Joe Rogan and Brian Redban dissect Hunter S. Thompson’s fabricated 1972 Ed Muskie scandal, questioning whether genius thrives on instability, and critique systemic corruption—from Catholic pedophile cover-ups to corporate-funded wars like Iraq. Rogan compares political dysfunction to outdated tech, speculating future transparency may expose governments as dictatorships. They joke about a hypothetical Earth collision ending conflicts, dismissing national politics but praising local impact (e.g., Arnold Schwarzenegger’s governance). Rogan ties artistry and activism to rebellion, like California’s medical marijuana shift, before teasing UFC Abu Dhabi and social media’s role in influence. [Automatically generated summary]
There's something about actually writing things, too, that's better than speaking it and writing it.
Because when I write something, if I write a blog, I don't type that fast.
So if I'm writing something, each word that I'm thinking about, I'm really dwelling on it and the other words that come after it.
That's why one of the things people are always really impressed about is the ability to speak without stammering and to have something to say.
I mean, that's the reason why Obama got elected, really, is not just because he's black, but because he's black and he's this really good speaker.
He's really good at talking.
And there is an art form to that.
It's a management of your The ability to recognize what you're going to say next and the inflection you're going to use and preparation and all that shit.
There's an art to it.
But, you know, it's more interesting usually when I read things that people wrote and they actually wrote it.
They sat down and they really thought about how this is going to be absorbed.
You know, there's a craft.
There's a craft to both, but there's a real craft to writing.
You know, I don't read that much, but the few books that I choose, I pick out certain things I want to read.
Because I read all day on the internet, so when it comes to a book, I'm like, alright, I've read so much today, I don't need to read anymore, you know, type thing.
So I've actually been reading less books ever since the internet's kind of grabbed me, I've noticed.
The last good book I read was a book called Early Bird.
Highly recommend it, though.
It was about a guy that used to write for, I think, Letterman.
And he retired.
This is a real guy.
And he retired and he went to Florida and lived in a retirement home.
And he just documented his life inside a retirement home, being retired at the age of 35. It was one of the funniest books, and it's weird how the retirement village is like high school.
You know, there's like the popular old people, and they have like their cliques and stuff like that, and it's so weird.
The last guy who got me into writing, or reading and writing really, but I read The Great Shark Hunt, the Hunter S. Thompson book.
It's kind of a compilation book of all of his stories.
Fuck, that dude could write.
That dude had some really interesting writing that got you excited to read more about it.
It's kind of like this weird blend of fiction and nonfiction.
That's one of the things that was so cool about Hunter's writing.
This guy was just crazy.
He was just making all kinds of crazy shit up about Las Vegas and campaigns and dudes being on drugs.
When Ed Muskie was running for president, Hunter Thompson just started printing in Rolling Stone magazine every week that it was widely known that this guy had an Ibogaine addiction and that he was bringing in Brazilian doctors.
Nobody ever done that before.
Nobody ever done real serious coverage of a political event and just started adding nutty shit to it that totally wasn't real.
So, literally, this guy changed the fucking course of the election, because that guy was one of the favorites.
And because Hunter's writing about him having an Ibogaine addiction, which is this crazy exotic drug from Africa, Hunter wrote this whole thing about it, and this guy literally fell apart on the campaign trail.
People were heckling him.
And he was doing these campaign speeches and just crumpled just because of some crazy shit that this guy wrote.
And when they asked him about it, and he goes, well, you made up that stuff about Ed Muskie having an Ibogaine.
He goes, well, I didn't make it up.
I didn't print it.
I said it was a rumor.
And he goes, and it was a rumor, and I started it in Milwaukee.
You know, I liked the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and I'd seen him on talk shows before, and I always knew that he was this kind of crazy guy.
There was this, you know, older dude who was really nutty, liked to shoot guns, and, you know, looked like, you know, your friend's dad, but he was fucking completely psychotic.
You know, it was just this guy left over from the 60s that somehow or another morphed into this, like, super violent fucking drug-addled Compound Junkie, that's what he used to call himself, you know?
Not just that, but what I'm saying is that the commitment that's involved in order to get to the highest levels of anything, you almost have to be completely nuts in order to hit those RPMs.
It's like with so many things, especially when it comes to the working world.
When it comes to the artistic world, I could see an argument for there's no...
There's never too much.
There's never too much art that you can produce because you're just producing positive energy.
You know, but people that, like, get addicted to, like, success in the business world and try to be, like, the number one guy in the business world, I mean, that's one of the main reasons why we have all these problems today with corporations, how corporations are sort of these consciousness...
I mean, now corporations basically are allowed to, they're judged as an individual.
You know, corporations are a thing.
Like, they have rights and shit.
Like, they can contribute to campaigns now as much as they want.
They can do all kinds of crazy shit, you know, as a corporation and get away with it because they don't think of it as them as an individual doing it.
They think of it as, well, you know, it's all business and we're part of business.
Like they can do fucked up things in overseas countries, you know, third world countries, and they don't even think that they're doing anything bad because what they're doing is they're just doing business and there's just a bunch of people involved doing it.
So no one person feels like total responsibility for what's happening.
You know, and that's like a real problem that we have.
And I think one of the real problems that we have Is related to people just being super competitive.
You know, that's the only reason why these fucking super crazy billionaire dudes would keep pushing forward.
You know, at a certain point in time, how much fucking money do you have to have?
You know, when you're one of those dudes that has like 30, 40 billion dollars and you're still trying to rape third world countries, like, what the fuck is going on?
Like, how much money do you need, bitch?
You know, that's a lot of goddamn money.
You know, what is that?
Why would they not be able to recognize that there's something wrong there?
Well, they're crazy.
That's what it is.
To get at the highest levels of anything, whether it's golf or whether it's fucking, you know, whatever the fuck it is, to get at the highest levels of anything, you gotta be a little nutty, man.
I think to really achieve those crazy great highs, you almost have to lose your connection to everybody else or lose control of your connection.
It's weird because that's our high watermark.
We're always aspiring towards higher and higher levels of performance in everything we do.
Whether it's athletic or anything you do, you're always trying to do better than you did before.
That's like a human ethic that we have.
It's very strange, man, because there's never a point in time where we ever step back and go, you know, hey, this is good.
We're good right here.
Let's just concentrate all our time right now instead of making more money.
Let's try to concentrate all our time and try to make things better for each other.
You know?
Let's try to concentrate our time and dealing with all these problems that exist all over the world.
Instead of trying to, you know, fucking smash atoms and create black holes, let's settle down.
You know, and let's concentrate on some other shit.
Look at the surplus of money that we have.
but they don't ever think like that all they think of is more more more more more more more like they're going to live forever And those motherfuckers drop a heart attack left and right.
Those, like, CEOs of big corporation type dudes, those motherfuckers die like crazy.
They die all the time.
Those guys are...
Like Dick Cheney, he's had 150 fucking heart attacks.
And one of the reasons is because he's just such an evil cunt.
If you're that fucking evil, you're going to have some goddamn heart attacks.
You're doing some wicked shit.
You're creating so much bad energy.
And you're pushing constantly, constantly, constantly.
What kind of balls do you have to have to be the fucking CEO of a corporation like Halliburton And then go from that to being the Vice President of the United States.
And then go from that to signing billion dollar agreements with Halliburton where billions, literally billions of dollars were lost.
Like they don't know where it went.
Billions in corruption.
They have no idea where like all kinds of money went.
And the fact that that motherfucker profited on it.
He had shares in Halliburton while he was the fucking president.
I mean, he got money from them while he was the president.
Or vice president.
I mean, he really was the president.
Really, he was the fucking marionette, supposedly.
Remember the days where he was always in the bunker?
Remember they would always talk about Dick Cheney being in the bunker?
That was the big secret of the whole Bush White House.
There was a lot of gay shit going on.
A lot of gay shit.
That guy Jeff Gannon, who's a reporter for the White House, he was a White House embedded reporter, and he would lob these super softball questions at President Bush.
Like, Mr. Bush, President Bush, when, or Mr. President, when are the Democrats just going to come to reality?
When are they going to come to their senses?
Do you think that's ever going to happen?
He would say shit like that.
And other reporters were like, who is this motherfucker?
And so the other reporters started investigating this dude.
And they found out that he had a fucking gay porn website.
With him him with like you know like a fucking bare chest in like a towel over his cock and shit like Super gay with dog tags on and it was gay porn geared towards guys with military fetishes.
Well, how about that fucking woman who was the madam?
How about that woman who was the madam for that big fucking brothel in Washington, D.C.? And this chick claims she's got the fucking ins on everybody in Washington.
All these senators that used her service.
All these different people.
And then she commits suicide.
And she even said, she did her interview, she's like, if I commit suicide, they did this to me.
I am not going to kill myself.
I'm happy.
I want to live.
Fucking gone in the whole case.
Gone.
Dust in the wind.
Dust in the wind.
What is about Jesse James?
Did you see his girlfriend?
Oh my goodness!
And that's what happens, man.
People get fucking wacky about Jesse James or Tiger Woods or whatever the fuck it is this week in the news.
And while all that's going on, Crime.
Just left and right.
They're just stealing.
Stealing money and fucking bitches and killing bitches to tell they're gonna fuck bitches.
Bitch, you can't just tune in halfway in the middle.
We're talking about shit the way the human mind works, man.
That there's an error in the way the human mind works.
And that's the reason why people are doing all this crazy shit like trying to conquer the world and billionaires are fucking...
Torturing these third world countries and crushing their resources and doing it all for money.
The reason why is there's an error in the human mind.
And there's an error that causes us to never have perspective.
We're always moving in a direction, but we don't have a perspective.
Nobody ever stops and very, very few people stop and realize at a certain point in time.
I would rather live an easygoing, really peaceful life and make less money and have less bullshit and less drama in my life and just be happy all the time than be this.
Super ambitious, gotta go get it, typical American.
And that's a problem, man.
That fucking typical American attitude is bullshit because we're going to die.
We're fucking dying, all of us.
This is totally temporary.
So the right thing to do is to try to balance it all out and have the most amount of fun possible and the most amount of positive time, the most amount of positive energy during the time that you have.
But then there's the keeping up with the Joneses thing, this trick that gets us thinking that somehow or another bigger houses or bigger cars or bigger bullshit is going to make you happy.
Some of the most miserable fucks that I've ever met in my life were rich and famous, okay?
Some of the most miserable fucking human beings I've ever met.
Rich and famous and living in a torturous existence.
We were talking about our friend on the way over here who's got the female problem.
This guy is a very successful guy.
He's been on television.
He's a guy that people enjoy.
They go to see him.
His life is turmoil.
It's fucking chaos.
It's a few steps before murder-suicide, right?
It is.
It's right there.
It's knocking on murder-suicide's door.
You know, if you got that phone call in the middle of the night, you wouldn't be that surprised.
At the end of the day, these motherfuckers have to go home.
It's like, you have to figure out what is it that we're really doing here.
What is it?
And because there's so fucking many of us, I think human beings have lost this sense of community.
I think human beings are programmed to be in tribes.
We're programmed to be in tribes of like 50 to 200 people.
Or maybe more.
But enough so that you know everybody.
And you know, when we live alone, we're fucking miserable.
Like, that's why we don't trust hermits.
We don't trust people that go off into the woods by themselves.
Look at this sketchy motherfucker.
He wants to be by himself.
You know, we don't trust that shit because that's not how you're supposed to be.
We're not programmed for that.
We're programmed to be in small groups of people so that we work together and we protect each other and we support each other.
But we're living in a group that's way too big.
We're tricked into believing that we're a part of some 300 million strong group.
You know?
That's why, like, wars work.
You know, the reason why wars work is because we feel like, well, yeah, we gotta defend ourselves, and we all know we have this sort of sense of loyalty to defend ourselves, but at a certain point, it's like, against what?
Hold on a second.
We are 300 million fucking people, and we're defending ourselves against, what, 300 million other people from somewhere else that we don't even know?
What is going on?
Are they really after us?
Like, what's happening?
What?
I'm getting this from you and I'm connected to you somehow?
Who the fuck are you and why are these people mad at you?
Why are these fucking people in this other country mad at you?
Why do they want to come over here and kill me because some shit you did?
What the fuck are we doing?
Until you know what we're doing overseas, you can't support it.
You can't be involved.
You know, there's a video that was released that you haven't seen yet.
It was on WikiLeaks where it shows this Apache helicopter shooting these Hellfire missiles into these people.
And they weren't soldiers.
They were mistaken as soldiers and I don't know...
In 2007, covered it up and then WikiLeaks got a hold of it.
Someone in the armed forces apparently was a whistleblower and just thought that this was a horrible situation and it needed to be corrected.
And these guys were like, you know, look, I mean, if they thought they were insurgents, I could see how they developed this antagonistic attitude towards the enemy.
Because this guy's wounded, they shot him up, and this one guy survived.
He's like, just pick up a weapon, just pick up a weapon.
Like, he's asking him to just pick up a weapon so he can ice him.
And he's got these 30...
And look, they're the bad guy, and this guy is out there, and he's in the shit, and he's trying to survive.
I mean, that's the attitude you have to have.
If you don't have that attitude, and you're in war, you're gonna get killed.
But what it shows you is, like, what the fuck are we doing there?
What are we doing that our American friends, our people who live over here in this country, are subject to becoming that guy?
Are subject to being put in a situation where they are shooting at civilians accidentally and thinking they're insurgents?
They have to live with these fucking memories because someone told us that we're supposed to be over there for some fucking strange reason?
Some fake weapons of mass destruction and now some fucking democracy building project.
I know but half those people are so young that it's retarded.
I mean I didn't get smart and I mean smart with like a Z until like 25, 27. I would probably say I started actually doing, making better decisions not fucking doing crazy shit.
I was retarded when I was 18. And if I was 18 and I was in war, I would be doing the exact same shit.
I was hyper aggressive, extra violent, and ready to do stupid shit.
When you're an 18-year-old man and you're around a bunch of people who tell you you're supposed to be doing stupid shit, you're supposed to be violent, you're supposed to be attacking, you're supposed to be a killer.
I mean, man, you could program the shit out of us, man.
If you're a fucking angry 18-year-old kid, you know, who has a need to belong to something, and this need to belong takes you to another country, and all of a sudden you're, you know, you're in Afghanistan, you're fighting for America, you feel like, you know, you're representing some real shit, and then someone's fucking telling you, you know, this guy's telling you, you're a goddamn killer.
You know, you know, I'm fucking proud of you, boys.
You go out there and go get it, you know?
Like, total full metal jacket style.
You know?
Look, man, any of us can get sucked into that.
I could've got sucked into it.
You could've got sucked into it.
We all could've.
But the idea that they're over there protecting us, like, man, we have to sit down and fucking talk this through.
Like, what are you talking about?
You know?
They're protecting us?
Like, they're protecting our freedoms?
Look, if they really were protecting our freedoms, what a noble thing.
If there really was some evil empire out there like the Nazis that were trying to fucking take out Americans and there was millions of them and they were storming the beaches and taking over countries, that's not what's happening.
There's a bunch of fucking dudes living in caves and we don't even have to fucking go in.
What we're doing now that's most successful is these fucking drones.
Aircrafts that they're shooting around total straight video game type shit, shooting hellfire missiles into mountains and killing people.
I mean, that's probably the best way to hunt these fucking dudes anyway if there really are terrorists out there.
Like, the whole thing is nuts.
You hear people like Michael Moore saying that there's only 100 Taliban or 1,000 Taliban, I forget what he said, living in Afghanistan.
It was 100 or 1,000.
Either one of them is nuts.
The fact that we got 30,000 troops over there, it's like, what are we?
We just sent 30,000 more.
Like, what the fuck are we doing?
It's all so scary that we're putting our trust into people that are known liars.
You know, the idea of protecting America, the idea of, you know, being a proud citizen and standing up for your country, that's all noble.
The real problem is, who is giving the goddamn fucking orders?
People that totally cannot be trusted.
Across the board, full of shit.
At every goddamn turn.
Whether it's the Gulf of Tonkin, whether it's the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, whatever the fuck it may be.
You know, and it's not just Republican, it's Democrat.
It's this fucking crazy healthcare thing, and this fucking crazy thing that's going on with the bank bailouts, where all this money is just flying around, and there's no accountability, and nobody knows where the fuck it's going, and these executives that came from these companies that got big fucking bailout checks, they're taking big bonus checks and saying, well, if they don't get these bonuses, they quit.
Like, fuck you!
What is happening?
This is a goddamn money grab.
Like, how is this money grab going on?
The money grab's going on because they're all corrupt.
The Democrats, the Republicans, they all owe favors to people that got them in office and they suck dick and kiss ass and they let this bullshit pass through.
So it's not just the Republicans.
It's not just the people who want war, the military-industrial complex.
It's fucking all of them.
It's all of them.
We live in a horribly corrupt system that is, we're like sick.
We're like, the human race is sick.
Like, there's something wrong with the way we think and behave.
If you want total enjoyment for the people that are participating in it, it doesn't have to be this way.
And the way it is right now is this way because too many people are passive and they're sitting back and they're just allowing this life to keep rolling forward in the same direction.
Look, it's going in a certain direction for sure, but it doesn't have to be negative and it doesn't have to fucking involve war.
It doesn't have to involve all this shit that's going on in these other countries.
We're being tricked into thinking it does.
We're supposed to be getting past that shit and we're supposed to be evolving in a technological sense.
But we should be evolving socially too.
And we're not.
We're still socially the same way we were 30, 40, fucking 50 years ago.
We're still doing the same dumb shit where it's gigantic groups of people led by a couple of leaders will attack another gigantic group of people and a bunch of fucking people that have nothing to do with anything die.
And someone is getting money from them.
That's all it is.
It's all about resources.
Every fucking one that's ever been fought, ever, they're about resources.
And it's just crazy that in 2010, we...
You know, the real problem is we live too long.
Right now, we live to be like 80, 90, 100. You live long enough to figure out it's all bullshit.
Back in the day, when you were fighting for the Roman Empire, you died a fucking plague when you were 19. You know what I'm saying?
If you lived to be 30, you did a lot of shit.
You got a long ass life.
Jesus, they killed him at 33 if he was ever real.
Look at all that.
People didn't live back then.
Nowadays, motherfuckers live forever.
You know, you hear about some new lady in France, you know, 126, like, what?
126, smoked cigarettes, drank red wine.
What the fuck?
126. It's incredible.
People live way longer and you live, if you live past a certain point, like you and I are very fortunate because we're in the entertainment industry.
So we don't have a specific job that we have to do every morning.
Like we don't have to go to work and work on say insurance cases all day, stuff that we're not interested in.
We're lucky that we get to create and we're lucky that we get to do stuff that we find interesting, that it's all fun.
But for most people, that's not the case.
And when it's not the case, and when your whole day is filled with work, and I've been there before, and you've been there before, you don't fucking think too much.
You don't figure too much out.
When you're working eight hours a goddamn day plus, and you're trying to get some overtime in because you got extra bills and credit card debt and shit, when it gets to a certain point in time, at the end of your day, man, you don't got time to contemplate the universe or culture or why people behave the way they behave.
No, you just fucking keep going.
Life is goddamn hard.
You just keep fucking going.
But you and I have way more time by ourselves to think on our own than most people.
So you get to a certain point in time, and you know, by the time I'm 42, by the time you're like 42, like, fuck, man.
The whole hustle is so obvious and stupid.
It's like the same hustle that would have got me when I was 18. I would have goddamn joined the army for sure when I was 18. When I'm 42, it makes me angry because somebody my age is doing this hustle on someone who's 18. You know, not even my age, older than me.
You know, I mean, it's like, you motherfuckers should have figured it out already.
You motherfuckers that are older than me, that are running the planet, you should be delivering this message.
You should have figured this out.
You should know that we're living like retards, that this is nonsensical, that this is not sustainable.
But we could live a sustainable life.
And it doesn't involve going to countries where you've never been and fucking up people you've never met.
It doesn't involve that.
You know, and this fucking argument like about our boys, you know, what do you want our boys to die, that's how they have to behave over there?
That's stupid.
That's a stupid argument.
Yeah, I know that that's how they have to behave when they're at war, 100%.
But that's not the argument.
The argument is this is nonsense.
They shouldn't fucking be there in the first place.
Where cursive, I'm more like, okay, that's a Z. I need Y-O-U apostrophe R-E. When you get a goddamn text message from me, you're gonna get a fucking apostrophe.
You're gonna get a U apostrophe R-E. I'm old school, son.
I'm old school, son.
I prefer a stick shift.
There's just too much goddamn traffic in LA. But I really prefer to shift my own fucking gears, you know what I'm saying?
I have a little BMW, a little M3. I love that thing, but it's got the paddle shifters.
And the paddle shifters are pretty dope in traffic because you really can shift gears when you want and you really control the engine.
But man, there's something about pressing that foot, that clutch down, putting that gear in, click, click, letting the clutch off, hitting the gas at the same time.
It's like you're in tune with the machine, man.
You're in tune with the machine.
I'm just pressing buttons.
I'm hitting the gas.
I'm pressing buttons.
And it's fun.
I mean, don't get me wrong.
The fucking car is fun as shit.
These little cars now that they make, like little BMWs, they handle so good, man.
They're just like, they've figured it out now.
And there's a crazy horsepower war now.
So regular cars that you buy are so much more fast than they've ever been before.
The old BMW before this one had 333 horsepower.
This one has 420. It's fucking ridiculous!
It's as fast as my old 911 Turbo, that old Porsche that I used to have.
That thing was stupid fast.
This thing is just as fast as that, but handles way better.
The balance is perfect.
It's like you feel like you can just move it like it's not even real.
It's like it's a go-kart or something, you know?
It's incredible what they're doing now.
Those new Mustangs, the Shelby, the GT500, those fucking things have 540 horsepower, man.
You could never buy a car.
Unnecessary, yes, but fun as fuck.
That's fun as fuck, dude.
If you had one of those Mustangs, those really fast ones, that did that...
But for the people that are tuning into iTunes right now, you get no link, you motherfuckers.
You don't even know what we're talking about.
Duncan Trussell, Drunk History, if you Google that, there'll be a website up where you can watch the YouTube clip.
You can watch it on Funny or Die.
You can watch it in a couple of different places, but it's hilarious.
And yeah, Edison was a cunt.
In Westinghouse, they were cunts, and Tesla was a genius.
But, in their defense, Tesla also fell in love with a pigeon.
Really?
Yeah, and he had an issue where he destroyed his sexuality.
Like, he had some fucking crazy problem with some actress, and he fell in love with her, and this is all really vague stuff, but in his own words, he destroyed his sexuality.
And they don't know if he castrated himself.
There was also a lot of speculation that he might have been gay or whatever too.
He was definitely a loon.
But again, I think you have to be a loon to be like the fucking greatest genius that the world has ever known.
I mean, that guy was nuts, man.
That guy created all kinds of shit.
Alternating current.
Literally, you created a way to fucking broadcast electricity through the air.
The only problem with it was it would be free Wi-Fi.
They wouldn't be able to control it.
To have it in your house, you'd just be able to have it.
But either way, Nikolai Tesla is a perfect example of what we were talking about earlier.
He's a dude who's like a just gigantic, super fucking genius.
Like the greatest genius ever.
And completely batshit insane.
Just out of his fucking mind.
Claimed that all of his information he received from aliens.
That he would tune into alien signals and they would tell him how to do all this stuff.
Hmm.
I always wonder about that, man.
I always wonder where the fuck ideas come from.
What if ideas are literally like a living organism?
What if ideas are like...
You know how we think about parasites?
We talked about this before.
Parasites infecting a host.
And they take over the host's body like that grasshopper that gets infected by this worm.
The aquatic worm grows inside the grasshopper.
To maturity, and then when it gets to maturity, it convinces the grasshopper that it has to jump into water and drown.
So the grasshopper commits suicide so that this worm can come out of it.
What if, like, language and ideas literally are like another sort of organism?
And what if, like, they are manipulating our consciousness?
You know, what if, like, language and ideas and all these different things that people come up with, like, creativity and people, when people are creative about things, they pull these things down out of the air.
Yeah, if you're a dude who looks like him in Jersey, you know, you're a fucking mailman or you're delivering sausages to the fucking local supermarket.
Ron Jeremy looks like you, and he's banging 10s, and you can't get laid at all.
You know, you're lucky if you get some toothless blowjob from some Hunts Point hooker that just makes you check your balls every five seconds for the next three days looking for herpes sores.
You know what I mean?
You're lucky if that's, you know, that's like as good as you can get.
You know, and that's going to cost you $150 or whatever the fuck it costs you.
You know, this motherfucker is just banging, and he looks just like you, and he's banging them all over his face.
You know, when you think about injuries, I mean, I've gone through, since doing jujitsu, I've gone through two knee surgeries, one meniscus, one reconstruction.
So why is jujitsu not one of the things like if you had like a stove that smelled like gas, you're always burning yourself, there's always flames coming out of it.
It's like surfing when the guys crash and get scratched up.
It's so much fucking fun to keep doing it.
Jiu-Jitsu, when you get good at it, is really fun, dude.
It's really fun.
You're going basically hand-to-hand combat and you're doing it with good friends.
Like these guys that I do Jiu-Jitsu with, you know, we trust each other with basically each other's lives.
You know, when a dude gets my back and chokes me and I tap, I'm trusting that he's going to let me go before he fucking kills me because basically he's got to a point where he's killing me.
And that's the same thing, you know, with you.
When you get on top of a dude and you're finishing off a choke or an armbar or something and a guy starts tapping...
He's basically trusting that you're not going to injure him.
And sometimes people get injured accidentally, but the amount of times that I don't get injured is way more than the amount of times that I do.
I get injured, but I've had these operations and shit over the course of doing Jiu Jitsu for 14 years.
It's a long ass time.
The first year or so, first couple years, I had a knee issue that I had.
I already had the knee surgery on my left knee, the meniscus.
I had the meniscus problem for years before that.
So it was a pre-existing injury.
So really the only major one that I had was the knee surgery.
But you just get it fixed and you fucking heal up and you just train smarter next time.
You realize don't put yourself in bad positions and don't train with spazes.
That's another thing.
You got to make sure you don't train with anybody that you don't trust.
It's very important.
Some guys are just a little too nutty.
They fucking spaz out on you when you train.
You've got to be real careful of those dudes because they want to win so badly.
The best guys are the guys who are really good.
Even though they tap you out, even though they can beat you, they're going to beat you with technique and you're much safer.
You're literally safer with a guy who can kick your ass Who's a black belt than you are with a guy who's strong who's a blue belt.
Because that strong blue belt might fucking dive on your foot and break it.
He might try to get you in a footlock and get a hold of it so quick trying to tap you out that he hurts you before you even get a chance to tap.
It's a very tricky thing, but doing it good is so much fun, dude.
It's so much fun.
It's so much fun.
And you don't think about anything else.
It really is like a form of meditation.
When you're in there and you're going at it and you're rolling with each other, you're not thinking about your bills.
You're not thinking about you gotta wash your car, your laundry.
No, you're thinking, I gotta survive here.
I gotta get out of the situation.
I gotta get into full guard.
I gotta pass his guard.
I gotta mount.
I gotta finish him.
I gotta stop him from finishing me.
That's all you're thinking about is the moment.
And whenever you're involved in something like that that's that intense, it's like a form of meditation, you know?
Don't you think that way about art sometimes?
Like when you're at your best and you're like with your video editing or you're creating something, like when you're right in the middle of it all, you ain't thinking about shit but what you're doing, you know?
I like making notes with the iPhone using that little application, but I don't like that I have to fucking go in the menu, find it, press that, press record.
I think I'm going to get like a little tiny voice notes thing.
And when I have ideas like that, when I'm writing and I have an idea, when I'm trying to write it down, I think I'm just going to press it and say the idea into it so I know for sure that I'm not going to lose it.
If you just sit around and just keep smoking weed every day, every day, the weed starts to lose its effect, and then you start to have to get more weed to kind of...
And then you're, like, flooding your system, you know?
I think that when you smoke weed, you can...
Like, if you want to do something creatively, you can't smoke too much.
You gotta have one hit.
One hit's good.
If you have two or three, you might lose track of what the fuck you're talking about, you know?
Sometimes it's fun to have two or three, but for the most part, one.
It's a little bit.
I read this professor.
I saw this interview once with this professor.
I think he was a physics professor.
I'm pretty sure.
He was talking about marijuana, and he was saying that he smokes a little bit.
He said the key is to not overdo it.
I smoke one hit, and I go on walks, and I contemplate my theories.
And he says that that one hit, he says it's like a magical push, like a little boost.
It just gives him a little momentum, a little wind in his sails, and then it starts the ball rolling.
Don't you ever think that?
Like sometimes you're creating something, you're trying to do something, and you're not smoking weed, and you're like, God, it's so...
And like, so I'll write S-T, S-O, so you know I did it stoned and edited sober, or I'll write, you know, S-O, S-T. I have some funny stone jokes that I write, and I look at them, and they are fucking crazy.
Well, the bit that I do in my act that is totally true, that I wrote down something when I was high and then I went to read it when I was sober and it's like, a unicorn is a donkey from the future.
I looked at that and I'm like, how could I have ever possibly thought that that was something that I needed to write down?
That is for sure a sure sign that I got way too fucked up.
And for people who don't know, it creates something when you eat it called 11-hydroxymetabolite that's four times stronger than THC. So when you eat it, literally, it's a totally different drug than when you smoke it.
That's why people, when they eat brownies, they always think they got laced with something.
You know, so I can't do that.
So that's the answer to that question.
There's no way I could eat a brownie, go on stage, and then an hour and the brownie kicks in.
Because then I would just want to lie on my back on stage and start talking about the universe.
Some people might be into it, but there'd be a lot of people that would leave and go, that fucking show sucked!
It was really funny for like an hour.
And then he just started talking crazy.
He's lying on his back saying he's connected to everything.
People would just not enjoy it.
Just take a social dose.
Well, that's what we're talking about.
We can't figure out what a social dose is.
Unless you're making the brownies yourself.
And even if you make the brownies yourself, you can fuck up the first time.
You get it too strong.
I don't have that time to be mastering the right dose of brownies.
Smoking it is the way to go.
Well, I loved you in Calgary too, Jen Ab.
Calgary was the shit.
That was fun, man.
That was a good fucking time.
A stone universe tour.
Yeah, I should do that.
You know what would really be cool?
Eventually, right now we can't do it, but eventually we're going to get to a point where we can do stone shows.
You know, like I could do a show, like somewhere, like in Amsterdam they have those cafes where they allow you to smoke weed.
And when they say don't die at pot, though, you could totally die if you, say, start panicking because you're stoned and then your heart has a heart attack.
Wiki answers is stupid because people like answer.
That's how I thought that whales, that killer whales used to kill people.
I've read this online in a couple different places.
That killer whales used to kill people until World War II and then people were using the whales as target practice.
I've read this online and I talked about it on the Adam Carolla show.
And even though I said, I don't know if it's true, I read it online, that after World War II, after the bombers, you know, killer whales stopped killing human beings and actually started saving.
Marijuana can give you a heart attack if your ticker sucks.
And you can read the story.
Yeah, I mean...
If you really...
You're going to get a heart attack from weed because you're freaking out.
I definitely think that there's another problem.
The real problem is that you're in terrible shape and you need to take care of your body.
That's the problem.
It's not pot.
The way I've always described pot not being able to help dumb people is that you put jet fuel in a fucking lawnmower, it's still a lawnmower.
You put jet fuel in a jet and it's pretty badass.
But the bottom line is it's all about what kind of hardware you're dealing with.
Some people just have weak brains.
Their brains just suck.
Have you ever met people and you look in their eye and you're talking to them and you're like, wow, there's no hope for this dude.
This dude's just dull.
I'm looking in his eyes.
I'm not making any connection.
It's like talking to a dog.
He's like a fucking idiot.
There are people, and people don't want to admit this for whatever reason.
Because there are people that aren't dumb, they're just troubled, and their lives have fallen apart because they, you know, they've got all sorts of issues and, you know, people go, oh, that guy's a retard.
But he's not really a retard.
You know he's kind of smart.
There are people like that that are just troubled and fucked up and, you know, perhaps they never figured out what it is in this life that they're good for or should be doing.
But there's definitely people with weak-ass 9-volt brains that are just supposed to be out there digging ditches.
And to deny that is just unscientific.
If you look at the entire fucking universe, man, It's all about things improving and getting better.
And if you look at human beings, there's all sorts of programs and things set up to make sure that the weak can still survive.
They don't drop off.
And when that happens, you're going to create a bunch of dumb people.
And having those dumb people around, look, they all fit their purpose.
They're all here for a reason.
But if you're going to have a fucking Nikolai Tesla, if you're going to have an Einstein, for sure you're going to have ditch diggers.
We don't ever want to say that because we want to say, oh, you give people a chance and everyone's got a chance.
I think there are certain people where it's very much cultural.
They're raised in an environment where no one's questioning anything.
Their role models are all dunces.
They grow up in a family where people scream and yell at each other for no reason.
They live in this stupid world and so they imitate their atmosphere and they become stupid themselves.
There's people like that.
So it's not an exact science, but the problem is there's a lot of really fucking dumb people, man.
When you see those videos of those people that go to those Sarah Palin book signings, those teabagger people, and they're all up in arms against the government, there are some wooden minds in there, just some dull motherfuckers.
That's really a problem that everybody has to have a say.
How do you fix that?
How do you fix what we got going on as far as the idea of a democracy, the idea of half the people or more?
Have to agree.
The idea of a real democracy.
More than 50% of the people are retarded, which I think they are.
I've been having all these conversations about religion on the Rogan board lately because of all this Catholic scandal that's going on.
And I don't know if you know the latest, but they've proven that the Pope knew about pedophiles and hid the cases.
That before he was the Pope, that he knew about these pedophile cases and he did everything that he could to shield the information and protect the priests.
It's like, man, how could you not think that the Catholic religion is a cult at that point?
At that point, it's a cult, right?
I mean, it's a cult, period, definition-wise.
But at that point in time, you're like, how could this possibly be good?
You know, if at the very top, this kind of shit is going on.
How do people get tricked into that?
How is that possible?
How are people so silly that in 2010 this is still considered a possibility?
To me and to you, when we look at gadgets and new things, Brian will find some new thing online, like, holy shit, look at this, and they'll send it to me or I'll send something to him.
You know, and you look at it, you're like, oh, what are they doing?
Look what they're doing with that.
This multi-touch fucking interface, like, minority report type shit or anything.
I think, though, the later, the more we kind of kill off a certain age group of people that didn't grow, I think the more people are going to research for themselves religion and stuff like that.
And I think religion is probably, their future of religion is probably going to be a lot different in, say, the next hundred years than it's ever been in ever.
I think it's probably more people have realized how ridiculous it is now than ever before.
I don't think there's ever been more questioners, and there's probably never been more options either.
With Scientology and the Moonies and anything else, and new ones that are popping up left and right, there's all these new ideologies that are popping up left and right.
People are offering new alternatives.
And it can't last.
There's going to come a point in time where we know the truth.
It's not going to be something that we have to wonder and make a judgment call on.
It's going to be like, oh, I know you're full of shit.
Oh, I know you're lying.
Oh, I know the information you're giving me is not truthful.
I can read this and I can understand this.
We have an intuitive sense of what's wrong and what's right.
And we also have an intuitive sense of when people are lying.
When someone is not being honest with you or when...
You ever be talking to someone and you know that they're secretly hoping that something goes wrong with you?
Well, yeah, I mean, but you have to also think that the reason why this person's acting like this or something like that is because it's something that they don't like that you've done to them or that's something that you do.
Imagine being married and imagine going to a bar and then you meet this girl and you start talking to her.
And somebody goes, oh hey, there's that person, takes a photo of you, puts it on their Twitter, now you are just being caught in front of five million people, you know?
And, you know, that's why all these crazy conqueror motherfuckers like Tiger Woods, you know, these guys that are so uber-competitive, that's why he had so many chicks, you know?
It's like, the guy's just doing nature.
He's spreading his seed.
If this was, you know, 2,000 years ago, that would be totally normal.
But it's like an offshoot, you know?
Get out of here, spouse.
It's an offshoot of, you know, a fucking warrior instincts, you know?
He's out there conquering, and then he's conquering, you know?
He's like doing what he's supposed to do.
He's like driving forward, you know?
Women are wired to grab a man and keep him for protection.
He was into like being rewarded for his hard work.
He was into like fine food and massages.
And if prostitution was legal, he would just hire hookers.
If it was an acceptable, normal thing to do, like he lived in some foreign country where they allowed prostitution, he would just go to the prostitutes and get serviced and then go home.
There's a fucking...
I don't understand how people have allowed that to be illegal.
But if you go to brothels, they have to check those girls.
They test those girls.
If you go to a brothel in a country that's respectable, supposedly they're testing those girls just like they test porn stars.
I don't think it's a good argument because I think that if you're paying attention more, it's a lot safer than if it's some fucking underground thing where these...
Yeah, but wouldn't it be safer if they did it in a brothel where there's security and when people get screened and they know someone's not crazy and they have security there everywhere?
I mean, that makes much more sense to me than some poor girl who has to put a fucking ad in some magazine and then show up.
You remember that girl that came to the comedy store one night?
She would go to them so that she had an address, you know, and she would tell her friend, hey, this is where I went, so if anything happens to me, I don't...
Come back, you know, somebody killed me.
And she would go to these people's places and she would fuck them.
And a lot of people there are all, go get them too.
They moved their immigrants.
You know, their grandparents were immigrants, and they moved there from another country.
That's some serious go-getter shit.
Take all your stuff, pack it, get in a boat, sail across the fucking world, and start in some new place, and learn the language, and learn, you know, how to...
I mean, that's how go-getter these people were.
So the people that initially came to this country on the East Coast, those are all savages.
And the people that went west are all the people that wanted to get away from the savages.
All the people were like, these fucking people are crazy, get me out of here, and they all took off.
And the furthest they could get was here.
That's why people in California are like the most laid back and the most progressive.
I mean, it literally is because they're the ones that are the ancestors of the ones that wanted to get the fuck away from where they were.
There's a mental game one can play called Channel the Alien, wherein one can find the answers to complex questions simply by visualizing an ancient alien from beyond pretending to channel the answers.
Try it sometime, you'll be surprised.
Okay, so what this guy is saying, this Holy Chaos 23, is that you can find the wise answers to things by pretending to channel an alien who has the wise answers.
Your fucking train is knocking over trees right now.
That doesn't make any sense.
I guess I kind of see what you're saying, you know, and I sort of do that sometimes where I say to myself, okay, if I wasn't me, how would I advise myself?
And I pretend that I'm talking to a much more intelligent version of me guiding my life.
I do do that.
But I don't pretend it's a goddamn alien.
I just try to think of what is...
Objectively, separate myself from my life and what's the best advice I could give myself if I was smarter than I am.
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I just thought about it again and I'm mad at myself for trying to think about it twice.
It's an interesting topic because I go back and forth on it and I agree with you to a certain extent.
It really is silly.
You can waste so much of your energy thinking about politics, but then the argument is we're supposed to be governing ourselves in this country and that you get the option to vote and you get the right to express your opinion and you can actually change the world.
But I don't know if you can.
I'm not completely convinced at this point.
With the amount of money that they're able to contribute to campaign funds that giant corporations are able to, they're literally shaping the way people see things.
They're putting ads and manipulating people's thoughts and getting people to believe things that aren't necessarily true, all so that they can push a certain agenda so that somebody can make money.
I mean, the situation is totally corrupt.
I mean, so much money is involved in politics now and so much money is involved in, you know, in running the world.
And, you know, just look at what Obama's done with all this fucking bailouts and this...
When you look at this whole healthcare system thing, someone has to be making money.
There's no way they'd be putting this much effort into this whole healthcare thing if it was just about, you know, keeping the people healthy and making sure that people have medical coverage.
It's not.
There's money involved in it.
It's corruption.
It's going to get crazy.
And it's a goddamn money grab, just like the bailout is.
People could say that that's what's wrong with this country, that people don't care.
But I say that until someone acknowledges the fact that this system is broken, we need a radical overhaul of this system, a complete restructuring of the way we do business in this country.
It's not even moving to Canada because they're corrupt too.
There's a big fucking, there's a big scandal.
The Minister of Finance, I believe, is involved in a big scandal in Canada.
People are corrupt, man.
It's human beings.
People are less corrupt in places where people are less ambitious, like Canada, where people are more laid back and friendlier.
You know, and that's one of the things that's cool about Canada.
People are just like, they're less crazy up there.
They're a little cooler, a little calmer.
You know, I think that...
I think you could waste your whole life trying to understand this system and be a part of it and argue it and go to court and it will become your everything.
And it's a system that we're born into.
We're born into this system that we did not choose.
We have no control of and it's so comprehensive and so fucking intertwined that just to study, a single branch of it would take up all of your time.
If you just wanted to understand the stock market, that shit would take up every fucking hour of every day of your life just trying to figure out how all that shit worked.
And even then, look at that fucking guy, that Bernie Madoff motherfucker.
That guy was ripping off people who understood the business.
That guy ripped off everybody.
He ripped off millionaires and shit.
He ripped off fucking Steven Spielberg.
He ripped off all these really big name people.
So that means nobody knows how it works.
Nobody understands that thing.
Could you imagine if your whole life is dedicated to studying the stock market, you're a supposed expert, people ask you for advice, and meanwhile you got fucked.
If there's a vote online whether or not you should be killed tonight, right now, if people watch this podcast, maybe 60% of the people would want you dead.
The real problem is it does take away from everything that you enjoy.
People say, you have to fight for your rights.
Do you really?
Why don't you just have your rights?
That's the real goddamn problem.
The real problem is that I have to think about this fucked up system at all.
That it's so broken, you have to keep an eye on it 24 hours a day because people are just stealing and getting us into fucking wars and making terrible decisions.
And they'll blame it on all these troubles that are happening in other countries.
But when you start fucking reading into it and you find out the shit that we do that causes all these troubles, you know, god damn, no wonder why everybody fucking hates us.
We got our dirty little fingers in everything.
So it's like, it's not me.
It's not me that has my dirty little fingers in Afghanistan and Iraq and, you know, and fucking all sorts of shit that goes on in third world countries.
And it's not you either.
You should be able to fucking pursue what you want to do.
And the idea that you have to go over there and kill some people to do that, it's just...
Damn, in 2010, we pretend like you go to Australia, like when we went to Australia recently.
Dude, people in Australia are so fucking cool.
They're so fun to be around.
They're such a friendly culture.
What if we decided to go to war with Australia?
How nutty would that be?
All of a sudden, we're supposed to be tricked into believing that we have a problem.
If it didn't, I mean, it's because we're going to war together as a group against some other motherfuckers.
I mean, that's really the only reason why we're not.
It's because we've decided to band up and go jack these fools and take their shit.
But it's amazing that our system...
There's no other system, though.
I mean, when you get 300 million people in place, what the fuck?
There's no other model of how to run a 300 million person empire and to do it correctly where people think it's fair.
Because people are just, it's part of life is an intelligence test.
And part of the intelligence test is how susceptible are you to manipulation?
You know, I mean, literally, it's like a game.
It's like there's people like these evangelists that you see, you know, at three o'clock in the morning that are fucking talking a certain cadence and like, especially that black guy with the hot dog rolls in the back of his neck, you know the guy I'm talking about?
That motherfucker is always, you know, spouting out some Bible shit, but he's doing it so charismatic and he's sweating like a pig and everybody in the audience is going bananas and It's an intelligence test.
The intelligence test is, do you believe?
This guy is so confident, he's speaking so clearly.
Do you believe what he's saying?
Because if you do, you're a dumbass.
He's just tricking you by being so confident in what he's saying.
And that's what it really is.
It's like, this whole world is like a gigantic intelligence test.
And even at the highest level, people are failing left and right.
If you start getting into these, you know, the Republicans want to control the House, what the fuck are you talking about?
Like, look what you're talking about.
You're talking about nonsense.
If everybody just stepped back and said, this is all nonsense.
This whole thing sucks.
Stop.
We're not going to fucking keep going with Windows 95. Shut the fuck up.
Okay, Windows 95 sucks.
We need some new shit, okay?
Do you have NT? Do you have Windows 2000?
Where's Vista?
Where's Windows 7, you motherfuckers?
Where's Mac OS? Windows Me.
Oh, that was a dark, dark time in American history.
You know, we need a better operating system.
And the problem is we don't.
We just keep patching up the same stupid fucking system we've always had.
So what do you do?
Do you sit back?
No, you don't move.
Because if you move, they're going to be under control of some other motherfuckers.
I'm sure living in Australia is part of- When you move a bunch of times, move around a bunch of times in this country, you realize the United States doesn't have one mentality.
And then when you move or when you travel to other places, you're like, God, I could live here.
Yeah, pretty soon, I think it's almost going to be like how the internet kind of...
In the old days, I wasn't talking to people from England every day, and Australia, and that kind of broke that wall.
I think in the future, there's not going to...
Like, once religion kind of fizzles out a little bit more, I think even just countries are going to fizzle out more, because we're probably going to be just teleporting to Japan every day, you know?
And if we get to a position where we talked about before like you know we talked about like Twitter and Facebook and this connectivity that people share right now.
It's like we're connected so much more now than we've ever been before.
If we really do get to a place where no secrets We'll exist.
Where everyone will know everything.
You'll be able to read each other's minds.
We'll be able to access each other's information.
Maybe that's the only way we'll ever really have a real government.
When we'll really realize that we really can't bullshit things.
That we need to have to come clean about the fact that we live in a crazy dictatorship that's dressed up as a democracy where these gigantic corporations are making millions of dollars and we just have to just accept the fact that we're under their rule.
It's the same way They accepted the fact when they lived in fucking England, they were under the rule of the king and all these different countries that are controlled by monarchs.
They have to accept that.
It's clean and they know what the fuck it is.
Like in Thailand, there's a goddamn king, period.
That's what it is.
There's a king and you gotta deal with that shit and you can't talk shit about him.
And maybe it's either that or we realize we can't do that anymore.
We realize we can't live like this anymore.
Maybe that's the only thing that's gonna save us.
Maybe it is technology.
You know?
Maybe it'll get the people who are actually running things to realize how ridiculous it is when everybody knows they're bullshit.
Hey, MayhemMiller12, when you say Joe is being a dick, I'm telling you, it's distracting to me, and it keeps me from being able to do this podcast well.
What are the best substitute for the current monetary system?
This dude wants to know.
Who the fuck knows, right?
I don't think you can have shit out there in the fucking...
Numbers in computers, it's got to represent something, right?
The problem with money is it doesn't really represent anything.
It kind of represents more ideas than anything.
It's not like one piece of gold is $1 and that piece of gold is sitting in an account somewhere and you can go cash your $100 bill in for 100 pieces of gold.
It has to mean something.
You can't have just all numbers in computers.
Because people just can fuck you, you know?
Like, you've been going through, I don't know how much you want to talk about this, but you've been going through some bullshit with the IRS where they, you know, they audit you and fuck with you and go into your...
I mean, numbers and, like, storing numbers and how much numbers did you put on this and how many numbers went to that and...
Yeah, well that's sort of one of the reasons why people sort of become artistic in the first place.
I think one of the reasons why people become artistic is because You know, you're fighting against a bunch of shit you don't like and you go against the grain and you wind up doing something that's totally unconventional.
You know, that's how people become musicians and comedians and artists and stuff.
When you have kids, you start wondering, like, how is this little person gonna be How are they gonna be happy in this crazy world as it gets nuttier and nuttier and more goddamn earthquakes?
You know?
Earthquake in Baja, Mexico a couple days, big one in Indonesia today.
I mean, we're having earthquakes everywhere, dude.
Yeah, well I think if you just tag it with the conspiracy theory name, but I think if you don't believe the conspiracies but you think that's an interesting approach to an idea or something.
Like people that just think 9-11 was done by our own government and they don't think anything else and stuff like that, that's a sick way to think of anything.
You should never put all your eggs in one basket type thing.
Putting all your eggs in one basket is a real problem.
We've talked about that before with our friends with certain subjects.
People love for there to be mysteries that they can unsolve.
They love for there to be some hidden information that they can unsolve, whether it's about 9-11 or about anything.
But the reality is, unless you really, really, really research shit, most people are just talking out of their ass when it comes to these subjects.
And when you do start researching shit, you realize, well, you can't just blanketly discount Or discredit all conspiracy theories just because it seems like a ridiculous thing because a lot of them are fucking real.
The Gulf of Tonkin, the fucking Operation Northwoods.
There's a lot of different shit that the government has done and different companies have done.
Cigarette companies have conspired to hide the facts about tobacco and to make sure that people keep smoking them and people are addicted.
This motherfucker is hook, line, and sinker with the cigarettes.
It's interesting, you know, because people can, you know, you can criticize that, you can say that's apathy, you know, like this discussion that we had on the board, but I don't think they're right.
I don't think they're right.
I think at a certain point in time, it is a foolish notion to try to control a corrupt system.
It's a foolish notion.
It really is.
I can see both sides of it.
I can see people saying, well, if everybody thought that way, there'd be no government, and it'd be, oh, this is bullshit, you know, you have to fucking stand up.
I can see that argument, but I can also see yours, man.
I see your argument.
I think you're right.
Ari has that same argument.
Ari says, why do I care?
It's not going to affect me.
Why do I care?
And in a certain way, it really doesn't.
But in a certain way, it does.
Like, social things.
Like, you know, Obama not going after the medical marijuana.
That makes a big difference to me.
You know, that's big to me.
Like, real state issues.
Like, legalizing medical marijuana in the state of California, that's something worth fucking voting for.
That was a huge thing.
That's real.
That's a real issue that got resolved, and it changed a lot of people's lives.
And it changed the whole climate of California.
People are way more relaxed.
People are way chiller.
You know, the access to weed is through the roof.
There's never been more access to weed in this country, ever, than right now.
That's a real issue that was resolved by voting.
So it's almost like state voting, voting on state issues like that where you can actually pick the issue.
Like, that's real shit.
That's real.
Local politics seem to be real.
This is the reason why California is so in debt.
We got an actor to be the fucking governor.
We went with a dude that seemed like he was a no-nonsense actor and we took this fucking dude who was an action film star and we made him the governor and shit just hit the fan.
Hit the fan running.
It's fascinating.
Because politics on a local level seem to be real.
But politics on a national level, yeah, it doesn't seem very fucking real.
The end.
That's the end of this podcast, ladies and gentlemen.