Dec. 24, 2021 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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I don't know if I'm going to buy Rolls Royce, but I do like them. | |
| What about a Cadillac? | ||
| I think you're more of a Cadillac guy. | ||
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Well, that's a knock. | |
| Right? | ||
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No, they're great. | |
| That's kind of a knock. | ||
| No, they're great cars. | ||
| It's a Long Island... | ||
| Aren't you? | ||
| Yeah, it's a car for a Long Island guy who's a little full of shit. | ||
| From Long Island? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I can see myself in Escalade. | ||
| They're great. | ||
| They're amazing. | ||
| There's a lot of guys who want to be Tony Soprano. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Who aren't Tony Soprano, who like the Sopranos, who drive Escalades. | ||
| That is an issue. | ||
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Oh, yeah. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| It's like pinky rings. | ||
| You really can't wear a pinky ring. | ||
| It's a car where when you're driving in it, you're in a movie that no one's watching except you and you're starring in it. | ||
| If you've got that Soprano song, Woke Up This Morning. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, you like only pretty much fast cars. | ||
| No, I like all kinds of cars. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You're not like a luxury sedan guy. | ||
| I've had them. | ||
| Yeah? | ||
| Yeah, I've had them before. | ||
| What was the best one? | ||
| I had a BMW 7 Series. | ||
| They're great. | ||
| It was amazing. | ||
| I love them, yeah. | ||
| It was really comfortable. | ||
| Yeah, those are great. | ||
| It's just like you feel like you're insulated from the world. | ||
| Yeah, I feel like those cars I love, but I also feel like a dentist. | ||
| Because my dentist had it, like in Long Island, dentists have BMW 7 Series or Mercedes S500s. | ||
| That's like the car for like your doctor. | ||
| That's a nice car too. | ||
| The Benz S-Class? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Very nice car. | ||
| Those are nice. | ||
| Yeah, those are nice. | ||
| I got the Tesla, the new Plaid. | ||
| The fast one. | ||
| It's preposterous. | ||
| It's insane. | ||
| But the steering wheel's dumb. | ||
| It's a yoke. | ||
| I'm not a fan of the steering wheel. | ||
| You gotta talk to your boy. | ||
| I don't know what to tell him. | ||
| He's dead set on the yoke. | ||
| What is the yoke? | ||
| It's like a Formula One car. | ||
| It's got a handle on here and a handle on here. | ||
| Not only that, the horn is not this anymore. | ||
| It's not hit the center. | ||
| It's a button that you have to awkwardly move your thumb to get to, to hit, and you have to know that's the steering wheel. | ||
| See what the horn is? | ||
| See the little horn icon? | ||
| Fuck that thing. | ||
| I'm not a fan of that. | ||
| When I grab the top, my thumb, if extended, does go where the horn is, like, perfectly. | ||
| But I want to hit the center. | ||
| That's where the horn is. | ||
| The horn's the center. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Old habits die hard. | ||
| And the blinkers. | ||
| You see the blinkers? | ||
| They're on the left-hand side. | ||
| That's left and right. | ||
| So you have to look. | ||
| Instead of, like, the little stick, I like the stick. | ||
| The left, right, left, right. | ||
| It's easy. | ||
| My problem with Tesla is my producer is a Tesla, and people that have Teslas, Think they've done well, but what is it? | ||
| It's like a $35,000 car, right? | ||
| It's a cheap car. | ||
| Depends on which one you get. | ||
| Right. | ||
| That one is, the S is, how much does that cost? | ||
| It's well over $100,000. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But I think the beginners, you can get them for like $38,000. | ||
| You can get the three. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's a great car, though. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| If you want a car that's reliable, fast as fuck, great battery life, easy to drive. | ||
| But it's too much of a cult. | ||
| Everybody who's in it talks about it. | ||
| That's me. | ||
| I've known that cult. | ||
| You know the guy, right? | ||
| But there's people out there that are talking about Starlink satellites and SpaceX. | ||
| And it's like, guys, shut up. | ||
| You know, they feel like they're part of this revolutionary force, but you just bought a car. | ||
| It's like how Apple was in the 90s. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| People just get too involved. | ||
| People would talk about it and they would say, we've got a new operating system coming out. | ||
| I'm like, we. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Who's we? | ||
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We. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Who's we? | ||
| Interesting. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| No, it's too... | ||
| My producer, when he got it, Ben, when he got it, would just talk endlessly about it and everything that it did and how cool it was. | ||
| It's amazing. | ||
| That's the problem. | ||
| The problem it is, it is a fucking amazing car. | ||
| The car is... | ||
| You've been in my other one? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Remember how fast that was? | ||
| It's very fast. | ||
| Of Gary Rodgers and the Improv? | ||
| It's very fast. | ||
| This one's twice as fast. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| It's insanity. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Zero to 60 in 1.9 seconds for a full-size four-door sedan. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| Yeah, it's nuts. | ||
| What's the top speed? | ||
| 175 miles an hour or something crazy. | ||
| I think it's limited. | ||
| Did they govern it or something? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Probably does. | ||
| I mean, it's fucking insane. | ||
| It's like a thousand horsepower. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| It's got three engines. | ||
| Do you worry about other people having, like, a car that's that fast? | ||
| Yeah, you should. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You should. | ||
| It's like, well, I worry about that with everything. | ||
| With Corvettes, with, you know, you could just go to a store and buy a fucking race car. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Buy a car that would outperform most GT3 cars from, you know, 20 years ago. | ||
| Most cars that people raced. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| 167 miles an hour. | ||
| Which is, uh, that's the fastest, I guess, it goes. | ||
| Um, okay. | ||
| Well, the ability to merge is the most incredible thing. | ||
| Like if you hit an on-ramp and you have an opening, it's just... | ||
| It just goes. | ||
| Because you can just... | ||
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Right. | |
| It just goes. | ||
| Hit. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But it's not hard to drive slow. | ||
| It's not like it's uncomfortable. | ||
| Some fast cars, they're like herky-jerky. | ||
| It's not like that at all. | ||
| It's very smooth. | ||
| Do you think the EV market is just the future in terms of what we're going to see? | ||
| Battery material? | ||
| That's my question. | ||
| Well, we'll start a few wars. | ||
| I mean, what do they need? | ||
| Lithium ion? | ||
| We can go back in Afghanistan. | ||
| I think they're going to war with Nevada right now, because they're pulling it out of Nevada. | ||
| Well, they're going to South America, too. | ||
| There's a lot of different, you know... | ||
| Yeah, minerals down there, sure. | ||
| Where do they get most of their lithium? | ||
| I think they are doing it in Nevada now. | ||
| I did read something about Nevada being a hotbed for lithium. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, that's the thing now. | ||
| All these new tech companies are very progressive and they have all these electric cars, but... | ||
| They're mining these minerals that they need for their products in a lot of different places, and I'm sure they're not always doing this on the up and up. | ||
| No. | ||
| Well, we went over this the other day about Africa and coltan, and that at the heart of every cell phone is this mineral called coltan, and where they get coltan is like people are literally digging it out of the ground in the Congo. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And they're working in horrific conditions, and it's fucking horrible, dirty work. | ||
| What is this? | ||
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Australia. | |
| The biggest mine is in Australia, but the biggest company is an American company in Chile, Australia, in the U.S. Interesting. | ||
| Big market cap. | ||
| Well, it's funny that they get it out of Australia. | ||
| I don't feel bad about it at all. | ||
| If they take it from Australia, that's fine. | ||
| Yeah, that's who cares. | ||
| That's fine. | ||
| Take their minerals. | ||
| They've lost their mind. | ||
| They've gone insane. | ||
| No one's lost their mind better than Australia. | ||
| And it's a great sign that everyone needs guns. | ||
| Well, it was shocking that... | ||
| It was that country. | ||
| Because I always thought that country was like a party. | ||
| Everybody was just having fun. | ||
| But it is a penal colony. | ||
| And a lot of the people there... | ||
| You know, are the descendants of criminals. | ||
| And from knowing people that live in Australia, they don't love work, which is okay, right? | ||
| Like their culture is not about working. | ||
| So if somebody says, hey, sit in your yard and get hammered for a year. | ||
| They don't ask too many questions. | ||
| They go, let's do it. | ||
| But then it gets increasingly more and more draconian and crazy and they're doing face scans and they're checking your cup. | ||
| Did you really go for coffee? | ||
| Let me see if you have coffee in your cup. | ||
| But it's crazy. | ||
| I saw that video. | ||
| That was crazy. | ||
| Checking that lady. | ||
| Is it a gut lady? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Do you have coffee in your cup? | ||
| To make sure she can have her mask down to be drinking. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| It's insane. | ||
| But this is after 9-11. | ||
| You get patted down, you'll get molested. | ||
| The TSA will molest you at an airport for no reason. | ||
| They're molesting an 85-year-old grandmother from Kentucky. | ||
| In case she's a terrorist. | ||
| In case she has a bomb hidden. | ||
| So this is a problem, right? | ||
| I mean, unless people restore... | ||
| Hopefully this variant... | ||
| Sweeps, it's mild, everybody's got natural immunity, and we move on. | ||
| I don't think that's gonna happen. | ||
| Yeah, maybe not. | ||
| The reality of human beings is once you give people power, they don't give it back. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And that's what's going on now with fucking Lori Lightfoot in Chicago. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Says she's gonna make it inconvenient for everybody who doesn't have a vaccine. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But the bottom line is the vaccine doesn't work on this variant. | ||
| They're saying it's a vaccine escape variant. | ||
| So does it keep you out of the hospital? | ||
| What keeps you out of the hospital? | ||
| Being healthy. | ||
| Supposedly... | ||
| The idea that the only thing that keeps you out of the hospital is medicine. | ||
| Well, no, I don't think it's the only thing, but I get my news from Donald Trump, who told Candace Owens that the vaccine is a miracle, and it worked. | ||
| Well, because he came up with it. | ||
| Yeah, but a lot of people are saying that if you... | ||
| Not really him, obviously. | ||
| You're prevented from death, which, by the way, is the last... | ||
| I mean, it started with, you won't get it, and then it was, you might get it, but you won't get sick. | ||
| Then it was, well, you'll get sick. | ||
| Now it's, you won't die. | ||
| Have you seen the breakdown? | ||
| It's an American product. | ||
| It is American product. | ||
| It's an American product. | ||
| Truly, it's an American product. | ||
| By the end of it, it's like, hey, you might not die, which is many of our products. | ||
| But you might. | ||
| Sure, you could. | ||
| But less people will die. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Allegedly. | ||
| I don't think we really know... | ||
| I think we're going to find out, I think, years from now, what this whole thing was. | ||
| Well, for sure, there's a lot of money involved. | ||
| And whenever there's a lot of money involved, then there's fuckery. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And there's for sure fuckery involved. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| And have you ever seen the compilation of what Fauci said at the beginning of the vaccine distribution versus now? | ||
| No. | ||
| You've never seen that video? | ||
| I'm sure it's... | ||
| Well, because I remember it, though, because I remember that the idea was that you wouldn't contract it. | ||
| Yeah, you're not going to get the virus. | ||
| And that the breakthrough cases would be rare. | ||
| Very rare. | ||
| Extremely rare. | ||
| We all got it early. | ||
| Everyone that I know got it early because we believed it was like putting a wristband on and you could go into Six Flags. | ||
| Basically, it was like, oh, I have it. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| Party's on. | ||
| But now it's not even you need a booster. | ||
| Now it is the booster. | ||
| California, all the state workers now have to have a booster. | ||
| And that's the third. | ||
| That's the third. | ||
| And Israel's on the fourth. | ||
| Yes, they're on the fourth. | ||
| There's no science about this, by the way. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| There's no data on whether or not the fourth helps you. | ||
| There's also no data. | ||
| What does it do? | ||
| It refreshes their... | ||
| The claim is that it refreshes the antibodies. | ||
| Gives you a little extra boost. | ||
| Gives you a boost. | ||
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It's a boost. | |
| It's a little boost. | ||
| I think the term booster should go. | ||
| It's a bump. | ||
| It's a bump of cocaine. | ||
| I think saying, giving someone a boost, there should be more of a medical way. | ||
| To describe it. | ||
| Listen, they are saying that the vast majority of people that are dying are unvaccinated. | ||
| That seems to be... | ||
| That's not true. | ||
| That's what they're saying. | ||
| Yeah, I don't think that's true anymore. | ||
| I think... | ||
| It may be that death is very rare... | ||
| No matter what? | ||
| It depends on what you read. | ||
| Below a certain age. | ||
| When I'm saying that's not true. | ||
| I'm reading a bunch of different stories on people being vaccinated, unvaccinated. | ||
| Here's a real problem with a lack of treatment. | ||
| That's a real problem. | ||
| There's also a real problem in that when you get checked in. | ||
| But when you get checked into a hospital, if you already checked in, they no longer will give you monoclonal antibodies. | ||
| You literally have to get monoclonal antibodies in the emergency room. | ||
| If you get checked into the hospital, then there's no monitoring. | ||
| And you're already too sick. | ||
| Which doesn't make any sense. | ||
| It literally makes no sense. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I was listening to Peter McCullough, and I don't know if this diminishes his credibility, I bought crack off him in downtown Austin three days ago. | ||
| He's got good crack. | ||
| Yeah, but other than that, He was saying that you need to get on an early treatment regimen. | ||
| I think we're having these weird conversations that are kind of in a box because so many people don't have healthcare. | ||
| They're afraid to go to the emergency room. | ||
| They're afraid to go to a doctor. | ||
| They don't have the money. | ||
| They can't take off work. | ||
| So the idea that having this for-profit healthcare system where everybody's trying to make money seems to be a real... | ||
| Impetus to getting people early treatment because most people can't get early treatment because they're terrified of spending the money. | ||
| They don't know what they're going to get hit in the mail for. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| So it seems to be like, I think everything he was saying about getting on early stuff makes sense if you have healthcare. | ||
| Well, even if you don't have healthcare, the thing about Ivermectin is that it's very inexpensive. | ||
| Whether or not it actually works as the people that are proponents of it, I think it does, remains to be seen. | ||
| Did you give it out for Halloween? | ||
| I gave it to everybody. | ||
| Okay, because I heard that you were giving it out for Halloween at the house. | ||
| I got a room full of it in my house. | ||
| I heard you were just giving it out to people. | ||
| I opened it, it sounds like angel voices. | ||
| I feel like you have a DuckTales vat of Ivermectin that you swim in every day. | ||
| Just like, you know, remember DuckTales had the coins? | ||
| It's just you and Ivermectin just doing backstroke in Ivermectin. | ||
| I never thought that that was going to be a big deal. | ||
| I really didn't. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| When I was bringing that up, I was bringing it up because it was a thing that was on a laundry list of stuff I took. | ||
| It was one of the things. | ||
| It's forever associated. | ||
| Connected to me. | ||
| Isn't it funny that like a year ago, if they said you're going to be in this crazy controversy about a drug, you'd be like, what are you talking about? | ||
| Why would I do that? | ||
| That doesn't even make any sense. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| One of the things that's been very strange about this is watching how people get very... | ||
| There are certain things in society where people's quote-unquote lived experience is the most important thing. | ||
| If you identify as a different gender, whatever. | ||
| If you are mentally unwell and say, I can't perform certain duties, you go, I respect that. | ||
| But if you say, I took Ivermectin and I felt better, people turn around and go, shut up! | ||
| It's weird. | ||
| That's weird. | ||
| Well, they got tricked. | ||
| They got tricked into doing this by the media. | ||
| And the media over and over and over again said disproven, conspiracy theory, horse dewormer. | ||
| They said all these things. | ||
| But what they ignored is how effective it's been in other countries. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But Japan, which is not an alt-right... | ||
| No. | ||
| Reddit thread. | ||
| It's Japan. | ||
| They were like, we're authorizing the use of ivermectin. | ||
| And they had a giant drop-off of COVID cases. | ||
| The same thing happened in parts of India. | ||
| You can get it in Texas. | ||
| Like when I had COVID, my doctor just wrote me a prescription for ivermectin. | ||
| Some doctors. | ||
| I know a doctor who's actually being brought in front of the medical board being subpoenaed because this doctor prescribed ivermectin to patients with COVID and they want to know why. | ||
| So this is actually like they're being brought in front of a fucking board about a drug that if you go to the critical care frontline COVID critical care group, people have done it for thousands of people. | ||
| There's all sorts of at least anecdotal tales of people getting better after ivermectin. | ||
| They do know that it stops viral replication in vitro, which means in a lab culture. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| They do know that other countries have reported significant success. | ||
| They have these RCTs, these randomized controlled trials that they can list over and over and over again about ivermectin. | ||
| The problem is it's like the data is kind of sloppy. | ||
| Like some of it is they used it in prophylaxis, which means they use it as a preventative measure. | ||
| Some of it they used it in early care. | ||
| Some of it they used it deep into the sickness. | ||
| So it's like you We don't know. | ||
| And also, there's clearly some kind of a conspiracy to try to demonize that medication. | ||
| When you look at the amount of people that said, horse dewormer, horse dewormer, you look at the bullshit story that was in the Rolling Stone that was proven to be absolutely not real about people waiting in line at the hospital. | ||
| They couldn't get into the emergency room with gunshot wounds because so many people in there with horse dewormers. | ||
| Which is what? | ||
| Proven untrue. | ||
| Not just proven untrue, just a fabrication. | ||
| Well, it's a bad... | ||
| I think the idea that there's a vaccine that's available and people are being mandated to take it rubs people the wrong way. | ||
| Well, also because people are vaccinated and still getting sick and still spreading it. | ||
| And they're trying to pretend that's not the case. | ||
| I think that it's been a big problem watching the sales pitch Because to me it should be, the vaccine is available, if you take it, it should reduce your likelihood of getting sick. | ||
| That should not be, you shouldn't lose your job. | ||
| That's what I was saying. | ||
| I was like, it seems crazy to me. | ||
| To fire somebody and make them destitute, broke, homeless, right? | ||
| Because they will not take a vaccine. | ||
| Not only that, a lot of them are nurses. | ||
| And nurses have already got COVID. So they've had COVID. They recovered. | ||
| They have better antibodies. | ||
| Well, that's the thing. | ||
| A lot of people- Stronger antibodies. | ||
| There's people that aren't anti-vax per se, but they say, I have natural immunity. | ||
| So that never made sense to me. | ||
| The mandates never made sense. | ||
| I didn't get that. | ||
| Even the term vaccine is incorrect. | ||
| It's a gene therapy. | ||
| It's a different thing. | ||
| A vaccine is like smallpox. | ||
| You get it and then you never get smallpox or like measles. | ||
| You know, once you have the vaccine, you don't have to worry about it anymore. | ||
| That's for the vast majority of people. | ||
| Right. | ||
| That's what a vaccine is supposed to be. | ||
| This is something where you have to get three of them in a fucking year. | ||
| But this is like when I used to sell mortgages, you would get a mortgage and then two years later you would get a refinance. | ||
| So here's what you're not realizing. | ||
| If I'm Pfizer, I don't want to just be in your life for one transaction. | ||
| I'm your partner for life. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Forever. | ||
| So every couple of years, I'm going to call you up and say, Hi, Mr. Rogan. | ||
| How are you? | ||
| And we're going to do it again. | ||
| We're going to get a boost. | ||
| That's the American way we sell everything. | ||
| There's not one product on the American market that people go, you got it, you're good. | ||
| Not one. | ||
| Every single product. | ||
| You could go buy an air conditioner. | ||
| The guy's like, and when you have a kid and you need another one, you come back here. | ||
| Like, this is just kind of in our DNA. | ||
| It's also weird that there's three vaccines. | ||
| They're telling you not to take the Johnson& Johnson anymore. | ||
| Right, but that's weird. | ||
| When the CEOs of the vaccines are making fun of each other, that doesn't make you feel good. | ||
| I remember people got the Johnson& Johnson, and then we were an hour away from getting it. | ||
| They discontinued it. | ||
| Me and a bunch of people in LA. That didn't make you feel good. | ||
| No. | ||
| It shouldn't be, I think... | ||
| I mean, capitalism has some great things, but I wonder if we should... | ||
| The vaccine shouldn't be like... | ||
| One of these products where it's like, you know how Wendy's and Arby's fight on Twitter as a joke? | ||
| I don't think a life-saving vaccine should have that. | ||
| Like, I don't think Moderna and Pfizer should be fighting with each other. | ||
| But it doesn't make you feel good about it. | ||
| I don't think Moderna and Pfizer are fighting with each other, but different countries... | ||
| Well, they'll knock each other. | ||
| Like, the CEO, Jimmy can even look. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| No, you could find that. | ||
| Pfizer has knocked Moderna, really? | ||
| The CEO, they made some comment. | ||
| We only killed 30,000 people. | ||
| They made some comment. | ||
| How many people do you think really died from the vaccine? | ||
| Do you think people are... | ||
| Because I know so many people... | ||
| 100% people have died from the vaccine. | ||
| Well, for sure, right? | ||
| Yeah, but we don't know how many. | ||
| We do know that historically, the VAERS, which is the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, the VAERS reports have been under, like, whatever underreported means. | ||
| There was one article that Harvard put out a paper about, I think it was about the HPV vaccine. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And they were saying that VAERS underreported as significantly as 1%. | ||
| So it was like 99% unreported. | ||
| 1% reported. | ||
| So out of 100 events, one of them would get reported. | ||
| Is there any chance people on VAERS are just having fun? | ||
| I don't think that's the case, but yes. | ||
| It's always a chance. | ||
| I would like to go on VAERS and just have a Yelp review. | ||
| Just for fun. | ||
| And just say the vaccine killed my whole family. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Just for fun. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| But if I can do that, the question is, maybe other people, but maybe not. | ||
| I think you have to say the name of your doctor. | ||
| There's more that goes into it. | ||
| Peter McCullough was describing how difficult it is to file a VAERS claim and what has to be, you know, it's complicated. | ||
| And it's also, it comes with criminal penalties if it's your full shit. | ||
| It's for sure people have died. | ||
| The question is how many? | ||
| I think they're reporting now 18,000 deaths. | ||
| But what is that? | ||
| It's the VAERS. But you also have to think about the sheer numbers of people that have taken the vaccine. | ||
| If it's 18,000 deaths and you're dealing with 230 plus million people that have taken the vaccine, a lot of people are like, that's not that bad. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Unless it's your family, then it's horrible. | ||
| Unless it's someone that's close to you. | ||
| Unless it's your young child, which is some of the people who died. | ||
| Is it possible any of the people who died from the vaccine were racist? | ||
| Could be. | ||
| Could be. | ||
| I'm just trying to look at silver linings. | ||
| Yeah, you should. | ||
| You know? | ||
| You always should. | ||
| I mean, some of them might have said things that they shouldn't have said. | ||
| They might have lied about their taxes. | ||
| They might not have paid their fair share. | ||
| It's hard to know, right? | ||
| It's really difficult to know. | ||
| Because then there's people, and this is embarrassing, who are very anti-vax and die. | ||
| Like all these right-wing radio guys. | ||
| They're very anti-vax. | ||
| Those guys always die. | ||
| Isn't that interesting? | ||
| And they call it the Herman Cain Award. | ||
| Is that what they call it? | ||
| They call it the Herman Cain Award. | ||
| They're very anti-vax, and then they die. | ||
| And that's embarrassing, too. | ||
| So you're like, it's hard when you have a stance. | ||
| It's like, you gotta be right. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Because that's very embarrassing when these guys are like, fuck the vaccine. | ||
| I'll never take the vaccine. | ||
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And then they're in the hospital going, take the vaccine! | |
| And then they die. | ||
| I don't know if that's ever really happened. | ||
| Oh, it's happened a million times. | ||
| But they say, take the vaccine. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| I hear that. | ||
| That guy, Phil Valentine. | ||
| I hear that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But I want recordings. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| You know what I'm saying? | ||
| Like, if I was promoting a vaccine, I would want to say, on his deathbed, he was telling people to take the vaccine. | ||
| But it makes sense, right? | ||
| Like, if your whole thing was, don't take it, and then you die. | ||
| So that's one of the things where it's like, You don't want to be that guy. | ||
| Well, here's the other thing that drives me crazy is that for so many people that have caught it, they tell you just to go home and come back when your oxygen rate dips below 92. Yeah, that's not good care. | ||
| That's a lot of what happens though. | ||
| Right. | ||
| There's no treatment for a lot of people. | ||
| Every doctor treats it a different way in that regard. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And the ones that aren't, you know... | ||
| The ones that have got on it early, like Peter McCullough and Dr. Pierre Corey, they prescribed a whole cocktail of things to take, and they had great effect with it. | ||
| Another thing is that fluvoxamine. | ||
| Now, Peter Attia was posting something about fluvoxamine. | ||
| I think it was about fluvoxamine the other day. | ||
| They're trying to stop people from taking fluvoxamine. | ||
| For COVID, which has been proven to be very effective. | ||
| It's actually an SSRI. And for some reason, it works very well to prevent some infections of COVID. What's weird is people trying to stop people from taking medication is very weird. | ||
| Because they have a binary approach. | ||
| It's a very suspect. | ||
| You need to take the vaccine. | ||
| You need to take the vaccine. | ||
| But it's also the vaccine has become, in a lot of ways, almost like a religious thing. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's like you have to believe in the vaccine. | ||
| It's like you have to do this thing. | ||
| I understand that they're trying to say that these things aren't a replacement for a vaccine, but I don't know why you can't say, hey, we've got an effective vaccine and here are treatments as well. | ||
| Because you don't make as much money on the vaccine. | ||
| Look, clearly the vaccines have influence on media. | ||
| If you watch that video compilation, Anderson Cooper brought to you by Pfizer. | ||
| You've seen that compilation. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| It's show after show after show brought to you by Pfizer. | ||
| Clearly, that is going to limit their ability to criticize. | ||
| Right. | ||
| It's just going to. | ||
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Right. | |
| It's just going to. | ||
| I mean, whether it's a spoken or unspoken thing, there's going to be some pushback. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And that has an effect. | ||
| And also it has an effect, the term anti-vaxxer has an effect. | ||
| So there's a lot of people who want to take the vaccine. | ||
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But you're not. | |
| You've gotten other vaccines? | ||
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I've got all of them. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Everything except COVID, and I almost got COVID. I almost took the COVID vaccine. | ||
| I remember you almost took it. | ||
| The only reason why I did it is because the UFC wanted me to go to a hospital instead of... | ||
| I thought I could do it at the UFC offices. | ||
| I went there, and that was the understanding. | ||
| And they're like, for whatever reason, whether it's the CDC or whatever, they said, you got to go down to the hospital. | ||
| I said, well, I can't today. | ||
| Today's the fight. | ||
| I was going to do it the day of the fights. | ||
| I was just like, shoot me up. | ||
| I didn't even think of a side effect. | ||
| I was like, we're going to be... | ||
| Nobody even knew side effects were a thing back then. | ||
| But then, they pulled it. | ||
| I was supposed to come back within two weeks. | ||
| I said, I'll come back in two weeks because I'm going to be back here again. | ||
| And I go, I'll just come a day early and we'll do it at the hospital. | ||
| And then they pulled it during that time period. | ||
| And I was like, what the fuck? | ||
| And then two people I knew had strokes. | ||
| And then I was like, what is going on? | ||
| And they had a stroke after they took the vaccine. | ||
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Yes. | |
| And that was Johnson& Johnson. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And that's the one that they're telling people to not take now because of rare blood clots. | ||
| Like, how rare is it that you're telling people not to take it? | ||
| But did they get COVID? I don't know, but I know two people who did get COVID that took the Johnson& Johnson, including Dana White. | ||
| He got COVID. But even the people that had strokes, they didn't get COVID. They might have got COVID after they got strokes. | ||
| Right. | ||
| A lot of people did. | ||
| My point is that I think a stroke is a small price to pay for peace of mind. | ||
| If it's a minor stroke. | ||
| I think if you have a stroke, you have peace of mind. | ||
| And you know that you're not going to be sick. | ||
| I'd rather stroke out in a CVS after getting a vaccine than have to deal with COVID. My friend just almost stroked out in a Walgreens. | ||
| After the vaccine? | ||
| They shot him up and then they give you 15 minutes. | ||
| All my friends are horribly unhealthy. | ||
| They're all comedians, but none of them have had a stroke. | ||
| Well, this guy, it took his booster just last week. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And within 15 minutes, they had to take him to the hospital. | ||
| His heart started racing and pounding, and he was freaking out, and he couldn't breathe, and he had to lie down, and then they took him off in an ambulance. | ||
| And this is a dude you just... | ||
| Yeah, it's a guy I know from L.A. Yeah. | ||
| Not good. | ||
| Not good. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| There's that thing. | ||
| They tell you, wait here for 15 minutes in case you die. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And he almost died. | ||
| They told my agent that, and he goes, I'd rather die in my Tesla than die in Walgreens. | ||
| And he got in his car and left. | ||
| Stroked out on the highway. | ||
| Real L.A. response. | ||
| He goes, I'd rather die on the 101. Fuck you. | ||
| Listen, it seems to be one of those situations where it's obviously you don't want to stroke out in a CVS. But you don't want to be one of these people who didn't take it, and then you're in ICU going, I was wrong! | ||
| Right, but how many of those people could have been saved with monoclonal antibodies? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| How about most of them? | ||
| Perhaps. | ||
| I bet a lot of them. | ||
| Some of them. | ||
| If you get it early enough. | ||
| Yeah, but there's people that got it pretty deep in, and they still did really well. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I knew a guy who got it 14 days in. | ||
| He was wrecked. | ||
| And then 14 days in, he finally got a hold of monoclonal antibodies, cleared it right up. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Within three days, he said he was good to go. | ||
| But he's not working for the new variant. | ||
| I don't know if that's true. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Do you think that's true? | ||
| Well, Ben took it. | ||
| He wasn't. | ||
| The monoclonal didn't really affect him. | ||
| Like, for me, for Delta, I was better two days later. | ||
| Listen to that word, Delta. | ||
| How do you know what variant you got? | ||
| That was the one that was spreading in the summer. | ||
| Yeah, me too. | ||
| But what happened to the first one? | ||
| It took a vacation? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| It's not around anymore? | ||
| It's not working anymore? | ||
| Well, that was the one they were talking about. | ||
| Yeah, but how do we know? | ||
| Oh, I don't know. | ||
| This is what's driving me crazy. | ||
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I have no idea. | |
| We're going to pull the monoclonal antibodies because Omicron, it's not effective for Omicron. | ||
| What about all the people that don't have Omicron? | ||
| That have the other one, yeah. | ||
| Do you think the Delta's still around? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Did it stop? | ||
| It's weird that they're pulling it in general. | ||
| Why would you pull a medication? | ||
| Dude, I don't buy any of this shit. | ||
| I have seen so much fuckery. | ||
| I've talked to so many doctors that are talking about this. | ||
| I've seen doctors get removed off of Twitter for suggesting off-label use of medications that have been proven to be effective, at least anecdotally. | ||
| It's very strange that people are being penalized for prescribing harmless medication. | ||
| Literally harmless. | ||
| Or the best thing you could do is just do nothing. | ||
| It's either that or do nothing. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's strange. | ||
| It's absolutely strange. | ||
| I think that it's a hard call to make with the vaccine because there are people that have gotten hospitalized and died that don't have it. | ||
| So that makes people go, oh, fuck. | ||
| I think if you have the vaccine, you are clearly better protected than someone who doesn't have the vaccine, particularly if you're not in good shape. | ||
| If you're not healthy. | ||
| Which is the majority of America. | ||
| It's like, what did we say the other day? | ||
| 40% of America is obese? | ||
| Is that what it was? | ||
| Oh, it's more. | ||
| It's much more. | ||
| Something highly. | ||
| And then the ones that aren't are like, a lot of them are pill heads. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Or they're overworked, they're stressed, they're drunks. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| They're dark with pedophiles. | ||
| There's a lot of people that are fucked. | ||
| The country's a mess. | ||
| And how many people are on medications that also disturb your immune system? | ||
| 100%. | ||
| A lot of people. | ||
| There's a lot of people that are on. | ||
| Well, the other thing is we ignore, you know, part of the COVID thing has been it's taken all of the oxygen out of the conversation. | ||
| We have an opioid epidemic. | ||
| We have all kinds of other health problems, too. | ||
| More people have died from opioids this year, from 18 to 49, than anything. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| More than 100,000 people, 18 to 49, have died from opioids. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| From fentanyl in particular. | ||
| Fentanyl, laced cocaine, it's a huge problem. | ||
| That's a real epidemic and you hear a fucking peep about it on CNN. You don't hear a goddamn peep. | ||
| They don't care. | ||
| They also don't talk about the people that get arrested that work for them that are perverts. | ||
| There's a lot of that. | ||
| Have you seen that? | ||
| There's more of that than you would think. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Because it's weird. | ||
| The CIA has that problem too. | ||
| Do they? | ||
| They have that problem too. | ||
| CIA has pedophiles working for them? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So is it like a cop who's a drug dealer? | ||
| You're around it and you say, I'm going to try it. | ||
| I don't know what it is. | ||
| But there's a major issue at the CIA and the NSA with some of their contractors and some of the people that work there doing horrible things and getting caught. | ||
| Where is this? | ||
| I haven't even seen this yet. | ||
| I mean, Jamie can pull it up, but this is legit. | ||
| He's working on it. | ||
| I mean, these are... | ||
| People that are working within highly sensitive intelligence matters, and you would think that these institutions would know what they're doing, and these people are on the dark web, and they're like, I mean, it's crazy. | ||
| Too much power. | ||
| People have too much power. | ||
| People have too much power. | ||
| I mean, this is what we're seeing over... | ||
| Look, the fact that people are... | ||
| Here it is. | ||
| Secret CIA files say staffers committed sex crimes involving children. | ||
| Holy shit. | ||
| Declassified CIA Inspector General reports show a pattern of abuse and a repeated decision by federal prosecutors not to hold agency personnel accountable. | ||
| Ha! | ||
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Odd. | |
| Wow. | ||
| That's odd. | ||
| You think they just, they're like, this is bad for PR. Let's just pretend it didn't happen. | ||
| Well, yeah, I mean this is also we know for a fact that these people for years and years and years have used This as a way to blackmail and entrap people as you know, this is reality You know it's unfortunate secretly amassed credible evidence that at least 10 of its employees and contractors committed sexual crimes involving children. | ||
| Holy shit Holy shit My god look at this good scroll down one employee at a sexual contact with a two-year-old and a six-year-old girl He was fired a second employee purchased three sexually explicit videos of young girls filmed by their mothers He resigned crazy third employee off. | ||
| I don't want to fucking it's it's disturbing Yeah, yeah, yeah Well, listen, we're at the end of an empire. | ||
| This is how it ends. | ||
| This doesn't turn around. | ||
| I'm going to show you how it ends. | ||
| I'm going to send this to Jamie so you see how it ends. | ||
| I think China will be okay. | ||
| China's going to do great. | ||
| I think China will be okay. | ||
| I don't worry about China like everyone else does. | ||
| Did you know that they're already deliberating for the Maxwell trial? | ||
| I didn't know that it was almost over. | ||
| What? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, that was a trial. | ||
| The Ghislaine Maxwell show trial was absolutely a completely unserious attempt. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| The judge in the Maxwell trial asked jurors to deliberate today. | ||
| They said, no, thank you. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Well, because it's the holidays. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Oh, right. | ||
| I mean, you've got to enjoy Christmas without talking about this creep and his British girlfriend diddling children on an aisle. | ||
| Like, there's got to be some level of like, hey, we're trying to decorate our tree. | ||
| Can we take three days and not do this? | ||
| Put that back. | ||
| We could see what it said. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| Frustration grows over heavily redacted Epstein pilots' flight logs. | ||
| Let me stop right there. | ||
| Because if they could show Bill Clinton... | ||
| Flied with them 26 fucking times. | ||
| Who are they redacting? | ||
| Well, I think people that are currently in positions of power. | ||
| You've got to realize that Clintons are done. | ||
| They're done. | ||
| They were very powerful, but they're done. | ||
| But there's a lot of prime ministers. | ||
| There's a lot of senators. | ||
| There's a lot of congressmen. | ||
| There's a lot of people that are still presidents, vice, who knows, that are still in power that they may be protecting. | ||
| My favorite is when they asked Bill Gates about it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And he's like, well, he's dead now. | ||
| Did you see that? | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| That is the wildest answer ever to why did you have a relationship with a pervert. | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| He's dead. | ||
| He's gone. | ||
| All these creepy tech guys are nerds. | ||
| They make all this money, and then this guy shows up and goes, hey, I got all these chicks on an island. | ||
| They don't ask too many questions. | ||
| Oh, here we go. | ||
| Because this is the end of an empire. | ||
| And this is, Gad Saad said that, and he's definitely right. | ||
| He said, American's been a hell of a run, but it's over. | ||
| Yeah, no, it's not looking... | ||
| This is, a lady is singing, it says the East Room, the people in the background all have masks on. | ||
| She doesn't have masks on. | ||
| Why doesn't she have a mask on either? | ||
| Right. | ||
| These two old white ladies have no masks. | ||
| All the people of color and the diversity behind them are masked up. | ||
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That's true. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Makes no sense. | ||
| Look, it's almost like they picked it on purpose. | ||
| You have some African Americans. | ||
| You have a smattering of Asians. | ||
| You have what looks like Latinas. | ||
| You don't have any white people except the two white people that have no masks on. | ||
| It is a rules for you and not for me video. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| The only people without masks are white people. | ||
| This is like a secret message they're sending out. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
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These old ladies should be nowhere near people. | |
| Do they not know about the Omicron? | ||
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Call out the holly, haven't I taught you well too? | |
| Well, they're singing. | ||
| So the two without masks are singing. | ||
| Yeah, but everyone's singing. | ||
| But is this about the vaccine or not? | ||
| But they're all singing. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And they're all wearing nurses' outfits. | ||
| Those people are singing. | ||
| There's other voices. | ||
| So either they're lip syncing or they're singing along because they're moving their face and they're moving their hands and their jaws are moving. | ||
| Their masks are moving like they're singing. | ||
| So are they filtered? | ||
| Is that what the idea is? | ||
| They're being safe? | ||
| Where is the president? | ||
| He's dead. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, like... | ||
| Did you see him give answers to a press conference the other day? | ||
| He took questions? | ||
| Because I shouldn't even be doing this, right? | ||
| No, it was beautiful. | ||
| He took questions yesterday, and they started asking him about tests. | ||
| And he just kept saying the same thing. | ||
| Nobody saw this coming. | ||
| It's like this thing, this Omicron. | ||
| And as it goes on for like five or six minutes, as it goes on, you're like, oh my god, he's gone. | ||
| Yeah, he's out. | ||
| He's worse than he was a month ago. | ||
| He's getting worse. | ||
| He's progressively declining, it seems. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And then Kamala Harris, they're trying to ice her out. | ||
| All the press coming out is like, she's... | ||
| Michelle Obama. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| And they're gonna bring Harris. | ||
| Michelle Obama and Harris. | ||
| Harris comes back as the Vice President. | ||
| Michelle Obama's the President. | ||
| We get a double dose of diversity. | ||
| They'll win. | ||
| Let's go champ. | ||
| They'll win. | ||
| And then who's on the Republican side? | ||
| DeSantis? | ||
| Trump and DeSantis. | ||
| Together. | ||
| They have to make a super team. | ||
| It's the only way they win. | ||
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Interesting. | |
| That's the only way they win. | ||
| Super team. | ||
| Trump comes out as the President. | ||
| Yeah, if Michelle Obama... | ||
| I really believe if Michelle Obama runs, she might win. | ||
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She wins. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| I think she wins. | ||
| She's good. | ||
| She's great. | ||
| She's intelligent. | ||
| She's articulate. | ||
| She's the wife of the best president that we have had in our lifetime in terms of a representative of intelligent, articulate people. | ||
| She could win. | ||
| I think the only thing that would stop is if she bought into some of these policies that are destroying businesses in America that make people scared. | ||
| If she somehow or another supported or showed any support for lockdowns and mandates and all this craziness that's going on, if she did... | ||
| God willing, we're on the other end of that. | ||
| And I think that the problems now with defunding the cops and stuff, they seem to be reversing all of those policies in these cities where homicide rates have skyrocketed. | ||
| Well, they're going to have to. | ||
| I mean, there's no other solution. | ||
| People in LA are getting gun in the face when they're eating dinner. | ||
| They're being attacked. | ||
| You know, it's like... | ||
| Now, some of it's overstated to a degree because, like, you know, obviously the media is just... | ||
| It's the media, right? | ||
| So, I mean, it's like... | ||
| They're going to run with it and get people excited about something, but there's a real uptick in crime in wealthy areas, and those people are unhappy. | ||
| That woman who just got killed in her Beverly Hills home, tragically. | ||
| That's the CEO of Netflix's mother-in-law. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| Yeah, they gunned her down in her Beverly Hills house. | ||
| Yeah, so those types of things are, I think, making a lot of people go, hey, this wasn't the best idea. | ||
| Not enough people, though. | ||
| I mean, people should be in the fucking streets protesting, like the district attorney. | ||
| See the district attorney called cops pigs, essentially? | ||
| The LA district attorney said, when you roll around with pigs, you get dirty? | ||
| That was the way he described what's going on with crime in Los Angeles? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like, what? | ||
| And he said, this is just a metaphor about being dirty. | ||
| It has nothing to do with cops. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, that was probably not the greatest choice. | ||
| See if you can find when he said that. | ||
| You got it right here? | ||
| Play it. | ||
| Here. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| LA District Attorney George Gascon, who's like the biggest fucking communist in all of law, was asked to respond to LA Sheriff Alex How do you say that? | ||
| Villanueva. | ||
| He's a great sheriff. | ||
| He's actually really good. | ||
| My dad used to say, when you wrestle with a pig, you both get muddy and the pig likes it. | ||
| Says he didn't use the word to demean law enforcement. | ||
| Just play it. | ||
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Look, I'm going to... | |
| My dad used to say that when you wrestle with a pig, you both get muddy and the pig likes it. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| And that's not big in terms of using the term as to law enforcement, it's to people that often act in ways that I believe that are not consistent with the Yeah, I mean, he's mentally ill. | ||
| I mean, to say that is crazy. | ||
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It's a psychopath. | |
| No, it's a psychotic statement. | ||
| And he's saying this about the L.A. Sheriff. | ||
| No, it's crazy. | ||
| When you wrestle with a pig, you both get money and the pig likes it. | ||
| Imagine that this guy is still in office. | ||
| Yeah, no, I mean, it's crazy. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| This guy has let so many fucking people out. | ||
| Gavin Newsom's still in office, this effete wine merchant. | ||
| He's worse, though. | ||
| He's worse. | ||
| No, he's bad. | ||
| He's the worst, because he's letting people off that pull guns on people, pull knives on people. | ||
| Well, the guy who did the Waukesha massacre had stabbed I thought he tried to run her over. | ||
| Oh, he tried to run her over with a car. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Yeah, he tried to run her over with a car. | ||
| And he was out on $1,000 bail. | ||
| $1,000 bail. | ||
| And then he killed 10 people. | ||
| Then he mowed, which the media talked about it like it was a car. | ||
| Yeah, caused by an SUV. But he's out on $1,000 bail, ran over the mother of his children, girlfriend, whatever, and then came out and killed somebody. | ||
| So these policies aren't Working. | ||
| No. | ||
| Not even remotely. | ||
| No. | ||
| Not even remotely. | ||
| It's a problem. | ||
| And the thing is, they get funded. | ||
| And this was explained to me by the governor. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He was explaining to me how these people get funded, and then they'll fund someone who's even more progressive to challenge that person. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And it's almost like someone's trying to destroy these cities. | ||
| Right. | ||
| It's like San Francisco... | ||
| San Francisco just made an about face. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| The mayor of San Francisco just called for an emergency... | ||
| San Francisco's looking a little better. | ||
| I was just there. | ||
| It's starting to look a little better. | ||
| Well, she called for a state of emergency that's going to allow them to set up treatment centers, to clean up the streets. | ||
| And with a state of emergency, she could just go in and start doing things. | ||
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Right. | |
| And so she's decided that she's going to put an end to things, and I hope it makes sense. | ||
| Austin has issues, too. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But they did make a lot of progress with... | ||
| Some of the homeless encampments and things like that. | ||
| They did with that, but the fucking murder rate's up 178% from last year. | ||
| They defund the police. | ||
| This is what happens. | ||
| You can't defund the police. | ||
| You can't get rid of police. | ||
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No. | |
| It's not a good idea. | ||
| It's not smart. | ||
| You should have them. | ||
| They should be accountable. | ||
| They should be retrained. | ||
| There should be many things instituted to... | ||
| They should maybe face penalties in civilian courts when they do something. | ||
| It shouldn't be an internal slap on the wrist. | ||
| That's how you get the CIA letting the pedophiles off. | ||
| So they should be subject to the same laws that they enforce. | ||
| That being said, you get rid of them, you already have in LA people hiring private security. | ||
| So really wealthy areas are now hiring their own private security. | ||
| So you, that's the, you know, this is what happens when you get rid of Public... | ||
| And by the way, the private security is not going to be better than cops. | ||
| They're unaccountable. | ||
| Would you ever want... | ||
| You may be against a war, but there's no argument that mercenaries, like the Blackwater, whatever they call it now, Z, like Eric Prince's company, there's no argument that they're going to be better than... | ||
| Trained soldiers because they're unaccountable. | ||
| Well, most of them are trained soldiers that then move into the private sector. | ||
| Yeah, but then they can do whatever they want. | ||
| That's the whole purpose. | ||
| It's the whole purpose, right? | ||
| So if you get rid of a public, you're going to have an order somehow. | ||
| If you get rid of this public police force, you're just going to have private police forces that are made up of maybe ex-military, ex-intel people, and they're not going to be accountable to anybody. | ||
| Yeah, none of this is a good idea. | ||
| And the idea that you should get rid of the cops, like, okay, you'd have to go down the line. | ||
| Is there a problem with any crime? | ||
| So what do you want to do about that? | ||
| No cops at all? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, the argument is if we give money to... | ||
| You know, causes, social justice causes, right? | ||
| Mental health care, education, you know, early intervention. | ||
| All those things are valuable and valid, but they're not replacing, if a guy's trying to kill someone in a house, who are you going to call? | ||
| What's worse than that? | ||
| Because it actually ramps up crime because the criminals find out that there's no cops out there. | ||
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| And the cops are toothless. | ||
| Yeah, they're emboldened. | ||
| That's why you get all these smash and grabs. | ||
| Do you see how they put razor wire around the Santa Monica promedad? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| They put razor wire bales like it's a fucking high security prison to keep people from smash and grabbing because it's been that many. | ||
| They have it around the Westfield Mall too in Century City. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| The decay of Los Angeles, right before ours, over two years, has been fucking staggering. | ||
| Well, it's Minnesota, it's Los Angeles, it's San Francisco, it's New York has problems, it's Chicago, it's Baltimore. | ||
| If you look at the homicide rates in all these cities, they're all going up. | ||
| Yeah, way up. | ||
| They're all going up. | ||
| Yeah, and they blame COVID. They all have in common that they defunded the police departments. | ||
| They all have that in common. | ||
| Well, also, I think they're... | ||
| There's also a problem with the idea that you can have a civilization and a society where people are, you know, we all want a respectable relationship with law enforcement. | ||
| Like, we all want people to be treated well. | ||
| But you can't have a society where You have zero order because then order is going to be imposed. | ||
| You know, there's businesses that are like, you know, gangs will protect businesses, right? | ||
| Mafia will protect businesses. | ||
| Like, there's going to be some order in society. | ||
| There's going to be an organizing principle. | ||
| And if the state doesn't have a monopoly on violence, you have Kyle Rittenhouse. | ||
| So you have people that are going to take it into their own hands. | ||
| You have vigilantism. | ||
| It's inevitable. | ||
| So that's the other problem is you go, okay, you can't have a society where you go, violence is okay for the things we agree with, which is the craziest thing I've ever seen. | ||
| And over the last couple of years, people go, oh, well, if you're on the right side of this political issue, you can throw that brick through a window. | ||
| Punch a Nazi. | ||
| Punch a Nazi. | ||
| You get to decide who's a Nazi. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You get to decide whose property is to be respected and whose isn't. | ||
| So if you get rid of that idea that we should have, you know, that you can't use violence, if you get rid of that idea, you're opening the gates of hell. | ||
| You are. | ||
| And the question is, is this complete total incompetence on the part of the lawmakers and of the politicians and of the people that are orchestrating this? | ||
| Right. | ||
| Or is there some manipulation behind the scenes that's designed to make the country fall apart so that people fall in line and that they comply easier because they're scared and because it's chaos? | ||
| Well, it's probably both. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| It's probably both. | ||
| Probably both. | ||
| Because people like China, these foreign entities do want America to collapse, right? | ||
| Yeah, for sure. | ||
| Why wouldn't you? | ||
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| And we also, at this point, the people that are running for things at this point in our decline are crazy. | ||
| So the people that want to be in Congress now are insane. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Look at all the jobs you could get. | ||
| And you would become a congressman? | ||
| Right. | ||
| That's why a lot of these lunatics are like, you know, these are the showmen, the crazy people, the guys like, let's all get AR-15s and sit in the living room. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Two days after a school shooting. | ||
| I mean, it's like, I had a little tat. | ||
| Is that a congressman that did that? | ||
| Yeah, Thomas Massey, I think, did it. | ||
| Where's he from? | ||
| He did like my tweet because I said he couldn't afford a whole couch. | ||
| They're sitting on a very tiny couch. | ||
| He didn't like it? | ||
| No, he liked it because I said, like, you spend all your money on guns, you can't afford a whole couch. | ||
| They're sitting on this weird love scene. | ||
| He hit the like button? | ||
| He did that? | ||
| Yeah, he hit the like button because they're crazy. | ||
| They don't care anymore. | ||
| They're all completely insane. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| So they're on this little love seat because they can't afford a couch because they've spent all their money on artillery. | ||
| And I said that, and he liked it. | ||
| He liked my tweet. | ||
| He's got solid trigger discipline, though. | ||
| Everybody does. | ||
| Not one person has their finger on the trigger. | ||
| Yeah, but this is two days after the school shooting. | ||
| Yeah, not good. | ||
| Where a 15-year-old heroic kid, this kid Tate Meyer, died trying to save. | ||
| You know, you're putting up that photo like, you know what it is. | ||
| But this is the caliber of human being we have now in Congress. | ||
| Everybody from Ilhan Omar to Marjorie Taylor Greene, all of them are, they act more like comedians. | ||
| They want attention. | ||
| They want to get a book deal. | ||
| None of them seem interested in solving any of the problems. | ||
| None of them. | ||
| Yeah, that's a good point. | ||
| None of them. | ||
| No, they all want, because by the way, the art of politics is some level of compromise. | ||
| All of these people just have their brand, and they get out, you know, Ilhan Omar, Cori Bush, they're just like, fuck Whitey, fine. | ||
| On the other side, they're like, let's get the guns, and so you just, they all have their brands, and nobody has any interest in reaching across. | ||
| You think Cori Bush has ever said fuck Whitey, really? | ||
| Everything's white supremacy. | ||
| Everything's white supremacy. | ||
| Every single thing that ever happens that's not good in this country has to do with white supremacy. | ||
| If she's in traffic, it's white supremacy. | ||
| It's a completely unserious attempt to build any coalition. | ||
| How do you build a coalition? | ||
| By telling people every day, you're white, you have privilege, you didn't work hard for anything you earned, you're the problem, and we have to remake society, and you have to apologize every single day. | ||
| That turns them and makes them go, you know what? | ||
| I'm going to go with the guy sitting with the gun. | ||
| Thanks. | ||
| I'll go with the gun on the couch. | ||
| If these people were serious about even attaining power, but they're not, I think they don't want to get anything done. | ||
| They don't really care. | ||
| They just want to be as loud and as, you know, they want to just be as much of the picture as they can be. | ||
| They want to dominate. | ||
| They are like comedians in that. | ||
| One thing you'll see with certain comedians is they start to get a little bit of attention doing a certain thing. | ||
| And then they do it. | ||
| And then they really lean into it. | ||
| They become like hardcore right wing or hardcore left wing. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, you have Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz and that whole thing, which is the QAnon section of Congress. | ||
| Is Matt Gaetz QAnon as well? | ||
| Probably. | ||
| Marjorie Taylor Greene is, right? | ||
| She's hardcore. | ||
| She was like, they make all these allusions to Trump coming back. | ||
| I mean, they know what they're doing, right? | ||
| They know exactly what they're doing. | ||
| And then the other side, you have the squad, and then they know what they're doing. | ||
| And then in the vast center is just criminals who are insider trading and selling stock the minute they find out there's a pandemic. | ||
| Well, Nancy Pelosi, when they asked her about that, when we showed the video, they asked her about insider trade, should they stop congresspeople or members of doing any kind of trading or trading in individual stocks? | ||
| She's like, no to that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| They're Americans. | ||
| It's an open market. | ||
| Yeah, it's an open market. | ||
| It's a free market. | ||
| We should be able to participate. | ||
| She's worth $200 million. | ||
| She's a criminal. | ||
| Chuck Schumer, all these people, yeah. | ||
| Ted Cruz, all these guys are not to be taken seriously. | ||
| They're just not to be taken seriously. | ||
| They're what we have. | ||
| They're what we have. | ||
| No one wants that job. | ||
| Except crazy people. | ||
| Well, you know, there's a few that aren't crazy. | ||
| There's a few interesting people that just want to be leaders. | ||
| But there's a lot of that needing attention thing, like you were saying. | ||
| It's totally true. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| What's it? | ||
| Kristen Sinema in Arizona, who's the bisexual yoga chick with the green hair, and she's just like... | ||
| You know, listen, I don't know anything about the Build Back Better Act or whatever. | ||
| I don't know too much about it. | ||
| I don't think anybody knows about it. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But I don't feel like her opposition to it is like principled opposition. | ||
| She wants attention. | ||
| She goes, Fox News will hire me in two years and they'll give me five million a year. | ||
| Instead of sitting in Congress for a quarter million. | ||
| I'll go get five. | ||
| Do you think that's what she's doing? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Of course. | ||
| So she's leaning into that direction? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Because she used to be way more progressive, right? | ||
| Of course. | ||
| And then she's starting to accept money and starts to do things. | ||
| Yeah, she goes, fuck it. | ||
| Fuck it. | ||
| Megyn Kelly's out, I'm in. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Kristen Sinema's in. | ||
| I'll get a nice big house in that Olive Garden of, you know, she lives in California. | ||
| It'll look like an Olive Garden. | ||
| All those houses do in Arizona. | ||
| And I'll sit there in my pool, and I'll broadcast, and I'll scream and yell, and I'll get all this money. | ||
| They do look like Olive Garden. | ||
| They all do. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, it's... | ||
| Why is that? | ||
| I don't... | ||
| This is, you know, because the people that live in them like eating there, probably. | ||
| You know? | ||
| But this woman is not a serious, this isn't like a serious public servant. | ||
| I mean, it's laughable. | ||
| Do you think they start off wanting to be a serious public servant and once they get in there they just realize it's horseshit? | ||
| It's a scam. | ||
| From the jump. | ||
| From the jump. | ||
| She goes, I want to be Jennifer Aniston, but I can't be. | ||
| What are the avenues in society that are available to me? | ||
| She goes, I don't want to work at the local office at GEICO. These people are not qualified to do anything. | ||
| It wasn't the choice between her own tech company, Goldman Sachs. | ||
| Do you know what she used to do, Kristen Sinema, before she was a... | ||
| Didn't she teach yoga? | ||
| She's like an idiot that babbles about crystals and she goes, you know what? | ||
| I can become a congresswoman, which anyone can. | ||
| I think I can. | ||
| Well, it says she became an adjunct professor teaching master's level policy and grant writing at Arizona State. | ||
| No one cares. | ||
| School of Social Work. | ||
| Yeah, great. | ||
| She's a teacher. | ||
| She's a teacher. | ||
| Fine. | ||
| And a junk business law professor. | ||
| And she got bored with that. | ||
| She was bored with that. | ||
| So she goes, you know what I'll do? | ||
| Let me go to Congress and let me kick up some dust. | ||
| And now that she's in Congress, she's like, I want out. | ||
| What did they follow her into the bathroom about? | ||
| Oh, I don't know. | ||
| They're just yelling at her about the thing, that she won't pass the bill. | ||
| Was that the Build Back Better bill? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But here's the thing about that bill. | ||
| Who's read it? | ||
| Isn't it thousands of pages long? | ||
| Oh, for sure. | ||
| But every piece of legislation, who's read any piece of legislation? | ||
| I've never read anything. | ||
| I didn't read the Patriot Act when they said there's 19 new agencies and there's 15 color-coded levels of threat. | ||
| Nobody reads anything. | ||
| You remember that when they were like, it's code orange? | ||
| Yeah, it's orange. | ||
| I don't know what Build Back Better is. | ||
| I think the controversial stuff is the energy stuff. | ||
| They're going to tax people. | ||
| Oh, that's right, for energy expenditure. | ||
| Consumption taxes and stuff. | ||
| Yeah, so if you drive a lot, you have to pay a tax on the amount of miles that you drive, which the problem with that is that's going to give the government access to your car because they're going to have to track that. | ||
| So you're going to have to write down your miles. | ||
| It hurts. | ||
| When they did this in New York City, they put congestion taxes on the Ubers. | ||
| They then raised their prices. | ||
| People that were relying on that to get to work, now because the subway was not efficient, so you could go, I could trust the subway and then be late at that point, or you could go, I could get in this Uber pool or whatever. | ||
| Unfortunately, that affected a lot of people in New York. | ||
| It was more expensive to take an Uber to work. | ||
| So you had to go back to the bus and subway and hope that it was working. | ||
| So that's, I think, in the Build Back Better Act, the problem is like, how much can regular people shoulder the burden of climate change? | ||
| That's the debate, right? | ||
| Because if you do nothing... | ||
| The problem with any sort of problem, whether it's climate change or anything, is then these industries pop up and offer themselves as a solution. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| And then they become like some sort of a... | ||
| They become self-sustaining sort of... | ||
| They become like a thing, like a unit. | ||
| Like if you have climate change... | ||
| And then something comes along and says, like, we can solve climate change. | ||
| And then they become a consortium. | ||
| They become some sort of a conglomeration or a corporation. | ||
| Now you have this thing that it's got control of it and it's profiting off of climate change, just like we have with medical problems. | ||
| We also know that the sacrifices that people are asked to make are never evenly distributed in society. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So if you come to people and say, hey, we'd like you to drive less. | ||
| We'd like you to use less energy. | ||
| The same way with Gavin Newsom sitting there maskless at a dinner at the French Laundry, you go, oh, those rules are not the rules that I have to play by. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So I think people are inherently skeptical of these pushes to make people sacrifice because they go, wait a minute, but you guys still get private jets. | ||
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| Right? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And you guys still get these massive conferences. | ||
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| And you guys still... | ||
| I think everybody... | ||
| Well, not everybody, but the vast majority of sane people want a better environment. | ||
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Yes. | |
| They want to safeguard an environment. | ||
| But you got to figure out a way to do it that doesn't bankrupt people. | ||
| Because people that don't have food don't have the luxury of worrying about the environment. | ||
| Because they go, I can't provide for my family. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But it does become an industry, and the climate change fighting industry will be an issue, because then you're going to have a bunch of people working for them, you're going to have a bunch of people that have a vested interest in making, then you're going to have other individual industries that connect themselves to that, that start to fund it and become a part of it, whether it's electric cars or whatever it is, and then you have laws that are passed that penalize their opponents, or penalize their competitors. | ||
| There doesn't seem to be an easy solution because everything becomes an industry. | ||
| Everything becomes an industry. | ||
| Well, that's the thing about profit and politics and profit and the things that we're dealing with in this country in terms of regulations. | ||
| When you find out that regulations are passed and that the people who pass the regulations have relationships with businesses that are going to benefit from these regulations, you've got fuckery. | ||
| And when you have unchecked fuckery, that's called fraud. | ||
| That's a big part of American politics. | ||
| Getting money out of politics is one of the most important things that anyone could ever do, and no one wants to do it. | ||
| If you could stop special interest groups, stop corporations, stop any people like that, any groups like that, from contributing to political campaigns, then people would make decisions based on different things. | ||
| They would have to get donations from the people, from the individual people. | ||
| Well, Bernie Sanders did that, and they locked him out. | ||
| They did lock him out. | ||
| So they locked him out. | ||
| He literally did that. | ||
| He raised money, grassroots, and then they literally plotted at the DNC as a way to keep him out. | ||
| Yeah, twice. | ||
| Twice. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| They sandbagged him twice. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, it's wild that he never stands up and yells about that. | ||
| Well, I think he's not who people think he is. | ||
| Like, I don't think... | ||
| He's a good, solid dude, for sure. | ||
| He's not a revolutionary guy. | ||
| I don't believe he's... | ||
| If you look at the things like, you know, he accepted a bunch of military-industrial complex jobs in his own state. | ||
| He, you know, was pretty party-line on a lot of things. | ||
| And he departed from the orthodoxy on a few major things, Iraq War and stuff, and we all know them. | ||
| I think he's a principled guy, but I also don't... | ||
| I don't think he... | ||
| Because if he was a revolutionary guy, he goes, no, fuck it, vote for Trump. | ||
| He literally says, no, one of the party is rotten, and it needs to be completely overhauled, so either don't vote or whatever. | ||
| But he threw his support behind Hillary and then Biden, quite obviously after he had been kind of sandbagged, and they had arranged this so that he was going to lose. | ||
| He had the momentum, certainly the second time, for sure. | ||
| For sure. | ||
| I just don't think he's a revolutionary guy. | ||
| I think he's a politician. | ||
| He's been there 20, 30 years. | ||
| They just thought that he couldn't beat Trump? | ||
| Or do you think that they thought that he was going to be a problem if he got into office? | ||
| Because he would sandbag a lot of... | ||
| Yeah, all of it. | ||
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All of it. | |
| I mean, I think he's a guy... | ||
| There's no photos of him on Epstein's Island. | ||
| Like, he's not a guy that's played ball. | ||
| He's not a play ball guy. | ||
| He's a guy that... | ||
| I think he was at the end of his life. | ||
| He was old. | ||
| So they can't hold that over his head, right? | ||
| It's not like he's a young guy with a family dynasty that is trying to preserve power for generations. | ||
| He's an old guy that believes in the same things he's believed his entire life. | ||
| That guy could be very dangerous in the presidency. | ||
| Do you think that there's another Epstein Island out there right now? | ||
| Twelve. | ||
| Better. | ||
| Newer. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| No, the kids go down a slide into a furnace. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| I mean, are you nuts? | ||
| Of course there's a better island. | ||
| Oh, no. | ||
| Marriott Bonvoy, whatever company that is now, they own every hotel in America. | ||
| The Marriott Bonvoy, you know, they're dumb. | ||
| Marriott owns everything. | ||
| Go to any hotel now. | ||
| It's just owned by Marriott. | ||
| Really? | ||
| They've taken over. | ||
| They're building, you know, new islands every day for billionaire pedophiles. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| I think it says it on their website. | ||
| They're quite proud of it. | ||
| But these freaks don't stop being freaks. | ||
| So do they go cold turkey? | ||
| Well, here's the deal. | ||
| Blackmail now is online. | ||
| They don't have to do the honeypots anymore. | ||
| They can blackmail people online. | ||
| They can just download porn on you. | ||
| You can do all kinds of stuff. | ||
| They can do things to your computer like put porn on your computer. | ||
| And they know what you're into now because they can just hack everything. | ||
| That being said, yeah, freaks are not going to stop being freaks and elicit streams of money, which the whole Epstein story was about that. | ||
| People forget about that. | ||
| It's also about illicit streams of capital and where they go. | ||
| Epstein was really good at hiding money for guys like Les Wexner, who we never speak about, and all these other billionaires. | ||
| He was really good at that. | ||
| That was what he was good at. | ||
| And his money could come from drug running, money that is being sheltered from taxes, whatever. | ||
| Was he good at that, though? | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| He was pretty good at it. | ||
| Because Weinstein says that he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing. | ||
| And when it comes to capital and when it comes to finances, Weinstein said he was a fraud. | ||
| He said when he met him, he was very clear right away this guy didn't know anything. | ||
| I will withhold comment because I don't want anyone to have a breakdown. | ||
| You mean Weinstein? | ||
| Yeah, I don't think Epstein was... | ||
| Listen, Epstein was good enough to get into the circles that he got into. | ||
| And I'm sure he knew a little bit about what was going on. | ||
| Because I love Eric, but people say the same thing about Eric in his field, right? | ||
| I don't think they say it about his field. | ||
| They say it about his theory of everything. | ||
| Whatever. | ||
| People say it. | ||
| So anyone can say anything about anyone. | ||
| So what I'm here to defend is Jeffrey Epstein's good name. | ||
| I'm not going to let the Weinsteins trample on Jeffrey Epstein. | ||
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| Supposedly, Eric was going to get called to testify in his trial, but that's not true. | ||
| That was a rumor on Twitter. | ||
| Was that? | ||
| Yeah, but I think it was just fake. | ||
| Well, I mean, if he knew something, that could help. | ||
| But the trial, the Ghislaine Maxwell trial, is weird because it's a federal trial, so you don't get the transcripts, you don't get to see it, you get sketchies, the weird drawings. | ||
| They have no interest in uncovering what was happening outside of this very small... | ||
| Look, right? | ||
| Like this very tightly conceived picture of Jeffrey and Ghislaine, but... | ||
| They've controlled it very well. | ||
| They've controlled it very well, and they're also like, well, why? | ||
| You know, they're not really looking at it from 30,000 feet and going, okay, why was this happening with impunity forever? | ||
| And how did they have all of these contacts? | ||
| And everyone knows it was an intel operation. | ||
| Every person knows. | ||
| What's that? | ||
| It's autoplayed video, I didn't mean for that. | ||
| Everyone knows that, and the job of the media is to steer it away from that. | ||
| Closing arguments. | ||
| Let's hear what she has to say. | ||
| But it's CNN, so they're probably lying. | ||
| You gotta get information from all sources. | ||
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First up is the prosecution. | |
| They will try to tie together the testimony of the 24 witnesses that they called at the trial. | ||
| Four of them are accusers, women who say that they were sexually assaulted by Epstein when they were giving him massages. | ||
| These women testified that Ghislaine Maxwell helped recruit them, helped arrange their travel and their massage appointments, and at times participated in the alleged sexual assault. | ||
| Then Maxwell's attorneys will have a turn to address the jury. | ||
| They say that she has been scapegoated, that the only reason why she is on trial is because Jeffrey Epstein isn't. | ||
| He died by suicide while awaiting trial. | ||
| They're also expected to attack the credibility of these accusers, saying that they were motivated by money and that their memory of these events that took place more than 20 years ago, years ago is faulty. | ||
| Maxwell faces six charges and as much as 70 years in prison if convicted of all counts. | ||
| Hmm. | ||
| I mean, she's gonna be sacrificed or she's gonna get out, but they'll never let her out. | ||
| I don't think she's getting out. | ||
| They're never going to talk about the role that this played in how the world is run, which people don't want to talk about, right? | ||
| The idea that you have all of these powerful people and all of these different arenas, tech, government, and finance. | ||
| All of these people are quite guilty or seemingly very guilty of these nefarious activities. | ||
| They were being blackmailed. | ||
| They were being filmed. | ||
| And well, does that have an impact on how the world is run? | ||
| And nobody wants to have that conversation, but it very clearly does. | ||
| Who are the people that hold those videotapes? | ||
| And what do they want out of the people that were videotaped? | ||
| Right. | ||
| That's a real question. | ||
| Are there really video types? | ||
| Is that real? | ||
| There have to be. | ||
| You think so? | ||
| Well, there's video equipment. | ||
| What the hell's the point? | ||
| Maybe they want to make a movie. | ||
| Yeah, he's a camera collector. | ||
| No, I believe this entire thing, and it's not that I believe, it's well-researched. | ||
| This is very much the family business for the Maxwell family. | ||
| They're an intelligence family. | ||
| Dad was a super spy for the Mossad. | ||
| He had a media empire. | ||
| He was a conglomerate in the UK. Her sisters are very deep in tech. | ||
| And, you know, she ran the pedo ring. | ||
| This was an Intel family. | ||
| It's wild. | ||
| That was a family business. | ||
| Entrenched, get into governments, get in with powerful people. | ||
| They call them access agents. | ||
| You're an access, you provide me access to Bill Clinton. | ||
| Well, Clinton likes women. | ||
| And on the younger side, okay, we can get access to him. | ||
| So, by doing what they're doing and getting all this information, the problem is it destroys the idea that we're living in this society where people have a debate. | ||
| Like, the reason they can't get the bill back at her act passed is The reason they can't get that act passed is because Jeffrey is dead. | ||
| Like, if he could have blackmailed Joe Manchin, the act is passed. | ||
| So truly... | ||
| This is the type of governing... | ||
| Do you think that's how it was used? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| So you think it was used by people to get whatever they were trying to get passed through? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| And whatever regulations dropped or... | ||
| I think if you're a billionaire and you have a corporation and you have interests, do you want some senator or congressman from a small, tiny state getting in the way of your ability to make money? | ||
| No. | ||
| So what do you do? | ||
| You've got to leverage. | ||
| You've got to use leverage to get them to do what you want them to do. | ||
| But then, if that's the case, what about the scientists? | ||
| Well, he was a freak. | ||
| That's the other thing. | ||
| Epstein... | ||
| Well, it was very... | ||
| A lot of the scientists were... | ||
| Very brilliant top-of-their-field guys. | ||
| He was curious about starting a new human race. | ||
| I mean, yeah, Epstein wanted to start a new race. | ||
| I mean, it was crazy. | ||
| What are you talking about? | ||
| No, this is well-documented. | ||
| He wanted to seed the planet with his offspring. | ||
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| He was nuts. | ||
| Did he have children? | ||
| He was an eccentric. | ||
| He did not have children. | ||
| So he was like... | ||
| Just one of those guys that talks about working out but never does? | ||
| That's right. | ||
| But guys like Bill Gates and these guys, they're also, obviously everything now is tech. | ||
| Everything is tech. | ||
| Every company to some degree is a tech company. | ||
| So Epstein cozying up with tech people, you see when the blackmail operation goes from nuts and bolts, honeypot to, oh, the future of this will very much be tech. | ||
| And that's why you see him cozying up with all of those tech people. | ||
| It's not an accident. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Jeffrey Epstein hoped to seed human race with his DNA. But how do you know this isn't just one of those stories that they write about him after he's dead or while he's arrested because they want to smear him? | ||
| He's still alive at this point, I think. | ||
| Yeah, or while he's arrested, like I said. | ||
| I mean, I think it's a conceivable thing that he'd want to do. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He's an eccentric guy around very interesting, intelligent people, and I'm sure this comes up. | ||
| I just think the scientist aspect is very strange, because there was a lot of them. | ||
| There was a lot of top-flight scientists. | ||
| And I'm wondering, If he tried to compromise them, so that he could get them to distort data. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know what I'm saying? | ||
| Or get them to, like, if you had a government agency, there was an intelligence agency, and they wanted to get something passed, and you had access to all these scientists, you could compromise the scientists, and then say, look, you don't have to include that part. | ||
| How about you stand up for this and come up with a reason why this is a good idea? | ||
| 100%, I think it always worked like that. | ||
| I think by... | ||
| And by the way, after his conviction for whatever he got convicted for and he served a time in Club Fed down there, even a dinner with somebody was compromising them because you're now with this guy. | ||
| You didn't want that to be out in the open. | ||
| So I think his job was to basically... | ||
| Get as much information as he could and get as much leverage as he could. | ||
| Now, for who? | ||
| That's the question. | ||
| Yeah, that is the question. | ||
| It's just wild how many people hung out with him after he had got arrested and then prosecuted and then convicted of being a pedophile. | ||
| Well, you made that good point about Roman Polanski. | ||
| You know, a lot of people went out and defended Roman Polanski and said, hey, you know, he's a great director. | ||
| And I'm sure they were like, Jeffrey, you got a massage from a girl. | ||
| Well, you know, because you can hear it secondhand. | ||
| Rich people, like secondhand, will be like, yeah, you got a massage from a girl? | ||
| Turns out she was underage. | ||
| That's probably what was said, right? | ||
| I mean... | ||
| And also they know, but nobody in that world wants to get too down the rabbit hole because they all know that people die. | ||
| That's the other thing. | ||
| People disappear. | ||
| And so when you're around these weird people that have all these intelligence connections that are all over the world and their friends are presidents and kings and queens and prime ministers, if you get an invitation, a lot of times you take it. | ||
| Well, the way we do it here is so much less dangerous to folks like that than the way they do it in China. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Which is why China will win. | ||
| China is... | ||
| They're ruthless. | ||
| They're so ruthless that they got Amazon... | ||
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Shout out to China, by the way. | |
| Shout out to China. | ||
| Shout out to China. | ||
| They got Amazon to take down everything except five-star reviews of Xi Jinping's new book. | ||
| Have you seen that? | ||
| No, but that's amazing. | ||
| Pull that out. | ||
| But I bet it's a good book. | ||
| That is how you say it, right? | ||
| Xi Jinping? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And fuck the people that are slandering that, because I bet it is a good book. | ||
| Do you think it's a five-star book or a four-and-a-half-star book? | ||
| I bet it's a five-star book. | ||
| And if China wants to compete with Patreon, they can DM me. | ||
| I'll be the first show on China's new... | ||
| Streaming service. | ||
| You just can't criticize China ever. | ||
| Who would want to criticize China? | ||
| John Cena. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| I had a friend there that moved there to teach English and it's great. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Sometimes there's homeless people and then sometimes there's not because then they're in the river. | ||
| Amazon partnered with China Propaganda Arm. | ||
| Yeah, but about the book. | ||
| Is this about the book? | ||
| Yeah, I mean, the headline on another website linked to this. | ||
| I mean, they took the headline and made it different. | ||
| Okay, so Amazon reportedly took down reviews of Chinese presidents' book after demands. | ||
| Amazon.com currently offers G's book with positive reviews from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and HuffPost. | ||
| Whoa. | ||
| What's interesting about the way they do it over there is if a billionaire steps out of line, they either lock them, they need to just get them. | ||
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| They go get him. | ||
| They go get him. | ||
| And either they kill him. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Or they throw him in some prison somewhere and you never hear from him again. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And they just take turns fucking him. | ||
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| Or they make him eat his children and stay alive. | ||
| And Saudi Arabia did that where they locked everyone up in the Ritz-Carlton. | ||
| Like that seems to be the only way to get these people in line. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, they do it. | ||
| They do it in China in a very ruthless way. | ||
| And they almost did it with Jack Ma, right? | ||
| They made him disappear for a few months. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And then he came back. | ||
| Well, they have one ruling family. | ||
| And they're like, we are the law. | ||
| And even though you have a lot of money, you can't displease us. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's pretty wild. | ||
| It is pretty wild. | ||
| But when you run a country like that, you go, how do you beat them? | ||
| How do you beat a country that runs like a corporation with one ruling party? | ||
| Not just a corporation, but a corporation that has access to all the information that gets distributed. | ||
| They've literally locked up the internet. | ||
| They don't have the regular internet over there. | ||
| And they have a billion people. | ||
| And they have a billion people. | ||
| It's going to be tough to beat them. | ||
| Do we jump ship now? | ||
| Will there be rewards for us? | ||
| Jumping ship is the question. | ||
| I think we're going to become them. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| I think that's going to be the argument for competing with China. | ||
| Because we have to become them. | ||
| The social credit score system, that kind of shit. | ||
| The journalist Whitney Webb I've had on my show said that there was a real push years ago saying that if we want to keep our supremacy in the fields of AI and automation and things like that, we have to develop these systems and implement them before China does. | ||
| And they are all, you know, Chinese type of social credit score systems and surveillance systems and things like that. | ||
| So that's a very... | ||
| Probable outcome is that in order to we got to come up with this technology and export it to the rest of the world before China does. | ||
| Did you see the thing that Sager did about the company in China where they were working they sold 51% of the company to China? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| They work in the AR sector and they just stole all of their intellectual property changed the name of the company and said fuck you. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Now it's Chinese and it's amazing. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Did you see that Obama documentary on Netflix about the Chinese buys the American company? | ||
| No. | ||
| And then the Chinese people come over here and they're like, you're so fat! | ||
| Because everyone's like fat and slow. | ||
| And China's like, you gotta lose weight and start working hard. | ||
| What is this? | ||
| It's called American Factory, right, Jamie? | ||
| What? | ||
| It's called American Factory. | ||
| The Obamas produced it. | ||
| It's about a Chinese company that buys an American company and they come over here to America. | ||
| Is it fiction? | ||
| No, it is real. | ||
| It's a documentary. | ||
| About what company? | ||
| I forget. | ||
| It's a Chinese company that they come over here and they start... | ||
| It's kind of crazy. | ||
| Here, watch this. | ||
| American Factory. | ||
| Yeah, give me some... | ||
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...a project that is going to help grow this community, give people jobs, and give a future to your kids and my kids... | |
| Wow, they changed the name of the streets to Chinese names. | ||
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Where you sit today used to be a General Motors plant, and now there are over 1,000 employees working here. | |
| Is this a union shop? | ||
| It is our desire to not be. | ||
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What's our slogan? | |
| To stand still is to move back. | ||
| back. | ||
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We hope someday to get this good. | |
| One of the most fascinating American documentaries released this decade. | ||
| There have been 11 complaints filed. | ||
| Some workers claim unsafe working conditions and unfair treatment. | ||
| Doing the same thing over and over again that wears on your body and your soul. | ||
| It says we're under enormous pressure here. | ||
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They told me that they had to be here two years away from their family, no extra pay. | |
| I've ate at their house. | ||
| They've ate at my home. | ||
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We've just bonded. | |
| I really admire Americans. | ||
| They can work two jobs. | ||
| I thought they didn't have to make any sacrifices. | ||
| So this is... | ||
| What company is this that this is documenting? | ||
| It seems like it's an auto company, right? | ||
| When a Chinese billionaire... | ||
| Go down, Jimmy. | ||
| It says, when a Chinese billionaire reopens a factory and hires 2,000 blue-collar Americans, early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America. | ||
| So what's weird is that we have American billionaires, not that you have a Chinese billionaire coming in and reopening a factory in America and hiring Americans. | ||
| Yeah, I thought it was in Ohio. | ||
| Yeah! | ||
| I've heard of this plant. | ||
| So, I mean, good luck, everybody. | ||
| Jesus Christ. | ||
| Oh, it is Ohio. | ||
| Oh, it's so hot enough already, Jamie. | ||
| We get it. | ||
| It's the most important state in America. | ||
| He gets very excited when you talk about Ohio. | ||
| All he cares about is Ohio. | ||
| It's a dump. | ||
| He doesn't want to move back there. | ||
| I'm kidding. | ||
| I do like it. | ||
| Notice he doesn't want to move there? | ||
| No, I mean, Ohio is... | ||
| I mean, come on. | ||
| I like it. | ||
| Great audience is out there. | ||
| Great pizza. | ||
| He keeps saying that they have the best pizza. | ||
| He's mentally ill. | ||
| That's what I'm saying. | ||
| They have good ice cream. | ||
| Grater's ice cream, black raspberry is good. | ||
| New York has the best pizza. | ||
| New York. | ||
| Are we in agreement? | ||
| New York is the best pizza. | ||
| And Connecticut's very good, too. | ||
| New York and Connecticut. | ||
| Do you think Ohio can fuck with New York when it comes to pizza? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, that's not good. | ||
| You should go to a doctor. | ||
| I will say the one thing about Austin. | ||
| The barbecue here is you can't get better barbecue in America. | ||
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It's not possible. | |
| I've been to Kansas City and I've been to all these places. | ||
| It's not possible. | ||
| It's the one thing in terms of food that there's no better barbecue than Austin barbecue. | ||
| No better. | ||
| It's really amazing. | ||
| Terry Black's, Franklin, how do you get better? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| La Barbecue, amazing. | ||
| Very good. | ||
| They're all good. | ||
| You just get different. | ||
| You don't get better. | ||
| It's true. | ||
| It's very good. | ||
| I will say that I went to Kansas City, I went to all these places, and I went, not impressed. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, they have good barbecue in other places, but I think this is the best. | ||
| This is the best. | ||
| The food here is fucking insane. | ||
| There is some good food here. | ||
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Sure, for sure. | |
| There's a lot of good food here. | ||
| They have absolutely the best sushi place on earth here. | ||
| Have you been to Sushi Bar ATX? No, because you mentioned it, and now it's a four-year wait! | ||
| Well, why don't you call your friend, Joe, and I'll get you hooked up. | ||
| I like how he goes, have you been there? | ||
| I'm like, no, I've tried to go. | ||
| There's 19 years. | ||
| Why didn't you ask me? | ||
| I should ask you. | ||
| I don't want to bother you. | ||
| You don't have to bother me. | ||
| You're my friend, too. | ||
| I know, but it's funny when you say that. | ||
| He's like, have you been there? | ||
| I'm like, no, no one can go anymore. | ||
| It's just you and Elon Musk in a spaceship landing, and they give you a spicy tuna roll, and then you go back up. | ||
| Did you see where they were trying to shame Elon for living in a nice house that's not even his? | ||
| Have you seen this article? | ||
| Yeah, I mean, it's silly, but I think Elon, doesn't he like this? | ||
| No, he doesn't. | ||
| He doesn't like this? | ||
| I was texting with him about this. | ||
| Doesn't he go on Twitter all the time for this reason? | ||
| He likes to fuck with people. | ||
| I think he likes this. | ||
| And the house is not that nice, by the way. | ||
| With all due respect, it's fine. | ||
| It's fine. | ||
| Well, here's the thing. | ||
| He could buy 150 of those. | ||
| Perhaps. | ||
| Elon Musk says he lives in a $50,000 tiny house. | ||
| Is he actually living at his friend's Austin mansion? | ||
| Listen, I know for a fact he doesn't live there. | ||
| He stayed there for a while when he first came to Austin. | ||
| He does not live there. | ||
| And not only that, even if he did, it's not even his house. | ||
| So you're giving the richest guy on planet Earth a hard time because he might have stayed in a nice house that wasn't his. | ||
| It's stupid. | ||
| But it's so crazy. | ||
| What do you want him to do with that money? | ||
| He's literally the richest guy in the world. | ||
| So what do you want him to do? | ||
| Do you think he shouldn't live in a nice house on Austin? | ||
| I don't think that, but I think people, we're at a point now where there's such a vast chasm between people that have a lot of money and the people of nothing, right? | ||
| And he's become kind of a symbol of that, so is Bezos, because they're literally now flying rockets into space. | ||
| All the while you have all of these other problems and all of these other issues. | ||
| So, you know, obviously people are going to... | ||
| And I think he likes the attention. | ||
| This is not a guy that doesn't want to be famous. | ||
| He loves fame. | ||
| 100%. | ||
| You don't agree? | ||
| I don't know if he loves it. | ||
| I think he comes with the job and I don't think he minds it. | ||
| Oh, I think he quite enjoys it. | ||
| I mean, he seems to have fun. | ||
| Do you think he pursues it? | ||
| He definitely has fun, but he has fun with a lot of things. | ||
| Is Warren Buffet tweeting every day like this? | ||
| No, but Warren Buffet is not also inventing 50 different things at the same time. | ||
| He's a multi-billion. | ||
| He is, but he's an investor. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Elon Musk is digging tunnels under cities and shooting rockets into space and revolutionizing electric cars. | ||
| Where are the tunnels? | ||
| Well, there's one from Vegas to LA. Have you seen it? | ||
| I've not seen it, and we don't need one. | ||
| That tunnel should collapse with everyone... | ||
| Going from Vegas to fucking L.A., that tunnel should collapse. | ||
| I think he likes it. | ||
| I think he likes being kind of the bad boy Jetsons. | ||
| He's like a Jetsons character. | ||
| Did I tell you about when I went to Vegas with Whitney and we got stranded there and we had to drive all the way back? | ||
| First of all, you got in a plane with Whitney? | ||
| Yeah, it was a good time. | ||
| No? | ||
| You wouldn't do it? | ||
| Her energy is so bad that I would think all the engines would fail. | ||
| Like, I love Whitney, but when I'm around her, I'm terrified that, you know... | ||
| I got a video that we have to play on the podcast because it's so extraordinary. | ||
| But it is... | ||
| What was she doing in Vegas? | ||
| She had a gig. | ||
| And so I introduced her at the gig. | ||
| What is she doing with these gigs? | ||
| Doesn't she have enough money? | ||
| She doesn't have enough money. | ||
| She wants more money. | ||
| She has tens of millions of dollars. | ||
| She wants more. | ||
| So weird. | ||
| That's not how I feel. | ||
| She does these weird gigs. | ||
| I'm like, why don't you just relax? | ||
| I would do those weird gigs, too. | ||
| No. | ||
| I mean, this is crazy. | ||
| No, no, no, no. | ||
| It's a good move. | ||
| Here, Jamie. | ||
| It's a good move. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| I'm going to send you this. | ||
| So, we're at Andrew Schultz's wedding. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Thanks for the invite. | ||
| I'm kidding. | ||
| Listen, it's not my wedding. | ||
| You can come to my wedding. | ||
| None of us comedians got invited, but that's okay. | ||
| Is it getting to you, Jamie? | ||
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| It says... | ||
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| Okay. | ||
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| Okay, hold on. | ||
| How was the food at the wedding? | ||
| It looked like a beautiful wedding. | ||
| It was actually a sushi bar. | ||
| Oh, that's cool. | ||
| Sushi bar is a Montecito spot. | ||
| That's kind of cool. | ||
| They served fantastic sushi. | ||
| It really did look like a beautiful wedding, and I'm very happy for him. | ||
| Is it coming through, Jamie? | ||
| It says sending. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| It was awesome. | ||
| So we got a little lit. | ||
| Me and the wife and Lex Friedman and Whitney. | ||
| And we decided to fly. | ||
| So Lex Friedman decided to not eat for 30 hours and drink bottles of whiskey. | ||
| What is his thing? | ||
| He was so blasted. | ||
| So at the end of the night, we wind up, let me just, before you play this, at the end of the night, we wind up stranded in Vegas, because Whitney got a private jet to get there, and then once they got her to the thing, they're like, get the fuck out of here. | ||
| She did the gig, and then there was supposed to be a jet home. | ||
| We got to the airport, they're like, there's no one here. | ||
| There's no crew. | ||
| She tried to blame it on vaccine mandates. | ||
| The jet's broken. | ||
| She's like, well, nobody wants to fly because of the vax. | ||
| I'm like, you just probably didn't book. | ||
| It's the jankiest jet ever. | ||
| Yeah, you didn't book an actual thing. | ||
| Yeah, wheels up. | ||
| So take a look at this. | ||
| Play this. | ||
| Oh, hello. | ||
| I've been out here in Vegas. | ||
| I went to Andrew Schultz's wedding. | ||
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| And then we went to Vegas. | ||
| And... | ||
| Oh, Lex. | ||
| Oh my god. | ||
| Got a little drunk. | ||
| He looks like he just got the booster. | ||
| No, I'm not drunk. | ||
| I'm wide awake. | ||
| And I'm drinking coffee. | ||
| This is at 2 in the morning, by the way. | ||
| So now, what did you guys do if you can't get back in the morning? | ||
| We had to get a drive. | ||
| We had someone to drive us back. | ||
| To L.A.? Yes. | ||
| Four hours? | ||
| Four hours. | ||
| In like an Escalade or something? | ||
| Yeah, SUV. Four hours. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| That was the only way to get back. | ||
| Crazy. | ||
| Yeah, they were like, we can't get you any flights, and the airport was closed because it was after midnight, so there's no flights back. | ||
| They don't fly out of Vegas late at night. | ||
| They're like, fuck you, stay and lose money. | ||
| So you just stay. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| When you were in California, did you miss it a little? | ||
| No. | ||
| None. | ||
| Montecito's gorgeous, though. | ||
| It's beautiful. | ||
| It's gorgeous. | ||
| You didn't miss it a little bit. | ||
| You didn't think about how fun it would be to have a home invasion. | ||
| You'd kill that guy. | ||
| That old bitch got shot, Joe. | ||
| You would kill that guy. | ||
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| I don't want to kill anybody, Tim. | ||
| I understand that, but you can. | ||
| That old bitch wasn't ready. | ||
| You're ready. | ||
| You think I'm ready? | ||
| You're ready. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I'm just saying. | ||
| Well, I went to California. | ||
| Did a little shooting. | ||
| Bang, bang, bang. | ||
| Went to Tarrant Tactical. | ||
| Got some training in. | ||
| Did you go to Felix? | ||
| Went to Felix. | ||
| I know you go to Felix. | ||
| Yeah, it's very good. | ||
| Oh my God, it's good. | ||
| You want to see pictures? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| I'll show pictures. | ||
| It's great. | ||
| The food is fucking fantastic. | ||
| Get him to open something here. | ||
| He's actually thinking about it. | ||
| Because they keep fucking with him. | ||
| And the mandates are out of control. | ||
| Well, it's also, this is probably a good city where people should open, they could open a restaurant here because there's definitely room. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know? | ||
| There's room. | ||
| There's room. | ||
| And then, especially if you did it like on 6th Street, there's so much fucking open real estate. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So much available stuff. | ||
| Grab some. | ||
| And it's got a great food culture. | ||
| Like, there's so many people that like to go. | ||
| They like to eat. | ||
| Try to get into Red Ash out here, too. | ||
| It's hard, yeah. | ||
| It's fucking hard. | ||
| And then they have Jay Carver's, his new place. | ||
| There's a lot of great fucking restaurants out here, man. | ||
| Jeffries? | ||
| Have you been to Jeffries yet? | ||
| I haven't been to Jeffries. | ||
| Sensational. | ||
| I think there's a lot of room, too, though, for people that are trying to open stuff up, if they can do it, and they have a name in L.A., if they come out here, and as the city grows, their restaurant will grow. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Yeah, I think so, for sure. | ||
| For sure. | ||
| This place is booming and it's just begun. | ||
| Well, this is Miami. | ||
| What's interesting is that Austin and Miami became these pandemic destinations that are actually now... | ||
| You have a huge tech influx to Austin. | ||
| Goldman Sachs is moving their wealth management division down to Miami. | ||
| Cathie Woods' ARC Investments moved down to St. Petersburg, Florida. | ||
| New York and L.A., Listen, I was always of the mind that those cities would always be the two big cities. | ||
| I think we all were. | ||
| But I think that now you are starting. | ||
| I don't know what that will result in, but you are seeing a lot of people leave those cities. | ||
| Well, don't you think a lot of it has to do with taxes? | ||
| It doesn't make sense financially to stay in those cities. | ||
| Because you used to get a tax incentive. | ||
| They used to get, even though the state taxes were high, you used to be able to take that state tax off of your federal tax. | ||
| Yeah, for sure. | ||
| You can't do that anymore. | ||
| And that was something that was changed by Trump, apparently. | ||
| You would know better than I would. | ||
| I think it's coming back where you're going to be able to do that, but I think it's twofold, right? | ||
| I think it's taxes. | ||
| I also think quality of life right now, whether you... | ||
| No matter how much into the crypto stuff you are or not, it's a massive disruption, right? | ||
| Like blockchain technology is massive disruption. | ||
| And a lot of the people that are into it are like, why am I going to live with this brand new technology that's revolutionizing and has the potential to revolutionize stuff? | ||
| Why am I going to live in the same city? | ||
| Why am I going to live in the same old city? | ||
| Why not be part of a city? | ||
| You're never going to impact New York. | ||
| You're not going to impact LA. But a lot of people are going, I want to be part of a city and help that city grow and really have an outsized influence in that part of the world. | ||
| You can definitely do that here. | ||
| You could do it here. | ||
| A lot of crypto people are moving to Miami. | ||
| Some of them are in Puerto Rico. | ||
| Yeah, the Puerto Rican thing is interesting. | ||
| 4% taxes. | ||
| Gordon Ryan was explaining it to me last night. | ||
| The Paul brothers. | ||
| Yeah, the Paul brothers are doing that. | ||
| They spend 50% of their time in the States, 50% of their time there. | ||
| Capital gains taxes. | ||
| You don't have to pay at all. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I think if the taxes in LA went to things that made sense, people wouldn't have a problem. | ||
| I wouldn't have a problem with it. | ||
| The problem is that you can't collect record taxes from people and then have every measurable standard of life get worse. | ||
| A lot worse. | ||
| That can't happen. | ||
| Yeah, it can happen. | ||
| And the thing about Austin that I've loved more than anything is the people are more relaxed and friendly here. | ||
| Is that true? | ||
| 100%. | ||
| Who was mean to you in LA? They're just weird. | ||
| I would see people around you and you were always treated like a god. | ||
| This is my one thing you say that. | ||
| You're like, people are friendlier in Texas. | ||
| I've never seen anyone be anything but very happy to see you. | ||
| In LA. It's not like people- Yeah, but it's not like I don't know that people aren't nice. | ||
| Like I see the way they talk to other people. | ||
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| I see the way they talk to me if they don't know who I am. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The people here are friendly, but I think people everywhere are kind of friendly, right? | ||
| You think so? | ||
| I think they're tense in LA. I think there's too much traffic and too many people. | ||
| Yeah, but the traffic's coming here. | ||
| I mean, you got to be careful what you wish for. | ||
| It's a joke. | ||
| It's gonna not be a joke. | ||
| It's a joke. | ||
| It'll not be a joke soon. | ||
| It's a joke. | ||
| Keep telling everyone how great it is. | ||
| I leave here at 5 o'clock all the time. | ||
| It's like, la-dee-da, I'm home in 10 minutes. | ||
| It ain't shit. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| But I think that, you know, you were treated nicely in L.A. People liked you in L.A. Do you think that people are nicer here? | ||
| It's hard to... | ||
| I think people are sweet everywhere, and then people suck everywhere. | ||
| I don't think there's a real... | ||
| I've never noticed a huge difference between the way people act. | ||
| I think people in New York want things very quick, but they're not dicks, they just want things very quick. | ||
| Kelly's a little more laid back. | ||
| I don't think... | ||
| The man on Sixth Street who stabbed me last week was very sweet. | ||
| You don't stand still on 6th Street. | ||
| You got to keep walking. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But I mean, listen, there's tremendous potential in the city. | ||
| The city has some issues like everything else. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But there's some issues. | ||
| There's issues whenever you get giant groups of people together. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| But I think there's less issues when you get a million versus when you get 20 million. | ||
| Well, you're going to have more than a million here soon. | ||
| You get like 400-something people moving here every day. | ||
| Is that true? | ||
| 400? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Where are they going? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Not your neighborhood. | ||
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| I tried to tell Tony Hinchcliffe to buy a house. | ||
| And he's like, oh, I don't know. | ||
| I don't know if I should spend this kind of money. | ||
| I go, it'll be worth more money in the future. | ||
| I'm like, okay, just be poor forever. | ||
| Figure it out. | ||
| Come on, man. | ||
| You got money. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He should buy something. | ||
| Buy a fucking house. | ||
| Let's get this nice house. | ||
| He's like, I don't know if I can go for it. | ||
| I'm like, fucking go for it. | ||
| What do you do? | ||
| Want to rent forever? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Come on. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| If all these people are moving here, then it's a good investment. | ||
| It's a nice house. | ||
| For sure. | ||
| I think that owning an estate that is Texas or Florida is great. | ||
| Yeah, Texas or Florida. | ||
| A lot of people are moving to Florida, too. | ||
| Maybe even more people are moving to Florida, I think, than here. | ||
| I think it's good to have a spot in those two places. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know? | ||
| At least I love New York and LA, too, and hopefully they get their act together. | ||
| And you've been touring everywhere, right? | ||
| I've been everywhere. | ||
| The stark difference between some cities, it's so strange. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You go to some cities and everybody's in a frothy panic and you go to other cities, it's like the world is completely normal. | ||
| Now we're in like a malaise where people are like, they don't know what's going on. | ||
| They have like the mask is hanging off. | ||
| Like what I've seen now is it's like much more, it's not as starkly different as it was before. | ||
| Like it was very stark for a while. | ||
| You go to Nashville and San Francisco and Nashville's like, woohoo! | ||
| And San Francisco's like, ah! | ||
| Now I feel like it's kind of a malaise where everybody's like, hey man, what the hell? | ||
| People are kind of starting to just enter into this broken spirit. | ||
| People now just have a broken spirit everywhere. | ||
| You just did San Francisco, right? | ||
| I loved it, yeah. | ||
| What was it like hanging out in the city? | ||
| It's fine. | ||
| Do they have vaccine mandates for food and everything, for restaurants? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| They made me show my thing when I had a... | ||
| It's funny, but it was... | ||
| No, I mean, again, supposedly the crime there is going up. | ||
| I'm sure it is. | ||
| I didn't see any of it. | ||
| Like, we were in the cash show, the Tenderloin. | ||
| We were just driving around looking after the show for what was open. | ||
| We ended up in a great Chinese food spot there. | ||
| Did you have to show a vaccine card to eat there? | ||
| No, we ate in a hotel. | ||
| We just grabbed it and left. | ||
| It was late, but I didn't feel unsafe there, but I'm sure that in certain areas you would feel unsafe. | ||
| So it didn't feel any different than normal San Francisco to you? | ||
| Not really. | ||
| Like, I could see where the issues are. | ||
| L.A. has felt the most different when it was like... | ||
| You know, because you really... | ||
| L.A.'s so big. | ||
| And you have to drive. | ||
| So if you have a friend somewhere else, you've got to drive 30 minutes. | ||
| And in that 30 minutes, you can see a massive display of problems in L.A. That's, I think, the difference. | ||
| San Fran's a small city, so there's problems, but LA, you're like, okay, get in your car, and five minutes in, you're like, Jesus! | ||
| That seems to be where I've noticed the stark differences the most. | ||
| But supposedly they've cleaned up Venice. | ||
| They're cleaning things up. | ||
| What? | ||
| The beach? | ||
| The encampments and stuff. | ||
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| Yeah. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| I was just there. | ||
| No, people can't do it. | ||
| People have had enough. | ||
| Yeah, they have had enough, but just how long does that last? | ||
| How much change can they do? | ||
| And what's the timeline before things get back to 2018 levels? | ||
| What's the timeline? | ||
| Is it 10 years? | ||
| That's a great question. | ||
| Because that's probably a realistic assessment, if you really thought about how much time it takes to bring a city back to where it was before the pandemic. | ||
| We also look at, like, if New York and LA go down, it's kind of like the country's in real trouble. | ||
| New York's never going to go down. | ||
| LA has more of a chance of going down because so many people there are transient in the first place. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| It's a different kind of environment in LA. There's very few people that are proud to be from LA. Not very few, but like less percentage. | ||
| Right. | ||
| There's a lot of people who are proud to be from New York, and they don't want to let anybody take New York away from them. | ||
| And they have a lot of hope in Eric Abrams. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Eric Adams? | ||
| Eric Adams. | ||
| Adams, I believe. | ||
| Eric Adams, who is the former police officer who's now the mayor, and a lot of people have hope for him because he's a Democrat, but he's also tough on crime. | ||
| That city, if New York goes down, you're looking at the country going down. | ||
| New York is the crown jewel of America in terms of cities, right? | ||
| Right, but with one of the worst fucking mayors that's ever existed. | ||
| Maybe worst politician in history. | ||
| He's horrible. | ||
| He's got a fake name. | ||
| Yeah, he's very, very bad. | ||
| Somehow or another... | ||
| He doesn't care. | ||
| What was his name again? | ||
| Warren Wilhelm. | ||
| Warren Wilhelm became Bill de Blasio. | ||
| He's a joke. | ||
| It's very bad. | ||
| He's a strange guy, man. | ||
| Yeah, he's a freak. | ||
| And there's $850 million missing. | ||
| Do you know about that? | ||
| No. | ||
| His wife had some mental health initiative, and they raised $850 million. | ||
| It's unaccounted for. | ||
| I didn't hear that. | ||
| Oh, yeah, you need to see this. | ||
| I bet. | ||
| Google this. | ||
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| Because it's one of those things that people in New York keep bringing up. | ||
| My friend John Joseph keeps bringing this up. | ||
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| Like that this guy and his wife, or somehow or another, have misappropriated or lost count of or lost track of an enormous sum of money that was supposed to go to, like, mental health. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Well... | ||
| What happens with that? | ||
| I mean, how does someone not go to jail? | ||
| Here it is. | ||
| Where has $850 million gone? | ||
| Bill de Blasio's wife can't account for a staggering amount of taxpayer money that the New York mayor gave her for a mental health project. | ||
| She was assigned an $850 million budget for a Thrive New York City program. | ||
| But records show Scheme has failed to keep track of what it spent the money on. | ||
| A small amount of data that was collected shows it fell far short of targets. | ||
| Despite that, organizers have expanded the budget to $1 billion over five years. | ||
| That is what happens when terrible politicians control enormous sums of wealth with impunity in one of the greatest cities the world's ever known. | ||
| Yeah, it's crazy. | ||
| Nearly 100 billion stolen from COVID-19 relief programs, Secret Service says. | ||
| That's even a minimum. | ||
| A minimum of nearly $100 billion has been stolen from government COVID-19 relief programs set up to help businesses and people who lost their jobs due to the pandemic, according to the U.S. Secret Service. | ||
| Isn't the Secret Service supposed to be protecting the president? | ||
| Why are they looking for the money that they gave for COVID-19? | ||
| There's some financial harm, too. | ||
| Okay, Small Business Administration, Roy Dodson, Agency's National Pandemic Fraud Recovery Coordinator, in an interview. | ||
| The Secret Service didn't include COVID-19 fraud cases prosecuted by the Justice Department, where roughly 3% of the $3.4 trillion in COVID-19 relief dispersed by the government, the amount stolen from the pandemic benefits shows the sheer size of the pot is enticing to the criminals, Dodson said. | ||
| It's the grift at the end. | ||
| It's the grift at the end. | ||
| Everybody right now is just trying to steal the last amount of money. | ||
| Nobody really has any faith in anything. | ||
| They're just like, what can we grab? | ||
| Is this the end of the Empire? | ||
| It's the middle of the end. | ||
| It's not even the beginning of the end. | ||
| Well, it is the winter of death. | ||
| Have you seen that? | ||
| For the unvaccinated, the winter of death. | ||
| Slightly negative. | ||
| It doesn't seem like leadership. | ||
| Well, what's weird is that they've also said this is kind of a mild variant. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's not going to. | ||
| Well, they're ramping it up in the light of the most mild variant ever. | ||
| Literally, one person has died in the United States, and now they've taken that back, and they're not saying he died from COVID. The guy had a series of serious health problems, and he also tested positive for COVID, the Omicron variant, when he died. | ||
| But the Omicron variant, according to most people's assessment, is basically a cold. | ||
| Smiled, yeah. | ||
| You don't lose a sense of smell. | ||
| You don't lose... | ||
| You're not getting the fevers. | ||
| You're just getting cold coughs and headaches and body aches. | ||
| It's... | ||
| We're all at the point now with this where we're all just... | ||
| We've all hit the wall. | ||
| You know? | ||
| Like, I think people are just kind of tired and it's become confusing to people on a level that is... | ||
| Far and away like you know when this started people were like well We've got this thing we're gonna do we have to do Hopefully there'll be a treatment some time a vaccine whatever it would be now There's 20 vaccines half of them work. | ||
| There's 10 treatments Some of them are good some of them aren't if you bring them up people will accuse you of you know being a colluding with whatever like you know The masks work and they don't work. | ||
| It's like people are just tired. | ||
| Everybody's tired. | ||
| If this was a shitty movie, I'd be really tempted to fast forward to about five minutes before the end where you see the Chinese soldiers in hazmat suits with gray skies carrying machine guns moving across Chicago. | ||
| I'm hoping for it. | ||
| Nuclear waste. | ||
| By the way, the idea that they wouldn't run the country better is crazy. | ||
| I think maybe that's our only hope. | ||
| South Africa's huge Omicron wave appears to be subsiding just as quickly as it grew. | ||
| Yeah, it burns through people. | ||
| And that's the idea about these vaccines, excuse me, these viruses rather, that as they, most viruses, it's not a universal truth, but most viruses, as they mutate, they become less virulent and more contagious. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And this is the best example of that. | ||
| This is like extremely contagious and not virulent at all. | ||
| I just hope that when the pandemic ends, we can still hear from Fauci. | ||
| I want to still hear from him. | ||
| He's never going to go away now. | ||
| Check him. | ||
| Well, I said on my show, the real pandemic is vanity, you know? | ||
| And that's, you know, he's been... | ||
| He should have resigned. | ||
| Somebody else should be doing the job. | ||
| I mean, it's silly. | ||
| He's not good at it. | ||
| No, but his attitude is, well, this is my whole life. | ||
| He's science. | ||
| I am science. | ||
| It's a bad PR. This has been a mess from the jump, and I think people are just tired of it. | ||
| We need to move on from this to what will eventually be the total economic collapse coming in six months. | ||
| What are we looking at in six years? | ||
| If I could put you in a Rip Van Winkle capsule and pop you out in six years, what are we seeing? | ||
| Another, an economic crash. | ||
| Another one. | ||
| A crash. | ||
| Like a serious haircut. | ||
| Is there a bubble that needs to burst? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| You tell me. | ||
| There's people selling pictures of dogs to each other for $80 million online. | ||
| You tell me if there's a bubble. | ||
| Look, I got an NFT right there. | ||
| Yeah, I like that one. | ||
| That's pretty. | ||
| That makes sense. | ||
| The Beeple stuff makes sense to me. | ||
| I think the NFT technology is great, and I think that a lot of it's going to really be 100% the way digital art, digital real estate and stuff, but... | ||
| You know, yeah, there's a bubble. | ||
| Our interest rates have been artificially low forever. | ||
| You can get a 30-year mortgage right now, sub three, which is great. | ||
| Sub three and a non-adjustable? | ||
| Non-adjustable. | ||
| Well, you could get... | ||
| A fixed rate might be in the low three, but I mean, it's crazy the amount of free money that's out there right now. | ||
| You have that coupled with the fact that we are in how many? | ||
| What's the national debt number now? | ||
| 20 trillion. | ||
| I mean, it's silly. | ||
| 80% of dollars in circulation were printed in like the last 24 months or something. | ||
| There's some crazy statistic like that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| What? | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| 80%? | ||
| Something very high. | ||
| Jamie can tell you. | ||
| And so this is to deal with the inflation because of COVID? Yeah. | ||
| In terms of when is all of that going to self-correct and how much blood is in the water and how painful that is? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| For sure. | ||
| I mean, there's no way we get out of this without a real issue. | ||
| So do you think that manufacturing has to come back to America? | ||
| That'll never happen. | ||
| Never? | ||
| Never. | ||
| I don't think you're going to see large-scale manufacturing in this country ever again. | ||
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| Yeah. | ||
| Do you think it's because of the environmental impact of large-scale manufacturing or the financial or the both? | ||
| Is that into just labor costs are going to go where, you know, labor jobs go where the costs are lower and they'll never be lower here. | ||
| But I think we need... | ||
| Yeah, 40% of U.S. dollars in existence were printed in the last 12 months. | ||
| Jesus Christ. | ||
| So, I mean, that's a problem. | ||
| But that's why... | ||
| Is America repeating the same mistake of 1921 Weimar Germany? | ||
| Yeah, Weimar Germany. | ||
| Bad. | ||
| So, in terms of what's going to happen in the next six years, I mean, there's probably no way we avoid... | ||
| You know, there's going to be a crash. | ||
| China and Russia must be sitting back licking their chops right now. | ||
| Just going, look at this. | ||
| Time is now. | ||
| Well, that's why we need to go. | ||
| That's why we need another scam. | ||
| And the NFT thing's big and we need it. | ||
| Look at the national debt. | ||
| Look at it run. | ||
| We need crypto. | ||
| We need Bitcoin. | ||
| We need Ethereum. | ||
| We need you to back a coin and stop sitting on the sidelines and actually get in and back a coin. | ||
| Do you want to save the economy or not? | ||
| I don't know if there's too many coins. | ||
| How do you know who's going to use what? | ||
| You need a coin, then you let everyone buy your merch with that coin. | ||
| Oh, fuck that. | ||
| Buy tickets to your shows with that coin. | ||
| That's nonsense. | ||
| You have to believe. | ||
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| Why? | ||
| Because if you don't believe in your own coin, why am I going to believe in it? | ||
| I'd rather stay in the Ponzi scheme forever and ever and ever. | ||
| No, no, no, no, no. | ||
| We need a decentralized financial instrument. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| How do we do that? | ||
| Which one do you back? | ||
| Well, I have a Bitcoin. | ||
| I have one Bitcoin and I have five Ethereum. | ||
| I'm a huge player in the crypto market. | ||
| I'm very big. | ||
| What about Dogecoin? | ||
| I don't have any Dogecoin. | ||
| But it's right there. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Look at that little cute fellow. | ||
| Yeah, that is kind of cute. | ||
| So that's NFT you got? | ||
| That's a gig of Chad. | ||
| How much is that? | ||
| How much does it cost? | ||
| We don't know. | ||
| It was free. | ||
| It was a gift. | ||
| It only cost what people are willing to spend. | ||
| But I'm just saying, you got to get involved right now because creators, I'm telling you, This is the next move. | ||
| You're going to be able to sell your jokes, one joke for however much money. | ||
| I'm trying to squirrel away an enormous sum of money and never work again. | ||
| I understand that. | ||
| First of all, I believe you could have retired at like 27 and never worked again. | ||
| Truly. | ||
| So this idea that you have to keep... | ||
| But no, you've got to get into crypto. | ||
| There's a lot of people that I have to pay. | ||
| Artist Pack just sold 266,445 shares of an NFT for $91.8 million on Nifty Gateway, making him arguably pricier than Jeff Koons. | ||
| That's right. | ||
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| 30,000 buyers bought portions of the work which could, in theory, be merged into a single NFT. Like, what does that even fucking mean? | ||
| It means by ignoring this, you're leaving a lot of money on the table. | ||
| Is that his NFT? It looks like three moons. | ||
| That's probably a picture of one... | ||
| To be honest... | ||
| That's his NFT? It gets real complicated, but yeah, there's 30,000 of them available. | ||
| If you bought 10 of them, you could merge those all together and make a new one. | ||
| Here's my thought. | ||
| Can that guy just take that money now? | ||
| Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| And that's his money. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| He's got 91 million real American dollars. | ||
| More than that. | ||
| Really? | ||
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| I believe he's sold over $300 million in the last two years. | ||
| Jesus Christ. | ||
| Remember when being an artist, you were guaranteed to be poor? | ||
| Now all you have to do is sell NFTs. | ||
| Digital ownership is going to allow artists to make money. | ||
| It's true. | ||
| They're going to be the most wealthy people. | ||
| That might be a good thing. | ||
| They're not going to be the most wealthy people. | ||
| Who's going to be the most wealthy? | ||
| And the same people that are always the most wealthy, you know? | ||
| Well, maybe these fucks will get into NFTs. | ||
| Well, I'm just saying you're missing an opportunity that... | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| You gotta get involved. | ||
| What should I do? | ||
| I would immediately come up, have a few meetings with people. | ||
| And make a coin? | ||
| Make a coin! | ||
| Come up with a cryptocurrency that functions in the Rogan universe for your merch, your tickets, everything. | ||
| Do people do that? | ||
| It's like Motley Crue coin? | ||
| That's right. | ||
| You need to have a digital currency that you allow your fans to buy all of your stuff with. | ||
| And then that only works with me and my stuff. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Or someone else could adopt it. | ||
| Or someone else could adopt it. | ||
| And now if RoganCoin works out, well then maybe a lot of the comedians in your orbit start going, well that's a very effective way to do it, and they all use your cryptocurrency. | ||
| And then you have a feudal cryptocurrency empire, and you own all this digital real estate, and then you start selling NFTs of things in the studio, and you amass all of this money. | ||
| Do you want to manage this fund? | ||
| I would like to get involved. | ||
| I've met some very respectable, upstanding people in Miami that want to get involved immediately. | ||
| How much coke are they on? | ||
| They're alert. | ||
| It's not Adderall. | ||
| It's not even coke anymore. | ||
| It's Adderall and Vyvanse. | ||
| Yeah? | ||
| What's Vyvanse? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Something where you chew your tongue. | ||
| It's like an Adderall. | ||
| It's like a slow-release Adderall. | ||
| If you want to manage this, I will give you a hefty section of the price. | ||
| I'm going to do a movie funded in crypto. | ||
| Really? | ||
| I'm meeting right now with people to fund a movie in crypto, a comedy movie, because the studio system sucks. | ||
| Nothing has been made that's funny. | ||
| Respect to Black Bar Mitzvah with Tiffany Haddish and Billy Crystal. | ||
| Haven't seen it. | ||
| Sure, it's amazing. | ||
| But everything else is bad. | ||
| I think that's the title of the movie. | ||
| So... | ||
| I'm talking to people about funding a movie in crypto and letting people buy it with crypto. | ||
| Why not? | ||
| People want to see funny stuff. | ||
| You can easily fund a movie in crypto and people can buy it using a digital wallet. | ||
| Why not? | ||
| Because the studio system, traditional Hollywood, all that stuff sucks right now. | ||
| And, you know, this is the way things are going to get made right now. | ||
| Artists and creators that are not paying attention to this stuff, we can joke around about it, make fun of it, because a lot of it's crazy. | ||
| It's like anything else. | ||
| A lot of it is crazy and silly. | ||
| It's overvalued. | ||
| There's bad actors in it, of course. | ||
| That being said, blockchain technology is not going away, and I think it will eventually revolutionize how people can make things, fund things. | ||
| All of the changes that allow people to crowdsource or crowdfund their own projects, I think... | ||
| With crypto, it becomes even more powerful and transformative. | ||
| So with crypto, when you say you're going to fund a move with crypto, do you have specific coins in mind? | ||
| Are you going to create a coin to fund this? | ||
| You do it a million different ways. | ||
| I think I'm talking to people right now about the best way to do it. | ||
| And I think that you want to do it in a way that... | ||
| You know, you want to do it, make a really great movie, and then you want the process to be repeatable. | ||
| So you want it to be a process you can do again, so you want to do it the right way. | ||
| When I talk to people that want to talk to me about crypto, it's exhausting. | ||
| I feel like they're stealing my air. | ||
| I understand that. | ||
| And I can't breathe. | ||
| I just want to get away from them really quickly. | ||
| I understand that, but here's the reality of the situation. | ||
| It's because you haven't talked about it enough. | ||
| It's like working out. | ||
| Really? | ||
| When you work out once, it hurts. | ||
| You work out every day, you feel great. | ||
| So I should talk about crypto every day? | ||
| Every day. | ||
| So we should have a crypto corner here on the JRE? The fact that you don't have a crypto podcast is insane. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| This is probably one of the crypto people right now. | ||
| They're hearing you. | ||
| From Miami, calling, saying, thank God. | ||
| We got a plan! | ||
| Joe, this is the future. | ||
| There's no other way around it. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Because the incompetence of the Federal Reserve and the government, the way they're handling money, and the fact that they have access and control. | ||
| A decentralized financial instrument like Bitcoin was inevitable. | ||
| And Ethereum has even less problems than Bitcoin does, like it's also- Why is that? | ||
| I forget exactly why. | ||
| I think that Ethereum's, and Jamie can pull this up, but the thing about, and I don't understand too much about it, but there seems to be less problems with the actual blockchain technology with Ethereum than Bitcoin. | ||
| I don't exactly know why. | ||
| But people love Ethereum. | ||
| So when we open up the comedy club- Like the NFTs things, a lot of it's on their blockchain. | ||
| And those NFT things are huge right now. | ||
| A lot of it's on Ethereum. | ||
| I don't know why. | ||
| I'm not pretending to be an expert in this. | ||
| But I will just say that without knowing much about it, I am convinced it's the future. | ||
| And if people doubt it, they and their family should go on a list. | ||
| I'm just saying, it's probably everyone's going to be on a list by the end of 10 years. | ||
| Jamie, can you find out why Ethereum doesn't have the problems with Bitcoin? | ||
| I mean, does anyone want to carry more? | ||
| That's a big problem, I guess. | ||
| It has to do with storing the blockchain. | ||
| Just Google why Ethereum is superior to Bitcoin. | ||
| Just Google that. | ||
| Because there's a lot of people that feel like that, Jamie. | ||
| See if something clear comes up quickly. | ||
| I'm just saying it's interesting stuff, right? | ||
| And it allows people to have freedom. | ||
| Here's the quick answer. | ||
| Which is good. | ||
| Freedom is good. | ||
| Bitcoin allows only public, permissionless, or sensor-proof transactions to take place. | ||
| Ethereum allows both permissioned and permissionless transactions. | ||
| The average block time for Ethereum is significantly less than Bitcoin's 12 seconds versus 10 minutes. | ||
| It's faster. | ||
| What's good about a drive-through? | ||
| You go through it faster. | ||
| Right. | ||
| It's like Chick-fil-A. Ethereum's like Chick-fil-A. It's like, oh, the line looks long, but it moves. | ||
| I read that and I still don't know what I read. | ||
| Well, Joe, it's not about knowing. | ||
| It's about kind of believing and just getting into it. | ||
| You just got to get into it. | ||
| You got to believe. | ||
| You're too much of a stickler on like, what's the actual thing? | ||
| It's like, let's just dive in. | ||
| This is when we had mortgages. | ||
| We didn't know how these things were going to work, but people were very excited about having a pool. | ||
| So it's paralysis by analysis on my part, right? | ||
| Is that what's going on? | ||
| I think you're a big brain concept guy, and what you need to do is just kind of stop losing yourself in the deets, sit back and go, everyone's having a lot of fun, and people are smiling. | ||
| If I lost all of my money in Bitcoin, that would be a real issue. | ||
| But you never would. | ||
| You never would. | ||
| But, listen, it's an inevitability. | ||
| And if people ask you too many specific questions, just say it's an inevitability over and over again. | ||
| What is Bitcoin worth now? | ||
| Today? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Just under $50,000. | ||
| What's the highest it's ever been? | ||
| $67,000 or so. | ||
| And don't they predict it will one day go to a million? | ||
| $500,000 a coin. | ||
| Yeah, there's predictions that by the end of this year, which would be a week from now, it's going to be over $100,000, which... | ||
| Well, that's maybe not true. | ||
| But it's going to be $500,000 a coin. | ||
| That's what they said at Art Basel. | ||
| I believe it. | ||
| Yeah, by next summer, it could be 250k. | ||
| There's a lot of predictions. | ||
| What's Art Basel? | ||
| It's a place where people in Miami go to do drugs and talk about the future of art and the digital landscape. | ||
| It's the metaverse, except it's real. | ||
| But it's art, right? | ||
| It's art show, yeah. | ||
| It's always been a famous art show. | ||
| It's pretty cool. | ||
| But now, because obviously a lot of art is digital and crypto is moving, the NFTs are on the Ethereum blockchain, it's become a huge crypto event, too. | ||
| I don't want to name any names, but I've gotten emails from the shadiest people I know, wanting me to get involved in crypto. | ||
| But they're nice people! | ||
| I've met them in Art Basel, they're lovely people. | ||
| But the ones that I know that want to talk to me about crypto and NFTs, they're the fucking shadiest people I know. | ||
| Yes, but we need those people because they're going to get us out of this predicament we're in. | ||
| You think? | ||
| Yeah, we need a scam. | ||
| The country's run on a succession of scams. | ||
| But how is this going to protect us from China? | ||
| Well, I don't know. | ||
| Isn't that the real issue? | ||
| They're buying up everything. | ||
| It'll pump up the economy. | ||
| Do you own any digital real estate? | ||
| What? | ||
| Do you own any digital real estate? | ||
| I'm going to ask you again. | ||
| What? | ||
| I mean, I know you have like a house and everything. | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| It's real estate in the metaverse. | ||
| It's real estate. | ||
| I don't understand. | ||
| You're such a boomer. | ||
| You need to own digital real estate, Joe. | ||
| Oh my God. | ||
| Snoop Dogg paid $450,000 to be Snoop Dogg's metaverse. | ||
| Oh, someone paid $450,000 to be Snoop Dogg's metaverse neighbor. | ||
| Wow, he's now a resident of the sandbox metaverse. | ||
| In 20 years, you're not going to be able to go outside because of the climate. | ||
| So you're going to spend most of your time in a pod, and you're going to live online. | ||
| Your NFTs are going to be your precious art, and you're going to live in the metaverse in digital real estate. | ||
| So is Snoop making all that money? | ||
| Like, if it's $458,000 to be his neighbor, is that... | ||
| His money now? | ||
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No. | |
| No, it's just that when a celebrity moves into a building, people want to live in it. | ||
| Okay, good question now. | ||
| So who gets that money? | ||
| Where's that money? | ||
| The person who owned the land. | ||
| That's nonsense. | ||
| What do you mean? | ||
| It's nonsense. | ||
| How is it nonsense? | ||
| They don't get all of it, though. | ||
| But there's no land. | ||
| What do you mean there's no land? | ||
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There's a digital land. | |
| This little video is what it is. | ||
| This is the sandbox. | ||
| This is Snoop's land in the sandbox. | ||
| Go back to that. | ||
| What is this? | ||
| This is the sandbox. | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| So, I'll pause it real quick. | ||
|
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No, no, no. | |
| Keep it going. | ||
| I want to see how this plays out. | ||
| Wave 1. Launching December 2nd. | ||
| Starting time. | ||
| He gets it. | ||
| Alright, so there you go. | ||
| Before it goes too far. | ||
| So each of those little blocks are for sale. | ||
| What? | ||
| And essentially, see how it says on sale? | ||
| That's a bigger block. | ||
| That's like nine blocks together. | ||
| You could start, on the metaverse, you could start a Rogan land where nobody has to take a vaccine. | ||
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Boom! | |
| But this isn't even real life. | ||
| I'm so confused. | ||
| This is real life. | ||
| It's what real life's becoming. | ||
| What's happening in that, Joe, just like for something you might understand, which sort of showed right there, that very beginning part, what can happen in the sandbox is like Roblox. | ||
| So you can develop a game in your space and people can come play it and then they can give you money to play it. | ||
| Or hang out? | ||
| Or watch the concert you're hosting? | ||
| What if you owned... | ||
| You could start your own country, essentially, in the metaverse. | ||
| You buy up all this digital real estate. | ||
| And then what if Gavin Newsom ran for governor of it, won, and destroyed it? | ||
| He'd be fucking you twice. | ||
| In the real world and in the metaverse. | ||
| No, but you've got to get involved in this, man. | ||
| I'm telling you. | ||
| This is the future. | ||
| Yeah, Atari is invested in here. | ||
| This is Snoop's little plot down here, but all these green areas are owned by other people. | ||
| I'm getting the plot. | ||
| Do you have a plot? | ||
| This is where? | ||
| What is this? | ||
| This would be the sandbox metaverse. | ||
| So there's metaverses? | ||
| There'll be the Facebook metaverse? | ||
| For sure there's a ton of metaverses. | ||
| You can't afford to be in certain metaverses. | ||
| Certain metaverses you can. | ||
| Which one could I not afford to be in? | ||
| Not you specifically, but I'm talking about regular people like myself. | ||
| I don't know that I can afford this metaverse. | ||
| But I'm going to start in another metaverse and work hard. | ||
| Listen, the country's over. | ||
| Have a little fun. | ||
| In 20 years, there's people on the streets with guns dragging you out of your house and killing you. | ||
| You might as well have a little fun. | ||
| Do you feel more freedom when you do your wild rants with aviator sunglasses on? | ||
| Yeah, well, you know what it was? | ||
| We're doing it because the lights were burning my eyes. | ||
| We had this little studio, but now the studio's bigger, so I don't wear them as much. | ||
| I feel like there's something about you wearing them that makes it more fun. | ||
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I like them. | |
| I like them with the hat. | ||
| I think it's fun, yeah. | ||
| You're freer. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like, you're protected. | ||
| You can say wild shit and no one can see your pupils. | ||
| Yeah, because it's not me. | ||
| I have shades on. | ||
| We're cutting this digital real estate clip, and I'm going to put it out online. | ||
| Don't start any problems. | ||
| So these metaverses, there'll be many, many metaverses. | ||
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Oh, for sure. | |
| So we could start a JRE metaverse. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| And what would we do with it? | ||
| We get the Weinsteins and Rhonda Patrick, Naval Ravikant. | ||
| And what do they do in there? | ||
| The same thing they do here. | ||
| Talk shit. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Just babble. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| There will be a way to broadcast content a la YouTube, but it wouldn't be YouTube. | ||
| It can be YouTube maybe right now if that's how someone programmed it. | ||
| Broadcast content. | ||
| This is like creating new websites. | ||
| But you have to have a server, right? | ||
| So you have to pay for the server. | ||
| You would, but it wouldn't be going to, you know, wide open for everybody, because it's the only people that are accessing it, and then they're paying to access your thing, so it's paying for itself. | ||
| Jesus Christ. | ||
| I feel like I better get in on this before it gets far away from me. | ||
| I'm telling you, I know that it seems crazy, but young kids, they're digitally native. | ||
| They grow up online. | ||
| Digitally native. | ||
| That's a funny expression. | ||
| Jake Paul explained this entire thing to me, and this is why I know it. | ||
| Did he? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| He's like brilliant about this. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| I'm telling you. | ||
| He understands this better than anyone. | ||
| Really? | ||
| I'm telling you he does. | ||
| I believe you. | ||
| Young kids are digitally native. | ||
| Everything is online. | ||
| All of their prized possessions they'll own will eventually be online. | ||
| Their formative experiences are primarily online. | ||
| Their friendships are online. | ||
| You know, they're kind of living online already. | ||
| They just don't have an address. | ||
| So digital real estate's like that next step of like, why not have a badass house? | ||
| You can't afford a house now in America, and soon you won't be able to afford one in the metaverse. | ||
| The metaverse is Austin three years ago. | ||
| It's true. | ||
| So the metaverse, when you get into these digital spaces, it'll be like an increasingly more sophisticated version of virtual reality. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| As time goes on, it'll get better and better. | ||
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That's right. | |
| That's right. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| So an NFT... Would be maybe something you have is like, people are like, whoa, look at that! | ||
| But you have to bank on the right metaverse. | ||
| Because if you bank on the blockbuster of metaverses, then you have all this stock in some bullshit ass metaverse and it goes away. | ||
| You gotta make good. | ||
| The average user will be like, you can get in free Facebook, we'll call it, it'd be like Pong, but there will be the Quake version that you would want to get into for 10, 15 bucks a month. | ||
| The Sandbox metaverse, is that the same company as Sandbox, the digital, the virtual reality company that I go to? | ||
| No. | ||
| No? | ||
| Why do they steal their name? | ||
| The Sandbox and Sandbox VR. Will there be a little St. James metaverse, like a little pedophile island metaverse? | ||
| Probably. | ||
| There has to be. | ||
| St. James, is that where his island is? | ||
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Little St. James, yeah. | |
| Is that the name of his island? | ||
| Yeah, Little St. James, like a little pedophile island metaverse. | ||
| Is that island for sale? | ||
| Oh, for sure. | ||
| You think so? | ||
| I think, yeah. | ||
| I think there'd be a real problem to buy it, right? | ||
| Like, nobody wants to buy his ranch, apparently. | ||
| He has a giant ranch in New Mexico, and everybody's like, meh. | ||
| That apartment in New York City. | ||
| They got rid of that quick. | ||
| They dumped that quick. | ||
| Yeah, nobody gives a fuck. | ||
| That's like American Psycho. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Remember when he... | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Did you read the book? | ||
| Yeah, it's great. | ||
| It's like people just cleaning up bodies that he would leave behind. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And like, shut the fuck up. | ||
| We're trying to sell an apartment. | ||
| I think that... | ||
| I think it's all interesting, this stuff. | ||
| It is definitely interesting, because I didn't see it coming, so clearly I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about. | ||
| And these guys, like that guy made $90 million, and Beeple made $100 million last year, and he's fucking balling out of control. | ||
| It's time to start going in that direction. | ||
| My Beeple drives a Corolla. | ||
| Yeah? | ||
| You should get a fucking Rolls Royce, right? | ||
| What do you have to earn before you get a Rolls Royce? | ||
| When do you step up? | ||
| I won't get anything in the physical world until I've set myself up in the metaverse. | ||
| Truly. | ||
| I mean, I want a mansion in the metaverse. | ||
| Who cares what anyone has in real life? | ||
| Real life is a distraction at best. | ||
| People are talking about traffic. | ||
| Things are falling apart. | ||
| The infrastructure is crumbling. | ||
| The metaverse is perfect and serene. | ||
| No more working out. | ||
| Well, in the metaverse, you can work out. | ||
| But there's no effort. | ||
| It's not hard. | ||
| What do you mean? | ||
| You won't be struggling because you won't have real exercise. | ||
| Struggle's where you find it. | ||
| But I mean, exercise, like heart rate increasing. | ||
| Heart? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The metaverse will provide. | ||
| So will you download your consciousness into a computer? | ||
| 100%. | ||
| 100%. | ||
| Really? | ||
| I think we've got to start doing this very soon. | ||
| What did Alex Jones say? | ||
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Get rid of your body for the golden silicon gods. | |
| Yeah, that's what he said. | ||
| I anticipate one day visiting Tim. | ||
| And Tim is 90 feet tall. | ||
| He's wearing a golden crown. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| And a diaper. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And you're sitting on a throne in your version of the metaverse. | ||
| And I'm like, fuck, I should have listened to you. | ||
| From your mouth to God's ears. | ||
| And you have like piles of gold, like that dragon in Lord of the Rings. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Smog. | ||
| I'm telling you right now, you're at the tail end of the physical world mattering. | ||
| What's this? | ||
| This is an episode of Black Mirror that was maybe season one or two. | ||
| It's called 15 Million Merits. | ||
| But essentially, this kid wakes up in our room, all screens, and he spends his day riding a bicycle on treadmills earning money so they can do stuff in this fake world that they live in. | ||
| And right now there's a push in games, a new level of games calling play to earn games, which you're going to be making money, most likely a cryptocurrency that you can then spend on... | ||
| In theory, whatever. | ||
| Look at Minecraft. | ||
| I mean, those kids play Minecraft all day. | ||
| They've created these crazy, big, huge... | ||
| I mean, they have millions of people watching them, and they've created these worlds. | ||
| I mean, this is just... | ||
| I used to dismiss gaming, but it's much more substantive than I had imagined. | ||
| Have you started to come to this opinion about NFTs and this metaverse? | ||
| Have you started to come to this slowly? | ||
| Was there an awakening moment? | ||
| What made you realize that this is the future? | ||
| I think it's slowly, but I just believe, for example, I dismiss gaming as this adolescent thing, but it's truly not. | ||
| Especially if you look at the movies and TV that we're making right now, the vast majority of it isn't checking the boxes that people want it to. | ||
| And then you have these games Where these crazy like interactive games, these thriving communities that are built that are much more substantive than I have imagined and they have drama and they have excitement and they have all these things, these story arcs and everything that are much more complex than I had initially imagined. | ||
| I was overly dismissive of those online communities. | ||
| I think in the same way that a lot of people are overly dismissive of what's going on right now. | ||
| We're already doing it. | ||
| That's the thing. | ||
| We're already kind of living online. | ||
| This is what I don't think people realize. | ||
| I don't think it's this massive jump. | ||
| I think it's going to be much more immersive, but I think we're already almost... | ||
| When's the last... | ||
| Most people are talking about things they see online. | ||
| Most people are... | ||
| That's driving the conversation. | ||
| I don't think it's a far cry to suggest that... | ||
| You know, we're in a metaverse of sorts already. | ||
| Well, something has to be done to stop online censorship. | ||
| Maybe something decentralized and something that is controlled, you know, in this way. | ||
| Well, that's why you joined Morgan Wallen's metaverse. | ||
| Who? | ||
| Morgan Wallen. | ||
| The guy who screamed the N-word in his driveway, the country singer. | ||
| Morgan Wallen? | ||
| You don't know about this? | ||
| No. | ||
| This was a while ago. | ||
| Do you know who he is? | ||
| You do? | ||
| Of course. | ||
| Why'd he scream it? | ||
| I think he was kidding. | ||
| Oh. | ||
| But all of this stuff eventually, hopefully, increases the amount of freedom people have that everything isn't centralized, mainframe, like a controlled, top-down paramilitary thing. | ||
| Hopefully. | ||
| Hopefully. | ||
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| But if not, LOL. If not, then it's going to be controlled by the Bitcoin people. | ||
| But something's got to be done to stop what's happening now, the trend of online censorship that's controlled by these massive tech companies. | ||
| And if something could disrupt that, if that could be done through blockchain, if that could be done through the metaverse, then I'm in. | ||
| Well, listen, I should be the first person that thinks outside the box, because if it wasn't for outside the box, I wouldn't have the number one podcast in the world, right? | ||
| If that happened out of nowhere. | ||
| I'm stunned that mine is bigger technically. | ||
| If you look at the numbers, but I don't want to interrupt you. | ||
| It is bigger. | ||
| It should be bigger. | ||
| How about that? | ||
| If you look at the numbers. | ||
| I find it more enjoyable than mine. | ||
| I'm surprised that you're not all over this stuff already, because you've always been the guy that's ahead of things by leaps and bounds. | ||
| It's because there's too many shady people that are offering it up to me. | ||
| Well, in the beginning of everything, there's a lot of shady people, but that, you know, things shake out, and those people, you know... | ||
| In the beginning of any Wild West environment where you don't have a ton of regulation and things aren't well established is going to attract a certain type of person. | ||
| Brilliant. | ||
| Some of them visionaries. | ||
| Some of them great. | ||
| Some of them criminals. | ||
| Some of them... | ||
| And eventually the cream rises to the top. | ||
| But I like doing so many things in the real world. | ||
| You're way too into the real world. | ||
| You're into lakes and rivers. | ||
| That shit sucks. | ||
| No one cares. | ||
| It's gay. | ||
| The reality is the metaverse is better. | ||
| People don't care about hunting deer in a volcano or whatever you do. | ||
| They're all 900 pounds and they're hooked up to tubes to just live. | ||
| Let them enjoy the metaverse. | ||
| You'll always get to take your dumb trips with your friends and you guys can run around. | ||
| I'm gonna stay. | ||
| I'm gonna put all my money in wood chips. | ||
| We're always going to need pellets to fuel the Traegers. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, perhaps. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's just interesting stuff, man. | ||
| Maybe I just spent a few days too long in Miami. | ||
| You might have. | ||
| That's also possible. | ||
| That's possible. | ||
| You might need to just decompress it. | ||
| Every day we talked about this from breakfast through 3 a.m. | ||
| Yeah? | ||
| And I'm sober. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yeah, I'm sober. | ||
| This is at Art Basel? | ||
| I know you are. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But this is at Art Basel? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| This is what people are talking about. | ||
| Should I go there next year? | ||
| It's really cool. | ||
| You did enjoy it? | ||
| I loved it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It was a really fun- It's fun! | ||
| Was it hard for you to move around? | ||
| Did people swarm you? | ||
| No, they didn't swarm me, but- You get swarmed, now I've seen it. | ||
| The Gary Vee party, they let me in. | ||
| Why'd they let you in the Gary Vee party? | ||
| Well, because one of the guys goes, oh, we love you, you're a legend, and they let me in. | ||
| Did Gary Vee find out you were there and kick you out? | ||
| No, I think he has a sense of humor. | ||
| Do you think so? | ||
| I think so. | ||
| But didn't he try to ban some of the things you did? | ||
| No, that was my conspiracy, thinking that he did. | ||
| I was walking around that party scared. | ||
| I had two of my friends with me. | ||
| And I was looking around. | ||
| I'm like, where is he? | ||
| Where's he going? | ||
| I thought he was going to descend from the ceiling. | ||
| I was a little scared. | ||
| But it was very sweet of his people. | ||
| I'm going to sit down with him because I'm curious about funding a movie in crypto. | ||
| So I want to sit down with him. | ||
| You're going to sit down with Gary Vee? | ||
| He's supposedly open to him. | ||
| Is he the guy to fund a movie and crypto with? | ||
| No, but he knows a lot about this world, about NFTs and stuff. | ||
| And I've made fun of some of the advice he's given because it's a little wacky. | ||
| Like what? | ||
| Well, he's just said, you know, crazy things. | ||
| Like, kindness is delicious. | ||
| And things like that, which... | ||
| Again, as a comedian, you'd have to make fun of some of the advice he's given, which is very vague. | ||
| Well, he puts out a lot of content. | ||
| Yeah, and some of it's good, great, but some of it's vague. | ||
| I've made fun of the things that are vague. | ||
| When he goes, you could talk about it or you could be about it, but I'd do both. | ||
| And you go, what? | ||
| So, things like that, I just don't... | ||
| There's probably a method to the madness there. | ||
| But he's a good father and a good guy and he's made money for his family. | ||
| He's not a bad guy. | ||
| Not a bad person. | ||
| He's not a bad guy. | ||
| I gotta go back into this. | ||
| You see how I'm kind of trying to... | ||
| I gotta angle back into this. | ||
| I see. | ||
| I gotta angle back in. | ||
| Right, right, right. | ||
| You see, it's like... | ||
| Well, you can have initial impressions about someone. | ||
| Well, no. | ||
| Some of what he said is, as a comedian, your job is to make fun of crazy stuff. | ||
| And when somebody does something that's crazy, you've got to make fun of it. | ||
| And, you know, even this NFT stuff, I make fun of it because a lot of it's silly, but I do think that the world has to change. | ||
| People have to stop going outside. | ||
| Forever? | ||
| For a while. | ||
| Until what? | ||
| Until they realize their needs are met on the metaverse. | ||
| Are we gonna just become integrated? | ||
| Is that the future? | ||
| Well, that's your whole thing, right? | ||
| You've always believed that. | ||
| But I was hoping it would take a little longer. | ||
| I know, but I'm ready now! | ||
| The rest of us are ready now! | ||
| I think we're gonna be cyborgs, for sure. | ||
| But do you think this happens first, then the cyborg part? | ||
| It's creepy and wild, but I do believe that this is, you know, unfortunately, or fortunately, this is the inevitable reality. | ||
| I don't know how to deal with that. | ||
| There's too much inertia moving it to that direction, you know? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Young kids already are... | ||
| Their formative experiences, the things they value, are online-based. | ||
| You know? | ||
| The interactions they have, the friendships they've built, the communities they're a part of, the information they get... | ||
| The social arrangements they have, a lot of it is online. | ||
| A lot of the prized possessions they will own are online. | ||
| And that's where NFTs come in. | ||
| It's not only digital art, but it's, you know, it's kind of anything that people, the concept of digital ownership. | ||
| It's just like you owning that cool crystal skull. | ||
| Or, you know... | ||
| Brass. | ||
| Brass. | ||
| Or, you know, any of the things that you own that you go, this is a really cool thing that I own. | ||
| People are going to do that online. | ||
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Hmm. | |
| I should be more open to this, because obviously- It's crazy that I'm even convincing you of this. | ||
| You're not. | ||
| I'm just going along with it. | ||
| As soon as I leave, I'm going to go, fuck it out of your mind. | ||
| That's your- I'm telling you- I'm going to play with my dog. | ||
| You said I was wrong about Clubhouse, and now it's the biggest app in the world. | ||
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Ah! | |
| Yeah, you were definitely wrong about Clubhouse. | ||
| I was wrong about Clubhouse. | ||
| Tell me I didn't call that. | ||
| I was wrong about Clubhouse. | ||
| You called that. | ||
| You called that. | ||
| Andrew Schultz and you called Clubhouse. | ||
| Well, I was like, this is a bad podcast. | ||
| It's horrible. | ||
| Yeah, it's a podcast. | ||
| Somebody said it was a podcast with hecklers, and they were right. | ||
| It's horrible. | ||
| Well, once Brett Weinstein got kicked out of that room, and they kicked everybody out of that room that started, and they started calling everybody racist, I was like, whoa. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Like, what is this? | ||
| But I think these ideas have a lot more merit than an app, obviously. | ||
| Like, I think this is just seemingly, you know... | ||
| Well, I think that Clubhouse was great for what it was at the time, which was, like, people got stuck. | ||
| But anyone you meet in real life from Clubhouse, it's, like, terrifying. | ||
| When you're, like, Leigh Lamar, like, she... | ||
| She's like the queen of Clubhouse. | ||
| Yeah, I guess. | ||
| Is she still on it? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I haven't been on it in months. | ||
| If you go to Clubhouse now, are there people there? | ||
| I was actually just... | ||
| It's moved over to Twitter now, Twitter Spaces. | ||
| Yeah, Clubhouse is like dead. | ||
| They stole it? | ||
| It's the same thing. | ||
| It's the same thing. | ||
| How is it the same thing? | ||
| You talk on Twitter? | ||
| You can just talk on Twitter. | ||
| Wait a minute, on Twitter Spaces you can have phone calls? | ||
| You can do the thing, but no one cares anymore. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So when did it move over to Twitter Spaces? | ||
| But how many followers does Leia have on the clubhouse? | ||
| She was up to a couple hundred thousand, right? | ||
| That was way bigger than any of her other platforms. | ||
| She was in an NFT discussion. | ||
| I just started checking it out to be like, is this exactly a clubhouse? | ||
| Maybe I'm wrong. | ||
| It is bullshit. | ||
| Will there be comedy? | ||
| Will there be comedy in the metaverse? | ||
| Yes, there'll be everything. | ||
| Everything that's here, you'd have there. | ||
| All the entertainment, you know? | ||
| Bands? | ||
| Yeah, why not? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Something about watching really old rock stars dance on the stage for their last time. | ||
| I saw the Stones live in person. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| It wouldn't be the same if I saw them in the metaverse. | ||
| To you, because you grew up without it. | ||
| The people that are growing up with only the metaverse will only know the metaverse. | ||
| Jesus, dude. | ||
| It's a heavy ship, but it's true. | ||
| I didn't expect this from you. | ||
| Well, you know, I'm a raconteur. | ||
| You're a salesperson. | ||
| A raconteur. | ||
| I'm trying to get a large sum of money from people so we can start a crypto island off the coast of Miami. | ||
| Off the coast of Miami? | ||
| There's islands? | ||
| Yeah, we're going to buy an island. | ||
| It's not going to be a pedophile run. | ||
| It's going to be run with crypto, which is even worse. | ||
| What if the Chinese invade your island? | ||
| They're not going to. | ||
| They might. | ||
| They're not going to invade my island. | ||
| What if they don't trust you? | ||
| They're going to trust me. | ||
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Really? | |
| It's going to be their island, too. | ||
| Because it's not gonna be real. | ||
| It's just going to be a location in the metaverse. | ||
| You keep thinking about invasions. | ||
| I'm more worried about digital attacks. | ||
| From aliens? | ||
| From anybody. | ||
| I mean, that's a good point. | ||
| Can you attack a metaverse? | ||
| You must be able to if it's on a server somewhere. | ||
| For sure. | ||
| And that's more what I'd worry about. | ||
| I'm worried about some crazy 13-year-old kid who's a super genius who's going to hack into it for a goof to impress his friends on TikTok. | ||
| I'm just saying that I am all in on this. | ||
| Jesus. | ||
| I'm all in on this. | ||
| She's at $264,000. | ||
| That's where she's at? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| $9,000 on Twitter. | ||
| Yeah, that's... | ||
| Well, that's... | ||
| That's it. | ||
| That's what I'm saying. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| You see the difference? | ||
| On her Twitter, it says, like, X Clubhouse something. | ||
| X Clubhouse? | ||
| Well, I just... | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| She's no longer on Clubhouse? | ||
| X Clubhouse icon. | ||
| Oh, she's not a Clubhouse icon anymore? | ||
| I tried to open up the app and when you go to it, it says air loading stuff. | ||
| Oh, it's dead. | ||
| It's pretty dead. | ||
| Did Clubhouse die? | ||
| Oh, it's dead. | ||
| Really? | ||
| I don't know if it's officially dead, but it's dead. | ||
| Duval and I were on the phone. | ||
| He was trying to convince me that he couldn't invest. | ||
| He goes, I would like a bigger position in it. | ||
| I want to spend more money on it. | ||
| And I'm listening to him. | ||
| I'm like, I thought he was smart. | ||
| Right. | ||
| His advice is so good. | ||
| He's one of my favorite advice guys ever because it's so clear and succinct. | ||
| So him telling me about Clubhouse, I'm like, do you have a podcast? | ||
| Because if you don't have a podcast, you should get one. | ||
| And then if you had one, I think you'd look at Clubhouse and go, what the fuck is this? | ||
| I was caught up, I think, in a pandemic frenzy, an insane thing where you were like, oh, this is fun and cool, but then it ended. | ||
| Well, when you and I were on that one time, and then the head guy from Clubhouse jumped on it with us, and then I was like, what's to stop people from uploading this? | ||
| They won't. | ||
| It was online five minutes later on YouTube. | ||
| I'm like, this is not a... | ||
| That's also the problem. | ||
| Yeah, people are uploading it. | ||
| Yep, it's a country of rats. | ||
| Fucking rats. | ||
| What are you going to do? | ||
| It is a country of rats. | ||
| It's a country of rats. | ||
| There's a lot of real benefit in being a rat today. | ||
| There's a huge benefit in it. | ||
| That didn't always used to be the case. | ||
| No. | ||
| We didn't like rats. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But now everybody wants to, you know, everybody wants to shine a light on something. | ||
| So if they hear that you at a conversation clubhouse, they're like, and it gives them value as a human being to be the person that uploaded that. | ||
| They want to make a little money, you know, there's equity in it. | ||
| There's equity in being the rat. | ||
| But listen, is not your favorite thing going to a place, showing up at a sold-out theater, and rocking the house? | ||
| It's in the top ten. | ||
| What's number one? | ||
| No, I love comedy. | ||
| Comedy is great. | ||
| It's the best. | ||
| But doing a great podcast is good, too. | ||
| I'm telling you, I got into the pandemic. | ||
| I love live comedy. | ||
| But when I do a really good podcast, I go, that's really funny. | ||
| And I look at Ben and I go, that's really great. | ||
| And it's going to be seen by however many people. | ||
| And there's no cap. | ||
| Whereas a theater, there's a cap. | ||
| And the amazing thing of live experience is... | ||
| There's a finite amount of people in there and the show's gonna be different every time. | ||
| When you do something great digitally that you can put out and so many people are gonna enjoy it, I mean, I like that too. | ||
| But there's the feeling of being there live. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| That I love the most. | ||
| It's a shot of heroin. | ||
| But the podcast is a slow-release Vyvanse as opposed to a line of Adderall. | ||
| Do you have physical things? | ||
| Are you a guy, like if I went over to your house, do you have a lot of art? | ||
| No. | ||
| Do you have nothing? | ||
| Not a lot of things. | ||
| Do you have a TV, a nice TV? Yeah, shit like that, but I don't care. | ||
| You don't care? | ||
| No, I don't. | ||
| You don't own any jewelry or anything? | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| No nice watches? | ||
| No, I bought a Range Rover. | ||
| I sold it. | ||
| Because of the supply chain, I sold it immediately. | ||
| The Range Rover you got rid of? | ||
| Yeah, I got rid of it because I got rid of it. | ||
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So what are you driving? | |
| Right now, I don't have a car. | ||
| I rented a Suburban. | ||
| You don't have a car? | ||
| You are all in on this. | ||
| I rented a Suburban. | ||
| Really? | ||
| I was on the road for three months. | ||
| I said, because of the supply chain right now, I can get rid of the Range Rover for almost what I paid. | ||
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Really? | |
| Just get rid of it. | ||
| You don't need it. | ||
| They break. | ||
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Yeah, they break. | |
| It's whatever. | ||
| Did Joyce break? | ||
| The seat broke, like one of the massage things in it. | ||
| It's usually electric stuff. | ||
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Yeah! | |
| It's always a problem. | ||
| And I was just like, I don't need a car that's that much money. | ||
| It's fine. | ||
|
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Wow. | |
| Let's get rid of it. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| I'd rather have the money to buy property In the digital world. | ||
| Oh, if anybody wants to buy one, I think Ron Weitz is for sale, too. | ||
| I think he's selling one. | ||
| He goes, well, I got two of them. | ||
| I'm going to sell one. | ||
| I like experiences more than things. | ||
| Yes, that's why I like live comedy. | ||
| Yeah, I like live comedy, too. | ||
| But I think putting something out online and having people enjoy it from all over the world or whatever is cool. | ||
| It is cool, but both are cool. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Oh, they're both cool. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| For sure. | ||
| I just... | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I see what you're saying. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But obviously I'm resisting it, whether it's logical or illogical. | ||
| There's a part of me that's going... | ||
| I don't like it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I understand that you're an IRL guy. | ||
| You're a real life guy. | ||
| An IRL guy? | ||
| Yeah, but the reality is the future is digital. | ||
| And me and my friends in Miami are going to make a very good world. | ||
| So you should just... | ||
| Get involved now. | ||
| Get in on the ground floor. | ||
| Maybe I'll go with you 12 months from now. | ||
| Come to Art Basel. | ||
| I'll book some gigs around it. | ||
| Book a gig. | ||
| It'll be really fun. | ||
| You can talk to all these people. | ||
| What time is it? | ||
| When was it? | ||
| It was three weeks ago I went. | ||
| December. | ||
| Early December? | ||
| Yeah, you stayed the Four Seasons down there. | ||
| They got a great restaurant. | ||
| You go to all the things. | ||
| It's fun. | ||
| In June, there's an Art Basel. | ||
| June. | ||
| Oh, there's another one? | ||
| Well, you know what? | ||
| You should come to the Crypto Conference. | ||
| I'm doing a comedy show at the Crypto Conference in Miami. | ||
| I did a live podcast last year with the Winklevoss twins and Jake Paul. | ||
| I'm doing a live comedy show. | ||
| There this year, plus a podcast. | ||
| So, a live comedy show with people? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| No, there's people. | ||
| The one in June's in Switzerland. | ||
| Yeah, December is difficult. | ||
| December 1st. | ||
| But you could come to that. | ||
| I mean, we can't afford you. | ||
| We were going to book people that we could afford, but... | ||
| Well, I don't have to get paid. | ||
| I'll just show up. | ||
| Well, you could do that. | ||
| We're going to go back. | ||
| It's a lot of fun. | ||
| And when you do your live show, are you going to a theater? | ||
| Like, what are you doing? | ||
| Oh yeah, it's a convention center. | ||
| That's what we did the podcast last year. | ||
| So you did the podcast there last year in front of a live audience? | ||
| Have you done that before? | ||
| No, this is the first time I did it. | ||
| I think it was the second or third time I did it. | ||
| I've done it three times. | ||
| Because generally you don't have guests in your podcast. | ||
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For sure. | |
| But occasionally you do. | ||
| You feel a lot of pressure to be funny with the live crowd. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So I think it makes it really fun in the moment, but to listen back to it, you actually would rather it not be live. | ||
| Especially if it's a conversation. | ||
| Live podcasts to listen to suck, but to be at them, they're very fun. | ||
| Yeah, it's a different feel when you're listening to them. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So you have like, we had Jake Paul come in who talked about fighting, boxing, NFTs. | ||
| He's been saying that he's suffering from slurring words and loss of memory already. | ||
| Yeah, that's not... | ||
| I mean, you know more about that than me. | ||
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That's not great. | |
| It doesn't take long. | ||
| It doesn't take long if you spar a lot. | ||
| You get a few shots. | ||
| He's fucking good, though. | ||
| He's really good. | ||
| Like, people want to pretend he's not because he's a YouTube guy. | ||
| The way he knocked out Tyron Woodley, that is fucking skillful. | ||
| No, he knows what he's doing. | ||
| He's got real fucking power. | ||
| And he works hard. | ||
| Meanwhile, all the fucking casuals are thinking it's fake. | ||
| Yeah, people were saying it was... | ||
| There was a TikTok saying that it was staged, but it's... | ||
| Yeah, they were saying there's a tell because he moves his hand and he's like saying, here comes the big right hand, I'm going to hit you. | ||
| Yeah, it's... | ||
| No, it's silly. | ||
| I think that... | ||
| But it was fun. | ||
| We had him and then the Winklevoss twins who were those crypto billionaires, the Facebook guys, and they were cool. | ||
| So we'll be back this year. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
|
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Yeah. | |
| So you have become an integral part of that community. | ||
| Well, I'm not integral in the community at all. | ||
| Well, I did that little wallet trailer as a joke, that film. | ||
| What is that? | ||
| I did a trailer of a fake crypto movie of one of these movies. | ||
| Oh, I need to see this. | ||
| Was gonna be made... | ||
| You've never seen it? | ||
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No. | |
| It has like 3 million views. | ||
| Well, now it'll be 3 million and one. | ||
| Retweeted by everyone in the community. | ||
| In the crypto community. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| It was like a... | ||
| This was the type of movie that Hollywood was gonna make about Bitcoin. | ||
| The following preview has been approved for appropriate audiences by Motion Picture Association. | ||
| I think we mentioned it before. | ||
| Tommy, I called you to talk about dad and money. | ||
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Dad owns a hundred biddle coins and he's got them in a wallet on the internet. | |
| The wallet's the internet? | ||
| What the fuck are you talking about? | ||
| If we get the password, there's millions of dollars in there. | ||
| Elon Musk started a new type of money. | ||
| Who is Elon Musk? | ||
| He was an astronaut, Tommy. | ||
| Listen, Ma, Dad was into something here. | ||
| Is that a real quote? | ||
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Your father was a fucking clown. | |
| We just gotta get that password. | ||
|
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Why don't you try fucking Susan? | |
| That was his girlfriend's name. | ||
| That's not a bad idea. | ||
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That's his Tracy. | |
| Come on. | ||
|
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We never had nothing growing up, but now we can have something. | |
| Christ! | ||
| Christ! | ||
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Fuck you, you fucking loser! | |
| What's the password? | ||
| What the fucking password? | ||
| Tommy, the central banks are fucking us! | ||
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It would change our fucking lives, Tommy. | |
| I have $17, Timmy. | ||
| That's not good. | ||
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Yeah, big fucking surprise there. | |
| Your father was a real class ass. | ||
| See, that's your quote. | ||
| It could've been okay, Tommy. | ||
| That's your quote. | ||
| I didn't know I quoted it. | ||
| We're trying to get the password. | ||
| So that got a lot of attention. | ||
| The wallet. | ||
| How about that guy that's been going through a dump for eight years because there's a half a billion dollars in Bitcoin in that dump? | ||
| It's such a funny idea, right? | ||
| The idea that somebody could do something, one good thing in their life financially and then throw it away. | ||
| And now for eight years he's been combing this dump. | ||
| What if it's not even in the dump? | ||
| I don't even know it's in the dump. | ||
| It's probably this thing that this has happened to a few people. | ||
| A guy I know died and his wife was looking into it. | ||
| So if he's going through that dump, how the fuck is he going to find it? | ||
| That, I don't know. | ||
| I think he's just looking for... | ||
| But it's a giant landfill. | ||
| Yeah, I don't know what he's looking for. | ||
| A needle in a haystack. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| A literal needle in a haystack. | ||
| Well, if it's the kind of money that you would, right? | ||
| You'd spend the time doing it. | ||
| Well, not only that, there's got to be a lot of decomposition and moisture and the sheer biomass of all that garbage. | ||
| Oh, for sure. | ||
| Who knows what the fuck happened to that hard drive by the time he gets to it. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| But again, if it's $500 million, you're going to fucking look. | ||
| For eight years, it's been looking. | ||
| You're gonna look. | ||
| Why not? | ||
| Well, that's the thing. | ||
| That's a very funny, interesting thing. | ||
| And I'm sure that stuff will change where it'll maybe be easy to get in them. | ||
| Maybe not. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know either. | ||
| I feel like one of those old men where the world has changed, and I'm like, what? | ||
| Email? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| The fuck is email? | ||
| You are kind of a little bit like that. | ||
| Send me a letter. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But you can change. | ||
| The time is now. | ||
| You can change and you can start. | ||
| Or I just keep doing what I'm doing. | ||
| Maybe, but... | ||
| You don't think I should? | ||
| I think it's time to start your own coin. | ||
| What would I call it? | ||
| JRE coin? | ||
| Rogue coin? | ||
| Eh. | ||
| It's a little too on the nose. | ||
| It's not great. | ||
| JRE coin. | ||
| JRE coin. | ||
| Start a JRE coin. | ||
| And what do I do? | ||
| I think you just... | ||
| How many of them are there? | ||
| You get a bunch and then... | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| Well, there's a set amount of them. | ||
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How? | |
| How do I set it? | ||
| Well, Jamie, you know. | ||
| Can't he just start a coin? | ||
| No, I want you to tell me because you don't know. | ||
| No, I've never started a coin. | ||
| Of course I don't know. | ||
| I got 7,500 Bitcoin on a hard drive. | ||
| At 50k, that's $3 billion. | ||
| What? | ||
| Somebody lost that? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Who's that? | ||
| A different guy? | ||
| No, no. | ||
| I thought his was only worth a half a million. | ||
| If he started a coin, he'd come up with, like, what, 50,000 coins? | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| Half a billion Bitcoin lost in the dump. | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| I was just digging through another one. | ||
| It says a UK man had 700, yeah, mistakenly put a hard drive with 7,500 bitcoins in the trash. | ||
| Oh my god, that's way more, right? | ||
| I mean... | ||
| That's 230, 280 billion? | ||
| 280 million. | ||
| He needs permission from his local council to search a garbage dump he believes contains the lost hardware. | ||
| He doesn't have the fucking... | ||
| That's the price though a year ago when it was way less. | ||
| But he doesn't have the permission. | ||
| Oh, yeah, well, good luck. | ||
| So this has happened many times. | ||
| So part of the Bitcoin thing, you know, there's a finite amount, and we don't know how many of them are lost. | ||
| So they're lost forever. | ||
| The ones that are lost forever are lost forever. | ||
| Yeah, they're lost forever. | ||
| Correct. | ||
| And that's what's good about it. | ||
| It's not fiat currency. | ||
| It can't keep getting printed every time we want to go to war or, you know, do a new program. | ||
| But if somebody grabs his hard drive, then they'll own his Bitcoin. | ||
| Like if somebody else combs through that dump, do they have to have the... | ||
| Yes? | ||
| Yeah, they got to have the password and shit. | ||
| They have to have the password. | ||
| They have to get in. | ||
| Then you only get—that's the joke of the thing. | ||
| There's like five chances to do it or three chances to do it or ten or whatever it is. | ||
| And what if a password or what if a hard drive burns in a fire? | ||
| Then the money's gone forever, like money burning in a fire. | ||
| Depending on what you did, there might be a way to access it as long as you still have the password because it's on the chain, not on the hard drive. | ||
| Jesus Christ. | ||
| Depending on exactly what it is, I don't want to get too far into it. | ||
| These questions I don't think are productive or helpful. | ||
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| You just got to kind of get in here. | ||
| I mean, you know what I mean? | ||
| You know, when you tell someone to start working out, they don't go, what am I? Yeah, but you can hire a trainer and you can get to working out tomorrow. | ||
| And I have the trainers, crypto trainers in Miami for you. | ||
| We fly you right down. | ||
| We fly you right down. | ||
| This is me with a headache flying back. | ||
| I may or may not have promised people that you are starting a coin. | ||
| This is me flying back the same time next year going, fuck this. | ||
| I'm buying a log cabin on the top of a mountain. | ||
| Perhaps. | ||
| And I'm stockpiling food and bullets. | ||
| But there's no variance in the metaverse. | ||
| Oh. | ||
| What if you're sick while you're in your fucking house? | ||
| There's no Fauci in the metaverse. | ||
| There's no everything. | ||
| I'm telling you, no mandates in the metaverse, baby. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| How does the story end for Fauci? | ||
| He's 80 years old. | ||
| How much longer is he going to stay alive? | ||
| A documentary that they've already made about him. | ||
| How about the book? | ||
| The real Anthony Fauci is the number one book in America right now. | ||
| Well, that's the hit piece, right? | ||
| But then there'll be another version of that that's a glowing thing. | ||
| Well, I think he's one of the reasons why they took the thumbs down off of YouTube. | ||
| Which is hilarious, by the way. | ||
| It will end for him the way it ends for everyone who has a public profile, right? | ||
| I mean, it's like, no one cares. | ||
| Well, anyone who's got a public profile that's in charge of the vaccines and public health and may have started up gain-of-function research and led to this whole pandemic in the first place. | ||
| His significance will be hotly debated. | ||
| Like in terms of like how how good or bad he was people debate that there'll be the people that look at him like Jesus and You know there'll be the people that say he's the devil Yeah, but I'm saying like how does it end? | ||
| Like this this Robert Kennedy book. | ||
| Yeah is the number one book in the country I haven't read it. | ||
| It's on Ben's somebody sent it to us, but I haven't read it Ben has it again, but it's not on any New York Times bestseller list Right? | ||
| No. | ||
| Which is hilarious. | ||
| I guess not. | ||
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I don't know. | |
| Is it? | ||
| What's the New York Times bestseller list? | ||
| Like, if it's number one on Amazon, right? | ||
| That's what I heard. | ||
| Or it's the number one book in the country. | ||
| But is it on lists? | ||
| Is it on the bestseller list? | ||
| Or is it just number one? | ||
| No clue. | ||
| Number one, but off the list? | ||
| It might be number one on Amazon. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Amazon charts number one this week, the real Anthony Fauci. | ||
| It's got 3,610 ratings on Amazon with five stars. | ||
| The real Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the global war on democracy and public health, children's health defense, hardcover, November 16th. | ||
| So if this is the number one in America, what is the New York Times bestseller list? | ||
| Number one on Amazon and a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and publishes weekly national bestsellers. | ||
| So it's a New York Times bestseller? | ||
| Go to the New York Times bestsellers list for today. | ||
| What's the list? | ||
| Bestsellers list. | ||
| Okay, let's see what it is. | ||
| Here it is. | ||
| Number one. | ||
| Call us what we carry. | ||
| Okay, we're going to go to nonfiction. | ||
| It's not there. | ||
| It's not there at all. | ||
| Well, because they're going to say it's fiction. | ||
| Stanley Tucci. | ||
| Like, look at this. | ||
| This is for next January 2nd, 2022, though, also. | ||
| Oh. | ||
| Go back to what they're so far ahead. | ||
| But how can it be January 22nd? | ||
| Pre-sales? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Okay, so. | ||
| What week are we in this one? | ||
| That's good. | ||
| But where is it? | ||
| Are they hiding it? | ||
| Hardcover nonfiction. | ||
| Click on that and see what's the full list because that's only showing you five. | ||
| So is there a number when you go down when it shows up? | ||
| They're real Anthony Fauci. | ||
| Number seven. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| So it is there. | ||
| It's there. | ||
| But I wonder why it's not number one on Amazon. | ||
| There's something with the New York Times list where they weigh certain sales differently. | ||
| Oh. | ||
| You mean they rig it? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, but it's weird. | ||
| It's like somebody's explaining it to me. | ||
| I forget. | ||
| I think when you do Barnes& Noble and stores like that, the sales count less than they do for independent bookstores. | ||
| They've done a very good job of making that guy seem like he's out of his fucking mind. | ||
| Who? | ||
| Robert Kennedy Jr. Yeah, I don't know much about him. | ||
| I know that he has an issue that I believe he believes he got from a vaccine or something, a disease. | ||
| Is that what he says? | ||
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Is that? | |
| I don't know. | ||
| I mean, I know he has an issue. | ||
| His voice is fucked. | ||
| So that's why I thought maybe that's why he was very passionate about vaccines. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Theo Vaughn had him on his podcast. | ||
| Oh, interesting. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I didn't listen to it, though. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, I don't think he's against vaccines in general. | ||
| I don't want to be incorrect about this. | ||
| I think he believes that they cover up some of the side effects when they happen. | ||
| Not that they happen all the time, but some of the side effects when they do happen, particularly with children. | ||
| I think he believes they've covered them up. | ||
| Yeah, undoubtedly. | ||
| But this was all before the pandemic. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Before the pandemic, you was thought of as an anti-vaxxer, back when anti-vaxxer still carried a negative connotation, but it didn't seem like you were destroying society. | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| It was like, oh, he's one of those. | ||
| It was like Jenny McCarthy or something. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| And now it's like, you're a demon! | ||
| Yeah, because people would keep trying to get me to get him on. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I need to watch him talk. | ||
| Have you? | ||
| I've seen a few things, but not in depth. | ||
| It's wild, though, that this book is number one on Amazon. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's where I think most people buy books. | ||
| I believe that more than I believe any sort of curated list. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| I don't doubt it's a massive book. | ||
| You ever do a Google search? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And then do a DuckDuckGo search, and you're like, huh. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like, DuckDuckGo doesn't curate, so you get all the relevant information. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Whereas with Google, they hide shit from you. | ||
| Well, they gatekeep. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, that's why you need, I think, alternatives to these things. | ||
| And I think alternatives to these things will be more online, like crypto-funded things that people can manage with a bunch of people as opposed to with a very small, tightly controlled group of people. | ||
| That's the hope. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I believe you. | ||
| I'm interested. | ||
| Now, all I need from you is $10 million. | ||
| I feel like it's that scene in Fargo where you're trying to sell me the coating underneath the car. | ||
| I just need $3 million cash, and we're going to make all of our dreams. | ||
| Oh, cash. | ||
| But what do you mean? | ||
| I thought cash was no good. | ||
| Listen. | ||
| We need it first. | ||
| It's a small startup cost. | ||
| Oh, so it's like... | ||
| It's a small startup cost. | ||
| You need a little bit of Tinder to start the fire. | ||
| A little bit of the greenbacks. | ||
| A little bit of the old bloody imperialist money to get lifted off into hyperspace. | ||
| Are you concerned about the future? | ||
| No. | ||
| Not at all? | ||
| No, I don't have children. | ||
| Oh, if you did, you would? | ||
| Maybe. | ||
| I mean, I want people to live in a good world, but I mean, concerned about the future is terribly... | ||
| I don't think it's productive. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, because there's so much I can do. | ||
| I treat people nicely. | ||
| I pay people well. | ||
| I respect people. | ||
| But in terms of... | ||
| Is anyone concerned about the future who's not trying to overthrow the government? | ||
| That's a good question. | ||
| Well, wouldn't you try to overthrow the government if you were concerned about the future? | ||
| Well, you would, but then I don't want to run this shithole. | ||
| I don't want to run this shithole. | ||
| But who do you want to run the shithole? | ||
| Is there anybody that seems to stand out? | ||
| At this point, I'd rather... | ||
| I would rather... | ||
| This place be run by a consortium of criminals that are at least smart enough to be on the new wave of crime than I would these morons in Congress. | ||
| Well, I think they're all criminals anyway. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| The laws haven't been adjusted accordingly to make what they do illegal. | ||
| But as far as the future, I mean, it's like, I don't think you can spend an inordinate amount of time obsessing about things you can't control, right? | ||
| It's not wise. | ||
| We just had a pandemic. | ||
| There's going to be other shit. | ||
| There'll be natural disasters. | ||
| There'll be chaos. | ||
| There'll be all kinds of things that we can't control. | ||
| And I think we just have to accept that this experience that we're all having on Earth is, you know, fleeting. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So, you know, I don't know what this planet's going to look like in half a billion years, but I don't know. | ||
| Probably be done. | ||
| Well, at the beginning of the pandemic, you were, like, going to go on keto, and you were going to, like, try to clean your act up. | ||
| Well, I've cleaned my act up a little bit, but what does that do? | ||
| I mean, that's... | ||
| Listen... | ||
| You can still, as the great Donald J. Trump said, he was quoted as saying, you can worry about anything and then an earthquake kills 500 people in India. | ||
| What are you going to do? | ||
| You can't worry about it. | ||
| Is that what he said? | ||
| Yeah, something like that. | ||
| It's a great quote. | ||
| And he's right! | ||
| He's really right though. | ||
| You can't really, you can't obsess too much. | ||
| You should eat healthy and do things, but you can't obsess over anything. | ||
| His best quote was, everything woke turns to shit. | ||
| That was a good one. | ||
| That's the best quote. | ||
| He's not wrong. | ||
| That's a good one. | ||
| But, you know, he's also right about that, where it's like you can't obsess too much about the things you can't control. | ||
| Yeah, but you gotta kinda also keep your eye on the criminals. | ||
| You can't obsess too much on it, but you can't just stand back and let them pass wild, crazy fucking bills and not protest. | ||
| No, you gotta keep your eye on it. | ||
| What's happening here? | ||
| Nothing matters. | ||
| If you tell yourself it doesn't matter, like you do shows, you do this, you do that, and then you have an earthquake in India where 400,000 people get killed. | ||
| Trump told Larry King in that interview, honestly, it doesn't matter. | ||
| I mean, he's kind of a, you know, he has a point. | ||
| There are more times Trump said it doesn't matter when it involves things that very much do matter to the American people. | ||
| Well, this is HuffPost. | ||
| When he didn't care to meet with the President of China to reignite trade negotiations. | ||
| How do you know he didn't care to meet with them? | ||
| Maybe it was a strategy, you know? | ||
| It says in June, as the US trade negotiations with China remained stalled, Trump appeared uninterested in meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Japan. | ||
| Trump said it doesn't matter whether Xi attended the G20. If he shows up, good, Trump said on the show. | ||
| If he doesn't, in the meantime, we're taking in billions of dollars a month. | ||
| Eventually, they're going to make a deal because they're going to have to, he continued. | ||
| Look, they're paying hundreds of billions of dollars. | ||
| Is he right? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| See, one of the things that disturbs me is that his... | ||
| This wild sort of bombastic behavior disguises the fact that he's correct about some things. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Where it's hard for people to see it because they don't want it to be correct. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Like the way he dealt with China, was that the right way to deal with China? | ||
| Perhaps. | ||
| Perhaps. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, they did respond with a bioweapon that fucked us for two years. | ||
| I will say that perhaps that wasn't, you know? | ||
| Do you think maybe that's what happened? | ||
| I mean, it could be. | ||
| I just think that, like... | ||
| What are the odds? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| If you had to, like, look at a percentage, what are the odds that that's what happened? | ||
| Relatively high? | ||
| 40? | ||
| I don't know if it's that high, but... | ||
| 30? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I think, well, you made a good point. | ||
| You can't let the criminals just run amok. | ||
| But the way to do that is to try to amass some type of power base. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Right. | ||
| And if people can do that with money, with influence, whatever they do, you've got to check people. | ||
| You've got to check people at the top. | ||
| And the only way seemingly to do that is to develop your own means of exchange, to develop your own means of... | ||
| Getting your message out or being able to connect with like-minded people outside of the You know monopolized forms of social media So all those things will evolve and you know how they evolved they seem somewhat essential and that that that's gonna be a way to you know Kind of key and then I guess run for something if you really care, right? | ||
| So but that I mean who the fuck or find someone who's really good and Find someone who's really good for 10 months and then they become the criminals. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| That is what happens. | ||
| That's exactly what happens. | ||
| They get them. | ||
| They get inside and they compromise you. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| And they compromise you. | ||
| Or they don't even compromise you. | ||
| They just go, you like your job? | ||
| Well, we'll fund your opponent and destroy you if you don't do exactly what we want. | ||
| And you get caught up in that system and This isn't designed to work. | ||
| The things that have changed life more have been cell phones and things. | ||
| They're not political solutions, really. | ||
| If you look at the technological advancements, those are the things that have really changed people's lives. | ||
| You can go on the internet. | ||
| You can make a living. | ||
| The problem is people have taken control of these technological solutions for communication, like Twitter or Facebook, and then they've compromised them and made them lean into their ideology. | ||
| And that's human nature and that'll probably always happen. | ||
| That's why you gotta keep coming up with new things. | ||
| You gotta keep evolving and keep figuring out new ways to do those things. | ||
| I think you're right. | ||
| I'm reluctant to agree, but I think you're right. | ||
| All this metaverse, NFT, crypto shit, I think you're probably right about that too. | ||
| I don't know exactly how to approach it. | ||
| It seems like it's going to require an enormous amount of time that I don't have to even think about it. | ||
| Why do I have the inclination to continue it after this conversation? | ||
| After this conversation is over, we're going to go to the green room, I'm going to have a bag of chips, and I'm going to go, what the fuck? | ||
| Have a cup of coffee. | ||
| Here's the easiest way to do it right now. | ||
| Connect me with your bank. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Tim Dillon, you're the shit. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| I appreciate you very much. | ||
| Great to be here. | ||
| Tell everybody where you're going to be. | ||
| You're still touring, right? | ||
| You've got fat antibodies. | ||
| Your antibodies are out of control. | ||
| I'm good, yeah, but they shut us down in Toronto. | ||
| We'll be back out. | ||
| We'll be back out in a few, probably in a month. | ||
| But they shut... | ||
| Toronto cut capacity. | ||
| I should probably say this because I haven't yet. | ||
| My 420 show that's sold out in Vancouver, I don't think that's happening. | ||
| I don't think I can even get into the country. | ||
| I'm not vaccinated. | ||
| I'm not going to get vaccinated. | ||
| I have antibodies. | ||
| It doesn't make any sense. | ||
| I don't think I can go. | ||
| And even if I do go, I don't trust that... | ||
| That Vancouver's not going to follow suit along with the way Toronto did it. | ||
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| Where they cut capacity to 50%. | ||
| Yeah, so we're just waiting right now. | ||
| We're going to put some more dates, you know. | ||
| See, Tim lives. | ||
| Oh, you're doing American Comedy Company? | ||
| Yeah, we're just doing that. | ||
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Working out some new shit. | |
| And then, unfortunately, the UK is going to be fucked, too. | ||
| What made you decide to do American Comedy Company instead of doing a theater down there? | ||
| Well, we had those dates on the books for a while. | ||
| So we just had those dates on the books for a while. | ||
| It's a great place, though. | ||
| Yeah, it's fun. | ||
| It's not the worst place to be for a few days. | ||
| No, San Diego is a great fucking place to be for a few days. | ||
| It's my favorite place in California now. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| Because they're still relatively free. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Although they have a wacky mayor now. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I think they got rid of one mayor and got a wacky mayor. | ||
| Dude, Palm Springs is still the best place. | ||
| Is it? | ||
| Well, it's just 1940s. | ||
| Really? | ||
| I've never been. | ||
| The desert out there is cool, man. | ||
| It's just chill. | ||
| People just don't care about anything. | ||
| But after you yell at those lesbians about their Airbnb, are you allowed back? | ||
| Well, that's Joshua Tree. | ||
| They don't live in Palm Springs. | ||
| They're animals. | ||
| They live in the disgusting desert. | ||
| Did you ever make up with those? | ||
| No, I'm off Airbnb for the rest of my life. | ||
| Ever? | ||
| But I don't care because the Airbnb sucks and everyone's going back to hotels. | ||
| Everyone's going back to hotels. | ||
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Why? | |
| What happened? | ||
| Well, because all the services are back. | ||
| The room service, the gym, the cool things, the restaurants. | ||
| Nobody wants to do their own dishes anymore. | ||
| Airbnb shorted. | ||
| It's over. | ||
| It's dying. | ||
| And that's all I have to say about Airbnb. | ||
| It's going to be done soon. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| It's going to be done. | ||
| It's stupid. | ||
| The idea of it is stupid. | ||
| Stupid. | ||
| Follow Tim Dillon on all social media platforms. | ||
| Listen to his podcast. | ||
| One of the best podcasts on earth. | ||
| Very nice of you to say. | ||
| It's bigger than mine. | ||
| It is bigger than Joe's by the numbers. | ||
| By all metrics. | ||
| Because here's the thing. | ||
| Yours is not even on YouTube. | ||
| No. | ||
| But if yours gets bigger, they'll put it on YouTube. | ||
| Mine's on YouTube. | ||
| It's big. | ||
| I just have clips on YouTube. | ||
| All right. | ||
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Good night. | |
| Do they censor you on YouTube at all? | ||
| Oh, I'm sure. | ||
| Have they ever pulled one of your episodes? | ||
| We don't get monetized. | ||
| They don't give us money. | ||
| What happened there? | ||
| They haven't demonetized the channel, but we get partial monetization often and then sometimes no monetization. | ||
| They punish you for your wrong think. | ||
| Well, they punish me for the things I say. | ||
| What are you saying that's so offensive? | ||
| I agree with you. | ||
| I'm with you. | ||
| I'm on your side, but these people are out of control. | ||
| You know? | ||
| Goodbye, everybody. |
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