In this episode of the podcast, we discuss the results of a new clinical trial on AlphaBrain, a new type of brain imaging device developed by Onit, and how it could revolutionize the way we think about brain imaging.
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00:04:02.000Onit has just released the latest in our newest clinical flagship trial for alpha brain.
00:04:09.000It's a very exciting time for us because we had a test that we had done before, a pilot study, and now we've released the results of the new study.
00:04:19.000There's a video available that goes into detail with it with scientists, and they explain all the tests that were done, where the positive results were found.
00:04:50.000Anyway, we're very excited about the new results about AlphaBrain because they proved what we found in the first study, and actually we're even better.
00:05:02.000And what's also important is that if you go to AlphaBrain, the page, the AlphaBrain page at Onit, we have all the research in detail.
00:05:12.000So not just the study that we did, not just the first two studies that we've done, but also all the research that indicates that all of the various ingredients that are in AlphaBrain have a positive effect on cognitive function.
00:05:27.000The idea behind it is increasing your memory and increasing what's called executive function.
00:05:32.000Executive function meaning your ability to function quicker, to form sentences better, to find words that you're searching for.
00:05:42.000And in, again, our two double-blind placebo studies that we've done so far, we've showed positive results in this.
00:05:48.000Neutropics are nutrients that are designed to improve cognitive function.
00:05:54.000And what alpha brain is, it's a combinatory formula where we've taken a lot of different nutrients that work in a synergistic fashion and added them together in a simple, easy-to-use package.
00:06:06.000Anytime you start talking about things like cognitive function in a pill, it sounds like it could possibly be horseshit.
00:06:14.000That's why we have the research page and that's why we encourage anyone who's interested in any nootropics to please Google the subject and find all the studies that have been done on various ingredients, including some not even in alpha brain.
00:06:27.000There's a lot of different stuff that's been shown to have a positive effect On the mind.
00:06:31.000The human body is essentially reliant on all the nutrients that you take into your body to create the you that you are, to create yourselves, to create your neurotransmitters.
00:06:44.000And there's so many positive effects of having everything in tune.
00:06:50.000And a big part of everything, of course, is the mind.
00:06:53.000The better the mind works, the better you function.
00:07:41.000And then we have our artistic kettlebells, the primal bells, which are my favorite, which are the great apes, gorilla, orangutan, chimp, and howler monkey.
00:07:50.000An artist named Stephen Schubin Jr. did a fantastic job of recreating these things.
00:07:55.000And they're cool, functional works of art.
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00:08:05.000If you have a chin-up bar and a set of kettlebells, you're good.
00:08:09.000You literally don't need to go to the gym.
00:08:10.000There's so many different exercises you can find just from YouTube videos and from, of course, the videos that we sell and have available for free at the OnitAcademy at onit.com.
00:08:21.000Again, we are a total human optimization website, and that is what we strive for.
00:08:26.000We strive to provide you with the tools for you to get your shit together, okay?
00:08:33.000For you to accelerate your existence, my friends, for you to live optimally, for you to get your shit together, to fire up.
00:10:35.000I just wish, I mean, it seems like Uber was doing so well.
00:10:38.000Like, I just wish there would be a company like that that would turn out to be super cool.
00:10:43.000You know, I always wish that about every company that I like.
00:10:45.000You know, like, oh, wouldn't it be nice if they're super cool?
00:10:47.000Yeah, like secretly all of Walmart's money was going to some kind of charity instead of just the...
00:10:55.000And I don't mean that in a good way or a bad way.
00:10:57.000I mean, just like whenever you have a big, giant thing, you have a problem on both sides.
00:11:01.000You know, like, one problem is people go, well, you know, Walmart comes into town and it kills all the small businesses.
00:11:07.000I'm like, are we really that gross that like saving a dollar here and five cents there is worth us going to some giant box where some people are in it that we don't know?
00:11:19.000Or are we going to go to our local place where we have like a relationship with the people that own it?
00:11:25.000Like you're directly connected to these people's lives.
00:11:28.000I think the issue, at least where I fuck up as a consumer, is you drive by and let's say you need a new tire for your car and you don't really care about your car that much.
00:11:51.000And then it spills over into other areas of your life where you're like, well, I want healthy groceries, but what if Walmart can give me the cheapest fucking lettuce?
00:12:38.000But, like, there's this restaurant that I go to all the time, and the folks that own it, they've owned it for like 30 years, and they're just the nicest, friendliest people.
00:12:49.000Like, every time I talk to him, like, the guy's from Greece, and he's always telling me about like the difference between the way, you know, people behave there and behave here.
00:12:57.000And just, I get into these cool conversations with him.
00:12:59.000He's a very bright And well-read guy, and just an interesting guy.
00:13:02.000So I love going there and giving them my money.
00:13:05.000But if I go to like Appleby's, I don't fucking know anybody at Appleby's.
00:23:06.000If I was a profession, I'm a professional talker.
00:23:09.000If my brain started to slowly slow down and my brain started not being able to form sentences or not being able to recognize objective behavior problems or confusion of what the topic is I'm discussing.
00:23:25.000If those types of things started happening on a regular basis, and someone came along and said, "Hey, we can give you this drug.
00:23:30.000You know, it's gonna make you..." It's like you're getting old.
00:23:35.000We're going to shoot your forehead up with botulism and it's going to freeze the whole thing.
00:23:41.000So you can't frown and it'll relax it.
00:28:36.000Because then, you know, you weren't sexually assaulted.
00:28:38.000It's like the idea of sex and the idea this person was absolutely willing to have sex with that person, but only because that person didn't exactly tell the truth.
00:28:49.000Well, if you get friends with someone and have them stay over your house and here, man, borrow my car.
00:28:55.000Because you think the guy has a lot of money.
00:28:56.000It turns out he's totally fucking broke and a con artist.
00:29:31.000I mean, look, people shouldn't lie, but I don't know if you can make laws like that.
00:29:37.000It's such a slippery slope because if a guy is dressed well at a nightclub on a Saturday night and he's got a nice watch on, is he now misrepresenting himself?
00:29:45.000Is that sexual assault if he takes a girl back?
00:31:49.000I like the idea behind it that like a craftsman takes this watch and constructs it and all the wheels and gears and everything are all synced up.
00:33:08.000There's a bunch of problems with the watch.
00:33:09.000First of all, no one wants to fucking be completely connected to your shit all the time like that.
00:33:15.000It's one thing about having a phone, but constantly staring at your watch like your Dick Tracy and getting your text messages on your watch.
00:34:58.000That's the case with Bitcoin and altcoins, really.
00:35:02.000Aside from Bitcoin, there are thousands of other coins, and they suck people in because it's one of those things where your mind goes, this could be the next Bitcoin.
00:35:13.000But statistically, it's not going to be, but it could be.
00:35:18.000And most of those things turn out to be bullshit, but there are a couple that are promising.
00:35:23.000Well, it was funny talking to Andreas Antonopoulos yesterday, who's a really fucking interesting dude.
00:35:31.000I'm glad we have him on our side, just the human race, because he would be really dangerous in the hands of the military-industrial, like NSA-type side of things.
00:35:39.000Yeah, well, I'm sure they have guys like him, that level of intelligence.
00:35:43.000But when he was talking about Bitcoin, one of the things that he was talking about was how it's important to recognize that this is not something that you're going to do and get rich off of.
00:35:52.000Like, if you're getting involved in this, you get involved in this because you believe in it.
00:35:55.000And that's essentially what's going on right now.
00:36:06.000On the other hand, it's also likely you or not likely.
00:36:08.000It's possible you can make an astronomical amount because Peter Diamandis talked about this.
00:36:15.000There's a YouTube lecture people can look up called Exponential Thinking.
00:36:19.000And he's the guy who started the XPRIZE Foundation.
00:36:22.000And I realize that part of it is probably just he wants to give really badass lectures.
00:36:25.000But I think that what he's saying is actually true.
00:36:27.000And that's that once you get any technology and make it completely digital, it has to follow Moore's Law to some extent, where you get that doubling of sophistication every year to 18 months.
00:36:38.000And if you kind of ignore the price itself, that's been happening with Bitcoin.
00:36:45.000The sophistication of it is roughly doubling every year in terms of services offered on top of it and things you can do with it.
00:36:52.000And if you follow that out to its logical extreme, it eventually has to be worth a lot more than it's worth now because nobody's really using it.
00:37:00.000It's like a couple million people using it.
00:37:02.000That's less than 1%, well less than 1% of financial transactions.
00:37:07.000If you get up to maybe like 5% or 10%, which is totally reasonable, I think, that number has to be much, much larger.
00:37:14.000Yeah, 10% is not out of the realm of possibility, especially when you consider they're starting to use it on PayPal.
00:37:19.000I mean, as soon as you can use it on PayPal, people are like, ooh, that's pretty easy.
00:37:23.000If I could just go with Bitcoin instead of dollars, you could start, you know, you set up a Bitcoin account and connect it to your PayPal and start buying things.
00:37:30.000Well, the thing was, like some of the remaining critics in the media of Bitcoin were saying, you know, it's great technology, but it's not there yet because it's not ready for the masses.
00:37:39.000And increasingly, that's no longer a valid argument because there are a few companies that have built stuff on top of Bitcoin, which is kind of what people have been saying would happen.
00:38:47.000So those are strangers sending you money because they like your podcast, which right now is still probably a very small percentage of listeners.
00:38:54.000But what about when everybody has one of these things in their wallets, and whenever they hear a podcast they like, they can just spontaneously send you 50 cents.
00:39:00.000Like that multiplied by 100,000 people or 200,000 people, you can tell advertisers to get fucked within a couple of years, you know.
00:39:08.000That's true, but you run into the risk of running into people that one of the things that I like about the fact the podcast is free.
00:39:16.000It's like when if people complain or if there's something they don't like or something they want differently, the price is right, you know?
00:39:23.000Yeah, like, listen, dude, this is how I'm doing it.
00:40:07.000He kept interrupting with the questions, and it was annoying everyone around him.
00:40:12.000And then finally, the dude chimes in, and I go, come on, man.
00:40:16.000I go, we're just trying to have a conversation.
00:40:19.000I mean, I can't keep talking to you about this.
00:40:21.000You know, you keep interrupting in the middle of everybody talking.
00:40:23.000He goes, hey, man, I bought you a fucking drink.
00:40:26.000That's somebody who needs an express hit of LSD or something so they can just see like just a little tiny picture of what an asshole they're being.
00:42:38.000You know, you can't just leap right to president.
00:42:41.000And she had a few signatures, and she was so serious about it.
00:42:43.000And I was like, well, what's the platform?
00:42:45.000And she's like, we're going to eliminate homelessness in Venice Beach.
00:42:48.000And I was thinking, like, that's not really a national platform.
00:42:50.000You know, you're going to become president?
00:42:51.000Be like, we have to address the five homeless people right here.
00:42:55.000So my point, though, is I think that people think that they have to change something and they have to do something because they can see all the problems around them.
00:43:04.000And for some people, that's let's go to a protest or let's run for office or let's, you know, let's just start a petition, no matter how ridiculous it sounds.
00:43:12.000And the sad reality is revolution is silent nowadays.
00:43:16.000Like the people who are online buying Bitcoin and developing these other coins are creating more of a revolution than anybody in the Trader Joe's on a Tuesday.
00:43:27.000Well, I think what they're trying to do is raise awareness, I guess.
00:43:31.000But who the fuck isn't aware that this Ferguson ruling went down, that there's riots in Missouri?
00:44:16.000And definitely it makes it more difficult for cops, you know, if you are dealing with, like say if you're a good cop and, you know, you're dealing with a community that's being totally ostracized because there's been a bunch of cops that came before you that profile black people, that pick them out, that harass them, that are totally racist.
00:44:37.000They're enforcing a couple of laws that just shouldn't exist anymore.
00:44:39.000Like it's weird to me that here in the great God-fearing state of California, I can smoke weed and I consider it to be an antidepressant for me, and I do it legally.
00:46:53.000And when a guy's walking down the street with his hands in his pockets, he might as well be alone in his home until you see something actually suspicious.
00:47:01.000Like he's reaching into his hand like he's pulling out a fucking gun out of his, you know, the inside of his jacket.
00:47:07.000If you don't see that, then shut the fuck up because you're just seeing a guy walking.
00:47:24.000I think that it's a real issue where I think that people, a lot of people are a status in the same way that a few hundred years ago, people were really blindly adherent to whatever the church said.
00:47:39.000And even if the church said something completely ridiculous, like the church said Galileo is wrong, so we have to keep him under house arrest.
00:47:46.000And today the state, this similarly kind of opaque organization, says Julian Assange is wrong.
00:47:53.000We have to keep him under house arrest and his thing and that embassy.
00:47:58.000Like you have somebody who's just a thought criminal saying things that you don't like, but that are actually to some extent completely fucking true, at least in the case of Galileo and in the case of some of the surveillance stuff.
00:48:32.000Well, I think once the time has gone and passed and there's been enough space to reflect, people are going to look back at Maryland WANA legalization very similarly to the way they looked at putting people in jail for being a witch.
00:49:08.000You know, like they're trying to play with these laws that were designed 40 years ago, and the technologies are totally different now.
00:49:15.000Well, one of the things that prohibition does, similar to censorship, that's insidious, one of the more insidious aspects of it, is not just that you have a difference, a differing opinion as to what should and should not be acceptable behavior, whether it's saying certain words or using certain drugs.
00:49:36.000But it becomes a thing where another person has control over you and is preventing you from doing something that you want to do.
00:49:44.000And when people prevent people from doing things they want to do, it builds up resentment and causes conflict and it fucks up a lot of harmonious relationships.
00:49:54.000It's very difficult to deal with the idea of one person having ultimate power over you, especially for something like marijuana or saying certain words.
00:50:05.000If you go to court, okay, you're in court and the guy passes some sort of a ruling on you and you're like, fuck you, your honor.
00:50:35.000And you, so you can't say fuck you to that guy if he does something unbelievably wrong.
00:50:40.000And meanwhile, it's been proven there's countless cases of judges being arrested for fraud, judges being arrested for corruption, masturbating under the robes.
00:50:50.000That thing in Pennsylvania was pretty bad.
00:50:52.000He was sending all these kids to some like kid correction facility.
00:51:15.000It all comes back to the drug war and prohibition because a lot of stuff is just too complicated.
00:51:21.000You can't say that it's purely good or evil and it's gray areas.
00:51:25.000But as far as I'm concerned, the private prison industry, which is a real thing, is as close to pure evil as you can get.
00:51:31.000You have people who are using all the tools of capitalism, which are significant tools.
00:51:36.000And they're using it not to build us a better phone next year or to cure some new kind of cancer.
00:51:42.000They're using it to keep people in cages for exploring their own minds and trafficking in things that are just natural herbs.
00:51:49.000I mean, that's, to me, as close to evil as you can get.
00:51:52.000Well, it's a machine that when you get a big business like that, like whether your big business is Walmart or Target, You know, when they get in trouble for trying to change regulations and laws in order to allow them to make more money in certain ways that might not be legal right now, people look at them like, oh, they're terrible.
00:52:18.000When you get a million people involved in that machine, and you essentially have a million pieces, and these pieces run this organism, this organism, call it target or call it, you know, name any one of them.
00:52:34.000Once they become a machine, they want to continue to extract money in any way they can.
00:52:40.000Once they have that process going, they want to continue.
00:52:43.000And if it just means arresting more people and locking them up in their houses, because the houses make money, for every person in that house, you get X amount of dollars a year.
00:52:50.000The more people you get, the more money we get.
00:52:52.000The more laws are on the books, the more people we'll get.
00:52:54.000So the more laws that were on the books, the more money our organism will get.
00:52:59.000And every one of these corporations, every one of them, whether it's Target or whether it's fill in the blank, Starbucks, they all want to grow.
00:53:27.000So when you deal with a company like Target or you deal with a company like Bob's Prisons or whatever the fuck it is, it's the same thing.
00:53:35.000You're allowing someone to make money doing things.
00:53:44.000And if we can get a better form of money, then even though we're still going to have people doing human things, which involves making as much money as possible, if they're actually using more fair money, then we can track that flow and it can be done in a more fair way.
00:53:59.000Like, I'm pretty convinced that a lot of the shit we see in terms of militarization and all the military-industrial complex and whatnot, it's because of the way our financial system works, that we have the government, to go back to comparing government to the church from a few hundred years ago.
00:54:17.000We have this organization that is beyond the average person's understanding.
00:54:21.000And they're the ones in charge of money.
00:54:23.000And it's very unscientific and it's kind of mysterious.
00:54:26.000And it seems like that money always loops back around and goes to these kinds of organizations like companies that lobby for prison contracts and not to the individual.
00:54:41.000And based on what I've researched, I really think that this whole currency revolution is going to fix a lot of that.
00:54:47.000So we're still going to have shitty problems, but it's going to be a lot harder in 10 years to be a Booz Allen Hamilton or a Lockheed Martin or whatever and do the creepy stuff.
00:54:58.000You'll still be able to do the good stuff, but the creepier sides are going to be just really hard to justify because that money is going to have to come from somewhere.
00:55:06.000Like in the same way that those tipping services are taking off, every citizen is going to have some say over where their money actually goes.
00:55:13.000And that sounds like it's very futuristic still, but it's going to happen, I think, faster than people realize because it's happening, you know?
00:55:20.000Well, if that's the case, it's going to be a weird world to see companies, corporations become accountable and start having to address and adjust.
00:55:29.000And if you force them to be accountable, they're essentially comprised of people.
00:55:33.000And if the people at the top end of the spectrum are not just being forced to act ethically, but are encouraged to and are empowered by doing so.
00:55:44.000Like they get to feel good about the fact that, look, everybody can make a living and not rape the world.
00:55:51.000I mean, just the idea that capitalism has to be this monster that doesn't give a fuck about anything but money, that's only because we've allowed it to be that thing.
00:55:59.000We haven't like strained it, constrained it with ethics and morals.
00:56:03.000And essentially, that's the case with human beings.
00:56:06.000Where do you think psychopaths come from?
00:56:08.000Where do you think murderers and fucking warlords come from?
00:57:07.000But if they have a body camera on them at all hours they're on duty, it doesn't really matter because we're going to have some accountability and that's due to technology.
00:57:15.000And I think with this Bitcoin stuff, it's the same way.
00:57:17.000You're still going to have shitty governments and shitty people and greedy corporations.
00:57:22.000But now somebody can actually track all of it and we can watch it happening in real time.
00:57:26.000And that right there, you know, even if I didn't own any, that right there is enough of an upgrade that I'd be willing to fight for it because what we have right now is fucking chaos and it's not working for anybody.
00:57:36.000It's going to be really interesting to see if something like Bitcoin or ultimately whatever coin it is, if it does become big enough that it has a significant impact on the world.
00:57:45.000Because as soon as that does happen, if the balance starts to sway in that direction and people start hopping on that and that becomes the way people start exchanging goods and purchasing things, it could really be a monumental shift in human culture.
00:58:02.000I mean, really be like the first time ever people have a full say.
00:58:08.000And if people really do get to that state where we no longer need a bank, I mean, that's just what a giant chunk of the economy would be eliminated.
00:58:20.000What a giant chunk of the people that control massive amounts of resources and money.
00:58:27.000There's a whole class of people in New York that are basically professional moneymen and money women, and they will go away and they will be the most unmissed class of people in human history.
00:58:48.000I mean, some of them are great, I'm sure.
00:58:49.000financial guys they're working in a system that is You're still in a slaughterhouse, you know, and that's the system they work in.
00:59:01.000And what makes Bitcoin so different is that it wasn't designed to make money off of people.
00:59:06.000You know, I guess we can't tell what his intentions were, but the way it works, it doesn't need to make a lot of money off of you to send money.
01:00:33.000No matter what happens after Pulp Fiction, he's a great actor forever, you know?
01:00:37.000Yeah, but a lot of actors, they fuck it up towards the end.
01:00:40.000There's a lot of actors, like towards the end, they start sort of, it all kind of fades off, you know, and they start doing like those Robert De Niro movies that he's been doing lately.
01:00:50.000You know, Robert De Niro is doing some fucking goddamn terrible movies lately.
01:00:55.000I watched one of them he did with John Travolta, and I was like, what did they pay him to do this?
01:02:19.000You know, you look at Pierce Brosnan with his shirt off and you're like, this guy, all you have to do is run up a flight of stairs and wait for him.
01:03:16.000Which is pretty impressive because that's coming off just like six months from him doing The Machinist, where he got down to some ungodly low weight.
01:03:24.000Like, I think he was like 140 pounds or something like that.
01:03:41.000It's just, it was okay, but it was not the movie you want to almost die for.
01:03:46.000But you got to think also that a guy that's losing that much weight and essentially starving himself to death like that, like that guy doesn't have much energy to act either.
01:03:55.000That's the catch 22 is like you lose that much weight.
01:05:19.000You know, like, this is the point where people who are not tech savvy and not Bill Gates or Richard Branson need to look into it because those people have already made their beds.
01:05:29.000You know, like Richard Branson, very much a believer in Bitcoin.
01:05:34.000Bill Gates went on Bloomberg and said Bitcoin is better than currency.
01:05:38.000Like that was only part of his statement.
01:05:40.000It was like Bitcoin is better than currency in that.
01:06:23.000So there might be one that comes along a few years from now that's like ethically engineered.
01:06:28.000Somebody comes along and some great minds and mathematicians and economists get together and they come up with a formula that everyone agrees to and they launch it and it's like the fucking Large Hadron Collider where you get 10,000 scientists from 100 different countries working on this one project and they come up with a universal form of currency and essentially figure out some sort of a way to slowly but surely even out the culture's financial distribution of wealth.
01:06:58.000And that's like a huge issue with people, the distribution of wealth.
01:07:02.000Because some people are like, fuck you, man, I earned this money.
01:07:04.000And then some people are like, fuck you.
01:07:06.000The only way you could have that much money is if you've done something wrong or if you found a loophole in a system that was absolutely unjust.
01:07:12.000And once that loophole's been created and once that position's been established, it's almost impossible to even things out.
01:07:18.000This is not an even playing field, especially if you inherited that money or you got in a fucking divorce, you know, like all that kind of shit.
01:07:26.000I mean, that innovation of the money being created through mining is a pretty smart idea because now the distribution is, for lack of a better word, fair.
01:07:35.000And even today, like when I left the house, Bitcoin was at around $380, $385.
01:07:41.000You check it every day at the stock market?
01:08:21.000And I think that in a few years' time, maybe like five years from now, people will look back on this era and go, holy shit, that was insanely undervalued because that's what happened four years ago.
01:08:37.000But if it does happen, I think that it's one of those things where we are not even in the there's a cycle to a product and we're not even in the first stage of that cycle.
01:09:54.000The idea that you give your money to a bank and the bank just hangs on to it and spends it a little bit here and there and loans it out and then keeps as much as they can.
01:10:01.000So if you ever want it back, you can go and get it.
01:10:02.000Well, it sounds stupid because it's been so it's been perverted, you know, in the favor of institutions and not in the favor of individuals.
01:10:11.000So one of these ideas is if you give your money to a Bitcoin bank and they pay you interest, there's still the possibility that that bank can fail.
01:10:19.000And they have to make the money somewhere.
01:10:21.000So they have to loan out things and take risks and they could fail.
01:10:26.000There's a currency, actually a bunch of them, but one of them is hyper and the algorithm actually creates its own interest.
01:10:33.000So unlike Bitcoin where it just sits there, this coin, just by running it on your computer, you earn more of the coins.
01:10:39.000So what they've done is create it so that anybody with just a normal computer can run the software that actually creates more currency for that network.
01:10:47.000Because with Bitcoin, you can only do that if you're running the mining hardware, which is really kind of expensive and obscure.
01:11:18.000What it really is, is they found a way to, This algorithm, just by running the wallet, you're Supporting the network and running those transactions for people.
01:11:33.000So, as a result, you're going to get a percentage of those coins.
01:11:36.000And so, they've just kind of democratized the mining process.
01:11:39.000So, now every single user is essentially a miner.
01:11:41.000And it changes the way you think about money because, with Bitcoin, what Bitcoin did is you no longer need a central bank to issue money.
01:11:49.000And with things like Hyper, you no longer have the need for a bank to issue interest because the coin itself is capable of bearing interest.
01:11:57.000So, you have something that just cannot be corrupted by any kind of Yeah, but who the fuck is using Hyper?
01:12:03.000Is it 1% of the people that use Bitcoin?
01:12:14.000It's used by gamers in online worlds, which the online world thing is becoming more of an economy because in a few years, people are going to have Oculus Riffs on.
01:12:25.000They're going to be exploring around in their living rooms.
01:12:28.000And even though they're just on a video game, everything they do has some kind of real economic value.
01:12:32.000And if you can port that value in somehow, you could do neat things.
01:12:37.000We're going to be in the Matrix inside of 20 years.
01:12:39.000Inside of 20 years, we're going to be just like Keanu Reeves with a big fucking frisbee in the back of our head, going to connect it to a tube.
01:12:45.000You think we'll have to run it in the system?
01:12:47.000You think we'll have full AI within 20 years?
01:12:49.000You can just ask Siri and it's easy to do.
01:12:53.000You'll have like a person, like a robot butler or something like that that hands around, you know, hangs around your house and hands you things and does things for you and schedules things.
01:13:39.000And the idea of AI to me is very similar to the idea, what must have been the idea, the atomic bomb before it was initially dropped.
01:13:47.000I think the idea of doing it is almost so compelling, it's impossible to not do it.
01:13:52.000And in that case, like with the atomic bomb, of course, it was like during the war, and they were worried about the Nazis coming up with it first.
01:13:58.000But if there was no war going on, I'm pretty sure they still would have come up with a fucking atomic bomb.
01:14:03.000They just would have, you know, especially if they were worried that somebody else would have first, even if there was no war.
01:14:09.000But it's one of those things where once you make it, you've made it.
01:15:34.000But we're biological computers that were never designed.
01:15:38.000We have been designed by trial and error and natural selection and genetics and learned behavior patterns and adaptation to our environments.
01:15:50.000But at the end of the day, what they're going to be able to do, if you really do have artificial intelligence, you really do create something that's super intelligent, artificial, wasn't born out of cells and mating and evolution, just something that a human being created.
01:16:06.000That fucking thing's going to have some real different ideas about how to run shit.
01:16:28.000Well, it's neat how there's an article in Wired about this whole AI thing.
01:16:32.000And the article was good until the end when it was like, we need to go on this journey so that these machines will tell us who we are.
01:16:39.000And that's the part where I was like, vomit, because these people who are looking at this singularity is like, this is what we need to get to.
01:16:48.000Like, so they can get personal answers and personal meaning.
01:16:51.000Have they tried first, like, a weed brownie or something, just to be sure?
01:16:55.000Like, I think the answers they're looking for are not going to be spit out by a computer.
01:16:59.000I think they're, like, personal things.
01:17:01.000I don't think you ever get the answers, man.
01:22:03.000I mean, I'm still concerned about those things, but I think that now the math is kind of set in our favor.
01:22:08.000You know, whenever something starts to take off, it happens.
01:22:12.000The surveillance stuff, the real issue is going to be for them that as technology becomes more and more pervasive, it's going to connect everybody to it.
01:22:24.000So it's not going to be possible to shield themselves from the impact of that.
01:22:29.000And in a lot of ways, it's like the internet itself.
01:22:34.000Like when they made the internet, they didn't really foresee what the potential uses of it were going to be.
01:22:39.000They used it as a method where they could send information.
01:22:44.000There was a network that they could connect and send files back and forth to different computers.
01:22:50.000I mean, that was essentially the original idea behind it.
01:22:53.000But along the way, they unintentionally engineered the greatest revolution of thought that the human race has ever seen.
01:23:01.000In my lifetime, I've seen radical changes in the way people view ideas, establish truths, find out information on their phone within seconds, get access to essentially the database of the human race.
01:23:17.000I mean, this is a big, crazy fucking change.
01:23:23.000It happened really quickly, and it happened because nobody saw it coming.
01:23:26.000And I think that what they're doing inadvertently by spying on people, by checking everybody's emails, and by checking everybody's text messages, they're inadvertently creating technology that they thought would empower them.
01:23:40.000They thought this technology is going to allow us to keep an eye on all these no-good troublemakers out there.
01:23:46.000But what they didn't consider is it's eventually going to grow and expand to the point where it keeps an eye on you too, bitch.
01:24:05.000And now everybody knows you're a pedophile.
01:24:07.000And now everybody knows you're a creep.
01:24:10.000Now everybody knows the only reason why you got your job is because you bribed such and such and paid off this and that.
01:24:17.000And you have this really unethical deal with this company that does this to the land.
01:24:22.000And now you're going to be responsible because you knew that they were poisoning those rivers.
01:24:26.000And here's all these children that were born with birth defects that live downriver from this, In these small villages, because they didn't have a say, because they didn't have any political representation, and no one had a say at the fucking meeting when you said it was okay to dump toxic slime into the fucking river.
01:24:42.000You're going to be accountable for all crimes against humanity.
01:24:46.000Anybody who's doing anything that the American public looks at, the worldview looks at, and says, hey, you motherfuckers are profiting off of suffering.
01:24:55.000Whether it's doctors that got paid off money to create laws or to help establish laws, to advise on laws that make no sense that eventually wound up getting more people locked up for drug offenses.
01:25:08.000There's doctors that have been paid off by that.
01:25:44.000Because there's so many people in pain in the state of Florida, and they have to go on shit like OxyCotton, which is dangerous, and you'll shit your liver out.
01:25:52.000Weed, since the time of Jesus, not a single overdose.
01:25:55.000And they're not giving people access to it.
01:25:57.000It's just so in your face corrupt, and you're like, well, what is the other reason for it?
01:27:34.000Like you're denying people access to money, but the people that are doing it, they're cannibals.
01:27:40.000I mean, these people that are the pharmaceutical companies that are so concerned with this marijuana coming in and fucking everything up, they're spending millions and millions of dollars to demonize it.
01:27:51.000They've donated shitloads of money to a partnership for a drug-free America.
01:27:55.000All of that is just a strategy to make whatever they're selling have a longer shelf life.
01:28:01.000If they can keep selling it for two, three, four more years, whatever it is, whatever money grab they're on right now, our studies show we can keep our finger in this dike for up to 16 more months.
01:28:13.000I mean, we have 80% old people, and none of them are online, and they're not Googling shit.
01:28:19.000So let's just tell them that marijuana makes black people go crazy.
01:28:24.000It makes them go crazy and start dancing on white people's cars.
01:28:27.000Isn't that weird to learn that that is actually the basis for drug policy?
01:28:30.000It was a racist doctor in Louisiana in the 1930s and then Nixon being insane.
01:28:57.000Not only did he own newspaper companies, you know, whatever, newspapers, but he also owned these processing mills and these giant chunks of land that were filled with trees.
01:29:10.000And he would chop the trees down and turn them in.
01:29:12.000Well, he was going to have to convert everything to hemp.
01:29:14.000I mean, hemp was going to be the new paper.
01:29:53.000You know, it's like they make particle board.
01:29:55.000It's like this shitty type of plywood and they make it with like little chips of wood from a lumber yard and they glue it all together and press it.
01:30:02.000When they make that shit with hemp, it's way stronger, way lighter.
01:30:24.000When you look at the fact that it's actually an illegal plant in most of the country, even hemp, the non-psychoactive version of it, that it's illegal in most of the country in 2014.
01:30:35.000It's like people are in some kind of trance.
01:30:37.000Like I definitely, like I see the need for laws and roads and everything, but just because something is illegal, you put something on a sheet that says controlled substances, it's completely arbitrary.
01:30:48.000Nobody outside of the United States even recognizes that.
01:30:51.000And historically speaking, people have been around for thousands of years and using this plant.
01:30:56.000So where does that arrogance seep in that you can just put something On a sheet of paper, and suddenly, like everybody's lifestyle has to change, or if they don't, you can put them in a cage.
01:31:05.000It goes back to what we were talking about before.
01:31:07.000It's like this all happened because you had like a disconnect between people and the distribution of information.
01:31:15.000You know, if you stood on top of a platform and said, Hear ye, hear ye, fine people of the town, the king has come forth with the new law, the new law, the states.
01:31:25.000And you say that, and then the people are left in this helpless state, like, fuck, this is the law.
01:32:54.000And it's essentially capitalizing on this leftover alpha male primate behavior system that we have stuck in our heads from when we were just trying to survive.
01:33:06.000We were just trying to get away from predators and get to the highest branches and figure out where the cats couldn't get to us.
01:33:13.000And so the people that lived the longest were the strongest.
01:33:16.000Those are the ones you wanted to follow because they're still alive.
01:34:07.000And it only exists because it's always existed.
01:34:10.000If you wanted to refashion our culture, say if something happened, the White House got hit by a meteor, the fucking penthouse got hit by another one.
01:34:22.000But why would they only hit the, you know, like, look, if that did happen and we had no centralized, it would be pretty obvious what their intentions were.
01:35:19.000Like, after I did something over the summer and had some interesting experiences, one of my old friends said, congratulations on becoming a human being, which I thought was a little patronizing at first, but then I was thinking about it and I was like, yeah, actually, when you're an adult and you hit your late 20s or early 30s, if you haven't had any kind of altered states like that, it's just your loss.
01:35:39.000You can totally live your life out to the fullest without any of that stuff, but you have avoided something that was incredibly beautiful and different and would let you see things in a different way.
01:35:49.000And everybody who has that experience, they come back to Earth, so to speak, as a different person.
01:35:55.000Like if you look online and you search for Steve Jobs' LSD quote, you can see one of the top results is what he had to say about that.
01:36:04.000You wouldn't necessarily guess this unless you read his biography.
01:36:07.000He was a big advocate of psychedelics.
01:37:02.000But I would never be so cocky as to say, I got the message.
01:37:08.000Every time I do it, I feel like there's a new message or a new connection that I'm making or a new level of the game that my mind gets access to.
01:37:18.000Well, here's what's cocky is to be somebody who's never touched any of these things and you go, it can't possibly have value for other people.
01:37:25.000And it's like, well, how do you know that?
01:37:29.000Like you and I were talking before we started rolling Lisa Ling's documentary, which aired on CNN about the ayahuasca ceremonies in South America.
01:37:40.000My mom had it on DVR, and so when I went home for Thanksgiving, she was like, oh, do you want to watch the documentary?
01:37:45.000And I put it on, and I was expecting it to be the typical CNN take on psychedelics.
01:37:53.000And then she started talking about this young boy who died down there.
01:37:56.000That's going to be the focus of the whole fucking hour is this idiot.
01:38:00.000But as it turned out, it was an incredibly fair take.
01:38:03.000And it followed the experience of some Marines who had post-traumatic PTSD really bad, like to the extent that they couldn't be around other people because they were afraid of harming those people.
01:38:27.000Like, I don't see how, if you're one of those people who's like, this should be walled off from everybody, if there's medical benefit happening, why not?
01:38:35.000Well, those people that should be walled off, why?
01:39:14.000You could be doing it at Columbia University if they would take some of these things off of Schedule I. Yeah, if you do DMT, you're essentially doing the most potent form of the drug that's in ayahuasca if you smoke it.
01:39:25.000And when you do that, you don't need to be anywhere.
01:39:28.000You just need to be somewhere where you sit down.
01:40:37.000Because I know Amber Lyon, she had an issue with a guy that was grabbing her while she was under, who was a shaman who had to flee the scene, apparently.
01:40:47.000He had done that to other women as well.
01:40:50.000If you're a woman, you have to worry about that kind of shit, about some creepy dude who's doing weird things to people when they're under.
01:40:57.000And I guess you would have to worry about that as a dude, too, you know, if you got the wrong shaman.
01:41:02.000You don't want to wake up without a couple of organs, you know?
01:41:04.000Well, you know what it is, it's become a popular thing.
01:41:07.000And when it's become a popular thing, there's going to be people that want to capitalize on that.
01:41:13.000These ayahuasca tours, people are doing them and they're, you know, every person's spending thousands of dollars and you're getting, you know, 20 people a trip and woohoo, we're fucking raking it in.
01:41:22.000Well, in the CNN documentary, they were interviewing one of the local white experts and he was saying, don't buy this stuff at the marketplaces because you just don't know what's in it.
01:41:30.000You know, it's some person trying to make money off of you as a tourist.
01:41:34.000That's not the authentic experience, you know?
01:41:38.000But the idea that you have to go all the way to South America for an experience that should be legal everywhere in the world is fucking stupid.
01:42:03.000If you extract DMT from the same plants that make ayahuasca and you do the powdered form of it, which you have to smoke to get into your bloodstream, that's illegal.
01:42:40.000You know, it's like you're making a stew.
01:42:43.000Yeah, it just, it strikes me as so disingenuous how people have to sneak around like that and deal with the, you know, specific the nuances of the law.
01:42:56.000Like, it just shows you how dishonest the government is.
01:42:58.000It should be, like, if you're paying your taxes and you're not staging some kind of insurrection at a Walmart and you're not a threat to anybody, you should be left the fuck alone.
01:43:07.000And that should include, like, you should have access to certain mind-expanding substances.
01:43:20.000There's no way you could stop it at this point in time.
01:43:22.000Too many people are talking about the positive benefits of it.
01:43:25.000They're doing stories on CNN about it.
01:43:27.000And much like marijuana has become accepted slowly but surely across the country, well, I don't care if they do it, just keep it away from me.
01:43:54.000I don't advise it, but when you're talking about things like marijuana or psychedelics or LSD, There's a long history of people that have stories of the positive benefits of these experiences.
01:44:05.000So, to deny those from people and to deny it without any personal experience of those drugs on your own is just ridiculous because you don't know what you're making illegal.
01:44:50.000And it's only allowed because it's been allowed for a long time.
01:44:54.000If we had to start from scratch today and make an appraisal over what is dangerous and not dangerous for society, we'd have to have a serious consideration about prescription drugs and a serious consideration about alcohol.
01:45:26.000There's people with legitimate physical ailments, but there's a lot of crazy people out there hopped up on fucking pain pills too, and they're dying.
01:45:33.000They're dropping like flies, thousands and thousands of them every year.
01:45:37.000You know, we thought 9-11 was a big deal.
01:48:25.000It's weird how much people need to change their state.
01:48:27.000I mean, even we're talking about, you know, ayahuasca being able to help people and psychedelic drugs being able to show people new states of consciousness and new ways of being.
01:48:37.000It's just fucking really weird that human beings need that, that we need to alter our perception like that.
01:49:27.000Yeah, they'll find like berries and things that have been fermented, fruits that are fermented, and they'll drink that and they'll get fucked up.
01:49:35.000Yeah, people have this weird desire to change their state.
01:49:39.000But also, I think that, you know, we look at what that is.
01:49:46.000But what you're essentially doing when you're changing your state is you're using technology.
01:49:52.000You're using information that has been passed on from generation to generation where people figured out techniques to do like a pharmacological intervention on your consciousness.
01:50:05.000We figured out a way to combine this with that, the way to fucking take the grapes and you smash them and then you stuff in a barrel and you let it sit for six.
01:50:15.000These are all like solutions to dealing with the problems of the ego, the problems of mundane consciousness, and the problems of like getting stuck in patterns.
01:50:26.000Where when you, even just getting drunk, getting drunk sometimes will reset a pattern and like make you look at things in a better way.
01:50:34.000Like you could have like a bad breakup.
01:50:36.000You go out with your friends, you get drunk, and you're like, I'll be fine.
01:50:39.000You crash, lie in your bed, your head's fucking spinning, your bed spins, or you wake up in the morning, your head's throbbing.
01:50:45.000But you had a bit of a change of perception.
01:50:50.000You use that shamanic ritual of going out and getting hammered and doing shots with your friends to bond and to have an altered state of perception, an altered state of how you view the world.
01:51:04.000Yeah, I think people have that all the time.
01:51:07.000Like, I actually, I like the inception aspect of doing mind-altering substances, where if you can change the way you think about something, it actually does, this sounds a little trippy, but it changes physical reality because then you start to act in this new way.
01:51:32.000And the example of that that I had recently was going through a TSA checkpoint already extremely high just to see kind of how I dealt with it.
01:51:41.000And first of all, all of that kind of pressure just fades away.
01:51:45.000So when I was like taking out my wallet, I was like sorting through my cards and like just taking my sweet ass time, you know, like totally oblivious of the fact that there's like this machine there that's trying to keep you, you know, just moving forward and everything's so secure and we're, you know, we're screening people out.
01:52:00.000And what I noticed was that this is really all just one big ritual.
01:52:04.000It's like the shaman patting you on the head before you go into the hut.
01:52:08.000You're just trying to make people not be terrified before they enter an airport.
01:52:26.000So for whatever reason, it made the animosity that I had retained go away because I saw that like all of my anger over the inefficiencies of the surveillance state and that stuff, these fucking people asking me to take off my shoes are just workers.
01:52:42.000And in fact, I can have fun with them.
01:54:41.000It's just sad when you see like old people go through it.
01:54:44.000You see like some old dude with a terrible hunch in his back and he's going to get out of his wheelchair and shuffle over and stand there.
01:54:51.000I watched some lady the other day do it.
01:54:53.000I didn't think she was going to be able to get out of her wheelchair and they made her walk through that stupid fucking thing and hold her hands up.
01:54:59.000It's like, do you really think you're dealing with a terrorist here?
01:55:07.000It makes me sad when I see, makes me more sad when I see kids go through it versus old people because they're growing up only knowing that stuff.
01:56:15.000There's a restaurant that I go to, and this actress shows up all the time, and she brings a fucking dog with her, brings a dog to the restaurant, and they have to.
01:56:22.000The restaurant has to accept the fact that this lady's dog is an emotional support dog.
01:57:43.000Everybody shouldn't have to smell your smoke, you dumbass.
01:57:46.000They shouldn't have to breathe this stupid air that you've created by sucking on some chemical-soaked leaves that poison everybody around you.
01:58:54.000They just, in their desire to look cool, in their desire to be upset.
01:58:58.000That's like another thing about smoking cigarettes.
01:59:00.000People love to smoke cigarettes because it almost like justifies their shitty attitude.
01:59:05.000They love to do this like, sit back and look, I'm willing to fucking suck on this cigarette to try to calm me down because we got to get these fucking orders filled out.
01:59:16.000You know, like there's this idea that I'm busy.
01:59:43.000Just the insane pattern that you're stuck in.
01:59:48.000Getting up in the morning, having a couple with your cup of coffee, putting a cigarette in your mouth when you're running out the door.
01:59:55.000Lighting that bitch up, driving around, throwing it out the window as you're driving down the highway, lighting up another one, you fuckhead.
02:03:41.000They're allowed to have all women's classes in places, you know, because, especially, like when you're dealing with exercise, some women don't want to be fucking oggled by some shithead behind them while you're doing downward dog.
02:06:19.000Like she, what she did was she married one of the greatest presidents ever, went through that whole thing, and now she has a job working for the president and would like to run for president.
02:06:29.000Whether it's her or Elizabeth Warren or my thinking is if every country was run by chicks, okay, how much less war and how much less, like, how much less imperialism would we have?
02:08:19.000Sometimes I'll wait around after the show is over.
02:08:22.000I'll take pictures with people and then I'll pee.
02:08:24.000Three hours just doesn't seem like a long time to me.
02:08:27.000That might be the number one flaw of this show, though.
02:08:31.000There might be a time in the future where I decide the best way to do the commercials is to pre-record them and then press play and allow the guests to go and pee.
02:08:42.000Because there comes a point in time where I know these motherfuckers are squirming.
02:10:25.000And that expression, like regular guy, is so overused.
02:10:30.000But what I like about someone like a Bill Burr is that once he's become famous, what he's done is just sort of settle in, be more comfortable with himself, very confident, but worked extra hard.
02:11:45.000I bend over, usually with my back against the wall so nobody does anything weird and grab my ankles and pull my head in between my legs and stretch my entire spine and my hamstrings and it gets a lot of blood flow to the brain.
02:12:37.000Like right now I'm in the new material phase.
02:12:40.000So now I'm trying to expose myself to weird shit.
02:12:42.000That's why I was watching, I've been watching a lot of documentaries and just trying to not even necessarily actively pursue new material as much as try to expose myself to a bunch of things and then ideas will come.
02:14:34.000I see it's really stupid to get super upset.
02:14:37.000I mean, there are ridiculous articles that completely miss the point.
02:14:40.000The fascinating point of this comet being the first place we've gotten a robot to land on, you know, like, and to have this happen in real time while these people are experiencing it and watching the monitors and everybody's going crazy, to focus instead on the guy's shirt and to make entire articles.
02:14:59.000All of your focus is on the guy's shirt seems very short-sighted.
02:15:21.000If you look at all the Twitter accounts of all the women that were really adamant about the fact this guy was an asshole for wearing that shirt, I went to their photos and I looked at all of them and I'm sure they're nice people.
02:15:34.000But if you saw them in the same outfits as those women on the shirt, you would throw up in your mouth.
02:15:40.000They're all people that have given up on the idea of somebody being attracted to them physically.
02:16:23.000Like if we get to a point where people get to a stage of life and they just completely give Up on any gender whatsoever, and they assimilate into this non-form.
02:16:36.000Like, if that becomes an option, and like people start saying, Look, think about all the problems that sexual identity causes you.
02:16:43.000Think about all the misgenderings, all the times where you're supposed to think one way, but you really think another, and it's very confusing and frustrating.
02:16:55.000If you were a non, you wouldn't have to worry about that.
02:16:59.000On a recent survey, 17% of America said, if given the choice to have a completely non-sexual existence, they would be really annoying, though.
02:17:08.000They would be worse than worse than the atheists on Reddit.
02:17:14.000You'd be like, Jesus, these nons again.
02:17:16.000They would just take up whole third gender?
02:17:21.000Well, the concept that individuals are categorized as neither man nor woman, as well as the social category present in those societies who recognize three or more genders.
02:19:02.000But if you're transgender, they're trying to argue that transgender men should be able to use men's bathrooms and transgender women should be able to use women's bathrooms even if they're born the opposite sex.
02:19:13.000And some people have an issue with that.
02:19:20.000It's funny how little I think about things like this.
02:19:24.000If you think about gender, like male and female, once, I mean, obviously, one can get pregnant, one can get the other pregnant.
02:19:34.000Once you pass all that, once you get to this point where you're not having sex anymore, like you're in your 50s or something like that, when you think about what you are, like you're thinking about it based on the fact that you have a vagina or you have a penis, but you're no longer interested in sexual intercourse.
02:19:50.000If you're no longer, isn't that like a burden to be defined by one or the other?
02:20:23.000I'm talking about literally not being male or female, like being neither, being non-sexual.
02:20:29.000And if it becomes an option, and they give you an option where you can walk around and you look like one of those gray aliens that doesn't have genitals.
02:20:37.000Well, I have a couple friends who are women, and if you start to treat them in a certain way, they're like, what the fuck is this?
02:20:44.000Because they don't really fall into the female gender assumptions.
02:20:49.000They're still women and they do things that women do, but they don't like to be treated like anything other than what they are, which is not very feminine.
02:20:57.000What do you mean by don't like to be treated?
02:21:00.000There's a way that certain guys act around women.
02:21:03.000It's kind of like a low-level anxiety because you're seeking out their acceptance because you're like, their acceptance means that I'm sexually attractive.
02:21:15.000So even if they're not going to fuck you, you still want them to like you and laugh at your stuff and you're trying to impress them in a way.
02:21:22.000But there are women who are like, no, we're friends now.
02:22:03.000I think it's neat that a woman is as far from one of us as you can get while still being the same species.
02:22:11.000And that's not at all meant to be a sexist thing.
02:22:13.000It's just like if you look at what you are, your biology, your organs, a woman is having as much of a different experience as possible while still being the same exact species as you and vice versa.
02:22:26.000The male experience is different from a woman's in many ways.
02:23:17.000You just, you click on it and it randomly spits out a bunch of metaphysical words, connected, you know, interconnectedness, quantum, in the quantum level.
02:24:08.000Like if you wanted to be really clear as to what you're saying, but there's part of what goes on with a lot of these spiritual type thinkers, people that talk about the quantum level and all this weird metaphysical mumbo jumbo talk is that keeping things mysterious is a huge part of the hustle.
02:24:26.000Like you have to keep things mysterious.
02:24:28.000Simplifying things is the worst thing you can do.
02:24:31.000When you look at people that are trying to explain science, they're really trying to explain science, look at Neil deGrasse Tyson's Twitter feed, and you'll see a guy who explains things very clearly.
02:24:44.000You never read a Neil deGrasse Tyson tweet and go, what the fuck did he mean by that?
02:26:35.000They're crying that he's actually there with them, and you realize he actually is having this positive effect on these people because they're so lost.
02:26:41.000They like really need him to be that guy.
02:26:44.000People really do, you know, want that one person to be so connected.
02:26:51.000What you should be seeking is your own, instead of seeking this one person who's going to be your guru, who's going to show you the way, seek your own experiences.
02:27:02.000Seek your own enlightening moments, whether it's through yoga, through meditation, sensory deprivation tank, psychedelic study, whether it's through fucking hiking and thinking, just being alone by yourself, whether it's through writing, whether it's through exploring ideas, whatever the fuck it is.
02:27:36.000Like, you don't want to find a fucking master because they don't exist.
02:27:42.000You're going to get roped into, you might find people that are beautiful, that have an incredible grasp of reality, but as soon as they start pushing themselves as a master, run.
02:27:54.000That's somebody trying to sell you a book.
02:28:47.000The son was on Opening Anthony with him.
02:28:49.000And you kind of sense, first of all, A, that he really does love his dad.
02:28:53.000You know, he knows his dad's not a terrible person.
02:28:55.000But you could sense the sort of frustration in, you know, the difference between who his dad actually is and like this menopausal misconception that these, you know, it's a lot of lost women and older men.
02:29:10.000I mean, I say menopausal, male menopausal as well.
02:29:12.000Like these older people searching for spirituality that some will be in the world.
02:29:17.000In the bookstore, they find a stack of his books.
02:30:22.000It's an amazing video because this is a woman who, if you were told you're about to be given LSD, at least you would know it's about to hit you.
02:31:10.000They passed the sweeping psychedelics bill of 1970 that they made a bunch of stuff illegal that wasn't even psychological or wasn't even psychoactive.
02:31:44.000They were in this weird place where the world had changed so much in 10 years, they were terrified as to what the fuck was coming in the next 10.
02:31:52.000They saw these flower power people and all this fucking give peace a chance, all that shit, and they were like, what is going on here?
02:31:59.000This never even existed in the 1940s when I was growing up.
02:32:03.000Here we are in the 1960s, these goddamn hippies, and they're walking through Kent State trying to stop the war.
02:32:09.000What's really kind of scary to think about is thinking about how they locked all that stuff down.
02:32:15.000People think it's bad because of the conditioning.
02:32:17.000You know, it's like you don't want to do acid.
02:32:20.000You don't want to do any of these bad sounding things that make you seem like you're kind of on the fringes of society.
02:32:26.000So only the people who are on the fringes of society start doing these things.
02:32:30.000And you no longer have the captains of industry like Steve Jobs experimenting with this stuff.
02:32:36.000And as a result, you don't have as much inspiring change.
02:32:39.000You know, like we've kind of been caught in a rut up until very recently.
02:32:42.000Until that whole, the whole like Bitcoin, WikiLeaks type era, we were in a span of eight or nine years where it's like very little personal freedom, very little dissent or discussion of what's happening.
02:33:02.000So we were still doing other stuff, but now finally we're getting that explosion of creativity and experimentation that we were supposed to get probably 10 years ago.
02:33:11.000And Bitcoin is one of those things, and like real independent media, like your show is another one.
02:33:22.000And I think, quite honestly, more people are probably doing psychedelic drugs now than have ever before, including in the 1970s and the 1960s.
02:33:29.000I think the numbers are through the roof.
02:33:31.000I think we just are caught up in the middle of it, so we're not totally aware of what's going on.
02:33:36.000But if you include marijuana, and I definitely do when it comes to eating marijuana, I consider eating marijuana a psychedelic drug.
02:34:10.000It's just, it's a different drug when you eat it.
02:34:13.000And it's responsible for a lot of ancient Hindu religious art and religious scriptures.
02:34:20.000A lot of that stuff was being done while they were eating hashish.
02:34:22.000I mean, that was the preferred method of delivery of cannabis for a long time, was eating it.
02:34:29.000I think there's a religious high day, a high day, in India where they just smoke all day long to get in touch with the goddess, one of the goddesses.
02:34:46.000They were explaining it to Duncan, and he was explaining it to me, so I apologize if I'm fucking something up, but there's some yogurt that has marijuana in it.
02:34:54.000Yeah, like marijuana-infused honey or something like that, and they mix it in this yogurt and get fucking blasted.
02:35:03.000And these dudes were explaining it to Duncan, like how important it is to them.
02:35:08.000Sikhs are an interesting race of people or a religious group.
02:35:13.000They get connected to a lot of, you know, ignorantly, to like Muslims and Islamic people, like people that see things with, people see things on people's heads, and they think they're all the same folks.
02:35:26.000But ancient religions that had their roots in psychedelics, there's still a lot of them that are around.
02:35:32.000There's still a lot of them that exist.
02:35:34.000There's a lot of evidence that shows that it's shaped a lot of thinking way, way, way back in the day.
02:35:40.000And if you want to get on that mindset, get into the groove that those people must have been in when they were doing that, if you eat hash and think about what it must have been like to live 3,000 years ago, I mean, you'll pretty much put yourself in a state of mind where you can kind of think the way they were thinking a little bit.
02:36:00.000I mean, you can never erase the information that you have, but imagine what it would be like to live two, 3,000 years ago and to be eating hash and hanging out in India and just tripping your fucking balls off on this big round ball spinning around in space.
02:36:38.000Washington, D.C. is going to be a weird one.
02:36:41.000I don't know when that goes into effect, but that passed recently.
02:36:44.000That's going to be weird for sure because you can have congressional aides go home for lunch, hypothetically get high legally, and come back.
02:37:29.000If people start transferring that to the using it as a commodity, like the hemp movement that we were talking about with clothes and paper and building materials and all those things start happening, if that becomes legal, it will literally transform this entire country.
02:37:45.000When people find out how easy it is for farmers to grow hemp and profit off of it, and we're not talking at all about drugs, nothing to do with the drug.
02:37:54.000Right now, it's only legal in a couple states to grow hemp and manufacture hemp.
02:37:59.000And as far as I know, it's still not like no one's really going for it.
02:38:04.000No big companies are moving in, giving it a shot because it's still federally illegal, which is weird.
02:38:23.000The only thing that could put the genie back in the bottle, it would have to be some sort of a cataclysmic event.
02:38:29.000Whether it's some nuclear bomb goes off or something where they have to completely 1984, this motherfucker, tighten down the screws and cut off the internet, filter everything.
02:38:54.000Even then, people might be like, you know what?
02:38:56.000The reason why this fucking nuclear shit happened in the first place is because we were listening to you assholes.
02:39:00.000Yeah, I think that's more likely is if there was some calamity, a lot of people would just be like, we're going to go do our own thing.
02:39:06.000What do you think of all this Ferguson protests?
02:39:09.000Do you think that this is just because of Ferguson, just because of that decision?
02:39:13.000Or do you think that this is like a sign that people are ready to start fucking protesting shit?
02:39:18.000Because I'm more inclined to believe the latter.
02:39:20.000I think there's a lot of resentment in the United States over the fact that for many of us, it's hard to find honest work.
02:39:27.000But if you decide to go into law enforcement, you can suddenly make a comfortable $50,000 a year in some places just feeding the prison system innocent people.
02:39:37.000And that sounds like some kind of tree hugger thing.
02:39:39.000But if you look at the math, that's actually what a lot of these police departments are doing is sending poor, disadvantaged people, most of them minorities, into prison for owning things that I don't consider to be harmful to society.
02:39:52.000You know, I just don't consider marijuana to be harmful.
02:39:54.000And even some of the harder drugs that people get busted on, it's like, well, that's literally their only opportunity.
02:40:00.000Right, but that's not what we're talking about here.
02:40:03.000No, but what I'm saying is that that distrust, I believe, is connected to the fact that they can't trust these police officers because they can ruin your life if they want to over something very arbitrary.
02:40:14.000So I think that's the backdrop for it.
02:40:15.000And then I don't know all the specifics of Ferguson, but based on what I saw, that grand jury thing, there should be a trial.
02:40:22.000Like there are too many inconsistencies.
02:40:24.000The whole point of a public trial is to figure out what happened.
02:40:27.000And if you're a police officer and that means somehow you're treated differently, that to me doesn't add up.
02:40:32.000Well, I think that when you're dealing with police brutality, there's a lot better examples than this one.
02:41:17.000How about the guy who was in Denver, who's beating the shit out of this guy they had on the ground because he said he had a bag in his mouth, so he's punching him in the face while he's holding him down.
02:41:24.000His pregnant wife comes over to try to stop them.
02:41:34.000And they released it and showed it on television.
02:41:36.000And there's a lot of fucking really horrible shit that cops do.
02:41:42.000It's like the homepage of Reddit every other day.
02:41:44.000It's like you see at least one or two stories that make your heart stop.
02:41:49.000But like many things in this life where you would like things to be completely black and white and the thing that people gravitate towards turns out to be a massive string of contradictions.
02:42:03.000There's a lot of things wrong with this case.
02:42:06.000First of all, the guy, first of all, he was young.
02:43:05.000Well, you know, I don't think he had a taser on him.
02:43:07.000But I think that was part of his thing.
02:43:09.000And he couldn't discharge pepper spray because he was in the car and the guys punched him in the face and he was worried he was going to lose consciousness.
02:43:26.000There's people that say that he had his hands up.
02:43:29.000There's people that say he was charging.
02:43:31.000You know, when you have that, I don't know what to fucking tell you.
02:43:34.000I mean, and I don't understand people that claim they do know.
02:43:38.000When you look at the autopsy, the autopsy statements apparently tend to exonerate the cop.
02:43:45.000The autopsy, the descriptions of the bullet wounds, they're supposedly, from what I've read, obviously I'm not a forensic scientist or anything, but they seem to indicate the cop's story was a little bit more kosher, that he had a shot on the top of his head, which indicated he was charging towards him, shot through his arm in a way that you couldn't possibly do if a guy's arms are up in the air like everybody's saying.
02:44:11.000There's people that say they saw him with his hands up.
02:44:13.000Then the other thing that's a real problem is witness testimony.
02:44:17.000People see things that aren't really there.
02:44:20.000One of the women on the grand jury, the AP story, said that she has racist views, has trouble differentiating between truth and things she has read online.
02:44:32.000And this is actually in the AP report.
02:44:33.000You're like, well, if this is the person, he's one of your witnesses.
02:44:36.000That's a pretty flimsy witness right there.
02:44:38.000There's an interesting Radio Lab story this month, this week rather.
02:44:44.000Radiolab is a really interesting podcast that I listened to.
02:44:47.000And this one is about a, I think it was in Mumbai or Kenya.
02:44:53.000I forget what part of Africa it was, but there was a terrorist attack on a mall.
02:44:59.000And these guys showed up with guns and they shot a bunch of people.
02:45:02.000And there was all these different eyewitness testimonies that were, it was hard to figure out who was telling the truth.
02:45:09.000There was 15 gunmen, there was 10 gunmen.
02:45:12.000Well, they did a forensic examination of all of the video footage from all the surveillance cameras.
02:45:18.000And it turns out there was four gunmen and they were all killed.
02:45:22.000And these people had these different descriptions and they like swore they saw this and they swore they saw that.
02:45:28.000But when you go over all the video footage from all the people entering, all the people leaving, they have this pretty accurate based on like real hard evidence.
02:45:39.000They've got a 24-hour camera system going all the time.
02:45:43.000They captured all of it and they spent hours and hours going over all the events and finding out who's the shooter.
02:45:50.000I mean, they have a grid of the entire play, so they know what happened.
02:45:54.000But yet people have all these different descriptions, you know, of young people, of older people, of people taking off their clothes and assimilating into society.
02:46:02.000They dropped their gun and changed their clothes, and they escaped like a normal person, and that became a narrative.
02:46:08.000And there's a lot of people that believe these stories.
02:46:10.000But when they describe the actual events that they've captured on video to these people, they don't want to admit it.
02:46:18.000They don't want to admit what is actually on video you can see happening.
02:47:02.000If you're an honest cop, that should be the first thing you want because it means your liability is now dropping close to zero.
02:47:08.000If you take somebody's life and it turns out it was justified or you use use of force and you need to, any jury is going to look at that and go, well, you're a cop and you're protecting the public end of story.
02:48:27.000Like, guys in Compton, like, like working the beat in Inglewood, you know, at night doing drug law enforcement or narcotics.
02:48:38.000What'll happen is within a few years, like you'll be watching it and one of the cops will take down some meth dealer and you'll be like, good job.
02:48:44.000The QR code will pop up on the screen.
02:48:46.000Everybody will send him a little bit of Bitcoin.
02:48:48.000And then that cop will be set for the year and it'll become this thing where it's like you want to be a really fair cop because everybody's watching the streams for fun and providing tips to the cops that are not corrupt.
02:49:01.000I mean, this has maybe like a 1% chance of happening, but I think it'd be cool.
02:49:05.000Well, one thing that would be cool is you would know, like, cops that are cool.
02:49:08.000You would know, like, who gets people, you know, gives people fair deals and communicates with people well and doesn't abuse his power.
02:49:17.000Well, I will say, like, every interaction I've had with a cop in California has been positive.
02:49:21.000And I think part of that is that in the back of my brain, I'm not like, oh, this guy could fuck me over if he wanted to because I have weed in my car.
02:49:28.000Now it's like, well, I'm doing everything that's legal and he's doing his stuff and like, cool, you know?
02:49:39.000I'm not at all denying the racial, white privilege.
02:49:43.000The racial profiling that happens with cops, but all I'm saying is living in a state where I'm not treated like a criminal for doing things that as an adult I feel I should be entitled to do that are in my own just an antidepressant basically, why shouldn't I be allowed to do that?
02:50:04.000Well, cops in California definitely have a different take on it, but it's come a long way.
02:50:08.000I have a buddy of mine who's a cop like years ago would joke around about how he doesn't care if it's medical marijuana, still fucking arrest him.
02:50:36.000You're dealing with incredible amounts of violent input.
02:50:40.000You're seeing things that you can't unsee, and you're looking at people in a completely different way.
02:50:45.000If you work in a nightclub, okay, like say if your only interaction with people is you're a bartender in a nightclub, you would think that everybody's a drunk asshole, just maniac.
02:50:55.000You know, if you're a woman who has to wear like a short leather skirt and show up at a fucking honky-tonk bar and deliver drinks, your opinion of men is going to be based on drunks that you see at night in the dark who are grabbing ass and acting like assholes and spilling shit on themselves and then driving home drunk.
02:51:13.000You'd be like, oh, they're disgusting.
02:51:15.000But if you were a chick who worked the front desk at a yoga place, you might meet like really cool, peaceful people.
02:51:23.000You know, it's all about the environment that you find yourself in.
02:51:26.000And if you're in the environment of being a police officer, most of what you're dealing with all day is people that are breaking the law and lying to you about it.
02:54:16.000New York City ends legal defense of stop and frisk.
02:54:18.000So apparently there's just so they dropped the appeal.
02:54:22.000Okay, so what it is, is apparently there's like so much, so many lawsuits and so much bullshit attached to it that they're probably doing it for financial reasons.
02:54:49.000The New York City, they're saying Mayor Bloomberg's administration has sought the appeal to appeal Judge Sharia Shinjlin's ruling, which stated that the New York City Police Department had abused its power, but de Blasio is working to settle the case out of court.
02:55:09.000We believe these steps will make everyone safer.
02:55:11.000De Blasio told a Brooklyn news conference, this will be one city where everyone rises together, where everyone's rights are protected.
02:56:08.000And then we have, you know, a big part of the country where you can, at least in Colorado, just walk into a gift shop and get what you need to feel happy.
02:56:17.000And nobody's going to racially profile you and fuck up your life.
02:56:59.000Like, hey, everybody, can we all keep it together for six months?
02:57:02.000Because if everybody can keep it together for six months and we all make a pact that no one speeds, no one litters, no one does anything the cops can arrest you for, no one breaks a law for six months, what the fuck do the cops do?
02:57:15.000I mean, if we can do that for a day, if just we could do that just for a day, police departments across the United States would fucking panic.
02:58:01.000They bust people for drugs where they have fake drug deals, where they put people in jail for significant amounts of time for drugs that never existed.
02:58:10.000They thought they were going to buy and sell these drugs.
02:58:12.000They get them on conspiracy to buy and sell drugs.
02:58:23.000That mentally challenged guy that they arrested a few years back in Dallas was a perfect example of that.
02:58:29.000They gave this guy a fake bomb, set it up, convinced him that you're going to take this bomb and you're going to fucking blow this building up in the name of Allah.
02:58:38.000And they got this mentally challenged guy, set him up, got him to do it, talked him into it, gave him the fake bomb, and then when he went to detonate it, they arrested him.
02:58:48.000But to play devil's advocate, to play national security state advocate and be the homeland type character, that kind of person who's that dumb or that easily influenced, they're going to bounce around and come up against something ugly at some point.
02:59:21.000And that's one of those areas where I think some of it is going over the line, but I think they have to do that too.
02:59:27.000Well, I think the idea of the wounded antelope, that it's better to take them out quickly before the crocodiles get them at the water hole, there's some merit to that.
02:59:42.000You know, it's better to get the fake radicalism than the real thing.
02:59:45.000Or figure out a way to let this poor bastard know that he's stupid and don't listen to everybody because they're going to try to get you to blow up a building and they're going to lock you in a fucking cage.
02:59:54.000I mean, that guy right now is in a jail somewhere, and he probably will remain in that jail for a long fucking time.
03:00:01.000And he probably was super excited about this new thing that he was involved in because finally his life had some meaning.
03:00:08.000Because without that, without this spiritual connection to this jihad that he was about to commit, like, what kind of a connection did he have to his own existence?
03:00:17.000I mean, he might have been dancing through life completely aimlessly, always depressed, always sad, and then all of a sudden he's a part of something exciting.
03:00:30.000Oh, I mean, you know, one thing that I recognize, and I'm not, obviously I'm not a religious person, but one thing that I do recognize when I watch, I mean, even religions that I have no experience in at all, like Islamic mosques when they're giving these speeches and they're talking about the value of Islam, that Islam is the truth and everybody's, you know, agreeing and, you know, and saying, you know, Allah waqba, they're all like yelling it out.
03:00:57.000And there's this feeling of camaraderie that's very attractive about that.
03:01:02.000Even if you know it doesn't make any sense.
03:01:04.000Even if it's Scientology, even if it's Mormonism, whenever you've got a big group of people that agree on something and they're all fucking completely committed to it, you're like, oh, I want to be in with those guys.
03:01:16.000Like there's a part of you that wants to be in that group because there's a lot of energy in that group.
03:02:01.000You can be the person in the Middle East who has Twitter on your phone and Google News, and you can see the limitations of being fed this angry radicalism based on some stuff that happened a thousand years ago.
03:02:34.000It's like a slow, realistic version of a homeland episode.
03:02:38.000So they're in Hamburg, Germany, and he's this counterterrorism spy, and they're tracking these Muslim radicals through Hamburg and trying to build a case against one of them.
03:02:49.000And so it really is like, you see the more maybe realistic or maybe less glamorous side of counterterrorism.
03:02:56.000And it's like, at least based on this movie, it's a lot of hanging around mosques and trying to figure out who the bad guys are.
03:03:02.000Yeah, I would imagine there's a lot of that if you're trying to infiltrate, if you're really trying to become a part of their movement.
03:03:07.000But anyway, point is it's a really good movie and it gets you to see like just how fucked it is that these young guys get into these mosques and stuff and then become influenced by charismatic personalities and can do a lot of damage.
03:03:23.000And it's the pattern that's been established.
03:03:25.000The pattern that's been established is one of violence, of suicide bombings, and when that pattern becomes established, that's what people sort of accept.
03:03:34.000If that existed in Christianity, Christianity was overwhelmed with suicide bombings and people really believed they were going to heaven.
03:03:42.000If they blew themselves up in a marketplace, you'd see similar behavior.
03:04:16.000If you saw that on paper, if somebody proposed that as an episode of a television show, that there's these people that we run into and they're a tribe and they have a plate they stick in their lip.
03:04:25.000Why would they put a plate in their lip?
03:04:26.000Well, because the bigger the plate, the more cows they'll be worth when they get married.
03:04:52.000You know, we've talked about this before, but the semen people of New Guinea, where they force young boys to ingest their semen because it's going to make them grow stronger and healthier.
03:05:03.000They call themselves the semen warriors.
03:05:18.000They take the son from the mom at an early age and the new male companion, whatever it is, starts butt fucking them and mouth fucking them.
03:05:28.000And that's how they tell them they have to do this in order for them to grow strong.
03:06:52.000It's like they're being forced to the overwhelming amount of information that's coming out.
03:06:56.000They're being forced to address it now in mainstream publications.
03:06:59.000The CNN piece on ayahuasca, Sanjay Gupta's pieces and his complete 180-degree turnaround on marijuana.
03:07:08.000What's weird is when people who are critics go, well, you're not really connecting to some global universal mind.
03:07:15.000You're just ingesting the substance that allows the two hemispheres of your mind to communicate better.
03:07:20.000And I go, if that's the case, why aren't I allowed to use that?
03:07:24.000If it's something that's improving my cognitive ability or improving my mind's ability to figure out deep-seated challenges, what's wrong with that?
03:07:38.000And on top of that, the people that say, you're not doing this, you're just doing that, unless you have personal experience in heavy-duty breakthrough-level psychedelic experiences, unless you have one of those under your belt, you really don't know what you're talking about.
03:08:08.000Well, that's what it looks like to you, and you can't see.
03:08:11.000When you get your eyes fixed, come to me and I'll explain to you why I know what blue looks like.
03:08:15.000I'll explain to you what a chicken is.
03:08:17.000I'll show you what a giraffe looks like in real life.
03:08:20.000But right now, you're just guessing, motherfucker.
03:08:23.000Can't figure out what a giraffe looks like with your fingers.
03:08:25.000You got to put a lot of data together.
03:08:27.000You try to get a blind man to draw a picture of a giraffe after you let him fucking handle this giraffe, fondling in a giraffe dick and reaching up to the giraffe, like getting on a fucking stepladder, reaching all the way up to the top of the giraffe, petting it.
03:08:39.000Like, okay, draw a picture of the giraffe.
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03:10:26.000All right, my friends, we'll see you soon as far as stand-up comedy dates.
03:10:30.000There's a whole shitload of them coming up, including Phoenix, Phoenix, Arizona at the Celebrity Theater with Ari Shafir and Tony Hinchcliffe.