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00:01:06.000They're close to this guy, I think his name is Dr. Peter Welling, the doctor's name that invented Regenikine, which is that blood spinning procedure that Kobe Bryant, all these athletes go to Germany for.
00:01:17.000He's invented some way to rejuvenate your body's production of collagen.
00:01:22.000And they're going to shoot it into old ladies and they're going to look hot again.
00:02:36.000I went to do push-ups today and I used to be able to bang out 50 push-ups because I'm skinny as shit and I did gymnastics my whole life and so I just had a good muscle to weight ratio.
00:02:50.000I fucking struggled to do 15. I was shaking.
00:10:33.000While this guy's doing the documentary, he's doing a documentary around prescription drugs and how many people get prescribed them and how insane the business is and how over-prescribed they are.
00:10:41.000While he's doing it, he has to get hip replacement surgery and he gets hooked on pills.
00:10:50.000And he's got to, like, kind of cover it up, and he's got a hot...
00:10:53.000He's embarrassed, because, like, he's trying to put together this documentary, and he's hooked on pills, and then finally, in the documentary, once he becomes clean, then he just comes clean in the documentary and explains...
00:12:53.000New guidelines for prescription to reduce abuse and overdoses.
00:12:58.000So they're urging doctors to try to do something about this because they're finally starting to realize.
00:13:05.000And I think a lot of it is just because of all these documentaries and all these internet blogs that are coming out and YouTube videos and all these news stories where people are really kind of grasping the magnitude of this problem.
00:13:20.000I just don't understand why there's not one database where you can't have multiple doctors writing prescriptions for the same patient.
00:13:27.000I mean, if you go to CVS or Rite Aid, there should be a listing of any time you were specifically for opiates.
00:13:48.000I took one time when I had my knee operated on, my first knee operation, which was a patella tendon graft, which is particularly painful because they take a piece of bone out of your shin and a piece of bone out of your kneecap.
00:14:02.000And it's attached to a strip of your patella tendon.
00:14:06.000Your patella tendon is a large tendon that's in the front of your knee.
00:14:09.000It's this one that goes from your knee down to your shin, right here, the fat one.
00:14:14.000And what they do is they take a slice out of that, and then they open you up like a fish, and then they use that slice, and that replaces your ACL. So that becomes a new ACL. Because this patella tendon graft is really big, and it's really strong.
00:15:03.000He looked like a classic dirt bag from a fucking Beavis and Butthead cartoon.
00:15:08.000He had long hair that would go down like this and one of those mustaches that curled all the way down to the bottom where his chin connected.
00:16:08.000It's interesting what 50 bucks is when you really need it versus 50 bucks when you don't need it.
00:16:15.000Money loses, it doesn't mean anything.
00:16:18.000That's why I never understand someone that works incredibly hard but they're already insanely wealthy and And they're doing something they don't enjoy doing.
00:16:29.000They're constantly trying to conquer and build a business and keep going and going.
00:16:34.000But they already have billions of dollars and what they're doing is making them miserable.
00:16:39.000Not only that, take it to a next level where you got a guy like the Koch brothers.
00:16:55.000So if you're thinking about a legacy for your great-great-grandkids, they're going to live in a 140-degree Earth with no water, surrounded by fucking, you know, killers.
00:17:35.000I wonder how much of it is blown out of proportion and how much of it can be mitigated by new discoveries and new science and new technology.
00:17:53.000Did you know that Rockefeller made, there was a conspiracy to get people to use oil instead of alcohol, and that most combustion engines work on alcohol.
00:19:33.000Well, back then, man, they were all jockeying for control of this emerging industry, and they didn't see anything bad about just trying to control the market.
00:20:21.000And he just chases down the female and she's running full clip but she's got the cub with her and the cub can't run that fast and finally he grabs the cub and eats it.
00:20:43.000Not a problem with the movie, but a problem with what comes out of that movie and these fucking, what would you do for a Klondike bar ads and these things that anthropomorphize animals.
00:20:53.000Here it is right now if you want to watch it.
00:20:56.000See, that's the mother and the cub running, full clip, and there's the big daddy running behind it.
00:21:02.000Right, so we're just going to watch it on the screen.
00:21:05.000Can you go full screen with it, though?
00:21:07.000I did, and it's not going for some reason.
00:21:54.000They kill each other and cannibalize each other.
00:21:56.000Oftentimes when you hunt bears, if you kill one bear and you leave it to go back and get a truck to pull it out of the woods, when you do that you come back and other bears will be eating it.
00:22:09.000But my point was that, like, people have this idea of what these wild animals are, that, you know, they live in harmony, in nature, and it's chaos.
00:24:20.000Well, they found these mountain lions in San Francisco.
00:24:23.000You know, because California doesn't have hunting laws for mountain lions, I mean, they have laws against it.
00:24:29.000You cannot hunt mountain lions, which wildlife biologists are seriously against, because when you can't control predator populations, they just breed and breed and breed until it becomes too many of them.
00:24:40.000Like, they don't have any predators other than man.
00:24:42.000So, you know, people could say, well, let nature balance and take its...
00:24:46.000Well, that means they move into your neighborhood and eat your friends.
00:24:51.000And we think we're not because we have the internet and a fucking cell phone, but the reality is they don't give a shit about that.
00:24:56.000So anyway, these mountain lions that they've been killing, because what they have to do is when they invade neighborhoods and start killing dogs and threatening people, they have to kill them.
00:25:04.000Well, they killed over a hundred of them in the last year.
00:25:20.000There's only a small percentage of deer in their bellies.
00:25:25.000Did you ever see any cats around your house?
00:25:27.000I've never seen a cat around my house, but I saw a cat that killed my dog in Colorado, and I saw another mountain lion in Santa Barbara on a fucking residential road.
00:27:47.000Yeah, it looked like a bunch of college mascots, but then some of them, then you saw the dark side creep in, like some of them had little studded collars on, because apparently at night shit gets a little weird with some of them.
00:27:59.000You know, there's holes in the costume, and there's some furry sex going on.
00:28:45.000They all have like, the ones I saw out of costume had like just those pale, puffy faces that look like they're just, the only light they've gotten is off a computer screen over the last 10 years.
00:29:45.000I mean, yeah, it's retarded, but no one's hurting them, or no one's getting hurt.
00:29:48.000I'm jealous of anybody that finds, like, you've always had things you're passionate about, you know, whether it's taekwondo or, you know, mixed martial arts or whatever.
00:29:56.000And it's like, to find something in your life, no matter what it is, that gives you a community and gives you something that you kind of grow in over time.
00:30:26.000Because there's a lot of people that made the different choice and got really obsessed with something else that led them away from their family.
00:31:24.000But it just made me think, like, the saddest times sometimes are when you're with your family, and for whatever reason you're not feeling connected.
00:31:31.000You're just feeling like they're talking, and you're pretending to listen, but you're just in your head thinking, why don't I feel close right now?
00:31:39.000And, you know, most times you don't feel like that, but once in a while you do.
00:31:42.000And those are, like, the saddest moments in my life.
00:31:45.000Because it's all right there in front of me.
00:31:53.000I mean, obviously the guy's dead, so there's no way we could ever really know what his motive was or what the real big factor was that pushed him over the edge.
00:33:34.000But when it happened, I remember we were in the cafeteria, and somehow or another someone had a boombox or something like that, and they were playing it in my junior high school.
00:33:41.000It was when I was living in Jamaica playing.
00:33:44.000My junior high school was super sketchy.
00:33:48.000We'd lived in a very bad neighborhood.
00:33:51.000And the Jamaica Plain has kind of become gentrified now a little bit.
00:33:55.000But when I lived there, like in 1979, 1980, I guess is when I lived there.
00:34:06.000When I was, I guess, like I said, I was 13. And there was a kid in my class that was 17. You're not cheating off him during a quiz.
00:34:17.000It was weird like he was there for the first couple days and then he left and then he quit again.
00:34:22.000He just never never stuck it out with school and he was there for a little while and he bailed and I was like and I remember that the feeling of sadness and I remember a girl in my class was kind of a hoe.
00:34:35.000She was she was 16 and she's in the 13 year old class, right?
00:34:39.000And she asked the teacher She goes, if you're making out with someone and you breathe out and they breathe it in and they breathe out and you breathe it in, do you need any more air?
00:35:49.000He was a very interesting guy because he was very calm, but people didn't fuck with him.
00:35:55.000He had this weird air, but he had a beard, which I always thought was weird.
00:35:59.000It was back when people didn't have beards, like a hipster beard.
00:36:02.000And I remember he said, if you really want to understand how strange the world is, just go outside and And look up and understand that there's no end to that.
00:38:30.000I think that's one of the things that they're starting to realize now when they look into subatomic particles and they try to understand what's the relationship between atoms and the universe itself.
00:38:40.000And I think as you go deeper and deeper and deeper, it starts to resemble the universe more and more.
00:39:13.000And one of the ways they have formulated to try to make it make sense is this concept of dark matter.
00:39:20.000Yeah, and they say with Einstein's theory of relativity that it is the black matter that has an effect on the way light bends and the way gravity acts upon things.
00:39:33.000Physicists are listening to us right now going, what are these fucking monkeys talking about?
00:39:44.000Yeah, it really is intense because when I am feeling down, I do start thinking about the big questions just to shrink everything the fuck down.
00:39:54.000Well, I don't know if the word God is serving us very well.
00:40:07.000And also, it's got so many meanings that connect to religious fundamentalism.
00:40:13.000It's like ideologies that human beings have obviously created.
00:40:17.000Women wearing burkas and all kinds of...
00:40:20.000Wacky shit that's connected to these concepts of religious ideology and you say the word God You immediately sort of you have a bridge to these fundamentalist ideas.
00:40:29.000Yeah, and they're not that good Yeah, I think it's almost like again going back to my Catholicism I guess it just became a replacement for that that concept you know, but you're right I think that there's a there's a lot of stigma attached to it and you know trying it Trying to get somebody to agree with your God is the thing that's always fascinated me.
00:40:51.000Like, why do you need a bunch of people to convert and kneel next to you and all have the same beliefs?
00:40:57.000Why can't you just have your understanding and be peaceful with it?
00:41:00.000That's how you know that veganism is a religion.
00:43:23.000They were trying to assess his assets because they were suing the shit out of him, all these people that he tried to fuck or whatever the hell he did.
00:43:31.000I don't want to get sued, but they found he had a warehouse filled with, like, Rolls Royces and Bentleys and shit, and you know what his explanation was?
00:43:40.000He was going to start an automotive engineering school for children, and that's why he got these cars.
00:44:05.000You know, yoga is, it can be spiritual, but it can also be like, I used to go to this place called Yaz in Venice Beach, and it was yoga and spinning together.
00:44:14.000So you'd get on a spin bike for, it was perfect, one hour, 30 minutes on a spin bike, and then 30 minutes of like power yoga.
00:44:20.000And you walked out with like a great cardio workout, stretched out, and they didn't utter a word about anything spiritual, because it was sort of like the antidote to like Bikram, where they're trying to Right.
00:44:32.000But I miss that little vinyasa at the end.
00:44:36.000I like a little bit of like a meditation that's led in a very simple way, because it's like you're already in that almost sub-REM state, and then physically it's just so much easier to go into that mental, like you've really earned that meditation.
00:45:17.000Sometimes twice a week, but mostly once a week.
00:45:20.000But I'm going to try to do three times a week.
00:45:22.000What I'm going to try to do now, because I've dedicated myself to this new diet, and I talked about it a lot.
00:45:29.000And one of the things I found out is if you talk about something like on a podcast, and you say, hey, for the next 60 days, I'm not going to have any added sugar, no grains, no this, no that.
00:45:38.000You just do it, because you've already said it.
00:45:40.000And then other people hear it, you know, the people that listen to the podcast, they go, oh, I'll fucking try that too.
00:45:44.000And then I hear about all the benefits these people are having from the diet, and then I'm like, all right, well, I'm going to just...
00:45:49.000Because if it was just me, if I said, oh, I'll give this a shot, and then I pass by someplace with a chocolate croissant, I'm like, fuck yeah, give me that.
00:49:17.000I usually give myself like, I like to get there like 20 minutes before, and I'm like, this might fuck me up, you know?
00:49:23.000But I really attribute that to just a, there's a balance that you get from doing something like that where you're exerting yourself extremely hard for 90 minutes.
00:49:57.000I used to take it up in San Francisco.
00:49:58.000I don't know if it was Bikram back then or it was just hot yoga.
00:50:02.000But when I tried to leave the studio because I felt dizzy and nauseous, everyone in the class was like, no, you can do it.
00:50:09.000They really encourage you to break through.
00:50:12.000It's like a team effort to get through it.
00:50:14.000There's a lot of support in that because if you're by yourself and you've experienced that same feeling, you're usually like, oh, stop right here.
00:51:06.000Well, and my friend explained to me, I didn't realize this, but that each pose is working a different organ that you're cleaning out, you're compressing.
00:51:16.000You're not compressing any fucking organs.
00:51:27.000I mean, I'm sure there's some sort of benefits to your organs, you know, because there's benefits to all your muscles, your circulation is pumping, you know, you're sweating like crazy.
00:53:33.000It's like sometimes I was just on the road in Addison and you know these guys from Texas, they come up and they're like, they got on the crisp polo shirt and the fucking slacks with pleats and tassels on there.
00:53:46.000Yeah, and they're real crew cut and they're fucking built.
00:53:49.000And this guy comes up and he right in my face like grabs my hand.
01:02:20.000I mean, it wouldn't be a good idea if I had another fight after that, but it wasn't like I had ringing in my ears and headaches and I was in, like, serious pain.
01:02:28.000But I had other times, just from sparring sessions, where I didn't get knocked out, where my head was pounding for days and days.
01:03:28.000You can pistol whip the others, and they'll go down, and you just know they're going to stay down until you're clear, until you're out of there.
01:03:35.000When was the first time you saw someone actually get knocked out?
01:03:41.000How many people have you seen get knocked out in real life?
01:03:53.000There's something sickening, just absolutely sickening about the sound of an unconscious person's head bouncing off the concrete.
01:04:01.000Yeah, I saw this kid when I was about 17. I was at a bar in Tarrytown where I grew up, and this kid...
01:04:08.000He was on stairs, this bar that had an upstairs, and this one kid was coming up, other one was coming down, and they had a beef, and the kid above just fucking clocked this guy, and he fell backwards, hit his head, he was in a coma for six months.
01:04:57.000You know, it's like you got all these tough guys that go out to the bars and then, you know, hey, we have a fist fight and, you know, it can end very fucking tragically very fast.
01:05:06.000Some comic at the Comedy Store got knocked out.
01:05:09.000I want to say about a year ago, maybe even less.
01:05:14.000He was on a motorcycle and he pulled up to the Comedy Store and he parked his motorcycle and I guess he kept it running and some guy yelled at him, hey man, shut that fucking thing off.
01:05:25.000They were having a conversation over by the patio.
01:05:56.000You're having a conversation on the street and you have to stop for 20 seconds because some fucking asshole has got a muffler that he jacked up to make that much noise.
01:06:48.000Because people hear it and then they avoid you.
01:06:50.000Because, like, part of the problem with motorcycle accidents, like, Say if you have one of those Japanese speed bikes, they don't make that much noise.
01:06:56.000So you gotta vroom vroom when you're next to people so they know you're there.
01:07:00.000Because people are fucking texting and drifting.
01:07:02.000How often do you look over and you see people texting?
01:09:20.000I think, like, well, the thing what I was saying is, like, for the amount of, look at that, 32 grand for a Mustang GT. That's fucking crazy.
01:09:29.000The amount of power that those things have and how good they run and how good they drive, it's a bargain.
01:09:35.000It's an amazing bargain because they have more than 400 horsepower.
01:12:24.000Yeah, white guys that know a lot about sports.
01:12:26.000But I feel like if you know, you understand a lot about, like, MMA, and that's one of the things where I like it.
01:12:32.000I'm like, man, I feel like you can make money.
01:12:35.000Like, if you're one of those crazy people that goes on mixedmartialarts.com and you're there every day and you know all the fucking stats, you know.
01:13:51.000So Rhonda has a short-range attack, short-range attack, and on top of that, her grappling is a limited attack because she only likes to tie up with the upper body.
01:14:01.000Rhonda doesn't take anybody down by shooting on their legs.
01:14:03.000So I knew that Holly fighting Misha, she would have a totally different type of opponent.
01:14:09.000First of all, Misha's not going to charge at her.
01:16:40.000Because the thing about that is you do it in the moment and it's funny and then all you're thinking about is the two dudes that are sitting behind you the whole time for the rest of the match going, are they going to do that again?
01:18:30.000I don't know what they were trying to do.
01:18:31.000Some people can't just leave a good thing alone.
01:18:33.000I think they thought they were going to have a successful restaurant in the front for some reason, and it didn't pan out, and the restaurant didn't work out, which most restaurants don't.
01:18:41.000They say like 90% of all restaurants fail in the first year.
01:18:57.000That's where I did Ari when Ari first started his This Is Not Happening, the show that was on last night on Comedy Central, which is on every week now.
01:19:06.000Before Ari had that television show, he started that off in the improv lab, I think, I want to say like six years ago.
01:20:41.000So I won't do the bit, but I'll tell you the story, which is basically New Year's Eve in Portland.
01:20:46.000The hotel is like a horseshoe shape, so I'm on the 10th floor, and I look across into a room, and the curtains are open, lights are on, chick is on her back, legs up, and this dude who's ripped is fucking pounding her!
01:20:59.000And I'm just standing there looking at him like, this is the greatest thing that's ever happened.
01:21:05.000I still have my bag in my hand, and I'm just transfixed.
01:24:00.000Like, did I just walk into a Bikram yoga studio?
01:24:02.000It'd be nice if, like, you had an expiration date, you'd work up to that date, and everything worked awesome up until that date, and then into the great abyss.
01:25:26.000If I would think there's one thing you want to pay for that costs a little extra, it's business class.
01:25:32.000It makes a flight from exhausting and aggravating to relaxing.
01:25:37.000If you're in first class, you don't want to get off the fucking plane when you land.
01:25:41.000You're sitting there, you're watching a good movie, you've got some soft leather wrapped around your dirty asshole, and you've just got a little mimosa.
01:25:48.000You're talking to interesting, wealthy people.
01:26:10.000Yeah, there's some people that you sit next to, it's great, but you can't choose.
01:26:13.000I was on the fucking plane the other day, headed back from Vegas, and there was a drunk guy that was doing, air quotes, business on the phone.
01:28:00.000You go listen to old ACDC and then the new singer ACDC, which is old still now, but it's all ACDC. Van Halen's like two fucking massively different bands.
01:28:12.000But there's like that poppy, bullshitty stuff that became massively, massively successful.
01:28:20.000Well, it was like guys trying to be hard rockers.
01:28:24.000It was like they were playing a character.
01:28:26.000That's what Sammy Hagar always seemed like to me.
01:29:21.000There's a button that you can push on your Prius that takes all the electricity off so that you just drive with the gas, but it makes you, like, way faster.
01:29:31.000And I push that every time, so I don't even really get the savings.
01:32:05.000He buys houses and I believe his dad does construction.
01:32:08.000His dad refurbishes these houses and sells them.
01:32:11.000So they bought some houses all on the same block.
01:32:14.000And while he was, I think New Year's Eve, some girl broke into his house, shit all over the place, threw up, like some girl that he didn't even know.
01:32:24.000She was hammered and she broke into his house and he like, I think he filmed it and put it on YouTube or like put it on Instagram or something like that.
01:32:32.000You mean his security cameras caught it?
01:37:42.000He thinks, though, that I somehow or another am involved in this, and so his paranoia is fed into this.
01:37:47.000He thinks that Joey Diaz is my hitman, and that somehow or another I'm plotting against him, which I don't even understand why I would do that.
01:38:32.000You get there 20 minutes early, say what's up.
01:38:35.000All that shit is just a waste of time.
01:38:37.000There's a lot of people out there that are living their lives just sort of going with the momentum of all these things that people love to do, all the gossipy things and, you know, get involved in controlling this.
01:39:07.000And it keeps you from thinking about yourself.
01:39:10.000There's a lot of people out there that spend a tremendous amount of time hating on other people and very little time working on themselves.
01:39:30.000And, you know, almost like you're hoping they fail so that it justifies this idea that you have in your head, but you're not benefiting from it.
01:39:39.000You can stew about something, and then all of a sudden, at the end of the day, and there was shit that you wanted to accomplish that you didn't do because you were obsessed with fucking Googling the person and finding out if it's a story that people are latching onto.
01:40:55.000He's got this bit, I don't want to give up any of the details of the bit, but he's got this bit where I'm just like, the frenzy that he approaches this bit with on stage, like, wow, he's on another level.
01:42:07.000Like, finally people are recognizing, like, he sells out everywhere now, like, in advance.
01:42:12.000So finally people are recognizing how talented he is and how dedicated he is.
01:42:16.000I mean it's really just one of those examples of focus and attention equaling results.
01:42:21.000Like focusing on something, really honing it and really putting your focus and your attention on something and then seeing the results of it.
01:42:28.000He's just really passionate right now about stand-up.
01:44:00.000And then when I went out, it was like when you'd been running with weights and all of a sudden you're doing a 15-minute spot at the comedy store in front of a hot crowd.
01:44:25.000When you're doing like a headlining set and you're doing an hour and ten and just sort of sorting it all out and putting it all together and you get loose and you just do it like Friday night two shows, Saturday night two shows.
01:44:40.000Dude, comedy is in a lot of ways like exercise.
01:47:01.000That's what I try to tell young comics.
01:47:03.000I'm like, man, you force yourself to write.
01:47:05.000Even if you only write an hour a day, just sit down for an hour a day, just force yourself to go over some ideas, and they will blossom, man.
01:47:17.000Sometimes, like, I haven't done this in a while, but I bought a notebook about a month ago, and I just started writing longhand again, you know, read the paper for a little while, or just muse, listen to sets that I did on stage, and maybe I started a little tangent and, you know, write that up, and I just fucking fill in this notebook.
01:47:33.000And it's not all making it right into my act, but some of it is.
01:47:38.000It's kind of like just a running journal that I can draw from.
01:47:42.000But I've had bits that I've started a year before and pounded it, believed in it, kept trying it, trying it, hitting my head against it while it doesn't work.
01:47:49.000And then you pick it up again six months ago and it just clicked.
01:48:55.000And I think sometimes you just gotta, like, let those things, like, let your thoughts sort of roll around without trying to constantly define them and then re-approach the idea.
01:49:06.000Then come back to the original notebook or the original piece that you wrote and look at it again maybe a week later and go, well, now that I've experienced a couple things in life this week and looked at the world a little bit, One of the things that Tom Segur and Christina Pazitsky do, we had a conversation,
01:50:24.000Yeah, I started doing a thing, I've done about five of them now, called The Sunday Papers, where I just, I get the Sunday paper and I read it and I just make some notes and then I just hit record and I go for an hour about the Sunday paper.
01:54:08.000It just seems like there's a lot of fun shit that I like to do.
01:54:11.000That's one of the reasons why I didn't start skiing until late in life, because I did jiu-jitsu and all these other things that are dangerous for your body.
01:54:18.000I'm like, I should probably limit the amount of dangerous shit.
01:54:21.000That's why I wouldn't ride a motorcycle.
01:54:23.000I'm like, I should probably back off of that.
02:04:44.000Although, you know, when I used to work as a banquet waiter at the Marriott in Boston, we used to do these banquets, and sometimes they'd come in and they'd order Dom Perignon.
02:05:39.000Well, as it explained to me by Carl Hart, Dr. Carl Hart, who was an addiction specialist, he said what hangovers really are is your body got temporarily addicted to the alcohol.
02:05:50.000The feeling that you have, the headache and all that, a lot of it is dehydration, but a lot of it is also the compensatory mechanisms that your body puts in place to process the alcohol.
02:06:54.000Now we don't have to deal with it anymore.
02:06:55.000I had him on a couple times, and he's a fascinating, fascinating guy.
02:07:00.000Very, very smart guy and knows so much about addictions and about various drugs and the reactions to the body and all the myths that people have.
02:07:11.000It's amazing how many myths that people have about how hard things are to kick and what is instantly addictive.
02:07:36.000About the cigarette industry, about a scientist that's working with the cigarettes to try to make them more addictive, and then he goes out with it, which is apparently a real story.
02:07:46.000Oh yeah, they were sued and they lost about it.
02:11:34.000They're going to get an acre of land and plow it themselves and grow corn.
02:11:37.000And they start doing all these tests and find out that their body is like some insane amount of the carbon fibers in their body come from corn.
02:11:48.000So they get their blood work done, all this stuff, and they find this out.
02:11:52.000And then they start going and examining all the different food.
02:11:54.000It's in the grocery store and how much of it contains corn, Corn proteins, corn syrup, corn byproducts.
02:12:00.000And then they go deep, deep down into the rabbit hole.
02:12:03.000The subsidized corn industry and how it all happened, how it all got started.
02:12:07.000And you leave at the end of that movie like, what in the fuck?
02:12:11.000We've been co-opted in so many different ways in this country by special interest groups and by people that have figured out how to generate and extract massive amounts of money from particular sectors.
02:13:23.000Well, it'd be probably better than some kinds of meats, but...
02:13:29.000But they say it's good for third world countries because they'll be able to, first of all, you won't have to have all that methane from all the downsides of having cattle.
02:13:36.000You can get rid of that and then also you can set these things up in third world country and feed people, fucking poor people, imagine them for steak, what you get them to do.
02:13:46.000They churn out iPhones like a motherfucker.
02:14:23.000I mean, if you're going to get rid of the death tax, or let's call it really what it is, the estate tax, at least these people like the Kennedys are doing stuff and the Rockefellers are doing stuff where they're saying, without economic pressure, let me explore and do something a little on the fringes that might work,
02:14:41.000whether it's non-fossil energy or whatever.
02:14:48.000Yeah, it's nice if you see someone who's given this unusual roll of the dice, some wonderful hand of cards.
02:14:55.000Nice they use it in a totally egalitarian way in some beautiful way where they just decide to donate it or figure out a way to help or put money into something that's going to benefit people.
02:15:09.000Start a foundation that's just, you know, trying to create peace, which sounds so erudite and unattainable, but to go like, no, I'm going to work on peace.
02:17:05.000In the early days of New York City, they used to just set out lobster traps and when someone would order a lobster, they would just go pull a trap out and grab one of the lobsters and cook it.
02:17:46.000I saw on Instagram this guy cooked a coyote.
02:17:49.000He cooked a coyote and barbecued it, barbecued it, and had barbecue sauce and brought it to work, pulled coyote, and apparently he said it was delicious and people were loving it.
02:18:58.000And a lot of people who are maybe vegetarian or vegan and have a real problem with eating animals do not have a problem with eating insects.
02:20:19.000No antibiotics, no hormones, no nothing, wild game.
02:20:23.000And like I said, lower cholesterol than a chicken breast.
02:20:26.000I was in South Africa and we ate at a game farm, a game park, but they have to thin out the herd of different animals.
02:20:34.000And so there's a restaurant called Carnivore right in the park, and they come around with skewers and they ask you, do you want some giraffe?
02:20:44.000And you go, sure, and they'll give you a couple cubes of giraffe.
02:20:47.000It was like when you took me to that Brazilian restaurant in Vegas.
02:20:51.000Yeah, and they came over with the skewers and it was like that, but it was like elephant fucking, you know, different kinds of gazelles and shit.
02:22:01.000And he, we worked together once in Denver, and he said that polar bears, like when you have them as babies, right out of the womb, they're like, and they're trying to bite you.
02:23:42.000Never mind, I've fucking eaten a squirrel.
02:23:44.000I was running the hills with my dogs, and I ran over what I thought was a log, like a stick, like a large stick, and as I was in the air over it, I realized it was a rattlesnake the size of my forearm.
02:28:16.000This guy put a website up that documents him getting bit by a rattlesnake, like after he got bit, him seeking treatment, the necropsy, what would you call it?
02:31:36.000You ever seen a documentary they did with, they tamed dogs, like baboons actually tamed dogs, and they taught these dogs how to be like watchdogs?
02:31:47.000Yeah, they took these dogs in and fed them, and they had these tribes of baboons, and they had figured out- No, the baboons did it.
02:31:56.000The baboons kept these dogs and fed them, and then the dogs stayed around them, and when anything would come near, the dogs would bark, and the baboons would come out.
02:32:26.000And then we stick them in steel cages for life.
02:32:29.000There was an article that I tweeted today, see if you can see that, that they believe that chimpanzees and monkeys have just started using stone tools over the last 4,000 years, and that chimps are entering the stone age.
02:33:49.000And Homo Sapiens, which is what came after Neanderthal.
02:33:53.000People think there was like a timeline, because when you look at timelines, it lists one, then there's a line segment, and then the next one starts.
02:33:59.000But there was a time when they were both on the Earth at the same time, and they were fighting, and Neanderthal was fucking way bigger and more powerful.
02:34:19.000And it was a battle, and the Sapiens won because they had techniques for hunting working as a group and surrounding the other ones, and they used tools.
02:34:27.000I guess, I don't know if it was rocks or whatever it is that they used that the Neanderthals were not using.
02:34:33.000I think it's they just divided them and fucked them all.
02:37:29.000If she was smart, she would have made herself look at least a little bit old in these instead of she looks 19. Well, it's like everything's blurry and hazy.
02:37:39.000It's like you're looking at her through the fog, like a spotlight in a foggy room.