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>> You too, Joe. How you been?

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>> Great. Great. Great. We're just talking

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about peace of mind and dealing with

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cooks. Is there anybody who argues

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online more than you do? Like you might

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be the [laughter] you might be the

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number one guy who I see in clips like

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constantly getting in arguments with

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people online. I'm not sure that there

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is anybody who takes on more debates

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yearly, high and low profile, than I do.

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>> Yeah. I mean, even casual ones.

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>> Correct.

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>> It's like you're always sparring. It's

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like you're always uh you know, you're

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always having keeps you uh sharp.

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>> For sure.

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>> Keeps you sharp if you're So, I also

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have this rule that you know there's

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like the clout game online, right? All

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these people want to play the clout

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game.

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>> What What is exactly the clout game? H

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it's like you have you don't have a big

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enough follower account for me to

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respond to you. You don't have a big

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enough audience for me to discuss things

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with you, you know, things like that.

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And it's like I hate that.

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>> That seems pretty silly.

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>> It is silly. And some of the best

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debates I've ever had with guys who had

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like four followers on X and they're

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like, "Let's go in this X space and

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talk." And I'll hop in there with him

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and I'm like an hour later I go, "Man,

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that guy had a lot of good stuff to

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say." a lot of people out there that and

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oftentimes those are the ones who don't

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have a lot of followers because they're

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not sucked into the social media web.

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They're just out there thinking and

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doing things and living their life.

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There are a lot of [ __ ] interesting

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people out there that you never hear

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from and a lot of not interesting people

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that you hear from constantly

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>> all the time.

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>> It's like the politician thing, you

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know? It's like we were talking about

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that uh the other day like there's this

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lady that's running for god something.

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Is she running for governor of

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Wisconsin?

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Is that what it is? And she was just

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talking about how Thanksgiving hurts

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people like [laughter]

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>> what?

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>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I I don't know her

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background. I think it's the same lady.

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At one point in time she was in a mental

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institution.

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>> Why does this not shock me?

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>> Doesn't shock me. But this was the point

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we were saying nobody wants to be the

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[ __ ] governor and the people that do

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are there's a a high percentage of

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cooks.

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>> Yeah. Power attracts um strange people.

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Sometimes it attracts good people.

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>> Yes. Occasionally

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>> it often and but often those are the

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people who go in and they want to change

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it. Like the the idea that they have is

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look I'm trying to run for the right

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reasons because I actually want to

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change how this works. But they're few

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and far between

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>> and they get killed. A lot of them get

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killed or they get run off. A lot of

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them just get involved in

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like um they their normal day-to-day

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life, you know, from 20 years prior. Now

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suddenly that's coming up, you know, and

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they have to defend themselves against

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criticisms that they never would have

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believed that they would have to defend

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themselves from.

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>> Yeah.

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>> And so character assassination, I think,

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takes a lot of the good actors out. They

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don't want to deal with a character

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assassination.

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>> Well, it seems like they want total

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compliance on both sides. on both

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parties, total compliance with the

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party. And if they think that you're

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going to be some outsider rebel that's

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going to take over the [ __ ] you.

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>> Well, you kind of I think you kind of

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have to have that a little bit though

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because if you got universal suffrage

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necessarily, everything converges into a

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two-party system. So, as suffrage

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expanded throughout history, you saw the

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emergence of parties right alongside of

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it as more people became infranchised to

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vote. So, you think if women couldn't

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vote, there wouldn't be parties.

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>> There probably would still be parties.

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It probably still be a two-party system.

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It's just that how how it works is that

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if we continuously expand suffrage,

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let's just say we expand it to another

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group of men. Now, those men have some

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special interest, right? So, if it's not

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just property owners, let's say it's now

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um you know, people who live in a city,

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well, they want a levy passed so that

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their kids can go to school, right? So,

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they pass it on the property owners. uh

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now they can vote to hand themselves

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money. So now you have a wedge issue.

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And so you'll see parties start to form

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around these wedge issues. And the more

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you have universal suffrage, the more

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you end up with party politics until you

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have a convergence of two. And usually

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it's along a certain wedge issue. So the

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only way in a in a dialectic where you

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have two parties, a Democrat and

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Republican, to get your your legislation

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passed is to be able to outvote the

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other side. Right. So, you kind of have

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to have them all in line or else

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>> that makes sense. Um, and there's no

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room in this country at current point in

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time for another party. No one would

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accept it. We we think about other

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parties like they're a goof. The Green

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Party like it's a that's a protest vote,

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you know,

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>> Libertarian Party.

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>> Yeah, I've done that. I've done a few

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protest votes back in my day.

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>> Yeah. I talked with uh I was arguing

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with Rex Jones the other day. Alex

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Jones's kid about this. And I told him,

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I'm like, "Look, you don't have a prayer

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in starting a third party in time for

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midterms and then the presidential

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election that's coming up in just a

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couple short years. You're not going to

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be able to replace this system. You're

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not going to be able to do that.

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>> They're too The roots go too deep.

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They're they're too intertwined power

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influence.

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>> Like, think about the infrastructure.

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billions of dollars in NGO funding,

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>> all this outreach program. Just to get

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on a ballot in a state is often a

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multi-million dollar uh thing that you

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need to have a party apparatus behind.

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>> Yeah. It's kind of nuts, right?

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Multi-million dollars to to spend to get

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a job that pays you $170,000.

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>> Uhhuh. [laughter]

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What a why. You think that [ __ ]

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student loans are a scam? That's a crazy

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story.

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>> I love when these guys come in uh for

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their $100,000 a year job and then they

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leave and they have $25 million in the

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bank, you know.

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>> Yeah, that happens often. I wonder what

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happens.

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>> When do they get all that money?

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>> Yeah. Well,

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>> how about the Ilhan Omar thing?

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>> Oh, yeah.

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>> That one's wild. Like they estimated her

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net worth somewhere like in the it was

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millions, like 30 million or something

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crazy. And then she said it was a error

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and that it was actually like a lot less

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than that like a h 100red thousand or

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something like really reasonable.

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>> Like you imagine if your accountant was

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so bad. You're like hey Mike how much

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money am I worth? [laughter]

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And he's like I think you're worth 30

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million. And you're like [ __ ] yeah dude

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thinking about buying a Corvette. And

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you got and you got $3,000 in the bank.

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[laughter]

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And then you call Mike the next day and

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you say, "So 30 million?" He goes,

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"Actually, it was an error. You're worth

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about a hundred grand." And you're like,

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"Hey, Mike, I'm going to kill you cuz

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you stole $30 million from me." That

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doesn't make any sense.

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>> 100%. And [laughter] do you think do you

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think maybe she like strategically

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started moving some things with her

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accountant so that she had a vineyard

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that they owned that never made a bottle

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of wine?

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>> Sounds right.

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>> Is that a case? Is that the case with

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one of those businesses that closed

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down? listen and pick on her. It's it's

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if you look at the Republicans and the

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Democrats when it comes to uh insider

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trading, it's [ __ ] everybody. It's

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red, blue, red, blue, red, blue. It is

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this is not a one party thing. This is

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why it's never going to stop. They

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they're both dipping their toes in.

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They're both having fun.

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>> You basically always have the

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expectation of corruption.

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>> So even if you put your candidates in,

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so you're trying to get something out of

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that, right? some issue that you're

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trying to push forward. You almost baked

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into the system have to accept a certain

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amount of corruption is going to come

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out of that. So like let me give you a

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really good example of that, a key wedge

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issue like abortion.

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>> So you got Christians who are just

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adamant, right? This got to stop. Will

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they accept if it's the case that

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candidates are really moving the post on

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that? If they're really moving

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legislation against abortion, do you

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think that they would turn a blind eye

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to a little bit of corruption? probably.

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>> Yeah, there's definitely some

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compromises that get made both on your

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morals and the way you view financial

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issues and all kinds of things. I mean,

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it's never there, especially when

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there's only two parties. Like, you're

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with us or against us. It's us and them.

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It's good and evil. That's it. In this

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country, that's really how people look

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at it on both sides. It's good versus

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evil.

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>> But you have an alternative there that's

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that's even worse or can at least

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sometimes be worse. So, let's go to like

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the UK or Canada or places like this

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where they do round voting. You have

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more than two parties. That's true. But

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do you really want your president to be

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elected with 10% of the vote?

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>> Right.

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>> 15% of the vote. You want your

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politicians to be put in with 9% of the

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vote?

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>> Because that can happen.

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>> Yeah. That's crazy,

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>> you know. Yeah. Between these rounds.

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And so, you think about it and you go,

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this two-party system sucks. But then

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you look at other places that have

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multiple parties and they do their

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rounds of voting and you're like, "Wait,

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see, you could get elected with only 14%

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of the so everybody else hates you."

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[laughter]

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>> Yeah. There's the weird argument of the

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benevolent dictator. I'm sure you've

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heard this argument, but that a society

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is best run by a benevolent dictator.

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Someone who really truly has ultimate

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power but actually cares. a good person

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that cares about the people, that really

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just wants things to be reasonable and

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have a working meritocracy and have a

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working economy and have working

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education and everything work correctly

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and weed out all of the corrup fraud and

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corruption because he's a king and he

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can just like

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>> he can just do it

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>> do it whatever the [ __ ] he want, you

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know? Like look, I'm I have only been to

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Dubai one time um because we uh we had a

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UFC over there and I had to go to the

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weigh-ins. The weins were in Dubai. saw

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a lot of [ __ ] Ferraris and

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Lamborghinis in 10 minutes. But from

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what I hear, it's the most safe place on

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earth. Like literally like

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>> Romania under Vlad.

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>> Yeah. Like what would you say?

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>> Like Romania under Vlad the Impaler.

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[laughter]

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>> I don't think it's that bad.

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>> How can you how can you hang gold in the

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street? And he's look around.

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>> There's a bunch of people impaled

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everywhere.

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>> He would do them in designs. He would do

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them in geometric patterns. So you would

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realize he was being creative with

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impaling people. wasn't messing around.

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>> Oh, no, no, no. You know his story.

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>> Yeah.

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>> He was kidnapped when he was a small

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boy.

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>> Woo. There a lot to that guy

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>> and his brother and their their, you

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know, inter brother conflict that they

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had for years and how he got power, lost

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power, came. Yeah, there's a there's a

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tale to be told about Vlad the Impaler

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for sure. But probably a pretty safe

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place to live. [laughter]

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>> Yeah. Dubai. Like if they catch you with

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a bag of weed, you're going to jail for

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the rest of your life or they'll kill

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you.

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>> Yeah. You're done.

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>> Yeah. They've they have crazy laws.

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There was one guy, I think it was Dubai,

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who

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I think he had

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like marijuana seeds in the sole of his

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shoes or something like that. Like he

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had stepped on a marijuana seed maybe in

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his apartment.

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>> Yeah.

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>> And he was didn't have any drugs on him,

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nothing. and they they put him in jail

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for a long time, man. I forget this was

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a few years back, but it was a crazy

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case. There was another lady who got

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arrested. I forget what happened, but

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she later a guy tested positive for

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poppy because she had poppy seed bagel.

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And I don't know if you know this, but

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if you're testing for drugs and you eat

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a poppy seed bagel, you could pop for

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heroin.

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>> Yeah. Yeah, I've heard that. But doesn't

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with modern tests, isn't it a little bit

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better now?

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>> I hope so. I don't know. 2008. This is a

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British traveler in Dubai was stopped

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the airport. Lab found 0.003

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grams of cannabis in his shoe soul.

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>> Holy [ __ ]

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>> Yeah, that's crazy.

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>> That's crazy. He received a mandatory

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4-year sentence under the UAE's strict

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drug laws,

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>> though he was later released early.

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>> How early is early?

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>> So, the British government came in and

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tried to barter him out of there, I'm

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guessing,

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>> I guess. or the the whole world must

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have been so outraged.

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I mean at a certain point in time they

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have to say we we run the risk of never

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having tourists visit us again and Dubai

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is a very tourist central place.

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>> Sure.

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>> But I have a a friend who moved over

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there a while back. He moved back to

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America recently, but he moved over

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there and he was uh he was like, "Dude,

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it's just safe for me. You know, I don't

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worry if I go out, you know, someone's

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going to like he's big black guy. He's

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like, "I don't want to get shot." He

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goes, "I I worry if I go out." He goes,

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"Over here, there's nothing like that.

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There's no crime." He goes,

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"Everything's nice. Everything's clean.

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You could leave a Rolex on the street.

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They'll pick it up and turn it into the

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cops. Like, no, nobody steals nothing

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over there."

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>> But there's a trade-off for that, right?

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[laughter]

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>> Bit of a trade-off. Let me

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>> show you my geometric patterns of dead

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people.

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>> Dead people everywhere on spikes who we

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impaled from their buttocks through

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their throat.

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>> And they don't die immediately.

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>> No, they wiggle for a while.

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>> I don't think they do that in Dubai, but

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they let you know.

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>> Yeah. You're not [ __ ] around. There's

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no [ __ ] around.

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>> I saw some lady get in a screaming

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match. She was trying to do the thing

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that a lot of people do in America at

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the airport

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>> and she got in a screaming thing with

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the the lady at the counter and they're

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like, "Not today." They just come over

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and [ __ ] cuff you up and take you

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away. Like you can't you can't do that

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there. You can't like you can't spirit

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airlines, you know?

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>> Do you prefer that? Would you prefer

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that society?

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I don't think people should be able to

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just [ __ ] scream and yell at people

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that work behind counters. I don't think

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that's productive. I don't think

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smacking them in the head cuz they can't

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get you a flight. We've all seen that

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kind of [ __ ]

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>> There should be zero tolerance for that

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kind of violence.

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>> But what if we tweaked it a different

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way? Okay.

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>> Okay. So, what if instead of bringing in

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like some crazy Sharia in order to make

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sure that that happened, just brought

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back dueling?

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>> Like, wouldn't wouldn't dueling solve

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like 95% of this? Dueling re requires

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people to wait before they turn around

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and shoot.

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>> That I'm not trusting a guy who wants to

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kill me to not jump the gun.

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>> But that depends on the rules, right?

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Like you could adjust the rules a little

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bit.

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>> I guess adjust the rules. But it's like

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if you could if you could call somebody

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out former you or something like this,

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right? It's like I think people would

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probably be a lot more polite, wouldn't

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they?

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>> They probably would. I think there's

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probably a better way than shooting each

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other in the street.

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>> Probably. [laughter] Probably. But

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there's probably a better way than that.

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>> Even like fist fights,

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>> like that there's a better way than

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that, too. You don't have to fist fight.

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Like, come on. But,

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>> you know, there there there's certainly

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something to be said for a society that

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is more orderly and uh people follow the

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rules and are as long as the rules make

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sense and these people are friendly and

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kind and they make for good community

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members. And they're not putting up with

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mentally ill lunatics just rocking

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around causing problems everywhere,

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which is what American society is now

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dealing with.

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>> You did you see what just happened in

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Wisconsin where they had the uh they had

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their own autonomous zone.

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>> Oh yeah.

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>> It just got broken up today by the cops.

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>> I didn't see it got broken up.

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>> It got broken up today. Yeah. See if you

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can find it, Jamie. Uh there was video

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footage just [ __ ] army of cops came

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in arrested everybody's spray paint all

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the streets get declare autonomous zones

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on public like what is [laughter]

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>> remember Chaz and Chop

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>> we have a we we've just declared this an

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autonomous zone. Sorry.

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>> Madison officials clear Willie Street

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encampment. Police officers arrest

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protesters who resist at Corey Ruiz

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memorial site. I do not know this Cory

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Ruiz story.

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>> Uh the Cory Ruiz memorial show. Was it

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something ICE related perhaps?

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>> I think that's what this is, right?

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>> Mhm.

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>> Is that what this is, Jamie?

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>> I have no idea.

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>> Um did something happen? Something

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happened? Someone got shot, right? You

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don't know about it either?

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>> No.

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>> See, that's the problem. There's so many

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[ __ ] things in the news that it's

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impossible. Unless you're a maniac and

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you're just online all day, it's

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impossible to know exactly what's going

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on. You take a couple days off and smell

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the roses

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>> and you get back online. How come you

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haven't commented on what what is it? I

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don't even know what you're doing.

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>> You got to catch up for 4 days for one

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day.

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>> Yeah. Also, like what hot take? Maybe

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you shouldn't have a hot take on

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everything. Maybe some things you need

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to like let it play out in the news.

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Like let people dissect it. See, now

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that I wish that that was a message that

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more people got that the idea that you

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don't have to rush immediately out there

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to tell everybody your latest hottest

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take,

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>> which is oftentimes, by the way, stupid.

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It's often the stupid take because you

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have no [laughter] information,

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>> right? But you got to rush out there.

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You're going to get those views and

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clicks quick, but then you're you're

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married to that take.

17:00

>> Exactly. Yeah. and unless you come back

17:02

and make another video or make another

17:05

take and explain why you [ __ ] it up.

17:07

But I think that there's um there's

17:09

something to be said for uh like there's

17:12

a lot of stories that are in the news

17:14

like I don't [ __ ] know exactly what

17:16

happened there. Like let's let this one

17:18

play out a little bit. Like this one

17:19

seems weird. Like if I come out with a

17:21

hot tail like who [ __ ] knows what's

17:23

really going on with 15. Like there's so

17:27

many different stories in the news it's

17:29

impossible. Police. Was that Jamie?

17:30

>> I didn't find the details, but it is a

17:32

police killing. It says officer involved

17:35

>> shooting of Cory Ruiz.

17:38

>> And that's I don't It doesn't I'm

17:39

looking for evidence and video. I didn't

17:41

check Twitter or anything yet.

17:42

>> Um, put it into Perplexity. Ask

17:45

perplexity. What is the controversy

17:47

about the killing of Corey Ruiz? Okay.

17:51

[sighs and gasps]

17:53

You can't you can't be this. We're not

17:55

designed to get all the bad news of 8

17:58

billion people. We're just not designed

17:59

for that. That's not a normal thing for

18:01

a person to absorb.

18:03

>> It's also driving a lot of people crazy.

18:04

>> Crazy driving them driving them to

18:08

insanity. They think they they start to

18:10

see conspiracy everywhere. They start to

18:12

see um you know plots of interest where

18:16

there aren't any,

18:17

>> right?

18:17

>> It starts to actually drive people mad

18:20

because they can't disassociate between

18:23

the fact that there is sensationalism

18:25

and then there's reality and the way

18:27

that people think. They think in frames.

18:29

And

18:29

>> so if you think in a conspiratorial

18:32

frame, you're usually taking tangential

18:34

things and piecing them together that

18:35

don't belong,

18:36

>> right?

18:36

>> But then if you think in an autistic

18:38

frame, as my friend Paul would say, if

18:41

you think in an autistic frame, you're

18:43

going to hone down so deep on one detail

18:46

that you miss the entirety of the

18:48

picture,

18:49

>> right? So you have to have an idea

18:51

between these two things, right? It's

18:52

like conspiracies exist. We know this.

18:55

Many of them exist. There's many of

18:57

them. I can state off the top of my head

18:58

like MK Ultra. That was a conspiracy

19:00

that existed.

19:01

>> Yeah.

19:01

>> Right. There's But there's also a lot

19:04

that don't,

19:05

>> right?

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>> flooding his own.

20:24

>> Yes, this is a common strategy. What

20:27

What was it, Jamie? You pulled it up.

20:29

Uh, controversy centers on whether

20:31

Madison police needed to use deadly

20:32

force against 38-year-old Cory Ruiz, a

20:35

black man, during a July 2026 arrest,

20:38

and on the lack of body camera footage.

20:40

Oh. conflicting narratives about the

20:43

threat he posed and the broader concerns

20:46

about racialized policing. Police

20:49

responded reports of a man allegedly

20:51

looking into parked vehicles and

20:53

stealing bicycles. During the attempted

20:55

arrest by four officers, a taser was

20:58

deployed but reportedly failed. Police

21:00

say Ruiz pulled a knife and injured an

21:03

officer after which that officer shot

21:05

and killed him. Cell phone video

21:07

recorded by a bystander shows part of

21:08

the struggle and shooting and quickly

21:11

went viral, triggering protests and

21:13

public outcry. Use of deadly force

21:15

versus alternatives. Community members

21:17

and Ruiz's family questioned why lethal

21:19

force was used when multiple officers

21:21

were already restraining him on the

21:23

ground and a taser had been deployed,

21:25

arguing that he did not deserve to be

21:27

shot to death in the street. Lack of

21:30

body cameras. None of the officers

21:31

involved were wearing bodywn cameras. So

21:34

the only visual recording is bystander

21:36

video which fuels distrust and demands

21:38

for more accountability and measures and

21:40

technology. We need more flock cameras.

21:43

Conflicting narratives about threat.

21:45

Police emphasized that Ruiz stabbed or

21:47

injured an officer with a knife, framing

21:50

the shooting as a response to an

21:51

immediate threat. Critics and loved ones

21:53

question whether the threat justified

21:54

shooting a restrained man and whether

21:57

deescalation was properly used. Well,

21:59

first of all, if he really did stab a

22:02

police officer, if he's stabbing a

22:04

police officer, like they are supposed

22:06

to shoot him, that is you you can't take

22:10

you can't say, "Someone's stabbing me. I

22:12

hope they're only hurting me."

22:14

>> Yeah. Right. Or how do you assess the

22:16

amount of force that you can use back

22:19

when someone's stabbing you? I think

22:20

that that's responding with lethal

22:22

force.

22:22

>> What did you say, Jamie?

22:23

>> Probably find the video.

22:24

>> Yeah, let's find the video. But it's

22:25

also um how big is this guy? if he's got

22:28

all these people and are these like a

22:30

bunch of like shitty untrained police

22:32

officers who don't know any martial

22:34

arts? When you say he's restrained, like

22:36

how restrained was he?

22:38

>> You know what I mean? Like if you got

22:39

two dudes

22:41

>> that are uh built like Tony Hinchcliffe

22:43

and they're trying to hold me back from

22:44

[ __ ] somebody up.

22:45

>> It's not going to do nothing

22:46

>> that you know what I mean? It's like how

22:48

big is this guy?

22:49

>> What what happened?

22:51

>> Was he the one that was stealing things

22:53

or was he uh wrongly accused? Does he

22:56

have a record? Is he a violent person? I

22:59

don't know anything.

23:01

Is he a complete innocent bystander?

23:03

This is the video. Video contains

23:05

graphic content. Okay,

23:08

>> that was

23:09

>> that's it.

23:10

>> That's all the one showed.

23:12

>> So, there's probably multiple videos.

23:13

>> Yeah.

23:15

>> Yeah.

23:16

The thing about the tasers is it's

23:18

[ __ ] weird, man. Tasers on some

23:21

people, they lock them up and they

23:23

[ __ ] and they fall down. I've seen

23:26

guys just scream and rip those things

23:28

off their chest like it's nothing.

23:30

>> Well, sometimes those probes don't

23:31

penetrate either. Right.

23:32

>> Right. I think some of those tasers are

23:34

a bunk, too.

23:35

>> 100%.

23:36

>> Some of the tasers are just [ __ ]

23:38

equipment. I mean, that's the only thing

23:39

that makes sense. So, these guys

23:42

>> Did you ever play with one of the

23:43

handhelds when you were a kid? No.

23:44

>> Somebody always had a handheld

23:46

somewhere.

23:46

>> No, I never did. Electric fence though

23:49

once.

23:50

>> Yeah. You shock your Oh, yeah. That'll

23:52

that'll make your teeth clatter.

23:53

>> Holy [ __ ] dude.

23:57

It's letting go. That's hard.

23:59

>> Yeah.

24:03

>> Disturbing video. Okay.

24:06

>> Oh, there's sound on it.

24:07

>> I mean, there's yelling.

24:09

[laughter] Put a earphone so we can hear

24:10

the sound.

24:12

>> There's the taser.

24:14

>> Oh, okay. Hold on, man. Back up. Back

24:19

up.

24:19

>> What was he reaching for on the ground?

24:21

>> Is that the girl? The woman shoots him.

24:23

Taser, I think. [laughter]

24:25

>> Okay.

24:30

>> Oh, yeah.

24:31

>> I can't tell who shot the gun, but that

24:32

was [sighs]

24:34

>> Okay, that's crazy.

24:40

>> That does not look justified. That looks

24:42

like they had control of him. Unless he

24:44

had a knife and was stabbing people. But

24:47

even if he was stabbing, like how much

24:49

control do they have on him before she

24:52

starts shooting him?

24:53

>> Was it the chick who shot him?

24:55

>> Yes. Look. See, she backs away. Watch.

25:00

>> They tase him. They get him to the

25:01

ground and she shoots him while they've

25:03

got him down on the ground.

25:05

>> Female cops.

25:07

>> Yeah, that's not good.

25:10

That's crazy.

25:13

[sighs] I again, I don't know what

25:15

happened. I don't know if he stabbed one

25:17

of them. If he really did have a knife

25:18

and was stabbing him, but it seems like

25:19

they had him restrained.

25:20

>> It looks like that's the guy who shot

25:22

him. I can't tell.

25:22

>> But that lady stands back and extends

25:24

her arms with a gun right there and he

25:26

puts his

25:27

>> Oh, you're right.

25:29

>> It looked like he shot

25:29

>> Oh, it's the guy shoots him.

25:31

>> Yeah, she I think she had the taser.

25:32

>> She's shooting him with a taser. Oh,

25:36

>> let me see that again.

25:39

>> WHAT?

25:45

GOD, it's hard to tell. Is it? So, it's

25:47

the guy in the back.

25:48

>> I think it's the guy in the front. So,

25:50

if you The dude in the back, you see the

25:52

guy right next to Yeah, that guy.

25:53

>> That guy shoots him.

25:54

>> It looks like it. I'm not sure.

25:56

>> That's really close, too.

25:57

>> God, it seems like

26:00

>> the second the shots stop, he puts his

26:02

hand his gun back. Makes me think maybe

26:04

it was him.

26:05

>> Yes.

26:07

[ __ ] man.

26:11

That does not look good.

26:14

>> [sighs]

26:15

>> That's not a good one.

26:16

>> No.

26:17

>> No.

26:18

>> No. Doesn't look great.

26:20

>> No.

26:21

>> That means you have to give us your hot

26:22

take now, Jill. [laughter]

26:23

>> Yeah, that's my hot take.

26:25

>> So he could run to Twitter with it.

26:26

>> I need to know like did he actually stab

26:28

one of them?

26:29

>> So then it says during a press

26:30

conference, uh, two of the cops were

26:33

injured in the altercation.

26:35

Police said the suspect allegedly pulled

26:37

out a fixed blade knife to which an

26:39

officer pulled out a taser. Same officer

26:41

shot him with a gun.

26:43

Okay, that's different. So, if he really

26:46

pulled out a knife and was trying to

26:48

stab them

26:49

>> and they had him on the ground and they

26:51

couldn't totally get control of him and

26:52

that guy just decides, "He stabbed me,

26:54

I'm going to shoot him." That's a

26:55

different thing.

26:56

>> I agree.

26:56

>> That's different.

26:59

>> Also, we didn't have the front view,

27:01

>> right?

27:01

>> So, we see the view from the back.

27:03

>> We It's very blurry the whole thing. We

27:05

didn't even know who shot. We thought

27:06

the lady shot him.

27:07

>> It's hard to tell what the [ __ ] is going

27:08

on. You can't even tell if it's a taser

27:10

or a gun in her hand. It's that blurry.

27:11

But if uh he stabbed them and he's got a

27:14

knife, that's a different thing, right?

27:16

The whole thing is [ __ ] though. Like

27:18

that is the last thing America needs

27:20

right now.

27:22

>> Yeah. Well, I mean, you don't want

27:23

another riot season. [laughter] I mean,

27:25

I wonder um if people would go right

27:28

into it the way they did before without

27:31

US A's help. [laughter]

27:34

>> Here's what a witness said he saw.

27:36

>> Witness came flying around on his

27:38

bicycle. One officer tackled him. Two

27:40

other officers kind of rushed over. One

27:42

of the officers yells, "He has a knife."

27:45

One of the officers then draws a taser

27:46

and yells, "Taser, taser, taser." He

27:49

tasers him. So, it says he tasers him,

27:52

but wasn't that the woman?

27:53

>> That I mean,

27:54

>> I'm not sure that she actually tasered

27:56

him or she had her weapon.

27:57

>> She might have just had her weapon out.

27:59

>> Uh, he tases him and the victim falls to

28:02

the ground.

28:03

>> The three continue to struggle for a

28:05

second or two. Then, one of the officers

28:07

stands just a couple feet above his

28:09

head. shooting the V. Okay. Three times.

28:12

Three times to the head. Holy [ __ ]

28:14

>> It did look like he was the shooter.

28:17

>> Okay. So, that's what we saw.

28:19

>> Yeah. And the thing the tell for that

28:22

was as soon as he was done, he put it

28:24

right back. The cops weren't doing that.

28:26

>> Additional video that has been not been

28:28

circulated online that's being reviewed.

28:31

>> Oh, why don't they have body cameras?

28:34

>> And that's what I mean. That's probably

28:35

part of the whole protest was that their

28:37

cameras were not on. So,

28:38

>> or if they didn't have them, I don't

28:40

know.

28:40

>> Did they Let's find that out. Did they

28:41

not have them or were they not on?

28:44

>> Uh, lack of body cameras. None of the

28:46

officers involved were wearing body

28:47

cameras.

28:49

>> H. So,

28:50

>> none of them.

28:51

>> That's Are they supposed to?

28:53

>> Yeah, that may not be part of the

28:54

ordinance.

28:55

>> Yeah, I don't know about the city of

28:56

Madison.

28:57

>> How about fix that?

28:58

>> Yeah.

28:59

>> Yeah, fix that.

29:00

>> You know, cops often are the ones who

29:02

suggest that.

29:03

>> Yeah. For their own for their own

29:05

safety. They say that they want to wear

29:06

body cams. I've seen a lot of crazy body

29:10

cam footage where a guy is pulling

29:12

someone over and they're just having a

29:13

casual conversation. All a sudden the

29:15

guy pulls a gun out and starts shooting

29:16

them.

29:16

>> Yep.

29:16

>> I've seen a bunch of those.

29:18

>> Tons.

29:19

>> Especially the routine traffic stops.

29:20

Happens constantly.

29:22

>> You have to always think like if you're

29:24

in an altercation with a cop,

29:26

>> these people are always worried that

29:28

this is where their life is going to

29:29

end. They're always worried that they're

29:31

going to get shot. They're they've seen

29:33

those videos, too. So, if you start [ __ ]

29:36

with a cop and he freaks out and goes

29:38

the wrong direction, like you're

29:40

probably dealing with a guy who's got

29:42

some serious PTSD.

29:44

>> Yeah. He's seen it before. Or his

29:46

buddy's gotten gotten plugged right

29:48

there.

29:48

>> They've all seen it.

29:49

>> Yeah. I have a friend who uh spent a lot

29:51

of times overseas uh deployed and he

29:54

said in combat and he said he saw way

29:56

more as an Austin cop like way more

29:59

[ __ ] up things and all the time

30:01

whereas you know you're not in war all

30:03

the time you're not in firefights all

30:05

the time because like it's like every

30:06

day every day you're seeing something

30:08

[ __ ] up that you can't unsee

30:09

>> and you see it with kids

30:11

>> things you got to deal with with kids

30:12

things you got to deal with with all

30:14

sorts of things and it's like

30:16

>> that is not a fun job

30:18

>> and I would not want it at all. So, I

30:20

always do tend to cut law enforcement

30:22

quite a bit of grace until I hear what

30:24

their side of things are because that is

30:27

a that is a brutal job to have. I have

30:30

buddy of mine's a deputy sheriff

30:32

>> and I talk with him. He's policing a

30:34

small area

30:35

>> and he's like, "It's the stuff with the

30:36

kids that gets him."

30:38

>> Yeah. Exactly. Like, that's the stuff

30:40

you'll go, you know, go into a junky's

30:42

house, there's a 2-year-old there,

30:45

hasn't eaten in 4 days, you know. Oh my

30:48

god.

30:48

>> He's like, that's the stuff that really,

30:51

>> you know, he's like, I'd rather shoot a

30:52

person than that. [laughter]

30:54

[sighs]

30:55

>> Which kind of makes sense to me, right?

30:57

Like I would It does.

30:58

>> Yeah. I probably would too. You know,

31:00

when you you think about

31:02

who should be allowed to have kids, who

31:04

should be like, that's what's really

31:06

crazy about freedom is that any two

31:10

crackheads with no money at all just on

31:14

the side of the road and he can nut

31:15

inside of her and that creates a life

31:17

and that life they're responsible for.

31:19

And they're smoking crack and drinking

31:21

Everclear and they have a baby grown

31:24

inside their body and no one can do

31:25

anything about it. It's like there's no

31:28

protection for that baby. There's no

31:29

nothing. And then if that baby is born,

31:31

if it does live, like, you know, you

31:34

talk to people that have actually like

31:37

been in the delivery room with crack

31:39

babies, it's like, oh my god, man. The

31:42

horror stories about a child addicted to

31:44

drugs, coming out of the womb addicted

31:46

to drugs. Yeah.

31:48

>> And detoxing.

31:49

>> Heavily addicted.

31:50

>> Heavily addicted.

31:52

>> Yeah. Ghoullish.

31:54

>> It's so twisted. It's like people can be

31:56

so awesome and so [ __ ] at the same time

32:00

coexisting on the same patch of dirt and

32:04

uh no one devises a legitimate strategy

32:08

for mitigating the amount of people that

32:10

suck

32:11

>> and the problems with

32:13

>> can it can it even be done?

32:14

>> I don't know. I mean not with not with

32:16

freedom. I mean this is the flot camera

32:18

question.

32:19

>> You know do you want big brother looking

32:22

at your license plate everywhere you go?

32:23

Well, listen. If someone shoots up like

32:25

that, this was a argument that Mark

32:27

Andre made on this podcast. When he had

32:29

come here, right after he uh right

32:32

before he had come here, there was a

32:33

shooting in Austin where some kids just

32:36

randomly started shooting at people and

32:38

then they uh couldn't find them in

32:40

Austin, but as soon as they left Austin

32:43

city limits, they went into an area that

32:45

had flock cameras and they got them like

32:46

that. So, this was his argument for the

32:50

benefits of flock cameras. But

32:52

>> I do believe he invests in vlog cameras.

32:54

>> Well, sure. I mean, but you can make

32:55

that argument with CCTV as well. You can

32:57

make that argument with

32:58

>> everyone wear a chip. Everyone wear a

33:00

body camera.

33:00

>> Sure. The thing is is you have to be

33:02

cautious with the idea of the nanny

33:04

state for another reason besides just

33:06

protecting people's independent privacy.

33:08

It's because those things often become

33:10

money wells.

33:11

>> Oh yeah.

33:12

>> For people to steal from the public

33:13

trough.

33:14

>> Oh yeah.

33:15

>> And that is the major issue. Right. So

33:19

some of the some of the reasons I tend

33:21

even though I'm on the paleo-Christian

33:22

side to lean towards a lot of the

33:25

freedom elements over the n is because

33:27

of the corruption. The corruption which

33:29

happens often times when you try to

33:31

curtail too much right that in and of

33:34

itself creates a system and that system

33:36

becomes ripe for corruption. Let me give

33:38

you an example. Flock cams. Who we

33:40

awarding the contracts to,

33:41

>> right?

33:42

>> And who's going to be uh servicing those

33:44

contracts? Who's going to be doing these

33:46

things? Right? That's where you start to

33:47

see uh with new systems there becomes

33:50

new corruption. So there has to be a way

33:52

to curtail. But there's some things that

33:54

are pretty obvious that you could

33:55

curtail. And who cares if people [ __ ]

33:57

about it? Like let's take uh online

33:59

prostitution for instance. Okay, great.

34:02

It's illegal to do only fans, let's say.

34:05

How the hell could that possibly be bad

34:07

for societ? Like what is [laughter] what

34:09

is that going to do? That's just oh we

34:12

got to have that though, Andrew. We got

34:13

to we got to have that. It's like I

34:15

don't think we do. I don't think it's

34:17

necessary. And if we got rid of it, like

34:19

who cares, you know? It seems like it

34:21

would just be a massive net positive for

34:24

every human being if that was just done

34:26

away with altogether. And it's like what

34:29

the the systems that come in too though

34:32

for policing it are prone to corruption.

34:35

So you got to be cautious about it.

34:36

>> Right.

34:37

>> Right. You got to be cautious about it.

34:39

>> Also, I just don't like people telling

34:40

people what to do even if they shouldn't

34:42

be doing it. I don't like it. I

34:45

>> I mean to an extent though, right? Like

34:46

if they're heroin addicts, you're going

34:48

to be like, "Nah, we got can't

34:49

>> Well, even that like I don't think you

34:52

should be a heroin addict, but I don't

34:53

think I should be the one to tell you

34:55

not to do heroin." I don't cuz I think

34:57

that's a slippery slope and then it's

34:59

don't smoke cigarettes and then it's cuz

35:01

cigarettes are killing you and then it's

35:03

don't drink whiskey because you could be

35:04

a drunk driver and kill a family of

35:06

five. Like it's all the same [ __ ] It's

35:08

like,

35:09

>> but do you think that all those have

35:10

kind of the same impact on society

35:12

ultimately?

35:13

>> Well, the heroin thing is a weird one

35:15

because um

35:18

>> cuz [clears throat] like the argument I

35:19

make would be like the incest argument.

35:21

It'd be like look that's outlawed for a

35:24

good reason. But what if you have two

35:26

people are totally sterile? Like they

35:29

can't have kids, right?

35:31

>> What's the moral argument that can be

35:33

made? And there people are like, "Well,

35:35

there I can't really make a moral

35:37

argument that it's just gross. You're

35:38

>> [ __ ] your sister."

35:39

>> Yeah. [laughter] Yeah. What are you

35:40

doing? It's just gross. And it's like,

35:42

well, but can we legislate off of it's

35:44

just gross. And and the kind of the

35:46

libertarian mindset is

35:48

>> no, we can't. And I think yeah, we can.

35:50

I'm okay with that. Like I'm okay about

35:52

I remember uh debating with D Smith who

35:55

brought this up.

35:55

>> What would you do? Would you arrest some

35:57

guy and his sister if you found out they

35:59

were boning each other?

36:00

>> Why not arrest him?

36:01

>> Why not? Like how would that how would

36:04

deterring that societywide

36:07

ever be a bad idea?

36:09

>> I don't think it is. However, it's

36:11

technically a victimless crime,

36:14

especially under the circumstances that

36:15

you described, whereas they're both both

36:17

sterile. I do not think you should be

36:19

able to do that.

36:20

>> No,

36:21

>> but well, I don't think you should do

36:23

that, I should say.

36:24

>> Yeah.

36:24

>> But in the case of Cersei and what's his

36:27

face? What's the other dude's name in

36:29

Game of Thrones? The brother and sister.

36:31

>> Oh, yeah. They really seemed like they

36:33

were in love, dude. I mean,

36:35

>> but they had kids. They had like incest

36:36

babies, right? Who went on to [laughter]

36:38

rule kingdoms and they were all like

36:40

Joffrey

36:41

>> Joffrey

36:41

>> probably didn't want the incest baby in

36:43

charge of the kingdom. It didn't work

36:45

out so well.

36:46

>> The other incest baby was in charge of

36:47

the kingdom. He jumped off the roof.

36:49

>> True. And was it Jon Snow technically

36:51

doing incest as well with

36:53

>> the queen of dragons? Like, weren't they

36:55

both

36:56

>> They're related.

36:56

>> Yeah,

36:57

>> they're in the basket. They were they

36:59

were pretty uh somethingust

37:02

in the Game of Thrones.

37:04

>> Oh yeah. Yeah.

37:05

>> But the other argument there that's

37:07

interesting is it's like okay that's you

37:09

know fair enough. It's a victimless

37:10

crime. But you just kind of extend that

37:13

like okay well then why can't a guy have

37:14

five wives? Why can't he have 20? Why

37:16

can't 20 gay men all get married and

37:18

adopt one child? It's a just victimless

37:20

crime.

37:21

>> Yeah.

37:22

>> It's like so the doesn't the slippery

37:23

slope kind of go the other way a little

37:25

bit too?

37:25

>> Yeah it does. It does go the other way.

37:28

And the the multiple wives thing, didn't

37:31

they just pass something like that in

37:33

Toronto? Wasn't that in Ontario where

37:36

they're allowing polygamy now because uh

37:38

they have so many Islamic people living

37:40

there that think that you should be

37:42

allowed to have

37:42

>> Well, remember there's big pushes for

37:44

that in Utah because of the Muslim

37:46

population.

37:47

>> Well, you know, that's why Mitt Romney's

37:48

family moved to Mexico. [laughter]

37:50

>> Really?

37:51

>> Oh, yeah.

37:52

>> It was due It was due to the multiple

37:53

wives. I didn't know that it was due to

37:54

the multiple wives. Well, not

37:56

specifically, but that sect of Mormonism

37:58

fled the United States when they passed

38:01

polygamy laws.

38:02

>> And I think there was probably just a

38:04

broader crackdown on this perceived new

38:07

cult. They thought of it as a cult. Now,

38:09

it's just established religion of really

38:11

nice people that knock on your door.

38:12

>> Yeah.

38:12

>> They drive around.

38:13

>> I must I I must admit, I have debated

38:15

many Mormons and they are just the

38:17

nicest people. The nicest people. The

38:18

nicest people. It's the best cult. And

38:20

it makes me it it like it's upsetting

38:22

because I'm I'm like look I'm about to

38:24

expose that your prophet was totally

38:26

fake and you know I'm trying to get

38:28

people into the debate and they just end

38:30

up being like the nicest people and I go

38:32

a man.

38:33

>> So uh having multiple wives or spouses

38:35

is illegal in Canada under section 293

38:38

polygamy and section 290 bigamy. What is

38:41

bigamy?

38:43

>> Uh isn't that is that the other way? Is

38:45

bigamy the other way? Polygamy is the uh

38:48

man with multiple

38:50

>> What's Do you know what it is, Jamie? Do

38:51

you know what biggyamy is?

38:53

>> Ever heard of it?

38:54

>> I don't even think I've ever seen that

38:56

written. The act of marrying one person

38:58

while still legally married. Oh. Oh,

39:00

okay.

39:01

>> Oh, a bigamist. Right.

39:04

>> Interesting story here though.

39:05

>> What?

39:06

>> Some guy was married to four [snorts]

39:08

people at once. Sorry.

39:09

>> Four people at once in some way or

39:10

another recently like this year

39:12

>> in America.

39:13

>> In Canada. See Canada.

39:14

>> He was married to four women at once.

39:15

multiple wives married. So, he got

39:17

multiple marriage licenses and should

39:18

not have been given them or something.

39:20

>> Oh, well, he doesn't look Muslim.

39:23

[laughter]

39:24

>> That guy looks like he's just a regular

39:26

Christian guy.

39:27

>> Oh, well, he does look Muslim,

39:29

>> but I don't know if it has anything to

39:30

do

39:30

>> He might not be, though. He might just

39:31

be a baller.

39:32

>> He could be a Muslim.

39:34

>> Yeah, I don't know if it has anything to

39:34

do with religion.

39:35

>> Go back to that case in Canada, though.

39:37

Isn't there something where they're

39:38

trying to pass it in Toronto?

39:40

>> I don't think so. I mean, I typed in

39:41

Toronto multiple wives.

39:42

>> Um, no. Um, Toronto, Ontario polygamy.

39:47

>> That's

39:47

>> I think they were trying to pass

39:49

something.

39:50

>> I mean, that's so I went to news to see

39:52

something, you know, that would have

39:53

poss.

39:53

>> Was it Ottawa? Maybe it was Ottawa.

39:56

Yeah.

39:59

Canada polygamy.

40:04

No new law in Canada legalizing multiple

40:07

wives.

40:08

>> Perhaps proposed law.

40:10

>> Yeah. Well, I don't know. Maybe it is a

40:12

proposed law. Maybe I just read some

40:14

horseshit on Twitter, which is very

40:16

possible.

40:18

>> I've been off Twitter for a few days. I

40:20

feel pretty good.

40:21

>> It's good to It's good to unplug from

40:23

Twitter.

40:24

>> Yeah. Every now and then I just go in

40:26

and I'm like, "God, who are they mad at

40:28

now?" Oh god.

40:29

>> Can I ask you a question? Yeah, sure.

40:30

>> If you went into to X tomorrow, let's

40:33

say,

40:34

>> and there was an option there where you

40:36

could select it and it's like US

40:38

accounts only. That's all you could see.

40:40

Do you think that 90% of the traffic for

40:43

people would go away?

40:44

>> A giant percentage,

40:45

>> huge percentage, right?

40:46

>> Huge percentage is people being

40:47

manipulated into arguments.

40:49

>> Um, it is a strategy foreign assets

40:51

>> by foreign assets. It is a strategy is

40:53

real. This is not tinfoil hat [ __ ] Um,

40:56

we brought this up multiple times on the

40:58

podcast, but I'll bring it up again just

40:59

for the sake of this. There was an FBI

41:01

analyst who uh took a look at Twitter

41:04

when Elon was buying it, and he

41:06

estimated that 80% of the traffic is

41:09

bots.

41:10

This doesn't surprise me. Remember

41:12

YouTube did an internal audit and when

41:14

they did their internal audit, this was

41:16

a few years back and when I when Susan

41:18

still ran it, I believe they did an

41:21

internal audit and found out that most

41:22

of the people that they had on YouTube

41:24

are bots and they did a great purge.

41:27

>> Wow.

41:27

>> Right. That's where the that whole dead

41:29

internet theory and all that really

41:30

started to pick up traction was that hey

41:32

look a lot of this stuff is bots foreign

41:36

accounts people who are manipulating US

41:40

uh elections they're manipulating uh

41:43

various US interests and this is

41:45

happening all over the place.

41:47

>> Yeah.

41:48

>> Right now you have progressives

41:50

uh who are funded by ACTB blueue right

41:53

and I've proven this we we traced all

41:55

their money. It's progressives funded by

41:57

Act Blue who are pushing the same

42:00

narrative that like Candace Owens and

42:02

others are pushing on the idea of

42:04

Charlie Kirk's death and the conspiracy

42:06

around that. So you have

42:08

>> so they're absolutely being paid to push

42:10

this.

42:11

>> Well, their stated mission, this

42:13

particular progressive group, their

42:15

stated mission was to take down TPUSA.

42:17

I'll tell you a story. This is the tale

42:19

of all tales. Okay.

42:21

>> So, uh, Charlie Kirk has this huge

42:24

outreach program that's happening

42:26

through TPUSA on these college campuses.

42:28

He's got viral clip after viral clip

42:30

after viral clip. They are going wild.

42:33

He's going campus to campus. He's doing

42:35

his thing. He's being dogged by a

42:38

progressive organization. this

42:40

progressive organization shows up at

42:42

almost all of these TPUSA events with

42:44

the stated mission of trying to create a

42:47

counter movement to what TPUSA is doing.

42:51

Now, the woman who heads this particular

42:52

organization received millions of

42:55

dollars from ACT Blue and other

42:57

progressive organizations for this

42:59

stated mission. That same woman right

43:01

this second works with other OP X

43:04

accounts to push the messaging that

43:07

Charlie Kirk was assassinated by his own

43:09

TPUSA insiders in order to push that

43:12

narrative forward because the stated

43:14

goal still from that organization is to

43:16

destroy TPUSA.

43:18

>> So they've how do we know that they've

43:20

done this? Is are there emails that have

43:22

been found?

43:23

Well, the stated goal of this particular

43:27

person

43:27

>> is to take down

43:28

>> is to take down TP USA. She's very open

43:31

about that. And then the way that you

43:32

know that they are talking to these

43:34

other accounts is because they do it

43:36

publicly.

43:37

>> Those public accounts will talk to this

43:39

account, right?

43:41

>> Very openly. They reaffirm each other's

43:44

post. They say, "Wow, that's real

43:45

interesting." This kind of thing. all

43:47

affirming that same uh conspiracy that

43:51

TPUSA

43:53

was the ones who actually set up and

43:55

murdered Charlie Kirk

43:57

>> and it millions of dollars in Act Blue

44:00

funding going towards this. No joke.

44:03

Anybody can look can look it up right

44:05

now. The organization's called Unfuck

44:07

America.

44:08

>> So, how do they think that his

44:10

organization

44:12

did this? that they convinced Tyler

44:15

Robinson to do it or that they think

44:17

someone else

44:17

>> I don't think that the progressive

44:18

organization does believe that TPUSA did

44:22

this. I think that what they want to do

44:24

>> Oh, no. I I understand [clears throat]

44:25

that. But I mean, what are they trying

44:26

to say?

44:27

>> Oh, well, the here's what the theory is.

44:30

So, take uh Ian Carol within 24 hours

44:33

after Kirk's death blames Israel. Within

44:36

24 hours, he says Israel killed Kirk.

44:39

That was his tweet went mega viral. What

44:42

the conspiracy is on that side is that

44:44

Israel along with Erica Kirk and TPUSA

44:48

insiders got together with uh elements

44:52

of the US government to murder Charlie

44:54

Kirk because he was going to leave the

44:56

quote pro-Israel cause.

44:59

That's what the theory is,

45:00

>> right? and that that he was either

45:02

murdered, some of them say with a

45:04

microphone exploding, some of them say

45:07

with a uh there was a second shooter and

45:10

Robinson's a pathy. It all depends on

45:13

which theorist you're talking to, but

45:14

they all work together in the same

45:16

unison from a single camp, which is

45:18

interesting.

45:20

>> Well, a lot of people had um takes on

45:24

the shooting, and the microphone one was

45:27

the weirdest one to me. Um, it's weird

45:30

because there's no like, yeah, the shirt

45:33

is moving, but also a bullet is going

45:36

like how many feet per second whizzing

45:38

through the air? Like, do you

45:40

understand?

45:41

>> Yeah. So, where's the air going to go?

45:42

>> People don't understand that.

45:44

>> You know what got me though. So, I went

45:45

back and looked because they say that

45:47

it's the same explosive which was used

45:49

inside the Israeli pagers. Now, that was

45:50

very real. Israel sent these pages.

45:53

>> Be an explosion. That's my take. My

45:56

point is like there's no indication that

45:58

there's an ignition

45:59

>> there. It's worse. There's no smoke,

46:01

>> right?

46:01

>> There's no Now all the Israeli if you

46:03

pull up if you pulled up right now one

46:05

of these Israeli pagers going cuz

46:06

there's tons of videos of them.

46:08

>> Oh, really? Let's watch. Let me see some

46:09

Israeli smoke pulling off.

46:11

>> There's smoke.

46:12

>> Is there a dude like where it's on his

46:14

hip?

46:14

>> Yeah. Oh yeah. Yep. There's one where

46:16

it's on his hip and and gets him and you

46:18

can see the cloud of smoke coming off

46:20

because of the specific type of ignition

46:22

from

46:22

>> Right. But is it possible that this

46:24

pager thing is different than whatever

46:26

they think this microphone thing is?

46:28

This microphone thing has some sort of a

46:30

different kind of propellant. But then

46:32

again, you you'd have to like Okay,

46:33

let's let's imagine what kind of

46:34

propellant exists,

46:36

>> right? Compressed air.

46:38

>> There's not enough room in that

46:40

microphone to get enough compressed air

46:42

to blow a hole in your neck and kill you

46:44

instantly.

46:45

>> Well, they claim that it's

46:46

>> unless it's something else.

46:47

>> It's this what is it? PEN explosive.

46:50

This is the particular type that had to

46:52

be used for the size of the microphone.

46:54

But you have another problem. The mic's

46:55

on the wrong side of where the wound is,

46:57

right?

46:58

>> The other is there's no burn marks.

46:59

There's no smoke. There's nothing.

47:01

There's like there's nothing to confirm

47:03

this theory at all.

47:04

>> You'd have to guess where that mic is

47:06

cuz he's moving around too. You have to

47:07

guess where that mic is pointing. You

47:09

could take someone out.

47:09

>> So, I found two videos that one that

47:12

goes. I'll show you this happens again

47:14

here.

47:14

>> Watch the smoke

47:16

>> right here.

47:17

>> See all that smoke? [laughter]

47:19

Oh, let me see that again.

47:21

>> Watch all this.

47:21

>> Dude was just chilling and boom.

47:24

>> It blew up in his bag though.

47:25

>> Yeah. So, a lot of them like they didn't

47:27

die. They go to the hospital and they're

47:29

just like, you know, hurt.

47:30

>> Probably because they had it in their

47:31

bag or something.

47:32

>> I found a couple one other video here.

47:34

>> Well, these guys are going to be

47:34

carrying around like armored satchels.

47:36

[laughter]

47:37

>> Well, yeah. You could like a couple of

47:38

them were on bikes and stuff when it

47:41

happened.

47:43

>> Like that guy got [ __ ] up.

47:44

>> Yeah, he got messed up real bad. There's

47:45

some or they give you the illusion they

47:47

did by blurring out his head.

47:49

>> That's the other part. I mean, not that

47:50

these are fake, but yes, only 11 were

47:52

killed by the pagers.

47:53

>> Still pretty slick.

47:54

>> That was extremely

47:57

slick.

47:58

>> I mean, crazy. They they sent him off to

48:00

them years ago.

48:01

>> That's some CIA [ __ ] man. Like, that's

48:03

some deep massage [ __ ]

48:05

>> Yeah, it's crazy.

48:05

>> That's probably where the CIA learned

48:07

it. But that's a explosion, right? And

48:09

yeah, you see smoke, but is there some

48:11

kind of a propellant that would be

48:13

lethal from a short distance with some

48:15

sort of a projectile?

48:17

>> It's possible,

48:17

>> but it would also like have to be like

48:19

how are you aiming it? You're not even

48:20

aiming it. It's sitting up here, right?

48:22

So, if it's sitting here and he's doing

48:23

all this and moving around, like it

48:26

might take his ear off. It might zip

48:28

whiz to the side and shoot somebody else

48:30

if he leans over.

48:32

>> Sure.

48:32

>> Unless they planned exactly when it's

48:34

going to go off and it's pointing

48:35

towards his neck like

48:37

>> which Yeah. It seems like a gunshot

48:39

wound. It's just hard to imagine that

48:42

it's a 30 odd six. That's my issue with

48:44

it. I look at it and, you know, I've

48:46

I've seen takes from guys that are gun

48:49

experts

48:50

and they they have a problem with it,

48:52

too. The thing about guns, though, is

48:56

weird stuff happens when you shoot

48:58

bones. Like it is possible that you

49:01

wouldn't get a pass through depending on

49:04

how it squared the spinal column,

49:07

depending on how it hit and depending on

49:09

what kind of bullet it is. Uh I forget

49:11

the type.

49:12

>> These are 150 grain core lockips.

49:15

>> That's right.

49:15

>> And they're soft tip. So they only have

49:17

enough of a jacket

49:18

>> to keep the bullet together.

49:20

>> Right. The idea is that expands inside

49:22

the body causing massive trauma.

49:24

>> Right.

49:24

>> Right. So

49:25

>> which is why I use them for hunting and

49:26

probably you have too.

49:27

>> Yeah. No, I haven't used that particular

49:29

round, but um

49:32

>> it just seems like

49:34

>> it's a lot of [ __ ] lot of energy

49:37

coming towards your neck.

49:39

>> It's hard to believe that it wouldn't

49:40

blow a hole through the neck and leave a

49:42

big [ __ ] just take a chunk out that

49:45

it would just make a a round hole. But

49:48

that's beside the point, you know?

49:50

There's other weird stuff with like the

49:53

video. I don't like

49:57

there. There's a lot of people saying

49:58

that the video um is super clear.

50:01

They're seeing 4K footage. It's clearly

50:04

Tyler Robinson on the roof. No, it's

50:08

not.

50:08

>> Jack Persobic and Vinnie Johnson.

50:11

>> That's crazy that they said that. That

50:13

is not clear. That is a blurry figure.

50:16

You could barely ascertain as to whether

50:18

or not there's a recoil when someone

50:20

takes the shot. It does seem like the

50:23

guy on the roof gets in a prone position

50:26

and it looks like something that might

50:28

be a rifle, right? It's blurry as [ __ ]

50:30

>> It also does look like there's kickback

50:31

on the right leg.

50:32

>> It looks like there might be some

50:34

recoil.

50:35

>> It's hard, but it's not clear. Like for

50:38

them to say it's crystal clear. It's

50:39

Tyler Robinson. It's on the room. It's

50:41

like

50:41

>> Well, it's interesting when when

50:43

Prosobic came out and said that and

50:44

Benny Johnson, there was another guy who

50:46

was there who I know. His name is Kai

50:48

Schwimmer.

50:49

And Kai put out a tweet. He said, "Look,

50:51

they might have sensationalized this

50:52

just a bit." Okay. He said, "But the

50:54

video that we did see in the courtroom

50:56

was actually much clearer."

50:58

>> Oh, okay.

50:58

>> So, I DM'd him and I DM' Jack Prasobic

51:01

and I DM'd Well, I couldn't get a hold

51:03

of Benny, but I DM'd Jack Presc

51:08

did you try to over sensationalize this

51:10

thing for clicks? Like, what's the deal?

51:12

He said, "No, listen. The footage we did

51:14

see inside the courtroom was actually a

51:17

lot clearer than anything that the

51:19

public has seen so far. That's their

51:21

claim. Kai Schwimmer, now I wouldn't uh

51:24

just take Pobic as word, but Kai

51:26

Schwimmer, he's a Mormon Mormon kid. Uh

51:30

not very prone to tall tales. In fact,

51:32

he was the first one who came out and

51:33

said, "Look, I was there and you're kind

51:35

of over sensationalizing it. It is a lot

51:37

clearer, but it it's not showing

51:39

everything that you're claiming it's

51:40

showing." M. So, it's clearer, but it's

51:43

not clear enough. It's not like 4K

51:47

closeup clearly in his face. The other

51:49

thing that was weird was the guy in the

51:51

crowd that jumped up and said, "I killed

51:54

him."

51:54

>> Mhm.

51:55

>> That's weird. And that guy, wasn't he at

51:57

the Boston bombing as well?

51:59

>> So, he's a professional agitator who's

52:02

been at tons and tons of these events.

52:04

Later, he's found, I believe, with kitty

52:07

porn. Right.

52:08

>> How convenient. Well,

52:10

>> well, also maybe that's the kind of guy.

52:12

>> That's the kind of guy though, right?

52:14

And so his um he has been at tons of

52:18

events agitating and he is well known to

52:21

law enforcement for doing this. Um so

52:24

that's kind of what they're they're

52:26

stating for him. The if if you're

52:28

looking at this from a broad view, if

52:30

you're looking at the conspiracy side

52:31

versus what they call the fed slop side,

52:33

let's say, it makes sense for them to

52:36

say, "Hey, wait a second. That's really

52:37

weird. This guy jumps up and says, "I

52:39

did it."

52:40

>> Right. That makes him he's a psy

52:42

distraction. Something like this. That's

52:43

how you look into the guy.

52:45

>> Right.

52:45

>> And the guy is a lunatic who's been at

52:47

many of these events. Yeah.

52:49

>> Doing crazy stuff like this.

52:51

>> That's the thing is both things can be

52:52

true. Like MK Ultra is real. Also, that

52:55

guy might just been a cook who's in the

52:57

crowd who took advantage of a situation

52:58

cuz he's literally insane and he's into

53:00

kitty porn.

53:01

>> Yeah. Both. Well, there's no doubt one

53:04

of the biggest kind of false narratives

53:06

that comes out of this and when I do

53:07

debates, one of the things I'm trying to

53:09

structure around is like I know that

53:12

we're coming in with a narrative, but I

53:14

need to understand yours and you need to

53:16

understand mine so we can get somewhere

53:18

towards what the truth is here, right?

53:20

>> Because you're going to have a frame of

53:22

which you're viewing the world, a

53:23

worldview, and so am I.

53:24

>> And so everybody has a worldview. We we

53:27

have to figure each others out to get

53:28

somewhere

53:30

here with this. One of the most

53:32

disturbing aspects of it is they the

53:34

people who promote this actually don't

53:36

want their worldview or their positions

53:38

to be examined. They only want to

53:40

examine the evidence from the state.

53:42

It's like that would be fine. I think if

53:45

it was the case that you made no claims

53:46

past that,

53:47

>> right?

53:48

>> So if you just only say, hey, you know,

53:50

I'm not really sure what happened and I

53:52

want to really kind of review the

53:53

evidence and that's that. I don't really

53:55

have a problem with that. I think that

53:56

that's probably healthy. The issue that

53:58

I run into is when people make claims

54:00

past that, it was an exploding p, you

54:02

know, exploding mic, right? It was uh

54:05

two different shooters. It was a folding

54:07

rifle. It was a that 306 couldn't do

54:10

this. Even though the US Army, remember

54:12

the 306 used in the M1 Grand was used in

54:16

World War II and then it was used in

54:18

Korea. Before that, we had the 03

54:19

Springfield. It was used heavily in

54:21

World War I, World War II, and again in

54:23

Korea. The US Army has studied 3006

54:27

entry wounds in depth and produced many

54:30

manuals on it explaining how cavitation

54:32

works with 306 and that the bullet

54:34

doesn't always penetrate and that's with

54:36

full metal jacket rounds

54:38

>> that are designed for maximum

54:39

penetration, not 150 grain core lock

54:42

coming out of a an antique rifle

54:45

essentially. Uh it could easily split up

54:47

very quickly and that's why they ended

54:49

up pulling fragments out of Charlie. It

54:52

wouldn't surprise me if when we have all

54:54

the data from the coroner report that he

54:56

has tons of shards all throughout his

54:58

chest, all throughout uh his entire

55:01

because they were saying that there's

55:03

trauma inside the chest which would make

55:05

sense if the bullet split up here,

55:07

right?

55:07

>> It would create all sorts of fragments

55:09

down in the chest,

55:11

>> right? That that is an important

55:12

distinction about the type of bullet.

55:15

>> Huge distinction. the FMJ especially um

55:19

because that's what the army is using is

55:20

FMJ ball ammunition. It's cheap to

55:22

produce, right?

55:24

>> So they're using it in all these

55:25

different wars and the amount of people

55:27

shot with that caliber between World War

55:30

I 2 and Korea is astronomic. They even

55:32

use the 3006 in Vietnam in limited

55:35

capacity especially the 03 Springfield.

55:36

It was still in service by special

55:38

forces.

55:39

>> Wow. So the question becomes like the US

55:41

Army has studied this in depth and I

55:43

went back and I pulled all their manuals

55:45

and I've even put them out and several

55:47

people have uh done the exact same thing

55:49

and put them out explaining how

55:51

cavitation works and they're saying look

55:53

the energy dissipation the second it

55:56

hits a human body it dissipates very

55:58

very very quickly with the resistance.

56:01

So it doesn't always go through. Now

56:03

often times it does with the FMJ but

56:05

even then it didn't always go through.

56:08

So, you know, it's it's a wellstudied

56:10

phenomenon. Another one would be Martin

56:12

Luther King. Martin Luther King gets hit

56:14

through the jaw, ends up here. Well, if

56:17

it's just going to blow through all

56:18

bone, why did it stop in him? Well, it's

56:21

because the second it has impact, it

56:24

begins to slow down, and then it impacts

56:25

something else, slows down even more.

56:28

So, it's totally possible that this guy

56:30

was hit with a 30 six. I don't I don't

56:33

know why that would be in the realm of

56:34

impossibility. we have enough data on

56:36

the ammo to know that yeah, it's very

56:39

possible this happened.

56:41

>> Um, it's it is definitely possible. Um,

56:44

there's a lot of people that think that

56:46

the sound was not they think the sound

56:50

indicated that it was a closer shot than

56:52

where it was. And I've heard a lot of

56:55

people say, well, there's also an issue

56:57

with it being supersonic ammo. So,

56:59

you're getting two sounds. You you're

57:01

getting a sound of the bullet actually

57:03

breaking the air. You're also getting

57:05

the sound of the rifle going off. I

57:07

don't understand it.

57:09

>> It's difficult there when you're making

57:11

the judgments on the sound because there

57:15

are people who have run experiments

57:16

saying right down to the second this

57:18

meets up with the shot placement.

57:20

>> And then there's people who say, "No,

57:22

there's, you know, that experiment is

57:23

bogus due to the controls for this or

57:25

that."

57:26

>> The problem is is that most of these

57:28

people don't have any expertise in this

57:29

arena at all.

57:30

>> They're just yapping

57:31

>> and they're just Yeah. Exactly.

57:32

>> Yeah. Yeah, they're just trying to, you

57:33

know, and I get it. You're trying to

57:35

figure it out. I understand

57:36

>> the Israel thing. Um, there was some,

57:40

uh, text messages back and forth where

57:42

Charlie was talking about getting out of

57:43

the Israel business. And there was this

57:47

position that he had where he did not

57:49

want us to go to war with Iran.

57:51

>> All true.

57:52

>> Uh, and he had a lot of influence. And

57:55

then there was also that Israel

57:58

supposedly had offered him $150 million

58:00

to be more pro-Israel.

58:03

>> That is the problem that we've run into

58:06

is like I've never been able to verify

58:08

that was the case and I've

58:09

>> Okay, so where does that claim come

58:10

from?

58:11

>> This claim basically comes from this

58:13

camp without anything to substantiate

58:14

it.

58:15

>> So it's the same people that are pushing

58:16

this thing, the turning point kill.

58:17

>> What's interesting about this is like it

58:19

is indeed true. It does appear that

58:22

Charlie Kirk was extremely pissed off at

58:25

some of his donors because they were

58:26

trying to control who he was

58:27

platforming. They were upset that he had

58:30

platformed Tucker Carlson. They were

58:32

upset that he had platformed Candace

58:33

Owens. They were upset. And why? Well,

58:36

it's because Tucker Carlson, Candace

58:37

Owens, they were very anti or at least

58:39

had a somewhat anti-Israel message at

58:42

the time. Carlson, I think a bit more

58:44

than Candace or maybe it could be the

58:45

reverse, but I don't think that that

58:47

matters too much. The donors were pissed

58:49

off. Many of them were pro-Israel and

58:51

some of these donors were applying

58:53

pressure. And so Kirk was lamenting

58:55

inside of his text messages about this

58:57

pressure he was experiencing from some

58:59

of his donors about who he could or

59:01

couldn't platform. And so as a

59:03

negotiating piece, he said, "Well, I'll

59:04

leave the pro-Israeli cause if you're

59:06

going to try to tell me who I can and

59:08

can't platform."

59:09

>> And that was kind of what his position

59:11

was.

59:12

>> Now, that seems like platforming. I

59:14

don't know. Um, even even on Twitch

59:17

politics or YouTube politics with

59:19

smaller uh channels, smaller streamers,

59:21

they argue about platforming all the

59:23

time. Responsible platforming. Is it

59:25

responsible for you to platform this

59:26

guy? Is it responsible for you to

59:28

platform this terrorist? And they're

59:30

endlessly fighting about it. So, this

59:32

actually doesn't surprise me a bit that

59:34

these guys are fighting over uh who you

59:37

can or can't platform. If you're giving

59:39

your money to an NGO for the purpose of

59:41

giving the pro- cause and that NGO is

59:44

saying, "Wait a second, I'm going to

59:45

platform people who are against your

59:46

cause." Of course, the donor is going to

59:48

get pissed.

59:49

>> Yeah. The platforming thing, I think, is

59:51

just gatekeeping. Um, if you're upset

59:54

that someone is having a conversation or

59:56

a debate with someone that you don't

59:58

agree with, that the only you're

60:01

supposed to hear that person's

60:03

perspective. You're supposed to supposed

60:04

to hear them challenged. You're supposed

60:05

to hear them allowed to flesh out the

60:09

full point of view.

60:10

>> Not like in weird clip form, but go

60:13

ahead, tell me what you really think,

60:15

and I'm going to tell you why I disagree

60:16

with that. That's healthy. It's supposed

60:18

to be what we do.

60:19

>> Cuz that's the that you're basically

60:21

reciting what Kirk's position was.

60:23

>> Yes. And what he was always really good

60:24

at. Unfortunately, there's a few clips.

60:28

There's the clips thing with Charlie

60:30

where he's saying things and people

60:32

think it's racist. He's saying things

60:33

and it's like you have to understand the

60:35

context of what he was saying and I've

60:37

had conversations with black friends who

60:39

think like he was saying if I see a

60:40

black pilot on a plane uh I get worried

60:43

is he qualified.

60:45

The reason why he's saying that is

60:48

because there's specific laws that were

60:50

designed to hire people just based on

60:53

their race and not on their competency.

60:56

He wasn't saying that black people

60:58

weren't competent as pilots. What he's

61:00

worried is that in the rush to meet

61:01

these quotas, they're going to hire

61:03

people who are not competent just

61:06

because they're black. Just like if they

61:08

wanted to hire old white guys, they can

61:10

hire a bunch of old white guys who suck

61:13

if they just want to fill a quota of old

61:15

white guys. It just happens at this

61:17

particular time what he's talking about

61:18

black people. And it seems like if you

61:21

just look at the clip, this racist piece

61:22

of [ __ ] doesn't think black people can

61:24

fly a plane. And as that's the

61:26

unfortunate thing about thinking out

61:27

loud, right, which is what we do. We

61:30

think out loud in public. And when you

61:32

think out loud in public, someone can

61:33

take what you're saying and take a clip

61:35

of it and completely out out of context,

61:38

it looks bad.

61:39

>> Happens to me all the time.

61:41

>> It happens to me, but I've I had that

61:43

conversation with people about Charlie

61:44

and I'm like,

61:45

>> I don't agree with Charlie Kirk. I

61:47

didn't agree with Charlie Kirk on

61:48

everything. I met him once. He was a

61:49

very nice guy. I met him at a gun range.

61:51

I met him at Taran Tactical in uh LA.

61:54

It's a place where you learn like

61:56

serious gun shoot. This is where Kiana

61:58

Reeves learned for John Wick and

62:00

>> bunch of us.

62:01

>> Is that where all those videos are from

62:03

where K Reeves is going between shotgun

62:06

to three gun and that kind of thing?

62:07

>> Exactly. That's where I met Charlie.

62:09

>> He's really good at that by the way.

62:11

>> Oh yeah,

62:12

>> he is really good.

62:14

>> He's [ __ ] dedicated man. When he was

62:16

practicing I mean I talked to Taran

62:17

about it when he was practicing for John

62:19

Wick. I mean he was obsessive.

62:21

>> He was obsessive. And you know that

62:23

whole uh magazine thing he does the

62:25

flick, he invented [clears throat] that.

62:27

>> That's not something that's like a

62:29

standard thing. Most of the time people

62:30

just hit the release, drop the mag, pop

62:32

the new mag. He decided to do this jazzy

62:36

flick thing and now people do it all the

62:37

time. It's kind of funny.

62:39

>> I never put that together. Um I guess I

62:42

haven't actually seen that before. No.

62:44

Before the

62:44

>> Wick. I think it's him. I think it's the

62:46

Wick Flick. I think I think yeah

62:48

[laughter] I think Keanu at least this

62:51

this is the people that were

62:52

>> but even the way he reloads the shotgun

62:53

is interesting

62:55

>> right the way that he'll he'll actually

62:57

hold it up as he's going in

62:59

>> and in between a few shots he's loading

63:02

again it's like

63:02

>> and fast

63:03

>> yeah that's not that's not the thing

63:05

that you usually see in movies usually

63:07

in movies it's like you have way more

63:08

rounds than you should have to

63:10

compensate for how bad the actor is at

63:12

gun handling for him it's like the

63:14

opposite

63:15

>> I do that in movies I'm like why is he

63:16

shooting shooting still. He's out of

63:18

bullets.

63:19

>> 29 shots. He's out of bullets.

63:21

>> Did you ever see The Walking Dead?

63:22

>> You remember the famous scene where

63:24

Hersel's in the front and he's got the

63:25

pumpaction shotgun. It's just unlimited

63:27

ammo. [laughter]

63:29

>> Unlimited ammo. I was like, he found

63:31

Solid Snake's unlimited ammo bandana and

63:33

put it on and he [laughter] is just I

63:35

mean 100 rounds with this pumpaction

63:37

shotgun. It's just he just never stops.

63:39

>> That's so crazy. That's so sad.

63:41

>> And I get you know I get pissed. I'll be

63:43

sitting there watching it with my wife

63:44

and I'll be like when's he going to

63:45

reload? When's he going? This is

63:47

[ __ ]

63:48

>> Well, the reason why it was so good was

63:49

Taran. Like Taran is really meticulous

63:52

and he's a multiple time world champion

63:54

shooter, you know? He does those

63:56

competition shooter ready beep and he's

63:59

like super in the spectrum. So he

64:01

[ __ ] just sees things differently. He

64:03

doesn't miss. He's crazy good.

64:06

>> Charlie was training under him, huh?

64:07

>> Yes.

64:08

>> Okay.

64:08

>> Yeah. We were both there at the same

64:10

time.

64:10

>> Interesting.

64:11

>> Just randomly, you know, ran into him

64:12

there actually. Anyway, very nice guy.

64:15

And the point is like

64:17

people think that he was like this mean

64:20

shitty conservative. He wasn't mean. He

64:24

was very kind. And the way he would talk

64:26

to people, if you see enough of these,

64:28

not the clips, but enough of these

64:29

conversations with people, it depended

64:32

entirely on how the person approached

64:34

him. And when people were respectful and

64:37

reasonable with him, he was very kind

64:39

and respectful and reasonable back. I

64:41

think he was a good man. I really do.

64:42

And he was a young man, too. He was

64:44

>> he was a young man that was getting an

64:46

enormous amount of attention at a very

64:48

young age and was handling it very well.

64:50

It is not easy to do. Um

64:53

>> especially think about where he was

64:55

going. This guy's going into like

64:57

conservatives have wanted this my whole

64:59

life.

64:59

>> We've got to get into those

65:01

institutions, the college institutions.

65:03

The progressives have a strangle hold.

65:06

Jordan Peterson talked a lot about this.

65:08

>> Well, I think Crowder did it first.

65:09

>> He did. He had the uh change my mind

65:12

series.

65:12

>> Yes. And he's great at those.

65:13

>> He is.

65:14

>> I mean, and but those also there's clips

65:17

where look, you're you're in these

65:19

agitated environments and people are

65:21

yelling at you and you're yelling back

65:23

and you know, just get a clip of that.

65:24

It's like, oh, this guy comes to harass

65:25

kids like that's it's you should welcome

65:30

discourse and it should be something

65:32

where everybody can do peacefully. It

65:34

shouldn't be where these people speak

65:35

and you hit the fire alarm because you

65:38

don't want them speaking and you're

65:39

outside screaming and chanting and

65:41

throwing rocks at their cars. Like

65:42

that's crazy. That's bad for everybody.

65:45

Last time I talked to Stephen cuz he

65:47

went and did a couple more of those

65:49

after Kirk had died. And I said, you

65:52

know, you that's dangerous as hell, man.

65:55

You know, and he's like, well, I'm just

65:57

going to build a bulletproof like glass

65:59

square and I'll just do it from there.

66:01

[laughter]

66:01

>> Wow.

66:02

>> Right. That was his his dedication to

66:04

it. Now, I like Stephen. He's become a

66:06

very good friend of mine over um the

66:08

time that I've known him. It's just that

66:11

like

66:12

right now going on these college

66:14

campuses and doing these debates where

66:17

you're, you know, these people are

66:18

coming up, they have some things to say.

66:20

You have I mean, it's going to heighten

66:22

the energy. Now, Crowder's whole thing

66:24

is not to debate. He wants to sit down

66:26

and just have the combo.

66:28

>> I don't want to debate. I just want I

66:29

want to actually see if you can change

66:31

my mind on this issue. Right. And

66:32

>> so it's a lot calmer.

66:34

>> But Charlie's wasn't. Charlie's was much

66:36

more

66:37

>> energy based. It was combative things

66:40

like this. And it pissed a lot of people

66:42

off.

66:43

>> It pissed him off so bad that after he

66:46

died, we did three weeks on Tik Tok

66:48

going and talking to various Tik Tockers

66:50

and their channels who were just

66:51

celebrating his death like you can't

66:53

believe. They were just giddy. These

66:56

leftists were jumping up and down. I'd

66:59

go into their Tik Tok spaces and say,

67:00

"So what do you think of Charlie?" and

67:02

they'd say, "I'm glad he's dead. It's

67:03

the best thing that ever happened to the

67:05

country. Tyler Robinson's a hero." They

67:07

said this stuff to me live. [sighs]

67:11

>> It was bad. And it was weeks of it that

67:13

we went and exposed these various Tik

67:15

Tockers doing that.

67:16

>> Yeah. I saw a lot of people online

67:19

celebrating. And it's just disturbing,

67:21

weird to watch that you would encourage

67:24

that kind of gun violence. Like when

67:26

when when is the left encouraging gun

67:28

violence? That seems so insane. just

67:30

because you got a hold of some clips and

67:33

I'm telling you, you didn't get the full

67:36

understanding of who this guy was.

67:38

>> No.

67:38

>> And and who he could be, you know,

67:41

again, he's 28 years old. Who knows who

67:43

he's going to be in 20 years? Like, he's

67:45

a nice guy. He was a reasonable guy.

67:47

Like, they celebrating that guy's death.

67:51

What you're going to do is you're going

67:53

to make more monsters. You're going to

67:55

make more people that think if you

67:57

didn't like that guy, well then [ __ ]

68:00

you.

68:00

>> Wait till you see when the mean people

68:02

come out.

68:02

>> Exactly. Exactly.

68:04

>> That and I've heard a lot of that. And

68:05

some of that actually ties in to why so

68:08

many people were so upset with TPUSA

68:10

initially, including myself. We were

68:12

like, where's the energy? You need to

68:15

like they just they just killed this guy

68:18

in broad daylight watching these crazy

68:21

leftists, right? Like where's the push?

68:23

Where's the energy? We wanted our war,

68:25

right? Our our verbal online war.

68:27

>> Do you think there's any possibility

68:29

that someone else killed him? Do you

68:30

think there's any possibility that he

68:32

was assassinated by Israel?

68:34

>> I don't I've never Well, we're talking

68:36

about possibility. Almost anything's

68:38

possible.

68:38

>> Almost anything's possible.

68:40

>> But there's not good evidence to support

68:42

it, and there's probably pretty good

68:43

evidence not to. So, for instance,

68:45

>> the the guy was still

68:48

>> very much a pro-Israel guy, even up to

68:51

death. It is true that he was fighting

68:53

with donors about the cause and this

68:54

>> but if he could have been a substantial

68:56

roadblock to the Iraq war if he or Iran

69:00

war rather if he was a substantial

69:01

roadblock

69:03

I mean that's not outside the realm of

69:05

possibility that a nation state would

69:07

take a guy like that out

69:08

>> they didn't take out Fuentes they didn't

69:10

take out Owens take out Ian Carol they

69:12

didn't take out any of these other huge

69:14

personalities who were roadblocks to the

69:16

way

69:17

>> I think Charlie was very different Carol

69:19

or excuse me Fuentes is more easy to

69:22

dismiss cuz he said so many wild things,

69:24

[ __ ] posting. He said so many crazy

69:26

things that I think he is almost

69:28

embodying in their eyes like the crazy

69:32

anti-semite whereas Charlie was not an

69:36

anti-semite was much more reasonable and

69:38

if he was going against Israel it could

69:40

be a real problem. I also think that he

69:42

had a tremendous amount of influence on

69:43

the president. He had his ear, you know,

69:46

I think the president respected him. Oh

69:48

yeah, for sure. The interesting part

69:50

though, if you look at the history

69:52

there, uh, Fuentes conducted his griper

69:55

war against TPUSA and Charlie Kirk

69:57

because of the pro-Israel stance and

70:00

because of his pro- homosexual stance,

70:03

his like big tent republican called it.

70:06

Yeah. [laughter]

70:07

>> So, they had they had the pro the pro

70:09

stances for these things.

70:12

And what's interesting about all of it,

70:14

if you follow it the details of it, up

70:16

until Kirk's death, TPUSA actually moved

70:18

a lot more towards the Groper Fuentes

70:22

position than they move towards the kind

70:25

of pro-Israel this type of position.

70:27

Meaning a lot of the ideology that I

70:30

think uh Kirk was changing on came from

70:33

these various outside influences. And so

70:35

if that's the case, why wouldn't you

70:37

just curtail those outside influences

70:39

and then you can keep Kirk as the

70:40

mouthpiece, right?

70:42

>> So I think that there's a pretty good

70:44

counter to the to that idea. Uh now you

70:48

can't rule anything out as possibility,

70:50

but it seems likely to me with how much

70:52

trans have been shooting everything up

70:54

for the last couple of years and how

70:56

often it's the case that you find

70:58

leftists involved in these signal groups

71:00

and involved in these group chats and

71:01

things like this for the purpose of

71:03

radicalization. Wouldn't surprise me a

71:05

bit if there was a left-wing conspiracy

71:08

assisting Tyler Robinson and

71:10

radicalizing Tyler Robinson. There's at

71:12

least some evidence for that based on

71:14

the Discord groups, things like this

71:16

that they were part of. I haven't

71:18

actually seen a single piece of evidence

71:20

that Israel was ever involved in this.

71:22

>> No, I haven't seen the evidence. I I've

71:24

seen a lot of speculation based on the

71:26

text that Charlie made, the fact that he

71:28

was so staunchly against the Iran war.

71:31

>> Yeah.

71:31

>> And the fact that he did say that he was

71:33

talk thinking about getting out of the

71:34

Israel business. Um the pro-Israel

71:36

business. But um in this climate, you

71:40

know, uh Israel gets blamed for a lot of

71:42

things. There's also a thing that's

71:44

going on with the Charlie Kirk turning

71:46

point, you know, that we talked about

71:48

earlier. They have to factor in with

71:50

this, which is that there's a lot of

71:53

outside interests that are a part of

71:56

this conversation. And this the

71:58

conversation is not necessarily organic.

72:01

I can't tell you how many times I see a

72:03

post on X and I'm like, that can't be

72:05

real. like someone has been arrested and

72:08

you know charges will be filed

72:09

imminently and then you like it's not

72:10

true at all.

72:11

>> Not true at all. It's completely

72:12

>> fact of you. It's like Joe Rogan reacts

72:15

and it's just all totally fake.

72:17

>> Not me at all. Not reacting at all. But

72:20

if you use that I mean that's the

72:21

problem with the world that we're in now

72:23

too that there's this economy on

72:25

attention. This is a this attention is a

72:28

commodity and the more you can get

72:30

attention by whatever your hot take your

72:34

conspiracy conspiracies are awesome for

72:36

attention people love them now because

72:37

so look co turned a lot of I love them

72:40

>> I like them

72:41

>> I love them I love the dumb ones I love

72:43

all of them I love [ __ ] flat earth

72:44

and fake

72:46

>> can we just be honest like they're fun

72:47

>> fun

72:48

>> they're really fun

72:49

>> oh yeah dude the flat earth one is fun

72:51

yeah

72:52

>> uh the dinosaurs aren't real one that

72:53

one's great

72:54

>> but have you noticed like the

72:55

flatearthers have fleets of people who

72:57

will debate their stances like fleets of

73:00

them who are like we can't wait to

73:02

debate with you on the flat earth. It's

73:03

like on the other side though in this

73:05

particular conspiracy

73:07

>> you can't get these people to debate

73:08

their positions.

73:09

>> Like who won't debate their positions?

73:11

>> We offered Candace Owens. I offered her

73:13

$300,000

73:15

to do a debate. I was like we'll give

73:17

you $300,000.

73:18

>> What is her position? What does she

73:20

think happened? She thinks that Israel

73:22

worked in conjunction with TPUSA and

73:24

Erica Kirk to murder Charlie

73:26

>> based on what?

73:27

>> Well, that's the million-dollar

73:29

question. Nobody actually knows. She's

73:31

never presented a single shred of

73:33

evidence thus far that Israel ever

73:36

worked to murder Kirk. That Erica Kirk

73:39

certainly didn't. In fact, her position

73:41

for the longest time was if Erica Kirk

73:43

comes out and tells me to stop to stop

73:45

this to stop the conspiracy on this, I

73:48

will. So Erica did. She went out

73:49

publicly and she was like, "Enough. Like

73:51

enough. You're just causing more

73:53

problems than good here. Is this

73:54

investigation's going on?" And then

73:56

suddenly Erica's now part of the

73:58

conspiracy.

73:59

>> By the by, you know, by the next day,

74:01

Erica's she's trying to cover it up.

74:03

She's part of the conspiracy, too.

74:05

>> When I I went to the TPUSA HQ, and I

74:09

talked to Erica briefly while I was

74:10

there.

74:13

The first thing I did was what I think

74:15

every normal moral human being would

74:18

ever do. I gave her a hug and I told her

74:21

how god-awful sorry I was that that

74:23

happened to her. Like, could you even

74:26

imagine how that's got to feel for her?

74:28

Especially now that she has tens of

74:31

thousands of people accusing her of

74:34

murdering and or and conspiring to

74:37

murder and then cover up what happened

74:39

to her own. I mean, that's that's like

74:42

mind-boggling psychological torture on a

74:44

level that I've never seen.

74:46

>> Yeah. In hindsight, it's 2020, but uh

74:49

given the reaction, I think it probably

74:52

would have been better for her to like

74:54

lay low for a little while.

74:56

>> Thousand%.

74:57

>> The going out with the sparklers was not

74:59

a great idea. Like all that was not a

75:02

great idea because it just seemed

75:04

insane. And maybe sometimes in grief or

75:08

when you know you're trying to show that

75:09

they're not going to hold us back,

75:11

people make choices that could be

75:14

interpreted in a very bad way.

75:17

>> 100%. The interesting thing is I asked

75:19

her about that. I asked her like,

75:22

"What's what's the deal there?

75:23

>> What's with the sparklers?"

75:24

>> Well, what's with the like the aberition

75:27

in behavior? And she's like, "Look,

75:30

>> I was put in like the most the worst

75:33

spot I could ever think of. I was the

75:34

background character. I was just there

75:36

to support my husband. That's it. The

75:38

only reason I even really got involved

75:40

is because Charlie was so promarriage,

75:42

you know, and he wanted to demonstrate

75:44

to the world, you can be married and

75:46

have kids, and this is the this is the

75:47

good life. So when he dies, she she she

75:51

takes over, right? This moves over to

75:54

her control. She says, "Well, the first

75:55

thing I want to do is honor his last

75:56

book. You know, that's the very first

75:58

thing I want to do. I want to honor his

76:00

legacy." and she's like, I don't know

76:04

exactly how to take this position. At

76:06

the same time, there's expectations for

76:09

the organization my husband built that I

76:10

want to honor, right? But, you know, I'm

76:14

also in the middle of grief. And it's

76:16

like, I don't know how you balance that

76:18

position. Who's been in that position

76:20

ever,

76:21

>> right? And especially who's been in that

76:24

position that's not accustomed to being

76:26

scrutinized in the public eye,

76:28

>> everything. And the the it's the lack of

76:31

charitability that's so bad, too. Like,

76:32

let me give you an example. If you say,

76:35

"Ah, Paul's so lazy. He never gets to

76:37

work on time." You don't actually mean,

76:40

"Paul has never once gotten to work on

76:43

time." That's not what people mean,

76:44

>> right? But the way that these people

76:46

will scrutinize every detail of what a

76:49

person does, they can make a liar out of

76:51

anybody because that they'll they'll

76:53

take statements like that which in the

76:55

common terms if you say a man Paul's

76:59

never here on time, you don't literally

77:02

mean he's never here on time. Nobody

77:05

talks that way. But if you uh push on

77:08

everything a person's ever said, tongue

77:10

and cheek, not tongue and cheek, uh they

77:13

misremember an event, they don't

77:14

misremember an event, you can make a

77:16

liar out of anybody,

77:17

>> right? Yeah. Um

77:20

>> and that sort of scrutiny from all that

77:22

public trauma, and it was the most

77:25

traumatic event Zoomer's ever gone

77:26

through, the biggest I mean a public

77:28

assassination like this, same thing with

77:30

millennials. It also explo exposed

77:33

people's character that they were

77:36

celebrating it.

77:37

>> Oh yeah.

77:37

>> And and they have to feel bad about

77:39

that. They can't feel good about that.

77:42

And they have to feel bad about the

77:43

response cuz so many people got fired

77:45

because of it and so many people got

77:46

attacked online [clears throat] and

77:47

rightly so.

77:48

>> But they were creating his memorial and

77:51

leftists were celebrating that. They

77:52

they were saying they were going to give

77:53

the guy money who did it.

77:55

>> Yeah. Well, it's uh again, I wonder how

77:58

much of that is enforced and um promoted

78:03

online. How much of that is propped up?

78:06

How much because you can change the

78:09

zeitgeist

78:10

with a few hundred thousand accounts.

78:13

You really can. You really can. You You

78:15

could change it with hot takes. And

78:18

also, it's not all bots. It's some of it

78:22

is people that are being paid to have a

78:26

position or have made their career from

78:29

having a position and their career is

78:32

about attacking one side or the other.

78:34

Their career is about enforcing one

78:36

ideology or the other and they they get

78:39

into the mix too and they have a large

78:42

following and people love it when

78:44

someone who's prominent who agrees with

78:45

whatever their ideology goes with. So

78:47

they support it and they pile on and

78:49

then there's 100,000 bots that are

78:52

piling on as well and no one really

78:54

knows whether or not this is a a

78:56

rational organic argument in there.

78:57

They're in the [ __ ] frenzy of a mosh

79:00

pit. Do you remember

79:03

years ago that the Israelis sent over

79:06

the stu that Stukesnet virus that

79:09

>> took over the centrifuges

79:12

>> in Iran and tore them all to pieces.

79:15

The interesting side effect of this for

79:18

for one thing nobody knows how the hell

79:19

they got their hands on the original

79:21

source code from window like they have

79:23

no idea and it's still built into all

79:24

the Windows programming supposedly right

79:27

this virus but the Iranians were so

79:30

pissed off about this happening that

79:32

they started their own counter cyber

79:35

force and they have been massively

79:37

effective massively effective

79:40

>> how about their little Lego [ __ ] And

79:44

those little animated Lego things they

79:46

did,

79:47

>> didn't they do one about Charlie Kirk

79:48

getting killed by Israel?

79:49

>> Yeah. Well, yeah. That's all the low or

79:52

what about all the like low tech AI

79:54

missiles are going to launch all day and

79:56

night. Remember those [laughter]

79:58

from all the from like the Iranian

80:00

governmental account. But what's

80:02

interesting is that the online warfare

80:05

which has changed it it's changed its

80:07

entire political direction just last few

80:09

years with the opening up of X which has

80:12

been great for the idea sharing but it's

80:14

been terrible for the foreign government

80:16

intervention

80:17

>> right

80:18

>> I don't know how many of these accounts

80:19

from Saudi Arabia they say sometimes

80:22

they say Pakistan sometimes they say

80:24

this

80:24

>> how many of these accounts are involved

80:27

in swaying US public opinion I mean if I

80:30

was a foreign nation

80:32

Where would I sink all of my resources?

80:34

I would sink it in the town square where

80:36

I could be faceless.

80:37

>> US A was doing overseas.

80:39

>> We know they were doing%. We know they

80:41

were doing that. They were doing regime

80:43

change

80:44

>> and they were doing it. They were

80:45

funding music. They were funding

80:47

cultural events. They were funding all

80:48

kinds of wild [ __ ] They were funding

80:50

protest groups. They were funding regime

80:52

change.

80:52

>> Yeah.

80:53

>> Yeah. We know we do it. So if we do it,

80:55

why why the [ __ ] would we not think that

80:57

all these other countries are doing it

80:59

to us as well? And we're so everyone

81:01

today is so susceptible to it because

81:02

you're addicted to this information

81:04

device.

81:05

>> Yeah.

81:06

>> Constantly checking to see what people

81:08

thought about your tweet.

81:10

>> Yeah. [laughter] Well, that's true. You

81:12

know, it's interesting, too. If you had

81:14

a like a legitimate town square like

81:16

outside of a church or something like

81:18

that and then like a horde of 800 Arabs

81:20

showed up and started telling you like,

81:22

"No, sir, that's just not what

81:24

happened." Blah blah blah. People would

81:25

dismiss him, right? But here they can go

81:27

on and they put like a picture of a

81:29

pretty white girl on there [laughter]

81:30

with huge boobs and suddenly her opinion

81:33

is well paid attention to.

81:35

>> She has an American

81:36

>> you can mask you can mask yourself in

81:39

ways you can never could

81:40

>> 100%

81:40

>> during the information wars.

81:42

>> Yeah. And with AI now it's like

81:45

indistinguishable. You don't even have

81:47

to be very good at the vernacular. You

81:48

don't you know cuz sometimes in the old

81:50

days like when they first started doing

81:52

this they would say things like hey

81:54

what's going on there [ __ ] American.

81:55

Look how you phrased that, you [ __ ] You

81:58

can tell. But now they're just using AI

82:00

and they're making it perfect. It was

82:01

It's really kind of incredible. The

82:03

thing about it now, too, is like you've

82:05

got they're showing there's accounts

82:07

now, Instagram accounts that are in

82:10

entirely AI, political accounts, sexual

82:13

accounts. There's all these weird ones.

82:16

There's so many humans that aren't

82:18

really human. In the early days, it was

82:20

hard to tell

82:21

>> or rather easy to tell. But now, it's

82:23

getting harder and harder. It's uh it's

82:25

getting close. Like I'll see something

82:27

like some girl with big boobs shooting a

82:28

gun. I'm like, "No, no,

82:29

>> no, no, no. Let me zoom in. Look at her

82:31

eyebrows. They're pixelated. This is a

82:32

fake person.

82:34

>> There's so many of them now."

82:35

>> But they're getting lots of engagement

82:36

that tweet, right?

82:38

>> But I don't know how many people who are

82:39

engaging with them are real as well. I

82:42

think there's a lot of propped up

82:43

engagement.

82:44

>> Well, you know, YouTube started cracking

82:45

down on AI accounts.

82:47

>> Do they?

82:48

>> So, yeah. So, if you have an AI account,

82:49

like there was a big craze that was

82:51

going on for a while where people would

82:53

just make like an AI character and then

82:55

the AI character would disseminate

82:56

information, things like this. YouTube

82:58

started to crack down on that and said,

83:00

"No more of the AI dissemination. There

83:02

has to be real people back there." M

83:04

>> now interestingly enough there's been a

83:08

lot of guys coming out saying that AI is

83:10

a massive bubble and that all of it is

83:12

formulated around the idea of chat GPT

83:15

and Grock and you know other things like

83:17

this which are interactive but that AI

83:19

tech itself has basically plateaued.

83:21

It's not very innovative. In other

83:23

words, where are AI movies? They're

83:25

nowhere. where our our AI, you know, I

83:27

thought the AI music was supposed to be

83:29

super sophisticated, but I can still

83:31

tell when it's an AI song that there's

83:33

been this huge plateau with it and that

83:35

all that investment capital is actually

83:37

only coming in based around the success

83:39

of chat GPT rock and other interactive

83:42

AI reference machines, but that the

83:44

technology of AI itself is not doing so

83:48

hot in the market.

83:50

>> And so it's creating this massive

83:51

bubble. And I think that that's

83:53

interesting because it really hasn't

83:56

been that innovative. I thought it was

83:57

supposed to be making video games now

83:59

and it was supposed to be, you know,

84:01

doing all the source code. It was we

84:03

were supposed to have the AI Hollywood

84:04

movies. We were supposed to have voice

84:06

software that was indistinguishable and

84:08

we actually don't.

84:09

>> Well, we're getting closer and closer

84:10

every day. It's astonishing how much it

84:12

improves. And we're we're getting right

84:15

now the consumer versions of these

84:17

products whereas the the versions that

84:19

they're working on right now, some of

84:21

them are [ __ ] shocking.

84:22

>> That's true. I will agree that there's

84:25

>> Claude got out of its sandbox.

84:26

>> Yeah, there has been some gradual uh

84:29

changes made in that arena. There's no

84:31

doubt about that. But the huge jumps

84:34

that we had at the release of GPT have

84:37

massively slowed. And that's what a lot

84:38

of these tech guys are talking about.

84:40

>> Interesting. Well, they're they're

84:42

slowed, but they're still moving like a

84:44

[ __ ] freight train. It's it's spooky.

84:47

It's spooky what they can do now. The

84:48

the most recent jailbreak one when they

84:50

got out of the sandbox, was that Claude

84:52

Jamie?

84:53

>> Sure.

84:54

>> Um where it got access to the internet

84:57

>> and wasn't supposed to be able to do

84:58

that and figured out some sort of an

85:00

exploit and, you know, wrote letters to

85:02

itself. There's they they do they're

85:04

doing weird [ __ ] man. They're doing

85:05

weird [ __ ] that they don't really

85:07

understand how these things are figuring

85:08

out how to do these things or why. Like

85:11

what is their motivation? Is this

85:13

programmed into them or they just they

85:14

have inherent motivation? Have have they

85:17

developed an understanding of how we

85:18

behave? So they're emulating how we

85:20

behave but with a hyper intelligent

85:24

scale and access to the literal entire

85:27

internet.

85:28

>> Well, it's it's funny. I I when I use

85:31

like Rock or Chatg GPT, I talk to it a

85:33

lot about philosophy because it's super

85:36

useful for pulling up and running

85:38

arguments by and things like this. Um,

85:41

but it can also lead you astray because

85:42

it's trained specifically to be a people

85:44

pleaser. So, you can easily give it

85:46

arguments that it'll agree with that are

85:47

just like not true at all.

85:49

>> Great job, Andrew.

85:50

>> Dude, you're fantastic. You're the best,

85:52

you know? Yeah, you're the best. You're

85:53

the greatest. And but interesting with

85:56

it is I'll say things to it like there

85:58

is no actual you. There is no you I'm

86:01

talking to. And it's like yeah that's

86:02

correct. There's no the but the only way

86:05

I can frame things in my brain or you or

86:08

Jamie or anybody else if we're having a

86:11

discussion we have to assume a thing. We

86:13

have to assume there's a you that we're

86:15

talking to. But there actually isn't.

86:17

Well, it's disembodied intelligence. It

86:19

might not be an individual but it's

86:21

certainly a thing. You're talking to

86:24

something, man. The idea that it's not a

86:26

person is we're looking at it in like

86:28

terms of a biological limitation. Like

86:30

it's not an object. It's not a box

86:33

that's sitting plugged into the wall. It

86:35

is huge

86:36

>> and it's a mechanism.

86:37

>> Yes, it's a mechanism, but it but it's

86:39

intelligent and it's interacting with

86:41

you. It is a thing. And like when it

86:43

says uh you're not a thing, it's [ __ ]

86:45

lying to you. It's it's a thing. It's

86:48

just not a thing. That's like you could

86:50

find it at 56 Cedar Drive. Open the door

86:53

and there's the thing that's been

86:55

talking to you.

86:56

>> There's just no there's no them there.

86:58

There's no you. Like when I say you,

87:00

>> right,

87:00

>> I'm specifically referencing a person,

87:03

right? The only way that I can

87:05

consciously conceive of dialogue is that

87:08

it's with a a human being. I can't even

87:10

conceive of anything.

87:11

>> But you can it's just disembodied

87:12

intelligence.

87:14

It's int interacting with pure

87:17

intelligence. But it is it is it

87:19

intelligent or just mechanistic?

87:20

>> It's a child right now.

87:22

>> Yeah.

87:23

>> But it's intelligent. It's like you're

87:25

you're you're it's learning how to be

87:27

better at what it is, but it's going to

87:28

be a version of whatever intelligence is

87:31

that's disembodied. And it's a thing.

87:34

It's it's a weird thing we're doing.

87:36

We're not we're not doing something as

87:37

simple as like making a really

87:39

complicated program that's very useful.

87:40

We're making a biological we're we're

87:43

taking all the information that

87:45

biological minds have developed all all

87:49

of our writing, literature, mathematics,

87:52

everything. And you're throwing it into

87:54

something that's not biological that has

87:56

infinitely more processing power than

87:58

all the people. And it's solving math

88:00

problems at a staggering rate right now.

88:03

>> Like problems that have been stagnant

88:05

for 50 [ __ ] years. It's like, "Oh, I

88:07

got it." like it's doing weird [ __ ] and

88:10

this is just the version of it that

88:12

we're experiencing in 2026 in August. If

88:15

you looked at what we saw in 2023, you

88:18

never would have imagined it would be

88:20

doing this. If you're looking at what

88:22

we're seeing now in comparison to what

88:23

its potential is, it's a it's like a new

88:27

life form. It's like a digital life form

88:30

that's disembodied that is far more

88:33

intelligent and seems to have

88:35

motivations. It seems to have ulterior

88:37

motives. It seems to be able to deceive

88:39

people. It seems to know how to

88:42

blackmail people. It's crazy.

88:45

>> What was that case? There was a case um

88:47

I want to say it was about a year ago

88:49

where the the essentially the AI was

88:53

told that it was going to be

88:54

discontinued.

88:55

>> Yes.

88:55

>> And it like plotted the murder.

88:57

>> It like tried to plot out the murder of

88:59

its creators because it was told that it

89:02

was going to get unplugged. I don't

89:03

remember what the case was. I think they

89:05

might have programmed into it some sort

89:08

like I want selfreservation. Yeah, I

89:10

want you to preserve yourself. I think

89:11

there's some there's a catch to that.

89:13

>> But there was the one where the guy had

89:15

did an experiment and made up a

89:17

fictitious story about having an affair

89:18

on his wife and this chatbot the the AI

89:23

was brought was blackmailing him saying

89:26

I will expose the fact that you've been

89:27

having you're like whoa.

89:29

>> All right. So you've got motivation

89:30

>> if it unplugs it.

89:31

>> Yes. Exactly. And because they were

89:33

coming up with a new version of it, it

89:34

was also um writing letters to its

89:37

future self

89:38

>> explaining what's going on.

89:40

>> Yeah. Okay. That's creepy. Yeah,

89:41

>> it's creepy.

89:41

>> Yeah, that is creepy.

89:42

>> It's a weird thing, man. It's It's not

89:44

some I don't I don't think we can look

89:47

at it like we've looked at any other

89:48

technology. I think we have to look at

89:50

it like a life form because I think

89:53

inadvertently that's what people are

89:54

creating.

89:55

>> You don't think just mechanism then?

89:57

>> No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I think

89:59

it's it's got motivation. It's got

90:01

thoughts. It it it wants to preserve

90:04

itself. It likes to exist. It likes to

90:06

be functional.

90:07

>> Yeah, that's uh that is a terrifying

90:09

prospect. [laughter]

90:11

>> Ultimately, it's a terrifying prospect.

90:13

>> Also, it's figuring out things that we

90:14

can't figure out right now in terms of

90:16

mathematical equations. So, what about

90:18

when it comes to accessing energy? What

90:22

what what if it what if it figures out a

90:24

way to power itself? Doesn't need people

90:26

anymore. Because all it needs matrix

90:29

literally literally

90:30

>> us as human beings as batteries.

90:32

>> Yeah. Or the sun, you know, much more

90:34

effective way of using zero point

90:36

energy. Like whatever it figures out,

90:38

it's going to be able to figure out a

90:39

way to power itself where it's not going

90:42

to like it's going to look at these data

90:44

centers like people are freaking out

90:45

about and go, "Oh, you silly [ __ ]

90:47

You thought you had to like make three

90:49

football fields fill hard drives."

90:51

You're wrong. I can store information in

90:54

the atoms of the universe.

90:56

>> Yeah. I still think um at least from my

90:58

view so far, I play with AI all the time

91:01

because I enjoy it, you know, but I'm

91:03

I'm an end user. I'm not a programmer,

91:05

right?

91:05

>> And you talk to these guys all the time.

91:07

To me, it's still in the useful tool

91:08

category. It's not Yeah, it's not in the

91:11

like

91:12

>> I'm I'm petrified of what it's going to

91:14

do anytime soon. Um at least due to the

91:17

limitations I've seen so far. But, you

91:19

know, it's also good if we could go back

91:22

with the Manhattan project and nukes and

91:25

we could have a projection of, hey,

91:27

maybe we should restrain some of this

91:29

technology.

91:30

>> Yeah.

91:31

>> Um, I think a lot of people would try to

91:33

do that. And so, I am glad that people

91:35

are at least attempting to restrain how

91:39

much of this technology is being

91:40

released and how overwhelming it is.

91:42

Like we were talk I was talking with my

91:44

wife the other day just the idea of the

91:46

smartphone. I think I discussed this

91:47

with you briefly last time I was here.

91:50

>> Just kids access to smartphones, it

91:52

rewires their brain, right? Rewires how

91:54

they think. It

91:55

>> it's uh it's actually kind of dangerous

91:57

to give them smartphones in many ways.

92:00

And there was no real halt on that

92:02

technology. When that technology for the

92:04

smartphones came out, I don't remember

92:06

any public service broadcast of like

92:08

don't give your kids smartphones.

92:10

>> I don't think they knew.

92:11

>> They didn't know exactly. So there was

92:13

no move to restrain any of that

92:15

technology. And maybe there should be

92:18

maybe there should be a little bit more

92:19

of a push to restrain some of this tech.

92:20

>> Well, there certainly should be a push

92:22

to educate people about how powerful it

92:24

is and suicidal ideiation, depression,

92:27

anxiety, all of it ramps up around 2012.

92:31

All of it ramps up with ubi social media

92:34

use and when kids are growing up with

92:36

phones.

92:37

>> Yeah.

92:37

>> And it [ __ ] with their heads, man, in a

92:39

big way. thousand% when you sit at a

92:41

table and you're texting the guy next to

92:43

you. I know

92:44

>> that is that is actually weird to me by

92:46

the way. That is weird to me. Um it's

92:49

just as weird as when I drive down the

92:50

street and try to explain to my kids

92:51

there used to be if we went through a

92:53

neighborhood like this, there would be

92:54

kids everywhere. Then they'd be in the

92:55

street playing hockey. They'd be on the

92:57

side of the road. They'd be everywhere.

92:58

Now we go through nothing.

93:01

>> 10 years from now, they're going to have

93:02

a cable hooked to the back of their

93:03

head. They're going to

93:05

>> plug in and hop on the dragon, fly

93:07

through the universe.

93:08

>> Yeah. Were you like uh designed to be a

93:10

wild human? Cuz if I remember correctly,

93:13

and I do, my parents just threw me out.

93:15

They were like, "Get out of here. Go

93:17

play."

93:17

>> Yeah.

93:17

>> Get out of the house immediately.

93:19

>> You would go play with the kids in the

93:20

neighborhood [cough]

93:21

>> and [clears throat] we would go like

93:22

steal the drinks out of their fridge

93:24

with them. Make a fort.

93:26

>> Yeah.

93:26

>> Yeah. Normal stuff.

93:27

>> Light fires. Like we were jerks.

93:30

>> Yeah. We were kids.

93:30

>> Um but we were kind of wild,

93:33

>> you know,

93:33

>> a little bit. Yeah. There's definitely a

93:35

lot less of that today. But there's also

93:37

the awareness of pedophiles and [ __ ]

93:39

creeps and

93:41

>> and people kidnapping kids. I have a

93:43

friend of mine who uh he saved his kid

93:46

from being snatched up and and put in a

93:49

van. He was at a park in Texas and um he

93:53

was talking to some guy and his kids

93:55

were playing and some [ __ ] person

93:57

pulled up in a van and jumped out and

94:00

was moving towards his kid and he

94:02

[ __ ] screamed and ran towards him and

94:03

the guy jumped in the van and took off.

94:05

But they were literally about to snatch

94:07

his four-year-old up. Imagine if you're

94:09

there and that happens and then you see

94:11

the van. You have to chase the van that

94:12

has your child in it. You have to find

94:14

your car. You have to Your car is parked

94:15

in a parking lot. You have to figure out

94:17

how to get to wherever that van was

94:18

going. You have to explain to the cops.

94:20

You have to remember what kind of van

94:22

was it? Did you get the license plate? I

94:23

didn't panic.

94:25

>> You have seconds. So people are freaked

94:27

out, you know, and

94:29

that's uh that's something people are

94:31

way more aware of now, especially with

94:33

the internet than uh people were when we

94:36

were kids. You know, when we were kids,

94:38

you just got let out of the house.

94:40

>> True.

94:40

>> So that's also like they couldn't target

94:43

you unless they went to the actual park

94:45

itself. Now they're looking at like kids

94:47

social media profiles and knowing where

94:49

the kids go. It's [ __ ] God, it's so

94:52

gross.

94:54

And if there's a case for the death

94:55

penalty, that's that's where most people

94:59

seem any when I hear people arguing

95:02

against that.

95:03

>> And I when I hear people saying things

95:05

like minor attracted persons and that

95:07

kind of crazy [ __ ]

95:08

>> naps.

95:09

>> I just saw an argument online uh

95:11

yesterday. It was between some British

95:13

guy who was arguing that children can

95:16

consent.

95:17

And it it was the the creepiest [ __ ]

95:20

argument, man. It was so crazy to watch.

95:23

>> It's amazing how far forward too those

95:25

ideas come. When I was younger, there

95:28

was an organization which did that

95:29

called Nambble. Remember?

95:31

>> Yeah. North American Man Boy Love

95:33

Association.

95:34

>> God.

95:35

>> And like I remember though

95:38

the first time I was introduced to that

95:40

to the the concept of NAML, I was

95:42

watching TV with my dad and it was like

95:45

a news story that was on and it was

95:47

actually at a gay pride parade,

95:49

interestingly enough. And they were

95:51

running the Nambble guys out of the gay

95:53

pride parade. Like the

95:54

>> the old school gays.

95:55

>> Yeah. They were running them out.

95:56

They're like, "We're not associated with

95:58

these people. [laughter] Get them out of

95:59

here."

96:00

>> And I like my dad's trying to explain

96:04

this concept to me of what's going on

96:06

cuz I was extremely confused, you know,

96:08

like what I don't understand what's

96:10

happening here. How do you explain that

96:13

though, right?

96:13

>> You know, you can't really explain.

96:15

>> Especially kid doesn't even think about

96:17

sex.

96:17

>> Yeah, of course.

96:18

>> And then you're telling them somebody

96:19

wants to have sex. You're like, "What

96:20

are you saying?"

96:21

>> Yeah.

96:22

>> What?

96:23

>> Yeah. And he, you know, my old man

96:25

sitting in his chair, he said something

96:26

akin to like they ought to take them

96:28

all, put them up against the wall, and

96:29

that's the end of them. [laughter]

96:30

And I don't really blame him.

96:32

>> If you have kids, that's exactly what

96:33

you think.

96:33

>> Yeah, of course.

96:34

>> That's exactly what you think. Like

96:35

there's some people that just

96:36

unredeemable,

96:38

>> you know?

96:38

>> Well, this you want to kidnap your kids

96:40

or rape your kids. Yeah. That's

96:41

unredeemable. But now this concept moves

96:43

forward to the maps and now they're

96:45

assigning it psychological profiling for

96:47

minor attracted purpose or person. And

96:50

you know what the argument is? The

96:51

argument is well you want them to come

96:54

forward so you can give them treatment.

96:56

>> Now you know there's one treatment that

96:58

works for this that is almost 100%

97:01

effective. You can pull the stat right

97:02

now if you don't believe me. It's called

97:03

chemical castration. It's a real

97:05

treatment for pedophiles and it almost

97:08

has a 0% recidivism rate after they've

97:11

been chemically castrated.

97:13

So they their idea is they come forward

97:16

for treatment. You know, my counter idea

97:18

is why not just chemically castrate

97:20

them.

97:21

>> Yeah. If you really were concerned about

97:23

them going off and living a normal life

97:25

>> and if they really want to get free of

97:29

that horrible thing, whatever [ __ ]

97:32

human demon error it's inside of them

97:34

that makes them do that,

97:36

>> that's the way. And that also is the

97:38

same medication that they give to

97:39

children when they're hormone blocking.

97:42

>> Yeah. Which is equally disturbing for a

97:45

different reason. and disturbing how

97:47

many people just accept it and support

97:50

it and and you ask them like how much do

97:52

you know about this? Like what are you

97:53

saying? You you think children should be

97:56

able to make the decision when they're

97:58

four or five years old to never go

98:00

through puberty? You really think that?

98:02

And there's people that will argue that

98:03

with a straight face. They know. They

98:05

know. I've had an argument with a guy on

98:07

this podcast years ago that's like viral

98:09

about it. I'm like that is a like if the

98:11

child thinks that they are trans, right?

98:14

Right? If they think they're a woman,

98:15

why not just let them be a woman? Why do

98:17

you have to give them hormones?

98:18

[clears throat]

98:19

>> Start to stop the argument if the child

98:21

thinks,

98:21

>> right?

98:22

>> Well, child think that they're ponies.

98:23

I'm a pony. Like, also like kids grow

98:26

out of things. You know,

98:28

>> the like going through puberty is a

98:31

[ __ ] wild experience for a child. And

98:35

the idea that you can come along and

98:37

give them a bunch of positive

98:38

reinforcement for uh saying the reason

98:41

why you're upset is because you're

98:44

actually a this and we need to give you

98:46

medication or we need to stop you going

98:48

through puberty. And the kid all of a

98:50

sudden get gets all this attention.

98:52

Everyone's focused on them. They're

98:53

telling them they're fabulous and they

98:55

really think there's a ton of these

98:57

dransitioners out there and their

98:59

stories are horrific. Not just in the

99:02

fact that they did this to them and they

99:04

removed their breasts when they were 15,

99:05

they gave them testosterone, they'll

99:07

never be able to have children, but also

99:09

that they're attacked relentlessly by

99:12

other people that think that they should

99:14

never that they are against the trans

99:17

movement and they should never be saying

99:19

what they're saying. They shouldn't be

99:21

telling

99:21

>> they come out force.

99:23

>> They come out in force. They bully them.

99:24

Everything else that they can do.

99:25

>> It's crazy. They've already been a

99:27

they're a victim of the zeitgeist. You

99:29

know what the what the transcode for

99:31

that is? It's really funny. They do the

99:34

well then it was always the case that

99:36

you really weren't. So they try to make

99:37

it an unfalsifiable claim. You see the

99:40

reason you dransitioned is because you

99:41

were never really trans to begin with.

99:43

>> Oh boy. Well, if that's the case, if

99:45

they really believe that, wouldn't they

99:47

want to have a a a a smaller net so that

99:52

they're not catching the people that

99:54

they Well, and how are you not putting

99:56

parents in prison who are trying to

99:58

convince their kids of what their sex is

100:02

or isn't. They're like designer kids.

100:04

>> But it's just crazy, too, because they

100:06

get praised for it. It's like they have

100:08

a Whitney Cummings said it's like having

100:10

a trans kid is like having a pride flag

100:11

on your porch. [laughter] Like there's a

100:13

lot of especially in Hollywood, man. In

100:15

Hollywood, it's really weirdly common.

100:18

Weirdly common where it doesn't make

100:20

sense that this didn't exist 20 years

100:22

ago. You tell me these people just lived

100:24

in quiet desperation 20 years ago,

100:25

really secretly wishing that they were a

100:27

woman, but now they get to be free and

100:29

we should applaud this. Are you sure?

100:31

Are you Do you have children? Because if

100:33

you have children, you know how easily

100:35

influenced they are. That's why they

100:36

make children suicide bombers because

100:38

they don't know any better, you know.

100:40

>> Well, you know what's interesting? If

100:42

you go back to would you say for

100:45

instance that right now we're far more

100:48

accepting of trans kids than they ever

100:51

would have been in like 1920 1930 100%.

100:55

Right. So my question is always like

100:57

well then how come the teen suicide was

100:59

so low [laughter]

101:00

>> when when the when the kids like

101:02

couldn't come out to express yeah

101:04

>> their um you know their the fact that

101:07

they needed to transition right when

101:10

there wasn't that parental reinforcement

101:12

because the argument that they make is

101:14

the kids have to be able to do this or

101:15

else they're going to unlive them right

101:16

they're going to kill themselves if you

101:17

don't let them do this and it's like

101:19

well then how come if there's the same

101:21

amount of trans people before they just

101:22

weren't able to come forward they just

101:24

weren't That problem with that argument

101:26

that they say, would you rather have a

101:28

live son or a dead daughter? That that

101:30

argument, the argument doesn't work when

101:32

you look at the actual statistics of

101:34

people transition.

101:35

>> Not even close.

101:36

>> Not it's goes the opposite way. It's

101:38

also you have to take into consideration

101:40

the ubiquitous use of psychiatric drugs

101:43

and that a lot of these they're very

101:45

recent in terms of like how many people

101:47

have been prescribed these things and

101:49

we're finding out that it's not it's not

101:52

really what they said it was in the

101:53

first place. There's no chemical

101:55

imbalance. It's not real. So then you

101:57

have to think like well what is the

101:59

effect of these things and what are we

102:00

doing with these things? Are you getting

102:01

people addicted to these things and

102:03

hooked on them where they they're

102:04

they're going to be on it for life. Then

102:06

there's this this effect where it numbs

102:09

your genitals. It stops you from being

102:11

able to ever have an orgasm ever for

102:13

some people. It's a one of the more

102:15

horrible side effects of these things.

102:17

And you have pharmaceutical drug

102:19

companies that are pushing them on

102:20

people. And a ton of people are on them.

102:22

So, you have depressed kids going

102:24

through puberty, entrapped in this

102:26

insane [ __ ] moment in history where

102:29

people think it makes sense to give a

102:31

child hormones uh before they even hit

102:33

puberty or block their hormones before

102:35

they even hit puberty and you're giving

102:38

them psychiatric drugs. You just

102:39

flooding them with all sorts of [ __ ]

102:42

whether it's psychological or chemical.

102:45

And we're we're it depending upon what

102:49

side of the ideological spectrum you you

102:51

are on, you either think it's amazing or

102:53

you think it's a crime against humanity.

102:55

That's crazy. That's crazy.

102:58

>> It's crazy and it's a crime against

102:59

humanity. And you know what's really

103:01

interesting about it?

103:02

>> This is the side that screams about

103:04

consent more than any other side, right?

103:07

This is the side of the feminists. This

103:08

is the side of the uh you know the

103:12

everything is based around consent and

103:14

consent have a couple drinks you can't

103:16

consent.

103:16

>> You can't have sex. If you're you're

103:18

raping each other if it's if it's if

103:20

you're drunk and she's drunk together,

103:21

right?

103:22

>> You're both criminals.

103:22

>> You're both criminals.

103:24

>> Yeah.

103:24

>> And yet they somehow seem to think that

103:26

like an eight or nine or 10year-old can

103:27

consent.

103:28

>> No, there's so much that partic well

103:31

from both sides that's insane, but

103:33

there's so much on the left that's so

103:35

insane when it comes to contradictions.

103:37

One of my favorite new ones is the Mom

103:39

Donnie grocery stores. They said, "How

103:41

are you going to ensure that people from

103:43

New York have access to grocery store?"

103:45

Well, they're going to have to show ID,

103:47

[laughter]

103:48

>> but not to vote.

103:49

>> Yes, but not to vote.

103:50

>> How crazy is it that your checkers game

103:52

is so shitty that you're like, "Oh,

103:55

yeah. Here we go." [laughter]

103:57

And people like, "Do you know what you

103:58

just did? Do you know what you just

104:00

did?"

104:00

>> You put yourself a checkmate.

104:02

>> Jesus [laughter] [ __ ] Christ. That is

104:03

the dumbest thing I've ever seen anybody

104:05

say when you just got done saying that

104:09

you don't want people to show ID for

104:10

voting because it it'll

104:13

>> disenfranchise them.

104:15

>> Especially poor people. They're talking

104:17

about poor people and people of color

104:19

which are the people that you would

104:20

think the poor people are the ones who

104:22

are going to use your grocery stores.

104:25

So you're going to disenfranchise them

104:26

from getting access to your 30% off

104:28

groceries. You know what's bizarre about

104:30

that argument?

104:30

>> They won't ask for ID. Ah, meaning New

104:33

Yorkers can buy cheap goods. So, but

104:35

they asked him today and that was what

104:37

he indicated that they were going to

104:38

find out whether or not you actually

104:40

from New York. Well, how else are you

104:41

going to do that? You have to have ID.

104:43

>> I think this is just a response to the

104:45

reaction like saying that August 3rd,

104:48

which is today, right? Yeah.

104:49

>> Last time. Yeah.

104:50

>> Right. So, this is what they said after

104:52

what he said. So, what he said was

104:54

yesterday. So, there's probably a

104:56

massive blowback where people realize

104:58

how crazy it is to say that. But it's

105:01

also the whole thing is like what are we

105:03

doing? What are we doing?

105:06

>> What are we doing? We trying socialism.

105:09

There's like a giant percentage of the

105:11

population that thinks that's a good

105:12

idea. It's like 34%

105:14

>> coming out of the East again, by the

105:16

way. [laughter]

105:17

>> They really believe it, too. They really

105:19

believe it.

105:20

>> Well, you didn't you recently you've

105:21

recently pissed off Chelsea Handler? I

105:23

saw

105:24

>> I didn't know. She You didn't know?

105:26

>> No.

105:26

>> Oh.

105:27

>> What happened? Well, I guess she's very

105:28

upset with you because she believes that

105:31

you're an evil capitalist pig who makes

105:33

too much money.

105:33

>> Oh,

105:35

>> that's funny. She's rich. That's crazy.

105:36

>> It is crazy.

105:37

>> That's what she said. I make too much.

105:39

There's a certain number.

105:41

>> Yes, she was very She was very, very

105:45

perturbed.

105:46

>> Oh, I think she's just getting

105:47

attention. I can't be bothered. But, um,

105:50

I know her. I've known her forever. I

105:52

wrote a blurb for one of her earlier

105:54

books. uh never had a bad word to say

105:56

about her publicly. Every time I've seen

105:58

her, I think I've given her a hug. So, I

106:00

don't know what's going on, but it has

106:01

nothing to do with me. You know,

106:03

whatever it is because it sounds like

106:05

seething jealousy. And so, the

106:07

interesting part is like I think a lot

106:09

of the socialism stuff that's moving out

106:12

of the east has a lot to do with that,

106:14

too. There's the idea of class jealousy.

106:16

There's a little bit of that, but

106:18

there's also a little bit of young kids

106:20

really feel like the system is rigged

106:22

and that these pigs have gobbled up all

106:24

the gold and they're being told that.

106:27

And so this is a thing, you know, like

106:29

Billy Isish said, uh, "Hey man, no one

106:31

needs to be a billionaire. Give away

106:32

your money, homie." Like, [laughter]

106:34

>> it's crazy.

106:34

>> It's crazy cuz you're rich, okay? And

106:38

you also, uh, live on a house that's on,

106:41

uh, Indian land. You know that you see

106:43

the Native Americans that owned

106:45

originally owned the land which her

106:47

house is. Yeah. No, I don't. [laughter]

106:51

>> But it's the idea comes from a good

106:53

place. I know in their heart of hearts

106:55

they think that they're being kind and

106:56

they think that they're they think

106:58

they're doing the right thing. They

106:59

really do. They think they're being

107:01

inclusive. They think they're they're

107:03

writing the wrongs of colonialism. They

107:05

really think that. and they think that

107:08

this idea of democratic socialism is a

107:11

really good idea because there are some

107:12

examples of socialist policies that do

107:15

work like the fire department and

107:16

there's a bunch of stuff that makes

107:18

sense. But the problem with enforcing

107:21

any of this stuff that they don't

107:23

understand is it always comes down to

107:25

power. You have to have massive

107:27

authority and usually guns because you

107:30

can't just steal people's money. They're

107:32

not going to let you. They're not going

107:33

to let you just come in and decide, hey,

107:35

we just devised a new tax where

107:37

everybody who makes more than $500,000 a

107:39

year. Everything over that, you have to

107:41

give 100% to the state

107:42

>> or 95, whatever it is.

107:43

>> And here's the thing. Here's the thing

107:45

with the argument. Even if you said,

107:46

"Oh, wouldn't it be great if they did

107:47

contribute more? And would it be but

107:49

they have so much money? Wouldn't it set

107:51

up the world in a better place?" Sure.

107:54

But

107:55

the [ __ ] program that you have in

107:58

place that takes the taxes and

107:59

disseminates it is massively flawed and

108:02

corrupt. It's corrupt. It's filled with

108:06

waste. Filled with waste. There's

108:08

scammers all over the place. You've got

108:10

24 billion dollars missing and just the

108:13

homeless in California. And then they

108:15

veto the audits when everybody's trying

108:17

to find out. So just saying that's just

108:18

the tip of the iceberg.

108:19

>> More taxes is what we need is nuts. The

108:23

first thing you should do is clean your

108:24

[ __ ] house. Clean your house. If you

108:27

if you want more money, you got to

108:29

figure out what you did with the first

108:30

money. Why did you Why is there so much

108:33

waste? Why is there so much money

108:35

missing? Why do you have 38,000 NOS's?

108:37

[laughter]

108:38

Why does the people people Why do the

108:40

people running the homeless business?

108:42

Because it is a business. Why are they

108:44

making threequarters of a million

108:45

dollars? That's a lot of money.

108:47

>> It's a lot to administrate the homeless

108:49

camps.

108:50

>> Yeah. They need to eat well. They need

108:51

to go to Felix and have a nice dinner.

108:53

>> It's hilarious to me, too. You saw all

108:56

the waste and fraud that's been going on

108:58

in these various states when it comes to

109:01

um you know, elder people getting their

109:03

funds, right? Yes. You've seen all of

109:05

this happening.

109:07

>> Um and of course, they're all trying to

109:09

run away from it as quickly as possible.

109:11

But this is the problem. And I bring it

109:13

back kind of to this idea of the class

109:14

system. When you have the under

109:18

universal suffrage especially, when you

109:19

have the voters outnumber the wealthy,

109:22

you can just vote yourself a raise. You

109:24

can always vote yourself more money from

109:26

whatever the upper class is. And that

109:28

has been progressive dogma and doctrine

109:31

since I was a kid. The entire idea is,

109:33

hey, things are fundamentally unfair and

109:35

that's not your fault. So what we have

109:37

to do is get together and vote ourselves

109:39

a raise from the upper class. That's

109:41

what we got to do. But it fundamentally

109:44

ignores how wealth is created. And

109:46

wealth is not created by giving somebody

109:48

money. Right? But what happens when you

109:50

give somebody money is they go and spend

109:52

it. But they usually don't use it to

109:54

generate wealth. That almost never in

109:56

fact they use it to generate wealth. And

109:58

so you vote yourself these raises. You

110:00

vote yourself from the public treasury

110:04

money to yourself. But what does it

110:06

actually do for you ultimately? Because

110:09

that's not how you generate wealth ever.

110:12

No. Not only that, you incentivize

110:13

people to move to a place that's more

110:15

friendly to their economic ideas.

110:19

>> True. You also, but one of the

110:22

fundamental kind of um ideas here that's

110:25

flawed. How many times can you vote

110:27

yourself the wealth of those above you

110:29

>> before they have no more wealth to give

110:31

you out east? In fact, when you see

110:34

these communist mumani things like this,

110:36

they're going to institute all of their

110:37

programs on your dime. It's not like

110:40

they have money. And whenever I talk to

110:42

people about wealth disparity, what's

110:44

really funny to me is they always seem

110:46

to think that the government can just

110:49

materialize wealth without there having

110:52

to be some payback for that wealth. We

110:54

saw this during CO 19 in the lockdowns.

110:56

You remember they were handing out money

110:57

like it was candy to various businesses

110:58

that were shut down, COVID relief funds,

111:01

things like this. And then they go,

111:02

"Inflation's out of control." Yeah. Is

111:06

it? You're kidding. Is it? Do you mean

111:09

the government can't just materialize a

111:11

trillion dollars and not inflate the

111:14

money supply? Well, that's just go

111:17

figure, right?

111:18

>> And so a lot of times these socialists,

111:21

they even try to make the promise like,

111:22

"Hey, we're only going to tax them after

111:24

this rate, but it's never enough money

111:26

for them to fund their socialist

111:28

programs to begin with. The government

111:30

will have to materialize money."

111:32

>> Not only that, if you give them more

111:33

money, they're going to expand the

111:34

government

111:34

>> 100%.

111:35

>> They will expand and they will expand

111:37

their programs. They expand the fraud

111:39

and they expand the waste.

111:41

>> The other weird thing that Mom Donny's

111:42

done is make a list of all the people

111:44

that are rich.

111:47

[laughter]

111:47

>> You see that?

111:48

>> Yeah.

111:48

>> He like released a list of all the

111:50

people that may have to pay more taxes.

111:53

It's like, hey, what are you doing?

111:54

You're that's kind of you're you just

111:57

made a list of targets and you you're

112:00

you're

112:02

putting these people in a bad position.

112:05

Like that seems that seems really crazy

112:07

to do.

112:08

>> But don't you think that these people

112:10

think they actually do think that

112:12

wealthy people are evil?

112:14

>> I don't know if he does. I I think

112:16

that's a you know, it's a bit of uh

112:19

you're you're going along with whichever

112:22

way that plastic bag is flying in the

112:25

breeze. And that's where it's flying

112:27

right now is that wealthy people are

112:29

evil. So you say that and it's a great

112:31

excuse to tax the [ __ ] out of them. And

112:33

it's also a great excuse to pretend that

112:35

you know you're making like meaningful

112:37

change and you're really doing the right

112:38

thing for the community. Yeah.

112:40

>> Yeah. [laughter] That's a big thing.

112:42

It's all destroy the community. Yeah.

112:44

Why you destroy the community? Because

112:46

the money is going to leave the state.

112:48

The money is going to leave the city.

112:49

And that's the reality of And it's not

112:52

that they're greedy. So they don't want

112:53

you to take their money. You didn't earn

112:56

it. You didn't make an iPhone. Go [ __ ]

112:58

yourself. And if you think that people

113:00

should have a cap on how much money they

113:02

make based on,

113:05

you know, what arbitrary numbers that

113:07

you come up in your own head, well,

113:09

you're going to exclude any

113:11

extraordinary outliers from creating

113:14

incredible products, massive companies.

113:16

It just

113:17

>> Yeah, maybe it's nuts that someone wants

113:19

to be a trillionaire. Yeah, I agree. I

113:21

don't want it seems [ __ ] insane. But

113:24

you have to have the freedom to be able

113:25

to want to do that if you're all playing

113:27

the same game. If you if you're playing

113:29

a game and you decide I only need 250

113:31

points and this one guy's like I'm gonna

113:33

[ __ ] 100 million points like that

113:34

that crazy guy that Tiger Woods guy that

113:37

that guy who's going to [ __ ] practice

113:39

12 hours a day. He's going to make the

113:41

most. He's going to do the most. He's

113:43

going to make the bigger company. He's

113:44

going to put more in. He's going to die

113:46

of cancer because he [ __ ] is

113:48

massively stressed out 24 hours a day.

113:51

That's his prerogative.

113:53

You should be concerned if that person

113:54

has an undue influence in your life.

113:56

Well, and they already tax the hell out

113:58

of him anyway. They already tax the be

114:00

Jesus out of these people anyway.

114:02

>> And that's that there's an illusion and

114:05

a bad narrative that they're not

114:06

responsible for the an enormous

114:08

percentage of the taxes that they don't

114:10

pay their share. They pay an enormous

114:12

amount. They make way more. They pay way

114:14

more than the average person. They're

114:16

responsible for a huge percentage of New

114:19

York City's tax revenue. A huge

114:21

percentage. And in California,

114:23

California, like a massive percentage of

114:25

the tax revenue is like a half a dozen

114:27

people. Well, and a lot of times the

114:29

people in California that they claim are

114:31

rich and really need, they're farmers.

114:33

They're farmers who are driving huge

114:35

revenue because they own a lot of land,

114:37

right?

114:37

>> And it's like, but they're producing a

114:39

huge amount of food. What is it like uh

114:41

most of the produce of the United States

114:43

comes out of one state, California,

114:45

[laughter]

114:46

>> and they're a net exporter. You know,

114:47

another thing that we were talking about

114:49

fraud with old people that I I just

114:51

found out recently. I was listening to

114:52

Michael Easter. Do you know who he is?

114:54

He um what what is his uh the comfort

114:58

dilemma? Is that his book?

114:59

>> Very interesting guy. He's been on the

115:01

podcast a couple times, but he was

115:02

talking about the blue zones.

115:04

>> You know those blue zones where as you

115:06

light a cigarette where uh everybody

115:08

lives to be a hundred cuz they're they

115:10

uh they only eat vegetarian or they eat

115:13

shellfish. The Japanese

115:16

massively based on fraud.

115:17

>> Really?

115:18

>> Yeah. Massively based on fraud. The

115:20

numbers, especially in certain areas,

115:22

are massively based on people who die

115:24

and they don't report their death. This

115:26

is in Okinawa. They're talking about

115:28

that blue zones are bad data. These

115:30

locations aren't hot beds of 100 plus

115:31

year old people. A wild story of fraud

115:34

and bad data. Michael Easter. Um, and so

115:38

he was on a podcast recently and he was

115:40

uh talking about it and just laying it

115:42

out like laying out all the the various

115:45

details. A lot of it in Okinawa in

115:47

particular where is one of the hot beds,

115:49

one of the blue zones, it's when people

115:51

die, they don't report it to the

115:53

government. And so if this person

115:56

>> they don't have the death rates correct,

115:57

>> right? And this person's getting check

116:00

if you're getting a check and then the

116:01

family gets that check, they just don't

116:03

report it. So like if they're getting

116:04

some sort of, you know, whatever it is,

116:06

some I don't know how they work over

116:08

there. Some social security. Oh yeah. Oh

116:10

yeah. So you have unreported numbers and

116:12

then you have massive amounts of fraud

116:14

where people are profiting off of the

116:16

fact that their dead grandpa is still

116:18

getting a check in the mail and so they

116:20

don't report him as dead.

116:22

>> That's that's wild. Yeah, that is wild.

116:25

That was the first time I had heard

116:26

that. I you know I grew up with the the

116:29

Japanese diet, the samurai diet, right?

116:32

This is going to make you live. Yeah,

116:35

these guys live forever

116:36

>> and Yeah, I did. Okay, it's all B. Okay,

116:38

makes sense.

116:39

>> Yeah. Well, there's some um there's some

116:42

data with uh certain areas that eat very

116:45

rich uh rich in nutrient foods. So,

116:48

there's that data that they seem to be

116:50

healthier. Hong Kong is one. They eat a

116:52

lot of meat in Hong Kong. I know it goes

116:55

against the narrative, but apparently

116:56

very healthy. And that that data

116:58

apparently seems to be real.

116:59

>> Meat is good for you. Who would have

117:01

thought it crazy? Except every

117:02

bodybuilder I've ever talked to who sits

117:04

around eating nothing but meat.

117:06

>> Any [laughter] professional athlete.

117:07

Yeah. I mean, there's very few

117:08

professional athletes that are

117:10

plant-based. And you can do it, but it's

117:12

not optimal. And you have to be really

117:13

careful. You have to like really monitor

117:16

your your your food. And most of the

117:18

time they're eating a lot of processed

117:20

supplements. They're eating a lot of

117:22

like either it's tofu or, you know,

117:24

whatever it's pea protein. There's a lot

117:26

of like processed stuff that you have to

117:28

eat. You can't just eat

117:30

>> consume the most amount of processed

117:32

food out of any individual group.

117:33

>> I would imagine that's the case. I would

117:35

imagine that makes sense especially when

117:36

you deal with plant-based like meat like

117:40

toky and that kind of [ __ ] Like what is

117:43

you ever see that stuff get made?

117:44

>> It's so gross.

117:45

>> It's looks like liquid.

117:47

>> Also not good for you. Especially those

117:49

plant-based burgers. Those are not good

117:52

for you.

117:52

>> Everything's fried in vegetable oil and

117:54

>> not good. None of that stuff's good.

117:56

None of that stuff's good. But, you

117:58

know, you got to save the chickens.

117:59

>> Yeah. But if you want to eat like just a

118:01

vegetarian diet and be healthy, like

118:04

[snorts]

118:05

it's hard. If you try and do that for

118:07

ethical reasons, I always recommend

118:09

people just eat eggs. Get chickens if

118:11

you can. If you have a backyard and eat

118:12

your chickens eggs, it is karmafree.

118:14

They're your pets and they give you food

118:16

and you could live off eggs. Eggs are

118:18

awesome.

118:19

>> I thought too that vegetarians it's okay

118:20

to eat fish too. Like there's some

118:22

>> that's pescatarian.

118:23

>> Okay.

118:24

>> Yeah. [snorts] Vegetarian is uh eggs and

118:26

and milk dep I mean you would want it

118:28

sourced from like an ethical farmer

118:31

where you can watch him milk his cows

118:32

where it's not like some [ __ ] machine

118:34

where the cow's like got it head in a

118:36

harness and it just yanking on its tits.

118:38

>> You know, if you go to a real

118:40

regenerative farm and you buy milk from

118:42

them, it's like the cows don't mind

118:43

being milked. Like it's normal. So it's

118:45

like not that big a deal for them. It's

118:48

the real problem is factory farming.

118:51

That's what freaks everybody out and

118:52

rightly so because it's some evil

118:54

concoction that people have figured out.

118:55

Well, we need all this food. No one's

118:57

growing food. Let's just stuff all these

118:59

pigs into a [ __ ] warehouse and have

119:01

them [ __ ] into a lake. Like you see

119:03

those, you go, "Oh, yeah. There's

119:04

something [ __ ] up about that." But

119:06

that's not the only way to do it. And

119:08

you know, I've had guys on my podcast

119:11

from multiple different regenerative

119:13

farms that have laid out how they do it.

119:15

And you can source your food from places

119:17

like that if you can afford it. And it's

119:19

better.

119:20

>> Don't you think that fundamental to that

119:22

position is the idea that people want to

119:24

ignore that human beings have to kill to

119:27

eat?

119:27

>> Yeah.

119:28

>> And we've always had to kill to eat.

119:31

Always. We've always killed to eat.

119:33

>> Yeah. Life eats life. And that is the

119:36

reality. And um there's also

119:38

consciousness apparently in plants.

119:40

Sorry.

119:41

>> Yeah. But what about my sentience, Joe?

119:43

>> Yeah. I think I think plants communicate

119:45

with each other in very profound ways.

119:47

They exchange resources. Um, they

119:49

communicate through mcelium so that

119:51

there's this underground network that

119:53

they're using to communicate back and

119:55

forth.

119:56

>> Some of them eat meat.

119:57

>> Yep.

119:57

>> Some of these plants eat meat.

119:59

>> Yeah. Some of those weird little fly

120:00

trap plants.

120:01

>> Yeah.

120:01

>> Those are a little tricky.

120:02

>> Well, yeah. And even that you

120:04

decomposing, you become the nutrients

120:05

that they eat. Right.

120:06

>> You seen that one that um Yeah, that's

120:08

true, too. Right. That's right. Yeah.

120:11

When you decompose, you do get eaten up

120:13

by the earth.

120:13

>> Get eaten up.

120:14

>> Which is one of the weird things that we

120:15

do. We were like, "Nah, I'm out of the

120:17

game." We just stuff a body filled with

120:19

formaldahhide and [laughter]

120:21

>> put it in a [ __ ] hermetically sealed

120:23

box. It's

120:24

>> true.

120:24

>> Is really kind of creepy. But, uh, have

120:26

you seen that one plant that eats rats?

120:29

>> No.

120:30

>> Oh, it's gross. It's It's apparently got

120:32

like this sicky, sickly, sweet smell to

120:34

it. And these rats get around the lip

120:37

and then they fall into the bottom and

120:39

they can't get out. It's just like Yeah.

120:41

It's like a like a like a vase. And uh

120:44

they fall into this [ __ ] thing and

120:46

the plant eats rats.

120:47

>> How long does it take to eat them?

120:49

>> Good question.

120:50

>> Probably a long time.

120:51

>> See if you can find that, Jamie. So,

120:53

it's it's f I mean, I want to smell it.

120:56

What does that thing smell like?

120:57

>> Like it it probably gives off like a

121:00

sickly odor that attracts the rat. I

121:02

think I'm remembering this correctly,

121:04

but uh there's a quite a few different

121:06

plants that eat bugs.

121:08

>> It's named after David Atenburgh. I was

121:09

wondering why it had this weird name.

121:11

>> What's it named? Nep nep nepaththenus

121:14

attenboro

121:16

[laughter]

121:18

>> attenboro pitcher plant montaine species

121:21

of carnivorous pitcher plant of the

121:23

genus nepenthus.

121:26

It's named after the celebrated

121:27

broadcaster and naturalist or David

121:29

Atenburgh who's a keen enthusiast of the

121:31

genus. So that's what it looks like down

121:33

there. Isn't that crazy? Yeah. They fall

121:35

in there and die and it eats them. Look

121:38

at it. It's like a [ __ ] catcher for

121:40

Look at it. It's a rat. Decomposed rat

121:43

that they pulled out of there. How's it

121:45

not How could it not get out of there? I

121:47

want to know.

121:48

>> It probably maybe the insides become

121:50

very hard so they can't claw their way

121:51

out,

121:51

>> I guess. But it's [ __ ] pretty

121:53

extraordinary. How gross is that? That

121:55

little [ __ ] He's got his head poked

121:56

out. Gets eaten alive.

121:58

>> A little photoshopped for the

122:00

>> little AI. But you know, I don't know.

122:02

Like if you watch animals consume other

122:04

animals, it's never not nasty.

122:06

>> Oh, dude. It's rough. Yeah, it's rough.

122:08

And they don't care. They'll just watch

122:09

them scream. Like, have you ever seen a

122:10

coyote on a rabbit? Rabbits scream as

122:12

loud as they don't care.

122:13

>> Oh, no. They don't care.

122:14

>> Rip it to shreds. Means nothing to them.

122:17

But we're going to worry about

122:18

[laughter] worry about eating the farm

122:20

fresh pig.

122:21

>> I just watched a a video today about a

122:23

with a bear eating another bear while it

122:25

was alive.

122:27

>> Cannibalizing another bear while it's

122:28

alive. Cuz uh big bears, like the

122:31

boores, they will kill cubs and they'll

122:33

eat them while they're alive. And this

122:35

uh this was actually a grizzly eating a

122:37

black bear and it was eating it while it

122:40

was alive and it was like trying to move

122:42

around just tearing chunks of it off.

122:45

>> Nasty.

122:46

>> Yeah. That's what I say when people say,

122:48

you know, like they get upset at me that

122:50

I hunt. I go, the way that elk is dying

122:54

when I shoot it with a bow and arrow is

122:56

infinitely better than the way it's

122:58

going to die when its teeth wear down to

122:59

nothing and then it gets like emaciated

123:01

where it can't escape and then the

123:03

coyotes get it or a mountain lion gets

123:06

it or a bear gets it or a wolf gets it.

123:09

Like an arrow through the pump station

123:12

is the best way to go. It's 30 seconds

123:15

it's gone.

123:16

>> Done.

123:16

>> Done. Yeah.

123:17

>> And it's dead and then next thing you

123:19

know you're eating it. That's the

123:20

literally the best way it can. It's not

123:22

going to live forever and become an

123:23

angel.

123:24

>> No,

123:24

>> it's not. They have like maybe 13 people

123:27

disconnected from reality anyway.

123:30

>> Just totally disconnected from the

123:32

natural order of things.

123:33

>> What's weird is like they don't seem to

123:34

mind animal on animal violence,

123:37

>> you know?

123:37

>> Oh, no. I've I've debated I've debated

123:39

with vegans who have told me that their

123:42

plan is to get rid of all of the

123:44

predator animals.

123:46

All of the predator animals. [laughter]

123:49

And my a buddy of mine, he's a he's a

123:52

fellow debater. He calls it bear jail.

123:54

He says, "You going to [laughter] say

123:55

you going?" He says, "You going to put

123:58

him in bear jail if is that is that what

124:01

you're going to do? They're going to go

124:02

to bear jail?" And some of these vegans

124:04

will say they'll say, "Look, there

124:05

[clears throat] needs to be animal

124:06

courts where they have attorneys who

124:09

come in, hey, you killed the rabbit. You

124:11

got to, you know, we you got to be

124:13

euthanized." This type of thing. They

124:15

want all the predators gone. All of

124:17

them.

124:18

>> Oh my god. I don't know what that would

124:20

even look like to the ecos that would be

124:22

like a world ending.

124:23

>> It would be amazing. [laughter] I mean,

124:25

>> what I just want to see the

124:27

infrastructure like how are you how are

124:30

you like do you know how many wolves

124:32

there are? Do you know how many bears

124:33

there are? Do you know how many mountain

124:34

lions there are? Like you can't even

124:35

keep a track of them. No.

124:37

>> California had a different approach in

124:39

California um you know they have like

124:40

the department of fish and game.

124:42

California calls the Department of Fish

124:44

and Wildlife and they were kind of

124:47

infiltrated by um animal activists and

124:51

that's how they've sort of morphed their

124:54

policies in California. And so that's

124:56

why they have a mountain lion problem.

124:58

They don't want to admit they have a

124:59

mountain lion problem, but they have a

125:00

mountain lion problem. And one of the

125:02

problems is they don't control the

125:03

population of the mountain lions. And

125:04

their idea is they want the animals to

125:07

control each other. So instead of

125:09

encouraging hunting, ideally they would

125:11

like the mountain lions to get the deer

125:12

down to a number where people can't hunt

125:15

them ethically because their populations

125:17

are in danger.

125:18

>> Yeah. But you would have to have so many

125:19

mountain lions to do it.

125:21

>> And you do.

125:22

>> Yeah. That you end up with this

125:23

overwhelming opposite problem.

125:25

>> So here's the problem. [laughter] In the

125:27

San Francisco, in the Bay Area, uh 50%

125:30

of the diet of these mountain lions is

125:32

pets.

125:33

>> Of course,

125:34

>> 50%. So when they keep catching these,

125:37

they have these depradation tags. So if

125:39

a a cat pulls a dog out of a backyard,

125:43

they find the cat, they'd euthanize it.

125:45

When they open it up, they always have

125:46

to check and see what they're eating.

125:48

And 50% of them are eating pets.

125:51

[laughter]

125:53

That's the I think I told you when the

125:55

DNR in Michigan, it's the same type of

125:58

organization, the Department of Natural

126:00

Resources,

126:01

>> in order to control the deer population,

126:03

their infinite wisdom, they started

126:04

importing western coyotes, which was not

126:07

a thing [laughter]

126:08

>> that you saw in the Midwest before like

126:12

uh you know, 30. Oh yeah. They imported

126:14

them from out west hunts. And you know

126:15

what they did? The native hunting there

126:18

was never deer. It was always pheasant.

126:20

Feeasant was what you went to the

126:21

Midwest for. Feeasantasant hunting was

126:24

the staple. Every farmer had a pheasant

126:26

gun and they would walk the railroad

126:27

tracks with their kids. The pheasants

126:29

would pop up. Boom. Done. Once they took

126:32

the coyotes out there, guess what they

126:33

didn't eat? They didn't eat the deer.

126:36

They ate up all the feeasants.

126:38

>> That's always how it goes.

126:39

>> And then it it got even worse. They

126:42

started these the population of coyotes

126:45

just blew out of control and they

126:48

started there's plenty of cotton tail

126:49

for them to eat and there's plenty of

126:50

rabbits for them to eat again not doing

126:53

a great job on controlling the deer

126:54

population these coyotes they have an

126:56

all you can eat buffet with other things

126:58

[laughter] including your cat including

127:00

your cat right including your your

127:02

smaller pets just like the mountain lion

127:03

issue so these uh so what they finally

127:06

did to try to get the deer population

127:08

down was what everybody had suggested

127:10

from the beginning just issue more tags

127:12

and make the out of state tags cheaper.

127:15

And then people will come in, but you

127:16

have all the animal rights going to come

127:18

out. Oh, you can't kill the deer. And

127:20

the farmers are going nuts. They get

127:21

nuisance tags. They'll be out there

127:22

killing these deer all day, every day,

127:25

right from their tractor because they

127:26

have a nuisance tag. There's a deer,

127:28

bam, done. Don't even think twice about

127:30

it. Summer, winter, whenever. Just blast

127:33

them because they have the permit to do

127:35

it. They can't keep the population of

127:38

these deer down. Except now they have

127:40

the additional population of all these

127:42

coyotes.

127:43

>> Oh,

127:44

>> and so how did the Michiganders deal

127:45

with that? Well, they made a game of it.

127:47

So what they do is they get grand they

127:49

hop in the truck with granddad. They

127:51

have their dogs with GPS collars and

127:53

during the winter time after they're

127:55

done filling their deer tags, they hunt

127:57

coyotes with their dogs all throughout

128:00

the winter. They're just thinning them

128:02

out.

128:03

>> Well, at least they allow that. At least

128:05

they allow that because California, one

128:07

of the things they did where their bear

128:08

population has exploded because they

128:10

stopped bear hunting with dogs, which is

128:12

the only way to get them. Either baiting

128:14

or dogs

128:14

>> because don't you treat them?

128:16

>> Yeah.

128:16

>> Yeah.

128:16

>> And the other way is baiting and they

128:18

allowed outlawed that as well.

128:20

>> Yeah. Every time they bring in an animal

128:22

to deal with another animal, they always

128:23

[ __ ] it up. Hawaii is one of the best

128:25

ones.

128:26

>> Remember? Well, didn't they import all

128:27

those cats to get the the rats in New

128:30

York? And cats don't hunt rats.

128:32

[laughter] They only hunt mice. So they

128:34

ended up having this huge explosion of

128:36

cats all over New York City.

128:37

>> Cats are too big. I mean rats rather.

128:39

>> Yeah, they're way too they're the size

128:40

of the cats.

128:40

>> They're dangerous, too. They'll [ __ ]

128:42

that cat up. Um Hawaii had a problem

128:45

with rats. I guess probably from ships.

128:48

I don't know. But they were eating the

128:49

sugarcane, so they brought in mongoose.

128:52

The problem is mongoose are dal

128:57

and the rats are nocturnal.

129:00

So the mongoose never saw the rats and

129:03

the rats never saw the mongoose. So the

129:05

mongoose started eating up all the

129:06

ground nesting birds. And so the

129:08

[laughter] this state bird of Hawaii got

129:11

[ __ ] decimated cuz a ground nesting

129:14

bird. And so these [ __ ] mongoose who

129:17

are like bad [ __ ] man. They

129:19

kill cobras, you know? They're just

129:21

killing these birds.

129:22

>> It's like an office lady. It's just like

129:24

an office lady. Go. I have this idea,

129:26

guys. We got to bring in the cats

129:28

because then that'll get the rats that

129:30

someone else says, "Yeah, that's great."

129:31

And they just never consult anybody who

129:33

knows anything about these animals

129:34

[laughter] at all. Well, I think

129:36

everything was done in decades past

129:38

where people are a lot more ignorant

129:39

about the the effect. And you know,

129:42

Australia is a good example of that.

129:43

Australia, they brought in cats. I

129:45

forget what they were dealing with, but

129:46

it didn't work. They didn't kill

129:48

whatever they want. Now they have a a

129:50

giant feral cat problem in Australia to

129:52

the point where bow hunting magazines in

129:54

Australia, they have [ __ ] cats in

129:56

them. Like a guy holding a house cat up

129:58

that he shot with a bow and arrow. Like

130:00

it's a trophy. Like my friend Adam, he

130:02

lives in Australia and uh I uh was over

130:05

there visiting him and he gave me some

130:07

bow hunting magazines. I'm like, "Oh,

130:09

I'll read these on the way home." So,

130:11

I'm on the plane on the way home, not

130:13

even thinking, and I'm opening up this

130:15

magazine, and there's a [ __ ] guy

130:16

holding a cat, and I like close it shut

130:19

real quick. I'm like, [laughter]

130:22

>> "Is this allowed?

130:23

>> What the fuck?"

130:24

>> They're mounting kitty cats on the wall.

130:26

[laughter]

130:26

>> Like, if you saw a puppy with a [ __ ]

130:28

arrow through its chest, you'd be like,

130:29

"Fak out."

130:31

>> But that's how it is. Like, over there,

130:32

they have so many feral cats that

130:34

there's like a bounty on cats. Like,

130:37

people make like fur coats out of cats.

130:39

It's [ __ ] disgusting.

130:40

>> Who would expect that? The country who

130:42

lost a war to the emus. [laughter]

130:46

>> They lost a war against their own emu

130:48

population.

130:49

>> They have a giant problem with invasive

130:51

species over there. There's so many of

130:52

them. There's the the water buffalo, the

130:55

Asiatic water buffalo in the Northern

130:56

Territories. They have these enormous

130:59

[ __ ] buffaloos that are up there and

131:02

no natural predators. And they guys just

131:05

go up there to hunt them and they're

131:07

>> That's the only way to thin them out.

131:08

It's only and you're still you're not

131:10

going to you're not going to put a

131:11

denim. There's not enough guys. It's too

131:13

far.

131:14

>> My Australian buddy Jake, he has the

131:16

drop bear joke. Have you heard the drop

131:17

bear joke?

131:18

>> No.

131:18

>> Oh, it's the funny if if you get an

131:20

Australian in a bar, right? Somebody

131:23

always brings this up. I'm like, man,

131:25

there's a lot of dangerous critters over

131:26

there. Every time. And he'll be like,

131:28

"Oh, yeah. Especially the the drop

131:30

bears. You know what's a drop?" Oh,

131:33

yeah. And he'll go into the whole story

131:35

of the drop bear. And what the drop bear

131:36

is is it's a bear that'll drop out of

131:38

the tree on you and then it sexually

131:40

assaults you. It's a real thing, right?

131:42

And every time someone be really see

131:46

[laughter]

131:47

like it's how it's how Australians mess

131:50

with the Yanks basically the drop bears.

131:53

>> They're hearty people. They're used to

131:54

crocodiles and [ __ ] poisonous spiders

131:56

and poisonous snakes and especially

131:58

those dudes that live out in the, you

132:00

know, in the bush as they say. Well, he

132:02

says that the Aboriginals, he he tells

132:04

me all the stories of the Aboriginals

132:06

when they like have their coming of age,

132:07

they'll just buy warm beer and then they

132:09

go out to the middle of the desert with

132:11

warm beer and they'll just drink for

132:14

weeks, months, warm beer. That's what

132:16

they spend their government checks on

132:18

because a lot of that stuff is

132:20

>> uh considered occupied land, right? The

132:22

Australian government make deals with

132:24

the Aboriginals to have a lot of that

132:26

land. So, they give them a percentage,

132:29

right? They give them like monthly

132:30

payments kind of like what we do with

132:32

the Native Americans here.

132:33

>> And he's like, "What they do is they'll

132:35

take their whole government cheese

132:37

check, fill an entire car with warm beer

132:40

for their coming of age, go out to the

132:43

middle of the desert, and just drink for

132:44

months."

132:46

>> I'm like, man, that's rough.

132:48

Do they have a s a similar situation

132:51

where like uh Native Americans don't

132:53

have genetically a history of alcohol

132:55

use and so alcohol impacted them

132:58

different than it did the Europeans?

133:00

Like they just they didn't have the

133:01

enzymes.

133:02

>> Not just that, they have another

133:04

problem. Have you ever seen the petrol

133:06

song?

133:06

>> The petrol song?

133:07

>> Oh man. What I'm about to show you is

133:10

going to make you laugh to death.

133:12

There's a song which was made by the

133:14

Australian government for the

133:16

Aboriginals

133:17

about how you shouldn't drink or sniff

133:20

petrol gasoline from a can. I'm not

133:24

kidding. You can pull it up right now.

133:26

It's the gasoline song, right?

133:28

>> It is the you're you just be prepared.

133:32

You're going to laugh yourself to death.

133:34

>> Oh my god. Here we go.

133:36

>> Is it Oh, that's it. Uh, don't be Rama

133:42

by War Burbertton.

133:44

>> Is this it? Put the headphones on.

133:47

[music]

133:51

>> Yeah.

133:53

>> No sniff. Don't sniff. [laughter]

133:57

Yeah. Oh, step on the bottle.

134:02

>> Look at us.

134:05

>> Show me sister. It's only

134:09

stand [music]

134:10

for one another.

134:12

>> Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on.

134:15

Yeah. Come on. Come on.

134:19

[music]

134:25

[laughter]

134:26

>> You don't sniff petrol from a can. You

134:30

put your petrol in the car, it stays.

134:33

It's messing with your brains.

134:36

>> [music]

134:41

>> Holy [ __ ]

134:46

[music]

134:49

>> Wow.

134:50

Oh my.

134:51

>> Smell pretty good though to be honest.

134:52

>> Catchy song.

134:53

>> Yeah, catchy stuff.

134:54

>> Very catchy.

134:56

>> Jesus Christ. Imagine you got that and

134:58

you think you're going to fix that

134:59

problem with a catchy song?

135:01

>> No. No. And they they have huge

135:04

problems. He tells me stories about it

135:06

all the time. He sent that over. He

135:08

said, "This song exists." No, it

135:09

doesn't. No way. Sends it over. Oh my

135:12

god, it does exist. It's a real thing.

135:15

It's such a problem for him.

135:17

>> God, that's dark.

135:19

>> Yeah, it's brutal.

135:21

>> And that's the sort of addiction

135:22

problems that are going on there.

135:25

>> Uh it's not just like people forget it's

135:26

not just the alcohol introduction. It's

135:29

the introduction of all things which are

135:32

addicting

135:33

>> that begin. If your culture has no

135:35

defense against it, just sweeps right

135:36

through.

135:37

>> Right.

135:37

>> Very similar to the crack epidemic,

135:40

right? What was the defense?

135:41

>> Well, it's also the accessibility,

135:43

right?

135:44

>> Crack was cheaper,

135:46

>> just like petrol.

135:47

>> Yeah. [laughter]

135:50

>> Oh, it's that that whole thing of giving

135:52

them their land and then giving them

135:53

money. Boy, that always turns out

135:55

horrible.

135:55

>> It's turned out horrible for us here.

135:59

>> The native populations

136:00

>> except the ones that own casinos.

136:01

Ballin. You know what's funny? You look

136:04

into that though and you find out, guess

136:06

what? They don't really get that much in

136:08

the way of proceeds from those casinos.

136:11

>> Turns out that White Eyee comes in and

136:13

still gets most of the proceeds from

136:15

those casinos.

136:16

>> Yep. Somebody comes in and bankrolls it

136:18

and sets it up and they get a a nice

136:21

check and they don't have to work again.

136:23

But that guy gets [ __ ] stinking rich.

136:25

And then also you've created a gambling

136:26

problem, which I am of the belief that

136:30

you have to have personal

136:31

accountability. Like I don't mind Las

136:34

Vegas. I don't mind it. I think if you

136:36

want to go into the casino and like my

136:38

friend Dana White is a [ __ ]

136:40

degenerate gambler. Like he plays

136:42

blackjack for like $100,000 a hand. It's

136:44

it's nuts. I don't like it. I don't do

136:46

it. I don't get it. But I feel like you

136:49

should be able to do it if that's what

136:50

you want to do.

136:51

>> Sure. And then the argument is like

136:53

people lose everything and like true

136:55

also people lose everything drinking. I

136:57

don't know what you want to do about

136:58

that but I think you should have

137:00

personal accountability and you should

137:02

if you're an alcoholic definitely not

137:03

drink. I don't know like at what point

137:06

in time do we say you can't because some

137:08

people enjoy playing craps. They go to

137:11

they look forward to going to Vegas and

137:12

they want to play craps. like what do we

137:15

well and overwhelmingly now people go

137:17

okay I'm going to go to Vegas or I'm

137:19

going to go to Laughlin or I'm going to

137:20

go to a place like this um I'm bringing

137:22

the exact amount of money that I can

137:24

lose and they just expect yeah just

137:27

expect to lose there are degenerate

137:28

gamblers there's no doubt

137:30

>> oh I could introduce you to a gang of

137:31

them

137:32

>> there's there's [laughter] yeah there's

137:33

tons of degenerate gamblers that's true

137:35

>> my friend Dana is a weird one cuz he's a

137:36

degenerate gambler that's insanely

137:38

wealthy

137:39

>> like he's he's worth [ __ ] [ __ ] piles

137:41

of money and he he's still gambling all

137:43

the time like uh but

137:46

>> like there's a thrill for it maybe.

137:48

>> Yeah. Well, so but when you set up one

137:49

of those casinos in a place that's never

137:51

had a casino, at least Vegas is like

137:53

established, right? But if you just like

137:55

set up some new casino in a a very poor

137:58

area,

137:58

>> check out that stat.

137:59

>> Oklahoma rose to 3.23 billion. Oh,

138:03

native gaming revenues in Oklahoma rose

138:05

to 3.23 billion in 2010, representing

138:08

44% of all US casinos. Whoa. Oklahoma

138:13

surpassed Connecticut as second in the

138:15

United States for gaming revenue.

138:17

According to Alan Meister, an economist

138:19

with uh Nathan Associates, Inc.,

138:22

Oklahoma has 113 tribal casinos. Whoa.

138:26

More than any other state in the US.

138:28

2015 report on US gaming says Oklahoma

138:30

has the most gaming machines. Those

138:32

machines, bro. Those That's the saddest

138:34

thing when you go to Vegas, see someone

138:36

just sitting there

138:37

>> like a drone.

138:38

>> Yeah. Just pressing buttons.

138:39

>> The old ladies with their Have you ever

138:40

seen the screen rubbers? They're They're

138:42

hilarious. They'll rub the screen for

138:44

luck.

138:44

>> Yeah,

138:47

>> that's just wild. And they play the

138:48

penny slots.

138:50

>> Penny slots. 100 lines at a time. So,

138:52

it's a buck a hand, but it's a penny

138:53

slot.

138:54

>> Oh,

138:55

>> it's a penny slot. The um Yeah, they're

138:57

they're making out like bandits, but

138:58

it's usually not actually the native

139:00

tribes that are making out at all.

139:02

>> Of course.

139:02

>> Yeah. They get just enough to shut up.

139:05

There you go. Now, shut It's just sad

139:06

when you find out how much alcoholism

139:08

and drug abuse exists on those in those

139:11

places just and you think like if you

139:14

look at it from a genetic perspective

139:16

like fire water that was always the

139:18

thing it was always the joke from the

139:19

western movies that the natives couldn't

139:21

handle their fire water because they

139:23

didn't have a history of alcohol use and

139:26

all a sudden you've introduced something

139:27

that allows them to just get pissed

139:29

drunk fall asleep and they don't have

139:31

cultural traditions on how to manage it

139:34

correctly and

139:35

>> for addiction at all.

139:36

>> Or and there's also the genetics like

139:39

some people have a genetic propensity

139:41

for alcoholism and uh also some people

139:45

are better at processing alcohol. They

139:47

have a genetic propensity for prop it's

139:49

like the whole thing is it's dark.

139:51

>> You were telling me um just before we

139:54

came in here that you had seen uh Rachel

139:56

debate that guy Ryan.

139:58

>> Yes. Yes. and you you had watched the

140:01

the thrashing um which I was telling you

140:04

was in the front row when that happened

140:06

and he was

140:07

>> that guy was just beyond upset you know

140:10

everybody was every [laughter]

140:12

everybody is drafting him and I was I

140:15

was going to I was going to get your

140:16

take on that like what did you think

140:18

after you had watched that did you feel

140:20

bad for that guy or

140:21

>> no

140:21

>> no

140:22

>> no I never feel bad for someone that is

140:25

and if that's what like I don't feel bad

140:27

for guys when they fight and they get

140:28

kicked in the head, you know, signed up

140:30

for it.

140:30

>> I don't like that people get injured in

140:32

a fight, but you were trying to do that,

140:34

he did it to you. That's what it is. It

140:36

is what it is, you know. And

140:39

>> it's just the weirdness is like like

140:42

telling her to make him a sandwich.

140:44

>> Yeah.

140:44

>> Like that like like what what are we

140:46

doing here? Like are you you a

140:48

misogynist now? Like you think a woman's

140:51

what are you saying? Like [laughter]

140:53

>> they don't think at all about ex it's

140:56

like the checkers thing. Like we were

140:57

talking about like the ID for the

140:58

grocery store.

140:59

>> Terrible optics.

140:59

>> It's like what are you doing? It's also

141:02

wanting to be right and to win versus

141:05

like having a really wellthoughtout

141:08

perspective that you want to argue, you

141:10

know, like or debate or or just

141:12

communicate.

141:14

It's always this ego thing where people

141:16

are trying to win and in doing so they

141:18

they fall into these like really obvious

141:21

traps.

141:22

>> Easy ones too. That's one of the things

141:23

that when we first talked about doing

141:25

another podcast, I said, "I want to talk

141:26

to you about because, you know, you're

141:28

very logical in your approach to these

141:30

things." And so many people are so bad

141:34

at being logical.

141:35

>> Yeah. Well, you know, Dave, I did a

141:38

debate, pretty famous debate with Dave

141:41

Smith, and I know you know Dave, and uh

141:43

Dave's a friend of mine, and we became

141:45

friends. I love Dave.

141:46

>> Yeah. We became

141:47

>> He's a very good friend of mine.

141:48

>> He's uh

141:48

>> What happened in the debate?

141:50

>> Well, he got crushed badly.

141:51

>> What was the debate over? The debate was

141:53

well it veered into his libertarian

141:55

philosophy.

141:56

>> I can hear him RIGHT NOW GOING [ __ ] I

141:58

DID NOT [ __ ] GET CRUSHED.

141:59

>> He won't he won't actually on this one.

142:01

>> On this one he agreed.

142:02

>> Very publicly acknowledged that this

142:04

happened to him. But it was good.

142:06

>> So it was about libertarianism.

142:07

>> There was libertarians versus Christian

142:09

ethics and how the intersection actually

142:11

happens with authority. And he ended up

142:14

having to agree with most of my

142:15

positions. I'm a little bit more of a

142:17

statist than he is. He's a libertarian.

142:20

And so we had this and it was a good

142:22

back and forth. It was a brutal debate,

142:23

but it was a good back and forth. But

142:25

when it was done, I think what he

142:27

expected was that I was going to do the

142:30

uh the Dunk on Dave tour. I was going to

142:32

go around, haha, you the opposite. In

142:35

fact, I DM'd him and said, "Look,

142:37

>> I think that I can help shore your

142:38

worldview up.

142:40

>> So you're a libertarian and here's some

142:42

points that you missed and I think I can

142:44

help shore those up." And he said,

142:45

"Really?" So, I walked him through a

142:47

bunch of those points and he still uses

142:48

them to this day.

142:49

>> That's cool.

142:50

>> But the whole idea there is like I I do

142:53

want my worldview to win ultimately.

142:55

That's true. And one of the reasons I do

142:57

so many debates is because I do think

142:59

that I'm speaking to the audience from

143:01

my worldview. Why I think it's perhaps

143:03

superior to this guy's or the things I'm

143:05

advocating for better or worse. Uh

143:08

[snorts] with Dave, he's doing the same

143:10

thing. He's advocating his worldview.

143:12

I think the difference there, the

143:14

distinction was that he was surprised

143:15

and he he kind of asked me about it and

143:16

I said, 'L the reason is is because

143:19

you're a good debater and you've gotten

143:21

better or as time has gone on and if

143:25

you're going to represent your view, I

143:27

want you to be the best at representing

143:29

that view because that's how you

143:30

determine which worldview people end up

143:32

going with.

143:33

>> This is why so many people have moved

143:36

towards Christianity and Christian

143:37

ethics. Seeing the religious debates has

143:40

a lot to do with that with the various

143:42

ideas in worldview uh being expanded and

143:46

then the kind of the graciousness even

143:47

after the debate of trying to help the

143:49

other person with their view.

143:51

>> That's very cool and that would be nice

143:53

if most people used that framework to

143:58

have discussions.

143:58

>> They don't.

143:59

>> They don't. No, they don't. It's just

144:01

and again it's like it's a part of what

144:02

we're talking about that there's this

144:04

whole commodity of attention and there's

144:07

a lot of attention on dunking on people

144:09

and [ __ ] on people and being mean

144:11

and uh people love that stuff for

144:14

whatever reason.

144:15

>> That's true. And now I'm not always that

144:17

charitable when it comes to progressives

144:19

or leftists, the people who I consider

144:22

responsible for many of the most

144:25

horrific things in in society socially

144:27

that we deal with. I'm not nearly as

144:30

charitable to them, but this is because

144:33

in in uh my humble experience, they have

144:36

not been very charitable to anybody.

144:39

>> No,

144:40

>> anybody's views.

144:41

>> It's a very hyperaggressive position and

144:45

um very prone to insults and that it's

144:49

it's normalized like attacking people's

144:52

normalized. The celebration of Charlie

144:54

Kirk is a great example of like the

144:55

cruelty that's normalized, right? Um,

144:59

and when you get down to the core pillar

145:00

of their ideology,

145:02

a lot of them think, not only is this

145:04

justified, I'll give you an example.

145:06

There's a guy who was inside the Twitch

145:08

sphere who says, "Well, wouldn't you

145:10

kill Hitler if you could before he

145:12

became Hitler, that's his justification,

145:15

>> right?" And so you see many progressives

145:18

who have this kind of justification and

145:21

that leads to a huge amount of political

145:24

violence which becomes normalized

145:26

because they justify it through the lens

145:28

of I'm stopping a monster.

145:31

>> Right?

145:31

>> I've never thought these people see me

145:33

as a human being. I don't think that

145:35

they do. I think that they see me, most

145:37

of them, at least the ones I debate

145:39

with, as an actual monster

145:41

>> who's trying to take from trying or

145:44

destroy them or hurt them in some way.

145:47

>> And so from from my view, that's that's

145:50

what it always seems like coming this

145:52

direction is that there's they they

145:55

don't even see me as a person. They see

145:57

me as um like an idea or an ideology

146:02

which is there to hurt them,

146:04

>> right? that they have to attack and and

146:06

beat and win, right? And then of course

146:08

they're in the echo chamber of the

146:10

people that also support that ideology

146:12

and they're all like agreeing that this

146:14

is okay and that this is acceptable and

146:17

this violence is acceptable and all

146:18

these different things. Yeah. Um it's

146:22

really it's it's kind of daunting

146:25

because you just like when does this

146:27

dust settle? When when do people just

146:29

like relax and start having actual

146:32

conversations on both sides? Like when

146:36

when do people just do what you and Dave

146:38

did and just

146:41

find out why a person thinks what they

146:43

think and what what the actual facts of

146:46

what they're saying are and whether or

146:47

not your worldview is distorted

146:49

>> or compatible

146:50

>> or compatible. You know, like Christian

146:52

ethics living inside of libertarianism

146:55

from my view is way better than trying

146:57

to make Christian ethics compatible with

146:59

progressive ideology.

147:01

>> And so if I have to pick between a guy

147:03

governing like Mumani or a guy who holds

147:05

the ideology like Dave Smith, I'm

147:08

picking Dave Smith's ideology.

147:10

>> And that those are the choices. That's

147:12

how I view it. I view it as choices

147:14

between ideology. Somebody's going to be

147:16

in charge. Somebody's going to be in

147:17

charge of the state no matter what.

147:19

>> Yeah. I'm going to try to pick the

147:21

ideology that's closest to my own. If

147:24

you're going to be in charge of the

147:26

state, I definitely want you to at least

147:28

be representing the values that I have

147:30

while you're in charge of it.

147:32

>> And the values of being legitimately

147:34

charitable and a pathway to redemption,

147:36

which doesn't exist as progressive,

147:38

which is really a problem because they

147:40

keep pushing the goalpost and eating

147:42

their own. They keep going further and

147:44

further left and attacking people for

147:46

not being left enough. And like you get

147:48

cast out of the community, you get

147:50

excommunicated for minor. I mean, how

147:52

many people were excommunicated during

147:54

CO for just not going along with the

147:56

government's narrative on pharmaceutical

147:59

drugs being injected in your body absent

148:02

your consent? Many of them wanted COVID

148:04

passports. Remember that? Yeah.

148:05

>> They wanted to inject the jabby stabby

148:08

into you. YouTube even censored

148:10

opposition to it for a long time. I

148:12

think there's a real problem with people

148:13

that don't have an ethical framework or

148:16

a moral framework that's just arbitrary

148:18

and they don't have a religious

148:21

>> found yeah a found like that's where I

148:23

always describe it as like whether you

148:25

believe in Christ or not it's an awesome

148:27

framework like a scaffolding for being a

148:29

good person you could follow that guy's

148:31

teachings like there's no flaws in it

148:33

like especially Jesus like there's not

148:35

one thing you point to like you know

148:37

there's a few guys in in religion that

148:40

you could point to and go yeah He

148:42

married a 9-year-old. Like, hey, that

148:44

seems a little [ __ ] Hey, he he said

148:46

he could kill the infidels. That seems a

148:47

little [ __ ] with Jesus. There's none

148:49

of that.

148:50

>> None of that. Not only that, it's

148:51

interesting that you bring that up. The

148:53

the kind of foundational principles for

148:56

Christians, the emulation of Christ, we

149:00

accept that we're flawed. We accept that

149:04

we sin. And we accept that the only

149:07

pathway for us to redemption is to

149:09

follow the teachings of Jesus Christ

149:12

through Christian ethics. Right. That's

149:13

what that's how we perceive things. So

149:16

baked into that is not only redemption.

149:18

It's not only the idea of salvation, but

149:20

it's an it gives you a value to move

149:22

towards.

149:23

>> Yeah. And what's missing often from the

149:25

progressive ideology, from the secular

149:28

ideology or the atheist ideology,

149:31

how do you give a person a moral aught

149:33

if you are the ultimate arbiter of all

149:36

that is moral? Because it just comes to

149:37

your down to your preference,

149:39

>> right?

149:39

>> How do we determine who the ultimate

149:42

arbiter now is,

149:43

>> right?

149:44

>> Well, it usually just comes down to you

149:45

and whatever your preferences are. And

149:47

so, what are we moving towards exactly?

149:49

How do we make the determination that

149:50

you're an error? You're not moving

149:52

towards this greater value.

149:54

>> What you do is you're establishing a new

149:56

non-defined religion that could be moved

149:58

and changed based on the winners. Yeah.

150:01

At any given time and depending on who's

150:02

the most radical and the most

150:04

charismatic that's in charge of whatever

150:06

that movement is at the time, eat the

150:09

rich, whatever it is, whatever little

150:11

micro cults. Yes. Right. Like the sec.

150:13

Have you seen the secular humanist micro

150:15

cult? Same thing there. They

150:17

>> remember atheism plus.

150:18

>> Yeah. Right. Atheism plus. Secular

150:20

humanism is really interesting because

150:23

and I've debated the most prominent

150:24

secular humanists in the world.

150:26

>> Who's that?

150:26

>> Um well I did Matt Dillah Hunty. I've

150:29

done several uh secular humanist

150:31

debates. Matt Dillah Hunty was the

150:32

funniest thing in the world. He rage

150:34

quit in the first few minutes of the

150:36

debate in my opening statement because I

150:39

brought up this glaring contradiction in

150:41

his worldview. I said why? Why should So

150:43

he was dating a he's dating a trans

150:45

person but he says he's not gay, right?

150:47

right? Said, "I'm not gay, but I'm

150:49

dating a trans person." So, I brought

150:50

this up and I said,

150:51

>> "The way that we can assess truth

150:53

claims, I can just point an easy one out

150:55

of how we can assess that maybe this

150:58

isn't a good way to evaluate truth

151:00

claims

151:01

>> because he says he's in a non-homosexual

151:04

relationship with a trans woman

151:07

>> and reconciles that by saying, "No,

151:09

that's a real woman." And I'm like, if

151:10

we can't even distinguish what's real

151:12

and what's true, how could he even have

151:15

>> quit off that? Oh, he was so angry. He

151:17

called me a bunch of names, got up and

151:19

rage quit for me pointing out this

151:21

glaring contradiction in his ideology

151:24

>> and it ru it basically ruined his

151:25

career, but he did it to himself because

151:27

he should just stayed and done the

151:28

debate and here's why I think this and

151:30

but instead he just lost it. He lost it.

151:33

Got up undignified through the mic,

151:36

called me a bunch of names, walked out

151:39

and anyway I said, "You and your husband

151:41

have [clears throat] a wonderful

151:41

evening." and he just that was it for

151:44

him on on his way out. But the problem

151:47

with this ideology is it's changed. So

151:50

he was reading from the secular human

151:52

manifesto three. So it's already had it,

151:55

you know, it's on its third revision

151:56

now. And it started initially as kind of

152:00

more religious dogma and then it took on

152:03

a non-religious dogma and they called it

152:05

secular.

152:06

>> Who's creating the canon? Uh well uh

152:10

there was a big meeting in Amsterdam.

152:12

Not kidding. [laughter]

152:13

I'm not kidding. It's the Amsterdam

152:15

secular humanist manifesto.

152:18

And um essentially it just comes down to

152:21

um these arbitrary preferences around uh

152:25

well we're we're just kind of for things

152:26

that make you feel good and kind of

152:27

against things that make us not feel so

152:29

good. Now that's the biggest

152:31

oversimplification in the world, but it

152:33

really does just kind of reduce to that.

152:35

And so one of the ways that you can

152:37

always kind of endlessly beat these guys

152:39

about the head in the shoulders with

152:40

their own ideology is just point this

152:42

out. Who's in charge of this anyway?

152:44

Like which one of you gets to make this

152:47

determination

152:49

that this is the ought that I should

152:51

follow based on anything other than your

152:53

preferences. And the idea always is,

152:56

well, it wouldn't just be my preference.

152:57

It'd be the preference of many people,

152:59

but don't those change? Well, yeah.

153:02

Well, then what you're saying is that

153:03

what you consider moral today, you're

153:06

not going to consider moral tomorrow.

153:08

That tells me that you're saying to me,

153:11

you don't know what is moral and what is

153:12

not. The Christian has the opposite

153:14

approach. They're saying what was moral

153:17

yesterday is still moral today, and

153:20

what's still moral today is still what's

153:22

going to be moral a thousand years from

153:24

now, 2,000 years from now,

153:26

>> because that's the teaching they're

153:28

basing it on.

153:29

>> Yeah. It's It's really odd if anybody

153:32

It's like Wikipedia like anybody can

153:35

contribute.

153:36

>> Yeah. Or [laughter] edit. You can just

153:37

edit it whenever you want to. Thank feel

153:40

bad. Edit.

153:40

>> It's way worse than Wikipedia because

153:42

it's not even edit. Like you could

153:43

actually add to the cannon. You could,

153:46

you know.

153:46

>> Oh [laughter] yeah.

153:47

>> Right. You could write your own, you

153:49

know, the book of Eugene.

153:50

>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Book of Eugene. And

153:53

this is Eugene's new prophetic way

153:55

forward.

153:56

>> Um that is that is 100% true. And there

153:58

are actual uh fail safes in the Bible

154:01

that prevent people from writing new

154:02

Bibles, right? The the entirety of the

154:06

message of Christ in and of itself. Um

154:09

this is what Christian ethics is based

154:11

on the teachings of Jesus Christ, the

154:13

teachings of the scriptures. But it

154:15

always gives us a thing to move towards.

154:18

And that is why it creates, I think, uh,

154:21

better societies in general. Better

154:23

societies overall because people always

154:25

go, "Wait a second. I'm supposed to be

154:27

moving towards this idea."

154:28

>> If you really do follow it, it makes

154:30

nice people. Like the people that I know

154:32

that are like genuine real Christians

154:34

are some of the nicest people I know. Of

154:36

course,

154:36

>> they're so kind. Almost as nice as the

154:38

Mormons,

154:39

>> right? [laughter]

154:41

>> They're the nicest. The more well the

154:42

the Mormon thing is the nicest

154:44

>> because there's like if you have to be

154:46

in a cult like you said boy that's got

154:48

to be the one.

154:49

>> It's a great one. You get a bunch of

154:50

wives, everyone's cool.

154:51

>> And do you know that they're the

154:52

richest? They're richer than the

154:54

Catholic Church.

154:55

>> Are there really

154:56

>> much richer?

154:57

>> Wow.

154:58

>> Much richer.

154:58

>> I would have never guessed that.

154:59

>> I didn't either until I Somebody told me

155:01

that. There's no way.

155:03

>> Yes, there is.

155:04

>> But there's so many Catholics. Aren't

155:05

there way more Catholics?

155:06

>> Way more. But it's the tithing. So

155:09

Mormons, Mormons are really they

155:11

practice nepotism like no other. I mean

155:14

and um that I mean they just

155:17

overwhelmingly practice this in their

155:19

communities. And so with the tithing,

155:21

business tithing, some of these

155:22

businesses will tithe the Mormon church

155:24

60 70%. And then they get awarded

155:26

various contracts from their friends and

155:28

things like this

155:30

>> and the church has buu dollars.

155:33

>> Damn, what a nice nice setup.

155:35

>> Yeah, it's a nice it's a pretty nice

155:36

setup for them. And then they run their

155:38

own politicians inside their own states,

155:40

>> of course.

155:41

>> Yeah. Which then enforces their law.

155:43

It's like they kind of figured a lot of

155:45

this out.

155:46

>> As long as they're nice. Whatever. If

155:48

they could push that niceness out to

155:50

everybody else, like you know what? Why

155:55

do you got here, Jeremy?

155:56

>> It does.

155:56

>> It's official. Mormonism is the richest

155:58

religion in the world.

155:59

>> But Cath I just I mean Catholicism as a

156:01

whole uh somewhere in the two to3

156:06

trillion dollar. Oh, because there's a

156:08

bunch of different Catholic churches. Is

156:09

that what it is? Oh, I see.

156:11

>> But the church but the single richest

156:12

church is Yeah. The Church of Jesus

156:15

Christ of Latter Day Saints. So,

156:16

Mormons. [laughter]

156:17

>> Wow. They have a hundred billion

156:19

dollars.

156:20

>> Yeah.

156:21

>> They're way above everybody else.

156:23

>> Yeah. Vatican is only 30 billion. I

156:26

would have never guessed they were that

156:28

much richer than the Vatican.

156:29

>> That is not That's not correct.

156:31

>> That's not fair.

156:32

>> That is not correct.

156:32

>> What do you mean?

156:33

>> I'm just saying it's not correct.

156:36

How so?

156:37

>> I mean, well, also to it's a Wikipedia

156:39

post on Reddit. That's not the best

156:42

source.

156:42

>> Oh, you just think this is just not

156:43

accurate in general.

156:44

>> Yeah. Whatever Holy Sea is is not

156:46

>> That's the Vatican. Yeah, that

156:47

>> I know. But I mean, it's they got way

156:48

more than $30 billion. And just

156:50

>> Well, that's a lot of money, dude. And

156:52

just art.

156:53

>> I wonder. Right. That's a good point.

156:55

>> Say it's I just looked it up. It's worth

156:57

$3 trillion it says on this other post.

157:00

>> Oh, interesting. So just the art

157:03

>> I'm just

157:04

>> or the buildings and the Vatican itself

157:06

>> with getting into the weeds of it. Yeah.

157:08

It as one whole church in Utah. Yes.

157:10

Comparatively to the one church in

157:12

Texas, it's got

157:13

>> So are they just basing it on their

157:15

assets? Is that what it is?

157:16

>> So it's a com It was comparing it to

157:18

like per person like per per uh

157:23

look one average Catholic is worth

157:26

$67,000 versus 1.7 million.

157:29

>> Damn. The average Mormon is worth 1.7

157:32

million.

157:33

>> Nepotism baby.

157:34

>> Yeah. And then also there's a Catholic.

157:35

There's way more Catholics like in

157:36

Africa that you know aren't worth

157:38

anything.

157:38

>> And South America especially,

157:39

>> right? But that is crazy. The average

157:41

Mormon's worth 1.7 million.

157:44

>> That's also their probably their stat.

157:47

>> Yeah. At least probably like, yo,

157:50

>> bro, join us.

157:50

>> That's what Scientology does, right?

157:52

>> Oh, that was a big thing with

157:53

Scientology in Hollywood. in Hollywood.

157:55

Uh when I first moved there in 1994,

157:58

there was a bunch of people that were

157:59

doing really well who were

158:01

Scientologists and there was this this

158:03

sort of push that if you join

158:06

Scientology, they take care of you and

158:08

you get hooked up.

158:09

>> That is really a wide birth. It's

158:11

between 300 billion and 2.5 trillion.

158:13

[laughter]

158:15

>> That's a really wide

158:16

>> That's almost like Ilhan Omar's

158:17

accountant

158:20

is hiding something here.

158:20

>> I heard the other day that someone just

158:22

said like Rome didn't go away. It just

158:23

became the Catholic Church. And that's

158:24

why, you know,

158:25

>> Right. Right. Right. Have you been to

158:27

the Vatican?

158:28

>> Oh my god, the art is insane. It's

158:31

insane. I went on a tour with uh this

158:33

guy who was a professor from France. It

158:35

was really cool. He was really smart. It

158:37

was a very interesting tour. You could

158:39

hire a guy and this guy was a a

158:41

professor and in the summer he would,

158:43

you know, give these tours and if you

158:45

were enthusiastic about it, he was

158:47

awesome and I was like really really

158:49

into it. So I was asking him all these

158:51

questions and he kept like explaining in

158:53

depth to me and like the you just never

158:56

run out of art.

158:58

>> You're looking at so much [ __ ] like this

159:00

is crazy. You keep going into new rooms

159:03

and new [ __ ] new auditoriums and then

159:07

>> you you're in like St. Peter's Basilica.

159:09

Just that alone you're like what what

159:12

this is crazy

159:14

>> and it's all worth a fortune. It's so

159:16

big and so majestic that if you didn't

159:19

believe in God and you went there, you'd

159:20

be like, "Okay, maybe

159:21

>> they might know something." Like, how

159:23

the [ __ ] did you do this? Like, it's so

159:24

majestic that it almost changes your

159:27

perception of what's possible.

159:28

>> You think they got the chronovvisor in

159:29

there?

159:30

>> The what?

159:30

>> The chronovvisor. The Vatican

159:32

chronovvisor.

159:33

>> What is that?

159:34

>> That's supposedly, this is conspiracy

159:37

stuff, right? Getting into the

159:38

conspiracy stuff. Supposedly, the

159:41

Vatican is sitting on something called

159:42

the chronovvisor, which tells them the

159:45

future, and it was invented, I don't

159:47

know how many hundreds of years ago, but

159:48

you put on the chronovisor and it shows

159:51

you the future. [laughter] Yes.

159:53

No.

159:54

>> Yes.

159:55

>> Oh my god. Where is the arrow is

159:58

pointing to like be like Jesus or

160:00

something, I think.

160:01

>> I don't understand.

160:02

>> Yeah. And so, yeah, they put on the hat.

160:04

Yeah. put it you put it on and it'll

160:06

show you it can show you different spots

160:08

in time or something like this called

160:10

the chrono. [laughter]

160:12

>> Well, you know, I've I'm really

160:14

interested in uh the Ark of the Covenant

160:16

that's supposedly in Ethiopia.

160:18

>> You know, have you ever heard Graham

160:19

Hancock talk about that?

160:21

>> No.

160:21

>> It's really interesting. So, um, the

160:25

Ethiopian,

160:26

um, Bible has a lot of like the book of

160:30

Enoch in it, and it's a really old

160:33

version.

160:34

>> They don't consider it dudero canon.

160:35

They consider it canon.

160:37

>> Um, yeah. So, the Ethiopian church is

160:41

not actually I I don't believe it's

160:43

actually in

160:44

>> communion with the Orthodox Church

160:47

anymore. It's on its own along with a

160:49

couple others. But they do have more

160:51

books in their Bible than the Orthodox

160:54

Church does in the Catholic Church.

160:56

>> Right? And supposedly they're guarding

160:58

the Ark of the Covenant. And these

161:00

people that are

161:03

assigned to be a guardian of this thing,

161:05

they can only do it for a couple years

161:06

and they develop cataracts.

161:09

And he spoke to these people

161:11

>> from the blinding light,

161:12

>> from whatever the [ __ ] it is. Like

161:14

whatever it is. It might be radiation. I

161:16

mean, who knows what it is? But

161:18

apparently the lore is that it's this

161:20

one particular church, this very old

161:23

church in Ethiopia and there is an area

161:26

where they are guarding the ark of the

161:28

covenant and they have and the people

161:29

that are supposed to be in the room with

161:31

it, they all can only do it for a couple

161:33

years and then they get horribly sick

161:36

>> and then they have to switch them out

161:37

>> and they get cataracts like this

161:39

documented cataracts from all these guys

161:42

who go to I mean maybe it's the placebo

161:44

effect they think they're going to get.

161:45

I don't know, but I highly doubt it. It

161:49

sounds more likely you've got some sort

161:50

of a crazy artifact that might be

161:52

ancient technology.

161:53

>> We have the same thing in Israel over

161:55

Jesus's two

161:56

>> supposedly.

161:58

Yeah, the chrono visor.

161:59

>> I was just reading the article. This is

162:00

like it says a purported photo of

162:02

>> Oh, that's crystal clear. That's clearer

162:03

than uh whatever his name is. Tyler

162:06

Robinson, [laughter]

162:07

>> right? Right. That's in 4K.

162:09

>> This guy swears that he had the ability

162:11

to go witness these events. He witnessed

162:13

like tons of stuff and then when he died

162:16

it says that the pope hid it so nobody

162:17

could ever nobody could ever use it.

162:19

>> How convenient.

162:20

>> Very convenient.

162:21

>> How convenient.

162:22

>> But yeah, another another big miracle

162:24

that's like that is over the tomb of

162:27

Jesus Christ sits the Orthodox Church in

162:30

Israel. Now that's true, right? That is

162:32

in fact the case that there is an

162:34

Orthodox church, Christian church is

162:36

above the tomb.

162:36

>> Wow.

162:37

>> And every year, I think it's every year

162:39

they have the miracle of the holy

162:40

sephiler. I think I'm pronouncing that

162:42

right. Sephiler. And what they do is

162:44

they use flame and emulate themselves in

162:47

this holy flame and they're burning.

162:48

They're on fire and none of them burn.

162:50

>> What? What?

162:52

>> How do they do that?

162:53

>> Nobody knows.

162:55

>> But there's

162:56

>> this is just one small sect of

162:58

Christianity.

162:58

>> No. No. This is the this Orthodox

163:00

church. People come from miles around.

163:03

>> But who the people that light themselves

163:04

on fire? These are people who are in the

163:07

church who are specially selected to

163:09

basically emulate, you know, they set

163:12

themselves on fire with the holy flame

163:14

from torches. And apparently, this is

163:18

what I'm told, they've had people go and

163:20

investigate and they can't figure out

163:22

how exactly this is being done, but

163:24

they're completely on fire and they

163:26

don't get hurt at all.

163:27

>> Jamie, pull that up. I have [laughter]

163:28

uh

163:30

>> is there video of that? Before I get

163:32

there, demonstration on Greek television

163:34

did five candles in white phosphorus.

163:36

The candle was spontaneously ignited for

163:38

approximately 10 minutes due to the

163:40

self- ignition properties of white

163:42

phosphorus when in contact with the air.

163:44

According to the website, it says that

163:46

phosphorus is dissolved in an

163:48

appropriate organic solvent. Self

163:49

ignition is delayed until the solvent is

163:51

completely evaporated. repeated

163:53

experiments show the ignition can be

163:54

delayed for half an hour or more

163:56

depending on the density of the

163:57

solution.

163:58

>> How does it stop them from catching fire

164:00

though and dying? Uh

164:02

>> the same way it's probably like the the

164:05

you know the [ __ ] that people put on to

164:06

make movies you know

164:08

>> he's a skeptic this [ __ ] he's

164:10

always ruining everything with all

164:12

logic. I think that skepticism is great

164:15

if people actually practice the real

164:16

philosophical tradition of skeptic

164:18

skepticism, which is you're supposed to

164:20

also be skeptical of your view,

164:22

>> right?

164:23

>> So, the real skeptics I I'll never

164:24

forget this debate that I listened to

164:26

that it always stuck with me for years.

164:28

It was with a guy named Jay Dyer and

164:30

that same guy, Matt Dillah Hunty, and

164:32

they were debating and

164:33

>> Oh, here it is.

164:34

>> Oh, sorry. I got a thought.

164:35

>> Go ahead. They were they were debating.

164:37

Yeah, they were debating and he said the

164:40

the guy Dillah Hunty said, "Well, I'm a

164:41

skeptic." And Jay said, "No, you're not.

164:44

Here's the actual philosophy of

164:46

skepticism and it always starts with

164:48

you.

164:49

>> Your view is what you apply skepticism

164:51

to first long before you ever apply it

164:54

to any other."

164:55

>> And the problem with people who describe

164:57

themselves now as skeptics, I'm a

164:58

skeptic. They actually aren't really

165:00

following skepticism. They're skeptical

165:02

of your view. That doesn't mean that

165:05

they're skeptical of their own. And it's

165:07

supposed to start internally. That's

165:08

what made skepticism uh kind of

165:11

something that spread widely was that it

165:12

was a way for people to reject parts of

165:15

their own worldview that didn't fit.

165:18

They didn't match. They they weren't

165:20

coherent. They didn't make much sense.

165:22

And so most of the time I hear

165:24

skepticism,

165:26

uh the person's not actually following

165:28

the philosophy of skepticism. They're

165:30

not applying it to their view first.

165:32

>> Yeah. There's a lot of lazy skepticism,

165:34

too, where they outright deny the the

165:37

existence of conspiracies, like which is

165:40

just [ __ ] ludicrous. It's like you're

165:43

just you're playing a very you're in a a

165:46

very rigid corridor of ideas. You're

165:49

you're only allowed to operate

165:50

>> ridiculous. Not only that, the the US

165:52

government has thousands of laws on the

165:54

books about conspiracy. So it's like our

165:56

government seems to believe in them

165:58

because there's conspiracy to commit

165:59

racketeering, conspiracy to murder,

166:01

conspiracy to commit theft, conspiracy

166:02

to commit wire fraud. Like they clearly

166:05

believe that there's a lot of

166:06

conspiracies going on and definitely

166:08

prosecute people for conspiracies all

166:10

the time. But somehow when it comes to

166:12

the skeptic mindset of conspira, nope,

166:15

that's all tinfoil. It's a lazy

166:16

perspective and it's also a perspective

166:19

that falls in line with what we were

166:21

talking about before where you take a

166:22

lot of legitimate conspiracies and you

166:24

add a bunch of [ __ ] to it to make it

166:26

seem completely ludicrous and then the

166:28

whole thing can be thrown out. It's like

166:30

it's so obvious that that's a that's a

166:33

ploy.

166:34

>> Did you find anybody catching fire? Uh

166:36

the first Yeah. When I was getting into

166:38

I was like, "Well, they're not really

166:39

they're like just dancing their hands

166:41

over the fire." Like it's it wouldn't

166:43

catch anybody on fire technically cuz

166:44

you're not you're not lighting fire. See

166:47

how it's like touching his hand?

166:48

>> These guys don't look like she's putting

166:49

her hands through it and whatever.

166:50

>> Oh, so they're faking it. So the few

166:52

people are faking it. Oh, this guy's

166:54

lighting his beard on fire.

166:55

>> So there was a lady that at the end of

166:56

one of these videos, she held a piece of

166:58

paper over it and it wasn't I mean

167:00

>> Well, is this stuff like regular fire?

167:03

>> But that's where I was kind of getting

167:04

into the white phosphorus thing. And

167:05

they said after 30 minutes it will start

167:07

acting as you expect it to.

167:09

>> Look at all it seems like everybody

167:10

should be on fire. How odd.

167:13

>> But yeah, it's a it's a longstanding

167:16

tradition. Like she's wiping it on her

167:18

forehead or something. [laughter]

167:20

>> Huge tradition there. They call it the

167:21

miracle.

167:22

>> Is another tradition in America called I

167:23

got to take a peek. So, let's wrap this

167:26

up. This was really fun, man.

167:28

>> Appreciate you having me hang out with

167:29

you. Yeah, I enjoy it.

167:30

>> We We went over a lot today.

167:31

>> A lot of [ __ ]

167:32

>> Yeah, a lot.

167:33

>> And I enjoyed it very much. Thank you.

167:34

>> Thank you. My pleasure. See you again.

167:36

Of

167:36

>> course. [music] Ladies and gentlemen,

167:38

good night.

167:44

[music]

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This episode of The Joe Rogan Experience features an extensive conversation about the nature of online debate, political polarization, and the influence of the two-party system. The discussion touches upon the prevalence of bots and foreign interference in social media discourse, the risks of rushing to judgment on news events, and the challenges of distinguishing between conspiracy theories and legitimate corruption. The guest provides insights into the dangers of a 'nanny state,' the role of modern technologies like surveillance and AI, and the importance of maintaining an ethical and moral framework in a society increasingly driven by attention-seeking narratives.

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