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00:00:27.000We're gonna pass them out a joint, we're gonna agree to be friendly, we'll all just go to dinner somewhere, have a good old time, throw back some beers, I think we would all get along famously.
00:00:37.000I know nothing about Alex Jones off the mic, I can't even imagine what goes on.
00:09:05.000Yeah, we did a video together a long time ago with me and him, dressed up like George Bush, running around the Capitol, and we went to the bathroom and smoked bongs.
00:09:27.000He was doing that long before I met him.
00:09:29.000Long before I met him, Herbert Walker Bush would be somewhere, and he would meet there and call him a war criminal and yell out and get arrested.
00:09:39.000Actually, it was like GW when he was running for president, I think, Alex got arrested.
00:09:43.000He got arrested a gang of times, you know?
00:11:04.000There was a really impressive moment where I was like, I was really impressed with Obama as a person.
00:11:09.000Where he was at this, they were doing this campaign speech, and this guy, a Trump supporter, was in the crowd, and this guy was throwing a flag up in the air, or this Trump flag, and was waving, and he was an older guy, and he had some sort of military outfit on.
00:11:22.000And he's yelling out, you know, Trump, and he's got his sign-up.
00:11:25.000And all these people are booing, and Obama stops them.
00:11:28.000And he goes, first of all, he goes, this is a gentleman, he's an older gentleman, we should respect our elders, so let's think about that.
00:11:36.000And he goes, and it looks like he's done some military service, he's got a military, so we should respect our veterans.
00:11:41.000And then he got to this and he goes, don't boo, vote.
00:11:52.000Yeah, I like that, but the whole respect the veterans thing when you don't fucking fund their medical care when they get home, we treat them like shit, and then they go, oh, respect them, though.
00:12:15.000I mean, ultimately, you do have to be concerned.
00:12:17.000We've been talking about this with the whole Trump thing.
00:12:19.000You don't have to be concerned as much about what Trump's going to be able to do as you do about people that see Trump in office and they get emboldened to be assholes.
00:12:50.000And here's part of the maybe, the positive of having someone like Trump in the presidency is this country, like, you know, racism, being an asshole, treating people like shit, that's been part of this country that is, as long as we didn't have a leader that you didn't think represented that,
00:13:07.000people were like, oh, okay, we'll just keep it going at this rate.
00:13:10.000Whereas now, people, like, are Maybe we needed this ugly orange face as the face of things to really be like, hey, what is going on with the xenophobia and the racism and what is the deal?
00:14:07.000I mean, it sounds ridiculous to someone who's got sovereignty, someone with personal sovereignty, someone who knows who they are and isn't so easily swayed and is like, that's not gonna make me an asshole.
00:14:17.000It probably won't make you an asshole.
00:14:23.000There's a lot of disenfranchised men out there.
00:14:25.000Well, and this is where I really put it on the mainstream media, is they legitimize some of this shit that Trump says, or whatever Trump supporters say, that is just crackpot nuts.
00:14:37.000Like when CNN had the chyron that said, are Jews people?
00:14:43.000They were saying, hey, this crazy white supremacist, or maybe someone having something to do with Trump, has in the past questioned whether Jews are people or something.
00:14:53.000So then they run with the chyron and says, are Jews people?
00:14:56.000It's like, well, now this is a legitimate discussion.
00:14:58.000You just made this a legitimate discussion.
00:16:39.000Whether but you know what there's the possibility like I would like to think that we watched some genius Chess play by a master of the media which he most certainly is right.
00:16:49.000I mean the guy's been on television forever But I really wondered do you I mean you have thoughts on who he what he genuinely believes?
00:16:59.000Well, that was my question I was gonna say do you think that Did we watch a master manipulator or did he just get lucky that his personality like totally works right now?
00:17:08.000You know, like that everything is lined up for you to be the guy that says, you know, you should grab chicks by the pussy and everybody goes, ah, that's locker room talk.
00:17:23.000If you didn't have people struggling so hard, if you didn't have this quote-unquote recovery all going to the top 1%, people wouldn't have gotten behind this.
00:17:31.000You needed a populace that is furious and struggling and miserable to get behind this.
00:17:37.000A populace that is furious and struggling and miserable wants to get behind a dude who's a billionaire who's probably fucked over a ton of people to get there.
00:18:00.000Like when they were talking to him during the debates when Hillary brought up the taxes and him not paying taxes, he goes, it's because I'm smart.
00:18:19.000People wanted someone who just said, fuck this system, which it's hilarious that you then get behind a billionaire as the guy who's going to say, fuck the system.
00:18:33.000And you have a unique opportunity with a guy like him where I don't think he's going to be as influenced by other people as we've had presidents before.
00:18:43.000You know, we've had presidents before that get in the office and we're like, oh my god, this guy's not doing anything he said.
00:18:47.000We don't even have to say who they are, right?
00:19:21.000I covered this on Redacted and I like endlessly, I just couldn't get enough of it.
00:19:25.000It was like on every, it was like voter suppression, closing polling places, you know, exit polls aren't matching up, just media manipulation, 23 times as much coverage, like I was saying, for Trump and like 10 times as much coverage for Hillary as Bernie Sanders.
00:19:36.000It was just like on every level they tried to force through their candidate.
00:23:54.000So you knew there was a Civil War, but you didn't know that the South lost?
00:23:58.000No, I just, yeah, because it's talked about almost like a victory, because they talk about it like, oh, the grand old times of Civil War and stuff like that.
00:26:06.000The cops just run around, look for mostly black people standing on the corner, sometimes in front of their own apartment, charge them for loitering or something, and then they take a plea deal because they're told, like, hey, do you want months of a trial where you could spend a year in jail, or do you want to take this plea deal and just have a tiny charge?
00:26:29.000It's so crazy that people have made an industry off of...
00:26:33.000Like, there's money to be made from keeping people locked up.
00:26:36.000It's just the way that we've allowed that to happen, it's so shameful because it's sort of just everybody sort of woke up as adults and was like, what?
00:27:24.000I think, like, theft and obviously all the violent crimes, but all those things, that sort of rationalizes you need some sort of punishment.
00:27:32.000But has anybody ever even proven that prison is effective?
00:28:35.000You're not stopping people from selling drugs, obviously.
00:28:39.000Plus, there's a bunch of other drugs that are available legally with prescriptions.
00:28:44.000You need to stop this illegal drug thing.
00:28:48.000You need to stop telling grown adults what they can or can't do.
00:28:52.000Keep it away from children, make strict laws about the age restrictions, put a lot of money into education, and stop putting people in fucking cages for doing things they want to do, like coke.
00:29:02.000If somebody wants to do coke, let them go do coke.
00:30:25.000These cars today, because of the horsepower wars, every year they're ramping up their speed, they're ramping up their handling, they're ramping up the braking, like the distance between, you know, like zero to 60 braking or 60 to zero.
00:31:05.000I mean, yeah, we accept that there is a certain level of harm or death for things that we want as freedoms, and that should go through a lot of things.
00:31:16.000It's like there's a certain level of harm or death people might do to themselves, and if they start doing it to others, we arrest them for that.
00:31:21.000One of the things I was thinking of when I brought up the car things, I wanted to ask you how you feel about this oncoming onset of autonomous cars.
00:31:45.000And I think that's fine because what that should do, if we were fucking rational beings, is that time and money savings should go to people.
00:31:57.000If we hate our job, we should be working less because technology can handle it now.
00:32:01.000Instead, everybody's just working their goddamn asses off at jobs they hate because all of that time and savings is going to the elites that run these corporations.
00:33:06.000Right, but we're making all those cars to begin with.
00:33:09.000Right, but if it's way safer and people's lives are saved over people having jobs that are not a lot of fun anyway, for technological progress, when you look at the future of our culture,
00:33:25.000As much as I love automobiles, I love them.
00:33:47.000If you have an old Corvette or something like that, you're gonna have to have a license to drive that old Corvette with your shitty-ass drum brakes and skinny, fucked-up tires.
00:33:56.000And people like to think, oh, no, the autonomous thing won't happen because, you know, an autonomous car will kill someone, and then...
00:34:04.000It's like, well, yeah, but they don't need to be better.
00:34:37.000It'll eventually get to a point where it's taking away our freedom in a lot of ways because these things are going to drive the speed limit and it's going to drive us fucking nuts.
00:34:48.000You're going to be sitting there and it's going to become illegal to go above the speed limit because self-driving cars will go the speed limit.
00:34:53.000Yeah, you're gonna have to follow the rules.
00:35:08.000I mean, but if we're gonna progress, And go from here to some new state of technological excellence, which we undoubtedly will if we stay alive, right?
00:35:18.000I mean, every civilization, every culture in this country, as far as we've been measuring it, just keeps getting better and better and better at figuring things out.
00:37:27.000He had a documentary that one of them really opened my eyes.
00:37:31.000It was 9-1-1 Road to Tyranny, and it was another typical You know, he's talking about the demise of civilization and all these different things.
00:37:42.000But then he goes into the WTO and the WTO protests.
00:39:25.000And instead, it's this corporation that's just plowing through their sacred land.
00:39:30.000And, you know, the cops, a girl had her arm nearly blown off.
00:39:34.000They didn't quite have to amputate with a concussion grenade by the cops.
00:39:37.000I heard that, and then the conspiracy theory online was that it wasn't a concussion grenade, that it was something that they had launched, and then it went bad, because there was more than one propane tank grenade or some shit.
00:40:04.000And now, this is the best part on top of that, the governor signed a mandatory eviction thing for all of them, saying it's because of cold temperatures and we're worried about your safety.
00:41:24.000And it also creates this us-versus-them environment where these guys who are hired to be the cops that get rid of the protesters, those are just regular people.
00:41:35.000And they've been given orders to get rid of these protesters and then the protesters become the enemy.
00:41:39.000And it becomes an us-versus-them scenario, which we're so accustomed to.
00:41:43.000And a lot of them are coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan, and they're used to war zones.
00:43:17.000That's the darkness of this, is that they're going through land that's not theirs, and they think they just can because they want oil.
00:43:23.000Like, I've seen people argue that, you know, oh, this is exaggerated or that's exaggerated, but here's the cold fact that you can't ignore.
00:43:30.000They're going through somebody else's land against their will.
00:43:33.000So either it's their land Or it's not their land.
00:43:53.000The hypothetical idea is that we elected these people to do our bidding, not to do the corporation's bidding, whatever the fuck they want to make profit.
00:44:03.000Yeah, whether you're left-wing or right-wing, that's the most insane proposition is giving the government that kind of power to just go through private land and pump an oil pipeline under a fucking river.
00:44:14.000And that's where mostly the left and right come together.
00:44:16.000It's like libertarians, the left, nobody wants to just be like, oh yeah, you can just plow through someone's land whether they want it or not.
00:44:23.000And it's inconvenient for people to poo-poo because it's not your land.
00:44:27.000But if it was your land, what if you had this bitchin' stream in your backyard, and you used to like to catch trout in it, and you're like, God damn it, baby, we found the perfect spot to build a house.
00:45:13.000There was a whole neighborhood in Greenpoint, Brooklyn that had brain tumors and stuff because there was an oil spill underneath the streets.
00:45:46.000Police blame Wolanski's injury on protesters.
00:45:51.000While we could not reach law enforcement, Morton County Sheriff's Department released a statement on Facebook on the 23rd of November 2016 saying the injury was caused by an exploding propane canister that protesters were handling.
00:46:37.000Oh, there's some viral post that everyone's sending me of a woman, a Native American woman, saying they're dumping chemicals on the protesters, and yet, if you talk to...
00:46:46.000Anybody else, it's not true, or it doesn't seem verified, and yet it's so viral.
00:46:52.000Everybody's emailing me this post of them dumping chemicals on the protest.
00:49:10.000But no, we've given increasing power to the president when the president was supposed to be one of three factors going on, and now we just keep feeding more and more power to the president.
00:49:35.000They said, what happens if Obama is a very reasonable guy, most likely he won't use indefinite detention, but what if you get some new president that's crazy?
00:50:16.000Was he ISIS? He joined ISIS or something?
00:50:19.000Here's the thing, his, and I don't want to say the names because I'll get them wrong, but his father was preaching terrorism, so they executed him, and then they executed his 16-year-old son.
00:50:40.000And literally when they were finally answered as to why they had executed the son, one of the press secretary or someone goes, well, you know, he shouldn't have had a father like that.
00:52:20.000That little lefty fucking kid's going to go with my kid, and they're going to argue about some shit that I know is wrong.
00:52:27.000I mean, they're gonna decide that you shouldn't have a kid, so who the fuck, you know, there's a lot of people way fucking smarter than me, and if it became an argument between who gets to breed, me or them, they're gonna win.
00:52:36.000But I like having kids, so what the fuck?
00:52:54.000But my point being, it's like, it's an uber complicated experience to just hand off to everybody and the outcome of Is a developed human being.
00:53:04.000So we're counting on everybody to do a good job developing us.
00:53:09.000Listen, the beginning of Idiocracy is the truest thing that's ever been created.
00:53:15.000I have a bit, apparently, that's extremely similar to the premise of it.
00:53:18.000It came out before the movie on Showtime, luckily, so it's documented.
00:53:23.000Dude, that movie was so prescient, and they fucking knew what was going to happen.
00:53:27.000At the very beginning of the movie, they just show a split screen of a really dumb idiot couple, maybe rednecks, but they're fucking morons.
00:53:39.000They clearly don't know what the fuck's going on, and they're just pumping out kids.
00:53:44.000And then they show these, you know, little liberal elite couple living in, you know, their brownstone in New York, deciding whether to have a child.
00:53:52.000And each year goes by and they're like, you know, we decided not to yet.
00:54:04.000People that are career-oriented, especially if the husband and the wife can't decide who's going to stay home with the kid, if they're both career-oriented, it becomes a thing like, hey, let's wait until we're 36. Hey, let's wait until we're 42. Hey, let's freeze my eggs.
00:54:19.000And the next thing you know, you adopt.
00:54:21.000I think you should be allowed to freeze a kid at least up to five years old.
00:54:26.000Adopting is a great idea, and it's awesome that a lot of people do it, but people want their own kids.
00:54:33.000That's the other weird thing about DNA. It's like, you want your own DNA. The DNA pumped out.
00:58:19.000What if you were dating a girl and she was, like, super cool, but she got into yoga, and then she got into deities, and then she got into the writings of Christ, and you came home one day, and she's reading the Bible, and you're like, what are you doing?
00:58:43.000How large are Mr. Turner's land holdings?
00:58:45.000Mr. Turner is the second largest individual landowner in North America with approximately 2 million acres of personal and ranch land in the 12 U.S. states and Argentina.
00:59:48.000He's like, so he had this big trial, and he's like 98 or whatever he is, 96 or something, and the tapes that they played to show that he was with it were him arranging an orgy.
01:00:24.000What is it Ted Turner, the 73-year-old billionaire founder of CNN, has revealed that he has four girlfriends, each of which whom he spends one week with a month.
01:01:49.000Yeah, so there was a lot of people that were trying to protest it, and then when you're 20, or in your 20s, you're so clumsy as it is, it's so likely you're going to get the message out wrong.
01:03:52.000Well, just fill out the story for people, because there was a murder in Italy, right?
01:03:55.000I went in with kind of a blank mind, because I didn't pay attention to almost any of it when it was happening.
01:04:00.000She was a dumb, and I just mean young dumb, exchange student or whatever, and she's in Italy, and she's in a housing unit with a girl she's kind of friendly with.
01:04:14.000She goes and stays at her boyfriend's place, comes back the next day.
01:04:17.000The door's locked, and they can't get it open, but they see some blood on the carpet.
01:05:15.000Now, if someone does get pronounced not guilty and they've been put through that horror for all those years, do they get any compensation for that?
01:05:27.000Occasionally when you've got a guy like in the US that's been in jail for 30 years, they'll give them like a million dollars or something, but it doesn't bring their life back.
01:07:36.000That guy after the Boston bomb, another pressure cooker, after the Boston bombing, they put those guys on the front of the New York Post or whatever it was.
01:08:13.000Dude, and that's the fucking run-in with information we don't have yet.
01:08:18.000Well, that's why people that have that sort of responsibility, like you're the media, the official stamped media, that's why, you know, Rolling Stone took so much heat when they had that cute bomber on the cover, that handsome fella.
01:09:01.000They get that guy in the Dallas shooting, too, that was walking around with a gun that they thought that was him because people saw a picture of him with a gun walking around the street, but he had actually turned in the gun to a police officer.
01:09:20.000Well, no, I was going to say, you know what I wish people were still talking about with the Boston bombing is there was a third guy who wasn't there.
01:09:25.000They said he was friends with the bombers, so they wanted to interview him.
01:09:28.000The FBI goes down to, what, Florida, Georgia, somewhere, interviews him four times, the fourth time, and they admit he was unarmed.
01:09:35.000They shoot him seven times once in the back of the head.
01:11:49.000It's a hundred percent wrong, but the whole stew is wrong from everything we discussed from people anybody being able to have a person which I don't have any solution for I'm not a eugenics guy I'm not saying I'm not offering up any sort of crazy solution All I'm saying is we all agree that part of the problem is people get raised by horrible awful people who abuse them and beat them and rape them and They're subjected to all sorts of horrible shit as they're growing up and they develop all fucked up we we all know people like that they're just all fucked up and And those people are just cast out
01:12:25.000Well, this is why I think, and maybe people will get behind me on this, so the numbers are, it's rough, but they think in the sociopath test, about one out of every hundred people is a sociopath.
01:12:38.000And those people usually do really well in business.
01:13:31.000He just knew how to say the right things, wear the right cologne, whatever it was.
01:13:35.000Say the right things at the right time, because he's had a lot of practice.
01:13:38.000And if you get the end of it and there's a person who's like literally barely a person like some sort of a robot Reciting things, you know, I mean that was did you ever read?
01:13:49.000Was the Brett Easton Ellis book that they turned into a movie Bradley Cooper what American Psycho?
01:13:55.000Yeah, right American Psycho, but that's Christian Bale.
01:14:22.000You go all in with pops, and you join the family business, or you become like that surfer dude who like, man, well, he really got into drugs, and we brought him into counseling, but that didn't help.
01:16:03.000Holy shit, look all this good stuff that's happening?
01:16:05.000Even if he just does massive infrastructure projects that put people to work so that he can have his name Trump across the Trump bullet train, the Trump this, the Trump that, even if he just does that, that could make people pretty happy.
01:16:46.000And he stopped, I'll say this for him, he was already basic, well, okay, protesters and him stopped the TPP, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the fucking largest corporate coup that's ever been devised, and basically, you know, he said he wasn't going to sign it.
01:16:59.000Now, here's the thing, he's not, he's going to create a new trade deal, so it's going to be awful.
01:17:03.000He's going to put that forward, so it's not like he's done creating havoc in that way, but the fact that the TPP is over is a huge step.
01:17:12.000And what I was saying earlier that one of the things that a lot of people said that I agree with is that I think him being a populist and him being really interested in public's opinion and what people think about him is actually a good thing.
01:17:25.000Because when certain things he says, like off the cuff, he says shit off the cuff, and then he finds out that it's really a stupid thing to say, he amends what he says.
01:17:36.000And I think that's kind of interesting, because if he starts to talk about some specific set of regulations or rules, and then the public starts freaking out about it, it's very likely he might reconsider if it makes sense.
01:17:48.000Well, this is how he's kind of like a stand-up comic.
01:17:50.000As he was going from speech to speech, basically he would weed out the stuff that wasn't getting a huge reaction, keep the stuff that got a big reaction, and it was just the greatest hits.
01:18:02.000But dude, by the end of the election, after all the grab the pussy stuff and after the last debate, he was doing a run of these speeches.
01:18:09.000And I tuned into one of them, and I was like, the guy sounds pretty reasonable right now.
01:18:13.000Right now, in this moment, if you could take this snippet instead of the other snippets, when he's going, the wall just got 10 feet higher!
01:18:45.000Well, billionaires, but he's putting the swamp things back.
01:18:48.000He's talking about Petraeus and all these assholes.
01:18:53.000I don't know who he ended up going with for Treasury Secretary, but he was talking about Jamie Dimon for a while, the fucking head of Citibank, I mean, sorry, JPMorgan Chase, that was behind the...
01:19:05.000The collapse behind what created Occupy.
01:19:08.000He's putting the swamp things back in the swamp.
01:19:10.000He's drained it, and now he's putting them back.
01:19:12.000What was he trying to put Petraeus in for?
01:19:50.000This is what's so fascinating about it.
01:19:52.000Petraeus was running the CIA. The FBI does an investigation on the CIA because Petraeus is banging this chick and she's crazy and she likes to send crazy emails to people.
01:24:17.000Because he was only supposed to be there for a short amount of time, and then he stayed for a longer time because, like, something had happened, they couldn't get him out of there.
01:24:23.000But he did the right thing, which is you're not supposed to become best buddies with these guys.
01:24:27.000You're supposed to keep being a legitimate reporter, and most people embedded don't.
01:24:50.000So that email goes out like, it's like 24 hours or something before his car explodes in a fiery mess here in LA. And it seems like there definitely could have been hacking of the, you know, he was going 100 miles an hour.
01:25:04.000Now, I've also, you know, heard some people saying he was into some wild stuff and wild driving, but I don't know.
01:25:10.000Well, they definitely found meth in his system, allegedly according to the coroner, who was absolutely not paid off.
01:25:16.000Yes, but if you read the full coroner's report, it says not at a level that would have impaired driving.
01:25:25.000Yeah, but what I was going to say was that I think, correct me if I'm wrong, I think if you take Adderall, and you take a lot of Adderall in particular, I think that has almost the exact same chemicals as meth, right?
01:25:39.000Wouldn't you test positive for meth if you were taking a lot of Adderall?
01:26:33.000Yeah, but so, I mean, and even so, it's like trace amounts, wouldn't have impaired driving, and he's going 100 miles an hour, and these cars are, the car he was in had a hackable computer.
01:26:46.000I mean, that's what we were talking about previously, all these autonomous cars.
01:26:49.000There's a lot of cars now, like the Tesla, where you can get on the road, and you could press a button and take your fucking hands off the wheel, and the navigation system drives the car, 100%.
01:26:58.000My buddy texted me from his fucking car.
01:27:01.000He's like sitting there texting me while he's driving.
01:30:43.000Yeah, I mean, it doesn't make judgment calls.
01:30:45.000And you can make the wrong one, and maybe its calculations will be more accurate than yours.
01:30:50.000But maybe it'll just be going slower in the first place, so that won't be as much of an issue.
01:30:54.000Dude, if these cars are going the speed limit, I'm gonna lose my shit.
01:30:57.000If that guy was driving down the road and he was going 10 miles an hour slower, he might have been able to slam on the brakes and avoid that bear.
01:31:05.000I saw this video yesterday, but I thought it was going around because it was new, but this Tesla slams into the back of this van because it doesn't seat at the last second because that car Oh, no.
01:31:16.000And I guess there's some verbiage in that autonomous driving that it may not see parked vehicles on highways or something like that right now.
01:32:06.000Because people can just decide that Jesus wants them to jump in front of the bullet train.
01:32:10.000If you were at a plane, how much more dangerous would air flight be if any asshole at any point in time could instantly put a telephone pole up right in front of the plane?
01:34:17.000I was already super duper high on edibles.
01:34:21.000I mean it was like the worst time to underestimate the power of edibles and I was underwater and I was feeling my ears pop.
01:34:29.000There was a real moment where I came downstairs.
01:34:31.000I came downstairs from my hotel room, and I met all my friends in the lobby, and I was just so beyond barbecued that I had this illusion, this hallucination of people being this two-dimensional cutout, like those preview things that you see at the movies.
01:34:50.000We see a two-dimensional cutout of an action figure.
01:34:54.000That's what people were, and then behind that, I would see peeking out their true self.
01:35:53.000They like to go off to joggers, bikers.
01:35:55.000I remember I was hiking once and I saw a sign, beware mountain lions, and the advice on the sign was throw sticks and rocks at it, but not if you have to bend down to get them.
01:36:03.000I was like, what are you walking around with bundles of sticks and rocks?
01:37:48.000Yeah, feral cats, they don't kill just a little.
01:37:51.000They kill billions of mammals and birds.
01:37:55.000B.I. And people are like, there's no way.
01:37:57.000Yeah, there was a whole article about how these scientists did this long-term study, and it blew them away.
01:38:04.000Once they started doing the calculations, like how many cats there are, how many animals a cat is capable of killing, if the cat's outside, how many animals we'll encounter.
01:38:12.000Well, and that's why it's bullshit when anti-environmentalists are like, oh, the solar panel system is frying birds.
01:38:19.000It fries a minimal number of birds compared to the number cats are taking out.
01:38:23.000Cats are just jacking everything, man.
01:38:49.000Like, you ever seen that video of the crocodile coming out of the water with its mouth open, and the lion goes in the water and stares it down, and the crocodile's like, fuck this.
01:39:40.000Yeah, they have a radio collar on this fucker.
01:39:42.000They know where he's been and he's slaughtering things up there because there's an alpaca farm He's just flossing his teeth with dog collars.
01:41:15.000Unless you figure out a way to circle the area where he is and have like a large number of people, you know, like an army in the old timey days that come at each other with spears and then just start moving in.
01:41:27.000But you would have to have so many fucking people, you'd circle an enormous area.
01:41:30.000Because he's going to smell you from a mile away, like literally a mile away.
01:41:59.000I mean, if that alpaca-killing monster, that goat-slaying monster just gets shot, the coyotes eat them, everybody eats them, everybody gets off, we're fine.
01:43:02.000It's just, it's so cool that nature has all these varieties of amazing things that you could kind of pay attention to if you really want to really like spend a day looking at all the wide variety of bizarre animals.
01:43:13.000We were playing a video the other day of a roadrunner that kills and eats a rattlesnake.
01:43:17.000Did you know that roadrunners eat rattlesnakes?
01:47:29.000Yeah, it is a weird thing when you look at some place like India that has one-third of the landmass.
01:47:37.000We could live in a sustainable way, but we're not doing it at all.
01:47:40.000And the planet is collapsing under the weight.
01:47:43.000But how would you decide, like, when it comes to overpopulation, without doing the China thing, the one baby thing, which really didn't work at all?
01:47:50.000Well, it kind of fucked up everything.
01:49:56.000Is that where they use most of the antibiotics?
01:49:58.000It's like 70% of antibiotics or more than that is used in factory farms.
01:50:02.000They pump these animals full of it because these animals are living on top of each other and each other's shit, and the only way to have them survive is to pump them full of antibiotics.
01:50:10.000And so then that immunity to antibiotics then spreads to us.
01:50:14.000Yeah, that's where the next pandemic will come from, factory farming.
01:50:16.000I was watching this video online yesterday of this girl who is like a vegan activist who had this video about why do we eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
01:51:00.000They have this turkey's legs clamped down this machine and then he's like touching its prostate and with a tube in its like hole because it has one hole.
01:51:29.000And as he's sucking the cum out of it, he has a glass of bottled water with him, because sometimes it gets in his mouth, so he has to, like, clean it out.
01:52:32.000But I remember when I watched it, there was a scene because they were rural farmers and they were being charged with some murder and apparently they were just really mentally slow and incapable of sort of understanding the charges that are being levied against them.
01:52:46.000But when they were running this farm, there was one scene where they had to execute a pig, and the guy pulls out the gun, and he starts going towards the pig, and the pig recognizes the gun and just fucking panics.
01:52:57.000Like, the pig who had been around him all the time and never worried at all saw that gun and freaked the fuck out and just started running and running around, and he's chasing it, and then he shoots it in the head.
01:53:07.000And I remember thinking, whoa, that pig knew.
01:53:58.000Because he's in the middle of fucking, you know, Texas.
01:54:01.000Yeah, but how do they not even look at him like people should be looking at Jim Baker with his fucking furniture made out of survival food?
01:54:08.000They should be looking at him the same exact way, like, wait a minute, man.
01:55:42.000Do you saw, I'm sure you saw the video.
01:55:44.000For not smothering Ted Cruz in his sleep in 1988. Getting emails blaming me for not smothering Ted Cruz in his sleep in 1988. What kind of a monster do you think I am?
01:56:25.000But it's, like, Ted Cruz, when they had that video that came out where they were all making that family, like, you know, it was supposed to be sort of a candid moment where the family's all sitting around talking.
01:56:36.000They just keep redoing it, redoing it.
02:00:06.000It says, the case is an important battle concerning privacy and free speech rights.
02:00:11.000In 2004, the companies that owned Austin stores were selling sex toys and a retail distributor of such products challenged the Texas law outlawing the sale and promotion of supposedly obscene devices.
02:00:23.000Under the law, a person who violated the statute could go to jail for up to two years.
02:00:28.000At the time, only three states, Mississippi, Alabama, and Virginia had similar laws.
02:00:36.000A Texas mother who was a sales rep for passion parties was arrested by two undercover cops for selling vibrators and other sex-related goods at a gathering akin to a Tupperware party for sex toys.
02:01:02.000No doubt this had worried businesses peddling such wares.
02:01:07.000The plaintiffs in the sex device case contended that state law violated the right to privacy under the 14th Amendment.
02:01:13.000They argued that many people in Texas use sexual devices as an aspect of their sexual experiences, and they claimed that in some instances one partner couple might...
02:01:31.000In 2007, Ted Cruz's legal team working on behalf of then Attorney General Greg Abbott filed a 76-page brief calling on the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to uphold the lower court's decision and permit the law to stand.
02:06:05.000Well, they did that for sure with Westworld, with Anthony Hopkins.
02:06:09.000Spoiler alert, there's one scene where they show Anthony Hopkins back in the day, and they have him as, you know, maybe a man in his 50s instead of in his 60s, and they do a really subtle job of CGI-ing, and it looks great.
02:07:13.000It was so bad, and they only had her in there for a moment, but it was like somebody else's body, and her head was moving weird, and it's just like, look, here it goes, watch.
02:09:59.000What I had heard from someone in the tactical community was that she made the gigantic error of keeping her finger on the trigger and that she wasn't doing anything.
02:10:08.000You're supposed to have total finger off the trigger because when the guy got tasered by the other gentleman, the other cop, she reacted to it and pulled the trigger.
02:10:19.000This guy in the tactical community said it happens all the time.
02:10:22.000He said that's why you have to have trigger control because you don't even realize you're doing it because you're reacting to a violent moment.
02:11:28.000And here's the thing, though, is, you know, I just figure, like, the one thing I actually do just kind of avoid intentionally is saying nice things about Russia, because I know everyone's going to think I was put up to it.
02:12:17.000Fucking major problem in the way we discuss these things, the way we talk to each other, the way we view the world, that we start to think of people as their leader.
02:12:24.000People thought all Americans were George Bush.
02:12:39.000It's like, everybody around the world, we're not our leaders.
02:12:41.000We're not, you know, the Brits aren't their crazy leader, and the Australians aren't their crazy leader, and it's like, people are their own people.
02:12:50.000Like, Yeah, that's one of the reasons why having a president in the first place is kind of ridiculous.
02:12:56.000Having one alpha person, male or female, running the whole show is a figurehead.
02:13:35.000And the other thing is, in a certain way, it's the best kind of slavery is where you don't know you're a slave.
02:13:41.000So if you spend your whole life trying to work off student debt and jobs you hate, it's the best kind of slave you don't know you're a slave.
02:13:48.000Cut to headline says, Lee Camp says, Korea is better than America.
02:15:49.000And part of the reason they do that is because they have these ghost cities, and it's because GDP measures production, partially, and so to keep their GDP up, they just build ghost cities.
02:16:03.000Now, as a comic who also has a show, and you're this sort of observer of the world, do you have to look at the world more than you would like?
02:16:22.000I've always focused on America, just simply because I'm an American in America, talking about American issues, and I don't, honestly, I'm not educated well on world issues.
02:16:31.000Like I said, I couldn't tell you certain leaders of countries.
02:16:33.000And so to me, it comes from a place of ignorance.
02:16:37.000I don't know if I want to rant and rave about something I don't know the truth about.
02:16:41.000And so I definitely stick to the American issues.
02:16:43.000But in terms of having to focus on the chaos, dude, it can get depressing to focus on all the chaos, to focus on the fucking protesters being brutalized in Standing Rock.
02:17:22.000I feel a responsibility to not be too depressing, but not per story.
02:17:26.000So, like, I'll cover fucking depressing shit, but I do feel a responsibility, like, in the sense of I don't think people are going to keep watching, nor will they feel active to create change if they're just like, ah, it's all fucked, fuck it.
02:18:07.000He runs this amazing podcast that has all these psychedelic speakers like Terrence McKenna and Alan Watts and all these really interesting people with audio recordings of them giving lectures and stuff.
02:19:19.000Or do you think that that is just what we're paying attention to?
02:19:23.000Like we pay attention to nonsense, celebrity gossip stuff, like Brad Pitt and Angelina getting divorced?
02:19:28.000I think it's a combination of by design and just what gets ratings.
02:19:32.000You're going to get more ratings by covering Trump, let's say, or his Twitter war than you are going to get with the details of how these people are having a really hard time because they were kicked out of their home by the banks or whatever.
02:19:46.000So, part of it is ratings, but part of it is by design.
02:19:48.000I mean, the fact that Occupy got very little mainstream media coverage was by design.
02:19:53.000It was like, if we cover this as an important thing, it's gonna grow bigger.
02:20:06.000It's interesting because the things that we do get obsessed with that are ridiculous, that take up so much of our time, that really mean nothing, you know, when you look at all the stuff that we do ignore, you know, like the guy that got iced that was under FBI care,
02:20:22.000that never gets talked about, whether or not you agree with whether you should have shot him or not.
02:20:36.000It's amazing that the Standing Rock stories become as big as it is, really.
02:20:39.000That and Bernie Sanders and Black Lives Matter, it's like, the only reason, and you know, I'm not saying everybody's gotta love Bernie or agree with all that shit, but I'm saying the fact that those got as big as they are, it's all because of citizen journalism and social media and all that stuff.
02:21:06.000Not only are they gone, but the amount of people that pay attention to certain alternative media sources far exceeds what you get in a daily episode of The Bill O'Reilly Show.
02:21:16.000How many millions of people do you think listen to Bill O'Reilly?
02:26:27.000A gift to all of us here on this planet.
02:26:29.000It's a fucking hilarious video because he just found the most preposterous scenes and edited them in an amazing way where he closes in on his face when he says, like, really nutty shit.
02:31:18.000I'm a little upset at Apple that I had to buy this new little thing that allows me to charge my phone and play music with an actual set of fucking headphones instead of their bullshit proprietary crap.
02:32:12.000So it was moments where it was hilarious.
02:32:15.000And there's moments where I was really touched.
02:32:17.000I cried once when this mom and daughter team won.
02:32:23.000There was a son and father team versus a mother-daughter team, and the son and father team were kind of douchey, and the mother and daughter team were kind of sweet, and then you looked at them, and this was a physical stunt, and the father was kind of in shape, and the kid looked like he was kind of in shape, and you're like, God damn it,
02:32:38.000these girls, the mom and the daughter, are going to lose.
02:35:15.000But very recently because we had to do this scene with blood and when you have blood you have to keep it very cold and you can only keep it that way for a short amount of time because it could get go bad You can get sick from it because these people have to dunk their head into this stuff So they have goggles on and they have to dunk their head in and they're bobbing in this freezing cold blood So your body doesn't want to do it,
02:35:39.000I can't imagine the number of lawyers involved in all this.
02:35:41.000Dude, so while this is going on, there's a guy who's about to do the show, and he's outside, and he's talking to himself in the side mirror of a truck.
02:35:48.000He's got one of those side mirrors of the truck, and it's not his truck, but he's the competitor, so he's like, you found a mirror, and he's like, you are a winner.
02:36:23.000I heard something about This American Life went into a slaughterhouse, like a pig slaughterhouse, but it was while it was going on.
02:36:30.000And, like, two of them left, like, mid-segment and went and vomited outside, and then, like, yeah, it's madness.
02:36:40.000Well, that's one of those things, like many things in our culture, like prisons that we were talking about before, like how did it get to this point?
02:36:46.000Because we kind of realized it was at this point as adults.
02:36:50.000I mean, do you remember the day that you became aware of factory farming?
02:41:05.000I did one segment where I took, honestly, it was like three minutes of the two of them talking during the debate, and just every half sentence I would stop it and go, that's not true.
02:41:23.000And I just, I was like, this is, I tried to cover it as little as I could.
02:41:26.000I mean, I still covered it a lot, but I tried to avoid it as much as I could, because it's just a fucking sideshow.
02:41:31.000My most frustrating thing of the campaign wasn't just that, because I was aware that there was a lot of things that were being said that weren't true, was that there was very few people doing what you just said.
02:41:43.000Where you were covering it on both sides.
02:41:45.000Saying, that's not true, that's not true, that's not true, that's not true.
02:41:48.000Like, if you go back and forth from a right-wing show to a left-wing show, it's hard to pay attention.
02:41:53.000It's hard to know what the hell is really going on.
02:43:21.000Yeah, no, if I was his friend, I would definitely get him on some sort of an excellent diet.
02:43:26.000I'd be like, there's a way to do this better.
02:43:28.000You know, you'll have even more energy, and you're a goddamn dynamo as it is.
02:43:33.000That was a real concern, too, the Hillary Clinton health concern.
02:43:36.000And when you would bring it up, people would say, you're an asshole for discussing this, and that you're a sexist, or you're enabling in some sort of a way.
02:43:43.000Like, no, these are legitimate concerns.
02:44:00.000And then she had another seizure, apparently, in 2015 that was discussed during the WikiLeaks tapes.
02:44:05.000And what was the one where Bill Clinton, in an interview, he was like, oh yeah, she has these spells every once in a while.
02:44:12.000Anyway, the point is, I don't know what the truth of every last detail that is, but it was like, they're not talking about that in a legitimate way.
02:44:20.000They're not talking about the fact that Donald Trump won't release his medical records.
02:44:23.000He had one doctor write a five-minute thing and said, oh, it's the healthiest guy that's ever lived.
02:44:33.000You can't have your dick a different color from the face.
02:44:36.000If you're gonna go orange, you gotta go all orange.
02:44:38.000All the way down on his toes is orange.
02:44:40.000Except like a little strip down his butthole.
02:44:43.000Like when people like tan on like a spray tanning thing and then do porno.
02:44:47.000That'd be amazing if he had just a really tiny bikini line.
02:44:53.000Do you remember what it would be like if people would sit in a tanning bed?
02:44:56.000Tanning beds have kind of gotten out of favor.
02:44:58.000But one of the things about tanning beds, they would leave weird sort of semi-white spots on your butt because your cheeks kind of compress and so your cheeks touch each other when you're lying flat on that thing.
02:45:10.000So in between your butt cheeks gets pale.
02:45:12.000Unless you're making a real concerted effort to spread your asshole out.
02:45:17.000And sort of hover over that suntan booth for a good solid 20 minutes or how long it takes you.
02:45:24.000I'm sure Donald Trump has people spread his cheeks for him.
02:46:22.000I've only been doing stand-up when I go out to cities and I'll play a theater or something, but I haven't been getting up as much as I would like.
02:46:31.000So you basically just do your show, and does a lot of the subject matter just bleed out in your stand-up?
02:46:36.000Because of working on this stuff, you must find some pretty absurd subjects.
02:46:49.000One of them, luckily, is an interview show, so it doesn't fill up as much of my writing time.
02:46:53.000But I've got to write the whole other show every week, and so I just don't have time to write new stand-up.
02:46:58.000So the stand-up usually becomes a stuff that was in the show.
02:47:02.000Are you planning on doing a special or anything anytime soon?
02:47:05.000Well, we just filmed this Redacted Tonight Live, we called it, or whatever, in Laugh Factory, and we're going to air portions of that at the end of December on our YouTube channel, so that'll be a bit of a special.
02:47:55.000Tell people what's the best way to get a hold of you, what's the best way to see your stuff, what's your website.
02:48:00.000Everyone should check out the show at youtube.com slash redacted tonight, but everything else is pretty much LeeCamp.net and at LeeCamp on Twitter.