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00:03:38.000And even when you're learning the history of someone, it seems like they don't tell you How they've wrestled with that emotion to do the right thing or find a way to just accept something.
00:03:53.000How did they get to accept that this was their decision that they had to make?
00:04:53.000And you probably have it from PTSD, you know?
00:04:56.000And he's just telling that story with such kind of emotional depth that was cool.
00:05:01.000It's nice to watch that instead of read it sometimes.
00:05:04.000Yeah, I don't think any of us are ever going to be able to truly understand what it was like to live without television, without radio, without cell phones, and war.
00:05:51.000Let me hang on for a little bit and start assassinating people.
00:05:54.000But after what would seem like a lifetime of that sort of witnessing that and doing that...
00:06:01.000And watching things that you recognize as injustice, the idea of someone getting stuck in the blame and as a vendetta in that, I can see that.
00:06:22.000My great, great, great, great told me, you know, when people are sort of like dipped in that Kool-Aid of because my great, great, great, great, great felt this way, I'm supposed to too because we're related, so.
00:07:10.000Everyone knows that there was European settlers and they had conflict with Indians and there was a lot of things that happened.
00:07:16.000But until you read like the accounts of all the different battles and all the things that happened and all the slaughters and all the chaos and And the children, and the messages sent by more violent...
00:08:23.000Oh, the Comanche finally lost, and that's what she was kind of forced to do, is be re-kidnapped?
00:08:28.000See, that's a famous photo of her, the one that you just had, Jamie, on the left-hand side, because she's breastfeeding, and she has a bare breast, and she's doing this, and they used it for some sort of newspaper story.
00:08:40.000And they never did that with a regular white woman.
00:08:45.000They did it with her because they wanted to show that even though this woman was raised until she was nine years old by white people, she became a savage.
00:08:55.000And that's why they're breastfeeding her half-Indian baby.
00:09:07.000Everyone does something with some intention, and I think mostly people think it's a good intention, whether that works out or not.
00:09:15.000But what do you think the thought process was behind being Comanche, slaughtering everyone else and saying we're going to keep this gal and then kind of – Take her into the fold.
00:09:27.000That sounds like a lovingly taken into the fold.
00:09:30.000It was more pragmatic, apparently, according to this book.
00:09:33.000They didn't have a high birth rate because women would miscarry a lot because they were on horses all the time.
00:10:19.000I mean, there's something incredibly romantic about it.
00:10:23.000It's one of the things about Native Americans versus the Western settlers, or the people that settled, is that no one ever Like, Native Americans never wanted to join European civilization.
00:11:28.000It's crazy to read all the depictions, all the things that they did.
00:11:32.000But there's something so insanely romantic about their life.
00:11:36.000Like, they were talking about Cynthia Ann Parker's, when they brought her back in her 30s, they brought her back to civilization, how difficult it was for her to sort of reintegrate.
00:11:47.000And that, like, the world of the Comanche was like a world of magic.
00:11:59.000Now all of a sudden she had to believe in one god.
00:12:01.000Or just like where you're deliberately blocking all those gods on purpose at every turn, right?
00:12:07.000Because if you – I mean, who's to say that that like really engaging – With the gods of the wind and all that doesn't open this thing for somebody.
00:12:20.000Because there wasn't tons of people, like you said, trying to be in the white world.
00:13:16.000Something really interesting happened to me there.
00:13:19.000Now, not only is this square that we went to and stand on this earth mound, and this guy whose nickname was Gorilla giving us this wonderful tour, just a spot...
00:13:31.000The most romantic tour ever of this place for such a rough place.
00:15:07.000And the way you were a shaman is if you had a birthmark on your head when you were born, they immediately were like, two boards, rope, and just put two boards and roped you and began a lifetime of like, so you're a shaman.
00:15:32.000It's the study of what we are and that that is significant.
00:18:42.000And it's like, would you just order your food?
00:18:45.000When you went to the Aztec temple, as a musician, when you're sitting there, did it make sense, the acoustics, the way it's set up, the way the sound works, does it make sense to you, how they constructed it?
00:21:55.000Whenever you're at a place like that, that's just magical, that's so fucking old and so amazingly constructed, you just think, what the fuck was it like to live back then?
00:22:06.000Do we have a terrible idea of what they were like?
00:23:20.000We have such an egotistical perspective when it comes to our personal civilization that like this, with the internet and with cars and with planes and all that, this is the best way to be.
00:24:16.000Yeah, it's like the same thing with the Native Americans and the settlers, that the settlers were imposing their lifestyle, but the people that experienced the Native American lifestyle, they wanted to stay living like that.
00:24:33.000And it seems like a distinct possibility that the European perspective – Like when Pizarro and all that, you know, was it 12 of them conquistadors killed like a thousand natives in a matter of hours?
00:24:50.000When, you know, when they land, they're looking for gold everywhere.
00:24:53.000And at first, they have this belief that something big will come across the water and be their god.
00:25:00.000And here comes a ship with a bunch of dirty assholes.
00:25:03.000That literally factually dirty assholes have ridden across a boat.
00:25:07.000And, you know, I think about that perspective where they obviously were like, these people are nice, but I've had enough of this.
00:26:58.000You've been there for months, and you're like, maybe you are like, we gotta kill somebody and rape something and take something as quick as possible.
00:27:04.000And you have no idea what the fuck they're saying, because you can't speak their language, so it's easy to just...
00:27:33.000I would imagine what it would be like if you could be a fly on the wall when Montezuma met Cortez just to be there and see what that was like when these people who had never encountered Spaniards before and these guys show up in these boats with two absolutely different beliefs and perspectives of what's about to go down.
00:27:53.000What's crazy is that is why Mexico speaks Spanish.
00:27:57.000I mean, people don't get that in their head.
00:31:25.000If you do not wear shoes, you have made a mistake, for sure.
00:31:30.000And as soon as we pull up to the rancho in the dirt parking lot, I open up the door, and I'm on the passenger side, and I step out, and I go in to reach for a 12-pack of beer, and something hit me on the foot, and I was like...
00:31:46.000And I lift my foot, and there's this black...
00:31:50.000Dark brownish, like a root-beery brown scorpion hanging from my foot, going, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
00:31:57.000And I was like, I think it was like...
00:32:03.000Like a really butch gal who's been terrified for the first time.
00:33:44.000And the remedy at that time, as Fred Drake, who rest in peace, told me was to drink Jack Daniels and put your foot in a bucket of burning hot water.
00:33:55.000Which is a little bit like having a horse on each leg and they take off a different direction.
00:34:00.000Because, like, get the hottest water you can take and continue the pain.
00:34:03.000Like, it's such a wives' tale, it's almost like a divorcee's tale or something.
00:34:10.000So I did that and waited because I didn't know which one it was.
00:34:14.000It turns out that the 24 Hours one lives in another desert, more close to Arizona, and that it's not quite as I've described.
00:34:24.000I'm just telling you what I thought at the time.
00:34:26.000And it was much like a bee sting, but by the time I realized that, and it swole up It swole up immediate and looked like it was going to keep going because it got to this golf ball so fast that it was like, when will this stop?
00:35:41.000Do you think that, because anytime I've seen that online where it's like, you know, I'm Dingo Piles, and I let a bullet ant bite me, where you're like, Jesus, man, don't hang out with this person.
00:35:53.000You see the one where they put it in a glove?
00:36:38.000Pushes so hard that there's two of them.
00:36:41.000What would really be fucked up is if bugs were big and intelligent.
00:36:44.000If bugs behaved the way settlers behaved when they encountered the Native Americans.
00:36:49.000I must say – I'm happy to hear you say that.
00:36:52.000Something I say to my kids and I've said to myself for many, many, many years is – When I'm having a rough morning, I say, thank God praying mantis aren't five feet tall.
00:39:15.000Where for like a thousand nautical miles in every direction, every single tagged white shark, as soon as that happens, the radius is like a thousand nautical miles.
00:40:59.000Because female dolphins, when they breed, apparently, once they have a baby, they have to raise that baby for like six years, so they won't have sex for like six years.
00:41:07.000So what male dolphins do is they will kill the baby, so they're forced a female to breed again.
00:41:13.000So what females do is they become hoes.
00:41:16.000So they fuck everybody and anybody they can, so that if a dolphin runs into her, they go, maybe that's my kid.
00:41:36.000I mean, they have a cerebral cortex that's 40% larger than a human being.
00:41:40.000When there was that one shot, and maybe it's Blackfish or something like that, where they put a mirror up, and the dolphins are looking at them.
00:42:08.000But when we look at orcas and dolphins, just because they can't affect their environment the way we can, like they can't build houses and, you know, and create things.
00:42:45.000At one point, I went through this pirate phase of reading, where you just read about, because all the logs are so accurate, they had to be, to survive.
00:43:23.000That is just great, accurate history of the Caribbean.
00:43:26.000Well, that's one of the ways we know about what happened with Columbus, right?
00:43:29.000One of the more fucked up things about Columbus is, I believe it was missionaries that traveled with him that ratted him out about how ruthless they were.
00:44:45.000That there's this communication and they're extrapolating that there's a communication breakdown now because of the noise pollution of it all.
00:49:33.000It's just that they're all connected from the internet.
00:49:36.000They're all connected through the circles that they travel in.
00:49:39.000They're connected through just – they follow other people like them online.
00:49:44.000But do you think that a drive like that is more an internal one or do you think that the competition of seeing what someone else did is – what kind of factor do you think that – I think they both play a factor.
00:49:57.000It's other people that are pushing it.
00:49:59.000They make you realize that it's possible.
00:50:01.000And then you also have to have some sort of insane internal furnace.
00:50:06.000Yeah, well, I believe when they did some brain testing on that climber fellow that did the...
00:54:50.000I don't know how you include someone else during that thing.
00:54:55.000I think it's just all about the moment.
00:54:57.000I think he's just, like I said, I think he's thinking left foot, right foot, right hand, left hand, and you just keep going and you know the path.
00:55:03.000Well, then that would be akin to some of the greatest meditative minds that have ever existed.
00:55:56.000Okay, there's that lady that channels.
00:55:58.000Yeah, but putting that aside to not precondition anyone, her discussions on manifestation and her explanation of that, that the physical body,
00:56:14.000that you have thoughts and thoughts are bigger than...
00:56:16.000Your body is simply a bag that protects your thoughts so they can occur.
00:56:22.000And that when you think something, you begin to bring it into idea, which is on the process to bring it into the world.
00:56:29.000And so, when you say, I can't, you certainly cannot.
00:56:46.000That there's something beautiful there, especially when it's not really being wrapped in a selfish thing, but manifesting happiness and things you love, and that that attracts other – that's what's contagious,
00:57:22.000And, like, that is the embodiment of thought and body and action together and being ultimately in that vortex of being aware.
00:57:33.000Darrell Bock That Esther Hicks lady is very strange.
00:57:35.000I'm very torn on that because I listen to the actual words and the things that she says when she's channeling that – what is it like that?
00:57:49.000Right, but I think there's multiple people.
00:57:52.000But see, the thing is, I've kind of like, was listening, stumbled on that while I was driving and investigating or reconnecting with the law of attraction and how to like, it's like when you get your motorcycle lesson,
00:58:08.000they tell you to look through the turn because you tend to go where you're looking.
00:58:17.000And so, it sort of dawned on me the connection between just looking for something you love and not bonding or focusing on all the shit you don't like as a manner of walking towards what you desire.
00:59:00.000The only way to make it is to really honestly go.
00:59:02.000So you're talking about your band before you guys made it?
00:59:05.000No, I'm talking about a way of acting regarding anything.
00:59:08.000I love music, and music has always been my way of being the utmost honest I can be.
00:59:22.000And I think because of that, that's what's helped gravitate people that have stayed so long in that.
00:59:29.000However, also, I've realized that I put so much of who I really am in total into the music, that there are times that I should have done that in relationships with friends or people.
01:03:30.000See, without having no preconceived notion and just hearing this as I drive, when the next YouTube thing started to play, I was like, who is this?
01:03:56.000She doesn't say anything that's really foolish.
01:04:00.000And she never changes her tune about, look, and I started to dig that she was saying we, because until I understood that she was like channeling something, I thought it was just a really beautiful way of saying we.
01:04:40.000And where conversely, if you were like, I ain't gonna worry about that because I like as much time without it as possible, let's focus on something I do like until shit gets here.
01:04:49.000That you naturally look through the turn.
01:04:52.000And as long as you're not trying to turn into a wall or a cavalcade of shit, but if you're trying to turn into something you love, you actually will turn into something you love.
01:05:02.000In that case, you should probably embrace challenges, right?
01:05:05.000You should probably welcome them because...
01:05:08.000When they happen, they will test you, and then you can figure out whether or not this philosophy is actually...
01:05:15.000Well, I mean, I have been testing, because I've always dealt with difficulty by shielding it, putting it into the music, or putting it into some dark closet somewhere.
01:05:54.000Because you dam all that shit up, put it in the corner, bury it behind, and really one day it just, like...
01:06:00.000It gives you a massive bath of you're fucked, that damn breath.
01:06:03.000That whole law of attraction thing is very strange to me because I feel like everybody's trying to describe something that there's some element of truth to, but that it's really complicated.
01:06:12.000And it's not as simple as think it and manifest it.
01:06:16.000There's a lot of discipline involved in that.
01:06:19.000There's a lot of hard work and concentration and thought and doubts and hopes and dreams.
01:06:52.000And I think that's one of the main things right there is understanding the difference in thought.
01:06:57.000Because ultimately what you're saying, what one is that hard work that you're talking about, and all those things are sort of getting out of your own way and unlearning how to be so doubtful about it all and just say, I'll take something I like,
01:07:13.000and I'll just think about that for a bit.
01:07:58.000Well, it's blocking you from feeling fortunate, but saying at least I don't have to drink them every day is turning the right direction and heading towards how fortunate you are.
01:08:06.000And if you keep taking those little steps, then soon you get to like, I feel fortunate to be here.
01:08:13.000I feel fortunate I don't have to think about this bottle of water all the time.
01:08:52.000And I think what I like about what I heard her saying is that because it came from no context whatsoever and I just heard the words… It said, can you get out of your own way?
01:09:03.000That's what I would like you to think about first.
01:09:26.000You know, she bought this framed thing, like, you know, there are two wolves, and one is anger, and one is, like, love, and they both exist.
01:09:39.000But ultimately, it's like, which one are you going to feed?
01:10:07.000Well, the more you concentrate on positive things and the less you concentrate on negative things, for sure you're freeing your mind up and you gain the momentum of positive thought and the momentum of living your life with positive thought.
01:10:20.000It becomes easier to do and more rewarding to do.
01:10:23.000But I think it's also necessary to say, I'm not talking about walking around in colopsia like going...
01:11:07.000And I think there's something to, when your thoughts are filled with this, there's just, frankly, less room for me to think about this water, which I dislike.
01:11:50.000Meaning, you know, I... Sometimes things just slam down on the table and say, you've got to be engaged in this at the moment to do it or not.
01:12:04.000And nothing incites a change like that.
01:12:45.000And as I said, without any sort of judgment, and I'm the last person that's kind of a joiner or would be accused of being hippy-dippies or whatever kind of like...
01:13:11.000But she goes further than that, right?
01:13:12.000She actually talks about your thoughts manifesting reality.
01:13:17.000And she talks about how what you're doing with your thoughts and the way you think and the way you sort of interface with reality is you're creating reality with your mind.
01:13:30.000And I'm choosing how I want to take that and have that mean something to me.
01:13:38.000So you're finding an application for that in your life.
01:13:41.000And also, I'm within the spectrum of all the things she's talking about.
01:13:45.000I simply am looking for ways to, in my immediate life, with the people that are close to me, how to be more engaged and how to be more engaging myself.
01:14:29.000No, because, I mean, I'm surprised I'm sort of revealing it here.
01:14:34.000Because I'm not a disciple of anything.
01:14:37.000Yeah, but I don't think there's anything wrong with it, honestly.
01:14:39.000Because, I mean, I've listened to it, too.
01:14:41.000A buddy of mine was really into it, and he turned me on to it, and I listened to it, and I said, okay, there's a lot of wacky shit going on here.
01:14:46.000I think she's channeling a thousand-year-old person, something like that.
01:15:22.000And it's also, whether it's wacky or not, look, there's a lot of wacky shit in religion, but obviously a lot of people find some great meaning in it.
01:16:32.000So you try drugs, and then you're like, well, there's got to be something else that's going to fill this void, or give me some peace, or...
01:16:38.000Yeah, or like, I certainly can't stand here.
01:20:03.000So you respect their idea, their vision, whatever it is.
01:20:07.000You're just trying to help them realize it?
01:20:09.000Yeah, sometimes it's like that, and sometimes I'm requesting that, and there's a way to communicate that that sounds exciting.
01:20:16.000And you should, because it's a shame to be misunderstood in that moment, when really what you're saying is, oh my god, I have this idea, can we try it just like this for a start?
01:20:25.000And once you're emerged in this understanding, your ideas… To better it will be based in understanding this.
01:20:32.000You guys are very unique in that you don't sound like anybody else.
01:22:24.000That manifesting what you love, period.
01:22:27.000And so I just, from being around them and seeing things like that and then starting this Desert Sessions project, which is what I just put out, Recently, where it's just collaboration and it could be anything because it's not all you, you know, but yet it's you.
01:22:42.000And so that's how Queen started, was like, what if you just played anything you thought was good, no matter what it was, and you let every song...
01:22:51.000I had a friend of mine once say to me, you know, not every song can be your best.
01:22:56.000And I just looked at him and I was like, why?
01:23:27.000Do you remember how before the internet, there was a lot of bands that would put out a few hits on an album, but then the rest of the album would almost feel like filler.
01:23:37.000Again, that's another thing where it seemed to me at one point, my hope was that, okay, in the spirit of trying to do something different, I call it On Supply, On Demand.
01:23:48.000You know it's out there because it's out there.
01:23:50.000What's not out there that would be interesting to hear?
01:23:54.000Tell me what you don't think we need and let's start there, right?
01:23:58.000For just trying to fill in the gaps and beautifully fill in the gaps of what's not represented.
01:24:05.000And thereby having this limitless ability to play whatever you thought was right in the moment, as long as it was honest, then you'd be fine, you know?
01:24:36.000It seems like if you work at a record store, it's important because you're filing these under nose flute and the key of F. Yeah, I don't give a fuck about genre.
01:27:46.000And I did and you know sometimes people like to bond over what they don't like and like and also they like to pretend it makes them feel better to pretend they have intimate knowledge of you Joe Rogan.
01:27:59.000Well the thing about Joe is you see Yeah, what he does.
01:30:34.000You're dealing with unmanageable numbers, too, right?
01:30:36.000Because you'd be interacting with literally thousands of people every day and trying to correct them, and then once people find out that all they have to do to get your attention is to be negative...
01:30:44.000I've had moments of that before because I really have always cared about fairness and justice.
01:30:51.000But especially in the last bunch of years, it's like I have to be okay with what I did for me.
01:30:59.000And people don't really know what the fuck they're talking about and what really goes on.
01:31:05.000But if my expectation is that I'm going to take everyone to a spot where this is what actually happened...
01:31:38.000I've had many times where, because of being, like, feeling...
01:31:46.000Strange about things or angry about things or this.
01:31:49.000I take them out on stage sometimes because I grew up watching bands like Iggy and all this stuff where sometimes you go see a band and it's scary and it's wonderful to be scared by it.
01:32:17.000But to cut your tethers loose and go, I don't know what I'm going to do tonight, which I have done many times and walked out there, but I will embody the emotion that I'm feeling right now.
01:32:29.000And you can go ahead and take that shit to the ATM and deposit that because that's what's going to happen.
01:32:34.000The problem is if you're not doing well, then that's how that works.
01:32:41.000Yeah, you're going to feel that when you get out there.
01:32:58.000I mean, I think that you're talking about manifesting.
01:33:01.000If you go up there with that spirit, enjoying the randomness of it, then sometimes the spirit will move you in a direction that you didn't even expect, right?
01:33:09.000Well, yeah, because you feel one with your actions.
01:33:55.000I guess the manifestation aspect of this has gotten important to me again because it's what I did in the beginning.
01:34:01.000And as I have these moments of being lost and feeling like I don't understand what's going on and wondering why, when really it's because of me, you know?
01:34:17.000The best thing I can do, that's why the records have gotten so dark, because that's all I'm seeing, and it has to be real.
01:39:36.000I have three kids as well, and it's insanely hard, I think, to be a child today.
01:39:41.000I think to be a young adult today, too.
01:39:43.000I mean, the pressures that people have.
01:39:45.000There's a book Jonathan Haidt wrote called The Coddling of the American Mind that Discusses the issue that kids are having today with cell phones and depression because of social media use and that especially girls.
01:39:56.000So many girls are cutting themselves and self-harm, suicide's way up.
01:40:00.000And there's a direct correlation between the invention of the smartphone and social media and all these things take place.
01:40:07.000Such a dick move to call it a smartphone, too.
01:41:30.000One day I had this thought, which many people have had before me and many after, but realizing it myself that there's these brilliant minds that make these machines and craft the whole thing and put a button that a moron can touch.
01:44:08.000So I abhor things that make no sense like that.
01:44:11.000I'll tell you an example of many times, you know, you record late into the night.
01:44:16.000And you come to, at three in the morning, in the streets of the valley, you come to a stoplight, and there's nobody coming in any direction.
01:44:25.000And then you're looking at the light red, there's no one.
01:44:29.000I just go after I know it's safe because the function for this thing is now gone.
01:45:50.000What if it wasn't a line at all and it just like a piece of wood was laying there and then someone picked it up and someone was like, is that a line?
01:45:57.000What if you're accidentally in a line that has no business being formed?
01:46:02.000I think you owe it to yourself to at least take the minute and check that out.
01:46:08.000If they came out with cancerless cigarettes that were real similar, that were just like right next to a cell, like almost indistinct, like that meatless burger.
01:48:50.000It's a gateway to like Doritos dust on your chest.
01:48:53.000Well, there's people that say it's a gateway for them, but if you were a person who does meth, Because you smoke pot.
01:49:00.000You were probably going to do meth anyway.
01:49:02.000You probably needed meth in your life.
01:49:03.000Well, I certainly think that at the end of the day, if they took that money and then put it into less fearful things that work, like talking about what drugs do and what you might be masking by taking them.
01:49:39.000He's a doctor who speaks about drugs and addiction, and his take on it is that all addiction, almost all of it, the origin of it is trauma.
01:49:51.000Yeah, childhood trauma, abuse, things that have happened to you that were terrible, and that led to you trying to escape through addiction.
01:49:57.000That's what I'm saying, blocking, making a dam, because you think that'll stop whatever, the river of pain, that you should just be walking along as it's a trickle and walking through.
01:50:06.000And this is the current state of the art, you know, or the state of the science and the studies in terms of like psychologists and people that do counseling that understand human beings that have addiction problems.
01:50:19.000So that's one of the more offensive things about someone like Joe Biden running for president saying that.
01:50:24.000It's like, no, you haven't even done the work.
01:52:03.000I want these picked and taken to my house immediately.
01:52:06.000Well, what's crazy is Paul Stamets, who was on my podcast last week, he's a mycologist, he's a mushroom specialist, and one of the things that he talked about was this one particular area in the Pacific Northwest where psilocybin mushrooms grow, and cops literally wait there,
01:52:22.000people go to pick them, and then they search the people and pat them down and take the mushrooms from them and arrest them after they plucked something out of the ground.
01:55:23.000Does that mean there's also yak hair in there too on accident?
01:55:27.000Well, what it is, a lot of it is coming out of places like China.
01:55:32.000We had an issue with that with my company, Onnit, where we were We sell this thing called AlphaBrain, which is a cognitive-enhancing nootropic.
01:55:40.000It's a bunch of vitamins and nutrients that enhance the way your memory functions.
01:55:45.000And we got it tested by a third party and found a bunch of stuff that was in there that was not supposed to be in there.
01:56:21.000In some countries, in some companies, some shitty companies that sell a lot of, you know, they'll have steroids in it or Viagra in it or a bunch of other stuff.
01:57:09.000That's a really good way to put it for kids.
01:57:12.000For a kid that can't pay attention in school.
01:57:14.000I want to be a wonderfully engaged father.
01:57:19.000It's something I love and it's something that as they traverse the ages and you have to keep adapting the stuff that worked when they were five don't work no more when they were seven or six.
01:57:32.000When you've only had like 50 months, two or three months, that's a big chunk of those months.
01:57:41.000And I... I think what I love about my wife, too, is that we're both like, how do we do this?
01:58:24.000Yeah, it's interesting talking to a three-year-old.
01:58:26.000Like, my kids aren't three anymore, but the youngest ones are nine and eleven.
01:58:30.000And I remember when they were three, you'd have these really weird conversations like, monsters aren't real, right?
01:58:37.000And I'm like, well, monsters aren't real in terms of like, The monsters you think, but there's things that are just as scary as monsters that are, like a crocodile.
01:58:47.000And then we would go to the internet and show them crocodiles like killing a zebra, which is probably not a smart thing for a fucking adult to show a three-year-old, but I wanted them to see.
01:58:56.000It feels like you can't teach the abstract to someone that's not...
01:59:01.000I love The Apprentice, the guild system so much.
01:59:21.000And then you think to yourself, oh, cool, only three more weeks of that and you should be so ready to do something else that you'll pay attention to what I have to say.
01:59:30.000You start with nothing and you get a little bit until you declare, I'm sick of handling this because I fucking got it.
01:59:38.000And then you go, okay, well, if you're that big for your britches, why don't I add one more thing?
01:59:44.000That's one of the dangers of our instant access, on demand, Google this, instant answers, being able to stream this, press it anytime you want.
01:59:52.000This society is that people don't understand the value of wanting something, pursuing it, and having a long road to accomplishing it.
02:00:03.000I feel really blessed to be from the deaths because there wasn't a thing to do.
02:00:09.000And when you tried to do something, the police, the local police, because they had nothing to do, were like, probably going to drive over to a skateboard.
02:00:48.000Well, it's also, it's like you're doing something with your body and your mind, whereas you're sitting there just with a video game, just moving your thumbs around, engaging with something.
02:01:55.000And one day it dawns on them what has occurred.
02:02:00.000Well, they say that that's a severe source of PTSD. That a lot of those drone pilots, even though they're not physically there, a lot of them have pretty severe PTSD. Because one day that dam breaks.
02:06:39.000And I think I'm so always at a loss when it's like, if you could make something and you're going to ask everyone to help you, And we're going to grab all this shit from wherever we're going to grab it from.
02:08:14.000Well, I also think, too, this guy pulled up on me in a Prius that was quite new, and he rolled down the window and just looked at me and waved his hand over his nose, and he goes, Stinky!
02:09:45.000He's trying to build himself up again by breaking me down, but like my grandpa always said, he didn't swear very much, but one of the things he was like, I'd have to give a shit for it to matter.
02:09:56.000And I just kind of chuckled because I was like, thank God I ain't riding in the car with him, you know?
02:10:05.000Because certainly he's going up to the next, like, Monte Carlo and is like...
02:10:14.000He's driving around in a car that gets 50 miles to the gallon, just mocking everything with a V8. Yeah, but also like on a stinky parade, and that's something I don't want to float on.
02:10:26.000It's a lot of negativity pumping out there.
02:13:04.000You know what's amazing about it is I get in that car and I take the kids to school or something and it's contagious because what happens is you feel really good.
02:13:16.000As you know, you get in your 65 and you feel really good and you pull up with a smile on your face and go, Hey!
02:14:44.000You know, the fact of the matter is that the responsibility should be on these plastic companies and these oil companies that have negated their responsibility to, like, you shouldn't be allowed to just, like, shit into the air or the environment at a record pace just so you can make dough at the expense of everybody else.
02:15:02.000Well, they had a different thing they just did recently where they did a satellite image of all the methane in Los Angeles.
02:15:09.000And they were thinking, well, we're going to find out where all these toxic greenhouse gases are coming from.
02:15:15.000And an exorbitant number of them were coming from landfills.
02:15:19.000You know, just like steaming piles of stinky.
02:15:21.000Steaming piles of shit is releasing terrible, terrible gas into the air.
02:15:44.000Yeah, he's got a new one that he just installed in rivers.
02:15:46.000So he's cleaning up these rivers in these third world countries that are, you know, extremely polluted.
02:15:51.000And they're figuring out technologies to extract all these pollutants, and then you could actually make a commodity out of the stuff that they pull.
02:16:01.000So like the plastic that he's going to pull from the ocean is going to be valuable.