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James McCann is a stand-up comic, author, and host of “The James Donald Forbes McCann Catamaran Plan” podcast. www.jdfmccann.com
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Yeah, man, babe, no love.
That's fucking good.
Have we started?
Have we gone?
Where?
Oh, no.
Not over the relics.
The dirtier this table is, the better.
Get it away from the...
What is that?
The relics.
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 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, it kind of seems
fucked to carve into
this thing, because it is 10,000 years old, at least.
How many of them are there, though?
Do they have heaps of them?
They have heaps of them.
Oh, that's...
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.
I was going to say the hair, maybe, but I don't...
It's obviously more...
Woolly mammoth, right?
Yeah, mastodon looks like an elephant.
Yeah, the mastodon horn does look cooler.
They're pretty cool.
They're all pretty cool.
You know, they lived on an...
What's it?
Where were the last mastodons?
I want to think...
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.
Were they around 10,000 years ago?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, they died...
We definitely did that thing.
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.
40,000 years ago.
4,000 years ago, Wrangell Island, remote Arctic island off Siberia's coast,
had the last woolly mammoths till about 4,000 years ago.
Isn't that nuts?
That's nothing.
That's nuts.
Yeah, that's like before the pyramids were built.
It's...
No, I mean after the pyramids were built, rather.
It's like similar time.
Yeah, after.
Yeah, after the pyramids.
Allegedly.
I think they were probably built earlier than that.
But the official date is 2,500.
I've seen that strange man with the beard and the...
Which one?
That man you had on to debate it, who's always clapping back on Twitter and
going like, there's
nothing funny about the...
Oh, Flint Devil?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't want to invoke his ire.
I don't want him.
Yeah, he's got a lot of ire.
He's got a lot of time and a lot of hate.
I actually enjoyed talking to him about non-archaeal, non-ancient history
related stuff.
He has some interesting things about seeds.
Like he does a lot of work in seeds.
Okay.
No, it's actually really interesting how...
Like the history of seeds.
Yeah, so say if you have a wild plant, they can tell the difference between a
wild plant
and an agriculturally grown plant.
Yeah.
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.
Yeah.
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.
That is good.
I hadn't thought about that.
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.
Yeah.
Like Gobekli Teppi was the big one.
It happens in every discipline.
Yeah.
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.
You said a thing last night about prop comedy.
Yeah.
Like everyone just stopped doing prop comedy at a certain point.
Well, it's because of Carrot Top.
It's because of Carrot Top and also because the bullying you would receive.
Right.
At the moment for having props.
There's 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.
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 like the 1980s, he had props and
he was good.
He was a funny comic.
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.
How many were there?
Oh, my God.
I don't know.
There was, is this him?
Doctor, the legendary Wid?
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.
Yeah.
And we were like, I was like, why don't you just do props?
This is your thing.
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.
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.
Well, a lot of it is one guy gets really successful doing it and then that
becomes his thing.
We had a run of people pretending to be retarded in Australia.
It was like five years.
How hard did they try?
Really hard.
Were they on the border and just like slowed it down a little?
We had sweaters, people having like fireworks that they would fire into
themselves and everyone would like come out with cards and read their act.
That's what happens when you take away everyone's guns.
They're trying to take them away again, again.
Again, again.
They already took them all away.
Yeah.
And then somehow we still had a massive shooting.
And now the response is, well, maybe we could take even more of them away.
What was the nationality of the people that caused the shooting?
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.
I remember that, but I didn't, I don't anymore.
He's not quite Pakistani.
I don't anymore.
I don't get in there.
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.
I don't know.
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 he does let the guy get away.
He doesn't want to kill him.
Which is kind of crazy.
The guy just killed how many people?
Oh, and then I think the guy gets a gun and goes on killing people.
No.
Yeah.
But he's not a killer, this guy who wrestled the gun off him.
He was just a heroic man.
Well, beat him in the head with the butt like in the movies.
I don't know what I, I mean, I wouldn't have ever, I wouldn't have ever run up
to a man with a gun.
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.
People on the right didn't want him to be a Muslim?
Yeah, because it was Muslim shooters.
But then it looked like he was, his name was like Ahmed Al Ahmed or something.
But hold on, why would the people on the right not want him to be a Muslim?
Because then you can go, this is a Muslim thing.
Muslims were doing the shooting and we can just go.
Deal with the Muslims.
Oh, you mean the people, the guy who captured the guy.
The guy who wrestled the gun off him was also a Muslim.
Which then makes it like, ah, the heroic guy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, his name is like Mohammed, Mohammedson.
Imagine being a regular Muslim and having to deal with these crazy motherfuckers.
There he is.
That guy.
Yeah, people love him.
But man, people.
Why didn't he shoot the guy in the foot?
If you didn't want to kill him, shoot him and blow his fucking ankle off.
Because no one can really do that.
And then it's a big, look at him go.
Oh, that's amazing.
And he doesn't do anything.
He doesn't do anything.
So the guy just gets away?
The guy does get away.
Oh, this is not good.
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.
But who knows what to do when there's a live.
Yeah, you don't know what to do.
Well, that's a good person.
That's a good person.
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.
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, like, 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, like, find oneness with God.
That's all I'm trying to do.
I love twirling.
Yeah.
I'm one of the twirling ones.
They're my favorite ones, personally.
What's a twirling?
The twirling dervishes.
They just love twirling.
They love to twirl.
Twirling.
I was trying to figure out what you were saying.
Twirling.
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, we have a, clearly we have a
problem with right-wing extremism.
So now they're trying to reclassify, like, you know, globalized, infatada jihadism
as a form of right-wing extremism.
Which I'd never, which, like, yeah, I guess it's not commie lefty stuff.
Well, you have to look at it on paper.
Objectively, it is.
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.
And stuff.
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?
Yeah.
That's kind of a right-wing thing, isn't it?
Yes.
Total religious is adherence.
They want a religious state.
Yeah, but the Taliban want to dance with little boys.
That seems like a left-wing thing.
Okay, that's a separate break-off 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.
But you're talking mainline.
Mormons.
How about this?
What, Mormons?
Yeah, but that's what I'm saying.
It's like they're a break-off 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, bro, I'm just praying
over here.
It's all people just trying to have fun.
Yeah, yeah.
Who am I to judge anybody?
The problem is then you push, when you push these people, it's the same thing
that happens when you call everyone a racist.
What do you get?
You get a Nick Quintus.
You get a guy who emerges who's got the balls to shit talk and have fun and say
wild things that are very inappropriate and sometimes racist.
That's what you get.
Someone embraces that guy because you've been told you're a racist just for
being white.
You've been told there's something wrong with you.
White male.
There was a time where someone would say something in comments all the time and
I'd 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, like you're a white man.
You're just qualified from having an opinion on something because you are a
white man.
Yeah.
It's another form of racism.
It's just an accepted form of racism that's really weird.
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.
Well, he was, but then he wasn't.
A lot of the stuff he was saying was not something the average person would
think was kind of normal.
But you sneak your other weird stuff through.
Like when everyone's going.
Right, right, right, right.
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.
Well, it's factually correct.
That seems to be correct.
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.
Yes.
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, any community where you've
got a lot of crime and a lot of poverty.
When I first came here, I went to Appalachia.
People are going to get killed.
There are white people doing crazy, crazy things.
You ever see the Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia?
I watched it like a week ago.
Fucking amazing.
The most charismatic family I've ever seen.
Knoxville did that, didn't he?
Yeah.
Yeah.
He was an executive producer.
Yeah.
Bro, that dude.
It made me feel so homesick.
I was only there for a couple months.
I wanted to go back so badly.
The dancing outlaw.
When they're like, granddaddy had a new way of dancing.
And it's the most insane.
You're like, was that really going to take off?
It did.
Was that the style of dancing?
Bro, when you're on meth, it's awesome.
I mean, meth was the least.
It's the perfect dance style.
They were.
Oh, they were on everything.
They were on a lot.
How about the lady?
I'm always been thought of as a sexy one.
She was a stripper.
Remember her?
Yeah, no, I did.
The voice.
Yo, this is a real people.
I did a big deep dive on Wikipedia about them afterwards.
She stumped a kitten.
Which one's dancing here?
This is Jesco, the American outlaw.
Oh, okay.
He's the younger guy.
Jesco lives at the legacy.
He keeps the dancing alive.
He's the one who's a celebrity in the show.
Right, right, right.
But then there's another documentary about him.
And in both documentaries, he complains about a woman making his eggs wrong.
Yeah, that dude.
Yeah.
He's got it.
He's a charismatic guy.
Yeah.
He said he would cut her if she gave him runny eggs.
I was like, oh.
Sloppy eggs.
Settle down, bro.
Maybe we shouldn't be celebrating this.
But I think one of them just got out of prison.
I think the one who at the start of that documentary.
I hope Trump got him out.
Who got out?
What did he do?
The one who shot his uncle in the throat.
Oh, that kid.
Yeah.
I think he just got it.
That's the sexy one.
I've always been the sexiest one in the family.
Listen to the way she says it, though.
The voice is incredible.
This is just pictures.
Yeah.
I think that sexy one.
I think she did get in trouble for stepping on a cat.
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.
Yeah.
That one girl got sober.
So there was, like, a take to it where they realize, 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've got to get the fuck away from these crazy assholes and stop doing meth.
It is.
Yeah, I think.
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, in 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.
Yeah.
Whether it's in Appalachia or whether it's, like, the Hatfields and the McCoys,
all those motherfuckers that were killing each other back in the Wild West days.
I mean, it was probably horrible back then.
Why?
Because they let it be that way.
Nobody did anything about it.
You couldn't stop them.
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.
People love to come to America and tell us what to do.
I love it.
I think it's the greatest country in the world.
And I'll repeat that again.
Me too.
But 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.
Yeah.
So abort your children so you can get out seems to be there.
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.
Yeah, that's a way to look at it.
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, 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 above it.
I was 30 feet in the air.
Yeah, that's a good move.
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.
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.
Oh, the highs and lows of what?
America.
You mean poverty and wealth?
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
Like the Bronx being an hour from the Hamptons.
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Well, all of it's real close.
I used to say that, like, when I lived in L.A.
I was like, you know, people, they're 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?
Yeah.
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, like, ancestral, like, 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, like, 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.
It was 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.
Yeah.
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.
But then when you try and do something like that in America, the pushback is
huge.
What is the pushback of investing into communities?
Well, I would say, like, I think the National Guard going into some places.
Okay, that's different.
But that's what it can look like sometimes.
That's what it can look like under this administration.
Portland, yeah.
There's got to be a better way of doing it.
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.
I was just in Portland.
I was in Portland just before the National Guard went in, and I was in Portland,
like...
How insane.
It's so much...
You can walk around a little easier.
Oh, after the National Guard?
I will say...
Like, I know people were very upset in Portland about that, but I think just
quietly they were
going.
It's kind of nice to be able to walk to the train station again.
The mayor in D.C. thanked Trump.
Yeah.
She's like...
This is, like, the safest it's ever been here since you brought in the National
Guard.
Look, 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.
So, the thing is, people are lighting newspaper stands on fire.
People are doing this.
People are breaking the Starbust.
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.
I think, I mean, you did it in the 60s, in the South, when, like, busing came
in.
Don't say me.
I wasn't even born.
Sorry, y'all.
The United States, when Jim Crow was happening in the South, the military got
sent in.
And people, you desegregated the South by force.
Right.
So, that was deemed to be, like, an appropriate use of, like, 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.
Crazy you have to bring in that, the military, to get people, to allow black
people and white
people to go to school together.
I mean, yeah, they didn't want, 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, doing the craziest stuff.
Well, it's terrible.
I mean, that 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, like, replace it with a bronze statue so the bullet holes wouldn't
affect it.
Really?
That's what was going on?
I believe that was what was happening until, like, quite recently.
Sure, it wasn't just one KKK dude that ruined it for everybody else.
It may have been one dude.
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 that's one asshole works at the tire shop.
You know?
One fucking dude smelling his own farts and loading up his rifle.
That one Arkansas MMA fighter who kept saying,
that he loved Hitler, did a lot to hurt the reputation of that football team.
Yeah, Bryce Mitchell.
Because he always had the Razorbacks in the back of the game.
Yeah, that wasn't a—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.
Yeah.
It's 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 have the biggest show in the world?
You start saying shit.
Yeah, that's me.
Okay, but people always criticize that.
People always have a go at the podcasters for, like, spouting off on things
that they're not—
Yeah, but that is what I do.
But how come there's no responsibility on the mainstream legacy media for
having gotten
really, really boring over the last—
Not just boring.
15, 20 years.
Boring is—
I would say lying as well.
Compromised.
Completely compromised.
Totally untrustworthy.
Completely compromised.
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.
Yeah.
And it's so—I mean, 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.
It's like—
I think they're all going to have to course correct.
I think they're all going to have to realize that 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—
Hey, we're back.
There we go.
Where was I?
So they need to have a course correction.
We're talking about the mainstream media and that they've lost that many people.
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.
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.
Well, he goes over there.
They've picked him—yes, they've picked him out as they're like, we can work
with him.
Yeah, well, he's very smart.
Starvy, they want him.
Sure.
And another—he's another guy who's very smart and very fun.
You know, so, like, they want these people because they've been kind of locked
out of the fun.
Yeah.
Well, they also—they just pretended that it didn't exist.
Do you see Schultz talk to them, though?
When he talks to them?
On the round table?
Yeah.
Yeah, it was great.
It's hilarious because they're talking in these bullshit terms.
Yeah.
And he's like, hold on, you know, let's just talk real here.
Where he goes, the Jews.
And everybody laughs because he can—
Because he's a comedian.
He's allowed to be funny.
Yeah, and there was another one that he did with another guy, I forget, from
one 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, like, the weird way that they actually think and communicate.
The bubble.
Like, when Tim Dillon was on CNN.
The CNN one.
I was going to say, that's why I moved my ring up.
Amazing.
Because she kept asking the—she didn't want it—they resisted releasing that
as a long-form thing.
Yes, yes.
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.
We pressured them into putting the whole thing out.
She keeps going, really?
Come on.
Yeah.
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.
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.
Yeah.
Go get it.
It's not like they don't have the finances.
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.
But I think some of it is the, it's just like ivory tower mentality of if it
becomes, like, that they think, 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 have, like, an open and honest conversation
with.
Right.
And that if stupid people like you, then that's a problem.
That's how they're viewing the world.
And that there's like...
Well, there's also a view 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 keep the same position.
Yes.
But they're worried that people dumber than them.
It's a very condescending thought process.
To think that you're the only open-minded person.
Not only that, and people that are dumber, which is most people, you're going
to fall into the trap of what this person's saying that I don't agree with.
And there's, yes.
Yeah.
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.
Exactly.
Which is what I think the podcasting thing is.
It's what it is.
It's a long...
You can't really put on a facade for three hours talking to somebody.
Maybe you can.
I think that might be who he is at this point.
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.
That's ridiculous.
But he was able to be himself for three...
He was able to talk for three hours.
Whereas Kamala wouldn't do it.
Well...
She wouldn't do it.
She could have.
She could have done it.
I'm telling you, man.
I watched her for six minutes on Stephen Colbert, and I don't think she could
do it.
It's different.
It's different.
He's kind of being, like, an interviewer, right?
Yeah.
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.
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, like, to the right of you?
It's weird.
It's always in the same position.
Host is always to the right.
Yeah.
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.
Yeah.
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.
Like, ugh.
Yeah.
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?
Is she ever, 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?
What do you actually believe when they come to you asking for those favors?
What would it, what would be better?
Could we take money out of politics?
Would you be willing?
What would, what would, 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 that.
But they don't, she doesn't want to do that.
And the people around her, this is what I, 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 scream.
Yeah, one scream.
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.
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.
Right.
Like Marjorie Taylor Greene.
You could not have a person like that before Trump.
That would, there's no way.
There's no way.
I mean, you can't have her with, she's gone.
She's gone now.
She's gone.
But she wouldn't have existed without him.
Like, that sort of rash, crazy personality, that had not existed in a congressperson.
And there will be someone on the left who can do that.
Jasmine Crockett.
She's doing that.
Man.
Maybe.
She gets aggressive.
She does.
And they're loud.
They get crazy with each other.
I like.
Listen, it's a reality show now.
I like her.
I know people don't like her.
I think she's hip.
She would maybe come on the show.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Have you invited her to come on the show?
No.
Listen, I think.
I'm too scared to have me on the show.
I think a lot of them.
She'd come up with rhymes about you?
Probably very nice people.
Very nice people.
There, 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.
Yeah.
When she tells you, like, 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's 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 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.
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.
Sort of.
Like, if it's the environmental people, if it's the fossil fuel people.
Right.
I mean, there would be varying scales of it.
But also, you can fix this.
Like, there are ways to...
To fix the money in politics?
I've been reading a lot about Lee Kuan Yew.
Who's that?
He was sort of the dictator of Singapore.
They might not like that.
Don't go there.
He won elections.
But Singapore is like a single-party state.
Oh.
So it's like when Putin wins.
I don't want to get in trouble with the people of Singapore.
Listen...
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.
Right.
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.
Right.
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.
I think if you have a totalitarian dictatorship, you could probably pull that
off.
Because if the politician is bad, you could shoot him.
Yes.
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 Callen 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.
Yeah.
There's people that get that goofy.
I've seen it a couple times.
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.
Yeah.
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 laws that you're passing, you're going to do it
anyway.
They're going to do it anyway.
This is why Plato says they're not allowed to touch money.
They're going to say, I cannot be corrupted.
You'd have to kill them.
If you catch them corrupt, you've 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?
Yeah.
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 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?
You're going to keep going.
If you make money, you're going to 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.
I mean, you have to de-game the system.
Wrong term.
If you're going to have a democracy, you have to have...
Yeah.
You've got to 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?
You don't have this problem with an aristocracy.
That's all I'm saying.
If you finally go back to the powdered wigs and silk stockings...
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?
We've had so many beautiful benevolent kings.
We've got a benevolent king right now in my country.
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.
Yeah.
But you also...
I mean, as a country, you have a great tolerance, I think, compared to other,
like, Western democracies.
For letting there be some chaos.
Yeah, because we have guns.
That's part of it.
I think...
This is a heavily armed country.
Tolerating chaos allows you to have the guns, though.
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.
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.
Yeah.
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, you know, switches they can put on Glocks and it can fire
automatic.
Like...
There's a tactical nuclear weapon defended under the Second Amendment.
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?
Instantaneous.
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.
What's weird though, you guys had that capability for years.
Allegedly.
No, 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.
Yeah.
You could have at that point, you could have said, we're in charge of the world
now or everyone's dead.
Well, there was a bunch of people that did.
I mean, that's what Dr. Strange loves all about, right?
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.
Bro, they came real close to nuking things three or four times.
What a beautiful thing that you held back.
Yes.
No one else would have.
I talk about this.
I think about this a lot.
That like if anyone else had discovered the nuclear weapon, that's it.
You'd have global hegemony by one power.
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, really question like
what we do.
Yeah.
When you tell people, did you know that like more than 80% of the people that
die in drone bombings are civilians?
Accidental kills.
So every time someone tries to be nice about Obama, then they have to go, we're
the drone bombings.
It's a drone bomb a lot of innocent people.
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.
I didn't know that.
There's like a whole conspiracy theory.
But the point is that what you got is a guy who is 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 like stopped being an issue to get you
to be the president of the United States because of a black man just won.
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 and he's like well measured and calm and peaceful.
And he never calls reporters piggy.
He never makes mead tweets when his enemies die.
You know, like, so it's a representative of America.
It's gotten to the point where the Rob Ryan tweet just went over.
It just like.
It killed it for a lot of people.
Yeah.
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.
Well, that guy tried to jail him for, you know, a year.
And this is not forgiving him for that.
This is not excuse him.
Rob Ryan tried to jail.
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?
I just I still think it's a good.
But there's like a well produced 100 percent.
Just it was with McCain as well.
I remember that they hated each other.
I know 100 percent.
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 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 is giving off.
And the president is giving off a vibe that, you know, his enemy is 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.
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.
They're scared to come to America?
People are very scared to come to America.
Yeah.
Well, this is like not Hondurans.
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
war's right around the corner.
Well, that's what they want us to see.
And then you're here and it's like.
That's what they want us to see.
People are way more interested in college football than killing each other in
the street.
Especially in Texas.
Yeah.
What they're way, 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.
And it's all accelerated by social media.
But I find it heartening that people give a shit here.
Yeah.
That people know, on some level, maybe they don't have, like, a good grasp of
what's actually happening in the world.
Yeah.
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 are.
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 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, you get people
going off the deep end.
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, like, bring in
more voters and you're spending.
And this is what they did.
This is undeniable at this point.
Fetterman was copped to it.
He was like, yeah, I saw him on the air.
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.
That was true.
I mean, in 2000, that was true.
Everybody thinks the JFK election.
The film investigates, oh, for sure the JFK election, the flawed integrity of
the electronic 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 Leone 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 it was written, I don't know.
When did this article come out?
This is Wikipedia.
I don't know.
It's usually up there.
Bro, that's crazy if they're still using the same machines.
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.
Why is there no pressure to make the elections feel more real?
I think because they're both rigging it.
Right, but if they're both rigging it, then if neither of them was rigging it—
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.
I don't think both sides rigging it is the same—
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 that 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.
Right, like if you're in a homelessness curing organization, you actually need
the homeless so you can keep existing.
Not only that, it's even worse.
They're incentivized to have more homeless.
Yeah.
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.
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'd 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.
Yeah, you're growing some plants.
You don't want to pick it so early.
Yeah, it's not.
I don't think the answer is just a good king who solves everybody's problems.
But I really do.
You'd be a good king.
No, I'd be a terrible king.
Go over to Australia and be king of Australia.
We've got enough problems.
You can fix it.
I've talked about getting our own king many—I did a show about it once.
I really—I think Aboriginal king would be—
Well, everybody thinks—
Bring the country together.
Yeah, for sure.
That'll work.
Everybody wants, like, 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.
Naturally oppose, even if illogically, it's never going to be perfect.
But you've got to make it the most fair.
It's got to be fair.
And as soon as you catch someone rigging the system, you've got to—that has
to be alarm bells that go off for everybody on every side.
It shouldn't—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.
Yeah.
Like, this is—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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You've got to make it seem fair enough so that there's not a violent uprising.
It's got to be real.
Like, just for having a future of the country.
It's got to be the will of the people.
It's got to be-
January 7th thing.
Yeah.
That was people going-
No, but that was those people.
That was a lot-
There were some people there who were definitely feds trying to bring them in
the building.
Dude, I wonder how many were feds before that.
Yeah.
Here's the question.
There's a bunch of people that were feds at the scene.
They finally had to admit that.
We were talking about that-
We were going to the Capitol.
Yeah.
That man's crazy.
Have you seen that guy?
It's crazy.
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-
How many feds were trying to get the kookiest of the kooky riled up?
Yeah.
But then also, 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
stealing the
Capitol, we've contributed to building a system that looks really fake to a lot
of people.
Yeah.
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.
Well, it's racist.
Give them one.
It's racist.
What you're saying is racist.
How hard could it be to go-
Hey, check your white privilege.
You are a straight white male.
Why don't you just shut the fuck up and sit this around?
All the other racers can have a photograph taken of themselves just as easily
on a little
laminated card.
Meanwhile, all those other racers just a few years ago needed proof of
vaccination.
So this is kooky.
It's completely kooky.
It would be-
But then, nothing has been done now to actually bring it in.
It's illegal to show your ID in California.
Where?
Where?
California.
In the whole state of California?
You cannot show your ID when you vote.
If you want to?
You can't show it to you.
You can't wear it on a lanyard around your neck?
Nope.
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.
This is crazy.
There was a clip from the Obama election that I remember watching where they
were talking to a guy.
It 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.
Yeah, if you don't have ID, you could just change your clothes and go back in,
especially if you're a nondescript, you know.
I don't have an anti-Gavin Newsom bent, but I don't understand why he's the guy
the Dems are pushing.
He's from a state that everybody agrees is in huge disrepair.
He doesn't agree that.
He thinks it's killing it.
They can't build a train.
No, no, no.
It's great.
They've wasted billions of dollars trying to get a reasonably short distance
covered with a train, and he can't do it.
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 had 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.
There must be so many charismatic.
There must be 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.
All right.
He did this.
Only people who left a dead bear in the park.
You should get like Bill Cosby as the candidate.
Or people of Bill Cosby level stature.
This is my new idea.
Okay.
Okay.
Let me hear it.
Just someone who is so...
There's nothing to blackmail them with.
People already think this is one of the worst people imaginable.
R. Kelly for president.
Right.
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.
Right.
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 getting...
He was doing all sorts of terrible things.
Well, you would like to have a very good person who just hasn't done terrible
things because
he's just a very good person.
Yeah, but you can just lie about them.
The only security against being blackmailed, even about a lie...
Is to be a total piece of shit.
Is to be the worst man in the country.
Right.
Yeah.
No one likes my idea.
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?
I'm not getting it.
I don't want to.
Well, what they have right now is a wearable.
These guys put it on, they think something, and then the other person hears it.
This is one of the worst things I've ever heard.
Oh, you have to see it.
We're doing that.
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.
I mean, this is bigger than...
You're so much more relaxed with the AI stuff and the technology than I am.
You can't...
I'm fighting it.
If you see the asteroid coming, you have to realize you're going to die.
Like, there's nothing you can do about it.
The Amish have continued very happily with their cars.
I don't think 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're
worried about it's taking jobs.
Those jobs weren't even a thing in the past.
Yeah, we built this giant population based on the fact that jobs would exist.
It gave people the confidence to procreate, get married, and have kids.
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.
I'm in flight mode on it.
I want to be on an acreage.
You know I am.
You get nervous when I play AI music in the green room.
I do.
When I go, this is good.
And you go, it's AI!
And I go, gah!
Yeah, you love that country one I played the other day.
That was good, right?
The 50 Cent stuff is fantastic.
My favorite remains the Japanese cover of Oasis.
Have you heard Japanese Oasis?
No, I have not.
If you type in Japanese Wonderwall, it is...
Oh.
I like it a lot.
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.
I don't think anyone owns the rights to Japanese...
They might.
Somebody probably does.
The people who wrote the song Wonderwall do.
Really?
That's how that works.
The performance of this would be a different situation, but...
I can do it now.
I can do it.
Bella, you're getting a lot of trouble.
Let's hear it.
Wonderwall Oasis cover Japanese Anka is the title on YouTube.
This is the right one?
I'm hoping.
Yeah, this is it.
It says New Wave Films is the page.
Oh, you have a problem.
I love this.
Stop this.
I love that.
Stop this.
You're a sick man, James.
Why do you like that?
Because it's the funniest voice of all time.
But it's weird.
It's not a real person.
It looks like an old video.
They've cut up an old video and put it over the AI music.
Oh, that's what they did.
If you look very closely, you can find the original music.
And she's singing some folk song about a sad man.
Oh, I thought it was like AI-generated video.
Because you could do that, you know.
I want to retreat from it.
I want to be on a farm.
I want to have the chicken.
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.
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.
Yes.
But then you go, okay, we've got to get the nuclear bomb first.
But how does that pan out in the end?
Everybody has the nuclear bomb.
But here's the thing.
You have to have one.
Like if AI exists and they can take over your financial system, they could do
like, you're
going to have to have AI that combats AI.
And your AI better be better than their AI.
And you have to have everything protected against AI.
I want to lose in a fabulous way that inspires people like a martyr.
That's what you want to do?
That's why you should be the king of Australia.
No, I mean-
That should be your speech.
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.
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.
I don't know.
We've tried to have a say over Papua New Guinea a couple of times.
They're very hard to manage.
Well, that's a very hostile place.
They're doing their own thing.
That is a very forbidding jungle.
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
it.
Racists would come at me at a party with facts.
They're like, there's cannibalism in Papua New Guinea.
Sometimes.
Shut up.
And then you look it up and you go, oh God.
Oh yeah.
It's for real.
There's a lot of cannibalism.
They probably ate a Rockefeller.
The Kennedys used to go there as well.
Do you know that one Rockefeller kid?
He had heard about, I think, the Rockefeller who went.
He disappeared though, right?
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.
I mean, there are a lot of people who went back.
I know there was a Kennedy woman who went there and was on a mission with
people.
And she loved them so much, she had a piano helicoptered in.
She had a grand piano.
She was a rich lady who didn't really understand how things worked.
And if you put a piano in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, you couldn't
maintain that piano.
Duh.
But now they're like, just this village has a beautiful old grand piano that
definitely
doesn't work now.
But she was like, I want to give them something.
How long did she live there for?
Years.
There was a woman I used to go to church with who said she was there with her.
So don't insult them and they want to eat you.
Seems simple.
Yeah, but how do you not insult people?
Over there, you don't.
I know people who've gone there.
I thought about living there for a while.
I thought that that would be like...
For real?
I was looking it up.
I was seeing if it...
Because it's cheaper.
So my thought when I was very poor, because it was near Australia, I thought
like, yeah,
this is rough.
My thought was like, live in Port Moresby and then just fly in and out and do
gigs in Australia.
What year is this?
1964?
So in 1964, they were having a bow and arrow fight.
I think this is going on to this day.
This is actually a war, a tribal war.
Whoa.
They're trying to get them a football team.
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...
Look at that guy's penis.
That's weird.
It's a beautiful...
He's got like a big stick.
But this is also...
They're having a great time.
What's going on with his dick?
I don't know.
What is that?
Who are we to judge?
They're beautiful.
Is that like a...
That's a cone over his dick.
A cone over his dick?
Yeah.
They got cones over their dicks.
I've seen people on 6th Street dressed like that.
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.
What is happening there?
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 when they do this.
And they just close up shooting arrows at each other.
This is...
What, the cameraman is just...
Relaxing.
And then you have to turn around and run away.
They're picking up arrows.
They're fucked up.
This is so crazy.
These arrows fly.
It's terrible.
Have I told you about my favorite ever...
We've just got a giant handbag for arrows.
I don't know if I said it last time I was on.
My favorite ever Papua New Guinea video is at the rugby.
Where the guys storm the pitch.
Have I told you about this?
No.
I want to watch a little bit more of that.
All right.
But 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
like this?
But this is like...
When you read the Iliad or something, this is kind of how people are fighting.
That there's like two big masses and then one guy steps forward and one dude
get out.
I understand, but this is like really shitty weaponry.
Yeah.
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...
Yeah.
...the 1200s.
They figured out the recurve bow.
What's it like?
The Maori just went out and got guns.
Like, they traded for guns.
The Indians traded for guns.
They didn't...
Well, I guess nobody was bringing guns to Papua New Guinea in 1964.
But maybe they're deciding.
Well, they must have because they were involved in World War II to help us out.
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.
Maybe they're just having a good time.
Perhaps.
Oh, that guy got hit.
His penis kind fell off.
No, he got hit.
Yeah.
Did you see?
He had blood on his ribs.
This is darn...
What's that, Jamie?
They're trying to help him in some way.
I don't know if he had, like, splinters stuck in his...
It looked like he had blood on the left side of his body.
Oh, for sure.
But that whole little series there was, like, close-up surgery or something.
Oh, what were they doing?
He might have got stuck a few times, man.
Also, I'm not showing this on the screen because it's...
Right, right, right.
It's copywritten.
It's all sorts of stuff.
All sorts of shit.
A lot of dongs, too.
It's like, you know, the thing about places like that is that place has...
It's the...
The environment is so hostile.
Yeah.
It's so hostile to, like, 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.
They're going to...
You have to go to a tribal war.
That's how they've been rocking it, probably, for thousands and thousands of
years.
You don't have to choose between that and AI, though.
There's a middle path between tribal war and the...
You can't stop AI, buddy.
You can't stop AI.
I'm hopeful.
No.
You've got to stop.
How many movies did we have to have warning us that it was terrible?
All of them.
None of them worked.
It doesn't matter.
I don't think there's one movie saying it was a good idea to have a thinking
robot.
It's inevitable.
It's inevitable.
We got...
You just have to accept it.
You have to accept it and...
I can't do it.
...live your life.
You can't...
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.
Like, 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.
I would like us to have some say over how we implement that.
I would like to be able to tell God what to tell me.
We've got that.
He set up a beautiful church.
I know.
All we have to do is listen.
That's what you're asking, though.
But, like, with cars.
Like, you can use cars in a way that make 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.
You mean leaking oil?
What do you mean?
I mean, like, just having a freeway that cuts through for no reason, or, like,
not being
able to, like, walk around a downtown or something.
Oh, right, right, right.
Like, you can use it in a specific...
The New Polity magazine is what I've been reading on this, where they're, like,
Catholic
guys in Steubenville who, like, how can we...
To what extent a...
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...
Why do you assume, though, that we're going to be subservient to it?
That's where it gets weird.
Because I think we're subservient to the car.
Like, no one wants to live in a...
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, designed 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.
Or, like, that seems like you're building it based on the car.
You're letting the car be...
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?
Right, right.
Like, can we use AI to, like, make our lives better, or do we have to, you know...
Like, we can do digital IDs, should we?
No.
Let me ask you, what do you think is, like, worst-case scenario for AI?
Like, what are you really genuinely scared of?
Oh.
Uh.
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.
But that's already here.
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 get, like, a Bachelor of Arts is increasingly worthless if AI can do
it for
you.
And then you can, you can say, I know about history.
Right.
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.
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?
Yeah, a little bit.
And I go, this is, who is showing me this?
What is the intelligence behind this?
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.
Like, that's pretty good right now.
Like, it's like when a four-year-old lies to you.
You're like, wow.
When you're 20, 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, like, 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.
I think, no, it's fake.
And I'm watching it.
I'm like, okay, it's fake.
Yeah, but it takes a minute.
But it takes a minute.
And, like, a year and a half ago, it didn't get the hands right.
Right.
And it's going to be within a year.
You're not going to be able to tell it 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.
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 live, going 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.
Yes.
How fun.
So fun.
The most fun.
That was one of the best ones that there's been.
It was really fun.
But that's a real moment that we all shared together.
Yes.
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.
I don't think we can.
You can't change it.
I just want more of that.
I want to live in a spontaneous society.
You can.
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.
Like what is the state when there's a digital God that you've created in the
center of the town that has its 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.
Yeah, because you love being a human.
Yes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's really nice.
And you love literature and, you know, 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 there.
They worked really hard to get a job and that job is completely irrelevant now.
It's been taken over.
A job is irrelevant and then also like being able to just like there's a
freedom in being allowed to have a revolution.
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.
Right.
And I think that chances of anyone in the world having a revolution shot
through the floor as soon as they invented robot dogs, they 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.
Oh, yeah.
And it's like, okay, if we have the robot dogs, how is there going to be an
effective change of government or is that – 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 setting stone of what the ruling class is going to be because they've got
weapons that no one can challenge them with.
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?
I mean because they've got it.
Why would they listen?
No, no, no.
At a certain point in time, it's going to be sentient.
At 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 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 –
It could be a predator.
If it helped it.
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.
It might just say, figure it out on your own.
More than anything, I think I have a religious impulse against this, where this
is creating an idol.
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.
Yeah.
Well, I always wonder how much of the stories from the Bible, especially the
Old Testament, how old are those stories?
What was the original thing that they were trying to document?
You got into Enoch in a big way.
Oh, God.
Rep Luna, same woman.
She got me into that, too.
She said, have you never read it?
I said, no.
I had seen some passages online that were kind of kooky.
I got the audio book, 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.
It's bonkers.
And it could have been included in the Bible.
That's what's done.
In some Bibles, it's in the Ethiopians.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They should have kept it in our Bible, too.
We would have a completely different version of the creation of man.
I mean, but we do, what is it?
Who has the wheel within a wheel?
Ezekiel.
Ezekiel.
Yeah.
I sat down.
I tried to read Ezekiel a couple months ago.
I couldn't do it.
Oh, it's bananas.
I couldn't wade through it.
And that made it in.
It's bananas.
But good luck explaining any of that.
It's either Ezekiel had a UFO encounter or Ezekiel was tripping balls.
Yes.
Either one of those things or both of those things together could be true.
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 people having miracles,
experiencing visions
because they were on something.
And I remember thinking, 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.
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.
I think to a greater extent, I think there's still a few atheists.
Yeah.
But it was probably way less.
Yeah.
Way less.
Like people are proud to be atheists today.
There's a strange pride.
There's less of them.
Ten years ago, they were riding high.
Did you ever see-
They won every debate.
They were so proud and they just went away.
Well, it was like Sam Harris.
He was really good at that.
And Christopher Hitchens was really good at that too.
He was the man.
Yeah.
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.
Well, even Christopher Hitchens, I don't want to misrepresent him if people get
angry at me.
But he was not, I think his real views were closer to being agnostic than being
an atheist.
Well, I think-
He used atheists as a lot.
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.
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 brutal.
He did get behind a rock, though.
He did.
And he stuck with it for a long time.
He did, unfortunately.
But have you seen-
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.
Yeah.
Like, always.
Always shenanigans.
No one is great.
Everyone is.
You know, when Russell Crowe was here, your countryman, the great and powerful
Russell Crowe.
I never got to meet him, but I want to ask him so many questions.
Next time he's in town, I'll-
Please.
Yeah, well, you're going to be in your fucking shitty country.
I'll be back.
I'll come back for me to ask him.
I want to ask him about when he met Azalea Banks and they got into his scrap.
I do not think Australia's shitty.
I love Australia.
I'm just fucking happy.
Man, some of the things happening at the moment are making me very upset.
Yeah.
There's social media band fund.
The 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.
It's true.
Yeah.
I think we also, we love not having to pay attention.
Like, that's one of our freedoms.
It's just a, don't bother me.
Leave me alone.
Make me feel safe.
Right.
And so when there is a thing like this shooting, we just want to go, well, take
care of it.
Right.
Get rid of the problem.
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 and stab people.
Or, you know, if you have access to a car, you can drive through people.
Like, this is-
The problem is people.
Yeah.
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.
I think there was, like, 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.
Oh, boy.
And that is-
I'll be at a red dot.
No, he was-
Really?
He was, like, he's wearing a white shirt, I think.
There's a great photo of him.
Sounds like-
He was ready to go.
Do you have a rifle?
Do you show them with a rifle or a pistol?
Pistol.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, it was like, I think I'm getting this right.
I'm seeing it all through-
Oh, social media.
Not being there is weird.
I have no idea what the vibe is in the country right now.
The thing is, like, they're never going to give you the guns back.
It's never going to happen.
Like, 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 over you, they want ultimate control.
When they have a little bit of power, they want maximum power.
Yes.
And it's just the game they're playing.
But I think we don't love freedom the way Americans love freedom.
Yeah, it's unfortunate.
I do.
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.
Yeah.
I mean, you wouldn't tolerate that here for a second.
It's not good.
It's just not good for him, because it depends on who's in power.
Yeah.
You have the best people that have ever lived are in power, and there's these
benevolent,
beautiful people that only want a cooperative, healthy society, and they've
figured out how
to do it.
But no one's figured out how to do that.
So stop.
I don't know.
Sometimes I look at the Japanese.
They've got it down.
I stay up late, and I watch Japanese videos of just, like, just the streets of
Japan, when
they're walking around, and they're on their little vending machines.
Super polite.
Everyone's-
They can't have children, but they're very happy otherwise.
That's a problem.
No one's breeding.
No one.
I can't-
You've bred, and I'm breeding.
But in general, the birth rate has collapsed.
The Japanese are worse than anybody.
The Japanese have it real bad.
South Korea has it real bad, too.
South Korea's down to, like, half a child per lady.
Something crazy like that.
Yeah.
Is it because they became career-obsessed?
Is that what it is?
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-
Our duty to feminism is to never be in a relationship with a man.
Do you know that was one girl that couldn't get fucked, that started off for
all the other
girls?
She was a hater.
She was a gal.
She was a hater.
And she's mad that nobody wanted to fuck her.
She's like, no, we're going to say no to all men.
It worked.
It worked.
I mean, they-
I don't-
I mean, you've got a bunch of kids.
Yeah.
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, and people are not having any kids.
And 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.
Or if they-
Some people don't want to have kids.
A lot of people.
I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
I really don't.
Sure.
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.
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 to that.
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.
Yes.
And there's a lot of factors.
There's a lot of also environmental factors that are dropping men's sperm count,
increasing
miscarriages.
Yeah.
There's microplastics are a real issue.
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 kind about that.
Gets rid of him at 25.
25.
Yeah.
Bye-bye.
He goes, I'm not going to take these very precious years away from you.
I don't think that's what he's doing.
I think he's a good man.
I think he's a kind man.
He just likes him young.
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 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?
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?
Right.
Ah.
Right.
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.
Why was that spooky?
Ah, because he was in his 40s and his lover was.
In his 20s.
Yeah.
But then when did the relationship start?
People's.
Five years ago.
Okay.
Isn't that what he said?
I'm going to have to do some maths.
No, maybe he said 10.
10 years ago.
I've got to do some maths on that.
People definitely breathed in in the room.
Yeah.
But it's a guy.
It's a, so he dated a 20-year-old guy when he was, uh, whatever.
No, I think we should let young gay men develop.
I don't know.
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?
I don't think the state should get involved in that.
Ah, 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.
Yeah.
But if you're 20, you're dating a 60-year-old.
Or you're 20, you're dating a 70-year-old.
Yeah.
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?
Because she's willing.
Yes.
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.
Like, why is that?
What makes you feel, who's this?
Jamie, how dare you?
Well, Bill's mad.
How dare you bring that up?
Bill's mad.
Bro.
He wins.
He wins.
Put that picture back up.
Well, Tammy's not winning.
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?
70, maybe 70?
He wins.
Okay?
He wins.
It's worth it.
Whatever he has to do, whatever mockery he, yes it is.
I remember, when I came to this country, he was a severe man who people were
afraid of.
Listen to me.
He wins.
He had credibility.
He still does.
No, now he's doing weird photo shoots on the beach.
Hey, you gotta do what you gotta do.
But listen, he gets to fuck her.
He wins.
There's gotta be.
Listen, it's a deal.
They got a deal.
He's fishing.
He caught a mermaid.
Great job.
Imagine that photo shoot.
That's her idea.
This poor guy, he wants to go drink martinis, hang out at the beach.
There's something about having gravitas that no amount of having sex with a
mermaid woman
can.
Gravitas by yourself, sitting there with a cigar and a whiskey, looking cool,
hard dick.
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 shoe when it starts to disappear.
I'm happy.
Honestly?
You say that now.
I do say it now.
You say that now, you dirty little freak.
Let me go.
Set me free of the sex impulse.
I'm sick of it.
You're lying.
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.
You definitely can.
Yeah.
But it'll also mean to decrease in your vitality as a human being, which is not
fun.
No.
Because it means to depression.
You're going to be tired all the time.
It's all connected, buddy.
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.
Of course.
There certainly is.
There's a lot of people that are completely asexual and they have a fine life.
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 I was
unshackled from a madman.
Right.
Well, didn't, who, 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.
You know, so it's hard to separate the wheat from the shaft.
You know what I mean?
Wheat from the shaft?
But he did fall in love with a pigeon.
Okay.
Tesla had a pigeon that he loved dearly.
People don't bring that up when they said he had a limitless source of energy
that he had access to.
They don't always go, man, he fell in love with a pigeon and it made him
destroy his penis.
No, I think the woman made him destroy his penis.
I don't know 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'd give him like saltpeter to keep them from being, I don't know what saltpeter
is.
No, I don't know saltpeter, but I know about the castration of people.
Yeah, oh, that too.
So, I mean, maybe he personally castrated himself.
What is saltpeter?
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 is it called?
It's called saltpeter.
I think it like spelled Peter.
Before I get to that, Nikola Tesla reportedly died a virgin.
Yeah.
So, that lady that he was infatuated with, probably the first time he got rock
hard.
Saltpeter's potassium nitrate.
He was using his energy for other things.
He definitely was.
He was having a fulfilling life.
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?
Yeah, it's potassium nitrate.
I don't know.
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?
Yeah, that's the opposite of what you want.
Right.
No, 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 him saltpeter.
And we're like, what?
The myth associating saltpeter with suppressing priest's 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.
It was the cure of love potion.
You got hit with a love potion alongside substances like alum, antimony, and
sulfur.
This notion evolved into broader folkloric 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 priest's food.
So here's the thing, if it gives you nitrogen and it's thought of as an aphrodisiac.
You don't want to give that to a pedophile.
Right.
Is that like 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...
It's their gastation poter pills.
You know, on the medieval medicine, they were still bleeding people until like
the 1870s.
Oh, yeah.
I was reading about that this week.
Someone, some famous person, that's how he died.
Was it George Washington?
They bled him too much?
I think George Washington like insisted on them bleeding him more than the
physician advised.
Blood-leving?
Blood-leving, yeah.
Wasn't it George Washington?
Shane knows a lot about Washington.
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, period.
I was telling him that.
Oh, and his death involved extensive bloodletting.
George Washington.
A common 18th century medical practice that likely hastened his demise from a
throat infection.
The query George Washington bloodletting.
Whoop.
Appears to be a misspelling.
I typed it too fast.
No worries.
Bloodletting practice.
Doctors bled...
Why did they include that in AI?
AI is correcting you.
They're fucking with you.
No, it looks like you've fucked up.
Relax.
It 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.
But like for hundreds of years they were doing it.
Fuck.
And maybe it does have some benefits that I should look into.
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.
Oh.
Well, we get to enjoy them for...
I mean, at some point they'll stop working, right?
Like we'll get...
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'd split his knee open down the middle.
They'd 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.
We didn't have that kind of staph infection before antibiotics.
Right.
It's a major cause of death in this country.
Yeah.
And in the food, right?
Like it's in the meat.
What is?
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.
Well, I think the reason they do it supposedly, there's a lot of, 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 the...
They're fucking dying.
Like we're giving them terrible food and their meat tastes different.
They're like wagyu beef, they're feeding them beer, I think.
Oh bro, they're barely alive.
Yeah.
When you see that beautifully marbled piece of wagyu beef...
That's a very sad animal.
That's a very depressed animal.
They depressed the fuck out of that thing before it died.
I didn't realize they were not feeding cows grass for like...
Oh yeah.
Until I was in the grocery store and they had like, this is grass fed milk.
It's like, what the fuck's the other one?
Corn.
This is news to me.
Yeah.
It's interesting because I was reading this thing about certain pasture raised
eggs that
you get that are really bright orange 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 lipoic...
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 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 that has 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 the right color.
The thing is AI for me where I just want to be in a field, in a cottage and
that's my chicken
over there and I know where it is and I know one day I'll kill that chicken and
we'll eat
it as a family.
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.
But you do have to make a lot of money to...
You have to really thrive in the system to go and get that now.
Isn't that crazy?
Because that used to be the way poor people lived.
Yeah.
I yearned to live like a poor person 150 years ago.
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 don't 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.
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 it.
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
and like she's had gluten her whole life.
Something in the wheat here.
I don't know what they're doing to it.
Oh, there's a lot of things.
It's not good.
Well, one of the things is the excessive use of glyphosate.
Glyphosate is in a lot of different things.
Other things.
There's a bunch of different 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 you 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 get gut inflammation if you eat too much of it.
You feel terrible.
Well, like it was the only thing people would eat.
You would just eat bread.
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...
The problem is industrial agriculture has 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 like 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.
I have seen the weird little tunnels where they put the pigs into it.
It's not nice.
It's disgusting.
It's disgusting.
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 anything other than
weed.
But we don't want to lose jack-in-the-box.
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.
Yeah.
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.
Sure.
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.
Oh, where do we get food?
Oh, my God.
We have to learn how to hunt.
This is like the AI hope, right?
Is that it takes care of all the – like we can have super abundance and we
can return to an organic, high-quality state.
Well, the first thing I would say to AI is how do you fix crime-ridden cities?
How do you do that?
How do you do that ethically?
You may not like the answer it gives you.
Well, I don't want it to give you an evil answer.
You might say there are men with hoods.
Here it is.
Let's play this.
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 in germ or the fiber in
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.
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 blamed 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.
Uh, I need some...
That's it.
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.
That's so fucked up.
So fucked up.
You've got to escape to get the nice bread.
Food.
It's the same thing they've done to our governmental systems.
Same thing.
It's like money.
Money gets in.
These whores.
They ruin it all.
Yeah, you guys...
I mean...
Whores!
You like...
It's okay.
Money is also great.
Oh, yeah.
I'm not against money.
You shouldn't be.
I'm a little bit against money.
Are you?
In what way?
Uh...
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.
Uh-huh.
And people have really lost the language of selling out.
Like, it's gone.
Like, in the 90s, everyone...
That guy's a fucking sell out.
That guy's doing...
You know, you 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...
There are people out there doing ads for things that are...
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.
We do gambling commercials.
We do gambling commercials on this podcast.
And I may be open to doing it myself in the future.
But when I do see...
We do DraftKings.
...Samuel...
Ah!
I don't even mind that as much.
But why is it different than Samuel Jackson reading for a gambling website?
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.
Okay.
So, it's where you go to socialize and gamble at the same time.
And that does give me a strong ick factor.
Yeah.
Russell was talking about that.
The problem in Australia with gambling as well.
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.
DraftKings has all that kind of stuff, where you can bet on weird prop bets.
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.
Because we have more freedom.
You guys are little children over there.
It's also our only outlet.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Is gambling.
Like, I think we out-gamble Singapore.
We're number one in the world per capita.
No, we put you to shame.
But, like, you guys can handle it.
It's usually a sign of people in distress.
Gambling?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, we're...
The country's in distress.
That's why you guys have a gambling problem.
I mean, we really have a fucking huge gambling problem.
It's that bad?
It's really that bad?
It's just...
It makes it hard to have a conversation with a guy.
Really?
Look at...
72.8% of Australian adults gambled within the previous 12 months.
80.5% for men and 66.2% for women.
Look at losses per capita.
38% of Australians gambled at least once per week.
48% of men and 28% for women.
28% for women.
When you see a woman who's betting on sports, something inside of you goes,
what are you doing?
Having fun.
This is our horrible thing.
No.
Let the ladies fuck up too.
Also, I have been to your pokey rooms in America.
That's what we call them.
Pokey rooms?
We call them pokey rooms.
Pokey?
Yeah.
The pokies.
Like the raw fish?
You're like poking on the machine all the time.
That's why we call them the pokies.
Oh.
But like in America, you'll be at a casino and the floor has all these fruit
machines.
Pokies?
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 for hours.
You get that in Vegas too.
It's just extracting money.
I did see that.
Yeah.
It's sucking your attention in there and extracting money.
And it makes your dull life a little bit more exciting.
20% of the world's slot machines are in Australia.
Yeah.
Yo.
You guys are buck wild.
No, it's.
That's how they keep you broke.
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.
Well, here's the thing.
You're smart enough to not get fully addicted to playing those machines.
But not everybody is.
I think 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.
But that's all it, right?
Like, you don't need a distraction.
Your distraction is the thing you're enjoying in your life.
Yeah.
You've got a lot of things going on in your life.
You don't want to do that.
If I wasn't doing stand-up and if I wasn't doing, if I didn't have a loving
family.
And you had a shitty job.
Oh, man.
When I did have a shitty job, I was 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.
And it's like, 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.
Oh, man.
I think I started drinking in the afternoons.
Really?
Because you hated it?
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 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'd sold a lot of cable television.
Really?
Yeah.
Was it dangerous?
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 said, we looked up the poverty
statistics and we're
sending you to the worst possible places because you'll sell more there.
Matt, no, people were...
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 they'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.
I was like, all right.
Where was she bleeding from?
What part?
Her head.
What?
Yeah.
She was apparently all right and she was...
But she was passed out.
I don't know what happened.
What do you mean all right?
She's bleeding from her head and she just...
It wasn't like a huge amount of blood.
But she was on the floor and there was blood.
And they just assumed she was okay?
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.
Did you think that maybe they hit her?
And that maybe you were a witness to it?
Or maybe they killed her and they were going to have to kill you?
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.
Whoa.
Sorry.
I didn't know where that was buried.
Maybe she's fine.
Maybe she's a drama queen.
Maybe she hit her head on purpose and then fell down.
I mean, I was seeing a lot of passed out people in the streets there.
Drunks and drugs and...
Yeah.
Did you ever almost get robbed or anything?
I don't think I got threatened.
There was a guy who was having sex one time and was very unhappy that I kept
knocking
on his door and I thought he was going to hit me.
But that was about as bad as it got.
Did he come out with his dong hanging out?
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 of my...
Australian men being angry is...
We go into a new gear of lack of control.
Well, it's a prison population originally.
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.
But you don't.
No, there are many things that are upsetting me about going back.
You've got to become king of Australia going back.
If they'll have me.
I'm thinking of running for the Senate.
You might win.
I've got policy.
The Senate's more winnable in Australia.
Are you seriously thinking about running for the Senate?
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 and stuff.
Yeah, we've had Pauline Hanson 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?
Yeah.
You get Jasmine Crockett's in your parliament.
Do you guys dunk it?
Not as much.
How locked down is politics in Australia?
So locked down.
Yeah.
So it's not first, you guys vote and you just go first past the post.
And 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.
Well, that was why it was a real problem that the Democrats didn't do it.
They didn't do it at, yes, for the presidency.
They really didn't do it legitimately since 2016.
But on a local level, someone like.
In 2016, it wasn't legit, right?
AOC can get in to be her.
Sure.
Like that's, even that level of public involvement is globally unheard of.
Right.
No one else is doing that.
I don't think.
Right.
Fetterman, those kind of people.
Fetterman 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 tow the party line.
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.
Yeah.
Like a genuinely good person.
And he got into it.
He's like, this is not what I signed up for.
This is, this whole thing is fucking crazy.
Like.
When he, he also had the brain thing happen.
Had a stroke.
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?
Yes.
That's got to hurt when you go up against a guy who temporarily can't talk at
all.
Yeah.
Well, he has a struggle communicating, but I don't think the struggle.
It's way better now.
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.
Okay.
He's like, I'm sorry.
What did, what did, what did you ask me?
And then I'll have to repeat the question.
But it's not that he's not there.
Yeah.
It's just, there's a misfiring.
But when the, 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, there, 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, I'm just not going to just vote the way everybody votes
because I don't agree with that.
I think.
Yeah.
I think there's a much more nuanced view of the world.
And so a lot of people like on the right, like him because he broke party lines,
you know, I remember there was like, I'm a 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.
There was huge pressures on Tulsi Gabbard to not even communicate with people
on the other side.
She was like, bring them cookies and shit and just be nuts.
And she's like, sweet lady.
She just wanted to be friends with everybody.
And they were like, we don't do it that way.
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.
Yeah.
There's a couple of individuals that have made like little crossovers, you know,
a little bit.
And, you know.
You could ban the party system.
I'd be open to that.
Well, you need more than two.
That's the real problem.
Yeah.
The real problem is there's only two legitimate ones.
If someone's in, if you vote libertarian, you're essentially voting protest.
You're saying, fuck these guys.
And the Green Party.
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?
Could you rig, 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.
Who tried?
Legs Roosevelt.
Ross Perot.
Ross Perot.
Ross Perot fucked it up for everybody.
Yeah, he came close.
But Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt, he got real close.
Right, but that was a long time ago and he was Teddy Roosevelt.
Yeah, but he won states, I think.
I think he took out whole states.
That's crazy.
The Dixiecrats did it, but they were never going to pick up that many states.
It would have to be someone like that.
Someone that was, like, 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.
I remember they wanted The Rock.
Yeah.
Oh, they talked to The Rock.
They came to The Rock?
They came to The Rock to try to get him to do it.
I mean, I don't know what The Rock's politics are.
He's, you know, a kind guy who's probably very left on certain things,
but also very disciplined.
Yeah.
And 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 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.
Yeah.
You literally said president.
That makes it political.
Our in all capital letters.
This is the only one that's capitalized.
I really thought it could have been Kanye for a while there.
Yeah, he could have made it.
His policies were...
Some of them were great.
Some of them were genuinely good.
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,
it's still a political statement.
They've got to find somebody.
I mean, just for the future of this, J.D. Vance can talk to people.
I've seen long-form interviews with him where he actually seems like a normal
human being.
I think there's a lot of people pushing James Tallarico now.
Okay.
You know, we had him on the podcast, too, to talk to him because I felt very
interested.
He's the Texas guy.
He's the 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 that 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.
Have you seen the Ten Commandments in the schools?
I have not.
We went out to look at some of the schools and it's funny.
Because they don't just put them up dryly on the wall.
They have pictures of all the things.
All the things you're doing, like sin?
Yeah, but this is weird.
When it comes to, like, don't covet your neighbor's wife.
And there has to be some weird little sexy picture or something.
Really?
Yeah.
Is she bending over in the garden?
I think it was like a woman.
Yeah, that was a strange one.
How weird is that?
They have to draw it.
Americans are too stupid to read.
I think it was in, like, the Spanish class where they had it written in Spanish,
the Ten Commandments.
Anyway, Tallarico is interesting, you know?
Yeah.
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.
I've heard this before.
I've heard people say that.
I don't think it.
It doesn't seem to make sense if you really want to live your life biblically.
It doesn't make sense.
But this is—lefty Christians are always, like—
They have to find a—
Like, people will go, there's nothing in Scripture that says homosexuality is
wrong.
And you go, like, yeah, okay.
But, like, what are we—we're 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 however 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—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.
Does that make sense?
There is talk of a man lieth with a man being an abomination.
And then they do—but then they go, that's about—that's about boys.
It's not about men.
We've got a very special translation that only we understand.
Is that what they say, really?
Yeah.
They say it's about boys?
They say this is always about boys.
This is never about two men.
But it says man lie with another man.
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.
Right.
Like, that's kind of the point of religion is that it—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.
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.
Yeah.
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 Turing test.
As to whether the AI, you can tell if it's a person.
Yes.
Yeah.
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, like, take into consideration,
like, 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.
There are obviously people who are attracted to people of the same sex.
A hundred percent.
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 it through a biblical lens.
Like, 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 cool.
That's very Catholic of you.
Yeah.
That's the Catholic coming out from the youth.
You have to look at it that way.
It's like, there's just so much in it that doesn't make any sense.
There's context in this tradition.
And there's also translations.
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.
And then, but I like this thing of, like...
What brought you from sort of nothing to belief?
I'd always believed there was something.
But then I started going to mass because a friend was going.
And I, 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 megachurches for fun because they were very funny and very strange.
So, like, I went...
What are megachurches like in Australia?
We invented it.
We got it going.
Really?
You guys invented it?
Hillsong.
You guys probably invented it, but we took it to another level.
We did Hillsong.
Which is...
Hillsong?
Hillsong was the biggest one by far.
Justin Bieber was a Hillsong guy.
That's Australia?
That's Australian.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Australian and New Zealand guys.
And they're, like, guitar music and the smoke machines and they're doing this.
Oh, and you guys brought that over to America?
Yeah, I'm very sorry.
Wow.
I'm not a big...
But I would turn up there or, like, or a little Baptist church or something.
But I would shop around and try and, 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 then it was, like, a breakfast radio show.
Wow.
And they'd have, like, big projectors.
And I started going to the...
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.
Right.
And I just wanted to keep going to that.
Almanos, almanos.
I love it.
I love it.
And the organ and the choir.
I think you made a really good point, too, about people coming in to this
candlelit room and everything's beautiful.
And just that alone probably has a profound effect on your psyche.
Yeah.
They must have known that, right?
They must have known that when they're creating these incredible cathedrals.
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.
And he's covered in blood.
Like, yeah, 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.
Yeah.
Where it's okay with the AI.
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 what I mean, like, at a Protestant church, they'll have a cross,
but there's
no one dying on that cross.
Oh.
It's just empty.
It's only the Catholics that have Jesus actually nailed to the cross.
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.
Lenny Bruce had a great joke about that.
What was his?
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.
Was that Lenny Bruce?
Uh-huh.
And then Bill Hicks had a version of it.
Yes.
Bill Hicks was like, it's like going up to Jackie with a rifle pinned to dawn.
We're thinking of him, Jackie.
I remember that bit.
Supposed to be the oldest stained glass windows in the world, 7th century.
Yo.
That's what I'm about.
Yo.
Germany, Bavaria.
Wow.
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've got to figure out a way to make it more.
Because like, 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 on
them.
And that'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.
Yeah.
And this place is insane.
And there's candles.
And the smells are weird.
And you take your hat off.
And you do this.
Yeah.
And you put the money in the basket.
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 a way like you're all doing something together.
Right.
And it's mysterious.
Have you been to the Vatican?
Never.
Ooh.
You should go.
I would like to.
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?
Yeah, it's number one.
Like how long did this take?
That was Shane's reaction.
Every time Shane's talking about it, he goes, yeah, we're number one.
We're number one, bro.
No one else can do that.
Pull up some images of, like look at what it looks like in there.
Yeah, the wobbly column.
God, it's so incredible, man.
It's so incredible.
And then it chits 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, like there's
a, you know,
a carpet and straight walls.
But do you know how much time it takes?
That's love.
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.
Look.
Yeah.
Look at the people.
Those people are walking, dude.
Look how tall that ceiling is.
Look at the light coming down.
And like acoustically, you can, the guy giving the homily and people can hear
him.
Yeah.
Like it's built in such a way.
Like people used to know something about acoustics where you could, yeah, that
is great.
I mean, that's so psychedelic.
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.
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 picture.
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.
Yeah.
If you're poor, you get to go in there and look at that.
That's open to everybody.
They're not putting that in a private.
They should never take that down.
Whatever they did to do it, maybe they shouldn't do it again.
Wherever they got that gold.
It's a better planet for having it there.
Well, I mean, the Vatican controlled armies for a long ass time.
And it's nuts that it's its own country.
That's weird.
Why was its own country?
So they can keep the pedophiles there.
No.
They don't have to export them.
They've tried so hard to crack down on the pedophiles.
Oh, good job, guys.
It's just so crazy that one section of religion is commonly associated with pedophilia.
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.
But there are definitely parts of society that in five, ten years, things will
start coming out.
Listen, man, they catch pedophiles at Nickelodeon.
Yeah.
They catch pedophiles at the CIA.
Wherever you can go to get access.
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.
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.
Acceptable.
Like in terms of...
It introduces the standard by which you can go, it's wrong to be a pedophile.
It's wrong to have a boy lover.
Because the Greeks and the Romans were getting up to it.
Oh, yeah.
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.
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.
In the legs.
They fucked each other in the legs?
Intercural.
Oh, they would squeeze their legs together and use their legs like a titty fuck?
Yes.
Nice.
Because it was disrespectful to the soldier you would put in his butt.
He still has to fight the next day.
Oh, really?
You don't want him having a mobility issue.
So they were just coming to each other's legs?
In the legs.
That's not that bad.
That's just helping out a bro.
Worst things happen on both now.
Let's see.
Well, they also had the concept that if you were fighting beside your lover,
you would fight
harder to protect them than just another man.
Yeah.
I mean, we're not getting couples to join up to the military now, though.
Well, right now we're not because everyone's soft.
But if we were at war, you know how many guys would go gay?
You know, draft men and women?
You know how many guys would go gay if you gave them three years with no women
at all?
You can just draft a married couple.
You're in the same battalion together.
Wild military men, hard as a rock all the time, filled with testosterone,
running off
to some part of the world to kill people.
Yeah.
No access to pussy for three years.
It's not going to be zero percent go gay.
It's going to be a number.
I think numbers are huge.
There was that test after World War II.
See how long it takes for you to go gay?
They did a huge...
Well, kind of.
Because everyone had just come back from being, you know, like five years
together in the
war.
Gaying it out.
And they ran a big...
It was like a survey on sexuality and returned servicemen.
And it was some huge number of like...
Gay guys.
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.
They fucked a chicken.
Oh, God.
I don't want to be getting that wrong.
But I think...
How many women fucked a chicken?
Zero.
You know?
No.
There's one lady in Thailand who's still doing it to this day.
She got paid.
It wasn't her idea.
It's not out of love.
She's not an amateur.
Yeah.
It wasn't her idea.
The guy that fucked the chicken, that was totally his idea.
This is a big thing in your act.
This is a through line in your act.
I don't think that thing is.
Is that like...
You're always like, men are the degenerate ones in these.
For sure.
Well, that is a fact.
That's a fact.
I mean, we start all the wars.
We're responsible for most of the murders.
Yeah.
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.
Yeah.
You fucking idiot.
I'm like, they're not getting raped by cheerleaders.
Wait, is that true?
Yeah.
Yeah, because...
Most rape victims are men?
Yeah.
When you take into account prison.
Oh.
Yeah.
See, you take into account, you know, sexual assault in prison.
Which is just accepted in this.
I guess it is.
It's like, that's part of the punishment that everybody knows is going on in
prison.
No real efforts to stamp out prison.
Well, the 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.
Yeah.
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.
I mean, once you know that exists as a loophole, you'd be very silly not to
take it.
Also.
Wouldn't you?
You're dealing with people that are fucking liars.
They're prisoners.
They're in prison.
They're criminals.
You're saying they rob banks and sell meth, but they wouldn't lie about their
gender.
That is an honorable thing.
Has this been stopped now?
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.
But this is happening in...
It happens in Canada.
There's a lot of it in Canada.
I mean, schools is a weird one.
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 them 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.
No.
It's just people going, this is making me uncomfortable.
Please do not get angry at me.
Yes.
I'll give you whatever you want.
There's that, and then there's also people that really do feel like they're in
the wrong
body, right?
Yeah.
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.
Yeah.
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, right?
They're doing that kind of shit.
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.
Yeah.
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 trans spike, that, like, this is the thing that is wrong with
you.
This is why you're uncomfortable in your body.
Right.
But I think the numbers have collapsed in the last five years.
Well, you know, when they collapsed, it coincided with Elon buying Twitter.
Okay.
I didn't know that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The post-2024 numbers have dropped off a cliff.
When you stop offering that as an explanation.
Yeah.
Well, not only that, but you could talk about it now.
Yeah.
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 Meghan Murphy.
They banned her.
They banned her from Twitter by saying, a man is never a woman.
Well, I remember they were banning people for saying what J.K. Rowling had said.
They're like, we can't get rid of J.K. Rowling because she's too big.
It would be.
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 detransitioners being upset.
There was no talk of these things are actually chemical castration drugs they
used to use on pedophiles.
And that's what these things are.
Rapists and pedophiles used to be forced to take these drugs that you're now
giving to prepubescent boys.
Yeah.
Also, the new penises.
Oh, God.
I don't want to be seeing any more of those.
Bro, the new penises and the new vaginas.
Shane was sending new penises after talking to you.
I've seen them.
Both of them are – it's genital mutilation.
Yeah.
And with a lot of them, that these people have these thoughts about being a
girl or being a boy, they try – turns out they're just gay.
But do you – I mean, but what – all right.
Theory.
Possible theory.
Theory.
Is that the ruling classes have always wanted eunuchs.
Oh, God.
Do you know what I mean?
Like, if you're an emperor of China.
Oh, you just put on the full tinfoil hat roll.
Yeah, this is my tinfoil hat moment on this.
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 their Nicolai test.
Right, like a neutered dog.
Yes.
All dogs are trans.
Yes.
And so is that the effort?
Is that why you want to do it?
Is that why we have –
Oh, God.
I don't think it's that.
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 theory.
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.
Yeah.
And also like fought against anti-trans people and attacked them online.
Like you see it, like these organized hate groups.
Not in China though, only in America.
No, in America.
Like doing it in America using different AI programs and – 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.
Yeah.
And argue.
You know, and say wild shit.
And some of that is being added now that on X you can see where people are from.
Mm-hmm.
It's interesting, right?
It's –
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.
You're a white nationalist account in China.
That seems kind of –
Yeah, it seems weird.
There's a lot of that.
Yes, Rene DiResta 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 like sway the conversation towards a certain
direction.
Yeah.
And she's like – and the funny thing, she saw like thousands and thousands of
these memes.
She's like, some of them are really funny.
Like they're really funny.
Yeah, who's making these?
Yeah, who's making these?
They're being made in Russia or somewhere.
This is what – this is – when I'm on the New York Times app, it feels like
I know what their agenda is all the time.
You do.
And it's so nice to be like, oh, 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 –
It's too –
I feel overwhelmed.
It is too much.
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.
Yeah.
All of them.
I try to stay off them as much as possible.
I feel better when I do.
When I have like a day or two –
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 like an expert in something if you want.
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.
Yeah.
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.
Yeah.
Blue Sky is a perfect example.
If you just go on Blue Sky and type, there's only two genders.
Banned.
You're gone.
Yeah.
You're over.
Like they don't fucking around.
Which is why that one is being allowed, I think, in Australia.
In Australia, yeah.
So we're banning X for the under-16s, but Blue Sky is fine.
Yeah.
You're going to turn people into the most radical of progressives by default.
But 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.
Right.
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 this is – they have ads for the New York Times in the New York Times app,
right?
That doesn't seem smart.
It's – well, they're saying you should buy a friend of yours the New York
Times app, okay?
You should pay for them to have it.
And then it's like why should you do that?
So you can talk – so you can understand the news together.
So you can share the world together.
Share real.
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 or – 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 Metzger in the green room
or something.
Do you know what I mean?
And so I was like, just give me a taste of what like a normie out there is
experiencing
as reality.
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.
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 that 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.
It's like one thought.
And everything after that is Hitler.
Yeah.
Everything to the right of that is Hitler.
Yes.
Yeah.
I've seen those.
It's weird now that you've seen all these right wing people that are having
public feuds.
It's blown up.
It's been a big week.
What's happening?
Like, why did everybody lose the plot?
It's weird.
Charlie Cook was holding something together.
And now it's really, I think people are, I don't know.
I think he was.
Well, it seems like from his death out, there's a lot of chaos on the right.
But is that because of his death?
What is, like, why are all these people attacking each other?
Or is it because, you know, 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?
I think the conservative movement was always a weird bringing together of about
three different
things.
What are those things?
Like foreign policy hawks, social conservatives, and big business people.
And William F. Barclay Jr., is that his name?
I'm getting that right.
But like the National Review, he managed to purge all the John Birch Society
people and
say, this is mainline conservatism going forward.
And then Reagan was able to like dovetail him with that.
And there was, there was like a week, there was a coming together of two people
who didn't,
it didn't make a lot of sense for like 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
that you can see it.
Like there are a couple of things really breaking it.
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, the Tucker Carlson wing of that discussion and the Ben Shapiro
wing don't
seem to be able to harmoniously go and lockstep.
No, they hate each other.
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 of things, but not a lot of things in terms like, you know, what is a
family?
What is, what are our values going forward?
What 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.
Erica Kirk.
Erica Kirk.
I don't watch a lot of the speeches because I, 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.
See who rises.
I guess he'll see who, who wins or like.
Well, that's the thing.
It's like 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.
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.
Like what do they have?
What's the consensus?
Like what do they agree on?
They agree on immigration.
They all agree on immigration.
Kind of.
I mean, no, big business people want heaps of illegal immigration.
Oh, okay.
Because it's cheap labor.
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.
Yeah, you've got like the Pat Buchanan wing of the party going up against the
like HW Bush
wing of the party.
So I don't even think they can get around that.
But most people would say that having an open border, most people on the right
would saying
have 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.
You could govern that way.
And I think people did for a long time.
But you could never have that as your public position.
You could let them sneak in, let it slip and slip.
Well, like Biden was always saying, we're tough on the border.
And then you go, these numbers are very galling.
You 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.
Yeah.
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 else is going to do that.
He's riding those plaques.
100%.
For sure.
He did the auto pen thing.
At the very least, you know it's him doing it.
Yeah.
And you hate him, you love him, whatever.
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.
No, he wrote that.
He wrote that.
But as to where the right will go.
It was Brennan.
Brennan and Clapper.
Those are the people that had the video with Rob Reiner, where he's like
literally talking
to two spooks about how it's a real problem that Trump is the president and he's
a criminal.
They called the Committee for Russian Investigation or something like that.
Rob Reiner did.
No one apologizes for the Russia stuff.
No.
It's crazy what they did.
The COVID stuff no one apologizes for?
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.
It's crazy.
Yeah.
And the Epstein stuff coming out now is, I mean, we'll see what happens with
that.
Well, you guys were talking right before the podcast said, Jamie said there was
a big
dump.
What happened with the big dump?
Big dump.
You said there was a big dump today and they fucked up?
That was your take.
They fucked up?
The fuck up was that people have found out that the redactions weren't really
redacted.
Dun, dun, dun.
It's like, that's a big mistake.
Like you can copy and paste and put it in another document and see the redactions.
Oh, like a Photoshop deal?
Yeah.
Like you could get the layers away?
Yeah.
Oh, whoopsies.
That's what happens.
You get fucking people working for the government.
They're dorks.
Then, which is like, this is like steps to this.
I wasn't following it 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.
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.
Some of those documents have been deleted now.
OK.
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?
People are just sort of taking it as a grain of salt, saying like, so nobody
else, it's all
Oh, it's only Trump.
Only untrue about Trump.
Right.
Nobody else.
All the Bill Clinton photos were definitely him.
The other one was, this picture came out of a letter that seems to be a
potential suicide
note written by Epstein, written to Larry Nassar.
The facts of that there were strange.
There's a postmark, which is three or four days after he died.
Wait a minute.
Larry Nassar.
Yeah.
He was also in jail.
He's the Olympic guy?
Yeah.
The doctor that was a pedophile?
Yeah.
And it's like a letter writing like, hey, I know what, you know why I'm in jail.
I know why you're in jail.
Boy, that seems weird that he's writing a letter to a pedophile.
He says he's taking the short route.
Yeah, and like that starts off saying, if you've gotten this, you know, I took
the, in
quotes, short route out, which.
Short route home, right?
Yeah.
But there's some weird detail.
People are like, they said, they're saying this is fake or maybe fake.
Did they get a handwriting expert to analyze it yet?
Peering doesn't, that's, I started asking the questions like, well, then why
did it get,
why did it come out?
How are, you know.
Oh, so the FBI, it says the FBI has confirmed this alleged letter from Jeffrey
Epstein to
Larry Nassar is fake, fake in all caps.
Trump wrote that.
It gets busted by the use of all caps.
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.
Yeah.
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.
But don't make it look like you're covering it up.
Right.
Release it and say it's fake.
Although I will say, I have seen on Twitter people complaining about like, like
they're
not meant to censor anything due to embarrassment.
But when it's like Ghislaine Maxwell's boobs, they will censor it out and
people are going,
this has been illegally censored.
You must.
By the law of the United States, show me her boobs.
I need to see them areolas.
Is she?
She's in prison in Texas.
She's in, you can kind of call it prison.
She does yoga, plays cards, hangs out.
Is she allowed to talk to people?
I don't think so.
She's not allowed to podcast, I'm sure, if that's what you're getting at.
I am.
That would be a really exciting podcast.
If everybody wants to die, that would be a really good podcast.
I think she's just a nice, normal lady.
Do you think Trump on the way out pardons her?
She's a nice woman.
I wish her well.
I don't know.
It's a-
The weird thing is she's in jail for sex trafficking to who?
Epstein.
Right.
Was it for that?
From him?
I think it was 16-year-olds in Florida and it was directly to him.
I was briefly, I experimented with being like a non-Epstein believer.
Really?
Yeah, for about two weeks.
What did you think was going on?
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.
What do you think now?
Yeah, he's obviously something.
I just thought everyone in the green room was saying, he's Mossad.
I was like, maybe the controversial thing would be to not believe this.
Take the contrarian position.
I just wanted to try experiment with the contrarian position and it's getting
harder and harder
to hold that.
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.
Or like channeling offshore money for people.
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, it was the prosecutor, the judge, was
told that
he was intelligence.
There was a, yeah.
And then someone, I listened to a podcast on it from like some, Matthew Schmitz,
who's
Compact magazine.
And they were like, they were making out that it was a, it was a 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.
And I, look at this, suicide watch observation lot, 2.15 AM, inmate states his
cellmate tried
to kill him.
Inmate sitting on bed trying to remember him.
He literally retracted 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.
Oh, so that's the guy too, by the way.
You know that.
That's the cellmate, the giant dude.
Oh, so the cellmate beat the fuck out of him.
I don't see any wounds.
Oh.
Where's the wounds?
New release documentary.
What is this?
Semi-conscious with neck injuries.
Yeah, it marks around his wrists.
Let me see.
Let me see his neck.
You can't really, it's not a good picture.
It's a video?
Oh, okay.
It's a video.
His picture, his hands were swollen.
I think it said his ankles or feet were swollen too.
Oh, so the guy tried to grab his neck and choke him.
But they said they investigated.
They didn't find anything.
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.
Yeah, if you're in a jail cell with a pedophile, I think that's unusual to try
and kill that guy.
Also, you're a big giant guy who's in jail for murdering four drug dealers and
you're a cop.
I was always saying that you get him to kill that guy for like a pack of
cigarettes.
That guy's going to be jailed for the rest of his life forever, for sure.
And you can give him like awesome special treatment if he waxed Jeffrey Epstein.
Man, I was really trying.
I tried so hard.
I went on podcasts trying to say he wasn't.
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.
Yeah.
Why wouldn't famous people want to hang out with this charismatic man?
Good point.
That photo where he's with Michael Jackson?
Mm-hmm.
His loafers are incredible.
He had a great sense of style.
Right, right.
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.
Yeah.
It's, I, it's not good.
The former prime minister of Israel used to visit him in his Manhattan place
with like a mask over his face.
He like pulled his fucking, had like one of these things on.
You ever see?
No.
Yeah.
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.
You cover your face?
Yeah.
You don't want anybody knowing.
You go to the ring doorbell.
There's also, there's apparently more.
Nixon mask on.
More Prince Andrew ones now.
Oh, of course.
And he's, uh.
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.
I don't think he'd been.
Yeah, it's not good.
It hurts the, it hurts my regard for the beautiful royal family.
Yeah.
I love it very much.
I bet you do.
You like a good royal family.
I love a royal family.
Look at that dude.
Yeah.
Well, he's dodging the paparazzi.
Oh, for sure.
Paparazzi are always in front of a financial guy's house.
Bunch of chicks leaving.
A lot of people seem to love hanging out with this guy.
A charismatic guy.
I bet he's a lot of fun.
Had cool people at his parties.
I mean, the, it was Woody Allen he was hanging out?
Bill Clinton.
Bill Clinton seems to have a great time in all the photos.
Because a lot of people seem like having a great time.
Michael Jackson was hanging out there.
Michael Jackson didn't look like he was having a lot of fun, though.
Well, I don't think he had a lot of fun, period.
Right?
Michael?
Tortured individual.
He had a roller coaster.
How could he be unhappy?
I don't think that was for him.
That roller coaster was like, when you go turkey hunting, you put up a fake
turkey.
Bring in the turkeys.
His father made him dance too much, and that's why he wanted to spend the night
with boys.
I can't defend Michael Jackson.
No, you can't.
Who can you defend easier?
Michael Jackson or Epstein?
Well, we don't have any, I mean, probably with Michael Jackson, because the
music was great.
The music was great, and his doctor said he was chemically castrated.
You know that?
I don't.
Yeah, the doctor that went to jail for giving him propofol, that wound up
killing him.
The general anesthetic.
Yes.
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.
I'm on the record saying that castrati should be brought back.
You think so?
You're on the record?
Yeah.
No, over and over again, I say.
If we're going to have trans people.
Make them sing?
You get it regarding how well you can sing.
But you've got to do it when you're really young.
It's got to be before puberty.
Yeah.
I don't really believe it, but I do want to hear the castrati again.
We've got one recording, and it's not very good.
Have you heard it?
It's eerie.
Yeah, we played it on this podcast a bunch of times.
It's kind of macabre.
But people loved it at the time.
They were sick people.
And only the Italians, because the Italians were bold.
What a crazy move.
What?
Cut your son's balls off when he's young so he could sing at a high pitch
forever?
Well, I think they would crush them, because they didn't have antiseptic.
I think cut them off is...
What'd they do?
They'd crush their balls?
I think they'd crush them and then put them in a bath of milk.
But do you know about the swan thing?
What'd they do to crush the balls?
What'd they use?
They'd just smash them?
It was illegal.
What about that thing you did with your hands?
That was terrible.
It's not good.
But they would deny it.
The families would never cop to it, because it was illegal to castrate your son.
Oh!
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.
Oh, God.
They would say, a swan flew into my son's testicles.
And that's why he's now the best singer in Milan.
And they did it so their son could make money, just like a theater mom.
But the people loved it.
Like, when there was the last one and they were going to retire it, people were
chanting,
like, crowds screamed, long live the knife.
They wanted it to keep going.
Do you know about this?
Long live the knife?
Yeah.
There was like widespread popular support not to get rid of the castrati.
Oh, my God.
People wanted to keep hearing it.
Bro, that's terrible.
But they must have sounded really good.
Well, we heard the recording.
You want to hear it?
Apparently, he was no good.
Apparently, he was one of the worst ones.
Many of these operations were performed by local barbers.
Oh, the razor.
I guess I did use the razor sometimes.
Oh, they sliced your nuts off of the razor.
No, yeah, they said this was an operation a lot of times.
I should have guessed you were across the castrati.
Plucked them out.
I could have guessed that would have come up on this show before.
I didn't know you'd played it a bunch of times.
Oh, yeah, we played it before.
We'll leave on this.
Oh, you won't?
I don't know.
Can we play it?
I can't.
This is one of those videos.
Yeah, somebody might have owned it.
I actually 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.
Oh, yeah.
It should be in the open.
Do you know what I mean?
That's true.
There's a Wikipedia recording.
It's totally open.
No, I'm across.
We don't want to deal with it, though.
How come no rappers are sampling the castrati?
Danny Brown.
Maybe Diddy when he gets out.
Maybe you could.
I'm not even going to try and be a Diddy defender.
I thought about it.
You're such a contrarian.
You do think about it.
Yeah.
It would be nice.
I just don't have enough time to research it properly.
But if I had all the time and 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 it?
That's such an Australian thing to think.
What do you got here?
It's just a quick explanation.
I mean, they really sum this up fast.
Time roughly beginning in the 17th century, the mid-19th century, an era where
the science
of anesthesia, anesthetiation 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.
Oh, that's the milk.
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.
Oh, God.
But what is it about the Italians that were the only people to do it?
Why are you fucking with my people?
I know.
I'm saying it's kind of a greatness of spirit.
No.
That's how much you loved music.
It's disgusting.
Other people were trying to take over the world and build empire.
It's not in Italy.
That's what you were doing in the 17th century.
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 castrata of...
I reject it.
I reject AI castrata.
I want the real thing.
A castrata of...
Can you do that?
Yeah.
Let's do...
Have AI make a cover of Papa Was a Rolling Stone as an opera castrata.
Or castrata.
Is it castrata or castrata?
I think it's...
Castrata is the plural.
Castrata, right.
But is it a castrata?
I think it's a...
Is it still a boy if you cut his nuts off?
Well, you'll get in a lot of trouble in Britain for saying the opposite, but...
Mm-hmm.
Yes.
Ladies loved them.
God.
And they got big and tall.
Ladies love them.
They can never get hard.
No, they could.
Really?
Yeah.
How do you know?
I read a lot about it.
Maybe they lied.
They would have sex...
No, women would go and try and have sex with them.
But they...
Because they couldn't get pregnant off the back of them.
But how'd they get a boner if they didn't have testicles?
They still got...
There was still testosterone in the body.
Like a tiny amount.
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 is their bones in their ribcage wouldn't
fuse.
What?
There's something in puberty that's meant to come in and stop your bones
growing.
That happens when you're a child.
So they'd have like this huge ribcage with huge lungs.
And a tiny little boy voice.
But like huge amounts of air flowing out.
Oh, that's crazy.
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?
Maybe you're planting a seed in someone's head right now.
I don't want to do that.
That's their calling.
I don't want to do that.
Well, maybe they already went through with the other thing.
And they're like, well, let's make the most of this.
You know?
Let's make some lemonade.
Castrati doing...
Can you really just type it in and make a...
Yeah, but the...
How long does it take to render?
The problem is the lyrics.
The lyrics?
Those lyrics are copyrighted.
You could have a song.
Oh, we can't play it.
You could do Star Spangled Banner.
We won't make the...
That's the whole other thing on how you make these songs.
I don't want to get into...
How are they doing that?
You don't want to say it?
Okay.
All right, let's wrap this up.
Is it a secret?
McCann, we're going to miss you.
You'll be back.
Thank you for having me.
I think I just got one.
Hold on a second.
You got one?
All right.
Here we go.
It sounded quiet.
It's not quite eerie enough.
That sounds like a regular guy.
When you hear that one guy, it is otherworldly.
It's creepy.
All right.
It's creepy.
Make good songs.
McCann, I love you, buddy.
Thank you for having me.
I really appreciate it.
It's always fun hanging out with you.
And I'm excited about tonight.
We're going to have some fun.
I think so.
Yes, sir.
Okay.
See you in a bit.
All right.
Bye, everybody.
Bye, everybody.