Mm.

In comedy, it's a culture completely, uh, controlled by the establishment.

It's com- controlled by agencies and fucking corporations, so there's no, uh, there's no grit.

There's no intellectual integrity to it.

Whoever is the most popular motherfucker is going to get the mic and the attention of the people, and that's why the craft sucks.

'Cause you can't ...

Like, if you say you don't like the Kill Tony special, there's nothing to compare it to.

Mm.

Hell yeah.

So it might not just be a crime-stopping thing.

It could be a you're losing your privacy, they know a lot about you, and they could fuck you in the end anyway.

He- here's the problem, right? I'm reading this book called 50 Philosophical Classics.

Mm-hmm.

And there's a chapter with a guy who his whole philosophy is on simulation, and he talks about the hyperreal versus the real, right? Uh-huh.

What's real is this conversation we're having in the room.

But they're am- amongst the most successful in the world right now.