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00:01:15.000The long-range laser listening device, laser microscope, is a highly sophisticated surveillance apparatus that utilizes an invisible infrared laser beam to eavesdrop on a target.
00:01:26.000This is the most effective long-range laser listening device in the world that allows the operator to conduct an undetectable surveillance operation on any targeted device.
00:01:55.000Like, you remember when there was that story about some weird sound weapon they think that the Cubans were using on Americans that were in Cuba?
00:02:29.000The sound thing was funny because people would get sick Yeah.
00:02:34.000And they could, and then there was also, they did it in China, too.
00:02:36.000They were like, they, at American civil, like, NG, like, non-government, or like, kind of worked for the government tangentially, or they worked at the embassy.
00:02:46.000Their apartments were above each other, two separate people, and both of them.
00:02:49.000It was on 60 Minutes, like, not long ago.
00:03:08.000Yeah, there's probably a ton of technology like that that we're not aware of.
00:03:11.000My friend Mike Swick used to fight in the UFC, and before that, he did a brief stint in the military.
00:03:19.000He was doing something, some sort of...
00:03:23.000It was either Secret Service work or something along those lines.
00:03:26.000But anyway, he was at the embassy in Russia.
00:03:28.000And he said that they had found listening devices that were so sophisticated that they were being powered by the natural sway of the building with the wind.
00:04:49.000The presumption that we'll just never run out of energy and we'll never run out of the ability to tap into the cloud is like, that seems presumption.
00:04:57.000I'm not even like a doomsday person, but I just feel like it's like the difference between how men dress in public and how women dress.
00:05:04.000Like on a night out, women are wearing heels and guys are dressed in case they have to fight.
00:05:10.000I'm still, like we will do the thing in the mirror where we're like, I'll fucking, I'll fuck you up!
00:05:15.000And, like, that's how I feel with technology, where I'm like, do I have a backup plan for this?
00:05:20.000Even people with, like, Wi-Fi door locks, I'm like, I don't know, man.
00:06:01.000I didn't have a fucking plan, but someone figured out, like, you open a hatch, and then there's a chain, and you gotta pull the chain, and it was like, okay.
00:06:19.000This guy's been on my show several times and he's just on recently.
00:06:22.000And he's one of the main proponents of this theory that something somewhere around 12,800 years ago hit the earth and fucked up everything and probably reset civilization, killed off the vast majority of us.
00:06:38.000It corresponds with the end of the Ice Age.
00:06:40.000There's a lot of physical evidence for it.
00:06:41.000And increasingly, we're seeing more and more evidence in terms of ancient cultures that existed far before 12,800 years ago that they really didn't understand.
00:06:52.000They thought people were just hunter-gatherers back then.
00:06:54.000Now they're finding evidence of things like – there's a place called Gobekli Tepe, which is a giant – these huge monolithic structures that are made out of stone, like huge columns that don't seem like they were made by hunter-gatherers.
00:07:07.000It seems like there was probably some sort of a lost civilization.
00:07:09.000And they know that this all happened somewhere around that time, somewhere around 12,000 years ago.
00:14:39.000Within a year or two, people would be definitely ready for it.
00:14:43.000If it were a legit good action movie, I think they'd be, if it were Tom Hardy, even if, maybe if they were both, one of them was straight and one of them was Tom Hardy and he just plays gay and it's taken.
00:15:10.000Because I was thinking about, if Tom Cruise was gay, right, and he just came out, and there's a movie where he has to save his wife, would women not believe it?
00:17:54.000Yeah, I mean, but it's also like the main battlefield of wokeness, where it's like, Louis came, and there were protesters, and then I couldn't sit at the table.
00:19:08.000The only way that it goes is he raises taxes, or then he'll lose his base, or you raise his taxes on lower middle class people, and if he doesn't stand by his abortion stuff.
00:19:20.000But otherwise, all the donors are sticking with him, everyone's sticking with him.
00:19:35.000Yeah, because I think people, the thing that's always been true is Republicans were against abortion and they would go like, and they never got to repeal it, right?
00:19:45.000I think they're gonna repeal it and then people are gonna go like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, this is crazy.
00:19:50.000If you don't want to get abortions, fine, but you can't People change a law based on, a lot of times, not even a plurality of, like in general elections, like in the general presidential election.
00:20:04.000It's not even the majority of the country that elects the president now.
00:20:07.000Was this something that the people of Alabama voted on?
00:20:29.000I mean, I'm obviously hopeful, but it's a bit like, nah, that's too far.
00:20:34.000It's a bit like when they made Clinton testify, and people were like, eh, that was too far a line was crossed when they made Clinton testify about his sex life, and it was like, mm...
00:21:03.000It's very dangerous when you just decide that no one can do it anymore based on a few people's decision that is going to affect the millions of people that live in Alabama.
00:21:15.000Well, also, abortion laws are odd because the assumption is the reason Christians want to outlaw it is because they think God is going to say, what's with your vote on that?
00:24:33.000This is before he got in trouble, and this is one of the things, like that Parkland joke that he did, I was like, look, that's not his best joke, but it's also, he's working it out.
00:24:42.000He hasn't done stand-up in ten fucking months, he's working it out, but if you say that he's different now, we're getting to see the real Louie, like, bitch, you better go through his library.
00:25:06.000You assume what you believed what he fed, or you wanted to believe.
00:25:10.000I have a theory that one of the reasons people like the New York Times and other media outlets brought the hammer down so hard on him is because they'd heard the rumors and ignored them.
00:25:24.000So now they have to signal that, like, this is wrong.
00:31:16.000I know a lot of really good people that have guns.
00:31:18.000I know a lot of really good people that never shoot anybody that have guns to protect themselves.
00:31:22.000And to label everyone the same is just like labeling everyone who drives a car the same as those incels that drove into people in Montreal or wherever.
00:31:32.000We have a real problem labeling people and labeling people with it's lazy and it's an attempt to marginalize or dismiss their positions.
00:32:13.000So I brought up that makeup boy, and the makeup boy my daughter's in love with, she watches this makeup boy on YouTube, and now he's been cancelled.
00:32:51.000It's like my 11-year-old's telling me this.
00:32:52.000And then, this was the best part, she goes, there was also some talk that he's gay and there was boys that were not gay and he tried to get them to be in a room with him.
00:33:05.000It's like listening to an 11-year-old tell me the shit.
00:33:08.000Well, by the way, that also could have been...
00:33:11.000That's the tone of the internet, anyway, as an 11-year-old girl.
00:34:01.000And even if it's not totally vetted, if it's a little slippery, but you can make an amendment later, you know, I'm sorry, we have a little bit of an apology, we have to make a retraction.
00:34:41.000Also, planes run into the World Trade Center.
00:34:44.000It's fucking too hard to be a journalist, man.
00:34:46.000This is another thing I want to talk to you about, which is absolute Meaning, if you believe, like, I still believe in, like, institutional journalists.
00:35:00.000I believe in New York Times, I believe in Washington Post.
00:35:04.000And you used the fact that they wrote about a UFC fight, they just said he was bloody, or the McGregor fight, where he was bloody and he wasn't.
00:35:12.000It was just a bad, very bad description.
00:35:47.000There needs to be an absolute, kind of an absolute truth, and that's what I feel like is sort of melting in this era of anyone who's like, well, they said this, and that's not true, so everything else they say is fucking bullshit.
00:36:44.000Are all locked into two ancient systems.
00:36:47.000One ancient system is print medium, the other ancient system is broadcast medium.
00:36:51.000The broadcast medium, the ancient part of it is, it has to go on at a certain time, Tuesdays at 8pm, and then you have to sit there and wait for commercials unless you DVR it, right?
00:39:17.000Like, that's the Kim Kardashian way now, right?
00:39:20.000She's having a bunch of babies with surrogates.
00:39:22.000Like, you know, you show up for the wedding, or you show up for the birth in a fucking tight skirt, and you're like, yay, my baby's being born today.
00:40:17.000I mean, they were ready to be parents.
00:40:19.000But then, you know, some people say, well, they were never going to be parents in the first place because they're gay and they didn't even have sex with her.
00:42:10.000It's, I always say, it's like people, you see like Italian people like in Beverly Hills or Miami, and I always say to my friend, those are people that were too douchey for Italy.
00:42:23.000And they're like, oh, we gotta take it to the next douchey level.
00:44:45.000I'd probably move somewhere that was, if I could just go to a place, if I knew I just had to get to a place, I would go to a place that is sustainable.
00:44:55.000Like, whether it's Alaska, or Minnesota, or Michigan, somewhere there's a lot of animals, and there's wildlife, and you have cold, you have water, you have a lot, like, cold is better than heat, because cold you can make a fire.
00:45:11.000Like, if you have shelter and you can make a fire in the cold, you can live.
00:45:14.000I have a counter-argument, which is, I don't...
00:46:17.000You're going to have a hard time getting water if you're in a desert environment.
00:46:20.000If you have, by the same token, if you have as much water as you have wood, obviously it's not a one-to-one analogy because you can go get more wood easily.
00:46:31.000But if you had a shitload of water, right?
00:47:51.000You don't want to flinch when the trigger goes off.
00:47:54.000So a lot of guys like Tim Kennedy, who's a friend of mine, who's one of the baddest motherfuckers in the world, he'll practice with dummy rounds.
00:48:02.000So he has regular bullets and then four bullets are just not real bullets.
00:48:09.000And then he has to get rid of that bullet.
00:48:12.000But at least he knows if he was flinching.
00:48:15.000Because if you're flinching, you'll see this movement where there's no gun goes off, the bullet doesn't go off, but you make that weird move because you're anticipating the shot.
00:48:24.000And that's the way to train yourself out of it?
00:48:26.000Yeah, you have to do something like that.
00:48:28.000You have to have what's called trigger discipline.
00:48:30.000Well, first of all, trigger discipline means don't put your finger on the trigger, but also the way you squeeze.
00:48:34.000You've got to just squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and let the shot go off by surprise and not react to it.
00:48:39.000It's the same thing with a bow and arrow.
00:48:59.000There's a guy named Joel Turner who has this whole course called Shot IQ. He teaches first responders, like SWAT teams and shit, about trigger discipline and about how to shoot properly under pressure.
00:49:15.000And he works with people with archery with the same thing because it's a psychological thing.
00:49:21.000But my point is, with a bow and arrow, you're kind of fucked.
00:50:21.000People see videos of it, like on YouTube, and there's the deer, and you draw your bow back, and you hit it in the heart, and the deer's down, and everybody celebrates.
00:50:28.000What you don't see is days and days of hiking.
00:50:33.000If you could watch from a live stream of the moment a hunt starts to the moment you're successful, and you just sat through the whole thing like it's a fucking Games of Thrones marathon, then you would understand it.
00:50:45.000But even then, you wouldn't really, because you wouldn't be out there in the cold, exhausted, hiking uphill, going thousands of feet up and down at elevation, and then the wind shifts and the deer smells you and it darts off, you're like...
00:51:21.000You know, you wonder, how am I gonna watch them starve to death?
00:51:24.000That must have been really exciting for Native Americans or just any ancient people of just like getting like you know I think we could kill a buffalo.
00:51:35.000If we all like we all have to be fed like we all have to team up and that's why humans have survived but like It must have been so fucking like a celebration, like an Ewok celebration.
00:55:21.000I know, and you're still, you can't, I don't know if it's the human mind or the competitive comedy mind, but you want that fucking thousand.
00:57:36.000Well, that's the difference between actually being into shit and talking about the things you're into versus talking about the things you think will be popular.
00:58:47.000Yeah, I think for a long time, people have been doing shows where the show was produced, and there's a bunch of people behind the scenes, and whatever that person is, it's almost more difficult for them to get their personality to shine through all that shit.
00:59:05.000But if it's just stuff that you're really interested in, then people get a better sense.
00:59:09.000And it's also people you like, and then Segura takes off, and Bert takes off, and...
01:00:28.000And this, I feel like, is the first time where it's like, Segura's got his umbrella now, he's got his spinoffs, and it's fucking excellent.
01:00:45.000I was talking to a guy who used to be in charge at Viacom, and we were talking about...
01:00:51.000When people do shows now, they'll pay Kenny Barris, they'll pay Shonda Rhimes, they'll pay Dave, Alan, Chris, all these guys, like $20 million.
01:01:58.000They were making $100 million an episode, but because it's a logo and a corporation, you go, well, that's what a corporation is supposed to make.
01:02:36.000But also, they're still taking 90. You know what I mean?
01:02:39.000Even with all the revenues, with all the...
01:02:43.000All the miles I got to feed, it's still like a huge profit.
01:02:47.000But as a writer, don't you think that like investing your time and effort into a sitcom today, it's like, oof, good luck with that.
01:02:53.000I don't, dude, like, I just started, we used to do the podcast, made motion to this podcast called The Champs, it was great, and now I just started one like a month ago called How Neil Feel, look for it in your local things.
01:05:04.000They want to add something, even if it's irrelevant.
01:05:07.000Like, I had a joke when we were doing Half-Baked, and I'm going two for two with Dave, but we were doing Half-Baked, and I said to Dave, I go, we should do a thing at the end where we should just say, hey, let us do whatever we want, and at the end we'll pass a hat around,
01:05:23.000and you guys can take credit for something.
01:05:27.000Because ultimately, that's what you want.
01:05:28.000You want to be able to take credit for something.
01:07:55.000It'll be interesting enough, often enough, that just let me talk.
01:08:00.000Well, I couldn't imagine giving up that reigns to someone now.
01:08:04.000Like if all of a sudden we brought in some sort of a producer or a network that's like, look, we're going to take this podcast to the next level.
01:09:33.000So I'm like, the funny thing is when you do TV, when you do something that's going to be seen or heard by this many people, like a TV show, if I do Seth or The Daily Show, like, I prep.
01:11:10.000The difference between something on YouTube and something that's a podcast that you're listening to, though, I think the people that are listening are, I don't want to say this, I don't know if it's really true, but they might be more invested in,
01:11:26.000like, because they're subscribing to it and they're listening to it in their car on the way to work.
01:12:10.000Like, you're there, whether you, it's like you don't know them, but you, they really like you and they feel like they have a connection with you.
01:12:16.000Yeah, and all the other people, like you and Theo and Delia, whoever's here, you know, people that come in.
01:12:23.000Yeah, and then those people become characters in their little world play as well.
01:12:27.000Yeah, like you'll see it in the comments, like, this fucking skinny fuck is, like, literally, like, this skinny fuck is bad.
01:13:02.000See, that's one of the reasons why I bring people on that I don't agree with.
01:13:06.000I think it's important to have conversations with people, whether on the left or the right, that you don't agree with, just to find out who they are and what they think.
01:13:12.000And just to have discussions with people.
01:13:14.000It's also like testing your own feelings about it.
01:18:37.000This is something that didn't fly but we found out about it.
01:18:40.000How many of these things we didn't find out about that actually did happen and that we think are legitimate instances in the news or real attacks?
01:18:47.000Yeah, I just think it's a drop in the bucket.
01:22:13.000But I think that if someone has a very staunch feminist perspective and they meet someone like me, they might, depending upon their perspective, they might think that I'm the enemy.
01:22:24.000That's a possibility, that right away they look at me like the enemy.
01:22:28.000Well, that's the thing of like, what are you absolute...
01:22:31.000And you can tell sometimes when you're arguing with people that are super dogmatic about whatever they believe in, you can watch them go into a line of...
01:22:46.000Logic that they then realize, I can't, because that will, like, seed some ground to this person.
01:25:55.000Well, that's also, it's very hard to get a clear story about women and sexuality in that, like, it's, I don't, I think it varies from wildly.
01:26:06.000Yeah, even the other day I put a thing on Instagram where I said, how, if you start following a guy, how long do you think he should wait to DM you?
01:26:17.000Because as a guy, I'll have girls follow me, and because I just do jokes on there, I'm like, does this girl want to...
01:26:23.000I don't want to be like, so you came for the comedy.
01:30:50.000So, the local guys were going there, and I was like, well, yeah, I'm going to go also, because I want to see this place, because I've read about it.
01:30:58.000And there was a restaurant there that they ate in, which is a whole other issue.
01:31:01.000But it's literally like a mall, like a shitty mall, not like a Glendale, Galleria, where it's just one of those square ones, where it's like four floors, there's an escalator in the middle, and then there's just basically like...
01:31:15.000And there's just prostitutes, hookers as you call them, out...
01:39:39.000This is a good time to bring this up because I just saw something today, literally, and it has to do with this, and I don't know if this is real, but it sounds scary, and this is where someone's taking this technology into a weird place.
01:39:49.000A lady has a Facebook post, that's why I don't believe it, but she said she was with her son, and while she was out of her house, her husband was called Saying that her son was kidnapped.
01:39:59.000And that he heard his son's voice saying, like, mommy, help me, help me, help me.
01:44:49.000And continuously working out as he kind of like the main if not only.
01:44:54.000I've been cranking the sauna up to 200 degrees because Gabriella Reese told me that Laird Hamilton puts his shit on 220. 220. That's what she said, right?
01:45:03.000220. Which is you cook meat at 220 degrees.
01:48:59.000I feel like if you do it smart and you warm up a lot and you stretch, and I've been pretty diligent about recovery, sauna in a big way, but also I've been getting trigger point muscle release therapy, which is like really hardcore,
01:49:56.000Eat sugar and you're like, we gotta get more sugar.
01:49:58.000Don't eat it and four days later you're like...
01:50:00.000I feel like variety is really critical too.
01:50:03.000I make sure that I get at least one or two days of yoga in, at least one or two days of running, at least one or two days of lifting, at least one or two days of martial arts.
01:50:32.000Sometimes I just do hill sprints, and then I slowly go down the hill, I wait till my heart rate gets below 140, and then I sprint back up the hill again.
01:50:40.000I mix it up, but the key is consistency.
01:50:44.000No matter what you're doing, whether it's yoga or running, you've got to do something almost every day.
01:51:28.000I still have like dumbbells and, you know, other shit, bands.
01:51:31.000I tell people, if you really want to work out at home, all you need is a chin-up par.
01:51:35.000Everything else you can do on the ground.
01:51:36.000You can do bodyweight exercises, you can do...
01:51:40.000I gotta say, I don't even think you need a chin-up bar.
01:51:42.000I mean, again, you know 10 times more than I know, but I'm saying, like, what are you getting from a chin-up bar that you can't get from a...
02:03:19.000Well, that's another thing where it's like, if you couch, you can say anything as long as you preface it with, like, I'm not a monster, just know that I'm not a monster.
02:04:00.000My first thought was, fucking thank God.
02:04:04.000Meaning, you don't want to be like, you don't want to do a premise-y show every time, because I did three mics, then I did a half hour on Netflix New Year's Day, the comedians of the world thing that Dele and Swartzen did too, and now I'm like, I would like to do a kind of,
02:04:20.000not one-man show, we think, just not a maudlin version, but like, A way to do jokes that are more...
02:04:25.000It's like jokes, but also if you can thread something else in it.
02:05:00.000Well, it's good and bad, yeah, but it's very easy for someone to claim copyright off of just to play a clip, and next thing you know, your video gets taken down.
02:08:12.000He's got the yonder bags, he's doing small clubs, and he also has a sign that he puts up saying that if you leak any of the material, that they have legal repercussions.
02:09:33.000He's on the road all the time doing this.
02:09:35.000I know he's not doing it just for money, because he's only doing these little tiny places.
02:09:39.000He's doing Zany's in Chicago right now, or Zany's in Nashville right now.
02:09:43.000He's gonna come out with a motherfucker of a special and re-cement his position and I think there's gonna be people that are still mad at him no matter what.
02:09:51.000I don't think that you can please most of the people that are mad at him.
02:10:23.000No comedy at all for ten months, and then he starts doing it again, and there's, you know, some bits in there that would have been great if they didn't get leaked.
02:10:30.000The thing about, what are you going to do, cancel my birthday, is so fucking funny.
02:10:33.000It's like, he's so fucking funny, it's bananas.
02:13:07.000And also, by the way, then throw away Taxi Driver and the Salinger book, Catching the Rye, because that's responsible for killing Lennon, shooting Reagan.
02:13:20.000It's just like, okay, well, so these fucking dummies...
02:18:50.000There must be some metric at Netflix where...
02:18:55.000At a certain point, they're losing a ton of programming, meaning all of their shit's licensed.
02:19:00.000Disney's taking all their shit back in a year or two.
02:19:04.000All of these places are starting their own apps.
02:19:08.000And I think they realize a lot of Netflix is stand-up and documentaries.
02:19:13.000And I think they can never monetize it in terms of...
02:19:18.000The Ali Wong special begat this much money, but if it cost them $500,000 to get Ali Wong's first special, including everything, They made a lot of money.