 Number one. Oh boy. I have a superpower where whenever I say something to a group No one has a response Every time like clockwork Tell me more about this because this is such a funny goddamn setup at the cocktail party You know there's a semicircle going on of six people or whatever and we're talking this or that and then I'm like Oh, I'll say my thing when there's a moment and I say it whatever it is and is it risky Not to me. I don't think it is but it's just is Jarring to people or they can't think of what to say or they've been trained like don't touch that Like I wouldn't say it's I'm not going like the Holocaust didn't happen. I'm not saying that but I'll say something You'll say that on your blog. Yeah Exactly. I have a tattoo of that, but I'll just say something I'll throw it out there like I want to be included I want to part partake and Just so what oh is there a dip over there like it'll it'll shift real quick after I talk That's so funny. I don't know what I wish I had a good example, but you know like you go is your wife mad afterward No, she's cool. That's why we're together because she's like I saw that that was bad and she'll try to help Yeah, which is so nice and that's love right there But whoo, it's ugly, you know, like I'll be like we'll be talking to TV show them like hey, you know that actor He got in trouble for a diddlin kids and to me. I'm not like I'm just saying a fact Yeah, I'm not condoning diddling kids, but they're like alright. Those are cocktail weenies done You know or whatever so it'll just you were this this is the because we have cable There's a better metaphor than cable. That's an old reference But I can entertain and you I'm betting you can entertain a level of darkness Death oh, yeah, the fun pedophile trivia. Yeah Horrible board game. Yeah For most people we love it. Yeah So That's the thing you have to almost like not dumb it down But you have to almost saw the mainstream. Yes for Like a certain audience, but in my mind, I'm saving this boring dull Conversation with like this is it. This is good stuff. Yes. I'm giving you good meat. Yes talk about They don't like talking about that stuff. I know which is so because we like the news, right? We love well, they'd like Will Smith slaps Chris Rock. They don't like Ukraine Right. They like dumb news. They like the puppy save the senior center, right? But they don't want like hardcore. I guess so here's my question about what this is Forever or this is adulthood? Probably adulthood, you know, because that's when you really have to be like have heirs about you and we have to be Respectable and all that so as a kid you just fart and it was fine But now you can't really do that. So I'm going. Hey, this is some hot goss. I'm throwing at you here How about this and I thought people go really? Yeah, whoa so then it's even more of a drop because I assume it's gonna kill and it gets zero and It is I'm a party shut her down I like comics Number one block I like to be liked. Yeah Okay, why is that a block? Well, because it does it bothers me, you know, you read stuff online or you Mostly just stuff online where you're just so you don't I got I got why are you? Why would you say such mean things like I'm just trying to do Funny stuff and whether you dislike it like I guess I'm not the type of person that would Dislike something and then have to go tell that person. Yes So it does it does me more than I want to but I mean, it's not ruining my issue isn't to me I read the issue as because I have we all have it, right? We the every human being wants to be liked for sure. We have a Place the call the comment section or Twitter or whatever Where we the problem is when we start like So what do you guys think? Yeah, and then well that's within that by the way the ratio still 10 to 1 like if not 50 to 1 like Uh-huh, but the I just had to stop. I just have a I just stop first with blocking words Blockwords you can do it on YouTube. You can do it on Twitter Threads really. Yeah, you can block words. Oh, wow. Can I suggest some things you might want to block sure? Okay Okay, so you so you get it Okay, so you know All right. So yeah, so you can block words huge. Wow huge. Yeah, cool so and And also you can't give yourself access to it It's not that often most times I brush it off, but then every once in a while. You're like you work so hard on a thing and then What you know people say mean shit or just like a review and you're like how? How do you hate it this badly like it? It doesn't seem like yeah, like it There's that why do you have so much hate for this thing? Yeah, it seems like you could just go on with your day and Continue to live your life and not even think twice about this thing Right, but that's where you're kind of good-looking comes in. That's where success comes in That's where like you always seem tan. No one likes that and Like there's just a lot of things that people are basically they're just jealous, right? Yeah Well, I know I don't say that like chill as much like I get it I'm jealous of plenty of people. Yeah, so I don't know I don't snap at them on Instagram or I or whatever like will I send a hate you will will I send like a will I send my group chat? You know, I will But I'm not gonna you're never gonna know about it. Yeah, thank you Neil and the So, you know So the other the other thing I would say is It's like a if we don't solicit it we can't see it If we don't need the if we don't have the hunger We're never gonna see the negative comment The issue is is like when my agents or managers will send me like a good review. I Think I know where you're going and you're like, oh hell. Yeah, like look at this And then you're like and the good reviews are gonna are rolling in now. We wait Gobble gobble and then you start to read the reviews and you're like well This was the one you sent me the one and the rest of them you can't Ever read reviews. Yeah, literally just I had it when this is how long I've known this When me and Dave were writing half baked. This is how fucking long ago. This is There was a article about Woody Allen in the New Yorker That's this is how long ago this was about how great he was and one of the quote And I had it on my wall was like Alan saves his anxiety for action and he said like Don't read reviews Just keep your head down and do the work and I try again That's like the best and that's all I know about Woody Allen So but do I look They sometimes they leak in but I the thing you were saying about like they send you a review And they sent it to you because it's that's why they would send it Yeah, it's the good one because if they're all good then they're not going to send you a hundred. Yeah Link I have and it's still the it's still the good review that they sent me which was so funny, dude It was the new york times and it said adam divine is funny at last I mean which I like I liked i'm like that's funny. It's also it's also like it's a funny backhanded Like he likes the movie. Yeah But it well, there's always in everyone and every positive review has a But I ain't no bitch paragraph. Yeah, like That's a good review of the movie. They're like, but by the way He's some of these sometimes he's awful. He doesn't accent one of the seniors. Yeah That's a fucking embarrassing despite that over ladies always just like that's true. Looky here So, but yeah, but that's you know, it's why you moved out here though I feel like so you have to you know, yeah, no one dislikes you in person. That's the thing It's all no one's gonna say Any did someone say sell out to you in person? No, no one's ever said that in person. So two comments. Yeah And you're and can really ruin your day. No, yeah, but but I I feel like I'm a pretty well adjusted person So, uh, it doesn't really it's just you know, you you made me write a list of five things that uh No, I'm me out. So I was like, yeah Yeah, kind of like it. You are a well adjusted person from what I understand But that is the thing of will you stop? Will you change your behavior slightly knowing like hey, this hurts my feelings? Well, I'm about like a solid decade in of creating television shows and movies and uh, I I've yet to stop So I don't know, you know, I feel like every time I like and this is going to be the one that I won't This is gonna be no, it's every time. It's this is the time that every critic is gonna be hop on board And then you look and you're like But then you meet these critics and you're like, well, this movie isn't for you. You're like 70 years old you're like You're you're comparing me to like mickey rooney And like jack lemon which like I like those very cool and and you know, I me being in the industry I know who those people are but like people in their 20s and 30s don't know who those people are at this point Yes, yes, so that so i'm like it's just sort of a generational thing too And also you meet adam sandler who's never gotten good reviews. Yeah, exactly. And you're like, huh Would I rather be him? or I and then there's really no or because he can do great movies when he wants and he can do his Fam like his like big happy madison silly cool movies and be like a Great dude. It's like though that seems like he's he's one of my true heroes that guy and ideal like that's an ideal outcome. Yeah so or I mean also Think about who was famous When sandler Broke it. I mean, it's a mate like jim carer doesn't even make movies anymore hardly. I know Um, yeah stiller doesn't really make movies anymore. He's directing. He's doing. Yeah. No, I know But I'm saying like it's not even like the fact that adam's still doing it He's like the one guy still churning out comedy movies, which is in the world on earth and you yeah People pleasing Which surprising do you ever feel like a power broker? Because you can help people so clearly you help you like I don't want to say you made people stars, but I think without you Yeah, you champion people and then did you ever feel that because it seems counter to people pleasing Meaning people wanted to please you so that you'd help them become a star I think people pleasing is always more just in the moment You know with everybody would just like a general is everyone okay with me like I love that book the untethered soul Have you read that book? I think I download it and not read it. Yeah, but so it's just all about how You have an irrational expectation that you can make every single moment of your life Work perfectly that the person will like you that you'll say the right thing That everything will be fine and it's completely irrational And so you're almost on eggshells trying to handle everything All the time like everything's okay as long as I don't screw anything up And I think that's a destructive headspace to be in it's better to go. You know what? I'm a good person I'm doing my best. Yeah, I can just relax Approximately like we'll throw the throw the dart and it'll land on the board somewhere Yeah, I'm just fine if like I don't need to obsess like that like I that that's destructive To to be in that type of headspace. I thought of that a lot this year about texting Because during coven I got insecure because I thought The people who haven't checked in on me don't care if I die Right like it was almost too clear a thing Like there were certain people that were like, how you holding up? And then there were people that you like that you did not hear from In those two or three years and you thought wow, I'm not even on their list Of don't die. Yeah for a check-in for like a health check-in. Yeah And I started getting neurotic about it and then I thought a lot about well, who am I checking in with? right and Almost in a manic way. I got very neurotic about it And then did you make a list? No, I never made a list But I just like I was aware and I felt bad about it And then I realized well, I'm doing it's a people too because we all know too many people like when you're in comedy We know hundreds of people. Yes, but one day I was uh Not sober and It just hit me like I'm going to forgive myself and I'm going to forgive everyone And have no expectation for that only in the realm of texting In the realm of like how often we all make contact with each other. Yeah because I feel like especially in our business You might go on the road with somebody and have a very intimate week with someone And then two years later. You're like, I haven't talked to them since like we talked for like seven hours a day Yeah for a week. Yeah, and there is a place in you where you could feel bad about it But it's also irrational to think of the hundreds of people you're interacting with And every time I make a movie that cruise 100 people. Yeah, so if I make 20 movies 2000 people It that doesn't really make any sense. So I decided to let myself completely off the hook in that And it really made me feel better all year I mean, and I don't know if I don't that's I've never had that issue meaning I just see this I see Like comedy shows as like I say it's like a cruise ship And sometimes I see you on the Lido deck And then I won't see you I saw you when you were doing your producer skill thing in was in February. Yeah, and now it's August hadn't seen you. I assumed you were good Jimmy said he saw you. Yeah, I'll see you. I'll see you. I'll see you on the whatever the podcast deck Why do we text? Yeah. Yes. Yeah Because I don't want you to die exactly But that's nice that you forgave yourself And what what were you not sober on? That's a very good question Although I have to say like, you know, we've talked a lot about everything that's happening with mind expanding ayahuasca and MDMA and mushrooms and all that and I I definitely think Just great stuff to be learned from all of it. I'm fascinated by it I don't I haven't had the ayahuasca courage yet But I think it's in my future you would love it It's you know, it's gary connected. It's it's it is that world It's a deeper Level it's arguably the deepest level of that sort of Mind shift And spiritual connection. Yeah, it's the the most actual palpable longest term one you can Do like seven hours of direct contact and then you keep it with you man. Does that scare me? Which is the reason to do it. So I'm going to work up to it. Well, what about it scares you? Because that you're already there. You're already like constantly Kind of swimming in it. Yeah. Well, that's that's what I think if I need to get my head around I guess there's I used to have panic attacks. Uh-huh. And so there's a part of me that Gets afraid of experiences which I cannot end You can but it's going to be a while Exactly. It's food poisoning. Well, it's you know what it is It's surrender. Yeah, it's letting go which I think is maybe the most important lesson or block For me to learn to really Let go. I remember I was on a plane once to australia and I had this very Very strong feeling the most spiritual feeling I've ever had in my life of a voice saying Surrender And it was I don't even know what it was. It was unlike any moment I've ever had and I feel like ayahuasca in a way is the Did you watch the little richard documentary? Yes, I did. He had a on a flight to australia as well What was he found god basically or he like went back to god He also like disavowed his sexuality, which I was hope I was hoping you would do but Um, stop being straight. Yes. Hey, did you like that? Did you like that? Yeah Did you like it though? 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