Tim Dillon reveals his caffeine-free life, citing improved sleep after quitting daily cups, while Joe Rogan questions Starbucks’ high doses and debates transracialism’s legitimacy. They link 9/11’s Building 7 collapse to controlled demolition theories and criticize Saudi protection in the Commission report, noting Prince Bandar’s White House access and suppressed findings like Bob Graham’s. Hollywood’s diversity push risks mediocrity, Rogan argues, contrasting Bruce Lee’s talent with Gina Carano’s firing for poorly framed political comparisons. Corporate censorship may paradoxically fuel demand for bold, independent content like their podcasts, where merit—not identity—prevails. [Automatically generated summary]
But I will smoke, maybe I'll have one or two during the day, but at night, because I like to talk and bullshit.
So if I have a captive audience of people, like at my house, in my backyard, or at the comedy store if we're all standing in the parking lot, Whatever it is, it's just the smoking.
I was in Denver, and when it's humid, you don't want to smoke.
It doesn't feel good.
But when you're in Denver, it's cool nights like LA. You're a chimney.
And that's why when you go to AA or any of these programs, they go, you can think your way back into drinking or drugs because you can.
Because that addict...
It's like weird.
It's like, you know, you see the obviously like, you know, movies where there's a spaceship and then like there's a little module that just detaches from the spaceship.
But driving and smoking, to me, is the most fun I've really ever had in life.
There's nothing better than just rolling the window.
I bought that Range Rover.
I said, okay, I'm not going to smoke it.
It's a nice car.
All my friends go, you cannot smoke in that car.
And then the addict brain, you know, I think three stoplights in it goes, well, what the hell's the point?
You own this car.
You're going to not smoke in the car?
So I started smoking in the car.
And when I was an addict, I would wake up and I would take two Percocet and I would get a bacon, egg and cheese sandwich in Long Island and a cup of coffee and then drive to my mortgage job.
It's so nice inside, too, and super comfortable, and the fucking screen goes like the dashboard is one giant screen, there's another giant screen to the left.
It's just, when I grew up, when I was a young boy, the cars that I would see, like when I worked at a gas station that would drive by, they were always American muscle cars.
That was probably one of the best eras in America, and if you look at the architecture, that mid-century modern architecture where you can find it in Palm Springs and parts of California and everywhere, but it's really concentrated there, that was the era when we were killing it across the board.
So when you go back to that era, it's kind of cool to look at things that were made in that era when we really believed we were at our zenith.
We didn't know it, but when you look back at that, obviously it wasn't, you know, people didn't have rights and things weren't nice, but just speaking strictly about the materials and the things we were making, we were top of the line.
Well, it's like, you know, I always give this example.
My mother's a schizophrenic.
If instead of putting my mother in a mental institution and medicating her, we said, all of your ideas are great, and here's a profile in Rolling Stone, we'd have a real problem.
It's the reality.
And she has real mental illness.
It's not like I'm anxious.
She's nuts.
And you gotta medicate her, and she's gotta not live in society because she cannot handle it, right?
This is a fact.
If we were to then encourage this behavior, go, no, it's a good idea.
This is a great idea.
And if she was on the internet, people might be going, no, you're right.
Elvis might be your father, which is something she used to say at Christmas.
She was very possible that Elvis might be my father.
And my grandmother would go, I didn't have sex with Elvis.
And then my mother would go, but then you might not be my mother.
She's nuts!
Real nuts!
And that's why I get upset at these people that are like, I'm not upset with them, but like, everybody now has a thing.
Something's wrong, but it's wrong in a mild way where they can justify this weird thing, especially at this time in society, where we'll tolerate this.
I think in the next few years, transracialism is going to be fully embraced, and then we're going to have black folks on our side, because they're going to go, hey!
Now this is too much.
This is crazy.
All this stuff about trans women competing in the Olympics, that wasn't as bothersome.
China's gonna win and the reality is at this point it's almost like they may deserve to win like this is really so scary where you go when you look at it when you watch the YouTube videos and somebody goes there's an innumerable amount of pronouns and I will tell you what I'll be called when I'll be called and this that and the other thing and you watch people argue about this and you go here's the new language we've invented overnight and you look at wrestling with all this stuff and The idea that we're now here
Or fluid, or does it matter, is, in essence, kind of homophobic.
It's basically saying gay people don't exist, or their preferences are somehow bigoted, but it's like, no, biologically, there are people that are attracted to what, like, I was in Texas, I met some lesbian, one of them that didn't kick me off Airbnb, and she was saying that Every year they go out in like the wilderness of Texas and have some lesbian festival.
I don't know what it is.
It's just they play acoustic guitars and swim in a lake, whatever it is.
She goes, this year was the first year they got complaints that trans women couldn't attend, which is women with penises.
And they go, hey, we don't hate anybody.
We love everybody.
But like, this is a festival for lesbians.
And they didn't want biological men at the event because that's not what they're into.
They're not into penises.
So if you show up and you're a nice person, that's great, but they're trying to hook up in the wilderness.
They're trying to meet women with vaginas.
So they said they got an insane amount of hate.
For just specifying that it's a woman-only event.
And they go, you didn't include trans women who may or may not have transitioned.
They may just be like, hey, they said you didn't include non-binary.
You didn't include any of that.
And they go, but here's our thing.
Genitals matter to us because we don't want to hook up with dudes.
So that's how crazy we're getting now.
There was a tweet the other day that said, we're not fully equal until you don't care about your date's genitalia.
People are going, if you don't care about, if you go out with somebody and you care about what gender they are, you're harboring deep-seated prejudices.
It's a small percentage of people, but they're all over Hollywood.
They're all over the universities.
I mean, the people that hold these viewpoints are not, you know, the people that, like, You know, believe that the Holocaust didn't happen are not at Yale.
They're, who knows, they're in a, you know, some small, they're not a powerful faction of people.
They're like usually kooks, right?
The people that believe this stuff are like controlling large institutions and that's scary.
It is scary and it bleeds out into corporations because then they graduate and then a lot of them go into these corporations and the corporations are dealing with, if you're hiring 20 people straight out of the university, you have 40 employees, half of your employees have been indoctrinated into this crazy Marxist, leftist, idealistic perspective that they've been taught in college by people who've never been in the real world.
Which is where it gets really crazy.
You take people who go from universities straight into being employed by universities, so they stay in this echo chamber, and they teach it to kids, and then these kids go and infect these universities with this crazy, woke bullshit.
Exclusive Saturday Showdown is in the work for over trans blow-up at Y-Spot.
Like, this is how crazy it is.
This is how crazy it is.
Mineral salt massages and hydrodermabrasion facials weren't enough to calm the nerves of some patients at the WeSpa, Koreatown Health Club.
Scene of a showdown over nudity in gendered spaces after a customer confronted spa staff about a trans woman with male genitals being allowed to disrobe in the spa's female section.
The ruckus was caught on camera and quickly went viral on Twitter on Sunday.
Fueling a furious online debate with threats of a boycott against the spa about the rights of trans people to use women's spaces.
I hate that term spaces.
It really drives me crazy because it's one of those loony new ways of talking about things.
Versus the rights of cisgender female.
I hate that word too.
Biological females to not be exposed to male anatomy.
As of Tuesday morning, a pair of videos shared by the pro-Trump conservative commenter Ian Miles Cheong had 596,000 And 223,000 views, respectively.
According to users on Twitter, a protest is being planned for 11 a.m.
on Saturday, July 3rd at the WeSpa.
WhySpa?
Counter-protesters are calling for their ranks to arrive at 10 a.m.
Jesus Christ.
So let's play it.
Let's hear what happens, because I didn't listen to it.
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Clear with you.
It's okay, it's okay for a man to go into the women's section, show his penis around the other women, young little girls under age, your spa, we spa, condone that.
Because now you have to go to like a court and go, who gets to...
The argument about trans, which we all understand there's genuine cases of gender dysphoria and people say I'm happier in the other gender and some of those people can't afford surgeries and a lot of them want to have them.
But the whole argument was like this is how seriously that trans people feel about being in the wrong body.
They're willing to correct it via surgery.
And the new argument is that the surgery is incidental and that your lived experience, your identity is going to be something that people are always going to have to inquire about and may change three times during the day.
And this is just not efficient.
Let's talk about efficiency.
It's not efficient.
I mean, if you go out to a restaurant, you're supposed to go, here are my pronouns, here are his pronouns, and then the waiter's supposed to go like, here are my pronouns.
And it's like, hey guys, who gives a fuck?
What are the specials?
Like, there's nothing efficient about this.
And we can't honor and respect every human being's need to feel good at every moment of the day.
Being uncomfortable and feeling weird is where people grow, and you're just going to have to grow, unfortunately.
It's not an efficient society to just make sure that you're never offended, you're never misgendered.
Well, if you're a man and you do a good job of looking like a woman, people are going to call you she.
I'm going to have an apartment in LA. I'm going to keep my house here, but I'm going to get an apartment there to kind of like, you know, I want to have a presence there too.
And three realtors, I called them.
These are real estate agents.
Their job is to like tell me to like buy a house or rent something.
Now everybody kind of has a story about somebody that's been evicted.
Somebody got followed to their car.
Somebody got robbed.
There was an incident of violence.
Somebody exposed himself to somebody.
These things are all increasing.
These numbers are going up.
There's a lot of mental illness.
Drug addiction in a lot of the, you know, unhoused populations of people.
And unfortunately, that is creating a dangerous environment for a lot of people.
And nobody wants to talk about that.
And people want to say that it's like, you know, whatever it is, it's hateful.
And listen, nobody wants homeless.
Nobody wants people to be on the street and insane.
But...
There are a percentage of those people.
I'm sure the vast majority of them are peaceful, but maybe not.
But a percentage of them are engaging in criminal acts that are making other people unsafe.
And all of the homicide rates in major cities have gone up in an unprecedented way.
And the people that are victims of that are living in These cities, they're poor people, they take public transportation, they're vulnerable, they're elderly, and no one cares.
And if you call that out, they're like, yeah, fuck you, Rush Limbaugh, whatever.
I'm like, hey guys, it is what it is.
These are facts, and the reality is that people that are paying the price for those are people that are not you.
I saw a tweet the other day, it's a hilarious tweet, where this woman was comparing crime rates in the 1980s to what's happening in New York today and how much lower the crime rate is now, even though it's up by more than 100% of last year.
I was looking at a guy who I know is a fucking professor who was saying that if you have sex with a 13-year-old, if that 13-year-old consents and enjoys it, who's a criminal?
What are you supposed to do about this?
Somebody sent me this and I was like, this is a guy who used to be on my podcast.
And I'm watching this argument.
I'm like, this is patently insane.
You're talking about a grown adult, a 40-year-old having sex with a 13-year-old?
Wouldn't it be better, you'd rather have them suffer, or just put a bullet in their head while they're sleeping?
You start seeing how someone could make really crazy fucking arguments for things, and you start wondering how many of these people that are pushing these crazy arguments actually believe it, and how much of it, because we know it's a certain percentage.
We know for a fact, from Renee DiResta's work with the Internet Research Agency, where she's gone over these Russian troll accounts, In Russia, literally, they have a farm where there's a fucking place, a building, where people are hired to fuck with people.
They're hired, they organized a Texas separatist convention across the street from a pro-Muslim convention just to facilitate a fight.
And they're doing this on purpose.
So they're manipulating, and they see this trend.
They see this trend of, Civil unrest, chaos in society, and there is no gender, and there's no...
I guarantee you, some of what's moving this stuff along is manipulation.
There's a lot of people that believe that informants, and not just informants, but people working for the government were a part of the manipulation of the Capitol Hill attack the same way...
You know the story...
We talked about it before recently in the podcast about there was a 19-year-old kind of dumb kid who the FBI tricked this kid into thinking that he had a bomb and detonating this bomb.
They talked him into it.
They made him an extremist.
They gave him the bomb, gave him a cell phone to detonate the bomb.
He tries to detonate the bomb.
And then the FBI arrests him.
And he's in jail for fucking the rest of his life or whatever.
But they manipulated him and got him to the point where he acted.
And there's people that are saying that there's some people that believe.
And I've got to be careful how I say this because I don't know what's real and what's not.
Listen, this is the whole Boston Marathon bombing where the FBI knew who these guys were.
They had maybe recruited them as informants.
Russian intelligence came out and said, you know exactly who these people are.
They were allowed to travel to Dagestan and back all the time.
I believe that the FBI had...
When they had a trial, they put special administrative measures on the trial, meaning that you didn't hear one peep out of that trial.
The cameras weren't allowed in the court.
It was a very closed proceeding, and now the one guy that's alive is locked up in Florence, ADX, Colorado prison, and no one can speak to him or get to him.
Clearly, every movement from Cointelpro to anything, I mean, Oklahoma City bombing, people say that McVeigh was part of a group that they were surveying and they had informants and they were trying to recruit people.
And a lot of times these things go wrong organically.
Or the other thing is, do they go wrong because they're allowed to go wrong or encouraged to go wrong?
Well, this was the Alex Jones take, that they allowed it to go wrong so that they can install new laws and that they can institute these new laws to survey people.
To the point where my wife's mom was a hippie in Haight-Ashbury back in the Diz-A. And now if you met her, she's like...
Super nice grandma right you would never imagine right but back in the day She used to go to the Haight-Ashbury free clinic which was literally run by the CIA And that's where Manson and all those guys were getting acid from right and then right after Tom O'Neil's book comes out that the fucking Haight-Ashbury free clinic had been around for decades right after Tom O'Neil's book a couple months later.
And then if you look at Operation Mockingbird, how far the CIA is entrenched into the media and how far all the media narratives are being sculpted by a lot of the U.S. intelligence people and then a lot of the social movements that we think are just organic grassroots movements are either started, encouraged, or co-opted by...
So everything's possible.
Anything is possible.
It is that nuts.
Absolutely anything is possible.
When you saw the riots in LA and you saw these teams of people burning cars.
The George Floyd riots, but there were like teams of really skilled people going in there and like there were cop cars that were like abandoned.
Why are there cop cars abandoned?
Who's abandoning a cop car in the middle of a street before the riot?
Weird things happen where you start seeing yourself like, I think the idea that chaos makes people more compliant and makes people go, hey, whatever new laws you guys need to pass, do it.
It's an absolute possibility that no matter what...
If there is a threat to the mainstream, if there is a threat to the system...
Making those people seem as extreme as humanly possible, and a lot of them are, but making them seem really crazy and really violent delegitimizes all of their good points.
And what it allows is it allows people to then dismiss anything that comes from that group or that base of ideas.
Did anybody ever do an investigation on the plates of the pallets of bricks, like a legitimate independent organization, do an investigation to figure out what the fuck was going on?
Because so many people that were showing up at these protests, and even where there were no construction sites, would find these pallets of bricks.
And then you start thinking about, you're like, oh my god, is anything real?
Or are we just living in a video game that people are arranging pretty much everything?
We're looking at all these events and we're thinking they're all organic.
And what they allow us to do is no matter what the events are, whether it's Antifa or whether it's a Capitol riot, we just go, well, the other side is nuts.
But what if it's really just a group of people kind of really helping curate this division so that they can remain in power and fuck kids on Epstein's Island?
I found out about it from Bourdain because Bourdain had this video that he was doing, this video series he was doing on YouTube where he would go to visit people that were making things.
And there was a place in Brooklyn, and they basically take, like, brake rotors, which are cast iron brake rotors, and they would melt these old rotors down and turn them into frying pans.
Well, demonetizing was something that troubled me on YouTube, particularly because it's a form of self-censorship.
You find out, like, they would demonetize a certain percentage of our videos.
And you would find out about it, like, Jamie would go, they demonetized that video.
We'd be like, why?
I could do all you talked about the election or all you talked about we didn't say anything bad crazy.
It was it was nuts It was like there's certain subjects where you couldn't touch and if you touch them Automatically you're and then you'd have to appeal and sometimes you'd win the appeal and sometimes you didn't here's when we found out That it was all horseshit right as soon as we switched over Spotify because when we switched over to Spotify magically All of our videos were available for monetization.
So for the three months that we were on YouTube and Spotify, where it was on both, they let us monetize everything because they wanted to make the money off of it.
They're like, look, he's leaving, he's going to go to Spotify.
Yeah, did you watch the episode when Tulsi Gabbard got on to defend herself and Joy Behar starts panicking, going over her notes while Tulsi is refuting everything that she said?
I don't know, but I remember when she was making fun of the guy who got his dick chopped off and the wife threw it in the blender, or threw it in the garbage disposal, and she was laughing about what it must have looked like.
So if you watch the roofline, there's like these boxes or these structures, top of the structure.
You see that stuff go boom and fall through.
So shit was already deteriorating, raging fires from the basement, which apparently, wasn't there like diesel tanks in the basement?
Was that what was going on?
And there was like a fucking serious fire.
Deteriorated the whole thing, it's lit on fire, all the steel gets weakened, all the concrete gets weakened, it caves in at the top, and then one of the top floors goes, and then the whole thing caves in.
I will shut my fat mouth and never bring this up again if you just show me a photo of a video, even a grainy one, of something that's a plane going into the Pentagon.
You have Bush and Cheney going, we're going to testify together in front of the 9-11 Commission in a closed-door testimony like an Abbott and Costello Act.
I mean, they didn't even want to have a 9-11 Commission.
We don't even want to investigate it.
The president was kept in the air while Cheney and Rumsfeld ran everything from the ground.
If they know that a plane is going to crash into the White House, they're going to shoot that plane out of the sky, even if it's filled with civilians, because those civilians are doomed anyway.
But sometimes you can get an eyewitness account from someone who's like a legitimate, conscious person, and maybe a person that's been to war, a person who knows how to handle trauma, knows how to handle stress, and they can give you an accurate assessment of what happened.
That being said, I just think If you look at that day, there's a lot we don't know.
I don't know what that ends up meaning.
I don't know if it means that the people that did this were trained Saudi agents, maybe, and they were not just random terrorists that couldn't fly and were drunk.
They pulled off something quite spectacular.
Nothing even close to it has ever happened again anywhere.
I think if you look at that day, there's a lot about that day that we still don't understand.
It is possible that what was being exposed by the investigation that they were trying to suppress was that they are balls deep involved in the Saudi government.
The Saudi government is involved in our government.
The amount of money that's being exchanged when you're talking about oil and Look what happened with Jamal Khashoggi.
I remember I was reading this story about, there's a documentary, well there's a bunch of things, story and documentary as well, about the Sultan of Brunei and how he used to rock it.
And what the Sultan of Brunei used to do was he would get girls from TV shows, from movies, and he would say, you know, I want to fuck her.
Have her come visit me and I'll give her, you know, like fucking 10 million bucks or something crazy like that.
And he had a disco in his palace because he was...
Beyond wealthy insane.
He's beyond wealthy in this extraordinary way that we could never really possibly understand and he had this full-on Super fucking disco in his house and he would just fucking stroll downstairs in gold underwear and and go you you you let's go It's an amazing girls would just be hanging out It's an amazing experience to have in life when you look at like the vastly different experiences people have in life to be that guy and It's truly amazing.
Well, that's what Christopher Hitchens said when he wrote this great article called Fat Man and Little Boy.
He said, the most depressing thing about North Korea is that the people actually love the family that runs it.
He goes, in all these other kleptocracies in third world countries, people will sneak out a little joke in a cafe.
They know they're being fucked over.
In North Korea, he said, the vigilance of which people really supported and thought they were living in this paradise, he said, was the most disturbing thing about it.
Like they had destroyed people's psyche and just sense of reality to a degree that it was like, you know, he had been all over the world.
In the beginning of Lex Friedman's podcast, whether he explains what happened with North Korea and how during the 90s they had this massive famine where an undisclosed number of people died from starvation.
It may be hundreds of thousands.
It may be millions.
They don't really know.
Many people resorted to cannibalism, including cannibalizing their own children because the thought was if they died, other people are going to eat their children.
Well, he's interested in what Putin stands for, and he doesn't think...
I think his position is...
I don't want to speak for him, so let me just say generally, I think.
All of this shit, whether it's the way the United States government handles things, whether they pretend that Joe Biden's running the world, all of this is bullshit.
At least with Putin, it's transparent.
It's not good that Putin poisons his rivals and has people assassinated.
And so I just think you have to, you know, listen, I get it, but like, you know, Lex, I was texting with him the other day and he goes, they have integrity.
I said, I don't have integrity, man.
The guy wants absolute power and he just wants to kill everyone that gets in his way.
What I think it's going to be is, it's clearly a speculative asset where it is driven largely by, like, Elon tweeting has been maybe the main driver of it gaining and losing value.
Well, that's when the fake anonymous video came out where people pissed off at him for doing that because they're like, you're fucking up people's lives with these tweets.
Well, it's the other thing is like there are true believers that believe it's going to replace gold and, you know, I don't know if that's going to happen.
There's a lot of people that believe it will be the reserve currency and in 10 years it'll be worth a million dollars of Bitcoin.
They actually have bones that would indicate it was a bipedal hominid, an enormous one that they think is somewhere between 8 and 10 feet tall, and it existed for sure during the same time as human beings, as recently as 100,000 years ago.
He's a big, lanky cowboy motherfucker who's walking like this, and if you put that guy in a gorilla suit, and you filmed it all shaky off a horse, It would look like that.
Is it amazing to you as somebody who spent so long thinking about otherworldly visitors that now they're releasing all this information and no one really cares?
There's some of them that could easily be drones, because they're not moving at spectacular speeds.
Right.
They're just sort of like hovering over aircraft carriers.
Those could be drones.
They could be some new style of drone or some new kind of technology that maybe some foreign government has.
But there's other ones that were spotted by Air Force pilots and then tracked, and they have detailed...
Data on the speed of these things.
They have video of these things going with what appears to me thousands of miles an hour, instantaneously accelerating with no visible propulsion system, no heat signature.
They don't know what the fuck this is.
And this is from 2004 off the Nimitz.
Commander David Fravor, who was a fighter jet pilot, is like...
Like, rock-solid credentials.
You can't...
And I've talked to the guy, I had him on my podcast, and even better, he was on Lex's podcast, and Lex did an even better job than I did, and talked to him for two-plus hours about this, and the guy's incredibly credible.
That fucking thing, whenever he was tracking, went from...
The Nimitz tracked it.
They tracked it on radar.
They tracked it with the onboard sensors, the things they use for targeting enemy crafts.
They tracked this thing from the Nimitz.
It went 80,000 feet above sea level to 50 feet in a second.
It could be DARPA. Have you seen that shit where the military, there's patents for UFO-type See if you can find what those are because they're developing or at least they've attempted to develop some sort of gravitational drive that would indicate that at least there's been some thought about developing a craft like that.
Now, if you put a person in one of these things and you shot them off thousands of miles an hour, they turn into jello.
Docs show Navy got UFO patent granted by warning of similar Chinese tech advances.
This is what I'm saying.
Patent document indicates that the US and China are actively developing radical new craft that seem eerily similar to UFOs reported by Navy pilots.
Now, If this is like on paper somewhere, where they're trying to get patents and they're telling you the Chinese The military already has something like this.
What we're getting is years later, they've been probably developing shit like this for decades.
It's the one conspiracy that I've never gotten into that much because the information is so tough to come by that I've just always said nothing would surprise me.
Nothing would surprise me.
There's something going on there's something going on but what that something is remains to be seen have you seen that video the men in black that walk into they walk into this It's just two very tall weird dudes that walk into like a Hotel and then leave Jamie you can find it easily and it's just these guys that were supposedly like you know something weird happened and supposedly they're guys that come in like after something weird happens and like Shut it down,
and they're both very tall and very...
And I don't know if it's fake or not.
I don't think it is fake, though, but I don't know.
And there's other schools of thought where you're like, no, there's a perceived buffoonery that's attached to some level of government because there's a lot of people in government that are fucking idiots.
But there's a lot of people that work at UPS that are fucking idiots.
Finally, we have perhaps the most conclusive evidence of the real men in black at a hotel in Canada, and the manager was a little disturbed when his bellboy informed him that the previous day the hotel had and the manager was a little disturbed when his bellboy informed him that the previous day the hotel had been visited by two tall men dressed Maybe they were Johnny Cash fans.
You know, I was watching a video where Yuval Noah Harati, do you know who he is, the guy who wrote Sapiens?
He was talking about what happened in the early days of literature, and that in the early days of literature, see if you can find this, it's on his Instagram, and it's very, very interesting.
It's a speech that he's giving where he's talking about disinformation online, and he said that in the early days of literature, the things that people were reading Weren't books about Galileo.
The early books were how-to books on how to spot witches.
And they were the most popular books.
So everybody was reading witch books and they were killing witches.
So who knows how many fucking innocent people were murdered where they thought they were witches because they had read these books, proclaiming this is how you spot a witch.
Which is what he was saying is exactly the kind of disinformation you're getting now with this new media source.
So the old media source being printed word, all of a sudden it's in a book, it must be true.
This new media source, oh, I read it online, it must be true.
Those were inflatable tanks that they inflated and installed to trick the Russians, or to trick the Nazis, into thinking that they had troops moving into specific areas where they weren't really...
When people are being censored by large corporations, the odds of you getting the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but are very slim.
You're going to get a watered-down, corporatized version of what may or may not be true, and If they can withhold certain information and maximize profits or increase the profitable – like, if they have relationships with certain corporations that would lose money if people started discussing certain things, they will most likely suppress those things and come up with some justification for why they're doing it.
It says, yeah, advertised mission statement as fighting cancel culture, promoting common sense, defending free speech, challenging social media monopolies, and creating a true marketplace of ideas.
Because you learn how to spar and you don't have as many mental blocks.
When you're a grown man, if you're a 20-year-old guy and you're real strong and you're sparring with another 20-year-old guy and you're trying to really hit each other, you're tense and you don't learn as well.
When kids are hitting each other and it's not that much of a consequence.
So you get to understand the movements better.
So what you're really supposed to do is a lot of drilling, and then if you can get used to sparring when you're young, you actually can develop better skills.
It's arguable, but also there's a thing that happens when you're really young where your body matures into striking.
I got into martial arts when I was a young teenager, and my body was still growing.
So as I learned martial arts, my body matured into martial arts, and I developed striking skills while my body was growing and getting stronger and thicker, and I think you get better that way.
I think when you're already a grown man, unless you have a very specific style of athleticism, it's harder to get good at striking.
Some wrestlers, they have like a slower style and they don't have a lot of fast twitch muscles in the same way that like a striker does.
They have a really hard time developing striking power and like real striking skills as they get older because it's just a different thing to learn.
I think when you get to this age, they can hurt each other.
But maybe not.
Here's the thing.
If you have good referees and you teach them how to fight correctly, you teach them how to be defensively responsible, the thing about this is they don't have the ability to consent because they're so young.
If my kids wanted to learn fighting, like I say, if they decided, even my daughters, if they said, I want to be a fighter, okay, okay.
We're going to do it slowly, and we're going to do it the right way, and I want you to develop, like, legitimate defensive skills before you start sparring.
Because it was a hilarious letter I put up on some social media where they said, our audience is younger, our audience is now two to four, and they don't want to see, like, nine-year-olds.
I went on auditions when I was a little kid all the time, and you would just be in the middle of the script, you'd be reading it, and the guy would go, yeah, thank you for coming.
I was talking to this dude once, he was a martial arts guy that was also an actor, and he was saying that the real problem in Hollywood is that they don't have enough roles for Asian people.
But he wasn't saying it like, you know, as an Asian guy, it's very difficult for me to get parts.
He was saying like Hollywood has a responsibility to write roles and to have roles for Asian people.
And I remember me and him having this conversation and part of me wanted to see it from his perspective and go, yeah, that's got to suck.
Because imagine if you're an Asian man and you're trying to act in Hollywood and there's a hundred movies, but there's only one role for an Asian man.
But there's like 99 roles or 250,000 roles for a white guy.
But is it the responsibility of Hollywood to write for Asian people?
Because my take on it was like, okay, if you're a guy and you're a screenwriter and you have a vision, you're not thinking, I want to make two black lesbians and one Asian guy and have as few white people as possible.
What I want to do is just make a movie.
Right.
And I have a movie about a monster chasing people.
I don't give a fuck who he kills.
I'm not thinking about it that way.
But his responsibility was Hollywood is an industry and they need to make space for Asian people.
There's going to be more white people because the majority of the country has been white for so long that when you look at the movies and the TV shows, they're all going to be predominantly white because that's the majority population.
Because if you're thinking about a guy who's a screenwriter, if you're just a dude and you're some Quentin Tarantino character, you're just trying to write some crazy, wild movie that's going to be an awesome movie, you're most likely not thinking about making sure that the cast is diverse.
But I remember being in a situation where part of me wanted to argue against it, and part of me wanted to argue for it.
So from his position, I was like, yeah, I get it.
I see what you're saying.
It's got to suck.
But then I was like, but man, if you're a guy who's got a vision, and your vision is like four white guys go camping and they get eaten by a werewolf, and that's the whole movie.
Like, what...
Is it your job to cast an Asian guy?
Is it your job to decide one of these guys is Asian?
I had this wild conversation with Quentin Tarantino that's become a big deal about Bruce Lee.
He was kind of critical of Bruce Lee in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and painted him in a way that a lot of people...
And he defended it.
But the point is like when Bruce Lee came along he was the coolest person on earth And you have to understand what it was like to be me in the 1970s when the Bruce Lee movies came out and I was a little kid I was blown away I was living in New Jersey and me and my friend we live in this apartment building together.
We watched a One of the Bruce Lee movies on television and I couldn't fucking believe how cool he was and everybody wanted to be this One Chinese guy right everybody wanted to be Bruce Lee which had never happened before right like a guy was so cool that a previously on not unrecognized but uncelebrated class A Chinese martial arts actor.
That didn't exist.
Now was the most important.
One of the biggest, most popular actors in the country.
Which is nuts.
That's never happened before.
Where one guy breaks through in a genre and literally transcends all of Hollywood and became Bruce fucking Lee.
Where when you thought about martial arts, you thought of Bruce Lee, and he was literally one of the biggest stars on earth.
That if you're a fucking murderer, if you're a three-foot-tall, half-Asian, half-black, transsexual person, but you go on stage and fucking rock the house, Then you're in.
All comics want to give you knuckles and all comics want to go, have you seen him?
Although, I will say that I think it's way more difficult to be a comic and be a woman.
Because there's certain subjects that people, like, maybe prejudiced people don't want to hear you talk about, like guys.
Like, guys don't want to hear a woman telling people what to do.
Like, you don't mind if a guy goes on stage, like some guys don't mind, if a guy goes on stage and goes, what we need to fucking do in this country is this, that, and the other thing, and if it's funny, people laugh.
When a girl goes on stage and says, what we need to do in this country is this, that, and they're like, what you need to do is get back in the fucking kitchen.
If women talk about sex, either they're perceived as a slut or they're perceived in a weird way.
You have to have...
Your take on sex can't be as...
Open as a guy's take on sex.
Guys can talk about blowjobs or this or that, and people just accept it.
This is what guys talk about.
Whereas if a girl talks about those kind of things, there's a certain amount of people in the audience that are going to be hesitant to listen to these discussions.
So the people that bitch about the lineups, like they'll bitch about it and say, you know, I should be on that lineup.
Well, Maybe it's more difficult for you to get through.
That is true.
But at the end of the day, if there's only 10 slots, should they give a slot to someone who's not as good as someone who's on that lineup just because that person has a vagina?
Well, there is a changing definition of what comedy is, and we're not going to like it.
I imagine that real comedy will survive in some capacity, but there is a changing definition of what comedy is.
Comedy has now become, I'm here to speak my truth, I'm here to talk, you're here to listen, and this idea of punching and hard, killing and fun, that is still the comedy that people want to see, it's still the comedy that makes money in clubs, it's still the comedy that people go to theaters to see.
But there's a vastly different understanding of what comedy is from a lot of people that are getting into it now.
Many, many people are getting into comedy now with a very different value system and idea of what it is.
And then people went to that second thing where she's like, Picasso is the right bit.
The second one that she did, people started to go, oh, okay.
You can do the magic trick once.
The second time you do it, people start going, oh, okay.
No, she'll work the festival circuit forever, but the reality is, I get she was big shit that moment, but how many times can you just get up and go, men sucks, somebody hit me with a dick on a bus, God bless her, but after a while, it starts to get stale.
Well, there was a thing about alt comics for a long time where they were upset at comics from the store because they put too much effort out when they were on stage.
And you want to talk about white supremacy, the alternative rooms in New York City where I started were whiter than the Charlottesville march.
And they were all rich white suburban kids who had gone to theater arts summer camps and they were like, you know, and then they would be like, you know, they would do these, you know, some of them were funny and some of them got famous and whatever, but the vast majority of them became writers on shows that they hated or whatever.
And a lot of them just went really mainstream.
And I mean, some of them now write for like network sitcoms and stuff.
And they were like, they were the guys in Brooklyn who were like, you know, in 2011, they had the beard and the thing.
It's never like I'm never going into Brooklyn and going, why am I not on that lineup?
I'm never doing that.
I'm never going into Echo Park and going, I want to be in that lineup in the back of the bookstore where everybody's drinking coffee and everyone has BLM in their profile picture, but their parents both work at Goldman Sachs.
I'm not saying I want to be on that lineup.
Those are the people that are pointing at the store and the improv and the seller of this and that and going, this is unfair, this doesn't work.
It was an idea that came along with it that people really subscribed to.
And if you enjoyed it, God bless you, and that's great.
But I think it was a moment...
Where it's like, finally, someone can tell the truth.
I mean, the entire special had a very big political overtone, which is like, I'm here to tell people...
You know, my truth, and she made a lot of statements about comedy, and she goes, this is what comedy has been for straight white men who rape, and now I am here.
That was pretty much, that was the argument.
That was the idea.
Comedy was for straight white rapists, and now I'm here to say that the game has changed.
I think the initial success was like- And we also know that there's people in comedy that are very bad and abusive, but it doesn't mean that this is hot.
But in the beginning, I think when things caught on, I think it was this thing that happens to people when they become very successful, very quickly, is that all of a sudden they assume some sort of a role of being an arbiter of what's good and what's bad.
And there was a statement that she had made about Louis C.K., about something about how she was gonna come, you know, like if he came back then her work was not done.
Well, the way you and I became friends was you had a post about Louis CK, and I reached out to you because I think you were dead right.
You were saying that there's some legitimate criticisms of what he did, but there was also some people that were jumping on board because they were marginally talented at best, and they were seeing this as an opportunity to use what's happening to him to gain- This is how they can compete.
We all want to structure the world in a way that we can compete.
And I think they look at people on stage killing and go, I can't do that.
And then when the Louis story happened, they said, well, yes, fuck him.
He was never funny.
And the benefit of that is if Louis was never funny, well, then if you knock him off, then the standard is different, right?
Because we all were in agreement that he's one of the greats.
So if you get rid of all of those people and say, well, they're just there because they're white men.
Then the standard of the art can actually be just debased so that anybody can get involved.
I mean, that's just what it is and I think that's what I saw happening where a lot of people that were going, hey, and they like comfort and they hate risk And that's why a lot of what they do is mediocre.
During Curb Your Enthusiasm, it was the same thing where they said, you know, the latest season of Curb, they go, it just doesn't feel like a white guy complaining about all these little meaningless things.
It just doesn't hit the same way.
And I'm like, so it was funny during the Iraq War?
Was it funny during Abu Ghraib?
Was it funny during Guantanamo?
It's really just these people feel like it's safe now.
To say that and to pile on, which is why they're not successful, because if they said things that were unsafe, that their whole, you know, the way that their brain works, if they weren't constantly looking for a safe harbor, they might actually do something good.
Yeah, the attacks on Louis, particularly after he had gone from 10 months of not doing stand-up to doing one set, right?
So he literally, this is his first setback.
Someone records his first setback, and in that he has jokes about school shootings, he's got jokes about other things that people think are inappropriate, but you go back and listen to his old specials.
So to hear people that were praising him as brilliant and a genius up to the point where he got in trouble for jerking off in front of women, now saying that he's a monster and that he's alt-right and he's a piece of shit and that he has no heart and he's a hack, I was furious.
And to this day, I refuse to talk to a lot of those people.
Well, yeah, but those people are on a team, right?
And they look at each other and they go, is it time?
And it's like, again, it's that- It's team mediocre.
It's a strategy.
It's a strategy.
It's a way to get in.
It's a way to get in, and all these people that are supposedly revolutionaries, they rely on the most antiquated form of the entertainment business, which is working for multinational conglomerates.
I mean, they work for large corporations.
They're told what to say.
Everything's vetted against sales, standards of practices, advertising.
It is the most antiquated way to put any content out, and yet they are dependent entirely on that system 100%, all the while Saying that a guy like you, you're the problem because you have a podcast where you broadcast directly to your fans.
And they have these...
Somehow they're not the powerful ones.
Somehow they're not the powerful ones even though they work for NBC, ABC, Viacom.
These massive corporations and yet somehow...
They are always looking at the power differential going, oh, those guys are podcasting this and that, the other thing.
Not only are we not oppressing anybody, it's one of the best industries you could ever possibly describe.
If you wanted to have a discussion of an industry where the people involved in it wholeheartedly support the other people involved in it, with no financial benefit whatsoever.
Other than like you know abstract, but yeah, you think about the way comics who or even people that just have pod like Lex Have each other on each other's podcast discuss each other talk about great stuff.
They saw yeah, I can't talk about people's good stuff enough I I love when people do good work.
I love when people do great comics.
I love when people do great discussions on podcasts.
I love great authors.
I love things that are interesting to me.
And I can't wait to talk about them.
I love talking about them.
I don't want to talk about them specifically because it's going to benefit me.
I mean, it's the reason that you have the people that don't like you.
It's because, you know, that's what it is.
It's like you actually did it and you don't rely on it.
You don't need anybody.
That's the difference.
All the people that are angry, they're resentful that they need to feel a certain way about things publicly.
They don't like that.
People...
I think in their soul, they make all these allowances, but they don't want to be owned.
Down deep, they don't like being owned, and you're not owned, and a lot of them are, and that's where a lot of the hostility comes from.
Because even though they've disguised being owned and altruism, and they're great, and they're this and that, at the end of the day, I think people genuinely don't like that feeling, and a lot of people that we know experience that feeling all the time.
She was saying it about how we look at people that are on the opposite perspective politically as if they're the other, and that this is a dangerous thing.
And she equated it to Nazi Germany.
I might be paraphrasing this terribly, but see if we can find out exactly what she said.
We'll find out what she said.
Anytime you equate anything with Nazi Germany, you're in a landmine.
I think one of their movies was like there was a school shooting happening and then like some girl shows up with a gun like Laura Croft in Tomb Raider and just kills a school shooter.
Nevertheless, her social media post denigrating people based on their...
No, no, no, no, no.
We need to find out that...
I'm sure someone's...
Oh, here it is.
The actor continues to say, scroll down low, it goes, okay, so Carano fell under heavy criticism after she posted that Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers, but by their neighbors, even by children.
The actor continues to say, because history is edited, most people today don't realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews.
How is that any different from hating someone for their political views?
I see what she's trying to say.
I see what she's trying to say because there are people that absolutely do hate conservatives and they're of the opinion that some conservatives and Trump supporters...
First of all, things in print, it's an inherently shitty way to express something controversial when you're talking about something that's contemporary.
When you're talking about something that's going on right now.
Because...
It's so open to interpretation.
So many people can form, like, I don't like how you said this, because I think she meant this, or I think she meant that.
The best way to express something like that, ironically, is like this, in a conversation.
So if she was talking to someone, and she was saying...
Like, if she was having this conversation with us, and she was saying, you know, in Nazi Germany, they got their neighbors to hate them first.
And think about how they're getting neighbors to hate people now for being conservative.
But again, when it comes to something like the Disney Channel or this or, you know, when it comes to her getting fired, they're probably looking for a way to get rid of her anyway because she was already saying some controversial shit.
Yeah, but 6.5 on IMDB. 17-year-old Zoe Hall uses her wit, survival skills, and compassion to fight for her life and those of her fellow classmates against a group of live streaming school shooters.
They're like, we want to show people that kids should be trained in weapons so they can go to school and fight the school shooter.
And the left, when they're making certain God only knows things that they're doing, are going, we just want to show people that this is the right thing to do.
So I think it's just, it's got to actually be.
Now, the reason the left is better at it is they've been doing it for a lot longer.
But that's just one of many indications that the deep interest that China has in movie making...
It's very difficult for them to avoid that grasp because financially it was so big.
Opening weekend, that movie, Fast and the Furious 9, I want to say it's in the neighborhood of $160 million opening weekend, 134 of which came from China.