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What is going on with the health and fitness stuff? It seems like I looked at some photos of you from 10 years ago and you're like half the size.
Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I just, you know, you just get tired of everything. So you go, I'm just going to... I'd like to be around and feel better. So you just, you know, it's an always happening thing. I don't feel like it's a thing that you just address once and you're done with it. It's something that you are just thinking about, I think, all the time. You know what I mean?
Yeah. Is this sort of gone are the days where you can fully live out the degenerate smoking, create a lifestyle? I did that.
I already did it. Yeah. I mean, it's... You know, when you're really in it, there's a kind of a freedom to be in like... I'm a fucking gross sack of shit. And you just don't care. And you just eat in bed and smoke. And I mean, I used to go to bed every, like at three in the morning, almost every day. And I would sleep until, I don't know, noon. Like that was normal. I did that for years.
And there's like a freedom in being like, yeah, I don't care. I don't give a shit. But I do think it has – well, it literally does have an expiration date. I don't think it does. Like, you will die quicker if you do it that way. So I think you kind of just go like, eh, I actually don't feel – physically feel so great after a while.
I think in your head, too, like you psychologically are just kind of like – uh, there's, there's another way of doing this. Um, that because part of you kind of, I was one of somebody who like, I would admire those comedians that were kind of a mess. So you, you know what I mean? Like you go like, I need to be like this.
It doesn't feel so contrived, right? Oh, this is the purest artistic expression. They're on stage being themselves. They're a sack of shit being themselves.
Yeah. And, and I thought that was like, that's kind of like the way that's when I started. I was like, I leaned into it more. I remember like, One of my friends came to one of my early shows once, and he was like, hey, man, that T-shirt has a hole in it. And I was like, I know. And he was like, you want to wear that on stage? Like, people are watching you.
Don't you think they want to see, like, somebody that's presentable? And I was like, no, no. Like, this is... this is the presentation. He's like, that you have holes in your shirt? And I kind of was like, I was sure of it. I was like, yeah, I mean, that's the whole thing. I didn't feel like I was pulling out an act. I was like, yeah, this is what I would wear around the house.
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