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00:01:09.000Yeah, and it's not just comics, it's people.
00:01:11.000I mean, this place is growing and growing and growing.
00:01:13.000Every time I come here, it's like watching somebody who started working out and you haven't seen them in a while, and you're like, wow, man, you're looking good!
00:01:30.000We actually talked about that yesterday with Michael Schellenberger, a guy who's running for governor of California.
00:01:35.000And the mayor, Steven Adler of Austin, he had a plan and he fucking pulled it off.
00:01:42.000He was like, if I can fix this homeless problem, if I can't fix this homeless problem by the time I leave office, he goes, it'll be a big failure.
00:03:52.000Their case would be approved for the Unmet Needs Table.
00:03:54.000And it was a bunch of charities that came together and they would sit.
00:03:56.000It would be like Catholic Charities, Lutheran Social Service, and you know, a bunch of charities, and they would dole out money and assistance to people who were affected.
00:04:04.000There was a lot of people, particularly first responders, that were deeply affected by 9-11 because of all the chemicals and the residue and the shit that was in the air because of the explosions and the collapsing of the buildings.
00:05:02.000I met him in this little, like, cubby, you know, Meeting room and he started crying to me.
00:05:10.000You know, he was off that day and the survivor guilt and like he lost all his friends and I was just sitting there as a kid going like, all right, man, you need a coffee or something?
00:06:02.000Or you would become numb if you did it too often.
00:06:05.000And that's the dilemma the police officers face, right?
00:06:09.000I mean, if you're dealing with domestic violence case after domestic violence case after homicide, after murder-suicide, you know, over and over and over again, you're fucking seeing this shit every day, all day.
00:06:22.000Like, how do you not take some of it home with you?
00:07:43.000I wish I could speak German to really understand the impact of his words, to get it from the actual language itself.
00:07:51.000Because if a guy was up there crushing like that in English, it would be very disturbing.
00:07:55.000Especially if you knew that this guy was a totalitarian dictator who was going to lead his people to a fucking disastrous war, a war based around race and creating a master race.
00:08:06.000I mean, that's a fucking crazy, dystopian, terrifying thing that happened 80 years ago.
00:09:22.000But when you think about the stuff that our government is doing, I mean, how about, you know, don't get Dave Smith started about the war in Yemen.
00:09:29.000You'll find out deep details about the illegal war in Yemen and the bombings and just how many people we fucking kill with drones.
00:09:35.000There was a chart that showed, and this is not, you know, an anti-American statement, but it's just like there's a thing about military.
00:09:42.000There's a thing about war and strategy.
00:09:45.000And this whole NATO thing mixed with Putin.
00:09:49.000You know, the thing that they were worried about is the literal thing that he's doing.
00:09:52.000He's invading Ukraine and blowing up fucking apartment buildings and shooting missiles into cities and taking over cities.
00:10:02.000It's like they were worried about him expanding his range of power, and so they wanted to, you know, there's talk about them wanting to join NATO and wanting to join the EU, and people are like, well, that's provoking them, but isn't this like what they were worried about?
00:10:22.000He's doing exactly what we're fucking terrified of a guy like him doing.
00:10:27.000Yeah, he knows we're not gonna invade because of the mutually assured destruction and also nobody ever invades Russia and gets out alive.
00:10:33.000Dude, I used to think it was mutually assured destruction until I talked to Mike Baker, who's a former CIA operative, and I use the word former in quotes.
00:10:43.000He told me that they have hypersonic weapons now.
00:10:47.000And he goes, this whole idea of mutually assured destruction was based on the concept that if we got word that Russia had launched its missiles, we would also launch our missiles.
00:10:55.000We had like 20 minutes to do so, and then everybody would get blown up.
00:10:59.000He goes, now these hypersonic missiles, not only do they move faster than the speed of sound, but you can't detect where they're going because they can change course in midair.
00:11:07.000So you're shooting it towards Chicago and it just hooks a left turn and lands in New York City You have no idea where it's going or how to prepare it and it's moving fast in the speed of sound so all that shit that I mean, I don't know if the Iron Dome that the Israelis have,
00:11:23.000I don't think that's capable of stopping hypersonic weapons, is it?
00:15:51.000So these guys just stand on the side of the road and hide behind buildings and launch fucking missiles and rockets at these armored carriers and blow these things up left and right.
00:16:06.000That's why it's like the people of the world should demand like, alright, You want Donbass and whatever the other region is and Crimea, no civilians, no more soldiers fighting, no more kids dying.
00:17:53.000He basically did it on foot, hitching rides, paying people to take him across the desert, and then they would get in rafts and go from Morocco to Europe.
00:18:04.000Seven times he got arrested and every time they would arrest you they would drop you off in the desert hoping you would die so they take you deep into the desert drop you off and he made it back to the fucking border every single time and the way he detailed it on my podcast it was like this Harrowing long story that you can't believe is real,
00:18:37.000It's one of the reasons why he's so fucking strong.
00:18:39.000I mean, obviously, he's 6'5 or 6'6, incredible genetics, but on top of that, as a child, worked in a fucking sand mine, just digging sand as a small boy, just strengthening.
00:19:12.000No one in the world in an MMA fight, you know, they're talking about him fighting Tyson Fury in a boxing match, which I fully support, just because I want him to make a lot of money, but in an MMA fight, he would murder Tyson Fury.
00:21:14.000If I was fighting in Ghanu, if I was training someone to fight in Ghanu, The first thing I would do is be like, don't read anything about him.
00:22:28.000He's like in a movie, or in a video game, rather, when you get to the final boss, and you've got to do everything you can to beat that guy.
00:23:28.000And then he meets Customato, who had invented a specific style called the peekaboo style, which was criticized by a lot of people.
00:23:36.000They didn't think it was a good style, where you keep your hands up like this, and you're moving like that, and a lot of bobbing and weaving, which was the perfect style for his body type.
00:23:44.000And Customato literally had mastered that style, and it was basically his invention.
00:23:52.000Was Tyson, like, the one guy who really took that style to a championship?
00:24:16.000I mean, it was the perfect combination of a guy who's not just a man who knows so much about boxing, who had been around forever, but he was also a psychologist who was a hypnotist.
00:24:27.000So he was a master of psychological preparation, and he would hypnotize Tyson when he was young, and he would tell him, you don't exist.
00:26:31.000And throughout history, human beings have had tribal leaders.
00:26:34.000You've had a leader of the tribe that was usually the oldest warrior, the strongest warrior, who had experienced the most, and he would lead the young that were coming up, and they would defend their tribe against invaders.
00:26:48.000Do you think what's maybe going wrong in America with freedom is that because of advertising, because of marketing and how it controls America and how much they market to the youth because that's the coveted demographic, That we've sort of empowered the youth and now even boomers are pejorative.
00:27:08.000People use your age when you're older as like a pejorative.
00:27:12.000Like, you're old, but isn't it like, dude, yeah, I'm old.
00:27:57.000Like, they have to respect the young people, too.
00:27:58.000And that's the thing that sometimes people, when they get older, they automatically want respect from young people just because they've lived longer, which is stupid.
00:28:42.000When you get food delivered to your house, you don't even have to look the guy in the eye.
00:28:46.000You just crack the door open and pull your food in like a prisoner in solitary confinement.
00:28:50.000So there's older folks That deserve deep respect.
00:28:55.000Like there's the Cornel Wests of the world that deserve deep respect.
00:28:59.000They've experienced so much and they're so wise and they're older.
00:29:03.000And then there's old people that are just morons.
00:29:07.000They're just morons that because of all these incredible...
00:29:13.000Inventions and the advances of society and medicine and the availability of food, they've managed to make it to 75. But they're a fucking dummy.
00:29:23.000They're a dumb 23-year-old that just kept living.
00:29:40.000I have a theory too, I don't know, it's a little different though, that nobody, you can't really tell who a person really is until they're old because that's when they show their true colors because it's easy to be nice and everything when you're young, hot, fuckable, able-bodied, you know, but like when you get older and you lose all that,
00:29:57.000if you're still cool, Then you were really cool.
00:30:00.000Because a lot of people turn into bitter dicks when they can't do all the things that they used to do.
00:30:07.000I've spent a lot of time in nursing homes with my parents and a lot of those people are dicks.
00:30:12.000And they were probably really cool when they were able-bodied and fuckable.
00:31:13.000Instead of frogs, it's just dicks raining on the deck.
00:31:16.000I mean, if you're one of those gals that has like, you know, there's a bunch of those gals that have like millions of Instagram followers and they're just hot as the sun and just doing squats all day and deadlifts and great music and looking ahead all determined with their headphones on and just,
00:31:32.000they absorb themselves in their phone all day long.
00:31:35.000It's like checking out how many people are paying attention to them, checking out how many likes they're getting, how many messages they're getting.
00:31:41.000When you go from that To 40 years later when you're 65, 40 years happens quick.
00:32:20.000Holding her grandkid, but she'll have, the ass will be propped up, she'll be walking like a regal 20-year-old, and the energy, like, I want to fuck her.
00:33:29.000Do you think food, because it becomes such a burden on the healthcare system and because You know, heart attacks and cardiac problems are such a big cause of death.
00:33:40.000Do you think there should be like some sort of system where you have to earn to order the right food?
00:33:45.000Like you go to get a burger and they punch up your name and they go, it's illegal for you.
00:34:17.000You could go to buy something, and it'll say, no, your social credit is too low for you to be able to purchase this, whatever you want to watch.
00:34:24.000You won't be able to do it, because you fucked up, or you talk badly about the government on Twitter.
00:34:29.000Like, that is a real thing, and that's a real concern.
00:34:32.000If you tied that to food, and tied that to, oh, you can't buy that cheeseburger.
00:34:41.000And your freedom is also the freedom to become a fat fuck.
00:34:43.000And if you have a burden on the healthcare system, I think it's on the government to try to educate people about the benefits of being healthy and not becoming a fat fuck and being alive to hang out with your grandchildren and hang out with your wife in your golden years.
00:34:59.000The burden should be on education, not on punitive punishments like you can't have a fucking cheeseburger.
00:37:32.000It's like that's wise because text messages are very impersonal.
00:37:35.000It's funny that I can just picture him actually answering the phone for like credit, like when you get, because there's a lot of spam calls now when you give your number at like Banana Republic to get 10% off.
00:38:13.000Things get so free, people get stupid and lazy, and then the representatives become an actual, accurate reflection of the people.
00:38:21.000And then you start to think of people like Plato and the Republic, and you start to go, maybe we need a wise guy, somebody who's tested from when he's young.
00:38:29.000You know, his piety is sort of investigated and somebody like that to lead us as opposed to someone who's elected because the way people are elected like you know because Benjamin Franklin once said why one of my favorite quotes from history is like they asked him why he never ran for president he said just wanting the job would be suspect enough you know it's sort of like it's a moral flaw to be ambitious if because power corrupts and so is there something to like a reluctant leader that We should have,
00:38:58.000Yeah, I think that's really the only type of person that would be really great at the job, was someone who did it reluctantly out of a feeling of service.
00:39:07.000Like, they wanted to correct something that was wrong.
00:39:10.000That's what the knuckleheads thought Trump was doing.
00:39:12.000Like, that's why all that drain the swamp rhetoric worked, because people were like, yeah, he's gonna go in and clean it up.
00:39:18.000All those people that have a rudimentary understanding of how politics works and how our system works and a representative democracy works.
00:39:25.000They all thought that he was going to be the outsider that came in and cleaned everything up.
00:39:30.000And to a certain extent, they were right.
00:39:32.000I mean, it showed that a person can do that who is not a career politician and actually win if they have enough resources and enough charisma.
00:39:40.000Enough of a lot of things a lot of pieces have to be in play a lot of people have to be fed up with the system That's currently in place and just disgusted with the lack of choices and the same Standard sort of politicians over and over again running into office, but he opened the door for someone who's maybe Of that cloth,
00:39:58.000but not a narcissist and not a crazy egomaniac.
00:40:05.000But that's also one of the reasons why he was successful because they would say all these horrible things about him and he would just fucking just brush it off.
00:43:47.000Yeah, there's a lot of checks and balances in place, but it's still, it's a popularity contest, and every four years, a person is new on the job, and they have the hardest job in the world, and they just started.
00:44:00.000Well, this is the thing that, I mean, I can't imagine that it wasn't a factor that Biden is so incompetent That it led Putin to be more bold in his approach with Ukraine.
00:44:15.000I can't imagine that the Afghanistan pullout, which was so disastrous and so poorly planned, and it looked so terrible on the world stage, I can't imagine that that didn't have an effect.
00:44:28.000Well, there's one thing it does show and that it does throw a wrench in the whole Trump was a Russian asset thing.
00:44:45.000So that theory is kind of thrown out the window.
00:44:48.000Well, that theory has been disproven by facts.
00:44:51.000If you look at how that whole propaganda stream was trumped up, no pun intended, that was designed by propagandists.
00:45:03.000They were trying to promote a fake narrative that he was in cahoots with the Russians, that he was a Russian agent.
00:45:07.000I mean, you heard that from all these idiots on TV. Over and over and over again.
00:45:12.000And now that it's been proven to not be true, not only was it proven to not be true, but it was proven that the Hillary Clinton campaign was involved with that.
00:45:18.000And that they had even hacked into the Trump servers.
00:45:22.000They had hired people to hack into the servers.
00:45:24.000And they were trying to push this narrative that he was in cahoots with Russia.
00:45:31.000All these people that you deal with Russia, you deal with China, there's a deal here and a deal there, and there's money being passed around.
00:45:39.000It's like, everyone's compromised at a certain point.
00:45:42.000And I don't think you get to that position of power without being in some way compromised by your relationships.
00:45:48.000Yeah, I mean, the whole Pete on the hooker thing was...
00:48:54.000But what I'm trying to say, what the president means is like, when they have those speeches, it's not about truth.
00:49:01.000That's the most frustrating thing about that.
00:49:03.000Like when Peter Doocy from Fox says, well, the president said this, and this is like, Well, I think you know, the president means this, and it's good for the world, and it's just bullshit.
00:49:12.000And all they're trying to do is just make it sound good.
00:53:33.000And yeah, when you're that revered, it's hard to get the truth.
00:53:39.000Everyone's scared to tell you that's the problem with being king, right?
00:53:42.000Everyone's like, yeah, whatever you say is true, boss.
00:53:44.000Yeah, if you don't self-audit, if you don't look at your own bullshit, you have no way of knowing if you're that insulated from the rest of the world.
00:57:12.000But it's like the difference between a legitimate black belt of 2022 and a legitimate black belt of 1971 is very different too.
00:57:22.000The level of martial arts is much, much higher now.
00:57:27.000But at the time, like, Ed Parker was the Don, and Elvis trained under Ed Parker.
00:57:34.000And there's, like, these demonstrations where, like, three or four guys were, like, pressing on Elvis' neck, and he, like, walks towards them, and they all fall down to the ground, and it's crazy.
00:57:43.000And he's sweaty because he's pilled up.
00:57:45.000He's like, man, that was amazing, right?
01:00:01.000And he's fighting against these giant dudes, like huge wrestlers and huge sumo guys and all these fucking karate guys, and he fucked everybody up.
01:00:10.000And he preferred if you were on top of him in an advantageous position.
01:08:01.000I can't believe sometimes when I look at like a chihuahua or whatever, I imagine that that thing shares Like, what is it, 98 or 99% of the same DNA as a wolf, that a wolf and that thing could fuck and make a dog is wild.
01:08:14.000Well, if you look at a male feminist and realize their ancestors were probably Vikings.
01:09:01.000He was talking about taints being smaller.
01:09:03.000This is a woman named Dr. Shanna Swan, and what they found is that phthalates, which are a particular residue from plastics, it's a chemical that comes from all the petrochemical products that we use, plastics and things you microwave in and things you keep water in,
01:09:22.000And these phthalates, when applied to mammals, they've done these studies where they show that there's a direct correlation between Phthalates in their bloodstream and babies being born with smaller taints.
01:10:15.000And it all has to do with plastic, which is a part of the modern world.
01:10:20.000So just like the modern world of throwing meat to these wolves and getting them closer to the campfire led to the domestication of the wolf, which led to them slowly getting turned into collies.
01:10:33.000We are literally not just because of our environment and our society and the cushy nature of our existence in 2022, but also the introduction of petrochemical products is a direct correlation.
01:10:44.000And this woman, Dr. Shanna Swanch, has this book called Countdown.
01:11:06.000And it's also plastics and also different pesticides and different farming chemicals.
01:11:16.000Scientists tested the blood of 22 anonymous donors and found microplastics in 80% of them.
01:11:21.000This is wild shit man because it's literally changing the hormonal profile and the reproductive systems of human beings and making us weaker.
01:12:24.000Well, this is the awareness of microplastics and their impact of the environment is increasing.
01:12:28.000This study has helped provide an accurate calculation of ingestion rates for the first time.
01:12:33.000So pull up that woman's book, Dr. Shanna Swan.
01:12:36.000I recommend everybody, if you don't want to buy her book or get her audio book, please at least listen to her on the podcast because it's fucking wild.
01:12:44.000Because when she details the impact, the direct correlation between the invention of these petrochemical products and where we're at right now in terms of like sperm rates, taint sizes, testicle sizes, penis sizes, and with women,
01:13:00.000it's miscarriage rates and rates of fertility.
01:13:03.000Everything is getting affected by these plastics.
01:13:06.000To the point where she's like, you shouldn't use any of that stuff.
01:13:09.000Don't drink out of plastic bottles, all that.
01:13:21.000Well, it seems like capitalism pushes something forward because it's cheap and efficient, and it serves the bottom line, and then we find out about the consequences later.
01:13:29.000The consequences are often inconvenient to the bottom line.
01:13:34.000They try to suppress it for as long as possible.
01:13:37.000Is there a way even to live without plastic in this age, without completely revamping the entire society?
01:13:43.000That would probably take a hundred years.
01:13:45.000Don't they do, like, recyclable plastic?
01:13:48.000They know how to make plastic out of potatoes and things like that now.
01:13:52.000I don't know if it's specifically potatoes, but sometimes you'll see, like, this plastic was made from something.
01:15:30.000By 2050, another 26.5 trillion pounds will be produced worldwide.
01:15:35.000Plastic flowing in the world's oceans, rivers, and lakes will increase from 11 million metric tons in 2016 to 29 million metric tons Annually, in 2040, the equivalent of dumping 70 pounds of plastic waste along every foot of the world's coastline,
01:15:52.000according to the research from the Pew Charitable Trusts.
01:15:56.000You can eat or breathe in about 2,000 tiny plastic particles each week.
01:16:57.000It's not good, but that's I mean if you look at all the shit that's going on today We're like we need to save the taints movement to get this awareness.
01:17:06.000I would like to look at Russian taints They're probably very long.
01:17:10.000So the more masculine you are, the bigger your taint, essentially.
01:17:12.000I don't know if that's the case, but it's a direct relationship to the exposure of phthalates that it gets smaller.
01:17:17.000I don't know if like you have a long, super long taint, it's like more masculine.
01:17:21.000But on average, male mammals have a 50% to 100% larger taint than the female mammals.
01:17:28.000Is there a correlation between dick size and masculinity?
01:17:46.000And the ancient Greeks, that doesn't say much about what they were doing.
01:17:49.000Well, you know, you look at like the ancient Roman statues, they would make tiny dicks small on purpose because they felt like big dicks were like crude.
01:18:24.000I saw this article about how some movie, what was it, the one with Sharon Stone, what was it, Basic Instinct, and it was an article now about how it was problematic back then, and you could just see the ratio in the comments.
01:18:38.000People going like, shut the fuck up, like...
01:18:42.000Maybe there's just too many of you guys at this point.
01:18:48.000It's the journalists that also consider themselves activists, like they're shaping culture and society with their writing and musings, and that they're trying to push a narrative.
01:18:57.000And that, you know, ultra-progressive, woke narrative.
01:22:20.000It was violence that happened on TV. It was violent.
01:22:24.000I think comedians should stop hosting the Oscars so they just tank.
01:22:28.000Because it's the only redeemable quality about that circle jerk.
01:22:32.000The only reason why anyone tunes in is to hear Ricky Gervais or whatever just, you know, bring it down to earth and have some fun with it because otherwise we're just sitting there watching the most boring, fake award show where studios pay for those awards.
01:23:18.000I think stand-up comedy and maybe even more so memes on the internet is the last bastion of comedy in this crazy era.
01:23:28.000Because memes, one of the beautiful things about memes is they're not credited.
01:23:31.000So you have no idea who made this hilarious meme and they just sent it out there and it's out there in the world.
01:23:37.000Yeah, that's how you know you're living at a crazy time.
01:23:39.000Like Mark Twain was not his real name, it was a pen name.
01:23:43.000A lot of people back then had pen names because they were saying things that were sort of not accepted at the time and they didn't want the backlash.
01:23:51.000And that was a time when there was slavery, which is as backwards as you can get.
01:23:54.000We're getting into a backwards time now.
01:23:56.000If you want to say something true or make a real joke, you're going to have to hide behind some sort of anonymity.
01:24:12.000The Chappelle thing with his last special was the best example of it, in my opinion, because you saw the difference between the way critics rated his performance.
01:24:21.000So when they had the critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes, it was like, everybody hated it.
01:24:26.000It was like 3% on Rotten Tomatoes, and then the public rated it, and it was like 98%.
01:24:32.000So I was like, okay, well obviously there's some sort of a divide.
01:24:36.000There's a huge disconnect happening here.
01:24:38.000Yeah, because the people that watched it loved it.
01:24:41.000And the people that rated it, because they rated it for these publications that are essentially run by activists, they decided it didn't fit the narrative and they hated it and they said it was problematic.
01:25:32.000What it is now is assault on women's sports.
01:25:34.000And the idea that anybody would think it's fair that someone who is number 462 as a man, 462 in the nation, is number one as a woman a year later.
01:26:28.000The ancient Greeks, you say there's no rule without an exception, but you can't define what it is based on the exceptions.
01:26:35.000Well, it's interesting because in all other aspects of society, it's pretty much a given that, you know, a person can become trans and change their name, and we're all pretty accepting of it.
01:26:47.000Where people have the most pushback is in sports.
01:27:00.000There's a reason why we have a distinction between men and women's sports.
01:27:03.000And it's ironic because the people on that side usually always champion equality and Nobody having an advantage, and the people who are maybe disenfranchised or less capable should have an equal opportunity,
01:27:20.000and by throwing someone like Leah Thomas in there, you're kind of...
01:27:28.000I think it's also probably terrible for the whole trans movement because it makes people more cynical about what the positive aspects of it are and it makes people more, you know, less likely to accept it because they think of,
01:27:45.000now they think of trans people and trans rights and they connect it to this athletic thing.
01:27:58.000I mean, it's just such an obvious thing.
01:28:03.000The advantage that anyone who's born biologically male, especially someone who transitions after puberty, I mean, it's so obvious.
01:28:11.000Otherwise, you would see a bunch of trans men, you know, women transitioning into men competing on a Division I level or in the NBA or NFL, which you'll never see.
01:28:22.000And we all know why you'll never see that.
01:28:24.000It's because men are bigger and stronger.
01:28:26.000So why does that rule apply to To trans men and not to trans women.
01:29:29.000But the TRT problem was that guys were taking enormous amounts of it and they were fucking men up.
01:29:36.000There's a direct correlation between the amount of testosterone you have, physical performance, your ability to recover quicker, and also aggression and confidence.
01:29:44.000These guys were getting juiced to the tits and go out there and fuck people up.
01:29:48.000And so then they came along and they regulated it and they said no more testosterone replacement.
01:29:52.000And so then you saw these guys' physiques melt.
01:32:48.000Just taking trans people out of the equation, just athletics.
01:32:50.000How would you regulate everyone's levels?
01:32:52.000What would you make it legal or legal?
01:32:55.000I think that the real problem is going to come along when gene therapy gets introduced to athletes, and it's probably already been introduced on a foreign level.
01:33:02.000In other countries where it's not regulated the way we regulate things here, I guarantee you they're experimenting with gene therapy on a variety of athletes.
01:33:13.000And when they start doing that, and there's things that they are capable of doing, like there's some examples like...
01:33:23.000There's gene editing that would make you have...
01:33:27.000There's a thing called myostatin inhibitors.
01:33:29.000And myostatin is what regulates the muscle size of the body.
01:33:33.000And once they introduce myostatin inhibitors into the genetics of athletes, you're going to get supercharged athletes who are built like the Hulk.
01:33:42.000Have you ever seen those cows that have a gene error and it's a myostatin inhibitor that's in their genetics and they have enormous muscles?
01:33:51.000Because their muscles don't get the signal to stop growing at a specific point.
01:34:39.000But this is a thing they think they're going to be able to do with humans, and there have been some humans that were born with this very rare genetic disorder.
01:34:47.000Okay, the most obvious departure from normal in the phenotype of a double-muscled animal is the enlargement of the muscle, particularly in the rump or shoulder areas.
01:34:55.000Okay, myostatin is a gene mutation that results in unregulated muscle growth or double-muscling most commonly seen in beef breeds such as British Blue and Limousine.
01:35:08.000There are nine variants of the mutation that occur in differing levels of different breeds.
01:35:16.000But they have observed it in certain humans, like certain humans where we're born.
01:35:21.000Increased susceptibility to respiratory disease, probably due to increased demands on aerobic metabolic activity, increased meat tenderness and yield.
01:35:30.000These mutations do not operate in isolation, but interact with other genes in ways that are, as yet, poorly understood.
01:35:36.000It is often the case that one copy of the variant, while increasing muscle mass, may not bring with it any of the negative side effects mentioned above.
01:35:46.000If they can introduce that into a large population of wrestlers, I mean, whatever country has that would dominate wrestling.
01:35:56.000If they had great technique and elite athletes, like great genetics, and then they introduced this, and they just had unregulated muscle growth, so they were far stronger than anyone else, far more athletic, far more explosive, literally the Hulk.
01:36:12.000They would be built like the Hulk and the Avengers.
01:36:14.000And then maybe AI may play a role in the future too, right?
01:36:19.000I mean, imagine if the Neuralink goes in your brain and then you can telepathically know what the Defender is and then you've got to turn off your Neuralink and you go, ah, that guy was secretly using his Neuralink or whatever.
01:36:34.000Or you could also maybe download every wrestling move that was ever invented.
01:36:40.000And instead of training and, you know, doing it for years and years and breaking it down, you know, so that it's a part of your instincts, you could get it so that it's literally dialed into your neurosystem from a download.
01:37:27.000Because you're not going to stop people from doing this in other countries.
01:37:31.000And if we want to compete with them, if there's an athletic proving ground like the Olympics where countries are going to send their best and their brightest to compete against other countries to show...
01:37:41.000National superiority, you're going to have people using these genetic editing tools and then everything else that gets invented that shows peak performance and shows that you can accelerate people past what the physical limitations of the normal human body are.
01:37:57.000Could probably even be an advantage in comedy.
01:39:03.000They'll be able to do everything well, but they won't have that little magic that comes from our vulnerability and our insecurities that makes great art.
01:39:10.000The thing about people like us, we grew up without the internet.
01:40:24.000Do you remember when you would, I don't know if you ever did this, but like if you were trying to get information from someone, you had someone on the phone with the three-way and they didn't know the other person was there?
01:41:48.000Like if you were roaming, like if you drove, still in Massachusetts, you drove to a different part of the state, you got hit with roaming charges.
01:41:56.000It was like a buck a minute or something crazy.
01:43:07.000And what you're basically saying is that's going to happen in sports and everything else.
01:43:11.000You're going to look at an athlete and be like, that dude's kind of like the post office now because this dude's got the neural link in.
01:43:16.000He's taking this supplement and can't compete anymore.
01:43:19.000Well, once genetic editing comes into place, there's going to be no more exceptions.
01:43:24.000In the beginning, the problem is the haves and the have-nots would be further divided than they've ever been before.
01:43:30.000And Elon was actually talking about this with the Neuralink.
01:43:33.000He was saying that one of the problems is going to be that the access to information is going to be so incredible for someone who has the Neuralink in, That their bandwidth, their ability to be productive is going to be so much greater.
01:43:50.000So if they're competing in business, if you're competing in anything that requires your intellectual capacity, it's going to be greatly expanded.
01:43:59.000And so people that are kind of making their way up and can't afford a Neuralink, you're never going to be able to compete with these fucking...
01:44:05.000Guys like Bill Gates, they're immediately going to get a hole drilled in their fucking head and get that stuck in there.
01:44:09.000All these super competitive billionaire characters, they're going to accumulate insane amounts of wealth.
01:44:16.000So do you think, since it's going to be this sort of potpourri of different levels, maybe, just for the sake of argument, what if we let trans athletes compete?
01:44:28.000Because then maybe nature kicks in and then women have to figure out a way to compete with the trans athletes.
01:46:00.000Yeah, but what if that motivation is a woman has to turn into a man, or has to adopt many of the characteristics of a man, or has to accept some sort of genetic editing, some sort of genetic editing that allows her to keep her double X chromosomes, but has the physical capacity of a XY,
01:47:00.000Which means there's some level of testosterone.
01:47:02.000It's also that there's a guy, DerekMorePlatesMoreDates.com, who's got a YouTube video, who breaks down what the thresholds are for a trans athlete versus for a biological female.
01:47:15.000And the testosterone thresholds for a trans athlete, I believe, are quite a bit higher than they are for the average biological female.
01:48:15.000So inside my lifetime, what it means to be a human being in the modern world has radically changed because of a very small device That fits right in your pocket.
01:49:06.000The next thing that comes along, if it's Neuralink or Or if it's something similar, there's probably going to be a bunch of competing technologies, someone's going to figure out something that makes a super person.
01:49:16.000And if that someone gets together with these biologists who work on these myostatin inhibitors, and they figure out how to gene edit so you can fucking live 500, 1000 years, and you've got some super intelligent Hulk creature What we used to think of as a human being.
01:49:40.000The technology that exists, we already have technology that has allowed a person who's paralyzed from the neck down to use his mind to control a cursor.
01:50:14.000How long before you can do it person to person through some sort of a Bluetooth type deal where you and I, instead of like airdropping pictures to each other, you know, you can send me a photo of your dick and I'll be like, ah!
01:50:25.000It's just probably what humans will do.
01:50:27.000Or, you know, you could send a video that you watch, and I can watch it in my fucking head.
01:51:58.000I mean, like my dog, you know, I have my daughter's dog with me right now for a little bit, who's like a little chihuahua, whippet mix, a little tiny fella, and they compete over toys.
01:52:08.000Like, they steal toys from each other.
01:52:09.000But I think there's a weird sort of jealousy that dogs have.
01:52:14.000They get jealous of the other dogs getting pet.
01:52:15.000They come over, they want to get pet too.
01:53:26.000When you're an elk hunter and you hunt an animal and you shoot it and it goes down, sometimes they'll run and they'll run maybe even 100, 200 yards.
01:53:38.000So one of the things you do is you wait.
01:53:40.000If you shoot an animal, even if you know it's a very lethal hit, you allow that animal to expire.
01:53:45.000You don't want to bump it, and what bumping it is is scaring it, and then it gets an adrenaline rush, and then it can keep running, and then maybe you won't find it.
01:53:52.000Like, sometimes they can run a mile, when they would have just laid down and died right there.
01:53:56.000But, you know, the biology of a wild animal that's constantly getting hunted by mountain lions and wolves, and, like, there is zero chance they're going to survive.
01:55:46.000And they think that some of them make it in and then leave, but if you show up in Alaska, and you shoot a moose, and you get to the moose and it's buried, you're fucked.
01:56:33.000Or you might have to kill the grizzly, and grizzlies are protected animals.
01:56:37.000You can't hunt grizzly bears in the lower 48. You can hunt them in Alaska, but there's no place in the United States where you can hunt grizzly bears in the lower 48. Only in Alaska.
01:56:51.000We're contributing to their demise, right, just by how much we keep populating and taking their...
01:56:58.000Wyoming has asked, but it's really, they were wiped out a long time ago.
01:57:01.000Wyoming's asked the federal government to remove grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone National Park from protection under the Endangered Species Act, the request that approved Which, if approved, could allow the animals to be hunted?
01:57:13.000The bears' recovery from as few as 136 animals when they were first protected as a threatened species in 1975 to more than 1,000 today is a success story the state argued in its petition.
01:57:27.000So that's what they do is they get an animal that it gets to a point where it's no longer endangered and then they want to manage it.
01:57:35.000And this is where it gets really sketchy with wildlife agencies and then environmental activists.
01:57:41.000Because the environmental activists will sue to make sure that they don't put like a hunting season on grizzly bears.
01:57:47.000But then there's people that are wildlife biologists that say, hey, we have too many bears.
01:57:51.000We have a problem with too many bear interactions with humans.
01:57:54.000We have a very low elk population now in these areas because there's so many bears that they're killing all the calves.
01:57:59.000We have to manage the population or we're going to have trouble.
01:58:03.000It's a smart, science-based approach to managing wildlife.
01:58:08.000But managing wildlife means killing them.
02:00:11.000It's a crazy video of a bear joins a wolf pack, and the wolf pack hunts this animal, and the bear just steals it from him, and they let it happen.
02:02:07.000There's no term for it, but an article that's describing it mentions that while true with a lot of mammals, it's not necessarily true with turtles, snakes, lizards, reptiles.
02:03:28.000Like, what if that, like, warm, humid climates made people, like, more passionate and wanted to fuck more?
02:03:34.000If you think about, like, the way you think about, like, Cuba, like, romance and just fucking manly men and womenly women, like, think about these hot, muggy places.
02:04:15.000I think the environment has a giant play on a lot of the aspects of what makes a person a person.
02:04:21.000That's why at the end of the day racism is kind of a stupid thing because homo sapiens sapiens They look different because of the environment.
02:04:58.000If you saw Shaquille O'Neal and Yeonmi Park, the lady who escaped North Korea, Who's one of the most frail people I've ever met in my life.
02:05:25.000If you were from another planet and you had no idea what people are, this is your first introduction to humans, you would look at those two and go, oh, that's two different things.
02:06:34.000I mean, that's one of the things about Ngannou is he's one of the rare heavyweights who's a natural 270, 280, and he cuts down to 265. You'd have to, like, invent someone to fight Shaq.
02:06:57.000He's more than 350 pounds now, and he's lost 100 pounds.
02:06:59.000Are they gonna ever create like a super heavyweight division for guys like that big?
02:07:03.000There is a super heavyweight division, but it's never been utilized in the UFC because there's not enough athletes.
02:07:08.000There's not enough guys, and you know, they want fights to be exciting.
02:07:12.000And you know, the outliers like the Shaquille O'Neal's and the Thor's from Game of Thrones, those are the ones who throw that into, make it a problem.
02:08:16.000There's all these videos of him hitting pads and grabbing guys in Muay Thai clinches and kneeing them in the body and kneeing the pads while they're holding the pads.
02:11:04.000Yeah, so in the going down, the way he fell, which didn't seem particularly brutal, which just shows you how brutal football is, because even regular tackles like that.
02:11:14.000So on that one, there's something that happened to him.
02:11:16.000That doesn't seem anything like it could have.
02:11:18.000But I'm telling you, man, falling down is not good.
02:11:21.000Falling down with another super athlete dragging you down as you're running full clip.
02:11:25.000So whatever happened, he broke his hip.
02:11:39.000Yeah, he's very proficient, very good hunter.
02:11:42.000And he's, I was, the last I heard, he has to switch to a crossbow because his shoulders are so fucked up, he can't pull his bow back anymore.
02:11:56.000It's like getting hit by a Mack truck.
02:11:59.000And I have a show where we talk to athletes, and one of the questions I asked, like two of them, was like, is there a difference getting hit in the cold?
02:12:08.000They say when you get hit in the cold, you can't explain to someone else what it feels like when you get hit in zero-degree weather in Green Bay.
02:13:07.000He had turf toe that was so bad from his years of playing, his toes were all fucked up and broken and he had an operation on his toe to try to fix it.
02:13:18.000And Deion Sanders reveals how he had two toes amputated following foot surgery complications.
02:16:03.000You get scraped and it's like a common thing.
02:16:07.000There's certain gyms that are known for it.
02:16:10.000At one point in time in the Henzo Gracie School, which is one of the best jujitsu clubs on the planet that's in New York City, they were in the basement and the basement doesn't get any sunlight and a bunch of people were getting staph infections.
02:17:22.000There's that, but there's also like dots.
02:17:24.000My friend Tate, I had staff once, I had staff twice.
02:17:28.000My friend Tate and I were at the airport waiting for our flight and I had shorts on and my leg crossed like that and he was looking at my calf.
02:17:52.000They do a swab of it, and the doctor was like, yeah, that's staph.
02:17:55.000She goes, I'm going to give you a bunch of antibiotics, and oral antibiotics, and if this doesn't work, I'm going to have to put you on an IV. I'm like, what?
02:18:01.000And so they gave me these antibiotics that knocked me for a loop.
02:18:06.000I am amazed that fighters fight when they're on antibiotics.
02:18:10.000Because, like, Luke Rockhold, when he beat Chris Weidman, he was on antibiotics for staph.
02:18:14.000When he won, when he beat him for the title, they drain you.
02:19:38.000And because of, you know, these medication-resistant strains that have come from medications, because they figure out a pathway past the antibiotic.
02:19:47.000And then they just get into people in hospitals.
02:19:50.000Or, you know, you can catch it in other places too, but I know a bunch of people that have gotten MRSA, and they're fucked for a long time, like months.
02:20:19.000They'll either eat chunks of it while they can right there, but if it's too much work, they'll just shove you under a rock and leave you there for a few days.
02:20:26.000Will wolves ever come around and try to sniff out and battle the grizzly for the buried?
02:22:11.000My friend Steve Rinella and Remy Warren and Ryan Callahan and Giannis Boutalas, they were all on this trip in Alaska, and the very same thing happened.
02:22:22.000And what they did was, it was a long trek to their camp, and elk is a huge animal.
02:22:28.000So what they decided to do, it was late in the afternoon, they said, we're going to hang this elk, or I think they might have gutted it and left it, but they were going to come back later.
02:22:38.000So they come back later and they check and it hasn't been claimed.
02:23:31.000This guy, Dirtmouth, in the middle of the scramble and the bear knocking these guys, he is on the bear's back for like a hundred feet as it's running down the hill.
02:23:43.000Did he do that consciously or just happened in the melee?
02:23:46.000It just happened in the melee where he lands on this thing's back.
02:26:18.000And that, you know, we've always had this real weird relationship with them because they're beautiful and majestic, but if, you know, you're a hiker...
02:26:27.000When you go down the wrong path, wolves will fucking eat you.
02:26:30.000Yeah, they look cool because they look like dogs.
02:26:34.000The Northwestern Wolf, known by many including as the Mackenzie Valley Wolf, the Canadian Timber Wolf, and the Alaska Timber Wolf, is the largest wolf in the world, with an average male weighing 137 pounds while the average female weighs 101 pounds.
02:26:48.000Yeah, so those are the biggest wolves.
02:26:50.000But I think the ones that we had in North America were probably pretty similar but smaller.
02:26:54.000But either way, you know, you don't want a 90-pound wolf fucking you up either.
02:28:54.000Yeah, pack of wolves, you don't want to fuck with them.
02:28:56.000Well, they're so much different than any other predator like that in that they operate as a unit and they think and they set traps for animals.
02:29:05.000Wolves will funnel animals through the bottom of a canyon and they'll be waiting on the other side and they'll be waiting from the top so they can come down and the animals can't get away.
02:32:54.000They go, all right, we want something vicious, and then something strong that does the job or whatever it is, and it's closer to a wolf than a pug that just kind of sits around.
02:33:01.000They keep breeding it down, breeding it down, breeding it down.
02:33:03.000It just gets farther and farther away from the original thing.
02:33:06.000I was listening to a Radiolab podcast.
02:33:07.000They were talking about how they did this really quickly with foxes.
02:33:11.000They had foxes and the foxes had like, you know, they had them kept in cages.
02:33:17.000And if you got near the fox, if it growled at any of the scientists, they would shoot it and kill it.
02:33:23.000So all the ones that expressed any sort of aggression towards people they killed.
02:33:27.000And then they slowly started feeding these things and taking care of these things and over time, and not that many generations, their ears started to flop, their snouts started to shorten, they became more soft looking and less intimidating looking.
02:33:43.000It like changed what these foxes looked like in a short amount of time.
02:33:49.000Yeah, I don't remember how long the demonstration was, or how long the experimentation was.
02:33:53.000But you could probably not do that with any other animal.
02:33:56.000I remember reading once that the dogs have this unique malleable gene that no other species, no other animal has, and that's why we're able to kind of tailor them for jobs in generations, because of this specific malleable gene.
02:34:09.000I mean, I don't know what it's called, but it's something unique to canines.
02:34:13.000I think this is true, that there's also something about dogs' eyes, that dogs possess an ability to express emotion with their eyes that wolves don't.
02:34:25.000Because I'm pretty sure that's true, that I had read that or heard that, that dogs have, you know, a dog can look at you and they express things with their eyes.
02:34:35.000Wolves just look at you all the time like this.
02:35:34.000I think also endorphins are released in both animals, like the relationship between humans and dogs, they're good for you because the interaction of both species release endorphins.
02:35:48.000I mean, I make fun of it, but there's a reality of an emotional support dog.
02:35:53.000Dogs give you a good feeling, like a drug.
02:37:08.000There was a yellow lab that was like a bad dog that lived on our street.
02:37:12.000So I'm running down the hills with Marshall, and then this guy comes with the yellow lab, and he doesn't have control of the dog.
02:37:19.000And the dog just runs up to Marshall and bites him, and I have to run over and break it up, and I'm breaking it up, and Marshall's like, what the hell?
02:37:51.000No, I mean, I was a little more careful with him after that.
02:37:56.000In certain areas where I knew that there's people on the trails, I would put them on a leash.
02:38:01.000But most of the time when we would run this one area, it was kind of precarious terrain, and I was the only one running it most of the time with Marshall.
02:38:10.000It's amazing how dogs just either like each other or don't, and they figure it out quick, and it kind of doesn't change.
02:38:16.000They're kind of like women in that way.
02:38:18.000Well, some dogs just don't like other dogs.
02:38:20.000Yeah, and they know immediately from a smell or something.
02:38:23.000They don't like other dogs at all, like any dog they run to they don't like.
02:38:26.000No, but even just with personality, it's just sometimes two dogs don't get along, and somehow they know and they meet, and it's like, it doesn't...
02:39:04.000So if a dog is around its owner and then a person walks over that's super nervous, the dog probably thinks, oh, this guy's going to jack my owner.
02:39:13.000They probably can smell shit that we can't even imagine.
02:39:16.000Their noses are so much more sensitive than ours.
02:39:41.000There's been videos of guys on hills like spying on these bears with binoculars and they feel wind at the back of their neck so the wind is behind them and the bear just goes like that with his nose and runs.
02:40:10.000I had a Finnish friend who once explained it to me as like, always listen to your gut because that's millions of years of survival instinct from all your ancestors beyond when they were human.
02:40:22.000Like that feeling, that's what that is.
02:40:24.000And I was like, oh, that's a cool way to describe what that gut feeling is.
02:40:29.000They say the gut is also like when people talk about like feeling things like with their heart, like when you trust your heart, like that kind.
02:40:38.000Like your heart has a bunch of neurons in it.
02:40:40.000I think it has the second, didn't we Google this, like the second most amount of neurons in the body?
02:40:51.000And so it's like trust your heart, trust your gut.
02:40:53.000I think those things, those sayings, come from a real thing.
02:40:57.000Like maybe you could feel certain things.
02:40:59.000And maybe we're like less connected to it.
02:41:02.000Because we've gotten used to cities and supermarkets and all the shit that we deal with today that's kind of softened us and turned us into human pugs.
02:41:11.000But I bet those instincts are still there in like times of danger.
02:41:18.000The human gut is lined with more than a hundred million nerve cells.
02:41:21.000It's practically a brain unto itself and indeed the gut actually talks to the brain releasing hormones into the bloodstream that over the course of about ten minutes tell us how hungry it is or that we shouldn't have eaten an entire pizza.
02:41:43.000Yeah, Dr. Amor in 1991 discovered that the heart has its little brain or intrinsic cardiac nervous system.
02:41:51.000This heart brain is composed of approximately 40,000 neurons that are alike neurons in the brain, meaning that the heart has its own nervous system.
02:42:19.000They probably sense Anger, they probably sense like a heightened awareness, calmness.
02:42:25.000They probably can tell like what you're gonna do before you do it.
02:42:29.000It's probably one of the reasons why they can communicate with each other.
02:42:32.000They're probably like signaling their intent through smells.
02:42:36.000Like when they see a moose and they're hungry, they probably signal their intent through smells.
02:42:41.000They probably signal their intent either to chase the moose or to be one of the ones that sneaks up behind it when you are chasing it towards it.
02:42:48.000They probably figure it out through smells.
02:43:10.000I mean, if your survival relied on you being able to tell what a person is capable of or not capable of fairly quickly, they're probably more tuned in.
02:43:24.000If they weren't, maybe psychopaths and psychopaths would have propagated more.
02:46:40.000At first I'd said a thousand years ago, basically, but now I'm seeing the first written mandate requiring priests to become chaste came in AD 304. AD 304. So the year 304. That's when they got tired of priest fucking everybody.
02:47:09.000Because COVID, I mean COVID rather, the Catholic Church, the reason why they're allowed to get away with what they get away with, because they've been around so long.
02:47:16.000Here's a quote from Paul in his first letter to the Corinthians.
02:48:17.000I mean like they recently like are trying to understand their orgasms like the last hundred years or 50 years or whatever it is like women's liberation like they're understanding the power.
02:48:52.000But during the Ottoman Empire, there was like a local sultan, I guess.
02:48:57.000They had like these viceroys that were set up around the Ottoman Empire that kind of controlled the region like Pontius Pilate was in the Roman Empire.
02:49:03.000And he was known for like raping kids.
02:49:06.000So my great grandparents sent him to Egypt because they didn't want him to be raped by the Sultan and he never returned.
02:49:49.000I wish people in America would realize that more.
02:49:53.000Like, you know, the real flaw in freedom and the real irony to the amount when you complain is that you're allowed to complain, which means you have it good.
02:50:04.000That's sort of the oxymoron of it all.
02:50:06.000Like, you're complaining a lot because you feel like something's wrong, but that you're able to complain is an indication of how good you have it.
02:50:12.000Because try to bring up those complaints to King Z or whoever the fuck, and you just disappear.
02:50:17.000Yeah, they'll cut you in half in front of your kids.
02:50:23.000January 2017, lawmakers voted 30 to 3 to decriminalize certain forms of domestic violence.
02:50:31.000Under the new law, first-time offenses that did not result in serious bodily harm, carrying a maximum fine of 30,000 rubles up to 15 days administrative arrest or up to 120 hours of community service.
02:51:44.000I just had this image of a movie, like the Karate Kid, where Chris Rock just shows up in Austin and he's like, hey Joe, you know, you betrayed me!
02:51:52.000I was thinking to my friends last night, I was like, imagine if Chris Rock had just a year of solid jiu-jitsu training under his belt.
02:51:58.000And as soon as Will Smith turns his back, he just leaps and takes his back and just squeezes Will out before the fuck, before the security guards can get to him.
02:54:46.000And also, as you get older, do you think there's some subconscious realization that there's just less time available, so I want to make the most...
02:54:52.000Because time is actually more valuable than money, right?
02:54:54.000It's the only thing you can't get back.
02:55:55.000Because that's really what comedy is, is sort of like a bond between the audience and the comic on this thing we share in common, which is like this tough life with struggle and uncertainty and mortality, and we're trying to emotionally feel better about it.
02:56:09.000I cut comics so much more breaks than I cut anybody else.
02:56:12.000I give them so much, because I know you're nuts, and I give them all the room.
02:56:17.000But I also let them know, like, look, I'm a comic too, I'm your friend.
02:56:22.000I love comedians, and that's our tribe.
02:56:24.000Our tribe is comedians, and there's not that many of us.
02:56:27.000The real number, it's probably a thousand worldwide.
02:56:33.000The real number of, like, a real legitimate professional comedian that can go up and do an hour and kill, and has, like, maybe a following, and can tour clubs and theaters, and then colleges, and then you get to, like, big theaters and arenas.
02:57:46.000Yeah, that's a real unfortunate part of the business.
02:57:49.000Maybe that's kind of lessons as the business has changed, but then kind of cancel culture came in where comics started going after other comics.
02:59:03.000Even if I never had another ounce of success, I would never blame anything or anyone because the opportunities are there for anyone with the internet.
03:00:16.000The only certain amount of spots, and everybody had this goal, and the big goal was to get a sitcom, because that was like the honeypot that Jerry Seinfeld got and Roseanne got.
03:00:23.000But then the internet came along, and we instead became assets to each other.
03:00:33.000Because you're a funny guy, and you're a smart guy, and we're gonna have a fun conversation, and all the people that are on the treadmill right now are enjoying this.
03:00:40.000So that's why it's an asset to each other.
03:00:42.000Like, it helps promote you, but it also helps my show.
03:00:44.000And also, people know that if I have people on, it's because I like them, and they're interesting, and they're funny.
03:00:51.000And so then the audience trusts me more, because I keep introducing to more interesting, funny people.
03:00:57.000They go, oh, he's got good taste in comics.
03:01:40.000So you find out about Two Bears, One Cave because they were on Skeptic Tank or they were on this or your podcast or Schultz's and Akash and everybody's sort of networking.
03:01:50.000But they're networking not like NBC where we got some wacky contract we can't get out of.
03:01:56.000Like, it's an organic network of friends that just like to bust balls and have fun and talk shit, and they always tell each other, oh, hey, Giannis has a new Netflix special out, you know, fucking Mark Norman just put his new shit out on YouTube, Shane Gillis has a new thing, like...
03:04:25.000Yeah, but it's a great time for comedy, too, because I don't think there's ever been more really funny up-and-comers, you know, more people that don't have to go through all the hurdles that they can put a thing up on YouTube, like you were saying.
03:04:36.000They can put a thing up on Instagram, and it can become viral, and they become famous for it.
03:04:40.000There's so many people, like Angela Johnson with her Vietnamese nail salon bit.
03:05:01.000Yeah, you know, stand-ups don't have the monopoly on funny anymore that we used to because the Internet's opened it up to whoever wants to make videos, podcasts, whatever it is.
03:05:09.000So a lot of guys end up having a funny video channel.
03:07:10.000He's a great comic, but unfortunately, right now at least, people don't know that enough, and maybe it's good that we're talking about it right now, but the two of them together on that fucking show are a ruthless combination.
03:07:21.000Dude, sometimes you have that chemistry with someone that you can't explain, it's just magical, and I hope those two dudes continue to ride that out, because that's hard to achieve, and when it happens, We should just keep it going.
03:11:44.000Yeah, he's super Christian, super right-wing.
03:11:45.000So I just had him calling, like, Justin Bieber, like, asking him, like, come on, man, you transition.
03:11:51.000Like, you used to be a woman, you know?
03:11:52.000Because he just kind of looks kind of feminine, and just the conversations they would have, like, you guys are coming from that cuck town, you know, Stephen Baldwin just talking about L.A., whether you got my daughter living over there, and, you know, cuck town, so what's going on?
03:12:36.000This is a scary thing about YouTube is that you don't know what's gonna be the thing that triggers you getting a strike and you can only get three strikes and they'll remove your channel.
03:13:22.000Well, it's a problem with limiting free speech.
03:13:24.000When you limit free speech, you make it subjective.
03:13:26.000Like, what is acceptable and what's not?
03:13:28.000And a lot of times it's based on what other people think people should do and say instead of what, you know, just allowing a person to be themselves.
03:13:36.000Yeah, I mean, those are the tenets of fascism.
03:13:38.000People like people talking shit about things.