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LinkedIn, the place to be, to be. What are you, 30? I'm in my 20s. I'm 29. 20.
I'm milking it for as much as I got. You're punching 30 in the mouth. I'm right there. It's weird. So I'm sure I felt that, you know, like I'm always fascinated by age and different... And people think I'm like, oh, don't worry about it. I'm like, I'm not worried about it. I'm just fascinated by it. Yeah. Because, of course, I remember 30, but you can't possibly know 66. I don't, no. But you will, and it'll go by like that. I was literally like 21 yesterday. Exactly. And then, bam, I'm 29. I'm 29 now. But I have a terrible, like...
I would have never guessed you were 66. I have a horrible age radar. Like, I never know how old somebody is. I mean, I know if someone's over 18, but... That's as far as it goes, you know? That's as far as it goes. How do you know that? Actually, that's a very hard one to know. Models, they constantly are...
plucking models from like farm cities in Ukraine and they're like 14, right? And that's what they, at least that's how they used to get models and they looked they were 18. They find them on Instagram now. If you have a radar that can tell that, you're good. Yeah, I don't know. Do I look 29? Well, I just guessed you were 30. So you're going to have to live with
What do you got, another six months, pal? It's the beard. Yeah, no, I have my birthday's in October, so. Oh, you're okay. Yeah. Let me tell you something. It's not how old you are. It's how old you are, like, against where you are. And you're doing great. Yeah. I think you have, what, like, a one trillion TikTok followers or something? So on TikTok, I have 15.4 million followers. How did you build that up?
Man, so I've been in L.A. for five years. And when I moved out here, I was trying to... Where are you from? New York. Yeah. I've heard of it. Born and raised, yeah. Oh, really? What part? Queens, Flushing, and then, like, towards high school, my family moved to Long Island. I moved out when I was 18. I went to school in Texas. I went to college in Texas. And then, pointless, I mean, I went there to... I was majoring in sociology. I was playing football all the time. I wanted to, like, be in the NFL. I was a football player.
Turns out I wasn't good enough. And my sister was like, you should, you know, you should, you've always been funny. You should just move to L.A. and be like a comedian and actor. And I was like, all right, let's do it. So I ended up moving out to L.A. I was like an assistant at the time. This is five years ago. So I'm an assistant assistant.
I'm making like 600 bucks a month. I'm like taking the bus and train. I'm an assistant. I'm trying to like get gigs. I'm doing stand-up, but I'm doing like shitty bar gigs. I'm not doing real stand-up. You're in the club. Yeah, anywhere I can get on stage, right? You think you're different than everyone else who...
But we all did that. You know, it's tough because when you move here, you see people who are already successful, but you don't see what they went through to get there. I mean, I'm just a kid when I moved here. You're the one who's going through what you went through to get there. Yeah, true. It's good for you. Yeah, I wouldn't be where I'm at today if I didn't go through that. You got to go through the system, and it toughens you up and makes you funnier. Oh, yeah. You know, it's fascinating to me...
I mean, the way that technology changes, obviously, funny is funny. That doesn't change. But where it's going through, I mean, from when I started, when it was like getting on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, you know, to, like, then I remember Dane Cook was
Remember, that was a technological, that was sort of like, wasn't he the first one to... Sell out the garden. He sold out the garden. But because he used the internet. Yeah. Wasn't that... I don't remember if it was... I think that's what it was. It might have been, but I remember watching Dane Cook. I mean, at that point when I was watching him, he was already doing the garden. But that's what made him unique. Yeah. He mastered a new technology. You know, presidents do this. They say Kennedy was the first TV president.
He was good looking. They had the first debate on TV. He looked better than the other sweaty motherfucker. FDR was the first radio president. When people had just radios, he was able to talk to them. Lincoln couldn't talk to the people. You'd have to go fucking see him in person. Exactly, yeah. And tickets were outrageous.
Yeah, the game is constantly changing. And then you get those people who don't get with the times and then they get left behind, you know? Well, yeah, if you, I mean... I mean, to a certain degree, right? If you've built a certain stature of fame, right? Well, it depends. I mean, HBO is still HBO. Yeah.
You can't front. But even HBO has, they've gone with the culture. They have the HBO. No, and I will concede that people your age, they don't really have TVs anymore. Yeah. But they can see your shit anywhere else. That's not my area. It's like where it goes and how you do it. I'm content. Yeah. You're kind of like your own network because that's what TikTok is. Yeah. You don't have a contract with TikTok. You could take a week off and not...
Well, I can't take a week off. I mean, theoretically I could, but I would never take a week off just because of- Ever? Well, just how my page is set up. I mean, of course, nothing lasts forever, right? But the way the algorithm works, right? You have to consistently post in order to get a certain viewership. And then if you take off two weeks, maybe a month, you feel that on your page. You feel the viewership go down, right? And then you have to kind of regenerate that viewership. You're falling off. Yeah.
I'm not, I'm going to post after this. No, I'm saying that was what they would say. Oh, yeah, yeah, exactly, yeah. And there's so much content where it's like, let's say you put out a video and it does 5 million views, right? Two hours later, someone else has a 5 million view. And then next day there's... But you realize, Adam, you just described a very psychologically precarious situation for yourself, don't you think? I mean, you just said, I can't ever take...
any time off because if I don't feed this dragon, if I don't feed this beast, it will turn on me. Yes. You don't worry about that a little? Yeah, of course. But I mean, I think I'm so like blinders horse-like. I just want to continue to just keep elevating to this level. Sure. And you, yeah. I'm, look, at my juncture here, I mean, I've been on TV almost 30 years straight. Like, I don't need to do this.
But you enjoy it. I'm loving it. But I love my real job. And my real job is my real job. This is an hour on a Wednesday, but it's like fun to do it with you because I never met you. I heard all these things about you. And everyone was always so fucking positive. I'm like, I've got to meet this kid. Because I love to talk to people who are not my age. That's how I learn. The people my age, you know,
I basically know what they know. Yeah. But you know things I don't know. Absolutely. And I'm going to fucking like a vampire suck that out of you. Let's do it. You know what? When I found out, when I found out, my manager had called me. She's like, hey, Bill Maher wants you on your podcast, on his podcast. I'm like, Bill Maher?
And she's like, yeah, do you not want to do it? I'm like, no, I want to do it. I love Bill Moore. He's the last person I expected to reach out. So I was like, this is awesome. I'm thrilled because it wouldn't be right for my real job, which again is my real job. But we got talking about this because you said I have blinders and on and on. And I'm like, just so you know what's ahead in your life, you can be my age and still have that kind of drive. Because one reason I want to do this
is because, yes, the more we go down the path of American history, the less people your age are interested in the, shall we say, meat and potatoes issues of the day. Yeah, yeah. It's like my show is for grownups who know things. Sorry. But like the kids, they just, you know, I mean, last week we talked about the ACLU and NATO issues.
I just wouldn't want to survey a group of people your age and ask them what they thought about the ACLU and NATO. I don't even know what that is. Exactly. There you go. And you're a bright guy. Yeah. And I blame the schools for that because you should, and I'm going to- Well, I know NATO. I know NATO. All right. I don't know what it stands for, but I know NATO. Yeah. I know NATO. It stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Yeah. I knew some of those. I knew there was a treaty in there. I knew an organization was in there. And you know what it was?
Yeah. All right. Maybe correct me if I'm wrong. It's like some type of alliance. Right. Am I right? Correct. An alliance that curates. Curates. Or no, I wouldn't say curate. You shouldn't say curate. Yeah, no. We won't. We won't. We'll take it out on the edit. All right.
An alliance that is in charge of other alliances. No. Well, not exactly. Oh, God. Stop. Stop talking. Let me tell you what it is. But here, you don't feel bad about this. You know why? I'm going to write a book someday called Gazpacho is Cold. Do you know why? Why is that? Because everything you know, every single thing you know, you learned at a particular moment in your life.
You don't remember every moment, but that's why generally people have understood that older people are wiser because they've had more days, more time, more experiences, more moments to learn something. Okay. So I remember when I ordered gazpacho soup for the first time and I complained bitterly to the waiter that the soup was cold. Well, gazpacho soup is served cold.
Oh, I didn't even know that. It's what I'm saying to you. You're learning it now. Yeah. I learned it. I was about the same age. Point being... Is it really even soup then? Yes, it is soup. It is cold soup.
I agree. It's like iced coffee. It's like, you're right, okay. You're right, it's stupid. Yeah, it doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense, but it is. And it's a very expensive soup. Gazpacho soup. I mean, I remember I was at a restaurant and it was, you know, and I was, I hadn't really never before that had a lot of money. I didn't have a lot of money.
a lot of money then, but even enough to go out to dinner with a girl. And I was at a fairly nice restaurant ordering gazpacho soup. I felt pretty sophisticated. I was smoking a cigarette. You were talking about NATO. Yeah.
NATO, that's what we're talking about. What is this, NATO? So NATO makes the soup? No. The point being that every time you learn something, you learn it at a certain moment. And you shouldn't feel bad that you didn't learn it before that moment. I don't feel bad. No. Right. So today's the day you're learning what NATO is. And gazpacho soup. And gazpacho soup. They go hand in hand. For you, this is a bonanza. I'm going to remember when I think of gazpacho soup, now I'm thinking of NATO. This is a bonanza. You know what bonanza is?
I've heard of it. I've heard of it. It was a TV show. It's a TV show. Yeah. It was like the number one show forever. It was a Western about these, you know, four fat white guys who lived in Montana or something. And they had horses and adventures. I don't know. Is this on HBO Max? No, this is HBO Max. I mean, this is like. I've never heard of it. No. No.
When did this come out? It was even corny when I was a kid. It was probably on in the late 50s and throughout the 60s. Yeah, I'm out of it. Yeah, you don't want to know. But NATO, you should know. Now, you know what the Soviet Union was. Yeah, yeah. Now it's Russia, right? Russia was the dominant force. The Soviet Union was Russia and all the countries it conquered. Yeah, yeah. I knew that. I knew that. Okay. That's an easy one.
Okay. So NATO was what we formed after World War II to counter the Soviet Union, to make sure they didn't take over the whole world. Okay, so it wasn't an alliance. Yes, but not when we curated. We had nuclear missiles there. Yeah, I mean, yeah. They didn't have meetings where like, how are we going to curate the Soviets on this one? Putin is not a curator. He's a poisoner. Right, right. But I mean, I was close. I was close.
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Making content every day. I love putting it out. I love the reactions I get from it, right? Even Christmas? Oh, Christmas is the best day to post. Everyone's home on their phones. That's when everyone's watching. Everyone's trying to see what everyone got as a present. So usually, actually, a lot of my most viral videos, I think I have a video that has...
250 million views that was posted on Christmas Eve because everyone's off work everyone's at home there's like such a psychology and science behind like how you post when you post what to post that ensures when like when you know people are like with their phones is that what that is exactly and when are they with their phones
Well, I mean, obviously, I don't know specifically. No, but generally. But generally, weekends are always a better time to post. Videos do better on Saturdays and Sundays because people aren't working their nine-to-fives or on their phones. Another thing that I do too is a lot of the comedy I do online is visual. Why? Because there's tons of people at work who can't listen with sound on. So if you can make... Like a rule of thumb I have when I create a video is like,
I watch it on mute. Would somebody laugh at this video on mute? It's amazing. You're back to Charlie Chaplin. Yeah, exactly. And that's why he was so universal, right? And then you got to also think, I have such a worldly audience, right? Where there are so many people who don't speak English. You're making a silent, a little short silent movie on mute.
on TikTok. Yeah, absolutely. And it's a full movie. I mean, we're talking about a beginning, middle, end, twist, your protagonist, antagonist, all in one minute. You should watch his movies and steal his shit. I've actually, not stole his shit, but I've watched tons of his stuff, like clips on YouTube. Do the one where he eats his shoe. I don't think I've seen that one. It'll kill.
I gotta watch it. Trust me, in the 1919s it was, no, I don't know. But there's the famous scene where he's like, but there's lots of, you know, clips. I mean, have I ever like seen a Chaplin movie all the way through? I don't know. I've just seen clips. I've seen Rides of the Bike. Right. And also the one where he's going through the gears. Yeah. That's, I mean, yeah, for a hundred years ago, that thing where he's
And the comment that it's making on the mechanized society we live in. Yeah, it's genius. And another thing too that's crazy is like people will message me or like I'll even run into people who don't really speak that great of English and they're like, I learned English from watching your videos. Because of course there's dialogue, right? There's dialogue here and there. But it's very limited where like, you know, you don't have to know the dialogue to get the joke.
So that's something I keep in mind all the time when I shoot. And like a statistic, actually, I believe on Facebook, 70% of videos are watched without sound.
Do you want to, like, do you aspire, like, one day to make, like, an actual full-length movie? Oh, yeah, absolutely. I mean, that was my goal. Because this is great training for you, doing it a minute at a time. That was my goal when I first moved here, to be a movie. And now you have the following. Yeah. So if your agent isn't working on this... No, he is. I'm actually working on a film right now. I put out a short film, like...
A year ago that got qualified for an Oscar. It didn't end up getting nominated, but it got close. So, I mean, that is the avenue, but I'm kind of finding myself in this weird crossroad of, you know, even like the movie business, right? Like, unless you're like an A-list actor like The Rock or, you know, Kevin Hart, right?
You go away, you film a movie for what? Three, four months, right? And the amount that I would get paid to do that movie, where, of course, I'm not going to be able to film my own content while I'm on set, I'm away, right? The amount I'm getting paid for that three, four months, unless I'm an A-lister, right? That amount I'm getting paid is how much I'm making in one week. Yeah, so wait till they offer you that. Exactly. Or just make my own film rather than auditioning. And you look like you could play anything. I mean, you're like one of those ambiguously... Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, exactly. That's the checkbox I go for.
ethnically diverse. I'm in there. Yeah, you could be anything. Yeah, exactly. You could be, uh... Indian, Egyptian, Middle Eastern, Mexican. I mean, anything besides white, pretty much. I'm in there. Yeah, so... And I play a lot. I am Middle Eastern, Egyptian. Egyptian? Yeah. And what? So I'm also mixed with, like, Iranian a bit and Afghan. I looked it up on 23andMe.com
I don't know the results, but that was it. What are your parents? Egyptian. And I think my dad is also like a little Afghan, Iranian, Egyptian. My mom is Egyptian. You know, here's something else that may be like your Gaspadro moment. Egyptians and Iranians to get together. You should know this. If your parents did that, that's a gutsy thing to do because Egyptians are Arabs. Yeah. Yeah.
And Iranians are not. And in the Middle East, the main conflict has always been between the Arab world and the Persian world. Saudi Arabia is separated from Iran, Persia, only by a little straight. Those are the two powers. Other sides sort of like go with either side. The Iranians are Shiites. The Egyptians and the Saudis, they're Sunnis.
These are two tribes that are both Muslim, but they hate each other. They fought a giant war against each other in the 80s, the Iran-Iraq War. Was NATO involved in this? NATO was not involved. I'm literally learning. I didn't know this. I know, and I'm telling you because this is your heritage. Yeah. But I'm telling you, this is important stuff. The Muslim world is divided between Sunnis and...
I think I know a little bit about this. There are about 85% of the Muslim world are Sunnis. Well, I think actually in Egypt as well, which like I didn't find out. Egypt is all Sunni. Well, I didn't find out until recently. There's actually like a large majority of Egyptians that are Orthodox or Catholic, right? No. There is a Christian sect in Egypt called the Copts, C-O-P-T. That's it. Yes.
That's it. Right on the tip of my tongue. I knew it was close. Like any Christian or Jewish group in a Muslim-majority country in the Middle East, they are not to make feel very welcome. So there are very few left. Syria used to have a very large Christian minority, but they don't anymore.
But sticking to the Muslim world, yes, the Iranians and the Egyptians, traditionally those are the Sunnis and Shiites. There's a lot of beef between those two groups. So my parents are outliers. Your parents may have had to, like...
defy some you know traditional shit to get together so i feel like that next next thanksgiving be like mom dad i don't know what you went through to start boning and have me but you know if you had to go through some stuff i appreciate it yeah absolutely i'm sure they did yeah they never talked to you about this shit they probably did um they probably did um you just tuned it out
You know what? You weren't interested? Dude, all I care about is comedy. I love comedy. I'm like so like into. Maybe they could make it funny. They could. Maybe they could do it with puppets. Well, maybe they told me about it and I couldn't make it funny and that's why I tuned it out, you know? So. Yeah, it's kind of hard to make the Iran-Iraq war funny. It's a tough one. That's why I probably moved on to the next joke. So let me ask you this.
What is your personal life like? If it's so, if you're so, like, having to be slavish to your... Craft. Craft and feeding the dragon, because it is a dragon. Absolutely. Right. So, does that make your personal life suffer? No personal life. Oh, stop it. I mean, like, here and there, right? Like, you know, I'll have weeks, you know, I'll have a week where, you know, I have fun and I'll, like, go out and mingle and do whatever. No girlfriend. No girlfriend.
I'm single. No, I'm single. I mean, I had a girl. But you want to be single. Is that because you're... Yeah, no, no. By choice, by choice. Don't bullshit me. It's not like, oh, I can't find a girl. It's you don't want to be tied down by one girl. Well, you know what? It's also tough. Come on. I mean, in my last relationship... We're here at Club Random. Tell me. No, in my last relationship... I'm your psychiatrist. You're my stepson. Just tell me the truth.
Okay, in my last relationship, the reason why it ended is because I was working all day. So what I do is like it never ends. And then you know too, it's like comedy. You're always writing jokes. There's stuff that always comes up, right? I'm never writing jokes. You're not? No. You sound like you're purposely right. I've never done that. When I started, I was told that's how you're supposed to do it because that's what Bill Cosby told all the other comics and they told us.
I don't know what happened to Mr. Cosby, but I never could like purposely write jokes. What I do is like this. And then when something funny would come up, I would try to remember it. Well, that's what I do too. But then I write in my notes, but I just constantly find myself anything that happens. I'm like, I'm going to write that in my notes. I'm writing my notes. And I'm always thinking, all right, what's the next video I'm going to shoot? Because I mean, I'm posting every single day, right? So every day, like a lot of days I'll wake up at 6 a.m. No idea.
I have to come up with an idea by 8 a.m. That's a lot of pressure. Yeah. I'm just saying. It's a lot, but I love it. That beard may have gray in it in five years because that's a lot. Possibly. I mean, my early days, and you're not in your early days, you're a tremendous success. But, you know, I was still, well, 30. I had done a sitcom, but, you know, life was not that cushy still. Better than it had been earlier, but...
You know, I did not, certainly did not have this pressure that every single day I have got to come up with something. Every day. But I mean, it's a different animal. It's the pressure I sort of say put on myself, though, you know? Like, I have a high standard of what I want, and I enjoy doing it, you know? Well, you put it on yourself because the dragon puts it on you. Yeah. If you don't feed the dragon...
It goes away. Or eat you. Yeah, either or. So, I mean, but I mean, yeah, I do love it and it is a lot of pressure, but at a certain point, like I've got to the, where it's so self-sufficient where like, you know, I'm waking up, I'm on autopilot and I'll come up with an idea.
Like I said, I'll wake up at 6 a.m., no idea what I'm going to shoot. 8 a.m., I come up with an idea. I'll send that over to my producer. We'll get props. We'll get the location. We'll get actors or actresses. Shoot it, edit it right away. It goes up by 12, and then by 2 p.m., it's at a million views. Seven days a week you do this? Yeah, I mean, I'll miss a day here or there, but that's... You don't shoot two in a day? Sometimes I try, but it's tough.
It's tough. Because you want the quality to be good. Yeah, exactly. And even at a certain point, you get watered down. And if it was up to me, I personally would want to just do maybe one video a week of my best, you know? Well, I was going to say it'll pay off. It's already paying off. But, you know, I mean, there's no substitute for wanting it, hard work.
And just, you know, I can see you're that guy who's not going to let the other guys beat you. I mean, I remember when I, see, my experience was so different, but I started it like in comedy clubs. I guess you've hung out at comedy clubs too. But that's all we had. There was no TikTok or any of that shit. And, you know, you're with like dozens, dozens of other comics, you know, who are all hanging out at the club and you all have the same dream.
and you all know it's kind of like the army you know you're going to go into battle and a lot of you aren't going to make it yeah the guy next to you is going to get one right here yeah and you just want better him than me right feel like you're living in a media bubble like it's harder than ever to find views that challenge your own well that's where the lost debate steps in it's a podcast and youtube show for political eclectics who crave exposure to a diversity of beliefs and perspectives
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you know, don't be ostracized. Just don't be the kid they make fun of. You know, my 20s, it was just like, don't be a loser in your career. I went through that too, though, in my 20s, where I was like, I got to make it. I got to make it. I got to make it. Yeah, because you, you know, you set up your life in your 20s and 30s, and then, you know, you want to then live in it. Yeah. No, you're absolutely right. No, I mean, you're doing, I would say you're doing the right thing, but, and you are.
But you say it's like it gets in the way of relationships. Yeah, but I mean... But you don't want a relationship. Yeah, I don't want one. It works out perfectly. Stop complaining. I'm the perfect candidate, you know? But I mean, don't get me wrong. I've had my fun, you know? I've had fun. Like, when I went to college, you know, even the first two years I was out here trying to, like, figure out what the hell I'm going to do. I'm having fun this whole time. I mean...
Look, I would go crazy if I didn't have breaks, right? I do have weeks where, you know, I go out and I'll catch up with friends and this and that. But at the same time, I just love creating content. It's the greatest thing. And how do you create content for your sex life? I'm just curious. Only fans. Seriously? No. Okay.
But it sounds like, I mean, it's just, I mean, I don't know. When I was 30... Are you saying, like, how do I get girls? Oh, I'm sure it's not a problem. Yeah. But...
Yeah, I'm sure it's very different than... It is different. It all happens in the DMs now. Of course. Yeah. It's all on the phone. Yeah. Right. Yeah. So you don't really want to have a long-term relationship because... I mean, if... At some point in your life. If it happens, it happens, you know? It will happen, right? But I'm not... You want it to happen? Yeah. Like, you want children? I think, honestly, like, this next couple years, I want to start a family. Really? Yeah. For sure. Yeah.
Maybe this year. Really? Who knows? Yeah. I feel like, I don't know, I feel like I always thought I was going to have a... Is that what your mother wants you to do? Yeah, yeah. Why did I think that? Yeah, yeah. She's definitely forcing it a bit, but... Well, I thought I was going to have kids. But that should not influence you one bit. It's your life. Yeah, true. But I always thought for some reason I was going to have a family at 25. No, I mean, I've known so many guys who were like players. Yeah.
Yeah. But they were like married and had kids. And like, even though they were terrible husbands, they were great dads. You know, there was something, I don't have that chip. You know, I am not, I've never, one thing that's been like steady throughout my life since I was a child is I do not like children. I did not like them when I was one. Well, you have no kids? I don't. No. No kids, no marriages. No.
No divorces, no alibis. I'm like you, pretty much. Well, no, you're not, because you haven't made it to this point. True. You have nothing to brag about. You're right at the age where you're eligible, and people will try to...
Yeah. Which is fine if you want it. And, you know, I never, people think I'm against marriage. I'm only against marriage for me. Yeah. Whatever makes people happy. I know some people who would be lost without their spouse. That's what makes them happy. It's the most personal decision. Just don't do it because society or mom is saying. But can you help it? Because it's like you're constantly getting like, you're getting taught marriage. But I did. Yeah, but you're a one percenter.
You got to work at it, man. If you want to stay single, you have to. I should hang out with you more. Maybe that's what it is. You've got to club random. I mean, seriously. It is very hard just to keep your toe out of the trap. Maybe this year you get married. Maybe you start a family this year. Who knows? I do know and know. Who would know more than me? Because I'm me. No, I will not be starting a family this year. You never know, though. I do know. You think you know. To a certain degree, you know.
But you never know. Sweetheart. You never really know. If I got a girl pregnant tomorrow, I'd be like 82 when the kid got out of high school. I am not starting a family. And why, after all these years, would I suddenly change and, like, fall in love with children? No, I love my life, and no fucking kid is going to mess it up. Well, you know your taste buds change every seven years. That's a fact. Not in children.
And I don't think that's true either. It's not like I started to hate bananas seven years ago. That's ridiculous. Maybe your taste will change. I like almonds. Last year, I just started liking almonds. I hated almonds. Okay. So, I mean, I'm just saying... Yes. Sure, you're probably like 99.9% positive, right? Almond and children are... But there is that 0.1%. I think that's a different level, almonds and children. But I take your point. All I'm saying is...
for you, um, you know, society. Yeah. You just don't do it. Yeah. Like, or because we sort of create that myth in movies. It's certainly in the era of the romantic comedy, I guess they do less of them, but it's a lot of putting in people's minds, this idea that there is a one perfect person, your soulmate, and they're out there and you just got to find them. And then when you do, it's all going to be great. And, um,
There's a, there was a book they just put out for Valentine's Day, even though it's kind of an anti-Valentine's Day book. And I read the excerpt. It's from some woman and she, it's called To Stay Married, You Need Amnesia. Oh, wow. And the line below that said, Do I hate my husband sometimes? Oh, yeah, sure. Yeah.
And then the article is just, you know, her talking about how much she fucking hates her husband and thinks he's an asshole. But at the end, it's like, but we stayed together. It's always that, like, fake Hollywood ending that they even put in their books. And I'm like, you can't get me back. After you say you hate him, you can't get me back to, but this is a good idea. This is a good thing to do.
And that's what the book is trying to do. It is fascinating, though, like, that someone can stay... Like, there's some people who are married for, like, 40, 50 years. That's, like, insane to me. That's, like, to be with somebody for 40, 50 years and spending, like, damn near every day together, right? Like, that is a fascinating thing. It's a skill. A skill is... It's impressive. That's a charitable way to put it, but you're right. It's something you...
People, I guess, do it for the children and they like the idea of security and somebody there. Or sometimes a sense of humor is more important. There's a lot of reasons why a marriage that isn't red hot monkey love all the time works for people and can work for people. And again, like you say, different strokes and whatever people like. Yeah.
I'm just saying be careful about that one. For sure. I think I want it, though. I love kids. Great. Yeah, I think I want it. I mean, I guess I'll find out. Right, you'll find out. Yeah. Because, you know. I'll go for it. Yeah. You know what? If you got married at 32, you could still, like, be, you know, say, give it eight years.
Now you're 40. You're still a nice looking guy. You know what it is? I feel like the age continuously gets like, has been getting older for what people get married at. Like people used to get married at like- Well, it has. We have the statistics. Yeah, right? Now people are getting married at what, like 35? No, not quite that. It's like 30 for men and 28 for women.
Where it used to be like what? Much lower. You're right. It was like 22 and 20 or something like that. That's crazy. Oh, yeah. I mean, in many parts of the world, like Egypt and Iran. Yeah. I mean, you're an old maid if you're 20, probably, you know. I mean, not in every segment of society. But, yeah, I mean, that still goes on. And even in the United States, you know, they recently just raised the –
legal age for marriage in I forget what state, something like Kentucky or something. But they were not the only state that had it from like 14 to 16. Oh, that's way too young. 14? What is that, middle school? Was it high school? Well, for me, it was freshman year of high school. But whatever it is. That's wild. Yes. Imagine being married in ninth grade? That's,
No, I can't because I was still just masturbating. I would have loved to have been married or anything that allowed me to get something. But yeah, I mean, there are parts of this country that are, you know, do you know what Appalachia is? Is that a mountain? Appalachian mountains? It's a mountain range. Okay. I was close. Yes. No, you're right. It goes all through like
these southern states it's like where we the term hillbillies which is you know kind of a derogatory term but there are i'm sorry such thing as hillbillies yeah i mean these are people who live rural i mean this is there's no tiktok over there they're not getting wi-fi
Part of the president's big spending bill is to bring Wi-Fi and such things to this part of the country. They're always like... Imagine they're up there doing TikTok dances once they get the Wi-Fi. I'm sure there are places in Tennessee and Arkansas and West Virginia. These are the states I'm talking about. It goes to like eight different states like that. Kentucky, Tennessee.
Yes, but there are also rural places where they may have the internet, but what they really don't have is like strong law enforcement from the authorities. Like it's sort of like the local people who are making the rules. You know, like you ever see the old Beverly Hillbillies series?
No. You heard of it, though, right? The Beverly Hills Blues. It sounds familiar. It was a show on the 60s. It was one of the big hit comedies. Oh, if it was in the 60s, I don't know it. Yeah, but they show it. They rerun it. I mean, people have seen it. You've heard of I Love Lucy. Yeah. Well, that was the 50s. Oh, wow. That was the 50s. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Okay. I probably have seen it then. You must have seen it. It's a classic. I mean, it was... And it was about these...
people from Appalachia, these very rural, the hillbillies, I mean, the Beverly hillbillies, and they strike oil on their land and they become fucking crazy rich. So they moved to Beverly Hills, which is what rich people do. So now they're like, still driving like the old truck, you know, and they're still fucking hillbillies. That's what's the funny part. They're hillbillies, but they're in this fucking phony baloney Hollywood environment. Those kinds of people in their own habitat there in the
Appalachian region, it can be very difficult for like, you know, police or revenuers, tax man, anything from the federal government. That's like an outsider. I mean, there are places in this country that are like literally tribal. Really? Yes. That's insane. Yeah.
Look at all the things you've learned tonight. Everyone doesn't have TikTok. No, I'm kidding. That's crazy. Yeah, that's... That could be your, like, charity cause. Bring TikTok to Appalachia. I'll be that guy. You should be that guy. I'll be that guy. Right. I would do it. Of course, if you go there, they might kill you. Yeah, and also, I probably would... They're like, he's a...
I don't know, but he's a looker. I don't know what he is, but we're fucking going to kill him. We'll ask questions later. I feel like anywhere I go, I'll fit in as a local for the most part, you know? I don't know. Honestly, I probably wouldn't go if they didn't have Wi-Fi because then I'm not going to be able to post, right? So once they get the Wi-Fi, then I'll show up and maybe I'll have a course or something. Well, listen, I hope you do come back here and just kick it with me some night. Yeah. Not that it would be any different than this. Yeah.
Maybe we film a TikTok. Who knows? Oh, yes. Let's do that. Yeah. We can do it. Are you on TikTok at all or no? Oh, yes, Adam. I'm dominating it. I think I've seen you on the Explore page. No, you haven't. I'm not intentionally on TikTok. Okay. I'd be surprised if I could get it on my phone. I'll download the app for you. No, I think I have the app. But I will start. I mean, I should make that effort to like...
Dude, I'm just so busy. It's like I just don't have time for a new thing. You know what I mean? Yeah, I feel you on that. But it could be like Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. You know who they are? It'd be the collab nobody ever expected. Exactly. And that's why I'll go viral. That's why it would be funny. Exactly. But you've got to think of it. This is what you do.
We could even do me and you at a restaurant. Waiter brings out gazpacho soup. Yes! And I'm like, this is cold. Right. You slap the soup across the table, and then he says it's cold. And then not only are we going viral, we're educating people. And then somehow at the end we bring in NATO. And this is 10 million views. Send me the script. Call me. It's done. It's already posted. I just DM a girl, yes. And then they say...
Guess what? And then, balls in your court. You can say whatever. Yes, I'd love to get to know you. Yes, I would. It's hysterical. And it's a 10 out of 10 success rate.