Cocaine and NASA Clearance
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The Joe Rogan Experience Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day Let's go Boy you're going deep, fella.
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I mean that's why Elon Musk is a success.
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Why?
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Because he smoked weed on this show.
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I don't think that's true.
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That's wrong.
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That's like with high school kids.
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That guy's got a lot of money, and I saw him smoke weed on this show.
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That's what happened, bro.
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That is the root of it all.
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I almost got him fucking, like, removed from NASA top clearance.
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That's crazy, dude, that you would have to...
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Meanwhile, we're drinking whiskey for like two hours before we hit that bunt.
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That's wild how slow that aspect, because weed's so legal in so many places, you forget that it's not legal still.
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Well, it was legal in California.
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That's what he asked me.
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He goes, it is legal.
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Yeah, it's legal here.
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Yeah, but it's not...
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There's California law, and then there's...
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State law.
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Yeah.
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Federal law, rather.
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Or also, like, corporate, like, investor confidence law, I guess, is what he's violating.
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Well, this is NASA. NASA had an issue with it, so it's government.
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Yeah.
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Because marijuana still, very unfortunately, is still federally Schedule I, which means it has no medical benefits.
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Yeah.
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Which is hilarious, because I'm pretty sure cocaine is scheduled too.
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Because cocaine has medical benefits.
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Because of the throat, right?
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Like Elvis would get it for his throat.
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You know what he was saying?
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I mean, officially, that's why they would give it to him.
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I was watching like his entourage, like the guys from his entourage.
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We need to get Elvis some cocaine for his throat.
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It was like this medical grade, the kind Robert Evans got busted trying to get the pure liquid cocaine, and they would just dip these cotton swabs in it, and they would just sit there and be ripped for hours, he said, on liquid.
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It was for his throat.
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Well, it would numb it, because I had lidocaine on my nose, which is like a cousin of cocaine, I guess.
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And one of the things that I thought was really interesting about, it fucking killed my appetite.
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Like, I tried to go to dinner.
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Yeah, right.
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Afterwards, I was like, God, I don't want to eat anything.
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I know I'm hungry.
Sobers Up, Gets Boring
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I had this delicious steak in front of me and I couldn't eat it.
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Oh, yeah, right.
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Because the lidocaine, like, it was still in my throat.
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I could taste it.
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It was like, ugh.
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Isn't that like a similar...
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What's that movie?
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It numbs everything.
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But it doesn't get you high, but it does get you feeling weird.
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You don't feel like you're not in any way like high, you know, but you're like weirded out.
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I think he gave me like a heavy dose too because he had to clean out my nose and fix my septum.
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I don't know.
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I don't remember.
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I don't remember because they put me under.
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I don't remember if it was injections.
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I don't remember what happened.
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Because I had to go out for that because it's it's pretty serious.
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I don't fucking get in there What's your turbinates?
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Yeah, it's like these bumps in the middle my nose is fucked I'm getting hit or just oh well from everything I fell down a flight of stairs when I was five years old So I remember yeah, it was a little photo of me with a black eye when I was five I remember just slipped and fell down a cement flight of stairs Jesus Christ in my backyard when I was five smash my nose and And so, I think from then on, I never had a good nose.
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I think it was pretty fucked up from then on.
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I was a literal mouth breather until I was 40. And then I got my nose fixed.
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Yeah, I know.
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Oh my god, it was the greatest thing ever.
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I was like...
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I just always had huge nostril capacity myself, so...
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Well, a lot of guys start out with huge nostril capacity, but if you get hit there enough, a lot of wrestlers and very much boxers, boxers, they get their nose smashed.
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MMA fighters get their nose smashed.
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Yeah, right.
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They all have stuffed up noses.
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Remember Randall Texkov?
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Yeah.
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He looked like somebody just spread his nose like butter onto his...
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Meanwhile, Artie Lang probably has the most impressive broken nose I've ever seen.
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Yeah, well...
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Like, Artie's just collapsed, you know?
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Yeah, that's a crazy story.
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I just talked to him not that long ago.
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He's the best.
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I love that dude so much.
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I love him so much.
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He's such a good...
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Like, when you're around him, you just want to hug him.
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Yeah, dude.
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He's just such a good...
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He's always been that way, too.
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I've known that guy for 20 plus years.
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Yeah, he used to do me and Sherrod's old podcast, Raze Wars, and he'd give me a ride back to Washington Heights, and it was like the funniest dude to hang out with that I ever met.
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His fucking stories, they're so good.
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And even when he sobered up, they were just as good, if not better.
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I did a podcast with him.
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We used the Skank Studio.
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Right.
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Legion of Skank Studio.
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Thanks to them for that, because it was pretty awesome of them to let me borrow their studio.
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So we did Artie in there, and Artie was stone-cold sober for over a year, confident that he was going to keep it together.
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He had a guy with him helping him.
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He was on the ball.
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On the ball.
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His fucking stories were sharper than ever.
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Right.
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Sharper than ever.
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It's like you would think, sometimes you think like if a guy sobers up, because some guys do, they sober up and then they get boring.
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Yeah, right.
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You know, something happens, they lose that wildness.
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No, he doesn't.
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Not at all.
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Yeah, it brings it down to a manageable...
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You know who else got really better after they got sober is Attell.
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Attell was always amazing.
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He was always a great, great comic, but being healthier because he has more energy...
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He just stopped.
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I remember that.
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Just stopped.
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When he stopped, I'm like, really?
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That was like a whole...
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Well, I think, you know, you get captured by a thing that you're known for, too.
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Because remember in Sondiak, he would get hammered in every town.
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It was a fucking great show.
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He told me it was like impossible to do without people throwing like ice cubes at the production.
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Did you ever see it?
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I mean, I loved it when it came out, but I didn't know about how production, like the logistics of a show revolving around being drunk out at night.
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What a nightmare that must be.
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Every fucking bar you go to is just filled with hammered people.
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You have to be drunk to do it, because if you're sober dealing with that, it's like being waterboarded.
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I'll say anything to make this end.
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Imagine if you're like a health nut and you're like running every day and eating wheatgrass juice and you have to fucking hold the camera for that show.
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Yeah, I remember I didn't drink for like five years, okay?
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And I remember not like I was like I must have been so nauseous just when I was drunk because I can't stand everybody that was drunk around me.
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You're not at the same speed anymore and it gets like annoying.
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That's what it is.
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You're not at the same speed.
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Yeah.
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And you think everybody's on your speed.
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When you're drunk you think like you think you're making sense and everybody's like oh my god Kurt listen to your voice.
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There's fucking guys.
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You guys are the best.
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Yeah, right.
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It's so dumb.
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It's so dumb.
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But while it's happening, it's so fun.
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Yeah, as long as everybody's on board the same.
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Yeah.
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It's very fun while it's happening.
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But the problem is the fucking price you pay, too.
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Whenever I do Sober October, at the end of the month, I'm like, why would I drink again?
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I'm like, I feel so good.
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Do you drink a lot?
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I enjoy alcohol, my friend.
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I enjoy a glass of whiskey.
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I enjoy a glass of wine with dinner.
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You know what I've been drinking?
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I like a margarita.
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Yeah, those are good.
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I was like here and there.
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I didn't quit because I feel like I have a drinking problem.
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I was like, you know, I had an Oxycontin problem.
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I didn't have a drinking problem.
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Ryan Long got me into White Claws.
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I've been drinking White Claws.
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That's hilarious.
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People try to shame me, too, about it, and I don't give a shit.
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Ryan Long's a funny dude.
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He's a funny dude.
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I hung out with him at the Vulcan.
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Did you- I forgot.
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Funny dude.
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When you brought up Legion's Gangs, did you watch Soda doing Chappelle and- No.
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Pranking that Fox News producer for Tucker?
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No.
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Dude, I- Does Soda do, like, a Wicked Chappelle impression?
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It's a good impression, but I can hear Soda, but it's so hilarious.
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So- I saw it come on my feed, and I didn't know what it was.
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I was like, I don't want to listen to the whole podcast, but Jake called me and told me what the clip is.
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So I guess a producer from Tucker Carlson, because Chappelle was on SNL, and I don't know why, but she's at Gas Digital.
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So Dave Smith, you have Dave Smith on.
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I love Dave Smith.
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So Lewis was up in Dave, he's like, you really should have Dave Smith on, because he really talks about this stuff.
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Oh yeah, he knows his shit.
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And Lewis kept recommending him to her, and she goes, oh, you have his number?
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He goes, yeah, he'd love to do it.
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And she starts texting Dave Smith, like, it's such an honor.
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All this, like, a little overly...
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Jesus.
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With Dave's like, wow, this girl's really into Dave Smith.
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So they figure out she thinks he's Dave Chappelle for some reason.
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How?
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Well, that was a lot of the mystery, was, like, how you would mix that up.
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It turned out Lewis had said something that let her...
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They went back and Lewis realized from texting.
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Oh, no.
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So he just flubbed a text?
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He told her, like, Dave is the closest thing I have to a brother about Dave Smith, but she thinks it's Chappelle.
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Oh, my God.
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Oh, no.
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Dave is like one of those guys like Eddie.
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You could say Eddie.
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Everybody knows you're saying Eddie Murphy.
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Yeah, right.
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You say Dave.
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I say it all the time.
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I say Dave.
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I don't even have to bother saying Dave Chappelle.
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I don't remember.
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Well, around Gas Digital, Dave Smith, you say Dave, it's probably going to be Dave Smith, but Lewis went and checked his texts, and that's how he realized that, okay?
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So then they get Soder, they call Soder to call her up as Chappelle, so it's on mute for the podcast.
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And I think his whole thing is he's going to use the name Louis Jane Gobez in every sentence that he says to her.
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That's hilarious.
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Dave Smith, by the way, is one of the most knowledgeable political guys I've ever talked to.
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I just did a thing with him.
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He knows so much.
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Has Jimmy ever had him on?
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They're trying to now, actually.
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Oh, that would be a perfect fit.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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By the way, you're hilarious on Jimmy.
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It's very fun.
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It's very fun.
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I'm glad he's got you doing that now.
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It's such a great move because it really puts levity to all these crazy fucked up stories.
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It's better if I'm in the studio, too.
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While he's doing it remote, it's not as good.
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There's something about being in it.
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There's a lag.
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Yeah.
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Well, you don't feel each other's vibe.
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Yeah, right.
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That's a real thing.
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I smoke so much more.
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I mean, I always smoke a lot of weed, but so much more now because of being informed.
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I hate it.
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I mean, I really...
Suboxone and Its Effects
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I don't know.
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I enjoy being there.
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That was one of the few...
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I think I couldn't watch any more regular news for a few years.
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It's hard.
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It's hard because you got to run everything through a fucking filter.
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You know, like, what are you trying to sell me?
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What's actually going on?
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And why are there so many pharmaceutical commercials?
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Yeah, and there's no...
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Especially, like, friends of mine that had, you know, I was hooked on OxyContin.
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Now, I didn't get tricked, but...
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How did you get hooked on it?
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I knew it was heroin when I did it.
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So you did it for fun?
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I had a legit prescription at one point from Hurt My Back and then...
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Ah, the old Hurt My Back.
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Yeah, and I had like a Percocet, right, which still has, I guess, a Tylenol in it.
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And then they were just around.
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Like I could get my hands on them, the blue ones.
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Oh.
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So I started taking those.
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So I wasn't one of the people that they said it's not addictive to.
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You knew?
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Yeah, by that time, everybody knew it was a drug.
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So I don't blame it on, like, the Sackler family tricked me, but they did, you know, remember breakthrough pain?
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Yeah.
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So that, I guess that's, you have a tolerance to heroin, and you...
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It's called breakthrough pain.
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Yeah, they call it, like, ooh, the pain somehow broke through.
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You just need a higher and higher dose.
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Yeah, that breakthrough term is a marketing term.
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I didn't know that.
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Like, that's what a breakthrough infection is.
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That's not a medical, that's a marketing thing.
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They tricked America into getting hooked on heroin.
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Can you imagine that?
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When we were kids, okay, like in high school, For example, when you heard about a rock star who did heroin, like when I heard about, I guess it was a little after high school, but Kurt Cobain.
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I was like, God, he's doing heroin?
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Doesn't he know?
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Like, doesn't he know?
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That was in my high school.
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I remember thinking that because I didn't do anything.
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I was a witness.
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I didn't drink or do, you know.
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But what was the numbers back then of people who actually did heroin versus now?
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Later, years later, I found out a whole bunch of people on heroin in my high school because Tom's River...
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Remember the pizza connection, all that shit?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Like really pure heroin was coming in through Tom's River.
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Wow.
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So High School North was the more, Heroin High was like the nickname of it.
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And that was a little bit richer kids, and that was way more of a thing there.
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But it was at my school too.
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I was very innocent when it came to drugs, because most of my high school years I spent doing martial arts.
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Yeah.
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So I really didn't party at all.
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But my boxing coach, when I was 20, was this guy who was a longshoreman.
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Oh, crack?
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He smoked crack?
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Oh, no, no, no.
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He didn't do anything.
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He drank a little bit, but big Irish guy.
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Okay.
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Great fucking guy.
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But he worked with a guy that was a heroin addict.
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And I go, he's a heroin addict?
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He still has a job?
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He goes, yep.
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He goes, every day at lunchtime, he goes to this guy, he gets his bag, he sits in his car, he shoots it up, He sits in his car for an hour, and then he goes back to work.
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I go, no fucking way.
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He goes, yeah, and he's fine.
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He goes, but he needs it.
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He's got to get it every day.
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But if he gets it every day, he's very functional.
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I'm like, that's nuts.
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I'm like, how many guys are like that?
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But he knew a bunch of people who did heroin.
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I was like, you know a bunch of people that do heroin?
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Like, who the fuck's doing heroin?
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Whereas now, if you hear, oh, my uncle's on pills, like, ah, fuck another one.
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It's another one.
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It's another one.
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I mean, how many of our friends?
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Taking the needle out of it really takes some stigma away, I guess.
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And also having it prescribed by a medical doctor.
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Schaub had it, and people had to take it from him.
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His friends had to take it from him.
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What do you mean?
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Before I knew him well.
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He got hooked on pills.
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Oh, right.
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He had an oxy problem.
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He got his nose shattered in one of his big fights.
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I think it was Mirko Krokop hit him with an elbow in the nose.
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This guy from Croatia is one of the most murderous kickboxers of all time.
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Schaub actually knocked him out.
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It was like Schaub's biggest win as a professional.
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He got elbowed in the process of doing that.
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Yeah, he got his nose shattered in the process, so he got his nose fixed.
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I'm pretty sure it was that fight.
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He got his nose fixed, and then in getting his nose fixed, they got him hooked on the pills.
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Yum.
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And he was just taking them.
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Like, months after the surgery, he's still taking them, and his buddies pulled them aside.
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You get tolerance pretty quick.
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But it's also when you're not supposed to just get off, right?
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You're supposed to wean yourself off that shit, right?
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Well, you won't.
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It's not like, um...
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Benzos, you could die.
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Benzos, you could die.
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Opiates, you think you're gonna die, but you're not.
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Should you wean yourself off?
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Do they, like, if they medically do it?
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Like, if you went, checked yourself into a rehab and said, hey, I have an OxyContin addiction.
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Well, I didn't have to do that.
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They prescribed me Suboxone to quit it.
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Right, but if they, what I'm saying is, like, if you went, like, straight, like, you were, you were fucked up and you went straight to a rehab center.
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Yeah.
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Like, would they wean you off of it?
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They give you Suboxone.
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They give you Suboxone.
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Yeah.
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And what is that stuff?
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I've heard people talk about that.
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It's a little orange film.
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But you have to be...
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Oh, what's his name?
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I'm blanking on his name.
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He took it...
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You're friends with him.
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He's got a beard and he's a psychedelic...
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What's his name?
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I'm totally blanking.
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Duncan?
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Duncan!
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Jesus.
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Beard psychedelic?
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I'm like, yeah, I was really reaching.
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That's that real weed, that's what that is.
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Is it indica?
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That's real shit.
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No.
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Go, thank God.
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Jesus.
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I only like productivity weed.
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Yeah.
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I don't know if that's real, by the way.
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Ari told me a story about him where he was somewhere and he was taken, he took some Suboxone after he had done, you know, Oxy or something and he got real sick.
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So the stuff knocks it out of your system immediately, nail oxen or something when you take it.
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So you're supposed to be in withdrawal before you take it.
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So you have to wait until you're sick.
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Oh, wow.
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You know, when you feel sick, and then you can take it.
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Because if you don't wait, and you still have that stuff in your system, it kicks you into withdrawal immediately.
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Now, is there a concern with people getting on Suboxone?
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Because I remember Methadone.
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They'll keep you on it forever, by the way, if you want.
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Yeah, that was the thing when we were playing pool back in the 90s that my friend Johnny B used to call these people the Methadonians.
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They would come in from the methadone clinic.
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So there would be like a methadone place that was right down the street.
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And they would go to this methadone place, they'd get their fix, then they'd walk over and come to the pool hall.
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And they'd just be like slack-jawed, knocking balls around.
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And Johnny called them the methadoneans.
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Yeah.
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It was so weird.
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And then they figured out at one point to take Xanax with it and it almost feels like heroin apparently.
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Oh really?
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Together?
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Yeah.
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There's an HBO documentary about it.
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Oh boy.
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Like a few years back.
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But they say that methadone is terrible for you.
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Yeah, I think that stuff's probably even more...
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It's probably worse than heroin.
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Is methadone bad for you?
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The withdrawal from that?
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The withdrawal from methanol is worse?
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The withdrawal from Suboxone?
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Yeah.
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Felt worse than the withdrawal from the Oxy.
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Really?
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If I had just cold turkeyed that, that would have been a less horrible withdrawal.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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Wow.
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And I was taking...
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How long were you taking Suboxone for?
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I don't know, like maybe almost a year, maybe not even, but I was down, dude, I was weaned down to the tiniest bit of it, because I was really like...
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And even the tiniest bit when you got off it completely, you had horrible troubles.
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It sucked, dude.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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Wow, so you tapered.
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Yeah, I'd take it.
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Now, is that similar to methadone?
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Is methadone supposed to be really bad when you try to get off of it, too?
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I've never taken methadone.
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I don't know what it's like, but from what I get now, it's mostly suboxone.
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I don't know if anybody's still taking methadone.
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I'm very ignorant to methadone.
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What exactly is methadone?
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I just know it is with the thing they used to give you before they had suboxone.
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They give people when they were hooked on heroin.
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Because it blocks opiate.
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I forgot.
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Suboxone, part of it, blocks you.
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I think methanol is supposed to do that, too, but it blocks you from being able to get high if you relapse.
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Oh, Jesus.
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There's no reason to take more, like...
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Unless you just get off that fucking Suboxone.
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People get high off Suboxone too, but I didn't get any high of it.
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I just didn't feel like sick when I was using it.
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We had a guy on a long time ago that was, he worked in a rehab center and he said a lot of it was a scam.
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And he said they would get you hooked on their stuff and their stuff was Suboxone.
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It does start to feel like that.
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But if they have you hooked on it and you're not getting high, like what is it doing?
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Keeping you, well, for, like, heroin?
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Like, say, you're not getting high on heroin anymore, and Suboxone doesn't make you high.
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So you have to take it to function.
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That guy you're talking about that goes on his lunch break?
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That sounds like he was doing just what he needed to feel normal.
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But is this the case with everybody?
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Because that sounds insane to me that you would have to be on something for a full year to get over something that, like, what would it normally be?
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Like, if you were on those oxys and you quit cold turkey and had horrible withdrawals, how long would you feel like shit for?
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Well...
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A week?
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A month?
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Okay, so that's probably a week or less just the shitty feeling, but then you're not going to be right for a couple of months.
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A couple of months?
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That's what I've experienced.
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And like, what was that, like when you say weren't right, what do you mean by that?
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Just like an off, you know, you're burning out, whatever that, I don't know what that receptor is, but...
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The good one.
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Yeah.
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The one that makes the heroin.
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I beat on it quite a bit, so it probably, you know, benzos is worse, dude.
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I think that's the one that, like, people...
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That's the one that can kill you.
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Well, not just that, but I think it affects people I know that came off that, it affected them for, like, a Crazy amount of time.
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So for you, it was like cognitive decline, dull feeling, no energy, no energy?
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But I wasn't really exercising a lot at that point, so that's a factor.
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I didn't even realize how much, just if you go exercise, the energy, I didn't realize how much...
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Dude, I say it all the time.
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Nobody wants to listen because I'm a meathead.
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It's a real problem.
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No, there's a deep, like, there's a deep, like, anger towards the very idea.
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Yeah, there's a deep resistance towards exercise.
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And I remember feeling, not like I'm mad at somebody that does work out, but I remember feeling like, I don't remember why, but I remember having that kind of feeling of, like...
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It's defensiveness.
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It's hard to do.
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That's what it is.
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When you see something, when someone does something that's hard to do, also, it's connected to negative things, jocks, douchey male behavior, which I've been guilty of.
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But it's not, that's not all it is.
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Like exercise, like just non-meathead exercise, like yoga, is fantastic for you.
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Yeah, well, just mood stabilizing.
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I didn't realize, because the other thing is, especially the whole time I lived in New York, I don't think I was getting sun-like.
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I think I probably have vitamin D deficiency in a big way.
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Oh, you 100% do.
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100%.
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If you're not supplementing with vitamin D, and you live in the Northeast, and it's the wintertime, you have vitamin D deficiency.
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From food?
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I think you can get vitamin D from some plants, like small amounts of it from some plants, but I think primarily you get it from being in the sun, unless you're supplementing.
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That's what I did first before I was in the sun first, and it felt like I got- Oh, it's the best.
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That's the best way too.
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That's by far the superior way to get vitamin D. Supplementing is just a safety measure, but you should supplement vitamin D. It's really important.
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It's so important for your immune system.
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Yeah, right.
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According to Ron and Patrick and a lot of other people that know a lot more than I do about it, they say it's not even really a vitamin, it's a hormone.
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Yeah, I wonder why you can get it from the sun if it's a vitamin.
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It's pretty crazy, but it is a vitamin in that you could take it in a supplemental form.
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But it's so beneficial for your immune system.
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At one point in time, when they were linking COVID deaths with vitamin D deficiency...
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Four times higher survival rate if you had vitamin D levels, did you see that?
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Yeah, it's really high.
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And then the number of people that were in the ICU, the number of them, it was very high, that were deficient in vitamin D. It's just good for your immune system.
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It's a mood stabilizer, too, for those poor people that live in Seattle.
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Like, they need that something to fucking juice their mood up.
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That's the thing that the most I didn't realize.
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Exercise.
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Or how much it would, like, even out of mood.
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It's a game changer.
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It's a game changer.
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The reason I had Oxycontin in the first place was I hurt my back when I was working out.
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Oh, really?
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Yeah.
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So it's not like I didn't know.
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I just hadn't done it for long.
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The whole pandemic, I didn't do nothing.
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When you just sit around doing nothing, you feel like shit.
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It's just normal.
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It's like stir-crazy, yeah.
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It's like oil that's at the bottom of your engine tray, just sitting there.
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It's not getting cranked over.
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It's not getting used.
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You just fucking feel gross.
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And your body doesn't know what to do.
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Your body's like, why aren't we doing anything?
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You have requirements.
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Your body wants to do things.
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The problem is it sucks.
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Like, you're lazy.
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You get up in the morning, I get it.
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I get it.
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I fucking 100% get it.
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That's the thing.
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It's like, people think that people who do work out don't feel the exact same way they feel before they work out.
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Because they kind of do.
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There's most of the time when I work out, I don't want to work out.
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Oh, really?
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Just make myself.
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I get a, like, a compulsive, so I'm, like, how it would be with, like, a drug or something.
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Oh, so you're just looking forward to it.
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That's how I hurt myself, because I've got to be, like...
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I'm not dumb now how I do it.
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I don't do any stupid shit that's going to injure me because I'm not going for glory or something.
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But I would injure myself because I would try to go too much.
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Yeah, so that same addictive personality applies to your exercise too.
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You get obsessive.
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Yeah, and then, you know, but a couple, like a few days go by, I didn't do anything, I start to feel like an urge that I have to, you know?
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I feel like a, probably a lot of mood being held, a lot of my moods are probably being held together by that.
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Well, I think that's most people.
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I think that's the way the human body functions that it's most efficient, is when it's in a fit condition.
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I think the mind works better, the hormones work better, the mood works better, the cognitive function works better, all of it works better.
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The problem is it's just connected to so much douchery.
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And then it's also hard to do.
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There really is an eternal high school...
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Yeah.
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I mean, not just with that, with everything, where...
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I've never seen it more than now, too, by the way, of like a petty, like, it doesn't matter what anybody's saying, it's like, what lunch table do they sit at?
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Right, right, right.
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Do you want to be at the right table or not?
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Well, fucking gyms are weird with that, too, right?
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There's always, like, flexy dudes.
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The one I go to is not like that.
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I mean, it's all West Hollywood, so.
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You can go to a bad gym, though, where people are very broed out, and if you're just not into that, you're just like all screaming.
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I mean negative towards other people that are working out there, which definitely happens, but sometimes people chalk up, and they get fucking crazy, and they push each other.
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Let's go, let's go, let's go!
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Now, keep in mind, I just go there to get my dick sucked in the bathroom, and I'm out.
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But I go every day.
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Sometimes I want it, but I do it.
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Don't say what the gym is.
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But is it like an upscale gym, or is it like a fucking Gold's Gym type situation?
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It's not like Gold's.
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Oh, should I not say it?
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Don't say it.
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Don't say it.
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They're going to fucking find you.
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Oh, that's true.
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Yeah.
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And they're fine, you can try to suck your dick.
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That's what they're...
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That's what he likes!
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Oh, guys, don't come to this...
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That's what he likes!
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No, well, you ever have trainers?
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I just don't want to be, like, hard-sold on a trainer, because, like, I go hike by my house, and then I do, like, wait, and I don't, like, have anybody even talking to me while I'm doing it.
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Right.
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Well, there's something to that, right?
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It's like a meditative thing.
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You're just doing your work.
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But you definitely should talk to somebody that can show you good form.
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That's one of the most important things.
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Don't get injured.
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So when I joined, because I remember what I paid before.
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I forgot the biggest hassle of it is the bargaining to not get upsold on all this shit and just get a basic.
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So I looked up already what the price should be, because you know, like a variant.
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So I showed a dude on the thing, and he had me come over and talk to him on a table, and he goes, okay, so what are your fitness goals?
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My goal is never to listen to your upsells.
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Ever.
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I'm 46, dude.
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I'm a clown for a living.
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For some people, say, I'm an accountant.
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My wife's been getting on me.
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I really should exercise.
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It's good for my health.
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And you decide to join a place.
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You know what I'm going to do?
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I'm going to get a trainer.
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When you'd sit down with that guy, you'd appreciate that forethought.
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That's the kind of thing.
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I know what I want, so if I say I don't want it, and then you're trying to find a new way in, it's so annoying.
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So you told them that you don't want a trainer.
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You ever do any retail where you have upsell items?
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Fortunately, no.
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Okay, so I used to work.
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I used to manage a Funkoland, it was called, when I was like 19. Is that like a kid's playhouse or something?
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It became GameStop.
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It was like, they merged with Electronics Boutique.
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So it was like buying and selling video games, right?
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And you could play them before you bought them.
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That was like a huge deal at the time.
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And, uh, every retail has upsell shit, so we had to sell cleaners for, like, you know, like the whole- A little air things?
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You know, people would blow on their Nintendo cartridges to make them work.
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Uh-huh.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, so the cleaners work for those.
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I would say if you were buying an old Nintendo, that's the only way it'd probably even work.
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I remember that for VCRs too, right?
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Head cleaners.
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Yeah, people would blow on it, which is like worse.
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I'm already trying to sell you a cleaner.
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So they made them for every system, and then you get some kind of warranty with it, and you would like, it's like 15 bucks, and the markup's like 200%, so you get commission, right?
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And then you have to hit store numbers for the district manager, you know, like you're expected, because that's how they can be sure you're providing great service.
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If you don't sell this many, like 25% sales, we know you're not giving the customers great service because customers need a cleaner.
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So if you're giving good service, they've bought the cleaner.
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So it would create like this thing where it was like just fraud in every store because you got to...
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You know, if you're managing, you know the people that are good at this bullshit that you put up out front and some people that are like, you know, the non-social nerds.
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You have them count shit in the back.
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But there was always some kind of scam going on because it just created that.
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Like, you got to hit these numbers.
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And it was amazing, dude.
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I really...
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I didn't know that that was like how everything works.
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Everything is like you got to hit these numbers and everybody just, you know, do whatever con job.
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Well, people need incentive, right?
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That's like cops.
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They give cops like a certain amount of tickets they have to write every month in some places.
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Yeah, right.
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Which is crazy.
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That's a great system.
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What would you do if nobody sped ever?
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What if nobody followed the rules for like one month?
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What would they do?
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If they really do have a quota.
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And I know cops have told me they have a quota.
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And I know I've read publicly that that's not true.
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I think it depends where you are though.
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What township.
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Well, it depends on what's the rule and what do they actually tell you you have to do.
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Are they the same thing?
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How does that work?
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Let's find out if that's true.
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Maybe they stopped doing that.
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Do cops have quotas for how many tickets they have to write?
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Let's find out if that's true.
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I know cops have told me they have it.
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I'll bet you it varies a lot.
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So if you have like a corrupt sheriff, it's like, listen, these motherfuckers.
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It's probably not even corrupt.
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It's like, we're gonna get that money.
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It's like, just, I'm sure it doesn't even come off as corrupt.
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You know what the craziest corruption one they had?
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What?
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I don't know.
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I think they still do it in some states, where if you have like 10 grand on you, they just take it.
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Oh, yeah, right.
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So they pull you over, and you're going to buy a car, and you have $10,000 in cash on you.
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Fuck you.
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Give me that.
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And then they spend it.
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Yeah, right.
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They use it for all these police funds and all these different things.
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They spruce up the station.
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Got ourselves a nice TV, boys.
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And they don't have to give it back for a long time.
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You have to go to court for it.
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Yeah, right.
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Wait, what's it called?
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There's a term for it.
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Seizure.
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Asset seizure or something?
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Asset seizure.
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So like if you're going to buy like a fucking 69 Camaro, you know, you got 60 grand.
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You're like, why do you have 60 grand?
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You don't have 60 grand.
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We have 60 grand.
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You have a fucking cork test.
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Yeah, that's a lot of money in cash.
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It's suspicious for you to just have that.
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Yeah, you're not allowed to have that.
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What are you going to do?
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It's probably drugs.
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Probably drugs.
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Isn't that hilarious?
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If you have so much money, that's how lucrative drugs are.
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They assume that if you have a lot of cash on you, you're selling drugs.
► 00:30:56
They don't think you're selling MAGA hats.
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Basically what I see is that it's not legal to have a ticket quota.
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Regardless of the rumors, ticket quotas are a myth.
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In fact, they're illegal in most states, but...
► 00:31:08
But I've seen multiple things that say there's like unspoken...
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Evidence suggests there's an unspoken thing about it.
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There's always a way around.
► 00:31:17
It's about quotas in California from ex...
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It's from ex-police officers.
► 00:31:23
Yeah, so I don't...
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Because any job, they're going to judge you by numbers on the board, right?
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Like, how much did you...
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Of course.
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So you're serious.
► 00:31:30
Quotas have been prohibited in California for 10 years, but police departments are even now facing lawsuits from their own officers alleging that ticket quotas are real.
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Yeah, there's a law about it in Texas.
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So maybe it's like a thing where they try...
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You're like, listen, man.
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You want to get ahead in this business?
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I'm sure it is.
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You got to sell the cleaner.
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Yeah, I think everything is that.
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Because, you know, there's always a rule.
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I always hear that about...
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Who was I watching?
► 00:31:58
I was watching like, it's either FBI or CIA guy, but they're talking about, or I think it was a CIA guy talking about selling coke to fund the Contra or something like that.
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They're like, that's illegal, like we're not allowed to do that.
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And I'm like, you know, the mafia, it was illegal to sell, it was a death penalty if you were caught selling drugs.
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And yet somehow, A lot of fucking drugs.
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Very strict penalties.
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Probably more strict than even agencies.
Michael Rupert's Bear Market Prediction
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Yeah.
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Everybody outsources.
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It's always outsourcing.
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We don't do, what do you call it, gain of function.
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We just pay a guy to do it.
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Yeah, we don't do it.
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I'm not guilty of that.
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We don't fund gain of function.
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We fund the lab.
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Yeah, so there's always a way around.
► 00:32:40
Remember when they got the torture program and they went to...
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Sorry, go ahead.
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But that was like bringing jobs back to America, kind of, in a way, because you just, like, send somebody to a country that does do that.
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And then, you know, the Second Iraq War, when they made it, like, legal, that was what was so creepy about that, was to make it like, now we can do it.
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Do you remember Michael Rupert?
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No.
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Michael Rupert was a friend of mine.
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He's a really nice guy.
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He's like one of the first guys to gift me mushrooms.
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Randomly as a gift.
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He was a cop.
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Who busted the CIA selling crack in South Central and using it to fund the war.
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Oh, I know who you're talking about.
► 00:33:27
Yeah.
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And he called it out in a courtroom.
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Yeah, I saw that.
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I saw a video of it.
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Yeah.
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That's Michael Rupert.
► 00:33:34
Wait, is he alive still?
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No.
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Oh, yeah.
► 00:33:37
I was going to say.
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No, he wasn't.
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I don't think it's even suspicious.
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I think he took his own life.
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I think he was very depressed.
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Yeah, I bet.
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I think he was living alone in a trailer on a farm somewhere.
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He also was the subject of that movie Collapse.
► 00:33:58
You ever see that movie?
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No.
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It's a wild movie.
► 00:34:01
And I don't know what the original premise was, but he sits down and he smokes cigarettes through this entire film.
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It's just a guy talking and talking about the imminent collapse of civilization.
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I know what you're talking about.
► 00:34:17
Dependence on fossil fuels and just wild shit.
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I don't know how much of it was accurate, but I know it scared the fuck out of a lot of people.
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And it was like a really popular documentary.
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I remember it.
► 00:34:31
It's worth watching.
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I mean, someone would have to have a knowledge of what he's saying, whether or not it's accurate.
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But he, for sure, this is the film.
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Play a trailer.
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Experience as an investigative journalist, I've broken major scandals.
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Going out to try and map how the world really worked as opposed to the way we were told it worked.
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Our map has proven deadly accurate.
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My economic predictions, we had it so right.
► 00:34:56
In 2006, we said, get out of debt right now.
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Check your mortgage carefully.
► 00:35:01
We issued a whole series of warnings.
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There will be nothing like we have ever seen before.
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Everything that we said was going to happen is taking place right now.
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Gold prices, Pakistan, Afghanistan, the stock market.
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It's not that Verdi Madoff was a pyramid scheme.
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The whole economy is a pyramid scheme.
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Well, that sounds right.
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Of course I've been called a conspiracy theorist.
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But I don't deal in conspiracy theory, I deal in conspiracy fact.
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The mortal blow to human industrialized civilization will happen when oil prices spike and nobody can afford to buy that oil and everything will just shut down.
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Unlike the Great Depression, we do not have infinite resources.
► 00:35:46
Nothing grows forever.
► 00:35:47
There is a cycle.
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Birth, growth, maturation, decline and death.
► 00:35:55
Cars don't run.
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The mail stops getting delivered.
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Planes don't fly.
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Law enforcement stops working.
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This is all part of the collapse.
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If you're in a camp and a bear attacks, you don't have to be faster than the bear.
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You only have to be faster than the slowest camper.
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The challenge being faced by the human race now is either evolve or perish, grow up or die.
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You have to believe, not hope, not pray that there's a way out of it and you're gonna find it.
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He was one of the first guests, you know, back when we were doing guests.
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First guest that I was very excited to talk to.
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When was this?
Wait A Minute Here
00:06:16
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That was a while back, man.
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Let's play this, because this is him on C-SPAN. Play this.
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Did you notice Variety in all the comments about how great this movie is?
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Yeah.
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Imagine today.
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Today, they'll be like, this is an insane...
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It's colonizer talk.
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Yeah, like, that's the creepiest thing is how much they would have loved that message then.
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And now, while it eerily sounds accurate, it's like, no, this is crazy talk.
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It's propaganda, yeah.
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Can you speak further into the mic, sir?
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These mics don't seem to be...
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I will tell you, Director Deutsch, as a former Los Angeles police narcotics detective, that the agency has dealt drugs throughout this country for a long time.
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This is on C-SPAN in 96. It's still there.
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That's where I'm playing it from.
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All right.
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Obviously, that is an answer for a lot of you.
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Now, can you please?
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I refer.
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All right.
► 00:37:40
Now, can you please?
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I refer direct.
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Wait, wait, wait.
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Wait a minute Wait a minute Wait a minute here.
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Wait a minute.
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If you don't like what's going on here, please leave now.
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No, no, no.
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Leave.
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No, no, no.
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Leave now because there are others who do want to hear what's going on in this room.
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Will you please take your seats?
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I will come back to you as we roll back across to the center section.
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Director Deutsch, I will refer you to three specific agency operations known as Amadeus, Pegasus, and Watchtower.
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I have Watchtower documents heavily redacted by the agency.
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I was personally exposed to CIA operations and recruited by CIA personnel who attempted to recruit me in the late 70s to become involved in protecting agency drug operations in this country.
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I have been trying to get this out for 18 years, and I have the evidence.
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My question for you is very specific, sir.
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If, in the course of the IG's investigations, and Fred Hitz's work, you come across evidence of severely criminal activity, and it's classified, will you use that classification to hide the criminal activity, or will you tell the American people the truth?
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All right, you want to hear the response first from Congressman Julian Dixon and then from the director.
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Wait!
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Wait a minute!
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From your...
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From your...
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I'm sorry, sir.
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I will allow the director to speak first.
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Shout out to that lady for taking control, by the way.
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Like a boss.
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Listen to this.
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If you have information about CIA illegal activity in drugs...
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You should immediately bring that information to wherever you want, but let me suggest three places.
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The Los Angeles Police Department.
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This guy's like something from Columbo.
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I'm sorry, others want to hear this answer.
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I am sorry.
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Others want to hear this answer.
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It is your choice, the Los Angeles Police Department, the Inspector General, or office of one of your congresspersons from this I did that 18 years ago, sir, and I got shot at for it.
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Wait a minute.
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Wait a minute, sir.
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Wait a minute.
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Wait a minute.
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Wait a minute, sir.
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And?
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Sir, you have not gotten the mic yet.
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You are not.
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But wait a minute, then.
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Don't speak out of turn.
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Let me say something else.
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If this information turns up wrongdoing, if it turns up wrongdoing, We will bring the people to justice and make them accountable.
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All right, Congressman Dixon.
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Thank you, sir, for coming.
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Wait, wait, wait, wait a minute here.
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I thought you did not want to be here, but now that you are here, please let us hear and listen.
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Thank you very much.
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Sir, I want to thank you for coming.
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You were at the last meeting.
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The staff probably had the spelling of your name wrong, but we would like to talk to you.
► 00:41:35
We have been looking for a couple of days for you.
► 00:41:39
And we want to...
► 00:41:44
We want to make sure that you contact the committee because obviously you have some valuable information.
► 00:41:52
If you want to give it to me privately, if you want to hand it to that aide where I can contact you this evening, please do it.
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Don't let us get away without getting a contact for you.
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Thank you, sir.
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So everyone can see that I got it, that would be fine.
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Thank you, sir.
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And for the record, for the record...
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Please, please, please keep the noise down so that we can hear and we can get answers.
► 00:42:19
For the record, my name is Mike Rupert, R-U-P-P-E-R-T. I did bring this information out 18 years ago, and I got shot at and forced out of LAPD because of it.
► 00:42:28
I've been on the record for 18 years nonstop, and I'll be happy to give you, Congressman, anything that I have.
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Thank you, Mr. Rupert.
► 00:42:37
Now, if you were cynical and you're watching that, you're like, I think the CIA faked a CIA guy.
Jackie Gleason's Controversy
00:15:42
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Do you think they did?
► 00:42:47
I mean, if you were playing 4D chess, no, I don't think so.
► 00:42:50
I think that's really who he is.
► 00:42:52
I mean, I know the guy.
► 00:42:53
Yeah, because nowadays, I forget the one whose name, what was she?
► 00:42:59
Was she a congressperson?
► 00:43:04
They said it in the description.
► 00:43:08
Because I imagine she would be having him taken out of there so he can't say anything.
► 00:43:12
Today.
► 00:43:12
That's crazy.
► 00:43:13
She's like, hey, let him talk.
► 00:43:15
Well, back then there was no internet.
► 00:43:16
You've got to realize if someone actually had information like that and people suspected it all along, obviously those people weren't shocked.
► 00:43:23
Yeah, right.
► 00:43:24
Right?
► 00:43:24
Those people in the audience are like, what?
► 00:43:26
No way!
► 00:43:27
They're selling drugs.
► 00:43:28
They were like, I fucking knew it!
► 00:43:30
Everyone was like, I fucking knew it!
► 00:43:32
That's what they were yelling out.
► 00:43:33
Did you ever talk to Rick Ross, the real dude?
► 00:43:35
Yes!
► 00:43:35
Yes!
► 00:43:36
The real Rick Ross.
► 00:43:37
Yeah, right.
► 00:43:37
Yeah.
► 00:43:38
That guy's very interesting.
► 00:43:39
He was very interesting.
► 00:43:40
He's the guy who was in charge of selling the drugs in South Central that was funding the Contras versus the Sandinistas.
► 00:43:47
I mean, it's just such, but anyway, you just, you outsource that, and then you have deniability or whatever.
► 00:43:53
That's how that works.
► 00:43:54
That's how it works, and you can make so much money.
► 00:43:56
Or, what would you rather do?
► 00:43:58
Let all these other people make money doing it?
► 00:44:00
These bad people?
► 00:44:01
Yeah, somebody's gotta make that.
► 00:44:02
We have to sell the drugs.
► 00:44:03
If the CIA doesn't sell the drugs, who's gonna sell the drugs?
► 00:44:06
And also for a good cause.
► 00:44:08
Yeah.
► 00:44:08
Imagine if that's how they've been, like, funding things forever.
► 00:44:12
Imagine if you found out that that's how they fund the UFO program.
► 00:44:16
Well, you know, you know what I wonder about that?
► 00:44:18
Because that Bob Lazar episode was very creepy when I watched the thing.
► 00:44:23
But to him talking about it, it was eerie to hear him talk about it.
► 00:44:26
It was very confusing.
► 00:44:29
Because what he's saying is so out there.
► 00:44:31
You don't know.
► 00:44:32
I'm like, I'm definitely a fool.
► 00:44:34
But am I being a fool here?
► 00:44:36
Yeah, no.
► 00:44:37
That's the little eerie part of it.
► 00:44:39
But then who would control...
► 00:44:41
Do you think the president gets to find out about it?
► 00:44:44
Or do you think it's purely...
► 00:44:45
Supposedly Nixon knew.
► 00:44:47
And Nixon took Jackie Gleason.
► 00:44:48
Yeah, I know that.
► 00:44:50
And Jackie Gleason built a house out of the shape of the UFO that he saw, like, to represent the UFO that he saw.
► 00:44:56
And, like, the Jackie Gleason house was for sale just a few years ago.
► 00:44:59
It's in, like, what is it in, like, upstate New York?
► 00:45:02
I found out about this from this dude who gave me the book Best Evidence by David Lifton.
► 00:45:07
He was, like, a guitarist in a band.
► 00:45:10
That's it.
► 00:45:10
That's the UFO-inspired upstate New York house.
► 00:45:14
Look at this fucking house.
► 00:45:15
Wait, that's not that big a house.
► 00:45:17
Well, it wasn't that big a house because he wanted to make it like the fucking UFO. So what it was was...
► 00:45:22
Oh, I see.
► 00:45:23
Multiple properties.
► 00:45:24
Oh, I see.
► 00:45:25
So he just started making UFO houses.
► 00:45:28
Apparently.
► 00:45:28
This is the rumor.
► 00:45:30
What the rumor was was that Jackie Gleason got drunk With Nixon.
► 00:45:35
And Nixon's like, you want to see a fucking flying saucer?
► 00:45:37
He's like, yes.
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And then they flew to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, I believe, was the rumor.
► 00:45:43
And they showed him, like, we have actually recovered.
► 00:45:45
They had freezers of them, right?
► 00:45:47
I don't know if that's real.
► 00:45:48
I've never heard anybody say that they saw a body and have it be, like, 100% credible.
► 00:45:55
Other than maybe that Travis Walton guy who claims to have been abducted in the 1970s, he's another one of those guys, like, if he's telling the truth.
► 00:46:04
Okay, there were a number of labs we passed through before entered a section.
► 00:46:07
Nixon pointed out what he said was the wreckage of a flying saucer enclosed in several large cases.
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Next, we went into an inner chamber.
► 00:46:13
There were six or eight what looked like glass-topped Coke freezers inside them with the mangled remains of what I took to be children.
► 00:46:20
Oh, that's right.
► 00:46:21
Yeah, that's the thing I remember from this story.
► 00:46:23
So I'm conflating this with something else.
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So that's right, they did have fucking supposedly dead frozen ones.
► 00:46:31
The revelation of the US Secretary holding the corpses of dead aliens shook Gleason to the core and he couldn't eat or sleep for weeks.
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After being confronted by his wife Beverly, Gleason told her the truth about that night and swore her to secrecy, but Jackie and Beverly Gleason were already in the process of separating.
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The final straw in the relationship would be Beverly breaking her vow and revealing the encounter to the magazine Esquire.
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Oh, the wife sold him down the river.
► 00:47:05
I wonder what that article...
► 00:47:06
So that article was where this story first came out?
► 00:47:08
Yeah, I guess so.
► 00:47:09
Stung and humiliated by the betrayal, Jackie stayed silent until 1986. Finally ready to talk, he invited Larry Warren, a flying saucer evangelist, author, and eyewitness to the Randall Sam...
► 00:47:22
Oops.
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Fucking pop-ups.
► 00:47:25
No, I don't want your pop-up.
► 00:47:26
No thanks.
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Thank you.
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Where were we?
► 00:47:32
86. Eyewitness to the Rendell Sam Forest UFO incident to his New York home.
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After a few drinks, Gleason unloaded the whole unbelievable tale to an astonished Warren who spread the story amongst his community.
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However, the story would end there.
► 00:47:48
Gleason died a year later, having only told his ex-wife, N. Warren, about the once-in-a-lifetime adventure with Nixon.
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The tale would spread like wildfire, with the advent of the Internet confirming what UFO believers already knew.
► 00:48:02
The government knows everything about aliens, but reveal it only to the privileged few.
► 00:48:07
Huh.
► 00:48:09
This is not true.
► 00:48:10
Okay, of course, because this is the blog of Skeptoid and Not Believe Everything.
► 00:48:18
Oh, this is Skeptoid that wrote this.
► 00:48:19
You read on the internoid.
► 00:48:22
The story doesn't end there.
► 00:48:23
In fact, there really is no story.
► 00:48:25
The Richard Nixon, Jackie Gleason, Dead Alien Chronicle, in a glass case tale, now accepted part of UFO internet lore, is based almost entirely on hearsay, coincidence, or an imagination.
► 00:48:36
And not just...
► 00:48:38
The dead alien children in the glass case part.
► 00:48:41
Wait a minute.
► 00:48:42
Why do they say that?
► 00:48:46
What is their reasoning for saying that it's not true?
► 00:48:50
They're saying it's anecdotal, which is obviously it's anecdotal.
► 00:48:52
Scroll up a little bit more.
► 00:48:54
Yeah.
► 00:48:55
So it says, as critical thinkers, we can't dismiss a story out of hand because it's preposterous, but we can dismiss a story if the facts don't fit together.
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Aha.
► 00:49:03
So let's start with the established facts.
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Richard Nixon, Jackie Gleason, Beverly Gleason, and Larry Warren were all real people.
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Beverly and Jackie Gleason were really married.
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Got divorced at 74, 75. Jackie and Richard Nixon are friends and played golf on a few occasions.
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Jackie was an enthusiast about paranormal topics with a huge collection of books on the subjects.
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Florida is a real place.
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Homestead Air Force Base.
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Esquire is a real magazine.
► 00:49:27
That's about it.
► 00:49:27
A little investigation into Nixon's daily diary reveals that Nixon was in Key Biscayne in February 1973 for a meeting with the AFL-CIO. He spent less than 40 minutes speaking and glad-handing with guests at Gleason's annual golf tournament at the Invery Golf and Country Club, which...
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At most ten minutes available to chat with Gleason about UFOs.
► 00:49:53
Nothing else in Nixon's diary indicates that the president did or didn't slip his Secret Service detail and go on an alien adventure with Ralph Cramden.
► 00:50:01
But that doesn't mean he didn't do it.
► 00:50:03
That just means he didn't write about it in his diary.
► 00:50:05
Why would he write about that in his diary?
► 00:50:07
Where the story really starts to fall apart is Beverly Gleason's interview with Esquire because it doesn't appear to exist.
► 00:50:13
Interesting.
► 00:50:14
Yeah, that's what I wanted.
► 00:50:15
The search of both Esquire's archives and internet in general turned up nothing.
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Hmm.
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What did turn up, however, was an article supposedly written by Beverly from the National Enquirer dated August 16th in 1983. Discerning readers will note that the Esquire and the Enquirer have different thresholds for veracity and adjust their expectations accordingly.
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That's a very good sentence right there.
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Yeah.
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Well worded.
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Yeah.
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So it seems like there was no Esquire article, so that's bullshit.
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Yeah, Inquirer back then, I remember being closer to Weekly World News, because Inquirer became like celebrity gossip entirely, right?
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When I was a kid, I remember it having wilder stuff in it.
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Okay, in short, the piece makes Jackie look like a lunatic, befitting a spurned wife writing a tell-all about her famous ex-husband.
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But the book wouldn't show Jack as he's never been seen before to anyone because Beverly never published it.
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The Gleason UFO story got picked up by a few other tabloids, but mostly faded into obscurity.
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So here's the thing, though.
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But you could for sure imagine that his ex-wife wanted to sell a book.
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You could also for sure imagine that Jackie would try to stop that book from being sold.
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So there's that.
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Maybe he bought her out.
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How do we know that she didn't actually write a book?
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Now, that's also because Nixon didn't write about it in his diary.
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If Nixon's the fucking kind of guy who likes to get drunk and take people to see UFOs, he's not going to be meticulous about every fucking thing he does all day long.
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And you don't think that they could hide that?
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I like that back then he was only really open about recording his racist rants and not his...
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But dude, back then, fucking Lyndon Johnson used to take a shit in front of the reporters with the door open.
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So he could see how big his dick was?
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Well, he was just, like, he didn't give a fuck.
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And, like, he would have a conversation with y'all, but I gotta take a shit.
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So he would sit there with his fucking pants down and take a shit in front of them.
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A guy like that, whatever his fucking diary says, that's probably not all that happened.
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It's probably a fucking UFO in that diary somewhere.
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Do you think LBJ would record that he took his shit in front of reporters?
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Yeah, well, took his shit in front of reporters, just let them know how big my cock is.
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That supposedly was, he had a thing with that, because he had like a huge, and he would try to like, I can't remember.
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Rodney had a giant dick too.
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Dangerfield?
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Yeah, and he used to do shows with a bathrobe on.
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Just only a bathrobe.
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Really?
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Naked under a bathrobe.
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It would go out in front of the fucking, I saw him live like that.
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How do you get the word out?
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When I was a security guard at Great Woods Center for the Performing Arts when I was 19, and I was backstage, and he was working there, and I couldn't believe I could actually see him.
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I looked down the corridor, and I saw...
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I couldn't believe it.
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It's Roddy Dangerfield.
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It's really Roddy Dangerfield.
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It was one of those things as a kid, you're like, fuck, he's right there?
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Yeah.
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Like, as a 19-year-old, that doesn't even make sense.
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I saw Bill Cosby there.
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Oh, they're gonna tell me you saw his dick.
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No, no, no.
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I didn't see his dick.
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But he was wearing a fucking bathrobe.
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So this was during the bathrobe days.
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There was a part in Roddy Dangerfield's career when he had just made it and didn't give a fuck.
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And he was still partying hard.
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Was this after Go Back to School?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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It was after the big movies.
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And he would do stand-up and just go out there with a fucking bathrobe on.
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This was also like when he was putting together the Rodney Dangerfield stand-up specials, which were the most important stand-up specials ever.
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They introduced the world to Bill Hicks, Dice Clay, Sam Kinison, Dom Herrera, Lenny Clark, who else?
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Wasn't Jerry Seinfeld on those too?
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I think so.
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I think so.
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I'm not sure.
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Seinfeld might have already been...
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I think he was already really popular by then.
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But you look back on the Dangerfield ones, like if you got on that Dangerfield special, that was a fucking stamp of approval.
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Like, holy shit, you're on the Dangerfield special?
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That was a big deal.
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When was that?
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What was that?
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80s?
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Those are like 86-ish.
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Because I think Kinnison really popped in 86. Yeah.
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And so it was around that time, because I remember he was fucking murdered on that special.
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Hicks killed us.
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Dice murdered on that special.
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Yeah, right.
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Those specials, there was a couple of them.
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They were so big.
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They were HBO? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Rodney Dangerfield's young comedian special.
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And you knew that if those guys came to the fucking Catch a Rising Star or the improv, you had to go see them.
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That's how I found out about so many comedians that became some of my favorites.
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That and the fucking Tonight Show.
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People forget, the Tonight Show used to be how you found out about a good comic.
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Wait, did I tell you Keyboard Jeff from Comedy Store?
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You know Jeff that passed away?
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Yeah.
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He told me a story, and I think this has been verified on a podcast, but they were doing Cogan and Richard Pryor Jr. fucked Sam Kinison up the ass, because Sam Kinison said, I gotta know what it's like to be fucked by Richard Pryor Jr., and then he did, and I think Richard Pryor Jr. has told this on a podcast.
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Mmm, I would imagine that's possible.
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Yeah, I mean...
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Sure.
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That's a wild...
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You're doing coke?
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People get crazy.
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And you surpass the comedy legacy of your father?
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It is, asshole!
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Imagine thinking you can get it through DNA. Yeah.
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Imagine if it was that easy.
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Like, talented sperm would be so valuable.
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Like horse sperm, kind of.
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Oh, my God.
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Yeah.
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Laugh at first sight.
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So this is someone telling the story.
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Yeah.
► 00:55:51
There's a couple other links for that.
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Well, there you have it, folks.
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We've proven that much more than we've proven the Jackie Gleason UFO thing.
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If only we had that kind of...
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That kind of anecdotal evidence.
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That actually ends with it saying it could be true.
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That whole skeptical thing.
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The Jackie Gleason thing?
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Yeah, so there's four possible answers for this, and one of the four was that it could be true.
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Yeah, that is a possibility.
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Elvis was a DEA agent after meeting with Nixon.
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See, this is the thing.
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We were talking about Bob Lazar, and after I've talked to him, and I've seen all the interviews he's done, I've talked to the detractors, and I've listened to their take on things.
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I think he worked there, man.
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I think for sure he worked there.
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Whether or not he worked there on something that actually came from another planet, that's where it gets weird.
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People who work there for sure remember him.
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They've told people they remember him.
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He knows his way around the buildings.
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Even Los Alamos Lab, he knows his way around the buildings.
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Yeah, right.
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Like, he knows how to navigate the place.
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So who would know about it?
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That's the thing I always wonder is, like, with the...
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Okay, Nixon, I guess.
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They said he never worked at Los Alamos, but he was on the fucking employee register from that year.
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If you can go there, you can find it.
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So they lied.
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Yeah, well, that makes it suspicious when, like, why do you need to lie about a guy who is making it up?
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I think he thought they were going to take him out, so he spilled the beans as hard as he could spill the beans.
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It really is, uh, because, you know, that guy we just watched on C-SPAN, you don't have to come kill you, it can just make you...
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Make you look nuts.
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Yeah, and if you just learn about things, it's awful.
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Like, I started smoking more weed while I was watching that C-SPAN thing.
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It really is horrible.
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It's terrifying.
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I don't recommend it.
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I know.
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That's the thing.
► 00:57:45
You're working with Jimmy Dore now.
► 00:57:46
And because you're working with Jimmy Dore, Jimmy's constantly exposing insane corruption that no one's talking about.
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Constantly.
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And constantly calling people out.
► 00:57:55
It's all shit that I wouldn't know about because nobody talks about it ever.
► 00:58:00
You don't hear about it.
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It really is.
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And it's stuff that...
► 00:58:04
The weird thing I was telling Jamie is it'll be report on something and then I'll notice the other news, YouTube and elsewhere, reporting on it later, like four months later they're talking about it.
Real News and Gamble PR
00:15:52
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Like an embargo has been lifted when you're allowed to review the...
► 00:58:21
Things get to a point where they're so prevalent in the news that you kind of have to address them now.
► 00:58:26
There's a thing where if you want to have access to the people, you're going to have to be doing part PR for them, or you're out of the club.
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So all these people that he's had on, this is what I like about him, is all these people he's had on, if they don't do the thing they said, he brings it up.
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He doesn't politely, you know, he doesn't do any of that team shit where you're supposed to like, I know this is a lie, but we have to go with it because the bad people could win.
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They all do that.
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And that's not journalism.
► 00:58:55
You can't get it from those forms anymore because they're holding water for so many different entities.
► 00:59:02
It's so hard for them to just spit facts.
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And I think the way you two guys do it together is so refreshing because it's like true.
► 00:59:11
Like you go over facts and details and then you're constantly cracking jokes.
► 00:59:15
It's like there's levity to it.
► 00:59:18
I'm kind of just watching it, laughing.
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It creates an effect, I think, to have a laughy guy.
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Well, it's also perfect.
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Your type of joke writing is perfect for that kind of shit.
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Yeah, right.
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You know what I mean?
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It syncs up.
► 00:59:33
You're a quick Well, if I give him stuff, because I like to have more time for my first angry thoughts to at least try to marinate into clevers because they don't come out.
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He's good at delivering.
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Angry and funny at the same time.
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Yeah, he's very good at delivering that.
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Rather than tweeting.
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Right.
► 00:59:55
That's the worst way to do it.
► 00:59:56
Yeah, it's probably the worst way to do it.
► 00:59:58
It's just all context is lost.
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Everything's lost.
► 01:00:03
It's also like when they talk about people want to take your information.
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I didn't really understand.
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It doesn't just mean like a corporation.
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It means just all kinds of people looking to see if they can find something that they could make a name for talking about that you tweeted.
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Oh, yeah, for sure.
► 01:00:18
So there's also that.
► 01:00:20
Well, that's a whole ecosystem now, calling people out for things.
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It's an ecosystem.
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There's a whole business being destroyed right now.
► 01:00:28
But there's people that that's all they do.
► 01:00:30
You want some more of this?
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Yeah.
► 01:00:32
That's all they do is call people out.
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That's their only contribution, which is great.
► 01:00:38
I can't believe how much that became the real news.
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Because they don't want to pay to do journalism, so all the people that just got their start doing that moved up through the ranks into real news.
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Yeah.
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Bizarre.
► 01:00:51
And then it functions like real news.
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That's how real news functions.
► 01:00:55
And also, you know, when the rise of these independent things like Jimmy Show and Crystal and Kyle and Sagar...
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You know these people who are trustworthy like you could you could count on them to give you information They have opinions and perspective and they might have their own biases But they're not liars and they don't own they're not owned by a lot of them a lot of them do get money for you be surprised It's been very surprising who gets money from what since I've been I don't think any of those guys do the guys that I just mentioned well Jimmy doesn't All the Ukraine stuff,
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here's what's really creepy to me, is it's all slow to mention how fucked up the Ukraine situation is.
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And the other really eerie thing is, I remember this before I did anything with Jimmy's show, like in 2018, they were constantly reporting on Ukraine's got a Nazi problem.
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That was a huge, on all the major things they were saying.
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And corruption, deep, deep corruption.
► 01:01:55
Yeah, and so now, if you look at New York Times, he showed it, the celebrated Azov battalion.
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They've even dropped saying the Nazi part.
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Did you see the thing of Jon Stewart hanging the medal on the Nazis' neck at Disney World with a Mickey Mouse behind him?
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No.
► 01:02:10
What?
► 01:02:10
Yeah, that's one of the ones we did.
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The guy covered it up.
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Oh, are we talking about sketch?
► 01:02:15
No.
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What do you mean?
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In real life.
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Hold on.
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Explain that.
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What did you...
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It was like the Warrior Games at Disney World and a hero, an Azov hero...
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One, like, best guy on the team.
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I don't know how there's time to go to Disney World, but Jon Stewart hangs a medal on his neck, and he's got a red...
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In the photo, he's got a red thing covering it up.
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It's one of those Black Sun, you know, the Himmler...
► 01:02:38
I think it's like the occult thing, right?
► 01:02:40
He's got that on his elbow.
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What?
► 01:02:41
So, yeah.
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That's a very...
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Oh, there he is.
► 01:02:46
Yeah, okay.
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That's the guy.
► 01:02:48
But look at the picture of the guy in the hospital.
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Sweet make-a-wish kid with a black son.
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Is that real?
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Yeah.
► 01:02:57
The thing is creepy is all the regular news reported this up until, abruptly, now it doesn't come up.
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Which I can understand if we were at war.
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So he had something covering up his arm?
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Yeah, so he's got a thing covering it up.
► 01:03:10
So he had a thing to cover up his tattoo.
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Yeah, but...
► 01:03:14
Wow.
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I mean, holy shit.
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Walt Disney's dream coming true.
► 01:03:21
Yeah.
► 01:03:22
Is that wild?
► 01:03:22
Well, did you ever see the thing that happened with Candace Owens?
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No.
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Where Candace Owens was talking about how corrupt the New York Times is.
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The New York Times tried to play gotcha with her.
► 01:03:30
Oh, really?
► 01:03:31
And they said, what are you referring to?
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Like, what references?
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And she goes, your own fucking newspaper.
► 01:03:37
And she sent them all these links from like 2017 from the New York Times talking about how corrupt Ukraine is.
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There's like a...
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When a narrative shifts like that, and you don't say, what Russia's doing is absolutely horrific.
► 01:03:52
Yeah, right.
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No ifs, ands, or buts about it.
► 01:03:54
Right.
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But...
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This is a place that is also...
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Those people don't deserve that.
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The people that are citizens there, they don't deserve bombing.
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That's not what I'm saying.
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What I'm saying is the government has always been criticized there, and now it's not.
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No, now it's...
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This is my favorite.
► 01:04:11
I've heard this line three times.
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Yeah, it's corrupt, but they're trying.
► 01:04:15
I've heard that over and over again.
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They don't deserve to be attacked.
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I think there's a lot of parts...
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Yeah, there shouldn't be a...
► 01:04:23
None of this should be happening, but there's some kind of proxy thing here.
► 01:04:26
It's very weird that we spent more on this than Russia spent doing the invasion.
► 01:04:31
We now surpassed what Russia has spent.
► 01:04:33
But what about this FTX thing?
► 01:04:35
Oh, yeah, well...
► 01:04:36
That's where it gets crazy.
► 01:04:38
Which I love is they're all reporting on, like, how could this happen?
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Like, you know, he would play League of Legends while he's on the phone doing a $20 million deal.
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And then, who was it?
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Goldman Sachs?
► 01:04:49
Somebody's like, I love this kid.
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They all think it's great.
► 01:04:52
How could they think it's great?
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Because he's a rich kid with connected parents.
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If he was just some jerk off off the street who looked like that, they wouldn't be like, oh, this is great.
► 01:05:01
Well, his mom was a big Democratic Party operative, right?
► 01:05:05
Wasn't she something along those lines?
► 01:05:06
Yeah, also MIT. The guy at the SEC that he would talk to was an MIT professor.
► 01:05:10
Hold on.
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Go back, Jamie.
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What did you just show me?
► 01:05:12
I was trying to find the actual thing, and that wasn't it, but this is what he was talking about.
► 01:05:15
Crypto's biggest crash saw a guy playing League of Legends while luring investors.
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So while he was playing this fucking game while he was talking to the investors?
► 01:05:24
If you just pay a bunch of money to the media, which is what he did, they'll just write things about how great you are.
► 01:05:31
That's the other thing.
► 01:05:32
He donated.
► 01:05:32
He was a jerk-off.
► 01:05:33
They'll write your...
► 01:05:35
Because there's only two kinds of stories.
► 01:05:36
My friend, I used to work with...
► 01:05:37
She told me it's either puff, outrage.
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It's like puff pieces or hit pieces.
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That's all they do.
► 01:05:42
Because that's how you get people to look at it and whatever.
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That's all they can do.
► 01:05:46
So you can bribe these companies to do puff pieces.
► 01:05:50
That's what he did.
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Isn't that wild?
► 01:05:52
The guy from Shark Tank that...
► 01:05:55
They asked him, he's like, I'd work with him again.
► 01:05:57
Well, I think he was actually one of the guys that got paid, too.
► 01:06:00
Of course!
► 01:06:00
I think he's one of the spokespeople, wasn't he?
► 01:06:02
Yeah.
► 01:06:03
Kevin O'Leary?
► 01:06:04
He had to give some fun disclosures on that video where he's like, before we get started on this, let me tell you that all my business accounts are involved in FTX and I've invested in it.
► 01:06:11
Dude, there's a video of him on Shark Tank tearing apart some guy who brought a Ponzi scheme to him.
► 01:06:17
Oh, no.
► 01:06:18
In fact, what did I say?
► 01:06:19
I think it's CoffeeZilla.
► 01:06:20
Maybe he believes in this kid.
► 01:06:22
Yeah, but he does it's just if you know the right people and you're that his brother works with like a Gap or something a guard against pandemics every single thing that you would see Did you see what the young lady said she posted it on Twitter about her regular amphetamine use?
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Oh, they're checking people's make life.
► 01:06:41
What does she say makes real life seem silly?
► 01:06:44
See if you can find out what her post was but she was talking on Twitter about a How consuming amphetamines on a regular basis made non-medicated life seem dumb.
► 01:06:56
Oh, no shit!
► 01:06:58
Do you see the obvious things they're saying?
► 01:07:03
Nothing like regular amphetamine used to make you appreciate how dumb a lot of normal non-medicated human experience is.
► 01:07:10
That is a hilarious thing to say from someone who, in April 5th of 2021, is responsible for how much money?
► 01:07:18
Dude, but you know what's crazy?
► 01:07:20
They're all whacked out on legal prescription drugs.
► 01:07:23
Yeah, yeah, they're whacked out on...
► 01:07:24
There's another thing that he was taking in a transdermal patch.
► 01:07:27
He was taking Schledgeline or something like that.
► 01:07:30
I just watched that dude.
► 01:07:32
He's like a weightlifter guy.
► 01:07:33
More dates, yeah.
► 01:07:34
More plates, more dates, Derek.
► 01:07:35
Boy, that guy knows all the chemicals.
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Was he like a chemical engineer?
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No, man.
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He's just fucking super smart and reads research.
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I know.
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It's so funny when people are like...
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I thought he was a chemist.
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Everybody I ever knew that was some kind of fitness freak knew a lot of shit about they weren't like stupid people that shouldn't do research They were way ahead of everyone else I knew You know how like Weightlifting supplements.
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Oh yeah, man.
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Listen, I know a lot of people that know a lot of shit about when you should eat for the maximum amount of absorption of the protein.
► 01:08:06
Yeah, right.
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How many grams per pound of body weight you have to take.
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That kid with that fledgling, that's amazing.
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A kid that out of shape is like weightlifter knowledge of nootropics.
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Yeah.
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A bodybuilder guy?
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That's his body.
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His body is his mind.
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His body is just carrying his mind around.
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What are the effects he said it does?
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Where it makes you enjoy doing boring work or something?
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Yeah, I think it was something along those lines.
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Find Derek's video on it, because Derek describes it.
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But the Sledgling one, he had a nicotine patch.
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It was like a patch.
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So you're just like getting that slow drip of whatever the fuck that sludging stuff is all day.
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That stuff stays in you for a while.
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Those kind of things, those ones where it stays for a while, you can't just go off it.
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Or a transdermal?
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Yeah.
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Not the patch.
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I don't know.
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It's a 20 minute video.
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I don't know what the part would be.
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Maybe...
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Just start it.
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Yeah, right there.
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That's the stuff.
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That's the stuff.
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M. Sam.
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This.
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Okay, so he's gonna go, he has his medical disclaimer.
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He's smart about the way he handles stuff.
► 01:09:08
Sup guys, Derek, moralpolatesmortadates.com.
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Today we're talking about Sam Bankman-Fried and his nootropic use, his drug use, his cognitive enhancing, dopaminergic enhancing drugs that he's using to stay cognitively fucking dialed, dude, for being the hyperproductive entrepreneur that he is, bro.
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So, if you haven't seen I'm sure you've probably seen, if you're clicking this, the FTX debacle.
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He's all in the news and has been for a minute now.
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Crypto fears.
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Contagion is billions owed to creditors.
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Sam Bankman-Fried becomes an ESG truth teller.
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FTX fires three of Sam Bankman-Fried's top deputies.
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Celebs like Tom Brady, Larry David did ads for crypto giant FTX. Now they're getting sued.
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Sam Bankman Freed says, fuck regulators, Musk's Twitter ultimatum and making TikToks instead of ads.
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Matt Levine on the collapse of Sam Bankman Freed's FTX in Alameda.
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So apparently this guy went from a billionaire to nothing essentially overnight from this complete disaster of a situation.
► 01:10:06
If you want some insight onto exactly what happened, check out CoffeeZilla.
► 01:10:10
High quality information on a regular basis in a highly entertaining format.
► 01:10:15
Highly recommend his channel for anything crypto scam related essentially.
► 01:10:19
Or anything financials.
► 01:10:21
You know who has a good thing on FTX that is not making any conclusions?
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This guy, Upper Echelon Games.
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I watched a really good...
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It's actually great.
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I can't remember what it is, but it's about FTX when it fell, and he doesn't claim anything.
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He just shows...
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It's worth watching.
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That other guy, the guy who was the head dog at Google?
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Was it Google or Facebook?
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Chamath?
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Where was he from?
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Is he from Google, right?
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I think he runs a venture capital fund.
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I don't know.
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He probably used to work there.
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Wasn't he like the top guy of Google?
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Anyway, he's a billionaire and he really understands it.
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And he actually reached out to them, contacted them and said, you know, you should form a board.
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And they told him to go fuck himself.
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That's literally what they said.
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Go fuck yourself.
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He was like, he's a fucking billionaire financial guy who actually understands how money works.
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And he said, this is what you guys gotta do.
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And they're like, go fuck yourself.
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Do you think the new tropics were making them arrogant?
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They're on speed all day, man.
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These guys are jacked up on speed and making billions.
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And they're fucking each other.
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All of them.
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All nine of them.
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And a house in the Bahamas just smells like nerd fucking.
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Just nerd fucking.
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Just taking Mountain Dew and Sledgeline, using a trackball.
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These tweets on the side of this are crazy.
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That's probably what he's talking about.
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What's he saying?
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It says, like, M. Sam has fatal side effects when eating with meat products.
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Yeah.
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Oh, so is that why he's a vegan?
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Pathological gambling and hypersexuality.
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Yeah, it's that fearlessness.
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Pathological gambling and hypersexuality.
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Have you heard of this before?
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I've heard of this with other drugs.
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Whoa!
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Well, one of them, Re-Equip.
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You know what Re-Equip is?
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No.
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Re-Equip is a Parkinson's drug that got pulled from the market.
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That's what this is.
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Is that what it is?
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Yeah.
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This is Re-Equip?
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It says it's developed to treat depression or Parkinson's and is off-label alertness and focus benefits.
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But is it the same drug?
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Is it Re-Equip?
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I'll check.
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It could be Re-Equip.
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Maybe.
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Find out if it's the same thing as Re-Equip.
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Because Re-Equip, they lost a court case where a guy became a gay sex and gambling addict.
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I remember that!
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He was a heterosexual guy with Parkinson's.
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He had a little bit of a shake, and so he starts taking this drug, and he just can't stop sucking cock and rolling dice.
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He's just out there, compulsive behavior, wildly compulsive, like finding people on ads and just fucking them, and they fuck him, and wild shit.
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He couldn't believe what he was doing.
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He just lost his fucking mind.
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And they attributed it to the drug.
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I remember that.
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I think he got hundreds of thousands of dollars in the settlement.
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Well, there was an ad.
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I can't remember what drug it was for, and I remember hearing it.
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I want to say it was an antidepressant, but you would hear, like, if you feel a sudden urge to gamble, contact your dog.
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Like, that's an odd...
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But with this guy, it's crazy because I don't know that there were other cases that were similar.
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I just heard of this one.
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The gambling thing must have happened.
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If they're saying that on the commercial, that must have happened a lot.
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But is it the same drug?
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Are we talking about the same drug?
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Or is it other drugs that make you gamble, too?
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Any of those ones that are, you know, with the suicidal ideation or whatever they call it happens, there's something that inhibits your fear.
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Your anxiety about all kinds of things, but it could be for death, too.
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You're supposed to be afraid of taking your own life.
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Well, also taking other people's lives.
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That's the correlation, not causation, that people make with psych drugs and shooters.
Chemical Imbalance Myth
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Yeah, well, Tom Cruise, when he said Matt Lauer was being glib, I laughed, but you know what?
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Matt Lauer was being glib.
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Well, Matt Lauer thought that he was informed.
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Because that's what we were told.
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We were told that there's a chemical imbalance.
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And it turns out that that's not based on anything.
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Like, that whole thing about people that are depressed have a chemical imbalance?
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Yeah.
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It's in the commercial.
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I forgot.
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They go, it's thought to work this way.
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Their wording is legally, not that they know this, they go, we think it works.
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And it was right in the commercial.
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And I didn't remember that from the commercials.
► 01:14:17
I think they're allowed to say, we think it works that way.
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But I think now they know that that's not necessarily the case.
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What is the case now when they say...
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So the statement used to be that there was like a measurable chemical imbalance that certain people had that was leading them to be depressed.
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And now they're saying that's not something they can measure.
► 01:14:40
Isn't that correct?
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Yeah.
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Well, I don't know.
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Find out what that is.
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An article came out where they said like...
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They said that's not true.
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It was based...
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Well, there's a lot of...
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Really crazy ones you find out.
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Like the amyloid plaque one with Alzheimer's?
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Yeah.
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Turns out it was horseshit.
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It was based on fraudulent data.
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Oh, I didn't hear that.
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It's based on fraud.
► 01:15:02
Popular theory about depression wasn't debunked by a new review.
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So it wasn't debunked.
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This is from technologynetworks.com.
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So psychiatry gave up on the chemical imbalance theory a long time ago, they're saying.
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So they're saying maybe it's a common thought and they're saying it like it was a recent thing, but it wasn't.
► 01:15:25
The review published by international research team including first author...
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Professor Joanna Moncrief aimed to assess the available evidence for and against the serotonin theory of depression systematically.
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The team explained this theory near the start of the paper.
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The theory is the idea that depression is the result of abnormalities in brain chemicals, particularly serotonin.
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The theory has been around for decades, but their overreaching conclusion is that That it is not correct, given that there appears to be no link between measurable serotonin concentration and depression.
► 01:16:01
Okay.
► 01:16:02
The reaction of many academics, briefly as obviously, in comments, UK-based Science Media Center, Dr. Michael...
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Oh, wait a minute.
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This is some kind of, I'll bet you this is some industry fucking thing.
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Because all they're saying is, oh no, no mental health professional says that.
► 01:16:20
But people think that.
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Yeah, but scroll back up again.
► 01:16:23
I want to finish what he's saying.
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So he says, the findings from this umbrella review are really unsurprising.
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Depression has lots of different symptoms, and I don't think I've met any serious scientists or psychiatrists who think that all causes of depression are caused by a simple chemical imbalance in serotonin.
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But that's not what they're saying.
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They're saying they do say sometimes that there's a chemical imbalance in serotonin that causes depression.
► 01:16:48
People have always said that.
► 01:16:49
So if that's what people were saying, they're not saying that's the only reason why you're depressed.
► 01:16:54
See how he's wording this?
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But they market it to you.
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But who's they?
► 01:17:00
The company, well, okay, I don't remember the name of the drug, but the old commercial I saw played, and so they're saying right there, we think it's out.
► 01:17:07
They're not guaranteeing it in the commercial, but everyone I knew remembers it as, oh, it's that simplified thing that they're all saying, none of them were ever saying.
► 01:17:14
Well, maybe they weren't in charge of marketing, but the people in charge of marketing were making it seem very much like that's the thing.
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So there's different doctors.
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Scroll back up.
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There's different doctors who do a better job of explaining it.
► 01:17:25
This guy, or better to me, rather.
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Dr. Professor Phil Cohen.
► 01:17:31
Cowan or Cohen?
► 01:17:32
I'm not sure.
► 01:17:33
They're saying what I'm saying.
► 01:17:34
Professor of psychopharmacology at the University of Oxford said no mental health professional would currently endorse the view that a complex heterogeneous condition like depression stems from a deficiency in a single neurotransmitter.
► 01:17:47
So he's saying that it's probably more things.
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Do you see down there what it says?
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That it was heavily pushed by drug companies?
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Yes.
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So that's exactly that.
► 01:17:57
Where does it say it?
► 01:17:57
Read that.
► 01:17:58
Uh...
► 01:18:00
Yeah, okay.
► 01:18:01
88% of respondents believed a chemical imbalance to be the cause of depression.
► 01:18:04
This idea, the authors point out, was heavily pushed by drug companies aiming to sell serotonin selective reuptake inhibitor compound.
► 01:18:11
So- Read it for Eli Lilly.
► 01:18:14
Oh, Eli Lilly, for example, promoted their compound Prozac in 2008 with the following.
► 01:18:19
Many scientists believe that an imbalance in serotonin, one of these neurotransmitters, may be an important factor in the development and severity of depression.
► 01:18:29
Prozac may help to correct this imbalance by increasing the brain's own supply of serotonin.
► 01:18:34
That's from the commercial.
► 01:18:35
I remember that.
► 01:18:37
And so there's all these maybes and we don't knows, but you don't remember that.
► 01:18:41
You just remember, oh, that's what causes it.
► 01:18:43
Exactly.
► 01:18:43
I saw an animated diagram of what causes it.
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So they're not totally lying.
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It's just the way Wormy advertise.
► 01:18:50
It's so gross.
► 01:18:52
That's the thing.
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Ask your doctor.
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Yeah.
► 01:18:55
Oh, okay.
► 01:18:57
That's fucking crazy.
► 01:18:59
And your doctor's supposed to be telling you what you should take, and you're asking your doctor about these things.
► 01:19:04
And then all of a sudden, there's a big panic of like, wait, don't ask your doctor about these ones right now.
► 01:19:09
Oh, yeah.
► 01:19:09
They've been telling people to ask their doctor, and all of a sudden, but don't even look...
► 01:19:13
Not the off-label stuff.
Affinity Scam Prey
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Can't make any money off of that.
► 01:19:16
Who would ever use things off-label?
► 01:19:19
Isn't it wild?
► 01:19:19
What is he using?
► 01:19:20
Parkinson medicine to steal your money back?
► 01:19:24
You know what that is?
► 01:19:25
It's an affinity scam like, you know, Madoff preyed on a lot of Jewish people because they trusted him.
► 01:19:30
It's called an affinity scam when you try to prey on a fellow something.
► 01:19:35
And this kid, that's an affinity scam of fellow connected rich people.
► 01:19:39
They all trust.
► 01:19:40
Oh, his pedigree is impeccable of his family's connections.
► 01:19:46
Someone was trying to explain to me Epstein, and we were talking about it, the Epstein Island thing, like, why would people go there?
► 01:19:53
And I'm like, because other people were there.
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Bill Clinton's there.
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But it's also, if you're like, fucking Bill Clinton's there, for sure we're safe.
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This is the place to go.
► 01:19:59
Him and Tony Blair, they'll show up at anything if you give them the right amount of money.
► 01:20:04
They'll sit with this kid in board shorts and, like, unkempt hair and talk about crypto.
► 01:20:08
But that is one of the wildest things that Epstein did, is get all those prominent people to go.
► 01:20:12
And it's not just guilt by association, it's also, like, it's a greeting card for all the other people.
► 01:20:19
Yeah.
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Like, have you ever been invited to a party and they'll tell you someone famous is gonna go?
► 01:20:24
Yes!
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It's a weird thing.
► 01:20:25
That's a honey trap.
► 01:20:26
Like, hey, if you go, Drew Carey might be there.
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Like, Oh, Drew Carey might be there.
► 01:20:30
I might be there too then.
► 01:20:31
I'd like to meet Drew Carey.
► 01:20:33
And plus, you know all the famous gift baskets at award shows?
► 01:20:37
Sure!
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Celebs love getting hooked up.
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That's a thing.
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Of any of the things that's a good side effect of if you're in any kind of show business, when you get hooked up, you're like, oh, I could go backstage at a thing.
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Get free Ray-Bans.
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Yeah, so at all levels, they love that.
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At all levels.
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Yeah.
► 01:20:56
There used to be a place you'd go for these award shows, and there was these tents.
► 01:21:01
That's the first time I met Ice Cube.
► 01:21:03
I was like, what's up, Ice Cube?
► 01:21:04
We were both in this fucking stupid tent.
► 01:21:06
And they were giving away all kinds of shit, man.
► 01:21:09
They were giving away fucking trips to places, free trips.
► 01:21:14
They give you free trips.
► 01:21:15
They give you jewelry.
► 01:21:16
Yeah.
► 01:21:16
This is for what?
► 01:21:17
For whatever.
► 01:21:18
Some stupid award show.
► 01:21:19
I don't even remember which one it was.
► 01:21:21
I remember the Emmys.
► 01:21:21
I got a free basket, but I wasn't getting the whatever primo Emmy thing, but I got that t-shirt of Bruce Lee as a DJ. Yes, yes.
► 01:21:32
It's like a $600 t-shirt.
► 01:21:34
Is it really?
► 01:21:34
Absolutely.
► 01:21:35
It was something like that.
► 01:21:37
I remember seeing it in Iron Man.
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Tony Stark is wearing it.
► 01:21:42
It was all that kind of stuff.
► 01:21:44
Oh, inside.
► 01:21:45
They would custom make you a pair of shoes.
► 01:21:47
I never bothered to go take my handmade shoe coupon.
► 01:21:52
Yeah, they always did that stuff.
► 01:21:55
It might have been the Emmys, but I went to a few of those things.
► 01:21:59
I had to go to one of those when Phil Hartman was nominated for an Emmy.
► 01:22:05
Oh, really?
► 01:22:05
And this was after he was murdered.
► 01:22:07
So the whole cast of NewsRadio is sitting in the audience, just hoping that Phil's going to win.
► 01:22:13
And Phil didn't win.
► 01:22:15
The dude from Frasier won.
► 01:22:16
And Dave Foley turns to me and goes, what the fuck does a guy have to do to win?
► 01:22:20
LAUGHTER Wow.
► 01:22:27
Dude, Dave only in the moment, one of the fucking sharpest guys ever.
► 01:22:30
I think he's funny, I do, man.
► 01:22:32
And the way he said it, the way he looked at me, it was like perfect timing.
► 01:22:35
You know, that kid's in the whole movie with the drug company, there's a lot of like weirdly ahead of it.
► 01:22:41
Oh, yeah.
► 01:22:42
In fact, they got a lot of weird ahead of their time stuff.
► 01:22:44
Yeah, and like The Simpsons in a way.
► 01:22:46
Yeah, they had a whole thing, like they predicted the woke takeover in like 1993. Oh yeah, we just played that art class one.
► 01:22:54
Yeah, it's fucking crazy!
► 01:22:55
You know, I just realized the ultimate gift basket for celebs is the one FTX did, which is a shit ton of money.
► 01:23:01
Yeah, that's the best.
► 01:23:02
That's better than a designer t-shirt.
► 01:23:05
If that guy didn't go to war with that other guy, that's what happened, right?
► 01:23:10
That dude dumped all of his coins.
► 01:23:13
He sold all of his coins and they really couldn't cover it.
► 01:23:16
That was his rival.
► 01:23:19
Yeah, he had a whole back door installed in that, so his kind of house, one girlfriend or whatever she is, ran Alameda Research.
► 01:23:28
Right.
► 01:23:29
And then they had some back door.
► 01:23:30
They funneled off like $10 billion into that.
► 01:23:32
The whole thing is so wild.
► 01:23:34
They were just on speed, playing with fake money.
► 01:23:37
It's so funny to watch the videos where it's obvious, and all you need is people to be on board.
► 01:23:43
Yeah.
► 01:23:44
If all the right people are on board, that's all it takes.
► 01:23:47
It's like the Epstein Island thing.
► 01:23:48
Yeah, everyone, it's like, everything's to train you to get to be, like, you don't really get to pick if you say whatever your politics, right?
► 01:23:56
Right.
► 01:23:57
Whatever you would call yourself, you don't get to decide that.
► 01:23:59
Like, we'll let you know what you are.
► 01:24:01
Right.
► 01:24:02
You could decide maybe a gender.
► 01:24:03
You go ahead and pick out a gender, honey.
► 01:24:05
But you're not getting to pick...
► 01:24:06
Everything else about your identity will be assigned to you from now on.
► 01:24:09
You can only...
► 01:24:10
Even that can only be assigned if it's convenient.
► 01:24:12
You see what happened with the non-binary shooter?
► 01:24:15
Oh, yeah.
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And then the transgender person on television says, I could tell by looking at them that that's a man.
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Well, what do they do in that situation?
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We played it on Jimmy's show.
► 01:24:26
That is such a crazy thing to say.
► 01:24:28
That is against everything you supposedly stand for.
► 01:24:31
Did you see initially?
► 01:24:32
So it's Al Franken, some other white guy, the reporter, the woman, and then I can't remember the black guy's name, but she's like first hearing the non-binary thing.
► 01:24:44
So now they're in a bad spot because you're supposed to immediately go along with that.
► 01:24:48
Right.
► 01:24:49
And they're resistant.
► 01:24:51
And this is like really screwing up their narrative of whatever they were going to say this person was, right?
► 01:24:58
And so they had to turn the black guy, because they're like, I hope...
► 01:25:00
Because we're white, like we can't say anything.
► 01:25:03
Like, I hope this is enough of a shield for us to say we don't want to accept that this shooter is non-binary.
► 01:25:09
And then they had to get...
► 01:25:11
A trans woman would come and go, he doesn't look non-binary to me.
► 01:25:14
It's just so crazy to say.
► 01:25:16
The whole rule is set up that way.
► 01:25:18
In fact, I first heard about from that guy Adam Curry on here, ESG, a long time ago.
► 01:25:23
Yes.
► 01:25:24
And I was like, oh, is that what that is?
► 01:25:26
Because I was wondering, we're all this bizarre...
► 01:25:28
It sounds like it's a tax write-off.
► 01:25:32
They must be making money in some way or getting a grant to do this.
► 01:25:36
Yeah, that's what it is.
► 01:25:37
It's exactly what it is.
► 01:25:38
Yeah.
► 01:25:39
It's wild.
► 01:25:40
That's what FTX did.
► 01:25:41
They're profiting off of a mind virus.
► 01:25:44
You could juke the numbers however you want if you pay into it.
► 01:25:47
I like your personal carbon footprint.
► 01:25:50
And it sounds good.
► 01:25:51
You're trying to make the world a better place, a more equitable place, a beautiful place, a more just place, a more diverse place.
► 01:25:56
He said that openly and also that it was bullshit openly to someone he thought was giving him a favorable article.
► 01:26:05
Because they're all really, really kid gloves with this FDX kid.
► 01:26:10
He must have paid out...
► 01:26:11
It is weird how they're kid gloves with him, right?
► 01:26:13
Like some places not at all, and other places like trying to paint him as a person who just made mistakes.
► 01:26:20
The whole point of giving somebody a shit ton of money is not so you have to give them orders of what to...
► 01:26:25
They just have an insight.
Alex's Polio Claims
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He's one of the good ones.
► 01:26:28
I know we hate billionaires here, but this guy gave us like...
► 01:26:32
Millions?
► 01:26:33
Yeah.
► 01:26:34
He duked out millions.
► 01:26:35
Doesn't Bill Gates do that too?
► 01:26:37
Doesn't he donate like millions and millions of dollars to these media organizations?
► 01:26:41
Because he used to be a hated guy.
► 01:26:43
Well, he still is by some.
► 01:26:44
But I mean, in the media, I remember that when he was like a bad guy, you know, when they had the antitrust.
► 01:26:49
Right.
► 01:26:50
And now they can't say enough.
► 01:26:52
And then you find all these things, like Common, I don't have kids, so I remember Common Core came out and I would just hear everybody complaining about Common Core.
► 01:27:01
That's his, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation money made that a national thing.
► 01:27:07
I didn't know about that at the time.
► 01:27:09
Like, a ton of, yeah.
► 01:27:12
He's listed at speaking at a New York Times event in two days.
► 01:27:16
Oh, and he'll be there, he says.
► 01:27:18
Which is crazy.
► 01:27:20
Do they arrest him on the spot?
► 01:27:21
I don't think so.
► 01:27:23
That's wild.
► 01:27:25
What happens there?
► 01:27:27
I don't know.
► 01:27:27
Wait, oh, go down a little bit.
► 01:27:29
Yeah, Larry Fink.
► 01:27:30
So that's the guy.
► 01:27:31
I think he's the guy that invented ESG, right?
► 01:27:34
That's his thing, isn't it?
► 01:27:36
CEO of BlackRock.
► 01:27:38
So there's all these business folks.
► 01:27:40
Benjamin Netanyahu.
► 01:27:41
There's people in the Bahamas looking for him right now from the crypto community.
► 01:27:45
They're hunting him down.
► 01:27:47
It's a real Epstein Island of notable people coming...
► 01:27:50
Oh, you gotta imagine.
► 01:27:51
There's probably some bad people that lost millions.
► 01:27:55
Billions?
► 01:27:55
Yeah.
► 01:27:55
I don't know how much people really had involved.
► 01:27:57
I mean, a lot of people did, but I mean, some of them are bad people.
► 01:28:00
You know what I'm saying?
► 01:28:01
Oh, yeah, yeah.
► 01:28:03
Can you imagine?
► 01:28:04
All these people, though, like Van Jones especially, you know that guy knows the deal because they got him on camera.
► 01:28:09
What's his name?
► 01:28:10
Filmed them.
► 01:28:11
They're like, you know, this is all bullshit.
► 01:28:12
Talking about Russiagate.
► 01:28:13
Do you remember that?
► 01:28:14
Yes.
► 01:28:14
I'm forgetting the guy's name, but Veritas.
► 01:28:16
Veritas.
► 01:28:16
Yeah.
► 01:28:17
James O'Keefe.
► 01:28:17
So that's him.
► 01:28:18
I mean, it's not cut in any way.
► 01:28:19
Vane Jones is saying it.
► 01:28:20
I know a bunch of people from, especially being in New York, and all the comics would do cable news stuff, you know, like Red Eye.
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And you meet these people, and they're all like...
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They all know the game and assume you do, too.
► 01:28:34
And then if I meet people that think it's all, like, they just can't imagine something nefarious was...
► 01:28:40
Oh, yeah, of course.
► 01:28:42
Zelensky's there.
► 01:28:43
He's not busy.
► 01:28:44
Boy, that guy really...
► 01:28:45
He's getting around.
► 01:28:47
But you've got to remember, the guy was a comic.
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Did you see Sean Penn?
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I know.
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Did you see Sean Penn give him his...
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Gave him his Oscar.
► 01:28:54
I want to know for which movie.
► 01:28:55
Didn't Sean win a bunch of Oscars?
► 01:28:58
He should.
► 01:28:59
If he hasn't, he should.
► 01:29:00
But who is that for?
► 01:29:00
It's not the people in Ukraine who are like, oh, that's for you at home to go, oh!
► 01:29:06
Well, Sean Penn's expressing his support.
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I love that he's just like the greatest tool.
► 01:29:13
You know what I think?
► 01:29:14
He's got Chapo caught with his dumb...
► 01:29:16
He's got balls.
► 01:29:16
He's got balls.
► 01:29:17
The fact that he went down to meet Chapo...
► 01:29:19
That is wild.
► 01:29:20
Did you see the thing?
► 01:29:21
That guy's got fucking balls.
► 01:29:23
Can you imagine being him?
► 01:29:24
Imagine being Sean Penn.
► 01:29:25
Right.
► 01:29:26
You go to Mexico to meet El Chapo.
► 01:29:27
Yeah, right.
► 01:29:28
How many people has El Chapo killed?
► 01:29:30
You know?
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Loaned it.
► 01:29:31
But do you know the story of that?
► 01:29:32
Oh, you loaned it to him.
► 01:29:33
Loaned it.
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Yeah, if you lose the war, I want it back.
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Bring it back to me when you come...
► 01:29:37
I guess when you come to...
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When you win, bring it back to Malibu.
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When you host the Academy Awards next year, please bring it back.
► 01:29:42
That is such a great statement.
► 01:29:43
When you win, bring it back to Malibu.
► 01:29:45
Like, what better place for a fucking completely disconnected celebrity to request a guy in the middle of a war to come to?
► 01:29:53
To come to...
► 01:29:54
It's amazing.
► 01:29:56
That's like a Coen Brothers movie line.
► 01:29:58
Dude, how are they this on...
► 01:30:00
Like, without even knowing anything about the situation, if you just live through the last ridiculous disasters that we should not have done, how would you be all in on this?
► 01:30:15
We just assume everything you're hearing is a lie after the last, I don't know, 20 years?
► 01:30:20
Some people don't, and some people don't know what to think.
► 01:30:23
I'm in the don't know what to think category.
► 01:30:26
I don't think there's a good or a bad going on here.
► 01:30:29
It's obviously bad that Russia invaded Ukraine.
► 01:30:32
It's definitely not good that there's a war going on.
► 01:30:35
And I don't understand why this can't be negotiated.
► 01:30:40
Can it be negotiated?
► 01:30:41
That's a good question.
► 01:30:42
Why can't it be?
► 01:30:45
Well, I don't know.
► 01:30:46
Watch Jimmy.
► 01:30:46
I don't want to bring the heat down on you.
► 01:30:50
Dave Smith has talked about all this stuff already.
► 01:30:52
Dave Smith talked about it in great detail.
► 01:30:54
Dave gave one of the best breakdowns of how this all happened in the first place.
► 01:30:58
And he actually showed this video of this guy who wrote a book about this in 2014 on the Colbert Show, the old Colbert Show.
► 01:31:04
Yeah.
► 01:31:04
Where he's explaining the strategy and about how Ukraine is Robin and Batman is Russia.
► 01:31:11
Yeah, right.
► 01:31:11
And we want to steal Robin away from Batman.
► 01:31:15
Openly!
► 01:31:15
Openly.
► 01:31:16
Talking about it on television as a joke about a book he wrote.
► 01:31:19
He's joking about stealing Ukraine and making Ukraine join the EU. That's the thing.
► 01:31:23
These aren't conspiracy things.
► 01:31:25
These are just, if you just have any memory of stuff that used to be on, they would talk about this openly.
► 01:31:31
It's all so crazy.
► 01:31:33
And now, it's just, what do you do?
► 01:31:34
Like, it's the same thing every goddamn war.
► 01:31:37
And I don't know how you...
► 01:31:38
What is now?
► 01:31:40
I'm old, so I probably aged out of the demographic that it matters if I believe in it or not, you know?
► 01:31:45
So...
► 01:31:45
Well, I think less people buy the official narrative more than ever, but people get caught in camps, right?
► 01:31:53
And if you're camp left-wing, you're camp pro-Ukraine, you're pro-the-war, negative, I don't want to hear any negative things, the Azovs are, what do they call them now?
► 01:32:01
The celebrated Avzovs.
► 01:32:02
Celebrated Avzovs.
► 01:32:04
Yeah.
► 01:32:04
You don't want to hear anything negative.
► 01:32:07
It's imperative that Ukraine win.
► 01:32:09
And there's like these narratives.
► 01:32:11
Now, do you know actual people?
► 01:32:12
Because the people I know who would maybe say that, that aren't bots, or they're either like real plugged in and it's a real social...
► 01:32:21
It's a real social credit in some circles, I guess, is how I take it.
► 01:32:25
But I know they just now learned it wasn't called the Ukraine probably around February.
► 01:32:30
That's clear.
► 01:32:31
Did you see all the bots that attacked Elon with the exact same sentence?
► 01:32:37
Yeah.
► 01:32:37
The exact same sentence about one guy shouldn't have all that power.
► 01:32:42
It's the exact same sentence over and over and over again with all these different fake accounts.
► 01:32:46
And someone posted like a screenshot of it of the same phrase being used by all these people.
► 01:32:52
Not reposting.
► 01:32:53
It's not reposting.
► 01:32:54
They're just cut and pasting into all these different fake accounts that are pretending to be people.
► 01:33:00
Which is what Elon said when he bought Twitter.
► 01:33:02
Like, when he was buying Twitter.
► 01:33:04
I wonder about that, like, what he learned in the course of...
► 01:33:08
Because that was a real rollercoaster ride, right?
► 01:33:10
Then everybody forgot about it for a minute.
► 01:33:12
He learned some shit.
► 01:33:13
I bet!
► 01:33:14
Yeah, he learned some shit.
► 01:33:15
And I think that's probably why everybody got fired.
► 01:33:19
I mean, I think he probably felt like a lot of people weren't necessary, or he wanted to put all new people in.
► 01:33:24
But I also...
► 01:33:26
From what things that he said publicly like there's some shit going down like What those people were supposed to do and what they were actually doing and the way they were censoring people and it was real well you watch his stupid like I'm sure anyone there that got cleared out, I have no, oh, I'll bet they were really valuable.
► 01:33:50
I don't even, I don't even think of, I see them reporting, I'm like, these are the people that made it great.
► 01:33:54
Like, are they?
► 01:33:54
I bet they weren't.
► 01:33:55
Well, you've seen the Project Veritas videos on that.
► 01:33:57
Yeah.
► 01:33:57
They talk to people about openly, like, stopping people's tweets from getting out, shadow banning them.
► 01:34:04
Yeah, it's all not conspiracy.
► 01:34:06
First of all, the idea of a shadow ban, just to begin with, How is that okay?
► 01:34:12
There's some guy, I think that's an upper echelon video too, the guy that came up with it was some creep like, so he's like creepy like tech people.
► 01:34:22
They're all like, you know, like a Reddit moderator level kind of person, which is, you know, I don't know if you know how brutal that is, but he came up with that like as a little like, wouldn't it be a great way like to just ban and they don't even know why they're banned and it just took off through the whole industry.
► 01:34:38
That's wild.
► 01:34:39
It's wild that that's a real thing.
► 01:34:41
How's that allowed?
► 01:34:43
It is allowed, though.
► 01:34:44
Somehow or another it's allowed, and you and I are probably both on it.
► 01:34:47
Yeah, I'm sure.
► 01:34:51
Let me hit this weed again.
► 01:34:54
Yeah, Jesus Christ.
► 01:34:57
Yeah, well, I'm sure all these people are gonna...
► 01:34:59
Well, all these people are freaking out because Elon is opening the gates to everybody to come back.
► 01:35:05
They're all mad about the wrong things.
► 01:35:07
He's like, if you haven't committed a crime, you should come back.
► 01:35:10
I don't think he's right about the Alex Jones thing.
► 01:35:13
Well, I think he believes that Alex Jones lied on purpose to profit.
► 01:35:17
Well, here's the weird part.
► 01:35:19
Alex Jones didn't get kicked off of Twitter for saying anything about Parkland.
► 01:35:22
No, he didn't.
► 01:35:22
He got kicked off for making fun of, like, Oliver Darcy and saying something like, he's like, I forget, it's something like an animal coming out of another animal's ass.
► 01:35:30
Something along those lines.
► 01:35:32
I forget what he said.
► 01:35:33
But the point is, I think Elon's point was that he said that his son died, his first child.
► 01:35:43
I believe it was his son.
► 01:35:44
His first child died in his arms.
► 01:35:47
That's what he said.
► 01:35:48
And that anybody who would profit off of a child's death or...
► 01:35:53
Doesn't he work with the Pentagon?
► 01:35:56
Oh, really?
► 01:35:59
Anyone who would profit.
► 01:36:01
Meanwhile, the Taliban's on Twitter.
► 01:36:04
But the point is, knowing Alex, that is not what happened.
► 01:36:09
Alex had a genuine psychotic break.
► 01:36:12
He was losing his fucking mind.
► 01:36:13
He was drinking heavily, and I think he really truly believed a lot of things that weren't true.
► 01:36:19
Because he was finding out so many things that were true, he was going crazy.
► 01:36:24
And also drinking a lot.
► 01:36:26
Oh yeah, that always helps.
► 01:36:27
He really did have like a moment where he said, I just was losing my fucking mind.
► 01:36:33
That doesn't excuse it, right?
► 01:36:35
It's just the fact.
► 01:36:36
That's what was going on.
► 01:36:38
I feel like...
► 01:36:39
The guy's right about a lot of shit, man.
► 01:36:42
If you look at his hit rate, this is the thing that's eerie.
► 01:36:46
People would say he's a fucking agent.
► 01:36:50
I heard that all the time.
► 01:36:53
You think of the amount of things that were right, but he said them, and the frogs are turning gay.
► 01:36:57
That famous clip, right?
► 01:36:58
Yeah.
► 01:36:59
It's based on a real story about pollution that's actually affecting wildlife.
► 01:37:03
It's actually an important story.
► 01:37:04
So he's referring to something that's a real thing.
► 01:37:08
Yeah, it's doing something fucked up to their hormones, and I think it makes them intersex or something along those lines.
► 01:37:14
Yeah, it's important.
► 01:37:14
But why are you saying it like that?
► 01:37:16
Because then it makes it easy to dismiss.
► 01:37:18
Because he's funny.
► 01:37:19
That's the thing about Alex.
► 01:37:21
Half of what he does is the entertainment value, but then it's all interwoven in with real shit.
► 01:37:29
He'll say shit, and you're like, what?
► 01:37:30
What are you talking about?
► 01:37:31
They've got to stop giving the polio vaccine to kids in Africa because they were giving them actual polio.
► 01:37:35
And you hear that and you go, that's not true.
► 01:37:37
That can't be true.
► 01:37:39
And then we went to a fucking AP article where they showed that that polio vaccine...
► 01:37:45
When it first came out in America, that's the birth of...
► 01:37:48
I never heard of this.
► 01:37:49
Here's how I found out about it.
► 01:37:50
I was looking up for something else for a joke for the show and I was looking up polio because I got that when I was five in the 80s, right?
► 01:37:57
Well, that's when it was perfected.
► 01:37:58
It was perfectly good when I got it, apparently.
► 01:38:00
And it's not because the vaccine itself was bad.
► 01:38:03
It's because the drug company that first manufactured it accidentally put live polio into it.
► 01:38:08
So it was the actual pharmaceutical company that fucked it up.
► 01:38:11
And then some people got polio from it, and that was the birth of being hesitant about vaccines.
► 01:38:16
People weren't just like, oh, it's black magic.
► 01:38:19
Something happened.
► 01:38:20
And here's the creepiest part of this article that I read.
► 01:38:23
This wasn't someone arguing against the COVID vaccine.
► 01:38:28
This was when Trump was in office still doing Project Warp Speed to make sure the vaccine was going to get made.
► 01:38:34
And they were all talking how it's bad because Trump's doing it.
► 01:38:37
So this guy writing this like, hey, slow down, Trump.
► 01:38:39
You should know why some people might be hesitant.
► 01:38:42
If that was...
► 01:38:45
I'm sure that same guy would be exactly the opposite on command.
► 01:38:48
That's the thing that's creepy.
► 01:38:51
That is kind of creepy.
► 01:38:52
That it's not fact-based, it's what does the ideology support?
► 01:38:56
What does the cult want?
► 01:38:57
The cult wants this.
► 01:38:59
Vaccines are good.
► 01:39:00
And isn't there a strain of polio that's specifically from that?
► 01:39:06
Like there's a vaccinated strain of polio that some people are catching?
► 01:39:10
What now?
► 01:39:11
Yes, now.
► 01:39:12
Is that the thing about New York?
► 01:39:13
There was something with the water supply they thought was causing polio?
► 01:39:16
I think, no, I think they detected the levels of polio in the waste supply, which would indicate that polio is in the area.
► 01:39:26
That's a weird thing.
► 01:39:27
Let's find out one at a time, because I want to make sure that the vaccine case of polio is true, because I think I heard Jimmy say it.
► 01:39:33
I think it was something that Jimmy talked about.
► 01:39:35
I remember that article talking about them saying it, but I don't remember what the update of it was.
► 01:39:40
I think that's what the assertion was.
► 01:39:44
Here it is.
► 01:39:46
Detection of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus 2. Vaccine-derived poliovirus is a well-documented type of poliovirus that is mutated from the strain originally contained in the oral polio vaccine.
► 01:40:00
The oral polio vaccine contains a live, weakened form of poliovirus.
► 01:40:06
I think they're oral as a kid.
► 01:40:07
So there's a poliovirus 2. Oh, weird.
► 01:40:12
That is vaccine-derived.
► 01:40:14
That's crazy.
► 01:40:15
And that's what they were talking about.
► 01:40:16
I got a shot when I was a kid.
► 01:40:17
Yeah, it's different.
► 01:40:18
No, the oral one was the one that the AP was talking about with kids.
► 01:40:22
They were giving it to kids in Africa, and they were winding up getting polio.
► 01:40:27
From the polio vaccine.
► 01:40:29
That's what Alex talked about.
► 01:40:31
And that's what I was like, there's no fucking way that's true.
► 01:40:33
Pull that up.
► 01:40:33
And he pulls it up.
► 01:40:34
And it's not a wacky website.
► 01:40:36
It's AP News.
► 01:40:37
The scary thing is when you read that stupid thing of, what if somebody...
► 01:40:42
By the way, I got vaccinated.
► 01:40:44
But people are saying things like, what if someone you love needed a bed?
► 01:40:48
And then they couldn't get one in the hospital because an unvaccinated person was taking up the bed.
► 01:40:53
I heard this repeated a lot.
► 01:40:57
But this is the thing I didn't think of at the time.
► 01:40:59
It's already stupid on the face of it, because when they come out and, I'm sorry, there's an unvaccinated person, your loved one has to die.
► 01:41:07
Like, Why are there not enough beds?
► 01:41:10
If you know a pandemic is coming, wouldn't you think there'd be enough beds?
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They purposely run because it's all private equity that owns the hospitals.
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They run it that way on purpose with not enough beds because it's not cost effective to have enough beds.
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And if you look it up, I read there's an article that was bragging about how great this is.
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It was like an industry thing.
Why Not Enough Beds?
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It was that way to provide more efficient care and you can focus on preventable beds.
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It wasn't a thing exposing it.
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It was a thing explaining why it's great that there's not gonna be enough beds from now on.
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That's the creepy shit.
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So do they, well, they don't plan for a pandemic, right?
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It's not like the hospital should have all these beds running 24-7 to plan for.
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But once the pandemic hits, like, how much resources would be involved in making sure there's enough beds?
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Oh, in a lot of places, there were enough beds.
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That wasn't even a thing that there weren't enough beds.
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Well, that was the thing, too.
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It's like there was a lot of propaganda about people that were clogging up.
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Remember this story?
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Yeah, that's a fake story.
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They clogged up the emergency room in Oklahoma because they were having ivermectin overdoses, and there was no room for the gunshot wounds.
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Right, and there hadn't been a gunshot wound in that town.
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It was all hardship.
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The sheriff had to call.
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Yeah, and Rolling Stone ran it.
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Yeah.
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By the way, that was great with Yan Winter.
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That clip is unbelievable.
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That clip was so strange.
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It really shows you, like...
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Because I always wonder, like, what in the hell this, like, credulous...
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Like, we watched Jon Stewart talking to Hillary and Condoleezza.
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Did you see that?
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I tried not to.
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Oh, it's brutal, dude.
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And you can even see on his face.
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And it's like you could see Luke Skywalker, like, I know there is good in you.
Federal Informant and NATO
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He's trying to talk to him like that.
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Wow.
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And no, there isn't, dude.
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And the two of them are horrible.
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And the things are saying, like, I don't even know how you get through the video watching.
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We didn't.
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We had to stop it every minute.
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I haven't seen it.
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Oh, the arrogant...
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It's just unbelievable.
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It's a foregone conclusion that it's great for us to keep going everywhere and regime change, whatever the hell we do, that...
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Like an alcoholic, like, this time is going to be better.
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Is that what they're saying?
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I've had people say it to me point blank of, like, well, Iraq wasn't...
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You know, they couldn't really have democracy, like, culturally, but, like, Ukraine's got a shot at it because they're more...
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You know, stuff that's like, maybe not, I don't know if outright racist, but chauvinistic, let's say.
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You know?
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Right.
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But just the idea, this time, it's going to work.
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That's amazing.
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Also, like, what does that make Ukraine?
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If Ukraine wins in the Ukraine, do they join the UN? Do they never join the UN? Are they a part of NATO? They're not in the UN. Or NATO, they're not in.
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NATO, rather.
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Excuse me, NATO. Right.
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I've had a little marijuana, folks.
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Yeah.
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If they do join, I mean, isn't that like the big...
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That was the big sticking point.
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Yeah, if you watch it, we play all the clips of it.
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I mean...
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That was what Dave Smith has said.
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That was the big sticking point, was that they're moving their weapons closer and closer towards the Russian border.
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Yeah, right.
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And that if they could get them to join NATO... There's a whole bunch of people that think that, yeah, NATO should expand as much as possible, and it should go everywhere.
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Like, you could hear Condoleezza and Hillary.
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I mean, imagine the two of them.
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That's what I'm watching Jon Stewart sit through.
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What do you think was going through his head?
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I think he's like that, remember they had that rally to restore sanity?
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And it was like a real middle, it's really like the Obama years were great for me festival is really what you call it.
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And a bunch of people I know in their minds like it was great when Obama got in.
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And I liked Obama a lot.
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I was all for Obama at the time.
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I had no idea of any of the actual things he was doing.
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Or, like, the drone wars.
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And now you realize the left and right is, like, if you're left, America left, you're for, like, advanced robot killing.
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Of mostly innocent people.
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Of mostly.
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Like, grossly.
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Yeah, like 90%.
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That ain't a good...
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Can you say collateral damage at that point?
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It's collateral survivors at that point.
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Yeah, the amount of actual people that they target that get killed, somewhere in the neighborhood of 10%, right?
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So they made it like a...
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90%.
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A combatant.
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Somebody who could be a combatant, at one point they made it anybody over the age of 15, some creepy thing like that, right?
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That was during Obama.
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So then you could just legally do this stuff.
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Trump made it so they don't even have to report.
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Right?
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I have to report the numbers.
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So those are your choices.
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That's your two joys.
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It's like a left twix and right twix.
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Can you imagine you're on your way to a fucking wedding?
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And you hear missiles that get launched from robots.
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Because you've got so many cars headed to the mountains, they assume.
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I have wanted to get out of going to a wedding really bad.
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So I'm not the right, but I see what you're saying.
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Those are the horror stories you always hear, like a wedding party.
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Yeah, then they got a...
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It's just unbelievable.
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It's the same sort of cop logic that allow you to steal $10,000 from some kid about to buy a Camaro.
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That's a good...
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Cop logic's a good...
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Yeah.
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That's what they sounded like.
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Good guys, bad guys.
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They had cop logic.
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Well, that was what Julian Assange exposed in that video that was so damning.
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Yeah, right.
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There was that moment where that guy in that...
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It was a helicopter, right?
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Yeah.
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He launched those missiles at the photographers.
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Yeah, right.
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And then there was kids that were in a van, and he was like, well, they shouldn't have their kids with them.
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Which is...
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Remember the guy that they got by drone that looked like Adrian Brody, kind of a la Lockie?
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Yes.
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And his son had gone to find his dad, you know, and so was with him and died too.
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And I remember...
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People now who would be like Warhawks saying, he's an American citizen, they just executed.
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Now, when they got him at the time, I remember thinking, hey, citizenship revoked, motherfucker.
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That's how I felt.
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Right.
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It didn't even occur to me that if you just, they're going to do that there, what do you think they'll do to you at home?
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Not give you the same treatment when it comes down to it?
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Whatever they do over there, they're going to do to you when it's convenient.
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Like any kind of fucking gangster.
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That's how it is.
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So...
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But I had no concept of that.
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I remember on 9-11, I was there, and I remember everybody was on board with, yeah, that makes sense.
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Go to Iraq.
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You just gotta show them all.
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Yeah, the idea was, we can't ever have this happen again.
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Shock and awe.
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I think it's really great how Islamic fundamentalist terrorists have kind of just stopped wanting to attack us.
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I guess they see we have so many other things on our plate.
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It was the biggest, most important thing, and you never hear about it now.
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Do you remember when we had the scale?
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Like, it's orange today for possible terrorist attacks.
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Remember they tried that for a little while?
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A lot of people don't remember.
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Do you remember it, Jamie?
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It was on TV. They would go, today's yellow.
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Relax, go outside, go to the park, where the government is paying attention.
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I mean, at the time, that came across to me like a- National Terrorism Advisory System.
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You know, taking your shoes off at the airport, that's a good...
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It was one fucking guy.
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DHS replaced the color-coded alerts of Homeland Security Advisory Systems with the National Terrorism Advisory System in 2011. So they ran that shit for a few years.
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And they gave it up.
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And the way it works is you get funding for these stupid things.
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So they could be idiotic and they'll just go, we could take our shoes off at the airport forever.
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And that's how I think about every single thing.
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It was one guy, right?
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One guy tried to blow his shoe up.
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Then they could have just looked at his shoes.
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His shoes had visible fuses coming out of them.
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He was trying to light it while he was sitting next to people.
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Hey, just take a peek at their shoes, maybe.
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People stopped him from doing it.
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Like he's a shitty lighter.
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So dumb.
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Oh, yeah.
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Oh, the Ron Jeremy one.
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He's got the shoe right there.
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Did you ever talk to that guy, John Kierakal, that caught him?
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No.
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He's an interesting dude to talk to, the CIA guy.
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He's the one that revealed the torture program.
► 01:49:25
Richard Reed was the guy, right?
► 01:49:27
So all under his shoe was explosives.
► 01:49:30
Wow, that's crazy.
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Can you imagine being on a fucking plane and you see a guy lighting his shoe?
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And you're like, oh my god.
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I know.
► 01:49:40
He already, especially if you're like, okay, I don't want to be phobic and just assume this guy who has a real terrorist look in his eyes.
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Are you sure?
► 01:49:49
He has a look in his eyes like he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing.
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Look at his eyes.
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He expected to be...
► 01:49:55
How many of those guys did they talk...
► 01:49:57
Remember that guy that they talked into doing that fake bomb?
► 01:50:00
The FBI courted him.
► 01:50:02
They convinced him that he should blow up this fake bomb, and they gave him a cell phone to blow up the fake bomb, and then when he tried to activate the fake bomb, they arrested him?
► 01:50:11
Wait, what kind of...
► 01:50:13
Is this an Islamic terrorist?
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He was 19 years old.
► 01:50:16
You know, they do that.
► 01:50:16
I remember at the time looking up what's the most common.
► 01:50:19
Because at the time it was an argument about Islamic terrorism, how dangerous, right?
► 01:50:23
That was the big argument.
► 01:50:24
So I wonder what is the most terrorism.
► 01:50:26
I looked it up and it was like 2011. Eco-terrorism was the number one.
► 01:50:31
I was like, eco-terrorism?
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I guess because it's mostly against property, but...
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There's a guy who...
► 01:50:37
I guess how entrapment works is not how I would have thought entrapment works.
► 01:50:42
You could have a kind of shitty person go in undercover and make up a plan with some guy who's weak or stupid and wouldn't have done it otherwise.
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There's like 300 or something cases of that with Islamic terrorists.
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But before that, there's a famous one with some kid who's like a virgin and they got a girl to fuck him and draw up a plan and he just gave him money against some loser.
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And then you catch him and there's funding.
► 01:51:07
Meanwhile, the Boston Marathon bomber slipped through.
► 01:51:10
In fact, a bunch of shootings?
► 01:51:12
Here's a weird commonality.
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A lot of people noticed something wrong and called both their local police and the FBI. And they didn't somehow catch it.
► 01:51:20
Well, wasn't the Boston bomber an FBI informant?
► 01:51:24
I never even heard that, but...
► 01:51:25
Was that true?
► 01:51:26
Was the Boston bomber an informant?
► 01:51:29
Is that speculation?
► 01:51:32
Well, the last thing I saw, because remember Brass Eye?
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It was like a British fake news thing.
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It was really funny.
► 01:51:38
This guy named Chris Morris.
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He made a movie about, and I remember this case in Florida.
► 01:51:43
It was like a black Islamic group that had this preposterous plan to ride horses into Chicago.
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Something crazy, but they were set up.
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And I remember on the news, remember they rounded up the homegrown terrorists?
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And they left behind this one guy that he was really slow.
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He was the only one left.
► 01:52:01
You could tell he was the runt of the litter of this thing.
► 01:52:06
And you could tell he was slow.
► 01:52:07
I think Bill Maher made a joke about how it wasn't the A-team of terrorists.
► 01:52:12
It was like that.
► 01:52:14
So when I saw this Chris Morris interview later, I'm like, oh, I remember those.
► 01:52:18
There's all these where they caught people and I didn't really know the details of it.
► 01:52:21
But the guy was really dumb.
► 01:52:22
And they probably just talked him into it.
► 01:52:24
Well, how about the Gretchen Whitmire thing?
► 01:52:26
There was 14 people that were trying to kidnap her.
► 01:52:29
12 of them were FBI informants.
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That's some kind of...
► 01:52:35
It's like the waste of...
► 01:52:37
I mean, but that's hilarious.
► 01:52:39
It sounds like some kind of thing to sell more cleaners to me.
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Everything sounds like that to me.
► 01:52:43
Right.
► 01:52:44
It sounds like it can't be real.
► 01:52:46
It's something that you have to prove you did something that was in your nature, I think, is the wording, which is very strange.
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But I found that out on...
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So they can talk you into doing it because it was in your nature to do it.
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How the hell do you have that as law?
► 01:53:00
Unanswered question about Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
► 01:53:06
Yeah.
► 01:53:07
So what are the questions?
► 01:53:09
Well, it was an informant.
► 01:53:10
It was an informant.
► 01:53:12
I didn't get a good answer.
► 01:53:14
Was he a federal informant?
► 01:53:15
How does a federal informant program work?
► 01:53:17
How do federal agents recruit Muslims and other immigrants to become informants?
► 01:53:22
And did Tamarlan Sarnarev...
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How do you say that?
► 01:53:28
Help me out.
► 01:53:29
Sarnarev?
► 01:53:30
Sarnarev received special treatment through this program for his application to become a U.S. citizen.
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In 2014, as his dad, Daz Klar Sarnarev, prepared for his defense, his lawyers...
► 01:53:43
Filed a motion seeking all documents related to FBI contact with Samerlin.
► 01:53:48
Why?
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Oh, that's the other dude.
► 01:53:51
They believe that Tamerlin had been a federal informant.
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They wrote, we based this information from our client's family and other sources that the FBI made more than one visit to talk to Tamerlin and asked him to be an informant reporting on the Chechen and Muslim community.
► 01:54:08
Oh.
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We base this information from our clients.
► 01:54:13
That's it.
► 01:54:13
That's the highlighted thing.
► 01:54:14
So I tried to read down it to find out any confirmation.
► 01:54:16
It's really long.
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There are some ties.
► 01:54:18
He's listed in this visual here.
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So because they even approached him, that set him off because he was already going in that vein?
► 01:54:26
Is that what I'm...
► 01:54:26
As a boxer, they focused on him in this?
► 01:54:29
This is from 2010. And what is it about?
► 01:54:31
This was used to sell people.
► 01:54:33
This is an excerpt from Boston University Graduate Student Publication.
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The comment which featured him in 2010. Scroll back up again.
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This is just a long article.
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Yeah, I know.
► 01:54:44
Here it is.
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He desperately wanted citizenship in 2010. He was featured in a magazine.
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You help us, we'll help you.
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McPhee tells Radio Boston.
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He went over to Dagestan, I think, where he was trying to, according to some officials, get involved with some fighters, which, according to this, then they didn't let him in because of his ties to conspicuous Western culture, it says right here.
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I was trying to read this.
► 01:55:17
This is a very long article.
► 01:55:18
I couldn't find it out.
► 01:55:19
I don't even know if this has an accent.
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So that's like a perfect guy to approach to be like, hey, you want to find stuff?
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Yeah.
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If he's already paranoid.
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Especially if he's a boxer and he wants to be a U.S. citizen.
► 01:55:30
Yeah.
► 01:55:30
And they can get him to...
► 01:55:32
Similarly, I found this article in the New York Times, which goes into someone very similar.
► 01:55:35
They tried to find a nuclear specialist and get him to do a bomb.
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And this long article goes into, I guess, he did.
► 01:55:41
Dude, there's a bunch of these...
► 01:55:43
Hold on, say that again?
► 01:55:44
In what?
► 01:55:44
He did not go through with this.
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I think he saw through whoever was trying to get at him.
► 01:55:48
Same kind of deal, but he...
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Okay.
► 01:55:51
Yeah, they do that all the time, I think.
► 01:55:52
It's not even breaking the law.
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The law is like you could do a crazy amount of entrapment.
► 01:55:57
So, and I wasn't aware of that, you know?
► 01:56:00
That is nuts.
► 01:56:01
It's nuts that that's funded by tax dollars to trick people.
► 01:56:05
Did you ever see the thing?
► 01:56:06
It's 30 years, despite his concerns of entrapment, this says.
► 01:56:10
Yeah.
► 01:56:10
So, he wasn't let...
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Fuck your concerns.
► 01:56:13
He got fucked.
► 01:56:14
So, they still put him away.
► 01:56:16
Yeah.
► 01:56:16
Yeah.
► 01:56:18
Why did they put him away?
► 01:56:19
Because he was thinking about it?
► 01:56:20
Because he was talking to them about it?
► 01:56:23
Can you imagine if you're hanging around with dudes who are talking about blowing up a nuke in Manhattan, and you're in the same cell as them, same terror cell, and you're like, uh, yeah, man, sounds like a good idea, sounds like a plan.
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That's one thing.
► 01:56:37
And they're recording this, but they turn out to be the FBI, but you are just, you're never planning on doing it.
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You just think you're freaked out by the fact that these guys want to blow up a fucking nuke.
► 01:56:45
What do you say?
► 01:56:47
If this is your group of people- Yeah, that's what people did when I was doing Sasha's thing.
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Because you're like, why do people...
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Because people will sense something weird.
► 01:56:55
Sasha Baron Cohen.
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Yeah.
► 01:56:56
And they'll sense something weird and go along with it.
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Especially real reality show kind of people.
► 01:57:03
They're just like, camera, oh, I just do the thing and don't think about the thing and do it.
► 01:57:07
Right.
► 01:57:08
Or it made the news, but the guy was freaked out and he did try to...
► 01:57:14
Remember there was some news that some guy brought up a pedophile ring or something?
► 01:57:18
There's some guy that thought...
► 01:57:20
It turned out to not be that at all.
► 01:57:23
It was like a guy...
► 01:57:23
But people would be scared when they hear you bring up some kind of illegal thing, and they might act like it's okay and then go report it.
► 01:57:29
You know, hopefully that's what...
► 01:57:30
What are you talking about?
► 01:57:31
Pedophile thing?
► 01:57:32
What?
► 01:57:32
I don't remember the exact thing, but one of the guys they did a prank on...
► 01:57:36
And first it went around like a rumor that...
► 01:57:40
Oh, yes.
► 01:57:41
Do you know what I'm talking about?
► 01:57:41
That's right.
► 01:57:43
And I called my friend and he was like, it turned out the guy, he was afraid because he just heard this and went along with the thing.
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So it was nothing, but people will go along with something if you skip.
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Especially with five guys.
► 01:57:55
Right.
► 01:57:56
Also, some people, they're like, you could get them to talk about almost anything.
Unsophisticated Minds
00:03:45
► 01:58:01
There's some people that like, you know what I mean?
► 01:58:04
There's a certain level of unsophisticated person.
► 01:58:07
If you're around them and you start talking about ghosts, they're like, oh yeah, yeah.
► 01:58:12
They just go with it, right?
► 01:58:14
I thought you were talking about Sam Harris on Trigonometry.
► 01:58:18
I'm like, holy crap, are you saying this for real?
► 01:58:23
I wish he hadn't used those words.
► 01:58:25
Well, I love that he did because it's such an obvious thing, but a bunch of people not as bright as him would know not to say that.
► 01:58:36
He feels very strongly anti-Trump in a way that, what do they call it?
► 01:58:41
Trump derangement syndrome?
► 01:58:43
Every time I think that's just some kind of phrase, I'll see a new example where I'm like, this is amazing.
► 01:58:49
He literally goes, yeah, no, it's a conspiracy.
► 01:58:52
That's good.
► 01:58:52
We have to do it.
► 01:58:52
Like you're the Dark Knight with the Joker and you got a spy on everybody's phone that one time.
► 01:58:58
See, the thing is, it's the one good thing about someone like Trump even being able to become president.
► 01:59:06
Which is so crazy.
► 01:59:07
It just shows you how bananas this system really is.
► 01:59:10
But that's the problem with him is that mainly.
► 01:59:12
Because, you know, people that think he's going to help, I want it to work out for you, but guess what?
► 01:59:17
There ain't no help coming.
► 01:59:20
I don't think there's help coming either.
► 01:59:22
I gave it to Candace Owens that interview with Trump where she brought up Eric Snowden and Julian Assange.
► 01:59:27
And Trump said, he was like, well, I should have.
► 01:59:30
I've never even heard of Trump saying I should have done something different.
► 01:59:34
Like, that's amazing to get that out of him.
► 01:59:37
That's one of those ones where if he did, who the fuck knows what would have happened.
► 01:59:42
I mean, that's like a fucking take a ride in a convertible through Dallas moment.
► 01:59:48
All these things I would have dismissed, especially stuff like JFK, Oliver Stone.
► 01:59:53
Yeah.
► 01:59:55
JFK's a movie, right?
► 01:59:56
That kind of thing.
► 01:59:56
There's probably an explanation.
► 01:59:58
Just the fact that you would delay it another whatever...
► 02:00:01
55 years?
► 02:00:02
Something like that?
► 02:00:03
Like...
► 02:00:04
Why?
► 02:00:04
Automatically.
► 02:00:05
Yeah, what could the reason be?
► 02:00:06
Is it something good?
► 02:00:09
I'm sure you have our best interests in mind.
► 02:00:11
You always do.
► 02:00:11
Why would you not want to tell us this right now?
► 02:00:14
Yeah.
► 02:00:14
What about this?
► 02:00:17
Could people not handle something that happened in 1963?
► 02:00:20
Go.
► 02:00:22
Also, what about all the data of the safe, effective vaccine that I got that they want to hold back for 75?
► 02:00:30
Yeah.
► 02:00:30
Really?
► 02:00:31
75 years.
► 02:00:32
But they're making them do it quicker.
► 02:00:34
Yeah, the judge.
► 02:00:36
We don't have enough people to go through and put black...
► 02:00:38
You're allowed to redact?
► 02:00:40
Did you see the EU hearings?
► 02:00:44
And they're asking about the data, and the guy's holding up what they were given, and it's all blacked out, except for one line here and there.
► 02:00:51
That's just the contract with the drug companies that the guy's government made.
► 02:00:55
Whew!
► 02:00:58
That's proprietary information.
► 02:01:00
Well, think about Sam Bankman Freed.
► 02:01:02
Yeah.
► 02:01:02
Now, multiply that.
► 02:01:04
Many, many times.
► 02:01:06
Yeah.
► 02:01:06
And you've got the amount of money that's rolling around.
► 02:01:08
And it's just getting in everybody's pockets.
► 02:01:12
It's the same goddamn thing.
► 02:01:13
Creating influence everywhere you go.
► 02:01:15
Do the same people that made...
► 02:01:16
What's the movie about...
► 02:01:18
You know, Steve Carell's in it and Batman's in it.
► 02:01:21
Yeah.
► 02:01:22
About 2008. That thing keeps going.
► 02:01:25
It's never...
► 02:01:26
The Big Short.
► 02:01:28
All that stuff Matt Taibbi wrote about has never been addressed or fixed in any way.
Mob Madness
00:05:14
► 02:01:32
No.
► 02:01:33
No, and Matt Daiby did a brilliant job of breaking it down to someone who's never studied the markets before, and you just go, what?
► 02:01:41
Yeah, right.
► 02:01:41
That's how you guys were doing this?
► 02:01:43
Like, this whole thing is insane.
► 02:01:46
And then the whole thing about you have to bail them out, and then the people that you bail out are allowed to get bonuses, like giant bonuses.
► 02:01:54
Yeah, right.
► 02:01:54
You have to give them the bonus, because otherwise they're going to leave and go somewhere else.
► 02:01:57
Like, what?
► 02:01:59
Yeah!
► 02:02:00
What the fuck are you saying?
► 02:02:01
The country's on fire.
► 02:02:03
The WeWork guy.
► 02:02:04
You ever see WeWork?
► 02:02:05
Yeah, what happened with that?
► 02:02:07
I don't know anything about that.
► 02:02:07
So he got like a billion dollars out of, what was it?
► 02:02:10
It was like a tech company, but their tech was selling office space or renting office space, which is not tech.
► 02:02:16
And all you had to do was just be barefoot and talk about some kind of goop kind of shit.
► 02:02:22
That's all you got to do with rich people.
► 02:02:26
I was talking to this dude, Pasta, who has a good podcast I do.
► 02:02:31
We were talking about Hawaii.
► 02:02:34
You could make a whole living.
► 02:02:37
Steve said, you just bring a didgeridoo to Hawaii and walk along the beach just playing and you could get some kind of patronage eventually.
► 02:02:45
And that's like a therapy.
► 02:02:51
Those are the weirdest fucking, that's like Viking shit.
► 02:02:54
Like where'd that come from?
► 02:02:56
Is it a Maori thing?
► 02:02:58
Is that a New Zealand thing?
► 02:02:59
I thought it was an Aboriginal thing.
► 02:03:00
Is that what it is?
► 02:03:01
That's a great fucking sound.
► 02:03:06
I gotta believe that they never, the Aborigines never enjoyed their own didgeridoos as much as a white guy with dreadlocks.
► 02:03:16
Wow, look at them.
► 02:03:17
Look how cool that looks.
► 02:03:18
Holy shit.
► 02:03:20
They're wearing these wild, like, paint all over their body and these crazy outfits.
► 02:03:26
I want to hear that.
► 02:03:29
Can we hear it?
► 02:03:30
I mean, that guy could clean up in Hawaii if he showed up.
► 02:03:32
Fuck yeah.
► 02:03:33
Those guys were on the beach.
► 02:03:37
It's such a fucking psychedelic sound.
► 02:03:40
Yeah, right.
► 02:03:41
If you were doing mushrooms in like a teepee with a fire in the center of it, you hear that sound.
► 02:03:47
- Cool. - Fuck yeah.
► 02:03:59
We're tripping balls.
► 02:04:00
Is he doing a didgeridoo solo right now?
► 02:04:01
Yeah, bro, I'm tripping balls just listening to him.
► 02:04:04
Imagine you hear that sound and you have like a cold camp because you're trying to hide. - And you're hoping that they don't find you?
► 02:04:22
I mean...
► 02:04:24
Can I tell you what I appreciate?
► 02:04:25
The aboriginals are ready to come kick your ass, and you hear this from the top of the mountain?
► 02:04:30
Fuck!
► 02:04:32
I'm Tom Selleck in Quigley Down Under, waiting.
► 02:04:36
This guy, you can tell, is like the Steve Vai of didgeridoo.
► 02:04:40
That's wild.
► 02:04:41
Well, I mean...
► 02:04:44
My buddy Adam Greentree works with a lot of Aboriginal people.
► 02:04:48
He runs a mining company in Australia.
► 02:04:52
And he said that there's so many languages that they call them mobs.
► 02:04:59
Oh, yeah, right.
► 02:05:00
Instead of a tribe, they call themselves a mob.
► 02:05:03
And one mob might not understand what another mob 100 kilometers away speaks.
► 02:05:09
Really?
► 02:05:09
Yep.
► 02:05:10
Oh, no shit.
► 02:05:11
He said it's wild.
► 02:05:12
And he said a lot of it's not written down either, unfortunately.
► 02:05:15
So, like, if they die, if they die off, and sometimes they'll have, like, you know, historically, they were poisoned by people that lived there.
► 02:05:24
They were poisoned by the settlers.
► 02:05:26
Oh, yeah, yeah, it's crazy.
► 02:05:27
They lost, like, giant groups of them.
► 02:05:29
There's, like, a cave he was telling me about.
► 02:05:32
And if you go there, there's, like, a whole mob that was killed with poison.
► 02:05:36
They gave them poison food in this cave.
► 02:05:38
Oh, yeah, really?
► 02:05:38
It's a really bad...
► 02:05:40
There's Adam.
► 02:05:42
That's my buddy.
► 02:05:43
That might have been the cave, but it might not be.
► 02:05:44
Well, there's a cave that was filled with bones.
► 02:05:48
Yeah, right.
► 02:05:50
Quigley Down Under was about a lot of that, but they were shooting at originals.
► 02:05:54
But it's really wild what happened.
► 02:05:56
Quigley Down Under?
► 02:05:57
Yeah, you ever see that with Tom Selleck?
► 02:05:58
No, I never saw that.
► 02:05:59
Oh yeah, he shows up and it's all about that, how they were massacring.
► 02:06:03
Not, he wasn't doing it, but I guess Quigley, I don't think it's a real guy.
► 02:06:06
They would steal their children and make them be adopted by white people.
► 02:06:10
Well, that's a Canada...
► 02:06:11
Quigley Down Under.
► 02:06:12
Canada has a whole history of that, right?
► 02:06:14
Yeah, they did that too, I think, right?
► 02:06:15
The pictures, they'll have pictures of the whole thing and they make them in black and white even though it wasn't...
► 02:06:20
Black and white.
► 02:06:20
This is like 1975. Yeah, to create emotional distance from the event.
► 02:06:24
Oh, Jesus Christ, that's crazy.
► 02:06:26
This was a long time ago, back when there was only paintings.
Why Dune Terrifies
00:03:06
► 02:06:30
You put it in black and white, and people are like, get over it.
► 02:06:36
Funny, that's all you have to do.
► 02:06:37
Put in black and white and people are like, oh.
► 02:06:40
Just make it a Polaroid.
► 02:06:41
Make it a Polaroid.
► 02:06:42
Like, clearly big white strip on the bottom.
► 02:06:44
Oh, it's a Polaroid.
► 02:06:45
Wait, do you know, I was just thinking, can you only play that one song on didgeridoo?
► 02:06:51
I've only heard one song.
► 02:06:52
Well, I think you get to make your own sort of sound.
► 02:06:56
Because there's no, it's all in what noises you're making in that giant ass tube.
► 02:07:03
Did you see that Dune movie where they, the new one they made?
► 02:07:08
And the guy, there's like, they're doing some sacrifice.
► 02:07:10
No, I didn't see the new Dune.
► 02:07:11
Oh, there's a cool part.
► 02:07:12
Was it good?
► 02:07:13
Yeah, it was great.
► 02:07:14
I mean, I thought you'd done as well as you could do it.
► 02:07:18
But the guy's doing that throat, it's not, you know, that, I don't know, not Tibet, that throat singing where it's like almost like some Mongol shit and they make a didgeridoo.
► 02:07:29
Oh yeah, here we go.
► 02:07:29
It's right in the beginning of this.
► 02:07:34
Yeah.
► 02:07:37
It's like that monk chant.
► 02:07:39
That's what Duncan Trussell does before he goes to sleep.
► 02:07:43
Wow.
► 02:07:44
This is fucking cool.
► 02:07:46
Yeah, it was pretty good.
► 02:07:47
Bro, I need to see this movie.
► 02:07:50
I saw the original one.
► 02:07:52
Way back in the Disney.
► 02:07:53
I saw a long copy of it that doesn't...
► 02:07:57
It was like George C. Scott doing the opening and not...
► 02:08:01
Oh, really?
► 02:08:01
The one where the girl who plays the princess is doing it is one of the worst.
► 02:08:05
She goes, oh, and I forgot one more thing.
► 02:08:08
She says that...
► 02:08:11
The plan is called Dune.
► 02:08:15
It's such a bad cut, but I think this was an Alan Smithy one.
► 02:08:19
When I was in art school, my friend Tom had it.
► 02:08:21
It was actually, I liked it a lot.
► 02:08:23
Do you think we're sliding into some science fiction movie dystopia?
► 02:08:27
It's just happening.
► 02:08:28
Yeah.
► 02:08:29
Slowly and unstoppably.
► 02:08:31
I think it happened 20 years ago, and you're just slowly learning of it now.
► 02:08:35
And we're gonna wake up one day when things are horrific, and that will be our normal existence.
► 02:08:41
And if we saw that today, we'd be terrified.
► 02:08:45
We'd be terrified.
► 02:08:46
It's gonna be like the Terminator.
► 02:08:48
It's gonna be like flying drones that know where your location is at all times.
► 02:08:52
Dude, that movie that you showed, that Collapse movie, which I remember when that came out, and how bizarre that is, that it's getting great reviews back then, because it was like...
► 02:09:02
Kind of right-wingy.
► 02:09:03
Well, that's not right.
► 02:09:05
That doesn't even sound right-wingy.
► 02:09:06
No, it's like anti...
► 02:09:07
That's what they would say now.
► 02:09:08
Yeah, that's what they would say now.
► 02:09:10
Oh, you think it's bad, though?
► 02:09:11
The Wars, you're really right-wing.
► 02:09:12
Like, do you even know?
► 02:09:13
Right.
► 02:09:13
So nothing means anything.
► 02:09:15
It's all like a label that could be changed at a moment's notice, and you're supposed to forget what it meant Like two weeks ago.
Gary Clark Jr's Gig Hit Hard
00:11:27
► 02:09:21
The fact that it can be changed at a moment, Ellis, and the fact that you can get people to support war, you can get people to ignore the existence of the military-industrial complex and the amount of money that is involved in that and the influence that that has.
► 02:09:36
Dude, that's the worst part of that Jon Stewart thing, because you can see he's like, I'm not trying to hold your feet if I keep doing that, because he wants to get to something.
► 02:09:46
And then what he gets to is, okay, I know, do you think this isn't cost-effective for our empire?
► 02:09:53
The only appeal he makes to him is, maybe we're stretching our empire too thin, and is it fiscally...
► 02:09:58
That's all he'll broach the topic with them.
► 02:10:00
That's how fucking warped it is.
► 02:10:02
But is that the only way you could have that conversation with them?
► 02:10:05
Do they have parameters, you think?
► 02:10:07
Yeah, why would they even show up to that?
► 02:10:08
But would John push that?
► 02:10:10
Or would John know that this is the way to get access to these peoples?
► 02:10:13
You have to be able to have these kind of interviews with him.
► 02:10:15
I would love to know.
► 02:10:16
Because, first of all, there's no way he doesn't know by now that that medal he put on the guy that was a guy with a Nazi tattoo.
► 02:10:22
Now he probably knows.
► 02:10:23
There's no way he doesn't know.
► 02:10:25
Yeah, he probably knows now.
► 02:10:26
It's just the thing of having faith in the, like, let's not give up on this, just not.
► 02:10:32
It still works.
► 02:10:33
Like, what's his name?
► 02:10:34
Jan Wenner?
► 02:10:35
Mm-hmm.
► 02:10:36
The thing where he's like, yeah, the drug supply is really safe.
► 02:10:39
He was watching somebody who's like a legendary founder of a thing who's like, so like, no, like Ben and Jerry are in charge now.
► 02:10:49
It's the good people are the establishment.
► 02:10:50
It's all being taken care of.
► 02:10:52
And they don't read.
► 02:10:53
They know people.
► 02:10:54
So they just assume it's all, you know.
► 02:10:56
They assume everything is fine because that's what the narrative is.
► 02:10:58
And if you're a good person, you go with the narrative.
► 02:11:00
There you go!
► 02:11:01
Do you remember when they had the fucking Boston bomber on the cover and they got criticized because he was hot?
► 02:11:06
Oh, yeah.
► 02:11:07
Do you remember that?
► 02:11:08
Find that photo.
► 02:11:09
He looks like a teen idol.
► 02:11:12
He's a handsome fella.
► 02:11:14
That dreamboat terrorist?
► 02:11:15
Dreamboat terrorist.
► 02:11:16
Not like the meaner older brother with his...
► 02:11:18
Look at him there.
► 02:11:20
Yeah.
► 02:11:21
No, I mean, he does look like a boy band.
► 02:11:23
Look at that.
► 02:11:24
He looks like he's some fucking new guy.
► 02:11:26
He's the new hot guy the girls have on their wall.
► 02:11:29
Were they Chechen?
► 02:11:30
I don't know what he was.
► 02:11:31
Is that what they said?
► 02:11:34
Well, that wasn't that long ago, huh?
► 02:11:36
Yeah, because...
► 02:11:36
Terry Clark Jr. Remember back when we had no problem with Russia because the Chechens and Muslim terrorists and they cracked down on that?
► 02:11:45
This whole thing is wild.
► 02:11:47
But the fact that they found it disgusting and shameful, tasteless, a slap in the face to America.
► 02:11:53
Boston public officials have issued similar appraisals.
► 02:11:57
Mayor Thomas Menino called it a total disgrace.
► 02:12:01
CVS, Walgreens, and other local retailers have promised not to sell the issue.
► 02:12:06
Wow.
► 02:12:06
But that's just because his face was cute.
► 02:12:09
Scroll back up.
► 02:12:10
Imagine if you look like Harvey Weinstein.
► 02:12:12
I mean, you tell me he's not way hotter than the FTX kid?
► 02:12:16
He's hot.
► 02:12:17
They got full page...
► 02:12:18
Look at him, he's a handsome fellow.
► 02:12:19
I know, I think he didn't do it the more I look at his picture.
► 02:12:24
I don't think he could have with those lips.
► 02:12:27
But if his head was shaved and he was ugly, would they still have him on the cover?
► 02:12:31
But the thing is, why do they have him on the cover?
► 02:12:33
Why take a terrifying, awful situation like that and make the person a star?
► 02:12:39
Well, number one, that's the most important thing.
► 02:12:42
I bet you sell a bunch of copies of Rolling Stone with that as the cover.
► 02:12:46
A dreamy terrorist?
► 02:12:47
Would you like to be in the room when they made that call?
► 02:12:50
Um...
► 02:12:51
Do we put the terrorist dreamboat on the cover or Gary Clark Jr?
► 02:12:57
Because Gary Clark Jr is on the cover too.
► 02:12:59
Who's Gary Clark Jr?
► 02:12:59
He's the baddest motherfucker alive.
► 02:13:01
You don't know who Gary Clark Jr is?
► 02:13:03
I think Dozer, Sawyer, Strikes, Aerotops is more bad than him.
► 02:13:06
He's one of the greatest guitarists that's ever lived.
► 02:13:08
Oh, oh, oh.
► 02:13:08
I thought you meant like...
► 02:13:09
No, he's alive right now.
► 02:13:10
He lives in Austin, Texas.
► 02:13:12
He's the fucking man.
► 02:13:13
Oh, I didn't know anything about him.
► 02:13:14
Him and Suzanne Santo did a cover of Midnight Rider once.
► 02:13:18
I saw it at a live club.
► 02:13:20
To this day, like one of the greatest musical performances I've ever seen.
► 02:13:23
It's Gary Clark Jr.'s version of the Allman Brothers' Midnight Rider with Suzanne Santo singing, and she doesn't totally know the words, so she Googled it and got the fucking lyrics on her phone.
► 02:13:34
She's singing perfectly.
► 02:13:36
Her version of Midnight Rider off of a fucking phone impromptu.
► 02:13:40
Where were you?
► 02:13:41
There was like a small club in downtown LA. Oh, no shit.
► 02:13:45
Yes.
► 02:13:46
I was with my oldest daughter and Suzanne and Gary Clark Jr. and Ben because Honey Honey was together back then.
► 02:13:52
And it was like some Smirnoff thing or some shit.
► 02:13:56
Some fucking liquor company put together some event where they were going to perform live.
► 02:14:02
It was like...
► 02:14:04
150 people in the room.
► 02:14:05
It was like a midnight on a Tuesday in downtown LA. It was fucking amazing.
► 02:14:11
And I recorded some of it and put it on the Instagram.
► 02:14:14
Find the video.
► 02:14:16
It was so fucking good, dude.
► 02:14:18
This video from my stupid phone is only going to capture just a trace of the magic in the room.
► 02:14:27
But when it was happening in the room, it was like, holy shit, this is good.
► 02:14:31
You're reminding me of...
► 02:14:32
Here he is.
► 02:14:33
That's Gary Clark Jr., motherfucker.
► 02:14:41
Oh, I know who that is.
► 02:14:42
Okay.
► 02:14:42
Listen to that.
► 02:14:48
And this is just from my phone.
► 02:14:50
Yeah, right.
► 02:14:51
You know how good this sounded there?
► 02:14:53
Yeah, no, I was going to say a phone is going to be like the least...
► 02:14:56
It's Jameson.
► 02:14:57
and that's what it was.
► 02:14:58
Goddamn, that's good.
► 02:15:21
you See, she's reading the lyrics right now off her phone.
► 02:15:26
Look at that.
► 02:15:27
She doesn't know them!
► 02:15:32
How wild was that?
► 02:15:33
Was that the end of it?
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You know what you just reminded me of, dude?
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Artie Lang's story of...
► 02:15:39
Remember Prince played Silent Live party?
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Like the after party of Silent Live one time?
► 02:15:46
Oh yeah?
► 02:15:46
It was one night when I went to that party and it was with Artie Lang.
► 02:15:51
I want to say Frank Sebastiano.
► 02:15:54
But Prince was supposed to show up.
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I guess maybe he did much later, but Artie wanted to sit in the front row and heckle him and scream.
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Play Raspberry Beret!
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He was just going to be a fat guy.
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He wanted Prince to see a fat guy.
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Raspberry Beret!
► 02:16:14
Thank God he didn't do that.
► 02:16:15
Yeah, I think Prince went to like the real after party or something was what it was.
► 02:16:20
There's like a real one.
► 02:16:22
I had a chance to see Prince once live at the foundation room at the House of Blues in Vegas.
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I decided it was too late.
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I'm gonna go to sleep.
► 02:16:33
You know where I saw him one time?
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In person?
► 02:16:35
At Ben Glebe's birthday party.
► 02:16:37
Really?
► 02:16:37
Yeah, first time.
► 02:16:38
He was walking around?
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It was at this club and Prince came in.
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He was real smart.
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Because, you know, he was a Jehovah Witness for a minute.
► 02:16:45
Prince was?
► 02:16:45
Oh yeah, so I wanted to ask him all about.
► 02:16:47
But you can't even get near Prince.
► 02:16:49
So, Christian scientists are the ones that don't let you go to the doctor, right?
► 02:16:54
I'm not really clear.
► 02:16:55
I know that was something part of it at one point, but that's...
► 02:16:57
Not Jehovah Witness, huh?
► 02:16:59
No, that's Mary Baker Eddy.
► 02:17:01
So was he Jehovah Witness as a child like you were?
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No, as an adult.
► 02:17:05
Or was he a late adopter?
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Yeah.
► 02:17:08
Yeah, he went door to door.
► 02:17:10
Whoa.
► 02:17:11
How old was he?
► 02:17:12
I don't know.
► 02:17:12
I feel like Chris Rock had a joke about it or something.
► 02:17:15
Somebody had a joke about it, about Prince knocking on your door.
► 02:17:18
Like...
► 02:17:19
It was when he's an adult, like...
► 02:17:21
All I'm hearing about Chris Rock is that he's on fire right now.
► 02:17:26
Oh, I bet.
► 02:17:27
All this, like, getting slapped by Will Smith and the Academy of Plot.
► 02:17:31
I think that lit a fire into that dude.
► 02:17:32
All I've been hearing.
► 02:17:33
I heard he destroyed here in Austin.
► 02:17:35
Well, if you watch that recording...
► 02:17:38
Also, right before that...
► 02:17:44
So, you know Tim Dillon, right?
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I did a live show that he had at the main room, okay?
► 02:17:50
And after, Chris Rock came up and talked to me.
► 02:17:52
He was like, yeah, it was really fun.
► 02:17:53
It was, like, really cool, okay?
► 02:17:55
And then he hit me up a couple weeks later to maybe help write jokes for stuff.
► 02:17:58
You know, like, so I was like, awesome.
► 02:18:00
He was, like, an awesome guy.
► 02:18:01
Like, I talked to him for, like, a couple hours on the phone.
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We talked.
► 02:18:05
And so...
► 02:18:07
I didn't know what the timetable, because he did mention jokes for the Oscars, okay?
► 02:18:11
But I don't know when all that stuff is, and I'm not good with email.
► 02:18:15
So, we...
► 02:18:16
I know where this is going.
► 02:18:18
So I just figured he'd text me, but that's how Louie wrote his email.
► 02:18:25
So I was getting all this emails from the guy.
► 02:18:29
I'm working on Kyle's thing and Jimmy's thing.
► 02:18:31
I had no concept of when anything was.
► 02:18:34
So I had to go do Winnipeg.
► 02:18:36
And while I was coming home from Winnipeg, I get a call from my manager.
► 02:18:41
She's like, did you write a joke about Will Smith's white?
► 02:18:44
And I go, oh shit, the Oscars was tonight?
► 02:18:50
So you're responsible?
► 02:18:52
I like to think I'm not.
► 02:18:55
So you wrote the G.I. Jane?
► 02:18:57
No, I think that was an in-the-moment thing.
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Well, I think I was in a moment, because when I watch that, I don't, well, this is what I'd be thinking, which looks to me like Chris Rogers thinking is, first of all, this is the worst gig ever, being a funny comedian at the Oscars.
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It's a terrible gig.
► 02:19:13
Right?
► 02:19:14
And he's not a big, like, improv guy.
► 02:19:16
Like, he likes to do jokes and polish them, you know?
► 02:19:19
So Will Smith is coming on stage, and you're like, alright, I'm gonna have to, it's an Oscar moment, right?
► 02:19:23
So I gotta get ready whenever Will Smith wants to improv.
► 02:19:26
And I'll bet you, up until Contact, I'll bet you he thought it was like a fake...
► 02:19:30
Right.
► 02:19:31
I'm sure, like, that's what I would have thought, and I would have been, because I don't like to have to deal, like, until it hit him, I bet he didn't even realize it was an actual thing until right when he hit him.
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I think he didn't hit him hard.
► 02:19:45
No, but, I mean.
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I think he just did that.
► 02:19:47
It's still shocking.
► 02:19:48
I mean, definitely.
► 02:19:49
But people are like, you know, like, why didn't it knock him down?
► 02:19:52
I don't think he hit him hard.
► 02:19:53
I think he probably wanted to hit him hard, then realized when he was about to hit him.
► 02:19:59
It's such a- It's so weird to watch.
► 02:20:02
Oh my god.
► 02:20:03
Did that really happen?
► 02:20:04
It was a terrible slap.
► 02:20:06
Yeah.
► 02:20:06
And then you're like, oh, I gotta keep the show going.
► 02:20:09
Like, there's a big gig.
► 02:20:11
There's nothing worse than- And now he's feeling it, right?
► 02:20:13
Now his adrenaline spiked.
► 02:20:15
He's like, what the fuck?
► 02:20:17
Keep my wife's name out of your fucking mouth.
► 02:20:20
Look at Chris.
► 02:20:22
I mean, what a hell gig, dude.
► 02:20:28
Anyway, I bet he has a great side right now.
► 02:20:31
I hear he's fucking murdering.
Will Smith's Standing Ovation
00:15:16
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Segura went to see him.
► 02:20:35
He said it was awesome.
► 02:20:36
He said it was awesome.
► 02:20:37
He said it's like Chris Rock from Bigger and Blacker, like Bring the Pain, like that level, just crushing.
► 02:20:46
Will Smith reignited the beast.
► 02:20:49
Holy shit.
► 02:20:50
Yeah, I mean, think about it, man.
► 02:20:51
He probably wanted to be a part of that whole fucking industry thing.
► 02:20:55
That's why you host the Oscars in the first place, right?
► 02:20:57
Oh, that's a good point, too.
► 02:20:58
And then get slapped by this guy who winds up winning the Oscar, and they give him a fucking standing ovation after you got slapped by that guy.
► 02:21:07
They all cheer and stand up.
► 02:21:09
Once you see it, you can't unsee it.
► 02:21:11
You can't unsee that.
► 02:21:12
Yeah, right.
► 02:21:12
Yeah, these are crazy people.
► 02:21:14
These are crazy people.
► 02:21:15
I saw it.
► 02:21:16
I remember when, what's his name, at the Emmys when Jeffrey Tambor won for Transparent.
► 02:21:22
Remember he got like Me Too'd off that show?
► 02:21:24
Because he was sexually harassing the trans co-stars.
► 02:21:27
They were saying that.
► 02:21:28
Yeah, and I remember, so this is before any Caitlyn Jenner.
► 02:21:31
He was saying he didn't do anything.
► 02:21:34
I mean, I kind of believe, I think they wanted him off the show.
► 02:21:36
So here's why I think they just want him off the show.
► 02:21:40
Well, I think Jill Soloway's not Jill Soloway now.
► 02:21:42
But at the time, won the Emmy.
► 02:21:46
I remember she was like, fight the patriarchy.
► 02:21:50
Like, sweetie, do you think the patriarchy's not in charge of you?
► 02:21:56
You have this reminder to let you know who's in charge.
► 02:21:58
It's like all sharp.
► 02:22:00
It'll stab you if you...
► 02:22:01
So he goes, if I could be the last cis man to play a trans woman, I wouldn't be sad.
► 02:22:07
And the whole crowd's like, yeah!
► 02:22:10
I'm just watching.
► 02:22:10
It's like if Al Jolson was like, if I could be the last blackface performer.
► 02:22:14
And they're all like, oh.
► 02:22:17
And so just a couple years later, I'm sure all those people would be like, how dare you have played...
► 02:22:23
But they were all rooting for it, and I'm like, I bet half of you have never even watched this show.
► 02:22:27
Probably more.
► 02:22:27
Do you know the hardcore feminists are now, well, the TERFs, are now using the term woman face?
► 02:22:34
I've been saying that.
► 02:22:38
I have a whole joke about that for a while, and I've yet to hear why.
► 02:22:42
I remember years ago asking somebody, a producer, when that was Rachel Dolezal.
► 02:22:48
I was just asking this.
► 02:22:50
This was not as big a controversy of a thing at the time.
► 02:22:55
But I was like, well, how is that different?
► 02:22:57
Because I knew a bunch of people that were trans.
► 02:22:58
It was in New York for 20 years.
► 02:23:00
They're transracial.
► 02:23:01
I'm just asking, why can't you be that?
► 02:23:04
I've never gotten a...
► 02:23:05
I've tried to find a satisfying answer.
► 02:23:07
I've never gotten one.
► 02:23:08
But this person, I'll never forget.
► 02:23:09
He goes, Kurt.
► 02:23:12
That's the answer.
► 02:23:14
Like, I thought about that for years, dude.
► 02:23:16
It's just like, don't do this.
► 02:23:19
That's the answer to just asking a question like that.
► 02:23:22
And in fact, I would say everything I can't stand in every business is the, is that the hill you want to die on?
► 02:23:30
That's a good one.
► 02:23:31
That's a good one.
► 02:23:32
I've heard people say for years.
► 02:23:33
And what the fuck does that mean?
► 02:23:34
That means...
► 02:23:36
Like, you're running for office.
► 02:23:38
Do I tell the truth about this now or do I save my political capital for when it's really important to be honest?
► 02:23:45
I'm not running for anything.
► 02:23:46
I can be honest whatever the fuck I want.
► 02:23:48
But you're supposed to have that.
► 02:23:50
Like, is this the hill?
► 02:23:51
Why do I have to die in a hill about...
► 02:23:56
You're asking a question that's a legitimate question.
► 02:23:59
Am I going to be killed?
► 02:24:00
But it's a funny thing that there's certain things you're not allowed to question.
► 02:24:05
Yeah, Kanye was right about that part of knowing you shouldn't talk.
► 02:24:09
I remember in his interview with Tucker, Kyle did an impression of it.
► 02:24:15
Did he?
► 02:24:16
Oh, I did see that, the rap, when he does the rap thing.
► 02:24:18
But one thing Kanye said, which is a good point, is you just train to know what to not even get into.
► 02:24:24
It's not a thing of being afraid of any specific thing.
► 02:24:26
Just be afraid of...
► 02:24:28
Like you're a human AdSense bot.
► 02:24:33
You're like, oh, that might not be good for my...
► 02:24:35
Right?
► 02:24:35
Around the time when you became a brand, I remember it was having a brand.
► 02:24:39
Yeah.
► 02:24:39
Then you are a brand.
► 02:24:41
So you're not even the cow...
► 02:24:43
Anymore that gets branded you're the fucking brand.
► 02:24:46
That's what you are now That's what I know not to talk to a person.
► 02:24:49
Yeah, I love what you've done with your brand Kurt.
► 02:24:51
Oh my god No, no one has ever said that to me once I just did I'm so glad I'm the first No one has ever handled my brand.
► 02:25:03
Well, I've had a dozen people tell me that Well, but okay, that's that's your brand, but what is better than but I mean, but still nonsense Yeah, but that was the first...
► 02:25:13
I bet I could guess their age from if they said, I love your brand, because there was a time when that was...
► 02:25:18
Yeah, but then it became, you are the brand.
► 02:25:23
So you wouldn't even think about it and of it belonging to you.
► 02:25:25
You're it.
► 02:25:26
How do you manage yourself as a brand, Kurt?
► 02:25:29
Not well.
► 02:25:32
Like three kids on each other's shoulders with a trench coat trying to get into a dirty movie.
► 02:25:40
Sherrod told me I look like that.
► 02:25:42
That's a perfect fucking description.
► 02:25:44
Oh my god, that's hilarious.
► 02:25:47
That's a perfect description.
► 02:25:49
Sherrod said to me a long time ago.
► 02:25:51
And that's exactly how I walk downstairs.
► 02:25:58
Not an ounce of coordination.
► 02:26:00
That's hilarious.
► 02:26:02
Yeah.
► 02:26:03
There's some creepy ass thing that happened where you, like...
► 02:26:06
So when all that you fight, people fight, you know, they go, is it hurting comedy?
► 02:26:10
Cancel culture?
► 02:26:10
Is it hurting?
► 02:26:11
Like, it's not hurting.
► 02:26:12
Comedy is probably the only way you can talk now.
► 02:26:14
It's hurting if you're just saying what you think.
► 02:26:16
It's one of the few things that you can still talk about ridiculously controversial shit.
► 02:26:21
Yeah.
► 02:26:22
And make jokes.
► 02:26:23
As long as it's funny.
► 02:26:24
It's much worse than it killing comedy.
► 02:26:25
It's killing you just speaking your mind.
► 02:26:28
Yeah.
► 02:26:28
And you have, like...
► 02:26:29
Having opinions at the workplace.
► 02:26:31
Yeah, right.
► 02:26:32
But everything is based on are you representing the company?
► 02:26:35
Like in your personal time, how is your life reflecting the company?
► 02:26:40
And that's what all that little cancel bullshit, what it did is made your life...
► 02:26:44
Not just the company, but universities.
► 02:26:47
Did you hear about that kid that got his scholarship revoked?
► 02:26:50
Because there was a video of him singing along to a rap song and he says the N-word?
► 02:26:55
I mean, how many of the...
► 02:26:56
What was the story with that?
► 02:27:00
Yeah, pull that story up.
► 02:27:01
How the hell, okay, by the way, how the hell is Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister with like three blackface incidents that I know of?
► 02:27:11
I mean, have you ever seen how insane it looks?
► 02:27:13
That is the least of my worries with that guy.
► 02:27:17
No, I know, but it's such an amazing...
► 02:27:19
The scary thing with him is what they're doing with the WEF. Wait, does it say the rap N-word?
► 02:27:25
Yeah, he rapped along to some song.
► 02:27:27
He raps N-word on camera, loses University of Florida scholarship.
► 02:27:33
It's not his own rap, right?
► 02:27:35
Especially in Florida.
► 02:27:36
Was he singing along to a song, along to the words, and posted...
► 02:27:41
What is it?
► 02:27:41
Click on what it says there?
► 02:27:43
I was in my car listening to rap music, rapping along to the words and posted a video of it on social media.
► 02:27:50
He wrote, I deeply apologize for the words in the song that I chose to say.
► 02:27:54
It was hurtful and offensive to many people and I regret that.
► 02:27:59
So they took away a scholarship.
► 02:28:01
Okay, but he still could be Prime Minister of Canada though.
► 02:28:03
He actually, I mean, he didn't, I guess he had a scholarship.
► 02:28:06
He's just not, he wasn't even enrolled yet.
► 02:28:08
He's still in high school.
► 02:28:09
Oh.
► 02:28:09
It's like he's going to go somewhere else probably.
► 02:28:10
So he can't get a scholarship there.
► 02:28:12
Yeah, at that school.
► 02:28:13
Someone else, a professional player was like, he'll probably get a scholarship somewhere else though.
► 02:28:16
Just not this school.
► 02:28:17
So did he used to have a scholarship there and they revoked it?
► 02:28:20
I don't even know if, I'll look and see if they revoked it.
► 02:28:23
He might have just stepped down and just been like, alright, let's not get involved in this.
► 02:28:27
No.
► 02:28:27
I fully accept the consequence of my action.
► 02:28:29
I respect the University of Florida's decision to withdraw my scholarship offer to play football.
► 02:28:34
Yeah, it's just an offer though.
► 02:28:37
Okay, but they did have a scholarship offer to him and they withdrew it.
► 02:28:41
That was the thing.
► 02:28:41
Do you see the con here?
► 02:28:43
He had an offer to go smash his brain into Swiss cheese and not be compensated properly.
► 02:28:48
That's been revoked.
► 02:28:49
Speaking of Swiss cheese, have you ever seen that video of Mickey Mouse making Swiss cheese with his dick?
► 02:28:54
No.
► 02:28:55
There's an old, old, old, old Mickey Mouse cartoon.
► 02:28:58
That Walt Disney himself made.
► 02:29:00
Someone from the Walt Disney Organization.
► 02:29:04
I don't want to pin it on Walt.
► 02:29:06
Will I get to see it now?
► 02:29:07
Yeah, watch.
► 02:29:07
So look, he's fucking, he's got his dick.
► 02:29:10
Oh, with his boner.
► 02:29:10
Okay, but he's wearing pants.
► 02:29:12
He's got a boner.
► 02:29:13
And he's putting holes in his Swiss cheese with his boner.
► 02:29:17
I always knew that's how I did it.
► 02:29:18
Look at that.
► 02:29:19
Mickey has a boner, and he's making Swiss cheese with his dick.
► 02:29:23
My God, look at him.
► 02:29:24
I mean, it's in the middle of his fucking pants.
► 02:29:26
It's not in any other place other than where a dick's supposed to be.
► 02:29:30
What are we supposed to think there?
► 02:29:31
I don't know.
► 02:29:32
That's 100% Mickey's dick.
► 02:29:33
I feel like watching Jon Stewart hanging a metal on a Nazi right now.
► 02:29:40
How crazy is that?
► 02:29:42
I'm going to read, but Snopes says this is false, even though we just watched it.
► 02:29:46
What does Snopes say?
► 02:29:47
I don't know.
► 02:29:48
Because Snopes is bought and paid for it, bro.
► 02:29:49
It says it's not doing what we're seeing.
► 02:29:52
Okay, what does Snopes say?
► 02:29:53
Does this Disney cartoon show Mickey Mouse inappropriately making Swiss cheese?
► 02:29:58
Okay, you've got to read these because they're sometimes crazy.
► 02:30:02
Why?
► 02:30:03
Why is it false?
► 02:30:04
Somebody made it the bit of animation was created in 2011 So this bit of animation was created on the B3TA board an internet forum that frequently features photoshopped images in March of 2011 But even without knowing the source behind the image viewers can spot many other factors that demonstrate It was not part of an official Disney film I, for one, rest easy now.
► 02:30:33
Like a recent TikTok trend.
► 02:30:36
These things go fast and viral on TikTok and no one fax checks anything.
► 02:30:40
Oh, so it's a Steamboat Willie, so they cut out...
► 02:30:43
Yeah, TikTok is really...
► 02:30:44
I didn't think it could be possible, and if I thought it was possible, the thing that was getting me like, how do I not know this yet?
► 02:30:50
No, that's what I was thinking, because The Little Mermaid, just the mere suggestion that there were dicks hidden in the background of the cover.
► 02:30:56
Was there?
► 02:30:57
Yeah, the Little Mermaid thing that...
► 02:30:59
There was dicks hidden?
► 02:30:59
I don't even know if that's to this day, if that was real or not.
► 02:31:03
Do you remember the stuff that would go around?
► 02:31:05
When I was a kid, I heard this.
► 02:31:06
Do you remember the Little Mermaid one?
► 02:31:08
I don't know that specifically, but it's a meme itself that there's a whole bunch of hidden stuff in old Disney stuff.
► 02:31:15
Do you remember these misinformations?
► 02:31:17
Some of it looks real and some of it is like...
► 02:31:18
Some of it could be like this though, right?
► 02:31:20
Some of it could be like the boner...
► 02:31:22
How did he make Swiss cheese?
► 02:31:23
How did Mickey?
► 02:31:24
So the whole Mickey Swiss cheese thing was fake.
► 02:31:26
There was no Swiss cheese factory.
► 02:31:29
That's hilarious.
► 02:31:29
Wow.
► 02:31:30
The phallus...
► 02:31:31
Yeah, so this says the phallus purposely added the artwork for the Little Mermaid VHS cover.
► 02:31:35
It's also not real, but I don't have to look at this.
► 02:31:38
They got you, Kurt.
► 02:31:39
It could be Photoshopped.
► 02:31:40
We didn't have any...
► 02:31:41
Remember this?
► 02:31:43
Did you ever hear this rumor?
► 02:31:45
This was when I was in high school.
► 02:31:46
This was going around.
► 02:31:47
And it was usually church people.
► 02:31:51
I heard it from a sister in Jehovah's Witnesses, but I also heard it from kids that were evangelical.
► 02:31:57
That Procter& Gamble, you know, the shampoo magnates, I guess, went on.
► 02:32:02
It was Phil Donahue.
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I've heard other talk shows, but Phil Donahue to announce that they worship Satan, and that's why they're putting a satanic symbol on the shampoo.
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What?
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Yeah, and Phil Donahue's like, don't you think Christians are going to be mad?
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And then they go, there's not enough Christians to stop us.
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I heard that exact thing go around.
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And I was 17 when I heard it.
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It didn't sound...
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Yeah, it didn't sound plausible to me as a 17-year-old.
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Look at this.
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The company spent decades battling false claims that it was in league with the devil.
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You know what that's like?
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It's like the rigid-geared gerbil-in-the-ass rumor.
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Yeah, right.
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He blamed Stallone for many years.
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Did you know that?
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No.
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He says Stallone did it?
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Yeah, that was like, because I would check that news when I knew.
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Him and Stallone were feuding?
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I think it's like 65 years before the government releases if that happens.
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It's even longer than...
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Did Sylvester Stallone start the rigid gear drama rumor?
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An investigation?
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Oh, they investigated!
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Because it's not even a thing, right?
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People don't actually do that.
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I don't know.
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Do they do that?
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I'm sure somebody tried after the rumor, but it's, you know.
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Dude, my buddy Steve worked, he did his residency in Miami in the 1980s during the cocaine days.
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So he did a lot of time in the emergency room.
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He said, we found everything up people's asses.
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G.I. Joe dolls, light bulbs.
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They found light bulbs up a guy's ass.
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Oh yeah, everything.
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Coke bottles, everything.
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Yeah, I used to have a joke about that, humans being the only animal to sometimes stick other animals in their asses.
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That's how you know we're superior.
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We'll just eat you.
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We'll use you as a suppository.
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Yeah, whatever.
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Just for shits and giggles.
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I ran out of things to use you for.
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Dan Savage says this is an unverified and persistent urban legend.
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Hmm.
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Because once people say a stupid thing like that, though, someone will try it.
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Well, we don't think it's real.
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But what was the root of it?
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Like, who started it?
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But that wasn't one of those things.
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Like, if you're Richard Gere and you walked into a party, people would start, like, making jokes.