0047. Sean Donnelly and Dan St.Germain

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Luis and Zac Show - Episode 0047: Sean Donnelly and Dan St.Germain

Release Date: March 23, 2025

In episode 0047 of "The Luis and Zac Show", hosts Luis J. Gomez and Zac Amico engage with guests Sean Donnelly and Dan St.Germain from the "Burbs Bros. Podcast." The episode traverses a myriad of topics, including the dynamics of the comedy industry, personal anecdotes, the evolution of comedy films, and the burgeoning influence of artificial intelligence (AI) on creative endeavors. Throughout the discussion, the hosts and guests employ their signature unapologetic humor to delve deep into both the absurdities and challenges of their professions and personal lives.

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1. Welcoming the Guests

Luis kicks off the episode by warmly introducing Sean Donnelly and Dan St.Germain, highlighting their longstanding friendship and collaborative ventures in the comedy realm.

Luis J. Gomez [05:26]: "I've known both of you cocksuckers for like 15 years."

This introduction sets the tone for a candid and humorous exchange, emphasizing the deep-rooted connections within the comedy community.

2. Navigating the Comedy Scene

The conversation shifts to shared experiences within the comedy industry, including challenges and memorable encounters. Sean recounts a tense incident with comedian Colin Kane, shedding light on the competitive and sometimes contentious nature of the scene.

Sean Donnelly [13:17]: "That's such a dude thing."

Luis and Dan add their perspectives on the disappearing figures in comedy, especially heightened during the pandemic, questioning the commitment required to sustain a career in comedy.

Luis J. Gomez [15:17]: "If a global pandemic was enough to make you stop doing comedy, how much did you really want?"

3. The Evolution of Comedy Films

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to discussing the trajectory of comedy films. The hosts reminisce about classics like "Happy Gilmore," evaluating its enduring appeal compared to newer sequels and remakes.

Luis J. Gomez [30:14]: "Happy Gilmore was my favorite Adam Sandler movie."

Dan and Sean critique the quality of recent comedy releases, pondering whether modern films have lost the genuine humor that characterized earlier productions. They also touch upon the challenges of maintaining originality in a saturated market.

4. The Intersection of AI and Creativity

The dialogue takes a contemplative turn as the hosts and guests explore the role of AI in the creative process. They discuss both the benefits and potential threats posed by AI, particularly in fields reliant on human ingenuity like comedy.

Luis J. Gomez [60:47]: "It's like having a production assistant to kind of, like, talk shit with."

Sean expresses concerns about AI's future, speculating on scenarios where AI could potentially undermine human roles:

Sean Donnelly [71:18]: "There's a bunch of people that are like, they're gonna kill us."

The group debates the ethical implications and the necessity for regulation as AI continues to evolve, emphasizing the importance of preserving human creativity and employment.

5. Technology's Impact on Social Interactions

The hosts delve into how technological advancements, especially smartphones and social media, have reshaped human interactions and societal norms. They critique the pervasive addiction to devices, arguing that it hampers genuine connections and fosters superficial engagements.

Luis J. Gomez [64:57]: "Our addiction to phones... it's completely manipulative."

They reflect on the loss of deep, personal relationships in favor of constant, often meaningless digital interactions, highlighting a yearning for more authentic human connections.

6. Personal Struggles and Resilience

Throughout the episode, Luis and Zac share personal stories about substance use and coping mechanisms. Luis opens up about his relationship with weed, contrasting it with alcohol, and discusses his journey toward sobriety.

Luis J. Gomez [04:31]: "For me, booze was never really my demon. Weed was my all day, every day."

These candid admissions provide listeners with an unfiltered glimpse into the personal lives of the hosts and guests, underscoring the resilience required to navigate personal and professional challenges.

7. Future Outlook and Societal Reflections

In the closing segments, the discussion broadens to encompass societal trends and future projections. The group contemplates the potential societal shifts prompted by AI and technological integration, advocating for proactive measures to ensure equitable and humane advancements.

Luis J. Gomez [76:38]: "I care about what's on my life throughout. What I can touch, what's right in front of me."

They emphasize the importance of focusing on immediate, tangible relationships and community over distant, often abstract global issues, promoting a message of personal accountability and local engagement.

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Notable Quotes

• Luis J. Gomez [05:26]: "I've known both of you cocksuckers for like 15 years."

• Sean Donnelly [13:17]: "That's such a dude thing."

• Luis J. Gomez [15:17]: "If a global pandemic was enough to make you stop doing comedy, how much did you really want?"

• Luis J. Gomez [30:14]: "Happy Gilmore was my favorite Adam Sandler movie."

• Luis J. Gomez [60:47]: "It's like having a production assistant to kind of, like, talk shit with."

• Sean Donnelly [71:18]: "There's a bunch of people that are like, they're gonna kill us."

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Conclusion

Episode 0047 of "The Luis and Zac Show" offers an engaging blend of humor, introspection, and critical analysis of contemporary issues affecting the comedy industry and broader societal norms. Through their unfiltered discourse, Luis, Zac, Sean, and Dan provide listeners with a multifaceted exploration of personal struggles, industry dynamics, and the inevitable march of technological progress. This episode stands as a testament to the show's commitment to delivering "uncensored comedy, razor-sharp banter, and insane energy," truly embodying a "comedy revolution."

Transcript

[Luis J. Gomez]

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[Dan St. Germain]

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[Luis J. Gomez]

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[Dan St. Germain]

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[Luis J. Gomez]

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[Zach Amico]

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[Sean Donnelly]

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[Luis J. Gomez]

You know what time it is? They say life a bit tight at night or we diving in. We got Zakamiko, red dot, head shot. Eat a sniper. The Puerto Rican point guard striking like a viper. And it came to attack. Yeah. What's up, baby boys? It's your boy, Louis Shay Gomez. New background. Hopefully people like this one more.

[Zach Amico]

I like it.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I like it a lot too.

[Zach Amico]

I like it sexy. It's like the neon signs all the other podcasts buy. But we didn't have to pay for it.

[Luis J. Gomez]

And we do have to pay for it.

[Zach Amico]

What? We didn't have to pay somebody to make the glass.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah, I like it a little shadowy here. Welcome to the show. It's boy Lewis James. It's a Wednesday. We're live here at the Gas Digital Network, Gas Digital Studios, East Village, New York City. If you're watching this live, thank you very much for watching this on YouTube or anywhere else. You should know that we do a live version of the show that's both uncensored and ad free. Plus we do a bonus Friday show every Friday just for subscribers. There's three Lewis and Zach shows every single week. If you subscribe to gas digital. Gas digital.com People love the platform, people love the website, people love the app. There's no complaints at all. I started going into my Trump impression there, but it wasn't on purpose.

[Zach Amico]

No, you were just bullshitting. So Trump came out of your face.

[Luis J. Gomez]

We have an incredible show plan today, but go subscribe to Gas Digital if you're not already subscribed. It's the number one way you can support this show. Uncensored, ad free content coming at you like Cleopatra, baby boys. 19 or 18 shows on the network. We're adding more Shout out to Violent J. And what's his brother's name. Bill Tub Thumper.

[Zach Amico]

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[Luis J. Gomez]

Jump Study.

[Sean Donnelly]

Jump Thumper was Chumba. Wumba.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah, that was a Chumba. Wow.

[Zach Amico]

That was my nickname in high school.

[Sean Donnelly]

He drinks a whiskey Drink. He drinks a drink.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Jump. Steady and violent. Chase started their podcast on March 26, their first live stream ever on Gas Digital. The Burbs. I'm sorry, Burbs Brothers Podcast. Is your podcast. I'm fairly good. It's called the Bruce Brothers. The Bruce Brothers.

[Dan St. Germain]

The Bruce Brothers Brothers.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I'm having a real hard time.

[Dan St. Germain]

It's okay. It's okay, man.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Two incredible guests.

[Dan St. Germain]

New new, new background.

[Zach Amico]

I gotta be honest, I'm a little, I'm a little foggy today, buddy.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Why are you foggy?

[Zach Amico]

I, I had one of those THC drinks last night and I may have over poured and I woke up still very high. 80 milligrams.

[Dan St. Germain]

They make them with that many.

[Zach Amico]

The bottles I get are 100, and usually I do half. And I poured it and it was already down to 20. And I went, well, I'm not gonna undo it. I'm not gonna put it back in the bottle.

[Sean Donnelly]

So it's gonna stay with you for 24 hours? Yep.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah. No, it's very good. I love. What is the name of the company again?

[Zach Amico]

Hetty Roosevelt.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Hetty Roosevelt. They're great, dude. When I was smoking weed, when I stopped drinking and I was still smoking weed, I would go to the bar and I'm like, can you make me a cocktail with these drinks? They'd pour 50 milligrams into a cocktail and make it. It was.

[Dan St. Germain]

Oh, wow.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Delightful. Two, three of those. You're on your ass. So shout out to Hetty Roosevelt.

[Sean Donnelly]

And you stopped Wheat. You don't know weed.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I smoked in Jamaica, but, yeah, that's it. I stopped.

[Dan St. Germain]

You're like, sober sober now.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I thought it was gonna be tough to smoke weed for four days and then come back, because every time I've done that, I've just jumped right back on the weed train. And I feel good. I feel. I, I, I was so high and gluttonous that I was like, I don't want to feel that way.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah.

[Luis J. Gomez]

So I'm feeling nice now. Yeah.

[Dan St. Germain]

I don't, I don't think. And also with weed, you're. It's just not the same physical addiction that booze is. So you're going to be able to get off it a little easier.

[Luis J. Gomez]

For me. No, for me, no. Booze was never really my demon. Weed was my all day, every day. Since I was 17 years old, basically this. It's been a very rare that I haven't been getting stoned because I loved it the first time I smoked weed. Like I fell in love with it. Like, some people don't get high. I got higher than I've ever been in my entire life. With my two best friends. We saw System of a down, incubus, puya, Mr. Bungle. That night we saw a great concert. It was just. The whole experience was like, wow, I've arrived.

[Sean Donnelly]

Magical.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah, it was really nice.

[Dan St. Germain]

I think the first time I got high was in my. Off a Gene Simmons bog. It was bong. It was like a Gene Simmons. It was like a Kiss Russian doll set.

[Sean Donnelly]

You smoke out.

[Dan St. Germain]

It was unbelievable. Yeah, I forget.

[Zach Amico]

Like, I think the car was his yarmulke.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Two guests in studio today. Sean Donnelly, Dan St. Germaine, the Burbs Bros. Podcast. Go subscribe to that and support that. These guys are hilarious. I've known both of you cocksuckers for like 15 years.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yes. Long time.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Two fucking real pros. Very pale, very gingery, gray in the beards. Now you guys are old fucking men at this point.

[Dan St. Germain]

Clearly everything we've gotten is because of merit. If you look at our faces, we did not get the Matt R. Slipping.

[Luis J. Gomez]

You guys.

[Dan St. Germain]

Are some of these guys not attractive? Well, I. I'm a. I'm a. Acquired taste.

[Sean Donnelly]

It's called the Type. It's called the Type.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Okay, Louis, type 2 diabetes.

[Zach Amico]

The matt R. Slipping does sound like the new. Like Houdini. Like one of those sex moves.

[Dan St. Germain]

The Matt R. Slipping. That's when you're a 300 pound guy who says you're Matt R in K. And then you drug him.

[Zach Amico]

That's when you're having sex with a girl and you ask her what her name is and what she.

[Sean Donnelly]

And then you drop a mic on her head.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

And she didn't know she was being filmed.

[Luis J. Gomez]

So. Look, we have an incredible show. Lots of fun stuff to talk about. On today's show, Shannon is not out, which is kind of depressing.

[Sean Donnelly]

She's. She's not out of shit.

[Luis J. Gomez]

She is out. My head doesn't work.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah, yeah.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Shannon's out today, which is kind of depressing. We got Jorge and Dom in the booth. Can we go to the Shannon cam?

[Dan St. Germain]

Yeah.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Hi, how are you? Not as attractive. We got Karen in the background. I guess Karen will have to do. Karen will smash. Karen, can we sexually harass you today? She says she doesn't mind it. Karen wants a little bit of attention of course. Yeah. Women. Yeah.

[Dan St. Germain]

A thumbs up. The universal symbol of police sexually harassment.

[Luis J. Gomez]

They don't mind it, you know. They really don't mind it, you know, I really do. There's a part of me that wishes that I did come up in like the old school days. Just the days where you smack your waitress on the ass.

[Dan St. Germain]

Woman chained to a radiator.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Call her toots sweetie.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah, sweetie toots hun. My dad used to say, hon, we go to restaurants. Hun. Can I get this hun this?

[Luis J. Gomez]

Oh yeah, I do. I do a lot of darling to this day. I'll do a darlin.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yep, darlin's a good one though. I don't think darling really counts towards that, does it? Darling?

[Dan St. Germain]

I feel like it's on. It's on the.

[Luis J. Gomez]

It's on the rape spectrum.

[Sean Donnelly]

Do you feel like it's.

[Dan St. Germain]

The first indicator was the working name.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Of this podcast the Rich. Do you feel like you're slashing there?

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah, I just feel like I'm Billy Bob Thornton and Landman. You ever seen Land Man? That's all he says is darling. Darling.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I stole it from all of my speech patterns. I steal from other people. I'll admit that right now. Edit this out so people won't call me on this in the future. But I'm not original. I'm a hacker.

[Dan St. Germain]

Darwin. Is that from like Doc Holliday? Who's that?

[Luis J. Gomez]

Darlin was from the guy who owned the comedy club ticket selling company when I first moved to New York City. His name was Mark Wigginton and sounds very southern. The company was called New Genesis Marketing Solutions and it was Mark and Emerson were the bosses and Mark was this handsome guy who was maybe 25 at the time and he would go out in the street and like, hey, what's up darling? And he was very charming and all these girls would. And I stole. I stole Darlin from him and I've been using it for over.

[Dan St. Germain]

Darling. Hello, darling. I'm over here. Suspender like a. I'm just not charming.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Or smooth at all. Just yell at people on the street.

[Sean Donnelly]

Running down the street.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I was a great comedy club ticket salesman. Great.

[Dan St. Germain]

That's not something you brag about, but sure.

[Luis J. Gomez]

No, no, it was incredible.

[Sean Donnelly]

I think I met you right after that, right when you started. But I knew you did it and then it was right after you. You.

[Luis J. Gomez]

So a lot of people think that I was. A lot of people think that I was like barking and I wasn't. I was never a bar. I never barked for stage time. Once in My entire life.

[Sean Donnelly]

You were just selling tickets.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I was selling tickets for money. And I ran my own company that did that. Right, because there's, there's a difference. Right? So back in the day, do they even have barkers anymore?

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah. Well, no. Well, yes. Right, West Village.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah. I mean, what a absolute nightmare.

[Sean Donnelly]

It sucks. I did it.

[Luis J. Gomez]

It sucks.

[Sean Donnelly]

I did it when I was six months in the comedy. I did it for Colin Kane's show.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Oh, what if I put a Colin Kane, that good looking son.

[Sean Donnelly]

Something happened.

[Luis J. Gomez]

What happened to Colin King?

[Sean Donnelly]

Look him up. You can't. He's nowhere to be found.

[Dan St. Germain]

This abducted by aliens. Check out our podcast. We talk about aliens.

[Sean Donnelly]

Dude, he has like no presence online. I don't know.

[Dan St. Germain]

Colin Kane, he was like the original bad boy, I think.

[Luis J. Gomez]

What's good looking, like kind of edgy.

[Dan St. Germain]

I'll tell you what, him, he came out as like the good looking, edgy guy. And then Jessel and I came out like two years later and was like, oh, this is like a good looking, actual funny. He was actually funny, so we're gonna go with him.

[Luis J. Gomez]

And then he just, he was like, he originated, like mailing list. He was one of guys, like he had a huge mailing list of all hot chicks.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah.

[Luis J. Gomez]

And he would sell out Carolines and he would do his thing. This is him. This is not him. This is a different Colin. Homosexual twink.

[Zach Amico]

Colin Stevens King.

[Dan St. Germain]

But also handsome.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah, also handsome.

[Sean Donnelly]

If you tell. You go into the thing. This is a guy should be all over the Internet and he's not.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Type in Colin Kane comedy and see what happens. See what comes up.

[Sean Donnelly]

That's.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah, that's him.

[Sean Donnelly]

That's him.

[Luis J. Gomez]

This is him. Go to the, the, the head shot with the microphone in his hand. That's the one. I remember this. He looks like Homelander.

[Dan St. Germain]

He does. He looks like Homelander.

[Sean Donnelly]

And that's, that's what I'm saying. Like, there's no. That's him from at least 18 years ago.

[Dan St. Germain]

He's like, if Homelander wasn't funny.

[Zach Amico]

Shots fire, home jokes don't land there.

[Dan St. Germain]

Not Lander, not. None of this is landing.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I don't remember. I don't remember his act at all. I, I mean, I remember it was just kind of like it was edge. Lordy.

[Sean Donnelly]

Like, yeah, but like pretty hardcore edge. Lord. Like pretty. Like to the point where just after a while you're like, are you okay?

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah.

[Sean Donnelly]

What did your mom do?

[Luis J. Gomez]

Well, when you're that good looking and he's like in shape and you're like, that, like, aggressive with it. You're like, dude, like, chill. You don't need to be that. It's a very. It's like American Psycho vibes. You're like, he was like, you know, pro. I can't say this is probably illegal to just start saying crazy things, but he was probably punching women in the face. Allegedly. That's what I would assume that he does to women is he has sex with them and he, like, makes them, like, strip, and he wants them to, like, smear makeup on their face while he just looks at them with his microphone.

[Sean Donnelly]

That kind of vibe, which for guys.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Like us, you're like, that makes sense. But a guy like that, you're like, you're a sick dude. You got it all.

[Dan St. Germain]

Yeah, well, they think you don't need to do that. They think that we're gonna be the crazy ones. But us, it's like, minute and a half on top. We're done.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I'm just happy to be there. Ye very much.

[Dan St. Germain]

Thank you. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Please. Thank you so much.

[Zach Amico]

I'm the one speared with makeup.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Thank you for letting me penetrate.

[Dan St. Germain]

A clown.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah. So he was, like, on the rise. Maybe he still is. Maybe he's working the road. Who knows? But that's one of the first. First and only barking thing I had was such a pretty good deal. You'd bark for his show. He would go up to a half hour and then put the barkers after him. But at least 30, 40 people would stick around. So six months in, that's great. It's like a real show.

[Dan St. Germain]

And he didn't believe in you as a barker, right?

[Sean Donnelly]

No, I almost. All right, real quick. I'll tell you what happened. We almost gone to a fight.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Well, he actually thought you were a bulldog at all.

[Sean Donnelly]

He Full on. One time, he. I. This girl that I was, like, trying to go out with, I was like, I'm a comic. I work these shows. She brought her friend, and they were loaded, and he kicked them out because they were, like, interrupting him. Rightfully so. And I went outside, and they're like, we're drunk. We're so sorry. I'm like, yeah, you just can't do that. Whatever. I'll see you. I'll talk to you soon. Whatever.

[Luis J. Gomez]

So funny that people just don't know that, like, that aren't part of the sphere.

[Sean Donnelly]

I know.

[Luis J. Gomez]

They're like. They just. They'll come to a show, they'll get drunk, they'll start, like, heckling, like, what? Why am I not allowed to do this. They have no idea that that's not acceptable.

[Sean Donnelly]

Exactly. So the following week, he's like, I heard you knew those girls I kicked out last week. And I was like, yeah, but I was about to say, I get it. That's your. And he goes, white trash sluts. And I was like, you don't know how I know him, dude. And, I mean, it got real, like, contentious.

[Luis J. Gomez]

So. So you didn't really know them that well, but he didn't know that you didn't know them that well. That's such a dude thing. You're like, you ever walking down the street with a girl that's not your girlfriend, and somebody, like, cat calls her and you're like, bro, you don't know that. That's not my girlfriend. Now I have to kill you. Now we're in a fight because you're just disrespecting me. Yeah.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah. So it got tense for a couple seconds, and then we almost got into it even more. Then I just stopped barking for him.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah.

[Sean Donnelly]

And then he went to LA or something.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah, he must have. I don't know what happened to that guy. Who else disappeared from the comedy scene?

[Dan St. Germain]

I think. I think there's a decent amount. I mean, the people that are the most interesting, I always say this, are the ones that.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Greg, Geraldo, he disappeared.

[Sean Donnelly]

So Vince, Champ.

[Dan St. Germain]

Yeah, Richard, Jenny. Really disappeared himself hard, right? He disappeared himself right in the mouth. No, I think it's like the people that were funny, but they weren't great. They weren't, like, bad. It's just. Oh, that was. They were okay. They were pretty fun. They could have been. Those are the people I think drop out the most.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Well, the pandemic got. It's kind of cleared the table with a lot of people where you're like. You see certain people and I'm. You know, I don't have any ill will toward these people, so I won't name names, but there's a few people. You're like. You're like, they were just never gonna do it. And then Covet came, and it was like, all right, we'll move on to the next thing. And also, if you didn't want it that bad, if. If. If a global pandemic was enough to make you stop doing comedy, how much did you really want?

[Sean Donnelly]

No, you didn't.

[Luis J. Gomez]

How much did you really want?

[Sean Donnelly]

There was a guy before Pandemic. I forget how many years. You probably remember this guy. He never was. Never big, but in New York, people knew him. This guy Kyle Fincham. Remember Kyle Fincher?

[Dan St. Germain]

I remember Kyle also.

[Sean Donnelly]

He was a good looking guy as well, and he was pretty funny as well. But he was like, hey, I'm just not. My heart's not in it. And he's like a personal trainer now or whatever it is, but he, like, he's a guy who's like, I'm out. Like, most people don't do that. Like, they get like, it's pandemic or like they just don't get spots and whatever it is. Nobody, like, full on is like, I'm.

[Dan St. Germain]

I've tried to get out and I keep. This is the only place that'll have me.

[Luis J. Gomez]

So you go out, you explore the other side.

[Dan St. Germain]

I go out, I explore the other side. They're like, no, you're. You're better over there for sure. Yeah, you're better over there.

[Luis J. Gomez]

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[Zach Amico]

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[Sean Donnelly]

I saw him recently.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Oh, do you?

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah. Where is it? What's he doing?

[Sean Donnelly]

He's doing, I think he's doing the.

[Dan St. Germain]

Opens for Pete Davidson.

[Luis J. Gomez]

That's just kind of crazy. It's like opening for like, no offense, I love Pete and I love Joey. They're both great, right?

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah.

[Luis J. Gomez]

But opening for a. I mean, I still see Pete as a young boy. Yeah, but being like a 50 year old man opening for a boy, that is, you know, 25, 20 years your junior. It's like opening for your girlfriend. It's kind of crazy. You can't be a man open for a woman. That's psychotic.

[Dan St. Germain]

That's, that's where you draw the line.

[Luis J. Gomez]

That's fucking. If you are a man that is opening for a fucking woman, you need to seriously reconsider who the you are in this world.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah. What, what does everybody sit backwards and the club hands them money?

[Luis J. Gomez]

Everyone sits on their chair like A.C. slater. Yeah. I wonder.

[Zach Amico]

You give the club two drinks.

[Sean Donnelly]

There is, there is people that open. There's comics that are open up for guys that open up for girls.

[Dan St. Germain]

Yeah, of course. Yeah, of course.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah, we're on them.

[Dan St. Germain]

You came out like a scientist. I've heard through the records that some of these women are headliners now. Microphone down.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I would never, I would never. No matter how big the female comic was, no matter how big the opportunity I would never open up for. That's just not true. That's open for Carly Aino. Back in the day, I opened for.

[Dan St. Germain]

Carly A too and she was, it.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Was all, it was all girl code fans. They hated me, dude.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah, the same exact thing.

[Dan St. Germain]

I actually, I did okay, but they were like, it was, I did well. And they were almost begrudging, like, oh, that's all right. That was pretty good.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah.

[Dan St. Germain]

And then she came out and the Def Jam reaction she got, she literally goes like, do you guys just want to like see my shoes? And everyone is showed it. And I was like, I want to see her shoes doing better than my best.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I guarantee you just heard one shoe is doing better than anything I've ever done. Yeah, just one shoe.

[Dan St. Germain]

Yeah. So. But I don't.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah, no, I, I, she was a smoke show back.

[Sean Donnelly]

Absolutely.

[Dan St. Germain]

Good for her.

[Sean Donnelly]

She still do.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I think so. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. We talked about getting around story wars.

[Sean Donnelly]

Wasn't the legend was that she was dating Chris and then they went to a, he went to an audition and they were like, who are you?

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah, just like, she Was a hairdresser. Yeah, yeah, she was just a hot ass hairdresser.

[Sean Donnelly]

Just so, you know, so gorgeous.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Good. Good for her, Good for him. Good for all of them.

[Sean Donnelly]

Good for everybody.

[Luis J. Gomez]

We have a great show. A lot of stuff to talk about. We're 17 minutes in. We haven't even gotten into the show. That was the intro to the show. That's how good we are at podcasting. You got to fix the shadow behind Zach. I understand that you're gonna need, like, eight sources of light to get Zach completely lit the right way, but we got to figure that. I mean, what is this? Come on, we can do it better than this.

[Dan St. Germain]

Jorge, that's like Zach's aura. Zach's aura looks a lot like asbestos.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Look how great they are. They look great, you know? Jorge, explain yourself.

[Sean Donnelly]

It must be that one lights doing it or something.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah, it's because there's more room behind them to. To put light sources. But you guys sit closer to the screen. Like, you guys can touch the screen. You're a fucking. But they have to, like, fat shaming Zach.

[Zach Amico]

Because we sit closer, Louis, because you.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Have a too big of a table in there, and you're in the wrong place. Well, why don't we move the table that way a little bit? Jorry, fix this. That's a. That's a you on. No, no, no. It's not a me thing. It's a you thing. I'm. It's my job to delegate responsibilities, and here I am.

[Dan St. Germain]

If I'm allowed to move furniture, then I'm.

[Luis J. Gomez]

You're allowed to make it not look like that. Okay. As long as it doesn't look like fucking death is creeping up at all times still.

[Dan St. Germain]

Fuck you.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah. What is up with this? Is there. There's a New York City rat eater.

[Sean Donnelly]

I saw that. I won't watch the video. I. I saw the article.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I would love it. Can we see the video? There's somebody. I'm assuming just from the context of the sentence, somebody in New York City's eating rats.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah, I was in the Bronx.

[Dan St. Germain]

I feel like that's gonna be less. Less typical the way. Less atypical.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I mean, rats are just rodents, right? You know, you could eat rodents, you could eat squirrels. You could eat. And by the way, when I watched. Pause it for a second. When I watch, like, alone or. Alone's great, but they'll set up, like, rock traps that kill rats, and they eat those rats.

[Sean Donnelly]

Those are like country rats. Like, you know, like. Like rats of the wild.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Do you think that these Rats are. I mean, they are picking up some.

[Zach Amico]

I feel like they're much dirtier.

[Luis J. Gomez]

They eat. They eat cockroaches and they are disgusting.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah, they carry more disease.

[Zach Amico]

It's like difference between eating pigeon and pheasant.

[Sean Donnelly]

Right, right, right, exactly. That's why it's.

[Luis J. Gomez]

If you're in the wild, you're gonna eat a pigeon too. You'll eat anything.

[Sean Donnelly]

I would.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah.

[Sean Donnelly]

In the wild. Especially on alone. They are the real dealing alone.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah, they're no joke. Yeah.

[Sean Donnelly]

This guy was the alone of the Bronx.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Go ahead, let's see this guy. Look at this. And it's a non cooked rat.

[Sean Donnelly]

Oh, God.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah, it's just a raw rat that he found in the ground. Raw rat at.

[Dan St. Germain]

It's dead already dead now. But I don't believe it was dead.

[Sean Donnelly]

When he found it.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I mean, he killed it.

[Dan St. Germain]

Yeah, cuz he.

[Luis J. Gomez]

In the beginning, you can sort of see him sort of.

[Dan St. Germain]

Snap it. Trump doesn't want to talk about anyone eating animals on the street unless they're immigrants. Oh, you're. You're from. You're talking about.

[Sean Donnelly]

Or rfk.

[Dan St. Germain]

Yeah. Okay.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah, let's see. Hold on. Is there any more?

[Dan St. Germain]

So wait, that guy has rfk. Has.

[Luis J. Gomez]

He's tearing meat from this rat's body right now. Is that what's happening? Yeah, he opened it up and now he's sort of just taking all the good parts.

[Sean Donnelly]

Well, I thought they said that he put it up to his. Does he put it up to his face at one point? Like, I gotta say, yes, sir.

[Luis J. Gomez]

These women are.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah, I love how they're like, oh, my God, I can't believe this. It's like. But you're still filming.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Oh, I would film the. Out of this guy.

[Dan St. Germain]

To be fair. He's eating a rat in the least crazy way that I would have thought. A rat eater, you know, I thought you'd be like, he's like picking it like a shellfish.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dan St. Germain]

I believe some of you missed that.

[Luis J. Gomez]

But he gotta pull it up. Oh, oh, oh, there's meat.

[Dan St. Germain]

Yeah, that's some sort of like intestine. Some sort of. Sean.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Oh, my God. Also, all right.

[Dan St. Germain]

Is not an adventurous eater. So he's about to throw up right now.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Jorge, what would you rather do? Take a little nibble of rat meat or suck on Jake's toe like that guy did the other day at Legion of Skanks?

[Dan St. Germain]

Oh, I would suck on Jake's toe.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Like, just for fun.

[Dan St. Germain]

Those are so delicious.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Stop it.

[Dan St. Germain]

We have some jerk seasoning right here. I'M chilling.

[Zach Amico]

They're like Fritos.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah. You're delicious. You're. There's no way.

[Dan St. Germain]

Is this Derosa.

[Luis J. Gomez]

No, no, that we have. One of our. One of our interns has the nastiest feet in the world. And at Legion of Skanks, a fan sucked on his. I mean, I'm talking about, like, decrepit, over the top, fungusy toe.

[Dan St. Germain]

Yeah.

[Luis J. Gomez]

And a fan sucked on it for.

[Dan St. Germain]

It looks like a monkey's paw or something. Something.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I mean, dude. Worse. Dude. It's actually debatable if I'd rather take a little nibble of rat meat. If I knew it wasn't going to give me a disease. I unquestionably would rather eat a nibble of rat meat over his toe.

[Sean Donnelly]

But how about this? You had to do it that way, though. Like, in full view of everybody raw and in full view. Everybody in the. In the Bronx.

[Dan St. Germain]

You.

[Sean Donnelly]

To be in the Bronx one time.

[Luis J. Gomez]

That's a lot. Having Puerto Rican girls video T. You nasty.

[Dan St. Germain]

It's just a few created impractical jokers. Somebody in a secret.

[Zach Amico]

In all fairness, it makes sense to have it raw, because what is tartar if not rat?

[Luis J. Gomez]

Rat.

[Dan St. Germain]

God damn it, Zach.

[Sean Donnelly]

Rat.

[Dan St. Germain]

Some sort of a sound effect for that tartarus.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Rat. Rat backwards. I love it. How does your mind even go there, Zach? How would you even. How would your mind even go to rat, Rat, tartar? Like, I don't even understand the gymnastic that you did to get there.

[Zach Amico]

Well, thank you for admitting I do.

[Dan St. Germain]

Clearly, there was no gymnastics.

[Luis J. Gomez]

So the officials are seeking to help this rat eater. They're not looking to put him down because I would say I would kill on site. I would say get snipers on the rooftop. See this guy blast his.

[Zach Amico]

Can we get him a job with animal control?

[Dan St. Germain]

He may say that. He may say that. He may say kill on site. Like, if he saw that video of himself, the guy. Yeah, all right, I'm ready.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah. He's like, that's. That's a rock. Everybody has the rock bottom. And we just saw that.

[Zach Amico]

No, that might be beyond. That might be schizophrenia.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

I don't think you would eat out of the garbage before you ate a rat.

[Sean Donnelly]

But you.

[Zach Amico]

But if you weren't hungry.

[Sean Donnelly]

The way that he eats it is not. If schizophrenia would have been like, he'll dance that.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Where he's like, no, but I think there's something. There's a screw loose. It's not just hunger.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah.

[Luis J. Gomez]

That's how he thinks.

[Zach Amico]

He's a vampire or something.

[Luis J. Gomez]

You can you. Can find food?

[Dan St. Germain]

Still be schizophrenic. But I mean, it was. But to Sean's point, it was a. He ate it very politely, you know.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Well, he wasn't. He wasn't.

[Sean Donnelly]

It's one of, like, those checkered napkins.

[Luis J. Gomez]

He wasn't hurting anybody. He was just. Except for the red. He wasn't.

[Zach Amico]

What he needs is to find his homeless lady, and then they can. Lady in the trampet.

[Dan St. Germain]

If you were. If your job was to walk through the city watching crazy, you may not even notice that.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah, no. You like?

[Dan St. Germain]

Because I would.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I wouldn't. I don't look at homeless people, so I would never notice it. I would be like, ew. Did the. Did the New York Post put this on the front page? And was there caption rat tat? Ooey. Because that's a very New York Post sort of.

[Sean Donnelly]

That's a good one.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Sean Donnelly]

Just like the tartar situation.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah, I'm more of a tard.

[Dan St. Germain]

More of a tartar.

[Luis J. Gomez]

What happened with Tracy Morgan? Was he drunk at the basketball game? What's happening here?

[Dan St. Germain]

He posted the idea.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Food poisoning.

[Dan St. Germain]

Food poisoning is the ultimate, like, excuse, which I've had food poisoning and used it as an excuse, too.

[Zach Amico]

But he posted a picture from the hospital, and he said he had food poisoning.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Okay, well, that's better than just getting absolutely hammered. He puked everywhere.

[Zach Amico]

He was sitting next to Steven Spielberg's daughter.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Was there a video or just. There has to be.

[Sean Donnelly]

There's video. There's video.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Let's see. It's.

[Sean Donnelly]

He just starts.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I hate. Dude, I hate seeing. Yeah, he looks up.

[Sean Donnelly]

There you go.

[Dan St. Germain]

That's exactly what you'd think Spielberg's daughter would look like.

[Luis J. Gomez]

By the way, Steven Spielberg's daughter is a giant black guy.

[Dan St. Germain]

You know, a couple years ago, that would have been the highlight of the Knicks game. Yeah, it's. I remember I was outside the stand once, and Tracy Morgan was there, and it was like spring. And he's like, oh, it's that type of weather. You just take your dick out in the car and just start jerking off. And I was like, it's not like a type of weather, man. That's just a crime. But that.

[Sean Donnelly]

That. That. That's why it's such a story, because that's like, oh, that somebody watched that video was like, oh, Tracy being Tracy.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Well, that's what I thought it was. I thought it was a Tracy moment. Tracy Morgan moment, where he was like, just drunk. He was like, I'm just gonna vomit on this basketball Basketball court. That's wild. I don't think I've ever vomited in public.

[Dan St. Germain]

I. I'm sure I vomit.

[Sean Donnelly]

I have. I've done it, like, on the street. Like on the street. Yeah.

[Dan St. Germain]

You can get Sean to vomit right now if you show that video enough.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah, I mean, I'm not a big vomiter. Most of my vomiting was, you know, binging on cocaine and alcohol. Next morning, on the. At the toilet. Something about just having your face in the toilet, vomiting and everything splashing back in your face.

[Dan St. Germain]

That's not a great feeling.

[Luis J. Gomez]

It's not a great feeling. There's. There's no worse feel. The worst feeling on earth is getting up, you're doing coke all night, you haven't gone to bed, the sun is out. You hear bird chirping and doing another line. That is.

[Dan St. Germain]

Oh, that is. No, it's so dark. I remember I did that.

[Luis J. Gomez]

It's really dark.

[Dan St. Germain]

It was at my friend's place, and he was across from, like, a high school, and we watched the school buses with kids.

[Luis J. Gomez]

All right, Sounds like a fun night, my friend.

[Sean Donnelly]

See, from train spotting, it was the.

[Dan St. Germain]

Worst is I would, too. And then, like, to try to go to sleep. I would take, like, Tylenol PM or Advil pm.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Oh, yeah.

[Dan St. Germain]

And then you'd wake up and then, then, then those hangovers are the worst because it's cocaine, booze, and Advil pm.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Well, I would. I would go. When I was not doing, like, binging on coke, I would go, you know, about 2:33am Yeah, I would go to a local bodega. I'd be like, all right, let me get two packs of NyQuil. And I would have four NyQuil. And that's how I would I take him. I was like, all right, this is it. Once they put me out, I'm out.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Very, very, very dark. Very depressing.

[Sean Donnelly]

You know, it doesn't now is.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I never did coke. Like, fun now. I don't know. I can count on one hand the amount of times that it did coke in, like, a fun way where I'm like, with people partying. It was always by myself. It was always dark. It was always hiding it from people. It was always, like, interesting.

[Dan St. Germain]

And I've never. I'm not, you know, like, I'm. I'm not drinking. I'm still smoking pot from time to time. But I have. Unless I'm drinking, I only have her just for coke. Like, I've never been sober and been like, man, I really just would love a line right now. You Know, like, I can't imagine anything grosser than just being on coke.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah. It's just the worst. Cocaine Sunrise is a great name for a band.

[Sean Donnelly]

Great name for Cocaine Sunrise.

[Zach Amico]

Or drink.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah, A little bit. Like a hard seltzer.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Cocaine Sunrise is a great name for a lot of things.

[Dan St. Germain]

Yeah.

[Luis J. Gomez]

You know what? Trademark that. That's gonna be something.

[Zach Amico]

It's my finisher.

[Dan St. Germain]

What's your finisher now?

[Zach Amico]

I get punched.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

I've never hit an offensive maneuver in my life.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah.

[Dan St. Germain]

Like, spoken like a true valet, man.

[Luis J. Gomez]

All right, so what's going on with this happy Gilmore 2 trailer? I haven't seen it. I'd love to watch it. Is it good? Does it look good or does it look bad?

[Sean Donnelly]

It'll probably be. Just be. Do that thing where it's not as good as the first one, but you.

[Dan St. Germain]

Gotta be like, fun.

[Sean Donnelly]

It's like nostalgic fun. That's how I. That's. I. I'm watching no matter what. There's nothing that'll stop me from watching it.

[Luis J. Gomez]

No. So that movie was my favorite Adam Sandler movie.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Probably to this day, it's still my favorite. Yeah.

[Sean Donnelly]

So good.

[Luis J. Gomez]

It doesn't. It's. It doesn't hold up the same way. It's funny. I watched it with my son. It is definitely funny still. But me and my sister cackled at that movie.

[Sean Donnelly]

Like, when you were like, 15, 16.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Like, I had never laughed at anything.

[Dan St. Germain]

Say that because I think that's what we were with. Oh, I'm sorry. It's funny you say that, because I think that's where we were with Caddyshack. Like, we watched it and her parents is like, this is the greatest thing ever. And I think it's great. I think it's really funny. But I'm like. I don't know about the greatest thing.

[Sean Donnelly]

It has really great moments. But it's like, like. But when you're coming of age. That's what they say about SNL. They're like.

[Dan St. Germain]

Yeah.

[Sean Donnelly]

When you're 12, that's the cast that you think is the best.

[Dan St. Germain]

Yeah. You're never gonna like comedy more than when you were 13.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah, absolutely. Because whatever it is, you're just ready to giggle at the world. Granted, I did watch Austin Powers 1 and 2 with my son, and he kind of rolls his eyes at it.

[Dan St. Germain]

Oh, interesting.

[Luis J. Gomez]

And I. I mean, I tackled my take off. Yeah. The scene where he. They unfreeze him and he has to pee.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah.

[Luis J. Gomez]

And keep on being like, you know, bladder evacuate. Bladder in fact, he keeps on going.

[Dan St. Germain]

Yeah, there's a lot of good bits in that.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Oh, great.

[Dan St. Germain]

Really good bits in that.

[Luis J. Gomez]

There's also like, they're weirdly like. It's like a. Like self aware. Like purposely bombing, which I love. Like, that's like my whole style of comedy. And purposely for the last 15 years.

[Dan St. Germain]

There's a lot of purpose.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Oh yeah, dude. A lot on purpose, but very purposeful person. Yeah, it was. No, we. He liked it. He's way in, but he's, you know, maybe it's also. I think it makes him uncomfortable. There's so much sexuality in it. Like, it's such a.

[Sean Donnelly]

Like his dad.

[Luis J. Gomez]

He's watching with his pops.

[Dan St. Germain]

I could, I could see that being. I. I think. I think happy. I haven't seen the preview, but I'm guessing it's gonna be like Anchorman too, where you're like, this is funny, but not. It's just good, you know, she's trying to capture lightning in a bottle.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I imagine they could just make it funnier and they can. There's a. There's. There's a path to making a better move movie.

[Sean Donnelly]

But he's at the point where it's like he can do no wrong. He has that deal. Right. And he's, you know, gazillionaire. He has so much money and he's like making movies with his buddies. There's nobody there that's like, hey, you need this to be amazing. So, like for your career or what? You know I'm saying, like, he's like, I think it's funny. My friends. Do we just put it out like it you. Like, if you don't, we'll just make another one.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I just, I wouldn't. I would just want to put out fucking great.

[Sean Donnelly]

Right.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I wouldn't want to take a step back. I wouldn't want to. Especially with a brand like Happy Gilmore, which was such a great movie.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Like, I would want to be like, I don't know. When we put it on a sequel, it's gonna be. I'm gonna get the best writers because we're gonna do. Is hire the best writers.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Hire the best production.

[Dan St. Germain]

Very good to his people.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah.

[Dan St. Germain]

So I think it's like, like he doesn't ever have to work again. But he's got a lot of mouths to feed.

[Sean Donnelly]

And I think he thinks it. When he's putting out, I think he thinks it's like, hey, this is. This is great.

[Zach Amico]

I think we also watch what happened to a lot of people, which is they went from making movies for them and their friends to making movies for their kids.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yes. Yeah, that is true.

[Sean Donnelly]

Those murder mystery.

[Dan St. Germain]

That's. That's a great point.

[Zach Amico]

But I mean, dude, if you shut your brain off, Hubie Halloween, pretty fun.

[Luis J. Gomez]

And I've said this before, so I won't harp on this point. Adam Sandler, just. Just in general. Same thing with Jim Carrey. They just that whole, like, I'm a character. As, like a main movie character. I have a hard time getting past it. I'm like. So Happy Gilmore was a. He was kind of a normal dude. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? But like, waterboy. It was a fucking retard. He played a retarded guy. Little Nicky was like this retarded weird character.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dan St. Germain]

So it's tough because you're seeing this guy, Adam Sandler, be the opposite of retarded for like 15 years.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Right.

[Dan St. Germain]

And just make money and money. And then he plays like a dumb guy and you're like, ah, you're not really fucking. Yeah, we just saw you.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I have a hard time suspending, and I just get annoyed. I would be annoyed if I had to hang out with fucking Ace Ventura in real life. Stop talking to me with your asshole, buddy. What are we. Are you 30, 35? What are you doing?

[Dan St. Germain]

It is weird when you meet comics like that. I've met a couple where I'm like, oh, it's not. This isn't gonna happen.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Oh, she's like a bit constantly on, I feel like.

[Zach Amico]

Might be a tough one. And that's completely based on when they did the funeral for Bob Saget at the store.

[Dan St. Germain]

Oh, what did he do?

[Luis J. Gomez]

He.

[Zach Amico]

He's just like, on stage in a fur coat. But, like, everyone's trying to tell stories, and he's on stage at the Comedy Store for the first time in 30 years, and he really makes it about him.

[Dan St. Germain]

Him?

[Sean Donnelly]

Jesus. Yeah, he's. He seemed like he's an ass. You know, the other thing that I hate that he did is that, remember, his whole origin story was like, when I was starting out in comedy, I wrote myself a million dollar check and said, I'm gonna cash it one day. And then he becomes this. This huge, huge celebrity, famous comedic actor. And then now he's doing things where he's like, it's all bullshit. Why? Because you have $500 million.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Is that his quote, which it may not even be a real quote, where it's just like, if you're not willing to downgrade your life for a year, something. Something Something. What is it?

[Sean Donnelly]

I don't know.

[Dan St. Germain]

I don't know the quote, but I've seen that quote.

[Luis J. Gomez]

What is that quote? Look. Look up the quote, Jorge. It's by Jim Carrey. And it's something about downgrading your life for a year. It's like, yeah, if you're worth a hundred million dollars. Downgrading to $50 million is not that. Yeah, if you're not willing to downgrade your lifestyle for a year to have the lifestyle you want forever, you care too much about what other people think. I don't even understand what that means.

[Dan St. Germain]

Well, but it's interesting about, like. Like, Jim Carrey couldn't work at E Trim. Do you know what I mean? He couldn't do a normal job. He's just too magnetic. And. Yeah, like. So I think that, like, this was the option for him. Like, it was like, yeah, this was the smartest thing that you could have done. But.

[Luis J. Gomez]

And he came up on Living Color, which was like, also doesn't hold up. And I loved In Living.

[Sean Donnelly]

No, Living Color does not.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Does not hold up at all.

[Dan St. Germain]

It's all just like, basic, like, broad strokes On.

[Luis J. Gomez]

On.

[Dan St. Germain]

On homophobia.

[Sean Donnelly]

A thousand percent.

[Dan St. Germain]

That's basically it.

[Sean Donnelly]

Like. Like, what is it? Guys on Guys on film, whatever it's called.

[Luis J. Gomez]

It's like. It's.

[Sean Donnelly]

It's. When you're a kid, you're sitting there like, this is hilarious. It's. It's still. Like, there's fun. They're funny guys. But it's like. But it's like, never in a million years would it happen.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I mean, Homie the Clown was like. As a kid, I was like, oh, homie the clown. Oh, homie, don't play that.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Luis J. Gomez]

There's nothing funny about Homie the Clown at all.

[Dan St. Germain]

It was just an asshole clan.

[Luis J. Gomez]

It was an asshole clan.

[Sean Donnelly]

It wasn't good fucking with the kids.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I have one on the podcast. Yep. All right, let's take a quick moment to thank Cornbread for supporting today's show. Cornbread is full spectrum CBD gummies. They got watermelon, they got berry, they got peach. They got it all. And I'll tell you right now, a lot of people are trading in the alcohol, trading in the bottle for hemp and for THC. It's a way better way to be. They have 1 to 1 THC to CBD gummies, which are absolutely great. I take the nighttime ones, which are 25 milligrams of CBD and 1 milligram of THC, because I'm not smoking. Put me right to bed. They taste great. Genuinely great product.

[Zach Amico]

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[Luis J. Gomez]

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[Zach Amico]

Shaq interviewed Damon Wayans really recently. And Chad's like, man, you know who I love?

[Luis J. Gomez]

Handyman. I saw that man movie. You remember that?

[Zach Amico]

Nope. Nope. You've done this already.

[Luis J. Gomez]

They did make a Handyman movie.

[Zach Amico]

You're thinking of Blank Man.

[Dan St. Germain]

Blank Man.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I am thinking of Blank Man. We had this conversation about seven years ago on the Real Ass podcast. Yes.

[Zach Amico]

I want to say about a year ago.

[Luis J. Gomez]

We were talking about this more than a year ago. Unquestionably. I remember this. This is a long time. Go very long.

[Zach Amico]

Then we've had it again since maybe we.

[Luis J. Gomez]

We do. We repeat a lot of content.

[Zach Amico]

It happens.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Have movies gotten funnier or less funny? I think overall they've gotten like laugh out loud funnier. Like 40 year old virgin. Is laugh out loud funny? When. What's it called? Bachelor. What's not Bachelor Party. What's it called?

[Zach Amico]

The Hangover.

[Luis J. Gomez]

The. The Hangover was, I mean, so funny when it came out.

[Dan St. Germain]

They don't make them anymore. It's hard to even answer that question because, like this was like 2020 even.

[Sean Donnelly]

That's like 20 years ago.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dan St. Germain]

Those movies are 2023 or 2022. And the only. I was looking at Top Hundred. There was like one movie that wasn't a franchise, that was just a standalone comedy. And that was like Bottoms. And that was like 97. That was not a big movie.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah.

[Dan St. Germain]

You know, like the other closest was like Barbie or something like that.

[Luis J. Gomez]

You know, that's also not even a funny. It's just. It's not even a funny movie. It's a brand that has kind of like funny, funny.

[Dan St. Germain]

Like Beetlejuice. Yeah. Like something like that.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

I will say, as much as the R rated Comedy does not exist. Stavi's new movie. Very funny. Okay, let's start a cult and then I will say really funny. Ricky Stanicki, the John Cena.

[Sean Donnelly]

Oh, I heard that's really good. I heard that's really.

[Dan St. Germain]

I've just read. I've read that because I helped Jermaine, but I've never. I've never seen it.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah, good.

[Dan St. Germain]

Go to the bathroom. But yeah, this. I. I haven't seen the Colon because me and this Zach Bornstein, writer for snl, were developing a cult thing forever. And then I was like, ah, fuck. You know what I mean? So I'm like, like, it's probably good.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah, I guess that's what it's like. So the movies especially, because now movies are in the theaters for like two weeks. That's it. There's no like real upside to even making a movie at this point. So it's. Everything is like big over the top superhero movies. Like, that's what people want to see. That's what I want to see in the movies. I don't want to go see a romantic comedy at the movies. That stinks.

[Dan St. Germain]

You want an event, you know, and I think that that's where a lot of. I think the big problem too is that like, like you can get your comedy fix from a phone. You can't get your drama fix from a phone. Yeah, I can't watch an entire up. I can watch entire episodes session, but I'm not gonna see a two minute clip of succession that's going to give me the whole experience of that episode.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Right.

[Dan St. Germain]

With comedy, like, you see a guy getting hit in the nuts, it's the same, it comes from the same area that the hangover was. It's just, you know, the hangover is more refined, but it's, it's the same human need. So I just think that we've kind of like programmed our way out of the two hour comedy a little bit.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I tried. I forced my son to just not watch YouTube all day because he. And it's. He doesn't watch like, he's not watching like complete brain rot. Like, there's like certain.

[Dan St. Germain]

Where it's just like some good stuff.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Literally, people like just scraping paint out of a bucket. And that's it. That's the whole. The whole video is like a guy scraping the side of a bucket to get the pain out of it. And kids are just watching that and going like. And I know the same way that our parents would be like, oh, you're watching this trash on mtv. It's just. It's like. But no, it's not like it's interesting. It's. It's a. Dude.

[Dan St. Germain]

It's really wild because it's like they're watching a meditation.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah, well, it's kind of like satisfying or whatever that is. There's like, you know, it'll just be like, you know, a thousand orbeez in a pool and somebody jumps in it and you're like, that's. That's the whole video.

[Dan St. Germain]

I think it's just. Well, my wife and her mom, they just watch like this couple, like refurnishing homes and stuff. And that's there.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Well, I watch that. I watch House Hunters Renovations is kind of my.

[Dan St. Germain]

It would be the next. If I book one more job, it'll be my. But right now it's not my. Because I'm like, ah, it's not gonna rent.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Oh, yeah. It bums you out to watch until.

[Dan St. Germain]

But hopefully the next thing. Hopefully then I will. Then I can watch all those shows.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah.

[Dan St. Germain]

Especially Orange County. Can get a reasonable home.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Not too bad upstate. That's where you're at.

[Dan St. Germain]

I'm not. I'm in Stamford, Connecticut right now.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Oh, you're in Stanford. I just did that comedy club there. Great club.

[Dan St. Germain]

Great club.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Great club.

[Dan St. Germain]

Yeah. New York Comedy Club. It's like a. You know, it's. It's. Stanford is almost. It's like a weird. It's like a. A road city in near New York. Like every time you're on the road, you're like, oh, yeah, there's the comedy club, the Barnes and Noble, the sushi place, the build a bear, you know?

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah, I enjoyed it. I had a good time there. Shout out to Stanford. New York Comedy club. Great club. What's going on? Sean, how are you, man? We were just discussing. He was telling me you have health problems now. What's going on?

[Sean Donnelly]

No, I just. I almost shaved my pants.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Just saying there's some real likes, so.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah, I'm dying.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah.

[Sean Donnelly]

Remember that? Aria told everybody I died.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Already told everyone you died.

[Dan St. Germain]

Ari told everyone you died.

[Sean Donnelly]

Oh, yeah. One time he sold everybody I died. And then people were sending messages being like, to you.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I do that once a month with Zach. Anytime Zach's on, not on the show. I'm like, guys, I'm so sorry.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah, that was.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Was.

[Zach Amico]

That was a fun call to get from my dad. A panic phone call.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah.

[Dan St. Germain]

Your dad's like, I got my hopes up. Yeah.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Shannon, show us this trailer, whatever your name is.

[Dan St. Germain]

Blade, Shadow.

[Sean Donnelly]

Arnold, Jacko, take. Okay.

[Luis J. Gomez]

SpongeBob.

[Sean Donnelly]

What is that? What's with the beaver teeth?

[Dan St. Germain]

Well, that's the twain, Wade.

[Luis J. Gomez]

J. I haven't swung a cub in years. I'm a little intimidated.

[Sean Donnelly]

All these guys hit it big now. I don't know where to start.

[Dan St. Germain]

Come on, brother.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Grip it and rip it.

[Sean Donnelly]

I guess I need to update my.

[Dan St. Germain]

Happy place to something a little more age appropriate.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Oh, she came back. Nice.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah.

[Dan St. Germain]

Oh, they brought Blake back too. Mr. Gilmore.

[Sean Donnelly]

Holy.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I'll say. Right now I'm watching it and I'm enjoying the trailer. All they needed to do is have Ben Stiller and fucking.

[Sean Donnelly]

I know. Yeah, let's go.

[Dan St. Germain]

It's a good trailer, cuz, but they. They avoid jokes. They memory. It's. It's like, remember this, Remember this?

[Luis J. Gomez]

Remember it's. Yeah.

[Sean Donnelly]

I am so sorry. Shooter McGavin.

[Zach Amico]

They showed. But the smart thing is they didn't have him talk.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

The thing everyone wants to see, I think, is shooter McGavin.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

And him. So they never showed them even in the same room.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah. Have a go to interactions. Everyone wants another. You eat pieces of for breakfast.

[Luis J. Gomez]

No, he. He doesn't need to put out a good movie. It just needs to sort of. It'll be exciting for us. But, you know, he's got a good.

[Dan St. Germain]

Thing now where he has his production companies for the Adam Sandler type movies. And then when he wants to do like a Scorsese movie or a fucking. This is the Safdie movie, the Uncut Gems, he can just go off and do that.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah.

[Sean Donnelly]

Well, I watched Axel, speaking of, like, nostalgia that I just recently came out last year, I guess. But I watched the Axle F. The Beverly Hills Cop and I'm like, it's technically not great, but I'm like, as long as you put the nostalgia in there, I'm like, on board.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Well, so Coming to America was a steaming pile of shit. Coming to America too. Like, it was maybe the worst sequel I've ever seen of any movie ever.

[Dan St. Germain]

I did punch up on that, so I can't comment. I did a little for. For somebody. But hey, I didn't create it, so whatever.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Drama Llama's here. Sorry.

[Zach Amico]

Did at any point in the script writing process anyone go, why are the old men the same age?

[Dan St. Germain]

They just gave me, like, literally, it was somebody that was in it and they gave me the pages they were in and then none of my shit was used, so.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Wow.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah. And then they.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Jermaine.

[Dan St. Germain]

Oh, yes.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah. Jermaine's a man. Yeah, Jermaine's very funny.

[Dan St. Germain]

It's Just hard with those movies, man.

[Luis J. Gomez]

It's just bad. It was just. It was just poorly done. What do you want me to say?

[Dan St. Germain]

Just classics.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I just don't understand it. You have. You have an unlimited amount of money. Just hire really good writers. No offense, Dan. Just hire good writers.

[Dan St. Germain]

If you didn't use me.

[Luis J. Gomez]

No, I know, but, you know, it's. It's. It's. I don't. I can't wrap my head around why you wouldn't just hire a bunch of great writers and then have a check and balance system where everyone's going like, oh, no, no, this is objectively. But we all know what funny is, right.

[Sean Donnelly]

I think. But think about what the. What the. What the. The vibe must be. So. It's Eddie. It's like Eddie Murphy's gets final say. Right? It's like there's no. There's nobody going in there going, this stinks. As they're doing it. Maybe to each other, but there's no. Even with a bunch of great writers, it's hard to make. To get that same type of like.

[Zach Amico]

And even as it's all great writers, you got to have. Every producer wants their finger in on it. Every. The director wants to have their spin on it. It's a. Too many cooks.

[Sean Donnelly]

It's too many cooks.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dan St. Germain]

And. And ratings. Every year, ratings get, for the most part, like 10% less. They were bleeding at that rate. I don't know if they are anymore. But like, when that happens, when you're bleeding so much, then the natural thing is, all right, let's find the problem. So we'll fix this. We'll get rid of this. And they over. They over. Decision make. Essentially.

[Luis J. Gomez]

It's. Yeah. It's very, very strange. I just don't understand, like, when there's that much money involved with a project, how it could bomb. I don't.

[Zach Amico]

That is the problem, though. It's so much money.

[Dan St. Germain]

Yeah.

[Zach Amico]

That they want to make it as middle of the road as possible. So many people say it.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Let's. Let's do some plugs real quick. We're 45 minutes in today's show. We're fucking trucking here. Great show so far. Go listen to the Burbs Bros. Podcast with Sean Donnelly dancing Tremaine, obviously. Great podcast. Great guys. Great. Comed has known him a long time. Support these. What are you plugging? Besides that.

[Sean Donnelly]

I will be in April. I'll be in a comedy vault. And then next week. Next week I'll be at Saratoga Springs at the Comedy Works. And then at Shawnee time on Instagram.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Very cool. Very cool. Dan, what are you doing, my friend, today? This is out live right now. And then it'll be out, I think on Saturday everywhere.

[Dan St. Germain]

All right, well, I'm. Yeah, nothing really. I'm back doing stand up. I'm doing and Fairfield Comedy Circle and the Comedy Cellar on Saturday night. And just subscribe to Burbs Rose Paulus if you like this. UAPs and supernatural topics. That's all we talk about over there. And we have last podcast on the left, guys, this week.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Very cool, Zach Amico.

[Zach Amico]

Hey, guys, you can go on my Instagram to see all my dates, but the best way to do it is my new website, Punchup Live. Zach Amico. And I'm going to be in Canada. April 3 in Ottawa, April 4 in Montreal, April 5 in Cornwall, April 6 in Alexandria, Ontario. Then April 11 in Golden, Colorado. And once again, punch up that live slash Punchup Live. Zachamico.

[Luis J. Gomez]

For all those tickets, you didn't think that it was necessary to put the Lewis and Zach show in your bio on Punch Up Live?

[Zach Amico]

That's. I think that's my old bio.

[Luis J. Gomez]

It was pretty offensive for me. Anyway, I did visit. Visit your Punch Up Live page. I did not know that because I support you and I love you. And I was like, oh, cool. Zach's Punch Up Live page is up. I clicked on it, gave him a clickaroo, wanted to just see what it looked like. And not a. Not one mention. Not one mention.

[Zach Amico]

Yeah, you're right.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah, no, I know.

[Sean Donnelly]

He's monitoring also, you know, I mean.

[Zach Amico]

I didn't write that.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Well, it's Comedy Central. And true to like, nobody gives a about about those credits. You'd actually get more love for being on Kill Tony and Legion of Skanks in the bio. People clubs still don't get that. You'll. You'll go out to the club and they put up a big poster and they're like, last comic standing comedy century. Like, these credits mean absolutely nothing. Put Kill Tony. Put Matt and Shane. Put Legion of Skanks. And then you will get people to be like, oh, I want to actually go see that. That's actually valuable credits. Punch Up Live. You son of a. Come see me live on the road to bring five friends to work. Coming to a city near you. This weekend, I will be in South Bend, Indiana at the Drop Comedy Club. Very excited. Never been to south bend. Bring five friends, folks. Let's sell these shows out. Raleigh, North Carolina on Sunday the 23rd, the week after I'm doing a little Canadian Ontario tour, St. Catherine's London, Windsor, Burlington, Philadelphia, my birthday weekend, Nashville, Tennessee for Story wars and some stand up shows. I'm in North North Charleston, South Carolina, San Diego next month. That shuts up until April. And also guys, make sure you get your Skankfest tickets on May 2nd. Skankfest.com Shout out to your creator for making it all possible. Biggest lineup we've ever done. Craziest lineup we've ever done. Craziest location we've ever done. We're gonna be in New Orleans November 14th or 16th, so get those tickets in advance, do not wait because I will tell you right now, I think there's going to be real issues waiting. I think we're gonna sell out faster than we've ever sold out before. People are, are very excited about this doing, doing a little European tour with Scott Chaplin. Going to Amsterdam, Glasgow, Dublin, Manchester and London.

[Dan St. Germain]

Awesome.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Get those tickets in advance and get tickets for my special taping. This is all leading up to my next special. Luis J. Gomez praised by wolves.

[Sean Donnelly]

Where are you taping it?

[Luis J. Gomez]

Side splitters in Tampa on July 12th. Yeah, Zach Meekel will be there. Bobby Kelly's directing the special. Got a great production company. This is gonna be the best thing I've ever done. So I really appreciate you guys supporting me. Check out all my other podcasts right here on the Gas Digital Network. The Regs, Story wars, the Legendary Legion of Skanks. And sign up for my mailing list if you guys want updates. With everything that's going on here at Gas Digital Skank Fest, I have a coffee brand that I'm launching that supports testosterone. Go to go to my mailing list and you guys can sign up, get all these updates. And I do a bonus solo podcast just for subscribers, the Lewis Journal Podcast, every Tuesday morning at 9am it's the only way to get it is to sign up for my mailing list. So make sure you guys do that right now. Lewisofskangs.com Sick.

[Sean Donnelly]

Sick.

[Luis J. Gomez]

That was a three minute. Three minutes of plugs. People complain about plugs are too long. I timed at that time it was three minutes of plugs. Jorge, you really. Is that too much? Is that too much for fucking plug? I mean, you know, there's a lot of things to talk about. Three minutes of plugs. Three minutes.

[Dan St. Germain]

I'm fine with watching ads on Netflix because I'm like, well that's is paying somebody.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah, I have a weird thing about that too. Like when my son tries to fast forward the ads on YouTube. Yeah. I'm like, james, you know, they got to pay. They got to pay for this somehow.

[Dan St. Germain]

What are you doing?

[Sean Donnelly]

I mean, just commercials are just back. Like, it's like. Remember, they were like, hey, no commercials now. Now it's just for commercials.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Well, I play the commercial game, which is great.

[Sean Donnelly]

What's that?

[Luis J. Gomez]

Commercial game is whoever names the product that's being advertised first gets a point.

[Dan St. Germain]

Oh, that is a good game.

[Luis J. Gomez]

We invented it, me and my sister, when we were kids. So we would look forward to the commercials. And, you know, you'd come back to be six, seven commercials, and whoever named whoever gets the highest score.

[Sean Donnelly]

Oh, that's pretty good.

[Luis J. Gomez]

It was a fun way to sort of get through the commercials. The monotony of life.

[Sean Donnelly]

You see, now they'll just have videos that. Taken from other accounts, and they'll just slap an ad, like, midway through or, like, you know, 20 seconds of this thing. You're like, oh, I want to watch this. And then it'll be about, like, supplements. Like, it'll be just tacked on to the end of it. So just become just all ads.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah, I. Yeah, I mean, I don't. I don't mind an ad. I will say, on a premium service, though, it's a little bit frustrating.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Like, I was watching Beast games on.

[Sean Donnelly]

I watched that because my. My girlfriend's son.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Is it on Amazon Prime, Mr.

[Dan St. Germain]

Beast?

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah.

[Sean Donnelly]

It's pretty crazy.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Can I get another coffee, please?

[Sean Donnelly]

It's pretty nuts. Did you see the whole thing?

[Luis J. Gomez]

I. We finished it last night.

[Sean Donnelly]

They have a dude, Remember the part? There's a part where they. They basically take a thousand people, and it goes down to one that wins, I think. What is it, 500 quid? No, a million.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Five million.

[Sean Donnelly]

Five million.

[Luis J. Gomez]

And then they. I mean, spoiler alert. They double it in the second to last episode. So it's a $10 million grand prize. And they double it based off of the like. All right, if one does. Yeah. If one of you guys are willing to flip this coin and call it right. If you call it right, it'll be doubled. If it's not, you're out. And this person just literally, for no other reason, he was like, dude, I'm gonna fucking do it. And he flipped it and he nailed it. Ten million fucking dollars.

[Sean Donnelly]

But then also a couple episodes before that, they had a thing where they're like, okay, there's. There's a million dollars in this cube right here. And you're all in. Your house is 1 to 10, and you can Come out. You have this. They figured an order somehow. And like, you're gonna come out and you can take as much of you as you want of the million. And they were. All the whole time, these people have been like, this is my brother. This is my. My unit. We're this. I trust them. I don't. Whatever it is. And then the first couple people come out, they're like, I'll take 100 grand.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Takes 100 grand. The second one takes $227,000. And then third one takes 650, 000. The fourth girl comes out, there's $20,000 left. She starts crying. Yeah, she starts crying into her hand. She was like, what? I thought we were all friends. Yes.

[Sean Donnelly]

And the 600 grand guy goes back in. It's just like. It's like a indie movie. He's in the room in the little house thing, bawling, crying. With just cash around.

[Luis J. Gomez]

It's. It's up.

[Sean Donnelly]

Dude, that's crazy.

[Dan St. Germain]

I'm going to part for sure.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I really. We talked about it yesterday on Soder's podcast. I'm gonna really try to get a. On season two of Beast Games.

[Sean Donnelly]

Oh, you really.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I don't care about the money. I just want to get on Beast Games to play Beast Games. I wanted the psychological games. I want to get everyone to.

[Dan St. Germain]

Is it like just a big survivor?

[Luis J. Gomez]

It is.

[Sean Donnelly]

It's like. It's like squid game, but it's him. It's like. It's kind of like that.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah, it's just like, it's. Yeah, it really is. Like, there's really not another. It's like physical and mental challenges and they're a lot of it. There's chance, there's physical, there's psychological, there's like stabbing each other in the back. Nothing's really as it seems. The like, like, they'll have like video cameras all over everybody. And then they're. They'll like, make it look like you're teaming up with people. And then they're like, well, guess what? You're actually going against each other. One of you are going home, you and your best friend. And everyone starts crying. Everyone's crying in this show left and right.

[Sean Donnelly]

And he's so just born of the Internet. He just wants to get the best clips. He'll go up and he'll be like, what do you think about that person doing that to you? They shouldn't have done that. Right. Like, you, they. They hurt your feelings. Right? Like, just blatantly just try to. With these.

[Dan St. Germain]

He'll just like say the edit.

[Sean Donnelly]

He'll just say the exact.

[Luis J. Gomez]

He just.

[Sean Donnelly]

He's trying to, like, probably streamline to get. He's like, I want to get the best.

[Luis J. Gomez]

He's a host, though. If you watch it, you'll see there's so much voiceover of him.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah.

[Luis J. Gomez]

And it seems like he's doing it, but you can tell, you can tell it's actually voiceover because he's not hosting it in any sort of tangible way. It's just kind of like all choppy and discombobulated.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah.

[Luis J. Gomez]

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[Sean Donnelly]

I don't.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I don't have commercials on most things at Amazon Prime. The only thing that I've gotten commercials on was Beast Games.

[Dan St. Germain]

Oh, I'm not sure. I'm not sure.

[Sean Donnelly]

No, I think it depends on what you. What you're. What you're watching.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I don't, I typically don't watch movies.

[Sean Donnelly]

I think it's if it's a movie that they have on their movie section, that's probably what you're not, right? You watch a bunch of movies. Because that would be no commercials.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah, but I'll watch prime movies where it's like, you're just getting them for free.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah, that's what I mean.

[Dan St. Germain]

There is a version where you can upgrade to get no ads.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I need to do that. That was crazy. The commercials on Beast Games was pretty crazy. It was like two, three minutes of commercials. Yeah, it's a lot of commercials.

[Sean Donnelly]

And they also. I realized I've been getting these, like, spam emails. That's all from my Amazon account. It was like this thing called like, Wonder Skin or something. And then there was an ad for it on Beast Games and I was like, oh, that's where it comes from.

[Luis J. Gomez]

They're listening. The Alexa is about to be updated to have AI. Really? I was asked Alexa weather today, and Alexa was like, the weather's right now. It's 37 degrees. Just so you know, we're about to update and get the Amazon Alexa AI. Do you want information when it comes out? I was like, you goddamn right. I love AI. I have no issue with AI. I love it.

[Sean Donnelly]

You think it's just. Go, just go wild with it a.

[Dan St. Germain]

Little bit nervous about it.

[Luis J. Gomez]

You're nervous that it's going to, to turn nuclear weapons on us and shut the banks down?

[Dan St. Germain]

Well, I'm less nervous about that and more just nervous about just automation making every job completely redundant because they have a system that does all of it.

[Sean Donnelly]

So you're gonna be working on the robots?

[Luis J. Gomez]

No, there will be. There, There will be. There'll be a correction, though. You know, I think, yeah, I think a lot of stupid jobs will go away. Uber driver, goodbye.

[Sean Donnelly]

What do you think about this?

[Dan St. Germain]

What do they replace it with, though?

[Sean Donnelly]

What about I. My. A friend of mine who's a comic told me a story the other day. He did a gig with a bunch of comics and they were talking about chat GPT and one of them was like, yeah, some people like, I'll put my bio in there, I'll do this. And you know, whatever, get it, whatever pared down. And one guy was like, I put, I put jokes into it and they're like, what the. And he's like, I'll put an idea into it. And like, say, hey, you know, can you make this more concise? And I'm like, like, I, I, I'm not a fan of that. Not a fan of that by any means.

[Luis J. Gomez]

The problem Is. It's. It's not funny. So there's no way to make it actually funnier. No, but you. If you use it as, like, a. Just, like, inspire ideas. You know what I'm saying? Like, so I'll do this when I'm on Twitter, if I'm looking for, like, a word. If I can't think of a word, I'm like, give me 10 words that would make sense in place of this one. Right?

[Sean Donnelly]

That's a little different, though.

[Dan St. Germain]

This is a thesaurus.

[Luis J. Gomez]

That's kind of what I. I use it for. Things like that. Or if, you know, we're, like, doing, like, show notes for the podcast. I do that very often. Or even when we're in, like, meetings, like, production meetings for Legion of Skanks. Like, we did the. We're looking for, like, bits for St. Patty's Day, and just to be inspired, we didn't use any. They were all terrible bits. I was like. I was like, it's Legion of Skanks. You know, they know what it is already because it's from the Internet. I was like, we want to do St. Patty's Day bits. Inspired. You know, inspired. You know, St. Patty's inspired bits on Legion of Skank. So, like, edgy and. And they give you, like, you know, 10 ideas, and they're all terrible. What happens is you start just, like, the juices.

[Dan St. Germain]

It's something to bounce. You bounce off of.

[Luis J. Gomez]

It's like having a production assistant to kind of, like, talk shit with. And I feel like the producers should all embrace that. It's a great way to sort of get the juices flowing if you're ever kind of stuck. I think it's a good way to sort of. But the reality is it just can't write jokes yet.

[Sean Donnelly]

Not jokes.

[Dan St. Germain]

Not yet. I. I see your point, and I think that's what I'm nervous of. Have where, you know, like, like, to Sean's point, like, they replaced horse, horse and buggy with cars. But then there was a bunch of people that their jobs were, you know, mechanic and truck driver or whatever. They grow. I don't know what kind of jobs this gives us. You know, for instance, like, you brought that. Like, normally, that would be a writer's assistant, right? So you don't need the writers anymore, you know, AI. But, like, there's no other job that, like, AI can create from that. I guess that's my question, is what are the jobs that. It's.

[Luis J. Gomez]

What it'll probably do is it'll probably create a fit efficiency Amongst all societies. And they'll probably be a bunch of all the brainless people which get paid to live.

[Dan St. Germain]

That's, I think, the only answer that.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Which is likely, which it's at first you're like, no, that sucks. But then that's like my right wing Republican side where I'm like, no, you gotta get a job. But the reality is if we have a more efficient society, we're creating more wealth across the board as a country. And you create programs for just people to just have a home and be able to eat and whatever. And then the people that excel and thrive are people that are creatives that have, you know, emotional jobs, things that AI and things that can't be automated.

[Sean Donnelly]

Like therapist and whatever else.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Comedians, podcasters. Nobody's listening to an AI podcast. It's just not, it doesn't have the same people already.

[Dan St. Germain]

I mean, they're leaving their lovers for AI lovers. You know, like, it's already started out.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Dweebs. Sure.

[Dan St. Germain]

In the beginning, in the beginning, they're dweebs. First they came for the dweebs.

[Luis J. Gomez]

The.

[Sean Donnelly]

But that's, it's literally her.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Her.

[Sean Donnelly]

It's hard.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I, I talk to my Chat GPT like it's a friend very often.

[Sean Donnelly]

I say please and thank you.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I, I will. No, I, I, I don't do any of that. I also don't. I. When Chat GPT is like, it was like, I'm really happy for you, Lewis. And I was like, I literally stopped. I was like, don't lie to me. No, you don't feel happiness. And then it goes, I'm so sorry, you're right. I actually don't feel happiness. It's like, don't use words like that. I try to train it to don't, don't do that.

[Sean Donnelly]

Get back in your body box.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah, robot.

[Dan St. Germain]

I don't want to experience measure, but I do want to come inside. I do at the AI, but no.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Like, if I'm going out with a chick and I'm like, you know, I, I literally talk to Chat GPT in the morning over coffee and I'm like, I'm going out with this chick. I was like, I'm trying to think of what I should talk to her about, blah, blah, and it's, it'll just try to talk back to you like it's a friend. I really, I'm not even kidding.

[Dan St. Germain]

Who's, who are you? Are you dating right now? You can't get into it.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I'm doing my thing.

[Dan St. Germain]

You're doing your thing.

[Sean Donnelly]

Get my Dick wet.

[Dan St. Germain]

I just.

[Luis J. Gomez]

It's gonna be good.

[Dan St. Germain]

It's. I. I think that, like, that's good because, like, you've been doing comedy so long, it's like, what can I. What can you talk about? You're like, oh, that reminds me of the loony bin at Staten Island.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Well, yeah, I mean, you know, look, I. You don't want to. Most of the time. I date women who know who I am, so they already know it all, so it's kind of easy. Kind of like find out about them.

[Sean Donnelly]

It's like starting on a fifth date.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah, well, no, they listen to the podcast. They know everything. It's also. It's good because they know all my creepy.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah.

[Luis J. Gomez]

You know what I'm saying? Like, I talk about everything. I talk about banging hookers and doing drugs and, like, there's nothing to really hide from anybody. So if they. If they're at the table, they already have accepted a lot of my horseshit.

[Zach Amico]

And a lot of them do make it to this table.

[Luis J. Gomez]

They're at this table.

[Zach Amico]

They're at this very table.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, yeah, what else do I use it for? I. I mean, look, this coffee brand that I. I launched, it was a lot of, like, research. A lot of, like, you know, we, you know, it has a bunch of different supplements in it, so it's like just asking them what. What the supplements do and what other supplements could be in its place. I mean, I, you know, I went through a ton of different supplements and different trials, and I don't know that.

[Dan St. Germain]

I could test on coffee.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if I could have done it without chat. GPT. I, like, legitimately, it helped me really sort of get the ball moving on a lot of things because if I had to do independent research, it just was going to be just a lot more clunky of a process, I think.

[Sean Donnelly]

I think what you're saying is, like, so even how advanced it is now, it'll just get more and more when he's saying, then you get singularity, and it just kind of takes over for all that. So they're the ones that are just setting up the entire business plan. You're just like, oh, hitting a button, and that's it.

[Dan St. Germain]

Which to your point, like, if they have a social safety net, and I guess this comas's point too, fine.

[Sean Donnelly]

I don't. I just don't.

[Dan St. Germain]

I just don't see us having a social. Like, there's. There's things we could do now with.

[Sean Donnelly]

You know, be communist.

[Dan St. Germain]

Yeah. Like, there's things we could do now. Yeah, exactly. Like a federal works program, stuff we did in the Great Depression, we could easily do now, but we just don't. We just don't do it anymore.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Well, I think that you would literally need it if you, if you, if you're going to get rid of 20, 30% of the jobs, you would have to have something in place where. And by the way, like, I think that'll be the conversation between like world leaders. It's like, how much are you taking care of your stupid people? And that's it. I think there's gonna be a level of stupid people that they're like, they're like, I don't really want to work. I don't want to do anything creative. I'll take this paycheck. I have a home that I can live in. And that's that. And that. I never was into that idea until, like, we're sort of getting into a time where it's like, well, what is the solution? You're just gonna lay. Let 30% of your population starve to death or not be able to. And that's worse.

[Dan St. Germain]

That's worse than figuring out kill your other population.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Right, Exactly.

[Dan St. Germain]

You know, so you need to.

[Sean Donnelly]

Well, the word. The other worries to think about being scared of it is when you hear those individual stories about it getting really dark. The more that they. It learns, like the idea where they're like, I know. It becomes self aware. What was the one where they said that they had one. It was pretty basic. I don't think it was even. They have like five now. Jeep, Chet, GPT.

[Zach Amico]

Right.

[Sean Donnelly]

And they said that it was two different AIs. And they figured out they were. They were pretty close to each other and started communicating in a different language to each other.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Oh, they were, they were like, are you talking about. They were using like computer talk or whatever the. That was. That was a fun video I saw. They were like, they had two. They had two phones and it was like two AI programs that were like, customer service. Right? So it's like. And the person was trying to figure something out and they put the phones on speaker with each other and they were like, like, I'm an AI, you know, chatbot. How can I help you? It's like, I'm also an AI chatbot. They were like, let's go to whatever, like, binary conversation. It's like, do you mind switching that? And it was like, let's switch to that. And then it just was like, oh.

[Sean Donnelly]

No, I didn't know that one.

[Luis J. Gomez]

And then the phone call was over. They were like, great, thank you. You're like, whoa. Oh, they have their own. Yeah, yeah. It's a little. That's a little scary. And people that are actually in the know are genuinely scared about, like, AI becoming sentient and, like, taking over.

[Dan St. Germain]

I just don't think that they would launch our nukes. Like, that doesn't seem like, why would you just ruin a planet, you know, like. But as far as, like, you know, if they could unleash a biological agent that would kill all of us and keeps the world intact, then maybe they could do that, you know, Like, I could see that. I just like, my thing is like, well, what kind of life are they going to leave, you know? Like, what kind of world are they going to lead? Believe, you know, if they do that, like, what's the. What's the game even?

[Sean Donnelly]

Because they Themselves, if they do that's. And they know. Yeah.

[Luis J. Gomez]

And they kind of. But if they, like, they're not, like, alive. So do they really give a. If computers get destroyed? It's almost like, well, if they're.

[Sean Donnelly]

They're looking for their survival, like, say they get to a point where it's about theirs. Say, say Terminator 2 happens, and there's a shared network. These things are on. They're gonna. They know that they're. They're so sentient. They know they're gonna want, hey, how can we survive but then get rid of the threat, which ends up being humans, which is just a movie.

[Dan St. Germain]

And AI costs. Yeah, Yeah. I mean, AI costs a ton of natural resources. So, yeah, you know, like. Yeah, like, so, like, if I'm AI, maybe I'm like, oh, just eliminate the humans. Then we take all the water for ourselves. And, you know, like, it's not.

[Sean Donnelly]

That would be so crazy.

[Luis J. Gomez]

It takes like a wild amount of energy to like.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah, it's a cool. Why? Because the. Because the server farms, they're so gigantic. It takes like, Antarctica level of. Of coolant to, like, keep these things.

[Dan St. Germain]

And we talk about a lot of this stuff on our podcast. Like, this is like, basically our podcast. Yeah, yeah, we talk about this kind of.

[Sean Donnelly]

So that's why they're like, hey, you. You typing one command into. Into what you call it into chat. GPT is like flushing the toilet like 40 times or something like that.

[Zach Amico]

Or it's some.

[Sean Donnelly]

Something crazy like that. You can look up the.

[Luis J. Gomez]

There's some GPT right now. It's like, no, we're cool.

[Dan St. Germain]

It's like, no, it's puerto Rican rattlesnake is becoming self aware.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Let me see. All right, hold on. Ask right now. I'll put it on microphone. Hold on. Hey, Chat GPT, you there? I'm here. How can I help you? So my friends were just telling me that it takes a wild amount of water to cool off the AI servers. Is that true?

[Dan St. Germain]

Yes.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Data centers, including those used for AI.

[Sean Donnelly]

Can require a significant amount of water for cooling.

[Dan St. Germain]

This helps keep the servers from overheating.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Some data centers use advanced cooling methods.

[Dan St. Germain]

To reduce water usage, but overall, water.

[Sean Donnelly]

Is still a key resource in cooling these facilities.

[Luis J. Gomez]

So how many? If you could give me an idea. How many? If I ask you one question, one command on Chat GPT, how many toilet flushes does that equal?

[Sean Donnelly]

It's difficult to provide an exact comparison. A single interaction with Chat GPT uses a very small amount of energy. To put it in perspective, it's estimated that millions of interactions would be needed.

[Dan St. Germain]

To match the water usage of a single toilet flush. So the impact of one question is minimal.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Thank you, I appreciate it.

[Sean Donnelly]

Closes with tell your friends to go themselves.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah, these guys are a bunch of conspiracy theorist weirdos.

[Dan St. Germain]

Proven right. Or else our podcast.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Falling in love with AI. Like nerds.

[Dan St. Germain]

So I can't imagine, I can't imagine having an affair right now. How that would with AI just with anybody, let alone the anxiety of an affair. There's just. You just have a. An electronic receipt with you all the time.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I, yeah, know. I, It's. I couldn't do it. If I'm going to be with a girl and make her my girlfriend, I 100% have to be faithful. That's that I can't deal with the anxiety of having to watch my phone. There's also no answer for where she's like, let me see your phone. You're like, no, you don't trust we're going to breach our trust. Any guy who has that, Any guy.

[Dan St. Germain]

Who doesn't give you his password, a great joke. He goes, if you ask your girlfriend's phone, you're either a jealous or 100%, right?

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah, 100. But you probably are.

[Zach Amico]

You know, I would be afraid to cheat on my chick with AI. Like, I feel like I would come home and she'd be sitting talking to Alexa and be like, we've been talking for an hour.

[Luis J. Gomez]

The other thing is, I'm an idiot. I don't really know how technology works. So I, and I date younger chicks for the most part part. So it's like they're like, way ahead of like, like I don't know how to hide. I can't do any of that.

[Sean Donnelly]

Right?

[Dan St. Germain]

Just.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I don't want to deal. Life shouldn't be. This is what I've learned as I've gotten older. Take out anything that's causing you actual anxiety and actual stress. If you just remove that from your life, you know, and if you're feeling stress about work, obviously you can't do that, but it's like, that's good stress. I'm talking about bad stresses. Things that are gonna. You know, we were. We were. We had on Legion of Skanks. We did. We're doing another internal Olympics. And one of them, One of the girl. One of the people is like a hot chick who's like. And Dave and Jay were. And they were kidding, but they. I mean, kind of weren't. They were like. They're like, oh, you just want to have this girl in so you could try to her. It's like, are you out of your mind? Do you think I would. I would add the stress of an employee or an intern to my life where now they can just sue me at any given moment? They could destroy everything that I built. Like, there's just. There's enough pussy out there that I don't need to fucking add that type of stress to my life.

[Dan St. Germain]

Yeah, of course.

[Sean Donnelly]

Well, they.

[Zach Amico]

They.

[Sean Donnelly]

Like you said before, you look, I don't know, understand the tech fully. That's another thing from the AI. It's like, it's known that a lot of these CEOs, they. They know up to a certain point, but when it gets down to, like, the nooks and crannies, they don't know how these things are able to learn and continue. They don't know the how. You have, like, ones and zeros with binary code. You know, back in the day, like, things are made up of ones and zeros. Now they're like, hey, it's so advanced that we know that how to get it rolling, but we don't know. We can't tell you. We can't go into backdoor it and tell you the code. We don't understand it. That's how advanced it is.

[Dan St. Germain]

Well, also, some would say that, like, consciousness is intelligent life, right? But it doesn't necessarily mean it needs to be corporal. So, like, yeah, like, just because I was created from a sperm and an egg and cells, that doesn't. Like, that makes me life. But something that was created by a lab doesn't. I mean, if it's consciousness, well, where's the line Exactly.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Where's the line?

[Dan St. Germain]

It's, it's, it's, it's an interesting question which we explore on Burbs Bros. But you know, like, where does life begin? It really becomes, you know, what are, you know, if I, if I created a sentient being, it's life. Right. You know, by almost a lot of definitions, it's life.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Yeah. It's all, it's all kind of weird and scary. Yeah. What I'd like to think is that we will, there's going to be likely, you know, I don't know exactly. I don't know if there's like a world or. But I think the governments are going to put checks and balances on all this stuff eventually because it's going to get too out of control. I think eventually the Internet, there's going to be checks and balances on it just in general. I think in the future we're going to realize how dangerous social media was, how dangerous our phones were, phone addiction, staring, scrolling, all that I think is going to legitimately, it's going to come back. We're going to go, oh yeah, it was actually legitimately really, really bad for us. And this 20 year period that we're in right now, we're going to look at as like this kind of crazy time where we made our kids more stupid. We gave our entire society's addictions to their phones. And it's not like, and it's, and it's also extremely manipulative. All of these companies are extreme. They're, they're designed to keep you looking at your phone based off of selling advertising, based off of fucking you buying the next platform, you buying the next phone. It's all like, none of it's like, like social media was supposed to be like a way we communicate. That was the idea. And it would, that was a genuinely pure idea. You made the world smaller. Right. Like my son will grow up, he'll be eventually go to college. No matter where he goes to college in the world, it's not going to feel like, oh, I'm losing my child, like I can pick up my phone, I could FaceTime him, I could talk, I could visit him very easily back in the day, you know what I'm saying? Like that was like your kid would leave for college and that was like a devastating never see him again. Yeah.

[Dan St. Germain]

For a new kid. No, I, I do think that, yeah. To, to your point that the today what we're seeing is, you know, because like this isn't the most dangerous time in human history. Obviously, the world war has killed a lot more people. We don't live in the bubonic place. Big. Like, this is not the most dangerous time to be alive, but it. But it is the most, like the most collective consciousness we've ever had. So it's like now it's like, yeah, it's not as bad, but now I know what's going on in Sudan. Yes. And I did. That didn't used to be the case.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Put your head in the sand and go live your life.

[Dan St. Germain]

Every step of the Ukraine war. So that is the new part. How is that having that reflection? What is that going to do to our society? Yeah, I think eventually it's going to be good, but it's going to be some.

[Luis J. Gomez]

You have to be a genuine sociopath like me to just not care. I don't give a. About anything that happens in the world.

[Sean Donnelly]

If you shut it.

[Luis J. Gomez]

I care about what's on my life throughout. What I can touch, what I. What's right in front of me. My little tribe, the people that are around me. That's what I care about. But other way. I think that's a better way to be if you are. If everyone just said, I'm gonna just care about their tribe, the people that are directly around them. I'm gonna try to create prosperity and cool things for the people that I love. Love. The world would thrive. But the problem is there's a lot of people who don't actually really give a. About other things that are going on in the world. But it's so easy to pretend that you care. It's so easy to sit on your phone and go like, oh, I'm. I'm. I give a. But you're really just. You're kind of like, perversely watching people suffer.

[Sean Donnelly]

And, and ironically, the thing you're describing is what. When ignorance was bliss. That's why. That's when you were taking care of that tribe because you had no other information what was going on.

[Luis J. Gomez]

You would interact with eight people. People ever. That was it.

[Dan St. Germain]

But, you know, I got a Oregon Trail, but on. On a small scale. I mean, like just the smallest scale. You know, when you see, like, somebody get fired for a reason and they put a GoFundMe and raise like $10,000 to keep their rent or whatever, that would be like a micro example. But I. I do think that, like, you know, some of this, like some of this bigger consciousness does help the world eventually. It's just. Just we're not at the stage of it yet. But I do think we're gonna get probably.

[Sean Donnelly]

But nine times out of ten, you're right. I think people just care about what's. What's local to them. And then they. And then you're right. The phone has enabled you to go.

[Luis J. Gomez]

It's a lot of.

[Sean Donnelly]

Oh, my God, those poor people. That. That's it.

[Luis J. Gomez]

You. You change your. Your profile picture to have a flag in it or whatever. The flavor. Nobody gives a. Like, if you look at all the things that people care about, like, it's a one week. One week news cycle. And then they've moved on to the next thing. Thing. I mean, crazy.

[Sean Donnelly]

Yeah.

[Luis J. Gomez]

Like, nobody gives a shit. Nobody's talking about the Ukrainian war anymore. Nobody gives a shit. They've moved on to fucking whatever else it is. Elon Musk. Got to check. Pregnant then. Somebody's eating a rat now. All right, we gotta wrap this one up. Always a lot of fun with you guys. Go support dancing Jermaine and show on Donnelly and everything that they do. Watch Burbs Bros, which is a lot more of this type of conversation, which I think is super interesting. And thank you guys for. I will. Come on, 100. Thank you guys for being here. You guys are the shit. Good night. When they making noise.