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00:04:51.000I remember when, like a long time ago, I saw on porn, like my first time, that somebody's spitting on the crotch before putting that, you know, using like some spit lube.
00:07:12.000And like I said, if you go to audible.com forward slash Joe, you can try Audible free for 30 days and you can get one free audio book.
00:07:21.000You know what's cool about it is like if you listen to a lot of podcasts, and you instead just start listening to some audiobooks, when you're done listening to an audiobook, you can say, I just read a book.
00:07:31.000Like when you listen to a podcast, you're just like, yeah, I listen to a podcast, and I'm like, so, I have a radio.
00:07:35.000Well, I told you I'm fucking in love with that Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast, and even though you can't say you read a book after you get through one of those, it's way better than reading a book.
00:08:10.000He's there to try to discern the facts as clear as possible.
00:08:14.000He gives several different accounts of each situation as it's been deciphered, like what people agree on, as far as numbers and how many killed and shit like that.
00:10:39.000The cordyceps is a different strain, the cordyceps mushroom, gets inside of the ant, infects the ant, and when the other ants know it's infected, they take him way out of town.
00:10:49.000They're like, we've got to get him the fuck out of here, because they know he becomes a bomb.
00:10:53.000So they have to take him out of town and then when they leave him there, he explodes and sends mushroom spores into the air, which are like some invaders of the body snatchers type shit.
00:11:04.000It just lands on other ants, gets into them, infects them, takes them over, and then the same thing.
00:11:10.000They explode and become mushroom bombs.
00:11:22.000It's one of the most amazing websites I've ever been to.
00:11:25.000You just scroll down, and it's all about lucid dreaming, and there's these cool visuals that pop up, and then there's one point where the whole space starts spinning around.
00:11:45.000I think if you want to try, I believe choline is one of the big ones responsible for it.
00:11:50.000A lot of people have reported similar results.
00:11:54.000And I think that when you take things that are psychoactive like that, like nootropics at night, I think it has a pretty profound effect on your dream state.
00:12:08.000I've always said that it's one of the best pieces of evidence that the efficacy of AlphaBrain is what the fuck it does to your dreams.
00:12:17.000It's hard to tell whether or not something's giving you an edge, like whether your brain is performing faster or slower, because it's all so subjective.
00:12:24.000It varies with how much sleep you've had or how annoyed you are.
00:12:28.000It varies with so much, but what AlphaBrain provides is all the nutrients, all the building blocks.
00:13:44.000They did this article about Dwayne Ludwig, and he was saying how he reviews the fight tapes naturally, then he smokes weed, and then instead he'll have a review of the fight tapes when he's taking Alpha Brain.
00:13:58.000And they were saying basically how he feels like each state of consciousness that he reviews the fight tape in gives him a little bit different info from the one before.
00:14:08.000And of course, Yahoo News being cynical and whatever, they're like, yeah, this product that they say makes you smarter and more acute, yeah, whatever.
00:16:31.000It's awesome because when I think about it, I've been here 20 years and I still speak like a fob, but because it's Italian fob, then it's like, ooh, exotic European.
00:16:48.000Learn how to speak English right already.
00:16:49.000You sound like a beautiful classicist or something.
00:16:52.000Some dude from a bygone time when men were elegant.
00:16:57.000And the number of times that I say something in the classroom and I realize my students are just looking at each other like, what the fuck did you just say?
00:17:35.000That's interesting when you're learning a language and you've never said words that are fairly common read.
00:17:42.000Like Sovereignty, like I have a few, there's a few that occasionally, like I don't, I can't think of any off the cuff, but I know there's some where I've only read them.
00:20:09.000This picture from Italy in 1950-something.
00:20:14.000I heard somewhere they were saying, particularly northern Europeans, they do many things right, but definitely the romance department is not the one that they are most renowned for.
00:20:26.000So a lot of the women come down for vacation in Italy to hook up for random summer flings with the exotic, romantic Italian story, and then they go back to have their regular life.
00:20:37.000So who would be the boring dudes from where?
00:20:41.000Boring is a bad word and I'm going to have lots of people...
00:21:32.000For fun, for passion, for partying, for, you know, just to laugh with your friends.
00:21:38.000And if you can't do that, if you can't let that go, you're tightly knit and figuring out how to fucking use gears and levers in order to make your car work better.
00:22:28.000Seriously, man, because you see the videos and you see these Thousands of people standing, totally disciplined, listening, complete silence to the guy going crazy.
00:22:37.000And then when you finish the sentence, they all jump up with one shout.
00:23:14.000Just coming over here, I was listening to a Dan Carlin's episode, to the latest Hardcore History, and he was going off about this story about what was happening in Germany in the 1500s.
00:23:29.000Yeah, I guess it's the origins of Lutherism, and what he's talking about was, I did not know this, and this is one of the amazing things about that podcast, I did not know that most people couldn't read the Bible as recently as 1500. Death penalty offence in most countries.
00:23:48.000If you owned your own Bible, you read the Bible by yourself, not in Latin, through the priest, but instead you had your own thing, you could be put to death.
00:24:13.000But that's the thing that makes you wonder about human beings, that the vast majority of human beings just go with the program of whatever they are taught in those times.
00:24:21.000And when you look at that, like, even if you look back 70 years and you look at racism in the United States, anybody who went along with the norm of what was typical in American society 70 years ago would be seen as, like...
00:26:40.000The problem is there's too many dummies out there.
00:26:43.000There's too many people out there that don't know what the fuck is going on in their own life and they can't give you advice and they can't give you an honest assessment whether something works or doesn't work is good or is not good.
00:26:54.000But that should be the way we go on it.
00:26:55.000And it should be that we can completely trust everybody.
00:27:00.000You know, if we could figure out how to eliminate deception...
00:27:04.000That would be one of the best things ever for the human race.
00:27:08.000If we could figure out how to eliminate the need to steal and deception.
00:28:15.000By doing it yourself, are you giving the green light for everyone to just go straight pirate?
00:28:20.000Do you know how hard human beings have worked for so fucking long to get ourselves to a position where We can walk down the street in almost every city in the country and be reasonably safe when you're driving and you can be reasonably safe, despite the fact that you're dealing with millions and millions and millions of people.
00:28:36.000When you go rogue, you cunt up this whole awesome system that everybody's been busting their ass.
00:28:54.000Man, there's so many fucking words I can say, but in any case...
00:29:01.000There are a lot of laws I break on a fairly regular basis, but my, I guess, moral standpoint on that is anything I do, whether legal or illegal, the end result can't be hurting another human being.
00:29:16.000If anybody walks home crying because of something I did, it's fucked up.
00:29:20.000If I'm breaking laws that don't really hurt another human being, there's not one person who's going to shed a tear over it, then I have no problem with it, you know?
00:29:28.000Well, I agree with that if you're running a red light at 3 in the morning when there's no one around.
00:30:00.000Regular people see the type of shit that goes on on Wall Street.
00:30:03.000They see, like, those houses on the Hamptons on those TV shows and those crazy places in Greenwich, Connecticut, where these people have fucking airports in their backyard and helicopter landing pads in the middle of their...
00:30:57.000Whether it's legal or illegal, it's the same shit because you know the laws that are in place are only in place because somebody bribed somebody.
00:31:06.000Somebody used special interest money to make something happen somewhere that somebody liked and somebody passed that law and got things through.
00:31:13.000And that's how the system is set up the way it is.
00:31:28.000When people stop being goody-goody and go buy the book, they, at that point, they just go nuts, right?
00:31:39.000So it's like, it's not just that they slightly break a few laws because those laws don't make sense, it's they go all out and there's a rape and pillage and whatever the fuck.
00:31:47.000Or they are these goody-goody freaks who are...
00:31:51.000Both of them, I mean, I prefer the one that's not going to shoot you at 3am, but at the end of the day, they both are stuck in this dogmatic view of the world about how it's supposed to be.
00:32:00.000And to me, once you break laws, you have to be, there's a Bob Dylan line in one of his songs that he says, to live outside the law, you must be honest, which sounds like a paradox, right?
00:32:09.000Because he's saying, what the fuck do you mean?
00:32:11.000Like, How are you going to be honest by breaking laws?
00:32:43.000I realized a few days ago, I was, you know, like Facebook has those things like inspirational people or shit like that, where you're playing, you throw down some names.
00:32:51.000I realized I put down Robin Hood twice.
00:33:06.000Right, because they didn't let the poor hunt.
00:33:08.000They wouldn't let the poor hunt on the land.
00:33:10.000So these poor, they had no money and no food, and they started shooting deer, and Robin Hood would shoot these deer and give them to poor people.
00:33:22.000The fact that kings ever worked, that that ever worked, that anybody was ever willing to, like, admit your grace, royalty, you know, that's one of the beautiful things about that, and I know it's a fantasy novel, but Game of Thrones is the way they communicate with each other, the way the royals,
00:33:38.000like, have this secret guarded way of communicating with each other, but the actors are so good that it's like, The intention is very clear throughout everything, and they have this very proper way of handling and managing every situation.
00:34:05.000That idealistic way of communicating did exist, at least in small places, in small pockets, for quite a while, right?
00:34:14.000Absolutely, but the thing that, yeah, the thing that trips me out is not only how it evolves, that part is actually the cool part about it, is how it evolves that one day some guy shows up and say, you know what, I'm gonna be your king, you call me your majesty, and it's not because God wants it to be that way.
00:34:40.000Do you think that being a king and that kind of thing comes from the original alpha male primate behavior that chimps exhibit and monkeys exhibit where there's one that's always the alpha?
00:34:55.000So almost like we have this weird broken need to have that one.
00:35:01.000So we go looking for it, whether it's a king or a priest or whatever.
00:35:11.000It could also be, and one doesn't exclude the other, but it could also be like in hunting and gathering societies, which is how we have lived the majority of time we've been around, You have kind of this informal leadership because it's all like 20, 30 people who have known each other all their life.
00:35:25.000So when there's a decision to be made, everybody turn to you because you are cool, you're smart.
00:35:33.000But when you settle down and you start living in farming communities and the 30 people become 300 and then become 3,000, there's a lot more of those little inner fights.
00:35:44.000You know, people within the tribe who start fighting each other.
00:35:47.000And so you need the leader to come mediate because he's a cool guy.
00:35:50.000But it stops being, oh, you're a nice guy.
00:36:04.000We understand that it's a pain in the ass for you to constantly be Having to worry about our little squabbles, but it's such an important job, we'll plant for you.
00:36:13.000And suddenly there's a division of social classes, where suddenly somebody's a specialized job that emerged, maybe because they are cool people.
00:36:20.000Maybe it starts out that people give them that power.
00:36:26.000And then, the bigger the society gets, the more the social stratification, the more that position becomes entrenched, solid, unquestionable.
00:36:35.000It passes to their kids, kings, divine right, all of that shit.
00:36:39.000But probably the way it starts, it starts in a mellow, normal way.
00:36:49.000And the more the need for mediation increases, the more important the role becomes, until it becomes something above and separate from everybody else's.
00:37:01.000And it's not leadership by charisma anymore.
00:37:03.000It becomes leadership by birth or some shit.
00:37:06.000By right, by divine right, by enforcement of the group of people that agrees with you, and then you divvy up power within the group.
00:37:39.000Yeah, because you can't have a big society without central authority.
00:37:42.000It sounds awful to say because it sounds like you're defending some fascist model of the world where it's like, you need a strong...
00:37:48.000Again, I'm not going to do my weird voice, but...
00:37:53.000That's need for central authority to keep the society in check.
00:37:58.000And unfortunately, when you put enough people together, It's not going to work unless you have some kind of central authority that can decide things.
00:38:07.000That's the long chess game of the New World Order.
00:38:10.000If you think about it, why would you ever want the world to be stable?
00:38:16.000Because if the world was stable, you wouldn't need some sort of militarized government to protect you.
00:38:20.000So the militarized government that's protecting you makes sure the world stays unstable.
00:39:02.000I mean, the whole speech by Heisenhower in the 50s was a trip because, you know, Heisenhower, a Republican guy, was led troops in World War II, you know, not the most Conspiracy theory inclined, you know, he's a very straight-by-the-book kind of guy,
00:39:18.000and yet when he announces, you know, the biggest threat facing the United States in the 50s, everybody says, well, communism, right?
00:39:30.000A military guy himself, a fairly conservative guy, and yet he makes the call saying if you let certain industries that profit on war get too big, they will get to have influence over government pushing us to fight wars when we don't really need it because of their own profit.
00:39:46.000And, you know, if it comes from some random hippie telling you this, it's like, yeah, whatever, you know.
00:39:51.000It comes from this straight-laced, by-the-book kind of guy.
00:40:49.000They are going to pay attention to that.
00:40:50.000They are not going to pay attention if you say the president in 18...
00:40:55.000But I mean controversial in that a lot of parents are going to think that that's like liberal programming and then what you're doing is bullshitting these kids with your hippie ideas and you're fucking with my kid's head.
00:41:05.000It's like I'm reporting what some Republican president who was a general in World War II said.
00:41:40.000Years after they had the Zapruder film shown on the Geraldo Rivera show, where Dick Gregory, the stand-up comedian, brought it on the Geraldo Rivera show and showed people the view of the assassination from Essentially, where this guy,
00:41:55.000Zapruder, was standing, which we had never seen the actual assassination before.
00:41:59.000And when people watched it, the first thing they thought was that this guy looks like he's been shot from the front.
00:42:37.000But I guess what you're saying puts things in perspective for me, because there are a bunch of times when I'm teaching class, and to me I'm saying the things that are the most normal things that everybody would know.
00:42:46.000And I see everybody kind of like jaw drop to the ground, like...
00:44:25.000And he said, no, no, it wasn't me, it wasn't me, it wasn't me, and then eventually came out.
00:44:30.000That was exactly the recording that he was referring to where there's a lot of evidence of what Nixon was actually saying that he did do that shit.
00:44:37.000People need to know if their president's a crook.
00:46:16.000And it's precisely because the 60s were going on that conservatives got freaked out and they started, oh my God, the country is going in this crazy, wild, godless, liberal direction.
00:46:35.000They say that the election of 1960 was the first election where the debate was on TV. And they say that people who listen on the radio to the debate think that Nixon had done pretty well.
00:46:48.000But then people who watch it on TV, they overwhelmingly thought Kennedy dominated.
00:47:23.000When you tell people, you know, you trust first impressions, they're like, ah, that's superficial, they're only looking at somebody's good looking or not.
00:47:33.000To me, I'm a big believer that I don't know exactly what you see, I don't know if it's some specific body language, I don't know what it is that you see, but to me it's...
00:47:42.000Everything you've ever gone through is written on your skin.
00:50:34.000And then when they ask her from jail, like they have a jailhouse interview, it's stunning how well she lies about this.
00:50:40.000And you know what's a beautiful thing that people do so well when they lie about shit like that?
00:50:45.000Well, how are you staying calm, my faith?
00:50:49.000Just think about that statement, that your faith, after you stabbed a dude like 28 times, shot him in the head, slid his neck, like this bitch did some crazy shit to this guy's body.
00:51:33.000They could just shut parts of the brain off.
00:51:35.000And unfortunately, I think a lot of them suffered childhood abuse.
00:51:38.000Yeah, in fact, that's the thing that sometimes, you know, when you got the whole background story, you almost feel bad.
00:51:43.000But then, you know, you feel bad for the five-year-old.
00:51:46.000You don't feel bad for the person you have become because it's like, I understand how you got there, but understanding doesn't mean justifying.
00:52:49.000You should fix that, level that up as much as possible, help those people out as much as possible, and help them to get the fuck out of there.
00:52:57.000And the thing that drives me crazy about people when they talk about people that are in the ghetto, like, oh, they're poor, they're lazy, that's why they're still on welfare.
00:53:05.000You know, if they don't want to work, you don't...
00:54:03.000Student of mine, very first semester I started teaching, there was this guy who was from South Central LA, and we started chatting afterwards, and man, the stories he would tell me about what It was a normal part of his day-to-day life.
00:54:14.000He'd be like, yeah, yesterday I didn't get home until midnight from class because somebody killed right down my door and so they had locked up the whole...
00:55:00.000There's a whole community of future people that you can affect.
00:55:06.000There's a whole new generation of future people that if emphasis is put on helping, somehow or another we can figure out a way to at least eliminate a certain aspect of the lowest of our lowest class society.
00:55:22.000You know, it seems like that could be done with education.
00:55:30.000Which is not saying much, but at least it's...
00:55:33.000It's just one of the most frustrating things is how far we've come as a human race and yet how far we have to go when it comes to shit like that.
00:55:50.000Of course, there is an element about self-empowerment that regardless of circumstances, you know, you're not going to change circumstances just because you wish it.
00:55:59.000So there is an element where the individual needs to find a way because if nothing else is doing it for you, you might as well put your best to do it.
00:56:07.000But, having said that, most people then use that argument to dismiss all the social conditions.
00:56:12.000It becomes, well, it's just up to you, so go son, we are all behind you kind of shit.
00:56:18.000But in the meantime, you start from 50 steps behind everyone else because you grew up in a shitty place with drug abuse all over, with alcohol abuse all over, with neural models, with the whole thing.
00:56:31.000And it's like, but, you know, you can do it.
00:56:33.000Well, sweet of you to say, you haven't grown up in that shit.
00:56:38.000It's such a cliche, but a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
00:56:42.000The most patriotic thing that we could do as a country is not go fuck with some other countries overseas with dubious intentions, but strengthen our weakest link, our weakest economic link, our weakest social link.
00:56:57.000It's a weird thing that politicians don't talk about that, that they don't offer that up as a plan for the future.
00:57:05.000Take Give companies contracts to clean up the ghetto.
00:57:11.000The same kind of contracts you give to clean up fucking Iraq.
00:57:14.000Give contracts to clean up the ghetto.
00:58:16.000We don't know how to keep it together.
00:58:18.000We get it together for a certain amount of time, and then we fucking spiral out of control and go slamming into the rocks.
00:58:24.000It's fucking weird because, I don't know, I notice when I look at myself and I analyze where I'm at, if I'm happy with me or not, I see so much fucking room for improvement.
00:59:40.000Right when you think that you're a loser because you can't pay your credit card, you hear about this guy in Cleveland that has kidnapped three women for ten years, and you go, I'm not really a bad person.
00:59:55.000You know, to surround yourself with cool people, like, one of the things that I've gotten really good at as I've become an adult is I collect cool people.
01:00:05.000I got a bunch of cool people that have managed to sneak into my life.
01:00:09.000And that's very important because when you have questions about something, when you want to talk to somebody about something, like I can resource a database of cool, intelligent, level-headed, healthy ego people.
01:00:25.000That's one of the most important things about choosing a place to live or choosing people to be around is surrounding yourself with inspirational people, people who also are healthy, people who are excited, people who have good attitudes, people who aren't lazy bitches.
01:00:41.000That's probably the most comment I see when I look at your board, when I look at Duncan's board, like people's emails or people when they send you an email like, oh, I love the podcast, stuff like that.
01:00:52.000So many people say the exact same thing you're saying, which is, Jesus Christ, I can't find around me the kind of conversations that you guys have on a podcast.
01:01:02.000Man, I wish, and that's why I listen, because I can't find it around me.
01:01:13.000There's a lot of people that think like us out there, but they weren't connected by a show.
01:01:20.000It's like they were all floating around, and you sort of locked into certain ideologies, and sometimes you could listen to this kind of a show or that kind of a show, but it didn't get locked into...
01:02:23.000And so important to do it through podcasts, too.
01:02:25.000When we do it, when we bring you these people, you guys out there listening, we bring you these people like Daniele Bolelli, Joe Diaz, and Duncan Trestle.
01:02:34.000That stuff, when it spreads like that, it's good for everybody.
01:03:05.000And you can share it with other people in your town, too.
01:03:07.000You can say, listen, there's this dude named Duncan Trussell, and you've got to hear this fucking podcast, and it's going to change the way you look at marriage.
01:03:21.000You know, that's one of the things that was really fascinating about this Dan Carlin podcast is he was talking about Martin Luther and how they printed up—this is amazing stuff, folks—they made these little, like, pamphlets, and they handed out these pamphlets about religion,
01:03:38.000and people would hide them and share them with each other, and they were, like, secret.
01:03:46.000This guy, Martin Luther, he was the first guy to translate the Bible in a phonetic language.
01:03:52.000The first guy to make it so that the people who didn't understand Latin could actually read the word of the Bible.
01:03:58.000Yeah, because at that time, when he started doing that, it was a death penalty offense to own a Bible or read it in, you know, Christian countries.
01:04:32.000Yeah, there were a gazillion of these stories where sometime before they became Pope, they were like general or some shit, slaughter a whole town, and then eventually they become Pope.
01:04:40.000Slaughter a whole town, then become a Pope.
01:04:42.000Sometime when they were actually Pope.
01:04:45.000When did Pope and being a priest in general become so gay?
01:04:49.000Not that there's anything wrong with that.
01:04:51.000No, I think like throughout it was the only cover that you had if you didn't have heterosexuality where you get married and you just have kids and all of that shit if you just wasn't in you and You couldn't fake it.
01:05:03.000And it's not like you had the option of saying, no, sorry, I'm out of this because I like dudes or something.
01:05:57.000And even those guys, there are like so many subdivisions, that's why this thing gets so crazy.
01:06:01.000Most of those guys were hardcore pacifists who sort of read the New Testament in a very literal, you know, turn the other cheek.
01:06:08.000Love your enemies so they wouldn't fight under any conditions.
01:06:11.000But then there were some guys who decided, well, I like some of your interpretation, which was the more pro-poor, semi-communist interpretation of the New Testament.
01:06:20.000But this peaceful shit, yeah, I don't like that part.
01:06:24.000So we'll just go for the hardcore pro-poor, pro-communist approach, but we'll just bash bastards' heads along the way.
01:07:08.000And in that sense, that was the cool thing about Martin Luther is about pushing these, everybody can make it decide for themselves, which sound very sweet and democratic.
01:07:17.000But the problem is that then when he started realizing that other people were interpreting the Bible in ways that were completely unlike his, he was just as peaceless as the Catholic with them.
01:07:27.000He's like, no, I meant freedom from the Catholic interpretation.
01:07:30.000I didn't mean really make up your own.
01:07:32.000That's some weird shit that you're interpreting there.
01:07:35.000And Protestants started burning people at the stake just as much as Catholics were doing it.
01:07:40.000Well, that was the big time for burning people.
01:07:42.000Yeah, the guy, John Calvin, like the second major figure beside Martin Luther among the Protestants, he was so peace with this one guy because he denied the Trinity, you know, the Father, Son, Holy Ghost thing.
01:07:54.000That he had them burned at the stake and when they were bringing the wood to set him on fire, he said, no, no, not that wood.
01:09:03.000I mean, this is not even the stuff where it's like, hey man, you have a lot of cool gold, I want it, sorry, tough luck, I'll bash your skull in because I want to take it.
01:09:11.000It's not nice, but you can see a logic to it at least.
01:09:44.000In that sense, to me, any kind of ideology in that sense is a disease because rather than interpreting life by looking at what really is going on, you are trying to interpret it to this filter of your...
01:09:55.000It has to fit my preconceived notion of the universe.
01:09:58.000And if life doesn't, then there's something wrong with life.
01:10:01.000I'm going to disregard that evidence because I got it all figured out.
01:10:04.000Yeah, it can be beneficial if you follow a really positive ideology, but just following an ideology itself is so dangerous.
01:10:12.000It's like the idea that one person or one idea, one thought will prevail above all despite rational changes in your environment, changes around you.
01:10:52.000So one of the things that people dig is the ability to have some solid dogma to fall back on that is reassuring, makes them feel good about life.
01:11:00.000It makes them feel like I know what's going on as opposed to be constantly on the ball and figure things out as you go.
01:11:07.000Yeah, especially folks that seem to have a little extra fear or a little less curiosity or they get tired easier.
01:11:16.000It's so easier for them to just lock on to something, but it's also easier for people who are mentally ill to lock on to something.
01:11:22.000That's one of the weirdest things when you see an obviously mentally ill person screaming, firing, brimstone, and you're like, ugh.
01:11:33.000And it's hilarious how people apply to every aspect of life, even when they are not that flat out crazy, but just a couple of degrees lower, that desire for owning the truth and for...
01:12:00.000I got the truth, everybody else must be wrong, and I'm gonna defend it against all evidence, no matter what.
01:12:06.000Yeah, martial arts are very cult-like.
01:12:08.000A lot of the traditional martial arts, and although I benefited a lot from that, I was definitely locked in.
01:12:14.000It's just, I was lucky that it was very positive, and it was beneficial towards me, but it was all bowing, everyone was, sir, you know, you wore a special outfit when you walked into the place.
01:12:50.000Many traditional martial arts built a cult in terms of cult of personality and the wise master who knows everything and all these rules are designed to increase this sense of hierarchy sometimes.
01:13:01.000And in things like UFC, it's like, well, prove it.
01:13:04.000Which is almost blasphemous if you say it in a more traditional context where...
01:15:02.000It's the MMA approach to religion is what...
01:15:05.000The way MMA stands to traditional martial arts is like this approach is what stands to regular religions, which is not all the good stuff comes from the same place.
01:16:11.000That's why people, especially should be...
01:16:16.000Really distrusting of politicians in 2013. The way human beings should talk should be explaining what they've learned from their own experiences.
01:16:26.000It should not be telling people what they should do.
01:16:29.000It should be learning from your own experiences, telling you.
01:16:32.000And if you don't have any experiences, if you don't have any really unique experiences or really unique thoughts and experiences, why the fuck would you think that you should be able to lead?
01:16:40.000Well, you're trying to lead because you're saying the words the right way, and you're saying the things that the polls say people want to hear, but as far as unique individual thoughts, like this shit like I Have a Dream that you could hear today, and you go, that motherfucker just nailed it.
01:17:19.000They are both cocky and humble at the same time.
01:17:22.000Because, you know, there's a certain cockiness that comes from you are a bad motherfucker and you know it because you're doing things that no one else is doing.
01:17:29.000But at the same time, you know your limits real well.
01:17:32.000You see all the times when stuff that you do and say doesn't work.
01:17:36.000It boils down to being honest with oneself.
01:17:46.000This is the stuff where my experience stops right there and I don't know anything beyond that or And even experience, people get into this trip of making perfect sense of it, right?
01:17:57.000This is the event, and I'm going to derive 12 lessons from it.
01:18:09.000It's like looking at what things that happen, rather than running with it beyond what experience warrants, that you just acknowledge what happened, you acknowledge what you derive from it, and keep an open mind, the fact that there's probably more to it.
01:18:23.000Now, your idea about this book, is this just to pick out all the cool shit that you've learned?
01:18:33.000And to me, it's like, at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what I'm teaching, I always end up talking about the same stuff.
01:18:40.000Whether I'm talking about, I start from American Indian history or religion or martial arts, I end up talking about the same things because they are the stuff that life is made of.
01:19:16.000A chapter each on some of the big things for me, the things that in my mind any human being need to find, need to decide where they stand on some of these issues.
01:19:38.000It really is boiled down to the Bruce Lee You know, research your own experience, reject what is useless, absorb what is useful, and add what's specific here on.
01:19:47.000You know, his basic methodology for how to approach knowledge.
01:19:51.000I mean, he applied it to martial arts, but really is a brilliant way of approach just any kind of knowledge, whether it's about life.
01:22:06.000Because I think, especially in a really hardcore fundamentalist form, it's much less likely that people are going to accept that as time goes on and information gets distributed Right.
01:22:20.000But then again, people will always be afraid of dying.
01:24:45.000Martin Luther translated the Bible into a phonetic form, and then the people started interpreting it, and then going, well, how come no one's practicing any of this shit?
01:25:54.000And so it's like, so you're going to be Christian, but you're going to be hardcore capitalist.
01:25:58.000It's like, yeah, because I'm done with Jesus.
01:25:59.000That part about money, I'll just skip over those passages, and I'll focus on some weird interpretation of one passage that may seem that he says something else, and I'm going to ignore the other 19 where he's clearly stating, fuck, accumulation of wealth.
01:26:13.000Yeah, that was the other thing that they had...
01:26:16.000What the book found in the translations was that Jesus hung out with people like them.
01:26:20.000Jesus hung out with the poor and the downtrodden and the prostitutes and that's who Jesus was piling around with.
01:26:27.000Like, what the fuck have you guys been teaching us?
01:26:30.000And so the people that wanted to go even further than Martin Luther, these Anabaptist?
01:26:48.000So they would baptize you as an adult when you want to.
01:26:50.000Right, and then the third baptism was when they drowned you.
01:26:53.000Yeah, if they catch you, right, if they catch you, and either Lutherans or Catholics, if they would catch you, then they would decide it was, their way of being funny was to drown you, since it's, oh, you like two baptisms, we'll give you a third one.
01:27:07.000And anabaptism, anabaptist thinking, that just, that does sound like anarchistic, you know, anabaptist.
01:29:46.000And you would have to have meetings and everybody would have to really talk about let's make sure we avoid all the pitfalls that have fell on all societies before us.
01:30:02.000And I guess today there's a better way to go about it, because whereas in the past, if you do that, you run off into the mountains, create your one community where all the other bastards can...
01:30:12.000Today, you can have an element where you have your local community.
01:30:16.000And at the same time, you're connected to a wider world in a way that doesn't isolate you, doesn't make you weird and cultish, and cut you off from everything else.
01:30:24.000Because that was always the downside of the small community.
01:30:51.000It's just we need to figure out a way to fix society and lessen the amount of shitty people, shitty products, our product of creating human beings.
01:31:01.000We need to figure out a way to make less of those guys in Cleveland that kidnap girls and keep them locked in their basement for 10 years.
01:31:08.000That should be our number one priority, not curing lack of boners.
01:32:14.000You have to drain your dick with a needle.
01:32:15.000What's funny is the one that's the Cialis one, the pills have gotten bigger on some of them, and it says now it lasts up to seven days, and then on the back it says only take one every 24 hours, so I've taken like three.
01:34:08.000Yeah, they've been knocking them down a lot lately, though.
01:34:10.000There's been at least 10 different companies that have been hit by that thing where they made them pull the pills because there was Viagra in them.
01:35:58.000I was picturing your early story about the zombie ants, and I was imagining, like, that mushroom going into the pill that Brian takes, and this dick exploding.
01:36:29.000We did talk about that, but I think we got sidetracked and never came to a rational conclusion.
01:36:33.000Yeah, because- I think it was one of those.
01:36:35.000One of the pills, actually, that was pulled by whatever the FDA last week was even called something like boner ants or something like that.
01:36:42.000This is, I'll give you the rundown scientifically if anybody gives a shit.
01:36:46.000It actually apparently does have a similar effect to nitric oxide supplements, which also give you boners, which is also one of the reasons why Viagra is a performance enhancing supplement.
01:36:58.000A lot of athletes, I think it's banned from the Olympics.
01:37:42.000But it's S-I-L-D-E-N-A-F-I-L. And that's, let's call that Viagra.
01:37:48.000This stuff that it produces called Icarin, I-C-A-R-I-I-N, the active compound in Epidemium inhibits, Epimedium rather, inhibits the activity of PDE5. And so what this PDE5 shit is,
01:39:12.000I'm trying not to think about sex, but just have you in the room while I'm on 7,000 milligrams of venafinol, sildafinol, or whatever the fuck this stuff is called.
01:39:23.000I'm starting to think that in the 70s I would have a raincoat, you know?
01:40:39.000It's going to get taken away and you're going to get monitored by the government because there's a boner police out there and they don't like people getting their boners taken care of in illegal manners.
01:45:09.000It's like, well, a woman who's kind of indiscriminately having sex left and right, blah, blah, blah.
01:45:14.000And I was like, well, if sex is a good thing, Dennis Lutz, somebody who freely gives sex away indiscriminately left and right, is kind of like a humanitarian, like a philanthropist, some sort of sexual Mother Teresa.
01:48:36.000Well, no, you're right, because at first they had this other settlement in Jamestown in Virginia, and then like 13 years later, not that long later, they had one, Plymouth Rock, the famous one, which is the Puritans and all of that.
01:48:47.000And these were guys that England was more than happy to get rid of, because it's like...
01:48:51.000They are weird, they are crazy, they are annoying, they are too much, so please go, yeah, go settle the new world.
01:48:57.000These guys were happy to leave because they felt that they could start their own society where Puritan values would rule, rather than having to deal with more mellow visions of Christianity.
01:49:07.000How much different would America have turned out if people landed on the west coast instead of the east coast?
01:49:14.000How much different would America have turned out if England was on the other side of the world and then they came over and landed in LA and were like, oh shit.
01:49:43.000And it's funny, because when they first came, they usually didn't really know how to make a living here, so they would fuck things up, and within a year or two, they would start eating each other in these cool cannibalistic stories.
01:49:54.000And it's like, that's some weird sick shit that was going on.
01:49:58.000Well, there's nothing else they could do.
01:50:35.000As a person who knows as much about history as you do, it must be really shocking when you know that this shit was just a couple of years away.
01:50:47.000That to me is what's mind-blowing, is the stuff that has been considered normal throughout much of human history.
01:50:56.000It blows your mind to think like probably 75% of people were totally cool with these ideas that today they would land you straight in like a psychiatric hospital.
01:51:28.000How did people find out about the pilgrims, whether or not they were doing good enough that people decided, let's join these crazy bitches?
01:51:52.000Economically interested in keeping the thing going.
01:51:55.000And there are plenty of people who had a shitty life in England.
01:51:58.000So even going to the crazy wild place across the world was better than what they knew back in England.
01:52:06.000And so they were willing to take chances.
01:52:08.000I mean, one of the things that people don't know a lot of the time or don't emphasize enough is the idea that a huge chunk of people who came here were basically slaves, white people, you know, British.
01:52:19.000They were indentured servants, which technically meant you only serve for seven years, but most of them were worked so hard by their owners that they killed them before the seven years were up.
01:52:28.000So really, if you are an indentured servant, you're pretty much fucked because you're going to be in conditions that are semi-slavery.
01:52:36.000They are not going to survive to see the day when you are freed.
01:52:39.000So it doesn't really matter whether in theory it only lasts so long because you're never going to live that time.
01:52:45.000So a lot of these guys would run off the second they arrive here.
01:52:48.000They would try to show their best face when they show up at an Indian encampment saying, hey man, I'm a nice guy.
01:52:55.000And a bunch of tribes would take them in.
01:52:57.000And so you would have these communities where sometimes you would have a lot of British people who escaped the settlement to go live with Indians because otherwise they would get work to that back in the settlements.
01:53:10.000You know, the colonies would pass these laws preventing anybody from leaving the settlements and going to live with Indians because otherwise your labor force just left and now you have to work on your own.
01:53:25.000I forget the guy's name right now, but there was back at the very beginning of the Puritan days, there was this one community of Sort of crazy, unconventional guys that left the main Puritan towns and started their own thing with a bunch of local Indians.
01:53:41.000They basically had an interracial community where they would party a lot, they would drink, have their dances.
01:53:47.000Something like sort of hippie heaven, except that because it was a little too hippie heaven, these guys didn't make plans for the Puritan wanting to kick their ass because their community was actually growing at a faster rate than the Puritans.
01:54:11.000I mean, I'm all for having fun, but put two hours a day into planning that maybe you want to know what to do when people start shooting at you.
01:54:18.000These crazy religious fucks that are dressed up like Johnny Cash and live right down the road.
01:54:34.000And instead the choice was happy, stupid hippies who don't make plans or crazy religious fundamentalists who are well armed and know how to use their guns.
01:54:45.000Not exactly the greatest alternatives, but...
01:54:48.000I mean, one is nicer than the other, but it doesn't make any...
01:54:51.000You know, they can't live in reality because they don't make plans.
01:54:53.000They don't set things up for when shit goes wrong.
01:54:55.000And so the other guys who are way worse win because they are more disciplined.
01:55:07.000Some of them were reabsorbed under closed watch.
01:55:10.000You know, a bunch of options there, but...
01:55:13.000One of the weirdest things about history for me as I get older is realizing how short a period of time that was ago where things were so bananas.
01:55:48.000And in that sense, yeah, living in Europe is a trip because you go down the street to meet your friend and you are next to a building that's like, Yes!
01:55:58.000It's really nuts to think that those people just lived in that one spot forever.
01:56:03.000You know, that's one of the really cool things, this Dan Carlin thing on the history of the Mongols, is realizing how much these guys affected Asia and how much they would have affected Europe and they affected Russia.
01:56:19.000Yeah, like, Europe got really lucky there.
01:56:33.000And then, one of the craziest things that Dan Carlin was talking about was when they took over Baghdad and killed everybody, that it literally hasn't ever recovered.
01:57:39.000This guy chopped off the head of the ambassadors, too, saying they are spies.
01:57:43.000He banked on the fact that there was a big desert separating him from the Mongols so they wouldn't be able to invade.
01:57:48.000He didn't make his calculations right, because the Mongols go through the desert, they show up at his door, and after wiping out everyone else, they grabbed this guy and said, you are a greedy motherfuckers.
01:57:59.000Because of that, you want gold, we'll give you all the gold you want.
01:58:02.000They melt a bunch of gold and pour molten gold down his throat to kill him.
01:58:43.000Right here in California, where we stand, back in the 1850s, More than half of the American Indian population, I think like 80%, was wiped out, not because of diseases, not because of stuff, but what they had in a lot of California towns were the Indian Hunts,
01:59:00.000which was on the local newspaper they would publish the scene that if you You know, you're broke, you have no money, go kill some Indians, scalp them, and if you come back into town, the local government will pay you a certain amount for the scalp of an adult male, a little bit less for the scalp of an adult female,
01:59:17.000and a little bit less for the scalp of a child.
01:59:20.000Because it's good for the health of the community to wipe out Indians.
01:59:32.000You know, I always wondered what that whole scalping thing, where that came from.
01:59:37.000I thought it was the Indians that did the scalping.
01:59:39.000You know, actually, they do stuff like that in a bunch of places around the world, because it got tiresome to just carry around people's heads to prove that you killed them, so...
01:59:48.000It's like, do I really have to carry this big fucking thing?
01:59:50.000Can you imagine, like, chopping off the head of somebody like T-Tortis, big giant head?
02:00:48.000On the East Coast, they had this badass scene that they would do where a lot of Indian tribes there, they would shave every other part of their head, but they would leave this really long strand of hair in the middle.
02:02:34.000So because of that, the vultures don't get to naturally prey off the livestock.
02:02:38.000So vultures are actually going down and attacking live things because they're starving to death because the government cleans up the dead animals and burns them.
02:02:45.000It doesn't allow the vultures to eat them.
02:02:47.000So now you have vultures that are carrying away dogs.
02:04:03.000And I'll just be sitting outside, you know, whatever, on the porch, and out of nowhere I'll just see this skunk or a raccoon running towards me because it doesn't realize that I'm sitting there.
02:04:13.000And I'll be like, hey, get away from here!
02:07:08.000That story that we talked about a couple of weeks ago about the couple that used to be in the CIA and they had retired and were making plants in their basement.
02:07:18.000They were growing tomatoes and stuff like that.
02:07:20.000And the fucking DEA kicks down their door, guns blazing, rifles in their face, and finds their tomatoes in the basement.
02:08:21.000They're allowed to go by the places where they teach you how to grow plants, take pictures of your fucking license plate, and then run them on the suspicion of you doing drugs.
02:08:31.000Find out where the fuck you live, stake out your house.
02:08:54.000That's why, to me, it pisses me off when I hear people who are all like, I love freedom, but I'm pro-drug war, I'm against legal prostitution, I'm against...
02:09:01.000It's like, you're not pro-freedom, motherfucker.
02:09:03.000You're only pro the freedom of the stuff you like.
02:09:39.000I mean, that alone is impossible for some people to grasp.
02:09:44.000I mean, even when people are against it philosophically because they are control freaks who want some morality in force according to their standards of morality and everyone else, even those guys still look at the evidence.
02:09:57.000Is prohibition working in terms of keeping the rates of addiction or use low?
02:10:04.000It's like taking a bunch of money, putting it in the toilet and flushing because if you're not affecting demand or supply, Why the fuck are you doing it?
02:10:13.000Yeah, the best example that we have about whether or not it's good to legalize drugs is Portugal.
02:11:12.000I'm going to start downing it like crazy.
02:11:14.000When I saw here people who would start drinking as teenagers as a prohibited exciting thing, they would down alcohol like crazy, throw up all over themselves.
02:12:18.000Marvin Hagler, when he retired from being the fucking man, was one of the best boxers ever, went to Italy and just said, fuck it, I'm just chilling here forever.
02:12:29.000He's going to become an Italian movie star.
02:14:46.000They did this weird thing with him where they...
02:14:50.000They scanned his head, and they found out that his mandible muscles, the muscles on the sides of his head, were, like, much larger than a normal person's.
02:14:58.000They were like, literally, the man has, like, built-in headgear.
02:15:02.000And you're like, I guess you get that from biting down, maybe, or something, or biting down on mouthpieces.
02:15:25.000Nobody even fucking came close to stopping that guy.
02:15:29.000Yeah, there's been a few guys like that throughout history that just for whatever reason just had that extra motivation above and beyond everyone else.
02:15:38.000And he was smart to call it quits when he did because, I mean, you do see those guys a la Nogueira who have these ungodly chins who can take so much abuse.
02:15:46.000But after a while, you know, you hit a spot where he's like, okay, you clock the X amount of punches you could take in your life is done.
02:15:53.000And now every other punch you take is going to drop you.
02:15:57.000Yeah, that gets really sad to see old, great fighters.
02:16:01.000That's one of the saddest aspects of fighting.
02:16:03.000Wouldn't it be amazing if they figured out how to fix that with stem cell research?
02:16:07.000They figured out how to reverse pugilistic dementia and cure brain damage from fighting.
02:17:14.000Because, I mean, don't you find sometimes when you are done with a sparring session in striking that sometimes you're not entirely sure how well you did?
02:17:21.000Because it's like you didn't really go full out, were you?
02:17:23.000Like, that shot that I hit him with, did it have the juice really behind it or he would have just shrugged it off and that's it?
02:17:31.000You know, it's like, does it ever happen to you or you feel like you know what's up by the end?
02:17:38.000You have to, like, ego-wise, you have to realize that, like, when you're sparring, you're both pulling back.
02:17:45.000So shots that you got hit with, you maybe would have got hurt in a real situation, and shots that you got hit with, your response, maybe you wouldn't have been able to even deliver it.
02:18:24.000Number one most important thing, two important things, but number one is great trainers.
02:18:27.000You have to have a trainer that trains you in a technical way and makes the class move in a technical way as well.
02:18:33.000And number two, train partners that you can trust so you're not going to blast each other.
02:18:38.000And then you've got to make sure that you go full out on the mitts and the bag so that in a real scenario you can deliver those shots with full impact.
02:20:10.000I mean, it wasn't the most exciting fight in the world, but as someone who appreciates technique, I appreciate the shit out of how he did it.
02:20:23.000I know the dude's a bad motherfucker, though, as far as when it comes to boxing.
02:20:27.000He's made some crazy claims about MMA, which I always find hilarious, but I don't fault him for that because he's in the business of promoting.
02:20:33.000Part of his shtick is, look, he knows there's a lot of people that are paying attention to MMA. If he starts talking mad shit about MMA fighters, people who don't even watch boxing will pay attention to his fight and even buy it to see him lose.
02:23:09.000If they could, even if he didn't have to tape it together, Chael would have had to come close enough to clinch him, and he beat Chael up so bad in that first round, Chael was in a lot of trouble doing anything in that second round.
02:23:46.000He, to me, is like a Roy Jones Jr. type character.
02:23:50.000Like a guy who's coming out of nowhere, who's just so athletically talented, as well as all the other things, as well as disciplined, as well as...
02:26:12.000No, I guess, I mean, to me it's like, there's always things like Kung Fu movies or something, the figure of the old dude who looks like old drunk and stuff and he can pull off these amazing things.
02:26:21.000It's like, how the fuck did it happen?
02:26:23.000I dig the idea of figuring out ways, whether it's applied to martial arts or applied to life, to...
02:26:29.000Nobody can figure out how you did it, but you pull it off.
02:26:33.000And to not think along the same lines like everybody else is going through the plan, there's an obvious A to B, B to C to get the results, but to have an alternate way to get shit done, I like it.
02:26:44.000So that's why you came up with Drunken Taoist?
02:26:46.000Again, that's the high-minded version.
02:26:48.000The low-minded version is I like Taoism and I like wine.
02:26:51.000Did you draw this picture that's on your t-shirt?
02:28:05.000The other interpretation, people are like, no, but wait, this dude is punching him and he's leaning back.
02:28:10.000I'm like, well, in that case, if he still managed to make out with a woman and drink after getting punched, I dig that message too.
02:28:16.000I would think he really needs to stop being cocky and let go of the girl and deal with this dude who's trying to kick his ass because this is silly.
02:28:23.000If I was your coach, I'd be very mad at you.
02:28:27.000You've got to address this situation more rational.
02:28:28.000We need to be serious about it, right?
02:29:43.000So he had like all this random shit that he like bought when he was really stoned and never used or never even opened the boxes like, you know, random things like raid, air bombs, you know, for cockroaches and like just weird shit.
02:29:56.000And then at one point he's like, all right, who here, you know, the next five people who here does drugs, you know, raise your hand.
02:30:02.000And he's just throwing out prescription medicine to people.
02:32:31.000That's the one thing that Stan Hope says, that if he could stop...
02:32:34.000He did this Opinion Anti thing recently where they were talking about addiction because Jim Norton is real clean and...
02:32:40.000And it made some news source because it was an interesting conversation where Stan Hope was advocating that he's a shitty comic if he's not drunk.
02:34:56.000People that have even taken those pills have said it's awesome.
02:35:00.000Oxycontins, people that have had Oxycontin issues.
02:35:03.000Yeah, some guy posted a thread about it on the message board.
02:35:07.000He was talking about opiates and how amazing they are.
02:35:09.000It's just terrible that they're so bad for you that you can't care for them, but the feeling apparently is just amazing.
02:35:15.000I read somebody a while ago saying, yeah, it's fucked up because it messes you up horrendously, but so we should leave it legal for people who have a few months left to leave?
02:35:23.000Because it's like, what are you going to fuck up anyway?
02:35:38.000I mean, when you think about the whole thing, it's like how, yeah, speaking of freedoms, it's like people, I'm pro-freedom, except that you can't kill yourself the way you want to.
02:35:46.000You know, if you're dying a slow, painful disease, you need to die slowly and painfully, because otherwise, because otherwise what?
02:36:13.000Of course, you just keep shooting up until you die, but rather than doing it in a humane, cool way where you shoot up and you're done in 15 minutes like you do with a dog, you'll do it over a period of days or a week or something, just How dare you compare grandma to a dog?
02:36:44.000The worry about having shit that could fuck you up is obviously people doing it to people against their will.
02:36:51.000Yeah, that's, of course, but then that's what you work on, on like anything that you don't do, you know, you don't outlaw something just because it can be used against their will.
02:37:00.000You work on the fact on those cases when it's used against somebody's will.
02:37:03.000Which is the argument for not worrying about how many guns are out there, but worrying about the mental health of a nation that allows a certain percentage of people to go on gun Fueled rampages.
02:37:28.000Or, well, I don't know about you, but in somebody's hand, having a fucking atomic weapon wouldn't be a problem because you're not nuts and you're not going to use it.
02:37:35.000Are you saying that I would be a problem with an atomic weapon?
02:37:45.000The problem comes in because it's who's going to decide who's the same individual and which one isn't.
02:37:50.000The state, that always works really well.
02:37:53.000But then if you don't do it, that means every psycho in the world can get easily their hands on some messed up stuff.
02:37:59.000If you do do it, it's clearly an imperfect system because it's done through the state where there are always enormous loopholes, things that doesn't work, is inefficient.
02:38:25.000There's a shitload of us that are stupid as fuck.
02:38:28.000But then the argument is, the reason why they're stupid as fuck is that we allow them to survive Or being stupid and don't allow these dumb mistakes to happen.
02:39:37.000I'm teaching a few courses at Cal State Long Beach, a few courses at Santa Monica College.
02:39:41.000Do they ever give you a hard time for your controversial viewpoints?
02:39:43.000No, I think they decide it's easier to just not deal with it, because if they come after you, then it can open a whole shitstorm of why are you firing him and all of that.
02:41:19.000A guy like Dan Carlin, who is fucking amazing, in case we haven't made that clear already, he is not a historian and that's why he's fucking amazing.
02:41:27.000Because most historians, by the time they got through their PhD, all the creativity, all the juice has been squeezed out of them and there's nothing left because they have been made to conform to this really boring, prudent, careful way of telling stories where they can't say a sentence without 17 exceptions to what they say.
02:41:45.000And the evidence here on paragraph 17, it's like nobody wants to listen to it.
02:41:50.000Dan Carling goes on, put on a historical podcast and becomes something that people around the world want to listen to because he's a storyteller, because he makes it exciting.
02:42:13.000You need to work on your presentation, son.
02:42:15.000And that's the thing that in some way it sucks because you can tell to somebody, look, this sucks because it's so boring and it doesn't have the juice.
02:43:19.000You'd probably have a full class if you just played Voodoo Child and just fully lipped all the lyrics, knew all of it, and went around with it.
02:43:28.000Every other time now, because through online you can find out a lot of things about people, a bunch of students ask me, is that you in this picture where you're holding a kid and you have your middle finger out?
02:44:16.000So how would someone make that happen?
02:44:19.000Long Beach, I'm actually not teaching a whole lot because I'm there mainly, I think I teach just one class and the rest I do online, which sucks anyway because it's, well, in any case.
02:44:28.000The main thing, so I teach mostly at Santa Monica College live, in person, and it depends on the class.
02:44:34.000You know, some classes are, they enroll them to the limit.
02:44:37.000Other classes, they enroll it and then they leave a bunch of empty chairs, so not a big deal.
02:46:05.000And we're doing something different this time because you fucking people take too long with your goddamn phones that you don't know how to work.
02:46:11.000The camera on, so I'm gonna take all the photos, I'm gonna have someone take them with my camera, so we'll get a perfect picture every time, and then we'll upload it to the website, and you can take it from there.
02:46:19.000So it'll also drive traffic to my website.
02:46:21.000And don't go, dude, that's fucked up, because I don't wanna hear it!
02:46:25.000You bitches need to learn how to use your 1967 fuckin' wack-ass cell phone that I have to wait for.