On this week's episode of the pod, the boys talk about their Christmas plans for the new year, how to lose weight, and how to get rid of the junk food. They also talk about the new Crippicola and BPOP flavor and how it could be the next big thing in the food and beverage industry. The boys also discuss the new Hells Angels T-Shirt and how they plan to take over the world in the future. Also, the guys talk about how they're going to make money off of selling t-shirts, and why they don't care if you're a member of a street fraternity or not. The boys finish up the pod with a special guest appearance from the band Run The Jewels and their new album, Run the Jewels: Run The World. Don't Tell Mom: e-mail us what you think of this episode and we'll get back to you next week with a new episode! Timestamps: 1:00:00 - What's your favorite holiday food? 4:30 - How do you lose weight? 6:20 - How much food do you like to eat? 8:00- What s your favorite thing to drink? 9:40 - What do you eat for dinner? 11:15 - What are you looking forward to for the holidays? 12:30- What are your favorite foods? 15:00 16: What s the worst thing you ve eaten in the past week? 17:15- What's the worst food you ve ever eaten? 18:30 19: What do they do for you veg? 21: How do they feel about the most? 22:00 | What are their favorite meal of the year? 23:30 | What is your favorite food color? 25:00 + 26:00 // 27:00 & 27:15 26:10 27:40 28:30 // 28:20 32:00 What s going to be your biggest takeaway from this episode? 35:00 Are you going to do in 2020? 36:40 | What santa? 37: What would you like me to do next? 39:00 Do you have a new song or are you trying to do for me? 40:00 Can you give me a shirt? 41:00 / 42:00 Is there a new product you like?
00:01:17.000Like when I have a salad, when my wife makes salad, she literally will make the salad.
00:01:20.000She may add a little goat cheese or not.
00:01:23.000She'll throw some chicken or some steak on there.
00:01:25.000But if it's fruit in the salad, I don't need any salad dressing.
00:01:28.000Just throw some strawberries or some apples or something.
00:01:30.000Something to just give me that spry of juice and I'm good.
00:01:33.000Now, if I could figure out doing that three to four times a day versus the one meal I'm with my wife and then eating like trash in the studio, I'll be great.
00:02:27.000But these kids that are members of these little punk-ass street fraternities, essentially gangs, we criminalize and villainize a bunch of teenagers who simply don't have anything to do.
00:02:58.000You create something like Cripicola and BPOP. And essentially what you're doing is creating the same sugary shit that we all go buy and drink and we shouldn't.
00:03:06.000And now we're giving the structure of, say, a Hell's Angels to say, yeah, you can say we're a criminal organization, but we still can sell you a fucking T-shirt because we're now paying our taxes, we're now employing people, and we're now doing what we're supposed to do.
00:03:58.000Like, for me, it's easier to do things that are actually a real just sugar, like a Mexican Coke, or just have, you know, some carbonated water with lemons in it.
00:05:31.000Yeah, I mean, talking to Elon Musk on the show about that, when he was talking to me about the thoughts that are bouncing around inside of his head that he can't control.
00:05:39.000And then it's always been his whole life, like, you wouldn't want to be me.
00:05:42.000I was like, Jesus Christ, I'm just thinking about it.
00:05:44.000I thought I did something cool smoking with Mar, and that was definitely cool, but you getting Elon Musk to fucking smoke is classic stoner history in the making right there.
00:05:52.000Yeah, the thing about it is, if I had any idea that people would react to it that way...
00:06:00.000I mean, I would just do that on a normal show.
00:10:00.000I took my money, acted like I didn't get paid, talked shit about him in front of the other guy, and then called him later like, man, I don't know what the fuck made you hold cold, but thank you, and we've been friends.
00:10:10.000And so when he called me and said, you're going to Joe Rogan's experience, I'm like, you're coming with me.
00:10:29.000I will advise anyone who likes street rap to get to the South and get to one of those small clubs where anybody's accepted and just go watch those kids as they grow up.
00:10:40.000You're going to see some hell of our shows, man.
00:10:42.000Now, how does a manager find a rapper?
00:10:49.000I will say, like in Atlanta, Meech and Key, who both manage their management for 21 Savage, they've been on the Atlanta scene for years cultivating young talent, whether it was Grip Plies, Rest in Peace.
00:11:05.000Two-Nine, which was another group out of Atlanta.
00:11:12.000Two-Nine, the members went their separate ways, but still are making dope music.
00:11:16.000But then they found a kid in 21 that they managed to help get to the next plateau.
00:11:19.000And congrats to 21. They had a number one album a couple weeks.
00:11:22.000But management usually comes from a group of people who care and just want to see someone they're a fan of be treated well in the industry.
00:11:49.000My publicist, God bless her soul, I thought I killed her a couple of times this year.
00:11:56.000I have two publicists, a white woman in Catherine, who's done a lot of music publishing.
00:12:02.000And then when I start talking about topics, I have a black woman in Jennifer Farmer, who's a great publicist, but she's also a publicist for former Senator of Ohio, Nina Turner, and mega church pastors.
00:12:12.000So she's helping me keep my image clean, but she doesn't want me getting on television talking about doing cocaine.
00:12:55.000Somebody has to shake the box a little bit.
00:12:59.000Somebody has to be the kid that's willing to poke the hornet's nest just to see how many will fly out.
00:13:03.000Two of my greatest heroes, when black people usually talk about heroes, we talk about Martin Malcolm, Elijah Muhammad, Marcus Garvey.
00:13:12.000But two of my biggest heroes coming up were Luther Campbell and Larry Flint.
00:13:20.000Because in my lifetime, I saw Luther Campbell and Larry Flint fight the government on behalf of the American people's right to say whatever they wanted to say.
00:13:29.000So at the same time in my formative years, I was learning to love the Bill of Rights, the preamble in the United States Constitution.
00:13:36.000I got a chance to see people fight for my right.
00:13:40.000And I couldn't wait to be a rapper just so I could curse and buy my own titty books.
00:13:45.000And those people have shaped my life in terms of love of freedom and liberties as much as a Thurgood Marshall, as much as a Barbara Jordan, as much as a Shirley Chisholm.
00:14:01.000I like the fact you talk on social issues, but why do you always feel necessary to talk about smoking weed in strip clubs?
00:14:07.000I say because that's what I really do.
00:14:09.000And I never want someone to be able from the other side to say, don't like this guy because he smokes marijuana and goes to strip clubs.
00:14:14.000I want whoever they say that to to say, yeah, and he goes with his wife and they smoke together.
00:15:03.000It's a crazy thing to do when something's very popular.
00:15:08.000Yeah, but they also make examples out of the popular.
00:15:12.000I just found out what the monkey on the stick thing meant, what apparently monkeys are an idiot.
00:15:17.000Wild out, so farmers will kill one monkey and put his head on the stick so other monkeys will know, hey, this is dangerous to do, right?
00:15:23.000So essentially, famous people, me, you, Luther Campbell, Lenny Bruce, Rodney Dangerfield, Andrew Dice Clay, Richard Pryor, what you become is something to symbolize what will happen if you dare step out of line of social order.
00:15:39.000So your head being on a stick is less about actually charging you for crimes and more about keeping the rest of the public in fear.
00:17:05.000Yeah, well, I mean, you know, songs, vibrations, humming, you know, meditation, you hum, you know, that rhythm changes things, you know, and it opens your mind.
00:18:25.000It's pretty amazing that hip-hop is really only 40-something years old.
00:18:28.000When you really stop and think about that it's one of the primary sources of music in the world.
00:18:34.000If you think about how many songs are being published, how many songs people are listening to and enjoying right now, how many of those are rap?
00:18:43.000If you could look at the whole country right now, and just a little light goes off when it's a rap song that's playing.
00:18:49.000And if you listen to Willa Walker Jr., Willa Walker says the rest of country music is just biting rap and acting like they are.
00:18:56.000Well, I think it was a little bit of that, but I think at one point in time, it was a little that a lot of rappers would look at guys like Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash and old school gangster country guys.
00:19:07.000Outlaw Country is way different from today.
00:19:23.000There's something about the Allman Brothers, Midnight Rider, and Whippin' Post that's radically different than you just singing about your Ford and rafting on Saturdays with your chick.
00:19:34.000Yeah, I don't think people even understand Tide to the Whipping Post.
00:19:50.000I just wanted you guys to know it didn't bother me any.
00:19:52.000My wife just told me to shut up talking to you all.
00:19:55.000We went shooting a lot more and we played Almond Brothers Whipping Post every morning because I had to remind myself that this is normal.
00:20:02.000That you're being done like this publicly because you're disagreeing with a system that people have agreed to that you don't agree to and it's okay not to agree.
00:20:10.000So the Allman Brothers really got me through that segment and stopped me from punching a lot of bourgeoisie black people in the face.
00:20:18.000Well, you're a proponent of your right to carry a gun.
00:20:39.000And as an American, we are a country that broke off from what we felt like was the tyranny of a monarchy.
00:20:45.000And we did that because farmers and guns dared to wage guerrilla warfare against, at that time, one of the largest armies and navies in the world.
00:20:53.000So I honor that by continuing to be in the spirit of those farmers, you know, in the continuance of Christmas Attucks, the first person to die in the American Revolution, was a black man.
00:21:03.000So for me, I would dishonor those patriots who started this country and Christmas Attucks, and I would dishonor the lineage as an African American who's only 55 years into freedom by giving government my gun back.
00:21:27.000I mean, this is not saying we should stockpile guns and point them at the government, but if people have guns, it's way harder to just take over cities.
00:21:52.000As safe as you feel, you're never far from it.
00:21:54.000But I think what we need more of is people like you that are a reasonable, very educated in the matter, very articulate person who comes from a place where they don't expect that argument to come from.
00:22:09.000You know, like you think about left-wing people or Democratic people, progressive people, you always think, you know, you think about Democratic people overwhelmingly being appreciated by the black community, and you always associate them with being anti-gun.
00:23:24.000But this is as normal in my part of the country as not having straws and being able to smoke in public in places like LA. It's just not that big of a deal.
00:23:35.000You know, in my mind state, a household should have five guns, right?
00:23:40.000You should have a revolver, you should have a semi-automatic for infuring your wife carrying out, you know, in public.
00:23:44.000You should have a shotgun, just because it's a great all-around gun to have, whether it's burglars or vermin, you know, and you should have bolt-action rifles.
00:23:51.000So, of course, in case you've got to kill your meat, you should have a semi-automatic rifle, you know, defend against here and there just to fuck off on Sundays and show your homeboys who's dick bigger.
00:23:58.000But what you should not do is give up your right to all weapons.
00:24:41.000And that doesn't mean, you know, go try to be the quickest draw and you practice it, you know?
00:24:46.000But what you want to do is make sure you know what you're doing with your weapon, make sure you know how to clean your weapon, make sure you know how to store your weapon.
00:24:52.000And I took my son and my nephew, and I'm shooting.
00:24:55.000I'm about to start taking my 11-year-old girl, Michael, shooting, because I want them to know what they do if they see a gun.
00:25:00.000So we've already went through, what do you do if you're somewhere and you see a gun?
00:25:04.000How do you get out of that situation, get other kids out of that situation, and let an adult know?
00:25:10.000And the strange thing to me is that my mother, when she was in high school, was actually taught how to shoot a rifle, right?
00:25:18.000Because the NRA, which is now vilified and hated for reasons, some deservedly so, some not, They used to have big programs in public schools to make sure that children knew firearm safety.
00:25:29.000So my mother's school and other schools benefited from that.
00:25:32.000I don't care if it was just that sheet of paper that told you gun safety before you went in a range.
00:25:36.000That was just a piece of propaganda they did that was better for the overall public.
00:25:40.000So I tend to say, as Americans, we've gotten away from stuff like trades in school.
00:25:44.000We've gotten away from different options besides funneling our kids into college debt.
00:25:47.000And we've also gotten away from basic training, such as balancing a checkbook, Basic home economics, how do you make a lasagna at home by yourself?
00:25:54.000And stuff like gun shooting and archery.
00:25:57.000I think that if those things return to public school, you get a safer, more confident student body.
00:26:03.000You get a reduction on things like bullying and bullshit.
00:26:05.000You get an increase on self-propelled interest of children, and you start to meet, to grow scholars that excel.
00:29:15.000Well, there's a lot of different ways.
00:29:17.000I'm from the underground rap scene, and I like the East Coast rap, I like battle rap, that type of stuff coming up.
00:29:21.000So I was more out of the open mic scene.
00:29:24.000I got to hang around the older guys and the cool guys and the drug dealers because I could rap about street stuff, right?
00:29:29.000Whereas when you take like a T.I., he was always interested, loved music and stuff.
00:29:32.000But Tip was a trap rapper from the start.
00:29:35.000He was entertaining for the streets, so he didn't need to go to fucking open mic.
00:29:39.000He just needed to be opened up on a mic and then allowed the greater public to hear him.
00:29:45.000I talk about him and Big Boy because they're two of my best friends, so I know I got poetic license to talk about those guys where I don't really tread lightly with other rappers.
00:29:53.000You never know whose feelings get hurt.
00:29:54.000So there was no need for him to do open mics as much as just find someone who believed in him, and that was KP, L.A. Reid, DJ Toomp.
00:30:02.000And gave him platform to create the genre now known as trap music.
00:30:05.000Me, I came up more out of the battle rap scene and out of the, you know, go show your wares.
00:30:58.000And my man, Gerard, G.G. McGee, who I had just seen a couple weeks ago, he was the person that kind of pulled me out of knocking around in a trap trying to be a petty drug dealer into a studio.
00:31:08.000And he was the first person to say, yo, this kid could really rap.
00:33:05.000They go, well, they prepare for it, like sometimes, like weeks out, and they tell them who they're going to be battling against, and they write a bunch of jokes about each other and just shit all over each other.
00:33:23.000It is that, and it's a rare place, that one spot where they're doing it like that, that roast battle, is a rare place because it's like pure joke writing and fucking meanness.
00:33:50.000I think it's spelled J-O-N-E, not J-O-A-N-E. Like Jon Jones.
00:33:55.000Yeah, so yeah, and they call it Jonin.
00:33:57.000And there's parts, like I think they call it that in D.C. too, but in Cap and some other places, but it's called Jonin in the South.
00:34:03.000Oh man, they go over there Jonin, just talking bad about each other.
00:34:08.000Yeah, with comics, it really is a martial art.
00:34:12.000Because you've got to keep it together while this person is just ruthlessly shitting on your appearance and your life and ex-relationships and divorces.
00:34:54.000Any song Snoop jumps on is usually a great fucking record, man.
00:34:58.000And Stylebender, as he's getting ready to go into the octagon, he was dancing.
00:35:01.000He was dancing to the song, and then he got inside, he was dancing, having a good time, and then once the fight started, I don't know if you've ever seen him fight, he's in the Matrix.
00:38:24.000Look at how much power is in the core.
00:38:26.000That's the advantage of going from skinny to big, though, versus me, where there's tons of muscle under here, but got to lose a lot of chubby to see it, baby.
00:38:35.000Well, your legs, carrying around all that weight.
00:38:37.000I've always thought if someone could lose weight once they're really heavy, they would have an advantage of their legs.
00:39:40.000Yeah, I mean, I've been working out, man.
00:39:42.000Shouts out to Al Claiborne from Claiborne Fit Effects.
00:39:44.000Now, I'm a former professional bodybuilder.
00:39:46.000Just teach me kind of how to retrain my brain, and when I'm not being lazy and really on it, I feel great.
00:39:50.000Sweat today so you don't regret today.
00:39:52.000The good thing about it too is with a guy like you, if you continue and you continue to lose weight and get healthier, you're going to inspire other people to do the same thing.
00:40:00.000People that are your fans that go, fuck man, now I want to get my shit together.
00:40:04.000Yeah, because what you don't want to do is get rich, die, and have some young Wiz Khalifa-like guy fucking on your wife.
00:42:47.000That white hippie-like people trust brown people with beards so much.
00:42:50.000Well, they want to believe in enlightenment and in all the media portrayals of enlightenment and all of, you know, when people talk about mystical experiences they had in India.
00:42:59.000It's always that part of the world that emphasizes spirituality and the idea that the Hindu religion is a more ancient, more complex spiritual religion.
00:43:11.000So the Indian yogi figure is the white Jesus figure of white people.
00:43:45.000Because I've always wondered, like, what the fuck is it up with white people and East Indian people?
00:43:49.000Because Vikram, who directed Trigger Warning, also has a documentary where he creates a fake religion and convinces, you know, white middle class people to follow him.
00:43:58.000That is a crazy one, the white Jesus one, right?
00:44:01.000Oh, white Jesus is a motherfucker, bruh.
00:44:03.000Like, hey, man, I'm going to get me a shirt that says, white people won, stay woke.
00:44:07.000And what I mean by that is, Western civilization, this is the latest phase.
00:44:15.000Like, people have to understand, there have been We're good to go.
00:44:35.000Between the West and what we call the Middle East now, what was once Western purge or Western Asia, this is thousands of years of war.
00:44:42.000You know, you're hearing Islam versus Christianity, but it's really two ideologies that have been fighting for thousands of years over how the globe should be governed.
00:44:54.000But white Jesus springs out of that and kind of goes everywhere and colonizes everything.
00:45:00.000So, you know, the church pops up with candy for kids, Bibles for you.
00:45:04.000And by the way, we're going to be gone a while, but we're going to leave this guy here on the wall so you know what the ideal, what God's son look like.
00:45:10.000So if God's son looks like a doobie brother, then so does God.
00:45:24.000Well, really, Jesus was probably a tan guy with dark hair and curly hair and brown eyes that was saying shit that the government and the church didn't like, so they knocked him the fuck off.
00:45:34.000Why do you think that each race looks for someone of another race to be their advisor?
00:45:40.000Because I don't think people trust the divinity in themselves.
00:45:44.000I think that once you understand that as human beings, we really only look different because of subtle differences and atmosphere and change and who you mix with when.
00:45:54.000But I think that all those books that our moms paid Oprah to sell us of self-help and inward looking, Reverend Ike had told my grandmother's generation that in the 70s.
00:46:34.000He only put a belt in my butt twice in my life.
00:46:36.000And shit, I think he cried harder than I. Same man at 14 years old shot a man at church for kicking his bike down.
00:46:43.000You know, he grew up in between 14 and 54 when I was born, and he had experiences that he had learned to regret, and he had dealt with that, and he had become something that by the time I was a child and he was raising me, my grandfather was divine in my eyes almost,
00:47:01.000He was perfect because he was genuinely good and moral.
00:47:04.000But as a 14-year-old boy who had grown up fatherless, who dropped out of school in the third grade, and who understood that I must protect my mothers and sisters, he refused to be bullied by anyone, even an adult, to the point of putting a bullet in him.
00:47:17.000So I think that a lot of times we're afraid to see that divinity in ourselves also because then you have to acknowledge the darkness and you have to deal with that.
00:47:25.000And it's easier to get instructed by someone else and it's easier to see the evil is outside too.
00:47:30.000It's easier to see that it's something that I can't control that just happens versus I'm complying and I'm complicit in it, you know?
00:47:38.000It's also a consequence of, you know, one of the things that bothers me the most when people talk about people that commit crimes or think about people that commit crimes, so much of who a person is is a consequence of things that had nothing to do with them.
00:48:12.000One of the weirder things about our culture is that we haven't put more of an emphasis in finding the spots that are the ghettos and the terrible neighborhoods in this country and figuring out a way to build them up.
00:48:38.000Yet we do not put resources into building institutions that will create entrepreneurs or work on the soft skills so the kids can be working at and around production houses, studios.
00:49:56.000He was with people who alleged to be prostitutes.
00:49:59.000And I think that if we start to turn our attention to those places and we put our intentions in good there, we do produce on the other side better.
00:50:07.000But as long as we look at religion as something that makes us holy, makes us clean, washes us of our sins, and we become pious in that, I think religion will be something that's forever kind of harmful and help to create that.
00:50:19.000And I think that that That believing that some people are good at evil doesn't allow us to say, well, what could we do to fix those ghettos, to fix those depressed areas?
00:50:28.000Because for every ghetto where I'm from, for every ghetto that's in a city in the South, I can show you a mountainous region with a trailer park that's just as bad.
00:51:32.000The drama that's been placed around it has been amazing because if I'm not going to change Robert E. Lee, the school's name, I'm not going to really be able to change the place.
00:51:58.000But I see him rallying against kids that uphold that flag and upholding, you know, anything that feels like racism or nationals.
00:52:05.000And he's just one of the most morally good kids I've ever seen running around.
00:52:09.000And he's an ally and he doesn't look like stereotypically anything you would expect.
00:52:13.000But that's the great part of This, to me, the great part of all this country is, you know, as polar opposites as people try to make, say, you and I, here we are together as equals.
00:52:25.000You know, here we are together engaging one another as equals and we don't look like one another.
00:52:29.000And I think there's just a whole bunch of opportunity in that.
00:52:32.000You know, I think that there's money to be made.
00:52:35.000In promoting that versus promoting division and fear.
00:52:39.000So absolutely, there is money in helping children be better.
00:52:44.000And if we're going to live in a capitalist system, be a compassionate capitalist and be the best you possibly can, because we need more of you.
00:52:51.000But it just seems like in terms of something that we think about as a civilization, we don't think about neighborhood rebuilding.
00:53:27.000Again, I don't know shit, so I'm just guessing.
00:53:30.000Anything is better than just building more prisons.
00:53:33.000Yeah, well that's the scariest shit we got going on.
00:53:35.000The idea that someone's profiting off of putting people in cages and that they also lobby to make sure that there's more laws in the books.
00:53:42.000I told Larry King earlier today that I'd rather stop arguing over the Second Amendment with people that I should be arguing for an amendment of the 13th Amendment with.
00:53:52.000We should stop arguing over guns and we should start to say, why does our 13th Amendment have a loophole that allows for slavery?
00:53:59.000That says slavery is illegal except for guns.
00:54:02.000Yeah, people have no idea how much prisoners get paid to work.
00:54:06.000When they were working on the fires, I think it was some fucking insane amount of money they pay them.
00:54:14.000And when they get out of prison, they are not allowed to be firemen.
00:55:29.000They're saying this right here, more than 2,000 volunteer inmate firefighters, they volunteered, including 58 youth offenders are battling wildfire flames through California.
00:55:39.000Inmate firefighters serve a vital role, clearing thick brush down to bare soil to stop the fire spread.
00:55:45.000I wonder, do they get better service for that?
00:59:20.000It's nothing that ever gets discussed in any political discussion, like whenever there's some debates going on or whenever there's any campaigns.
00:59:55.000You can try to fix homelessness without criminalizing being homeless, right?
01:00:02.000We know that most men that are homeless have some types of mental illness or schizophrenia.
01:00:07.000So that means that we've broken down and we're not taking care of the mental ill in a way that we should be or could be.
01:00:12.000So if you start to fix that, you start to fix that kind of homelessness.
01:00:16.000We know that women and children, we know why they're on the street, and we know that if they're subsidized into these type of affordable housing apartments in the city, the kids have the opportunity to go to better schools, to become better parts of society in terms of having the networks and resources.
01:00:29.000We know the mothers are closer to work, can be home, but we don't do that.
01:01:18.000Roxanne Chante talked about re-entrification.
01:01:20.000She said, you know, she doesn't want to hear people keep complaining about gentrification.
01:01:26.000When the kids that are leaving these neighborhoods, whether they sing, dance, rap or not, or just go get good jobs and go be decent human beings, you should be re-entering your neighborhoods.
01:01:36.000You should be buying houses or pieces of land there.
01:01:39.000One of the most impressive things, one of my favorite players was John Stockton.
01:01:42.000And I don't know if it's true or not, but I read a story that he actually bought a house right on the street he grew up in.
01:01:48.000So in the off season, he'd go back essentially home with his kids.
01:01:50.000So they'd had some type of normalization to their life.
01:01:57.000T.I. and I have bought properties together in the same neighborhoods we grew up in.
01:02:03.000I like to see more athletes and rappers become the merchant and business class in that way.
01:02:08.000And I like to see people who grew up in neighborhoods move back to those neighborhoods they grew up in, like the typical iconic American dream.
01:02:16.000You can build another 8,000 square foot in the back of your A-frame house if you want to, but you shouldn't be going to...
01:02:24.00050-60 minutes outside the city and then complaining about the blight of the city because you took yourself away.
01:02:30.000You took the talent and the resources away.
01:02:33.000Do you think that everyone should feel that way, though?
01:02:36.000Do you feel like you have to be committed to the city that you grew up in, or couldn't you want to just get the fuck out of there and go somewhere different?
01:02:42.000There's nothing wrong with getting the fuck out, but you just think you should go back and support it.
01:02:45.000Yeah, it's like I tell kids in college when they say, Mike, what can we do?
01:02:48.000Kids in college, when you go speak at college, they say, well, what can we do?
01:03:25.000The blood, the toil, the soil, it means something, and it should.
01:03:29.000And for working class people especially, it keeps your neighborhood and communities more like the ones that made you be a good human being.
01:03:37.000So I think that there's something most people don't leave the town they grow up in.
01:03:41.000They move to the other side or they move to the suburbs.
01:04:21.000On this street, used to be owned by African Americans, the storefronts in there.
01:04:26.000Their children, after these people died off, sold the buildings off and sold them for cheap.
01:04:31.000And I know this because a man named Mr. John, who runs a grocery store there, stopped me one day.
01:04:35.000He said, you know, Michael, after we're gone and this neighborhood's been gentrified and everything's different, they're going to come along and say that white people stole this from us.
01:04:49.000He said the children of the people that were here left and they never came back because they didn't think what their parents built was good enough.
01:05:28.000You have to be a part of whatever gentrification happens to make sure that your stake is still there and that what you care about from a morals and civil perspective is represented there.
01:05:38.000My uncle John Blackman, who was a huge influence on me, died and had a five-car garage where he did transmissions and stuff, and I begged my aunt to sell it.
01:05:48.000Please, I know they're going to come, the Beltline's coming, but please sell it to me.
01:05:53.000I didn't want my uncle's building to go to strangers and become an apartment complex or something.
01:06:00.000And I walked in your building, and I seen your building, and I said, wow, I know what I'm going to do with it now.
01:06:26.000It's going to be like chocolate hipster land.
01:06:27.000I just wanted to make sure that there's still some chocolate working class in there.
01:06:31.000And sometimes they're going to go buy coffee and there's going to be a loud-ass muscle car and lots of marijuana smoke blowing out of it so they'll know that my uncle's nephew's still in town.
01:06:41.000Well, you've got a great combination of work ethic, a sense of community, and you've got a business perspective.
01:07:20.000Some people get stuck at their failure, and they become bitter, and they become envious, they become hateful, at least out of my community.
01:07:46.000I was a good rapper, but Outkast of Criminal Records, my first record that went gold at a time where every other record was going $10 million.
01:08:08.000These people taught me how to press up my own CDs, put them in the marketplace, sell them at profit, reinvest and sell.
01:08:15.000They taught me that and selling drugs, you know, and they taught me the rudimentary fundamentals of business.
01:08:22.000And when I met my wife, I can remember dating two, three, four, five little hot chicks and her just mentally being, you know, my wife called her like right freshman year of college, but just mentally she was Thank you.
01:08:33.000Light years ahead of everyone because her grandmother had raised her in that way.
01:08:37.000Grandmother had a shot house, you know, like a chitlin circuit.
01:08:40.000You go get a shot for $2 on Sundays because the South is, you know, a weird place.
01:08:44.000We didn't use to sell alcohol on Sunday.
01:08:46.000So my wife, I recognize, had a sharper mind than me for business.
01:08:50.000What I had was good ideas for what would sell or what would be well in the marketplace.
01:10:14.000But if you're a guy, I don't like going to the beauty shops or beauty stores to buy my brushes or buy my combs or, you know, if you want to get a little gray out of your beard.
01:10:24.000You know, you don't want to be in the RX section of your local Walmart or your, like, hey, where do I get the gray for my beard because I want to go get hot young chicks, you know.
01:11:34.000She cried when I showed her the wedding band that I bought because I never really got a wedding band.
01:11:39.000I really want to show you I'm dedicating myself to you and this is never coming off.
01:11:44.000So at the beginning of Christmas she cried when she saw my wedding band and at the end she cried when I said I never want you to be fully dependent upon me or feel that way so here's a lot of stock and she cried like a baby.
01:11:55.000I called Vlad like that shit works bro.
01:11:59.000So I'm learning about, and I just put lots of money into the S&P 500s, but I don't know a lot about cryptocurrency and stuff.
01:12:09.000I'm fascinated by the idea of a decentralized economy.
01:12:13.000The whole thing has always been about the amount of money that banks control.
01:12:21.000If you just stop and think about what goes on with The Federal Reserve and what goes on with all the money and how much a dollar is worth overseas, the balance of it all.
01:12:32.000If there was something that we could all rely on that wasn't controlled by any gigantic group of people that have a vested interest in profiting off of this pile of money, if it was some sort of a Bitcoin-like thing.
01:15:54.000I've gotten myself to the place where I know exactly what I have to pay attention to and what I don't, and what I don't have to pay attention to is just gone.
01:16:01.000Robert Polle, my accountant, has made it pretty easy for me.
01:16:13.000So now, everything that comes in, I already know.
01:16:16.000So it's like when they call us and say, hey, you guys got a $500,000 a day.
01:16:20.000I just know that I'm not going home with $250,000 because asset management commissions, my wife and my accountant already chopped that shit up.
01:18:53.000A lot of people talk a lot of shit about billionaires they like and they want to be.
01:18:57.000And there are tons of billionaires from the nerdy sexy of Bill Gates to the wild, dope, eccentric sexy of Elon Musk to the OGs of Warren Buffett and shit.
01:22:17.000We saw a couple guys go out like that, but that was the craziest one because that was him getting caught by rebels and them executing him on the spot.
01:31:23.000It happens in this community for some reason.
01:31:26.000I read something about what it is about breeding that somehow or another this gene, this trait is more common in whippets than most other animals.
01:31:59.000When you get in an animal like this and you have a hard time breathing, it's not good for them.
01:32:03.000A dog is supposed to have longer legs so it can move good.
01:32:06.000Pit bulls were bred for a couple reasons.
01:32:08.000They were bred for purposes of fighting and purposes of bringing down bulldogs.
01:32:13.000You know, they run alongside the bull, grab the nose ring, drop their weight, flip, essentially flip a bull.
01:32:18.000So I'm just thinking to myself, as we like the aesthetics of what they look like, like, what are we really doing to these little guys where they're fucking, they're buff to shit, but they're short as shit.
01:32:26.000It's hard to get up a pair of steps for them, you know?
01:32:28.000They have such amazing qualities because of the fact they're game bred.
01:32:31.000Because the ones that responded negatively to people, that would growl at people or show aggression to people, they culled them.
01:32:38.000So the ones that are real game dogs, those little 35 pound males, those are the best dogs on the planet Earth.
01:32:45.000Man, I've been trying to convince Shea for like three years.
01:34:45.000My thing is you should only have one or two pits.
01:34:48.000You should have one pit that's dedicated to you and the family, or you should have two pits that are part of the family and they understand who's the dominant and who's the alpha and who's the beta.
01:34:57.000I had one pit that I got from the pound and she had been in the pound for like five months.
01:35:32.000So if they get lonely, and they get lonely without you, like they miss you, they'll do shit like just tear up the fucking sofa or the house or do the laundry.
01:35:40.000And then you'll get there, you'll call them, you're looking for them, and they're like, oh shit, I fucked up.
01:35:44.000And they're hiding in the room and shit.
01:36:15.000My oldest daughter has a tiny little dog and it's one of the smartest dogs I've ever seen because it's part Chihuahua and part Australian Shepherd dog, I think.
01:36:25.000But it's the only dog I've ever had where its paw got caught on the leash and it lifted its leg up And put it behind the leash.
01:38:48.000We're the most advanced of the primates, but we exhibit characteristics that we can see in the lower primates, and if you pay attention to all the top scientists who have been studying human evolution, they're all pretty much in agreement that there was something that we were all similar to,
01:39:04.000and they all branched off in a bunch of different ways.
01:39:05.000It's amazing they keep finding new forms of people, too.
01:39:23.000I think if a pit stop happened, and what was the movie that was really crappy, not as good as it should have been, that was the Aliens, like, precursor or something, it showed essentially where they came.
01:39:34.000But yeah, I think that that's the possibility.
01:39:36.000Aliens were chick hanging out at the moon, say, yo, look at the blue plants, let's fucking go see what it is, and say, yo, wow, that monkey looks great.
01:39:43.000Fuck the shit out of it, got out of there, and the next thing you know, you have war and pestilence and violence and poverty and MMA. And joints.
01:39:51.000But one monkey that accelerated way past all the other ones.
01:41:50.000I don't know what the ocean was like a couple hundred thousand years ago, before people really became what we are, tool-using, you know, people that figured out how to get out into the ocean and capture fish.
01:42:58.000I was happy that it was cotton because seeing as how they're the biggest investor in Africa and China was growing cotton, that didn't go well for black people 500 years ago.
01:43:08.000So I was just like, please don't let cotton grow on the moon.
01:45:41.000I don't think anybody has a quarrel with anybody over there.
01:45:44.000The hustle is that the real interaction is between a very small amount of people that involves all these other people that are with them for some strange reason.
01:45:53.000I think they should just be thrown essentially in a stadium to fight to their death.
01:51:51.000I have different people that are pockets of my life that love you, so as I'm shouting people out, I appreciate you letting me do it, but I know they'll appreciate it.
01:53:29.000Listening to him describe his childhood and how Customato had hypnotized him, that was amazing, because I'd never heard him talk about that before, and that's what people need to understand, like who he was.
01:53:40.000People want to say, oh, he was hyper-aggressive, and he did terrible things, and he was violent.
01:53:47.000Think of how this kid grew up, how he developed.
01:56:00.000When you look at hip-hop and where it was and where Mike was at the time, it was a perfect synergy for him to become a hero.
01:56:08.000Mike Tyson, Mike Jordan, these people became icons at a time where the United States, like in the 80s, after getting opaque, kicking ass in the 80s, That crisis fucking up the 70s, Iran, shit at the end of the 70s, early 80s.
01:56:23.000Steel, I remember my grandfather worked at Hall Steel.
01:56:25.000I remember Steel, my other grandfather, Steel leaving America.
01:56:56.000Like what Mike is, when I hear him interview and I really talk and people make fun of his lisp or whatever, and I think that gets in the way of you hearing the real wisdom he's saying a lot of times.
01:57:06.000Like Mike has repeatedly talked about change and about growth and about how he doesn't see things the same.
01:57:12.000And I think if we actually listen to that, it kind of challenges us to do the same shit that we really don't want to do.
01:57:18.000Yeah, he's one of the rare guys that you'll talk to that accomplished an insane amount.
01:57:22.000Literally became one of the most famous boxers in the history of the sport.
01:57:26.000And you talk about him now, and all he wants to do is dismiss that past life.
01:57:38.000He's like in a classic Kung Fu film, he's the reluctant teacher almost.
01:57:42.000You do a movie, Mike is the guy who is a student go to beg to teach you to fight, and you want to know why he won't teach you, and it's because you find out later your teacher killed someone in the ring or some shit.
01:59:34.000But I can honestly tell you that I read an article in HuffPost or something years ago that talked about parents who smoked and stoners actually being more engaged with their children.
01:59:45.000So that doesn't mean you get up and you get fried the first thing in the morning to take your kid to school.
01:59:49.000But it does mean that Where drinkers or smokers would come home and almost avoid the child to smoke or drink or do something else or had other things going on, stoner would literally pop up, may take a hit or two of the joint, and the focus would be more on just being a child parent and kind of kicking it,
02:00:06.000Yeah, you're way more curious when you're high.
02:00:08.000So if you're just a little bit high and you're around kids, you would be thinking more the way they're thinking or trying to be a little calmer with them and a little bit more patient.
02:00:57.000It just makes you brave enough to be able to express honestly what everybody is probably feeling, but it's scared to bring up because they don't want to be thought of as weak.
02:01:08.000So they don't want to tell you what's going on that's wrong.
02:01:10.000But especially something like anxiety.
02:01:12.000The delicate balance of chemicals that exist in the human mind and how much it can be affected by stress and relationships and life in general and your diet and all these other factors.
02:01:33.000There's a lot of people that believe that ecstasy should help people, that they should be able to do MDMA therapy for a lot of people with stress.
02:01:51.000Like, if they allowed it to be legal, then you would allow it to be regulated, which means you would allow it to be, like, you would know exactly how many milligrams of this is in this and how much you should take if you weigh 112 pounds versus you weigh 212 pounds.
02:02:05.000All those things should be taken into consideration by scientists.
02:02:12.000I think they're having a lot of studies, or a lot of success, rather, with veterans and treating veterans with MDMA and MAPS. You know MAPS, the psychedelic organization?
02:06:35.000There's doing some study now at Harvard about it, about heat shock proteins and hot yoga and how much inflammation it reduces and how beneficial it is to you.
02:06:47.000I forget what scientists were involved in it, but a bunch of people were talking about it the other day.
02:06:50.000I know it definitely gets gas out your ass.
02:06:54.000Well, if you have something that you shouldn't be eating, like you eat a hot dog with sauerkraut and a Coke, and then two hours later try to go to yoga class, you're a criminal.
02:10:21.000That was one of the ones that slipped through the 1970s psychedelic act.
02:10:27.000They had a sweeping act that made a bunch of things illegal, including apparently some of the things they made illegal aren't even psychoactive.
02:10:32.000They just tried to make everything illegal.
02:12:42.000I wonder what that is, because that's the same thing that everybody says.
02:12:45.000I mean, regardless of your religious beliefs, just stop for a second and try to figure out why so many people see themselves from above their body, see themselves outside their body.
02:12:58.000I mean, all people, and even science, kind of agree at this point that their body is just a vehicle of sorts, a machine of sorts, that whatever energy or soul or spirit, whatever people are trying to identify, it's within it.
02:13:11.000But it does disconnect it, I would imagine.
02:13:14.000I'm hoping that they figure out how to put my soul in a computer before I die.
02:13:18.000I'd like to live a couple hundred more years.
02:13:24.000If you're in a computer, you can't die.
02:13:26.000No, I'm saying if you're 89 and you're about to get the fuck out of here and you got the opportunity to upload into 29 again for the next 29 years, like, yo, fuck that.
02:13:36.000I might try that before I decide to click on out of there, you know?
02:13:39.000I think they're going to be able to reverse aging, and I think they're going to be able to do that before they're going to figure out a way to get you into a machine.
02:14:28.000The way Elon Musk looks at it is that he was trying to warn people, but they weren't listening, and that...
02:14:34.000There's no telling how powerful they could get once they become sentient.
02:14:38.000Once they start taking control of their own destiny and creating new robots and just deciding whether or not we live or die and how they're going to run things, they're essentially going to become a life form, an artificial life form that's way fucking smarter than us.
02:14:50.000And he's saying, do you think it's smart to arm these things?
02:15:09.000You literally might be making a Terminator movie here.
02:15:11.000You literally might be making a Terminator movie.
02:15:14.000Yeah, we have to worry, because when you're saying that you think we evolved from monkeys, we evolved from some lower thing, well, the idea is that we've got to keep going.
02:15:22.000Well, if we might hit a biological bottleneck, and that might be the whole convergence of humans and technology, that might be what it's all about.
02:15:30.000Like, biologically, this system doesn't move fast enough.
02:15:32.000But if we can transcend this and move into some sort of a digital life, that life, we can accelerate all of the innovation, all of the improvements in insane numbers, light years.
02:15:44.000Change the fucking nature of life itself.
02:15:48.000That's going to probably be one of the stages of our future, whether it's 1,000 years from now or 100,000 years from now.
02:15:54.000It seems to me like with this adoption of science into our daily lives in terms of the technologies that we're all addicted to, phones and tablets and all these different things.
02:16:17.000He was very vague about it, but he was saying it was going to change the bandwidth, to change your ability to access information, and people were going to wear it.
02:16:26.000You're going to wear this thing on your head.
02:16:28.000It's going to literally charge up your fucking brain in some strange way.
02:16:30.000So it's going to be like strange days.
02:16:31.000He couldn't explain too much about it, but he was saying it was going to come out in a few months.
02:16:45.000I think we're 30 or 40 years away from being, living in, half the time living in a virtual world, half the time living in an augmented world.
02:16:54.000I think people are going to exist in these weird worlds where it feels real and isn't.
02:16:59.000I think they're gonna come out with programs that are fun at first, but then become life-consuming, where you put on these fucking goggles and this suit, and you go into this world, and you live with these people, and they interact, we touch each other, but no one's there physically, but you feel like you are, and it's magical.
02:17:14.000Like, you're living in Avatar, you're on Pandorum, you're hanging out with the blue people, you're with the Na'vi.
02:19:48.000And I'm going to probably hit a joint a couple times, and we'll Uber down, and I'm going to walk through this museum.
02:19:55.000Now, she usually doesn't like going with me because people kind of sometimes will recognize me, and it bothers her if she's really trying to hang out with Dad, you know what I mean?
02:20:03.000But I'm going to get a chance to walk through that, whether it's just me or her kick at Solo Dolo.
02:21:00.000My wife has a piece on loan to the Carlos Museum at Emory University.
02:21:06.000He's going to be a Basquiat-like artist in terms of How he's talked about and more.
02:21:13.000He's an amazing human being and artist.
02:21:14.000We're lucky enough to own some of his works.
02:21:17.000He's on the board and he suggested that me and a guy named Kenyon who worked over at Interscope be brought to and they met us and they accepted us.
02:21:26.000You got to understand, I grew up about four or five miles from this place.
02:21:29.000And for most kids, this place was an impossibility to go to because their imagination wouldn't let them do it, right?
02:21:36.000So you're in these cities, a lot of times you have very poor or working class areas that are right next to things that are inspiring, but kids are not brave enough to break the filter and go because they're never encouraged to.
02:21:48.000And the High Museum and things like that have always made it very accessible.
02:21:51.000So when Ted Turner owned the Braves and the Hawks, if you got B's and A's, you got tickets to the game, right?
02:21:58.000Part of the reason baseball died in inner cities is because the stadiums moved out and you couldn't see it, right?
02:22:03.000The High Museum and the Woodward Foundation, which is a Coke charity, gave me and two other kids a scholarship to go train on Saturdays to draw and paint, stuff like that.
02:22:13.000So this museum has been in my life since I was a kid.
02:24:55.000So the discipline, you know, I've gotten with him.
02:24:58.000That's the great thing about partnering.
02:25:00.000You know, your weaknesses are kind of, you can identify and fix them, you know, because you have someone training there with you right there.
02:25:06.000Right, you feel inspired by your partner.
02:25:10.000Yeah, when two people really enjoy each other's company and benefit from each other's presence and get inspired by each other, the two become bigger than just one plus one.
02:25:20.000That's why, you know, I make sure when I'm introduced, you know, and other stuff, you know, Joe Rogan's people know a Michael Render, Killer Mike, but on a place I always say, you know, first and foremost, a Michael Render, because this is what my mom named me.
02:25:32.000Killer Mike's a character that I enjoy playing, you know?
02:25:35.000And I'm Shay's husband and I have to run the jewels.
02:25:37.000These things are more than just who I am.
02:25:40.000They make significant, you know, change in my life.
02:25:43.000If I live up to the honor in those titles, then, you know, I'm a better person.
02:25:51.000Yeah, and your way of discussing this, too.
02:25:54.000Since you're a fun guy and you're an inspirational guy in terms of your work ethic and all the things that you've achieved, when you say things like that and you talk about your word and you talk about who you are, that's very powerful to young people coming up.
02:29:09.000And once government has shown you do something a few times, you have to practice guerrilla warfare or you're just doing what the British did that lost them America.
02:29:18.000You're stepping up in a formation, shooting your shot, falling back, stepping up.
02:29:23.000You're just playing a fucking game where they're dancing versus doing things that really disrupt the system and things that really progress the move.
02:31:30.000I think right now stand-up comedy is the last vestige of freedom of speech in this country.
02:31:34.000And you guys are to be protected at all costs.
02:31:37.000And I think if people don't protect you at all costs, it's going to be for the worst of us all.
02:31:43.000I definitely think there's something to that that it's there's very few people that are as free with what they're allowed to say Like stand-up comedians because we're saying this crazy shit under the guise of it being funny Yeah So you can get away with saying a lot of things that won't be criticized as long as people laugh at them And you have a good point if you're just making the points without the joke people wouldn't they would they don't want to hear it they get mad at you But something about delivering a point with a joke That's why trigger warning works.
02:32:10.000It's one of the last ways you can deliver a message that maybe people don't agree with, but if you can make them laugh at some shit they don't even really agree with, and they're laughing hard, they'll see a little bit of your point.
02:32:22.000When you set out to do trigger warning, what was the initial premise, and how much of it did it change once you got to production, once you started filming?
02:32:32.000You're one of the only people who've asked that question.
02:32:42.000Originally, we shot it with FX, and we overdid it.
02:32:45.000It looked really good, but it looked really TV. And it could have been dope, but it would have been a parody of a very real thing I was tempted to do.
02:32:54.000And right now, I'm talking about Crippercola.
02:32:56.000What it turned into at Netflix was a real...
02:33:06.000In your face, simple and plainly shot documentation of the possibilities of barbershop arguments, right?
02:33:17.000So in a barbershop argument, you get to say, you know, the only thing that separates Al Capone from Joe Kennedy is Al Capone got caught and eventually died in prison, and Joe Kennedy went on to produce presidents, but they both have been bootlegger.
02:33:30.000You know, people say shit like this, barbershop talk, and then you have to go home and be asking yourself, like, well...
02:33:35.000Well, damn, if Papa Joe was a bootlegger, like, technically it could have went fucked up for him and we never would have had an American dynasty versus Al catching siblings and shit and not going so well.
02:33:46.000But him being the preeminent marketing campaign in face of any Capone-like thing you want to sell cigars to a restaurant, right?
02:33:53.000So I got a chance to say, you know, shit, what if I could do this for my guys?
02:33:57.000And again, giving it a shot and giving it a try.
02:34:20.000But Brian has been putting up lately these just encouraging things, telling writers to write, even if your stuff is getting bought, even if you don't think it's good, to write, to push yourself, to push the idea forward.
02:34:32.000And I've been taking a lot of inspiration for that because Daniel Weinfeld and I, one of the co-writers and co-creators, Daniel and I have been talking and developing this over 10 years.
02:34:42.000Now I know how to do it, how to go in a room, how to get it.
02:34:45.000It won't take me 10 years for the next one, but it was worth the struggle.
02:34:53.000Tweaking my idea was worth critiquing my idea to be like the first time around like nah it's not it's not what it should be because I was nervous to shit the night before it came out about everything in it you know the the what scenes were shot how did it look the production value and now seeing people get it and unlike a lot of other artists not have to call yourself a genius let me tell people every artist thinks there's a genius Every comedian thinks they're fucking Richard Pryor.
02:35:17.000In some part of your mind, you have to think you're great, or why do it?
02:35:21.000You have to believe there's greatness in you, right?
02:35:33.000You remember real people that used to come on in the 70s, 80s?
02:35:35.000I remember watching that show as a kid, looking at motherfuckers like, wow, these motherfuckers exist in these far-off places like Iowa and Kansas.
02:35:47.000I wanted to approach people in a very...
02:35:50.000I'm here right in front of you kind of way, not above you, not celebrity, Michael Moore-ish, but people know I'm a rapper, and it gave me that opportunity.
02:35:57.000And people can say it's genius, and I'm going to say I'm humbled and honored, but you're fucking right.
02:36:02.000And it's genius because I'm engaging people at a regular human level, not at the level of celebrity or power that used to be engaged, but one that allows them to fully open up.
02:36:12.000I haven't seen it on TV since some shit like Real People.
02:36:15.000I haven't seen revolutionary TV like The Jeffersons or You know, all in the family are marred.
02:36:22.000And I think that the world is getting scary and pussy, to be honest.
02:36:25.000You know, not to disrespect pussies because pussies are tough.
02:36:29.000But I think that something needs to be dangerous.
02:36:32.000The best compliment I got on this press run has been like Ambrosia.
02:36:36.000Ambrosia for Head said, how does it feel to have the most dangerous show on TV? And it's dangerous because it unites people.
02:40:01.000I started, man, my man told my wife, you know, get Michael a leaf blower, and he'll just start going back outside.
02:40:09.000So I started looking for leaf blowers.
02:40:11.000And I started taking, instead of having my nephew do it, because I'm running around on tour and shit, just when I'm home, taking my own trash up and down it.
02:40:18.000Spending some time fucking around in my yard, watching around and stuff.
02:40:21.000I realized, being a rapper and living on a tour bus, how much I had stopped going outside.
02:40:27.000Meanwhile, my cousins are fucking hogging in East Georgia.
02:40:32.000And I'm just like, if it went down tomorrow, I'd be fucked.
02:40:37.000I'm rusty as a nail in the rain right now.
02:40:39.000So I definitely think there's something to be said for introducing your kids to maybe a little more of what it was like 20, 30 years or 30, 40 years ago.
02:40:49.000Well, just imagine that human beings lived before houses.
02:40:52.000There was humans and then they figured out shelter.
02:41:08.000I mean, I love to watch those videos on YouTube where it's usually—these people, they're dark in their age, so it has to be either India or Southeast Asia or somewhere, but you'll see two dudes, and they'll just make a fucking—a hut.
02:41:49.000Well, that's where the dark side of it comes from.
02:41:51.000The dark side for me is that with this innovation, that it happens almost unchecked in terms of our ability to think about what are the consequences.
02:42:01.000Like, what are the consequences if we keep making things better and better computers and artificial life and artificial intelligence?
02:42:41.000I often pray that aliens go ahead and attack this motherfucker so white people and black people will cut the bullshit and finally have to unite like one great movie of Red October.
02:42:49.000Dude, I think we're going to get our asses kicked every single time.
02:42:52.000I'm not saying we're not, but at least for one time in humanity, all the empires would have to unite.
02:43:04.000You may be the first person to ask, besides him putting in the King Day, you might give me the only other thing I like about Ronald Reagan.
02:43:14.000And one of the things that was really strange about it was that it shot off this gigantic wave of conspiracy theorists who were thinking that they're going to tell us something about alien contact.
02:44:27.000But do you think that it is possible that aliens came down and manipulated the genetics of lower primates and created people?
02:44:34.000I'm willing, based on all the theology, I'm willing to accept it as a possibility.
02:44:39.000Because I don't think that we're alone, right?
02:44:42.000I just don't, there's nothing, even if there's some divine thing that woke up and decided to make us and we're special children and we're on earth in a blue planet, there had to have been some other things made or played with, right?
02:44:53.000I don't think that, I think it's very arrogant as a human being.
02:46:44.000But it's certainly possible that if we could go to another planet we knew had life, that it's possible if we found some lower primates that we would manipulate them.
02:47:36.000But the thing about viruses, like viruses wholly negative in our eyes.
02:47:41.000I don't think we're wholly negative to each other.
02:47:43.000I don't think a virus thinks it's wholly negative.
02:47:44.000So viruses, when they're eating you up, you're having a good party, when you get the flu, they're like, dude, it's a party up in this finish.
02:47:49.000If this thing is really a living thing, if the earth is really a living thing, we are possibly the worst things for it.
02:49:26.000When I see all this stuff getting better and better and more invasive in your life and the technology becoming more and more advanced and everybody obsessed with it, that's the thing I think.
02:49:35.000This is eventually going to be everything.
02:49:37.000It's going to be way better than this physical life.
02:49:40.000They're going to offer you a life that exists just like The Matrix.
02:49:43.000The Matrix sounded like such horseshit.
02:49:45.000Fun, fun movie, great movie and shit, but like, that can never happen.
02:50:22.000And then you got to go to kill your master's mode.
02:50:26.000And that's what I think happens, ultimately.
02:50:29.000The other thing they say is that as people get more affluent, they have less children, and the population decreases as the world's economy evens out.
02:50:36.000And so that we reach like a point where we can maintain a sustainable population.
02:50:41.000How does that still happen without mass genocide or mass sterilization?
02:50:47.000I think what they're saying is that as people become more educated and more affluent and more successful, as more urbanization takes place, people work more and have less children.
02:50:57.000And when they have less children, the population actually slightly decreases.
02:51:37.000Well, universal pay would be fine if it was universal effort.
02:51:40.000If everybody did put out the same amount of effort, I would agree with everyone getting the same amount of pay.
02:51:43.000No, I'm not saying I'm for or against that.
02:51:45.000I'm just saying, how do you maintain...
02:51:47.000How does it happen that everybody all of a sudden is affluent without mass genocide or sterilization?
02:51:53.000I think the idea is that as urban – listen, this is not my theory for sure, but I've read it.
02:51:57.000The idea is as the world becomes more urbanized and more educated and more wealthy, as cities spread out, what happens is less of those people have kids, and they have less kids.
02:52:20.000But the overall humans, once people have serious careers, like the man and the woman have a serious career, both of them are really invested in their career, they generally tend to have less kids.
02:52:29.000And this is the idea, is that as this people...
02:52:57.000Is that these cities and these urban areas, that as the society sort of evens out globally, whether it takes a thousand years or a hundred years, as things start to even out, people will be more like Los Angeles and less like poor places like Calcutta.
02:53:14.000Yeah, but that's like, but what I'm saying is like, I'm just saying...
02:53:30.000You know, sometimes I just feel like maybe we're at the point.
02:53:44.000But, like, Jacque Fresco in The Venus Project talked about moneyless societies, the radical change of what are political states and things of that nature.
02:54:11.000I think people are more aware of the flaws of the system than they ever have been any generation previous.
02:54:16.000I think when you look at kids from the 70s and the 80s, I don't think they were nearly as educated as to how truly fucked up this country is.
02:54:23.000But also yet truly amazing in terms of like the history of the world.
02:54:44.000And I think with all these incredibly intelligent people that are looking at the problems in the world in terms of carbon in the atmosphere or pollution in the ocean, people are already starting to work on solutions.
02:57:22.000And I was just like, damn, that's amazing.
02:57:24.000Because when you think about, at that time, we had learned about, I think, in history, the Irish and their plight to be here and things of that nature.
02:57:31.000Just like, man, this country gives you a fucking shot.
02:57:34.000And this is like when America was rattled.
02:57:36.000This is in the middle of public enemy era and shit.
02:57:38.000But there was something to be admired in that.
02:58:31.000It should be more like Milton Friedman and the free market and what Thomas Sowell talked about.
02:58:35.000Not we as in you and I, but you and I engage in capitalism.
02:58:40.000Yeah, you and I engage in capitalism is a lot more fair than what countries are doing with one another and with citizens.
02:58:47.000That's why I say the current system of capitalism.
02:58:50.000There's nothing wrong With you being able to buy that beautiful Jeep outside based on the work you've done, your work ethic will determine your worth.
02:58:57.000It's written in the window of my barbershop.
02:59:00.000Your work ethic is going to determine what you're worth.
02:59:02.000Even if there's no such thing as money, if you plow your fields, you're going to be more bountiful so long as the rain gives you something.
03:00:04.000Like, why isn't good happening in the immediate?
03:00:07.000Because so much money is pushed into the immediate.
03:00:09.000Well, if weed does become legal worldwide, I mean, countrywide, it's entirely possible that it's going to stimulate economies in a lot of very poor places.
03:00:18.000It's going to have some real positive benefit.
03:01:48.000Well, it also, it wouldn't make sense in any other relationship.
03:01:52.000In any other relationship where all someone is saying is, if I let you sell something, you give me a certain percentage because you're basically saying that all of the frameworks of our government and the city's roads that you drive on, all that stuff takes money to maintain.
03:02:08.000So we're just going to take a little piece.
03:02:26.000Son of a former cop, cousin of current cops.
03:02:30.000Policemen should be from areas that they're policing or areas like those.
03:02:36.000They should be offered no interest loans to live at and around those communities.
03:02:41.000Teachers should be also, and the fire department, they should almost hold a special place because of the nobility of those jobs and how important they are.
03:02:49.000We also should do stuff like tax freezes once you retire.
03:02:53.000Whatever your taxes are, once you retire at 65 years old, we should knock maybe 10-20% off and that's what you pay until you die.
03:03:01.000We should do everything we can to make the class of people you're saying about affluence possible and we're not doing it.
03:03:09.000I guess that's the only button I'm pushing when I seem...
03:03:12.000Because I'm a very optimistic person, but my pessimism comes more from...
03:04:01.000And men are taught to face each other, to hate each other, and to hate on each other, and to look at each other with a famine mentality, or scarcity mentality.
03:04:20.000That makes me feel better to these people like you out there.
03:04:22.000It makes people feel better when they listen to your music and they enjoy it, that you're this guy behind it that's not taking any of this for granted and you're running with this shit.