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00:06:02.000All these new tech companies are very progressive and they have all these electric cars, but...
00:06:08.000They're mining these minerals that they need for their products in a lot of different places, and I'm sure they're not always doing this on the up and up.
00:06:20.000Well, we went over this the other day about Africa and coltan, and that at the heart of every cell phone is this mineral called coltan, and where they get coltan is like people are literally digging it out of the ground in the Congo.
00:09:09.000The idea that the only thing that keeps you out of the hospital is medicine.
00:09:12.000Well, no, I don't think it's the only thing, but I get my news from Donald Trump, who told Candace Owens that the vaccine is a miracle, and it worked.
00:12:08.000I was listening to Peter McCullough, and I don't know if this diminishes his credibility, I bought crack off him in downtown Austin three days ago.
00:13:51.000Isn't it funny that like a year ago, if they said you're going to be in this crazy controversy about a drug, you'd be like, what are you talking about?
00:15:12.000I know a doctor who's actually being brought in front of the medical board being subpoenaed because this doctor prescribed ivermectin to patients with COVID and they want to know why.
00:15:24.000So this is actually like they're being brought in front of a fucking board about a drug that if you go to the critical care frontline COVID critical care group, people have done it for thousands of people.
00:15:38.000There's all sorts of at least anecdotal tales of people getting better after ivermectin.
00:15:43.000They do know that it stops viral replication in vitro, which means in a lab culture.
00:16:14.000And also, there's clearly some kind of a conspiracy to try to demonize that medication.
00:16:20.000When you look at the amount of people that said, horse dewormer, horse dewormer, you look at the bullshit story that was in the Rolling Stone that was proven to be absolutely not real about people waiting in line at the hospital.
00:16:31.000They couldn't get into the emergency room with gunshot wounds because so many people in there with horse dewormers.
00:16:42.000I think the idea that there's a vaccine that's available and people are being mandated to take it rubs people the wrong way.
00:16:52.000Well, also because people are vaccinated and still getting sick and still spreading it.
00:16:56.000And they're trying to pretend that's not the case.
00:16:57.000I think that it's been a big problem watching the sales pitch Because to me it should be, the vaccine is available, if you take it, it should reduce your likelihood of getting sick.
00:17:11.000That should not be, you shouldn't lose your job.
00:19:56.000We do know that historically, the VAERS, which is the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, the VAERS reports have been under, like, whatever underreported means.
00:20:09.000There was one article that Harvard put out a paper about, I think it was about the HPV vaccine.
00:21:14.000It's the VAERS. But you also have to think about the sheer numbers of people that have taken the vaccine.
00:21:21.000If it's 18,000 deaths and you're dealing with 230 plus million people that have taken the vaccine, a lot of people are like, that's not that bad.
00:22:52.000Like, if your whole thing was, don't take it, and then you die.
00:22:57.000So that's one of the things where it's like, You don't want to be that guy.
00:23:03.000Well, here's the other thing that drives me crazy is that for so many people that have caught it, they tell you just to go home and come back when your oxygen rate dips below 92. Yeah, that's not good care.
00:23:25.000The ones that have got on it early, like Peter McCullough and Dr. Pierre Corey, they prescribed a whole cocktail of things to take, and they had great effect with it.
00:23:37.000Now, Peter Attia was posting something about fluvoxamine.
00:23:42.000I think it was about fluvoxamine the other day.
00:23:44.000They're trying to stop people from taking fluvoxamine.
00:23:46.000For COVID, which has been proven to be very effective.
00:23:49.000It's actually an SSRI. And for some reason, it works very well to prevent some infections of COVID. What's weird is people trying to stop people from taking medication is very weird.
00:24:15.000I understand that they're trying to say that these things aren't a replacement for a vaccine, but I don't know why you can't say, hey, we've got an effective vaccine and here are treatments as well.
00:24:25.000Because you don't make as much money on the vaccine.
00:24:27.000Look, clearly the vaccines have influence on media.
00:24:31.000If you watch that video compilation, Anderson Cooper brought to you by Pfizer.
00:26:50.000And within 15 minutes, they had to take him to the hospital.
00:26:53.000His heart started racing and pounding, and he was freaking out, and he couldn't breathe, and he had to lie down, and then they took him off in an ambulance.
00:27:19.000He goes, I'd rather die on the 101. Fuck you.
00:27:24.000Listen, it seems to be one of those situations where it's obviously you don't want to stroke out in a CVS. But you don't want to be one of these people who didn't take it, and then you're in ICU going, I was wrong!
00:27:38.000Right, but how many of those people could have been saved with monoclonal antibodies?
00:28:46.000I've talked to so many doctors that are talking about this.
00:28:49.000I've seen doctors get removed off of Twitter for suggesting off-label use of medications that have been proven to be effective, at least anecdotally.
00:28:58.000It's very strange that people are being penalized for prescribing harmless medication.
00:29:31.000I think if you have the vaccine, you are clearly better protected than someone who doesn't have the vaccine, particularly if you're not in good shape.
00:31:02.000But there's a major issue at the CIA and the NSA with some of their contractors and some of the people that work there doing horrible things and getting caught.
00:31:21.000People that are working within highly sensitive intelligence matters, and you would think that these institutions would know what they're doing, and these people are on the dark web, and they're like, I mean, it's crazy.
00:31:48.000Declassified CIA Inspector General reports show a pattern of abuse and a repeated decision by federal prosecutors not to hold agency personnel accountable.
00:32:00.000You think they just, they're like, this is bad for PR. Let's just pretend it didn't happen.
00:32:06.000Well, yeah, I mean this is also we know for a fact that these people for years and years and years have used This as a way to blackmail and entrap people as you know, this is reality You know it's unfortunate secretly amassed credible evidence that at least 10 of its employees and contractors committed sexual crimes involving children.
00:32:27.000Holy shit Holy shit My god look at this good scroll down one employee at a sexual contact with a two-year-old and a six-year-old girl He was fired a second employee purchased three sexually explicit videos of young girls filmed by their mothers He resigned crazy third employee off.
00:32:46.000I don't want to fucking it's it's disturbing Yeah, yeah, yeah Well, listen, we're at the end of an empire.
00:36:38.000So either they're lip syncing or they're singing along because they're moving their face and they're moving their hands and their jaws are moving.
00:36:46.000Their masks are moving like they're singing.
00:38:15.000I think the only thing that would stop is if she bought into some of these policies that are destroying businesses in America that make people scared.
00:38:23.000If she somehow or another supported or showed any support for lockdowns and mandates and all this craziness that's going on, if she did...
00:38:34.000God willing, we're on the other end of that.
00:38:36.000And I think that the problems now with defunding the cops and stuff, they seem to be reversing all of those policies in these cities where homicide rates have skyrocketed.
00:39:05.000They're going to run with it and get people excited about something, but there's a real uptick in crime in wealthy areas, and those people are unhappy.
00:39:15.000That woman who just got killed in her Beverly Hills home, tragically.
00:39:19.000That's the CEO of Netflix's mother-in-law.
00:40:06.000LA District Attorney George Gascon, who's like the biggest fucking communist in all of law, was asked to respond to LA Sheriff Alex How do you say that?
00:40:46.000And that's not big in terms of using the term as to law enforcement, it's to people that often act in ways that I believe that are not consistent with the Yeah, I mean, he's mentally ill.
00:41:44.000Then he mowed, which the media talked about it like it was a car.
00:41:47.000Yeah, caused by an SUV. But he's out on $1,000 bail, ran over the mother of his children, girlfriend, whatever, and then came out and killed somebody.
00:43:51.000You may be against a war, but there's no argument that mercenaries, like the Blackwater, whatever they call it now, Z, like Eric Prince's company, there's no argument that they're going to be better than...
00:44:04.000Trained soldiers because they're unaccountable.
00:44:07.000Well, most of them are trained soldiers that then move into the private sector.
00:44:13.000Yeah, but then they can do whatever they want.
00:44:16.000So if you get rid of a public, you're going to have an order somehow.
00:44:20.000If you get rid of this public police force, you're just going to have private police forces that are made up of maybe ex-military, ex-intel people, and they're not going to be accountable to anybody.
00:44:44.000Well, the argument is if we give money to...
00:44:48.000You know, causes, social justice causes, right?
00:44:55.000Mental health care, education, you know, early intervention.
00:45:00.000All those things are valuable and valid, but they're not replacing, if a guy's trying to kill someone in a house, who are you going to call?
00:46:05.000There's also a problem with the idea that you can have a civilization and a society where people are, you know, we all want a respectable relationship with law enforcement.
00:46:25.000Like, we all want people to be treated well.
00:46:28.000But you can't have a society where You have zero order because then order is going to be imposed.
00:46:41.000You know, there's businesses that are like, you know, gangs will protect businesses, right?
00:47:01.000So that's the other problem is you go, okay, you can't have a society where you go, violence is okay for the things we agree with, which is the craziest thing I've ever seen.
00:47:11.000And over the last couple of years, people go, oh, well, if you're on the right side of this political issue, you can throw that brick through a window.
00:47:21.000You get to decide whose property is to be respected and whose isn't.
00:47:27.000So if you get rid of that idea that we should have, you know, that you can't use violence, if you get rid of that idea, you're opening the gates of hell.
00:47:38.000And the question is, is this complete total incompetence on the part of the lawmakers and of the politicians and of the people that are orchestrating this?
00:47:50.000Or is there some manipulation behind the scenes that's designed to make the country fall apart so that people fall in line and that they comply easier because they're scared and because it's chaos?
00:48:30.000That's why a lot of these lunatics are like, you know, these are the showmen, the crazy people, the guys like, let's all get AR-15s and sit in the living room.
00:49:52.000No, they all want, because by the way, the art of politics is some level of compromise.
00:49:56.000All of these people just have their brand, and they get out, you know, Ilhan Omar, Cori Bush, they're just like, fuck Whitey, fine.
00:50:03.000On the other side, they're like, let's get the guns, and so you just, they all have their brands, and nobody has any interest in reaching across.
00:50:11.000You think Cori Bush has ever said fuck Whitey, really?
00:50:33.000By telling people every day, you're white, you have privilege, you didn't work hard for anything you earned, you're the problem, and we have to remake society, and you have to apologize every single day.
00:50:45.000That turns them and makes them go, you know what?
00:50:47.000I'm going to go with the guy sitting with the gun.
00:51:41.000And then the other side, you have the squad, and then they know what they're doing.
00:51:46.000And then in the vast center is just criminals who are insider trading and selling stock the minute they find out there's a pandemic.
00:51:55.000Well, Nancy Pelosi, when they asked her about that, when we showed the video, they asked her about insider trade, should they stop congresspeople or members of doing any kind of trading or trading in individual stocks?
00:55:48.000Yeah, so if you drive a lot, you have to pay a tax on the amount of miles that you drive, which the problem with that is that's going to give the government access to your car because they're going to have to track that.
00:55:59.000So you're going to have to write down your miles.
00:56:07.000People that were relying on that to get to work, now because the subway was not efficient, so you could go, I could trust the subway and then be late at that point, or you could go, I could get in this Uber pool or whatever.
00:56:22.000Unfortunately, that affected a lot of people in New York.
00:56:25.000It was more expensive to take an Uber to work.
00:56:27.000So you had to go back to the bus and subway and hope that it was working.
00:56:32.000So that's, I think, in the Build Back Better Act, the problem is like, how much can regular people shoulder the burden of climate change?
00:56:46.000The problem with any sort of problem, whether it's climate change or anything, is then these industries pop up and offer themselves as a solution.
00:57:39.000The same way with Gavin Newsom sitting there maskless at a dinner at the French Laundry, you go, oh, those rules are not the rules that I have to play by.
00:57:48.000So I think people are inherently skeptical of these pushes to make people sacrifice because they go, wait a minute, but you guys still get private jets.
00:58:16.000Because they go, I can't provide for my family.
00:58:18.000But it does become an industry, and the climate change fighting industry will be an issue, because then you're going to have a bunch of people working for them, you're going to have a bunch of people that have a vested interest in making, then you're going to have other individual industries that connect themselves to that,
00:58:35.000that start to fund it and become a part of it, whether it's electric cars or whatever it is, and then you have laws that are passed that penalize their opponents, or penalize their competitors.
00:58:48.000There doesn't seem to be an easy solution because everything becomes an industry.
00:58:57.000Well, that's the thing about profit and politics and profit and the things that we're dealing with in this country in terms of regulations.
00:59:04.000When you find out that regulations are passed and that the people who pass the regulations have relationships with businesses that are going to benefit from these regulations, you've got fuckery.
00:59:16.000And when you have unchecked fuckery, that's called fraud.
00:59:21.000That's a big part of American politics.
00:59:24.000Getting money out of politics is one of the most important things that anyone could ever do, and no one wants to do it.
00:59:30.000If you could stop special interest groups, stop corporations, stop any people like that, any groups like that, from contributing to political campaigns, then people would make decisions based on different things.
00:59:41.000They would have to get donations from the people, from the individual people.
00:59:46.000Well, Bernie Sanders did that, and they locked him out.
01:00:39.000Because if he was a revolutionary guy, he goes, no, fuck it, vote for Trump.
01:00:44.000He literally says, no, one of the party is rotten, and it needs to be completely overhauled, so either don't vote or whatever.
01:00:54.000But he threw his support behind Hillary and then Biden, quite obviously after he had been kind of sandbagged, and they had arranged this so that he was going to lose.
01:01:04.000He had the momentum, certainly the second time, for sure.
01:02:42.000They can do things to your computer like put porn on your computer.
01:02:45.000And they know what you're into now because they can just hack everything.
01:02:47.000That being said, yeah, freaks are not going to stop being freaks and elicit streams of money, which the whole Epstein story was about that.
01:04:20.000Well, I mean, if he knew something, that could help.
01:04:24.000But the trial, the Ghislaine Maxwell trial, is weird because it's a federal trial, so you don't get the transcripts, you don't get to see it, you get sketchies, the weird drawings.
01:04:35.000They have no interest in uncovering what was happening outside of this very small...
01:05:25.000They will try to tie together the testimony of the 24 witnesses that they called at the trial.
01:05:30.000Four of them are accusers, women who say that they were sexually assaulted by Epstein when they were giving him massages.
01:05:37.000These women testified that Ghislaine Maxwell helped recruit them, helped arrange their travel and their massage appointments, and at times participated in the alleged sexual assault.
01:08:07.000And on the younger side, okay, we can get access to him.
01:08:11.000So, by doing what they're doing and getting all this information, the problem is it destroys the idea that we're living in this society where people have a debate.
01:08:22.000Like, the reason they can't get the bill back at her act passed is The reason they can't get that act passed is because Jeffrey is dead.
01:08:30.000Like, if he could have blackmailed Joe Manchin, the act is passed.
01:08:49.000I think if you're a billionaire and you have a corporation and you have interests, do you want some senator or congressman from a small, tiny state getting in the way of your ability to make money?
01:09:55.000Every company to some degree is a tech company.
01:09:57.000So Epstein cozying up with tech people, you see when the blackmail operation goes from nuts and bolts, honeypot to, oh, the future of this will very much be tech.
01:10:09.000And that's why you see him cozying up with all of those tech people.
01:10:15.000Jeffrey Epstein hoped to seed human race with his DNA. But how do you know this isn't just one of those stories that they write about him after he's dead or while he's arrested because they want to smear him?
01:10:26.000He's still alive at this point, I think.
01:10:27.000Yeah, or while he's arrested, like I said.
01:10:29.000I mean, I think it's a conceivable thing that he'd want to do.
01:10:56.000Or get them to, like, if you had a government agency, there was an intelligence agency, and they wanted to get something passed, and you had access to all these scientists, you could compromise the scientists, and then say, look, you don't have to include that part.
01:11:09.000How about you stand up for this and come up with a reason why this is a good idea?
01:11:14.000100%, I think it always worked like that.
01:11:19.000And by the way, after his conviction for whatever he got convicted for and he served a time in Club Fed down there, even a dinner with somebody was compromising them because you're now with this guy.
01:11:33.000You didn't want that to be out in the open.
01:11:35.000So I think his job was to basically...
01:11:40.000Get as much information as he could and get as much leverage as he could.
01:12:34.000And so when you're around these weird people that have all these intelligence connections that are all over the world and their friends are presidents and kings and queens and prime ministers, if you get an invitation, a lot of times you take it.
01:12:50.000Well, the way we do it here is so much less dangerous to folks like that than the way they do it in China.
01:14:22.000What's interesting about the way they do it over there is if a billionaire steps out of line, they either lock them, they need to just get them.
01:15:49.000The social credit score system, that kind of shit.
01:15:51.000The journalist Whitney Webb I've had on my show said that there was a real push years ago saying that if we want to keep our supremacy in the fields of AI and automation and things like that, we have to develop these systems and implement them before China does.
01:16:06.000And they are all, you know, Chinese type of social credit score systems and surveillance systems and things like that.
01:19:03.000It says, when a Chinese billionaire reopens a factory and hires 2,000 blue-collar Americans, early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America.
01:19:13.000So what's weird is that we have American billionaires, not that you have a Chinese billionaire coming in and reopening a factory in America and hiring Americans.
01:22:31.000Do you think he shouldn't live in a nice house on Austin?
01:22:33.000I don't think that, but I think people, we're at a point now where there's such a vast chasm between people that have a lot of money and the people of nothing, right?
01:22:44.000And he's become kind of a symbol of that, so is Bezos, because they're literally now flying rockets into space.
01:22:52.000All the while you have all of these other problems and all of these other issues.
01:22:58.000So, you know, obviously people are going to...
01:25:39.000So at the end of the night, we wind up, let me just, before you play this, at the end of the night, we wind up stranded in Vegas, because Whitney got a private jet to get there, and then once they got her to the thing, they're like, get the fuck out of here.
01:25:52.000She did the gig, and then there was supposed to be a jet home.
01:25:54.000We got to the airport, they're like, there's no one here.
01:28:49.000I think there's a lot of room, too, though, for people that are trying to open stuff up, if they can do it, and they have a name in L.A., if they come out here, and as the city grows, their restaurant will grow.
01:30:06.000I also think quality of life right now, whether you...
01:30:13.000No matter how much into the crypto stuff you are or not, it's a massive disruption, right?
01:30:17.000Like blockchain technology is massive disruption.
01:30:20.000And a lot of the people that are into it are like, why am I going to live with this brand new technology that's revolutionizing and has the potential to revolutionize stuff?
01:30:30.000Why am I going to live in the same city?
01:30:33.000Why am I going to live in the same old city?
01:30:37.000You're never going to impact New York.
01:30:39.000You're not going to impact LA. But a lot of people are going, I want to be part of a city and help that city grow and really have an outsized influence in that part of the world.
01:36:59.000Because that's probably a realistic assessment, if you really thought about how much time it takes to bring a city back to where it was before the pandemic.
01:37:05.000We also look at, like, if New York and LA go down, it's kind of like the country's in real trouble.
01:37:38.000Eric Adams, who is the former police officer who's now the mayor, and a lot of people have hope for him because he's a Democrat, but he's also tough on crime.
01:37:49.000That city, if New York goes down, you're looking at the country going down.
01:37:53.000New York is the crown jewel of America in terms of cities, right?
01:37:57.000Right, but with one of the worst fucking mayors that's ever existed.
01:38:38.000Like that this guy and his wife, or somehow or another, have misappropriated or lost count of or lost track of an enormous sum of money that was supposed to go to, like, mental health.
01:39:03.000Bill de Blasio's wife can't account for a staggering amount of taxpayer money that the New York mayor gave her for a mental health project.
01:39:11.000She was assigned an $850 million budget for a Thrive New York City program.
01:39:16.000But records show Scheme has failed to keep track of what it spent the money on.
01:39:21.000A small amount of data that was collected shows it fell far short of targets.
01:39:25.000Despite that, organizers have expanded the budget to $1 billion over five years.
01:39:31.000That is what happens when terrible politicians control enormous sums of wealth with impunity in one of the greatest cities the world's ever known.
01:39:50.000A minimum of nearly $100 billion has been stolen from government COVID-19 relief programs set up to help businesses and people who lost their jobs due to the pandemic, according to the U.S. Secret Service.
01:40:01.000Isn't the Secret Service supposed to be protecting the president?
01:40:03.000Why are they looking for the money that they gave for COVID-19?
01:40:09.000Okay, Small Business Administration, Roy Dodson, Agency's National Pandemic Fraud Recovery Coordinator, in an interview.
01:40:16.000The Secret Service didn't include COVID-19 fraud cases prosecuted by the Justice Department, where roughly 3% of the $3.4 trillion in COVID-19 relief dispersed by the government, the amount stolen from the pandemic benefits shows the sheer size of the pot is enticing to the criminals,
01:41:14.000Well, they're ramping it up in the light of the most mild variant ever.
01:41:19.000Literally, one person has died in the United States, and now they've taken that back, and they're not saying he died from COVID. The guy had a series of serious health problems, and he also tested positive for COVID, the Omicron variant, when he died.
01:41:33.000But the Omicron variant, according to most people's assessment, is basically a cold.
01:41:51.000Like, I think people are just kind of tired and it's become confusing to people on a level that is...
01:42:00.000Far and away like you know when this started people were like well We've got this thing we're gonna do we have to do Hopefully there'll be a treatment some time a vaccine whatever it would be now There's 20 vaccines half of them work.
01:42:13.000There's 10 treatments Some of them are good some of them aren't if you bring them up people will accuse you of you know being a colluding with whatever like you know The masks work and they don't work.
01:42:28.000If this was a shitty movie, I'd be really tempted to fast forward to about five minutes before the end where you see the Chinese soldiers in hazmat suits with gray skies carrying machine guns moving across Chicago.
01:42:56.000And that's the idea about these vaccines, excuse me, these viruses rather, that as they, most viruses, it's not a universal truth, but most viruses, as they mutate, they become less virulent and more contagious.
01:44:24.000I think the NFT technology is great, and I think that a lot of it's going to really be 100% the way digital art, digital real estate and stuff, but...
01:49:56.000And now if RoganCoin works out, well then maybe a lot of the comedians in your orbit start going, well that's a very effective way to do it, and they all use your cryptocurrency.
01:50:04.000And then you have a feudal cryptocurrency empire, and you own all this digital real estate, and then you start selling NFTs of things in the studio, and you amass all of this money.
01:51:16.000Because the studio system, traditional Hollywood, all that stuff sucks right now.
01:51:21.000And, you know, this is the way things are going to get made right now.
01:51:25.000Artists and creators that are not paying attention to this stuff, we can joke around about it, make fun of it, because a lot of it's crazy.
01:51:35.000That being said, blockchain technology is not going away, and I think it will eventually revolutionize how people can make things, fund things.
01:51:45.000All of the changes that allow people to crowdsource or crowdfund their own projects, I think...
01:51:54.000With crypto, it becomes even more powerful and transformative.
01:52:00.000So with crypto, when you say you're going to fund a move with crypto, do you have specific coins in mind?
01:52:05.000Are you going to create a coin to fund this?
01:53:11.000Because the incompetence of the Federal Reserve and the government, the way they're handling money, and the fact that they have access and control.
01:53:20.000A decentralized financial instrument like Bitcoin was inevitable.
01:53:25.000And Ethereum has even less problems than Bitcoin does, like it's also- Why is that?
01:53:34.000I think that Ethereum's, and Jamie can pull this up, but the thing about, and I don't understand too much about it, but there seems to be less problems with the actual blockchain technology with Ethereum than Bitcoin.
01:55:35.000I think you're a big brain concept guy, and what you need to do is just kind of stop losing yourself in the deets, sit back and go, everyone's having a lot of fun, and people are smiling.
01:55:47.000If I lost all of my money in Bitcoin, that would be a real issue.
01:56:46.000But now, because obviously a lot of art is digital and crypto is moving, the NFTs are on the Ethereum blockchain, it's become a huge crypto event, too.
01:56:55.000I don't want to name any names, but I've gotten emails from the shadiest people I know, wanting me to get involved in crypto.
01:59:25.000What's happening in that, Joe, just like for something you might understand, which sort of showed right there, that very beginning part, what can happen in the sandbox is like Roblox.
01:59:35.000So you can develop a game in your space and people can come play it and then they can give you money to play it.
02:01:53.000You would, but it wouldn't be going to, you know, wide open for everybody, because it's the only people that are accessing it, and then they're paying to access your thing, so it's paying for itself.
02:03:29.000The average user will be like, you can get in free Facebook, we'll call it, it'd be like Pong, but there will be the Quake version that you would want to get into for 10, 15 bucks a month.
02:03:38.000The Sandbox metaverse, is that the same company as Sandbox, the digital, the virtual reality company that I go to?
02:06:31.000But essentially, this kid wakes up in our room, all screens, and he spends his day riding a bicycle on treadmills earning money so they can do stuff in this fake world that they live in.
02:06:43.000And right now there's a push in games, a new level of games calling play to earn games, which you're going to be making money, most likely a cryptocurrency that you can then spend on...
02:07:24.000What made you realize that this is the future?
02:07:27.000I think it's slowly, but I just believe, for example, I dismiss gaming as this adolescent thing, but it's truly not.
02:07:33.000Especially if you look at the movies and TV that we're making right now, the vast majority of it isn't checking the boxes that people want it to.
02:07:40.000And then you have these games Where these crazy like interactive games, these thriving communities that are built that are much more substantive than I have imagined and they have drama and they have excitement and they have all these things, these story arcs and everything that are much more complex than I had initially imagined.
02:07:56.000I was overly dismissive of those online communities.
02:07:59.000I think in the same way that a lot of people are overly dismissive of what's going on right now.
02:08:59.000But all of this stuff eventually, hopefully, increases the amount of freedom people have that everything isn't centralized, mainframe, like a controlled, top-down paramilitary thing.
02:09:17.000But if not, LOL. If not, then it's going to be controlled by the Bitcoin people.
02:09:22.000But something's got to be done to stop what's happening now, the trend of online censorship that's controlled by these massive tech companies.
02:09:30.000And if something could disrupt that, if that could be done through blockchain, if that could be done through the metaverse, then I'm in.
02:09:37.000Well, listen, I should be the first person that thinks outside the box, because if it wasn't for outside the box, I wouldn't have the number one podcast in the world, right?
02:09:58.000I'm surprised that you're not all over this stuff already, because you've always been the guy that's ahead of things by leaps and bounds.
02:10:06.000It's because there's too many shady people that are offering it up to me.
02:10:08.000Well, in the beginning of everything, there's a lot of shady people, but that, you know, things shake out, and those people, you know...
02:10:15.000In the beginning of any Wild West environment where you don't have a ton of regulation and things aren't well established is going to attract a certain type of person.
02:15:57.000Well, once Brett Weinstein got kicked out of that room, and they kicked everybody out of that room that started, and they started calling everybody racist, I was like, whoa.
02:19:30.000He's one of my favorite advice guys ever because it's so clear and succinct.
02:19:35.000So him telling me about Clubhouse, I'm like, do you have a podcast?
02:19:38.000Because if you don't have a podcast, you should get one.
02:19:39.000And then if you had one, I think you'd look at Clubhouse and go, what the fuck is this?
02:19:43.000I was caught up, I think, in a pandemic frenzy, an insane thing where you were like, oh, this is fun and cool, but then it ended.
02:19:55.000Well, when you and I were on that one time, and then the head guy from Clubhouse jumped on it with us, and then I was like, what's to stop people from uploading this?
02:20:25.000But now everybody wants to, you know, everybody wants to shine a light on something.
02:20:35.000So if they hear that you at a conversation clubhouse, they're like, and it gives them value as a human being to be the person that uploaded that.
02:20:44.000They want to make a little money, you know, there's equity in it.
02:31:52.000Then you only get—that's the joke of the thing.
02:31:55.000There's like five chances to do it or three chances to do it or ten or whatever it is.
02:31:58.000And what if a password or what if a hard drive burns in a fire?
02:32:03.000Then the money's gone forever, like money burning in a fire.
02:32:07.000Depending on what you did, there might be a way to access it as long as you still have the password because it's on the chain, not on the hard drive.
02:32:24.000You know, when you tell someone to start working out, they don't go, what am I? Yeah, but you can hire a trainer and you can get to working out tomorrow.
02:32:31.000And I have the trainers, crypto trainers in Miami for you.
02:33:38.000Well, anyone who's got a public profile that's in charge of the vaccines and public health and may have started up gain-of-function research and led to this whole pandemic in the first place.
02:33:51.000His significance will be hotly debated.
02:33:53.000Like in terms of like how how good or bad he was people debate that there'll be the people that look at him like Jesus and You know there'll be the people that say he's the devil Yeah, but I'm saying like how does it end?
02:34:44.000Amazon charts number one this week, the real Anthony Fauci.
02:34:48.000It's got 3,610 ratings on Amazon with five stars.
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02:35:02.000So if this is the number one in America, what is the New York Times bestseller list?
02:35:11.000Number one on Amazon and a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and publishes weekly national bestsellers.
02:37:40.000Before the pandemic, you was thought of as an anti-vaxxer, back when anti-vaxxer still carried a negative connotation, but it didn't seem like you were destroying society.
02:38:37.000Well, that's why you need, I think, alternatives to these things.
02:38:41.000And I think alternatives to these things will be more online, like crypto-funded things that people can manage with a bunch of people as opposed to with a very small,
02:40:34.000This place be run by a consortium of criminals that are at least smart enough to be on the new wave of crime than I would these morons in Congress.
02:40:47.000Well, I think they're all criminals anyway.
02:40:49.000The laws haven't been adjusted accordingly to make what they do illegal.
02:40:53.000But as far as the future, I mean, it's like, I don't think you can spend an inordinate amount of time obsessing about things you can't control, right?
02:41:35.000You can still, as the great Donald J. Trump said, he was quoted as saying, you can worry about anything and then an earthquake kills 500 people in India.
02:42:32.000If you tell yourself it doesn't matter, like you do shows, you do this, you do that, and then you have an earthquake in India where 400,000 people get killed.
02:42:40.000Trump told Larry King in that interview, honestly, it doesn't matter.
02:42:44.000I mean, he's kind of a, you know, he has a point.
02:42:47.000There are more times Trump said it doesn't matter when it involves things that very much do matter to the American people.
02:43:05.000It says in June, as the US trade negotiations with China remained stalled, Trump appeared uninterested in meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Japan.
02:43:17.000Trump said it doesn't matter whether Xi attended the G20. If he shows up, good, Trump said on the show.
02:43:23.000If he doesn't, in the meantime, we're taking in billions of dollars a month.
02:43:29.000Eventually, they're going to make a deal because they're going to have to, he continued.
02:43:33.000Look, they're paying hundreds of billions of dollars.
02:44:28.000And if people can do that with money, with influence, whatever they do, you've got to check people.
02:44:36.000You've got to check people at the top.
02:44:39.000And the only way seemingly to do that is to develop your own means of exchange, to develop your own means of...
02:44:52.000Getting your message out or being able to connect with like-minded people outside of the You know monopolized forms of social media So all those things will evolve and you know how they evolved they seem somewhat essential and that that that's gonna be a way to you know Kind of key and then I guess run for something if you really care,
02:45:15.000So but that I mean who the fuck or find someone who's really good and Find someone who's really good for 10 months and then they become the criminals.
02:46:01.000The problem is people have taken control of these technological solutions for communication, like Twitter or Facebook, and then they've compromised them and made them lean into their ideology.
02:46:12.000And that's human nature and that'll probably always happen.
02:46:14.000That's why you gotta keep coming up with new things.
02:46:17.000You gotta keep evolving and keep figuring out new ways to do those things.
02:46:24.000I'm reluctant to agree, but I think you're right.
02:46:28.000All this metaverse, NFT, crypto shit, I think you're probably right about that too.
02:46:34.000I don't know exactly how to approach it.
02:46:36.000It seems like it's going to require an enormous amount of time that I don't have to even think about it.
02:46:43.000Why do I have the inclination to continue it after this conversation?
02:46:46.000After this conversation is over, we're going to go to the green room, I'm going to have a bag of chips, and I'm going to go, what the fuck?