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00:01:39.000But what I do understand is What benefits me and what has been shown to benefit people and what has a long history of human use.
00:01:51.000And that's all the ingredients inside of AlphaBrain.
00:01:53.000To go and check this out, go to Onnit.com.
00:01:56.000That's O-N-N-I-T. And all of it is explained to you.
00:01:59.000And the only reason why I would be in business with anybody, and this includes Ting, which we're in business with sometimes, or Audible, or Alienware, any of the people that we talk about on the show, even that we don't get money from, like H2O, or C2O rather.
00:02:19.000Yeah, water doesn't give us any money, those cunts, cheap bitches.
00:02:24.000C2O coconut water is fucking delicious.
00:03:06.000I gave some to my Russian housekeeper, and she took him, and she went back to Latvia in 1965 and spoke to her grandfather in the dream, the lucid dream.
00:03:13.000She came back the next day, and she's like, Brian, what the fuck?
00:03:32.000Yeah, well that's the mechanism behind dimethyltryptamine.
00:03:36.000The mechanism behind dimethyltryptamine is the same mechanism behind dreams.
00:03:41.000Which is really weird how, you know how you can wake up and you're like, fuck what a dream I had, man.
00:03:46.000We were on roller skates and we were running from Godzilla and it was my cousin who I grew up with but I haven't seen him since I was 13. He's like, why didn't you call me?
00:04:17.000Yeah, DMT, which is a crazy psychedelic drug that your brain makes.
00:04:20.000And it's also available in plant form.
00:04:24.000But the idea is that when you're dreaming intense dreams, that what's going on is your brain is producing...
00:04:31.000Dimethyltryptamine your brain is producing this hallucinogen and nobody really understands what it's about and some people actually believe that you know there's an old term called sleep on it you know if you have a you have something that's bothering you sleep on it maybe you come up with a good decision in the morning A lot of the reasons for that term is because you really do think about things that are troubling you while you're sleeping.
00:04:52.000And if you are tripping, if that is what's happening when you're sleeping, if we're all growing through a DMT trip that is erased by the time we wake up, which is a distinct possibility considering the weirdness of dreams and what are they?
00:05:09.000These are obviously hallucinations, like really intense hallucinations.
00:05:13.000But In a much more controlled form than, say, a DMT state.
00:05:17.000Well, it could just be it's a low-level DMT experience.
00:05:19.000There's certain Eastern religions which believe that the life we're living now is actually just the dream that your higher self is having, which I find very interesting.
00:09:25.000That's what really Death Squad represents to all of us.
00:09:28.000When we talk about if we put Death Squad under a post and it's Joey Diaz and Ari and Brian and Duncan are all on a show together, that's what we call Death Squad.
00:11:32.000But you've had, you know, you had Graham Hancock on.
00:11:35.000You guys have had some just right up our alley guests.
00:11:38.000It's really, it's beautiful to see that there's more out there, that there's people that are doing this in London, you know, there's people that are doing this in Toronto.
00:11:47.000I ran into a lot of people in Toronto that have podcasts now.
00:11:51.000And it's essentially, it's all the same thing.
00:11:54.000It's like, you know, you get together and you go, I would like to talk about some shit that I don't see talked about in the mainstream news.
00:12:01.000Like, There's all this nonsense in the news about celebrities or about parts of the world that really don't even have anything to do with our day-to-day lives.
00:12:11.000But there's all these other weird subjects that aren't getting covered.
00:12:15.000There's so much fascinating things about it.
00:12:18.000What's going on with these psychedelics?
00:15:31.000It's not run with a dog collar around your neck so you constantly feel oppressed.
00:15:36.000It's run with a loose grip of corruption.
00:15:38.000It's a loose grip of corruption and entanglement where there's no way to get into the system.
00:15:42.000Where a guy like Gary Johnson, who's the only one left running for president who makes any fucking sense, the libertarian candidate can't even get in on the debates because they won't treat him seriously.
00:15:55.000The media is really bought and sold and it's a news program.
00:15:59.000It's a news program where they pick and choose what aspects of the news, what angle of the news, instead of giving you all the information and anything that has anything to do with criticizing America or anything that shows America in a bad light.
00:16:15.000It's all got to be reviewed before it's put on air.
00:16:17.000So, you know, while I was watching you, while you were giving that speech, I just really felt that you really want people to wake up.
00:16:28.000The news doesn't have to operate like this.
00:16:30.000The government doesn't have to operate like this.
00:16:32.000The corporations don't have to operate like this.
00:16:35.000No one's saying you can't do business.
00:16:36.000What we're saying is business doesn't mean you have to fucking rob people.
00:16:40.000Business doesn't mean you have to use lobbyists to influence policy so that you can pollute rivers.
00:16:45.000Business doesn't mean that you can store nuclear waste in the middle of the fucking desert because you don't know how to get rid of it.
00:16:51.000You're not supposed to do any of that stuff.
00:16:53.000Until you know how to get rid of it, don't make it.
00:16:55.000We really probably shouldn't even be on fucking nuclear power because we've had several major incidents over the past 100 years.
00:17:05.000100 years ain't shit when it comes to how long the fucking earth is and how long radioactive material lasts.
00:17:11.000So if you're having nuclear, if they've put together these power plants that if something goes wrong, that spot is poison for 100,000 years.
00:17:23.000And then even after 100,000 years, who's going to be the first to fucking move back there?
00:17:28.000If we've keeping any sort of accurate records whatsoever, who the fuck is going to be the first person to move back to where there was a nuclear disaster and power plants imploded?
00:18:16.000The reason why corporations are able to get away with the shit they do, bribe politicians, and influence literally war and murder, is because they act as a group that's just trying to get zeros and ones.
00:18:43.000And when you have companies where you get a guy like Dick Cheney, who's the fucking head of a company called Halliburton, That fixes shit up after it gets blown up.
00:18:52.000And then this guy becomes the vice president and just starts blowing shit up and then giving these contracts to the company that he used to run.
00:18:59.000That is one of the craziest things that's ever happened in front of human beings.
00:19:05.000It was essentially a jacking on television live, publicly, and government-sanctioned where they jacked a whole country and jacked the American people, too, and made us Give money to these corporations that would fix shit that we blow up.
00:19:21.000And even build shit that's not necessary.
00:19:24.000If you talk to people that are over there, they'll tell you that they just have a certain amount of money they're supposed to spend.
00:19:30.000And they have a certain amount of projects.
00:19:47.000Neil deGrasse Tyson had a speech where he was talking about that we have the capability now, we have the knowledge and the know-how to build a telescope that literally can go back and look at the beginnings of time.
00:19:58.000Like, we can build a telescope that is just infinitely more powerful than anything that exists today.
00:20:03.000It would cost about ten million dollars.
00:20:05.000Ten billion dollars to, you know, it sounds like an incredible amount of money, until you find out how much money they spend in Iraq.
00:20:11.000They spend ten billion dollars every few days.
00:20:30.000Look, the business of running countries has not changed.
00:20:34.000Although the access to information has changed radically, so the understanding of what a country really is has changed radically.
00:20:40.000But the business of running countries has not changed.
00:20:43.000The same thing that they did during the Roman Empire, they're doing today.
00:20:47.000They're just doing it through a loose series of guidelines.
00:20:51.000But it's really clear that they're robbing countries' resources, controlling people's militaries, attacking people mercilessly, We have fucking robots that we operate with remote control from the other side of the planet that shoot missiles from the sky that kill people.
00:21:14.000The fact that that's one of the major ways that we rocket in 2012 We literally send fucking Darth Vader spaceships that shoot rockets from the sky.
00:21:26.000Joe, do you ever get concerned that you might face repercussions from the US government one way or another for the views you promote on your show?
00:21:56.000That's not the taxpayers being looked after.
00:21:58.000That's not the government being frugal or being conservative with money.
00:22:01.000That's a relationship between someone who influenced either directly with money or indirectly by getting their former CEO to run the country.
00:22:11.000I think the idea of a corporation is a good thing.
00:22:12.000I just think you need to regulate the fuck out of them.
00:24:46.000It seems like, you know, if corporations and governments all sort of have this diffusion of responsibility, and even though we're in America, all the things that go on that we don't agree with, like drone attacks and all this shit, you know, it becomes a matter of how much of an impact does that have on the whole rest of the population?
00:25:09.000And if it only has a minor impact on the rest of the population, a lot of times you can get away with it.
00:25:13.000And that's the situation that we're in right now.
00:25:16.000We know that in order to change things, it would require a major overhaul.
00:25:21.000And it would be really difficult for a lot of people.
00:25:24.000I mean, the government is comprised of a huge amount of human beings.
00:25:30.000There's a lot of people that essentially are completely unnecessary if we had a real just and true government.
00:25:55.000But we also know a lot about government conspiracy from the past that's not just like ideas and thoughts, but stuff that actually has been proven to have happened.
00:26:05.000Like the Gulf of Tonkin, the idea that they got us into a war in Vietnam with like a fake story.
00:26:12.000The Operation Northwoods, Operation Dirty Trick, which is where they were going to blow...
00:26:16.000John Glenn was going to be the first person into orbit.
00:26:20.000And if anything happened to his space shuttle, his rocket...
00:26:24.000They were going to blame it on the Cubans.
00:26:26.000We were going to blow up some fucking...
00:27:51.000The whole reason why that guy existed is because we do...
00:27:56.000The only way a guy like Osama Bin Laden or any of these radical guys ever exists is there's got to be some great empire to oppose.
00:28:06.000And it's not a great empire of altruism that's trying to help people all over the world and trying to enhance the lives of people and clean up their areas and make money in helping countries instead of making money and just robbing their resources and then taking out their military and taking out their government.
00:29:00.000I'd like to believe that that's the case, that we can have a fair society, but I think, Brian, you believe that human nature is never going to happen, right?
00:29:10.000I mean I have a lot of thoughts about human nature.
00:29:12.000I think humans are inherently lazy and if we had like a socialist system a lot of people wouldn't do anything.
00:29:16.000So I think capitalism does motivate people to a certain extent.
00:30:39.000I had a guy, in fact, this is the worst shout out I could ever give anyone, but he said to me, and he popped up in the chat one, he was like, try to talk to Joe about Kung Fu, because I think he has some negative ideas.
00:30:50.000I was like, look, dude, I don't really believe in Kung Fu myself, so it's going to be tough for me to convince him.
00:30:55.000Well, you know, it's not that Kung Fu doesn't work.
00:30:57.000It's just, it's definitely not the best way to go.
00:31:11.000I think a better qualifier is it's not that it doesn't work.
00:31:13.000It's just it doesn't work on the right people.
00:31:15.000You know, you could probably knock out an 86-year-old grandmother with the white crane dancing tiger technique.
00:31:20.000Try it on an MMA fighter, it's not going to happen.
00:31:22.000Well, it's also the way they practice it, the way a lot of people are practicing it, I'm like, oh my god, you're being silly.
00:31:29.000It's like you're throwing a punch, and then you're pretending that if you threw that punch, what I would do is I would step right here, and then I would attack your organs like this with a claw motion.
00:31:39.000Like, come on, you're not going to do that.
00:31:42.000That guy's going to punch you again and again and again.
00:31:44.000It's going to be a lot of shit happening.
00:31:46.000You're not going to have time to get off that claw to the liver.
00:31:49.000We just had Roger Gracie in the studio on Friday, and he was talking about, we were rubbishing off Kung Fu and Karate, something bad, we're gonna get some hate, but he was talking about the kata, and how if you get good at the kata, you get your belt, and he was like, but in Jiu Jitsu, you spar, and you have to test, you can put a choke on someone, but what about if he doesn't want you to put it on?
00:32:05.000And he just was kind of breaking down some of the core differences.
00:32:17.000They had been around a long time, they'd take their forms, and they did okay in sparring, but the reality is they weren't really black belts.
00:32:29.000Like, they really weren't adept at fighting.
00:32:31.000Do you know what I find is very interesting, Joe, which you might appreciate is if you look at some of those more ridiculous martial arts, you see a guy who's like 45 or 50. If you see a jiu-jitsu guy at that age, he's tough.
00:32:44.000But you see one of these guys and without fail, every single 45-year-old plus Traditional martial artist is the guy who's got like a slouch and a beer belly and you can see he hasn't done a push-up for like 15 years, you know what I mean?
00:33:31.000For those who don't know it, Nick is a jujitsu black belt.
00:33:33.000Yeah, that's what jujitsu is all about, exposing reality.
00:33:39.000And there's a lot of martial arts that are about putting on a show.
00:33:42.000It's really kind of completely contrary to jujitsu.
00:33:46.000Taekwondo had a big impact on me as a child because in doing something that was difficult in Taekwondo, it was like the first character-forming thing that I did as a person.
00:33:59.000But there's a lot of cult aspects to it.
00:34:01.000You know, the bowing and calling the instructor sir and always bowing to them.
00:34:27.000But no one ever disrespects him or no one ever takes advantage of that friendliness and thinks that they would be a better fighter than him or they can kick his ass sparring or something like that.
00:34:41.000But karate guys will always have to put on...
00:34:43.000I don't want to say always, because a lot of them...
00:34:46.000It's done correctly, and it is a discipline, and it's all about maintaining the mindset of the Zen martial arts practitioner.
00:34:58.000There's a lot of people that are legit about it.
00:34:59.000But there's also a lot of people that just want to put up a fucking...
00:35:03.000Dog and pony show so that you don't challenge them and test them and then they develop a fucking god.
00:36:03.000So they get to this ninjutsu school and they say to the guy, you know, we'd like to spar with you.
00:36:07.000We'd like to see your system and what you can do.
00:36:09.000So he said you will wait until after the class and so they were like okay this they stuck on watch them walk on their hands whatever it is you do in jiu-jitsu class and Then at the end of the class the instructor said he said students we have a challenger and What he did is he took out a blindfold he walked to the center of the mat and he knelt down crossed his arm or put the blindfold and crossed his arms and Then said to my buddy.
00:36:36.000He said attack me Get the fuck out of here.
00:38:24.000For us, it may be our relationships or whatever.
00:38:27.000Yeah, people love to delude themselves.
00:38:29.000It's way easier than facing the insignificance of your reality in this crazy picture of the whole universe.
00:38:34.000Yeah, it's a protection mechanism for the brain, right?
00:38:36.000What the ego's there for, to give you a reason to stay alive until you can get enlightened enough that you no longer need the ego to appreciate this existence.
00:38:44.000But the ego is there to keep you alive.
00:38:46.000You're super special when you're a fucking 10-year-old.
00:39:17.000I've been doing Jiu-Jitsu since 96, and I think just getting constantly fucking strangled and going at it until your heart's going to explode in your chest and you're trying not to tap.
00:39:28.000But you've got to realize you've got to tap and then you've got to go again because there's still four minutes left in the round.
00:39:53.000Even one level up is like I'm a Jiu Jitsu instructor and then I don't know if all Jiu-Jitsu instructors have it.
00:39:59.000I'd love to hear from some of the others.
00:40:01.000But when all your students are watching and there's that young, tough 20-year-old kid and he's like the tough proper belt and you're tired and you've got to carry an injury or something, you know you've got to put it on the line.
00:40:11.000These fuckers aren't going to respect you anymore.
00:40:53.000I've rolled with a lot of dudes, but he's one of the few guys, him and Denny, they're one of the few guys that consistently catch me from their guard.
00:42:11.000to build up and you know you want to like offer legitimate resistance and that's what sparring supposed to be about.
00:42:17.000That happened to me in Brazil I went down as a white belt and I was training in Gracie Baja and like all week I was getting my ass tapped out as a white belt and then Friday was no gi day and I showed up obviously with no belt And I started rolling with this one dude, and I tapped him like six times.
00:42:30.000And I think he just didn't know who I was.
00:42:32.000And after that first tap, it was over.
00:44:55.000You can sense that, I mean, his presence, he is, we interviewed him on our show the other day, and one of the things I brought up was, I've known him for almost 10 years, and Joe, I swear to God, I've never seen him lose his cool.
00:45:06.000He is the most zen person on the planet, or the most zen person I know.
00:45:13.000It goes hand in hand with good jujitsu.
00:45:15.000I notice the calmer I'm getting as a human being, maybe it's got to do with aging or meditation, the better my jujitsu is, the more I'm in touch with reality when I'm sparring with someone.
00:45:42.000People talk about how much this podcast has helped them.
00:45:45.000Well, it's helped me, too, because it's helped me really review a lot of the ideas that I have in my head and my take on things.
00:45:53.000And really, in projecting it out to other people, or broadcasting it out to people, you also are forced to sort of take a real account of all your thoughts.
00:46:05.000And it's sort of like teaching jiu-jitsu makes your game better.
00:46:40.000I actually found out the other day, because I noticed that as well.
00:46:43.000When I started teaching full-time, I got quite a lot better, and we have, I don't know if I'm using the correct term, but there's a specific kind of neuron in our brain That fires when we see someone doing something it's I think it's called an empathy neuron and so when you're a teacher you watch your students and I don't know about your process when you teach them but for me I watch what they do and I kind of in my mind I overlay what it should look like there's like a mental video overlay and then eventually I'll show them what to do and they'll do it correctly and it's kind of like me doing the technique again does that make sense yes yeah so
00:47:14.000I guess that's what's happening when you watch someone else doing something or if you just involved in the process that's where you can get better watching fight videos Yeah, absolutely.
00:47:21.000And having knowledge of what to do already in your head, like having especially patterns.
00:47:27.000Like the other day, I was rolling, and I had this guy in side control, and he tried to get up to one knee.
00:47:33.000And as he tried to get up to one knee, I took his back, and it was all in one second.
00:47:39.000You know, it all just like, you know, it happens like you couldn't think, even if you were like an athletic person, you wouldn't be able to do it like that.
00:47:48.000Because you know what's happening is your mind is being bypassed.
00:47:52.000My first coach always said to me, he used to say, your body knows what to do, but your mind gets in the way.
00:48:08.000You know, it's like, and especially if you freak a guy out, like if you get, he's like, holy shit, how'd this guy get my back like that?
00:48:14.000Like, Marcelo's my favorite example of that.
00:48:17.000When you watch, like, Marcelo's arm drag to back, there's a moment where these guys can't even believe this motherfucker got to, their back so quick!
00:49:53.000I've changed much more over the years and tried to be much more guard oriented and half guard oriented and earn top position, you know, because most of my game, most of my submissions were from the top and I realized that's unrealistic.
00:50:10.000Roger's dad, Maurizio, I mean he's a red and white, red and black belt, so I mean this guy's legit.
00:50:18.000And he said to me, I said when I was quite a bit younger, I said, like, man, you know, Maurizio, I thought about it, like, I don't want to play on my back because if I'm on my back, I'm just trying to get to the top anyway, so why don't I just go straight to the top?
00:50:29.000And he said, you know, Nick, when you get older, you'll see you'll need your guard, bro.
00:50:32.000You'll need it because there's much more energy conservation when you're on your back.
00:50:37.000I didn't think about it, but the older I get, I kind of see that.
00:52:29.000And I just plopped out on the couch and watched TV. But I didn't feel guilty at all about watching TV. You know, it's like I did something...
00:53:03.000You know, I was just telling Brian the other day, I sold my PlayStation and my TV. I realized I don't want it in my house anymore, man.
00:53:10.000You know, it sounds a bit strange, but I always feel kind of empty after watching TV or, and it's not porn, or playing video games.
00:53:18.000I don't feel like I've grown as a person.
00:53:19.000I feel like I'm just like a vegetable, you know, and I'm happy to have it out the house.
00:53:23.000Well, there's a very different feeling that I get from playing video games than I get from doing other things that are difficult, like pool.
00:53:30.000I play pool, which is also a lot of people would say is a waste of time.
00:53:33.000You know, like they always say that if someone is good at pool, it's a glorious result of a misspent youth.
00:53:38.000You know, that's what people describe like a really good pool player.
00:53:41.000But I feel that pool in a lot of ways is a lot like jujitsu because it's a lot about managing your nerves.
00:53:48.000It's a lot about control of your body.
00:54:27.000Of how lightly or how hard you need to hit that ball and you need to be able to control that ball with a level stick so you need to figure out how to drive through it level as you're coming down.
00:54:38.000There's a lot of thinking and weirdness going on.
00:54:40.000If you look at it like from a big picture perspective there's a philosopher called Alan Watts and he says I think he was around in the 60s or the 70s and he was saying how you'll get these wealthy people who they'll buy a huge boat and then they wonder why it doesn't make them happy and it's because Yeah.
00:55:12.000I'm not trying too hard to get better, I'm just enjoying my skill, I'm getting pleasure from it.
00:55:19.000Yeah, like when you have a good role, like say you get in there with a good purple belt or something like that, someone who's real scrappy and you go at it and you're countering each other and you attack and countering each other and then you finally catch a dude with something, it's like, man, you earned that shit, you know?
00:55:33.000There's something beautiful about pulling off a technique on an unwilling participant, you know, where you've figured out a way to bypass his defenses, and you get in, and it's And it's a fascinating game of intellect, and that's what people don't understand.
00:57:00.000You know, it gets your testosterone production up.
00:57:02.000When you're doing, like, real, like, they always say that the best exercises for putting on mass are full-body exercises, like deadlifts traditionally, squats, things along those lines, where your whole body has to move as a unit.
00:57:14.000Far more effective for putting on, like, real size and functional strength than, like, say, Just bench press or just curls or something along those lines.
00:57:21.000You know, if you look at someone whose primary supplemental training outside jiu-jitsu is bodybuilding, you can see they just don't move right.
00:57:29.000That's not the way the human body was designed to move through space.
00:57:33.000They're all locked through the chest and shoulders and there's no horizontal movement in their hips.
00:59:35.000And his whole life changed because of Ibogaine.
00:59:40.000He took it and went down, and he had an issue with pain pills.
00:59:45.000He'd got an injury, and like a lot of guys, they get injured, and the doctor will prescribe him something, especially if you fuck up your back.
00:59:51.000It happened to someone I know very well.
00:59:59.000It's very terrifying that it's so readily available, that doctors will prescribe it so easily, and that they're trusting you to have control.
01:00:07.000They're giving you all these pills all at once.
01:00:09.000It's not like you go to the doctor and every day he dispenses you a new one.
01:00:12.000You know, he says, listen, I'll give you, you want to get on Oxycontin, I will give it to you, but you've got to come to me, I'll give you one.
01:01:18.000And by the way, Florida is also the state that has recently come under fire for hiring police officers to pretend to be high school students to get kids to sell them pot.
01:01:29.000They hired a 25-year-old woman who was hot.
01:01:32.000She was attractive to make friends with a 17-year-old boy who was an honor roll student.
01:02:04.000especially over 17 especially an attractive attractive 25 year old woman I mean that's a real woman and he smells that a boy would smell that and the affection for that woman would be like super special so you know what's funny is sickness I don't know about you but when I was like younger like my fantasy was an older woman and the older you get it kind of switches around laughing What do you think?
01:04:01.000And it's a completely independent thing.
01:04:03.000It's not connected to a comedy club, and it's got a lot of space.
01:04:06.000So the idea is that we can have it set up the way I would like to have it set up, where, you know, have nice cameras and monitors on the wall.
01:04:14.000But you're not getting rid of Redband, right?
01:05:38.000If I didn't do my job, though, I would feel fucking nervous.
01:05:42.000Like if I haven't been writing and I don't know what to say, there's a weird fear that comes with trying new shit and fucking around with new bits, especially if you're not convinced.
01:05:53.000Like sometimes I'll have a bit and I'll start out with it and I'm like, man, this bit might fucking suck.
01:07:38.000Yeah, and as an audience member, I feel it as well.
01:07:41.000Like when I watch someone who I think is really hilarious, like when I saw Stanhope recently or when I saw Joey Diaz the other day, like when someone is really killing and you're locked into their bit, there's this weird sort of connection.
01:08:51.000Yeah, there was a bunch of people that wrote books on comedy.
01:08:53.000And they were like, you know, I remember as a young professional, when I just started getting paid to do gigs, people would just laugh at these books, but how horrible the comic who actually wrote the book was.
01:09:03.000But what a book does do, even though I agree with that in certain ways, it does get you interested in the conversation.
01:09:10.000It does like you might like go to the bookstore and say how to be a stand up comic, man, I need to fucking find a book on how to be a comic.
01:09:25.000You might be a real professional comedian.
01:09:28.000It's just a matter of taking those steps.
01:09:30.000And so the good thing that a comedy class does is it allows you to fuck around and get on stage and see if this is something you're actually interested in.
01:09:38.000And just think about the process of it.
01:09:41.000And by the way, when you're in a bad comedy class listening to idiots tell you how to do it, you might be like, this guy's an idiot.
01:11:24.000That's too bad because that would be awesome to have him on.
01:11:27.000It would, yeah, you guys could experience the love.
01:11:30.000Can you tell as someone who's like, you're like a black belt in STEM comedy as well, so can you tell when you meet your, when you meet a new colleague or peer, can you tell if they're a natural person?
01:11:41.000Or if they're someone who had average talent and really polished it to a high degree.
01:12:00.000Like some people, you meet them and they're just really there and centered and engaging you and you're like, oh, this is a sharp motherfucker.
01:13:10.000Something that you're actually contributing to the conversation.
01:13:14.000One of the things that Brian is really good at, and I want to encourage this, but I have to give him his props, he'll say some shit that I would have never fucking thought up, and I would have never said, and he'll interject them in weird spots, and it's just like, it takes the conversation.
01:13:28.000Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
01:13:30.000But it takes it to a place that you probably would have never gone on your own.
01:13:34.000And that's what's fun in having a conversation.
01:13:38.000What's fun in having a conversation and what's fun in watching a stand-up comedian is someone who can take shit to places where you might not have gone, but they're relevant places.
01:13:51.000So it's like you allow them to think for you for a brief moment.
01:14:05.000So when you say that someone's exhausting because they're always yuck-yucking it up, like, they don't understand how they're being perceived.
01:14:12.000There's a disconnect between what they're projecting and what they're imagining they're projecting or how they're being received and how they're imagining they're being received.
01:14:24.000Just like the karate guy who still thinks he's a master and he's got a gut now but he wants everybody to be terrified of him and he really does believe somewhere in the back of his head that he can fucking handle multiple attackers.
01:15:03.000Well, have you ever seen the information on the difference between consuming marijuana?
01:15:12.000Cannabinoids change on the first pass through the liver, right?
01:15:14.000Yeah, the first pass through the liver becomes 11-hydroxymetabolite, which is this intense psychedelic drug, which is five times more psychoactive than THC. So for a portion of marijuana, like say...
01:15:26.000What's in a pot brownie, just if you smoked it, would fucking get you high as shit.
01:15:31.000But if you eat it, it's almost uncomfortable.
01:15:34.000It's so self-examinatory and so intensely probing to all aspects of your fears and unconscious thoughts.
01:17:45.000And then it kind of got crazy with those credit derivatives and stuff.
01:17:49.000It's more just like technology is the way I look at it.
01:17:51.000Like an iPad you could say is bad if you like load porn on it and give it to an eight-year-old but in theory it's not bad stuff.
01:17:58.000The problem is when it gets a little unregulated and crazy.
01:18:01.000Well, I see your point, and I think that what you're saying is probably correct, but I think that if you want to have a fair society and a society that makes sense, I don't think you can have things.
01:18:16.000When it comes to money and finances, I don't think you can have things that can be manipulated in any way, shape, or form.
01:18:22.000Or things that are based at all on confidence or perceptions of how something is doing.
01:18:28.000So when I look at the stock, Apple's down.
01:18:30.000You know, the iPhone has not been perceived as the fucking hit that we thought it was.
01:18:38.000What kind of crazy world do we live in where there's people, the regular people, who are gambling for and against a company Falling apart, are doing well, and that's a part of our society, and that's a part of our economy.
01:18:54.000But every time you buy something, you're kind of gambling.
01:18:55.000When you buy your house and wherever you live, you actually are thinking it'll probably be a good investment as opposed to if you bought a house and Sure, if I was saying that you should never gamble, that would make sense.
01:19:29.000If the Dow is down, if it's that fluctuating up and down based on some stupid fucking bill that gets passed or Iran's been rattling their sabers, the Dow is down!
01:20:44.000as long as people continue to have more and more access to information and more and more power to distribute that information like we do right now.
01:20:54.000And that's one of the scariest things about these tightening up bills.
01:20:57.000When they're trying to stop, they're passing these cyberterrorism bills and this sweeping legislation that allows the government to come in and shut down websites and deem enemies of the state.
01:21:08.000Like WikiLeaks is an enemy of the state now.
01:21:10.000Julian Assange is deemed an enemy of the state.
01:21:14.000They've decided he's as bad as Al-Qaeda.
01:21:16.000Meanwhile, all he's done is tell the truth.
01:21:19.000All he's done is distribute information that the government didn't want distributed, so they've decided that this guy is a fucking terrorist.
01:22:14.000And even if you vote for him, I think it's been pretty obvious with Obama that it's not that easy.
01:22:20.000And what Obama's done, everybody thought that Obama was going to be this great savior of this country and is going to I remember this woman who was all happy when he won, and now I know that my mortgage is going to be paid, and now I know that I was listening to her say this, and I was like, whoa, you want to talk about some high expectations for someone who's going to come in and you think he's going to fix this incredibly fucking entangled, corrupt system?
01:22:44.000Not only did he not fix it, but he let some shit get passed that I would have never thought that the National Defense Authorization Act Which allows the military to break up civil dissent.
01:22:55.000It allows the military to be used on U.S. civilians.
01:22:57.000It allows people to be held without authorization.
01:23:00.000It allows, rather, without representation, without any recourse.
01:23:12.000It's not like things have gone horribly bad in this country.
01:23:15.000It's not like there's riots in the streets every day and people are assassinating government leaders and there's bombs blowing up in buildings everywhere.
01:23:23.000And we have resorted to some sort of arcane law that we're going to have to put into place until we can calm things down.
01:23:37.000You've got hours and hours of bumper-to-bumper traffic, and the worst thing is somebody might blow the horn or stick a finger out at somebody.
01:23:42.000No one's cutting people's heads off with swords.
01:23:44.000It's not necessary to pass these crazy Orwellian laws.
01:23:49.000But what it makes me think is that they can see the writing on the wall, and they know that this form of running governments It's no longer valid.
01:24:06.000It's not like we're living in 1930, and I have to read the Hearst newspapers to find out what the information is going to be about this upcoming election.
01:24:15.000You can find out anything about anybody.
01:24:40.000They've allowed the idea of doing their stockholders justice and making as much money as possible, they've allowed that to supersede humanity.
01:24:49.000And when you have businesses where their entire function is to supersede humanity, you can see that, and you can measure that, that we need to stop that.
01:26:32.000Well, you infected us over in London, you know?
01:26:34.000Well, you know, like I said, we were infected first.
01:26:37.000Yeah, Brian and I, we've come up with this idea called Global Real, and we want to facilitate the setting up of like similar things, Learn Real, in every major city in the world.
01:26:46.000Or anybody who wants to just do a podcast.
01:26:48.000And we talked to some guys actually in Victoria, British Columbia, there's a guy over there, Eric Faust, and we talked to him recently on Skype, and he's like, I want to do a podcast.
01:27:20.000I feel like there's 300 million fucking human beings just in this country and hundreds of millions worldwide that also listen to anything English.
01:27:29.000I think there's a huge audience for everybody, and I don't think that it has to be Us against them.
01:27:34.000I'm inspired by other comedians just like I'm inspired by other podcasts.
01:27:38.000But I'm a big believer in the way to be successful and the way to feel good is to help other people.
01:29:05.000There's a lot of comics who bring guys on the road with them that are terrible so they don't show them up.
01:29:10.000I've always been of the mindset that I should bring the funniest human beings that are available so that the show is better and it makes me laugh.
01:30:33.000I mean, I've grown so much as a person this last year.
01:30:36.000It's probably been the best year of my life, and this is like 10 years of financial markets and making money and doing this, but like this last year, I've changed the most.
01:30:45.000Two years ago, I would have been the dude that glazes over when you talk about psychedelics.
01:30:48.000I'm like, oh, you're one of those fucks.
01:30:50.000And now I'm doing it, and I treat people differently.
01:30:53.000What made you have an altering of that idea?
01:30:58.000I walked away from that job because I don't know.
01:31:00.000I think a lot of times, as young males, we're sold this capitalist promise where you go to school, you make the money, you get the girl, you have the car, and you're happy.
01:31:09.000And a lot of our viewers, I think, are the same way.
01:31:11.000They're like these guys in their mid-20s.
01:31:13.000I think they're playing the game, and they're like, okay, then where are all my rewards?
01:31:16.000And they're like, I'm not happy with this anymore.
01:31:19.000I was doing this day-in, day-out job, and it was quote-unquote successful, and I had all the trappings, and then I was just like, I wasn't happy.
01:31:26.000So I just walked away from it, scared as hell, with nothing to do.
01:31:32.000Yeah, and then for six months, I was literally not doing much, and Nick and I would meet in the West End, And walk around London for like three hours and I was listening to your podcast and we'd walk and we'd talk about philosophy and women and finance and perspectives and at the end I'd be like, Nick, that would have made a fucking good podcast.
01:34:12.000This guy, whoever you were that came with the Higher Primate tattoo, this guy had the dopest fucking, one of my t-shirt designs on his shoulder, the Shiva one.
01:34:22.000He had it done on his shoulder by this wicked tattoo artist.
01:34:25.000Whoever you were, you fucking son of a bitch.
01:36:44.000Really interesting cat, you know, because he's this big, scary-looking motherfucker, but he's actually a really well-thought-out, well-spoken guy.
01:38:25.000And when you deliver, especially when you deliver on a sparring partner, there's part of you that knows that you just did some damage.
01:38:31.000When you uncork a right hand on someone, you see their eyes roll back and their knees buckle, you know you just fuck that guy's consciousness up for a blip.
01:38:47.000But some of them don't have access to the most technical trainers.
01:38:51.000You know, there's some trainers, like there's the Matt Humes of the world, who if you watch their fighters, their fighters are so obviously well-trained, very obviously technical.
01:39:01.000Winklejohn's fighters are also very similar.
01:39:04.000They're super obviously well technically trained.
01:41:06.000There's just a few too many cunts on the board.
01:41:08.000They're just a little better at squashing cuntiness.
01:41:11.000Although I shouldn't say that because I hear Sherdog's gotten a lot better about it.
01:41:15.000Anyway, my point is they're ruthless because they're hiding behind anonymous screen names, but sometimes they're accurate.
01:41:21.000And every now and then they'll put up a video and say, does so-and-so seem to have brain damage?
01:41:26.000And then you listen to him and you're like, wow, that guy is struggling.
01:41:29.000There was a video with Paul Williams recently where he was, Paul Williams the boxer, who got knocked out by Sergio Martinez with a vicious one-punch knockout.
01:41:39.000And then he was in a motorcycle accident, which left him paralyzed, and they interviewed him in the motorcycle.
01:41:44.000And I was listening to his labored speech, and I was like, ooh, that doesn't sound good.
01:42:44.000And to see him, when he was younger than me at the time, and to see him slurring his words like that scared the fucking shit out of me, man.
01:45:47.000So in that sense, it's as safe as we can make it, but it's a dangerous sport.
01:45:52.000So they have to think about that, and they have to train with that in mind, and they have to understand when it's time to not do it anymore.
01:45:59.000You know what really pisses me off is when someone says, oh, the ref shouldn't have stopped the fight.
01:46:03.000It's like, man, always err on the side of caution when it's someone's brain in jeopardy.
01:46:08.000I think some guys, you've got to let them try to get it.
01:46:12.000Like Frankie Edgar, a perfect example.
01:46:14.000How do you stop that guy's fights early?
01:46:16.000When you see that first round, two fights in a row.
01:46:19.000You see that and you go, how could you stop that guy's fight?
01:46:22.000You've got to look at the individual and his ability to bounce back from punishment.
01:46:26.000You've got to give him the opportunity to win.
01:46:30.000Frankie's proven time and time again that he can do that.
01:46:32.000In that sense, the referee has to be an expert in fighters' particular styles and their ability to endure punishment.
01:46:40.000It's not the best way to compete, but with a guy like Frankie Edgar, it's also one of his weapons.
01:46:47.000One of his weapons is that he's in incredible shape and that he recovers quickly.
01:46:52.000And, you know, he can wear a guy out because of that.
01:46:55.000He can drag a guy into some crazy fucking firefight where, you know, he's got a thousand bullets and the other guy might only have 400. So, you know, he might think, oh, I got 400 bullets.
01:47:08.000And, like, you know, the fourth round with Gray Maynard, when he knocked him out, it was like, God damn, he's still going.
01:47:15.000He's still going at the same clip he was going in the first round.
01:47:17.000And Gray couldn't manage that at that point in his...
01:47:20.000What's it like behind the scenes at the UFC? I mean, what would we be surprised at something you just notice all the time when you're calling those fights at the UFC? I don't know, man.
01:48:53.000You can't not know how to take someone's back and explain how he's got to take his back.
01:48:59.000If you see someone who's doing something, I'll see someone occasionally.
01:49:03.000I'm like, you can't let go of that underhook.
01:49:06.000I'm like, if this guy lets go of that underhook, this motherfucker's going to take his back.
01:49:08.000Especially a guy like Hani Yaya or someone who's a super high-level guy.
01:49:12.000Like, Hanyaya, one of his recent fights, he got side control on this guy, and as soon as he reached back, I'm like, oh, he's going north-south choke.
01:49:20.000And I called it, like, several steps ahead.
01:49:22.000But with a guy like Hany, you can see it.
01:49:43.000There's no way you can know that without doing that.
01:49:45.000If you listen to the commentary on the early UFCs, it's hysterical, because these guys were like, The hardest part, to me, is the ground game.
01:49:57.000There's a lot of variables in stand-up, for sure.
01:50:03.000It's not that stand-up is easy, but there's infinite variables on the ground, and you have to understand the various different styles of attacking different positions.
01:50:14.000Some guys They'll go side control on a guy and face towards the feet.
01:50:18.000And they'll be like, guys, we'll try to get a guy in a twister or try to get someone's back.
01:50:22.000And then there's other guys that go judo style.
01:50:24.000And they're going to look for the mounted crucifix.
01:50:27.000They're going to look to ground and pound.
01:50:28.000Or they're going to look for a scarf hole or some kind of like...
01:51:59.000Because a guy gets a hold of your collar, a guy gets a hold of your sleeve, there's a lot of shit they could do to you if you were slippery and with no gi, you could just muscle out of it.
01:52:06.000But you have to use technique and you have to do it the right way with a gi.
01:53:23.000One of them was attacking from the half guard.
01:53:25.000One of the things that opened up the darts was that a lot of people were attacking from the half guard.
01:53:28.000And they were going with a double underhooks attack.
01:53:31.000And when they were going with a double underhooks attack, a lot of guys were sneaking their arms in And then all of a sudden it became anaconda chokes, darts chokes.
01:53:40.000It's a whole new subset of the art, basically.
01:53:42.000Yeah, and it was basically to deal with underhooks.
01:53:46.000So if you're on the side of a guy, like maybe in half guard, and a guy has a really strong underhook, You know that if you get your arm under his underhook and pass his neck and connect your arms together, now he's in a bit of trouble.
01:54:00.000You just put yourself in a dangerous situation.
01:54:02.000You're trying to be very offensive, but in allowing me to whizzer your underhook and pass by your neck, now you've allowed me to control your neck.
01:54:36.000People think you're rude to cut people off, but you're not meaning to.
01:54:40.000It's just like you have a thought, and if you don't say it, sometimes it escapes, and it gets away from you, because the conversation derivatives.
01:55:59.000I have a lot of shit already written, and I will eventually put it out.
01:56:03.000But right now, I'm concentrating on my new studio and my stand-up special, which is going to be out at the end of the month, the end of October.
01:56:45.000Because I already have to balance it out with writing stand-up, which right now is more important because my special's about to drop and I have a whole new hour that I've basically put together between the time I did the special and now.
01:56:57.000What do you want from your stand-up in five years from now?
01:57:23.000It's mostly people who don't just resonate with the idea of comedy but resonate with the idea that there's someone out there that's also confused by all this.
01:57:32.000And there's someone out there that's being honest about all of it.
01:57:34.000And those people, I've sort of found a huge amount of them because of this podcast.
01:57:39.000And I don't desire anything more than that.
01:57:44.000Just having all the people come up to me after shows, all the people that tell me they've lost weight, all the people that tell me they've got their shit together, that they're living their life like they're the hero in their own story.
02:01:40.000There's a video that I tweeted yesterday.
02:01:43.000Today is October the 2nd, and if you go to the October the 1st feed, I tweeted this video where this guy, he must have like massive autism, because this guy went and debunked every single point that ancient aliens has ever put forth about how humans could have never built this!
02:03:06.000And I think it's very interesting that this guy was able to find so many pieces of evidence that point to how they did certain things and explain how they built obelisks and giant stones and show ones that were in the process of being made when they abandoned so you can clearly see how they did it.
02:03:27.000And also he had some brilliant insight on the construction of the pyramids that I had never heard before about the theory of the internal ramp.
02:03:35.000Because the question has always been how they place the stones.
02:03:44.000It's like an x-ray of some radio wave graph of the pyramid.
02:03:51.000And you can actually see the internal ramp.
02:03:53.000And they didn't understand what that was when they first made this reading of the actual structure of the pyramid of Giza.
02:04:01.000Until this internal ramp theory came into play, and this guy examines the internal ramp theory and shows all the evidence for it, including areas of the pyramid where at certain points you could actually go in through the side of the pyramid, there's a hole, and you can go in and see where there's all this space in there, and most likely that's how it was built.
02:04:22.000Well, either way, listen, this ancient aliens debunking, what it does is explain how all these things were done.
02:04:33.000What it doesn't explain is how they figured this out.
02:04:36.000What it doesn't explain is what kind of intense mathematics were involved in the equations of 2,300,000 stones, each of them cut so perfectly that they meet exactly in a point at the top.
02:04:57.000And how they did it was, certainly, it took a long time.
02:05:00.000It certainly was incredibly difficult.
02:05:02.000It certainly required master craftsmen and builders and skillful labor.
02:05:08.000But the knowledge to construct it is what's really fascinating because that is what Graham Hancock points to.
02:05:18.000What he believes is backed by real evidence and that evidence is that there was a very sophisticated culture that existed all over the world somewhere around 10,000 BC and that something Probably happened to those people and we had to start a lot of things over again.
02:05:43.000And coincidentally, this time period that Graham Hancock points to, which is about 10,000 plus BC, is the exact same time period that the most recent discoveries of glass, impact glass, from meteor showers has been discovered at the same layer of dirt All over the world.
02:06:03.000So scientists are absolutely convinced, and this is fairly recently, that there was incredibly destructive meteor showers around 12,000 years ago.
02:06:41.000It's all around the same time of woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers.
02:06:45.000It's all in the same sort of area and they could all coincide.
02:06:51.000So what we have in ancient Egypt is not simply an amazing culture that in 2500 BC built the pyramids.
02:06:58.000It might very well be that 10,000 BC they built the Sphinx and 10,000 BC they had Massive stone structures already in place back when we thought that people were just hunter-gatherers.
02:07:10.000That's the basis of Graham Hancock's thoughts on it.
02:07:14.000And every day he's being proven correct.
02:07:16.000The more people discover about ancient civilizations, the more Graham Hancock is correct.
02:07:31.000He's like the perfect representative, in my opinion, of what Can be accomplished through psychedelics and thinking and just his take on his own work and his take on the difficulty in trying to express these very controversial ideas.
02:07:51.000I don't know if you watched the show with us, but he talked about the 24 years that he was smoking cannabis and how the ayahuasca told him.
02:07:58.000And he just dropped that right on us in the episode and just like...
02:08:01.000Man, I have a lot of respect for someone who can just be that honest about themselves.
02:08:05.000That's the kind of guy you want running your country, man.
02:08:07.000Yeah, he's no longer a writer or an archaeologist.
02:08:13.000And he changed the way I looked at history.
02:08:16.000That book, Fingerprints of the Gods, changed the way I look at history.
02:08:20.000And I'm pretty convinced now, especially due to the most recent geological evidence and the discoveries of things like Gobekli Tepe, which is this 14,000-year-old massive compound of huge 9-foot-tall stone columns.
02:08:36.000I think it might be 19 foot tall still in columns.
02:08:38.000It's got to be bigger than nine because nine wouldn't.
02:08:40.000But it is still amazing because 14,000 years ago people were supposed to be hunter-gatherers.
02:08:45.000There wasn't supposed to be any sort of civilization like this.
02:08:47.000We're supposed to be living in fucking teepees and shit.
02:08:50.000Then he's showing that there's these huge stone structures, by the way, which they've only uncovered less than 4% of, I believe, because it's a painstaking process of Because, you know, they've got to do it with toothbrushes and shit.
02:09:04.000They've got to sift through the sand and find bone fragments and pottery fragments and things along those lines.
02:09:10.000But what they do know about Gobekli Tepe is that it was covered up 14,000 years ago.
02:09:57.000Just to think that you're walking in this area, and as I'm looking around, I remember just standing there and just thinking that at one point in time, this was a football field, and they were playing that crazy game where they kicked this ball through a hole, which devolved to they believe that they might have played it with human heads at one point in time.
02:10:16.000And just the one area where they have the sacrificial altar where they would kill someone and cut their heart out and throw the heart down the stairs.
02:10:36.000Hancock's new book is about, his new fictional piece is about that whole period and he's, oh my gosh, he's talked about it on the show and we were like, it talks about 80,000 people being slaughtered in four days for ceremonial purposes and he's, I was just like, oh my god, let me buy that.
02:10:54.000In four days and he said just the rivers of blood and the human sacrifice, I guess they would fatten people up in pens for days and weeks on end in order to sacrifice for like a brand new monument and just The concept of you being there fattened up with your family when you know you're just going to be used to have your heart pulled out of your body and shown.
02:11:12.000Human beings are capable of some fucked up shit, dude.
02:11:15.000And the crazy thing is, it's like, how did they go from the people that were so incredibly sophisticated that they built these...
02:11:22.000Structures that were aligned to the cosmos and when they were aligned to they directly correlate a lot of them do with constellations like they understood the alignment of certain stars they understood the prediction of lunar eclipses like a thousand years in the future they had figured out so they had this incredible knowledge of astronomy and they they had figured out and and recorded a lot of like really incredible shit and yet they were killing 80,000 fucking people in a couple of days.
02:11:50.000Light and dark always go together right?
02:11:56.000I've been talking about this lately on stage, too, about the real problem with the nuclear bombs, that the guy who pressed the button never...
02:12:02.000didn't build it, doesn't understand it, didn't create it, didn't invent nuclear explosions, didn't figure out how to split the atom, didn't construct the whole piece.
02:13:12.000But if you wanted to do it, that's what you would do.
02:13:14.000It's like the warrior or the general, the military man who would drop a fucking atomic bomb on a building on a city is way too fucking stupid to ever figure out how to make that thing.
02:13:27.000It's like the mentality to figure out how to make...
02:13:30.000An atomic bomb is completely different than the metallic that you would just drop one out of a plane.
02:13:35.000Do you think Ahmadinejad, if he had a nuclear bomb, would launch out on Israel?
02:13:39.000Or do you think even Ahmadinejad knows, I don't want to be the guy that does this destructive act?
02:13:44.000I think that when you have nuclear power or any sort of mass destructive power, it's a lot like the military equivalent of winning the lottery.
02:14:13.000The same way some asshole who doesn't really understand cars Can somehow or another just go into a Chevy dealership and buy a Corvette ZR1 with 648 horsepower and just fucking stomp on it and slam it right into a tree?
02:14:26.000That moron should have never had access to that kind of power or never have access to that kind of ability to move so quickly.
02:14:34.000with his own decision making, he can decide whether or not to run the red lights and whether or not to just drive his car right into a fucking mall parking lot and smash into cars.
02:14:44.000You can do anything you want when you have a Corvette.
02:14:46.000You die, but if you could choose to just drive into traffic, if you're fucking crazy.
02:14:51.000There's something weird about our ability in contrast to what we understand or what we have earned, the power that we've earned.
02:15:02.000Like if you build a bow and arrow, okay, if you're a tribesman, you're out there in the woods, you build a bow and arrow, you craft it, and you develop your aim, and then you use it, and you hunt and kill an animal.
02:15:21.000But if you drop a nuclear bomb in a lake and then start pulling out fish, we've got all the fish we need!
02:15:28.000You're just some fucking asshole with a nuclear bomb.
02:15:31.000You can't build one of those on your own.
02:15:35.000That's why I've been told the best war leaders or the best generals are the ones who've come up through the ranks because they've seen combat.
02:15:42.000They know what it means to send people onto a battlefield.
02:15:46.000Whereas the guy who just went to West Point and never fired a shot in his life, it's easy for him to say, like, send in the troops because he doesn't know the direct consequences of that, right?
02:15:54.000I think that's one of the reasons why they like people that get into office that aren't like Wesley Clark or aren't like John McCain.
02:16:06.000Guys like George Bush, guys like Dick Cheney.
02:16:08.000The ones who are the biggest warmongers are the ones who never experienced him personally.
02:16:12.000You know, I think a guy like John McCain would be far more reluctant to use a military strategy knowing that there's boys out there that could have been just like him.
02:16:20.000You know, a guy like Wesley Clark would certainly be far more reluctant to take, you know, the lives of these young soldiers for granted because at one point in time that was him.
02:16:34.000Colin Powell was really good about that in the first Iraqi invasion because he had spent so long in Vietnam and he'd seen the mission creep there and like how it lasted forever and ever and he was really adamant.
02:16:43.000It's just let's go in and get the hell out.
02:16:47.000It's when you don't have a defined outcome of a mission.
02:16:50.000You're not like we're gonna go in and do X, Y, and Z. We're gonna go in and wait until there's peace or we're gonna defeat terrorism and it's like there's no specific end to that mission.
02:17:19.000There's a website I want you to check out sometime called stratfor.com And they're really big into this thing called geopolitics, which is basically every nation is built on kind of their geography as well.
02:17:29.000And they just talk about how Iraq's built up in a very mountainous way.
02:17:32.000And it's in no one's interest to go in there because it's such a mess to do that.
02:17:35.000And I hope we don't anyways because we don't really have any business doing that.
02:18:30.000We think we're going to change the world?
02:18:31.000The only way you can change the world is to influence young people.
02:18:34.000So that the young people who go through the ranks don't imitate all the crusty old fuckheads that have been running things in these archaic ways because that's just the way things always were done.
02:18:49.000This is not a world where you can bullshit people quite as easily.
02:18:51.000Like if your ideas were going to the Iranian public and they listen to your podcast And similarly, maybe if there was a crazy Iranian podcast and we could listen to their leaders, I just think communicating would get us at least in the right direction.
02:19:03.000Well, I bet my podcast does reach a lot of Iranians.
02:19:06.000And I bet there's a lot of Iranians who have their own podcast, just like London Real.
02:19:10.000I gotta assume that this is not gonna stop here.
02:19:15.000I think what's going on with podcasts and especially with the free ability to distribute information and to communicate, not even distribute information, but just even a talk on the internet to discuss things, to review things.
02:19:34.000There's never been a time in human history where A guy could be doing something like my podcast in LA, and you guys in London could be listening to it when you're going jogging.
02:19:43.000I mean, where the fuck has that been apart?
02:19:53.000It's not like we had to spend billions of dollars and put satellites in orbit and figure out how to get our message to people and it goes over on a fucking horseback and you've got to decipher it.
02:20:04.000You've got to hire a local guy who speaks the language.
02:21:12.000They like to make it really hard for you to get a hold of anything that shows that they suck at their job.
02:21:17.000And when you bust them sucking at their job, and you distribute that information, you become an enemy of the state, like WikiLeaks.
02:21:24.000I mean, stop and think about what WikiLeaks has done.
02:21:27.000WikiLeaks, in releasing that collateral murder video, let people know how calloused War can make regular good Americans and turn soldiers into people that don't care that innocent people got gunned down in the street and that make jokes and talk lightly about machine gunning vans filled with people, including children.
02:21:49.000It makes you feel bad for the guys who are shooting.
02:21:53.000It makes you feel bad for the people on the ground.
02:21:55.000The whole thing makes you feel bad because the whole thing is just off.
02:21:58.000It's just wrong and crazy and not what we want when we think about the United States of America in a proud way.
02:22:06.000We think of ourselves as being a noble country, a country filled with people that are rugged individuals that figured out a way to escape from the monarchy of England and come over here and do it on our own.
02:22:20.000And this time we're going to have freedom and we're going to have the Constitution and we're going to make sure that we have rules in place so that corruption can...
02:22:27.000And then you see just massive amounts of corruption.
02:22:38.000And he was like, Brian, when I grew up in the early 80s, late 70s, I was like, we had all these wonderful ideas of what the U.S., it was something good.
02:22:45.000Maybe we were also anti-Soviet at the time.
02:23:58.000I always wonder if America as a sovereign entity, if it was actually attacked, which it's never really been on its own soil, except for 9-11, but that was, okay, two planes and a building.
02:25:09.000Maybe we need to look at that on a global scale for us to pull together as a species.
02:25:12.000Maybe an asteroid does need to hit the earth and a quarter of the population has to die so we all go, fuck in hell, we need each other.
02:25:18.000We've got to stop being cunts to each other.
02:25:19.000It's unfortunate that in this model of civilization it doesn't seem like there's any other way for us to learn other than shit falling apart.
02:25:26.000It's not like we can just look at things and say, hey, listen, Obviously, we're doing this wrong and we're going to have to figure out how to do it right.
02:25:34.000And in the process of figuring out how to do things right, there's a lot of shit that's going to go away.
02:25:38.000And one of the things is people who have billions of dollars.
02:25:40.000You're not going to have billions of dollars anymore because your money is nonsense.
02:25:44.000Your money is basically a bunch of fucking things that are in a bank somewhere.
02:25:48.000And instead, what we've got to seek to do is we've got to seek to have a resource-based economy, a real resource-based economy.
02:25:56.000Then we've got to figure out who owns these resources and how should these resources really be distributed?
02:26:01.000Should somebody be able to camp in front of a diamond hole in the earth and say, this is my fucking hole!
02:26:16.000Who's to say that these resources are yours?
02:26:21.000Should it not be that the resources are what powers our economy?
02:26:25.000Should it not be that the resources instead are what powers our government and that no one really owns them and that they're distributed to all the people that claim the earth as their home?
02:26:36.000And that sounds crazy, hippie, nonsense, socialist.
02:26:40.000But the reality is, you shouldn't be able to fucking build a giant machine and park it 10 miles off Louisiana in the middle of the ocean and just suck billions of dollars out of the earth and then not give any of that back.
02:27:44.000And when we had the financial crisis in London in 2008, apparently RBS, one of the banks at Royal Bank of Scotland, they were one day away from shutting off the ATM machines.
02:27:53.000And they were saying, if you've ever thought of a food riot, if you can think of people not being able to touch their money...
02:28:04.000And, you know, it's happened in little small doses with the collapse of, in America, it's happened a bunch.
02:28:09.000There's a savings and loan collapse that George Bush's son was involved in that was a huge scandal that, you know, cost people millions and millions of dollars.
02:28:18.000A lot of people's personal fortunes were completely erased.
02:28:20.000Their entire life, Vinnie Pazienza, the boxer, he lost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
02:28:28.000And that's what a part of this financial bailout was in this country.
02:28:34.000The most recent one was trying to avoid something like that happening with all these big banks failing.
02:28:40.000But at the end of the day, if you're going to have a society that is well-designed, you can't use an infrastructure that is not well-designed and maintain it.
02:28:52.000The structure that we have now is so fucked up and corrupt and crazy.
02:28:57.000The cracks are starting to show as well.
02:28:59.000Yeah, it's like having a giant building made out of cardboard.
02:29:03.000Instead of just acknowledging it, you're just throwing duct tape up everywhere it starts to separate.
02:29:08.000We've got to figure out a way for it to be a society that makes sense.
02:29:14.000The only way that's going to happen is you've got to restructure finance.
02:29:20.000You've got to restructure what money really is.
02:29:23.000You've got to restructure how much money and how much people get paid to do certain jobs.
02:31:50.000To really move in that direction is possible for all of us.
02:31:54.000And that's the way you change the world.
02:31:57.000The way you change the world is you change the way people look at things so that nobody wants to be the big cunt in charge.
02:32:03.000Because the big cunt in charge leaves a shit life.
02:32:06.000We live in a world where when kids get crazy and they make a lot of noise and they're fucking hard to deal with, people give these kids antidepressants.
02:34:37.000You can never tell people what to do, but you can tell people what helped you.
02:34:40.000And you can tell people what has aided you and where you were going wrong and how you saw it and corrected it.
02:34:47.000A big part of life has got to be the way you interact with human beings, the happiness that you derive from friendships, the happiness that you derive from doing things together, and also from creating things.
02:35:03.000Whether it's creating carpentry or art.
02:35:06.000We are some weird animal that constantly seeks to use the imagination to make physical things manifest themselves.
02:35:13.000Whether it's physical things in terms of something you can read online or something you can watch as in a video podcast.
02:35:20.000Whatever it is, we have this massive amount of satisfaction that we get out of making things.
02:35:26.000Because we're some weird fucking bee thing.
02:35:29.000We're some weird insect that's making a hive.
02:35:31.000We're just making this super complicated hive that's connected by billions and billions of other little fucking weird pink monkeys.
02:35:39.000Or brown monkeys and black monkeys and yellow monkeys.
02:35:42.000And we're all putting it all together.
02:35:46.000We all are responsible for our own little piece of this crazy machine called culture and civilization.
02:35:51.000We don't know what the fuck we're doing.
02:35:53.000But clearly we're all working together in some weird form.
02:35:57.000And you can accept that and you can choose to be depressed.
02:36:02.000You can choose to live an ineffective, inefficient, non-harmonious life because it's going to make your mother-in-law happy and keep your marriage together.
02:36:14.000Or you can, you know, seek silence and calmness and truly examine your situation and then slowly try to turn that boat around.
02:36:24.000Slowly try to turn that battleship towards where it needs to go.
02:36:28.000I think Ari Shaffir said one time, he said, start with the people in your daily life.
02:36:32.000He's like, be nice to the waiter and be nice to this person.
02:36:35.000And, you know, it can start really simple.
02:37:04.000You know, if Ari sees me tip people or be nice and then he says, I'm gonna fucking do that too.
02:37:08.000And then you hear about that and you say, I'm gonna do that too.
02:37:10.000And when that happens and someone hearing this says, that's how I'm gonna do it.
02:37:14.000That is just ripples and ripples of positive reactions.
02:37:18.000Collectively it can raise our collective consciousness ultimately.
02:37:21.000As much if not more than anything that's ever existed in human history.
02:37:25.000The biggest bursts of change that have ever come forth in human history are nothing compared to the reactions that people are gonna get to the free access Of information and content that the internet has.
02:37:36.000The impact of the 60s ain't shit compared to the impacts of the 2000s and the 2010s and 20s.
02:37:43.000It's going to be logarithmically expanding.
02:37:47.000We can't even wrap our heads around where it's going and that's why the government is panicking.
02:37:53.000That's why they're building this giant NSA spy fucking cabin in Utah, one of the biggest, most expensive projects the government's ever undertaken.
02:38:03.000No money for Neil deGrasse Tyson's gigantic telescope to see the beginning of time, but they've got plenty of money to build a huge building to store every fucking email you've ever written, to take everybody's laptop fucking camera and turn it on to watch you beating off and Store it and put it in some fucking database somewhere.
02:38:23.000And you think that's a joke, but it's not.
02:38:41.000If we're ever in England for a UFC, that's when I usually come over.
02:38:44.000Obviously, we'd love you guys on the show, but if you ever want to just use the studios, I reckon you might be able to get the queen on your show.
02:39:55.000Were you shocked when he got knocked out by King Mo?
02:39:57.000Yeah, I asked him about it on the show, but I was surprised.
02:40:00.000But then again, like you said, on any day, King Mo's got some power.
02:40:04.000That's what's scary about wrestlers, too.
02:40:06.000If a wrestler develops knockout power, the odds of you getting him down is kind of small.
02:40:12.000It's going to be hard to get a wrestler down.
02:40:13.000Jiu-jitsu guys versus wrestlers are always a weird sort of combination because if the jiu-jitsu guy can't get the wrestler down and the wrestler guy is like a...
02:40:22.000A Chuck Liddell guy, it's bad for the jiu-jitsu guy.
02:40:25.000But if the jiu-jitsu guy can get the wrestler guy down, a lot of times wrestlers have some bad habits.
02:41:08.000I think there's so much competitive craziness in America.
02:41:13.000And there's so much just arrogance in the American attitude, which is, you know, one of the things that sort of built, yeah, made it as fucking nutty as it is.
02:42:05.000You need to have face-to-face contact.
02:42:07.000Like the tube in London, which is the underground, you see people face-to-face, you know, and you're constantly interacting with them, seeing these crazy women wearing burqas or some lady from Somalia, and you're smelling them and seeing them.
02:42:18.000People are just more polite there, too.
02:42:34.000America is such a huge landmass that it's not ever that densely populated if you compare it to Tokyo or London where we're on this tiny little island.
02:42:44.000What happens is in places like that where it's so densely populated people are forced to be They're forced to learn to be able to live on top of each other and be nicer to each other because there's nowhere out.
02:42:53.000I would agree with you except for New York.
02:43:07.000I think it has to do with why people came here in the first place.
02:43:11.000The ripples, the first ripples of intention of the people that landed, they were crazy.
02:43:16.000They were people who were so bold, they got on a boat and sailed for months across the fucking ocean to some place they hadn't even seen in a video because video wasn't invented.
02:47:16.000It has this massive sort of snowball effect, and it just grows, and If there's any way that we can improve our world, it's improving the way the other people around us see it and approach it.
02:47:44.000But it's happening right now, and I'm enjoying the fuck out of it.
02:47:48.000If it is happening right now, if this is really one fucking step in an infinite number of steps, and it's just a life cycle that will repeat itself again, and you're going to be a baby again in 50 years, guess what?
02:48:16.000I don't know if this is a one-time shot and everything else is just your ego trying to protect itself from the inevitable doom of the spirit which dies just like the body does.
02:49:07.000I think that's something that we've all locked into.
02:49:11.000Most of us unexpectedly sort of stumbled into it, but that's...
02:49:14.000Also, I think that's the right way it's supposed to go down.
02:49:16.000The universe has a plan for all this, and we're little strange monkeys.
02:49:22.000We follow the plan, and if you're resonating the right frequency, if you have the right intent, I think that plan turns out the way this one's turned out.
02:50:40.000Yes, people keep asking me, when are you going to put together a website where you have all of the information of everybody that's, you know, quote-unquote, involved in the Death Squad?
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