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

Mexican waiter was really nervous and I said, "You know, are you okay?" He said, "Mr. Snider ain't nervous because I know her legally. So I, I worry that the, the, the ice to come can come take me back to Mexico."

"You know, these are the guys we want here in this country. People working hard." Then he completely [ __ ] up our order and I was like, "Get this guy happy. You know, you can't [ __ ] up lunch. That's the most important meal of the day."

As soon as I got the check, I called at table 47. "Got to get over here." I'm a conservative. Well, I mean, I'm a '90s liberal, which makes me a right-wing fascist now, right? We all are. No. God, God forbid. We stick to those, you know, free speech and, you know, women's rights and things like that, crazy stuff. The, the idea that you can silence other people just because you disagree. I mean, that, that has to be, I mean, I'm still waiting for the Democrats to say that's not good."

"I think you might be waiting for a war." California either has a huge homeless problem or a gigantic camping success story to look at. Maybe it's both. I don't know.

"Rob Schneider, welcome back."

"Thank you so much."

"Brother, it's only been about a year. Last time we had you on the show, uh, it was right after the election."

"Yeah."

"Pretty much the biggest episode we've ever done. 2.5 million views. People absolutely loved it."

"And..."

"Thank you. Very honored. It's been 12 months and like so much has happened. It's crazy."

"No, it seems like the Chinese uh, uh, what it's not a proverb. It's basically the curse. Yeah."

"May you live in interesting times."

"We are living in very interesting times. A lot has happened since then. I think, uh, the realization, um, is still sinking in to the liberals that they've lost power and, um, they are not, uh, giving up easily as the, uh, uh, demonstrations, the no kings leftist demonstrations, as the former Soviets called them, the useful idiots. So they're doing that. And also there's a wakeup. I mean, the, the fact just because the Republicans are in power that they can actually do all the stuff they want to do. It's, it's just, it's a wakeup call to realize, you know, you can't. There's, there's some impediments to it."

"Love..."

"We can't, we can't do everything we'd like here, but we like it very much. So..."

"Well, all the only conversation you and our booker have is basically you impersonating his English accent and ripping him a new one."

"We all enjoy listening in as that happens. No, I just like he just assumes like..."

"No, I told you yesterday we're coming at 1:30."

"Yeah, but I didn't agree."

"[ __ ] No, but I said I sent you a message which means it's going to happen automatically. I'm English. I make things happen. You still use our rules. You kept the rule of law and property rights. We owe you. So when I say method, you're stuck with it."

"I mean, he's not wrong, is he?"

"No, he's not wrong. But it, it is lovely though because I find myself to be an Anglophile and all the best humor was that cuz we didn't get the shitty stuff, you know. Truthfully, I was never, I mean, no offense, but I was never into Benny Hill, but Monty Python. I mean, the, you know, It's All Right, Jack. Those great comedies are the Elen comedies. I mean, that was the basis of like great comedy. And it's because your people were so angry because I don't think you participated in the Marshall Plan. You didn't get banked out like Germany. So you guys were still rationing like into the, uh, into the '50s."

"Yeah."

"And they were pissed. 'WE WON THE [ __ ] WAR,' YOU KNOW."

"So that was kind of, um, similarly how like in I just got back from Hungary and like and the war never ended there. Just new new occupiers came in. But so, so there was a beautiful thing that happened I think in English humor. Correct me if I'm wrong, but whereas there was still like an intensity like, you know, after the war and all the the pressure leading up to it, you couldn't wait to get rid of Churchill and then, you know, the next thing. So, the comedy had an edge to it."

"That I think led to like eventually 19, I think it was '61 when Peter Cook, uh, went on the, the Footlights and then that was, uh, you know, John Cleese and Eric Idle I think were watching that night and didn't, didn't realize you can make fun of the establishment. You can make, I think he made fun of the prime minister, Peter Cook, and that was that was the beginning of, uh, the rise and I think that led to, you know, to another level, the high watermark of comedy in the 20th century, English Monty Python."

"Well, Peter Cook was one of our greatest ever satirists. Him and Dudley Moore, of course, had that famous partnership."

"But one of the things that people were taken aback with by Peter Cook at the time was how savage he was. And you know, we were very much, 'No, no, these are our betters. You can't talk about them like that.' That's very..."

"And he just went in."

"He did not care. And it was quite shocking at the time."

"But, but one of the things that I've noticed about American humor, and I love American humor. I love your stand-up. Your comedies are great. Ours, we, it's kind of the difference between heavy rock and jazz piano. Jazz piano is English."

"Because it's the notes you don't..."

"It's more subtle."

"It's more subtle. It's the notes you don't play. That's where the humor comes in."

"Yes."

"Whereas Americans, you like your power chords, you know?"

"It's a hammer."

"But I, I think though, I, I like the, the subtlety of both."

"You know, when, when you could, um, I, I like telling a joke where I'm, I, the best thing for me when I'm doing stuff is like, is to let the audience go, 'I'm going to, I want just want to get this out of my way first to get the joke in,' you know? I go like, you know, 'It's good to be back in California, but like I had to move because, you know, I got little kids and it's dangerous to have kids in public school. You know, in California, you know, in the morning you drop off a girl, afternoon you pick up a boy, you know?' So you just kind of get to it and then, you know, the, um, the subtleties of it, uh, and again in the same way, you know, you just, you, you get them off balance as best you can. But I'm definitely influenced by that English humor and the way that you could, it's, it's, I hopefully it's a good combination of of both. And stand-up is particularly just like jazz, which you guys stole from America, and, uh, stand-up comedy, I believe, um, you know, it originated, I guess you would call Mark Twain was the original stand-up humorist and, uh, he would charge a dollar because he also would, he would get rich and go broke and then, you know, he, um, there would, you know, Ulysses S. Grant had cancer, was dying and like, you know, back then they didn't give money to the former presidents, so he helped him pen his auto, his autobiography so he can make money for his wife, pay for the farm, blah, blah, blah. And then he would go blow all his money, come back and then he'd get money again by performing, but like town hall or something or a library. I don't know if there was a library. I'm just making that up. But he would charge a dollar to talk about far away lands like Hawaii. He had no idea the half over there. You got to take several weeks to get out there."

"But now like you guys can fly wherever you want and do the things. So, so for me, the nice, um, joke that I could relate to was based on something really happened. It was, it's really fun. It was, um, really fun. Listen to me. But I was in Vegas. I was playing Vegas and you know the, um, MGM Grand, which is a good gig on the Strip. That's a good one."

"Um, and, uh, I had went out to lunch with the guys, the, the band I'm working with and, uh, the Mexican waiter was really nervous and I said, uh, 'You know, are you okay?'"

"He said, 'Mr. Snider, there is a nervous because I know her legally. So I, I worry that the, the, the ice to come can take to take me back to Mexico.'"

"And I felt terrible, you know, and, um, you know, these are the guys we want here in this country. People working hard, you know, then he completely [ __ ] up our order. And I was like, 'Get this guy happy.' You know, you can't [ __ ] up lunch. That's the most important meal of the day. You know what I'm saying? You can [ __ ] up breakfast, dinner, but like soon as I got the check, I called Ice and Table 47. Got to get over here. But it's, um, but I like it because it just plants a little seed in there, you know, and people can feel either way they want. But I'm not, you can't lecture them about stuff. And that's the, I would say American comedy now, we have to be careful that it, you know, we've come out of that co tyranny."

"And we want to, you know, I think to, you know, which was the best for me, the best part of Peter Cook, Dudley Moore was the silly."

"You know, the best money p, they would just, the silly is king."

"As Cleese, John Cleese would say. But, you know, the one-legged Tarzan."

"I mean..."

"That Peter Cook and Dudley Moore sketch, it doesn't get any better than that, you know?"

"No, he's auditioned for the role of Tarzan. He's got one leg. I was just like, 'Wow, this is, it's just, you know, it shook everything up.'"

"So, you're saying now you fear there's there's a lot of seriousness creeping into comedy and kind of people are, you know, going very heavy on their opinions."

"I think so. And I think the audience is, I mean, I have to be careful of that, too, you know, because I'm a conservative. Well, I mean, I'm a '90s liberal, which makes me a right-wing fascist now, right? We all are. God, God forbid we stick to those, you know, free speech and, you know, women's rights and things like that, crazy stuff. Um, so I have to be careful, too, that, you know, I don't fall into that easy trap of just, you know, throwing slop to the conservative, you know, masses, which is what kind of late-night TV was. You know, the late-night TV, you can, it's there's no individual voices. You can replace and go like, you know, Jimmy Kimmel could say the same joke as, you know, Seth Myers and then you can put like, you know, you know, and then, uh, you know, the other Jimmy can, so it doesn't, the other Jimmy, so they, you can, you can have, it's the same thing. It's like, what is it? Where is the point? Is there any individual voices, right?"

"And it's just, it's too easy. You never, norm, make, make a joke about Trump, they'll just applaud you. You know, you can do that, you know, where's the, uh, you know, where's the danger there? And I, I do think it's, it's definitely more fun, but it is more dangerous, you know, I mean, they, they're killing, uh, there's violence happening, you know, and so that's, uh, we have to have gun checks at comedy shows."

"We..."

"Really?"

"Yeah."

"Yeah. But why wouldn't you? I mean, we were talking, not to change, you know, direction, but unfortunately, we kind of have to. You, we were talking before we started about Charlie Kirk. I mean, that's one of the things that happened since we last saw you."

"Yes."

"And he was a friend of yours."

"Charlie was, is irreplaceable. Um, Charlie was such a, uh, he, I mean, I, I honestly, as a comedian and as a, uh, a humorist and, and as a real, a cynic, I, I think you have to be cynical in, uh, uh, to approach comedy. What's really behind that? So, I would get these calls from, from him, uh, from his organization and then from him."

"Saying, you know, 'We want you to be involved in, you know, Turning Point.' And I was like, 'What is this 28-year-old kid? What is he, what's going to be something behind this? There's always something, you know, whatever.'"

"And, um, and I didn't realize like what he had built. This is this incredible organization of young people. If you want to change the future or if you want to return the future to some traditional, uh, American values, um, Christian American values, then, then you, you build, got to build an organization to remind people what, what, what is the potential loss of not maintaining that. So I, I, I learned, um, pretty quickly. I was still a little, um, you know, still questioning it and going like, 'I don't know, what is it?' But then I found it to be, um, really sincere and his, his, uh, his organization and his, uh, what his quest was was to keep, um, you know, America a, uh, a nation under God and, uh, and free. And that was a, um, a tremendous loss. I mean, his, we were supposed to go because I said to him because it was fun. You show up at a university with Charlie Kirk and I'm telling you the kids will come up, stuff they ask questions and I really liked it that it was such a generous thing that he would do. We'd put the microphone down and I said, 'If you disagree with me, come to the front.' And he was saying constantly saying, 'When the conversation stopped, that's when the violence begins.' And he was right. You know, they, uh, the leftists, you know, if they can't be, they, they can't beat you with debate, they would shout you down. They'd prevent you from speaking and, you know, this specifically, you know, they, 'How dare you disagree with it?' Um, and, uh, that voice is silenced. So, I'm hopeful that that will, uh, you know, his, his organization will continue to inspire young people. Um, we, I asked him, I said, I said, 'Well, I wanna, I want to go to the craziest place with you. Where is that?' I said, 'We said, 'What?' I said, 'No, I want to go to the craziest university where they'll be.' And he said, 'Well, then we'll go to Berkeley.' 'Let's go to Berkeley.' And then I had to go to Berkeley without him and there was riots to stop a comedian for talking. Just a riot, literally a riot. I'm, I'm suing the University of Cal Berkeley for, I don't know what the number will be, but more than a dollar, I promise you because it's, and that was the, and thankfully Peter Begoian and, you know, your countryman Andrew Doyle was kind enough, I invited them to come with me to buttress my ignorance and, um, but, uh, there's an interesting thing because about free speech, it isn't just what our lawsuit's about. It's not just the ability for you to speak freely and somebody to stop that. It's also free speech. The other side of that is the, the ability for someone to to have the right to the freedom of speech to hear the speech and that's the other side. So I think that's important because the university, they were such [ __ ] they insisted Cal Berkeley Regents and the, the, you know, I don't know who was in charge of that over there, whether it was the dean or somebody made the decision. They said, 'We insist on getting 500 tickets.' They would give it to this liberal organization to just so that 500 people couldn't come and then there was 500 empty seats. We could have easily had 2,000 people there. And, uh, and then they also called people who had tickets like friends of mine because I'm, I'm from Northern California."

"Interestingly, that used to be the free speech, that's where free speech on the university campus started, 1964."

"Um, and, uh, and then they told, 'Oh, your tickets are no longer good.' So then there was really a riot coming in and the police, I mean, it was just, it was just unreal. But, um, um, the, the idea that you can silence other people just because you disagree. I mean, that that has to be, uh, I mean, I'm still waiting for the Democrats to say that's not good."

"I think you might be waiting for a..."

"You know, I mean, there's, there's some Democrats that I think have potential. Josh Shapiro, for instance, have been..."

"I think so. Yeah."

"You know, you, he talks about what the Democrats used to talk about in the '90s. He seems like a decent guy."

"Yeah."

"You think, you know, if the Democrats actually put him as, and maybe he got a little bit of a headwind, he might stand a chance."

"Well, I think, you know, if the, if Americans have proved anything, they have no memory of anything. They just move on to the next thing. You know, uh, 25 years after 9/11, you got a a Muslim mayor and you have like prayer outside, which is a, as you guys know, it's a form of dominance and..."

"Conversation may take a turn at this point."

"So, we'll see. I mean, um, I'm still buoyant. I mean, I do think that, uh, for sure the, uh, weak leadership seems to bring about more difficult times and I think we're seeing, um, a reset, a global reset. And I think you're seeing with the, uh, with Donald Trump, I would just say to the people who, um, they dismiss him by say, 'You do that at your own peril because it's very, uh, strategic what he's doing right now.' The, um, there is a global reset happening right now with Venezuela, um, you know, you don't, uh, people worried about the, you know, Venezuelans as far as that they're going to, you know, these are people, they're going to protest, they're going to say, 'No, no, no.' Here's what you never hear about. They're Catholic. A Catholic guy jumped on a train and stabbed nine people today. You never hear that. You never hear like a Tibetan monk..."

"Hijacked an airplane and flew it into a building."

"You know, you don't hear. Chinese woman drove a van into a Christmas market."

"Well, you did."

"Yeah."

"Yeah. She's looking for..."

"Sorry, did I steal your punchline?"

"She was looking for a parking space."

"You know what I mean? That's a parking space. I know. I know. I used when I go on Jay Leno used to do that to me, too. He'd figure out the joke. Of course, you figure out the joke. You're a comedian."

"Sorry, brother. I apologize."

"Hey, that's like being on Jay again."

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"We had Jaylen on the show actually. Yeah. A while ago. We recorded in his car garage."

"Oh, fantastic."

"Yeah. Yeah. It was fun."

"He's an incredible guy."

"He's such a nice guy."

"He was the best comedian of his generation. And he was also really helpful. He was like, he would tell you guys like, 'Hey, how much time you got?' I remember like, you know, in the '80s like I said, 'I got about 8 minutes.' Good. Yeah, I'm glad you eight minutes. Most comedians add, 'I got two hours.' You know, who wants to hear two hours of comedy material, you know, if you don't have five minutes to kill anytime everywhere you go, you got nothing. And he was right. Get all you need to become a star in LA is 20 minutes. 20 minutes that. And it's true. And it was just like, I mean, it seemed like a long time when you're 20, but by the time it was 24, all I had was 20 minutes. That was the most I ever had at that time. And the only other guys who had 20 minutes was like Chris Rock, David Spade. Well, maybe Chris Rock had 30, but David Spade, Adam Sandler, and me. We all got on, you know, that was the beginning. You only need 20 minutes to become a but, uh, he was great. All those guys would be helpful. The greats like, um, you know, uh, you know, Jerry Seinfeld, one of the greatest, uh, comedians we've ever had. Just the, the structure, if you look at it, it looks, you could build a house on the way he forms jokes, you know, and he would say to us young comedians because back then they're like in the early '80s, there were like bars that they would turn into comedy clubs and 120 seats, you know, if you do enough shows, you're making like $10,000 once a month, you're making enough. And that was like, if he would do the, by that time, by '84, I think he had done or '83, he had done like 42 Tonight Shows."

"Wow."

"42 five-minute spots."

"Wow."

"And then we, we'd watch him and the structure of his stuff was so great, you know, and he would just have like the simplicity of his thing, which is almost like an English thing. He was like, he would say a little joke like, 'Magic is just to make you feel stupid. Here's a quarter. Now it's gone. You're a jerk.' Like it's just a wonderful simplicity. And then, and then after we'd all hang out, you try to get some, uh..."

"You know, some nuggets of wisdom by the master, you know, and, uh..."

"Did you?"

"Yeah. He said to me, 'Listen guys, you got to take the swearing out. If you take the swearing out and it's not funny without the swearing, then it's not funny.' And I was like, 'Wow, he's right.' Cuz we can rely on it too much. Then I shook his hand, you know, and thank you, Jerry. And then he went to leave. I went to shake his hand and he was like, 'It's the same hand.' Very funny though because about a literally two years later I got on, uh, David Letterman and he's such a great guy. He, he just literally an awesome guy. He really appreciates comedy and he chased me out of the Improv after I did his set. He said, 'Just saw you on, on Dave on David Letterman, said you had balls of iron,' and he shook my hand. I'm a really good set man. I used to say young people doing some stuff and then I waited and he went to go shake my hand again. I was like, 'It's the same, man. I didn't say it, but I wanted to, you know, but he's, he's one of the masters.' And it's really frustrating to see like a guy who's still performing at a very high level and like there would be protesters. It's like, 'Come on. Can't you? Isn't it the? Isn't the LGBTQ+ for Hamas protested? You have to protest Jerry Seinfeld, one of the greatest comedians who who still doesn't have to do it, but he's still doing it because he loves it. So, that's kind of a bummer. So, we have that at the same time. But I do think that, uh, this friction and this stuff, I think the, the woke kind of thing is is collapsing. I think people are exposed to enough of it. So, hopefully it'll usher in something new. I don't know what the new thing is, but, you know, it's, it's been, um, it's been an interesting time. I would say the most interesting time of my lifetime for comedy because there were people yelling at you, people like paying money to yell at you. This is during COVID too because COVID was really cool because we have a republic over here. I strongly suggest you guys consider it. You break it. Different states, you know, that way the states would have different rules. A lot of the states went along with it, but some states hung in there, you know."

"So you, I would go to a place and they would perform and they'd be like, you know, they, you'd have to have, you know, somebody sitting not across from you or something. So they had half the comedy club and I, so I would just perform in those places. Until those places closed down and then started and then believe it or not, it wasn't Americans the reason that we got out of COVID. It was, it wasn't the Americans that figured out the protesting again. It was the Canadians."

"The Canadian truckers reminded Americans about protesting. And a good protesting, protesting against actual tyranny, not this fake tyranny that the, these no kings paid protesters are the useful idiots. So, but real protest against tyranny, which is what the COVID lockdowns were. And these, you know, the truckers that went, what did they do? They, they literally closed their bank accounts and, you know, that that seemed to be, uh, uh, you know, if that's not authoritarian, uh, and calling them, um, and calling them terrorists, that's pretty bad, you know. I was so, but, but what it did though, was it woke people up here in America to it. Like, enough of this crap, which was good. So whether people like the, um, the COVID vaccine or not, I mean, obviously it has has some problems and stuff. It's not a vaccine. It's a, according to Robert Malone, who invented the, or co-invented the, the therapy, it's an experimental gene therapy. So, you know, forcing everybody to take an experimental gene therapy is not good. But what it did though, Thomas Cahill, who was the designer of it, who was asked by the Trump administration, he's a genius. You got to meet Thomas Cahill. And he, what it did was it gave an off-ramp like, 'Hey, we got something. We can open up society now. Here we go. We got, we got the jab. Let's go.' So that, that gave an off-ramp to it. So, and I don't know if people will, um, it's interesting how the next, what is the next attempt at tyranny? But they've backed off this zero carbon initiative. You don't hear about it anymore. Right?"

"I mean, you do in our country."

"Yeah. Well, the, the, it's actually an interesting situation because in the UK, the only people who still believe in it are the government. No one else believes in it, but the government really, really believe in it. And actually, the worse things get, the more they believe in it. So, they're like, 'Oh, okay. This war in Iran is going to cause global price oil prices to spike and stay up for god knows how many months.'"

"Yeah."

"That shows you we can't be relying on fossil fuels."

"Oh, yeah."

"Yeah. Exactly. Except we still have to be relying on fossils."

"No, it'll impoverish the whole planet. If you want to go have star mass starvation right away, go off fossil fuels. But what Trump is doing, what President Trump and, you know, with is that global reset. If you can control, um, the oil, it's not about having all the, but if you can control it and then all of a sudden China has to work with you because unfortunately what you really had was you can have all the sanctions against Russia and China you want, you know, but, but if they're able to get oil from Iran and Venezuela, then they can circumvent all these problems. But if America has got a, a nice healthy stranglehold on Iran and Venezuela, then the Chinese will have to, uh, to work with us in a way that they don't want to, but they'll have to now. So I think in that way, it is, um, you know, the idea that we, uh, it's actually strong men make the world, uh, I guess there's a revulsion from it from the 20th century experience of World War II that anytime there's a strong man that comes up, it's like authoritarianism comes. But I would just say we should be aware that when weakness happens, that's when the authoritarian comes up, as we witness under COVID."

"You know, it's so funny when you talk to Venezuelans about what happened in Venezuela because you hear people going, 'Oh, this is a coup. This is terrible.' You talk to a Venezuelan, they're like, 'I know. I like it. Very good. No, no, no. We don't like Maduro. Bye-bye.' Well, that's what you have to, we have to, we have to weigh like what, how much freedom if you want complete freedom is chaos and so you have to, but the, we, we'd rather have more chaos than if you want complete control, then you'd have tyranny or something. But then you have something that was so chaotic and so out of control, like if you look at, uh, El Salvador, that was just, you know, the murder capital, the kidnapping cap, people couldn't, kids couldn't go to school and it was just, it was just, you know, you couldn't open up a little stand and sell food without being somebody coming in. So, um, you know, B. Kelly has changed that country. He calls himself the coolest dictator. And I would just go, 'Well, how much freedom if it, it's destroying your society? Uh, why are you willing to give up for some control?' And that's, that's the gaze, you know, that's the, that's what we're, that's kind of what we're looking at. But to go back to comedy, it's a very interesting time because we're talking about, you know, the woke and the backlash and that you're trying to silence voices. But hasn't that always been the case? I mean, take Bill Hicks. I mean, Bill Hicks used to go to the Deep South and do jokes about Christianity, laughing again, laughing about Christianity when it wasn't cool, when it literally, you know, could have endangered your life."

"I don't know about that. I don't know. I don't think it would have. I mean, I think it would had protesters just like there was protesters when The Life of Brian came out because it would just happened to do be the, um, you know, because it had to do with Christianity at all. But I thought that, you know, that, you know, was consistently rated the greatest comedy British comedy of all time and it was hilarious, but it was a, but I, you know, as, as John Cleese and Michael Palin would say, he wasn't, they didn't change one word of the Sermon on the Mount, but they, it's just the fact that was funny is like somebody who couldn't hear it, you know, I think he said, 'Blessed are all the cheesemakers,' that it's funny. So to have an open mind to that. But I don't believe that that, that even Bill Hicks' that day's life was endangered. I think he had people who were angry at him, but not in the same way like you'll have as Ayaan Hirsi Ali says. You know, you can have the Book of Mormon, but let's see you guys write the Book of Muhammad and see how long that stays open."

"I'll pass on that one. Thank you. Um, but, but, but isn't the cultural fear, the cultural fear of that? You can't even say it. You can, without without thinking, well, yeah, you could never do that."

"Well, Jimmy Carr has a great joke about this, which is, you know, a lot of Christians complain that you make fun of Christians, but you don't make fun of Islam. And he's like, 'Well, stop blowing [ __ ] up. You know, then I'll, I'll not find any Christians either.' That's so perfect. But I think though with this challenge, I think it's good because what you're seeing now in the United States and what I'm talking about now in state, which is I think is you have to challenge them and push them. That's otherwise it's not fun. You got to be some kind of contrarian. So, it's nice talking about the interesting is happening is women like white liberal women."

"Here we go."

"Here we said that is women."

"White liberal women."

"Yeah."

"There we go. It's nothing to do with that. I'm divorced now. This is women. No. No. But is that they were doing things that are against their best interest, putting themselves in danger. Whereas, you know, men."

"You know, traditionally that's what they do. And men have that. They're used to it. Every guy by the time they're a teenager, you know, you meet another guy at some point. What, you know, still you go, you, you still think a little bit like, 'If I have to kick this guy's ass, I mean, could I? I mean, is he going to beat my ass?' You know, if he has cauliflower ears, you go, 'Okay, this guy doesn't care about his face. I'm going to leave him alone. There's a part of his face. He doesn't, he's not pro, doesn't have a problem with looking messed up.'"

"And so, but women don't have that. So, I was saying that's why women put themselves, uh, in positions of danger that they're not used to. That's what happened in, uh, you know, in Minnesota, you know, and, um, and they said women could be emotionally manipulated to, uh, do something that puts them in danger. That for the cause, that manipulation, that, but the emotional manipulation like this woman wasn't even a lesbian, she was like, she was straight, uh, for the cause, she became, you know, into this, she got roped into this, become a lesbian dur, you know, for the cause. And I was like, 'That's the difference between men and women. I don't care what the cause is.'"

"I'm not taking a dick up, pretty much. So, but, but again, but, but I tried to build to the point about how women could be emotionally manipulated. And I said, you know, '85% of white liberal women voted for Kamala Harris to save democracy even though Kamala Harris wasn't even put in democratically.'"

"They just, you know, they just took Joe Biden out. You know, that Joe Biden basically a corpse attached to a car battery and like they, you know, which the Democrats still don't admit to that his brain wasn't functioning and they just put Kamala in to save the democracy, which so the joke is, you know, replacing Joe Biden with Kamala Harris is like changing your shirt because you [ __ ] your pants and then everybody feels like they got their money's worth. But, you know, what the point about Bill Hicks is interesting though because the threat side, I don't know about, but you do know, you must know, is that his final Letterman appearance was canned. They didn't publish it until after he, he passed away."

"Because it was too controversial."

"At that time. Yeah, it was too controversial. You're right. So, there, there was a, um..."

"Yeah, there, I think it was a stricter time. I, I think, uh, but I..."

"I think that's obviously a mistake, but I, I don't think it's the same kind of jeopardy as like Charlie Headbo, you know? So..."

"I think the, um..."

"But I, I anytime you go up against, we, we have to go up against the societal, uh, whatever the constricts are. We have to be contrarians, otherwise we're not doing our job. But it is, um, it can be dangerous as far as, I mean, I have to have gun checks at shows and it's dangerous to leftists, you know. So, um, I mean, it's, it's nuts to me. I mean, not nuts that we have guns in America. I'm, I'm all, I'm all for it, you know. I didn't used to be, but now I understand."

"Do you have the audience lock their phones in a pouch?"

"I don't do that because I don't think it matters anymore. I used to think they could get canceled, but once they've tried to cancel you so many times and you survive, you're like, 'What can they do with me at this point, you know?'"

"Yeah."

"Um, and also if they want to do it, I mean, I, I think it's kind of a childish. I, I do think though for the, you know, the guys who are making like, you know, $40 million on Netflix, they don't want to get their jokes out too early. I get that."

"But at this point, I, I don't think it's, um, I used to do that, but it's expensive."

"Yeah. Yeah."

"You got to bring the pouches and it's also a pain in the ass for them."

"The audience, let them be adults if they want to go on their phone. People are addicted to to their to their phones."

"No, no. The reason I bring it up is, um, and it's something I think about with podcasting now as well because what happened was you had the mainstream media which basically thought that everyone in the world had the attention span of a mosquito, right? And they whittled the sound bite down to like this, right?"

"And then the opposite is you guys. And then the podcast came along went..."

"But now what's happening is, and we've even had had guests who shall remain nameless who go like, 'So was there a clip in that?' And you go like..."

"With all respect, I mean, I understand. I have clips of mine. You have clips of yours going out on things. That's totally cool. But it changes the, the act of making it. This changes the thing."

"It does."

"And the same with stand-up, I think. And it's the same with like, you know, you're trying out material, recording something out of context online, all of that. That's why I was asking."

"No, you're right about that because, you know, because I do ask at some point, um, for women to, I try to get them to a point where I'm manipulating, you know, subverting them to, you know, it's like, 'Cause they're emotionally manipulate, you know, for, so I try to get their empathy and go, you know, 'It's because you're so, you know, you have so much empathy and compassion. That's why you raise children. That's why there's so many of us. You're incredible.' But then I get to the point where you can be manipulated to use this empathy for people who don't deserve it. And then I ask them to reconsider their right to vote. But then I say, 'No, no, no. There's still plenty of things to vote for. You can still vote. I'm not saying you can't vote. I'm just, I'm just saying just not for the important things. But there's still plenty of things. You can still vote for Dancing with the Stars. America's Got Talent.'"

"Britain's Got Talent, whatever. But, um, the idea is is just to challenge them a little bit and try to get them off and then, you know, you, you, you take some ideas and then, you know, it's the idea is to poke them a little bit and see where they go. And a lot of the women agree. A lot of the women, not all of them, a lot of them agree. And then some people complain. But I think it's, um, I think it should be a well-constructed humorous argument."

"Yeah."

"And otherwise, it's not, it's not fun. Yeah. So it's nice that they agree and sometimes I'll screw up. Sometimes I, I, I did not do my job by getting them there because it's still kind of new."

"And then you go like, you know, then it's like I got to kind of get them back, you know?"

"Yeah."

"But it, it, um, it's a good challenge. And then you can..."

"Wait, how do you get a woman back once you've pissed her off because you, I haven't worked that one out my entire life."

"I'm proof of that. Yeah, you..."

"Very painful. But it, it, um, it's fun though because, you know, there's some really interesting intellectuals and, um, like, you know, Jordan Peterson's been such a gift to the, to the male spirit really and he had this wonderful thing that I talk about now on stage, which is great because I'm not going to have to interfere with his him doing stand-up, but I can, uh, you know, you talk to him and it's like, 'Oh, yeah. Well, let me tell you, the women, um, that we have today, we have, uh, they're all survivors of the barbarian hordes that came in and they all, the barbarians would come into the new armies, they kill all the men, cut their heads off, and they say, 'Okay, we're going to cut your heads off or you want to come with us?' And the loyal women who got all their heads cut off, they stayed and died next to their husband. But the ones, but the ones who said, 'I've always been interested in seeing Germany. Let's go.' Those are the ones that survived.' So all, and I said this to all the women here tonight in this audience, you are the survivors. You are the ones who left with the new husbands. And you know, and what was too far was when I'd say to them, uh, 'Every woman in here is a traitor.' You know, and I like that was too much. But you have to try that. But then, and I go, um..."

"But it's, it's fun to, uh, and then I have them. But then my favorite things, I, I'll tell the audience to look at, said, 'I don't want you to look at the guy guys. I want you to look at the woman you're with right now. Just look at her. Tell her, I know what you're capable of.' But anyway, I don't know. I mean, I hope this doesn't come off like it's angry. But it's, it's definitely, um, angry. But it's fun. And I, I hope it's, it's a, it's a challenge and to try to, to do things that are interesting."

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"But that's, that's the beauty of stand-up comedy. I was watching a few months ago actually, Richard Pryor Live at the Sunset Strip."

"Unbelievable."

"Recorded in 1982 in the red suit, the famous red suit. And he was..."

"No, I think it was earlier than that one. The Live on the Sunset Strip. I think his first one was Richard Pryor Live and it was late '70s. It was in Long Beach."

"Still, as much as comedy's progressed since then..."

It's still basically the same guy. They had a guy standing by the stage. You know, it's interesting that first one where he had the red sweating and the thing, I'm sure all kinds of cocaine coming through that thing. But >> um >> that was still We're still doing the same kind of thing. We're still He's He was the guy the statue of David. We're all cheating.

But what the other one the live in the sunset strip that maybe that was 1982 >> it was. Yeah. Yeah. And he was talking about going to prison and he was saying about you know I've met uh you know we've met Muslims but in prison they've got these double Muslims >> and he did a bit about Islamic fundamentalists in 1982 in jail and you're going >> this you know this is what comedy is and should be. That's why he was the greatest >> double Muslims. >> The greatest comedy performer ever for sure.

I got to meet him once uh when he was doing Donahghue. This is like 19 I think 91. Um that's when Phil Donahghue before Oprah and and they said you know Richard Prior's in the building said what Prior Richard Prior is in where is he? He's done Donnie go you know and I had uh said go get a comedy album so I can sign something. They didn't get in in time, but and I went down and you know because I was it's 30 Rock is where Saturday Night Live was and I was a writer performer there. So like I can go anywhere I want. So I get the security you know done. He was like hey can I go through? He's like yeah come on in Rob. And then uh his dressing room and I said I'm Rob. Can I get in there? And I said yeah come on in there. And then Prior was just sitting there himself you know and um and I said you know Mr. prior that stand that first standup performance in Long Beach that was like the greatest stand up we're still stealing from you all these years and he didn't deny it and and I said um that was just incredible and uh I said that's the greatest performance ever. No one's going to top that. And he said to me, you should have seen that [ __ ] 6 months later. I'm just starting to figure that [ __ ] out. >> And I believed him. >> Yeah, >> cuz it just grows and grows. I'm sure I would have loved to have seen it 6 months later. But then he did that live in the sunset which was good. Didn't have the like the danger of that first one, you know.

So that that first one he made fun of white people was screamingly funny. It was long beach. Most of the people at the show were white people and he said white people some white people don't play that [ __ ] like all right cut the [ __ ] you know, and there was like and that's the the quintessential black impersonation of a white guy. And I like to do impressions of of black people even though it's not dear anymore. It's uh it's not allowed. But I would say like my favorite, you know, people who recognize me. It's you because people come up to you because they because I'm the same size as I am on TV. My favorite are black women to come up to me. Black women are different than other people when they come up to because black women make you prove who you are. Black. Tell me why I know you. Tell me WHY I KNOW YOU. Like I'm a comedian. That ain't it. Tell me why. So that that's kind of fun. And then um >> so what do you say? >> I said I'm a comedian. That ain't it. I went like no no no I am a comedian. Okay.

>> So it's uh but I I just think it's like we got to make fun of everybody. Like there's the one thing my favorite thing is a good laugh in the audience because I I talk about being you know my mom's Filipino. My dad I don't get into that too much but I talk about being Asian and be you know system of white supremacy you know surprise. I said, I said, "How come Asians are making more money then?" And if you never hear about it, cuz Asians don't want you to know in America. Asians are, "No, let the black and white people kill each other. We're going to hang over here. We stay over here in the suburbs."

>> And um but I said, you know, that's what I talk about for what is, you know, for years saying about like we got to get rid of diversity, equity, inclusion. If you want to have the best society, we need the best at each position. So, you know, that's why you have you don't see Filipino Jews like me in professional sports because you want to win, right? Right. you want to win, right? And um >> you see Filipinos, >> we're good nurses. That's what we do. You know, we're good at that. And usually there's a Filipino in the audience and and usually they work at a hospital. If they don't, that's when I say, you know, you're not living up to your potential. You seriously?

>> And I said, and it's it was based on a true story. I said, "I'm sorry. I don't want a seven foot black guy. It's not racist, but I don't want a seven foot black guy trying to take blood out of my arm." You know, it's all like [ __ ] Come on, [ __ ] What's wrong with you, Vain? Come on. [ __ ] Get out of there, man. Let me see that vein. And I'm like, dude, your finger's as big as my dick. Can you go find an Asian person to finish this [ __ ] But everybody kind they can relate to that. And it's it's fun and hopefully disarming.

And >> do you know I miss that so much? We were talking with with the young guys that work with us as well. It's just that I miss that world where people made fun of each other and it was cool because we made fun of everybody and everybody made fun of everybody and everyone knew that it wasn't malicious. >> Yes. No mal intent, >> right?

>> That's the That's why Adam Sandler's film is so important. He makes fun of people, but there's not he's not trying to hurt anybody. But I remember there used to be this bookstore called B Dalton. And right by the cash register there'd be these rows of of of comic of just books, comedy books, simple jokes that make fun of every nationality. It's like Italian joke book, Polish joke book, >> Irish joke book. And I just remember, you know, before you'd buy it, you you'd look before you whatever thing you're going to buy, you'd look up the Italian one. How do you tell an Italian airline? It's the one with the hair under the wings. Go, you know, and but that was acceptable. And and I I'd like to go back to that, but I think we've been um beaten down by the people who are the most um you know, as your countryman John Cle said. I don't think the ones who most sensitive should be the ones deciding what everybody else gets to listen to and watch, you know, and he's right about that.

But it it was a thing. But but I think I had a conversation with Jerry Seinfeld at the 50th anniversary of SNL because I I really took umbrage to what he said like, "Listen, no, the woke doesn't stop you from doing comedy. what are you talking about? I don't believe it. And I said, "No, they do that. You cancel them and they try to get you to not be on." And he said, "No, that's not what I meant. I meant you just have to work harder to get around to get to your joke." He didn't say that in that interview, but but um >> I think it is. I do think you have more opportunity for it. It's just you don't want to get, you know, shot by a crazy [ __ ] leftist, you know, that that takes things too seriously. And that that was the problem of like you know for you know for Charlie Kirk was like these people are accusing him of racism without any actual racism. He was just asking young people to ask more from themselves and to think for themselves as opposed to being you know what's happening at the universities and academia is they're not teaching you to think critically. they're just cranking out advocates to an illiberal agenda that uh that that doesn't have the best interest of these young people.

So, it was um as that's happening, I am um you know, we have to be positive and we have to uh uh to move move this country forward. Um and that's um that's my job and I know the best way to do that with jokes. If I write a good joke, I know making the the country better. Like this is um California is a great place because you have a lot of liberals here and the conservatives they don't get. Then I come out and tonight it's really funny cuz I go, "Hey, it's so beautiful in California. I get it. I get it. It doesn't matter that your votes don't count. It doesn't matter cuz it's so beautiful. It's so beautiful in California. Maybe women do have dicks. It's so beautiful.

>> But you know what? is how we feel every time we come here. Cuz you know the the most common thing Francis and I say to each other when we arrive in California, spend a couple of days soaking in the sun. Will I see something in the news over the other side of the world? And I just go, Francis, do you give a [ __ ] about what's happening? >> He's like, no. And I'm like, I don't either. >> I know. >> It's hard. It's hard to care cuz it's so perfect. But that said, you know, every time we've we've been coming here for years now, it gets like less populated. I mean, people people are leaving.

>> I know. Well, they [ __ ] ruined paradise, man. >> They did. Well, they have this people who stay here go, "It's so [ __ ] beautiful. I got enough money. I'll just eat it out. Break." No, they can. They want to tax you per mile on your car. The the Democrats cuz they have a super majority of Democrats. So, they don't want to fix any real problems like homelessness. And as I've said, you know, um, publicly, I said, "No, look, maybe I'm looking at this wrong. I mean, California either has a huge homeless problem or a gigantic camping success story. You have to look at it. Maybe it's both. I don't know. But they they they want they'll stay here no matter what because it is so beautiful. Like I'm almost retired, the kids are here. But the grievance tax, the uh the billionaire tax, the wealth tax, or the what about me tax? Why my money, my hopes, my dreams? It's grievance. And instead of fixing things, instead of fixing the homeless situation, uh, you know, when when when the chairman G came over from um China, they got rid of the homeless in San Francisco in one day. But then it's like, ah, let him come back. because I do think that it's disruptive and I I think at that in that point the disruptiveness is is uh is necessary to cause enough strife but California they keep creeping up in these incremental creep to where like I tell this joke and I got to tell you it doesn't get as big a laugh here because it hits a nerve >> and the joke is pretty um >> I think I'm giving away all my jokes here >> this won't go out for a few weeks so you're good you're good >> tonight it won't go well the thing is I said I I remember seriously like my my grammar school. The police came to our grammar school like third grade and they told the kids they said listen anybody adult says to you you got to keep a secret between you and them. Anybody wants to keep a secret that's an adult between you and a child that person's called a molester. Okay. You call the police. We'll come right away. Now that person's no longer called molester. Now that person is called California public school teacher and I said people go oh and then you then I get into the >> yeah it's not that funny anymore is that >> sorry to ruin sorry I'm not having to go at your joke but it's like it's kind of serious. No, people go, "Yeah, that is." They go, "Oh, yeah." But it doesn't get like ah, and maybe it shouldn't because there really was that legislation went all the way to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court just last month said, "No, no, no, no. Parents can rule can can raise their children the way that they want and not the school. It's not, you know, I didn't co-parent with the state." But that's a thing.

And then, and then you got to, you know, you come from another place, which is, which is fun, which is um because it's a true story. It does happen. We have a big population here, you know, uh, and this crazy [ __ ] does happen. And I don't know why specifically for women, if maybe because their relationships aren't safe or whatever, but there are these these women, fragile women who uh teachers who have um sexual relationship with uh their students.

>> Now, just a woman just got arrested in New Jersey last week and uh she's and here's how I feel about that in all seriousness. Like if a guy does it, you know, to takes advantage of a of a girl student, you know, that they should >> cut his wiener off and the wiener and him never get back together again. That's it. That guy should, you know, kicked out of society. However, if a female teacher decides to provide some extracurricular activity for her male students off school grounds. I just I just remember the 80s, you know, remember Hot for Teacher, that song. Remember every movie, you know, Weird Science, all the movies is about this. I just feel this way, you know, respectfully. I like all I know is if >> my classmate called the cops before I get a chance to get my [ __ ] I'd be pissed. That's >> So, do you know what? As a former teacher, I don't agree because she should be having sex with me, not the [ __ ] kids. >> That's the way I feel about the other teachers, like the science guy or the gym cook. >> I was available. My dick was available. I was ready for >> Yeah, that'll be the clip from this episode. >> I I was My dick was available. >> I'm here slugging away salary. >> I'm trying to get these fat kids in shape and this woman could have decently had a relationship with me.

>> Yeah. >> But I I do think though um out of context like that one might be problematic like you're for pedophilia. I'm like, well, you know, it's a joke, but it's also, you know, doesn't seem to be >> I um but that's just it though that there can be you can be get umbrage about anything. But I think the joke should be, you know, like to me like like it's why Dave Chappelle is such a master because he said something that like I would have never gone there. Uh but comedians who do cuz when he said the joke about like these guys are complaining about getting molested by Michael Michael Jackson like what a lot of people molested. How many people could say they got molested by Michael Jackson? And I'm like wow that guy's a genius.

>> Yeah. >> You know. >> Yeah. >> And he gets away with it of course cuz you know there's something beautiful about that joke.

>> Well Chappelle was the guy who helped break woke. I don't think he gets enough props actually because when he came out and he did the special I think it was called The Closer. >> Yes. >> And we've also got to give props to Ted Sandos and Netflix. >> Yeah. >> Um Ted, I've got a book coming out soon. We can work together. And but >> no, but genuinely because what happened was they would do you remember the protests >> and they were and they were saying that we need to take down the closer. It was transphobic and they were protesting Netflix employees and Netflix >> they should have fired every one of those employees. Hey, you're f Hey, I'm sorry you don't like it. You know what? You don't have to watch it. You know what? You can do this thing. Turn it or you can turn it down. Or here's another thing. You can find another job. Sorry. But, you know, I understand. You know, Ted is a great guy and he is doing try and do the right thing. And he did stand up for the most part for for uh Chappelle. I mean, he did then later apologize if you noticed. >> I didn't know. I didn't notice. He apologized. >> You did. But Ted's great and I love you, Ted. And seriously, you're the greatest.

Um, but No, I think I'm 100% behind you, >> but I I you know, and I don't mean to uh but I'm going to the the the Dave Chappelle last special that he did where he um where he [ __ ] on Charlie Kirk, to be honest with you. I thought that was Did he I thought it was I thought it was terrible. I honestly like uh cuz he was talking about the comparisons to, you know, to Martin Luther King and the uh and uh said, "Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa." You know, that's that's not Charlie. That's other people that did this. And um Charlie was an incredible and he wasn't like an influencer. That's totally that's a guy who with all his large S and his incredible success and his incredible you know he he is you know our greatest comedian in America. Um but I think though that that large S has managed to keep him in a in his own gigantic successful echo chamber whereas Charlie was just trying to get kids to talk. He wasn't an influencer. He was a Christian. a Christian who wanted to bring people closer to Christ. He was someone who was a nationalist and a Christian. They He's a Christian nationalist. No, he was a Christian and a nationalist. A Christian first. He was a believer in Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. He's my Lord and Savior. I'm a Christian as well. Now, but he's also a nationalist. Now, nationalism has this this this thing where I don't like the negative connotations to it. Yes, nationalism. If you're trying to expand your nation, that can be bad, you know, then >> we need more room. We need the Sudatan land on half of Poland. Well, that that's in its expansion, it can be, you know, a negative thing. But if you're trying to protect your nation, nationalism nationalism is required. So, I I didn't I didn't like that uh description. And I would just say that, you know, Charlie Kirk was was uh wasn't like these other leaders. That's the thing that was to me I'm still wrestling with it like you know 6 months 7 months later he wasn't like um RFK he wasn't like Martin Luther King he wasn't like JFK he wasn't like these uh leaders who did amazing things and I and in my mind I was like well God needs people who have these flaws that to do things because they're risktakers they can put themselves out there more than others >> in a way that could be beneficial to society you or God's plan, whatever. And um Charlie Kirk was an exception because he didn't have those that he didn't have those flaws in his personality. He was just a genuinely incredible guy. And uh and I think that that's an exception that I, you know, that I didn't see coming. That is a uh gigantic loss for us. So, we'll see.

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And what's weird about it is you would have thought, I think when something like that happened that people would rally around, pull together, uh, honor his memory. >> Yeah. >> But I saw you making some jokes, you know, about, uh, some of the people who are having a go at his wife, claiming she's invol. I mean, what do you make of all that?

>> Well, I I think if the right if the conservative movement can do anything, it can try to destroy itself. And so anytime it gets we got power, how do we ruin it?

>> Well, um there is a divisiveness happening because there is a void Charlie uh that void and people trying to take it take it um and fill it and sometimes in a negative way and I do think there is a negative thing happening and it happens with with any group that would take power. The liberals obviously abused it and now it's the conservatives turn. But there is a certain ugliness. There are people that are um you know there's my our good friend Frank Turk uh who's was Charlie's biblical scholar because I I was I had a um a public speaking um engagement with uh Charlie's um beautiful wonderful wife uh Erica who's taken over the organization. It's not something she wanted. this is something that was thrust upon her and she's doing um and I had a conversation so I asked Frank I said what are the you know give me some help here uh some biblical you know points of interest that I could bridge in the conversation and he he brought up um Exodus 22:22 and it brought up Deuteronomy 19 basically talks about how God will uh protect and seek vengeance on those to um take advantage of the fatherless and the widows.

>> And it's it was very powerful. And so I I think you're seeing that. I mean, I think if evil is anything, it's a degradation of something good. So it's um you know something beautiful like love making and man and a woman and the this this sacred thing that could be degraded into pornography you know beautiful sanctity of God's marriage divorce you know so I think also you know a pride in country um a divisiveness uh to divide it into into sections instead of bring uniting people together I think it to divide it would be an evil um way to degrade that. So, I think we're seeing that as well. I hope people enough will will look for the good in it. And and I think that uh luckily there's a lot of there's so many instances of of uh Charlie speaking and listening to young people that I I think you um I think it's a it'll hopefully will will continue because we need it. He was personally responsible for I mean along with Elon Musk freeing up Twitter for a 22.5% bump in young people in the election. That's unbelievable. So we'd like to maintain that and keep the uh keep the young people cuz this is their country. This is your you know it's for you. It's like your nation the young people it's up to them. So we we want to preserve it and do the best we can to pass it on. Uh and at this point it does require sacrifice. does require you have to put yourself out there and you have to go against the cultural hordes and you have to go against sometimes the the tyranny that's that's at bay. And it's it's interesting because I said there's if you look up Rob Schneider right now, there's a lot of hate and stuff online because I think we should um this is something that um it's controversial but I think we should reinstall the military draft and for sure I mean a lot of other countries do it. I mean I would say many many countries do it. We used to do it here because what it would do is be a cohesiveness again, a union, and bring people together because, you know, there are no separate religions in foxholes, no separate beliefs. There's no party affiliation. It's just we're all in this together. And I think we need to for one get kids in shape, get people, you know, to to realize for young people that they need to >> freedom comes with uh eternal vigilance, but and it comes with sacrifice. And if you just, you know, I took my kids to Rome and we went to the military cemetery outside Rome, the United States military cemetery. And we said, "These, this is the ultimate sacrifice is what Lincoln said, you know, this is the um the final um he described it as the last full measure of devotion for our country." And that is you see that guy's 19, this guy was 26. This is Lieutenant Colonel. He died here for our freedoms. These this is what the sacrifice is. So I do think it it does take a shared sacrifice and I hope that we'll be able to do that and accomplish a unity that we do need with young people.

>> That's a concern is that we do seem to be more and more divided and maybe we do need something like this. Something to come in and go look if we can't achieve it naturally. We need an artificial policy to come in and help it people especially when people are on their phones.

>> Yeah. >> All the time. >> I think so. I think if you can bring people together regardless of whatever money they have, regardless where they came from. Here's another thing that they'll do. If you have sen, no one is excluded out of this. So if you have a senator's son, if you have, you know, Mark Zuckerberg's kid, it's going to everybody's going to think twice about putting these kids instead of a selective service or, you know, instead of just somebody volunteer service, you have this this selective service where you you have to join. It's going to make people and leaders and hopefully the public think twice about any foreign wars because it's not just some other kid's kid, it's your kid.

>> And I think that that will be a positive thing for foreign policy as well. You'd have to really think is this really in our national interest to do this? Is it really? You know, and so I think that that um uh mitigates some of the the negatives of it, like I don't want to have to go three years, [ __ ] that, you know. And I do think it'd be good to get kids off their phone. It'll be good to get kids united together as one nation. This this this divide that's happening, this multiculturalism, this diversity, it's just it's all a ruse to uh to divide. And I think we need to unify. If you're going to have a if we're going to continue to keep this country going for continue to have Western civilization going, there are some pretty darn good things to Western civilization that we're saving. Rome, London, London, or whatever you guys call it now. But um what are your ideas to save it western civilization?

>> What are our ideas as well as save western? Wow. Now there's I think number one is installing getting people to be grateful for what they have. I think we live in a in a place where we are permanently anti-gratitude. I think social media, Instagram really worsens that, exacerbates it. You go on Instagram, you're like, why don't I have that? Why don't I have a yacht? Why don't I >> Yeah. There's a grievance. >> Yeah. >> Envy. >> Yeah. which you which I think most people experience at some point but the trick is to convert it into aspiration. That's one thing I mean about the United States that I think was so >> it's what you have here even still even now you have an aspirational culture. You do. And it's, you know, because I remember when I was in England in the 90s, I remember um hearing somebody saying something the difference between your country and mine. I think I did an Aussie accent or I do like more of a cocky one. You know, I love that London has four different accents. Just London itself. That's these people didn't go over here. This >> But I remember saying like um >> you know the difference in the United States generalizing this is this from England. It was an English guy >> in the '9s. So >> don't attack me. Uh but the in America like if a guy's driving a pickup truck and he sees somebody by buddy driving by in a Cadillac, oh man, someday I'm going to drive a Cadillac just like that dude. But in England it' be like some guy's uh driving a pickup truck and some guy goes drives by a Bentley just like someday that assho is going to drive a pickup truck just LIKE ME. [ __ ] YEAH you rich [ __ ] >> You know, so I don't know. Is that is there anything to that?

>> That's entirely accurate. >> Yeah, >> we talk about all the time, man. And it's only when we came to America, we actually realized that we thought we were just weird in England. >> Yeah. >> And then we realized, oh, we're just we just have the attitude that most people in America have. It's why it's why we love coming here. And it's not to [ __ ] on Britain. Britain's amazing amazing place.

>> But the one thing that we lack in the UK that we try and bring back with, you know, with our team and the way we do trigonometry and the people we talk to is that, which is like go for it. If you if you don't have what you want, go for it. Don't blame other people. Don't point your finger. >> The opportunities. Thanks. Thank God for the internet, >> right? The internet is there now. Just go for it. Go make it happen.

>> You can. You can. That's what's so that's why I think it was so frustrating for the Democrats. They lost this one when Oprah Winfreyy's like, "It's a system of white supremacy. We may never get to vote again." It's like, "Shut up. You're a black woman who's a billionaire because of this system that you're [ __ ] on right now." It's like just it's just ridiculous. It's absolutely hypocrisy to its zenith and I think people saw that you know and it's like and I think it's um so I think it's a good thing I but I want to keep progressing and and kind of going back and I think if anything there's a cycle that kind of comes back and I I would like to see that cycle come back with with the sense of young people taking pride in their nation and and the culture that they have. It's beautiful because I remember like the difference is the the hordes that came in back by up until 1921 in immigration. They came in from Poland. They came in from Italy. They came from Ireland and they came with a flag. We are America. We don't speak English. We're going to be flag America. and they came and they gave to the culture and the culture took from them and it was an exchange as opposed to you know what's dangerous is people coming into the culture >> that are taking more out and not putting in. We have these Somalians who've been here for not to pick on Somalians, but I'm going to pick on Somalia. 10 years, 10 years of being welfare still stuck on welfare. And it's a, you know, it's a different system, man. You know, that you don't realize like the I mean, seriously, the most gullible people in America, Minnesota, like, God bless him. But then, I remember I was doing comedy there in the 80s and they go like, u getting gas with our, you know, our car back then. We didn't even rent a car. this comedian's got a car he's going to drive and I'll pay for gas, whatever, you know. And then and they said, "Uh, oh, you can pay with a check if you want." What are you guys morons? People just bounce the check. It would never happen in California, but in Yeah, you still pay for to the 90s are still paying checks at gas stations. And I like these are very vulnerable, gullible people. If any Simoleon ever gets over here, they're going to rip us people people blind.

Um, but yeah, I mean, we have to be careful of people who don't come in with um well that's what we're susceptible susceptible about in a free society. People coming in who are bad faith actors who don't really want to come in to be part of the society. They want to come in and abuse the society and take as much out as they can not and or or have no part to do with it just kind of separate or even worse >> conquer your society. That doesn't sound like people who are uh good faith. And I think I think people are waking up to that. So I I think with that in mind, the bad faith actors, we just need just to recognize them because I do think there's a blind spot in the West. I definitely think there's a blind spot with Kier Starmer. I think for sure he's got a huge blind spot for this, you know. Um and I I think it's happening in in the west but there it was interesting to see with Victor Orban and hopefully uh by the time this comes out you'll he'll have his victory there. Um, you know I think it's a culture each individual culture in Europe is worth saving and it's worth having a representation and having a sovereignty and um that um I think is the most important issue.

Now >> so you are a white supremacist. >> I'm an absolute white supremacist. I'm a white supremacist in a system of white supremacy and I I look forward to benefiting from it. >> Filipino white supremacist favorite kind >> and keeping the non-filipino Jews down is lowly >> suppressing the others. Uh Rob, always great to see you, man.

>> Thank you. I'm glad we got to catch up a little bit. So much more to talk about. Next time I'll come over there. >> Yeah, come over to the UK. >> If I don't get arrested when I get off the the >> Yeah, we'll get arrested. You'll get We'll get you bailed and we'll take you for a curry. >> That's right. What were some leave with like what were some of the impressions you got this time as opposed to your last visit?

>> I mean it's this is very superficial but it's hard to get past. Before we came we had 60 consecutive days of rain in Britain. >> So it was nice to see the sun. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Uh I know this isn't interesting to anybody but us, but it's the only thing I can think about right now.

>> Well, what else has been there? Do you know what I and we've touched on it but I just love it. I'm like, you talk to American and they go, "So, what are you doing, man? What's going on? Tell me." And you're like, "Oh, well, we're thinking about doing this." And they're like, "Sure." >> Yeah. >> Instead of the UK was like, "No, mate. Don't [ __ ] do that. What's the point? Don't bother with that." Do you know? Yeah. Just, you know, just stay in your lane, be miserable, get on the anti-depressants, [ __ ] kill yourself. Jobs are good. Like, >> and it's nice coming here cuz people are like, you say, "I want to do this." And they go, "Sure."

>> Well, you guys are welcome. We welcome you as political free speech refugees from your country. >> Well, one other thing as well is and I think it ties into this is like in Britain, you don't know this, but our studio is a little outside of London. One of the studios that we use like it's a hard thing to get people to drive half an hour >> here. People will we just had someone on the show like where have you come from? And we're in California. Well, we should have said actually we're the Irvine Improv here in California. Uh we're filming in LA. Where have you come from? Florida, he just flew all the way across the US to do our show. In the UK, we can't get any [ __ ] to drive half an hour basically. So is it's that attitude and that cultural aspirational go get it mentality that's just infectious and that's what we love here, you know, and that is something you guys have that's so precious and I hope you hold on to it because it's it is what make made America what it is.

>> America loves to build people up. They also will tear you down. But it's a weird thing where, you know, the the the French will say that there's no second acts in American lives. But I'm hopeful. I think there are, and I'm uh I'm living it. So, we'll see. I'm I'm I'm excited about what the future holds. I really really am. But I do think it will it's going to require some some vigilance and some people to to be proud and say, "I'm proud of America. This is an incredible accomplishment." I mean, it really pissed me off when you go to like friend of mine called me, you know, producer, Hollywood producer. He calls me up. He said, "I got to tell you, I'm pissed off. Can you talk to somebody in the Trump administration?" Everybody thinks I can just talk. Oh, yeah. I'll get on the phone. Can I talk to Trump? Oh, is this the Trump administration? You're a conservative. You're like, "You can you get Trump on?" It's like, "No, I can't." But he said, "I was just at Montichello, Thomas Jefferson, the third president of United States. This guy, the Declaration of Independence, is incredible." And uh here's what they say. the um the uh you know the guide he said welcome to Thomas Jefferson's home third president and slave owner like that's the second thing you say that's the second thing you say it's like I think he did more than just that so I I do think there's like a we have to wrestle back our history and just it's pretty darn good you know I seem to remember Thomas Jefferson doing a lot more than just being a slave owner seemed to remember him going to Paris and going to London and then deciding looking around Hm. I don't like the way this streets go. Let's not do that in the States, >> you know.

>> So, >> he was an inventor as well. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. He he he's one we we're on a grid. When you drive back, you're going to you could thank Thomas Jefferson. You're going straight. You're not making the little You know, >> I like the little I do. I like the little windy road.

>> Can I ask you a question? Serious. I'll leave it. How terrible do you feel for the guys who had to learn the knowledge and then you don't have to anymore and it's all the guys. >> You're talking about London Cabbies. >> Yeah. Yeah. black cab. You see them drive in the 90s. They were still there driving around with the big blue book on a bicycle learning the knowledge of how to get around in London cuz it's impossible to get around London. Now they don't have to do that, right?

>> Yeah, they still got to do that. And you Yeah, they still got to do that. And the thing is because London's not the grid system, it's got these nooks and crannies. So you still go there and it's great to chat with the black cabbies cuz you know you'll sit down, they'll be like, "Mate, it's not what it [ __ ] used to be." >> They're not actually black necessarily for the American audience. They're talking about the black uh >> taxis. >> The more you explain it, the worse it sounds. >> There's a yellow T. Yeah, let's >> yellow taxi. They're the ones that always crash. Anyway,

>> I'll come see you over there. >> Yeah, let's do it. >> On your side of the pond. Yeah, >> if they let me in, >> they will let you in. >> We will. We promise. >> We'll have a word with K. >> Great to see you, my brother. Great seeing you and thank you for all your your incredible knowledge and your your your your contri your your your contribution to uh the culture and to especially right now is needed and welcomed and I appreciate it. You guys have been great.

>> Well, that's very kind. We did a little hand shaking, but we're actually going to go to Substack where you're going to answer questions from our audience. >> Oh, >> so that's going to happen. So, we'll shake hands one more time. Go to triggerpod.co.uk where Rob's going to answer your questions >> and you're going to see more handshakes. Rob, as a supporter of Israel, why do you think so many famous people, including now Shan Ryan and Joe Kent, believe that Israel controls President Trump? And what can be done to reverse this point of view?