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00:00:59.000I use Audible a lot, and that's one of my favorite books on tapes ever.
00:01:03.000Yeah, and there's so many of them, so many great books there.
00:01:07.000They also have the one book that I recommend to people on a regular basis, which is The War of Art.
00:01:13.000For any creative people, any creative types who are trying to overcome procrastination or blocks or whatever, This guy, Steven Pressfield, calls Resistance.
00:01:25.000It's a really brilliant, brilliant book and it is available on tape as well.
00:01:29.000I think that Audible books are amazing and even better than, in my opinion, than regular books because what I use them for is when I'm stuck doing other things that do...
00:01:41.000You know, if you're on a plane, you're essentially wasting time.
00:11:11.000If you're just like, Alt-J uses a triangle, and thankfully you can type in Alt-J, but if you just have to type the triangle, that requires extended ASCII knowledge.
00:11:18.000My dad's not going to pirate that album.
00:11:21.000Yeah, how would you draw that print symbol?
00:11:23.000You would have to get a font made up, and then someone would have to agree to assign a key to that font, and the OS would have to be changed.
00:11:58.000I was a super fan of tech TV and Leos and everything they did, but it's wild the notion that on television, where they're trying to reach a very broad audience, there was an hour, sometimes five-hour marathon-long show of like, you got a problem with your printer driver?
00:12:37.000Where these guys fought for the flyweight title, and it was a fucking amazing fight between Joseph Benavidez and this guy, Demetrius Mighty Mouse Johnson, who wanted to win a decision.
00:13:03.000So it's like you're never gonna get away from that.
00:13:05.000You're always gonna have a certain percentage.
00:13:07.000You can train people to have certain viewing habits and expectations and that's what like the Google YouTube channels that came out.
00:13:14.000Some people are doing 30, 40 minute long shows on YouTube that are actually doing pretty well and that kind of behavior a year ago was unheard of.
00:13:22.000The notion that someone would stare at this To stream video for an hour or half hour to watch a web show was unheard of.
00:13:27.000So people can be trained to have different expectations of running times and length.
00:13:31.000So you can manipulate attention spans, essentially.
00:13:55.000If you don't like it, you shut it off.
00:13:57.000If you don't have any more time left, you shut it off.
00:13:59.000There's no obligation to continue with this conversation, but I want...
00:14:04.000I like conversations that I have with my friends when we're up for a couple hours smoking pot or something like that and we have these really intense moments where I'm being aided by his intellect and he's introducing thoughts to my mind.
00:14:18.000There's a real regeneration and refreshing of the mind when you have these kind of conversations.
00:14:23.000Even if you're just talking stone shit about simulation theory and whether or not mushrooms really are a portal to another dimension.
00:14:33.000The shit that comes out at hour two and a half, around that mark, is when you get there, which is why you'll never see those kind of conversations on a late night talk show where you have three and a half minutes, plug your movie, get to the clip, get out, and go.
00:14:44.000People don't realize the fun in just shooting the shit with cool people.
00:14:49.000And that's when someone said that they were too long.
00:14:59.000Giving them too much is way better than not giving them enough.
00:15:02.000The idea is to just put out the best shit you can put out.
00:15:05.000And if you could keep going after two hours, why wouldn't you keep going?
00:15:10.000This is what you're trying to do, right?
00:15:11.000You're trying to tune people into this real conversation.
00:15:15.000It's kind of one of the reasons that I actually ended up having to leave ATT&CK. I mean, there were a myriad reasons, but one of those things was I was getting a chance to meet so many fascinating people who I was passionate about and wanted to talk with, and I was given four minutes live with them.
00:16:28.000I'll hop on, and if I'm gonna drum, I'll live cast some of my drumming, but then it always ends up with me sweaty and having an emotional outpour, and then I start ranting to strangers.
00:19:00.000Started to date a woman, Sharice, and Sharice told Dale it was always a fantasy of hers to be raped, but it's sort of one of those things where you can't ask to be raped because then you know, and it would ruin the fantasy.
00:19:13.000So after they'd been dating for no less than a year, and they were both into kinky sex and weird sex circles and kind of went around in those...
00:19:38.000He arranges for three giant dudes to pick her up at the airport, take her away, throw her in a van, pretty much run a train on her outside a gas station.
00:19:49.000She's crying, thinks the real thing has happened.
00:19:51.000Then he shows up and he says, happy birthday.
00:19:56.000And she cried and thanked him and couldn't believe it.
00:20:36.000But on the other hand, on the flip side of that coin, that's fucking love.
00:20:40.000Like at some point, you go, what were the odds of those two ships passing in the night, one having a rape fantasy, the other be willing to fulfill it in that capacity and go for it?
00:24:29.000I was into Madonna back then, which is really funny, because I was 17, and then I found out she was 26. I was like, damn, that bitch is old.
00:26:51.000Animal prisons bum me out way more than hunting.
00:26:54.000Because at least if you're hunting an animal, even if you're not going to eat that animal, if you're going to just give that animal away, which is kind of weird.
00:27:01.000Like this guy, Matt Hughes, who's a UFC champion, just got in trouble with a lot of people.
00:27:05.000People are angry at him because he went to South Africa and shot everything.
00:27:17.000That still seems to be better than the fucking zoo.
00:27:20.000I think the zoo is one of the, like...
00:27:23.000If you want to talk about cruelty to animals, the zoo is one of the most fucked up places on earth because those animals are denied all of their natural activities.
00:31:47.000I could never get my daughter to sit down and watch a documentary on the Congo or something like that.
00:31:53.000But if you take them somewhere and show them some actual real shit, you know, that has a different impact on them.
00:31:58.000But my point was, while I was standing there looking at the gorillas, I was looking at the gorilla and looking at me and then thinking about gray aliens.
00:32:33.000Well, Google Goggles, not only does it give you cancer of the brain, but that cancer specifically makes your eyes grow, and that changed evolution.
00:34:28.000There's a lot of things that can happen that what it is is you have a massive amount of extra sensitivity and it's almost the exact opposite of being drunk.
00:34:37.000And what people don't understand is like, oh, he's in parodies on the pot.
00:34:40.000When I'm on the pot, I play pool twice as good, maybe three times as good.
00:34:47.000I can play professional level for long stretches of time when I'm high as fuck.
00:35:06.000When he said it, I was like, thank you!
00:35:08.000It says, I am convinced there are genuine and valid levels of perception available with cannabis and probably with other drugs, which are Through the defects of our society and our educational system unavailable to us without such drugs.
00:35:21.000And there's real clarity in some of these experiences.
00:35:27.000It's just so much recreational use and so much fucking around with all of us that It's been, especially with people who don't do any of these things, they don't smoke pot, they've never done mushrooms, that it seems like a recreational, silly type activity.
00:35:39.000It doesn't seem like there's any validity.
00:35:41.000Well, yeah, and they're still banking off of the stories and the connotations that have been handed down since the reefer madness days, from Grandpa told someone's parents that that reefer will make you silly, it'll make you crazy, it'll make you a druggie, you'll be a know-nothing, and then that just gets handed down and handed down.
00:39:24.000You know, it's really disturbing to me, all these celebrities and all these different people who are standing up for Obama and campaigning for Obama.
00:39:32.000And even guys that I respect and intelligent people are saying, he's better than Mitt Romney.
00:41:08.000There's a law that says you're allowed to have it here and to pretend that it's worse than anything else you've already got legal and it's a reason why you're going after it is crazy, Obama.
00:41:19.000That's why I'm always against the medicinal marijuana argument because it ignores the recreational argument which is just as fucking valid as the medicinal one.
00:41:26.000It certainly is, but the medicinal one, I think, while in a world of madness, there's a lot of people, not me, necessarily, I could get by without it.
00:41:35.000The reasons that I use it for is not...
00:41:41.000Have cancer and marijuana is the only thing that gives them an appetite.
00:41:45.000There's nothing else that works as good.
00:41:47.000People that will have seizures if they do not smoke pot and yet someone is pulling the joint out of their hand and saying, no, no, no, you need to have a seizure because this needs to be illegal.
00:41:55.000Well that's why whenever anybody talks about the human body and they're doing it from an ideological standpoint without any real medical training or even reading research, you're talking out of your ass.
00:42:07.000Like when you got an asshole like Rush Limbaugh that's talking about some girl wanting to be a slut so she can get a birth control.
00:42:14.000What that asshole doesn't understand is that some women get ovarian cysts if they don't take birth control.
00:43:04.000And when I think about unemployment, and I think about, and I, this may transition into a TSA rant, and I apologize if it does, because it's still fresh in my head.
00:43:10.000Yeah, well, we gotta talk about that anyway.
00:43:11.000The biggest fucking government works program that's really going on right now are tax dollars going to create a system to create jobs to demean us and make us feel like criminals for wanting to take a flight.
00:43:23.000A program that is inefficient, ineffectual by thousands of, not thousands, that's hyperbole, by hundreds of sorted papers that is inefficient, ineffectual, that demeans us, that leads to lobbyists and government kickbacks for these corporations that make machines that scan us and take nude photos of us essentially.
00:43:41.000Well, for the folks that do it, for the folks that do the TSA, it is a shit job.
00:43:51.000And in their defense, look, there's that fucking classic Stanford study that we brought up over and over again of what happened when they just had college students have one person in charge.
00:45:06.000What I've heard is that there's radiation in those machines, they haven't really registered it yet, but if you really want to worry about radiation, you shouldn't be flying in the first place, because the flight itself is incredibly radioactive.
00:45:16.000The radiation, to me, is a moot point.
00:45:19.000Like, yeah, I don't think I deserve it.
00:45:22.000It's a rights violation, plus the RapidScan Corporation, which is one of the two big corporations that had the $70 million contracts to install these machines.
00:45:30.000They were funding Chertoff, who was the ex-head of the Homeland Security Administration.
00:45:34.000They've increased their lobbying by 50% or something since 2008 and 2010. That was the last study I read.
00:45:41.000So, Lord knows how much money they're spending now to give kickbacks to people in power to do these no-bid contracts to put in these machines, which, by the way, Most security and defense experts tell you that they can't actually detect the plastic explosives that could blow up a 747. Like, they can't actually detect it.
00:46:00.000Plus, there was a case in Florida, just not only, like, probably two years ago, where hundreds of thousands of the photos from people going through those machines, because it does store photos even though it doesn't display them, those photos were hacked.
00:46:12.000And they said, we don't store these photos, they don't get taken, but they have a nude picture of you somewhere.
00:46:17.000Lord knows how that's going to come back to haunt you.
00:46:20.000So the radiation is, to me, a moot point.
00:46:32.000It's just absurd to me that my tax dollars go towards buying these machines for these corrupt corporations to have them installed to make me feel like a criminal to snap a photo of me naked which don't make me any safer as I go onto a flight.
00:46:45.000Do you think it doesn't make you any safer?
00:46:47.000Don't you think that if people could take guns on planes they would?
00:46:49.000If there was no metal detection you would have to deal with the same sort of instances of people being crazy in society on a plane as you would on the ground.
00:48:43.000Is that now we're at a point where let's say they take away the rapid scan machines, right?
00:48:47.000Or let's say they have them, but someone, flying spaghetti monster forbid, decides to blow up a school, or a footlocker in a mall, or a stadium, or a concert venue.
00:49:00.000Those machines are going to be everywhere.
00:49:02.000What do you think would happen if you went to the airport and you had like a radiation detector and you said, I would like to go through this machine and detect the amount of...
00:49:13.000What is that machinery you're not allowed to have here?
00:49:15.000That's some creepy police state shit right there.
00:49:16.000In my incident in Austin, I was told I was not allowed to film it.
00:49:19.000I was brought into a private screening room that had a giant placard above that says, this is a private screening room which I did not request.
00:50:03.000So right away I'm like, you know what, if this is integral to my safety, you're now chucking my safety out the window for the convenience factor of cycling people through security.
00:50:11.000Well, are they really saying that it's not safe?
00:50:13.000I mean, is that really what they're saying?
00:50:15.000The rapid scan thing or the x-ray thing is not safe?
00:50:18.000I'm talking about if we need those body scanning machines because they can detect a whole bunch of stuff that a traditional x-ray can't.
00:50:23.000That when it gets inconvenient because the line is too long, you're now throwing my safety out the window.
00:50:54.000I always feel like whenever I take a fucking JetBlue flight, this is going to be my Occupy moment.
00:50:58.000It's going to end with pepper spray to the face, and I'm going to get handcuffed, even though I'm as polite as can be, and I just want someone to watch my shit.
00:51:15.000She was pulling her hair and crying because there were three TSA agents trying to tell her to lift her arms so they can swab her clothes, swab her wheelchair, the back pad, the tires, the wheels, everything.
00:51:30.000You can imagine how traumatic it is to try to bring somebody, a special needs child, through an airport in general.
00:51:35.000But now they've been selected for special screening and he has to try to explain to his daughter who's having a fit, rightfully so, as strangers are groping her and, you know, swiping, swabbing her seat.
00:51:55.000The reason I'm sitting in this glass box is because after my pat down, they ran my little piece of cloth, or they ran the gloves and the piece of cloth that they swiped the bottom of my feet with through a machine.
00:52:05.000By the way, machines which we spent more than $30 million on to install in airports.
00:52:09.000And this machine said, I tested positive for nitrates.
00:52:41.000But the third guy finally said, well, the head of the security mob there said, well, if you've walked on grass that has fertilizer on it, then you might test positive for nitrates.
00:52:50.000Even certain heart medications that seniors take can test positive for nitrates.
00:52:54.000So I'm now stuck in a glass box, detached from my valuables, watching this poor girl...
00:52:59.000Having a meltdown as these three people are, you know, going all over and I start to cry because it just, it breaks my heart that this is happening.
00:53:05.000This poor guy is having to go through this and I, you know, I go to put my hand on his shoulder and tell him like, I'm sorry you have to go through this and he looks back and he's choked up.
00:53:13.000I mean, he's been in there for a good 15 minutes trying to calm down his daughter.
00:53:17.000So then I start questioning, why are you guys doing this?
00:53:19.000And I'm being polite, I'm being calm, being everything you could possibly be while asking how much longer this is going to take because I have a flight to catch.
00:53:25.000They grab my belongings and start walking them away.
00:53:28.000And I go, excuse me, what are you doing?
00:53:29.000You're coming here to this private screening room.
00:53:31.000No, no, no, I don't want to be in a private screening room.
00:53:33.000I want this enhanced pat-down to happen right here because I want my girlfriend to videotape it.
00:55:28.000But there are many other countries who deal with terrorism on a far greater level than we do, who have a far more swifter and more common sense approach to security that doesn't demean their citizenry, that doesn't cost them millions of taxpayer dollars.
00:55:49.000And there was a long pause and he sort of looked down and looked at his shoes and I thought, good, I'm finally going to have a moment, a real moment here as a human being.
00:55:55.000He's going to take off that TSA helmet for a second.
00:55:58.000And he looked up and looked me right in the eyes and said, she tested positive for nitrates.
00:56:02.000And that's when I realized this is a lost cause.
00:56:08.000I used to do a joke about it that I think that the people who work at security and the people that work at Burger King are like the same people.
00:56:14.000It's just they reach their hand into a bucket.
00:56:41.000Just because there's been so many instances in the past of people using airplanes, hijacking airplanes.
00:56:49.000The reinforcing of the doors was the best thing that happened.
00:56:52.000That was the one security measure that said, look, now as a society, no one will ever hijack a plane again.
00:56:56.000If it's sourced in America, if it's flown out of here, everybody in that cabin will fight and die to make sure that plane doesn't get hijacked.
00:57:04.000I think air marshals are important, too.
00:57:06.000I think it's good to have a guy up there who's an actual bad motherfucker who knows how to take care of shit if some wacky motherfucker tries to blow his shoes up.
00:57:13.000And some people even make the argument, by the way, that guns on planes would have stopped some of 9-11.
00:57:18.000That if someone actually had a gun on that flight, you know, and the risk of a bullet going through and the sudden loss of cabin pressure is overrated, I don't know that I subscribe to that, but I could see how that's a valid argument.
00:57:26.000I could see how someone could make that.
00:57:28.000We do need security, but the leaps and bounds that we've gone to are inefficient.
00:57:34.000It's costing us millions and millions of dollars.
00:57:36.000The companies suck and they're dealing with gigantic numbers of employees because they have these setups at every goddamn airport in every goddamn city all over this country.
00:58:17.000Just because they want to get through the airport, I'm one of the guys that can afford the premium tickets so I get through the TSA. I'm blessed.
01:00:51.000The only known collision, or at least six months ago when I was reading about it, the only known collision in one of those Google self-driving cars was when the operator took it out of self-drive mode and was manually driving it.
01:01:01.000But they still had to document it because it was a collision with the car.
01:01:19.000Like shifting gears when you're stopped on the 405 and holding in a clutch, that's shitty.
01:01:24.000And so to let my car drive and then maybe free me up to do an extra hour of productive work or focus on my book on tape, my audible.com slash Joe download to focus on that, that makes sense to me.
01:02:39.000He's suing these people because they made a documentary about him, and apparently it has a lot of false information, according to Mr. Wayne.
01:02:47.000And so they asked him a bunch of stupid questions at this deposition, but the way he answered it was beautiful.
01:07:35.000But there are some celebrities that they treat with kid gloves because they're worried they won't sit down for the next junket to promote their movie.
01:07:58.000They'll forgive some celebrities, and they'll forgive some personalities if they feel like later on it might benefit them or if they're worried.
01:08:05.000Certainly, if they're trying to get more interviews, I guess.
01:08:09.000Yeah, they're worried about pulling the thing.
01:08:11.000Like, Apple is one of those companies that blogs are afraid to write about, and it's a bit of a tangent, but they're afraid to write about them in certain negative ways because they're worried they won't be allowed into their conference or get an early review unit.
01:09:24.000Well, I said the societal issues because, like, we were talking about Google Glasses, right?
01:09:27.000When you have the ability to life vlog, when the device is light enough, powerful enough, cheap enough, and easy enough to, I record 24 hours here, whatever I see, and I can play it back like that, that's what one of the issues, or one of the episodes is about.
01:09:40.000So you watch a couple try to navigate a relationship where every moment is fucking recorded.
01:09:45.000So he's like, I want to see what happened June 12th when you were with that guy at 3 p.m.
01:10:01.000There's a commercial that they were running really recently about a dash cam.
01:10:05.000They sell dash cams now so the guy pulls over someone and it's like this is a reenactment of an actual accident in New York City and the woman goes this guy hit me and the guy goes up to the cop and says would you like me to tell you what happened or show you what happened and the cops what do you mean he goes I have a dashboard camera and it shows him the camera and clearly shows the woman hitting him right so he goes ma'am let me just tell you that lying to an officer is you know a crime Do you want to go to jail?
01:11:35.000Yeah, I think what happened is this lady backs into a cop and what I'm guessing is that she's going to say something like, you ran into the back of me.
01:11:41.000Well, there are great videos of people in China and Russia running at cars that are parked in the streets and then leaping onto the hoods and rolling off and then getting up and going, oh, my back!
01:11:51.000But they're literally charging the cars.
01:11:53.000What were you just saying before Brian showed this video?
01:11:55.000Talking about transhumanism, about the RFID chip where you swipe and have it put in your hand.
01:12:01.000Mythbusters said that that was the one episode that they were not allowed to air.
01:12:06.000They couldn't do an episode on the RFID chips.
01:12:08.000They were told by their network that that was a subject of interest they could not explore.
01:12:13.000You know what happened with those guys?
01:12:14.000I don't know if you heard the story, but they were going to do it, and the guys behind the RFID tech and chip makers said, Yeah, we just want to get on the phone with you to discuss the technology and discuss the show before we help you out or whatever.
01:12:25.000And so they hopped on the line, and on the other side of the line was like 40 lawyers from credit card companies, from security firms, saying you cannot do this episode.
01:12:47.000Okay, well, why don't you explain to everybody who doesn't know, what the fuck does RFID mean?
01:12:52.000It's remote, I believe it's remote frequency identification.
01:12:55.000It's basically, think of a chip the size of a grain of rice, or sometimes they're like flat.
01:12:58.000They're very, very low to no power devices that can be passively read.
01:13:02.000So if you have a beacon, a reader, they...
01:13:03.000So they can put it in your phone, they can put it in your clothes.
01:13:06.000Phone, clothes, they use it like security systems in malls.
01:13:09.000When you walk through a reader, that's because a lot of them are RFID based.
01:13:11.000It has pinged the product and that sent it off and said, "Okay, this is a security barrier being reached." Those little credit cards, when you tap them to readers, a lot of that is RFID.
01:13:20.000Some of it is near field communication, which is a slightly different standard that's coming about now, but there's a lot of RFID.
01:13:25.000Swiping for security in buildings, that all exists.
01:13:42.000There's great videos of BMWs now being hacked.
01:13:45.000They sell blank keys that you can code the wireless key start on them.
01:13:49.000And there's a pretty easy process to just pop it into the car.
01:13:51.000And have it write the new key code to it, like a dealer kind of thing.
01:13:54.000And you can start the cars and drive off.
01:13:56.000Now, they fixed it since, and it's not just a BMW thing, but these guys can be read and hacked.
01:14:02.000And that's why they don't want the Mythbusters to talk about it, because we're now building foundations, and we're building institutions in our daily lives that are built on faulty security premises.
01:14:14.000Like, we're all becoming very comfortable with near-field communication and tapping things and whatever, and yet they're completely hackable and easily cloned and easily broken.
01:14:21.000Is it something that can be fixed in the future and they don't want to alert people before they develop a fix for it?
01:14:27.000Well, look, if they've invested millions of dollars in creating new systems and transitioning their key cards and passports to this technology, the last thing they want is a security concern.
01:14:48.000So the future of the world when it comes to technology and it is dependent upon our cooperation because at some point in time We're going to all have access to anything.
01:15:05.000Essentially, we're going to all be readable.
01:16:16.000Yeah, no, that will be cool, and we'll accept that to an extent, but then we will also have privacy controls, which A, will likely be able to be hacked, and B, the government will not, they'll ignore those.
01:16:52.000Why would it ever be in your best interest to not be able to videotape something?
01:16:56.000We need a new digital bill of rights that says that if...
01:16:58.000By the way, let me just say for the record that the reason for developing this technology is that Apple is involved in many patent lawsuits and all...
01:17:07.000And so when it comes to the ability to record bands, you're getting to a point where the new phone has 8 megapixels, the fucking video's fantastic.
01:17:16.000You can almost get something that you could put out and it would be a really good version of it.
01:17:22.000And the problem with that is you could record people and then put their shit online.
01:17:27.000So they want to be able to have a concert and say, well, you can't record this concert.
01:17:30.000Especially for stand-up comedians, it becomes a real problem when you go to a town and everybody knows your shit.
01:17:36.000So, that's Apple's idea, is that they would set it up so that if there was a concert, you couldn't record the concert, they would shut off.
01:17:43.000But A, I still think that's a huge security concern.
01:17:46.000I mean, that could be a wild security concern as well.
01:17:49.000Well, it's an awesome move for fucking Samsung.
01:17:53.000Because everybody's just going to want to go Android.
01:18:05.000The name is escaping me, but it actually stitches together multiple recordings based off of visual cues and audio waveforms and time codes.
01:18:13.000So if you're at a concert, if you're at a Coachella, and there's 40 people in the crowd that are filming it with their iPhones, they can all upload their video, and it will stitch those angles together.
01:18:36.000Any company that's selling limited data plans right now is stifling innovation and fucking consumers over and fucking over entire industries.
01:19:19.000We're going back, we're regressing from unlimited back to the days of you got 90 free hours or 4 free megs on Prodigy.
01:19:25.000So it used to be unlimited and then with the iPhone it really kind of clogged up the network, right?
01:19:30.000That was the big concern with AT&T. With smartphones in general, that signaled the shift from being a traditional voice device to now I rarely make calls on my phone.
01:19:49.000You can cuddle me through the internet.
01:19:50.000But to that point, I did like two Skype sessions on the road with a Verizon little 4G hotspot, a little jetpack, and I used up 3.9 gigs in just like an hour of video chat.
01:20:00.000And so now I was afraid to check emails and do work.
01:20:02.000And I'm like, this is bad for an entire industry.
01:20:04.000This will stifle innovation because the Instagram of video might not get created.
01:20:45.000I mean, there's been studies that show that what you pay now for bandwidth, even though it is more expensive and it's faster, what you pay now for bandwidth is exponentially higher than what you used to pay.
01:20:54.000And bandwidth should be getting cheaper.
01:20:56.000And the problem that I had, like I went in to get a jetpack from Verizon, and A, you have to pay to be a new customer, right?
01:21:02.000You have to pay for the SIM card, essentially, that they're going to pop into your device, that you're going to tether to the account.
01:21:08.000You have to pay for the device itself, sign up for a contract.
01:21:12.000Then, with their data plans, you have to pay for the data, you have to buy the bandwidth, the four gigs a month, and you have to pay extra to tether to the device that you just bought, that you're under contract for.
01:21:22.000You have to pay to tether that to the data.
01:21:24.000Like, I don't mean to get on the nerdiest soapbox in the fucking world, but that is bullshit.
01:21:28.000That's like going into a restaurant, paying to go into the door, paying to sit down for your table, ordering water.
01:21:34.000You have to pay for the water, pay for the cup that it's going to go into, and then when you go to drink the water, they're like, no, no, no, no, you have to tether a straw to that water.
01:21:40.000I know you just bought that one, you're paying monthly, you're paying out the ass for it, even though it's just coming from a garden hose, but you gotta pay to tether a straw to sip that water.
01:25:02.000But it's super, super disappointing to me.
01:25:08.000There's a big difference between him and Mitt Romney.
01:25:11.000Mitt Romney is a creepy-ass businessman and the idea that this guy being a businessman would somehow or another be better for this country I don't believe you think that.
01:25:24.000I think there's a lot of people that just want to believe that Mitt Romney would do a better job because he's a businessman and he would get things done.
01:25:33.000Obama's for the redistribution of wealth.
01:25:36.000They really don't even know what the fuck that means.
01:25:39.00090% of the people that talk about Obama being for the redistribution of wealth They don't even understand what the real concern amongst these socialist ideas are.
01:25:46.000Most of what he's saying is really not a redistribution of wealth in the classical sense.
01:25:50.000It's not like trying to steal money from people and Robin Hood the motherfucker.
01:25:54.000But you talk to a guy like Mitt Romney and he will put ones and zeros ahead of people for fucking sure.
01:26:00.000And he will think that if rich people get richer, they will make more jobs for the poor people and the poor people will be okay.
01:26:06.000And he will cut away funding and he will ultimately do things that are not good for people that are struggling.
01:27:10.000I've talked to people, and I'm like, listening to the things they're saying, and they don't even really know what the fuck Mitt Romney stands for.
01:28:16.000It's not real that a fucking kid in 1820 who was 14 years old, a kid named Joseph Smith, found golden tablets that contained the lost work of Jesus and that only he could read them because he had a magic rock.
01:28:37.000They fucking took over Europe because he wanted to bang multiple bitches.
01:28:40.000He didn't want to be married to one broad...
01:28:42.000The idea that you think that that guy had it all wrapped up, that he was the messiah, that he was the prophet, you're a fucking idiot, okay?
01:29:49.000say this you know people say who the fuck you fucking atheist fucking this i i am not an atheist i'm not an atheist but i am not a believer in bullshit and it's a weird thing to me that in this day and age you can look at something that obvious and people resist the idea that that's bullshit you resist the idea that did jesus really come back from the dead do I'm not saying Jesus didn't exist.
01:30:12.000I don't fucking know that Jesus existed.
01:30:13.000But I guarantee you, he didn't fucking just die and magically come back to life.
01:30:19.000And because some crazy fucks that wrote a bunch of other questionable shit down, that clearly thought that slavery was okay, Clearly treated women as second-class citizens.
01:30:30.000Clearly said that you should fucking be killed if you wear two different types of cloth at the same time.
01:30:34.000I mean, there's so much Looney Tunes shit with that book.
01:30:51.000K-O-L-O-B. And the Osmonds have in their album, well they have one album called Kolob.
01:31:00.000And if you pull up the image of it, Brian, Osmond Brothers, K-O-L-O-B, it's really weird because they have pictures drawn inside of what they think.
01:31:09.000Of the planet, of what it would look like, artist renderings.
01:33:33.000It's literally like those photos on the moon where they're standing in a spotlight, where they're like, there's no way this could have actually been, like, set up that perfectly.
01:34:23.000I still leave landmines in my phone, like in my photo, just in the photo roll, because every now and then someone might pick up a phone, or if I'm on a set, I always make sure the wallpaper's interesting in case the phone goes off, so someone sees like just dudes fisting each other.
01:35:51.000It's also one of those religions where they are involved in the most arrests for having cults and fucking kids.
01:35:59.000Whenever some polygamy guy gets busted, first of all, it could just be that they're setting him up with the kid fucking thing, but that's how they get him.
01:39:24.000You have freedom of expression when it comes to religion, and that is fine and great, believe what you want, but when your religious beliefs influence policy, which affects my freedom, well, suddenly, I don't have religious freedom, because I don't believe in the crazy shit, or what I deem to be, you know, not crazy.
01:39:45.000And it's also that religion, like in choosing to believe something, especially something as ridiculous as Mormonism, that in choosing to believe in it, it sort of defines you as a person, and I'm allowed to judge you in that sense if you're trying to run for a position of leadership.
01:40:02.000I have to look at you as a potential leader.
01:40:05.000There are a lot of people that I respect deeply in this world for their intellect, for their mind, but I've had some people that I even really deeply respect and they have these really big hiccups when it comes to religion.
01:40:19.000And when that happens, that part of, I know, I can't have that conversation with you anymore because you've got a wall up.
01:41:36.000A thousand years ago, we didn't know there were molecules.
01:41:39.000So it's preposterous to go, well, this is too complex, we'll never solve this.
01:41:43.000We didn't even know, you didn't have a usage for that word or a knowledge of what it was until science discovered, oh, there are these little things.
01:41:50.000And clearly we have light years to go, but...
01:41:53.000But this guy, this was what he was holding on to.
01:42:15.000My mother, despite being presented mountains of evidence that I was putting in front of her eyes, really believed that John Edwards could talk to the dead.
01:42:24.000Wanted to go on crossing over, really wanted to meet him, wanted to have him.
01:42:30.000Not the presidential candidate, the TV personality who claimed that he could speak to dead people and scammed Countless thousands of people out of their money by saying he would do cold readings, basically.
01:42:39.000I'm getting something with a J. And he would do that.
01:43:56.000He gets mad that I bring it up because I was playing a drinking game for a while.
01:44:01.000I stopped playing the drinking game because I didn't want people to torture him, but the drinking game was every time he would go get up, I would be the guy who was introducing the fighters as they would walk through.
01:44:08.000It's usually the way it sets up is Mike Goldberg will introduce a fighter, and as the guy's walking into the octagon, it's a couple minutes, so Mike will say the guy's name, he'll maybe say some pertinent facts about the guy, And I will address his strengths as an athlete.
01:44:24.000I will address his style and what recently he's coming off of and what I think he needs to do here tonight.
01:44:29.000And so that people have something to think about when the guy steps into the octagon.
01:46:02.000I'm sorry for all those people out there that are doing live podcasts, that are making money doing it, but you're charging money for people to sit down and watch something that's not as entertaining as stand-up comedy in a comedy club.
01:46:20.000Like when I did Lead Up, we made sure to make it interactive and to get people on stage and make them part of it so it gives them an experience that they can't have.
01:46:41.000And if there was a crowd here while we were doing this, if there was 300 people watching this, I would not be able to have the same sort of conversational tone.
01:46:48.000I would be hyper aware that all these people are watching and how fucking boring this is to a group of 300 people.
01:46:57.000You just got fucking heavy with me, man!
01:47:00.000Can I just say, it's a whole new fucking world.
01:47:03.000I was trying to actively listen for the last 20 minutes, and I couldn't, and I couldn't figure out why, and it's because I had to piss so bad.
01:47:10.000There's a study that says that if you are driving with an intense need to urinate, it's about as bad as driving drunk.
01:47:16.000Your ability to focus and your reaction times are so impaired because your body is empty your fucking bladder.
01:47:41.000Well, people in Times Square used them for New Year's Eve.
01:47:44.000Yeah, I was there for New Years and I was not interested in watching the ball drop, but everybody that was talking about it was like, get there at 6 or 8 a.m.
01:47:50.000because you won't get near enough to see anything or experience anything and you're gonna have to stand there all day.
01:47:54.000And I was like, well, what do you do if you gotta go to the bathroom?
01:47:56.000I'm like, oh, you have to wear diapers.
01:47:58.000Which has now changed my vision of any imagery in Times Square because the people that are up front near the ball drop, they've been waiting since 8 a.m.
01:48:05.000and they have shit and piss in their drawers.
01:48:26.000Like, next time you see the people celebrating in the streets at Times Square, just know that a good percentage of them have a load in their drawers and they're bringing in the New Year.
01:50:19.000The front-facing camera on this thing has me doing more than walking my neighbor's dog, absolutely.
01:50:24.000There was a conversation that we had yesterday about convincing people to do things that in the FBI, in trapping people, is causing more crime.
01:51:10.000Sometimes they're taking ex-cons and they're taking people that would normally be, you know, stoolies and empowering them and saying, you go do all the illegal shit you want to do and we'll back you with the badge.
01:51:20.000Dude, we talked about all this yesterday, unfortunately.
01:52:23.000There's some people out there that are idiots, and it's not fair that someone can come along and convince this idiot that he is going to defend Islam by giving them a bomb.
01:52:31.000Like the guy in Dallas where the cops are providing them with a fake bomb.
01:52:35.000He pressed the button and then they moved in on him and arrested him.
01:52:40.000They gave him everything he needed to do it.
01:52:42.000And by the way, there are people listening to this right now that are wearing multiple Q-Ray balance bracelets because they believe it gives them the power to lift cars and balance better.
01:52:51.000Talk to pro athletes that believe that.
01:52:54.000Do they really believe it or do they know that they're shilling?
01:52:55.000Dude, I had a guy who tried to do that to me.
01:54:50.000Yes, but in that respect, for some reason, it seems to work.
01:54:55.000You know, with athletes even, there was a measurable difference, even in people that thought that it was a placebo, even in people that went in with a preconceived notion that it was a placebo, knowing that they were probably right, still had a benefit of it because they were trying to convince themselves that it worked.
01:55:11.000Did we talk about the blood pressure placebo trial the last time I was here?
01:55:18.000I'll give you the fuzzy cliff notes of it.
01:55:19.000But basically they did a study where they gave people a placebo and told them that it was a real pill that was going to lower their heart rate and their blood pressure and work miracles for them.
01:55:28.000Then they gave another group the same pill.
01:56:02.000There's something weird with our brains.
01:56:04.000There's something weird with our brains when we believe things.
01:56:06.000Because I think that reality is more malleable than we think it is.
01:56:13.000We've shown that there's a certain amount of effect positive energy and mood can have on people, and there's a certain amount of effect true belief in something can have on your environment.
01:56:28.000There's something weird going on with the mind that it's not quite as simple as we like to think it is.
01:56:35.000It's not 1 plus 1 equals 2. It's 1 plus 1 equals 2, but if you believe in magic, it might equal 5. Right.
01:56:41.000You can have a magic variable in your equation that can change the outcome of the algorithm.
01:56:49.000Belief in yourself is a strange thing.
01:57:13.000It's thinking specifically about certain results and thinking positive and moving in that direction.
01:57:20.000Certainly, you can't just sit there and wish.
01:57:22.000Yeah, but I'm saying that there's some sort of a magical combination that when used is greater than the sum of its parts, There's something to the human mind that affects reality in a way that I don't think we've totally measured yet.
01:57:39.000There have been studies that show that people that undergo surgery, where there's a certain rehab time, if they believe in the power of prayer, they tend to heal quicker and fuller, faster.
01:57:51.000So there is clearly, there's some quantifiable evidence.
02:00:10.000But just by having a new model in my mind...
02:00:13.000My physical body caught up to that model almost instantly.
02:00:17.000I had already had the physical capability, but I hadn't seen it yet, so I didn't know what was possible until it was shown to me.
02:00:26.000Yeah, you had a barrier based off your body, and then you saw that bar can be raised.
02:00:31.000You went, oh, okay, I'll just go up there now.
02:00:32.000Well, I also saw that those guys would fuck me up.
02:00:35.000When you watch things objectively, if you're a competitor, The most important part of getting better is you gotta know how bad you are right now.
02:01:46.000If you can say, alright, someone who has this belief or someone who has these thoughts that empowers them and it's positive for them, when do you go, well, but your belief is wrong.
02:01:56.000The one that you have that empowers you and propels you in positive directions that you give credit to for the positivity in your life, when do you go, okay, well, that's wrong, though, because I can prove that it doesn't exist or because I can prove that it was made up by somebody?
02:02:10.000At what point, then, do you have the right to say that?
02:02:14.000Well, a lot of people, look, you know, whether it's the flying spaghetti monster or whether it's, you know, the president of the planet column.
02:02:23.000There's something that is empowering about having belief.
02:02:29.000And I've seen people, one of the things I was scared of when I was a kid when I was competing, I was scared of competing against religious guys.
02:02:36.000Because I felt like they believed something more than I did.
02:02:40.000Yeah, I was filled with doubt about, you know, I was an idiot, first of all.
02:02:45.000And I was filled with doubt about, you know, what would happen when I die, my mortality, whether I'm a good person or not.
02:02:50.000And I would meet people that were like, when I would see guys like reading the Bible before they would fight, it would scare the shit out of me.
02:02:55.000There was like one thing that really, there was a guy named Clayton, I think his name was Clayton Barber.
02:02:59.000He was one of the top level guys in my division and he was an army guy and he was super religious.
02:03:05.000He was like super, and he scared the shit out of me.
02:03:59.000There's corruption in government, no question about it.
02:04:01.000All you need to know is there's no reason to ever tell you the exact story.
02:04:05.000So any story that happens, whether it's the way we killed Osama bin Laden, which, by the way, we've already had a difference in the story from one of the actual SEALs who was on site who killed Osama bin Laden.
02:04:17.000There's a difference between his story and the official story that the government has put out.
02:04:23.000Now, when you go back into the past and look at The Pat Tillman story, and you realize that they lied about what happened to the American hero and football star Pat Tillman, who was killed by friendly fire, who they think may have been actually murdered because he was complaining too much about the war.
02:04:40.000He was a real patriot who went over there because he thought he was going to defend us against the terrorists.
02:04:44.000And when he got there, he realized it was a massive clusterfuck and was talking about it quite openly.
02:05:52.000It's called the way people who have ultimate control run business.
02:05:56.000You know, this country has always been run by that.
02:05:59.000So when something like 9-1-1 happens and...
02:06:01.000You look at all the potential fuckery that could have taken place from the fact that people were gambling and betting on airlines failing right before it happened.
02:06:16.000That there was a massive amount of money that was moved around.
02:06:19.000Insurance policies taken out for buildings in the area.
02:06:22.000The fact that evidence was destroyed minutes after the event.
02:06:26.000This seems to indicate that there's a lot of room for potential fuckery.
02:06:30.000And if you add that to what we know has happened in the past, I throw my hands up and I go, I don't know.
02:06:36.000I don't really know what happened, but I am not willing to ever stop and say that the government is on this occasion...
02:06:45.000Even though they haven't done it in the past, and even though they've been lying about the Iran-Contra scandal, and even though they lied about virtually every fucking thing that has ever happened overseas, whether it's, you know, fucking Gulf of Tonkin, whether it's the reason why they pulled all their battleships out of World War II, out of Pearl Harbor before it happened.
02:08:04.000Yeah, it's like they're saying that they decoded Japanese.
02:08:07.000That's one of the reasons why they left certain ships and they took out some of the big battleships.
02:08:12.000They allowed that to happen so that we could have an excuse to get into World War II. Right.
02:08:17.000Which ultimately, I guess, is probably a good thing.
02:08:19.000It would suck if the Nazis actually did win.
02:08:22.000Is that possible that we can have a fucking Star Wars type situation where the Nazis get into a position where they can have a fucking Death Star?
02:08:54.000The Force is the belief and the ability to accomplish things.
02:08:58.000It's funny, on the power of positive thought, I used to be one of those guys that was, and it wasn't something I was consciously doing, but in my youth, I would be jealous of people that had success, or sometimes be angry that someone did something creative, as opposed to appreciating that, and supporting them, and being genuinely excited for them.
02:09:17.000And I had to, Root that out of myself and examine that and go, where is this coming from?
02:09:22.000And you know, seeds of insecurity and all sorts of stuff.
02:09:24.000And once I was able to look at it for what it was, that sunlight disinfected it, and now being genuinely excited for people that are doing awesome things and being positive about that has fundamentally changed my life.
02:09:35.000And I've seen that in only the last few years, so fully subscribe to that.
02:09:39.000I have talked about that on this podcast many, many, many, many times.
02:09:42.000The difference between the way I looked at things as a young man who hadn't really accomplished much or was really insecure to the way I handle things now.
02:09:51.000And somewhere along the line, I sort of figured it out.
02:12:56.000But you'll find it gets a lot easier to do that work and you find a lot more support when you're not pissed at people and jealous for their success.
02:13:06.000One of the hardest parts of being creative is if you're in tension with someone.
02:13:10.000Or you have issues or you're jealous or you have any sort of negativity.
02:13:15.000It's very difficult to be creative with any sort of negativity in your life because that becomes the blaring focus instead of letting the mind relax and go into these weird sort of patterns of thoughts that create creativity, especially comedic creativity.
02:13:28.000I was going to say, you can create great music because you're pissed at an ex-girlfriend or you have a heroin problem, but it's really hard to make comedy.
02:13:34.000How many great songs have been written by dudes who are just trying to get a girl back?
02:13:41.000I also love that drugs have shaped the design and sound of music throughout time.
02:13:46.000There's been studies that show that cocaine makes you more sensitive to higher frequencies, and that's why a lot of the music from the 80s had the treble blasted way up, because dudes were just blown out on coke at the mixing board, going, yeah, give me that cymbal!
02:14:15.000But the stories in here seem unbelievable, but as you flip the page, you get the same tale, but from another band member's perspective.
02:14:22.000And so, by the third chapter, you've got real perspective on incidents that happened of, like, girls being stuffed into litter boxes and guys ODing in the back of cars.
02:16:32.000But we also have to accept the fact that the more data comes in, the more we realize there are certain parts of the planet that are habitable and then become inhabitable.
02:17:03.000We'll have to be buying those from Apple.
02:17:04.000What are we going to do if this is the precursor to an Ice Age?
02:17:09.000And what if the shift comes in dramatic form like they believe it has all throughout history?
02:17:15.000The end of the last Ice Age abruptly happened, including massive extinction events like the Woolly mammoth, saber-toothed tiger, all sorts of animals just disappeared off the face of the earth.
02:17:26.000And we got to accept the fact that that shit could happen here.
02:17:30.000Just because we have a database of a couple of thousand years of civilization and all living in the same continents, we also have a fucking map of Greenland that they don't really understand where these people, excuse me, not Greenland, Antarctica.
02:17:43.000There's a map of Antarctica that came from the 1500s That is a very detailed map of the perimeter and it's correct and they don't know who the fuck charted this thing because Antarctica has been frozen for God knows how long and the suspicion is that at some point in time Antarctica was actually inhabitable.
02:18:03.000And there's all these sites that say there's pyramids on Antarctica that they're discovering, but I don't buy that.
02:18:13.000But I'm not, I'm completely convinced that in the course of human history, the hundreds of thousands of years that have been things that are remotely close to what we look like, We've had to flee.
02:18:33.000It's a mile high, and it pushes slowly across the land, literally erasing everything in its sight.
02:18:38.000You've got to get the fuck out of there.
02:18:40.000And that easily could happen to us again.
02:18:42.000It's interesting to think, like, if there were another catastrophic environmental event that wiped us out, if thousands of years go on and another human civilization is spawned and birthed, like, what relics they would find, because they might not ever know that we developed the internet, that we had iPhones, that we had anything else.
02:18:57.000They would get, you know, guns, maybe, maybe a clay pot or two, but they wouldn't really have a knowledge of our civilization because of the way we're storing it.
02:19:07.000Well, that's exactly what they believe happened to the people that built Baalbek in Lebanon, where they have these 10-foot tall stones that are 70, 100 feet long, and they don't even know why the fuck they got them there.
02:19:17.000They don't even know when they got them there.
02:19:38.000What do you think would happen if that iPhone got in the bottom of a glacier and it's a mile high and it's moving a foot a year, whatever the fuck it does, just crushing everything in front of it.
02:20:03.000But what concerns me, and I am fundamentally an optimist, but I always raise a flag when I can.
02:20:10.000And what concerns me is technology's role in dumbing people down.
02:20:14.000That its role as a propaganda machine, astroturfing.
02:20:17.000You know, where you can make it look like the opinions of many are something just with the click of a mouse.
02:20:22.000There are companies that are designed to do this, where you can disseminate information, people can live in their bubble, where if, let's say, a Republican Googles something or a Democrat Googles something, their results are filtered and different from each other.
02:20:36.000I see that, but I also, and I agree with you that that is a concern, but I also see that the free distribution of information ultimately will balance that out.
02:20:46.000Because I see that what's going on now is more skepticism, more intolerance to corruption, more understanding of the corruption itself than it's ever existed before, and that is because of the internet.
02:21:23.000But I think people are better today, I know I am certainly better today, at seeing contrary points, to seeing information that doesn't jive with me.
02:22:35.000The access to information from the time they were a young child and the ability to disseminate information and double and triple check things.
02:22:42.000And there's people like WikiLeaks and there's people like Anonymous that are on top of shit to make sure that everybody knows the truth.
02:22:55.000And I think that's all being distributed through the internet and changing generations.
02:23:01.000Again, as a fundamental optimist and an advocate for technology, I agree and I hope.
02:23:07.000But with that said, just as the internet's ability to distribute information and disseminate truth, it's also in its infancy to distort and to deliver messages to people that are targeted and false.
02:23:41.000Or that giant group of cunts will use astroturfing and the technology available to deliver a specific message to them on the channels that they're getting at so that either A, they believe it's truth or they feel like they need to believe it for their security or for a myriad of reasons.
02:25:37.000I thought this was really going to be a chance.
02:25:40.000The Bush-Cheney administration was clearly evil.
02:25:43.000I mean, you could be a Republican all day, ladies and gentlemen, if you are a fan of civil liberties, if you are a fan of people looking out for people, how the fuck could you be a fan of Even on the fiscal side, fiscal conservatism, they blew up the budget with unfunded wars and everything else.
02:26:10.000You would think that the last sitting president, the last sitting president, two-term president, would be someone that they would bring out.
02:26:16.000No, they are avoiding any mention of George W. He might be insane by now.
02:26:25.000I think there's got to be some disconnect.
02:26:27.000In order for you to be a guy who's responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people, there's got to be some sort of a disconnect.
02:26:34.000And ultimately, I think that's probably what fucked Ronald Reagan's head over.
02:26:37.000I think that it fucks up a lot of people.
02:26:40.000Look, Johnny Cochran and Robert Kardashian, both those guys died young of brain tumors.
02:27:02.000I mean, your health pays a fucking price for that shit.
02:27:06.000I'm not saying I wonder if there's been studies on that where people have to lie during a study or do something they believe is morally wrong and then they test their physical health to see if that knowledge, if those secrets weighs on them because it must.
02:27:29.000Negative energy will fucking come down on you for real.
02:27:32.000Has there been a study on memory recall and...
02:27:37.000Memory recall of those who are documenting an experience versus those who are actively participating in it.
02:27:42.000Like, for example, if I'm at a concert or if I'm at any event and I'm too busy taking photos for Instagram and tweeting about it and snapping photos and whatever, yes, I can look at those memories and I have recall of those memories, but how active is my memory of that event and, you know, on what scale would I rate that experience versus being present and enjoying it?
02:28:01.000It depends on how they viewed the past, whether or not they've had traumatic experiences at any sort of event before, whether they've had a reason to look at things in great detail.
02:28:10.000They've also shown that people can experience things.
02:28:13.000And then if there's a certain amount of time where someone introduces something that didn't actually happen into their thoughts and then revisits it with the same information later, that these people will agree that something happened that didn't happen.
02:28:27.000So they'll intentionally inject, especially during emotionally charged events, they'll intentionally inject some sort of a fake memory into someone's mind, and later that becomes real.
02:28:39.000And that's what people have argued about O.J., that O.J. actually does believe that he didn't kill them after a while, that you might even be able to fucking pass a polygraph test after a certain time.
02:28:49.000Oh, you can absolutely introduce false memories by asking leading questions.
02:29:13.000But they had introduced it into a child's brain.
02:29:16.000And like, there's one thing to talk about memories and how tricky that can be.
02:29:21.000Because on one hand, there are memories in my life that I have that I can tell you with absolutely no uncertainty whatsoever that I remember exactly what happened.
02:29:30.000But there's some that I'm like, man, it's like a flash show in my head.
02:29:37.000I see like a slide here, a slide there.
02:29:40.000And if I can interpolate that for you and say, well, in between slide A and slide B, this event happened, you might actually connect those dots and go, oh, I guess your event did happen because I could see that.
02:29:51.000Like, I remember I had a particular image of the house where I grew up in, and then I went back and saw it recently, and I was like, oh yeah, okay, it was over here now.
02:30:44.000I'm reading a book about that right now.
02:30:46.000It's a fictional tale about a guy who loses his leg in a traumatic accident, but he's an engineer working at this future kind of biotech company.
02:30:52.000So he designs a better leg and then gets addicted to the fact that his bionic leg has better features and can do certain things that his real leg can't.
02:32:33.000You would just have to be horny enough.
02:32:35.000See, when you say from scratch, you're talking about your regular life, which you beat off like a fucking spider monkey every three or four hours.
02:32:43.000You need a highly tuned jerk-off hand for that kind of beating up.
02:32:47.000You're a guy who watches porn all the time.
02:32:51.000You got a lot of ridiculousness going on in your situation.
02:32:55.000But if you were like a guy who couldn't ever get laid, and you didn't have access to porn, and you weren't jerking off, no fleshlights, and you went without beating off for like two weeks, and then someone said, here, here's a porno film, beat off with your left hand, you'd be like, fuck yeah!
02:33:11.000You had Peter North all over your screen.
02:33:27.000It's like my joke that I had way, way, way back in the day about having a girl jerk you off.
02:33:31.000Having a girl jerk you off trying to brush your teeth with your left hand.
02:33:34.000It's like just clumsy, spastic, and that your right hand is a motherfucker.
02:33:39.000Your right hand knows where the gum line is, and it gets that fast vibration, but your left hand, it's like you have to hold it still and move your face over to the brush, because your hand is so stupid.
02:33:51.000That's why I baby bird with two sonic hairs every night, just so I can make sure I can double fist the I put a Q-tip in each ear, and I took a shit at the same time, and then I blacked out from ecstasy.
02:34:15.000No, you sit, but it elevates your legs so that you have more of a squatting posture, which relaxes the tract so that the shit can slide out easier.
02:34:23.000And it's been scientifically proven that squatting...
02:36:22.000Those vibes and that energy was captured there.
02:36:25.000Dude, I'm going to take you after this podcast is over into the main room of the comedy room here at the Ice House and you tell me if you don't feel vibes in this place.
02:38:04.000When that moment happens, do you feel yourself projecting out of your body and getting lost in your own thoughts or do you keep it together pretty well and go, oh shit, I'm talking, but focus up.
02:39:48.000But Ventura is like, what's his record of everything from entertainer to book writer to government official to Navy SEAL? What about Tower 7?
02:39:57.000That's something they never bring up is Tower 7. So good!
02:40:04.000It's one step closer to President Camacho.
02:40:06.000I think that he has a good grasp on the amount of fuckery in his government, but if you listen to the way he debated with Jimmy Norton when he went on the Opie and Anthony show, him and Jimmy Norton, you realize he's kind of a fuckhead.