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00:03:33.000I didn't even realize, I wasn't even conscious of it until I started getting into this very heavy and realized, okay, wow, I was thinking like that, didn't realize it.
00:03:40.000And so, but at the same time, I told myself, Why am I afraid of essentially what is an inanimate object, right?
00:03:50.000So I think to myself, I'm like, all right, I really don't want to go.
00:03:53.000I'm a little terrified, but you know what?
00:03:57.000And so I remember getting to the range.
00:04:00.000We get to the range, and we walk into the door, and then I hear the door for where the actual bays are, and I hear the pop, pop, pop go off.
00:04:08.000And I'm like, holy crap, this is actually happening.
00:04:10.000And so I kind of had this nervousness, but I'm with my friend, right?
00:04:13.000And so I don't want my friend to feel like, okay, you're acting kind of like a bitch, right?
00:06:03.000The thing that people are bothered by is what comes with it and how people use it.
00:06:09.000And I think an analogy that's a fair analogy but people reject is driving cars and a lot of these fucking psychos that have been running over people in the street.
00:06:19.000I mean, it just happened again in Berlin.
00:07:13.000I can't find a mass shooting that was perpetrated by an NRA member.
00:07:18.000And I think it's—so the biggest problem that a lot of gun owners, especially NRA members, have is people—like, the conversation that's being had is— Basically coloring or actually forgetting the human element behind those three letters.
00:07:33.000Like the NRA isn't like this demigod that just sits in the cloud of Olympia and it is just one big guy that's just orchestrating this entire thing.
00:08:44.000And that's another thing, too, though.
00:08:46.000And I've said it before, I think we are a victim of our own success in this country.
00:08:50.000I do think this is the greatest country in the world.
00:08:53.000But the problem with that is this country was built on an ideological foundation that I think aids in our ability to be as great as we are.
00:09:02.000But we live in a world now where people don't see the necessity for something that was never supposed to be seen through the lens of necessity in the first place.
00:09:11.000The Second Amendment doesn't give me a right.
00:09:13.000It preserves something that already existed.
00:09:15.000But what happens is we have a culture of people who look at the Second Amendment as a privilege.
00:09:37.000It's a natural right that I had the moment that I stepped foot on this earth as a person.
00:09:41.000The right to self-defense is universal.
00:09:44.000Yeah, and, you know, people say, okay, it's a right, but obviously there's a problem, so we have to do something about it, so you're going to have to give up your guns.
00:09:52.000This is the common conversation, and it's very flippant, and it's not well thought out, and there's no consideration whatsoever to mental health issues.
00:10:19.000Look, There's something wrong when you have this many people on mental health medication, and then when you look at the number of mass shooters, it's almost universal.
00:10:30.000Almost every single one of them is on some sort of psychiatric medication.
00:10:33.000But that's not a part of the narrative.
00:10:35.000That's not a part of the conversation.
00:10:37.000The conversation is always get rid of guns.
00:10:38.000Now, I don't want crazy people to have guns, and I don't think you do either.
00:11:18.000So the first thing I say is, because one thing a lot of people on the side like to say is, well, you guys just don't want any gun laws, and you say no to everything, but you have no solutions.
00:11:55.000Anybody who's paying attention to the discourse and the way it's happening, especially on social media, right?
00:12:00.000Anybody who follows my Twitter account knows this.
00:12:04.000Multiple occasions, I've tried to have a rational conversation with people who are on the complete opposite side of my spectrum of this issue.
00:12:13.000Is there any of this online, like debates or anything like that?
00:12:34.000And I actually have to check myself about that a little bit because how am I any better than the people on the other side if I have the same energy that they have towards me?
00:14:30.000I think there's some really good conversations to be had on Twitter and I've had really interesting moments on Twitter where I've learned a lot about things, where people have sent me links and I've retweeted them and I've learned a lot of things.
00:14:43.000But it's hard sometimes, man, because there are so many people that are just unreasonable and they're not good at communicating and they're not happy people.
00:17:23.000But when you listen to his conversation with Piers Morgan, which Piers Morgan takes that flippant, left-wing, knee-jerk, reactionary, you know, we have to ban guns.
00:17:39.000Ted just knew everything about the actual facts.
00:17:43.000When you start running around with statistics of gun violence, he's like, do you know how many of those people were bad guys that were shot by cops?
00:17:49.000Do you know how many of those people were people that were shot when they were breaking into people's homes?
00:17:53.000Do you know how many of those people were people that were killed in self-defense?
00:18:07.000So when I started getting really deep into the advocacy component of it, everyone was screaming, 30,000 people a day die from gun violence, 30,000 people a day.
00:18:16.000That's what they were running with, right?
00:18:18.000And they were scaring all the suburban house moms.
00:18:20.000Oh my gosh, we got to do something about gun control.
00:19:17.000But then it begs the question that you brought up before, the mental health aspect.
00:19:21.000How many lives would we actually save if we took the same energy we applied to just making guns evil and trying to ban guns and take that energy and put it towards understanding why, as a society,
00:20:53.000And about 5% of those are, goddammit, I think justified homicides, including times when cops shoot someone in self-defense and it's justified, right?
00:21:04.000And self-defense shooting, so forth and so on.
00:21:06.000Do they count times when cops really shouldn't have shot somebody but did and got away with it?
00:21:47.000But you're not going to fix the intelligence level of the humans that are fucking around with guns.
00:21:53.000That's why you underestimate how those people are dying accidentally.
00:21:57.000Because there are a lot of people who don't understand basic gun safety within that 900. It's a lot of them.
00:22:04.000When you see some of the accidents that happens with firearms, they're easily mitigated by just simply knowing the four rules of firearm ownership.
00:22:12.000And when you get into the gun community, like, as a whole, like, when you follow that rabbit, like, we are, we're crazy about gun safety.
00:22:19.000You put your finger on a trigger in a picture?
00:24:08.000I don't know why we've perverted it to this deal where it's like something has to be wrong with you if you have that mentality or that mindset.
00:24:13.000Well, there's a lot of people that haven't experienced real violence.
00:24:18.000If you experience real violence and you've seen what happens when you have a terrible person around people that aren't terrible.
00:24:27.000That's a reality that people don't like to face and they don't like to look at the other side of the coin.
00:24:32.000Like whenever there's an instance where there's a shooter and the shooter gets taken out by someone who's a trained, a person who's trained with firearms and knows tactics.
00:25:55.000Okay, but the reality is, the absolute reality is, they have happened, they are horrific, and there's more of them here than anywhere else in the world.
00:27:01.000When you think about gang violence, you say, well, that's violence, it's terrible that people got shot, but it's people that are trying to shoot each other.
00:27:07.000Alright, so then when I tell you that the remaining homicides in this country, right, at 30,000 number that I gave you annually, over 80% of that is gang violence.
00:27:21.000But when you see Sandy Hook, when you see Parkland, when you see the shooting in Colorado, Aurora, in the movie theater, when you see these mass shootings, these are what terrify people.
00:27:33.000People are not necessarily terrified of the gang violence in Chicago.
00:27:36.000I'm going to Chicago in a couple of months, and not one fucking person has brought up, hey man, that place is a war zone.
00:28:10.000So when you're walking around, are you strapped?
00:28:11.000Not in Chicago, because it's illegal for me to be.
00:28:14.000That's what's crazy, is that Chicago has really strict gun laws, and they don't work at all.
00:28:19.000I was driving down a road where there were like six, seven, eight dudes who jumped in front of the car when we were driving down, because we didn't look like we belonged there, and I'm positive every single one of them had a gun.
00:28:58.000We all agree that gun violence, especially in terms of mass shootings, is one of the biggest problems that we have in terms of a horrific public image problem.
00:32:35.000You've got to be careful because what it then does, it's like...
00:32:39.000It becomes a de facto way of preventing people to own firearms arbitrarily, right?
00:32:43.000So it's like, oh, well, you have anxiety.
00:32:45.000Or even somebody who's maybe dealing with PTSD. Not everybody dealing with PTSD is a potential murderous, ravenous, evil person who's just going to go out and kill people.
00:32:55.000So with the screening component, that's why I say yes or no, right?
00:32:58.000If you can find a way to establish a mental screening component But even then, no, because there's a due process aspect to it as well, right?
00:33:09.000So you can't prevent me from owning – you can't prevent me from exercising a right if I haven't done something to absolve myself from being able to do that legally, right?
00:33:19.000So what if they come to your house and you've got – Let's say you've got like a cork board up and you got all these pictures of schools and fucking arrows pointing to the emergency exits and plans of how to block things off and then pictures of Jodie Foster and pictures of serial killers up everywhere and you're on anti-anxiety medications and the cops talk to you and you're fucking squirrely as hell.
00:36:26.000Yeah, it's a very complex issue, which is why we're not largely not having it.
00:36:30.000We're having it here because no one wants to have this conversation on the national scene because it's hard and it doesn't make for great soundbite and it doesn't make for good TV. Right?
00:36:40.000Because that's why I hate doing cable news hits.
00:36:43.000Because I have two minutes to basically deduce a complex issue that we've been debating for decades, almost centuries.
00:37:52.000Had an individualized sit-down with her as well, and we talked about it, and then took her to the shooting range to shoot for the first time.
00:38:09.000Because, like, for instance, I bring this point up, and it makes me come across as if, like, I feel some type of way because he didn't mention me, but it's not really that.
00:38:17.000It just speaks volumes to what I've been pointing at for the longest.
00:40:44.000Like, I have enough episodes on that platform.
00:40:47.000You can find some stuff to make fun of me about.
00:40:50.000Well, I'm sure they could, but I don't think that's the kind of thing they're trying to make fun of, like individual personalities that say stupid shit.
00:40:56.000I think what they're trying to do is point out the disingenuous narrative from the NRA while ignoring the disingenuous narrative from the anti-gun advocates.
00:41:18.000He realized that by mentioning me, right?
00:41:21.000It's going to pique curiosity with the audience in which he's trying to speak to.
00:41:25.000So you think that you're too reasonable and too logical and that since you're not like this redneck hee-haw type character that likes to talk about you, it doesn't fit their narrative.
00:41:35.000So let's just ignore him and concentrate on the dummies.
00:43:34.000And then you pull out all of those things that further drive that narrative while ignoring the most popular figure on the platform, which is me, who so happens to be black.
00:44:07.000They're trying to make points, for sure, but they're trying to find stupid shit that they can mock.
00:44:11.000And why would they concentrate on the guy who makes sense if they're looking for stupid shit that they can mock?
00:44:16.000They're not trying to make a balanced, reasonable argument like maybe we would do right here, right now.
00:44:19.000What they're doing is doing a condensed, edited down, very smooth, polished television show where that rant has been dissected and gone over by a team of writers and they have video that corresponds to it and photographs that they go to and they have clips that they show and then they mock the clips.
00:44:41.000So that's why they didn't go after you, is because maybe you're a lawyer, maybe you're articulate, maybe it is because you're young and black and they just don't feel like it's a smart thing to do.
00:44:51.000But it's because they're making a show.
00:45:05.000I think if I had to guess how many people who are watching that show are left-leaning, democratic-leaning, liberal-leaning, I would say it's a giant percentage.
00:45:40.000But we can't undermine how influential that show is at crafting people's thoughts about particular issues and ideologies within this country.
00:46:58.000Do you remember the way you felt before you walked into that shooting range and those guns were going off and you're like, holy shit, it's really happening.
00:49:07.000We are the most arrogant sumbitches on the planet.
00:49:08.000It's also like when people think of America, like overseas, they think of like these fucking crazy people with guns that have jacked up trucks that are driving too fast.
00:50:57.000You know, the funny thing about it is, when I got into firearms, I lived in Texas my whole life, and I went, what, 23 years without ever shooting a gun, touching a gun?
00:51:05.000And when I got into it, the first thing I wanted to do was shoot competition.
00:53:37.000You know what's interesting about his demeanor?
00:53:38.000And how, like, he doesn't have this sense of entitlement?
00:53:42.000And I'm bringing it back to the gun thing a little bit.
00:53:46.000The first time I carried a gun, remember I told you, those were two times where I felt more insecure was my first day in MMA and carrying a gun for the first time.
00:53:56.000But carrying that gun for the first time made me realize, holy shit, I'm not the only one.
00:54:43.000And so for people who go out of the means to learn to do it and be able to do it, there's a certain level of respect you have to have for it.
00:54:51.000There's certain places you can't go, certain things you can't do, things you have to be cognizant of.
00:54:56.000So I actually started staying away from certain places because I knew I had a gun on me, and I never want to have to be put in a situation I actually have to go for it.
00:56:09.000And I started training with guns and self-defense and stuff like that.
00:56:12.000And I started realizing, you know, so the gun isn't an end-all be-all, right?
00:56:18.000It's just a tool that I carry with me that could possibly save my life.
00:56:22.000I could still die with a gun on me, right?
00:56:25.000But I started weighing the disadvantages and the advantages of having one in the chamber, right?
00:56:31.000I might find myself in a situation where, you know what?
00:56:34.000I have time to, okay, I'm going to buy in here and I have time to rack it and do what I need to do.
00:56:40.000There may be other times where I won't.
00:56:42.000But if I already have a round in the chamber, those times where I will have the time and not have the time won't make a difference because there's already one in the chamber ready to go.
00:56:51.000So, from that perspective, as I got more comfortable with the gun and realized, holy crap, the gun never just went off on its own, because there was an inherent fear there, right?
00:57:00.000It's like, you don't want the gun to go off while it's in your pants.
00:57:02.000Do you have, like, one of them Kydex holsters that's form-fitted to the gun?
00:57:20.000Now, when things happen, whenever there's a mass shooting or something, immediately people want to blame gun owners or people that want to protect gun owners and specifically NRA members.
00:58:48.000To go to the NRA annual meetings, and then if you can, I don't know how secluded it is, go to the board meeting that they have at the NRA meetings.
00:59:20.000I call it the big red button question, right?
00:59:22.000So you put a big red button, and I ask them, if I put a big red button in the middle of the table, if you push this button, all the guns on the planet disappear.
01:00:24.000If you gave me a red button and said, could I end all senseless violence by hitting that button, I would say yes.
01:00:31.000And then when people say it's a guns problem, I say, do you know that London passed New York City for the first time since 1800 in homicides?
01:01:43.000We should be looking at from the root to the fully grown.
01:01:47.000Like, what is the process that allows someone to become a mass shooter?
01:01:50.000What's the process that allows someone to throw acid in someone's face?
01:01:53.000Man, because, you know, clearly I have to frame everything to my perspective because, you know, I know it the best.
01:01:58.000But, like, even for me, like, I said it in video before, if I ever had to pull my gun and shoot someone to take a life, I'm gonna need therapy.
01:02:35.000And dealing with women who start off initially as anti, a lot of them talk about not wanting guns because they can't see themselves taking a life.
01:02:43.000But the moment I asked them, would they take a life to protect a child?
01:05:56.000And so what we find ourselves doing is finding ways to limit that right because of the few bad people in our country.
01:06:03.000And I just think that's the wrong way to go about it because we're basically devolving ourselves down to a point where we're not going to have any rights left because there are a couple of bad people here who might do something bad with the rights that you have.
01:06:15.000I think it's the wrong way to go about it, too.
01:06:17.000But if we had no violence in this country, if something happened, human beings evolved, if our switch changed and there's no more violence, would you still want to have guns?
01:06:45.000Now, if you do that activity and you're not thinking about hurting someone and all you're thinking about is focusing on the target, trigger control, all that stuff, Is that bad?
01:07:07.000I ran cross country, track, you name it.
01:07:10.000So when I got into guns, so my dream was to go to the NBA when I was younger, right?
01:07:16.000Clearly that didn't happen and it wasn't going to.
01:07:19.000But, you know, there was that athleticism still in me.
01:07:23.000So what we did on the show when we were talking about coming up with a different shooting competition was how do I incorporate some of that athleticism into shooting, right?
01:07:33.000Which is essentially, by and large, a lot of running and just shooting in different positions and so forth and so on.
01:08:10.000When we were kids, it was all so simple, right?
01:08:12.000Like cops and robbers with a gun, pew pew pew pew, we do that.
01:08:15.000And so, but then, so I want to capture...
01:08:20.000The recreation involved in playing cops and robbers as a kid, but then also understanding the very definitive distinction between the good guys and the bad guys.
01:08:29.000The people who live this lifestyle are good people.
01:09:28.000Still waiting for my gun to jump up on its own and kill somebody.
01:09:32.000It is relatively tongue-in-cheek, but at the same time, what it does is it transfers the focus, and in it I say, When a drunk driver gets behind the wheel and kills someone, we don't blame the vehicle for it.
01:09:46.000So when somebody goes out and commits violence with a firearm, why aren't we focusing on the people who are doing it instead of focusing on the firearm?
01:09:53.000Well, I think we should certainly be focusing on the people.
01:09:56.000As we said, we should certainly be focusing on what happens to a person that makes them...
01:11:02.000And so what I think we're lacking to a degree in this country is people not having the coping mechanisms to deal with failure or to deal with rejection.
01:11:13.000There's definitely people that feel like they're outsiders and they want to flip the board over.
01:11:19.000They're losing the game and they just want to flip the board over.
01:11:22.000And that seems like that Parkland kid...
01:11:25.000I mean, there were kids that were worried about him before this ever happened, and that his whole thing was that his life was shit, and he wanted other people to experience that.
01:11:35.000And the thing is, it's like, and the hard thing about it, too, is now I realize, and it just came to my mind, I think sometimes I don't even want to talk about the mental health aspect of it in this particular case of the Parkinson's shoot, because I just want to relegate him to evil.
01:11:51.000Like, you're taking innocent lives because you feel bad.
01:11:55.000Go in a corner and shoot yourself, if that's the case.
01:11:58.000There's a romanticized version of that, too, where people just want to take everybody out, take all the people out that you saw that were doing well while you were struggling.
01:12:10.000Well, it flips if you've got a good attitude and you're a healthy person like yourself.
01:12:13.000But if you're mentally ill and your life has been just tormented and abused and just you have mental health issues and you're all fucked up, I don't know what the answer is.
01:12:26.000I don't know what the answer is, but I do know that the problem lies in the individuals that are capable of committing that and how they become that.
01:13:27.000Especially when I'm taking gun control off the table because people are always saying, you know, you guys don't want to move one inch.
01:13:34.000Well, I was like, yeah, because we've been moving an inch for the last 20, 30 years.
01:13:37.000So the problem is it's a fucked up argument because the people that are holding the guns are not necessarily the people that are doing these things.
01:13:46.000You're trying to attack the vast majority of gun owners are not committing crimes with their guns.
01:13:54.000So when I think about what can we do to stop different types of shooting, for instance, let's start with the type of shootings that happen the most, gang violence.
01:14:04.000So if you look at the statistics, you think, oh my gosh, America's a war zone, right?
01:14:11.00030,000 people a year die, and then the vast majority of it that is remaining as actual homicides is gang violence.
01:14:19.000We don't have a gang problem in this country.
01:14:21.000We have a socioeconomic problem in very specific areas in this country, right?
01:14:25.000Because I just came from Southside Chicago, where I started in Hyde Park, where Obama used to live, and then drove a few minutes into an area that looked like a bomb went off.
01:14:36.000They don't have the violence in Hyde Park that they had in that area.
01:16:20.000It's hyper-concentrated communities in this country that are dealing with this that are also the result of the vast majority of our gun violence.
01:16:27.000If we sat back and thought about it from a socioeconomic standpoint, how do we fix this?
01:16:34.000I'm not saying go in and just hand out stuff, but how do we fix this from the standpoint of improving our schools?
01:16:39.000How is that I can drive five minutes one direction and have a school that has everything you can name and then drive in the opposite direction?
01:16:46.000The school can barely have textbooks to give to their kids.
01:17:30.000But if we were to focus our attention in fixing that, same way we talk about the mental health issue with respect to mass shootings and school shootings, we wouldn't have to worry about the guns because we won't have people wanting to do those things or have the capability to do those things.
01:17:53.000And we've talked about this many, many times in the show that I think that if you wanted to make America a better place, one of the best ways to do it is to Make it easier for someone to succeed.
01:18:04.000And stop pretending that it's a level playing field.
01:18:06.000I didn't grow up in a level playing field.
01:18:27.000Give them more of an opportunity and give them guidance, community centers, clean up the streets, fix buildings.
01:18:33.000But that's a lot of fucking money that we're spending right now in Afghanistan and Iraq and building missiles and all kinds of crazy shit that we're not putting any money into that.
01:19:20.000So in that sense, when it comes to gun violence, it's very complex.
01:19:24.000When it comes to gang violence, it's very complex.
01:19:27.000And I agree with you that there's no other way to stop that than to fix the inner cities where people are just in that cycle of constant poverty and And it's all they see around them, so it becomes normalized.
01:20:59.000Because if you really want to put things into perspective, and the NRA didn't add about this, and people got pissed off, but it's the truth.
01:21:06.000Whatever school the president's kids go to, they are guarded by guns.
01:21:15.000Anything we hold valuable in this country is protected with guns.
01:21:20.000No one is more anti-gun than Hollywood.
01:21:24.000When you hear about any sort of crime or gun violence, the left-wing people in Hollywood are the most vocal, the most virtue-signaling, the quickest to jump on their pedestal.
01:21:37.000Meanwhile, what percentage of their fucking movies involve gun violence?
01:21:42.000And if you look at the Academy Awards, did you see the security at the Academy Awards?
01:21:46.000You see all these left-leaning, liberal...
01:21:50.000Actors being protected by people with flak jackets on, carrying guns with fingers outside the triggers.
01:23:32.000So what you're saying about her is that she is anti-gun, she talks about being anti-gun, yet she's constantly surrounded by people who have guns.
01:24:43.000Now, there could be levels of preparedness.
01:24:45.000You start to hit diminishing returns where it starts to take away from your quality of life.
01:24:51.000But me putting a gun on my hip and just going about my business, that doesn't interfere with my life enough to say, you know what, it's not quite worth it.
01:24:58.000You know, it's funny what you said about, like, humility and that you're, like, more calm and relaxed since you've been involved in guns.
01:25:05.000The same thing happens with jiu-jitsu and martial arts training in particular.
01:25:09.000But jiu-jitsu in particular because you get strangled so much.
01:25:12.000My neck hurts right now because I was rolling with a guy just before I came up, like, last week.
01:26:32.000Yeah, technique's everything when it comes to jiu-jitsu.
01:26:35.000Literally, you have to have some strength, for sure, and strength with technique is the ultimate, but perfect technique is where it's at, and you get that from little guys, like Barrett Yoshida, Eddie Bravo, Hoyler Gracie, the smaller guys are the ones that you want to learn from,
01:26:51.000because they've never been the big guy.
01:26:53.000The big guys are like top-game guys, the smash-pass guys, those guys are just relying on horsepower and leg strength and shit.
01:30:04.000Yeah, well, there's been some people that have investigated this, and there's been some inside sources that have told people that they actively target conservatives, gun owners, redneckers.
01:30:41.000There are – so, like, there are certain people in these places that are actually – they may not even agree with my stance, but I've talked to them, and they'll help me out the best that they can.
01:30:49.000You know, some people on Facebook, some people on YouTube, so forth and so on.
01:30:52.000Because there are all those individuals, you know, the – I call them ghost supporters in a sense because, you know, they can't be too explicit about their – Yeah, you're not going to have just a complete uniform left-wing ideology at any of these organizations.
01:31:22.000Release undercover footage of Twitter employees and employees, engineers and employees, admitting that Twitter employees view everything you post on their servers, including private sex messages and dick pics.
01:31:34.000See, that's why I don't send dick pics.
01:32:43.000But it isn't like some deep secret kind of like, oh, I want to stifle your reach because you believe in this.
01:32:49.000Now, there may be some of that going on, right?
01:32:52.000So I had, for instance, like I buy ads for my merchandise that I sell on Facebook, right?
01:32:57.000Because if I just post a picture of it, my entire audience doesn't see it, right?
01:33:02.000And so somebody went through at Facebook and just deleted all of our ads, like I spent such a ton of money on ads, and they just disapproved them out of nowhere, right?
01:33:12.000And so then I called a contact and it was like, no, that shouldn't have happened.
01:33:16.000And then I went back and put them back up.
01:33:17.000So sometimes it's even individualized.
01:33:36.000You see that with moderators on message boards.
01:33:39.000You see that with, you know, every time people have more power than you, and they go, I don't like this fucking guy, this guy talking about his guns.
01:33:56.000Because I remember the first time YouTube started taking off, like, demonetizing my videos for ads, I mentioned it.
01:34:02.000And a lot of my old people were like, good, I don't like those ads anyway.
01:34:05.000I'm like, you do realize I have to pay to get this stuff done, right?
01:34:09.000Well, no one seems to care until it comes and affects them.
01:34:13.000They don't realize that essentially what they're doing is they're They're censoring you by diminishing the amount of money that you can make.
01:34:22.000You could say it's not real censorship, but it is censorship.
01:34:25.000I mean, it's pretty much what I'm dealing with right now.
01:34:28.000So, for instance, my videos don't come out as consistently.
01:34:39.000The problem is, too, now, before where I could afford to hire someone to edit them, I can't.
01:34:46.000And I need that now more than ever because now on the political front of the things, I'm running around, I'm traveling.
01:34:51.000That's why I always have my MacBook with me.
01:34:52.000I have to try to find places where I can try to edit a little bit and get things done.
01:34:56.000But then the same people who are like, we don't care about the ads on your videos and you making money from your videos are the same people like, why aren't you making videos as much as you used to?
01:35:03.000Well, I'm like, well, I don't have the money to pay someone to edit the videos in order to keep pumping them out the way I was doing it before.
01:35:09.000And I'm not going to give you some quality crap.
01:35:11.000I could just toss a video together and just throw it out there.
01:36:10.000You tell me what's problematic about what he says.
01:36:12.000No answer to that, but yet able to dismissively say someone's a troublemaker when they're a very highly respected intellectual that has amazing points about a lot of different things.
01:36:21.000It resonates with a lot of very, very smart people.
01:36:23.000I think he's the Nietzsche of our time.
01:36:25.000He's a very bright guy and a really good human.
01:36:28.000When you meet him, he's a really good person.
01:36:30.000So for someone to say he's a troublemaker, like, okay.
01:36:33.000No, because he doesn't agree with you, and he's causing trouble with your organization because you're censoring people's views and viewpoints.
01:36:41.000It's so convenient to label someone alt-right.
01:36:46.000This is what we're dealing with today.
01:38:23.000Okay, say if you have a gun-free zone and you have a movie theater and you put the metal detectors on, the only way to enforce that is to have guns.
01:38:32.000So if you want to hire an armed guard to stand there, right, with the metal detectors, because, I mean, the metal detectors are only as good as the person being able to enforce it, right?
01:39:53.000So from that perspective, it's like even the courthouse, right?
01:39:56.000When I go to the courthouse, courthouse is a gun-free zone, minus the fact that if you're a cop, but what do you have to do when you go to a courthouse?
01:40:02.000You go through metal detectors, there are cops, there are people there with guns.
01:40:53.000Well, you know, it's one of the things that they've found, too, is that it's a very strange sort of situation, but when you deal with places that have a lot of violence, when you deal with places that have gun violence and crime, what you don't have in those places is the random mass shootings.
01:41:14.000You have one-on-one crime, but the tangible reality of actual gun violence, for whatever reason, sort of eliminates these mass shootings.
01:41:26.000The mass shootings tend to occur in places where people think they're safe, right?
01:41:30.000Like schools, movie theaters, concerts.
01:41:32.000I think there's a different dynamic involved.
01:41:38.000It's going to become more of an anomaly.
01:41:40.000Because if you compare the violence in the inner city to the violence in the suburbs, which present themselves in by way of mass shootings, if you compare the numbers as a whole, mass shootings account for a statistic for about one to two percent of all gun violence, right?
01:42:28.000So you're still going to have instances of people who slip through the cracks because money doesn't cure everything.
01:42:34.000And so when it does happen, it manifests itself in these random acts of mass shootings, right?
01:42:43.000If I know I'm going to school and I'm going to have to inevitably deal with the violence outside of school anyway, it almost makes it unnecessary to engage in random acts of mass shootings.
01:42:54.000It's almost kind of like this perverted distraction.
01:42:59.000From wanting to mass shoot a place up when you have to deal with violence on an ongoing basis every single day of your life.
01:44:46.000If the guy has a gun and he's in the room and you see one guy shooting people and you're there and he's not shot you yet, it's definitely in the options.
01:44:54.000It depends on how long you're in there, too.
01:44:56.000It's also whether or not you can keep your shit together while someone's shooting.
01:45:00.000You know, I mean, keeping your shit together while guns are going off, but that is not a normal thing for you.
01:45:08.000And the amount of adrenaline that would be pumping through your body, we're talking about if you were in a situation where a mass shooting was going down, the people that think they could just pull out their gun and shoot that person, you might fucking hit random people.
01:46:06.000Well, it's also one of those things, too, where there's a real problem with the conspiracy theories.
01:46:10.000Because one of the things that happened out of the Vegas situation was people would show up at all these different casinos and say, someone's shooting.
01:46:17.000So they would say, the security would go, there's an active shooter at Circus Circus.
01:46:59.000There's a lot of stories out there where it's happened and people don't know about it because they're not going to push it.
01:47:06.000So you think the elimination of gun-free zones would be the way to protect people?
01:47:11.000I say, I'm going to clean up a little bit.
01:47:14.000If you're going to have a gun-free zone, have physical preventative measures in order to enforce it.
01:47:20.000If you're not going to do that, Eliminate them.
01:47:23.000I think first and foremost, this would be the first thing that we should do.
01:47:27.000There should be some sort of a public hearing on the use of SSRIs, antidepressants, psych medications, and their corresponding instances, like the amount of instances where these shooters are on these things.
01:47:45.000I'll say this much to piggyback off what you're saying.
01:47:49.000If I was diagnosed with a mental disorder, the first thing I would do is I would go to a bookstore or go online and figure out every possible way that I can self-help my way through it because I won't touch this stuff.
01:48:01.000Well, one of the things that's just as effective, if not more effective, I think, Google this, cardio, I think, exercise and running is more effective to treat depression than SSRIs.
01:48:14.000I am almost certain that that's the case.
01:49:07.000Dismiss the people that are depressed, because I know people that are depressed, and it's a horrible thing, and I know people that have been helped by antidepressants.
01:49:28.000Got on SSRIs, turned his life around, found a good woman, got in a great relationship, started his own business, weaned himself off of him, now he's happy.
01:49:37.000Sometimes people find ruts in their life.
01:49:40.000We had a podcast with a guy who wrote a book on it, a guy, Johan Hari, who wrote a book on depression.
01:49:47.000SSRIs for depression, heart failure, patients, not so fast.
01:49:50.000The study should put to rest the practice of starting SSRIs in depressed patients with heart failure CVD outcomes.
01:56:11.000Society has to continue to evolve, and one of the ways society evolves is having these conversations.
01:56:16.000You and I having this conversation where a few million people are going to listen to it, and then millions of people on their own having these conversations, and people looking at the reality.
01:56:25.000And in that way, I think, what you're doing is important, and what a lot of people are doing is important, where they're talking about the actual numbers and the actual statistics and letting us get a look at it.
01:56:36.000And that's the one thing that I try to convey with my videos.
01:56:40.000I don't care where you stand on the issue.
01:56:43.000I just will have a shit ton of more respect for your position if it's from a position of education.
01:56:48.000If you actually have some knowledge, I'm not saying you have to be a Jedi master of firearms.
01:56:55.000Just understand the very basics, the fundamentals.
01:56:58.000We have politicians pushing policy based on things that make no sense.
01:57:03.000It actually exposes the fact that they don't know anything about firearms.
01:57:07.000And so it's like you're going to push policy on something that you don't know anything about.
01:57:11.000And so it's disingenuous and inherently dishonest.
01:57:15.000So that's the biggest frustration I have.
01:57:17.000I'm going to educate you and give you the information that you need so that you can make an informed opinion about it.
01:57:23.000If at the end of the day, I take you shooting, I tell you the stats, I tell you about how guns function and how they work, if you still are anti-gun, I can respect that.
01:57:33.000Now, that doesn't mean you get to then push your anti-gun agenda onto me and limit my rights because of it, but I can respect that.
01:57:39.000At least we can walk away and say, hey, look, We look at it from a different perspective.
01:58:30.000The only problem is it's too easy to ignore it because of the platform that it's on.
01:58:34.000Have you had someone on your show that made reasonable points?
01:58:38.000Like, if somebody wanted to watch you in some sort of a debate with an anti-gun person, is there a show that you could recommend that people could go watch right now?
01:58:53.000One of the biggest flaws of the people that were on my show that I had that conversation with is you could instantly see – it was more of an education process because you could tell they didn't know much.
01:59:04.000So what would happen is if they make a point about why they believe this, then I would give them information and then it would be like, oh, okay.
02:01:17.000But I think for a lot of people, especially the people who follow me, they wanted me to come on your show, not because you and I were going to come to an answer, but to educate.