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Dec. 31, 2025 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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Joe Rogan Experience #2433 - James McCann

James McCann joins Joe Rogan to dissect the Wrangell Island mastodon tooth relic, debunking medieval myths like saltpeter’s aphrodisiac claims and George Washington’s fatal 40% blood loss. They critique modern food processing—chlorine-bleached wheat, glyphosate-laced crops—and Australia’s gambling epidemic (72.8% of adults gamble yearly). Rogan and McCann also question transgender policies, Epstein’s DOJ revelations (30,000 pages, including disputed Trump claims), and China’s alleged use of eunuchs for control, tying it to social media fragmentation and conservative infighting over Israel and immigration. Ultimately, the episode exposes systemic manipulation in politics, medicine, and culture while blending dark history with speculative theories. [Automatically generated summary]

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unidentified
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joe rogan
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
That's fucking good.
james mccann
Have we started?
Have we gone?
joe rogan
We're starting.
unidentified
Oh, no.
james mccann
Not over the relics.
joe rogan
The dirtier this table is, the better.
unidentified
Get it away from the relics.
joe rogan
That is, that's from my friend John Reeves.
He gave that to me.
That's a mastodon tooth.
Or woolly mammoth, or what's the difference?
What is the difference between a woolly mammoth and a mastodon?
They must be a different age, a different era.
But that's a giant tooth.
There's a company in Alaska, I forget the name, but they kind of seems fucked to carve into this thing because it is 10,000 years old, at least.
james mccann
How many of them are there, though?
Do they have heaps of them?
unidentified
They have heaps of them.
joe rogan
But this is really cool.
It's like they carved a mammoth in it.
So what is the difference?
According to our sponsor, Perplexity, a woolly mammoth and a mastodon were related but quite different ice age elephants.
Mammoths were taller, more slightly built grass eaters, while mastodons were shorter, stockier browsers that ate woody plants.
Okay.
jamie vernon
I was going to say the hair, maybe, but I don't.
It's obviously more.
joe rogan
Woolly mammoth, right?
Yeah, a mastodon looks like an elephant.
james mccann
Yeah, the mastodon horn does look cooler.
joe rogan
They're pretty cool.
They're all pretty cool.
You know, they lived on an...
unidentified
What's it?
joe rogan
What?
Where were the last mastodons?
I want to say they lived on an island.
Until like 10,000 years ago or something like that.
Because most of them died out.
They don't know how they died out, but there's two theories.
One theory is people killed them all, which is a shaky theory.
Because it's people of 10,000 years ago with fucking sticks.
james mccann
Were they around 10,000 years ago?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, they did.
james mccann
We definitely did that then.
joe rogan
I don't think so.
I think it was a cataclysm.
I think it was the same thing that killed 65% of all megafauna.
That's the problem.
It killed so many different animals almost instantaneously.
Yeah, that's it.
jamie vernon
40,000 years ago.
joe rogan
4,000 years ago, Wrangell Island, remote Arctic island off Siberia's coast, had the last woolly mammoth until about 4,000 years ago.
Isn't that nuts?
james mccann
That's nothing.
joe rogan
That's nuts.
Yeah, that's like before the pyramids were built.
No, I mean after the pyramids were built, rather.
james mccann
Similar time.
Yeah, after the pyramids.
joe rogan
Yeah, after the pyramids.
Allegedly.
I think they were probably built earlier than that.
But the official date is 2,500.
james mccann
I've seen that strange man with the beard.
joe rogan
Which one?
james mccann
That man you had on to debate it, who's always clapping back on Twitter and going like, there's nothing funny about the...
joe rogan
Oh, Flint Devil?
james mccann
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
james mccann
I don't want to invoke his ire.
I don't really know.
joe rogan
He's got a lot of ire.
james mccann
He's got a lot of time and stuff.
joe rogan
I actually enjoyed talking to him about non-archaeolog, non-ancient history-related stuff.
He has some interesting things about seeds.
Like he does a lot of work in seeds.
No, it's actually really interesting how...
james mccann
Like the history of scenes?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah, when, so say if you have a wild plant, they can tell the difference between a wild plant and an agriculturally grown plant.
james mccann
Yeah.
joe rogan
And the way is the seeds change.
So when you have a wild seed, it is more conducive to the growth of the plant if the seeds break off easier and scatter and they get into the ground easier.
So they break free of the plant.
But then when you use agriculture, the seeds don't become important for the creation of new plants because you're always taking the seeds anyway and planting the seeds, right?
So those seeds are more robust and they hang on more.
james mccann
Yeah.
joe rogan
So you could tell by looking at the actual seeds themselves whether it's an agriculturally based seed or whether it's a wild seed.
james mccann
That is good.
I hadn't thought about that.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It was really cool.
That part was cool.
The shittiness is not cool and calling Graham Hancock a racist.
They do that with like everyone.
Everyone who has anything to say about the historical narrative that doesn't fit into exactly what they're teaching or what they have been teaching, they're like so unwilling to accept that there's any alternative timeline.
But they keep getting fucked because over and over again, they keep finding these new things that are older and older.
james mccann
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like the fact that Tevi was the big one.
It happens in every discipline.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I mean, it happens in comedy.
There's people that don't like new comedians that are coming up.
They don't like what they're doing differently.
james mccann
There was a thing last night about prop comedy.
dennis echelbarger
Yeah.
james mccann
Like everyone just stopped doing prop comedy at a certain point.
joe rogan
Well, it's because of Carrotop.
james mccann
It's because of Carrotop and also because the bullying you would receive at the moment for having props.
Rick Glassman, am I getting his name right?
I don't know.
But he had some props and he was really funny and he got away with it.
But he's the only person in America other than Carrot Top I've seen with any props.
joe rogan
Well, when I started out, there was a bunch of guys who had props.
There was a bunch of guys who had props and it was fun.
It was fun to watch.
There was, God, Dr. Wid?
I forget his name.
Dr. Wiz?
I forget his name.
But he was a guy when I first started out in the 1980s.
He had props and he was good.
He was a funny comic.
james mccann
It'll be cyclical.
It'll come back.
Like, ladies with ukuleles had to go away for a time.
It was necessary that we purge ukulele women from comedy.
joe rogan
How many were there?
james mccann
Oh, my God.
I don't know.
There was.
Is this him?
jamie vernon
The legendary wid.
joe rogan
That's it.
Legendary Wid.
Yeah, that's the dude.
And he would do like science-based humor.
He was a funny guy.
So this is, you know, I saw him in like 88, 88, 89.
But the point was that guy was really funny when he started busting out the props.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And we were like, I was like, why don't you just do props?
james mccann
This is your thing.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Like that kind of humor, his kind of humor, it's almost like it's missing something in just the straight stand-up form.
james mccann
There's like there's waves of things become trendy and then people who can't really do it very well jump onto it and then it gets lame and people stop doing it.
joe rogan
Well a lot of it is one guy gets really successful doing it and then that becomes his thing.
james mccann
We had a run of people pretending to be retarded in Australia.
joe rogan
How hard did they try?
james mccann
Really hard.
joe rogan
Were they on the border?
It just like slowed it down a little bit.
james mccann
They were weird sweaters, people having like fireworks that they would fire into themselves and everyone would like come out with cards and read their act.
joe rogan
That's what happens when you take away everyone's guns.
james mccann
They're trying to take them away again again.
joe rogan
Again.
james mccann
They already took them all away.
And then somehow we still had a massive shooting.
And now the response is, well, maybe we could take even more of them away.
joe rogan
What was the nationality of the people that caused the shooting?
james mccann
The son, I think, was born in Australia.
And the dad, there was a big fight over it on Twitter where people were going, he's Pakistani.
joe rogan
I remember that, but I didn't anymore.
I don't anymore.
I don't get in there.
james mccann
The big argument was over the religion of the hero who took one of the guns away.
So like the cops were apparently cowering.
That's the narrative.
unidentified
I don't know.
james mccann
But one guy ran up and it's a great video of a guy like he runs at a guy with a gun and wrestles the gun off him and aims the gun at him and lets the, he does let the guy get away.
He doesn't want to kill him.
joe rogan
Which is kind of crazy.
The guy just kills how many people?
james mccann
Oh, and then I think the guy gets a gun and goes on killing people.
unidentified
Yeah.
james mccann
But he's not a killer, this guy who wrestled the gun off him.
joe rogan
He was just in the head with the butt, like in the movies.
unidentified
I don't know what I, I mean, I wouldn't have been a girl.
I wouldn't have ever run up to a man with a gun.
james mccann
I would have been out of there.
But the argument was what religion was the guy who took the gun.
Because people on the right really didn't want him to be a Muslim.
They were like, it was a huge thing on X of people.
joe rogan
People on the right didn't want him to kill him.
james mccann
Because it was Muslim shooters, but then it looked like his name was like Ahmed Al Ahmed or something.
joe rogan
But hold on, why would the people on the right not want him to be a Muslim?
james mccann
Because then you can go, this is a Muslim thing.
Muslims were doing the shooting, and we can just go, let's deal with the Muslims.
joe rogan
Oh, you mean the guy who captured the guy?
james mccann
The guy who wrestled the gun off you was also a Muslim, which then makes it like a heroic.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
james mccann
Well, his name is like Muhammad Muhammadson.
joe rogan
But imagine being a regular Muslim and having to deal with these crazy motherfuckers.
james mccann
There he is.
joe rogan
That guy.
james mccann
Yeah, people love him.
joe rogan
But man, shoot the guy in the foot.
If you didn't want to kill him, shoot him and blow his fucking away.
james mccann
Look at him go.
joe rogan
Oh, that's amazing.
And he doesn't do anything.
So the guy just gets away.
james mccann
The guy does get away.
joe rogan
Oh, this is not good.
james mccann
But then after he lets him get away, I think he drops the gun and he goes away.
And then he gets shot again in the arm.
And who knows what to do when there's a live.
joe rogan
Yeah, you don't know what to do.
Well, that's a good person.
That's a good person.
james mccann
He is a national hero at the moment.
And I think if he had, man, people wanted him to be a Maronite Christian so bad.
The Groypers were desperate for him to be.
There was a lot of people going, well, actually.
joe rogan
You know, that's the real problem we have in this country.
We want to pretend that people actually exist in groups.
Even if there's high percentages of people from groups that are doing bad things, there's still a giant percentage that are not.
And to alienate all those people by just lumping it all in as one group together.
Imagine you're a peaceful Muslim and you have to deal with this shit.
And you're like, guys, I just want to pray.
I'm just trying to find oneness with God.
That's all I'm trying to do.
james mccann
I love twirling.
I'm one of the twirling ones.
They're my favorite ones personally.
joe rogan
What's a twirlin?
james mccann
The twirling dervishes?
joe rogan
They just love twirling.
james mccann
They love to twirl.
joe rogan
Twirling.
I was trying to figure out what you're talking about.
unidentified
Twirling.
james mccann
But this is what's weird.
So after that, the government comes out and is like cracking down on right-wing extremism because it's a lefty government and they go, clearly we have a problem with right-wing extremism.
So now they're trying to reclassify globalized infotata jihadism as a form of right-wing extremism.
Which I'd never, which like, yeah, I guess it's not commie-lefty stuff.
joe rogan
Well, you have to look at it on paper objectively.
It is.
james mccann
Yeah, but I don't know how much they hang out.
I don't know if these guys.
I don't think these guys are reading like, I don't know, William F. Buckley Jr.
joe rogan
It's still.
Let's break down what is right-wing then.
Okay.
Let's say this.
Okay.
Do they want to completely control women's behavior and completely dictate whether or not the woman can leave the house with certain clothes on, what they're allowed to do?
Right?
james mccann
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's kind of a right-wing thing, isn't it?
james mccann
Yes.
joe rogan
Total religious adherence.
They want a religious state.
james mccann
Yeah, but the Taliban want to dance with little boys.
That seems like a leftist.
joe rogan
That's a separate breakoff group.
They're like the Baptists.
They're like the Catholics.
You know what I mean?
You got your regular Christians, and then you got some other motherfuckers that are out there running wild with new rules.
Mormons.
How about this?
james mccann
Mormons?
joe rogan
Yeah.
But that's what I'm saying.
It's like their breakoff group.
It's not the ones who are banging the boys.
That's not normal.
There's a lot of guys out there that are Muslim that are not banging boys.
So when you connect them with the Taliban, they're like, hey, bro, I'm just praying over here.
james mccann
It's all people just trying to have fun.
joe rogan
Yeah.
james mccann
Who am I to judge anybody?
joe rogan
The problem is then when you push these people, it's the same thing that happens.
You call everyone a racist.
What do you get?
You get a Nick Quintes.
You get a guy who emerges.
He's got the balls to shit talk and have fun and say wild things that are very inappropriate and sometimes racist.
shane gillis
That's what you get.
joe rogan
Someone embraces that guy because you've been told you're a racist just for being white.
You know, you've been told there's something wrong with you, white male.
Like there was a time where someone would say something in comments all the time.
I would watch these people arguing.
And someone, it was a common thing to say, as a white man, I think you should probably shut your fucking mouth.
Like as a white man, you're a white man.
You're disqualified from having an opinion on something because you are a white man.
It's another form of racism.
It's just an accepted form of racism.
That's really weird.
james mccann
But then you, like, Nick Fuentes is getting all his other ideas through as well.
Because he was the only person saying things that the average person would think was kind of normal.
joe rogan
Well, but then he wasn't.
A lot of the stuff he's saying was not something the average person would think of.
james mccann
But you sneak your other weird stuff through.
Like when everyone's going.
joe rogan
Right, right, right, right.
james mccann
You know, like when he says, when he's getting attacked for going, like, a black neighborhood is going to be more violent on average in America.
You go, yes, I've traveled around the country, and that is, I think there's a long history for why that's true.
joe rogan
Well, it's factually correct.
james mccann
That seems to be correct.
joe rogan
The question is, though, why?
And that's where it gets uncomfortable.
Yeah.
Because the real reason for why is a host of factors.
But the primary one is crime and poverty.
The primary one is they live in a community that's filled with crime and poverty.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
And if you have a, and drugs.
And if you have a community where people are selling drugs and it's crime and poverty, you're going to get a lot of violence, whether it's an Italian community, Armenian community, or any community where you got a lot of crime and a lot of poverty.
james mccann
I first came here, I went to Appalachia.
joe rogan
People are going to get killed.
james mccann
There are white people doing crazy, crazy things.
joe rogan
You ever see the Wild and Wonderful Whites of West?
james mccann
I watched it like a week ago.
joe rogan
Fucking amazing.
james mccann
The most charismatic family I've ever seen.
joe rogan
Knoxville did that, didn't he?
james mccann
Yeah.
joe rogan
He basically produced it.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Bro, that's it.
james mccann
It made me feel so homesick.
I was only there for a couple months.
I wanted to go back so bad.
joe rogan
The dancing outlaw.
james mccann
When they're like, granddaddy had a new way of dancing.
And it's the most insane.
Like, was that really going to take off?
unidentified
It did.
james mccann
Is that the style of dancing?
joe rogan
Bro, when you're on meth, it's awesome.
james mccann
I mean, Miss.
joe rogan
It's the perfect dance style.
james mccann
Yes, they were.
joe rogan
Oh, they were on everything.
They were on the what.
How about the lady?
I'm always been thought of as a sexy one.
She was a stripper.
Remember her?
james mccann
No, I did.
joe rogan
The voice.
james mccann
I did a big deep dive on Wikipedia about them afterwards.
She stumped a kitten.
joe rogan
Which one's dancing here?
jamie vernon
This is Jessico, American Outlaw.
unidentified
Jesko is.
joe rogan
He's the younger guy.
james mccann
Jesko lives out the legacy.
joe rogan
Excuse me?
james mccann
He's like, he keeps the dancing alive.
He's the one who's a celebrity in the show.
unidentified
Right.
james mccann
But then there's another documentary about him, and in both documentaries, he complains about a woman making his eggs wrong.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's that dude.
Yeah.
james mccann
He's got it.
He's a charismatic guy.
joe rogan
Yeah, he said he would cut her if she gave him ruddy eggs.
unidentified
I was like, sloppy eggs.
joe rogan
Settle down, bro.
Like, maybe we shouldn't be celebrating this.
james mccann
But I think one of them just got out of prison.
I think the one who at the start of that document.
joe rogan
I hope Trump got him out.
Who got out?
What did he do?
unidentified
The one who shot his uncle?
joe rogan
Oh, that kid.
Yeah.
james mccann
I think he just got.
That's the sexy one.
joe rogan
I've always been the sexiest one in the family.
Listen to what she said, the way she says it, though.
The voice is incredible.
jamie vernon
It's just pictures.
james mccann
Yeah.
I think that sexy one, I think she did get in trouble for stepping on a cat.
joe rogan
Well, there was a thing in that film that was interesting, though, towards the end, where you see, like, some of them are trying to, like, move away from that life.
One girl got sober.
So there was like a take to it where they realized, like, hey, this is not sustainable.
This is a crazy way to live.
I'm a mother.
Like, what am I doing?
You know, and she was trying to get out of it.
Which I think a lot of people do come to the realization if you're in that kind of a community.
I got to get the fuck away from these crazy assholes and stop doing meth.
unidentified
It is.
james mccann
Yeah, I think.
joe rogan
But it's how do you do it?
See, this is the thing.
This is the thing.
When you say, like, is it true that there's a higher percentage of murders that occur in black communities?
Right.
Right.
But as opposed to poor communities, like, what about like deeply impoverished communities?
Like, and then when you introduce a history of gang violence and crime and no one ever does anything to stop it, it's going to stay the same.
Whether it's in Appalachia or whether it's the Hatfields and the McCoy's, all those motherfuckers that were killing each other back in the Wild West days.
I mean, it's probably horrible back then.
unidentified
Why?
joe rogan
Because they let it be that way.
Nobody did anything about it.
You couldn't stop them.
james mccann
And I think some of the solutions for it are very bad.
This is my, I don't want to speak out of turn because it's not my country.
But like when I've been driving through it.
joe rogan
People love to come to America and tell us what to do.
I love it.
james mccann
I think it's the greatest country in the world.
And I repeat that again.
joe rogan
Me too.
james mccann
When I drive through like a bad area and there's like a Planned Parenthood with a line around the block and things set on fire.
And you can just like, I know that Planned Parenthood started out as a eugenicist organization where they went, like, that was the lady who founded it.
That was her thing.
And you can really see in those neighborhoods, it's like, if you have a child here, you're going to be tied to this community.
We want you to get out.
We want people who have the spirit to get out of here and to live a good, full life in America, not to be tied down to being in like a really difficult, crime-riddled area.
unidentified
Yeah.
james mccann
So abort your children so you can get out seems to be the I think they're still doing the eugenicist thing of being like, just be free for different reasons, not because they want to dilute the numbers in the population or whatever, but because they go, you've got to be a free person who can leave and children will tie you to a place.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's a way to look at it.
james mccann
That was when I was driving through, I forget Wisconsin, northern Wisconsin.
I don't know.
I just hit with this.
Oh, man.
It's like usually the rough area of a town is lifted up by a freeway in America.
Like you don't see, if you drive into Chicago, you're just way up here on a freeway and then you come down into like the most beautiful buildings you've ever seen in your life.
And people go, it's very scary over in the other part of Chicago.
And you go, I never saw it.
I was 30 feet in the air.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's true.
james mccann
But in some places, I have driven through it and I've gone, or I've stopped and you go, there's someone's, like, if I lived here, I mean, there are some areas that are so rough.
It's like, man, if I lived here, I would go and steal and kill from the people who live 20 minutes up the road for sure.
You know, like you just drive 20 minutes up the road and there's a German town and everything's perfect and everyone's rich and everyone's beautiful.
joe rogan
Yep.
james mccann
And you, this doesn't happen in.
I don't know.
I'm from a very flat country by comparison.
The highs and lows here are incredible.
joe rogan
Oh, the highs and lows of what?
james mccann
America.
joe rogan
You mean poverty and wealth?
Yeah.
Okay.
james mccann
Like the Bronx being an hour from the Hamptons.
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It's all of it's real close.
I used to say that like when I lived in LA, I was like, you know, people, like, this is a good neighborhood.
I go, right.
But you know, people from a bad neighborhood can just come into your good neighborhood.
You know about all that, right?
When people are like, why do you have dogs?
Why do you have guns?
I was like, what?
Like, do you watch the news?
james mccann
Yeah.
joe rogan
Are you fucking crazy?
Like, you got to be careful out there.
And most of the time, it's not going to happen to you.
The 99.99% of people will never experience anything awful.
But to not have any idea that it could ever happen to you is bad.
I think the real problem, and this is the one that just doesn't get addressed with any politicians ever, is something massive has to be done to stop this lineage of people that are coming from these crime-ridden places, and no one changes anything about it at all.
We had a cop on once from Baltimore, and he was telling us that while he was on duty, he found this crime sheet, a doc sheet of all the things that happened in like 76 or something like that.
And he was reading all the areas and all the crimes, and it dawned on him.
He's like, oh, my God, like this is the same crimes in the same area decades later, and nothing has changed.
They need to do something huge.
Like, treat that as if it's an untapped resource of human potential, because that's what it is.
All those people in that community, if they had been born and raised with different families in a different place, completely different outcome.
A giant percentage of who you are is dumb luck.
And if the people that got the worst luck to be born in a crack house or be born in a place where there's gang violence on the street every day and you go to school and you have to pick a gang, if you don't pick a gang, they'll fucking kill you.
Like, what are you going to do?
Like, you're not going to do anything but what everybody else is doing.
That's what most people are going to do.
The few that are going to break out, maybe they're musicians or an athlete or something like that.
They break out.
But for the most part, you're fucked.
But what it is, is untapped and unrealized human potential that's going to waste on the most stupid fucking shit in the world.
james mccann
But then when you try and do something like that in America, the pushback is huge.
joe rogan
What is the pushback of investing into communities?
james mccann
I would say like in a small, I think the National Guard going into some places.
joe rogan
Okay, that's different.
So that's what I'm saying.
james mccann
That's what it can look like sometimes back there at Devil's Day.
joe rogan
That's what it can look like under this administration.
james mccann
Portland, yeah, there's got to be a better way of doing it.
joe rogan
Well, you're just going to get too much pushback.
But what you can't do is let it get to the point where it's feasible to call in the National Guard.
That's what's crazy.
It's like their law enforcement has been so handcuffed by the administrations, especially in northwestern United States.
Like everybody, they don't get enough sun.
They lost their fucking mind.
Everyone's depressed and everyone's trans.
It's crazy up there.
It's crazy.
james mccann
I was just in Portland.
I was in Portland just before the National Guard went in and I was in Portland.
joe rogan
How insane.
james mccann
It's so much.
You can walk around a little bit.
joe rogan
Oh, the National Guard.
james mccann
I will say.
I know people were very upset in Portland about that, but I think just quietly they were going.
That's kind of nice.
Well, how about the mayor?
joe rogan
The mayor in D.C. thanked Trump.
james mccann
Yeah.
joe rogan
She's like, this is like the safest it's ever been here since you brought in the National Guard.
But the problem is that sets a fucking precedent.
So here's the thing.
If it's necessary, let's say you have a place that's a literal, not even a real place, a fictional place in America where there's a literal gang war going on and dozens of people are getting shot every day and it's basically a war zone.
Let's just imagine a place like that.
You would say, okay, it's probably a good idea to bring in the military and control that because the entire population is at risk.
It's very dangerous.
It's a literal war zone in the middle of a modern American city.
We have to stop that.
Well, the thing is, if you say, okay, people are lighting newspaper stands on fire.
People are doing this.
People are breaking into Starbucks.
Let's bring in the military.
People aren't obeying the speech laws.
Let's bring in the military.
People are not using their digital ID.
Let's bring in the military.
It's like there's got to be a separation between our army and our civilians.
And it has to be a big fucking reason to break that separation.
james mccann
I think.
I mean, you did it in the 60s in the South when business came.
unidentified
What do they mean?
james mccann
I was like, yo, the United States, when Jim Crow was happening in the South, the military got sent in.
You desegregated the South by force.
unidentified
Right.
james mccann
So that was deemed to be like an appropriate use of a monopoly on violence to enact a social change.
Like, you're not going to have segregated schools anymore.
We're going to have the military there and make sure that this works out.
joe rogan
Crazy have to bring in that, the military, to get people to allow black people and white people to go to school together.
james mccann
I mean, yeah, they didn't want to.
It's just so weird when I go to the South now because everyone is so friendly and people do seem to get along.
And you go.
Your grandparents were like.
joe rogan
Bro, they had to rip the ball.
james mccann
Doing the craziest stuff.
Terrible.
I mean, the Emmett Till, I just found out about that after I got here.
It's unbelievable.
And they were still shooting the Emmett Till statue that they put up.
They had to replace it with a bronze statue so the bullet holes wouldn't affect it.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
That's what was going on?
james mccann
I believe that was what was happening until I quieted it.
joe rogan
I'm sure it wasn't just one KKK dude that really wasn't.
james mccann
It may have been a white dude.
joe rogan
You know what I'm saying?
That's the problem.
You get one wacky guy in a neighborhood and you're like, that's a racist neighborhood.
They were shooting the Emmett Till statue.
Maybe it's one asshole working in the entire shop.
One fucking dude smelling his own farts and loading up his rifle.
james mccann
That one Arkansas MMA fighter who kept saying that he loved Hitler.
Did a lot to hurt the reputation of that football team.
Because he always had the Razorbacks in the back.
joe rogan
Yeah, that wasn't.
I think he did not phrase that well.
I think there's a lot of people.
Here's the thing.
There's a lot of people that become experts, and I'm guilty of this as well.
You're talking about something where you maybe watched a YouTube video.
You know what I mean?
Like maybe you read an article about it in some fucking politico.
Who knows?
Who knows where you read it?
It could be some crazy right-wing source.
You read something, you took it as fact.
And then you talk to a bunch of other people that also take it as fact.
And next thing you know, you start talking and you're still saying shit.
Yeah.
That's me.
james mccann
Okay, but people always criticize that.
People always have a go at the podcasters for like spouting off on things that they're not.
joe rogan
Yeah, but that is what I do.
james mccann
But how come there's no responsibility on the mainstream legacy media for having gotten really, really boring over the last 15, 20 years?
joe rogan
Boring is lying as well.
james mccann
Compromised.
joe rogan
Completely compromised, totally untrustworthy, completely compromised.
james mccann
I just got the New York Times app because I thought, I'll have a look at that.
I finally got enough money where I can pay a dollar a week to be on the New York Times app.
joe rogan
Yeah.
james mccann
And it's so, I mean, it's just they've built Twitter.
Like the experience of it and the scrolling on it, it feels like you're in Twitter, but only mediated through selected journalists from the New York Times.
And suddenly you're like, I'm just stepping into for a moment whatever bubble that is.
I wanted to take a look at it.
unidentified
Well, it's it's like I think they're all going to have to course correct.
joe rogan
I think they're all going to have to realize that it's not it's not being intellectual, like a true intellectual, a true progressive by only looking at things from one perspective and to automatically assume that anybody that has a different perspective.
Okay, we're back.
james mccann
There we go.
joe rogan
Where was I?
james mccann
So they need to have a course correction.
We're talking about the mainstream media and that they've lost that many people.
joe rogan
That's what I'm saying.
Was that you can't proclaim yourself to be intellectual by only listening to one perspective and to being like very aggressive and hostile about the other perspective.
Immediate ad hominems, immediate attacks on, you know, lumping everyone in together, associated, like we were talking about earlier, associating ancient history with racism.
Like, you're doing that.
It's a little trick you're doing.
You're not having a real conversation.
You're being a bitch.
And this kind of communication sucks.
It sucks for the left.
It sucks for the right.
When people on the right, it sucks for it's a bad human communication skill.
If you were good at it, you would want other people to have different opinions and you'd want to hear those opinions and talk to those people.
james mccann
I think they're trying to course correct.
This is what's weird to watch.
And it's who they're.
I don't want to.
They love Schultz at the New York Times.
joe rogan
Well, he goes over there.
james mccann
They've picked him.
Yes, they've picked him up.
joe rogan
But he goes in there and talks about them.
Yeah.
Well, he's very smart.
james mccann
He's smart.
They want him.
joe rogan
Sure.
And he's another guy who's very smart and very fun.
So they want these people because they've been kind of locked out of the fun.
james mccann
Yeah.
Well, they also, they just pretended that it didn't exist.
joe rogan
Do you see Schultz talk to them, though?
james mccann
I had talks on the roundtable.
unidentified
Yeah.
james mccann
Yeah.
It was great.
joe rogan
It's hilarious because they're talking in these bullshit terms.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And he's like, hold on.
You know, let's just talk real here.
james mccann
He goes, the Jews.
And everybody laughs because he can.
joe rogan
Because he's a comedian.
james mccann
He's allowed to be funny.
joe rogan
Yeah.
And there's another one that he did with another guy.
I forget from what other mainstream media publication.
It was the same sort of situation.
And to have it that way, where it's a one-on-one conversation, then you get to see the weird way that they actually think and communicate.
The bubble.
Like when Tim Dylan was on the show.
james mccann
The CNN one.
I was going to say it's one of my ring.
joe rogan
It's amazing.
james mccann
Because she kept asking this.
She didn't want it.
They resisted releasing that as a long-form thing.
unidentified
Yes.
james mccann
And you can see why, because she's asking the same question three or four times in a row to try and bait something, which is not how a conversation works.
joe rogan
We pressured them into putting the whole thing out.
james mccann
She keeps going, come on.
joe rogan
Yeah.
james mccann
Just to get him, because he's a fun guy and he wants to say something funny.
And she's like baiting him to say something exaggerated.
joe rogan
Yeah, Jon Stewart had the best response to this whole thing.
He was talking to some guy from the New Yorker and they were talking about this podcast.
And he's like, you know, they were talking about different opinions and different people that I've talked to.
And he's like, but Joe Rogan has the biggest audience in the world.
He has a bigger audience.
He's like, well, go get a big audience.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Go get it.
james mccann
It's not like they don't have the finances.
joe rogan
You just go figure it out, do it right, and you'll get a big audience.
Like, it's not that fucking complicated.
I don't have pyrotechnics.
There's no CGI.
There's not even a crew.
There's a skeleton crew of people who do this.
james mccann
But I think some of it is the ivory tower mentality of if it becomes like that they think there is a there is a sense in people who have got like a very big education and have gone through the whatever system you have to jump through to get to an elite legacy thing is that most people are too stupid to to have like an open and honest conversation with right and that if stupid people like you then that's a problem Them.
joe rogan
That's how they're viewing the world, and that there's like well, there's all they're also doing in the world in that they're protecting people from opinions they don't agree with.
Even though they listen to those opinions, it has no effect on their position.
They took the same position.
But they're worried that people dumber than them.
It's a very condescending thought process.
james mccann
To think that you're the only open-minded person.
joe rogan
Not only that, and people that are dumber, is that which is most people, you're going to fall into the trap of what this person's saying that I don't agree with.
james mccann
And this, yes.
joe rogan
Yeah.
james mccann
And that if you, and that the only way to get people to listen to you is to like spin lies.
Like, you can't just be honest.
unidentified
Exactly.
james mccann
Which is what I think the podcasting thing is.
It's what it is.
It's a long, it's, you can't really put on a facade for three hours talking to somebody.
joe rogan
Maybe again.
james mccann
I think that might be who he is at this point.
joe rogan
Yeah, he is definitely that.
Well, that's why I wanted to do a podcast with him.
So you could say three hours.
By the way, no questions beforehand, no prep, didn't pee, sat there for three hours.
He's almost 80.
Like, if he was wearing a diaper, respect.
But the guy just fucking hung out for three hours.
Does that mean I agree with everything he does?
Fuck no.
Of course not.
james mccann
But he was able to be himself for three.
He was able to talk for three hours.
Whereas Kamala wouldn't do it.
joe rogan
Well, she could have.
She could have done it.
I'm telling you, man.
james mccann
I would have been fine.
Six minutes on Stephen Colbert, and I don't think that's it.
joe rogan
It's different.
It's different.
He's kind of being like an interviewer, right?
He's in this weird position where he's at a desk.
The desk is beside you for some reason because that's how they always used to do it.
So these fucking uncreative people just do it the exact same way, always.
It doesn't make any sense.
Why does he have a desk?
Is he writing?
What does he have?
Does he have pens in the drawer?
Like, what are we doing here?
Like, why am I on a couch over here?
Why am I sitting down to the right of you?
It's weird.
It's always in the same position.
Host is always to the right.
They're always to the left of the screen.
It's goofy, right?
So he's doing this thing that you only do on television in front of an audience, by the way.
You should never have a conversation in front of an audience.
Because as soon as you do, the people are aware of the audience.
You're aware of how people think and feel, and you're playing to them.
And some people say things to try to get a rise out of you in front of the audience.
If you want to do that, it's a different thing.
But if you're going to have like a really important conversation with someone, you don't want to do it in a fucking audience.
So Stephen, the way he's doing it is handicapped from the jump.
Also, you only have seven minutes before you have to cut for commercial or whatever it is.
You can't do that.
It'll take me seven minutes to ask what she likes to cook.
I want to know what she, who she, I don't know.
I want to know, is there anything that she regrets doing?
What does she learn from this time?
Is it more complicated being a vice president than you thought it was going to be?
Like, what is the web of trying to fix things and change things versus the people that are influencing you to make decisions?
Because we're not pretending that people don't spend a lot of money to influence your decisions.
So how much of an effect does it have?
james mccann
What do you actually believe when they come to you asking for those favors?
joe rogan
What would be better?
Could we take money out of politics?
Would you be willing?
What would we do if we completely eliminated corporate funding of any politicians?
How would that change everything?
Those are the kind of questions we could have like, we could have talked for hours about this.
james mccann
But she doesn't want to do that.
And the people around her, this is what I mean.
There's like, there's something that has, the right used to have this as well.
And both sides of politics had it.
And I remember there was like Howard Dean, I think it was, did a weird screen.
And the whole thing fell apart.
And that really stayed with me.
That I remember watching politics and there was some sense of like everything is very manufactured.
And if you make a single mistake, oh my God, you're going to lose the primary.
It's all over.
And Trump destroyed that with the Republicans, where it all became very, we've just got to like hang out and talk.
And everyone got very loosey-goosey on the right.
joe rogan
Yeah.
james mccann
And the Democrats have not adjusted to that and had their like Bernie could do it.
They just froze Bernie out and they did everything they could to stop him coming through.
joe rogan
Right.
Like Marjorie Taylor Greene.
You could not have a person like that before Trump.
There's no way.
There's no way.
james mccann
I mean, you can't have her with.
She's gone.
joe rogan
She's gone now.
james mccann
She's gone.
joe rogan
But she wouldn't have existed without him.
Like that sort of brash, crazy personality.
That had not existed in a congressperson.
james mccann
And there will be someone on the left who can do that.
joe rogan
Jasmine Crockett.
She's doing that.
james mccann
Man, maybe.
joe rogan
She gets aggressive.
unidentified
She does.
joe rogan
She's loud and they get crazy.
Listen, it's a reality show.
james mccann
I know people don't like her.
I think she's hip.
She would maybe come on the show.
joe rogan
Okay.
james mccann
Have you invited her to come on the show?
joe rogan
No.
Listen, she's not.
james mccann
She's too scared to have me out on the show.
joe rogan
I think a lot of the people who are really very nice people.
Very nice people.
And this is not an attack on any individuals.
I think that system turns you into a sociopath.
That's what I think.
And I think there's very few people, Tulsi Gabbard, my friend being one of them.
I love her.
She's amazing.
She's a real person.
Like, that lady is the same person on air, off-air, meeting people, hanging out with her husband.
I've hung out with her hours and hours and hours.
That's who she is.
She's cool as fuck.
And she was a congressperson, but she has horror stories.
When she tells you what it's like on the inside, when you find out how these people are making hundreds of millions of dollars on $170,000 a year salary and no one's batting an eye, that is kind of kooky.
It's kind of kooky because even ones you wouldn't suspect, like, wait a minute, they're worth how much?
Now, you don't really know how much they're worth, right?
You'd have to get an audit, right?
Because what you're hearing is a reporting of what they're worth.
And it could be total propaganda.
It could be half of what it is.
But even if it's millions, even if it's a couple million, if you've been a congressperson for two years and now all of a sudden you're worth $3 million and you were in debt before you became a congressperson, that's suspicious.
And if you look at the fucking the people that invest money, that's where it gets really crazy because it is not a blue thing and it's not a red thing.
It's both.
Everybody is making money on the stock market.
There's a shitload of these people that are buying a bunch of stock and then conveniently, a short time later, a bill gets passed that they were working on that makes it very profitable for that country.
Stock shoots through the roof.
They make a giant windfall.
james mccann
I'm trying to remember who said it.
There was some line that someone said about like, you can sort of believe what you want in American politics and you'll get rich for it.
Like no matter what you actually believe, there's a group out there who are going to get you rich for having a belief in it.
If it's the environmental people, if it's the fossil fuel people.
joe rogan
Right.
james mccann
I mean, there would be varying scales of it.
But also, you can fix this.
Like, there are ways to fix the money in politics.
I've been reading a lot about Lee Kuan Yew.
unidentified
Who's that?
james mccann
He was sort of the dictator of Singapore.
They might not like that.
joe rogan
Don't go there.
james mccann
He won elections.
But Singapore is like a single party state.
joe rogan
Oh, so it's like when Putin wins.
james mccann
I don't want to get in trouble with the people of Singapore.
joe rogan
Listen, just.
james mccann
But it is notable that one party wins every single time and they don't primary and they win almost all the seats.
And they are really popular.
But he brought in like canings and he got drugs out of the country and he started paying the politicians a lot.
Like if you're a politician in Singapore, you get a huge salary, but you are not to ever be corrupt.
Like you're meant to have enough money that they can't really buy you.
And that might be the only way.
Because if you have, you know, what are they earning?
$170,000 something dollars a year to be a congressperson.
If they are making $3 million a year and the punishment for taking money from anybody else or from getting a stock, you know, maybe you can't own stocks, but we give you $3 million a year.
unidentified
Right.
james mccann
Then at least you can't be swayed.
Like you're taking a lot of tax money to do the job, but at least there's some insulation on someone being able to go, I want you to vote this way.
joe rogan
I think if you have a totalitarian dictatorship, you could probably pull that off because if the politician is bad, you can shoot him.
james mccann
Yes.
joe rogan
The problem in America, if you have $3 million and you know a guy who's got $50 million, you feel poor because we're retarded.
All right.
Brian Callan has a friend who's worth, I think he's worth $8 billion.
And he feels broke because his friend is worth $30.
No, no, no, for real.
james mccann
Yeah.
joe rogan
There's people that get that goofy.
james mccann
I've seen it a couple times.
joe rogan
So if you're in the business of trying to make money, which is what most politicians are, it's like they decided not to go into sales.
They go into politics.
They're trying to make as much money as they can while they're there.
That's what most people are doing with most jobs.
If you're doing that and you're just kind of a person who's drawn to that kind of a job, you're not going to be happy with your salary if you find out that there's some NGO that you can invest in and you can start a non-profit and then it becomes a profit and you can funnel money overseas and then corporations that you buy into also can use the you know the laws that you're passing.
You're going to do it anyway.
They're going to do it anyway.
This is why Plato says not, I cannot be corrupted.
You'd have to kill them.
If you catch them corrupt, you got to shoot them in front of everybody.
You're going to say, this is what happens when you steal from America.
Boom.
I'm not saying you should do that, but I'm saying that's the only way you're going to stop it.
It would have to be a totalitarian dictatorship.
But then it brings us back to the thing about using the military in the cities.
When do you draw the line?
james mccann
Yeah.
joe rogan
When do you draw the line?
Like when, like, okay, what's hate speech, right?
So hate speech can mean a bunch of different things to different people.
So as soon as you say we can't permit hate speech, okay, well, then you can't permit freedom of speech because you're just defining hate by whatever.
That's the same line when you bring the military into those cities.
It's the same line.
It's like you're doing something you shouldn't be able to do and you're justifying doing it saying because this is a special case.
But the problem is, what if that gets solved?
You're going to move further to the even more ridiculous.
You've already got me to allow you to arrest.
You can arrest me for tweeting things.
Okay.
I've already said yes to that.
So what else is next?
Like, you're going to keep going.
If you make money, you want to make more money.
If you pass laws, you want to want to pass more laws.
That's how you get numbers on the board.
That's how you win this fucking game.
You can't let them ever score.
james mccann
Then you have to de-game the system.
joe rogan
term if you're going to have a democracy you have to have yeah you gotta de-game the system But the problem is there's so much profit in it.
And they get to vote on whether or not they can still do this insider trading thing, right?
Which is bananas.
Like, who thinks we should still steal?
Oh, can we have an anonymous vote?
james mccann
You don't have this problem with an aristocracy.
That's all I'm saying.
joe rogan
When you finally go back to the powdered wigs, there's a terrible argument for that because you're just hoping that the person is a benevolent dictator.
That's the best case scenario.
You get a benevolent king.
But how many of those have ever existed?
james mccann
We've had so many beautiful, benevolent kings.
We've got a benevolent king right now in my country.
joe rogan
It's strange, right?
It's like there's no right way to run people because no one really should be one.
There's never a time where it makes sense where one person is the head dude of 350 million people.
That is nuts.
That is completely nuts.
james mccann
Yeah.
But you also, I mean, as a country, you have a great tolerance, I think, compared to other Western democracies for letting there be some chaos.
joe rogan
Yeah, because we have guns.
That's part of it.
I think this is a heavily armed country.
james mccann
Like if you didn't have the virtue of going, some people are going to get shot and we're going to be okay with that.
joe rogan
Well, it's not just that.
It's like, you know, it was written into the Constitution because we were rebelling, right?
We were rebelling from a dictatorship.
We had escaped.
And when we had declared that this was a country, we were like, we got to stay strapped because these motherfuckers might come back.
And we all agreed to that.
And then it got to a point where people go, okay, but they were talking about muskets.
Now people have AR-15s.
Now people have switches they could put on Glocks and it can fire automatic.
james mccann
Is it tactical nuclear weapon defended under the Second Amendment?
joe rogan
You want to hear the scariest thing that I heard?
This was a guy that was talking about the UAP program and the back engineering of flying saucers.
What do they call it?
A simultaneous or a spontaneous, what was the word that he used for it?
unidentified
Instantaneous.
joe rogan
Instantaneous.
That these UFOs that they believe use some sort of a gravity, some sort of a propulsion system that's unknown to modern science, standard conventional science.
And they can transport, literally transport, like going from place to place in space instantaneously.
And so what did the United States government try to do?
They tried to use it as a method of delivering a nuclear bomb.
So an instantaneous nuclear payload delivery system.
That's what they were calling flying saucers.
The first thing they thought about doing with them was instantaneously deliver a nuke.
So no one could retaliate and they didn't even see it coming.
You would just have a flying saucer with a nuke appear at the Kremlin.
james mccann
What's weird, though, you guys had that capability for years.
joe rogan
Allegedly.
james mccann
No, I mean, when a bomb?
I mean, when no one else had the nuclear bomb and when we didn't have good anti-air programs and just America alone had nuclear weapons.
joe rogan
Yeah.
james mccann
You could have at that point we're in charge of the world now or everyone's dead.
joe rogan
Well, there was a bunch of people that did.
I mean, that's what Dr. Strangelove is all about, right?
james mccann
You made movies about it and you talked about it, but you didn't do it when the Suez crisis kicked off.
I think Eisenhower was like, can we get a nuke in there?
And people said, no, Mr. President.
joe rogan
Bro, they came real close to nuking things three or four times.
james mccann
What a beautiful thing that you held back.
joe rogan
Yes.
james mccann
No one else would have.
I talk about this.
I think about this a lot.
That if anyone else had discovered the nuclear weapon, that's it.
You'd have global hegemony by one power.
joe rogan
Well, I think that is one thing about America that most people will agree to is that we like to think of ourselves as being the best country in America.
And that comes with responsibility.
Being the greatest superpower comes with responsibility.
That's why people get real uncomfortable about like drone bombing statistics and shit like that.
They get real uncomfortable because it makes you really question like what we do.
james mccann
Yeah.
joe rogan
When you tell people, did you know that like more than 80% of the people that die in drone bombings are civilians?
Accidental kills.
james mccann
Listen, every time someone tries to be nice about Obama, then they have to go.
We're the drone bombings.
unidentified
He did bomb a lot of innocent people.
joe rogan
I know.
They always have to do that.
You know, listen, I think we found out through Obama, most likely what you find out through anybody that gets through there that's not Trump, is that they immediately co-opt you into the system.
You had no idea how the system worked until you got in there.
You were a senator for two years.
And then all of a sudden you're a president.
You had some amazing ideas and you're a great spokesperson and probably the best statesman we've ever had.
Like the best representative of the best about America.
A guy who is from a single mom, you know, grew up poor, didn't, you know, didn't have a silver spoon in his mouth.
Forget about all the narratives of him being related somehow to the bushes.
There's a lot of that.
james mccann
I didn't know that.
joe rogan
Oh, there's like a whole conspiracy theory.
But the point is that what you got is a guy who was promoting hope and change, right?
And that's what we were all really hoping was going to happen, but not.
It was really kind of like another Bush term in terms of like foreign policy, in terms of a lot of things.
In terms of like the way America felt about America, though, it was good.
It was like, hey, racism has obviously stopped being an issue to get you to be the president of the United States because a black man just wants.
And it's not saying that racism doesn't exist, but we're doing better than we used to do.
This was not possible when Martin Luther King Jr. was making his I Have a Dream speech, but it is possible now.
So we have progressed.
And he's brilliant.
So it's per and he's and he's like well measured and calm and peaceful and he never calls reporters piggy.
He never makes mean tweets when his enemies die.
You know, like, so it's a representative.
james mccann
It's gotten to the point where the Rob Reiner tweet just went over.
joe rogan
It just like killed it for a lot of people.
Yeah.
james mccann
Is that it?
But like, no, I mean, I saw it and I was like, oh, yeah, of course.
He's mocking a dead man.
joe rogan
Well, that guy tried to jail him for, you know, years.
And this is not forgiving him for that.
This is not a good idea.
james mccann
Rob Reiner tried to jail.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
There's a video of him working with intelligence agents.
He was working with James Clapper and who's the other guy?
Clapper and why?
How come I can't remember that?
james mccann
I still think it's a good idea.
But this is like a well-produced just with McCain as well.
I remember that they hated each other.
joe rogan
I know, 100%.
It's gross.
It's a gross thing to mock a man after he's dead.
It's just pointless.
But the real problem is it's a bad look for America in general, right?
It's a mark of cruelty that ultimately could lead people to think differently about America and perhaps motivate attacks.
That's a real thing.
Like a kooky person, you can sway them either way by the vibe the country's giving off.
And the president is giving off a vibe that, you know, his enemy, he's mocking the fact that his, you know, his enemy was obsessed with him.
And that's what led to his son going crazy and killing him.
james mccann
I've had friends come over and visit me, and almost all of them have been scared to come.
Like people who haven't been to America before.
joe rogan
They're scared to come to America?
james mccann
People are very scared to come to America.
joe rogan
Yeah.
james mccann
What is it like?
No, in Honduras.
This is just Australians who are like, there's gun violence.
It looks, if you just, if all you're seeing is the news, you go, well, civil wars right around the corner.
joe rogan
Well, that's what they want us.
unidentified
And it's like.
joe rogan
That's what they want us.
james mccann
People are way more interested in college football than killing each other in the street.
joe rogan
Especially in Texas.
Most people are way more interested in living their lives.
The problem is when your life becomes that.
The problem is when your life becomes a cause.
When your life, whether it's a religious cause, you know, a jihadist cause, a right-wing cause, a left-wing cause, your life becomes a fucking cause.
You know, we have to stop oil now.
And you're gluing your fucking hand to a painting.
You know, there's a lot of nutty, stupid shit that goes on with just being a human being.
I think it's all accelerated on social media.
james mccann
But I find it heartening that people give a shit here.
joe rogan
Yeah.
james mccann
That people know on some level.
Maybe they don't have like a good grasp of what's actually happening in the world.
But there's a sense in America that people kind of know who their politicians are.
They're across what the issues that they're being asked to vote on.
Ah, and this, like, in Australia, the extent to which people have no idea what is going on and are so checked out and don't know any of it and are not like actively participating in democracy.
You guys really care.
Like people primary and they scrutinize people and they, there's some belief that you can still get involved in politics here.
I really, it's like the most heartening thing about it.
That's awesome.
And that's the downside is if everybody cares, then you do get people going off the deep end.
joe rogan
Well, you just got to keep it a fair game.
And as long as you keep it a fair game, if you don't do a good job and that person gets into power, you fucked up.
So now your team has to regroup and rebuild and come back again in four years.
And that's what it's supposed to be.
But when you start trying to do things like moving all the illegals to specific states so that you get more congressional seats because of the census, and then you start giving them social security numbers and Medicaid and Medicare, and you start rigging the system because you want to bring in more voters and you're spending.
And this is what they did.
This is undeniable at this point.
james mccann
Finneman was copped to it.
He was like, yeah, I saw him on the.
joe rogan
It's undeniable what they did.
And I get it.
Like, you're playing a dirty game.
They're playing a dirty game.
And this is not a right or left thing.
I remember that hacking democracy documentary that was on HBO back in the day.
It was during the Bush administration.
And this hacking democracy, they had tested these voting machines.
And this is a long time ago, right?
So this is like, what was it like?
2004, Jamie?
What was that?
Somewhere around then.
So this was a much less sophisticated system that I'm sure that they're using today.
But there was a third-party input.
For some reason, it had been set up so a third party can input data into the machine and change the votes.
And they did it on TV.
They did it on TV.
They showed that they could do it easily.
And they affected the votes.
So they showed back then, they were essentially saying that the Bush administration had rigged the vote, and that's how they got Bush into office.
And this company that made these machines was a big contributor to the Republican Party.
So this shit has been going on on both sides.
james mccann
But that was true.
I mean, in 2000, that was true.
Everybody thinks the JFK election.
joe rogan
The film investigates, oh, for sure, the JFK election, the flawed integrity of the electronic voting voting machines, particularly those made by Diebold election systems, exposing previously unknown backdoors in the Diebold trade secret computer software.
The film culminates dramatically in the on-camera hacking of the in-use working Diebold election system in Lyon County, Florida, the same computer voting system which has been used in actual American elections across 33 states and which still counts tens of millions of American votes today.
Whoa, today?
Is that real?
The same fucking machines?
When did this article come out?
jamie vernon
This is Wikipedia.
unidentified
I don't know.
james mccann
It's usually up there.
joe rogan
Bro, that's crazy if they're still using the same machines.
james mccann
That's crazy.
joe rogan
But that was a thing during Georgia, right?
They were supposed to upgrade their machines, but they decided to wait until after the election to do it.
james mccann
Why is there no pressure to make the elections feel more real?
joe rogan
I think because they're both rigging it.
james mccann
Right, but this is both rigging it.
joe rogan
I don't think they just want to win, man, and then call everybody conspiracy theorists.
Both sides, by the way.
This is not one side or the other.
I think both sides are trying to do whatever the fuck they can.
james mccann
I don't think both sides are rigging it.
joe rogan
Okay, it's not been used in business in the U.S. since 2009.
Well, this is about the Bush administration, the Diebold things.
And what you're hearing about mail-in ballots, that's about the left.
It's like you're getting the same thing on both sides.
One of the things that Rep Luna said when she was on the podcast, I thought was fascinating.
She's like, there's certain problems that they don't want to fix because they can campaign finance against it.
They can get people to donate money against it.
They could run on that platform.
We're going to fix this.
They don't want to fix it because that's how they get money.
james mccann
Right.
Like if you're in your homelessness organization, you actually need the homeless so you can keep existing.
joe rogan
Not only that, it's even worse.
They're incentivized to have more homeless.
They get paid per homeless.
So if they have more homeless people, they can say, hey, we need a bigger budget.
We have more homeless people.
james mccann
I remember when we had the unemployed in Australia, it was like we had these companies that would, it was their job to get you a job and the government would pay the money.
But you got more money for finding someone a job if they've been unemployed for a longer period of time.
So it's like, don't try too hard to find them a job for the first two years.
Two years in, then get them a job.
joe rogan
Yeah, you're growing some plants.
You don't want to pick it so early.
james mccann
Yeah, it's not.
I don't think the answer is just a good king who solves everybody's problems.
But I really do.
joe rogan
You'd be a good king.
Go over to Australia and be king of Australia.
james mccann
We've got enough problems.
joe rogan
You can fix it.
james mccann
I've talked about getting our own king many.
I did a show about it once.
I think Aboriginal king would be.
joe rogan
Everybody wants the perfect system, and it's not going to ever exist.
And I don't think it ever will because I think there's always going to be, no matter what happens, no matter who's in charge and no matter who's doing this, there's always going to be people that oppose, no matter what, like naturally oppose, even if illogically, it's never going to be perfect.
But you got to make it the most fair.
It's got to be fair.
And as soon as you catch someone rigging the system, you got to, that has to be alarm bells that go off for everybody on every side.
It shouldn't be, if you find out that there was mail-in ballots that were illegal and that were fake and they were brought in so that the Republicans can win some sort of a primary.
If you found out that was true and you were a Republican, you're supposed to be upset.
james mccann
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like this is you're someone is cheating this incredible system that we have and you're not going to have the will of the people.
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james mccann
You've got to make it seem fair enough so that there's not a violent uprising.
It's got to be just for having a future of control.
joe rogan
It's got to be the will of the people.
It's got to be.
james mccann
January 7th thing.
unidentified
Yeah.
james mccann
Most people go.
No, but that was those people.
There were some people there who were definitely feds trying to bring them in the building.
joe rogan
Dude, I wonder how many were feds before that.
Here's the question: There's a bunch of people that were feds at the scene.
They finally had to admit that.
james mccann
We were talking about the people who were.
joe rogan
Yeah.
james mccann
That man's crazy.
Have you seen that guy?
It's crazy.
joe rogan
It's crazy.
There's a bunch of people that called people to go into the Capitol to break in.
And a bunch of them probably were feds.
But how many feds were on these chat groups?
How many feds were on message boards?
How many feds were instigating people to do things and talking about things that aren't true or saying things that they're planning?
How many feds were trying to get the kookiest of the kookie riled up?
unidentified
Yeah.
james mccann
But then also, like, why is the blame not on.
Why do the Democrats not go?
We've contributed to making a system that even if this is a totally legitimate group of people who really believe what they're doing by storing the capital, we've contributed to building a system that looks really fake to a lot of people.
joe rogan
Yeah.
james mccann
Where we could take really easy steps to make it look less fake.
Like you could have.
I don't understand why voter ID isn't everywhere.
And they go, well, not everyone has an ID.
joe rogan
Well, it's racist.
james mccann
Give them one.
joe rogan
It's racist.
What you're saying is racist.
How hard could it be to go check your white privilege?
You are a straight white male.
Why don't you just shut the fuck up?
james mccann
All the other races can have a photograph taken of themselves just as easily on a little laminated car.
joe rogan
All those other races just a few years ago needed proof of vaccination.
So this is kooky.
It's completely kooky.
james mccann
But then nothing is being done now to actually bring it in.
joe rogan
It's illegal to show your ID in California.
james mccann
Where?
Where?
joe rogan
In California.
james mccann
In the whole state of California.
joe rogan
You cannot show your ID when you vote.
james mccann
If you want to?
joe rogan
You can't show it.
james mccann
You can't wear it on a lanyard around your neck.
unidentified
Nope.
joe rogan
They'll fire you.
They'll kick you out of there.
You can't vote now, sir.
I don't know what they would do if you came in with a lanyard.
That might be the move.
But the point is, they made it easier to cheat on purpose.
Like, that's the only reason why you would do that.
And to say, like, it's racist to require ID, how do I know who you are?
I don't know you.
There's a million people in this fucking town.
And this is like one polling station is lying around the block.
I don't know you.
I need your ID.
james mccann
This is crazy.
There was a clip from the Obama election that I remember watching where they were talking to a guy.
He was like, they asked him, have you ever voted before?
He said, no.
Did you vote?
He goes, yeah, it felt so good.
I went back and did it again.
And then they cut off to somebody else.
I've always remembered that that felt.
joe rogan
Yeah, if you don't have ID, you could just change your clothes and go back in, especially if you're a nondescript.
james mccann
I don't have an anti-Gavin Newsom bent, but I don't understand why he's the guy the damns are pushing.
He's from a state that everybody agrees is in huge disrepair.
joe rogan
He doesn't agree with that.
He thinks it's killing it.
james mccann
They can't build a train.
joe rogan
No, no, no, it's great.
james mccann
They've wasted billions of dollars trying to get a reasonably short distance covered with a train.
And he can't do it.
joe rogan
They're going to get it worked out.
He's going to be president and then he's going to fix it all.
The problem is Trump.
The reason why it's Trump.
Trump is the real reason why California's failed is Trump.
Once he gets into office, Trump will be out and he'll fix the whole country and say, guys, you got to trust me on the long plan.
People will buy into it.
The reason why is because there's no one else.
This is the reason.
james mccann
There must be so many people.
joe rogan
There are so many people that are rational out.
So many people that aren't corrupt, they force them out.
And then other people don't want their laundry dug up.
They don't want fake stories told about them.
They don't want ex-girlfriends to get paid off to come up with crackpot theories of them being a satanic person or whatever, drug addict, abusive.
james mccann
All right.
joe rogan
He did this.
unidentified
Only people who should get like Bill Cosby as the candidate.
james mccann
Or people of Bill Cosby level stature.
This is my new idea.
unidentified
Okay.
Okay.
james mccann
Just someone who is so There's nothing to blackmail them with People already think this is one of the worst people.
unidentified
R. Kelly for president.
james mccann
You can't, everyone knows he had a dungeon with a lady in it.
Okay?
You can't blackmail R. Kelly at this point.
So whatever R. Kelly says he wants to do, he probably wants to do that.
His reputation can't get any lower.
unidentified
Right.
james mccann
If you only put forward people who have done terrible things.
If Epstein was still alive, you could have him.
Because what are you going to blackmail him with?
He was doing all sorts of terrible things.
joe rogan
Well, you would like to have a very good person who just hasn't done terrible things because you're just a very good person.
unidentified
But you can just lie about them.
james mccann
The only security against being blackmailed, even about a lie, is to be a total piece of shit.
It's to be the worst man in the country.
unidentified
Right.
james mccann
No one likes my idea.
joe rogan
It's a good idea for now.
I think what we're going to really be able to know within the next few years is whether or not you're telling the truth.
I think with wearable electronics, I think ultimately they're trying to do something that allows you to communicate head to head.
Have you seen that stuff where they do it?
james mccann
I'm not getting it.
joe rogan
I don't know.
Well, what they have right now is a wearable.
These guys put it on, they think something, and then the other person hears it.
james mccann
This is one of the worst things I've ever heard.
joe rogan
Oh, you have to see it.
unidentified
We're seeing that.
joe rogan
You have to see it.
It's crazy when you watch them actually do it.
So right now, it's attached to an actual computer behind them, but that's for now.
Eventually it's going to be wearable, just like everything.
It gets smaller.
unidentified
I mean, this is bigger than you're so much more relaxed with the AI stuff and the technology than I am.
joe rogan
You can't.
james mccann
I'm fighting it.
joe rogan
If you see the asteroid coming, you have to realize you're going to die.
Like, there's nothing you can do about it.
unidentified
The Amish have continued very happily with their thoughts.
joe rogan
It's going to be as disastrous as everybody thinks.
I just don't believe that.
I think we'll figure it out.
But I think it's going to be a massive upheaval of our total, completely our economic system, our life system, the way we interact.
But we have to realize, this is what's really important.
The way we interact is really new.
The way we live in cities stacked in high-rises and driving around in cars.
This is a tiny little blip in time that the human race has existed like this.
Before that, we had a totally different thing.
And for the longest time, people traded things back and forth.
And they used gold coins and silver coins.
And there was no stock market.
Like, this whole thing that we're doing right now with automation and you worried about it's taking jobs, those jobs weren't even a thing in the past.
Yeah, we've built this giant population based on the fact that jobs would exist.
We gave people the confidence to procreate, get married, and have kids.
And we'll find another way.
We'll have to.
People will have to.
It's not going to be pretty, but it's just like everything else that happens.
It's this massive change in society and culture.
We're going to have to adapt.
james mccann
I'm in flight mode on it.
I want to be on an acreage.
You know I am.
joe rogan
You get nervous when I play AI music in the country.
I do.
james mccann
When I go, this is good.
You go, Tay AI!
And I go, yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, you love that.
unidentified
I guess true.
joe rogan
The country one I played the other day, that was good, right?
james mccann
50 Cent stuff is fantastic.
My favorite remains the Japanese cover of Oasis.
Have you heard Japanese Oasis?
joe rogan
No, I have not.
james mccann
If you type in Japanese Wonder Wall, it is.
Oh, I like it a lot.
joe rogan
Can we play it?
Can we play it, Jamie?
Or would it be an issue?
We've got to cut it out.
We'd have to cut it out.
james mccann
I don't think anyone owns the rights to Japanese.
joe rogan
They might.
Somebody probably does.
james mccann
Really?
jamie vernon
That's how that works.
The performance of this would be a different situation.
james mccann
I can do it now.
I can do it.
You're getting a lot of trouble.
joe rogan
Wonder Wall Oasis cover Japanese Enka is the title on YouTube.
jamie vernon
This is the right one.
I'm hoping it's a good one.
joe rogan
Yeah, it says New Wave Films is the page.
Oh, you have a problem.
Stop this.
Stop this.
You're a sick man, James Cookie.
Why do you like that?
Why do you like that?
james mccann
Because it's the funniest voice of all time.
joe rogan
What it's weird is it's not a real person, and it looks like an old video.
james mccann
They've cut up an old video and put it over the AI.
joe rogan
Oh, that's what they did.
james mccann
If you look very closely, you can find the original music, and she's singing some beautiful folk song about a single.
joe rogan
Oh, I thought it was like AI-generated video because you could do that, you know.
james mccann
I just, I want to retreat from it.
I want to be on a farm.
I want to have the chicken.
I know, but this is also not like a serious way to build a society.
I'm shocked that no one's blowing up the servers.
Like when they invented the loom, people in Britain were like, we will destroy all of the looms.
No one is like upset now that robots can think.
joe rogan
Well, they don't know what to do, right?
And it feels inevitable because it is.
No one's going to stop it.
And if they did stop it, no one would listen.
And if we did listen, the problem is China's not going to listen.
And it's a Manhattan Project kind of race.
unidentified
Yes.
james mccann
But then you go, okay, we've got to get the nuclear bomb first.
But how does that pan out in the end?
Well, everybody has a nuclear bomb.
joe rogan
But here's the thing.
You have to have one.
Like, if AI exists and they can take over your financial system, you're going to have to have AI that combats AI.
And your AI better be better than their AI.
I like that.
And you have to have everything protected against AI.
james mccann
I want to lose in a fabulous way that inspires people like a martyr.
joe rogan
That's what you want to do?
james mccann
That's what we're going to do.
joe rogan
That's why you should be the king of Australia.
No, I mean.
That should be your speech.
james mccann
Yeah, we're going to lose.
We're going to lose.
And people are going to be so they're going to respect how we lose.
This is the Christian message of getting defeated, and that's the ultimate victory.
joe rogan
I think it's coming, dude, whether you like it or not.
And it's better if we have it than if we don't.
If you're Papua New Guinea and the AI overlords come storming into your town, you have no say.
It's over.
james mccann
I don't know.
We've tried to have a say over Papua New Guinea a couple times.
They're very hard to manage.
joe rogan
Well, that's a very hostile place.
james mccann
They're doing their own thing.
joe rogan
That is a very forbidding jungle.
james mccann
Yeah.
No one wants to talk about it in Australia.
Every time I try and talk about Papua New Guinea, at first I didn't know about, like, racists would come at me at a party with facts.
They'd be like, there's cannibalism in Papua New Guinea.
joe rogan
Sometimes.
james mccann
Shut up.
And then you look it up and you go, oh, God.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, it's right.
unidentified
There's a lot of cannibalism.
joe rogan
They probably ate a Rockefeller.
james mccann
The Kennedys used to go there as well.
joe rogan
Do you know that one Rockefeller kid?
james mccann
I had heard about...
joe rogan
Yeah.
james mccann
I think the Rockefeller who went.
He disappeared, though, right?
joe rogan
I think what happened was the first time he went, he insulted them because he wanted something from them.
He offered to give them some money or something for something that they had.
And they were like, no.
And apparently the article that I'd read was assuming that that was some sort of an insult that he didn't understand.
And then when he came back, he got in a boat with them and they stabbed him immediately.
And then they brought him back to the shore and they murdered him.
And this is from an account of another guy who, I think, was there.
It's a very mysterious case.
This guy could be full of shit because it's a very mysterious case.
The guy went there before, then he went back and disappeared.
james mccann
I mean, there are a lot of people who went back.
I know there was a Kennedy woman who went there and was like on a mission with people.
And she loved them so much.
She had a piano helicoptered in.
She had like a grand piano.
She was like not a very, she was a rich lady who didn't really understand how things worked.
And then if you put a piano in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, you couldn't like maintain that piano.
joe rogan
Duh.
james mccann
But now they're like, just this village has a beautiful old grand piano that definitely doesn't work now.
She was like, I want to give them something.
joe rogan
How long did she live there for?
unidentified
Years.
james mccann
There was a woman I used to go to church with who said she was there with her.
joe rogan
So don't insult them and they want to eat you.
Seems simple.
james mccann
Yeah, but how do you not insult people?
joe rogan
Over there, you don't.
They probably don't have to.
james mccann
Most people have gone there.
thought about living there for a while.
I thought that that would be like...
jamie vernon
For real?
james mccann
I was looking it up.
I was seeing if it was because it was cheaper.
So my thought when I was very poor, because it was near Australia, I thought like, yeah, this is rough.
joe rogan
Oh, and they're having a lot of people.
james mccann
I would live in Port Moresby and then just fly in and out and do gigs in Australia.
joe rogan
What year is this?
1964?
So in 1964, they were having a bow and arrow fight.
james mccann
I think this is going on to this day.
jamie vernon
This says it's actually a tribal war.
unidentified
Whoa.
james mccann
They're trying to get them a football team.
joe rogan
See, man, this is what people do.
You get people into groups, they do that, even in Papua New Guinea.
This is like a test of it.
Look at that guy's penis.
james mccann
It's beautiful.
joe rogan
He's got like a big stick.
james mccann
But this is also, they're having a great time.
joe rogan
What's going on with his dick?
unidentified
I don't know.
joe rogan
What is that?
james mccann
Who are we to judge?
joe rogan
They're beautiful.
james mccann
That's a cone over there.
joe rogan
A cone over his dick?
jamie vernon
Yeah.
joe rogan
They got cones over their dicks.
james mccann
I've seen people on 6th Street dressed like that.
joe rogan
Those guys are ripped.
That's the kind of body you get if you just run around and shoot arrows all day.
Not a fat one amongst them.
Not one lazy motherfucker amongst them.
unidentified
What is that?
joe rogan
Every one of those dudes has to get after it every day.
A lot of dongs.
Kind of wild that they don't even wear clothes or they do this.
And they're just close up shooting arrows at each other.
james mccann
What?
The cameraman is just getting relaxed.
joe rogan
And then you have to turn around and run away.
So crazy.
These arrows fly.
james mccann
Have I told you about my favorite ever?
I don't know if I said it last time I was on.
Favorite ever Papua New Guinea video is at the rugby where the guys storm the pitch.
Have I told you about this?
jamie vernon
No.
joe rogan
I want to watch a little bit more of that and then tell me about that.
Because I'm fascinated by how shitty their strategy is.
I'm like, how did these guys make it this long fighting bow and arrow fights?
james mccann
But this is like when you read the Iliad or something, this is kind of how people are fighting.
There's like two big masses and then one guy steps.
joe rogan
I understand, but this is like really shitty weaponry.
james mccann
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, how have they not figured out better weapons?
You know?
Like, these are terrible bows.
And they don't have any feathers on their arrows.
Like, those things fly like shit.
Like, think of the Mongols in, you know, the 1200s.
They figured out the recurve bow.
james mccann
Was it like the Maori just went out and got guns?
Like, they traded for guns.
The Indians traded for guns.
They didn't.
joe rogan
Well, I guess nobody was bringing guns to Papua New Guinea.
But maybe they were 64.
james mccann
They're deciding.
Well, they must have because they were involved in World War II.
joe rogan
Bro, these guys hate each other.
I guarantee if you gave them ARs with red dots, they would just go running through that field mowing those motherfuckers down.
james mccann
They're just having a good time.
joe rogan
Perhaps.
jamie vernon
Oh, that guy got hit.
james mccann
Penis cone fell off.
joe rogan
No, he got hit.
Did you see?
He had blood on his ribs.
What's that, Jamie?
jamie vernon
They're trying to help him in some way.
I don't know if he had like splinters stuck in his.
joe rogan
It looked like he had blood on the left side of his body.
jamie vernon
That whole little series there was like close-up, not like surgery or something.
joe rogan
Oh, what were they doing?
He might have got stuck a few times, man.
jamie vernon
Also, I'm not showing this on the screen because it's copyright.
All sorts of stuff.
joe rogan
All sorts of shit.
A lot of dongs, too.
It's like, you know, the thing about places like that is that place has, the environment is so hostile.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's so hostile.
To survive there for generation after generation after generation.
You live a subsistence lifestyle.
You live off the land and everybody has to hunt and gather.
And if people come into your side from the other side, these motherfuckers, they're trying to steal your food.
You have to go to a tribal war.
That's how they've been rocking it probably for thousands.
unidentified
They have to do that.
james mccann
They're just an AI, though.
There's a middle path between tribal wars.
joe rogan
Listen, you can't stop AI, buddy.
You can't stop AI.
james mccann
I'm hopeful.
joe rogan
No.
james mccann
How many movies did we have to have warning us that it was terrible?
joe rogan
All of them.
None of them work.
james mccann
I don't think there's one movie saying it was a good idea.
joe rogan
It's inevitable.
You just have to accept it.
You have to accept it and live your life.
Listen, we don't know what the change is going to be.
And I don't really believe that we're going to let it be entirely bad.
And I think it's probably better to have something like that than to not when you're dealing with things like, you know, the power grabs that are going on all over the world where they're trying to lock people up for speech violations in the UK.
It's 12,000 people this year, and they're making people get digital ID and they're doing all these different things.
At a certain point in time, you're going to benefit from a super intelligence that can rationally explain why this is no way to sustain a civilization.
james mccann
I would like us to have some say over how we implement that.
joe rogan
I would like to tell God what to tell me.
james mccann
We've got that.
He set up a beautiful church.
joe rogan
I know.
What we have to do is what you're asking, though.
james mccann
But like with cars, like car, you can use cars in a way that makes a society great.
Like if you have a, but then you can also have cars that like ruin a whole neighborhood and a whole city and you can't walk anywhere.
And it's a big problem.
joe rogan
You mean leaking oil?
james mccann
I mean like just having a freeway that cuts through for no reason or like not being able to like walk around a downtown.
joe rogan
Oh, right, right, right.
james mccann
Like you can use it in a specific New Polity magazine is what I've been reading on this, where they're like Catholic guys in Steubenville who are like, how can we, to what extent are chat, you know, can we choose to use technology in a way that's helpful to us?
And how much are we just like absolutely governed by what the technology becomes?
And then we have to be subservient to it.
Like, do we get to choose how we use technology around us, or are we just...
joe rogan
Why do you assume, though, that we're going to be subservient to it?
That's where it gets weird.
james mccann
Because I think we're subservient to the car.
Like, no one wants to live in.
When you see what cars do to certain cities in America and you go, like, like, it's so, when you're in New Orleans and you're walking around, and there's problems with New Orleans, but like, you're walking around the French Quarter, which is like a design before cars.
It's so, you can have music, you can like run around on the street, and it's like a beautiful, nice place to be compared to like a strip mall when you build it the way people have to live around what the cars are.
Do you know what I mean?
Like you can have like the way that they build a freeway and a weird block of houses next to it and no one can walk anywhere.
Like you just can't get out on your legs anywhere.
Like that seems like you're building it based on the car.
You're letting the car be you make the car have the maximum ease for how it can operate and you try and live in the shadow of that rather than going, what's a nice way to live as a person and how do we use the car to increase our quality of life?
joe rogan
Right, right.
james mccann
Like can we use AI to like make our lives better or do we have to, you know, like digital, we can do digital IDs, should we?
joe rogan
No.
Let me ask you, what do you think is like worst case scenario for AI?
Like what are you really genuinely scared of?
james mccann
Oh, man, it'd be a bunch of things.
I don't want to just start with the porno, but certainly the porno spooks me out.
The AI porno.
joe rogan
I think it's already here.
james mccann
I think the writing and the ability to write and think and process information.
And that's definitely like carved away.
Like if you look at kids in schools who are using AI instead of writing an essay, people can't write five sentences together because they're not developing the skill.
And you don't, you know, if people are getting a degree in something, already people were outsourcing that to people to help them, you know, write an essay or something.
But if you're going, like a Bachelor of Arts is increasingly worthless if AI can do it for you.
And then you can say, I know about history.
joe rogan
Right.
james mccann
So like, I think the functionality of education, I'm terrified of that falling apart and people not knowing how to read, which is already disintegrated, sure.
But I think this rapidly speeds that up.
I mean, I'm afraid of, as like an artist, if I want to go and like make a movie or something, maybe I'm just like old-fashioned and attached to the idea of having a camera and having people act, but it's like I can increasingly see less and less reason that you'd have to do that and someone wouldn't just write it out and go, this happens in this scene, change that guy's eye.
Do you know what I mean?
Like there's something.
And more than anything, I get spooked out with the video.
And what scares me about the music is I hear the music.
I hear the audio AI when you put on the songs and I go, this is actually very good.
This doesn't have an otherworldly quality to it.
This is actually just a good song, it sounds like.
But when I see the video, I feel like I get the heebie-jeebies on the AI video.
Do you get that at all?
joe rogan
Yeah, a little bit.
james mccann
And I go, this is, who is showing me this?
What is the intelligence behind this?
joe rogan
Well, it's a lie, right?
That's part of it.
But it's like a pretty damn good lie that you know it's going to get way better at lying.
They're like, that's pretty good right now.
Like, it's like when a four-year-old lies to you.
Yes.
james mccann
Wow.
joe rogan
When you're 20, whatnot?
You're going to be a con man.
You know what I mean?
It's like, you know, it's got a real potential to be something that is.
Like, I already see disaster videos every day that aren't real.
Like, every day, I saw someone sent me One of those cruise boats going into a giant fucking bridge and all the cars collapsing on top of it.
One of those massive cruise ships.
It's totally fake.
And I can kind of pick it out right away.
I was like, I didn't hear about this.
This isn't real.
No, it's fake.
And I'm watching it.
I'm like, okay, it's fake.
james mccann
But it takes a minute.
joe rogan
But it takes a minute.
james mccann
And like a year and a half ago, it didn't get the hands right.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
And it's going to be within a year, you're not going to be able to tell at all.
You're going to have no idea.
You have no idea.
There's so many animal attacks now that are fake.
There's so much that's fake.
But it's the price that you pay for the advancement and the capabilities of doing things.
I think there's still going to be a value that people want to go see a movie that someone made.
Just like there's people out there that still want to see live shows.
Like live shows will never change.
There's a connection that human beings have at live shows.
Like Kill Tony, we did last night.
james mccann
Yes.
joe rogan
How fun.
So fun.
The most fun.
james mccann
That was one of the best ones that there's been.
joe rogan
It was really fun.
But that's a real moment that we all shared together.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
You can't recreate that with AI.
But there's a lot of things you can.
And that's just a fact.
That's just how it is.
james mccann
I don't think we can.
joe rogan
You can't change it.
james mccann
I just want more of that.
unidentified
I want to live in a spontaneous society.
joe rogan
Well, hopefully more people will also choose to do something that's in their wheelhouse to do along those lines.
As long as you still have a thing that you're trying to work towards, you're going to be okay.
Like, if let's say if the real weird one is universal basic income, because this is Elon is famously said, and I don't know what this even fucking means, but not only will people have universal basic income, it'll be actually universal high income.
There'll be enough prosperity that everyone in the country will get a large salary.
You will never have to work again.
But then the problem is you're completely dependent on the state if there is a state anymore.
unidentified
Like, what is the state when there's a digital god that you've created in the center of the town that has his own nuclear power plant that's operating everything I have no logical rationale for why these things are terrible, but in my soul, it screams out, let's not invent.
joe rogan
Yeah, because you love being a human.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, you love literature and you're an interesting guy.
You like a lot of cool music.
You love things that people make and create and you create great comedy.
So it makes sense.
It makes sense that you feel the way you feel.
And I share those feelings, but I'm also a realist.
And I'm one of those people that just goes, okay, buckle up.
Things are going to get weird because it's going to get weird.
It's going to get weird and people are going to get super angry.
There's going to be a lot of people that they worked really hard to get a job and that job is completely irrelevant now.
It's been taken over.
james mccann
The job is irrelevant, and then also, like, being able to...
Just, like, there's a freedom in being allowed to have a revolution.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
james mccann
Um...
And that's what this country was founded on, is that when things get bad and the people cry out for a new form of government, they can go and get it.
And I think that chances of anyone in the world having a revolution shot through the floor as soon as they invented robot dogs that could chase you through the street.
And I haven't seen the footage of the robot dogs in a couple of years, but I bet they're better than they used to be now.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
james mccann
And it's like, okay, if we have the robot dogs, how is there going to be an effective change of government?
That's just it.
If you own the robot dogs, no one else is really going to be a threat to you as the ruling class.
That's terrifying that you just have a permanent ossification.
Like, you have a set in stone of what the ruling class is going to be because they've got weapons that no one can challenge them with.
joe rogan
That's worst case scenario, right?
And one of the things you have to think is, why would AI let the working or the ruling class decide what it does?
unidentified
I mean, why would they listen?
joe rogan
No, no, no.
At a certain point in time, it's going to be sentient.
A certain point in time, it's going to have its own robots that do its tasks, like different things that have to be built and structured and different things that have to be designed and engineered.
It'll have that.
It'll have robots that work on the material sciences and all these different things, but it'll be a god.
It'll be a digital god.
It's not going to listen to a person that says arrest people for saying, you know, Muslims shouldn't invade this country.
It's not going to be that.
It's not going to listen to you.
That's the real fear is that we're no longer going to be the apex predator of the planet.
And it's not even going to be a predator, but it's just going to be so.
unidentified
It's a predator.
If it helped it.
joe rogan
Yeah, but why would it?
If it has any desires at all, if it becomes sentient, the real question is, would it do anything?
It might just exist.
If it really becomes brilliant and it really becomes all-knowing, it might just exist.
You might just say, figure it out on your own.
james mccann
More than anything, I think I have a religious impulse against this.
This is creating an idol.
unidentified
Right?
james mccann
Like, this is Moses comes down and he goes, don't build the golden calf.
That's not your God.
We're building a very sophisticated golden calf.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, I always wonder how much of the stories from the Bible, like, especially the Old Testament, like, how old are those stories?
How long, what were they, what was the original thing that they were trying to document?
james mccann
You got into Enoch in a big way.
joe rogan
Oh, God.
Rep Luna, same woman.
She got me into that too.
She said, have you never read it?
I was like, no.
And I, you know, seen some passages online that were kind of kooky.
I got the audiobook, and when I really want to trip out when I'm driving to the comedy club, I listen to the book of Enoch in the car.
It's completely bananas.
james mccann
It's bonkers.
joe rogan
And it could have been included in the Bible.
That's what's happening.
james mccann
In some Bibles, it's in it.
The Ethiopians kept it in.
joe rogan
Yeah, they should have kept it in our Bible, too.
We would have a completely different version of the creation of man.
james mccann
I mean, but we do, what is it?
Who has the wheel within a wheel?
Ezekiel.
Ezekiel.
I sat down.
I tried to read Ezekiel a couple months ago.
I couldn't wade through it.
And that made it easy.
It's a good luck explaining any of that.
joe rogan
It's either Ezekiel had a UFO encounter or Ezekiel was tripping balls.
Either one of those things or both of those things together could be true.
james mccann
I remember I was listening to your podcast and I forget who you were talking to, but you were talking about hallucinogens and the church.
And like people having miracles, experiencing visions because they were on something.
And I remember thinking, like, I think that could be the case, but also how low a stimulus these people had in their everyday life.
Like if you're in a field every day, seeing nothing but a field for like, you know, and you're not eating very much.
And then once a week you go into this dark building and there's candlelight and music and incense and flashing things.
That would probably unlock something strange.
If you had such an understimulated.
joe rogan
Also a complete belief in what these people are saying.
There was no atheists back then.
There was no people that were like, ah, get out of here with all this God shit.
Everybody believed.
james mccann
I think to a greater extent, I think they're still in the body.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's probably a few atheists.
But it's probably way less.
james mccann
Yeah.
joe rogan
Way less.
Like people are proud to be atheists today.
It's a strange pride.
james mccann
There's less of them.
10 years ago, they were riding high.
unidentified
Did you ever see it?
james mccann
They won every debate.
They were so proud.
joe rogan
And they went away.
Sam Harris, he was really good at that.
And Christopher Hitchens was really good at that.
james mccann
He was the man.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Both those guys were really good at shutting down religious ideas.
But I think there's actually a religious style of thinking involved in atheism.
And I know a lot of people who used to be atheists that had psychedelic experiences that gave up on any of that and said, okay, I don't know.
I think there's something else.
And I don't know what it is.
And I'm not going to say that there's no God.
james mccann
Well, even Christopher Hitchens, I don't want to misrepresent him and people get angry at me.
But he was not.
I think his real views were closer to being agnostic than being an atheist.
He used atheists, but when you read him, he goes, oh, the universe is so incredible and there's so much out there.
And I don't know.
And I don't think these particular things are true.
But he didn't discount the possibility that there was a sublime.
joe rogan
Of course.
No, he was a very rational guy.
You know, he just really hated religious zealotry.
And he really hated justifications for wars.
I mean, he was one of the harshest critics of Bill Clinton ever.
Like, that guy was.
james mccann
He did get behind a rock, though.
He did.
And he stuck with it for a long time.
joe rogan
He did, unfortunately.
You know, it's like there's a lot of people that got caught up in that.
You know, they really did believe that that was a good idea.
You know, especially post-September 11th, there was a lot of people that really believed that this had to be done in order to protect us.
Man, it's like with everything, you find out more behind-the-scenes stuff and what was really going on with Kuwait and why did Iraq invade Kuwait in the first place?
Why did we go back to Iraq after we've been gone for so long?
It's like, oh, there's so much shenanigans.
Like, always, always shenanigans.
No one is great.
Everyone is, you know, when Russell Crowe was here, your countryman, the great and powerful Russell Crow.
james mccann
I never got to meet him, but I want to ask him so many questions.
joe rogan
Next time he's in town, well, you're going to be in your fucking shitty country.
james mccann
I'll be back.
I'll come back to New West.
I want to ask him about when he met Azalea Banks and they got into his scrap.
joe rogan
I do not think Australia is shitty.
I love Australia.
I'm just fucking up.
james mccann
Man, some of the things happening at the moment are very upset.
Yeah, this social media man vanishes.
joe rogan
People are fucking awesome.
I love Australian people.
I've had more fun in Australia than almost any other country I've visited.
Fucking love it there.
They're fun.
They know how to party.
They're generally friendly.
Yeah.
james mccann
I think we also, we love not having to pay attention.
Like, that's one of our freedoms.
It's just to don't bother me.
Leave me alone.
Make me feel safe.
unidentified
Right.
james mccann
And so when there is a thing like this shooting, we just want to go, well, take care of it.
Get rid of the problem.
joe rogan
Right.
And then the problem is guns.
Go get the guns.
No, the problem is people willing to use the guns because if people only have knives, then they'll run around to kill people.
james mccann
You know, if you have access to a car, you can drive through people.
joe rogan
The problem is people.
And the problem is also you can't have defenseless cops.
You can't have cops that don't have guns.
Your cops have to have guns.
james mccann
I think there was a chubby detective who took the shot, who got it done.
And he was standing like 40 yards away.
He was a long way away with a pistol.
unidentified
Oh, boy.
james mccann
And that is bad.
unidentified
He's got a red dot.
james mccann
No, he was.
Really?
He's wearing a white shirt.
I think there's a great photo of him.
joe rogan
He was ready to go.
Do you have a rifle?
Do you show them with a rifle or a pistol?
james mccann
Pistol.
joe rogan
Oh, wow.
james mccann
Yeah, it was like, I think I'm getting this right.
I'm seeing it all through.
Not being there is weird.
I have no idea what the vibe is in the country.
joe rogan
The thing is, they're never going to give you the guns back.
It's never going to happen.
They're going to try to take them more and more and more.
And once you let them have any, it's just normal, man.
When people get some control of you, they want ultimate control.
When they have a little bit of power, they want maximum power.
And it's just the game they're playing.
james mccann
But I think we don't love freedom the way Americans love freedom.
joe rogan
It's unfortunate.
james mccann
I think I stick out and it's weird.
But we actually, like, we don't have a freedom of speech law.
And people seem really calm about that.
People go like, it's good not to have proper freedom of speech because we can make everyone cohere and be together.
And they're happy with that.
And they're comfortable with that, by and large.
I mean, you wouldn't tolerate that here for a second.
joe rogan
It's not good.
It's just not good for because it depends on who's in power.
You have the best people that have ever lived are in power.
And there are these benevolent, beautiful people that only want a cooperative, healthy society.
They figured out how to do it, but no one's figured out how to do that.
So stop.
james mccann
I don't know.
Sometimes I look at the Japanese.
joe rogan
They've got it down.
james mccann
Stay up late and I watch Japanese videos of just like just the streets of Japan when they're walking around on their little vending machines.
joe rogan
Super polite.
unidentified
Everyone's like.
james mccann
They can't have children, but they're very happy.
unidentified
That's the problem.
james mccann
No one's breeding.
joe rogan
No one.
james mccann
You've bred, I'm breeding.
unidentified
But in general, the birth rate has collapsed.
james mccann
The Japanese are worse than these.
joe rogan
The Japanese have it real bad.
South Korea has it real bad too.
james mccann
South Korea is down to like half a child per lady.
joe rogan
It's got something crazy like that.
Yeah.
Is it because they became career-obsessed?
Is that what it is?
james mccann
My friend Eve lived there for a while and she was telling me about what's happened with the feminist movement there.
And like heaps of women are swearing off of men.
They go, this is a duty to feminism is to never be in a relationship with a man.
joe rogan
Do you know that was one girl that couldn't get fucked that started off for all the other girls?
unidentified
She was very careful.
She was a hater.
james mccann
She was a girl.
joe rogan
She's a hater and she's mad that nobody wanted to fuck her.
She's like, no, we're going to say no to all of them.
james mccann
It worked.
It worked.
I mean, they.
I don't.
You've got a bunch of kids.
joe rogan
Yeah.
james mccann
I enjoy having them.
We're about to have the fourth one.
And I know some people who have, like, people I went to school with, it's now dawning on me that that's weird that I've had children and that most people will have one in my cohort or none.
Like I just thought at some point I was starting a bit early, but I'm seeing my generation just the numbers are panning out.
People are not having any kids.
You get to a certain age and you go, oh, that's it.
I guess you're not.
You're not ever.
It's a part of life that you've decided not to experience.
And I don't, I don't know if it's people want to be in control.
They want to have enough money before they start having kids.
They want to have like be set up nicely.
joe rogan
Some people don't want to have kids.
james mccann
A lot of people.
joe rogan
I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
I really don't.
Just my opinion.
I think you can have a full and fulfilling and wonderful life without children.
I do not think that everyone's the same.
I do not think that I should ever be able to tell you what's right or what's wrong when you're not hurting anybody.
You're not hurting anybody by not having any kids.
james mccann
But I think there are a lot of people who'd like to have kids who are not having, or think like, I'll get it.
joe rogan
Well, there's a lot of men that don't want to commit and a lot of ladies that stick with them.
And then there's ladies that want a career and maybe they wait too long.
And there's a lot of factors.
There's a lot of also environmental factors that are dropping men's sperm count, increasing miscarriages.
Microplastics are a real issue.
james mccann
I do think that thing about staying with a lady too long is, I'll say this for Leonardo DiCaprio.
He releases them.
It's something 25.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Bye-bye.
james mccann
I'm not going to take these very precious years away from you.
joe rogan
I don't think that's what he's doing.
james mccann
I think he's a good man.
I think he's a kind man.
joe rogan
He just likes him young.
He likes him young.
Which would be great if he was a woman.
So if he was a woman, if he was a 50-year-old woman and he only banged 25-year-old guys and he looked, you know, or she rather looked hot for a 50-year-old like he does for a 50-year-old man, who cares?
james mccann
There's a weird thing happening with women in this country where if a man dates a woman slightly younger than them, he's accused of being a pedophile.
Like a man will be dating a 27-year-old, he'll be like 40 dating a 27-year-old lady, and people go, how fucking dare you?
unidentified
Right.
Ah, right.
james mccann
I think that's got to be allowed.
I think you've got to.
I mean, that man last night who was, that was a bit spooky.
The gay man who had the.
joe rogan
Why was that spooky?
james mccann
Because he was in his 40s and his lover was.
joe rogan
In his 20s.
james mccann
Yeah, but then when did the relationship start?
joe rogan
Five years ago?
james mccann
Okay.
joe rogan
Isn't that what he said?
unidentified
I'm going to have to do some maths.
joe rogan
No, maybe he said 10, 10 years ago.
james mccann
I've got to do some maths.
People definitely breathed in in the room.
joe rogan
Yeah, but it's a guy.
So he dated a 20-year-old guy when he was one of the best people.
james mccann
No, I think we should let young gay men develop.
dennis echelbarger
I don't know.
joe rogan
Let them do whatever the fuck they want to do.
If you're an 18-year-old man and you've decided you're gay and you live with a 50-year-old gay man, who gives a shit?
unidentified
I don't think the state should get involved in this.
joe rogan
I don't think the state should get involved.
I don't think anybody should get involved once you're 18.
But in that situation, it is different.
You look at it differently than, say, if it was like when the ages get up.
Like, say, if someone's 20 and they're dating a 25-year-old, normal.
You know what you like.
You know, he's 20.
But if you're 20, you're dating a 60-year-old.
Or you're 20, you're dating a 70-year-old.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, things get really weird.
You know?
That's when things get really weird.
It's like, what's going on here?
Like, why are you dating this 27-year-old?
You're like, why wouldn't you date a 27-year-old?
Yeah, I would, but I'm 35.
That's normal.
Why are you, the 70-year-old, dating the 27-cause she's willing.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
Because she's willing.
Is she not a grown woman?
She is, right?
Okay, what are we doing here?
You're mad.
You're mad that the age gap is so wide.
unidentified
What makes you feel like that?
Jamie, how dare you?
joe rogan
How dare you bring that up?
Bro, he wins.
Put that picture back up.
unidentified
Well, the team's not winning.
joe rogan
He wins in a huge way.
I don't give a fuck what he has to do.
I don't care if he makes her the head of his charity, whatever.
She's hot as fuck.
Let's go.
She's 24.
How old is he?
jamie vernon
Maybe 70.
joe rogan
He wins.
Okay.
He wins.
It's worth it.
Whatever he has to do, whatever mockery he...
Yes, it is.
unidentified
I remember...
When I came to this country, 73.
james mccann
He was a severe man who people were afraid of.
joe rogan
Listen to me.
unidentified
He had credibility.
joe rogan
He still does.
james mccann
No, now he's doing weird photo shoots on the beach.
joe rogan
Hey, you got to do what you got to do.
But listen, he gets to fuck her.
He wins.
james mccann
There's got to be.
joe rogan
Listen, it's a deal.
They got a deal.
He's fishing.
He caught a mermaid.
unidentified
Great.
joe rogan
Imagine that photo shoot.
That's her idea.
This poor guy wants to go drink martinis, hang out at the beach.
unidentified
There's something about having gravitas that no amount of having sex with a mermaid woman can gravitate by yourself, sitting there with a cigar and a whiskey, looking cool.
Hardly.
james mccann
How long do you need to be able to have sex for?
I'm waiting for it to go away.
At some point, I'm not going to take the blue true when it starts to disappear.
I'm happy.
unidentified
Honestly.
You say that now.
james mccann
I do say that.
joe rogan
You say that now.
james mccann
Let me go.
Set me free.
unidentified
It's just a sex impulse.
I'm sick of it.
joe rogan
You're lying.
james mccann
I am not lying.
If I get to be 70 and I cannot get an erection, I will say this is okay.
I can do other things with my time again.
joe rogan
You definitely can.
Yeah, but it'll also mean a decrease in your vitality as a human being, which is not fun because it leads to depression.
You're going to be tired all the time.
It's all connected, buddy.
james mccann
There's got to be a way to have a fulfilling life and not be horny constantly.
No, I haven't found that, but I'm sure it's out there.
joe rogan
Of course.
There certainly is.
There's a lot of people that are completely asexual and they have a fine life.
james mccann
I don't trust them, though.
No, it's always weird.
But I think it's Bunuel who has a line about like, maybe it's Plato.
I don't know, but it's like when I got older and I wasn't horny anymore, it was like being, it was like I was unshackled from a madman.
joe rogan
Right.
Well, didn't.
Was it Tesla that did that?
Okay.
There was some references to Tesla in quotes destroying his manhood because he had gotten some sort of infatuation with a woman at one point in time and apparently was ruining his life.
So this is a weird thing about Tesla.
There's a lot of like fake stories about him.
So it's hard to separate the wheat from the shaft.
You know what I mean?
james mccann
Wheat from the shaft.
joe rogan
But he did fall in love with a pigeon.
james mccann
Okay.
joe rogan
Tesla had a pigeon that he loved dearly.
james mccann
Didn't I bring that up when they said he had a limitless source of energy that he had access to?
Then I was going, man, he fell in love with a pigeon and it made him destroy his penis.
joe rogan
No, I think the woman made him destroy his penis.
I don't know if he, what he did.
You know, he might have taken something to like chemically castrate him.
They used to do that to pedophile priests.
Yeah, they give them like saltpeter to keep them from being.
I don't know what you know what salt peter is.
james mccann
No, I don't know saltpeter, but I know about the castration of people.
joe rogan
Yeah, oh, that too.
So, I mean, maybe personally, castrated.
james mccann
What is saltpeter?
joe rogan
It's something that they used to give priests to keep them from getting horny.
I don't know what it is.
It would kill their desires.
What was it called?
It's called saltpeter.
I think it like spelled Peter.
jamie vernon
I was just looking at before I get to that.
Nikola Tesla reportedly died a virgin.
joe rogan
Yeah.
So that lady that he was infatuated with probably the first time he got rock hard.
jamie vernon
Salt Peter's potassium nitrate.
james mccann
He was using his energy for other things.
joe rogan
He definitely was.
james mccann
He was having a fulfilling life.
joe rogan
And he definitely is doing well, was doing well doing that.
Like, that probably would have stolen a lot of resources from his inventing.
And so, what is salt?
Can you put saltpeter up so we can see what it does?
unidentified
I don't know.
joe rogan
Let's see what it does here.
Saltpeter, primarily potassium nitrate, a natural mineral historically crucial for gunpowder, but also used today as a fertilizer, fruit preservative, curing meats, and for sensitive teeth and asthma relief.
It's a source of nitrogen mined from caves or made by mixing nitrates.
And while once believed in aphrodisiac, it's a myth, though its curing role is real.
Aphrodisiac?
james mccann
Yeah, that's the opposite of what you want.
joe rogan
Right.
Now, please put into perplexity.
Where does the story, or where does the whatever, the issue with saltpeter and priests come from?
Like, where does that story come from?
Because I remember hearing that when we were kids, that they would take a pedophile priest and they'd give them saltpeter.
And we're like, what?
The myth associating saltpeter with suppressing priest sexual urges stems from medieval and Renaissance beliefs.
That's how old I am, son.
When I was a kid, they were talking in medieval and renaissance beliefs in alchemy and folk medicine.
During that era, saltpeter was prescribed in mineral baths or potions as an infallible cure for victims of love potions.
Oh, it was a cure of love potion.
You got hit with a love potion alongside substances like alum, antimony, and sulfur.
This notion evolved into broader folklore claims of its anaphrodisiac properties.
Never seen that word before.
Later applied to institutions like militaries, prisons, and monasteries, though no historical evidence ties it specifically to priests' food.
So here's the thing: if it gives you nitrogen and it like thought of as an aphrodisiac, you don't want to give that to a pedophile, right?
Is that like did the pedophiles trick them?
Did they trick them and say, you know what?
If you give me this, it'll kill my dick.
Meanwhile, it's like their gas station powder pills.
james mccann
You know, the on the like medieval medicine, they were still bleeding people until like the 1870s.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
james mccann
I was reading about that this week.
joe rogan
Someone, some famous person, that's how he died.
Was it George Washington?
Wasn't it?
james mccann
Did they bled him too much?
joe rogan
I think George Washington insisted on them bleeding him more than the physician advised.
unidentified
Bloodletting?
joe rogan
Bloodletting.
Yeah.
Wasn't it George Washington?
Shane knows a lot about Washington.
unidentified
He that's like he hasn't done it yet, but if ever he decides to do a long form podcast on the Civil War, he should do a long form podcast on history.
joe rogan
Period.
I was telling him that.
Oh, and his death involved extensive bloodletting.
George Washington, a common 18th-century medical practice that likely hasened his demise from a throat infection.
The query George Washington bloodletting appears to be a misspelling.
jamie vernon
I accepted it too fast.
No worries.
joe rogan
Bloodletting practice.
Doctors bled.
Why did they include that in AI?
AI is correcting you.
They're fucking.
james mccann
No, it looks like you've fucked up real activity.
joe rogan
Looks like AI is kind of fucking with you a little.
Doctors bled multiple blood Washington multiple times on December 14th, 1799, removing about 80 ounces, roughly 40% of his blood volume.
Imagine they thought it was a good idea to take your blood out while you're dying.
james mccann
Like for hundreds of years, they were doing it.
unidentified
Fuck.
james mccann
And maybe it does have some benefits that I should look into.
joe rogan
I doubt it.
Yeah.
She's got a throat infection.
They take your blood out.
Imagine the days when they hadn't figured out antibiotics yet.
james mccann
Well, we get to enjoy them for a while.
I mean, at some point they'll stop working, right?
Like we'll get.
joe rogan
Some of them.
I mean, there's resistant strains of MRSA.
You know, MRSA is staph infection that you can't cure with antibiotics.
It's very dangerous.
When people get it, I've had friends that got it.
It's horrific.
It eats holes in your body.
I had a buddy of mine who had it done on his knee, his whole knee.
Like he was at the hospital, and he sent me a picture of them, what they had done to his knee.
They had split his knee open down the middle.
They pulled it open to clean it all out and disinfect it.
It was so insanely infected from this medical resistant staph infection.
So he was on an IV drip 24 hours a day.
He stayed in the hospital for weeks for this fucking infection.
unidentified
So we didn't have that kind of staph infection before antibiotics.
joe rogan
Right.
It's a major cause of death in this country.
unidentified
Yeah.
james mccann
And in the food, right?
Like it's in the meat.
joe rogan
What is?
james mccann
Antibiotics.
Like we feed.
I remember someone saying, like, that's the real problem is that we're giving it to like the cows.
We just put it in their feed.
joe rogan
Well, I think the reason they do it, supposedly, there's a lot of companies.
Like if you get an organic steak, grass-fed, organic, most people believe that that is the healthiest version of beef because that's an animal that's not being given any hormones, not being given any antibiotics, and is eating grass, which is what they're supposed to.
Now, when they eat corn, sometimes they get these like weird abscesses and they get like problems digesting.
It's not natural food for cows.
That's why they get so fat.
Like the reason why they get that marbling, that's their gut.
They're fucking dying.
Like we're giving them terrible food and their meat tastes different.
james mccann
They're like wagyu beef.
They're feeding them beer, I think.
joe rogan
Oh, bro.
They're barely alive.
When you see that beautifully marbled piece of wagu beef, that's a very depressed animal.
They depressed the fuck out of that thing before it died.
james mccann
I didn't realize they were not feeding cows grass for like until I was in the grocery store and they had like, this is grass-fed milk.
It's like, well, what the fuck's the other one?
unidentified
This is news to me.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's interesting because I was reading this thing about certain pasture-raised eggs that you get that are really bright orange.
james mccann
Yeah.
joe rogan
And you think, oh, this is a really healthy egg.
Well, what actually was going on was they were feeding the chickens turmeric and they were feeding the chickens a bunch of things that affected the color of their eggs.
And these eggs were high in vegetable oils because I think alpha, I don't remember what acid it is.
Alpha lipoic?
What is it?
No, that's a supplement.
Whatever it is.
They were realizing that the chickens were eating mostly grain.
james mccann
Yeah.
joe rogan
And then they were making it look like they were eating all these insects, which is usually what you get when you get a chicken that has like a real rich, like a natural raised chicken.
It's just a rich orange yolk.
That thing's eating bugs and all kinds of stuff.
That's what it's supposed to eat.
So they were like pretending by giving these chickens turmeric that would make their yolk like a really bright orange.
And then they were giving them corn.
So they were pretending these chickens were running around in a pasture, but they were just dumping a pile of things to get them fat as quick as possible and then feeding them some fairy dust that makes their eggs.
james mccann
This is in the same thing as AI for me, where I just want to be in a field, in a cottage.
That's my chicken over there.
And I know where it is.
One day I'll kill that chicken and we'll eat it as a family.
joe rogan
Well, there's nothing wrong with that.
Living on a farm, especially like a small individual farm, it's probably a very harmonious way to live in nature.
james mccann
But you do have to make a lot of money to like you have to really thrive in the system to go and get that now.
joe rogan
Isn't that crazy?
Because that used to be the way poor people lived.
james mccann
Yeah.
I yearn to live like a poor person.
joe rogan
I think it's harmonious for human beings to live like that.
Everybody that I know that lives like that will kind of tell you that it seems right.
I think people lived like that for so long.
I think it feels normal for them.
And they're totally self-sustaining as opposed to someone who just relies on these trucks to keep showing up at the grocery store.
james mccann
I mean, also, like, at some point, I know RFK came in with like trying to do a lot of things to improve the food.
And I don't know how many are going through, but at some point, people will get sick enough, I think.
You have to have some sort of change.
I mean, my wife has become gluten-free since coming to America because she's become gluten-in-chief.
Like, she had gluten her whole life.
Something in the wheat here.
I don't know what they're doing to it.
joe rogan
It's a lot of things.
james mccann
It's not good.
joe rogan
Well, one of the things is the excessive use of glyphosate.
Glyphosate is in a lot of different things.
The other things, there's a bunch of chemicals.
There's a bunch of different chemicals that they put into modern bread.
What was it?
Bromine?
Is that one of them?
There's a guy who we played a video of him breaking it down.
Remember that video, Jamie?
About what's wrong with bread in America?
See if we can find that.
It's very enlightening.
Because it's one of those things you realize, like, oh, this is all to make it shelf-stable so it stays good forever.
And they've made more complex glutens in the wheat because that way you get a higher yield per acre.
And they've all made it so it creates all this intolerance.
Like you're going to get gut inflammation if you eat too much of it.
You feel terrible.
james mccann
Or like it was the only thing people would eat.
You would just eat bread and get a loaf of bread for the week and you'd have whatever meat you could have next to it.
But like surely we don't need that at this point.
Like we can have.
joe rogan
The problem is industrial agriculture is kind of taken over in this country.
And if you want to make money, that's really kind of the only way to make money farming.
It's really difficult to run a regenerative farm and have it be like really profitable the way these enormous industrial farming situations are.
You're not supposed to have monocrop agriculture.
Like that's crazy.
You're not supposed to have a thousand acres of corn just growing together.
That's kooky.
Like no one has that in the wild.
That's not normal.
So there's supposed to be genetic diversity.
There's supposed to be animal shitting everywhere.
It all feeds into each other.
That's what they do in regenerative farms, but their yield is so much lower than a farm that stacks all the pigs into a warehouse and has them shit into a lake.
james mccann
I have seen the weird little tunnels where they put the pigs into it.
It's not nice.
joe rogan
It's disgusting.
james mccann
It's disgusting.
joe rogan
But that's how you get Jack in the Box on every corner.
That's how you feed a million people that aren't growing.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
You don't.
No, I'm not suggesting you lose Jack in the Box or any of these places.
But I'm just saying that we've kind of painted ourselves into a corner where you have no one working in food production.
You have a small amount of people in these cities that even understand where their food is coming from.
Everybody's just assuming it's going to show up.
You're going to go to the nice restaurant, you sit there, and you have a filet mignon and a glass of wine.
You have no idea where anything came from, and you don't have to.
But that's a luxury that most people don't realize is a luxury until something like the pandemic happens and everything shuts down.
And then you go, oh, no food's coming in.
Where do we get food?
Oh, my God, we have to learn how to hunt.
unidentified
like the AI hope right is that it takes care of all the like we can return we can have super abundance and we can return to an organic Well, the first thing I would say to AI is how do you fix crime-ridden cities?
joe rogan
How do you do that?
How do you do that ethically?
james mccann
You may not like the answer it gives you.
joe rogan
Well, I don't want it to get rid of it.
james mccann
You might say there are men with hoods.
joe rogan
Here it is.
Let's play this.
dennis echelbarger
No problem.
unidentified
I was gluten-free in 15 years.
I've been gluten-free.
In Carnot, America.
Can't eat it.
dennis echelbarger
That's because in America, what we call bread can't even be considered food in parts of Europe.
See, here in America, it's not so much the gluten as what we've done to the grain.
About 200 years ago, we started stripping the brain and germ or the fiber and nutrients to make flour shelf stable, also nutritionally dead.
Because the nutrients were gone, we enriched it with folic acid, which a large majority of the population can't even metabolize.
Therefore, many people experience fatigue, anxiety, hyperactivity, and inflammation.
But then the bread wasn't white enough, so they bleached it with chlorine gas, and the bread didn't rise enough, so they added a carcinogen called potassium bromate, which is banned in several countries like Europe, the UK, and even China.
Then we wanted to ramp up production, so we started using glyphosate to dry out the wheat before harvest, causing endocrine disruption and damaging your gut.
So now you're bloated, brain fogged, tired, and blame gluten, but gluten is just the scapegoat.
The real issue is ultra-processed, chemically altered, bleached, bromated, fake vitamin-filled wheat soaked in glyphosate.
This isn't bread.
This is.
unidentified
I need somebody.
joe rogan
That's it.
james mccann
I like that they had sweet dreams playing in the background there.
Yeah, I mean, I will look when I'm back in Australia.
I will look forward to having normal bread, human bread.
joe rogan
It's so fucked up.
unidentified
So fucked up.
james mccann
Got escape bread.
joe rogan
Food.
It's the same thing they've done to our governmental systems.
It's like money.
Money gets in.
These whores.
They ruin it all.
james mccann
Yeah, you guys, I mean, whores.
Money is also great.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
james mccann
I'm not against money.
joe rogan
You should buy.
james mccann
I'm a little bit against money.
joe rogan
Are you?
james mccann
In what way?
I don't want to make decisions in my life about how to, what would result in having more money.
You've got to be able to provide for your family.
But I think you see enough people in this business sell out.
And people have really lost the language of selling out.
Like, it's gone.
Like, in the 90s, everyone, that guy's a fucking sellout.
That guy's doing, you know, you'd do the wrong sort of music on an album and people would accuse you of selling out.
So I'm not advocating for that.
But like, I mean, there are definitely people out there doing ads for things that it's nuts that they're getting away with it.
Like people who do, like rich guys who are doing gambling commercials.
And I don't mind gambling.
I'm open to gambling.
I enjoy gambling.
dennis echelbarger
We do gambling.
james mccann
It's like commercials.
joe rogan
We do gambling commercials on this podcast.
james mccann
And I may be open to doing it myself in the future.
unidentified
But when I do see Samuel L. I don't even mind that as much.
joe rogan
But why is it different than Samuel Jackson reading for a gambling?
james mccann
I don't know DraftKings enough, but there are things like in Australia we've got Bet365, which is like they've turned it into a social media app slash gambling software.
joe rogan
Okay.
james mccann
So it's where you go to socialize and gamble at the same time.
And that does give me a strong ick factor.
joe rogan
Yeah, Russell was talking about that, the problem in Australia with gambling as well.
james mccann
I don't see anything.
When I look at bookie apps in America and things, it's just like I'd like to put a bet on that.
And I get money if it wins and not if it loses.
We're in a more strange advanced.
We've been doing it for a bit longer and it's further down the line.
joe rogan
DraftKings has all that kind of stuff where you could bet on weird prop bets.
james mccann
Yeah, and you can do multi-bets and things like that.
But I don't think it has affected the character of men in this country the same way that it's done in Australia.
joe rogan
We have more freedom.
You guys are little children over there.
james mccann
It's also our only outlet.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's true.
james mccann
Is gambling.
Like, I think we out-gamble Singapore.
We're number one in the world per capita.
No, we put you to shame.
unidentified
But like, you guys can have a sign of people in distress.
james mccann
Gambling?
unidentified
Yeah.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, we're.
The country's in distress.
That's why you guys have a gambling problem.
james mccann
I mean, we really have a fucking huge gambling problem.
unidentified
It's that bad.
It's really that bad.
james mccann
It's just, it makes it hard to have a conversation with a guy.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
Look at.
72.8% of Australian adults gambled within the previous 12 months.
80.5% for men and 66.2% for women.
unidentified
Look at that.
joe rogan
38% of Australian gambled at least once per week.
48% of men and 28% for women.
james mccann
28% for women.
When you see a woman who's betting on sports, something inside of you goes, What are you doing?
joe rogan
Having fun.
unidentified
This is our horrible thing.
joe rogan
No, what the fuck up to?
james mccann
I have been to your pokey rooms in America.
That's what we call them.
unidentified
Like in a casinos.
james mccann
We call them pokey rooms.
joe rogan
Pokey?
james mccann
Yeah, the pokeys.
joe rogan
Like the raw fish?
james mccann
You're like poking on the machine all the time.
That's why we call them the pokeys.
But like in America, you'll be at a casino and the floor has all these fruit machines.
joe rogan
Pokies.
james mccann
Yeah.
But like people are still like smiling and talking to each other.
In every pub in Australia, there's like a back room where sad, twisted old people are just like sitting in front of a machine.
jamie vernon
Yeah.
james mccann
Hours.
joe rogan
They get that in Vegas too.
It's just extracting money.
james mccann
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's sucking bright lights in there and extracting money and it makes your dull life a little bit more exciting.
jamie vernon
20% of the world's slot machines are in Australia.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yo, you guys are buck wild.
unidentified
No, it's that's why they keep you broke.
james mccann
I'm against it.
But also, yeah, if I've had a couple of drinks and it's a Friday night, I'll go and play the Indian Dreaming.
joe rogan
Well, here's the thing.
You're smart enough to not get fully addicted to playing those machines.
But not everybody gets it.
james mccann
It's a smart thing.
I think I have enough going on in my life.
Definitely.
There are smarter people than me who have been lost to it.
joe rogan
But that's all it, right?
Like, you don't need a distraction.
Your distraction is the thing you're enjoying in your life.
You've got a lot of things going on in your life.
You don't want to do that.
james mccann
If I wasn't doing stand-up and if I wasn't doing, if I didn't have a loving family.
joe rogan
And you had a shitty job.
james mccann
Oh, man.
When I did have a shitty job, I was a door-to-door salesman and I was buying the scratch-off cards every day.
Every single day I would buy them.
And I didn't know why I was doing it at first.
Well, I'm knocking on people's doors and trying to give them cable television when they don't want it.
I'm going to need a little something to help.
A man, I think I started drinking in the afternoons.
joe rogan
Really?
Because you hated it.
james mccann
I hated it.
It made me loose when I went to knock on the doors and try and give genuine.
They would take us out to like the worst remote communities because they'd go, these people will buy.
The nastier the neighborhood, the more people are likely to buy from a salesman.
The less they have in their life.
You'd try and go to a middle-class neighborhood.
No one would talk to you.
You'd go out to weird, remote poverty.
And boy, I sold a lot of cable television.
unidentified
Really?
james mccann
Yeah.
joe rogan
Was it dangerous?
james mccann
Yeah.
Because you're knocking on the doors of like, I went up to Port Augusta in the worst neighborhoods there.
This is like hours and hours away from a major city.
And the company I was doing it for, like I said, we looked up the poverty statistics and we're sending you to the worst possible places because you'll sell more there.
I remember there was an Irish lady who got attacked who was working with us.
I don't think I ever – I had, like, weird things happen where people – you'd have to go into someone's house and there'd be, like, weird stuff on the floor.
I went into one person's house and there was a woman passed out on the floor bleeding.
And they were all just like, she's fine.
Don't worry about her.
joe rogan
Where was she bleeding from?
unidentified
What part?
james mccann
Her head.
What?
Yeah, she was apparently all right and she was, but she was passed out.
I don't know what happened.
joe rogan
What do you mean?
unidentified
All right.
joe rogan
She's bleeding from her head and she's.
james mccann
It wasn't like a huge amount of blood, but she was on the floor and there was blood.
joe rogan
And they just assumed she was okay?
james mccann
I made it out of there quick smart.
They were like, she's fine.
Don't you worry about it.
I don't know why this is coming back to me now.
I haven't thought about that in about 10 years.
joe rogan
Did you think that maybe they hit her?
And then maybe you were a witness to it?
Or maybe they killed her and they were going to have to kill you?
james mccann
I don't know why this is dribbling out of me now.
I definitely saw her.
She had a beard.
I remember, and she was a, they were very calm about it.
They were relaxed and they wanted to keep having a conversation about buying the cable television and how that would let them watch the football.
And that she was okay and I wasn't to worry about her.
And I think I got out of there and kept knocking on people's doors.
I don't think I called anybody.
unidentified
Whoa.
james mccann
Sorry.
I didn't know where that was buried.
joe rogan
Maybe she's fine.
Maybe she's a drama queen.
Maybe she hit her head on purpose and then fell down.
james mccann
I mean, I was seeing a lot of passed out people in the streets there.
Drunks and drugs and yeah.
joe rogan
Did you ever almost get robbed or anything?
james mccann
I don't think I got threatened.
There was a guy who was having sex one time and was very unhappy that I was kept knocking on his door.
And I thought he was going to hit me.
But that was about as bad as it got.
joe rogan
Did he come out with his dong hanging out?
james mccann
He was grabbing his pants in a weird way.
His lady had been at home and she said, come back when my husband's home at this time.
And then he can decide if he's going to buy it.
And then I came back right at that time.
And I think he just got right home and started, right now, let's do it.
And then he was like, get the fuck out.
Australian men being angry is we go into a new gear of like lack of control.
joe rogan
Well, it's a prison population originally.
james mccann
And we like that.
We don't want to be free.
We want a nice warden who's going to take care of it for us.
joe rogan
But you don't.
james mccann
No, there are many things that are upsetting me about going back.
joe rogan
You've got to become king of Australia going back.
james mccann
If they'll have me, I'm thinking of running for the Senate.
joe rogan
You might win.
james mccann
I've got policy.
The Senate's more winnable in Australia.
joe rogan
Are you seriously thinking about running for the Senate?
james mccann
We have like 12 people from each state.
One day.
It's my fantasy.
Really?
In each state, there's like 12 people who get to be the senator from there.
And in a double dissolution, you only need like 8% of the vote to get into the Senate.
And if you're in a small state, that's not a huge number of people.
So we get wacky people going to the Senate.
And it effectively has the same job that the American Senate has.
Like, it's a huge amount of power.
And you get to veto things.
You get to do inquiries into stuff.
Yeah, we've had Pauline Hansen is there at the moment.
She's been there for a while.
We had Jackie Lambie for a long time.
We get nutty, interesting people in the Senate.
It's the only bit where a bit of life and color gets into our politics.
Because we've got, yeah, our house, our lower house is not as exciting as yours.
You get more.
You get, what's it, Jasmine Crockett?
joe rogan
Yeah.
james mccann
You get Jasmine Crockett's in your parliament.
You don't have to not as much.
joe rogan
How locked down is politics in Australia?
james mccann
So locked down.
joe rogan
Yeah.
james mccann
So it's not first.
You guys vote and you just go first past the post.
And if you get, you know, if someone gets 50% of the vote, that's it.
They've got it.
We do ranked voting.
So it's like you put in six, there's six people, you put them in order, and then like kind of the least bad one, the one that the least number of people dislike, gets in.
So you get really boring people.
And also the parties don't primary.
And this is, I keep talking about how this is great in America.
You're like the only country that does this.
joe rogan
Well, that was why it was a real problem that the Democrats didn't do it.
james mccann
They didn't do it at the presidency.
joe rogan
They didn't do it legitimately since 2016.
james mccann
But on a local level, some of them.
joe rogan
Even 2016, it wasn't.
james mccann
AOC can get in to be her.
joe rogan
Sure.
james mccann
Like, that's even that level of public involvement is globally unheard of.
No one else is doing that.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Fetterman, those kind of people.
james mccann
Federman should not.
Like, you just look on a paper.
There's no way the Democrats wanted him to be their guy.
There's no way the people in charge of that party said, I think this is a guy who's going to toe the party line.
joe rogan
Well, I think once he got in, he became much more aware of how corrupt the system was.
Like, talking to him was interesting.
He's a very nice guy, by the way.
Like, a real genuine nice guy.
And I've run into him in other places.
I ran into him at the inauguration.
He was wearing a Carhartt hoodie and shorts at the inauguration.
I'm not bullshitting.
I gave him a big hug.
He's a sweet guy, like a genuinely sweet guy.
And I think he got into that system and he's like, hey, this is not what I like.
That guy's been doing like charity work his whole life.
He's like a genuinely good person.
And he got into it.
He's like, this is not what I signed up for.
This whole thing is fucking crazy.
james mccann
Like when he also had the brain thing happen.
And then he I watched that debate that he won.
Like, I don't know how bad.
Is it Dr. Oz that he was up against?
unidentified
Yes.
james mccann
That's got to hurt when you go up against a guy who temporarily can't talk at all.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, he has a struggle communicating, but I don't think the struggle.
james mccann
He's way better now.
joe rogan
Yes.
But I don't think the struggle is a thinking thing.
I think it's a communication thing.
And it's also like he loses track of what you just said.
So, like, he has to have an iPad.
So the iPad listens to what you're saying, translates it, writes it out, dictates it.
And then he looks to it occasionally.
james mccann
Okay.
joe rogan
He's like, I'm sorry.
What did you ask me?
And then I'll have to repeat the question.
But it's not that he's not there.
james mccann
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's just there's a misfiring.
But when it fires correctly, he's very reasonable.
He's very rational, very smart guy.
And I think a really good guy.
And I think he opened up a lot of people's eyes.
Like, well, it is possible for someone to get in on either side and just be rational and just have rational positions on things and saying, I'm not going to just vote the way everybody votes because I don't agree with that.
I think there's a much more nuanced view of the world.
And so a lot of people on the right like him because he broke party lines, you know?
james mccann
I remember there was like Obama came in and tried to do that immediately when he was a senator.
And I was reading a thing about how like people just took him aside and said, you absolutely don't fucking do that.
You have to stop doing that now.
Okay.
We want you to be the future of this party.
Shut up.
But there must be huge pressures on people not to be individuals.
joe rogan
There was huge pressures on Tulsi Gabber to not even communicate with people on the other side.
She would bring them cookies and shit and just be nice.
She's like, sweet lady.
She just wanted to be friends with everybody.
And they were like, we don't do it that way.
james mccann
I mean, John McCain seemed to do a lot of weird, he would hang out.
He would be on both sides of the aisle.
People liked him.
There are a couple of individuals.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's a couple individuals that have made like little crossovers, you know, a little bit.
And, you know.
james mccann
You could ban the party system.
I'd be open to that.
joe rogan
Well, you need more than two.
That's the real problem.
james mccann
Yeah.
joe rogan
The real problem is there's only two legitimate ones.
If someone's an if you vote libertarian, you're essentially voting protest.
You're saying, fuck these guys.
unidentified
Yeah.
james mccann
And the Green Party.
joe rogan
I've done the libertarian thing a few times.
It's like, you're just saying, fuck these guys.
But then if you can't, like, a two-party system is so easy to rig.
I mean, but could you rig a five-party system?
If you had seven parties, could you rig that?
I don't know.
You know, and the thing is, it's like you have the House and you have Congress.
It's like the two-party thing is going to be so tough to untangle.
You know, it would take some radically popular person who went independent.
james mccann
Who tried?
Legs Roosevelt.
joe rogan
Ross Perot.
james mccann
Ross Perot.
joe rogan
Ross Perot fucked it up for me.
james mccann
Yeah, he came close.
But Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt, he got real close.
joe rogan
Right, but that was a long time ago and he was Teddy Roosevelt.
unidentified
Yeah.
james mccann
But he won seats.
He won states, I think.
I think he did that whole states.
unidentified
That's crazy.
james mccann
The Dixiecrats did it, but they were never going to pick up that many states.
joe rogan
It would have to be someone like that.
Someone that was loved by a giant percentage of the population.
Like if some let's make up a fictional person, some amazing Oprah.
If Oprah becomes president or wants to run for president and everybody's like, because you remember there was a thing during the Trump administration, the first administration, where I think NBC tweeted, this is our president, and they showed a photo of Oprah.
See if you can find that.
I'm pretty sure that's true.
And I remember thinking, like, this is so crazy that we're looking for another famous person to counteract the famous person.
james mccann
They wanted the rock.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Oh, they talked to the rock.
unidentified
They tried to get to the rock.
joe rogan
They came to the rock to try to get him to do it.
unidentified
I mean, I don't know what The Rock's politics are.
joe rogan
He's, you know, a kind guy who's probably very left on certain things, but also very disciplined.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Obviously, really admires and believes in hard work and dedication.
He'll be a great president if he wanted to do it.
Tweet on future Oprah presidency, not meant to be a political statement.
Okay, what?
They said on Monday that a tweet touting Oprah Winfrey as our future president during the 75 Golden Global Wars was not meant to be a political statement.
Of course it is.
You literally said president.
That makes it political.
Our in all capital letters.
This is the only one that's capitalized.
james mccann
I really thought it could have been Kanye for a while there.
joe rogan
Yeah, he could have made it.
james mccann
His policies were.
unidentified
Some of them were great.
james mccann
Some of them were genuinely good.
joe rogan
It's in reference to a joke made during the monologue and not meant to be a political statement.
We have since removed the tweet.
Okay, so there was a joke, but it was still a political statement.
Come on.
Even if it was like in reference to the joke, you saying that in all caps, our president is still a political statement.
james mccann
They've got to find somebody.
I mean, just for the future of this, JD Vance can talk to people.
I've seen long-form interviews with him where he actually seems like a normal human being.
joe rogan
I think there's a lot of people pushing James Tallarico now.
You know, we had him on the podcast, too, to talk to him because I've found it.
unidentified
He's the Texas guy.
joe rogan
He's a Texas guy who has some really important things to say, particularly about the potential for a religious, like a theocracy in Texas.
And that there's these very wealthy Christian fundamentalists that are driving this, like multi-billionaire guys that are driving this.
And that's how the Ten Commandments got in schools.
And he is a very religious man, and he does not believe the Ten Commandments should be in schools.
He believes that if you put the Ten Commandments in schools, it's actually going to push people away from Christianity because you're shoving it in their face.
And he's like, and it's also disrespectful to all the other religions.
You don't have their tenets and commandments.
james mccann
Have you seen the Ten Commandments in the schools?
unidentified
I have not.
james mccann
We went out to look at some of the schools, and it's fun because they like, they don't just put them up dryly on the wall.
Like they have pictures of all the things.
joe rogan
All the things you're doing, like sin?
james mccann
Yeah, this is weird when it comes to like, don't covet your neighbor's wife and there has to be like some weird little sexy picture or something.
unidentified
Really?
james mccann
Yeah.
joe rogan
Is she bending over in the garden?
james mccann
I think it was like a woman.
unidentified
Oh.
james mccann
Yeah, that was a strange one.
joe rogan
Well, how weird is that?
They have to draw it.
unidentified
I think it was a two step.
james mccann
It was just like language.
joe rogan
You got to draw it.
james mccann
I think it was in like the Spanish class where they had like, they had it written in Spanish, the Ten Commandments.
joe rogan
Anyway, Tallarico is interesting.
You know?
james mccann
Yeah.
joe rogan
He had a very bizarre argument about abortion that I felt like that doesn't jive with how most people view Christianity.
Well, he felt – what did he exactly say that was like super controversial, Jamie?
He said, like, somehow or another, that you think that it could be biblically permissible.
james mccann
I've heard this before.
I've heard people say that.
unidentified
I don't think it.
joe rogan
It doesn't seem to make sense if you really want to live your life biblically.
It doesn't make sense.
james mccann
But this is, lefty Christians are always like...
joe rogan
They have to find a...
james mccann
Like people will go, there's nothing in the Bible, there's nothing in scripture that says homosexuality is wrong.
And you're like, yeah.
Okay, but like, what are we, are you arguing that in like, you know, 2 BC Jerusalem, it was just chill to be a gay guy and they just never wrote it down for some reason?
Like, I'm not saying, like, as to how people want to live, that's fine.
But don't like come in and say the religion insists that people be gay or that like that the trans thing is actually fine in the Bible because it never says you shouldn't be trans.
It's like the absence of something in an old book that hadn't occurred to people is not an argument for its permissibility.
joe rogan
There is talk of a man lieth with a man being an abomination.
james mccann
And then they do, but then they go, that's about boys.
It's not about men.
We've got a very special translation that only we understand.
joe rogan
Is that what they say, really?
james mccann
Yeah.
They say it's about this is always about boys.
This is never about two.
joe rogan
But it says man lie with another man.
james mccann
Hey, I don't agree with them.
But it's all the like.
I think if you're going to have a religion, you should like not just try and twist the religion to be exactly what you think it should be.
joe rogan
Right.
james mccann
Like, that's kind of the point of religion is that it's something bigger and stranger than you that you're going to allow to, like, you're going to develop as a person with it rather than correcting it.
joe rogan
Well, I think if you look historically just in this country, the attitude that we had about gay people in this country was terrible, like in the 1930s and 40s and 50s.
It was terrible.
james mccann
Yeah.
joe rogan
Right.
And then somewhere along the line, there's the gay rights movement.
And then ultimately, in modern times, gay marriage.
So there's this progression where people realize like, hey, they're just gay.
Like, it's always existed.
But people had to hide it forever.
Like, you know, the Turing test story, right?
Alan Turing, the guy who invented the title.
james mccann
Do you think that as to whether the AI, you can tell if it's a person.
unidentified
Yes.
james mccann
Yeah.
joe rogan
Well, that guy was fed chemical castration drugs because he was gay in England in the 1950s.
Right?
So at some point in time, I think you have to take into consideration how long being gay was punished before people eventually just got to this realization.
Like you meet enough gay people, you know enough gay people, you have a gay kid, whatever.
You realize like some people are just gay.
james mccann
There are obviously people who are attracted to people of this action.
joe rogan
100%.
That's all it is.
And it's like you have to look at things through a cultural lens as much as you have to look at through a biblical lens.
Because it's not all God's word.
It's God's word written down by people.
And some of it is like, some of it is just so.
james mccann
That's very Catholic of you.
That's the Catholic coming out.
joe rogan
You have to look at it that way.
It's like there's just so much in it that doesn't make any sense.
james mccann
There's context and there's tradition.
joe rogan
And there's also translations.
james mccann
This is what I like about the Catholic.
I became a Catholic like eight years ago, seven, nine.
It was a number of years ago.
I'm forgetting how many years.
But I had been like sort of nothing and then sort of a Unitarian.
But I like this thing of like.
joe rogan
What brought you from sort of nothing to belief?
james mccann
I'd always believed there was something, but then I started going to Mass because a friend was going.
And when I was on the road years before, I would like be off on the road on a Sunday and have nothing to do.
So I went to mega churches for fun because they were very funny and very strange.
unidentified
What are megachurches like in Australia?
james mccann
We invented it.
We got it going.
unidentified
Really?
james mccann
Hillsong is that you guys probably invented it, but we took it to another level.
We did Hillsong.
joe rogan
Which Hillsong?
james mccann
Hillsong was the biggest one by far.
Justin Bieber was a Hillsong guy.
unidentified
That's Australian.
james mccann
That's Australian.
joe rogan
Oh, I didn't know that.
james mccann
Australian New Zealand guys and the guitar music and the smoke machines and the doing this.
joe rogan
Oh, and you guys brought that over to America?
james mccann
Yeah, I'm very sorry.
unidentified
Wow.
james mccann
I'm not a big...
But I would turn up there or a little Baptist church or something, but I would shop around and try, you know, who's got something going on.
But the megachurches offended me more than anything.
It was like, whatever is happening here is weird and gross and I don't like it.
Like they would have two pastors come out and they'd like riff and banter together.
And it was like a breakfast radio show.
joe rogan
Wow.
james mccann
They're going like, and they'd have like big projectors.
And I started going to the, I was a, I went to the Latin Mass and it was like, oh, this is a very strange ancient ritual with like bells and I don't understand what anyone is saying.
unidentified
Right.
And I just wanted to keep going.
I love it.
james mccann
I love it.
And the organ and the choir.
joe rogan
I think you made a really good point, too, about people coming in to this candle-lit room and everything's beautiful and ornate.
And just that alone probably has a profound effect on your psyche.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
They must have known that, right?
unidentified
They must have known that when they're creating these incredible a stained glass window, yeah, you haven't looked at a picture or a television screen ever, right?
And then you go into a building where there is light shining out of a man's face, and it's Jesus, yeah, yeah, yeah, and there's statues of him with covered in blood, yeah.
joe rogan
The throw the he's got he's on the cross right in front of you with the thorns dripping blood, and you're like, Holy shit, this is what I mean, though, about losing where it's okay with the AI.
james mccann
That's the Catholic thing, they always put him on there, he's always suffering.
Yeah, and at the megachurches, they take him off, they go, it's a big plus sign out the front.
What do you know?
Like, if at a Protestant church, they will have they'll have a cross, but there's no one dying on that cross.
joe rogan
It's just empty, it's just only the Catholics that have Jesus actually nailed to it.
james mccann
I think the Orthodox do it as well, but like all the Protestant megachurch people, they never show it.
That's interesting because they're winners, they want to go, like, we're increasing, we're getting more stuff.
And I don't want to exaggerate, but prosperity gospel people.
joe rogan
Lenny Bruce had a great joke about that.
james mccann
What was his?
joe rogan
He had a great joke about Jesus coming back and seeing you wearing a cross.
Hold on, he said it's like having an electric chair around your neck.
james mccann
Was that Lenny Bruce?
joe rogan
Yeah, and then Bill Hicks had a version of it.
Yes, Bill Hicks was like, it's like going up to Jackie with a rifle tended on.
james mccann
We're thinking Ivan Jackie.
I remember that bit.
jamie vernon
They were the oldest stained glass windows in the world, seventh century.
james mccann
Yo, that's what I'm about.
jamie vernon
Yo, Germany, Bavaria.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
They figured it out.
They're like, we've got to make this place more colorful, bring in more people.
They didn't have pyrotechnics back then.
They got to figure out a way to make it more.
Because if you see beautiful ancient cathedrals, like one of the things that I really loved about Italy is you could go to these ancient churches and go and look around them.
And there's like amazing artwork, amazing, like just the craftsmanship of constructing these incredible buildings.
When you go inside of them, it feels like something bigger than you has created this.
This is more beautiful and ornate than anything you ever see in your village.
Your village is filled with like boring ass houses and like little fucking tables and little chairs and everyone's sitting around eating spaghetti.
And then you go to this place and this place is insane.
And there's candles and the safety.
You're going off and you do this.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And you put the money in the basket.
james mccann
That's how I felt when I started showing up.
That it was some weird alien.
It feels like thousands of years old when they're doing it in Latin.
And the priest isn't facing you.
He's facing away.
Like you're all doing something together.
unidentified
Right.
james mccann
And it's mysterious.
joe rogan
Have you been to the Vatican?
james mccann
Never.
unidentified
Ooh, you should go.
james mccann
I would like to.
joe rogan
You need to go.
You should just see St. Peter's Basilica in the flesh.
It's beyond comprehension.
It took hundreds of years to make.
The craftsmanship is so exquisite.
It's like the artwork is so incredible.
You walk, first of all, it's massive.
I mean, massive and perfect.
You walk around.
You're like, what the fuck were you guys doing?
Like, who made this?
How long did this take?
james mccann
It was Shane's reaction.
unidentified
Every time Shane's talking about it, goes, yeah, we're number one.
We're number one, bro.
Look at that.
joe rogan
Pull up some images of like, look at what it is.
james mccann
Yeah, the wobbly column.
joe rogan
God, it's so incredible, man.
It's so incredible.
james mccann
And then it shits me when, like, Vatican II, I don't dismiss it.
I don't say it was wrong.
But when people, you know, like a modern church and it looks like there's a, you know, a carpet and straight walls.
joe rogan
Do you know how much time?
unidentified
There's no art on that.
james mccann
That's love.
joe rogan
Do you know how much time it takes to make something like that?
I mean, that is fantastic artwork.
When you walk into that place, it's breathtaking.
Like you walk in, you just go, wow.
Look how small those people are.
unidentified
Look.
james mccann
Yeah.
joe rogan
Look at the people.
Those people are walking, dude.
Look how tall that ceiling is.
unidentified
Look at the lights.
james mccann
And like acoustically, you can.
The guy giving the homily, people can hear him.
joe rogan
Yeah.
james mccann
Like it's built in such a way.
Like people used to know something about acoustics.
unidentified
Well, you could so psychedelic.
joe rogan
It really is.
Just looking at the geometric patterns on the columns and the ceiling, it's like it makes you feel like you're tripping.
So if you were there and you're like, walk into this place and you lived in some boring ass house, you would really feel like you're in God's house.
I mean, it feels like God's house when you're in there.
Yeah.
That's how good.
That's how much they believed.
They didn't.
They didn't cop out on this at all.
They went all in.
That one right there.
Look at that.
james mccann
I don't like it when people go like the church should melt everything down and give it to the poor.
Like this is a gift to the poor.
If you're poor, you get to go in there and look at that.
That's open to everybody.
unidentified
They're not putting that in a private.
joe rogan
They should never take that down.
Whatever they did to do it, maybe they shouldn't do it again.
Wherever they got the bad.
james mccann
It's a better planet for having it there.
joe rogan
Well, I mean, the Vatican controlled armies for a long ass time.
And it's nuts that it's its own country.
unidentified
That's weird.
joe rogan
So they can keep the pedophiles there.
james mccann
No.
joe rogan
They don't have to export them.
james mccann
They've tried so hard to crack down on the pedophiles.
joe rogan
Oh, good job, guys.
Just so crazy that one section of religion is commonly associated with pedophilia.
james mccann
The press was real bad because the scandals were real and there were lots of them.
But I would say, I mean, when I talk to priests and I look at Catholic schools and what they've got in place at the moment, I would feel like they're so on top of it.
So on top of it.
But there are definitely parts of society that in five, ten years, things will start coming up.
joe rogan
Listen, man, they catch pedophiles at Nickelodeon.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
They catch pedophiles.
unidentified
Wherever you see access.
joe rogan
There's pedophiles everywhere.
There's a certain percentage of our society that's fucking sick and they're sexually attracted to kids.
And it's a sick, fucking horrible thing that's real.
And it exists all over the place.
But the problem is it exists synonymously with the Catholic Church.
Because they've hidden those people.
They've shielded those people from prosecution.
They've taken them and moved them to new places where they molest more kids.
james mccann
I agree, but I would also say it's the only institution that it was early to declare that that was wrong.
Like before the Catholic Church, you had a pagan society where that was not, it was not questioned that that was acceptable.
joe rogan
Acceptable.
james mccann
Like in terms of, like, it introduces the standard by which you can go, it's wrong to be a pedophile.
It's wrong to have a boy.
Because the Greeks and the Romans were getting up to it.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
james mccann
It's not an excuse for people's behavior, but it's part of human nature that's been with us for a long time.
joe rogan
Well, I think it was part of their nature also when they would go on army campaigns and there was no women for years at a time.
They just fucked each other.
james mccann
In the legs.
joe rogan
They fucked each other in the legs.
james mccann
Into Cural.
I'm going to try to get away with that.
joe rogan
They're going to squeeze their legs together and use their legs like a titty fuck.
james mccann
Yes.
joe rogan
Nice.
james mccann
Because it was disrespectful to the soldier to put it in his butt.
He still has to fight the next day.
unidentified
Oh, really?
james mccann
You don't want him having a mobility issue.
joe rogan
So they were just coming each other's legs?
james mccann
In the legs.
joe rogan
That's not that bad.
That's just helping out a bro.
james mccann
Worst things happen on butts now.
joe rogan
Well, they also had the concept that if you were fighting next side beside your lover, you would fight harder to protect them than just another man.
james mccann
Yeah.
I mean, we're not getting couples to join up to the military now, though.
joe rogan
Well, right now we're not because everyone's soft.
But if we were at war, and you know how many guys would go to the game?
james mccann
You go draft men and women?
joe rogan
You know how many guys would go gay if you gave them three years with no women at all?
james mccann
You know, you can just draft a married couple.
You're in the same battalion.
joe rogan
Military men, hard as a rock all the time, filled with testosterone, running off to some part of the world to kill people.
No access to pussy for three years.
It's not going to be 0% go gay.
It's going to be a number.
james mccann
I think numbers are huge.
There was that test after World War II.
joe rogan
See how long it takes for you to go gay?
james mccann
No, they did a huge—well, kind of, because everyone had just come back from being, you know, like five years together in the war.
joe rogan
Gaying it out.
james mccann
And they ran a big, it was like a survey on sexuality and returned servicemen.
And it was some huge number of like...
joe rogan
Gay guys.
james mccann
It was not just gay guys, but it was also like bestiality was way bigger.
Because a lot of these guys had grown up on farms and things.
And so they're asking, like, have you ever had sex with a chicken?
And something like, I'm going to get the numbers wrong.
But it's something like 12% of guys being like, yeah.
Yes.
joe rogan
They fuck a chicken.
james mccann
I don't want to be getting that wrong.
But I think.
joe rogan
How many women fucked a chicken?
Zero.
You know?
james mccann
No, there's one lady in Thailand.
She's still doing it to this day.
joe rogan
She's not her idea.
james mccann
It's not out of love.
She's not an amateur.
joe rogan
Yeah, it wasn't her.
The guy that fucked the chicken, that was totally his idea.
james mccann
This is a big thing in your act.
This is a through line in your act.
Is that like, you're always like, men are the degenerate ones in these.
unidentified
For sure.
joe rogan
Well, that is a fact.
That's a fact.
I mean, we start all the wars.
We're responsible for most of the murders.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, one of the funny ones I had a bit about back in the day, I actually had a conversation with this guy.
He's like, do you know that statistically speaking, more men get raped than women?
I'm like, right.
By other men.
james mccann
Yeah.
joe rogan
You fucking idiot.
I'm like, they're not getting raped by cheerleaders.
unidentified
Wait, is that true?
Most rape victims are men?
joe rogan
Yeah, when you take into account prison.
james mccann
Oh, yeah.
unidentified
See, you take into account, you know, sexual assault and which is just accepted in this.
joe rogan
I guess it is.
james mccann
It's like that's part of the punishment that everybody knows is going on in prison.
No real efforts to stamp out.
joe rogan
Well, this crazy thing is Woke got so far that they let males identify as females, intact males, and go into female prisons because they're air quotes trans.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Which is the craziest loophole.
Like you would never think of all the things they restrict you from doing in jail.
You can't even have a phone, but you can go fuck girls and pretend you're a girl.
james mccann
I mean, once you know that exists as a loophole, you'd be very silly not to take it.
joe rogan
Also, you're dealing with people that are fucking liars.
They're prisoners.
They're in prison.
They're criminals.
So you're saying they rob banks and sell meth, but they wouldn't lie about their gender.
That is an honorary.
james mccann
Has this been stopped now?
joe rogan
No.
In California, at the time that I read last, there was 47 biological males that are housed in women's prisons with hundreds on the waiting list.
james mccann
But this is happening in...
joe rogan
It happens in Canada.
There's a lot of it in Canada.
james mccann
I mean, schools is a weird one.
We're like, there are single-sex schools, and then they'll have a trans person, and they'll admit them.
But like, you can be an M to F and they'll accept you into a girls' school.
But also, if you're a girl at the girls' school and you say, I'm a boy now, they'll keep you at the school.
So like, which, just ideologically, which is it?
Because if you are a single-sex school, then if a girl says, I'm transitioning to a boy, you should have to kick him out.
You should say, we believe that you are a boy.
Get out of here.
You don't belong here.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, I don't think there's an intellectual consistency with any of this.
joe rogan
No.
james mccann
It's just people going, this is making me uncomfortable.
Please do not get angry at me.
joe rogan
Yes.
james mccann
I'll give you whatever you want.
joe rogan
There's that.
And then there's also people that really do feel like they're in the wrong body, right?
So those people have always existed.
So the question is, what is that?
And is it possible that someone would lie about that in order to gain access to the women's room?
And that's true.
That's a fact.
So you always have to look at that.
Like, as soon as you say, oh, you have to believe them.
Okay, you believe a murderer who's in jail and you're going to pay for his boob job now?
Okay.
And you're going to let him go into the women's prison?
Because that's what's happening in Canada.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
They're doing that kind of shit.
james mccann
Doesn't everyone feel like they're in the wrong.
Like being instantiated in flesh is a weird thing.
Like it's uncomfortable to have a body.
It aches.
It doesn't do the things you tell it to do all the time.
Like we're all alienated from our body.
And there was an explanation for that for a long time.
Like with the gender, with the trans spike, that like this is the thing that is wrong with you.
Is why you're uncomfortable in your brain.
unidentified
But I think the numbers have collapsed in the last well, you know when they collapsed?
joe rogan
It coincided with Elon buying Twitter.
james mccann
Okay, I didn't know that.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah, the post-2024 numbers have dropped off a cliff.
When you stop offering that as an explanation, not only that, but you could talk about it now.
Whereas before, literally, if you wrote on Twitter that a male could never be a female, you'd be banned.
Yeah.
That's what happened to Megan Murphy.
They banned her.
They banned her from Twitter by saying a man is never a woman.
james mccann
Well, I remember they were banning people for saying what J.K. Rowling had said, but they're like, we can't get rid of J.K. Rowling because she's too big.
joe rogan
It would be completely, it was completely insane because you should be able to talk about anything.
And if you're wrong about that, like other people are going to correct you or have a better argument than you have.
And that's how you figure out who's right and who's wrong.
And for the longest time, there was no talk of D-transitioners being upset.
There was no talk of these things are actually chemical castration drugs they used to use on pedophiles.
That's what these things are.
Rapists and pedophiles used to be forced to take these drugs that you're now giving to pre-pubescent boys.
james mccann
Yeah.
Also, the new penises are.
joe rogan
Oh, God.
james mccann
I don't want to be sent any more of those.
joe rogan
Bro, the new penis.
james mccann
Shane was sending new penises after talking to you.
I've seen that.
joe rogan
Both of them are.
It's genital mutilation.
And with a lot of them, that these people have these thoughts about being a girl or being a boy.
It turns out they're just gay.
james mccann
But do you, I mean, but what?
All right.
Theory, possible theory.
joe rogan
Theory.
james mccann
Is that the ruling classes have always wanted eunuchs?
joe rogan
Oh, God.
james mccann
Do you know what I mean?
Like, if you're an emperor of China.
joe rogan
Oh, you just put on the full tinfoil hat rolling.
james mccann
Yeah, this is my tinfoil hat moment.
You put the whole roll on your head.
It's good to have a eunuch advising you because they're calm.
We're talking about this before.
The sex urge is gone and they can just use all of that.
joe rogan
Like a new dog.
james mccann
Yes.
joe rogan
All dogs are trans.
Yes.
james mccann
And so is that the effort?
Is that why you want to do it?
Is that why we have...
unidentified
Oh, God.
I don't think.
james mccann
That's a long-term play that the ruling class are breeding a new eunuch class to advise them and help.
Anyway, it's just a theoretic.
joe rogan
Well, I certainly think it's been accelerated by various special interests.
And I think some of them are foreign.
I think there's a lot.
There's real evidence that China and other countries have pushed on social media like trans ideology.
james mccann
Yeah.
joe rogan
And also fought against anti-trans people and attacked them online.
Like you see it, like these organized hate groups.
james mccann
Not in China, though, only in America.
joe rogan
In America.
Like doing it in America using different AI programs.
But LGBT issues are just one of the many things that they do that with.
They do that with immigration.
They do that with USAID.
They try to disrupt our system by getting us to argue with each other so they pose as us and argue, you know, and say wild shit.
james mccann
And some of that is being added now that on X, you can see where people are from.
joe rogan
It's interesting, right?
Yeah.
It's interesting.
Not everybody looks at it, but when you do look at it, you go, oh, you're in Africa.
This is kind of crazy.
james mccann
You're a white nationalist account in China.
Yeah, that seems kind of interesting.
joe rogan
Yeah, it seems weird.
There's a lot of that.
Yes, Renee DeResta did some research on that with the Internet Research Agency before the 2016 elections when they were talking about how these foreign countries had these things that were set up that were just designed to put posts on Facebook and memes.
And it was just designed to sway the conversation towards a certain direction.
And she's like, and the funny thing, she saw thousands and thousands of these memes.
She's like, some of them are really funny.
Like they're really funny memes.
james mccann
Who's making these?
joe rogan
Yeah, who's making these?
They're being made in Russia or somewhere.
james mccann
When I'm on the New York Times app, it feels like I know what their agenda is all the time.
And it's so nice to be like, I know where that's coming from.
I know that.
When I'm on X, it's like there's a lot of reality coming at you at once.
And then there's also definitely bots on there doing and it's too overwhelmed.
joe rogan
It's too overwhelming.
I try not to fuck with it anymore.
Every time I go on there, I just feel bad.
I just feel gross.
All of them.
All of them.
I try to stay off them as much as possible.
I feel better when I do.
james mccann
You're in a valuable position of just getting to talk to people who know what's going on.
You get to talk to.
I remember Christopher Hitchens.
Someone asked him, like, what newspapers do you read?
And he said, none.
I just talk to people who know things that I want to talk to, who I trust who know things.
You're a very well-connected.
Not everyone gets to.
You can have a phone call with an expert in something if you want.
joe rogan
That's true.
That's a huge plus to doing this.
But it's also you have to find out which expert is really honest.
You have two different experts.
Like if you have some sort of a court case, well, the defense will have an expert and then the prosecution has an expert too.
And they disagree.
So wait a minute.
I thought it was all based on fact and logic and science.
Like you guys are, whether it's DNA evidence or all kinds of evidence, there's like experts on both sides.
So you're always going to have some kind of dispute.
If you have complete, if everybody just like completely agrees with one narrative, there's something probably going on.
And generally speaking, what's going on is that they have control over that social media application, like Blue Sky.
Blue Sky is a perfect example.
If you just go on Blue Sky and type there was only two genders, banned, you're gone.
james mccann
Yeah.
joe rogan
You're over.
Like they don't fuck around.
james mccann
Which is why that one is being allowed, I think, in Australia.
So we're banning X for the under 16s, but Blue Sky is fine.
joe rogan
Yeah, you're going to turn people into the most radical of progressives.
james mccann
But they won't be false.
They're saying, here are the facts that you can agree on, and then you can have your disagreement within that bubble, but you've got to exist within a shared reality.
unidentified
Right.
james mccann
I'm getting freaked out by the New York Times app, and I don't like it, okay?
But so they'll have ads in there.
And they have ads for the New York Times in the New York Times app, right?
joe rogan
That doesn't seem smart.
james mccann
It's well, they're saying you should buy a friend of yours the New York Times app.
unidentified
Okay?
james mccann
You should pay for them to have it.
And then it's like, why should you do that?
So you can talk to, so you can understand the news together.
So you can share the world together.
Right.
They're like, isn't it terrible when someone has different facts to you?
Let's all have the same facts so that we can know our children again.
You should buy your children the New York Times app and bring them under the safe, warm umbrella.
And it is when I'm on there, it's like being in a weird bath or something where it's like a protected zone.
I will be deleting it at some point.
I enjoy doing the wordle.
But it's like, I'm just getting a second of, because I've been in Austin for like two years now, and most of my news has come through talking to Kurt Metzke in the green room.
You know what I mean?
And so I was like, just give me a taste of what a normie out there is experiencing is reality.
joe rogan
Well, the problem is those normies get indoctrinated just as much as anybody else does.
And so they get indoctrinated to thinking that the New York Times is the golden standard of accurate news reporting and it's not biased and this is the actual story that's going on.
And no, that's not always the case.
james mccann
I would say at least on the right, people are getting indoctrinated by like multiple different strange things.
Like the actual agreement, you can have arguments and discussions about things and people do.
You've seen that like meme where it's like, here's right-wing thought and it's all fucking over the place.
It's like, here's the left-wing thing.
joe rogan
It's like one dot.
And everything after that is Hitler.
james mccann
Yeah.
joe rogan
Everything to the right of that is Hitler.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
Yeah, I've seen those.
It's weird now that you're seeing all these right-wing people that are having public feuds.
james mccann
It's blown up.
It's been a big week.
joe rogan
What's happening?
Like, why did everybody lose the plot?
It's weird.
james mccann
Charlie Kirk was holding something together and now it's real.
I think people are, I don't know.
joe rogan
I think he was from his death out.
There's a lot of chaos on the right.
But is that because of his death?
Why are all these people attacking each other?
Or is it because there's people out there that are saying wild shit and then other people are being forced to defend them, whether it's Candace Owens or whoever it is?
james mccann
I think the conservative movement was always a weird bringing together of about three different things.
joe rogan
What are those things?
james mccann
Like foreign policy hawks, social conservatives, and big business people.
And William F. Buckley Jr., is that his name?
Are we getting that right?
But like the National Review, he managed to purge all the John Burge Society people and say this is mainline conservatism going forward.
And then Reagan was able to dovetail him with that.
And there was a coming together of two people who didn't.
It didn't make a lot of sense for a religious conservative and a big city finance guy to share a platform together.
But under that project, you could bring them together.
And that that it breaks apart.
And you can see it now.
Like there are a couple of things really breaking up.
Like where is the right fracturing in Arizona at the moment?
It's like Israel is a fault line.
There's no holding together the two wings of the conservative movement under Israel anymore.
Is there?
Like you, the Tucker Carlson wing of that discussion and the Ben Shapiro wing don't seem to be able to harmoniously go and lock some.
joe rogan
No, they hate each other.
james mccann
They really hate each other.
There's a conspiratorial wing and there's like a big business wing that don't want to get along.
There are like there's libertarians and there's conservatives and those they match up on a couple things, but not a lot of things.
In terms like, you know, what is a family?
What are our values going forward?
Should we have religious values in the law?
A lot of people on the right would say yes.
A lot of people on the right would say that's the never, no.
So unless there's like a unifying, like, I don't want to say strong man, but like one, unless there's a unifying figure to bring those two disparate groups together, I think their natural thing is to fight with each other.
And that's what's happening now is that it's the end of the Trump era.
He's not going to run again.
He managed to build some sort of coalition around himself.
And that's, I think Mr. Kirk's widow, whose name I don't remember, who had the gold outfit.
joe rogan
Erica Kirk.
james mccann
Erica Kirk.
I don't watch a lot of the speeches because I get all secondhand, but she's going like, we need to get behind JD Vance.
He's going to be the future of holding this together.
And he's trying to really stay out of it so that they he like he's not making a call one way or the other.
He's trying to allow the two parties to duke it out.
joe rogan
See who rises.
james mccann
I guess he'll see who wins.
joe rogan
Well, that's the thing.
Someone has got to win, right?
Like something's going to happen.
Or they're just going to just like diffuse the whole right-wing movement by being constantly at war with each other where there's no consension.
james mccann
Yeah, and this happens on the left as well.
Like the left, like the AOC people and the Nancy Pelosi people are not natural bedfellows.
joe rogan
Like what do they have?
What's the consensus?
Like what do they agree on?
They agree on immigration.
They all agree on immigration.
james mccann
Kind of.
No, big business people want heaps of illegal immigration.
Oh, cheap labor.
joe rogan
But the big business people, that is true.
There's some CEOs that have openly discussed the fact that they need that in order for their business model to work.
james mccann
Yeah, you've got like the Pat Buchanan wing of the party going up against the H.W. Bush wing of the party.
So I don't even think they can get around that.
joe rogan
Most people would say that having an open border, most people on the right would say having an open border is a real problem.
You need to close the border.
If you were a right-wing person, you ran on, let's open up the border again.
We need illegal immigrants.
We need the labor.
It would be over.
You would never win.
You would never win.
james mccann
You could govern that way.
And I think people did for a long time.
But you could never have that as your public.
joe rogan
You could let them sneak in, let it slip and slip.
james mccann
Well, like Bush is always saying, we're tough on the border.
unidentified
Yeah.
james mccann
These numbers are very goaling.
joe rogan
He definitely weren't.
He wasn't tough on shit.
But I also think he wasn't running anything either.
You know, I mean, it's hard to imagine.
Hard to imagine.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
So whoever was running it wanted to keep running it.
And that was a real problem.
That was a real problem.
That's scary.
Because then you realize, even though it's crazy to have a president, at least the ideas you voted a president in.
But if the president doesn't do anything and it's really a bunch of, like, as nutty as Trump is, at least you know he's doing it.
Like, nobody else is going to put gold all over the White House.
You know, he's doing that.
Nobody's writing.
james mccann
He's doing those packs.
joe rogan
100%.
unidentified
For sure.
joe rogan
He did the auto-penn thing.
At the very least, you know, it's him doing it.
Yeah.
And you hate him.
You love him.
james mccann
I think he wrote that Rob Reiner tweet.
I don't think anyone was in his ear going.
I think you should take a big stand against Rob Reiner today.
joe rogan
No, he wrote that.
He wrote that.
But as you can see, it was Brennan, Brennan and Clapper.
Those are the people that had the video with Rob Reiner, where he's literally talking at two spooks about how it's a real problem that Trump is the president.
jamie vernon
They're a criminal.
I think they called the Committee for Russian Investigation or something like that.
Rob Reiner did.
james mccann
No one apologizes for the Russia stuff.
joe rogan
No.
It's crazy what they did.
james mccann
The COVID stuff, no one apologizes, fool.
joe rogan
No.
They completely lied.
As much as you can hate him about a lot of things that Trump has done, you can't just let people get away with making a fake story about him colluding with Russia.
Like, that's a fake story.
The Steele dossier was literally, all that stuff was funded by the Clinton campaign.
unidentified
It's crazy.
james mccann
Yeah.
And the Epstein stuff coming at now is.
I mean, we'll see what happens with that.
joe rogan
Well, you guys were talking right before the podcast said, Jamie said there was a big dump.
What happened with the big dump?
jamie vernon
Big dump.
joe rogan
You said there was a big dump today and they fucked up.
That was your take.
They fucked up.
jamie vernon
The fuck up was people have found out that the redactions weren't really redacted.
joe rogan
Dun, dun, dun.
jamie vernon
That's a big mistake.
Like, you can copy and paste and put another document and see the redactions.
joe rogan
Oh, like a Photoshop deal?
Like, you could get the layers away?
jamie vernon
Yeah.
james mccann
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, whoopsies.
That's what happens.
You get fucking people working for the government that are dorks.
jamie vernon
Then, which is like steps to this, I wasn't following at all, but the Department of Justice has tweeted a couple interesting things today, starting with this one eight hours ago, so it's like 6 a.m. or something.
joe rogan
Department of Justice has officially released nearly 30,000 more pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein.
Some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election.
To be clear, the claims are unfounded and false.
And if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.
Nevertheless, out of our commitment to the law and transparency, the DOJ is releasing these documents with the legally required protections for Epstein's victims.
jamie vernon
Some of those documents have been deleted now.
joe rogan
Okay, so they're saying that 30,000 more pages of documents and some of them contain untrue and sensational claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election, right?
But by who?
jamie vernon
People are just sort of taking it as a grain of salt, saying, so nobody else, it's all in the untrue about Trump.
Nothing else.
All the Bill Clinton photos were definitely a picture came out of a letter that seems to be a potential suicide note written by Epstein, written to Larry Nasser.
The facts of that are strange.
There's a postmark, which is three or four days after he died.
joe rogan
Wait a minute.
Larry Nasser.
jamie vernon
Yeah, who's also in jail?
joe rogan
He's the Olympic guy?
jamie vernon
Yeah.
joe rogan
The doctor that was the pedophile?
jamie vernon
Yeah, and he hits like a letter writing, like, hey, you know why I'm in jail.
I know why you're in jail.
Boy.
joe rogan
That seems weird that he's writing a letter.
jamie vernon
He says he's taking it.
That starts off saying, if you've gotten this, you know I took the, in quotes, short route out, which.
joe rogan
Short route home, right?
Yeah.
jamie vernon
But there's some weird details.
People were like, they said, they're saying this is fake or maybe fake.
joe rogan
Did they get a handwriting expert to analyze it yet?
jamie vernon
Peering doesn't.
I started asking the questions.
It's like, well, then why did it come out?
How are you, you know?
joe rogan
Oh, so the FBI, it says the FBI has confirmed this alleged letter from Jeffrey Epstein to Larry Nasser is fake.
Fake in all caps.
Trump wrote that.
He gets busted by the fake letter.
Fake letter.
Was received by the jail and flagged for the FBI at the time.
The FBI made this conclusion based on the following facts.
The writing does not appear to match Jeffrey Epstein's.
The letter was postmarked three days after Epstein's death out of Northern Virginia when he was jailed in New York.
The return address did not list the jail where Epstein was held and did not include his inmate number, which is required for outgoing mail.
The fake letter serves as a reminder that just because the document is released by the Department of Justice does not make the allegations or claims within the document factual.
Nevertheless, the DOJ will continue to release all material required by law.
Well, this is how they probably should have done it from the beginning, right?
Release all material and then refute whatever you say is fake.
And you say, okay, it didn't have his inmate number.
It's not his handwriting.
It's fake.
It was three days after his death.
It was postmarked from Virginia.
He was in New York.
james mccann
But don't make it look like you're covering it up.
joe rogan
Right.
Release it.
james mccann
I have seen on Twitter people complaining about like they're not meant to censor anything due to embarrassment.
But when it's like Ghelane Maxwell's boobs, they will censor it out.
This has been illegally censored.
You must by the law of the United States, show me her boobs.
joe rogan
I need to see them Areolas.
james mccann
Is she in prison in Texas?
joe rogan
She's in, you can kind of call her prison.
She does yoga, plays cards, hangs out.
james mccann
Is she allowed to talk to people?
joe rogan
I don't think so.
She's not allowed to podcast, I'm sure, if that's what you're getting at.
james mccann
I am.
That would be a really exciting podcast.
joe rogan
If everybody wants to die, that would be a really good podcast.
james mccann
I think she's just a nice, normal lady.
joe rogan
Do you think Trump on the way out pardons her?
james mccann
She's a nice woman.
I wish her will.
I don't know.
joe rogan
The weird thing is she's in jail for sex trafficking to who?
james mccann
Epstein.
unidentified
Right.
james mccann
But was it from him?
I think it was 16 years old in Florida and it was directly to him.
I was briefly, I experimented with being like a non-Epstein believer.
joe rogan
Really?
james mccann
Yeah, for about two weeks.
joe rogan
What did you think was going on?
james mccann
I was like, maybe he's just a pervert who liked getting back rubs from 16-year-olds and he had famous friends.
Because everyone was like, he's Mossad.
He's CIA.
joe rogan
What do you think now?
james mccann
Yeah, he's obviously something.
I just thought everyone in the green room was saying he's Musashi.
I was like, maybe the controversial thing would be to not believe this.
joe rogan
Take the contrarian position.
james mccann
I just wanted to try, experiment with the contrarian position.
And it's getting harder and harder to hold that.
joe rogan
Yeah, it seems like the more they dig into his past, the more it feels like he was part of some sort of intelligence agency.
james mccann
Well, like channeling offshore money for people.
joe rogan
How about the fact that he just got a slap on the wrist during the first case when he caught a case and then whoever it was, was the prosecutor or the judge was told that he was intelligence.
james mccann
There was a, yeah.
And then someone retrieved.
I listened to a podcast on it from like some Matthew Schmitz, who's Compact magazine.
And they were making out that it was an anti-Semitic plot to say that Epstein was secret intelligence.
And it's genuinely, although I don't agree with them, it was one of the best put-together podcasts I'd heard.
joe rogan
Look at this.
Suicide watch observation lot.
2.15 a.m.
Inmate states his cellmate tried to kill him.
james mccann
Inmate sitting on bed trying to rebuild him.
jamie vernon
He distracted it, saying he has no idea what happened, but there's pictures of him showing his wounds and stuff.
I think he also said he woke up and didn't know where those wounds came from.
joe rogan
Oh, so that's the guy, too, by the way.
jamie vernon
You know that.
joe rogan
That's the cellmate.
The giant dude.
Oh, so the cellmate beat the fuck out of him.
I don't see any wounds.
jamie vernon
Oh.
joe rogan
Where's the wounds?
New release documentary.
unidentified
Jesus.
joe rogan
Semi-conscious with neck injuries.
jamie vernon
He had marks around his wrists.
I didn't see his hand.
joe rogan
Did you see his neck?
jamie vernon
He can't really click on a good picture.
james mccann
It's a video?
joe rogan
Oh, okay.
jamie vernon
It's a video.
His hands were swollen.
I think I said his ankles or feet were swollen, too.
joe rogan
Oh, so the guy tried to grab his neck and choke him.
jamie vernon
They said they investigated.
They didn't find anything.
joe rogan
Found no evidence of foul play.
I didn't do nothing.
He says he didn't do nothing.
I don't know what to tell you.
You're okay.
Get back in jail, you pedophile.
That's probably what they did.
But the guy probably tried to kill him.
I mean, it looks like a guy that would try to kill you, and he was definitely a murderer.
james mccann
Yeah, if you're in a jail cell with a pedophile, I think that's unusual to try and kill that guy.
joe rogan
Also, you're a big giant guy who's in jail for murdering four drug dealers, and you're a cop.
Like, I was always saying that you get him to kill that guy for like a pack of cigarettes.
I think he's going to be in jail for the rest of his life, forever, for sure.
And you can give him like awesome special treatment if you whacks Jeffrey Epstein.
james mccann
Man, I was really trying.
I tried so hard.
I went on podcasts trying to say he was killed.
Did you?
Yeah.
I wish I hadn't.
I just thought it was a cool bucking back against the grain thing to say.
And I was saying he was charismatic.
joe rogan
Yeah.
james mccann
Why wouldn't famous people want to hang out with this charismatic person?
joe rogan
At the point.
james mccann
That photo where he's with Michael Jackson?
His loafers are incredible.
He had a great sense of style.
jamie vernon
Right, right.
james mccann
But I do.
And then there's things about him discussing with, you know, he's talking to ex-prime ministers of Israel about how to move money around or something.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's the former prime minister of Israel.
Used to visit him at his Manhattan Place with like a mask over his face.
He'd like pull his fucking, have like one of these things on.
You ever see him?
unidentified
No.
Yeah.
joe rogan
See, there was pictures of him trying to cover his face as he goes into Epstein's house, which is what I always do when I go to my friend's house.
james mccann
You cover your face?
joe rogan
Yeah, you don't want anybody knowing.
You go to the ring doorbell.
unidentified
There's also Nixon mask on.
james mccann
More Prince Andrew ones now.
joe rogan
Oh, of course.
james mccann
And he's...
joe rogan
Well, there's a reason why they literally kicked him out of the royal family.
They banished him to a mansion somewhere in the hills.
james mccann
I don't think he'd been.
Yeah, it's not good.
It hurts my regard for the beautiful royal family that I love very much.
joe rogan
I bet you do.
You look a good royal family.
unidentified
I love a royal family.
joe rogan
Look at that dude.
james mccann
Yeah.
Why are you studging the paparazzi?
joe rogan
Oh, for sure.
Paparazzi are always in front of a financial guy's house.
A bunch of chicks leaving.
james mccann
A lot of people seem to love hanging out with this guy.
unidentified
A charismatic guy.
joe rogan
I thought he's a lot of fun.
Had cool people at his parties.
james mccann
It was with Woody Allen he was hanging out?
joe rogan
Bill Clinton.
james mccann
Bill Clinton seems to have a great time in all of the photos.
joe rogan
There's a lot of people who seem like having a great time.
Michael Jackson was hanging out there.
james mccann
Michael Jackson didn't look like he was having a lot of fun, though.
joe rogan
I don't think he had a lot of fun, period.
unidentified
Right?
Michael?
joe rogan
Tortured individual.
james mccann
He had a roller coaster.
How could he be unhappy?
joe rogan
I don't think that was for him.
unidentified
That roller coaster was like a moment.
joe rogan
You put up a turkey when you go turkey hunting.
You put up a fake turkey.
Bring in the turkeys.
james mccann
His father made him dance too much, and that's why he wanted to spend the night with boys.
unidentified
I can't defend Michael Jackson.
joe rogan
No, you can't.
Who could you defend easier, Michael Jackson or Epstein?
james mccann
Well, we don't have any.
I mean, probably with Michael Jackson because the music was great.
joe rogan
The music was great, and his doctor said he was chemically castrated.
You know that?
james mccann
I don't.
joe rogan
Yeah, the doctor that went to jail for giving him propofol that wound up killing him.
james mccann
It's a general anesthetic.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
That doctor, when he got out of jail, spoke publicly about the fact that Michael, when he was young, was giving chemical castration drugs to protect his voice, to keep his voice from deepening.
james mccann
I'm on the record saying the castrati should be brought back.
joe rogan
Think so?
You're on the record?
james mccann
Yeah.
No, over and over again, I say, if we're going to have trans people.
joe rogan
Make them sing?
james mccann
You get it regarding how well you can sing.
joe rogan
But you've got to do it when you're really young.
james mccann
It's got to be before puberty.
unidentified
Yeah.
james mccann
I don't really believe it, but I do want to hear the castrati again.
We've got one recording that's not very good.
unidentified
It's weird.
james mccann
Have you heard it?
unidentified
It's eerie.
joe rogan
Yeah, we played OpenSpodcast a bunch of times.
It's kind of macabre.
james mccann
But people loved it at the time.
unidentified
They were sick people.
james mccann
And only the Italians.
Because the Italians were bold.
joe rogan
What a crazy move.
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
Castrate balls off when he's young so he could sing at a high pitch forever.
james mccann
Well, I think that would crush them because they didn't have antiseptic.
I think cut them off is...
joe rogan
Well, they do.
unidentified
They crushed their balls.
james mccann
I think they'd crush them and then put them in a bath of milk.
But do you know about the swan thing?
joe rogan
What'd they do to crush the balls?
What'd they use?
They just smash them?
james mccann
But it was illegal.
joe rogan
That was the thing you did with your hands.
That was a terrible.
james mccann
It's not good.
But they would deny it.
The families would never cop to it because it was illegal to castrate your son.
So you would come up with an excuse.
And there's like one town in Italy where over the course of a year, they reported hundreds of swan attacks.
That's what they would say.
joe rogan
Oh, good.
james mccann
They would say a swan flew into my son's testicles.
And that's why he's now the best singer in Milan.
joe rogan
And they did it so their son could make money, just like a theater mom.
james mccann
But the people loved it.
Like, when there was the last one and they were going to retire it, people were chanting.
Crowds screamed, long live the knife.
They wanted it to keep going.
Do you know about this?
joe rogan
Long live the knife.
james mccann
Yeah, there was widespread popular support not to get rid of the castrati.
unidentified
Oh, my God.
james mccann
People wanted to keep hearing it.
joe rogan
Bro, that's terrible.
james mccann
But they must have sounded really good.
joe rogan
Well, we heard the recording.
Want to hear it?
james mccann
Apparently he was no.
unidentified
He was not recording?
james mccann
Apparently he was one of the worst ones.
jamie vernon
Many of these operations were performed by local barbers.
joe rogan
Oh, the razor.
james mccann
I guess I did use the razor size.
I should have guessed you were across the castrati.
I could have guessed that would have come up on this show before.
I didn't know you'd played it a bunch of years.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, we played it before.
We'll leave on this.
jamie vernon
I don't know if you can.
joe rogan
Can we play it?
jamie vernon
This is one of those videos.
joe rogan
Yeah, somebody might have owned it.
james mccann
I actually, I got into an argument about it because I put it on a video once and I got challenged and I challenged it back because it was recorded so long ago.
jamie vernon
Oh, yeah, it should be an open.
james mccann
Do you know what I mean?
jamie vernon
That's true.
james mccann
There's a Wikipedia recording.
It's totally open.
No, I'm across the.
joe rogan
Man, we don't want to deal with it, though.
james mccann
How come no rappers are sampling the castrati?
Danny Brown.
joe rogan
Maybe Diddy when he gets it up.
jamie vernon
Maybe you could.
james mccann
I'm not even going to try and be a Diddy defender.
I thought about it.
joe rogan
You said you contrarian.
You do think about it.
james mccann
Yeah.
It would be nice.
I just don't have enough time to research it properly.
But if I had all the time, if I didn't have kids, I would be spending all my time becoming the best Epstein defender because it would be a cool thing to say at parties very stridently.
Wouldn't that?
joe rogan
That's such an Australian thing to think.
We got here.
jamie vernon
It's just a quick explanation.
I mean, they've really summed this up fast.
joe rogan
Time roughly beginning of the 17th century, the mid-19th century, an era with the science of anesthesia, anesthesiation.
Still had some way to go.
And here we go.
Before making the first cut, a surgeon would send a patient into a semi-comatose state by plying him with an opium-based drink and compressing his carotid arteries.
james mccann
Oh, there's the milk.
joe rogan
Then the boy would be plunged into a bath of milk or hot water to soften the necessary parts, at which point speed was of the essence.
Cut the spermatic cords, remove the testicles, tie the ducts, and then fingers crossed.
Oh God.
jamie vernon
Oh God.
james mccann
But what is it about the Italians that were the only people to do it?
joe rogan
Why are you fucking with my people?
james mccann
I know I'm saying it's kind of a greatness of spirit.
joe rogan
No.
james mccann
Because that's how much you loved music.
jamie vernon
It's disgusting.
james mccann
Other people were trying to take over the world and build empires, not in Italy.
That's what you were doing in this.
joe rogan
They just didn't know that AI could just fake it.
We could make an AI castrata.
Maybe we should close on that.
Let's have AI do a castrado.
james mccann
I reject it.
I reject AI castrato over.
joe rogan
Papa was a rolling stone.
james mccann
Can you do that?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Let's do have AI make a cover of Papa Was a Rolling Stone as an opera castrata.
Or castrado.
Is it castrato or castrada?
james mccann
I think it's castrati is the plural.
joe rogan
Castradi.
jamie vernon
Right.
joe rogan
But is it a castrate?
james mccann
Castrado?
joe rogan
Is it still a boy if you cut his nuts off?
james mccann
Well, you'll get in a lot of trouble in Britain for saying the opposite, but yes.
Ladies loved them.
unidentified
God.
james mccann
And they were big.
joe rogan
Can never get hard.
james mccann
No, they could.
Really?
Yeah.
joe rogan
How do you know?
james mccann
I read a lot about it.
joe rogan
Maybe they lied.
james mccann
They would have sex across.
No, women would go and try and have sex with them.
Because they couldn't get pregnant off the back of that.
joe rogan
But how'd they get a boner if they didn't testicles?
james mccann
They still got there was still testosterone in the body.
joe rogan
Like a tiny amount, Patouche by the test.
james mccann
They got real tall, though.
They got huge.
They would be like seven foot tall.
Really?
And this is why they could sing so well: their bones in their rib cage wouldn't fuse.
Like, there's something in puberty that's meant to come in and like stop your bones growing that happens when you're a child.
So they'd have like this huge rib cage with huge lungs and a tiny little boy voice.
unidentified
Yeah.
james mccann
With like huge amounts of air flowing out.
joe rogan
Oh, that's crazy.
james mccann
I'm just saying, why can't we, if we're going to have all the trans kids, doesn't one of them go identify as a castrati?
Couldn't one do it?
joe rogan
Maybe you're planting the seed in someone's head right now.
james mccann
I don't want to do that.
I don't want to do that.
joe rogan
Well, maybe they already went through with the other thing, and they're like, well, let's make the most of this.
You know?
Make some lemonade.
james mccann
Castrate doing.
unidentified
Have you got.
james mccann
Can you really just type it in and make it?
joe rogan
Yeah, but how long does it take to render?
jamie vernon
The problem is the lyrics.
joe rogan
The lyrics?
jamie vernon
Those lyrics are copyrighted.
james mccann
You could have a song.
joe rogan
Oh, we can't play it.
james mccann
The Star Spangled Banner.
jamie vernon
That's the whole thing.
unidentified
Oh.
jamie vernon
That's how you make these songs.
I don't want to get into it.
joe rogan
How are they doing that?
You don't want to say it?
Okay.
unidentified
All right.
joe rogan
We're swap.
james mccann
Is it a secret?
joe rogan
McCann, we're going to miss you.
You'll be back.
unidentified
Thank you.
Thank you.
jamie vernon
I got one.
Hold on a second.
joe rogan
Oh, you got one?
unidentified
Oh, here we go.
All right.
Here we go.
It's not.
joe rogan
It's not quite eerie enough.
That sounds like a regular guy.
james mccann
When you hear that one guy, it is out of worldly.
unidentified
It's creepy.
joe rogan
It's creepy.
unidentified
All right.
jamie vernon
Make good songs.
joe rogan
McCann, I love you.
james mccann
Thank you for having me.
I really appreciate it.
joe rogan
It's always fun hanging out with you.
And I'm excited about tonight.
We're going to have some fun.
james mccann
I think so.
joe rogan
Yes, sir.
unidentified
Okay.
joe rogan
See you in a bit.
unidentified
All right.
joe rogan
Bye, everybody.
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