In this episode we talk about the drug overdose epidemic in America and how we need to do more to stop it. We also talk about how we should make all drugs legal and make them safe for all of us to use. We talk about what would happen if all drugs were legalized and how it would change the way we live and die. We hope you enjoy this episode and if you have any thoughts or opinions on any of the topics we discuss, tweet us and let us know what you thought of it in the comments section below! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Timestamps: 1:00 - How to stop the drug addiction epidemic 4:30 - Should all drugs be legal? 6:20 - How should we make drugs safe for everyone 7:00 What would we do if all of our kids were addicted to drugs 8:15 - How we would like to see all drugs legalized 9:40 - What would you do if they were legal 11:00- What do you think of the current state of drugs in America 12:30 14:30- How do you feel about the current drug epidemic? 15:40- How should the government respond to the drug problem 16:15- What are your thoughts on the current situation? 17:40 18: How do we fix the drug use in America? 19:20- What should we do in the future? 21:00 | What do we do to help people who are struggling with addiction 22:40 | How would you want to see the most dangerous drug problem in America ? 26:00 // 27:10 27:15 28:30 | How do I feel about drugs be legalized? 29:20 32:30 // 32:00 / 33:00/33:30/35:30 / 35:00 +34:00 & 35:10/35 35:40/36:00 @ what would you think about the future of the drug crisis 36:40 + 35:30 + 36:00+37:40 /35:35 +36:40 & 37:00 #1 39:40 // 35:50 & 39:10 / 35 +36 +35 +5 +36 40:30 & 35 +4 45
00:00:27.000Because during prohibition, it was a way to try to tell if you had bullshit alcohol because if you banged it and it bubbled, then you knew it wasn't.
00:00:52.000They're getting the coke from Mexico, and it's laced with fentanyl.
00:00:55.000And all that stuff is laced, and the reason why they do it, they cut it to make it stronger so they can have less cocaine, because fentanyl's cheap.
00:01:03.000And that's why all these people are dying.
00:01:53.000You know, it's like, you can just go get the...
00:01:55.000It's like, man, you haven't learned shit.
00:01:56.000Dude, if heroin was legal, if cocaine was legal, you'd get it straight from the source.
00:02:01.000You'd get real cocaine that's not cut at all.
00:02:03.000It would be probably, I've never done coke, but the way they describe it, it's like a much better experience, and then you don't have to worry about it, and then you know what you're doing.
00:02:12.000Yeah, I'm in the legalize everything camp, you know?
00:04:32.000You should be able to make up your own choices.
00:04:34.000And no other adult should be able to tell you what you can and can't do.
00:04:38.000All the things that you do that are illegal that people blame drugs on, like driving under the influence or going crazy and murdering people, we have laws already for those things.
00:05:11.000M-A-T-E. But he's saying it all comes from trauma.
00:05:15.000I mean, all these people that are severely addicted, all those people that you see that are homeless and they're just shooting up and smoking crack, those people are all sexually abused, physically abused, beaten.
00:05:26.000They've come from traumatic backgrounds.
00:06:47.000An epidemiology study is like, they quiz a bunch of people, they give them a form to fill out, and they say, how many times a week do you eat meat?
00:06:55.000And then they look for instances of cancer, instances of heart attacks, high blood pressure, and then they make a correlation.
00:07:03.000The problem with that is, they're not asking, what are you doing with the meat?
00:07:08.000Are you eating cheeseburgers on a sugary bun with a bunch of fries dipped in fat?
00:07:13.000Are you drinking it with a large Coca-Cola that's all sugar?
00:08:17.000Went to Andrew Schultz's wedding, and then Whitney Cummings said, I gotta leave at 645. I'm gonna do a set in Vegas, and then I'm gonna fly back tonight at 10 o'clock.
00:10:37.000The beautiful thing about that guy is that he was 300 pounds, he was overweight, he was drinking milkshakes, and couldn't even run around the block, and then decided to turn himself into what we see today.
00:10:48.000Yeah, I had a warrant officer like him when I was in the service.
00:11:13.000Yeah, in the military, that's exactly how they have to look at it.
00:11:16.000You can't just wait for a day where you feel perfect.
00:11:19.000Yeah, but when you got a leader like that in charge of you, though, when they're not just talking, when they're doing it, yeah, you'll run through a wall for that motherfucker.
00:11:28.000That's the difference between someone who's a leader who is not walking the walk.
00:11:46.000The people that are putting in the extra hours and extra work, you want to do work for them.
00:11:52.000But when they want to go home and they tell you, you've got to stay until 2 o'clock in the morning to get this project done, And you're like, hey man, fuck you.
00:12:00.000You're going to go home and you're going to leave me here.
00:13:03.000And they found me, I did it with Eric Griffin and all this, but then they went and found me two professors of gaming.
00:13:11.000So one of them, I fucking can't remember her name right now, but the guy, he was the professor of, he was a psychologist, and he specialized in the mentality of gamers online,
00:13:26.000and his whole thing is how workplaces should be set up more like Like, games.
00:13:34.000Like, the way they develop games, the way they market them towards the people, the reward pattern and all that, to avoid the Peter Principle, right?
00:14:52.000If it's like a competitive shooter or something like that, I play that online.
00:14:57.000The problem with those things is there's so many people that are doing them all day long and you get sucked into that and then you want to compete at the level that they're at and the only way you can do that is if you play all day long.
00:15:32.000It's like they look down on it because, you know, how amazed you are by something is about how far away you see yourself from being able to do it.
00:15:42.000What's interesting, too, is if you were watching, like, the World Chess Championship, they'd be like, oh, Brian's smart as fuck.
00:16:23.000Yeah, these kids, like the high level, because a lot of times the kids, the people that are winning these tournaments and stuff, they're good at everything.
00:16:31.000They'll win a tournament in another game too.
00:16:33.000They get recruited, they get bought from other people, from other teams.
00:20:04.000Bad at all, because they know, and they've learned from experience, that eventually they'll wear you down to where you give it to them just so they'll leave you the fuck alone.
00:20:57.000It's a horrible thing to say that they're inconsequential humans, but there are people that, for whatever reason, they never connect with people.
00:21:05.000All the friendships they have are very surface level.
00:21:14.000I was just listening to something the other day about how we, you know, there's a list that came out maybe five, six years ago, and it was like the top ten professions that psychopaths go to.
00:21:25.000One of them was like CEO, surgeon, and people always forget about the other seven.
00:21:31.000It's like there are psychopaths all around you.
00:21:34.000There's a bus driver that he doesn't feel.
00:22:16.000Okay, how sociopaths are different from psychopaths.
00:22:18.000Both are form of antisocial personality disorder.
00:22:22.000Sociopath is a term people use often arbitrarily to describe someone as apparently without conscious.
00:22:26.000In most cases, a description blithely tossed about to label a person as being either hateful or hate-worthy.
00:22:34.000The same applies to term psychopath, to which many people suggest a sociopath who is simply more dangerous, like a mass murderer.
00:22:40.000While the characteristics of sociopathy and psychopathy may overlap, sociopathy is an unofficial term for an antisocial personality disorder.
00:22:51.000Psychopathy is not an official diagnosis and it's not considered APD, antisocial personality disorder.
00:22:59.000The term sociopath and psychopath are often used interchangeably.
00:23:02.000Each has its own clear lines of distinction that can be broadly described.
00:23:06.000And what is the clear lines of distinction?
00:23:53.000Well, there's a lot of people that are broken from whatever trauma they experience when they're young, and they carry that into adulthood, but they mask it with fake caring and fake empathy.
00:24:07.000There's a lot of sociopaths that are woke, because they use that to attack people.
00:24:16.000There's like a list of things they can attack you for, and they use it as an excuse to be a horrible person.
00:25:33.000That's a natural inclination to human beings, to force people to do things and to make people behave a certain way or speak a certain way or do certain things that they want you to do.
00:25:45.000You're seeing that a lot in today's culture with this vaccinated versus unvaccinated argument.
00:25:51.000That there's a lot of people that, you know, want unvaccinated people to be refused medical care and be ostracized from society.
00:25:59.000And even though, as time's going on, we're realizing that even vaccinated people are catching COVID and spreading it, particularly with this new version of it.
00:26:10.000I've talked to a doctor and he was explaining that this is essentially like a live vaccine.
00:26:15.000He goes, this is, it's not good to catch.
00:26:17.000He goes, but he goes, it's way better than any strain of COVID we've ever seen before.
00:26:21.000There's no deaths so far registered in America, except one guy that's in Texas that had a bunch of health conditions and they're not even saying now that it was COVID that killed them.
00:26:32.000They're now saying he had it when he died, which is, this guy was fucked up.
00:26:36.000They're not personally, but when they say that publicly, that's a clear indication that there's something really wrong with this guy.
00:26:44.000They're not saying what it was, but I'm assuming it was the only guy that's died in this whole fucking month and a half period that this shit's been spreading through this country.
00:26:52.000Well, you know, I think that all of that is just a symptom.
00:26:56.000The problem is people don't trust the government.
00:26:59.000They don't trust the media because they always fucking lying.
00:27:02.000Yeah, you shouldn't trust the government or the media.
00:27:04.000Because I remember, I don't know if it was, you know, when I was...
00:27:07.000When I was a kid, but it would be like, oh, if the president came on TV and said some shit, you believed the shit.
00:27:25.000Well, actually, Kennedy was the first crack.
00:27:30.000Because people start, you know, when they covered up all the paperwork, and this is what's so funny, they still keep pushing that shit down the line.
00:27:37.000Every president, no matter which side you want, every Republican president, every Democratic president, since, every time those papers are supposed to come out, they fucking cover the shit up.
00:27:50.000Yeah, because there was a time where I thought that the James Webb telescope, I thought the Kennedy shit would come out before the depth telescope was ready.
00:27:58.000Because I'm a nerd with that kind of shit.
00:28:01.000And it was like, I've been waiting on this telescope for a minute.
00:28:03.000And every time I was like, well, I'll find out who killed Kennedy before that.
00:30:02.000So one time when I was deployed, We had our little, this was my second deployment, so by this time we had more comforts and shit, and we had our little six, our little 12 by six can or whatever.
00:30:17.000But my can, and there's six Marines sleeping in one of these things.
00:30:21.000But my can had, we had negotiated with the locals and we had a TV, we had an Xbox, and we had a little makeshift couch that we had built and made comfortable.
00:30:30.000So everybody would come in our room and watch The Sopranos.
00:30:33.000Or played, or coming out can and all that shit.
00:30:36.000And this one motherfucker, I can't remember his name.
00:30:39.000Anyway, this son of a bitch had this weird habit of leaving his dip bottles every fucking way.
00:30:47.000Yeah, and one day, you know, one day I'm sitting there, I'm drinking my shit, and I put it down by my feet, and I reach back down, and I grab it, not looking, mouth full of dip spit.
00:30:58.000Yeah, it took three people to pull me off that motherfucker.
00:31:01.000It wasn't fair to be mad at him for real for not paying attention, but you know you have those events where you relive them.
00:31:09.000Every time I think about it, I can taste it.
00:36:31.000It's one thing Stephen King said in his book on writing is that quitting cigarettes was very hard for him because it's like his writing suffered a little bit.
00:36:44.000Because there's something about the cigarette that like it fires up the synapses, it fires up the brain, and then the writing would come smoother.
00:37:07.000Yeah, I think that's what he was saying.
00:37:09.000But I think you could probably get around that with other stuff that's good for you, like Alpha Brain, and there's a bunch of different nootropics.
00:37:17.000You can take that gum that you were chewing on earlier.
00:38:17.000He's in a system, and the system doesn't tolerate any dissent, or it doesn't tolerate anybody crossing lines and looking at things objectively, or even taking a chance and looking at something that may or may not be- But why?
00:38:35.000Because you have to get hired, and you have to keep working, and you have to be accepted by your peers, and all these other people are all squares.
00:38:42.000All those people he's working with are squares.
00:38:44.000But meanwhile, what the fuck is happening at CNN? They keep catching pedophiles.
00:38:48.000Two different pedophiles have been busted at CNN. One guy was Chris Cuomo's producer.
00:38:57.000And another guy was, I think he worked with Jake Tapper, who I respect very much.
00:39:46.000Like cops that become drug dealers and criminals and they commit crime and they've got like a way to understand like how people get caught because they catch people.
00:39:56.000Yeah, wasn't one of those serial killers?
00:42:46.000Black oxygen organics became a sudden in the fringe world of alternative medicines and supplements where even dirt can go for 110 bucks a bag.
00:43:36.000I think that's like a real supplement, right?
00:43:38.000Oh, that was dug up from an Ontario peat bog.
00:43:41.000The website of the Canadian company sold it and billed it as the end product and the smallest particle of the decomposition of ancient organic matter.
00:44:20.000But they listed off all the things that could possibly be side effects, including suicidal thoughts, not being able to move your legs, all these different things.
00:45:13.000Because some of the stuff that I was on before...
00:45:16.000Because a lot of times what happens is...
00:45:21.000When you're depressed, you don't have the motivation to do anything.
00:45:24.000So even if you want to die, you don't want to do it.
00:45:27.000But when you start taking antidepressants, there's a point where you're still depressed enough to want to kill yourself, and then you have just enough motivation to fucking do it.
00:45:36.000So the most dangerous time is when you first start taking them.
00:46:09.000It said 13% of double lung transplant people were, in quotes, heavy smokers, which means at least a pack a day for 20 years, maybe two packs a day for 10 years.
00:46:28.000In the end, after all variables were accounted for, people who got lungs from heavy smokers lived as long and as well as those who got lungs from tobacco-free.
00:46:36.000Yeah, but you know what they're saying, though?
00:46:38.000The thing is, people that get transplanted organs, they don't live that long.
00:46:43.000Look, I have a good friend, and he got a transplanted heart.
00:46:46.000He's a wonderful person, and he's on...
00:46:49.000All sorts of crazy medication because of this.
00:47:05.000And he's become a different person post-heart attack and post-transplant.
00:47:13.000He still doesn't take any bullshit or excuses, but he's much more loving and open, and he realizes this new gift of life and this new take on life.
00:47:23.000And also he thinks he's got a woman's heart.
00:47:25.000He knows it's a woman, but he thinks it's an Asian woman.
00:47:28.000I don't think they tell you that, but he's got feelings.
00:48:50.000I would imagine that, you know, I think there was a study that showed, and I think this was like a recent discovery over the last few decades, that there's as many neurons in the heart as there are in the brain.
00:50:58.000This is the thing that a lot of vegans say, is that the diet promotes kindness.
00:51:05.000I don't think it's just that it's kindness and that you're not killing an animal.
00:51:09.000I think there's probably also kindness in that you're eating only plants so your brain doesn't think it needs to think in a more vicious way.
00:51:20.000I think there's probably something to eating meat.
00:51:22.000Like, Hicks and Gracie used to say that a lot.
00:54:43.000That's why you don't see very many UFC fighters.
00:54:46.000You don't hear about them I'm not making excuses for anybody's behavior, but I am saying that the best of the best are wild I think you have to be like Mike Tyson.
00:55:12.000I think you have to be to be that goddamn good.
00:56:00.000You're like, I'm not even going to train for this one.
00:56:02.000There's a lot of psychology behind it, and he was actually telling me, I mean, he was admitting it, that there was fights where he would go out and party hard, like get really fucked up the week before the fight, and he said, I think I did it because I had a built-in excuse.
00:56:14.000So that if I beat them, I can beat these motherfuckers even if I'm partying, but if he loses, he goes, yeah, but I was partying.
00:56:22.000So he kind of proved that with the Gustafson fight.
00:56:25.000He won the fight, and he won the fight in the fifth round, too, by the way.
00:56:29.000The fifth round, he poured it on Gustafson when he wasn't even in shape, and he wasn't even training.
00:57:46.000And I think he's 33. And I also think that he got into the UFC when he was 20. And so part of the problem was, like, he was learning and developing and growing in an elite organization.
00:58:22.000And that's the same way the world found out about him was Efrain Escudero, who won the Ultimate Fighter, who was a very good fighter himself.
00:58:31.000He fought Oliveira, and Oliveira took his back same way, standing up, and choked him out.
01:00:35.000And it's like, yeah, there's a precision, there's a predator-like precision where he pounces on the, like, as soon as you give him an opening.
01:00:58.000But if you look at the Justin Gaethje fight, Khabib submitted Gaethje.
01:01:02.000He almost submitted him in the end of the first round, and they submitted him in the second round.
01:01:06.000And one of the reasons why he did that, and this is supposedly, I don't know if this is true, But what they said is that, and I know this was true, that they do like each other.
01:01:14.000And that Justin actually helped Khabib cut weight, sat in with them.
01:01:17.000Because one of the things about cutting weight is if there's someone there talking to you, it helps you through it.
01:01:21.000Especially someone, they're also managed by the same guy.
01:01:24.000So they have the same manager and they got together.
01:01:27.000So when they had that fight, Khabib liked him.
01:01:29.000So he says, I'm just going to submit this dude.
01:01:31.000So he got a hold of him, did his normal shit, gets his wrestling going, but then almost, this is the beginning of the first round, he chose to beat him in a way that he wouldn't have chosen to beat Conor.
01:01:42.000When he was on top of Conor, he was smashing his face, and he was going, let's talk now!
01:02:49.000I think Khabib could do that to almost anybody, except maybe Oliveira.
01:02:55.000I think Khabib, the guys that Khabib beat, that he smashed, I think a lot of those guys he could have submitted to.
01:03:01.000I think Sabib is that elite, especially at the later stages of his career, when he was just the GOAT. He's arguably one of the absolute best submission artists, even though he smashes so many people.
01:03:16.000He's arguably one of the very best submission artists as well as being one of the greatest fighters of all time.
01:03:20.000You watch the way he goes through gates, you like that?
01:03:22.000That is elite, high-level, precision submission.
01:03:29.000That's what makes you think, like, wow, that would make the fight with Khabib so interesting.
01:03:34.000And I know Khabib has a lot of respect for him, too, because Khabib said to Gaethje, there was an article that I was reading where he was saying, hey, you've got to be aware of this guy.
01:07:13.000Well, you've got to realize the last two fights she's been fighting at 45 because she's the champ at 45 and 35. So this is a fight at 35. And you know what, man?
01:07:22.000She might be experiencing some sort of a mental breakdown.
01:07:27.000Like she said she checked out mentally.
01:07:28.000She said she just checked out, which is crazy.
01:07:58.000She also could have not trained very hard because she didn't think that Juliana had it in her and she thought she was going to beat Juliana in the first round.
01:08:05.000Or you don't have anything in front of you.
01:14:33.000This is not enough adrenaline being in the UFC. Well, go to the fight that he had with Anderson because everybody was scared of Lee Murray.
01:15:16.000Because in cage rage, he fought real tough guys, and there was a big organization in England, but most of the people in America did not know these fights were going on.
01:15:25.000And he's fighting guys like Jorge Rivera, he's fighting Lee Murray, he's fighting Tony Fricklin, and I forget who else he fought in there, but dude, I'm telling you, Anderson could do it all.
01:15:35.000He could grapple, he was dangerous off of his back.
01:16:53.000Jon was more, it was a lot of smashing people on the feet, but it was more the wrestling and the destruction once you get a hold of you, whether submissions or ground and pound.
01:18:33.000It's not 100% common, but it's common enough, and there's enough eye injuries where you know that that's unnecessary, and it's also an egregious cheating move that's so obvious.
01:18:46.000You're letting the whole world see that you're cheating.
01:18:48.000It's not like you might have accidentally touched someone's eyes because they're coming towards you and you had your hand out, your hand went in there, but it was a total accident.
01:20:52.000And why hasn't the rematch happened yet?
01:20:54.000Well, because Al Jermaine had to get neck surgery.
01:20:57.000Aljamain had to get a disc replaced in his spine.
01:20:59.000It's a serious fucking injury, and I tried to get him to avoid it, and I actually sent him to my doctor because I had had an issue with my discs as well in the past, and they can do some stuff with Regenikine and with stem cells and reduce inflammation and maybe whatever bulging disc issue you have might be able to go away,
01:21:21.000but The problem is that these guys, they train so hard and so often that for them to take a long time off to let something heal, they're not that inclined to do that.
01:21:33.000And apparently it was bad enough that they decided to go ahead and...
01:21:37.000There's a couple guys in the UFC that have had that done, where they have fake discs.
01:21:43.000I know one guy had them in his back and his neck.
01:23:20.000And to watch some of these people that have like sacrificed their bodies and their wits and And they can't bend down and play with their kids.
01:23:30.000And to just watch them struggling financially.
01:23:32.000Or to watch them taking those kind of fights where it's like it was over a long time ago but they can't afford to stop.
01:23:38.000Do you think that they should set up a pension for fighters just automatically once they become part of the UFC? Like you take a percentage and maybe the UFC meets that percentage and they set something aside for every fighter?
01:24:09.000The amount of training that's involved in, like, say if you're a Henry Cejudo, who's not just an Olympic medalist, but a two-division champion in the UFC, just a fucking savage of a man.
01:24:21.000The way that guy trains, there's not a lot of time to start a business.
01:24:25.000There's not a lot of time to get together a bunch of investors for a startup.
01:25:13.000It's not realistic for you to expect everybody to have something else because you can't be the champ You can't be going after a goal like that and have another thing you can't know you kid what I'm saying is like if you had a Safety net so if there's some sort of a pension that gave you a safety net So at least when you got out you had a year or two to figure out what you could do and then you start reviewing your options But you know your bills are paid for a while So you don't have to,
01:25:39.000like, immediately panic and try to figure your life out.
01:25:42.000And there's the other problem that fighters have is that being a fighter, it also becomes a part of their identity, and they don't want to let it go.
01:25:50.000Like, that's a big part of their identity is that they're a fighter.
01:25:53.000And so when they stop being a fighter, they kind of don't know who they are for a while.
01:25:58.000Schaub talks about that, that he kind of was still connected to this identity for a while.
01:26:03.000He's completely abandoned it now, and he's way happier.
01:26:06.000But before, it was a part of the way he was looking at it.
01:26:09.000He was looking at himself like this is his identity.
01:28:42.000Guys, that's such a classic fucking trope in mankind.
01:28:46.000You know, the people are close, then the person rejects the person that's close and lashes out at them, and then there's a fight and some sort of a struggle.
01:28:55.000People's lack of ability to work things out is always pretty fucking astounding.
01:28:59.000We had a guy in our group that he told everyone he was dying.
01:30:22.000There's something very funny in someone pretending that they're gonna die, and then you wait, and they haven't died, and you're like, what the fuck, and you actually get upset?
01:32:11.000It's like, you know, that's the problem.
01:32:13.000Because if people wanted to just end their life, like if someone's in horrible agony and suffering, it's the last days of their life, they've lived a long life, and they've been dying of this very painful disease, who are we to stop them from doing that?
01:33:24.000So this one is like a demon or a soul clawing.
01:33:28.000I guess it's a person, because look, those fingers are that their fingers are shredded off down to the tips of the bone, and they're being dragged into this hellscape basement.
01:33:48.000So here's one where there's a Roman where the guy has his head cut off on a plate with an apple in his mouth and the Roman is like holding up the arm that has the sword.
01:34:00.000So it's like he's got some twisted shit in there.
01:34:32.000It's got the part behind it that I'm confused on.
01:34:34.000And then look, the salt and pepper shakers are missiles.
01:34:37.000But the idea that this is the guy that's helping people kill themselves, and his art is like a guy with his head cut off with an apple stuffed in his mouth.
01:38:11.000The world works on ecosystems where all the plants and all the animals, the animals shit and the plants drop their fruit and all of it works together.
01:38:38.000So Joel- I was like, God, I went circular with this.
01:38:41.000Joel Wallach's book, one of the things that was about how many doctors die of overdoses.
01:38:45.000They prescribe themselves cocaine and they're supposed to do a fucking- he was talking about guys who were supposed to do surgeries and they'd find them dead in a storage room because they shot up and overdosed.
01:38:55.000Like, they can get a hold of drugs, and a lot of them, they use drugs to stay awake, and they use drugs to go to sleep, and they're, a lot of them are just, they're just people.
01:39:04.000Just like, you know, if you get a hundred people in a room, one of them's gonna have a problem with pills, right?
01:39:10.000And it's so easy to go from I can totally handle this to my shits out of control.
01:39:16.000So what he was basically saying is that most doctors, especially general practitioners, have very little knowledge when it comes to nutrition and what's the latest science.
01:39:26.000Even the people that are at the top of the food chain, no pun intended, when it comes to nutrition, they have debates.
01:39:34.000Over what's the proper diet or what's the healthiest way to do it?
01:39:57.000Unless you're studying that as a specialty, that's not what you focus on.
01:40:00.000So when they start talking about the body, they're talking about what's wrong and can they fix it if they're a surgeon or can they give you a drug if they're not a surgeon?
01:40:10.000Or can I send you to someone who's going to fix it?
01:40:44.000When people are healthier, they're nicer.
01:40:46.000When people are healthier, they're more productive.
01:40:48.000When people are healthier, they contribute.
01:40:49.000When people are healthier, they feel better.
01:40:51.000If you get a group of friends, and I hate to simplify this again, but if you get a group of 10 friends, and all those 10 friends eat well, and they exercise, and they meditate, and they try to keep their shit together, and they do their best to be a good person every day, you got a good group of people.
01:41:06.000You gotta think of the entire country as a giant group of people.
01:41:10.000The more we can have people like that, that are living healthy, just trying to be nice, just trying to do their thing, the more we have a better country.
01:41:17.000Just like if you have five friends that have their shit together and they're really cool and they're real friendly and they're real happy for you and they're supportive, and then you have one who's just a selfish, crazy person.
01:41:47.000There's certain brilliance to unhealthiness.
01:41:50.000There's certain people that don't give a fuck about their health, and they're indulgent, and they smoke a lot, and they drink a lot, and they do coke, and they get wild, and they say funny fucking shit.
01:43:41.000I've had some great shows with Completely Sober.
01:43:45.000But I think there's something about comedy that lends itself to altered states of consciousness.
01:43:50.000When I'm killing, because you know that feeling, because obviously I think people throw that shit around too much, but killing isn't something that happens every day, even the best.
01:43:59.000You know what I'm talking about, just destroy.
01:44:02.000That feeling, that only happens when you're having fun and when you're When you're in the zone, when you're in a state of conscience, when you're fearless and having fun, and sometimes you find a way to cheat your way there.
01:44:21.000The problem was when people overdo it, they go too far, they get too drunk, they get too high, and they get the balance wrong.
01:44:32.000It's tricky because there's no one to tell you, right?
01:44:36.000Getting drunk and getting high is a lot like doing comedy and no one teaches you how to do it.
01:44:42.000Especially the real talented dudes because a lot of times what happens is...
01:44:47.000Because I have friends like this where it's like they're so talented that they'll get a third, fourth, fifth chance at a bite at the apple.
01:51:33.000Christian Bale was the best Batman and the worst Bruce Wayne.
01:51:36.000They don't have a homeboy in this Ben Affleck.
01:51:39.000He's the new Batman, but it's like that's the thing It's like he does he plays Batman and he gets hate Like if Ben Affleck just play some regular dude in a good movie nobody gets hate Robin Pattinson's a new one to the guy Oh Robin Pattinson he I bet he could pull it off.
01:51:54.000Yeah, but also to him and when people die It's a whole other thing.
01:57:45.000So if your momma smacked the shit out, if you smack the shit out of one of your kids now, everybody in the store is going to be like, was that necessary?
01:57:52.000But back then it was like, yeah, get them.
01:59:11.000And some dudes just want to go right to the final button.
01:59:15.000But like I said, though, it was convenient.
01:59:17.000It's just like how now people stick their kids in front of an iPad instead of spending time with them.
01:59:21.000It was like if your kid was screaming in the store and knocking shit off the shelves and you wanted it to stop right then and there, you smack the shit out of them.
01:59:51.000They don't know what the fuck's going on.
01:59:52.000And you're having a conversation with them, you're trying to explain it to them, and you also have to calm them down, because a lot of times when they get upset about something, they're not real good at managing their emotions.
02:00:01.000Like, if one of the sisters is mad at the other one, there's always this kind of conversation and negotiation that has to be held.
02:00:12.000When they get mad at each other, you've got to let enough time pass so that the energy levels drop.
02:00:17.000Because a lot of times the way they think about stuff is directly connected to the anger they feel right then in that moment.
02:00:24.000They don't have good management skills.
02:00:27.000They don't know how to not get too mad.
02:00:29.000There's dudes that can say something that can piss you off and you go, look, I could either escalate this Or I could just calm down and be a man and not care if this person's insulting or this person's saying something stupid.
02:00:41.000I'm just going to talk to them like how I would talk to everybody.
02:00:51.000I think for most people it starts happening right around the time Where you don't feel invincible anymore.
02:00:56.000Like somewhere in your 20s where you take that first real damage.
02:01:02.000You take that first real L. It's sound energy management.
02:01:08.000And it's sound discipline that applies to your whole life.
02:01:12.000If you can avoid conflict when it's unnecessary.
02:01:15.000Because there's people, the weakest amongst us, That gravitate towards conflicts constantly because it gives them a distraction from their own shortcomings and failings as a person.
02:01:26.000So they'll gravitate towards fights with people.
02:01:29.000They'll gravitate towards hyper-criticism towards one individual.
02:01:34.000And usually it's a sign of someone not looking at themselves critically.
02:01:38.000They usually have glaring flaws, but they're not willing to look at those.
02:01:42.000They look at other people's flaws and they'll exaggerate those flaws and attack those people.
02:01:50.000And if you're not dealing with it internally, the way you externally communicate with other people is a lot of times it's very shitty because you have conflict.
02:01:58.000Your body's in like a state of uncomfortability all the time.
02:02:02.000Yes, I noticed that a lot of times when I'm gaming online.
02:02:06.000Like, you could tell that sometimes people behave a certain way.
02:02:14.000Well, there's also games elevate people almost to the point of feeling like it's a real thing.
02:02:19.000Like, the adrenaline that's involved in, like, if you're in a game of Quake, for instance, and you're running down a corridor and people are shooting rockets at you, and you're trying to survive and someone's chasing you down...
02:02:28.000It doesn't feel like your life's really in danger, but your system is ramped the fuck up.
02:02:39.000Your brain is connecting this to the same type of feelings it would have if you were being physically attacked.
02:02:46.000So when people say wild shit when they're gaming, a lot of times they're just saying wild shit because they literally feel like they're in a war.
02:02:54.000They feel like they're being attacked without the danger.
02:02:57.000So like they don't feel physically in danger, but they feel like, ah, it's a fucking joke!
02:03:01.000Like you play a game, you get done, you're like, fuck!
02:03:18.000See, that's one of the reasons why kids are so crazy today.
02:03:21.000Well, it goes along with what you were saying with the emotional management, because it's almost always, whenever I get matched up with adults, like in solo queue, when you get matched up when everyone's pretty much grown, it's very few problems, unless you're already tilted.
02:04:27.000But that was the shit, man, when you would play in a room together and a bunch of guys would get together in a room and you would have so much...
02:04:33.000That's how I got addicted to the games.
02:04:34.000The writing staff at NewsRadio had a LAN set up in their writing room.
02:04:39.000And we went in there and we were playing Quake 3 and I was like, you motherfuckers, what have you done to my life?
02:05:07.000And that was some of the most fun I've ever had.
02:05:10.000Dude, when they make that shit virtual, when they get to a point where they can completely recreate a virtual reality situation like a video game, but you feel the ground on your feet, you got a real gun, it kicks when you shoot it.
02:07:08.000Instead of the top athletes going into the traditional sports, they're going to be doing this shit because you're going to have to be athletic to be good at the best...
02:07:23.000Well, what you can do in the game is directly proportional to what you can really do.
02:07:27.000Well, players, I mean, I would think that anybody who's like an elite level athlete is going to have faster reaction times, too, and probably be better at handling pressure.
02:09:25.000It's the no is it like the reality thing like where it'd be too fucking close to reality to kill anything other than I think is that it's it's close enough like you're still killing a person but one that you don't have to feel anything for Could you imagine if conflict breaks out between us and China and they start having virtual reality games We can kill Chinese people and Chinese people and kill Americans.
02:11:06.000And we let them lead us into conflict.
02:11:09.000If you eliminated all those people, all of them, all the people that tell you what to do, and you were left with just human beings, I feel like we could work a system out.
02:11:19.000I feel like we could work a system out without leaders The problem is when you have leaders and leaders want to do this they want to do that they want to and then there's Companies that are profiting off of things like natural resources Like there's something kind of fucked up about making trillions of dollars out of the blood of the earth when you say leaders because every because here's something here's something I just suspects that everyone deep down wants to be led and It's just a matter of whether you trust,
02:11:48.000like if you trust the person in charge, you immediately like, yes, just what do I need to do?
02:12:20.000So I think there's like a real hesitancy of a lot of brilliant people to get involved in that muckraking and just to feel what it feels like to have that.
02:12:29.000But it's also like the type of person that really wants to be a leader is one of two people, right?
02:12:36.000It's either someone who really cares and wants the world to be a better place and thinks they can pull it off.
02:12:42.000They think they can do better and they can make some real change and they can maybe help the community of the United States as a community, like as a group of humans that want the world to be a better place for each other.
02:12:56.000And then there's people that are like completely bought and sold by the political system and the special interest groups and the lobbyists and they're deeply entwined and they have no ambitions whatsoever to try to step outside of that.
02:13:44.000You can't have, like, George Bush or Joe Biden or any of these people that are in control where the whole world was freaked out that this is the guy, whether it's Donald Trump or some people who's even Obama.
02:13:56.000Having a person who is the fucking leader of the free world is crazy.
02:15:09.000And then you get out of office, like, Brian did a great job for us, and hey, we would love you to come talk at our fucking blah blah blah meeting, and they'll give you a half a million.
02:15:19.000Give you a half a million to go up and talk.
02:15:23.000You know how you hear those people, they're like, if you could have dinner with one person, and people pick politicians, like, why would you do that?
02:15:30.000I would like to look in their eyes and smell their breath.
02:17:13.000And he could pull something like that off.
02:17:16.000Like, I don't know, you know, there's a lot of people that don't like his policy choices and what he did with drones, what he did with freedom of the press.
02:17:22.000There's a lot of issues with Obama, but I think there's issues with anybody that's the president.
02:17:26.000And I have a feeling that once you get into office, it is a wild menagerie of interests and people and fucking, you have to concentrate on this part of the world because there's conflict with this guy and this guy trying to steal the resources and the stock market's fucked and the this and that.
02:17:52.000You've never been the president before.
02:17:53.000Like if you become the president and then all of a sudden you're inside, you literally have the toughest job in the world and a new person tries it out every four years.
02:18:00.000It's a job like you probably should get real good at it.
02:18:44.000He said, I think they take you into a room full with smoky industrialists, a smoky room, and he said, and then they play you a video of the Kennedy assassination from an angle you've never seen before.
02:19:04.000I think you don't get to be the president unless they pick you until Trump came along.
02:19:10.000And I think Trump was an odd combination of, yeah, there were definitely people that stand to make a lot of money with him in office, whatever the regulations that he was passing, that he's friendly to business, and they thought it was going to be good for business, and so they had an interest in getting him in there.
02:19:26.000But he wasn't a regular politician guy.
02:19:28.000He was some crazy billionaire famous guy who's like famous for being outrageous, you're fired, and then all of a sudden he's running the country?
02:20:14.000It was very divisive, but now there's these, you know, with the COVID division and the vaccine division, that would be like what happened before, I hate to say on steroids, but That's a phrase.
02:20:50.000We're looking at a situation right now where we're a year in, right?
02:20:54.000January is a year into his presidency, and you can't hate a person for getting old.
02:21:01.000It's just a part of being a human being.
02:21:04.000But when you watch him ramble on TV, nobody has confidence that this is the most clear-headed, Most logical, most well-read and wise of all the leaders in the world.
02:23:15.000People just started doing different stuff.
02:23:17.000And they started thinking when something got taken away from them that they never realized that someone could just take something away from you like that.
02:23:49.000The logic behind it was so stupid, and they didn't care about the businesses because they don't have to, because their money is not based on how much the businesses earn.
02:23:58.000If politicians' money was all based on a percentage of the gross profits of the neighborhood they control, they'd have a completely different way of dealing with people.
02:24:09.000And they would have let those shows keep rolling.
02:24:12.000Because if they knew that if all the bars were closed and all the comedy clubs were closed, the amount of revenue that's missing from their pockets would be substantial.
02:24:20.000If you tank an economy, you lose your money.
02:24:23.000Like, let's say you're a mayor, and what does a mayor get paid?
02:25:15.000What if after graduating from high school, we just sort of do for those kids what we did during the pandemic?
02:25:23.000When you graduate high school, the government, just for a year, gives you enough money to live on, and you can just...
02:25:29.000Because I feel like you would come out of that...
02:25:32.000You're not even allowed to start college.
02:25:34.000You just have to live for a year, try a little different interests, and then by the time you go to...
02:25:38.000Because the hardest thing about me starting college was they were like, okay, so decide today what you want to focus your whole rest of your life on.
02:26:44.000Where it's like you're doing something, you have a boss that's secretive or whatever the fuck, and you're doing something that is pointless.
02:26:59.000It wasn't even the actual work itself.
02:27:01.000It was just the idea that what I was doing didn't mean anything.
02:27:05.000Sometimes you meet people along the way in your life that you meet just so that you kind of get, they're like a little lesson for you.
02:27:12.000Like you could lose it all and you can go down this road where you just make a bad decision and now you're doing something meaningless forever.
02:27:20.000There was this one guy that I used to drive limos with, and he was an older guy, and he had a Cadillac, and he was overweight, this poor bastard, and he knew all the places that had the biggest meals.
02:29:11.000I mean, maybe you enjoy talking to people or you have a great client or something like that, but for most people, it's something you do to try to accumulate some money and try to get out.
02:29:19.000I knew this guy who was a limo driver.
02:31:13.000There's something about getting in a lift with a stinky dude, and you roll the window down, and he rolls it up, and you roll it down again.
02:31:19.000Because like I said, if I don't care about you, how can I tell you that the problem is the odor?
02:31:23.000I know, but the problem is you guys aren't talking.
02:31:26.000What's funny is you're not even having a conversation.
02:31:34.000What it is is The passive-aggressive, I'm going to roll the window up without saying anything, he's already at the point where he feels disrespected.
02:31:47.000So I think to him, this is beyond talking.
02:31:50.000Well, he shouldn't have a bullshit car that doesn't have a child lock.
02:32:30.000Some people are real sensitive to that.
02:32:34.000Yeah, I mean, if you just put on what you're doing, like, you know, if it's fish or something, it's like, you gotta eat that shit at home.
02:32:38.000You can't, like, bring, like, a baked piece of fish in a car.
02:32:42.000I've seen so many fights on the subway, on the train, from people trying to eat on the train, and, you know, they open it up and there's something pungent.
02:32:50.000And somebody's like, hey, man, what the fuck are you doing?
02:32:53.000You know, and it turns into something.
02:37:39.000If you caught a fish right there at the beach and you fried it, like on a fire that you made, like right there, you had a little grill set up right there on the beach, and you just salt that bitch up, put a little olive oil on it.
02:38:32.000Well, there's something that connects us to some raw, primitive, like, it's like it excites parts of your brain where you're cooking meat over fire.
02:38:41.000You know what I'd love to see you try?
02:38:42.000And I would like to try it if you haven't tried it before.
02:40:10.000And they give you tongs and they slice it off of the skewer right there by your table and you put that shit in your plate and within 10 minutes you're like, I can't eat anymore.
02:43:56.000It's a special kind of grill that's lined mostly with ceramic.
02:44:02.000And it creates like this, there's a heat and there's a way it retains moisture in these like ceramic grills that has a certain special flavor that imparts in food.
02:44:45.000But this was a really pretty one, and the thing about it was, it's like these Kamados, like, you can get one from Weber, like the same company that makes them kettle grills.
02:47:18.000But there's something about cooking outside over fire and you're looking at the fire and hearing the meat crackling and taking in the smells.
02:47:33.000Yeah, but even if I eat a domestic steak, even if I have a nice grass-fed ribeye, I'll put a little bit of garlic in the pan, and I'll put some butter and some rosemary,
02:47:52.000get some fucking herbal scents on that meat and baste it on top of it, too.
02:47:58.000There's something exciting about cooking over fire, man.
02:48:03.000It's been a long time since I did that.
02:48:04.000I'll still cook in a pellet grill and I'll sear on a cast iron frying pan and I love cooking.
02:48:15.000Where that genetic memory that we were talking about, it reminds us of how thrilling it was to be cooking a piece of meat that you killed over a fire because that meant your family was gonna live.
02:48:26.000That means you're going to survive another day.
02:48:28.000You weren't going to be hungry in the morning.
02:48:30.000And that means your children might be able to carry on and live.
02:49:48.000There was a horrible fucking picture of a little baby monkey clinging to its mother while its mother was in a leopard's mouth.
02:49:58.000So its mother, the leopard has its mother's head like completely crushed in its mouth and it's walking with this dead monkey and the little monkey's like clinging to the body of its mother as it's being carried away.
02:57:25.000I don't know what it is, man, but people that have no fight in them, I just...
02:57:29.000Yeah, you're supposed to feel like that.
02:57:30.000Because if you were in a situation with them, if they're a part of your village, and shit went down, and that guy falls apart like that, you're like, you bitch.
02:59:29.000They're genetically dissimilar to gray wolves.
02:59:33.000The thing about what happened in America was ranchers and farmers poisoned off the wolves.
02:59:40.000And until they reintroduced them to Yellowstone in the 1990s, there was very few wolves on the West Coast, in the West, the Western wilderness, because they'd killed them all.
02:59:50.000But they never could kill the coyotes.
02:59:52.000Because every time they tried to kill the coyotes, the coyotes would just expand.
02:59:55.000So they expanded their territory over the entire country.
02:59:58.000There's coyotes in every single city in this country.
03:00:02.000And the ones you don't see, like every time you see one, there's like 25. But they got that way out of a need to survive against the wolves originally.
03:00:12.000Because when the gray wolves were coming in from Canada and wherever they would meet coyotes, they would kill them.
03:00:18.000So the coyotes had to figure out a way to survive.
03:00:22.000And one of the ways they figured out how to survive is to constantly evolve their territory, constantly expand their territory.
03:00:26.000And then also when one coyote dies, when they do that roll call, when they, yeah, yeah, With one missing, it causes the females to make more babies.
03:00:40.000There's a great book called Coyote America by this guy Dan Flores, who was a professor.
03:00:46.000He taught my friend Steve Rinella, and then Steve introduced me to him, and I had a guest on the podcast.
03:00:54.000But he's an expert in wildlife and the history of wildlife in North America, and that's one of the things that he's fascinated with is a coyote.
03:04:13.000There was a podcast about it on Radiolab, and they were talking about how quickly, within a few generations, of every time they had a fox, they would have these foxes, they were caged foxes, and every time they had a fox, they would reach into the cage, and the fox would growl at them,
03:10:02.000I think one aquarium in Japan has recently kept a great white in captivity for an extended period of time, and I think they might be the first ever.
03:14:19.000To get enough buckets of hot water to melt all the ice and then go always to the back of the building and grab buckets of ice to replace it like in the middle of the last call.
03:14:26.000And make sure that you got all of it so you didn't get a fucking chunk of ice in your drink.
03:14:29.000Yeah, you gotta melt all the ice and then wipe it out thoroughly and then go over that motherfucker with a flashlight to make sure there's no chunks.
03:18:15.000But watch over and over and over again all these people coming up and take their best ideas.
03:18:23.000Can you imagine if you're sitting there, and you're starting out as a comedian, maybe you're a bartender somewhere or whatever, and you get a couple nights off a week, and you got a dream, you're trying to make it, and you do a few open mics, and then you do an open mic, and the next thing you know, you're watching your shit on Comedy Central.
03:19:49.000It is 100% a signal to everyone around you.
03:19:53.000You don't give a fuck about anybody but yourself.
03:19:56.000Like, you're in this thing, and there was a time where that was how a lot of comedians behaved, where there wasn't the kind of camaraderie that we all enjoy now.
03:20:04.000I think the camaraderie of, like, this generation and the generation just previous, where they started to wake up and realize this, like, we're...
03:20:29.000You gotta figure out how to manage your own emotions and your own jealousy and your own narcissism to not think about other people's success as somehow or another being detrimental to you.
03:20:39.000That's the difference between people that are strong and people that give in to that very base instinct.
03:20:52.000I've been in green rooms where it's like this conversation couldn't have happened anywhere else.
03:20:59.000It's like two or three of the best thinkers in the world.
03:21:01.000You know, comics aren't, you know, maybe they're not the best thinkers in the whole world, but they always have an angle that you didn't think of, like especially the OGs.
03:21:09.000They always, like you've been around like Ron, you have Ron White right here and, you know, another big name right here and you in the back and just listening to the conversation.
03:21:18.000And y'all are talking about You know, fucking World War II or some shit.
03:23:01.000It's in Europe between Hitler and Stalin.
03:23:04.000And it's all about, you know, when Stalin was in power, there was a tremendous amount of cannibalism.
03:23:09.000And Lex Friedman has actually talked a lot about this as well because he's Russian and he knows a lot about this, the history of when Stalin was ruling and literally starved their people.
03:23:36.000He was telling me about it and I was like, I can't even listen to this.
03:23:39.000It was so wild and so horrible and so dark and also so recent.
03:23:45.000When you think about people cannibalizing people because they're starving to death and you realize it was only 80 years ago, you're like, what?
03:23:55.000Because when society break down, all it would take is one power grid outage to go unprepared for just, I say a month before society collapsed.
03:24:08.000There was a time out here last year where all the power went out for a lot of people.
03:25:27.000His name is Jim Finch, a man who for no other reason other than that people were in need, he loaded up his truck with food, water, and a barbecue grill and drove to Mayfield to serve others.
03:26:59.000And all these assholes were saying all these fucking crazy things like somehow it's responsible for those people because those people vote against climate change.
03:29:19.000Look at the size of that fucking thing.
03:29:22.000So imagine you're outside, you're hanging out with your friends, just fucking barbecuing and shit, and the light crackles from lightning, and you look over, you see that coming, and you're like, oh my god.
03:29:36.000Dozens killed by tornadoes across six states just rolled through.