- 3 hours ago
The Daily Show - Season 30 Episode 128 -
Rob Riggle
Rob Riggle
Category
😹
FunTranscript
00:00To journalists at Comedy Central, it's America's only source for news.
00:05This is The Daily Show with your host, Josh Johnson.
00:25Welcome to The Daily Show.
00:27I'm Josh Johnson.
00:28We've got so much to talk about tonight.
00:30Trump can't stop writing IOUs.
00:32Sean Hannity's diss track just dropped.
00:34And a new breakthrough will allow you to live forever if you're a mortgage.
00:38So, let's get into the headlines.
00:45We all know the economy isn't great right now.
00:48Rent is too expensive.
00:49Grocery prices are too high.
00:51People are fist-fighting Starbucks over bear cups.
00:53That one isn't really about the economy, but I just like watching middle-aged people fight
00:59over cups.
01:01That bear has turned Starbucks into Waffle House.
01:04The point is, it's rough out there.
01:08So, no wonder last week Democrats won a ton of elections by running on affordability.
01:13And that sent President Trump into a little bit of a tailspin.
01:17You know, they have this new word called affordability, and they don't talk about it enough.
01:21We are the ones that have done great on affordability.
01:24They've done horribly on affordability.
01:26Affordability, they call it, was a con job by the Democrats.
01:29We are the victors on affordability.
01:32I don't want to hear about the affordability, because right now we're much less.
01:42Damn.
01:43That man just went through the five stages of affordability.
01:46And I get why he feels threatened, because normally he can just lie.
01:51But you're the president, and people know if they ate or not.
01:54It doesn't matter how many hats they buy or how many photos of him and Epstein they pretend
02:00they didn't see.
02:02You can hear your stomach growling when you're hungry.
02:05They're not going to be like, that must be an illegal immigrant in my stomach stirring
02:10up trouble.
02:11Get out of there, immigrant.
02:13Get out of there.
02:16But you know what?
02:17If Trump wants to focus on affordability right now, that's great.
02:20There's a lot of stuff that's too expensive.
02:22For example, houses.
02:24No one can afford a home.
02:25Everybody keeps waiting for him to show up on Prime Day, but it never happens.
02:31So maybe Trump could do something to bring down mortgages.
02:34The Trump administration moves forward with a plan to introduce 50-year mortgages.
02:44Or you can make them much longer, you know?
02:47Because you know where we'll all be in 50 years.
02:50Dead.
02:51You know what I mean?
02:52This seems like a bad idea.
02:54And if black people could get loans, I'd be worried.
02:57But hey.
02:59Hey.
03:00Maybe I'm just hating.
03:01All right?
03:02I mean, how much would a 50-year mortgage save people?
03:05Take a $400,000 loan at 6% interest.
03:08Under a 30-year mortgage, the monthly payment would be just shy of $2,400.
03:13Under a 50-year loan, it drops to just over $2,100.
03:16A savings of nearly $300 a month.
03:18Oh, boy.
03:20$300 a month?
03:27See?
03:27It's not a stupid idea.
03:29You know what?
03:30I'm going to apply for a 50-year mortgage right now.
03:35But over time, that savings is erased by a much larger interest bill.
03:39Because while the total interest on a 30-year loan would be about $463,000, the interest on
03:45a 50-year loan would total more than $860,000.
03:56Signed, Ronnie Chang.
03:58So you're saying that after interest, a $400,000 mortgage is going to cost me $1.3 million.
04:15That is the opposite of affordability.
04:17This man is creating generational debt.
04:22They're going to be fighting to get out of Grandma's will.
04:24Like, grandkids will be like, I barely knew her, all right?
04:32I wouldn't even hug her at Christmas because her skin was too loose.
04:38But look, forget mortgages.
04:41Because Trump's got other plans to make sure you afford whatever you want.
04:44You're going to be exhausted from affording.
04:47You're going to afford everywhere.
04:48President Trump now says he wants to send out $2,000 rebate checks paid for by his tariffs.
04:56One of the things we're going to do, we're going to issue a dividend to our middle-income
05:01people and lower-income people of about $2,000.
05:05Wait a second.
05:06Okay.
05:07Trump's making everybody pay tariffs, but only poor people are getting the $2,000 checks.
05:12So he's just redistributing taxes from rich people to poor people.
05:18Did...
05:19Did Donald Trump just stupid himself into socialism?
05:22I mean, I mean, you're doing a great job, Mr. President.
05:34Uh, we always believed.
05:37Everybody, shut up, all right?
05:44Don't say a word.
05:45Let this play out, and we'll have free health care by Christmas, all right?
05:51Nobody, nobody, nobody call him Mango Mamdani, all right?
06:02Great idea, Mr. President.
06:04Very capitalism.
06:07But, hey, you know what?
06:10$2,000 would help a lot of people.
06:11If the money's there, the money's there.
06:14If the president sent $2,000 checks to the $150 million people who make less than $100,000,
06:19it would cost $300 billion, even though the tariffs are only projected to raise about $217 annually.
06:27The money's not there.
06:28And now I'm starting to get worried because that's $83 billion short.
06:34And I'm not saying Trump is the worst president of all time.
06:37I'm just saying I've never met anyone who was $83 billion short.
06:43And by the way, he's only $83 billion short if he hasn't promised the tariff money to anybody else.
06:48We're going to take some of that tariff money that we made, we're going to give it to our farmers.
06:52The big thing we want to do is pay down debt.
06:55The president tapped into tariff revenue to keep WIC money for women and infants and children going out the door.
07:01Tariffs is one of the reasons why we have the money in the Treasury to actually be able to pay our troops.
07:06I think the tariffs will be enough to cut all of the income tax.
07:10Donald Trump's suggesting that tariffs could fund the country's child care needs.
07:14That'll easily pay for the Golden Dome.
07:16And we'll have a lot of money left over.
07:19Money left over?
07:21The money that never existed is already spent.
07:25And you're running around the country promising money you do not have to multiple people many times over.
07:31Every week I'm at this desk, I say this, and I guess I'll have to say this for three more years,
07:35but this is crackhead behavior.
07:47Please, for America's sake, you can't go down this path.
07:51This is going to end up with you behind the White House with China doing unspeakable things for money.
08:00Please reassure us when you are promising money to people, you have an idea where it's coming from.
08:05You put out a truth social post earlier today where you blasted the air traffic controllers who had not shown up for work
08:12and offered potentially a bonus of $10,000 for those who have worked despite the shutdown.
08:18I'm sending them a $10,000 bonus.
08:19Where's that money coming from?
08:21I don't know.
08:22I'll get it from someplace.
08:23Somebody please hide the dumpster behind the White House.
08:34For more on Trump's plan to give everyone $2,000, let's go live to the White House with our own Grace Kuhlenschmidt.
08:40Grace, you've been reporting on this story.
08:52Is this a serious plan?
08:54Absolutely not, Josh.
08:57A $2,000 tariff dividend is such a stupid plan, it's laughable.
09:02But I want $2,000.
09:08God, I want it so f***ing bad.
09:12But you just said it's stupid.
09:14Oh, it's one of the dumbest things this dumb, dumb president has ever done.
09:18It's going to bankrupt the country and drive inflation through the roof.
09:23But on the other hand, mommy want that money.
09:26Mommy want that money so bad.
09:28Grace, let me explain.
09:31You've already paid this money in tariffs.
09:34Right.
09:34I am aware.
09:36Consumers have been shouldering the costs of these tariffs.
09:39I'm not stupid.
09:40But I am American, so $2,000, please.
09:47No, come on.
09:48We've got to be better citizens than that.
09:49There are better ways to spend the money.
09:51Definitely.
09:53We could put it toward Medicare for all.
09:55Or paying down the debt.
09:57And there's one other program that slipped my mind.
10:02But maybe two G's might help refresh my memory.
10:08I'm not paying you the money.
10:10Then shut the f*** up and let Trump pay me!
10:15So that's it then.
10:16Americans are fine bankrupting the future for some money today.
10:19It's not just money, Josh.
10:21Oh, my God.
10:22It's 2,000 monies.
10:24Forget Mabdani's free buses.
10:28With 2,000 monies, I could buy my own bus.
10:32You can't buy a bus with 2,000 monies.
10:34I mean, dollars.
10:36Why are you so hard for cash anyway?
10:38I'm really behind on my 50-year mortgage.
10:40I'm really behind on my 50-year mortgage.
10:42Grace Koen-Schmidt, everyone.
10:45When we come back, we check in on award season.
10:48So don't go away.
10:49Welcome back to The Daily Show.
11:09If you've been to the movie theater lately, which you haven't, you know that award season
11:14is officially upon us.
11:15So let's get all the latest award show news in another edition of Who Wanted Best.
11:20Oh, welcome to Who Wanted Best, where we cover the only reason to do anything, awards.
11:36I'm Emmy Award winner Desi Lydic.
11:43And I'm a thin gay guy, Troy Iwata.
11:45You know, this past week was packed with award shows, and as you probably guessed, we have
11:53to start off by talking about the highly anticipated Bellator Awards.
11:58Oh, yes, of course, the Bellator Awards.
12:02Everybody knows what the Bellator Awards are.
12:05We don't even have to explain it.
12:06Nor should we.
12:07No.
12:08No.
12:09Let's talk about this year's keynote speaker, the glamorous, the debonair, the sex symbol
12:14of our time.
12:15Steve Bannon.
12:17I will tell you right now, as God is my witness, if we lose the midterms and we lose 2028,
12:26some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
12:36I told myself I wouldn't cry at the Bellator Awards again.
12:40Every year, like clockwork, here we are.
12:42Of course, like everyone, I watch the Bellator Awards for the fashion.
12:48Can we talk about Steve's fashion?
12:49Well, I think we have to.
12:51It's just incredible.
12:52He's wearing a shirt by Gucci, a coat by a dumpster, and then another shirt that's vintage
13:001942 Hugo Boss that we've been told not to ask questions about.
13:04Hmm.
13:05Lock him up before some other woman does.
13:10But of course, the Bellator Awards were just the appetizer to last week's main course, the
13:16Fox Nation Patriot Awards.
13:18where those who win are declared the most patriotic Americans, and those who lose are never heard
13:25from again.
13:27So fun!
13:28It's so fun!
13:29It's so fun!
13:30It's fun!
13:31It's fun!
13:32It's fun!
13:33It's fun!
13:34It's fun!
13:35And returning as the host with the most head circumference, Sean Hannity, let's see that
13:41charismatic melon in action.
13:44Ba, ba, ba, da, ba, ba, ba, da, ba, ba, ba, ba, da, ba, ba, da, ba, ba, da, da, ba.
13:52Wow.
13:53The crowd is loving it.
13:57The vocal commitment.
13:58The stage presence.
14:00The fine motor skills.
14:01Right?
14:02I mean, how...
14:03How does he do it?
14:04I just...
14:05I just want more.
14:05Please tell me it goes on for an excruciatingly long time.
14:10Start spreading the news.
14:12I'm leaving today, no longer want to be a part of it, high tax New York, these Kami Mandani
14:29blues are longing to leave, right to the very heart of it, bye bye New York.
14:42It was the perfect song with definitely the correct amount of syllables.
14:53It was so good, it was so good I could die now, I want to die now, I might kill myself.
15:01But Sean Hannity wasn't the only megawatt celebrity to grace this stage, the show was full of stars.
15:07What do you hear, the line up is sick, it's great, it's fun, it's going to be amazing, just hanging out with Jason Aldean backstage.
15:15Give it up Jason Aldean!
15:21By the way, Jason Aldean is going to be back on this stage.
15:25We have a special treat for you, because Jason is coming back out.
15:30All right, ready for more star power, back, I love Jason Aldean.
15:37No way, they got Jason Aldean five times?
15:44I mean, how can you say no to performing at the Fox News Patriot Awards?
15:48It's an opportunity to be heard by millions of people who are no longer on speaking terms with their children.
15:53You know, but it wasn't just glitz and glam.
15:57Hannity also gave us a classic heartfelt awards show moment.
16:01I doubt there's a person in this room right now that would have ever bet 30 years ago
16:08that this thing, not only that Ainsley Earhart would date the other thing,
16:18but she will be my wife.
16:21I love you, sweetheart.
16:28Who is it?
16:30What?
16:32Mike Waltz is here?
16:34Mike, stand up.
16:35Good to see you, buddy.
16:40Oh my God.
16:41Oh my God.
16:42Sean Hannity and Ainsley Earhart and I guess Mike Waltz are going to be together forever.
16:46If those three bottoms can't make it work, no one can.
16:52No one.
16:54But of course, of course, all this was just a lead up to the big prize of the night,
16:58the Patriot of the Year.
17:00Oh, who's it going to be?
17:02Who's it going to be?
17:03No, don't tell me.
17:04Don't tell me.
17:05I want to be surprised.
17:06Okay, tell me.
17:07No, don't tell me.
17:07I want to find out like everyone else.
17:09Roll the clip, Manny.
17:11Join me in welcoming Fox Nation's Patriot of the Year,
17:17the First Lady of the United States of America, Melania Trump.
17:22Wow.
17:33Wow.
17:33Melania won just a year after her husband won the exact same award?
17:39What are the chances?
17:40What?
17:41What?
17:41That is so crazy.
17:43But no, you never know.
17:46It's official.
17:47They are awards royalty.
17:49The Trumps are now up there with the Coppolas.
17:51Some of the Culkins and the Jillens Hall.
17:56And Melania wasted no time doing the most patriotic things she could do,
18:01plugging her movie.
18:02The silver screen and I have been in deep conversation lately.
18:07You may have heard the news.
18:10I produced a new film with Amazon MGM named Melania,
18:16capturing my life, my business, my philanthropy, fostering the future.
18:21Building my East Wing team and, of course, caring for my family.
18:26It was the perfect speech with definitely the correct amount of syllables.
18:35And, by the way, such a classy move to shout out her East Wing team
18:39after they were all buried alive during the demolition.
18:43R.I.P.
18:44R.I.P.
18:44R.I.P.
18:46So fun!
18:47That's so fun!
18:49It's fun!
18:49It's fun!
18:49We have so much fun!
18:51It's fun!
18:51That's your award show round box!
18:53I mean, I can't wait until next year.
18:55I hear they're trying to get Jason Aldean.
18:58Oh!
18:59Do you think he'll be available?
19:01I don't know.
19:01Is there anything in this cup?
19:03Nope!
19:03Cheers!
19:03Cheers!
19:09Thank you, Desi and Troy.
19:10When we come back, Rob Wiggle will be joining me on the show.
19:13Don't go away.
19:14Welcome back to The Daily Show.
19:28My guest tonight was not only an actor and comedian,
19:31he's a former Daily Show correspondent and a U.S. Marine Corps veteran.
19:35His new memoir is called Grit, Spit, and Never Quit,
19:38A Marine's Guide to Comedy and Life.
19:40Please welcome back Rob Wiggle.
20:02You guys have made some seriously awesome upgrades to this place.
20:05Oh.
20:06Yeah.
20:06Yeah.
20:07What's it like to be back?
20:09It's awesome.
20:10Yeah.
20:11Really, this place looks amazing.
20:12Uh, compared to the dump it was back in the day.
20:17Uh, but that one little kitchenette area is still the same.
20:19Yeah, yeah.
20:20I did notice that, which I kind of appreciate.
20:22It'll never change.
20:23It'll never change.
20:23That old crusty coffee pot.
20:25So, yeah, that was nice.
20:26It was crusty when you were there, too.
20:28It was crusty, exactly.
20:29No, thank you so much for joining me.
20:32Yeah.
20:32Thank you so much for coming.
20:33I've been watching you for so long.
20:35I actually, without knowing it, I went on, like, a Rob Wiggle marathon.
20:40I had watched Step Brothers, The Hangover, and just lots of episodes of Martin Family.
20:45And it, I felt wild, because I was like, man, is something going on in my life where
20:53the same person is in everything?
20:54Like, yeah.
20:56Yeah, I think you could write a thesis on that.
20:59I think someone did write a thesis on, like, Michael Caine, you know, at any given time,
21:04you can catch a Michael Caine film.
21:06Oh, you're blowing my mind.
21:08Yeah, exactly.
21:09We're about to get Matrix-level.
21:10Weird.
21:11Yeah, yeah.
21:11Oh, so you have this book, and you are not only, you know, a veteran of The Daily Show,
21:18but Marine Corps veteran and everything.
21:21I'm curious, what is it like to do comedy and be in the military?
21:28Because in just my experience, really just speaking for myself, most comedians are cowards.
21:35Yeah, you know, people do ask that question, or a form of that question a lot, which is,
21:41you know, the military and comedy, how does that, you know, how does that jive?
21:44It doesn't.
21:45They're two totally separate lanes.
21:47But I do think that there is some crossover, as far as, like, the intangibles go, you know,
21:53the mindset.
21:54You know, working in comedy and a life in the arts, you're going to be rejected.
21:59You're going to hear the word no.
22:00You're going to be knocked down.
22:02You're going to be told you're no good.
22:03You're going to run into obstacles nonstop.
22:05It's a hard life.
22:06There's no money.
22:08That's very similar to the Marine Corps.
22:09Yeah.
22:11Yeah.
22:11So, yeah, there's a lot of parallels in that regard.
22:15But I do think the Marines did give me certain things, like the mind, the proper mindset,
22:21the right mindset, that you just don't quit.
22:24Make that decision before you start, and chances are good things will happen.
22:28Yeah.
22:28No, that makes sense.
22:29Because it feels like in the Marines, you would get the sort of literal version of everything
22:34comedy gives you as a metaphor.
22:35Like, when I get knocked down, someone didn't laugh.
22:38I didn't actually get hit.
22:40Right.
22:41You know what I mean?
22:41Like, that is wild.
22:45Because even in your story, like your personal story in the book, it's like, at 24, you decide
22:50you were going to do comedy.
22:52And so you made it work with the military.
22:55But at the same time, you wanted to be on SNL.
22:58And you had, like, set this goal to be on SNL.
23:01And then you did it, like, at, like, the 10-year mark or something, right?
23:04Yeah, yeah.
23:05It was, well, I was in flight school.
23:08And I'll try to give you the Reader's Digest version of this story, because it's long.
23:11But, matter of fact, it's right here in this book, everybody.
23:13Oh!
23:18It's just shameless.
23:20Shameless.
23:21No, but it is convenient to have it right here.
23:24It is very nice to have it right here.
23:25It's so good.
23:26No, I was in the, again, Reader's Digest version.
23:29I was in the Marine Corps.
23:30I was flying planes down in Corpus Christi, Texas.
23:32I had a friend of mine who was up in Chicago doing improv.
23:35And he said, Riggle, this is what we did in college, only it has a name.
23:39It's called Improv.
23:40And I think you're good at it.
23:41I think you're better than some of the people up here.
23:42Well, that's exactly what I needed to hear at that moment.
23:45Because flight school was fine, but I wasn't loving it.
23:47It was just fine.
23:49And once I pinned those wings on, I was in for 10 years.
23:52I was locked in.
23:53Then I figured, oh, my God, I'll probably do 20 at that point.
23:56Why would I get out at such a...
23:57So, all of a sudden, I was like, that's happening, you know?
23:59Well, I sat down and had my quarter-life crisis, as they call it.
24:04And I said, what do I really, really want to do with my life?
24:07And I said, I think I want to be a comedian.
24:08Now, mind you, I had never done anything comedically.
24:12I know no one in the business.
24:13I'd never been on stage.
24:14I'd never really done anything.
24:15But I just had this burning desire to do it.
24:19So, I quit flight school, became, went to the ground side on the Marines,
24:23which allowed me to, you know, fulfill my contract with the Marines
24:27and then moved to Chicago.
24:28And I ended up getting to New York, taking classes,
24:32working seven years, grinding at every place around town,
24:37any place I could get stage time, studying with the UCB, all these things.
24:42Ended up deploying, going to Kosovo, ended up going to Afghanistan,
24:46working on 9-11 down in the rebel piles.
24:48Ended up doing a bunch of things.
24:49And sure enough, 10 years, almost to the day that I wrote down in the book,
24:54this book I was reading at the time, I wrote down in the book,
24:57if I quit flight school, I'm going to do what?
24:59Number one, get on SNL.
25:01Almost 10 years to the day that I wrote that,
25:04I got a call from Lorne Michaels asking me to join SNL.
25:06So, it happens.
25:09Man.
25:10Yeah.
25:11That's incredible.
25:12Yeah.
25:13That's like, like, that's truly, truly remarkable.
25:15Because plenty of people have, like, plans, ideas for what they want to do.
25:20They might even write them down.
25:22And then 10 years later, they're like,
25:23that's where I left that piece of paper.
25:25You know what I mean?
25:26Like, you, yeah, you made it happen.
25:28And, and you, in the book, you talk about how there's, like,
25:31this sort of, like, inner drill sergeant
25:33that gets you to do the things that you don't want to do.
25:36How do you, how do you, without getting yelled at,
25:42manage to create that drill sergeant for yourself?
25:45Well, I think everybody needs a drill sergeant in their life of some form.
25:51A coach.
25:51You can call it whatever you want to call it.
25:53And if you're lucky enough to have someone in your life external to you
25:57to remind you, hey, get up.
25:58Go work out.
26:00Go, go read that book.
26:01Pick up the phone and call that person you're avoiding
26:04because you don't think it's the right time.
26:06Or that, you know, somebody, if somebody's pushing you,
26:09you have a chance of doing it.
26:10For the most of us, we just don't have anybody pushing us.
26:13And you never will.
26:14That's what most people don't realize.
26:16You're never going to have anybody pushing you.
26:16You have to be your own drill instructor.
26:19You have to be.
26:19So I've had many conversations with myself.
26:22And I learned that voice came out,
26:24and it came out in the form of a drill instructor
26:25because if I was being honest with myself,
26:28I was being lazy.
26:29I was being, I was afraid.
26:31These are the reasons that I didn't do the things
26:33that I know I should be doing.
26:35And so it took a drill instructor tone
26:40to get me off my butt to go do what I needed to do.
26:43And I remember I was on 31st and 7th.
26:46I had just taught an improv class,
26:48and I knew I was going to be invited to audition for SNL.
26:53And I needed to develop these characters for my audition,
26:56but I was exhausted.
26:57I had been up.
26:58I had done PT, physical training,
27:01with the Marines that morning since 5 a.m.
27:02So, you know, it was 9 o'clock, 10 o'clock at night.
27:05I was tired.
27:05I just wanted to go home and have a burrito and go to bed.
27:08And I had to stand on the corner of 31st and 7th
27:11screaming at myself out loud.
27:13So I'm not uncommon in New York, by the way.
27:17And I stood there and I argued with myself,
27:19and I was like, go.
27:21Go down to the UCB.
27:22It's open mic.
27:23You do sign up for five minutes
27:24and just work out a character.
27:25I don't have anything to do.
27:26I don't even have a character.
27:28I don't care.
27:28Go make one up.
27:29I'm having an argument with myself, right?
27:31This is what you do.
27:32Improvise a character.
27:33Just come up with, I don't even care what you do.
27:34So I lost the argument with my drill instructor
27:37and I went down.
27:38I didn't go home.
27:39I went down to the UCB
27:41and I created two characters that night
27:42that I ended up using in my audition.
27:44And then I ended up getting the thing.
27:46But I could easily...
27:48I can make excuses all day.
27:50I'm very good at it.
27:52I could have easily gone home.
27:53I could have said, I'll start tomorrow.
27:55I'm tired.
27:56Let's call it a day.
27:57But sometimes you got to kick your own butt.
27:59No, that makes a lot of sense.
28:01That makes a lot of sense.
28:04And to me, it's also just such a phenomenal outlook
28:11because now, when I'm on the subway,
28:13I'll be like,
28:13maybe that's just his inner drill instructor coming out.
28:16You know what I mean?
28:18Right?
28:18Yeah.
28:19Right?
28:19You might look at folks a little different.
28:21I'll move with less fear.
28:22You know what I mean?
28:24Exactly.
28:24So do you find that these sort of lessons
28:28that you took away from the military,
28:32and, you know, you were doing comedy
28:34while you were still serving and everything,
28:35but, like, do you think that the overlap
28:38is, like, incredibly strong?
28:41Or do you think it was just strong
28:43because of your approach to comedy
28:45and your personality?
28:47With regard to me being in the Marines
28:48and pursuing comedy?
28:49Yeah, yeah, because the way that you marry
28:51these parallels together in the book
28:53is really interesting,
28:54and they're ways I've never thought about it.
28:56I've been doing comedy for a while.
28:57Like, you know, we even have a bit of a similar track,
29:02except mine included no military.
29:07But I sort of, you know, started comedy in Chicago,
29:09moved to New York, all that stuff,
29:11and did some improv classes and everything.
29:13And, yeah, I guess there's something
29:16about your approach in the book
29:19that seems so, like, personal,
29:21even though you're applying it in this broad way.
29:23Yeah, I think there's...
29:24Well, going back to, you know,
29:26I think there's a lot of intangibles.
29:28I think the, you know, the...
29:31It's a mindset thing.
29:32I think if you choose a life in the arts,
29:34it's going to be an uphill battle.
29:36And you're never going to feel quite satisfied,
29:40and you're always going to be self-judging.
29:42And you really...
29:43It requires a lot of mental, maybe,
29:49or emotional fortitude,
29:50because you're going to just run into walls
29:53and obstacles nonstop.
29:55And you have to really believe in what you're doing,
29:57and you have to love what you're doing
29:58to overcome those things,
29:59because the temptation to quit is way too easy.
30:03Way too easy.
30:06And, yeah, and then if you get that mindset,
30:08and you put a little...
30:09If you put the right ingredients in,
30:12I think good things will come.
30:14There is no secret to success.
30:17It's not a secret.
30:18It's what you would expect.
30:20It just kind of sucks.
30:21It's hard work.
30:23It's discipline.
30:23It's consistency.
30:25It's getting back up when you get knocked down.
30:27It's not taking no for an answer.
30:29It's just continue to grind,
30:31continue to seek every opportunity you can,
30:33continue to grow, find ways to grow.
30:35Don't let people define you.
30:37You define yourself.
30:38All the cliches that are out there,
30:39they didn't just fall from the sky.
30:41They appeared because this has been tried and true
30:44year in and out,
30:46year after year after year for millennia.
30:48Yeah, yeah.
30:49That makes sense.
30:50And then do you...
30:52I guess your transition fully
30:54to sort of civilian life
30:56from being in the military
30:57and everything you said
30:59was an easier thing for you
31:02because you had lanes
31:03that you, like, kept things in?
31:05Like, you had sort of mindsets
31:07for when you were in one thing and the other.
31:08Do you have advice for veterans
31:10who are having trouble
31:11with that, like, adjustment
31:12back to civilian life?
31:14Yeah, you know,
31:15I do work with a lot of veterans organizations,
31:17and one of the problems we're seeing
31:20with a lot of our Afghan and Iraq veterans,
31:23you know, we have a suicide problem
31:25with a lot of our veterans.
31:28It's because they isolate themselves.
31:30They refuse to reach out,
31:35and it's a...
31:36I don't know how you want to classify it,
31:39but it's not uncommon, really,
31:41among first responders or veterans
31:43or anybody, really.
31:44It's hard to put your hand in the air
31:46and say, I need help.
31:48But that's the one thing you should do
31:52and you need to do
31:52because when you isolate,
31:54you start a path downhill
31:56and it becomes very, very hard.
31:58So if there are veterans out there
32:01that are, you know,
32:02transitioning back to civilian life
32:03or whatever and looking for,
32:05you know, don't isolate.
32:07There's all kinds of amazing organizations
32:10out there to help you.
32:12You've got a great set of skills
32:14that you learned in the military.
32:15Just bring them forward
32:16because they will apply.
32:18Even if it's not a direct application,
32:21just trust that, you know,
32:22if you've got the fortitude
32:23that you learned in the military,
32:25it'll carry over into civilian life, too.
32:27I ask everyone that I interview,
32:31you know, when we start to wrap up the interview,
32:33if we could do it in a way
32:35that is a little bit special,
32:36just you and I, right?
32:37And I noticed, you know,
32:39from when I saw you backstage
32:41and when you came out,
32:42that, you know, you're a big guy.
32:44You're like a strong guy and everything.
32:46I actually asked them to make sure
32:47your seat was a little lower
32:48so we'd be more level.
32:49I believe that.
32:50You know what I mean?
32:52And so, you know,
32:53you're too big to arm wrestle.
32:56I've got to bring you down to my level.
32:58But I do text a lot.
33:00So what about a thumb wrestle?
33:01Does that...
33:03Yeah, okay.
33:03Okay, all right.
33:07Okay.
33:10Oh, your hands are huge.
33:14Okay.
33:14All right, now, do you do the whole count off?
33:16We can do the count off.
33:17Okay.
33:18All right, ready?
33:19One, two, three, four.
33:21I announce a thumb war.
33:24All right, is that how you...
33:25And then I go like that.
33:26Oh, I thought it was going to be
33:27the, like, five, six, seven, eight thing.
33:28But we can...
33:28Are you going to use that?
33:29Oh, oh, oh, oh.
33:31Not, uh, okay.
33:32Oh, oh, oh.
33:33Ha.
33:33Ha.
33:34Ha.
33:35Ha.
33:35Ha.
33:40No.
33:41No.
33:42No.
33:42No.
33:44No.
33:45Brit Spit and Never Quit is available now.
33:48Rob Riggle.
33:49Rob Riggle.
33:51We're going to take a quick break,
33:52but we'll be right back after this.
33:55Thanks, man.
33:55That's our show for tonight.
34:12Now, here it is.
34:12Your moment of zen.
34:14It was a fun moment when Donald Trump
34:16turned to his assistant and said,
34:18go get me my phone.
34:24Let's see.
34:26Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop.
34:28Ready?
34:30Boop.
34:31Sorry.
34:33Boop, boop, boop, boop.
34:53Boop.
Recommended
43:16
|
Up next
1:29
46:11
1:03:12
1:56:02
48:03
46:35
46:25
Be the first to comment