Coinbase, Bitcoin, and much more! Recorded in Baltimore, MD! Recorded at Bitcoin and Bitcoin-related events. Today's episode features: What's up with Bitcoin? How much is too much money you should be spending on Bitcoin, what's the best way to spend it, and what are the best ways to make money with Bitcoin in the long-term? Is Bitcoin a scam or is it something that can be earned back in Bitcoin, or is there a way to earn a decent return on your Bitcoin investment in a way that doesn't suck the life out of you? Bitcoin is not a scam, it's a money machine, and if you don't know what it is, you're not going to want to get your hands on it. If you do, then you're in for a ride home from the post office, because that's what you need to do today! BTC is not going anywhere, and it's going to be a lot cheaper than you thought it would be! Bitcoin can be a great investment, but there's a lot of people out there trying to get their hands on Bitcoin and they're not getting paid for it. Bitcoin is going to blow people's money back, so why not give it a try and see what they can do with it and see if they like it? . Don't miss it! The future of Bitcoin, the future is bright and full of opportunities! -Jon Atwood BTC's future, Bitcoin's future and much better than the past, and the future of the Bitcoin community -The future of BTC, and Bitcoin, Bitcoin and much, much better, much brighter than we thought it could be better than it is - -and much more - and a lot more $5, much more. -Timestamps: 1:35 - What are you waiting for? 2:00 - What's the worst thing Bitcoin can do? 3:10 - Bitcoin's value? 4:30 - How much money can I earn? 5:00 6:15 - What is a good day? 7:40 - Does Bitcoin have a future? 8:20 - Is it a scam? 9:30 11:20 12:15 15:00- What are we going to do with BTC? 16:40
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00:02:10.000Wating is a mobile company that does things...
00:02:13.000Well, they like to try to cut out all the bullshit that you normally get when you have cell phone service.
00:02:19.000All the bullshit like early termination fees and these add-ons that you weren't aware of when you signed up for...
00:04:14.000I don't know, but that's disrespectful to the community, to the Bitcoin community, in my opinion.
00:04:19.000I don't know if Bitcoin's ever going to work out or not work out, but I do know that I don't want to support a company that does something like that.
00:04:26.000If these applications are doing something deceptive, then I think there should be some sort of a press release explaining what deceptive practices were being done by these apps that made you remove them.
00:04:37.000But I find it odd if I can get all these different Bitcoin wallets for Android, but when I look on an iPhone, there's fucking nothing.
00:04:49.000That Google is so negligent that they allow these people to get on their network and sell these apps, and no one is stopping all the exploits, no one's stopping all the bullshit, or is Apple just keeping them from coming on their platform?
00:05:52.000You can't tell me that money can't evolve like everything else, like a fucking processing system, like a computer, like a television.
00:06:01.000Things get more complex, they get better, they tighten down, they figure out, you've got all these smart people working on this Bitcoin thing.
00:06:08.000There's a lot of really intelligent people invested in this idea of making the economy more stable with this sort of a currency.
00:07:19.000I mean, the guy goes all over the world.
00:07:20.000Anyway, he told me, you know how we're talking about currency, when the Dutch supposedly bought Manhattan Island from the Indians for wampum, right?
00:07:30.000And what wampum was, as most school kids know, is seashells sewn onto a belt, right?
00:07:36.000But what he told me was that they're a particular type of seashell that only grew in this one bay that was controlled by this one tribe, so they sort of had a monopoly.
00:08:29.000It feels weird when you break up conversations like this.
00:08:32.000But wasn't the idea about gold and precious minerals being there's very few of them.
00:08:36.000There's a finite amount so that this is a good thing to base money on because people sort of always kind of recognize there's got to be a way to put a cap on it.
00:08:58.000It's not thinking, but it seems to be an organism.
00:09:01.000It seems to be something that requires you to love it, so it allows you to connect yourself to all these material items that fill up this weird hole in your idea of the world.
00:09:34.000I've heard it put a positive way, which is it just represents the life flow.
00:09:39.000It represents this flow of energy that's always coming through the universe, and it's kind of like one manifestation of that energy flow.
00:09:46.000And if you look at it like that, instead of demonizing it, which I've definitely done in the past, and just see it as this thing that sort of...
00:09:53.000It's like we know when you throw paint on the invisible man or something, you know?
00:10:51.000So if everybody wants it, someone at some point in time is going to try to control the flow of other people acquiring it because then it will interfere with them.
00:11:00.000And so then it becomes this chimpanzee competition thing.
00:11:03.000It's not that money is toxic, because you could take wealthy people who make a lot of money, who do a lot of good things with it, and they seem to be really nice.
00:11:11.000And they have this ability to help and affect all sorts of other folks.
00:12:15.000And when Windows came out, there were so many good things about Windows operating system as opposed to the old OSX. There's something about the way the operating system worked that it was really bad with multitasking.
00:13:03.000Before OSX, Apple had no memory protection, no preemptive multitasking.
00:13:08.000The old operating systems for Apple were really shitty.
00:13:12.000So then they changed it to go with the Windows platform, to go with the Intel platform, when they couldn't get anything more out of that IBM computer that they used to sell.
00:13:20.000They couldn't get any more juice out of it.
00:13:22.000And then the Windows computers were getting up to 1 GHz.
00:13:24.000So they just jumped ship and went to Intel and had to change everything.
00:17:20.000You explained this to us before, didn't you?
00:17:22.000Yeah, the idea is that spicy foods excite the sensibilities, and so if you eat something that tastes interesting, you're going to want to come.
00:17:33.000Graham was another of these big anti-masturbation evangelizers, so they invent these really intentionally bland foods to give to teenage boys.
00:20:11.000There was a restaurant called The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and you could go to that restaurant and watch the universe end like somehow it was in a time portal, but cows would come to your table.
00:20:23.000And they could talk and they would suggest which parts of them you should eat.
00:20:30.000If the world keeps going the way it's going, that will eventually happen.
00:20:34.000We'll eventually bestow upon cows the ability to want to die, have no problem serving humans, give them a very simple mind, and then have them trot around on two legs and walk around on their hind feet and explain what parts of their body they want you to eat.
00:22:17.000Not as fun for the person that gets to kill the animal.
00:22:19.000Well, you know, they're going to, I mean, right now, I don't know what kind of meat they're growing, but eventually they're going to grow human meat.
00:23:09.000He wrote about how he studied different islands in the South Pacific, some of which were cannibalistic and some of which weren't in different societies around the world.
00:23:18.000And what he found was that the societies that were cannibalistic had no domesticable animal that didn't eat the same food as humans.
00:23:28.000In other words, you aren't going to raise dogs for meat because dogs eat the same shit that humans eat, right?
00:23:34.000You want to raise animals for meat like goats That don't eat stuff that humans eat.
00:23:39.000So they're not competing for the same original food source, right?
00:23:44.000So, like, if you look at the Aztecs, there was nothing in Mexico that they could raise, that they could domesticate and raise for meat that didn't eat what humans ate.
00:23:59.000Whereas Europeans who killed just as many people, if not more, weren't eating them.
00:24:03.000Then consider that a sacrilege because in Europe you had pigs, you had goats, you had chickens, you had all these things that were easy to domesticate that humans had been living on for a long time.
00:24:12.000So it's really a historical accident who's cannibalistic and who isn't.
00:24:17.000Could you imagine if you were a European settler trying to make it across the country during the days of the Native Americans?
00:24:27.000Like when, you know, 1700s, 1600s, whenever they did that.
00:24:31.000And you'd after the first wave that had already gone over and basically committed genocide on many populations.
00:26:12.000So this asshole climbs into this beaver den naked, okay, to get away from these Nez Perce Indians, and then he winds up walking some, like, 100 miles or some fucking crazy shit.
00:27:03.000Because if you find one of these beaver dens, like Ronella showed me how to find them, when you're going down the river, you see these stacks of sticks, this weird sort of formation.
00:28:04.000It's Yellowstone, and the introduction of wolves...
00:28:07.000They've dwindled the population of deer and elk down, and because they've made the populations lower, the soil around rivers has gotten less erosion because more plants are growing on it, and then more rodents are surviving,
00:28:25.000more rabbits are surviving, and then more bears, and bears kill the fawns, and it changes literally because of the fact that there's more beavers.
00:28:34.000It's changing the course of the river itself.
00:28:58.000And more badass because this guy has an English accent.
00:29:01.000...when wolves were reintroduced in 1995. Now, we all know that wolves kill various species of animals, but perhaps we're slightly less aware that they give life to many others.
00:29:18.000Before the wolves turned up, they'd been absent for 70 years.
00:29:22.000The numbers of deer, because there was nothing to hunt them, had built up and built up in the Yellowstone Park.
00:29:27.000And despite efforts by humans to control them, they'd managed to reduce much of the vegetation there to almost nothing.
00:29:36.000But as soon as the wolves arrived, even though they were few in number, they started to have the most remarkable effects.
00:29:44.000First, of course, they killed some of the deer, but that wasn't the major thing.
00:29:48.000Much more significantly, they radically changed the behaviour of the deer.
00:29:53.000The deer started avoiding certain parts of the park, the places where they could be trapped most easily, particularly the valleys and the gorges.
00:30:01.000And immediately, those places started to regenerate.
00:30:04.000In some areas, the height of the trees quintupled In just six years, their valley size quickly became forests of aspen and willow and cottonwood.
00:30:16.000And as soon as that happened, the birds started moving in.
00:30:20.000The number of songbirds and migratory birds started to increase greatly.
00:30:25.000The number of beavers started to increase because beavers like to eat the trees.
00:30:30.000And beavers, like wolves, are ecosystem engineers.
00:30:35.000And the dams they built in the rivers provided habitats for otters, muskrats, and ducks, and fish, and reptiles, and amphibians.
00:30:44.000You know he went to a fancy school and he was paddled.
00:30:49.000The number of rabbits and mice began to rise, which meant more hawks, more weasels, more foxes, more badgers.
00:30:57.000Ravens and bald eagles came down to feed on the carrion that the wolves had left.
00:31:01.000Bears fed on it too, and their population began to rise as well, partly also because there were more berries growing on the regenerating shrubs.
00:31:10.000And the bears reinforced the impact of the wolves by killing some of the calves of the deer.
00:31:18.000But here's where it gets really interesting.
00:31:20.000My erection began to grow with the wolves.
00:31:24.000We should probably not play all of this video because it's theirs.
00:31:40.000But it's fascinating to hear that all this was going on as well.
00:31:43.000You know what I was thinking when we were listening to that is how much pleasure that guy was taking in his own accent.
00:31:48.000And it's something I often notice with British people and French, not so much Spanish, and I don't notice it with Americans speaking English.
00:31:56.000I never get into how my voice sounds while I'm speaking the way that guy obviously was.
00:32:32.000Whereas the British accents are regional but also class-based.
00:32:36.000So that guy, in speaking the way he's speaking, is telling you he went to Eton, and then he went to Cambridge, and his parents had lots of money, and his family's had lots of money for a long time.
00:32:46.000A British person listens to three words and knows where that guy's from, where he went to school, his whole scene.
00:33:32.000You know, there's linguists who can listen to your accent.
00:33:35.000Not everybody, but apparently there's people who are trained to listen to any accent, and they can tell you within, like, 50 miles where you lived.
00:33:43.000A lot of the time, they're really good at it.
00:35:03.000Yeah, why does it have to be included in the South?
00:35:05.000Well, because that flag, that's why everyone has a problem with that flag, because that flag indicates a war that was partially fought over keeping slaves, over the right to keep slaves.
00:37:45.000I'm not saying that the FBI. I'm saying it's one of those internet things where someone has supposedly found a freedom of information article from 1947 that shows that Hitler escaped in a fucking submarine.
00:39:06.000They say that they incinerated his body, or supposedly his body was set on fire, and then the bones don't match the bones of a male, and then he went to South America and lived a really good life.
00:39:37.000The guy who was the head of NASA was a hardcore Nazi.
00:39:40.000They hung the five slowest workers, whether it was every day or once a week, whatever it was.
00:39:47.000They would hang them in front of their rocket factory in Berlin.
00:39:50.000They would just take the five slowest workers and hang them.
00:39:52.000And one of the guys, there was a documentary that this guy did on the moon landings, and he started interviewing people that were in the concentration camps that knew, like, had seen Wernher von Braun walk in, had seen all these different, like, high-level Nazi scientists walk in.
00:42:11.000I mean, every time the phone rings and it's Joey, I get excited to talk to him.
00:42:15.000But if you just looked at him on that instance of his life, in a cocaine-fueled rage, kidnap some guy, you would think he's a terrible person.
00:42:25.000Yeah, that's a strange thing, isn't it?
00:42:27.000When, like, somebody gets convicted of something that they did, and then they've done, like, 20 years in prison, and they're probably different.
00:42:34.000They've probably changed, but they have to stay in there for their entire lives.
00:42:39.000I don't know if you guys, if we talked about this, but a couple weeks ago I interviewed a guy named Bruce Lisker for my podcast who was in prison in California.
00:42:47.000San Quentin, for a lot of it, for 26 and a half years for killing his mother when he was 17, which he did not do.
00:43:31.000Man, I love that attitude, because that attitude is saying, fuck you to your past.
00:43:36.000And it's like, you know, because when you meet people who are rationalizing being an asshole from their past, you know, they have this story they keep telling about their shitty family, their abusive parents, their awful, whatever it is.
00:43:50.000You have empathy for them, but simultaneously you realize how they're recreating that story every time they bring it up, every time they talk about this awful thing that happened to them.
00:44:00.000It's like in Buddhism it's compared to making a necklace, like beading a necklace, and every moment you're sort of recreating yourself again and again and again.
00:44:10.000And when people have experiences like that and they're like, no.
00:44:13.000I'm not gonna let that be the anchor that pulls me down into a negative life.
00:44:17.000I can reinvent myself in this very moment right now, regardless of whatever happened to me, regardless of my past, that's all gone.
00:45:31.000The detective who was running the investigation just had a bug up his ass and decided he did it and would not be swayed from that conclusion, right?
00:45:43.000The evidence was manufactured, fucked around.
00:45:45.000Anyway, so what they told him was, plead out.
00:45:48.000And they said, you're 17, you say you did it, you'll do juvie for a year or two, then you'll do one or two years in a medium security, and you're out, right?
00:46:16.000So this charade that he could just sign the paper and go in for a few years and be out was bullshit because he had to go through 100% and actually act as if he had done it and he was so remorseful and crying and oh my god.
00:46:30.000And he couldn't do that because the guy's got some fucking integrity, right?
00:46:33.000So that's why he was in for 26 and a half years.
00:46:38.000Yeah, and so his father died and he left some money, 15 grand or something, and he used that money to hire a private detective to go back and sort of refigure, look at the evidence again.
00:46:49.000This guy did, ran, blew through the money, but the detective, by the time the money was gone, was like convinced that this was all bullshit.
00:46:56.000So he was like, fuck it, I'm doing it pro bono.
00:47:38.000The guy who got me thrown into jail got me out.
00:47:41.000And the way he got me out was by pushing too hard.
00:47:44.000Because what he did was this same detective throughout his career, every time Bruce's case came up for parole...
00:47:51.000Or probation, I don't know which it is.
00:47:55.000This guy would come to the hearing, and you talk about how terrible he was, how evil he was, and blah, blah, blah.
00:48:02.000He came to a hearing like 25 years into it, and he said, not only is this guy definitely guilty, but I have found more evidence now, 25 years later, because there was money missing from the mother.
00:48:15.000And so one of the ideas was the motive was to rob his mother of a couple hundred dollars.
00:48:20.000And this detective said, I went back and I got into the house, you know, new owners and all that, and they claimed that they had found the money and In the crawl space in this kid's former bedroom.
00:50:50.000Miami was so crazy at one point in time that the entire police graduating squad of, you know, the whatever, the academy, the police academy, graduating class, the entire group was either arrested for corruption or murdered.
00:51:43.000And he's right over there, 90 miles away, across the ocean.
00:51:46.000It's one of these things, man, like, you know, like...
00:51:49.000When you watch cops and you realize what you're actually watching is just people getting arrested for something that shouldn't be illegal, it's really hard to enjoy it anymore.
00:52:00.000Like, you know, like a victorious cop who's found some drugs on a person and then acts like he's doing some heroic thing?
00:53:12.000They just don't want to have to find them.
00:53:13.000You go to find bad people, you have to deal with dangerous situations.
00:53:16.000If you could just coerce some 17-year-old boy to sell you weed and then lock him in a cage, and you still get that little check on your win column...
00:53:24.000You're happy to do it because it perverts what the action is.
00:53:28.000The noble law enforcement officer, the noble soldier, those are really important aspects of any society that wants to stay safe because we don't have perfect humans yet.
00:53:41.000So what you're dealing with is just an organism that is following the rules and they...
00:53:47.000Subvert and pervert these rules in order to be successful.
00:53:50.000The same way people cheat on their SATs.
00:53:52.000The same way people take steroids and get caught in the Olympics.
00:53:55.000The same way, you know, all these different things that people do that they're not supposed to do, but they do because they just want to win more than they want anything else.
00:54:03.000Yeah, this is a very American thing, too.
00:54:06.000You know, I live in Spain for 22 years, right?
00:54:08.000Spanish cops and American cops, completely different.
00:54:12.000Now, they're different for cultural reasons having to do with the military, I think, first of all.
00:54:17.000I think a lot of American cops are ex-military.
00:55:18.000It's like, if you're blocking traffic, they'll give you a ticket.
00:55:21.000If you're just parking in an area where the thing says from 3 to 6 and not from 4 to 2 or whatever it is, they don't give a fuck.
00:55:28.000I mean, I've experienced it directly with them where I'm parking my motorcycle and there's this big, long line of motorcycles on the Ramblas, in the pedestrian area of the Ramblas in Barcelona.
00:55:38.000And I go to this cop and I know you're not allowed to park there, but there are like 15 motorcycles.
00:55:43.000And the cops stand in there and I say to him, can I park here or what?
00:55:46.000And he's like, no, but normally we won't do anything.
00:56:39.000And so he was putting kids in detention centers, juvenile detention centers, when they were young.
00:56:44.000They were like teenagers, taking them away from their mothers and getting them raped, getting them beat up, putting them in with all these abused kids.
00:57:43.000When you start realizing that the criminals have done the exact same thing that pedophiles do, like, pedophiles, they will get jobs working at schools because they want to be around kids all the time.
00:57:57.000In the same way criminals, the really smart criminals, they recognize that the best place to be if you're a criminal is in the legal system working there.
00:58:12.000If you're a criminal and you're a senator, if you're a criminal and you're in the government, that's where the top crème de la crème of the criminals go to the fucking legal system and into the government because that's where they have the most power and are the least likely to get busted.
00:58:41.000Because, let's face it, in the laws of the land, it is not criminal to put A skinny guy in handcuffs, take away his house, throw him in jail, ruin his life.
00:59:16.000Destroying people's lives over nothing!
00:59:18.000I know we've talked about this a million times, and I don't know if there's even much you could do except shake your fist at some monolithic power that seems to have infiltrated everything and hope for the best, but goddammit, man.
00:59:29.000Aren't you a little terrified that one day you'll end up with fucking...
00:59:33.000Ankle manacles on wearing that bright safety orange thing as you get sucked through that satanic maze of lawyers and eventually just land in a tiny little cell.
01:00:07.000When they did that, man, not just private contractors to build a prison, but private prisons themselves that don't have to give you access.
01:00:16.000They don't have to let you look around.
01:00:18.000Like Louis Theroux was on the podcast from England, the BBC shows.
01:01:38.000What would they do if everyone drove the speed limit just for a day?
01:01:41.000If everyone in Los Angeles drove the speed limit for a month, like nobody ever made a single traffic violation, what would they do?
01:01:48.000If they have a quota, what is that quota based on?
01:01:51.000Is it based on a zero-sum evolutionary point?
01:01:54.000Like, there's no way we're going to ever evolve past this, so we'll never stop speeding, we'll never stop crashing into each other, we'll never stop...
01:04:10.000Man, I was talking to this guy the other night, and I was saying, I don't know if I'm going to have kids, and I'm starting to feel happier and happier about that.
01:04:18.000And he looks at me, and he's like, That is a very selfish perspective to have.
01:07:15.000What you're going to do is you're going to bring into this world someone who's going to interact with countless people in their life and most likely have a good personality and shed a good example of what a human being can be.
01:07:27.000That's the potential of having a person.
01:07:29.000Yeah, but they're still going to use a lot of resources.
01:09:15.000There's a lot of people that are great parents that contribute to this world by being a great parent, by raising someone who's going to influence other people.
01:09:22.000And a lot of them don't necessarily get too much credit for that.
01:09:24.000But I think it's like you get credit for making a great painting and being a fucking complete schizophrenic outside of that.
01:09:31.000And everybody's like, oh, he's a brilliant genius.
01:09:32.000But you don't get credit for raising a human being and developing the personality of a human being or assisting in the development of a person's perceptions and views of the world.
01:09:57.000There's too many of us, there's too much pollution, it's not changing, the global warming is happening, whether you like it or not, whether you blame it on democratic vagina sponsors, whatever you do, it doesn't matter.
01:11:03.000But within that, I don't know if that sounds like optimism, but that's what it is because it's like, well, if it's fucked, then I don't need to worry, right?
01:11:49.000The only thing that's going to help that is human innovations.
01:11:51.000At this point in time, the momentum of creating things is so out of control that the only thing that's going to be able to put a halt to it is a human being that's really smart, that figures out how to do it sustainably.
01:12:02.000That figures out what one or series or a group or a movement that figures out how to engineer society the same way we've engineered many other aspects of our society or our world that make us able to walk down the street and not worry about getting eaten by a lion.
01:13:23.000It's your organism having its mutations that just happened.
01:13:27.000I think the mutations of cancer are similar to the mutation that's happened to our species, where it's a thing that grows out of control and threatens to destroy the host.
01:13:38.000Well, first of all, let me just say, when I said, how dare you, I don't really mean how dare you.
01:13:44.000And number two, as far as getting chemotherapy, which I didn't get, but if you do have cancer and you get chemotherapy, what you're doing is healing yourself.
01:13:55.000But you're interfering with the flow of nature.
01:13:57.000Well, I think the flow of nature is healing.
01:14:00.000Nature is regenerative, and heals are a part of it.
01:14:03.000You get to decide what part you want to be in.
01:14:04.000So then I believe that by reducing human population to the very, very small level where it's not impacting the planet, that's the natural healing process of the planet.
01:14:29.000The human curiosity itself is natural.
01:14:31.000Human innovation, human imagination, all those things are natural.
01:14:34.000So we just live in a much more complex world that we've created because we've created all these other variables within our nature that we don't like to think of as natural.
01:14:43.000But really, plastic is fucking natural.
01:17:19.000Because if you've got any awareness at all, the last thing you do is throw a fucking cigarette out the window, especially in California, where that's responsible for what percentage of the fires that happen out here?
01:18:02.000It had been there for millions of years.
01:18:04.000Anyway, Edward Abbey's this funny, like cantankerous, kind of like, who were we talking about earlier?
01:18:10.000Gonzo, Hunter S. Thompson, kind of that kind of character, right?
01:18:13.000And he wrote this book where he was cruising down the highway throwing cans of beer out the window, like he'd finish the beer and throw it out the window.
01:18:21.000And he was very popular among environmentalists.
01:18:24.000In fact, Earth First, that movement started based on one of his books called The Monkey Wrench Gang.
01:18:30.000But anyway, Edward Abbey was like, fuck it, the beer can's not the litter, the highway's the litter.
01:21:30.000But I do think that the more you can pull your tentacles out of the world with all your tentacles pointing at this is bad and that's bad and that's bad and bring it back into you and see if you can find peace in there.
01:21:44.000If you can find equilibrium in yourself, you're probably going to stop doing a lot of the things that are causing pollution in the world, I bet.
01:21:51.000Maybe not, but I would bet that if you could find a way to find stability and peace, you're going to treat people better.
01:21:59.000You're not going to be so inclined to...
01:23:24.000You're ruining things for everybody else, and if everybody did it, the whole thing would be ruined.
01:23:28.000Like, when you drive through, like, the boulder, like, if you ever drive from Boulder up into the mountains, you don't see any garbage, man.
01:25:47.000What I'm objecting to is the idea, because I'm going to be dealing with this a lot in this book, the idea that you can't criticize civilization if you participate in it.
01:26:07.000And some of the parts, I feel like most of the parts are fucking amazing.
01:26:11.000Most of the parts of not having to worry about most of the diseases that used to wipe out the population.
01:26:16.000Not having to worry about gathering your food, not having to worry about sewage, not having to worry about information and education, not having to worry about social structures, not having to worry about being fucking invaded by rival Mongol herds and shit.
01:26:28.000The amazing aspects of civilization, in my opinion, far outweigh the cancerous element of the very human being.
01:26:35.000And now let me flip the whole thing back on you and say the reason you feel that way is that you were raised in civilization.
01:26:41.000So just like the Navajos call themselves the people, and the Apache call themselves the people, and the Iroquois, everybody believes that the time and place they live in is the place to be.
01:26:51.000And so a lot of your information about comparing civilization to pre-civilized times is mutated and distorted by the fact that you are from this time and place, right?
01:27:03.000You've got a vested interest in believing that.
01:27:04.000For example, you said, oh, I wouldn't want to have to worry about dying from all these diseases everyone died from.
01:27:09.000Fact is, like the top five killers of human beings, all those diseases jumped over to humans from domesticated animals.
01:27:17.000So they didn't exist in any important sense before civilization.
01:27:29.000And there's no doubt that everyone in every point in time throughout history was in the time that they were in and the best time for human beings, according to them.
01:27:47.000I'm not saying that civilization is the only way to live life and if we were living back in the tribal days of 6,000 plus years ago in the Amazon or whatever the fuck it was when people were living without any possibility of anything being any different.
01:28:01.000The difference between us now and then is the incredible possibilities that civilization provides.
01:28:05.000I personally find those things enriching and fascinating and I would rather hang out with people of today We don't always say what we mean.
01:29:15.000I'm not surrounded by green and trees, and I don't hear the sounds of the jungle, but I am still surrounded by the natural world, taking a very specific form of manifesting in a specific way we call civilization.
01:29:28.000And the moment I see it like that, suddenly things get better.
01:29:32.000It feels like I make connections more.
01:30:25.000I leave open the possibility of a higher intelligence just based on the fact that if you look at the senses that some animals provide, there's a lot of animals, a lot of life forms on this planet that literally don't have the senses to detect us.
01:30:38.000Because we're not involved in their world on a regular basis.
01:30:41.000Certain animals, you wave your hand over a slug, they have no fucking idea you're there.
01:30:46.000There's certain animals that are like that, that don't have the ability to perceive whether it's fungus or whether it's microorganisms or whatever it is.
01:30:54.000Why would we assume that this is the end of the line?
01:30:57.000Why would we assume that in our complex, very limited in fact, we have so few senses we have them numbered, I mean, why would we assume that those are the only senses to be had and there's not some sort of next step, next dimension?
01:31:12.000The difference between oceanic creatures with no eyeballs and a person living in a penthouse in Manhattan might as well call that a different dimension.
01:31:21.000You might as well, because it kind of is.
01:31:23.000And why would we assume that this is the end of the line, that our ability to perceive and adjust our material world is the only one like that out there, and there's not something way more advanced that exists in the very fiber of the universe itself that we can't detect yet because we're primitive?
01:32:57.000So we just assume that the whole universe is like that.
01:32:59.000Yeah, well, we use the term die to refer to that moment of radical change that happens in everything in the universe when it goes from being from one form to the next.
01:33:56.000And then these are considered, like, Ram Dass talks about this, how there's these channels that you can dial into, and you get to decide what channel you want to dial into.
01:34:04.000So if you want to live in, like, the Fox News dimension...
01:34:07.000You can live there, where you're constantly, your fists are clenched, you're watching Bill O'Reilly, everything Obama does makes you want to fucking kill yourself or kill somebody else, and your stomach is bubbling, you're chain-smoking and listening to Rush Limbaugh and beeping at anyone who cuts in front of you in the wrong way.
01:34:33.000But there are all these different channels that you can tune into, And one of them is this channel where you just believe that everything's perfect.
01:34:42.000And that is blasphemy to a lot of people.
01:35:11.000I look at the Hubble telescope and I see those incredible...
01:35:15.000Just deep fields of stars out there, and I see the supernovas, and I see all these things, and I don't think, oh god, the violence of the supernova as it evaporates everything around it.
01:35:26.000I don't think, oh god, the monster black hole sucking this dimension into it, and I don't think any scientist or cosmologist would look at that and be like, that is violence happening and evil.
01:35:35.000Yet somehow when it gets down to us, these little fucking little meaty things, that's where the thing's malfunctioning now?
01:37:05.000Wild pigs and domestic pigs are the same exact animal.
01:37:08.000And Steve Rinello is explaining that, that wild pigs, I forget the exact term, what the pig, you know, what gender it is, but when they move out, like you get a wild pig and you release it out into the wild, within three weeks they start changing.
01:39:40.000It's the same goddamn animal depending upon the circumstances.
01:39:43.000If they have to fend for themselves, if you take out all the aggression of the natural world so they don't have to be on point from the moment they're born, they don't have to be aware of predators, little piggies, they're not afraid of shit.
01:40:21.000And another indication for me is just there are, I mean, I'm no mathematician, but there are some like mathematical principles that are just too fucking beautiful to be random.
01:40:31.000And I mean, I've had experiences traveling, I'm sure you guys have had experiences where it's like, holy shit, that can't have just happened.
01:40:38.000You know, there's no rational way to understand how that just happened.
01:40:42.000But a sort of universal one, which I ended Sex at Dawn with is the sun-moon thing.
01:42:28.000You look at what the moons of Jupiter look like from the surface of Jupiter, they have no relation to the size of the sun seen from the surface of Jupiter.
01:42:38.000Right, but Jupiter's a gas planet, right?
01:42:54.000Because there's a thing called Bode's Law that, based on the amount of mass that a planet has, you can accurately predict where the next planet will be.
01:44:50.000And, you know, those aren't uniform, but, I mean, there are many things in nature that are.
01:44:53.000I mean, the Fibonacci sequence that exists in flowers and pine cones and all these different things, I mean, it's essentially perfect geometric patterns.
01:45:01.000And there it is right there all the time, right next to you.
01:45:04.000If you just take a little bit of time to get yourself out of the perception, whatever the perception is that you've become accustomed to.
01:45:12.000And that is, like, that's what they call...
01:45:14.000I mean, in, like, occult systems or in magic, that's, like, one of the first things you want to do is to, like...
01:45:20.000Pull yourself out of whatever your conditioned patterns are so that you could see the world as living, even for a moment.
01:45:28.000I really love chaos magic because it's like a postmodern form of magic that isn't based on, like, this magic is real, like Harry Potter shit.
01:45:35.000It's based on, if you can change the way you feel, Then you're going to change your life.
01:45:41.000If you can induce certain mood states inside of you, then you're going to be more inspired.
01:46:06.000This is in a book I read about chaos magic.
01:46:09.000Go to, like, a place where there's shitloads of people, and you put yourself in a intentionally paranoid state.
01:46:17.000Not paranoid as in you're afraid, but paranoid as in the sense that everything happening around you is the universe conversing with you.
01:46:24.000For, like, 15 minutes, now the universe is talking to you.
01:46:27.000So every accident, every moment, every t-shirt that has something written on it, every song that you hear is related to answering whatever your question is.
01:46:36.000It's like an oracle or something like that.
01:46:38.000And because our minds consist not just of the conscious, but also the subconscious, suddenly you'll start seeing reflections of your subconscious in the workings of the world around you.
01:46:49.000And that can answer your question or give you some kind of, like, information that you're seeking.
01:46:54.000It really is the information coming from the world or inside of you.
01:46:56.000It doesn't matter if you find a solution that gives you a course of action to take that betters your life, you know?
01:47:03.000So, it's good to not think that we're...
01:47:05.000I don't mean to keep going back to this, but if you think that you're a...
01:47:23.000I think there's no denying that there's several factors involved in your life and shaping your life.
01:47:34.000And I think there has to be some impact other than attitudinal, if that's a word, that comes out of the way you perceive things.
01:47:41.000That it might not just be, oh, well, you're looking at things the wrong way, you're going to be sad.
01:47:46.000No, it might be that you're shaping the energy that you produce, that you're shaping what you put out, you're shaping how people receive you, and that may in turn shape the very physical world around you the same way wolves change rivers.
01:48:13.000And then the government came in and threw gas on the whole thing.
01:48:15.000Just get yourself all worked up in a nice paranoid froth, which I am quite good at doing, and then go into the world and you'll notice everyone's a dick.
01:48:23.000Have you ever noticed that when you're really, you know, like all of a sudden it's like, God, man, everyone's being such a fucking cunt today.
01:49:09.000Least he could do is let me lean on the seat without giving me shit, whatever.
01:49:12.000And then the guy gets up, gets off the bus, I sit down, someone else is standing there, and their ass starts touching my shoulder, and I get pissed off!
01:49:19.000And I'm like, it all depends on where I am, you know?
01:49:24.000Like, I am such a fucking hypocrite because my perception of this situation is not accurate.
01:49:30.000It's, you know, or it is accurate in both cases, but both cases are true.
01:50:06.000Can we induce that state of feeling love, in love, whatever you want to call it, minus a condition?
01:50:13.000So in other words, is there a way to actually, do we have the control or is it already inside of us to find this place where we're constantly experiencing that feeling of intense love wherever we go?
01:50:25.000Because if you're feeling that the traffic doesn't suck, nothing really sucks.
01:50:29.000You know, I said this on Ari's podcast, which is like, Do something you love with someone you hate and something you hate with someone you love.
01:50:37.000And you'll see how potent the state of feeling and love is.
01:50:41.000Because if you do something you hate with someone you love, you don't hate the fucking thing anymore.
01:50:44.000But if you do something you love with someone who sucks...
01:51:40.000I mean, but again, that's one of those things like pick your perspective and the valley looks different depending on what mountain you're standing on.
01:54:47.000And then people are beating the shit out of each other randomly, like you find little packets of people beating the shit out of each other.
01:56:47.000It was a substitute for war among the Iroquois and the people...
01:56:51.000Who lived in northeast U.S. and part of Canada.
01:56:54.000So what they did was they developed this game, and there was no field initially.
01:56:58.000There was like a hoop that they would put on a stick in one part of the woods and the other one in the other part of the woods, and they had the sticks and all that.
01:57:11.000You'd, like, stab people with your stick.
01:57:13.000And I don't know if this is true in all cases, but in many cases, the losing team, whoever was still surviving, would then be tortured and killed.
01:57:23.000So it was actually a substitute for war.
01:57:43.000And also, I mean, being tortured among those people, when you were talking about the nez per se earlier, I was thinking that sounded to me like the people in that part of North America and the East, because there was a lot of torturing and eating of victims.
01:58:11.000And they would get everybody out there, old ladies, everybody, and you'd have to run down through this line, and they'd hit you with spiked sticks, and they'd just fuck you up as you went down this corridor.
01:58:41.000Humor is the hardest thing to argue with because you look like a fool when people are laughing at you, no matter whether your point is good or not.
01:59:19.000They make you sleep where they want you to sleep.
01:59:21.000They provide awesome content, but it's another one of those examples of just because something does something awesome doesn't mean it's not inherently fucked as well as being awesome.
01:59:30.000Werner Von Braun was a cunt, but he was also a brilliant rocket scientist.
02:00:05.000Where he shows – John Ronson shows that executives, high-achieving executives, bankers, stockbrokers, military people, politicians have a much higher rate of psychopathy than normal people.
02:01:11.000There's a lack of honor and there's a lack of a code.
02:01:14.000And one of the reasons being is that our society and the rules that have been thrust upon us In many ways, it's so ridiculous that we reject it.
02:01:23.000Yeah, you shouldn't probably walk across the street randomly anywhere and jaywalk and make people slam on their brakes.
02:01:28.000But you shouldn't make me pay money because I walked across the street.
02:01:39.000All sorts of stupid things about speeding quotas, where fundamentally, yeah, you probably shouldn't speed, you shouldn't put people in danger, but who the fuck are you to pull people over and make them write paper?
02:02:13.000And that seems fundamentally to be the problem, is that we don't have codes, that we don't have a clear ethical structure for our society that's based on being nice to people and raising nice children and stopping abuse at the fundamental level of childhood and child-rearing and making and developing shitty human beings that further...
02:05:37.000And what we do is we put the child into the corridor of this grade system with a kind of, come on, kitty, kitty, kitty.
02:05:45.000And, yeah, you go to kindergarten, you know.
02:05:47.000And that's a great thing because when you finish that, you'll get into first grade.
02:05:52.000And then come on, first grade leads to second grade, and so on, and then you get out of grade school, you've got high school, and it's revving up, the thing is coming, then you're going to go to college, and by a joke then you get into graduate school, and when you're through with graduate school, you go out and join the world.
02:06:07.000And then you get into some racket where you're selling insurance.
02:07:06.000So that's the ambition that you're talking about.
02:07:08.000It's like when people are always rushing at and rushing at, trying to get to this- That's just a lack of balance.
02:07:14.000When we're talking about the bankers and the people that are handling the money, what percentage of our population is actually bankers versus what percentage of our population is actually ambitious?
02:07:22.000Versus what percentage of the resources of our society go to those people.
02:08:21.000All those banks you talked about in Miami laundering drug money, they've been doing it for decades, hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
02:08:45.000Fundamental hypocrisy at the heart of American society, and many other societies, but particularly American society, where the ethical message is in direct contradiction with the fundamental values of the way the society is structured.
02:09:00.000I see what you're saying then about corruption being because of human ambition and that human ambition, when it gets into positions of power, ultimate power corrupting ultimately, that there's almost no way to avoid it.
02:09:13.000That maybe it's just that human beings should never be in that kind of a position of power.
02:09:17.000Maybe something like a corporation where you can go outside of the laws of human one-on-one interaction.
02:09:24.000Maybe something like that just really should have never been allowed to take place.
02:09:27.000Because as soon as you allow people to have groups and those groups to have massive influence and then them to benefit personally from that massive influence, the decisions that they make affect so many people and are so gigantic, they're almost anti-human.
02:10:01.000The problem is when it gets funneled into these giant groups.
02:10:04.000Because one person on their own doesn't really have that much power.
02:10:07.000They have the power that they can physically do whatever they can do with people around them.
02:10:11.000But most of the time when you're fucking around and you're one person and you're subjugating a bunch of different people, they all attack you.
02:10:52.000And he said that one of the weirdest aspects of his trip was that after three weeks, although it didn't change his views of the world, he thought all the things they were saying, you know, God hates fags and all that, was very horrific.
02:11:04.000It became like the impact of it was less because he had been around it for so long that he had been sort of acclimated to it.
02:11:10.000And he thinks it's one of the ways that these people get away in their own mind with doing this and sort of connecting it to the idea that this is God's word is because they just get so accustomed to it.
02:12:41.000But you fix yourself, then you become the cancer cell.
02:12:45.000Because you're disruptive to the dominant logic of your host, right?
02:12:51.000Yeah, but hopefully, it's not hopefully, like, the idea is, like, if, you know, you get one really fucking happy person, and that happy person is going to change the people around them.
02:13:41.000Like, if you look at that, they tuned into a higher frequency, which is the frequency of justice, of truth, of what's right, a higher ethic.
02:14:32.000That's one person doing what he thinks right.
02:14:35.000So what happens if we get five of those people?
02:14:37.000And then what happens if you get 20 of those people?
02:14:40.000The change could be so drastic and radical that it would make your head spin.
02:14:44.000Well, I think he's going to be looked at in the future as a revolutionary.
02:14:47.000He's going to be looked at as a guy who sacrificed his own safety to save the culture.
02:14:51.000And, you know, when you see that guy do that video conference from South by Southwest and there's a giant standing ovation, what other person who's being shielded by another country, a country that we always think of as evil, gets treated like that?
02:15:03.000What other criminal that's running from the long arm of the government He's hiding.
02:15:09.000Literally, he calls himself like a large house cat.
02:16:00.000God forbid any video of me seriously dancing emerges on the fucking internet.
02:16:05.000Anyone could easily take a point of view of either one of us, especially if they, you know, had us stuck in a house somewhere, that you were a total piece of shit.
02:16:13.000Because you become some gigantic controversial figure and you might have jeopardized American safety by releasing military secrets and there's so many variables there that it's so easy to label you a cunt.
02:17:14.000What kind of a balance does that show when you look at what people are getting arrested for and not getting arrested for?
02:17:20.000Yeah, that's a shithead thing to do, and that girl shouldn't hang out with that guy anymore.
02:17:24.000But if you did go out with him again afterwards, well, people are allowed to make mistakes.
02:17:27.000But you're not allowed to lock that guy up in a fucking house for a year and have armies waiting with loaded guns standing outside to take his fucking head off before he can testify.
02:17:39.000It's creepy when you think about the trajectory, because I remember they were talking about, yeah, okay, well, what if he does go back to stand trial?
02:17:45.000Is there a possibility that there's an extradition policy where they could put him back in the United States?
02:17:50.000And I'm like, well, yeah, they do have an extradition policy.
02:17:52.000And then it's like, okay, so wait, there's an extradition policy.
02:19:24.000But in this book, he talks about the history of Larium.
02:19:27.000And then he talks about how at goddamn Guantanamo Bay, they're giving this drug to people who they know, that they know causes amnesia and insanity.
02:19:35.000They're giving it to people in Guantanamo Bay in massive doses.
02:19:39.000And apparently there's no malaria there.
02:19:41.000There's no mosquitoes that cause malaria there, so why the fuck are they giving these people this drug?
02:20:09.000There's a suicide note in his book of a guy who was just talking about how it's been like three years and he's still exactly as fucked up as he was when he started taking larium.
02:25:02.000Ted Kaczynski being a part of the Harvard LSD studies, they don't know what the fuck they did to those kids.
02:25:07.000They dosed the shit out of those kids.
02:25:09.000And he went from there to become a professor, saved up all of his money from school just to be able to buy this cabin in the woods, live there, and plot the demise of technology.
02:25:18.000Yeah, he became a fucking complete nutter.
02:25:21.000I mean, whether or not he was a nutter before that, who knows?
02:25:23.000But the fact remains is that guy was a part of the Harvard LSD studies.
02:25:27.000And, you know, they're very secretive about what actually went on in those studies.
02:25:36.000They did studies with Divinity School students at Harvard, and then Leary and Alpert now...
02:25:42.000Ram Dass gave psilocybin, I think it was, to some of their students, but relatively light doses as far as I know.
02:25:51.000Yeah, but that's the problem when you say that, as far as I know.
02:25:54.000I don't know what they did either, but if I was fucking up a bunch of people's brains and afterwards people came to interview me, I'd say relatively small doses.
02:26:04.000We didn't create any Unabombers or anything.
02:26:05.000Have you guys seen that image of ergot under a microscope?
02:27:40.000But we could say the same thing about all sorts of...
02:27:56.000There's a difference between pedophiles and pederasts.
02:28:01.000And it's something I didn't really understand until I started talking about pedophiles and somebody wrote to me and pointed out that a pedophile is someone who has sexual attraction for people that we consider too young to be appropriate, whether that's at 18 or 16 or 12 or whatever.
02:28:20.000And a pederast is someone who acts on it.
02:28:23.000And that's an important distinction because I remember reading this thing in Dan Savage's column where somebody wrote in to him and said, look, I'm attracted to kids sexually.
02:28:41.000I want someone to help me strengthen my resolve never to do this.
02:28:46.000But by law, American therapists have to report you if you express a sexual desire toward children.
02:28:53.000So this guy is fundamentally prohibited from seeking any help.
02:28:58.000There are no, like, group therapy sessions.
02:29:01.000There's no—if you're that—you've got that in you, and we know that, you know, kinks of all sorts get placed in a personality and you can't get it out, but you can learn to deal with it, choose how to enact it or not enact it.
02:29:14.000But— Pedophiles have no opportunity for that.
02:29:17.000In Canada, they do, but in the United States, they can't.
02:29:19.000Yeah, they sealed the records from Harvard, class of 1962. They sealed all the records on Kaczynski, and they won't release them.
02:29:29.000But it was absolutely a part of something called the Murray Study.
02:29:32.000And the Murray Study was, the Murray Center seals Kaczynski data.
02:29:38.000This is fucking fascinating shit, man.
02:29:40.000They might have cooked that dude's brain.
02:29:41.000They might have cooked that dude's brain and created a monster.
02:29:50.000You're right, that he sees, like, oh my god, this can only go one way.
02:29:53.000But in his crazed state, where he wasn't able to dance and play music like Alan Watts suggested, he was only able to focus on the finish line of the machines taking over the world.
02:30:05.000He's a way bigger monster than the society that he was trying to destroy.
02:30:08.000And what a disservice he did for his message because now there's a fucking mail bomb underlining everything he did.
02:30:14.000So even if there was a bunch of good stuff, he shit all over his own work because he didn't have the foresight to understand that you're using the tools of the people that you're so angry at to try to change the people you're so angry at.
02:30:39.000And, you know, the reality of the United States experimenting, whether or not they really did this with this French town, I should probably throw that into Snopes, right?
02:30:48.000Maybe Snopes will be able to tell me that's not true.
02:33:00.000I mean, the United States induces terror in so many people all the time.
02:33:04.000Well, how about these latest revelations that they use metadata to find cell phones?
02:33:08.000They used the data that says that this is your cell phone, and they want to get you, so they shoot a missile at the cell phone, hoping you're near it.
02:33:18.000Like, that is one of the most evil, indiscriminate acts of destruction and murder that you could ever possibly engage in.
02:33:23.000You don't care if there's babies next to that cell phone playing fucking Candy Chase on it or whatever these fucking games are that kids play these days.
02:34:20.000My job was to sort of host Fear Factor.
02:34:22.000His job is, I mean, terrible analogy, I know, I'm not making Fear Factor in the President of the United States, but I don't think, I think he might, it might be a good analogy because I think he's an actor.
02:34:32.000I think he plays a role, and that role is the role of the leader of the free world.
02:34:45.000Yeah, and I don't think we're ever going to really get a handle on how the whole thing is fucking working.
02:34:49.000I just don't think we will, but you can get a good indication either one or two things about Obama.
02:34:55.000We think he's affable and he's very friendly and nice, which I agree with.
02:34:58.000So if that's the case, why has he done things differently once he got into office than what he said he would do before he got into office?
02:35:05.000Is it because once you got in there, he realized that this world is way more fucked and way scarier than anybody could possibly imagine that's not inside the White House?
02:35:13.000Or is he just being influenced by some unbelievably powerful machine that he can't do anything about, so he's forced to sort of placate these people that got him into positions of power and do their bidding regardless of what his campaign promises are?
02:35:44.000So, you know, it's like they fuck with the metrics to make the message what they want it to be, right?
02:35:49.000Well, it's just, yeah, I am not an Obama fan, not an Obama defender.
02:35:54.000I just can't swallow the fact that he's okay blowing up wedding parties and stuff with drones.
02:35:59.000And also, it's hard for me to swallow the fact that he doesn't have the balls to come out, and maybe he can't, but I wish he'd stick up for Snowden and be like, this is a whistleblower, he did a good thing, let's pardon this motherfucker.
02:36:10.000Well, how about his campaign campaign?
02:36:13.000They had to change the literature on his campaign website because they kept it up for the longest time.
02:36:17.000But there was a very specific chapter or part about whistleblowers.
02:36:22.000Marijuana is becoming legal under his presidency.
02:36:27.000Is that something that you just can't stop?
02:36:28.000I mean, at one point in time, when is this country going to have an Arab Spring moment if they keep fucking with us and taking away personal liberties?
02:36:34.000There's going to come a moment where people are not going to want to deal with it anymore.
02:36:37.000One of the things that's pretty easy to give up on is marijuana.
02:36:40.000Because by golly, look at what's going on in Colorado.
02:36:44.000It's become part of the economy that is always there, but now it's officially a part where they're paying taxes.
02:36:50.000They're making millions of dollars in taxes in Colorado for marijuana since February.
02:36:57.000There will never be an Arab Spring here because the powers that be here are too smart.
02:37:01.000What they do is every time the pressure builds up too much, they let out a little pressure by allowing to be elected a cool-seeming black dude, for example, or by allowing the legalization of marijuana, for example.
02:37:15.000Things, I think, at the end of the Bush presidency and with the economic collapse, the people were angry enough, you know, That something was going to happen.
02:37:23.000So they just, like any good negotiator, give something you can afford to lose to keep the other person from pulling out of the deal.
02:37:30.000I think that's what happens in this country.
02:37:32.000I think the mistake that happens in Arab countries or other countries where their hands are tied by some empire system...
02:37:39.000They can't play those games or they're not predisposed to do that.
02:39:06.000So all the people in a corporation are all possessed by this spirit, and they don't even know they're possessed by it, even though their entire lives are centered around it.
02:39:15.000So the spirit is manifesting through the corporation, and you're basically seeing one of the old-school deities that people used to worship way back in the day manifesting in a modern way through this organized coven I think?
02:39:52.000The whole universe is in a constant state of change.
02:39:55.000Our idea is that somehow or another we're going to reach some point of peace where everything's going to calm down and we can enjoy our society and our golden years.
02:40:05.000It's going to be in a constant state of yin and yang, a push and pull to the very end.
02:40:11.000I mean, the existence that we're currently participating in seems to have those laws pretty firm.
02:40:17.000The tide goes in, the tide goes out, the fucking planets spin around the stars, the stars explode eventually, the planets dry up, stardust becomes more people, more people figure out the atom, they split that bitch, they fucking start making nuclear weapons, they shoot to the moon, it just keeps going on and on and on.
02:40:34.000Like, an endless cycle of the same thing happening over and over and over again, constantly changing...
02:42:06.000We're a part of this whole gigantic organism that's known as the Earth, and it's a part of a gigantic organism known as the solar system, which is a part of a gigantic organism known as the universe.
02:42:17.000I mean, it's just one piece of the thing, and we're change machines.
02:42:34.000This desire for achieving things has a lot to do with that It has a lot to do with us being a part of this weird process Which is why that guy said it was selfish of you not to have kids Because he's spouting the ideology of the machine world, of which we're the sexual organs.
02:42:49.000He's also a dickwad who wants to get some brownie points by saying someone else is wrong.
02:42:55.000Speaking of breeding and people getting involved in your business, why is it that right-wingers are so uptight about abortion?
02:43:01.000Because most abortions are poor people, and you would think their whole thing is demonizing poor people, so you would think that fewer...
02:43:10.000You know, non-white poor people would be a good thing from a right-wing perspective, and yet they're participating in creating more of them by making abortion a problem in this country.
02:43:20.000It's a strange thing I've never understood.
02:43:22.000They don't want you killing babies, and they look at that idea of choice being killing babies, and babies are the greatest things you could ever do.
02:43:30.000How could anybody want to kill babies?
02:43:32.000Then why are they against birth control?
02:43:35.000Well, only the super religious ones are against birth control.
02:43:39.000You'd have to get to, like, Catholics.
02:43:40.000It's very rare that you hear politicians talking about not being pro-birth control.
02:43:52.000I think it's pretty rare for someone to actually stand on a platform of being anti-birth control in 2014, whether it's condoms or anything.
02:44:01.000I think it's much more prevalent than you think.
02:48:29.000Yeah, they have the cloaca, which is this hole where they do what's called a cloacal kiss, where the male and the female will line up their cloacal holes and a little thing from the sperm shoot out of the male into the female.
02:49:46.000I was sitting in a camper the other night and this woman says, I remember what it was, and this woman says, well, that's living in the white man's world.
02:50:07.000The late 19th, early 20th century in the United States and, of course, in England, the Irish were considered beneath Africans on the scale of evolved human beings.
02:50:20.000That's interesting because they came last to this country?
02:50:24.000No, just because they were, like, rougher, harder to deal with, you know, farted in public a lot, you know, things we all know and love about the Irish.
02:50:52.000George Carlin had that whole thing where he's like, you know, how come he talked about the Irish oppression and, you know, jobs for Irish and all that.
02:51:00.000But he was like, and what the hell is with the fighting Irish?
02:52:10.000I'm happy to transfer it wherever we decide to do it, but for the moment, it's on chrisryanphd.com, and you'll see Tri-Podcast tab, and that's where the first three are archived.
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