You never know when someone's gonna
dump some shit into your head
that's gonna ruin your life,
or at least change it for months,
or just cause you trouble.
And it could be just in passing,
somebody just drops shit into your head,
and you have to deal with it.
Like you could just be having a day
and somebody maybe you know or don't know that well goes,
you takin' turmeric?
What?
(laughing)
Turmeric, are ya takin' it?
Turmeric?
Yeah, you gotta take that shit.
Turmeric?
Yup.
The spice?
Yeah.
You gotta take it.
Turmeric the spice?
Yeah, man, ya gotta take that.
The spice that you buy once to make an Indian recipe.
(laughing)
And you never use it again,
and it stains your wooden spoon, that turmeric?
Yeah, you gotta take that shit.
I do?
Yup.
For what?
Inflammation.
(laughing)
Of what?
Just general, general,
general inflammation.
What is that?
It's the new bad thing
that causes all the other bad things.
What happened to cholesterol?
Nah, turns out that's good for ya.
What, when did that happen?
Turmeric, huh?
Who told ya about this?
My trainer.
All right, so the guy who wanted
to do something else with his life.
(laughing)
Saw something online, told you,
now you're dumpin' it into my head,
and now I gotta worry about
whether I'm gonna take turmeric or not?
And I apologize,
I know it's a little condescending to trainers,
and some people get a little weird about that.
I don't know why.
Is that a surprise?
Most trainers wasn't their life goal.
All right, they had other plans.
The team didn't work out, they didn't make the team.
They were at the gym a lot anyways, whatever.
Just wasn't the big plan for them, all right?
They ended up there,
and they can take this criticism.
I'm just callin' a fact a fact,
I'm not gonna make fun of yoga instructors,
'cause that's different.
That's sort of the last stop for them, you know I.
You wanna be nice to them.
You don't know how they got there.
It's probably a harrowing tale,
but, you know, you're kind of grateful
they made it to wherever they are.
And you know that you being in their class
is as important to them as they are to you.
(laughing)
Like if it doesn't work out for the trainer,
I'm sure he's gonna figure out somethin' else to do.
The yoga instructor, we really don't know where that goes.
(laughing)
Back to the turmeric guy,
as he's walkin' away he's like,
oh yeah, if you're gonna get the turmeric,
make sure you get it with black pepper in it,
or it won't activate.
Now right there,
doesn't that make you go like
that sounds like bullshit to me a little bit.
Am I that big of a sucker
that you think I would believe that?
Where's the science on that?
That sounds like a couple of vitamin hustlers
sitting over a mound of wholesale turmeric,
with a bunch of empty gel caps.
One guy goin', I don't know man,
I don't think we can move this just like this.
(laughing)
It's just a spice.
I think we gotta add somethin'.
Yeah, like what, boss?
I don't know why it's a 30's movie.
(laughing)
I don't know, maybe another spice?
Yeah, like, what, maybe pepper?
Yeah, keep talkin'.
Maybe we say it activates it.
Holy shit, that's a fuckin' million dollar idea right there.
Let's roll up these gel caps.
Maybe Rogan'll move 'em on his podcast.
(clapping)
I mean I know Maron won't do it,
he's more of a Stamps.com, Squarespace guy.
(laughing)
But Rogan's sort of an old school supplement slinger.
(laughing)
And I know I'm gonna get a little flack for that comments,
I know there might be a minor pile-on on Twitter
of the monoculture of free thinkers,
but I can take it.
(laughing)
So I guess after all is said and done,
I should just say that I'm taking turmeric and um.
(laughing)
I feel less inflamed, you know,
in a general way, generally less inflamed.