John Joseph, a former foster care survivor turned Hare Krishna activist and documentary filmmaker, critiques divisive dietary labels like veganism while linking plant-based diets to longevity in Blue Zones. He exposes factory farming’s toxicity—CAFOs and glyphosate create dead zones (e.g., Gulf of Mexico) and algae blooms canceling events—and ties Monsanto’s GMOs to Nazi-era chemicals, questioning corporate-driven agriculture’s health risks. His Dirty Life program rehabilitates ex-inmates via discipline, contrasting with the U.S.’s broken system: CIA/DEA crack trafficking, Clinton-era hypocrisy on drug laws, and pharmaceutical corruption (e.g., $30 Abilify pills). They also debunk the "magic bullet" theory in JFK’s assassination, suggesting his Fed-challenging policies led to a conspiracy. Urban farming struggles under government crackdowns, while systemic issues—overpopulation, chemical exposure, and misinformation—highlight humanity’s self-destructive cycles. [Automatically generated summary]
Well, you know, it seems to me that people are always searching for an identity.
And if they have an identity that, you know, I'm a carnivore, I'm on the carnivore diet, which is all the latest trend.
And then people get really hopped up on that.
And that's all they want to do is talk carnivore diet.
The difference between what's happening right now with this carnivore diet and vegans seems very similar to me in that they're very into the identity of their food.
You have to be able to fan that spark, not throw water on it.
And that's the problem that's being done is people are so judgmental because they've built this walls, the walls between them, that it's just fall finding.
And I was telling the guys I trained them this morning, we're doing this 30 to life with Kip Anderson and...
We're at the Amity Foundation where these guys got paroled and I said, look, there's two types of mentality in the world.
There's the B mentality that's looking for the sweet and the good in people and then there's the flies and they're looking for the shit.
I said, when you see shit on a sidewalk and a dog takes a shit or in New York a human takes a shit within a matter of fucking 20 seconds there's flies on that motherfucker.
So I try to roll with the PMA Which I learned from Bad Brains, Positive Mental Attitude, which Napoleon Hill, HR copped it from Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich and all those books on self-help.
And it was like he told me no matter what circumstances you may be in, and I was in the Navy at the time in Norfolk, Fucking smuggling, fucking up, catching cases, took Navy over going back to jail, and I was fucking up.
I didn't know what to do.
Fucked out of my mind, hanging out with Henry Rollins and Ian McKay and all those guys in the D.C. hardcore scene and New York punk scene.
You know, hanging with John Belushi on Fear that night.
We were the ones that wrecked the set of Saturday Night Live and just, you know, just doing crazy shit.
And he just told me, you know, whatever you may be going through in life, if you keep a positive mental attitude, you could get through anything.
So how am I going to criticize people just because you eat meat or do whatever?
It's like...
You know, and some of these people are hardcore Christians, and it's like you're supposed to say, hey, what, you know, hate the sin, not the sinner, or whatever the fuck that whole philosophy deals with.
I mean, my point is, I'm trying to knock down the walls between people and unified people, so.
I think what you do good is you're a very positive role model in terms of hard work, in terms of your mental fortitude and how you approach things.
And I think people need that.
And I think one of the things that's going on right now with social media and one of the reasons why people will attack Jay-Z for wearing leather shoes, even though they're looking to stand out.
They're looking to be virtuous.
They're looking to be the person that's more virtuous than the person we're pointing a finger at.
Man, fuck them.
And there's always a lot of, fuck people who aren't this, or fuck people who aren't that.
You should never say, fuck people, because people are just like you.
They're human beings, and everybody's on a different path.
Tell me why you believe the way you believe.
Tell me why you think the way you think.
And I'll tell you why I think the way I think, and I bet we'll find common ground.
And that's what human beings need to do more with each other.
The problem with social media is it gives them this unusual platform to get people to pay attention to their ideas.
Maybe their ideas aren't even that good.
Or maybe their ideas are very obvious.
You know, like you're gonna point at someone, hey man, you know, you shouldn't say this word, hey man, you shouldn't do this thing, because we've decided that that's a bad thing, we've decided that that's culturally unacceptable anymore, and now everyone's gonna attack for that very reason.
Instead of describing how they feel, what makes them feel when they say something, what makes them feel when they do things, what's going on in their head, so we can all relate on common ground, people just want to attack.
And it's a big problem with what's going on.
Social media is way too young.
It's a new thing.
And people are using it in these really fucked up ways.
They don't exactly know what they're doing while they're doing it.
They're not even aware of the effect of their printed word, what it's going to have.
That's why you have so many trolls and so many mean people and so many people just trying to get a rise out of someone.
They're not even aware of this process they're setting in motion.
They just know they could push a button and watch something happen.
I got attacked more by the vegan feminists for that book fucking tried to destroy me.
Because you wrote pussies?
They wrote everybody because I wrote pussies.
Now, first of all, and then she went on a blog and called me a misogynistic.
I said, yeah, I like misogynistic.
You know, call me a misogynistic scumbag and a fucking piece of shit and all this.
So I just had, I just wrote, hey, any of you ladies that bought this book for their fellas and it helped them, please fucking holler at this fucking woman and tell us something.
So when he had the breaks, he would fucking do like two, three cigarettes.
I said, you know, my friend has an organic green tea extract company.
And the polyphenols in that is gonna counteract all your fucking smoking shit that you're doing So I gave him five bottles and then every time he would call him he would have his people call Yo, you know that guy fucking McGowan get him to bring me some more of that green tea shit Did he quit smoking?
Smoke of fights means you just have a beef with somebody and you could just throw on the gloves and go at it and as long as it's like reasonably within 20 pounds of a weight difference like you know although in lockup I saw people much bigger people fighting much And some of them guys, I mean, I was not good.
I would fight the black dudes and they would just beat the shit out of me.
But I would just keep coming back.
You know, I'm Irish.
I don't quit, man.
And then, you know, I learned more of the sweet science.
But when I was locked up, I didn't quit almost to the end because toward the end of your sentence, they allow you to go home because they want to reintegrate you back with your family or whatever.
And I never grew up with my mom, so they would send us home.
So we would take the carton of cigarettes.
And open it up very carefully, open up the cellophane carefully, slide the cellophane down and put joints inside the cigarette pack, slide it back up, glue it, close the carton of cigarettes, and that's how we would get the weed back from the visits.
Because I wasn't smoking weed coming back out of nobody's ass.
That was not happening.
I'm like, no thank you.
So that was the process.
And, you know, so that's why I quit.
But that's, the book came, I had a lot of shit, a lot of demons inside of me from what happened to me.
Me and my two brothers were, you know, pretty severely abused in all kinds of ways in this foster home, physically, mentally, sexually abused by the older people.
Kids in the home it was fucked up and I never told anybody but that was always something no matter how much I lived as a monk for two years a Hare Krishna monk nothing cured that fucking anger that was inside of me that I had toward these people for what they did to me and the secret of like yo it's fucked up to say like yo you're this dude from the streets You had knife fights with Puerto Ricans.
I got shot with a.22 in Forest Park selling angel dust.
I got stabbed.
And then to try to say, yo, this motherfucker molesting me is...
It took a lot out of me to...
And nobody knew it because I never talked about it.
And I took McKee's class and that was the turning point because I went up to him and I was writing a script at the time based on what happened to me in the foster home.
The kids...
In the screenplay, we based what happened to me in my younger period of my life.
And I never told anybody what happened.
I would just avoid that.
But then when I started writing the book and I was taking his class...
And between, you know, parts of his thing, when you went on the break, you could walk up to Robert McKee and say, ask him questions.
So I said, Mr. McKee, as far as a protagonist who was abused as a kid, and he stopped me right there.
And he said, listen, stop right there.
He said, McGowan.
Everybody uses it.
It's a cliche, you know, abusive children, to develop empathy for characters we could otherwise not give a fuck about.
It's not what happens to somebody, it's what they do as a result of it.
And that's the fucking light came on.
And I mean, for years I would sit there, and it took me seven years to write the evolution of a Cro-Magnon.
And I would get to that part of the story...
And I would lose my shit and break down crying like fucking uncontrollably because of what happened to me and my brothers.
So I just skipped over that part and I would never address it, but then He gave me the strength in a lot of ways to be able to say, hey man, he wrote in my book, so I have his book, and he wrote to me, he goes, John, always write the truth.
And that's when I knew that that needed to come out in the book to cleanse myself.
I've been two years on crack, 88 to 90 crack pills.
You know, doing whatever, getting shot at with fucking AR-15s, robbing deals.
I had TOS, or it was KOS at the time, kill on sight.
I was a fucking maniac.
Because I just didn't care.
I actually kind of wish subconsciously that somebody would put a fucking bullet at me when you're doing crack.
But when I took his when that seminar helped me so much Because it's really like, he's really like a fucking guru and a teacher, man.
The man is amazing.
If you ever get a chance to take the Robert McKee story seminar, it's a three-day seminar.
I took it twice, then he does workshops.
But the story seminar, I just walked out of there after the third day.
It's 10 hours a day and you're just like, you're fucking, you're like speechless.
Like, what the fuck did I just experience?
It's incredible.
And that gave me the power to go and tell my story the right way.
And the amount of emails of people that I received that were like, yo, that shit was done to me.
Thank you for having the courage to tell the story.
And, you know, I just kept writing after that.
So even the meat is for pussies podcast.
If you read it, it's tongue in cheek.
There's a lot of dudes that eat meat that could kick the shit out of me.
What I'm saying is if you continue to lead a sanitary lifestyle and you eat this fucked up food that's out there, that they're putting out there, that they're knowingly putting out there to fucking poison you because they're tied in with the pharmaceutical companies, it's a racket.
It's not a conspiracy.
It's been proven that this is what they're doing.
You will become a pussy dependent on the pharmaceutical companies to keep you alive.
If that's what you want, then this book is not for you.
Initially, my first interaction with Rastafarians, it was 1980. My ship was going to Jamaica.
So when you go to any port and they take you down on the mess deck and they show everyone, you go here, you go there, they show you these films.
So when we were getting ready to go to Jamaica, they're like, if you're going to use, and it's these military films from the 60s, if you're going to use...
Have sex with a prostitute.
Make sure you use a prophylactic.
And then the next photo was a fucking Rastafarian with smoke coming out of every fucking orifice.
And they're like, and under no circumstances should you talk to these people.
They're just going to try to sell you drugs.
So who the fuck do you think was the first people when I got off the ship?
Because I didn't hang out with any of the dudes on my ship.
I got the fuck away from it.
I was the only punk rocker.
I was wearing Sex Pistols Destroy fucking t-shirts.
They're looking at me like I was already into punk rock since the 70s.
So I get off the ship and I meet this like 20-something year old fucking dread dude.
And he's like, yeah, man, what you need?
I said, listen, you know, I'm fucking smuggling some weed back.
I want to get take because this other sailor told me, yo, you go in there and you get them to take you to the carving shops and they carve out the fucking statue and they pack the lamb's bread in there and then seal up the statue.
And then I had a hookup with the officer, the guy who did the watch, and counted, so say, every fifth person you got searched.
So I was always avoiding that because I would hit the dude off with some weed or whatever the fuck it was.
So when I went to Jamaica...
I asked this kid, as soon as I got off the boat, like there was no hotels in Montego Bay, nothing.
It was just you took the ship, the ship anchored out in the bay, and you took a boat in and landed at the dock, and it was just like some fucking ancient...
Like, crazy shit that you would see back in the 1800s.
When I split the Navy, he let me stay at his house and I was eating his food.
And then after a week of him going to work and coming home and his food's gone, he's like, all right, John, you got to get the fuck out.
Go somewhere.
Not here.
But they played.
And then a week later...
I used to go during the middle of the day in my car in the Navy and go to happy hour.
And I'm walking in and the owner comes out.
He's like, you got to see this fucking band.
You got to see this band.
I'm like, all right, cool.
I'm going in.
He's like, no, you don't understand.
They're fucking black, man.
And they're incredible.
So I go upstairs and Bad Brains are sound checking.
And I'm just like, what the fuck is this?
And if you haven't seen the Bad Brains, I'll tell you the best video to watch.
1982, CBGB's.
They got the whole set up there.
And if you want to have your shit blown away, just watch that.
So that's what...
I actually sold their manager acid.
I was selling acid at the time.
So their manager, I sold him acid, but I got to talk with HR, and he started telling me about this PMA shit, and I told him, yeah, man, I fucking got out of jail and went into the Navy because I caught another case.
They didn't know that I'm supposed to be a waiting court, probably court-martial, whatever the fuck.
And then the civilian case too.
So then I was in Nimitz Hall, which is TPU, Transient Personnel Union, waiting for my ship to come back.
And they were going to deal with it then.
So I was there for like, I don't know, like a month and a half.
And they were like, yo, your ship, the dude I was cool with, he warned me.
He goes, yo.
Your ship is fucking docking today.
And I was like, fuck.
I was like, I gotta get the fuck out of here.
So I just packed up a couple things.
And I got on the bus that used to go through the base and then roll out Hampton Boulevard.
As I'm fucking...
They had already pulled in.
And as I'm pulling out the gate in the seat, the fucking master at arms of my ship, the police, are right there walking across the street to fucking Nimitz Hall to get me.
And I just shrunk down in the seat.
But if they would have looked up...
That was it.
I wouldn't be here telling you this story because my life would have taken a much different trajectory.
So what happened was I went up and I hitchhiked with this band, The Undead, from New York, this punk band.
So they played the 930 and they gave me a ride back to New York.
And I get out the van and right there on Avenue A, 171, was motherfucking HR in the doorway where they recorded and lived.
He's like, Rastafari!
I'm like, fuck!
And what happened was they were playing a show a couple days later, and there's a big Puerto Rican gang that was right there that didn't want them hanging out, so they went in there one night, and they killed people.
I'm not going to say the name of the fucking gang, because...
For whatever, you know, I'm not trying to out them like that, but they had the largest heroin cocaine spot in America.
The feds busted them, knocked down their building, the whole shit.
Alphabet City was out of fucking control.
So nobody, the Beastie Boys were there that night.
Nobody would fight these dudes back.
And I was on a fucking Quaalude, which is a gorilla biscuit.
You think you got crazy strength.
And I said to J.W.E., who was the engineer of their shit, I was like, yo...
Let's get these motherfuckers, man.
And he's like, dude, they kill people.
Don't fuck with them.
They will kill you.
And I was like, yo, come on, you fucking dudes, you're punk rock.
You're supposed to be fucking tough.
Let's fucking get these guys.
So they calmed me down.
But when I got outside, the dude tried to stab me.
So I blocked the knife and I hit him with an elbow and pop, pop, pop.
Knocked him down, smashed his head off the curb.
Next thing I know, four of his homies come charging at me.
Yo, you white motherfucker.
Trying to stab me.
And I used to wear a chain belt.
And you can ask Henry.
We all used to wear these chain belts with a quick release, a bike chain, to fight people.
Because in D.C. it would be the Marines would fucking...
Or the Rednecks would beat up the punk rockers.
So I got in a chain fight with these motherfuckers.
And I ended up...
So I go to run back into 171 because I lost the chain.
And one of the Beastie Boys tries to slam the door on me to keep me out on the street.
These motherfuckers want to kill me.
I pushed my way in.
I got stabbed in the shoulder and then they put out a KOS on me.
They were like we're gonna kill that motherfucker.
Nobody would hang out with me except for this one crazy Russian street fighter kid named James Contra.
That's the only dude.
So then I said I couldn't go down to Alphabet City at all.
They were waiting there with fucking guns and bats and like we're gonna kill that dude.
But because the bad brains were black they kind of Squashed it over, but I went up there to face them and they surrounded me like a fucking dude was like ready to fucking off me and Doc and Daryl, Doc's the guitar player, Daryl's the bass player, came running out.
Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, chill, chill!
And they were like...
You know, he was just, you know, standing up like, y'all came in there trying to stab everybody.
You would have done the same shit.
And the one dude's name was Crazy Eddie.
And he got, I think he got murdered now, but he did Mad Time.
And he just looked at me and it was that moment of the standoff where I didn't know what the fuck he was going to do, but he just goes...
Out of all the white motherfuckers over here, you're the only one with heart.
We ain't never gonna fuck with y'all again.
Just don't hang out outside the storefront.
Because there was gigs at 171A. That's where Bad Brains played, Beastie Boys.
And then the Bad Brains let me move in.
And then they recorded that first album, which MCA from the Bad Brains, greatest hardcore punk album of all time, the Raw cassette, the Lightning Bolt.
I was there for the whole recording.
And then they got me a job, and this is where the Harry Christian thing comes in.
I always come full circle.
So this punk band named The Dots.
Who put out the first Bad Brains single, Jimmy Quit, was in the band.
And he put out a single called, Stay Close to Me and Pay to Come.
And Vinnie worked at this health food store.
So they started giving us food and that's when I started changing over to the diet.
Because Bad Brains were like...
HR would be like, you don't eat the fuckery, you don't eat the Babylon food, you got to eat ital.
Ital is vital, low-tile can be fatal.
Talk me to the health...
What is ITAL? It means pure plant-based food, no oil, no fucking salt.
Yeah, I mean, you have Shiva, the Shivites smoke the ganja and stuff like that, and I don't know, you know, they put the ashes of the crematorium on their bodies and stuff like that, but they, you know, the thing about, there's four principles in Hare Krishna, when you live as a Brahmachari monk, which I did, and it's no intoxication at all.
No eating of meat, fish, eggs, none of that.
No gambling and no illicit sex.
So I was actually a 100% brahmachari celibate monk.
Vinnie Signorelli, who's now the drummer for The Unsane, he still plays drums, he was in The Dots, he was in Turbo Hydramatics, a bunch of bands in New York, and he just started hitting me with questions.
What do you think this is?
What do you think?
I was like, I don't know, man.
And then after giving me this book, he gave me this book called The Science of Self-Realization, and I read it, and I was like, dude, this yoga master, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, I was like, I gotta find out, where is this guy?
And he said, oh, he left the planet in 77, but you could go to the temple and see the whole process.
I was like, yo, I wanna go.
And I went, and they had this ceremony, and it's called Greeting of the Deities, and then the song that gets played, George Harrison, Plays bass on it.
And I was like, yeah, it was from the Brahma Samhita.
And I was...
I just was attracted to it.
Everything I'd known in my life was pain and violence and just fucking crazy.
Some of the most fierce warriors and what I loved about Bhagavad Gita is spoken on a battlefield between Krishna and Arjuna.
Arjuna was a Chacharya.
This line, this Sampradaya comes from the warrior class.
And if you read any books on martial arts, they're going to tell you that martial arts originated in India.
The original martial arts school were all in India and at one point Sankacharya chased all the Buddhists out of India and they fled across the Himalayas into China.
So this is actual history and you can see where the martial arts spread out across the planet.
You know, a lot of it, a lot of things that are around today originated in India.
So to me, that really, I was always in, you know, I was a street fighter.
I messed around even, you know, with some going to martial arts schools, always on the outskirts though.
I even went and trained with Ron Van Cleef when he had his school in New York.
No shit.
Yeah, but he would always be training police forces, and I was the only white dude in the class, and it was all blacks and Puerto Ricans, and when it came time to spar, they beat the shit out of me.
Well, I'll tell you a lot of that spun into gang bonds, too, because a lot of the people that were the martial arts teachers, this one dude, JR, he's famous.
He was in the New York Times.
He was one of the biggest heroin traffickers on the Lower East Side.
He was one of the first guys to get busted under the RICO stature.
He did the full 25, and he trained all of the dudes that sold for him, and all his street soldiers were all trained in martial arts.
So a lot of these guys were doing shady shit.
Behind the scenes, because that's what Alphabet City and the Lower East Side, and that's what New York was about.
Say names, but he outed somebody that tried to do some shit to him, and they blackballed him in Hollywood, and the guy said, you're never going to make another motherfucking movie, and he hasn't.
So if some dude is pushing his weight around on a female, I think that shit's fucked up.
And then they're going to turn around and fucking fuck these people.
I say fucking get them the fuck out of there.
And I'm going to tell you a story because Julia Phillips and Michael Phillips, they fucking produced one of my favorite movies of all time, which was Taxi Driver.
And Close Encounters.
They did all those movies.
She wrote a book called You'll Never Do Lunch In This Town Again in the 80s.
She had the Cro-Mags come and play in a movie at the Ritz.
They flew us off the Motorhead tour, picked us up in limos.
She wanted the shit to be lip sunk.
I said, nah, if you want the Cro-Mags, it's a fucking real show and we're going to fucking lay it down.
Crazy shit and two people broke their necks during the shooting so the movie is called it's called the beat Yeah, but the thing was she was one of the first people to put out and expose these fucking scumbags for doing that shit To people in Hollywood and exposed a lot of that in a book You'll never do lunch in this town again and when the book came out she was on the set for interview with a vampire and And they came and pulled her off the set, and she was fucking blackballed from fucking Hollywood.
I mean, the list is a mile long, and for everybody that comes forth, there's a million people that are sitting back going, I don't want to say anything because I don't want to take that shame on him.
Well, through all the things you're doing, you're committed, and you're disciplined, and that's attractive to people, right?
People look for people that are doing things that they wish they were doing.
So they see someone, I mean, that's the whole cult of personality, right?
They see you, they see you, you got this powerful personality, and you're positive, you're doing things, and people gravitate to that, and they want to be a part of that.
So, before that Gulf oil spill ever happened, there was a fucking dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico the size of New Jersey.
Why?
All the fucking runoff of the CAFOs and the farms with the fucking toxic pesticides, all the shit that these guys are spraying, Roundup and everything else, and the nitrogen that's in the fucking shit when these lagoons that have 100,000 fucking gallons of pig shit...
It all was draining into the Mississippi and then draining into the Gulf.
So if you look at what's going on in North Carolina right now, because I was just there, motherfuckers can't even swim in the fucking rivers anymore.
And it's happening in Europe too.
They just had to cancel the swim on...
The Iron Man in Hamburg because of the green allergy and all the shit that's happening now because of all the runoff that's happening with the farms and everything.
We're making this planet a fucking toxic wasteland.
Well, what we've done with farms and it's gotten...
We develop cities.
We have giant groups of people that aren't growing anything.
And then we've given people incentive to make as much profit as possible.
And when they're trying to make as much profit as possible without ethics or morals in consideration or the impact on the environment, they set off a process in motion that we are many, many decades into right now.
So to try to correct it now, we're just seeing the effects.
And then on top of that, there's all these ag-gag laws.
And the ag-gag I'm not participating in this.
I have to figure out what I'm going to do.
I'm either going to become a vegetarian or I'm going to become a hunter.
I decided to become a hunter and that's how I get my meat.
But when you see those videos, those are the videos that expose people to the realities and the horrors of factory farming.
He runs this farm called Polyface Farms, and what he does is he has all these animals live like normal animals.
Like the pigs, they're not in these cages.
He has them roam free, and they set up these enormous portable fences.
So they take the pigs, they roam in this one area like pigs naturally do, and then they move the fence to a different area, and they transport, you know, move the pigs over with it.
So the pigs are never contained.
The chickens run free, and then they go back into the chicken house at night.
And then they try not to have monocrops.
Like, when you have monocrops, A thousand acres of soybeans.
That shit ain't normal.
That's not how plants are supposed to be.
And then you have to throw pesticides on them.
And then when you're rolling them up, you have to grind everything up with these gigantic machines and everything gets caught up in there.
Mice and rabbits and everything that might be in the neighborhood while these machines are rolling over.
All of that is unnatural.
And it's not how human beings are supposed to grow food.
It's not how food is supposed to be...
It's not how these plants or animals are supposed to be interacting with the environment.
But what we're doing with these things is making incredible amounts of profit.
And these people are addicted to this profit.
These corporations are addicted to this profit.
They have this constant growth mentality where every year, every quarter has to have more.
Well, they have massive amounts of money, so they bribe politicians, and they use all of these lobbyists, and what they do is they get these laws passed where it's illegal to film them doing immoral shit.
And so then you don't see this.
You just go to the store and you buy a cheeseburger.
You don't think twice about what has to happen for that corn to become syrup and how much environmental damage has to take place.
The world we're living in right now is just waking up to what has been in motion for many, many decades.
I think what's really important, though, is that we're honest about health and that we're honest about the consequences of our actions in terms of our purchasing power, what we're doing with food.
We've got to be honest about all of it.
And one of the problems that happens with hunters or carnivores or even vegans or vegetarians is people only want to look at things that support Right.
And with vegans, there's a lot of people out there that only want to look at things that support vegan positions in terms of health.
And this becomes a real problem because they start using studies that are very shaky, they start adding things to documentaries that aren't necessarily true or proven, and it becomes propaganda.
And it becomes propaganda both ways.
I see it with this carnivore diet now.
There's a lot of people with this carnivore diet that are like, this is the only way to go.
Who are the hospitals filled with that are having procedures for bypass?
Who are the procedures being done for people removing their limbs for diabetes?
It's the people that are eating this toxic diet that Americans, the standard American diet and what people have become accustomed to eating, rolling up and even these carnivore people.
Let's just take that for instance.
If you do all meat, sure, your body...
That motherfucker might have been on a Dorito diet.
We don't know what the fuck he was eating prior to that.
So then you put...
The body's a perfect machine.
So at the beginning of when you're doing all meat, the body's becoming accustomed to that.
But you know, the analogy that I use is that's like getting off heroin and getting on methadone because the methadone...
Because the methadone down the road is going to take even a longer toll.
And I've seen people that are doing methadone for 20-30 years, and that's why I love the analogy, because the long-term studies of those diets do not exist right now.
But if you look at the blue zones around the planet of the people who were the most centurions and the people that lived the longest, they have three things in common, okay?
And there's blue zones in Japan, Costa Rica, Greece, Iran, United States.
Well, the top five with the most.
And then California, and it's the Adventists, the seven-day Adventists.
So the three things that they have most in common with the people that live the longest, number one, they have a meditation spiritual practice.
They do something every day for PMA, for positive mental attitude.
Whatever their higher power is, they do that every day.
Number two, they move their bodies.
They're working, they work in the farm, they're exercising.
Number three, they eat primarily a plant-based diet.
They may have a piece of fish in Japan or whatever, or a piece of meat once in a while, but primarily The Adventist study was actually the best one because it was all from different people with different ethnic backgrounds.
And the one thing that they had in common, the seven-day Adventists don't eat meat.
And that's my point with the whole thing.
You know, when it comes down to diet, I just see what worked for me, and I try to relay that to people, and not be like, my way's the only way, and this and that, because people are doing other things in their way.
There's raw foodists, there's all these different people, and the problem is, with the false ego and the human being, everybody wants to think That the glass is full, don't try to tell me shit, I know it all.
If you say an organic, whole food, plant-based diet, that's what I roll with.
I don't fucking say I... A good point.
A vegan diet could mean anything, but when you say whole food, foods in their original source, organic, no pesticides, whole food, plant-based diet, that's what I roll with.
Did you see the article that just came out today that 40 years ago an orange was 10 times more nutritious?
I think it was...
I think it might have been CNN online or something.
They posted an article that said the fruits and vegetables from 40 years ago were 10 times more nutritious than the way they're being grown today because, like you said, rows and rows and rows.
I'm not a farmer, composting, but I have a friend that is an organic farmer, and his name is Keith, and he farms up in New Hampshire, and he knows all about crop rotation.
And listen, you know, I saw Ted Nugent play with fucking ACDC and Black Sabbath in 76 at Madison Square Garden.
I went to all them shows.
But, you know, when he came on and the shit that he was talking, I was just like, the fucking GMO crops...
80% of the GMO crop is being fed to animals for fucking slaughter.
What he called the stupid vegans are not the ones that are eating that shit.
Most of the crops that are genetically modified because you have these corporations, McDonald's, every one of these corporations, they want every fucking piece of meat to taste the same.
They want every fucking french fried potato to be the same.
So the only way they can control it...
Is the control of the genetic markers.
So that's why they're using a majority of the genetically modified grains.
And Monsanto, you know, who just got bought out by Bayer, and they're changing the name because Monsanto has such a big rep.
The reason why we can grow the kind of crops that we have today is because of Fritz Haber.
They say that 50% of the nitrogen in most people's DNA comes from the Haber method.
He also created Zyklon A. Zyklon A Zyklon B gas was the Nazis.
Well, he created Zyklon A and they added this smell to it so that you could smell this toxic gas so you would know it when it was coming so you can get out of the way.
The Nazis switched it to Zyklon B. Fritz Haber was actually a Jew and they took his invention and cut out the smell portion of it so that they could gas Jews with it.
We get nitrogen from the Haber method when they're pouring nitrogen into the soil so they can grow plants.
That's a big part of it.
When you say genetically modified, too, a big part of that is we want to think about labs and science and all this jazz.
Almost everything we eat is genetically modified, including all of our grains, like especially all of our fruits and vegetables.
What we were saying about tomatoes or orange being different than it was 10 years ago.
Fucking everything's different, man.
Because they want these things to be durable so they can throw them in a bus, or a truck rather, and travel across the country and sell them somewhere else.
Well, one thing is if you eat plants, plants absorb, like they've found salmon DNA in some plants because plants absorb the fish that people use for fertilizer.
When they created it, one of the things, one of the reasons why they were able to implement it, they said it doesn't kill people, it kills plants and it kills bacteria.
And you know the other reason that I was I didn't know where this whole conversation would go because I have respect for you as a martial artist like I said I know Brian since the 80s and you know he always talked about you but Rich Roll wrote you and said that I was up at his house and heard that I was coming on a podcast and And you responded to him in a text message and said, yeah, it's so fucking toxic what's going on.
I hang out with dudes that fucking eat McDonald's.
Like, I have friends...
Like I said, I'm not the fly looking for the shit.
I try to look to the positivity of every human being and some of them eat meat.
My brother eats meat.
I'm supposed to hate my brother because my brother eats fucking meat.
You know, it's just like...
Like you said, it's identity politics and I don't roll with that because in my line of work and what I'm doing, which is getting people out of some really dark fucking shit in their lives, like this documentary I'm doing now called 30 to Life...
The shit that these fucking inmates have been through and the you know I met one guy he did 50 fucking years man and he's 90 years old and his story is he's in Amity Foundation and his story is out now he's in this he just got paroled after 50 years I got a picture of him in my fucking phone and listen to his story before you judge a motherfucker because they got locked up and He served in World War II in the army.
He served in Korea in the army.
He had his friends fucking blown up in front of him.
Fucking...
He's seen shit we can't even imagine in two wars.
Korea.
You know what them motherfuckers went through over there with the cold and...
Fucking they couldn't even bury the bodies, bro.
They had to fucking stack them with...
Just insane.
And he came back and went onto the streets with PTSD. They didn't even know what the fuck PTSD was back then when he was going through it.
And some shit happened, which I did not...
He got double life, so obviously something really bad happened, and I don't know the circumstances, but he's 90 fucking years old right now, and he survived the riots in Folsom.
We're training to do a 5k and Rich Roll is leading the run.
And I just got Nike to fucking give them all Air Pegasus new fucking sneakers.
These guys are in fucking tears, man.
Nobody gave a fuck.
When we first went in there and met these brothers, one of the biggest, toughest, scariest motherfuckers broke down in fucking tears and was like, yo, nobody gave a fuck about me, man.
The fact that you guys are coming in here and doing this for us, you don't know how much this means to me.
And, I mean, he had to leave the room.
He was crying.
Here, I'm going to show you the picture of this cat.
A bull shark took his arm and leg and now he's on the Discovery Channel Shark Week and he fights for ocean conservation because if you kill the lead predator in the oceans and the culling that's going on...
So I contacted him and I go, Paul...
I'm gonna tell you right now the whole vegan shit is becoming this shit for rich fucking people and the people that really need it are the ones they can't afford $25 to go to a veg fest and all this shit it's becoming this pompous fucking shit and the food and you'd go to try to have a fucking meal and it's like fucking 50 bucks and just in fucking appetizers and the people that really need it are not getting access to this and I saw 13th the documentary About the
So much like when you were young and your life was filled with turmoil and chaos, you found the Hare Krishnas, you found this discipline in becoming a monk and sticking to this plant-based whole foods diet.
Yeah, but it was about giving these guys facility to change their lives.
And that's what this documentary, Dirty Life, is.
Because they told me, go out on this tour for 30 days.
You're going to change your motherfucking life.
And that's what I did, and I stuck with it.
The training and everything that I do for Ironman, I'm on my fucking 11th Ironman.
I'm on the road constantly with the Cro-Mags, touring.
I'm in the gym every day.
I'm not trying to be a fucking 90-pound fucking Ironman dude.
I still hit the weights, hit the bags, do whatever.
I'm all about recovery now.
My friend Aaron Drogoszewski runs recovery in New York City, so I'm all about the CVAC pod and the NuCalm, which provides in 30 minutes you get three hours of restorative sleep.
Like, all the shit that he's learning, massage school, fucking trigger point therapy, everything that he's been learning.
And he's a bad motherfucker.
He fought in the Golden Gloves.
He has black belts.
He's a hardcore dude.
All tatted up.
And, you know, I just been on this and I went into crunch because they were offering a special thing and he was he led the boxing and he taught kickboxing and worked with all the five points guys would all be in, you know, five points Muay Thai.
So, yeah, before that, they were all up in crunch, you know, training.
Then they opened up the school, but he was there.
And I said, yo, I want to do this Ironman.
He started training me from day one to do my first race.
I started with him in 2010. I did my first race, 2012, New York Ironman.
So then his whole journey, now they open up this place to recover.
It's right up the block from Henzo Gracie's on 30th Street.
So they have the CVAC pod, which takes you to elevation.
It increases your VO2 max by like 5.8%.
And I think doping, doing the EPO and everything, only gives you 3%.
And then he does the newcom.
So now, I tried to test the shit.
And I'm like, alright, newcom.
It fucking works with the wiring in your brain.
So you put blinders on and you sit there with these fucking headphones and he has electrodes.
He puts this gel.
By the way, I have his card and he said, you come to New York next time.
But what I really noticed was with my running, because I mark my thresholds and everything, so every run when I was training for the last race, I just did Chattanooga.
A half Ironman.
So every run I was doing, it's going in the CVAC and then going to do the Newcom and then I do the Norma Tech boots.
They have everything at this place, Recover.
So they're just using...
And then they have this other fucking magnetic blanket that fucking...
You sit on it.
And then there's an isolation pad on top, and it sends these frequencies through your body.
I might run the trail, the bridal trail in Central Park if I can, or run around the reservoir, but mostly my shit is all in the city and the hokers just fucking...
The next day...
People say to me...
Yo, you must be fucked up for a week after the race.
I was like...
I did Kona World Championships two years in a row.
And the first year I did it, 2016...
I fucking went snorkeling with my girl the next day for like three hours.
So like...
The inflammation's not there...
I'm getting really dialed in on the equipment aspect, getting fitted for the bike, getting the right shoes to run in.
It literally took me six years to get dialed in on even the nutrition aspect in doing them races.
You don't want to get a belly full of fucking gels and all this other shit.
That's a good philosophy to live by and, you know, to have something that's been fucking with you, some things you're putting off, whether it's getting back into yoga or cleaning up your diet or quitting smoking or whatever it is.
Having that thing over your head where you know you haven't taken care of it makes you think less of yourself.
Yeah, and that's one of the things I tell everybody I work with, because, I mean, literally today, and I'm not bullshitting, I don't try to be like, you know, I don't even say I'm some kind of teacher, whatever.
I just pass the info to these motherfuckers.
Today, I had fucking four people come up to me on the street.
Yo, heard you on Rich Roll, fucking saw you on Vice, dude, love what you're doing.
Now, am I going to give a fuck and be like zoned in on something and find fault with what the fuck he's doing?
I was like, yo, man, props to you, dude.
Fucking...
You know, you could do anything, you know, you apply yourself to and that's really, you know, my whole thing in life is to just, you know, and that's what Prabhupada did.
Prabhupada came to America in his 70s aboard the Jaladutra, crossed two oceans, had two heart attacks, almost passed away.
But his teacher in India said to go to America At 70 years old, with $7,000 in case of Bhagavatams, and he came to America, to the Lower East Side, to the Bowery.
He didn't even have, he brought the original texts that have been passed down from one teacher to the next to the next to the next in India.
And they said, his teacher Bhakti Siddhanta said, you need to write these books in English for the world, to help the world.
So he didn't, all the people in India were like, Swamiji, you know, you are at the end of your life.
Why are you going to go to America?
It's a very dangerous place.
Not only did he go to America, he went to fucking New York.
To the Bowery, they robbed him.
He slept on the floor.
He fed people.
He cooked...
Allen Ginsberg got him his first storefront over there, called Matchless Gifts.
And they saw the humility of this person, Prabhupada, and what he did for people, how he had so much love.
He would cook the meals, serve everybody, clean up before he would even eat a grain of rice.
He had no possessions.
None.
He slept on the floor, on a mat.
And they saw the humility of him and he just...
And when I learned his story, there's a great documentary on him called Your Ever Well-Wisher on YouTube.
And it's about his life and how he came...
And, you know, Acharya means one who leads by example.
It's not what and I've learned this just by these big mouths that are out there that talk so much shit It ain't what the fuck you say.
It's what you do It's about your action and your words and how you interact with other people and how you see other people even these fucking so-called celebrities It's when the cameras ain't on how do you treat people, right?
You know what the fuck is the real core of your existence?
What are you here to do?
When I saw Prabhupada and read all this stuff on him and then started taking up the process, it just changed my life for the better.
Well, by you saying that, it's very enticing for people, right?
Like, they go, I want to do what he's doing.
I want to feel better like he's feeling better.
That's what's amazing about having someone who's a great role model.
Meaning, you might not even think of yourself as a role model, but...
By living your life by example, by doing things that you should do, by being healthy, by being active and enthusiastic.
But you've got passion about what you're doing, about your music, about pushing yourself, about your books, about the exercise.
And when you do that, People that don't have purpose in their life, they see that and they go, that's what I'm missing.
I'm missing, because we're missing so many things in this life.
But one of the things that people are missing is role models.
They're missing someone who they can look up to and go, oh, this is the way to do it.
And when you emulate their lifestyle and start thinking the way they think and using their lessons and applying them to your own life, you start seeing benefits.
And then that passes down to other people who see you.
HR could have been telling me to worship fucking Cheetos and I would have done it.
Thankfully, he was into the right shit.
But I would see him go on stage and I would see his humility.
He would always say Ja is the ability of anything that I have.
He would always give praises to the Most High to Ja Rastafari.
Humble as fucking hell.
And the best musicians to ever...
Those four motherfuckers...
Are praised by every single fucking musician today.
If you talk Doc, Daryl, Earl, and Gary, Dr. No, every motherfucking musician out there will be like, those dudes are the fucking Dons, because they study music.
They were into jazz, and they were into fucking Return to Forever, and John McLaughlin, Mahavishnu.
Doc in 81 was like...
They call me squids because they met me in the Navy.
Yo squids, I want to take you to the Palladium, return to forever.
And when he did Half-Baked, did you notice that he put the weed delivery guy in all bike gear?
Where the fuck you think he got that from?
I used to show up.
I never carried a bag.
I showed up with a $4,000 carbon fiber frame and I had a black water bottle and all the weed bags was in the two water bottles so it just looked like I was a cyclist out on a ride.
I mean, you've turned a terrible situation and terrible circumstances into a way that you've created now where you're inspiring people all the time.
That's very positive.
I mean, just the impact that you have.
I think one of the things that we were talking about earlier about all the negativity that people have online, I think part of the problem with that is I don't think people totally understand communication.
I think what we're handed is these tools to distribute our thoughts and our information, and we're trying to get rudimentary reactions.
And we're not understanding that these reactions don't just stop with the person that we're interacting with.
They affect ourselves, because they affect how we feel about ourselves.
If you write some petty shit about someone, you don't really respect yourself.
If you write some nasty, snarky, petty shit about someone, And you're insulting for no reason.
You know you're insulting for no reason and you feel it yourself.
You don't have great self-respect for yourself for that.
And then on top of that, that person that you hurt their feelings, they might perhaps interact with other people negatively because of that as well.
It's a chain reaction.
Become the first to attack next because they've been attacked before, too.
So they start acting that way.
What it is is a lack of understanding that a lot of us have, all of us.
I've been guilty of it, too, of the impact that our communication has.
Because we're not thinking about it in a comprehensive, wide-scale look.
We're thinking about it in terms of, that is annoying to me, so I'm going to fuck that guy's world up by saying shitty things about him and his fat, stupid face and whatever you want to say about him and insult them.
I'm gonna tell you what a lot of the problem is, too, and I see it all the time.
We're losing the art of even having a conversation between human beings because this is what everybody does.
When you see them going down the motherfucking street, and yo, New York is still motherfucking dangerous, and now all these motherfucking texting zombies that come out of the club and they're fucking...
They're walking into traffic.
They're getting fucking robbed.
They're getting run over.
They're getting fucking crazy.
But the thing is, this...
Right?
Now, we have a law.
I go out with my friend Jake from Rocks Off in New York City.
He does all the Rocks Off tours and does all this stuff.
He has a rule.
When he goes out to dinner, everyone has to hand their motherfuckers' cell phone in to the fucking maitre d' and no cell phones.
So that you sit there and talk with each other.
The conversation...
I saw this whole special, and it was on CNN, and it was Anderson Cooper, and it was the guy that was teaching mindfulness.
I forget.
He's been teaching meditation.
I wrote about him in my book.
So the whole rule was they had to be mindful the entire time that they were at this thing.
They had no cell phone, no TV, no nothing.
And they had to be mindful when they ate, mindful when they took a shower, mindful when they walked down the street, remaining mindful during conversations, respecting other people.
And, like, it was the CEO of fucking Google and all these big companies were there.
And what they learned at this retreat for the 10 days or whatever that they were there a week, it was so powerful that they took that and implemented that in their companies.
And now Google, they make everybody sit down in a fucking auditorium before they start their day up there in Silicon Valley or wherever the fuck they are.
And they have to just sit there for 10 minutes and be mindful.
And meditate and be mindful.
And that's something that's becoming a lost part of humanity because the internet and all of this shit, it's like people are losing touch with themselves and with each other.
You don't validate me.
You know what I do when them people, when they even knew I was coming on here and they was talking shit?
Yeah, because, you know, I still have the tendency to do the four disagreements.
I do take things personal.
I will make assumptions.
I'm a work in progress.
I'm not healed.
Just like I say, I'm always going to be an addict.
There's always that possibility...
That I'm going to fucking...
I have to have my coat of armor, which I say my sword of fucking PMA and my coat of armor, which is everything I do every day, but I'm not beyond the shit I'm trying to...
So, you know, why the fuck do I want to go hang out with...
Very negative people.
Or if somebody starts talking shit about somebody else, you know what I say to them now?
Yo, my man, did you tell so-and-so that?
Why the fuck you telling me?
I don't want to hear it.
And I forget which philosopher said it, but he goes...
The only true examination of...
Like, when we find fault in others, it's really what we're seeing in ourselves.
And right now, you just have a motherfucking bunch of people talking shit instead of trying to be the example and try to live it and do it.
There are a ton of people out there that's crushing it.
And staying positive and doing, you know, getting off drugs, getting off alcohol.
Like, even the people in this program, man, you don't even know the shit that these guys have been through.
It's fucking insane.
Can you imagine spending 20 years in a fucking jail cell or going to Pelican Bay or going to Pelican Bay and being in the shoe?
Like, what the fuck that does to human beings?
Like, the strength that that takes.
And I'm gonna tell you, and the other reason I got involved is because my uncle, back in the day, worked at Chino Prison.
In the 70s and 80s, he was like the assistant warden or something in Chino.
Now, Chino, if you know the prison system, what they call that here in California is gladiator school.
But there's a documentary about this guy, and he's a former Navy SEAL, and he went in there.
And the documentary is called Salvaged Lives.
And he went in there and taught these guys.
He put them through like a little bud's ding, squirted them with holes, trained them fucking hard as hell, taught them every aspect of commercial diving.
And when they got released, he got them jobs on oil rigs and all this stuff, making six figures.
And the guys who were working for these oil companies, they said, these are the most skilled fucking people that we've ever had come to work for these companies.
So between trying to set a good example and seeing the people before me that's done it and wanting to reach out and help people and seeing, and my uncle telling me about this guy and then seeing the documentary when it came on, I was just like, I gotta try to do something to turn the tide and having a platform like Netflix or whoever's gonna pick up this documentary, it's like...
You know, it could show people, listen, stop incarcerating motherfuckers.
Now they even removed the exercise equipment in the prison.
Yeah, because they think they're going to be more dangerous, right?
Yeah.
You know, it's basically like...
We're warehousing bodies, man, and they violate them.
One dude got violated for smoking a cigarette in the facility, and they sent him back to serve the rest of his fucking sentence.
It's crazy, especially out here in California.
California and Texas and Florida, man, it's fucking crazy stuff.
And look, I look back to the whole situation that went down in the 80s, because I really try to do research, and the whole thing that went down, you had Nancy fucking Reagan saying, just say no.
And you know what George Bush Sr. was doing to fund all his operations in South America?
And there was dudes getting busted with quarter pounds of fucking coke, but that's the white man's, and they would get fucking a slap on the wrist.
These dudes would go away for 10 years.
So they put the coke in the neighborhoods, they funded all their operations in South America, And then they passed draconian drug laws, and this was the Clintons.
Do you remember they had those town hall meetings with the DEA and the CIA? And Michael Rupert, he was a homicide detective for the Los Angeles Police Department.
And he went in front of this big meeting on CNN, and he explained it to everyone.
Was it C-SPAN or CNN? I don't remember, but it was on television.
And he explained that he busted the CIA selling drugs in the inner city, and that he has documents that can prove there's a detailed history of them selling drugs, then using those profits overseas.
There was a documentary about it that came out and it was these big, the fucking big drug dudes in LA said, yeah, these guys would just show up with fucking van loads of fucking coke.
That is the most evil thing, that you can make money, and therefore you're incentivized to make drug laws more strict so you can get more people in prison so you generate more income.
If you ain't seen that fucking documentary, it's why when I saw that I knew what my calling was to do.
Because, you know, Noah Levine, he wrote this book Dharma Punks and he's been a Buddhist.
He was a heroin addict.
He used to do a Buddhist ministry in the prisons and change these people's lives.
And, you know, they came out in this magazine called Satcha and I read this article.
So Satcha in Sanskrit means the mode of goodness.
So that's what this magazine was called.
And I read this article about these inmates that he was working with and one of them said he was never getting out.
He's, you know, life without the possibility.
And he said, if I had access to the information of what I've learned through this program, I wouldn't be where I'm at.
So then that planted the seed in me and then just seeing what the whole shit's turned into, how the people that really need the food deserts and everything that's going on in this country and the research I've done and everything I've been talking about and fighting for change by taking action against the fucked up shit and then 13th coming out and just lit another fire under me.
I'm like, man, you know, let's fucking like help these people, man.
But yeah, I knew about all that coke shit back in the fucking day and at first I was like, yo, because Congress wouldn't cut a check to him to do his dirty fucking shit down in South America.
We got our hands in wars all over this fucking, trying to take down governments all over this fucking planet.
That's the guy that Tom Cruise played in that movie.
I mean, it's a fucked up version of it in the movie.
I'm sure it's not totally accurate.
But that guy was selling drugs and he was going to South America and bringing them over and dropping them off in Arkansas while Clinton was the governor.
She's a fascinating character because people want to think of her as being this super progressive person because she's a woman and because she's a Democrat.
She didn't even believe in gay marriage until 2013. She talked shit.
And I think the idea of having a popularity contest is fucking ridiculous.
It's ridiculous.
What we should have is a council of wise people.
Old school!
The real shit!
There should be a group of the most wise economists.
Qualified!
But your work should be judged.
It shouldn't be partisan.
It shouldn't be you're trying to appeal to social justice warriors or radical progressives or radical conservatives or right-wing Christian fundamentalists.
It should be you're making sense because you understand law and fairness and ethics and morals and values, and you understand with an objective sense and an educated sense of how to establish a quality Community of human beings,
a civilization in which people can prosper, in which laws are fair, and in which we establish what do we find necessary, what do we find important, what's imperative, education, community, all these different values, and enforce those.
It's somehow or another figure out a way to make this world a better place than what it is now.
Engineer a better place.
That's not what we get.
What you get is some person who says they're going to do all kinds of shit until they get in there, and they very rarely do.
Representative government was a great idea when you had to get on a fucking horse and take your ass to Washington in order to place your votes.
You don't have to do that anymore.
You can vote instantaneously.
People should be able to vote on issues with their phone.
Okay?
Your phone's in your pocket all the time.
You should be able to...
First of all, you should have some sort of an understanding of what you're voting on.
You should have to pass some sort of a test.
They should say, do you want to vote on spending?
Do you want to vote on healthcare?
How much do you understand about healthcare?
Well, let's take a test.
And the people that can pass the test, understanding what the consequences are or why they're doing this, then you should be able to vote.
But this should be something that...
You should have some skin in the game.
There should be some...
Absolutely.
Some understanding of what this system is.
Instead, you know, look, I'm not a giant supporter of any mainstream media, whether it's right-wing or left-wing, but there's something fucked up about these people from CNN going to these Trump rallies, and you've got hundreds of people giving them the finger, fuck you, you're fake news, fuck you, and they've got American flag t-shirts on.
Yeah.
There's a nonsense, almost pro-wrestling aspect to all this.
I'll tell you something, because I'm a native New Yorker and I have friends that are in the unions and they built fucking...
Trump burned a lot of fucking people and got rid of fucking skilled labor and skilled fucking union people and burned union people and hired illegals to do the fucking work in his fucking building.
All this shit this guy says, he's...
You know, everybody says what they have to say in order to get the votes and...
And they were trying to get people to be supporting her just because she's a woman.
There was a lot of that.
It's like, this is going to be her history.
You know, women, ladies, I stand with her.
So there's all these women that have this blind allegiance towards this career politician.
It's completely full of shit.
She's been full of shit forever.
If you watch the conversation between James Comey, when James Comey testified about what he did and what they found with the Hillary Clinton emails, and then her version of it, she's just a straight liar.
She was pulling all the strings, and she had all the favors that she was pulling in, and she had a shit ton of money behind her, and they were completely arrogant, and all the liberal elite and the media thought there was no chance that she was going to lose.
She's 95% shoo-in to win the presidency, and she walked around like she was 95%.
When you're involved with billion-dollar deals with giant corporations, and they're also tied into the military-industrial complex, who, by the way, kill innocents all the time and write it off.
Like, all this shit that happened with drones, what's the number?
It's like in the high 80s or 90% innocent people killed by drones.
They don't worry about that.
You think they're going to worry about some guy who's going to sink Monsanto or sink Enron or sink the Clintons or sink anybody?
But I read this thing that most of the most of the glyphosate that's being put out there is by people on their fucking own homes They don't know any better they spray roundup It's you know I have a friend who had bone cancer and he lived near a golf course and they put so many Pesticides in the golf course that it got into the groundwater right and he said all these people in his neighborhood got cancer and He has a fake femur bone.
One of his femur bones, it's a metal bone.
He got bone cancer.
They cut his bone out and they replaced it with this metal pipe.
When they step back and think about what they actually did, I mean, it's in the 1960s, it's our parents' generation, and the way we look at it, it's almost like this unfortunate thing that happened, but I almost think we're too close to it to recognize how horrific it is that the soldiers who were putting their lives on the line in their thought to defend our freedom over in America were getting poisoned.
And then all the fucking troops are coming back having fucking kids with deformities and getting cancer and all this shit turned down for their benefits.
They're distantly removed from it the same way someone's distantly removed from factory farming if they buy a burger at a restaurant or a burger at a fast food joint.
They're not thinking about a pig that's in that can that makes that McRib.
But what's great about the movie is it shows how they just started force-feeding the information out there to create this fucking feverish, kill, kill, kill fucking mentality that the Americans...
Well, this is the same thing you're seeing with these people screaming at Jim Acosta.
You can manipulate dummies' mindsets, and this is what they do.
I mean, it's an easy way to pull the strings of the most easily led.
You gotta think, who's going to these rallies in the first place?
Most of these people that are going to these, like, Trump rallies or something like that, they're morons.
That's why they're going to these things.
They don't have shit to do.
Even if you're a Trump supporter, If you're an intelligent Trump supporter, which I do believe is possible, you're a person who's not going to go to a rally.
If they could keep the people fighting each other over stupid shit, then you're not going to take the time to sit back.
I compare those people, you know, what's really going on.
I use the analogy of a magician.
They're trying to tell you, look what's in the left hand, but what the real shit is in the right hand.
So by doing all this shit and causing all these problems, you're not going to go back and look at the shit that he's pushing through, his agendas.
He just cut taxes to the fucking richest people, the billionaires and corporations, which he said he wasn't going to do.
He's going back on everything.
So if he could just get people, fuck you and fuck you and...
Getting people to hate each other and keep this country.
It's the United States of America.
When the fuck, how did we become united as a country?
Like, I think a lot of these countries right now who may pose a threat or whatever, they're seeing what the fuck's going on and they're like, yo, this country's never been more fucking divided.
It's the divided states of America, not the United States of America.
And that was when fucking Hillary Clinton was losing and the faces of the crying people who were like fucking losing their shit when Trump won.
I was like...
I'm sorry, but like, fucking dude, if that's the fucking truth of your existence that you put every fucking ounce of your shit into this fucking corrupt ass politician, whether it's fucking Hillary Clinton or fucking Bernie Sanders or any of them.
I feel fucking sorry for you.
I was laughing at those people when she lost and they were losing their shit on TV. They were just fucking stunned.
I'm like...
Because you don't realize I travel through America and people may be progressive...
On the outskirts, but go into the middle of this motherfucker and see what you got.
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And that's the motherfuckers that voted for that dude.
But there was also, like, a lot of the women that were really upset were like, this guy was in that video saying, you take girls and grab them by the pussy.
And so they felt like this was going to give men a license to be sexually abusive.
And I think that, in a lot of ways, is what started the ball rolling with the Me Too movement.
It wasn't just the exposing of monsters like Bill Cosby, but it was also the fact that you're dealing with this guy who gets in the White House that's clearly not what you want.
If it's a man, you want a man who respects women, who's a statesman, who's a person who has worked their life to get to that position.
Not a person who did it as an afterthought once they were already famous.
See, like, the difference between a guy like Obama, like Obama's probably, he's probably measured his words ever since he was in college because he was hoping one day he would be president.
Whereas a guy like Donald Trump's just been banging hoes and fucking flying around with a jet with his name on it since the 80s.
I mean, this is what the guy did.
So then once he's in office, people are like, no!
They just couldn't believe it.
Like, how could this have happened?
This is the pussy grabber.
He's not supposed We're supposed to be in there.
And I get their pain.
I understand it.
But it is also funny.
There's something, like the women's on her knees with the glasses.
You ever seen that chick with the knit hat on screaming?
They call it Trump derangement syndrome now because people are literally, they're so angry that he is in power and there's nothing they can do about it.
But the problem is that anger and that going derange, that empowers the people that support him.
They don't understand.
When you're on your knees screaming, fuck yeah!
The people on the other side that are Trump supporters with their fucking red hats on, they think that's hilarious.
They think, look, this is the liberal left, unhinged, detached from reality.
Meanwhile, we're making America great again and black unemployment's at an all-time low.
And, you know, it's...
Weird time for the truth, because there's so many people that don't want to go any further past the surface.
The truth is, this guy figured out a way to win a rigged system.
He did.
He figured out a way to win a rigged system by pretending to be a Republican.
Guy was a Democrat his whole life.
Democratic supporter his whole life.
Figured out a way, oh, just fucking be a Republican.
They're easier to scam.
Weaseled his way in.
Figured out a way to make America great again.
Yeah, rah, rah, rah.
Call people a bunch of stupid shit.
Campaign like a motherfucker.
Take diet pills.
Keep that energy high.
Just travel all across the country doing these rallies.
And won.
You know, and want a system that really shouldn't be there to win.
And I think that we need a better way to run our government.
Having an alpha male or alpha female that one person, the one at the top of the peak, running 300 million people is insane.
Running 300 people is insane.
You have 300 people, one person running shit, you're gonna have disagreements.
You're gonna have people that are upset that this one person gets to dictate for the next four to eight years the path of everyone in this group and your financial future, your healthcare, all these, how much taxes you pay, all depending on what dipshit wins the popularity contest?
But the problem with letting everybody vote too is that people are really easily manipulated and they're really undereducated.
They don't have any incentive to pay attention to the real issues and what's at stake and what the consequences of each vote are.
They just vote with whatever feels good and they're busy.
And people are tired because they're eating shitty food, and they're not exercising, and they're working all day in a job that sucks, and they come home, and their wife's bitching at them, and they're on antidepressants and pills, and their kids are all fucked up, and they don't have the time.
They don't have the time, and they don't have the incentive to be enlightened.
They don't have the incentive to have an objective, enlightened approach to how you handle the future of our society and what our children are going to be left with.
Well, that's why it's the genius of these commercials.
I mean, I can't even watch TV when it's election time because it's just like one dude after the next shitting on each other or this person saying something about that.
No, but there's a great book about the corruption of the pharmaceutical companies.
Can you Google this title real quick?
It's called Confessions.
Gwen Olson wrote a book called Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher.
And I think it was her niece died of a drug interaction that they knew about.
And she exposed the whole corruption in the pharmaceutical industry.
She was the top pharmaceutical rep.
And they said they know.
How does a drug get approved by the FDA? And then they turn around and fucking they pull it and people are dying and they settle for pennies on the dollar.
That's the fucking game.
They know there's going to be lawsuits.
And they're like, okay, we just made $3 billion off this drug and we settled our lawsuits for $200 billion.
Yeah, FDA actually banned aspartame based on its findings only to have Cyril Chairman Donald Rumsfeld, currently Secretary of Defense at the time they wrote this article, vow to call in his markers to get it approved.
On January 21st, 1981, the day after Ronald Reagan's inauguration, Cyril, I guess that's C-A-R-L-E, reapply to the FDA for approval to use aspartame and food sweetener and Reagan's new FDA commissioner, Arthur Hayes Hall Jr.,
appointed a five-person scientific commission to review the Board of Inquiry decision It became clear the panel would uphold the ban by a 3-2 decision, but then Hull then installed a sixth member on the commission, and the vote became deadlocked.
He then personally broke the tie in Aspartame's favor.
If you're exerting yourself very strenuously, you could use some of that glucose and it's okay.
But for the average person that goes to a fucking 7-Eleven and gets a big gulp and is downing 64 ounces of Coca-Cola, that is a crazy amount of sugar for your body to get in one serving.
Your body doesn't know what to do with that shit, so it stores it as fat.
When you cook meat and then combine it with alcohol and the rest of the stuff, it creates a chemical reaction in the body that then causes problems for you health-wise in your immune system and gut health and everything else.
Or quoting studies that were funded by the same companies that are making money off of selling foods that are high in saturated fats or cholesterol or are...
Just when you see those guys are the same guys that were trying to say that cigarettes are not addictive, and the same people that were dismissing climate change, you're like...
Well, the other thing is, even the chemicals that they put in the furniture, there's a big thing now to remove because it's calming the fucking children.
Do you know that rugs and furniture actually will release chemicals into the air in your house?
You know, one of the biggest ways that toxins enter the body is not by walking around the streets of LA or New York and breathing in the pollution.
It's the fucking home.
The amount of chemicals that are in the fucking home, and they talk about that in Merchants of Doubt.
The chemicals in the furniture, the chemicals in the clothes, the chemicals in the fucking diapers, the chemicals in everything, in the plastic...
It's chemicals, chemicals, chemicals, chemicals.
You're bombarding your fucking child with fucking dozens and dozens of chemicals every fucking day.
And while that child's immune system is developing, and then you're feeding it pesticides, you're feeding it this fucking animal that's been tortured its whole life and fed fucking steroids and hormones.
And you're wondering why these kids are coming out.
And they're so fucked because it's...
When they're getting into their teens, it's because all of that shit's taking a toll, not just physically, but psychologically.
There's so much other shit they're doing, too, to the food, putting...
There's an epicyte, you know, that they put in the corn and the soy now, and it's fucking...
It was done by this company in LA, and they were...
Down in California somewhere, epicyte, E-P-I-C-Y-T-E. And it fucks with the sexual reproduction organs of fetuses and children and all kinds of shit.
They're conducting, like, fucking mad science on human beings right now.
It's closed off from everywhere else, so there's no other factors.
So they go and they spray motherfucking chemtrails in the air that come down onto the fucking ground and they can, for instance, and I... Wait a minute.
Now, I'm going to tell you, I have friends that actually are doing this.
They were organic farmers and had to give up their farm.
And what they do is they're making the soil so acidic, the pH, that nothing will grow except for genetically modified seeds that have been Genetically modified to resist aluminum and resist all this other stuff.
Because what they're doing, the organic papaya farmers have had to all go either give up their farm or switch to GMO papaya because none of their shit is growing.
But do you know how much they'd have to spray on the soil to make it infertile?
I mean, it seems to me it's a much more likely candidate to the same issues that we're having in this country with monocrops, that they're just depleting their soil because they're constantly growing on it.
I had to study chemtrails for quite a while because I was doing a television show on them.
And one of the things that I found, there's a lot of malarkey in this shit.
And one of the things that they find is they're like, oh, they're spraying aluminum.
And then when they do samples of the water, they find aluminum in the water.
No, they're doing samples of sludge.
They're doing samples of water with dirt.
Do you know what one of the most common metals you'll ever find on Earth is?
Aluminum.
Most dirt has aluminum in it.
So when they're testing this water, they're testing it positive for aluminum.
What they're doing is they're testing dirt.
Dirt tested positive for being dirt.
That's what it is.
So when they find aluminum, they say, oh my god, they're spraying aluminum.
There's no benefit to spraying aluminum on anything.
It's never been proven that there's some evil government cabal that wants to spray aluminum on everything, and that's the reason why papayas don't grow right.
It's way more likely that these papayas are growing in a place where they've been growing papayas for a long time and they've depleted the soil, especially dealing with soil that's really coming out of a volcano in the first place, right?
Right, but there's also before large-scale agriculture made its way to Hawaii as well, right?
Right, so they probably had years and years and years of doing this and getting away with it to the soil started getting depleted Just like we have evidence of it getting depleted all over the world right in India They have issues with this with monocrops with anywhere in the world where they grow crops in the same area in These massive scales you're gonna deplete the ground of minerals and nutrients And it's just a part of the the problem and when they offer up that solution like hey our genetically modified crops
Crops are better and our genetically, you know, modified crops are, you know, they can survive in these harsh climates and you can also add all of our nitrogen and our fertilizers, all our nasty shit to the soil.
There's a great documentary on it called What's With Wheat where they try to break down why wheat all of a sudden became a huge problem in the American diet, whereas in the early 1900s it was nothing.
And it was a slow genetic modification where they started changing the weed itself.
And breeding it to make higher yields so it's got more complex glutens in it.
But see, here's the thing, and you saw The World According to Monsanto, and it's this revolving door policy, how they come out of Monsanto, or even what he was doing in Rumsfeld when he was the CEO of Searle.
So they get into the government, they pass legislation, and then they go back to the corporations to reap the benefits of the laws that they passed.
So you have a lot of that going on.
So I think, you know, whether or not shit could really be what the fuck motherfuckers are saying it is in Hawaii or anywhere else, the truth is going to possibly come out eventually or maybe not.
I go to fucking a health food store and eat shit that's out of season because I like my fucking broccoli and kale or whatever the fuck and some fruit or whatever, but...
I mean, you know, it's not the best, but hey, when you take into equation the fact that I've eliminated the other foods that use the highest amount of fossil fuels to grow the crops and everything else that's involved with producing the huge, you know, these farms that are...
These animal agriculture systems and the amount of fossil fuels.
I mean, I have motherfuckers writing to me, you take a fucking plane to go on tour, fuck you.
Well, they've admitted to experimenting with weather manipulation and to having strategies for dealing with it, whether it is for dealing with hostile foreign governments where you're trying to starve them out or trying to put rain.
No, no, they're not and it's Again, it's like what we were talking about with all the other aspects of gigantic culture.
There's so many moving pieces It's so it's so difficult because we're we're talking about these pieces that have been in place for decades and so to try to make corrections now And some people are.
They are going to organic farms.
They are going to raising their own food and having everything be local.
And that's definitely better.
The real problem, it seems to me, is overpopulation.
Yeah, it's a beautiful, beautiful place though, and that's why people are willing to take that hit.
We live in a place that humans like yourself and myself and people that are alive today, we are stuck in a system that was created many, many decades ago.
It was put into place.
Many decades ago, and it wasn't put into place with our interest in mind.
It was put into place with the interest in mind of profit.
And it was also to deal with, to accommodate millions and millions of people that are all jammed into one place where no one's growing any food.
I had Ron Finley on this podcast, and he's got a similar program in South Central, and he helps these kids and people that live there use vacant lots, use medians, use all these areas.
I mean, what would be ideal is if every community, instead of just having a house jammed next to a house, jammed next to a house, every community have one community lot, and that community lot we all grow our food in.
I mean, even in a fucking closet, they're showing how to do...
They had a shipping container in New York, and it was a demonstration, and they put it on Lafayette Street in Houston, and it was a shipping container.
And when you walked in there, it was a fucking farm.
And I forget how many thousand pounds of fucking organic produce that that fucking farm inside that shipping container was able to grow.
You know, and that's with artificial light, but you could do that with real light.
I mean, the real streets that you see everywhere you go.
Where concrete is, it could be dirt.
It is possible that we could cordon off a small section of every community and have a community garden.
It would also be good for the community in terms of people interacting with each other and feeling like they're a part of something and taking responsibility.
That's one of the programs we did in this documentary.
We had the guys going to organic farms and getting their hands in the dirt and seeing people just as a disconnect between Farmers, man, that's a fucking hard-ass fucking job.
So in 75, on the Geraldo Rivera show, they premiered the Zapruder film footage of the assassination of President Kennedy from like fucking, you know, 20 yards away.
And there's a lot of speculation because there's so many...
I mean, it's black and white and it was shaky back then.
They've since used computers to stabilize the image.
But what it looks like...
The untrained eye is that he's shot more than once and probably shot from multiple different angles.
The reason why they came up with the magic bullet theory was because they had to account for another bullet that didn't hit the president.
They had to account for a bullet that ricocheted under an underpass and hit a guy.
So yeah, the bullet had to go through two people and it had to leave traces of the bullet behind that weren't missing from the bullet and it had to shatter bone and not distort, which doesn't happen.
Yeah, even if it's jacketed, it's still going to get fucked up.
It's hitting bones and shattering at a ridiculous speed.
The single bullet theory was also created by Arlen Specter and those fucking guys from the Warren Commission Report.
Bunch of evil assholes.
There's a great book on it called Best Evidence by David Lifton.
David Lifton was an accountant who went over the Warren Commission report, step by step, every step of the way, and found all these contradictions in the reportings.
Like, this is a bullshit document.
What they were trying to do was just wrap this bitch up nice and tight.
They weren't trying to solve the crime.
They were trying to wrap this thing up tight, and the most ridiculous aspect of it is the magic bullet theory.
But before anybody saw the Zapruder film, it didn't look that ridiculous.
Executive Order 11110. To give the printing of the money back to the fucking, take it away from the Federal Reserve and Yeah, they whacked him just a couple months later.
And give it back to the secretary.
His father said that they're gonna kill you for this.
Well, you get accustomed to making rationalizations that will cost people their lives.
And I think anybody that can send a drone to shoot down an apartment building because of metadata, you know, you found a metadata that seems to indicate that the cell phone of a certain criminal is on the 14th floor.
Let the fucking Hellfire missiles fly, baby.
I mean, that's decisions that they make at the highest level of government.
Tony Ortiz is one of the senior students of Master Choi.
Another guy, we'll call him Chuck, but he's with the government now.
He's a fucking bad motherfucker.
So, they always used to go around and want to fight bouncers and all this shit.
That was what they did.
They would fucking fight the biggest...
Scariest looking motherfuckers and just destroyed him.
So, Blue worked...
I said his name, sorry.
My friend worked with Cro-Mags and stuff.
We took him out security with us in case we had problems or whatever.
So, it was like...
Everything always went smooth.
So, one time...
I used to work at all the underground hip-hop clubs in New York.
So, my friend was doing a party.
And it was all fucking deep Brooklyn heads, fucking like homeboys and shit.
Like the real deal, this hip-hop club.
And I take Brian, another dude from the school, and Tony.
And we go over there.
And Brian is in the middle of the fucking dance floor.
Doing the funky fucking white boy nerd dance.
And all these fucking...
And the floor just opens up in these fucking...
Black fucking hip-hop crazy fucking homeboys are like, yo, look at this motherfucking white boy.
Like, it's bugging.
And he don't give a fuck.
He's seriously like a fucking pisser to roll with.
So then I'm like, yo, I gotta go.
But listen, man, I know what y'all motherfuckers do.
Don't start no shit.
Please.
It's my friend's club.
So I get home, go to sleep, wake up the next day, get a fucking phone call.
Yo!
He didn't know that they were with me.
He's like, yo, there was these three fucking karate experts in the club last night and they beat up all my fucking bouncers, dude.
It was fucking crazy.
And one bouncer walked up and started some shit with Tony was trying to talk to a girl or whatever.
And then this guy, he's all on the juice, rips off his shirt like, ah!
Fucking Tony throws a kick, fucking dislocates the guy's fucking kneecap, and then the melee just ensued, and it was just constant, these fucking huge bouncers coming at him, and Brian's like, bah, bah, bah, fucking, Brian could fight.
Brian is, you know, he's a comedian, but he could throw down.
And then Brian just told me this, because I didn't hear the other part.
He goes, yeah.
Then all of a sudden, I'm fucking whacking these dudes and us, we're fighting these guys.
And then this fucking gigantic motherfucker, like...
I was just like a little fucking baby in his arms, lifts me up and carries me out the fucking door and throws me across this car.
And I look and I turn around and I'm ready to go and then Brian says and I look and it's this fucking crazy white dude with a fucking scar.
From one end of his face down his throat and he points at Brian and goes, don't even think about it.
And like, Brian was like, yo.
But my friend called me up the next day.
He's like, these motherfuckers.
And I call him up and I'm like, Brian, the fuck did you do, man?
You ever come to the city, I'll give you a private one, but it's like, it's been all over.
I've been on the Today Show, Sunday Today Show, The Times, fucking, it's like the best underground fucking walk-in tour of crime, music, and history on the Lower East Side.
We go by where the Palladium was, where the Clash, September 21st, the cover of the Clash, London Calling was shot there, Paul Simmon on smash and his bass.
He had Julian's Billiards right there, all the fucking pool hall hustlers.
And before the Palladium, it was called the Academy of Music, Dizzy Gillespie, everybody played there.
And then up the street from that was Customato's gym called the Gramercy Gym.
And everybody, Floyd Patterson, Ford, out of there.
If you pull up pictures of Gramercy Gym, you can see there's a picture, and Floyd Patterson's working the speed bag.
And when that closed, I was just walking by one day, and I was with my mom, and she goes, your father, because P.C. Richards took over the space, and they put a plaque, and it said this is where Custom Models Gym, we train, what is it, Jose Torres, the world champions, and all these weight classes.
And my mother just goes, oh, your father boxed it.