Greg Fitzsimmons and Joe Rogan dissect Maria Reynolds’ blackmail of Hamilton, exposing how financial exploitation shaped careers—from 18th-century pamphlets to Bill Gates’ alleged affairs and "gold-digging" billionaires. They contrast Hollywood’s evolving views on domestic abuse with Lenny Bruce’s dated but groundbreaking comedy, while critiquing modern Oscars for hypocrisy, like Regina King’s unfunny COVID sketch. Rogan’s rants on Biden’s cognitive decline, Pelosi’s Tesla ties, and UFO secrecy reveal skepticism toward leadership transparency, paralleling historical government deceptions like the Gulf of Tonkin. Fitzsimmons’ upcoming shows—Denver (April 28–30), Tacoma, Irvine, Bakersfield—and his podcasts (Fitzdog Radio, Sunday Papers) cap a wide-ranging discussion on power, media manipulation, and the absurdity of modern celebrity culture. [Automatically generated summary]
Military was never part of sports before, but then the military wanted to recruit, and they said, where can we find young men that are kind of physical?
And they said sporting events, and so they started marketing sporting events.
Yeah, we had these two puppies that were siblings that we adopted together, and they were rescues.
And one of them is the fucking nicest dog in the world, and the other one we had to send back because we had kids, and it was biting fucking everybody.
But it's amazing when you raise kids, though, and you ask yourself these questions about the nature of human development, and you get to watch them, and it's like, I don't understand...
Why my father was not more interested in us as kids.
There's nothing I am more curious about over the last 20 years than watching every second of my kids' development and seeing the choices they make and how they become who they are.
I mean, nothing comes close to that being that interesting.
I mean, statistically, like, you know, there was...
Back then, there was...
So many diseases that kids died from.
And my grandfather, my mother's father, who's the one I most relate to, he's the relative I feel the strongest kinship to, because I knew him the best.
He was one of 13. He was the youngest of 13 in Ireland.
They lived in a fucking two-room mud house.
And they would save up money, and they'd send one kid over at a time.
And the kids that got over to the U.S. would send money back to Ireland.
I don't know if they do this in Italy, but in Ireland, the oldest daughter stays behind with the parents.
That was your Social Security plan.
One kid stayed behind and took care of you.
And the other 12 all came to the U.S. That kid got fucked.
No, 60 Minutes did a piece on the basement of the Vatican where they have all these archives of just drawer after drawer of Byzantine tiled art and oil paintings and sketches.
I mean, it goes on forever.
And that shit, you want to talk about pay every kid that's been molested, give him a fucking painting.
They should just have an open house where if you've been molested, you get a wristband, you go in, and you get to leave with one piece of art.
She was just saying she was going to make you sit on the nail.
She was just terrifying and just terrorizing little kids.
But the glee that she had, the way she would...
And then it just took a while for me to...
And it kind of killed my interest in religion.
Because when my parents broke up, I was five.
And I remember being really into God then, because I wanted things to make sense.
Because I was five years old, and all of a sudden, I'd seen my dad hit my mom, and then it was scary.
My dad yelling at my mom, and he hits her, and then we run out of the house, we flee, and all of a sudden, now we're staying with my grandparents.
And I remember being terrified.
And I remember thinking, like...
I was looking for order and for someone who was like a leader because clearly I saw what my dad did and in my eyes I had immediately written him off.
I was like, well, he's a piece of shit.
He just hit my mother.
I saw the whole argument.
I saw why he hit her.
She brought home hamburger meat for dinner and he got mad that she brought home hamburger for dinner and he smacked her in the head and knocked her down.
I saw it happen.
I'll never forget it.
Never forget it.
I'll never forget running into the bedroom to hide.
I'll never forget.
I remember the print on the sheets that I was standing behind, looking down, because it was in the 70s, right?
So it had these loops on the sheets.
Everything was colorful back then.
So then I got really into religion and I was talking about God all the time and I was trying to read the Bible and I was looking forward to going to Catholic school because in my mind that represented order.
And then I went there and that cunt just fucking chased it all out of me.
By the time I was done, I was like, there's no way these people know God.
You did, and that's a shame because I'm not completely...
The Catholic Church gave me a lot, and I definitely went for the ride a lot longer than you did, and I feel like it did order the universe for me in a big way.
And then I was devastated when I was a teenager, and I realized that it was Such a lie!
Fascinating that a man who lived almost 2,000 years ago was so in tuned with all of the basic aspects of being a person, all the pitfalls of ego and of courage and of seeking knowledge and of balance, the balance of life.
It is, and like a lot of it, there's been a renaissance of, he's come back, because a lot of it is like, I go to therapy and the thing I do is cognitive behavioral therapy, which is basically looking at your thoughts And realizing that your thoughts are not your reality.
Yeah, he said that, one of the great quotes that I put up on my Instagram, he said that your happiness is directly connected to the quality of your thinking.
You know, we have this interpretation of what they did and didn't do based on literature and also the amount of literature that we have, relatively speaking, compared to what we have about today.
Like, we have versions of life today by people that we don't agree with.
We would read these versions of life today and we go, well, this is not accurate.
But if someone finds these versions of what life is today, a thousand, two thousand years from now, they're going to read it and they're going to go, oh, this is how people felt.
This is their perceptions of things.
It's not necessarily accurate because you just have a small amount of people that are relaying this information.
Whereas today, you have so many people relaying this information.
So when you read about what life was like 2,000 years ago from one person's perspective, it always makes me wonder how many different schools of thought were there back then.
There's people today that are extremely close-minded, extremely cynical, they have very negative ways of thinking, and this is how they go through life.
If you read that guy's journal, if you wrote a journal and then it got passed down thousands of years later, they read it like, oh, this is how people looked at the world back then.
They were so cynical.
That's why they drank and did drugs.
Their life was a misery.
But then some other person's eating healthy food and doing yoga and going to charities and giving people love and attention and trying to make the world a better place.
And they coexist.
It's just like, whose version of life do you get to hear?
I wonder if I could have gotten by and – The skill sets that you and I have that have made us somewhat successful, one of us more than the other, but you'll catch up.
And you wonder if those same skills would be applicable if it was the medieval times?
Will Smith is as much royalty in America, kind of tainted now, like severely tainted, but before that moment where he walked on that stage and slapped Chris Rock in the face, Within minutes, he was about to win an Oscar, right?
Like, later on the night, he won an Oscar.
He is one of the greatest actors of all time.
He's been in so many films.
He's beloved by everyone.
And then decides he doesn't like the way the jester is referring to his wife.
Even the most mild of ways.
If that was a thousand years ago, he might have just walked up and cut his fucking head off in front of everybody.
They made everybody clean it up.
And they just sat there and watched with his feet up and ate grapes while they cleaned Chris Rock's body up.
Yeah, I think there was some history there because he had also made some jokes about when the Black Lives Matter thing happened, she boycotted the Oscars.
No, it wasn't Black Lives Matter.
No, Oscars So White.
She boycotted the Oscars and then he made a joke about how she wasn't invited to the Oscars in the first place.
It's like me boycotting Rihanna's panties or something.
I was dating this girl once, and I was on a TV show, and she was trying to get into film.
She was an actress.
And she said she was shitting on me.
She goes, I wouldn't want to do TV. I just want to do film.
And I remember throwing my head back going, ah!
I go, hold on.
So if the producer of Friends just calls you up and says, hey, we would love to have a show wrapped around you, you're going to be like, no, I want to do independent films.
And I just was mocking her.
I was like, what did you just say?
I don't want to do TV. I'm going to do films.
You're not doing anything!
You're literally not doing anything.
And you're telling me you don't want to do a television show.
But that was a thing back then for serious actors.
Until these shows like Sopranos and all the Netflix shows and Game of Thrones, these serial shows that proved to be more in-depth, more dynamic, more interesting, more captivating, They have so much more time to develop plot lines and characters.
Game of Thrones is better than any movie that's ever existed.
And also as an actor, to get a role like James Gandolfini got and said, okay, here's a role.
We can either do this for two hours once, and we can try to have a character arc happen there, or we can do it for ten years, and this character will go to all...
You can explore different facets of this character, and we've got a staff of genius writers that'll come up with stuff.
I mean, what an adventure for an actor to go through that.
Tarantino was telling me about an old Hollywood producer that had an office with a bedroom in it.
And he would take the starlets, they would come into his office, and he would literally open up a bedroom, and he had a bed right there, and he would fuck them.
And they fucked all the stars.
Because you were the only way that they were going to get in a movie.
I know that Jerry Lewis got in trouble, and a woman came out and said, it was standard that if you worked with Jerry Lewis, you went in his dressing room and you had sex with him.
If you were cast as the girlfriend in his new movie, and she was brought into his trailer, and he just basically fucking took his pants off and expected it.
I can't remember if she actually had sex with him or not, but she said that that was the standard.
If you think about it, we've discussed this before, but the business itself is so insane because you take people that are incredibly insecure, and generally speaking, most of them were either ignored or they had some sort of childhood trauma that leads them to seek out exorbitant amounts of attention.
Not just regular amounts of attention, but exorbitant.
I'm sure there's very healthy people that want to act, and I've met healthy people that are actors.
But it's hard to make it in that business.
And the people that really, really, really want it and find a way to fucking network their way and do the politics thing and get through the real fucking sociopaths that get through to the golden handle of the I made it door and turn that knob.
That is the worst environment for them.
You're going into a place where you get chosen or not chosen.
And most of the time you don't get chosen.
So you go into audition.
So basically they're deciding whether they like you in real time.
And you walk in there and you hope they like you and most of the time they don't.
So every time you get rejected, you just get shot down further and further and further.
And then you see people who do make it and you get more and more resentment.
And then some fat fuck like Harvey Weinstein comes along and offers you.
Listen, I can guarantee you an Academy Award.
You just gotta guarantee I'd nut in your mouth.
Irish film star Maureen O'Hara today charged Hollywood producers and directors with calling her a cold potato without sex appeal because she refuses to let them make love to her, says the Mirror New York correspondent.
I'm so upset with it that I am ready to quit Hollywood, Maureen says.
It's got so bad, I hate to come to work in the mornings.
I'm a helpless victim of a Hollywood whispering campaign because I don't let the producer and director kiss me every morning or let them paw me.
They have spread word around town that I am not a woman, that I am a cold piece of marble statuary.
I guess Hollywood won't consider me as anything except a cold hunk of marble until I divorce my husband, give my baby away and get my name and photograph in all the newspapers.
If that's Hollywood's idea of being a woman, I'm ready to quit now.
And the way he went off the rails at the end with all the legal stuff, it was a testament to the fact that he was going to be true to whatever was going on in his head.
And it was a shame because that wasn't going through everybody else's head.
He was reading court papers on stage and there's video of that.
I've watched the videos.
But if you go and watch his stand-up from the early 60s, it's not applicable.
It doesn't work today.
There's a couple of jokes that work today.
Every now and then you're like, ah, that's pretty funny.
But for the most part...
That ground has been tread upon by so many people since then that it's like the things that he's saying that are groundbreaking are just normal things to us today.
He was a maverick and he was a brilliant guy who saw things and knew that there was a way to talk about them on stage that would change people's opinions of these things.
Change the way people saw these subjects.
And the way to do that is to make them laugh about them.
If you didn't live in that time, if we lived back then, we would be howling at him the way we howl at Dave Chappelle today.
But we don't live back then.
So it's like you're so advanced.
By the time you're a 54-year-old man today, the amount of exposure you've had to different styles of living and ways of life and philosophies and different...
There's just like so much texture to society and life that just doesn't seem to exist back then because of the time.
I would love to just...
Man, if I had a fucking time machine and I could just sit unobserved and just watch a Lenny Bruce performance and be in the crowd in 1964...
And also, as a comedian, it's so hard for us to break through what people have already seen.
And like you said, it's a more limited...
People were of the same ilk back then.
They were predominantly the same races and the same repressive society that they were living in.
And to go into an oppressive society and break down those mores in front of them in a funny way You can't do that today the same way because everything's already been exploited and been challenged and the lines have all been crossed.
But the line was so much richer back then.
To go into that territory and fuck with it was powerful.
Because instead of everybody being like, oh my god, I can't believe this guy just attacked Greg, you cracked a joke, everybody started laughing, and you rolled right back into your act.
He would have went into her infidelity and, you know, the public humiliation of him being on her podcast and talking about her fucking her son's friend.
When you see one person push the other one around and you see them just...
Just fall into that role of that dysfunctional, what do you call it, an enabler.
Somebody who enables their anger.
Because there's a lot of successful people in Hollywood, and I'm sure whatever industry you're in out there, listeners, Where the asshole wins.
The person that will make everybody else uncomfortable and will keep it up, most people will fold in the face of that and they will put up with it because they don't want to be uncomfortable anymore.
And if you're in a situation like the Harvey Weinstein situation where everybody relies on that person, that was the different situation there because he was the producer of these films.
He was the one who gave the green light.
He was the big dog.
So everybody relied on him.
The directors, the actors, the Academy knew that one of those films that his company put together was going to be- Oscars.
When it ends, I have to shake myself out of the experience I was just in.
And that's how he brings you into a world, and it's the dialogue, it's the specificity of the dialogue, it's the energy of the music, his soundtracks are incredible, his casting, you know, he's found his stable of people that he believes in, and he knows how to use them.
I also know, as a married guy, if I'm alone in a room with a girl that age, and she's touching me or whatever, it's time to stand up, take myself out of a dangerous situation.
In 1970, the age of majority was lowered from 21 years old to 18 years old.
But I think that's just to get married.
The age of consent is different.
That's parental consent for marriage.
No, but it's not 21, Jamie.
It was never 21. It's always been 18. To say that it's lowered, making it legal for males and females 18 years old to marry without parental consent, that's just marry.
Right, but I don't think it was ever 21. What that's saying is that it was 21. I can't imagine that there was ever an age of sexual consent that was 21 in America.
I think when they met she was like 14, and then they dated, and then I'm not sure how old, I think she was like 17 when they got married, but they dated, and she went overseas when he was in the army.
Age of consent intercourse in the U.S. in 1976. In 1929, the age of consent for marriage, sexual intercourse, was raised to 16 years old for both females and males.
So it used to be younger than 16. So in 1970, the age of majority was lowered from...
See, the age of majority, though, is a different thing.
I think that is the marriage thing.
So you could get married at 18. It used to be 21 for marriage, which is pretty wise, really.
I wouldn't want to be in his position and have three different women to pay alimony to.
I don't know how that works though.
Maybe they found new guys and maybe they, you know, because when a woman gets remarried, generally speaking, you don't have to pay her anymore.
You have to pay child support.
But the alimony supposedly ends as soon as a woman gets married.
The way I know this is because I have a buddy.
I've talked about him many times because it's one of the craziest stories.
It drives me crazy because he got divorced.
They didn't have any children.
They were married for, I believe they were married for 12 years.
They've been divorced for more time than they were ever married.
He still pays her alimony.
They never had any children.
She lives in his old, amazing house in the Palisades.
This is a fucking spectacular house, this gorgeous view.
She lives in that house with her boyfriend, and she has to pretend the boyfriend doesn't live there.
So every time someone goes to inspect, the boyfriend literally has to get a fucking U-Haul, throw all his shit in it, and drive down the street, because they know when the inspection's gonna come.
The inspection comes, they look around, no guy lives here, and then as soon as they leave, he comes back, unloads his shit back in the house, and he'll never marry her, because if he marries her, the gravy train stops.
Because I kind of get it from a girl's point of view.
Because it makes more sense.
Because women have had children and women raise the children and traditionally one of the things that goes along with alimony is the fact this woman is taking care of your kids.
A guy doing that, an able-bodied man, it's not like she did something to him where he sued her and made a lot of money because she did something horrible and he won in civil court.
Dude, I'm so glad, as I know you are, to have met a woman that I know I will never divorce, that I'll never— I have friends that have gone through it, and it's crippling.
Take three years of your life and just say, okay, I'm going to be miserable because I'm going to be dealing with lawyers and betrayal and— That's the thing about my friend.
I mean, what's interesting is the idea of a gold digger.
It's an incredibly financially lucrative endeavor.
Like, if you're a woman, and say, if you could find some really crinkly old dude and trick him into thinking you really love him, how much time has he got left?
What if you got some billionaire character who runs some fucking oil business and he's worked, you know, like J. Howard Marshall and Anna Nicole Smith?
If you're going to run a business, think about there's a lot of businesses that people run where they don't enjoy it at all.
They're in finance or they're in insurance sales or something.
They don't enjoy the business.
They're doing the business because it's successful.
It's a lucrative endeavor.
They figure out how to maximize their profits and how to make the best deals and you get together and strategize on how to conquer the segment of the marketplace and all that stuff.
You're trying to make money.
That's all you're doing.
You're not creating art.
You're not enhancing people's existence.
Gold digging.
If you're a hot woman who's kind of aimless, but you're manipulative, there should be classes.
Where classic gold diggers can tell you, this is how I roped him in.
This is how I met him.
I had to play hard to get.
I did this.
I became friends with his wife.
And that was my way in.
And I knew eventually I'd be alone with him.
There's stories like that where you're like, wow, this is wild how this woman slowly connived her way into this old rich guy's life and then tricked this dude into thinking that she loved him.
Is the conniving woman who is very attractive, who cons an unattractive rich man into marrying her, and then she divorces him and makes exorbitant amount of money.
It's just so easy to extract money from a vulnerable man if you're a beautiful woman and you are, you know, a fucking sociopath.
If you're good at it, like, guys are vulnerable.
Like, a dorky dude.
There's like some guys.
Like, imagine a guy.
Okay.
I'm not saying Bill Gates is a sucker.
I'm sure he's very smart.
He's too smart for this.
But if he was a guy like Bill Gates, who's kind of a nerdy dude who's worth a fuckton of money, and some bombshell comes along and starts hanging out with him and brushing her tits against his arm when she's reaching for a pen, you know, like the standard moves, becomes buddy-buddy with him, would just...
Let's just go on a vacation together as friends.
We're friends.
Just slowly.
The payoff is so giant.
The payoff, if you could become Mrs. Gates, oh good lord.
Because even if you get a prenup, it's probably pretty fucking generous.
I mean, I get while unemployment was running around, there was an issue because like one of my friends said that he had this guy who was a bartender that used to work for him and he wanted to hire him back again, but the guy said I could only work 20 hours a week.
And part of it is like, people are exploring different lifestyles now.
I think that the pandemic made people stop and go like, oh, what do I really want to do with my life?
And now they're coming out of it and they're saying, do I want to be exploited by a shitty job or do I want to get some unemployment and fucking sketch for another month or two?
Yeah, I think that's the best aspect of the pandemic was the fact that it made people sort of recalibrate what's important in their life, what to do with their time.
It made people think like, you know, someone who maybe wanted to pursue some sort of artistic endeavor and they got to do it, you know, and get it going during the pandemic.
And then when it's over, they just said, let's go for it.
So that was when people were talking about the roaring 20s of 2020, that that was going to be a response to the pandemic, that being locked down for two years is going to make people seek as much freedom as possible post 2020, which is kind of true with some people.
Some people are, like we were saying, pursuing jobs that they maybe didn't think they could pursue before or some sort of an artistic path of life.
And I think streamlining their lives and realizing they don't need to eat out three nights a week and they don't need to take a trip to Disneyland and instead they start to do things that are cheaper and simpler and they don't need as much income.
Well, there is something to be said for the water cooler talk, that there is like ideas pollinate, cross-pollinate in an office where you're working on a project, he's working on a project, you realize that there's something symbiotic that can happen between you and...
So I think that physical brushing up against each other, depending on the company, is useful.
But if you're doing pure sales, you may be able to just do that from home without having to waste two hours a day commuting.
And then the amount of meetings they get called just because people fucking call meetings because they can and they waste your time and you're not doing those.
And it's funny because you weren't angry about it two years ago.
It was normal.
But now the idea of going back to the old ways pisses you off because you don't want to commute.
You don't want to be stuck in traffic and waste all that time.
But I see both points.
I see that there could be probably some jobs where you benefit from being there physically.
But I could also see where if you're a disciplined person and you're productive at home, the problem is like how many guys are beaten off in front of their fucking camera during Zoom?
It's like, how many guys just jerk off all the day when they're at home?
It begs the question, what is productivity?
How are you measuring productivity?
How much discipline do you think people really have when you just leave them at home with their computer?
I remember Louis said something about the way he writes, that he writes on a computer that's not connected to the internet because he doesn't want to be distracted.
It's a timer on your phone, and after 20 minutes or 25 minutes, you can set it.
It goes off, and then you have five minutes to check your emails, to do Wordle, whatever the fuck you want to do for five minutes, and then you start the next 20-minute period.
I swear to God, I have ADD, and it fucking works for me, man.
I get so much shit done when I do the Pomodoro technique.
The more keyboard travel it is, the more your finger knows it's registering, you're pressing it, and then you get into a rhythm of where everything is and it's effortless.
Typing is so much better.
I've been typing on a ThinkPad for like five or six years for that very reason.
I've had ThinkPads.
Because their keyboards are just the best.
There's fucking no comparison.
Unless you use an external keyboard.
You can buy an external keyboard, like a mechanical keyboard.
There's a lot of great external keyboards where they have a lot of key travel.
So if you buy one of those ergonomic things, there's a lot of key travel in those.
There's a distance.
The standard distance, I think with the new MacBooks, it's probably like, I'm going to guess, like 1mm, 1.2mm.
With the ThinkPad, you can get 1.82mm.
That seems like no big deal, but it's a giant deal.
2015 still wasn't as good as the ThinkPad, but far superior to my modern MacBook.
I have a modern MacBook, and it's just like flat, tick, tick, tick, tick.
There's no feel to it.
I want to fucking...
Also, I have an X1 Carbon.
It's super light.
It weighs nothing.
It's fucking waterproof.
You can spill water on it.
It's mil-spec so you can drop it off a fucking countertop.
It doesn't break.
Thinkpads are fucking durable as shit.
You get trapped into the Mac ecosystem, which I most certainly am with some stuff, like iPhotos and all that kind of jazz.
There's benefits to that, but there's also a lot of benefits to not being on that nipple.
And the big one is that you have access to different hardware.
All your hardware, if you have an Apple, essentially is controlled by Apple, except external stuff like USB keyboards and things along those lines, wireless keyboards, Bluetooth keyboards.
But for the most part, most people probably just use the keyboard.
If you buy an iMac, use the keyboard that comes with it.
That little bullshit white keyboard, the clickety-clackety-clickety.
That's terrible.
The experience of typing on those is not good.
You want a fucking keyboard where your hands sit there and you press keys.
And then you get into that rhythm and it just...
You can think and type and it just comes out so much smoother.
They've done studies that show that people that have like more keyboard travel and they've like tested their amount of errors and how many words they can type per minute and it's higher.
Yeah, there's something that should be a visceral experience.
Some people still write on, you know, like Seinfeld famously still writes on yellow legal pads, and there's something about the speed that you can write.
Yeah, you think maybe a little bit more deliberately and a little more slowly, and so the words you're putting down might be a better version of the joke than if you were typing really fast.
So I still, after all these years, don't have an exact process that gets me to that one hour where I've got the one hour of material in one document that's all up to date.
One of the things that I was using that I haven't used lately, but I was using it when I was preparing for my last special, and maybe even the special before that, was Scrivener.
Do whatever you want in terms of like the color of the screen.
But then I would copy and paste that and then I would put that into Scrivener.
And so I'd have like here's a subject like chewing gum.
That'd be a subject.
I put that and it's in a column and I can click on it and then I can move that column down or up.
So my opening bit is here, and then I would do this.
But I said, oh, but I've been doing this bit about kangaroos instead of the gum bit, so I'll swap them.
And so I could move them.
So anytime when I would open up Scrivener, I would have my set list on the left-hand column and each individual bit I'd have written out, which helps me a lot.
Because I used to just have bullet points, but sometimes I'd forget tags.
I was on stage one night, and then, you know, at the OR, they'll hand you a piece of paper sometimes, because there's a guest that wasn't on the schedule, and I opened it up, and it was, what's his name?
That's an interesting perspective because I saw a lot of hot takes after the Oscars where I was like, it is amazing to me how many dummies think that Will Smith was justified for assaulting a guy for the most mild joke ever.
But that royalty doesn't seem the same because of the internet, because of the exposing of the way they think and behave.
Like, here's a good example.
Like, Alec Baldwin shooting that woman on set, and then there's video of him talking about it openly, like, days later, on the side of a highway.
Like, they got a camera in his face, like, it's a terrible tragedy, and he's out there talking.
He's not even talking to, like, fucking regular reporters.
It's people with phones.
And he's giving his take on these things.
I mean, maybe it was reporters, but it's very unofficial, the way everything's happening.
It's not a press conference.
And then he'll go do a podcast and talk about it.
His wife has a podcast, and everybody's just talking.
It's like all of the mystery of what a movie star is, is gone.
When you hear their goofy takes on things, When people have these hot takes on politics, and you listen to an actor talk, you're saying, man, shut the fuck up.
Don't do this, man.
You're going to ruin your career.
You're an idiot.
The way you're talking about politics is terrible.
Just go play the Hulk.
Be the Hulk.
Be the guy who turns into the Hulk.
Don't be this fucking guy who's chiming in on every aspect of what the Senate is fucking weighing in on.
And it takes and that's why comedians, I think, often do have the voice of the country more than most people, because we are going from town to town and interacting with people from different economic sectors and regional, you know, regional diversities.
And so for me, it feels like if you're an actor who's sitting in a mansion and you're on set.
You know what it's like to be on set?
Everyone's getting your cappuccino for you.
Everybody's telling you what a great job you're doing.
People don't continue working in films because they're great artists.
They like having their ass kissed all fucking day.
It's a great feeling.
Me and Stanhope just did this movie and it was a super low budget movie.
We were not treated like kings.
But...
Asses were kissed, and it felt fucking great.
And I said, I want to do more of this.
I want to be the center of attention in front of a bunch of people that their job is to make you feel good.
And then you're going to have an opinion about the economy.
She's like, I'm friends with the Dalai Lama and maybe it's karma and the way they treat Tibet.
Like...
That's one of the dumbest things a person's ever said.
Like, maybe an earthquake which killed who knows how many thousands of people who are subjects to this fucking communist regime, totalitarian regime.
Stone earthquake in China was karma for Tibet.
Yeah.
Sharon Stone facing a ban on the showing of her films in China after suggesting that the recent earthquake that killed up to 67,000 people may have been the result of bad karma over the country's occupation of Tibet.
No, look, if the fucking head of the CCP, if an asteroid hit him in the fucking head, like, maybe that's karma.
The senator that pushed through that don't say gay thing in Florida, his house was taken out by a tornado or something, and then afterwards there was a photo taken and there was a rainbow.
unidentified
There was a rainbow over where his house used to be.
The shamanistic practice of the ayahuasca ceremony is ancient.
But like a lot of these ancient things, it gets tainted by modernity, you know, because like different people give their own interpretations of it and different people have their own ways of doing it.
They don't even know how people even figured out how to make it.
You know, the history of ayahuasca use is thousands of years old, and they don't have any idea how these people figure this out.
Because it's a complicated pharmacological sort of a situation.
You're taking one plant that makes dimethyltryptamine, and then you're taking another plant and combining it with it, and this plant has an MAO inhibitor, which is monoamine oxidase.
So monoamine oxidase is something that's produced by your gut.
And when you orally take DMT, the monoamine oxidase, it destroys the effect of DMT. And the thought behind that is there's a lot of things that people eat.
That have naturally occurring dimethyltryptamine in it.
There's a lot of grasses and a lot of different plants.
DMT is very common.
It exists in thousands of plants and animals.
And so if you were just eating these things, you'd be tripping balls all the time.
This is the thought behind it, in that your gut produces monoamine oxidase.
So when you take an MAO inhibitor and you mix it with dimethyltryptamine, then you have orally active DMT, which generally speaking doesn't exist other than that.
When you get DMT from a smokable form, then it goes straight to your blood, and then the effect is almost instantaneous.
When you smoke DMT, 15, 20 seconds later, you're in the center of the universe.
About 15 minutes, I would say, like fully tripping balls for about 15 minutes, and then the next five, you're like trying to figure out what the fuck just happened.
I've had dreams before where I was talking to dead friends, and I always wondered.
I had a dream once where I was having a long conversation with Phil Hartman, and it was after he was murdered.
And then Phil Hartman was explaining to me that he and his wife worked it out, you know, and that, you know, like, oh, you know, he was like laughing about it in the way like Phil Hartman was.
Oh, she gets a little...
She gets a little upset, you know?
She's a little volatile, like, joking around.
And he sat down on, like, a lawn chair.
I'll never forget this.
He sat on, like, those little lawn chairs, foldable lawn chairs.
He sat down and he was, like, in the grass a little funny.
So as he sat down, he leaned to one side and he fell over.
And as he fell over, he hit the grass and then he was gone.
It's very similar because your brain is producing psychedelic chemicals during heavy REM sleep.
They just don't know exactly how much.
It's complicated because in order to find out that there was always anecdotal evidence that the pineal gland produced DMT. They know that the pineal gland now, they know it produces DMT. But there was guesswork before.
They knew that it was produced in the human body, they know it's produced by the liver, and they know it's produced by the lungs.
But they didn't know if it was produced by the pineal gland until the Cottonwood Research Foundation, which is a foundation that's run by these folks in, I think it's in New Mexico.
Rick Strassman, who's the guy who wrote DMT, The Spirit Molecule, he's a scholar who was the first guy to get FDA approval to do dimethyltryptamine studies with people.
And so he did these studies with people, and that's like one of the things that they were working on.
I think the book probably came out in 2002. I got a study in 2018. I think it's talking about something from 2011. 2011 was when they found out that DMT was produced by the pineal gland, for sure.
So this Cottonwood Research Foundation, which Strassman works with, they did these studies with rats.
And rats are allowed to cut their heads open and fucking just stick probes in them while they're alive.
And they found out that rats' pineal glands actually do produce DMT. So they've proven it, at least in these mammals.
And also, you know the eye of Horus from the Egyptian hieroglyphs?
See that?
It looks like the pineal gland.
Look at where the eye of Horus is, or the eye of Ra, excuse me.
Horus was a different god.
The eye of Ra, if you look at that and look at the cross-section of the human brain in relation to the pineal gland, where the eyeball is in the eye of Ra is exactly what the pineal gland looks like in a cross-section of the human brain.
So this third eye that everybody always equates with enlightenment, right?
And, you know, you look at Buddhas, they have third eyes.
Like, that Buddha right there has a third eye, that little Buddha on my counter.
This is literally the area where your brain produces this psychedelic chemical, DMT. That's amazing.
So if they can figure out how to extract that from your brain, they can use it.
I mean, it seems like there would be therapeutic uses for DMT to open people up to...
It seems like your brain is almost triggering you to feel certain emotions.
Like if you had feelings about Phil Hartman that were unresolved, that it is basically activating parts of your brain that will let you emotionally deal with that when you're ready.
And then there's also traps of thinking that I'm sure get exposed by these psychedelic chemicals like nightmares.
These are traps, pitfalls of thinking, things you're thinking about that are like fucking with you, that your brain explores while you're under the influence of whatever these dream chemicals are.
Because dreams are very confusing to people.
We don't exactly know what the reason for them is.
But we do know that your brain produces these chemicals.
And they also think that your brain probably produces these chemicals when it thinks your body's dying.
And they think that's responsible for near-death experiences.
And also, tripping balls might actually be a chemical doorway to another dimension.
Like, the idea of this realm that we have our physical bodies in being the only thing that ever exists.
Well, if you talk to those string theorists, those people that understand quantum theory and that debate whether or not there's 11 dimensions or 12 dimensions, they think there's many more dimensions outside of the ones that we have senses to detect.
And that might be what you encounter when you're encountering these incredibly potent psychedelic drugs.
But the fact that the most incredibly potent and most hallucinogenic psychedelic drugs are closely related to normal human neurochemistry is really wild.
DMT is the most potent psychedelic drug known to man, and it's closely related to human neurochemistry.
In fact, your brain produces the actual drug That makes you trip balls.
The actual drug.
I think your brain even produces 5-methoxy DMT. See if that's true.
I think your brain, which is even more potent, 5-methoxy, which is 5-MeO DMT, is even more potent than a regular DMT in terms of the impact per gram of the stuff.
And this idea was that there's some unseen connection.
That all these beings, and whether it's across species, I don't know.
But he was definitely saying within a particular species is what he was trying to describe it as.
But the theory extends further than that.
The theory sort of extends to the idea that there's all these...
Thoughts and consciousness.
And then when people are developing similar inventions, completely unrelated to each other, that it's not as simple as two people solving the same puzzle because they have the same tools and the same idea because they're a human being.
It might not be that simple.
It might be more that there's so many people working on a thing that it kind of permeates the collective human consciousness and different people pick up that baton and run with it and they might be both doing it at the same time but often times when a great breakthrough experiment is taking place there were other people working on the exact same experiment somewhere else and they don't know if this is Again,
purely by coincidence and chance and that this is something that is needed and that all these sort of technologies, they build up with each other and they feed off of each other and then it kind of like naturally progresses to the cell phone, naturally progresses to Wi-Fi, whatever it is.
It might not be it.
It might be that as well.
It might be that plus we all share some sort of a cosmic database and that we all share some sort of connection in consciousness that we are not fully aware of and we can't measure it.
If you think of eyesight, eyesight exists on almost every mammal, right?
And eyesight had to have come out of a need for a thing, but it wasn't instant.
It wasn't like a single-celled organism all of a sudden had eyesight.
Single-celled organism became multi-celled organism and eyesight slowly evolved, right?
And our eyesight is eerily similar to the eyesight that exists in like squids, octopus, you know, cephalopods, like weird fucking creatures in the ocean.
They have a different way of utilizing light and image, but they It's kind of similar.
So what is happening?
How is that happening?
What is that?
This thing takes time.
There must have been a very primitive version of eyesight.
And then it became what we have now, where you can read, and you can detect things in the distance, and you can pick out different flowers, you can focus.
We go to see things.
The visual experience of going to the movies is a spectacular element of being entertained.
Look around!
That's why we love beauty.
We love art.
We love to see things, right?
That had to have evolved, and it evolved in a way that connects to our emotions.
I mean, this artwork, you see it, it brings you to tears.
Some of this shit I saw in the Vatican, I mean, it changed my physical state to look at these incredible paintings and know that in 1100 A.D. somebody made them.
And here it is in this pedophile's basement in some fucking church that gets to skirt international law and harbor fugitives, because that's what it is.
But that very strange thing that we have, the sense of being able to see things, the sense of sight...
That evolved.
Maybe we're evolving a sense of how we each other think.
Maybe telepathy is an evolving sense and you're getting it in these like weird little hints and whispers like when you think about someone and then they call you.
Everybody wants to say that's a coincidence.
But man, I've thought about people like they just pop into my head and I haven't thought about them in forever and then I open up my email and bam, there's an email from the dude and it'll give me goosebumps.
There was this woman that just died and she lived in some Eastern European country and she'd been blinded as a child and she had this sense and she predicted 9-11, she predicted like a ton of shit.
Vladimir Putin will win the 2018 election, she predicted.
In 1979, during a meeting with writer Valentin Sidrov, Vanga said, World War III. Shortly before her death, the elderly woman said, Russia will not only survive, it will dominate the world.
I mean, they can, I don't know if it works at scale, like, for 300 million people, if you can, but they can eventually.
You're telling me they can ship video through the sky, and it lands on someone's phone in New Zealand instantaneously, and you can't pull that fucking salt out of the water?
He said the speed is one thing, but it's also the ability to change direction.
So if you see a torpedo, or a missile rather, and it's launched from Russia and it's headed towards Chicago, they can time when it's going to hit Chicago, a conventional nuke.
But these, they take turns in the air.
You thought it was going to Chicago?
Psych!
We're going to Phoenix!
Boom!
And it happens in seconds.
They go seven times faster than the speed of sound.
They have those where they can detonate them over a city and it sucks all the air out of the city for like five minutes so everybody suffocates to death.
He said something about our troops will be with the Ukraines.
We'll be with them.
And people are like, well, what are you saying?
Are you saying that we're going to send troops to Ukraine?
Like, what are you saying?
There's been a lot of confusion.
The White House has had to walk back several statements.
Pull up what the White House had to walk back.
The White House had to walk back several statements.
By Biden, to the point where one of his press conferences recently, he does his little speech, and then afterwards, people start yelling questions, and they killed his mic.
They killed the mic for the audience, and they killed the mic for Biden, and then they cut the screen.
So, like, so he can't say anything stupid.
White House attempts to walk back, Biden stating Putin can't stay in power.
They just can't trust him to say things.
The President's point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region.
That's not what he said.
What did he actually say?
For God's sake, this man cannot remain in power.
That's what he said.
That means he can't remain in power.
That doesn't mean Putin can't be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors.
That's not what it says.
So he's saying things that don't even sit with the narrative that the administration wants to put out.
All the rest of the people that don't have dementia.
This is crazy.
We're a year in, Greg.
And this guy is rapidly deteriorating.
If you look at him from his best debate performance versus who he is now, you're seeing what happens to every president except Trump.
Everyone ages, but Obama came in a young man.
He definitely aged, but he's still very smooth, and there's no cognitive decline whatsoever.
I mean, maybe it made a misplaced word here or there, but there was nothing where you go, this guy's incompetent.
But the fucking Democrats, when Trump was in office, they were like, oh my God, he's mentally compromised.
He needs to be removed.
He's slurring his words.
We need to remove him.
But they're not saying shit now.
This shows how crazy you are.
Because this is the most glaring example of someone who has reached a point of decline, that cognitive decline is relatively available to anybody to see.
Give me one of the most recent ones that she's done that's ridiculous because there's a shit ton of them that people have mocked because they're these vapid, nonsensical ramblings like a kid doing a book report on a book they haven't read.
So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time in terms of what we need to do to lay these wires, what we need to do to create these jobs, and there is such great significance to the passage of time.
She seems totally out of depth in almost every other issue, especially when she has to ad lib and talk from the heart or extemporaneously about the issues she should have thoroughly digested.
They didn't want Bernie leading the Democrat Party and all of his wacky Democrat socialist ideas that would reform wealth and do all kinds of things that they were just not interested in doing.
You know, stop all the military industrial complex money from influencing foreign policy and decision making.
The amount of fucking money that they make when they know decisions that are going to be signed and passed.
They know laws that are going to be put into place.
They know, like there was one recently they were talking about Nancy Pelosi and the amount of money she invested in Tesla right before Biden signed this EV bill, electric vehicle bill.
They should all have to put their money in trusts while they're in office that are done in fucking mutual funds, index funds, things that are auto-generated buying and not individual stocks.
If you know that someone's going to sign a bill, and that bill is going to be a massive boost to the electrical vehicle industry, just as an example, and you know that bill's going to be signed, so right before that bill's signed, you buy a fuckload of stock in electrical vehicles, and then the next day, or whenever it was, that bill gets passed, and then that stock goes up, and you make a shit ton of money?
How is that not illegal?
They put Martha Stewart in jail for stock trading.
I got one inside tip in my life from a friend of mine.
He was a guy I went to high school with, and then he was on Wall Street.
He never gave me any stock tips.
And then I got my first development deal, and he calls me up one day, and he whispers.
He goes, I'm not going to say the stock number because I don't want him to get in trouble.
But he gave me the inside tip and I bought it at $15 and I put a lot of money in and it went up to $20 and then it doubled and then it doubled and then it doubled and it was all the way up to like $350 a share.
And I said, my strike price is $400.
I'm fucking selling this at $400.
I would have made hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Pelosi's husband invested in Tesla, but not as viral post claims.
Okay, so it's bullshit.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi purchased $1.25 million in stock from the electric vehicle company Tesla.
A day later, on January 25th, President Joe Biden signed an executive order requiring all federal vehicles to be electric. President Joe Biden signed an executive order requiring all federal It says partly false.
It's true that Pelosi's husband invested up to a million dollars in call options for Tesla stock in December according to the financial disclosure documents claims that The representative bought $1.25 million in shares one day before Biden's executive order are inaccurate.
The facts.
A viral meme wrongly accusing Pelosi of investing millions in Tesla the day before Biden signed an executive order on electrical vehicles circulated widely on Facebook on Monday with millions of views, more than 275,000 shares.
The Post paired a picture of Pelosi next to a photo of Biden signing the order.
In some versions of the post, the banner over the top of the images used sarcasm to obliquely suggest Pelosi engaged in insider trading, reading, wow, what are the odds of that?
Talk about luck.
What are the odds?
Keep going.
It's true that the husband, Paul Pelosi, made a Tesla investment recently, according to the House Speaker's financial disclosure documents published on January 21st.
However, the date and the amount of the investment don't match the claim that's circulating wildly online.
According to Pelosi's latest periodic transaction report filed with Congress, her husband on December 1st invested between $500,000 and $1 million So it's only off by a little.
And 25 call options for the Tesla stock at a strike price of $500 in March of 2022. Call options are financial contracts that give the buyer the right to buy shares of a stock for a certain amount.
The strike price...
Until a set expiration date, Biden signed his executive order directing federal officials to transition federal, state, local, and tribal government fleets to clean and zero emission vehicles on January 27th, more than a month after Pelosi's husband made the investment.
Yeah, but for sure she knew he was going to do that.
That's only a month difference.
It's not saying a day later, it's still a million dollars, and it's a month later.
So it's inaccurate in a sense, but it's accurate that they had to have been discussing.
So it seems like he bought a million dollars worth of stock a month before they signed that order.
That seems like that should be an issue.
That seems like it's controversial.
Those kind of decisions are discussed.
Like transitioning the entire fleet to electric vehicles, that's not something someone comes up with on a whim the day before they write that down and say it in front of the world.
Yeah, he said that the fundamentals were bad, their supply chain wasn't going to be there when they couldn't meet the needs of all the Teslas that they were selling, which was all wrong.
Do they have to listen to him in terms of whether they want to ban people, whether they want to have an edit button, whether or not they want to apply the principles of the First Amendment to something like Twitter...
I was having a conversation with a couple friends yesterday about this and one of them was dealing with Comments on another social media platform and what they were saying was that You know what Twitter does by banning people and censoring people is definitely bad But there are some fucking horrible people that were banned by Twitter that are now ruining these other social media apps and And they were explaining to me what's happening and how these people comment on these
other apps and about how toxic they are and about how they have a whole group of people that have also been banned that find these new social media apps and that's where they congregate and hang out and that's their community now.
I don't want to name the one that this person was talking to me about specifically because I don't want to fuck up because I think I believe in these other apps.
I believe in all these other alternative platforms and I think that there's great value in having competitors and Whether it's to Twitter or to YouTube or to any of these, Facebook, any of these giant, huge companies that have a massive pipeline to the consciousness of the world.
Because the ability to distribute information on Twitter or on Facebook or like...
That is unprecedented.
There's never been a thing like that where a privately owned company has the ability to get ideas out there that can change the way elections are run, to change the way so many things are thought of in this country.
I think we need alternatives, and I think we need alternatives that adhere to free speech.
But the problem is when they've got these shitty people that they've kicked off of these other platforms like Twitter, because Twitter is pretty ruthless about it, then they go to these other places and they run amok.
And then they're like, hey, free speech, you need free speech.
But then they're organizing harassment campaigns and fucking with people and targeting them all day long and constantly commenting on them.
And you're like...
I don't know if that's good either.
That would make me not want to go there if I was this person.
But I don't like what Twitter did.
I don't think Twitter should have banned Trump.
I think that was a terrible idea.
It's a terrible precedent to set that you can decide that you don't like a guy who's the fucking sitting president of the United States at the time and kick him off your platform because you don't like the things he's saying.
Yeah, I guess it's like if they control what newspapers can print and they're culpable for misinformation, I guess they're trying to look at the biggest providers, whether it's Facebook, Instagram, whatever, and hold them to that same standard.
And the thing is, if the President is saying something that's not true, like if the President is saying, like here's one thing that Trump always would say, the elections were stolen.
And people are like, well that's not true.
You can't say that.
I think you should say to the President, hey, either you prove definitively that the elections are stolen, and we look at this with a panel of objective experts.
And if you can't do that, you have to stop saying that.
We're going to delete all the times you've said it.
That doesn't seem unreasonable to me.
If it is provable, I don't know how provable...
I don't think Trump had the election stolen from him, but I don't think there was zero election fraud in any election ever.
If that's the case, then Twitter should look at that evidence and say, hey, you can't say that, because here's the evidence, and we'll point to the article and maybe a link to say, look, there's been 60 investigations, only one found an amount of measurable fraud.
I don't know if that's true.
But I just know that they accused Bush of...
Bush was accused of election fraud in, like, whatever it was.
Was it 2008?
2004?
Is that what it was?
But, I mean, they were accusing him of election fraud back then.
They even had that documentary, Hacking Democracy.
I think there's some voter fraud that always takes place because some people are zealots.
And people that are working for the Republican Party, if they're involved in, you know, if there's some way, if there's a bag of mail that you know is coming from a Democrat community, you can fucking hide that.
You know, and there's mail-in ballots, or if there's some weaselly way you can do something, people are going to do it.
It's bad, too, because it undermines our confidence in democracy, which is already kind of shaky.
And that is also one of the things that the Russian troll farms prey on.
All those Russian troll farms that they found that, like, comment on Facebook and start Facebook pages and do all these, you know, they interact with people and get them all stirred up.
All of them are trying to undermine our conference democracy.
Yeah, they have a definition of what they use for a bot, but it's basically like an automated account, not run by an actual, you know, like someone claiming this is their...
I'm sure some of those bots are used by corporations and media sites in America to drum up interest.
Do you remember there was a Howard Stern controversy because there was a video that got released, and I want to say it's from 2013, where he's telling people to make fake Twitter accounts and tweet at celebrities to tell them to go on The Howard Stern Show?
It's like, you know, he's talking about what they need for the show to be successful and he's doing this like seminar in front of all of his employees.
So he's on stage and he's got like a PowerPoint presentation.
And one of the things he's telling them to do is to tweet at celebrities.
And tell them that you have to be on the Howard Stern Show.
We want you on the Howard Stern Show.
And so he wants you to make a bunch of accounts.
Make a bunch of accounts that should be part of your job.
So there's bots, which are automated responses and automated tweets that they do with a program.
But then there's these troll farms that are actually people, and they create memes, and they make a lot of funny memes that mock Hillary Clinton or mock Barack Obama or mock Joe Biden or whatever.
And they fucking churn these things out.
And they're hilarious.
Some of them are hilarious.
I had this woman, Renee DiResta, on my podcast.
And she studied the internet research agency in Russia.
And she looked at hundreds of thousands of these posts and memes.
And she's like, this is like this wild, directed effort to stir up shit in America.
And what my friend was saying about these shitheads that have gone to these other platforms and are ruining these platforms to the point where they don't want to go to these platforms anymore.
Because every time they go, they're just dealing with these people that have been kicked off of Twitter and now they run amok here.
Like it's their playground now.
Like they got their own playground.
And you try to go over there because you're like, well, maybe Twitter is being a little bit irresponsible with their take on the First Amendment.
And then you go over there and you're like, well, what the fuck is this?
You know, you don't want just, like, assholes just, like, overflowing, where every time you go there, you get harassed and insulted, and that's what's fun for people.
It's all about 4chan and the QAnon hoax, this supposedly insider into the White House that was giving you all this information about what Trump is actually doing to try to stop the pedophiles and all this wild shit.
And it shows you how they manipulated these people and shows you how they created this sort of thing.
And started putting out this fake character that they were saying was an insider with all this inside information that they would distribute in this very cryptic manner.
But it's fucking wild to see how these people just buy into it hook, line, and sinker.
And about the end of the film, they recognize that they were hoaxed after January 6th and everyone's fucked and they're all going to jail.
Well, what is the need that people have to believe this stuff?
Is it that they've been lied to?
Part of it is that the government does systematically lie, as every government always has.
We know more about it now because it's a little less opaque now than it used to be.
But it opens the door.
When you have...
You know, when 9-11 happens and all of a sudden, you know, steel is being carted away in fucking trucks that are owned by the mob and different things happen, you go like, all right, now I'm going to look for a crazy answer because you didn't give us transparency.
Well, anytime there's a gigantic event like 9-11, you're going to have a lot of chaos.
Anytime you have a lot of chaos, you're going to have conflicting eyewitness accounts, conflicting eyewitness accounts, and not even malicious, not even intentional.
And then also people are so confused after an event that they give inaccurate depictions of events just because they don't know what the fuck happened.
If you go through the Freedom of Information Act, there's a bunch of things, like the Gulf of Tonkin incident that got us into the Vietnam War.
Never happened.
Operation Northwoods, this plan to blow up jet airliners and blame it on the Cubans and arm Cuban friendlies and attack Guantanamo Bay to get us to go to war with Cuba.
That was all the government's real plan, signed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, vetoed by Kennedy.
That plan was in some way eerily similar to a lot of the crazy conspiracy theories that people have about 9-11.
And that's one of the reasons why they get so curious about these things is because the government has done – the Gulf of Tonkin, rather, is – That's irrefutable.
We know that that didn't happen.
We know that the government made up a false flag event so that we could go to war with Vietnam.
I'm watching these press conferences and I'm seeing these videos that they release and the way they're describing things and I'm like, God damn it, why do I have this part of me that's calling bullshit?
I have a feeling that they have access to some technology that is above and beyond what we think is currently available.
And whether it's military shit or whether it's drones, whatever the fuck it is, I think some of the things that we're seeing that operate in these insane ways, I think it's some stuff they're testing.
That's what I think.
Maybe...
Some of it's aliens.
I'm willing to believe that too because of the Fermi paradox and maybe just the sheer number of stars in the universe.
The idea that this is the only place that has life is crazy.
So I'm not opposed to the idea of UFOs being real, but when the government starts having transparency about unidentified flying objects, that, believe it or not, them talking about it is where I'm like, huh, really?
I don't know.
I don't know if I believe it.
I don't like when the Pentagon starts telling me that UFOs are real.
They're just making people pay more attention to it.
But if they have a product that behaves and moves in a way that is unexplainable with traditional acknowledged technology, but it's just some new technology, what better way To mask the fact that you have this thing than to say, you know guys, there's some things we just can't explain and we don't know what to do about them but we've had multiple sightings of these incredible objects and we don't know what they are.
He said, I'd love to get on the phone with her and have a conversation with her and maybe answer some questions because there's some new information that we have after the book was published.
I have some new information because he's still looking into it.
Upon investigation in writing the article, he realizes there's some inconsistencies and there's some problems, and so he goes deeper and deeper, and then he gets fired from that, and he keeps writing, and then more people hire him for books and this and that, and it goes on for 20 fucking years.
But I can tell you by living next to him, every morning that motherfucker made a pot of coffee, drank the whole thing, and then wrote for nine hours.
And if he wasn't writing, he was in a car that I gave him, a 1985 Volvo 240DL. He was driving into the fucking desert in 100 degree heat with no fucking air conditioner.