Name: Jim Jefferies | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #604
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Jim Jefferies | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #604

Today's guest is a stand-up comedian. He's an actor. He's a podcaster.
He just released his 10th stand-up comedy special on Netflix. It's called Two
Limb Policy.
We actually want to dedicate this episode to his nephew, Lieutenant Max Nugent.
Thank you for your service, sir.
Today's guest is the one and only Jim Jeffries.
How have you been? How are you doing with things?
I'm alive, man. What am I? I feel like I'm stressed out a lot, but it's okay.
I just have to slow things down a little bit for myself.
And then I just, I think sometimes you get busy and it's hard to see what you're
doing.
You're just going. And I think some of that's just life.
As you get older, you're just going and you're like, do I, am I still walking
in the direction I want to be in?
Or what's even going on, you know?
Well, look, the first time we worked together, per se, I was on a pilot for
Comedy Central.
We were watching some slam poetry.
Oh, yeah, that was good.
And now fucking look at you. You're interviewing the top people in the world,
man.
So, yes, you're going in the right direction, Theo.
I wouldn't be too nervous about how your life's going.
You know, take the good with the bad and keep fucking riding the wave, brother.
Yeah, thanks, man. Yeah, I think, yeah, I think it's just more like, like, yeah,
you just get going.
You're like, what the fuck? Where, how old am I? What am I doing?
You know, you're just like, it's just life. Life gets going like that, man.
Yours has changed a lot since I saw you, dude. You had a child. You have autism.
Well, autism is such a hard thing to put your finger on, isn't it?
You know what I mean? Like, like, I might just be an asshole. You know, people
always say, so, yeah, I had, I had one doctor say, oh, we think that you're on
the spectrum and things, but there's such a rainbow of where you can be and
what, you know, you could be functioning to completely unfunctioning, needing
help all your, all your life.
So, look, you know, when I was a kid, they tried to go, oh, you have attention
deficit disorder and then dyslexia, I'm positive. Autism, I'm pretty sure on, I
don't think I had attention deficit disorder.
I was just filled full of Ritalin as a child. That, okay. But yes, I have had
another kid since I've seen you. I've got a, I've got a 12 year old and a four
year old and I've sobered up even more importantly, since we last saw each
other.
I haven't had a drink in close to five years.
Oh, congratulations, dude. How's that changed? I mean, that must've changed
everything.
I still, I still partake in weed, so I'm not sober, sober. So I don't want to
preach that I am completely sober in it, but I haven't had a drink or a
cigarette in years.
It was, it happened during COVID. I started drinking at home and I used to have
a policy that I'd only drink at work, you know, which is obviously an Irish
policy.
Yeah. Yeah. I was like, I can drink at work, you know, because I can have a
couple of beers before a show and I can have a couple of, you know, spirits
after the show and, and, and, you know, you can go in a dressing room in the
comedy store and say, give me a vodka, Red Bull or whatever, if you're a bit
tired or something.
And then when COVID happened, I started drinking at home and excessively.
Like how early, like were you getting up and cracking one?
Oh yeah, I was, I was getting right into it. And then, and then my wife gets
pregnant and she's not drinking and I was probably quite unpleasant to live
with.
And I thought, I'll add a solidarity. I won't drink with her, you know, and
then, you know, look, I, I, I, I had very clearly had a drinking problem and,
and it played out in front of people so many times.
You know, I had my third special, we're here to promote my 10th special, uh,
two limb policy out in Netflix right now.
But my third special was called, um, uh, fully functional.
And it was all about how I had given up alcohol and I was, you know, fully
functional and I was doing comedy sober and I, then I was drunk in the next one.
Wow.
You know what I mean? And so it's very hard. And I've watched people do this
that are in the limelight where you go, oh, I'm giving up drink.
And you put a big flag in the ground and you say, oh, I'm a non-drinker. And
then you let everyone down, you know, you let everyone down when you slip up
and all that type of stuff.
So I kept the first bit of my sobriety sort of to myself until I came out of
COVID.
I was a couple of years in before I started telling people. And now I don't
really miss it.
I tell you what, I missed a cigarette. I went and saw Oasis in concert and they
were playing cigarettes and alcohol and people were,
lighting up in Wembley stadium. And just like, there's so many people smoking.
Security wasn't doing fuck all.
Yeah.
And I was like, I was like, yeah, I wanted to light up more than, than I ever
had. But I, I pushed through that, you know, and I had a tragedy in my life.
I didn't smoke. Cause they always say with smokers, they go, um, you're always
a smoker when the, you know, the chips are down.
Yeah.
Right. And I had a big tragedy in my life and I didn't light up. So I, I think
I've kicked that. Well, I hope I have.
So it kind of taught you a lesson there. It showed you, you had some progress
or something right there. Dude. Yeah.
I remember like, cause if one of your specials, I, I distinctly remember you
like having a beer and getting through your beer pretty quick.
And then like, I even remember, I think there was one where there was a couple
of glasses sitting on a table, like empty glasses.
I think people thought this was a thing. And one of my specials, I had a big
wooden box on the thing.
And I would pull a beer from out of the wooden box and the crowd would cheer
each time because, oh, he's bringing out another one.
He's bringing another one. But we all know you record two, uh, shows for a
special, right?
You do two performances. Uh, you primarily use one and then maybe edit a joke
in that you haven't done or whatever like that.
And so for continuity, um, we had to hide the pints behind the box. So, but we
edited in every pint that I did drink.
So it does, it did, it did look like I remember it's looking at a, I was like,
God, I think it was cause it was like six pints in an hour.
Like no one's doing six pints. And I was doing three pints in each hour and six
pints in an hour seems a little excessive.
It's a lot. Yeah. It seems like a lot. Um, you don't drink, right? How long
have you been?
I had probably, I think in my, the most time I had, I probably had six years
and then I had two, one.
And then I've had, I've had like groups of months, you know, that's exact. So
when I did fully function, I had two years, got drunk again, then had a year
and now we're on a five year.
Yeah. And so I don't know if I'll, you know, maybe I'll drink again, but the
problem is every time I've taken drinking back up, every time I've taken it
back up, I've been good for six months.
Right. It's like, it's not like I become like Barney Gumbel and take a sip and
go like that. I'm like, all right, I had two, I'm good.
And then I think I can handle, I think I can handle, I think I can handle. And
then I'm back to, I'm a sloppy drunk.
Are you? Does that mean, is it, what comes out of you? Is it like aggression?
Is it yelling at a neighbor? Is it racism? Like, how do you notice it flare up?
It's blackout, man. I don't remember a single thing. And so then also when you
add fame into the mix and someone will say, hey, I met you and then you did ABC
or you said this, that, and the other, you can't even prove them wrong.
And even when it's something where you go, I've never done that. That doesn't
sound like me at all. I can't remember the night at all. I was blacking out.
And that's why it sort of got comfortable at home with who gives a fuck if you
black out at home.
Yeah. Everybody has a virus. People are dying or whatever. Fat people are
coughing to death. Like, yeah, it's a different time.
But also like when you stop cocaine, you stop cocaine, I started to look more
drunk. That's when people were getting into me going, you need to take control
of your drinking. And you're like, oh, no, no, no. I've just given up another
thing.
Yeah. I'm actually in recovery this way, but I just look worse because I'm
sweating and I'm, you know, because cocaine keeps you up, right?
Yeah. Yeah. It helps with the posture.
It's good for the posture.
Oh, definitely. You see a guy like, fuck.
Straight up.
Here we go. I'm back. I'm a fucking buoy.
I, uh, did your kid notice or anything like that or no?
My, yeah, my little boy at that stage would have been about seven and he knew
when I was drunk.
Yeah. And there was definitely times that, that he would be like a child out of
a movie.
Daddy, are you having a drink again?
You know what I mean?
But you're like, yes.
Where'd you hear that sentence?
Was that from the lady I gave a house to?
You know what I mean?
But, uh, yeah, yeah.
Daddy, are you having a drink again?
He laughs about it now.
Sounds like a song.
I think he was just teasing me, really.
I don't think he was ever bothered or upset about it.
Yeah, maybe he just had a really good sense of humor, you know?
He's got a great sense of humor, my boy.
He's got a great sense of humor.
Does he?
Yeah, he does.
I've got nieces and nephews and, um, obviously my kids and me.
I've got two brothers and one brother is very nice man, uh, has a good sense of
humor, can't tell a joke to save his life.
Yeah.
And then I've got another brother who's as funny as me.
And you might not think I'm funny, but, like, me and him are both the funny
ones, right?
Me and him sort of get together like we're in a Jedi Council and we decide who's
got the gift or not.
When the children are about three or four, you start going, oh, I think it's
strong with this one.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
So I've got, I've got both my boys, I think, have it.
Like guessing if your kids are gay, too, they do that.
Kind of the same thing.
Yeah, you start to look early, you go, I don't know about, you know, maybe, it's
all right, though, as long as he's happy.
Yeah, so I've got, I've got a, I've got a couple of, uh, out of, I won't say
who because they might all listen to this.
So out of, out of my, uh, five nephews and nieces, two of them have it.
Two, two of them have it.
I won't say which ones, but they know, they know who it is.
They know who they are.
Yeah, it is kind of funny to see kids develop and then you start to see their
personality.
And then like, yeah, when they do something that makes you laugh or they have
like a unique way of looking at things or if they start to seem cool, that's
pretty neat.
You're like, oh, this kid's fucking cool.
That's dope.
Um, I had, I was talking about the tragedy.
I don't know why I'm bringing, I had a.
Yeah, no, you said that something that had occurred.
I, well, I, my nephew died in a helicopter accident.
Oh.
Yeah, and we made the news in Australia.
And I want to sort of talk about it a little bit because, uh, there's been a
cover up by what I believe the Australian government.
So I'm getting into conspiracy theory shit now.
Welcome.
But, okay, so you can check this online.
Uh, my nephew, Lieutenant, uh, Max Nugent was in a helicopter.
Now, how, how Australian a death is this?
He crashed a helicopter up near the, bit above the Great Barrier Reef, um, for
the military and was eaten by sharks.
Like his remains, there was no remains left.
So that's pretty Australian, you know, that's pretty.
I mean, it's a high velocity.
It almost sounds like something that would be sponsored by Red Bull, you know?
So he was, he was on, uh, he was on military war games, flying a Taipan
helicopter.
And they were in a group of four, um, flying along.
Um, America was there as well.
There was 30,000 soldiers from all of our allies around the world.
Mm-hmm.
And, uh, the, the helicopter crashes.
So it's a game, it's a competition.
They play basic war games.
So they're in format