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00:01:34.000Rejoice, ladies and gentlemen, because Anthony Cumia has flown in the great metal tube from New York, and he's here.
00:02:01.000Dude, when you started doing your show in your basement while you were doing the Opie and Anthony show, and you set up a pro studio with a fucking green screen and real professional camera broadcast quality cameras, I was like, we need to fucking do something like that.
00:02:18.000And that's when Brian and I started out with the Ustream show, directly influenced by not just you doing your show in Long Island, but also the style of show that you guys did on Opie and Anthony.
00:02:31.000Yeah, which was just pretty much a hangout, you know, talking like real people talk, not professional broadcasters.
00:02:37.000Hey, so you're in town, you're telling those wacky jokes.
00:02:42.000That's what I wanted to do with Live from the Compound especially, is make it look as professional as possible, and then have people watch and go, why is this guy like, did he hijack a news set?
00:02:52.000Because he's drinking, he's talking about, he's cursing, he's talking about shit that shouldn't be discussed.
00:02:58.000And that's kind of why I wanted it to look so good.
00:03:01.000I wanted it to look very professional, but be done very unprofessionally.
00:03:06.000Well, it's unprofessional, but it is professional.
00:03:09.000But not in the sense of what we see every day on the news and that phoniness that you just see every day with those people that don't act like real people.
00:03:18.000If something happens, a mistake or a blooper or someone yells fuck in the background of somebody doing a live shot, the anchor loses his mind like he just saw a murder.
00:03:29.000So I just wanted to bring that look, that professional slick look, To me, who is just sitting there, like I said, drinking, probably hungover.
00:03:38.000I made the show at 4pm Eastern Time just so I could sleep late.
00:03:43.000I didn't even think, like, let me research and see what the best time to do a live show.
00:05:31.000I made a boatload of money and sat there and joked around with the likes of Jim Norton and Opie and comics would just come through and it was fantastic.
00:05:49.000And now to have the ability to just do anything, talk about anything, not have to go through all the logistical red tape bullshit with management.
00:05:57.000Keith the Cop is my executive producer here.
00:06:01.000He's never executive produced anything but probably bruises on perp's heads when he was a cop.
00:06:42.000That it's this bridge that allows people to see, oh, this is what it's like if you allow guys to come on and just swear and say whatever the fuck they want and talk the way they...
00:06:50.000Like, what you guys did on ONA is you would talk the way you would talk if you were just hanging out.
00:08:36.000Be able to talk and to have people that want to shut other people up based on their ideology or Anything that they're saying.
00:08:44.000If you want to take someone off the air or shut them up or fire them from their job, I think that's copping out and saying, look, I can't logically argue or intelligently argue, so I just want them quiet.
00:09:27.000And there are many satellite listeners.
00:09:30.000The Internet had that problem with technology in that, you know, You had the product, you just couldn't get it out to everybody in every location that they were in.
00:09:38.000But now cars are Wi-Fi enabled and people have their phones and they could download podcasts and web shows and play them in their car as they're going to work just like they would radio.
00:10:37.000It's also a weird thing, being on a network, like a SiriusXM type thing, where you have all these channels that are like music and Christian radio, and it's like you're selling so much shit, and on top of that,
00:10:53.000you've got something like O&A. Which should really be its own individual entity, because it's so uniquely different from the rest of the things you're having.
00:11:01.000Like, if you're fucking going, like, let's see what's on SiriusXM, and you click in right when Jimmy Norton's doing Uncle Paul trying to defend the Seventh Heaven guy, did you fucking hear him yesterday?
00:13:15.000But a show like ONA, what it is is a haven for, like, fun.
00:13:20.000It's like one of the few remaining havens where you can tune in and you can hear awful, ridiculous shit, and you can hear Jimmy defending a pedophile.
00:13:40.000I think people don't want to know anything about context anymore because they don't want to believe that people can hang out in a room like that, talk about stuff like that in a funny way and laugh about it.
00:13:51.000They don't want to think that people like that exist.
00:14:17.000Yeah, like the idea that if you stop Jimmy from making fun using the Uncle Paul character, you're somehow or another going to stop child molesting.
00:14:24.000Yeah, you're going to stop that seven heaven guy.
00:14:26.000No, he was full bore, balls out for fucking kids.
00:14:34.000He wrote two books that supposedly what started the whole thing is one of his victims read both of his books, and one of his books is about sleeping with a babysitter, or it had something to do with a younger kid.
00:15:56.000I don't think he knew that it was being recorded.
00:15:58.000I think his wife recorded it because that was part of the premise was that it's legal for her to record it because he was involved in committing what they consider a violent crime.
00:16:37.000Like, one of the things that's coming up now, like, California just passed this new law called Yes Means Yes, where you have to get actual verbal consent from someone before you have sex with them.
00:16:48.000No, because the thing that they're trying to push, and this is a feminine agenda in 2014, is that if you have sex with someone who's been drinking, it's sexual assault.
00:17:00.000Well, a guy got kicked out of Occidental College because him and a girl had sex.
00:17:04.000We had Thaddeus Russell on as a professor there.
00:17:06.000And he was going, it drives him fucking crazy, but a guy and a girl, young, 18-year-old freshman, they both were drunk, they both were texting each other back and forth.
00:17:22.000She texted her friend, I'm going to go have sex now, went to the guy's house drunk, had sex with them, they were both drunk, and he got accused of sexual assault, and he got kicked out of the college.
00:18:16.000So they're trying to say that seeking sex while the woman's intoxicated, even if the man is intoxicated as well, that the man is being sexually assault, sexually aggressive, and is committing sexually assault.
00:20:20.000But we're here, and now, so we see it as the most important fuck that we're getting.
00:20:26.000You know, Grandpa's fucking was probably just as bad.
00:20:29.000Yeah, everybody's always been fucked, and everybody's always been thinking that society's failing.
00:20:33.000Like, I was listening to this Hunter S. Thompson documentary recently, and he was talking about the state of America in 1970-whatever, and it was all falling apart.
00:20:41.000And I was like, huh, here we are, 40 years later, it's okay.
00:21:59.000The internet has made everything free.
00:22:01.000You just download the specs to whatever device you want and now objects, materialism means nothing now because you can have whatever you want whenever you want it.
00:22:08.000And there you are fucking checking out.
00:22:19.000But there's also like 40 years in the context of Hunter S. Thompson in 1974 compared to where we are today is nothing if you go back to like Rome.
00:22:28.000Like if you went back to ancient Rome and any 40 year period they were like ah this will always be here.
00:22:47.000When they bring it up, they think that now is the fall part of the American Empire.
00:22:52.000Well, they see Rome, like, when Rome fell, remember when we were kids, we'd hear about it, it was always, like, the excess, the vomitoriums.
00:23:18.000But it sounded funny as a kid to just say, like, vomitorium.
00:23:22.000Yeah, well, that's what we used to think, that it was like some place where they would all get together and fucking throw up and then have orgies and shit.
00:23:28.000It was just that whole concept of, yeah, binging and just eating everything.
00:23:40.000It's a passage situated below or behind a tier of seats in an amphitheater or stadium to which big crowds can exit rapidly at the end of a performance.
00:23:47.000So when the lion kills the dude, and then everybody wants to get the fuck out of there before it leaps in the stand and starts fucking up the Romans, it would go through the vomitorium.
00:23:56.000Right after you hear, are you not entertained?
00:24:00.000Well, they would, you know, we would always hear about the vomitorians where they get was bullshit, but then we'd also hear about the Christians versus the lions, all the crazy shit they would do, and have people fight to the death in front of everyone, and the fucking thumbs down if you wanted them dead.
00:24:14.000But that was society falling apart, and you compare it to today with our fucking drones and war and the UFC and all this chaos and fear factor.
00:25:54.000Well, I think there's a beautiful thing about being influenced by movies and books and songs in that they provide us with entertainment and inspiration, but they also really distort the shit out of realistic scenarios.
00:26:07.000But I think you're supposed to be able to distinguish between that.
00:26:11.000Art is one thing and reality is another.
00:27:09.000I don't think I really verbally go, ugh, when reading anything else but White Knights on Twitter.
00:27:17.000When you bash somebody who's a girl, and you call her out on something, and then some guy swoops in, don't take that, you're beautiful, you're a beautiful person, and this, and...
00:27:31.000First of all, you just want to fuck her.
00:27:33.000You want to do the same thing the guy that's fucking bashing her wants to do.
00:30:32.000Because people were getting eaten by jaguars on a daily basis, and you had to fuck as many people as you possibly could in order to ensure that the species survived.
00:30:41.000The problem is our high mortality rate, when human beings were in their infancy, our high mortality rate led to very specific types of behaviors that are ingrained in our genetics.
00:30:53.000And those specific types of behaviors are frowned upon by feminists now.
00:30:57.000The very thing that got us to 2014, they're trying to curb back.
00:31:02.000This deceptive behavior in order to try to get laid.
00:31:06.000Any type of sex other than the sex that they feel comfortable with.
00:31:53.000They're not really sexy, attractive objects of desire.
00:31:58.000I think when they speak about how can a man dictate what happens to our bodies kind of a thing, it's the same thing as how can you dictate what happens to a pretty girl.
00:32:10.000Like, you're not a pretty girl, so you don't understand what it's like to be that and to be able to, you know, manipulate men in such a fashion.
00:32:18.000So she should probably, the troll ladies, should probably steer clear of what they think attractive men and women should do.
00:32:27.000The social justice warrior people, one of the things that they love is when transgender people go way overboard and become very overtly feminine.
00:33:56.000Well, when you look, the vaginal canal is a little more upward, and when you have to turn a penis inside out to make a vagina, you see where the penis comes from.
00:34:07.000Actually, the transsexual vagina is exactly where you thought it was before you saw a girl naked.
00:34:20.000Yeah, because I remember the first few times you're trying to get down a girl's pants and you're like, I am so far below the belly button now, where is it?
00:35:48.000But the fucked up thing is, now I fuck girls don't want to have a kid, so I don't wear a condom and I fuck them in the pussy.
00:35:53.000So it did have some kind of an influence on my future...
00:35:59.000When I was in high school, and I don't remember where I learned this or if it was taught in class, but I specifically remember something where it was like a real source where they were saying that in order for a woman to get pregnant, that she has to have an orgasm.
00:36:12.000Because when a woman has an orgasm, it opens up the canal and the eggs get through.
00:36:17.000I remember this being some just ridiculously ignorant shit that I was taught.
00:39:31.000Strangers you'd see in the store, you might look and go, what an asshole.
00:39:34.000And you'd never realize how many assholes are out there until you got to see.
00:39:40.000Everyone now has a voice and their pictures, their families, how they live their lives, what they believe in, what they like, what they hate.
00:39:47.000And it really does open everybody up to see this world of...
00:40:05.000Yeah, but to be able to see now what a lot of other people are thinking and how they believe things and how they get tricked so easily, how they believe false news and blogs that just...
00:40:21.000Like, they'll read a blog and believe it.
00:41:47.000He's fucking, like, really intense and just, like, I'll come down the stairs and I'll be pretty tired, pajama pants on and shit, and he'll fly out of the dining room and, with all of his weight, throw the side of his body against your calf.
00:49:04.000I'm trying to make it so they understand that they are one of my friends that are girls, that if we want to have sex and stuff, that's great, it's cool and everything, but we can't have this relationship.
00:49:19.000Where you live here and where we are obligated to go out for certain occasions because you're my top bitch or something or whatever it is.
00:50:15.000A groove that the guys have fallen into over the years where they know like, oh my god, you just realize at one point you go, uh-oh, I'm in a relationship.
00:50:42.000All of a sudden now there's obligations, responsibilities, accountabilities, all these things that come along with a relationship take away from the good parts of hanging out, which is we're watching TV, we're drinking, we're fucking, we're going out to dinner, we're not arguing about anything.
00:51:29.000First, she got one of those ectopic pregnancies.
00:51:32.000Which happens in the fallopian tube and blows up and she like started bleeding internally and boy if I had a future me came back at the moment I was driving her to the hospital I may have made a stop at McDonald's first.
00:51:45.000Or you know I might have had to pick a few things up while she was in the passenger seat bleeding to death.
00:53:27.000You had to develop something or you would have killed her or yourself or everyone involved.
00:53:33.000You have a kid, so you have to kind of build some type of relationship with her.
00:53:39.000I have a buddy who's friends with his ex-girlfriend and his ex-girlfriend is now married to another one of his friends and they have kids together and they get all their kids together and play.
00:55:02.000He went from that attorney that was always on Howard's show and made millions of dollars, obviously made some off of me, and then he's just destitute now.
00:55:10.000So I read the stories in the paper before I got fired and everything, and I've always laughed.
00:55:15.000I thought, good, good for him, karma, motherfucker.
00:55:19.000And if you crow about karma, isn't that bad, karmically?
00:58:04.000No, he didn't, but me and Keith saw him at the Mexican place we were eating at about a month ago, and he came up and was like, hey, how you doing?
00:58:12.000I was like, hey, look who it is, the fucking crazy guy.
00:58:16.000But he's married, he's got kids, a normal guy.
00:58:18.000Yeah, he has a Facebook account, and I see his Facebook posts, his kid rides horses, and he's got a nice place, he holds a job.
00:58:28.000So it turned out he was just a fan, and you know what?
00:58:32.000I really don't have any problem with certain fans.
00:58:35.000A lot of the people that come over to my parties were formerly just fans of the show or people that were on the show.
00:58:41.000Crazy fucking Big A and my buddy Dennis and all of my poker-playing friends.
00:58:47.000They were pretty much fans of the show that, through one way or another, hanging out, I figured they were pretty cool and responsible and not going to shoot up or rob my house.
00:59:01.000Well, your house would be one of the worst places to rob anyway because you're armed to the teeth and your fucking house is strategically set up in case anybody breaks into this room.
00:59:11.000You're pressing fucking buttons and secret doors are opening.
00:59:16.000I got safe rooms and magnetically locked doors that are alarmed.
01:00:35.000They said, we only want you to load seven rounds in your clip, in your magazine.
01:00:40.000So you go, okay, and we're banning ten round magazines.
01:00:44.000So it's like, so what you're saying is I can only have five rounds, because that's the only magazine available to me that isn't over the seven-round limit.
01:01:43.000Everything that is given to us by the government, thank you, government, which is supposed to be the people, everything that's given to us is presented in a Look what we're giving you.
01:01:54.000The Marriage Protection Act, you know, you want to protect marriage.
01:01:59.000It's not the fuck the gays law and gays can't get married law.
01:06:06.000It's your whole vision combined with your balance and how the two, if they're separated too much, If they're not in compliance with each other, it's like, all right, make them vomit!
01:08:23.000They have these four-foot-thick walls with solid glass and concrete and these ventilation systems that suck everything out, and everyone's wearing spacesuits.
01:08:32.000They want me to wear a spacesuit and get in there, and I was like, get the fuck out of here.
01:08:43.000If a fucking earthquake happens, and your system breaks while I'm in there, and I have to fucking take my mask off to work the gear, no, I'm dead.
01:10:29.000It wasn't like some old fat man took a picture of him with a lion that he killed and everybody went crazy and it got a million Facebook hits.
01:10:44.000Because it's an old fat man that nobody wants to have sex with.
01:10:46.000But you take one of those hot young chicks, a cheerleader from Texas, and she's got a pink bow, and she's standing over a zebra, and everybody loses their shit.
01:11:57.000Especially if you're a chick that maybe is unattractive and you're also someone who loves animals and you see some pretty girl with a fucking dead zebra and you just shh!
01:12:42.000And then there's also the men that want to go way overboard to show everybody that they really support animal rights and people who eat animals are assholes and people who shoot zebras are bullshit.
01:12:54.000It's a fascinating thing because you look at all the restaurants everywhere you go.
01:13:00.000You can get out of this office right now.
01:13:01.000We could drive down the street and every fucking place on the left and the right and the left and the right is fantastic.
01:13:07.000Filled with the carcasses of animals that died in ways far more horrible than any fucking zebra suffers when you double lung them with an arrow.
01:13:19.000These animals live their lives in pens, in cages, bred specifically for consumption, killed in horrible ways, fed other dead animals when they're not even supposed to be eating animals, just so they can get more protein into them to make them fatter and stupider.
01:14:05.000They've always used it for dog food and animal food and things like that, which I don't necessarily think is that awful, because dogs eat their own assholes.
01:14:21.000But the hunting thing in Africa is even more exacerbated by the reality of conservation, that these animals were on the verge of extinction, and now they're valuable.
01:14:31.000So because they're valuable, there's far more of these animals than they've ever been before, like ever in recorded history in Africa.
01:14:38.000Like, they have areas of high-fence hunting operations that have these once endangered animals, and they're just fucking roaming free wild everywhere.
01:14:46.000And these hunters fly in, and they go to these spots, and they kill them.
01:15:00.000And I had him on the podcast before, and we talked specifically about these operations, because he went over there, and he was staying with them for three weeks.
01:15:06.000And he was saying that these people have these hunting ranches, and without these hunting ranches, these animals would probably be extinct.
01:15:14.000But because they're valuable and people fly in and hunt them, they're worth money.
01:15:20.000So he's talking to the guy, and he's trying to figure it out.
01:15:22.000And the guy goes on this fucking crazy rant.
01:15:25.000The guy goes, you keep asking me the same question.
01:16:18.000Well, I would be suspect to anything that goes over to Africa, and that's supposed to go somewhere.
01:16:24.000When you look at starving nations, and just plain loads of food are going over there, and they're still just as starving, someone's getting rich off of that, and yeah, it's not the people.
01:16:36.000Well, the numbers of people that are in poverty are so high.
01:16:41.000It's almost like, yo, what am I going to do with this?
01:16:44.000We showed an image the other day on the podcast of what Africa looks like size-wise, that you could fit pretty much every other country in the world inside of Africa.
01:17:16.000We were talking about the Bondo ape, which has since been proven by DNA and photograph and video evidence.
01:17:22.000But I was talking about it based on a National Geographic article, and some woman who was a biologist called up and said it was bullshit, and you guys don't know what you're talking about.
01:17:51.000And there are pockets of places where there are little communities of one animal, certain things.
01:17:56.000Their diet dictates where they are, their surroundings, whether they migrate or not.
01:18:02.000You're not going to be able to keep tabs on every fucking living thing in one country on the continent that is that big and that covered.
01:18:12.000It's just astounding that people are surprised when new things get found.
01:18:16.000Yeah, that was a big one though, a new primate and a big six foot tall super aggressive chimpanzee that occasionally walks upright can weigh as much as 400 pounds and they call them lion killers.
01:18:30.000They say there's two types of chimps, tree beaters and lion killers.
01:18:33.000And the tree beaters are the smaller ones that go up into the top of the trees and run, but the lion killers bed on the ground like gorillas.
01:19:18.000And I know it always gets blamed on imperialism and, you know, every other country has come in and raped and ravaged Africa and then left with the wealth and riches and blah blah blah.
01:19:30.000But, I mean, hasn't that happened with every country?
01:19:34.000Country and continent on the face of this earth?
01:19:39.000Well, unless someone comes along and revamps their infrastructure and creates some sort of a central government that's democratically elected and gets rid of the majority of their corruption.
01:20:30.000Celebrities get involved, and there was a kit.
01:20:32.000Like, there was a kit that you could send for that on one day in April, I think, of that year, people were supposed to wake up and just see Kony signs everywhere.
01:20:43.000And you could send for these big kits where they had Kony stickers and stuff, and one day, people were supposed to get out of bed and go to work and be like, what's happening?
01:21:14.000The point is, like, these warlords that essentially control large parts of the Congo, it's like, to get them out and to revamp the system and deal with the fact that there's a jungle and there's no roads.
01:21:28.000Like, all these borders are constantly moving based on which warlord is warring with the other one and how much land they take and killing, taking resources.
01:21:37.000Yeah, there needs to be some kind of...
01:21:40.000Legitimate infrastructure put in place.
01:22:08.000More civilized, technically advanced cultures that said, hey, let's build these things and start pumping fucking oil out of the ground.
01:22:16.000Made them rich, but that's the infrastructure that was put in place by the West and kind of made them who they are now.
01:22:25.000Well, So why can't it happen in Africa with all those resources?
01:22:29.000Because the second someone swoops in from the West and decides that they're going to start building things, it's instantly seen as taking advantage and raping the land.
01:22:38.000But meanwhile, jobs are created when you rape the land, sorry to say, but it does happen.
01:22:44.000And I think that's better than just having a population that doesn't even...
01:22:48.000Know how to take the shit out of the ground and is literally walking on gold and starving.
01:23:26.000Maybe we should then just look at it for what it is and not try to incorporate that into the world we know and we're familiar with and just accept that for what it is.
01:23:40.000There are going to be people that live in these places that cannot be industrialized and they are going to have to suffer the consequences of living there.
01:23:47.000I don't know what else there is unless you want us to deforest, build some roads, get some big cat fucking bulldozers in there.
01:24:58.000You get out of your car, you step out of your car, and then a swarm of mosquitoes will engulf you.
01:25:04.000Like, when Ari and I went fishing last year, and what we had to do is, we pulled up to the spot, and the boat was over there, so we go, alright, you ready?
01:29:59.000And most of, if the animal's a little taller, I heard about animals being stump broke, where you train them and break them to back up to a stump so you can stand on the stump and fuck them.
01:30:44.000And then there's that other thing where you'd...
01:30:48.000I guess a boot broke was the, you have your boots and you shove the goat or the sheep's back legs in your boots and they couldn't go anywhere.
01:30:56.000And then another one, you were supposed to go to the edge of an embankment or a cliff and push at the sheep and it would back up because it would be afraid of falling off the cliff and it would back right into your dick and you'd get a little action.
01:31:43.000If you're on a farm somewhere in the middle of Bolivia and there's no one around, you just get on the top of the farmhouse and you look around, you don't see shit for as far as the eye can see, and you look at one of these sheep and you look at the sheep vagina and you go, well...
01:31:56.000Let me just stick my finger in there, Phil.
01:31:58.000You know, Joe, you really do put things in perspective.
01:32:02.000I'm thinking from my own privileged terms.
01:32:05.000You're thinking about an urban scenario.
01:32:16.000You could get a shit roll of the dice and live in the Congo.
01:32:19.000You could just wake up one day and your feet are dirty and your house is made out of twigs.
01:32:24.000That was always the intense fear of the thought that reincarnation might be true.
01:32:30.000And even though no one really remembers who they were in a previous life or who they were going to be in the next or something, you're always like, I don't want to.
01:32:38.000Man, I got a good one this time around.
01:34:54.000And another thing, when we talk about how dumb people are, and you realize how stupid a lot of the masses are by reading their comments on the internet...
01:35:03.000I took a picture the next day after I got fired, because it was the big party, of my buddy Carlton, who's a black guy.
01:35:09.000And we were in the pool and stuff, and I had my arm around him, and I'm doing a thumbs up, and I'm like, hey, look!
01:36:07.000So anytime they get a chance to vent this anger, this frustration, this existential angst at the very life they're fucking trapped in with a majority of your time, all day, all week, is doing shit you hate.
01:38:04.000The young kids are being indoctrinated by the hard left that's running these colleges, and the hard left wants you to check your privilege.
01:38:49.000But, you know, to be followed in a store, and let me tell you something.
01:38:52.000When I was a kid, when five of me and my friends and everything would go in at eight, nine years old to a candy store, we got followed in the candy store because the fucking guy knew that people that were stealing candy were the eight-year-old fucking kids that would come into his store.
01:39:08.000So he followed us to make sure we didn't steal.
01:39:12.000When people go into stores now and they're followed, they look at the people that have been profiled, yes profiled, over the course of their loss prevention, and say, alright, make sure you keep an eye on these people.
01:39:26.000We can't individually interview everyone that comes in and find out what their character is.
01:39:31.000So let's just take the slice of people...
01:39:35.000That have been doing the most damage to our inventory and follow them around a little.
01:39:40.000Or, you know, follow them with the camera in the back room.
01:40:08.000Do you remember those Korean store owners that were fighting back against the Reginald Denny shit during the riots and the Rodney King days?
01:40:28.000And we got to see a very unique and almost...
01:40:34.000Almost, like, accepted form of racial violence during that time, where, like, people were literally targeting white people and attacking them, and no one was being outraged.
01:42:31.000But I will never forget that photo or the video rather of Reginald Denny getting pulled out of his truck and then that guy took that brick and just smashed him in the head with it.
01:43:13.000When things go bad and people start rioting, they just completely lose their humanity.
01:43:19.000It's something that happens to human beings when you get too much of us together and they're mad about something and chaos is going on, like people are smashing shit and stealing shit.
01:45:53.000What do you think would happen if the fucking raids and the people that were going crazy, if they went into Beverly Hills, start pulling people out of their houses and shit?
01:46:03.000You would have absolutely seen the National Guard start just shooting people like it was Vietnam.
01:46:14.000The Korean people can get fucked over like that, but the moment they move into the Jewish neighborhoods and start yanking people out of their houses in the white neighborhoods.
01:49:27.000I mean, other people have taken amazing pictures of New York City very early in the morning.
01:49:32.000So I was doing that, and I took pictures of a few of the ladies of the evening that walk around, strippers that were leaving some of the strip clubs, hookers, whatever.
01:49:53.000A woman that was walking down the street, and again, it was very early in the morning, very quiet, and it's a big fucking Canon camera with my iPhone, and she hears the shutter clicking and turns around to look, and she goes, uh-uh, you white motherfucker, don't you take my fucking picture!
01:52:10.000And now within minutes of what happened, I'm actually communicating to the outside world.
01:52:16.000Which years ago, you would have time to cool off, and then you'd maybe get on your phone at home, call your friend and say, this fucking bitch was smacking me in the head.
01:52:23.000But now minutes after, I still got the adrenaline going.
01:52:32.000And I say, I think my biggest crime here...
01:52:35.000Was the fact that I was talking about the incident and how pissed I was, and then I also added a little social commentary to the same conversation.
01:52:43.000So people put both of those together and got the impression I was talking about all black people.
01:52:47.000Anthony said all black people are violent.
01:52:50.000I said there's a problem with violence in some segments of the black community, which has been addressed by black leaders, reverends, pastors, community leaders.
01:55:14.000Because if this bitch is going to be just mouthing off and smacking people, I'm sure she's going to get her ass handed to her at some point if she mouths off to the wrong person.
01:55:23.000I, on the other hand, didn't hit her back.
01:55:26.000Like I said, I put my forearm up to just keep her from getting closer to me, but that was the only contact, and it was her banging against my arm saying, don't touch me, and punching me in the face.
01:55:37.000So, the violent tone of my tweet is what they didn't like.
01:55:41.000Meanwhile, yes, I am privileged to be able to exercise my actual right, Second Amendment right to bear arms and carry a concealed weapon.
01:55:54.000Yeah, you're one of the very rare people.
01:55:56.000I mean, if she wanted to punch some dude in the head that's not a cop and think, what are the odds this guy has a fucking license to carry a pistol?
01:56:06.000Yeah, a legal license to carry a pistol.
01:57:38.000So it takes a long time, a lot of effort, and I think they bank on the fact that a lot of people aren't going to go to that length.
01:57:45.000And they've turned down a lot of people.
01:57:49.000Someone did an article a few years back on who they turned down, and it was a lot of people on the Mets and some radio personalities and some pretty big celebrities.
02:02:48.000You know, I was really waiting for a fucking cop.
02:02:52.000I would have loved to have had a cop drive by and go, hey, you know, but I had to just, you know, whatever, and kind of backed off and started walking home.
02:06:05.000And then I played some ISIS videos, and I'm like, see, this is what they're doing, and this is what we're doing, and I swear to you, I don't know what's more dangerous or horrific to watch.
02:06:17.000It's like, that's our version of extremists, religious extremists.
02:07:23.000He might have been before and he's more so now, but he does these interviews with these religious shows and starts talking about how it hurt him in Hollywood, his religious beliefs and his belief in Jesus and his belief in God.
02:08:01.000Do you know what Sarah Palin said when she was running, she was in Alaska, she told a school teacher up there that dinosaurs and people live together.
02:08:09.000And that she saw a photo on the internet of a footprint, a human footprint inside a dinosaur footprint.
02:08:30.000Has there been any pests, though, that have seen this street lady or any officers that go, you know, that looks like a girl we arrested a couple weeks ago, or nothing.
02:08:44.000People have said to me, I'm so surprised she hasn't come forward and tried to get something from this or anything, and I know she knows nothing.
02:08:51.000She has no clue what she has wrought She's just some fucking dumb hooker who knows nothing about the news, knows nothing about what's going on in the world.
02:11:10.000I was the crazy guy that was building the bomb shelter that all the neighbors pointed and laughed at that are banging on the door when the bombs are dropping.
02:12:03.000So he came over with his whole family and we did the good thing about this is it's my fucking house and I could put the cameras anywhere so I set the cameras up at the back table by the pool.
02:12:15.000And we did the whole interview outside.
02:12:17.000I got some really hot girl to attend bar, a little rollout bar by the pool, and she just kept coming over and serving drinks and stuff like that.
02:12:25.000And it was just a fun, real relaxed hang.
02:12:28.000The little waterfall of the pool and everything made a really cool atmosphere.
02:12:32.000And then Colin Quinn, I had him over, and I set the cameras up by the bar that I got in the house.
02:12:38.000So we were just sitting there at the bar, and it wasn't like...
02:12:41.000It doesn't have to be in the studio, is what it is.
02:12:45.000I want to have Kevin Pollack come in at some point and do that from the movie theater and play like an old Columbo episode and we'll just talk and then every so often refer to the show because he does an amazing Columbo.
02:13:30.000The one I have, I'm pretty satisfied with it.
02:13:33.000I'm always looking into something, see what it is, but I like the control, I like the fact that I can roll video and audio, and it's very easy, integrates well with my computers and stuff.
02:15:01.000The logistics of this was the hardest part, because I already had the studio built, pretty much.
02:15:07.000It was weird, because it was a trial and error.
02:15:09.000Over the course of years that I'd been building this, so I usually set something up, it worked, or I wanted something better.
02:15:15.000I'm like, fuck, rip that out, put something else in.
02:15:18.000And I was constantly building it, and it just looked like linguine all over the floor, wires everywhere.
02:15:23.000And then when we got this rolling, we got some tech guys in there to kind of rip it apart and put it back together again the way it's supposed to be.
02:15:30.000But for the most part, everything was already there, except for that, you know, we could do the show.
02:15:34.000Now we've got to get it out to the masses.
02:15:37.000And there were going to be a lot of people that needed to get this immediately, so we didn't want crash issues and things like that.
02:15:44.000Are you having a hard time growing it because it's a pay service?
02:15:48.000Because I'm sure you got an initial rush, right?
02:20:00.000I parked somewhere, and I was crying laughing, and I had to go inside for a meeting, and I sat in my car for like an extra ten minutes just listening to that.
02:20:39.000Yeah, the merger happened with Sirius.
02:20:42.000They completely took over and did away with all the people at XM that were show-friendly and things like that, and just put us in their building instead of the building we were in, where we were able to go out on the street and just do fun shit.
02:20:58.000We did Box of Cocks that day, where we put a...
02:22:17.000Well, we gotta, you know, run it through up the old flagpole and run it through this and we'll green light that as we skylight this and get...
02:22:26.000Just middle management bullshit that would shine us on every day and we'd realize months and months would go by and we'd go, you know, we haven't done anything.
02:22:36.000We haven't gone out to do an appearance.
02:25:18.000You guys could both solicit companies to advertise, like, look, I've got X amount of thousands of people every fucking day that are listening and watching.
02:25:26.000You can sell your products to that, boom, and then you cut out all the nonsense.
02:25:30.000All you need is an agent to handle that stuff for you.
02:29:34.000Yeah, when I was in Colorado we had one of those.
02:29:36.000It would kick in all the time because the power up there sucked.
02:29:39.000Yeah, Long Island sucks because the wind blows and for some reason we're the only place on the face of the earth now that still has wires strung on poles like it's fucking like 1850. And they're all between the property lines.
02:31:12.000I am sitting in a chair in a very relatively small room with a green screen behind me.
02:31:20.000That's why when something happens, and they were showing some of the rioting in Ferguson and stuff, and they'll just play that on the green screen behind me.
02:31:28.000And I'll be in the crowd going like, ah, don't hurt me.
02:31:34.000So, the desk being fake, so do you have green screen in front of you as well?
02:31:40.000That's the thing about the TriCaster that I like.
02:31:42.000It knows how to just layer things like you would in Photoshop, where the background is the back layer, my live video is middle, and then the front layer is that desk and whatever else is in front of me.
02:31:54.000So, what the odd thing is, I can never...
02:31:57.000I can never reach over the front of the desk.
02:32:00.000It's always in front of me, so no matter how far I lean, I can never reach over it.
02:32:06.000Yeah, but it looks like I'm futzing with stuff behind it all the time, and I put my beard down there, or I have my Obama bobblehead doll when I'm talking politics.
02:32:15.000You know, just everything could kind of be behind the desk, and it looks like I have one.
02:32:19.000People actually, they come down to the studio and go, this is it?
02:32:31.000I've always been into video, and I used Adobe After Effects.
02:32:37.000It's like Photoshop for video, and just been fascinated with keying and green screening and stuff like that.
02:32:44.000The equipment that's available to people now, as opposed to even just a few years ago, is un-fucking-believable.
02:32:51.000Well, even just when you first started, right?
02:32:53.000Yeah, when I first started, I was just grabbing a few cameras there at B&H and popping it up and doing a show.
02:33:00.000And then slowly, trial and error, figuring out how to do things.
02:33:04.000It's left a lot of electronic waste in a lot of closets around my house.
02:33:09.000It's like, ah, these lights don't work.
02:33:12.000What made you decide to do a video-based show, as opposed to the way ONA was, which is primarily audio-based, but you used to have PalTalk?
02:33:32.000People like watching videos of something and then talking about it.
02:33:36.000So I'll just pull videos all day and all night and put them in folders and put them on the TriCaster, play them, and be able to just discuss it with people.
02:34:09.000And then one of the things I learned is you can't Play song parodies or anything on a visual thing because you're just kind of sitting there listening to music.
02:34:20.000We were playing an old Reverend Al song that I did years ago and I realized I'm just sitting there going, yeah, well this is it.
02:37:56.000But they canceled, and everyone was saying, wow, they called me back and said they're going to give me a year subscription for like a third of the price and stuff.
02:38:08.000So when they go in front of their shareholders, when they give their quarterly reports, they say, well, ladies and gentlemen, the subs are up!
02:40:46.000I wrote it in, and I represent 10,000 people, and we...
02:40:51.000Well, not enough diaries got returned from the urban areas, so we're going to flood them with diaries the next month, and then at the end of three months, we average it to get...
02:42:15.000I think because they know it would be a bargaining chip for a negotiation.
02:42:19.000I would think that just the information that shows on your display that says, you know, guest today, blah, blah, blah, that there's something sending out that separate from the signal...
02:44:06.000I just think, also, they get real high on finding conspiracies and things.
02:44:12.000Like, there's several people that I follow online that will find anything that's online and think that there's some fucking grand scheme behind it all.
02:44:21.000Like, some guy was going on the other day about what ISIS really was, was some Israeli plot, some fucking...
02:46:22.000They create artificial clouds, and these artificial clouds, you could do it over and over and over again all day long.
02:46:29.000All you have to do is fly through, and they're like, yeah, what about one time there's a video that shows the plane, and it's flying, and it's creating a cloud, and then no cloud, and they turn the jet off, and then they turned it on again.
02:46:41.000Or, you know how you look up in the sky, and there's a cloud here, but there's not a cloud here?
02:46:47.000Yeah, because the level of condensation in the atmosphere varies.
02:47:00.000If you squeeze the air that has moisture in it that's not visible as a cloud right now, but you run it through a jet engine, it's gonna come out the other end as a cloud.
02:48:01.000Another thing I love is the fact that how UFO phenomenon has just disappeared with the advent of everybody having a phone and a camera and stuff.
02:48:36.000There's like fake ones that have been done on After Effects and great production companies have put out great shaky fucking things and it looks pretty cool.
02:48:46.000But there are no fucking, like, go to YouTube and go, authentic, like, it's just not happening.
02:50:01.000Man, one of my chickens vanished, and I think it was probably a hawk, because I let them roam, and most of the area where they are, they're protected under the canopy of oaks, so the hawks can't really swoop in.
02:50:11.000But if the chickens get stupid, and they go out near the pool...
02:50:15.000You should throw out that drop cam that I gave you.
02:50:17.000It has night vision, and then you can just watch it anytime you want to.
02:50:22.000It'll notify you if something crazy is happening and stuff.
02:52:30.000You can only use it on, like, hillsides and in areas where they're going to be out eating berries or, like, grizzlies in large tundra areas.
02:52:37.000Or you've got to use bait, where you have to leave bait out for them, the bears come from the bait, and then you kill them.
02:53:29.000But mountain lions, they stopped hunting them altogether, and they're so prevalent now that a six-year-old kid got attacked in fucking Cupertino, where the fucking apple campus is in Cupertino.
02:55:36.000If we didn't have a few fucking sparkles of miracle up in our head, we would be done.
02:55:42.000Well, the idea is those sparkles of miracle are what sent us down this road of decay where our bodies develop this fucking soft, fleshy outer layer that tears on rocks and twigs.
02:55:53.000You look at a chimpanzee just fucking going through trees, hitting sharp branches.
02:57:43.000I'd be in the same boat in no time, I think, so...
02:57:46.000It's kind of nice that this worked out.
02:57:49.000And it is odd that the inspiration that you got for this from me doing the Compound show and then you doing this was an inspiration to go back to actually do the full show on a scheduled basis.
02:58:00.000Because I think it was you that told me at some point you got to...
02:58:03.000You gotta put these things on at the same time, like if you're gonna do it, like when I'm gonna do it, it's gotta be from 4 to 6 p.m.
02:58:25.000I don't think I ever did so much preparation for any other show I did.
02:58:30.000And I'm honest, it's like, I would go in, and not that I would phone it in or anything, but it was kind of easy to sit there with the likes of a Jim Norton and bounce shit back and forth and just start laughing our asses off and goofing.
02:58:49.000I want to know that I'm talking about this, this, that.
02:58:52.000I want to be very interactive with the audience.
02:58:54.000We're doing a PalTalk thing where PalTalk is joining us, so subscribers will be able to go to a room in PalTalk.
02:59:01.000Now I'll be able to just pull up their cameras, put them on my virtual screen, and have a discussion with these people instead of just primarily going to the phones.
02:59:11.000Or if I could just want to surprise them, if someone's just sitting there jacking off, bam, we can pop that up and go, hey, asshole, what are you doing?