Feb. 11, 2015 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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Yeah! | |
| Alright, we're live. | ||
| Billy Corbin, what are you doing? | ||
| Are you tweeting? | ||
| Are you texting? | ||
| You can't fucking do that while we're online. | ||
| I can do that all the time. | ||
| I realize it doesn't matter how much of my life I spend tweeting, and at this point it's been a significant percent. | ||
| And I've got a cool little following, but for what I dedicate and put into it, I don't know that the ROI is quite there, especially when I can just sit back on my ass and my phone just blows up when they go, Dude, are you listening to Rogan? | ||
| He's talking about cocaine cowboys again. | ||
| It's like, I don't have to tweet. | ||
| I was like... | ||
| Just let Joe take care of it. | ||
| Seriously, the feedback that I get and the love that I get from people, your audience, your listenership is just off the charts. | ||
| My Twitter metrics dwarf in comparison to your listeners just hitting me up. | ||
| My family, like, are you listening to Rogan? | ||
| Are you listening to Rogan? | ||
| I'm like, right now I'm working. | ||
| I'm like, don't you work? | ||
| And they're like, no, I'm listening to Rogan. | ||
| We'll make a deal. | ||
| You keep making awesome fucking documentaries. | ||
| I'll keep talking about them. | ||
| They'll keep getting out there. | ||
| Dude, I like that deal. | ||
| That's a hell of an arrangement. | ||
| One day you've got to do a live remote from Miami, though. | ||
| This town, dude, I've got to tell you. | ||
| You like Miami more than you like LA. I like Miami more than I like anything, honestly. | ||
| That's so weird. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because you're smart. | ||
| Like, you're... | ||
| You're really rare for a guy from Miami. | ||
| I've always said that if you want to starve to death, open up a bookstore in Miami. | ||
| It's a great way to starve to death. | ||
| It's true. | ||
| Open a bookstore anywhere and you'll starve to death, actually. | ||
| Now, maybe a Kindle store, but like, I... I get it. | ||
| This town, which has been, incidentally, nothing but good to me my whole life. | ||
| Los Angeles, I mean. | ||
| Like, broken hearts fuel the power grid and tears come out of the faucets. | ||
| Like, I land at LAX, I turn into Raymond fucking Chandler all of a sudden. | ||
| I just, like, I get really sad here. | ||
| I don't know what it is. | ||
| It's the fucking homeless guy and pretty woman. | ||
| Screaming on Hollywood Boulevard like that's this like that's this town to me it like it just it's it's sad to me Miami is like I think Tony Montana said it best You know it's just a great big pussy waiting to be fucked a great big pussy Miami is the city of the future and always will be you know there's just like endless Opportunity there, but it never quite gets to that that level that the famous saying is that like LA is where you go when you want to be somebody. | ||
| New York is where you go when you are somebody. | ||
| And Miami is where you go when you want to be somebody else. | ||
| And that's the thesis of all of our work, in a way. | ||
| That's the motto of our company, of Raconteur. | ||
| It's too long to put on a t-shirt, but that's the message. | ||
| That's the takeaway, I think. | ||
| That's not too long to put on a t-shirt. | ||
| That can be worked out. | ||
| Yeah, a small font. | ||
| Good spacing. | ||
| We're designing it right now. | ||
| That could be worked out. | ||
| Pre-order right now, folks. | ||
| I mean, I obviously like it here in a lot of ways. | ||
| What I don't like here is the amount of humans. | ||
| There's an overwhelming supply of human beings here. | ||
| To the point that I think that anytime you get too many people in one place, you devalue those people. | ||
| It's like, I think that's the case with everything. | ||
| I mean, I think if you're a guy... | ||
| You have a million fucking girlfriends. | ||
| They're all waiting for you in a warehouse. | ||
| You're not going to care if one of them dies. | ||
| You're just not. | ||
| You're just not. | ||
| You're barely going to care. | ||
| If you have an airplane hanger filled with tens and you just walk in, you go, you in the back with the yellow hair, come this way, please. | ||
| It doesn't mean anything. | ||
| If you have one wife that you love dearly, it's going to mean a lot more if something happens to her. | ||
| I think LA has too many fucking people. | ||
| And I think when you get too many people, there's this sort of weird thing that happens where you stop caring about them. | ||
| They don't mean anything to you. | ||
| But is it quantity or is it quality? | ||
| Well, there's too many. | ||
| The quality is here. | ||
| Because there are so many who each think that they're very important. | ||
| Because we're all, to be fair, the center of our own universe. | ||
| But everybody... | ||
| I realize there's no other way to say this other than how it's going to sound. | ||
| But the self-worth meter is off the charts for way too many people. | ||
| It is, but it's also a fake meter. | ||
| People are holding up a meter of what they're pretending their self-worth is. | ||
| But in reality, what they really think about themselves, they're incredibly insecure. | ||
| Which is why they're here trying to validate themselves in the first place. | ||
| This is a weird town in that everybody who comes here wants to be someone special. | ||
| And usually they want to be someone special because they weren't special when they were children. | ||
| So they get here. | ||
| You seek out this ultimate thing, which is fame. | ||
| And now, because of people like Kim Kardashian and reality shows... | ||
| You don't even have to do anything for it anymore. | ||
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You don't have to do anything. | |
| You don't have to have a special talent. | ||
| That's a troubling thing to me. | ||
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It is. | |
| You don't have to put in work anymore. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And that manifested itself with this Kanye Beck thing. | ||
| It's like... | ||
| Beck, I mean, you can't really ask for a more gifted musician or songwriter. | ||
| As far as, like, artistry is concerned, you could be subjective about it. | ||
| You could say you like him, you don't like him, but the guy's an artist. | ||
| I mean, legitimately, he puts in the work. | ||
| He writes everything. | ||
| He plays every frag and instrument on his album. | ||
| So it's like... | ||
| The guy's putting in the work and why devalue somebody who's actually an accomplished artist and say, like, well, his art isn't worth as much as somebody else's art. | ||
| Kanye West has a real ego problem. | ||
| He needs psychedelics more than anyone I've ever seen in the public eye. | ||
| I mean, he's such an insufferable douchebag. | ||
| And that's because his ego is completely out of control. | ||
| He wants... | ||
| People to pay attention to him. | ||
| He wants to be loved. | ||
| He wants to be great. | ||
| He wants to be great. | ||
| That's his big thing. | ||
| Leave me alone. | ||
| Let me be great. | ||
| You know, you fucking rhyme shit, dude. | ||
| You're surrounded. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| No offense to his handlers, but you're surrounded by awful people. | ||
| Those are the people who are supposed to keep you in check and give you some perspective on your place in the universe, which is always smaller than you think. | ||
| You can't do that. | ||
| That's not their job. | ||
| Their job is to make money. | ||
| And the way they make money is to keep rubbing his back and pushing him out there in the ring. | ||
| I mean, that's it. | ||
| Keep getting them to make more money. | ||
| Jewish people, we have our families to both, like, blow up our heads and also put us right back in our place. | ||
| I remember I got into some trouble a couple years ago. | ||
| I was on a jury. | ||
| I was a jury foreman in a criminal case in Miami-Dade Circuit Court, and it was an armed robbery case. | ||
| And I... Tweet it, because that's what I do. | ||
| I didn't tweet about the case, but I did my usual shit of just kind of observations of the courthouse. | ||
| I noticed that it was named for this guy, Richard Gerstein, who was a state attorney who had rumored ties to Meyer Lansky, later represented Pee Wee Herman in his indecent exposure case in Florida, you know, when he was jerking off in the adult theater. | ||
| And just things like that. | ||
| I could see from the window in the jury pool room, I was like, how appropriate that the view from the jury room in the criminal courthouse is one of the greatest crimes perpetuated on the people of Miami-Dade, which was the Marlins Park, the publicly financed sports welfare boondoggle of Miami Marlins Stadium, baseball park. | ||
| I'm ignorant to that. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Stupid observational shit. | ||
| And then my usual sort of aggregating article. | ||
| So, this comes up on appeal. | ||
| The public defender, we convict him of a lesser included offense. | ||
| The public defender says, oh, the jury foreman was tweeting, like live tweeting the trial, which is not what happened. | ||
| I didn't delete anything. | ||
| All my tweets are still there. | ||
| So... | ||
| The Miami Herald, like, rips me. | ||
| They have this completely talent-free writer at the Herald. | ||
| She actually slept her way to the middle, is what she did. | ||
| She slept with her married editor and got a promotion, and it was a whole scandal. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And now I call her America and Cuba's worst columnist. | ||
| And she still has a job. | ||
| It's unbelievable. | ||
| And she, like, rips me for being a... | ||
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What was it? | |
| Like, tweeting twit. | ||
| That's what she called me, a tweeting twit. | ||
| And my... | ||
| My parrot won't shit on the Herald, you know, when I line its cage with it. | ||
| So, like, the Herald's masthead is like, Miami Herald, yesterday's news tomorrow. | ||
| Corrections to follow. | ||
| That's their shtick. | ||
| So, like, my grandpa, old school, they still read the newspaper. | ||
| You know, he likes the ink on his fingers. | ||
| And so, he reads this, like, vicious column about me, about his grandson. | ||
| And his takeaway is this. | ||
| He's like... | ||
| So, this is a few years ago. | ||
| So, he says to me, he goes... | ||
| How many Twitter followers do you have? | ||
| And I was like, at the time, maybe 10,000. | ||
| I was like, I don't know, about 10,000. | ||
| He goes, Justin Bieber has 22 million. | ||
| And that was it. | ||
| I felt like shit. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| He put me right back. | ||
| I was reminded of my place in the universe. | ||
| First of all, how the hell does my grandfather know? | ||
| I don't even know that he knows what Twitter is. | ||
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That's pretty irrelevant. | |
| Your grandfather sounds like a dick. | ||
| I'm gonna be honest with you. | ||
| He's a wonderful man. | ||
| Mi abuelo, he's a wonderful, wonderful man. | ||
| He is. | ||
| Well, that's all he had to say? | ||
| Justin Bieber has more. | ||
| He didn't say to me, like, I'm ashamed of you and what you did and this woman destroying you in the newspaper. | ||
| He was pretty cool with that. | ||
| He was just trying to understand this Twitter thing a little bit better. | ||
| That's all. | ||
| He's still not on it, though. | ||
| That's funny, though. | ||
| Well, yeah, I mean, having someone in your life to keep you in check like that is important. | ||
| Or having something. | ||
| I don't think he has anything to keep him in check, which is why he thinks it's funny to go on stage and interrupt people's performances or acceptance speeches. | ||
| Why don't they even bother voting? | ||
| Why don't they just like Kanye pick who wins everything? | ||
| How about this? | ||
| How about the Emmys are stupid? | ||
| How about the Oscars are stupid? | ||
| They're all stupid. | ||
| Award shows for art are dumb. | ||
| They really are. | ||
| Because art is incredibly subjective. | ||
| And this idea that you're going to have this one big moment where everybody dresses up like a penguin and you all get together and pretend this is our night to shine. | ||
| Tom Ford's got to make a living too, dude. | ||
| Who's Tom Ford? | ||
| He does like the tuxes, like Justin Timberlake. | ||
| He does tuxes. | ||
| It's kind of like his shtick. | ||
| He's a fashion designer. | ||
| I'm not a big... | ||
| I often get introduced to people who write up a bio or blurb on me and they'll be like, award-winning filmmaker. | ||
| I'm like, I don't actually think I've won any awards. | ||
| I guess we have along the way. | ||
| I got a key to the city of Miami and Miami Beach, which was incredibly disappointing. | ||
| Because when... | ||
| You know, you're in Miami Beach and somebody gives you a key. | ||
| Right. | ||
| You're kind of hoping it's going to be something else if you hear what I'm screaming. | ||
| But it was not the kind of key that you hope to get when you go to Miami. | ||
| You mean like a kilo? | ||
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Right. | |
| I see what I'm saying. | ||
| It's funnier when you explain it, I think. | ||
| Well, it didn't work unless you did. | ||
| I think there's a few listeners that got it. | ||
| Maybe two that are coked up right now. | ||
| There's only two listeners coked up right now. | ||
| I don't think that's true. | ||
| There's more than two. | ||
| But they're the only ones that got that joke. | ||
| What we were talking about before about what's wrong with this town, and this is probably the last time we should get into it because this is such a tired subject, but... | ||
| The idea that people who didn't get enough attention when they were young, so they developed this hole in their soul, they need to fill up with other people's attention, they come here, and then they seek validation through auditioning, which is one of the most ridiculous processes ever. | ||
| I mean, the idea that you're going to be in line with a bunch of other people hoping to get picked, and if you do get picked, you're like, yes, yes, it's me! | ||
| I'm going to be the one! | ||
| And then you're the one who's going to get out there, and then the camera's on you, and they put makeup on you, and they make you pretty, and the perfect lighting, It's all... | ||
| It's this weird thing. | ||
| And if you're lucky... | ||
| You can get through that with some sense of what you're trying to do in the first place which is like trying to create something cool that people enjoy and then some sense of humility where you kind of understand that that's in the greater spectrum of the universe it's really not that significant what it is is it gets a lot of attention because we're confused and media confuses people and the idea of the one the alpha with the light on them and the one who has the microphone and the one who has the voice and That this somehow or another makes you special. | ||
| But it doesn't. | ||
| It's just entertainment. | ||
| Well, there's two things I have to say about that. | ||
| The first of which is that I'm going to put it out there. | ||
| I don't talk about it that much, but I'm going to put it out there because I think step one in the program is admitting that you have a problem. | ||
| So I was a child actor in this town. | ||
| In this town. | ||
| So that's your problem with this town. | ||
| I wish that there was... | ||
| Yeah, but it was very good to me. | ||
| It was very good to me. | ||
| I was very successful. | ||
| And before I retired at 15 or whatever it was, but like it... | ||
| First of all, I wish there was a different... | ||
| Other than child actor, which immediately evokes images of liquor store robberies, drug overdoses, and child molestation. | ||
| But that's what I was. | ||
| The second thing I want to say, which I probably shouldn't talk about, because you mentioned it when you were talking about the casting process and how completely toxic that is in terms of creating anything of substance. | ||
| And it's not just... | ||
| It's this development process. | ||
| We option the rights... | ||
| To develop a dramatic series about cocaine cowboys about, I think, eight years ago now with Brookheimer Television, Michael Bay, and Warner Horizons. | ||
| And we have been developing the show. | ||
| Developing. | ||
| Development. | ||
| Developing. | ||
| You know when you say a word so much or you look at it so often it loses its meaning and you kind of have to... | ||
| What is it? | ||
| This word means something? | ||
| Development? | ||
| So we're on a call, Wendell. | ||
| This is already years ago. | ||
| It was years into development and years ago already. | ||
| That's how long we've been developing this. | ||
| We're on a conference call. | ||
| You can't get a word in edgewise, really, on a conference call. | ||
| I'm listening to this call, and I'm looking at the calendar, and it says, JBTV development call. | ||
| And I'm staring at the word, and it loses its meaning. | ||
| So I kind of, you know, the voices turn into, you know, peanuts, you know, adults. | ||
| And I open a new tab in my browser, and I go to dictionary.com. | ||
| I probably should have gone to urbandictionary.com, but I go to dictionary.com, and I look up the word development. | ||
| And I realize, looking at the definition... | ||
| That the development process in film and television and entertainment is the antithesis of the definition of the word development, which infers progress, evolution, and it's the exact opposite of that. | ||
| If it doesn't stifle progress, it actually has a reverse effect. | ||
| It's like de-evolution. | ||
| It's like undevelopment or de-development. | ||
| I don't know what the term is, but it's a total misnomer, this idea of developing. | ||
| Because we want to make a documentary. | ||
| We get an idea or someone comes to us or we have access to a cool person or a great story. | ||
| And I got two partners – It's me and two guys. | ||
| One guy I've known so long, our parents used to bathe us together. | ||
| I mean, we were sophomores in high school. | ||
| That was weird. | ||
| But like, no, we were nursery school. | ||
| I know the guy literally since nursery school. | ||
| Our other partner, Alfred Spellman. | ||
| I know him from television production middle school. | ||
| So we look at each other and we go, does this sound like a cool idea? | ||
| Yeah? | ||
| Let's do it. | ||
| That's our development in the nonfiction world. | ||
| This whole scripted thing where you bring in three writers and you pay them untold amounts of money and they're from Santa Monica with nannies and they're going to write for the Miami drug scene in the late 70s. | ||
| You're like, what is going on here? | ||
| How is this progress? | ||
| How are we developing anything here? | ||
| And in terms of our warped values and media manipulating our priorities, nothing breaks my heart more Then when I tweet something important that's going on in the world, and it gets like two retweets or whatever, and then you tweet something about Kim Kardashian or Justin Bieber or Kanye West or Bruce Jenner, God forbid, and It gets 1,200 retweets. | ||
| Or some crazy Florida man story that gets 10,000 retweets. | ||
| And it breaks my heart because I'm just like, I'm contributing to the distraction here, is what I feel like. | ||
| But it really frustrates me. | ||
| It's like, but something about, you know, the lack of accountability in politics or the public sector or, you know, the dramatic increase in police brutality and the prison population as the crime rate drops precipitously. | ||
| All these things that we should kind of be concerned about as a people. | ||
| And I just realized, I was like, maybe I need to take my own advice and, like, the fact that we're all so insignificant and so small and this time is so fleeting... | ||
| Why not just have a good time while we're here? | ||
| We're not actually going to change anything for the better. | ||
| It's like that saying... | ||
| What's it saying? | ||
| It's like, I want to have less corruption or more participation in it or something like... | ||
| It's like, as I get older, I feel like, well, where am I getting here? | ||
| I'm not actually going to effectuate any positive change, maybe a little bit of awareness in my corner of the Twitterverse, but... | ||
| Don't I just need to do something for myself or my family? | ||
| And I can't do that. | ||
| There's a moral compass that just won't let me compromise my values. | ||
| And in a weird way, I hate that about myself. | ||
| Just relax, man. | ||
| Seriously, do you smoke weed? | ||
| No. | ||
| You should probably smoke weed. | ||
| That would help you a lot. | ||
| That's the diagnosis. | ||
| Well, you guys have medical marijuana here. | ||
| For fuck's sake, dude, I fought my ass off for Amendment 2 in Florida. | ||
| We got nearly 58% of the vote. | ||
| And it failed. | ||
| Rick Scott, the least popular governor in the history of anything anywhere, gets 47% of the vote in four more years to destroy the state of Florida. | ||
| But you have too many old people. | ||
| Too many old people in your state, their idea of what marijuana is is just completely fucked by propaganda. | ||
| But now our elected officials, fortunately, are kind of realizing that, like, wait a second, if you look at the district results for Amendment 2, they're going, well, shit, my constituents want this. | ||
| So now you do have some local politicians who are trying to, and state politicians, who are trying to introduce bills now that will bring medical marijuana to the state of Florida, because what they're trying to do is beat 2016, where not only is it a presidential election, so turnout in Florida could be as much as, I don't know, 12%. | ||
| Why don't people vote? | ||
| Why don't people vote? | ||
| Well, they feel discouraged. | ||
| They don't think it works. | ||
| You look at the system itself. | ||
| You look at special interest groups and lobbyists and the amount of money that corporations donate towards campaigns. | ||
| But they do that to mobilize. | ||
| Not just to impact how people are going to vote, but just to get people going out to vote. | ||
| One thing's for sure. | ||
| If you don't vote, your vote's not going to be counted. | ||
| I can guarantee. | ||
| I can guarantee that. | ||
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Right. | |
| So the special interest money really goes towards mobilizing People who are already, in a way, like-minded. | ||
| Like you said, the elderly population, which is really what helped kill, I think, recreational marijuana here, or the expansion of marijuana laws in California. | ||
| It was... | ||
| You weren't quite there yet. | ||
| People weren't, I think, getting out... | ||
| Not getting out the vote per se, but they weren't convincing the elderly population, who by the way probably need marijuana even more than I do, just in terms of their maladies. | ||
| It probably would do more for them, and certainly in Florida do more for them. | ||
| But some of them are still on that hippie drug thing. | ||
| Yeah, that's what they think it is, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, which doesn't make any sense. | ||
| Not to mention, what could any governor... | ||
| Or any politician or anybody in this country do in the single stroke of a pen that would create the kind of economy that that brings. | ||
| How do you create jobs, you know, that many jobs and that kind of revenue in one fell swoop. | ||
| That marijuana can bring. | ||
| There's nothing else I could possibly think of that you could do where you could say, like, overnight we could just create... | ||
| An epic industry that not only hurts no one but helps millions of people and more importantly decriminalizes a class of people in this country that we have needlessly spent untold millions of dollars to deprive them of life, liberty and property. | ||
| And you're right, I need to smoke. | ||
| The amount of money that they're making in Colorado is so staggering, they have to give it back to the taxpayers. | ||
| Have you read that? | ||
| Yeah, the refunds. | ||
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It's insane. | |
| They're giving people money back. | ||
| We have too much money for education now! | ||
| They are literally making... | ||
| Untold millions of dollars in tax revenue that would be unavailable otherwise. | ||
| And most likely the same amount of people are smoking weed, which just lets you know that this is just really an inefficient use of public resources. | ||
| It's an inefficient use of a commodity, which is a natural commodity that's a part of life. | ||
| I mean, marijuana is a goddamn plant that's been used for thousands of years. | ||
| In Florida, we had a pill mill crisis. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Of the likes that we have. | ||
| I mean, an epidemic of death. | ||
| Well, I had the folks on that did that documentary, the Oxycontin Express. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Great. | ||
| Amazing, amazing. | ||
| I think it was up to seven people a day were dying in the state of Florida. | ||
| These are men, women, and children. | ||
| It's not enough. | ||
| You should kill more. | ||
| You guys should have opened up more pill plants in response. | ||
| Too many people in Florida. | ||
| Too many people. | ||
| In the north, I'd prefer the north. | ||
| They say in Florida, the further north you go, the further south you are. | ||
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Yeah, I know. | |
| Because you forget that this was like Jim Crow South in Florida. | ||
| South Florida is like a tropical country. | ||
| Yeah, well, it's like, the only way I can compare it to people who might get some perspective, it's like Atlanta in Georgia. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| You know, kind of South Florida is like, because we're still very much a red, we're like a red state. | ||
| With a blue foreskin that everybody wishes they could just circumcise, like, right off the state. | ||
| And in fact, the city of South Miami is an interesting thing about Miami-Dade. | ||
| Nobody even knows this. | ||
| Miami-Dade County, which has about, I think, 2.6 million people now, we're made up of, like, 34 different municipalities. | ||
| So there's a total of, like, 35 different mayors in just Miami-Dade County. | ||
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Really? | |
| Yeah, and the city of Miami is just one small city among the 34 in Miami-Dade County. | ||
| And in fact, Dade County, get this, it used to be called Dade County or Metro-Dade County, in 97... | ||
| We rebranded, we voted to change the name of the town. | ||
| Like, where else other than, like, Bombay and Mumbai? | ||
| Like, you think of a place that, like, changes the name. | ||
| We rebranded it to Miami-Dade County to borrow, essentially, the most famous brand that we have, which is the most famous city in the area. | ||
| And so, one of these cities, these 34 municipalities, we have 34 municipalities, and I think... | ||
| To be fair, there's still 30 of them who haven't had their mayor arrested yet in the last two years. | ||
| So that's a pretty good ratio. | ||
| But the city of South Miami, actually, they had like a resolution to... | ||
| Essentially, not secede from the union, but split Florida down the middle into two separate states. | ||
| A North Florida and a South Florida. | ||
| Which is a great, great idea. | ||
| For real? | ||
| It'll never happen, because South Florida's revenue is what... | ||
| Finance is Tallahassee, which is the state capital, which is in the panhandle in northern Florida. | ||
| So that'll never happen because they live off the fat of our land and our tourism trade. | ||
| So that'll never happen, but it's a great idea when you look at the politics, when you look at the demographics and the thought process, we are very much two different states. | ||
| So South Florida is more democratic, it's more liberal. | ||
| Yeah, that's the blue tip. | ||
| But there's a lot of Cubans that are very Republican, right? | ||
| They were. | ||
| A lot of conservative? | ||
| They were. | ||
| Ever since Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs, they took a hard right. | ||
| I mean, there are Cubans who have not voted Democrat since Kennedy. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| But you're seeing now a new generation, third and fourth generation Cubans who are now being actually born in Miami. | ||
| You see this trend changing. | ||
| Miami used to go to Miami and you say... | ||
| Really, anywhere in Florida. | ||
| I'd say, where are you from? | ||
| And even if people were there for 60 years, they'd go, Cuba, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York. | ||
| No one was from Miami. | ||
| That's changing now. | ||
| You see a little bit of this 305 till I die, this kind of like, you know, this spirit of like, the spirit of like... | ||
| This ownership of belonging, which I keep hoping is going to manifest itself in people driving better and using their turn signals and being nicer to each other. | ||
| I keep trying to say, it's not my Emmy or your Emmy. | ||
| It's our Emmy. | ||
| This is a collective experience here, people. | ||
| We're in this together. | ||
| Let's just be nicer to each other, but it's not working. | ||
| You're a Miami fanboy. | ||
| I am. | ||
| I'm a homeboy. | ||
| And I get homesick when I travel, too. | ||
| Like, I miss it. | ||
| Especially when I go... | ||
| LA's different because it's not homogenized. | ||
| But when I travel around to places where, like... | ||
| I'm like, I'm nervous. | ||
| There's too many white people here. | ||
| Like, I need some arroz con pollo. | ||
| I need some cafe con leche. | ||
| Like, I get nervous when there's not... | ||
| You know, when there's, like, a homogenized population. | ||
| I don't like that. | ||
| I like to mix it up. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Miami... | ||
| Because Miami, like, you just... | ||
| I mean, you can drive a stretch of blocks in Miami Beach and you go from... | ||
| The Argentinian neighborhood to the Venezuelan neighborhood to the Brazilian neighborhood. | ||
| I should say this. | ||
| There's a common misconception that Miami is a melting pot. | ||
| We are not a melting pot. | ||
| We are more akin to a TV dinner where sometimes the peas fall over into the mashed potatoes. | ||
| Because we self-segregate. | ||
| We do that anywhere we go as people. | ||
| We find like-minded or... | ||
| Chinatown. | ||
| Yeah, similar looking people and we stick to our own. | ||
| So in Miami, you know, you have the Jewish neighborhood, you have a Haitian neighborhood, you have an African American neighborhood, you have a Cuban neighborhood, a Cuban neighborhood, a Cuban neighborhood, a Cuban neighborhood. | ||
| You have, then like I was saying, in Miami Beach even, you have Venezuela, Brazilian neighborhood. | ||
| They don't, you know, even the South Americans, which... | ||
| The thing they hate the most is being called Latin or Hispanic. | ||
| They're very prideful and nationalistic people. | ||
| They want to be associated with their nation. | ||
| You can't get into an argument with anybody in Miami until you see what flag is hanging from the rearview mirror. | ||
| Because, God forbid, dude, you should call an Argentinian a Venezuelan, a Venezuelan, a Cuban, a Cuban, a Brazilian, or any of them a Mexican. | ||
| They all hate Mexicans for some reason. | ||
| Wow. | ||
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Why? | |
| Why do they hate Mexicans? | ||
| I don't know, but they... | ||
| And all of them, if you ask any of them, they'll tell you, oh, my great... | ||
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Bro, like, for truth, bro, like, seriously, like, my great-great-grandfather is from Spain. | |
| They all claim they're European. | ||
| None of them are Caribbean. | ||
| They're all European. | ||
| It's kind of fun. | ||
| And I like that kind of incendiary mix of people, you know? | ||
| And, like, 1980 was like... | ||
| Which is kind of the inspiration of Cooking Cowboys was like, that year were, like, all of the chemicals just mixed together and shit just exploded. | ||
| And that's... | ||
| There's that tension in Miami constantly that I think just makes it an exciting place, particularly when anybody outside of Miami, they think there's only one hotel, the Colony, on Ocean Drive. | ||
| Because wherever you are in Miami, all you know is 15 blocks of Ocean Drive. | ||
| And even when you watch... | ||
| Miami Dolphins games, or like the Orange Bowl game, which is at Joe Robbie Stadium, right now Sun Life Stadium, in Miami Gardens, one of the most dangerous municipalities in Miami, one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the world is Miami Gardens. | ||
| That's where the stadium's located. | ||
| They'll crossfade from the game to the blimp aerial of the stadium, and then they'll crossfade to Ocean Drive, as if that's right outside. | ||
| It's 18 miles away. | ||
| From the stadium. | ||
| But that's what people associate with Miami. | ||
| Most of Miami is third-world-ian. | ||
| I mean, Miami-Dade County has, I think, only the second greatest disparity in income gap of any major county in the country. | ||
| We are... | ||
| T.D. Allman had a book called City of the Future about Miami. | ||
| They say that the Florida of today is the America of tomorrow. | ||
| And if you want to know what shit is going to go down in America... | ||
| What calamities are going to befall this country in like the next 20 years or so? | ||
| You look at what's going on in Miami or Florida, that is the barometer of whether it's the drug trade, immigration, what we're dealing with now with the browning of America, if you will, the Hispanicizing of America, and the pushback. | ||
| We've been through all of that shit. | ||
| Medicare, fraud, you name it, we have experienced it already in Miami or in the greater Florida area. | ||
| And we know what's coming, basically. | ||
| You sure? | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| We got everything but earthquakes and mudslides. | ||
| How did you get involved with this documentary, Cocaine Cowboys? | ||
| What was the inspiration to make this? | ||
| Just knowing the history of how crazy Miami was and what led to this massive surge of drugs into that part of the country? | ||
| What was our childhood in a weird way? | ||
| I mean, we grew up in Miami. | ||
| I was born in a place called Fort Myers, Florida on the West Coast. | ||
| So you lived out here. | ||
| Only for a couple years, you know, for like five pilot seasons or whatever the hell you do. | ||
| Did your parents bring you out here to do that? | ||
| Yeah, I asked them to. | ||
| Whoa. | ||
| Yeah, I asked them to. | ||
| Wow, so it wasn't even that you had stage parents, it was all you. | ||
| Dude, every year, my parents would say to me, whenever you're done. | ||
| Yeah, they would say, whenever you're done. | ||
| That's just like that. | ||
| That was a dead ringer, oddly, for my dad. | ||
| He's transitioning now. | ||
| That was weird. | ||
| Transitioning. | ||
| You can say that a few years ago. | ||
| No, no, what the fuck you're talking about? | ||
| But you say, he's transitioning now. | ||
| It's like, is there this overwhelming influx of transgender people in our culture? | ||
| Is that what's going on? | ||
| Or we're just more aware of it. | ||
| I guess. | ||
| Either or. | ||
| And it's kind of okay. | ||
| I mean, gay people got married in Alabama this week. | ||
| It's a new world, man. | ||
| The internet. | ||
| It's kind of fantastic. | ||
| When I was traveling, we were on set of this pilot in Puerto Rico. | ||
| And while I was on the plane, there was no internet on this flight because we're coming from Puerto Rico for whatever reason. | ||
| And so as soon as I landed, Obama had announced the new Cuba policy. | ||
| And I landed in Miami. | ||
| While this was going on in the air, and no one really knew exactly how Miami was going to react. | ||
| The truth is, a lot of the hardline, older, conservative Cubans have died off. | ||
| The demographic is changing. | ||
| There are Cuban kids growing up now who don't want to never get to see Cuba before they die, like a lot of their grandparents and great-grandparents never got to go back. | ||
| So the sentiment was very different from Circa Elian Gonzalez. | ||
| That was like the last gasp of, you know, Right-wing exile politics was really the Elian Gonzalez fiasco and so this this was a little bit calmer but like I landed I was like I just landed in a whole new world like it was an incredible and and whether you agree with policies or not it's kind of cool to see when you're hyper aware that like history is happening in your lifetime and before your eyes and that's what Miami was like in the 1980s and growing up we were even aware of it when I was most aware of it as a kid was the money | ||
| We lived in this working class Jewish neighborhood in North Miami Beach and everybody was doing good. | ||
| They weren't in the drug business per se, but this is the best, is the most successful case study in history for Ronald Reagan's trickle-down economics theory. | ||
| Because there was so much cash in Miami and it trickled down to everyone. | ||
| Whatever business you were in, You were making more cash. | ||
| Because of the drug trade. | ||
| Because of the drug trade. | ||
| There was so much cash. | ||
| Tourism, by 1980, tourism and real estate, they were like our top businesses. | ||
| Tourism was bringing in about $5.2 billion a year in Miami. | ||
| Drugs, they were estimating, was generating $7 billion a year. | ||
| So it was an even bigger business than tourism in the early 1980s. | ||
| In our neighborhood people made additions to their houses. | ||
| They had a Porsche or a nicer car. | ||
| And these are people who were jewelers or in the grocery business or car dealers. | ||
| Just working people, but suddenly everybody was a little flush, and they weren't upgrading in a major way. | ||
| They were just getting themselves some toys that they could get with the fruits of their labor and this newfound revenue generation. | ||
| Influx of cash. | ||
| Yeah, and you've heard the stats from the movie about... | ||
| You know, the branch of the Federal Reserve in Miami had a cash surplus of more money than all the branches combined in the country. | ||
| There was just more cash in Miami. | ||
| Nobody had any place to put it. | ||
| What you saw in Scarface, when banks were charging a vig to deposit cash... | ||
| That was true. | ||
| They had no place to put cash. | ||
| There was just too much cash. | ||
| And it's true that if you took a $20 bill or denomination of 20 or above cash in Miami and tested it, there were traces of cocaine on almost every single bill in Miami. | ||
| So it was literally drug money. | ||
| That's amazing. | ||
| It's an amazing time, and your documentary really captures it so brilliantly. | ||
| When you highlighted that one graduating class of the police academy, that every single guy either went to jail or was murdered, every single one. | ||
| I mean, that's an amazing moment in human history, where you just get to see... | ||
| Essentially, it's a version of what's going on in Mexico right now. | ||
| Oh, absolutely. | ||
| And it's actually a version, interestingly, of what's going on in the United States in terms of hiring practices and better screening people in law enforcement and people in the public sector in general. | ||
| Because what happened there is that you didn't have... | ||
| Good people who became cops and then the power went to their head and they became corrupt or anything like that. | ||
| You had gangsters, straight up thugs, who decided, well, where better to apply my trade than hiding behind a badge? | ||
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That's what happened. | |
| So these weren't like, these were bad guys who, it became, we had a, what happened was there was a federal judge, there was a consent decree. | ||
| A federal judge, it was a civil rights action, a federal judge looked at the demographics, the changing demographics of Miami, and said, basically 100% of the Miami Police Department was white. | ||
| And they said, you need a police force that better represents the community that they're policing. | ||
| And so it was a federal judge who just waved his magic pen and said, hire more black officers, hire far more Hispanic officers so you have a police force that reflects the community. | ||
| And what happened, I hate to say it, but it's true, they kept reducing the standards. | ||
| For hiring. | ||
| And that's what happened. | ||
| Is that they wound up with guys who were like, wait, I'm on the streets. | ||
| I'm a straight up gangster. | ||
| But the Miami police are hiring. | ||
| Like, that's what happened. | ||
| So, really, the system worked in a way in that they weeded out the worst of them. | ||
| And that's, I think it's a little bit opposite. | ||
| I think, by and large, you have a lot of good cops now. | ||
| But the problem is that they're not sufficiently screening in the hiring process to say... | ||
| Still? | ||
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| Oh, I think so all over the country. | ||
| I think you've got guys who are sort of naturally aggressive. | ||
| You have a steroid epidemic in the police departments that the unions have completely precluded municipalities from being able to test officers. | ||
| I think you have, again, an epidemic that affects a certain minority or percentage of officers and departments, but it's still an issue that you don't want guys like that with the ability to deprive people of life, liberty, and property. | ||
| Yeah, the steroid thing is absolutely legit. | ||
| I got pulled over by a dude who looked like Ronnie Coleman, who, by the way, was a police officer. | ||
| Ronnie Coleman, who was Mr. Olympia, was a police officer. | ||
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Wow. | |
| I did not know that. | ||
| I don't know if he still is, but yeah, I mean, he was a longtime police officer, but this guy that pulled me over was ridiculous. | ||
| And we had a nice little chat, you know? | ||
| He's a nice guy. | ||
| He's a fan? | ||
| Yeah, he was a good guy, but I mean, this dude was juiced. | ||
| He was, I mean, 5'9", 270, somewhere around then, which doesn't happen in nature unless you're a fucking gorilla. | ||
| It just doesn't happen. | ||
| You would have to, to get that big naturally, you couldn't have a job. | ||
| You would have to be eating 30,000 calories a day. | ||
| And at the gym, I guess. | ||
| And you would have to be lifting weights literally all day. | ||
| I mean, and you could probably maintain that amount of mass for a couple years and then everything would break. | ||
| I mean, it's just, it doesn't happen in nature. | ||
| And I looked at this dude, I'm like, you are going to fucking, you're going to enforce laws? | ||
| Hello, glass house. | ||
| You better not bust people for drugs, motherfucker, because you're on a ton of them. | ||
| Steroids, call them drugs or hormones or whatever you want to call them. | ||
| The idea, and I've talked to guys in martial arts that say, I have to be prepared because the people that I'm running into out on the street, I'm running into really bad guys and I want to be enhanced. | ||
| I'm not that familiar with it, but like The research, I understand, it fucks with your mind. | ||
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Oh, most definitely. | |
| Like, your temper, your anger, your obviously- Most definitely. | ||
| Well, I mean, there's levels, of course, like everything else. | ||
| Like, you could smoke a little pot and be fine and carry on a conversation, or you can get so stoned you don't remember who you are. | ||
| I mean, you could really get fucked up. | ||
| You can get so stoned you look at a phone and you're like, what is this? | ||
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You know, you get pretty fucked up, right? | |
| Or you could take a little puff and just kick back and watch a movie. | ||
| Don't talk about Coco like that. | ||
| Don't talk about Coco. | ||
| Yeah, Coco knows what's up. | ||
| What is this? | ||
| He can tolerate more than any living human being. | ||
| Joey Diaz can eat, he eats it mostly. | ||
| You know, he'll have those pot edibles, but he'll go so deep that you can't even believe he's still alive. | ||
| He just goes deep. | ||
| But my point being is that I assume that some of these guys, you could take a small amount of steroids and probably it would help you recover. | ||
| But the problem with those guys is they can never get off of it. | ||
| Like Joey Diaz has a friend that's been on steroids since 1987. A-Rod? | ||
| Oh no, I'm sorry. | ||
| It's a different guy. | ||
| It's a different guy. | ||
| His friend from Jersey that's a bodybuilder that has never gotten off steroids. | ||
| He's literally been on steroids since 1987 and he's Joey's age. | ||
| You know, he's like 51. He's fine. | ||
| He's healthy. | ||
| Really? | ||
| He's fucking big as a house. | ||
| He never stopped lifting. | ||
| Never stopped doing steroids. | ||
| But I mean, yeah, but he's a maniac. | ||
| I think you could probably take a little bit, and it would probably help you recover, and you'd be alright. | ||
| But most definitely, if you take a lot, like this cop that pulled me over, he had to be on all kinds of shit. | ||
| That's gonna fuck with your temper. | ||
| I mean, you essentially become a different thing. | ||
| We were kind of discussing this yesterday because there's an epidemic of steroids in the UFC. I mean, a true epidemic. | ||
| And not just the UFC, but MMA in general. | ||
| There's been some high-level guys that have tested positive in other organizations. | ||
| And even guys that swore they never took anything and would mock other people who took performance-enhancing drugs. | ||
| And they got popped. | ||
| So there's... | ||
| There's a real issue that we're all, as the mixed martial arts community, sort of coming to grips with now. | ||
| But as a police officer, I think being calm and having a sense of peacefulness, of being able to diffuse situations, that was my thing about the Trayvon Martin thing. | ||
| When everybody was talking about George Zimmerman and The people that were supporting Zimmerman, they were like, you know, hey, George Zimmerman got attacked, and George Zimmerman, I'm like, okay, here's the problem with that. | ||
| George Zimmerman was a fucking moron, first of all, first and foremost. | ||
| He wanted to be a cop, they wouldn't let him be a cop, which is fucking bad, which means you gotta be a real moron, you know, because I've met some morons that are cops, you know? | ||
| Most cops I meet are great folks, but we all know a few idiots that became cops. | ||
| This guy was too fucking stupid to be one of those idiots. | ||
| You know, they were like, you're too dumb. | ||
| You can't be a cop. | ||
| So they give him this job as this community patrol guy, right? | ||
| And, second of all, he let this kid, this young kid, was kicking his fucking ass. | ||
| This young kid got on top of him, was beating his head off the curb, like, okay, how'd that happen? | ||
| Do you not know how to fight at all? | ||
| If you don't know how to fight at all, how the fuck are you a cop? | ||
| Here's the rub, that no matter which version of the events you choose to believe, Trayvon stood his ground first. | ||
| Is actually what happened. | ||
| So this stand-your-ground situation becomes like, who wins? | ||
| It becomes a stare-down of this face-off. | ||
| It's a shoot-out, you know, and it's like, who wins? | ||
| Because what happened was he was being followed by some creepy dude with a gun. | ||
| He was a kid coming back from 7-Eleven with Arizona Ice Team Skittles walking back to his dad's house. | ||
| But the creepy guy with a gun was a security guard. | ||
| No, he was a neighborhood watcher. | ||
| But doesn't he have an outfit on? | ||
| No, hell no. | ||
| He was a volunteer. | ||
| He had a poncho on or whatever he had. | ||
| It was raining. | ||
| And that's why Trayvon had a hoodie on. | ||
| It was raining. | ||
| So he doesn't have anything that identifies him as a security officer? | ||
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No, no badge. | |
| He was on the phone with 911 and they're telling him, stay in your car, sir. | ||
| Stay in your car. | ||
| Oh, that's hilarious. | ||
| Yeah, and he gets out of the car, and this kid was on the phone with this girl, and he's like, there's some dude following me. | ||
| He's in his car, he's getting out of his car, and she was worried for him. | ||
| As it turns out, he was a creepy dude with a gun who was stalking this kid who was walking back to his dad's house with an iced tea and Skittles, for crying out loud. | ||
| I actually wasn't aware that he didn't have an outfit, which is more ridiculous. | ||
| No, he's like a volunteer neighborhood watchman guy. | ||
| Nobody elected him or assigned him. | ||
| He took it upon himself because there was some robberies in the neighborhood. | ||
| And he went and stalked, and he got jumped because this kid was scared. | ||
| So there's no organization whatsoever? | ||
| Well, there's probably a community organization, but I don't know that there's any formal... | ||
| He wasn't a member of any formal organization that I'm aware of. | ||
| And I was tweeting about this, and this to me was just objective... | ||
| These were just objective facts to me. | ||
| And what came into play was one of the most disturbing things. | ||
| I mean... | ||
| Okay, alright, I'm gonna tell this story. | ||
| It's gonna push off a lot of people. | ||
| Tell it, Billy Corbin! | ||
| Get down! | ||
| So we have a fan page. | ||
| We did this documentary for ESPN called The U about the University of Miami football program. | ||
| We just did a sequel late last year. | ||
| And so we had this fan page that we put on Facebook, which has about 185,000 or so fans. | ||
| And it's one of the most like kind of largest and most interactive pages for Hurricanes football fans. | ||
| So every once in a while, I kind of troll the page. | ||
| You do? | ||
| I troll my own page. | ||
| Why do you do that? | ||
| As a sociological experiment? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| We'll just put like Warren Sapp got busted. | ||
| Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. | ||
| It's the stupidest fucking law ever. | ||
| The stupidest, stupidest law. | ||
| And to me, it's just an example of sort of these arcane, patriarchal, like, women can't decide what to do with their bodies. | ||
| We decide what they can do with their bodies. | ||
| And what contractual arrangements consenting adults can enter into. | ||
| But porn's legal. | ||
| Which it should be. | ||
| But then... | ||
| So if there's a camera in the room... | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That changes the entire dynamic of this thing? | ||
| Well, there was a girl that was hanging around the Comedy Store way back in the day that actually said that to one of my friends. | ||
| She was a porn star, and she said, you know, he, he, somehow they got into this conversation, and she said, you can fuck me as long as you have a camera in the room. | ||
| Private shoot. | ||
| We do a private shoot. | ||
| And he was like, what? | ||
| It was like, hold on. | ||
| He was like trying to figure it out. | ||
| I have a line for every time a woman told me that. | ||
| She had a fee, you know, she goes, you pay my fee, you put a camera in the room, you can fuck me. | ||
| And he's like, so is that prostitution? | ||
| She goes, not legally. | ||
| And I go, okay. | ||
| And then we thought about it. | ||
| We're like, yeah, I guess that isn't prostitution. | ||
| Dude, the resources, the resources that police departments spend These stings. | ||
| On prostitution. | ||
| To create crime that otherwise wouldn't exist. | ||
| They make cops dress up like hookers. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Which, by the way, first of all is dangerous for them. | ||
| Very. | ||
| And second of all, they're just creating crime that wouldn't otherwise exist unless this cop dressed as a hooker was standing on the corner. | ||
| They've actually passed laws in certain states that make it legal for cops to have sex with prostitutes. | ||
| As part of the sting. | ||
| As part of the sting. | ||
| Which, that seems fair. | ||
| Hilarious. | ||
| That seems right. | ||
| God damn hilarious. | ||
| Why would anybody think that there's two legal systems here in this country? | ||
| I wanna make sure that none of these whores are out there sucking dicks, so I'm gonna go get my dick sucked just to ensure she knows I'm legit. | ||
| I'm pretty sure, by the way, a contract is offer acceptance and consideration. | ||
| I don't know that you actually have to deliver on it in order to say the contract, you know, this is an illegal contract that you've entered into, you're under arrest. | ||
| I can't imagine that that's necessary to go into court and say, no, no, your honor, she's really a hooker. | ||
| I paid her, and we had sex. | ||
| Like, is that really necessary? | ||
| And how is that legal? | ||
| Well, my friend got busted in a sting operation in New York, and he was flirting with these girls, and one of them said something like, you want to party or something like that? | ||
| And he's like, party? | ||
| Like, what does that mean? | ||
| Like, what do you mean, like, sex? | ||
| And she goes, yeah. | ||
| And he goes, is it going to cost me anything? | ||
| She goes, how much do you want to pay me? | ||
| He goes, $10,000. | ||
| Like, he's just joking around. | ||
| And they give the Take down order. | ||
| And they fucking arrested him. | ||
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| Like that. | ||
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Crazy. | |
| I mean, he was a drunk guy coming out of a bar flirting with some girls that he didn't know were cops, and they were manipulating the language in order to get him to say that. | ||
| Like, he was just being a silly goose. | ||
| He was just being a silly guy trying to make—he's a comic, so he's just trying to make these girls laugh like, $10,000! | ||
| Like, saying $10,000! | ||
| Who the fuck is going to pay a street walker $10,000? | ||
| Who even comes up with that on their first offer? | ||
| I mean, for $10,000, you can fuck a famous porn star for $10,000. | ||
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First offer. | |
| Yeah, I mean, it's mind-numbing. | ||
| If it had been... | ||
| A counteroffer, it would have been more reasonable for $10,000? | ||
| If he said, you know, $500 and she said a million, and he's like, oh, hold on. | ||
| When you consider these two women officers, you consider their backup, you consider the surveillance, you consider... | ||
| Then, when you have to process a John... | ||
| He was in jail for 24 hours. | ||
| And the manpower involved in processing... | ||
| What other crime was going on that night? | ||
| A lot. | ||
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Like victim. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Victimful. | ||
| Not victimless, but victimful. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Victimful crime was occurring. | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| Oh, I totally dodged the trolling my own page bullet. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Should I tell that story? | ||
| Yeah, please do. | ||
| We'll keep going with this. | ||
| Okay, I never told this story to anyone publicly before. | ||
| What page is this that you're talking about? | ||
| Okay, it's facebook.com forward slash the you movie. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| When I say troll the page, we're kind of like the New York Post of UM football fan pages. | ||
| We're like the tabloid. | ||
| We don't just post the press releases that come out of the athletic department. | ||
| We'll post whatever that's kind of peripherally involved in Miami football or pop culture surrounding Miami football. | ||
| Snoop throws up the U in a music video. | ||
| Shit like that. | ||
| On the day of the Zimmerman verdict... | ||
| There was a picture that had been on the internet for some time from like Trayvon Martin's 11th birthday or something like that where his parents or whomever got him a birthday cake with the U logo. | ||
| He was apparently a Hurricanes fan. | ||
| You know he's a South Florida kid and so it was him smiling 11 year old kid and his UM happy birthday cake. | ||
| Great. | ||
| So I was just like, you know what I'm going to do? | ||
| I'm not going to say a word. | ||
| I'm going to post this picture to the Facebook page. | ||
| And I can't tell you how all social media hell broke loose in that community. | ||
| And I would venture to say that you could write papers on the state of America's race relations based solely on the comments from that image. | ||
| It was one of the most disturbing... | ||
| Just exchanges about America and race and crime that I have just ever seen in my life. | ||
| It was so disturbing. | ||
| And I just left it there. | ||
| It was kind of like a Rorschach. | ||
| And people were writing private messages like, I'm unfriending or unliking this page. | ||
| Why don't you post a picture? | ||
| First of all, that's not what he looked like. | ||
| When, you know, when he was killed, and they post, like, one of those fake pictures of, like, some rapper that, like, people claimed was Trayvon, and, like, things that were debunked, you know, via scopes and otherwise, like, you know, months or years earlier, and just, like, the craziness that ensued, and I'm like, hey, listen, you find a picture of, uh... | ||
| George Zimmerman in a U sweater or whatever, I'll post that too. | ||
| I mean, like, what do you want? | ||
| This is... | ||
| It was just... | ||
| Because I posted pictures of Barack Obama throwing up the U and then Mitt Romney was campaigning and he threw up the U. Didn't you like... | ||
| How do you throw up the U? Do you go like this? | ||
| Yeah, you just put... | ||
| Well, it's more like... | ||
| Yeah, it's like this. | ||
| Yeah, usually I sort of put a break in it because there's like air in between, but like, yeah, but like, yeah, that's how you throw up the U. So, essentially, but let me get to the point here. | ||
| Essentially, it was white people who were being racist against Trayvon Martin and were upset that you were posting this image of him with this U-cake. | ||
| No one was objectively looking at the facts of the situation. | ||
| They saw a black kid in a hoodie, and right away it was Thug who got what was coming to him. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And it didn't matter that he was a human being. | ||
| It didn't matter that he had smoked pot before. | ||
| I can't believe that. | ||
| He was a teenage kid! | ||
| I'm outraged at that. | ||
| He was a teenage kid! | ||
| Pot's illegal in Florida. | ||
| The kid never got into trouble for anything before in his life. | ||
| He got in a little bit of trouble in school, which teenage kids do. | ||
| He's from a broken home. | ||
| And his mom sent him to spend... | ||
| She said, my son needs to spend time with his father. | ||
| I'm going to send him up to spend... | ||
| These were good people. | ||
| This was a good family. | ||
| None of it mattered. | ||
| It just mattered that he was black. | ||
| And there was people who just literally... | ||
| I'm not suggesting that was everybody, but there were people who just could not get beyond that. | ||
| Which was just... | ||
| It led me to this whole... | ||
| I don't know if you remember the closing argument in A Time to Kill, Matthew McConaughey. | ||
| Do you really think I watched that fucking movie? | ||
| No, I seriously doubt that. | ||
| But it's this whole monologue where he gives you this fact pattern. | ||
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| About this young girl being kidnapped and raped and abused and beaten within an inch of her life, and then he says, now imagine she's white. | ||
| Meaning, like, just take the same set of facts and put your kid there. | ||
| You know? | ||
| The only reason Zimmerman was following him in the first place. | ||
| Or switch the races. | ||
| I thought he was suspicious. | ||
| Switch the races. | ||
| Or switch the races. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Have Zimmerman be a black guy with a cop complex. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Well, my point was initially when we started talking about this is that he's so socially unskilled that another guy who maybe was a good cop or another guy who was good with people would have seen this young kid walking and said, how you doing, brother? | ||
| Everything good tonight? | ||
| And like, yeah, man, what's up? | ||
| You know, what are you doing? | ||
| Just getting some Skittles. | ||
| All right, well, take care, man. | ||
| He wants to be dirty fucking Harry. | ||
| Yeah, go get dry. | ||
| Alright, you too, man. | ||
| And then we're good. | ||
| You know? | ||
| I mean, how many of those exchanges between two human beings could vary radically depending on the social skills of the person that's quote-unquote in a position of power? | ||
| And that's an issue with what we were talking about earlier with steroids distorting people's aggression, distorting people's perception of danger or of their power over a situation or What's just and what's ethical? | ||
| Law enforcement officers are allegedly trained to de-escalate. | ||
| They should be. | ||
| Most often. | ||
| Too often we're seeing these stories, thanks to the internet, of situations where calling the police turns an otherwise benign situation potentially deadly. | ||
| And that's a frightening thought. | ||
| Because even if these are isolated incidents... | ||
| The proliferation of them and our exposure to them now, thanks to the internet, is creating an environment where kids are actually feeling like, maybe I shouldn't call the police. | ||
| Maybe that's not what I should do. | ||
| And you shouldn't ever feel that way, you know? | ||
| You shouldn't have that feeling. | ||
| But I started to lose a lot of, like, when I say friends, I mean, you know, social media friends, friends in quotes, friends and followers on Twitter. | ||
| And I finally just, like, after the verdict, I was like, listen... | ||
| It's all good if you unfollow me for my Trayvon Zimmerman tweets. | ||
| If Zimmerman had unfollowed Trayvon, we wouldn't even be fucking talking about this. | ||
| Oh, damn. | ||
| He dropped the bomb on him. | ||
| Yeah, look, he was a dummy. | ||
| He's a dummy who can't fight, who wanted to be a tough guy. | ||
| And Florida. | ||
| This fucking kid getting on top of him and beating his fucking ass, and then he shoots him. | ||
| You know, I just wish someone had taught Trayvon a little better, and he could have put that fucker to sleep before he ever got the gun out. | ||
| You know... | ||
| You just can't have a person that's so socially unskilled, which has obviously been proven now. | ||
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Oh, yeah. | |
| His records. | ||
| Yeah, subsequent records. | ||
| Jesus fucking Christ. | ||
| He pulled a gun out on someone in some sort of a car situation. | ||
| He threw a wine bottle at his girlfriend. | ||
| He drives like a maniac, apparently. | ||
| He's a cunt. | ||
| He's a cunt of a human being. | ||
| And he's going to kill somebody someday, Joe. | ||
| Well, he's probably in jail for a long time now, right? | ||
| No, no, no, no. | ||
| Isn't he? | ||
| No. | ||
| No, he got picked up on that domestic abuse rap with his ex-girlfriend. | ||
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Did he get out? | |
| Yeah, he threw a wine bottle at her. | ||
| She won't cooperate anymore. | ||
| She's not president. | ||
| He's out. | ||
| Yeah, I'm pretty sure he's out now. | ||
| Well, you know what? | ||
| I'm not a big fan of vigilante justice unless it's a guy like that. | ||
| And then I'm like, you know, that's a dangerous time bomb. | ||
| That was Joe that said that, by the way. | ||
| I did say it. | ||
| I am not a fan of vigilante justice, but when cunts get free... | ||
| A retweet is not an endorsement. | ||
| People have to fire up torches and fucking find where that cunt's sleeping. | ||
| It's just, he's a bad person. | ||
| He's a bad person that's already done bad things. | ||
| And he's probably going to continue to do not good things. | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| Also, he's become a hero of the Ted Nugent crowd. | ||
| The people that are standing up for the Second Amendment. | ||
| What he did was he shot an unlawful thug. | ||
| That's fucking retarded, man, and I'm a person who supports the right to bear arms. | ||
| You have to remember, the kid did not commit any crimes. | ||
| He was standing his ground. | ||
| This guy was stalking him with a gun. | ||
| There's no set of facts. | ||
| Even the way Zimmerman tells it, there's no set of facts or a version of the story that changes those facts. | ||
| He was stalking a kid who was armed with an Arizona iced tea and Skittles, walking back to his dad's house. | ||
| And he killed him! | ||
| You know, he might have been on pot. | ||
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On the pot. | |
| He was on the pot. | ||
| I think the Michael Brown situation is far more confusing. | ||
| Because I wish I knew what really happened. | ||
| I wish I knew. | ||
| Everybody putting their arms up in the air and doing this hands up, don't shoot shit. | ||
| I really wish that was proven. | ||
| That that actually did happen. | ||
| Maybe perhaps a video. | ||
| The way more disturbing story to me was the 12 year old who was shot with a toy gun. | ||
| At a park. | ||
| Playing in a park. | ||
| Yeah, the cops just pull up within two seconds, unload on him, all on video. | ||
| All on video. | ||
| No confusion whatsoever. | ||
| There's another situation where the lack of empathy to me in the Twitterverse is just, like, staggering. | ||
| Because it's like, what was this kid doing with a toy gun? | ||
| I'm like, I grew up at the park playing with... | ||
| Cops and robbers and war. | ||
| What are you talking about? | ||
| Of course! | ||
| He was in the park playing with a toy gun! | ||
| You can't even address that. | ||
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It's crazy! | |
| Those are fools and they're looking for some reason where this kid was culpable. | ||
| They didn't even engage the kid. | ||
| They drove up right on top of him. | ||
| On video. | ||
| Jumped out of the car and opened fire. | ||
| See what's more disturbing to me is the fact that you have a trend where You have a version of events perpetuated by the police, which is usually always the first story you ever read. | ||
| It's a press release or the statement from the police. | ||
| So, it's never innocent until proven guilty. | ||
| It's like, we're charging this guy or we arrested this guy. | ||
| I've had friends that were arrested for resisting arrest that didn't do a goddamn thing. | ||
| You know what they call that? | ||
| That's called contempt of cop. | ||
| Because there's never a basis to arrest them in the first place. | ||
| So if you're being arrested for resisting arrest, What was the original charge that you were being arrested for? | ||
| The vast majority of those cases are dismissed. | ||
| And guess what? | ||
| Bratton, the police commissioner at NYPD, wants to escalate, has gone to the legislature to elevate contempt of cop. | ||
| That's what they call that, contempt of cop. | ||
| He wants to escalate or elevate the charge of resisting arrest from a misdemeanor to a felony. | ||
| Now again, most of those charges will wind up being dropped, as they usually do, because they're completely bogus. | ||
| It's contempt of cop, it's a situation where it's like, he didn't listen to me. | ||
| Which is, again, what we were talking about before, the difference between de-escalation, you can beat the rap, you can't beat the ride. | ||
| Your boy was in jail for 24 friggin' hours. | ||
| Might have had to hire an attorney, might have had... | ||
| Some people get their car impounded, depending on what... | ||
| In the prostitution stings, those are major revenue generators. | ||
| Major revenue generators from the criminal justice system, all the way from law enforcement to tow yards to asset forfeiture to... | ||
| Asset forfeiture, which is amazing, what people don't even know about. | ||
| Legal theft. | ||
| They take your car. | ||
| You could have a very nice car. | ||
| Say you have a $50,000 car. | ||
| That's the states now. | ||
| They steal your fucking car. | ||
| It's the police department. | ||
| It's the local... | ||
| They get the... | ||
| They take the... | ||
| And they get to keep it. | ||
| It's not like they turn it over to anybody. | ||
| If they want something, they could literally go out and take it. | ||
| You don't even have to be convicted of a crime directly. | ||
| Just charged or accused. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And you might never see. | ||
| They can take cash from you. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Why do you have that cash, sir? | ||
| Were you doing something illegal with that cash? | ||
| I think you might have been, so we're gonna lock that cash up. | ||
| You're guilty until proven innocent. | ||
| And then we're gonna use that cash to have fucking parties. | ||
| They use the funds that they steal, they use it to have parties. | ||
| To buy iPads and buy cars and boats and parties. | ||
| Well, the DEA ran a similar scam in Los Angeles for a long time with arresting people that were running medical marijuana dispensaries. | ||
| There's video of this where these fucking kids are college kids. | ||
| They're young kids. | ||
| They're not doing anything wrong. | ||
| They're working in a place where the state law says it's a legal business. | ||
| They break in guns, strapped, bulletproof vests, ATF fucking outfits. | ||
| They put guns to people's head, held this kid on the ground, stepped on his fucking neck. | ||
| I mean, there's videos of all this. | ||
| Zip-tie them. | ||
| The whole deal... | ||
| They're selling legal weed. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| They take all their cash, all of it, take all their marijuana, all of it, and they say, we are going to process your case, and then they do nothing. | ||
| They do nothing. | ||
| They never prosecute them. | ||
| That's what we call armed robbery. | ||
| Well, that's what we used to call... | ||
| Yeah, it is. | ||
| But they take that money, and then because these guys don't want to go after that money to try to get it back, because then the DEA comes at them even harder, they lose that money. | ||
| And they have to pay to fight to get that money back. | ||
| Well, probably as much in legal fees as was stolen in the first place, so it'll cancel each other out. | ||
| Yeah, and it's not like you could sue the DEA to get your legal fees paid. | ||
| They're not going to pay it. | ||
| It's the same problem with the DEA. And they also don't care, even if they have to pay legal fees. | ||
| Individual officers are never held liable. | ||
| It's not their money. | ||
| It's all our money anyway. | ||
| That gets paid when there are wrongful death suits or there's brutality suits. | ||
| They don't care. | ||
| They're never punished. | ||
| The unions completely insulate and protect them. | ||
| And it's not their money. | ||
| Worst case scenario, they get to retire early with a full pension. | ||
| It has to be an unbelievably offensive... | ||
| A violation of the law for the cops to be prosecuted. | ||
| I mean, it has to be really outrageous where the state steps in and says, we've got to do something here, or we're going to face a riot. | ||
| The riots they have in Ferguson. | ||
| The riots they're having all throughout the country about Eric Gardner. | ||
| I don't think anybody... | ||
| I really believe this. | ||
| And this is from a life long of experience with police officers. | ||
| I don't think anybody's qualified for that job for a long period of time. | ||
| I think being a cop is something you can only do for a very short amount of time, just like being a soldier. | ||
| You know that one soldier that went fucking crazy in Iraq and wound up gunning down all those innocent people? | ||
| And, you know, they pull this guy aside and like, well, this guy had been flagged for PTSD many times. | ||
| And he was saying himself, like, I gotta get out of here. | ||
| And they sent him back over there again. | ||
| And he just went fucking crazy. | ||
| I think that the mind can only withstand so much stress. | ||
| And being a cop is a fucking insanely stressful job. | ||
| And they see horrible things. | ||
| Which is why I'm not a big fan of these blanket statements like, you know, I have friends that are like, fuck the police. | ||
| I'm like, no, stop saying that, man, because if some shit goes down, you're going to want to call the fucking police. | ||
| It's not fuck the police. | ||
| Just like when a black person robs somebody, it's not fuck black people. | ||
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| Absolutely. | ||
| It's not, man. | ||
| These are rash generalizations, and they're based on this premise that anybody could actually do that job correctly, which I think is wrong. | ||
| But herein lies the problem. | ||
| The public sector, as far as I'm concerned, should be held to a higher standard of accountability, not a lower or no accountability. | ||
| And if you are going to have the power and the authority to deprive people of life, liberty, and property, you need to be held to a higher standard. | ||
| And the lack of accountability that police officers see happen all over the country feeds this mental idea that you might... | ||
| You might very well be right. | ||
| That might be a mental deficiency, might be a form of PTSD, that you might actually believe that you're above the law, that the laws don't apply to you, because as you said, only in the most extreme and extraordinary cases are police officers ever prosecuted. | ||
| And I don't think there needs to be a, or there should be any kind of referendum or any kind of, I don't know, like... | ||
| An idea that there's a certain number of police officers that need to be... | ||
| Of course not. | ||
| When someone commits a crime, I don't care if they're black, white, or blue, okay? | ||
| There doesn't need to be a quota. | ||
| There just needs to be justice equally applied. | ||
| And that's the problem. | ||
| You know, in Miami, in the 1980s, people... | ||
| I mean, you think, if I was here... | ||
| For the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles. | ||
| And so when I think of race riots, you think of Detroit or Watts or Rodney King. | ||
| But Miami was the race riot capital of America in the 1980s. | ||
| We had no less than three incidents, all involving police officers, mostly white and Hispanic police officers, shooting and killing, or in the case of the first one, beating to death. | ||
| Unarmed black men. | ||
| And they all resulted in horrific race riots. | ||
| Some neighborhoods in Miami have never fully recovered from the 1980 riots. | ||
| You still see empty, undeveloped, entire city blocks that were burned down. | ||
| During those 1980 riots that people have not come back and reinvested in those African-American communities. | ||
| And we had that in 1980, 83, and 89. When the eyes of the world were on Miami for the Super Bowl, it was supposed to be, oh, we get all this good publicity. | ||
| We're having this world-class event. | ||
| The city was burning because of an officer who had first been... | ||
| Convicted if I'm not mistaken and then it was overturned on appeal and he went free and We rioted. | ||
| What did you think about what happened in New York where those cops got killed and then they sent out this order? | ||
| I don't know what How it was how it was dictated but the the idea was they weren't gonna arrest anybody. | ||
| The stand-down order, yeah. | ||
| For anything that wasn't necessary. | ||
| But my take on it was that should be how cops always are. | ||
| Fantastic. | ||
| You should always only arrest people for something that's absolutely necessary. | ||
| Serious, of course. | ||
| So what the fuck is this? | ||
| You, for a short period of time, went back to actually being someone who withholds the peace, or enforces the peace, or keeps the peace, and then from there, they went back to being revenue collectors. | ||
| Because that's what the fuck is really Policing for profit, absolutely. | ||
| When that kid, Eric Garner, that gentleman, which kid, he's older, that guy got dragged to the ground and choked, didn't have any loose cigarettes on him, wasn't selling anything, and people are like, oh, that guy had 30 different prior arrests, and oh, he resisted arrest. | ||
| That's not resisting arrest. | ||
| When you take a fucking innocent person and you violate their rights and you grab them around the neck and throw them to the ground, that should have never happened in the first place, and the only reason it happened, because of taxes. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| That guy should have never been arrested. | ||
| You have to remember, he's never been accused of a capital crime. | ||
| He wasn't committing a capital crime. | ||
| And even if he were, which is to say that he was facing the death penalty for whatever he was being accused of, that's not how we carry out justice in this country. | ||
| You don't get choked to death on the street like an animal. | ||
| That's not how we roll, okay? | ||
| No, it's nonsense. | ||
| Well, not only that, they even tried to claim it wasn't a choke. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Which I had to step in. | ||
| Bit of a technicality. | ||
| Yeah, well, technically, that's what I do for a living. | ||
| So I'm like, that's a fucking choke. | ||
| You know, let me do it to you. | ||
| Let me tell you if you can breathe real good. | ||
| That's ridiculous. | ||
| You're grabbing your forearm around that guy's neck and squeezing. | ||
| That's a fucking choke. | ||
| Well, I think you're right. | ||
| I think it exposed policing for profit. | ||
| Yeah, but that's the real issue. | ||
| New York City wasn't suddenly a lawless fucking Bane-running Gotham City town. | ||
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| Nothing happened. | ||
| What happened was that innocent people stopped getting harassed for no reason on the street over penny-ante revenue-generating ordinances. | ||
| And in that sense, it's not even the fault of the cops. | ||
| The cops are being forced into these situations where they become... | ||
| Revenue collectors, like these cops are being forced to go back and start policing as usual because they have fucking quotas. | ||
| And people that say, oh, quotas are bullshit, you know, you're... | ||
| No, you have to research it. | ||
| The quotas are fucking real. | ||
| They're 100% real. | ||
| An organization, a great local blog, Crespo Graham in Miami, who does a lot... | ||
| He's, like, obsessed. | ||
| We have this chapter 119, these public record laws. | ||
| We call them sunshine laws, where everything's in the sunshine. | ||
| Doesn't quite always work that way in Florida, but a sunny place for shady people and all that. | ||
| But he just does public record requests nonstop, and so people start leaking stuff to him before he even requests it. | ||
| And he got an email that this, like, third shift, this overnight shift in Little Haiti neighborhood... | ||
| That the city of Miami police's arrest quota. | ||
| They actually had, from like the shift sergeant, send out an email with quotas that included arrest quotas, meaning that each officer had to arrest, effectuate an arrest for what he didn't specify, but they had a minimum number of arrests they had to perform during a shift. | ||
| That is insane. | ||
| It's madness. | ||
| What if you don't encounter anyone committing a crime? | ||
| Well, that's what I've always said. | ||
| What would happen in this country if the entire country, if all 350 million people agreed, okay, even you fucking hardcore criminals, no one's going to do anything wrong for a month. | ||
| Just one month. | ||
| The system would shut down. | ||
| Yeah, the opposite of the purge. | ||
| For one month, no one's going to speed, no one's going to steal, no one's going to do anything wrong. | ||
| Just everyone abide by the law. | ||
| That's not outside the realm of possibility. | ||
| These departments would freak the fuck out. | ||
| They wouldn't know what to do. | ||
| They would have no revenue coming in. | ||
| I think about what Hitchens, rest in peace, always used to say about the necessity of religion to keep us From becoming savages. | ||
| We know right from wrong. | ||
| We have internal moral compass. | ||
| I said earlier, I'm like, God, I wish I could be corrupt so I could make more money and take care of my family better. | ||
| But I can't do it. | ||
| Every time I try to lay off what's right or wrong, I get right back on Twitter and I'm like, this shit's wrong and people need to know about it. | ||
| And it's the same thing there. | ||
| It's like, without the Ten Commandments, Would we just start raping and robbing and murdering? | ||
| I don't think we would do that. | ||
| It goes back to this sense of self-worth. | ||
| I think we all have, by and large, this sense of self-worth and preservation, which might very well be off the charts, but I think actually makes us a little bit more civilized, because it's like, well, I have too much to lose. | ||
| Maybe I'm not going to just rape, rob, and murder. | ||
| I think you're right. | ||
| I think that's a bad way of addressing it in the first place like this. | ||
| I have too much to lose to do that. | ||
| No, you don't want to hurt people. | ||
| It feels bad. | ||
| Whatever it takes. | ||
| It feels bad to insult people. | ||
| One of the issues that we have with the internet is that, you know, you have a real issue with people stalking, harassing, trolling people, being vicious to people. | ||
| Strangers too, like people that don't even know. | ||
| Because there's no social consequences. | ||
| You don't feel it. | ||
| If you're looking at a person and you take a person and you show them a picture of them with 15 dicks in their mouth, which, by the way, I'm not really talking about that because that's usually pretty funny. | ||
| There's a lot of pictures of me with dicks in my mouth. | ||
| I've never once tried to take them off the internet. | ||
| I think they're hilarious. | ||
| It doesn't bother me. | ||
| But for some people, it's genuinely upsetting, especially women that find pictures of them attached to- I'm googling right now. | ||
| Dude, believe me. | ||
| Go to my fucking message board. | ||
| There's a swarm of them. | ||
| I don't have a problem with it. | ||
| Is it a swarm of dicks? | ||
| Is it a gaggle out of you? | ||
| A flock of dicks? | ||
| Like a cauldron. | ||
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I don't know. | |
| I just think, look, there's the golden rule of the internet. | ||
| If there's a photo of you on the internet, somewhere someone has photoshopped a dick in your mouth. | ||
| If they haven't, it's just that people don't know about that photo yet. | ||
| I guarantee you by the end of this podcast, there will be pictures of you in some sort of a compromising position. | ||
| What's funny is that if I didn't have one, I'd actually be offended. | ||
| I'd feel worse about myself. | ||
| I'd be like, no one's bothered to even Photoshop a dick in my mouth? | ||
| This is terrible. | ||
| If you reach a certain amount of photographs of you on the internet, it's ultimately inevitable. | ||
| If you're a public person, you know, if you are a comedian... | ||
| You say inedible? | ||
| Oh, inevitable. | ||
| Someone's going to put a dick in your mouth. | ||
| I think it's fairly edible at this point. | ||
| It's a Freudian slip. | ||
| It's been proven. | ||
| But I think that, you know, that's more fun than anything. | ||
| The hateful shit you're talking about. | ||
| Yeah, hateful shit. | ||
| Like, I mean, I've seen some really fucking evil harassment that some people have had to suffer. | ||
| For whatever reason, it seems to be more women than anything. | ||
| Because with women, they could use the rape thing. | ||
| Like, if a guy tells me he's going to rape me, I'm like, well, good luck with that. | ||
| That's not gonna happen. | ||
| Unless you roofie me, you're not raping me, dude. | ||
| No Cosby. | ||
| I mean, you'd have to, yeah. | ||
| This thing that we can do because of this ability to interact with people with no social consequences, it's a real issue. | ||
| Twitter gangsters. | ||
| I call them sad, lonely Twitter trolls. | ||
| Facebook is a little bit better because with Facebook, you can click on the person's profile and you see, oh, this is Mike Jones from blah, blah, blah street. | ||
| Twitter some fucking egg. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| With some stupid handle and yeah. | ||
| Yeah, I mean that does become a real issue with social interaction, but I think it's a temporary hiccup. | ||
| I really do. | ||
| I think that this, we're in a stage of almost an adolescent stage of interactivity where what we're experiencing now is just, it's a weird like bridge between total connectivity. | ||
| The complete absence of any form of privacy is on the way. | ||
| It might be a hundred years from now. | ||
| It might be 30. It might be in our lifetime. | ||
| It may be a couple months from now. | ||
| Somebody might come up with something and they'll say, look, this one thing that we're going to implement is going to be unbelievable as far as exchanging information, as far as our knowledge base. | ||
| The actual IQ of human beings is going to double within weeks. | ||
| We're going to change the world, but no more privacy. | ||
| And you think we're in like the learning curve? | ||
| Yes, it's gonna happen. | ||
| We are essentially, we're driving around in Model A's, but one day someone's gonna invent a fucking 911 GT3. And you know, if you went back and took time when Henry Ford's driving around in a stupid fucking shitty car, you know... | ||
| And you pulled up beside him in a Mustang Shelby GT500 and go, check this shit out. | ||
| I'm from the future. | ||
| He'd be like, what the fuck is that? | ||
| Dude, I'm still waiting on the hoverboard. | ||
| I'm still waiting on the hoverboard. | ||
| Yeah, but the hoverboard is just floating. | ||
| What's the big deal? | ||
| It's just not touching anything. | ||
| Whoa, it's so crazy. | ||
| We have jets that go faster than the speed of sound. | ||
| I mean, the hoverboard's dog shit. | ||
| Oh, it can float. | ||
| So can a plane, stupid. | ||
| I just think of how much the world has changed. | ||
| We're working on a doc about 9-11 right now, and it's been like 14 years, which is incredible, because it seems like such a modern historical event, but it seems like just yesterday, and when you consider how much the world has changed, particularly technologically, there was no Twitter. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| There was no Instagram. | ||
| There was barely YouTube at that point, you know? | ||
| So, I think YouTube actually, no, there was no YouTube. | ||
| It was like 2003 or 2004. Right. | ||
| There was like Napster in 99, but that was like, you just think of how far we've come. | ||
| I think you're right. | ||
| This is just the infancy of this era. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And I think, like, what you're talking about on your website where all these people are getting upset and, you know, the Trayvon Martin thing and people are interacting and it's racism and all this. | ||
| All that stuff, I think, is a byproduct of the monkey DNA that we still carry around in our bodies. | ||
| And I think we're on our way to transcending that in some very strange way where it's not going to matter what part of the world you're from. | ||
| It's not going to matter. | ||
| It's all that. | ||
| One of the things we've seen Do you really believe that? | ||
| Yep. | ||
| These people getting married in Alabama, the way the world is changing, that I believe is 100% because of the internet. | ||
| I believe that wholeheartedly. | ||
| And that's one of the things that encourages me. | ||
| And I feel like this trend, like today, no one could try to bring back slavery today. | ||
| But in 1870, 1865, 1860, these were real arguments. | ||
| These are real arguments where people are saying we should be able to keep slaves. | ||
| That's a fucking blink of an eye, man. | ||
| That is not that long ago. | ||
| You're talking about 150 years. | ||
| That ain't shit. | ||
| That's not shit, historically. | ||
| I mean, that's so recent. | ||
| And more so now than ever before. | ||
| More so within the last few years than ever before. | ||
| And, you know, you've seen ridiculous things, though, like... | ||
| The social justice warriors, these really weird white people that are trying so hard to get black people to love them that they just go out of their way to just be outrageously progressive to the point where they're actually prejudiced against other white people. | ||
| They go so far left to become right. | ||
| I mean, I've seen some ridiculous shit where I saw this one guy who was quoting about Osama bin Laden saying that I will never celebrate someone's death You know, even if they were a horrible person, you know, and then the same guy quoted about Christopher Hitchens, you know, good riddance. | ||
| He was a misogynist and a warmonger. | ||
| Like, okay, fuckhead. | ||
| You can't have it both ways. | ||
| But what he is is the uber version of the social justice warrior, the unfuckable white dude trying so hard to To get women and black people to love him because he just is completely insubstantial in any real form in the normal context of our culture. | ||
| I find thinking about race so much is kind of racist. | ||
| So the more progressive you get about these issues, the more you're thinking about sensitivity. | ||
| I think that's an overcorrection, to say the least. | ||
| Like Black Annie. | ||
| Black Annie. | ||
| They're doing Black Uncle Buck. | ||
| Did you know that? | ||
| I just wanted to bang my head. | ||
| You don't have to do that! | ||
| That trend, that like, what was that, like the late 90s, early zeroes, when like hip-hop was peaking, they did a black, there was the Black Honeymooners, I don't remember, there was the Black Airplane, was Soulplane. | ||
| Yeah, Soulplane. | ||
| So that trend is like coming back around again, like we have to, We have to do the black version of all of these pop culture touchdowns. | ||
| They don't, though. | ||
| It's demeaning. | ||
| It's demeaning to black people to do that. | ||
| And first of all, Soul Plane, I know the guy who created it, white guy. | ||
| Not only that, opportunist, kind of a cunt. | ||
| What's going on is people are taking advantage of this opportunity to capitalize on a market. | ||
| Culture vultures. | ||
| Culture vultures is a great way of looking at it. | ||
| Early last year we did a mini-series for VH1's Rock Docs series. | ||
| I think it might have been one of their last Rock Docs ever. | ||
| Called The Tanning of America, One Nation Under Hip Hop. | ||
| Tanning! | ||
| The tanning of America, one nation under hip-hop. | ||
| As long as there's no blackface involved. | ||
| And it was a book called The Tanning of America, written by a guy named Steve Stout, who was a major duty guy in the record business and is now a bigwig in the marketing and advertising world. | ||
| And his thesis was that hip-hop culture... | ||
| Led to the election of the first black president. | ||
| The idea that a generation of Americans that grew up immersed with the music, the fashion, how it infiltrated the Wall Street, Madison Avenue, and the consumer goods sector, and we just grew up immersed in this culture, it tanned the mental complexion. | ||
| Of Americans and made it okay or even cool to vote for the first black president. | ||
| And so we had four hours to kind of prove this thesis. | ||
| And we go to Sundance last year. | ||
| I think it was actually, the venue was called The Black House. | ||
| And it was an event that sort of celebrated the African American cinema and culture that was going on at Sundance. | ||
| And so we're going to do like this panel discussion because the movie wasn't done yet. | ||
| We're going there and someone had said to me, for the first time, we've been working on this project for almost two years, or a year and a half, and someone said to me for the first time, like, particularly, I guess they were concerned about that environment, the Black House, which turned out to be a fantastic experience, but they said, well, what if somebody says, like, well, why are you guys doing it? | ||
| You know, you two, like, white Jewish dudes from Miami. | ||
| Why are you guys doing this documentary? | ||
| And the thought had never crossed my mind. | ||
| I didn't even think about that. | ||
| Why would I think about it? | ||
| To you it was just a fascinating subject. | ||
| Great story, great idea, great concept, a challenge to kind of prove that. | ||
| Which is what you do. | ||
| That's what you cover historically. | ||
| And then I started thinking about it. | ||
| And I'm like, well, why am I even thinking about this? | ||
| And someone put it and got in my head with it. | ||
| White privilege. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You have white privilege. | ||
| And then I started getting white guilt about it. | ||
| White guilt? | ||
| Yeah, white male privilege. | ||
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You should. | |
| You should have white guilt. | ||
| And then I started feeling like, well, wait, is it white male privilege that I never thought about this before? | ||
| Of course it is. | ||
| I was like, oh shit. | ||
| Of course it is. | ||
| Shame. | ||
| I know. | ||
| Shame on you. | ||
| A pox. | ||
| I was really in my head about this. | ||
| A pox upon you. | ||
| And then I'm like, and what if somebody else brings it up publicly or asks me about it or what the hell am I going to say or what the hell am I going to do? | ||
| Kill them with rocks. | ||
| And I thought about it for literally that entire thing happened in like a millisecond. | ||
| And then I'm like, well, first of all, we are that generation. | ||
| I thought about my childhood. | ||
| In Living Color was my SNL. Right. | ||
| Arsenio was my Johnny Carson. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I grew up a white Jewish kid. | ||
| I watched 227. I watched The Cosby Show, A Different World. | ||
| Amen. | ||
| Do you remember the show, Amen? | ||
| What the f*** am I watching Amen for? | ||
| What was Amen? | ||
| Amen. | ||
| Do you remember? | ||
| It took place at like a black church with, um, what's his name? | ||
| George Jefferson. | ||
| It was a great show, but what the hell am I watching it for? | ||
| But I loved it. | ||
| I didn't think about it. | ||
| How about Sanford and Sons? | ||
| One of the greatest fucking shows ever. | ||
| Good times. | ||
| Norman Lear. | ||
| A little white Jewish guy, like me, was responsible for the first all-black sitcoms on television. | ||
| Sanford and Son, The Jeffersons, Good Times, All in the Family, which really brought the discussion of race to mainstream television in the way stand-up comics were doing it, obviously well before that, but said, we're going to go on network television and have serious conversations about politics and race and poverty in this country. | ||
| White Jewish guy. | ||
| And then you look at Russell. | ||
| Russell Simmons teams up with? | ||
| Rick Rubin, a white Jewish guy at NYU. You look at all these sort of relationships that helped. | ||
| We interviewed Brett Ratner, white Jewish kid from Miami Beach, who loved hip-hop. | ||
| Because hip-hop wasn't just urban music. | ||
| It was youth culture music. | ||
| And that's why I captured the generation of kids who didn't want to listen to what their parents were listening to. | ||
| And it wasn't rock and roll anymore. | ||
| It became hip-hop or rap music at the time. | ||
| And the second thing was, Steve Stout, to his credit, When we walked in the room to meet with him, he didn't know we were white. | ||
| He knew we did cocaine cowboys. | ||
| He knew we did the U. He knew the work. | ||
| And he respected and liked the work. | ||
| So he's like, oh, I want to work with those guys who did this shit that I like and respect. | ||
| It wasn't like, oh wait, they're white? | ||
| So to his credit, he never thought about it either. | ||
| So it's like, why should I start thinking about it? | ||
| I'm dealing with the same thing right now with dogfight. | ||
| That's what I'm dealing with right now. | ||
| Yeah, explain dogfight to these folks. | ||
| Explain your new project. | ||
| Well, first I gotta spell it. | ||
| It's D-A-W-G. It's not Michael Vick. | ||
| Yeah, it's dogfight. | ||
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Yeah, it's not like Pitbulls. | |
| It's dogfight. | ||
| Well, the underground culture in Miami, there's been a street fighting culture. | ||
| Well, this was the subculture that... | ||
| I'd say Kimbo Slice was kind of responsible for it in a way. | ||
| Sure, yeah. | ||
| Because he became the role model for a new generation of young people in Miami to literally try to fight their way to a better life. | ||
| And there's this neighborhood, which is right where Kimbo came from and would fight in the backyards, called West Perrine. | ||
| So this is 22 miles southwest of South Beach. | ||
| So when you think Miami... | ||
| Most people default, like I said, to Ocean Drive. | ||
| This is 22 miles southwest of that. | ||
| This is in an area that I call a suburban ghetto. | ||
| And I say that because when you think of ghetto or an urban neighborhood, you think of vertical. | ||
| You know, people stacked in projects. | ||
| You know, on top of each other, next to each other. | ||
| But Perrine... | ||
| Has these very modest houses on a pretty reasonably sized lot. | ||
| So you have a little house and you have a nice size yard. | ||
| And so Dada 5000, Daphir Harris, he's this guy who actually, there's a video of him, a YouTube video that we use in the movie, of him benching in his mom's yard there in prime. | ||
| 650 pounds he benches. | ||
| And... | ||
| He's bench pressing and Team Kimbo comes rolling by and sees this guy, this beast, and is like, I'm going to fight Ray Mercer in Atlantic City. | ||
| Why don't you roll with us? | ||
| So for a year, Dada is on... | ||
| The fucking jet, you know, going around the world with Team Kimbo. | ||
| Well, Kimbo was very slick in that fight with Ray Mercer. | ||
| He was very smart. | ||
| Caught him in a fucking guillotine. | ||
| He's like, listen, bitch, I learned some new shit. | ||
| I ain't standing up with you. | ||
| Olympic gold medalist, world heavyweight boxing champion. | ||
| Fuck you. | ||
| I'm gonna fucking choke your neck. | ||
| And Kimbo, like, when he did that, like, Ray Mercer was pissed off. | ||
| You saw the Ray Mercer fight with Tim Sylvia. | ||
| Did you see that fight? | ||
| No, I didn't. | ||
| Goddamn. | ||
| Ray Mercer hit Tim Sylvia with a punch that probably took a year and a half off his life. | ||
| I mean, one punch. | ||
| He KO'd him. | ||
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You weren't laughing. | |
| That's terrible. | ||
| He KO'd him so viciously with this one punch. | ||
| I mean, he was one within the first 15-20 seconds of the fight. | ||
| Just hit him flush on the chin and knocked him dead. | ||
| So you're seeing that in a legal sanctioned environment where the fighters had checkups, they were weighed in, there's a doctor, an ambulance. | ||
| A lot of these are on Indian reservations and stuff. | ||
| Well, imagine it in a fucking backyard. | ||
| Oh, dude, I've seen them all. | ||
| I've seen Alex Caceres, who fights for the UFC right now, he got his start doing that shit. | ||
| So did Jorge Masvidal, who's a high-level fighter in the UFC. Masvidal fought a lot of those fights. | ||
| Well, that's, to me, the origin story. | ||
| That's the goal for these guys. | ||
| You have a neighborhood that is... | ||
| Over a third black. | ||
| The vast majority of the community is below the poverty level. | ||
| Unemployment is like a third higher than the national average. | ||
| And you basically have a community with very little hope and very little opportunity. | ||
| You've criminalized a vast majority of the male population so they can't get work. | ||
| And they think that their best hope Is to fight in these illegal, unsanctioned, bare-knuckle backyard brawls, upload the footage to YouTube, and hopefully get discovered by a professional MMA promoter or trainer, and try to go pro. | ||
| Well, look at Kimbo. | ||
| Kimbo Slice has made millions of dollars. | ||
| He's that Horatio Alger story that they aspire to be. | ||
| He recently got signed for Bellator. | ||
| He's gonna fight again on television. | ||
| How old is Kimbo? | ||
| It's a good question. | ||
| I would say he's probably in his 40s now. | ||
| When he fought for the Ultimate Fighter, I think he was in his late 30s. | ||
| Let's see. | ||
| Kimbo Slice. | ||
| Dada... | ||
| Team Kimbo blew up a fighter named Level Martinez? | ||
| 41. 41. Wow. | ||
| I'm thinking that's old in the world of the average age. | ||
| Heavyweights tend to age better, but he fought at 205, I believe, in the UFC. I think there's something going on with heavyweights where your body takes longer to learn how to move all that mass. | ||
| If I had a look at it that way, lighter weight fighters also rely much more on speed and reflexes. | ||
| I think as you get larger, you tend to rely more on skills and more on It's just sort of an understanding of what your body can and can't do. | ||
| They have smaller gas tanks, just undeniably. | ||
| There's no way a heavyweight, unless you're Cain Velasquez, who's really a fucking freak of nature, can fight at the same sort of a pace that a lighter weight guy can. | ||
| So the UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez is one of the most unique athletes I've ever seen. | ||
| Does that lend itself to longevity? | ||
| I mean, you just sort of like go at it? | ||
| Well, not him in his case, no, because he's all fucked up. | ||
| I mean... | ||
| Kane, who is an amazing fighter and one of the, I think, he might, is a good argument, he might be the best heavyweight of all time, but his body keeps breaking. | ||
| He keeps blowing out knees and shoulders. | ||
| It's because he's so mentally tough and he's so driven and focused and so intense and dedicated that he pushes through injuries. | ||
| And you can't fucking do that. | ||
| You know, when you push through injuries, what happens is they just break further. | ||
| You know, I mean, you can't push through a knee injury. | ||
| What you're doing is, yeah, you gotta get surgery or you gotta heal or you gotta figure out a way To recuperate the scenario or alter your training so that this doesn't happen in the future. | ||
| But they're all just so fucking tough, man, which is what made them great wrestlers in the first place and what allowed them to transition into MMA. But Kane has this insane gas tank where he just doesn't get fucking tired. | ||
| He just overwhelms guys because he's got so much fucking cardio. | ||
| And a lot of it is probably natural. | ||
| Like, his body... | ||
| Different people have different, like, natural VO2 maxes. | ||
| It's just, it's one of those things like some people have more fast twitch muscle fiber, some people have thicker bones, some people have more, they can just, especially for some reason it seems like Mexicans in particular have very good cardio. | ||
| It's really common. | ||
| I mean, it could conceivably be that a lot of Mexican folks come from really hard-working environments, and they've been forced to work labor jobs, like a lot of them, especially second, third generation, whose parents had an arduous trek to get over here from Mexico. | ||
| It could be mental, it could be just more mentally tough, or it could be some physiological aspect. | ||
| But my point is that he's a rarity in that his gas tank is just insane. | ||
| Most heavyweights, as they get older, they kind of learn how to pace themselves better. | ||
| They learn their skills. | ||
| They learn how to be more efficient with their movement. | ||
| Like Vladimir Klitschko, who is just unstoppable as the heavyweight champion in boxing. | ||
| I want to say he's 39 years old. | ||
| Which is, I mean, he's coming into his own now. | ||
| I mean, when he was younger, he went through a streak where he got stopped. | ||
| I think two fights in a row, he got KO'd and, you know, wasn't looking good for him. | ||
| And now he's like, you know, all these years later, he's like unstoppable. | ||
| Yeah, he's 38 right now. | ||
| And he's, you know, he hasn't lost like 10 fucking years. | ||
| I'm kind of fascinated by this because I'm just getting into it now. | ||
| I spent almost two years following this and several years in post trying to find a way to get it released. | ||
| Is it done? | ||
| It is almost done. | ||
| We're scoring it now. | ||
| It's coming out March 12th. | ||
| And will it be in the films? | ||
| You go to dog-fight.com, D-A-W-G-fight.com, or if that's tough to remember, cocainecowboys.com. | ||
| We'll eventually get you there. | ||
| You can click through, yeah. | ||
| But we... | ||
| It's going to be online. | ||
| It's going to be online. | ||
| You're going to be able to get it there at the site. | ||
| Will it be on Netflix? | ||
| Will it be on Apple TV? Eventually, absolutely. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Oh, absolutely. | ||
| Eventually everywhere. | ||
| I'm hoping to eventually get it on Showtime. | ||
| We've had a great run with the Cocaine Cowboys movies and some of our other docs on Showtime. | ||
| I mean, it's so good. | ||
| Cocaine Cowboys is so good, dude. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| The critic at the Miami Herald saw a rough cut because we're going to premiere it. | ||
| That shithead? | ||
| No, no, the movie critic. | ||
| No, no. | ||
| Who's a great guy, by the way, Rene Rodriguez. | ||
| I love Rene. | ||
| He saw a rough cut. | ||
| Go Rene! | ||
| He saw a rough cut and he said it's our best movie. | ||
| Dogfight. | ||
| Whoa. | ||
| Damn, that's strong words. | ||
| I know. | ||
| Because Cocaine Cowboys 1 was amazing. | ||
| Cocaine Cowboys 2 might have even been better. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Might have been better. | ||
| Said no one ever. | ||
| That fucking Griselda said me. | ||
| Griselda. | ||
| God damn, that bitch is terrifying. | ||
| Whenever I hear about people doing shit for money or for a paycheck, I was just like, listen. | ||
| I did Cocaine Cowboys 2, Hustlin' with the Godmother. | ||
| I directed a movie called Cocaine Cowboys 2, Hustlin', not even Hustlin', Hustlin' with an apostrophe at the end of it, with the Godmother. | ||
| Yeah, dude, and it was good. | ||
| I mean, that's in my filmography. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| You're very kind. | ||
| No, I'm not kind. | ||
| I fucking... | ||
| Do you not like the second one as much as the first one? | ||
| No, I don't. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yeah, I mean, if I'm ranking... | ||
| You know, I always say movies are like kids, you know, when people say, do you have a favorite? | ||
| Fuck yeah, but I'm not gonna tell you. | ||
| You know, like, it's the same thing with kids. | ||
| Like, every parent, I don't give a shit what they say. | ||
| I love them all equally. | ||
| No, you don't. | ||
| Because some kids are just assholes. | ||
| You can't possibly, you know, and some of them are screw-ups in life. | ||
| Do you have children? | ||
| No, I don't. | ||
| Yeah, you can kind of love them all equally. | ||
| Because I think when kids fuck up... | ||
| They can't like them all equally. | ||
| Yeah, there's a part of it that's your fault. | ||
| That's the thing that people don't want to admit. | ||
| So you feel guilty? | ||
| You're saying the guilt compensates for the lawyer? | ||
| Raises the love because you feel that they need more love because you screwed them up? | ||
| You're responsible for them being assholes? | ||
| I had a dog that killed one of my other dogs, and I loved the dog that she killed, but I loved her just as much, and it was very sad. | ||
| I mean, obviously I should have loved the dog that got killed more, because she wasn't a cunt. | ||
| She wasn't an asshole that was, you know, out there killing the other dogs. | ||
| But this dog was a sweetie, and I picked her up at the pound, and she lived at the pound. | ||
| She was in one of those no-kill shelters for like eight months, and... | ||
| When I was young, man, I had a real problem. | ||
| It was hard to talk about, I guess. | ||
| Where I felt like... | ||
| I always had this need to help strays. | ||
| And I think I had this need to help strays because I felt like a stray. | ||
| And when I would see a dog in a pound... | ||
| I bought a cat from a fucking pet store because it hissed at me. | ||
| Because I felt like this poor fucking cat. | ||
| Scared of me. | ||
| You don't have to be scared of me. | ||
| I love you. | ||
| And I felt that way about this dog, this poor dog. | ||
| I used to call her Squeaky because when I picked her up, she couldn't even talk. | ||
| She couldn't bark because she had barked so much so often in this pound that her voice was gone. | ||
| So when she was barking in the pound, she'd be like... | ||
| It was like this squeaky noise. | ||
| And I was like, what the fuck is wrong with her voice? | ||
| And I realized, oh my god, she's barking all day and she doesn't have a voice anymore. | ||
| And then when I took her home and took care of her, she eventually got her voice back and she barked like a normal dog. | ||
| But that dog fucking loved people, man. | ||
| She loved people. | ||
| She was so happy to be out of that. | ||
| But she didn't like other dogs, because if other dogs came near her, she felt like it was a competition for love. | ||
| Like, if you came near another dog, that other dog was going to get that love. | ||
| So she would get upset at that dog for stealing love from her, and she would try to attack it. | ||
| So I loved her equally, even though she was an idiot, you know? | ||
| But it wasn't her fault that she was an idiot, you know? | ||
| I realized from then on I would never get a dog that's not a puppy. | ||
| You gotta raise them from the time they're puppies because then you don't have any phobias or weirdness. | ||
| You get a chance to raise them around people and raise them around other dogs and socialize them and it's an important aspect of humans just like it's an important aspect of any other animal that's in our culture. | ||
| So, you know, you can love your fucking shitty kids just as much as you love your good kids because it's partly your fault that they're shitty. | ||
| I don't know about that. | ||
| It's your fault for bringing them into the world? | ||
| Some people are just born assholes. | ||
| I don't believe that. | ||
| Really? | ||
| I believe that. | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| I think it's how some people require more attention. | ||
| I don't think people are born assholes. | ||
| Oh, I do. | ||
| I think there's nature versus nurture, but I think that... | ||
| Because there are people who endure... | ||
| What I would consider and many other people consider intolerable stress and abuse and don't become psychotic assholes. | ||
| And then there are people who are raised in the most loving and nurturing and permissive and enabling environments and become deranged lunatics. | ||
| How do you account for that, though? | ||
| I don't buy that. | ||
| I think those people that become deranged lunatics, they probably didn't get the attention that they deserved, or they probably didn't get the... | ||
| Look, raising a human being is not as simple as just sending the kids to school and talking to them in bed at night. | ||
| You're training them. | ||
| You're communicating with them. | ||
| You're imparting love, and you're impart... | ||
| They learn by imitating their atmosphere. | ||
| They learn by imitating their environment. | ||
| Or they learn because they get ignored and they figure shit out on their own. | ||
| Someday. | ||
| People learn different ways and people absorb the lessons they learn in different ways. | ||
| It's like you were talking about the chemical makeup of a fighter and how different bones and different bodies respond differently to different stimulus and depending on your size and your shape and your training and your steroids or whatever. | ||
| I think that's true of a human. | ||
| You're born with a certain chemical balance and I'm not saying that can't shift or change with time but I think there are certain inclinations that we are born with. | ||
| Good or bad that cannot be rectified by a proper or positive upbringing. | ||
| Born with, like right out of the box. | ||
| Right out of the box. | ||
| I don't buy that at all. | ||
| You're gay, you're crazy, you're black, you're white. | ||
| Whoa, gay and crazy and black all in one sentence. | ||
| How dare you? | ||
| No wonder why people are so upset at you. | ||
| Those were mutually exclusive examples. | ||
| But I think that there are unquestionably characteristics that you cannot raise or beat or love out of somebody. | ||
| That they are just ingrained in them. | ||
| I think you should probably have kids before you say that. | ||
| I really do. | ||
| I think you should probably have kids and raise them from the time they're babies and see the developmental process. | ||
| Because it's a lot of what you're doing right now is just speculating. | ||
| And me, I've raised three kids. | ||
| I've been there. | ||
| I've seen the process of good and bad, the corrective process. | ||
| I've been very lucky that my kids don't have developmental issues or mental issues, and some kids are certainly born with that. | ||
| But I think, to a large extent, children imitate their environment, and there's certainly a lot of deterministic factors. | ||
| There's a lot of genetic factors. | ||
| There's a lot of intangible variables that are difficult to... | ||
| There's going to be kids that are more selfish. | ||
| There's going to be kids that are more angry. | ||
| There's going to be kids that are more outgoing. | ||
| There's going to be kids that are more gregarious. | ||
| You're always gonna have that. | ||
| You're not gonna have shitty people though. | ||
| Shitty people come from abuse. | ||
| Almost always. | ||
| Almost always. | ||
| When you have a really terrible person, that terrible person is not treated with love. | ||
| Almost universally. | ||
| I just don't buy that unless you have some like real issue, like a real brain issue, where there's like some part of the mind It develops decay or there's a tumor, there's an injury, there's something where there's a disconnect, two very critical processes. | ||
| Unless that's the case, like, you don't make a monster accidentally. | ||
| I don't think that's true. | ||
| I think you can choose. | ||
| To be a good person or a bad person. | ||
| I think there are some people that cannot choose. | ||
| That are... | ||
| Based on what? | ||
| Based on who? | ||
| Give me an example. | ||
| You're saying it's a very bold statement. | ||
| I don't think it's that bold. | ||
| It's very bold. | ||
| It's very bold saying that some people are fucked from birth. | ||
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No. | |
| That's what you're saying. | ||
| I'm not talking about it in a spiritual way. | ||
| I'm talking about it very much. | ||
| We're not saying spiritual. | ||
| We're saying the way they behave. | ||
| You're saying that some people, no matter what you do, no matter how much effort you put in, how much love you give these kids, and how much you expose them to different environments, you give them different tasks and different learning opportunities, they're still going to be shitheads. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Based on what? | ||
| That's what I'm saying. | ||
| That's such a bold statement. | ||
| That's what I'm saying. | ||
| But why would you say that? | ||
| You have no data. | ||
| It's not based on anything. | ||
| Yeah, but it's also a question of how you define... | ||
| But it is. | ||
| There's isolated cases of that everywhere. | ||
| It's like affluenza. | ||
| Affluenza is like one of those affluenza cases. | ||
| But saying there's isolated cases, you should have those isolated cases in your mind if you're saying something like that. | ||
| Well, I'm citing right now. | ||
| I'm citing the affluenza cases, for example. | ||
| But that's the flu. | ||
| No, no, no, not influenza. | ||
| Affluenza. | ||
| Oh, affluent people. | ||
| Which is this new made-up thing that say, these kids are shitheads because they've been given everything in life. | ||
| So now they're assholes. | ||
| And you would argue and fairly... | ||
| That's because they're most likely ignored. | ||
| Just because they have money doesn't mean they have love. | ||
| It doesn't mean they have learning experiences. | ||
| It doesn't mean someone has been nurturing them or guiding them or mentoring them. | ||
| Those are the issues that people have. | ||
| It's not money. | ||
| But I'm saying it's also possible that they have mental defects. | ||
| That's all I'm really talking about, which is what you've already said, which is that there are people who are wired, is what I'm saying, to propensities to violence, to be short-fused. | ||
| It's very possible that they do. | ||
| However, most likely, if they become cunts, it's because someone did a shitty job of raising them. | ||
| That includes this Affluenza, which is a very new term, which is why it fucked me up. | ||
| It's a horrible term, too. | ||
| It shouldn't be a thing. | ||
| It shouldn't be a thing. | ||
| Well, they've been using this to exonerate people. | ||
| Yes, it's crazy. | ||
| It's bizarre. | ||
| Well, it's this world, though, where, and you're going to get on me about this, too, because I don't have kids, but it's this world where everybody's looking for an answer for why their kid's an asshole, for why their kid's acting out, for why their kid is too sensitive, for why their kid... | ||
| And everybody needs a diagnosis, and or a drug that can help... | ||
| Fix them. | ||
| Everybody needs to know, like, oh, I'm not fucking up. | ||
| My kid actually has some, you know, invented malady. | ||
| Well, most likely by the time you have one of those issues, you've already fucked your kid up. | ||
| That's what's going on. | ||
| Children are animals, okay? | ||
| Just like a person, a grown adult is an animal. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| It's an animal. | ||
| Animals react to their environment. | ||
| Have you ever had a feral cat? | ||
| No. | ||
| I've had feral cats. | ||
| My friend Lainey, her and her boyfriend found these fucking cats underneath the house, and this cat had given birth to these cats, and she was giving away kittens. | ||
| Again, I have to take in strays, so I took this fucking stray in, and this crazy fucking cat was in my house. | ||
| And learning from feral cats, you realize, like, oh, okay. | ||
| Like, this cat is already fucked. | ||
| By the time I got to it, it was X amount of months old or whatever. | ||
| There was no fixing this fucking thing. | ||
| It was already fucked. | ||
| And that is the case with human beings. | ||
| You develop a certain amount of pathways in your mind, in your intellect, In the way you comprehend the world, in the way you interact with your environment, that's based upon the dangers that you've been exposed to, based upon the input that you've had. | ||
| And once those pathways are defined in a very violent and negative way, or whether you've been ignored, or whether you've been spoiled to the point where you could scream at the help and yell at the housekeepers and everybody bows down in front of you because you're a Rockefeller or something along those lines, the affluenza aspect of it. | ||
| When you get to a certain point, those pathways are so established in the mind that it's insanely difficult to change that. | ||
| So when you're coming along, you're saying, like, hey, you know, I need a pill to fix my kid. | ||
| No, you didn't pay attention to them enough. | ||
| Like, a child needs constant attention. | ||
| Babies need to have a mother around them all the time, a father around them all the time. | ||
| They need input. | ||
| They need to try to develop an understanding of their world, and a lot of people don't do that. | ||
| They pass their kid off to the fucking nanny. | ||
| They don't pay attention to it when it cries in the crib. | ||
| And they wonder why their kid gets fucked up when they're working 17 hours a day and they never see the kid. | ||
| And they're like, I don't have any fucking time to deal with this kid. | ||
| Let's put him on Prozac. | ||
| And that's what happened. | ||
| How do you then explain to people who overcome adversity, who come from horrific life experiences and make something of themselves? | ||
| Just because you can, because it can be done, doesn't mean everyone's going to do it. | ||
| Not everyone's going to finish a fucking marathon. | ||
| Just because people start running. | ||
| Some people run 100 miles. | ||
| They do that ultra marathon. | ||
| Some people get 5 miles in, they're like, I can't fucking do this. | ||
| And for whatever reason, they decide to take a nap. | ||
| They decide to sit on the side of the highway and stop. | ||
| Some people, they decide, you know what, my mom was a prostitute, my dad was a junkie, and I am not going to be like that. | ||
| I'm going to learn and I'm never going to have a drink. | ||
| I have a friend who's a great guy and his grandmother used to lock him in his fucking room and lock the door and leave him there for the weekend so she could get drunk. | ||
| His mom was never there. | ||
| His parents were never there. | ||
| And this fucking guy, to this day, won't touch alcohol. | ||
| And he's not a psychotic asshole, right? | ||
| And is terrified about food. | ||
| Like, he will not throw food away. | ||
| Like, when he goes to a restaurant and he gets scraps, I mean, it'll be a tiny portion. | ||
| That guy will take that to go with him. | ||
| He will not waste food. | ||
| It's because when he was a kid, he was exposed to this horrible situation. | ||
| But other people could have been exposed to that and become a serial killer. | ||
| Other people could have been exposed to the same situation Right, that's what I'm saying because they're predisposed to being good or bad people. | ||
| That's exactly what I'm saying. | ||
| No, it's not a predisposed. | ||
| He made choices and he became a fighter. | ||
| And one of the things about martial arts is it gave him a sense of self-worth and character. | ||
| But you can't say that he's predisposed to be a good person or someone else would be predisposed to be a bad person. | ||
| A lot of it is these subtle variables that happen when you're interacting with your environment. | ||
| I think some of those subtle variables, though, are chemical. | ||
| They are in the brain. | ||
| They do exist. | ||
| It's possible, but it's also, you should know what you're talking about when you're saying these kind of things. | ||
| You're stating them as facts, and I think there's a real issue with that when you don't have any data. | ||
| Oh no, I'm stating them as opinions. | ||
| But you're not, though. | ||
| You're saying when you're saying that some people are fucked. | ||
| I'm saying I believe. | ||
| I'm not saying that people, you know... | ||
| But you're arguing it so strongly. | ||
| Like, you have this in your mind as a rigid idea. | ||
| I mean, there's definitely possibilities as far as mental deficiencies. | ||
| I mean, look, some people are born blind. | ||
| You know, some people are born where they don't have any hands. | ||
| There's a lot of issues with human beings. | ||
| We don't come out perfect. | ||
| But... | ||
| To say that some people could do a great job and their kid's just going to be a monster anyway. | ||
| Most likely not. | ||
| Most likely what you're seeing is people that do not want to take responsibility for the fact they did a shitty job of developing a human being. | ||
| That might be by and large true, but you do have... | ||
| But schizophrenia is a legitimate mental defect. | ||
| I don't believe you're raised to become... | ||
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Yeah, but we're talking about diseases. | |
| But that's what I'm talking about. | ||
| That's a predisposition to... | ||
| Yeah, but you're not talking about leukemia or schizophrenia. | ||
| You're talking about people being assholes. | ||
| No, I'm not. | ||
| But that's what you were saying. | ||
| If you grow up to be a truly disturbed individual, there's not always an opportunity to... | ||
| Change that or to reverse that trend regardless of how well you're brought up or how loving your parents are. | ||
| Right, but you used affluenza as an example of that. | ||
| That's not schizophrenia. | ||
| That's people that ignored their fucking kids. | ||
| Oh, no, absolutely. | ||
| But what I'm saying is that there are people who have a predisposition towards certain behavior and there are people who may or may not be raised right. | ||
| I think we're confusing... | ||
| The two issues. | ||
| I think ultimately we might actually be saying the same thing in one way or another. | ||
| But I'm talking about legitimate defects in individuals. | ||
| Legitimate defects in individuals. | ||
| Call them mutations. | ||
| Call them what you will. | ||
| Most certainly there are legitimate defects in certain individuals. | ||
| Most certainly. | ||
| But I think that a lot of what we're dealing with as a culture, as a community is... | ||
| If you look at people in indigenous cultures, they're constantly around their children. | ||
| They spend all this time with their children, and you see far less instances of mental issues. | ||
| You see far less mental diseases. | ||
| You see far less issues of depression and the sort of existential angst that we exhibit almost like more frequently than not in our culture. | ||
| And I think a lot of that has to do with the developmental process of a child is not just misunderstood, but is ignored and is treated in a way where it's very irresponsible the way a lot of people raise children. | ||
| Like I have friends. | ||
| I'm sure. | ||
| Really nice. | ||
| I have two friends that are very nice folks and they both work insanely difficult jobs where they're gone all day long and their kids are starting to be fucked up. | ||
| And we've been friends with them for a long time. | ||
| So I've known their kids since they were little. | ||
| They've got a kid. | ||
| I mean, I can't be too specific about it or I'll be – but – I'm sure you're that. | ||
| Their son is fucked up, man, and they're smart, but they don't have the time, and they're not around the kid all the time, and the kid's terrified, and he fucking screams in the middle of the night all the time. | ||
| They're never home. | ||
| They have nannies to take care of them, and the kids are really confused. | ||
| And these people have long hours. | ||
| They work long hours. | ||
| And I don't see that changing. | ||
| And I see their kids coming out of this in a very fucked up way. | ||
| And I'm watching it happen from the beginning to where they are now. | ||
| To the point where me and my family, we're kind of avoiding them now. | ||
| We don't want to hang out with them because their kids are starting to be disturbed. | ||
| They're acting aggressive towards other kids in some sort of a weird way. | ||
| There need to be around their parents. | ||
| It's not normal. | ||
| It's like they're drowning. | ||
| They need air and their parents are air. | ||
| It's like they cling to them. | ||
| They hold on to them. | ||
| They're scared of everything. | ||
| And what it is, is these kids are not being nurtured correctly. | ||
| Because it's not natural in the wild as a human being, as an organism. | ||
| It's not natural to be away from your parents for 16 hours of every day. | ||
| It's not. | ||
| It's not natural to see your parents just as you go to bed and as you wake up. | ||
| That's fucking crazy. | ||
| But that is the norm for a lot of these people that want their cake and they want to eat it too. | ||
| They want to have a career and also have children. | ||
| You know, I know a woman who is a fucking huge executive at a major company. | ||
| And this crazy lady has three kids, and they're all nuts. | ||
| Their fucking kids are nuts. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| Because mommy barely exists. | ||
| Mommy exists in their life for ten minutes a day. | ||
| That's nuts, man. | ||
| That's nuts for a three-year-old. | ||
| And they don't know what mommy is. | ||
| They're not a rounder. | ||
| You're supposed to be a rounder hours and hours. | ||
| It's supposed to be cuddled and nurtured and you play with them and you teach them about life. | ||
| You teach them how to talk and how to count. | ||
| And then I have another friend and his wife doesn't work at all. | ||
| And the kid is three. | ||
| It can already count to a thousand. | ||
| It already knows how to spell his name and spell words. | ||
| Because why? | ||
| Because the mom's interacting with the kid all day long. | ||
| And this kid is happy and I'm seeing the direct... | ||
| Effect of people nurturing their kid and developing their kid as a project, mentoring their kid. | ||
| The same way you would mentor someone about how to do martial arts. | ||
| The same way you would mentor someone about how to write or how to do mathematics. | ||
| You're developing a thing, a thinking thing. | ||
| And that's what a human being is. | ||
| And I can't fathom... | ||
| A parent who would have this human being that is born of them that would not want to engage at that level. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Who would be like, oh, I want to go to work and leave my three children in the care of some other person who is not responsible for them in the absolute way that I would be responsible. | ||
| I can't even fathom that mentality. | ||
| So I'm not trying to get parents... | ||
| Off the hook with this theory. | ||
| But you also had an example of a perfectly well-adjusted, outstanding citizen and upright citizen and human being who came from a horrible environment and overcame that. | ||
| Well, let's not get carried away. | ||
| He's not an outstanding human being. | ||
| He's fucked up. | ||
| He's a fighter. | ||
| You don't get to be a fighter. | ||
| What I'm saying is this guy won't drink and he won't waste food and this is directly because of his horrific childhood. | ||
| He's not a good guy. | ||
| In fact, he's kind of abusive towards his children and he's got issues of his own. | ||
| He's not a good guy. | ||
| What I'm saying is there's a direct response to this guy living this horrible life as a child to him saying, I am not going to be like that anymore. | ||
| I'm going to make sure I don't do drugs. | ||
| I'm going to make sure I don't drink. | ||
| And this is because he lived in this horrible environment where he saw the direct effects of someone being an alcoholic and ignoring their children. | ||
| He learned what not to do instead of what to do. | ||
| But he's still a shitty parent, you know? | ||
| I mean, it's a very complex issue. | ||
| It's a very complex issue, raising children. | ||
| And it's an issue where people conveniently, intelligent people, conveniently like to skirt the responsibility of what it is to raise their children. | ||
| And I see it from friends. | ||
| I see it from friends that work long hours. | ||
| And it's one of the reasons why I choose to work much fewer hours than I could. | ||
| I want to be around. | ||
| I'm leaving from here. | ||
| I'm going to go pick up my kid. | ||
| And when I do that, I'm going to hang out with them, and I'm going to play, and we're going to have a good time, and we're going to talk about stuff, and I think it's a responsibility that a parent has. | ||
| I think people evolve toward that, not only in terms of becoming a parent and your priorities change, but as I get older, I can sense that happening. | ||
| I want to work less. | ||
| I want to enjoy life and have experiences a little bit more. | ||
| Ambition is great. | ||
| It's great. | ||
| I mean, it allows us to become successful to the point where we have less stress, you have a nice home, you have food on the table, you can take care of your needs. | ||
| But when it gets past a certain point, you know, my friend Brian Callen said it best. | ||
| He said, you want to be successful enough where you don't worry about what it costs to go out to dinner. | ||
| He goes, after that, it's all bullshit. | ||
| And he's right. | ||
| I mean, once, you know, you can have a nice meal and you don't worry about food. | ||
| You don't worry about having a roof over your head. | ||
| You don't have to live in a dangerous neighborhood. | ||
| You can afford to live in an area where you know that your family and your loved ones are safe. | ||
| Other than that, it's all bullshit. | ||
| Well, you have a bigger house and then a bigger, and now you have a castle. | ||
| Now you own an island. | ||
| Come on. | ||
| It's all more money, more problems. | ||
| Biggie said it right. | ||
| You know? | ||
| At a certain point in time, you trap yourself with your own ambition, and you get yourself into a situation where you realize, oh, this is not the smart way to do this. | ||
| I've just been caught up in this zero-sum game, this idea that you have to continue to grow. | ||
| You have to continue to expand. | ||
| Like a corporation. | ||
| We just had... | ||
| We're coming out to LA. Once a year, we make the pilgrimage. | ||
| Otherwise, we work and live in Miami. | ||
| And we're coming out to LA. And it's like... | ||
| We had a meeting. | ||
| And it's like... | ||
| This is... | ||
| On the one hand, it's like... | ||
| This is the most important meeting of our careers. | ||
| And then I thought about it... | ||
| Because I like to do this sometimes. | ||
| Just kind of flip something on its head and go 180 degrees. | ||
| And say, what if my belief is the exact... | ||
| What if the reality is the exact opposite of my belief? | ||
| So I said... | ||
| What if this is the least important meeting of our careers? | ||
| And it dawned on me, it's like, it's something kind of outside of our, it's in the entertainment industry, but it's kind of outside of our core competency as nonfiction filmmakers, and it certainly would advance us in the industry, but I was just like, if nothing comes of it, or it doesn't go well, this most important meeting of our careers... | ||
| We go home. | ||
| We go back to work making our documentaries. | ||
| I have very little to complain about. | ||
| I don't have to worry about where my next meal is going to come from or if I'm going to have a roof over my head. | ||
| I still got to work. | ||
| But we'll just keep doing what we've always been doing and we're pretty happy. | ||
| We're pretty happy in life. | ||
| What more do I actually... | ||
| I'd love to be able to support my parents a little bit. | ||
| There's little things like that. | ||
| But beyond that, it's just like, so what happens if this most important meeting doesn't go well? | ||
| Life is still pretty good. | ||
| I don't have that much to... | ||
| To complain about all things. | ||
| So I don't know if that's a product of being... | ||
| And 10 years ago, I would have been like, oh shit, this is it. | ||
| Everything's riding on this. | ||
| And now I'm kind of like, well, but what if it doesn't go well? | ||
| What's life experience? | ||
| Shit's still good. | ||
| You grow, you learn, you just get better at functioning, and you get better at coping with stress. | ||
| And you also have a perspective of a long life. | ||
| You have this perspective of many years of life on this planet and learning the lessons. | ||
| I was thinking about that. | ||
| We were talking about Yeah. | ||
| 41. | ||
| You graduate and enter the workforce. | ||
| You enter, obviously, at the entry level. | ||
| You start to work your way up in said industry or pivot to something else or whatever it is. | ||
| But in the meantime, you get married. | ||
| Maybe you get divorced. | ||
| Maybe you get married again. | ||
| You make some investments, some good, some bad. | ||
| You buy a house. | ||
| You have a mortgage. | ||
| Maybe you have a foreclosure. | ||
| You get some experience. | ||
| You start to learn as you grow. | ||
| And as you grow and advance in an industry... | ||
| You're making more money, hopefully. | ||
| And then by the time you're, say, in your 50s, you're at the peak of your powers. | ||
| You are making the most you're going to make. | ||
| And then you retire. | ||
| And... | ||
| That entire structure is completely upside down for a professional athlete. | ||
| Because they're going to make the most money they're ever going to make in their lives, basically in their 20s. | ||
| Even if you're a sort of premium, the most successful creme de la creme, like top 1% of professional athletes. | ||
| Because the other thing that people don't understand in this business is that like... | ||
| And that's sports and entertainment. | ||
| Not everybody is a millionaire. | ||
| People don't understand that. | ||
| A lot of professional athletes are journeymen. | ||
| They make decent money, or they make league minimum, whatever it is, but they still have to work. | ||
| They can't just retire tomorrow and be okay. | ||
| When people see that you make movies, your shit's on Showtime, or I see your stuff all the time, or you have a check on Twitter. | ||
| It's like, you must be a millionaire! | ||
| There's this incredible misconception in my line of work that we're rich and famous, and we are neither of those things. | ||
| You should be rich from that fucking documentary, from Cocaine Cowboys. | ||
| If you didn't get rich, somebody fucked you. | ||
| The most money I've ever made in the drug industry is selling my urine to my friends. | ||
| Because I was the only guy that didn't smoke or didn't do drugs. | ||
| In the drug industry? | ||
| Yeah, meaning my friends would like- You made more than that than you did from Cocaine Cowboys? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| No, I never sold my urine. | ||
| Because friends are going to be like, dude, my employer is going to start retesting if you say you sold me some piss. | ||
| But it's true, I was the kid growing up that never, I didn't drink until I was 21. Have you ever done coke? | ||
| No. | ||
| Never? | ||
| Never. | ||
| Adderall? | ||
| A half an Adderall once. | ||
| Right before the show? | ||
| No. | ||
| No? | ||
| No, it's a good guess, though. | ||
| Solid. | ||
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I ate Jolt Energy Gum before the show. | |
| Jolt Energy Gum? | ||
| Remember Jolt Cola? | ||
| Yeah, they have an energy gum. | ||
| Oh. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Don't do that. | ||
| That's bad. | ||
| You're going to have a heart attack. | ||
| I'm sweating a little bit. | ||
| Yeah, that's true. | ||
| Plus, you're going to crash. | ||
| At the end of this, you're going to need a nap. | ||
| No. | ||
| I'm in L.A., dude. | ||
| The pulse of this city is just... | ||
| You've got to keep going, huh? | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Stop, stop. | ||
| Go, go, go, go, go, go. | ||
| Stop, stop, stop. | ||
| Go, go, go, go, go, go, stop, stop, stop. | ||
| The pulse of this city, yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's interesting. | ||
| So when you were doing Cocaine Cowboys, did you ever have any desire to do coke to see what the fuss is all about? | ||
| No, in fact, it's interesting. | ||
| I went to an arts high school, and this is the mid-90s, early to mid-90s. | ||
| So, you know, drug trends, I find, like, nostalgia trends are cyclical. | ||
| Like, there's certain perennials. | ||
| Like, pot's always popular. | ||
| But, like, in the mid-90s, it was back to, like, 60s drugs again. | ||
| People were doing, my friends were doing like psychedelics. | ||
| They were doing acid, shrooms. | ||
| Good for them. | ||
| Ecstasy was like in a similar genre, so MDMA was on the rise then. | ||
| High school kids couldn't afford cocaine, but that wasn't as popular as it later became in the aughts, you know, in the zeros again. | ||
| That trend was coming around. | ||
| But like, um... | ||
| I was just never curious to kind of alter my mind. | ||
| My partners and I started our first company when we were sophomores in high school. | ||
| So I was like working. | ||
| I was like sort of goal oriented. | ||
| And then I was like, I was raised to believe that like, you go to school and then you go to college, you know, and you go to college. | ||
| I think it was my junior year in high school. | ||
| I had friends who were seniors. | ||
| And for the first time in my life, I learned that not everybody goes to college. | ||
| That was the first time I knew that. | ||
| Because I was just raised to believe that that's just the natural course of life. | ||
| I had friends who were, like I said, we were in arts high school. | ||
| We were going to go, I'm going to New York and I'm going to be a dancer. | ||
| And I'm going to go to LA. And I was like, for college? | ||
| And they're like... | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| I'm gonna get an apartment with some friends. | ||
| That was like a foreign concept to me. | ||
| So I was like the straight arrow guy. | ||
| I was a kid who finally got the respect that we would sit around in a circle and they'd be passing the joint and they would just pass it like around me. | ||
| You know, they would know not to even... | ||
| A room? | ||
| Yeah, we'd be like in a garage, we'd be in a backyard. | ||
| So you got hotboxed. | ||
| No, usually we're in a backyard. | ||
| Usually we're in a backyard. | ||
| I'm sure I've gotten that secondhand stone before. | ||
| You must have. | ||
| I've seen people get fucked up on weed, but like have panic attacks. | ||
| Oh yeah, I've seen it in this room. | ||
| I thought it was supposed to be like this chill high, like this mellow high. | ||
| Timothy Leary had a great expression about weed, not about weed, rather, about LSD, that LSD induces states of paranoia and psychosis in people that have never tried it. | ||
| Like, that people are terrified of LSD and, you know, just like... | ||
| I felt that way about Coke. | ||
| I mean, like, I felt if I did Coke, you'd have to scrape me off the fucking ceiling with a shovel or, like, a rake or something, because I would just, like... | ||
| I would just, like, be crazy. | ||
| Like, this is how I am normally, you know, with some caffeine. | ||
| I just... | ||
| I was always... | ||
| I wasn't afraid. | ||
| I was always just like, I'm not going to have a positive reaction to this. | ||
| And I don't know that the prohibition has ever been a deterrent, because obviously drugs are quite... | ||
| Of readily available in Miami, in particular. | ||
| Still? | ||
| Believe it or not. | ||
| Big Coke scene still? | ||
| Not as big of a Coke scene, but like, Molly is, you know, big now. | ||
| Certainly weed. | ||
| The biggest problem today. | ||
| But Molly is like the nicest people to be around. | ||
| The difference between people that are on Molly, they want to rub you. | ||
| They want to come over and hold hands with you. | ||
| They're friendly, they want a hug. | ||
| Well, the biggest concern there is like, what are you actually ingesting? | ||
| Like, who are you buying it from? | ||
| What did they cut it with? | ||
| Which is the problem with the illegality. | ||
| The prohibition creates the poison. | ||
| For sure, man. | ||
| Unregulated. | ||
| I mean, all these fucking people that are smoking fake weed, they're smoking this spice stuff. | ||
| Terrible. | ||
| Oh, it's awful for you. | ||
| You don't even know what you're ingesting in your lungs. | ||
| Your body doesn't know what to do with it. | ||
| It's alien. | ||
| You know, the cannabinoid receptors are like, what the fuck is this? | ||
| You know, it's like the same argument against artificial sweeteners, but to a much more heightened level because the way it's interacting with your mind is, you know... | ||
| I just think, again, I think it's traces, marijuana prohibition is like traces of this kind of like racism we were talking about earlier, this idea that you can't get past it. | ||
| If you objectively analyze, we're talking about Trayvon Zimmerman, if you just objectively analyze the facts of the situation, there's really only one reality there. | ||
| And it's incredible to me how people, how race gets in the way of blocking things. | ||
| Their access to that reality, but it's the same thing with marijuana prohibition. | ||
| It's a plant that grows out of the earth that is less dangerous than poison ivy, which is legal. | ||
| Although I wouldn't smoke it. | ||
| People have a real hard time being objective about issues that are hot-button issues. | ||
| Whether it's drugs, whether it's religion, whether it's race. | ||
| You have these drug dealers in lab coats at the local pharmacy. | ||
| Okay, who are killing children. | ||
| Not them, but, like, these pharmaceutical companies who are creating poison. | ||
| Toxic chemicals that people, because a doctor writes you a prescription for it, gleefully hand it to their wives, their kids, their parents. | ||
| Like, that is a mindset that's, like, ingrained in us as a result of just, like, a life of propaganda and just mind-fucking. | ||
| I mean, it's literally just brainwashing that you could think, oh... | ||
| This plant that grows out of the ground, you shouldn't roll that and smoke it. | ||
| We do it with cigars, we do it with cigarettes. | ||
| But, as soon as you start adding crazy shit to it, like nicotine or chemicals, that makes it legal? | ||
| Because the FDA is doing it? | ||
| It's tax stamps. | ||
| Alcohol is one of the most devastating drugs. | ||
| But why are people okay with it, by and large? | ||
| Well, it's because people are okay with culture. | ||
| When culture is firmly established and you grow up in that environment, it seems normal to put a fucking plate in your lips and stretch your lips out. | ||
| It seems normal to put a bone through your nose. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because all the elders, they have the scarification on their face. | ||
| I'm gonna get scarred up, too. | ||
| I mean, that's what everybody does. | ||
| We imitate our atmosphere. | ||
| To pay the government 25 cents to make a dime? | ||
| We were talking earlier about laws, about cops enforcing laws that are just essentially revenue-collecting laws. | ||
| They're not protecting anybody from anything. | ||
| There was two kids, barely teenagers. | ||
| They had the snow day out east with the blizzard a couple weeks ago. | ||
| And so instead of sitting around, dicking around at home, because it wasn't nearly as bad as everyone thought it was going to be, they decided instead of watching TV or playing video games, or I don't know, smoking the pot, they said, let's grab a couple shovels, go door to door, and make five bucks and offer to clean people's, you know, driveways. | ||
| And the cops came. | ||
| Because they got complaints that kids were knocking on doors or whatever, I guess, and stopped the kids. | ||
| They didn't have a proper permit. | ||
| They said that? | ||
| Where was this? | ||
| To be offering their services. | ||
| I did that all throughout my childhood. | ||
| When I was a kid, we would get psyched when it would snow now. | ||
| Me and my friends would go around the neighborhood and we'd shovel and we'd make deals. | ||
| Dude, they shut down lemonade stands now for not having proper permitting and licenses. | ||
| That's ridiculous. | ||
| And that's the revenue collecting aspect that we were talking about. | ||
| They're not about upholding the peace or protecting or serving. | ||
| New Jersey teens block from shoveling snow without permit. | ||
| Cunts. | ||
| That's all that is. | ||
| Jersey. | ||
| Jersey is a state where people can't even pump their own gas, for crying out loud. | ||
| Does it say the cops' name so we can say it on the air? | ||
| Police Chief Michael Giannone told MyJerseyCentral.com the two teens were not arrested or issued a ticket, but were stopped because the town was in a so-called state of emergency in advance of the coming storm. | ||
| Shut the fuck up, emergency, you pussy. | ||
| MyCentralJersey.com. | ||
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It's cold. | |
| Ooh, it's emergency. | ||
| That's my home page. | ||
| Where you can't shovel snow because it's going to be more snow out? | ||
| Yeah, good call. | ||
| Fucking assholes. | ||
| But again, listen. | ||
| But this is what you were talking about before. | ||
| These are the rules on the books that they're enforcing. | ||
| They're not making up these laws, the cops. | ||
| They're not to prop a permit for shoveling. | ||
| There's a permit for helping people get out. | ||
| Is that Boston or is that Jersey? | ||
| Whatever it is. | ||
| If you shovel someone for free, is that okay? | ||
| Oh, it's just exchange of money. | ||
| You know, that's what it is. | ||
| You could go around the neighborhood as a Good Samaritan, shovel everybody out, but the cops wouldn't have a problem with that. | ||
| If you're not giving the government, like I said, if you're not paying the government 25 cents to make a dime, because how much are these kids going to make that they could go out and spend, I don't know, $300 on a permit so that for one day, on a snow day when they're not at school, they could go around and make five bucks a driveway? | ||
| Like, it's insane. | ||
| I think cops should investigate really hot women that date these old, decrepit old men that are barely alive, and they drive around in Rolls Royces and shit. | ||
| You should be like, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho. | ||
| Let's sit down. | ||
| Sit down. | ||
| Let's talk. | ||
| What are you getting out of this? | ||
| You getting money? | ||
| He give you that rolls? | ||
| I want 25% of that rolls. | ||
| What? | ||
| That rolls is worth $250,000. | ||
| Pay up, hooker. | ||
| Why take 25%? | ||
| They could just use asset forfeiture and take the whole thing. | ||
| Yeah, that girl's a whore. | ||
| She should give up that money. | ||
| Give up that fucking car, bitch. | ||
| You know you don't love that old man. | ||
| It's a prostitution sting. | ||
| Gotta seize it. | ||
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Seize the rolls. | |
| If you had Anna Nicole Smith and her husband, remember that dude? | ||
| Rest in peace. | ||
| Yeah, before he died. | ||
| Both of them. | ||
| Yeah, both of them. | ||
| Yeah, right? | ||
| She's dead, too. | ||
| Isn't that crazy? | ||
| But, like, I mean, that was one of the more clear examples of public prostitution you're ever going to see. | ||
| A billionaire, J. Howard Marshall, and a big Kentucky Fried Hooker. | ||
| I mean, that's what it was. | ||
| And you have one that's profiting off of the other. | ||
| When you go to the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, Florida, at the improv, you don't stay in the Anna Nicole suite? | ||
| There's an Anna Nicole suite? | ||
| She died there. | ||
| Oh. | ||
| There's ghosts. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| There was a rumor, by the way. | ||
| The Seminoles would never confirm this, but there was a rumor that they actually sent a witch doctor or something to kind of de-poltergeist or whatever the room. | ||
| And then they completely redid the room, changed the number. | ||
| That's the room. | ||
| They would never comment on it or confirm that. | ||
| Well, she was so dumb, I bet her ghost would be too stupid to haunt anybody. | ||
| I bet her ghost would be like, woob. | ||
| No, boo. | ||
| Boo. | ||
| Fuck it, I quit. | ||
| The ghost would just take naps. | ||
| The ghost would just take naps and do pills. | ||
| Imagine if you saw a ghost of a fat chick eating pills on the couch. | ||
| It's such a non-threatening ghost. | ||
| Especially on Seminole land. | ||
| She would be the least scary ghost in an Indian burial. | ||
| Think about that. | ||
| You're talking about Native Americans who are not just persecuted, but they were Genocide was committed upon their people. | ||
| And as a compensation, they were given swaths of land where they can open up casinos. | ||
| I mean, it's madness. | ||
| I always say the Indian casinos, the famous saying is, the house always wins. | ||
| The Indian casino is the only casino where the house never wins. | ||
| Because no matter how much money you lose, we still rape their women and stole their country. | ||
| So it's like, call it reparations, sit down at the one-armed bandit and lose some money for crying out loud. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But what's interesting is that now, and this might go to your earlier point, that it's affluenza, there are no Native Americans that work at these casinos anymore. | ||
| They sit at home, get the check, Every month from the revenue. | ||
| And now they're hiring white boys to wrestle alligators and do all the Indian cultural, Native American, rather cultural shit. | ||
| And there's no Indians in an Indian casino anymore. | ||
| They're all just kind of living off the fat of the land and getting their checks and not incentivized to motivate or do anything. | ||
| And you see higher rates of alcoholism, of drug abuse, and they're just sitting around getting checks and a lot of them are dying. | ||
| Well, that's always been an issue on Native American reservations, right? | ||
| Alcoholism, drug abuse, depression. | ||
| I mean, their culture was stolen. | ||
| I mean, it's like essentially they were wiped out except for a few survivors who were then forced to assimilate in this new, strange culture and then made aware of it painfully every step of the way when you're growing up that you were the loser in this cultural genocide attack. | ||
| Seminoles are unconquered, they always were. | ||
| Yes, they always say that. | ||
| Well, the Seminoles actually do a lot of good things. | ||
| They use that money in a lot of good ways. | ||
| And they support a lot of charities. | ||
| That tribe in Florida is responsible for a lot of good things. | ||
| And dude, they bought one of the most American brands. | ||
| The Hard Rock. | ||
| Talk about the ultimate fuck you. | ||
| We own the hard rock. | ||
| I'm like, what a great thing that was. | ||
| I love that club, too. | ||
| I work at that club every time I'm down there. | ||
| I prefer that club over the bigger one in West Palm, which I get more money at. | ||
| It's like a more intimate environment. | ||
| I go there and I sacrifice a little money and I have a better time sometimes. | ||
| My girlfriend was doing a project for school a few months ago, and it was about the... | ||
| Appropriation of Native American culture and how it's one of the few races where it's still okay. | ||
| It's a whole Redskins phenomenon, you know, like how it's still okay to be racist and to create kind of like minstrel-esque images of them. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Children dressing up. | ||
| Redskins! | ||
| How about the fucking Redskins? | ||
| That's like having a team called the N-word. | ||
| That's the equivalent. | ||
| But people don't look at it that way. | ||
| I just don't understand how they don't just change the name. | ||
| It's not a difficult thing. | ||
| And do it, look, if you want to honor Native Americans and somehow or another keep like that, you could just change the name. | ||
| You know, call it, you could call it whatever. | ||
| I mean, there's people that call it the Warriors, like the Golden State Warriors. | ||
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Right. | |
| Like, no one's having, I don't think if they do have an issue with that, they're being silly. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Because that's an honorable, I mean, that's like, you're being proud of what these people were at their finest or at their most noble and powerful. | ||
| People still get offended I'm offended by the mascot tree, though. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| And it's a real white guilt moment for me. | ||
| Well, there's animal rights activists who get offended by any mascots. | ||
| You're always going to have some people that are ridiculous. | ||
| But redskin is a little weird, man. | ||
| I didn't really think about it that way, but it's incredibly offensive. | ||
| Cleveland Indians? | ||
| Yeah, I saw it earlier. | ||
| Yeah, that's offensive, you fuck. | ||
| What are you doing wearing that? | ||
| Good work, wild thing. | ||
| Good work, wild thing. | ||
| Yeah, I just like... | ||
| But I wasn't... | ||
| That was something I was completely... | ||
| I don't want to say I was insensitive to it. | ||
| I was just kind of unaware of it. | ||
| And then she starts doing this whole PowerPoint on it. | ||
| And she starts going and getting racist iconography through the years. | ||
| Particularly in the South. | ||
| We're in Miami and Florida. | ||
| And I was like... | ||
| And she was kind of putting them... | ||
| She was doing side-by-side comparisons to classic... | ||
| Pre-civil rights era racist advertising and posters and imagery and art and then contemporary Native American depictions. | ||
| Left and right. | ||
| And I'm like, oh shit. | ||
| I was like, yeah, how can we not see that that's... | ||
| Like, that was... | ||
| That racist, you know, a black... | ||
| You know, the black cartoon face with the great big lips eating a watermelon. | ||
| That was okay once. | ||
| You could advertise your store or your product using that kind of shit. | ||
| And then she's got the same exact... | ||
| Reminiscent imagery, but from contemporary ads. | ||
| Again, kids dressed up as Indians, and with the war paint, and the headdress, and kind of comparing that to modern-day minstrel. | ||
| And I'm like, that's fascinating. | ||
| I just never thought about it that way. | ||
| White privilege. | ||
| As a white man, I started to feel all fucking bad about it again. | ||
| And I'm like, I'm the asshole. | ||
| I never thought about this before, and I'm an asshole for never having... | ||
| But Redskins is like... | ||
| I'm saying it. | ||
| I'm actually going like, oh shit, should I be saying the R word? | ||
| I'm actually now in that headspace because of white guilt. | ||
| Yeah, it's definitely not necessary. | ||
| It's not! | ||
| It's not! | ||
| Look, you could still have the same exact team, the same exact athletes, the same exact pride, and just let's get together and have a contest to come up with a new name. | ||
| And you would get people that would be so happy about that. | ||
| And the publicity from that contest alone. | ||
| I'm sorry, but we're going to keep it out of tradition and because our fans aren't offended by it. | ||
| We had slavery out of tradition. | ||
| Is Aunt Jemima still have a fucking black lady that looks like a slave on the cover of their... | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Jesus fucking Christ. | ||
| How's that happening? | ||
| That's a thing. | ||
| Is there an Aunt Jemima.com? | ||
| I think she's the woman who actually created the syrup, right? | ||
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There she is. | |
| There she is. | ||
| But she's a lovely woman. | ||
| Yeah, well, she looks different now. | ||
| Yeah, she's not all dressed like the mammy. | ||
| She used to be a mammy, though. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| It was like right out of Antebellum South. | ||
| It was like a Gone with the Wind character. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
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Yeah, right? | |
| Yeah. | ||
| She's a lovely working woman now. | ||
| Well, she has regular hair now, too. | ||
| She used to have that bandana over her hair where she wouldn't get her dirty hair and the white man's food. | ||
| Yeah, this is what she used to look like, man. | ||
| Good lord. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Oh my god. | ||
| Aunt Jemima used to look like a slave. | ||
| Well, that's why they updated Wendy, you know, because the ginger protest movement was trying to get Wendy of Wendy's. | ||
| Really? | ||
| No, I'm just... | ||
| Oh. | ||
| Goddamn. | ||
| Some people are sensitive about that. | ||
| The redheads, not the redskins, but the redheads. | ||
| But that's what I'm wondering. | ||
| I'm wondering, like, are we... | ||
| At what point does it be... | ||
| Are we veering into political correctness? | ||
| I think... | ||
| The Redskins thing is going too far. | ||
| I really believe that. | ||
| You mean in a negative way? | ||
| I don't think we're being overly sensitive, is what I'm saying. | ||
| No, I don't think so at all. | ||
| I think it's fucked up. | ||
| I think if you were a Native American, it would be a huge issue. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| It would be very much like, you know, if you had the fucking... | ||
| San Francisco guineas. | ||
| The mascot was the fucking Italian guy with a hairy chest and gold chains looking stupid with pasta stains on his shirt. | ||
| That would be Jersey. | ||
| That would be San Francisco. | ||
| There's a lot of guineas in San Francisco, believe it or not. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Is that a thing? | ||
| Is there like Little Italy? | ||
| Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| There's a lot of Italian people in San Francisco. | ||
| San Francisco has some fucking amazing Italian food. | ||
| Goddamn, on Columbus Ave. | ||
| Best dim sum of my life. | ||
| They're very good Chinese food, but very good Italian food too. | ||
| San Francisco is really good. | ||
| There's some jamming Italian restaurants we eat at every time we work there. | ||
| I was complaining about, have you ever driven in San Francisco? | ||
| It is treacherous. | ||
| Dude, it is fucking treacherous. | ||
| It's easy. | ||
| I grew up in Boston, son. | ||
| Oh yeah, I grew up in Miami. | ||
| I grew up on black ice. | ||
| We're at sea level. | ||
| We're at sea level. | ||
| You know the highest elevation in the state is Mount Trashmore. | ||
| It's a landfill. | ||
| That is the highest elevation in the state. | ||
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How tall is it? | |
| And appropriately, when they did that movie Rock of Ages, they put the Hollywood sign on Mount Trashmore. | ||
| Oh, that's funny. | ||
| We always say in Florida, the only thing you can't really recreate is mountains and snow, but they found a way to do it. | ||
| I don't know how high it is, but that's the highest point of elevation in Florida. | ||
| It's all trash. | ||
| Mount Trashmore. | ||
| It's a landfill that they're just piling on. | ||
| But I grew up... | ||
| It was the scariest thing. | ||
| We were actually doing Cocaine Cowboys 2, hustling with the godmother in Oakland, in Brookfield Village. | ||
| And I had to drive the equipment truck back and return the equipment at the end of that shoot. | ||
| So I'm driving in this great big truck with, I don't know, untold thousands of dollars worth of equipment that I've got to return to this house. | ||
| And I was just petrified. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because I was looking straight up. | ||
| Oh, the hills. | ||
| The hills, dude! | ||
| Did you ever see Bullet with Steve McQueen? | ||
| Of course! | ||
| I watched it again a couple weeks ago, or a couple months ago. | ||
| I was on a trip in Canada, and I was watching it with a friend who had never seen it before. | ||
| I was like, dude, you're in for a goddamn treat. | ||
| This is a real American movie. | ||
| And it's also a movie where there's very little dialogue. | ||
| It's a great movie, man. | ||
| Bullet with Steve McQueen's a great movie. | ||
| The 70s were like the last golden age of American cinema. | ||
| It's when shit got real. | ||
| It's when shit got real. | ||
| They were definitely different. | ||
| It was a completely different style of making a movie back then. | ||
| You didn't have to have music in every goddamn scene. | ||
| You had some real moments too. | ||
| Gritty, gritty, gritty, gritty, gritty. | ||
| And I think they were just coming out of the 60s with that transition where, in terms of censorship, Where you could start pushing the envelope in the 60s. | ||
| By the 70s, there was no envelope anymore in just mainstream cinema. | ||
| You could do practically anything. | ||
| And they did. | ||
| And that wasn't just in terms of sex and violence, but in terms of the reality and the grittiness of the stories and the characters. | ||
| Shit became really... | ||
| Dirty Harry. | ||
| Those early Dirty Harry movies are brutal. | ||
| They're brutal. | ||
| But they're dumb. | ||
| The difference between that and like Bullet. | ||
| Bullet is a brilliant movie. | ||
| It's like the people that are in it, they're great actors. | ||
| It feels real. | ||
| There's some Dirty Harry moments where you're like, go ahead, make my day. | ||
| I'm like, come on. | ||
| Fuck out of here, crazy asshole. | ||
| You know, it's like, they're fun, but, you know, it's a fun movie to watch, but it doesn't give you a feeling like you're actually watching something that could actually be taking place. | ||
| But it's brutal. | ||
| It is brutal, that movie. | ||
| Oh, yeah, man. | ||
| It is just raw. | ||
| Death Wish, too. | ||
| Oh, the first one, yeah. | ||
| Charles Bronson, man. | ||
| Yeah, the first one, not the fifth one so much. | ||
| Well, there's, yeah, they started selling out, his face started getting fatter. | ||
| Listen, again, I made Cocaine Cowboys 2, Hustle of the Godmother. | ||
| I can't complain about sequels. | ||
| Why do you not like that one, man? | ||
| I made the U part two. | ||
| We've not made two sequels. | ||
| I don't understand why Cocaine Cowboys 2, you keep apologizing for that. | ||
| I'm not apologizing for it. | ||
| Okay, so Cocaine Cowboys 1, you have no apologies, right? | ||
| No, I mean, there's certainly things I do differently. | ||
| We got to do Cocaine Cowboys Reloaded, which was great. | ||
| What was wrong with part two? | ||
| No, there was nothing wrong with it. | ||
| Did someone force you to call it Hustlin' with the Godmother? | ||
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No. | |
| Is that what's up? | ||
| I think what happens is you have a lot of temporary working titles that just stick, like our first doc. | ||
| There's nothing wrong with it. | ||
| We did this doc called Raw Deal, A Question of Consent. | ||
| And Raw Deal was just our working title. | ||
| And it was about the alleged rape of a stripper at the Delta Chi fraternity house at the University of Florida in Gainesville in the spring of 99. And the entire night's events were captured on two video cameras. | ||
| And so we used the video footage and then we interviewed the stripper and we interviewed some of the fraternity men. | ||
| So the thing about the footage is that it was placed in the public record. | ||
| I was talking about these very liberal public record laws we have in Florida. | ||
| So it was placed in the public record and it became like the cause celeb in Gainesville. | ||
| Gainesville is a small town. | ||
| I used to live there. | ||
| Did you really? | ||
| Gainesville? | ||
| Yeah, I lived there when I was a little kid. | ||
| Between the age of 7 and 11, I lived in Gainesville. | ||
| Really? | ||
| You're an actual county resident. | ||
| Going to the University of Florida, so I was down there. | ||
| I used to go to Lake Alice and feed alligators, marshmallows, before they made it illegal. | ||
| Wow, yeah. | ||
| Well, they were in the Ocala National Forest, which you might be familiar with, and they were doing a Big Brother, Little Brother pledge event. | ||
| I didn't rush. | ||
| I wasn't in the Greek world, but some ritual where there's a bonfire. | ||
| I don't know what the hell they do. | ||
| Is there anything that needs to be boycotted? | ||
| Boycott that shit, kids. | ||
| Enough. | ||
| Be your own fucking man. | ||
| Quick flash forward. | ||
| We premiered at Sundance Film Festival and then later went to the Edinburgh Film Festival. | ||
| It's like the Sundance of Europe. | ||
| So we go to Edinburgh and all the questions, which is kind of interesting because most of the questions in America were about this controversy, which I'll get into in a minute, but almost all the questions in Edinburgh We're about what the hell the Greek system is. | ||
| They don't have it there. | ||
| So they were completely... | ||
| This was like a total... | ||
| It was like a Nat Geo doc for them. | ||
| They were like, what is this... | ||
| What is fraternities? | ||
| And I'm like the least qualified person to be at... | ||
| To be talking about that. | ||
| I think when you go to the University of Miami, which I did... | ||
| And I was a Miami guy. | ||
| Like, you don't need to... | ||
| For social interaction, you don't need a club. | ||
| Like you might need to do in Gainesville or Tallahassee or these college towns. | ||
| These insulated college towns where the social environment is very kind of restricted. | ||
| In Miami, it's like, who cares? | ||
| Well, it's also this hazing and all the fucking... | ||
| Pledging. | ||
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It's creepy, dude. | |
| Fuck all that, man. | ||
| It's creepy. | ||
| So they're hazing these kids or whatever this ritual. | ||
| The big brother, little brother pledge ritual out in the forest. | ||
| They go back to the fraternity house, to the common area, and they have two strippers that they hired to come and perform. | ||
| One of the strippers leaves after the show. | ||
| one of the strippers goes back for a private party with some of the fraternity men come the dawn she goes running to a neighboring fraternity house her grandmother was actually a house mom of one of the she thought this was the house that her grandmother worked at it wasn't but she's wearing nothing but a t-shirt that belonged to one of the fraternity men coming up to about her belly button and banging on the door of this neighboring house saying that she had been raped and she told the university police department that they had videotaped it and they go and get the videotaped footage and spoiler alert | ||
| watch one of the two videotapes and arrest the stripper for filing a false police report based on the videotaped footage and as a result of that One of the two videotapes. | ||
| One of the two videotapes. | ||
| What about the second videotape? | ||
| They didn't care. | ||
| But does the second videotape show an actual rape? | ||
| The second videotape, as it turns out, was just coverage of... | ||
| It was like A cam, B cam. | ||
| So the second videotape doesn't show that much more. | ||
| It just shows alternate angles of the same action rather than... | ||
| So what happens is there's now a misdemeanor filing a false police report case against this woman. | ||
| And as a result, the media says, well, we want to see that this is evidence in a criminal case. | ||
| Her lawyer argues that under rape shield laws that her identity should be protected and this videotape footage should be protected because it depicts a rape. | ||
| A judge viewed the footage and says, this ain't no rape. | ||
| And they release the footage to the public. | ||
| And there's a backlog at the state attorney's office and the clerk of courts there. | ||
| Because they're like making copies of the videotape and sending it to people. | ||
| So in Gainesville, if you were the first person on your block to get the tape... | ||
| What they call the rape tape. | ||
| You'd have a kegger. | ||
| People would invite friends over to their house. | ||
| Because you were the first person to get it and everybody wanted to see it. | ||
| So what happens is like... | ||
| Growing up in Miami, you got friends, of course, who go to Gainesville, go to Tallahassee, go to the two major state schools. | ||
| Of course, only in Florida do our two flagship state schools were they both targets of major serial killers. | ||
| Ted Bundy in Tallahassee and Danny Rowling in University of Florida. | ||
| Only in Florida. | ||
| And... | ||
| So we hear from friends. | ||
| So I'll never forget this as long as I live. | ||
| We hear from one of our friends. | ||
| And we grew up same neighborhood. | ||
| I say that same upbringing, white, middle class Jewish kids. | ||
| I say that to say we had similar kind of life experiences. | ||
| And come at things with a not dissimilar worldview. | ||
| So they said, did you hear? | ||
| This is like summer of 99 by now. | ||
| And they're like, did you hear about this case with Delta Chi and the stripper and the videotape? | ||
| I said, yeah, yeah. | ||
| I read about it. | ||
| And they're like, I just saw the videotape at a friend's house. | ||
| I was like, well, what happened? | ||
| And my friend's like, he's like, it was disgusting. | ||
| What they do to this poor woman, like, I haven't been able to eat or sleep for days. | ||
| It's horrible what they put her through, how they talk to her, how they put her down, how they hold her down. | ||
| She's kicking and trying to get away. | ||
| And I can't believe they haven't arrested these guys. | ||
| And it's just, I'm just completely distraught over it. | ||
| And then days later, I hear from another buddy. | ||
| Again, we all grew up together. | ||
| Same story. | ||
| Same group. | ||
| I said, what? | ||
| He said, did you hear about the video? | ||
| I said, of course. | ||
| I just heard. | ||
| Yeah, he's like, this lying slut. | ||
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Oh, no. | |
| While she's screwing around with all these guys and then she cries rape, they should lock her up and throw away the key. | ||
| And I'm like, what on earth? | ||
| You have two... | ||
| Did you see the tape before this? | ||
| No, not before this. | ||
| I only heard about it from these guys. | ||
| And I'm like, two reasonable, educated, similar demo guys watch the same footage and diametrically disagree about whether or not they witnessed a consensual or non-consensual sex act. | ||
| And I'm like, we gotta see this footage. | ||
| So in a sense, it's kind of analogous to this Trayvon Martin thing in sort of a way, but you actually have a video. | ||
| Right, but you have the video. | ||
| People have predisposed to have an opinion. | ||
| Or the Duke Lacrosse case. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The Duke Lacrosse case, which turns out they never touched the girl. | ||
| A lot of the guys were alibied. | ||
| One guy was at an ATM machine making a withdrawal while the woman claims that he was raping her. | ||
| But here, you had sexual interaction. | ||
| Unquestionably. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Undeniably. | ||
| Here was videotaped footage of the sexual interaction. | ||
| What's your take on what actually happened? | ||
| You gotta see the movie. | ||
| Fuck you. | ||
| I hate to say that. | ||
| I'm gonna send it to you. | ||
| We don't have much time left. | ||
| You don't have to worry about it. | ||
| You gotta just tell me, because you have to tell me. | ||
| What do you think? | ||
| What I think is that you have one of the most oft-committed, least reported crimes in the history of man. | ||
| Most of these crimes, as they say, are not like the masked man in the bushes. | ||
| Stranger rape makes up the minority of rape. | ||
| It's mostly acquaintance or date rape. | ||
| What I think though is that you have a world where we expect videotaped footage to tell an objective truth. | ||
| To say, here's the surveillance video, there's the guy robbing the store, let's go find him, case closed. | ||
| When you have a crime like this that exists Predominantly in the minds of the alleged victim and alleged perpetrator, it's almost impossible to determine because not all... | ||
| What she claimed is like, this wasn't a Hollywood rape. | ||
| This wasn't me kicking and screaming and crying going, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. | ||
| She was a professional stripper. | ||
| She had been most of her life. | ||
| And she comes from a world where we spoke to a rape crisis counselor whose office was near strip clubs, like close to a lot of strip clubs in Florida, and he... | ||
| Found a lot of professional girls, so to speak, who would come in, and they're always trying to maintain a line. | ||
| You know, this is what... | ||
| Ever got a lap dance, like, here are the rules. | ||
| I can touch you, you can... | ||
| And then over the course of the thing, depending on how much money is spent, the lines get blurred. | ||
| There are certain things, there are certain compromises that are made. | ||
| And so what happens here is that... | ||
| Over the course of a long night, she had danced at like three or four plays. | ||
| This was like her third or fourth show, last one of the night. | ||
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She... | |
| She... | ||
| Partied with the guy. | ||
| She was drinking. | ||
| They were drinking. | ||
| They might have even been rolling. | ||
| There's a lot of... | ||
| That line gets seriously blurred. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And at what point... | ||
| At any point if a woman doesn't want... | ||
| I poll the audience. | ||
| And this is really interesting too. | ||
| I would call it the worst date movie of all time. | ||
| I poll the audience. | ||
| We always assume that the women would side with her and the men would side with the men. | ||
| Very often it's the exact opposite of that. | ||
| And the men are more inclined to believe her and the women are more inclined to believe the men. | ||
| Because they don't want to... | ||
| The behavior from both parties is pretty... | ||
| Reprehensible, depending on your morals and values. | ||
| For some people, it's a Tuesday night. | ||
| But for others, it's like, this is appalling. | ||
| I don't want to associate my gender's behavior with that behavior. | ||
| Not to say she deserved it or anything, but people really want to dismiss it. | ||
| I talked to Roy Black, the famous defense attorney. | ||
| One of his most famous clients was William Kennedy Smith, the famous rape trial in Palm Beach at the Kennedy compound. | ||
| And Roy Black, going in, the Kennedys were like, well, we need Kennedy Democrats. | ||
| On this jury, obviously. | ||
| And the jury consultant came in and said, No, what you need is middle-aged or older white Republican women. | ||
| Because their values, they're going to look at this. | ||
| This woman goes out with this man drinking and dining. | ||
| She goes back to his place at whatever ungodly hour of the night. | ||
| And what does she expect will happen? | ||
| That's much more the mentality of not Kennedy Democrats. | ||
| But they wound up going with that jury. | ||
| Not only did he get acquitted, but Roy Black married the jury forewoman, his Leah Black. | ||
| If you're familiar with the Real Housewives of Miami, I'm sure you're an avid. | ||
| Yeah, I know. | ||
| The Real Housewives of Miami. | ||
| I know nothing of that. | ||
| If you took one part of each of the Housewives, you might be able to build one real one, I think. | ||
| Men and women diametrically are sort of opposed. | ||
| And then you have a situation where I pull the audience and I'll say, how many of you believe she was raped? | ||
| How many of you believe she wasn't raped? | ||
| How many of you believe that some sexual activity occurred that she didn't consent to, that she didn't want to happen? | ||
| Most people raised their hands. | ||
| I'm like, well, that, under the law, is right. | ||
| But how do you find a jury of 12 people that is going to convict based on her behavior? | ||
| Social justice warrior websites. | ||
| They were judging her behavior. | ||
| And I'll tell you something. | ||
| In this case, I'm with them. | ||
| Well, I'm reading the police report, which is like a 70-page police report on a misdemeanor filing a false police report. | ||
| It's a police report against her, the case against the woman for filing a false police report. | ||
| And the woman who wrote it, the detective, I thought it revealed more about her than anybody else. | ||
| But there's one phrase I'll never forget in all of these pages. | ||
| She writes... | ||
| The woman went to dance at all of these houses, leaving her two children, who are black, at home with a babysitter or with her mother or something like that. | ||
| And I was like... | ||
| Just those three words. | ||
| And I was like... | ||
| She had been married to her ex-husband who was a black man. | ||
| They had two children together. | ||
| And I was like, what? | ||
| How in the world? | ||
| Well, you lived in Alachua County. | ||
| I don't know if that means something to people there. | ||
| But I was like, how does that have any... | ||
| Her children, who are black, were left at home. | ||
| Polish. | ||
| Yeah, her children who are Russian. | ||
| Her children who are Italian. | ||
| I've never seen that. | ||
| I'm like, what's the implication or what's the relevance of this in a criminal proceeding? | ||
| But I will put it to you this way. | ||
| The people leave. | ||
| I, over the course of working on the movie, I changed my mind several times. | ||
| Over the course of watching the movie, and as you live life and get more life experience, because people come to this movie with their own baggage. | ||
| I've seen, I've had Q&A's where women get up to the microphone and say, I've never said this before. | ||
| I was the victim of a rape on campus and start talking. | ||
| It can be a very cathartic experience. | ||
| It can be very disturbing. | ||
| There are people who can't even watch it. | ||
| Well, it's very, very common. | ||
| I mean, but it's also common. | ||
| False rape claims are also very common. | ||
| They're not. | ||
| They're not common. | ||
| False rape claims happen all the time. | ||
| They're not common. | ||
| What do you mean by not common? | ||
| They're a minority of rape claims. | ||
| I agree with that. | ||
| However, they're still common. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And extraordinarily damaging to everybody involved. | ||
| But common. | ||
| No, I don't... | ||
| What do you mean by not common? | ||
| Well, I think rape... | ||
| What percentage is not common? | ||
| If they happen every day, and they do, is that not common? | ||
| I think you're... | ||
| I think you're talking... | ||
| Yes, it's common, but you're talking about single digits. | ||
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I think... | |
| No, no, no, no. | ||
| I'm not talking about majority. | ||
| I'm not talking about that. | ||
| I'm talking about false... | ||
| They occur regularly. | ||
| Yes, which is common, right? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| They occur regularly. | ||
| And that must be taken... | ||
| If you're going to look at it completely objectively. | ||
| Yes, you are. | ||
| Well, you're... | ||
| You know, you're being sensitive to the victims, which is very important. | ||
| But if you look at it objectively, and just as strictly as a numerical issue, I mean, I believe the number's like 8%. | ||
| I think that's the statistically proven number as far as like... | ||
| Investigated claims of rape. | ||
| I think it's lower, but it's single digits. | ||
| It probably varies. | ||
| Yes, I think it's single digits. | ||
| It probably varies. | ||
| And then there's also the reality that a lot of rapes go unreported because women are ashamed of what happened and they would rather just ignore it. | ||
| And because they're going to be accused of false reporting and their entire past and sexual experience is going to be brought to bear. | ||
| There's a lot, and there's also, you also have to take into consideration a lot of false rape claims. | ||
| The guys get convicted, and it's never proven that it's a false rape claim. | ||
| That's a fact. | ||
| I've had that happen to a friend. | ||
| I know that it works both ways. | ||
| Human beings are, we vary. | ||
| You know, there's people that are full of shit, and there are men, and there's people that are full of shit that are women. | ||
| So, there's always going to be that possibility that it's a false rape claim. | ||
| Which gender has the greatest percentage of people full of shit? | ||
| No, I'm just fucking kidding. | ||
| It's across the board. | ||
| It's probably 50% across the board. | ||
| You know what you think? | ||
| I was just fucking with you. | ||
| Maybe men. | ||
| Because men... | ||
| Well, no. | ||
| Because men try harder to fuck women. | ||
| So maybe we have to be... | ||
| Because women are more pursued. | ||
| We have to be more full of shit. | ||
| I think that's more possible. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| That's a good question. | ||
| That's a good documentary subject. | ||
| What gender is more full of shit? | ||
| It's a great title. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's a great title. | ||
| What gender is more full of shit? | ||
| It's not a bad idea. | ||
| I think you're right. | ||
| I think that we're going to find it's pretty... | ||
| It's pretty close. | ||
| Yeah, it's pretty close. | ||
| But, you know, the rape thing, as far as like, you know, I think there's way more rape than there is falsely accused, you know, false rape claims. | ||
| Yeah, well, and in the spirit of justice, in the spirit of, you know, let... | ||
| Let ten guilty men go free than one innocent man spend a moment being deprived of his liberty. | ||
| I mean, I understand that. | ||
| And I gotta say, no matter how low the rate is... | ||
| Two percent, according to Wikipedia. | ||
| No matter how low that is, the two percent of men that the false claims occur to, it's pretty fucking important to them, I can imagine. | ||
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Oh yeah, man. | |
| But in those cases... | ||
| Doesn't matter if it's one-tenth of one percent, if it's you... | ||
| And in the vast majority of those cases, I believe it has to do with some sort of mental deficiency on the part of the woman. | ||
| It has to do with some sort of revenge kind of scenario. | ||
| The motive is really personal and really obvious and can usually be quickly proven. | ||
| But as soon as you are accused... | ||
| There are some cases where you're right. | ||
| It's strictly a he said, she said. | ||
| And you could find yourself in a lot of trouble. | ||
| And that's obviously not okay. | ||
| I think the problem is you cannot... | ||
| We have a society that I think unfortunately discourages women from reporting, from coming forward. | ||
| And I think that that's a serious problem because in crimes like this, a lot of the people who commit them continue to commit them. | ||
| The rate of recidivism, I think, is such that if they're not being reported, you're going to see more victims, unfortunately. | ||
| Well, there's also, without a doubt, there's people that For whatever reason, they don't look at other people as being equal to them, you know, and that that is what allows someone to rape someone. | ||
| That's what happens in this video. | ||
| She is a local girl. | ||
| She goes to Santa Fe Community College as opposed to like, you know, the flagship state school that like the quote rich out of town kids, you know, go to and they treat her like The way they speak to her. | ||
| The way they speak to her. | ||
| And it's a similar phenomenon in the Duke Lacrosse case, is that that woman was black, but here this woman who was white in this Raw Deal case, but had black children. | ||
| I think, what's the famous line from Bullworth? | ||
| White people have more in common with black people than they do with rich people. | ||
| Meaning, the division is not so much black and white. | ||
| That's kind of a, that's a flashy object to divide us. | ||
| It's poor and affluent. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| It's the haves and the have-nots. | ||
| And the poor people get treated like shit no matter what color they are. | ||
| Well, also people in that position, people that are strippers, you know, because it's looked down upon as like a seedy career choice of losers. | ||
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| You know, so you're allowed to treat her like shit. | ||
| And then she's in a fraternity, which is not even a protected environment like an actual strip club. | ||
| And you're dealing with people that are drunk and their judgment's all fucked up because of that. | ||
| And then, you know, who knows? | ||
| Plus... | ||
| You're dealing with developing minds, and 18-year-old kids that are drunk, they really shouldn't be drunk. | ||
| They don't know what the fuck they're doing, and on top of that, they've probably been raised by assholes, you know? | ||
| I mean, there's a good percentage of people who are assholes, and these kids, drunk, in some fucking thing, feeding off of each other, gang mentality, which is a real- Gang mentality is fucking terrifying, man. | ||
| Gang mentality that you see in riots. | ||
| Gang mentality that you see in behavior that you would never see. | ||
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| You're willing to alter your behavior to the point of criminality because of the outside influence. | ||
| Based on everybody else doing it. | ||
| That's like a psychosis. | ||
| What's going on in the brain when that's happening? | ||
| It speaks to our weird, the way that human beings imitate our atmospheres, which is like a big part of what we were talking about earlier about culture. | ||
| You get stuck in certain cultures and cultures where violence is accepted and violence, like if you live in the Congo, you know, and you're in a tribe and there's a warlord, you know, and you're seeing people shot and killed all the time. | ||
| Life has no value. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, it's just, that's their environment. | ||
| I have to ask you this, because I mean, you've talked about it a zillion times, but like America's gun culture, that's what everybody says. | ||
| America's propensity towards violence and proliferation of violence, and you don't see this in other country because you don't see the quantity. | ||
| Of guns. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, it's an issue. | ||
| And the celebration of violence, of course, in our media and our art and entertainment, etc. | ||
| That's an issue, too. | ||
| The celebration in video games, celebration in... | ||
| All those things are unquestionably influences. | ||
| However, if you look at the actual numbers of people that have guns, which is fucking staggering, and the actual crimes committed by those guns, it's very small. | ||
| Low, yeah. | ||
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Absolutely. | |
| Which is undeniable, and that's something that people don't like to bring up when they bring up a Newtown massacre or something. | ||
| Where you have massacres, I believe those are issues of mental health without a doubt. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| You know, I wrote that this country has a mental health problem disguised as a gun problem and a tyranny problem disguised as a security problem. | ||
| And I think that there's a real reality when it comes to guns and shooters and mental issues and also the number of people that are involved in mass shootings that are on psychoactive drugs, antipsychotics, antidepressions. | ||
| They're taking poison. | ||
| Who knows? | ||
| But correlation does not equal causation, right? | ||
| So you don't know if those people are crazy already, and they're giving them drugs to try to treat them, and maybe they would be better off. | ||
| Maybe it's getting off those drugs, which is often the case, coming down off those drugs. | ||
| Yeah, the withdrawal effects. | ||
| The withdrawal that causes these people to go crazy. | ||
| There's a lot of issues. | ||
| But you can't deny that it's too fucking easy to get a gun. | ||
| You know, you need a driver's license to get a fucking car. | ||
| All you need to do is not be a criminal to get a gun. | ||
| I mean, I bought a gun before I knew anything about guns. | ||
| I didn't know how to use them at all. | ||
| They just let me have a fucking pistol. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You need a permit to have a hot dog stand for crime. | ||
| You have to have a permit to shovel snow. | ||
| I'm a nice person, so I'm not going to go out and shoot people, but I found it incredibly disturbing that all they needed to know was that I wasn't a criminal, I didn't commit any violent crimes, and that's it. | ||
| That's all they needed to know. | ||
| And truth be told, if you were a criminal and went on the street to get it, it would be even easier than you walked into it, because they don't want your driver's license if you're buying it on the street. | ||
| Especially in this country at this point, the numbers. | ||
| There's the sheer numbers. | ||
| Like, I've heard it described, like, trying to get guns out of America as, like, trying to take salt out of the ocean. | ||
| It's like, Jesus Christ, like, you're gonna get all the salt out of the ocean? | ||
| There's more Americans with, or there's more guns, rather, than there are Americans in America. | ||
| There's more guns than there are people. | ||
| That's fucking crazy. | ||
| There's more than 350 million guns in this country. | ||
| That is hard to wrap your head around. | ||
| Well, I got two hands. | ||
| Most of us have two hands. | ||
| Well, I have more guns than I am people. | ||
| So I'm part of the problem. | ||
| But I'm not shooting anybody. | ||
| You're above average. | ||
| I only have a couple. | ||
| I just don't think that... | ||
| I don't think that... | ||
| The issue is necessarily that there's a lot of guns. | ||
| The issue to me is we most certainly need a better education program when it comes to the ability to acquire a gun. | ||
| The fact that you have to go through this, you know, difficult taxing process to get a car. | ||
| But I think people are afraid that like, you know, like they say that owning a car is a privilege, only a gun is a right. | ||
| It's a right that's in the bill. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| That's all. | ||
| It's in the Bill of Rights. | ||
| It's the Second Amendment of the Constitution. | ||
| It says the right to bear arms. | ||
| There's people that are legitimately worried, for good reason, that a lot of people have this knee-jerk reaction when any sort of violent crime goes down to take all the guns away from the people. | ||
| But I don't think that, I don't know, maybe having to take a shooting course is an impediment to your exercising of that right. | ||
| Gun safety. | ||
| I've got family in Delaware, and they grew up in gun culture, in hunting culture, and they're some of the most responsible, coolest, best people. | ||
| Guns have been completely demystified for them. | ||
| They're not afraid. | ||
| They know how to properly use them. | ||
| And they're the least threatening, coolest, most unassuming people that you could possibly... | ||
| But they're cool with any type of weapon that you put in front of them. | ||
| Guns but knives that they use for hunting. | ||
| And I was just like, what if we all grew up? | ||
| I think we'd all be nicer to each other, too. | ||
| We'd all be aware of the power that we possess. | ||
| We're not just these TV gangsters or whatever. | ||
| We'd all be a little bit more cognizant of the fact that we have this... | ||
| If we choose to have the power of life and death over somebody, but they also have it over us. | ||
| So let's live and let live, right? | ||
| That expression that a well-armed society is a polite society. | ||
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| And oftentimes that is true, but the aberration, the person who is not polite and decides to take out the fact that they have... | ||
| Do you remember that instance in North Hollywood years back when those guys put on bulletproof vests and had all these crazy guns and they robbed a bank? | ||
| The bank robbery, yeah. | ||
| That heat was inspired by it. | ||
| Fucking crazy. | ||
| Crazy, crazy scene. | ||
| I was doing news radio at the time, and we all went into the break room, and we're all watching it on this television, and we were all just like freaking the fuck out. | ||
| Like, this is real. | ||
| This isn't a movie. | ||
| We're watching a shootout between the cops and these insane people with massive firepower. | ||
| And those types of scenarios, although incredibly rare, are really legitimately frightening to people for a good reason. | ||
| That's what happened in Miami. | ||
| You remember the war wagon at the Dadeland Mall shooting in July of 79 that we opened Cocaine Cowboys with. | ||
| Cops show up at this scene. | ||
| They have guns on the ground. | ||
| And to Buchanan, the reporter said, they called them the Dixie Cup generation. | ||
| They would shoot a gun until it was empty and then just drop it on the floor and pull out another gun and shoot that. | ||
| And there were Mac 11s and there were handguns and pistols and automatic pistols. | ||
| And there was shell casings for every single gun on the ground. | ||
| They left the guns on the ground. | ||
| And then they took off on foot and they abandoned this war wagon, which was this converted Ford Econoline van that had stenciled on the side, happy time party supply and a phone number. | ||
| And then on the other side it said, happy supply time and a different phone number on the other side. | ||
| Not really good with the incognito thing here. | ||
| And in the back they had flak jackets that they had kind of wallpapered it with so that they had reinforced bulletproof armor. | ||
| And more guns of every... | ||
| Shotguns and machine guns. | ||
| So it was like the Punisher's war wagon. | ||
| The cops show up. | ||
| With their six shooters, by the way, because that's what they were carrying in Miami in 1979, and they flipped the fuck out. | ||
| And there was a- every time someone saw a Ford Econoline van, like, on the streets, people were calling 911, the cops wouldn't show- like, they didn't know what the hell to do, because they knew that the fear was, you're gonna pull one of these over, the back's gonna open up, and they're just gonna empty, empty on you. | ||
| And before you can even grab your pop-pop-pop gun, And that was when they started to put together the CENTAC 26. There you go. | ||
| There's the back of it right there. | ||
| And they put together this... | ||
| CENTAC was a central tactical unit that was made up of multiple local and federal agencies that would work together. | ||
| This history of which traces back to the Untouchables. | ||
| Because that was like, we're going to take the best of the local guys and the best of the federal guys and put them together towards a kind of common, very specific, goal-oriented mission and end. | ||
| And so you had these guys who got together, because originally they were called the, it's in Reloaded, the Special Homicide Investigative Team. | ||
| Or as they call themselves, the Shit Squad. | ||
| Special Homicide Investigative Team. | ||
| And they had to deal with all the Wando's that were turning up. | ||
| Because they'd get an, oh, uh... | ||
| Unidentified Hispanic male, automatic bullet fire. | ||
| 25% of the bodies in the morgue in that time, in Miami, had wounds from automatic weapons. | ||
| I had a friend who was doing his residency. | ||
| He's a doctor, and he did his residency in Miami. | ||
| Dude, that was the best place to do it. | ||
| Oh my god. | ||
| He told me some shit and showed me some shit when we were growing up. | ||
| He's older than me. | ||
| And when he was showing us these images that he had saved from guys with light bulbs up their asses. | ||
| If you were in the trauma industry, the medical business, the law enforcement business, the homicide business, the journalism business, Miami was the place to be. | ||
| Oh, it was craziness. | ||
| I know a guy who was a trauma doctor at Jackson Memorial Hospital. | ||
| That's our one major trauma center where you get airlifted to Jackson. | ||
| That's where you go. | ||
| So he was working one night, and this was after the Mariel boatlift. | ||
| Think Scarface. | ||
| You had all of these hardened criminals. | ||
| Ejected from QB. The rate of rape on Miami Beach quadrupled in months. | ||
| I mean, they were raping little old Jewish ladies, Holocaust survivors, who made it out of Germany but could not survive the Mariel boatlift in Miami. | ||
| And they all went to Miami Beach because it was a slum and because it reminded them of Havana. | ||
| It looked like Cuba. | ||
| Miami Beach, like the sea wall and everything. | ||
| It looks like Cuba. | ||
| So... | ||
| And they would just kill you for nothing. | ||
| They'd be like, I like your bicycle. | ||
| Give me your bicycle. | ||
| No. | ||
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| And then leave the bike. | ||
| Just crazy, homicidal lunatics. | ||
| One day, a Marielito comes in with a gunshot wound. | ||
| And the doctor says to him, In Spanish, he said, you're a very lucky man. | ||
| Had the bullet struck you a centimeter or so over here, you would have bled out and died on the scene in minutes, if not seconds. | ||
| The guy gets discharged, leaves the hospital. | ||
| Within days, he gets another Mariel gunshot victim with a wound in exactly the same spot he told the other guy about. | ||
| And that guy died. | ||
| And his belief always was, he never could prove it, but that the guy he had told basically where to shoot the other guy, that this was a retribution shooting for the other guy who had been shot. | ||
| But that was just par for the course in Miami. | ||
| The girl who cuts my hair, a lady who cuts my hair, you know how you get your hair cut, you say goodbye, you put the tip in the pocket, so she would go home at night in the 80s and she'd turn her pockets inside out to get all the folded bills and this and that. | ||
| One day she finds a little baggie With white powder in it. | ||
| That one of the ladies just say, kissed her goodbye and slipped it in her pocket as a tip. | ||
| And she said, I was so naive. | ||
| I said to my friend, what the hell is this? | ||
| And she said, what it is is worth more than the tip that you would have gotten from the same ladies. | ||
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Wow. | |
| That's ridiculous. | ||
| That's our Emmy. | ||
| That's our Emmy. | ||
| Keep it. | ||
| You can keep that place. | ||
| And you can keep your Los Angeles. | ||
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You can have it. | |
| I visit and I get the fuck out as soon as I can. | ||
| Billy, thank you very much, man. | ||
| It was a lot of fun. | ||
| I really enjoyed it. | ||
| Anytime. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| And the documentary Dogfighting, D-A-W-G, comes out. | ||
| Dashfight.com coming March 12th. | ||
| March 12th and Cocaine Cowboys 1 and 2. Don't listen to him. | ||
| 2 is good. | ||
| It's very good. | ||
| Don't apologize for that anymore. | ||
| It's now streaming on Netflix. | ||
| It's excellent. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| It's one of the best documentaries ever that captures the madness of cocaine, really. | ||
| I mean, and violence and the drug war. | ||
| I mean, it's just an amazing documentary. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Billy Corbin, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| We'll see you next week. | ||
| Good night, everybody. | ||
| Much love. |
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