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Okay, here we are. Once again, the smartest man in the world. Proopcast takes to the ether from the salubriest confines of the most unlikely place of Proopcast could come from a conference room.

Beverly one here at the sofa tell in the rich bubbling tourist district of West Hollywood across from the Beverly Center Mall and a

Monamedes Jewish school, which is around the corner from here. Once again, we take to the ether and hope to find solace in each other's company and some meaning and our otherwise burnout dreadful lives here.

And how do we know that burnout dreadful because it's Emmy night, ladies and gentlemen.

There's no small irony that the newest of all the part of all the entertainment media is taking place opposite one of the most wanted an old school of entertainment slices and that would be the television.

I have nothing against TV. I watch it. Sometimes I'm on it and it's vacuous, good fun. I'll tell you not much, ladies and gentlemen.

In any case, it's fantastic. The venue here where it's the LA podcast festival and we had an awesome late personal video message before the show, which I've seen several times today because I've been to a couple of podcasts and it's the same lame jokes and it's the same YouTube level of comedy that we've come to know and love.

I'm going to go to somewhere between Rebecca Black and the Hey Fat People video and really striking a huge cord right up front exactly the tone I want for my show. I want a generic greeting for everyone and I want this to feel as much like as we're talking to a million people at once as we are one individual at a time.

I can see this crowd is not full of irony but I can't blame you. It's four o'clock on a Sunday afternoon and it's approximately the fucking planet mercury outside. It is a bubbling hot here in Los Angeles. It's only LA can be hot. I know I know I hear you cry. I'm from Oklahoma and I saw an armadillo explode in my front yard. I get it. I'm from the deep south. It's not only hot. There's chiggers that are flying and they're inside snakes and they eat you when you're swimming and then they crawl up your

behold and then there's other people. Oh, I'm from the highest Mongolian steps in the summers here untenable. We have to water the camels every few feet and we can barely get any your building done and whatnot. I hear your complaints where you're calling from. There's a special kind of LA heat and you know what it is. It's the lack of sensitivity that the heat fucking brings out here because people are already fever pitch angry every second in LA. Don't let anyone hit you wrong on this. Neil Diamond.

I always quote in times of trouble. There's two sources I go to whenever my faith in man is questioned. One is the dougers and two. They're deeply religious people and two Neil Diamond and Neil Diamond said what is it?

L.A.s fans sun shines most of time. And the feeling is laid back.

Um.

Fuck did you nail it? No L.A.s fun. The sun shines most of the time is absolutely true. The feeling is laid back. No. I've never lived anywhere where people got up in the morning and decided that they had to kill five people until they were famous every day of their lives.

And I'm including people who pick up the trash people who were a clean out fish ponds. It really doesn't matter what strata of society or in L.A. You're either you know a celebrity want to talk about a celebrity or working for a celebrity or trying to get with a celebrity or have a celebrity be inside you.

And that's what makes L.A. an absolute Ben her ego race where incremental victories are more important than anything else as we've discussed on the show. People will raise you to the stop light here in front of the bank of America and then you're all at the stop light.

They've gone around you on the right almost killed you and all of your loved ones driven like a complete a barn and fucking squealed up in front of you and almost killed you two times going around you and then stopping short in front of you.

And now they're at the light in front of you for five fucking minutes because it's a five way light. And then they take off again and drive as fast as they can to get to the light near the talk go bell.

That's what L.A. is all about if I can beat you now I can fucking win this.

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