Name: Bryan Callen Explains How To Age Gracefully
Uploaded: 2021-02-28T02:48:10.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bryan Callen Explains How To Age Gracefully' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-02-28. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bryan Callen Explains How To Age Gracefully' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-02-28. Transcript available.

How do you age gracefully? I know that you've been aging or getting into aging.
Yeah, I've been getting into it.
And how do you age gracefully? Do you feel like...
Stay productive? Sleep?
Well, physically. Let's start with physically.
Sleep is the most important. Most people are underslept.
Really?
Sleep is everything.
Okay.
So, but the problem with that is that people go, I don't sleep well.
Well, are you eating a lot before you go to bed?
What kind of food are you eating?
Are you on any kind of like stimulants?
Yes. Now, what if you have a couple of Godiva chocolates?
It depends. But as you get older, you're going to have more and more of a
problem.
As you get older, you could... When I was younger, I could drink a bottle of
wine, red wine.
No problem. I had energy. I had energy.
Wow. What was it in? Was it in like one of those... Can you bring up a cask of
red wine, please?
I just want to know...
I drank it from a cask.
Did you?
Actually, you drink it from a leather bladder, from a flask, from an old school
flask.
I've heard stories of... Yeah. Can we get an image of a cask of red wine?
Yeah. That's a cask, I think. That's a wine cask. See that?
You know what I was looking for more? I was looking more for the... An old-timey?
Old?
A cask is what you transport it in, maybe, or just you store it in, or you age
it in.
But a flask, you use a leather flask, you know?
I'm thinking if you have more of like that bladder, that more like...
That would probably change the taste of the wine, you see. You understand?
So you need... What you need is you need a glass bottle.
You age it under preferably 55 degrees.
A bitch wants to pull out a glass bottle with his buddies. You guys are all on
a mountainside relaxing.
That's the problem. Yeah.
The women are, you know, if they want to do it, are doing washing down by the
creek.
Or collecting berries.
Yes.
If it's a traditional hike, they're gathering and you guys are hunting.
Right.
I mean, I...
Right. Everybody's playing there. Everybody's doing, helping out.
And there's a room for the other person. There are other genders that might be
represented there who might do both.
Right.
Right? Or who might choose.
Right. To do... Yeah. Maybe one day the biggest hunter is like, oh, I'm going
to go hunt berries.
You know?
That's right.
People are like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
That's right.
Calm down, my lot.
Yeah.
We need you back up here, dog.
Yeah, but you...
Sleep.
Okay, so sleep.
Water.
And then I think I actually believe in...
Now, do you do water before you go to sleep?
Sometimes.
But I think more importantly is in the morning.
And then what I think is important is not eating too much.
Never overloading your system.
Never.
So if you...
I do think intermittent fasting is a really good idea.
Wow.
And I think eating simply and not overloading your body.
You can feel it.
Dude, I've done...
I haven't done intermittent fasting, but I've had mittens on before and it's so
hard to fucking eat with mittens on.
And that's the same goddamn thing.
Yeah.
How are you supposed to butter your toast with mittens?
You know what I'm saying?
It's almost impossible.
It's impossible.
And then you're spitting out...
Whoop.
Whoop.
Oh, yeah.
Damn it.
You know, as you get older, I'll tell you this.
I'm a lot older than you.
And you get less sure of any kind of a truth.
Really?
In a way.
Now, that's another thing I was going to ask you.
How does aging happen in your beliefs and in your thoughts?
Like, what starts to happen?
You know, I tend to become more compassionate for people who have a totally
different point of view than I do, right?
Wow.
So I'm a white, straight male, right?
Fine.
I'm not saying you have it easy if you're a white, straight male.
I'm not saying...
But I'm saying that if I was a black woman, if I was a Native American or an
indigenous person, a First Nation person from Winnipeg,
if I was from a small Indian village in the south of India, I would have a very
different point of view.
That's true.
On the world, on what's right, on what's wrong, on what's fair, what's unfair,
on what I was afraid of, what I wasn't afraid of.
If I was a black man, for the most part, even if I had money, even if I was
privileged with an education, if I drove by, I know this,
if I was driving by two white cops, okay, maybe not now, but certainly nine
months ago.
Right.
I would have turned my music down.
I would have put my glasses on.
I might have rolled my window down.
Set my wallet on the dashboard.
Whatever it is.
Right.
Right.
Whatever it is.
A little bit like the way we talk now about anything that's considered
politically incorrect.
We're now aware that big tech might shut us off.
Right.
That was what it's like.
That's what it was like always.
So as I get older and I read more and I try to take that perspective of I don't
know,
it tends to make me a little bit more compassionate and a little less attached
to my cognitive beliefs because I know how my brain works.
Right.
It's from reading.
My brain works like this.
I'm an emotional creature.
So I have a set of beliefs that were given to me by people I love, like my
mother and my father, like the culture I come from.
And media.
Like what worked for me and media.
Right.
So I have a set of beliefs like this.
And so what happens is when you have that set of beliefs, you're going to try
to find evidence to support your beliefs.
So if you start talking about socialism, I'm automatically going to have an
argument.
Right.
Because I'm a capitalist, quote unquote, or I'm a free market guy.
Right.
I'm a libertarian.
But then I then I read a book and I realized that a lot of the basis of what I'm
making all my philosophy on is not necessarily grounded in evidence.
And that somebody over there who has a different point of view has something to
offer me, has something to enlighten me on.
So this is a process.
So I guess what I'm saying is that as I get older, I realize I'm a work in
progress.
Don't be too attached to everything you believe.
I love that.
Don't don't be so sure that everything you know and believe is true.
OK, that's really important.
And be willing to change your mind based on evidence and be able to see the
evidence when it's in front of you.
Hope you enjoyed that video and you can watch another and you can watch this
one, you can watch this one.
Different options, different choices.
Some guy just brings you one option, not this guy.
Two options.
Watch one.
This one or this one.