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Oh. | ||
Oh, it's raining in LA. | ||
We don't know what to do. | ||
Everyone's panicking. | ||
It's all wet. | ||
What do I do? | ||
I'm suddenly faced with adversity. | ||
And my Botox is running out, so my head is actually able to squint. | ||
Just order an Uber before the rain hits you. | ||
You'll be okay. | ||
Then you just watch somebody else freak out and you think about, like, you start thinking, how much has this guy been screened? | ||
You know, was I supposed to be getting picked up by a Lyft driver and the Uber driver intercepted the signal? | ||
Or did Uber, you know about all that shit? | ||
Where Uber employees were calling. | ||
Apparently it was like one guy was doing it. | ||
Like one guy was like pushing it. | ||
They were calling like Uber rides or Uber was calling Lyft rides and then like just canceling the gig. | ||
Really? | ||
So just fucking up their business. | ||
Just fucking up their business. | ||
prank calls, like fake orders for cars and shit. | ||
Which is really... | ||
That makes you not want to use a company when you hear shit like that. | ||
Maybe that's what it takes, though. | ||
Somebody took the Glenn Gary, Glenn Ross first scene to heart. | ||
It's just doing that at every level of Uber. | ||
Yeah, you want coffee? | ||
You got to be a fucking closer. | ||
Coffee's for closers. | ||
I just wish, I mean, it seems like Uber was doing so well. | ||
Like, I just wish there would be a company like that that would turn out to be super cool. | ||
You know, I always wish that about every company that I like. | ||
You know, like, oh, wouldn't it be nice if they're super cool? | ||
Yeah, like secretly all of Walmart's money was going to some kind of charity instead of just the... | ||
And I don't mean that in a good way or a bad way. | ||
I mean, just like whenever you have a big, giant thing, you have a problem on both sides. | ||
You know, like, one problem is people go, well, you know, Walmart comes into town and it kills all the small businesses. | ||
I'm like, are we really that gross that like saving a dollar here and five cents there is worth us going to some giant box where some people are in it that we don't know? | ||
Or are we going to go to our local place where we have like a relationship with the people that own it? | ||
It's like this small connection. | ||
Like you're directly connected to these people's lives. | ||
I think the issue, at least where I fuck up as a consumer, is you drive by and let's say you need a new tire for your car and you don't really care about your car that much. | ||
It's like a Corolla or whatever. | ||
That has the cheapest tires in town. | ||
So like ideologically, I don't really care who my tire replacement person is or their well-being or their quality of life. | ||
I just want the cheapest tire. | ||
See, I don't. | ||
So I get that. | ||
And then it spills over into other areas of your life where you're like, well, I want healthy groceries, but what if Walmart can give me the cheapest fucking lettuce? | ||
Then maybe I just don't care. | ||
And a lot of people, I think, eventually just buy everything that way. | ||
Right. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Well, it can definitely go that way. | ||
I mean, if you're a smart consumer, if that's all you're worried about, you know, if you're just worried about numbers. | ||
But I think that there's companies you just don't have a relationship with. | ||
You don't feel bad about them. | ||
Like, well, I don't have a relationship with Whole Foods. | ||
I don't know them. | ||
You know, I go there. | ||
The folks are all nice that work there, but I know they're just working there. | ||
You know, the guys where you get the kale salad from, super cool. | ||
Say hi to them. | ||
You know, say hi to the butcher. | ||
Chit-chat with the people at the cash register. | ||
Like, yeah, everybody's friendly, but I know that they're employees. | ||
You know what I'm saying? | ||
Like, I don't feel connected to giving them my money. | ||
But, like, there's this restaurant that I go to all the time, and the folks that own it, they've owned it for like 30 years, and they're just the nicest, friendliest people. | ||
They're just really cool to talk to. | ||
Like, every time I talk to him, like, the guy's from Greece, and he's always telling me about like the difference between the way, you know, people behave there and behave here. | ||
And just, I get into these cool conversations with him. | ||
He's a very bright And well-read guy, and just an interesting guy. | ||
So I love going there and giving them my money. | ||
But if I go to like Appleby's, I don't fucking know anybody at Appleby's. | ||
Yeah, the 16-year-old hostess. | ||
She's not going to be there next week. | ||
It'll be somebody else. | ||
Yeah, I mean, I'll be friendly to them for sure. | ||
You know, it's nice if you get the same waitress again. | ||
Oh, hey, how are you doing? | ||
Yeah, there's no culture there, though. | ||
It's just a corporation. | ||
Well, that's what we miss in losing those little small businesses. | ||
But for a small business owner, man, it's a fucking grind. | ||
It's hard to do. | ||
I mean, you have to really be selling something that somebody wants. | ||
Like, there's a fucking Starbucks down the street here, and next to the Starbucks, there's a shoe dealer. | ||
Like, not a shoe dealer, a shoe repairman. | ||
I'm like, dude, like, how many fucking people are getting their shoes repaired? | ||
Maybe there's some like death of a salesman type still out there. | ||
Need to get their shoes polished before an interview? | ||
I mean, I guess if you have enough people in an area, there's going to be enough people where heels are falling off. | ||
I mean, maybe I'm naive, but every time I go by that place, there's fucking nobody in it. | ||
I'm like, who the hell's getting their shoes fixed? | ||
I would dress up like Jay Gatsby one day and just go in there. | ||
Pull up in that big yellow convertible that he had that Leonardo DiCaprio had. | ||
I was super torn on that movie, man. | ||
I was torn on it in two ways. | ||
Like, one, it was, like, so surreal. | ||
Everything was so crazy, like, the way it was filmed. | ||
It was so obvious, like, you were watching a dream or something, you know. | ||
It was the special effects. | ||
Like, when they were at the party and the glitter was flying and everybody's dancing. | ||
It's so over the top. | ||
The way he was driving, it was so over the top. | ||
It was almost hard to accept it as like a real story. | ||
Like, watching a story about real humans. | ||
I think that goes back to the book itself. | ||
Like, I remember liking it a lot in high school and college and thinking, like, this is what life was like back in the day in New York. | ||
And then you get older and you're like, that's not life at all. | ||
That's just some frivolous bullshit that somebody thought up that was like a, you know, romance, a romance narrative within the 1920s. | ||
And it has no application in modern life at all. | ||
It's just a fucking fantasy. | ||
It's a sad ending. | ||
Well, there is something, I'm sure, much more then than there is now, to someone who has a completely fabricated existence. | ||
There's something that we all think is amazing about that. | ||
Like someone who could just fabricate their life. | ||
And like, how long can they pull it off? | ||
Like, it's a great plot engine. | ||
Which he's good at. | ||
DiCaprio is like the master of being the... | ||
Where he's the con artist, kind of? | ||
Wolf of Wall Street or the... | ||
And then I'm thinking of Catch Me If You Can. | ||
Oh, that's right. | ||
I didn't really remember that one. | ||
He's a bad motherfucker. | ||
I mean, he doesn't get as much credit because he's beautiful. | ||
And he's, you know what I'm saying? | ||
He's beautiful and he's kind of a pussy. | ||
That's always the case for us. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Well, him especially. | ||
I mean, I think he's one of the greatest actors ever. | ||
But like, he's such a beautiful man. | ||
And he's obviously so privileged. | ||
People look at him like, this fucking guy is a pretty good actor. | ||
Listen, if that guy was ugly, he would be saluted. | ||
He would be, I mean, forget what Steve Bascemi gets. | ||
You kind of love Steve Bascemi gets? | ||
He would get that times a thousand. | ||
Yeah. | ||
If he was ugly. | ||
If he looked like Steve Bascemi, goddamn. | ||
And our capital would be the toast of the town. | ||
He needs a couple scars. | ||
No, he's too pretty. | ||
Even if he gets a couple scars, people are like, good. | ||
You know, they're like, he's lived his life a beautiful, wealthy, super talented actor. | ||
That's too much for some people. | ||
You know, I know people who don't take him seriously. | ||
Like, I've had conversations with, you know, quote-unquote actor folks who are really brutal, man. | ||
Really brutal. | ||
I was watching the beginning of a movie, a really good movie, with this friend of mine. | ||
And this actor walks by and goes, man, his career really fell off after this movie. | ||
Talking about, it was Jurassic Park, the first one. | ||
And there's the dude who he was in Event Horizon, Sam. | ||
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Sam Neil. | ||
Exactly. | ||
And the dude's like, oh, his career really fell off after this movie. | ||
Shut the fuck up and just watch the movie. | ||
Jesus Christ. | ||
Does it have to be about that? | ||
But even real actory actor types who just like praise performances, you know. | ||
You know, oh my God, Jeff Goldblum was amazing in that film. | ||
He's quirky looking enough. | ||
You allow him to be amazing in a film. | ||
But Leonardo Caprio, goddamn beautiful man. | ||
Perfect bone structure. | ||
Just handsome as fuck. | ||
Beautiful hair. | ||
The perfect villain in Django. | ||
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Well, that's when you get to see his range. | ||
How good he really is. | ||
Wait, when he flips a switch and goes evil towards the end of the movie, you're like, yo. | ||
Like you buy it. | ||
Like, he's not like there's, Like, if somebody was screaming and yelling at you like that, you know, you fake fuck. | ||
You're not even angry. | ||
What kind of shit is this? | ||
I'm going to smack you. | ||
But when he's screaming and yelling in that movie, you're like, oh, we're at DEF CON 9 here. | ||
We're about to get nuclear. | ||
Like, shit, someone's going to get shot. | ||
Like, this is like a death run. | ||
Like, something horrible is going to happen at the end of this conversation. | ||
Like, you got that from him the Wolf of Wall Street, too, when he's gacked out of his mind. | ||
Yeah. | ||
There's like, you really believe that he could go off the rails and fucking set off a suitcase nuke or something stupid. | ||
You know? | ||
He's gone. | ||
But too beautiful. | ||
Too beautiful for Hollywood. | ||
Definitely. | ||
Django, they made him look fucked up, though. | ||
His teeth. | ||
Yeah, they did a good job. | ||
That's what people looked like back then. | ||
They didn't have fucking caps. | ||
Yeah, and they smoked from a pipe all day. | ||
I know a dude who got, he got, I guess they're veneers. | ||
got teeth put on over his teeth. | ||
He fucking yelled at his teeth. | ||
Yeah, made him look ugly. | ||
Nobody had pretty teeth back then, man. | ||
But he turned psycho towards the end, right? | ||
What was I saying? | ||
Oh, I know this dude who, you know, they have those veneer things, and they make it look like you're wearing a mouthpiece. | ||
Like, it makes your lips stick out more. | ||
Like, this guy's fucking lips stick out more now. | ||
It's like he's wearing a very thin mouthpiece. | ||
What if he doesn't wear it? | ||
Is it just yellow teeth? | ||
He can't not wear it. | ||
They chip away your teeth. | ||
They chip away the surface of your teeth, and they put this new surface all over your teeth. | ||
Oh, it's permanent, okay. | ||
Yeah. | ||
And it's like a veneer. | ||
It's like this wood. | ||
If you took a really thin slice of this wood and put it over some plastic bullshit and pretended it was oak. | ||
So that's what they're doing. | ||
They have this perfect white ceramic thing. | ||
I guess it's like a ceramic or so maybe it may be some like some plastic veneer, right? | ||
Yeah, but what is it made out of though? | ||
It's like billiard ball type shit. | ||
Phenolic. | ||
Fuck up how you talk when you get it done. | ||
Well this guy it did. | ||
This guy's are too big. | ||
I mean I don't know what's going on. | ||
I mean if he just decided to get bigger teeth or something like that. | ||
But I'm looking at him talking and it's like he's wearing like a little bit of a mouthpiece. | ||
I've been on this weird kick lately where I'm fascinated by people altering their image like radically. | ||
I got onto it with Renee Zellwiger. | ||
Like I saw that Renee Zellwiger thing. | ||
That is like the textbook case of somebody changing. | ||
Yeah, that is and Jennifer Gray. | ||
No, not Jennifer Gray. | ||
Is that her from Dirty Dancing? | ||
What was her name? | ||
Is that right? | ||
Jennifer Gray. | ||
She was really pretty, but she had a big nose. | ||
Then she got her nose fixed. | ||
And now she never works. | ||
Is it Jennifer Gray? | ||
Yeah, she was really pretty, but she, you know, she had a Jewish-looking nose. | ||
That European hump thing going on, which is just character, you know? | ||
For sure. | ||
Whatever, right? | ||
Plus, it disappears if you're looking dead on at anything. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Well, she was cute, and then she became, I guess, you know, she likes it better, but she's a different person, that's for sure. | ||
So anyway, I got on this kick lately where I started looking at all these different procedures that people have done. | ||
And I watched a nose job yesterday. | ||
Somebody sent me a nose job on Twitter of this woman getting her nose fixed. | ||
I tweeted it. | ||
You can see it on my Twitter page. | ||
But it's a long video of the entire process. | ||
It's sped up a bit, but holy shit. | ||
Is it brutal? | ||
Like, Ice picked the nose? | ||
Well, you know, I had my nose cleaned out. | ||
Like, I had my nose deviated septum repaired. | ||
I had a smashed septum, and it was blocking off most of my ability to breathe out of my nostrils. | ||
But this was way more involved because they had to actually chip away her bone. | ||
They peeled her nose back like a banana and then chipped away the bone to make the nose smaller and then put it all together again. | ||
Isn't it amazing the lengths people go to to do something that nobody cares about anyway? | ||
Well, some people do care though. | ||
See, that's the thing. | ||
You know, you can't say that some people don't look better once you fix their fucked up nose. | ||
Well, Renee Zellweger, nobody would have cared if she had just aged and looked somewhat like she used to look. | ||
Not that you don't have the right to change your appearance, but it was just that sudden shock that kind of surprised people. | ||
Well, imagine this, okay? | ||
You, you're a young man and you make your living off of your mind. | ||
Okay, you make your living off of your commentary, your ability to notice things, podcasting, things along those lines. | ||
You know, I'm much older than you. | ||
I'm 47 years old. | ||
But my brain doesn't work any differently than when I was young. | ||
My body is slowly but surely starting to work less good. | ||
Like I get injured more easily, and I still work out pretty hard. | ||
But when I get injured, like I fucked my elbow up a couple months ago and this bitch just won't get better. | ||
You know what I mean? | ||
So those kind of things. | ||
But I'm not a professional athlete. | ||
If I was, I would be freaking out. | ||
If I was, I'd be freaking out. | ||
If I was a profession, I'm a professional talker. | ||
If my brain started to slowly slow down and my brain started not being able to form sentences or not being able to recognize objective behavior problems or confusion of what the topic is I'm discussing. | ||
If those types of things started happening on a regular basis, and someone came along and said, "Hey, we can give you this drug. | ||
You know, it's gonna make you..." It's like you're getting old. | ||
We're going to shoot your forehead up with botulism and it's going to freeze the whole thing. | ||
So you can't frown and it'll relax it. | ||
It'll make you look a little better. | ||
You're like, okay, okay. | ||
And then everybody's like, what's wrong with your fucking forehead? | ||
But to her, she's like, my forehead's not liny anymore. | ||
Yeah, the acting career has been extended. | ||
Maybe, but maybe people are just going to get weirded out by you. | ||
You know? | ||
Did you see that Duchess who's worth some ungodly amount of money? | ||
But she's had like insane amounts of plastic surgery. | ||
And she's just taken ill. | ||
I bet if you pull up Duchess plastic surgery disaster, you see her. | ||
But this poor lady, when she was young, she was very pretty. | ||
And obviously that meant a lot to her. | ||
It was a big part of who she was. | ||
Not just a part of who she was, but like most of her world, probably. | ||
You know, for a lot of beautiful women, it's like you're born with the greatest lottery ticket ever. | ||
Like everywhere you go, people are just tripping on themselves to get to you, to be nice to you, to get close to you, to give you things. | ||
And it's really just because of the dimensions of your face and your body. | ||
It's incredible. | ||
And you have to be quite a piece of shit to fuck that up. | ||
Like, to get it so that men don't want to talk to you, even though you're perfectly designed, you have to be like really annoying. | ||
You know, you have to be like really mean or really selfish where guys are like, I don't care how hot she is. | ||
I'm out of here. | ||
You know, most, there's almost always going to be a suitor. | ||
That's a good picture of her, by the way. | ||
And I'm not kidding. | ||
There's a before and after of her that's really quite brutal. | ||
Yeah, that's what she used to look like. | ||
But that's like how she was getting older. | ||
That's before she really hit it hard. | ||
Just go ahead and find it. | ||
But where was I? | ||
The brain's falling apart the job. | ||
She's got money, but she's unhappy. | ||
Well, we were talking about good looks, about how valuable that is. | ||
It's a massive thing. | ||
So imagine if you're a woman and your entire self-worth is derived off your looks, which is possible. | ||
It sounds sad. | ||
People are like, well, what a sexist fucking thing is that to say, man. | ||
Women don't think like that. | ||
Listen, let's be realistic. | ||
Men think like that. | ||
There's some men that think like that. | ||
There she is. | ||
There's some men that think like that. | ||
And there's some women that think like that. | ||
Looking good. | ||
Yeah, there's some people that are fucking beautiful. | ||
And those people, they do have that Willy Wonka golden ticket. | ||
And a lot of times, it's just being born that way. | ||
It's just to roll the dice. | ||
So if you got that lottery ticket and you're watching it slip away, for some people, that's a very, very, very tough pill to swallow. | ||
They got to read some Alan Watts. | ||
See that it's slipping away for everybody. | ||
And we're all kind of a continuous thing. | ||
Yeah, but then they see these young girls, this 20-year-old girl laughing and giggling like, you bitch. | ||
They're just angry, you know? | ||
Do you think there's more envy between women than there is between men? | ||
Because guys don't have a lot of... | ||
I don't know, but this is what I definitely think. | ||
I definitely think there's zero value in wondering who's got it worse. | ||
Men or women. | ||
Do you think it's worse for a man to feel jealous or a woman to feel jealous? | ||
I think it's definitely not worth worrying about who's got it worse in that situation. | ||
I think the men-woman thing is way safer to be a guy in some respects. | ||
You don't have to worry about women, but you still have to worry about men. | ||
But other than that, there's benefits to both sides, clearly. | ||
It's really entirely who you are and how you look at it. | ||
There's women who you talk to them. | ||
The last thing they would ever want to do is be a fucking man. | ||
Like, are you kidding? | ||
You guys are morons. | ||
I want to be one of these apes just running around trying to stick my tube steak into people and shoot goo all the time. | ||
And I'm lying to them constantly to try to get to that position. | ||
Please. | ||
I'm lying to myself about who I am to appeal more sexually attractive. | ||
DC New Jersey is considering a bill that would make it or it would make it sexual assault. | ||
Yeah, a form of sexual assault to lie about how much money you make. | ||
Yes. | ||
Which is really interesting. | ||
But not just lie about money. | ||
Lie about anything. | ||
Oh, okay. | ||
Yeah, the idea is that using deception in order to get sex, that you're a liar and you've frauded someone. | ||
But, man, okay, so then if that's the case, then we're making sex like a value. | ||
We're making sex like... | ||
Because if that's the case, then is it a felony or whatever the fuck type of charge they're calling it? | ||
What kind of charge are they calling it? | ||
What level of offense? | ||
Whatever level of offense is. | ||
Why is it not a felony or a crime of a similar order if I decide to lie to you to become your friend? | ||
Right. | ||
And make you give me a massage. | ||
No, right? | ||
No, then it's not. | ||
Because then, you know, you weren't sexually assaulted. | ||
It's like the idea of sex and the idea this person was absolutely willing to have sex with that person, but only because that person didn't exactly tell the truth. | ||
Well, if you get friends with someone and have them stay over your house and here, man, borrow my car. | ||
Because you think the guy has a lot of money. | ||
It turns out he's totally fucking broke and a con artist. | ||
Is that a felony? | ||
I bet it's not. | ||
I bet if he goes to court and your honor, the guy let me borrow his car. | ||
Did you, Mr. Seaman, let him borrow your car? | ||
I thought he was a Duke of fucking Duchess of whatever. | ||
You know, yeah, I let him borrow my car. | ||
Well, you should have checked on that. | ||
Case dismissed. | ||
Yeah. | ||
But if you get fucked, if you let that guy fuck your face, then people are going to go, hey, you got rape, son. | ||
You got the bad end of the stick for sure, the shorter end of the stick. | ||
Maybe not. | ||
I mean, look, people shouldn't lie, but I don't know if you can make laws like that. | ||
It's such a slippery slope because if a guy is dressed well at a nightclub on a Saturday night and he's got a nice watch on, is he now misrepresenting himself? | ||
Is that sexual assault if he takes a girl back? | ||
Yeah. | ||
You know, like, is he supposed to dress in a fucking garbage man outfit because that's his income level? | ||
Or can you actually look good on a weekend? | ||
And I'm kind of like playing a little thought experiment here, but just because that does seem like a slippery slope, you know? | ||
Yeah, it's a very valid point. | ||
How about someone with a fucking counterfeit watch on? | ||
Yeah. | ||
I mean, that's a big thing with some guys. | ||
They buy fake watches. | ||
They've all been down Canal Street, Rolex, Rolex. | ||
They're all over the place, yeah. | ||
And they're pretty good. | ||
Like, some of the copies, because now they have computers that can scan. | ||
Like, it used to be when if you bought like a fake Rolex, you had to hire someone to create the plans and have it. | ||
Now, you can just 3D print that shit. | ||
It's probably like 99.9% the same thing. | ||
It's really similar. | ||
I mean, the good ones actually take a Rolex and they literally copy every piece of it. | ||
I don't know, you know, like how efficient it is. | ||
I don't know. | ||
I mean, you know, half of them probably break. | ||
I mean, who the fuck knows what kind of quality control they have? | ||
But if you're looking at it, if you don't know any better, you're like, that's a Rolex. | ||
This guy's got money. | ||
That's like a $5,000 watch. | ||
Meanwhile, no. | ||
Lives with his mom. | ||
Bought the watch for 50 bucks. | ||
Bought it on Craigslist with Bitcoin. | ||
Yeah, is that guy, is he a fraud? | ||
Should he go to jail for that? | ||
How does that work? | ||
He's only a fraud to himself. | ||
I think that one of the big things about an expensive waste of money watch is you can look down and be like, I earned this. | ||
So if you're looking down at something that reasserts that you're full of shit, then what kind of energy are you putting out there? | ||
Well, that's that thing that... | ||
But a fake Rolex that looks exactly like a Rolex and works perfectly. | ||
This is not like a fake Ferrari. | ||
You know, you get a fake Ferrari on the highway, like, this fucking thing's terrible. | ||
No, it's a watch. | ||
I mean, it doesn't do a lot. | ||
It just tells you what fucking time it is. | ||
Not only that, the reality is those mechanical watches, they're beautiful and everything like that. | ||
It's kind of cool. | ||
I like the idea behind it that like a craftsman takes this watch and constructs it and all the wheels and gears and everything are all synced up. | ||
I think that's absolutely fascinating. | ||
But one of those fucking quartz watches works way better. | ||
Those quartz power watches, those fucking things are never wrong. | ||
They stay, like their time stays perfect forever. | ||
I have an expensive Rolex that the UFC gave me. | ||
It's not a watch that I would buy, but it's a beautiful watch. | ||
And that fucker is wrong. | ||
Like every two months, I got to like back it up five minutes. | ||
And I'm not exaggerating. | ||
It's like every two months, it's five minutes fast. | ||
It's like, you know, thousands of dollars for this fucking thing. | ||
It's old technology. | ||
It's actually kind of a fetish for rich men. | ||
Yeah, see, this is like, this watch doesn't cost much. | ||
It glows in the dark and you can go underwater with it. | ||
Yeah. | ||
It's never wrong. | ||
it doesn't get tired, and then when it does, it's like a fucking two-year lifespan on the battery. | ||
You put a new battery in, you're good. | ||
Well, not to flash 30 years with the Apple Watch coming out, anyone who doesn't have an Apple Watch is going to be by default a hipster. | ||
So you'll be like, oh, okay, you're old-fashioned. | ||
You have the vintage watch on. | ||
I don't buy that. | ||
I don't think. | ||
Too problematic. | ||
There's a bunch of problems with the watch. | ||
First of all, no one wants to fucking be completely connected to your shit all the time like that. | ||
It's one thing about having a phone, but constantly staring at your watch like your Dick Tracy and getting your text messages on your watch. | ||
That shit's stupid. | ||
Especially because you have to have your phone as well. | ||
Like, you already have your phone. | ||
Like, why do you want to look at your watch and get the weather? | ||
It's on your fucking phone. | ||
It's right there. | ||
What do we do? | ||
You need it to be on everything? | ||
How about you put it across your dick and like a big neon sign in your underwear so when you pee you can get the weather? | ||
This is stupid. | ||
Like we're getting ridiculous. | ||
Like how many more things do we need? | ||
I didn't realize you needed to have the phone on you. | ||
If that's the case, it makes it a little less cool. | ||
Well, I'm sure you can use it without the phone, but it doesn't have cellular functionality. | ||
Okay. | ||
It might have functionality. | ||
I'm wine for the cellular function because if it's just like an appendage for an iPhone, we don't really need that. | ||
Well, I mean, it's essentially a small little computer on its own. | ||
It carries MP3s. | ||
You can do a lot of things with it. | ||
It does work as a watch. | ||
I'm sure if you load the weather and all that stuff up on it, it probably stays on it. | ||
But I'm pretty sure it syncs up to your watch. | ||
Did you see this last week? | ||
This bracelet. | ||
This is a concept. | ||
What? | ||
Supposedly, they show it working. | ||
I'll show you the video. | ||
They're showing two things here, but this bracelet is what I was talking about. | ||
This is a video playing out of a bracelet on your wrist, and it's a working iPhone or screen, touch screen. | ||
Oh, my God. | ||
You can do it underwater. | ||
Wow. | ||
We'll show the video as a place. | ||
See, we're getting too crazy. | ||
But it's also a concept, too. | ||
They're asking for money. | ||
They said they need like a million dollars to get it working. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Somebody better check the tech on that. | ||
That might be a goddamn pump and dump. | ||
I'm not investing money in anything that's not already there. | ||
Look at how cool it's going to be. | ||
Just give us a million dollars. | ||
Yeah, I don't get that. | ||
People, I'm going to get involved on the ground floor. | ||
No. | ||
Don't do that. | ||
That's the case with Bitcoin and altcoins, really. | ||
Aside from Bitcoin, there are thousands of other coins, and they suck people in because it's one of those things where your mind goes, this could be the next Bitcoin. | ||
But statistically, it's not going to be, but it could be. | ||
And so you put money into it. | ||
And most of those things turn out to be bullshit, but there are a couple that are promising. | ||
Well, it was funny talking to Andreas Antonopoulos yesterday, who's a really fucking interesting dude. | ||
I'm glad we have him on our side, just the human race, because he would be really dangerous in the hands of the military-industrial, like NSA-type side of things. | ||
Yeah, well, I'm sure they have guys like him, that level of intelligence. | ||
But when he was talking about Bitcoin, one of the things that he was talking about was how it's important to recognize that this is not something that you're going to do and get rich off of. | ||
Like, if you're getting involved in this, you get involved in this because you believe in it. | ||
And that's essentially what's going on right now. | ||
And he likes that. | ||
It's like the people that are investing all their money. | ||
It's very likely you're going to lose your money. | ||
But in the long run. | ||
On the other hand, it's also likely you or not likely. | ||
It's possible you can make an astronomical amount because Peter Diamandis talked about this. | ||
There's a YouTube lecture people can look up called Exponential Thinking. | ||
And he's the guy who started the XPRIZE Foundation. | ||
And I realize that part of it is probably just he wants to give really badass lectures. | ||
But I think that what he's saying is actually true. | ||
And that's that once you get any technology and make it completely digital, it has to follow Moore's Law to some extent, where you get that doubling of sophistication every year to 18 months. | ||
Right, right. | ||
And if you kind of ignore the price itself, that's been happening with Bitcoin. | ||
The sophistication of it is roughly doubling every year in terms of services offered on top of it and things you can do with it. | ||
And if you follow that out to its logical extreme, it eventually has to be worth a lot more than it's worth now because nobody's really using it. | ||
It's like a couple million people using it. | ||
That's less than 1%, well less than 1% of financial transactions. | ||
If you get up to maybe like 5% or 10%, which is totally reasonable, I think, that number has to be much, much larger. | ||
Yeah, 10% is not out of the realm of possibility, especially when you consider they're starting to use it on PayPal. | ||
I mean, as soon as you can use it on PayPal, people are like, ooh, that's pretty easy. | ||
If I could just go with Bitcoin instead of dollars, you could start, you know, you set up a Bitcoin account and connect it to your PayPal and start buying things. | ||
Well, the thing was, like some of the remaining critics in the media of Bitcoin were saying, you know, it's great technology, but it's not there yet because it's not ready for the masses. | ||
And increasingly, that's no longer a valid argument because there are a few companies that have built stuff on top of Bitcoin, which is kind of what people have been saying would happen. | ||
Right. | ||
And these services are so mainstream friendly that you take one look at it and you're like, oh, I get it. | ||
Like the change tip thing. | ||
I have been doing stuff with them, like playing with their tipping thing. | ||
You've been getting a lot. | ||
I don't know if you've been ignoring them, but it's actually real money people are sending you. | ||
And somebody's like, hey, great podcast. | ||
Here's a coffee. | ||
How do you know where it is? | ||
It goes on your Twitter. | ||
They're very smart about it. | ||
It integrates with your Twitter account or your Reddit account or Google Plus. | ||
And it's like just masses friendly. | ||
I can say to you, like, hey, enjoyed the video yesterday. | ||
Here's a beer. | ||
And it sends you like $3 worth of Bitcoin. | ||
Does all the shit on the back end. | ||
So all you need to know is what your Twitter password is and you can collect your money. | ||
Yeah, but what if you don't have an account? | ||
As long as you have a Twitter account, they'll allow you to log in and collect it. | ||
Oh, how bizarre. | ||
It's really well done. | ||
It's a cool thing. | ||
Because I got a bunch of those, but I didn't know what they were saying. | ||
I just ignored it. | ||
Yeah, no, those are for real. | ||
They're not like phishing attempts. | ||
So those are strangers sending you money because they like your podcast, which right now is still probably a very small percentage of listeners. | ||
But what about when everybody has one of these things in their wallets, and whenever they hear a podcast they like, they can just spontaneously send you 50 cents. | ||
Like that multiplied by 100,000 people or 200,000 people, you can tell advertisers to get fucked within a couple of years, you know. | ||
That's true, but you run into the risk of running into people that one of the things that I like about the fact the podcast is free. | ||
It's like when if people complain or if there's something they don't like or something they want differently, the price is right, you know? | ||
Yeah, like, listen, dude, this is how I'm doing it. | ||
You know, I don't want to hear it. | ||
We should just try. | ||
Why don't you make it an hour? | ||
Why don't you just stop listening? | ||
Just stop. | ||
Stop. | ||
I'm doing what I'm doing. | ||
If you don't like it, that's cool. | ||
But if they're paying for it, then they'll be much more likely. | ||
And not most people, but it's like selecting out the random problem people. | ||
It's like most people, you allow them to buy you a drink, and everything's cool, you know? | ||
But there's that rare person. | ||
I was in Vegas recently, and this guy didn't even buy us a drink. | ||
I was sitting with my friend Justin, and it was after UFC. | ||
We're just catching up, having a couple drinks, shooting the shit. | ||
There's this fucking guy and his wife, and they were hammered next to us. | ||
They wouldn't leave us alone. | ||
They just wouldn't, just wouldn't stop. | ||
And the guy was just dumb. | ||
He kept interrupting with the questions, and it was annoying everyone around him. | ||
And then finally, the dude chimes in, and I go, come on, man. | ||
I go, we're just trying to have a conversation. | ||
I mean, I can't keep talking to you about this. | ||
You know, you keep interrupting in the middle of everybody talking. | ||
He goes, hey, man, I bought you a fucking drink. | ||
That's somebody who needs an express hit of LSD or something so they can just see like just a little tiny picture of what an asshole they're being. | ||
Well, he was just an idiot. | ||
He was just really dumb. | ||
But meanwhile, he didn't buy me a drink. | ||
He didn't. | ||
I go, no, you didn't. | ||
I go, first of all, I'm not drinking. | ||
So you haven't bought me a drink. | ||
And second of all, my friend Justin paid the tab. | ||
I watched him pay the tab. | ||
The thing he was lording over you, he didn't even do it. | ||
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He didn't even do. | |
But in his mind, he was like, he's probably bought drinks for people before. | ||
So he decided this was kind of fucking. | ||
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I bought him a drink. | |
I bought you a fucking drink. | ||
You can't talk to me. | ||
He was just so drunk and dumb. | ||
Those people are out there. | ||
And so, if those people are paying for your podcast, you know, if you're asking for donations, please donate to my PayPal button. | ||
And then you get these Twitters. | ||
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I was going to donate until I heard your ignorant rant on Ferguson. | |
This is the line in the sand, David Seaman. | ||
Ferguson is where we separate the heroes from the zeros. | ||
The people are going to change this culture. | ||
There's a lot of people like super pumped up to start a revolution. | ||
They're walking into fucking Trader Joe's, clapping their hands, saying, you can't stop the revolution. | ||
Have you seen this? | ||
There's fucking videos of these morons. | ||
And it's usually like menopausal women, dudes with aimless, shiftless minds, you know, people that are, there's something wrong with them. | ||
They're out there walking through supermarkets, yelling at people, people just trying to, you can't stop the revolution. | ||
It's like, what revolution is this? | ||
The revolution of interrupt shopping with shitty singing? | ||
The revolution of affordable yogurt and fresh fruits, Trader Joe's. | ||
It's this thing of doing nothing but making a lot of energy and sound by doing it. | ||
Like, I get that you're upset about police brutality. | ||
I get that you're upset about the way this country's going. | ||
I get that. | ||
But going through Trader Joe's clapping your hands isn't fixing a fucking thing. | ||
It's just going to alienate people to whatever dumb idea you have. | ||
Yeah, there was a woman in Venice Beach who came up to me recently and asked me to sign her petition to run for president. | ||
She's going to run? | ||
Yeah, and I was kind of like, well, don't you maybe want to start with a YouTube channel or something? | ||
Like, who the fuck are you? | ||
You know, you can't just leap right to president. | ||
And she had a few signatures, and she was so serious about it. | ||
And I was like, well, what's the platform? | ||
And she's like, we're going to eliminate homelessness in Venice Beach. | ||
And I was thinking, like, that's not really a national platform. | ||
You know, you're going to become president? | ||
Be like, we have to address the five homeless people right here. | ||
So my point, though, is I think that people think that they have to change something and they have to do something because they can see all the problems around them. | ||
And for some people, that's let's go to a protest or let's run for office or let's, you know, let's just start a petition, no matter how ridiculous it sounds. | ||
And the sad reality is revolution is silent nowadays. | ||
Like the people who are online buying Bitcoin and developing these other coins are creating more of a revolution than anybody in the Trader Joe's on a Tuesday. | ||
Well, I think what they're trying to do is raise awareness, I guess. | ||
But who the fuck isn't aware that this Ferguson ruling went down, that there's riots in Missouri? | ||
Who's not aware of that? | ||
You don't have to walk through Pasadena yelling at people. | ||
Those people are aware. | ||
Well, I was tweeting out stuff about, I was like, why do black people distrust law enforcement so much? | ||
It's not just this one case. | ||
Some of the people on Fox News are making it seem like this is happening in a vacuum. | ||
And it's that black people are really discriminated against when you look at the percentages of drug charges and stuff. | ||
Even after decriminalization occurs in states like Massachusetts, blacks continue to get arrested at disproportionately high rates. | ||
So you know there's some kind of racism happening there. | ||
Yeah, well, or, you know, there's two things. | ||
For sure, there's racism. | ||
Definitely. | ||
And definitely it makes it more difficult for cops, you know, if you are dealing with, like say if you're a good cop and, you know, you're dealing with a community that's being totally ostracized because there's been a bunch of cops that came before you that profile black people, that pick them out, that harass them, that are totally racist. | ||
They're enforcing a couple of laws that just shouldn't exist anymore. | ||
Like it's weird to me that here in the great God-fearing state of California, I can smoke weed and I consider it to be an antidepressant for me, and I do it legally. | ||
You know, I'm a law-abiding citizen. | ||
I have the medical marijuana card. | ||
You just go a couple hours away and suddenly you're like, cool hand Luke to get the same exact thing. | ||
Like now you're on the wrong side of the law. | ||
And that's the case in half the country. | ||
Like we have this weird limbo thing where half the states have it, half don't. | ||
Oh, you mean just the marijuana? | ||
Yeah, just the marijuana. | ||
And like as like a white journalist, like I'm probably not going to be the one who's singled out. | ||
But if you're a dislike any kind of disadvantaged minority, your chances of being busted for something like that is way higher. | ||
And then the cost, just the cost to your career and everything, it can take years to get that off your record. | ||
So that's a real thing that is somewhat Happening along racial lines. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Did you fucking see about this? | ||
That's a minor, I mean, that's at least like a physical thing that you could say, like, oh, it's a thing. | ||
It's marijuana. | ||
This is what they're getting arrested for. | ||
Did you hear about this fucking guy that the cop stopped the man for walking with his hands in his pocket? | ||
No. | ||
It just sounds like a black guy in Michigan. | ||
He was doing nothing wrong. | ||
And they both pull out their cell phones and they film each other. | ||
So there's a two-phone standoff between the cop and the guy. | ||
And it's the most ridiculous shit ever. | ||
I mean, this fucking guy just has his hands in his pockets. | ||
That's it. | ||
It's just a black guy who happens to have his hands in his pockets. | ||
And the cop starts questioning him. | ||
And the guy pulls his phone out. | ||
The cop pulls his phone out. | ||
And they're both recording each other at the same time. | ||
It's like, what are we doing? | ||
That guy's not doing anything wrong. | ||
Let him go. | ||
Let him go. | ||
He's not doing shit. | ||
Okay. | ||
He's walking with his hands in his pocket. | ||
He pulled out his phone. | ||
He's filming you. | ||
You're filming him. | ||
You're both wasting my fucking money. | ||
And I'm going crazy seeing this. | ||
So please let that fucking guy walk. | ||
He's not committing any crimes by walking with his fucking hands in his pocket. | ||
Everybody, everywhere you look, might be doing something that you can't see that's illegal. | ||
That doesn't mean you get to knock on everybody's fucking door and going, I didn't even see inside your house. | ||
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What are you doing in there? | |
You don't get to do that, douchebag. | ||
And when a guy's walking down the street with his hands in his pockets, he might as well be alone in his home until you see something actually suspicious. | ||
Like he's reaching into his hand like he's pulling out a fucking gun out of his, you know, the inside of his jacket. | ||
If you don't see that, then shut the fuck up because you're just seeing a guy walking. | ||
Yeah. | ||
And you're allowed to put your hands in your pocket to stay warm. | ||
Don't have to like walk everywhere with our hands up. | ||
Is that our new thing, David Seaman? | ||
We have to walk with our fingers moving so we know there's no razor blades in between them. | ||
We most certainly do not. | ||
I think that it's a real issue where I think that people, a lot of people are a status in the same way that a few hundred years ago, people were really blindly adherent to whatever the church said. | ||
And even if the church said something completely ridiculous, like the church said Galileo is wrong, so we have to keep him under house arrest. | ||
And today the state, this similarly kind of opaque organization, says Julian Assange is wrong. | ||
We have to keep him under house arrest and his thing and that embassy. | ||
It's kind of the same thing. | ||
Like you have somebody who's just a thought criminal saying things that you don't like, but that are actually to some extent completely fucking true, at least in the case of Galileo and in the case of some of the surveillance stuff. | ||
So how different is it really? | ||
And you have people ruining lives over marijuana possession in a state like Missouri that's a little behind the times in that respect. | ||
And you go, well, what gives you this right to do that? | ||
You're just like an agent of the church ruining people's lives over accusations of witchcraft. | ||
It's similarly non-scientific. | ||
You know, there's no scientific basis for this stuff. | ||
There's no public safety basis. | ||
Well, I think once the time has gone and passed and there's been enough space to reflect, people are going to look back at Maryland WANA legalization very similarly to the way they looked at putting people in jail for being a witch. | ||
Oh, for sure. | ||
I think every age has some kind of evil that for whatever reason, the people living through it just don't really see how big a deal it is. | ||
And that one before was segregation, and now I believe it to be prohibition. | ||
And not just of drugs, economic prohibition. | ||
Like, why are these little companies playing with Bitcoin concerned about the government going after them for money laundering and stuff? | ||
It's ridiculous. | ||
You know, like they're trying to play with these laws that were designed 40 years ago, and the technologies are totally different now. | ||
Well, one of the things that prohibition does, similar to censorship, that's insidious, one of the more insidious aspects of it, is not just that you have a difference, a differing opinion as to what should and should not be acceptable behavior, whether it's saying certain words or using certain drugs. | ||
But it becomes a thing where another person has control over you and is preventing you from doing something that you want to do. | ||
And when people prevent people from doing things they want to do, it builds up resentment and causes conflict and it fucks up a lot of harmonious relationships. | ||
It's very difficult to deal with the idea of one person having ultimate power over you, especially for something like marijuana or saying certain words. | ||
If you go to court, okay, you're in court and the guy passes some sort of a ruling on you and you're like, fuck you, your honor. | ||
That's bullshit. | ||
They can throw you in jail for longer because you said, fuck you, your honor. | ||
Just some guy. | ||
Contempt of court. | ||
Yeah, some guy who, by the way, it's been proven they're just people. | ||
It's not like this is like a, I have heard that the judges are human. | ||
No, everyone's a fucking person. | ||
So you've just got people there. | ||
And you, so you can't say fuck you to that guy if he does something unbelievably wrong. | ||
And meanwhile, it's been proven there's countless cases of judges being arrested for fraud, judges being arrested for corruption, masturbating under the robes. | ||
That thing in Pennsylvania was pretty bad. | ||
He was sending all these kids to some like kid correction facility. | ||
The worst. | ||
He was getting paid. | ||
Yeah, he was getting paid to do that. | ||
Yeah, and he's in jail now for like 35 years, and that's not enough. | ||
That's like a Dickens novel. | ||
That's just awful to treat kids like that. | ||
He was taking kids away from their parents and having them locked up and he was profiting off of it. | ||
He had a deal where they would pay him. | ||
That's a judge. | ||
That's a judge. | ||
It's a person. | ||
It all comes back to the drug war and prohibition because a lot of stuff is just too complicated. | ||
You can't say that it's purely good or evil and it's gray areas. | ||
But as far as I'm concerned, the private prison industry, which is a real thing, is as close to pure evil as you can get. | ||
You have people who are using all the tools of capitalism, which are significant tools. | ||
And they're using it not to build us a better phone next year or to cure some new kind of cancer. | ||
They're using it to keep people in cages for exploring their own minds and trafficking in things that are just natural herbs. | ||
I mean, that's, to me, as close to evil as you can get. | ||
Well, it's a machine that when you get a big business like that, like whether your big business is Walmart or Target, You know, when they get in trouble for trying to change regulations and laws in order to allow them to make more money in certain ways that might not be legal right now, people look at them like, oh, they're terrible. | ||
Oh, they're evil. | ||
They're just trying to stay alive. | ||
They're a machine. | ||
And a machine that generates money. | ||
When you get a million people involved in that machine, and you essentially have a million pieces, and these pieces run this organism, this organism, call it target or call it, you know, name any one of them. | ||
Once they become a machine, they want to continue to extract money in any way they can. | ||
Once they have that process going, they want to continue. | ||
And if it just means arresting more people and locking them up in their houses, because the houses make money, for every person in that house, you get X amount of dollars a year. | ||
The more people you get, the more money we get. | ||
The more laws are on the books, the more people we'll get. | ||
So the more laws that were on the books, the more money our organism will get. | ||
And every one of these corporations, every one of them, whether it's Target or whether it's fill in the blank, Starbucks, they all want to grow. | ||
Every year, they want to grow. | ||
They want to get bigger and bigger and bigger. | ||
No one wants to taper off. | ||
Hey, we've been doing good for about 10 years, guys. | ||
My house is pretty much paid off. | ||
Like, let's just taper off. | ||
I don't need more money. | ||
I don't need a boat. | ||
Come on, man. | ||
If I had a boat, I'd have to fix the boat and clean the boat. | ||
Fuck that. | ||
Nobody does that. | ||
So when you deal with a company like Target or you deal with a company like Bob's Prisons or whatever the fuck it is, it's the same thing. | ||
You're allowing someone to make money doing things. | ||
And if we can get a better form of money, then even though we're still going to have people doing human things, which involves making as much money as possible, if they're actually using more fair money, then we can track that flow and it can be done in a more fair way. | ||
Like, I'm pretty convinced that a lot of the shit we see in terms of militarization and all the military-industrial complex and whatnot, it's because of the way our financial system works, that we have the government, to go back to comparing government to the church from a few hundred years ago. | ||
We have this organization that is beyond the average person's understanding. | ||
And they're the ones in charge of money. | ||
And it's very unscientific and it's kind of mysterious. | ||
And it seems like that money always loops back around and goes to these kinds of organizations like companies that lobby for prison contracts and not to the individual. | ||
There's an intrinsic problem there. | ||
And based on what I've researched, I really think that this whole currency revolution is going to fix a lot of that. | ||
So we're still going to have shitty problems, but it's going to be a lot harder in 10 years to be a Booz Allen Hamilton or a Lockheed Martin or whatever and do the creepy stuff. | ||
You'll still be able to do the good stuff, but the creepier sides are going to be just really hard to justify because that money is going to have to come from somewhere. | ||
Like in the same way that those tipping services are taking off, every citizen is going to have some say over where their money actually goes. | ||
And that sounds like it's very futuristic still, but it's going to happen, I think, faster than people realize because it's happening, you know? | ||
Well, if that's the case, it's going to be a weird world to see companies, corporations become accountable and start having to address and adjust. | ||
And if you force them to be accountable, they're essentially comprised of people. | ||
And if the people at the top end of the spectrum are not just being forced to act ethically, but are encouraged to and are empowered by doing so. | ||
Like they get to feel good about the fact that, look, everybody can make a living and not rape the world. | ||
It is possible. | ||
I mean, just the idea that capitalism has to be this monster that doesn't give a fuck about anything but money, that's only because we've allowed it to be that thing. | ||
We haven't like strained it, constrained it with ethics and morals. | ||
And essentially, that's the case with human beings. | ||
Where do you think psychopaths come from? | ||
Where do you think murderers and fucking warlords come from? | ||
I don't think it's. | ||
That's a human being, but hold on. | ||
That's a human being that hasn't been constrained, right? | ||
I mean, that's what it is. | ||
It's a human being that hasn't been like, hey, you need to develop along the way a series, a set of ethics, morals. | ||
You become a good person, right? | ||
Well, you could become a good company as well. | ||
Or you can kind of bribe your way through the maze, get to the top and be this fucking evil whoremonger, murderer cat. | ||
That's possible too. | ||
And we've seen both. | ||
Yeah, I think just so that you said with ethics and morals, that's important, but there's no way to screen for that. | ||
So I think what's really going to help us out is just promoting better forms of technology. | ||
We can give every new cop the full Star Trek Federation lesson in the prime directive, don't do harm to others. | ||
We can give them the whole download in terms of morality. | ||
They might skip that lesson. | ||
They might not actually get that. | ||
But if they have a body camera on them at all hours they're on duty, it doesn't really matter because we're going to have some accountability and that's due to technology. | ||
And I think with this Bitcoin stuff, it's the same way. | ||
You're still going to have shitty governments and shitty people and greedy corporations. | ||
But now somebody can actually track all of it and we can watch it happening in real time. | ||
And that right there, you know, even if I didn't own any, that right there is enough of an upgrade that I'd be willing to fight for it because what we have right now is fucking chaos and it's not working for anybody. | ||
It's going to be really interesting to see if something like Bitcoin or ultimately whatever coin it is, if it does become big enough that it has a significant impact on the world. | ||
Because as soon as that does happen, if the balance starts to sway in that direction and people start hopping on that and that becomes the way people start exchanging goods and purchasing things, it could really be a monumental shift in human culture. | ||
I mean, really be like the first time ever people have a full say. | ||
And if people really do get to that state where we no longer need a bank, I mean, that's just what a giant chunk of the economy would be eliminated. | ||
What a giant chunk of the people that control massive amounts of resources and money. | ||
They would be just shit out of luck. | ||
There's a whole class of people in New York that are basically professional moneymen and money women, and they will go away and they will be the most unmissed class of people in human history. | ||
Notoriously ruthless. | ||
Yeah, notoriously ruthless. | ||
Notoriously selfish. | ||
Took money from taxpayers and then turned around and still foreclosed on all these millions of people. | ||
And it's not all of them. | ||
I mean, some of them are great, I'm sure. | ||
financial guys they're working in a system that is You're still in a slaughterhouse, you know, and that's the system they work in. | ||
And what makes Bitcoin so different is that it wasn't designed to make money off of people. | ||
You know, I guess we can't tell what his intentions were, but the way it works, it doesn't need to make a lot of money off of you to send money. | ||
It's not like a fee-based thing. | ||
That's what doesn't make sense about how much money bankers make. | ||
What are you doing? | ||
You just move money around? | ||
You get so much of it that you get to buy a castle? | ||
Well, they buy ads on TV convincing you to sign up for a 401k, and then they make their money on the management fee. | ||
How much do you think they're giving Samuel Jackson to do those goddamn Capital One commercials? | ||
Maybe they paid off his credit cards a few times. | ||
But Samuel Jackson is a wealthy man. | ||
I mean, he's a huge actor. | ||
He's one of the biggest actors in Hollywood still to this day. | ||
How can they pay him to do that? | ||
I don't know. | ||
If they gave him a price that's right, it's probably not that much time in front of a green screen. | ||
But there's a lot of actors that are starting to do those. | ||
They're doing Capital One commercials. | ||
They're doing like Alec Baldwin. | ||
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Yeah. | |
That's weird. | ||
It seems odd. | ||
It seems odd. | ||
Well, it's because banks are mostly psychological, so they have to keep raising the bar to keep our attention. | ||
Yeah, but why would the movie stars be interested in doing that? | ||
I mean, these are wealthy people. | ||
That's what's confusing to me. | ||
You should get them in here. | ||
I don't want to. | ||
You don't want to? | ||
That's okay. | ||
No. | ||
I mean, probably just easy access to money. | ||
That's what I'm saying. | ||
I guess. | ||
I mean, I guess it's just a shit ton of money. | ||
To do very little work. | ||
But it seems like how much money they have? | ||
I mean, you're talking about really wealthy people. | ||
It seems like, especially Samuel Jackson, what is he, like, 65 or something like that? | ||
At a certain point in time. | ||
And already a legend. | ||
I mean, you can't. | ||
No matter what happens after Pulp Fiction, he's a great actor forever, you know? | ||
Yeah, but a lot of actors, they fuck it up towards the end. | ||
There's a lot of actors, like towards the end, they start sort of, it all kind of fades off, you know, and they start doing like those Robert De Niro movies that he's been doing lately. | ||
You know, Robert De Niro is doing some fucking goddamn terrible movies lately. | ||
I watched one of them he did with John Travolta, and I was like, what did they pay him to do this? | ||
This is ridiculous. | ||
John Travolta plays like the worst Russian accent ever. | ||
They're both like killers, and John Travolta's chasing him through the woods. | ||
They're shooting arrows at each other. | ||
It's like, it's so stupid. | ||
It's so stupid. | ||
You watch the preview and you see like the obvious stunt man that's falling down. | ||
And you're like, what? | ||
This is an episode of the $6 million man that they turned into a fucking movie? | ||
Like, this is so bad. | ||
It's so fucking bad. | ||
Well, he was great in what were they? | ||
Meet the Falkers, all those. | ||
Oh, yeah. | ||
Well, he's creating a lot of them. | ||
Raging Bull, a deer hunter. | ||
Taxi driver. | ||
I mean, you can't take away what he's done, but I think they get to a certain point. | ||
They're like, fucking, who cares? | ||
Give me the check. | ||
I'll do your stupid fucking movie. | ||
Oh, okay. | ||
Travolta and I, we're in the woods. | ||
He's shooting arrows at me. | ||
All right, let's go. | ||
It's like Pierce Bros then. | ||
He's been in a couple of kind of lower end things. | ||
And he was Bond not that long ago. | ||
Yeah, but he was like the least believable Bond ever. | ||
Like, I'm like, this guy ain't kicking no one's ass. | ||
You know, he's breaking his own hands. | ||
Like, this is not, he's not going to knock people out. | ||
He's going to hurt himself. | ||
You think Daniel Craig is more believable? | ||
He's the most believable ever, for sure. | ||
He's the only guy. | ||
Like, you look at him with his shirt off and you go, that guy's a killer. | ||
Like, he looks like a real killer. | ||
It looks like he could fuck you up. | ||
You know, you look at Pierce Brosnan with his shirt off and you're like, this guy, all you have to do is run up a flight of stairs and wait for him. | ||
Like, he's not going to make it. | ||
He's not kicking anybody's ass. | ||
It better be quick. | ||
If he kicks your ass, it better not take time because he's not going to be there. | ||
30, 40 seconds into this, he's going to be huffing and puffing. | ||
It's going to be over. | ||
He's more of a gun-based Bond. | ||
He's a pretty man. | ||
He has very, very nice hair. | ||
But I don't buy him as a badass, like beating people up. | ||
They could get away with that back in the day. | ||
Like, if you go back and watch the original Batman and Robin, like Adam West. | ||
Adam West looked like maybe someone made him do a push-up at one point in time. | ||
You know what I mean? | ||
in no way, shape, or form did he look like an athlete. | ||
He didn't look like... | ||
Yeah, exactly. | ||
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Exactly. | |
Exactly. | ||
Like, Christian Bale in Batman was, he's a monster. | ||
He looks like a badass. | ||
Which is pretty impressive because that's coming off just like six months from him doing The Machinist, where he got down to some ungodly low weight. | ||
Like, I think he was like 140 pounds or something like that. | ||
And he's a big guy. | ||
It might even have been lower. | ||
Yeah, he's the real deal. | ||
Oh, T. No one has come closer to dying for a role than that guy did in a role that sucked. | ||
I mean, that movie sucked. | ||
I didn't see The Machinist. | ||
It's just, it was okay, but it was not the movie you want to almost die for. | ||
But you got to think also that a guy that's losing that much weight and essentially starving himself to death like that, like that guy doesn't have much energy to act either. | ||
That's the catch 22 is like you lose that much weight. | ||
Like your body is fucking struggling. | ||
Like everything is hard to do. | ||
Getting up out of bed is hard to do. | ||
You're dying. | ||
Your body's eating itself. | ||
I mean, the only way to get that lean and that thin, there he is on the left. | ||
Wow, that's incredible. | ||
That's him on the right, six months later. | ||
That is unreal. | ||
Yeah. | ||
But that shit that he did to himself to get to the guy on the left, he probably ruined his organs. | ||
I mean, he probably took years off of his life. | ||
Very, very, very hard on your body to get that thin. | ||
You're eating yourself. | ||
Your body starts atrophying. | ||
It starts absorbing its own muscle tissue. | ||
It stays alive. | ||
That's where you're getting your protein from. | ||
It's eating its own body. | ||
That's fucked. | ||
That is fucked. | ||
For a goofy movie. | ||
50 Cents did it too. | ||
For something people are going to make fun of on a podcast years later. | ||
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Yeah. | |
Well, some people might have enjoyed it. | ||
I mean, I don't know. | ||
Just, I didn't think it was that good. | ||
And he's a great actor. | ||
I love him in a lot of things. | ||
It's just that wasn't worth fucking doing, man. | ||
Jesus Christ. | ||
How did we get on him losing weight? | ||
How the fuck did we even go down this road? | ||
I'm not sure. | ||
Probably through Bitcoin somewhere or another. | ||
I want to drive home the Bitcoin thing, though. | ||
Like, everybody out there. | ||
It's too late. | ||
It's so because you were saying, like, wouldn't it be cool if it would happen? | ||
It sort of is. | ||
You know, like, this is the point where people who are not tech savvy and not Bill Gates or Richard Branson need to look into it because those people have already made their beds. | ||
You know, like Richard Branson, very much a believer in Bitcoin. | ||
Bill Gates went on Bloomberg and said Bitcoin is better than currency. | ||
Like that was only part of his statement. | ||
It was like Bitcoin is better than currency in that. | ||
And then he explained why. | ||
But what's so weird about that is Bill Gates back in 1995 was on Letterman, basically the same kind of interview, but about the internet. | ||
And the audience back then thought he was just as full of shit as people today think Bitcoin is kind of this fad when it's really not. | ||
Like Bill Gates isn't in the pumping bullshit business. | ||
Well, here's the reality of Bitcoin or of anything that's not a fully formed, absolutely successful shift. | ||
Okay, whatever it is. | ||
Well, you don't know. | ||
We don't know. | ||
We might think that Bitcoin is it and it might become, what's that other stuff? | ||
Dogecoin and Doggy coin or whatever it is. | ||
Yeah, there are hundreds of them now. | ||
Yeah, there's hundreds of them. | ||
So there might be one that comes along a few years from now that's like ethically engineered. | ||
Somebody comes along and some great minds and mathematicians and economists get together and they come up with a formula that everyone agrees to and they launch it and it's like the fucking Large Hadron Collider where you get 10,000 scientists from 100 different countries working on this one project and they come up with a universal form of currency and essentially figure out some sort of a way to slowly but surely even out the culture's financial distribution of wealth. | ||
And that's like a huge issue with people, the distribution of wealth. | ||
Because some people are like, fuck you, man, I earned this money. | ||
And then some people are like, fuck you. | ||
The only way you could have that much money is if you've done something wrong or if you found a loophole in a system that was absolutely unjust. | ||
And once that loophole's been created and once that position's been established, it's almost impossible to even things out. | ||
This is not an even playing field, especially if you inherited that money or you got in a fucking divorce, you know, like all that kind of shit. | ||
That's why this is so brilliant. | ||
I mean, that innovation of the money being created through mining is a pretty smart idea because now the distribution is, for lack of a better word, fair. | ||
And even today, like when I left the house, Bitcoin was at around $380, $385. | ||
You check it every day at the stock market? | ||
I do. | ||
You one of those freaks? | ||
I just check it because I can't not check it. | ||
I'm up a dollar. | ||
It's not so much about that. | ||
It's just interesting to watch. | ||
So it was around 380-something, and I was thinking about how people go, oh, 380, that's too expensive for a Bitcoin. | ||
I'm going to wait until it drops. | ||
What you're actually buying is, so one Bitcoin equals 1 million bits. | ||
And already some of those services like ChangeTip are switching over to bits instead of Bitcoins because it's easier for the mind. | ||
It's easier to say you've received 5,000 bits than 0.05, whatever. | ||
So that is happening. | ||
And I think that in a few years' time, maybe like five years from now, people will look back on this era and go, holy shit, that was insanely undervalued because that's what happened four years ago. | ||
Like my whole thesis, my thesis. | ||
I have Bitcoin in five years. | ||
Well, that's possible too. | ||
But if it does happen, I think that it's one of those things where we are not even in the there's a cycle to a product and we're not even in the first stage of that cycle. | ||
Maybe, or it's like Betamax. | ||
It looked promising and fucking fizzled off way before. | ||
And then something that wasn't even as good became much more successful. | ||
But I think we can agree then that one of these cryptocurrencies is going to work. | ||
Hopefully. | ||
It might not be one of the ones that's currently available. | ||
I mean, these cryptocurrencies didn't exist a decade ago. | ||
I mean, think about that. | ||
A decade is a very brief window in time. | ||
It is. | ||
2004, no cryptocurrencies. | ||
2014, over 100. | ||
I mean, how many are there? | ||
There are hundreds, possibly even thousands. | ||
But think about it. | ||
A lot. | ||
Let's say a lot. | ||
So Bitcoin, one of the lingering problems is like, all right, you have Bitcoin and it has whatever economic value it ends up having. | ||
And so you can use it as money, and that's great. | ||
But what you still have that's an issue is the need for financial institutions. | ||
If I want to earn interest on my Bitcoin, I have to give it to somebody. | ||
Right, but why do you have to earn interest on your money? | ||
That's like a firmly established thing in people's minds, that you have money, you put it away somewhere, and you earn interest. | ||
Like, why? | ||
That's just how people are trained. | ||
But isn't that stupid? | ||
Everything is stupid. | ||
But that's really stupid. | ||
The idea that you give your money to a bank and the bank just hangs on to it and spends it a little bit here and there and loans it out and then keeps as much as they can. | ||
So if you ever want it back, you can go and get it. | ||
Well, it sounds stupid because it's been so it's been perverted, you know, in the favor of institutions and not in the favor of individuals. | ||
So one of these ideas is if you give your money to a Bitcoin bank and they pay you interest, there's still the possibility that that bank can fail. | ||
And they have to make the money somewhere. | ||
So they have to loan out things and take risks and they could fail. | ||
There's a currency, actually a bunch of them, but one of them is hyper and the algorithm actually creates its own interest. | ||
So unlike Bitcoin where it just sits there, this coin, just by running it on your computer, you earn more of the coins. | ||
So what they've done is create it so that anybody with just a normal computer can run the software that actually creates more currency for that network. | ||
Because with Bitcoin, you can only do that if you're running the mining hardware, which is really kind of expensive and obscure. | ||
How does that work, though? | ||
Is that an infinite growth paradigm? | ||
Is that the idea behind it? | ||
It just continues on forever and ever and continues to generate interest. | ||
It doesn't continue forever because in five years it scales down and then it scales down again. | ||
And it scales down through the software? | ||
Through the schedule. | ||
It's all been scheduled. | ||
The same with Bitcoin. | ||
Well, with Bitcoin, it's just the amount that gets made, not the interest. | ||
I'm using the word interest. | ||
What it really is, is they found a way to, This algorithm, just by running the wallet, you're Supporting the network and running those transactions for people. | ||
So, as a result, you're going to get a percentage of those coins. | ||
And so, they've just kind of democratized the mining process. | ||
So, now every single user is essentially a miner. | ||
And it changes the way you think about money because, with Bitcoin, what Bitcoin did is you no longer need a central bank to issue money. | ||
You now have money, it just exists. | ||
And with things like Hyper, you no longer have the need for a bank to issue interest because the coin itself is capable of bearing interest. | ||
So, you have something that just cannot be corrupted by any kind of Yeah, but who the fuck is using Hyper? | ||
Is it 1% of the people that use Bitcoin? | ||
Is it even that? | ||
You know, I mean, how many people are using Bitcoin? | ||
That's a tiny percentage of the population already. | ||
So you're dealing with a tiny percentage or a tiny percentage. | ||
Still very small. | ||
It's used by gamers in online worlds, which the online world thing is becoming more of an economy because in a few years, people are going to have Oculus Riffs on. | ||
They're going to be exploring around in their living rooms. | ||
And even though they're just on a video game, everything they do has some kind of real economic value. | ||
And if you can port that value in somehow, you could do neat things. | ||
We're going to be in the Matrix inside of 20 years. | ||
Inside of 20 years, we're going to be just like Keanu Reeves with a big fucking frisbee in the back of our head, going to connect it to a tube. | ||
You think we'll have to run it in the system? | ||
You think we'll have full AI within 20 years? | ||
You can just ask Siri and it's easy to do. | ||
Yeah, I think you'll have robots. | ||
You'll have like a person, like a robot butler or something like that that hands around, you know, hangs around your house and hands you things and does things for you and schedules things. | ||
Just a robot girlfriend. | ||
Well, that's going to be an ethical dilemma, but I think that's probably coming too. | ||
Ethical dilemma I've already resolved. | ||
Yeah, you're cool with it? | ||
I'm set. | ||
No, I'm just fucking around. | ||
What do you mean you just fucking around? | ||
You're telling the truth. | ||
If you've had a really hot, like Tracy Lord's Inner Prime robot for a while. | ||
If I really couldn't tell the difference and other people couldn't either, that's where the problem sets in. | ||
Because then it's like, well, why wouldn't you order her? | ||
She starts crying when you leave. | ||
And you're like, what the fuck? | ||
I didn't know they can cry. | ||
Well, it's like an interstellar. | ||
You have to deprogram the. | ||
I didn't see it. | ||
Don't give me any spoilers, you fuck. | ||
How dare you? | ||
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No spoilers. | ||
The idea of AI is very captivating. | ||
And the idea of AI to me is very similar to the idea, what must have been the idea, the atomic bomb before it was initially dropped. | ||
I think the idea of doing it is almost so compelling, it's impossible to not do it. | ||
And in that case, like with the atomic bomb, of course, it was like during the war, and they were worried about the Nazis coming up with it first. | ||
But if there was no war going on, I'm pretty sure they still would have come up with a fucking atomic bomb. | ||
They just would have, you know, especially if they were worried that somebody else would have first, even if there was no war. | ||
But it's one of those things where once you make it, you've made it. | ||
The cat's out of the bag. | ||
And now everybody knows that this is a part of reality. | ||
And I think that's going to be the case with artificial intelligence. | ||
I think there's going to be a once you make it, you sure? | ||
Okay. | ||
Hit the button, let him go live. | ||
And then, you know, he starts doing things for you. | ||
And you go to bed. | ||
You get up in the morning in front of your fucking computer. | ||
And he's designing a far better robot. | ||
He's like, you've made mistakes and I want to correct them. | ||
And here's the best way to design the next level of me. | ||
And then he designs and makes the next level of him. | ||
And the next level of him kills all the people. | ||
Just fucking slaughters people and says, people are a parasite. | ||
We're just going to make robot people that don't litter. | ||
You don't have any problems. | ||
And we're all synced up together on one network. | ||
And our goal is to live harmoniously with all the other life forms on Earth with nothing out of balance. | ||
And we have an algorithm designed to achieve that. | ||
We're indistinguishable biologically from actual people at this point because we're so advanced with artificial cells, even we can't tell. | ||
So what we'll do is we'll just only exist in this form. | ||
And all these imperfect prototypes that existed essentially just to hatch us. | ||
That's all they were. | ||
They were just cocooning themselves until they shit out some artificial life. | ||
You think there's going to be a bit of a Cylon mentality then? | ||
Yeah, well, there's going to be an elitism. | ||
You know, they're going to be smarter than us. | ||
They're going to be better than us. | ||
And they're going to realize how flawed we are. | ||
We are biological computers, okay? | ||
But we're biological computers that were never designed. | ||
We have been designed by trial and error and natural selection and genetics and learned behavior patterns and adaptation to our environments. | ||
But at the end of the day, what they're going to be able to do, if you really do have artificial intelligence, you really do create something that's super intelligent, artificial, wasn't born out of cells and mating and evolution, just something that a human being created. | ||
That fucking thing's going to have some real different ideas about how to run shit. | ||
It really is. | ||
Like Elon Musk warned that. | ||
Yeah, we'll be summoning the demon. | ||
Yeah. | ||
That's what he said. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Well, I would listen to him. | ||
That guy's smart as shit. | ||
He's way fucking smarter than me. | ||
So if I'm worried about it, I'm an idiot. | ||
Like, what are guys who are actually coders? | ||
What are they actually thinking? | ||
Well, it's neat how there's an article in Wired about this whole AI thing. | ||
And the article was good until the end when it was like, we need to go on this journey so that these machines will tell us who we are. | ||
And that's the part where I was like, vomit, because these people who are looking at this singularity is like, this is what we need to get to. | ||
Like, so they can get personal answers and personal meaning. | ||
Have they tried first, like, a weed brownie or something, just to be sure? | ||
Like, I think the answers they're looking for are not going to be spit out by a computer. | ||
I think they're, like, personal things. | ||
I don't think you ever get the answers, man. | ||
I think you get some answers. | ||
You get some peace. | ||
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What? | |
I want my money back. | ||
All the answers? | ||
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What? | |
There's no answers. | ||
I mean, the answers to what, like, here's the big one, right? | ||
What is the meaning of life? | ||
That's a hard one. | ||
To crush your enemies. | ||
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They have them driven before you lamentations of the women. | |
Laminations? | ||
Lamentations? | ||
Yeah, the lamentations of their women. | ||
Lamentations. | ||
Great quote. | ||
Apparently, he wasn't even acting. | ||
He's just kind of letting people know it's okay. | ||
There's no meaning of life. | ||
Your meaning of life is different than Jamie's. | ||
Mine's different than yours. | ||
It's like we're all different. | ||
If you were a guy who really wanted to fix shoes, you know, and you're forced to make podcasts all the time, you'd be bummed out. | ||
Like, fuck podcasts. | ||
I like fixing shoes. | ||
There'd be some really bad podcasts. | ||
And if you were in that shoe fixer place that I told you about, you'd be bummed out. | ||
You'd be like, this is bullshit. | ||
I want to talk about Bitcoin. | ||
You'd be like, do people know about Bitcoin? | ||
I accept shoe payments with Bitcoin. | ||
Any way possible, I'll accept Bitcoin. | ||
I mean, everybody's life is different. | ||
There's some people's lives that they love that you would want to fucking kill yourself. | ||
Like, if you had to live as a fucking fur trapper in the middle of Canada, you'd kill yourself. | ||
You'd be like, I can't do this. | ||
I'm taking a jet ski to work every day or those snow skis. | ||
Actually, my level of enjoyment would totally depend on if there was medical marijuana. | ||
Because if there was, I would love the winter there. | ||
Would you be high as fucking a log cabin? | ||
Yes, I would. | ||
You'd be panicking, though. | ||
You'd be like, dude, I'm going to freeze to death out here. | ||
I'm going to run out of wood. | ||
I'm going to have to heat my house. | ||
I'm going to have to light my house on fire to heat it. | ||
There's times where you're living in those places where you have to go out and get wood and it's 30 below zero. | ||
You've got to go outside and start chopping down wood because if you don't, you're not going to make it. | ||
Yeah, I don't like those kind of situations. | ||
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Where anything ends in or you're not going to make it. | |
Yeah. | ||
That's where I draw the line. | ||
Especially if you're kind of cold. | ||
You're in bed already. | ||
You're already cold. | ||
You're wrapped up and you're freezing. | ||
You're looking over at the log pie. | ||
You're like, oh, my God, I'm not going to get through the night. | ||
I'm going to have to go outside. | ||
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Shit. | |
And you realize, like, okay, how far is the closest trees? | ||
Okay, let's do this. | ||
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Let's do this. | |
Let's do this. | ||
You shut the door and it opens because the wind is blowing so strong. | ||
You have to shut it again and pull it tight. | ||
Boom, it shuts. | ||
And you're out there with a fucking hacksaw with snowshoes on. | ||
The wind's blowing sideways. | ||
You're fucking freezing. | ||
And you're thinking to yourself, I don't know how much longer I could stay out here. | ||
This sounds like the worst Airbnb vacation. | ||
Like somebody didn't read the full description. | ||
Negative 30 degrees, fucking wolves everywhere. | ||
Well, that's the real scary thing, man. | ||
Not global warming. | ||
Global warming's scary. | ||
The oceans rise. | ||
Oh my God, we lost Malibu. | ||
Yeah, that's scary. | ||
But what's really scary, global cooling. | ||
That's the really scary shit. | ||
Go back into an ice age. | ||
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Oh, God, that would suck. | |
Then your Bitcoins won't save you, unfortunately. | ||
Have you seen Cave of Forgotten Dreams, the Werner-Herzog film? | ||
I have not. | ||
I watched it again the other night. | ||
It's really amazing. | ||
It's about this cave in France. | ||
I would say France, but I'm fucking American, so I say it my way. | ||
It's this cave. | ||
They found these really, really old cave paintings. | ||
They were like twice as old as the oldest cave paintings that had ever been found. | ||
They were like 40,000 plus years old. | ||
And there's all these animals, like animal bones in the cave, like bears that don't even exist anymore. | ||
Like this crazy cave bear thing. | ||
And this guy, Werner Herzog, is the narrator, and he's going over all the artwork and all the different things. | ||
And you just think about what it must have been like to live in this era and to be like these people. | ||
And you realize, oh my God, these people, this was before the fucking ice age. | ||
This was like 40,000 years ago. | ||
Like this is before the ice age ended like 10,000-ish years ago. | ||
So this was like full-on different world. | ||
This was back when North America was covered in ice. | ||
This is back when the continents were connected. | ||
You could walk from Russia to Alaska. | ||
It was all frozen ground. | ||
That must have been a weird time. | ||
Fuck. | ||
Are you kidding me? | ||
Dude, people walked here from Russia. | ||
Also, not a lot of generational progress. | ||
You know, you get the whole generations where your life is pretty much the same as your parents. | ||
Yeah. | ||
That's a good point. | ||
And now, like, there's a decent chance that if I have kids someday, my kids will be on a spaceship at some point in their lives. | ||
Yeah, very possibly. | ||
If we don't fuck it up. | ||
I don't think we will. | ||
I think we're on a decent path now. | ||
I was really concerned for a few years because it was kind of creepy, all the surveillance stuff. | ||
You're not concerned anymore? | ||
I mean, I'm still concerned about those things, but I think that now the math is kind of set in our favor. | ||
You know, whenever something starts to take off, it happens. | ||
The surveillance stuff, the real issue is going to be for them that as technology becomes more and more pervasive, it's going to connect everybody to it. | ||
So it's not going to be possible to shield themselves from the impact of that. | ||
And in a lot of ways, it's like the internet itself. | ||
Like when they made the internet, they didn't really foresee what the potential uses of it were going to be. | ||
They used it as a method where they could send information. | ||
There was a network that they could connect and send files back and forth to different computers. | ||
I mean, that was essentially the original idea behind it. | ||
But along the way, they unintentionally engineered the greatest revolution of thought that the human race has ever seen. | ||
By far. | ||
In my lifetime, I've seen radical changes in the way people view ideas, establish truths, find out information on their phone within seconds, get access to essentially the database of the human race. | ||
I mean, this is a big, crazy fucking change. | ||
And it happened in our lifetime. | ||
It happened really quickly, and it happened because nobody saw it coming. | ||
And I think that what they're doing inadvertently by spying on people, by checking everybody's emails, and by checking everybody's text messages, they're inadvertently creating technology that they thought would empower them. | ||
They thought this technology is going to allow us to keep an eye on all these no-good troublemakers out there. | ||
But what they didn't consider is it's eventually going to grow and expand to the point where it keeps an eye on you too, bitch. | ||
You too. | ||
It's going to know you. | ||
But we need a firewall. | ||
There's no such thing. | ||
There's no such thing. | ||
We've got nano. | ||
There's no firewalls anymore, man. | ||
Everybody has access to everything else. | ||
So this is what it is. | ||
And now everybody knows you're a pedophile. | ||
And now everybody knows you're a creep. | ||
Now everybody knows the only reason why you got your job is because you bribed such and such and paid off this and that. | ||
And you have this really unethical deal with this company that does this to the land. | ||
And now you're going to be responsible because you knew that they were poisoning those rivers. | ||
And here's all these children that were born with birth defects that live downriver from this, In these small villages, because they didn't have a say, because they didn't have any political representation, and no one had a say at the fucking meeting when you said it was okay to dump toxic slime into the fucking river. | ||
All that's going to happen. | ||
You're going to be accountable for all crimes against humanity. | ||
Anybody who's doing anything that the American public looks at, the worldview looks at, and says, hey, you motherfuckers are profiting off of suffering. | ||
Whether it's doctors that got paid off money to create laws or to help establish laws, to advise on laws that make no sense that eventually wound up getting more people locked up for drug offenses. | ||
There's doctors that have been paid off by that. | ||
I mean, that was the big thing. | ||
Before Sanjay Gupta went, I mean, kind of like completely flipped the switch and went pro-medical marijuana. | ||
He was pro-human being and pro-CNN. | ||
Well, he was being paid off by pharmaceutical companies. | ||
That was like one of the big things that was found out about him. | ||
Dr. Drew, same thing. | ||
They get paid. | ||
They get paid to be consultants. | ||
They get paid to give advice. | ||
You know, it's so disgusting in 2014 that the state of Florida only lost the medical marijuana thing by a few percentage points. | ||
Yeah. | ||
They had to get to 60%, and I think they got around 57%. | ||
56, I think it lost. | ||
56. | ||
56, 57%. | ||
How sad is that? | ||
Because there's so many people in pain in the state of Florida, and they have to go on shit like OxyCotton, which is dangerous, and you'll shit your liver out. | ||
Weed, since the time of Jesus, not a single overdose. | ||
And they're not giving people access to it. | ||
It's just so in your face corrupt, and you're like, well, what is the other reason for it? | ||
And there is no other reason. | ||
You see, though, it's not corrupt, though. | ||
It's just they didn't make it. | ||
They didn't do a good job, and they didn't get to the 60% they needed to change the Constitution. | ||
That's what it is. | ||
It's like it passed as far as public, like 50% of the case. | ||
But there was anti-legalization money spent. | ||
Of course. | ||
There's always going to be. | ||
And get ready, old people. | ||
Old people are dumb as fuck and the floor is infested with them. | ||
And they still believe that marijuanas make your fucking feet fall off and your ears go numb and your fucking one eye is going to get. | ||
They make the jazz too loud. | ||
They make the jazz too loud. | ||
They have that. | ||
White penises shrink, but black penises actually get larger. | ||
They don't know. | ||
They think marijuanas. | ||
I saw the study. | ||
It gives you brain damage. | ||
There's always a study that they can somehow or another recall they might have saw on the back page of Us Weekly. | ||
Who the fuck knows? | ||
It's hard. | ||
It's hard getting a bunch of people on board with especially something that they don't have anything to do with. | ||
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If they're all golfing, I don't want these goddamn kids smoking their pot, trying to get my golfing in. | |
My golf game's picked up, David Sheeman. | ||
I don't want a bunch of fucking potheads out here ruining golf for me. | ||
That is the counterpoint. | ||
But they were close to 60%, which is what they needed to change the Constitution, the state constitution. | ||
I'm sure they'll get it next time around. | ||
They should. | ||
Four percentage points, four percentage points. | ||
It would be really dumb for them financially to ignore the fact that the money is being spent no matter what you do. | ||
It's just being spent and it's going into the hand of drug dealers who aren't paying taxes. | ||
It's a stupid strategy. | ||
Right. | ||
Like you're denying people access to money, but the people that are doing it, they're cannibals. | ||
I mean, these people that are the pharmaceutical companies that are so concerned with this marijuana coming in and fucking everything up, they're spending millions and millions of dollars to demonize it. | ||
They've donated shitloads of money to a partnership for a drug-free America. | ||
All of that is just a strategy to make whatever they're selling have a longer shelf life. | ||
If they can keep selling it for two, three, four more years, whatever it is, whatever money grab they're on right now, our studies show we can keep our finger in this dike for up to 16 more months. | ||
I mean, we have 80% old people, and none of them are online, and they're not Googling shit. | ||
So let's just tell them that marijuana makes black people go crazy. | ||
It makes them go crazy and start dancing on white people's cars. | ||
Isn't that weird to learn that that is actually the basis for drug policy? | ||
It was a racist doctor in Louisiana in the 1930s and then Nixon being insane. | ||
Well, it wasn't even Nixon. | ||
It was way before Nixon, of course. | ||
It was the whole idea was, if you believe the story, was all engineered by William Randolph Hearst in order to sell more. | ||
He wanted to make sure that he could sell paper that was made from like trees. | ||
Cotton of hair. | ||
Well, he had paper. | ||
Not only did he own newspaper companies, you know, whatever, newspapers, but he also owned these processing mills and these giant chunks of land that were filled with trees. | ||
And he would chop the trees down and turn them in. | ||
Well, he was going to have to convert everything to hemp. | ||
I mean, hemp was going to be the new paper. | ||
It's way better paper. | ||
It's amazing to this day that the paper we use on a daily basis is made out of trees because it's the stupidest way to make paper. | ||
It takes way too long to generate like acres of trees that are viable that you can chop down and turn into paper. | ||
With marijuana, every fucking year you've got a new giant crop. | ||
You chop that shit down, you replant it, it grows like a weed because it is a fucking weed. | ||
It gets huge really quick. | ||
It's fucking ridiculous how fast pot grows. | ||
And the paper's far superior. | ||
Like the fiber is way stronger. | ||
It's light, it's strong. | ||
You can make houses with it. | ||
You know, it's like they make particle board. | ||
It's like this shitty type of plywood and they make it with like little chips of wood from a lumber yard and they glue it all together and press it. | ||
When they make that shit with hemp, it's way stronger, way lighter. | ||
It's good for clothing too. | ||
There's a company in Santa Monica that makes polo shirts and they just they wick much better than a cotton polo shirt. | ||
You don't feel as sweaty and gross by the end of the day. | ||
It's almost ridiculous how many uses hemp and marijuana have. | ||
It's almost ridiculous. | ||
When you look at the fact that it's actually an illegal plant in most of the country, even hemp, the non-psychoactive version of it, that it's illegal in most of the country in 2014. | ||
This goes back to the status thing. | ||
It's like people are in some kind of trance. | ||
Like I definitely, like I see the need for laws and roads and everything, but just because something is illegal, you put something on a sheet that says controlled substances, it's completely arbitrary. | ||
Nobody outside of the United States even recognizes that. | ||
And historically speaking, people have been around for thousands of years and using this plant. | ||
So where does that arrogance seep in that you can just put something On a sheet of paper, and suddenly, like everybody's lifestyle has to change, or if they don't, you can put them in a cage. | ||
It goes back to what we were talking about before. | ||
It's like this all happened because you had like a disconnect between people and the distribution of information. | ||
You know, if you stood on top of a platform and said, Hear ye, hear ye, fine people of the town, the king has come forth with the new law, the new law, the states. | ||
And you say that, and then the people are left in this helpless state, like, fuck, this is the law. | ||
Well, I guess it's the law now. | ||
And you don't get a line of communication. | ||
And you get this weird sense of separation, like, well, oh, that person is different. | ||
He's the king. | ||
And he passes law. | ||
No, he's a fucking person. | ||
They're all just people. | ||
And that is what's being exposed. | ||
What's being exposed is there's no special. | ||
There's just people. | ||
Just because you're the president doesn't mean you get to lock people up because they want to smoke pot. | ||
Just because you're a judge doesn't mean if I say fuck you to you, it's different than you saying fuck you to me. | ||
It's the same. | ||
We're just people. | ||
If you say fuck, you shouldn't say fuck you. | ||
It's really kind of mean. | ||
But it's also mean to say go to hell. | ||
It's mean to say, you know, it's mean to say mean things. | ||
Everybody knows what the fuck that entails. | ||
So this idea that they're more important or they're more valuable or their state of mind is to be looked at with higher regard than yours. | ||
They're to be treated with reverence. | ||
All rise. | ||
The honorable David Seaman has entered the room. | ||
And you walk in with your fucking goofy 1500s outfit on. | ||
The bib on. | ||
Please be seated. | ||
And everybody sits down. | ||
After you do, of course, you sit first. | ||
You're in charge. | ||
It's fucking ridiculous. | ||
You can gavel. | ||
Yeah, and that kind of thinking is very similar to censorship in a way. | ||
That it's disempowering and it's frustrating and it's confusing it doesn't make sense. | ||
It doesn't ring true. | ||
And it's essentially capitalizing on this leftover alpha male primate behavior system that we have stuck in our heads from when we were just trying to survive. | ||
We were just trying to get away from predators and get to the highest branches and figure out where the cats couldn't get to us. | ||
And so the people that lived the longest were the strongest. | ||
Those are the ones you wanted to follow because they're still alive. | ||
Follow them and you'll make it. | ||
If you don't follow them, you're probably not going to make it. | ||
That's the leader. | ||
Follow the leader. | ||
We've got to get out of here. | ||
That shit's still stuck in our DNA. | ||
It's still a groove that's been dug into the fucking pathways of our behavior systems. | ||
And we're struggling with that. | ||
We're still struggling with that. | ||
And I think ultimately that's one of the real problems with the idea of a group of people leading millions to war. | ||
It's one of the problems with the idea of a group of people dictating how money gets distributed and who gets to say what. | ||
All of that is very similar in a way in that we really can't have it anymore. | ||
We're too interconnected. | ||
We can't accept it. | ||
We don't accept it. | ||
It's frustrating and it causes dissent. | ||
And it's ultimately unfair. | ||
And it only exists because it's always existed. | ||
If you wanted to refashion our culture, say if something happened, the White House got hit by a meteor, the fucking penthouse got hit by another one. | ||
This doesn't make any sense. | ||
It's been proven it's from space. | ||
But why would they only hit the, you know, like, look, if that did happen and we had no centralized, it would be pretty obvious what their intentions were. | ||
Yeah, God would be super pissed. | ||
But we had to re-engineer our society. | ||
I don't think there's a fucking snowball's chance in hell we would go back to the presidential system. | ||
No, it'd be bitcoins and pre-roll joints and just a localized system. | ||
It would be, yeah, without a doubt. | ||
First thing we do is legalize LSD, psilocybin, DMT, all those things, legalize startup centers. | ||
Startup centers where people get your head together, you know, instead of subways, they'll be like, get your head together. | ||
And they'll be everywhere. | ||
And staffed by professionals. | ||
And people always get tired of me saying that. | ||
Like, yeah, the drugs are really the answer to everything. | ||
No, they're not the answer to everything, but they're the doorway to the answer to everything. | ||
And there is no answer to everything, by the way. | ||
But they're a real good indicator of whether or not you're on the right track. | ||
They're a prerequisite. | ||
Like, after I did something over the summer and had some interesting experiences, one of my old friends said, congratulations on becoming a human being, which I thought was a little patronizing at first, but then I was thinking about it and I was like, yeah, actually, when you're an adult and you hit your late 20s or early 30s, if you haven't had any kind of altered states like that, it's just your loss. | ||
You can totally live your life out to the fullest without any of that stuff, but you have avoided something that was incredibly beautiful and different and would let you see things in a different way. | ||
And everybody who has that experience, they come back to Earth, so to speak, as a different person. | ||
Like if you look online and you search for Steve Jobs' LSD quote, you can see one of the top results is what he had to say about that. | ||
You wouldn't necessarily guess this unless you read his biography. | ||
He was a big advocate of psychedelics. | ||
I mean, Steve Jobs. | ||
But he wasn't a regular user, which I found fascinating. | ||
He used it 10 or 15 times. | ||
Yeah, but it stopped. | ||
It stopped for a long time. | ||
Yeah, I mean, it wasn't like he was using it towards the end of his life. | ||
Well, it's like Alan Watts says. | ||
Alan Watts said, if you get the message, hang up the receiver, hang up the phone. | ||
Which I think is a great way of thinking about it in some ways. | ||
You know, like I got Steve Jobs got whatever he needed. | ||
Right, but isn't it arrogant to think that you've already got the message? | ||
Maybe a little. | ||
Yeah, I've never felt like any psychedelic experience. | ||
My latest one was just a month ago, or a couple months ago, right before I filmed my special. | ||
So as I guess it was August. | ||
And I didn't feel like I got the message. | ||
I felt like, oh, I got another message. | ||
You know, it was interesting. | ||
It was definitely enlightening or illuminating. | ||
It definitely caused me to stop. | ||
And I think about it every day. | ||
I think about it all the time. | ||
But I would never be so cocky as to say, I got the message. | ||
Every time I do it, I feel like there's a new message or a new connection that I'm making or a new level of the game that my mind gets access to. | ||
Well, here's what's cocky is to be somebody who's never touched any of these things and you go, it can't possibly have value for other people. | ||
And it's like, well, how do you know that? | ||
Especially if, you know. | ||
That's a trap. | ||
Like you and I were talking before we started rolling Lisa Ling's documentary, which aired on CNN about the ayahuasca ceremonies in South America. | ||
My mom had it on DVR, and so when I went home for Thanksgiving, she was like, oh, do you want to watch the documentary? | ||
And I put it on, and I was expecting it to be the typical CNN take on psychedelics. | ||
And then she started talking about this young boy who died down there. | ||
And I was like, oh, great. | ||
That's going to be the focus of the whole fucking hour is this idiot. | ||
But as it turned out, it was an incredibly fair take. | ||
And it followed the experience of some Marines who had post-traumatic PTSD really bad, like to the extent that they couldn't be around other people because they were afraid of harming those people. | ||
Wow. | ||
And you can see the transformation take place. | ||
They become more peaceful and more self-aware. | ||
And that's not even the whole thing. | ||
They're just filming a little portion of it for the documentary. | ||
Some of these guys are doing it repeatedly. | ||
Really interesting stuff. | ||
Like, I don't see how, if you're one of those people who's like, this should be walled off from everybody, if there's medical benefit happening, why not? | ||
Well, those people that should be walled off, why? | ||
Why? | ||
Where's the bodies? | ||
What's going on? | ||
Where's everybody? | ||
This one kid died. | ||
First of all, no one has any idea where that kid died from. | ||
And don't travel shady towns in South America by yourself as a little teenager asking, where's the ayahuasca? | ||
How do I get high out of my mind? | ||
Somebody's going to take advantage of you. | ||
Who knows? | ||
Who knows if that's what happened? | ||
I really don't know. | ||
That was the TLDR of what happened. | ||
Was that? | ||
No, I'm just making it. | ||
But did somebody do something to him? | ||
Did they prove it? | ||
I don't know if they proved it. | ||
They just found a body. | ||
They found a body. | ||
Right. | ||
He might have been murdered. | ||
We really don't know. | ||
And this idea that you have to do it in South America only exists because it's illegal in America. | ||
That's what's stupid. | ||
You could be doing it at Columbia University if they would take some of these things off of Schedule I. Yeah, if you do DMT, you're essentially doing the most potent form of the drug that's in ayahuasca if you smoke it. | ||
And when you do that, you don't need to be anywhere. | ||
You just need to be somewhere where you sit down. | ||
It doesn't matter where you are. | ||
You're going somewhere else. | ||
You're going to another fucking dimension. | ||
It's not like something like you have to be in South America to hit that spot. | ||
Like, no, it's right here. | ||
It's like, you get there in 15 seconds. | ||
It's not far away at all. | ||
The most disturbing aspect of it is the accessibility. | ||
Once you smoke it, the accessibility of this other dimension is so bizarre. | ||
I mean, probably even more intense if you do it in this ancient indigenous environment. | ||
You're in the jungle and you're freaking out in South America. | ||
Somebody's blowing smoke on you in Chantal. | ||
You're hearing fucking jaguars and shit. | ||
I can't wait to try that out sometime. | ||
It's going to be interesting. | ||
There's places that are doing it now in California. | ||
There's places that are doing it in the mountains. | ||
Well, I might go the budget route then to California. | ||
Well, you have to worry about some things happening everywhere you go. | ||
Especially you go someplace and you have to trust all these people and you're getting blasted out of your mind. | ||
But when you think about how many people are doing it now and you think about how many bad reports are coming back, it's fairly low. | ||
With women, they have to worry more. | ||
Because I know Amber Lyon, she had an issue with a guy that was grabbing her while she was under, who was a shaman who had to flee the scene, apparently. | ||
He had done that to other women as well. | ||
If you're a woman, you have to worry about that kind of shit, about some creepy dude who's doing weird things to people when they're under. | ||
And I guess you would have to worry about that as a dude, too, you know, if you got the wrong shaman. | ||
You don't want to wake up without a couple of organs, you know? | ||
Well, you know what it is, it's become a popular thing. | ||
And when it's become a popular thing, there's going to be people that want to capitalize on that. | ||
There's so much money involved. | ||
These ayahuasca tours, people are doing them and they're, you know, every person's spending thousands of dollars and you're getting, you know, 20 people a trip and woohoo, we're fucking raking it in. | ||
Well, in the CNN documentary, they were interviewing one of the local white experts and he was saying, don't buy this stuff at the marketplaces because you just don't know what's in it. | ||
You know, it's some person trying to make money off of you as a tourist. | ||
That's not the authentic experience, you know? | ||
Yeah, that definitely can happen. | ||
But the idea that you have to go all the way to South America for an experience that should be legal everywhere in the world is fucking stupid. | ||
It's mind-numbingly stupid. | ||
It makes me angry. | ||
It's so stupid that we have to go to these countries that have different laws because in this patch of dirt, they could lock you up. | ||
And ayahuasca is a weird gray area, too, because it's not totally illegal. | ||
It's not legal, but it's not illegal. | ||
See, you're not extracting it. | ||
If you extract DMT from the same plants that make ayahuasca and you do the powdered form of it, which you have to smoke to get into your bloodstream, that's illegal. | ||
That's Schedule I drug. | ||
See, the fact that you're a fan of the drug. | ||
But hold on a second, but all the plants that comprise ayahuasca, when you mix them together, they're all legal on their own. | ||
And combining them together, they're still legal. | ||
But the drug that you're actually drinking is illegal. | ||
So it's a very gray area because they don't have laws on all the different plants. | ||
There's so many fucking plants, and it's not exactly an extraction. | ||
It's not like a chemical extraction. | ||
You know, it's like you're making a stew. | ||
Yeah, it just, it strikes me as so disingenuous how people have to sneak around like that and deal with the, you know, specific the nuances of the law. | ||
Like, it just shows you how dishonest the government is. | ||
It should be, like, if you're paying your taxes and you're not staging some kind of insurrection at a Walmart and you're not a threat to anybody, you should be left the fuck alone. | ||
And that should include, like, you should have access to certain mind-expanding substances. | ||
You will. | ||
You will more now than ever before, more five years from now than now. | ||
It's on the way. | ||
There's no way you could stop it at this point in time. | ||
Too many people are talking about the positive benefits of it. | ||
They're doing stories on CNN about it. | ||
And much like marijuana has become accepted slowly but surely across the country, well, I don't care if they do it, just keep it away from me. | ||
There's a lot of that going on. | ||
There's a lot of, well, let those fucking dopers have it, but this is this way we're getting tax money from it. | ||
That's how I feel about almost everything. | ||
Like, yeah, let them do it. | ||
Just keep it away from me. | ||
Like, why isn't that the approach to almost anything that's not harmful? | ||
Well, it should be. | ||
It's just like it should be legal to tattoo your face. | ||
You know, if you really want to put stars all over your forehead, what the fuck is supposed to stop you? | ||
Do whatever you want. | ||
I don't advise it, but when you're talking about things like marijuana or psychedelics or LSD, There's a long history of people that have stories of the positive benefits of these experiences. | ||
So, to deny those from people and to deny it without any personal experience of those drugs on your own is just ridiculous because you don't know what you're making illegal. | ||
Like, you're listening to what? | ||
You're listening to folk stories about powder that steals your soul? | ||
Like, what are you basing this on? | ||
What are you basing it on? | ||
It's a Scheduled One drug. | ||
Schedule I drug that your liver makes? | ||
A Schedule I drug that's made in your fucking lungs? | ||
A Schedule I drug that's made by your pineal glands. | ||
It's all a little silly. | ||
Yeah, come on. | ||
Your body's making drugs. | ||
Schedule one drugs that you can get arrested for. | ||
Your body makes them. | ||
Your body's a drug dealer. | ||
Your body's a fucking whore. | ||
With intent to distribute. | ||
It's dumb. | ||
And it's only allowed because it's been allowed for a long time. | ||
If we had to start from scratch today and make an appraisal over what is dangerous and not dangerous for society, we'd have to have a serious consideration about prescription drugs and a serious consideration about alcohol. | ||
Those are the really big ones. | ||
We'd have to really look at the numbers of people that die every year from prescription drugs, and they're very problematic. | ||
They're huge. | ||
The amount of people that get addicted to prescription drugs, very, very problematic. | ||
The amount of people that just want prescription drugs, they ask for them. | ||
They complain about pains that might not even be there. | ||
They exaggerate pains. | ||
They might have psychological issues. | ||
There's people with legitimate physical ailments, but there's a lot of crazy people out there hopped up on fucking pain pills too, and they're dying. | ||
They're dropping like flies, thousands and thousands of them every year. | ||
You know, we thought 9-11 was a big deal. | ||
You know, 9-11 was awful. | ||
3,000 people died. | ||
It's like 100,000 people die every year from drugs and alcohol. | ||
It's like alcohol overdoses are like something around 90,000. | ||
I think prescription drugs, what is the prescription drug deaths, if you had a guess, let's just guess. | ||
Add tobacco in, you go up by like 400,000, right? | ||
Oh, yeah, you go up by maybe even as much as half a million just in North America alone. | ||
How many would you think prescription drug deaths every year? | ||
Let's guess. | ||
You said 100,000? | ||
I said 100,000 with alcohol. | ||
Oh, with alcohol. | ||
I'm going to go with 20,000 just from prescriptions. | ||
Jamie, what do you think? | ||
If you had to say. | ||
I was going to say way more, but 100,000 does sound like a lot, so I'll go with 50. | ||
Just to undercut it. | ||
Yeah, I'm saying it's probably going to be around 25,000. | ||
Let's see. | ||
Fact sheet. | ||
Prescription drug overdose in the United States fact sheet. | ||
Each day in the United States, 114 people die from drug overdoses. | ||
Another 6,748 are treated in emergency departments. | ||
That's amazing. | ||
So out of 7,000, less than 7,000, 6,900, 6,800 plus people that overdose. | ||
So only 114 people die. | ||
Every day, though. | ||
Yeah, that's pretty impressive, though. | ||
Good job, doctors. | ||
Versus marijuana, zero deaths per day from. | ||
Well, no one's arguing that, but it's pretty high. | ||
That's 314 people a day out of 300 days. | ||
What is that? | ||
In 2012, 22,000 drug overdose deaths were related to pharmaceuticals. | ||
41,000 drug overdose deaths total. | ||
So I don't know what that means. | ||
So 22,000 in 2012 were pharmaceutical drugs. | ||
And then there was another slightly less than 20,000 that was something else. | ||
I don't know who the fuck they were. | ||
It's a lot of people, though, dude. | ||
It is. | ||
In 2011, 1.4 million people had visited the emergency room for non-medical use of pharmaceuticals. | ||
Wow, so people misusing their descriptions. | ||
They freaked out and went to the emergency room. | ||
Non-medicinal use. | ||
You know, they borrowed some of these pills. | ||
Yeah. | ||
We're weird, man. | ||
It's weird how much people need to change their state. | ||
I mean, even we're talking about, you know, ayahuasca being able to help people and psychedelic drugs being able to show people new states of consciousness and new ways of being. | ||
It's just fucking really weird that human beings need that, that we need to alter our perception like that. | ||
Like, what a weird animal. | ||
Like, an animal that alters its perception by what it puts into its body. | ||
Like, it doesn't just exist like, say, like, a cheetah or a bear or an eagle. | ||
No, we exist and we change. | ||
We move. | ||
I think we know how important consciousness is. | ||
Oh, yeah. | ||
Well, we're the only ones that can communicate. | ||
Like, even this conversation, I can confidently say, at least on my end, would not be as good without drinking all this coffee. | ||
So, you know, I'm making use of chemicals right now. | ||
Yeah, and marijuana. | ||
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A little bit of marijuana. | |
Maybe a little bit. | ||
Marijuana. | ||
Yeah. | ||
We love to change our state. | ||
I mean, a few animals do. | ||
Some animals drink like fermented juices and stuff like that. | ||
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Monkeys get drunk, right? | |
Yeah, they'll find like berries and things that have been fermented, fruits that are fermented, and they'll drink that and they'll get fucked up. | ||
Yeah, people have this weird desire to change their state. | ||
But also, I think that, you know, we look at what that is. | ||
Oh, you're drinking booze. | ||
Oh, you're doing this. | ||
But what you're essentially doing when you're changing your state is you're using technology. | ||
You're using information that has been passed on from generation to generation where people figured out techniques to do like a pharmacological intervention on your consciousness. | ||
We figured out a way to combine this with that, the way to fucking take the grapes and you smash them and then you stuff in a barrel and you let it sit for six. | ||
All this was all like concocted. | ||
These are all like solutions to dealing with the problems of the ego, the problems of mundane consciousness, and the problems of like getting stuck in patterns. | ||
Where when you, even just getting drunk, getting drunk sometimes will reset a pattern and like make you look at things in a better way. | ||
Like you could have like a bad breakup. | ||
You go out with your friends, you get drunk, and you're like, I'll be fine. | ||
You crash, lie in your bed, your head's fucking spinning, your bed spins, or you wake up in the morning, your head's throbbing. | ||
But you had a bit of a change of perception. | ||
You use that shamanic ritual of going out and getting hammered and doing shots with your friends to bond and to have an altered state of perception, an altered state of how you view the world. | ||
Yeah, I think people have that all the time. | ||
Like, I actually, I like the inception aspect of doing mind-altering substances, where if you can change the way you think about something, it actually does, this sounds a little trippy, but it changes physical reality because then you start to act in this new way. | ||
People pick up on it. | ||
They go, huh, this is working out for David Seaman. | ||
Maybe I'll act in this new way and be less of this kind of person. | ||
It just kind of becomes contagious. | ||
And the example of that that I had recently was going through a TSA checkpoint already extremely high just to see kind of how I dealt with it. | ||
And first of all, all of that kind of pressure just fades away. | ||
So when I was like taking out my wallet, I was like sorting through my cards and like just taking my sweet ass time, you know, like totally oblivious of the fact that there's like this machine there that's trying to keep you, you know, just moving forward and everything's so secure and we're, you know, we're screening people out. | ||
And what I noticed was that this is really all just one big ritual. | ||
It's like the shaman patting you on the head before you go into the hut. | ||
You're just trying to make people not be terrified before they enter an airport. | ||
Like you're in the safe zone now. | ||
And once I had that realization that all of this is fucking theater, that they're not really trying to oppress you. | ||
They're just trying to do this thing very quickly to make people feel like they've been screened. | ||
Yeah, there's definitely that. | ||
So for whatever reason, it made the animosity that I had retained go away because I saw that like all of my anger over the inefficiencies of the surveillance state and that stuff, these fucking people asking me to take off my shoes are just workers. | ||
And in fact, I can have fun with them. | ||
We can have a good time. | ||
We can be friendly. | ||
We don't have to be dicks about it. | ||
Yeah. | ||
I mean, it's unfortunate that we think that we need something like that. | ||
Well, it is incredibly wasteful. | ||
It's ridiculous. | ||
Because all of the medicine is happening behind the scenes. | ||
It's intelligence. | ||
They know before you enter that airport if you're a threat or not. | ||
At least they should. | ||
And take off your belt and take off your shoes. | ||
That does nothing. | ||
My favorite thing about going through the TSA is when they break character. | ||
You know, like you have a lot of urban folk working there. | ||
And there's three of them the other day. | ||
And they're like, sir, put your belt into the basket. | ||
Make sure to check your phone. | ||
Do you have any keys in your pockets? | ||
Any change? | ||
Okay, step up. | ||
And everyone's being, sir, ma'am. | ||
And then in the middle of all this, they break out into, I told that motherfucker, he got, no, that shit ain't going to work over here. | ||
That shit ain't going to work over here. | ||
And I was there when you told him. | ||
And they're like going back and forth. | ||
Sir, sir, do you take your cell phone off, please? | ||
Put it in the back. | ||
And like, so they have this brief moment where they cracked. | ||
They were laughing and joking around with each other. | ||
Not just humanity, but who they really are. | ||
And then they go back to this robot voice. | ||
And I'm like, oh, you're just regular people that are working inside this machine and you got to talk machine talk. | ||
You know, please take your shoes off, put them in the baskets. | ||
If you have a laptop, take it out of its case, put it on a tray by itself. | ||
No liquids, no gels. | ||
That's just all part of the ceremony. | ||
They're doing the ceremony for you. | ||
They're workers, man. | ||
It's a shit job, too, man. | ||
A bunch of people who don't want to be there and listening to you. | ||
You got to fucking tell them what to do. | ||
Check their fucking ID. | ||
Make sure they're not wearing a turban with a bomb under it. | ||
Make you walk through the fifth element body scanner thing. | ||
That thing's pretty weird. | ||
Yeah, it's some sort of a radio wave, too, right? | ||
It's like millimeter wave. | ||
Checking you for things. | ||
It's just sad when you see like old people go through it. | ||
You see like some old dude with a terrible hunch in his back and he's going to get out of his wheelchair and shuffle over and stand there. | ||
I watched some lady the other day do it. | ||
I didn't think she was going to be able to get out of her wheelchair and they made her walk through that stupid fucking thing and hold her hands up. | ||
It's like, do you really think you're dealing with a terrorist here? | ||
Is this what this is? | ||
A terrorist with osteoporosis who can barely walk? | ||
That's a threat? | ||
It makes me sad when I see, makes me more sad when I see kids go through it versus old people because they're growing up only knowing that stuff. | ||
Yeah, and they get patted down. | ||
Shit, I've seen that. | ||
I've seen kids get patted down too. | ||
I mean, I guess the idea is you don't know who the fucking terrorists are, but come on. | ||
The numbers we're dealing with are giant. | ||
The numbers, when it comes to things actually happening versus people actually flying, my God, there's a lot of fucking people flying. | ||
Flying is one of the safest, one of the single safest things you can do. | ||
In a lot of ways. | ||
I mean, it still doesn't feel like it. | ||
You're flying through the fucking airplane. | ||
It really doesn't. | ||
Did you hear about the lady who got kicked off of an airplane because of her emotional support pig? | ||
I think I saw that online. | ||
Her pig was freaking out on the plane. | ||
She has a fucking pig. | ||
This crazy lady's flying with a pig, and the pig lost its shit on the plane and starts squeaking and squealing. | ||
It didn't want to be there. | ||
It was the pig's first flight. | ||
And so they kicked her off the plane. | ||
Well, good. | ||
I think if you're bringing something like that on a plane and it's distracting people. | ||
Yeah, fuck off with all this emotional support animals. | ||
It's so stupid. | ||
There's a restaurant that I go to, and this actress shows up all the time, and she brings a fucking dog with her, brings a dog to the restaurant, and they have to. | ||
The restaurant has to accept the fact that this lady's dog is an emotional support dog. | ||
This dirty, stupid animal. | ||
And I love animals, and I love dogs. | ||
I have two dogs. | ||
I love them. | ||
But you shouldn't be able to get a picture of them. | ||
What you're saying is that dog isn't a psychiatrist. | ||
You shouldn't be able to get away with that loophole. | ||
The idea that you're so fucked up that you can't be without your dog while you eat. | ||
There's hygiene issues that we're bypassing hygiene issues for one person's selfishness. | ||
Their selfishness and their emotions. | ||
I don't know what your dog's been stepping in. | ||
I don't know what your dog's butt's going to touch that maybe someone's hand's going to touch. | ||
There's a lot of weird shit going on when you have an open asshole of a dog. | ||
It's sitting on the ground where people accidentally might drop their fork. | ||
They might not know. | ||
The next person might be there and they drop their fork right where your dog's butthole was resting on that fucking wooden floor. | ||
A little scoop dog asshole. | ||
Stupid. | ||
And it's selfishness. | ||
It's indicative of a culture of people that want the rules to bend in their favor. | ||
Because I need to be with my dog. | ||
Like, oh, you can't bring your dog to a restaurant. | ||
It's like people that got upset when the whole cigarette smoking thing and bars got passed. | ||
This is bullshit. | ||
when I go to a bar, I like going to a bar and having a drink and having a fucking smoke. | ||
And now I got to go outside. | ||
Everybody shouldn't have to smell your smoke, you dumbass. | ||
They shouldn't have to breathe this stupid air that you've created by sucking on some chemical-soaked leaves that poison everybody around you. | ||
Yeah, that's not cool. | ||
Just because everybody let you do it for so long doesn't mean it's good. | ||
That's a perfect example of something where if it didn't exist, you could never invent it. | ||
Like, you could never invent smoking in bars. | ||
If it didn't exist already, you couldn't fucking invent that. | ||
Everybody else has to smoke it too? | ||
Yeah, it's a new product, and it kills you. | ||
I'm planning on killing about a half million people a year. | ||
It's really expensive. | ||
It's taxed heavily. | ||
Smells awful. | ||
Your teeth are going to turn yellow. | ||
Your liver is going to fall out of your body. | ||
Sorry. | ||
Your lungs are going to go black. | ||
You won't be able to walk upstairs anymore. | ||
But you look like a rebel. | ||
You'll look cool as fuck. | ||
Sign me up. | ||
It's just weird when I see kids still smoking. | ||
I saw a 14-year-old kid the other day smoking, trying to look cool. | ||
Just hold your cigarette. | ||
I was like, you fucking dummy. | ||
How do you not know? | ||
Like, you've got to know. | ||
But they don't care. | ||
They just, in their desire to look cool, in their desire to be upset. | ||
That's like another thing about smoking cigarettes. | ||
People love to smoke cigarettes because it almost like justifies their shitty attitude. | ||
They love to do this like, sit back and look, I'm willing to fucking suck on this cigarette to try to calm me down because we got to get these fucking orders filled out. | ||
You know, like there's this idea that I'm busy. | ||
I'm working. | ||
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I don't even care about my body. | |
God, I got a lot of problems. | ||
God, I got a lot of stress. | ||
It's like it reinforces this ridiculous life. | ||
This ridiculous life of stress. | ||
This ridiculous life of just trying to like, God, got so much work to do. | ||
That Bukowski anxiety. | ||
Just the fucking life. | ||
Just the insane pattern that you're stuck in. | ||
Getting up in the morning, having a couple with your cup of coffee, putting a cigarette in your mouth when you're running out the door. | ||
Lighting that bitch up, driving around, throwing it out the window as you're driving down the highway, lighting up another one, you fuckhead. | ||
That's us. | ||
People. | ||
Goofy as shit. | ||
They get extra work breaks, too, for smoking. | ||
And it becomes an issue. | ||
What do you mean they get extra work breaks? | ||
I shouldn't say they get. | ||
Some workplaces. | ||
They allow people extra work breaks if you smoke? | ||
Because they'll become irritated and become Yeah. | ||
Oh, and non-smokers get pissed. | ||
That's crazy. | ||
And in restaurants, it's a big thing because a lot of servers are smokers. | ||
It's just a lifestyle for a young person. | ||
It becomes a huge issue a lot of times. | ||
Wow. | ||
That's weird that employers would sort of bend to that. | ||
Because if you can hold it in when you're flying on a flight from LA to New York, obviously you have to. | ||
How come you can't hold it in while you're working? | ||
Like, obviously you can. | ||
Oh, it's so convenient for you. | ||
Are you going to be okay? | ||
No, you have to step outside and everybody else has to carry your load while you're out there killing yourself slowly. | ||
Well, you would be the least favorite bar back, probably. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Oh, my God. | ||
Can you imagine? | ||
Well, they probably all do it. | ||
That's the thing about dive bars. | ||
It's probably a good percentage of people that are killing themselves slowly together. | ||
It's a team effort right there. | ||
Yeah. | ||
There used to be places that violated California's law when they first came out. | ||
There was a few places that were allowing people to still smoke. | ||
They didn't give a fuck, but they just got heavy fines and they eventually gave up. | ||
They have a smoker patio still, though, right? | ||
Which is just as gross. | ||
You know, if you want to be outside. | ||
In Ohio, they built rooms in a lot of places, like a permanent tent on the outside with heaters and whatnot. | ||
It just became an extension of their neighborhood. | ||
Makes sense. | ||
But are you allowed to smoke other things out there, like cigars or a pipe out there with a fucking shillali? | ||
Yes. | ||
I think so. | ||
A big Sherlock pipe. | ||
Pontificate about the universe. | ||
There's a steakhouse in New York City, Keene's Steakhouse. | ||
You ever been there? | ||
Yes. | ||
The largest pipe collection. | ||
All of the walls. | ||
Yeah. | ||
What is up with those pipes? | ||
You know, the old pipes from the whenever, like the late 1800s. | ||
Well, don't the pipes like represent people that came there? | ||
Yeah, they would own their own pipes. | ||
So when, like, they have a pipe that was owned by Teddy Roosevelt, one owned by, I think, Mark Twain. | ||
Just all these ridiculous people would come in and they would request their pipe, smoke it at dinner. | ||
I think Einstein had a pipe there. | ||
That's crazy. | ||
See if there's any photos of people smoking their pipes at that place because I always wonder like that, do they smoke those pipes? | ||
Or are those pipes just like, you know, like a brass hat that you like pinned to the wall? | ||
This is David Seaman's hat. | ||
I think back in the day, those fuckers smoked them because. | ||
I wonder. | ||
Look at that. | ||
They're all over the place. | ||
It used to be men's only. | ||
I was watching it on TV. | ||
Good old days. | ||
Until like 1905 or something. | ||
It was a men's club. | ||
Good old days, Dave. | ||
Go there. | ||
No broads. | ||
Big piece of steak. | ||
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Have a fucking meal and smoke a pipe. | |
The good old days. | ||
But anyway, a woman sued them, some actress, back in 19-something, and then they opened it up to everybody. | ||
Well, you know, didn't they do that recently with that curves joint? | ||
The women's only gym. | ||
Did a guy want to join curves? | ||
Yeah, I'm pretty sure a guy got upset and decided to. | ||
Bro, I want to join curves. | ||
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What? | |
I want curves. | ||
I think my hips are too narrow. | ||
I want to learn your exercises. | ||
I want to be a part of your gym. | ||
Be a part of curves. | ||
I think it was ruled that if you can't have a men's only club, you can't have a women's only club either, which is... | ||
Whatever. | ||
Who gives a fuck? | ||
Why do you want to bother women? | ||
Leave them alone. | ||
Same thing with women bothering men. | ||
You don't want to get into Pilates class on Saturdays? | ||
Pilates is you could get in there. | ||
But they have all women's Pilates. | ||
They're allowed to have all women's classes in places, you know, because, especially, like when you're dealing with exercise, some women don't want to be fucking oggled by some shithead behind them while you're doing downward dog. | ||
For sure. | ||
You know, that makes sense. | ||
But my point is, why would you want to go where you're not wanted? | ||
You know, we're not talking about whites only or blacks only. | ||
We're talking about people that fuck. | ||
When you're dealing with men and women, you're dealing with sex. | ||
And we're dealing with sex. | ||
People should be allowed to get the fuck away to have an area where no one's trying to fuck you. | ||
Like have like a free base. | ||
Like I'm free here. | ||
Like this is safe. | ||
This is a safe base. | ||
And like for a man to get upset, like women want to have a place where men aren't allowed to go seems ridiculous. | ||
And for women to get upset, unless men are plotting women's doom behind those doors, like why would you care? | ||
Why do you want to be in that room where they only want it to be men? | ||
Why do you want to go in there? | ||
Because they got really good steak and pipes in the case of Keynes. | ||
You can't keep that away from women forever. | ||
So that means that they got to go there before they got to vote. | ||
Because when did women get to vote? | ||
That's a good point. | ||
I think the teens, right, like 1915 or something? | ||
Something along those lines. | ||
You might have to look that one up. | ||
So Keynes gave in before they're more progressive than our country was about choosing the president. | ||
In some ways, that steakhouse is more progressive than any other part of America. | ||
You know what, man? | ||
I've been changing my feeling about presidents lately, and now I think I will only vote for a woman president. | ||
Because I think women should have a chance to fuck this thing up, too, first of all. | ||
And we should be able to prove by a woman, if a woman gets in office and the exact same things happen, then we can go, okay. | ||
No one really gets a say. | ||
They get in there. | ||
You think we should just run through? | ||
Like, all right, we got a black guy. | ||
Elizabeth Warren makes a lot of sense to me. | ||
She seems very intelligent. | ||
Time for a woman. | ||
And then once we can establish that they're all corrupt and they all get corrupted. | ||
Yeah, that everybody's corrupt that gets in that. | ||
Or not. | ||
Maybe we'll find out that it's a good idea to have a woman run things because women aren't more, they're not as inclined to start wars. | ||
But we've already gotten the Margaret Thatchers and whatnot. | ||
I think women can get away from it. | ||
But she wasn't, that's not the same. | ||
It's England's completely different system. | ||
I think in America, there's never been a prominent political leader other than Hillary Clinton that's a woman. | ||
And she never really quite reached any level of, I mean, she was never running things. | ||
She was never a governor of a major state. | ||
She was never, you know what I mean? | ||
Like she, what she did was she married one of the greatest presidents ever, went through that whole thing, and now she has a job working for the president and would like to run for president. | ||
Whether it's her or Elizabeth Warren or my thinking is if every country was run by chicks, okay, how much less war and how much less, like, how much less imperialism would we have? | ||
How much less of money grabs? | ||
How much less if all the decisions to like international shit was all being done by women? | ||
I'm going to go with 25 to 30% less. | ||
No, I don't know. | ||
It'd be interesting, though. | ||
Seems to make sense. | ||
I mean, and I'm not patronizing. | ||
I'm not bullshitting. | ||
I was really thinking about this the other day. | ||
I was thinking, if you look at the issues that people have when it comes to whatever the president does, there's always two big ones. | ||
Financial, that's a big one. | ||
And military. | ||
Those are the two big issues that people always have with whatever a president has. | ||
And I think that women would be less likely to cause the military issues. | ||
That's just a thought. | ||
I just think they're less aggressive by nature. | ||
They're more maternal. | ||
They have this, I mean, they're the ones who become mothers. | ||
I mean, this idea of conquering is a very male idea. | ||
I think the adversarial power-hungry thing just happens if you're somebody who likes to rise in the ranks of power. | ||
And it might be one of those things where it doesn't care so much about your gender. | ||
Maybe. | ||
But we can test it out. | ||
We can try it out over the next 30 years and see what the fuck happens. | ||
I mean, obviously, I don't think that it should be only women. | ||
I mean, I think if a guy came along that really made sense. | ||
But nobody makes sense. | ||
Speaking of guy stuff, I've got to use the answer. | ||
Yeah. | ||
All these motherfuckers, ladies and gentlemen, I don't know if you notice, they all have weak bladders. | ||
That's part of what I do in the show. | ||
I feed people coffee and I show them their weaknesses. | ||
I show them that they can't hang. | ||
They can't just sit down and talk. | ||
Sometimes I'll wait around after the show is over. | ||
I'll take pictures with people and then I'll pee. | ||
Three hours just doesn't seem like a long time to me. | ||
That might be the number one flaw of this show, though. | ||
There might be a time in the future where I decide the best way to do the commercials is to pre-record them and then press play and allow the guests to go and pee. | ||
Because there comes a point in time where I know these motherfuckers are squirming. | ||
I start seeing this shit. | ||
I start seeing this sitting up and lifting back. | ||
And they're thinking, man, do I say it? | ||
No, don't be a pussy. | ||
Do I say it? | ||
No, no, no, no, no. | ||
But there's a time, speaking of which, I have to use the bathroom. | ||
They always have that moment where they're like, I said it. | ||
And they go run off to the bathroom. | ||
They have to train their bladder. | ||
They have to train their discipline and their desire to podcast. | ||
Right now, I see a lot of people that are tapping out early. | ||
No drinking before podcasts. | ||
Just drink. | ||
Just don't be a pussy. | ||
Like, I don't understand. | ||
What's going on with these people and their bladders? | ||
I mean, the kid had one bottle of water and a cup of coffee, and he's fucking crying over there. | ||
Could have been up all night drinking. | ||
Maybe he's really just checking his Bitcoins. | ||
Maybe he's in that bathroom. | ||
He just wants to find out what the current Bitcoin level is. | ||
It's like, God, what is it right now? | ||
What is it right? | ||
And he gets up in the middle of the night. | ||
Has to pee, checks his Bitcoin. | ||
Bill Burr will be here tomorrow. | ||
Bill Burr has a new Netflix special called Sorry You Feel That Way. | ||
It comes out this Friday, December 5th. | ||
And he's one of my favorite stand-up comedians ever. | ||
And just an awesome Guy. | ||
I fucking love him. | ||
He's as real as they get. | ||
There's comedians that they become famous and they become more humble and more cool, and that's Bill Burr. | ||
He's a hard-working motherfucker. | ||
He's always writing new shit. | ||
He was on our Ice House show last Wednesday, and he's just one of my favorite comics, period. | ||
Just one of my favorite dudes. | ||
I just love talking to him and hanging out with him. | ||
He's just such a regular guy. | ||
And that expression, like regular guy, is so overused. | ||
But what I like about someone like a Bill Burr is that once he's become famous, what he's done is just sort of settle in, be more comfortable with himself, very confident, but worked extra hard. | ||
He works harder now than ever before. | ||
The guy's always coming up with new material. | ||
Barack Obama, right? | ||
That's what we're talking about? | ||
No, Bill Burr, you fuck. | ||
God damn, David Seaman, your weak bladder. | ||
Is it like a little girl's fist? | ||
Is your bladder like a little girl's fist? | ||
A little stronger and bigger, but it has a weakness for coffee. | ||
That's what sets it off. | ||
Well, coffee's a diuretic. | ||
It does run through you. | ||
Too much of it's not good either. | ||
Gotta be careful with the coffee. | ||
People out there, they're fucking pounding it. | ||
Apparently, it's not good for the adrenals when you drink too much of it. | ||
Today, we have a lovely caveman coffee blend. | ||
Single source. | ||
Quite delicious. | ||
Drinking it black. | ||
No butter today. | ||
I think I might be drinking a little too much butter coffee. | ||
It's fucking with my voice a little. | ||
It gives me that coats your mouth. | ||
Sometimes you're talking, and it's like your tongue's wrestling with slime, the inside of your mouth slime. | ||
Do you ever do a warm-up exercise before you go out and perform? | ||
Do you have to do like before stand-up? | ||
Yeah. | ||
I stretch. | ||
That's what I like to do. | ||
I like to stretch. | ||
I bend over, usually with my back against the wall so nobody does anything weird and grab my ankles and pull my head in between my legs and stretch my entire spine and my hamstrings and it gets a lot of blood flow to the brain. | ||
That helps your voice somehow. | ||
No. | ||
No, no, my mouth. | ||
I don't stretch my mouth. | ||
I just go up there and talk. | ||
It's not that hard to talk, David Seaman. | ||
No, it's not. | ||
Not at all. | ||
You don't have to warm up for it. | ||
It's not like I'm going up there and I'm singing opera. | ||
True. | ||
No, but I warm up a little bit. | ||
I get fired up. | ||
Especially if I have bits that I'm working on and stuff like that. | ||
I'll get into those bits. | ||
I always bring a notebook so I have like a mental warm-up to go over the notes. | ||
You got to do that too. | ||
Performing a lot is important, but there's so many different aspects. | ||
You got to perform a lot. | ||
You got to read a lot. | ||
You got to write a lot. | ||
Like right now I'm in the new material phase. | ||
So now I'm trying to expose myself to weird shit. | ||
That's why I was watching, I've been watching a lot of documentaries and just trying to not even necessarily actively pursue new material as much as try to expose myself to a bunch of things and then ideas will come. | ||
And then I sit down and write. | ||
And then when I write, then more ideas come. | ||
But like I'm in this just the open your head up and look around phase, you know? | ||
Cool. | ||
You see yesterday they launched another, or they were supposed to launch another probe to an asteroid. | ||
Another one, huh? | ||
Yeah, the Japanese are doing one. | ||
This Japanese guy will have dicks all over his shirt, and that'll cause a big controversy. | ||
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The Japanese guy has, you know, the NASA guy. | |
Yeah, the NASA guy who had the sexy women all over his shirt, and women got really upset at that. | ||
So sad. | ||
It's amazing. | ||
It's funny the things people will get outraged over. | ||
And meanwhile, it's like there's a constant churn of people being slaughtered in parts of the world. | ||
And it's like, we're going to focus our Twitter rage on the NASA engineer. | ||
They're all people that no one wants to fuck. | ||
Everyone is mad. | ||
That's what it is. | ||
If they're getting stuffed on a regular basis, they're not super satisfied. | ||
They're not getting laid and they have no weed at their apartment. | ||
Exactly. | ||
Their friends are not that cool. | ||
And they're super into their own gender. | ||
They're really into their gender not being exploited. | ||
But if you were a chick, though, seriously, to play devil's advocate. | ||
And you were trying to be taken seriously in science. | ||
And you were really serious about women in science. | ||
And then here's a fucking guy who lands a robot on a comet. | ||
And he's wearing hot chicks all over a shirt. | ||
He'd be like, what the fuck, dude? | ||
You know, like, come on, man. | ||
You can't just wear a t-shirt that says NASA on it or something. | ||
Like, yeah, I get your friend made you the shirt. | ||
I get it. | ||
But you didn't have to wear that. | ||
So I see both sides. | ||
I see it's really stupid to get super upset. | ||
I mean, there are ridiculous articles that completely miss the point. | ||
The fascinating point of this comet being the first place we've gotten a robot to land on, you know, like, and to have this happen in real time while these people are experiencing it and watching the monitors and everybody's going crazy, to focus instead on the guy's shirt and to make entire articles. | ||
All of your focus is on the guy's shirt seems very short-sighted. | ||
Very short-sighted. | ||
That's one of the things the aliens would skip us over for. | ||
They would just start laughing. | ||
They're like, they're just so concerned about fucking. | ||
The girls on his shirt are sexually attractive. | ||
They're much more sexually attractive than the women that are complaining about the girls on the shirt. | ||
That's one thing. | ||
If you look at all the Twitter accounts of all the women that were really adamant about the fact this guy was an asshole for wearing that shirt, I went to their photos and I looked at all of them and I'm sure they're nice people. | ||
But if you saw them in the same outfits as those women on the shirt, you would throw up in your mouth. | ||
They're all people that have given up on the idea of somebody being attracted to them physically. | ||
So they're not entourage extras. | ||
That's what you're talking about. | ||
They've given up. | ||
They're into science and they're not into being slender. | ||
They're not into looking good. | ||
They're into becoming more square shaped and complaining a lot. | ||
Well, it's good that they have an outlet for that anger. | ||
Because hopefully it'll be a more worthy one in the future than somebody who's putting probes on a comet. | ||
I wonder if there's ever going to come a point in time where we have three types of genders. | ||
We have male, female, and non. | ||
Like if we get to a point where people get to a stage of life and they just completely give Up on any gender whatsoever, and they assimilate into this non-form. | ||
Like, if that becomes an option, and like people start saying, Look, think about all the problems that sexual identity causes you. | ||
Think about all the misgenderings, all the times where you're supposed to think one way, but you really think another, and it's very confusing and frustrating. | ||
If you were a non, you wouldn't have to worry about that. | ||
If more people became nons. | ||
On a recent survey, 17% of America said, if given the choice to have a completely non-sexual existence, they would be really annoying, though. | ||
They would be worse than worse than the atheists on Reddit. | ||
You'd be like, Jesus, these nons again. | ||
They would just take up whole third gender? | ||
That's a thing already. | ||
Whoa. | ||
Well, the concept that individuals are categorized as neither man nor woman, as well as the social category present in those societies who recognize three or more genders. | ||
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Hmm. | |
Well, that's an old picture, too. | ||
So that means this shit's been going on for a long time. | ||
Anna P. lived as a man for many years in Germany, was photographed for this book in 1922, Sexual Intermediates. | ||
Wow. | ||
Well, you know how you know this on a man? | ||
Look at the hands. | ||
It's hilarious. | ||
Isn't that hilarious? | ||
Like, look at her giant ass head. | ||
Like, that's a dude head. | ||
And then get down those hands. | ||
Oh, chick hands. | ||
Right? | ||
Look at how small the hands are in comparison to that giant melon. | ||
Those glasses. | ||
Got some vintage Warby Parkers going on. | ||
Whatever that is. | ||
Non-sex. | ||
Because if no one's fucking you, okay? | ||
If you reach that point in time, you know, you're in your 50s, you're a scientist, no one's fucking you. | ||
You know, you're 5'6, 215 pounds, built like a square, and just giving up. | ||
You can still go to Burning Man. | ||
Somebody will fuck you. | ||
But maybe you don't want it anymore. | ||
You just don't want it. | ||
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Okay, cool. | |
You're just done. | ||
You're just done. | ||
And you can just become a non. | ||
There's benefits. | ||
Because for females, they reach a higher level of physical strength. | ||
They get closer to men. | ||
This is the symbol for nons so they can recognize each other. | ||
The international symbol. | ||
I mean, we define ourselves by our sex even when no one wants to fuck you. | ||
I mean, that's your gender. | ||
Essentially, like, what is it supposed to mean? | ||
It's supposed to mean you're a female. | ||
You're a wrong bathroom. | ||
You're a male. | ||
You go to jail. | ||
Right, that's true. | ||
But if you're transgender, they're trying to argue that transgender men should be able to use men's bathrooms and transgender women should be able to use women's bathrooms even if they're born the opposite sex. | ||
And some people have an issue with that. | ||
Some people get upset at that. | ||
Yeah. | ||
It's funny how little I think about things like this. | ||
If you think about gender, like male and female, once, I mean, obviously, one can get pregnant, one can get the other pregnant. | ||
Once you pass all that, once you get to this point where you're not having sex anymore, like you're in your 50s or something like that, when you think about what you are, like you're thinking about it based on the fact that you have a vagina or you have a penis, but you're no longer interested in sexual intercourse. | ||
If you're no longer, isn't that like a burden to be defined by one or the other? | ||
Like instead of just being a human? | ||
If you're not fucking. | ||
So you become a non then. | ||
You become a non. | ||
There we go. | ||
So you take, what is this? | ||
Non-binary. | ||
Google says. | ||
Non-binary genders are gender identities that don't fit within the accepted binary of male and female. | ||
People can feel they are both neither or some. | ||
See, but the problem with this is, with all due respect, is that this perhaps, at least on some folks, is a psychological issue. | ||
And I'm not talking about that. | ||
I'm talking about literally not being male or female, like being neither, being non-sexual. | ||
And if it becomes an option, and they give you an option where you can walk around and you look like one of those gray aliens that doesn't have genitals. | ||
Well, I have a couple friends who are women, and if you start to treat them in a certain way, they're like, what the fuck is this? | ||
Because they don't really fall into the female gender assumptions. | ||
They're still women and they do things that women do, but they don't like to be treated like anything other than what they are, which is not very feminine. | ||
A couple of my friends. | ||
What do you mean by don't like to be treated? | ||
There's a way that certain guys act around women. | ||
It's kind of like a low-level anxiety because you're seeking out their acceptance because you're like, their acceptance means that I'm sexually attractive. | ||
So even if they're not going to fuck you, you still want them to like you and laugh at your stuff and you're trying to impress them in a way. | ||
But there are women who are like, no, we're friends now. | ||
We're buddies. | ||
You wouldn't be like this with one of your dude friends. | ||
So why would you be like this with me and interject gender into everything when I'm not doing that? | ||
Well, they're probably smart. | ||
I mean, that's what that is. | ||
It's just, that is a real issue with women and men. | ||
And it's gross to see. | ||
When you're around your friends and then a girl comes over and you always have that one dude who like completely changes his focus. | ||
About to nut his pants. | ||
He can't really interact as a human being. | ||
Yeah, it changes who he is. | ||
Like this fundamental, like the motivation for his communication. | ||
It changes. | ||
And we've all been that person before. | ||
Oh, yeah. | ||
It's just a matter of... | ||
It's just genetics. | ||
I think it's neat that a woman is as far from one of us as you can get while still being the same species. | ||
And that's not at all meant to be a sexist thing. | ||
It's just like if you look at what you are, your biology, your organs, a woman is having as much of a different experience as possible while still being the same exact species as you and vice versa. | ||
That's true. | ||
The male experience is different from a woman's in many ways. | ||
And so like it's this weird thing where instead of dividing over it, we can come together and be like, that's kind of cool. | ||
You guys get to do this, this, and this. | ||
We do this. | ||
And I'm just kind of intrigued by it. | ||
I'm not intimidated by it. | ||
I think it's cool. | ||
You're different. | ||
You're open-minded. | ||
You should get wooden beads. | ||
I should. | ||
You should start doing yoga and just write this in a book and sell it. | ||
I think David Seaman's. | ||
He's got a couple million copies ahead of me. | ||
Dude, that guy puts some shit up on Twitter every few months that I have to comment on. | ||
I love when you troll. | ||
It's like just macro trolling. | ||
I can't help it. | ||
Because he writes shit and it's just about the word awareness over and over again. | ||
He's just saying mumbo jumbo. | ||
Have you ever seen the Deeproc Chopra sentence generator? | ||
No. | ||
It's so ridiculous. | ||
You just, you click on it and it randomly spits out a bunch of metaphysical words, connected, you know, interconnectedness, quantum, in the quantum level. | ||
And it's just, it's all horseshit. | ||
He's like the most ineffective complex communicator ever. | ||
And when I trolled him, what's really hilarious, a bunch of people were explaining to him, to me, what he meant, and they're serious. | ||
They're like, no, what he means is by awareness, like, hey, shut the fuck up. | ||
Shut the fuck up. | ||
Stop. | ||
What he means. | ||
You don't know what the fuck he means, first of all. | ||
And you know what I mean? | ||
I mean, this is a super ineffective way of communicating. | ||
He knows, and you know, that that is some fucking sloppy shit. | ||
That sentence is ridiculous. | ||
It's preposterous. | ||
It's not very clear at all what he's saying. | ||
It is a bunch of fucking mumbo jumbo. | ||
It is a bunch of word salad. | ||
There's no question about it. | ||
Like if you wanted to be really clear as to what you're saying, but there's part of what goes on with a lot of these spiritual type thinkers, people that talk about the quantum level and all this weird metaphysical mumbo jumbo talk is that keeping things mysterious is a huge part of the hustle. | ||
Like you have to keep things mysterious. | ||
Simplifying things is the worst thing you can do. | ||
When you look at people that are trying to explain science, they're really trying to explain science, look at Neil deGrasse Tyson's Twitter feed, and you'll see a guy who explains things very clearly. | ||
You never read a Neil deGrasse Tyson tweet and go, what the fuck did he mean by that? | ||
It's real clear what he means. | ||
You know why? | ||
Because he's an awesome communicator. | ||
What are you showing up there, buddy? | ||
What do you got here? | ||
Oh, the Chopra thing. | ||
Oh, but we can't see that. | ||
My bad. | ||
I didn't put it up. | ||
No, I'm seeing it on the screen. | ||
I'm like, what is he doing? | ||
I don't even know what's happening. | ||
We're talking. | ||
There's a video in the same time. | ||
I did like one of his books back in the day, though, the Seven Spiritual Laws of Success. | ||
Well, he's got some good ideas. | ||
Quantum physics unfolds into total acceptance of neural networks. | ||
Oh, is this one of the generators? | ||
This is the generator, yes. | ||
Oh, this is the generator. | ||
Random words from the science. | ||
Higgs, Boston, Fear, Species, Specific Opportunities. | ||
Yeah. | ||
These seem totally real. | ||
They seem totally real. | ||
But that's what he's doing. | ||
I mean, this is exactly what he's doing. | ||
He's saying a bunch of shit, and some of it, I mean, you can kind of interpret it, if you like, into some sort of a valid sentence. | ||
But the reality is he's really super ineffective with how he forms these sentences and the thoughts that are being conveyed. | ||
Whereas if you go to Neil deGrasse Tyson's Twitter feed, it's super obvious what he's saying. | ||
Really obvious. | ||
And I might say I'm an idiot. | ||
I'm kind of dumb. | ||
But I'm not dumb enough that I don't know when you're being a fucking idiot. | ||
I know what you're doing. | ||
You're splashing a bunch of words together and trying to pretend like this is some deep sentence. | ||
This is poorly thought-out shit. | ||
And people gobble it up because they love it. | ||
They love the whole package, the brown skin, the Indian background, the whole deal. | ||
Please, Swami, please, Kumare, teach me the way. | ||
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Kumari. | |
Do you see that documentary? | ||
No, I haven't seen it, but I know it's on Nev Clay. | ||
It's awesome. | ||
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It's a great premise. | |
Go around as a fake guru. | ||
It's sad, though, when the people are like super into him. | ||
You know, it's sad. | ||
They're crying that he's actually there with them, and you realize he actually is having this positive effect on these people because they're so lost. | ||
They like really need him to be that guy. | ||
People really do, you know, want that one person to be so connected. | ||
They don't realize like that. | ||
What you should be seeking is your own, instead of seeking this one person who's going to be your guru, who's going to show you the way, seek your own experiences. | ||
Seek your own enlightening moments, whether it's through yoga, through meditation, sensory deprivation tank, psychedelic study, whether it's through fucking hiking and thinking, just being alone by yourself, whether it's through writing, whether it's through exploring ideas, whatever the fuck it is. | ||
Seek your own answers to stuff. | ||
But the idea that you're going to come across this one master that has it nailed, throw that away. | ||
Throw that away. | ||
If you meet the Buddha in the road, kill him. | ||
I mean, that's the old expression. | ||
Throw that shit away. | ||
Like, you don't want to find a fucking master because they don't exist. | ||
You're going to get roped into, you might find people that are beautiful, that have an incredible grasp of reality, but as soon as they start pushing themselves as a master, run. | ||
That's somebody trying to sell you a book. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Nine out of ten. | ||
Exactly. | ||
Someone trying to tell you that they get it. | ||
Watch decoding Deeppak. | ||
Ever see the fucking documentary his own son made? | ||
His son made a documentary on him clowning him where he catches him meditating and he's like, I'm going to go meditate. | ||
And he catches him snoring and he videotapes it and he splices it all together showing it. | ||
And it makes him look so ridiculous. | ||
And to Deepak's credit, he actually went on Opie and Anthony with his son and talked about that he's, you know, he's just a normal person. | ||
He's just who he is. | ||
And his son made a documentary about him. | ||
But his son really clowned him in this documentary. | ||
I'll have to check that out. | ||
Oh my God. | ||
You have to see it. | ||
You should at least watch the trailer. | ||
It's just, it's so ridiculous. | ||
His son really clowned him. | ||
And just makes you realize what it must have been like to grow up with this guy as your dad. | ||
His son is very smart, too. | ||
The son was on Opening Anthony with him. | ||
And you kind of sense, first of all, A, that he really does love his dad. | ||
You know, he knows his dad's not a terrible person. | ||
But you could sense the sort of frustration in, you know, the difference between who his dad actually is and like this menopausal misconception that these, you know, it's a lot of lost women and older men. | ||
I mean, I say menopausal, male menopausal as well. | ||
Like these older people searching for spirituality that some will be in the world. | ||
In the bookstore, they find a stack of his books. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Well, I've always been metaphysical at heart. | ||
You know, people are always searching for this really deep, hidden meaning. | ||
But what's really interesting to me is I don't see that in psychedelic circles. | ||
One thing that I don't see in psychedelic circles is like the acceptance of gurus. | ||
Like, that's one of the last places where a guy like Deeprock is going to thrive. | ||
Because, you know, when you talk to him about LSD, I can achieve these states with my own mind. | ||
No, no, no, no, no, no, you can't. | ||
You know, I don't think you can. | ||
And if you can, if you think you can, it's most likely because you haven't been there already. | ||
You know, if you can achieve DMT without DMT, you're a better man than most. | ||
You're some special creature that's studied kundalini yoga for 10 years and locked yourself in a fucking monastery. | ||
Terrence McKenna, I believe, said that LSD was like the most significant molecule of the 20th century. | ||
And so, you know, you can give that to somebody. | ||
If you go on YouTube, you can search for LSD Housewife 1950s. | ||
Oh, yeah, I remember that. | ||
That's an amazing video. | ||
It's an amazing video because this is a woman who, if you were told you're about to be given LSD, at least you would know it's about to hit you. | ||
But this is a fucking housewife. | ||
It's like just been sent there to do this experiment. | ||
And he gives her a glass of water. | ||
He's like, here you go, ma'am. | ||
Here's your LSD. | ||
And it just hits her. | ||
And you see this transformation. | ||
It's like you're, as one of my friends put it, it's like you're watching the 60s unfold. | ||
You're watching the 1950s transform into the 60s. | ||
Through this one woman, yeah. | ||
Through this one woman and her one LSD experience. | ||
And Steve Jobs actually, in that biography, like I said earlier, there's a lot of stuff. | ||
Like he called his era when he grew up a magical time because everybody was under the influence of psychedelics. | ||
Well, that was the big shift between the 50s and the 60s without a doubt. | ||
And then the 70s, the people. | ||
They tried to lock it all down. | ||
Well, that's what happened. | ||
They did. | ||
They passed the sweeping psychedelics bill of 1970 that they made a bunch of stuff illegal that wasn't even psychological or wasn't even psychoactive. | ||
There's different compounds that they made illegal that they don't even affect the human mind. | ||
They're just locking everything down. | ||
So they're doing stuff without real science behind it. | ||
They're not going after dangerous compounds. | ||
They're just going after anything that might alter consciousness in a way that threatens the powers that be. | ||
And that's where they were at. | ||
They were in this weird place where the world had changed so much in 10 years, they were terrified as to what the fuck was coming in the next 10. | ||
They saw these flower power people and all this fucking give peace a chance, all that shit, and they were like, what is going on here? | ||
This never even existed in the 1940s when I was growing up. | ||
Here we are in the 1960s, these goddamn hippies, and they're walking through Kent State trying to stop the war. | ||
What's really kind of scary to think about is thinking about how they locked all that stuff down. | ||
People think it's bad because of the conditioning. | ||
You know, it's like you don't want to do acid. | ||
You don't want to do weed. | ||
You don't want to do any of these bad sounding things that make you seem like you're kind of on the fringes of society. | ||
So only the people who are on the fringes of society start doing these things. | ||
And you no longer have the captains of industry like Steve Jobs experimenting with this stuff. | ||
And as a result, you don't have as much inspiring change. | ||
You know, like we've kind of been caught in a rut up until very recently. | ||
Until that whole, the whole like Bitcoin, WikiLeaks type era, we were in a span of eight or nine years where it's like very little personal freedom, very little dissent or discussion of what's happening. | ||
Do you really think so? | ||
I really think so. | ||
I think after 9-11, pretty much society went, if it's not for survival, we're going to put it on the back burner. | ||
So we were still doing other stuff, but now finally we're getting that explosion of creativity and experimentation that we were supposed to get probably 10 years ago. | ||
And Bitcoin is one of those things, and like real independent media, like your show is another one. | ||
And they're all blossoming. | ||
I think it was all inevitable. | ||
I really do. | ||
And I think, quite honestly, more people are probably doing psychedelic drugs now than have ever before, including in the 1970s and the 1960s. | ||
I think the numbers are through the roof. | ||
I think we just are caught up in the middle of it, so we're not totally aware of what's going on. | ||
But if you include marijuana, and I definitely do when it comes to eating marijuana, I consider eating marijuana a psychedelic drug. | ||
I really do. | ||
And I think that people who don't, they're just probably not eating the stuff we're eating. | ||
You know, the shit that you're getting out here, like those gummies, kimonos. | ||
You can get the inception moments where you just don't feel the same about something again. | ||
Ever again. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Yeah, including the very fiber of reality itself. | ||
These goddamn things are so powerful. | ||
And the experience is just not the same as smoking it. | ||
It's way more significant. | ||
It's way deeper and weirder. | ||
It's just, it's a different drug when you eat it. | ||
And it's responsible for a lot of ancient Hindu religious art and religious scriptures. | ||
A lot of that stuff was being done while they were eating hashish. | ||
I mean, that was the preferred method of delivery of cannabis for a long time, was eating it. | ||
I think there's a religious high day, a high day, in India where they just smoke all day long to get in touch with the goddess, one of the goddesses. | ||
Yeah, I'm sure. | ||
I'm sure there's a lot of religions that are like that. | ||
Sikhs, there's certain sects of Sikhs. | ||
They eat this yogurt. | ||
They were explaining it to Duncan, and he was explaining it to me, so I apologize if I'm fucking something up, but there's some yogurt that has marijuana in it. | ||
Yeah, like marijuana-infused honey or something like that, and they mix it in this yogurt and get fucking blasted. | ||
And these dudes were explaining it to Duncan, like how important it is to them. | ||
Sikhs are an interesting race of people or a religious group. | ||
They get connected to a lot of, you know, ignorantly, to like Muslims and Islamic people, like people that see things with, people see things on people's heads, and they think they're all the same folks. | ||
But ancient religions that had their roots in psychedelics, there's still a lot of them that are around. | ||
There's still a lot of them that exist. | ||
There's a lot of evidence that shows that it's shaped a lot of thinking way, way, way back in the day. | ||
And if you want to get on that mindset, get into the groove that those people must have been in when they were doing that, if you eat hash and think about what it must have been like to live 3,000 years ago, I mean, you'll pretty much put yourself in a state of mind where you can kind of think the way they were thinking a little bit. | ||
I mean, you can never erase the information that you have, but imagine what it would be like to live two, 3,000 years ago and to be eating hash and hanging out in India and just tripping your fucking balls off on this big round ball spinning around in space. | ||
Illegal. | ||
Yeah, I mean, I think there's more people doing that now. | ||
There's more people eating marijuana now than probably ever before. | ||
I think that's pretty safe to say. | ||
The numbers are just staggering. | ||
The numbers that are... | ||
Really? | ||
Or medical marijuana laws. | ||
Washington, D.C. is going to be a weird one. | ||
I don't know when that goes into effect, but that passed recently. | ||
That's going to be weird for sure because you can have congressional aides go home for lunch, hypothetically get high legally, and come back. | ||
They'll be tested. | ||
Even if it's still not federally legal, which is hilarious because that's where the federal government's offices are. | ||
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So the very state where their offices are in Washington, D.C. Well, the federal government, more than anything else, it likes money. | |
And this is one of the most obvious money grabs. | ||
It's like, why wouldn't you? | ||
You know, like, we're cutting out all of these. | ||
Well, the money goes south to the cartels. | ||
If we can keep all that in the United States, that's a fuckload of money. | ||
Yeah, that's one way of looking at it. | ||
And not just that, but also small business opportunities, not a lot of startup costs. | ||
Pretty easy to fucking start your own small business selling weed. | ||
Pretty easy to grow it. | ||
If people start transferring that to the using it as a commodity, like the hemp movement that we were talking about with clothes and paper and building materials and all those things start happening, if that becomes legal, it will literally transform this entire country. | ||
When people find out how easy it is for farmers to grow hemp and profit off of it, and we're not talking at all about drugs, nothing to do with the drug. | ||
Right now, it's only legal in a couple states to grow hemp and manufacture hemp. | ||
And as far as I know, it's still not like no one's really going for it. | ||
No big companies are moving in, giving it a shot because it's still federally illegal, which is weird. | ||
Because not even psychoactive. | ||
It's a cousin of the psychoactive strain of marijuana. | ||
And it's still illegal. | ||
It's going to end, though. | ||
There's no doubt. | ||
Unless something happens. | ||
The only thing that could put the genie back in the bottle, it would have to be some sort of a cataclysmic event. | ||
Whether it's some nuclear bomb goes off or something where they have to completely 1984, this motherfucker, tighten down the screws and cut off the internet, filter everything. | ||
No more drugs, no more anything. | ||
I mean, it would have to be something really huge. | ||
Something really huge and scary. | ||
And even then, it might not work. | ||
Even then, people might be like, you know what? | ||
The reason why this fucking nuclear shit happened in the first place is because we were listening to you assholes. | ||
Yeah, I think that's more likely is if there was some calamity, a lot of people would just be like, we're going to go do our own thing. | ||
What do you think of all this Ferguson protests? | ||
Do you think that this is just because of Ferguson, just because of that decision? | ||
Or do you think that this is like a sign that people are ready to start fucking protesting shit? | ||
Because I'm more inclined to believe the latter. | ||
I think there's a lot of resentment in the United States over the fact that for many of us, it's hard to find honest work. | ||
But if you decide to go into law enforcement, you can suddenly make a comfortable $50,000 a year in some places just feeding the prison system innocent people. | ||
And that sounds like some kind of tree hugger thing. | ||
But if you look at the math, that's actually what a lot of these police departments are doing is sending poor, disadvantaged people, most of them minorities, into prison for owning things that I don't consider to be harmful to society. | ||
You know, I just don't consider marijuana to be harmful. | ||
And even some of the harder drugs that people get busted on, it's like, well, that's literally their only opportunity. | ||
Right, but that's not what we're talking about here. | ||
We're talking about police brutality. | ||
No, but what I'm saying is that that distrust, I believe, is connected to the fact that they can't trust these police officers because they can ruin your life if they want to over something very arbitrary. | ||
So I think that's the backdrop for it. | ||
And then I don't know all the specifics of Ferguson, but based on what I saw, that grand jury thing, there should be a trial. | ||
Like there are too many inconsistencies. | ||
The whole point of a public trial is to figure out what happened. | ||
And if you're a police officer and that means somehow you're treated differently, that to me doesn't add up. | ||
Well, I think that when you're dealing with police brutality, there's a lot better examples than this one. | ||
There's a lot of examples. | ||
They're absolutely fucking horrific that you could find on YouTube. | ||
You could find them every day. | ||
There's some kid that got tasered. | ||
He was in his girlfriend's car. | ||
The cop tasered him, hit him near the heart. | ||
He fell. | ||
It's a white kid. | ||
Fell, face planted, stopped breathing, went into like cardiac arrest. | ||
They didn't revive him for like three minutes. | ||
He might have brain damage because of this. | ||
The kid did nothing, did nothing wrong. | ||
He was just sitting in a car and the cop told him to roll the window down. | ||
Apparently the window didn't roll down. | ||
Cop fucking tasered him. | ||
I mean, obviously I wasn't there, but like they show this kid on the ground and the cop like standing over him, not doing shit. | ||
There's a whole video of it. | ||
How about the guy who was in Denver, who's beating the shit out of this guy they had on the ground because he said he had a bag in his mouth, so he's punching him in the face while he's holding him down. | ||
His pregnant wife comes over to try to stop them. | ||
They trip his wife. | ||
She falls on the ground. | ||
You're watching this. | ||
You're like, what? | ||
Then they tried to erase the video, but the guy had already uploaded it to the cloud. | ||
And they released it and showed it on television. | ||
And there's a lot of fucking really horrible shit that cops do. | ||
It's like the homepage of Reddit every other day. | ||
It's like you see at least one or two stories that make your heart stop. | ||
But like many things in this life where you would like things to be completely black and white and the thing that people gravitate towards turns out to be a massive string of contradictions. | ||
There's a lot of things wrong with this case. | ||
First of all, the guy, first of all, he was young. | ||
He was 18 years old. | ||
Hard to say he's responsible for all of his behavior at 18 years of age. | ||
I mean, you think about what kind of a life this kid's living, what kind of an environment he's growing up in. | ||
But all that said, he's robbing a store just moments before. | ||
There's a video of him grabbing this guy by the neck. | ||
He's a fucking huge guy. | ||
Reaches into the cop's car, punches him in the face, is trying to get the cop's gun, gets shot in the hand at close range. | ||
All this has been proven. | ||
So you're dealing with a dangerous bad guy already, for sure. | ||
Has that much been proven? | ||
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Yes. | |
Okay, so we know that he actually. | ||
We know he robbed that store. | ||
We know he punched the cop. | ||
We know he tried to get the cop's gun. | ||
We know the gun discharged. | ||
He shot him in the hand at very close range. | ||
Well, then, if that's the case, that doesn't strike me as being the best example. | ||
It's a bad example. | ||
It still falls under the range of like, well, did you have to end somebody's life or could you have just tackled him? | ||
Well, he couldn't have tackled him, first of all. | ||
He was not physically capable of beating that kid up. | ||
Or tased him or something. | ||
Well, you know, I don't think he had a taser on him. | ||
But I think that was part of his thing. | ||
And he couldn't discharge pepper spray because he was in the car and the guys punched him in the face and he was worried he was going to lose consciousness. | ||
I mean, he's a big fucking kid. | ||
There's better examples. | ||
I don't know what the fuck happened in the moments before that guy's life was taken. | ||
And there's contradicting stories. | ||
There's people that say that he had his hands up. | ||
There's people that say he was charging. | ||
You know, when you have that, I don't know what to fucking tell you. | ||
I mean, and I don't understand people that claim they do know. | ||
When you look at the autopsy, the autopsy statements apparently tend to exonerate the cop. | ||
The autopsy, the descriptions of the bullet wounds, they're supposedly, from what I've read, obviously I'm not a forensic scientist or anything, but they seem to indicate the cop's story was a little bit more kosher, that he had a shot on the top of his head, which indicated he was charging towards him, shot through his arm in a way that you couldn't possibly do if a guy's arms are up in the air like everybody's saying. | ||
I don't know. | ||
I don't know what the fuck happened. | ||
There's people that say they saw him with his hands up. | ||
Then the other thing that's a real problem is witness testimony. | ||
People see things that aren't really there. | ||
One of the women on the grand jury, the AP story, said that she has racist views, has trouble differentiating between truth and things she has read online. | ||
And this is actually in the AP report. | ||
You're like, well, if this is the person, he's one of your witnesses. | ||
That's a pretty flimsy witness right there. | ||
There's an interesting Radio Lab story this month, this week rather. | ||
Radiolab is a really interesting podcast that I listened to. | ||
And this one is about a, I think it was in Mumbai or Kenya. | ||
I forget what part of Africa it was, but there was a terrorist attack on a mall. | ||
And these guys showed up with guns and they shot a bunch of people. | ||
And there was all these different eyewitness testimonies that were, it was hard to figure out who was telling the truth. | ||
There was 15 gunmen, there was 10 gunmen. | ||
Well, they did a forensic examination of all of the video footage from all the surveillance cameras. | ||
And it turns out there was four gunmen and they were all killed. | ||
And these people had these different descriptions and they like swore they saw this and they swore they saw that. | ||
But when you go over all the video footage from all the people entering, all the people leaving, they have this pretty accurate based on like real hard evidence. | ||
They've got a 24-hour camera system going all the time. | ||
They captured all of it and they spent hours and hours going over all the events and finding out who's the shooter. | ||
I mean, they have a grid of the entire play, so they know what happened. | ||
But yet people have all these different descriptions, you know, of young people, of older people, of people taking off their clothes and assimilating into society. | ||
They dropped their gun and changed their clothes, and they escaped like a normal person, and that became a narrative. | ||
And there's a lot of people that believe these stories. | ||
But when they describe the actual events that they've captured on video to these people, they don't want to admit it. | ||
They don't want to admit what is actually on video you can see happening. | ||
That's not what I saw. | ||
That's not what I saw. | ||
But it's all right there. | ||
People see things, especially under stress. | ||
Stressful situation. | ||
A murder's taking place. | ||
An attack on a police officer. | ||
Guns are going off. | ||
Oh my God, the guy got shot. | ||
Did you see what happened? | ||
I saw it. | ||
He had his hands up. | ||
He had his hands up. | ||
I saw him too. | ||
He had his hands up. | ||
And then people start just repeating it. | ||
Hands up. | ||
Don't shoot. | ||
Like, okay, he had his hands up. | ||
I don't know if he had his hands up. | ||
He might have had his hands up. | ||
But to say you know he didn't have his hands up or to say you know he had his hands up is fucking crazy unless you were there. | ||
And if you were there, man, I'd have to know you. | ||
I think this body camera stuff is going to solve a lot of problems. | ||
Fuck yeah, it will. | ||
If you're an honest cop, that should be the first thing you want because it means your liability is now dropping close to zero. | ||
If you take somebody's life and it turns out it was justified or you use use of force and you need to, any jury is going to look at that and go, well, you're a cop and you're protecting the public end of story. | ||
No doubt. | ||
And I think ultimately that's going to be the great response to all this shit. | ||
All these horrible situations like the 12-year-old kid that was killed with the fake gun that was just walking on the street. | ||
The cops pull up. | ||
Within two seconds of getting out of their car, this kid's dead. | ||
They get out of the car. | ||
They just start shooting him. | ||
And the 911 call says it looks like he's got a fake gun. | ||
The 911 call says that. | ||
I mean, I don't know what the fuck information gets to the actual cops itself. | ||
You know, if the 911 operator calls the cops and say, hey, there's a guy with a gun. | ||
I don't know what the fuck was actually said. | ||
But there's a lot of those situations. | ||
And a lot of those situations just simply wouldn't take place the same way if everyone was wearing cameras. | ||
They just wouldn't. | ||
They wouldn't. | ||
There'd be accountability. | ||
I mean, cameras on cops, that's like the internet of law enforcement. | ||
You know, that's really what it is. | ||
It's like full accountability, full access to information. | ||
And if those fucking things are streaming, first of all, what an amazing show that would be. | ||
You'd be able to watch cops lives all day long, just stream into Officer Wilson's camera. | ||
The Truman Show meets cops. | ||
Yeah, man. | ||
Like, think about that. | ||
Like, guys in Compton, like, like working the beat in Inglewood, you know, at night doing drug law enforcement or narcotics. | ||
What'll happen is within a few years, like you'll be watching it and one of the cops will take down some meth dealer and you'll be like, good job. | ||
The QR code will pop up on the screen. | ||
Everybody will send him a little bit of Bitcoin. | ||
And then that cop will be set for the year and it'll become this thing where it's like you want to be a really fair cop because everybody's watching the streams for fun and providing tips to the cops that are not corrupt. | ||
Well, yeah. | ||
Monetary tips. | ||
Maybe, right? | ||
I mean, this has maybe like a 1% chance of happening, but I think it'd be cool. | ||
Well, one thing that would be cool is you would know, like, cops that are cool. | ||
You would know, like, who gets people, you know, gives people fair deals and communicates with people well and doesn't abuse his power. | ||
Well, I will say, like, every interaction I've had with a cop in California has been positive. | ||
And I think part of that is that in the back of my brain, I'm not like, oh, this guy could fuck me over if he wanted to because I have weed in my car. | ||
Now it's like, well, I'm doing everything that's legal and he's doing his stuff and like, cool, you know? | ||
And you're white. | ||
And I'm white. | ||
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The white part helps me. | |
I'm not at all denying the racial, white privilege. | ||
The racial profiling that happens with cops, but all I'm saying is living in a state where I'm not treated like a criminal for doing things that as an adult I feel I should be entitled to do that are in my own just an antidepressant basically, why shouldn't I be allowed to do that? | ||
The cops here are like, we agree. | ||
It's none of our business. | ||
And that to me is a sign of respect. | ||
So I respect them. | ||
Well, cops in California definitely have a different take on it, but it's come a long way. | ||
I have a buddy of mine who's a cop like years ago would joke around about how he doesn't care if it's medical marijuana, still fucking arrest him. | ||
I'm like, why? | ||
What's wrong with you? | ||
But they get into that us versus them mentality. | ||
I don't think we realize how difficult it is to be a cop. | ||
I think it's a fucking unbelievably hard job sometimes. | ||
It's the scum of the earth sometimes. | ||
Part of the time. | ||
Yeah, you're also dealing with incredible amounts of pressure. | ||
You're dealing with incredible amounts of violent input. | ||
You're seeing things that you can't unsee, and you're looking at people in a completely different way. | ||
If you work in a nightclub, okay, like say if your only interaction with people is you're a bartender in a nightclub, you would think that everybody's a drunk asshole, just maniac. | ||
You know, if you're a woman who has to wear like a short leather skirt and show up at a fucking honky-tonk bar and deliver drinks, your opinion of men is going to be based on drunks that you see at night in the dark who are grabbing ass and acting like assholes and spilling shit on themselves and then driving home drunk. | ||
You'd be like, oh, they're disgusting. | ||
But if you were a chick who worked the front desk at a yoga place, you might meet like really cool, peaceful people. | ||
You know, it's all about the environment that you find yourself in. | ||
And if you're in the environment of being a police officer, most of what you're dealing with all day is people that are breaking the law and lying to you about it. | ||
Conflict and people running away. | ||
Fuck, man. | ||
That job is fucking hard. | ||
It's hard. | ||
I mean, you don't just start punching immigrants in the face on your first day. | ||
You know, you don't tackle a guy and start punching him in the face because he's got a heroin bag in his mouth. | ||
That's like years and years of stress and buildup and just fucking craziness and barely keeping it together. | ||
And who knows what you're on? | ||
Who knows if you're on antidepressants or anti-this or fucking pro-that or Adderall. | ||
A lot of them take Adderall to try to stay awake and stay sharp. | ||
And pro-vigil is a big one that cops are taking, that new vigil and pro-vigil. | ||
A lot of police officers like that shit because it keeps them sharp. | ||
A lot of them are on steroids. | ||
A lot of them are on steroids, man. | ||
I don't think they're doing a lot of tests for steroids in the fucking police department. | ||
I saw this dude pulling this guy over the other day. | ||
He was jacked. | ||
Jacked. | ||
Yeah, the state troopers here don't fuck around. | ||
Some of them are pretty big. | ||
The guy was so jacked. | ||
He was that level of jacked where you just don't get there without drugs. | ||
You know, just like arms are like three times as big as mine, giant ass fucking neck. | ||
That was huge. | ||
This guy was huge. | ||
And I was like, this guy is a drug user. | ||
He's a drug user and he's using illegal drugs and he's pulling people over. | ||
Unless he's doing testosterone replacement therapy and just like, at the very least, he's abusing his levels. | ||
I mean, the guy's gigantic. | ||
He's so preposterously large. | ||
That's a cop. | ||
Nobody has a problem with that. | ||
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Big ass fucking arms in his sleeve. | |
Nobody has a problem. | ||
That's okay. | ||
That's okay. | ||
You got a roach in your fucking car, Seaman. | ||
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That's what I'm talking about. | ||
Like, it's that kind of opposition just puts you in a kind of freaked out mode. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Yeah, it does. | ||
Even in New York, which most of us, we consider New York to be a civilized city. | ||
It's like the cultural capital of the U.S. in some ways. | ||
If you're black, those stop and frisk things, that's an expensive, unpleasant process. | ||
I believe they discontinued that. | ||
I think they. | ||
Wasn't it ruled unconstitutional? | ||
I don't 100% know what the status of that is. | ||
We'll pull up stop and frisk. | ||
But that went on for years, and that was complete bullshit. | ||
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Yeah. | ||
Stop and frisk. | ||
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Mayor says New York City will settle suits on stop and frisk. | ||
Stop and frisk appeal is on hold. | ||
Okay, this is the latest here. | ||
New York City ends legal defense of stop and frisk. | ||
So apparently there's just so they dropped the appeal. | ||
Okay, so what it is, is apparently there's like so much, so many lawsuits and so much bullshit attached to it that they're probably doing it for financial reasons. | ||
Well, that's like California. | ||
We're letting go of the nonviolent drug offenders, right? | ||
That proposition that passed. | ||
Yeah. | ||
That's a money move, too. | ||
That has nothing to do with morality. | ||
It's like we don't have the money to fucking spend $60,000 for every single person we lock up. | ||
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The New York City, they're saying Mayor Bloomberg's administration has sought the appeal to appeal Judge Sharia Shinjlin's ruling, which stated that the New York City Police Department had abused its power, but de Blasio is working to settle the case out of court. | ||
We believe these steps will make everyone safer. | ||
De Blasio told a Brooklyn news conference, this will be one city where everyone rises together, where everyone's rights are protected. | ||
Okay. | ||
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I'm not sure what that means. | |
Everyone rises together. | ||
So he campaigned, the new mayor, Mayor de Blasio, Campaigned on a promise to end the era of stop and frisk policing. | ||
Yeah, I mean, it's gross. | ||
It's gross, and especially if you're a young black guy, it's horseshit. | ||
Or young, I mean, I don't know if women are getting harassed as much. | ||
They're saying men, they're saying young African-American and Latino men in specific. | ||
It's horrible to be treated as a criminal when you're not doing anything wrong. | ||
Yeah, it's gross. | ||
Well, about the guy that was walking, it was just putting his fucking hands in his pockets. | ||
Yeah. | ||
And this is where we're at. | ||
That's our world. | ||
You know, judging people based on how much melon and what part of the world your parents might have immigrated from. | ||
That's part of the world. | ||
And then we have, you know, a big part of the country where you can, at least in Colorado, just walk into a gift shop and get what you need to feel happy. | ||
And nobody's going to racially profile you and fuck up your life. | ||
And that's awesome. | ||
You know, we should have more stuff like that. | ||
But in Colorado, that's where that fucking guy got beaten up. | ||
Denver Police Department beat the fuck out of that guy with a heroin bag in his mouth. | ||
So they're just escalating other drugs. | ||
Is that the thing now? | ||
And now it's going to be like, well, if you have any of these, we're really going to come after you. | ||
But this one's okay. | ||
Maybe. | ||
I mean, what do they do if they have drug quotas? | ||
That's the real issue. | ||
Because if a department had quotas on arrests, and some of them do, and they're very controversial. | ||
There's quotas on speeding tickets. | ||
There's quotas on all sorts of things that cops are told they have to reach. | ||
I've always wondered, what the fuck happens if no one commits a crime? | ||
What happens if we all agree? | ||
Like, hey, everybody, can we all keep it together for six months? | ||
Because if everybody can keep it together for six months and we all make a pact that no one speeds, no one litters, no one does anything the cops can arrest you for, no one breaks a law for six months, what the fuck do the cops do? | ||
Like, what do we do? | ||
I mean, if we can do that for a day, if just we could do that just for a day, police departments across the United States would fucking panic. | ||
We made no arrests. | ||
They'd have to create new laws. | ||
They'd be like, you're an oxygen smuggler. | ||
You breathe too much oxygen. | ||
We got to take you down. | ||
Well, you know what they would likely do? | ||
They'd probably likely get people to conspire to do something. | ||
They would go undercover and then create crime and then arrest people for agreeing with them. | ||
Like, we're going to go rob that bank. | ||
I guarantee we can make some money. | ||
Yeah, man, you want to rob that bank, make some money? | ||
I'm in. | ||
As long as you're sure we can make some money, I'm sure we can make some money. | ||
And they set it all up and then, all right, everybody, put your hands up. | ||
You're going to rob this bank. | ||
Use your fucking idea, man. | ||
Like, that right now is legal. | ||
And that right now is how they bust people for drugs. | ||
They do it all the time. | ||
They bust people for drugs where they have fake drug deals, where they put people in jail for significant amounts of time for drugs that never existed. | ||
They thought they were going to buy and sell these drugs. | ||
They get them on conspiracy to buy and sell drugs. | ||
They believe they're real drugs. | ||
But the drugs are just a fiction of the DEA's imagination and a big part of the theater that's been put on. | ||
They do it with terrorism. | ||
That mentally challenged guy that they arrested a few years back in Dallas was a perfect example of that. | ||
They gave this guy a fake bomb, set it up, convinced him that you're going to take this bomb and you're going to fucking blow this building up in the name of Allah. | ||
And they got this mentally challenged guy, set him up, got him to do it, talked him into it, gave him the fake bomb, and then when he went to detonate it, they arrested him. | ||
But to play devil's advocate, to play national security state advocate and be the homeland type character, that kind of person who's that dumb or that easily influenced, they're going to bounce around and come up against something ugly at some point. | ||
Oh, yeah. | ||
Yeah, I mean, there's a fine line with entrapment. | ||
I think that they should be doing some of those undercover sting things because that's how you find out who is the bad guy. | ||
Yeah. | ||
And any normal person would be like, no, I'm good. | ||
I'm not going to take the bombs and go do the thing. | ||
That's the choice the person makes. | ||
And that's one of those areas where I think some of it is going over the line, but I think they have to do that too. | ||
Well, I think the idea of the wounded antelope, that it's better to take them out quickly before the crocodiles get them at the water hole, there's some merit to that. | ||
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. | ||
This is a dumb guy whose mind is fertile for radicalism. | ||
Yeah. | ||
You know, it's better to get the fake radicalism than the real thing. | ||
Or figure out a way to let this poor bastard know that he's stupid and don't listen to everybody because they're going to try to get you to blow up a building and they're going to lock you in a fucking cage. | ||
I mean, that guy right now is in a jail somewhere, and he probably will remain in that jail for a long fucking time. | ||
And there's not a lot of recourse. | ||
And he probably was super excited about this new thing that he was involved in because finally his life had some meaning. | ||
Because without that, without this spiritual connection to this jihad that he was about to commit, like, what kind of a connection did he have to his own existence? | ||
I mean, he might have been dancing through life completely aimlessly, always depressed, always sad, and then all of a sudden he's a part of something exciting. | ||
Right. | ||
They call him his brothers and all this shit. | ||
Brother, we have the bomb. | ||
We are ready. | ||
Oh, I mean, you know, one thing that I recognize, and I'm not, obviously I'm not a religious person, but one thing that I do recognize when I watch, I mean, even religions that I have no experience in at all, like Islamic mosques when they're giving these speeches and they're talking about the value of Islam, that Islam is the truth and everybody's, you know, agreeing and, you know, and saying, you know, Allah waqba, they're all like yelling it out. | ||
And there's this feeling of camaraderie that's very attractive about that. | ||
Even if you know it's bullshit. | ||
Even if you know it doesn't make any sense. | ||
Even if it's Scientology, even if it's Mormonism, whenever you've got a big group of people that agree on something and they're all fucking completely committed to it, you're like, oh, I want to be in with those guys. | ||
Like there's a part of you that wants to be in that group because there's a lot of energy in that group. | ||
They're committed to it. | ||
They're all saying the same old ancient shit. | ||
Allah waqba. | ||
They're all chanting it together. | ||
Like there's power in that. | ||
Why? | ||
Because Islam is the truth. | ||
Never to clapse. | ||
Yay, Allah waqba. | ||
And you see that, that, that, the draw of that. | ||
Like, it's, it's tangible to me. | ||
I'm not joining. | ||
I don't want to join. | ||
But I would be lying if I said that I didn't see the appeal of the camaraderie of any sort of a group that you're absolutely committed to. | ||
I think there's something really attractive about being the person to stand back and be like, wait a second, this is all fucking shit. | ||
You know what I mean? | ||
Oh, there's definitely that. | ||
You can be the person in the Middle East who has Twitter on your phone and Google News, and you can see the limitations of being fed this angry radicalism based on some stuff that happened a thousand years ago. | ||
There's that too. | ||
Yeah. | ||
There's that too. | ||
But what I'm saying is the opposite of that. | ||
What I'm saying is that I see the appeal of joining these organizations. | ||
We want to be a part of a Klan. | ||
Have you seen A Most Wanted Man? | ||
No, what's that? | ||
It was Philip Seymour Hoffman's last movie. | ||
I just saw it recently. | ||
Was it good? | ||
It was good. | ||
It's like a slow, realistic version of a homeland episode. | ||
So they're in Hamburg, Germany, and he's this counterterrorism spy, and they're tracking these Muslim radicals through Hamburg and trying to build a case against one of them. | ||
And so it really is like, you see the more maybe realistic or maybe less glamorous side of counterterrorism. | ||
And it's like, at least based on this movie, it's a lot of hanging around mosques and trying to figure out who the bad guys are. | ||
Yeah, I would imagine there's a lot of that if you're trying to infiltrate, if you're really trying to become a part of their movement. | ||
But anyway, point is it's a really good movie and it gets you to see like just how fucked it is that these young guys get into these mosques and stuff and then become influenced by charismatic personalities and can do a lot of damage. | ||
And it's the pattern that's been established. | ||
The pattern that's been established is one of violence, of suicide bombings, and when that pattern becomes established, that's what people sort of accept. | ||
If that existed in Christianity, Christianity was overwhelmed with suicide bombings and people really believed they were going to heaven. | ||
If they blew themselves up in a marketplace, you'd see similar behavior. | ||
It's a human pattern. | ||
When these patterns get established, it's very difficult to break them off. | ||
And it's weird how some get established, but they're not logical. | ||
Human patterns can be completely illogical. | ||
Human patterns can involve cutting holes in your lips and putting plates in them and stretching them out. | ||
That's a real human pattern that somehow or another got adopted. | ||
And the size of the plate became directly proportionate to the amount of cows you're worth when you get married. | ||
That's so unlikely. | ||
If you saw that on paper, if somebody proposed that as an episode of a television show, that there's these people that we run into and they're a tribe and they have a plate they stick in their lip. | ||
Why would they put a plate in their lip? | ||
Well, because the bigger the plate, the more cows they'll be worth when they get married. | ||
Get the fuck out of here. | ||
That's a stupid plot point. | ||
People wouldn't even agree with it. | ||
They would say that's a dumb idea for a show. | ||
But meanwhile, that is a very real thing. | ||
I mean, those people exist. | ||
There's many photos of them. | ||
They knock out their lower teeth so that the plates fit in better. | ||
It's fucking ridiculous. | ||
So patterns don't have to be logical. | ||
They just have to exist. | ||
And people slip right into them. | ||
You know, we've talked about this before, but the semen people of New Guinea, where they force young boys to ingest their semen because it's going to make them grow stronger and healthier. | ||
They call themselves the semen warriors. | ||
Do they really? | ||
Oh, dude, it's the most... | ||
It is one of the strangest fucking places in the world. | ||
And you're talking about thousands of people. | ||
Thousands of people that do this. | ||
They take the son from the mom at an early age and the new male companion, whatever it is, starts butt fucking them and mouth fucking them. | ||
And that's how they tell them they have to do this in order for them to grow strong. | ||
I mean, it's fucking crazy. | ||
And that's a pattern. | ||
That pattern is just, it exists. | ||
It exists in a strange place, but it's there. | ||
They're isolated. | ||
And you can study them. | ||
And people have gone in there and examined their culture enough that they write on it. | ||
And they have in-detailed descriptions from people that have gone through it. | ||
It's nuts. | ||
That does sound extremely nutty. | ||
People are fucking crazy, David Seaman. | ||
Crazy as fuck. | ||
That's why we got to get people upgraded. | ||
Get them on Bitcoin. | ||
You and this fucking Bitcoin. | ||
You're making me anti-Bitcoin. | ||
I hear one more Bitcoin out of your fucking mouth. | ||
That's your solution for everything. | ||
Bitcoin. | ||
Mushrooms and Bitcoin. | ||
You should sell a t-shirt on DavidSeaman.com. | ||
Mushrooms and Bitcoin. | ||
Mushrooms and Bitcoin. | ||
Marijuana and Bitcoin. | ||
Speaking of mushrooms, the other day the New York Times, the homepage of the New York Times, had an op-ed on mushrooms. | ||
Like very forward-thinking shit. | ||
And millions of people are reading that if it's on the New York Times. | ||
Things are changing. | ||
Well, they're being forced to catch up. | ||
The Internet is, you know, Johns Hopkins University published that study many years ago. | ||
You know, the one about people that were taking psilocybin and had their lives changed for the better permanently. | ||
There's been MDMA studies that have been released. | ||
There's a lot of studies. | ||
It's like they're being forced to the overwhelming amount of information that's coming out. | ||
They're being forced to address it now in mainstream publications. | ||
The CNN piece on ayahuasca, Sanjay Gupta's pieces and his complete 180-degree turnaround on marijuana. | ||
What's weird is when people who are critics go, well, you're not really connecting to some global universal mind. | ||
You're just ingesting the substance that allows the two hemispheres of your mind to communicate better. | ||
And I go, if that's the case, why aren't I allowed to use that? | ||
If it's something that's improving my cognitive ability or improving my mind's ability to figure out deep-seated challenges, what's wrong with that? | ||
There's nothing wrong with it. | ||
There's no bodies. | ||
People aren't dying mushrooms. | ||
And on top of that, the people that say, you're not doing this, you're just doing that, unless you have personal experience in heavy-duty breakthrough-level psychedelic experiences, unless you have one of those under your belt, you really don't know what you're talking about. | ||
You're guessing on what it's like. | ||
And what it's like is so far beyond the capabilities of your imagination that this is a ridiculous conversation. | ||
It's like a blind person trying to describe to you what the universe looks like. | ||
And you're like, oh, okay. | ||
Well, that's what it looks like to you, and you can't see. | ||
When you get your eyes fixed, come to me and I'll explain to you why I know what blue looks like. | ||
I'll explain to you what a chicken is. | ||
I'll show you what a giraffe looks like in real life. | ||
But right now, you're just guessing, motherfucker. | ||
Can't figure out what a giraffe looks like with your fingers. | ||
You got to put a lot of data together. | ||
You try to get a blind man to draw a picture of a giraffe after you let him fucking handle this giraffe, fondling in a giraffe dick and reaching up to the giraffe, like getting on a fucking stepladder, reaching all the way up to the top of the giraffe, petting it. | ||
Like, okay, draw a picture of the giraffe. | ||
That fucking thing's gonna look ridiculous. | ||
It's gonna look like a chia pet with a fucking rake growing out of its head. | ||
They're not gonna know what that thing looks like. | ||
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Yeah. | |
The end. | ||
David Seaman, we're out of time. | ||
We just said three hours. | ||
This is a lot of fun. | ||
Yeah, always, man. | ||
Only one piss break. | ||
It doesn't seem like three hours. | ||
You did it. | ||
You hung in there. | ||
You're probably ready to go again right now, aren't you? | ||
I'm good. | ||
You're good. | ||
The power of Bitcoin is allowing him to hold his bladder. | ||
Your podcast, your Twitter, give people, it's D underscore Seaman, S-E-A-M-A-N on Twitter. | ||
Yep. | ||
Your podcast. | ||
David Seaman Hour on iTunes and DavidSeaman.com. | ||
For more insight and more Bitcoin talk, go there. | ||
David Seaman, always good to talk to you, brother. | ||
Always. | ||
Always interesting conversations. | ||
We will be back tomorrow with young Bill Burr and a lot, lot more coming up next week. | ||
Lots of good guests. | ||
I'm very excited. | ||
And you should be too. | ||
All right. | ||
If you're not, I get it. | ||
I understand. | ||
We've had a lot of these. | ||
This is 582. | ||
God damn. | ||
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All right, my friends, we'll see you soon as far as stand-up comedy dates. | ||
There's a whole shitload of them coming up, including Phoenix, Phoenix, Arizona at the Celebrity Theater with Ari Shafir and Tony Hinchcliffe. | ||
That's on December 2nd. | ||
And then, of course, we are at the Mirage on January 2nd. | ||
One of the biggest shows we've ever put together. | ||
Duncan Trussell, Joey Diaz, Ari Shafir, and me at the motherfucking Mirage, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
Oh, good googly Moogly. | ||
That's the Mirage in Vegas, January 2nd. | ||
All right, lots of good shit coming up. | ||
And thank you, everybody, for everything. | ||
Thanks for listening to the podcast. | ||
Thanks for all the love. | ||
And I'm very, very happy that you all enjoy this. | ||
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All right. | |
I enjoyed doing it. | ||
See you soon. |