On this week's episode, the guys are joined by their good friend Jeremy to talk about a variety of topics, including gun control, Tesla vs. Porsche, and the new Corvette Stingray. Also, the boys talk about the new Tesla Model Y, the new Porsche 992 GT3, and much, much more! Enjoy the episode, and don't forget to SUBSCRIBE to stay up to date with the latest automotive news! Season 5 is now airing on the Motor Trend network through September 2019, Season 4 is available on Amazon Prime and Vimeo worldwide. Thanks for listening and share the podcast with your fellow car enthusiast friends! The guys are looking forward to seeing you in the next few episodes! See ya soon! Cheers! - The Crew at Jalopnik Logo by Courtney DeKorte. Theme by Mavus White. Music by PSOVOD and tyops. Used w/ permission from my main amigo, Kevin McLeod. Thank you for the use of any music used on this episode. If you like what you hear, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! or share it on Apple Music or wherever else you get your music recommendations. Thanks for supporting this podcast! It helps us spread the word about the podcast. We appreciate it! Timestamps: 0:00:00 - 1:30 - What's your favorite car? 3:15 - What car do you like? 6:00, What car would you like to drive? 7: What car you like the most? 8:00 9: What kind of car you would you'd like to own? 11:00 | What car are you looking for? 13:00 -- What car should I drive next? 16:30 -- What do you think of a car you're going to have? 17:30, what kind of engine you would like to have the most powerful? 18:30 19:40 - Which car do I like most of my next car you'd you're most expensive? 21:00 What car is your favorite Corvette? 22:00 Is it better than that one? 24:40 -- Which car is better than another car you think I'm most beautiful? 26:00 or less? 25:00? 27:30 What car am I looking at?
00:06:14.000But it would have held its value a lot more than Aston Martin's typically do.
00:06:19.000But I remember I used to love it because I would just run it through the gate and it had a really heavy clutch and a really high bite point.
00:08:12.000I mean, that is when BMW was B and fucking W. Yeah, it's hard to describe to people that aren't car nuts, but there's an intangible feeling of connectedness to that car when I drive it.
00:08:26.000I don't have to be going fast, but I do go fast sometimes.
00:09:02.000The BMW is transportation, but it's like engaging transportation.
00:09:06.000I mean, it literally was the reason why, when I was looking at my 14 Turbo S now, I was going back and forth between the 14 or 15, or the 15, because 14 is when the engines were blowing up, but the 15 GT3 versus the Turbo S. And I was going back and forth,
00:09:27.000And then I got into the Turbo S and I realized for my lifestyle, living here in Dallas in the city, it makes more sense to get the Turbo S. Yeah.
00:11:26.000But if you're in a helicopter with someone who's a really good pilot, who knows they're doing it, it's well maintained, the odds are very low that you're going to crash.
00:11:35.000There's nothing rational about my fear.
00:15:27.000And so it was freaking beautiful, man.
00:15:30.000And so we're going and we're looking for the bison.
00:15:33.000And we finally find there's like four of them, four older males that apparently they're no longer breeding or mating or anything like that.
00:15:41.000They're just really honestly causing havoc.
00:15:43.000They're killing other buffalo and, you know, shit like that.
00:16:06.000And so what we did was we decided, because it was very hilly, and so we decided, all right, so we're going to walk around the hill, come up over the crest of the hill, and then take the shot from there.
00:16:14.000So we walked, trekked around the hill, went up the hill, got situated.
00:16:26.000And the guys, when we were on the way to the place where we were going to go hunt, he was like, look, you're going to get what they call buck fever.
00:19:40.00070 yards away, just kind of on the top of the hill, just over the crust of the hill, just kind of waiting, because we don't want them to see us, because then their attention is going to turn to something else.
00:19:48.000So now, at this point, they're going at it.
00:24:28.000At this point, so now we dismount, we start walking up and getting closer.
00:24:32.000So I have my little AR with me, and he was with, remember, this is the other two that were fighting before.
00:24:39.000Because it took us almost three or four hours to find him again.
00:24:43.000So this time, so after he tagged him, dropped him, now he's up again, his friend is now running back around towards us as we're walking towards him.
00:24:55.000And so I'm like, oh, but they can't see it from their vantage point because I'm further back.
00:24:59.000And so I'm just like, hey, his friend is coming!
00:27:17.000Was there a common argument against what you were doing?
00:27:21.000Yeah, a lot of people were saying, some people were not saying that a lot, because the positive was actually overwhelmingly positive, but there was just a noticeable uptick in the negative comments.
00:27:29.000Isn't that just social media in general, though?
00:28:48.000And the thing about it is it's like, okay, I get it.
00:28:51.000If you don't want to face the reality of it, but to judge me for doing the thing that you don't want to see, even though you benefit from it, from the standpoint of having to kill an animal in order to eat it, I think it's ridiculous.
00:29:02.000Dude, whatever you do, there's going to be haters.
00:29:05.000And as your profiles continue to rise, as you become more and more popular online, your hater count goes up too.
00:29:36.000Because you'll find one comment that's just ignorant and asshole-ish and it'll fuck with your head and then, you know, you'll be hanging out with your girlfriend or you're having a good time with your friend.
00:31:09.000And it's hunters agreed to it, and I believe it's 10%.
00:31:12.000So 10% of sales of, whether it's ammunition, hunting licenses, gear, all that shit, goes to conservation.
00:31:22.000So there's more money raised by hunters for conservation, preservation of wetlands for wild birds, and to pay for people to monitor populations and make sure that The correct amount of tags are allocated so that there's not an over-harvesting.
00:31:43.000And then also that animals don't get out of control because if they get out of control, then diseases can spread and a lot of other shit and research about diseases.
00:31:53.000And it's not coming from wildlife advocates.
00:31:56.000It's not coming from PETA or any of these people.
00:32:00.000Way more money for conservation comes from hunting.
00:32:05.000I watched a video about why is it so hard to start a business in California.
00:32:13.000And one of the problems that I think a lot of builders are running into, like real estate development, is you start running into these animal activist groups who will literally try to shut down your project with lawsuits.
00:32:25.000On the grounds of, you know, this is a natural habitat for such and such and such.
00:32:29.000But it really honestly is a revenue generating scheme.
00:32:32.000It's kind of like their way of kind of poaching money from a project through legal means.
00:33:21.000They think they're doing the right thing.
00:33:23.000And it's also, whenever you have large populations, you have a large amount of universities.
00:33:28.000You have people that are teaching at these universities that are almost predominantly liberal, and they're teaching all these people, and a lot of times they're teaching, and it's not from a place of experience in the real world.
00:33:40.000Their experiences in academia, they went to school, they got out of school, they taught school, and that's their life.
00:33:46.000And then they're teaching kids, and then they keep teaching kids Marxism, socialism, communist ideals, these ideas about this utopian version of society that can be created, but they don't even live in society.
00:34:00.000They literally live in a microcosm of academia, literally.
00:34:03.000But that microcosm is currently infecting all these businesses because these people leave, and then they have these ideals that they want to inject into these businesses when they leave.
00:34:12.000And in their early 20s, they're idealistic.
00:34:15.000They want to change the world for the better.
00:34:16.000They want to stomp out all the bad things in the world.
00:34:19.000They want to reshape it in a more equitable way.
00:34:22.000Boy, there's a lot of regulation that comes into that.
00:34:25.000And then you've got a lot of businesses that can't handle all this regulation and they move out of state.
00:34:29.000And then there's a lot of weird shit going on, man.
00:34:55.000And this is one of the things where wildlife biologists are really important because they will monitor populations and they can estimate what amount of fawns are victims of predation because of mountain lions versus bears.
00:35:11.000And bears and mountain lions, they kill a fucking staggering amount of deer.
00:40:30.000Their shoulders and arms are- Honestly, after what I experienced with that buffalo hunt, My respect level for these animals is just tenfold.
00:44:46.000I think the reason why I didn't get buck fever as I was on the gun is everything became more instinctive.
00:44:54.000For me, when I'm not thinking, I'm a better shooter.
00:44:57.000And so because sensorially everything was so overwhelming, the smell, the sounds, seeing the live animal in my optic, I think everything just went...
00:45:56.000But because of the way my mind works and some of the things that I think about that I just used to routinely, it could have been caused by that.
00:46:04.000But I will say, for instance, one of my major panic attacks I had actually was smoking.
00:46:57.000I think it's because when I first started getting high, it used to freak me out.
00:47:01.000And then I realized eventually that there's great benefit in those moments because any weird thing that I'm trying to avoid in my head, it gets brought up to the surface.
00:48:00.000Yeah, it's the weird spike of adrenaline when you're in a primal situation like hunting.
00:48:06.000I guess it's supposed to be because you're in this sort of life or death situation and your body probably thinks you're going to go into battle.
00:48:30.000And so from that perspective, I will say what did happen too was it made me, for a short period of time, kind of overanalyze my sense of morality.
00:48:45.000Because I'm like, this buffalo woke up that morning and didn't know that Koi on the wire was going to come and hunt him and shoot him.
00:48:52.000And I think to me, that's just my overanalytical aspect of my brain.
00:48:56.000Well, it's a wise perspective because there is something to that.
00:49:01.000That's life and death of being a buffalo or a human being.
00:49:06.000Human, yeah, because that's really what it did for me.
00:49:07.000I was like, what makes me so different?
00:49:09.000What does make you so different, yeah.
00:49:11.000Well, the only thing that makes us different is the fact that we have houses and cars and bullets and guns and the fact that we're not out there getting eaten by fucking mountain lines and shit.
00:49:21.000Or getting attacked by homeboys when somebody else is trying to hunt us.
00:50:04.000Like super jacked because all they're doing is eating water buffalo and because the females are the ones that hunt.
00:50:10.000So these females got way bigger and way stronger because those are the only ones that survived.
00:50:15.000And in this video, these female lions attack this water buffalo And they get it down, and then they're trying to fight this water buffalo, and the other buffalo's come along, and then at this one moment where it looks like the buffalo's going to get away,
00:50:31.000another buffalo runs up and gores him and knocks him over, and then the lions get him.
00:50:37.000So right when it looks like this buffalo is going to survive, this other bitch-ass buffalo comes over and just jacks one of his homies, just jacks him from the side and knocks him over.
00:50:49.000That's just a part of their nature, man.
00:51:21.000You know, I think I saw that in a couple of documentaries I watch again on my nights watching Netflix drunk.
00:51:26.000That's why people are like really attached to elephants.
00:51:28.000We get real attached to things that are a little smarter.
00:51:31.000You know when you find out that like elephants, when an elephant gets separated from its young or from a family member and they get reunited, years later they remember each other and they run up to each other and they wrap their nose, their trunk around each other and they rub each other.
00:51:49.000It's the fact that they're that smart, or we just have a lowered expectation of them as animals.
00:51:57.000Like, do you think, like, the reason why we're so fascinated, why we're so attached to elephants, is that we have a lowered expectation of their intelligence, and when they demonstrate something that seems remotely intelligent, we're, like, surprised.
00:52:59.000Because otherwise, if a male comes up on a female that he hasn't had sex with and he sees her with babies, he'll just kill the baby so that he can fuck her.
00:53:06.000Yeah, that's common in the bear world.
00:53:35.000But that's what leads to innovation, though.
00:53:38.000Innovation is created in a safety vacuum, right?
00:53:42.000You have to have people that are safe, and they don't have to worry about primal shit, and then they start thinking about, like, you know...
00:53:48.000I think Aristotle spoke to something like this, too.
00:53:53.000Having essentially the money gives you the time to be innovative.
00:53:58.000Not having to worry about starving to death, not having to worry about being killed gives you time to think about things and that's how we improve.
00:54:06.000But in improving society, we also make a lot of really soft people that reap the benefits of that without having any discipline and those are the ones that comment on social media.
00:54:15.000That's the kind of people that you're getting.
00:54:17.000You're getting these people that think that Their comments and their points are so important.
00:54:22.000And shutting down others and yelling at others, it's so important.
00:56:06.000I've heard stories about why it's bad.
00:56:09.000Trying to keep people from moving here?
00:56:10.000No, revolving around the guy who designed them.
00:56:13.000Personally, I think the guy that designed the freeway system here in Austin literally took an Etch-A-Sketch, gave it to his son, told him to draw some shit, and that's what he used as his base plan.
00:56:23.000Because the system here, I think the freeways here are designed to kill you.
00:57:54.000Yeah, it depends on what you're defining as, because when you look it up, they'd use official definitions.
00:57:59.000Like, I think sometimes when you're looking up Los Angeles population, Burbank isn't counted because it's a separate city, but it's within it.
00:59:16.000It's crazy, because literally, I remember there were times where you'd wake up, the entire city will be underwater, and then by noon, it looked like nothing happened.
00:59:33.000I lived there close to 30 years and I never asked that question.
00:59:37.000I think I read something about it after the last crazy flood and they were describing how the hardscape, like all the streets and everything like that, it's not good for the drainage.
01:00:19.000So the way that Houston used to be before people came was the water would rise up through the rain, but it would go into the ground and it wouldn't really flood.
01:00:29.000But because of all the highways and the roads and the streets and all the houses and all this hard stuff where the water can't get through, the water doesn't get it in the ground until it does.
01:00:39.000And then, you know, it stacks up for a while before it drains back down.
01:00:43.000See, and the funny thing is being in Dallas, I don't...
01:00:46.000I haven't experienced the flood since I've been in Dallas.
01:00:49.000But the one thing I had to readjust to was the cold and the snow or the ice.
01:02:47.000Unless you have chains on your bikes or something like that.
01:02:50.000So we took the back roads, like you pointed out, dumbest idea you can do because they don't sand them or de-ice them or anything like that.
01:02:58.000We're literally, we skated from Oklahoma to Dallas.
01:03:03.000We skated because literally we would, I would drive like maybe 9, 10 miles an hour and then I would, like if there was a car ahead of me, I would have to gauge how long it would take me to slow down because I'm going to slide to a stop.
01:03:15.000So literally, and at some point you would think two smart individuals, and the guy, my coworker, he was even smarter, just exceptionally smart guy, would have thought, turn your ass around and go back to the hotel.
01:04:43.000I was like, yeah, but shit, what the hell is that going to do against ICE? Well, not only that, it's four-wheel drive, but it might not be all-time four-wheel drive.
01:07:39.000They took a Q8. They put a body kit on it.
01:07:43.000And changed the interior, made the interior more drastic, and then gave it a shit ton of power, and then said, put a Lamborghini badge on it and said, here you go.
01:07:51.000Now, I understand why they did that, because it's designed to be their moneymaker so that they can put money towards their hyper car, their exotic cars.
01:08:01.000So it was kind of an unfair comparison.
01:08:03.000However, when you look at, say, for instance, the Huracan.
01:08:08.000Huracan, not withstanding the Huracan Evo, which now is the rear-wheel drive, everybody loves that one, but as good as it is, it's exceptionally good, but I think there's some of the passion lost because it is too good.
01:08:21.000And I think there's something to be said about that.
01:10:24.000Because, I mean, you can literally destroy pretty much anything on the road in a Turbo S, and then you could also take it and drive As far as...
01:10:32.000You can take it on a road trip to freaking Las Vegas from Dallas if you wanted to.
01:10:36.000That's really the ultimate daily driver supercar.
01:11:08.000There was a thing about the Porsche 911. I think that's true.
01:11:13.000It was the most reliable car of 2020. Oh, really?
01:11:17.000I think it was the 911. Yeah, there was some article about Porsche 911 being the most reliable car, which makes sense if you think about the evolution of the vehicle and it continued to evolve.
01:17:34.000When civilization goes sideways, and we, relatively speaking, got lucky with the pandemic because it was a fairly mild virus in comparison to if something killed 30% of the population.
01:19:44.000There's a lot of pessimistic thinking, especially in the gun community, where, like, I put out videos and I'm like, you know, you're just preaching to the choir.
01:20:08.000You're making a lot of logical points.
01:20:11.000And because of the fact that you're a lawyer, you understand all the sort of mechanisms of the way legislation gets passed and the way this could be a real problem down the line.
01:20:23.000But the thing about it, too, is it's...
01:20:26.000I think a lot of people don't understand the actual power we have as people in this country in comparison with respect to the relationship we have with the government.
01:20:35.000It's supposed to be a working relationship.
01:20:36.000It's not supposed to be one of dominance.
01:20:38.000And I think too many people just kind of throw their hands up and accept it.
01:20:42.000I mean, what are you going to do, right?
01:20:44.000So we have to plead to them to give us things or do things that we know.
01:20:47.000That's not necessarily the case like you pointed out with the passports.
01:20:50.000You create enough issue with it, with enough people, they'll understand, shit, we can't do this.
01:20:56.000And so I think that is the one thing that I try to implore a lot of people that watch my videos is like, no, you have the power to protect the rights that you deem to be important rights.
01:21:07.000But you have to do it before they get changed.
01:21:42.000They don't live in a neighborhood where they have to defend themselves all the time.
01:21:44.000So they think it's not a factor until it is a factor.
01:21:47.000And when it becomes a factor, it's too late.
01:21:51.000What I'm worried about with all this talk about gun control is, first of all, I don't think people really understand that there are folks out there who have saved their loved ones lives and saved their lives because they had a gun.
01:22:07.000All you hear about is some crazy fuck goes and shoots up a church or some crazy fuck goes and shoots up a school and we gotta take the guns away.
01:23:02.000So, for instance, if somebody tries to rob me and I pull out my gun to defend myself and they take off, I'm not necessarily going to call it cops.
01:24:33.000The one thing I will say about them, and when I say them, I mean the gun control lobby, which generally speaking, and I got a lot of people who follow me who are more liberal, they hate when I bring up the Democrats.
01:24:43.000They hate it because they think I'm just trying to push this one-sided...
01:24:47.000Narrative with respect to the Republicans.
01:24:53.000If you look at all the gun control legislation, you look at anybody who's pushing gun control, the vast majority of them, I'm talking 99% of the time, they are Democrats.
01:25:11.000And so you can't necessarily exact your control over a group of people if they have something as self-reliant as a firearm.
01:25:18.000Do you really think that's what it is?
01:25:20.000I do think that to a degree that is it.
01:25:21.000I think it's that the ideology behind being a left-wing person is you want less violence and I think maybe you're more reluctant to actually take into account real human nature and the real potential breakdown of society that would cause you to need a gun.
01:25:39.000I think they're more idealistic, more utopian, and perhaps more delusional.
01:25:44.000I think the people who vote Democrat believe that.
01:25:47.000I think the people in power have a different agenda.
01:25:52.000And honestly, they are the proverbial hammer.
01:25:56.000So when your fundamental ideologies are based around bigger government, you think the solution for everything is more government.
01:26:05.000So if a shooting happens, right, and come on, do we really think government is the most efficient entity at solving problems in our country?
01:26:43.000It's an oversimplified approach to any problem that comes up because they're not really about getting to the true issue of the problem.
01:26:52.000They just want to either look like they're doing something about it, and so they'll just take the easiest approach.
01:26:58.000Or they'll try to scapegoat it on something because at the end of the day, they realize that their ineptitude with respect to leadership is going to be put on full blast.
01:27:38.000And so if you understand that, that means that we're having a high concentrated level of violence in very specific areas in this country.
01:27:46.000And as a result of that, you look at that and you say, okay, well, we have high concentrated – we have an era of concentrated violence in specific areas, but yet we have guns all across the country that don't have this violence.
01:27:57.000So clearly there's something else going on here other than the fact that there are guns.
01:28:02.000And then predominantly these inner cities are led by Democrats.
01:28:10.000And they have heavy gun control, which is even crazier.
01:28:13.000So it stands to reason you're not doing something in these places that you should be doing in order to deal with this violence.
01:28:21.000And in my research and in my study, when I was reading this book, it's called, I think it's like Don't Shoot or something like that.
01:28:28.000I can't remember the exact title of it.
01:28:29.000So I was reading this book and it was talking about this program called Ceasefire.
01:28:34.000There is a program currently now that's called ceasefire, but I don't think it's the same program, or it's a former shell of itself.
01:28:39.000But this guy, this criminologist, he set out, and I think it was done in Boston, and they were dealing with a lot of violence in their inner cities.
01:28:50.000And so what they did is they put together a program.
01:28:53.000It was a very holistic approach to the violence.
01:28:54.000And essentially, the cops came together along with the community leaders and so forth and so on, and they knew who the perpetrators were of this violence.
01:29:09.000It takes a very specific type of person to be a killer.
01:29:12.000So a lot of the killings that are taking place in these places are done by a very hyper-focused group of kids in these areas.
01:29:19.000And the vast majority of the time, the police know who these kids are.
01:29:23.000Police know who the perpetrators of this violence are.
01:29:25.000And so what they did is they came together.
01:29:27.000They said, all right, here's what we're going to do.
01:29:30.000And they brought the leaders of the gangs and the kids who were out on the street, so forth and so on, came together and said, look, we're not going to say we're not going to arrest you for the drug dealing.
01:29:41.000Because, I mean, whatever happens, happens with respect to that.
01:29:43.000But if the bodies continue, we're going to make life incredibly hard for you on these streets.
01:29:59.000Because at the end of the day, you got to think about a lot of these kids are carrying guns not because they want to go and kill someone.
01:30:03.000They're carrying guns because they're scared.
01:30:05.000They've grown up in an environment that has forced them to engage in the lifestyle that they're in, generally speaking.
01:30:11.000So if I'm a kid, and even if I don't want to partake in this particular lifestyle, if that's the only thing that surrounds me, and I know at any given point my life could be threatened, I'm going to carry a gun too.
01:30:21.000Or even if I'm a kid that's like, look, I just want to make some extra money.
01:30:26.000I'm not justifying the selling of drugs.
01:30:28.000But if I'm a kid who just says, you know what, I want to sell money because I grew up, the only form of success that I've seen were the drug dealers in my area, so I'm going to sell drugs.
01:30:36.000Of course he's going to carry a firearm.
01:30:38.000There are going to be other people who are going to try to take his product, so forth and so on.
01:30:41.000Doesn't necessarily mean he's a killer, right?
01:30:44.000So when you focus entirely on the firearm and only on the firearm, It doesn't do anything to actually deal with the underlying issue that's happening in these places.
01:30:57.000When you grow up in poverty, I'm sorry, there's going to be a predisposition with respect to your area.
01:31:03.000You're going to have more violence there because what is the natural economy there?
01:31:06.000That's one of the weirder aspects of gun violence is the reluctance to address the violence in inner cities while focusing on the violence of the rare mass shooter.
01:31:37.000However, when people feel like some random yo-yo can walk into a store and just start shooting people, it terrifies them, which is understandable.
01:32:04.000There's a reluctance to ever accept the fact that in certain situations, like in Boulder, Colorado, when that guy walked in the supermarket and started shooting people, If there was a person there that was trained with a firearm that knew what was going on and knew how to use it,
01:32:22.000If someone was a Navy SEAL and they just happened to be in that place and they were carrying, that would have been over.
01:32:28.000I don't even think the person needs to be in ABC. But if it was.
01:32:31.000That's an example of someone who's highly trained and knows exactly how to use a gun.
01:32:36.000But if you have someone who's well-trained and has a gun in that situation, people don't want to admit that that is a factor, that someone can save lives.
01:33:55.000I'm sitting here on Mount Olympus, right?
01:34:00.000The only thing that brings me back down here to regular people is the fact that you mean any of these regular people can be walking around with a firearm and decided they want to kill me, they just can't?
01:34:12.000It's a level of humility I don't think he wants to deal with.
01:34:17.000Because that's what makes everyone equal.
01:34:24.000And so in his mind, he's like, the more I can get the guns out of the hands of the people, the higher on how Mount Olympus I get to sit without worrying.
01:34:33.000And I think this is the case for a lot of people who are considered the elite.
01:35:17.000Because it's so much more satisfying to think that if something happens, I can pick up the phone, call the cops, and somebody else will come deal with it.
01:35:23.000But didn't everybody learn from this pandemic that, especially after the George Floyd protests, that cops aren't, they're not that effective.
01:35:37.000I mean, it's happened, like, over the last few months, when people realize, like, when shit gets crazy and they start burning cop cars, like, cops aren't gonna come when you call them.
01:35:57.000And, you know, and these politicians play on those memories.
01:36:00.000Like, even if you take into account the laws they try to pass, because people get on me all the time, they call me a fearmonger, because I tell them, no, their ultimate goal is to take guns.
01:36:10.000Yes, there are 400 million of them, but their ultimate goal is to take guns.
01:36:49.000There was a cartoon that was released recently that someone put together that was showing Guns that are legal versus guns that are illegal and how confusing it is.
01:36:57.000Because what was Biden trying to push?
01:37:01.000There's something about stocks, about stabilizers for pistols.
01:39:27.000We're going to go to only open sites because iron sites are less accurate?
01:39:31.000But I mean, isn't that the whole point of a firearm is to be as proficient as possible at stopping the thing that's attacking you?
01:39:36.000But again, it boils down to the idea that you never see yourself as a defender, you see yourself as the victim.
01:39:42.000And so you want to do everything in your power to make the person who you feel is going to attack you with these things less able to do that.
01:39:50.000But not realizing that By doing that, all it does is it takes away the guns from the people who are good and need to have them to defend themselves against the people who are bad who are gonna break the laws anyway to get the very thing that you thought you were gonna keep them from getting.
01:40:02.000Yeah, but there's also like gun culture that people don't like.
01:40:06.000The celebration of shooting things and blowing things up.
01:40:09.000People get angry at that because they feel like it's glorifying it and they feel like you're gonna get those guns and put them in the hands of shitty toxic male people and they're gonna want to shoot people.
01:40:20.000If 400 million guns in this country, if we were a problem, you would know it.
01:41:23.000United States is low if you're going per capita, but you take the top ten and you add them all up and it's not as many as it happened in the United States.
01:45:08.000Well, I think because by and large, the attempted solution for the violence, because those places also have the highest concentrations of inner cities.
01:46:41.000That's just – that's their MO. So from that perspective, it begs the question if – What is this here, Jeremy?
01:46:48.000Biden said last month, following a mass shooting in Colorado, I don't need to wait another minute, let alone an hour, to take common sense steps that will save lives in the future.
01:48:28.000And if you are someone who tries to make an attempt to be objective, yes, I have certain bias, but I still try to remain objective.
01:48:38.000That takes a lot of work, especially when you have one side saying one thing, you have the other side saying one thing.
01:48:44.000So I'll hear a side that I agree with say one thing, and then I'll hear someone else on the other side, and I have to literally grab myself by the neck and say, I know you want to believe this, but this makes sense.
01:48:58.000And it could be anything down to a particular issue, a specific issue that's happened, or a complete policy.
01:49:05.000And so that can get a little tiring, because you're constantly playing this balancing act, like, okay, am I being too biased?
01:49:11.000Can I come back close to the center here?
01:49:38.000It's like, you can't tell me, like, for instance, take universal background checks, right?
01:49:42.000People are like, oh, universal background checks, you should be fine, universal background checks.
01:49:45.000I'm like, in theory, but in reality, what is a universal background check?
01:49:51.000It's a law that says I can't have a gun and give it to you.
01:49:55.000Who's going to stop me from doing that?
01:49:57.000If they came out with a law right now and said, I can't sell you this gun right now that I have here, if I wanted to sell that to you, and they said it's legal for me to do that, who's going to stop me from doing that?
01:50:06.000Well, Texas has an interesting perspective on that, right?
01:50:08.000You just have to write a bill of sale.
01:50:10.000You don't have to write a bill of sale.
01:50:42.000If I want to sell it to you, I can sell it to you.
01:50:45.000The idea of a universal background check is to regulate that transaction, is to say, well, no, you have to go get a background check to do this.
01:50:54.000Now, the question then becomes, what's the big deal with that?
01:50:57.000Well, one of the issues is it doesn't actually do anything.
01:51:00.000Because if they made the law now and said, did you have to get a background check before I could sell you the gun and I just sold you the gun anyway, how would they know?
01:51:22.000There's no track record that the vast majority of criminals are getting their firearms because of legal transactions where they didn't get a background check conducted.
01:51:32.000However, we do have studies that show that the vast majority of criminals get their guns from the black market where they steal them.
01:51:38.000Or they get them by way of straw purchases, which are illegal.
01:56:02.000Because I see Pew Pew or Pew Pew Life.
01:56:05.000Yeah, so what I did was I basically took, I mean, everybody was saying, I didn't do Pew Pew, right?
01:56:08.000But to create a lifestyle around it and brand it, that's, yeah, that was me.
01:56:14.000Now, we were talking before about whether or not, during the pandemic, when people started buying guns, if they relaxed any of the censorship that's on your channels or any of that.
01:57:56.000The more you read about stuff and the more you see videos, like a lot of those Project Veritas videos where you see people getting busted when they do these secret videos.
01:58:41.000Is that surprising, the CNN information?
01:58:43.000At least this story, this one in particular.
01:58:45.000He's done other ones that are a little more surprising.
01:58:46.000It is surprising how blatant that guy is describing it.
01:58:50.000Describing the way they went about it.
01:58:51.000If you went to someone from Fox News and took him on a Tinder date and he's trying to Look good in front of a girl and he's trying to say all the stuff they do, wouldn't he?
01:59:13.000You work for CNN, you're on a date with a girl, and you're trying to impress her by telling her that you literally manipulate the news, and you create propaganda.
01:59:20.000Well, if she's a girl who's along the lines of that ideology, they'd be all for it.
01:59:26.000It depends on the situation, on how he gave this information.
01:59:30.000I've ruined a lot of interactions with girls by stating my ideologies.
01:59:51.000That makes sense because he's kind of talking real open about it.
01:59:56.000In all fairness, my mind goes, okay, back when Obama was in office, If you got somebody from Fox and the same thing happened, would I be that surprised if they said something to the same degree?
02:00:07.000See, the thing about Fox, though, is Fox is preaching to the choir.
02:00:12.000There's a lot of fence riders that watch CNN because they thought they were getting unbiased information, and they're not.
02:00:17.000Which is why I stopped watching CNN. It's changed.
02:00:36.000So before, I would literally just, I would watch CNN, I would watch Fox, and then I would avoid MSNBC like to play because I felt that they were just...
02:01:02.000What do I watch to get a more liberal perspective on my information that's not going to be so blatantly biased to the point of almost concocting scenarios and lying.
02:01:13.000It's also like you see the people that they have who are their spokespeople, the people that are on television.
02:01:19.000And you watch them talk and you're like, Jesus Christ.
02:01:23.000You guys are like the weird liberal agents of propaganda.
02:04:35.000Reluctance to admit that he's cognitively declining and that it's weird to have someone who's that old and frail and fragile mentally and cognitively as a president of the United States.
02:05:03.000Maybe it's a little bit of that, but it's also a delusional perspective.
02:05:09.000There's a delusional aspect to the way they communicate about it.
02:05:12.000I think if there was somebody else and not Trump, the lack of hatred would have allowed them to then acknowledge the mental deficiencies of Biden.
02:05:26.000Well, the control thing makes sense that they went with Biden versus someone like Tulsi Gabbard, who they couldn't control, who is also left-wing, liberal, but also a veteran, also a congresswoman.
02:05:39.000I finally found a 2019 weapons used in murderers in the United States.
02:15:08.000And then I think there are a lot of people who are like, nah, I got it.
02:15:11.000And then I think there are a lot of people who just look at it from a realistic perspective.
02:15:14.000Yeah, sure, it'd be nice to have somebody who could actually protect me all the time.
02:15:18.000But I understand that sometimes in reality that's not the case.
02:15:20.000Therefore, I'm going to get what I need to get in order to protect myself in the moments that they can't.
02:15:24.000Well, if you watch the situation like what happened in Minnesota with that kid where the cop thought she had a taser in her hand, it turns out she had a pistol and shot him.
02:15:34.000I'm not putting my safety in that lady's hands.
02:15:50.000You're getting people that are willing to take this job, and they probably don't know how to handle pressure, and they're not getting paid a lot of money, and they're putting themselves in extreme danger, and they're terrified, and they panic.
02:16:41.000Dude, people make terrible decisions playing pool for money, right?
02:16:46.000I used to play in a lot of tournaments and I used to do a little bit of gambling, nothing serious, but I've seen a lot of people gamble that were good pool players and You know, a couple hundred bucks, and you can't make a ball.
02:17:02.000Now imagine there's a kid, and he's got warrants, and you're telling him to stop, and he's not stopping, and you think you've got a taser in your hand.
02:17:10.000You've got a gun, and you see the video, and she's like, I fucking shot him!
02:17:16.000And the thing about it, what a lot of people don't realize, too, is I wouldn't be surprised if that was the first time she ever drew her gun.
02:21:21.000And most people don't experience it in terms of a life and death situation, but once or maybe twice in their life, if ever.
02:21:29.000And I think there's something to be said too, because we talked about this in the group chat, with respect to even the guy in the car who tried to lead, Dante.
02:22:20.000I mean, there's something to be said about the irrelevance of it.
02:22:26.000Because I take these situations and I kind of break them down to the moment.
02:22:31.000And I look at it and I say, in this moment, what happens here?
02:22:34.000And I think with the larger discourse revolving around this particular shooting, I think people forget two things can be true at once.
02:22:41.000To me, it's insane that people who become police officers aren't very highly trained, they aren't tested on a regular basis, and they aren't paid very well, and you don't select the best of the best.
02:24:28.000But at nighttime, you've got these Mad Max style shanty towns and people are getting in street fights and But there's so many tents, man, on the beach, right there, where people used to go and used to be tourists, and now it's just crazy homeless people,
02:24:45.000and people doing drugs, and people fighting in the streets.
02:24:49.000Yeah, but you, I mean, the policies in these places...
02:27:26.000And so a lot of it just runs parallel to each other as well.
02:27:29.000Because if you think about it, Although those people essentially are dependent on the government, if we really want to think about it, because they're allowing it to happen, and if anything, they have to depend on the government to allow them to continue to do those things.
02:27:49.000Allowing them to do that further incentivizes them to do what they need to do.
02:27:52.000So now from that perspective, from a political paradigm, you have this issue where, at least when I was in San Francisco, there's a whole economy around homelessness where people are getting fucking rich.
02:28:05.000So, I was doing a series of interviews in San Francisco, and what ends up happening is you get all this money designated for helping homeless people, helping people on the streets, so forth and so on.
02:28:17.000But then none of that money finds its way to the people.
02:28:23.000And the guy I was talking to, he's like, people are basically lining up their pockets with that money because there's no accountability for what the money's doing.
02:28:34.000And so within these places, since you are in a position, for instance, it's like, who's not going to allot money to create housing for people who don't have houses?
02:28:47.000I mean, is that something that you would have a problem with?
02:28:50.000Well, most people would say, well, it would be nice if they had houses, so let's a lot of money to house them.
02:28:57.000So let's earmark money off to do that and give it to these programs that are designed to do that.
02:29:24.000There's a shit ton of money missing that they can't account for that the mayor's wife was involved in some sort of a mental health program.
02:29:33.000I mean, they gave this program to We'll find out how much money, but it's a staggering amount of money.
02:29:48.000Bill de Blasio's wife can't account for a staggering amount of taxpayer money that the New York mayor gave her for a mental health project.
02:29:57.000That's a spectacular amount of money that's missing.
02:30:22.000So do you think that there's an industry in maintaining a large homeless presence so that they always have money that's allocated to deal with the homeless situation and that money gets filtered off?
02:30:36.000I, as a politician, can say, I allotted this money for homelessness.
02:30:38.000This is what I'm doing to help the homeless people.
02:30:41.000And I create an organization, leaders of these organizations can then take that money and say, we're an organization that's helping the poor people.
02:30:46.000And then they're like, do bare minimum.
02:30:48.000And then just, the rest of the money just...
02:31:51.000Each unit costs $7,500, but the total cost of the project ended up being $5 million, with money spent on water, power, and sewer lines at the site.
02:32:00.000But meanwhile, they don't even use these things, and they become lawless shantytowns.
02:32:46.000I'm looking at things in a different way now because I didn't know there was that much money that was allocated towards homelessness and really no benefit.
02:32:53.000Now I'm thinking about it like a business.
02:35:13.000I remember when I was sitting there across from it and I was sitting and I'm looking around and I'm like, this is crazy.
02:35:18.000We were actually interviewing people who lived on the street.
02:35:21.000And they were telling us, they were like, and funny thing is she was like, even affordable housing was too high for her to afford.
02:35:26.000I do remember one part that, like, this is a part of the problem, is that when we were still living there, I remember there was like some area, maybe in Fresno or something, we've talked about before, there's like a big area where a camp did set, like, sort of start, and there was a lot of fighting then where they would have a proposed new place to be built,
02:35:44.000and then the area would just, like, all the residents would fight.
02:35:50.000I think there's something we're not accounting for, though, too, is the drug use.
02:35:54.000A lot of it is mental issues being exacerbated by drug use, and then you have the drug use aspect of it as well.
02:36:01.000I think there is something to be said about the deterioration if you did create a certain environment for people who are homeless to go and live.
02:36:07.000That being said, where the fuck is the money going?
02:37:30.000Yeah, sure, I wake up in the morning sometimes, there's a guy standing out my front door yelling and screaming to himself, but by and large...
02:37:36.000But you're in a Porsche Turbo, and you're like...
02:38:20.000There's a guy who's a historian on Skid Row, and the most fascinating thing about that thing about the Cecil Hotel was the historian explaining how...
02:39:06.000It's strange to think that they want to keep the homeless situation that way because then they get hundreds of millions of dollars of your tax money every year and then they're raising taxes.
02:39:16.000There's proposals to raise it up to 16%.
02:39:19.000I mean, if you think about it, it just funnels through itself.
02:39:46.000So when I was with the NRA, right, when I was doing the programs that I was doing with the NRA, because I was always saying, why don't we get to the root of the issues?
02:39:55.000So we said, okay, this season what we're going to do is we're going to travel to different cities that are problematic and see if we can get to the root of the issues.
02:40:01.000We went to Seattle, San Francisco, the Bay Area...
02:40:29.000I mean, I wasn't caring because it's LA. Not that I would just run over and say, who's over here and start shooting?
02:40:36.000But there's something to be said about the fact that while we were filming about the underlying issues in this place, there was literally a shootout that happens the next street over.
02:40:44.000We have to stop filming, jump in the truck and get the hell out of Dodge.
02:40:51.000I just never would have imagined that it's that much money that goes to homelessness and that there's actually a vested interest in keeping the problem and even maybe possibly making the problem worse so that there's more money and then they don't have to account for that money.
02:41:08.000Who's going to question you about allocating money for homelessness?
02:43:42.000Oh, well, Roblox makes a fuckload of money.
02:43:45.000There was something that happened too this week where Microsoft got a huge contract and she put some money in Microsoft and they were like, if she did this, like insider trading guys.
02:51:57.000I think Google started moving into Venice just a few years ago, and then housing went way up, and everybody who lived there was really pumped.
02:52:04.000They were like, dude, it's a great place to live now for an investment.