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00:01:08.000And you may or may not not be able to see people in the audience because you're performing in the fucking clouds.
00:01:14.000I think it was Esther or somebody went there and they don't smoke weed and they said that they got so stoned that they almost had a panic attack while just doing comedy there.
00:02:42.000What we do is we have a show, and whoever doesn't...
00:02:46.000The Comedy Store has this sign-up sheet where every Sunday or Monday...
00:02:51.000You sign up to try to do three minutes on stage, and there's tons of people that pay $20 parking, they try to just get their three minutes of stand-up in, and they don't get on.
00:03:01.000So we take those people, like the people that didn't make the stand-up.
00:03:55.000So, like, if you're saying, like, something homophobic just because it's cute and fun to do, if you really don't care if someone's gay, it's like you're doing yourself, like, a little bit of a disservice.
00:04:05.000You're getting lumped in with something that you don't agree with.
00:05:59.000So if I can do it and do it easily, It's not hard to do.
00:06:02.000And they offer free things, like free whois domain name privacy, so that if you have some disgusting website, if you're some sick freak that likes to beat off on feet, there's nothing wrong with that, man.
00:07:36.000Because there's some drugs that people do take anally, and they actually enjoy it.
00:07:40.000There's a girl named Neuro Soup, and she did a piece on YouTube where she was talking about, it's got like a billion hits, because she's talking about taking DMT anally.
00:07:50.000That she took DMT and she put it in her ass.
00:07:53.000And she was one that was in that Vice story, that Hamilton Morris Vice story, where he was talking about how her boyfriend was this gigantic cocaine dealer.
00:09:40.000And you're going to blast water through your shithole, and then they're going to examine your poop, and you're going to discuss what your diet is?
00:09:46.000You get to watch it go through the tube.
00:10:28.000I walked out of there feeling light and I was cleansed.
00:10:32.000And the other ones were mostly just uncomfortable and I didn't really notice very much reward.
00:10:37.000Leading me to believe that colonics are good once every five to ten years or so.
00:10:42.000Just to kind of, in case there's some shit hiding out and some nooks and crannies, because the digestive tract has all these little spots and nooks and crannies and little areas where waste can collect and start actually really rotting and becoming septic.
00:10:57.000It's good to get that out of there every once in a while.
00:11:03.000They pretty much just went to all these doctors and they got this guy on Craigslist that was broke and they gave him like $300 to do it and let them film it.
00:12:10.000But if you are doing some kind of fast or some kind of protocol where you are trying to detoxify your body, it's good to open up the channels of elimination.
00:12:18.000One of the channels of elimination is shit.
00:12:21.000So it's good to actually, because you will get kind of constipated because you're not feeding your body with a bunch of food.
00:12:26.000So it's good to actually push that out.
00:13:15.000Remember that guy that was around Dead Doctors Don't Lie, and he was explaining chelated minerals, and he was saying that mineral deficiency is the reason for all these issues in farm animals that we fixed a long time ago, because we just give them mineral-rich diets, and we add minerals to their food.
00:13:31.000But we don't add minerals to people's food.
00:13:33.000He's like, do you know how few people take mineral supplements?
00:13:35.000And he was talking about all these different deficiencies, calcium, creating osteoporosis.
00:13:42.000Pretty convincing because there's not as much mineral in the soil.
00:13:44.000I mean, they're replanting over and over again in the same fields, and that's where our vegetables are coming from, constantly replanting.
00:13:50.000So the minerals in the soil are mostly from the fertilizer, what they're actually putting in.
00:13:54.000Well, they're not necessarily putting in complete, full-spectrum, balanced minerals back in the soil.
00:13:59.000So a lot of the food we eat don't have the mineral content that...
00:14:03.000We originally had if you were farming in a really sustainable way and rotating around, getting new soil, things like that.
00:14:10.000Solution, though, easiest one, is the Himalayan salt.
00:14:13.00084 trace minerals right there in the salt.
00:14:16.000And that's, you know, one of the reasons why salt was so prized back in ancient times is that that's the best source for your mineral, the easiest source, at least.
00:14:35.000So all of the pollution that's in the world now, everything that's in the air, everything that's in the water and the fish and all that shit, that wasn't around back 100 million years ago.
00:14:44.000Just pterodactyls and some ancestors roaming around on the ground.
00:14:49.000So there was nothing to pollute the salt deposits at all.
00:15:00.000And I had a pretty dramatic incident where, for like a week, I started going through, I was taking very demineralized water, like highly filtered water, just because it's a water filter that I have.
00:15:13.000So then I was starting to hear my pulse in my ears when I would go to sleep, and I was having trouble sleeping.
00:15:18.000And they're like, well, it could be a mineral deficiency for your adrenal glands.
00:17:12.000Now, spring water is actually filtered either through the ground, which is the best way to do it, like a volcanic system where the water naturally filters through the lava and comes out.
00:17:22.000And that's going to collect all the minerals through the earth that you really need.
00:17:26.000And that's going to be the best way to do it.
00:17:28.000Yeah, my friend's place in Colorado has a well.
00:19:32.000And you can get all kinds of horrible diseases if you don't cook their meat.
00:19:36.000So I'm sure back when they did a shitty job of cooking meat and they didn't know what the fuck worms were, they would eat that stuff and get really sick and possibly even die.
00:20:17.000If you haven't been to the fitness section of Onnit, we got pretty much anything you need for a serious, rigorous strength and conditioning program.
00:20:26.000When we talk about stuff for functional strength...
00:20:28.000Weight vests, battle ropes, kettlebells, steel mesas and steel clubs, both of them, which are excellent for developing full body movement and the kind of strength that you could really translate into any athletic endeavor.
00:22:02.000I do kettlebell workouts at home all the time.
00:22:05.000But the first couple times you're doing it, it would be really smart if you're paid very close attention to technique and very close attention to your form and make sure you don't hurt yourself.
00:22:15.000We don't want you hurting yourself, fellas and gals.
00:22:17.000We have a bunch of videos up from the IKFF, which is one of our really cool new partners.
00:22:22.000One of the biggest sanctioning bodies for kettlebell sport here in the U.S. And two of their top athletes are on the side as well, giving some instructional tips.
00:22:31.000And where is that if you try to find that on the website?
00:22:33.000You can go to our YouTube page or you can go to, you should be able to navigate to it from the kettlebells themselves, not the DVD. But if you go to the YouTube page, you can definitely check that out.
00:22:43.000And Ken Blackburn, Mitch Blackburn, father and son.
00:22:46.000Mitch is like 165 pounds and set the American record for the clean and press, double clean and press with 72 pounds on each kettlebell.
00:24:55.000But if you're talking about general functional strength, the kettlebells, the clubs, the battle ropes, the bases, that's really going to get the job done.
00:25:27.000You're gonna wobble all over the place.
00:25:29.000You're dealing with this weird thing that you have to kind of control and balance with.
00:25:33.000You gotta learn how to hold on to them correctly.
00:25:36.000You gotta build this weird kind of functional strength where you're swinging these fucking cannonballs around and catching them on your forearm without snapping your arm.
00:25:59.000You know, that was back in my old business, you know, the natural, the dick pills.
00:26:04.000We had those rock hard weekends, but we found out.
00:26:06.000The whole game in a lot of those pills is you just sneak a little Viagra in it, and then you get popped, and then you sneak a little Cialis in it, and then you get popped, and then your third version is just pretty garbage.
00:26:17.000I mean, once you get used to the paradigm of what those drugs can do, just forget it.
00:26:22.000I mean, you can take all the herbs you want, and it's not going to really move the needle, so to speak.
00:26:27.000But, you know, I mean, you can help support the systems in general, like with T +, but as far as dick pills themselves, Forget it.
00:26:51.000So it's like you think they're a real piece of shit, but you look at some terrible label on the gas station, it's like, I don't know, phasered, laser, hard five.
00:26:59.000And you're like, what the hell is that?
00:27:00.000But if you take it, it's like a little bit of Chinese Viagra.
00:29:32.000Isn't it crazy how different you can get excited for one girl over another?
00:29:39.000Like there are some girls, and we all know them in your life, where when you're around them it's just like instant flagpole.
00:29:47.000And then there's other girls where it's just, just for whatever reason, they can look just as pretty, they can be just as nice, they can be just as attractive, but there's some freak connection you have with certain people.
00:30:20.000I know it on the other way, where they've had guys sleep in the same shirt for a few weeks or whatever, and then they have girls smell the shirts.
00:30:28.000And they'll be very attracted to one shirt and completely repulsed by another shirt just by smelling the actual pheromones in it.
00:31:07.000And ammonia, and funk, and that's where there's a lot of skin diseases that people get from that stuff, because they don't wash those things enough.
00:31:15.000And essentially, you're rolling around in microbes, and bacteria, and shit.
00:31:19.000And the worst part is not when it's fresh.
00:32:22.000It was explained to me by this guy, Jack Herrer, and he said that the idea is that you eat the drug, the plant, the mushroom, which has a very different, it's not psilocybin, it's some other type of hallucinogenic.
00:32:40.000The active compound is muscimol, and it acts on a very different mechanism, actually.
00:32:45.000So the mechanism of action of Amanita muscaria, it actually acts as a GABA agonist.
00:32:50.000So it's going to give you more of the neurotransmitter GABA, whereas psilocybin, the mechanism of action that they're recently finding, which I learned a lot about at the MAPS conference, is the mechanism of action of psilocybin is it's actually restricting blood flow to your default mode network part of your brain,
00:33:05.000which is your top-down control mechanism in your brain.
00:33:08.000So that basically your mental cerebral filter that allows you to focus on the day-to-day mundane tasks starts to go to sleep.
00:33:16.000And that happens to be the center that controls depression and a bunch of other things, which is why the clinical application is proving so important and impressive in all these people.
00:33:25.000But that's a totally different mechanism of action than the Amanita Muscaria, which is basically flooding your brain with more GABA, from what I understand.
00:33:34.000But the muscimol is a tricky beast, and it doesn't necessarily come out through your gut.
00:33:39.000However, once it gets processed through your kidneys and you piss it, It can be passed up to five times, they say, through different people.
00:33:48.000So, like, I could piss, and then you could drink it, you could piss, give it to Brian, he could drink it, and then Brian could give it to two other people, and everybody would be high as fuck.
00:34:38.000But I think the surefire way, if you really want to commit, is to eat it, then drink your piss, and then you can, you know, But you'd feel so stupid if it didn't work.
00:38:50.000I met one of the guys that he did that for.
00:38:51.000This guy is one of his patients, and it's pretty remarkable.
00:38:55.000Went through there, did the brain surgery, and that's actually how I met Dr. Lazar.
00:39:00.000He did the brain surgery, then he took a bunch of the ingredients we have in AlphaBrain, too, and he recovered way fast.
00:39:05.000This is, of course, just one story, but he recovered super fast, and that turned Dr. Lazar on to the potential for these herbs to work in conjunction with what he was doing on the brain.
00:39:15.000So that's how we kind of got Got hooked up.
00:39:58.000Anyway, he was training with Bill Romanowski, and Bill Romanowski got him to start eating healthy and started giving him this Neuro One shit.
00:40:06.000It's a nootropic, but it's also got a little bit of caffeine in it.
00:40:24.000I was at a neurological research center today, and one of the things that these people were telling me while they were there, I was there for this silly TV show, but there's people that take their kids there.
00:40:35.000Like if the kids are involved in football, and they have football injuries, and they're talking about it like these kids are like 15, 16 years old and just have these massive concussions.
00:40:45.000And the father's just like, well, when can you get back in there?
00:40:48.000And the mother's like, is he gonna be okay?
00:40:58.000She was describing it to me, like, you know, these situations that she's dealing with with these fathers and these kids, and she's like, it's really creepy.
00:41:07.000Because these kids don't know any better, and they're just running.
00:41:10.000Their dads want them to get back in there.
00:41:22.000Man, in the brain there's so much more we still have to learn about it.
00:41:25.000Did you happen to see that thing on 60 Minutes where there are people who are now able to control prosthetic limbs with their thoughts alone?
00:41:34.000So basically, they hook up these arms.
00:41:37.000Now, the first version, prototype, was they hook the arms up and they actually hardwire it somehow into the nerves, but it's still their thoughts that can allow them, like, they can shake hands with people just from, like, their brain telling this completely prosthetic arm to shake hands or,
00:44:00.000But imagine, and then the application for sports, there's been a couple movies like that, but you could go full, let's say you created this kind of android creature that you could control with your mind, you could go full gladiator style with net and trident, sword, and just have the most brutal,
00:44:15.000obviously it would be expensive because machines are expensive, whatever, but it'd be sweet.
00:44:35.000I bet they would play like a real live version of The Sims, just to let their human body go out there and interact with all these other robot bodies.
00:44:41.000You know, they take their body, they lie down, and they look through the body, or look through the eyes of this thing, and then send it off, like it's a little game.
00:44:50.000And you send your robot out, and your robot goes and fucks other robots, and parties, and your robot's an animal, and he drinks and drives, because he doesn't even live in the real world.
00:44:58.000He lives in this fucking crazy robot world.
00:45:00.000And then we realize that's what's already happening, and we're the robots.
00:45:41.000You know, like, when you're about to, like, If you're about to yell at somebody and you know you shouldn't, there's pretty much no reason ever to yell at somebody.
00:45:49.000But when you get this kind of energy that comes up and it feels like it's going to be good to release it, what the fuck is that?
00:46:08.000The only way people learn how to behave is by feedback.
00:46:13.000The way they learn how to be harmonious with their fellow brothers and sisters of the world is by feedback.
00:46:19.000And when you're not good at it and you get bad feedback all the time and you don't adjust, that's like a sign of mental illness or stupidity or a lack of education or lack of Someone explaining or your own personal critical thinking involving the way the world works.
00:46:36.000But for most people, as you get older, you get way better at communicating because you've gone through this feedback loop several times and you sort of stabilize it and you know what people like and what they don't like and you know how to get things off on the right foot and how not to and it's like sort of easier to navigate.
00:46:53.000But the key there is not to become completely enslaved by the feelings and thoughts and the kind of world around you so that you're constantly living to please what the Toltecs would call the dream,
00:47:15.000But then at the same time, Don't judge yourself according to all of these opinions that are generally wrong anyways.
00:47:22.000People don't necessarily always want you to be your best, you know, so you gotta find your inner path as well as adjust to Guiding principles.
00:47:32.000That's a real problem for young people when they're dealing with haters, like the first haters in their life.
00:47:37.000It could be someone who's at work with you or someone you go to school with or whatever.
00:47:41.000But it might be like the first time in your life where someone actively hates on you.
00:47:47.000And I always say that it's like snake venom and that, like, having a little bit of hater is, like, good because you know how to deal with it.
00:47:54.000And then when you get a full blast of it, you're like, bitch, I'm immune to that stupid shit.
00:49:21.000And eventually, hopefully, we all hope for some form of personal sovereignty, where no matter what anybody says about you or how anybody describes you, it's a better way of putting it.
00:49:33.000You know who you are, and you're alright.
00:49:36.000And all they're doing is exposing this need to detract from another person.
00:50:31.000If you could really just fucking really look at what you're doing right or wrong and what you're enjoying about your life and what you're not.
00:50:40.000Sometimes it's harder to see yourself than it is to see other people, which is why a lot of the most fucked up people with the most fucked up lives always want to give you advice.
00:51:29.000Like, how do they really totally cut loose?
00:51:31.000You're constantly thinking about whether or not what you did is good.
00:51:36.000Objectivity is a real challenge and I think one of the tools that both me and you have found have been different ways to break through that kind of mental patterning that gets you in trouble.
00:51:49.000There's different meditation techniques that are great ways, but sometimes For us really thick skulled monkeys like myself and you and some other people when we just need something heavier to do it.
00:52:00.000And I think that's when I've gone to Peru and done the ayahuasca or you can go hopefully somewhere safe and do a heavy psilocybin trip or find some way to actually get that part of your mind to really be objective, to kind of cut out all the bullshit and look at yourself with a true reflection.
00:52:18.000Yeah, and I feel like there's certain doors that get open when you have those experiences.
00:52:24.000And when those doors get open, it's like the whole world just takes a turn to the left.
00:53:02.000I would never tell anybody to do mushrooms or acid, even though I have.
00:53:06.000I would never tell anybody to do any, now, today, knowing what I know, would never tell anybody to do any psychedelic, because I don't know how the fuck their brain works.
00:54:29.000Like you're stacking these grains together?
00:54:30.000I don't know, but you know, that's, these receptors, and this is swimming a little deeper than I probably can go, but I think it has something, you know, nicotine acts on certain mental receptors.
00:54:40.000I think it's your nicotinic receptors, and then tryptamine acts on certain receptors.
00:54:48.000I haven't necessarily experienced that, but what I did experience, which is really weird, I have no very good explanation for this, but at the end of one particular ceremony, he smoked the tobacco, the shaman smoked the tobacco rustica, which is different than the tobacco that we smoke.
00:55:06.000It's a different species of plant entirely.
00:55:09.000So tobacco rustica, they smoked a big hand-rolled cigarette from that.
00:55:13.000And he blew the smoke all over my body.
00:57:34.000This is Rick Strassman's Cottonwood Research Foundation.
00:57:42.000This is something that they had speculated for the longest time, and I thought it was a fact.
00:57:47.000I thought that they had known it was a fact.
00:57:50.000Until Voodoo Chicken on my message board was, I think, the first guy to clue me into the fact that there's only anecdotal evidence.
00:57:57.000And he was challenging Strassman on the message board.
00:58:00.000Because we know that the human body produces it.
00:58:03.000I guess they knew it was produced in the liver and the lungs.
00:58:07.000But this is the first time they can prove...
00:58:10.000That at least in rodents, it's in the pineal gland of a live rat.
00:58:17.000Let's suppose it was the spirit molecule.
00:58:19.000Let's suppose that hypothesis is true and it is some part of conducting the spirit from source into life and then back out.
00:58:27.000Let's say that there is some activation for that.
00:58:30.000It makes sense that they wouldn't find the active concentrations in The dead pineal glands because presumably its purpose was done there.
00:58:39.000But to see it there in live while it's living I think is pretty cool.
00:58:47.000It at least opens up that theory as possible.
00:58:50.000One of the interesting things about taking the DMT was the shortness of the trip.
00:58:54.000And that's the thing that people always comment on that one of the signs That this isn't a deadly drug, is how easy your body can get rid of it.
00:59:05.000Your body can get rid of it and bring you back to baseline in 15 minutes.
00:59:09.000Like, you're on this voyage to another dimension, and then 15 minutes later your body's like, okay, nothing to see here, we're just going to clean this up, folks.
00:59:45.000They've proven that, at least in rodents, this sacred of all sacred glands, this gland that the Egyptians thought was the seat of the soul, this gland that Eastern mysticism had forever connected with an eye of enlightenment,
01:00:04.000that that gland produces the most potent psychedelic drug known to man.
01:00:48.000My most intense experiences come with a really intense buzzing energy that feels like not only that part of my head, but starting there, the energy feels like it peels off my whole scalp, starting in my third eye, middle of my forehead region,
01:01:03.000all the way to the back of my head, what they would call the crown chakra.
01:01:23.000That is the precursor to the craziest experiences of your spiritual life.
01:01:32.000Yeah, it's a language that you can only speak with people who've had some form of experience, something, because there's a lot of people out there, and there's nothing wrong with that.
01:01:44.000I don't think there's anything wrong with going through your whole life.
01:01:46.000As long as you're enjoying it, why have a psychedelic experience?
01:01:50.000If you don't want to, if you don't feel compelled.
01:01:51.000I feel like if you feel compelled, give it a shot.
01:01:55.000When you're having these conversations and you're talking about your chakra blowing open and porting yourself to dimensions and flotillas of serpents flying above your head, I hear you.
01:02:07.000And I'm like, yeah, wow, okay, wow, fucking A. Like, I know that really happened.
01:02:13.000Because I've seen some crazy shit myself.
01:02:15.000Not that it really happened, not that it's really a snake, but my point about that, where people always go, you know, if it's not real, okay, then you're doing something really infantile, okay?
01:02:26.000You're taking something that's allowing you to go into fantasy land for a little while.
01:03:16.000If it took you to another dimension and you had that experience, or if you just had that experience in your head, you still had that experience.
01:03:24.000And it might as well have taken you to another dimension.
01:03:41.000You still experienced it exactly the same way.
01:03:44.000As if it did take you to another planet.
01:03:46.000And you did ride around the rings of Saturn in your underwear.
01:03:49.000I mean, it really does take you to that place.
01:03:54.000So it might be real, it might take you to that place, or it might be all happening in your mind, but either way, you experience the exact same thing.
01:04:01.000And it lasts, and the results there, you know, that you get from it are actually, and that was one of the cool things about going to the MAPS Conference, which is the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies.
01:04:11.000They put on a conference in Oakland, and they had all of the top scientists from all these different fields of research come and present their findings.
01:04:19.000So there's been over 80 patients clinically dosed with psilocybin, most of them in palliative care, easing the anxiety of death towards the end of life.
01:04:29.000You have psychiatrists in there who've been working in this field for 40 years, seeing people, and they're the ones running these Well, first of all, the funny part is it's a double-blind trial, right?
01:04:43.000So on one case, someone is getting placebo, which is doing nothing.
01:04:47.000And in another case, they're getting a heroic dose of psilocybin.
01:04:50.000And the research is like, one of the problems with the study design is we pretty much know, because they're not supposed to know it's double-blind, we pretty much know when someone's taken a bunch of psilocybin.
01:05:00.000It's not hard to tell when that's actually happened.
01:05:03.000But they're saying that what they're accomplishing in three hours, It would have taken them three years to do back in the old paradigm.
01:05:10.000And they're reporting these findings, and it's really encouraging.
01:05:13.000Obviously, the Johns Hopkins study was a great study.
01:05:16.00094% of people who took the psilocybin said it was one of the top five most meaningful experiences of their life.
01:05:22.000I mean, really cool findings that are leading to a potential legalization of psilocybin for clinical use.
01:05:32.000It shouldn't be just for clinical use.
01:06:17.000If you could, like, ensure across-the-board experiences, ensure them worldwide over a week's period of time, you'd change the world forever.
01:08:29.000And you think that you get nowhere playing by the rules, but in some encouraging results, both for MDMA, for PTSD, and these psilocybin studies, they're getting allowed to do the research to complete these phase one trials and actually test them on human subjects for the first time in a long time.
01:08:47.000And that's going to lead to You know, bigger trials than the Phase 2 trials than the Phase 3. And eventually, there's going to get drug approvals for these.
01:08:55.000Now, why that is significant is at that point, you have a massive amount of data.
01:09:42.000It's just, I always feel like Whenever someone gets together in a big giant group and there's a few people running it, shit goes bad.
01:09:51.000It seems very rare that anybody can keep it together.
01:09:58.000I've been listening to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History about Martin Luther and the rise of the Anabaptists in Münster, Germany.
01:10:07.000Whenever some new dude comes along and tries to change things and we're going to do it the right way, this is how God wanted it, it always goes bad.
01:10:33.000The other thing I've been kind of thinking about is, too, is, you know, you assume that, like some of these ayahuasca shamans, aboga shamans, different people, you would assume that by doing those psychedelic drugs, they would have straightened themselves out.
01:10:45.000They would have straightened their morality out, and they'd be all good people.
01:11:11.000So if you decide to override it and just use the feeling, it's almost like taking mushrooms recreationally to watch a cartoon.
01:11:19.000You can kind of override the potential spiritual value of it and just focus on laughter and seeing colors explode on a screen in the same way that you can do it with morality, where you can take a bunch of ayahuasca and then override it still with your mind and just use it to...
01:15:59.000I would believe that that would be the new thing before I would ever believe that there'd be dudes willing to pull their pants down to their balls and then belt them in place there and have your underwear hang out.
01:16:09.000And this would be like a super common practice.
01:16:11.000And then I'd be walking on the street and I'd see 5, 10, 20 young men with their fucking pants pulled down below the crack of their ass.
01:18:43.000I was listening to my buddy Donald Schultz who was out actually and they were chasing down rhino poachers, which was a pretty crazy experience because they're going after these rhino poachers that are killing these rhinos, just cutting off the horns, selling them to China to make Chinese people's dicks bigger supposedly,
01:20:16.000So as they were leaving, they get stopped by the police, and they're looking for footage of, you know, kind of what went down.
01:20:23.000And they hid the footage in, I think, some parachute bags or something like that.
01:20:27.000And police are giving them hell, and they just go, you know, we're going to throw you in jail, and you're going to come out different.
01:20:33.000And what they meant by that was that there's something called slow puncture, where they put you in a cell with another dude with HIV, and then he rapes you.
01:20:42.000And then they let you go after he rapes you enough times.
01:20:45.000And then you go home and you die of AIDS at home.
01:20:48.000And they call it slow puncture for people that they can't actually press charges on.
01:22:29.000It's also, like, nobody has any desire to go and use resources to help these poor people out.
01:22:35.000These people who live in Liberia or live in Somalia or live in any of the really poor sections of Africa, like, they got a really shit-roll of the dice, location-wise.
01:22:44.000They were born in an incredibly impoverished place.
01:22:48.000And it's like there's got to be something that the rest of the world, like, got to, like, be honest about where these people are.
01:22:56.000The rest of the world is like, well, you know, they can pull themselves up by their bootstraps just like we did over here in Munich.
01:23:02.000But no, like, the infrastructure of some spots is, like, so much better to get born in those spots.
01:23:09.000I mean, I saw when I was there in the slums, you know, you would see these shanties, these little shacks of basically...
01:23:24.000And there's no septic system, so they'd be on hills.
01:23:26.000So the people at the top of the hill would just be going to the bathroom in their huts, and the sewage would just slide through all of the rest of the places down underneath that.
01:23:38.000And it's a really intense, intense scenario.
01:23:42.000And generally a very good people, but one of the things, and very cool people there that you meet, but one of the problems is that the best way to get ahead in Africa right now, the way to get the most money, is not start a business, be an entrepreneur, create something.
01:24:06.000But I noticed a lot of really the smartest people I meet were coming trying to write grants and just trying to get money instead of focusing on starting a business, building something from the grassroots.
01:24:17.000So it's almost like some of the help that we're providing is not really helping long term.
01:25:19.000Nigerian scammers, I guess, they just got super desperado, a bunch of smart dudes, and then just hopped in and started figuring out how to scam white people.
01:25:45.000I was just going to say, speaking of Sweden or some shit, I was thinking of foreign countries where this guy can go that leaked the NSA documents.
01:26:22.000Because they're not going to be able to pour through that data and just pick on people because someone said, oh yeah, I'm going to smoke some weed or whatever.
01:26:29.000I mean, I really don't think that's the plan.
01:26:31.000I think it's just they have it just in case they need a...
01:26:35.000It's not that they want to invade your privacy, but that if you turn out to be a creep, they want it to be really easy to be able to pull out any data on you.
01:26:44.000The problem is that it's like so Orwellian.
01:26:46.000And you're giving people this incredible power to peer into people's privacy, and what do we lose in return for that?
01:26:56.000Because all privacy, when you're interacting with, unless you're talking in a closed room, and even then, if you go into foreign places that are working on secret shit, like embassies and stuff, they won't let you bring iPhones.
01:27:16.000When she was working for CNN, she'd do these big-time interviews, and she would have to get an Android phone so they could take the battery out.
01:27:23.000Otherwise, they can have that thing working remotely, and they can spy on you.
01:27:29.000They could just set your phone off while you're hanging out in your office planning your dastardly attack on Gotham City with your fucking superhero friends or whatever, and they can record it all.
01:27:41.000That would be less scary if every law in the U.S. was perfectly just.
01:28:03.000I guess someone could fuck you up maybe if you're being unfaithful to your girlfriend, but you shouldn't be doing that shit anyways.
01:28:09.000But, you know, that's something that still, it's nobody's business.
01:28:12.000But if at least the laws were just, then it wouldn't be such a pain in the ass.
01:28:16.000But because we have all these unjust laws where we can be thrown in jail for an indefinite period of time, you know, it becomes scary for everybody.
01:28:24.000Those two things you brought up, too, should have absolutely nothing to do with the law.
01:28:31.000Law should be all about protecting people.
01:28:34.000It should be protecting people from violence, protecting people from theft, protecting people from injustice, and ensuring a harmonious community.
01:28:44.000And that's really what it should be all about.
01:28:46.000If that's what all the laws were, you'd be pumped to see the cops.
01:28:49.000You'd be like, oh sweet, the cops are here.
01:30:38.000It's being exhibited in like this reaction to this NSA whistleblower thing where people, you know, like the president's having to defend it now.
01:30:46.000And one of the things he was saying, I was just talking about this to Duncan.
01:30:49.000We were talking about how Obama was like, you know, this is something we should definitely have a debate about.
01:30:55.000I'm definitely open to talking about this.
01:30:57.000Well, really, why was it a secret then?
01:31:16.000I think they're doing a great job in shutting down threats.
01:31:19.000If you stop and look at how many threats have turned into actual terror attacks, Besides the Boston one and besides a couple other ones, there's very few.
01:31:28.000When you compare them to actual days of the week, you compare them to actual human interactions that take place throughout 50 states and numerous cities all throughout the day, all over the time, there's very few like those shitheads from Boston.
01:31:41.000There's very few, like, you know, whether it's a 9-11 that happened in 2001 or...
01:31:48.000Because they can squash most of them without reading every fucking email you send.
01:31:53.000They shouldn't be able to read everybody's shit.
01:31:56.000You know, I think if you could prove that you were just and that you were looking out for the best interest of man, maybe you should be able to go and like look into this stuff without a warrant.
01:32:09.000But because it's been proven, like, the IRS goes after conservative Tea Party groups, like, much more than they go after liberal people.
01:32:17.000They, like, they just got busted for doing that.
01:32:19.000Like, chasing down these Tea Party fucks and making their life hell.
01:32:23.000Like, making their experience with paying their just taxes much more difficult.
01:32:29.000Well, the beauty is that the age of information, the internet, is allowing all of these people to band together and make a force on their own.
01:32:38.000Because back in the day, imagine if you had to gather a large group of people.
01:32:44.000You'd have to put out an ad, and then you'd have to get that ad approved by whatever newspaper you were going to do.
01:32:49.000Or find a reputable news outlet that you could go tell your story to.
01:32:55.000But now with the internet, these things can spread and these things can gather and people can communicate.
01:32:59.000And that's a force that I don't think the powers that be are fully comprehending and are ready to reckon with.
01:33:06.000Dianne Feinstein was explaining that we needed to do these things because we need to stop terrorism.
01:33:11.000And when she was saying this, I was imagining that this person gets to speak for me.
01:33:17.000I was imagining the ridiculousness of this person getting to speak for me, this silly person, who if there was a couple of us and she started talking, we'd be like, okay, yeah.
01:33:30.000If she was just around us right now and she was explaining why that would be important, she would look like a buffoon within a couple of minutes' time.
01:33:41.000And there's not a single argument that you could point to where a competent society that cares about its citizens and it cares about the quality of life, which includes respect for your privacy.
01:33:53.000That that culture would allow these ass fucks to just download every email you send.
01:33:59.000Duncan had a great way of describing it today.
01:34:01.000He said, could you imagine if the government in the 1960s said, hey, everybody that sends a letter through the mail, we're going to take it and Xerox it, and then we're not going to read it, but we're going to have it, and then we're going to send it back to you.
01:34:13.000And we're going to just keep all your letters in a storage facility in Utah.
01:34:17.000You'd be like, get the fuck out of here.
01:34:23.000Because when a person calls themselves the cops or the CIA or the FBI, they put themselves into some sort of a group, and then all of a sudden they believe they have power that a regular person doesn't have.
01:34:32.000Because if there's only two people on the planet, you and Mr. FBI guy, and Mr. FBI guy is like, I believe you might be plotting terrorism, so I'm going to read your emails.
01:34:47.000But when you're in a group and you're the NSA or the CIA or the FBI or any fucking other three letters you want to string together, all of a sudden you have the power to go and do really rude shit to people.
01:35:00.000And that's the problem with the big groups.
01:35:02.000And rude by throwing them in jail indefinitely.
01:35:14.000It's rude when people dig into people I write in journals and things like that.
01:35:21.000And one of the most sacred things to me is that nobody picks those motherfuckers up.
01:35:27.000Because if somebody goes in and reads that journal, that means that every time I'm writing my innermost thoughts, there's going to be a little censor voice up there saying, Oh, well, what if somebody reads this shit?
01:35:37.000I better not write this exactly how it is.
01:35:41.000And as soon as that censor voice comes on, the whole practice of writing in the journal is fucked.
01:35:47.000That's why you should always write in a journal after you beat off.
01:35:56.000I recently got out of a situation where somebody did that, you know, where somebody went in my phone and screenshotted every single text I have, every single photo, every single thing, and sent it to themselves.
01:36:07.000And that now questions me when I talk to anybody, even if it's something legit.
01:36:11.000I don't even want to type it down anymore because of that.
01:36:15.000I mean, there's like that program that's popular right now, Snapchat, you know, where you send the photo and then it expires in three seconds of your balls and stuff.
01:36:22.000People found out a way to hack that now, so you can go in there and take all those photos and all those videos that are supposed to be gone forever.
01:36:28.000Well, all you have to do, they're so silly, all you have to do is have two phones.
01:38:16.000And then you realize that your book is in there and I'm reading your book, most likely.
01:38:20.000Don't leave your journal in the shitter.
01:38:23.000I only have books in the shitter if I'm not taking my kale shakes.
01:38:30.000Because if I'm on a regular kale shake program, the way I describe it is like a tunnel and then those zombies from World War Z are running down the tunnel just all stacking on top of each other.
01:40:06.000But, you know, I mean, people, it's the same, I mean, you can apply that same if you really kind of pay attention to those signals coming back.
01:40:15.000And that's, you know, with this, you know, the earth-grown nutrients thing that Mike Dolce is always preaching about, you can tell the difference.
01:40:21.000And then you get these weird kind of ideas.
01:40:23.000I mean, I like a lot of the Asprey principles about high fat, but if you take some of that stuff too literally and start hammering, like, lots of butter...
01:40:31.000And you just don't feel that great all the time, you know?
01:40:34.000But if you're following a more kind of common sense and just listening to the feedback from your body, I tend to trust that more, just kind of feeling what feels good.
01:40:44.000Yeah, but it's also good to have some real science and knowledge behind it too, which I think Asprey, you know, he takes a lot of heat, but he knows a lot of shit.
01:41:36.000And I know that his He's on a quest to try to figure out the ultimate combination of foods and exercises and treatments to rehabilitate injuries.
01:42:35.000You know what else has really changed the game for me, and maybe I'll tell my whole hunting story too here if we want to get into it, but I went out on that hunt down in South Texas, and we got a lot of meat back from that hunt.
01:42:50.000Every single time I have that meat as compared to some other meat, I mean, the way that I feel it digest, the way that I feel it absorb, it's completely different.
01:43:04.000And even if you're buying some kind of grass-fed cow steak, You know, this wild game that we went out and procured ourselves, I mean, it's not only delicious, I mean, everything we've had has been pretty fucking good.
01:43:15.000Maybe one dud, but most of the stuff, we're making fajitas, we're making stew, we're making tacos, we're making steaks, we're making stir fries, and all of this shit.
01:43:42.000The health benefits are there, and the whole process is really valuable.
01:43:46.000Because if you've gone your whole life, and I know you've made this pitch too, but if you've gone your whole life, and all you do is show up to the grocery store, pick some cellophane-wrapped piece of meat that all you identify is as a steak, you really don't get it.
01:44:01.000You really don't understand what you're doing.
01:44:04.000You don't fully get it until you've been there inside the animal, arms covered in blood, actually cutting those pieces of meat out of something you've killed.
01:44:34.000They're just kind of loosely measuring the herds because they're mostly wild.
01:44:39.000The problem with hunting most native game is there's very select seasons in which you're allowed to hunt them.
01:44:44.000So you have to really kind of stock up.
01:44:47.000If you're going to hunt whitetail, you better be in October and you better book some shit in advance or go somewhere that's very small seasons.
01:44:54.000So what these exotic ranches have done, if it's non-native game, you're allowed to Basically, take animals from the herd all throughout the year.
01:45:02.000So they've gotten species of animals from different parts of the world.
01:45:06.000And they're just, you know, that country's version of the deer.
01:45:09.000So there's fallow deer, which come from Europe.
01:45:11.000There's some black buck, which come, I think they're from Indonesia, tiger food.
01:45:16.000There's some axis deer, which also come from around that area.
01:45:21.000And then there's oryx and attics and all these different kind of antelope and deer that they get.
01:45:25.000And they're just living it up out in South Texas.
01:45:29.000The plants down there have roughly 30% protein.
01:45:32.000And even though they're sparse, they have pretty good adequate protein.
01:45:36.000And when there is kind of a drought, they do supplement it with a little extra food as well.
01:45:40.000But they're pretty much just living off the land and thriving and procreating.
01:45:44.000And so you're going down there, and not only is it like a cool safari where you're seeing all these exotic creatures, you're actually able to go out and take your rifle and hop out on some sticks or, you know, track them down in these kind of outdoor vehicles, which are like these commando-style suburbans,
01:46:01.000and go hunting for an animal that you're going to take then and butcher and have meat for.
01:46:06.000Man, I've been eating the same deer for like three months now.
01:46:11.000So it's a really fucking cool experience where you're out there in the land and these animals are, you know, ostensibly as wild as other animals.
01:46:20.000I mean, they're not sensitized to the truck.
01:46:23.000They get kind of used to the truck and that would be a little weird to shoot.
01:46:26.000But these black bucks, I mean, I was out there hunting for the entirety of the day and I really didn't think I was going to get one.
01:46:33.000You know, I was hoping to get one, but I kind of...
01:46:36.000Said, you know, alright, if today's not the right day to take an animal, so be it.
01:46:40.000So we're out cruising around, and every animal that came within about 250 yards was just scattering.
01:46:47.000And I knew the ballistics on my gun, I wasn't going to comfortably take a shot that was over about, you know, 150 to 180. Just because at that point, my particular ballistics on the bullet, the bullet was going to drop about 4 to 6 inches.
01:47:16.000So anyway, so we finally, it's the very end of the day, I didn't think I was going to get anything, and we see this black buck doe at the very top of the hill about 260 yards away.
01:47:28.000Instead of scattering, I was like, oh great, she's just going to run away like everything else does.
01:47:32.000Instead of scattering away, it ran like right towards the truck for 80 yards.
01:47:36.000So it was like at 160. And this is like right when the sun was kind of starting to set.
01:47:43.000So I made like a quick makeshift brace.
01:47:47.000Saw it in the crosshairs, tried to steady my heartbeat from pounding, and try to keep the crosshairs from dancing all over the thing, seeing sky, seeing ground, and then focus in, take a deep breath.
01:47:58.000And then it just kind of turned just the right way, and I pulled the trigger.
01:48:04.000And then it was just full adrenaline from there.
01:48:07.000I saw it rear up in the air, fell to the ground, and I remember running up to it because I knew that if it was in pain, They say to kind of wait and see if it gets up.
01:49:29.000It caught a piece of the heart, a lot of lung.
01:49:32.000And it was definitely bleeding out, but I wanted to make sure that it didn't suffer.
01:49:36.000But at the point that I got up there, the feeling wasn't any feeling of like, you know, it was nothing but just pure gratitude and appreciation for this animal.
01:49:47.000And I put my hand on its neck and pulled the knife out, which is actually a very special knife to me.
01:49:53.000It was one that my uncle gave to me before he passed away.
01:49:57.000And I put my hand on its neck and quieted myself and then put it into the heart.
01:50:04.000And I could feel the heart reverberating through the blade of the knife into my hand.
01:50:09.000And I pulled it out and just kept my hands, one hand on its chest and one hand On its neck and could kind of sense the life leave the body.
01:50:18.000And, you know, I said a little prayer, kind of avatar style.
01:50:24.000You know, basically the idea is, you know, as your spirit goes back to the source to nourish new life, may your flesh, you know, nourish our bodies in this life.
01:51:33.000You won't see that one time in a thousand.
01:51:35.000And so basically, some porcupine had whacked it in the face, and the spines were working their way through its eyeball.
01:51:41.000So it was kind of a cool feeling to know that at that point, I had taken an animal out of its misery, so to speak, too, which was not necessarily my idea.
01:51:52.000I was going to take an animal that presented it, but...
01:51:54.000That happened to be the one that presented itself.
01:51:57.000But then the really weird thing happened.
01:53:51.000Yeah, no, the backstrap is alongside of the spine, and then the tenderloin is up underneath There's a really cool video of a dude taking apart a pig.
01:54:03.000I have it on my Twitter if you want to see it.
01:55:14.000But when you kill it yourself, it never makes that transition.
01:55:17.000Even when it's meat, it's like there's a re...
01:55:19.000When you put that steak on the grill and you're seasoning it and you're cooking it, like this is a weird connection with that animal that you killed.
01:57:01.000But just the feeling of having gone out there and caught it, butchered it, put it in our freezer, and then cooked it up, it's like a connection to something that...
01:57:11.000Our ancestors have been doing for thousands of years.
01:58:15.000So what we would do if we were going to have an Onnit hunting thing is basically just use that...
01:58:22.000Branch and you know just work it through like they could do it through us through our website We explain it maybe map out your experience Whitney's experience and yeah, I'm gonna go there soon to my experience I want to shoot a buffalo I got a bit and in people like it's not very sporting I just want to eat a buffalo and I want to shoot out of me I want to I have a giant freezer and I'm gonna set it up to eat my own meat and I just think it's the smart way to do it.
01:58:43.000I think it's the healthiest way to do it.
01:58:45.000And I think that wild game like that, whether it's buffalo or deer, and especially venison, I think is like the most delicious meat on earth.
01:59:12.000Yeah, and you could combine it with a lot of other cool stuff.
01:59:15.000We could do kettlebell training workouts, mace, club in the day, get people familiarized with that aspect, have some talks and discussions about different things.
02:01:36.000Laser tag is where you wear, like, a vest, right?
02:01:39.000Well, yeah, you could put, like, a vest on an animal, like a cat, just have a laser tag cat ranch, and you just try to shoot them, because they're fast.
02:01:47.000People don't have any problem with fishing in a place where they stock the fish.
02:02:15.000And you grab the rod and you reel it in and you hope you get something and then someone whacks it on the head and maybe you pull the hook out if you're brave and sometimes you're with somebody who does it.
02:02:24.000Whatever that whole program is, it's different.
02:02:27.000But I went spearfishing recently, which was kind of like...
02:04:08.000You're swimming around, there's hard current.
02:04:10.000But the cool thing is, is some of the fish you can catch with the hook.
02:04:13.000Like, you can get snapper, which is really delicious.
02:04:15.000But the guide on the boat, and I was down in Mexico doing this, the guide on the boat It was telling me that parrotfish tastes like lobster, and I should really get parrotfish.
02:04:23.000Well, parrotfish, they have this little tiny mouth.
02:04:26.000All they do is eat algae, and you never catch them with a hook because you can never get a hook in their little tiny mouth because you've got nothing they want to eat that's on a hook, unless you had a really algae-ed hook or whatever, but it would never happen.
02:04:36.000But with spearfishing, you can actually target these fish, and so we got one.
02:06:00.000They have these in Japan where it's just like this humongous saltwater pool in the middle.
02:06:05.000Where you fish and you catch your own dinner.
02:06:08.000And it seems like more places would have that.
02:06:10.000Like you just have pretty much a huge aquarium and you kind of get the The fun of catching your own fish and then eating it on top of it.
02:06:17.000Back when I was thinking of silly Las Vegas restaurant ideas, I thought of an idea where you had that with lobsters and crabs and all kinds of stuff.
02:06:25.000And that you could tell a mermaid, someone with a mermaid fin, to go down and you'd point to the one you want.
02:06:31.000And the mermaid would go, okay, that's the one you want.
02:06:33.000And she'd dive down and swim and grab it for you.
02:06:35.000And everybody could sit around the tank and watch the mermaid swim around there.
02:06:39.000If anybody here that idea wants to take it, go ahead.
02:06:41.000I don't need any credit, I just want to go.
02:06:44.000There's a bar in Sacramento called, I think, the Mermaid Bar, where it's just this huge, long bar, and on the top there's this humongous aquarium.
02:07:56.000Yeah, do you think that America's just too savage and that people would just start grabbing her and they wouldn't be able to just let her do that?
02:08:12.000I think that most partners, most spouses in America just would not allow, would not go there and would not allow their husbands or boyfriends or anybody to go there, period, ever.
02:10:34.000You're on some wacky fucking shit that you got at a couch store.
02:10:37.000I had to do the thing where I had to take a shit when I woke up this morning, so I had to have a bucket that I usually use to clean my dog so I could pee in the bucket because I couldn't tuck my dick down while I was shitting.
02:10:47.000Well, you gotta learn how to have better balance.
02:10:49.000You gotta look at it like doing a downward dog and just grab a hold of the top of the lid, you know, the top where the upper deck is, and then just bend down and push your dick down.
02:10:58.000Yeah, but don't push your balls so far back that it gets in the way of your shit.
02:11:03.000Yeah, because that's going to slide right down your balls.
02:11:06.000You're going to have to do one at a time.
02:12:18.000And that was part of the adaptations he made to his religion, is that he always struggled with the fact that you couldn't have sex in Christianity, but he wanted to be a man of deep faith.
02:12:30.000Brian, it's right there, under Google Images.
02:13:36.000To his kind of philosophy, but apparently he was kind of a bit of a hypnotist, wizard, whatever.
02:13:42.000I don't know how far you want to go with his powers, but the reports were that he could contract and dilate his pupils at will, like through mental control, so he could do weird shit, and he had a huge dick, and would just cut a swath through all of Russia, just banging everybody.
02:13:59.000Saying that, that he was able to dilate his pupils at will, it probably means he was on drugs.
02:15:06.000Rasputin got a little bit sick, and then he kept eating the cakes, and he was like, play me some gypsy music, Yusupov, and started dancing.
02:15:12.000So they're like, oh, fuck, this isn't working.
02:17:51.000I don't know where it fits in the equation.
02:17:54.000Does your shit look like a rake went over it?
02:17:56.000My shit usually looks like there's a lot of green in there, like chunks of leafy vegetables, until I gorge on meat, and then it becomes hard and chunky.
02:18:08.000Brian, do you think that hairy vaginas are making a comeback?
02:18:12.000They are, but, I mean, there's two different kinds.
02:18:15.000There's the ones that have always had the hairy vagina, and then there's the girls that recently, like, I'm taking care of this and bringing it back because...
02:18:22.000There was one recently where it was just like, no, this is like 70s vagina that hasn't been touched since the 70s.