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00:03:01.000I don't think it was taken out of context, because I'm pretty sure it was someone asked her a question, and then she gave a long and detailed answer.
00:03:11.000Based on what we know about certain chimpanzee subspecies that are really, really hard to find, we're just finding out, I think they figured it out from the 1990s.
00:03:22.000There's a giant version of chimpanzees that lives in the Congo.
00:04:33.000Just hanging out with them constantly.
00:04:35.000Do you know what kind of a human being you have to be to be able to keep your shit together in a tribe of wild chimps where they accept you?
00:08:56.000I mean, to make it look like a human foot, it would have to either be a giant human foot or be just...
00:09:07.000Incredible special effects it's one of two things you know some of them they got like ridges they've found like dermal ridges that indicate They think it indicates like what like a footprint type thing, but with the with the feet of these things They seem to think that that somehow or another makes it a very very difficult to fake but People want to believe that shit.
00:10:43.000If we found another person, we'd be like, holy shit, look what it's done!
00:10:47.000If we poked our head into some other dimension, and we just stuck our head through, and we saw the impact, Of a human civilization on the natural world, we'd be like, what the fuck?
00:12:11.000Yeah, and you know, she said that she was talking to Native Americans about it, and you know, they're like, you know, they go off on, they're a little bit trippy, right?
00:12:20.000Right, they might have been peyote'd the fuck up, right?
00:13:00.000There's a lot of people in this country who claim to believe the existence of Bigfoot, but one California woman believes it so strongly in the beast that she's actually filed a lawsuit to prove it.
00:13:09.000Could you imagine being the court systems all choked up with divorce and corruption and tax evasion, whatever the fuck else they investigate, and this crazy lady?
00:14:22.000There's no footprints that are like attached to hair, you know, where you could get like a little bit of hair off of it and say, oh, well, this is definitely a primate.
00:16:44.000Bob Hieronymus, who's a big cowboy-looking dude.
00:16:47.000And they had him walk with a monkey suit on.
00:16:49.000And everybody was like, that's real Bigfoot footage.
00:16:52.000This guy bought a monkey suit, too, by the way.
00:16:56.000The guy who made the film, he had bought a monkey suit.
00:16:59.000And he said he was going to use the monkey suit to film reenactments or practice filming with it or something like that.
00:17:06.000Some cockamamie reason for having a monkey suit.
00:17:09.000It's just like, the whole thing is so stupid.
00:17:13.000If you look at all the pieces involved, you're like, oh yeah, you guys were fucking around, and you filmed some shit while you were on a horse.
00:18:05.000I think if you see Harry and the Hendersons before finding out about Bigfoot, it's like believing that Barney the Dinosaur would exist out there.
00:18:13.000The only reason to give it any credence at all is the vast expanse of wilderness that exists in the Pacific Northwest because it's so lush.
00:18:24.000It's so crazy that no one's getting in there and figuring out exactly what's in there.
00:18:29.000I really think everyone who lives in...
00:18:34.000This area especially, because you can get up there pretty quick.
00:18:37.000But anybody anywhere should go to the Pacific Northwest.
00:18:40.000I go to the mountains right above Seattle.
00:20:40.000Somehow that, like, was found somewhere.
00:20:43.000But it makes it even crazier when you factor in that they found the clip-on tie and not the parachute and not the suit and not, you know what I mean?
00:20:50.000Because then it's almost like he's just got his $200,000 and is just walking off.
00:20:56.000I think they said that the money was never spent, though.
00:22:15.000And eventually they cut through his clothes and they find that there's a little pocket with a piece of paper like on the inseam of his pants or shirt.
00:25:04.000But what's weird is that I think it gave you some sort of an advantage for her to be Native American in terms of getting into certain schools or what have you.
00:29:04.000That cop in particular was a real, real bad person.
00:29:08.000Like, I mean, he knew that they just busted up a kid's drinking party and that all the kids were scattering at once and he decided to stand in the middle of the street and he said that, like, you know...
00:29:19.000First of all, he could have easily shot us.
00:29:21.000Because you're standing in the middle of the street instead of having common sense.
00:29:26.000There's so many other things happening.
00:29:29.000But he could say that that's assault with a deadly weapon if you're driving towards somebody.
00:29:34.000So he runs out in the street, pulls out his gun, almost can't wait.
00:29:40.000I mean, it was one of those shady cops.
00:29:45.000In fact, I'm pretty sure that's the same cop from where I'm from that saw a UFO. And it was on TV when I was a kid.
00:29:52.000Yeah, there was a big thing in Liberty Township, just outside of Youngstown, where this one cop saw a UFO and nobody could take him seriously after that.
00:30:04.000But here's the thing, by me saying all this, I'm not saying that people haven't seen UFOs.
00:30:10.000Because I don't know what they've seen.
00:30:12.000It's totally possible that something that's capable of coming here from another dimension, especially before recently, right, would be able to figure out how to avoid detection, somehow or another.
00:30:26.000They're probably pretty close to figuring out how to do that now.
00:30:29.000I mean, they have the stealth bomber which avoids radar detection.
00:31:28.000Yeah, in terms of like a show that makes you just like after shows over you just go what the fuck that crocodile expert episode rather crocodile I had like 15 friends text me after that going what in the fuck was that?
00:33:27.000But I wonder if that's a programmed move like it told it the exact steps to take and it measured out all the inches and then knew the exact movements to make or if it can accurately calculate distance.
00:33:43.000So they've given it, in a sense, some sort of electronic eyes, right?
00:33:47.000If it can walk up to a door, grab the handle, turn it and pull it, and then hold the door open with its leg, Let its friends go by.
00:38:33.000But since then, because they report it and they blow these things up, and then, bing bang boom.
00:38:40.000I feel like going off of the car ramming situation and the growth in car ramming alone, that we could sort of see how...
00:38:49.000Overly reporting these I mean, I don't know if that's even a thing or if I'm what I'm saying is making sense at all But I know what you're trying to say but the counter to that would be Someone had what was the someone made a really good analogy?
00:39:06.000The point being What this is is only happening here We have to figure out why it's happening here so often.
00:39:16.000It rarely happens anywhere else, but here it happens pretty often.
00:39:27.000Is it, um, it's just far too easy to get guns?
00:39:32.000Is it that you're not being monitored in the sense of being talked about?
00:39:38.000And people don't want anybody infringing upon their rights, right?
00:39:41.000But If we just sat down and had a rational conversation with someone to renew a gun license, you know?
00:39:51.000Rational conversation with someone who doesn't work for a gun group or anything.
00:39:55.000Just someone who could just give you a reasonable Reason why you should be suspicious about this person having a firearm.
00:40:04.000You really don't want to do that either though, because you can't trust people.
00:40:07.000It's like you're putting people in a position of power to decide who gets the guns and who doesn't get the guns.
00:40:12.000It's all very, very fucking terrifying and confusing.
00:40:16.000It seems like the AR-15 is the one that they need to keep an eye on because all the biggest ones are that and it seems to be able to mow down a lot of people at once.
00:40:26.000Yeah, semi-automatic rifles are more effective in those type of mass shooting situations.
00:40:41.000So then the question is, are they too lethal for a regular person to just be carrying around?
00:40:49.000You'd want to know why a regular person wants to carry them around, and then you would realize, is that really my right to even ask a regular person why they need it?
00:40:59.000I mean, if most of these people are law-abiding gun owners, when we freak out that one person who legally bought a gun, in this case, is a kid who legally bought it, does this horrific thing.
00:43:19.000Well, there's different uses for firearms.
00:43:23.000And who are you to say that like recreational shooters who are respectable law-abiding people and there's a lot of them out there that are very good people they just love to shoot pistols at targets they do competitions they enjoy it they like being proficient with a firearm for their own personal safety and there have been cases I think there was a case in Shit,
00:43:48.000I want to say it was in Ohio, where some guy was stabbing somebody at a mall, and some dude who was a trained shooter at one of those shooting competition things shot the guy and killed him when he was running around stabbing people at the mall.
00:44:05.000And it was one of those things where no one wanted to play that up in the media because they thought it was, like, irresponsible.
00:44:12.000It's irresponsible to play up the idea of the rogue vigilante with the pistol.
00:44:51.000Might have been another similar story too.
00:44:54.000Might have been but there was definitely one I'm sorry if I fucked that up.
00:44:58.000There was definitely one where the guy was a One of those big NRA shooting competition type characters This is a terrible terrible tragedy tragedy and These terrible tragedies seem to keep happening and we don't do anything to change everybody's worried about you know,
00:45:17.000they're Second Amendment rights being taken away, you know, people worried about law-abiding people who would never do anything like this worried about their guns getting taken away, but they And all of us, we have to figure this out.
00:45:31.000This can't just keep going on this way.
00:45:33.000And whatever it is, whatever's causing it, whether it's the way people are raising people, the way people are treating people, whatever fucking crazy mental imbalances that we're not treating in each other, whatever the fuck it is, whether it's biological, whatever the fuck it is,
00:45:49.000we just can't keep, as a civilization, as a Thing that should in its best times be able to get along great with each other these little aberrations They're horrific aberrations, but they exist frequently There's so many of us yeah 320 something million people This is from 2015 more guns and people.
00:46:43.000If you haven't done anything and you would never do anything, Why would you get lumped in with someone who has?
00:46:49.000If you have a truck and you would never dream into plowing into a mall full of people, why would you get lumped into the same group as a guy who has a truck who did do that?
00:48:01.000We have to find the root of what that is.
00:48:03.000And that sounds very philosophical and hippy-dippy, but we have to examine what could possibly be inside someone that would make them want to do something like that.
00:48:38.000I also think that there's something to be said about awareness of depression and psychological disorders for the older generation.
00:48:47.000I feel like in the future, more people are going to know about it and take it as a real thing, but I still think now there's definitely a lot of stubborn...
00:48:57.000There are parents out there that ignore it and go, you're not depressed, get up, you know, and all this, because it's definitely deep-rooted, a lack of structure in their lives, you know, stuff's gone wrong and they don't have anybody to talk to or anything,
00:49:16.000The dissatisfaction with their current state in life, their physical health, people have all sorts of undiagnosed mental issues and maybe they don't have insurance and they can't afford treatment or maybe they just got off of it and they think they're fine.
00:49:30.000I mean we know guys who did that, who got off of stuff that they weren't supposed to get off of and then they start getting really paranoid and crazy and then someone has to talk them down.
00:49:39.000And one of the things with being depressed like that is, you know, and like you said, if they don't have insurance, then all of a sudden they're like, I don't have insurance.
00:49:48.000Little do they know that it's a phone call away to get like, you know, free whatever somehow or help somehow.
00:49:55.000But also with the depression makes you not want to do that.
00:50:00.000It makes you, it's part of it is you don't want to sort of find help.
00:54:42.000You know, that's one of the things when you're in a place like Manhattan and you're on the 89th floor of a fucking building and you're like, what is this nonsense?
00:54:55.000I feel like it's even worse when it gets stuck, but it's halfway between floors and someone tries to climb out, and then you've heard of them getting decapitated or whatever, and their head's there.
00:55:41.000That's the ultimate is to be a dude who lives in the penthouse and gets helicoptered around Manhattan and drop down some fucking dude covered in like...
00:55:50.000Extinct fox fur, you know, strutting his shit.
00:55:55.000To have a penthouse on the top of a giant building in New York City and have a helicopter land on your roof, you'd be special agent baller.
00:56:02.000I wouldn't even get in the helicopter.
00:56:04.000I would attach a rope to the helicopter and have the helicopter go, and I'd just fly like that underneath the helicopter so that when they slowly land, I land.
00:56:17.000Obviously not wearing extinct furs, but there's guys that are that rich that just get helicoptered around Manhattan and they go to the Hamptons.
00:56:26.000They get helicoptered out to the Hamptons.
00:57:55.000And those are some of my favorite crazy stories, is like the Jinx, the Robert Durst one, where he came from, you know, the family that owns just Manhattan skyscrapers and Boom!
00:58:27.000It's another thing where someone used a gun to kill someone that they were threatened by in some sort of a masculine way because Dave Schultz was like this super badass wrestler.
00:58:39.000Him and his brother Mark, top of the food chain wrestlers.
00:58:57.000He fought Big Daddy Goodrich in the UFC way back in the day.
00:59:05.000It was his one and only MMA fight in the UFC. And it's really interesting because in the movie that they did with Steve Carell, like that's a historical moment.
00:59:17.000See, they don't understand MMA so when they made that movie the cage-fighting part was like yeah, whatever just fucking fudge this like how do I why would I believe that anything in that movie is What really happened when the thing that I know for sure really happened you fucked up Yeah,
00:59:37.000the thing that I know for sure really happened is this guy Big Daddy Goodrich Fought Schultz when Schultz was a top of the food chain wrestler, man.
01:02:25.000And I would love, love, love to see him learn how to strike a little bit or learn some jiu-jitsu and figure out UFC. Because in almost the history of wrestling, this guy is a freak.
01:03:06.000Well, you know, this is what we're seeing with Khabib Nurmagomedov.
01:03:10.000When you see, like, this super high-level striking, or excuse me, super high-level grappling, it shuts down even, like, really good grapplers.
01:03:44.000I think that's the most important skill in MMA. I've always thought it, and I still do, because I think these guys can learn defense for grappling, defense for jujitsu, and they can learn submissions, which is probably even more important.
01:04:19.000Another thing with wrestling is hip movement and hip control and spinning around a guy hitting an easy reversal just from popping down and back up.
01:04:32.000And it's crazy sometimes watching high-level fights and sometimes I don't have...
01:04:38.000Obviously, when you're at a live fight, I don't have the audio.
01:04:41.000So it's like sometimes I'm seeing what's...
01:04:44.000Just a little thing that's wrong, you know, like, for example, like, in Diaz-McGregor 2, I remember a part where Diaz was trying to take McGregor down, but his hips were above McGregor's, who had dropped his just lower, whereas if Diaz pops down and back up, he's got him.
01:05:00.000But, you know, all this stuff's happening at once, and sometimes you can see it with wrestling, and it's just the difference in a little thing, that sometimes the energy and the emotions of the fight, it's about, you know, just being like, oh yeah, drop down, up, and like, you know...
01:06:46.000He might have been half-assed in the takedown defense because he knows as soon as he gets down, he'll just fucking flip you over and stand back up again.
01:07:43.000for the end of the round and he was still sitting on his stool and they had wasted all this time Trying to give him more chances to recover.
01:07:53.000You have to be afraid of any guy whose shoulders stick up like that.
01:09:07.000The reason why he didn't come out for, I believe it was the third round when he came out late, was because by the end of the second, Tim had him in deep, deep trouble.
01:09:18.000Tim had caught him with a couple of big punches and staggered him.
01:09:21.000And so when he went back to his corner, look at that fucking shot that he lands when he knocks him down, then another one.
01:09:55.000That's the crazy thing is knocked him out like this is the crazy thing You're talking about a guy's like one of the best wrestlers to ever fight in MMA and he's knocking people out Standing leaping in and cracking you with punches hitting you at flying knees knocking out world champions I mean KO'd Chris Weidman with a flying knee.
01:10:10.000He's not he's just he's on another level like a real Fucking monster athlete like it's just it's a pleasure to get to watch someone who has such fantastic Technique and physical attributes all combined like his wrestling technique is just ridiculously good his timings ridiculously good his explosions it's like to watch that I mean for me a guy who's been around the sport for a long time when
01:10:40.000a guy comes out and just stands out that hard and You go, whoa, like this guy is a real outlier physically.
01:10:48.000He's gonna make such a good pro wrestler in a few years.
01:17:08.000Not being ready for the start of the next round, if the round starts, the referee doesn't want to stop the fight.
01:17:16.000He doesn't want to give it to your opponent because you can't start the round on time.
01:17:19.000But he's in a terrible situation where he wants the fight to continue, but he also understands that you're taking unfair advantage here by just sitting here while you should be engaging in a contest.
01:18:14.000So if everything's going smooth, or maybe he doesn't understand what I'm saying, he might turn to Joey, and they'll just fucking throw their hands up in the air, kiss each other and shit, and then we'll be back at business.
01:18:27.000I'd be surprised if you all can get these headphones over his shoulders.
01:18:36.000I don't know how much he wants to talk about his life in Cuba and what it was like wrestling there, but I would be utterly fascinated to hear about that.
01:18:45.000And to rise to the top of the heap in that crazy shark tank of athletic talent and then go on to medal in basically every wrestling championship that he entered internationally.
01:19:03.000I think it's so important that we know because everybody has these ideas in their head about like physical limitations and physical capabilities and then you see like a Walter Payton And you just go, oh, whoa.
01:20:46.000Yeah, there was a guy when Jamie and I were back in Columbus, way, way, way back, named Maurice Claret, a running back for Ohio State that only played one year.
01:20:54.000He was a freshman, and broke every freshman record.
01:20:58.000This and that led us to a national championship.
01:22:37.000That guy, man, people think about him as a WWE guy, and then they think about him as fighting in the UFC and winning some fights and being this bad motherfucker, but they don't You know, when he beat Shane Carwin, I mean, that was a big fucking fight for him.
01:23:17.000See if you could Google Shane Carwin versus Brock Lesnar combine, because somebody made one of those images, and it showed their numbers, similar height, similar weight.
01:23:35.000People say, sure, it's fake, but it's not.
01:23:38.000Because you can see, compared to all the other athletes, some of them that only did that their entire lives, the number of strides that he takes is longer and faster.
01:23:49.000And you just see him, even from seats far away, you can see, wow, that guy's big and moving.
01:23:57.000He's moving at the same speed as the...
01:23:59.000The crazy luchador Mexican wrestlers were earlier, but he's that size with shoulders like that.
01:24:04.000He had what I would call a fractured MMA training that led him to the heavyweight champion.
01:24:10.000And I say fractured that He jumped right into the deep end and won and beat guys like Randy Couture, beat guys like Frank Mir, Shane Carwin, beat some world-class guys.
01:24:22.000But if he had started, I think, earlier in his life and learned how to strike and got some of that in there first so that it wasn't such an alien thing to him when he was fighting in the big leagues.
01:24:35.000He's really only been striking for a few years.
01:24:37.000If he learned how to strike from a real technical instructor, someone who was real technical, And still had that wrestling ability when he was younger.
01:24:45.000I mean, who the fuck else is like that?
01:27:52.000And the littlest stuff throws them off, too.
01:27:54.000Like, in this last Super Bowl, you know, they painted, like, the 25-yard line with a special Super Bowl emblem, and it messed these guys up, because it's white, so they're not used to kicking off green.
01:28:18.000So you can hit them after they kick the ball?
01:28:20.000While they're in the process of kicking, you can't kick their leg.
01:28:23.000Unless you're about to block it, if you hit the ball, you can't actually then run into them.
01:28:26.000But if you don't block the ball, then you can't touch them.
01:28:28.000But if you're reaching for the ball, and you've got to remember their leg's coming forward at a crazy fast rate, if you miss the ball and you hit them, and by the way, the rule's crazy, and the same goes for the punter.
01:28:38.000Like, if you hit them while their leg is basically still in the air, huge penalty.
01:29:16.000You have to break it down, and then it's all strategy, and it's all pre-snap strategy because it's only five seconds at a time, and it's all setting this up.
01:29:59.000When you think about a pro football team, like all the planning that has to be in place, all the monitoring of everybody's health, all the knowing what everyone's capable of, all the Different strength and conditioning routines.
01:30:25.000They can throw money to fix any of those problems they want.
01:30:28.000And when you factor in that some of the times they're doing things just to set you up completely to make you think like, Oh, we saw them do the, when we watched video of them play the Raiders, they did this, so this next play is going to be this, and boom, gone.
01:31:24.000They used to sell those tapes that are the biggest hits of the NFL. There used to be commercials on TV. It's a little tough to watch those now.
01:31:30.000Don't you think that they're getting hit harder?
01:31:38.000They're faster than they were even five, ten years ago.
01:31:40.000Yeah, I've seen some of those hits and I'm trying to imagine the difference between that and like a punch or a kick and it's multiple magnitudes of power stronger.
01:31:50.000Like a guy's getting launched through the sky with these hits.
01:31:54.000I mean, they get launched, they lift off the ground, they go flying.
01:32:00.000I'm pretty sure football's worse because when it's helmet to helmet, I don't think there's any shin to skull kick that could even compare to that because your brain is hitting the inside of your skull if you're receiving that hit.
01:32:14.000Unless another guy's wearing a helmet running at you at full speed, especially if you're running the direction that he's in, boom.
01:32:25.000If you've seen the difference between a car accident and a head-on car accident, what happens to the dummy and what happens to people, it's night and day.
01:35:17.000You definitely can't keep it up forever.
01:35:19.000So when does everything just fall apart?
01:35:21.000So when you're watching someone Who can do crazy shit with their body and then you see a tackle like that that leads to a guy being paralyzed like, oh man.
01:36:10.000I could probably have some more protection.
01:36:12.000The technology is probably around the corner.
01:36:14.000It's probably like some type of weird airbag in a helmet that they're going to end up getting or something weird.
01:36:19.000Right, like maybe a decelerator or something like that that absorbs the impact of the hit on your head so it doesn't snap you back.
01:36:27.000The conventional wisdom is that the helmets actually make it worse, because they can hit each other much harder, whereas they get more damage than a rugby player gets.
01:36:37.000Rugby players, because they know there's no padding, they're not doing the same kind of crazy shit.
01:36:41.000It requires different techniques if you want to have a career.
01:36:45.000I mean in rugby's obviously they get down and dirty and it's a very very tough game, but you have to do a totally different thing when you're not padded up.
01:36:55.000It's like if you watch their scrums and you watch some of the crazy physical altercations they have, it looks more like running and wrestling.
01:37:02.000There's like a lot of wrestling involved.
01:37:04.000Whereas with football it's just this like fucking chaos of colliding bodies and people fucking smashing into people and jumping over people and I just re-listened to that NPR episode about football and how it started, and that's how football used to be.
01:37:17.000It used to just be two people or two teams would line up, and they'd just run into each other and scrum and just slowly move the ball down the field.
01:50:42.000Is there ever been a time in your life where there was something that you now think is really fucking stupid, but you believed in then, like ghosts or anything goofy like that?
01:50:53.000Yeah, I still think there's a slight chance that I saw something one day at the comedy store.
01:50:59.000It's silly, but yeah, I don't know what it was.
01:51:02.000Maybe I was borderline about to pass out.
01:51:05.000Maybe it was like a low blood sugar attack, but I saw something weird one day out of all the days that I worked there for years.
01:51:13.000In the middle of the day one day I was working the phones on the second floor in the phones room where like the booker's room is now.
01:51:20.000And I was going outside to the belly room to like smoke a joint or smoke a cigarette or something like that.
01:51:27.000But that's a dark room and I was walking through there and when I was walking through there...
01:51:34.000I stopped and felt like something it just felt weird like something in my gut felt weird and I sort of stopped and I looked to my right right where that other door is like if you're walking into the belly room from the belly room green room and there's that green hallway and you finally come across so you're right in front of the men's room well right to your right there's that other door that leads down to like the back bar and the back gullet hole everything so those two doorways are right next to each other and I stopped there and I saw some weird white Silver floaty looking thing.
01:52:46.000The last time they run a motherfucking vacuum cleaner over those stairs is the first time they run a motherfucking vacuum cleaner over those stairs as you're walking up there.
01:54:51.000A hermit crab or something like that steals a shell and lives inside of it.
01:54:55.000If that was how most of nature was, like a bear den, or the bear dug a hole on the side of the hill.
01:55:00.000If that was it, there's the extent of people and animals and birds making nests, and then all of a sudden you went to a new place and you saw Manhattan, You would be so fucking freaked out.
01:55:13.000You wouldn't be able to believe that this one organism is capable of altering the environment around it so radically.
01:58:59.000The first episode, I was like, oh, this is very TV show-ish.
01:59:02.000I was prejudiced going in, but it wasn't.
01:59:05.000The first one is a little slow, sort of setting it up around, because they're setting everything up, and they have to over a long period of time, and to get to about episode four, it starts cracking, where you're like, whoa, this is a good fucking show.
01:59:18.000I don't know how much of it is historically accurate, but it is on the History Channel.
02:00:12.000And, again, I don't know how much of this show is horseshit and how much of it is, you know, actual historical data and how much of it's just dramatic interpretations of what they thought would be cool that would happen.
02:00:47.000There's always a part every morning when I get out of the shower in which I just want to, like, die right after shutting off the water before grabbing my towel.
02:04:48.000But then it goes the other way, and I do care.
02:04:50.000Where I've seen crazy liberal psychos, and they were white people in fact, saying, white people, stay the fuck out of the theater while Black Panther is out.
02:05:03.000Don't steal their joy with your white privilege.
02:05:42.000I want to go see Black Panther because I like fucking superhero movies and it looks cool.
02:05:48.000The fact that anybody would give a shit one way or the other, I guess if you're a black kid or a black guy, it's like, hey, this gives all of us hope that there's more opportunity for movies to be made like that, that people aren't really racist, and they can embrace a black superhero the same way they can embrace the Hulk or Thor,
02:07:54.000It's like any time you're prejudiced against white people or even critical about yourself being white, that you should stay the fuck away from places.
02:09:02.000I think if people just realize that a lot of the shit that we're clinging to is just some ways we've been thinking and behaving for a long time, and then we can all just fucking communicate with each other just a little bit better.
02:09:16.000I don't think that racism's gotten worse.
02:09:20.000I think it absolutely has gotten worse in some places.
02:09:23.000I think there's places where racism exists.
02:09:26.000And I think when you have young kids that are raised with racism and family members that are raised with racism in a community that embraces racism, which has existed in the past.
02:09:35.000We don't even have to talk about today.
02:09:37.000But in the past, there was most certainly really racist neighborhoods.
02:09:40.000Italian neighborhoods in New York where if black people moved in, they were treated terribly and horrible shit happened.
02:09:46.000And a lot of times they weren't even allowed to move in in the first place.
02:11:53.000Not how they think, not what they've read, not their life experiences, not how you feel when you're hanging around with them, not how they make you laugh.
02:12:58.000My dad has an Italian restaurant though, so it's a little bit like amped up because the whole family will go there on his side and my mom makes crazy spaghetti sauce.
02:13:06.000So that's what everybody wants for every holiday and everything.
02:13:09.000So everybody's always trying to get like red sauce in their stomach.
02:13:23.000I literally, last night, for Valentine's Day, my wife and I thawed out a container of my mom's sauce that she sent out in a frozen block and had that instead of going to some fancy dinner.
02:13:42.000Or something like that to where it's just different, like 70% better than what you can find here in LA. Yeah, there's difference in the bread for sure.
02:13:53.000And most people smarter than me attribute it to the water.
02:13:56.000They think that there's something different in the water on the East Coast, like New York and Boston, that when they make bread, it's just a different flavor to it.
02:14:02.000I also think that there's something to the humidity in the air.
02:17:34.000I was just thinking very unique to the coast because like in Ohio, we have our own unique restaurants and food and all that kind of stuff, but there aren't places like that where it's unique to that place, unique to Ohio.
02:17:46.000There are a few places like that, but it's not a similar style of experience.
02:18:27.0001888. And I bet they ran it just the way they run it now.
02:18:30.000You walk in, they give you a ticket, and then you walk up to the counters, and then this one guy that cuts up meat, another guy has pickles, and they'll give you samples.
02:18:41.000They'll slice off a piece of brisket for you, and you're like, holy shit!
02:18:45.000Slice off a little piece of that pastrami.
02:19:26.000There's no doubting, in my mind at least, that there's something special about a place that's been used for the same thing for a long time.
02:19:35.000You know, like a place where you go and you feel it.
02:22:55.000I've told this story before, but I don't know if I ever told it to you.
02:22:59.000I was doing a show for CBS called Game Show in my head.
02:23:02.000And what they had was they had a setup where I had an earpiece in and the person who was the contestant in the show had an earpiece in and we would set them out in the middle of somewhere and then start asking them questions and telling them what they were going to have to do.
02:23:21.000I told this guy, you are a newscaster.
02:23:25.000Now, you showed up to do a story about a guy who was taken aboard a UFO, a person who was taken aboard a UFO. But this person's gone, so you have to find a random stranger to pretend it was them.
02:23:37.000And then tell you a story about getting taken aboard the spaceship and getting probed.
02:25:56.000Or do you think you're just playing tricks on yourself and then the more you think about it, the more you've added stuff to the memory and fuck with that memory in your head.
02:26:11.000That night, after I didn't tell anybody all day, all of a sudden, Jeff Scott, out of all the nights that I've seen him there and hung out with him there, the house piano player of like 25 years, out of all the nights...
02:26:23.000Without telling anybody what I saw earlier, not a soul.
02:26:45.000So there's the, there's the part that I, since you want to make it about a thousand bucks bet, if I, in imaginary money, like that part has to be said out loud.
02:30:27.000We were high as fuck at the Comedy Store and we were trying to figure out some sort of a challenge and the loser would have to wear lipstick on stage for a year.
02:30:37.000You'd have to wear it for the first 15 minutes of your set.
02:31:51.000Yeah, happy he's out of jail, but also just looks like he's smiling a lot.
02:31:56.000He's like, it's interesting, I think, like, if I saw Gucci, and he's in all these pictures, and he's just kind of, like, mean-mugging, I'd have this one thought about him.
02:32:04.000But instead, I see Gucci in all these pictures now, and he's always smiling about, I'll bet that guy's a friendly guy.
02:33:55.000And we keep five of it, which is all dedicated to Justin Wren, and anytime he wants, he can cash out.
02:34:02.000This is all from when Antonopoulos is in there.
02:34:05.000So I don't really have a stake in it, because that's all Justin Wren's money.
02:34:10.000Real investment in Bitcoin is very fascinating to me because more people were interested in doing it and it eventually spread through the entire country.
02:34:19.000Everybody just decided to do it and everybody figured out how to, you know, make it as secure as regular money is, which is not that secure.
02:34:28.000I mean, people steal regular money too.
02:34:30.000They could figure out how to make it more secure and better than it is now, which just seems like they would be able to.
02:34:37.000You never know who's going to be faster, the hackers or the programmers.
02:34:41.000It seems like What was the one coin that someone stole a shitload of recently?
02:35:04.000Off of notoriety, probably Ethereum would be the second biggest, I would say.
02:35:08.000Do you think it's possible that one day...
02:35:12.000Artists will invent their own crypto coins, and that's how they buy and trade tickets to shows and goods from the people that support them.
02:35:39.000Then, once you set that up, people buy that golden pony money in order to be able to pay you golden pony money for things.
02:35:48.000But you only accept golden pony money.
02:35:51.000And you can only spend golden pony money.
02:35:54.000So the only people that accept your money, the people that accept, if you want to buy a washing machine, say, I'd like to buy it with some golden pony dollars.
02:37:07.000I have a little variations, but you're pretty close.
02:37:10.000And so, if you did that with Golden Pony Dollars, you would set up like a Golden Pony Fund.
02:37:15.000Like, this is the Bitcoin that I, you know, I've calculated this out with current Bitcoin prices.
02:37:23.000If I charge you guys $20 for this thing, whatever the fuck it is, whatever you call the number, the name, what you'll be able to do is you'll be able to pay for my shows Only using that.
02:38:24.000If Kendrick Lamar puts out a Bitcoin or cryptocurrency and he says, hey fans, this is the only way you can buy tickets to my shows.
02:38:33.000And when I buy shit, I want to buy shit only with this stuff, but it's real money.
02:38:37.000So if I want to buy a Ferrari with Kendrick Lamar money, better sell it to me, bitch, because that Kendrick Lamar money is worth gold to all the Kendrick Lamar fans.
02:39:30.000And that's a very early or primitive way, I guess, describing what you would do.
02:39:35.000So a person creates content, puts it online, and then the viewers then exchange And that currency only exists in this platform.
02:39:45.000Then if another exchange anywhere in the world wants to start up and say, I deem your currency valuable, you can exchange it for my currency or another currency, then that's where the actual value comes in.
02:39:58.000And also, especially if people are paying for stuff, like if you're writing things or making videos or something like that, and then people are paying for that, that's a fucking...
02:40:05.000You know, we're trapped in this idea of this system that we have now as far as producers of television shows and movies and things like that, that this is how you get a job in show business.
02:40:16.000That seems like how you get a job in show business.
02:41:25.000People can make a Medium post that has then gone viral and gotten them paid in other ways, like explaining how they do a particular thing and then that leads to their store, or they can sell some merch that way.
02:41:37.000They might make a video that's in there and then they get YouTube money off of that.
02:41:41.000It's also new, but what you're describing could take off from here.
02:41:45.000Well, it seems like if everybody decides to accept that currency, then it seems like it would take off, right?
02:41:50.000If everybody decided to accept that currency, it just seems to me that there's a few tests, right?
02:41:58.000There's Bitcoin, there's Litecoin, there's, what is that, Dogecoin?
02:42:40.000To me, when I think about it, I always wonder how long it's going to take before we shake ourselves of this system.
02:42:47.000Because this system, as good as it is, and it's definitely good, it's still super complicated and flawed.
02:42:55.000It's very confusing what's legal and what's legal and why you have to pay taxes in one place, but you cross the line and the taxes are way less.
02:43:22.000And then a lot of people, you know, you can just, whatever, build an account overseas and avoid it that way.
02:43:29.000Well, it seems to me that what I was going to say is that if something like a cryptocurrency can really take off and just get fully accepted use, which is way more accepted now than it was a few years ago when Antonopoulos first started coming on here.
02:43:40.000And I think you could sort of extrapolate that five, maybe even ten years from now, it might be like really commonplace.
02:43:46.000There's a lot of things you could buy with Bitcoin now.
02:43:48.000It's really kind of interesting in that way.
02:43:51.000You know, if that works out and crypto coins become a real thing, cryptocurrency becomes a real thing, it's totally possible that can move into politics.
02:43:59.000That kind of thinking of organizing and setting up a party and deciding on important issues, that all could happen the same way.
02:44:09.000That all could happen through some sort of an online app.
02:44:12.000Or people say, fuck all this voting shit.
02:44:14.000You know, we have this new super secure thing that Elon Musk figured out.
02:44:17.000And now everybody, all they have to do is have a cell phone number and they take a photo of themselves as they're doing it.
02:46:15.000Trump lets that shit roll off his back.
02:46:17.000For most people, that stuff's devastating.
02:46:18.000Like, I don't think it's a coincidence that Kanye had that event where he talked about supporting Trump, that he would have voted on Trump, that's what he said, and everybody went crazy.
02:46:26.000And then he went crazy, and he checked himself into a...
02:53:09.000Yeah, I read a thing recently about the People's Elbow, which became his big finishing move, and it was sort of a joke that worked so well with the crowd that they all just laughed about it backstage, and it just became this fucking...
02:55:43.000When someone does something like that, do they plan that out to the point where they practice it or do they just wait to the moment and then do it?