Lewis from Unbox Therapy contrasts Samsung’s Galaxy S6 Active—thicker, waterproof, with a 3,500 mAh battery and superior rear camera—against Apple’s iPhone 6S, critiquing its trade-offs in durability and battery life. Rogan slams the Nevada State Athletic Commission’s $165K fine on Nick Diaz for marijuana metabolites, arguing outdated Quest Labs testing ignores science: Diaz’s vegan diet, endurance training, and lack of permanent impairment prove no combat advantage. The episode ties tech flaws to systemic hypocrisy—from drone misuse to government overreach—exposing how power stifles progress while profit drives policies. [Automatically generated summary]
What a perfect time to have Lewis from Unbox Therapy on when our TriCaster is taking a big fat shit because we updated the software and then Redband decides right before the show he's going to update his phone and it's going to take about 17 fucking hours right in the middle of someone from the DMV supposed to call him.
Yeah, and there's two lenses there, so I'll just open it up real quick.
So the phone sits in and clips out.
Obviously, you still want to use it as a regular phone.
And those are the lenses that will allow you to focus in on the display at an incredibly close range.
Now, the nerds out there, they talk a lot about the resolution of phones.
And some say, oh, well, there's no need to have a phone with a display beyond 1080p, let's say, because at this range here, you would never notice those pixels.
But the minute you stick them in an environment like this, just an inch away from your eyeball, all of a sudden you can discern those pixels that you couldn't at phone usage range.
So the cool thing in this particular case compared to some of the other stuff that I've shown off before, like Google Cardboard and the really inexpensive ones, is that since this is designed specifically for this device, you get touch interface, touchpad for controlling taps and stuff.
I would say it's more convenient than Oculus Rift and probably arguably more of a game changer in the sense that people don't have to go out and buy this standalone expensive headset and then have a dedicated PC to use it.
I mean, it would be a really interesting experiment to see how many times that thing interrupts my day, like a smartphone, because it's probably, I don't know, a thousand times, maybe?
It really trains you like a buzz caller on an animal or something like that.
Yeah, and you know, part of the conversation here is about content, too.
It's like, well, how do you go from having a piece of video and turning it into 360-degree video like he's watching right there?
And we're seeing more and more 360 cameras come out now.
There's one from Google called Jump, which is this crazy GoPro contraption you may have seen.
Six or more GoPro Hero 4s, which have an incredible field of view, and then software is what stitches it all together, which is the experience you're seeing in there.
So theoretically, it's not just games and digital things, but in the future, people will shoot video in 360 and enjoy it in 360. Yeah, that's what I was saying.
Yeah, if you're watching it at home, especially if you can actually move around, like on a unidirectional, if you get one of the unidirectional treadmills that operate based on your movement, they're getting better and better with those.
They used to be you got strapped in, and you kind of hold onto the thing.
But they're getting better.
And now I think they're developing ones that are detecting which way you're standing and walking.
So they will move accordingly with you.
And then eventually they'll get to a point where it's going to be indistinguishable between walking outside and walking on this unidirectional treadmill.
As long as everything's flat.
Once you start going uphill and then rugged terrain, that's not going to work out.
I've never realized how- Regular DVD. Regular DVD. Yeah, 480. I got an email from a company that was offering to transcode all of my YouTube videos into DVDs.
With people, like when they show people, Nvidia had a demonstration and we went to it and one of the cool things about the demo was you could see what they can't get yet.
They can get eyeballs, they can get skin, they're really good at it, but they can't do eyelashes.
When you're dealing with something so refined, like strands of hair, for example, and each one behaving independently, like long hair...
Thrashing around is like incredibly complex how each piece moves.
So you would need some incredible hardware to be able to replicate that.
But that said, it's never stopped the progression in the past.
I mean, I got this retro console the other day that plays Nintendo games.
So I could be like a hipster and play the original Mario and whatnot and It's just amazing that in my lifetime, you know, we've already gone from a little guy who's like eight pixels Total as your character in the game to what we're working with now.
Yeah, there are some clips on YouTube of people who have taken Grand Theft Auto clips and applied Intense shaders and things to them.
Because again, coming back to resource intensive tasks, but you can get a sense for what that will be like.
And so like bringing it full circle back to this thing here, I think that the more accessible this stuff becomes, so the cheaper that VR gets and the less that it's tied down to anything, the smaller that it gets, the greater the likelihood that there'll be enough demand that people will then go and produce cool content for it.
I haven't checked that out, but the 4K is interesting because the new Apple TV that was announced last week supposedly doesn't run 4K, which I thought was interesting.
Is it just that they're not pushing the 4K to the masses yet?
South Korea is insane, but even countries you wouldn't expect, like Romania, Yeah.
Or Latvia.
Like some of these countries, I sort of often converse with my audience members and they send me their speed tests and then tell me what they're paying for it.
And I'm sure there's plenty of people listening here that are going to start tweeting out their speeds.
Let us know how fast your internet is and what you pay for it.
But in Korea, for example, I think like $10 gets you 100 by 100. Wow.
It's something to do, and I'm not an expert on this, but it's something to do with the cable and DSL structure that there's some sort of signal loss, I think, associated with that, where, for some reason, the upload is more labor-intensive.
But when you're talking about...
Fiber is always one by one, right?
If it's not, then usually it's not real fiber.
And in places with smaller geographic areas, it's easier to run fiber from the CO point right to the actual customers because the density of people makes it worthwhile to do so.
And North America, for the most part, is still pretty spread out.
But...
Google Fiber is emerging in more and more cities, and it's completely going over the top on the incumbent providers, Comcast, AT&T, whoever.
And the scary thing was they were trying to merge recently.
Well, when you find out they're throttling data and fucking with people that use Netflix and then they made a deal, they had to make a deal with Netflix so that they could get more data because, you know, Netflix was, they were consistently slower when people were using Netflix than anything else.
You know, traditional media is always taking shots wherever they can to sort of slow down this thing that's happening online because they don't control enough of it.
That's true, but there are things they could have done to sort of limit the effect of that, like wireless, for example.
If you're on LTE, all of a sudden you've got 20 megabits up.
How is it that the wireless connections, for a lot of people, their cell phone Data connection is faster than what they have at home, right?
But it costs you a lot of money because it's not unlimited.
So you could imagine that if you had put up more towers or taken down the cost of wireless data, for example, a lot of countries have had to skip over the...
Wired connections completely.
So if you're in India, for example, they completely skipped laptops and that whole period of time there where everybody was buying a cable connection or a DSL connection.
They're getting cell phones now, and their primary data connection is going to be on that mobile device.
And it's the same in a lot of emerging markets around the world.
So they're investing specifically in wireless as opposed to going backwards and trying to make the wired thing work at all.
Even me, okay, so I'm from Toronto and I'm on Rogers.
Not a huge fan or anything, but I'm just saying, comparatively speaking, like when I travel down here, the maximum that I can pay over top of my regular bill is $5 a day, maximum.
Data, calls, whatever.
That's where it's capped out at.
So you're basically using your regular plan even though you're on AT&T or T-Mobile or whoever it is out here.
Now that's relatively recent, but T-Mobile came out with something that allows for you to cross the Canadian border and the Mexican border and essentially have your exact same plan on both sides.
But yeah, so everyone started throwing it around even though it's not the real deal.
It's not real fiber.
It's like it'll be fiber for this portion of the trip, and then it'll go to copper somewhere in there, and you have signal loss, and you end up with what you end up with.
Google gives zero fucks about any of these players.
They're not trying to even coordinate with them.
They're going into marketplaces, going to the locals, at least this is how Fiber worked in the early stages, and saying, would you be interested personally in an insanely fast internet connection, and here's the price we could give it to you for.
And so people within a community would sign a petition saying, yes, I'm interested in that.
And once they could evaluate the demand, they're building the infrastructure themselves.
The new one is it's touch, meaning like you push the screen kind of like that old Blackberry that you used to have, the Blackberry touch that was a piece of shit.
The other thing was that they made a big deal about how, like, hey, we wanted to take the tech Technology of the flash that's on the new iPhone and put it in the front.
But then they didn't do that.
They just make the screen flash three times brighter.
Some people make the argument, though, that with the S version, you're getting a refinement on the first-gen device, which could theoretically have problems.
But the video I made that got a lot of traction, the bend test video, it sort of exposed a weak point in the device, which was...
That's incredible, by the way.
Which was around the volume buttons.
And I managed to get my hands on a leaked component recently for the upcoming iPhone and run some tests on it.
And it turns out that the next generation of the phone is going to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 60 to 70 percent stronger because they've added zinc to the aluminum structure with the aluminum alloy, which turns it into something they call a 7000 series aluminum.
And that's the stuff they use in aerospace, NASA, so on and so forth.
And it's essentially just way stronger without adding any kind of weight.
In fact, the shell itself was a little bit lighter.
So I did this test with this crazy contraption.
I took just the back shell, so just the aluminum part, from the regular 6 and then from the upcoming 6S, and the old one bent at 30 pounds of force, and the new one was around 80. And the reason I know about the existence of zinc, and I dropped that information before Apple's keynote...
It's because I went to a place called Elemental Controls, which is like this super crazy scientific joint where they have this gun that shoots x-rays into any alloy and will tell you exactly down to like two decimal points what the elemental makeup is.
I mean, you know, a couple of old guys, their business is normally like when someone's doing a big order of aluminum, like you're buying a boatload from China, literally.
They'll sometimes scam you and say that you're getting this alloy when it might look exactly the same as one that's chintzy on the zinc, let's say, for example.
I'm interested in that because the iPhone 6 and the 6 Plus are the first two phones that I've had, like every single phone, that I've actually cracked.
And I thought it was interesting that both of them...
But, like, as an example, the iPhone 6 Plus, when I was getting out of my car, it slid out of my pocket, which was only, like, three feet when I'm getting out of my car.
I mean, not even three feet, like, two feet, and it cracked.
Well, there is a bit of a theory on that about sort of the rigidity of the chassis, or lack thereof, that might contribute to the glass having to bear the brunt of the impact.
Even if you hit not directly on it, that there might be enough flex in that aluminum.
It's like 80 milliamp hours or something like that.
Basically...
I mean, it's insignificant, but the point being is that they're not responding to part of the consumer demand, which is my demand, which is better battery life.
Would you take a slightly thicker version of that?
One thing that I thought was weird that they did in the keynote where they said the battery was not as strong as the 6, they said, well, the new operating system is going to give you an hour more battery life.
One thing though, we're talking a lot of shit about Apple here.
I think that there's one thing that remains to be seen and that's the camera.
The camera on the next model will be an improvement.
I'm 100% positive.
It's a 12 megapixel.
It's going to shoot 4K. And Apple knows the camera has been the battleground of smartphones for the last five, six years.
If you have the best camera, you're going to sell phones.
And the problem for Apple right now is there's no argument that the S6 camera is better than Well, I guess you could make an argument, subjectivity, color representation, blah, blah, blah.
The S6 shoots better photos than the current iPhone.
Yeah, they'll send you a chip and put a little fucking card in there.
Yeah, I think it's a good time for phones.
I mean, it's fascinating that everyone has to compete at this level because if you look at the evolution of phones over the iPhone 1 to now, we're only talking about, what was that, 2009?
So six years ago, we had this little fat thing that lasted about an hour, and that little tiny-ass screen that your thumb could cover the whole screen practically.
Yeah, because what I was saying earlier is like the iPad Pro, the upcoming iPad, has the highest resolution display of anything that Apple's ever put out.
Actually, maybe arguably anything commercially available in the tablet space, phone space.
So when I would draw my notes out, I would say something, I would write comedy notes out, and then I would sync it with Evernote, and then I would look at it as an actual drawing.
As the actual me writing the physical words.
I still have it saved up on Evernote, and I like it a lot.
You know, there was an article recently that I read about Beverly Hills that there's an insane amount, something like, I think they were saying something between 25 and 29% of all real estate in Beverly Hills is being bought up by people from Saudi Arabia and Beverly Hills.
So, like, we went to, I talked about this recently, we went to this steak place in Beverly Hills, and there was a guy, they're importing cars from From Saudi Arabia for the summer.
They call it Saudi summer.
And they come down here because in the summer there it's 150 fucking degrees.
So they come down here and they drive their unregistered cars around Beverly Hills.
These million dollar Bugatti Veyrons.
So they have these Bugatti Veyrons and all these fucking super million dollar cars with Saudi plates.
And I was with my friend who's from Iran and he speaks Persian and Farsi and he can read Arab.
I think there's a push to sort of evacuate some of the money from those environments because there's an uneasiness about what happens in the future in those economies.
People were tweeting to me that this guy tweeted to me that he works at a restaurant and that all the people that work at that restaurant were yelling out, let's get lucrative.
But yeah, man, the money that it would cost for that little $25,000 watch is nothing for those kind of people, and that would be the instant thing they would want.
They'll have auctions for license plate number one, number two, number three, and it's in the millions of dollars because when you get to the crazy level of status and whatnot, things get bonkers really quick.
As far as what you need to do, how absurd things need to be for you to make a statement anymore.
I think it's more a thing of like, in order to maintain your competitiveness, you have to keep on approaching these things that shouldn't be attainable.
Anybody working in anything.
I think that you have to put these challenges in front of yourself.
Like, I gotta get the extra million for the right license plate.
I think that a person who has a certain, you know, certain access to a particular way of life, that the shortcut...
to buying the right thing is to buy an expensive one right you walk into a store they've got a bunch of shirts which one should I have right well I can like bypass the whole research structure by just buying the best yeah you know like the average person when they're going to purchase a car they spend I think I heard this that recently It's about 52 days from when they get the idea that they need a new car to the point at which they make the purchase.
Yeah, we're in a strange point right now where technology is progressing at this insane speed and the legal system takes way longer than that.
There's not enough time to go through all the steps necessary on that side of it to catch up with the technology as it's happening.
Drones, what was that story the other day where there were all those drones up in the air and they couldn't, so the helicopters couldn't get to a scene where someone needed to be airlifted?
There's going to be seek and destroy type drones that you just throw in the air and just go after these drones and somehow knock them out of commission.
unidentified
Yeah, but you can't have, like, aerial warfare over the freeway.
Not just that, but it's a very sensitive subject matter because these enthusiasts are super into it, like a lot of people.
And guys like us come and we talk about only the shitty part of it, like them falling out of the sky and killing people.
And they think that's going to influence government.
Which will then take away their freedom to do that thing just like everything else right right people that love doing something they want to protect that freedom But I like for example, I've done videos on these little like toy drones They're nothing to the you know, you fly them indoors or whatever and If you get any of the terminology wrong or you talk about them being dangerous in any way or anything like that You're gonna have an entire script in your comment section about like that's
They do have a point, but so does the public at large in seeing a flying thing above their head and wondering if the connection between the thing controlling it and it itself is stable enough to keep it up there.
And then also, the Oculus Rift effect, because when I was on that sci-fi show, we did some things where we took drones and we strapped cameras to these drones, and we flew over the top of these trees in the Pacific Northwest.
It was like the Looking for Bigfoot episode.
We're flying around looking for Bigfoot with a fucking drone.
Essentially, these young kids that haven't even graduated from high school yet, that know as much or more than anyone these people are going to hire in the first place.
Like these comments that you're getting, these detailed comments critiquing you.
They might be from like that 14-year-old kid in fucking Dallas that got arrested today because his teacher thought he was making a bomb because he made a homemade clock.
And, you know, it's just amazing that someone wasn't skilled enough to talk to this kid, socially skilled enough to go, um, what do you got there?
What's going on, man?
And so he could have probably gone, well, I make my own computers, and I make my own this, and what I've done here is I've strung together all these electronics and built a clock, and I've figured out how to do that.
There was a horrible fucking documentary that I watched where they had this school, and they had all these kids on the wall of the school that were strapped up with these explosion vests, and it said, today's children are tomorrow's holy martyrs.
And it's because when you're in this chamber of all this noise, people sort of elevate their level of what they're willing to do to counteract this thing that they disagree with.
It took 40 hours for the thing to die, and then they had to go and kill it on some private or some public property that you're not even allowed to hunt there.
He had a collar on.
They cut the collar off.
The guy was a poacher.
He has a history of poaching.
He poached a bear.
He lied about where he shot it.
He shot it for like 40 miles away from where he said he did.
There was all sorts of shit about that guy that was like easy to target on.
But you also have to deal with the numbers of humans that are able to communicate freely.
That's the signal-to-noise ratio, like you talked about earlier.
The real kicker is...
It used to be, to be able to get on television, you had to be Walter Cronkite.
And here's the news.
You had to be an established person who had a degree in journalism or a history as a journalist.
Now you just have to get on an application that anyone can download in two seconds on your phone, and you just start talking shit.
You know, I'm going to come to your house, I'm going to throw your kids in a wood chipper, like all that shit they were saying to that guy, Corey Knowlton, that shot the Rhino in that Radiolab episode that we were talking about.
I mean, they said some horrible, horrible shit to him, and it's because they felt like they could.
And those are the same people.
They're angry already.
Like, they're already angry.
This is just a nice target for that anger.
And it's not balanced, and it doesn't make sense, and it's not rational, the focus of this anger.
But it doesn't have to be, because you don't get to pick who you're getting that data from.
Like, okay, here's a perfect example.
It was us in this room, and, you know, someone had done something fucked up, like the lion killer guy.
We could have, like, a detailed discussion on how we felt about it, and what are the actual facts about the case, and did you know that 28 different lions wearing collars have been killed?
Like, it's very common that they kill ones with a collar, because once they go outside of the protected area, you're allowed to kill them, and lions cover a gigantic area where they hunt.
So we would have these kind of nuanced discussions because you're in a room with four rational people.
But think about all the fucking idiots that you've met in your life.
Think about the millions of people.
If you have 350 million people in this country, at least one out of 100 is a fucking idiot.
So that means you got three million five hundred thousand fucking idiots to just smashing their sloppy cheese doodle covered fingers on keyboards and fucking spitting on their screen and taking time to jack off in between tweets and they smell like shit.
They're farting and wafting the fart up into their nose.
They're horrible monsters and there's millions of them.
There's millions of them and they will spend their whole day Tweeting, Facebooking, anytime something horrible goes wrong, now they have a green light.
So an example of this would be like a media headline, a juicy headline to get a person to click it, even though, as you mentioned before, it would completely lack the nuance of a proper discussion or debate.
But you pander to the lowest common denominator.
You want as many clicks as possible, and you're not necessarily concerned with the outcome of that.
So it's like if we know that those big, huge news sources that are supposed to, or once upon a time, were nuanced or meant to sort of break down the story for you, to help you understand the story...
No, it's all bites now.
It's all little fast-moving bites, hot takes, and so on, that formulate your opinion.
So, in some ways, yes, those people should be held responsible for the things they say online, but it's not like the intellectual web or the news-producing web is doing the greatest job in advertising the proper content, the nuanced long-form take.
It's much easier to just slam out some knee-jerk type of article and get it out faster, be first, as opposed to maybe you're a day later, but you've had time to gather more information.
The other problem is a lot of those traditional media outlets have proven to be ineffective when it comes to controversial issues, like the Charlie Hebdo issue.
Like when Charlie Hebdo happened and all those guys were killed, all those cartoonists were killed by those Muslim extremists that came in and were mad, they were making these cartoons of Muhammad.
And part of that discussion, too, was the way we were kind of forced to ingest it through autoplay.
This was a big part of the story was how Facebook has recently introduced autoplay, so you're scrolling.
It just plays immediately.
That's another example of what I'm talking about.
I don't know that you could call Facebook the intellectual web, but if you're a guy like Zuckerberg or someone in that office, at some point, you know that what you're doing is you're about to introduce millions and millions of people to something they'd probably rather not watch.
Well, that was a big deal with ISIS, too, because ISIS has had, some of the people in ISIS or ISIL, whatever you want to call it, they have had many, many, many accounts banned.
Because they'll make these accounts, create these accounts, and start uploading photos of people being beheaded, uploading videos of people being beheaded.
Somebody posted, or I was just, like, looking at puppies and stuff, and then out of nowhere was a woman in a car accident with her face missing, and she was picking at her face.
And it was one of the most disturbing things I've ever seen, and I think about it all the time.
I should have never seen that and now I can't stop thinking about it.
And people, the reason YouTubers, a lot of YouTubers are especially upset with it is a lot of people are freebooting our content.
Not mine specifically, but a lot of other ones, specifically in the comedy genre.
Because you can take this clip off YouTube, upload it natively to Facebook, have it autoplay, build this huge profile for yourself based off of someone else's content that they've made, and there's no way for you to go and track it down, and Facebook isn't being vigilant.
Vigilant about going and finding that stuff.
In some cases, YouTubers I know have missed out on millions, tens of millions of views that happened elsewhere and were associated with some other account on Facebook.
They wouldn't know about it until somebody saw it that was also a fan of theirs that would then tweet it to them or whatever and say, there's this completely fake profile of yours on Facebook uploading all your stuff and pretending to be you.
Well, usually the way it'll work is that they'll build up a large profile.
It is cloudy, but what was not cloudy about the Fat Juice situation was that he was purposely not attributing it to the people that created it, and even sometimes, like there's some of the other ones, that girl that was changing words Changing, like, someone had originally tweeted something about a cat, and she would change it to a dog, but the exact same joke.
Yeah, there was a nice article written the other day how he's still doing it, and he also has all these fake accounts that he's giving the credit to, but it's like a locked account with one post.
Yeah, I know, but see, the thing is that your behavior influences what gets rebroadcast, especially on Instagram.
Because if it's, like, previous photos you've liked, and then in other people's Discover page, I'm sure you have a lot of followers, now they're seeing that thing surface.
So it's hard to actually do shit on Instagram without helping the shit that you're looking at.
Jon Jones has not applied for a license to fight and his court case has not been settled.
He's not been found guilty.
So they don't know.
And his cocaine use was what's called out of competition cocaine use.
Like when John Jones got caught for cocaine, he got caught for cocaine when he was not, it wasn't going to be affecting him while he was fighting.
The idea with these tests with marijuana is that if you can catch someone who was taking marijuana while they were competing, then it could be a factor.
There's no scientific evidence whatsoever that marijuana is a significant effector of performance to the point where it should be banned.
Caffeine significantly affects performance, and it's legal.
I believe you can have up to 200 milligrams of caffeine and compete under Olympic rules.
Chael Sonneny actually told me that he takes it in pill form.
Because he doesn't want to fuck up and get an extra strong cup of coffee and break the grid or break the test.
But if you, like, go to Starbucks, like, you know, we've tried to figure it out before, like, how much caffeine is in one of those things that Brian drinks?
Because he drinks those 30-ounce fucking...
The jug.
...star of death.
You know, but you don't really know exactly.
So you have to take, like, a pill in order to really modulate it perfectly if you're an athlete.
So, I mean, the arguable effect that marijuana does give you, it might give you some dilation of your lungs, it might give you a slight advantage in your cardio because of that, or a focus advantage, which is like, For some people, it could help.
Like a guy like Nick Diaz, it might help him be more comfortable because he likes being high all the time anyway.
But it's not enough where it's going to allow them to hurt somebody more.
See, the idea of a performance-enhancing drug is steroids, EPO, all the stuff that those cyclists get banned for.
Those things make you stronger, faster, and in the case of mixed martial arts, it will allow you to hurt your opponent.
It's arguable that marijuana does have some performance enhancing effect, like with jujitsu.
A lot of jujitsu guys, me included, like to get high before they train.
But man, I'm not much better.
I mean, I think it's a slight thing where you're like a little better.
With pool, same thing.
You feel a little more in tune with it.
But it's not significant enough where you wouldn't be able to perform at that level without it.
When we see athletes that get off steroids, man, the fucking drop-off is goddamn dramatic.
The difference between a steroid-using athlete and an athlete that's forced to go off steroids, you see it in their body.
They get soft.
They have loose skin.
You see it in their physical performance.
They get tired quicker.
They're not as aggressive.
They're not as confident.
They start posting shit on their Instagram, praise all this motivational shit like a suicidal stripper.
That's what happens, man.
It starts to fuck with your head because you realize you've got to pump yourself up now because you're not jacked to the tits on some artificial testosterone.
I think the public reaction to this Nick Diaz thing is unprecedented.
I tweeted the phone number for the Nevada State Athletic Commission today and said, please call them up and let them know how you feel about them fucking over Nick Diaz.
Look, they stole five years from this guy's career, and they stole $165,000 from his purse, and they weren't even willing to take into consideration the other two tests that he failed.
It is a goddamn dog-and-pony show.
It's a tyranny.
And what these people are doing is wrong.
It's just wrong.
This is not a person who set out to cheat.
This is a guy who doesn't use steroids.
Nick Diaz is notoriously anti-steroid.
This is a guy who's one of the toughest, most exciting guys in the sport.
He's fun to watch and also probably has social anxiety issues that marijuana helps alleviate.
There's pain that these guys experience, but that's not necessarily what stops fights.
So the pain threshold thing, I don't buy it.
I think the real pain threshold is adrenaline.
That's what really keeps you from feeling pain, and we're going to have that naturally.
That's the most effective thing.
Marijuana is an effective pain reducer after competition.
Or after training.
It's one of the things that people really like to do.
They have a hard day of training.
They like to sit back, smoke a joint, and watch a little TV. Well, they can't do that if they're being tested, you know, in this really restrictive way.
Sporadically and so on, yeah.
The marijuana thing, they've changed the threshold considerably.
So the problem is, he tested twice under the threshold of the current standards.
The WADA tests had him under the threshold, which says he was not high when he competed.
But the test that they used, I believe it was Quest Labs, sorry if I'm wrong, which is a very good lab, but it showed a completely different test than the test that WADA instituted.
They're hired by the UFC to clean up the sport, but they have no say on how the tests are implemented, how the results are dispersed.
The idea of bringing in the government and bringing in a guy like Nowitzki is, look, if you really want to clean up the sport, you hire a fucking bulldog who's just going to go after it.
You don't do it yourself.
Because if you do it yourself, there's always the possibility that someone could hide the results because there's a financial interest.
Like you would, you know, you would test Conor McGregor, you find out he's fighting high.
You're like, look, listen, you're saying some great shit, but you can't fight high, dude.
But with the USADA... You don't have a say in how the stuff is.
Fuck yeah, and he's going to win too, and I hope he sues the shit out of them.
I hope he sues the shit out of them.
I really do.
And I hope he wins, and I hope that the governor steps in, or someone steps in, that can say, there are people that you can hire that will understand what the fuck is going on.
You need former athletes, you need people who are experts in science and medicine, that understand What the thresholds are.
Understand the difference between urine tests and blood tests.
And also, you need commissioners.
You're going to need people that have the educated ability to make these judgments based on whatever discipline that they would need to be a master of to understand this.
Like, if you're talking about steroids, You would need someone who's a steroid expert.
If you're talking about performance-enhancing drugs like meth, you should have to establish the fact that you understand what the effects of all these things are.
You should have to have some education in the effects of all these things.
Now, with marijuana, there's no data.
You've got no data that shows that if a person takes marijuana, they can hurt someone more easily than if they don't take marijuana.
So as soon as you have that, you don't have any data.
So if you don't have any data, then you gotta go, how are you banning people for this?
And one of the things that she said that I totally agree with about marijuana, she said this in the past too, it's an invasion of privacy is what it is.
You're invading someone's privacy.
Just like the fact that if you work for a company, and the company decides to test you, and you work all week, you do a great job, you work hard, and then Friday's 5 o'clock, baby, it's over.
You want to smoke a joint, you're home, you worked all day, you want to watch The Walking Dead, you want to put your feet up and you want to get high.
You can't.
You fucking can't because they own you.
They own you.
They own your flesh.
They literally own your mind when you're not there.
Because everyone knows that marijuana is not psychoactive permanently.
It's not like you smoke a joint on Friday and then you show up on Monday morning and you're still high as fuck and you're high for the rest of your life.
That's not the case.
So if you smoke pot, you will be tested four or five weeks from now.
You will still test positive.
If you don't smoke any pot, if you get high right now and then four weeks from now they give you a urinalysis test, depending on what they're looking for, if they're just trying to trace metabolites, you can still test positive in four weeks.
And we're also talking about a guy who passed two world anti-doping agency tests.
Those are the most strict fucking tests in the world of sports.
He passed two of those and failed a quest.
I think it's quest.
Again, I apologize if I'm wrong, but the bottom line is the tests were not the tests that you need when you're taking away a guy's fucking livelihood and you're fining him for $165,000 out of a $500,000 purse, which, by the way, he has to pay his managers, he has to pay taxes, he has to pay all these different things.
And Nick is notoriously disciplined with his diet.
I mean, he eats all organic food.
He's mostly vegan, except I think he eats some fish.
He doesn't eat any land animals.
And he does this based on the effect on his body because he's an extreme endurance athlete.
He does a lot of triathlons and he does a lot of running.
He swam back and forth from Alcatraz twice.
I mean, he's a motherfucker, dude.
He takes care of his body.
And if he's smoking pot, that should tell you that pot's not bad for your body.
It's real simple.
But he's not cheating.
He's not doing steroids.
He's not doing anything that gives him an unfair advantage.
He's working hard, he's tough as shit, and he fucking fights smart.
And these assholes, they stole his ability to entertain people.
And he's one of the most popular guys in the fucking sport.
When he came back and fought Anderson Silva, the pay-per-view was through the roof.
And why was that?
Well, partly because people wanted to see what Anderson Silva would look like after he came back from a leg injury, this horrific leg break, but also it's because he's fighting Nick Diaz.
You know, Nick Diaz is going to talk shit to him like he did, like he got in his face.
He's like, what, bitch?
What, bitch?
Like, nobody had ever done that to Anderson Silva before.
He laid down on the ground like he was making a sleepy face, like, look, I'm sleeping, you're boring the fuck out of me, and jumped back up to his feet.
He humiliated Anderson, completely fucked with his head inside that cage.
That's what people paid for.
And what he is experiencing right now is a bunch of assholes taking away his ability to compete.
Taking away his ability to thrill people at what he does best.
This guy has worked for more than a fucking decade as a professional mixed martial arts fighter.
More than who knows how many years before that training and learning how to fight.
It's not going to stick, but I hope what the outcome is, is that we realize that these people are just bad at what they do, and they get removed.
Kevin Aioli wrote a fantastic piece about it.
Kevin Aioli, who's a very respected sports reporter, I forget what publication he writes for, but he's very respected in the world of combat sports especially.
He said they expose themselves as being ridiculous.
So if you don't have access to stem cells, and you're competing with someone who does, and this guy gets a stem cell injection on his knees, and his knees are fixed up so he's going to be able to train harder, and you have to tough through it, well, should that be legal?
Well, there's a similarity to that to people who get knee injuries or knee surgeries and then take a steroid to help themselves repair quicker so they can get back to competing quicker.
You know, one of the fucked up things about this too is just looking at it surface level, These dudes go out there and beat each other up for other people's entertainment.
And, you know, in that interview with Diaz after the fact, he was talking about how the people making decisions about what he can and can't do, those people sitting on the board or whatever the hell it is, they don't have to experience that.
You know what I mean?
Like, they're not...
And what you're saying as far as like recovery is concerned, it's like how can a regular person make a judgment on that?
And coming back to the thing about having a union, fighters are the only people who should be making decisions about fighters.
That you shouldn't be able to use performance-enhancing drugs and compete.
And Rhonda has said this very clearly, and she said something I totally agree with.
The difference between this and any other sport is if you give a guy steroids and he plays baseball, what's the big deal?
He's just going to hit a ball better.
But if you give a guy steroids and you let him fight, he could administer damage that maybe he would not have been able to administer.
He could hurt someone that maybe he wouldn't have had the endurance to hurt, he wouldn't have been able to deliver the combination that wound up hurting this person very badly, or possibly even killing someone.
And she said that if someone ever does die, and the other person tests positive for steroids, they should really get charged with murder.
But it's a lot easier to latch on to conflict that someone else has sort of shaped for you than it is to necessarily tackle the super personal thing that you're upset with.
Yeah, or get your life to a point of balance where you can actually look at anything that's going on in the world and have just sort of an intelligent...
And that's where I think that even though this is the Wild West and everyone has a voice, there are obviously voices that have emerged as more prominent.
First of all, you saw his perspective about video games and how offended people got about that.
They were calling in death threats against him, which I found incredibly ironic after he defends the Lion Hunter, then he goes off about video games being a sport, and people are like, fuck you!
So what he was doing by saying, by mocking it, I guess he's trying to do comedy, but he's being disrespectful to an emerging sport, which is unquestionably involves skill and intelligence and planning and strategy.
It's like, I think we all need to get smarter if we have established a voice on the web, like take an extra second before you hit that send button.
I know I've had this experience myself in the various communications I've had about products, let's say, or videos I want to make or tweets I want to send, of like...
What is the effect of this thing going to be?
It might even be the way that I feel, and I still don't want to do it because I'm thinking about the reaction, I'm thinking about the trickle effect of this particular sentiment.
And I don't think we're there yet.
I think a lot of the influencers, if you want to call them that, are behaving irresponsibly in wanting to put out a hot take Wanting to have something to say about this topic that has overwhelmed the web, that we're susceptible to the same thing that the lower level jerk in his room or that other guy that you were speaking about, because it's attractive.
It's attractive to get involved in the conversation, even with limited information.
It's a real point that I think a lot of people, especially comedians, when I have comedians on the podcast, sometimes they just forget that or they're not aware of that or they're not aware of it to the extent that I am because I know the numbers.
Like, you're doing a show.
And there's a lot of people listening, and you have a responsibility to be entertaining, but you also have a responsibility to be accurate.
You can't really say things that people might just take as fact when you haven't researched them, because you're reaching millions and millions of fucking people now, and you can change the way they look at things.
So like when this Mike Huckabee guy...
Latches on, you know, that fucking guy who latched on to that Kim lady, what the fuck her name is, the Kentucky clerk who wouldn't allow people to get gay men.
He fucking immediately, like, this is a great thing.
He starts tweeting about it.
There's a war on religious freedom, religious liberty, and it's hilarious.
Like, hashtag religious liberty.
And all these other apes got involved, and they're all fucking...
Screaming and yelling and it's cool.
It's cool to watch because you're watching like the last gasps of a dying ignorant perspective.
You're literally seeing the last few generations of monkeys that believe some dumb shit that was written on animal skins thousands of years ago.
You're seeing the last echoes of the game of telephone Where you tell someone and I tell someone and it gets translated from generation to generation for over a thousand years before anybody bothers writing it down.
Then once they write it down, they write it down in a fucking dead language and it has to be translated to all these other languages.
I mean, that is what we're seeing when we see that lady screaming with her glasses on at the Mike Huckabee fucking convention.
Well, it's hard to get the internet to places in the middle of nowhere, and it's hard to get the influence of those communities, but it will happen eventually.
Yeah, so it's like weather balloons that hover above areas that have no service, hard to reach places, and they're on a cycle.
So like your phone is rapidly switching between the one that's actually overhead at that point, and as that one slowly drifts out of range on the jet stream...
The next one flows in, and then you hand off to that one.
So you don't notice an interruption in connection, but since a weather balloon can't sit there forever, it's floating along with the weather system.
But some really cool technology, there's some videos online that show how they've made it.
So the idea being is places like North Korea, for example, float your fucking balloons.
And if you look at how quickly uprisings took place in places like Egypt and so on, it was just like, give them Twitter?
Holy shit!
An immediate overhaul in the behavior because all of a sudden now you've got this massive cultural shift of communication and so on, and people with access to Google.
I mean, why do you think China has been blocking YouTube and Google since day one?
Day one, because the warfare has always been about information.
Well, I have a friend who worked, doesn't work anymore at Google, but she would go over to China and have meetings with these people, and they were like, well, we want access to these people's emails.
Well, actually, that's an important distinction to make because it's not that they're just blocked.
It's also that Google doesn't want to be there either for those exact reasons.
So it's a two-way thing.
But I think that the control structures that exist in our global perspective, they exist because of an agenda, a particular agenda, whatever that might be.
And you can't control people if you don't control information flow.
Nevada State Athletic Commission or any king or dictatorship or what people felt about the NSA. That's why people are so outraged with this Edward Stoughton thing, that these people who are no different than you, no different than I, We just got jobs and could research ex-girlfriends' emails.
I mean, they could do all kinds of creepy shit that you shouldn't really be able to do and the public didn't know about it.
And when you have allies like South Korea, Japan, that are right in the zone there, right in bomb zone, and like what...
I just imagine that there was a border here with that kind of shit on the other side like that's a Daily life type situation for people in South Korea.
It's a completely developed place much like here culturally Complete free and open marketplace and their neighbor Their neighbor are these psychos like it's one thing for us to think about it at this distance But those people daily life is wondering what the fuck is gonna happen?
One of the chairmen's, one of the commissioners for the Nevada State Athletic Commission, his company that he owns, applied for a medical marijuana license.