Joe Rogan and Nick Davies explore Alpha Brain’s psychedelic-like effects, including DMT-induced lucid dreams, while critiquing corporate-government collusion—like Halliburton under Dick Cheney—and questioning official narratives like the Bin Laden raid. Rogan contrasts jiu-jitsu’s ego-crushing discipline with ceremonial martial arts, citing elite competitors like Machado and Bravo, and debates UFC safety, concussion risks, and fighter longevity. They ponder internet consciousness as a 1960s-level revolution while praising London Real’s raw, live format, teasing Rogan’s Columbus studio launch and Death Squad’s surprise guest, blending martial arts, media ethics, and existential musings into a critique of power, secrecy, and human potential. [Automatically generated summary]
This is not a Red Bull type feeling if you're wondering what alpha brain is.
It's essentially nutrients that enhance your brain's ability to produce neurotransmitters.
It's all...
Different nutrients that have been shown to have a positive effect on brain function.
It is a very controversial subject.
I've looked at both ends of it.
I've talked to people who think it's a placebo.
I believe that everybody's body works completely differently.
I know that some people can eat peanuts and have a great old time and other people eat them and they're fucking dead.
I don't understand that.
But what I do understand is What benefits me and what has been shown to benefit people and what has a long history of human use.
And that's all the ingredients inside of AlphaBrain.
To go and check this out, go to Onnit.com.
That's O-N-N-I-T. And all of it is explained to you.
And the only reason why I would be in business with anybody, and this includes Ting, which we're in business with sometimes, or Audible, or Alienware, any of the people that we talk about on the show, even that we don't get money from, like H2O, or C2O rather.
Yeah, water doesn't give us any money, those cunts, cheap bitches.
C2O coconut water is fucking delicious.
They're great grillos pickles.
They're fucking the most delicious pickles on earth.
If I tell you it, it's because it's true to me.
I believe it 100%.
I've been wrong about shit before, trust me.
But I'll tell you that too.
If I'm wrong, I'll absolutely fucking tell you I'm wrong.
Alphabet I'm not wrong about.
The fucking dreams that you have, first of all, I would take it just for the dreams.
If you take it and then go to bed, you have the most intense graphic dreams.
I gave some to my Russian housekeeper, and she took him, and she went back to Latvia in 1965 and spoke to her grandfather in the dream, the lucid dream.
She came back the next day, and she's like, Brian, what the fuck?
Yeah, well that's the mechanism behind dimethyltryptamine.
The mechanism behind dimethyltryptamine is the same mechanism behind dreams.
Which is really weird how, you know how you can wake up and you're like, fuck what a dream I had, man.
We were on roller skates and we were running from Godzilla and it was my cousin who I grew up with but I haven't seen him since I was 13. He's like, why didn't you call me?
And I felt fucking guilty.
Meanwhile, Godzilla's chasing us and you can remember it.
But then if I came up to you like a half an hour later and I said, tell me about that dream again.
Yeah, DMT, which is a crazy psychedelic drug that your brain makes.
And it's also available in plant form.
But the idea is that when you're dreaming intense dreams, that what's going on is your brain is producing...
Dimethyltryptamine your brain is producing this hallucinogen and nobody really understands what it's about and some people actually believe that you know there's an old term called sleep on it you know if you have a you have something that's bothering you sleep on it maybe you come up with a good decision in the morning A lot of the reasons for that term is because you really do think about things that are troubling you while you're sleeping.
And if you are tripping, if that is what's happening when you're sleeping, if we're all growing through a DMT trip that is erased by the time we wake up, which is a distinct possibility considering the weirdness of dreams and what are they?
The ones that seem really real.
What are these?
These are obviously hallucinations, like really intense hallucinations.
But In a much more controlled form than, say, a DMT state.
Well, it could just be it's a low-level DMT experience.
There's certain Eastern religions which believe that the life we're living now is actually just the dream that your higher self is having, which I find very interesting.
Death Squad is just a nickname that was given to us a long, long time ago and now sort of branched out into Brian's podcast.
It's still like, it's a family.
That's what really Death Squad represents to all of us.
When we talk about if we put Death Squad under a post and it's Joey Diaz and Ari and Brian and Duncan are all on a show together, that's what we call Death Squad.
But you've had, you know, you had Graham Hancock on.
You guys have had some just right up our alley guests.
It's really, it's beautiful to see that there's more out there, that there's people that are doing this in London, you know, there's people that are doing this in Toronto.
I ran into a lot of people in Toronto that have podcasts now.
And it's essentially, it's all the same thing.
It's like, you know, you get together and you go, I would like to talk about some shit that I don't see talked about in the mainstream news.
Like, There's all this nonsense in the news about celebrities or about parts of the world that really don't even have anything to do with our day-to-day lives.
But there's all these other weird subjects that aren't getting covered.
There's so much fascinating things about it.
What's going on with these psychedelics?
What are they here for?
What's this all about?
Can this be a debate for intelligent people to sit down and talk?
Or does it immediately get derided and reduced to some silliness?
To some, oh yeah, were you going to take hallucinogens?
Yeah.
Why don't you just fucking, why don't you get up in the morning and put a tie on like a gentleman?
And they decide to call it America and act as a group.
But it's pretty obvious at this point that that's not real.
It's us that's real.
It's humans.
And it might as well be you guys.
When you're here, you're Americans.
It's like, what is America?
It's just a fucking spot.
It's just a spot.
And the idea that this spot acts as one unit and we should all go along with what the spot's doing, that's fucking completely ridiculous.
Because we don't get a say.
And what they're doing is completely contrary to what most of the people in this country would want to get done.
So what we have is like a fake country.
And we have really a dictatorship that's run by money.
And it's just run with a loose grip.
It's not run with a dog collar around your neck so you constantly feel oppressed.
It's run with a loose grip of corruption.
It's a loose grip of corruption and entanglement where there's no way to get into the system.
Where a guy like Gary Johnson, who's the only one left running for president who makes any fucking sense, the libertarian candidate can't even get in on the debates because they won't treat him seriously.
Because the media is really fake.
The media is really bought and sold and it's a news program.
It's a news program where they pick and choose what aspects of the news, what angle of the news, instead of giving you all the information and anything that has anything to do with criticizing America or anything that shows America in a bad light.
It's all got to be reviewed before it's put on air.
What we're saying is business doesn't mean you have to fucking rob people.
Business doesn't mean you have to use lobbyists to influence policy so that you can pollute rivers.
Business doesn't mean that you can store nuclear waste in the middle of the fucking desert because you don't know how to get rid of it.
You're not supposed to do any of that stuff.
Until you know how to get rid of it, don't make it.
We really probably shouldn't even be on fucking nuclear power because we've had several major incidents over the past 100 years.
100 years ain't shit when it comes to how long the fucking earth is and how long radioactive material lasts.
So if you're having nuclear, if they've put together these power plants that if something goes wrong, that spot is poison for 100,000 years.
You cannot live there anymore.
And then even after 100,000 years, who's going to be the first to fucking move back there?
If we've keeping any sort of accurate records whatsoever, who the fuck is going to be the first person to move back to where there was a nuclear disaster and power plants imploded?
No one's going to do that.
So that spot's ruined essentially for longer than humans have existed.
That's how long we've ruined Chernobyl.
That's how long we've ruined Fukushima.
We're ruining these spots.
And there's a lot of power plants, man.
Hundreds of them all over the place.
And they could all equal a spot where one day you can't go anywhere near them.
We're assuming we're going to be able to keep the power on.
The reason why corporations are able to get away with the shit they do, bribe politicians, and influence literally war and murder, is because they act as a group that's just trying to get zeros and ones.
They're just trying to get money.
So they don't look at things in terms of their moral value.
They look at things in terms of, is this good for our stockholders?
Is this good for our business?
Can we make a profit here?
Can we get over there?
And when you have companies where you get a guy like Dick Cheney, who's the fucking head of a company called Halliburton, That fixes shit up after it gets blown up.
And then this guy becomes the vice president and just starts blowing shit up and then giving these contracts to the company that he used to run.
That is one of the craziest things that's ever happened in front of human beings.
It was essentially a jacking on television live, publicly, and government-sanctioned where they jacked a whole country and jacked the American people, too, and made us Give money to these corporations that would fix shit that we blow up.
And even build shit that's not necessary.
If you talk to people that are over there, they'll tell you that they just have a certain amount of money they're supposed to spend.
And they have a certain amount of projects.
They can build a desalinization plan.
The people are like, we don't fucking need this.
We're building it.
You need it, you want it, it doesn't matter.
We're building a desalinization plan because we got the contract for it.
And it's just billions of dollars is going over there.
Billions and billions.
Neil deGrasse Tyson had a speech where he was talking about that we have the capability now, we have the knowledge and the know-how to build a telescope that literally can go back and look at the beginnings of time.
Like, we can build a telescope that is just infinitely more powerful than anything that exists today.
It would cost about ten million dollars.
Ten billion dollars to, you know, it sounds like an incredible amount of money, until you find out how much money they spend in Iraq.
Look, the business of running countries has not changed.
Although the access to information has changed radically, so the understanding of what a country really is has changed radically.
But the business of running countries has not changed.
The same thing that they did during the Roman Empire, they're doing today.
They're just doing it through a loose series of guidelines.
But it's really clear that they're robbing countries' resources, controlling people's militaries, attacking people mercilessly, We have fucking robots that we operate with remote control from the other side of the planet that shoot missiles from the sky that kill people.
Like that is bananas.
The fact that that's one of the major ways that we rocket in 2012 We literally send fucking Darth Vader spaceships that shoot rockets from the sky.
It seems like, you know, if corporations and governments all sort of have this diffusion of responsibility, and even though we're in America, all the things that go on that we don't agree with, like drone attacks and all this shit, you know, it becomes a matter of how much of an impact does that have on the whole rest of the population?
And if it only has a minor impact on the rest of the population, a lot of times you can get away with it.
And that's the situation that we're in right now.
We know that in order to change things, it would require a major overhaul.
And it would be really difficult for a lot of people.
I mean, the government is comprised of a huge amount of human beings.
There's a lot of people that essentially are completely unnecessary if we had a real just and true government.
We know they conspired with Enron and essentially Halliburton was allowed to conspire.
Halliburton's a clear conspiracy.
But we also know a lot about government conspiracy from the past that's not just like ideas and thoughts, but stuff that actually has been proven to have happened.
Like the Gulf of Tonkin, the idea that they got us into a war in Vietnam with like a fake story.
The Operation Northwoods, Operation Dirty Trick, which is where they were going to blow...
John Glenn was going to be the first person into orbit.
And if anything happened to his space shuttle, his rocket...
They were going to blame it on the Cubans.
We were going to blow up some fucking...
It was a reason to attack Cuba.
We were like, look, it's a win-win.
If John Glenn makes it, he's the first guy in space.
The whole reason why that guy existed is because we do...
The only way a guy like Osama Bin Laden or any of these radical guys ever exists is there's got to be some great empire to oppose.
And it's not a great empire of altruism that's trying to help people all over the world and trying to enhance the lives of people and clean up their areas and make money in helping countries instead of making money and just robbing their resources and then taking out their military and taking out their government.
I'd like to believe that that's the case, that we can have a fair society, but I think, Brian, you believe that human nature is never going to happen, right?
I had a guy, in fact, this is the worst shout out I could ever give anyone, but he said to me, and he popped up in the chat one, he was like, try to talk to Joe about Kung Fu, because I think he has some negative ideas.
I was like, look, dude, I don't really believe in Kung Fu myself, so it's going to be tough for me to convince him.
Well, it's also the way they practice it, the way a lot of people are practicing it, I'm like, oh my god, you're being silly.
It's like you're throwing a punch, and then you're pretending that if you threw that punch, what I would do is I would step right here, and then I would attack your organs like this with a claw motion.
We just had Roger Gracie in the studio on Friday, and he was talking about, we were rubbishing off Kung Fu and Karate, something bad, we're gonna get some hate, but he was talking about the kata, and how if you get good at the kata, you get your belt, and he was like, but in Jiu Jitsu, you spar, and you have to test, you can put a choke on someone, but what about if he doesn't want you to put it on?
And he just was kind of breaking down some of the core differences.
Do you know what I find is very interesting, Joe, which you might appreciate is if you look at some of those more ridiculous martial arts, you see a guy who's like 45 or 50. If you see a jiu-jitsu guy at that age, he's tough.
He still rolls.
He's in shape.
But you see one of these guys and without fail, every single 45-year-old plus Traditional martial artist is the guy who's got like a slouch and a beer belly and you can see he hasn't done a push-up for like 15 years, you know what I mean?
Yeah, that's what jujitsu is all about, exposing reality.
And there's a lot of martial arts that are about putting on a show.
It's really kind of completely contrary to jujitsu.
Taekwondo had a big impact on me as a child because in doing something that was difficult in Taekwondo, it was like the first character-forming thing that I did as a person.
But there's a lot of cult aspects to it.
You know, the bowing and calling the instructor sir and always bowing to them.
None of that shit's in jiu-jitsu.
The respect is all real, legitimate, natural, friendly respect.
Like John Jacques Machado.
I have a black brother named John Jacques as well.
John Jock is not just a great jiu-jitsu coach.
He's like everyone's friend.
He's a really nice guy.
So he's very informal.
But no one ever disrespects him or no one ever takes advantage of that friendliness and thinks that they would be a better fighter than him or they can kick his ass sparring or something like that.
But karate guys will always have to put on...
I don't want to say always, because a lot of them...
It's done correctly, and it is a discipline, and it's all about maintaining the mindset of the Zen martial arts practitioner.
There's a lot of people that are legit about it.
But there's also a lot of people that just want to put up a fucking...
Dog and pony show so that you don't challenge them and test them and then they develop a fucking god.
So they get to this ninjutsu school and they say to the guy, you know, we'd like to spar with you.
We'd like to see your system and what you can do.
So he said you will wait until after the class and so they were like okay this they stuck on watch them walk on their hands whatever it is you do in jiu-jitsu class and Then at the end of the class the instructor said he said students we have a challenger and What he did is he took out a blindfold he walked to the center of the mat and he knelt down crossed his arm or put the blindfold and crossed his arms and Then said to my buddy.
What the ego's there for, to give you a reason to stay alive until you can get enlightened enough that you no longer need the ego to appreciate this existence.
But the ego is there to keep you alive.
You're super special when you're a fucking 10-year-old.
I've been doing Jiu-Jitsu since 96, and I think just getting constantly fucking strangled and going at it until your heart's going to explode in your chest and you're trying not to tap.
But you've got to realize you've got to tap and then you've got to go again because there's still four minutes left in the round.
And you're going at it.
And you develop these intense relationships with people because you understand their character.
You see dudes that break.
You see dudes that will never break.
You know guys that are so tough to tap.
And you know guys that are a monster out of the gate but then they run out of gas.
Even one level up is like I'm a Jiu Jitsu instructor and then I don't know if all Jiu-Jitsu instructors have it.
I'd love to hear from some of the others.
But when all your students are watching and there's that young, tough 20-year-old kid and he's like the tough proper belt and you're tired and you've got to carry an injury or something, you know you've got to put it on the line.
These fuckers aren't going to respect you anymore.
That happened to me in Brazil I went down as a white belt and I was training in Gracie Baja and like all week I was getting my ass tapped out as a white belt and then Friday was no gi day and I showed up obviously with no belt And I started rolling with this one dude, and I tapped him like six times.
You can sense that, I mean, his presence, he is, we interviewed him on our show the other day, and one of the things I brought up was, I've known him for almost 10 years, and Joe, I swear to God, I've never seen him lose his cool.
He is the most zen person on the planet, or the most zen person I know.
It goes hand in hand with good jujitsu.
I notice the calmer I'm getting as a human being, maybe it's got to do with aging or meditation, the better my jujitsu is, the more I'm in touch with reality when I'm sparring with someone.
I think jujitsu is an excellent part of daily life for a man especially.
I think it's just one aspect.
Others are nutrition, philosophy, thought, conversation, conversation with others.
I know this podcast for sure.
People talk about how much this podcast has helped them.
Well, it's helped me, too, because it's helped me really review a lot of the ideas that I have in my head and my take on things.
And really, in projecting it out to other people, or broadcasting it out to people, you also are forced to sort of take a real account of all your thoughts.
And it's sort of like teaching jiu-jitsu makes your game better.
I actually found out the other day, because I noticed that as well.
When I started teaching full-time, I got quite a lot better, and we have, I don't know if I'm using the correct term, but there's a specific kind of neuron in our brain That fires when we see someone doing something it's I think it's called an empathy neuron and so when you're a teacher you watch your students and I don't know about your process when you teach them but for me I watch what they do and I kind of in my mind I overlay what it should look like there's like a mental video overlay and then eventually I'll show them what to do and they'll do it correctly and it's kind of like me doing the technique again does that make sense yes yeah so
I guess that's what's happening when you watch someone else doing something or if you just involved in the process that's where you can get better watching fight videos Yeah, absolutely.
And having knowledge of what to do already in your head, like having especially patterns.
Like the other day, I was rolling, and I had this guy in side control, and he tried to get up to one knee.
And as he tried to get up to one knee, I took his back, and it was all in one second.
The whole thing was like...
You know, it all just like, you know, it happens like you couldn't think, even if you were like an athletic person, you wouldn't be able to do it like that.
I've changed much more over the years and tried to be much more guard oriented and half guard oriented and earn top position, you know, because most of my game, most of my submissions were from the top and I realized that's unrealistic.
Roger's dad, Maurizio, I mean he's a red and white, red and black belt, so I mean this guy's legit.
And he said to me, I said when I was quite a bit younger, I said, like, man, you know, Maurizio, I thought about it, like, I don't want to play on my back because if I'm on my back, I'm just trying to get to the top anyway, so why don't I just go straight to the top?
And he said, you know, Nick, when you get older, you'll see you'll need your guard, bro.
You'll need it because there's much more energy conservation when you're on your back.
I didn't think about it, but the older I get, I kind of see that.
Well, there's a very different feeling that I get from playing video games than I get from doing other things that are difficult, like pool.
I play pool, which is also a lot of people would say is a waste of time.
You know, like they always say that if someone is good at pool, it's a glorious result of a misspent youth.
You know, that's what people describe like a really good pool player.
But I feel that pool in a lot of ways is a lot like jujitsu because it's a lot about managing your nerves.
It's a lot about control of your body.
It's a lot about concentration.
It's not as fast-paced, but it's pretty intense when you play high-level pool.
So to me, it's not just a game.
It's also there's a lot of exercise going on there.
There's a lot of exercise of control and composure.
And in striking the ball, in judging how hard to hit it, You literally are judging how much energy you release.
You're controlling the effort.
And it's very important because you can't hit everything full blast.
It's not like boxing where you're trying to knock somebody out in the first round.
You can just get away with all power punches.
You have to have a real good sense.
Of how lightly or how hard you need to hit that ball and you need to be able to control that ball with a level stick so you need to figure out how to drive through it level as you're coming down.
If you look at it like from a big picture perspective there's a philosopher called Alan Watts and he says I think he was around in the 60s or the 70s and he was saying how you'll get these wealthy people who they'll buy a huge boat and then they wonder why it doesn't make them happy and it's because Yeah.
I'm not trying too hard to get better, I'm just enjoying my skill, I'm getting pleasure from it.
Yeah, like when you have a good role, like say you get in there with a good purple belt or something like that, someone who's real scrappy and you go at it and you're countering each other and you attack and countering each other and then you finally catch a dude with something, it's like, man, you earned that shit, you know?
There's something beautiful about pulling off a technique on an unwilling participant, you know, where you've figured out a way to bypass his defenses, and you get in, and it's And it's a fascinating game of intellect, and that's what people don't understand.
It's not just a physical thing.
There's certainly physical aspects to it, especially I feel them now because I'm just getting back into jiu-jitsu shape.
Because even if you work out, it's not the same.
The only thing that comes close is kettlebells.
There's especially a kettlebell workout called Extreme Kettlebell Cardio Workout.
This company called Dragon Door sells it, and this motherfucker puts you through hell.
I mean, it's a light kettlebell, too.
He does it with a 35-pound kettlebell.
And I would have never believed that someone could give me a good workout with a little pussy-ass 35-pound weight.
You know, it gets your testosterone production up.
When you're doing, like, real, like, they always say that the best exercises for putting on mass are full-body exercises, like deadlifts traditionally, squats, things along those lines, where your whole body has to move as a unit.
Far more effective for putting on, like, real size and functional strength than, like, say, Just bench press or just curls or something along those lines.
And by the way, Florida is also the state that has recently come under fire for hiring police officers to pretend to be high school students to get kids to sell them pot.
They hired a 25-year-old woman who was hot.
She was attractive to make friends with a 17-year-old boy who was an honor roll student.
especially over 17 especially an attractive attractive 25 year old woman I mean that's a real woman and he smells that a boy would smell that and the affection for that woman would be like super special so you know what's funny is sickness I don't know about you but when I was like younger like my fantasy was an older woman and the older you get it kind of switches around laughing What do you think?
Didn't you get it?
Oh, as you get older, your fantasy's a younger woman?
They want to feel the intensity of the performance.
They want to feel the focus.
They want to be entertained, so you have to be up for it.
So it's an excited thing.
If I didn't do my job, though, I would feel fucking nervous.
Like if I haven't been writing and I don't know what to say, there's a weird fear that comes with trying new shit and fucking around with new bits, especially if you're not convinced.
Like sometimes I'll have a bit and I'll start out with it and I'm like, man, this bit might fucking suck.
This bit might suck.
This might have been just one of those stoned ramblings.
And then I'll do it on stage and I'll find a path and all of a sudden it becomes a monster.
It's like on stage it'll become alive and you have to take that chance sometimes.
There's two aspects to writing.
One aspect is the physical act of sitting in front of a keyboard, writing in silence by myself.
There's that for sure.
That's a very important aspect of it.
But the other aspect of it It's telling the story in front of people.
Telling the bit in front of people.
Because then the motherfucker just comes alive.
Then I know, like, I was going to say it a certain way, but in the moment I go, no, no, no, I don't need that part.
I need to edit that part out and just get right to this part.
Boom, boom!
And it's a matter of editing on stage.
It's one of the few art forms that you must have an audience to create.
You have to.
I can't create...
I can start the process on my own, but I can't create the audience without...
Yeah, and as an audience member, I feel it as well.
Like when I watch someone who I think is really hilarious, like when I saw Stanhope recently or when I saw Joey Diaz the other day, like when someone is really killing and you're locked into their bit, there's this weird sort of connection.
And as a performer, you feel that.
And when you're coming up with new shit, it's like you've...
Yeah, there was a bunch of people that wrote books on comedy.
And they were like, you know, I remember as a young professional, when I just started getting paid to do gigs, people would just laugh at these books, but how horrible the comic who actually wrote the book was.
But what a book does do, even though I agree with that in certain ways, it does get you interested in the conversation.
It does like you might like go to the bookstore and say how to be a stand up comic, man, I need to fucking find a book on how to be a comic.
And then that book might be step one.
Taking a class might be step two.
Ten years from now, you might be Marc Maron.
You might be a Marc Maron.
You might be a real professional comedian.
It's just a matter of taking those steps.
And so the good thing that a comedy class does is it allows you to fuck around and get on stage and see if this is something you're actually interested in.
And just think about the process of it.
And by the way, when you're in a bad comedy class listening to idiots tell you how to do it, you might be like, this guy's an idiot.
And that might help your comedy.
That might help you understand that there's a lot of people out there that do it terrible.
Don't do what this guy's doing.
Don't hack it up up there.
Don't make it so obvious.
Don't insult me as a person who's watching.
You might feel insulted, and that actually might benefit you in an educational sort of a way.
Can you tell as someone who's like, you're like a black belt in STEM comedy as well, so can you tell when you meet your, when you meet a new colleague or peer, can you tell if they're a natural person?
Or if they're someone who had average talent and really polished it to a high degree.
It's the same thing we were talking about being a black belt.
You've got to know what is actually funny.
And you've got to know what is just annoying to listen to.
What is just you jerking off into the wind and what is actually something that's relevant.
Something relevant to bring up.
Something that you're actually contributing to the conversation.
One of the things that Brian is really good at, and I want to encourage this, but I have to give him his props, he'll say some shit that I would have never fucking thought up, and I would have never said, and he'll interject them in weird spots, and it's just like, it takes the conversation.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
But it takes it to a place that you probably would have never gone on your own.
And that's what's fun in having a conversation.
What's fun in having a conversation and what's fun in watching a stand-up comedian is someone who can take shit to places where you might not have gone, but they're relevant places.
So it's like you allow them to think for you for a brief moment.
You know, you allow them.
And when someone's...
When they're awkward and clunky, you know, like, you can't think for me, stupid.
So when you say that someone's exhausting because they're always yuck-yucking it up, like, they don't understand how they're being perceived.
There's a disconnect between what they're projecting and what they're imagining they're projecting or how they're being received and how they're imagining they're being received.
There's a disconnect there.
And that's...
Just like the karate guy who still thinks he's a master and he's got a gut now but he wants everybody to be terrified of him and he really does believe somewhere in the back of his head that he can fucking handle multiple attackers.
Yeah, the first pass through the liver becomes 11-hydroxymetabolite, which is this intense psychedelic drug, which is five times more psychoactive than THC. So for a portion of marijuana, like say...
What's in a pot brownie, just if you smoked it, would fucking get you high as shit.
But if you eat it, it's almost uncomfortable.
It's so self-examinatory and so intensely probing to all aspects of your fears and unconscious thoughts.
Well, I see your point, and I think that what you're saying is probably correct, but I think that if you want to have a fair society and a society that makes sense, I don't think you can have things.
When it comes to money and finances, I don't think you can have things that can be manipulated in any way, shape, or form.
Or things that are based at all on confidence or perceptions of how something is doing.
So when I look at the stock, Apple's down.
You know, the iPhone has not been perceived as the fucking hit that we thought it was.
Apple stock is down.
What are you even saying?
What the fuck are you even saying?
What kind of crazy world do we live in where there's people, the regular people, who are gambling for and against a company Falling apart, are doing well, and that's a part of our society, and that's a part of our economy.
But every time you buy something, you're kind of gambling.
When you buy your house and wherever you live, you actually are thinking it'll probably be a good investment as opposed to if you bought a house and Sure, if I was saying that you should never gamble, that would make sense.
What I'm saying is you can't gamble on shit that you're not even a part of and that can't be a giant part of the economy.
When you're buying stock and selling stock and trading stock, And things are going up and down.
The Dow is down seven points today.
What the fuck are you even talking about?
You've got a shit system.
If the Dow is down, if it's that fluctuating up and down based on some stupid fucking bill that gets passed or Iran's been rattling their sabers, the Dow is down!
I think the internet is eventually going to be the governing of the world.
It's going to lead to the governing of the world through the people.
I think it's only inevitable.
as long as people continue to have more and more access to information and more and more power to distribute that information like we do right now.
And that's one of the scariest things about these tightening up bills.
When they're trying to stop, they're passing these cyberterrorism bills and this sweeping legislation that allows the government to come in and shut down websites and deem enemies of the state.
Like WikiLeaks is an enemy of the state now.
Julian Assange is deemed an enemy of the state.
They've decided he's as bad as Al-Qaeda.
Meanwhile, all he's done is tell the truth.
All he's done is distribute information that the government didn't want distributed, so they've decided that this guy is a fucking terrorist.
And even if you vote for him, I think it's been pretty obvious with Obama that it's not that easy.
And what Obama's done, everybody thought that Obama was going to be this great savior of this country and is going to I remember this woman who was all happy when he won, and now I know that my mortgage is going to be paid, and now I know that I was listening to her say this, and I was like, whoa, you want to talk about some high expectations for someone who's going to come in and you think he's going to fix this incredibly fucking entangled, corrupt system?
Not only did he not fix it, but he let some shit get passed that I would have never thought that the National Defense Authorization Act Which allows the military to break up civil dissent.
It allows the military to be used on U.S. civilians.
It allows people to be held without authorization.
It allows, rather, without representation, without any recourse.
You can't have a trial.
They can just hold you indefinitely as long as they want.
It's not like things have gone horribly bad in this country.
It's not like there's riots in the streets every day and people are assassinating government leaders and there's bombs blowing up in buildings everywhere.
And we have resorted to some sort of arcane law that we're going to have to put into place until we can calm things down.
We've got to control.
No, it's not that big.
Walk down the street in Pasadena.
It's beautiful out here, man.
Get on the highway.
There's a few too many cars.
People are civil.
You've got hours and hours of bumper-to-bumper traffic, and the worst thing is somebody might blow the horn or stick a finger out at somebody.
No one's cutting people's heads off with swords.
It's not necessary to pass these crazy Orwellian laws.
But what it makes me think is that they can see the writing on the wall, and they know that this form of running governments It's no longer valid.
It doesn't work.
It's ridiculous.
We understand your influence.
We understand why you're making these decisions.
We see where the money comes from now.
It's all readily available.
It's not like we're living in 1930, and I have to read the Hearst newspapers to find out what the information is going to be about this upcoming election.
You can find out anything about anybody.
It's really different now.
And it's not saying that we don't need a government.
We certainly need a government.
It's not saying we shouldn't have corporations.
Of course we should have corporations.
There's a lot of corporations that I think are great.
I think Apple's great.
I think Porsche's great.
I like their products.
You know what I mean?
There's nothing wrong with that.
It's just we can't allow companies.
Money to supersede humanity.
And that's what they've done.
They've allowed the idea of doing their stockholders justice and making as much money as possible, they've allowed that to supersede humanity.
And when you have businesses where their entire function is to supersede humanity, you can see that, and you can measure that, that we need to stop that.
That needs to be closed down.
They've got to stop it for themselves because they're all having fucking horrible karma from that.
Yeah, Brian and I, we've come up with this idea called Global Real, and we want to facilitate the setting up of like similar things, Learn Real, in every major city in the world.
And we talked to some guys actually in Victoria, British Columbia, there's a guy over there, Eric Faust, and we talked to him recently on Skype, and he's like, I want to do a podcast.
I'm like, just do it.
You know, if you want some help, let's do it.
And he's like, I want to call it Victoria Reel with your permission.
I've been impressed by the power of a conversation.
We get on the air once a week.
We have an hour conversation with someone who we think is important.
And that's why we put them in the center of the screen.
We want to feature these people to the world, whether it's Simon Powell with his psilocybin solution or an MMA fighter or somebody.
And it's like, check this dude out.
It's had a big effect on me.
I mean, I've grown so much as a person this last year.
It's probably been the best year of my life, and this is like 10 years of financial markets and making money and doing this, but like this last year, I've changed the most.
I fucking drank ayahuasca.
Two years ago, I would have been the dude that glazes over when you talk about psychedelics.
I'm like, oh, you're one of those fucks.
And now I'm doing it, and I treat people differently.
I think a lot of times, as young males, we're sold this capitalist promise where you go to school, you make the money, you get the girl, you have the car, and you're happy.
And a lot of our viewers, I think, are the same way.
They're like these guys in their mid-20s.
I think they're playing the game, and they're like, okay, then where are all my rewards?
And they're like, I'm not happy with this anymore.
And I think I got there.
I was doing this day-in, day-out job, and it was quote-unquote successful, and I had all the trappings, and then I was just like, I wasn't happy.
So I just walked away from it, scared as hell, with nothing to do.
Yeah, and then for six months, I was literally not doing much, and Nick and I would meet in the West End, And walk around London for like three hours and I was listening to your podcast and we'd walk and we'd talk about philosophy and women and finance and perspectives and at the end I'd be like, Nick, that would have made a fucking good podcast.
If we had just recorded it, you know?
And then Nick's like, let's do it, let's do it, let's do it.
This guy, whoever you were that came with the Higher Primate tattoo, this guy had the dopest fucking, one of my t-shirt designs on his shoulder, the Shiva one.
He had it done on his shoulder by this wicked tattoo artist.
You have to consider with MMA the potential for long-term damage to your mind.
You just have to consider that.
And so these guys always have that sort of hanging over their head.
And I think that's one of the reasons why you really can't enjoy it like you can enjoy jiu-jitsu.
Like jujitsu, even when you tap somebody, you don't feel bad because you get tapped too.
Everybody taps.
It's just part of the whole game.
It's like he needs to learn that you can't put your arm there if the guy's got your back.
He needs to learn what he did wrong in that position because it's not like if you got Hodger in that position, you could have tapped him.
You know what I mean?
It's a lesson for everybody.
So you don't even feel bad about delivering the lesson.
Because if you're trying to get good at jujitsu, ultimately you should welcome getting tapped.
Because it exposes you, your true weaknesses, otherwise you're really not going to know.
And the only way to get better is to see those weaknesses, shore up those holes, and move forward.
So someone who taps you is actually helping you.
And that aspect doesn't exist in kickboxing.
You know, kickboxing, man, you only have a certain rat-a-tat-tat That you could take to your head.
You only have a certain number, man.
And when you deliver, especially when you deliver on a sparring partner, there's part of you that knows that you just did some damage.
When you uncork a right hand on someone, you see their eyes roll back and their knees buckle, you know you just fuck that guy's consciousness up for a blip.
But some of them don't have access to the most technical trainers.
You know, there's some trainers, like there's the Matt Humes of the world, who if you watch their fighters, their fighters are so obviously well-trained, very obviously technical.
Winklejohn's fighters are also very similar.
They're super obviously well technically trained.
You watch Cowboy Cerrone move.
You watch what John Jones is learning.
These guys are learning very good technique.
And the only way to truly do that is to be taught by someone who is at the front of the game.
Someone who really knows what the fuck is up.
Someone who has a super technical stand-up game and knows how to move a fighter...
Through progression.
Challenge them and test them, but not have them get mauled.
They're just a little better at squashing cuntiness.
Although I shouldn't say that because I hear Sherdog's gotten a lot better about it.
Anyway, my point is they're ruthless because they're hiding behind anonymous screen names, but sometimes they're accurate.
And every now and then they'll put up a video and say, does so-and-so seem to have brain damage?
And then you listen to him and you're like, wow, that guy is struggling.
There was a video with Paul Williams recently where he was, Paul Williams the boxer, who got knocked out by Sergio Martinez with a vicious one-punch knockout.
And then he was in a motorcycle accident, which left him paralyzed, and they interviewed him in the motorcycle.
And I was listening to his labored speech, and I was like, ooh, that doesn't sound good.
You see that and you go, how could you stop that guy's fight?
You've got to look at the individual and his ability to bounce back from punishment.
You've got to give him the opportunity to win.
Frankie's proven time and time again that he can do that.
In that sense, the referee has to be an expert in fighters' particular styles and their ability to endure punishment.
It's not the best way to compete, but with a guy like Frankie Edgar, it's also one of his weapons.
One of his weapons is that he's in incredible shape and that he recovers quickly.
And, you know, he can wear a guy out because of that.
He can drag a guy into some crazy fucking firefight where, you know, he's got a thousand bullets and the other guy might only have 400. So, you know, he might think, oh, I got 400 bullets.
This guy's fucking dead.
Meanwhile, he can keep going, man.
And, like, you know, the fourth round with Gray Maynard, when he knocked him out, it was like, God damn, he's still going.
He's still going at the same clip he was going in the first round.
And Gray couldn't manage that at that point in his...
What's it like behind the scenes at the UFC? I mean, what would we be surprised at something you just notice all the time when you're calling those fights at the UFC? I don't know, man.
It's not that stand-up is easy, but there's infinite variables on the ground, and you have to understand the various different styles of attacking different positions.
Some guys They'll go side control on a guy and face towards the feet.
And they'll be like, guys, we'll try to get a guy in a twister or try to get someone's back.
And then there's other guys that go judo style.
And they're going to look for the mounted crucifix.
They're going to look to ground and pound.
Or they're going to look for a scarf hole or some kind of like...
Mark Coleman did that to Dan Severn.
It was like one of the first submissions in the UFC heavyweight division when he won the title.
You have to see all those.
You have to understand those.
You have to have been strangled.
You have to get somebody with it.
You have to fight it off.
If you don't, you're not going to be able to explain to people what this guy's doing wrong or what he needs to do.
And that's what makes it more exciting.
When a guy's doing, like Jimmy Smith is really good at it from Bellator.
With Jimmy Smith, if a guy's got someone's back, he's like, He's got to defend with his right arm while he's attacking with his left.
He'll explain to people.
And if you're a person who's an amateur or someone who has nothing to do with martial arts, you can watch it and follow along.
Oh, I see what that guy's doing.
His right arm's going to choke that guy.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And the other guy, he's saying he's got to get his leg free, otherwise he's going to get, oh, I see, yeah, he's holding him with his legs.
And it adds to the excitement.
And that's, you can't be a sports guy and do that.
Yeah, I have a black belt under Jean-Jacques in the gi, but I don't fucking use it.
I use overhooks and underhooks.
I believe that if your game is gi-oriented, the good thing about the gi is defense.
The good thing about the gi is you must be tactical in your defense.
You have to be tactical in your attacks.
You can't...
Because a guy gets a hold of your collar, a guy gets a hold of your sleeve, there's a lot of shit they could do to you if you were slippery and with no gi, you could just muscle out of it.
But you have to use technique and you have to do it the right way with a gi.
One of the things that opened up the darts was that a lot of people were attacking from the half guard.
And they were going with a double underhooks attack.
And when they were going with a double underhooks attack, a lot of guys were sneaking their arms in And then all of a sudden it became anaconda chokes, darts chokes.
Yeah, and it was basically to deal with underhooks.
So if you're on the side of a guy, like maybe in half guard, and a guy has a really strong underhook, You know that if you get your arm under his underhook and pass his neck and connect your arms together, now he's in a bit of trouble.
You just put yourself in a dangerous situation.
You're trying to be very offensive, but in allowing me to whizzer your underhook and pass by your neck, now you've allowed me to control your neck.
Now I've got a position on you.
And now, especially if you go Japanese necktie, which is one of the new moves that a lot of guys are doing now.
So the things that suffer are other aspects of my career.
So I limit the amount of shit that I do.
So once this stand-up special's out and I can not think about that, boom, then I'm diving full into writing.
Writing the book.
Because I already have to balance it out with writing stand-up, which right now is more important because my special's about to drop and I have a whole new hour that I've basically put together between the time I did the special and now.
If nothing changed at all other than the way it is right now, if it just maintained, I'd be the happiest person on earth.
I have the greatest audiences in the history of the art form.
It's the craziest thing ever.
I wish you guys could come to see some of these crowds because they're crazy.
And it's mostly podcast fans.
It's mostly people who don't just resonate with the idea of comedy but resonate with the idea that there's someone out there that's also confused by all this.
And there's someone out there that's being honest about all of it.
And those people, I've sort of found a huge amount of them because of this podcast.
And I don't desire anything more than that.
Just having all the people come up to me after shows, all the people that tell me they've lost weight, all the people that tell me they've got their shit together, that they're living their life like they're the hero in their own story.
Today is October the 2nd, and if you go to the October the 1st feed, I tweeted this video where this guy, he must have like massive autism, because this guy went and debunked every single point that ancient aliens has ever put forth about how humans could have never built this!
This is impossible!
He fucking stomped a dirty mud hole in every fucking show that they've ever done.
It said, just go to Ancient Aliens Debunked, and you want full movie fixed audio.
That's the version.
The other one had a little weird glitch in the audio, but it's still...
You can still watch it.
It's still excellent.
And it's called...
The guy's YouTube name is...
What is it?
Verse by Verse...
Bt.
That's it.
It's one word.
Verse by verse Bt.
That is his YouTube page.
And it's a brilliant job.
Whoever this guy is, thank you very much.
Because what you did is you cleared up so much confusion.
And for me, there was a lot of stuff that I really didn't understand.
There's still some stuff that hasn't been explained.
There's some of the things about Pumapunku and the way they...
Move stones and fit them in.
And I think it's very interesting that this guy was able to find so many pieces of evidence that point to how they did certain things and explain how they built obelisks and giant stones and show ones that were in the process of being made when they abandoned so you can clearly see how they did it.
Fascinating.
And also he had some brilliant insight on the construction of the pyramids that I had never heard before about the theory of the internal ramp.
Because the question has always been how they place the stones.
It's like an x-ray of some radio wave graph of the pyramid.
And you can actually see the internal ramp.
And they didn't understand what that was when they first made this reading of the actual structure of the pyramid of Giza.
Until this internal ramp theory came into play, and this guy examines the internal ramp theory and shows all the evidence for it, including areas of the pyramid where at certain points you could actually go in through the side of the pyramid, there's a hole, and you can go in and see where there's all this space in there, and most likely that's how it was built.
Well, either way, listen, this ancient aliens debunking, what it does is explain how all these things were done.
What it doesn't explain is how they figured this out.
What it doesn't explain is what kind of intense mathematics were involved in the equations of 2,300,000 stones, each of them cut so perfectly that they meet exactly in a point at the top.
It doesn't explain that, and it doesn't explain where they got the knowledge from.
It explains how they did it.
And how they did it was, certainly, it took a long time.
It certainly was incredibly difficult.
It certainly required master craftsmen and builders and skillful labor.
But the knowledge to construct it is what's really fascinating because that is what Graham Hancock points to.
What he believes is backed by real evidence and that evidence is that there was a very sophisticated culture that existed all over the world somewhere around 10,000 BC and that something Probably happened to those people and we had to start a lot of things over again.
And coincidentally, this time period that Graham Hancock points to, which is about 10,000 plus BC, is the exact same time period that the most recent discoveries of glass, impact glass, from meteor showers has been discovered at the same layer of dirt All over the world.
So scientists are absolutely convinced, and this is fairly recently, that there was incredibly destructive meteor showers around 12,000 years ago.
And they found these in France.
They found this glass in the Middle East.
And when they do soil samples, it's all on the same, I believe it's called The same strata, I think that's how they describe it.
The same area where they know, the way to do the calculation stuff, how old it is when they do carbon testing on that area.
And they believe that somewhere 12,000 years ago, that's when the ice age ended.
That's when...
All this mass extinction.
It's all around the same time of woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers.
It's all in the same sort of area and they could all coincide.
So what we have in ancient Egypt is not simply an amazing culture that in 2500 BC built the pyramids.
It might very well be that 10,000 BC they built the Sphinx and 10,000 BC they had Massive stone structures already in place back when we thought that people were just hunter-gatherers.
That's the basis of Graham Hancock's thoughts on it.
And every day he's being proven correct.
The more people discover about ancient civilizations, the more Graham Hancock is correct.
He's like the perfect representative, in my opinion, of what Can be accomplished through psychedelics and thinking and just his take on his own work and his take on the difficulty in trying to express these very controversial ideas.
That book, Fingerprints of the Gods, changed the way I look at history.
And I'm pretty convinced now, especially due to the most recent geological evidence and the discoveries of things like Gobekli Tepe, which is this 14,000-year-old massive compound of huge 9-foot-tall stone columns.
This really, or excuse me, is it 19?
I think it might be 19 foot tall still in columns.
But it is still amazing because 14,000 years ago people were supposed to be hunter-gatherers.
There wasn't supposed to be any sort of civilization like this.
We're supposed to be living in fucking teepees and shit.
Then he's showing that there's these huge stone structures, by the way, which they've only uncovered less than 4% of, I believe, because it's a painstaking process of Because, you know, they've got to do it with toothbrushes and shit.
They've got to sift through the sand and find bone fragments and pottery fragments and things along those lines.
But what they do know about Gobekli Tepe is that it was covered up 14,000 years ago.
Covered up.
Purposely covered up.
They literally buried a whole fucking city 14,000 years ago.
Just to think that you're walking in this area, and as I'm looking around, I remember just standing there and just thinking that at one point in time, this was a football field, and they were playing that crazy game where they kicked this ball through a hole, which devolved to they believe that they might have played it with human heads at one point in time.
And just the one area where they have the sacrificial altar where they would kill someone and cut their heart out and throw the heart down the stairs.
Hancock's new book is about, his new fictional piece is about that whole period and he's, oh my gosh, he's talked about it on the show and we were like, it talks about 80,000 people being slaughtered in four days for ceremonial purposes and he's, I was just like, oh my god, let me buy that.
In four days and he said just the rivers of blood and the human sacrifice, I guess they would fatten people up in pens for days and weeks on end in order to sacrifice for like a brand new monument and just The concept of you being there fattened up with your family when you know you're just going to be used to have your heart pulled out of your body and shown.
And the crazy thing is, it's like, how did they go from the people that were so incredibly sophisticated that they built these...
Structures that were aligned to the cosmos and when they were aligned to they directly correlate a lot of them do with constellations like they understood the alignment of certain stars they understood the prediction of lunar eclipses like a thousand years in the future they had figured out so they had this incredible knowledge of astronomy and they they had figured out and and recorded a lot of like really incredible shit and yet they were killing 80,000 fucking people in a couple of days.
Well, see, the people who can create it would not be the people who created it.
The people who can create it would be the people who go...
You know, if you just understand how atoms work, if you got in there and split this and did this, you shouldn't do it.
But if you did, what you could do is you could fucking have the incredible destructive power.
Don't do it.
But if you wanted to do it, that's what you would do.
It's like the warrior or the general, the military man who would drop a fucking atomic bomb on a building on a city is way too fucking stupid to ever figure out how to make that thing.
It's like the mentality to figure out how to make...
An atomic bomb is completely different than the metallic that you would just drop one out of a plane.
I think that when you have nuclear power or any sort of mass destructive power, it's a lot like the military equivalent of winning the lottery.
You didn't really earn that.
You just have it.
You just have it and you're gonna spend it.
And you're gonna spend it with no regard.
You're gonna spend it not knowing the consequences.
You're a child with a grown-up toy.
You haven't developed this thing.
You've just got access to it.
The same way some asshole who doesn't really understand cars Can somehow or another just go into a Chevy dealership and buy a Corvette ZR1 with 648 horsepower and just fucking stomp on it and slam it right into a tree?
That moron should have never had access to that kind of power or never have access to that kind of ability to move so quickly.
with his own decision making, he can decide whether or not to run the red lights and whether or not to just drive his car right into a fucking mall parking lot and smash into cars.
You can do anything you want when you have a Corvette.
You die, but if you could choose to just drive into traffic, if you're fucking crazy.
There's something weird about our ability in contrast to what we understand or what we have earned, the power that we've earned.
Like if you build a bow and arrow, okay, if you're a tribesman, you're out there in the woods, you build a bow and arrow, you craft it, and you develop your aim, and then you use it, and you hunt and kill an animal.
I mean, that's fair trade.
I mean, you've earned all of those steps.
You've really earned all those.
But if you drop a nuclear bomb in a lake and then start pulling out fish, we've got all the fish we need!
You're just some fucking asshole with a nuclear bomb.
That's why I've been told the best war leaders or the best generals are the ones who've come up through the ranks because they've seen combat.
They know what it means to send people onto a battlefield.
Whereas the guy who just went to West Point and never fired a shot in his life, it's easy for him to say, like, send in the troops because he doesn't know the direct consequences of that, right?
I think that's one of the reasons why they like people that get into office that aren't like Wesley Clark or aren't like John McCain.
People that...
You know, essentially they're chicken hogs.
Guys like George Bush, guys like Dick Cheney.
The ones who are the biggest warmongers are the ones who never experienced him personally.
You know, I think a guy like John McCain would be far more reluctant to use a military strategy knowing that there's boys out there that could have been just like him.
You know, a guy like Wesley Clark would certainly be far more reluctant to take, you know, the lives of these young soldiers for granted because at one point in time that was him.
Colin Powell was really good about that in the first Iraqi invasion because he had spent so long in Vietnam and he'd seen the mission creep there and like how it lasted forever and ever and he was really adamant.
It's when you don't have a defined outcome of a mission.
You're not like we're gonna go in and do X, Y, and Z. We're gonna go in and wait until there's peace or we're gonna defeat terrorism and it's like there's no specific end to that mission.
There's a website I want you to check out sometime called stratfor.com And they're really big into this thing called geopolitics, which is basically every nation is built on kind of their geography as well.
And they just talk about how Iraq's built up in a very mountainous way.
And it's in no one's interest to go in there because it's such a mess to do that.
And I hope we don't anyways because we don't really have any business doing that.
Yeah, well, believe it or not, that sounds stupid, right?
Like, boy, how grandiose are we?
We think we're going to change the world?
The only way you can change the world is to influence young people.
So that the young people who go through the ranks don't imitate all the crusty old fuckheads that have been running things in these archaic ways because that's just the way things always were done.
Like if your ideas were going to the Iranian public and they listen to your podcast And similarly, maybe if there was a crazy Iranian podcast and we could listen to their leaders, I just think communicating would get us at least in the right direction.
And I bet there's a lot of Iranians who have their own podcast, just like London Real.
I gotta assume that this is not gonna stop here.
I think what's going on with podcasts and especially with the free ability to distribute information and to communicate, not even distribute information, but just even a talk on the internet to discuss things, to review things.
It's never existed like this before.
There's never been a time in human history where A guy could be doing something like my podcast in LA, and you guys in London could be listening to it when you're going jogging.
It's not like we had to spend billions of dollars and put satellites in orbit and figure out how to get our message to people and it goes over on a fucking horseback and you've got to decipher it.
You've got to hire a local guy who speaks the language.
You know, what we need is camaraderie and we need community.
We need the government to rethink what they really are.
They are one of us.
We're all in this together.
It's not like the Stanford prison studies where they, you know, took...
College kids and they had some of them become guards and some become prisoners and you immediately see corruption and abuse.
It doesn't have to be prisoners and guards.
It shouldn't be, but that's what it is.
We have a government that's set up that's not a part of our community, that's not one of us.
We have instead people that are trying to tell us what to do or will lock you up.
And they suck at what they do.
They suck.
They're incompetent, and they're shitty at their job, so they like to hide.
They like to hide information.
They like to make it really hard for you to get a hold of anything that shows that they suck at their job.
And when you bust them sucking at their job, and you distribute that information, you become an enemy of the state, like WikiLeaks.
I mean, stop and think about what WikiLeaks has done.
WikiLeaks, in releasing that collateral murder video, let people know how calloused War can make regular good Americans and turn soldiers into people that don't care that innocent people got gunned down in the street and that make jokes and talk lightly about machine gunning vans filled with people, including children.
I mean, this is fact.
You watch that video.
It makes you feel bad for the guys who are shooting.
It makes you feel bad for the people on the ground.
The whole thing makes you feel bad because the whole thing is just off.
It's just wrong and crazy and not what we want when we think about the United States of America in a proud way.
We think of ourselves as being a noble country, a country filled with people that are rugged individuals that figured out a way to escape from the monarchy of England and come over here and do it on our own.
And this time we're going to have freedom and we're going to have the Constitution and we're going to make sure that we have rules in place so that corruption can...
And then you see just massive amounts of corruption.
We had a guest on two weeks ago, and we talked about Islam.
He's a Muslim guy who lives in Britain.
He's from Pakistan.
And he was like, Brian, when I grew up in the early 80s, late 70s, I was like, we had all these wonderful ideas of what the U.S., it was something good.
I always wonder if America as a sovereign entity, if it was actually attacked, which it's never really been on its own soil, except for 9-11, but that was, okay, two planes and a building.
All right, Hawaii.
All right, guys, you're killing me.
Would everyone bond together?
Or as you said earlier, is it a nation that's fragmented?
I mean, if Louisiana got attacked, would LA people be like, well, fuck you guys?
Or would you get drafted and sign your kids up to go and die to defend those borders?
It's unfortunate that in this model of civilization it doesn't seem like there's any other way for us to learn other than shit falling apart.
It's not like we can just look at things and say, hey, listen, Obviously, we're doing this wrong and we're going to have to figure out how to do it right.
And in the process of figuring out how to do things right, there's a lot of shit that's going to go away.
And one of the things is people who have billions of dollars.
You're not going to have billions of dollars anymore because your money is nonsense.
Your money is basically a bunch of fucking things that are in a bank somewhere.
And instead, what we've got to seek to do is we've got to seek to have a resource-based economy, a real resource-based economy.
Then we've got to figure out who owns these resources and how should these resources really be distributed?
Should somebody be able to camp in front of a diamond hole in the earth and say, this is my fucking hole!
Should it not be that the resources are what powers our economy?
Should it not be that the resources instead are what powers our government and that no one really owns them and that they're distributed to all the people that claim the earth as their home?
And that sounds crazy, hippie, nonsense, socialist.
But the reality is, you shouldn't be able to fucking build a giant machine and park it 10 miles off Louisiana in the middle of the ocean and just suck billions of dollars out of the earth and then not give any of that back.
And then say, this is all ours.
We're getting all right.
We're sucking it all.
You're draining the earth like a giant mosquito bat vampire thing.
And when we had the financial crisis in London in 2008, apparently RBS, one of the banks at Royal Bank of Scotland, they were one day away from shutting off the ATM machines.
And they were saying, if you've ever thought of a food riot, if you can think of people not being able to touch their money...
And, you know, it's happened in little small doses with the collapse of, in America, it's happened a bunch.
There's a savings and loan collapse that George Bush's son was involved in that was a huge scandal that, you know, cost people millions and millions of dollars.
A lot of people's personal fortunes were completely erased.
Their entire life, Vinnie Pazienza, the boxer, he lost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Just gone!
Disappeared!
Sorry we don't have it anymore.
And that's what a part of this financial bailout was in this country.
The most recent one was trying to avoid something like that happening with all these big banks failing.
But at the end of the day, if you're going to have a society that is well-designed, you can't use an infrastructure that is not well-designed and maintain it.
The structure that we have now is so fucked up and corrupt and crazy.
Everybody that I talk to that comes up to me and says, Dude, this podcast has changed my life.
You changed the way I look at things, changed the way I approach my life.
I realize that this is not a permanent experience.
This is supposed to be a ride, an enjoyable time, a finite time that I can manage.
And if I just stick to a certain amount of principles...
A certain series of principles, rather.
Go towards what you love.
Actually do what you want to do.
Be nice to people.
Have a close-knit circle of friends.
Love them as if you love yourself.
To really move in that direction is possible for all of us.
And that's the way you change the world.
The way you change the world is you change the way people look at things so that nobody wants to be the big cunt in charge.
Because the big cunt in charge leaves a shit life.
We live in a world where when kids get crazy and they make a lot of noise and they're fucking hard to deal with, people give these kids antidepressants.
They give them Ritalin.
They give them all kinds of different crazy shit.
Then when they get to be adults, then they're even more fucked up and sad and disconnected with their shitty lives.
So then we give them antidepressants.
We give them more things to help them get over this little mental hump.
Then their dick stops working.
What do they do?
Well, we come up, we got Cialis and Viagra and Levitra and all sorts of pills that make your dick hard.
Well, you know, this stuff isn't helping me anymore.
Oh, we got some other stuff that you add on to your antidepressant.
You take this as well as that, and this is really going to put you over the top, and that's really going to make you happy.
And we constantly keep...
Looking for some sort of a chemical fix for depression and for the lack of good feelings in this life.
And I think that there's certainly people that have mental imbalances and they are helped by pharmaceutical drugs, by antidepressants.
But that notwithstanding, there's also people...
That are getting a very bad signal from their life because they're living a life that is non-harmonious.
You can never tell people what to do, but you can tell people what helped you.
And you can tell people what has aided you and where you were going wrong and how you saw it and corrected it.
A big part of life has got to be the way you interact with human beings, the happiness that you derive from friendships, the happiness that you derive from doing things together, and also from creating things.
Whether it's creating carpentry or art.
We are some weird animal that constantly seeks to use the imagination to make physical things manifest themselves.
Whether it's physical things in terms of something you can read online or something you can watch as in a video podcast.
Whatever it is, we have this massive amount of satisfaction that we get out of making things.
Because we're some weird fucking bee thing.
We're some weird insect that's making a hive.
We're just making this super complicated hive that's connected by billions and billions of other little fucking weird pink monkeys.
Or brown monkeys and black monkeys and yellow monkeys.
And we're all putting it all together.
And we don't know what it is.
We all are responsible for our own little piece of this crazy machine called culture and civilization.
We don't know what the fuck we're doing.
But clearly we're all working together in some weird form.
And you can accept that and you can choose to be depressed.
You can choose to live an ineffective, inefficient, non-harmonious life because it's going to make your mother-in-law happy and keep your marriage together.
Or you can, you know, seek silence and calmness and truly examine your situation and then slowly try to turn that boat around.
Slowly try to turn that battleship towards where it needs to go.
As much if not more than anything that's ever existed in human history.
The biggest bursts of change that have ever come forth in human history are nothing compared to the reactions that people are gonna get to the free access Of information and content that the internet has.
The impact of the 60s ain't shit compared to the impacts of the 2000s and the 2010s and 20s.
It's going to be logarithmically expanding.
We can't even wrap our heads around where it's going and that's why the government is panicking.
That's why they're building this giant NSA spy fucking cabin in Utah, one of the biggest, most expensive projects the government's ever undertaken.
No money for Neil deGrasse Tyson's gigantic telescope to see the beginning of time, but they've got plenty of money to build a huge building to store every fucking email you've ever written, to take everybody's laptop fucking camera and turn it on to watch you beating off and Store it and put it in some fucking database somewhere.
And you think that's a joke, but it's not.
It's true.
Your fucking cell phone is basically a giant GPS tracking device.
If a wrestler develops knockout power, the odds of you getting him down is kind of small.
It's going to be hard to get a wrestler down.
Jiu-jitsu guys versus wrestlers are always a weird sort of combination because if the jiu-jitsu guy can't get the wrestler down and the wrestler guy is like a...
A Chuck Liddell guy, it's bad for the jiu-jitsu guy.
But if the jiu-jitsu guy can get the wrestler guy down, a lot of times wrestlers have some bad habits.
Off their back, they're not as good.
It's interesting, but that King Mo fight shows you a wrestler with some serious power like King Mo.
That's a dangerous guy.
It's a dangerous guy to fight if you're trying to take the fight to the ground.
I think there's so much competitive craziness in America.
And there's so much just arrogance in the American attitude, which is, you know, one of the things that sort of built, yeah, made it as fucking nutty as it is.
Like the tube in London, which is the underground, you see people face-to-face, you know, and you're constantly interacting with them, seeing these crazy women wearing burqas or some lady from Somalia, and you're smelling them and seeing them.
America is such a huge landmass that it's not ever that densely populated if you compare it to Tokyo or London where we're on this tiny little island.
What happens is in places like that where it's so densely populated people are forced to be They're forced to learn to be able to live on top of each other and be nicer to each other because there's nowhere out.
I think it has to do with why people came here in the first place.
The ripples, the first ripples of intention of the people that landed, they were crazy.
They were people who were so bold, they got on a boat and sailed for months across the fucking ocean to some place they hadn't even seen in a video because video wasn't invented.
It sounds so fucking corny and grandiose, but I think that really is the way to change the world.
The way to change the world is to let people know how you've changed, and then it branches out.
It ripples.
It has this massive sort of snowball effect, and it just grows, and If there's any way that we can improve our world, it's improving the way the other people around us see it and approach it.
This thing might be ridiculous.
It might be just one frame in an infinite movie that goes on forever.
For a lot of people that get really sad about that and say, well, wow, that's so pointless.
What's the point?
But it's happening right now, and I'm enjoying the fuck out of it.
If it is happening right now, if this is really one fucking step in an infinite number of steps, and it's just a life cycle that will repeat itself again, and you're going to be a baby again in 50 years, guess what?
To somehow or another transfer this energy into my next life, I'll have a great time in that life too.
I didn't always have a great time in this life, and I don't know what that's from.
I don't know if reincarnation's real.
I don't know if this is a one-time shot and everything else is just your ego trying to protect itself from the inevitable doom of the spirit which dies just like the body does.
But I think what's made it fun for me is to have these kind of conversations.
It's really made life more enjoyable.
And I know that you guys are positively influencing a lot of people.
And I know this show is, and all of our friends are.
And I think that's what's up.
I think that's something that we've all locked into.
Most of us unexpectedly sort of stumbled into it, but that's...
Also, I think that's the right way it's supposed to go down.
The universe has a plan for all this, and we're little strange monkeys.
We follow the plan, and if you're resonating the right frequency, if you have the right intent, I think that plan turns out the way this one's turned out.
You can get that information also at deathsquad.tv.
Brian will have that up.
Yes, people keep asking me, when are you going to put together a website where you have all of the information of everybody that's, you know, quote-unquote, involved in the Death Squad?
We're going to do that.
It's just a matter of time.
It's just a matter of, like I said, I have too much shit going on right now.
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