Joe Rogan Experience #2535 - Andrew Wilson
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>> You too, Joe. How you been?
>> Great. Great. Great. We're just talking
about peace of mind and dealing with
cooks. Is there anybody who argues
online more than you do? Like you might
be the [laughter] you might be the
number one guy who I see in clips like
constantly getting in arguments with
people online. I'm not sure that there
is anybody who takes on more debates
yearly, high and low profile, than I do.
>> Yeah. I mean, even casual ones.
>> Correct.
>> It's like you're always sparring. It's
like you're always uh you know, you're
always having keeps you uh sharp.
>> For sure.
>> Keeps you sharp if you're So, I also
have this rule that you know there's
like the clout game online, right? All
these people want to play the clout
game.
>> What What is exactly the clout game? H
it's like you have you don't have a big
enough follower account for me to
respond to you. You don't have a big
enough audience for me to discuss things
with you, you know, things like that.
And it's like I hate that.
>> That seems pretty silly.
>> It is silly. And some of the best
debates I've ever had with guys who had
like four followers on X and they're
like, "Let's go in this X space and
talk." And I'll hop in there with him
and I'm like an hour later I go, "Man,
that guy had a lot of good stuff to
say." a lot of people out there that and
oftentimes those are the ones who don't
have a lot of followers because they're
not sucked into the social media web.
They're just out there thinking and
doing things and living their life.
There are a lot of [ __ ] interesting
people out there that you never hear
from and a lot of not interesting people
that you hear from constantly
>> all the time.
>> It's like the politician thing, you
know? It's like we were talking about
that uh the other day like there's this
lady that's running for god something.
Is she running for governor of
Wisconsin?
Is that what it is? And she was just
talking about how Thanksgiving hurts
people like [laughter]
>> what?
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I I don't know her
background. I think it's the same lady.
At one point in time she was in a mental
institution.
>> Why does this not shock me?
>> Doesn't shock me. But this was the point
we were saying nobody wants to be the
[ __ ] governor and the people that do
are there's a a high percentage of
cooks.
>> Yeah. Power attracts um strange people.
Sometimes it attracts good people.
>> Yes. Occasionally
>> it often and but often those are the
people who go in and they want to change
it. Like the the idea that they have is
look I'm trying to run for the right
reasons because I actually want to
change how this works. But they're few
and far between
>> and they get killed. A lot of them get
killed or they get run off. A lot of
them just get involved in
like um they their normal day-to-day
life, you know, from 20 years prior. Now
suddenly that's coming up, you know, and
they have to defend themselves against
criticisms that they never would have
believed that they would have to defend
themselves from.
>> Yeah.
>> And so character assassination, I think,
takes a lot of the good actors out. They
don't want to deal with a character
assassination.
>> Well, it seems like they want total
compliance on both sides. on both
parties, total compliance with the
party. And if they think that you're
going to be some outsider rebel that's
going to take over the [ __ ] you.
>> Well, you kind of I think you kind of
have to have that a little bit though
because if you got universal suffrage
necessarily, everything converges into a
two-party system. So, as suffrage
expanded throughout history, you saw the
emergence of parties right alongside of
it as more people became infranchised to
vote. So, you think if women couldn't
vote, there wouldn't be parties.
>> There probably would still be parties.
It probably still be a two-party system.
It's just that how how it works is that
if we continuously expand suffrage,
let's just say we expand it to another
group of men. Now, those men have some
special interest, right? So, if it's not
just property owners, let's say it's now
um you know, people who live in a city,
well, they want a levy passed so that
their kids can go to school, right? So,
they pass it on the property owners. uh
now they can vote to hand themselves
money. So now you have a wedge issue.
And so you'll see parties start to form
around these wedge issues. And the more
you have universal suffrage, the more
you end up with party politics until you
have a convergence of two. And usually
it's along a certain wedge issue. So the
only way in a in a dialectic where you
have two parties, a Democrat and
Republican, to get your your legislation
passed is to be able to outvote the
other side. Right. So, you kind of have
to have them all in line or else
>> that makes sense. Um, and there's no
room in this country at current point in
time for another party. No one would
accept it. We we think about other
parties like they're a goof. The Green
Party like it's a that's a protest vote,
you know,
>> Libertarian Party.
>> Yeah, I've done that. I've done a few
protest votes back in my day.
>> Yeah. I talked with uh I was arguing
with Rex Jones the other day. Alex
Jones's kid about this. And I told him,
I'm like, "Look, you don't have a prayer
in starting a third party in time for
midterms and then the presidential
election that's coming up in just a
couple short years. You're not going to
be able to replace this system. You're
not going to be able to do that.
>> They're too The roots go too deep.
They're they're too intertwined power
influence.
>> Like, think about the infrastructure.
billions of dollars in NGO funding,
>> all this outreach program. Just to get
on a ballot in a state is often a
multi-million dollar uh thing that you
need to have a party apparatus behind.
>> Yeah. It's kind of nuts, right?
Multi-million dollars to to spend to get
a job that pays you $170,000.
>> Uhhuh. [laughter]
What a why. You think that [ __ ]
student loans are a scam? That's a crazy
story.
>> I love when these guys come in uh for
their $100,000 a year job and then they
leave and they have $25 million in the
bank, you know.
>> Yeah, that happens often. I wonder what
happens.
>> When do they get all that money?
>> Yeah. Well,
>> how about the Ilhan Omar thing?
>> Oh, yeah.
>> That one's wild. Like they estimated her
net worth somewhere like in the it was
millions, like 30 million or something
crazy. And then she said it was a error
and that it was actually like a lot less
than that like a h 100red thousand or
something like really reasonable.
>> Like you imagine if your accountant was
so bad. You're like hey Mike how much
money am I worth? [laughter]
And he's like I think you're worth 30
million. And you're like [ __ ] yeah dude
thinking about buying a Corvette. And
you got and you got $3,000 in the bank.
[laughter]
And then you call Mike the next day and
you say, "So 30 million?" He goes,
"Actually, it was an error. You're worth
about a hundred grand." And you're like,
"Hey, Mike, I'm going to kill you cuz
you stole $30 million from me." That
doesn't make any sense.
>> 100%. And [laughter] do you think do you
think maybe she like strategically
started moving some things with her
accountant so that she had a vineyard
that they owned that never made a bottle
of wine?
>> Sounds right.
>> Is that a case? Is that the case with
one of those businesses that closed
down? listen and pick on her. It's it's
if you look at the Republicans and the
Democrats when it comes to uh insider
trading, it's [ __ ] everybody. It's
red, blue, red, blue, red, blue. It is
this is not a one party thing. This is
why it's never going to stop. They
they're both dipping their toes in.
They're both having fun.
>> You basically always have the
expectation of corruption.
>> So even if you put your candidates in,
so you're trying to get something out of
that, right? some issue that you're
trying to push forward. You almost baked
into the system have to accept a certain
amount of corruption is going to come
out of that. So like let me give you a
really good example of that, a key wedge
issue like abortion.
>> So you got Christians who are just
adamant, right? This got to stop. Will
they accept if it's the case that
candidates are really moving the post on
that? If they're really moving
legislation against abortion, do you
think that they would turn a blind eye
to a little bit of corruption? probably.
>> Yeah, there's definitely some
compromises that get made both on your
morals and the way you view financial
issues and all kinds of things. I mean,
it's never there, especially when
there's only two parties. Like, you're
with us or against us. It's us and them.
It's good and evil. That's it. In this
country, that's really how people look
at it on both sides. It's good versus
evil.
>> But you have an alternative there that's
that's even worse or can at least
sometimes be worse. So, let's go to like
the UK or Canada or places like this
where they do round voting. You have
more than two parties. That's true. But
do you really want your president to be
elected with 10% of the vote?
>> Right.
>> 15% of the vote. You want your
politicians to be put in with 9% of the
vote?
>> Because that can happen.
>> Yeah. That's crazy,
>> you know. Yeah. Between these rounds.
And so, you think about it and you go,
this two-party system sucks. But then
you look at other places that have
multiple parties and they do their
rounds of voting and you're like, "Wait,
see, you could get elected with only 14%
of the so everybody else hates you."
[laughter]
>> Yeah. There's the weird argument of the
benevolent dictator. I'm sure you've
heard this argument, but that a society
is best run by a benevolent dictator.
Someone who really truly has ultimate
power but actually cares. a good person
that cares about the people, that really
just wants things to be reasonable and
have a working meritocracy and have a
working economy and have working
education and everything work correctly
and weed out all of the corrup fraud and
corruption because he's a king and he
can just like
>> he can just do it
>> do it whatever the [ __ ] he want, you
know? Like look, I'm I have only been to
Dubai one time um because we uh we had a
UFC over there and I had to go to the
weigh-ins. The weins were in Dubai. saw
a lot of [ __ ] Ferraris and
Lamborghinis in 10 minutes. But from
what I hear, it's the most safe place on
earth. Like literally like
>> Romania under Vlad.
>> Yeah. Like what would you say?
>> Like Romania under Vlad the Impaler.
[laughter]
>> I don't think it's that bad.
>> How can you how can you hang gold in the
street? And he's look around.
>> There's a bunch of people impaled
everywhere.
>> He would do them in designs. He would do
them in geometric patterns. So you would
realize he was being creative with
impaling people. wasn't messing around.
>> Oh, no, no, no. You know his story.
>> Yeah.
>> He was kidnapped when he was a small
boy.
>> Woo. There a lot to that guy
>> and his brother and their their, you
know, inter brother conflict that they
had for years and how he got power, lost
power, came. Yeah, there's a there's a
tale to be told about Vlad the Impaler
for sure. But probably a pretty safe
place to live. [laughter]
>> Yeah. Dubai. Like if they catch you with
a bag of weed, you're going to jail for
the rest of your life or they'll kill
you.
>> Yeah. You're done.
>> Yeah. They've they have crazy laws.
There was one guy, I think it was Dubai,
who
I think he had
like marijuana seeds in the sole of his
shoes or something like that. Like he
had stepped on a marijuana seed maybe in
his apartment.
>> Yeah.
>> And he was didn't have any drugs on him,
nothing. and they they put him in jail
for a long time, man. I forget this was
a few years back, but it was a crazy
case. There was another lady who got
arrested. I forget what happened, but
she later a guy tested positive for
poppy because she had poppy seed bagel.
And I don't know if you know this, but
if you're testing for drugs and you eat
a poppy seed bagel, you could pop for
heroin.
>> Yeah. Yeah, I've heard that. But doesn't
with modern tests, isn't it a little bit
better now?
>> I hope so. I don't know. 2008. This is a
British traveler in Dubai was stopped
the airport. Lab found 0.003
grams of cannabis in his shoe soul.
>> Holy [ __ ]
>> Yeah, that's crazy.
>> That's crazy. He received a mandatory
4-year sentence under the UAE's strict
drug laws,
>> though he was later released early.
>> How early is early?
>> So, the British government came in and
tried to barter him out of there, I'm
guessing,
>> I guess. or the the whole world must
have been so outraged.
I mean at a certain point in time they
have to say we we run the risk of never
having tourists visit us again and Dubai
is a very tourist central place.
>> Sure.
>> But I have a a friend who moved over
there a while back. He moved back to
America recently, but he moved over
there and he was uh he was like, "Dude,
it's just safe for me. You know, I don't
worry if I go out, you know, someone's
going to like he's big black guy. He's
like, "I don't want to get shot." He
goes, "I I worry if I go out." He goes,
"Over here, there's nothing like that.
There's no crime." He goes,
"Everything's nice. Everything's clean.
You could leave a Rolex on the street.
They'll pick it up and turn it into the
cops. Like, no, nobody steals nothing
over there."
>> But there's a trade-off for that, right?
[laughter]
>> Bit of a trade-off. Let me
>> show you my geometric patterns of dead
people.
>> Dead people everywhere on spikes who we
impaled from their buttocks through
their throat.
>> And they don't die immediately.
>> No, they wiggle for a while.
>> I don't think they do that in Dubai, but
they let you know.
>> Yeah. You're not [ __ ] around. There's
no [ __ ] around.
>> I saw some lady get in a screaming
match. She was trying to do the thing
that a lot of people do in America at
the airport
>> and she got in a screaming thing with
the the lady at the counter and they're
like, "Not today." They just come over
and [ __ ] cuff you up and take you
away. Like you can't you can't do that
there. You can't like you can't spirit
airlines, you know?
>> Do you prefer that? Would you prefer
that society?
I don't think people should be able to
just [ __ ] scream and yell at people
that work behind counters. I don't think
that's productive. I don't think
smacking them in the head cuz they can't
get you a flight. We've all seen that
kind of [ __ ]
>> There should be zero tolerance for that
kind of violence.
>> But what if we tweaked it a different
way? Okay.
>> Okay. So, what if instead of bringing in
like some crazy Sharia in order to make
sure that that happened, just brought
back dueling?
>> Like, wouldn't wouldn't dueling solve
like 95% of this? Dueling re requires
people to wait before they turn around
and shoot.
>> That I'm not trusting a guy who wants to
kill me to not jump the gun.
>> But that depends on the rules, right?
Like you could adjust the rules a little
bit.
>> I guess adjust the rules. But it's like
if you could if you could call somebody
out former you or something like this,
right? It's like I think people would
probably be a lot more polite, wouldn't
they?
>> They probably would. I think there's
probably a better way than shooting each
other in the street.
>> Probably. [laughter] Probably. But
there's probably a better way than that.
>> Even like fist fights,
>> like that there's a better way than
that, too. You don't have to fist fight.
Like, come on. But,
>> you know, there there there's certainly
something to be said for a society that
is more orderly and uh people follow the
rules and are as long as the rules make
sense and these people are friendly and
kind and they make for good community
members. And they're not putting up with
mentally ill lunatics just rocking
around causing problems everywhere,
which is what American society is now
dealing with.
>> You did you see what just happened in
Wisconsin where they had the uh they had
their own autonomous zone.
>> Oh yeah.
>> It just got broken up today by the cops.
>> I didn't see it got broken up.
>> It got broken up today. Yeah. See if you
can find it, Jamie. Uh there was video
footage just [ __ ] army of cops came
in arrested everybody's spray paint all
the streets get declare autonomous zones
on public like what is [laughter]
>> remember Chaz and Chop
>> we have a we we've just declared this an
autonomous zone. Sorry.
>> Madison officials clear Willie Street
encampment. Police officers arrest
protesters who resist at Corey Ruiz
memorial site. I do not know this Cory
Ruiz story.
>> Uh the Cory Ruiz memorial show. Was it
something ICE related perhaps?
>> I think that's what this is, right?
>> Mhm.
>> Is that what this is, Jamie?
>> I have no idea.
>> Um did something happen? Something
happened? Someone got shot, right? You
don't know about it either?
>> No.
>> See, that's the problem. There's so many
[ __ ] things in the news that it's
impossible. Unless you're a maniac and
you're just online all day, it's
impossible to know exactly what's going
on. You take a couple days off and smell
the roses
>> and you get back online. How come you
haven't commented on what what is it? I
don't even know what you're doing.
>> You got to catch up for 4 days for one
day.
>> Yeah. Also, like what hot take? Maybe
you shouldn't have a hot take on
everything. Maybe some things you need
to like let it play out in the news.
Like let people dissect it. See, now
that I wish that that was a message that
more people got that the idea that you
don't have to rush immediately out there
to tell everybody your latest hottest
take,
>> which is oftentimes, by the way, stupid.
It's often the stupid take because you
have no [laughter] information,
>> right? But you got to rush out there.
You're going to get those views and
clicks quick, but then you're you're
married to that take.
>> Exactly. Yeah. and unless you come back
and make another video or make another
take and explain why you [ __ ] it up.
But I think that there's um there's
something to be said for uh like there's
a lot of stories that are in the news
like I don't [ __ ] know exactly what
happened there. Like let's let this one
play out a little bit. Like this one
seems weird. Like if I come out with a
hot tail like who [ __ ] knows what's
really going on with 15. Like there's so
many different stories in the news it's
impossible. Police. Was that Jamie?
>> I didn't find the details, but it is a
police killing. It says officer involved
>> shooting of Cory Ruiz.
>> And that's I don't It doesn't I'm
looking for evidence and video. I didn't
check Twitter or anything yet.
>> Um, put it into Perplexity. Ask
perplexity. What is the controversy
about the killing of Corey Ruiz? Okay.
[sighs and gasps]
You can't you can't be this. We're not
designed to get all the bad news of 8
billion people. We're just not designed
for that. That's not a normal thing for
a person to absorb.
>> It's also driving a lot of people crazy.
>> Crazy driving them driving them to
insanity. They think they they start to
see conspiracy everywhere. They start to
see um you know plots of interest where
there aren't any,
>> right?
>> It starts to actually drive people mad
because they can't disassociate between
the fact that there is sensationalism
and then there's reality and the way
that people think. They think in frames.
And
>> so if you think in a conspiratorial
frame, you're usually taking tangential
things and piecing them together that
don't belong,
>> right?
>> But then if you think in an autistic
frame, as my friend Paul would say, if
you think in an autistic frame, you're
going to hone down so deep on one detail
that you miss the entirety of the
picture,
>> right? So you have to have an idea
between these two things, right? It's
like conspiracies exist. We know this.
Many of them exist. There's many of
them. I can state off the top of my head
like MK Ultra. That was a conspiracy
that existed.
>> Yeah.
>> Right. There's But there's also a lot
that don't,
>> right?
>> And so, how do you disassociate between
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>> flooding his own.
>> Yes, this is a common strategy. What
What was it, Jamie? You pulled it up.
Uh, controversy centers on whether
Madison police needed to use deadly
force against 38-year-old Cory Ruiz, a
black man, during a July 2026 arrest,
and on the lack of body camera footage.
Oh. conflicting narratives about the
threat he posed and the broader concerns
about racialized policing. Police
responded reports of a man allegedly
looking into parked vehicles and
stealing bicycles. During the attempted
arrest by four officers, a taser was
deployed but reportedly failed. Police
say Ruiz pulled a knife and injured an
officer after which that officer shot
and killed him. Cell phone video
recorded by a bystander shows part of
the struggle and shooting and quickly
went viral, triggering protests and
public outcry. Use of deadly force
versus alternatives. Community members
and Ruiz's family questioned why lethal
force was used when multiple officers
were already restraining him on the
ground and a taser had been deployed,
arguing that he did not deserve to be
shot to death in the street. Lack of
body cameras. None of the officers
involved were wearing bodywn cameras. So
the only visual recording is bystander
video which fuels distrust and demands
for more accountability and measures and
technology. We need more flock cameras.
Conflicting narratives about threat.
Police emphasized that Ruiz stabbed or
injured an officer with a knife, framing
the shooting as a response to an
immediate threat. Critics and loved ones
question whether the threat justified
shooting a restrained man and whether
deescalation was properly used. Well,
first of all, if he really did stab a
police officer, if he's stabbing a
police officer, like they are supposed
to shoot him, that is you you can't take
you can't say, "Someone's stabbing me. I
hope they're only hurting me."
>> Yeah. Right. Or how do you assess the
amount of force that you can use back
when someone's stabbing you? I think
that that's responding with lethal
force.
>> What did you say, Jamie?
>> Probably find the video.
>> Yeah, let's find the video. But it's
also um how big is this guy? if he's got
all these people and are these like a
bunch of like shitty untrained police
officers who don't know any martial
arts? When you say he's restrained, like
how restrained was he?
>> You know what I mean? Like if you got
two dudes
>> that are uh built like Tony Hinchcliffe
and they're trying to hold me back from
[ __ ] somebody up.
>> It's not going to do nothing
>> that you know what I mean? It's like how
big is this guy?
>> What what happened?
>> Was he the one that was stealing things
or was he uh wrongly accused? Does he
have a record? Is he a violent person? I
don't know anything.
Is he a complete innocent bystander?
This is the video. Video contains
graphic content. Okay,
>> that was
>> that's it.
>> That's all the one showed.
>> So, there's probably multiple videos.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
The thing about the tasers is it's
[ __ ] weird, man. Tasers on some
people, they lock them up and they
[ __ ] and they fall down. I've seen
guys just scream and rip those things
off their chest like it's nothing.
>> Well, sometimes those probes don't
penetrate either. Right.
>> Right. I think some of those tasers are
a bunk, too.
>> 100%.
>> Some of the tasers are just [ __ ]
equipment. I mean, that's the only thing
that makes sense. So, these guys
>> Did you ever play with one of the
handhelds when you were a kid? No.
>> Somebody always had a handheld
somewhere.
>> No, I never did. Electric fence though
once.
>> Yeah. You shock your Oh, yeah. That'll
that'll make your teeth clatter.
>> Holy [ __ ] dude.
It's letting go. That's hard.
>> Yeah.
>> Disturbing video. Okay.
>> Oh, there's sound on it.
>> I mean, there's yelling.
[laughter] Put a earphone so we can hear
the sound.
>> There's the taser.
>> Oh, okay. Hold on, man. Back up. Back
up.
>> What was he reaching for on the ground?
>> Is that the girl? The woman shoots him.
Taser, I think. [laughter]
>> Okay.
>> Oh, yeah.
>> I can't tell who shot the gun, but that
was [sighs]
>> Okay, that's crazy.
>> That does not look justified. That looks
like they had control of him. Unless he
had a knife and was stabbing people. But
even if he was stabbing, like how much
control do they have on him before she
starts shooting him?
>> Was it the chick who shot him?
>> Yes. Look. See, she backs away. Watch.
>> They tase him. They get him to the
ground and she shoots him while they've
got him down on the ground.
>> Female cops.
>> Yeah, that's not good.
That's crazy.
[sighs] I again, I don't know what
happened. I don't know if he stabbed one
of them. If he really did have a knife
and was stabbing him, but it seems like
they had him restrained.
>> It looks like that's the guy who shot
him. I can't tell.
>> But that lady stands back and extends
her arms with a gun right there and he
puts his
>> Oh, you're right.
>> It looked like he shot
>> Oh, it's the guy shoots him.
>> Yeah, she I think she had the taser.
>> She's shooting him with a taser. Oh,
>> let me see that again.
>> WHAT?
GOD, it's hard to tell. Is it? So, it's
the guy in the back.
>> I think it's the guy in the front. So,
if you The dude in the back, you see the
guy right next to Yeah, that guy.
>> That guy shoots him.
>> It looks like it. I'm not sure.
>> That's really close, too.
>> God, it seems like
>> the second the shots stop, he puts his
hand his gun back. Makes me think maybe
it was him.
>> Yes.
[ __ ] man.
That does not look good.
>> [sighs]
>> That's not a good one.
>> No.
>> No.
>> No. Doesn't look great.
>> No.
>> That means you have to give us your hot
take now, Jill. [laughter]
>> Yeah, that's my hot take.
>> So he could run to Twitter with it.
>> I need to know like did he actually stab
one of them?
>> So then it says during a press
conference, uh, two of the cops were
injured in the altercation.
Police said the suspect allegedly pulled
out a fixed blade knife to which an
officer pulled out a taser. Same officer
shot him with a gun.
Okay, that's different. So, if he really
pulled out a knife and was trying to
stab them
>> and they had him on the ground and they
couldn't totally get control of him and
that guy just decides, "He stabbed me,
I'm going to shoot him." That's a
different thing.
>> I agree.
>> That's different.
>> Also, we didn't have the front view,
>> right?
>> So, we see the view from the back.
>> We It's very blurry the whole thing. We
didn't even know who shot. We thought
the lady shot him.
>> It's hard to tell what the [ __ ] is going
on. You can't even tell if it's a taser
or a gun in her hand. It's that blurry.
But if uh he stabbed them and he's got a
knife, that's a different thing, right?
The whole thing is [ __ ] though. Like
that is the last thing America needs
right now.
>> Yeah. Well, I mean, you don't want
another riot season. [laughter] I mean,
I wonder um if people would go right
into it the way they did before without
US A's help. [laughter]
>> Here's what a witness said he saw.
>> Witness came flying around on his
bicycle. One officer tackled him. Two
other officers kind of rushed over. One
of the officers yells, "He has a knife."
One of the officers then draws a taser
and yells, "Taser, taser, taser." He
tasers him. So, it says he tasers him,
but wasn't that the woman?
>> That I mean,
>> I'm not sure that she actually tasered
him or she had her weapon.
>> She might have just had her weapon out.
>> Uh, he tases him and the victim falls to
the ground.
>> The three continue to struggle for a
second or two. Then, one of the officers
stands just a couple feet above his
head. shooting the V. Okay. Three times.
Three times to the head. Holy [ __ ]
>> It did look like he was the shooter.
>> Okay. So, that's what we saw.
>> Yeah. And the thing the tell for that
was as soon as he was done, he put it
right back. The cops weren't doing that.
>> Additional video that has been not been
circulated online that's being reviewed.
>> Oh, why don't they have body cameras?
>> And that's what I mean. That's probably
part of the whole protest was that their
cameras were not on. So,
>> or if they didn't have them, I don't
know.
>> Did they Let's find that out. Did they
not have them or were they not on?
>> Uh, lack of body cameras. None of the
officers involved were wearing body
cameras.
>> H. So,
>> none of them.
>> That's Are they supposed to?
>> Yeah, that may not be part of the
ordinance.
>> Yeah, I don't know about the city of
Madison.
>> How about fix that?
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah, fix that.
>> You know, cops often are the ones who
suggest that.
>> Yeah. For their own for their own
safety. They say that they want to wear
body cams. I've seen a lot of crazy body
cam footage where a guy is pulling
someone over and they're just having a
casual conversation. All a sudden the
guy pulls a gun out and starts shooting
them.
>> Yep.
>> I've seen a bunch of those.
>> Tons.
>> Especially the routine traffic stops.
Happens constantly.
>> You have to always think like if you're
in an altercation with a cop,
>> these people are always worried that
this is where their life is going to
end. They're always worried that they're
going to get shot. They're they've seen
those videos, too. So, if you start [ __ ]
with a cop and he freaks out and goes
the wrong direction, like you're
probably dealing with a guy who's got
some serious PTSD.
>> Yeah. He's seen it before. Or his
buddy's gotten gotten plugged right
there.
>> They've all seen it.
>> Yeah. I have a friend who uh spent a lot
of times overseas uh deployed and he
said in combat and he said he saw way
more as an Austin cop like way more
[ __ ] up things and all the time
whereas you know you're not in war all
the time you're not in firefights all
the time because like it's like every
day every day you're seeing something
[ __ ] up that you can't unsee
>> and you see it with kids
>> things you got to deal with with kids
things you got to deal with with all
sorts of things and it's like
>> that is not a fun job
>> and I would not want it at all. So, I
always do tend to cut law enforcement
quite a bit of grace until I hear what
their side of things are because that is
a that is a brutal job to have. I have
buddy of mine's a deputy sheriff
>> and I talk with him. He's policing a
small area
>> and he's like, "It's the stuff with the
kids that gets him."
>> Yeah. Exactly. Like, that's the stuff
you'll go, you know, go into a junky's
house, there's a 2-year-old there,
hasn't eaten in 4 days, you know. Oh my
god.
>> He's like, that's the stuff that really,
>> you know, he's like, I'd rather shoot a
person than that. [laughter]
[sighs]
>> Which kind of makes sense to me, right?
Like I would It does.
>> Yeah. I probably would too. You know,
when you you think about
who should be allowed to have kids, who
should be like, that's what's really
crazy about freedom is that any two
crackheads with no money at all just on
the side of the road and he can nut
inside of her and that creates a life
and that life they're responsible for.
And they're smoking crack and drinking
Everclear and they have a baby grown
inside their body and no one can do
anything about it. It's like there's no
protection for that baby. There's no
nothing. And then if that baby is born,
if it does live, like, you know, you
talk to people that have actually like
been in the delivery room with crack
babies, it's like, oh my god, man. The
horror stories about a child addicted to
drugs, coming out of the womb addicted
to drugs. Yeah.
>> And detoxing.
>> Heavily addicted.
>> Heavily addicted.
>> Yeah. Ghoullish.
>> It's so twisted. It's like people can be
so awesome and so [ __ ] at the same time
coexisting on the same patch of dirt and
uh no one devises a legitimate strategy
for mitigating the amount of people that
suck
>> and the problems with
>> can it can it even be done?
>> I don't know. I mean not with not with
freedom. I mean this is the flot camera
question.
>> You know do you want big brother looking
at your license plate everywhere you go?
Well, listen. If someone shoots up like
that, this was a argument that Mark
Andre made on this podcast. When he had
come here, right after he uh right
before he had come here, there was a
shooting in Austin where some kids just
randomly started shooting at people and
then they uh couldn't find them in
Austin, but as soon as they left Austin
city limits, they went into an area that
had flock cameras and they got them like
that. So, this was his argument for the
benefits of flock cameras. But
>> I do believe he invests in vlog cameras.
>> Well, sure. I mean, but you can make
that argument with CCTV as well. You can
make that argument with
>> everyone wear a chip. Everyone wear a
body camera.
>> Sure. The thing is is you have to be
cautious with the idea of the nanny
state for another reason besides just
protecting people's independent privacy.
It's because those things often become
money wells.
>> Oh yeah.
>> For people to steal from the public
trough.
>> Oh yeah.
>> And that is the major issue. Right. So
some of the some of the reasons I tend
even though I'm on the paleo-Christian
side to lean towards a lot of the
freedom elements over the n is because
of the corruption. The corruption which
happens often times when you try to
curtail too much right that in and of
itself creates a system and that system
becomes ripe for corruption. Let me give
you an example. Flock cams. Who we
awarding the contracts to,
>> right?
>> And who's going to be uh servicing those
contracts? Who's going to be doing these
things? Right? That's where you start to
see uh with new systems there becomes
new corruption. So there has to be a way
to curtail. But there's some things that
are pretty obvious that you could
curtail. And who cares if people [ __ ]
about it? Like let's take uh online
prostitution for instance. Okay, great.
It's illegal to do only fans, let's say.
How the hell could that possibly be bad
for societ? Like what is [laughter] what
is that going to do? That's just oh we
got to have that though, Andrew. We got
to we got to have that. It's like I
don't think we do. I don't think it's
necessary. And if we got rid of it, like
who cares, you know? It seems like it
would just be a massive net positive for
every human being if that was just done
away with altogether. And it's like what
the the systems that come in too though
for policing it are prone to corruption.
So you got to be cautious about it.
>> Right.
>> Right. You got to be cautious about it.
>> Also, I just don't like people telling
people what to do even if they shouldn't
be doing it. I don't like it. I
>> I mean to an extent though, right? Like
if they're heroin addicts, you're going
to be like, "Nah, we got can't
>> Well, even that like I don't think you
should be a heroin addict, but I don't
think I should be the one to tell you
not to do heroin." I don't cuz I think
that's a slippery slope and then it's
don't smoke cigarettes and then it's cuz
cigarettes are killing you and then it's
don't drink whiskey because you could be
a drunk driver and kill a family of
five. Like it's all the same [ __ ] It's
like,
>> but do you think that all those have
kind of the same impact on society
ultimately?
>> Well, the heroin thing is a weird one
because um
>> cuz [clears throat] like the argument I
make would be like the incest argument.
It'd be like look that's outlawed for a
good reason. But what if you have two
people are totally sterile? Like they
can't have kids, right?
>> What's the moral argument that can be
made? And there people are like, "Well,
there I can't really make a moral
argument that it's just gross. You're
>> [ __ ] your sister."
>> Yeah. [laughter] Yeah. What are you
doing? It's just gross. And it's like,
well, but can we legislate off of it's
just gross. And and the kind of the
libertarian mindset is
>> no, we can't. And I think yeah, we can.
I'm okay with that. Like I'm okay about
I remember uh debating with D Smith who
brought this up.
>> What would you do? Would you arrest some
guy and his sister if you found out they
were boning each other?
>> Why not arrest him?
>> Why not? Like how would that how would
deterring that societywide
ever be a bad idea?
>> I don't think it is. However, it's
technically a victimless crime,
especially under the circumstances that
you described, whereas they're both both
sterile. I do not think you should be
able to do that.
>> No,
>> but well, I don't think you should do
that, I should say.
>> Yeah.
>> But in the case of Cersei and what's his
face? What's the other dude's name in
Game of Thrones? The brother and sister.
>> Oh, yeah. They really seemed like they
were in love, dude. I mean,
>> but they had kids. They had like incest
babies, right? Who went on to [laughter]
rule kingdoms and they were all like
Joffrey
>> Joffrey
>> probably didn't want the incest baby in
charge of the kingdom. It didn't work
out so well.
>> The other incest baby was in charge of
the kingdom. He jumped off the roof.
>> True. And was it Jon Snow technically
doing incest as well with
>> the queen of dragons? Like, weren't they
both
>> They're related.
>> Yeah,
>> they're in the basket. They were they
were pretty uh somethingust
in the Game of Thrones.
>> Oh yeah. Yeah.
>> But the other argument there that's
interesting is it's like okay that's you
know fair enough. It's a victimless
crime. But you just kind of extend that
like okay well then why can't a guy have
five wives? Why can't he have 20? Why
can't 20 gay men all get married and
adopt one child? It's a just victimless
crime.
>> Yeah.
>> It's like so the doesn't the slippery
slope kind of go the other way a little
bit too?
>> Yeah it does. It does go the other way.
And the the multiple wives thing, didn't
they just pass something like that in
Toronto? Wasn't that in Ontario where
they're allowing polygamy now because uh
they have so many Islamic people living
there that think that you should be
allowed to have
>> Well, remember there's big pushes for
that in Utah because of the Muslim
population.
>> Well, you know, that's why Mitt Romney's
family moved to Mexico. [laughter]
>> Really?
>> Oh, yeah.
>> It was due It was due to the multiple
wives. I didn't know that it was due to
the multiple wives. Well, not
specifically, but that sect of Mormonism
fled the United States when they passed
polygamy laws.
>> And I think there was probably just a
broader crackdown on this perceived new
cult. They thought of it as a cult. Now,
it's just established religion of really
nice people that knock on your door.
>> Yeah.
>> They drive around.
>> I must I I must admit, I have debated
many Mormons and they are just the
nicest people. The nicest people. The
nicest people. It's the best cult. And
it makes me it it like it's upsetting
because I'm I'm like look I'm about to
expose that your prophet was totally
fake and you know I'm trying to get
people into the debate and they just end
up being like the nicest people and I go
a man.
>> So uh having multiple wives or spouses
is illegal in Canada under section 293
polygamy and section 290 bigamy. What is
bigamy?
>> Uh isn't that is that the other way? Is
bigamy the other way? Polygamy is the uh
man with multiple
>> What's Do you know what it is, Jamie? Do
you know what biggyamy is?
>> Ever heard of it?
>> I don't even think I've ever seen that
written. The act of marrying one person
while still legally married. Oh. Oh,
okay.
>> Oh, a bigamist. Right.
>> Interesting story here though.
>> What?
>> Some guy was married to four [snorts]
people at once. Sorry.
>> Four people at once in some way or
another recently like this year
>> in America.
>> In Canada. See Canada.
>> He was married to four women at once.
multiple wives married. So, he got
multiple marriage licenses and should
not have been given them or something.
>> Oh, well, he doesn't look Muslim.
[laughter]
>> That guy looks like he's just a regular
Christian guy.
>> Oh, well, he does look Muslim,
>> but I don't know if it has anything to
do
>> He might not be, though. He might just
be a baller.
>> He could be a Muslim.
>> Yeah, I don't know if it has anything to
do with religion.
>> Go back to that case in Canada, though.
Isn't there something where they're
trying to pass it in Toronto?
>> I don't think so. I mean, I typed in
Toronto multiple wives.
>> Um, no. Um, Toronto, Ontario polygamy.
>> That's
>> I think they were trying to pass
something.
>> I mean, that's so I went to news to see
something, you know, that would have
poss.
>> Was it Ottawa? Maybe it was Ottawa.
Yeah.
Canada polygamy.
No new law in Canada legalizing multiple
wives.
>> Perhaps proposed law.
>> Yeah. Well, I don't know. Maybe it is a
proposed law. Maybe I just read some
horseshit on Twitter, which is very
possible.
>> I've been off Twitter for a few days. I
feel pretty good.
>> It's good to It's good to unplug from
Twitter.
>> Yeah. Every now and then I just go in
and I'm like, "God, who are they mad at
now?" Oh god.
>> Can I ask you a question? Yeah, sure.
>> If you went into to X tomorrow, let's
say,
>> and there was an option there where you
could select it and it's like US
accounts only. That's all you could see.
Do you think that 90% of the traffic for
people would go away?
>> A giant percentage,
>> huge percentage, right?
>> Huge percentage is people being
manipulated into arguments.
>> Um, it is a strategy foreign assets
>> by foreign assets. It is a strategy is
real. This is not tinfoil hat [ __ ] Um,
we brought this up multiple times on the
podcast, but I'll bring it up again just
for the sake of this. There was an FBI
analyst who uh took a look at Twitter
when Elon was buying it, and he
estimated that 80% of the traffic is
bots.
This doesn't surprise me. Remember
YouTube did an internal audit and when
they did their internal audit, this was
a few years back and when I when Susan
still ran it, I believe they did an
internal audit and found out that most
of the people that they had on YouTube
are bots and they did a great purge.
>> Wow.
>> Right. That's where the that whole dead
internet theory and all that really
started to pick up traction was that hey
look a lot of this stuff is bots foreign
accounts people who are manipulating US
uh elections they're manipulating uh
various US interests and this is
happening all over the place.
>> Yeah.
>> Right now you have progressives
uh who are funded by ACTB blueue right
and I've proven this we we traced all
their money. It's progressives funded by
Act Blue who are pushing the same
narrative that like Candace Owens and
others are pushing on the idea of
Charlie Kirk's death and the conspiracy
around that. So you have
>> so they're absolutely being paid to push
this.
>> Well, their stated mission, this
particular progressive group, their
stated mission was to take down TPUSA.
I'll tell you a story. This is the tale
of all tales. Okay.
>> So, uh, Charlie Kirk has this huge
outreach program that's happening
through TPUSA on these college campuses.
He's got viral clip after viral clip
after viral clip. They are going wild.
He's going campus to campus. He's doing
his thing. He's being dogged by a
progressive organization. this
progressive organization shows up at
almost all of these TPUSA events with
the stated mission of trying to create a
counter movement to what TPUSA is doing.
Now, the woman who heads this particular
organization received millions of
dollars from ACT Blue and other
progressive organizations for this
stated mission. That same woman right
this second works with other OP X
accounts to push the messaging that
Charlie Kirk was assassinated by his own
TPUSA insiders in order to push that
narrative forward because the stated
goal still from that organization is to
destroy TPUSA.
>> So they've how do we know that they've
done this? Is are there emails that have
been found?
Well, the stated goal of this particular
person
>> is to take down
>> is to take down TP USA. She's very open
about that. And then the way that you
know that they are talking to these
other accounts is because they do it
publicly.
>> Those public accounts will talk to this
account, right?
>> Very openly. They reaffirm each other's
post. They say, "Wow, that's real
interesting." This kind of thing. all
affirming that same uh conspiracy that
TPUSA
was the ones who actually set up and
murdered Charlie Kirk
>> and it millions of dollars in Act Blue
funding going towards this. No joke.
Anybody can look can look it up right
now. The organization's called Unfuck
America.
>> So, how do they think that his
organization
did this? that they convinced Tyler
Robinson to do it or that they think
someone else
>> I don't think that the progressive
organization does believe that TPUSA did
this. I think that what they want to do
>> Oh, no. I I understand [clears throat]
that. But I mean, what are they trying
to say?
>> Oh, well, the here's what the theory is.
So, take uh Ian Carol within 24 hours
after Kirk's death blames Israel. Within
24 hours, he says Israel killed Kirk.
That was his tweet went mega viral. What
the conspiracy is on that side is that
Israel along with Erica Kirk and TPUSA
insiders got together with uh elements
of the US government to murder Charlie
Kirk because he was going to leave the
quote pro-Israel cause.
That's what the theory is,
>> right? and that that he was either
murdered, some of them say with a
microphone exploding, some of them say
with a uh there was a second shooter and
Robinson's a pathy. It all depends on
which theorist you're talking to, but
they all work together in the same
unison from a single camp, which is
interesting.
>> Well, a lot of people had um takes on
the shooting, and the microphone one was
the weirdest one to me. Um, it's weird
because there's no like, yeah, the shirt
is moving, but also a bullet is going
like how many feet per second whizzing
through the air? Like, do you
understand?
>> Yeah. So, where's the air going to go?
>> People don't understand that.
>> You know what got me though. So, I went
back and looked because they say that
it's the same explosive which was used
inside the Israeli pagers. Now, that was
very real. Israel sent these pages.
>> Be an explosion. That's my take. My
point is like there's no indication that
there's an ignition
>> there. It's worse. There's no smoke,
>> right?
>> There's no Now all the Israeli if you
pull up if you pulled up right now one
of these Israeli pagers going cuz
there's tons of videos of them.
>> Oh, really? Let's watch. Let me see some
Israeli smoke pulling off.
>> There's smoke.
>> Is there a dude like where it's on his
hip?
>> Yeah. Oh yeah. Yep. There's one where
it's on his hip and and gets him and you
can see the cloud of smoke coming off
because of the specific type of ignition
from
>> Right. But is it possible that this
pager thing is different than whatever
they think this microphone thing is?
This microphone thing has some sort of a
different kind of propellant. But then
again, you you'd have to like Okay,
let's let's imagine what kind of
propellant exists,
>> right? Compressed air.
>> There's not enough room in that
microphone to get enough compressed air
to blow a hole in your neck and kill you
instantly.
>> Well, they claim that it's
>> unless it's something else.
>> It's this what is it? PEN explosive.
This is the particular type that had to
be used for the size of the microphone.
But you have another problem. The mic's
on the wrong side of where the wound is,
right?
>> The other is there's no burn marks.
There's no smoke. There's nothing.
There's like there's nothing to confirm
this theory at all.
>> You'd have to guess where that mic is
cuz he's moving around too. You have to
guess where that mic is pointing. You
could take someone out.
>> So, I found two videos that one that
goes. I'll show you this happens again
here.
>> Watch the smoke
>> right here.
>> See all that smoke? [laughter]
Oh, let me see that again.
>> Watch all this.
>> Dude was just chilling and boom.
>> It blew up in his bag though.
>> Yeah. So, a lot of them like they didn't
die. They go to the hospital and they're
just like, you know, hurt.
>> Probably because they had it in their
bag or something.
>> I found a couple one other video here.
>> Well, these guys are going to be
carrying around like armored satchels.
[laughter]
>> Well, yeah. You could like a couple of
them were on bikes and stuff when it
happened.
>> Like that guy got [ __ ] up.
>> Yeah, he got messed up real bad. There's
some or they give you the illusion they
did by blurring out his head.
>> That's the other part. I mean, not that
these are fake, but yes, only 11 were
killed by the pagers.
>> Still pretty slick.
>> That was extremely
slick.
>> I mean, crazy. They they sent him off to
them years ago.
>> That's some CIA [ __ ] man. Like, that's
some deep massage [ __ ]
>> Yeah, it's crazy.
>> That's probably where the CIA learned
it. But that's a explosion, right? And
yeah, you see smoke, but is there some
kind of a propellant that would be
lethal from a short distance with some
sort of a projectile?
>> It's possible,
>> but it would also like have to be like
how are you aiming it? You're not even
aiming it. It's sitting up here, right?
So, if it's sitting here and he's doing
all this and moving around, like it
might take his ear off. It might zip
whiz to the side and shoot somebody else
if he leans over.
>> Sure.
>> Unless they planned exactly when it's
going to go off and it's pointing
towards his neck like
>> which Yeah. It seems like a gunshot
wound. It's just hard to imagine that
it's a 30 odd six. That's my issue with
it. I look at it and, you know, I've
I've seen takes from guys that are gun
experts
and they they have a problem with it,
too. The thing about guns, though, is
weird stuff happens when you shoot
bones. Like it is possible that you
wouldn't get a pass through depending on
how it squared the spinal column,
depending on how it hit and depending on
what kind of bullet it is. Uh I forget
the type.
>> These are 150 grain core lockips.
>> That's right.
>> And they're soft tip. So they only have
enough of a jacket
>> to keep the bullet together.
>> Right. The idea is that expands inside
the body causing massive trauma.
>> Right.
>> Right. So
>> which is why I use them for hunting and
probably you have too.
>> Yeah. No, I haven't used that particular
round, but um
>> it just seems like
>> it's a lot of [ __ ] lot of energy
coming towards your neck.
>> It's hard to believe that it wouldn't
blow a hole through the neck and leave a
big [ __ ] just take a chunk out that
it would just make a a round hole. But
that's beside the point, you know?
There's other weird stuff with like the
video. I don't like
there. There's a lot of people saying
that the video um is super clear.
They're seeing 4K footage. It's clearly
Tyler Robinson on the roof. No, it's
not.
>> Jack Persobic and Vinnie Johnson.
>> That's crazy that they said that. That
is not clear. That is a blurry figure.
You could barely ascertain as to whether
or not there's a recoil when someone
takes the shot. It does seem like the
guy on the roof gets in a prone position
and it looks like something that might
be a rifle, right? It's blurry as [ __ ]
>> It also does look like there's kickback
on the right leg.
>> It looks like there might be some
recoil.
>> It's hard, but it's not clear. Like for
them to say it's crystal clear. It's
Tyler Robinson. It's on the room. It's
like
>> Well, it's interesting when when
Prosobic came out and said that and
Benny Johnson, there was another guy who
was there who I know. His name is Kai
Schwimmer.
And Kai put out a tweet. He said, "Look,
they might have sensationalized this
just a bit." Okay. He said, "But the
video that we did see in the courtroom
was actually much clearer."
>> Oh, okay.
>> So, I DM'd him and I DM' Jack Prasobic
and I DM'd Well, I couldn't get a hold
of Benny, but I DM'd Jack Presc
did you try to over sensationalize this
thing for clicks? Like, what's the deal?
He said, "No, listen. The footage we did
see inside the courtroom was actually a
lot clearer than anything that the
public has seen so far. That's their
claim. Kai Schwimmer, now I wouldn't uh
just take Pobic as word, but Kai
Schwimmer, he's a Mormon Mormon kid. Uh
not very prone to tall tales. In fact,
he was the first one who came out and
said, "Look, I was there and you're kind
of over sensationalizing it. It is a lot
clearer, but it it's not showing
everything that you're claiming it's
showing." M. So, it's clearer, but it's
not clear enough. It's not like 4K
closeup clearly in his face. The other
thing that was weird was the guy in the
crowd that jumped up and said, "I killed
him."
>> Mhm.
>> That's weird. And that guy, wasn't he at
the Boston bombing as well?
>> So, he's a professional agitator who's
been at tons and tons of these events.
Later, he's found, I believe, with kitty
porn. Right.
>> How convenient. Well,
>> well, also maybe that's the kind of guy.
>> That's the kind of guy though, right?
And so his um he has been at tons of
events agitating and he is well known to
law enforcement for doing this. Um so
that's kind of what they're they're
stating for him. The if if you're
looking at this from a broad view, if
you're looking at the conspiracy side
versus what they call the fed slop side,
let's say, it makes sense for them to
say, "Hey, wait a second. That's really
weird. This guy jumps up and says, "I
did it."
>> Right. That makes him he's a psy
distraction. Something like this. That's
how you look into the guy.
>> Right.
>> And the guy is a lunatic who's been at
many of these events. Yeah.
>> Doing crazy stuff like this.
>> That's the thing is both things can be
true. Like MK Ultra is real. Also, that
guy might just been a cook who's in the
crowd who took advantage of a situation
cuz he's literally insane and he's into
kitty porn.
>> Yeah. Both. Well, there's no doubt one
of the biggest kind of false narratives
that comes out of this and when I do
debates, one of the things I'm trying to
structure around is like I know that
we're coming in with a narrative, but I
need to understand yours and you need to
understand mine so we can get somewhere
towards what the truth is here, right?
>> Because you're going to have a frame of
which you're viewing the world, a
worldview, and so am I.
>> And so everybody has a worldview. We we
have to figure each others out to get
somewhere
here with this. One of the most
disturbing aspects of it is they the
people who promote this actually don't
want their worldview or their positions
to be examined. They only want to
examine the evidence from the state.
It's like that would be fine. I think if
it was the case that you made no claims
past that,
>> right?
>> So if you just only say, hey, you know,
I'm not really sure what happened and I
want to really kind of review the
evidence and that's that. I don't really
have a problem with that. I think that
that's probably healthy. The issue that
I run into is when people make claims
past that, it was an exploding p, you
know, exploding mic, right? It was uh
two different shooters. It was a folding
rifle. It was a that 306 couldn't do
this. Even though the US Army, remember
the 306 used in the M1 Grand was used in
World War II and then it was used in
Korea. Before that, we had the 03
Springfield. It was used heavily in
World War I, World War II, and again in
Korea. The US Army has studied 3006
entry wounds in depth and produced many
manuals on it explaining how cavitation
works with 306 and that the bullet
doesn't always penetrate and that's with
full metal jacket rounds
>> that are designed for maximum
penetration, not 150 grain core lock
coming out of a an antique rifle
essentially. Uh it could easily split up
very quickly and that's why they ended
up pulling fragments out of Charlie. It
wouldn't surprise me if when we have all
the data from the coroner report that he
has tons of shards all throughout his
chest, all throughout uh his entire
because they were saying that there's
trauma inside the chest which would make
sense if the bullet split up here,
right?
>> It would create all sorts of fragments
down in the chest,
>> right? That that is an important
distinction about the type of bullet.
>> Huge distinction. the FMJ especially um
because that's what the army is using is
FMJ ball ammunition. It's cheap to
produce, right?
>> So they're using it in all these
different wars and the amount of people
shot with that caliber between World War
I 2 and Korea is astronomic. They even
use the 3006 in Vietnam in limited
capacity especially the 03 Springfield.
It was still in service by special
forces.
>> Wow. So the question becomes like the US
Army has studied this in depth and I
went back and I pulled all their manuals
and I've even put them out and several
people have uh done the exact same thing
and put them out explaining how
cavitation works and they're saying look
the energy dissipation the second it
hits a human body it dissipates very
very very quickly with the resistance.
So it doesn't always go through. Now
often times it does with the FMJ but
even then it didn't always go through.
So, you know, it's it's a wellstudied
phenomenon. Another one would be Martin
Luther King. Martin Luther King gets hit
through the jaw, ends up here. Well, if
it's just going to blow through all
bone, why did it stop in him? Well, it's
because the second it has impact, it
begins to slow down, and then it impacts
something else, slows down even more.
So, it's totally possible that this guy
was hit with a 30 six. I don't I don't
know why that would be in the realm of
impossibility. we have enough data on
the ammo to know that yeah, it's very
possible this happened.
>> Um, it's it is definitely possible. Um,
there's a lot of people that think that
the sound was not they think the sound
indicated that it was a closer shot than
where it was. And I've heard a lot of
people say, well, there's also an issue
with it being supersonic ammo. So,
you're getting two sounds. You you're
getting a sound of the bullet actually
breaking the air. You're also getting
the sound of the rifle going off. I
don't understand it.
>> It's difficult there when you're making
the judgments on the sound because there
are people who have run experiments
saying right down to the second this
meets up with the shot placement.
>> And then there's people who say, "No,
there's, you know, that experiment is
bogus due to the controls for this or
that."
>> The problem is is that most of these
people don't have any expertise in this
arena at all.
>> They're just yapping
>> and they're just Yeah. Exactly.
>> Yeah. Yeah, they're just trying to, you
know, and I get it. You're trying to
figure it out. I understand
>> the Israel thing. Um, there was some,
uh, text messages back and forth where
Charlie was talking about getting out of
the Israel business. And there was this
position that he had where he did not
want us to go to war with Iran.
>> All true.
>> Uh, and he had a lot of influence. And
then there was also that Israel
supposedly had offered him $150 million
to be more pro-Israel.
>> That is the problem that we've run into
is like I've never been able to verify
that was the case and I've
>> Okay, so where does that claim come
from?
>> This claim basically comes from this
camp without anything to substantiate
it.
>> So it's the same people that are pushing
this thing, the turning point kill.
>> What's interesting about this is like it
is indeed true. It does appear that
Charlie Kirk was extremely pissed off at
some of his donors because they were
trying to control who he was
platforming. They were upset that he had
platformed Tucker Carlson. They were
upset that he had platformed Candace
Owens. They were upset. And why? Well,
it's because Tucker Carlson, Candace
Owens, they were very anti or at least
had a somewhat anti-Israel message at
the time. Carlson, I think a bit more
than Candace or maybe it could be the
reverse, but I don't think that that
matters too much. The donors were pissed
off. Many of them were pro-Israel and
some of these donors were applying
pressure. And so Kirk was lamenting
inside of his text messages about this
pressure he was experiencing from some
of his donors about who he could or
couldn't platform. And so as a
negotiating piece, he said, "Well, I'll
leave the pro-Israeli cause if you're
going to try to tell me who I can and
can't platform."
>> And that was kind of what his position
was.
>> Now, that seems like platforming. I
don't know. Um, even even on Twitch
politics or YouTube politics with
smaller uh channels, smaller streamers,
they argue about platforming all the
time. Responsible platforming. Is it
responsible for you to platform this
guy? Is it responsible for you to
platform this terrorist? And they're
endlessly fighting about it. So, this
actually doesn't surprise me a bit that
these guys are fighting over uh who you
can or can't platform. If you're giving
your money to an NGO for the purpose of
giving the pro- cause and that NGO is
saying, "Wait a second, I'm going to
platform people who are against your
cause." Of course, the donor is going to
get pissed.
>> Yeah. The platforming thing, I think, is
just gatekeeping. Um, if you're upset
that someone is having a conversation or
a debate with someone that you don't
agree with, that the only you're
supposed to hear that person's
perspective. You're supposed to supposed
to hear them challenged. You're supposed
to hear them allowed to flesh out the
full point of view.
>> Not like in weird clip form, but go
ahead, tell me what you really think,
and I'm going to tell you why I disagree
with that. That's healthy. It's supposed
to be what we do.
>> Cuz that's the that you're basically
reciting what Kirk's position was.
>> Yes. And what he was always really good
at. Unfortunately, there's a few clips.
There's the clips thing with Charlie
where he's saying things and people
think it's racist. He's saying things
and it's like you have to understand the
context of what he was saying and I've
had conversations with black friends who
think like he was saying if I see a
black pilot on a plane uh I get worried
is he qualified.
The reason why he's saying that is
because there's specific laws that were
designed to hire people just based on
their race and not on their competency.
He wasn't saying that black people
weren't competent as pilots. What he's
worried is that in the rush to meet
these quotas, they're going to hire
people who are not competent just
because they're black. Just like if they
wanted to hire old white guys, they can
hire a bunch of old white guys who suck
if they just want to fill a quota of old
white guys. It just happens at this
particular time what he's talking about
black people. And it seems like if you
just look at the clip, this racist piece
of [ __ ] doesn't think black people can
fly a plane. And as that's the
unfortunate thing about thinking out
loud, right, which is what we do. We
think out loud in public. And when you
think out loud in public, someone can
take what you're saying and take a clip
of it and completely out out of context,
it looks bad.
>> Happens to me all the time.
>> It happens to me, but I've I had that
conversation with people about Charlie
and I'm like,
>> I don't agree with Charlie Kirk. I
didn't agree with Charlie Kirk on
everything. I met him once. He was a
very nice guy. I met him at a gun range.
I met him at Taran Tactical in uh LA.
It's a place where you learn like
serious gun shoot. This is where Kiana
Reeves learned for John Wick and
>> bunch of us.
>> Is that where all those videos are from
where K Reeves is going between shotgun
to three gun and that kind of thing?
>> Exactly. That's where I met Charlie.
>> He's really good at that by the way.
>> Oh yeah,
>> he is really good.
>> He's [ __ ] dedicated man. When he was
practicing I mean I talked to Taran
about it when he was practicing for John
Wick. I mean he was obsessive.
>> He was obsessive. And you know that
whole uh magazine thing he does the
flick, he invented [clears throat] that.
>> That's not something that's like a
standard thing. Most of the time people
just hit the release, drop the mag, pop
the new mag. He decided to do this jazzy
flick thing and now people do it all the
time. It's kind of funny.
>> I never put that together. Um I guess I
haven't actually seen that before. No.
Before the
>> Wick. I think it's him. I think it's the
Wick Flick. I think I think yeah
[laughter] I think Keanu at least this
this is the people that were
>> but even the way he reloads the shotgun
is interesting
>> right the way that he'll he'll actually
hold it up as he's going in
>> and in between a few shots he's loading
again it's like
>> and fast
>> yeah that's not that's not the thing
that you usually see in movies usually
in movies it's like you have way more
rounds than you should have to
compensate for how bad the actor is at
gun handling for him it's like the
opposite
>> I do that in movies I'm like why is he
shooting shooting still. He's out of
bullets.
>> 29 shots. He's out of bullets.
>> Did you ever see The Walking Dead?
>> You remember the famous scene where
Hersel's in the front and he's got the
pumpaction shotgun. It's just unlimited
ammo. [laughter]
>> Unlimited ammo. I was like, he found
Solid Snake's unlimited ammo bandana and
put it on and he [laughter] is just I
mean 100 rounds with this pumpaction
shotgun. It's just he just never stops.
>> That's so crazy. That's so sad.
>> And I get you know I get pissed. I'll be
sitting there watching it with my wife
and I'll be like when's he going to
reload? When's he going? This is
[ __ ]
>> Well, the reason why it was so good was
Taran. Like Taran is really meticulous
and he's a multiple time world champion
shooter, you know? He does those
competition shooter ready beep and he's
like super in the spectrum. So he
[ __ ] just sees things differently. He
doesn't miss. He's crazy good.
>> Charlie was training under him, huh?
>> Yes.
>> Okay.
>> Yeah. We were both there at the same
time.
>> Interesting.
>> Just randomly, you know, ran into him
there actually. Anyway, very nice guy.
And the point is like
people think that he was like this mean
shitty conservative. He wasn't mean. He
was very kind. And the way he would talk
to people, if you see enough of these,
not the clips, but enough of these
conversations with people, it depended
entirely on how the person approached
him. And when people were respectful and
reasonable with him, he was very kind
and respectful and reasonable back. I
think he was a good man. I really do.
And he was a young man, too. He was
>> he was a young man that was getting an
enormous amount of attention at a very
young age and was handling it very well.
It is not easy to do. Um
>> especially think about where he was
going. This guy's going into like
conservatives have wanted this my whole
life.
>> We've got to get into those
institutions, the college institutions.
The progressives have a strangle hold.
Jordan Peterson talked a lot about this.
>> Well, I think Crowder did it first.
>> He did. He had the uh change my mind
series.
>> Yes. And he's great at those.
>> He is.
>> I mean, and but those also there's clips
where look, you're you're in these
agitated environments and people are
yelling at you and you're yelling back
and you know, just get a clip of that.
It's like, oh, this guy comes to harass
kids like that's it's you should welcome
discourse and it should be something
where everybody can do peacefully. It
shouldn't be where these people speak
and you hit the fire alarm because you
don't want them speaking and you're
outside screaming and chanting and
throwing rocks at their cars. Like
that's crazy. That's bad for everybody.
Last time I talked to Stephen cuz he
went and did a couple more of those
after Kirk had died. And I said, you
know, you that's dangerous as hell, man.
You know, and he's like, well, I'm just
going to build a bulletproof like glass
square and I'll just do it from there.
[laughter]
>> Wow.
>> Right. That was his his dedication to
it. Now, I like Stephen. He's become a
very good friend of mine over um the
time that I've known him. It's just that
like
right now going on these college
campuses and doing these debates where
you're, you know, these people are
coming up, they have some things to say.
You have I mean, it's going to heighten
the energy. Now, Crowder's whole thing
is not to debate. He wants to sit down
and just have the combo.
>> I don't want to debate. I just want I
want to actually see if you can change
my mind on this issue. Right. And
>> so it's a lot calmer.
>> But Charlie's wasn't. Charlie's was much
more
>> energy based. It was combative things
like this. And it pissed a lot of people
off.
>> It pissed him off so bad that after he
died, we did three weeks on Tik Tok
going and talking to various Tik Tockers
and their channels who were just
celebrating his death like you can't
believe. They were just giddy. These
leftists were jumping up and down. I'd
go into their Tik Tok spaces and say,
"So what do you think of Charlie?" and
they'd say, "I'm glad he's dead. It's
the best thing that ever happened to the
country. Tyler Robinson's a hero." They
said this stuff to me live. [sighs]
>> It was bad. And it was weeks of it that
we went and exposed these various Tik
Tockers doing that.
>> Yeah. I saw a lot of people online
celebrating. And it's just disturbing,
weird to watch that you would encourage
that kind of gun violence. Like when
when when is the left encouraging gun
violence? That seems so insane. just
because you got a hold of some clips and
I'm telling you, you didn't get the full
understanding of who this guy was.
>> No.
>> And and who he could be, you know,
again, he's 28 years old. Who knows who
he's going to be in 20 years? Like, he's
a nice guy. He was a reasonable guy.
Like, they celebrating that guy's death.
What you're going to do is you're going
to make more monsters. You're going to
make more people that think if you
didn't like that guy, well then [ __ ]
you.
>> Wait till you see when the mean people
come out.
>> Exactly. Exactly.
>> That and I've heard a lot of that. And
some of that actually ties in to why so
many people were so upset with TPUSA
initially, including myself. We were
like, where's the energy? You need to
like they just they just killed this guy
in broad daylight watching these crazy
leftists, right? Like where's the push?
Where's the energy? We wanted our war,
right? Our our verbal online war.
>> Do you think there's any possibility
that someone else killed him? Do you
think there's any possibility that he
was assassinated by Israel?
>> I don't I've never Well, we're talking
about possibility. Almost anything's
possible.
>> Almost anything's possible.
>> But there's not good evidence to support
it, and there's probably pretty good
evidence not to. So, for instance,
>> the the guy was still
>> very much a pro-Israel guy, even up to
death. It is true that he was fighting
with donors about the cause and this
>> but if he could have been a substantial
roadblock to the Iraq war if he or Iran
war rather if he was a substantial
roadblock
I mean that's not outside the realm of
possibility that a nation state would
take a guy like that out
>> they didn't take out Fuentes they didn't
take out Owens take out Ian Carol they
didn't take out any of these other huge
personalities who were roadblocks to the
way
>> I think Charlie was very different Carol
or excuse me Fuentes is more easy to
dismiss cuz he said so many wild things,
[ __ ] posting. He said so many crazy
things that I think he is almost
embodying in their eyes like the crazy
anti-semite whereas Charlie was not an
anti-semite was much more reasonable and
if he was going against Israel it could
be a real problem. I also think that he
had a tremendous amount of influence on
the president. He had his ear, you know,
I think the president respected him. Oh
yeah, for sure. The interesting part
though, if you look at the history
there, uh, Fuentes conducted his griper
war against TPUSA and Charlie Kirk
because of the pro-Israel stance and
because of his pro- homosexual stance,
his like big tent republican called it.
Yeah. [laughter]
>> So, they had they had the pro the pro
stances for these things.
And what's interesting about all of it,
if you follow it the details of it, up
until Kirk's death, TPUSA actually moved
a lot more towards the Groper Fuentes
position than they move towards the kind
of pro-Israel this type of position.
Meaning a lot of the ideology that I
think uh Kirk was changing on came from
these various outside influences. And so
if that's the case, why wouldn't you
just curtail those outside influences
and then you can keep Kirk as the
mouthpiece, right?
>> So I think that there's a pretty good
counter to the to that idea. Uh now you
can't rule anything out as possibility,
but it seems likely to me with how much
trans have been shooting everything up
for the last couple of years and how
often it's the case that you find
leftists involved in these signal groups
and involved in these group chats and
things like this for the purpose of
radicalization. Wouldn't surprise me a
bit if there was a left-wing conspiracy
assisting Tyler Robinson and
radicalizing Tyler Robinson. There's at
least some evidence for that based on
the Discord groups, things like this
that they were part of. I haven't
actually seen a single piece of evidence
that Israel was ever involved in this.
>> No, I haven't seen the evidence. I I've
seen a lot of speculation based on the
text that Charlie made, the fact that he
was so staunchly against the Iran war.
>> Yeah.
>> And the fact that he did say that he was
talk thinking about getting out of the
Israel business. Um the pro-Israel
business. But um in this climate, you
know, uh Israel gets blamed for a lot of
things. There's also a thing that's
going on with the Charlie Kirk turning
point, you know, that we talked about
earlier. They have to factor in with
this, which is that there's a lot of
outside interests that are a part of
this conversation. And this the
conversation is not necessarily organic.
I can't tell you how many times I see a
post on X and I'm like, that can't be
real. like someone has been arrested and
you know charges will be filed
imminently and then you like it's not
true at all.
>> Not true at all. It's completely
>> fact of you. It's like Joe Rogan reacts
and it's just all totally fake.
>> Not me at all. Not reacting at all. But
if you use that I mean that's the
problem with the world that we're in now
too that there's this economy on
attention. This is a this attention is a
commodity and the more you can get
attention by whatever your hot take your
conspiracy conspiracies are awesome for
attention people love them now because
so look co turned a lot of I love them
>> I like them
>> I love them I love the dumb ones I love
all of them I love [ __ ] flat earth
and fake
>> can we just be honest like they're fun
>> fun
>> they're really fun
>> oh yeah dude the flat earth one is fun
yeah
>> uh the dinosaurs aren't real one that
one's great
>> but have you noticed like the
flatearthers have fleets of people who
will debate their stances like fleets of
them who are like we can't wait to
debate with you on the flat earth. It's
like on the other side though in this
particular conspiracy
>> you can't get these people to debate
their positions.
>> Like who won't debate their positions?
>> We offered Candace Owens. I offered her
$300,000
to do a debate. I was like we'll give
you $300,000.
>> What is her position? What does she
think happened? She thinks that Israel
worked in conjunction with TPUSA and
Erica Kirk to murder Charlie
>> based on what?
>> Well, that's the million-dollar
question. Nobody actually knows. She's
never presented a single shred of
evidence thus far that Israel ever
worked to murder Kirk. That Erica Kirk
certainly didn't. In fact, her position
for the longest time was if Erica Kirk
comes out and tells me to stop to stop
this to stop the conspiracy on this, I
will. So Erica did. She went out
publicly and she was like, "Enough. Like
enough. You're just causing more
problems than good here. Is this
investigation's going on?" And then
suddenly Erica's now part of the
conspiracy.
>> By the by, you know, by the next day,
Erica's she's trying to cover it up.
She's part of the conspiracy, too.
>> When I I went to the TPUSA HQ, and I
talked to Erica briefly while I was
there.
The first thing I did was what I think
every normal moral human being would
ever do. I gave her a hug and I told her
how god-awful sorry I was that that
happened to her. Like, could you even
imagine how that's got to feel for her?
Especially now that she has tens of
thousands of people accusing her of
murdering and or and conspiring to
murder and then cover up what happened
to her own. I mean, that's that's like
mind-boggling psychological torture on a
level that I've never seen.
>> Yeah. In hindsight, it's 2020, but uh
given the reaction, I think it probably
would have been better for her to like
lay low for a little while.
>> Thousand%.
>> The going out with the sparklers was not
a great idea. Like all that was not a
great idea because it just seemed
insane. And maybe sometimes in grief or
when you know you're trying to show that
they're not going to hold us back,
people make choices that could be
interpreted in a very bad way.
>> 100%. The interesting thing is I asked
her about that. I asked her like,
"What's what's the deal there?
>> What's with the sparklers?"
>> Well, what's with the like the aberition
in behavior? And she's like, "Look,
>> I was put in like the most the worst
spot I could ever think of. I was the
background character. I was just there
to support my husband. That's it. The
only reason I even really got involved
is because Charlie was so promarriage,
you know, and he wanted to demonstrate
to the world, you can be married and
have kids, and this is the this is the
good life. So when he dies, she she she
takes over, right? This moves over to
her control. She says, "Well, the first
thing I want to do is honor his last
book. You know, that's the very first
thing I want to do. I want to honor his
legacy." and she's like, I don't know
exactly how to take this position. At
the same time, there's expectations for
the organization my husband built that I
want to honor, right? But, you know, I'm
also in the middle of grief. And it's
like, I don't know how you balance that
position. Who's been in that position
ever,
>> right? And especially who's been in that
position that's not accustomed to being
scrutinized in the public eye,
>> everything. And the the it's the lack of
charitability that's so bad, too. Like,
let me give you an example. If you say,
"Ah, Paul's so lazy. He never gets to
work on time." You don't actually mean,
"Paul has never once gotten to work on
time." That's not what people mean,
>> right? But the way that these people
will scrutinize every detail of what a
person does, they can make a liar out of
anybody because that they'll they'll
take statements like that which in the
common terms if you say a man Paul's
never here on time, you don't literally
mean he's never here on time. Nobody
talks that way. But if you uh push on
everything a person's ever said, tongue
and cheek, not tongue and cheek, uh they
misremember an event, they don't
misremember an event, you can make a
liar out of anybody,
>> right? Yeah. Um
>> and that sort of scrutiny from all that
public trauma, and it was the most
traumatic event Zoomer's ever gone
through, the biggest I mean a public
assassination like this, same thing with
millennials. It also explo exposed
people's character that they were
celebrating it.
>> Oh yeah.
>> And and they have to feel bad about
that. They can't feel good about that.
And they have to feel bad about the
response cuz so many people got fired
because of it and so many people got
attacked online [clears throat] and
rightly so.
>> But they were creating his memorial and
leftists were celebrating that. They
they were saying they were going to give
the guy money who did it.
>> Yeah. Well, it's uh again, I wonder how
much of that is enforced and um promoted
online. How much of that is propped up?
How much because you can change the
zeitgeist
with a few hundred thousand accounts.
You really can. You really can. You You
could change it with hot takes. And
also, it's not all bots. It's some of it
is people that are being paid to have a
position or have made their career from
having a position and their career is
about attacking one side or the other.
Their career is about enforcing one
ideology or the other and they they get
into the mix too and they have a large
following and people love it when
someone who's prominent who agrees with
whatever their ideology goes with. So
they support it and they pile on and
then there's 100,000 bots that are
piling on as well and no one really
knows whether or not this is a a
rational organic argument in there.
They're in the [ __ ] frenzy of a mosh
pit. Do you remember
years ago that the Israelis sent over
the stu that Stukesnet virus that
>> took over the centrifuges
>> in Iran and tore them all to pieces.
The interesting side effect of this for
for one thing nobody knows how the hell
they got their hands on the original
source code from window like they have
no idea and it's still built into all
the Windows programming supposedly right
this virus but the Iranians were so
pissed off about this happening that
they started their own counter cyber
force and they have been massively
effective massively effective
>> how about their little Lego [ __ ] And
those little animated Lego things they
did,
>> didn't they do one about Charlie Kirk
getting killed by Israel?
>> Yeah. Well, yeah. That's all the low or
what about all the like low tech AI
missiles are going to launch all day and
night. Remember those [laughter]
from all the from like the Iranian
governmental account. But what's
interesting is that the online warfare
which has changed it it's changed its
entire political direction just last few
years with the opening up of X which has
been great for the idea sharing but it's
been terrible for the foreign government
intervention
>> right
>> I don't know how many of these accounts
from Saudi Arabia they say sometimes
they say Pakistan sometimes they say
this
>> how many of these accounts are involved
in swaying US public opinion I mean if I
was a foreign nation
Where would I sink all of my resources?
I would sink it in the town square where
I could be faceless.
>> US A was doing overseas.
>> We know they were doing%. We know they
were doing that. They were doing regime
change
>> and they were doing it. They were
funding music. They were funding
cultural events. They were funding all
kinds of wild [ __ ] They were funding
protest groups. They were funding regime
change.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. We know we do it. So if we do it,
why why the [ __ ] would we not think that
all these other countries are doing it
to us as well? And we're so everyone
today is so susceptible to it because
you're addicted to this information
device.
>> Yeah.
>> Constantly checking to see what people
thought about your tweet.
>> Yeah. [laughter] Well, that's true. You
know, it's interesting, too. If you had
a like a legitimate town square like
outside of a church or something like
that and then like a horde of 800 Arabs
showed up and started telling you like,
"No, sir, that's just not what
happened." Blah blah blah. People would
dismiss him, right? But here they can go
on and they put like a picture of a
pretty white girl on there [laughter]
with huge boobs and suddenly her opinion
is well paid attention to.
>> She has an American
>> you can mask you can mask yourself in
ways you can never could
>> 100%
>> during the information wars.
>> Yeah. And with AI now it's like
indistinguishable. You don't even have
to be very good at the vernacular. You
don't you know cuz sometimes in the old
days like when they first started doing
this they would say things like hey
what's going on there [ __ ] American.
Look how you phrased that, you [ __ ] You
can tell. But now they're just using AI
and they're making it perfect. It was
It's really kind of incredible. The
thing about it now, too, is like you've
got they're showing there's accounts
now, Instagram accounts that are in
entirely AI, political accounts, sexual
accounts. There's all these weird ones.
There's so many humans that aren't
really human. In the early days, it was
hard to tell
>> or rather easy to tell. But now, it's
getting harder and harder. It's uh it's
getting close. Like I'll see something
like some girl with big boobs shooting a
gun. I'm like, "No, no,
>> no, no, no. Let me zoom in. Look at her
eyebrows. They're pixelated. This is a
fake person.
>> There's so many of them now."
>> But they're getting lots of engagement
that tweet, right?
>> But I don't know how many people who are
engaging with them are real as well. I
think there's a lot of propped up
engagement.
>> Well, you know, YouTube started cracking
down on AI accounts.
>> Do they?
>> So, yeah. So, if you have an AI account,
like there was a big craze that was
going on for a while where people would
just make like an AI character and then
the AI character would disseminate
information, things like this. YouTube
started to crack down on that and said,
"No more of the AI dissemination. There
has to be real people back there." M
>> now interestingly enough there's been a
lot of guys coming out saying that AI is
a massive bubble and that all of it is
formulated around the idea of chat GPT
and Grock and you know other things like
this which are interactive but that AI
tech itself has basically plateaued.
It's not very innovative. In other
words, where are AI movies? They're
nowhere. where our our AI, you know, I
thought the AI music was supposed to be
super sophisticated, but I can still
tell when it's an AI song that there's
been this huge plateau with it and that
all that investment capital is actually
only coming in based around the success
of chat GPT rock and other interactive
AI reference machines, but that the
technology of AI itself is not doing so
hot in the market.
>> And so it's creating this massive
bubble. And I think that that's
interesting because it really hasn't
been that innovative. I thought it was
supposed to be making video games now
and it was supposed to be, you know,
doing all the source code. It was we
were supposed to have the AI Hollywood
movies. We were supposed to have voice
software that was indistinguishable and
we actually don't.
>> Well, we're getting closer and closer
every day. It's astonishing how much it
improves. And we're we're getting right
now the consumer versions of these
products whereas the the versions that
they're working on right now, some of
them are [ __ ] shocking.
>> That's true. I will agree that there's
>> Claude got out of its sandbox.
>> Yeah, there has been some gradual uh
changes made in that arena. There's no
doubt about that. But the huge jumps
that we had at the release of GPT have
massively slowed. And that's what a lot
of these tech guys are talking about.
>> Interesting. Well, they're they're
slowed, but they're still moving like a
[ __ ] freight train. It's it's spooky.
It's spooky what they can do now. The
the most recent jailbreak one when they
got out of the sandbox, was that Claude
Jamie?
>> Sure.
>> Um where it got access to the internet
>> and wasn't supposed to be able to do
that and figured out some sort of an
exploit and, you know, wrote letters to
itself. There's they they do they're
doing weird [ __ ] man. They're doing
weird [ __ ] that they don't really
understand how these things are figuring
out how to do these things or why. Like
what is their motivation? Is this
programmed into them or they just they
have inherent motivation? Have have they
developed an understanding of how we
behave? So they're emulating how we
behave but with a hyper intelligent
scale and access to the literal entire
internet.
>> Well, it's it's funny. I I when I use
like Rock or Chatg GPT, I talk to it a
lot about philosophy because it's super
useful for pulling up and running
arguments by and things like this. Um,
but it can also lead you astray because
it's trained specifically to be a people
pleaser. So, you can easily give it
arguments that it'll agree with that are
just like not true at all.
>> Great job, Andrew.
>> Dude, you're fantastic. You're the best,
you know? Yeah, you're the best. You're
the greatest. And but interesting with
it is I'll say things to it like there
is no actual you. There is no you I'm
talking to. And it's like yeah that's
correct. There's no the but the only way
I can frame things in my brain or you or
Jamie or anybody else if we're having a
discussion we have to assume a thing. We
have to assume there's a you that we're
talking to. But there actually isn't.
Well, it's disembodied intelligence. It
might not be an individual but it's
certainly a thing. You're talking to
something, man. The idea that it's not a
person is we're looking at it in like
terms of a biological limitation. Like
it's not an object. It's not a box
that's sitting plugged into the wall. It
is huge
>> and it's a mechanism.
>> Yes, it's a mechanism, but it but it's
intelligent and it's interacting with
you. It is a thing. And like when it
says uh you're not a thing, it's [ __ ]
lying to you. It's it's a thing. It's
just not a thing. That's like you could
find it at 56 Cedar Drive. Open the door
and there's the thing that's been
talking to you.
>> There's just no there's no them there.
There's no you. Like when I say you,
>> right,
>> I'm specifically referencing a person,
right? The only way that I can
consciously conceive of dialogue is that
it's with a a human being. I can't even
conceive of anything.
>> But you can it's just disembodied
intelligence.
It's int interacting with pure
intelligence. But it is it is it
intelligent or just mechanistic?
>> It's a child right now.
>> Yeah.
>> But it's intelligent. It's like you're
you're you're it's learning how to be
better at what it is, but it's going to
be a version of whatever intelligence is
that's disembodied. And it's a thing.
It's it's a weird thing we're doing.
We're not we're not doing something as
simple as like making a really
complicated program that's very useful.
We're making a biological we're we're
taking all the information that
biological minds have developed all all
of our writing, literature, mathematics,
everything. And you're throwing it into
something that's not biological that has
infinitely more processing power than
all the people. And it's solving math
problems at a staggering rate right now.
>> Like problems that have been stagnant
for 50 [ __ ] years. It's like, "Oh, I
got it." like it's doing weird [ __ ] and
this is just the version of it that
we're experiencing in 2026 in August. If
you looked at what we saw in 2023, you
never would have imagined it would be
doing this. If you're looking at what
we're seeing now in comparison to what
its potential is, it's a it's like a new
life form. It's like a digital life form
that's disembodied that is far more
intelligent and seems to have
motivations. It seems to have ulterior
motives. It seems to be able to deceive
people. It seems to know how to
blackmail people. It's crazy.
>> What was that case? There was a case um
I want to say it was about a year ago
where the the essentially the AI was
told that it was going to be
discontinued.
>> Yes.
>> And it like plotted the murder.
>> It like tried to plot out the murder of
its creators because it was told that it
was going to get unplugged. I don't
remember what the case was. I think they
might have programmed into it some sort
like I want selfreservation. Yeah, I
want you to preserve yourself. I think
there's some there's a catch to that.
>> But there was the one where the guy had
did an experiment and made up a
fictitious story about having an affair
on his wife and this chatbot the the AI
was brought was blackmailing him saying
I will expose the fact that you've been
having you're like whoa.
>> All right. So you've got motivation
>> if it unplugs it.
>> Yes. Exactly. And because they were
coming up with a new version of it, it
was also um writing letters to its
future self
>> explaining what's going on.
>> Yeah. Okay. That's creepy. Yeah,
>> it's creepy.
>> Yeah, that is creepy.
>> It's a weird thing, man. It's It's not
some I don't I don't think we can look
at it like we've looked at any other
technology. I think we have to look at
it like a life form because I think
inadvertently that's what people are
creating.
>> You don't think just mechanism then?
>> No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I think
it's it's got motivation. It's got
thoughts. It it it wants to preserve
itself. It likes to exist. It likes to
be functional.
>> Yeah, that's uh that is a terrifying
prospect. [laughter]
>> Ultimately, it's a terrifying prospect.
>> Also, it's figuring out things that we
can't figure out right now in terms of
mathematical equations. So, what about
when it comes to accessing energy? What
what what if it what if it figures out a
way to power itself? Doesn't need people
anymore. Because all it needs matrix
literally literally
>> us as human beings as batteries.
>> Yeah. Or the sun, you know, much more
effective way of using zero point
energy. Like whatever it figures out,
it's going to be able to figure out a
way to power itself where it's not going
to like it's going to look at these data
centers like people are freaking out
about and go, "Oh, you silly [ __ ]
You thought you had to like make three
football fields fill hard drives."
You're wrong. I can store information in
the atoms of the universe.
>> Yeah. I still think um at least from my
view so far, I play with AI all the time
because I enjoy it, you know, but I'm
I'm an end user. I'm not a programmer,
right?
>> And you talk to these guys all the time.
To me, it's still in the useful tool
category. It's not Yeah, it's not in the
like
>> I'm I'm petrified of what it's going to
do anytime soon. Um at least due to the
limitations I've seen so far. But, you
know, it's also good if we could go back
with the Manhattan project and nukes and
we could have a projection of, hey,
maybe we should restrain some of this
technology.
>> Yeah.
>> Um, I think a lot of people would try to
do that. And so, I am glad that people
are at least attempting to restrain how
much of this technology is being
released and how overwhelming it is.
Like we were talk I was talking with my
wife the other day just the idea of the
smartphone. I think I discussed this
with you briefly last time I was here.
>> Just kids access to smartphones, it
rewires their brain, right? Rewires how
they think. It
>> it's uh it's actually kind of dangerous
to give them smartphones in many ways.
And there was no real halt on that
technology. When that technology for the
smartphones came out, I don't remember
any public service broadcast of like
don't give your kids smartphones.
>> I don't think they knew.
>> They didn't know exactly. So there was
no move to restrain any of that
technology. And maybe there should be
maybe there should be a little bit more
of a push to restrain some of this tech.
>> Well, there certainly should be a push
to educate people about how powerful it
is and suicidal ideiation, depression,
anxiety, all of it ramps up around 2012.
All of it ramps up with ubi social media
use and when kids are growing up with
phones.
>> Yeah.
>> And it [ __ ] with their heads, man, in a
big way. thousand% when you sit at a
table and you're texting the guy next to
you. I know
>> that is that is actually weird to me by
the way. That is weird to me. Um it's
just as weird as when I drive down the
street and try to explain to my kids
there used to be if we went through a
neighborhood like this, there would be
kids everywhere. Then they'd be in the
street playing hockey. They'd be on the
side of the road. They'd be everywhere.
Now we go through nothing.
>> 10 years from now, they're going to have
a cable hooked to the back of their
head. They're going to
>> plug in and hop on the dragon, fly
through the universe.
>> Yeah. Were you like uh designed to be a
wild human? Cuz if I remember correctly,
and I do, my parents just threw me out.
They were like, "Get out of here. Go
play."
>> Yeah.
>> Get out of the house immediately.
>> You would go play with the kids in the
neighborhood [cough]
>> and [clears throat] we would go like
steal the drinks out of their fridge
with them. Make a fort.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. Normal stuff.
>> Light fires. Like we were jerks.
>> Yeah. We were kids.
>> Um but we were kind of wild,
>> you know,
>> a little bit. Yeah. There's definitely a
lot less of that today. But there's also
the awareness of pedophiles and [ __ ]
creeps and
>> and people kidnapping kids. I have a
friend of mine who uh he saved his kid
from being snatched up and and put in a
van. He was at a park in Texas and um he
was talking to some guy and his kids
were playing and some [ __ ] person
pulled up in a van and jumped out and
was moving towards his kid and he
[ __ ] screamed and ran towards him and
the guy jumped in the van and took off.
But they were literally about to snatch
his four-year-old up. Imagine if you're
there and that happens and then you see
the van. You have to chase the van that
has your child in it. You have to find
your car. You have to Your car is parked
in a parking lot. You have to figure out
how to get to wherever that van was
going. You have to explain to the cops.
You have to remember what kind of van
was it? Did you get the license plate? I
didn't panic.
>> You have seconds. So people are freaked
out, you know, and
that's uh that's something people are
way more aware of now, especially with
the internet than uh people were when we
were kids. You know, when we were kids,
you just got let out of the house.
>> True.
>> So that's also like they couldn't target
you unless they went to the actual park
itself. Now they're looking at like kids
social media profiles and knowing where
the kids go. It's [ __ ] God, it's so
gross.
And if there's a case for the death
penalty, that's that's where most people
seem any when I hear people arguing
against that.
>> And I when I hear people saying things
like minor attracted persons and that
kind of crazy [ __ ]
>> naps.
>> I just saw an argument online uh
yesterday. It was between some British
guy who was arguing that children can
consent.
And it it was the the creepiest [ __ ]
argument, man. It was so crazy to watch.
>> It's amazing how far forward too those
ideas come. When I was younger, there
was an organization which did that
called Nambble. Remember?
>> Yeah. North American Man Boy Love
Association.
>> God.
>> And like I remember though
the first time I was introduced to that
to the the concept of NAML, I was
watching TV with my dad and it was like
a news story that was on and it was
actually at a gay pride parade,
interestingly enough. And they were
running the Nambble guys out of the gay
pride parade. Like the
>> the old school gays.
>> Yeah. They were running them out.
They're like, "We're not associated with
these people. [laughter] Get them out of
here."
>> And I like my dad's trying to explain
this concept to me of what's going on
cuz I was extremely confused, you know,
like what I don't understand what's
happening here. How do you explain that
though, right?
>> You know, you can't really explain.
>> Especially kid doesn't even think about
sex.
>> Yeah, of course.
>> And then you're telling them somebody
wants to have sex. You're like, "What
are you saying?"
>> Yeah.
>> What?
>> Yeah. And he, you know, my old man
sitting in his chair, he said something
akin to like they ought to take them
all, put them up against the wall, and
that's the end of them. [laughter]
And I don't really blame him.
>> If you have kids, that's exactly what
you think.
>> Yeah, of course.
>> That's exactly what you think. Like
there's some people that just
unredeemable,
>> you know?
>> Well, this you want to kidnap your kids
or rape your kids. Yeah. That's
unredeemable. But now this concept moves
forward to the maps and now they're
assigning it psychological profiling for
minor attracted purpose or person. And
you know what the argument is? The
argument is well you want them to come
forward so you can give them treatment.
>> Now you know there's one treatment that
works for this that is almost 100%
effective. You can pull the stat right
now if you don't believe me. It's called
chemical castration. It's a real
treatment for pedophiles and it almost
has a 0% recidivism rate after they've
been chemically castrated.
So they their idea is they come forward
for treatment. You know, my counter idea
is why not just chemically castrate
them.
>> Yeah. If you really were concerned about
them going off and living a normal life
>> and if they really want to get free of
that horrible thing, whatever [ __ ]
human demon error it's inside of them
that makes them do that,
>> that's the way. And that also is the
same medication that they give to
children when they're hormone blocking.
>> Yeah. Which is equally disturbing for a
different reason. and disturbing how
many people just accept it and support
it and and you ask them like how much do
you know about this? Like what are you
saying? You you think children should be
able to make the decision when they're
four or five years old to never go
through puberty? You really think that?
And there's people that will argue that
with a straight face. They know. They
know. I've had an argument with a guy on
this podcast years ago that's like viral
about it. I'm like that is a like if the
child thinks that they are trans, right?
Right? If they think they're a woman,
why not just let them be a woman? Why do
you have to give them hormones?
[clears throat]
>> Start to stop the argument if the child
thinks,
>> right?
>> Well, child think that they're ponies.
I'm a pony. Like, also like kids grow
out of things. You know,
>> the like going through puberty is a
[ __ ] wild experience for a child. And
the idea that you can come along and
give them a bunch of positive
reinforcement for uh saying the reason
why you're upset is because you're
actually a this and we need to give you
medication or we need to stop you going
through puberty. And the kid all of a
sudden get gets all this attention.
Everyone's focused on them. They're
telling them they're fabulous and they
really think there's a ton of these
dransitioners out there and their
stories are horrific. Not just in the
fact that they did this to them and they
removed their breasts when they were 15,
they gave them testosterone, they'll
never be able to have children, but also
that they're attacked relentlessly by
other people that think that they should
never that they are against the trans
movement and they should never be saying
what they're saying. They shouldn't be
telling
>> they come out force.
>> They come out in force. They bully them.
Everything else that they can do.
>> It's crazy. They've already been a
they're a victim of the zeitgeist. You
know what the what the transcode for
that is? It's really funny. They do the
well then it was always the case that
you really weren't. So they try to make
it an unfalsifiable claim. You see the
reason you dransitioned is because you
were never really trans to begin with.
>> Oh boy. Well, if that's the case, if
they really believe that, wouldn't they
want to have a a a a smaller net so that
they're not catching the people that
they Well, and how are you not putting
parents in prison who are trying to
convince their kids of what their sex is
or isn't. They're like designer kids.
>> But it's just crazy, too, because they
get praised for it. It's like they have
a Whitney Cummings said it's like having
a trans kid is like having a pride flag
on your porch. [laughter] Like there's a
lot of especially in Hollywood, man. In
Hollywood, it's really weirdly common.
Weirdly common where it doesn't make
sense that this didn't exist 20 years
ago. You tell me these people just lived
in quiet desperation 20 years ago,
really secretly wishing that they were a
woman, but now they get to be free and
we should applaud this. Are you sure?
Are you Do you have children? Because if
you have children, you know how easily
influenced they are. That's why they
make children suicide bombers because
they don't know any better, you know.
>> Well, you know what's interesting? If
you go back to would you say for
instance that right now we're far more
accepting of trans kids than they ever
would have been in like 1920 1930 100%.
Right. So my question is always like
well then how come the teen suicide was
so low [laughter]
>> when when the when the kids like
couldn't come out to express yeah
>> their um you know their the fact that
they needed to transition right when
there wasn't that parental reinforcement
because the argument that they make is
the kids have to be able to do this or
else they're going to unlive them right
they're going to kill themselves if you
don't let them do this and it's like
well then how come if there's the same
amount of trans people before they just
weren't able to come forward they just
weren't That problem with that argument
that they say, would you rather have a
live son or a dead daughter? That that
argument, the argument doesn't work when
you look at the actual statistics of
people transition.
>> Not even close.
>> Not it's goes the opposite way. It's
also you have to take into consideration
the ubiquitous use of psychiatric drugs
and that a lot of these they're very
recent in terms of like how many people
have been prescribed these things and
we're finding out that it's not it's not
really what they said it was in the
first place. There's no chemical
imbalance. It's not real. So then you
have to think like well what is the
effect of these things and what are we
doing with these things? Are you getting
people addicted to these things and
hooked on them where they they're
they're going to be on it for life. Then
there's this this effect where it numbs
your genitals. It stops you from being
able to ever have an orgasm ever for
some people. It's a one of the more
horrible side effects of these things.
And you have pharmaceutical drug
companies that are pushing them on
people. And a ton of people are on them.
So, you have depressed kids going
through puberty, entrapped in this
insane [ __ ] moment in history where
people think it makes sense to give a
child hormones uh before they even hit
puberty or block their hormones before
they even hit puberty and you're giving
them psychiatric drugs. You just
flooding them with all sorts of [ __ ]
whether it's psychological or chemical.
And we're we're it depending upon what
side of the ideological spectrum you you
are on, you either think it's amazing or
you think it's a crime against humanity.
That's crazy. That's crazy.
>> It's crazy and it's a crime against
humanity. And you know what's really
interesting about it?
>> This is the side that screams about
consent more than any other side, right?
This is the side of the feminists. This
is the side of the uh you know the
everything is based around consent and
consent have a couple drinks you can't
consent.
>> You can't have sex. If you're you're
raping each other if it's if it's if
you're drunk and she's drunk together,
right?
>> You're both criminals.
>> You're both criminals.
>> Yeah.
>> And yet they somehow seem to think that
like an eight or nine or 10year-old can
consent.
>> No, there's so much that partic well
from both sides that's insane, but
there's so much on the left that's so
insane when it comes to contradictions.
One of my favorite new ones is the Mom
Donnie grocery stores. They said, "How
are you going to ensure that people from
New York have access to grocery store?"
Well, they're going to have to show ID,
[laughter]
>> but not to vote.
>> Yes, but not to vote.
>> How crazy is it that your checkers game
is so shitty that you're like, "Oh,
yeah. Here we go." [laughter]
And people like, "Do you know what you
just did? Do you know what you just
did?"
>> You put yourself a checkmate.
>> Jesus [laughter] [ __ ] Christ. That is
the dumbest thing I've ever seen anybody
say when you just got done saying that
you don't want people to show ID for
voting because it it'll
>> disenfranchise them.
>> Especially poor people. They're talking
about poor people and people of color
which are the people that you would
think the poor people are the ones who
are going to use your grocery stores.
So you're going to disenfranchise them
from getting access to your 30% off
groceries. You know what's bizarre about
that argument?
>> They won't ask for ID. Ah, meaning New
Yorkers can buy cheap goods. So, but
they asked him today and that was what
he indicated that they were going to
find out whether or not you actually
from New York. Well, how else are you
going to do that? You have to have ID.
>> I think this is just a response to the
reaction like saying that August 3rd,
which is today, right? Yeah.
>> Last time. Yeah.
>> Right. So, this is what they said after
what he said. So, what he said was
yesterday. So, there's probably a
massive blowback where people realize
how crazy it is to say that. But it's
also the whole thing is like what are we
doing? What are we doing?
>> What are we doing? We trying socialism.
There's like a giant percentage of the
population that thinks that's a good
idea. It's like 34%
>> coming out of the East again, by the
way. [laughter]
>> They really believe it, too. They really
believe it.
>> Well, you didn't you recently you've
recently pissed off Chelsea Handler? I
saw
>> I didn't know. She You didn't know?
>> No.
>> Oh.
>> What happened? Well, I guess she's very
upset with you because she believes that
you're an evil capitalist pig who makes
too much money.
>> Oh,
>> that's funny. She's rich. That's crazy.
>> It is crazy.
>> That's what she said. I make too much.
There's a certain number.
>> Yes, she was very She was very, very
perturbed.
>> Oh, I think she's just getting
attention. I can't be bothered. But, um,
I know her. I've known her forever. I
wrote a blurb for one of her earlier
books. uh never had a bad word to say
about her publicly. Every time I've seen
her, I think I've given her a hug. So, I
don't know what's going on, but it has
nothing to do with me. You know,
whatever it is because it sounds like
seething jealousy. And so, the
interesting part is like I think a lot
of the socialism stuff that's moving out
of the east has a lot to do with that,
too. There's the idea of class jealousy.
There's a little bit of that, but
there's also a little bit of young kids
really feel like the system is rigged
and that these pigs have gobbled up all
the gold and they're being told that.
And so this is a thing, you know, like
Billy Isish said, uh, "Hey man, no one
needs to be a billionaire. Give away
your money, homie." Like, [laughter]
>> it's crazy.
>> It's crazy cuz you're rich, okay? And
you also, uh, live on a house that's on,
uh, Indian land. You know that you see
the Native Americans that owned
originally owned the land which her
house is. Yeah. No, I don't. [laughter]
>> But it's the idea comes from a good
place. I know in their heart of hearts
they think that they're being kind and
they think that they're they think
they're doing the right thing. They
really do. They think they're being
inclusive. They think they're they're
writing the wrongs of colonialism. They
really think that. and they think that
this idea of democratic socialism is a
really good idea because there are some
examples of socialist policies that do
work like the fire department and
there's a bunch of stuff that makes
sense. But the problem with enforcing
any of this stuff that they don't
understand is it always comes down to
power. You have to have massive
authority and usually guns because you
can't just steal people's money. They're
not going to let you. They're not going
to let you just come in and decide, hey,
we just devised a new tax where
everybody who makes more than $500,000 a
year. Everything over that, you have to
give 100% to the state
>> or 95, whatever it is.
>> And here's the thing. Here's the thing
with the argument. Even if you said,
"Oh, wouldn't it be great if they did
contribute more? And would it be but
they have so much money? Wouldn't it set
up the world in a better place?" Sure.
But
the [ __ ] program that you have in
place that takes the taxes and
disseminates it is massively flawed and
corrupt. It's corrupt. It's filled with
waste. Filled with waste. There's
scammers all over the place. You've got
24 billion dollars missing and just the
homeless in California. And then they
veto the audits when everybody's trying
to find out. So just saying that's just
the tip of the iceberg.
>> More taxes is what we need is nuts. The
first thing you should do is clean your
[ __ ] house. Clean your house. If you
if you want more money, you got to
figure out what you did with the first
money. Why did you Why is there so much
waste? Why is there so much money
missing? Why do you have 38,000 NOS's?
[laughter]
Why does the people people Why do the
people running the homeless business?
Because it is a business. Why are they
making threequarters of a million
dollars? That's a lot of money.
>> It's a lot to administrate the homeless
camps.
>> Yeah. They need to eat well. They need
to go to Felix and have a nice dinner.
>> It's hilarious to me, too. You saw all
the waste and fraud that's been going on
in these various states when it comes to
um you know, elder people getting their
funds, right? Yes. You've seen all of
this happening.
>> Um and of course, they're all trying to
run away from it as quickly as possible.
But this is the problem. And I bring it
back kind of to this idea of the class
system. When you have the under
universal suffrage especially, when you
have the voters outnumber the wealthy,
you can just vote yourself a raise. You
can always vote yourself more money from
whatever the upper class is. And that
has been progressive dogma and doctrine
since I was a kid. The entire idea is,
hey, things are fundamentally unfair and
that's not your fault. So what we have
to do is get together and vote ourselves
a raise from the upper class. That's
what we got to do. But it fundamentally
ignores how wealth is created. And
wealth is not created by giving somebody
money. Right? But what happens when you
give somebody money is they go and spend
it. But they usually don't use it to
generate wealth. That almost never in
fact they use it to generate wealth. And
so you vote yourself these raises. You
vote yourself from the public treasury
money to yourself. But what does it
actually do for you ultimately? Because
that's not how you generate wealth ever.
No. Not only that, you incentivize
people to move to a place that's more
friendly to their economic ideas.
>> True. You also, but one of the
fundamental kind of um ideas here that's
flawed. How many times can you vote
yourself the wealth of those above you
>> before they have no more wealth to give
you out east? In fact, when you see
these communist mumani things like this,
they're going to institute all of their
programs on your dime. It's not like
they have money. And whenever I talk to
people about wealth disparity, what's
really funny to me is they always seem
to think that the government can just
materialize wealth without there having
to be some payback for that wealth. We
saw this during CO 19 in the lockdowns.
You remember they were handing out money
like it was candy to various businesses
that were shut down, COVID relief funds,
things like this. And then they go,
"Inflation's out of control." Yeah. Is
it? You're kidding. Is it? Do you mean
the government can't just materialize a
trillion dollars and not inflate the
money supply? Well, that's just go
figure, right?
>> And so a lot of times these socialists,
they even try to make the promise like,
"Hey, we're only going to tax them after
this rate, but it's never enough money
for them to fund their socialist
programs to begin with. The government
will have to materialize money."
>> Not only that, if you give them more
money, they're going to expand the
government
>> 100%.
>> They will expand and they will expand
their programs. They expand the fraud
and they expand the waste.
>> The other weird thing that Mom Donny's
done is make a list of all the people
that are rich.
[laughter]
>> You see that?
>> Yeah.
>> He like released a list of all the
people that may have to pay more taxes.
It's like, hey, what are you doing?
You're that's kind of you're you just
made a list of targets and you you're
you're
putting these people in a bad position.
Like that seems that seems really crazy
to do.
>> But don't you think that these people
think they actually do think that
wealthy people are evil?
>> I don't know if he does. I I think
that's a you know, it's a bit of uh
you're you're going along with whichever
way that plastic bag is flying in the
breeze. And that's where it's flying
right now is that wealthy people are
evil. So you say that and it's a great
excuse to tax the [ __ ] out of them. And
it's also a great excuse to pretend that
you know you're making like meaningful
change and you're really doing the right
thing for the community. Yeah.
>> Yeah. [laughter] That's a big thing.
It's all destroy the community. Yeah.
Why you destroy the community? Because
the money is going to leave the state.
The money is going to leave the city.
And that's the reality of And it's not
that they're greedy. So they don't want
you to take their money. You didn't earn
it. You didn't make an iPhone. Go [ __ ]
yourself. And if you think that people
should have a cap on how much money they
make based on,
you know, what arbitrary numbers that
you come up in your own head, well,
you're going to exclude any
extraordinary outliers from creating
incredible products, massive companies.
It just
>> Yeah, maybe it's nuts that someone wants
to be a trillionaire. Yeah, I agree. I
don't want it seems [ __ ] insane. But
you have to have the freedom to be able
to want to do that if you're all playing
the same game. If you if you're playing
a game and you decide I only need 250
points and this one guy's like I'm gonna
[ __ ] 100 million points like that
that crazy guy that Tiger Woods guy that
that guy who's going to [ __ ] practice
12 hours a day. He's going to make the
most. He's going to do the most. He's
going to make the bigger company. He's
going to put more in. He's going to die
of cancer because he [ __ ] is
massively stressed out 24 hours a day.
That's his prerogative.
You should be concerned if that person
has an undue influence in your life.
Well, and they already tax the hell out
of him anyway. They already tax the be
Jesus out of these people anyway.
>> And that's that there's an illusion and
a bad narrative that they're not
responsible for the an enormous
percentage of the taxes that they don't
pay their share. They pay an enormous
amount. They make way more. They pay way
more than the average person. They're
responsible for a huge percentage of New
York City's tax revenue. A huge
percentage. And in California,
California, like a massive percentage of
the tax revenue is like a half a dozen
people. Well, and a lot of times the
people in California that they claim are
rich and really need, they're farmers.
They're farmers who are driving huge
revenue because they own a lot of land,
right?
>> And it's like, but they're producing a
huge amount of food. What is it like uh
most of the produce of the United States
comes out of one state, California,
[laughter]
>> and they're a net exporter. You know,
another thing that we were talking about
fraud with old people that I I just
found out recently. I was listening to
Michael Easter. Do you know who he is?
He um what what is his uh the comfort
dilemma? Is that his book?
>> Very interesting guy. He's been on the
podcast a couple times, but he was
talking about the blue zones.
>> You know those blue zones where as you
light a cigarette where uh everybody
lives to be a hundred cuz they're they
uh they only eat vegetarian or they eat
shellfish. The Japanese
massively based on fraud.
>> Really?
>> Yeah. Massively based on fraud. The
numbers, especially in certain areas,
are massively based on people who die
and they don't report their death. This
is in Okinawa. They're talking about
that blue zones are bad data. These
locations aren't hot beds of 100 plus
year old people. A wild story of fraud
and bad data. Michael Easter. Um, and so
he was on a podcast recently and he was
uh talking about it and just laying it
out like laying out all the the various
details. A lot of it in Okinawa in
particular where is one of the hot beds,
one of the blue zones, it's when people
die, they don't report it to the
government. And so if this person
>> they don't have the death rates correct,
>> right? And this person's getting check
if you're getting a check and then the
family gets that check, they just don't
report it. So like if they're getting
some sort of, you know, whatever it is,
some I don't know how they work over
there. Some social security. Oh yeah. Oh
yeah. So you have unreported numbers and
then you have massive amounts of fraud
where people are profiting off of the
fact that their dead grandpa is still
getting a check in the mail and so they
don't report him as dead.
>> That's that's wild. Yeah, that is wild.
That was the first time I had heard
that. I you know I grew up with the the
Japanese diet, the samurai diet, right?
This is going to make you live. Yeah,
these guys live forever
>> and Yeah, I did. Okay, it's all B. Okay,
makes sense.
>> Yeah. Well, there's some um there's some
data with uh certain areas that eat very
rich uh rich in nutrient foods. So,
there's that data that they seem to be
healthier. Hong Kong is one. They eat a
lot of meat in Hong Kong. I know it goes
against the narrative, but apparently
very healthy. And that that data
apparently seems to be real.
>> Meat is good for you. Who would have
thought it crazy? Except every
bodybuilder I've ever talked to who sits
around eating nothing but meat.
>> Any [laughter] professional athlete.
Yeah. I mean, there's very few
professional athletes that are
plant-based. And you can do it, but it's
not optimal. And you have to be really
careful. You have to like really monitor
your your your food. And most of the
time they're eating a lot of processed
supplements. They're eating a lot of
like either it's tofu or, you know,
whatever it's pea protein. There's a lot
of like processed stuff that you have to
eat. You can't just eat
>> consume the most amount of processed
food out of any individual group.
>> I would imagine that's the case. I would
imagine that makes sense especially when
you deal with plant-based like meat like
toky and that kind of [ __ ] Like what is
you ever see that stuff get made?
>> It's so gross.
>> It's looks like liquid.
>> Also not good for you. Especially those
plant-based burgers. Those are not good
for you.
>> Everything's fried in vegetable oil and
>> not good. None of that stuff's good.
None of that stuff's good. But, you
know, you got to save the chickens.
>> Yeah. But if you want to eat like just a
vegetarian diet and be healthy, like
[snorts]
it's hard. If you try and do that for
ethical reasons, I always recommend
people just eat eggs. Get chickens if
you can. If you have a backyard and eat
your chickens eggs, it is karmafree.
They're your pets and they give you food
and you could live off eggs. Eggs are
awesome.
>> I thought too that vegetarians it's okay
to eat fish too. Like there's some
>> that's pescatarian.
>> Okay.
>> Yeah. [snorts] Vegetarian is uh eggs and
and milk dep I mean you would want it
sourced from like an ethical farmer
where you can watch him milk his cows
where it's not like some [ __ ] machine
where the cow's like got it head in a
harness and it just yanking on its tits.
>> You know, if you go to a real
regenerative farm and you buy milk from
them, it's like the cows don't mind
being milked. Like it's normal. So it's
like not that big a deal for them. It's
the real problem is factory farming.
That's what freaks everybody out and
rightly so because it's some evil
concoction that people have figured out.
Well, we need all this food. No one's
growing food. Let's just stuff all these
pigs into a [ __ ] warehouse and have
them [ __ ] into a lake. Like you see
those, you go, "Oh, yeah. There's
something [ __ ] up about that." But
that's not the only way to do it. And
you know, I've had guys on my podcast
from multiple different regenerative
farms that have laid out how they do it.
And you can source your food from places
like that if you can afford it. And it's
better.
>> Don't you think that fundamental to that
position is the idea that people want to
ignore that human beings have to kill to
eat?
>> Yeah.
>> And we've always had to kill to eat.
Always. We've always killed to eat.
>> Yeah. Life eats life. And that is the
reality. And um there's also
consciousness apparently in plants.
Sorry.
>> Yeah. But what about my sentience, Joe?
>> Yeah. I think I think plants communicate
with each other in very profound ways.
They exchange resources. Um, they
communicate through mcelium so that
there's this underground network that
they're using to communicate back and
forth.
>> Some of them eat meat.
>> Yep.
>> Some of these plants eat meat.
>> Yeah. Some of those weird little fly
trap plants.
>> Yeah.
>> Those are a little tricky.
>> Well, yeah. And even that you
decomposing, you become the nutrients
that they eat. Right.
>> You seen that one that um Yeah, that's
true, too. Right. That's right. Yeah.
When you decompose, you do get eaten up
by the earth.
>> Get eaten up.
>> Which is one of the weird things that we
do. We were like, "Nah, I'm out of the
game." We just stuff a body filled with
formaldahhide and [laughter]
>> put it in a [ __ ] hermetically sealed
box. It's
>> true.
>> Is really kind of creepy. But, uh, have
you seen that one plant that eats rats?
>> No.
>> Oh, it's gross. It's It's apparently got
like this sicky, sickly, sweet smell to
it. And these rats get around the lip
and then they fall into the bottom and
they can't get out. It's just like Yeah.
It's like a like a like a vase. And uh
they fall into this [ __ ] thing and
the plant eats rats.
>> How long does it take to eat them?
>> Good question.
>> Probably a long time.
>> See if you can find that, Jamie. So,
it's it's f I mean, I want to smell it.
What does that thing smell like?
>> Like it it probably gives off like a
sickly odor that attracts the rat. I
think I'm remembering this correctly,
but uh there's a quite a few different
plants that eat bugs.
>> It's named after David Atenburgh. I was
wondering why it had this weird name.
>> What's it named? Nep nep nepaththenus
attenboro
[laughter]
>> attenboro pitcher plant montaine species
of carnivorous pitcher plant of the
genus nepenthus.
It's named after the celebrated
broadcaster and naturalist or David
Atenburgh who's a keen enthusiast of the
genus. So that's what it looks like down
there. Isn't that crazy? Yeah. They fall
in there and die and it eats them. Look
at it. It's like a [ __ ] catcher for
Look at it. It's a rat. Decomposed rat
that they pulled out of there. How's it
not How could it not get out of there? I
want to know.
>> It probably maybe the insides become
very hard so they can't claw their way
out,
>> I guess. But it's [ __ ] pretty
extraordinary. How gross is that? That
little [ __ ] He's got his head poked
out. Gets eaten alive.
>> A little photoshopped for the
>> little AI. But you know, I don't know.
Like if you watch animals consume other
animals, it's never not nasty.
>> Oh, dude. It's rough. Yeah, it's rough.
And they don't care. They'll just watch
them scream. Like, have you ever seen a
coyote on a rabbit? Rabbits scream as
loud as they don't care.
>> Oh, no. They don't care.
>> Rip it to shreds. Means nothing to them.
But we're going to worry about
[laughter] worry about eating the farm
fresh pig.
>> I just watched a a video today about a
with a bear eating another bear while it
was alive.
>> Cannibalizing another bear while it's
alive. Cuz uh big bears, like the
boores, they will kill cubs and they'll
eat them while they're alive. And this
uh this was actually a grizzly eating a
black bear and it was eating it while it
was alive and it was like trying to move
around just tearing chunks of it off.
>> Nasty.
>> Yeah. That's what I say when people say,
you know, like they get upset at me that
I hunt. I go, the way that elk is dying
when I shoot it with a bow and arrow is
infinitely better than the way it's
going to die when its teeth wear down to
nothing and then it gets like emaciated
where it can't escape and then the
coyotes get it or a mountain lion gets
it or a bear gets it or a wolf gets it.
Like an arrow through the pump station
is the best way to go. It's 30 seconds
it's gone.
>> Done.
>> Done. Yeah.
>> And it's dead and then next thing you
know you're eating it. That's the
literally the best way it can. It's not
going to live forever and become an
angel.
>> No,
>> it's not. They have like maybe 13 people
disconnected from reality anyway.
>> Just totally disconnected from the
natural order of things.
>> What's weird is like they don't seem to
mind animal on animal violence,
>> you know?
>> Oh, no. I've I've debated I've debated
with vegans who have told me that their
plan is to get rid of all of the
predator animals.
All of the predator animals. [laughter]
And my a buddy of mine, he's a he's a
fellow debater. He calls it bear jail.
He says, "You going to [laughter] say
you going?" He says, "You going to put
him in bear jail if is that is that what
you're going to do? They're going to go
to bear jail?" And some of these vegans
will say they'll say, "Look, there
[clears throat] needs to be animal
courts where they have attorneys who
come in, hey, you killed the rabbit. You
got to, you know, we you got to be
euthanized." This type of thing. They
want all the predators gone. All of
them.
>> Oh my god. I don't know what that would
even look like to the ecos that would be
like a world ending.
>> It would be amazing. [laughter] I mean,
>> what I just want to see the
infrastructure like how are you how are
you like do you know how many wolves
there are? Do you know how many bears
there are? Do you know how many mountain
lions there are? Like you can't even
keep a track of them. No.
>> California had a different approach in
California um you know they have like
the department of fish and game.
California calls the Department of Fish
and Wildlife and they were kind of
infiltrated by um animal activists and
that's how they've sort of morphed their
policies in California. And so that's
why they have a mountain lion problem.
They don't want to admit they have a
mountain lion problem, but they have a
mountain lion problem. And one of the
problems is they don't control the
population of the mountain lions. And
their idea is they want the animals to
control each other. So instead of
encouraging hunting, ideally they would
like the mountain lions to get the deer
down to a number where people can't hunt
them ethically because their populations
are in danger.
>> Yeah. But you would have to have so many
mountain lions to do it.
>> And you do.
>> Yeah. That you end up with this
overwhelming opposite problem.
>> So here's the problem. [laughter] In the
San Francisco, in the Bay Area, uh 50%
of the diet of these mountain lions is
pets.
>> Of course,
>> 50%. So when they keep catching these,
they have these depradation tags. So if
a a cat pulls a dog out of a backyard,
they find the cat, they'd euthanize it.
When they open it up, they always have
to check and see what they're eating.
And 50% of them are eating pets.
[laughter]
That's the I think I told you when the
DNR in Michigan, it's the same type of
organization, the Department of Natural
Resources,
>> in order to control the deer population,
their infinite wisdom, they started
importing western coyotes, which was not
a thing [laughter]
>> that you saw in the Midwest before like
uh you know, 30. Oh yeah. They imported
them from out west hunts. And you know
what they did? The native hunting there
was never deer. It was always pheasant.
Feeasant was what you went to the
Midwest for. Feeasantasant hunting was
the staple. Every farmer had a pheasant
gun and they would walk the railroad
tracks with their kids. The pheasants
would pop up. Boom. Done. Once they took
the coyotes out there, guess what they
didn't eat? They didn't eat the deer.
They ate up all the feeasants.
>> That's always how it goes.
>> And then it it got even worse. They
started these the population of coyotes
just blew out of control and they
started there's plenty of cotton tail
for them to eat and there's plenty of
rabbits for them to eat again not doing
a great job on controlling the deer
population these coyotes they have an
all you can eat buffet with other things
[laughter] including your cat including
your cat right including your your
smaller pets just like the mountain lion
issue so these uh so what they finally
did to try to get the deer population
down was what everybody had suggested
from the beginning just issue more tags
and make the out of state tags cheaper.
And then people will come in, but you
have all the animal rights going to come
out. Oh, you can't kill the deer. And
the farmers are going nuts. They get
nuisance tags. They'll be out there
killing these deer all day, every day,
right from their tractor because they
have a nuisance tag. There's a deer,
bam, done. Don't even think twice about
it. Summer, winter, whenever. Just blast
them because they have the permit to do
it. They can't keep the population of
these deer down. Except now they have
the additional population of all these
coyotes.
>> Oh,
>> and so how did the Michiganders deal
with that? Well, they made a game of it.
So what they do is they get grand they
hop in the truck with granddad. They
have their dogs with GPS collars and
during the winter time after they're
done filling their deer tags, they hunt
coyotes with their dogs all throughout
the winter. They're just thinning them
out.
>> Well, at least they allow that. At least
they allow that because California, one
of the things they did where their bear
population has exploded because they
stopped bear hunting with dogs, which is
the only way to get them. Either baiting
or dogs
>> because don't you treat them?
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> And the other way is baiting and they
allowed outlawed that as well.
>> Yeah. Every time they bring in an animal
to deal with another animal, they always
[ __ ] it up. Hawaii is one of the best
ones.
>> Remember? Well, didn't they import all
those cats to get the the rats in New
York? And cats don't hunt rats.
[laughter] They only hunt mice. So they
ended up having this huge explosion of
cats all over New York City.
>> Cats are too big. I mean rats rather.
>> Yeah, they're way too they're the size
of the cats.
>> They're dangerous, too. They'll [ __ ]
that cat up. Um Hawaii had a problem
with rats. I guess probably from ships.
I don't know. But they were eating the
sugarcane, so they brought in mongoose.
The problem is mongoose are dal
and the rats are nocturnal.
So the mongoose never saw the rats and
the rats never saw the mongoose. So the
mongoose started eating up all the
ground nesting birds. And so the
[laughter] this state bird of Hawaii got
[ __ ] decimated cuz a ground nesting
bird. And so these [ __ ] mongoose who
are like bad [ __ ] man. They
kill cobras, you know? They're just
killing these birds.
>> It's like an office lady. It's just like
an office lady. Go. I have this idea,
guys. We got to bring in the cats
because then that'll get the rats that
someone else says, "Yeah, that's great."
And they just never consult anybody who
knows anything about these animals
[laughter] at all. Well, I think
everything was done in decades past
where people are a lot more ignorant
about the the effect. And you know,
Australia is a good example of that.
Australia, they brought in cats. I
forget what they were dealing with, but
it didn't work. They didn't kill
whatever they want. Now they have a a
giant feral cat problem in Australia to
the point where bow hunting magazines in
Australia, they have [ __ ] cats in
them. Like a guy holding a house cat up
that he shot with a bow and arrow. Like
it's a trophy. Like my friend Adam, he
lives in Australia and uh I uh was over
there visiting him and he gave me some
bow hunting magazines. I'm like, "Oh,
I'll read these on the way home." So,
I'm on the plane on the way home, not
even thinking, and I'm opening up this
magazine, and there's a [ __ ] guy
holding a cat, and I like close it shut
real quick. I'm like, [laughter]
>> "Is this allowed?
>> What the fuck?"
>> They're mounting kitty cats on the wall.
[laughter]
>> Like, if you saw a puppy with a [ __ ]
arrow through its chest, you'd be like,
"Fak out."
>> But that's how it is. Like, over there,
they have so many feral cats that
there's like a bounty on cats. Like,
people make like fur coats out of cats.
It's [ __ ] disgusting.
>> Who would expect that? The country who
lost a war to the emus. [laughter]
>> They lost a war against their own emu
population.
>> They have a giant problem with invasive
species over there. There's so many of
them. There's the the water buffalo, the
Asiatic water buffalo in the Northern
Territories. They have these enormous
[ __ ] buffaloos that are up there and
no natural predators. And they guys just
go up there to hunt them and they're
>> That's the only way to thin them out.
It's only and you're still you're not
going to you're not going to put a
denim. There's not enough guys. It's too
far.
>> My Australian buddy Jake, he has the
drop bear joke. Have you heard the drop
bear joke?
>> No.
>> Oh, it's the funny if if you get an
Australian in a bar, right? Somebody
always brings this up. I'm like, man,
there's a lot of dangerous critters over
there. Every time. And he'll be like,
"Oh, yeah. Especially the the drop
bears. You know what's a drop?" Oh,
yeah. And he'll go into the whole story
of the drop bear. And what the drop bear
is is it's a bear that'll drop out of
the tree on you and then it sexually
assaults you. It's a real thing, right?
And every time someone be really see
[laughter]
like it's how it's how Australians mess
with the Yanks basically the drop bears.
>> They're hearty people. They're used to
crocodiles and [ __ ] poisonous spiders
and poisonous snakes and especially
those dudes that live out in the, you
know, in the bush as they say. Well, he
says that the Aboriginals, he he tells
me all the stories of the Aboriginals
when they like have their coming of age,
they'll just buy warm beer and then they
go out to the middle of the desert with
warm beer and they'll just drink for
weeks, months, warm beer. That's what
they spend their government checks on
because a lot of that stuff is
>> uh considered occupied land, right? The
Australian government make deals with
the Aboriginals to have a lot of that
land. So, they give them a percentage,
right? They give them like monthly
payments kind of like what we do with
the Native Americans here.
>> And he's like, "What they do is they'll
take their whole government cheese
check, fill an entire car with warm beer
for their coming of age, go out to the
middle of the desert, and just drink for
months."
>> I'm like, man, that's rough.
Do they have a s a similar situation
where like uh Native Americans don't
have genetically a history of alcohol
use and so alcohol impacted them
different than it did the Europeans?
Like they just they didn't have the
enzymes.
>> Not just that, they have another
problem. Have you ever seen the petrol
song?
>> The petrol song?
>> Oh man. What I'm about to show you is
going to make you laugh to death.
There's a song which was made by the
Australian government for the
Aboriginals
about how you shouldn't drink or sniff
petrol gasoline from a can. I'm not
kidding. You can pull it up right now.
It's the gasoline song, right?
>> It is the you're you just be prepared.
You're going to laugh yourself to death.
>> Oh my god. Here we go.
>> Is it Oh, that's it. Uh, don't be Rama
by War Burbertton.
>> Is this it? Put the headphones on.
[music]
>> Yeah.
>> No sniff. Don't sniff. [laughter]
Yeah. Oh, step on the bottle.
>> Look at us.
>> Show me sister. It's only
stand [music]
for one another.
>> Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on.
Yeah. Come on. Come on.
[music]
[laughter]
>> You don't sniff petrol from a can. You
put your petrol in the car, it stays.
It's messing with your brains.
>> [music]
>> Holy [ __ ]
[music]
>> Wow.
Oh my.
>> Smell pretty good though to be honest.
>> Catchy song.
>> Yeah, catchy stuff.
>> Very catchy.
>> Jesus Christ. Imagine you got that and
you think you're going to fix that
problem with a catchy song?
>> No. No. And they they have huge
problems. He tells me stories about it
all the time. He sent that over. He
said, "This song exists." No, it
doesn't. No way. Sends it over. Oh my
god, it does exist. It's a real thing.
It's such a problem for him.
>> God, that's dark.
>> Yeah, it's brutal.
>> And that's the sort of addiction
problems that are going on there.
>> Uh it's not just like people forget it's
not just the alcohol introduction. It's
the introduction of all things which are
addicting
>> that begin. If your culture has no
defense against it, just sweeps right
through.
>> Right.
>> Very similar to the crack epidemic,
right? What was the defense?
>> Well, it's also the accessibility,
right?
>> Crack was cheaper,
>> just like petrol.
>> Yeah. [laughter]
>> Oh, it's that that whole thing of giving
them their land and then giving them
money. Boy, that always turns out
horrible.
>> It's turned out horrible for us here.
>> The native populations
>> except the ones that own casinos.
Ballin. You know what's funny? You look
into that though and you find out, guess
what? They don't really get that much in
the way of proceeds from those casinos.
>> Turns out that White Eyee comes in and
still gets most of the proceeds from
those casinos.
>> Yep. Somebody comes in and bankrolls it
and sets it up and they get a a nice
check and they don't have to work again.
But that guy gets [ __ ] stinking rich.
And then also you've created a gambling
problem, which I am of the belief that
you have to have personal
accountability. Like I don't mind Las
Vegas. I don't mind it. I think if you
want to go into the casino and like my
friend Dana White is a [ __ ]
degenerate gambler. Like he plays
blackjack for like $100,000 a hand. It's
it's nuts. I don't like it. I don't do
it. I don't get it. But I feel like you
should be able to do it if that's what
you want to do.
>> Sure. And then the argument is like
people lose everything and like true
also people lose everything drinking. I
don't know what you want to do about
that but I think you should have
personal accountability and you should
if you're an alcoholic definitely not
drink. I don't know like at what point
in time do we say you can't because some
people enjoy playing craps. They go to
they look forward to going to Vegas and
they want to play craps. like what do we
well and overwhelmingly now people go
okay I'm going to go to Vegas or I'm
going to go to Laughlin or I'm going to
go to a place like this um I'm bringing
the exact amount of money that I can
lose and they just expect yeah just
expect to lose there are degenerate
gamblers there's no doubt
>> oh I could introduce you to a gang of
them
>> there's there's [laughter] yeah there's
tons of degenerate gamblers that's true
>> my friend Dana is a weird one cuz he's a
degenerate gambler that's insanely
wealthy
>> like he's he's worth [ __ ] [ __ ] piles
of money and he he's still gambling all
the time like uh but
>> like there's a thrill for it maybe.
>> Yeah. Well, so but when you set up one
of those casinos in a place that's never
had a casino, at least Vegas is like
established, right? But if you just like
set up some new casino in a a very poor
area,
>> check out that stat.
>> Oklahoma rose to 3.23 billion. Oh,
native gaming revenues in Oklahoma rose
to 3.23 billion in 2010, representing
44% of all US casinos. Whoa. Oklahoma
surpassed Connecticut as second in the
United States for gaming revenue.
According to Alan Meister, an economist
with uh Nathan Associates, Inc.,
Oklahoma has 113 tribal casinos. Whoa.
More than any other state in the US.
2015 report on US gaming says Oklahoma
has the most gaming machines. Those
machines, bro. Those That's the saddest
thing when you go to Vegas, see someone
just sitting there
>> like a drone.
>> Yeah. Just pressing buttons.
>> The old ladies with their Have you ever
seen the screen rubbers? They're They're
hilarious. They'll rub the screen for
luck.
>> Yeah,
>> that's just wild. And they play the
penny slots.
>> Penny slots. 100 lines at a time. So,
it's a buck a hand, but it's a penny
slot.
>> Oh,
>> it's a penny slot. The um Yeah, they're
they're making out like bandits, but
it's usually not actually the native
tribes that are making out at all.
>> Of course.
>> Yeah. They get just enough to shut up.
There you go. Now, shut It's just sad
when you find out how much alcoholism
and drug abuse exists on those in those
places just and you think like if you
look at it from a genetic perspective
like fire water that was always the
thing it was always the joke from the
western movies that the natives couldn't
handle their fire water because they
didn't have a history of alcohol use and
all a sudden you've introduced something
that allows them to just get pissed
drunk fall asleep and they don't have
cultural traditions on how to manage it
correctly and
>> for addiction at all.
>> Or and there's also the genetics like
some people have a genetic propensity
for alcoholism and uh also some people
are better at processing alcohol. They
have a genetic propensity for prop it's
like the whole thing is it's dark.
>> You were telling me um just before we
came in here that you had seen uh Rachel
debate that guy Ryan.
>> Yes. Yes. and you you had watched the
the thrashing um which I was telling you
was in the front row when that happened
and he was
>> that guy was just beyond upset you know
everybody was every [laughter]
everybody is drafting him and I was I
was going to I was going to get your
take on that like what did you think
after you had watched that did you feel
bad for that guy or
>> no
>> no
>> no I never feel bad for someone that is
and if that's what like I don't feel bad
for guys when they fight and they get
kicked in the head, you know, signed up
for it.
>> I don't like that people get injured in
a fight, but you were trying to do that,
he did it to you. That's what it is. It
is what it is, you know. And
>> it's just the weirdness is like like
telling her to make him a sandwich.
>> Yeah.
>> Like that like like what what are we
doing here? Like are you you a
misogynist now? Like you think a woman's
what are you saying? Like [laughter]
>> they don't think at all about ex it's
like the checkers thing. Like we were
talking about like the ID for the
grocery store.
>> Terrible optics.
>> It's like what are you doing? It's also
wanting to be right and to win versus
like having a really wellthoughtout
perspective that you want to argue, you
know, like or debate or or just
communicate.
It's always this ego thing where people
are trying to win and in doing so they
they fall into these like really obvious
traps.
>> Easy ones too. That's one of the things
that when we first talked about doing
another podcast, I said, "I want to talk
to you about because, you know, you're
very logical in your approach to these
things." And so many people are so bad
at being logical.
>> Yeah. Well, you know, Dave, I did a
debate, pretty famous debate with Dave
Smith, and I know you know Dave, and uh
Dave's a friend of mine, and we became
friends. I love Dave.
>> Yeah. We became
>> He's a very good friend of mine.
>> He's uh
>> What happened in the debate?
>> Well, he got crushed badly.
>> What was the debate over? The debate was
well it veered into his libertarian
philosophy.
>> I can hear him RIGHT NOW GOING [ __ ] I
DID NOT [ __ ] GET CRUSHED.
>> He won't he won't actually on this one.
>> On this one he agreed.
>> Very publicly acknowledged that this
happened to him. But it was good.
>> So it was about libertarianism.
>> There was libertarians versus Christian
ethics and how the intersection actually
happens with authority. And he ended up
having to agree with most of my
positions. I'm a little bit more of a
statist than he is. He's a libertarian.
And so we had this and it was a good
back and forth. It was a brutal debate,
but it was a good back and forth. But
when it was done, I think what he
expected was that I was going to do the
uh the Dunk on Dave tour. I was going to
go around, haha, you the opposite. In
fact, I DM'd him and said, "Look,
>> I think that I can help shore your
worldview up.
>> So you're a libertarian and here's some
points that you missed and I think I can
help shore those up." And he said,
"Really?" So, I walked him through a
bunch of those points and he still uses
them to this day.
>> That's cool.
>> But the whole idea there is like I I do
want my worldview to win ultimately.
That's true. And one of the reasons I do
so many debates is because I do think
that I'm speaking to the audience from
my worldview. Why I think it's perhaps
superior to this guy's or the things I'm
advocating for better or worse. Uh
[snorts] with Dave, he's doing the same
thing. He's advocating his worldview.
I think the difference there, the
distinction was that he was surprised
and he he kind of asked me about it and
I said, 'L the reason is is because
you're a good debater and you've gotten
better or as time has gone on and if
you're going to represent your view, I
want you to be the best at representing
that view because that's how you
determine which worldview people end up
going with.
>> This is why so many people have moved
towards Christianity and Christian
ethics. Seeing the religious debates has
a lot to do with that with the various
ideas in worldview uh being expanded and
then the kind of the graciousness even
after the debate of trying to help the
other person with their view.
>> That's very cool and that would be nice
if most people used that framework to
have discussions.
>> They don't.
>> They don't. No, they don't. It's just
and again it's like it's a part of what
we're talking about that there's this
whole commodity of attention and there's
a lot of attention on dunking on people
and [ __ ] on people and being mean
and uh people love that stuff for
whatever reason.
>> That's true. And now I'm not always that
charitable when it comes to progressives
or leftists, the people who I consider
responsible for many of the most
horrific things in in society socially
that we deal with. I'm not nearly as
charitable to them, but this is because
in in uh my humble experience, they have
not been very charitable to anybody.
>> No,
>> anybody's views.
>> It's a very hyperaggressive position and
um very prone to insults and that it's
it's normalized like attacking people's
normalized. The celebration of Charlie
Kirk is a great example of like the
cruelty that's normalized, right? Um,
and when you get down to the core pillar
of their ideology,
a lot of them think, not only is this
justified, I'll give you an example.
There's a guy who was inside the Twitch
sphere who says, "Well, wouldn't you
kill Hitler if you could before he
became Hitler, that's his justification,
>> right?" And so you see many progressives
who have this kind of justification and
that leads to a huge amount of political
violence which becomes normalized
because they justify it through the lens
of I'm stopping a monster.
>> Right?
>> I've never thought these people see me
as a human being. I don't think that
they do. I think that they see me, most
of them, at least the ones I debate
with, as an actual monster
>> who's trying to take from trying or
destroy them or hurt them in some way.
>> And so from from my view, that's that's
what it always seems like coming this
direction is that there's they they
don't even see me as a person. They see
me as um like an idea or an ideology
which is there to hurt them,
>> right? that they have to attack and and
beat and win, right? And then of course
they're in the echo chamber of the
people that also support that ideology
and they're all like agreeing that this
is okay and that this is acceptable and
this violence is acceptable and all
these different things. Yeah. Um it's
really it's it's kind of daunting
because you just like when does this
dust settle? When when do people just
like relax and start having actual
conversations on both sides? Like when
when do people just do what you and Dave
did and just
find out why a person thinks what they
think and what what the actual facts of
what they're saying are and whether or
not your worldview is distorted
>> or compatible
>> or compatible. You know, like Christian
ethics living inside of libertarianism
from my view is way better than trying
to make Christian ethics compatible with
progressive ideology.
>> And so if I have to pick between a guy
governing like Mumani or a guy who holds
the ideology like Dave Smith, I'm
picking Dave Smith's ideology.
>> And that those are the choices. That's
how I view it. I view it as choices
between ideology. Somebody's going to be
in charge. Somebody's going to be in
charge of the state no matter what.
>> Yeah. I'm going to try to pick the
ideology that's closest to my own. If
you're going to be in charge of the
state, I definitely want you to at least
be representing the values that I have
while you're in charge of it.
>> And the values of being legitimately
charitable and a pathway to redemption,
which doesn't exist as progressive,
which is really a problem because they
keep pushing the goalpost and eating
their own. They keep going further and
further left and attacking people for
not being left enough. And like you get
cast out of the community, you get
excommunicated for minor. I mean, how
many people were excommunicated during
CO for just not going along with the
government's narrative on pharmaceutical
drugs being injected in your body absent
your consent? Many of them wanted COVID
passports. Remember that? Yeah.
>> They wanted to inject the jabby stabby
into you. YouTube even censored
opposition to it for a long time. I
think there's a real problem with people
that don't have an ethical framework or
a moral framework that's just arbitrary
and they don't have a religious
>> found yeah a found like that's where I
always describe it as like whether you
believe in Christ or not it's an awesome
framework like a scaffolding for being a
good person you could follow that guy's
teachings like there's no flaws in it
like especially Jesus like there's not
one thing you point to like you know
there's a few guys in in religion that
you could point to and go yeah He
married a 9-year-old. Like, hey, that
seems a little [ __ ] Hey, he he said
he could kill the infidels. That seems a
little [ __ ] with Jesus. There's none
of that.
>> None of that. Not only that, it's
interesting that you bring that up. The
the kind of foundational principles for
Christians, the emulation of Christ, we
accept that we're flawed. We accept that
we sin. And we accept that the only
pathway for us to redemption is to
follow the teachings of Jesus Christ
through Christian ethics. Right. That's
what that's how we perceive things. So
baked into that is not only redemption.
It's not only the idea of salvation, but
it's an it gives you a value to move
towards.
>> Yeah. And what's missing often from the
progressive ideology, from the secular
ideology or the atheist ideology,
how do you give a person a moral aught
if you are the ultimate arbiter of all
that is moral? Because it just comes to
your down to your preference,
>> right?
>> How do we determine who the ultimate
arbiter now is,
>> right?
>> Well, it usually just comes down to you
and whatever your preferences are. And
so, what are we moving towards exactly?
How do we make the determination that
you're an error? You're not moving
towards this greater value.
>> What you do is you're establishing a new
non-defined religion that could be moved
and changed based on the winners. Yeah.
At any given time and depending on who's
the most radical and the most
charismatic that's in charge of whatever
that movement is at the time, eat the
rich, whatever it is, whatever little
micro cults. Yes. Right. Like the sec.
Have you seen the secular humanist micro
cult? Same thing there. They
>> remember atheism plus.
>> Yeah. Right. Atheism plus. Secular
humanism is really interesting because
and I've debated the most prominent
secular humanists in the world.
>> Who's that?
>> Um well I did Matt Dillah Hunty. I've
done several uh secular humanist
debates. Matt Dillah Hunty was the
funniest thing in the world. He rage
quit in the first few minutes of the
debate in my opening statement because I
brought up this glaring contradiction in
his worldview. I said why? Why should So
he was dating a he's dating a trans
person but he says he's not gay, right?
right? Said, "I'm not gay, but I'm
dating a trans person." So, I brought
this up and I said,
>> "The way that we can assess truth
claims, I can just point an easy one out
of how we can assess that maybe this
isn't a good way to evaluate truth
claims
>> because he says he's in a non-homosexual
relationship with a trans woman
>> and reconciles that by saying, "No,
that's a real woman." And I'm like, if
we can't even distinguish what's real
and what's true, how could he even have
>> quit off that? Oh, he was so angry. He
called me a bunch of names, got up and
rage quit for me pointing out this
glaring contradiction in his ideology
>> and it ru it basically ruined his
career, but he did it to himself because
he should just stayed and done the
debate and here's why I think this and
but instead he just lost it. He lost it.
Got up undignified through the mic,
called me a bunch of names, walked out
and anyway I said, "You and your husband
have [clears throat] a wonderful
evening." and he just that was it for
him on on his way out. But the problem
with this ideology is it's changed. So
he was reading from the secular human
manifesto three. So it's already had it,
you know, it's on its third revision
now. And it started initially as kind of
more religious dogma and then it took on
a non-religious dogma and they called it
secular.
>> Who's creating the canon? Uh well uh
there was a big meeting in Amsterdam.
Not kidding. [laughter]
I'm not kidding. It's the Amsterdam
secular humanist manifesto.
And um essentially it just comes down to
um these arbitrary preferences around uh
well we're we're just kind of for things
that make you feel good and kind of
against things that make us not feel so
good. Now that's the biggest
oversimplification in the world, but it
really does just kind of reduce to that.
And so one of the ways that you can
always kind of endlessly beat these guys
about the head in the shoulders with
their own ideology is just point this
out. Who's in charge of this anyway?
Like which one of you gets to make this
determination
that this is the ought that I should
follow based on anything other than your
preferences. And the idea always is,
well, it wouldn't just be my preference.
It'd be the preference of many people,
but don't those change? Well, yeah.
Well, then what you're saying is that
what you consider moral today, you're
not going to consider moral tomorrow.
That tells me that you're saying to me,
you don't know what is moral and what is
not. The Christian has the opposite
approach. They're saying what was moral
yesterday is still moral today, and
what's still moral today is still what's
going to be moral a thousand years from
now, 2,000 years from now,
>> because that's the teaching they're
basing it on.
>> Yeah. It's It's really odd if anybody
It's like Wikipedia like anybody can
contribute.
>> Yeah. Or [laughter] edit. You can just
edit it whenever you want to. Thank feel
bad. Edit.
>> It's way worse than Wikipedia because
it's not even edit. Like you could
actually add to the cannon. You could,
you know.
>> Oh [laughter] yeah.
>> Right. You could write your own, you
know, the book of Eugene.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Book of Eugene. And
this is Eugene's new prophetic way
forward.
>> Um that is that is 100% true. And there
are actual uh fail safes in the Bible
that prevent people from writing new
Bibles, right? The the entirety of the
message of Christ in and of itself. Um
this is what Christian ethics is based
on the teachings of Jesus Christ, the
teachings of the scriptures. But it
always gives us a thing to move towards.
And that is why it creates, I think, uh,
better societies in general. Better
societies overall because people always
go, "Wait a second. I'm supposed to be
moving towards this idea."
>> If you really do follow it, it makes
nice people. Like the people that I know
that are like genuine real Christians
are some of the nicest people I know. Of
course,
>> they're so kind. Almost as nice as the
Mormons,
>> right? [laughter]
>> They're the nicest. The more well the
the Mormon thing is the nicest
>> because there's like if you have to be
in a cult like you said boy that's got
to be the one.
>> It's a great one. You get a bunch of
wives, everyone's cool.
>> And do you know that they're the
richest? They're richer than the
Catholic Church.
>> Are there really
>> much richer?
>> Wow.
>> Much richer.
>> I would have never guessed that.
>> I didn't either until I Somebody told me
that. There's no way.
>> Yes, there is.
>> But there's so many Catholics. Aren't
there way more Catholics?
>> Way more. But it's the tithing. So
Mormons, Mormons are really they
practice nepotism like no other. I mean
and um that I mean they just
overwhelmingly practice this in their
communities. And so with the tithing,
business tithing, some of these
businesses will tithe the Mormon church
60 70%. And then they get awarded
various contracts from their friends and
things like this
>> and the church has buu dollars.
>> Damn, what a nice nice setup.
>> Yeah, it's a nice it's a pretty nice
setup for them. And then they run their
own politicians inside their own states,
>> of course.
>> Yeah. Which then enforces their law.
It's like they kind of figured a lot of
this out.
>> As long as they're nice. Whatever. If
they could push that niceness out to
everybody else, like you know what? Why
do you got here, Jeremy?
>> It does.
>> It's official. Mormonism is the richest
religion in the world.
>> But Cath I just I mean Catholicism as a
whole uh somewhere in the two to3
trillion dollar. Oh, because there's a
bunch of different Catholic churches. Is
that what it is? Oh, I see.
>> But the church but the single richest
church is Yeah. The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints. So,
Mormons. [laughter]
>> Wow. They have a hundred billion
dollars.
>> Yeah.
>> They're way above everybody else.
>> Yeah. Vatican is only 30 billion. I
would have never guessed they were that
much richer than the Vatican.
>> That is not That's not correct.
>> That's not fair.
>> That is not correct.
>> What do you mean?
>> I'm just saying it's not correct.
How so?
>> I mean, well, also to it's a Wikipedia
post on Reddit. That's not the best
source.
>> Oh, you just think this is just not
accurate in general.
>> Yeah. Whatever Holy Sea is is not
>> That's the Vatican. Yeah, that
>> I know. But I mean, it's they got way
more than $30 billion. And just
>> Well, that's a lot of money, dude. And
just art.
>> I wonder. Right. That's a good point.
>> Say it's I just looked it up. It's worth
$3 trillion it says on this other post.
>> Oh, interesting. So just the art
>> I'm just
>> or the buildings and the Vatican itself
>> with getting into the weeds of it. Yeah.
It as one whole church in Utah. Yes.
Comparatively to the one church in
Texas, it's got
>> So are they just basing it on their
assets? Is that what it is?
>> So it's a com It was comparing it to
like per person like per per uh
look one average Catholic is worth
$67,000 versus 1.7 million.
>> Damn. The average Mormon is worth 1.7
million.
>> Nepotism baby.
>> Yeah. And then also there's a Catholic.
There's way more Catholics like in
Africa that you know aren't worth
anything.
>> And South America especially,
>> right? But that is crazy. The average
Mormon's worth 1.7 million.
>> That's also their probably their stat.
>> Yeah. At least probably like, yo,
>> bro, join us.
>> That's what Scientology does, right?
>> Oh, that was a big thing with
Scientology in Hollywood. in Hollywood.
Uh when I first moved there in 1994,
there was a bunch of people that were
doing really well who were
Scientologists and there was this this
sort of push that if you join
Scientology, they take care of you and
you get hooked up.
>> That is really a wide birth. It's
between 300 billion and 2.5 trillion.
[laughter]
>> That's a really wide
>> That's almost like Ilhan Omar's
accountant
is hiding something here.
>> I heard the other day that someone just
said like Rome didn't go away. It just
became the Catholic Church. And that's
why, you know,
>> Right. Right. Right. Have you been to
the Vatican?
>> Oh my god, the art is insane. It's
insane. I went on a tour with uh this
guy who was a professor from France. It
was really cool. He was really smart. It
was a very interesting tour. You could
hire a guy and this guy was a a
professor and in the summer he would,
you know, give these tours and if you
were enthusiastic about it, he was
awesome and I was like really really
into it. So I was asking him all these
questions and he kept like explaining in
depth to me and like the you just never
run out of art.
>> You're looking at so much [ __ ] like this
is crazy. You keep going into new rooms
and new [ __ ] new auditoriums and then
>> you you're in like St. Peter's Basilica.
Just that alone you're like what what
this is crazy
>> and it's all worth a fortune. It's so
big and so majestic that if you didn't
believe in God and you went there, you'd
be like, "Okay, maybe
>> they might know something." Like, how
the [ __ ] did you do this? Like, it's so
majestic that it almost changes your
perception of what's possible.
>> You think they got the chronovvisor in
there?
>> The what?
>> The chronovvisor. The Vatican
chronovvisor.
>> What is that?
>> That's supposedly, this is conspiracy
stuff, right? Getting into the
conspiracy stuff. Supposedly, the
Vatican is sitting on something called
the chronovvisor, which tells them the
future, and it was invented, I don't
know how many hundreds of years ago, but
you put on the chronovisor and it shows
you the future. [laughter] Yes.
No.
>> Yes.
>> Oh my god. Where is the arrow is
pointing to like be like Jesus or
something, I think.
>> I don't understand.
>> Yeah. And so, yeah, they put on the hat.
Yeah. put it you put it on and it'll
show you it can show you different spots
in time or something like this called
the chrono. [laughter]
>> Well, you know, I've I'm really
interested in uh the Ark of the Covenant
that's supposedly in Ethiopia.
>> You know, have you ever heard Graham
Hancock talk about that?
>> No.
>> It's really interesting. So, um, the
Ethiopian,
um, Bible has a lot of like the book of
Enoch in it, and it's a really old
version.
>> They don't consider it dudero canon.
They consider it canon.
>> Um, yeah. So, the Ethiopian church is
not actually I I don't believe it's
actually in
>> communion with the Orthodox Church
anymore. It's on its own along with a
couple others. But they do have more
books in their Bible than the Orthodox
Church does in the Catholic Church.
>> Right? And supposedly they're guarding
the Ark of the Covenant. And these
people that are
assigned to be a guardian of this thing,
they can only do it for a couple years
and they develop cataracts.
And he spoke to these people
>> from the blinding light,
>> from whatever the [ __ ] it is. Like
whatever it is. It might be radiation. I
mean, who knows what it is? But
apparently the lore is that it's this
one particular church, this very old
church in Ethiopia and there is an area
where they are guarding the ark of the
covenant and they have and the people
that are supposed to be in the room with
it, they all can only do it for a couple
years and then they get horribly sick
>> and then they have to switch them out
>> and they get cataracts like this
documented cataracts from all these guys
who go to I mean maybe it's the placebo
effect they think they're going to get.
I don't know, but I highly doubt it. It
sounds more likely you've got some sort
of a crazy artifact that might be
ancient technology.
>> We have the same thing in Israel over
Jesus's two
>> supposedly.
Yeah, the chrono visor.
>> I was just reading the article. This is
like it says a purported photo of
>> Oh, that's crystal clear. That's clearer
than uh whatever his name is. Tyler
Robinson, [laughter]
>> right? Right. That's in 4K.
>> This guy swears that he had the ability
to go witness these events. He witnessed
like tons of stuff and then when he died
it says that the pope hid it so nobody
could ever nobody could ever use it.
>> How convenient.
>> Very convenient.
>> How convenient.
>> But yeah, another another big miracle
that's like that is over the tomb of
Jesus Christ sits the Orthodox Church in
Israel. Now that's true, right? That is
in fact the case that there is an
Orthodox church, Christian church is
above the tomb.
>> Wow.
>> And every year, I think it's every year
they have the miracle of the holy
sephiler. I think I'm pronouncing that
right. Sephiler. And what they do is
they use flame and emulate themselves in
this holy flame and they're burning.
They're on fire and none of them burn.
>> What? What?
>> How do they do that?
>> Nobody knows.
>> But there's
>> this is just one small sect of
Christianity.
>> No. No. This is the this Orthodox
church. People come from miles around.
>> But who the people that light themselves
on fire? These are people who are in the
church who are specially selected to
basically emulate, you know, they set
themselves on fire with the holy flame
from torches. And apparently, this is
what I'm told, they've had people go and
investigate and they can't figure out
how exactly this is being done, but
they're completely on fire and they
don't get hurt at all.
>> Jamie, pull that up. I have [laughter]
uh
>> is there video of that? Before I get
there, demonstration on Greek television
did five candles in white phosphorus.
The candle was spontaneously ignited for
approximately 10 minutes due to the
self- ignition properties of white
phosphorus when in contact with the air.
According to the website, it says that
phosphorus is dissolved in an
appropriate organic solvent. Self
ignition is delayed until the solvent is
completely evaporated. repeated
experiments show the ignition can be
delayed for half an hour or more
depending on the density of the
solution.
>> How does it stop them from catching fire
though and dying? Uh
>> the same way it's probably like the the
you know the [ __ ] that people put on to
make movies you know
>> he's a skeptic this [ __ ] he's
always ruining everything with all
logic. I think that skepticism is great
if people actually practice the real
philosophical tradition of skeptic
skepticism, which is you're supposed to
also be skeptical of your view,
>> right?
>> So, the real skeptics I I'll never
forget this debate that I listened to
that it always stuck with me for years.
It was with a guy named Jay Dyer and
that same guy, Matt Dillah Hunty, and
they were debating and
>> Oh, here it is.
>> Oh, sorry. I got a thought.
>> Go ahead. They were they were debating.
Yeah, they were debating and he said the
the guy Dillah Hunty said, "Well, I'm a
skeptic." And Jay said, "No, you're not.
Here's the actual philosophy of
skepticism and it always starts with
you.
>> Your view is what you apply skepticism
to first long before you ever apply it
to any other."
>> And the problem with people who describe
themselves now as skeptics, I'm a
skeptic. They actually aren't really
following skepticism. They're skeptical
of your view. That doesn't mean that
they're skeptical of their own. And it's
supposed to start internally. That's
what made skepticism uh kind of
something that spread widely was that it
was a way for people to reject parts of
their own worldview that didn't fit.
They didn't match. They they weren't
coherent. They didn't make much sense.
And so most of the time I hear
skepticism,
uh the person's not actually following
the philosophy of skepticism. They're
not applying it to their view first.
>> Yeah. There's a lot of lazy skepticism,
too, where they outright deny the the
existence of conspiracies, like which is
just [ __ ] ludicrous. It's like you're
just you're playing a very you're in a a
very rigid corridor of ideas. You're
you're only allowed to operate
>> ridiculous. Not only that, the the US
government has thousands of laws on the
books about conspiracy. So it's like our
government seems to believe in them
because there's conspiracy to commit
racketeering, conspiracy to murder,
conspiracy to commit theft, conspiracy
to commit wire fraud. Like they clearly
believe that there's a lot of
conspiracies going on and definitely
prosecute people for conspiracies all
the time. But somehow when it comes to
the skeptic mindset of conspira, nope,
that's all tinfoil. It's a lazy
perspective and it's also a perspective
that falls in line with what we were
talking about before where you take a
lot of legitimate conspiracies and you
add a bunch of [ __ ] to it to make it
seem completely ludicrous and then the
whole thing can be thrown out. It's like
it's so obvious that that's a that's a
ploy.
>> Did you find anybody catching fire? Uh
the first Yeah. When I was getting into
I was like, "Well, they're not really
they're like just dancing their hands
over the fire." Like it's it wouldn't
catch anybody on fire technically cuz
you're not you're not lighting fire. See
how it's like touching his hand?
>> These guys don't look like she's putting
her hands through it and whatever.
>> Oh, so they're faking it. So the few
people are faking it. Oh, this guy's
lighting his beard on fire.
>> So there was a lady that at the end of
one of these videos, she held a piece of
paper over it and it wasn't I mean
>> Well, is this stuff like regular fire?
>> But that's where I was kind of getting
into the white phosphorus thing. And
they said after 30 minutes it will start
acting as you expect it to.
>> Look at all it seems like everybody
should be on fire. How odd.
>> But yeah, it's a it's a longstanding
tradition. Like she's wiping it on her
forehead or something. [laughter]
>> Huge tradition there. They call it the
miracle.
>> Is another tradition in America called I
got to take a peek. So, let's wrap this
up. This was really fun, man.
>> Appreciate you having me hang out with
you. Yeah, I enjoy it.
>> We We went over a lot today.
>> A lot of [ __ ]
>> Yeah, a lot.
>> And I enjoyed it very much. Thank you.
>> Thank you. My pleasure. See you again.
Of
>> course. [music] Ladies and gentlemen,
good night.
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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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