In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe talks about a near-death experience he had in the middle of the night in the freezing cold. He talks about how he managed to survive the ordeal, and what he did to make it through it. Joe also talks about what it's like to be hypothermia-freezing in the car and how to deal with it, and why you should do the same in the ice bath. Joe also gives some tips and tricks on how to survive in the cold, and talks about some of the weirdest things he's done in the past to make sure he doesn't die. Enjoy, and spread the word to your friends and family about this episode! Logo by Courtney DeKorte. Theme by Mavus White. Music by PSOVOD and tyops. Art: Mackenzie Moore. Cover art by Ian Dorsch. The theme song is by Skandalous, courtesy of Lotuspool Records, and our ad music is by Build Buildings, and the album art is by Fugue, which you can stream on SoundCloud here. If you like what you hear, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, and we'll get a shoutout on the next episode of the podcast! Thank you so much for all the support and shout outs! Peace, Love, Blessings, Cheers, Joe, EJ, Kristian, and Cheers! -Eddie, Kristian and Sarah, Sarah, J.J. & James Nestor, Sarah, and Sarah. -The Joe Rogans Podcast, and Thank You, Sarah & Sarah, Caitie, and Merry Christmas, and Good Morning Joe, and Happy Holidays! -Joe Rogan Podcast, by Night Train by Night, -Jon, Caitlyn, and Jon, the Crew, and John Rocha, Jr., and the Crews, - Thank you for all your support and Support, Jon, Sarah and Sarah's, and much more! -Jon and Sam, and Mike, and all the rest and love, Thank you all the love, Kristy, and thank you for being here, and thanks you all for listening and support, and God bless you all of your support, love, and good vibes, and keep you're so much love, bye, good night, and love you, bye! -JOGAN PODCAST
00:00:53.000That was my goal to get to five minutes.
00:00:54.000I was like, fuck it, let's go for 10. I got to 10. I was like, fuck it, 15. I got to 15 and then I was like, we're gonna go for 20. And I got to 20 minutes.
00:02:26.000If you deep breathe, I deep breathe through it.
00:02:28.000Like, in the beginning, I was just kind of breathing normal, and then once it got real rough, I started doing these deep breathing exercises like six seconds in and six seconds out, and then it was more tolerable.
00:02:39.000Yeah, it's amazing what people do to...
00:02:43.000You know, I was just hanging by my thumbs for six hours.
00:02:56.000All this stuff, you guys, it's always like, you can't eat, but once every 36 hours, you've got to breathe through your nose, and then your mouth will expand, and you'll have the right bite.
00:03:43.000Mewing is the placement of the tongue on the roof of the mouth, which proponents say can reshape the face and help correct orthodontic breathing and facial structural issues.
00:03:51.000It was developed by an orthodontist named John Mew in the 1970s.
00:04:56.000Even when I'm on the plane, I'll take a little blanket and I'll put it over and then I'll take my mask off because I can't sit there like that.
00:05:18.000I've read, or listened rather, to this doctor describing masks and he said, there's a certain amount of viral load that the mask will filter out.
00:05:28.000But essentially, he goes, I wear a mask so that people don't think I'm an asshole.
00:07:35.000I mean, you can kind of get in, but I think it's a big deal, and you have to quarantine.
00:07:40.000Are they open to international travel?
00:07:42.000I think when you're a Canadian resident, like Matty Madison, you know, the chef, he was here, and he said that he had a quarantine for two weeks when he went back.
00:10:52.000It's one of those surface-level conversation things, and then when someone does come in with something brilliant, he has to not shut it down, because it might offend who knows who it might offend.
00:11:02.000The beautiful thing about those shows is it really helps guys like us.
00:11:56.000And you want to listen to the person, but you also have some thoughts.
00:11:58.000You're waiting to interject and all that stuff gets hamstrung when you have five minutes and then you have to cut to commercial.
00:12:06.000And then also you're working for a large corporation and there's, whether it's a spoken pressure or it's just a known pressure.
00:12:15.000Particularly to adhere to these very distinct ideas that everybody's propagating, whatever those ideas are.
00:12:23.000And it's mostly these liberal leftist ideas that you're getting from these Hollywood studios.
00:12:29.000Whether they've thought through these things or not, it's like if you want to work, you better adhere to these ideas and you better adhere to these – you better say these things.
00:12:39.000Yeah, I mean, well, we all know that there was the letter that was CAA sent to Tulsi Gabbard, right?
00:12:49.000And they were like, when she wouldn't back Hillary Clinton, and they sent, now this is going back years ago, so it's hard for me to remember, but yeah, they were like threatening her, like, hey, you better get on board with Hillary and all this stuff, and...
00:13:05.000And it was from the CIA. This is from 2016?
00:13:34.000And so now they don't know how to control me, someone like me.
00:13:37.000Now I get to just say whatever I want all the time, and it turns out there's a lot of people who like that, and they like what I'm saying, and that can't be controlled, and they don't know what to do.
00:13:46.000So what they do is they'll write hit pieces on you, on me.
00:14:11.000And we realized that the squad, the Justice Democrats, now had enough members that they couldn't elect the Speaker without their votes.
00:14:20.000So if they withheld their votes, Nancy Pelosi could not become Speaker.
00:14:24.000And so everybody had always thought that getting a vote on the floor of the House for Medicare for All was a big goal of the left, just to get a vote.
00:14:33.000Nancy Pelosi has been called, said in 1994, we should have a vote for single payer.
00:14:37.000And of course, AOC said famously that we can't even get a vote.
00:14:53.000They drove John Boehner crazy to the point where he stepped down because they couldn't pass anything without their votes, the Freedom Caucus.
00:15:02.000All the leverage is in the hands of that squad, and they could use it, but they refused to do it.
00:15:07.000And so I made a push for them to do this.
00:15:11.000And it was obvious they didn't want to do it.
00:15:14.000What do you think is holding them back?
00:15:17.000I think what's going on is that, as Chris Hedges says, politics attracts the most mediocre people to begin with.
00:15:27.000And they're narcissists and they're self-dealers.
00:15:30.000And so once they got power, they realized, I don't really want to go against the establishment, because I don't want to feel the wrath of the establishment.
00:15:39.000I don't want to feel the wrath of Wall Street, the military-industrial complex, Big Pharma, and all that, and the party coming down on me.
00:15:46.000Because if you're in Congress, you're going to get speaking fees, right?
00:15:50.000Speaking gigs, you're going to get a book deal.
00:15:52.000And if you're in Congress for five years, you get a pension for the rest of your life.
00:15:56.000So these people do not want to upset the apple cart like they ran on.
00:16:00.000They ran on literally AOC was saying that we need to cause a ruckus.
00:16:04.000And they don't want to be pushed, but we have to push them and we have to stop being polite.
00:19:01.000That's all they have now left is censorship.
00:19:03.000It's so disheartening to see the left advocating for censorship instead of pushing the correct ideas.
00:19:11.000Instead of having open debates about these ideas to prove their point or to argue their point, they want to silence the opposing point of view.
00:19:19.000And where we're seeing the problem with this, clearly what you just described earlier with the lab leak theory.
00:19:25.000The lab leak theory under Trump was something that they wanted to suppress.
00:19:28.000So if you push that lab leak theory, if you even discussed it on Facebook, they yanked it.
00:19:33.000But now they're saying it's the most likely scenario.
00:19:37.000And even Fauci is forced to admit that this is a possibility.
00:19:41.000You know, and that weird conversation that he had with Rand Paul, We're saying that it's molecularly impossible according to the data from China.
00:19:49.000Like, hey, when did we start listening to the data from China as being 100% accurate?
00:20:21.000Well, that's the weird thing is that there's two narratives.
00:20:25.000And there was the narrative from the right is that Rand Paul called him out and proved that he was not telling the truth about gain-of-function research.
00:20:33.000And then the narrative on the left was Fauci owns Rand Paul.
00:20:36.000It was just like, Jesus Christ, you guys are like little kids.
00:20:48.000Well, the first time, not this last time, but the first time I saw Rand Paul giving it to Fauci about gain-of-function, he mentioned the doctor's name.
00:20:57.000He said, Dr. Joe Blow, whatever the name was, he said, that's not gain-of-function.
00:21:03.000And Fauci goes, no, that's not gain-of-function.
00:21:05.000And if it is, it's being done under the right regulation.
00:21:23.000But it's so strange that this has become a political issue when you're literally talking about...
00:21:30.000The possibility, and I'm just saying the possibility because obviously I don't know, that the research that was funded by the NIH through that...
00:21:49.000Three people from that lab were sick in November of 2019, and one of their spouses wound up dying.
00:21:55.000Right, and now people are saying that that's all CIA ops, that the CIA's making or leaking that story because they want to advance the Cold War with China.
00:24:00.000Right now, Joe Biden, while he's denying people health care in America and a living wage, is bombing the poorest people in Africa right now, Somalia.
00:24:08.000Do you know 50% of Somalia are nomads?
00:24:11.000And we're bombing that goddamn country.
00:24:33.000You're really allowed to say your full opinion on your show.
00:24:37.000And the way you do it, it's very brave.
00:24:40.000And I love the fact that there's a platform.
00:24:43.000As much shit as people talk about YouTube, and I don't agree with their censorship at all, But I think part of the problem with YouTube is they're managing its scale, right?
00:24:53.000There's fucking millions and millions of videos coming in, and who's doing it?
00:25:01.000You have people working for them that are choosing what gets banned and what doesn't get banned, and then they have to come in and clean up the mess.
00:25:07.000We've had many of our shows, when we were on YouTube, that were demonetized, but then a lot of them, when we challenged it, someone else looked at it and said, no, these are okay.
00:25:35.000I think more than that, it's managing its scale.
00:25:38.000I don't think YouTube's an evil company.
00:25:40.000I think they're dealing with fucking insane amounts of volume.
00:25:43.000I totally understand why they're doing what they're doing.
00:25:47.000Because the independent news space causes a lot of problems for their revenue model, and they get all this bad press from the establishment press because the independent news space on YouTube is direct competition.
00:26:02.000So what happens is they write all these hit pieces about how YouTube independent news people, how they're all radicals and crazy, and they're poisoning your kids' minds and making them radical.
00:26:12.000And they did articles where they stuck me in with Nazis and pedophiles and the Jimmy Dore show saying the stuff about Syria is false flags.
00:26:53.000Because if people are not like really balls deep into politics, they might not understand, especially international politics, this whole Syria false flag thing.
00:27:01.000So they've been trying to get rid of, they've been trying to overthrow Syria for decades, right?
00:28:37.000The U.S. Air Force has fired off more than 20,000 missiles and bombs since the U.S. bombing campaign.
00:28:41.000Okay, but if you talk to people that are in the military, the idea that I'm getting from them was that they wanted to get rid of ISIS, that ISIS is bad.
00:28:49.000So when you read this and you say they're dropping bombs on ISIS, what's the actual story?
00:31:03.000I want to hear all this, but I don't want to go too far off of Syria.
00:31:07.000So getting back to Syria is they had all these terrorists, literal terrorists funded by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, those kind of types of people and the CIA trying to overthrow Assad.
00:31:44.000For the Prevention of Chemical Weapons, right?
00:31:47.000So the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons, I'm pretty sure that's what that stands for.
00:31:52.000Or for the prohibition of chemical weapons, OPCW, right?
00:31:56.000So that's the official organization that goes in.
00:31:58.000And they're supposed to be independent.
00:31:59.000And it turns out they've been being influenced by NATO and Western government powers.
00:32:03.000And we found this out because of the OPCW. So they went in, they go in to do the admissional investigation to see where the gas attack, whether it's real, who did it, all this stuff.
00:32:12.000So the engineering report Got suppressed.
00:32:17.000The engineering report said this didn't happen.
00:32:19.000It said this cylinder was placed there.
00:33:01.000So what this is, is we're trying to overthrow another goddamn government in the Middle East, just like we did in Iraq, just like we did in Libya, and now we're trying to do it in Syria.
00:33:09.000I don't know if you remember General Wesley Clark.
00:33:57.000And Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz, I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the Joint Staff who used to work for me, and one of the generals called me in.
00:34:05.000He said, sir, you gotta come in and talk to me a second.
00:34:35.000He says, there's nothing new that way.
00:34:37.000They've just made the decision to go to war with Iraq.
00:34:40.000He said, I guess it's like we don't know what to do about terrorists, but we've got a good military and we can take down governments.
00:34:48.000And he said, I guess if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem has to look like a nail.
00:34:55.000So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan.
00:35:00.000I said, are we still going to war with Iraq?
00:35:02.000And he said, oh, it's worse than that.
00:35:04.000He said, he reached over on his desk, he picked up a piece of paper, he said, I just, he said, I just got this down from upstairs, meeting the Secretary of Defense's office today, and he said, this is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq and then Syria,
00:35:20.000Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and finishing off Iran.
00:35:40.000Is there any, like, we're not sure about this, we're not sure about that?
00:35:44.000So no, in my head there isn't, because even at the time, Joe, when these gas attacks happened, they happened when Assad was winning the war against the terrorists.
00:35:56.000He was winning, and so then they do this gas attack to try to get the Americans and give them a reason to join in.
00:36:02.000So why would Assad, it doesn't make any sense, why would he do the one thing that he knows would bring the United States into this war and they could beat him?
00:37:53.000They think that they're doing enough good and resisting enough that they let a few things slide because this is how they stay in operation?
00:38:02.000What do you think the motivation is behind it?
00:38:03.000Because I'm sure the people from The Intercept...
00:38:06.000I'm sure that people from a lot of these organizations, they think of themselves as being on the right side, right?
00:38:11.000They think of themselves being on the right side of history.
00:38:14.000When you're talking about the Washington Post or the New York Times, most of the people working there, maybe I'm delusional.
00:38:23.000I think they're good people, and I think they think that they're progressive and that they're doing the right thing.
00:38:30.000I think Jeff Bezos hires the most progressive people.
00:38:34.000Dr. Evil is running a newspaper that, by the way, he had a contract with the CIA, which was worth like two or three times what he fucking paid for the paper.
00:38:44.000So you're not getting the truth from that.
00:39:03.000Like, I was on a panel one time in San Francisco, and it was being hosted by this Emmy Award-winning news guy from NBC, and I was talking about how bad the establishment news is, and how they all have groupthink, and they all go, and he goes, Jimmy, you know, when We're in editorial meetings.
00:39:20.000I don't think you know what we talk about when we're in editorial meetings.
00:39:22.000And I go, you know, I don't because I'll never be invited into one of those editorial meetings because I've been coloring outside the lines my whole life.
00:39:29.000Whereas you have been groomed to be in that editorial meeting since you're in fucking kindergarten and you don't even know it.
00:39:35.000How important is a guy like Chomsky when you think about manufacturing consent and you think about what he exposed?
00:41:22.000If Alex Jones was doing something illegal, there's a government body, there's a law enforcement agency that's supposed to take care of that.
00:41:27.000And if he's not doing something illegal, then he deserves a printing press, because that's what Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube is.
00:42:31.000It's terrifying because here's what people need to understand.
00:42:34.000If you think that this misinformation could possibly cost lives and that you want to censor it because you want to preserve life and you want to preserve the truth, the problem is now they have a tool to decide what you say or don't say through private communication,
00:42:52.000And the way they're doing this is by saying someone can send out a mass text to a bunch of people and in that there could be misinformation and they want to be able to stop that from happening.
00:43:47.000There's a meme of all these Spider-Men, like, that they're all feds, and they're all pointing at each other, and it says one poor autistic guy is standing there, like, not knowing, because he's the guy they've talked into.
00:44:21.000And then they got these saps, these poor fucks, to go along with it.
00:44:25.000Much like the story of the 19-year-old kid, they gave him a fake bomb, they talked him in, they radicalized him, gave him a fake bomb, and talked this kid into using a cell phone to detonate the bomb that didn't work in the first place, and then once he did that, they swooped up and arrested him and said, we caught a terrorist.
00:45:02.000They were going to pull up a jet with no one in it.
00:45:04.000They were going to pretend there was people in it and say, well, in the 60s you could just say a bunch of people died and there was no real way of knowing.
00:45:09.000They were going to arm Cuban friendlies and use them to attack Guantanamo Bay.
00:45:13.000And this was all to motivate people to go to war with Cuba.
00:46:21.000Why do you think when COVID happened, the first thing they did, the first thing they did was they engineered an upward transfer of wealth of $5 trillion.
00:46:27.000The largest upward transfer of wealth in human history.
00:46:31.000That's how they fixed COVID. They didn't fix COVID. They just looted the treasury and gave it to the richest thousand motherfuckers in the country.
00:46:39.000But they did it under the guise of keeping the economy rolling.
00:46:43.000And it seemed like a good idea at the time.
00:46:45.000It seemed like a good idea because the media wanted to present it as a good idea.
00:46:59.000I mean, if you've ever heard mentality, it's the United States establishment news media.
00:47:04.000Not a fucking original thinker in any of them, which is why I can outdo them on a daily basis.
00:47:09.000But the reason why you can is because you're independent.
00:47:12.000Because there's no one telling you what to say or not to say.
00:47:15.000And I'm not self-censoring because I know my boss is watching me and I know what stories will get approved and what won't get approved.
00:47:21.000I just get to talk about whatever I want to talk about, which is why I'm able to outdo them, which is why I'm able to do better reporting on Syria than The Intercept and The Washington Post.
00:47:29.000I'm able to do better news information segments on Syria or on Venezuela.
00:47:49.000Because there's people like you and Kyle and Crystal and Sagar and all these people are out there that are doing this kind of work, it does give me hope.
00:47:58.000Because I think even though there's a lot of suppression because there's a lot of influence from the establishment media, like one of the things that we know for sure, and Kyle's talked about this a lot, is that they're taking what used to be you would get recommended.
00:48:12.000So if I watched one of your videos, there would be more of your videos that would be recommended, but that doesn't happen anymore.
00:49:02.000But we have to push back, and that's why I think it should be a utility I agree it should be a utility.
00:49:07.000And I don't understand when people get upset at things being popular.
00:49:11.000Like there was a recent article on NPR about Ben Shapiro.
00:49:15.000And it was talking about how many views Ben Shapiro gets and his Facebook page gets more interaction than anything else and he's pushing hate.
00:49:22.000No, he's pushing his perspective and his opinion.
00:49:46.000And we've had disagreements on that and a lot of other things like the...
00:49:51.000So but that's Kaepernick thing and there's many things that he and I have had disagreements about but he's not a bad person He just has Ideas that I don't agree with and this is the problem It's like what you're supposed to do when someone has an idea that you don't agree with you're supposed to talk to them and you say what you think and they say what they think and hopefully if it's an Some sort of a subject that I'm informed on.
00:50:15.000I can offer a perspective that's contrary to his and it'll make sense.
00:50:19.000And then people listening go, oh, I agree with Ben.
00:50:26.000That's what's supposed to be being a person, being a human being.
00:50:29.000This idea that there's one arbiter of truth, there's one absolute arbiter of truth, and it has to be this, whoever is the establishment media.
00:50:37.000And when it's something like NPR, it's even more weird, because NPR is funded by people, right?
00:50:44.000Well, it's funded also by Archer Daniels Midland and Walmart and Bank of America.
00:51:08.000And I would come in to do fundraisers and I would say, you know, how many commercials for a bank do you get to run and still call yourself a public radio station?
00:51:15.000And I was taking a shot at KCRW and KPCC. So, turns out there's an unlimited.
00:51:22.000I mean, every time I turn on NPR, they're running a Bank of America commercial or something like that.
00:51:36.000In fact, what's happening is that the left is embracing it, and that's what's scary.
00:51:41.000There's nobody to push back against it.
00:51:42.000And when I come into this space, this journalism space, and I can do it better than them, they want me censored.
00:51:47.000That's why they write those hit pieces.
00:51:51.000You know, Neera Tanden, who Bernie Sanders...
00:51:55.000She used to run the Center for American Progress, which is this big, well-moneyed think tank started by Hillary Clinton's former campaign director.
00:52:56.000The powerful people, I stick out like a sore thumb because I'm not co-opted by the Washington Post or New York Times or The Intercept or MSNBC. I can speak my truth.
00:53:24.000Because they want to control the narrative.
00:53:25.000Do you think someone's saying, hey, this is what we want to push, that if you are banned from one social media platform...
00:53:33.000It would seem to me that she didn't make that up on the fly, that that was a policy that they've been thinking about.
00:53:38.000And so Chris Hedges talked about it on my show that the establishment is just going to be using more crude and more cruder forms of control, like censorship.
00:53:58.000Now, when we're talking about NPR, I don't, in all fairness, and I really want to be fair as much as possible, I don't think NPR was calling for the censorship of Ben Shapiro, were they?
00:54:28.000Well, the problem with those shows is that these people have been chosen for their spot.
00:54:34.000They get on there with a suit and a tie, and they say what's in front of them on the teleprompter, and I don't know how much editorial control they have over it, but at the end of the day, they're not there because they're popular.
00:54:46.000You are on your show because you've developed an audience over the years that people enjoy what you're doing or they like it.
00:56:27.000Based on the facts at hand, and I'm going to show you what those facts are, this is my perspective on these things.
00:56:33.000When you do that, people go, I see how you came to that conclusion.
00:56:39.000But when you're on a network, whether it's Fox News or whatever, and you're speaking and people know that you are reading off of a teleprompter, you have a team of writers, All the words are approved.
00:56:53.000You have a narrative that you're pushing and this narrative is essentially guided by the network.
00:57:38.000And once you blow that, I have a broad appeal, both left and the right.
00:57:46.000I have a lot of people who watch my show on their right say, I disagree with Jimmy on most things, but I appreciate that he's telling the truth.
00:57:54.000They like that I'm going to tell the truth.
00:57:55.000And I've had lots of people say that I've changed their mind.
00:57:58.000They go, I've started watching Jimmy, and since then I've changed on single payer, but I still disagree with him on cops and this and that, blah, blah, blah.
00:58:05.000And that used to be the gold standard for a lefty.
00:58:07.000You know, when I go on Tucker Carlson, I take heat for it every time I do.
00:58:12.000But Tucker Carlson admitted, last time I was on his show, we were talking about Julian Assange, and he said, you know, it was through the force of your argument that you changed my mind on Julian Assange.
00:58:22.000Now, that should be considered a huge victory for the progressive left, right?
00:58:27.000Because you got the guy who's got the number one news show speaking to half the country, and I changed his mind on an issue.
01:00:10.000But I saw this guy give a speech at the state capitol in Michigan, and I want to have him on to pick his brain.
01:00:15.000And so I brought him on, and I interviewed him.
01:00:17.000And it turned out that certain factions of the Boogaloo Boys that he belongs to, they were started because they were a reaction to the Proud Boys, and they were anti-racist.
01:00:27.000And one of the things that you have to be in a Boogaloo Boy was you couldn't be racist.
01:02:57.000And Lawrence O'Donnell said the only way you're ever going to get, and this is a famous quote of his, the only way you're going to get the Democratic Party to listen to you or move to your side to the left is you have to be willing to show that you're not going to vote for them.
01:03:10.000And that is not what the Democrats or the people on the left are.
01:03:13.000They're always going to vote for the lesser of two evil, so the lesser of two evil is always going to keep being shitty.
01:03:18.000And so that's why Joe Biden can govern like a right-winger, because he is a right-winger.
01:03:23.000He's a conservative right-winger, Joe Biden.
01:03:25.000And just think about this, about the military spending.
01:03:28.000So when Trump was president, they said Trump was a traitor, and he was working for Putin, and you can't trust him, then why did you give him an extra $132 billion to do war?
01:03:38.000During his four years of presidency, they ramped up the military budget, $132 billion, and there was no town halls about it, there was no meetings, there was no big discussions about it, they just did it.
01:03:51.000You know you could end homelessness for $20 billion.
01:04:10.000Supermajority Democrats and a Democratic governor.
01:04:12.000And there's people sleeping under every bridge and no one gives a shit.
01:04:16.000Well, I had Coleon Noir on the podcast and he's a Second Amendment advocate.
01:04:20.000He's a lawyer and he's a very interesting and intelligent guy.
01:04:23.000And one of the things that he pointed out was that it was pointed out to him that there's no incentive to really end homelessness because there's a shit ton of people that are working to end homelessness and they're making six figures.
01:05:18.000And they're working in the richest country.
01:05:19.000What I try to tell people, 80% of workers in America lived paycheck to paycheck before COVID. Half of all wage earners earn less than $30,000 a year in America.
01:05:30.00050% of Americans couldn't afford a $400 emergency.
01:05:33.000So I say, what do you call a system that takes the richest country on the face of the earth and renders half of its population poor or low income?
01:05:39.000You call that a goddamn failed system.
01:05:41.000And no one's talking about the failed system.
01:05:43.000All they're doing is trying to nip around the edges.
01:05:45.000And they're not even doing that anymore.
01:06:24.000So now when you go back to the homeless situation, so clearly COVID was just a giant monkey wrench into the gears of life for everybody in this country.
01:06:34.000For the past year and a half plus, everything's gone sideways.
01:07:00.000If you're dealing with somewhere like California, I don't know what Los Angeles' homeless population is now, but someone estimated it was somewhere around 100,000, which is literally Boulder, Colorado.
01:07:12.000So you have the population of Boulder in LA and they're all in tents.
01:07:20.000When you take into account how many of them are criminals, how many of them have horrible records where nobody wants to hire them, how many of them are mentally ill, how many of them are...
01:07:32.000So again, like I said, the stats are I think somewhere around 40% of them actually have jobs.
01:07:38.000So the rest of them, if they're mentally ill or drug addicts, you know what that is, that you'd have to have a health care program to take care of those people like they do in other countries.
01:07:47.000That was the problem in the Reagan administration.
01:07:49.000They changed the standards for people to be in mental institutions and they cast those people out in the street and that's when we saw a giant uptick in homeless.
01:08:02.000So you'd have to do something to ramp up the mental health programs, ramp up institutions, but do you institutionalize these people against their will?
01:08:10.000Like, how much freedom do you give them?
01:08:13.000Because this is one of the things that I've talked to people that work with homeless.
01:08:16.000They say, when you have these situations where you have these shelters, but you have to be clean in the shelter, these people will, fuck that.
01:09:46.000Like, if you want to create affordable housing for people, but you have this competitive real estate market, like we were talking earlier about how expensive houses are.
01:09:52.000It's nuts how expensive it is in Los Angeles.
01:10:07.000And I'm like, how do these, so yeah, so...
01:10:09.000Because it's loans, and you're basically 30 years, you're paying it off, and we saw what happened in 2008 with all that shit, the subprime mortgage.
01:10:18.000And now they're doing that thing where the hedge funds, or the equity companies, which got bailed out during the COVID upward transfer of wealth, are now buying up all the houses and renting them out so they keep people paupers.
01:10:30.000Because the only way to really create wealth in America anymore is now through real estate.
01:10:34.000And so if you can't get real estate, you're going to be a pauper forever.
01:10:37.000So you've heard about those stories, right?
01:10:39.000Where there's the big equity firm that bought, in fact, one whole city, I think, in Texas somewhere.
01:10:44.000And then you have to go rent from them forever.
01:10:46.000I have heard that nationwide, that there's this trend of, like, giant corporations buying houses.
01:10:53.000And that you have to, like, if you see a house for sale, you've got to jump on it quick.
01:11:02.000So as far as I can tell, what's happening there is they're cornering the market and they're creating monopolies and they're artificially raising the prices so then they can have you as a renter forever.
01:11:11.000So they're buying these houses and then they won't sell them.
01:11:15.000They're just using them as rental properties and that they'll control the ownership of these houses.
01:11:57.000But it seems like they've been on top of it from the jump.
01:12:00.000They never let it get to a point where you've got 100,000 people in Los Angeles that are homeless.
01:12:05.000That's where it becomes a problem, when it gets so bad.
01:12:08.000I was talking to the mayor of Austin, and we were describing the homeless situation here, and he's like, you've got to get a hold of it now.
01:12:17.000He goes, because if it gets worse, It's going to get to a point where if you look at Los Angeles, it's essentially unfixable.
01:12:24.000And he was describing, we don't have the resources to fix something like that.
01:12:27.000But Austin's homeless situation is somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 people.
01:12:32.000He's like, that's fixable if we act now.
01:12:35.000If you act now and start providing shelter.
01:12:51.000It's a progressive city that's in this red state and there's a lot of conflicts about how to handle these situations.
01:12:58.000But the mayor, Steve Adler, had a great point.
01:13:02.000He's like, you could get a hold of it now and you could stop.
01:13:04.000And he goes, and that is my one goal in the year and a half that I have left in office is to get a hold of this and start making some progress and to lay the foundation for if he leaves office and the next mayor comes in, they have They have a plan.
01:13:21.000I mean, that sounds like a, you know...
01:13:22.000But this is, again, 2,000 to 3,000 people.
01:13:25.000Los Angeles is fucking out of control.
01:13:27.000I've seen, like, my friend Bridget Phetasy sent me a video.
01:13:31.000She took of her car driving down Venice and just filming the number of tents.
01:13:36.000And if you're a person whose job was to handle that, you'd be like, well, the diffusion of responsibility is so high because the problem is so overwhelming.
01:14:25.000No, see, but you, a lot of people are saying that, oh, the unemployment, people don't want to go work because they're getting unemployment.
01:14:31.000Do you realize how shitty their job is when they would rather fucking stay home?
01:15:11.000So, you know, in other countries, when COVID happened, when they quarantined them, what they did is if you had to shut your business down, the government paid your employees.
01:19:20.000It's humanly possible to do it once, right?
01:19:24.000People can hit holes in one, too, but they don't do it all the time.
01:19:27.000Yeah, but it's way harder to hit a hole in one than it is for a guy that's literally the greatest quarterback of all time to throw a ball 15 yards into a small pocket like that.
01:19:36.000That's a machine that's spitting back out.
01:22:23.000Guys who have long careers, for sure, get some CTE. You know, the ones who are the most defensively responsible, who fight the smartest, they get little of it, or less of it, I should say, than the ones who are like face-forward brawlers.
01:22:40.000Like Bernard Hopkins, who is a boxer, and he boxed in his late 40s, maybe even 50s.
01:23:51.000The fight with Roberto Duran, he fought Roberto Duran's kind of fight and the first fight Duran won and the second fight he caught Duran fat and made him lose a lot of weight and then Duran quit in the middle of the fight and just destroyed him and they document this in the Showtime.
01:24:34.000And they document it, and they talk about it, and Durant talked about it.
01:24:38.000And then when he came back and had some fights afterwards and fought like shit and lost to some guys that you didn't think he was going to lose to, and then eventually wound up beating Davey Moore and winning the junior middleweight title, I believe that it was.
01:24:52.000And, you know, that was his big comeback, that he came back, and that was a few years later after Nomas.
01:25:20.000Yeah, we were furious at him because they loved him so much and then for him to bring that kind of embarrassment to Panama was just a giant moment in the country's history.
01:25:33.000Yeah, again, there's just another way to quit that fight.
01:25:37.000There's a way to quit that fight and save your reputation.
01:25:40.000Now, to look back in hindsight, I'm sure he would do it differently, but at the moment, he talks about it.
01:25:47.000You should watch it, because if you're a big fan, you should watch it.
01:26:43.000There was a guy who made a video, and I don't know if it's real, but he had the boat going, and he tried wakeboarding behind the boat and fell.
01:28:48.000There's one insane one on Robin Black's page where this guy leaps And he jumps through the air, lands with his feet on this wall, and does a backflip down into this huge gap in between this stone wall and a staircase.
01:29:08.000And you're just like, what the fuck did you just do?
01:30:30.000So, like, he's this little wiry kid and he'll go up to, like, a big guy and put a bucket over his head and run away, like, go around the corner and he'll take off his jacket and then he'll walk by like it's nothing, you know?
01:30:45.000Now, I don't know how many of those are real.
01:30:47.000Because he's picking with some big guys, and so I don't know if those are real or not, but they're funny.
01:30:52.000One of the things that's really disturbing is all the videos that are coming out of the muggings in New York City, or the security camera muggings.
01:30:58.000There was one that came out yesterday from Brooklyn, or Queens.
01:31:01.000This guy just got the fuck beaten out of him.
01:31:04.000Some guy just runs up on this guy, just beats the shit out of him, knocks him unconscious, drops him on the ground, literally picks him up, drops him on his head, and then just starts stealing his money, takes everything out of his pockets.
01:31:14.000And you've seen so many of these attack videos, and the uptick in violent crime, this is it, yeah.
01:31:23.000He stomps on this guy, takes all his shit, and watch how he picks him up, just drops him on his head.
01:32:23.000Now, I don't know what he said to them or what they said to him or what happened, but it's one guy walking with his dog and a group of teenagers beat the fuck out of him.
01:32:40.000So I thought the term defund police was unfortunate because that's not what it really meant.
01:32:46.000I thought what it meant was, hey, instead of when there's a person with a mental health problem, instead of sending a cop, maybe we could send somebody who's a mental health person to help that person instead of...
01:32:59.000But what if that person is acting violently and it's a mental health issue and the person has a weapon?
01:33:06.000I mean, I guess you would handle it differently, again, maybe if they have a weapon.
01:33:11.000I don't know, but it seems like cops are doing too many things that they don't have to do.
01:33:42.000So I thought it was actually the opposite, that they would be more available to come help you, because they wouldn't be taking care of all this bullshit.
01:35:12.000The cop's number one job is to make sure I come home safe at night.
01:35:15.000That's why he's supposed to risk his life and he gets a monopoly on violence and he gets to carry a gun and gets to be able to order people around because he's supposed to be protecting me.
01:35:24.000But the way they're thinking now is I have to protect myself and everybody is a potential killer.
01:35:28.000Well, because they get shot when they pull people over for random traffic stops.
01:35:32.000It's just statistically not a dangerous job, a policeman.
01:35:48.000Because of COVID, then all of a sudden a lot of people who are of poor health who are working at grocery stores, it used to be no big deal, then they'd get COVID and get really sick and be fucked.
01:36:27.000Very dangerous show, but it's a different kind of danger.
01:36:29.000It's like your danger because of the elements and because of the nature of your work.
01:36:33.000The scary thing about being a cop is someone might try to kill you because you're a cop.
01:36:38.000You're basically a professional enemy.
01:36:41.000You're walking around, and especially now, post-George Floyd, and not just George Floyd, but all the different cases where we've seen police brutality, we've seen horrible things that the cops have done.
01:36:52.000It's made people hate cops even more than they did before.
01:36:56.000But what about, you saw all those videos of those cops out of fucking control as a group.
01:37:30.000I like to watch the videos where the guys assert their First Amendment rights to the cop, where the cop says, give me your ID. I don't have to.
01:38:09.000But they also have experience in conflict, and they also understand how to handle high-pressure situations because they have experience in those.
01:38:18.000I would say that's a different kind of experience.
01:38:20.000I mean, they're not saying that they don't have that.
01:38:22.000It is a different kind of experience, right?
01:39:26.000So I had him on my show too and he explained all that stuff like I thought I was one of the good guys and when I looked at the stats of what I was doing I was also part of the problem.
01:39:34.000But here's what the most interesting thing is he found a piece of paper that was arrest reports and a crime report from the 1970s and the exact same crimes in the exact same neighborhoods that he was policing now and he realized like holy shit this is then this is like the definition of systemic and Like,
01:39:53.000These people live in this place where it's a constant sea of crime.
01:39:59.000And they grow up in it, they're surrounded by it, and the next generation is going to experience the same thing unless something happens, and something changes, and nothing happens, and nothing changes.
01:40:08.000And this is one of the things that I said about COVID when all this went down.
01:40:12.000Money would it take to invest in these communities and make it so that people that grow up there have a fucking chance?
01:40:19.000Because if you're fucked, if you're growing up in a bad neighborhood of Detroit, in a bad neighborhood in the south side of Chicago, all these crime-ridden, gang-infested neighborhoods, It's not much different now than it was a decade ago and not much different from a decade previous.
01:40:35.000And it's going to stay this way unless something happens.
01:40:39.000And if you really want America, you want to make America great again, here's what you do.
01:40:45.000You make it so that it's easier to survive, and it's easier to get an education, it's easier to pursue a career, and you're not living in some crime-infested, gang-infested neighborhood.
01:40:55.000And the people that think that you should pull yourself up by your bootstraps, Like, listen, motherfucker, you never lived in these places.
01:41:01.000You don't know what you're talking about.
01:41:45.000In the neighborhood that we used to spend on criminalizing and prosecuting these crimes, we're going to reinvest that money into the neighborhoods that was most affected by the enforcement of these drug laws.
01:41:56.000So maybe they will do that, maybe they won't.
01:41:58.000Well, if they do and they fix it, holy shit, what a great model that would be for the rest of the country.
01:42:04.000Yeah, how about, you know what they do in, like, Finland?
01:42:07.000They have three teachers and 20 kids in each class.
01:43:59.000Like imagine if you took that 20 billion and you just decided to build like a sports stadium in 20 of the biggest cities in America for a billion dollars each.
01:44:06.000Do you know how many jobs that would create?
01:46:10.000Just do what you want to do like you always have been able to do what you want to do with all these other aspects of your life in terms of being able to jump off a fucking building and do backflips.
01:46:18.000You can do that, but you've got to wear a mask when you do it.
01:46:23.000So what about, like, can we talk about Ivermectin?
01:46:29.000So I covered it, what they did in Mexico City, and Ivermectin seems to be a drug that not only treats it, but it will prevent you from getting it.
01:46:41.000And I don't know how that happens, because the problem with this argument, this conversation is...
01:46:48.000You know, you'll have people saying, I've used this on my patients, like Dr. Pierre Corey, who's been on this podcast.
01:46:55.000And I 100% believe him, and I support him, and I'm not saying that he's not telling the truth.
01:47:00.000The problem is, I think, in order to state something emphatically, like, this is what we need to do, this is the best treatment, we need studies.
01:47:15.000It's a drug that's been around for 40 years, has a long history of use.
01:47:18.000And also, there's a difference between using it as a prophylactic, so using it as a preventative measure, which is one of the things that Dr. Pierre Corey talked about on this podcast.
01:47:29.000I forget where they use this, but there was hundreds of doctors And then there's a percentage of them that used ivermectin as a prophylactic, and there's a percentage that did not.
01:47:42.000The percentage that did not, half of the doctors, roughly, or half of the healthcare workers got COVID. The percentage that did use it as a prophylactic, 100% did not get it.
01:48:47.000My doctor who saved my life and said that because of your thing, you should get it because we don't know how it's going to affect you and blah, blah, blah.
01:51:13.000I'm 99% positive she said that because I remember reading that going, you can't say that when you're the White House press secretary because that's not a true statement.
01:51:22.000It's approved for emergency use authorization because we're in the middle of a pandemic.
01:51:33.000Joe, when you go get this jab, they give you a piece of paper, and on it, in bold black letters, it says, this is not an FDA-approved vaccine.
01:51:55.000Well, I'm pretty sure I saw the video, but I definitely have read the transcript, and I want this to be accurate, because it's a big accusation.
01:52:04.000This is what she said here when someone asked about the misinformation.
01:52:17.000Misleads the public by falsely alleging that mRNA vaccines are untested and thus risky, even though many of them are approved and have gone through the gold standard of the FDA approval process.
01:52:57.000Yeah, the Johnson& Johnson uses the old technology and Moderna and Pfizer, they use those ones that was developed by DARPA. Yeah, but the point is, it's like, it's not FDA approved.
01:54:03.000And I got contacted by a doctor who's leading a bunch of other doctors, a group of doctors, and studying this, and they just submitted a paper on people about the vaccine, right?
01:54:12.000And so he tells me over at DM, this is what we think is happening.
01:54:18.000This is a spike protein you're suffering from, a spike protein thing, and blah, blah, blah.
01:54:22.000And go to see your doctor, and hopefully your doctor will work with us and give me ivermectin and fluvoxamine I'm taking for inflammation in my brain.
01:54:53.000And so I go to my doctor and I start to explain to my doctor about what this other doctor told me.
01:54:59.000And my doctor says, oh, I'm treating five people just like you.
01:55:02.000And one of them is a neurosurgeon and one of them is a nurse.
01:55:06.000And they were afraid to talk about their symptoms because they were afraid to be ostracized and stigmatized.
01:55:11.000And I'm like, what a messed up situation we're in in this culture when they politicize medicine where doctors and medical professionals are afraid to talk about their symptoms.
01:55:32.000And especially the exact same companies that people were openly criticizing in the past and showing, pointing out lawsuits they've lost for hiding information about test results, about things that have happened during studies.
01:55:48.000And these same people are now ignoring any possible side effects.
01:57:24.000Do you know, like, if you got in a fight with someone, like maybe your neighbor, and then you got in your car and there was a road incident, and you're like, get the fuck out of here!
01:57:43.000It's like the whole country just got in a fight with the neighbor, like he's putting his trash can on your lawn, like, hey, you fuck, keep him on your own side, you piece of shit, and then you're in your car, fuck!
01:57:52.000And this is like the whole country is like at eight, out the door, out the door, in their car, already at eight, on a scale of one to ten.
01:58:01.000And so whether it's the vaccine, or whether it's the border wall, or whether it's kids in cages, Or what the fuck, whatever it is, everybody's so goddamn angry and ready to go.
01:58:12.000And then you deal with the economic crisis that a giant percentage of the country just went through over the past year, and then losing loved ones to this fucking disease, and all this chaos, and so many people who...
01:58:24.000I've never experienced like high levels of adversity and all of a sudden they're confronted with it.
01:58:29.000If you've played it safe your whole life, you've really never done anything risky, never taken any chances, you've had a regular life and a regular job, you play it safe.
01:58:37.000And then all of a sudden now you're fucked and you're confronted with a perhaps deadly disease that might take you out and you got all these other problems in the world and everybody's like, ah, and they don't have the coping skills.
01:58:47.000They don't have the ability to handle these things and that's where we find ourselves as a country right now.
01:58:51.000And it's weird because then you have that with the echo chamber aspect of social media where everybody's just looking for positive reinforcement of their own ideas and confirmation bias.
02:00:46.000But there was a guy that was from the Obama administration, or who it was, who was saying that he doesn't think he's going to make it in the next year.
02:00:55.000So he doesn't think he's going to make it to a year into the White House.
02:00:58.000He said within a year he'll be removed.
02:01:00.000He's already as bad as Reagan was at the end of his second term.
02:01:03.000I mean, that's how bad he is going in.
02:03:35.000And nobody, no power, and people went nuts.
02:03:39.000And it just goes to show me that that's how they try to shut me down.
02:03:44.000They can't shut me down, and they don't know what to do, and I'm not stopping.
02:03:49.000And just like the other day when I said, we got to make the squad uncomfortable, we got to make Bernie Sanders uncomfortable, because those are the people that we have influence over.
02:03:57.000Those are the people we helped get elected.
02:03:59.000Those are the people who ran on Medicare for All, and those are the people who are abandoning it.
02:04:03.000Those are the people who won't use their leverage to give us anything.
02:04:05.000Bernie could put a hold on a bill anytime he wants, and he won't do it.
02:04:28.000That with the rise of independent media, that we could get to the point where the people actually do have a voice, and it's not filtered through corporate media, and that it keeps getting, like, think about where your show was.
02:05:03.000Think about all these different like breaking points with Crystal and Saga.
02:05:06.000Think about what that's going to be like in 10 years.
02:05:08.000Think of all these different shows that are independent shows.
02:05:11.000If they get to a level where they have mainstream acceptance...
02:05:16.000And the people do have a voice on things.
02:05:19.000It could literally change all aspects of politics to the point where you're already looking at massively reduced ratings for a lot of these television shows now that Trump's not in office.
02:05:28.000And people are saying, you know, Bill Burr went on this great rant the other day about how they're un-American because they literally want to talk about Trump because they want ratings.
02:05:50.000Well, I'm in that business for sure, but I'm also in the, we've covered stories that other people won't cover, so we're in the fact business.
02:05:57.000Yes, but you're in the perspective, you're looking at things, but you're, in a sense, a pure perspective.
02:06:44.000I hope that happens, but it seems like, now you know, you talked about it before, how they don't recommend, so they're suppressing independent news, and even the head of YouTube bragged about it, because they call us borderline content.
02:06:55.000And so they say that we've reduced the recommendations of borderline content by 80%.
02:07:38.000So if I say that the Syria gas attacks weren't real or that they were as a cover-up, they're going to consider that borderline until the establishment media agrees with me.
02:08:49.000So they were telling me that they think that I have suffering from the same spike protein thing that you get when you get COVID, and that this somehow, the way they explained it to me, that this will go and clean out a macrophage, like the spike protein embeds itself in a macrophage,
02:09:04.000and then, so this goes in there and cleans it out somehow.
02:09:11.000Because I know a guy who just got the COVID, and I told him, hey, you should get the ivermectin, and he said, I just talked to three doctors and they won't prescribe it.
02:09:53.000I think that means you have the spike proteins.
02:09:55.000What was explained to me is that it's like a dump truck, these spike proteins full of garbage, and they go around your body creating inflammation wherever they go.
02:10:03.000And I have read that for long COVID, the vaccine has been effective.
02:10:14.000It's one of the benefits of the vaccine, was that people with long COVID who suffered from COVID and then took the vaccine, it actually helped them.
02:10:36.000See, when symptoms linger for weeks or even months, persistent and unpredictable symptoms, long COVID. Why might the vaccine help some people?
02:10:45.000Are some vaccines better at this than others?
02:10:47.000Could a tool designed for prevention also serve as a treatment?
02:10:49.000So, Aikiko Iwasaki, PhD professor of immunobiology at Yale School of Medicine and a major contributor to the existing body of COVID-19 research is among those now focused on generating hard data on vaccinated long haulers to help answer these questions.
02:11:07.000She is currently working with other scientists to launch what she predicts will be a large collaborative study at Yale.
02:11:13.000So, they're trying to figure this out.
02:11:15.000But that's the thing about this disease.
02:12:37.000There's so many instances online of fake accounts I don't know how they're created.
02:12:47.000I don't know what the purpose of them is, but there's documented multiple fake accounts, some of them with check marks, and that these fake accounts will go and go after a certain narrative.
02:13:00.000And they'll either be a proponent or an opponent of certain narratives.
02:13:05.000And it's so confusing because, like, is this happening?
02:13:57.000All designed to manipulate narratives and to get people to argue for or against things and to make conflict, to put people against each other.
02:14:07.000But I was under the understanding that the establishment wanted you to think that that was the government of Russia trying to do that to control our elections when in reality it was just a troll farm built to make accounts that you would follow and then they would spam you and they would try to sell you shit.
02:14:28.000I think it's a lot of different things.
02:14:30.000I think they definitely were using memes and they were definitely using fan pages.
02:14:38.000They would put up a fan page of something that was very popular and they would get people to sign up for this fan page and then they would switch what the fan page is used for and then use it to promote certain ideas.
02:14:49.000And they would pit people against each other.
02:14:51.000They had a Texas separatist meeting that they organized across the street from a pro-Muslim meeting.
02:15:11.000If that's what the plan was, if the plan by all these foreign governments is to make Americans and pit them against each other like rabid dogs and use the fact that there are these echo chambers on the internet, And, you know, that's a terrible way to talk to people.
02:15:26.000Online, when no one's there, in text, you have no idea what the context is.
02:15:53.000I think a lot of it is hyped up to make you afraid.
02:16:00.000I'm sure when the printing press was invented, everybody was scared anybody could go print a paper.
02:16:06.000Anybody could do it, and it's just like, to me, that's just what the Facebook is, Twitter, YouTube, it's just a printing press, and everybody could go print stuff.
02:16:14.000But there's guys like that guy Brooklyn Dad Defiant, who's on Twitter, and it got outed that he's being paid by these nefarious organizations and stuff to tweet stuff.
02:18:20.000But that's what's interesting about social media, right?
02:18:22.000Is that they can get someone who's a good writer, who writes things that resonate with people, and either he's always...
02:18:31.000Done that, and that's why he does it, or they find you and they give you money.
02:18:36.000Like when you're talking about the squad, you're talking about people with all these radical ideas and very progressive ideas, but then they get into office, and they go, wait a minute, all I have to do is five years?
02:19:10.000Right now, we just did another story, how she made all this money off of these visors, these night vision visors that were given to a company.
02:19:20.000She invested in that company right before they announced it.
02:20:42.000My favorite one was when her and Chuck Schumer wore the African garb and got on their knees and it turned out that the very patterns that they wore were from a tribe that was actively involved at the time in the slave trade.
02:23:04.000But this is like what we were talking about before about these echo chambers and also about being attacked on social media that makes it so dangerous to share and exchange ideas.
02:23:15.000Because you can't find out what's true unless people get to discuss things.
02:23:19.000There's only one way to find out who's right.
02:23:22.000You hear both sides present their story and present their argument, then you have real accurate facts.
02:23:32.000You have to know who's telling the truth and what's true and what's not true in terms of reporting on whatever incident you're discussing, and then people get to decide.
02:23:43.000This particular story goes very deep with what you're saying, but yeah.
02:23:47.000Okay, it says, fact check, yes, Kenty cloths were historically worn by empire involved in West African slave trade.
02:24:04.000I mean, you know, there's a lot of people that work for the Democratic Party that work inside that probably had like these very lofty ideals about saving the world and being progressive and we're going to make the world a better place.
02:24:14.000And then they get inside and they're like, holy shit!
02:24:19.000You know, I mean, it must be like that.
02:28:05.000They're trying to keep independent news under a million subscribers because they don't want another hit piece from CNN or the Washington Post or New York Times saying, look at all these million subscriber borderline shows.
02:29:22.000Well, it doesn't make sense, but again, I think some of it is they're managing its scale, but also they're the only game in town, which is crazy.
02:30:22.000My recommendations, it's all like people kicking the shit out of each other and muscle cars and playing pool because I like to watch pool videos.
02:30:31.000That's like most of my recommendations.
02:30:33.000It's like you're not on there anymore.
02:30:52.000It's so weird that there's only one platform like that.
02:30:57.000It seems like it's a no-brainer for someone to create a platform and say, hey, there's obviously some sort of suppression or some sort of censorship here that a lot of people are not...
02:34:24.000And I remember he had a, I'll butcher it, but he had a, can you imagine him because they had those, remember they came out with those soft baked cookies?
02:37:50.000It's really, honest to God, it is fucking thrilling to be on shows with him.
02:37:54.000And then he goes up early on the second show and like at Saturday, he'll go up the second spot and he'll do 30. And then when he leaves, the audience is so happy because they're like, made a good decision tonight.
02:38:07.000And so they're just like butter the rest of the night.
02:39:22.000And I kind of miss when I would go up anonymously in front of a crowd, like when I would go to Tempe to open for somebody, like I opened for David Tell and stuff like that.
02:39:39.000That's the beautiful thing about not being your crowd.
02:39:42.000And that was one of the cool things about the Comedy Store, is that if there was 15 comics on stage at a night, they weren't all there to see you.
02:40:09.000Well, one thing that I really did miss was stand-up, and I didn't realize how bad I missed it until we did it again.
02:40:16.000We did a show out here, it was like back in November, when things were, it was right before I started doing the shows with Chappelle at Stubbs, which was his outdoor amphitheater, and we did a show at Vulcan.
02:41:56.000Well, it's real similar to a lot of other things that I enjoy doing, because you have to think only about, like, martial arts are like that.
02:42:03.000I think of martial arts as like a moving meditation, because you can't think about other things while you're doing martial arts.
02:42:44.000When you can think about something that overwhelms your concentration and requires you to be 100% present and in the moment, you're not checking your Twitter, you're not fucking seeing who's mad at you.
02:44:32.000Well, Carl Jung talks about how we have a collective unconscious, you know, and then some other people talk about how there's only one consciousness.
02:44:39.000And so we're all just a part of that one consciousness, which is what I kind of believe.
02:44:44.000Separation is an illusion that you and I are not separate, that we're actually, because we came out of the Earth, we weren't dropped into the Earth.
02:44:51.000We literally came out, just like hairs on your head aren't separate from your body and not separate from each other.
02:44:56.000Even though they look like they are, they're all part of the same body.
02:44:58.000We're all part of the same consciousness.
02:45:00.000There was this guy who was a physicist or one of those quantum physics guys.
02:45:05.000That's how I call them, quantum physics guys.
02:45:12.000And he talked about how, and stop me if I told you this already, but if you're on a plane and you look out at the ocean and you see the white caps of the waves, well, you know that that's the white caps of the waves.
02:45:40.000Energy consciousness and then the crest of the wave are us everything you can see so there's this big energy and the crest of it is Everything you can see and I was like oh wow that was pretty heavy-duty and that's a and so I saw him he was talking to this guy Eckhart Tolle who I would love to interview and I can't get a hold of but he was talking to him and Eckhart Tolle is a mystic right he had an awake sudden awakening one night and he's an odd character Oh man.
02:46:47.000When he woke up the next day, he saw the coffee pot was vibrating.
02:46:52.000He could see the world as like the matrix.
02:46:55.000He could see all that shit, and he didn't realize what had happened, but his thoughts had slowed down.
02:47:01.000He had stopped thinking by at least 80%, and he would just go and sit on a bench all day, and he would just be, and he would just be happy because he was present and part of, and he knew it, but he didn't know what had happened to him for like a couple years, and then he was talking to some Buddhists, and they told him,
02:47:35.000And that's why performing stand-up comedy is the closest I come to it.
02:47:38.000Stopping my thoughts and becoming present.
02:47:41.000But Eckhart Tolle and that guy, the physicist, the physics guy, they're talking about the same thing, and they had talked about how they kind of came to the same realizations.
02:47:52.000He came from quantum physics, and he came from mysticism, and they both see the same thing, the one energy, and it's remarkable.
02:49:19.000All I knew was I woke up every day and it felt like everybody in my life had died.
02:49:23.000Can you imagine if everyone you knew died?
02:49:25.000That's how it felt like, oh, and there was just no light at the end of the tunnel.
02:49:29.000And so then the next time that happened was when I had my bone problems and my spine shrank and I wanted to kill myself because I don't want to go through life like that.
02:49:39.000And that's when I got my hour special.
02:50:25.000And by the time my special came around, I did adjust, and I didn't want to kill myself.
02:50:30.000And so he was right, and here I am, and I've adjusted, and I'm living the happiest part of my life ever.
02:50:36.000And how many people out there that are thinking about killing themselves really just need to get through whatever they're at right now and get some perspective on the other side of it?
02:50:45.000Yeah, and because, you know what, there's no out.
02:50:48.000You're a spirit soul, you're a spirit, you're a consciousness, and if your physical body dies, you still have to keep living.
02:51:48.000And he talks about how it's like turning out a TV channel and you're...
02:51:51.000Do you ever feel like when you get into these conflicts online and you get into these conflicts and you show that you're like disturbing your own consciousness and you're creating these negative...
02:52:01.000I'm a big believer in that and I've avoided like attacks and stuff as much as possible because occasionally sometimes you just get so fucking frustrated.
02:52:16.000I have to take it, and I'm going to, you know, the vote blue no matter who, and the shit libs are going to come at me no matter what, because I'm telling the truth about...
02:52:24.000And the people always say, why don't you go after the Republicans more?
02:52:27.000I go, because I don't have any influence on them.
02:52:32.000It's like I try to talk to them and convince them of my ideas, but the people who already are supposed to agree with my ideas and fight for them, and they're not, I'm going to fucking call that out.
02:53:58.000Well, what if everybody who voted for Bernie Sanders, who was pissed off that she cheated him, and they cheated us, and they ran a crooked primary, what if those people withhold their vote from Hillary to make a statement, and then she lost by 15%?
02:54:12.000We still would have had the same outcome.
02:54:14.000Donald Trump was going to be president anyway.
02:54:16.000But we would have had now power over the Democratic Party because now we made a statement.
02:54:19.000We did exactly what Lawrence O'Donnell said.