#2098 - Shane Gillis & Matt McCusker

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Boys. Yes. Salute. Hey.

Bud Light came all the way back.

Bud Light, shaving water. They came all the way back. Matt, do it responsibly.

Are you a non-drinker now?

No, I drink. I just unfortunately have a bad tummy. Can't have gluten. Oh yeah. I've had it since I was like 21..

Is it a Crohn's thing?

No, it's like celiac. If I have it, I won't die. I'll just start burping.

Celiac is rough, man. I have a buddy who didn't know he had it until he was like 25 or something like that. Yeah, yeah.

That's about when you got it, right? 21, yeah.

Well, he probably had it. his whole life. Just felt like shit.

Yeah, maybe I have it.

You might not have it. You might not have it.

You can put down 18 of these.

Responsibly.

There's no way you're not driving. For some reason, you can do it, though. I don't understand. I've never seen anybody consume beer the way you can.

I can drink beer.

But you just stay at a level, a communication level.

Well, there's no shots. You know what I mean? Usually, the guys, you start drinking like that. You're like, alright, what's the next thing? Right, shots.

Yeah, there's a corner. I turn where I'm like, oh, no.

Oh yeah, I get to that corner.

Really concentrating on my liver.

Come on, boys. Pump it out.

Turn that corner. Bud Light came all the way back. UFC, Shane Gillis. Let's go. Let's go.

For the pros now.

That's a good move. That guy that we met, the CEO, he's got it together. He gets it.

I thought you were the CEO now.

Just in commercials.

I knew you guys were going to fucking make fun of me.

I'm so happy.

It wouldn't have happened without this.

Listen, I'm so happy. It just made so much sense. You never let them go. You never bailed on them. In the heart of all the craziness, you never bailed.

That turncoat.

I have to fight Bobby next time I go to Nashville.

You should have a duel.

I think it was an important moment in culture where people realized there's consequences for certain things. Some people, like a guy like Kid Rock, can shoot your brand. You've got real problems with that demographic.

Who would have guessed?

Who the fuck had ever thought that was going to happen?

Just seeing Kid Rock do that, people must have been like,

oh, fuck. You think they watched it in a boardroom like, guys, we've got to talk about this?

Maybe. The lady who was in charge, the one lady who made that one video. Let's move on.

Hell yeah.

Thanks, fellas.

I think we've beaten that fucking horse into a pulp. It's a meaty jelly on the ground now.

Yeah, it's been awesome.

Yeah, it's awesome. I'm so happy. They're smart, man. They did a smart thing. And they did a smart thing with the UFC, too.

It's perfect.

They should make the fighters drink a beer before every fight.

Yeah, I don't think that'd be too much of it.

You know how they have monster cans?

Why not? Why can't you? All you have to do is put Bud Light on the bottle. It's not like they're drinking fucking Monster during the fight.

That's what I was saying.

Are they going to say it's bad for you to have Bud Light after a fight? That's crazy. He just got punched in the head 185 times.

After the fight, yeah. I don't think that's a tough sell. I think those guys are cracking beers after.

Yeah, like the Sean Strickland-Drekka-Stuplicey fight. Those guys deserve beer. They deserve a lot of beer after that fight.

Use them as ice packs, too, like a cold...

Yeah, it's like... Ah, it feels good. Done that.

Oh, man, where does it go?

They just push off the side of your head. It's just to clear your vision, so you can go out there and get punched again.

Yeah, you ever see that press? No, I didn't know what that was. That was like Tyson-Buster Douglas. They didn't have one. They didn't bring it.

Well, he had a bad corner.

They filled a rubber glove with ice.

I mean, you need to push on that and push it to the side. And Tyson still almost won. He still almost won.

Yeah, there was a questionable 10 count on that.

It was a questionable 10 count. It was definitely. But there's a few of those out there in the sport. The sport should operate on a time. Like a digital timer should go off the moment someone touches the ground.

Damn, so there's no official clock. It's just the referees in their head.

Well, in MMA, obviously this will count.

But in boxing, I'm sure it's kind of a similar situation where they all know each other. Like, hey, what's up? What's going on? How you doing?

Dude, I used to ref kids basketball when I was in high school. And as soon as a kid talked shit to me, in my head, I was like, your team's losing. I'm going to do everything in my power. As soon as they're like, are you serious? If a parent spoke up, I'm like, you just lost this game for your son.

You're just high as fuck coaching kids basketball.

Some parents are insufferable. They're so insufferable. You see it in combat sports, too. Some parents are just so crazy. And they almost want to hit the other kid that fought their kid.

That makes sense, though.

It doesn't make sense.

No, no, I'm saying you see your kid getting hit. It's not like a sport, like a football or something. There's an instinct to be like, I've got to go beat that kid's ass.

For sure.

Yeah.

Yeah, it is what it is.

It's intense, man. When I used to coach kids, I used to take kids to fights, like young teenagers, take them to fights. And sometimes their parents would just be fucking freaking out.

You know?

I'm so used to seeing people get kicked in the face. To me, it's like normal. I don't have any kids. I'm 21. And I'm like, okay, how do I talk to these parents and get them to relax and understand?

Yeah, you're going to freak your kid out.

Yeah, you're going to freak your kid out. You're putting too much pressure on your kid. Hillel Gracie used to give his children toys and presents if they lost.

That's kind of cool. Yeah.

He just wanted them to get better. And he's like, the fear of competition, the fear of losing is so overwhelming. He would do everything he could to mitigate it. And so, instead of him getting fucking angry and hyped up,

he would hug them.

and give them toys and give them things if they lost.

That's really nice. That's kind of a good way to go about it. Because even like basketball and football, I've seen parents like, spaz, dude.

Yeah, because if you think about it, the kid's going to try to win anyway. He's not going to try to get his ass kicked.

for a G.I. Joe. He's going to try to win anyway.

So if he wins, he gets the win.

And if he loses, he gets a fucking toy.

I had a bet once. My dad, if I scored three baskets in a game, I'd be able to rant Mortal Kombat. My whole team was trying to get me. My friends were trying to get me the ball. I sucked.

Jumping six in a summer league game is not easy.

No, it was young. We were young, dude. It was tough.

There was a wrestling match that was recently, this video went viral. Because this kid, these two guys, are wrestling and it looks like this kid doesn't have an arm in. It looks like he's just on the neck, which is illegal in wrestling. You're supposed to have an arm in and the dad jumps in and I think he hits the kid. The dad, I believe, got banned for life.

Yeah, that should do it.

It's pretty crazy.

Oh, he actually jumped in and beat the dude's ass?

Yeah, he thought it was WWE rules. He thought he could interfere. He gave him the steel chair.

I don't know what the rules are to wrestling, so I can't tell you whether or not this, I really know very little about wrestling. so I don't know whether or not the kid was doing something that was highly illegal. and jujitsu looks normal. It's like, oh yeah, he got his neck. but I guess in wrestling you can't just grab the neck.

I guess you can choke in wrestling. Maybe a classic headlock, I don't know.

Don't you have to have an arm in, though? I have no clue.

I don't know any rules about wrestling at all.

I was saying it's hard to drop six in a summer league game.

I wasn't papooing your effort.

If I dropped six in a summer league game, I was like, oh.

Fell down ten times.

There's a choke where you put someone completely unconscious with one arm with just a headlock. It's called a bulldog choke or a schoolyard choke. They call it a schoolyard choke. That's how Carlos Newton beat Pat Miltich for the Welterweight title. Way, way back in the day.

Carlos Newton is fucking shredded.

Is that the one you have here? No, no, no. That's Alexander Corral.

That's the scariest guy that's ever lived.

He's the scariest guy that ever lived. That guy used to just throw people around. There's no way that's legal, because you can put someone unconscious with that.

Yeah, I don't think you're allowed.

Jamie, what are the rules for wrestling? Are you allowed to grab someone by their neck? Can you show me the video of the kid where the dad jumps in? I'm not sure if I found the right one. This one I found.

That's the fucking big brother, dude.

Look at that arm, son. You'd let it sit out the window all day long. Hey, ladies, look at that arm.

Good lord.

Yeah, Carlos Newton was a sensational submission guy, too. He also fought Matt Hughes and choked Matt Hughes unconscious, but Matt Hughes slammed him to the ground and knocked him unconscious, and Matt Hughes woke up first, and Matt Hughes was like, I won? He didn't even know he won. What happened was Carlos got him in a standing triangle and Carlos is putting him out while he's standing up, and then Matt, in like an elastic effort, slams him to the ground as he's going out. Carlos goes out and he goes out and then Matt wakes up.

And he won from waking up first?

He was the fucking man, dude. Back in the day, he was the man. Matt Hughes was, like the first truly elite wrestler that learned black belt level submission skills. So they were both out. They were both out.

He sat up, so he's good.

Getting slammed wearing fucking tighty-whities sucks, dude.

That sucks so bad.

It was a great fight. Matt Hughes was the fucking man.

Tighty-whities is a wild move, dude.

Yeah, that is pretty nuts, dude.

It is a wild move, but everybody wore them back. then. The Brazilian guys, they all wore Speedos because they fought on the beach.

You got in a fight with some Brazilians on the beach.

I got robbed in Brazil on the beach.

Were they in their undies?

No, they were just in some trunks, respectable trunks. They told me not to walk home on the beach by myself late at night or early in the morning. I was like, late at night, I could see, but I was like, early in the morning, it's sunrise. I got robbed at knife point.

Damn, that must have been terrifying.

Getting your ass beat by a guy in a Speedo.

Yeah, it would suck.

What did you have to give up?

It was like seven bucks. I had my wallet or my credit card, and then I remembered I had money in my shoe or something, and they were pissed. I'm like, oh, here, I have this, too. They were kind of nice about it. They were like, sorry, we're really hungry.

That is kind of a cool way to rob someone. Sorry, we're really hungry.

Yeah. I had a phrase book on me and my credit card. They took out my credit card. I'm like, you guys can take this to the Mac machine and just get a bunch of money out. They didn't know what that was.

Wow. Damn.

They made fun of my phrase book. They were like, ah, they're flipping through it.

When you land in Rio, you drive through the favelas.

It's so scary.

It's like, oh, my God. You ever see City of God?

Yes.

Bro, it makes Boys in the Hood look like Sesame Street. That movie is crazy.

They're just living in sheds on a hill.

What was that game? you were playing? Fallout? You're grabbing pieces of metal,

and that's your house.

It's crazy.

I know a lot of people that came from there. A lot of UFC fighters came from the favelas.

Dude, it's terrifying.

It's a different level of poverty, man. It's a different level of scarcity. No opportunity, nothing. Violence, guns.

Yeah, they come. When I was walking around there, I was like 21,, but they'll come, grab your leg and hold on to your leg.

Just like, dude, here's City of God.

Such a good movie.

Movie's so crazy. And apparently really accurate. It really is what it's like. Damn, that was Roger Ebert days.

Yeah. When I was there, this Swedish guy went to the favela with another guy to buy Coke, and I was like, you want to come?

I was like, no, thank you.

Fuck all that.

He looked kind of Brazilian, a little bit, luckily, but I was like, bro, I'm not going with you to go there.

Yeah, there's levels. There's levels in this world.

Yeah, that's scary. Being that poor is scary. But it was nice. I was there. It's like Monopoly money.

You love our currency. We were in Australia, and Matt was like, this is U.S. I tried to pay $20 in U.S. money,

and they were like, we don't take that. I'm like, come on, man.

It's like, dude, this is American.

I was treated like I was in Honduras. I was like, yeah, here's $20.. They were like, well, we can't take this. I'm like, no, they don't give you that. That's good money.

Some money, they have clear little holes in them, and there's little holograms in it.

It's all bullshit, dude. American money is the only thing that matters.

Isn't it wild, though, that no one's figured out how to completely, accurately recreate money? They had to really stay ahead of the curve. For the counterfeiters,

the technology increased. All the printers.

It was a major problem when this country was starting. It was an easy thing to do.

It was punishable by death, wasn't it?

They used to fuck you up for that.

I remember the first time I ever saw a fake $20 bill. I was like, oh, wow, this is weird. It's weird.

It feels wrong.

I don't think you can buy the paper. That's the thing. I think money is a specific paper, but people bleach bills, and then you can get the real paper, bleach the bill, and print tens on a one. Then you can do that and sell. You can sell bundles of them to people.

Oh, no kidding. That's what they do?

That's what I've heard, yeah.

Are you involved in this? How long have you been doing this? I've heard.

bad money goes around. People sell it in big chunks, and you can get it.

It seems like if they can make fake Rolexes, how the fuck can they not make fake? They have the light. They shine on the dollar bills. now. There's things embedded in them and stuff.

I don't know. I think the people who are counterfeiting aren't.

Yeah, but that's the case with a lot of things that are illegal. There's some industrious people that just go the wrong way in life, but they're really fucking smart.

I think I had some fake mushrooms recently.

Man sued Mr. Clean magic erasers. He used Mr. Clean magic erasers to transform one dollar bills into hundreds. Magic erasers?

Yeah.

That's a lot of work, man.

It's the Secret Service. The Secret Service looks into this stuff.

Speaking of which, what do they arrest Killer Mike for? That is one of the most ridiculous. They don't arrest anybody. in LA. You got people literally doing meth in front of people's houses and tents.

What did he do?

The online conspiracy theory is that he criticized Joe Biden. That's the online conspiracy.

I like that.

That's a great conspiracy.

It's a fun conspiracy.

Who the fuck would arrest Killer Mike? What is this misdemeanor? What did he do? Did he have a license plate missing? What the fuck did he do?

He's such a good guy. Killer Mike.

As brilliant as he is, that is the name of a crazy thug. It's not the name of a guy who's a philosopher. Killer Mike is like a...

Killer Mike is not even a creative name. It's like a name that's like... The dumb guy in the neighborhood. That's Killer Mike. Don't fuck away from that guy.

This is an hour ago. He said nothing happened, but this is the official report. He says a physical altercation happened.

Oh.

He released a misdemeanor battery and then released him zero bail. Oh, he bitch slapped somebody.

That kind of rules. That's awesome.

Again, in Los Angeles, there's people that are literally pulling knives on sheriffs and being out of jail that day.

He did what Will Smith did at the award.

In front of the whole world and he gets arrested. You think it's like post-Will Smith. they've changed the rules?

Might be a new task force for that.

It depends on who he smacked.

That's the question.

If it's somebody we want him to smack, then I'm really irritated. If he smacked Taylor Swift, that would be a real issue.

Don't put your hands on our queen.

Not after last night. Didn't she do well? last night? I saw the news. She did a lot at the Grammys.

Things are going well for Taylor Swift.

I find it so fascinating how many people are, for whatever reason, are opposed to it. They don't like that. she's so popular. It's normal. It's normal human behavior.

She's ruining the game of football now.

I can't watch it.

She has ruined the game of football.

I can't even watch it anymore. It cuts to her once or twice.

during the game.

I see her and I go,

why do you care?

I don't at all.

If you have a billionaire just laughing in your face.

while your team is losing? Their team's incredible. The Chiefs are incredible. Then it cuts to her up there in a box. They were in Buffalo.

I get it.

You've got to be in the snow.

Out of respect for the players, you'll feel it more. Just bundle up, bitch. Wear, some muffins and mittens.

They were giving fans $20 an hour to go shovel the stadium. That was a crazy move. I can't believe no one died.

They could have easily died.

Just drinking and shoveling, for $20 an hour?

My friend Tommy just blacked out behind the wheel of his car.

He was shoveling.

He crashed his car and fucked himself up.

Snow shovelers.

When I lived in Boston, whenever it snowed, me and my friends would go out and negotiate a deal. This driveway is $30, this driveway is $40, depending on how big it is. Some of them. you get fucked. You don't realize the snow is wet and it's a long driveway.

My friend owned a landscaping company. I didn't have a job. I was living with my girlfriend at the time. She was a teacher. I was literally playing Xbox.

I was like,

trust me, it's probably $24.. My friend owned a landscaping company. I had $0.. I was not working at all. He was like, come help us, shovel.

It's grueling. You're out all night. You put your beers in the snow.

It's kind of nice.

Oh boy. Just blasted, lifting chunks of snow everywhere.

I think I was like four beers in. I was like, I'll just go drink more inside.

I kind of feel bad for kids who grew up without snow.

Yeah.

That's a fucking pivotal moment in youth.

A snow day?

Snow days, and then just hanging out with your friends in the snow. And then the quiet.

Everything's quiet.

When it snows out, it's like you're in a movie. You're outside.

La Mer fell yesterday. I was like, you couldn't hear him fall. He fell behind us. We were walking into the creek in the cave, and he slipped. He fell like snow.

That was fairly graceful. It seems like there's steps there.

He jumped over the curb, and he stepped on the bottom of that pole.

Boy, it doesn't take a lot to trip in.

No.

Look at that. He just goes down.

He couldn't hear a single thing.

He would suck at judo.

Don't tell him that, bro.

They'd just be tripping him all day long.

He prides himself on being nimble. No, he doesn't. He was very sad about this. Really?

Everything was nimble before he fell. He did a little hop, anime jump.

You have two angles. Jamie, do you have that wrestling match where that dad attacks the kid? I don't know if I have the right one.

Snow days rule.

I don't believe. so. Let me see this one. I think I probably have, but no.

Jesus Christ.

See, that's what I'm talking about. Look at this fucking guy.

Let me see that mugshot.

He threw the kid down on his head.

Oh, shit. Wow.

Show the mugshot again.

That guy's nimble. He's got a kid.

How much of that do you think is protection of the kid versus...

100%. He got dumped on his head. Watch how the kid goes down head first. See how the ref touches his head? He's freaked out.

Jesus Christ.

I think it is an illegal move. But also, when you're lifting people up and throwing them and they're resisting, wild, shit happens.

Yeah.

It does seem like he piledrived him on his head. He seemed like he should have known in the middle of that move... You were talking about a choke or something? Yeah. The kid was apparently doing an illegal choke and the dad jumped in.

It's also in that kid's defense. If you have someone up in the air in a wrestling match, it's hard not to slam them in the ground.

Anytime you pick anybody up, it's like, I'm going to slam you on the ground as hard as I can.

I'm sure there's different rules in young amateur wrestling versus what they would do in the Olympics. But Carellon used to just piledrive people.

Jesus Christ.

He just hoist them up and he was a freak.

Dude, there's nothing worse than... The only experience I have is football. First play of the game, the guy against you just fucks you up. You're like, damn, this is going to be... It's a long game, dude.

They slam you, yeah.

I don't know if I can call this thing.

In MMA, they start punching you in the face while you're recovering from being slammed. I was looking for it. D'Arce choke pulled off in a wrestling match. Yes, I think that is legit, because it's one arm in. I think that's the rule.

You're just cutting off their carotid artery.

Yeah, you're cutting it all off. Oh, God, man. That fucking tank. When he was the welterweight champ, he was a tank.

That shit sucks, man.

For him to grab your arm and your head together like this, which is basically what he had, he had them on the side with his arm and head together, and just squeezed it so hard he went out.

I was just watching. Who's the Mongolian guy? Uzbekistani? Kazakhstan?

Oh, yeah, Rock went off. Shavkat. Yeah, he's a beast.

He had a little brother.

See how the dad jumps in? The kid's on his back and he rolls him over and it looks like the kid's got a choke. but I can't tell if he's got an arm in. He does have an arm in. He does have an arm in.

He's like, my bad, my bad, that's my bad.

Yeah, he's banned for life. That is it. Now, I don't know what the rules are, but it does look like the kid has an arm in. See how they roll over? See how his arm is under the arm?

Look at that fucking walrus ref, dude.

Poor guy.

He looks like a diabetes.

It's like Dr. Robotnik. That is a weird... That's a weird situation, but, you know, dad's a fucking loser. Cool.

Yeah, well, there's also, like, when you're watching your kid wrestling or combat is different, but, like, if you're watching your kid suck at, like, basketball or football, then you're, like, taking that personally because that kid's supposed to, like, carry you on.

Yeah, this is your legacy. It's also like that at the fucking dog park. If your dogs are playing at a dog lose, people jump in. My sister jumped in. Yeah.

I've punched dogs at dog parks. I've had, like, a dog, grab my dog by the.

neck and I just... Well, some people bring aggressive dogs to dog parks. It's just not.

wise. I didn't know. I didn't know.

what they were. My dog was a puppy. I didn't know. When my dog was a puppy, I used to bring him to dog parks. He started fighting with dogs and he liked it too much.

Yeah. I'm like... I brought Nikita to dog parks and those things are nasty. You can't discourage.

that either. It's a weird thing. The dog fighting thing, unless you're a professional trainer and you're with that dog all the time, you gotta be with that dog and you gotta really do a really good job, if it's an aggressive dog, of getting them around, socialize them with other dogs because they just fucking dominate each other. Yeah. It's just natural with dogs.

other. They start growling.

like, god damn it.

Everyone has a different tolerance threshold too, because you go to the dog park, some people want them to get a little rough and some people are like, not at all.

Exactly. Well, if you're a woman and you got a poodle, you know, the fuck.

Don't bring that thing around. Poodles are.

a working breed.

A big poodle. A real big one.

Those things are nasty. What are they doing? They're big. A big poodle. What do they work on?

Right, right. I've heard they're actually good watchdogs, the big poodles.

Everything the French do is so good.

I was a dog walker, dude.

Every single thing, dude. Imagine being like an aristocrat.

with a poodle. Dude, they're sexual dogs too.

Everything the French do is sexual, dude.

Poodles are very sexual. I used to dog walk and I had a big black poodle. I walked and he tried to fuck me the whole time. That was you, dude.

You were just looking at him like a good poodle.

The poodle originated in Germany in the Middle Ages. A dog similar to today's standard poodle. The poodle is Germany's water dog, just as England had the English water spaniel, French had the Barbet, and Ireland had the Irish water spaniel. And the Netherlands, the Wester...

Yeah, you're right.

It says right there, ancestors were widely used by water followers to both retrieve shot game and to recover lost arrows and bolts that had missed their mark. Wow, they'd chase down...

How high were you when you hit the poodle? Wikipedia? I don't know.

You were like,

their poodles are water dogs. They were surprising me. I kept seeing them in the wild and they kept surprising me. I'm like, dude, these guys are.

not bullshits. Yeah, they fly, dude. They're athletic canines. They're motherfuckers, dude.

But then you start doing this bullshit.

Why do they do that bullshit? I hate that, man. Why do they do that?

That's what women want to do to us, dude.

That's what they want to do to us.

That's what they're doing to us right now.

They are doing it.

That's what they want to do to us.

We're getting away with it. It's a bunch of scared guys and Andrew Tate.

There's only one man left, dude. It's Tate.

I know, man. Top G.

He is the top G. Out of jail.

Yeah, he's doing supercar reviews on YouTube. It's hilarious. That's tight. I don't think it's under the name Andrew Tate, but it is him. Probably because they would ban him from YouTube.

He can't get on to anything.

But it's him. He reviewed a Maserati. It's a pretty funny review. He talks a lot of shit.

Let me tell you about the Matrix, my friend.

Why are they banning that guy?

I mean, in Romania, he's under allegations of a rape charge. Sexual trafficking.

Trafficking is weird, too. If I trick you into crossing state lines and then you get plowed, I've trafficked you. But if I'm like, you're about to get plowed and you get in my car and you get plowed, you're fine. You know what I'm saying?

I've been tricked across state lines and got plowed. Okay, so he does have one.

He does have one. It says the Cobra Mind. Yeah, it's his channel, probably. Okay, so there was another channel. Maybe they were appropriating his content.

He's the most Googled man in the world.

It's funny to have a cobra's mind. Those are dumb fucking animals.

Smartass. But he's a smartass dude, man. Regardless of what he thinks about some of the things he said about women, the fucking intelligence of that, the whole thing that he did with getting people to TikTok his stuff and go viral.

Yeah, he was fucking a genius at that.

My 12-year-old was asking me about him.

Really? What did you say?

He said, that's the top G, baby.

I said what I know about him. He was a legit kickboxer. I knew him as a kickboxer.

I didn't know he was like...

Oh, he was legit. Yeah, he's a legit kickboxer. Very good kickboxer. Yeah, he fought on Infusion a bunch of times. Infusion is a kickboxing card from...

I'm not sure where...

I think it's from the UK.

He was nice. Solid fighter. I'm sorry, do you have a tissue? My allergies are going crazy.

Yeah, my allergies picked up. today. We're finding out the negative parts of living here in Austin.

It's already January.

I mean, this is...

How long does this go? Depends on who gets it.

I get it bad, dude. I don't get it at all. Well, you're top G.

Yeah, everybody keeps telling me, one day you're gonna get it.

I'm like, nah, you won't get it, man.

Fuck that. I did. one year, though. My throat was really sore. What'd you do?

Allergies can make you sick. And it comes back.

Yeah, you feel like you have a cold. So I think I did have a reaction one year to one particular thing that was in the air. Where I was like, what the fuck is going on? This is a weird cold. It didn't feel like I was sick.

And it doesn't go away.

Also, it was a while. A couple of weeks.

Jamie's dog stuck his tongue in my mouth, so maybe I'm allergic to dogs.

Damn, you're allergic to Carl.

I might be allergic to...

Oh, are you allergic to dogs?

No, not at all. But I've never had one put his tongue in my mouth.

Yeah, but your eyes are... He's got an allergic reaction. Are you sure you're not allergic to dogs?

I think I might be now.

Do you have a dog?

Yeah, I have two. But they've never put their tongue in my mouth. That's when I'm...

You were making out with Carl. Check out his face. I'm having an allergic fucking reaction. Look at Matt's face.

It'll go away. I'm also on steroids to get my voice back, so my body's all fucked up.

You kiss a dog?

I'm so sorry to make this all about me.

You're on steroids to get your voice back?

I lost my voice, yeah.

For how long?

I've been losing it. I've been doing shows, and I lose it every show. I took the prednisone all weekend because I literally had zero voice.

Maybe there's a better way to talk. Have you ever gone to a vocal coach?

No.

Be Real from Cypress Hill, he told me he went to a vocal coach. He's got that... He's got that very specific style. He learned how to use his... So he didn't burn his voice out.

I also sing in my car at full blast. I've got to stop doing that. I've got to stop doing that. That's what it is.

Living on a prayer.

I can't help it. I can't help it.

We might have watched it here when Matt sang at the holiday party at the mothership.

What did you? sing? I forget.

Unchained Melody.

We watched from the balcony.

It was incredible.

Me and my wife were fighting, and then we both had karaoke songs come up, and I'm like, we don't have time for this, let's go sing our karaoke. Then we made up.

That's hilarious.

You guys seem like they're getting better.

They are. It's going.

I think it's the dog.

I did. There's someone who's in my nose.

You've got a kennel cough.

My body will fight it off.

Hopefully. So far it's losing.

This is a healthy immune response.

What kind of steroids do they put you on for your throat?

Prednisone. It makes you feel weird.

A friend of mine had that for gout.

Prednisone is like a wonder drug. It works for poison ivy. To fix it? I couldn't talk. I had no voice.

Were you trying to use your voice in the car, singing, even though you had no voice? Were you pushing it?

A little bit. I did it today.

What did you sing today?

I did a couple bars.

What did you sing?

Everybody's talking about Harry Nielsen.

Oh boy.

I'm such a dickhead. I can't help it. It hits me right in the soul. I have to sing.

Do you ever go like Axl Rose? You really fuck your voice up? No, I'll try to hit those notes.

That's not in my register. Axl Rose.

That'll fuck your voice up. That'll fuck your voice up.

Yeah, but it is what it is. It'll come back eventually. I've had this problem for three weeks straight. Dude. Dude, Jamie.

Matt, bless us. Can you hear me?

Only the echoes of my mind. I'm going to lose my voice.

Let's go, Matt.