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00:08:16.000Yeah, the entire entertainment industry just sells sex because they know that it's kind of this mystique for us because we have been so sexually repressed for so long.
00:08:24.000I mean, compared to other countries, I guess.
00:08:27.000I mean, I was watching Braveheart on TV, and they blurt out people's asses when they're mooning the camera, but then they show people's heads being, like, beat up against a rock.
00:08:37.000So it's like, why are we able to see someone's brain being smashed in, but we can't see an ass?
00:09:19.000They were, like, furious that they put that in the film.
00:09:22.000Like, I remember reading this, like, really angry review by this guy, and he was actually angry at Gallo for doing this and making him watch this scene.
00:11:02.000There's still websites where people make money, and there's so many people out there.
00:11:06.000All a guy has to do is get fixated on one girl, and she just sticks dildos inside of her all week, and she's making bank.
00:11:12.000But the reality is, it's like the actual buying of the DVDs is a big thing for them, and all that went away.
00:11:19.000And now they get pay-per-view from hotels and stuff, and I'm sure that must be diminished by the internet as well, since there's so many other options.
00:12:56.000And there'd just be a bunch of dudes walking around there, shifty, not breathing too heavy, trying to get out of there as quick as they could.
00:13:02.000And then the rest of it was like a fucking ghost town.
00:13:05.000Because nobody wants to go to the one video store that's mostly porn.
00:13:57.000And, you know, you would talk to them.
00:13:59.000Like, you walk in, and they're sitting down behind, like, a plexiglass thing, and then they do things for you.
00:14:04.000Me and Eddie F. went to that one place in San Francisco, and that's where I... It was my first time where I touched the walls, and it was wet.
00:16:50.000Well, it's looked down upon in both sides.
00:16:52.000As soon as money's involved, it's like money and sex for some reason did not, anytime it's connected, whether it's a gigolo or whether it's a girl or a prostitute, it's like terrible.
00:17:08.000Even though we use sex to sell everything, right?
00:17:11.000Did you guys hear about that dude who killed a prostitute?
00:17:14.000And use the self-defense thing and he got off because he said that she stole money from him and she didn't actually fuck him.
00:17:22.000So then he was able to get off on self-defense in some weird fucked up law in a state saying it was like one of those stand your ground things except he was like you stole my money and didn't deliver the goods so I can kill you.
00:19:36.000He told me that they're working on artificial blood cells that allow you to hold your breath underwater for four hours.
00:19:43.000You could just hop in a water, hop in a tank of water, and because of these artificial blood cells are so efficient that you would have enough oxygen where you'd hold your breath for four hours.
00:19:53.000That's like, he thinks within our lifetime.
00:22:13.000But I always thought it would be so interesting, like a thousand years from now, if we died off and then people in the future came back and dissected our...
00:22:21.000Skeletons and found remnants of, like, silicone.
00:22:23.000And they're like, what the fuck were people just, like, inserting silicone packets in their body and ab implants?
00:24:40.000Did you hear about some woman who was this beautiful model in Korea and then she just injected her face with a bunch of olive oil and shit.
00:24:48.000They would not give her any more plastic surgery and now she looks insane.
00:25:02.000It's so strange because it seems like most of your life is almost like a balancing act.
00:25:08.000It's a balancing act of happiness and friendships and laughter and accomplishments and not losing your mind along the way.
00:25:16.000But for a lot of folks, somewhere in that dance it's just too much and they just go towards lose your mind at full steam ahead and then they're sticking needles and cooking oil in their face.
00:25:27.000Or we've all seen the one actress that will not stop fucking with her face until they become almost hideous or pitiful.
00:25:42.000It's a very strange aspect of the human being.
00:25:48.000Every now and then, you take what looks like a totally normal person who's keeping it together for a long time, and then one day, we'll have to crazy town.
00:25:57.000I just fucking can't keep it together anymore.
00:27:43.000Rather than getting knocked unconscious and they take a chunk of meat out of the back of your head and drill fucking holes in there and implant those.
00:28:46.000That's what the dude wants to look like.
00:28:48.000But for me, I can tell you that it was a big mistake on my part, and it was one that I made in getting hair transplants out of insecurity because I was young.
00:28:56.000And I was, you know, thinking like, oh, I'm not going to have a career.
00:31:37.000Everyone has ever been pleasant with me.
00:31:39.000But Graham Hancock, who's been on the podcast several times, who's a good friend, he went through one and he said, this dude just was aggressively sexual with him.
00:31:50.000Grabbing his body, it felt like he was being molested.
00:31:54.000I shouldn't say aggressively sexual, but He grabbed his cock and the whole thing.
00:31:59.000He said it felt like he was getting raped.
00:32:02.000Obviously not as extreme, but it's like a form of a violation.
00:32:08.000He was shocked enough that he didn't just let it go.
00:32:10.000He sat down and wrote some stuff about it.
00:32:11.000Well, there was just this report that came out that said that there's so many more cases of Malfeasance and misconduct in the TSA than any other government.
00:32:19.000I mean, this is like 20 times more, and so there was this investigation done to find out, well, why is there so much fucking, like, crimes happening, like, robbery, We're good to
00:32:54.000I'm just trying to, in the interest of fairness, I know some of them are just folks that needed a job, and that's the reality of the situation.
00:33:04.000Well, you know, it's a thing where I think that it can be pretty well-argued That there needs to be some form of security, but it's also a thing that is much like many other public service jobs, is that it should be really respected, and it should be something you're paid well for,
00:33:20.000and it should be a difficult job to acquire.
00:33:22.000And I think it's a matter of priorities, and if we shifted those priorities, that we could make a sizable change in the way the whole thing is run.
00:33:31.000If you made it so that people were, first of all, made it so that those jobs were a little bit more difficult to come by and that the people that do do it get background checks, and it's a really good job to get with excellent benefits so they don't feel left out or fucked or disenfranchised.
00:33:45.000It's something that's worth, and it's also worth adhering to a certain code of conduct because it's a really good job.
00:33:52.000You know, I think when you have a job, it's, you know, what the fuck are they getting per hour?
00:33:55.000Yeah, they're probably just getting paid, like, fucking minimum wage.
00:34:17.000Jonathan Corbett basically exposed the fact that you can just create an in-sewn pocket and bring in whatever the fuck you want through these body scanners.
00:34:24.000So they really have like a huge security breach.
00:34:27.000But when you go back to why the body scanners were implemented, like an in-sewn pocket that's like silver or something.
00:34:32.000Oh, so it has to be a type of material?
00:34:39.000But I mean, the reason that the body scanners were implemented in the first place is because Michael Chertoff was tied up with Rapist Scan, which is also the name of the body scanner, right?
00:35:06.000Some crazy multi-millionaire guy who's just nuts.
00:35:09.000So yeah, this guy was running the DHS and he was tied up with the lobbying firm and profiting off these body scanners and so they just put them in all the airports and they don't even really work.
00:35:20.000Even Israel, the Israeli government was like, we're not going to use those because they don't work.
00:36:56.000But now the TSA's actually taking it so fucking far, man.
00:37:00.000I just saw this video where this woman comes back from her trip, she gets her car, and there's a little note in her car that says, TSA inspected your car while you were gone.
00:38:25.000It's such a waste of money, I just think.
00:38:28.000I mean, what have we done, really, with the TSA? Well, the argument I would say, I don't disagree with you, but the argument I would say if I was, you know, doing the counterpoint was like, think of how many lives we've saved.
00:38:39.000Think how many terrorist attacks were stopped.
00:38:42.000Think how many people did not try things because they thought they would never get through the infinite matrix that is the TSA. That's all hypotheticals.
00:38:50.000Is there any proof that we've stopped anything?
00:39:34.000I mean, I think it was government agents, but it was just very...
00:39:37.000It wasn't like a huge, multi-billion dollar wasteful agency that was just like...
00:39:42.000Is it just one of those things where, and I'm obviously not a politician, nor do I really even understand politics, but is it one of those things where when jobs get created and a business gets created, it behooves them to enhance that business and spread that business and make that business larger?
00:40:00.000Whether that business is Chick-fil-A or that business is the TSA, once it's an actual business, so it's not a government agency, it's a business, it's a private business, that's where things are always going to get weird.
00:40:12.000Because as soon as you can profit, and it's not just the state profits.
00:40:17.000Individuals profit, and they have motivation.
00:40:20.000And then they also can have things called lobbyists, and they can spend a shitload of money to try to get laws pushed by that make their business more profitable and make more...
00:40:53.000You can't get people to work unless you give them a reward.
00:40:56.000If you want cool shit, you want a Samsung phone, you want to be able to watch TV on a big screen that's flat, someone's going to make that, okay?
00:42:18.000But the question is, is it this way because this is the most efficient way to move this thing forward?
00:42:24.000This is the most efficient way to continue to produce new technological innovations, to continue to push our ability to access information, whether it's Like, willingly given up through the internet or whether they're watching your cell phones.
00:42:39.000Like, that all of it is kind of connected.
00:42:41.000Well, it's interesting because we hear a lot, you know, you need reward, you need value, you need people competing, and that otherwise you won't have innovation, you won't have these new technologies, but I look at it We had innovations 20 years ago that cars can run on water, but the car industry bought out this patent.
00:43:00.000So we actually see technologies being stifled because of the capitalist model that we live in, this vulture capitalism where they're monopolizing all these industries and preventing technology from arising.
00:43:11.000So that water car thing is totally true.
00:43:18.000I heard about the water thing on Opie and Anthony.
00:43:21.000They were talking about how the guy who created it died of a heart attack, and he had a meeting with two men, and he ran out of the restaurant screaming, they poisoned me, and then died of a heart attack.
00:44:01.000Humanity and our collective consciousness to a point where we can figure out a different way instead of reverting back to these old paradigms of communism or capitalism and the way that we know.
00:44:43.000That has to be quelled in some form, whether you should take up a game that you enjoy or get involved in sports or in martial arts, for example, or some form of discipline that allows you to blow off energy.
00:44:59.000And blow off this competitive design that you have inside of you that sort of allowed human beings to get to this point in the first place.
00:45:06.000I mean, we didn't survive for tens of thousands of years because we weren't intent on survival at all costs.
00:45:19.000And I think that when people get involved in anything, whether it's a corporate thing or whether it's a competition in a game or a team, there's this desire to do better than those you're competing against.
00:45:35.000If you talk to people that are business people, they'll talk about their competitors.
00:45:39.000We're fucking kicking it right down their throat.
00:45:43.000When you get guys alone, they start talking about how well they're doing against the competition.
00:45:46.000They close down three of their stores.
00:45:48.000They start getting real excited about conquering shit.
00:45:51.000It's that mimicked, this genetic thing, I think, that's almost been incorporated into our DNA because it's been so responsible for getting people to this point.
00:46:01.000Like, you have to crack eggs in order to make an omelet.
00:46:05.000There had to be a bunch of crazy shit to get us to rise from apes with sticks to driving a car.
00:46:12.000And to do it all so fast, there had to be a lot of chaos involved in doing that.
00:46:18.000But we should be able to recognize that now and go, whoa, [...
00:47:19.000It's fucking fascinating that we're just wasting all of this magical resource that takes billions of years to compound in the earth and we're just blowing it.
00:47:35.000I've said before that I think what they're going to do is eventually come up with some sort of a bacteria that eats carbon dioxide in the air and they're going to release it like a moth fossil.
00:48:14.000I mean, if they were spraying chemicals on us and the government was doing this around the world every day, don't you think that some pilot would have come out and said like...
00:49:04.000Yeah, I mean, look, it's always they, like they, they, they.
00:49:06.000And I was just about to say, yeah, they gave the Tuskegee experiment, you know, they gave those guys syphilis or allowed them to have syphilis and not treat them.
00:49:14.000This is all, like, that they thing is a real problem because it's not, they're not all part of the same group.
00:49:52.000This is a fact, okay, that in the 1950s, and this is off Yahoo News, this is widely reported throughout the internet, which means everything.
00:51:55.000And if you're not sure if something is just a jet engine creating an artificial cloud because it's passing through condensation, Or if it's the government spraying you.
00:52:03.000If you call one or the other, it becomes a problem for all of the information.
00:52:28.000And there was a study done after 9-11, which is really fascinating.
00:52:32.000And it's kind of funny because it was in CNN. This was long before the chemtrail thing either.
00:52:37.000It's a CNN article from 2002. And it was talking about how the temperature shifted because of the fact that there was no Contrails in the sky, and that these contrails, and it referred to them as the artificial clouds created by jet planes, that these contrails had been cooling the Earth.
00:52:55.000The difference was a couple of degrees.
00:52:57.000I don't know how the fuck they can tell whether or not that couple degrees variance is just natural, because things vary all the time as far as temperature.
00:53:04.000But in this article, they were trying to attribute it to the fact that there was no contrails in the sky, which is fascinating.
00:53:19.000And that's like the only evidence people can keep showing me is they're just like, look at, you know, barium and aluminum is found in the water.
00:53:25.000And I'm like, dude, we're fucking polluting the whole earth.
00:53:50.000Now let's stop and look at the shit that we're not paying attention to.
00:53:53.000We're pumping raw sewage into the ocean.
00:53:56.000People are just shitting into the ocean.
00:53:59.000There's boats that are burning diesel fuel.
00:54:03.000There's other boats with giant nets that are killing every fucking fish within whatever stretch they've got these goddamn killer nets set up for.
00:54:12.000Just sucking fish out of it, throwing plastic in there.
00:54:15.000There's a The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
00:54:19.000There's one in every body of fucking water, dude.
00:54:22.000I saw this TED Talk from this woman talking about plastic, and she was saying 20 years ago this research team went out fucking hundreds of miles away from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and the fish that they were fishing full of plastic particles, and also this guy went down to the bottom of the ocean Where they were,
00:54:53.000So you are right to distrust any people that could be in a position of power that could possibly profit from doing something that could harm people.
00:55:01.000You're absolutely right to be paranoid about that.
00:55:04.000That's not what I say when I talk about these things.
00:55:08.000I just think it's really important to be aware of exactly what's happening.
00:55:12.000Yeah, it's the same thing with fluoride.
00:55:14.000I think fluoride is horrible and it shouldn't be in drinking water, but the thing is it's been kind of hijacked into this conspiracy theory that says it's this mass mind control thing and trying to give everyone brain damage and Hitler used it on...
00:55:29.000But also, it's like, no, it's just a phosphate mineral byproduct that we're just pouring in the water supplies.
00:55:34.000Like, that's what we should be concerned about, that there's a waste product being sold to municipalities and just fucking toxifying our water.
00:55:41.000But isn't the idea that people who use fluoridated water have better teeth?
00:55:53.000The ADA did an extensive study about a decade ago that showed that it was just better hygiene overall.
00:55:58.000That just showed that people just had better hygiene overall.
00:56:01.000Really, there's no difference between fluoridated and non-fluoridated areas.
00:56:05.000So really, just topically applying fluoride, yes, that is, you know, It helps with tooth decay.
00:56:30.000It's this thing called hexafluorisolicic acid.
00:56:33.000And it's just a fucking fertilizer byproduct.
00:56:37.000That they've just like, it's just this old school collusion between the fertilizer industry and the water industry and it's just based on like a huge propaganda campaign that's saying that fluoride's good for your teeth and we just kind of still believe it.
00:57:58.000The idea is if you take it with some Himalayan salt, something that has a lot of minerals in it, as long as he supplements with minerals, maybe he'll be okay.
00:58:09.000But Aubrey, he went to a doctor and the doctor told him, you have an imbalance here, son.
00:58:45.000Well, when you get an excess of fluoride, it gives you fluorosis, which eats away the enamel of your teeth, so you see the yellow fucking, like, yeah.
00:59:30.000Is it one of those things where someone just started getting paid for bringing fluoride, and then the fluoride is just a part of life now?
00:59:38.000Yeah, the aluminum industry needed to get rid of their byproducts.
00:59:41.000They launched this propaganda campaign.
00:59:44.000It was like in the 50s, and it was just this old school thing that we didn't really understand that we can just have better hygiene by brushing our teeth now.
00:59:51.000It was like, yeah, people did have fucked up teeth.
01:00:29.000We should, like, Google us real quick.
01:00:31.000Well, what's crazy is I just had this interesting thing with Nestle where they sent us, like, this lawsuit threat.
01:00:38.000Like, they're basically threatening to sue us because I... They criticize their monopolization over the water supply and how they're trying to privatize water.
01:00:59.000The ex-CEO, Peter Brabeck, he's still highly influential at the company, but he came out and said, you know, it's a food stuff like any other.
01:02:11.000I think just thinking that you're doing something that gives you heightened awareness heightens your awareness because you're cognizant of it.
01:02:18.000Like, yeah, I'm going to really focus on this oxygen coming in.
01:02:19.000Well, what I love that you talk about so much is the placebo effect because this is something that's fucking nuts.
01:02:24.000The fact that we can heal things with our body and people just dismiss it and they're like, oh, that's just the placebo effect.
01:03:44.000And how much of it is just random occurrences?
01:03:47.000How much are you steering this thing with your thoughts?
01:03:50.000When you find out that you can fix something that you didn't think you could fix because someone told you they gave you a pill that fixes it, then all of a sudden you fix it.
01:03:59.000Well, think about what stress does to you.
01:04:16.000I saw this documentary about water, and there was this Japanese scientist who put different feelings in different bottles of water, glass of water, and they had different particles.
01:05:26.000He likes calling people on conspiracies that are bullshit, even if he's wrong.
01:05:32.000I mean, I don't know if he's right all the time.
01:05:34.000But it's pretty obvious his trend is to debunk things.
01:05:37.000But along the way, I've got to say, one of the things that I've learned about this television show is the psychological effect of wanting to believe in something.
01:05:47.000And the similar attributes that I find in almost everyone who believes in something that can't be proven.
01:05:53.000There's very, very, very similar attributes.
01:09:25.000But he was just like, you could tell he was just exasperated with the mentality that he was surrounded by whenever he had all these Obama apologists and stuff when he would go and argue.
01:09:33.000And he was embedded in Afghanistan for a while.
01:09:36.000And actually did a report in the Rolling Stone about Stanley McChrystal, which was the commanding general of the Afghanistan war that totally exposed his ass.
01:12:34.000And I wrote that today's fake meat's tomorrow's fake person, solar powered, programmed by the state, reading minds and writing tickets for bad thoughts.
01:12:43.000Like one day we could easily be in a world where we have robot people just wandered around enforcing the rules.
01:12:50.000Of a corrupt elite, a bunch of old dudes with fucking wires coming out of their body, barely hanging on, just evil, keeping them in the game, waiting for life extension technology, just hanging in there with robots running around.
01:13:04.000I mean, we're so close to actual thought crime, it's not even funny with the NSA, just surveillance of everyone, blanket, Data mining and then this retroactive prosecution, the ability to retroactively prosecute you if you fucking say something today, 10 years from now, they can dredge that up and be like, you said this 10 years ago and wrongfully accuse you of something and pull up all this evidence over the course of your digital life and use it against you.
01:13:26.000And that's another really scary aspect.
01:13:27.000It's not even just the chilling effect that quells dissent and makes people not want to speak out as much.
01:13:38.000We're in such strange times because if someone feels like they have the right to just look at everything you're doing all the time, like where are we?
01:14:03.000They're using the information to catch drug dealers.
01:14:05.000They're using the information to catch people selling weed.
01:14:08.000I mean, it's not just a national security concern thing.
01:14:12.000This is information that's being distributed to other people.
01:14:15.000So they're bypassing normal protocol for catching criminals and just fucking...
01:14:19.000Well, what's really crazy, yes, you're right, but what's really crazy is that he said that this is what's really weird, is that the NSA is giving your phone records to the DEA and they're telling the DEA is talking about how to cover it up and to conduct a fake investigation to acquire that information,
01:14:39.000to back-engineer your discovery and then going back and acquiring enough evidence Post-knowledge of the crime, that they're actually going to create a fake investigation.
01:14:52.000Well, so that they hide the fact that they got this information from the NSA. Sounds like a lot of work.
01:15:00.000Well, it doesn't just seem like a lot of work.
01:15:51.000And you're like, no dude, because the storage center in Utah or whatever that you're storing this, the metadata would only account for like a fucking eighth of that information that's stored in there.
01:15:59.000And you're already building other ones.
01:16:00.000So what the hell else is the rest of it?
01:16:02.000Obviously it's everything just recorded and stored.
01:17:49.000One of the worst cases of undercover cops was without a doubt in my opinion that the people in Florida where they were Operation D- where they were sending undercover cops to go in and pose as high school students and try to get kids to sell them weed.
01:18:46.000He tested negative when they arrested him.
01:18:48.000But when she asked him to get it, he tried to give it to her for free and she insisted on giving him money so that she could make the arrest.
01:19:25.000But in this situation, it's very strange.
01:19:29.000Because if the roles had been reversed, the outrage would have been exponentially greater.
01:19:35.000If a man was pretending to be a high school student, and he was a super slick 25-year-old, been around the block, been driving for years, he's got a fast car maybe, he's got a bunch of poetry books that he reads, and she's...
01:19:52.000If you found that some 25-year-old pimp cat is banging 17-year-olds and arresting them for getting them weed, could you imagine how much people would be upset?
01:20:49.000He was an optometrist, just had his own career, mildly gambled $20, $100 bets with his friends, and This FBI agent overheard him at a bar one night talking about waging a bet, so he befriended him and then for the next six months or a year just became closer with him and closer with him and kept trying to up the stakes.
01:21:09.000And basically at the end of this time frame, he convinced the guy to bet him $2,000 in one day, which in Virginia that's like running a gambling operation.
01:21:18.000So he comes in and raids his house with a SWAT team, and the guy gets executed on accident.
01:21:23.000There's some trigger-happy cop who just fucking shoots him and kills him.
01:21:26.000So you basically turn this person into a criminal.
01:21:29.000Not even that I think that's a criminal to spend $2,000 on a bet.
01:21:33.000But, like, they shaped this person, and then it's just so sad.
01:21:37.000Well, this has happened so many times before.
01:21:38.000There was a famous Rolling Stone article about a young man that was, he was talked into selling this guy some marijuana, and then he sold him some marijuana, and they put together some sort of coke deal.
01:21:53.000And the FBI agent completely encouraged him, set it all up, or the DEA agent, the undercover guy, set it all up, I'm so sad.
01:23:24.000It's the same thing as a corporation that can pollute a river and kill a bunch of fishermen because it's easier to do that than it is to take shit and put it in these toxic drums and ship it somewhere else.
01:24:01.000But it's really interesting because if you stop and think about the idea of engineering consciousness through pills, I mean that's what everybody's worried about when it comes to antidepressants and Prozac and things that people give kids for ADD and People are really concerned about this concept of engineering consciousness and what are the repercussions of doing this and giving people things,
01:26:02.000The shelf life of DU is like millions of years.
01:26:04.000And what is the idea about depleted uranium?
01:26:06.000Was that it penetrates armor better than anything else?
01:26:09.000Yeah, it's like this radioactive coating on the shell of something, like the shell casing, and I don't know why you would ever use that if it's so horrifyingly toxic for the environment.
01:28:31.000Because a lot of times when I go to Wikipedia, folks, I've never read about this before, so I'm hoping that they'll sort of boil it down for me within the first paragraph.
01:29:25.000What a strange ability that human beings had, even in 1947, to throw something out of a plane, fly over you, throw something, and just wipe out everything.
01:32:27.000Oh, you mean what they've done to Indian reservations?
01:32:29.000Yeah, that's pretty much what they did.
01:32:30.000They're just like, everyone just go in the most toxic areas with like no ability to like farm or do anything and we'll just fucking give you gambling.
01:34:15.000Did you guys hear about this boa constrictor that got out of a pet store and climbed through the walls and into this kid's room and killed a five-year-old and a seven-year-old?
01:34:55.000No, Louis Theroux, this awesome journalist that works for the BBC, does these...
01:34:59.000He goes and lives with crazy families.
01:35:01.000He lives with the Westboro Baptist Church for like a month.
01:35:04.000He'll go live with all these assholes who have tigers in cages and baboons and giant snakes, and he'll just do this documentary about them.
01:35:11.000And they don't know that he's actually mocking them because he's British, and so they don't really understand his humor.
01:35:16.000He's being really sarcastic all the time.
01:35:25.000Yeah, he's not, like, arguing with them as much as he's just encouraged them to communicate who they are, you know, which is, like, a hard way to do it.
01:35:34.000You're embedded with the Westboro Baptist Church and like, you know, I gotta kill all these queers and light fires and show up.
01:35:40.000They have a really great sign-making factory.
01:35:42.000He was in there and he's like, Nelson Mandela fag.
01:36:06.000The Westboro Baptist Church is one of the weirdest, like, branches of humanity.
01:36:11.000Because it's almost like we expect them to do something stupid whenever anything happens now.
01:36:16.000And it becomes like an oddity, like a little sideshow with these things.
01:36:20.000And if we, yeah, it's like impossible to not pay attention to them because they're so fucking outlandish.
01:36:24.000Like the fact that they will just go and fly to picket funerals.
01:36:28.000It's a part of the idea struggle, you know?
01:36:30.000It's a part of the idea struggle, the battle between advancement and thinking, and there's the monkeys, there's the fucking screaming apes that are still around, throwing shit at each other, holding up abortion signs.
01:38:35.000It's not like they were forced to do it in a coliseum for our amusement.
01:38:39.000This is just something that played out in the wild, and they fell off a cliff.
01:38:43.000It would have happened whether people existed or not, most likely.
01:38:47.000It's just a fascinating, fascinating thing to see that this is how life exists.
01:38:52.000When you take away language and you take away cities and you take away advancement, it's just this wild group of things that are trying to eat each other and survive and keep moving and spread numbers.
01:39:03.000How amazing is it that we live in a time where we can see all of the shit, like the Planet Earth series, where you can just see what the fuck bacteria look like in caves in New Mexico or some shit, like glowworms spinning silk, or the goats on that mountainside, and that's what reminds me of that.
01:39:17.000Those goats that survived, it's like a sheer face of a mountain, and they're hunting and they're fucking running around.
01:39:50.000I was like, yeah, ledge, I think I grabbed that bitch by the neck and just lock onto him right there.
01:39:54.000I remember the guy filming it said he waited like weeks, like six weeks to finally catch them hunting or whatever, and it was like this epic chase on this mountainside, and I was like, how are they not just collapsing and falling to their death?
01:40:17.000Yeah, mountain lions are really hard to film.
01:40:20.000That's one of the reasons why when people hunt mountain lions, the hunting of mountain lions is very controversial.
01:40:28.000And on one hand, I see the point of people that don't want them hunted.
01:40:31.000Like, they're this majestic, cool creatures, and it's amazing and everything.
01:40:35.000But on the other point, like, you've got to realize, like, if you don't keep their numbers to a manageable level, like, the last thing you want is mountain lions like squirrels.
01:42:17.000Is there going to be a way to justify the fact that you're killing an animal?
01:42:21.000Or we'll get to the point where we just won't let cows mate that often, just keep a few of them around so they don't go extinct and just eat these fake burgers?
01:42:30.000I think people will always want to eat the real animal.
01:43:07.000Yeah, talk about being guinea pigs, GMOs.
01:43:09.000Who the hell knows what that's doing to us?
01:43:11.000There was an article, it's on my Twitter, where these scientists put Mona Lisa, a tiny Mona Lisa, they drew it, on a surface one-third the width of a human hair.
01:44:48.000How much do you know about, there's pens that apparently record what you write.
01:44:53.000So if you write something down, say there's a pen, like if I gave you this piece of paper, and I had you write things down, what you wrote down would actually show up in a computer.
01:45:46.000What he does, he debunks a lot of what people think is psychic, but it's just trickstery shit.
01:45:50.000He's a master in all this trickstery shit.
01:45:53.000And I was trying to figure out how the fuck he did what he did, because it was really kind of trippy.
01:45:57.000And one of the things that I think might be possible, I've been just running this through my head, is one of those pens that as you write things down, you could seal it in an envelope, and he has access to the information.
01:48:53.000Smart minds in the world working toward technologies that are good instead of like weapons and I mean think about how many people are just wasting.
01:49:03.000It's almost like, do you ever think about the possibility, and this might be total hippie bullshit, but is there a possibility that we need a bunch of dickheads in the world in order to motivate the good people to act and that sort of like this struggle is imperative in the human condition?
01:49:58.000Well, they said that fungus is actually the best way of dealing with plastic, that they've found funguses that they can mutate and get them to eat plastic.
01:50:15.000It's still scary when you see the various studies about how large the patch is and how much of an area it covers and how much actual material is out there.
01:52:45.000Remember when Stephen Hawking came out and he was like, by the way, aliens are most definitely out there and we should not be looking for them because they're most likely wanting to take over the planet.
01:56:36.000Yeah, I just saw this really awesome parody about the NSA that said, here's how we're going to beat the NSA. Just talk like a terrorist all the time.
01:56:43.000It showed this mom calling her kid, and her kid was just like, alright, I'm going to go blow up the school on the way.
01:58:23.000And even more fascinating that they chose to do this and to try to discredit this guy by going out with the fact that he was a high school dropout.
01:59:43.000It's like if we really were this really kind and noble country that we would want to think that we were, we would have this person and we would use this example as an example of...
01:59:54.000How to treat someone who disagrees with you but breaks the law, how to treat them humanely, how to bring this up in discourse with the rest of the people of this country.
02:00:05.000But instead of doing something horrific and cruel to them and doing it out in the open and doing it where everybody's aware of it, it's like you're showing your intentions.
02:00:13.000Your intentions aren't to govern the world and make people live in a better place.
02:00:19.000Your intentions are to enforce your law with an iron fist.
02:00:24.000My question is, where's the Apache helicopter pilot who did blow up those AP journalists?
02:01:41.000He's one of those guys that people, even if you don't necessarily want to hear who is being interviewed, people will listen, a certain amount will listen because Larry King's interviewing them.
02:02:44.000I remember Geraldo came out in the wake of Michael Hastings' death and he was like, you know, I'm really sorry for the loss of everyone for Michael Hastings, but he did get one of the best generals of the Afghanistan war fired and really, like, fucked up the war.
02:02:55.000It's like, yeah, that's great taste, dude.
02:02:58.000Like, days after he dies, just, like, tweeting.
02:04:05.000The problem is he's still facing over 100 years in prison with all the charges, the 19 charges, and there's like six charges of espionage still.
02:04:11.000But the fact that Obama's actually gone to the level that he has to prosecute whistleblowers and criminalize whistleblowers is so fucking crazy to me.
02:04:20.000Because he's dredging up this World War I piece of legislation that was used for foreign spies and using it just like willy-nilly.
02:06:39.000We are tolerating the cultivation of the opium because we know that if we were to destroy it now, the population would turn against the Marines, and it would be a real security risk.
02:06:48.000Let me introduce Lieutenant Colonel Brian Christmas.
02:06:50.000He's the commanding officer of the 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines.
02:06:53.000Really a wonderful group of Marines here.
02:06:56.000I know that you care deeply about this contradiction, the fact that here you have one of the best fighting forces in the world ever mounted.
02:07:05.000It's one of the strangest interviews ever.
02:07:06.000You're watching as this opium is being grown.
02:08:11.0002003, 10 years ago, Fox News Channel correspondent Geraldo Rivera is being expelled from Iraq for broadcasting details about future U.S. troop movements in the country.
02:10:34.000It's really freaky because, you know, no one knows how to deal with it.
02:10:38.000This guy's obviously willing to get arrested.
02:10:40.000There's all these Secret Service guys and, you know, he's this old man, this old rickety man.
02:10:45.000At the very least, I hope these people are hounded for the rest of their lives and tried to be put under citizen's arrest and they can't travel because they're wanted for war crimes in other countries.
02:10:52.000They've already been declared, like, under international courts to be a war criminal.
02:10:57.000I hope that they fucking live and suffer every time they go out in public.
02:12:41.000Singing, to me, like, I have zero singing talent, so I know that I can't do it, but I see people sing that don't have any lessons at all, and they just have a voice that just can carry a note.
02:12:50.000Do you think that's the way with drawing, too?
02:12:52.000No, I think art is different because there's so many different mediums and I think that we've been conditioned as a society to not approach art and think that, oh, we're not artistic and stuff because really imagination and art are what drives creativity and reinvention.
02:13:08.000And so every great inventor has been an artist in a sense because he's imagining something that didn't exist.
02:13:13.000So if we are stifled and we don't You know, by the powers that be or whatever, art and music are the first things cut from public education and really it's fucking up society because people, when they don't express themselves artistically in any sort of fashion, then that's inhibiting their own personal growth and catharsis.
02:13:31.000Yeah, I think what we were talking about earlier about men needing some sort of competition and sometimes women as well.
02:13:51.000Because we don't have to figure out a way to hunt or fish or defend against enemies.
02:13:58.000We have this need to make progress and make things happen and figure things out.
02:14:04.000And creating is one great way to do that.
02:14:07.000It's like sitting down and doing something, figuring out how to write a story, figuring out how to...
02:14:11.000Do you think that's why so many people have anxiety now?
02:14:13.000Because as we've evolved as humans, we needed huge adrenaline rushes to go hunt or to do things like that and fight and get in these altercations.
02:14:23.000And now we just have this kind of mundane lives where we go to work and sit in front of a computer.
02:14:26.000So we have this mild adrenaline-like anxiety all the time.
02:14:34.000I think the people that I know that have the least amount of that are people that engage in a lot of martial arts.
02:14:39.000Like most of my friends that do jujitsu are like the calmest, easiest going people to be around because they're just constantly doing that.
02:14:47.000It becomes a part of their everyday life, this sort of like physical struggle so that they don't need it and they don't look for it in other ways and their body doesn't look for it.
02:14:55.000That sort of like constant buzz of anxiety could easily be attributed to not blowing it out of your system, not exercising your system.
02:15:08.000Kelly Starrett, one of the guys I've had on my podcast, he's a strength and conditioning specialist and he's got a PhD in something super smart.
02:15:16.000And he was explaining, he's a doctor, and he's explaining how sitting is the new smoking.
02:15:22.000Like what's terrible for your body, your spine, your back.
02:15:25.000Like people are like slumped over and...
02:15:27.000You know, like, terrible posture and pushed all this pressure on your discs.
02:15:31.000They've even found that girls in North, not girls, people, in North Korea are getting disc issues because of phones.
02:15:39.000Because they're looking down all the time, and so they're getting bulging discs in the back of their neck because of their fucking, their posture, their constant posture.
02:18:19.000You know, it's kind of these last remaining independent states in the world who aren't completely overtaken by hegemony need to either act like they have nuclear bombs and they're going to use them or they're going to get fucking taken out.
02:18:31.000Look at Libya, Iraq, Syria's in the, you know, the crosshairs now.
02:18:46.000How do you think this is all going to play out?
02:18:48.000I think that arrogant empires always fall, and we definitely are living in one.
02:18:54.000Unless we scale back, unless something happens within the US to try to maintain and preserve this country from collapsing, I think we're going to see some fucked up shit go on in the Middle East.
02:19:09.000In the Middle East, if you look back at U.S. policy, you know, we look at the Middle East as like this clash of civilizations and we're kind of trained to say, oh, these people are barbaric, they're so behind where the Western world is, but really ignoring the fact that the U.S. has been propping up military dictatorships and Mubarak and sponsoring his,
02:19:25.000you know, militarism for the last 50 years.
02:19:28.000And also in Afghanistan, we're the ones who radicalized Islam there and propped up Bin Laden.
02:19:33.000I mean, where would those countries be if it weren't for us kind of suppressing that growth?
02:21:04.000He was talking about how scholars have argued that today, even in 2013, it's never really recovered.
02:21:10.000It sort of recovered a little bit, but it was at one point in time, it was one of the...
02:21:16.000The highest levels of culture and intellect in the world.
02:21:20.000The Islamic world had many scientists, many scholars, many poets, and all these different really intelligent and well-respected people as far as the intellectuals of the day.
02:22:18.000We should be protecting these sites, but I guess we're a little bit too short-sighted to give a shit.
02:22:24.000Well, I think it's a really strange time as far as our ability to influence events and to change the world and our ability to physically impact the world and our ability to have evolved to the point where we know that that's not a good idea.
02:22:41.000It's almost like our ability to create movement and to create events is far greater than our ability to recognize the impact of these events.
02:22:52.000Do you think that it's just a machine that's kind of operating almost on its own in terms of perpetual warfare and the military industrial complex not being able to be scaled down and just like the enormous growth and, you know, need to just attain more and more power?
02:23:08.000Well, it seems like that kind of a thing is a trend for human beings that when they get into a position of power, they try to keep pushing it.
02:23:25.000They always want more money, and every year they want a raise.
02:23:29.000We want to continue to move forward and forward, and we see that happen where people cut corners or In positions with extreme power, they can manipulate the actual laws themselves in order to allow them to do things that maybe most people wouldn't agree to.
02:23:43.000But it's sort of the same, in my opinion at least, the same sort of Process or the same sort of pattern that exists throughout the human race.
02:23:54.000When people get into a position of power, they tend to push it.
02:24:45.000Yeah, just plungers and all sorts of shit you didn't even think would fit in your ass, and it's just...
02:24:50.000The point being is that I think that if there's any trend that seems to me to be inevitable, there's two.
02:24:58.000And one is that things are going to progress.
02:25:00.000There's going to be a faster laptop next year.
02:25:03.000The car is going to get more gas mileage and go 0 to 60 quicker, and your phone is going to be lighter and stronger.
02:25:09.000Do you think there's a problem with that planned obsolescence, though, that we have this system that It knows 20 years down the road the model that they're going to release in 20 years.
02:25:17.000They're releasing these antiquated models year after year so you can just buy the newest version of them.
02:25:22.000I don't know how much of that is real.
02:25:24.000Because I think that in an environment as competitive as the one we experience today, I think eventually the cream rises to the top and the competition is so strong.
02:25:34.000Like let's put the smartphone market for an example.
02:25:38.000To develop a smartphone, get it approved by the FTC, then release it.
02:26:22.000There's this dude named Rubin who took us and showed us how to use this motion capture shit.
02:26:26.000And one of the things that they showed was that they can take you, you put on a suit, and instead of you being Abby Martin, you're a giant dinosaur, or you're a spaceman, or you're a wolverine.
02:26:38.000They can just make you whatever you want inside this game.
02:26:57.000We are definitely going to have virtual reality merged with reality.
02:27:00.000So I don't think there's planned obsolescence.
02:27:03.000Well, let's go back to the sharing of consciousness thing, because I don't understand how that would work, because how could you really isolate consciousness?
02:27:12.000I think it's the ability to access information and the ability to access thoughts.
02:27:16.000I think one of the first steps, and this is completely hypothetical, folks, people are screaming on science forums, this is not possible, you fucking idiot, mean head!
02:27:29.000But I think one of the things that's probably going to happen is they're going to be able to record memories.
02:27:33.000They're going to be able to put a hard drive in your mind somewhere in your system that can record your memories more accurately than your own memory can.
02:28:05.000But they already are doing studies where they can, they have like analogs and cataloging dream sequences and almost like deciphering different shapes of people, of what people are dreaming.
02:28:16.000It's really rough right now, but the technology's there and it's definitely developing.
02:29:01.000And that they couldn't prove that she had actually committed the crime, they couldn't prove whether she was a witness, but she said she wasn't even anywhere near it, and they proved that she had a personal knowledge of the crime.
02:30:57.000But yeah, we can't, and I'm not, and let me preempt this by saying I'm not advocating bailing out cities, but it is just funny that the government's like, oh, we can't help you.
02:31:04.000We're going to fucking take all the pensions.
02:31:06.000But at the same time, we're just going to bail out giant corporations and Fuck it.
02:31:11.000Maintain 900 bases around the world and spend trillions of dollars fucking maintaining this empire of bases.
02:31:17.000But we're just going to neglect all the cities here.
02:31:19.000And yes, there was a lot of corruption in Detroit.
02:31:21.000Yes, there's a lot of externalities that I'm not taking into consideration.
02:31:24.000It's just an interesting dichotomy of who the fuck does this government really care about.
02:31:30.000And again, it brings us full circle to porn.
02:33:11.000It started off as just mostly an outlet because political activism was dominating my life, but then it It ended up being something that I was able to bridge the two together, and it just keeps me sane.
02:33:23.000I don't get to do it as much as I would like to.
02:34:18.000So this is a little compilation promo that I made of what I think are the best clips of the entire first season of Breaking the Set, which is the show I have on RT America.
02:34:26.000So this is kind of just a little two-minute preview of what the fuck this show's about.
02:34:41.000New York Times, welcome to the This Administration Has No Credibility Club.
02:34:45.000Remind me again why it is that people are worshiping kings and queens in the year 2013. So I have a novel idea.
02:34:51.000Instead of blaming the whistleblower for trying to evade death by way of the Espionage Act, you actually talk about what the NSA revelations are.
02:35:00.000In a constitutional public democracy, this is not informed consent by those who are governed.
02:35:04.000This is manufactured consent, and actually its core is consent in secret.
02:35:23.000Conduct these kinds of wars around the world, killing innocent people in the pursuit of a few bad guys, and pretend that it's not going to come back to hurt you.
02:35:30.000Did you find the logic flawed now looking back?
02:35:32.000Do you regret your vote to invade and occupy a country to find one man?
02:35:36.000See, we ought to be critical of highly concentrated forms of power wherever we find it because that kind of power is usually subject to chronic abuse.
02:35:55.000Walmart's also been described as an economic death star, destroying everything in its path, leaving behind nothing more than a homogenous wasteland.
02:36:03.000So the harmless activist is now the criminal, yet actual criminal banksters run free.
02:36:10.000Well, I'm glad this government has its priorities straight.
02:36:13.000So, do you shackle down your mind and subscribe to old-school paradigms?
02:36:17.000Or do you liberate yourself by acknowledging reality?
02:36:20.000Sure, the world would lose its innocence, but wouldn't you rather know the truth?
02:36:57.000It is funny that you say that because everyone I've met, they're like, wow, you seem like you're really intense.
02:37:02.000I'm like, yeah, I'm pissed off when I'm talking about this shit, but I can also be a normal person who can have conversations about different things.
02:38:39.000Yeah, and I think people have told me that I'm, you know, why don't you provide more solutions or you're like fear-mongering and stuff.
02:38:45.000I'm like, look, we all need to get this information first before we can even get to what we can do about it.
02:38:49.000Like, we don't fucking know any of this shit because we've been conditioned to not knowing it.
02:38:53.000The media is controlled by six corporations and Six corporations that work in concert with the establishment to push their narrative.
02:38:59.000Six corporations that about 120 people sit on the boards of directors of, that also sit on the boards of directors of defense contractors, Monsanto.
02:39:07.000I mean, this is what's controlling, it's the corporatocracy.
02:39:16.000So it's a shame that I have to work for Russian government to provide the truth about my own country.
02:39:23.000And it's a shame that there's no outlet here that will allow me to do that.
02:39:27.000It's amazing that this is, like, when we think about Russia, when you think about Putin, you think about, like, oh, don't piss that fucking guy off.
02:40:23.000But it's funny that the media is acting like, oh, it's a thumb in the eye, it's a middle finger of the U.S. It's like, well, actually, the U.S. set the double standard years ago when we denied repeated extradition requests of actual criminals from Russia.
02:40:34.000Russia has fucking asked us to extradite multiple criminals.
02:42:09.000I think because of the advancement of technology and the fact that we are so interconnected and know about all the horrible shit going on at any given time, does it just seem like it's so much more fucked up now because we have access to all of that?
02:42:19.000We get like an AP newsletter when everything horrible happens?
02:42:50.000Zimmerman, I mean, in a grand scheme of things, you can argue that, yes, the Stand Your Ground laws definitely affect people, but did it warrant that much coverage for weeks and weeks and weeks and every detail of the case?
02:45:27.000You're not going to be able to get to your condo.
02:45:29.000I think the problem with the whole argument is people like Al Gore who are actually profiting off the solutions.
02:45:33.000The carbon credit thing I think is bullshit.
02:45:36.000You can't trade pollution and somehow think that's going to be fucking the answer.
02:45:40.000And then when you see things like the meat industry not getting penalized for the fact that they are creating the majority of carbon output.
02:45:48.000Is it the meat industry that's doing that?
02:45:53.000So the methane from cow farts are the biggest problem the world has ever known.
02:45:58.000I think it's a large percentage of carbon emissions.
02:46:01.000But the fact that we're not even talking about that, it's like the burdens put on the consumer where we're like, calculate your carbon footprint.
02:46:08.000I think people are like, what the fuck is going on?
02:49:03.000But no, I mean, there's seriously so many problems facing us, and it all stems from the same system, so I don't blame the movement for not galvanizing behind one message.
02:49:11.000The problem with Occupy is that it was so...
02:49:15.000It would be like homeless people would be doing open mics and shit.
02:51:12.000Like when you get an infection on your knee and you look down, your knee's swollen.
02:51:15.000That's sort of like white blood cells on Occupy Wall Street.
02:51:18.000You look down in these areas where these people are camped out and screaming and yelling and doing mic checks all day and that's inflammation.
02:51:36.000I think it needs to get worse before it gets better but I have faith in humanity and I think that we can pull things around and I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing if I didn't believe that.
02:52:13.000Just look up Breaking the Set on YouTube, and I also have Media Roots as my media organization on the side, abbymartin.org.
02:52:20.000Anything else to say to find people before you bolt?
02:52:23.000Yeah, just fucking the truth is enlightening.
02:52:26.000Don't reject it, embrace it, and express yourself, and if you're passionate about something, it's your responsibility to express that in whatever medium you choose, but don't reject the truth and don't turn it off, because we gotta fucking progress.
02:52:40.000In other words, get it together, bitches.
02:52:44.000Spread the love and you shall receive.
02:52:46.000We will see you guys later this week with Greg Fitzsimmons will be stopping by and I got some other shit going on too.
02:52:53.000I'm going to try to bring in one of these dudes that are angry at me, the chemtrail dudes, and have them sit down unedited for several hours and let them express themselves because they're so pissed at me.
02:53:03.000Can we bring the Bigfoot guy in, too, at the same time?
02:53:44.000On Joe Rogan Questions Everything 10pm on Syfy.
02:53:48.000Alright, thank you for all the love and even for criticisms because it makes me consider whether or not you're correct or if you're just a cunt.