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Really? | |
Gave up boozing up. | ||
You're hanging out with me about a month. | ||
I still get high, but I just, I don't, the wreck afterwards just sucks so hard, man. | ||
I've been doing the same thing. | ||
Yeah. | ||
I try to limit it to two drinks if I go out. | ||
Yeah. | ||
A lot of times I don't even have the desire to have more than one because why do that when you can do other things that are better and don't give you a hangover? | ||
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The other night I had two and it was crazy. | ||
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David Seaman is here, and we're fixing it busy. | ||
We've got a lot of shit to talk about. | ||
The shit's hitting the Bitcoin fan. | ||
It is. | ||
Shit's crazy out there. | ||
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The Joe Rogan experience. | |
Drain my day, Joe Rogan. | ||
Podcast by night, all day. | ||
How fitting that our friend David Seaman is here the very day that Mount Gox, the big storage place or whatever the fuck it is, the site, the... | ||
It's an online exchange for Bitcoin. | ||
The exchange is diggity-diggity done. | ||
So it hit the wall. | ||
I'm like the Forrest Gump kind of random trends. | ||
Like, I'm always kind of in the background of all this completely unrelated shit. | ||
And yeah, Mt. | ||
Gox was run by this guy who is a allegedly kind of a piece of shit. | ||
I got to say, like, allegedly, as you guys do, but as a respectable journalist, I've heard sources say he's a piece of shit. | ||
And so there is an error in the way that his site interacts with the overall Bitcoin network in the same way that if you are using email and you happen to download a shitty email program, like a knockoff version of Outlook, and it fucks up the way you send your emails, doesn't mean there's a problem with email. | ||
There's a problem with what you're using and the way you've implemented it. | ||
And email has been used enough by now that we know that it works. | ||
And it was kind of a similar issue here where there was an incompetent implementation and some hackers were able to steal over time somewhere between 300 million to 400 million dollars worth of Bitcoin. | ||
So it's pretty brutal and Bitcoin's taking a bashing in the press, which is well deserved. | ||
But I personally bought more last night because I've just been reading about it so much that I actually kind of believe it and I'm drinking the Kool-Aid. | ||
And in that case, when some shit like that happens, it's not a tragedy. | ||
It's actually kind of an opportunity because I'm like, well, now I can actually buy some more of this instead of only having a little bit of the future currency of the New World Order. | ||
I'll have a real fraction of it. | ||
And I'm already getting shit from people who are like, you're promoting a product that is New World Order designed. | ||
And I'm like, do you have any evidence of that? | ||
Like, have you actually read even a tenth as much of the people who are reporting on this shit? | ||
Like, everything is out there about Bitcoin, and yet they're already moving towards, like, it was created by NWO. | ||
I think that's sort of what we were talking about before the podcast started, that there's a bunch of people that love for something to be a conspiracy. | ||
So they look for it in everything and anything. | ||
I've been involved in things where I know there was no conspiracy. | ||
I know I was there, and yet I've had people tell me that it was like UFC fights, like that things are fixed, that someone wasn't really injured, and that they're just, it's a big scam, and all it is is to set up another fight. | ||
They had this all along. | ||
It's a shuffle. | ||
It's like people love to think, well, it's because there are some conspiracies. | ||
So they go looking for them because they don't want to be a fool. | ||
Nobody wants to be fooled by them. | ||
And that is the number one problem of the fact that conspiracies have actually existed. | ||
They've muddied the water so badly. | ||
It's sort of like a disinformation tactic. | ||
It's like one of the things they always talk about, like if you read anything about intelligence and you read not intelligence like human intelligence, but like intelligence reporting for the government, one of the things they do when they're trying to control information is they discredit it by attaching it to ridiculous shit. | ||
It's just what they do. | ||
Yeah. | ||
It's actually like an actual strategy is you mix in the bullshit with the good stuff, poisons the well, and you don't believe any of it. | ||
Yeah, it's like if you believe in something absolutely ridiculous along with some really interesting shit, they can automatically point to that ridiculous thing and say, let's say same guy believes that people are reading your mind from a base on the moon. | ||
And then you go, is that true? | ||
Does he really believe that? | ||
Well, then you find out what's really going on. | ||
You find out that all this other stuff. | ||
Like, have you ever read Bill Cooper? | ||
No. | ||
Cold a pair of white horse? | ||
I've heard of him too for some reason. | ||
You read it and you go, wow, this stuff's really fascinating. | ||
And then he starts talking about alien bases on the moon. | ||
You're like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, what? | ||
Yeah. | ||
Starts talking about that. | ||
Well, that's like that actress, Shirley McLean, has a book. | ||
Has a book that I was skimming through that's all about how in the 1950s, the U.S. government had a secret meeting with seven different species of alien and there was this council. | ||
And even though she's a good actress, you're reading this shit and you're like, I can't believe anything you're saying now because this is a little out there. | ||
She's a wacky, wacky broad. | ||
Have you ever heard her talk about psychics and all kinds of other shit? | ||
No, I've just skimmed this book and it was enough. | ||
She's a loon. | ||
Yeah, she's a full-on loon. | ||
But she could totally be right. | ||
I want to add that in also. | ||
I want to believe she's right about the Alien Council. | ||
She's a silly person. | ||
I mean, you could Google Shirley McLean and find out all the different spiritual healing energy things that she's into. | ||
She's just an erotic massage, probably. | ||
She's a lady that, you know, like, there's a thing that happens to humans, and it's the same thing. | ||
It happens to men, and it happens for women. | ||
When they stop being desirable physically, they often look to fantastical and unimaginable things like UFOs or fucking spiritual awakenings and psychic. | ||
They look for something that drags them out of the mundane existence of their biology. | ||
Because if a UFO was real, if aliens were real, if Bigfoot was real, if you could really read people's minds, it wouldn't matter if no one wanted to fuck you anymore. | ||
Yeah, there's something that's bigger than yourself. | ||
There's a reason why menopausal women, like older women, get really into that kind of shit. | ||
Like if you look at like, and I'm not saying that young women don't get into it too. | ||
They certainly do. | ||
And men. | ||
There are a lot of men. | ||
A lot of men who are into weird shit. | ||
Fuck yeah. | ||
I mean, this is just one theory, but there's a spiritual thing that happens to a lot of older men and older women where they start looking for, like, you know, paranormal things. | ||
They start looking for... | ||
There's a little of that, Definitely, but in the search for things, the search for things unseen, like the search for Bigfoot, or search for aliens, I really do believe that a lot of what's going on is if aliens were real, it wouldn't matter if no one wanted to fuck them and they're sleeping on their friend's couch and they're 50. | ||
It really wouldn't matter. | ||
You know, you guys don't know shit. | ||
Let me tell you something. | ||
What they would get if they just had a weed brownie or maybe like a weekend camping or something is that it already doesn't matter. | ||
They don't need to find that other thing to make their life seem like it's not a big deal. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Just look up in the sky sometime. | ||
Nothing matters with certainty. | ||
There was some crazy article, I think, in Scientific American, that if you were to add up all the people who've ever lived on Earth, it's been like 100 billion people. | ||
Yeah. | ||
So you just don't matter, period. | ||
Like we're these fucking things that are running around trying to spread our genetic code and then our hearts fill up with cholesterol and we die. | ||
It's like some weird video game. | ||
And so somebody like that feels that they need to find religion or they need to find aliens in order to feel like they're a part of things. | ||
They're already a part of things and they already don't matter. | ||
So what more do you need? | ||
It's like that's perfect right there. | ||
I don't even think it's a don't matter thing. | ||
I think they're looking for something exciting. | ||
And for a lot of people, I mean, obviously it's just one of these goofy theories I'm chasing down. | ||
But for a lot of people, when it comes to what matters in life, one of the big things that matters in life is being sexually desirable. | ||
And when you stop being sexually desirable, like unequivocally, no argument, no one wants to fuck you. | ||
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And it happens sooner to women than it does men because for a man, you're like 18 or 20, nobody wants to fuck you because you have nothing going on. | ||
Start to get into your mid-20s. | ||
If you're good looking, you might be able to get something based on that. | ||
But as you get older, you get more status and more experience. | ||
You know what the fuck you're talking about more often. | ||
That's where attraction comes from. | ||
But for women, it's like 20 is your fucking prime right there. | ||
You're already at the max and then 25 is still good. | ||
30 is still good. | ||
But as you get older, society is not just heaping status upon you, right? | ||
It's still, for you, very much looks-based. | ||
Whereas an older guy, nobody cares what Richard Branson looks like or what Felix Dennis look like. | ||
It's more about who they are. | ||
But if some actress is in a show and she looks old, everybody will say that. | ||
Yeah, there's definitely something in that. | ||
But I think like Richard Branson, if he's got a really young hot wife and that wife has got a personal trainer, she's going to let him fuck her. | ||
You think so? | ||
I think so. | ||
I think that trainer would end up on an unsuccessful spaceflight and just never come back. | ||
Well, I mean, I don't think he's going to fuck her all the time unless he's stupid. | ||
You know, you got to make sure you don't turn into a relationship. | ||
But I think a lot of gold diggers, they look to fuck young guys. | ||
For sure. | ||
Some young studly, broke, bodybuilder type dude with a giant hog. | ||
Because that's what they really want. | ||
At the end of the day, they want the status, but they also want something physical. | ||
But women just want the money and the sex, and that's all men want. | ||
Well, you know, when I was young, when I was like in my late teens and early 20s, it was the most undesirable I've ever been in my life. | ||
Like, I had the hardest time getting laid, the hardest, because I was broke. | ||
I was poor, and I was, you know, it didn't even matter if I was successful in some things, like sports, which I was. | ||
It didn't matter because what was important was money. | ||
What was important was financial success. | ||
What was important was you not being a loser. | ||
And I was a loser as far as like bank accounts and as far as like where I lived. | ||
I was a loser. | ||
You know, I was a young man. | ||
Every young man, unless you're born rich, you're starting out as a loser. | ||
You don't have anything to show. | ||
And women had no desire to be with me. | ||
Zero. | ||
They're guys who really kind of get off on being able to bring women back and have nothing going on. | ||
Look at what a loser I am and I'm still getting laid. | ||
So that kind of thing, you can use that to your advantage probably. | ||
That's what I did when I was in college is I was like, yeah, I'm a loser, but if this is what I can pull now, think about 10 years from now when you're actually not a loser, how good things might be. | ||
So that's a way to motivate yourself. | ||
Well, it also depends on what you're willing to fuck to. | ||
I mean, everybody can get laid if you drop your standards low enough. | ||
Women have the advantage in that area because they can always get high-quality sex. | ||
Whereas a guy, you really can't unless you're at a certain stage in life. | ||
You can't just walk in somewhere and go home with somebody that night. | ||
But a woman can do that anywhere. | ||
But the balance is that that's not what most women want. | ||
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Right. | |
They want most women want relationships. | ||
They want, you know, I think most women, by the way, this is just massive generalization. | ||
There's some women that just want to fuck you and kick you right out the door. | ||
Get out. | ||
Go. | ||
Bye. | ||
Don't kiss me. | ||
Bye. | ||
I mean, you know, and that's fine too. | ||
The difference is the guy laughs as he's getting kicked out, okay? | ||
Whereas if you do that to a girl, like, you're the worst piece of shit ever. | ||
You know, if you fucked a girl and then after you'd done, like, look, you got to go. | ||
Don't kiss me. | ||
Go. | ||
No, no, no. | ||
No hugs. | ||
Yeah, it's a real like sneezy sociopath kind of thing to do. | ||
Right. | ||
But if a girl does it to a guy, a guy will go and tell his friends, dude, she sucked my dick. | ||
I fucked her. | ||
Then that bitch kicked me out. | ||
She like left. | ||
She had to go to work. | ||
She kicked me out. | ||
She told me, don't kiss her. | ||
Listen, this isn't going anywhere. | ||
Get out. | ||
I was like, okay. | ||
I'll call you if you want to fuck again. | ||
Okay, please do. | ||
Thanks. | ||
Yeah, I think everybody's had that experience where you're like, I was just used, and you're like, wait a second, it's not so bad. | ||
It was awesome. | ||
It's totally different. | ||
But I think it's totally different because women have a different instinct for the most part. | ||
In a massive generalization, by the way. | ||
Women have the instinct to, you know, try to find a guy that they can trust. | ||
Try to, you know, unless you're done, unless you've been through a few and you're like, look, it's over. | ||
It's what the cougar thing is. | ||
That's what people like about cougars. | ||
They're fucking giving up. | ||
I just like women who have their shit together and cougars tend to be more professional, like executive types. | ||
I no longer go for the starving artists because I always like to be the less crazy person in the relationship. | ||
And if I'm the one that they're relying on for some kind of stability and I'm like already completely fucking crazy with the stuff I'm working on, that's not a good thing. | ||
You know, like when somebody's asking me for quarters to use the laundry machine, that's not a good relationship. | ||
So I'm more into the stability. | ||
Yeah, it's hard, man. | ||
It's hard when you're dating, you know, and one or the other is like really financially unstable. | ||
It's always hard because it's very stressful, you know, and it puts a giant wedge in the relationship. | ||
I have a friend. | ||
She's successful. | ||
And Her boyfriend, now ex-boyfriend, is not very successful. | ||
And one of the things that they fight about is that, like, he's just frustrated all the time. | ||
He can't get anything going with his career. | ||
He actually, it's funny that something just happened for him right as you know, they broke up. | ||
You know, that always seems to happen. | ||
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There's like a sometimes a Murphy's Law going on there. | |
Maybe, but it's just, you know, we were talking about it and she was talking about how difficult it is to date someone who's really struggling because it becomes a mantra. | ||
It's like going off in the back of their head at all times. | ||
Like, you're broke. | ||
You owe money. | ||
Your bills are going to be a good thing. | ||
Oh, yeah. | ||
When you have money problems, that's all you think about. | ||
Collectors are calling you. | ||
You're going to get your car to be possessed. | ||
You need another job. | ||
You need this. | ||
And that, it's just, it's really hard to date someone like that because you don't get them. | ||
You get them under massive duress. | ||
Right. | ||
You know. | ||
Yeah, it's definitely better if you can walk into something where you have a bit of money because when you have money, it's the opposite feeling in your head. | ||
It's, oh, this could go away if I wanted it to. | ||
Whatever the problem is, like, this could probably be reduced if I need it to. | ||
Well, there's that for sure. | ||
But the big thing that I noticed when I got my first development deal, it wasn't a lot of money, but it was enough money where I could relax. | ||
Like, I wasn't getting rich, but I was like, holy shit, I've got some money. | ||
Like, I can really, I don't have to worry about paying my bills. | ||
I can pay my rent this month. | ||
There was this crazy weight lifted off my shoulder. | ||
And I think I was 25 at the time. | ||
And, you know, most of my life up until that point, from the time I was working, it was just all struggles. | ||
There was never money in the bank. | ||
The money was in the bank. | ||
It was enough to pay whatever check I sent out, maybe. | ||
And then I was going to have to stuff some more money in there as quick as possible to pay for the next bills. | ||
But all of a sudden, I had some money in the bank. | ||
And there was this weird feeling of relaxation. | ||
I was like, wow, this is incredible. | ||
Not rich, just not having to worry. | ||
So whenever I give people, you know, if I talk to someone who's struggling or talk to someone who's trying to plan their future, I always say, and this is, it's hard to believe, but it is the truth. | ||
Being rich doesn't matter. | ||
You get used to everything you're doing. | ||
You get used to being in a big house. | ||
I've been in a small apartment. | ||
It felt exactly the same as being in a big house. | ||
Being in a big house is kind of cool, but it's definitely not as, it's not worth what it costs to be in a big house. | ||
If you think like if you buy a house for a million bucks, the amount of money you have to spend every fucking month on a million dollar house in mortgage and fixing it up and the amount of hours that you have to work if you're, you know, you work a reasonable job, you know, you make 100 grand a year or something like that, normal, you know, good wage. | ||
It's a lot of fucking money, man. | ||
Your house costs 10 times what you make in a year and you're never going to pay it off in a year. | ||
You're going to pay it off in 30 years and then you're going to have to fucking pay insurance on the fucking property tax. | ||
What do you mean property tax? | ||
I got to pay tax on some shit I already bought every year? | ||
What do you mean? | ||
I already own it. | ||
I own the fucking house. | ||
I own the property and I have to pay you. | ||
What am I paying you for? | ||
I'm giving you money for what I own? | ||
What the fuck is going on here? | ||
And it'll drive you crazy. | ||
And plumbing and electricity and this and that. | ||
When you really stop and think about how much you're actually working for what you're getting out of it, it's definitely not worth it for most people. | ||
But what is worth it is to not worry about going to dinner. | ||
If you can have enough money where you can go and get a meal at a restaurant and not think too much about it, just say, I would like the salmon and not look at the price and say the chicken's this much, but the salmon's, you know, a dollar less. | ||
I'll get the salmon. | ||
Instead of thinking like that, you can just order what you would like. | ||
You could go to a movie and not worry about the movie. | ||
All the other shit, like the difference between having a Lexus and having a Mercedes, the difference between having a Toyota and having a Ford. | ||
You get used to everything. | ||
Everything you're doing, you get used to. | ||
As long as your car gets you to work, it's fine. | ||
If you have enough money to buy a Mustang, hey, you love Mustangs? | ||
Go get a fucking Mustang, man. | ||
Enjoy yourself. | ||
But if you don't, don't fucking sweat it. | ||
Do you have a car that gets you there? | ||
That's the real difference between your car being repossessed, you having no money for food, you having no money for rent, and being able to pay your bills. | ||
That's the big jump. | ||
The big jump's not Ferraris. | ||
You get used to that stuff. | ||
Look at Steve Jobs. | ||
He never went crazy, and he was worth billions. | ||
He was always the fucking turtleneck every day. | ||
But he did go crazy. | ||
He went crazy to push success. | ||
He didn't have a balanced perspective. | ||
No, but I mean in terms of he wasn't buying mansions and cars and stuff non-stop. | ||
No, but he was so obsessed with the pursuit of Apple being this dominant market player and all the money that they made. | ||
And yeah, he went a little crazy just in his own way. | ||
There's a minimalist crazy too. | ||
He still lived in the fucking Silicon Valley where I have a friend who lives up there. | ||
They have a house that they're renting, but the house is worth $15 million. | ||
I want to tell you, if that house was in fucking Van Nuys, it wouldn't be worth $400,000. | ||
Yeah. | ||
I was looking at just a real estate website at San Francisco. | ||
There was a place for sale that was $200,000 that looked like one of the shacks in Detroit. | ||
It was like just objectively like a $10,000 property going for $200,000. | ||
Oh, no doubt. | ||
If you could put another house in there, Edith, if you could jam it in there with no backyard, just fucking stuff it on the actual footprint. | ||
That area is worth so much money. | ||
When I say that it wouldn't be worth $400,000 in Vanu's, I'm probably exaggerating. | ||
I would say it's probably worth a million in Vanu's. | ||
It's a very nice house. | ||
But my point is it's not a fucking $14,000, $15 million house or whatever the fuck they would actually wind up getting for it. | ||
It's just not. | ||
But it's in this crazy area where all these people have tech money. | ||
And that tech money is squirrely money, man. | ||
It's just the numbers are crazy. | ||
It doesn't make any sense. | ||
When you find out how much money some of those guys have made, like the Google guys or the Facebook guys, and you're like, what? | ||
Like, that's crazy. | ||
That's many yacht, private jet, you know, mansion buying island money. | ||
It's that insane. | ||
Well, it's going to get even crazier in the years ahead with Bitcoin because some of the earliest adopters, the amount of coins they have, you think about it, you're like, well, these people are for sure going to be billionaires and they're going to be at the upper end of that. | ||
They're not even going to be like low-level billionaires. | ||
Right, but what would happen if they collected? | ||
If they sold all their Bitcoins. | ||
Oh, you can't sell them all because then you crash your own market, you know? | ||
Right, but then what the fuck is the point in having it? | ||
I think for them, eventually it's about living in a world where you walk into a Store and the price is there in Bitcoin first. | ||
So I think if they hold out for long enough and if it doesn't get fucked over by too much bad stuff, like the Mt. | ||
Gox situation, that we could live in a place like that because then you have one price, regardless of what country you're in, you know, kind of like a universal price language. | ||
Right. | ||
It could really happen. | ||
Like it's kind of a long shot, but it could actually happen. | ||
And in that case, that person becomes like science fiction rich. | ||
You know, like we're talking about somebody who could be worth hundreds of billions of dollars instead of just worth, you know, 10,000 Bitcoins or whatever. | ||
Science fiction rich. | ||
So we kind of got off track. | ||
How did this Bitcoin collapse? | ||
How did this Mt. | ||
Gox thing take place? | ||
What happened? | ||
There are already conspiracy theories that Mt. | ||
Gox was like some kind of CIA op to discredit Bitcoin. | ||
Really? | ||
So that's what somebody tweeted me, but I don't see any evidence of that. | ||
Like it sounds like something they would want to do if they thought of it in advance, but I don't think that's what happened. | ||
I think it was purely incompetence. | ||
This was a website that started like Mt. | ||
Gox is short for Magic the Gathering Online Exchange. | ||
Really? | ||
It started as a place where people sold magic cards. | ||
No way. | ||
I'm not making this up. | ||
Oh my gosh. | ||
Oh my God. | ||
They deserve everything they got. | ||
Yeah, so this company didn't know what the fuck they were doing and didn't know their ass from their elbow in terms of programming languages. | ||
Like somebody told me they programmed their trading platform in PHP, which I don't know that much about programming, but apparently is like totally not the right language for anything financial. | ||
And their whole thing is based on this. | ||
And so they're just super incompetent. | ||
And for whatever reason, they're the ones who stumbled into this massive market of like, you're now trading billions of dollars of Bitcoins and supporting the whole planet's Bitcoin market. | ||
And they weren't ready for that. | ||
And just series of fuck ups at every stage, like bad at PR, bad at communicating what's going on. | ||
When something doesn't work, they just take it offline, not realizing the implications of like, well, you're going to scare the shit out of the whole market if you just take shit offline and don't tell people in advance. | ||
And it looks like they got had by somebody, that somebody found an exploit, took the money, even the money that was in cold storage somehow, which was supposed to be impossible, but I'm sure they were incompetent enough to have fucked up somewhere along the way. | ||
And now we're in the situation we're in now where people are panicked. | ||
But the good news is that there are other exchanges out there that are much more credible, backed by real companies. | ||
And they're coming online. | ||
There are a couple in the US that are coming online, which is pretty cool. | ||
Because I want to see the US be in on the action. | ||
I don't want to see this be something that's just happening in Japan and places. | ||
I'm sorry. | ||
How did someone break in? | ||
How do you get that money? | ||
What are you actually doing? | ||
How are you getting that money? | ||
Okay, so yeah, Bitcoin itself has not been hacked. | ||
And as far as I know, it's never been hacked. | ||
Like the actual protocol is 100%, I don't want to say perfect, but if I send you money, there's certainty that I've sent it to you. | ||
And in this case, they were using something called transaction malleability, which I, full disclosure, don't fully understand this shit. | ||
But pretty much what I think it is, is like if I write you a check, you have to wait until that check clears before you actually assume you have the money. | ||
And in this case, Mt. | ||
Gox was assuming based on unconfirmed transactions that they had money or that they were sending money. | ||
And apparently, if you know anything about Bitcoin, you can't do this. | ||
And the other exchanges weren't doing it. | ||
And so it'd be like if you got a million dollar check, it could totally be a rubber check. | ||
You don't know until it's actually cleared. | ||
You can't trade on that million dollars. | ||
If Bitcoin really does become an emerging currency that the whole world adopts, what a great movie this is going to be. | ||
Oh, it's going to be like the gathering dorks stumble upon this billion dollars. | ||
You just see them sitting around. | ||
Hey, we're worth a billion dollars. | ||
Wouldn't it be cool if we had girls and money? | ||
And then they switch over to Bitcoin and seeing this fat guy named Mark Karpolis is the CEO of Mt. | ||
Gox. | ||
Is this him? | ||
That is him. | ||
What a fucking dork he is. | ||
Look at that face. | ||
Sorry, buddy. | ||
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No, I think that Bitcoin is going to... | |
They don't know his whereabouts. | ||
So he's either hiding or probably being tortured somewhere. | ||
Who the fuck knows? | ||
Oh, my God. | ||
$350 million because of this guy's fuck-up. | ||
It's a big fuck-up. | ||
Oh, my God. | ||
That's a big fuck-up. | ||
Can you imagine how many people want to kill him? | ||
That's real money, too. | ||
The $350 million for folks that don't understand. | ||
This is not like people trading, you know, like fucking Magic the Gathering corns. | ||
Yeah, it's a liquid market. | ||
You could buy $350 million worth of laptops if you wanted to. | ||
Yeah, you could actually, yeah, Tiger Direct is Yeah, and then also Vegas Casinos. | ||
There's two casinos that are allowing Bitcoin. | ||
There's many emerging companies, or were up until this, pretty much every day. | ||
Onit was even thinking about getting involved. | ||
They should. | ||
I don't know about that. | ||
I don't know about that. | ||
Not after this. | ||
Well, this is just going to be a blip on the radar. | ||
Oh, I don't know about this. | ||
One of many blips. | ||
This is like non-stop Bitcoin negative news. | ||
I think just this news alone is going to make people not invest or do anything with Bitcoin. | ||
Maybe in the short term, but I had the CEO of CoinMarket on my podcast the other day, and he runs one of the U.S. exchanges. | ||
They're actually based in Santa Monica, and he didn't sound phased at all. | ||
He told me, this is a couple hours before Mt. | ||
Gox actually came out as being insolvent. | ||
He told me on the podcast, I think they're insolvent, and I think they need to disappear as soon as possible. | ||
Not disappear as then run away, but just like disappear from the Bitcoin ecosystem so that more credible companies like us can step in and do this shit in a way that's legal and regulated and actually backed by real investors. | ||
And he didn't sound concerned about it. | ||
He's kind of like, well, yeah, our shitty competition is going out of business and now we can take over. | ||
I wish I knew enough to know whether or not he's correct. | ||
That sounds very comforting. | ||
I think as long as people continue to watch porn and pay webcam girls with Bitcoins, as long as people continue to like online gambling, as long as you have libertarians who want to stash away some of their money in case there's some kind of financial apocalypse, as long as you have those three things, there's always going to be Bitcoin demand. | ||
Hey, that's a question. | ||
You're not allowed to online gamble in the U.S. with money. | ||
Can you online gamble with Bitcoin, though? | ||
I'm sure it's a highly gray area. | ||
That seems like that would be a way to get Bitcoin rocking. | ||
Just tell people that they could gamble in Bitcoin. | ||
Well, there are casinos in Vegas now that have started to get in the middle of the day. | ||
We just talked about that. | ||
I just said two. | ||
But I think that online, it'd be... | ||
The online lack of online gambling is what crushed the International Pool League. | ||
They had this Kevin Trudeau, you know, that scam artist, that guy, those secrets that they don't want you to know about. | ||
Which is why I'm putting in a book for everybody to fucking read. | ||
Weight loss secrets they don't want you to know about. | ||
There's people that are hiding information. | ||
Well, that guy put together this huge, multiple million dollar professional pool league, and he was going to market it based on the idea that you could gamble on the matches online. | ||
And right when it was coming out, right when they invested all the money, they changed the laws. | ||
And it was just to force out all the online gambling. | ||
All the online casinos and online, you know, all that Bowdog.com, all those different places. | ||
Those guys all got fucked. | ||
Dudes had to leave the country. | ||
That Bowdog guy, he had a Bowdog fight. | ||
There's an organization, a fight organization. | ||
He had to leave the country. | ||
He can't come to America. | ||
If he comes to America, they'll arrest him. | ||
And it's just because of online gambling. | ||
It's so gross. | ||
It makes me so sick. | ||
The idea that they can somehow or another prevent people from gambling. | ||
But you don't prevent them from gambling in Vegas. | ||
You don't prevent them in Atlantic City. | ||
You don't prevent them in Indian casinos. | ||
You don't prevent them in card casinos. | ||
It's just like they've decided arbitrarily to keep people from doing it online because it hurts those casinos or it hurts whatever, whoever it is that it hurts. | ||
They've decided to allow them to prohibit business. | ||
They've allowed them to halt competition and halt innovation. | ||
Because by eliminating online gambling, you're not just eliminating online gambling. | ||
You're eliminating a lot of different financial transactions. | ||
You're eliminating a lot of wagering that is done through credit cards. | ||
You're eliminating all sorts of different things. | ||
You're stopping a business. | ||
You're stopping buildings from being built. | ||
You're stopping people from being hired. | ||
And it is freedom of expression. | ||
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If you're an adult, why shouldn't you be allowed to spend your money on what you want? | |
Exactly. | ||
You're going to force these people to go to Costa Rica. | ||
I mean, you're doing a lot of stupid shit. | ||
You're really stopping business. | ||
Everything from the construction of buildings these people are going to use to the employees, the financial careers that people could have in online gambling, running websites, legit businesses, where you're providing a legit service. | ||
But somehow or another, this county government got away with stopping all that shit. | ||
It really makes me sick. | ||
But if you could use Bitcoin, if that's a legal loophole, and you could use Bitcoin to gamble on things, God damn, like sports, if you could gamble on the fucking Super Bowl, Major League Baseball, NBA, UFC, boxing, golf, if you could gamble on all that shit. | ||
Yeah, that would be worth billions. | ||
Fuck yeah, it would be worth billions. | ||
Not only would it be worth billions, if people found out that you could actually buy shit with this Bitcoin, they would start investing chunks of their portfolio in Bitcoins. | ||
People would say, hey, you know, I want 10% of my finances in Bitcoin because I like to gamble. | ||
Well, I think the whole porn thing is going to be huge where a lot of guys want to tip the girls that they watch on the live cam sites. | ||
Right. | ||
But they don't because they don't want their credit card linked to the site because then their wife will see it and it'll be a whole shitstorm. | ||
Meddling bitch. | ||
But if they can just load up at the local 7-Eleven on $50 worth of Bitcoin, have it transferred to their account. | ||
Can they do that? | ||
Can you buy Bitcoin at 7-Eleven? | ||
Basically, you can use various money services or you used to be able to. | ||
But that's where things are headed. | ||
I think that we're getting ATM machines now coming online. | ||
There was one in Boston that I saw a video of. | ||
Yeah, I've seen that as well. | ||
That's interesting. | ||
That would definitely open the door. | ||
And for folks who don't know, technology, porn opens up the door to technology all the time. | ||
I mean, online video, online statistics, all that stuff came from adult stuff. | ||
Well, when Apple cut Flash out, when Apple stopped Flash on the iPads and on their laptops and on their phones, when they did that, what is the other? | ||
5 HTP? | ||
No, that's the supplement. | ||
HTML5. | ||
HTML5, thanks. | ||
5 HTP. | ||
Yeah, new mood. | ||
They put new mood in their computers. | ||
What? | ||
When they started using HTML5, I mean, all the porn sites started adopting it. | ||
I mean, it was almost instantaneous. | ||
Where you used to not be able to watch porn on your iPhone, and then pow pow, there it is. | ||
They're just like, these are human forces. | ||
People need to watch porn. | ||
People need to transact. | ||
They need it. | ||
David Seaman, do they need it? | ||
People need to transact. | ||
Yeah, they do need it. | ||
Fuck yeah. | ||
Look at the Middle East. | ||
I think half the issue with the Middle East is that guys are just not getting off enough. | ||
You should put like a thousand rub and tugs in the Middle East and just see what happens. | ||
There's definitely that. | ||
Don't quote me on that, but I think that's what I'm saying. | ||
Women are supposed to dress like Job of the Hutt, you know? | ||
That's an issue, too. | ||
You're covering them up. | ||
No, it's just so repressive. | ||
And I understand like you got to respect somebody's culture, but you also have to respect the fact that a lot of these people living in these societies probably don't want to live that way. | ||
That culture is a trap. | ||
There's a problem with any suppressive culture. | ||
It's a trap. | ||
And you can't get out of that trap, especially if that trap is tied to religion. | ||
If you're eliminating information, you're eliminating progress. | ||
You're eliminating people growing. | ||
And you're doing it under the name of religion. | ||
You know what, man? | ||
I really, if I don't know what God wrote or what he didn't wrote, but I highly doubt if he's the way you're describing him, this awesome, amazing guy, I highly doubt he gives a fuck what kind of clothes you wear. | ||
That's just me, though. | ||
I mean, I'm not thinking for God or anything, but I just highly doubt. | ||
So what you're dealing with, most likely, I'm not saying definitely, but most likely, is some bullshit written by people, and it's poisoned your culture. | ||
Absolutely poisoned the very foundations of your culture and won't allow any progress. | ||
It will not allow new information. | ||
It will not allow consideration of old ways. | ||
The way you live is perfect, and it will not change. | ||
You're going to be cutting camels' heads off with fucking dull knives to the end of time. | ||
And that's just what it is. | ||
What you're doing is how you're always going to do it. | ||
You're always going to say Allah Wakba. | ||
You're always going to fucking dress that way. | ||
You're always going to bow to the East. | ||
All that same shit that you've been doing since the beginning of the millennia. | ||
You're going to continue to do that. | ||
That's nonsense. | ||
Well, if you're labeling somebody you disagree with as an infidel or is not an infidel. | ||
There's not a lot of room for reasonable discussion there. | ||
You're like, here's my point. | ||
And then the other person's point is, you're an infidel. | ||
If we had a softball team, we would call ourselves the infidels. | ||
That would be dope. | ||
It'd be a good name for a strip club. | ||
Yeah, have a JRE podcast softball team. | ||
Call ourselves the JRE Infidels. | ||
It would be a good name for a strip club. | ||
Make all the girls wear veils. | ||
They wouldn't feel bad. | ||
They wouldn't feel bad about seeing their face. | ||
You couldn't see them. | ||
It'd be like they're robbing a bank when they're showing you their pussy. | ||
Right? | ||
It's a good idea, actually. | ||
Call it the infidels, and all girls wear veils. | ||
It's not a bad move. | ||
Because a lot of women, you know, want to have anonymity. | ||
Want some crazy things? | ||
You think so? | ||
I think so. | ||
I saw this famous actress at a coffee shop near my place the other day. | ||
Yeah. | ||
And she was sitting at a table by herself and had on like the big bug-eye sunglasses. | ||
She's like a praying mantis, pretty much. | ||
And I was thinking, people can't want that. | ||
Maybe you want it 5% of the time. | ||
But I think in that particular moment, somebody would not want that. | ||
Whoa, you mean that amount of attention? | ||
Yeah, because if you're a woman in some of these Arab societies, you can't just walk around like American style. | ||
I think it was on one of your podcasts, actually. | ||
Some guy was jerking off on a rooftop because he saw like a woman's veil come down or something. | ||
They're very sexually repressed. | ||
So you can't even just dress normally in a coffee shop without getting the same kind of attention that over here an A-list actress would get. | ||
Yeah, that's true. | ||
Well, just the idea that you're supposed to cover your head always. | ||
Always wear a veil. | ||
Is that unsanitary, you think, over time? | ||
No. | ||
Not really. | ||
I mean, no more than wearing a baseball hat, right? | ||
That's not unsanitary. | ||
I just want to. | ||
How's your hair? | ||
Everything okay under there? | ||
It actually protects your hair. | ||
There you go. | ||
So sun and damage. | ||
Sun can damage your hair. | ||
It can. | ||
Well, it definitely damages your face. | ||
Well, all this bullshit that people worry about, like the cell phone Neurotower weapons or whatever. | ||
Wait a minute. | ||
Hold on. | ||
People are hanging out with, man. | ||
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People tweet me some weird shit. | |
You got to stop fighting with people on Twitter, man. | ||
You really do. | ||
When people say stupid shit to you, just ignore it and block them. | ||
Please. | ||
Yeah, I've got to do it. | ||
You're getting locked into it, and then you're like, I'm retiring from Twitter. | ||
No, I get locked into it. | ||
Recently, it was Sunday morning at 7 a.m. and my phone goes off. | ||
And I'm like, oh, what is this? | ||
And it's all caps, like hatred from some psycho. | ||
And I'm just like, okay. | ||
Here's mistake number one. | ||
You don't connect your fucking phone to your Twitter. | ||
I got to turn it off. | ||
Of course you do. | ||
You know who still has it that way? | ||
Doug Benson. | ||
Ladies and gentlemen, you want to fuck with Doug Benson right now? | ||
Tweet the shit out of him. | ||
Just fucking tweet him constantly. | ||
Tweet him all day because his phone will just, it'll run out of batteries in 10 minutes. | ||
Like, how long does your battery last? | ||
Like, 10 seconds? | ||
I mean, I assume it was just because my iPhone is shitty batteries. | ||
You're allowing the world to text you, essentially. | ||
You're allowing the whole world filled with assholes to text you. | ||
You're right. | ||
I got to turn that off. | ||
You know what? | ||
This is going to help me more than going infrared saunas and all the bullshit I do to relax. | ||
I'm just going to take Twitter off my phone. | ||
Yeah, well, you're dealing with too many people. | ||
You know, when you deal with that many people, you can't have them at their discretion get in touch with you. | ||
You have a certain amount of responsibility to try to connect with people online because it's what you do and it's what I do as well. | ||
But you can't allow them to just do it at their discretion anytime because it's intrusive. | ||
Your regular life is important. | ||
Like you have to be able to have time to reflect. | ||
If you don't, you'll never form your own opinions. | ||
You'll just be constantly inundated with information and other people's activity. | ||
You can't do that. | ||
You can't allow that. | ||
It's a symptom of the new world. | ||
And you are experiencing it in extreme form because you're sort of a public figure and you're a journalist and you're controversial and you cover a lot of very fascinating subjects. | ||
So you're going to get a lot more than the average person who has this set up like that. | ||
It's just too much, man. | ||
You can't do it that way. | ||
That's very true. | ||
Do that starting today. | ||
My phone would explode if I did that. | ||
It would literally shake. | ||
It would just shake and just, boom, sparks would fly out of it. | ||
Do you remember when your phone like froze up because of something happened? | ||
Or all these people text you and your phone? | ||
Yeah, I was just thinking that. | ||
I was thinking like the Twitter app probably can't handle that many things at once. | ||
Probably just freeze up. | ||
One time I accidentally gave my cell phone number out on Twitter. | ||
I was trying to send it to somebody in a PM and I sent it to the whole world and my fucking phone literally just shut off and rebooted. | ||
It was like, this has got to be wrong. | ||
I'm going to reboot myself. | ||
It rebooted itself. | ||
It just was like, fuck you. | ||
It committed suicide. | ||
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That's awesome. | |
It was just, my inbox filled up in five seconds. | ||
And then the texts that were coming, it's just, I tweeted something yesterday that somebody sent me that I was talking about how I felt when my child was born that I was thinking about how crazy it must be how many different babies are being born right now. | ||
If you could see them all in real time in front of you, like on a giant screen, it would be like a baby invasion. | ||
I mean, you don't think about it because you're only in that hospital room while that one's being born. | ||
Well, somebody sent me a tweet, and in that tweet is a link that shows in real time every baby being born all around the world. | ||
And it is a fucking invasion. | ||
That's what it is scary app. | ||
Yeah, it is like if Obama gave out his cell phone. | ||
That's what it's like. | ||
I mean, it's just baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, Switzerland, Africa, Indonesia, China. | ||
And that's just the reported babies. | ||
That's not the little tykes shit out in the bottom of a fucking grass hut in the middle of the jungle. | ||
You know, they didn't count those. | ||
They only counted the ones that weren't. | ||
The ones that are in the hospital. | ||
Yeah, I mean, Find the link? | ||
Was it yesterday? | ||
Yeah, I quoted it as a retweet. | ||
You know, instead of a retweet, I quoted it. | ||
Oh, here we go. | ||
It's crazy. | ||
It's so nuts. | ||
You go to it and it's... | ||
GoogleDrive.com? | ||
No. | ||
What does it say up on top? | ||
It says GoogleDrive.com. | ||
Sounds legit. | ||
Well, look at that. | ||
Those are the babies. | ||
See those babies on both sides? | ||
Holy shit. | ||
That is scary. | ||
Isn't that incredible? | ||
Yeah. | ||
Those are all babies. | ||
It's going about deaths going about one second. | ||
I don't see a lot of U.S. Not a lot of U.S. births. | ||
How is that only googledrive.com? | ||
That's all it is? | ||
Well, it's googledrive.com backslash host. | ||
Oh, a bunch of other shit. | ||
So the stuff that we can't see that's all like real blurry, that's the other stuff. | ||
Do you think this is what the NSA sees? | ||
They see like every new human being coming online? | ||
Yeah, the NSA is paying attention 24 hours a day to every one of these babies. | ||
Make sure they're not fucking doing anything illegal. | ||
Look at all these babies. | ||
This is crazy. | ||
This is a fucking influence. | ||
I feel like we're going to run out of oxygen or something. | ||
It's terrifying. | ||
Man, and I don't see a lot of American flags either, man. | ||
I see a lot of those other countries are out fucking. | ||
A lot of the red Chinese flags. | ||
That bothers me. | ||
As an American, I think we need to do our job and do some more fucking. | ||
Most deaths, China is number one. | ||
Most births, India is number one. | ||
Look at that. | ||
stopped. | ||
What if... | ||
No, but the computer crash? | ||
No, I just... | ||
What if one day we went on that thing and it was a day where there was no babies? | ||
That movie with Clive Owen, Children of Men. | ||
Yeah, when people stopped being fertile or something fucking stupid. | ||
You know, well, that is the people that are not dooming gloomers about overpopulation. | ||
Their idea is that as time goes on, what's going to happen is the cultures, like third world cultures that are like really having massive amounts of children, childbirths, those are going to become more developed. | ||
And as they become more developed, we're actually going to have a decreasing population. | ||
That's the non-doom and gloomers. | ||
They obviously don't have this website on bookmark because if they did, they would see the fucking invasion in real time. | ||
And oh my God, how are we going to have enough oil? | ||
Well, there's a theory that the more people you have in an area, the more kind of like intelligent productivity you have. | ||
So higher population doesn't lead to the Malthusian meltdown where people starve and kill each other to get back into a lower population realm. | ||
Instead, it's the high population itself that's what is leading to innovation. | ||
And somewhere along that innovation can keep up with the higher population. | ||
That makes sense. | ||
Yeah, so it's basically you look at humans like kind of like a network capacity. | ||
It makes sense. | ||
What concerns me most, though, is just the actual natural physical resources. | ||
Oh, yeah. | ||
I watched that. | ||
And pollution. | ||
Yeah, and pollution. | ||
I watched that movie Jiro Dreams of Sushi. | ||
I've talked about that movie like 30 times. | ||
I'm obsessed with it. | ||
Really interesting. | ||
Weird. | ||
You know, first of all, I learned two things. | ||
One, I would never want to be a fucking sushi chef because they work too hard. | ||
Those fucking people work hard, man. | ||
The apprentices who are stay apprenticed till they're like 50 years old? | ||
Yeah. | ||
How about the fact that the guy worked on making eggs for like 10 years before he got it right? | ||
And then when the guy told him he did it right, he started crying. | ||
What? | ||
You cooked an egg right? | ||
That's why that movie is so beautiful, you know, because we would be sick of that shit after 15 minutes. | ||
The guy has a 10-seat room. | ||
It's a 10-seat room in a Tokyo subway station. | ||
It's booked out for like months, right? | ||
Booked out for months, and it's the best sushi in the world, apparently. | ||
And the guy, I mean, his son's 50 years old, and his son goes to the fish market every day and buys from the same guy who's like literally got a flashlight on the tuna and touching it with his fingers. | ||
And he has to make sure he has a feel for the texture. | ||
And the texture will directly contribute or directly correlate with great flavor. | ||
Like he knows what texture is the right one. | ||
Then they know like how to age the tuna and how long for an old tuna, how long for a young tuna. | ||
Fucking crazy shit, man. | ||
Those are true artisans. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Can you imagine if we had that in the U.S., like at every level of our society? | ||
Somebody putting out a new app, like the new Facebook app is like, I'm not sure if this is perfected yet. | ||
And they just study it for the next six months before they release it. | ||
Yeah, no shit, man. | ||
And I mean, there's no money to be made in what this guy's doing either. | ||
I mean, there's enough money to keep afloat, I'm sure, but he's got a 10-seat fucking place. | ||
And these people talk about his sushi, like, you know, restaurateurs and restaurant critics. | ||
And they say they get nervous when they go there. | ||
They get nervous when they meet him. | ||
The guy takes the same fucking subway every day, sits in the same seat, gets on at the same stop. | ||
He's 85 fucking years old, and he's been working every day since he was, you know, like fucking 20. | ||
Look at what an old boss he is, though, if he comes back up. | ||
There he is. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Or no, that's his favorite son. | ||
That's his son. | ||
His son's 50. | ||
Like, everything about the way they cook. | ||
The place is fucking amazing. | ||
It made me want to fly to Japan. | ||
It made me want to book. | ||
I bet you can't even book online. | ||
I bet you got to go there in person and get your reservations. | ||
But it made me want to try this sushi and find out what the fuck it's all about. | ||
He probably gives you like a riddle like a Zen Cohen that you have to solve. | ||
And if you solve it, he's like, okay, three months from now, lunch. | ||
We're on. | ||
And if I was going to do it, I would want to do it quick before that whole place is nuclear. | ||
Before Godzilla shows up. | ||
Fukushima's shit is pretty unsettling. | ||
It's very unsettling. | ||
But, you know, there was a scientist that went there and was catching fish from right off the shore, and they tested fish. | ||
They tested a flounder. | ||
I think, what's the other word for a flounder? | ||
A ground fish. | ||
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Soul. | |
It might have been a soul. | ||
Ground fish. | ||
A flat fish. | ||
One of those flatfish. | ||
But the point is, those fish stay in that area. | ||
They're not migratory. | ||
And you could eat it. | ||
It's fine. | ||
Yeah, it's fine to eat. | ||
So what he's saying is that the ocean is so fucking enormous that it's not really having the same effect that people think it has. | ||
Yeah, it is scary stuff. | ||
The water leak is very scary. | ||
It's still dangerous. | ||
But it dissipates out enough. | ||
And the ocean, yeah, there's just the ocean is so goddamn big that right now it's okay. | ||
But the real issue is not just Fukushima. | ||
It's these nuclear plants in general. | ||
To make it relative to someone, I had a conversation with a friend who is very pro-business and very pro-nuclear power and the benefits of nuclear power. | ||
And he's talking about these few places where the issues have arisen. | ||
And I said, well, okay, I just want you to think about the amount of time that nuclear power has been here. | ||
Now think about the amount of nuclear power plants that exist. | ||
Now think about how many of the men have had catastrophic failures. | ||
Only two, right? | ||
Only two. | ||
You're right. | ||
But those two, those places are fahed forever. | ||
There's two, and it's less than 100 years of nuclear power. | ||
How long do you think people have been around? | ||
What if people are around another 20,000 years? | ||
Stop and think about how many of those nuclear power plants are going to fuh everything around them. | ||
There's two places right now: Chernobyl and this place. | ||
And then there's a three-mile island or four-mile island or whatever the fuck it is. | ||
That place is kind of fucked, but not quite as fucked. | ||
I don't think we know enough about it. | ||
I think that we're too new for us, and we don't have the timetable that you would need to do it properly. | ||
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Sure. | |
You're absolutely. | ||
Like, our lifespans are just too short. | ||
We're like fucking fruit flies working with this technology that has ramifications that'll be around for thousands of years. | ||
Our lifespan is nothing compared to the lifespan of any kind of leak. | ||
Well, also, we grew up in a time where these things already existed, and we didn't have any say in their construction. | ||
And so they were manufactured by people who kind of assumed workarounds. | ||
All that technology is probably old as fuck by now. | ||
It is old as fuck. | ||
The one in Fukushima is old as fuck. | ||
It's outdated technology. | ||
But they kind of assumed upon construction that with innovation and with progress, in the future there was going to be able to be a way to correct all these issues. | ||
Well, there's not. | ||
There still isn't. | ||
At least with coal power plants, even though those are messy too, it's only fucking up the present. | ||
It's not like you're leaving this thing that for thousands of years is going to be making children have birth defects and stuff. | ||
It's like, you know, it's messy when it's drawn out of the earth. | ||
It's probably not good for the environment at all, but it's temporary. | ||
It's not something that's destroying areas for a long time. | ||
Yeah, it's interesting. | ||
It's like you look at what people are willing to accept and not willing to accept just in the name of having fuel, just in the name of progress, just in the name of financial reward. | ||
And it's kind of scary how flippant people are about polluting the ocean, about polluting the BP oil scale. | ||
I had Peter Schiff on, and we were talking about the BP thing, and he was talking about... | ||
He kind of gets under my skin because a lot of the limited government stuff I can latch onto and agree with. | ||
But then there's something, I don't know how to describe it. | ||
It's like there's not a certain humanism there that you need to have. | ||
Yes. | ||
Like everything doesn't have to be in your framework of the free market principle. | ||
Like that's great for a lot of shit. | ||
If you want to get the best water or the best soda or the best weed, it's probably a good idea to get free markets working there so you have competition. | ||
It doesn't have to be for every single facet of life. | ||
Well, the real issue with him is environmental. | ||
That's the real issue. | ||
His willingness to, you know, the fracking thing, like his concern about fracking was so, it was really funny, like talking to him about people that have had their land just destroyed forever. | ||
And he was saying, well, they got millions of dollars. | ||
Those people, they got money they would have never been able to get. | ||
They got hush money. | ||
But it's still, their land is fucked. | ||
Like the money is all, it's all relative. | ||
Like, what's a million dollars to Peter Schiff? | ||
It's probably not nearly as much as it is to those people. | ||
So for Peter Schiff, a million dollars or whatever the fuck these people, that's worth it to destroy a piece of property, essentially for as long as people have ever been around. | ||
What was weird about that too is I think you asked him about the environmental impact and he said there's nothing wrong with fracking. | ||
There's no environmental impact and we know that's not true. | ||
Like just Google it. | ||
It's all over the place. | ||
It's not true at all. | ||
There's over a thousand documented wells that have been polluted from fracking. | ||
You know, the idea is that if fracturing works exactly according to plan, it's so deep in the ground that you're not going to disturb wells. | ||
But it doesn't work according to plan. | ||
It's a crazy business. | ||
What you do, you're pumping water into the center of the earth. | ||
You're creating earthquakes. | ||
And I've had a lot of people Google me like, you need to get up to date with your research, like really right-wingy type people who are pro-business, who, by the way, almost always financially struggling, but are clearing the way for the one day when in the future they have money. | ||
They're going to go out. | ||
They're going to need the regulations to be kind of light because they want to make some money in this economy. | ||
Well, all these people, I would send them to all these websites and then they would just vanish. | ||
Like, you can't say anything. | ||
So I'll just send you, I'll send you all the links. | ||
I'll send you the fucking, one of the CEOs of Exxon petitioning to not have fracking on his property. | ||
Right. | ||
And one of the richest, most, It doesn't sound like something that's good for the earth. | ||
Yeah, the Exxon CEO is hilarious. | ||
So he doesn't want it near his property. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Yeah, he doesn't want fracking. | ||
He thinks it's going to fuck with his property values. | ||
Yeah, it does, dude. | ||
Yeah, Exxon CEO doesn't want fracking facility near his U.S. home. | ||
He files a lawsuit. | ||
You fucking dirty man. | ||
You're a dirty man, Rex Tillerson. | ||
Is that his name, Rex Tillerson? | ||
He sounds like a dinosaur. | ||
It sounds like an industrialist from like the 1800s. | ||
He's so scary. | ||
You ever seen There will be blood? | ||
Yes. | ||
Yeah, it sounds like one of those guys. | ||
Exactly. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Nothing could be further from the truth. | ||
Yes, a lot of things can be further from the truth. | ||
It could be that a quarter is actually a gremlin who lives on the moon and likes to suck baby dicks. | ||
Okay, that's further from the truth. | ||
You fucking dummy. | ||
Nothing could be further from the truth. | ||
Oh, the Earth is really a frisbee. | ||
Is that further from the truth? | ||
You fucking cunt. | ||
You shitbag lawyer. | ||
So they will not be a sponsor of your podcast anytime soon? | ||
They can all fuck themselves. | ||
Citizens of Bartonville described as a wealthy community, which you'd expect that, giving the houses of the chief of Enron, have sued to stop the tower. | ||
The tower is being built by Cross Timbers Water Supply. | ||
It would be a 15-story building adjacent to Tillerson's 83-acre horse ranch, not far from an 18-acre homestead. | ||
Among the others who oppose the project are people not exactly known for their environmental concerns. | ||
Former U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Amney and his wife, for example. | ||
All these fucking rich cunts they're putting in their neighborhood and they don't want it. | ||
Oh, you guys are fine when it was in Baltimore. | ||
All right, you guys were fine when it was in the middle of Pennsylvania, shitting into a river that people like to fish in. | ||
Fuck all you. | ||
Fuck all you fucking criminals. | ||
You shitty environmental criminals. | ||
You guys are ruining the earth. | ||
This is not a way to do it. | ||
You can't just pump water and chemicals into the ground because We know that there's gas and oil there. | ||
That's county shit. | ||
This is a terrible idea. | ||
Well, then we extract the water afterwards. | ||
That's what Brian Dunning says. | ||
No worries. | ||
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Afterwards, we simply extract the water. | |
You ever heard his video on it? | ||
Even takes on an affected accent, like an affected way. | ||
Oh, there's no worries. | ||
He's a peaceful accent. | ||
He's talking like a fool. | ||
Like, oh, don't worry. | ||
Why? | ||
Hydraulic fracturing. | ||
That's literally what he sounds like when he talks about it, explaining how simple it is. | ||
Oh, it's only poisoned a thousand wells so far. | ||
It's only been around for a few decades. | ||
Don't worry. | ||
What's a thousand places that are poisoned forever? | ||
No worry. | ||
The country's big. | ||
We're predisposed to listen to people who sound reasonable. | ||
Yes, reasonable. | ||
That's what I'm saying, David Seaman. | ||
Let's be reasonable. | ||
Hydraulic fracturing is very safe. | ||
You should ask for it in your community today. | ||
Ask for it in your own home. | ||
Hydraulically fracture your own gas from the ground below you. | ||
That's like the reverse mortgage guy that's on at nights. | ||
So convincing old people to cash in their home equity. | ||
It's a good way to get it. | ||
It shows him in front of a sports car. | ||
And it's like, yeah, you get a sports car, but you also lose the fucking equity to your house. | ||
You no longer own the house you live in. | ||
But at least that is just financial. | ||
Money comes and goes, and it's here and it's there. | ||
You're not poisoning the fucking very water that people can drink. | ||
You're not changing the water. | ||
Like people used to be able to use that to fertilize crops, to feed their animals, to drink. | ||
Now if they drink it, they get like neurotoxins. | ||
They get like poison. | ||
Their nerves stop working. | ||
Anybody who thinks that's totally okay, I would recommend the prescription of yoga, meditation, weed brownies, as long as it's permissible by law. | ||
All those things would help. | ||
All three of those things would be the fucking trifecta of not being a dick anymore. | ||
The weed brownies are the most introspective. | ||
And like if you want to think about a drug that makes you consider everything that you're doing wrong, God damn those things. | ||
Get to the heart of it. | ||
Helps me see the other person's perspective. | ||
And then even if I want to go ahead with what I'm doing, at least I've seen it from their point of view. | ||
So it's not coming from a place of ignorance. | ||
It's coming from, oh, I see both sides. | ||
Now I can do what I want. | ||
Whereas before, you're just the person who doesn't see how the world is perceiving it. | ||
And it's kind of scary. | ||
It's scary to me that I went that long without using that stuff. | ||
Well, the reason for a lot of the people that have these negative opinions on marijuana brownies or pot cookies is that most of the times they're used recreationally. | ||
Most of the times people are using them just sort of to have fun with them. | ||
Or they're fucked up. | ||
They're already drunk, and then they associate being hungover and like making bad decisions with the marijuana has nothing to do with that. | ||
Well, people think of it as more of a party thing, which it kind of can be. | ||
It is fun to get high and watch Star Wars with your buddies. | ||
It is. | ||
It's fun. | ||
You know, if you have a bunch of people over the house and you go, let's eat pot brownies and watch Star Wars. | ||
Fuck yeah. | ||
You know, it's fun. | ||
It's also fun to watch Star Trek by yourself like every day on Netflix. | ||
But it also, besides being fun, it most certainly can be a tool for psychological exploration. | ||
It really can. | ||
You can explore some areas of your consciousness that maybe you didn't know were really troubling you. | ||
And then all of a sudden they get dragged into the forefront and some spotlights get turned on them. | ||
And you didn't even know that you had some sort of a subliminal or subconscious hiding of these ideas. | ||
Yeah. | ||
I'm not a scientist at all, but I really believe that stuff like that has evolved alongside us. | ||
And that's part of the reason why it's not harmful, why nobody ever ODs on marijuana, is that we've had time to adapt to it and it's adapted to us. | ||
And we have this symbiotic relationship where it's making us more introspective and we're able to innovate as a result. | ||
And because of that, we tend to grow more marijuana, which keeps it alive and keeps it thriving. | ||
So it's like this thing, like a coral reef almost. | ||
And then we come along with modern society, we make all this shit illegal just for the sake of it. | ||
And we do away with things that people have had as basic tools for most of human history. | ||
You think about it, like this shit has only been illegal for what, like 70 years? | ||
Yeah, it's main thing you're dead on. | ||
I think that's exactly what's going on. | ||
And I think it's changing. | ||
I don't think you can stop the change that's currently underway. | ||
I think what Colorado did and what Seattle or Washington State did, those decisions made by people. | ||
And then you see that not only is the sky not falling, but those people are making a lot of money. | ||
And then it just opens up. | ||
And now that the banks are going to be allowed to take the money from the Colorado dispensaries, what do they call them if it's legal? | ||
It's not a dispensary if it's legal. | ||
Is it a pot store? | ||
It's a dispensary if it's a caregivership, maybe. | ||
But it's not caregiver because it's not medical. | ||
So it's just the store then. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Colorado is just selling weed. | ||
They just gave up on the whole medical thing, and they're like, yeah, we're just selling weed. | ||
Come on in. | ||
Seattle's still hanging back. | ||
They're like, oh, what are you guys doing? | ||
Well, I think they'll see that people are not going to go crazy. | ||
Yeah. | ||
And it's going to help the local economy a lot. | ||
And then other states will want to adopt some form of that. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Colorado is like the crazy friend that eats the mushrooms first. | ||
Yes. | ||
Colorado's like, you guys sure that that's not a mushroom that'll kill you? | ||
I'll fucking eat it, man. | ||
Colorado's like, your crazy friend who's like real skinny but never gets sick and he's got a cowboy hat on. | ||
And he's like, I'll eat that fucking brownie, bro. | ||
So Colorado just goes, hey, man, we'll just fucking start selling it. | ||
We'll see what's up. | ||
And so all these people have like, you know, started these huge businesses. | ||
within the first day, within the first seven hours, they'd made millions of dollars. | ||
I mean, the amount of money that's being... | ||
And it cuts down on crime. | ||
I have a friend who actually is a manager at one of the dispensaries out there in Denver. | ||
And she was telling me when one of their dispensaries moves into a neighborhood, all the people stop going to their dealer and they just come into the store and that's their new place, obviously, because they want to do something that's less risky. | ||
You've just fucked all those dealers out of their money. | ||
Like that's done. | ||
Now it's being taxed. | ||
Now it's being regulated. | ||
It's helping people because people are being paid jobs that actually pay well instead of just one drug dealer taking all the money. | ||
And people can grow their own. | ||
They can grow their own as well. | ||
You know, that's another beautiful thing about it. | ||
You don't have to worry about the cops coming to your house and breaking in your front door because you've got a plant somewhere in your closet. | ||
You don't have to worry about that anymore. | ||
It's okay. | ||
It's legal. | ||
I really like the balance that LA has struck, where there are dispensaries you can buy from, and you see the green whatever it is. | ||
The plus sign. | ||
Yeah, the plus sign. | ||
But it's not in your face. | ||
So if you're somebody who doesn't like it or it makes you paranoid when you do it, or you just have a conservative upbringing, it's not something where you're constantly confronted by it. | ||
I think that's cool. | ||
If you want it, it's very easy to get. | ||
If you don't, it doesn't have to be a part of your life. | ||
Some people don't like it in their neighborhood. | ||
I thought it was really kind of hilarious. | ||
I was driving down the street with a friend of mine, and it was in his neighborhood, and there's like the green plus signs. | ||
And he's like, you know, look, these fucking things are all over my neighborhood. | ||
And I'm like, so is the liquor store, stupid? | ||
Yeah. | ||
There's a liquor store right there. | ||
By the way, you smoke pot. | ||
What are you talking about? | ||
And nobody leaves the dispensary looking unhappy. | ||
Like, people always leave liquor stores looking all bummed out. | ||
People leave dispensaries looking the same way they leave when they nut in their pants, when they go and get a lap dance. | ||
Like, oh boy, I can't believe I got away with that. | ||
They get in their car and they drive away like some kind of a criminal. | ||
I think, you know, people just have this attitude that, you know, having a dispensary is somehow or another different than having a liquor store. | ||
This guy's got a liquor store. | ||
I mean, drive out of his house, take a left, go down the hill, bam, there's a liquor store. | ||
There's a fucking dispensary a mile away from that. | ||
He's like, these things are my neighborhood. | ||
What's all this green plus sign nonsense? | ||
Or when you're out with somebody and they smell it on a sidewalk and they're like, they're kind of offended by it. | ||
I'm like, why are you offended? | ||
This is fucking cool. | ||
It's peaceful. | ||
It means that people are having a good time around you. | ||
It doesn't mean that there's crime or danger. | ||
Not only that, it smells good. | ||
Yeah, like how you call it a plus sign instead of a green cross. | ||
You're just like, no religion. | ||
It's not a cross. | ||
Yeah, it's supposed to be like red cross, but it's green cross. | ||
No, no. | ||
I think that's probably true. | ||
Green cross. | ||
Yeah, but I mean, even the cross is not a cross anymore. | ||
It's a plus sign. | ||
It's not religious. | ||
It's a plus sign. | ||
But it's not. | ||
The cross has an extended bottom. | ||
There's a difference in the shape. | ||
It's a relationship. | ||
But even if you're saying it's like the red cross's cross. | ||
Yeah, it's medicinal use. | ||
That's why it's a cross. | ||
That's why it's a green cross. | ||
Yeah, but you can't really call it a cross. | ||
I like plus better anyways because it doesn't have any kind of religious connotation. | ||
I mean, is that really what Red Cross is supposed to be, though? | ||
I don't know. | ||
I don't know. | ||
Okay, let's Google it. | ||
You know, that's one of the great things about being a journalist is when you get to the point where you just realize you can say, I don't know to things, and that's the best way to do it. | ||
Because you have Google. | ||
You don't have to draw on what little you know. | ||
You know what I mean? | ||
Yeah. | ||
Aries. | ||
What's the green plus sign on pot dispensaries? | ||
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Hmm. | ||
Doesn't say. | ||
How has this not been asked a thousand times over in like Reddit Trees? | ||
It's an interesting thing because a lot of these stores, that green plus sign has become so universal that's all it has on the sign. | ||
They'll have a green plus sign and then they'll say like W, you know, whatever, you know, West Valley Caregivers was one of them. | ||
So it was W V C G. That's all it said. | ||
And then you get near, it's West Valley Caregivers, like, what the fuck are you actually selling? | ||
And you get in there, and it's just tanks of weed. | ||
You're like, oh, I see what you're doing. | ||
Unfortunately, that place that I used to go to, my favorite spot, the government told them that they had to close down because they had opened up too late, like after a certain amount of time. | ||
They weren't approved or something like that. | ||
And the dude was like, he was very nervous about it because they had gotten shut down once or something else. | ||
And the guy who owned it previously wound up going to jail. | ||
He was one of the few people that got popped. | ||
Actually, he didn't own that one. | ||
He owned another one. | ||
But I know one of the guys who got popped and wound up doing time. | ||
And then there's some guys in San Francisco, those guys, Pot University guys, whatever the fuck they are, Cannabis University, those guys are still duking it out in court. | ||
Pot McCormick. | ||
Todd McCormick. | ||
Todd McCormick. | ||
Todd McCormick, our friend, is involved in some legal bullshit again. | ||
It's crazy. | ||
I only do delivery nowadays. | ||
I don't even go to the stores anymore. | ||
Smart move, man. | ||
Yeah. | ||
I mean, look, there's plenty of weed, and it's way easier to get, and it's way more relaxed, but it's still sketchy federally. | ||
And if someone comes in after Obama, which is very likely, that is more repressive, because this Obama thing has been a goddamn mess. | ||
I mean, what he's done and what we thought he was going to do are so polar opposite. | ||
You know, they didn't stop the DEA from raiding these medical marijuana facilities. | ||
There was a lot of raids during his time. | ||
If you want to go and look at how many raids took place during Obama's time, it's been quite substantial. | ||
The blowback from that has also been substantial, and it's very damaging to his party because he's essentially a Republican in wolf's clothing. | ||
I mean, a lot of the shit that they've done outside of social things have been like, you know, really, really similar to what the Bush administration did. | ||
There's been a lot of really negative shit that's happened with the DEA breaking into these pot stores, putting fucking boots on kids' necks and taking. | ||
Like, there was one that they did where they got caught doing all this because all the film was sent remotely to another location, like constantly. | ||
It was kind of sent so no one could steal the hard drives. | ||
The security cameras were still recording. | ||
So you got to see them put their boots on this kid's neck, throw him to the ground. | ||
Just a kid. | ||
Just a young 20-year-old kid working in a place. | ||
They stole all the money. | ||
Just people being thugs. | ||
They steal the money. | ||
They know that these people aren't threats. | ||
You see a 20-year-old college kid who's working there, and you got to do that. | ||
That's not a national security threat. | ||
And assume you've done an investigation. | ||
You know who these people are. | ||
You know who you're arresting. | ||
And you got your boot on his neck all the time. | ||
These are people who are trying to relax. | ||
People are trying to find more healthy outlets for their anxiety or their uncertainty. | ||
So the point is, there's probably going to be someone could easily bribe a politician to go hard on these things with the new administration in office. | ||
If there was a big push by the pharmaceutical industry, it was a big push by the alcohol industry, big push by whatever prison guards, unions, whoever it needs to be that can grease the wheels to get them to be harder on marijuana. | ||
It could conceivably happen. | ||
The genie's not totally out of the bottle yet. | ||
But I think that the chances of that happening are thankfully not that high because the cat's out of the bag. | ||
The public knows that marijuana is not a bad thing now. | ||
It's a good thing. | ||
And that's a very hard thing To how can you outdo that at this point? | ||
It doesn't matter how many Reaper Madnesses you put out, people have come to the conclusion that it's actually not bad for you. | ||
Did you see Ann Coulter? | ||
What about her? | ||
She was on Pierce Morgan talking about Pot. | ||
I'm sure she's against it. | ||
Brian, put it on. | ||
Ann Coulter on Piers Morgan talking about pot. | ||
Not just against it. | ||
She's so ridiculous. | ||
It's so hilarious because, first of all, it's working, right? | ||
We're talking about her. | ||
So obviously her trolley. | ||
People like that just want to stay in the media and they don't realize the real harm they're doing to the national discourse. | ||
I agree with you so much. | ||
She got you to mention her name just now and now she's going to get booked on another show because of this. | ||
She'll be on the Today Show. | ||
And that's great. | ||
So she can sell more books. | ||
But she's fucking over people who actually rely on what they see on TV and she's just fucking up the whole discourse. | ||
You got it, Brian? | ||
Five seconds. | ||
Yeah, she's a terrible person. | ||
I mean, what she's doing is for her own benefit. | ||
And that trolling, when you have any worse. | ||
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Well, I suppose it's illegal. | |
So why is it illegal? | ||
And cannabis illegal. | ||
Well, I'm trying to answer, but as soon as I answer, you're going to interrupt me and say, no, it's not illegal. | ||
What do you keep saying? | ||
That's not true, but then explain why. | ||
Well, I keep trying to and you keep interrupting. | ||
Now I'm going to explain now. | ||
So don't interrupt. | ||
Look, the sole purpose for smoking pot or eating a pot brownie is to get high. | ||
That is not true with alcohol. | ||
People enjoy. | ||
Okay, pause it right there. | ||
She's wrong right there. | ||
She's a crazy kind. | ||
What does that mean? | ||
Who drinks not to get drunk? | ||
Yeah, I drink whiskey for the taste. | ||
Imagine you fucking sitting around drinking whiskey. | ||
Imagine if they came up with alcohol-free whiskey and they sold it in those big Arnold Palmer lemonade cans. | ||
What are they doing? | ||
They're drinking alcohol-free whiskey. | ||
They're trying to do that with weed. | ||
They're trying to give you the benefits without the high, like extract that and put it in a pill. | ||
I think that would fuck people over. | ||
No, no, no, no, no, no. | ||
They're actually, the scientific research behind that is to extract CBDs, and it's for pain. | ||
It's for people that are under chronic pain that don't want to get high. | ||
But okay, that's different. | ||
My thinking was that they're kind of like, oh, you can use the medical benefits as long as you don't get high from it. | ||
And I think that this is totally just my own perspective. | ||
I really think that part of the medicinal property of marijuana is that it allows you to see things differently. | ||
And I think there's much more of a connection between the mental and the physical than we're willing to accept in our Western society. | ||
And I feel like most humans up until about 100 years ago took most of what I'm saying for granted. | ||
Like, you remember reading books, like novels in the 1800s where somebody's sick and their doctor says, go live somewhere, like, go live in the countryside, you'll feel better. | ||
And they would prescribe this shit. | ||
It actually works because if you're less stressed out and you're in a better environment, you get better. | ||
Your body knows what to do. | ||
And we've totally like, we try to be so clinical with everything that we can't let somebody just get high and fucked up for a few hours and figure out their own shit. | ||
It has to be very clinical. | ||
You know, you can't actually feel something that's an altered state of consciousness. | ||
Although I agree with you on that, I think the scientific principle or the scientific reasoning behind extracting CBDs is just so that people who have injuries can have pain medication that's natural and have it while they're at work. | ||
Yeah, that makes sense. | ||
Don't get fucked up or high. | ||
I'm thinking of something else, then. | ||
I got to use the bathroom myself. | ||
Please do. | ||
I don't think there's anything wrong with what you're saying because I think you're right in a lot of ways as well. | ||
But I think that there's a bunch of reasons why they extract CBDs from cannabis. | ||
It's not all that the man wants to keep you down. | ||
So play this fucking wacky bitch. | ||
Play her some more. | ||
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They're a 14-year-old going to cannabis. | |
Everybody drinks alcohol to get slightly higher than when they start drinking it. | ||
Julie. | ||
Piers Morgan. | ||
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That's the point of drinking alcohol. | |
Absolutely. | ||
I have done TV after drinks. | ||
I bet you you have to. | ||
I'm trying to do it right now. | ||
That would explain a lot of things. | ||
Have you ever smoked pot? | ||
Wait, would you please let me finish one sentence, Piers Morgan? | ||
You're taking your sort of random pot. | ||
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People enjoy wine. | |
They drink wine for a purpose of remote. | ||
$800 bottles of wine. | ||
Perhaps you have a warm feeling. | ||
It does not. | ||
You can tell if somebody's been smoking pot. | ||
Their eyes are red. | ||
They giggle at everything. | ||
And by the way, they're incapable of carrying on the normal functions of life. | ||
Have you ever smoked pot? | ||
No, I haven't. | ||
Never in your life. | ||
Hello, pause there, Rector. | ||
How ridiculous is that? | ||
They're incapable of carrying on the normal functions of life. | ||
I do jiu-jitsu while I'm high. | ||
I do comedy while I'm high. | ||
I'm doing this podcast high. | ||
I do almost every radio show I ever do, high. | ||
The normal functions of life, like what? | ||
We go to the movies high all the time. | ||
Go to dinner high all the time. | ||
Like, what is she talking about? | ||
And what is she basing it off as? | ||
Does she have one ex-boyfriend that's a pothead that she's basing potheads about? | ||
Well, stop and think about that because she's dating, if that is the case, she's dating a guy who's willing to tolerate her. | ||
So just imagine what kind of a fucking idiot he's going to be. | ||
Oh, he couldn't, you know, he couldn't function. | ||
Well, Jesus Christ, it was probably paralytic just being around your fucking shitbag personality. | ||
Imagine that. | ||
Imagine that woman. | ||
That's your girlfriend. | ||
Oh, he couldn't function in life. | ||
So if it's that, or if it's her friends, like she says, she knows a lot of potheads. | ||
She has potheads at her friends. | ||
What she's doing is by just trolling like that. | ||
See, that might have been okay, that kind of trolling that she did when she started doing it. | ||
Because when she started doing it, she was trying to, we've got an alert coming up. | ||
Some alert is on that thing. | ||
When she started trolling like that, it was probably pre-internet, you know? | ||
I mean, she was probably doing that shit way before. | ||
The only way for her to get attention is a platform. | ||
But now that she has a platform, she should use it for good instead of. | ||
Exactly. | ||
Well, stop being misinformation. | ||
Stop being a silly bitch. | ||
Like, you know, have a nuanced point of view. | ||
Can you do that? | ||
Can you not just be a right-wing fucking chatterboss? | ||
Also, like, people like that who claim to be limited government and conservative. | ||
Exactly. | ||
It seems to me like they pretty much just want lower taxes. | ||
Because if you really believed in limited government, how the fuck can the government tell you that you can't put something that's first of all safe into your own body, in the comfort and safety of your own fucking home when you're an American citizen and supposedly live in a free society? | ||
You should be able to do that in some way. | ||
Do I think it should be taxed and regulated? | ||
Absolutely. | ||
Keep it safe. | ||
Keep it on the books. | ||
But why shouldn't you be allowed to do that? | ||
I'm sure she doesn't have a real argument against that, so it's only ad hominem. | ||
It's, well, they're lazy. | ||
And you're like, well, what about the Beatles? | ||
Were they lazy? | ||
What about Steve Jobs? | ||
Is he lazy? | ||
You know, you're just isolating one anecdotal fucking thing. | ||
Exactly. | ||
And that's not, I can make an argument against alcohol based on Some guy outside who's drunk in front of a liquor store, that doesn't mean you shouldn't go out drinking with your friends. | ||
Well, not only that, look what she's using as an example. | ||
She's talking about while you're in the bathroom, she was talking about, you know, you could drink it and have a warm feeling. | ||
Like, come on. | ||
So, what you're saying is you can't smoke just a little bit of pot and just relax a little. | ||
You can't have a very mild pot candy. | ||
There's a pot candy that Speedweed has. | ||
It's goddamn perfect. | ||
It's goddamn perfect. | ||
You can have one and it's just a mild edge reducer. | ||
Just mild, so mild. | ||
Like, really, like, to play pool, I like to take two. | ||
The hard candy ones? | ||
Yeah, but one? | ||
One is great. | ||
It's like you don't feel perplexed. | ||
You don't get bad. | ||
Like, what were we talking about? | ||
You don't get any of that. | ||
It's a dosage issue. | ||
It's the same thing with everything. | ||
The idea that alcohol is more, you know, that you could easily underdose with alcohol and just have a warm feeling, but you can't do that with marijuana. | ||
That's so foolish. | ||
It's so dumb. | ||
And it's so ignorant to human physiology. | ||
It's so ignorant to all the different things that we use on a daily basis, where if you overuse them, they would fucking kill you. | ||
I mean, there's a huge amount of medications that people take on a daily basis, where if they took 20 times more than they were supposed to take, they're dead. | ||
You know, salt, 10 ounces of salt, you're a dead person. | ||
Just in sleeping pills. | ||
Yes, fuck yeah. | ||
Tylenol PMs and Tylenol is apparently really bad for you. | ||
If you drink, you should not take Tylenol. | ||
I didn't know this until a couple years ago. | ||
If you drink, you should not take Tylenol as your hangover cure. | ||
You should take something like Advil because acetaminophen is really tough on your liver. | ||
Oh, yeah, that stuff's not good for you. | ||
I know a guy who takes, he takes, this is a crazy cocktail, but he takes Adderall, he takes Xanax, and he takes Ambien. | ||
All of them prescribed by his doctor. | ||
What is that about? | ||
Exactly. | ||
What is that about? | ||
It's like, I'm going to speed myself up so I can slow myself down so I can relax. | ||
Well, he speeds himself up, then apparently you get a little freaked out from that, so he needs something to relax, and that's where the Xanax comes in, but then he can't go to bed at night, so he needs the Ambien. | ||
Pow, pow, pow! | ||
I totally do that with coffee and alcohol, though. | ||
Because what happens is you have like a meeting at 6 p.m., so you get all caffeinated, and then it's 6.45 and you're in your apartment, you're like, fuck, I need to chill out. | ||
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So you start drinking because you're so amped from the caffeine. | |
Well, I used to have a buddy that had a crack habit, and I used to go with him and go to the liquor store when he was fucked up and he wanted to calm down. | ||
He would go to the liquor store and he would buy a 40-ounce just to bring his heart rate down. | ||
Wow. | ||
And he would, yeah. | ||
He's healthy living right there. | ||
No, he's dead. | ||
Sorry about that. | ||
Yeah, he died. | ||
This is why I'm not a comedian, by the way. | ||
No, I mean, look, I couldn't get upset at you for saying healthy living. | ||
It's obviously not healthy. | ||
He had a lot of drug problems, but he wound up dying because of it. | ||
But just seeing him trying to calm down by drinking, pounding this 40-ounce of beer, just trying to get the alcohol into his bloodstream to just alleviate the crazy heartbeat that he had going on. | ||
That's where the DEA and stuff like that is fucking up also, is that they've betrayed the trust of young people by lying to them about marijuana. | ||
So as a result, there are probably people out there who are like, well, maybe meth's not that bad. | ||
Exactly. | ||
Maybe crack cocaine is not that bad because they completely lied to us on marijuana. | ||
And I remember as a kid in middle school, they had a cop come to our classroom and give us the whole dare breakdown. | ||
And he had a suitcase filled with like fake versions of drugs, like what they look like. | ||
And I was thinking, even as a kid, I was like, how ridiculous is this? | ||
Now I'm an expert on what all these drugs look like. | ||
Before, I didn't know shit about half these things. | ||
Now I'm like practically a drug dealer based on this fucking infomercial. | ||
Like, here's all the stuff that you should never look for. | ||
Don't look for this one. | ||
It comes in this kind of bag. | ||
You know, I'm like, what is this? | ||
It's some kind of weird propaganda. | ||
There's education in knowing what not to take. | ||
As long as you're honest about it. | ||
As long as you go, now this one is actually just a dried plant. | ||
It grows all over the contiguous United States. | ||
It's been used for thousands of years. | ||
By the way, you just said contiguous. | ||
I've never used that word ever. | ||
Have you ever used contiguous? | ||
Never. | ||
Of course not. | ||
It's a good word. | ||
Thank you. | ||
I read a lot of shit on my Kindle, and then certain words just get into my mind. | ||
That's a good one. | ||
And I'm like, I'm going to use this next time I feel like using it. | ||
Rocket contiguous. | ||
I hope you use it correctly. | ||
Anyway, I'm sorry. | ||
It's already being fact-checked. | ||
You're right. | ||
You're right. | ||
You're absolutely right. | ||
If they said that, if they're honest about that, they're like, look, you shouldn't do this one because it's going to lower your motivation. | ||
At least stay away from it until you get into college or until you get a job or whatever it is that you need to get. | ||
You should avoid it if you want to be as motivated as possible. | ||
If they said that, then I'd be like, okay, then I'll listen to you when it comes to stay away from the crack cocaine because it'll fuck up your life, which it will. | ||
But you don't trust that person. | ||
I have no trust for what they say. | ||
Well, it also fucks up the relationship that people have to law enforcement. | ||
It fucks up the relationship that people have to people in positions of authority that you legitimately need to protect you in a civilized society. | ||
And that's what the cop should be. | ||
Being a cop should be an honorable position that's very difficult to acquire. | ||
It should be something that we really respect and we love and appreciate the people that are around us that are there to help us if some shit goes wrong, if some bad people are around, if some people are victimizing other people, if some people are breaking the law. | ||
That should be a part of our society. | ||
But when they become a DEA person and they're shooting someone's fucking dog because they got a plant growing in their house, I mean, how many of those goddamn videos you have to see before you realize there's a problem with the fact that these cops think they could just break into someone's house and shoot their fucking dog for nothing? | ||
They shoot dogs that are behind dog gates barking, little tiny dogs. | ||
They just shoot them. | ||
They shoot them because they want to intimidate the fuck out of the people. | ||
They want to let them know, look, I just shot your fucking dog. | ||
You're going to start crying and I'm going to get what I want. | ||
And it's part of the power trip. | ||
It's part of the thing. | ||
And it's part of what makes people distrust cops. | ||
And that's fucked. | ||
If cops didn't have to deal with these laws, if there wasn't laws that were unjust on the books, then this sort of behavior would never take place. | ||
If you couldn't do that to someone, if you couldn't break down someone's door and fucking shoot their dog, if you could only go and arrest people who are committing crimes, our whole attitude, crimes that victimize people, our whole attitude about law enforcement would change. | ||
It would make it better for them. | ||
It would make it better for them. | ||
They would become like firefighters. | ||
It would become an integral part of our society that's absolutely necessary, except for the people that are fucking committing the crime, Which we don't want in the first place. | ||
But it has to be real crime. | ||
It has to be crime that creates victims. | ||
Victimless crimes are horseshit. | ||
Crimes against yourself, they're bullshit. | ||
You can't stop a person from cutting off their own fucking finger. | ||
Did you know that? | ||
If you decided to go get a bolt cutter from fucking Home Depot, take it home, and hack off one of your fingers, no one can fucking stop you. | ||
You go to the hospital and they say, what happened? | ||
Oh, I cut my finger off of the bolt cutter. | ||
They're not going to arrest you. | ||
They're going to go, why'd you do that? | ||
You're like, I fucking hate that finger. | ||
They're going, all right. | ||
Well, don't do that again, you idiot. | ||
You're going to die. | ||
You know, you got an infection. | ||
Take these antibiotics and get out of the hospital. | ||
But how come you can cut off your fucking finger? | ||
But if you see a guy who likes to smoke pot, you can arrest him. | ||
You can arrest him for what? | ||
What's he doing? | ||
He's doing something to his body that you don't agree? | ||
Is that what it is? | ||
Because there's no victims here. | ||
Is there a victim? | ||
Is the smoke going into the air and polluting our modern discourse? | ||
Is it fucking taking paint off cars down the block? | ||
No, it's not doing a goddamn thing. | ||
There's no staff to do it. | ||
There's no crime here. | ||
There's no crime. | ||
And that's where we have to make a distinction. | ||
And the reason why, or one of the reasons why that distinction is very difficult to make, is because there's people that have made these laws and enforcing these laws a business. | ||
There's a business not just in keeping prison guards in work, but keeping prisons filled and making sure that prisons generate income from bringing in prisoners. | ||
So they make sure that laws are in place that absolutely ensure that they're going to have new people in there every year because people are going to keep breaking these laws because they're laws that are ridiculous. | ||
They're laws that have been in place since the beginning of time. | ||
And those laws, they're about 30% of the people that are in prison. | ||
That's what's so fucked up about it. | ||
Do you think that these laws, these anti-psychedelic and anti-marijuana laws, are actually like a form of society's immune system kind of going overboard? | ||
Like I think about how some of the most brilliant people seem to have some kind of interaction with drugs at some point in their lives, whether it be Steve Jobs with the acid trips or, you know, pretty much any musician with weed or any writer with weed. | ||
Any comedian with weed. | ||
Yeah, okay, any comedian. | ||
It unlocks a lot of potential that otherwise wouldn't be there for people. | ||
And it shows you the world in a different way, especially if you do something that's even stronger, like a psychedelic. | ||
It's showing you something that's almost like root access to a computer, where it gives you a lot more power. | ||
But for most people, you don't want root access. | ||
You just want them to have their, you know, their web browser, and that's it, and you don't want them fucking stuff up. | ||
I wonder if society as a whole is the kind of unconscious thing that goes on. | ||
It's like, this is really powerful stuff. | ||
So we'll allow some people to have access to it. | ||
But we can't just let the whole society go Timothy Leary, you know, tune in, tune out, whatever his thing was, because what we'll have as a result is completely uncharted waters that we haven't been to before. | ||
And there are people really afraid of that happening. | ||
Well, I think if you have to look where are these laws coming from, are the laws coming from really educated philosophers and scholars who have examined? | ||
No, no, these laws are coming from people who are doing a lot of fear-mongering. | ||
You remember all the shit that Ronald Reagan was saying back in the day? | ||
Well, it turns out that marijuana may be one of the most damaging drugs known to Maine. | ||
The most dangerous. | ||
You know, it's that kind of shit. | ||
Those are the people. | ||
People like this and Cultur Twat. | ||
Let's finish listening to this because it's so fucking ridiculous. | ||
Play it more. | ||
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So how do you know what it does? | |
Because I'm around potheads. | ||
More than many of my best friends are potheads. | ||
Potheed, a lot of them. | ||
Maybe Bill Maher. | ||
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Look, potheads can still get the pot. | |
They're probably self-medicating. | ||
But the more people who take it, and if it is made legal, vastly more people will take it. | ||
And it will be a disaster for commerce. | ||
Disaster for commerce. | ||
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Because potheads are incapable of following simple instructions and getting a job done. | |
I used to carry on. | ||
at Piers Morgan's body language he's like this fucking awful person that I have to interview he's awful too yeah he got fine What do you mean by that? | ||
Was when I moved to a new place in California and there was a pool and the pool guy didn't, you know, I come back and it's four feet down and it's covered with green mold and I called him up. | ||
He was a pothead. | ||
Oh, I was there that day. | ||
You know how silly that is? | ||
I want to talk about anecdotal evidence. | ||
She met a pool guy who was a pothead who didn't clean her pool. | ||
So therefore, what a selfish cunt. | ||
Therefore, what a self-centered cunt, by the way. | ||
$800 bottle of wine. | ||
She's talking about $800 bottles of wine. | ||
And then she talks about how her pool guy couldn't do his job because he was high on pot. | ||
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It's my argument. | |
Let me try and stop the stream of consciousness. | ||
Anything done with a pod head. | ||
Everyone knows what a pothead is. | ||
What does it mean? | ||
It's not smoking pot one time. | ||
Look, so how much are you assuming a pothead takes? | ||
Enough so that it can be made fun of on TV by the way. | ||
But she's promoting an area that's not a problem. | ||
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It's like a heavy drinker. | |
Or a heavy smoker. | ||
No heavy smokers work all night and then die young saving the Social Security system money. | ||
For commerce, commercial purposes, for the purposes of the good of the country, we ought to encourage Americans to smoke like mad. | ||
They'd be incredibly productive. | ||
What you're seeing, ladies and gentlemen, what you're seeing right now is a human who's screaming for a psychedelic intervention. | ||
If we could get Ann Coulter into a jungle retreat in Peru and force feed ayahuasca with one of those things they use for fagua when they stuff like a goose filled with grain to make their liver fat and delicious, if we could do that with her with ayahuasca, | ||
just pin their nose and their mouth, just pin it together, hold on to it, force it down, hold it in there, make sure her body absorbs it, and then they'll throw up and then let this bitch go on a wild ride on the feathered snake and come back. | ||
She just needs dick too, probably. | ||
She needs dick too for sure. | ||
Well, you know what she needs? | ||
She needs dick that actually wants to fuck her. | ||
She probably can get some dick, but it's probably a mess. | ||
They're both drunk and, you know, his breath smells. | ||
Some weird Fox News producer just on top of her. | ||
Sweating. | ||
Stinky feet with his fucking slippery socks on. | ||
The whole thing's a mess. | ||
I'm sure it's disgusting. | ||
She's gross. | ||
She's a gross human being. | ||
Not just gross, like with, you know, she's just not an ugly woman. | ||
She's not my favorite. | ||
But her personality is gross. | ||
It's just so insensitive and aggressive and egomaniacal. | ||
Like what she's saying is so preposterous and so obviously obviously trolling. | ||
That's what she's doing. | ||
Fucking dumb cup. | ||
She's the master troll of the day. | ||
You see the new Godzilla trailer? | ||
Yeah, let's play a little bit more of this in case there was more things to yell at and then we'll play that. | ||
Because that's so much more awesome than her. | ||
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It's not alcoholic. | |
His prohibition. | ||
Heavy drinkers were the problem. | ||
Once the cat is out of the bad, you can't put it back in. | ||
That was the problem. | ||
Yeah, but here's the problem. | ||
But she was not that. | ||
Again, to pick up where I was in the middle of my sentence, but during prohibition. | ||
She was not that, is it? | ||
During prohibition, every alcohol-related disease, cirrhosis of the liver accidents as a result of alcohol, went down precipitously. | ||
It will go up. | ||
We will have lots. | ||
This is how many potheads we have when it's illegal. | ||
I think that's just about enough. | ||
Let me ask you. | ||
Nobody has ever overdosed on cannabis. | ||
Did you know that? | ||
So what? | ||
They can't perform daily functions. | ||
They're going to be on my tax bail. | ||
Do you accept that people die of smoking? | ||
You accept that people are going to overdose on too much algorithm. | ||
Well, everybody dies eventually. | ||
Well, you just contradicted yourself, you dummy. | ||
And do you encourage cigarette smoking on national television? | ||
What she's doing right there is just being a silly person. | ||
What she's doing right there is purposely trolling. | ||
What she's doing right there is just trying to get attention and holding on to an argument that doesn't have any basis in logical thinking. | ||
Her argument is just about her trying to get her point over. | ||
She's just a shitty example of a person who's allowed to talk. | ||
That's what it is. | ||
You shouldn't be given that sort of a platform if that's the kind of thing that you do. | ||
Because it's so obvious she's not a thinker. | ||
What she's doing is she has an ideology and she pushes that ideology at the expense of all the contradictory evidence. | ||
No matter what. | ||
She's talking about fucking alcohol being okay, cigarettes being okay, marijuana being bad. | ||
They're going to be on my tax bill is her concern. | ||
Well, guess what, Hooker? | ||
I'm not on your tax bill. | ||
There you go. | ||
I smoke pot. | ||
It's a dumb thing to say. | ||
It's just the fucking Nancy Grace thing. | ||
They're all lazy potters. | ||
Look at you, fat so. | ||
Are you a fucking maniac mountain climber? | ||
Is that you running 100 miles every morning? | ||
You're fucking lazy. | ||
You're a lazy bitch. | ||
You're a lazy fat-faced bitch. | ||
Okay? | ||
There's a bunch of lazy dummies out there talking shit about pot. | ||
It's not pot. | ||
And can pot make you lazy? | ||
Well, it can relax you. | ||
And if you have a tendency to want to not do things, pot will definitely accentuate that tendency. | ||
But being lazy is a state of mind. | ||
It's what you decide, the direction you decide to pursue your life. | ||
I'm not lazy because of marijuana. | ||
I am more introspective. | ||
And oftentimes I get more done because of marijuana because I have more interests. | ||
It's just we have these perceptions and we have these stereotypes that have been reinforced in movies and we have these ideas and we have these ideas that are coming from a person who clearly doesn't smoke pot. | ||
Clearly she's not eating pot cookies and exploring her consciousness. | ||
I don't believe in any kind of media laws, but I almost feel like there should be a law where if you're going to talk about a subject this big, you actually have to have first-hand experience. | ||
So if you're talking about marijuana is harmful, you must have actually used it yourself more than once before you can talk about it in that manner. | ||
If you're talking about Bitcoin, you actually have to have used it at least once. | ||
If you're talking about anything, if you're talking about being unemployed, you have to have been unemployed at some point or at least interview somebody who's unemployed now and not just pontificate, which is what so many people do. | ||
I agree to a certain extent. | ||
I think the marijuana thing is it's also troubling the format in which they're communicating in. | ||
These goddamn formats, these television formats, are so, and I didn't realize it when I was younger, but now after four years of podcasting, I'm so aware of what the difference is and communicating like that and communicating like this. | ||
Like when you do jiu-jitsu, like say if you're really good at jiu-jitsu and you roll with someone who's just really strong, you roll with a guy who's like a really good athlete. | ||
It takes you a while to get them, but you're going to get them. | ||
It's just going to take a while. | ||
Like if someone doesn't know jiu-jitsu, but they're really strong, you might not be able to hold on to them. | ||
They might throw you off them. | ||
But eventually they're going to get tired of doing that because they're doing it the wrong way and you're going to get them. | ||
When Ann Coulter is on a Pierce Morgan show, she could say a bunch of crazy shit because she knows the commercial's coming in seven minutes. | ||
She can start this ridiculous argument that's completely circuitous. | ||
It doesn't have an ending to it. | ||
And there's going to be an interruption. | ||
We'll be right back. | ||
And then they're going to cut the commercial and they're going to come back and she's going to babble some more so she can sprint. | ||
It's just like a fight where you sprint in between rounds. | ||
You sprint and then in between rounds you relax and then you come back with some other fucking inane argument in the next round. | ||
And that's what she's doing. | ||
But if you got her on a podcast for three hours, I would Brian dunning her. | ||
I would do exactly what I did to that guy. | ||
You just talk to them and allow them to express themselves until you reveal how ridiculous they are. | ||
Yeah, if she were here, she wouldn't be able to do an intellectual hit and run where you throw out like this huge character attack against weed smokers and then it's over. | ||
Exactly. | ||
I would let her talk. | ||
I would let her talk. | ||
I have hours to kill. | ||
Let's go. | ||
Come on, get to it. | ||
And after a while, you're going to get tired. | ||
You're going to get tired. | ||
You're going to get tired of saying nonsense. | ||
You're going to get tired of sprinting with nonsense. | ||
And then slowly but surely, we will compile facts and slowly but surely we will present you with examples of people who use it, who are healthy, and who benefit from it. | ||
And I'll tell you my own personal story. | ||
I benefit from it. | ||
And then we can compare. | ||
And you can tell me if you think that Eddie Bravo is lazy. | ||
You think that one of the best jiu-jitsu instructors in the country, the first American to ever tap a Gracie. | ||
You think he's lazy? | ||
Reminds me of Phillips. | ||
I guess Michael Fox. | ||
Oh, you think he's lazy? | ||
You know, just stop and think about all the comedians we know that smoke weed, that fucking constantly travel across the country, that constantly writing and performing. | ||
Are they lazy, Ann? | ||
No, you're lazy thinking. | ||
And in saying that, you're lazy. | ||
And if that's the type of discourse that you pursue, if that's what you're trying to do, if that's what you're trying, that's a lazy way of being a human being. | ||
That's a lazy way of operating an incredibly complex neural system. | ||
That's a lazy way of being a functioning human being who is given this incredible position of communicating with the world. | ||
Because you have responsibilities when you're communicating with the world. | ||
And one of those responsibilities is to express yourself to the best of your abilities, to look at life through the... | ||
Sorry. | ||
Express yourself to the best of your abilities. | ||
To look at life through the most nuanced and objective perspective. | ||
Because you're going to say some things that are going to influence a lot of fucking people. | ||
How much have you looked at it? | ||
Well, in her case, obviously, not so fucking much. | ||
Her pool guy. | ||
She talks to the pool. | ||
I came back and the pool was green. | ||
Oh, you fucking poor baby. | ||
You poor baby. | ||
Was your pool green? | ||
How do you go on? | ||
How would you go on? | ||
There's a lot of beautiful people that smoke marijuana, beautiful spiritually, beautiful personality-wise. | ||
There's a lot of lazy people that smoke marijuana. | ||
There's a lot of lazy people who don't smoke marijuana. | ||
There's a lot of lazy people who drink coffee. | ||
It's a tool, like any other tool. | ||
It can be used or it can be abused. | ||
You know, it's like my old joke from one of my bits. | ||
You could build a house with marijuana. | ||
You know, you could smoke pot and use it to design things. | ||
But it's just like a hammer. | ||
You could build a deck with a hammer. | ||
You could hit nails with a hammer. | ||
Or you could hit yourself in the dick if you're fucking crazy. | ||
It doesn't mean the hammer should be illegal. | ||
You could design furniture on marijuana. | ||
You could build a fucking airplane on marijuana. | ||
There's a lot of things you could do while you're on marijuana. | ||
You can write a novel on marijuana, which has been done many times. | ||
Stephen King wrote almost all his shit. | ||
He used a lot of Coke, too. | ||
It's probably a bad example. | ||
Stephen King on writing with a bad thing. | ||
It's a mixed example. | ||
Not exactly. | ||
It's a mixed. | ||
Yeah, look, people should be able to do whatever they want to do as long as they're not hurting others. | ||
If you're taking marijuana and you wind up becoming a fucking rapist, if there was, okay, let's not say marijuana. | ||
What if there's a cactus flower that people found in New Mexico and for some reason it makes you a rapist? | ||
Like everybody who takes it becomes like a rape zombie. | ||
Yeah, they should probably make that fucking thing illegal. | ||
You start eating people's faces in Miami. | ||
That should be illegal. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Well, you know what's funny about that? | ||
That was what they started saying was marijuana. | ||
The guy was the zombie that they said they tested him and he tested positive for marijuana. | ||
That was the only drug. | ||
He didn't test positive for bath salts. | ||
That's with all the stories. | ||
But this is how piss poor the media is. | ||
And when you're giving out these five to seven minute blurbs on information, well, why didn't it test positive for bath salts? | ||
Because there's no test for bath salts, you fuckhead. | ||
They don't have a test. | ||
That's interesting. | ||
So they're just making this shit up. | ||
Well, what is bath salts? | ||
What are bath salts? | ||
Well, they could be a variety of different compounds. | ||
That's true, just a media term for this boogeyman drug. | ||
Well, what these boogeyman drugs are is you take an illegal drug, you alter it so that it's no longer illegal, but it still has ridiculous effects on the human body, and then you sell it as not for human consumption. | ||
It's not just one simple formula. | ||
They don't just take meth and add phosphorus to it. | ||
I mean, there's a bunch of different versions of these bath salts. | ||
So if you're saying that he didn't test positive for bath salts, you're right and you're wrong. | ||
You're right. | ||
He didn't test positive. | ||
But the reason is they don't have a test for it. | ||
So of course he didn't test positive for bath salts. | ||
You send a test through a lab. | ||
They're going to test for a bunch of different shit. | ||
They're going to look for, you know, cocaine. | ||
They're going to look for alcohol. | ||
They have a spectrum that they look for things in. | ||
Unless you specifically tell them what kind of bass salts, they're not going to look for that. | ||
Yeah. | ||
It's not going to be what, you know. | ||
It's not going to come up with a check mark next to bath salts. | ||
So they tried to blame it on marijuana. | ||
Say this guy smoked pot and ate a guy's face. | ||
This happens sometimes. | ||
Sometimes I'm like, I want in and out and then I want somebody's face. | ||
What they don't realize is how attractive they made weed after that. | ||
Because people go, I want the fucking zombie weed. | ||
I want that weed that made the dude eat a dude's face. | ||
Zombie Kush. | ||
That guy might not be able to handle it because he's a crazy homeless fuck. | ||
But if you give that, you know, zombie face-eating weed to a regular dude. | ||
He had mad munchies. | ||
Yeah, he couldn't even take it anymore. | ||
Get this dummy off the air. | ||
And I say dummy with all due respect. | ||
No need to have her on anymore. | ||
I feel bad for her. | ||
I honestly do. | ||
I feel bad for the viewers. | ||
That's going out to people's homes. | ||
These toxins are being pumped into your living room. | ||
She's a middle-aged woman. | ||
She's not going to get any better. | ||
It's not going to get any smarter. | ||
What she is is what she is. | ||
I feel bad. | ||
You've lived your life and accumulated information and had life experiences, and this is the result. | ||
This is who you are. | ||
That's a disaster. | ||
That's an attention-seeking missile. | ||
Just a disaster that's destroying lives along the way with its fucking shitty personality. | ||
It's just so unfortunate. | ||
It's unfortunate for her. | ||
It's unfortunate for people that listen and don't realize how ridiculous her opinions really are when you look at the actual facts themselves. | ||
The anti-marijuana rhetoric. | ||
It's so stupid. | ||
Yeah, there's definitely problems with people using marijuana, but there's problems with people that use toothpaste. | ||
There's problems with people using glue. | ||
They take glue and they sniff it and they go fucking crazy. | ||
People are nuts, man. | ||
There's 7 billion of us on this planet, and there's a certain percentage of us that can't handle anything. | ||
Why? | ||
Because they were raised poor. | ||
Because in a poor manner, shitty, I should say. | ||
Because their genetics are poor. | ||
Because they have birth defects. | ||
Because there's environmental hazards. | ||
Because they have diseases. | ||
Because fill in the life experiences. | ||
Fill in traumatic childhood incidences. | ||
Fill it in. | ||
Fill it in for why they're fucked up. | ||
But a human being is a very complex puzzle that doesn't always come together correctly. | ||
It just doesn't. | ||
There's a lot of factors that have to do, you know, that have to fall into place to make a David Seaman. | ||
To make a guy who can come on a podcast and be articulate and express information and have all this stuff in his head. | ||
You have to have a lot of factors in place. | ||
It doesn't always work out that way. | ||
It's one of the beautiful things about running across a guy like you or across anyone who's got their shit together because it's not easy. | ||
Are you in your podcast just attracting a million listeners and building up something? | ||
You didn't do this with a network backing it. | ||
It was just your own thing and it grew over time. | ||
We also didn't do it trying to do it. | ||
I think that's part of the, you know, when we had these discussions, there was nobody listening. | ||
So we just expressed our thoughts and it allows you, you know, a platform to explore. | ||
But these like five-minute blurbs where people run on and start arguments on television just to try to get people to buy their book. | ||
That's silent movies, man. | ||
That's some old shit that doesn't work anymore. | ||
The world is complicated. | ||
And a five-minute conversation on a very complex issue that has a massive social impact, massive, both positive and negative. | ||
Like everything, like every fucking good thing in this life, driving has a positive and negative effect. | ||
I am not going to stop driving. | ||
I like being able to get somewhere quicker than walking. | ||
But driving kills people. | ||
There's car accidents. | ||
You're breathing in brake dust if you live in a fucking city. | ||
Forget about the pollution from the engines. | ||
There's no free lunch. | ||
Everything has a plus and a minus. | ||
But it's our job as human beings to have a balanced approach. | ||
And here's what's not good: suppressing and making something illegal that's beneficial to millions of people. | ||
And if there's any lesson to be learned from prohibition, it's the rise of organized crime. | ||
Because when you turn regular people into criminals, the criminals are going to provide those regular people with drugs, and it's going to be untaxed, unregulated. | ||
Definitely. | ||
And then they just corrupt the officials, and the whole thing becomes its own little environment, and it gets entrenched. | ||
And that's what you have, is now you have powerful cartels that want to keep it illegal so they can continue to make money off of it. | ||
Yeah, and I don't really hate Ann Coulter. | ||
I have nothing against that woman. | ||
I feel bad for her. | ||
I feel bad that she's that person now. | ||
I really do. | ||
I feel bad for anybody that's in that position because that's such an for a person who has experienced life through as much of an objective lens as you can, and you see a person like that, that's not a person who's at their best. | ||
That's not a person who has done a lot of soul searching and a lot of thinking and has come to this really peaceful, loving conclusion. | ||
That's a silly person. | ||
That silly person has to be themselves and live with their own nightmares every night. | ||
That's not fun. | ||
She's not having a fun life. | ||
When you were talking about how we lived in a fucked up world and people do crazy stuff and things are mixed, I wrote this article the other day that a lot of my readers didn't like, but I think it's one of the better things I've ever written. | ||
And it's where I take this angle where I'm like, what if President Obama is right about most of this stuff? | ||
He's doing a lot of stuff that is arguably not constitutional. | ||
However, there are 7 billion people on the planet. | ||
A lot of them are driven by hateful ideology in certain parts of the world. | ||
And in a nuclear age, it only takes one of them. | ||
It doesn't even take a nuke. | ||
It takes another 9-11. | ||
I guess going from anculture to 9-11 is natural, but I can start to see the other side of the whole argument. | ||
And I think you have to be able to do that if you're doing the kind of work that I do, is I have to see where people like General Keith Alexander are coming from, which is the argument that we can't, sorry that we're looking for your text messages. | ||
That sucks. | ||
Boohoo. | ||
But we're not going to allow another 9-11 to happen because we don't want to have 3,000 innocent people die and have the economy crash and have total chaos for the next five years. | ||
And so I can see things in that light. | ||
And I wrote this article coming from that place of, you know, he's kept us safe. | ||
And I realize that's a total Bush era argument. | ||
And it's the kind of thing that I normally despise. | ||
But you have to be willing to explore that and explore the fact that it's the year 2014 now. | ||
He's been in office since January 2009. | ||
And you have these fearmongers and the alternative media, people who I don't want to diss because I do their shows and they do mine. | ||
But, you know, people like Alex Jones, basically, where it's fucking 2014. | ||
Like, if what you're saying is true, why are you not in a gulag somewhere? | ||
Why aren't you in a fucking dungeon tower being tortured by Homeland Security? | ||
Well, for one thing, he's easily dismissed because he's so crazy. | ||
I mean, you could pull up a million videos of him screaming and ranting and raving, and you just dismiss him right away. | ||
But my point, though, is like Obama is not the boogeyman that he's been made out to be. | ||
I think that what he is, is somebody who's trying to do the best they can within an extremely fucked up and flawed and pieced together system that is dealing with like 15 different entities at once. | ||
You know, like whenever the DEA breaks in somebody's door, that's not because Obama is like sitting in the White House on his iPad and he's like, oh yeah, let's go to this guy's house, right? | ||
Like he's got other things on his mind. | ||
And yet we link all this to Obama and we should instead be trying to modernize the whole fucking system so that Obama has less to do. | ||
Well, I think there's a very good point in that. | ||
And I agree with you on looking at the other perspective. | ||
I think that's very important. | ||
And people are very reluctant to do that. | ||
People are very reluctant. | ||
It's one of the hardest things to do. | ||
It was hard for me to write this article because I'm like, fuck, I'm like defending everything that I don't believe in. | ||
But you're not. | ||
You're exploring an idea. | ||
And I think you should be allowed to explore an idea. | ||
I think it's important to be able to explore an idea. | ||
And people on the left or people that are anti-war or and rightly so, they would reject that instantaneously. | ||
But I think that to get to know it, you really have to explore it. | ||
I think to look at the holes in the argument, even to look at it from an offensive point of view, you have to explore it and look at it from their point of view to understand them. | ||
I think that I would agree with you in a lot of ways that Obama has one of the most thankless jobs ever. | ||
And it's an unbelievably fucked up situation to try to deal with. | ||
However, he's lied about things. | ||
And I have issues with that. | ||
I have issue with the lying about the NSA collecting only metadata. | ||
I mean, how long did he think that that was going to stay a lie? | ||
I mean, or that that was going to sit out there before people found out. | ||
I mean, people exposed that that was not true within days. | ||
There's a new one that's out today. | ||
I wrote down don't go negative, but there's a new NSA Snowden document that the NSA and the GCHQ, which is the British version of it, I guess the British government's NSA pretty much. | ||
They have this whole procedural thing for how to go after activists that they don't like and harass them using troll identities. | ||
Like literally, there are slideshows showing how NSA agents troll people they don't like online and destroy their credibility and reputations. | ||
That's so crazy. | ||
And this is shit that even a week ago to say this would be like kind of out there. | ||
Because sure, like maybe governments troll people, but you can't say with authority like the U.S. government and the British government are trolling people they don't like. | ||
Now we know that this is a fact and that's something that needs to be reined in because that's not because we're paying for this craziness. | ||
We're paying for some anti-social sociopaths to get a paycheck every two weeks from the federal government to fucking do crazy stuff on the internet. | ||
It's so funny, man. | ||
It's so funny. | ||
It's just hilarious that they've I mean think about what is the lowest form of life. | ||
I want that job by the way. | ||
What's the lowest form of life on online? | ||
Troll. | ||
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Yeah. | |
And that's what the government does. | ||
They fucking troll. | ||
I mean it's hilarious. | ||
And it only works if you pay attention. | ||
But you know, if there's enough people working for the government that are trying to discredit you, I'm sure they could put a good dent in public perception of you. | ||
Why would they? | ||
That's not what you're supposed to be doing if you're a fucking government. | ||
All right. | ||
You're supposed to being a government is like one of the things, it's sort of in a lot of ways like what you shouldn't do when you argue with trolls online. | ||
Like you shouldn't do that because, you know, you just got to accept the fact that you're in an unusual position. | ||
Well, the government's in an unusual position, too. | ||
Obama should have been a good thing. | ||
They're going to deal with that. | ||
He was basically getting trolled by Snowden for a little while. | ||
Like I was watching this, and I was like, it's absolutely ridiculous for a U.S. president to be lowering himself to the level of a 29-year-old freelance contractor for some defense company. | ||
How was he in what way was he getting trolled by Obama? | ||
By addressing the issue and making it seem like Snowden's the problem. | ||
What it should have been is immediately, the second this shit came out, if I were one of Obama's advisors, I would suggest just be honest with you. | ||
Be like, it looks like some stuff went overboard. | ||
There were some things that should not have been occurring. | ||
I'll put an end to it. | ||
We'll appoint a panel to look into it. | ||
It's not what America's about. | ||
And we went overboard because we didn't want to see another 9-11 happen. | ||
And so, of course, some programs crop up over time to keep you safe. | ||
And some of the shit is unconstitutional. | ||
We'll fix it. | ||
And most people, I'd say like 99.99% of people, including myself, would have been like, you know what? | ||
Job well done. | ||
You know, we don't need to fixate on this fucking thing. | ||
Instead, it was like a manhunt. | ||
It's like the plane was forced to the ground somewhere to search for Snowden. | ||
And it's been in the news for months. | ||
Like, what is this? | ||
It's ridiculous. | ||
Well, it's also what did he do that's so terrible. | ||
He released information about crimes. | ||
Yeah. | ||
I mean, if you look at what is law, what is law in this country? | ||
Well, there are laws and there are precedents that have been set. | ||
Way back to when the founding fathers had no idea we're ever going to have a fucking internet, they had certain laws that were in place in order to make sure that people's rights are protected and that the government doesn't get out of hand, that law enforcement doesn't get out of hand because people who have ultimate power, it corrupts them. | ||
It's just, it always has. | ||
It's had since the beginning of time. | ||
Whether it's a fucking security guard at a mall or whether it's a president of the United States, power is a corrupting thing. | ||
And there's laws in place. | ||
They circumvented those laws. | ||
They changed those laws. | ||
They passed things like the NDAA. | ||
They passed things like the Patriot Act. | ||
They passed all these things to make laws that are in place to protect people's rights invalid, make the Fourth Amendment invalid. | ||
And so then they feel justified by doing what is essentially a crime. | ||
Well, a guy comes out and says, hey, a crime is being committed on 300 million people in this country and multiple millions worldwide by a group of Americans who didn't get a license to do this by any voting, by any court of public opinion. | ||
These are unelected officials. | ||
By scholars? | ||
This is Bob Smith in suburban Virginia. | ||
Exactly. | ||
They just have the power to do so. | ||
So because they have the power to do so, they acted on it, and that's a crime. | ||
That is a crime. | ||
We have laws. | ||
So what Snowden did was calling him a traitor is one of the most disgusting labels you could ever label a guy who took his own life and sacrificed his safety and his security in order to enlighten millions of people that a crime is going on. | ||
I mean, he's a modern Paul Revere times a million. | ||
I agree that guy is. | ||
I agree. | ||
And he had a nice life in Hawaii. | ||
He had the dancer girlfriend and he's making good money for a 29-year-old. | ||
Now he's under the fucking crosshairs. | ||
He's in the crosshairs now. | ||
He didn't have to do that. | ||
He made a choice and he's definitely not an attention seeker. | ||
Don't think Putin's not hooking him up though. | ||
You think he's hooking him up with some Russian pods? | ||
Googley, moogly. | ||
Russian chicks. | ||
Russian chicks are probably way hotter than that chick he was banging in Hawaii. | ||
He's probably got some evil Russian liver-stealing chicks. | ||
You fuck them and you get all groggy and you wake up in the middle of the shit. | ||
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You wake up in a hostel with stitches in a tub filled with ice. | |
I don't know. | ||
I mean, I don't know what's really going on with him. | ||
But if I had a guess, I think they take care of him. | ||
I think he's probably okay. | ||
Well, think about it. | ||
If it were a Russian Snowden and he came to the U.S., we would totally hook him up. | ||
We'd make him the head of NASA. | ||
Yeah, the U.S. government would be singing his praises every day. | ||
It's kind of creepy when you realize that that does happen. | ||
They do steal like scientists and they steal like a- The U.S. is one of the major superpowers, and we're in this dystopian novel right now where everybody's spying on everybody else. | ||
We have satellites. | ||
I think the U.S. is the least evil of the superpowers by far and the most promising one. | ||
But we should still hold ourselves to the highest standard. | ||
We shouldn't be vicious about it. | ||
I think there's just a lot of incompetence. | ||
I think that's a lot of what leads to these evil decisions and evil behaviors. | ||
Well, think about how this stuff is. | ||
Think about how this stuff is getting out. | ||
These lame PowerPoint slides. | ||
It feels like something from the office. | ||
The bullet points are like, go after the activists, damage their credibility. | ||
Bring it up. | ||
Search for on Tech Dirt. | ||
That's the website. | ||
Tech Dirt. | ||
Some tech blog. | ||
And one of their top articles right now is about the NSA thing. | ||
They have the actual slides. | ||
Oh, no. | ||
You got to see some of these because it's so like, it's just the combination of evil and mundaness that is just weird, you know, because it's people making these things and people making these policies. | ||
And it's just incredibly vicious stuff. | ||
That's so hilarious. | ||
It really is hilarious, man. | ||
It's just, it's hilarious how incompetent they are in a lot of ways. | ||
It's almost like it's on purpose. | ||
It's almost like the whole thing is being done on purpose. | ||
Well, maybe they're not incompetent. | ||
I was thinking about this too, how the government puts across this image like, oh, we're just a bunch of bumbling morons. | ||
We shut down the government because we couldn't agree to something. | ||
We don't know what's going on. | ||
And meanwhile, you have the NSA has these protocols for harassing people. | ||
Like, we're very smart at some level. | ||
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Like, we know those are the slides. | |
That's so funny. | ||
Leak confidential information to companies, the press via blogs, etc. | ||
Post negative information on appropriate forums. | ||
Appropriate forums. | ||
Stop deals. | ||
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Ruin business relationships. | |
Set up a honey trap. | ||
Look at that. | ||
Set up a honey trap. | ||
What are you going to do? | ||
It sounds like the stuff they did to Assange. | ||
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Yeah. | |
I mean, damage credibility, hook him up with a girl. | ||
Oh, yeah. | ||
Well, what exactly did happen with Assange? | ||
I mean, for folks who don't realize, he's not in... | ||
Some South American embassy? | ||
Yeah, some South American embassy. | ||
I should know, but I forget. | ||
I should know too. | ||
But he's not there because of what he did by leaking all that information. | ||
In fact, that's not really a crime that you could get a guy on. | ||
I mean, it's just, it's not the same kind of crime. | ||
The reason why they've Got him held hostage is because they say that he had secret or surprise sex with a woman, which means he had sex with her while they were wearing a condom. | ||
She agreed to it, and then while they're in bed afterwards, I guess they're both naked and he stuck it in without a condom. | ||
He pulled the creeper switcheroo. | ||
And that's surprise sex. | ||
I guess that's what I'm saying. | ||
That doesn't even sound like a real thing. | ||
Like, how is that? | ||
Well, it doesn't sound like a real thing that requires international attention. | ||
Yeah, no, I mean, like, how does that require being on the books, surprise sex? | ||
I don't know, man. | ||
It's confusing as fuck that that could actually be something that they could hold a guy in an embassy for how many years now? | ||
It's been there for more than a year. | ||
It's a long time. | ||
It's got to be kind of like trying to be in the same place. | ||
Oh, it's got to be brutal. | ||
It'd probably drive you fucking crazy. | ||
It probably will. | ||
It probably really will drive you fucking crazy. | ||
That poor bastard. | ||
That guy's stuck. | ||
He's stuck there, and he probably will die there. | ||
They'll probably make sure he dies there. | ||
I mean, that could be crazy if he's there like 20 years from now, 30 years from now. | ||
I think some president will probably pardon him or something. | ||
You think so? | ||
It would have to be way, way, way in the future for that to really be. | ||
President Snowden in like 2045, but President Miley. | ||
President Miley Cyrus. | ||
President Miley in two years. | ||
Or no, she's got to be, what, like 45 years old or something. | ||
Yeah, you've got to be in your 30s with like 36, isn't it? | ||
To be president, something like that? | ||
Something like that. | ||
It just hurts. | ||
It just hurts. | ||
It just hurts that it's that transparent. | ||
It hurts that we're that bad. | ||
That after all these years of human civilization, all these years since the printing press, all these years since newspapers, all these years since television, now all these years of the internet, it's still that transparent. | ||
It's still that ridiculous. | ||
I got to tell you, though, like, I've been thinking lately about seeing those images from Ukraine of all these people bloody. | ||
And they went total, like completely off the civilization map, just chaos, burning stuff, brother against brother, like really dark shit over there. | ||
And they threw out their president, I believe. | ||
And he's on the run or something. | ||
But it makes me wonder, like, maybe some of this stuff that we sense as being really oppressive is necessary for society to just hold together. | ||
Like, if we didn't have the occasional situation where the government comes down hard on somebody, that things would just slowly disintegrate and we would get to a place where you walk into FedEx and nobody wants to check you out because there's not enough of this kind of cohesive societal thing. | ||
Well, that's like sort of the thinking that there has to be a yin and a yang. | ||
There has to be a good and an evil. | ||
There has to be suppression and this desire to escape suppression in order to create momentum and energy. | ||
In order to enthusiastically encourage innovation, you have to be fighting against something. | ||
You have to be battling against something. | ||
Yeah, it's almost like to discover freedom, you have to face a little bit of oppression. | ||
Yeah, there's a lot of thinking behind that, that that's sort of the way the universe works, and that there's hunters and then there's prey. | ||
You know, there's lions and then there's gazelles, and that this is just sort of the way the world works. | ||
In order for the gazelles to stay alive and keep breeding, they have to realize there's a lion coming after them. | ||
Because if there was, you know, gazelles could just hang out and live in one spot, they'd probably eat themselves silly. | ||
They'd fuck so much there'd be too many of them. | ||
Then they'd all die of starvation. | ||
There would be no food left. | ||
I mean, it's almost like you need both. | ||
You need a good and a bad. | ||
You need a night and a day. | ||
You need a winter and a summer. | ||
You need a whole fucking lot of different things to come into play. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Well, that's what I'm starting to think is I'm kind of evolving my views on this stuff because I think that government serves as a kind of immune system against shit like what happened in Ukraine and what's happening in parts of South America now where people are just losing it and you can't let that happen. | ||
You just can't, you know, because the results, you don't know where it ends. | ||
And it seems like at least the example with Egypt, it ends in a bad place. | ||
You go from something that really sucks to something that's unimaginably worse and even more oppressive because you can only go from oppression to chaos to more oppression. | ||
It's very rare. | ||
What the United States did with our founding and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, these are very rare things that don't happen all that often. | ||
But it's interesting that we don't realize, we didn't observe and learn from what did we try to escape and what did we pull off in trying to escape. | ||
But what we pulled off is the greatest startup civilization the world has ever known. | ||
I mean, without a doubt, there's never been a time in human history where within 300 years less of a country being formed has become the dominant superpower on earth. | ||
Not just in a Roman sort of a way, not in a Genghis Khan sort of a way, but in a truly global way. | ||
And now, we find out is spying on everybody as well. | ||
Has missiles all over the world, sending drones into places we're not supposed to invade. | ||
So we send flying robots to do our dirty work for us. | ||
I mean, it's the most insane dictatorship or the most insane government, rather, I shouldn't say dictatorship, but it kind of is. | ||
If you look at the rest of the world, they would think us as dictators dominating them. | ||
Well, we occupy a unique space. | ||
It's really the, you know, you read about this shit, the Pox Americana and all that stuff. | ||
Like, we've imposed a worldwide peace. | ||
I realize I'm using the word peace, even though there are people dying in certain areas, but it's essentially peace through force, and we've established that. | ||
And I don't want to say that that's all bad because I think it's provided a lot of stability and a lot of innovation for millions of people. | ||
Well, it's not all bad. | ||
Nothing is all bad, but it's a lot of bad. | ||
But what I was going to say is that what we have become in this most insane empire ever, it's all born out of trying to escape suppression. | ||
And we tried to establish these parameters that would avoid suppression in this place. | ||
And those parameters allowed people to be free to do a lot of things they weren't able to do in other countries. | ||
Free to set up homesteads and build houses and fucking farm and make cities that just don't exist anywhere in the fucking world. | ||
Why did New York City arise in America? | ||
Because there wasn't another fucking country like us when New York City was first formed. | ||
There was nothing like us. | ||
And everybody flocked here from all over the fucking planet, knowing that this is the free spot. | ||
This is where my parents' family came from. | ||
They all came from Italy and they came from Ireland where it sucked. | ||
And they got on boats. | ||
They didn't even know what the fuck was on the other end because there was no internet back then. | ||
And they just fucking took a chance. | ||
And those gangster motherfuckers created this incredible place where they were trying to escape a shit life. | ||
So what do we do? | ||
We shit up this life too. | ||
We impose the same bullshit that we were scared of or they were scared of when they formed America. | ||
We just fucking ignore it. | ||
We ignore what our founding fathers warned us about. | ||
We think we're smarter than that. | ||
Well, you know, it benefits me if I take away the Fourth Amendment. | ||
So fuck you. | ||
I'm just some fat guy who eats meat and takes Prozac and I've decided I'm going to change the law. | ||
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Yeah. | |
It is kind of funny that we've, in some ways, become what we run from. | ||
It's like that Greek myth where the king is given the prophecy that his son one day will grow up to kill him. | ||
And so he exiles his son to some like distant land. | ||
And in so doing, he eventually assures his own death because they're in a battle or something and the son kills his father, not realizing that it's his father. | ||
And if he had actually just lived in the kingdom for his whole life, he, of course, would not kill his own dad. | ||
But it was that very action of trying to prevent his fate that made it occur. | ||
Yeah, creating enemies. | ||
Creating enemies out of fear. | ||
Being afraid of people, so you create an enemy and then you create someone that you should be afraid of. | ||
And now we're droning people and creating new enemies. | ||
Oh, I mean, not just droning people, but the latest revelation that we're not just droning people, but we're using metadata to find out where their phones are and sending missiles to where their phones are. | ||
Especially when it's been absolutely shown that al-Qaeda and the Taliban, they switch SIM cards back and forth and move them around all the time so that people can't clock where the phone is connected. | ||
Is it connected to this Al Jazeera guy? | ||
Is it connected to Al-Halawaha? | ||
Who knows? | ||
It's fucking SIM cards floating around. | ||
Who knows who's got what? | ||
But they decide that it's okay to shoot missiles to where the phone is. | ||
I mean, that's some incredibly evil shit. | ||
That's insanely evil. | ||
The idea that it's more important to kill this guy than it is to not kill all the innocent people around him. | ||
Wow. | ||
They probably turned on his camera, though, and they're listening first. | ||
You know, like, oh, nope, that's him. | ||
I can hear his voice. | ||
Not according to the NSA documents. | ||
They don't have any corroborating evidence outside of the metadata. | ||
Wow. | ||
Yeah. | ||
They just knew where the phone was. | ||
They sent a rocket there. | ||
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Boom. | |
A lot of these guys also use phones that you can take the... | ||
Like, they never use iPhones or HTC ones. | ||
They use phones where you could always take the battery out because the NSA and whatever government organizations fill in the blank. | ||
The Mussad, fucking the MI5 or MIT. | ||
They all, at this point in time, if you're a bad guy, they have the capability of listening into your phone calls. | ||
They also have the capability of turning on your cameras. | ||
So they use specific phones that don't have, that also, you could remove battery, so they don't have a power source. | ||
And they'll cover their phone, you know, cameras, the front-facing camera, and all kinds of other shit, too. | ||
So they work around all that kind of stuff. | ||
They're not stupid to what technology allows the enemy or their enemy to do. | ||
But the metadata thing is just so crazy. | ||
The idea that you found out where the phone is, so you send a missile to where that phone is. | ||
I mean, I could sort of kind of see if it's Godzilla. | ||
You know where Godzilla's phone is? | ||
Yeah, I'd say just to be sure, send a missile that way. | ||
I still have trouble believing that they're just killing people on the metadata because I would like to think that there's somebody within these agencies who's like, wait a second, we got to actually have some kind of probable cause here before we end somebody's life. | ||
Yeah, it would be nice to think that, but the issue is that you're dealing with people who are so accustomed to making decisions that cost people millions of lives. | ||
I mean, or, you know, over course of time, millions of lives, thousands of lives, dozens of lives, whatever it is. | ||
The loss of life. | ||
They're so accustomed to making those decisions. | ||
One of the things that came out of the WikiLeaks that was so disturbing was the collateral murder video where they were talking about shooting those missiles into the van and that there were children there. | ||
And the guy was like, fuck them. | ||
You know, they shouldn't have brought their kids. | ||
Remember that? | ||
Yeah, I do. | ||
Wikileaks is another example where if they had just come out on day one and said, okay, this organization has surfaced some shit that is really unacceptable. | ||
We're going to investigate it. | ||
We're going to make sure it doesn't happen again. | ||
Thank you very much. | ||
That would have been the end of it. | ||
This whole thing with Julian Assange and the embassy and WikiLeaks becoming this globally prominent whatever it is, like this alternative media organization, would not have happened at all if the U.S. government on day one had just said, okay, thanks for bringing this stuff to our attention. | ||
It will not happen again. | ||
Yeah, but they don't want it to not happen again. | ||
They want it to continue happening. | ||
But they don't want to make sure that they... | ||
Well, now they know. | ||
I mean, now they know. | ||
Now they know because of that. | ||
Now they know because of Snowden. | ||
I mean, now they know. | ||
But it was uncharted territory. | ||
But the point I was making is, you know, saying that they wouldn't shoot missiles to where the metadata is because they're worried about innocent civilians and casualties. | ||
Well, you clearly look at that video and you could say, at least in this certain circumstance, there is a very flippant attitude about the loss of collateral lives, collateral damage. | ||
And it's children they're talking about. | ||
They shouldn't have brought their kids. | ||
Like, okay, really? | ||
Is that where we're at? | ||
We're the good guys. | ||
And they shouldn't have brought their kids. | ||
And that's the attitude. | ||
Not, oh my God, did we kill kids? | ||
There's not that attitude. | ||
Yeah, it's pretty dehumanized. | ||
It's unbelievably dehumanized. | ||
And you want to talk about innocent? | ||
Guess what? | ||
There's no one more innocent than children. | ||
They didn't choose to be there. | ||
They didn't choose to be born there. | ||
They didn't choose to have those parents. | ||
They didn't choose to be led by their little tiny hands into the fucking car seat in a van where you're going to shoot with hellfire missiles because you thought a reporter was an assassin. | ||
You know, I mean, it's all a mistake. | ||
And their attitude is, hey, we shouldn't have brought their kids. | ||
That leads me to believe that there are people out there in the world who are willing to shoot missiles to where the phone is. | ||
It's so weird that with Vietnam, they went through all this stuff, like the slow realization that we're maybe not supposed to be there and that innocent people are being killed and there's no purpose for this. | ||
Like we came To that realization with Vietnam, and it seems like a lot of the same stuff is happening now. | ||
And we're going through the same bullshit where you have to listen to people on TV tell you that you know we got to support the troops, we can't question anything. | ||
We've already been there, like that all happened in the Vietnam War, and then eventually people just fell out of that narrative and they realized it was bullshit. | ||
And now, today, it's still considered something where you can't just say that the wars are complete bullshit. | ||
Well, the best story about all this, or the most ridiculous but yet true, is that both the Vietnam War and the Afghanistan War, a big part of what's going on is they're profiting from illegal drugs. | ||
I mean, that was the heroin. | ||
How do you think? | ||
Yeah, well, heroin. | ||
I mean, it was a big part of what was going on in Vietnam. | ||
It was a big part of the whole golden triangle. | ||
I mean, the amount of money that was moved in heroin during the Vietnam era is documented. | ||
I mean, it's documented that there were soldiers that were involved that were profiting. | ||
What was that movie with Denzel Washington where he played a famous drug dealer that went to China and he had a friend or one of his buddies was a Vietnam soldier. | ||
And it was based on a true story about how he became a big-time drug dealer. | ||
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American gangster. | |
American gangster. | ||
Yeah, that was it. | ||
Great fucking movie. | ||
I saw that movie. | ||
It was good. | ||
Much like what's going on in Afghanistan now, if you brought it up back then, hey, a big reason, a big motivation for the Vietnam War is a secret drug-running organization. | ||
They'd be like, get out of here, you fucking crackpot. | ||
That's the same thing they say today. | ||
But today it's even more blatant and in your face when Geraldo Rivera is interviewing troops that are guarding poppy fields. | ||
Like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. | ||
What? | ||
What are you doing? | ||
Well, we need the information from these people on where the Taliban is, so we're going to guard their poppy fields. | ||
Oh, okay. | ||
Okay. | ||
No one's making any money off this, though, right? | ||
Yeah. | ||
Get the fuck out of here. | ||
Whoever it is that's profiting on by whatever method, whatever avenue they're profiting, they find some sort of a justification for it. | ||
But make no mistake about it. | ||
Part of the motivation why we're there is that money. | ||
That has a factor. | ||
I don't know what factor it is. | ||
Is it more or less valuable than the trillions of dollars in minerals they've discovered? | ||
Is it more or less valuable than the natural gas that Russia and the United States were duking it out over during the time of the Mujahideen? | ||
Is it more or less? | ||
I don't know. | ||
But it's a factor. | ||
It's unquestionably a factor. | ||
The amount of heroin production in Afghanistan since the U.S. occupation is up like 90% or something fucking crazy. | ||
It's through the roof. | ||
So this is just the unreported story. | ||
It's facts. | ||
I mean, these are facts. | ||
Stone cold facts. | ||
No, when I say unreported, I'm not saying that this shit's not true. | ||
What I'm saying is like this is the stuff that people don't see on Fox and Friends is the poppy fields. | ||
It's kind of interesting that we watch Fox or MSNBC and some kind of academic will talk about Obama's performance. | ||
You know, like, oh, as if Obama is just this country politician who we can just sit there and review him. | ||
But he's really this incredibly powerful near emperor of what you just talked about, this technological and military empire. | ||
And so it's kind of absurd, I think, for us to still think that he's this constitutionally bound president. | ||
I mean, he's spying on all these people. | ||
We've got military actions all over the world. | ||
Like, we need to consider the fact that we are not living in a pre-9-11 world anymore. | ||
Yeah, the opium production, it's ramped up 49% from 2012. | ||
It goes up all the time. | ||
It's just going up and up. | ||
Sounds like the business to be in. | ||
Yeah, it's way better than Bitcoin right now. | ||
Out of Bitcoin, into poppy seeds. | ||
It's incredible. | ||
If you look at, if just Google the amount that heroin has jumped up. | ||
Oh my God, it's up by 50% in the last year. | ||
This is the most recent January of 2014. | ||
That's from Newsweek, by the way. | ||
That's crazy. | ||
From Newsweek, their drug output is up 50% in the last year. | ||
And since the American takeover, since American Occupation, let me Google that. | ||
American occupation. | ||
It's fucking crazy. | ||
That's some nutty number. | ||
Oh, God. | ||
It's just so sad because it's so obvious. | ||
It's so in our face, you know? | ||
Do you think that the world gets better? | ||
I think I asked you this last time, but from here, I feel like things have to get better and they're already getting better. | ||
They're definitely better. | ||
But I think what we were getting at earlier is really important, that the yin and the yang is almost necessary in order for things to get done. | ||
And it seems to be almost a natural part of the universe. | ||
I think this is the greatest time ever to be alive. | ||
I really do. | ||
But I think every time was the greatest time ever to be alive at that time. | ||
You know, just not everywhere. | ||
If you live in Africa right now, if you're in Liberia right now, it fucking sucks. | ||
This is a sucky time to be alive. | ||
You know, if you live in Somalia and you have to be a pirate because all the Europeans have dumped nuclear waste off your shores and killed all the fish, it's a sucky time to be alive. | ||
You're basically living in a Mad Max movie. | ||
You're living in the apocalypse. | ||
You're a bunch of skinny guys on CAT, that fucking, that narcotic that they chew leaves to get. | ||
Amphetamine. | ||
Ma-mao. | ||
Not meow-mao. | ||
No, it's called CAT. | ||
K-H-A-T. | ||
It's a type of amphetamine that they get from plants, and they chew it. | ||
They get whacked out of their fucking mind, and they get machine guns, and they get in rowboats, and they go take over fucking oil tankers and kidnap people. | ||
It's the worst combination of things ever. | ||
It's the worst combination of things ever. | ||
And, you know, for them, it's a terrible time to be alive. | ||
But for us, here in Los Angeles, chilling, drinking fucking C2O coconut water, smoking God's greatest weed, sitting here using laptops and on a super powerful internet connection connected to a million people in the world, it's awesome. | ||
It's an awesome time to be alive. | ||
It is. | ||
And I love America and I love the internet. | ||
And that's part of the reason why I'm so obsessed with all the shit I talk about is that these are really cool tools that we've put out into the world. | ||
And it kind of pains me to see us fucking it up, right? | ||
Like we created the internet and it's truly amazing. | ||
It's a game changer. | ||
And now we've weaponized it. | ||
That's the phrase they use. | ||
Well, that thing that you just showed. | ||
Yeah, we're using it to harass innocent people. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Discredit them, ruin their business. | ||
People, I'm going to get this argument a million times now that I've talked about that, which is, well, aren't companies doing that aren't individuals trolling? | ||
And I'm like, it's really different when the government is using your tax dollars that you send them every year and they're using that to psychologically harass you or to harass the journalists that you listen to. | ||
It's really different from some fucking weirdo doing it or some greedy company doing it because they want to just protect their little domain. | ||
Right. | ||
But those companies that do do it, they're fully shitty as well. | ||
You should avoid them. | ||
They're shitty. | ||
If you're saying negative things about the competition and you're making them up and you're trolling and you're trying to kill their business, you're a shithead. | ||
I mean, that's reality. | ||
You know, there's a thing that's been going on with us, with one of the guys that we've had on the podcast several times, a guy named Dave Asprey, who I don't hate. | ||
I like the guy. | ||
I think he's a good guy. | ||
I think he's flawed like a lot of human beings. | ||
I'm flawed as well. | ||
But he's exaggerated and said some things on the show that have turned out to bite us in the ass. | ||
And I sort of started investigating it because he started making claims about my friend Tate's business. | ||
Tate and him were going to go into business together. | ||
For whatever reason, they had a falling out. | ||
So Tate decided to start selling his own coffee. | ||
Dave Asprey sells a bunch of things. | ||
He sells good products. | ||
He sells good coffee, a bunch of other different health and nutrition products. | ||
Nothing wrong with what he's selling. | ||
But he starts shitting on Tate's stuff. | ||
He called it inferior quality without any testing whatsoever. | ||
And then he also called it a knockoff. | ||
He was talking about his MCT oil that he sells. | ||
Well, here's a problem with that. | ||
Several problems. | ||
One problem being that Dave Asprey doesn't make MCT oil. | ||
He buys it. | ||
There's a company that they buy and they sell it to a bunch of different companies. | ||
My friend Larry used to be in the nutrition business, and he owned a company called Nature's Purist, very good company. | ||
And he told me exactly how it all works. | ||
And he told me how he buys from the same suppliers that all these other people buy from. | ||
Like there's only a limited amount of suppliers that make vitamin D, that make MCT oil, that make all these different things. | ||
You buy it from them, you try to buy it from the most reputable supplier, and then you package it yourself and label it yourself. | ||
That's what Dave does. | ||
And that's what Tate did too. | ||
And so Dave is calling Tate's stuff inferior without any testing whatsoever. | ||
That's a propensity for bullshitting. | ||
And so I saw that and I was like, what the fuck is that, man? | ||
You can't do that. | ||
You can't just say that because I know where you get your shit. | ||
I know the company that makes your stuff. | ||
So you can't just say that his stuff is inferior. | ||
You don't know where he buys it. | ||
You don't know what testing he's done. | ||
You don't know. | ||
In fact, Tate even went out of the way to make his MCTO to try to improve what he thought Dave was doing by selling it in glass bottles because he felt like plastic can leach. | ||
It can leach chemicals if it's in the heat. | ||
It's very conscientious the way he did it. | ||
What was not so conscientious was that he kind of copied Dave's business model. | ||
He copied Dave's claims about mycotoxins and all these different things. | ||
So then he goes and tests Dave's coffee and then tests his coffee as well. | ||
Well, Dave's coffee turns out to test positive for mycotoxins. | ||
Under threshold, below threshold of two different mycotoxins, which means you're not going to affect you. | ||
It's not going to physically affect you. | ||
But his whole claim to fame was that there's a real issue with mycotoxins in coffee. | ||
He's developed a process that eliminates them. | ||
Every other coffee could be tainted. | ||
That was his number one thing. | ||
It's like classic government shit. | ||
Create a problem and then offer a solution. | ||
So I, you know, parrot his words, not doing any research, you know, and having him on the podcast. | ||
He's a very smart guy, very knowledgeable, it seems. | ||
So we repeat his words about mycotoxins and coffee. | ||
So Tate, when he does this test and finds out that Dave's stuff actually has mycotoxins and Tate's, which has gone through none of this super secret process, he's just done the standard wet processing that all high-level single-source coffee companies do. | ||
Tate, you know, he goes, well, what the fuck, man? | ||
You know, this guy's shit has some mycotoxins. | ||
Mine doesn't. | ||
Like, what exactly is going on here? | ||
So we sell his coffee at Onit. | ||
We sell the bulletproof coffee at Onit or upgraded coffee, Asprey's coffee. | ||
So we decide to test that and Tate's and Starbucks and some random coffee from Whole Foods. | ||
None of them test positive for mycotoxins. | ||
So that's an issue that's not really present. | ||
It's not a fucking issue. | ||
But we've been parroting it and saying that it becomes this huge thing, saying that it's an issue, saying that it's a huge health issue. | ||
But every coffee expert you read online thinks it's bullshit. | ||
They all think it's bullshit. | ||
In fact, there's like scores that they have for coffee. | ||
They have scores, like a really good coffee, like Rusty's Hawaiian that we started drinking. | ||
It's really good stuff. | ||
And it scores like a 95. | ||
It's delicious coffee, you know? | ||
And in order to score high, they test your stuff for mold. | ||
Like they test it. | ||
You can't have moldy coffee and have it test high. | ||
So this is not an issue. | ||
This is an issue that was existing in the 80s. | ||
There's a PubMed article from 1980 about mycotoxins. | ||
So people aren't dying or chopping other people's faces off. | ||
You guys said a bunch of other shit about it, like it causes coffee to be bitter. | ||
That's not the case. | ||
That's not true. | ||
So the point is, this all started, his whole downfall started because he was making false claims to try to eliminate competition. | ||
He was doing exactly what we're saying companies shouldn't do. | ||
Shouldn't shit on someone to eliminate competition. | ||
Now, if Aspy came out and said, hey, you know, I think it's kind of fucked up that Tate is basically copying my claims about mycotoxins, which, by the way, aren't true, then he would have a point. | ||
But he would say, hey, Tate's copying my lies. | ||
You know, I mean, that's basically what he would have to say. | ||
Because other than that, this is not really the case. | ||
Other than that, it's just the coffee equivalent of a root beer float, which is coffee with butter and MCT oil. | ||
Which then it turns out that wasn't even Asprey's idea. | ||
It was a guy named Rob Wolf, another guy we've had on the podcast, one of the paleo gurus. | ||
He wrote about it in 2004. | ||
So it wasn't Asprey's idea. | ||
This idea had been out there. | ||
He collects these ideas. | ||
And that's one of the things that Rhonda Patrick, who was on last week, who's a PhD, she said that Asprey put some shit on his website from her scientific research with vitamin D and didn't accredit her. | ||
So there's a lot of that going on, man. | ||
A lot of people discrediting people, saying shitty things about people. | ||
It all comes back to get them. | ||
It all comes back. | ||
Because if you're saying false claims about someone like that, if you're just randomly deciding that someone's stuff is shit, well, then they get to test your stuff too, man. | ||
And if it turns out that your whole process is bullshit, that all this unnecessary nonsense or voodoo you're doing to your process to make sure that your stuff is better than everybody else's doesn't actually work, isn't actually real, and the problem doesn't actually exist. | ||
Yeah, then you shouldn't throw stones if you're in the glass house. | ||
It never would have happened. | ||
If he didn't do that, we would have never tested his coffee. | ||
We would have thought that it was probably still an issue. | ||
You can find things online about mycotoxins and coffee being an issue. | ||
But apparently, they figured it out in like the 1980s, this wet processing, they figured out. | ||
So, you know, it puts us in a real bad position because we've said what this guy has said. | ||
We repeated it on this podcast. | ||
I've repeated it. | ||
And, you know, it's not a bad product. | ||
Everything he sells is good stuff. | ||
Don't make any mistake about it. | ||
You shouldn't not buy Dave Asprepsy's. | ||
That's not his stuff. | ||
No, that is Hawaiian Roasters. | ||
Okay. | ||
That's a different one. | ||
Or it's Caveman. | ||
Was that Caveman or Hawaiian Roasters? | ||
Hawaiian Roasters, which we have no affiliation with. | ||
Caveman is my friend Tate's coffee. | ||
I have no business interest in that. | ||
He's just my friend. | ||
You know, I actually have a business interest in selling Asprey's coffee because I own a piece of Onit, and I sell it through Onit. | ||
But I have to be honest always about everything. | ||
And I would have like, it would be profitable for me to not talk about this because we sell his coffee, but it's not ethical. | ||
Meanwhile, it's good coffee. | ||
It's nothing wrong with it. | ||
It's single-source coffee. | ||
It's a single caffeinated, which is necessary. | ||
It's good. | ||
He buys very good coffee. | ||
He sells very good coffee. | ||
There's absolutely nothing wrong with it. | ||
The claims were unnecessary. | ||
And the claims created a business. | ||
They created a model. | ||
They created this issue that doesn't seem to exist. | ||
But why did it all come out to light? | ||
Well, it all came to light because there was unfair claims about someone that he thought was a competitor. | ||
I mean, and that cunty shit that the government is encouraging their employees to do to discredit people is what discredits the government when something like that gets out. | ||
That's like the perfect way of expressing what I was trying to get at earlier, this idea of you're the fucking government and you're the U.S. president. | ||
You can't lower yourself to this level where you're competing with Snowden with a back and forth. | ||
It should be, we fucked up. | ||
We're the government. | ||
We're going to correct it. | ||
Everybody would honor that. | ||
The same with WikiLeaks, the same with Guantanamo Bay. | ||
We went overboard with some interrogation stuff. | ||
We detained some people against their basic rights. | ||
We did this because we were panicked and we didn't want another 9-11. | ||
And now we'll take steps to correct it. | ||
And that's not what they're saying. | ||
That's not what they're doing. | ||
And that's really, I think, all anybody wants is to hear that kind of rhetoric from here on out, which is we recognize there's a problem. | ||
They've never fucking said that. | ||
Yes. | ||
Obama, as many positive things that I can say about Obama as I grow to just learn more about the world and realize that he's not this evil dictator that InfoWars makes him out to be. | ||
It's a more complex picture. | ||
With that said, he still has not come out and said, it's clear at this point that the NSA has done some stuff that is not within the bounds of our laws and we'll fix that. | ||
And that's all he'd have to do and it'd be case closed for the world. | ||
Well, you know, people would demand what does fix that mean. | ||
And most have talked about clamping down on it now. | ||
Most people will be okay though. | ||
I think you're always gonna have this If I honestly believed that Obama was fixing the problem in a meaningful way, I'd be okay with it because I'm very busy and I don't want to nitpick. | ||
While I'd rather see us move forward as a country and not continue to There are some really big innovations ahead of us. | ||
I think we might go into a big economic boom in the next few years. | ||
The Bitcoin thing, even if Bitcoin goes away, something very similar to it is going to take off. | ||
And these are exciting things. | ||
We're on the verge of another big tech boom like we were in the 90s. | ||
We shouldn't get bogged down with all this petty bickering and all this hateful stuff and red versus petty at all. | ||
I think it's critical. | ||
I think it's a sign of the times. | ||
And I think it's indicative of this new environment that we find ourselves in, this new environment of I mean the government back and forth is petty. | ||
It's very petty to force an airplane to the ground to search for somebody. | ||
This is the most powerful government in the world. | ||
You shouldn't behave like that. | ||
I agree with that. | ||
I absolutely agree with that. | ||
But I think that what's going on, whether we're talking about the coffee thing or whether we're talking about the government thing or talk about virtually anything, is you can't expect to get away with business as usual because there's too much that gets exposed now because of the internet. | ||
I think that when you do evil shit and other people are aware of that evil shit and they can find out about that evil shit and put it online, you know, you got to expect that you can't keep these NSA workers silent because a lot of them are actual patriots. | ||
They might have gotten a job a long time ago out of college working for the NSA, but they didn't do it because they wanted to be a bad guy. | ||
They didn't do it because they wanted to spy on their neighbor because their neighbor might just think that the United States should get the fuck out of Afghanistan. | ||
That's not why they did it. | ||
They did it because they wanted to keep people safe. | ||
There's a lot of people like that out there. | ||
So they find themselves a part of this genuinely dangerous organization that is genuinely violating constitutional rights. | ||
And what do they do? | ||
They take chances. | ||
They take chances. | ||
What about that William Binney guy, that guy that was the first whistleblower way, way, way back in the day? | ||
That guy had some balls. | ||
That guy had some balls, and he got away with it, too, because he was just predicting a future crime. | ||
He quit, and then he predicted a future crime. | ||
And then when the future crime actually came into manifestation, it manifested itself, that was like 10 years later. | ||
It's pretty incredible when you stop and think about it. | ||
This guy called it, and he quit the NSA after 2001. | ||
Yeah, that is amazing. | ||
Fuck yeah, it's amazing. | ||
He was the original whistleblower and nobody talks about that cat. | ||
That guy, I mean, he's another fucking hero. | ||
What they're doing is what you're not supposed to do. | ||
You're not supposed to do it like that. | ||
You have an obligation. | ||
You're the top of the heap. | ||
But I think it's also an impossible job. | ||
I think trying to govern 300 million people is impossible. | ||
And I think you get frustrated when you just come up with all these ways to keep these motherfuckers in check. | ||
That's where my President Obama May Be Right article comes from, is this realization that there are a lot of people. | ||
And actually the best description of Obama that I've heard, there's this pickup artist who puts some of his videos on YouTube. | ||
And they're not all about pickup. | ||
A lot of them are just about views on life. | ||
Who's this? | ||
This guy, Owen Cook. | ||
He actually lives in LA, but I've never met him. | ||
And I was watching this video where he was like, people aren't really prepared to hear the truth about Obama, which is that he's kind of like a principal for this school known as the United States. | ||
He's just trying to hold shit together. | ||
And people don't want him to go up on the podium and say, look, you want more jobs? | ||
You've got to create some innovation because things are stagnant. | ||
Like, you've got to go out there and do it. | ||
I can't just create things out of thin air. | ||
And it's the same with national security stuff. | ||
He can't fix everything. | ||
The people need to demand protections of their privacies. | ||
It's not all on him. | ||
It has to be on the people. | ||
And I think that we, for the most part, not you and I, not Redband, not most of the listeners, but been fucking lazy as a country. | ||
We've been focused on other stuff. | ||
And now it's kind of coming back to bite us in the ass. | ||
And we have to decide, like, what's important to us? | ||
How far are we willing to trade off our basic rights in exchange for the guarantee of no more 9-11s? | ||
Yeah, I mean, or does that even work at all? | ||
And what should we concentrate on when we're trying to prevent another 9-11? | ||
What should we concentrate on? | ||
Should we concentrate on spying on Americans? | ||
Or should we concentrate on a non-interventionist interventional foreign policy that doesn't cause people to get so fucking pissed off at us that they want to kill us? | ||
Should we concentrate on not shooting drones into apartment buildings because they have a fucking cell phone that we want to find the user of? | ||
Maybe focus on not giving easy immigration rights to fucking Saudi Arabia when all the 9-11 hijackers, I believe, are from Saudi Arabia. | ||
Many of them were. | ||
There's got to be a bunch of different things that could be done. | ||
However, the problem is so gigantic. | ||
The world is so enormous. | ||
There are so many people. | ||
There are so many competing financial factors. | ||
There's so much shit going on that for any one group to try to fix it, and they don't even work together, which is so fucked up. | ||
The CIA and the FBI don't work together. | ||
They compete with each other. | ||
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Exactly. | |
There's competition. | ||
Well, that's how Petraeus got busted. | ||
They got busted because the fucking CIA was getting investigated by the FBI. | ||
They investigated Petraeus. | ||
The FBI investigated Petraeus. | ||
The fucking head spook got spooked on. | ||
I mean, that's how he got busted. | ||
That's how they found out about his affair. | ||
I think women is really how he got busted, though. | ||
He allowed his personal life to take over. | ||
Yes. | ||
Granted, I know absolutely nothing about this case, but just from what little I know, it seems like that's not something that would have happened. | ||
If he had remained 100% above board, that whole investigation that was set off by the FBI would have never happened because it was that woman in Tampa, the socialite or whatever, who triggered the whole fucking unraveling thing. | ||
And once you unleash those kinds of forces, I think they just keep digging until they find something. | ||
It's a kraken. | ||
Yeah, it's a kraken. | ||
You unleash that beast, and there's no knowing where it'll end up, and it end up with him losing his job. | ||
Well, isn't it hilarious, too, that he lost his job because of pussy? | ||
He's the number one murderer in the country. | ||
I mean, basically, that's what it is. | ||
He murders bad guys for the country. | ||
That's what a general is. | ||
I mean, you don't want to say murder. | ||
Let's say killer. | ||
Let's say eliminator. | ||
Let's sanitize it. | ||
He's a warrior. | ||
He's a warrior. | ||
Let's say warrior. | ||
He's a head warrior. | ||
Just go back to like the Conan the Barbarian books or watch a Conan movie. | ||
What did Conan do? | ||
He slayed and he fucked. | ||
That's what warriors do. | ||
They slay and they fuck. | ||
So we want these neutered warriors. | ||
We want these warriors that don't fuck. | ||
We want these people that are over there just shooting the heads off of people from a distance, watch their heads explode, and they don't get any pussy. | ||
They're stopping life on a regular basis, doing what there's laws against, what the Bible tells you you can't do, but the Bible, you don't have to worry about the Bible because you got a free pass from Uncle Sam. | ||
We've talked to God, and God says it's okay to kill these folks. | ||
As long as, well, what if we went into Iraq on a false premise? | ||
God will forgive you. | ||
I know you kill all those people for no reason, but hey, you didn't know any better, so it's all good. | ||
Well, then who's to blame? | ||
No one's to blame because the government is essentially like a gigantic corporation that doesn't have a real sort of like one person that you could pin it to. | ||
There's like a lot of people and whatever, whatever. | ||
Don't worry about it, dude. | ||
I mean, that's essentially what's going on. | ||
So that one guy who's the best, General Petraeus, he's the guy. | ||
There's the guy that whenever they went to the news and there was some Afghanistan thing, they went to General Petraeus. | ||
He can't get some pussy. | ||
Really? | ||
You're going to hate him because, look, his marriage vows aside, of course his wife should be upset if she didn't know. | ||
Of course, you know, if he lied about it, that's kind of something to take into consideration when you factor in his character. | ||
Take it into consideration lightly when you really stop and think about how many warriors in the past have had harems and Genghis Khan fucked like every living human being in the year 1220. | ||
I mean, what are we pretending? | ||
What are we pretending these warriors are? | ||
Are we pretending that they're, you know, some strange Barbie doll, Ken, G.I. Joe, you know, organless thing that just fights for God, glory, and country and doesn't have physical desires? | ||
I was a while ago, I had this guy, David Brin, on my podcast, and he was talking about how police and militaries and stuff have only been professional for like the last 120 years or something. | ||
Before that, they were just pretty much the enforcers for whoever owned the land. | ||
So if you were the feudal lord, you would have your own police force who would basically collect taxes and beat peasants and stuff. | ||
We've only expected police and soldiers to be professional for the past hundred years. | ||
So they're still kind of catching up because these are very old structures and you're using violence. | ||
So it's hard to, how do you mix? | ||
It's always kind of boggled my mind that cops will go from a fatal, like some kind of fatal confrontation where they have to take somebody down to 15 minutes later, they're at Starbucks getting another coffee. | ||
Like that's got to be a weird fucking mind melt. | ||
They have a massive disconnect. | ||
And I think it may very well be that a lot of them are taking antidepressants. | ||
I know antidepressants in the military are incredibly common. | ||
It's one of the most prescribed medications for people that come back, they have PTSD, people who have issues. | ||
Antidepressants, well, you know, let's Google that because I read an article recently about antidepressants in the military. | ||
And I don't remember the exact statistics, but it was in the military. | ||
It was pretty disturbing, but it makes sense because they allow you to rationalize things in a way that you're not going to if you're not on that stuff. | ||
Yeah, man. | ||
Antidepressants in the military. | ||
Yeah, there's a lot. | ||
There's a lot, man. | ||
Military prescribes antidepressants to growing army of soldiers. | ||
Okay, military says that 12% of its combat personnel in Iraq and 17% serving in Afghanistan are taking prescription antidepressants. | ||
This is from 2008. | ||
I can only assume that the numbers have gone up. | ||
Sure, it's increased since then? | ||
Of course it has. | ||
If they found out there's money in it, look, that's the beautiful thing about being a corporation. | ||
You have to maximize your profits every year. | ||
Corporations just can't stay, hey, we made X amount of money last year and we made the same this year. | ||
So we're doing really good, guys. | ||
No. | ||
No, you have to continue to grow. | ||
They want that infinite growth paradigm that Peter Joseph always goes on and on about in his Zeitgeist documentaries. | ||
I mean, that's one of the most ridiculous aspects of corporations. | ||
One of the most ridiculous aspects of the economy is the infinite growth idea. | ||
The idea that you can just continue to get bigger and bigger every year until what? | ||
You have all the money on the planet? | ||
Because that's where it goes. | ||
If every fucking corporation actually continued to grow and stayed alive for, you know, 150, 350, 1,000 years, whatever it takes, they should all have all the money in the world. | ||
What happens then? | ||
You can't have infinite growth. | ||
It doesn't make sense. | ||
It's a monopoly game. | ||
Somebody ends up with all the pieces of paper by the end. | ||
Right. | ||
So if, you know, you got to think that if the pharmaceutical companies were making untold millions of dollars in having 12% of the soldiers in Iraq and 17% in Afghanistan in 2008, I mean, that was six years ago. | ||
So what is that now? | ||
You know, it's probably pretty fucking crazy. | ||
Let's see. | ||
Any precedents in the military in 2014? | ||
Let's try that. | ||
2000. | ||
2014. | ||
Let's see what it says. | ||
Meanwhile, by the way, I'm just reading random blogs with a very quick and cursory Google search with no vetting out whatsoever. | ||
So they might be all full of shit. | ||
But look, we don't even have to look into it. | ||
Whatever the numbers are, those are all abstract anyway. | ||
We know that it's people. | ||
People are definitely on it. | ||
And that's kind of crazy that you take people and you put them in this terrible situation. | ||
You yank them out of their lives and you send them over to these. | ||
Now they've got to kill people and then they come home and their wife is sleeping with somebody else or their girlfriend has left them and then they have the PTSD crack down and can't deal with wife anymore. | ||
I know a dude who just recently shot a guy and I know he was having some PTSD issues. | ||
I don't know what the exact circumstances were. | ||
There was a car accident. | ||
Someone rear-ended him and he wound up shooting some guy. | ||
Wow. | ||
Yeah, and I don't know. | ||
He hasn't gone to court yet about it. | ||
I know that they're trying to put together the case and try to figure out what the exact circumstances were. | ||
The guy rear-ended him. | ||
Who knows? | ||
The guy might have been crazy. | ||
Who knows? | ||
He might have really been defending himself. | ||
Who knows? | ||
I don't know. | ||
But that's an issue when people are used to killing people and people have been over there for a while. | ||
This guy, he did a tour, more than one, and then he also went back and did Blackwater stuff. | ||
Without a doubt, he's seen some shit. | ||
You've seen Dirty Wars by now, right? | ||
Yeah. | ||
Yeah, yeah. | ||
It's pretty disturbing movie. | ||
Yeah, it is. | ||
Yeah. | ||
I'm trying to get that guy on the podcast. | ||
I was actually watching some of it last night. | ||
Jeremy Skahill. | ||
Yeah. | ||
I think, you know, we're living in a strange time where a guy can make a documentary like that. | ||
You know, we're living in a strange time where you could talk about a documentary like that for hours and hours on your podcast or this podcast. | ||
It's part of the reason I love America is we can always self-correct. | ||
We're not doing this podcast in a basement somewhere worried about the fucking Syrian army storming in here and torturing us like they are. | ||
If you're in a different part of the world, the only difference is you're in a different area. | ||
You no longer have these rights, and you've got to be careful. | ||
We thankfully don't have that. | ||
And I want to see that remain, obviously. | ||
I do too. | ||
And I think that it's not just America, it's the world. | ||
And I think the idea of a country like America, I think ultimately the goal would be to have the whole world up to the same standard that we hold ourselves to and have a global community of people that are essentially, you've got to have the same rights everywhere you go. | ||
And there's no oppressive North Korean regimes. | ||
There's no places like Syria that still hold dictators. | ||
There's no places that... | ||
I think it's really shameful that we haven't gone into North Korea yet, because I understand people are like... | ||
We've got to do something. | ||
It's a humanitarian disaster. | ||
It is a humanitarian discussion. | ||
We're basically watching another Holocaust. | ||
We are. | ||
Nobody wants to take the loss on it because it's going to be messy, and it's going to take time and money and probably going to lose some – That's our ally, and it's a real issue because it's right there. | ||
But I don't think as a modern society, we can see all this shit on the internet. | ||
We can't just let them continue to kill people. | ||
I think the other month, his girlfriend, he just wiped out all of her family or friends or some shit over some non-existent slight. | ||
Well, he executed his ex-wife. | ||
His ex-girlfriend. | ||
He executed his ex-girlfriend. | ||
And he executed his uncle, who was thinking about establishing a coup. | ||
And then he executed all of his uncle's family. | ||
He executed his uncle's sons, who were innocent, and they were 20 years old, but he knew that they would come back to get him one day, so he executed them. | ||
He executed everyone. | ||
Meanwhile, the U.S. government is fixated on guys like Kim.com. | ||
Why don't they go after this fucking guy in North Korea? | ||
Very good point. | ||
Use the same kind of resources against somebody like that rather than someone who's a, you know. | ||
I would be concerned with military operations because it's so close to South Korea, and I think they've publicly stated that they would launch nukes at South Korea if they were ever invaded. | ||
We're so clever, if there was some kind of resource we wanted in North Korea, we would find a diplomatic way to resolve it. | ||
Okay, but are we or are we not? | ||
I mean, we have to decide. | ||
Are we retarded? | ||
Are we goofy fucks that do stupid shit that we could point out easily? | ||
Or are we these super clever geniuses that know how to circumvent any security systems and halt the nukes? | ||
I think that we are convenient. | ||
At the core, we're really smart, but we have all these layers of stupidity, and not all the layers are connected. | ||
Some of it is just stupidity. | ||
It's not there for any reason. | ||
Yeah. | ||
I don't know. | ||
I don't know what the answer is. | ||
I don't know what our real capabilities are, and I probably shouldn't know since I'm not in the military. | ||
I would love to be able to trust them wholeheartedly. | ||
I would love to. | ||
I would love to be able to step back and say, hey, if they're invading a country, it's because that country is filled with fucking assholes, and those assholes are going to kill innocent people worldwide. | ||
I would love that. | ||
I really would love that. | ||
And I'm not an anti-military guy. | ||
I'm a realist. | ||
I'm a realist when it comes to human nature, and I'm a realist when it comes to human history. | ||
If you look at the world, there's never been a time of peace ever in the entire world ever. | ||
From the time that we were shat out of the first monkey mama till, you know, fighting over a fucking deer leg or whatever the hell we were fighting over back then to today, there's never been one day on earth where no one died. | ||
There's never been one day on earth where no one dropped a rock on someone's head from the top of a cliff. | ||
There's never been one day on earth where people didn't fight to the death. | ||
It's always happened. | ||
It's always been a part of what we are. | ||
And like the yin and the yang that we were discussing earlier, that sort of exists as a natural part of just life in the universe. | ||
There's this push and pull. | ||
There's this, this tie goes in, the tie goes out, Bill O'Reilly. | ||
Can't explain that. | ||
You can't explain that. | ||
I'm in Jesus' corner. | ||
But I think that there's something to that. | ||
And there's something also to something that I harp on quite often, but I think it's an important point. | ||
We like to look at all the different sort of areas of the world where there's what we call natural phenomenon or natural examples of strange behavior or observed behavior or natural cycles, whether it's weather patterns or whether it's, you know, whatever it is. | ||
We look at all these things as being very natural, except for ourselves. | ||
For whatever reason, when it comes to human beings, we decide that because we're sentient, because we have, you know, the ability to rationalize and think and communicate, we don't think what we do is natural. | ||
What we think what we do is just some, well, you know, as a society, we have to be civilized and think things through. | ||
And that might all be natural. | ||
What we might be seeing with humanity is a really complicated version of what goes on in an anthill. | ||
What we might be seeing is just some really natural behavior that's just on some next level fractal shit. | ||
It's just so uber complicated because there's so many of us and you're dealing in, you're factoring in information as well as the instincts to breed, the instincts to dominate and have food and resources. | ||
On top of all those other things, you're also dealing with communication. | ||
You're dealing with the ability to exchange information and also the ability to enhance yourself with that exchanged information and alter perspectives. | ||
A wolf stays a wolf its whole life. | ||
You give a douchebag some mushrooms. | ||
He becomes a really introspective person, at least for a few hours. | ||
He becomes a yoga instructor. | ||
He did it enough times. | ||
Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of people that change because of experiences and information and just life giving them something that forces them to examine the box that they put the world in. | ||
Life gives them something that they've sort of been forced to sort of get a new perspective. | ||
That doesn't happen in the animal world. | ||
And that's why you have to add in and factor in all these variables and look at human beings and say, it seems natural. | ||
What we're doing seems natural. | ||
And I think that along with, you know, bears, male bears eating the young cubs to force the female to keep breeding. | ||
I mean, all that stuff is natural too. | ||
It just, it's disgusting and horrible to watch, but it's all natural. | ||
We're working it out. | ||
We're working it out. | ||
We are working it out. | ||
I really think we are. | ||
But I'm confident about it. | ||
I'm confident about it because the effects in my own life of education, and when I say education, I don't mean formal. | ||
I mean just reading things and being exposed to information and being exposed to. | ||
Wife experience. | ||
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Yeah. | |
Just doing this fucking podcast, man. | ||
Just talking to people like yourself, just having conversations with people and hashing things out and then seeing the reactions to these conversations that people have online where they join in. | ||
They start discussing things on Twitter, discussing things on Facebook. | ||
I've seen people, you know, have conversations in person about things that have happened on the podcast. | ||
Well, hey, you know, I found out about this and then I started researching into this and then I changed my diet because of that and then this and that and this and that. | ||
It's one of the reasons why misinformation like the Aspre thing is so frustrating and it really pisses me off because it's in the wrong spirit of this thing. | ||
It's in the wrong spirit of what we're trying to do. | ||
Yeah, you shouldn't have a scarcity mindset. | ||
Coffee is a fucking huge market. | ||
Everybody can have a piece. | ||
Well, famine thinking doesn't have any logic attached to it. | ||
Famine thinking is just, it is what it is. | ||
I got a piss again. | ||
Powerful piss again. | ||
Well, we're going to play the Godzilla trailer. | ||
It's a C2O. | ||
There's something about it, but it's delicious. | ||
By the way, no stock in CTO either. | ||
They're just nice people. | ||
We like them. | ||
Let's play the Godzilla trailer because it looks dope as fucking Brian Cranston from Breaking Bad is a fucking star. | ||
So it's going to be epic. | ||
God damn, this looks good. | ||
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I want to talk to somebody in charge. | |
You are not fooling anybody when you say that what happened was a natural disaster. | ||
You're lying. | ||
It was not an earthquake. | ||
It wasn't a typhoon. | ||
Because what's really happening is that you're hiding something out there! | ||
*Skiss* | ||
By the way, this is the greatest promoted movie ever. | ||
They've been so good at releasing shit slowly. | ||
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Godzilla's popping right up out of the ocean, bitches. | |
God help us all. | ||
If you're listening and watching, we awaken to something. | ||
You're seeing a bunch of cool shit. | ||
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There's nuclear tests in the Pacific. | |
Not tests. | ||
They were trying to kill it. | ||
*Sounds of the fire* | ||
You have no idea what's coming. | ||
They're so good about not showing you much, too. | ||
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you kill him The arrogance of man is thinking nature is in our control. | |
The arrogance of man is thinking nature is in our control. | ||
And not the other way around. | ||
It is the arrogance of man. | ||
David's heman. | ||
So Godzilla's coming next, right? | ||
Well, that would unite us. | ||
If this motherfucker popped out of the ocean, for sure. | ||
We would stop all the bullshit? | ||
This looks really good, by the way. | ||
Fuck yeah, it does. | ||
Please, God, don't let it suck. | ||
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Look how awesome he looks. | |
Oh, yeah, baby. | ||
My dick is rock hard. | ||
That is a good disaster point right there. | ||
Fuck yeah, it is. | ||
I love a good monster movie. | ||
There's not enough. | ||
So thanks to Ronald Green of CTO Coconut Water for keeping us with Coconut Water that made David Seaman piss, not once, but twice in a three-hour podcast. | ||
Good times, man. | ||
That was a fun podcast. | ||
Yeah, this is fun. | ||
Does anything that people need to know? | ||
Anything you got going on? | ||
Your podcast is, how they get it? | ||
David Seamanauer, iTunes. | ||
iTunes. | ||
Anything else that on Stitcher as well? | ||
No, I'm not really promoting anything right now. | ||
It's not on Stitcher? | ||
Oh, it's on Stitcher, yeah. | ||
I just saw you on other projects. | ||
No, no, no. | ||
But it's on Stitcher. | ||
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It is. | |
It is available in just straight MP3 format as well, so they don't have to get it off iTunes. | ||
Exactly. | ||
And if they want that, they can just Google David Seamanauer, and it's like the first or second. | ||
Please don't make fun of his name. | ||
Okay, the kid grew up with David Seaman. | ||
I like it now. | ||
It's one of those things that you're uncomfortable about at middle school because it's still so new to you. | ||
Right. | ||
As a 28-year-old guy, turning 28 next week, I'm kind of over the whole last name is Cum thing. | ||
Good for you. | ||
Whatever, you know. | ||
And what's wrong with cum? | ||
Yeah. | ||
Nothing. | ||
The bedrock of human society. | ||
Makes humans. | ||
Yeah. | ||
You know, it's like cement or whatever. | ||
Cement makes buildings. | ||
It's memorable, which I like. | ||
If your name was David Steele, it'd be no problem. | ||
What does Steele make? | ||
Steele makes buildings. | ||
Everybody wants to come. | ||
There's nothing wrong with cum. | ||
Definitely. | ||
But if your name was David Seaman in your mouth, then we'd have an issue. | ||
I would change my last name. | ||
If your name was David Seaman in your mouth and you're a guy. | ||
Like if that was like the full name. | ||
Hi, my name's David Seaman in your mouth and I'm a guy. | ||
Yeah, I'd do a name change. | ||
I'd be like Dave Smith. | ||
Can you imagine if your parents were just fucking assholes? | ||
Let's change our last name to Dick in the ass. | ||
What did Kanye West name his kid? | ||
North. | ||
North? | ||
That's not too bad. | ||
I thought it was weirder than that. | ||
It's weird. | ||
It's annoying. | ||
It's egocentric. | ||
It's gross. | ||
He'll regret it when his kid fucking sues him when he gets older. | ||
Not that that's going to happen. | ||
So the David Seamanauer. | ||
David Seamanauer, the last guest, was the CEO of a Bitcoin Exchange, and I grilled him on whether it's a good time to buy. | ||
I'm totally hypocritical because I never had a problem with Moon Unit Zappa. | ||
If I didn't have a problem with Moon Unit Zappa, why do I care about Northwest? | ||
Or I'd apologize, Kanye. | ||
You're right, man. | ||
Nothing wrong with Northwest. | ||
That's good. | ||
Weasel, I didn't have a problem with Dewey Weasel. | ||
If you didn't apologize right there, he'd probably be tweeting you in a few hours with allowed to. | ||
He's such a silly man. | ||
He's the biggest rock star of all. | ||
Anyway. | ||
If you're a genius, you have to acknowledge that you're a genius. | ||
Exactly. | ||
You have to, otherwise you're not a genius. | ||
It doesn't count. | ||
David Seaman hour, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
Brian, what do you got going on? | ||
Do you have some dates coming up soon? | ||
This weekend, I'm going to be in La Jolla. | ||
We're doing a bunch of comedy shows. | ||
We're also doing a live Kill Tony show Friday and Saturday at the La Jolla comedy store. | ||
A live Kill Tony Friday and Saturday? | ||
Just Saturday. | ||
But Friday and Saturday, we're doing just comedy shows, but Saturday we're doing also a Kill Tony. | ||
Oh, okay. | ||
What time is the Kill Tony? | ||
6 o'clock. | ||
So you do a comedy show after that? | ||
Yeah, in the end. | ||
From 6 to 8, is that we're doing? | ||
Yeah, and if you buy a ticket for the live podcast, you get into the comedy show for free. | ||
Oh, beautiful. | ||
And it's at the La Jolla Comedy Store, which is one of the best clubs. | ||
Definitely. | ||
Fucking awesome old school club. | ||
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Yep. | |
And then tickets just went on sale also for me, Tiffany Haddish, and Tony in Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver. | ||
Pow, pow, pow, bitches. | ||
That squad.tv. | ||
Delicious and nutritious. | ||
I am going to be at Grand Prairie, Texas, outside of Dallas, on March 14th with Ari Shafir and Duncan Trussell. | ||
We're at the Verizon Theater. | ||
That's the day before the UFC in Dallas. | ||
Could be a good time. | ||
Brian Redband will be there if you want to kiss him and hug him. | ||
He'll be there at the UFC event. | ||
Miami, Florida. | ||
I'm with Tony Hinchcliffe at the Fillmore on April 3rd. | ||
And then Orlando on April 18th with Mad Flavor, aka Joe Diaz. | ||
And Joey's also with me April 25th in Baltimore. | ||
And then we'll be doing a lot of stuff, I'm sure, in and around LA in between now and then. | ||
Tomorrow, Brian Callen and Doug Duran and Steve Ranella, all the people that were involved in the Meat Eater episode, which airs Thursday night. | ||
Part one was last week. | ||
Part two is this Thursday. | ||
They're going to be on and great guys, especially Doug. | ||
You guys have never met Doug, but he's the guy who owns that farm in Wisconsin. | ||
He's a professional land manager and just a really well-educated guy. | ||
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I'm just a little weed. | |
Don't tell anybody. | ||
He's a good dude. | ||
Oh, love him. | ||
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We'll see you guys tomorrow. | ||
And if you're in La Jolla, make sure you catch the big Death Squad show this weekend at the Comedy Store. | ||
Like I said, it's one of the coolest venues in the country. | ||
It's a dope old school club that's been around. | ||
Kennison used to perform there, man. | ||
It's fucking place has been around forever. | ||
All right, we love the fuck out of you, and we'll see you soon. | ||
David Seamanauer on iTunes and Stitcher and the internet. | ||
Anything else, David? | ||
Anything, the last message? | ||
If it's the last moment on earth, you have to say something, and it's going to be encapsulated and spread to future generations so they won't make the same mistake. | ||
What would it be? | ||
America's mostly doing it right. | ||
We just got to fix the small parts. | ||
And I guess that's what I'd leave it with. | ||
I would say get it together, bitches. | ||
And thanks for having me on. | ||
This is awesome. | ||
And keep it together, bitches. | ||
Yeah, we have to do this more often, man. | ||
We absolutely will. | ||
All right. | ||
Much love, people. |