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00:01:21.000Like Steven Seagal had in that one movie where he was in a coma for like 10 years and then he was kicking everybody's ass a couple days later.
00:01:28.000I don't care what everybody says, that shit was factual.
00:05:30.000Once he got there and he talked about it, he talked about what the experience was like about just, you know, learning how fatiguing it is to hike.
00:06:53.000I want a substantial cabin made of thick logs or stone, and then I want it near a lake or a water source, preferably a well, that I can irrigate my own crops.
00:08:09.000One more thing I want to do is I want to split with my shirt off while I have women watch me through the window of my log cabin as they're baking me a pie.
00:08:17.000Now, I know this is a chauvinistic fantasy.
00:08:50.000Then you get a major lawsuit on your hand.
00:08:51.000You can't have something bite your fucking hand off.
00:08:53.000Well, I was watching a fucking video of a guy in San Diego who got arrested by these cops, and the cops couldn't get the German Shepherd off his arm.
00:08:59.000The German Shepherds clamp down this guy's forearm, this guy's screaming, and they're pulling on the dog, and the dog's pulling on the meat of his arm.
00:09:07.000Bro, they weren't interested in choking the dog.
00:09:09.000Apparently they thought this guy was a bad person, and they were letting this dog chew this guy's arm up, and you get permanent nerve damage.
00:09:16.000I mean, it's just devastating to the tissue in your forearm.
00:09:19.000I've seen video of it where I said to the cop, he showed it to me, I said, why didn't that guy, who's this giant AWOL, he went AWOL, just giant, he used to be a special forces guy, and he just went crazy.
00:09:30.000And they let that dog loose on, because they had two cops that he was fighting off, and they let this wolf, this fucking wolf loose, and grabbed the dude on the top of his arm.
00:09:39.000He had huge arms, like Brennan Schaub, like big arms.
00:09:43.000Grabbed The guy just, in the middle of his craze, he looked at the dog and then just went, he froze and went down.
00:11:03.000There's a great video of a water buffalo charging a lion, a male lion, and the male lion literally waits until the water buffalo is closed in the distance and then ducks under and grabs ahold of it by the neck and just hangs on.
00:11:34.000One of the problems when you have a game reserve is that if you have a Prada Lions, you are going to pay so much money keeping that reserve stocked because a Prada Lions goes through crazy amounts of meat every single day, every other day.
00:12:21.000Anyway, when they killed that lion, when that dentist killed that lion, well, they then after that had this thing, this international outcry where nobody wanted to go there and hunt lions because they didn't want to be the next guy that gets targeted like that dentist.
00:12:38.000So because of that, they had to slaughter a large number of lions.
00:12:51.000It was something like, I don't remember if it was 50 or 500. Yeah.
00:12:55.000But it was like they had to kill them, and instead of getting $50,000 per lion, like they're accustomed to getting when people, because they have all these lions, the lions had decimated the undulate population.
00:15:48.000It's been proven, David Sinclair said that NAD, HGH, and there was one other, DHEA, those three things in combination have been shown to reverse your biological age.
00:16:11.000One of the greatest Joey Diaz expressions ever.
00:16:14.000But it's just one of those things where there's a few different scientific advances that they can absolutely show that will decrease your biological age and show that there's an increase in your vitality, your ability to recover, all these different things.
00:20:55.000A lot of guys in elk hunting in particular, because you're so mobile, you're constantly chasing these massive herds and you're moving around and going through...
00:23:08.000With archery, some people like a very sensitive trigger, and some people like a trigger that's very hard to pull so that you can't just jerk on it.
00:23:18.000Because you have to pull, pull, pull, pull, bang, and then it goes off.
00:23:22.000When you shoot archery, it's very interesting, but you would think, like say if you have like a wrist strap with a trigger on it, you would think that when you draw back you go like that.
00:23:47.000Most people, there's something about that thing that starts a flinch, an anticipation flinch.
00:23:52.000It doesn't with him, but some people, they get a thing called target panic.
00:23:55.000So to get away from target panic, what they do is, instead of pulling the trigger, you wrap your finger around the trigger, and the trigger's stiff.
00:25:29.000But like one of your lungs, you'd probably live.
00:25:31.000But if you shot someone with a crossbow that had a real broadhead on it, the broadhead would slice you wide open like a samurai sword right through your whole body.
00:27:06.000And if you do it properly, there's sort of the meditative aspect to it, which sounds crazy to say that shooting guns with earplugs on it is very meditative.
00:27:27.000Yeah, because whether it's hunting, whether it's boxing, whether it's jiu-jitsu, I like working at those things and putting myself in uncomfortable positions.
00:27:36.000Because when you go to a shooting range, like it's your first time with me with that kind of tactical thing, it's always going to be a little uncomfortable because you're the new guy.
00:27:44.000You don't know what the fuck you're doing.
00:27:45.000You don't know how to unload a magazine.
00:27:47.000It's just going to be mechanical and there's going to be a process.
00:27:52.000But there's something about being in this strange location with those loud noise that you can become very familiar with and pretty soon you get good at that shit.
00:28:00.000And now you're actually, you don't look like a complete idiot.
00:28:03.000At least you can kind of like start to, you know, be familiar with that language.
00:28:08.000I think that's, personally for me, I think that shit's important.
00:28:11.000Well, it's important to—it'll definitely make you less scared.
00:28:15.000One of the weirdest things is watching an altercation break out and then watching men get scared, like men who don't know how to defend themselves or men that are not used to being around violence getting scared.
00:28:31.000It's exactly like getting punched in the face.
00:28:33.000If you're not boxing and getting hit, I promise you, I don't care who you are, when you get hit, you just get jabbed, what you're going to do is you're going to look down and you're going to bring your hands to your face.
00:28:48.000And it's not until you really practice whatever it is that you can see and kind of, you know, I'm not saying I'm there, but you're at least less likely to put yourself in a position of danger.
00:28:59.000It's exactly like with jujitsu, right?
00:29:01.000When you grab somebody, what do they do?
00:29:03.000I've grabbed boxers who've never had any wrestling.
00:29:29.000Well, I think it's good just to learn because it's difficult and because it tests you emotionally and physically.
00:29:36.000And even the shooting stuff does, especially because we're around these guys who are, you know, Taren's a real world-class competitive shooter.
00:29:44.000And he's showing us his stuff and then we go to do it.
00:29:49.000Like when you put yourself in a situation where you suck at something, it's really good for you.
00:29:53.000It's good to suck at things and try to get better at them.
00:29:56.000Anything, whatever it is, whether it's learning how to play chess, whether it's Whatever it is, learning how to do something, learning how to play tennis, whatever the fuck it is, when you learn how to do something and you suck at it at first and you have to concentrate on getting better, that thing of getting better translates to other aspects of your life.
00:32:16.000The view into when you open up the back, because it's a rear-engine car, a Porsche was probably one of the most sophisticated, technologically advanced cars ever built, right?
00:32:26.000Because they've been refining the design since the 1960s.
00:32:30.000Pop up the rear trunk and look inside at the engine.
00:32:34.000Or it's not trunk, it's the hood, whatever.
00:34:10.000It's the fastest thing I've ever driven, by far.
00:34:12.000I have a bunch of sports cars that make a lot of noises, but they're like guys who put fucking headbands on and weightlifting belts, and then some girl who's a CrossFitter goes right next to you and deadlifts twice the weight.
00:35:54.000They go over bumps like nothing, but yet when you hit the accelerator, they have such a supple suspension that the suspension can adjust to matter what you're driving over, especially when you're in comfort mode.
00:40:22.000And turn it into, like, the ultimate 4x4 vehicle.
00:40:25.000They take out all the bullshit, take out all the axles and the engines, redo everything, and put, like, super beefy off-road suspension, off-road, like, live rear and front axles.
00:43:14.000Musical chairs might be a bad analogy, but the reality is this is unsustainable and we're basing all of this on a model that Really, throughout human history, has only been temporary, and that means a model of peace and prosperity and- And interdependence on a level,
00:43:42.000The grid didn't even exist until the 20th century, right?
00:43:45.000So in the 20th century, in the time that people who are alive today, almost, We're alive.
00:43:53.000The whole world has shifted and now everybody lives in these electrified cities and sewage all goes through this thing and everything goes into the ocean.
00:44:04.000But, on the other hand, there's so many pros to that.
00:44:07.000There are, but I would just like, please, a place I can get the fuck out of and just have, like, I just want to be, I don't want to be a sitting duck.
00:45:25.000We could, for sure, do a comedy club somewhere, or move to a place like Salt Lake that has comedy clubs and 100,000 fucking people or whatever they have out there.
00:45:36.000But the idea of staying here just seems so silly.
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00:52:03.000It reduced the population pretty substantially, but there's still a healthy population of elk in Montana, and there's a healthy population of wolves, and they actually hunt wolves now.
00:53:07.000Mountain lions get killed by state and federal agents who have to kill mountain lions because mountain lions are killing Either people's dogs or cats or livestock.
00:54:25.000You hate an eagle, you'd be a real piece of shit.
00:54:27.000In the Old Testament, if you're a kosher Jew or if you're Islamic, if you're a Muslim, you're not to eat things like eagles, osprey, but there was a very good scientific reason for that.
00:54:37.000Because you would get different pathogens.
01:07:11.000I mean, you always have to leave the door open to aberrations.
01:07:14.000But there was something that I read about—it was a real bummer—the number of women that get into porn that have been sexually molested is off the charts.
01:09:44.000Well, I would dress the way an old-time French director dresses, which would be I would have knickers, I would have boots, I'd have a beret, and I'd have a cane.
01:09:54.000Cane, like a cattle, like a riding crop.
01:12:04.000And you know, sometimes when someone makes up a story and it's so obvious, you're like, what are you saying?
01:12:08.000But I would never pick up on it and you would go like this.
01:12:10.000I remember one time where you and I were doing some...
01:12:12.000We were shooting something as a favor and we were getting our makeup and this guy was talking and he was dating...
01:12:17.000He was actually dating some porn chick and you were listening to him and in front of everybody, in front of him and everybody, you went like this.
01:12:59.000And I was like, we're stopping this right now because you're going to dominate this whole day and then you're going to want us to invest in something or give you money.
01:15:57.00042 years old and still competes in jiu-jitsu.
01:16:01.000And then I got my boy Malik B, who came out of Mayweather's camp, boxed at wildcard forever.
01:16:07.000He's been throwing a right hand since he was seven.
01:16:09.000And Malik has his Ethiopian girlfriend and there are these four little Ethiopian dudes who are drunk and being shitheads and actually kind of dancing with the girls that are in the group and they had to be pushed away a couple times.
01:16:22.000Anyway, finally the guy comes up to Malik and says, that girl belongs to us because she's our sister and you and Malik's black but he's like fucking from Louisiana.
01:18:13.000He's got some very controversial system where he's teaching people, celebrities, jiu-jitsu and giving them belts, but they don't really spar.
01:20:28.000Hodger's never been a guy who adopts the new aspects.
01:20:32.000Look at that beautiful sweep by Hegan that Hicks encountered.
01:20:36.000Hodger's never been a guy who adopted a lot of the crazy new techniques.
01:20:44.000Roger Gracie's all, actually he calls himself Roger or Hodger, I'm not sure, but he's like straight up old school, arm bar, pass, triangle.
01:21:21.000Did you ever see when Jean-Jacques first started competing in Abu Dhabi?
01:21:25.000He was one of the first Gi champions to do no Gi and be really successful because Jean-Jacques was born with a genetic deficiency in his left hand.
01:21:33.000He doesn't have a left hand, he just has a thumb.
01:21:36.000And so because of that, he never relied on grabbing things.
01:23:48.000So you've got this sword, and you're standing there with a sword, and this guy comes out with a long stick and just fucking cracks you over the head with it.
01:24:50.000People would walk around with swords and there was a time in France where just, you'd see people with like, they'd lose, they'd have no ear, they'd have constant scars or no nose.
01:24:58.000But you know, that was like a sort of a badge of honor for Nazis.
01:25:07.000Now here's where it gets really weird.
01:25:08.000A lot of the Operation Paperclip scientists that the United States brought over from Nazi Germany.
01:25:14.000When Nazi Germany was defeated in World War II, the United States took on all their scientists and brought them over to work for NASA. Wernher von Braun.
01:25:24.000Wernher von Braun, the head of NASA, was a fucking straight up, complete 100% Nazi.
01:25:32.000In fact, the Simon Wiesenthal Center said that if he was alive today, they would prosecute him for crimes against humanity.
01:26:20.000Well, that's interesting, but this what I want to see is just pull up the images of Nazi dueling scars because they're horrific like these guys like post duel with look at that one guy with the goggles on with his face slashed open See that down there?
01:27:06.000See, they all had those kind of scars on their face, and it was like to let everyone know these were bad motherfuckers that would, you know, have duels with swords.
01:29:10.000It seems to me that when a lot of soldiers I've spoken to had real combat experience, when they come out of that, it's very difficult for them.
01:29:20.000There's a lot to come to terms with, and sometimes they have a lot of trouble.
01:29:25.000Bringing their life back into a linear way of thinking.
01:29:27.000How could it go from one way of life where everything is life and death?
01:30:47.000He saw too many children starve and die and all those things.
01:30:50.000And I think that when things get bad enough in war, when you get that close to reality and that close to that chaos, Whatever contract you had gets shattered.
01:31:36.000And it all comes down because of what a sociopath like that, a criminal sociopath, usually believes is it's impossible.
01:31:43.000They'll never get caught because they're too smart.
01:31:45.000Is it because they're too smart or they think the world revolves around them and so the idea of them being punished?
01:31:52.000Well, Hitler, you know, according to a historian, I can't remember his name, Buchholz, he said, I think it was John Buchholz that said, Hitler was so colossally self-involved, self-centered, that he truly believed that when the war was lost,
01:32:10.000and he came to the realization that the war was lost, he expected Germany to self-emulate.
01:32:16.000He expected Germany, all Germans, to burn themselves.
01:32:21.000To kill themselves and light themselves on fire, essentially.
01:32:24.000He expected that from the German people.
01:33:08.000Well, if you think about it, any kind of thing where you're trying to conquer something, say if you have a small tribe and there's another tribe that's close to the river and they have more resources and you're in dispute with them and you try to conquer that tribe, that is one level of this game.
01:33:26.000We're going to get our warriors together.
01:33:29.000We're going to sneak in the middle of the night.
01:33:52.000They do it every fucking day, and they do 10 sets a day, and they live in New York City, and they take fucking cabs everywhere, and Ubers, and they live it.
01:34:17.000They don't care about the environment.
01:34:19.000Yeah, that's trying to get really good at something.
01:34:21.000But I think some people try to literally remake the world in their image.
01:34:26.000I think so too, but I think that obsession carries on.
01:34:30.000I think the obsession to conquer a neighboring tribe or to take over a town or to conquer a city or a country or a continent, there's just weird things that people do where they take things as far as they can be taken.
01:35:10.000They don't know if this means there's 20 million casualties, because it also coincides with their switch to 5G. They switched from 5G in January.
01:35:20.000So from January to March, China lost 20 million cell phone users.
01:35:37.000That's pretty safe, because they've been bullshitting left and right about the whole thing.
01:35:41.000You know, they go on Twitter, there's some branch of the government that's involved in propaganda that's trying to say this is a United States government creation.
01:35:51.000The Chinese, you know, a lot of people, and I'm speaking of the government, of course, I think when you live in a society that has been essentially communist or really at the mercy of a central authority and the all-powerful central authority for so long.
01:36:10.000It's also that's a society that treated religion with great disdain and suspicion.
01:36:16.000So they didn't really have, even though there are small pockets of these different, but for the most part, I think when you forcibly rid a population of religion, What you are left with is something that takes its place.
01:36:31.000Sure, an ideology like communism or whatever, but they're not really communists anymore.
01:36:34.000But I do think what happens is you get a population that deals in practicality, that is, I'm sure, very good to each other when they know somebody, but also deals in things like cause and effect.
01:36:49.000One of the things, a friend of mine, I'm speaking for a friend of mine who does a lot of business, billions of dollars in business with China.
01:36:56.000And another friend, in fact, who does a lot of business with China did so and speaks fluent Chinese.
01:37:01.000Both of them had something, an interesting observation, which was that when you speak about morality in a Judeo-Christian way, when you think about, you say, well, that's just the wrong way to do it.
01:37:14.000That in dealing in business with a Chinese company is not necessarily – that's not really the way to approach business.
01:37:24.000They are way more practical than that.
01:37:26.000That doesn't mean that the average Chinese person is not moral or ethical.
01:37:31.000But certainly you will get burned if you are playing by the rules that you are used to, which would be just don't do it because it's not the right thing to do.
01:37:59.000They also now have enough wealth and they have a huge middle class where they can almost start, they're starting to become way more self-sufficient.
01:38:07.000We don't have the symbiotic relationship we used to with China.
01:38:10.000China doesn't need our consumers as much as they did, not even close.
01:38:14.000They have their own consumers in their own country.
01:40:57.000And somebody who lived there for their whole life, I was there, and he was an American and said, people get disappeared here all the time, dude.
01:41:04.000You don't speak against the government.
01:42:48.000Well, you see that with career politicians.
01:42:49.000You see that with this bill that they're trying to pass to help people that are dealing with this coronavirus because they can't work and they're slipping all kinds of stuff in there.
01:43:09.000That is something that politicians do.
01:43:11.000They utilize this moment to try to use it to leverage their own causes, their own pet causes, things that they think are also important.
01:43:19.000There were a group of people that did that with the invasion of Iraq.
01:43:22.000When 9-11 came along, they said, look, Iraq is harboring al-Qaeda terrorists.
01:43:27.000They probably are getting weapons into the hands of people like al-Qaeda.
01:43:31.000There was a whole story that was woven up, and that was a way of essentially crippling the fourth largest army in the world, which was Iraq, and making our allies.
01:44:33.000That's what I'm always amazed at, is how these things can carry on.
01:44:36.000Somebody did a really cool, funny thing about how every general in the Iraq, in the Afghanistan theater, every single...
01:44:45.000Every single year would say, we are at a turning point where the Taliban will be under our control.
01:44:52.000Every time they would make a case for the Iraq war, more money, I'm sorry, for the Afghan war, more money, more logistics, all those things that required more troops, the generals would say, we are, it was always the same wording,
01:45:08.000we're at a turning point And we just need a little more.
01:45:20.000They wouldn't have the money coming in.
01:45:22.000That's the darkest conspiracy ever, that war is prolonged in order to prop up the military-industrial complex.
01:45:29.000And what's really crazy about the military-industrial complex is when there was Eisenhower talking about it on TV, which was really terrifying.
01:45:36.000That was when the first people were introduced to this concept.
01:45:39.000But Trump was talking about it recently.
01:46:35.000And also, look what they're doing to Bernie Sanders to try to keep him from winning the DNC, or rather from winning the Democratic nomination.
01:46:42.000They've conspired, and they put a guy who literally is going senile.
01:47:36.000I think there's no way you really can be responsible for all those things.
01:47:40.000There's no way you could really be well-read on all the different variables and everything when it comes to economics, when it comes to the environment, when it comes to military operations, when it comes to the fucking...
01:50:17.000Look, Bernie at least believes what he says.
01:50:20.000He's also, though, one of the knocks on him is people are like, He's not interested, and if you ask him how you're going to pay for all this, you're talking about Bernie looks at the world as right and wrong, and it's a moral issue for him.
01:50:31.000So, and he is, and he did take his honeymoon in the fucking Soviet Union.
01:50:36.000Say what you will, I do believe the guy is essentially a closet communist.
01:50:44.000And I always marvel at socialists, it's not...
01:50:46.000Democratic socialists, it's a difference.
01:50:48.000Yeah, but I still marvel at the idea that if you really trust government, Again, it comes down to, are they as efficient as the marketplace?
01:51:47.000It's not good for anybody to allow these gigantic homeless encampments to appear under bridges.
01:51:53.000And I don't know what the solution is, but I just think that alone, like if you put that on the governor or the president or the mayor, Goddamn, that's a problem.
01:52:00.000That's a problem that's gonna take so much money.
01:52:03.000It comes from opiates, it comes from mental illness.
01:52:05.000They're already 40 or 50 or whatever they are.
01:53:27.000And he comes in and essentially will say, this kid's throwing tantrums and is impossible to deal with because he is profiting or she is profiting from that behavior.
01:53:39.000Kids are way smarter than you think they are.
01:53:41.000And he instills sort of a very, very interesting approach that I've used.
01:53:51.000But when you think about, without going into the book and stuff, the reason I bring it up is when you think about, you can change.
01:53:58.000You can literally change a child's brain.
01:54:03.000By instilling certain behaviors, certain boundaries, certain protocols as a parent, as an adult, as an educator.
01:54:10.000Because what you do is you get them to exercise self-control.
01:54:14.000You get them to exercise a form of mood stabilization for themselves.
01:54:20.000But you have to do it in a certain way.
01:54:22.000When you don't do that with children, when you let them go crazy, freak out, and put them inside isolation rooms, a lot of times what we'll do is we'll There's nothing we're doing wrong.
01:54:31.000We're not doing anything wrong as adults.
01:54:53.000Sometimes they're on four medications that are in a row.
01:54:56.000And he's had great success coming in and changing all that because what happened was you just weren't getting the kid to exercise the muscles of self-control.
01:55:07.000It's very simple, a very interesting book.
01:55:08.000But what I'm saying is that there is a fucking window with kids where if you don't get to certain kids at a certain time with a good behaviorist, You're in deep fucking shit, and their whole life spirals out of control, and then it goes into substance abuse and everything else.
01:55:22.000So you're talking about now adults who've had all that abuse?
01:55:26.000I mean, I don't know what you would do.
01:55:28.000I really don't know what the fuck you would do, because they're self-medicating to begin with.
01:55:31.000They're self-medicating to begin with.
01:55:33.000They've been addicted to drugs most of their lives, or all of their behavior has been formed while they're addicted to drugs.
01:55:40.000This is a giant problem with people that are In their 40s and 50s who've been drug abusers their whole life.
01:55:47.000Imagining a world with no drugs and no escape from reality and having to be accountable for your actions and then also having to deal with the things that have been done to you.
01:56:00.000And to try to figure out a way to heal from your childhood and your life is over.
01:56:06.000Your body's starting to fail you, right?
01:56:08.000You've been abusing yourself for all these years.
01:56:10.000And the idea that there's some simple solution to dealing with 70,000 people at various stages of that that are currently homeless.
01:56:18.000Some of them that may be able to recover pretty quickly.
01:56:22.000They're just on the street for a little bit.
01:56:24.000They're going to get their shit together and they're going to get out of this.
01:56:32.000But the addiction rate, if you look at the people that really follow this, the addiction rate and the amount of mental illness is very high.
01:57:58.000I've seen intelligent people that have blinders on that think that if you're an atheist, you're a fool, and you probably have a mental illness, and you probably have this extreme belief in science above God and above the laws of the Bible, and they'll say it in this articulate way,
01:58:14.000like, God damn, this guy believes that.
01:58:16.000He really believes that all atheists have a mental health problem.
01:58:19.000So if you get a person who's in a position of power that can also run this ideology, they have this ideology, like one of the things that almost all presidents do, but particularly right-wing presidents, ever since Reagan started introducing the religious aspect of the right into politics,
01:58:36.000they made it a big deal during the Reagan campaign.
01:58:39.000You see that so many presidents, particularly on the right, They have to talk about God.
01:59:21.000Where I like religious thought in discourse and even in policy, it's limited, but I do like the idea that When you think that you can get human beings out of all problems using human rationality, mathematics and science,
02:00:18.000There's also rewards for adhering to one or the other ideology, especially in an aggressive way, because then you get rewarded for being the watchdog of either right-wing values or left-wing values, progressive values, conservative values.
02:01:50.000A person who's an expert on financial intervention or industry intervention to provide medical equipment to deal with the respiratory virus that hits people at an unprecedented rate, that's not a left-wing or right-wing thing.
02:02:15.000Well, Jordan Peterson said something I never forgot.
02:02:18.000He said, when you get down to the level of detail, when you're trying to solve problems, get food on, you know, get a lot of protein and carbohydrates and fats into the...
02:02:26.000Let's say 300 million human bodies or just running a restaurant or whatever it is when you're trying to get something done, get manufacturing of medicines away from China and the United States.
02:02:37.000When you get to the level of detail, left wing and right wing politics seem to go out the fucking window.
02:03:24.000I know what my mission is and that's the way it is.
02:03:27.000So when you get to the level of details, a lot of times, it's what I think a lot of times when you deal with people who live in a real world where they have to make a profit with their business or whatever they do when they live in the real world, they tend to be more moderate to maybe more market-oriented.
02:03:44.000And when you get people that have been in an academic setting their whole life, In a political setting, their whole life where they make laws and you have academics that come up with theories to support those laws,
02:04:02.000they tend to be a little bit less practical, a little bit more theoretical, just by the nature of how they live their lives on a daily basis.
02:08:33.000But the point is, if you had a place I could go, and it was pure, and it wasn't cut with a bunch of shit I don't know about, and I knew I could do it and fucking talk to my friend or have sex with some, you know, whatever it is, Maybe.
02:09:29.000And so many innocent Mexican women and children and men and businesses and lives destroyed and so many Central American lives.
02:09:40.000And it's just destroyed the fabric of those societies.
02:09:43.000You're supposed to take care of this problem, and coronavirus, and the economy, and healthcare, and you're running for re-election, and North Korea, and Germany, and this, and that.
02:10:02.000I think that is a logical way of looking at it.
02:10:06.000But I think that the growing pains of that would be people would lose their fucking minds at you if they lost their children during the growing pains.
02:10:16.000And they can attribute their child overdosing on heroin because their son bought it legally and left it in the house and now someone's dead.
02:14:51.000That went, hey wait, the Bible doesn't tell us that.
02:14:54.000This guy, Halley, Albert Halley was able to predict Halley's Comet or Newton or Copernicus or Galileo who are proving this stuff mathematically.
02:15:40.000Imagine if someone was in charge of education in this country who could convince everybody, who had a real philosophy and a real strategy for educating kids and talked about it in a way like, this is how we're going to make it.
02:17:34.000Even if I catch you with a large trove of child pornography, what am I going to do, dude?
02:17:40.000If that's really what turns you on, I don't know what to do.
02:17:42.000Have you seen one of the weird, you know, because progressive ideology, right, like we were talking about before, really is in some ways is a religion.
02:17:52.000Just like conservative ideologies, it takes on some of the characteristics of a religion.
02:18:01.000There was people predicting this, but almost in jest that one day people that are so progressive, they would look at people who are pedophiles and saying that this is just who they are.
02:18:15.000This is their sexual programming, like how they are as a person, and we shouldn't judge them by who they are.
02:21:07.000Like if you really wanted to be the ultimate soldier and they had like a part of your brain that turns you into a berserker and they would just hit that switch.
02:21:50.000If you have an ideology, if you're protecting your homeland or whatever it might be, that's a formidable soldier who's trying to protect what he loves.
02:21:58.000Well, and who faces the reality of the necessity of that.
02:22:02.000Like, runs into really bad people in parts of the world that really are torturing and murdering people and making videos and putting them up on YouTube.
02:22:10.000Like, you run into those kind of people and you actually see them in the world.
02:22:13.000You see the damage they're doing to people in the real world.
02:22:16.000I know a lot of soldiers who felt that way, who saw that shit, and they were like, listen, man, that's why I killed him and I slept well last night, you know?
02:22:24.000There's something about what's going on now for all of us where there's this massive wake-up call as to the frailty of our society, how poorly we've thought out all the consequences of any sort of global pandemic or any natural disaster, how ill-prepared we are.
02:22:40.000And this is a good opportunity to wake up and look at what we're doing and look how fucking soft we are.
02:22:58.000Well, the real progressive ideas you're seeing from people like nurses and doctors and healthcare workers that are putting their fucking, their physical health on the line, taking care of these people and some of them are dying.
02:23:11.000You're seeing people that are chipping in and food shelters and food kitchens and trying to feed people that are poor.
02:23:18.000You're seeing people, there's a lot of people putting together GoFundMes.
02:23:22.000The comedy store is putting together a fund right now to pay for the waitstaff.
02:23:25.000There's all these different things that are happening that are people putting together that are happening organically.
02:23:37.000And that's what people have a problem with.
02:23:38.000Because what they're worried about is, in great times, in times that things are amazing, we're worried about people who don't want to do their share.
02:23:49.000We're worried about people where you've created a simple, easy path for them.
02:23:53.000And they've taken it every time and time again.
02:23:55.000They're lazy and they don't want to do any work.
02:24:00.000That's different than what we're experiencing now.
02:24:02.000What we're experiencing now is the best case scenario for human nature in terms of the outpouring of generosity that you get from a lot of these people that are trying to help other folks that are in need.
02:24:13.000Yeah, you're going to have some negative stories.
02:24:51.000Because if you correct somebody's grammar, maybe that person didn't have the education and therefore you're being racist because maybe that person of color doesn't use the kind of grammar that's standard English.
02:26:58.000It's not like they've spent time studying these papers and looking at the trends and reading books on core samples and talking to you about these shifts and here's the problem with this shift.
02:27:07.000This shift is different than the other ones because it's clearly CO2. I tried saying with a group of people, all I try to say is I go, I don't like Trump either, but I will say, and I was going to say, I appreciated his China policy and certain things.
02:34:35.000And when something happens where it's really clear that this wasn't thought out correctly, like this, and that we didn't know what was coming, like this, that we didn't ever think, because it's never happened before.
02:34:47.000If something's never happened before, we always think it's not going to happen, whether it's a super volcano or an asteroid impact or this.
02:36:24.000I know a lawyer who defends a kid who starts fires, dresses up like a fireman, and diverts traffic, and they catch him all the time, and he has to go and be like, The kid's obviously crazy.
02:39:22.000If there was like, Nancy Pelosi had like a few timeouts per year, and she could just use it on Trump, and Trump would just have to stand in the corner and not talk?