Comedian and writer Greg Proops joins Jemele to discuss his new book, The Smartest Book in the World, as well as his new stand-up comedy show on Comedy Central's Late Night with Seth Meyers. They also talk about the best way to remember a piece of paper, and why we should all write things down on pieces of paper instead of typing them into a computer. Plus, they talk about universal cords and why you should have your own signature on everything you use. Also, they debate whether or not you should be able to write something down in cursive or not, and how important it is to actually write it down. And, of course, they answer the question, "What s the worst thing you can do with a pen and paper?" and much, much more! Thanks to our sponsor, Caff Monster Energy Drink Co. for sponsoring the podcast. Don t forget to rate, review, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, and share the podcast on your favorite streaming platform! If you like what you hear, share it on your social media, and tell a friend about it! Cheers, Cheers! Timestamps: 3:00 - The smartest book in the world? 4:30 - How to write a book? 5:00- What's the smartest thing you've ever written? 6:30- How many cords you use? 7:15 - Why do you write something? 8:40 - What is the best? 9:15- What do you need to write? 10:00 11: Can you write a better than someone else? 12: What s your favorite thing? 13:00 | How do you have a pen? 14:40- What are you going to do with your signature? 15:40 16: What is your favorite color? 17:00 +16:20 - What s the best thing you write with your pen and a pen & paper? 19:10 - Can you do it better? 22:30 21:40 | What s a good idea? 26:30 | What's your favorite sign? 27:10 | Can I write better than that? 25:00 // 15:00 / 16:00/16:00 & 17:20 | What do I write with my pen and pen & stamp?
00:01:20.000Some guys just like to just go up and just keep going up all the time and just going over the material in their head like sort of Jay-Z style.
00:03:55.000I thought, I don't really write letters in cursive like your mother did because she went to school before, but I learned cursive, oh my God, when I was...
00:04:02.000Eight years old or nine years old, you know?
00:04:04.000Well, the way you write is always like, it's always distinctive so much so that it's a segment in television shows and movies and plots.
00:04:12.000You know, they bring in the handwriting analysis guy.
00:04:15.000A giant loop on the P and a giant loop on the G means an outstanding personality and the double O's are, you know, blah, blah, blah.
00:04:50.000Willie Mays I have a couple of autographs of.
00:04:52.000I didn't get them personally, but they were given to me.
00:04:54.000And Willie Mays learned handwriting in the 30s in Alabama, where he grew up, I'm sure, at his little school, right?
00:05:00.000So his writing goes the other way entirely.
00:05:02.000Like, it doesn't look like Willie Mays.
00:05:04.000It looks like ween, ween, ween, like all going one way.
00:05:06.000And I looked at it for ages until I figured out, oh, he's holding it like this and going like that, with his W. He's making a W completely backwards to the way you'd make a W. But Babe Ruth, who went to school in the early turn of the century in Baltimore, and he went to an industrial school where the priests and the nuns beat you and stuff.
00:06:03.000Yeah, I mean if you think about what your right hand can do with drawing things and writing things down very quickly with excellent control of your fingers, excellent articulation.
00:08:03.000The difference between doing your business on it, because we all got to tweet and go on Periscope and shoot each other and be the monkeys, but when you find yourself just going through Twitter, just looking for something that's interesting, you're like, I could be building a home out of bricks or...
00:10:36.000I would like to say, you remember when people used to use it like, if you had, you know, at Red Band, it would be, is going to the doctor today.
00:11:47.000The issue I have with all of these things is they're all fun and they're all great and they're all groovy and the reason why I have a career is because there's an internet.
00:11:56.000I just find that everybody trusts technology too much in so much as the people who make it and the people who are overwatching us, they are not benign.
00:12:06.000Whoa, is this some dark overlord type shit?
00:12:08.000No, we're not going to go to the room full of 11 men and the Council of Five or nothing like that.
00:12:12.000I'm just saying, you know, be mindful of all the stuff you tape.
00:12:16.000You know, people just tape every intimate moment of their lives and all of a sudden, just like in the movie with Cameron Diaz, you're on the cloud and...
00:12:24.000No, it's getting worse and worse for me because I've been staying at home a lot more or trying to.
00:12:29.000And so I have webcams where they're recording me play video games and stuff, and I'll forget that I have that on.
00:12:35.000And then next thing you know, a day later, I'm sitting there talking and I realize that, oh, I'm just talking.
00:12:42.000Jamie could just be sitting there listening to me right now.
00:12:45.000Because it's so easy to do with Xbox Live or all these other programs.
00:12:50.000Yeah, that's a new thing, and it's going to transition probably into something even more invasive.
00:12:56.000It's probably going to be like we were saying before, like some sort of a Google Glass thing, like through a ski helmet type situation where, you know, that's what they're working on with that magic leap, right?
00:13:08.000It was either Magic Leap or one of the other ones that they're working on where they they can spin Objects in the air in front of them and stop them and move them and stretch them out like you could open like Minority Report.
00:13:57.000Anytime you have an advertisement for anything that might even be potentially remotely dangerous, those advertisements should all be illegal.
00:14:05.000I've been watching advertisements lately on late night television.
00:14:11.000They have all these advertisements about drugs.
00:14:16.000All these ask your doctor commercials.
00:14:18.000And I'm like, these commercials are terrifying.
00:14:20.000And then when they start listing the side effects, and sometimes the side effects is death or suicide, and you're like, really?
00:14:26.000Dude, the side effect from this one thing for zits, the entire, I don't know what the medication is, but it was a genuinely disturbing video.
00:16:38.000I mean, that girl has a perfect skin structure, or a bone structure, and beautiful, clear skin, and she's dressed fashionably, and the music is playing great, and her hair's blowing just so in the wind where it looks like a casual summer day.
00:16:52.000And you're like, God, if I just took this medication, I could hang with these bitches.
00:16:56.000But no, you don't look like anything like them.
00:19:24.000What's the actual number somewhere in the neighborhood with the phone now?
00:19:28.000It used to be hundreds of ads a day with just walking around on TV. But with the phone, I think it's up to, what, three, five thousand a day or something like that?
00:19:35.000The ads that you have to make your way through?
00:20:03.000Imagine if you're a young girl with zits, and you might have an unfortunate looking face, and you just always felt like you're an outcast, and maybe if my skin was clear, then I wouldn't be scared to go to the gym.
00:20:14.000You know, maybe those girls at school would be nicer to me, and I'd have, you know, more popular friends.
00:20:30.000It would be like that black, red diarrhea.
00:20:32.000Of course, it would be a diarrhea situation.
00:20:34.000So an acne medicine is giving you internal bleeding.
00:20:36.000Well, obviously the FDA approved this, but knew that within a certain group, however what a number is, whatever they feel the number is safe, that many people out of that number, it's okay that they get these things.
00:20:48.000As long as you say consult with your doctor, that probably adheres to some code within the...
00:20:52.000God, that's one of the most fascinating things about us biologically is the fact that you could take something and it has no effect on you at all.
00:21:02.000And I can take the same thing and die.
00:21:04.000Like, you know, things that people are severely allergic to or...
00:21:10.000Allergic reactions even to medication.
00:21:11.000I mean, how many times you ever been asked if you're allergic to penicillin?
00:22:19.000Because the lack of good antibiotics to treat any kind of post-wound infection or any kind of...
00:22:26.000What terrifies me is how nature's trying to keep up with antibiotics, and they have these MRSA infections that people get, where they're hospitalized for months.
00:22:35.000I mean, some people, they catch MRSA. MRSA is like medication-resistant staph something or another.
00:23:25.000Well, do you know, some people that use them all the time, they get so crazy that they kill all the resistance in their hands to other bacteria.
00:23:32.000So they get warts and shit all over their hands.
00:23:35.000It's like really common for people that become addicted to that stuff.
00:23:39.000It's not a bad idea every now and again to give yourself a little antibacterial in the hands.
00:23:44.000A little of that stuff, that gel that smells like alcohol.
00:24:13.000Yeah, everyone is an anal germaphobe loves it because they just they're every two seconds I've known some people and they're always you know That's a psychological thing right right it's like ODD or what are they called OCD yeah OCD not ODD so don't you think that that almost like fuels it like having That's what I mean.
00:24:31.000It's absolutely being validated that the thing you're afraid of is true.
00:24:35.000You know, I'm afraid of touching anything or touching anything.
00:24:37.000Like, when I do my podcast, I talk to everyone in the audience before the show for a while, and I shake everybody's hand, so I'm communicating whatever disease anyone's giving me to everyone.
00:25:14.000How bizarre is it that there's a concern that you might get an organism that's attached to another person, and that organism will threaten the very ecosystem that your life depends on.
00:25:39.000How many times have you shaken all these hands after a show and then fingered a girl without washing your hands and now that is inside of her?
00:26:19.000They never touch them with alcohol, and really they should, now that I think about it, maybe I'll go Todd Glass on everyone and have them change the lighting and sterilize the things.
00:26:27.000Well, I think worst case scenario is these things, these foam things.
00:26:31.000Right, because this is just a receptacle.
00:26:32.000We're spitting into that fucking thing, and there's like growing all kinds of weird funky shit.
00:26:37.000I bet if we had a microphone and we looked at what's actually going on in the foam of this microphone, I'd be fucking terrified.
00:27:00.000I think for spit, it's got to be pretty fresh.
00:27:04.000You can't use a hundred-year-old spit.
00:27:06.000If somebody sucked on a flute a hundred years ago, I really doubt they'd be able to get some DNA off that.
00:27:11.000That's a good question, and I can't answer it, but off what you're just saying, I was in Philly a year or two ago, and I went to Independence Hall, right?
00:28:35.000To me, that brings the past back instantly, because it's like the genuine article.
00:28:40.000If someone made a painting 500 years ago, like you see a da Vinci or something, he certainly went...
00:28:45.000You know right and had paint on his face and and touched with his hands and put the brushes and You know got up to it and stood back from it and you know You're seeing the completed article, but the process that went into it is like any plastic art Yeah, isn't it the immediacy of them making it?
00:29:03.000It's kind of fascinating how once you give something a name like DNA Yeah, and it becomes a normal part of your discussion it you you kind of forget How crazy just being able to lick something and leave fucking DNA is.
00:29:21.000The idea that you're a stamp, like you're sending a bill, and you lick it, and you seal that stamp.
00:29:28.000That has your fucking genetic markers on it.
00:29:31.000And they can identify you really well, like down to like in the high 90s, right?
00:30:47.000Funding for programs, things like that.
00:30:48.000There's a fundamental, huge flaw in the system.
00:30:51.000And the fucking fundamental flaw of the justice system is there's winning and losing.
00:30:57.000And when people get involved in winning and losing, they cheat, they lie, they steal.
00:31:02.000They want to win, because winning becomes more important than anything else.
00:31:06.000Especially the good guys, because the good guys want to win.
00:31:09.000Winning becomes more important than even justice and truth, because along the way, they develop this attitude, like, look, if I'm going after them, they're already fucking guilty of something else.
00:31:23.000Especially when they're dealing with like young kids that might have fucked up a few times in a juvenile home or went to jail like they'll they will literally cause crimes like Give people Sentences that they don't deserve lock them up with fucking planted evidence like this is not it's not an Uncommon thing that only existed in a movie and if we saw it in real life we'd like right if we saw someone planting a gun on a murder suspect or a murder victim and We wouldn't even think twice.
00:32:16.000And then when it gets abused, like, you know, now we've seen, you know, the last six months, the last two days, the police state, the overfunding, the militarization, the absolute lack of code when it comes to black people or the underclass,
00:32:34.000Now we see it, though, more and more, and now we're highly, keenly tuned into it, especially since Walter Scott got aced on videophone horribly a couple of weeks ago.
00:33:15.000And even if you're a great guy and you're the perfect guy for being a cop, you always have to be on guard of some fucking asshole trying to shoot you or jumping on you and punching you.
00:33:25.000When you're arresting people, you have to always be on your...
00:33:28.000Complete red alert because we've all seen those videos of cops that were like pulling people over and then they got shot or pulling people over.
00:33:36.000Have you seen the one where the woman pulls the guy over and the guy beats the shit out of the woman in front of his daughter and his daughter screams, stop daddy, stop!
00:33:43.000He knocks her out and beats the shit out of her when she's unconscious.
00:33:48.000It just shows you, first of all, you can't have a lone woman by herself in that scenario.
00:33:54.000I mean, everyone wants to believe in equal rights and There's no physical equality that just doesn't exist.
00:34:01.000And if you're going to be a woman and you're going to be in a situation where you have to arrest a big physical man, you can't let them get anywhere near you, ever.
00:34:08.000You can't let them get anywhere near you.
00:34:09.000You have to make sure that everybody that's around you, whether it's other cops, they know what's going on, they know where you are right now.
00:34:18.000Because it's highly likely that this guy's going to make an irrational decision to just beat the fuck out of you.
00:34:23.000And if you don't get to your gun in time, you're done.
00:34:38.000Well, how do you do it every day and measure the justice every day?
00:34:42.000And then when you see how shit the system is and when you see how even the people you're arresting have to live amongst, their life's not so hot.
00:34:50.000Oh, the people you're arresting, you feel sorry for them.
00:34:52.000You're at both ends of the spectrum because on the one hand, like when you saw that Ferguson report, the mandate from the city was you go out and you get those fines because that's how we generate income in this town.
00:35:03.000You go out and arrest people, you pull people over for license plates, lights, Any old minor for being black, just whatever.
00:35:43.000You put them in poisonous danger with shit that's not tested or no body armor or poorly armored vehicles that get blown up by IEDs and stuff, and that's our fault.
00:36:09.000In essence they do, but can you imagine if they were put into that situation where not only did they have to go and fight wars, but they also had to ticket these people.
00:37:04.00060, and then if you don't pay it in like two weeks, it immediately jumps to like 150. You don't pay that for like a week that goes to like 300. We used to throw them in our glove box.
00:38:27.000I found out the other day, I was going through my mail, and I had almost thrown it away, that I guess when I was in San Diego, I went on one of those highways that I guess was a toll road, but they don't even tell you, or they might have told you, but it's real easy to just get on and get off and not even know you're on it.
00:40:01.000So, like, you really didn't have to pay those tickets.
00:40:03.000Like, when you would get one of those tickets and it would say, you ran a red light, we won a hundred bucks, like, they were getting the money.
00:40:08.000Like, the money wasn't going to the state, and everybody's like, hey, what the fuck are you doing?
00:40:13.000Like, you can't have a private company that also profits from it.
00:40:16.000I mean, the state must have gotten a piece of the action.
00:40:18.000Sure, but it was easier for them to just farm it out.
00:42:02.000My wife and I always say it like when...
00:42:04.000You know how Hollywood is so, especially young actresses, they get all drugged up, they go crazy, the next thing you know you see a picture of them, and then they're in the street upside down, and then they stay here.
00:42:16.000Or maybe they go to rehab for a month, and we always go, move to France.
00:42:21.000Move somewhere where they'll appreciate you.
00:42:23.000You're still a star in Europe or whatever, no matter what.
00:42:25.000And other countries, they don't look at it the same way.
00:42:28.000But why stay here under the scrutiny of TMZ and all the people who you know?
00:42:44.000I'm like, when Michael Jackson, when they shit at the fan, he like stayed and said, you know, and you think, He went to another country, man.
00:42:54.000Which is really weird, because you're going to a slave state, dictatorship, you know, emirate that's run by royal people who have, there's no, like, you know, democracy.
00:43:44.000You can't go through life learning about the trials and tribulations of being a human being amongst other human beings on earth if you never feel like you're one with all those people around you.
00:44:15.000These guys from RT, first of all, those people from RT, that's where Abby Martin started out, and they have fucking balls.
00:44:23.000I mean, people dismiss RT because it's Russian-owned, but their reporters do some ballsy fucking shit, and they were there while all the protests were going on for the young man.
00:44:41.000It was a young man that was in police custody, and there was some discrepancy of how he died, and he died from trauma, and they think that the police beat this guy to death.
00:44:53.000So there's this huge, huge backlash, because people can only see so many black dudes get shot by cops, or choked by cops, or beaten by cops, or shot Running away, unarmed.
00:46:17.000How about that person when she's got to go to college when she's 18?
00:46:21.000What fucking horrific PTSD does she have from growing up in the worst sections of Compton or Inglewood or Watts?
00:46:29.000That's why education is more important to spend on than law enforcement, but they don't.
00:46:33.000What's even more intense than that, it has to be taken to a totally different place.
00:46:38.000Because it's not education in terms of like, come in, sit down, we're going to teach you about George Washington and his fucking cherry tree.
00:46:45.000It's got to be this completely invasive, supportive system that eliminates ghettos.
00:46:54.000If you don't eliminate ghettos, and I don't mean make it so that they gentrify it, no one can afford living in it, because that's how they eliminate ghettos in Brooklyn.
00:47:00.000I was going to say, it's There's been plenty of ghettos eliminated in a lot of towns I've lived in.
00:47:05.000New York City has a huge problem with that.
00:47:08.000Because New York, there's so much, the real estate is worth so much that they could just come in and there's an apartment building that's like old and shitty.
00:47:16.000That space is worth ungodly amounts of money.
00:47:19.000If they can convert it to high-end apartments, they'll just disappear just like that.
00:47:48.000This giant community of people that denies it's a community.
00:47:52.000We have all these methods that we use to keep ourselves apart from each other, whether it's Republican or Democrat or Islamic or Jewish, all these little teams that we choose to.
00:48:03.000But at the end of the day, we're all just one giant race, one superorganism.
00:52:05.000There's a giant issue that this winning and losing shit of arresting people and punishing them and trying them and They found guilty or not guilty, and a yes or a no, and a green or a red.
00:52:20.000And that game, no one in that game wants the game to stop.
00:52:24.000Well, it's for profit, because the prison system's for profit.
00:52:28.000And then on top of it, there's no equity at all.
00:52:31.000All the bankers, you know, to make a huge analogy, all the bankers and everyone who ruined the economy and everything, none of them did any time, and no one ever laid a hand on them.
00:52:39.000But people who commit small crimes and petty crimes are always getting busted and thrown in.
00:52:44.000Ian Edwards has a brilliant joke about that.
00:54:06.000Don Barris is like the master of debacle.
00:54:09.000If you want to see something absolutely ridiculous happen in the crowd late night at the Comedy Store, if Don Barris is on stage, it's likely to happen.
00:54:17.000He's the master of that, becoming the ringleader of the crazies.
00:54:22.000He's just so comfortable with crazy people, too.
00:54:25.000That's awesome if you have the will to do that.
00:57:02.000That's the Roxy where Sam Kinison filmed his HBO special, and it's right next door to the Rainbow Bar and Grill, which is like, you want to go back in time.
01:01:34.000It can be fun, but I think when you base the night around it, and everything becomes we have to do more and more and more, and then at the end of the night when there's no more, and then it's a sad time, that's always the sad part.
01:01:46.000It's not a positive drug that way, whereas pot, at a certain point you're going to pull the ripcord because you're just too high or you fall asleep or we all go to Taco Bell or whatever it is, you know.
01:04:36.000He made it sound like this wonderful experience that you needed to try, and then afterwards, the big thing is like, you could just go to bed, no problem, you could just go to sleep.
01:04:43.000I'm like, how the fuck is that possible?
01:04:45.000I guess, because, I don't know, because is it a completely, I don't know what the properties are, but I'm assuming since it's a numbing agent, it's an analgesic or an anesthetic, almost, so really, what it's getting stepped on with is crappy speed and other shit, the additives is what,
01:06:46.000The older I get to, I don't want my heart to explode or anything.
01:06:49.000Well, the real issue, they say, is with the way they process cocaine from the coca leaves, but that coca leaves themselves are not only not dangerous for you, but really common and kind of healthy.
01:07:05.000I mean, they have, like, phytonutrients, and there's just some properties to them.
01:07:09.000Certainly, they've chewed it for thousands of years in South America.
01:07:11.000But it rots the holy fuck out of your teeth, son.
01:07:15.000It rots the holy fuck out of your teeth.
01:07:17.000You see those dudes that chew those coca leaves all the time?
01:07:19.000It might be because they like doing coca leaves so much they don't ever bother brushing.
01:07:23.000Yeah, they probably don't have really good dental care if they're chewing on...
01:07:27.000That's how they built the Ink Empire, because it's a mild stimulant, and you just stick it in your cheek, like chew, and you just keep it in there, and it allows you, because it restricts the blood vessels, to work at higher altitudes.
01:07:40.000They were able to build massive cities and inconceivable architecture at precarious fucking lofty heights all through the empire for thousands of miles.
01:07:53.000And it was certain that they're all the workers.
01:08:20.000I mean, if you were climbing in the Andes and you wanted to, I think, feel better and not have altitude sickness, the cocaine alleviates that.
01:08:30.000For us, who are land-bound, we don't live at 8,000 feet or whatever.
01:09:11.000Because you're not supposed to have sugar in that form.
01:09:14.000It's supposed to come attached to fiber and watermelon and apples and all these different fruits that we normally get sugar from.
01:09:21.000It's supposed to be, there's like a relationship that these nutrients and the various aspects of food all have to the actual piece of food that they come from.
01:09:30.000When you just extract one good Part of it like sugar or cocaine like you're taking it out of the whole Symbiotic plant system.
01:09:42.000It's very interesting though because isn't that like the story that you know, I just read this book I can't remember what it's called six six drinks in the history of the world and six drinks And they talked a lot about coca-cola in it.
01:09:54.000I bet it is When the brain scans, sugar is addictive.
01:09:57.000It's the refining of everything and the extracting of everything that's changed the world, right?
01:10:03.000Sugar is a giant moment in human history when sugar becomes important because then rum becomes important, then slavery and taking over the New World.
01:10:13.000The whole history of the New World is built on sugar.
01:10:43.000Ingredient in human history and and people still say it and now I'm getting boring But I was just gonna say when they used to pay they paid people in salt You earned salt and you're worth your salt the reason what do you know why they do it?
01:10:53.000You know what salt the properties of salt was good for it absolutely replenishes your body when you're you know working out and I guess the sodium is some sort of No, go on, tell me, because I'm just fumbling around.
01:11:04.000No, those are all good, but the big one is a preservation of food.
01:11:17.000Yeah, so they would literally layer these fish fillets in stacks of salt.
01:11:23.000Like, they would put salt, put the fish down, cover the fish with salt, put a fillet down, cover that with salt, and they would be fine, like, for days.
01:12:16.000You could have it on your shelf for a couple of weeks, which in the ancient world, you're buying food every day, you're taking your bread to the baker, the baker breaks it, you bring it back.
01:12:24.000You know, all of it has to be done on the day, right?
01:13:10.000Yeah, you'd really like it, man, because he breaks it down, and he shows you the salt mines, and there's pictures of the salt mountain, and it is un-fucking-believable.
01:13:18.000I mean, we were talking earlier today about not having a smartphone.
01:13:23.000What a big leap that would be to go back to a flip phone.
01:13:26.000But look at the fuck people fought over salt.
01:14:25.000Because usually they went around India and the horn.
01:14:28.000And so, that's how valuable it was, and that's why...
01:14:34.000Portugal and Spain were such giant powers because spice and then when Spain took over the New World there was a mountains of gold one in South America and one a mountain of silver I mean a mountain of silver that they made the Indians and killed them all doing it dig out and all the gold and silver in Asia is still in circulation is like Spanish gold Whoa.
01:15:15.000That's why Spain is a had money and why giant and then comes comes the the whatchamacallit the Reformation and after the Inquisition and now Europe becomes Europe and they all start fighting each other and It's it's really truly amazing what a small amount of time that is in terms of like in Perspective with the human history human history just even perspective with everybody wants to go to the beginning of the universe 13.7 billion.
01:15:43.000Oh God But we don't even have to go that far.
01:15:47.000And then human beings have been around just a small amount of time, and in that small amount of time, the amount of change that we've seen just in 200 years is so mind-blowing.
01:15:57.000And we're talking about, like, going back to flip phones, being like some big, big fuck-up.
01:16:26.000That's kind of the good thing about now, is now you get to see people, what the things you thought we lost, like, you know, blacksmiths and saddle makers, are back and making stuff, you know?
01:16:36.000Like, everybody's relearning all these old crafts, how to be a...
01:16:39.000No one knows how to, like, you know...
01:17:39.000I'm not going to go to a Revolutionary War village to watch them churn butter or nothing.
01:17:43.000I don't like super stupid old school making shit with your hands, but I love watching people make shit that I don't even give a fuck about.
01:20:39.000It's interesting that, and they have relationships with the makers, like guys who play with certain guys' cues.
01:20:44.000You have this really close friendship with this guy who makes your cue.
01:20:47.000But it's interesting to me that no one's been able to figure out, in all the years that we've been manufacturing things, something that's better than something that just grows in the ground.
01:21:08.000Like, when I put my hand on this table and I feel the grain of it and I move, like, this is like, I think this table makes a better conversation.
01:22:25.000Like, if you could be in a grow room, that would be the ultimate conversation.
01:22:29.000If you could just do a podcast, a video podcast from a grow room without going to jail or without getting your place stormed by people that, you know, know there's a million dollars worth of plants there.
01:22:39.000You're already getting me put in jail with all your questions today.
01:22:45.000Like, if you could go to one of those Warren Buffet-owned grow rooms in Colorado with, like, five indoor acres, they have, like, five indoor acre ones that this dude I know works at.
01:23:05.000That is the beginning for the whole country.
01:23:07.000The whole country is going to become that.
01:23:09.000The whole country is going to become just like Colorado because they're going to get addicted to the revenue, and then they're going to get addicted to the behavior.
01:23:16.000The revenue is one thing, but you go to Colorado right now, you have less drunk driving accidents.
01:24:55.000They bought a fucking margarita machine, and they were using this margarita machine at a cop party.
01:25:02.000So you used the drug money of you thought someone was selling drugs, you took it, and then you bought a fucking margarita machine with this.
01:25:59.000Enraged when I see that I want to beat the fuck out of that guy for doing that.
01:26:03.000It's just it's so horrible And I think if that was your son or your daughter some 20 year old college kid who gets their heads stepped on by some fucking cunt Well, they would steal the money And then they would say that the charges are pending and never file.
01:26:17.000So that three-quarters of a million dollars that they stole from your pot place, and you're making 20 bucks an hour or whatever working there, and they're stepping on your fucking neck and zip-tying your wrists until you have cuts on them.
01:28:39.000Looking out the window of her office, denying the reality that it's going on right in front of Yeah, and not only that, denying all the medical studies that have all been completed, turned in, peer-reviewed, observed by everyone on the internet,
01:30:04.000Having a person like that testifying on TV, if you don't have a guy like Jared Polis, a guy who just grills her and makes her look like a fool and doesn't do it in a...
01:30:11.000I mean, he's not being an asshole about it.
01:30:45.000But when they had to redact all that shit from the Hope and Change, or whatever the fuck his website was, about whistle-ballers, When people, after the Edward Snowden thing, were like, hey man, do you remember what you said?
01:30:56.000That you were going to honor them and they were an important part of the process and blah blah blah.
01:31:36.000I mean, it's just, I don't know, I find it a lot more...
01:31:40.000Acceptable and progressive than building casinos and bars everywhere.
01:31:42.000Well, you know, when you see the ebb and the tide of society, and you see, you know, at one point in time, the Republicans were the really open-minded progressive party.
01:32:00.000And another thing that you're seeing today...
01:32:04.000Really, lately, it seems like over the last few years, is the people who are progressive, probably as a reaction to all the assholery that they had to deal with as a young person, or what they believe is the slights and the...
01:32:19.000Misappropriation of money for war and all the different shit that they're They should be right about they should be angry about but now they're the aggressive ones when it comes to policing speech when it comes to like Shielding people from anything that might make them uncomfortable right fat shaming There's a lot of crazy talk and really aggressive about it comes from the left now It's like they're the school marms You know,
01:33:57.000My point is, if he has a mental illness, and the worst case scenario of the mental illness is he wants to be a woman, and then he becomes a woman...
01:36:28.000And if you judge everybody by the standards that are really super progressive, Complainers will judge people by it, because there are certain things that people will write blogs about where you go, Jesus fucking Christ, will you stop?
01:37:57.000I mean, yeah, but we're all, you know...
01:38:00.000There's always going to be the perfect looking people, and everyone will always want to look like them, and then there's the whole question of...
01:38:41.000When Peter Dinklage sees a fucking Amber Crombie and Fitch ad with a dude with a six pack, you know, with long legs and long arms and shit, I bet that freaks him the fuck out, too.
01:38:49.000But it doesn't mean Amber Crombie and Fitch should stop showing twinks.
01:42:29.000Yeah, and they're durable as fuck, too.
01:42:31.000We eat like five different kinds of potatoes here, but in South America, obviously, where the potato was invented, there's thousands of strains.
01:43:09.000I mean, the Incas in South America and the American Indians in Mezzo and North America invented the horticulture and the husbandry, or whatever you call it, of potatoes and corn.
01:43:24.000Corn was not an edible product until the Indians started planting it and making it into something they could eat.
01:43:39.000And so it's an extraordinary feat of agriculture and the fact that potatoes and corn Basically saved Europe from starvation in that same time period we're talking about when they were able to bring all that back from the new world Europe wasn't doing so hot with the nutrition right around then They didn't have a lot of vegetables that kept and a potato is like a perfect Vegetable right yeah,
01:44:04.000you could actually live on potatoes almost to the exclusion of everything else and not die because it has every vitamin in it It's really rich in vitamin C and potassium too.
01:45:05.000Well, that's when you find out how dangerous California's drought is.
01:45:08.000Because we always associate the heartland with growing all of our vegetables, but that's not really the case.
01:45:14.000The heartland is where we grow all the corn.
01:45:16.000We grow a lot of different shit, obviously.
01:45:18.000There's a lot of soy and all sorts of different things get grown.
01:45:22.000But California's responsible for a huge percentage of the tomatoes, a huge percentage of the almonds, a huge percentage of the blueberries, avocados, strawberries.
01:48:23.000The water, like, literally all went away.
01:48:25.000It is the craziest thing to look at from a satellite photo, or from an aerial photo, rather, because you realize where the shore used to be, there's some pretty distinct versions.
01:50:40.000Especially people that live underneath those, because there's a couple in Burbank where it's like that, where you park your car on that street and you just hear that hum and the sizzle and you live right underneath that?
01:51:01.000We better get those trees for every one of our outlets so we don't have a surge, man.
01:51:06.000Well, what's crazy is that Tesla, a long fucking time ago, when he was in that battle with Westinghouse, Tesla wanted to make electricity available to everyone, like radio.
01:52:20.000You know, Tesla was a guy who was interested in electrics, electronics, and thinking things through and figuring out machines, but biologically, he was pretty fucked up.
01:52:50.000And I haven't seen anything about it since.
01:52:52.000But that he wrote something about destroying, in quotes, his sexuality.
01:52:57.000Like he had been in some sort of an affair with some woman and it was so distracting and crazy that he might have decided to get castrated.
01:54:02.000They cooked an elephant on TV in front of everybody for no reason other than to show that their competitor's method of delivering electricity was inferior.
01:54:34.000I mean, it's one thing if you got an elephant that's storming through villages and stomping the shit out of people and killing them, but then you gotta wonder what the fuck makes that elephant so mad?
01:54:43.000So here they hit it with the electricity.
01:55:47.000This is the only saving grace to those people that hunt those elephants in other countries, is the villagers, who most of them have no meat at all.
01:57:13.000And you could have, like, when they have deer sheds, like if you go to a forest any time, like near the spring, when deer start losing their antlers, you just find them and pick them up.
01:57:24.000Nobody got hurt, and you can take them and people use them, they make jewelry with them and shit, and they do all kinds of different things with them, but it's this hard, bony fucking thing that grows in a year.
01:57:35.000So if you see a moose, and they have this enormous fucking paddle, these paddles on the side of their head, I mean, they're huge!
01:57:42.000They grew that this year, and they're gonna grow a new one next year.
01:58:16.000And when they get like six and seven, they get bigger and bigger and bigger.
01:58:21.000Because as they get older and they get larger and more dominant because they continue to eat, their horns actually get, their antlers actually get bigger.
01:58:29.000So they can show, bitch, I've been around for a long fucking time!
01:58:35.000You know with this huge like that's the thing that scares off the other males like look at this motherfucker.
01:58:39.000Yeah, yeah Yeah, and that bizarre Wow, yeah, so if elephants were like that man, they would be so valuable You know it'd be so endangered if moose like if moose antlers were valuable the way elephant tusks were moose would probably be mostly wiped off the face of the earth But instead they're valued as like a renewable resource because it's more valuable to keep the moose alive so that they have more moose and eat them then just Kill them all and cut off their fucking antlers.
01:59:07.000It's sad as shit, man, seeing that rhino that just went extinct?
01:59:14.000I mean, there's one male left and two females, and the male won't breed, and the female is too, apparently she's, the one female is, she's too weak to accept him on top of her.
02:00:34.000There's a famous one they brought to Europe in the 1400s, and Ger did an etching of it, and it's inaccurate because he'd only heard about it.
02:00:43.000But it was a very famous painting, and it was a very famous rhino, and they turned it all around Europe, and then it finally croaked.
02:00:47.000But everybody had to see it because no one had ever seen one before.
02:02:40.000Well, this area of the Congo where they filmed these rhinos, they had heard about it from the locals, and they were like, what the fuck are they babbling about?
02:02:50.000And then they finally found them, and it took a while before they realized that the climate had shifted, and these plains animals were just stuck, because almost immediately, this...
02:03:03.000Rainforest just grew around them over the course of like, you know, a few thousand years or a few hundred years even.
02:04:08.000You've got to go after that little frog.
02:04:09.000So that thing there's um these videos we watched on one of the last podcasts of Deer eating birds and people didn't know that they didn't know so you just now told me know until like this year like this is like these to think that like You know these were these birds that would die the ground nesting Birds or birds that fall out of trees that they would get eaten by like coyotes and stuff see all those birds coming after the deer and It's because the deer is eating a bird.
02:04:35.000And you can see it like really clearly as they get close to it.
02:04:38.000The people who were filming this were trying to figure out what the fuck was going on.
02:04:41.000And then as time went on, they realized this deer is following this bird around trying to bite it.
02:04:50.000See, it's chasing it, and then finally when it gets it, it bites it and starts fucking up this bird, and it's chewing it alive, and it's crazy to watch, man.
02:04:58.000I mean, it's not just accidentally stumbling upon this group.