robot cutting hay the other day? I did not. Pull that up if you don't mind, Jamie.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, it was like a little bit of like a, not a slave bot or whatever.
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#2226 - Theo Von
That'd be cool, but then like the second you start, you gotta run, they're gonna be like, oh right. And then they'll run, it's gonna take half a second, half a second kills everything.
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#2226 - Theo Von
But don't you think at a certain point that we shouldn't have that? At a certain point, shouldn't AI, if it doesn't help us be human, that at a certain point we should stop it? That's how I feel like.
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#2226 - Theo Von
They just, I saw, they, what were we talking about a second ago?
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#2226 - Theo Von
Oh, they're killing people at the airport. You want another hit of those? Yeah, I'll take another one, man. I need another soda or something. You got anything on you in here?
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#2226 - Theo Von
Wrist curls. Well, it's amazing whenever you take, like, any jiu-jitsu classes, how the first thing you start to learn is just control the wrist.
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#2226 - Theo Von
It would seem like I would be scared to be that tall in MMA because there would be more of you to be attacked by.
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#2226 - Theo Von
People say that he's Dana White's favorite fighter. Is that the truth, do you think? Or is that just a myth?
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#2226 - Theo Von
Nothing. He's cool. He's just... He doesn't... Yeah, he didn't, like, send you an email update or whatever.
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#2226 - Theo Von
He's just like a... Just decides he's queer. Yeah. He's like a secret... Not secret. He's like... He's just like a, or I don't even know what they call it. I got to look at the chart or whatever.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Boom. Bro. Wow, dude. Bro. Bro. If that dude ain't good at gift wrapping, you got the wrong guy, bro.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, it's crazy how many of those guys would be like Hollywood stuntmen, you know?
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#2226 - Theo Von
And at first, the first two rounds, you're like, what is this like? What's going on? Khalil's in it. They're both in it. But then you start to see that Pereira's hunting. It's like this hunting thing.
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#2226 - Theo Von
yeah the pressure never ends yeah and you're like oh my god it's like literally watching one of those snake like a snake when they're just kind of like like did you see that snake that ate that deer was like a 77 pound deer or whatever yeah i did see that you did of course i see all that shit it's crazy dude bring that up bring that up that big dog i'm glad he says snake because that's kind of how perera moves
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#2226 - Theo Von
And he operates at his own speed. He's almost like Alvin Kamara is a football player that does that. He operates at his – it's a speed you've never seen. It looks normal, but it's –
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#2226 - Theo Von
That's a good point. Yeah. Because everybody that's doing great, you want to stay as long as you can. It would be weird if you didn't probably.
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#2226 - Theo Von
I know you talk about him a lot. I've heard you speak about him a lot.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Did he win? No, he didn't win. Aw. No. I went to Maui not too long ago, maybe four months ago.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, but we went to the place where the fires were. Oh, yes, the fires. Blew my mind, man. It's still nothing, right? It was unbelievable. Yeah. It was just like – it was unbelievable to see what had occurred, you know? And just like – it's crazy how quickly we just as like – how we move past certain tragedies, you know, like we don't mean to, it's just the news cycle does.
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#2226 - Theo Von
I don't know what that means. I can barely handle whatever I am, dude. To be real honest, bro.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Especially in one of the most beautiful places that our country has to even exist.
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#2226 - Theo Von
And it's hard to figure out there, Joe, because a lot of people, they live as, like, second and third generations all living in the same home. Right. And they've also – a lot of – you know how Hawaii is. They, like – they'll, like, take little pieces of land. It's like, you know, people will build, like, something small and just live in somebody else's yard, that kind of thing. It's very, like –
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#2226 - Theo Von
Whatever I am, bro, it keeps jerking off at night and being afraid to talk to women. So whatever that one is, that's what I am, bro.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Well, I think that's a weird thing when you don't feel like as a person that your government is going to support you. I think that's, but that's probably like a feeling why.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, I remember I went there. I just walked up to the fire department that was like up the hill from there. Oh, man. And I just walked up and I was like, hey, I would like to, is there any way that I could go see what happened?
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#2226 - Theo Von
No, I don't know. You know, I think I get afraid to, like, I just, I've always got afraid to approach women, you know?
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#2226 - Theo Von
Well, it would be very scary as just a regular person. So I'm either going to lose my land to here or to here.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, and people will say like, well, your tax dollars don't affect it. But at a certain point, it's not even about that. It's just like, do you not... Like, if I'm an American and I'm contributing to this business by being an American and being part of the system, does the system not care about me, you know?
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#2226 - Theo Von
But I guess everybody thinks about that in different ways, so... Well, I think whenever you have a system... I don't know, man. I'm out of my mind.
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#2226 - Theo Von
I don't know. I think something I just... Childhood shit? Yeah, probably. There's something, you know, just... Yeah, like I just... I would just be so fucking nervous, buddy. You know, when I was a kid, I would be so nervous. I would... Yeah, I would be so nervous.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah. But when people start to lose their purpose, like if you start to lose your sense of being an American, that's big for a lot of people, right? So then it's a sense of purpose, right? One of the senses of purpose is I feel like that we get, or like having a job, having a family or somebody that loves you or that you love, or being a part of a country, right?
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#2226 - Theo Von
Being a part of a fabric of a society. And when those things start to erode, some of those things, And if you don't have any other ones to back it up, then people get really rogue.
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#2226 - Theo Von
No, he just seems like just an older guy who kind of likes being Donald Trump.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Well, I think you need a businessman to do this. It's not a... We don't live in this Care Bear world anymore. Our politics, it's become a dirty fucking business. So I think you want a businessman in there. I don't care if somebody's attitude... Can the guy do business? Then that's who I... Because it's not... It's all business now. Like we've been, it's been sold out.
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#2226 - Theo Von
It's like, I don't feel like it's this. I don't know. Does that make any sense, dude? Sorry, dude. I'm fucking having a day, man. No, don't apologize.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Well, I think I was familiar with being nervous, so that didn't affect me.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, it is business. But you want a shrewd businessman. I don't need Mary Poppins in there, right? I don't need somebody to tell me everything's okay. I need somebody to make our fucking food safe. I need somebody to make our streets safe. And that's all I really need.
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#2226 - Theo Von
I feel like if I'm paying taxes, then those are the things that I should expect at my FDA and at my police department, which I'm paying for, are going to be able to... Make sure that I can raise a family and raise them healthily and make it home from work to see my children. I feel like I don't have any children yet, but I already feel, you know, that's what I feel like people want.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Oh, the audience is, when you're on stage, the audience is just a woman. Oh, like you're just trying to get them to like you. You're just trying to get, yeah, you're like, how do we get this to work out, you know? How do I get you to like me more? Who do I have to be? Dude, the other night was crazy. Sorry, I cut you off.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Well, I felt a sense of like even after the election was over, I felt like people everything just felt kind of calm.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Right. I've never expected politics to have any effect on my life. Even when I was a kid, I didn't. My mom told us don't ever depend on the government for anything. You just have to figure it out. They used to have some rich dude or whatever. Our street, it would cut between the highway and this other road where people would go. They had a guy who was a veterinarian or whatever.
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#2226 - Theo Von
He would go down our street. He would stop and throw out... He was a veterinarian. And he would throw animal carcasses into our ditch and shit, right? Jesus Christ.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, dead animals. Different animals. Nothing really, I would say, medium size. Probably 32 waist and lower, right? Right. He would throw those bitches out into the fucking ditch. I guess to just get rid of them. And our neighborhood was like the poor neighborhood. So it was like, who gives a fuck about these people, right? What an asshole. Totally. Just throw them on the streets?
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#2226 - Theo Von
Throw them in the ditch. But we called the police and they'd be like, yeah, we'll help. And they would never come, you know. And my mom was like, don't ever. I remember telling her, do not ever expect the government to fucking help you do anything. You have to do shit yourself, you know.
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#2226 - Theo Von
And he would just throw those bitches. And sometimes it would be, you know, after they died or whatever, like... After they, like... You know, after the bones got blanced or whatever by the sun, we would fucking throw, you know, do like games or shit, but nothing. What? Or, you know, throw them at each other. You guys would throw in bones at each other? Yeah, fucking six rib cages there. Yeah.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, we had a good time. But nothing like that snake head in that ditch. Bring that thing back up, dude.
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#2226 - Theo Von
I got nothing, man. No, the other night was crazy. This week's been crazy. It's just been a crazy week. Yeah. You know? It's been a crazy week, man.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, I'm trying to think of what was in our biome or whatever.
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#2226 - Theo Von
You know, I'll get to ask my mom, I guess. Yeah, that snake was crazy. That's the crazy thing to me, man, is seeing a snake eat something like that.
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#2226 - Theo Von
I would guess 150,000. Oh, no, that's even low, I bet. I would bet 200,000. 500,000.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, and the guy you're asking is probably like, yeah, it's probably fire.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Dude, that's a 77-pound deer. You see that? Yeah, dude. That thing is a damn sixth grader, dude. They eat alligators.
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#2226 - Theo Von
But how long does it, I mean, it's unbelievable. But how long, that's Satan working as well. And how long does it take? How long does it take a snake to digest? Like how long does it take once it gets that deer?
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#2226 - Theo Von
No comfortable way to sleep. What do they do with the antlers, man? Well, they must die. I'm sure they just get to that point and the rest of the body is deceased.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, they'll see them sometimes hooked together. Yeah. I mean, nature's danger. Nature is really, really unbelievable. That's the number one person in the world.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah. And you're like, what is it? And some channels are like, and then every channel is kind of different.
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#2226 - Theo Von
That's like when you're in a threesome, but nobody wants to touch you.
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#2226 - Theo Von
But don't you hate that, though, like when you're eating and somebody, you're done eating and they're still eating?
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, like you're at a restaurant and they're done, right? They're done and you have to fucking, you're done. And they're still just.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, but then you feel like you have to pretend like you're still like scraping your bowl or whatever.
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#2226 - Theo Von
I think it's crazy to sit there and watch somebody eat. Do you? Yeah, bro. Why? Because, dude, they're eating. Yeah, but you were eating with them, too. Yeah, but you're done. So what? Now you're just going to fucking look at them?
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, pythons, whales or whatever. Big animals. Dude, it's crazy like how they have all those Airbnbs now where it's like you can stay in like a hollowed out whale carcass out here on the pocket. You know, it's like.
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#2226 - Theo Von
like airbnbs bring up some airbnbs please sir they've gotten weird it's like welcome to this uh it's like oh yeah it's like welcome to this two-story whale carcass down here at punta verde mexico they make up it's like punta every month there's a new punta in mexico you're like what the fuck are we doing renamed a city every time it's like welcome to fucking punta pescado mexico you want to stay in this two bedroom you can stay in that it's a potato i
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#2226 - Theo Von
John Daly's unbelievable, dude. Every time I go somewhere, every time he's there, an ambulance takes him home. It's fucking unbelievable, dude. Every time I'm there, it's almost like he hits a hole in heaven, dude. I'm like, this motherfucker's headed. One time, the ambulance came. They came in to look for him. He went out and sat in the ambulance to ride home with him, bro.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Dude, do you see that golfer girl, though, the girl that smokes, the female John Daly, dude?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2226 - Theo Von
Sorry, that's insane. That sounds like a death threat. John Daly is like... Also, man, if she could be married, I have no idea.
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#2226 - Theo Von
I don't know. I'm just fucking... Everything's high strung today.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, people love short-term fats, man. There's something about it. If you know there's a bigger guy and you think he's not going to live long, there's an exceptional amount of love that goes into them immediately.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Oh, he looks great. No, John Taylor's an exceptional guy. Great storyteller. He's a fucking, he's the Santa Claus of every 7-Eleven I've ever been to.
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#2226 - Theo Von
He'll hit a 68 in an ICU, dude. This guy's one of a kind, I feel like. You know? Nobody could do it like him. He's exceptional.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, don't you want to stay in this hollowed out moose carcass out here in Bend, Oregon? Do you? Don't you want to stay in our tree house?
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#2226 - Theo Von
It's just like regular shit. People are like, yeah, we'll go stay there, you know?
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#2226 - Theo Von
You ever did a lot of fucking outdoors, or what was your life like?
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#2226 - Theo Von
Rockford Fosgate's in the trunk just coming down the street.
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#2226 - Theo Von
There's nothing like running out of gas and coasting to the fucking pump.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah. Oh, that was crazy. Dude, if an older kid picked you up when you were a kid and he had a car, it was like getting into somebody who had a car's car when you couldn't even have a car was the craziest feeling ever.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Whoa. Yeah, hey, play something cool on the radio. Everything meant something.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Dude, yeah, I mean, the whole thing's crazy to me. I'm so happy for... My biggest thing was I was so happy for Bobby Kennedy, man. Yeah. Because he's the only person that I super know, like, as a human, you know? Uh-huh. He's been a buddy of mine for years, and I've just known that he's a... I trust him. It's almost like you have people that you know and that are good people.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, and it mattered if your hand was out the window, the window was down, if the window was up, how you were operating, if the seatbelt was on, if your arms were over this. You want to look cool. Yes, you want to look cool.
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#2226 - Theo Von
And you thought everybody you drove past looked at you. What's up, kids?
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#2226 - Theo Von
What's up, kids? Just looking for some pussy. I remember there was this one dude.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah. God, I fucking remember that shit, dude. I remember my brother one time fucking... I got more of the story. Sorry, go on.
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#2226 - Theo Von
I hate that kind of thing. Have you ever had like a bag stuck under your car or whatever?
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#2226 - Theo Von
Oh, totally. Everything felt like kind of had the Stephen King vibes back then, you know?
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#2226 - Theo Von
I have to trust my own instincts at some point and know I know him. He's somebody I would vouch for. He's a good guy and he's been helpful to me in moments where I have struggled as a person and just... been inspirational to me. You know, it's like, I know him, you know, like a friend.
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#2226 - Theo Von
People were, yeah, some people got dangerous, dude. Especially if they got on the drugs or got on the gear, you know?
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Imagine even being in the other room while that's going on.
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#2226 - Theo Von
You know, even trying to watch a show or whatever. Or just like...
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I would never be able to torture somebody, I don't think. I'm trying to think of the things I could do to somebody.
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#2226 - Theo Von
And do you think it's a choice they make or you think it's something that's just inside of them?
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#2226 - Theo Von
And it also seems like there's a lot of cases now where people are deceasing their own children.
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#2226 - Theo Von
And so, so that's, I think like, that was something I was like super excited about just to see where everybody was like, screw this guy, you know, and to see him have a arc where it's like, cause all he ever cared about to me. And I don't know, this is just my opinions, dude. Some people, everybody has their own opinions and I'm an idiot, but
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, shut it down. Shut down everything that doesn't have to do with us, I feel like, for a while. It's like there's just a lot of stuff that we haven't even healed from in this country, you know? Oh, yeah. That's the biggest thing. I think there's a lot of things that we haven't healed from that we should try to address as a group, you know?
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#2226 - Theo Von
And that could be like everything from Native American times, slavery times, opioid epidemic. There's tons of things I feel like that it's like – and I don't know how you do that. I mean I know time has a lot to do with it, but it's like I just don't know if sending our resources elsewhere is the most important thing right now when it's like we could – I think try at least to help.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, it's like even if you look at like, um, you know, recently I learned, sorry, recently I learned that like the number one cause of medical debt is insurance is medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy in America, right?
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#2226 - Theo Von
It's crazy that there's just such a laundering system that goes on. It's money laundering.
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#2226 - Theo Von
But he always cared about the rivers and the environment. And then he started to care about the environment inside of our bodies. So for me, that all makes sense.
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#2226 - Theo Von
You don't have insurance like wolf But it's just a scam like the prices for our drugs are so much more than other countries just things that it's like our Government doesn't want to make better deals because there is this middleman that's making a lot of money off of it You know
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#2226 - Theo Von
Yeah, it's like, do you have two legs? You ever been on a bicycle? Like, the things are just crazy, you know? Do your feet itch? Yeah. You ever had oatmeal raising cookies? And you're like, well, fucking this is me, I think.
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#2226 - Theo Von
And people would get unaddicted quick. You're really just getting people addicted to things. I don't even understand. And how about we prosecute that fucking Sackler family that fucking killed hundreds of thousands of people in our country? How about that? How about that? How about that?
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#2226 - Theo Von
This family is mass murderers. Anybody with the last name, they should kick that gene pool out of our fucking country. Those people are fucking murderers, dude. I think a lot of people still haven't gotten over that shit.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Heartless fucking lizards. Get those motherfuckers out of here. And that's one thing. That was one of the reasons why I was supportive of Vance. I just believe he has a soft spot for that type of thing, and I hope that it'll get... I don't know if he can do anything because lobbies are so big now.
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#2226 - Theo Von
I just, that shit, like, even thinking about it, bro, it makes me so angry.
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#2226 - Theo Von
Well, one of the problems is that say if you work for a politician in D.C., they can only pay you so much money by law to work with them and help put their bills together. So at a certain point, the lobbyists can pay more to those same people who have been writing bills. For the congressmen and for the senators. So they then go to work as lobbyists. That's one of the biggest problems.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
What do you mean running with volunteers? You mean to help you? Yes. Okay. And at that point, you're just doing it out of your home? Exactly right. First three years off of your home computer. Yeah. And how big did the email list get? Sorry, Craig.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Right. So at that point, you're like, if I wanted to keep this going, it's got a, there needs to be some checks and balances and obviously salaries help, help create that.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
He worked at IBM, he worked at Bank of America, but most people know him as the founder of Craigslist, a site that has given so many unique experiences to the world. We're so happy to get to spend time today with Craigslist's own Craig Newmark. And just want to let you know, like, we're just excited you're here and we don't have any, this isn't like a, like a got you podcast.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Yeah. But also a little bit of barrier to entry, which not in a negative way, because you still everybody needs to hire someone or has the opportunity and maybe they can't afford the ad. But but it provides a little more structure to even just some basic. Yeah, it does provide some structure. Right.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Okay, so that's when it became an actual company in 1999. Yeah. And at that point, you guys have an office? You guys have...
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
It's hard to be a manager, isn't it? Very hard. Because you don't realize once you start to have employees and stuff, you're like, suddenly I'm a boss. And if you never wanted to be a boss, it's a very precarious situation to be in. I've been there, man. What were some of the things that you noticed you were not good at?
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Okay, so you ended up just being a customer service rep at your own company.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Wow. So if somebody had a customer service issue, they would contact you on the phone or email?
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Especially nowadays. What were some of the things you saw in there early that helped you to believe in the good and continue to make it grow?
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Which could also be a baby carriage depending on, you know.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Yeah. I used to live with a guy. I lived with this guy named Kenny for a bit. And he... was a pretty big stoner, right? And I didn't know him, met him on Craigslist, right? I get over there and I ended up living over there and he would stack, he had a couple of cats and stuff. And at night he was kind of like a, I guess kind of an avant-garde, like circusy kind of animal trainer guy.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
But he would stack all the boxes, these empty boxes in the room and he would make the cats play on them. And he'd make me come out of my room to watch the show, you know? So it was crazy, but it was like, It's something I still kind of remember about them. I kind of, I guess it was pretty, I thought it was interesting. But yeah, people use boxes. Yeah.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
So at that point, yeah, I guess because Craigslist started to be this place it kind of became everything really fast is what it felt like just as a user. Right.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
It became like a first place where you could get a used air, you know, you could get a blender or an air balloon or a roommate, but then it started to escalate to where there was like, um, you know, people would buy drugs on there, you know, or people you'd see people like, um, I would do it, you know, and you would see people, but they also had code names for the drugs.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
So it made it to be this kind of like, um, it, it had a fun spot to it. You know, you'd be on there. I mean, they had like, I remember beef jerky was a code name. Um, those many bennies they had that brain dander, that baby hay was one of them. Um, I'm trying to think of any other that Pedrito Blanco was a span, but they, you know what it was that dragon, the Negro, they had, um, uh,
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
We're not trying to do anything uncomfortable. You know, obviously you've had a very unique life and we just want to, I think we're curious about it, you know?
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
I'm trying to eat that whispering mother. That was kind of a native one that they were. It was peyote whispering mother.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Wow. So you took that upon yourself. It must have been kind of a tough navigation. Was it tough to navigate that personally because you have this atmosphere that people can kind of— It's just a pathway, right?
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
So it's funny because you kind of ended up in this space later on where you're like trying to look at the ethics of like communication, who has rights, how do you protect people, but also give people the freedoms that they deserve under their own life. Is that what you're kind of saying?
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Oh, about anger. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. He's a, yeah. I thought Ryan Martin was really interesting. He's a professor over in green Bay because I think anger is something that's kind of enveloping people a lot these days. You know, I find it a lot in myself and you almost get him. I mean, obviously it's, it's kind of embarrassing. You know, it's a weird feeling. That's like,
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Yeah, we get stopped for things and we have to take certain things down, things that we think are just fair speech. You know, we have to put it all through a filter, you know.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
What is it, Voltaf? When a cybersecurity expert explains that Chinese hackers targeting U.S. critical infrastructure. What is this? Can you tell me a little bit about it? Do you mind, Craig?
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
You know, it can lead to a lot of negativity, can lead to, you know, dangerous activities. But it also, I feel you get embarrassed of it, you know, and it kind of just takes you over.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Right. You have to give back. Yeah. We talk about that on here sometimes. I wonder if there should almost be a law. I mean, you could make it a law, but that at a certain point, people, somebody doesn't need any more money, you know, like because then it becomes you see some people that just have. So it's like, what are you doing? Like.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
You know, it becomes almost this obsessive thing where, I don't know, it seems scary to think that some people have so much money.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Yeah, it's funny how those young years, they're little things you'll keep. I still remember like certain things that I told someone I would do like 25 years ago. And every day or every couple of days, someone's like, hey, don't forget, you still have to do that little thing. You know, it's funny how like those formative years and things that we hear when we're young.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
can have such an effect on us even as we grow older. I want to talk a little bit more about the actual site. So the company starts growing, right? And in addition to people helping each other get jobs, people were helping each other, people were starting relationships on there. I went on dates off of Craigslist before, you know? Did you yourself ever go? Did you?
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Yeah, that's true. You're like, hey, I'm Craig.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Oh, wow. So there was a little bit of some empathy there, human empathy.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Right. Yeah, that's a good point. You just want to kind of be a fly on the wall in some sense. Yeah. Wow. So you started off, said hello in a cafe, and then how long was that? Was your... How long did that kind of dating life go for you guys?
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
And that worked out pretty well. That's a pretty suave online move. That's almost the most online way you could ask someone to marry you, I feel like.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
I think when it comes to, yeah, talking with women, it definitely, it's not my, you know, I wouldn't, yeah.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes it doesn't go away. You kind of start to learn it. I think I've just had the, I have the tough thing of asking a girl out. Like sometimes I'm okay with talk. I'll get good with talking with a woman, but it's just that next part. And we'll just be standing there and we'll be like, well, somebody should ask somebody out or walk away from somebody.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
And then you're just still just standing there.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Oh, there you are. You actually do have your box.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Craigslist.org. Yeah, man. When you guys were the first one to do .org, people were like, what is it? People thought it meant Oregon. People didn't even know what, you know, where is it?
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Yeah. And so Miss Connections, do you remember like the first Miss Connection that was ever put up or the first personal that was ever put up?
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is, you know, what you want, what do you want? You want heavy equipment outside of South Jersey. What do you want? You know, you want biotech out of, you know, in Mendocino, you know, you want legal issues, you know, you want ride shares, you want rodeo interests outside of Fort Worth. It's just, it's all right there. You know? Yeah. You can put it together quick.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Even a simple, even someone who isn't technologically advanced could go here and And even the terms you have on there, it's like childcare, right? Pets, rants and raves. It's like, it's just, anything you could need is kind of right here. And that means the site is always fast. Oh, because it's not a lot of big background.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
What made you choose Jim Buckmaster? What was it about him when you interviewed him?
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Wow. That's cool. It's also cool to hear you recognize that. Like, yeah, these people are better than I was, you know, to learn where your spaces were best. Yeah.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
What was it last night? Just so we can tell our listeners now.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
So that's one of your important causes. Independent journalism, veterans. What is another philanthropic cause you enjoy?
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
I have some new tour dates to let you know about. I'll be in East Lansing. I'll be in Toledo, Ohio. Rama, Ontario in the Canada. Pittsburgh, PA. Eugene, Oregon. Kennewick, Washington, Seattle. Washington, Victoria, BC in the Canada. College Station, Texas. Belton, Texas. San Antonio, Durant, Amarillo. Oxford, Mississippi. Howdy, howdy. Fayetteville, Arkansas. Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
A fundraising event? Well, if you guys ever need a comedian at one, I'd love to come. I can't believe it. I wish I'd have known last night. I would have gone. That would have been awesome.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
And did you start to learn that? Where did that interest come from? Or where did that realization that cybersecurity is going to be such a big thing? Was there a lot of like...
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
attacks on security at craigslist like did that happen well there was always something but we had a good team for that right but do you have to have that like what would say if someone was attacking craigslist this is what i'm asking what would they be trying to get well they would be trying to disrupt service okay they would try to uh
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
one that's figuring out where the enemy is for itself if they could subvert it they would turn our autonomous drone back against us that would make for someone's bad day yeah imagine if they if we sent out a drone and it's supposed to get information send it to uh uh uh artillery unit or a missile that's supposed to fire automatically from the information from that drone and they're able to hack it we could you could literally our army could kill themselves wow
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Yeah, if somebody hacks your ovens, you don't even think about that. Somebody hacks your ovens, next thing you know, there's 1,100 fires in an area.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
It's even funny, like even with drones, like when I was a kid, you had to do a little bit of peeping Tom and right. If you wanted to look into somebody's window, you had to go over there. I don't know anything about that. Yeah. I'm not saying you do.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
And I, you know, and I'm not saying I do, you know what I'm saying? But I did, you know, but I did. I know. But yeah, somebody here does. And it's me. Well, what I'm saying is this now as a kid, you can use a drone. And that's the laziest thing. We, you had to go risk getting beat up by a woman's husband. Yeah. to look in their window, even if they were just cooking or whatever. Right.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
I'm not getting lewd with it. I'm just saying, you know, but now you can just get a drone and go do it. It's like, just breaks my heart.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
I'm sure. I didn't even think about that. Yeah, because I'm still like just squinting real hard and hoping I'm seeing something.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
You know, it's just getting crazy. You know, Yeah, it just, you don't think about all of those things. You don't think about all the ways that we could be hacked and the immediate effects of it, you know?
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
When Craigslist, when you... At what point were there ever... like categories that you wouldn't do? Were there ever?
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
So you actually got to decide that or not decide it, or you and your team? Team. Okay.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Well, I don't even I mean, I think even here and today, the things that you care about are things that sometimes I don't even think to care about in some ways or fears that I don't think that, you know, you don't even think that, oh, somebody has to. We need to have a person needs to donate to this because maybe our country isn't worried about it enough yet.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
You know, it's you know, so I think it sounds like you're doing a good job. When you, did your company, because I'm trying to think like, so guns was a thing. Did you guys end up selling them on there or no? No, he said no guns.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
They're off. So drugs were off, but people would try to skirt around that. But even then, some of that was sometimes also, now, were there ever caught, like, Could the cops use your site as well if they wanted to, like as decoy type of stuff?
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
They built a good structure over there. Yeah. Well, it's funny because you guys, there was, yeah, it's just like, it's such a part of history. You know, it's such a, I mean, I went on dates from it. I remember I met a girl. We, I met a girl on, I mean, I would use casual encounters too. You know, it's like that was sometimes I met a girl one time.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
And we watched a Nets game and made love, honestly, and she let me sign her cast, right? And I was like, you know, and we had a great time. I think we dated for a little bit.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Oh, they've been on there, dude. I think we accidentally met up once. But there was a place, you know, I was like, I had such a tough time at a certain point in my life dating. There was something that added a level of mystery about it that I really liked.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Oh yeah. It was, it was legal. Did you, it's funny to say that people started marriages. So people even got married off of putting out a dating. Like I would like to meet someone. Yeah. Wow. Did you ever get invited to a wedding or anything?
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
When you guys, at what point did you realize, okay, I need to, had you had enough of the day to day, what made you start to decide I want to sell the company? Um, I haven't sold the company. Oh, you haven't sold.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Because you can look at the dividends and the earnings.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
So you really, you, did you kind of embody that nerd vibe? Like you were like, you saw a nerd and you were like, I'm going to be over here. I'll be there.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Yeah, hey, that would be awesome, yeah. Oh, I could definitely see a spirit looking for a place to stay, you know?
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Yeah, what would you even do it? How many, yeah, because how much money can you put in your bank?
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
And altruistic, just so our listeners know,
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Yeah, understood. Yeah, I just wanted to know because, yeah, sometimes I forget, and sometimes maybe some of our listeners forget. Did you ever feel like other tech companies, even though they were probably, I bet, secretly jealous, looked down at Craigslist because it was this – Like, what was that like?
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
No, I think it's fair to stand up for also what you are aiming for.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
How do you keep yourself balanced from that? Yeah, because... it's interesting because you seem like someone who would have a fair answer to what are some of the side effects, the negative side effects of, well, the deal is that it, uh, money of having some money, you know, or coming into some money.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
I like that, buddy. Yeah, only salt in our languages. Yeah, I was just wondering, was there one thing, like whether it was something like a specific Leonard Cohen piece, a record that he made that he'd autographed? Was there one nice thing you bought for yourself that was meaningful to you?
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
wow that's cool yeah especially the one that's exactly what i have really yeah and i may have that one on a t-shirt wow yeah yeah something like that's nice man especially if it's art or something like that it's like you know if i could go back in time there was like a time one time i was in i was in tanzania you know and i was doing a mount kilimanjaro
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
okay right and we and afterwards we went someplace and they had a piece of art in there and it was like five hundred dollars right and i could spend like maybe three hundred dollars but i wished i'd have spent because going like it was 15 years ago and it's like you know the two hundred dollars didn't wouldn't change my life that much you know it was a lot of money at the time but it's like it's
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
I didn't even think about it two weeks later or two months later, you know? So I just wished that I would have, because I really liked the painting, you know? I was like, God, I just, and sometimes I wish, like every now and then there's little things like that. I wish I'd have gotten like a nice piece of art or something, you know?
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
I'm trying to think of something else. Were there other – so Craigslist was kind of the – the stepchild of the tech industry in a weird way? Was it looked at like that? Because I could imagine how jealous, because here's people putting billions and millions of dollars into building this thing, this new avenue and all these venture capitalists and stuff like that.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
And then they, all this advertising and here you are with this basic kind of peer to peer, how can I offer something that could potentially help my neighbor or connect two neighbors that could use something?
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Do you know that? I know you're a Leonard Cohen fan. Yes. And this is, he had songs based that were based out of here. I think he spent time with Janis Joplin here. He did. Yeah, allegedly.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Oh, and some of it's not true. Like there's stuff on my Wikipedia, like attaching me to like a part of my family, like they have half my family members wrong on it and stuff. And it like puts me in a, it's crazy. I'm like, all right.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Yeah. Yeah, that's interesting. Well, that's a big thing about information now. It's like it's something I worry about with AI because if there's – And even just the history of the web, like things in the history of the web, because people can alter that over time.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Oh, yeah. Oh, you'll call a customer service and they're like, we don't even know what you're talking about. But they still answer the phone. I'm like, who are you? Yeah.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Understood. Yeah, I actually have a question about that, but I want to remember to ask this. How did Craigslist make money?
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
For venture capitalists. So you don't have these money guys like, I need my return.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Oh, my God, dude. You're crazy, Craig, because I've never heard somebody. Imagine I'm trying to open a water, right? I can't open it. And then I say, I'm stubborn. Like, I'm stubborn. It didn't even make sense. To me, that was very funny. You're like, I can't open it. And I was like, I don't know if you could open it or not. I was just trying to, I don't know. But I was like, oh, can I help you?
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
And then you're like, I'm stubborn. But to me, in my head, I was like... He can't open it, but he just, the bottle's stubborn. Anyway, this didn't make any sense.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Oh, I see what you're saying. You've talked a lot about independent journalism, right? Okay. And that's something that, like I've read anyway, is near and dear to your outlook in the world. Okay.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Yeah, it's funny. I didn't realize until you said some of those things. Like, what if suddenly all of our cars were compromised or half of them or all of our ovens were compromised to the point where they started fires in all of our homes, you know? It was just kind of fascinating to me, you know?
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Yeah, and we don't even realize it. Were there other businesses that you tried to start before or after?
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
But also with the right attitude to bring one person to another, you know, try to keep the golden rule in your mind, things you learned from Sunday school. What about – are your parents pretty proud of you? Are your parents still alive, Greg?
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Yeah. Yeah, it's so funny. I still keep in touch with a lot of my teachers, you know? It's important to me.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Well, that's why we got to get that Ouija board going. Yes. You know, I think that's the next level. What are some small, before you leave, Craig, what are some goals in your life like right now? I know you've talked about some of the kind of work-oriented and giving back. Are there any kind of personal goals? Are there anything like... I don't know.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Is there any kind of goals you have, even if they're just like human to yourself, things you still want to learn or do?
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
But we like to do that. No, we do like to do that. I think that's good, guys. Pretty good. Is there anything else that you want to share that's important to you?
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Well, look, I do know if you really want to get some nitrous oxide, you might be able to find some on Craig's list.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
I don't know how somehow I almost get your sense of humor now, Craig. It's very interesting. That, uh, that might be tragic. Yeah. Well, thank you, man. Thank you for, uh, I like, I just like some, I like your initial goals of like, my goal is to help one person find something. This person's in need. This person might have this. How can I be of service there? Um,
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
learning when you notice that I'm not a good manager of this. So I need to get some help here. Right. It's not a strong suit of mine, maybe this world, but the customer relations is a strong suit of mine, you know, and, and that's interesting just because, you know, sometimes we all feel like we have to do everything in different spaces. And then, um, yeah.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
And I'm glad you find a lady along the way. How long have you, how long has your marriage been now?
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Craig Neumer, thank you so much, man. Hey, it's my pleasure. I appreciate your time.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Once you get down to the ground floor again, sometimes you kind of want to stay down there. We used to listen to Leonard Cohen when I was a kid. My mom would put it on when we would have to clean the house on Saturdays and my mom would put it on. I remember that song, When the Walls Came Down.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Then we'll take Berlin. Then we'll take Berlin. Yeah, dude, that's crazy. Those lyrics have mildly been in my head over the years, and I didn't even know that that's where they were from. They were from Leonard Cohen.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Yeah, he reminds me of kind of a darker Anthony Bourdain of music in a way.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
And Tallahassee, Florida. Rosemont, Illinois. Winnipeg and Calgary in the Canada. Get all your tickets at theovon.com slash T-O-U-R. Thank you so much for your support. And thank you to the fella in Montana that gave me this jacket. Got some Indian artifacts on the back. And I just want to say thank you. I really like this jacket.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Something a little less risque, huh?
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Okay, there we go. Well, we have you for a limited time today. I do want to talk. You are the Craig from Craigslist.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
That is true. Yes. Okay. And how did Craigslist start? I know that's a basic question, but you don't even think about it. As a regular human, we don't even know that you're real. You don't even know.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
So you were communicating on the internet just with people looking for information about living in a new area.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
So that's how it started. You started just emailing people just with information about things to do in the area. It started to grow. And it was just an actual list of people you were sending a message to.
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
So is that once a week or twice a month?
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
Yes. And what were some of those early high value items? Like what was something that would come across? Are we talking like kind of like a... Like a painting? Are we talking like a little catamaran? What are we talking?
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E550 Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark
That's a great point. If you can help somebody get a job, that's residual.
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
And you're like, oh, man, this is not how it was. Dream on! It's just, it has like a small Aeropostale in the back, kind of. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that's kind of a bummer. Did you have to meet Bob to get into this?
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
There's a movie about me opening soon called A Complete Unknown. Timothy Chalamet is starring in the lead role. Timmy's a brilliant... Timmy is a brilliant actor. I kind of respect it, though. Nice. Honoring your youth. Timmy's my 12-year-old expression, dude.
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
timmy's a brilliant actor so i'm sure he's going to be a completely believable as me or younger me or some other me the film's taken from elijah wald's dylan goes electric a book that came out in 2015. it's a fantastic retelling of events from the early 60s that led up to the fiasco at newport after you've seen the movie read the book oh it's nice super sweet
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
So do you even talk to him on the phone or anything yet?
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
At a swim meet too. At a swim meet. Swim meet's the worst because you can't even talk to the person next to you because it echoes so much in the room. I've never been to a swim meet in my life. Even if you whisper a little, the people hear it. It travels. Yes. It travels. Oh, you cannot gossip.
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
You're right. And it is. And I definitely watch from my car with binoculars, so it's not too creepy.
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
The proof's in the pudding. Yeah. How do you expect him not to rehearse his own life? But yeah, that's the thing. You just can't gossip at a swim meet, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What are we talking about?
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
What do you guys have there? We play dice in the alleys like you were saying before.
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
Oh, it got very, you got kind of like, yeah, very... Anemic. Yep. Anemic. I'm sure. What else is it called? Kind of Boo Radley-esque. Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. You know. Yeah, because they should give you at least an hour in the sun. They give it to inmates. Yeah. And just because I'm learning social studies, I don't get it. I don't get it. Exactly.
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
And then I'd be in the basement doing, just acting all day. Just because I'm learning fucking Voltaire. I don't get 40 minutes in the sun. Yeah, I don't get 40 minutes in the sun. Nothing. A raisin got in the sun. Hey. I don't. Hey, that's a good play. Now it's right there, man. Denzel Washington, baby. I will accept that. I will accept that. Denzel Washington. Thank you very much.
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
Yeah, there's got to be. There is a theater program. That's a good question. I grew up in Louisiana. We had some theater. We just did like- Did you ever do theater growing up? Yeah, I did. I did. Well, it was just called Drama Club or whatever, and it was a lot of people who was- It was a lot of people, I think, that wanted to be actors, and then a lot of people that just were kind of like-
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I saw you were just in Nashville. Yeah.
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
Yeah, I did just some stuff at school, but I would always mess it up. Like we did like Sherlock Holmes or something. And I was like Watson or whatever, his buddy or whatever. It's like his, his man crush, whatever. And our, our guy was very like progressive. So we try to make it there to be like this small, like lover scene or, or just like some, um, ambiance between Sherlock and Watson.
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
I don't know if I went for it or not. I was like 13. You got to be bold. You got to go out there, man. You got to be bold.
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
It could have gone either way. But yeah, there was this definitely kind of romantic where they're looking for the clues and they end up kind of finding each other. That's what the guy said. And I was like, this seems like insane. But you didn't do it.
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
I tried my best but then I remember the first night I got out there on stage I took on this Latino accent for some reason it's a strong choice man and nobody knew it was coming perfect and I was like what's up Holmes you know and then so yeah that was just and that's when I realized it was tough for me to be in some ensemble things I just wanted to be by myself you know like that kind of thing would you do a movie if it came your way
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
Oh, yeah. It's my producer's favorite. No way. Yeah, I haven't seen it yet. That we just met? Yep, that guy, Zach, is his name. No way. And he loves it. Yeah, he really loves it.
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
I don't think so. I just am super protective about myself for some reason, which may seem kind of weird. I don't know.
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
Yeah. No, a good choice, dude. Yeah. Um, who, so in New York when you were a kid, like who was your best friend? Best friend growing up. Nobody, man. I was always pursuing acting, dude. Were you really?
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah, I think – well, especially in New York because it's so expensive. In other places, some people get a roommate because they just get maybe lonesome or whatever.
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
I don't have a roommate. I would like to get one or I would like to get a wife maybe this year or next year.
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
Some, but sometimes you're shocked at who they'll set you up with. Really? Like you're insulted? I mean, you're just like, well, we must think that you think differently of me.
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
Just somebody put me all with like a. You know, just a woman head, like, you know, any way I say this, I lose here.
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
Yeah, it's a good place. It's like a little city. Yeah. It's like a little city, kind of like a fancy little city. It's almost like the JonBenet of cities, kind of like, you know, look at this outfit, kind of, you know, but dangerous at the same time. But it has like kind of like an element of like mystery kind of. That's kind of a weird example.
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
Yeah, but I just make sure that I just try and don't say anything that would be really mean about somebody. So right there, it could have got weird.
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
There's a podcast sphere out there that things get handled or whatever. I don't want to use that term. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's terrifying. There's no lawyer involved. I'll say that. You're just winging it. The Lord is our lawyer. That's some of these people's motto.
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
No, I'm from Louisiana, but, but Nashville, here's what it is. It's safe. It's nice. People are friendly. Um, you can't cheat on your wife there. So it's not because the city is too small, too small. Okay. You couldn't take your wife or spouse or significant other. Um, you couldn't even, yeah.
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
When you go into a role like this, do you start to think like, so a lot of younger people will think, that you're Bob Dylan. You almost become, you almost take a piece of the person's existence in a strange way. Does that make any sense to you?
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
That's not what I mean. Some people are going to think you are... When they think of him in the future, your face will come into there.
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
Like, and you couldn't take them to dinner or something and not see somebody that would know one of you or them.
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
Right, you wanted to honor him as much as you could. Yeah, exactly. But also without being him as much.
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
Yeah, well, there's enough people, but the South's a little gossipy.
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
First of all, if you've never seen the Wonka movie, you just listen to the audio. That's a little bit. That's already weird, too. It's kind of. Yeah. Yeah. It's interesting.
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
Interesting bridge right there. No, but I was saying the same thing, man. Yeah, it is, right? Like, just, yeah. Yeah. No disrespect, but I was just like, man. No, the godfather of surround sound, basically, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's what I heard. The premiere was pretty interesting. So, last night was your premiere. It was premiere in LA, man. It was great, you know.
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
So there's a lot of, like, it's not really an adultery city. It's not a city that's, adultery's not like a trademark of the city, probably. How is it different from New Orleans? New Orleans is a little bit more dangerous, I think, you know? And probably better food, to be honest. Okay. I think you have to have crime to have good food. That's kind of how I feel.
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
Oh, dude, thanks for coming the day after your premiere. Yeah, that's why I was a little late. I apologize, man. Were you guys up late?
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
No, you got to celebrate. Did you have to get up and make a speech? What's it like at something like that? I, man, great question.
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
Oh, yeah. He's a super legend. He was in the – You ever see Rounders?
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
Yeah, I play it sometimes. He's good. And both of the actresses were great, the ladies in it. Oh, and his wife was in it. What's her name?
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
Erico. Yeah. Yeah, they got a beautiful group of ladies in there. And men, too. Yeah, look at Boyd Holbrook, man. With the blue suit on. That's a handsome man. Is he real handsome? Yeah, he's a stud. Well, dude, you're kind of a handsome dude. You are, man.
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
Oh, yeah, there's a lot of freaking thieves out there. How long have you had it? This haircut I've had for probably... It's a little dicey today. I've had it for probably, well, I had it as a child. Oh, no way. So this goes back. Oh, yeah. And then I tried to, like, blend in, like, whenever I moved to Hollywood and stuff, and it didn't work for me. And so then I tried to blend out.
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
Oh, so you started in L.A. before Nashville. Yeah. Yeah, I lived out here for 12 years. I was doing stand-up comedy. This is where I started doing stand-up comedy. Oh, yeah, where? At the Comedy Store and stuff like that?
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
Comedy Store. It was awesome, man. I really enjoyed it.
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E551 Timothée Chalamet
Yeah, and that was like, yeah, all types. They had like Chris D'Elia, Tom Segura.
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That's a good question. You know what's so funny? They're totally different from each other, and some people in one don't even know the people in the other. Because the audience is different, you think? It's just a total different group of people. Like you go there, and it's almost like it feels like you have to start all over.
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It's just a total different – Like I'll go into a club there, and it feels like – A whole different thing. I'm walking into a club for the first time.
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I think you'll get a lot of respect, but you just feel that way. It's not your territory, you know? Right, right, right. And you want to give respect to the guys that that's their grounds that they walk on every day.
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Because that's where they live. Like if somebody came out and was like being real flashy, but they're not in your kind of club here, it would be the same way, I think. Interesting. So there's a lot of code of conduct like that. Would you ever do Saturday Night Live? I don't know, man. You know, it's so funny. I went and saw it recently.
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It is crazy. You did it? Yeah, I've done it twice. It's super dialed in, right? I should have known that. Oh, yeah, dude. I went with Chris Farley's brother. It was the first time that he'd been back to go to SNL since his brother was on there, since he'd went with him. What was that like for him? Dude, he told so many great stories. I wish they'd have put him out on stage.
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I was like, have him go out there. Right. Tell his stories. It was just classic, man. But I went to watch Bill Burr. I'm a big Bill Burr fan, so I went to watch him.
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Oh, sick. That was dope. Wow, yeah. And then there we are right there with Chris Farley's brother right there.
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No, dude. It's true. Did he take your haircut or no? HGH, dude. No, no, no. I got to get some HGH. Do you work out? Yeah, I do work out, dude. Yeah, I do. God. Yeah, I went today, I mean. That's what I mean. But yeah.
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What else do I want to know about this film? So you didn't hear anything from Bob. What about like his wife or his kid or something?
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Okay. Because I've had that. You've never had Yakum? I haven't had the edible version, no. Oh, this thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly.
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So even all the Dylans are unique. Yeah, I don't know what that means. You phase? I don't know. You phase with the finger like that. I don't know. I mean, I know phase banks. I don't know a lot of the phase guys. I know the one of them gave CPR to Sketch one night or something when he wasn't doing good. Whoa. But anyway, shouldn't have said that out loud.
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What's up, brother? That guy. Did you see him? No. Oh, my gosh. Wow. It's crazy how different worlds are so different, dude.
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Oh, yeah, he's been on that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's a great bro. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He is so creative. He has one of the most creative minds I've been around. Yep. Just like he has his own pentameter of making jokes and stuff. It's pretty fascinating. Is he a stand-up? Nope, he's not a stand-up. I think there's this new thing that goes on now where as if somebody's – It's interesting.
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What's going to happen with stand-up? Because stand-up has been this thing that people always go practice and then they go do. But now a lot of people build so much traction from social media. Yeah, they pop off like that. Right, but then how do you take that and perform it? Is there a performance element? Yeah, it's a whole different thing.
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you know sexy again in some way yeah i think well the news got like very um all the same i feel like and it got very i what a lot of people believe maybe um commandeered by advertising in a way right right right right some of that happens it's capitalism so i think podcasting was just this like became this open format yes yeah yeah yeah where it was like okay also you know that you're really resonating in some way yeah right because it's not dollars that or it's not like
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Well, especially in the beginning for the first like four or five years, you're not really making any money. So it's like you're just doing your best. You're just keeping it. And then at a certain point, like people will say, well, if you're not going to say what I want, then get your advertising off of my network.
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Yeah, yeah. Wow. That's a deep cut right there. It is a very deep cut. I thought it came in a small baggie. Yeah, I haven't had this, bro. I have not had this. But, you know, New Orleans has one of the largest Vietnamese populations.
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Oh, it's a risk dollars wise. Yeah. I mean, Dana White was on here one time and one of our episodes got pulled down because of we had Bobby Kennedy on this political friend, a buddy of mine, but who also ended up going into politics, but they didn't want to be associated with it or whatever.
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And, uh, anyway, Dana was on and he said, what, what, who called and said they, and we were like, it was this, um, Kellogg's it was biking company or something. No, it was like a proton or whatever it's called. Peloton. Peloton. Interesting. And dude, next thing you know, people all across the country were throwing Pelotons into the Boston river. Yeah.
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Do they really? Well, that's not going to help them.
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Anyway. Oh, there he is. Oh, yeah. That's what happens when you. He married Samantha, huh? I don't know about this show. Yeah. What else was I going to think about? Oh, when you think about, so I just want to make sure that we get a lot about this film and what I thought that was. Yeah. What did you like about it?
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Nope. Well, yeah, I know some of his music. Did your parents or your mom listen to it? Oh, yeah. My mom listened to it. This kid I grew up with, he would play it in his room every night. He had the harmonica and everything. He was a big Bob Dylan fan. No way. My friend Ty, who I used to live with. Yeah, I mean, Bob Dylan was the first mumble rapper. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, man, absolutely.
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Yeah, whining with a backbeat. Absolutely. Everybody's like... you know, thinking that it was some of these other guys like Uzi Vert or maybe Kodak Black, who's just a mumbler. I mean, at a certain point, can we just say that? He's great.
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Yeah. But definitely early on. Yeah, it's gotten a little rocky. I feel like it's gotten rocky recently. Which is cool, man. He might be going through some stuff too. Who knows? Sometimes it's so hard to know, you know, what people are going through.
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That'd be great if we had a word, like it's like a word counter for you and Kodak. Yeah. You're like just miles ahead of him. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Literally. Dude, you could sneeze and be like seven words ahead of him. I feel like. You said it. You said it. What about some other... Well, I just want to think anything else about the film that was... Was it hard to learn the music?
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Did you have any issues with that? Or how did you guys make that happen? Not really, man.
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Oh, when you were meeting with that guy? Yeah, yeah. In the dark alleys? In the dark alleys. Yeah. To work on the accent. Yeah, to work on your... keeping your tongue down when you say certain vowels. Down with the palate. Hey, man, you know. Do you work, you know. Years ago, I went to a voice test.
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When people do frontside piggybacks, that's I've never heard of that in my life. And that's when I quit playing tennis in junior high school, I'll tell you.
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And anybody that can draw a picture of Timothy and me... and involved in frontside piggybacking, let me know. I'll buy it from you, and we'll donate $1,000 to a charity of your choice.
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Yeah, yeah, that Broadway, that area. That area is really interesting down there. What else about Nashville that I really like?
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Oh, right through there? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I think we should get that.
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Yeah. Are you a big holidays guy? You know what? I think it does remind me a little bit to slow down kind of, you know, which is nice because life gets going pretty fast a lot of times. Do you think you're more elfish or Santa Claus? Oh, it's a good question. Oh, I wish I could be a little more Santa. I'm more of sometimes a little more Mrs. Claus. Like I'll start bitching about a lot of shit.
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I'll just get a latch in, but I just got to slow down. It's just been like a long year. Yeah. You've been busy. Yeah. What are you going to do for, are you going to go away or anything? Yeah, I'm going to go to Louisiana and see some family. Then I might try to take a vacation for a few days. We'll see. A little Baton Rouge? Yeah, my family lives right down there.
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I haven't been to that. I go to watch Lipscomb College. They play soccer there. What? Lipscomb College. No way. It's a college, and they have soccer, and so I'll go watch some of their games. What's their student body population? That's a good question. Pull it up. Lipscomb College. Let's see.
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Oh, yeah. One of them was my neighborhood growing up, dude. I remember our property tax was $8 one year. My mom paid in cash, dude, right out of her purse. I was like, where do we live at?
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The guy that came by. Was it a legit guy, you think? He looked pretty legit. He had all of his buttons on his head.
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Oh. That's me, baby, moderate. Mitchell Llama program provides affordable rental and cooperative housing to moderate and middle income families. You're just talking about Alphabet City, basically. Okay. Yeah, dude. Wow.
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I like New York. I mean, yeah, it's definitely fascinating. You ever live there? No. I'll just stay there for like maybe three months at the most. I would live there. If I get a wife and she lives there, I'll stay. I'll go live there.
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Well, she looks like, probably looks like a nice lady, I think. Let me think about the rest of it. Probably maybe played volleyball, maybe didn't. Maybe likes to be a mom, maybe. I don't know, dude.
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It's one of those colleges that right next to it has the high school also, and then the children's school or whatever.
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Okay. Because people that laugh get jokes usually. You can't... Unless something's wrong with you and you just laugh every now and then. Right, right.
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Ooh, I hope she can, but I'm not trying to be some kind of pervert or whatever, but I wouldn't mind seeing one every now and then, especially if it's holidays or whatever and she wants to...
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you know pop off a damn b handspring or something for everybody cuts into some lackeys or whatever i'm down for it um so yeah i think i'm open to a lot of different things i think yeah you know and like handstands and shit i mean okay i don't know what you're gonna get here
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So I think, yeah, it's like, I just don't, you know, I think more will be revealed about who the lady could be, but I'm also just being more open to it. You know, it's like, you gotta be open to that, to get a wife, to be like, oh, I'm gonna get, you know, I'm gonna have a wife and be with the wife. You gotta be open to it, brother. Yeah. You gotta set the, you gotta set your life up. Yeah.
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And how are you going to get divorced if you don't get married? You know what I'm saying?
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No, my mom's organizing. I got my tree up right now. Nice. You got a tree. I got a box of gifts. There's a lady that I don't even know who has sent me a box of Christmas ornaments for the past four years. Sweet. It comes every year. I put them up on the tree.
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Every Christmas it's called, it's a murder movie.
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Or it's just some movie about, it's about somebody who used to love somebody and they're watching their family now. And they send them this random box and people put it on their tree, they don't know. Yeah. And it has a camera in it.
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Well, we're supposed to do Christmas caroling this year with a couple of fellows from the gym, actually. And so we're supposed to practice on Friday. And we just hired a cool brother over there in Nashville to help us learn some of the lyrics. I love when you say that, man. Oh, yeah. We're excited about it. There's all brothers going, so you got to respect the culture, man.
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You know what I'm saying? Oh, man. But yeah, and then what are we going to go? Oh, I watched Family Man. Have you ever seen that one?
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With Nicolas Cage? Nicolas Cage. It's a great movie. One of the greats.
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What about, there's kind of a love triangle in the movie. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, there's a... So the women's Joan Baez. Joan Baez and Sylvie Russo. Is Sylvie Russo, was she an artist? I couldn't tell.
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Yes, she was very effective by Dylan in the movie, or her character was. Yeah. That was interesting to see.
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Yeah. Wow. That's interesting. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I found like, um, when I was watching it, um, Yeah, you're kind of rooting. It's weird because who you're rooting for changes almost from scene to scene in the movie.
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No, I mean, I was a Saints fan. I'm a New Orleans Saints fan, but I was not.
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I mean, I had on maybe a, you know, I might have had on a Drew Brees jersey.
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Dude, yeah, that's for sure. But no, yeah, it's like, yeah, how do you even start to get things figured out? But that's one thing that I liked about it. I like seeing the different – and I like that there was like, okay, what's this relationship like over here going to happen? What's this relationship like over here going to happen?
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And then just seeing like – I did get a better idea of like, oh, okay, Bob Dylan was just kind of like affected dude that he kind of was maybe better than he thought he was or – Or he was actually so great and they tried to manipulate him. It was just all so confusing. And I think it was confusing to him. Exactly. It was just a lot going on.
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Let's pull him up. Let's give him some shine because I need to go watch him. You think if I hit him up, he would invite him to a game?
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And he seemed like a unique person and probably like a secretly sensitive guy. And so for all those things to happen so quick to him and then for him to try to figure it out and navigate what was real, I don't know.
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Yeah, dude. You know what, though? I think it was I do think that it was interesting if you frame it up like this is what it is. It's a it's a it's a it's a few years in a man's life. That was a very interesting man who's probably written so many songs that some young people don't even know that he wrote. Yeah, exactly. I was listening. I was like, no way he wrote that. And like.
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Just some relationships that he had with other artists that you may not even know about.
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Because not only do you have to manage what you present, but you have to manage also how...
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I sound like I'm- Yeah, well, no, they had that first guy, Narcissus or whatever, looked in the river and saw himself, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. And then he's like, hey, where are the ladies at or whatever? And you're like, whoa, dude, what are you talking about?
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Oh, as we're talking, the computer follows. Yeah, yeah.
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Like, you're over here, like, trying to start Clairol or whatever.
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Fucking working on your, you know... Yeah, it's like just a bunch of Dior moisturizer. Talking about lip filler to everybody.
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Um, what about other, um, because you can only do so many biopics too. Yeah. Yeah. That's kind of weird. You kind of, you burned a biopic. I burned a biopic. Is it a biopic?
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Okay. Like that I could do or you could do? I don't know. If I keep talking to people, why do you sit with me and just talk the whole time?
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He could be a dirtball. But I like some of his energy, dude. Some of his shit is pretty hot. It's very Bob Dylan, man. Just be who you want to be. That's a good point. That's how I do feel about him. It's like, oh, I feel like he's kind of unique. He kind of reminds me of like an Eminem, like when Eminem kind of like... He reminds me of how Eminem was just unique in his time period.
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That's a good point. It could be some crypto failure.
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Oh, I think he's definitely super entertaining. Yeah, and we're just joking around.
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Dude, you should be a politician, dude. You're good. I was acting. But what are that? Or maybe Abraham Lincoln's son or whatever? I could be Abraham Lincoln. Me or you? You. What about if you— Abraham Lincoln's son? Who was Abraham Lincoln's son? Dave Lincoln. That's a ridiculous idea. It was Dave Lincoln. Was it? Dave Lincoln. Was it really? Or Ricky Lincoln? Who is his son? Tad Lincoln.
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Oh, my God. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Go to his information. Let's see him. Wow. Dude, you could be Tad Lincoln. The fourth son of Abraham Lincoln.
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And imagine his father gave some of the greatest speeches and here he is. And he has this kind of like a little bit of a... like a disfigurement or some impairment. And he's like, how do I overcome this to say something as important that my father said?
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Yeah, easily. You caught a frisbee that was dirty and you were down for two months. He went to see Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. Oh, wow, on April 14th, 1865, Tad went to Grover's Theater to play Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp while his parents attended the performance of Tom Taylor's play Our American Cousin at Ford Theater. That night, his father was assassinated.
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And you finally run up to him as he's done. Yeah. And you say something super important.
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Huh? I don't know. We got to get somebody good.
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Yeah, age me down a little bit. Or Jim Carrey. I think I could see you playing a Jim Carrey one day, too. I was thinking about that. He's brilliant, dude.
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Even when she doesn't exist, he's still trying to flirt. That's the best part.
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I don't believe in personality. That would be an interesting guy to play because that's really cool. That's a cool scene to play if you could do that. Yeah, and I think he's had a crazy life. Yeah, what his life was like. Yeah.
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Bigger than anything. Bigger than anything, right? In the 2000s. Oh, yeah. And he had a show called In Living Color before that that was like Jamie Foxx was on it.
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Yeah, you're done, dude. Yeah, some people got that damn, you got a damn foot Mozart out there. I don't have that.
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Yeah. Right? It was him, yeah, and they had a... Now he's become an artist. Yeah, now he's an artist. But it's just interesting to get all the art out of your system, you know, because some artists – I think that's kind of what he – I think that's what he feels like.
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Wow. What about, do you feel like you have to be like, because you're kind of like the it guy, like the it younger guy in Hollywood. For sure, for sure. You know? But does that feel like... I don't know. And I know it's like, do you, how do you, and a lot of that is a lot of times curtailed by like the industry.
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Like you're like, you have a pretty, like I thought you'd come with like in a tank or something like you drove over here by yourself. Yeah. So definitely, um, kind of, I guess.
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maybe against what i was thinking which doesn't mean anything um but do you worry about how do you still be yourself and find yourself at a time when you could be so maneuvered by um so many bigger listen man not to bring it back to the movie but that's where bob dylan's so influential no this is perfect no because bob always followed his path and what's interesting about the movie industry instead of like as opposed to the music industry the music industry you write your own music you know
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Really? Yes. Oh, that's fire. Yeah, I got to go check him out, man. I haven't been to see a game. It's unfortunate. I did get to go see Vanderbilt, which is the college that's, that's the SEC college that's actually in Nashville.
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I want inside baseball. I just, you know, you're like a real thinker, you know? So it's not like you're going to give some answer that isn't traveling through your thoughts and you explaining stuff. So that's perfect. There's no wrong way to answer it. It's a weird thing. It's like...
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What does that mean? So a director can kind of put you through some fucking shit?
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Safdie. I was 21. Uncut Gems, that's that movie, right? Yeah, Uncut Gems.
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I've seen Nathan Fielder's show. Yeah. Wow, that's cool. Yeah, yeah. Wow, that must have been awesome, man. Because that guy, that uncle Jim's is so good. I look forward to seeing that.
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So directors can do that. So sometimes it's like that. It's going to be a journey. It's going to be a journey, yeah. What was the biggest journey through the unknown? I just want to get the name of it right. A complete unknown Christmas day. Leave it like that. What was the biggest journey through a complete unknown on Christmas day?
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No, it's a smaller, it's a smaller energy. Yeah. But we went to one game this year. They played Alabama and they beat, they upset Alabama. Yeah.
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It's not. Yeah. And they know that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So yeah, we're not telling a secret. No, no, no. You got to keep keeping their place. But that was the game they won. And look, they didn't even, it was like all these lawyers and attorneys like tearing down the goalposts.
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Yeah, did you have to, so your phone was off for that long, so you just locked in, and what would you do, just go to, did you sleep on set, or what do you do, what's that like?
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Oh, like somebody putting something in your head that stays in there.
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They even had, they had a, there we are after the game. We actually, we. Is it a big law program? Carl Lee is their coach and he's an awesome guy. I mean, he's a class act. He just gets smoked here. Oh, we got to, yeah. There you are. Dude, what are you doing on the field, dude?
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That's like, yeah, if you're watching another movie that some guy's in, you're right there.
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Get ready. As long as it's on the front, brother. Yeah, get ready. Calm down, man. Get ready, get ready. It'll do Hollywood for you.
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I've been out of my comfort zone since I was born. All right, fair, fair, fair. Yeah, I never subscribed to it. Or I never got the keys or whatever. You know the code they give you in high school to your locker? Yeah, you never got that. I remember going up to my comfort zone and being like, oh, I don't think this is it.
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Probably after like a sauna and ice bath type of thing. Oh, you do ice baths? Yeah, yeah. I'll get in there, dude. Oh, yeah. I'll freaking just... I'll lay in a polar bear's ass, brother. I like it like that. Oh, yeah. I like it just brisk like that, you know? I love that. Would you go to the Arctic? Oh, yeah. I would go up there. Mr. Beast just went up there. He went to Antarctica. Whoa.
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I don't know what he... He said there was nothing up there. There's not even like... You can't be like, hey, let's go somewhere, and like, no, you can't. I don't get how that stuff works, man. Where does he get the money? He's just... He's just huge, huh?
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well Mr. Beast has a show actually that comes out right before that like a week before but he was just we were just talking about it the other day and it's interesting yeah and it's an interesting show totally different though but one thing that's great about your movie is that first of all you just get you also just in addition to whatever's going on with the movie you get to hear like great music
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Yeah. It's great music. Great, great music. It's great music. You get to remember like, um, Woody Guthrie. Yeah. Who played Woody Guthrie in it?
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He's amazing. Yeah. Scoot McNary. Get a look at him before something happens to him. Yeah.
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That was pretty awesome. Yeah, we had Bernie Sanders on and he was saying that he said Pete Seeger was one of his favorite musicians.
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Probably, dude. Bernie hasn't aged. Nah, Bernie still looks the same. He's the best, dude.
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He's like a real folk hero. Great point. Yeah, Bernie is... He is a folk hero. Yeah, he's folk music. Yeah, and you also forget about like what... Yeah, I mean, that's another thing about the movie. You see the challenge of Bob Dylan, like take on like music and culture.
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There's this whole other cultural thing that's kind of happening in the background, like on the television and the news during the movie.
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Yeah, I was. What does that really look like, a break? Do you go to like a beach and just...
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Put on a helmet, girl. That was a girl that should not have been. Yeah, you almost ran her over. Yeah, she shouldn't be playing wide out. You know, it's just different. But no, what's it like there? Oh, after the game. So they had like engineers like, how should we take this down? And then there's just drunk kids like, just rip it down.
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Recruiting production assistants. Do you think you would have done it more justice five years earlier? No.
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Yeah. Yeah, I just wonder, yeah, and you get more experience that you can put into something, like you were saying earlier about acting, like you can keep doing it for a long time, you know? Exactly. Yo, can we hear any Bob? Is that a weird thing to ask you, dude? Is that lame? Like live right now? I'll try it. Go for it. All right. Hold on. Let me try it one more time. Hey, who is there?
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Hold on. I got to give it. Get into it, man. Get into it. Hey, who's at the door? That's not it, dude. That's horrible.
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Make up a word. You're verbifying things, and that's what Bob Dylan did.
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Yeah, everything's a glitch, dude. Jon Bon Jovi, it could be anybody. Chet has a new country album that's going to come out this year, too, I think, or next year. Dude, you've got to play Chet.
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I would just do it for the head. Just do it for that. They'll set you up with the best trainers. You've got the HGH. I could do it, man. I'm trying to think if there's anything else that we want to ask or anything else that you wanted to say, Timothy.
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And then they carried it down Broadway, which is like the street you were talking about, the goalposts, because they'd never had it happen. Those kids had never broken a law in their life. Yeah. They even tried to valet park the goalposts at like a restaurant. Is it like an expensive, fancy type school?
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I got to water my plants, dude. I just got home.
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Oh, you do? Is it here? Over in Westwood. And Westwood, all right, I love Westwood. And so, yeah, I get my plants. You go to Diddy Reese? And I forget, yeah, I go over there sometimes. I go walk over there, and sometimes I would go for that, and I would just end up getting a bunch of vapes and just sitting over in my car. But, yeah, sometimes I forget to wash my plants.
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I forget to water my plants, you know? And then I get home, and it's been like a month or something. Your place is ready to be wifified, man. I know. And I always water them. I'll be like, your mother left us. I'll yell shit like that. I'll be like, your mother left us. To who? To the plants. I'll just blame it on their imaginary mother or whatever. I'll be like, we would have been fine. She left.
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I'm just pouring water on them. Their punishment is the water? No, the water is there. I'm giving them the water, but it would have been watered every day if their mother had left us. Oh, so you're bringing out the resentment on the plants. She left us. Who's the mother, Poison Ivy? It's just a fictional woman.
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You'll have a Subaru. Ooh. But I'll take it. You know what? If the family comes with that and that's what it takes, I'll do it. All right. You know, I'll do that. And I appreciate it, Timothy Chalamet. Thanks for all the neat acting, man. Thanks for that. Thanks for the movie about the drug, about... the young man struggling with drugs. Thanks for the movie about Bob Dylan.
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Uh, and just thanks for sharing like what it takes, the commitment that it does take. Cause I do feel that from you. I do feel that the commitment that it really takes, if you really want to take this opportunity and make the most of it in your life, you know, exactly like you're doing.
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Amen, brother. Um, Christmas Day, the movie comes out. You can go watch it in the theaters with your family over the holidays. Perfect, perfect family movie. Will it be in theaters, yeah?
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I mean, I don't think it's a lot of kids that have ever played probably dice in an alley, I would say that. So I would say it's probably pretty decent.
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Huh. Interesting. Dude, thanks for coming in, Timothy. I appreciate it, man.
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Bro, he did a great job. Because they used to have... They used to have... I used to hate them, you know? Yeah.
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There's a lot of, yeah, a lot of, yeah, missing, formerly living things started to disappear.
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Well, they used to have incinerators in the buildings. That's what was craziest. Right, right, right. So that the people would put their trash, it would hit the incinerator. And then they would just have, I mean, this is like six or seven years ago, I think, but they would just have soot in barrels, you know, or in cans on the side of the street. And then they started getting bags.
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But he said, yeah, there's been times where a lot of things have shown up. But thank you, man, for checking it out. Yeah. For just hearing it on accident.
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No, it's not at all. We're happy that you're here. And I appreciate it. And you get to do a biopic or biopic.
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And Tallahassee, Florida. Rosemont, Illinois. Winnipeg. And Calgary in the Canada. Get all your tickets at theovon.com slash T-O-U-R. And thank you so much for your support. Today's guest is one of the biggest young acting person, people in the world, acting humans.
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Yeah, biopic does sound fancier. I think that's true. Yeah, biopic. Was it like, so let me think about a question like that. Just so people know, this is about a four or five year period in Bob Dylan's life.
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Yeah, we don't have like a lot of celebrities on, really. You know what I'm saying?
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Yeah, actors get kind of a weird rap, though, because then they also have to be celebrities. In some way, yeah, in some way.
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Yeah. No, I don't think that's man. I think that like you did the movie with the young man with drug addiction with Steve Carell. So yeah, beautiful boy, which was awesome. Yeah.
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Yeah, man. And so many people have, and it's like, um, so, um, I don't think there's any doubt in people's mind about your ability to be a bridge between whether it be a story or a person to a new generation or to new listeners or people kind of imbibing it.
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I don't even know what that means. Okay, I don't either. I don't even know what that means.
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Yeah, people want to hear it. People want to see it. People want to see, like, a little bit of a journey that they can relate to or hear about it. Yeah, exactly. So about the character, like... So Bob Dylan has, like, such a famous... Because, yeah, a lot of younger generation might not know about him, you know?
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And a lot of... He has such like a... That's a good Bob Dylan, man. Was it? Yeah, that was good. How did you do? When you first decided, because I'm sure you had to practice it in your room or something.
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You've seen him in Dune, Willy Wonka, A Beautiful Boy, and now his new movie, A Complete Unknown, where he plays Bob Dylan in theaters Christmas day. You can check it out. I had a great time getting to know him. He's an enthralling dang human. Today's guest is Timothée Chalamet.
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Oh, I think you have to do that. Yeah, I had to do it, man.
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Hey, snipers down, lay down snipers. Yeah. Um, but was there a moment where you tried that, where you actually tried it?
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There he is right there. Okay. Is that the man?