It was just like a perfect storm for me to have the most successful year of my life. Like more than double what my next most successful year was.

And I don't know if maybe like you become more successful and like people get angry at you, you know, but there's a point like a point after that where I felt like, man, the internet turned on me, kind of. You know, like I saw a lot of negative comments.

People saying that all I do is promote merch. You know, like there was, there was a bunch of different stuff.

I won the whole damn thing. And there was this video he made. 30 celebrities compete to win a million dollars for charity.

There was, I mean, it was an exercise in promoting his Beast games on Prime, which, by the way, is the most phenomenal TV show that I've ever watched. Yeah, my daughter was just telling me about it.

You know, Chuck Liddell was really good at it, too. He choked me out one time.

I mean, year 2000 was when Jackass came out on MTV.

And I think the most views, the most concurrent viewers on MTV that we got was like 4.5 million.

And then the Jake Paul, Anthony Joshua had like maybe 30 million. Right. So it was nowhere near. But, God, I thought that. Where'd you get those numbers? Just whatever I just saw it on the. Because I don't know if Netflix gives those numbers out. Or maybe they did. Did they say it? 108 million. Paul Tyson had 108 million. And then Anthony Joshua, I think it was like 30.

They had the opportunity to take the boxing model and fix it. And, you know, and I don't know, like.

And that's what's so great about the UFC is that the whole card's good. The production's insane. There's no downtime. It's just like you can sit there for fucking six hours, you know, like and be thoroughly happy that you're watching all the time.

And they had a field day because, like, me with the shilling and you with the point about the plumbing, and it was just like, and like, fuck, I just stopped selling those fucking things. I stopped selling everything.

I was hiking with my dog through a fucking state park in Tennessee, and it strikes me, oh my God, I had the audacity, as I knew that the episode went out that day, I had the audacity to cut from this thoughtful conversation about faith with Mark Wahlberg to an ad for gambling. I was like, oh my God.

Like, I made a decision on that day hiking with my dog. I said, I'm not going to promote anything unless it's good for people.

And just like that, Harlan Williams says to me, he goes, it's AIDS, Steve-O. You have AIDS.

And you know, another thing that to that point, here I thought that when this Mr. Beast video came out and I want a million dollars, I gave it to Doctors Without Borders. Like, I just thought, oh, man, this is going to be life-altering. And like it came in, you're like, I had one kid come up to me in an airport and say, dude, you're Steve O for Mr. Beast. And I was like, oh, wow. Different generation. But other than that, I thought it would be life-altering, and it really wasn't, you know?

And then, so now, like, in this, this little, like, this, whatever you want to call it, backlash, this, like, thing. Like, to me, it feels like the whole world hates me, you know, like when in reality, it's probably not.

It's literally a perfect storm with just the unsustainable debt.

Like there's all that now, like, you know, other nations, central banks, whatever, like they like the, they want to de-dollarize. They're not buying the United States treasuries the way they were. And that's like how the United States has been able to overspend is because they can sell the treasuries.

Like it was like, you got all these people, like, you know, whenever anybody put, that's the thing about fucking comedy is it's so subjective that like it's just if anybody can shit on a special if they want.

And then, dude, Dave Chappelle puts out this special and so unapologetic about him being at the Riyadh comedy.

There's a lot of evidence of consciousness operating separate from the brain.

You got people, thousands of people who have had the experience of dying, been on the other side, and they describe what's called life review. Okay, like there's the saying that everybody's familiar with that when you die, your life flashes before your eyes. However, the way that these people describe it, it's that on the other side of death, like as a spirit, like somehow the concept of time is like, doesn't apply anymore. So you've got like, it's not like that your life flashes before your eyes because time isn't like there's no time constraint. So you've got like unfathomable like immersion, you know, without time. And that it's not that you're, you know, experiencing your life as you as you experienced it, but rather you're they describe experiencing your life in the most like, you know, I guess important memorable moments from the perspective of the people who you influenced, you know, the people who you had an impact on. And it's not just from their perspective, but in this near-death experience life review, the way that they describe it, you are those people.

Like, as I understand it, the way that what I've bought onto is that the universe, you know, everything, you know, like God, in the absolute form, God as one thing cannot have experience because there's nothing to relate to. And so God in the absolute sense is kind of a, it's pure love. It's this pure awesome, but it's very lonely, you know, proposition. So the idea of the separation is the universe, God, like blasts itself into infinite different things to create the realm of the relative. So now there's, you know, we have the separation. So now we can relate to one. This allows for God to experience itself, which you would never be able to do. You would never be able to have up and down or, you know, anything. And so it's like the whole point is for experience.

And the way that that book describes it is that animals have souls, but not souls with moral implications of the growth. You know, the purpose of our separation and the purpose of our experience is to have free will, to have the choice to do good or bad or, you know, whatever, but to evolve as a soul where you evolve towards being loving.

And the way that that book describes it is that animals have souls, but not souls with moral implications of the growth. You know, the purpose of our separation and the purpose of our experience is to have free will, to have the choice to do good or bad or, you know, whatever, but to evolve as a soul where you evolve towards being loving.

It's just a fucking exercise and waiting for my house to burn down. Like I've got this fucking house is uninsurable.

So I knew that I wanted to get a place outside of California.

And who was, it was, it was supposed to be Corey San Hagen against Islam in Nashville, Tennessee. And I was like, oh my fucking. They're in different weight classes. Oh, okay. No, no, no, no. Okay, yeah, not Islam. Umar? Umar Namurgo. Umar. Yeah, Umar. Yeah, yeah, thank you. Yeah, good, good catch. It was supposed to be Umar.

And it ended up being Corey Sandhagen against Rob Font because Umar backed out somehow or other.

See, I got sober in 2008, right?

Up to that point, I was 33. And up to that point, I never thought I was going to fucking make it to 30.

It's an official 501c3 non-profit animal sanctuary.

Like in January, it went live.

Believe it or not, that's Photoshop. Is it? You're not getting all those animals in one.