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00:05:01.000I mean, when I first said 30 years ago, the two things to get involved in were healthcare and telecommunications, which morphed into the Internet, I had no idea what the Internet was going to be.
00:05:12.000You know, people measure returns on their investment and return on the minute.
00:05:17.000Not return on the hour or the month or return on capital because things can change, you know, in a few seconds.
00:05:26.000I'm sorry to interrupt you, but how do you feel about that?
00:05:28.000Of a guy that's been an investor for as long as you've been, how do you feel about this new thing where they're using computers and algorithms to buy and trade, like literally at the speed of sound?
00:05:40.000They're just click, click, click, going back and forth depending on the trends.
00:05:43.000They're paying money to get a server that's as close as possible to the exchange.
00:05:49.000They're literally buying and selling in milliseconds.
00:05:52.000They're a millionth of a second ahead of everybody else because they're closer to the exchange.
00:06:26.000The guys that have benefited are the guys that drive the indices.
00:06:28.000He's created $3 trillion in market cap.
00:06:33.000On just the New York Stock Exchange, but most people haven't benefited because 70 to 90%, depending on how you want to count or calculate, of that money is big money.
00:07:17.000How do you feel about the things that Trump is doing right now, and the way he's...
00:07:22.000You know, he's bringing on all these guys that have worked for these major corporations like Exxon.
00:07:28.000They're doing that whole thing that he announced the other day of creating 45,000 jobs in the Gulf Coast.
00:07:34.000And if you look at it, there was a thing on the New York Times today, I think, that was talking about, maybe it was Time Magazine, was talking about he's created 239,000 jobs since he's been in office.
00:07:46.000Which is, what is it, a couple of months?
00:07:56.000And I knew him from that late 80s and the early 90s because one of my partners and one of my mentors was Governor Hugh Carey, the former governor of New York.
00:08:03.000So because of his New York relationship and also one of my ex-business partners was Mayor Wagner, the former mayor of New York.
00:08:12.000But I haven't talked to him in over 20 years.
00:08:15.000But getting back to your original question, I believe that there's a reason why he's meeting with all the CEOs of all these major industries because nobody else has ever done it.
00:08:28.000I believe, and as I endorsed him, I was one of the early endorsers of Trump.
00:08:32.000And I said that if he's serious, he'll win.
00:08:46.000And the financial models are changing in Europe, not just because of Brexit.
00:08:52.000The financial models are changing in Russia.
00:08:54.000The financial models are changing in China because they've got a guy, I got an alpha male in office that is surrounding himself with alpha males.
00:09:03.000It's no coincidence that 60% of his staff are ex-military.
00:09:07.000I mean, the press secretary is a goddamn lieutenant commander of the Navy, not counting all the four-star generals that he's got.
00:09:15.000So I don't agree with everything he says.
00:09:18.000I don't agree with everything he tweets.
00:09:23.000But I do agree that the country needed change, financial change, and he's going to bring it.
00:09:26.000Now, whether he gets elected a second term or not, I don't know.
00:09:29.000But I do believe, and I've said, Joe, that November the 8th was the beginning of the greatest transformation of wealth The planet has ever fucking seen since World War II. How so?
00:09:40.000Because, well, I mean, just look, $3 trillion so far in stock market.
00:09:44.000I believe it's going to be $100 trillion he's going to add to the market before he leaves office.
00:10:30.000So all the stocks like Caterpillar, AT&T, Boeing, etc., have gone up 15%, 20%, 25%, 30% since he got elected because the big money, the smart money, knows that those companies are going to get all the contracts.
00:10:48.000Not just because he cut the cost of Air Force One down 700 million or whatever he did, but because he's going to bring the United States military back to what it was under Reagan 30 years ago.
00:11:01.000And being a vet myself, I believe a strong country.
00:11:05.000I think we get involved in too much shit outside the country.
00:11:15.000And my mother and grandmother swam across the Rio Grande River as illegal aliens in 1924-25.
00:11:23.000My mother, God rest her soul, we were just out at the cemetery a couple days ago, wasn't a naturalized citizen until she was in her early 30s.
00:11:32.000But I figured out a way to pay for the wall, and yours is the first show I'm going to say it on.
00:12:13.000The biggest difference between most of the kids that are out there trying to be successful like yourself and some of the other people you've interviewed here is they spreadsheet it to death, they read books, they listen to podcasts, and they never do a fucking thing.
00:12:25.000I've had kids come to my seminar that have read 700 books On personal development.
00:13:28.000People don't know today, kids aren't scared of AIDS anymore, but back in the 80s when Magic Johnson got AIDS, I will never forget where I was, in my car, when he got HIV rather, when they announced it on the radio.
00:13:37.000I was driving in my car, I was like, oh my god.
00:13:39.000It was like a scene in a zombie movie where you thought this was the beginning, this was the first one, and then eventually it was going to spread across the entire country and everyone you knew was going to be dead.
00:13:57.000I think I just started doing stand-up.
00:13:59.000Because I know that in my research, one of the things I saw was when...
00:14:03.000I don't know if you were a teenager when you were in a competition and you knocked a guy cold in the first 10 seconds or two minutes or one minute.
00:14:11.000It's on the internet, the competition you were in.
00:14:14.000I think you were still a teenager, maybe.
00:15:28.000Yeah, I mean, when I had lunch with him a few days ago, I think I told you on the phone, I was expecting he and his wife to be keeping me rolling in the aisles.
00:16:39.000And then I realized I also don't have the right bone structure, and so I decided that there were certain things I could only do so much weight.
00:16:48.000So I was doing bench presses with my son.
00:16:51.000At that time, he was 28, and we were doing sets.
00:18:04.000Yeah, I would imagine they would be right and you would be wrong.
00:18:06.000Yeah, so now when I get up from here, you'll see I get up gingerly.
00:18:10.000So like when they build you an artificial knee, do they chop off the top of your knee and screw it in place?
00:18:17.000Yeah, they chop the top and the bottom, the femur, and then they put, it's like a joint like this, and then it has these like spikes that go into the bone marrow and they cement them.
00:21:56.000So, because I tried to get involved with mercenary things when I got out of the military about 10 years, because I had done very well as far as business was concerned.
00:22:10.000But I actually did a joint venture with the CIA. It's all public record now, and my statute of limitations passed, so I can't get in any trouble.
00:22:17.000And that didn't work out, so I decided I'm going to do big game hunting.
00:24:57.000And he said, okay, well, we have to go into a certain part of Australia, near Darwin, up north.
00:25:02.000And he said that, I can't promise he's still going to be there, but there's a big pond about four or five times as big as this room, and he should be there in the late afternoon, scratching his back on the roots, overhanging.
00:25:13.000So we got there, we hiked in four or five hours, and he was there, just like he said he was going to be there.
00:25:18.000And he said that, you don't want to just shoot him in the back.
00:25:47.000So, he throws pebbles at him, he spins around, and he says he won't come out this way because it's too far for him to jump, and he can't jump that high.
00:25:55.000Just like magic, that goddamn bull jumped 15 feet in the fucking air, spun around, and ran right at me.
00:27:31.000I mean, when you separate a little bit, sometimes you have time to think about what you're going to do, but most of it is you're relying on your training and your conditioning.
00:27:39.000Well, I hear you when you're announcing those deals about there's some guys that are really in good condition, that they're animals or beasts, and it seems to me that that's...
00:27:52.000One of the telling things, if you run out of gas in the second, third, or fourth round, you're screwed.
00:27:56.000Yeah, well, there's different styles of fighting, too.
00:27:58.000There's some guys who just, they sprint, and they can blow you out in the first couple of rounds.
00:28:03.000But if they get into the third, fourth, and fifth round, they significantly diminish their output.
00:29:26.000You had this desire to put yourself in danger and to test yourself.
00:29:29.000I wanted to see if I was going to live or die.
00:29:31.000So that's why you decided the next way to do this is to do it with a water buffalo.
00:29:36.000Now, you were talking earlier about mercenary work.
00:29:39.000Like, what kind of mercenary work are you talking about?
00:29:41.000In the early 80s, I had the privilege of being mentored by Konstantin Grazos, who was the chief executive of Onassis Shipping Line, the 60-year right-hand man of Aristotle Onassis.
00:29:53.000And he, the Vatican, the CIA, Imelda Marcos, and a guy named Talaveras of Mobile Oil, the CEO, came up with an idea that they were going to invade Haiti, just like Clinton did 12 years later.
00:30:19.000C.I.A. wanted to have them not be a baby Doc Duvalier, communistic, eating with the communists right near Florida.
00:30:27.000And I don't know what the fuck Emelda was there for.
00:30:29.000She wasn't buying shoes or anything, but she was there.
00:30:32.000And I was put in charge of that project by Mr. Grazos.
00:30:37.000And we put together a mercenary army, and we had some of the great mercenaries, a guy named Mike Williams, one of the great mercenaries of the 70s and 80s.
00:30:47.000And just as we were going to launch the attack and land with boots on the ground, Cyrus Vance, Secretary of State, pulled the plug on the deal.
00:30:57.000But I was going to come out of a helicopter just like Schwarzenegger does.
00:31:01.000By the way, you can't hold those big guns.
00:31:18.000But was it important to you because you didn't know how you would fare or because you knew how you would fare and you wanted to test yourself or you just wanted to experience?
00:31:26.000I was almost 100% positive I knew that I had balls and I wouldn't, you know, weenie out.
00:31:33.000But until you do it, you don't know for sure.
00:31:35.000Growing up as a kid on the hood and being arrested five times and all the trouble I got in.
00:34:24.000And when you look back on all that stuff and all that intense aggression and all those thoughts, did you take anything out of that that you carry with you as an older man?
00:35:15.000Well, I mean he's lost 40 pounds this guy I saw him pick up a Corvette when we were kids and Now he has trouble getting up steps Wow Yeah, Agent Orange is some scary shit,
00:35:50.000It's like I sat next to McNamara when he was president of the World Bank, who was one of the fathers of the Vietnam War, and he was a weird dude.
00:36:01.000He said that the world is going to end in the apocalypse, and it's going to be the haves against the have-nots someday.
00:36:10.000He says, hopefully, you won't be around when that happens.
00:37:30.000So you think that the way they, like for instance, where they treat women, the way they won't let women drive, the way they make them wear their religious, how do you say it?
00:38:22.000Well, I would be absolutely fascinated if I found a group of chimpanzees that had figured out how to make fire with sticks and were building structures and were starting some sort of an organized war against other chimpanzees.
00:38:58.000Maybe 100 years from now, we won't be ready to go to other planets, but maybe someone out there is just a little bit more advanced than us, and they're watching.
00:39:59.000And we've been guesstimating for years and years and years that Aramco's got a couple hundred million barrels, maybe three, four, five hundred million barrels.
00:40:09.000That report's going to show they have trillions of barrels And there's no fucking way they're ever going to let fracking, electric cars, or anything else.
00:40:19.000When they're out of their trillions of barrels, then they're going to let electric cars come to pass.
00:40:24.000So you think like all these oil crisis warnings and all the talk about them running out of oil in places is all bullshit?
00:40:38.000In August 2014, I was on not a show as prestigious as yours, but some other guy's show, and I said when oil was $120 a barrel, we will see $40 oil before we see $200 oil.
00:41:02.000Now, there's a whole bunch of reasons why I know that.
00:41:04.000Having done business in the Middle East, knowing Aramco's got hundreds of trillions of barrels, knowing that when the king of Saudi Arabia passed away about a year and a half ago, and his brother, who's considered not as bright as his half-brother died,
00:41:21.000and who hates Americans, allegedly, and who is sick and tired of hearing about fracking, that we're going to end the frackers forever.
00:41:32.000See, OPEC is great, except there's no accountability.
00:41:35.000There's only two countries in the world that actually adhere to OPEC. Canada, three countries.
00:41:42.000Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. Everybody else cheats.
00:41:58.000So they don't drive down the price of the market.
00:42:01.000So now what they're doing with fracking is they're making oil in America so readily available that what they're doing in the Middle East is dropping the price down low so that the fracking is not worth doing.
00:42:24.000So if they keep oil between 40 and 60 for the next 100 years, all the frackers are fucked.
00:42:32.000Yeah, and how do you feel about fracking?
00:42:35.000Because I've heard mixed stories about fracking or mixed reports and mixed opinions.
00:42:40.000Some people believe that it's a good way for us to be independent with our oil and to break off from this whole Weird sort of crisis in this situation that we have with the Middle East.
00:42:51.000And other people feel like it's super dangerous.
00:42:53.000And what we're doing is we're potentially poisoning water supplies.
00:42:56.000We're creating earthquakes in some place that's as stable as Oklahoma, which was like seismically, it was a non-entity, like never had any issues with earthquakes.
00:43:39.000It's not poisoning the water supply like the protesters are saying.
00:43:45.000But by the same token, why frack when, if my theory is correct, about Saudi Arabia having hundreds of trillions and they're never going to allow the fracked oil to come to market,
00:44:30.000But now Trump says that you can have the pipeline.
00:44:34.000Because he's looked at the same studies that I've looked at, and it's all online on Google, is that There is this much in the United States, and the environmental things that may be hurting is this much in the United States.
00:44:47.000So you're talking, you spread your arms up very wide for people listening, and then when you said about environmental concerns, you put it very small.
00:44:55.000But isn't it something that if we could avoid those very small environmental disasters, those very small environmental disasters, they're going to impact that area for thousands of years.
00:45:08.000Sure it is, but I mean, there's more than, you know, there's the one side of an argument, the other side of the argument, and then somewhere in between is the truth.
00:45:20.000But do you think that the only way for us to prosper is to put those areas in danger?
00:45:24.000I mean, if you say that there is a potential for an environmental disaster that could affect that area for thousands of years, take that risk for financial gain No, I'm not saying for a financial gain.
00:46:08.000Yeah, okay, but the the fact is that Politically, whoever gets in office, and right now we have Trump, and he's backed by the Senate and the Congress, etc., has promised to be like an isolationist,
00:47:19.000Well, I mean, when you talk about the Iraq War and you talk about the Afghanistan War, those are the longest wars we've engaged in the United States.
00:48:08.000But, I mean, don't you think that in terms of, like, if you compare pre-Bush, you know, when 9-11 happened, from then on, we've been in this perpetual state of war.
00:48:17.000But during the entire eight years that Clinton was in office, although there were some military actions, it was one of the more peaceful times.
00:49:18.000No, no, but I mean, if you can kill the half-brother of the president, you can kill the president.
00:49:22.000Well, that would probably be a better idea.
00:49:23.000But if they did do that, don't you think it would just create a vacuum, like the same thing that happened in Libya when they killed Gaddafi?
00:49:28.000I don't read enough books to know that.
00:49:30.000I don't read any books in Libya, but I've watched a lot of documentaries on that whole Qaddafi situation.
00:50:01.000And if you talk to people that were there pre-Qaddafi or during Qaddafi's administration now, like it's way safer then when Qaddafi was running things.
00:50:10.000Obviously, if you were an enemy of Gaddafi, it wasn't safe for you.
00:51:12.000I think there's a real possibility that information...
00:51:15.000And I think there's some battles going on right now with information where people are trying to figure out...
00:51:20.000How it should affect things and what it should affect and what kind of an impact it's ultimately going to have in our culture, but I think it's having a massive impact.
00:51:44.000Years, the research for a PhD paper can be now researched in days or weeks or if that.
00:51:51.000Yeah, it's a magical time when it comes to that.
00:51:55.000And I feel like that, if anything, is going to change foreign countries quicker than any other kind of change.
00:52:02.000Because I feel like just having the access to the information that things are different in other parts of the world, that people are thinking differently than they ever thought before, that there's more understanding about people, that we have more in common than this idea that countries are against each other.
00:52:18.000The countries are consisted of people that don't even know each other for the most part, and we're supposed to be against some other people that we don't know in some other part of the world.
00:52:25.000Well, why is it then Tiananmen Square in Beijing 30-whatever years ago it was.
00:52:34.000We were in China not too long ago as a guest of the government.
00:52:39.000Most kids don't even know that that happened because they're not allowed to have Google.
00:53:07.000The UK arguably has an oil-driven economy now vis-a-vis the North Sea.
00:53:13.000The US... It doesn't really have an oil-driven economy, but it has a big, big part of what happens.
00:53:19.000Now, when you are making loans from financial institutions at $100, $120 oil with projections, because some dipshit MBA did a spreadsheet on them, to $200 oil, and you make loans, and now all those loans are underwater,
00:53:37.000They made loans based on the prediction that it would continue to go up.
00:53:40.000So some sort of universal growth or continual growth?
00:53:45.000But anybody that's from the business, like I was, knew that that was horseshit.
00:53:49.000Why did they think that unlimited growth in oil was going to happen and it was going to get to $200 a barrel if guys like you thought it was horseshit?
00:53:58.000Because a whole other generation has come up that didn't suffer the last oil decline.
00:54:04.000The last oil decline was the early 80s through the mid 80s when oil went from $40 a barrel to $6 a barrel and then went back up to $35 a barrel.
00:54:13.000All those guys are either dead, in jail or retired.
00:54:17.000And now they got young guys who learned something in a book, went to good schools, know how to do spreadsheets, etc.
00:54:38.000But we don't have the people that have connected the dots.
00:54:41.000Now, to connect the dots to find out how much the Middle East actually has in barrels of oil, these trillions of barrels of oil, how would one do that?
00:55:20.000And I think it's very surprising that Aramco is going to go public with the numbers, because it's been one of the great big secrets of all time in the energy business.
00:55:28.000Do you think they're going public with the numbers to discourage further fracking?
00:58:09.000It was a book that was saying that oil is not fossil fuels, and that it's not what people think it is, but it's actually a renewable process that the earth creates this oil, and that wells go dry, and then if you leave them alone for a while, they build up with oil again.
00:58:25.000No, well, that's a theory, but nobody's ever left the well alone long enough to find out if that's true or not.
00:58:33.000They're talking about hundreds of thousands of years.
00:59:14.000And when it comes up one pipe and there's a separator, sometimes you just have a pure oil well, sometimes you have just a pure gas well, but mostly you have a mix.
01:00:20.000So it's just deteriorating leaves and trees and things along those lines, and then it slowly but surely over millions of years becomes oil.
01:00:27.000What a weird thing to power our world on.
01:00:30.000Well, I mean, it's been around a long time.
01:00:33.000But if we really wanted electric batteries...
01:00:36.000We've had those 40 years longer than we've had gasoline cars.
01:00:41.000Solar, you probably don't know this, but for every square foot on the earth, the sun, natural sun, advancing the sun's light, gives between 10,000 and 13,000 times more energy than the planet needs.
01:01:01.00010,000 to 13,000 for every square foot just from the sun.
01:01:55.000The grid meaning the power thing, like, what's the power thing up here?
01:02:00.000Whatever the power company, electric company is.
01:02:02.000So you sell into the grid, and they will tell you, when the government was giving subsidies, they were paying like 18 to 20 cents per kilowatt.
01:02:20.000We lent out hundreds of billions of dollars to these solar guys because at the 13 to 18 cents a megawatt, and then supply, then we had too much supply because everybody's doing it, and drove down the price.
01:02:35.000So now these poor bastards that started these solar deals 15, 20 years ago can't make any money.
01:02:42.000The guys that benefit the most from solar are the farmers that own the land that lease to the solar companies.
01:02:51.000So it's another one of those unlimited growth things where they felt like it was 10 cents back then per kilowatt and it's eventually going to be 20 and they thought it was going to go up and instead it went down.
01:04:17.000We're spinning around I was like you get they're getting electricity from these wind robots like how fucking weird is this and each one of those deals Costs roughly speaking a million dollars Wow each one And the technology Has come a long long way in the 30 or 40 years that they've had those wind wind deals.
01:04:36.000Yeah, but Supposedly, the wind currents don't change.
01:05:05.000And they have a huge $500 million scientific research lab, most of which is paid for by the United States government.
01:05:13.000So we're down there and we're talking to all the goofball scientists running around in shorts, t-shirts, and flip-flops, and it's 40 below zero.
01:05:21.000Okay, because the sun never goes down.
01:07:35.000The next big wave of class action lawsuits, if global warming happens in the next 20 to 50 years, is going to be the disclaimers that were not written in an investment prospecti for condominiums, buildings, everywhere.
01:09:03.000Do you think they're going to figure out how to give you new eyes or do you think they're going to figure out how to shoot some stem cells in your eyes or rejuvenate them?
01:09:09.000Well, I want to hear after the program about the stem cells in Vegas.
01:09:12.000Yeah, they've got a lot of crazy shit going on.
01:09:17.000I talked to Dr. Davidson from the UFC and they're beginning trials.
01:09:20.000I think they were going to do it this Monday.
01:09:23.000So, past Monday, a couple of days ago, where they're going to shoot stem cells directly into discs of people with degenerative disc disease, where their discs are shrinking because of compression of the spine and, you know, just overall life and wearing down.
01:09:36.000They're going to be able to regenerate disc tissue.
01:09:38.000Well, what's the story about, I read a couple days ago, a transgender guy broke the eye socket of a girl in an MMA fight.
01:10:11.000If you get punched or kicked or elbowed really hard in the eyeball, which sounds horrible to people, but you get a blowout fracture where you actually blow out the bone in the back of the eyeball.
01:10:21.000So they have to literally take your eye out and they have to go behind it, repair.
01:10:26.000Usually sometimes they have to put like a little plate or something that...
01:10:29.000It puts the bone back together in the back of your eye.
01:10:49.000Yeah, I've been pretty vocal about, there was a pretty famous case of a guy who had been a guy for 30 years, became a woman for two years, you know, or, you know, went transgender, whatever you want to call it, and started fighting MMA and wasn't telling these women that she used to be a man for 30 fucking years.
01:11:47.000And if these people want to continue this crazy narrative that once you decide that you identify with being a woman, you should be able to compete as a woman, it's fucking crazy.
01:13:00.000There was some holes in her approach that were exposed by Holly Holm, the one who knocked her out, the girl who had kicked her.
01:13:06.000Holly had the perfect style to deal with Ronda's style.
01:13:09.000She's really strong, she's fast, she's an amazing athlete, and she is an outstanding striker.
01:13:15.000And so Ronda's thing was to charge at you like a fucking bull.
01:13:18.000And Holly just played the matador brilliantly, caught her, lit her up while she was coming in, and then eventually head kicked her and stopped her.
01:13:25.000Once you get knocked out like that, first of all, she was very, very confident while she was the champion.
01:14:11.000Either young kids that don't understand what they're doing, they just have this opportunity to be able to talk shit, or they're a bunch of fucking losers and they're finding this opportunity to shit on someone who was this incredible, bright, shining star that fizzled out.
01:14:24.000So she lost to Holly Holm and then she came back in a Far worse matchup against Amanda Nunes.
01:14:30.000And I thought Nunes, before Holly Holm beat her, I thought Nunes was the most dangerous matchup for her.
01:14:35.000Because Amanda Nunes is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt and she has heavy, heavy hands.
01:15:33.000The women's bantamweight division and became this dominant force and stopped all these people and looked invincible All those women were coming up below her and they were they were getting better and they were evolving and they were like the rest of MMA They were reaching this incredibly high level whereas the women's MMA movement and then in the early days You know three four years ago if you watch women's MMA the skill level was nowhere near commensurate with the men's skill level Like,
01:15:59.000the men's skill level, three, four years ago, they're better today, but only a little bit better.
01:16:04.000But the women are way better today than they were, because it's a new thing.
01:16:07.000It's like 1997 for mixed martial arts, for men.
01:16:12.000That's what, like, three or four years ago was.
01:16:14.000But now, the women have essentially pretty much caught up, or close to it.
01:16:18.000There's very high-level striking, very high-level submissions, very high-level fluid overall mixed martial arts games that you're seeing in the women's division.
01:16:26.000And Rhonda, in a lot of ways, as spectacular as she was, had a very limited approach.
01:17:43.000Maybe like a Chuck Liddell or one of the early pioneers of men's MMA. Super talented, really fun to watch, but perhaps limited in their approach.
01:18:46.000I just show up and things are happening.
01:18:47.000I talk about the things that are happening.
01:18:49.000I don't have to do a lot of work to get there.
01:18:53.000I just kind of get there and I watch and I talk about the fights.
01:18:57.000The promoting angle of it is unbelievably brutal.
01:19:00.000You have to rely on so many people to do their job, so many people to have their shit together.
01:19:04.000You gotta rely on these crazy, impulsive maniacs known as MMA fighters to get their weight in order and to have their camp go through without severely injuring themselves and to do things smartly and intelligently and conservatively so that they can show up for the dance and be able to perform at their best.
01:19:20.000You know, you're asking a lot of a lot of different people.
01:19:34.000Just devastating that we were, you know, we were all ready for that fight, and then the day of the fight, he can't make, the day of the weigh-ins, rather, he can't make the weight, and they sent him to the hospital.
01:23:07.000If you take $800 and you figure out, you do a spreadsheet on the growth per year at 67,000%, and if you do the total growth, it's 55 million percent.
01:23:57.000Now, let's just say that right now you make, let's throw out numbers, a million dollars a year off your podcast, and you have no other shareholders.
01:24:09.000Now, you want to take it public, and you want to take it public on one of the secondary or tertiary exchanges, because this wouldn't be big enough to take the New York Stock Exchange.
01:24:18.000And you want to sell shares in your baby for $1,000 a share.
01:26:02.000If Brock Lesnar got into MMA when he was young, if somebody grabbed him right out of college and really trained him properly, better yet, right out of high school, and trained him properly, just an unbelievable freak athlete.
01:26:33.000And, you know, he just was a guy who got into MMA very late in life and wasn't a natural striker and really didn't have the natural striking capability.
01:26:43.000When I say natural, I mean like fluid...
01:26:46.000Really effortless striking that you get when you've been doing it for years and years and years.
01:26:51.000That's one of the hardest things to learn as guys get older when they're in their 30s and they're learning how to strike.
01:26:56.000Learning how to strike against someone who's really seasoned and good, there's just going to be these openings and it just takes a few shots.
01:27:02.000One, two, three, get in and all of a sudden you're diminished and the leg kick and then the fucking shot to the body and you're hurt.
01:27:08.000And then, boom, you saw what happened when he fought Cain Velasquez.
01:28:07.000For $50,000 a point, when they first got started, a bunch of buddies of mine in Connecticut were riding in a limo and they showed me a demo tape.
01:30:15.000And I think they're doing it in a way where most people don't even see them earn their money.
01:30:19.000I mean, they're out in these arenas, you know, they're playing this state and that state, and they're going on the road, and they're slamming each other and throwing each other into the turnbuckle and elbowing each other in the face.
01:30:33.000And a giant percentage of those guys wind up having problems with pain pills, severe pain in their body, always constantly, you know, back injuries, knee injuries, neck injuries, elbow injuries.
01:30:44.000I mean, it's just, it's a fucking brutal way to get paid.
01:32:58.000Some would consider maybe, like, there's some people that are more sensitive that would say, well, that's a distasteful thing to even bring up.
01:33:03.000Like, why is there honor in shooting people?
01:33:06.000But I think what you were trying to figure out when you went into this big game hunting with handguns thing, whether or not you would pussy out when the moment was there, is because you knew that it's a significant challenge when your life is legitimately on the line.
01:33:21.000People act different when they think they're gonna die.
01:34:51.000I've had this conversation with people before because, you know, if you have anybody on a podcast that is saying anything controversial, like you're saying about global warming, people go, oh my god, can't believe you had a climate change denier on your show.
01:35:03.000But you're not a climate change denier.
01:35:05.000What you're saying is that it's an exaggerated effect that human beings have had, and regardless of whether or not we had that effect at all, if you look at, like, the end of the Ice Age, you look at all these different monumental changes in the temperature of the United States versus the temperature of the world globally.
01:36:52.000So even if you did something, like say if you jump rope for three days straight, and you made the Guinness Book of World Records, you'd have to pay to get in there.
01:36:58.000It'd take you six, seven years to get on.
01:37:33.000But so far, even though I had one of the world's largest talent agencies, and I had 10 of the top 15 production companies say that vets don't make good TV. Now, they won't say that in public.
01:37:49.000What do they mean by vets don't make good TV? Veterans don't make good TV unless they're wrestling around in the mud.
01:37:57.000By some names that you probably know, even.
01:38:00.000And I've been told by four-star generals, names that, positively, everybody on this podcast would know.
01:38:07.000I've been told by congressmen, senators.
01:38:10.000I've been told by TV personalities, moving heads, you know, that all come out for vets.
01:38:17.000Except when they're asked to do something, and I don't want their money.
01:38:22.000So what kind of stuff are you talking about, like do something?
01:38:25.000Okay, well, I mean, will you be on an advisory board saying that putting vets in business after they try to transition from the military to civilian life and try to reduce the 22 vets that commit suicide a day?
01:38:43.000And on CBS they'll say, yeah, yeah, yeah, but when you ask them to do something, they're not as generous with their time.
01:38:51.000And I could understand if I was asking them for money.
01:38:55.000But what I found out, Joe, all these guys, save a few, still need to make a living.
01:39:03.000And they're not going to get paid for this.
01:39:05.000So they have less time, pro bono time, and charity time than they let people on when they're on CNBC, etc.
01:42:26.000Your shtick is you pretend to be outside the box when I believe that you're more inside the box than these melonheads listening know or realize.
01:43:59.000Well, I think people just need to understand that there's consequences.
01:44:02.000There's consequences that you pay to constantly seeking comfort and avoiding discomfort and avoiding hard work.
01:44:09.000And those consequences are you're never gonna feel self-realized.
01:44:11.000You're never gonna feel like you accomplished anything.
01:44:13.000You're never gonna have this feeling of understanding that Difficulty and struggle and and the ability to push through that is a muscle and you develop that muscle by doing it and once you do you develop a lot of self-satisfaction and you develop peace of mind and you You understand that you can overcome obstacles if you don't have to overcome obstacles You never know whether or not you can like what you're talking about with trigger time Unless you were faced with actual adversity You don't understand how you're gonna feel and how you're gonna react when you overcome that adversity One
01:44:44.000of the things I believe that I'm the best on the planet in doing is I get you to do what you don't want to do to be what you want to be.
01:46:00.000The people that are listening to this, 20 years from now, their children and grandchildren are going to say, grandma, grandpa, what the fuck were you doing other than having your thumb up your ass during the period of free money?
01:46:11.000Now, when you say interest rates are free, are you talking about business loans?
01:46:15.000I mean, it's never going to get, well, it can only go up from here.
01:46:21.000And Yellen, the head of the Federal Reserve, has already upped them once, and she says, I guess she's going to up them a couple more times.
01:46:28.000But historically, interest rates ought to be 8, 10, 12, not 2, 3. Right.
01:46:34.000If you can't make a business proposition work at 2 or 3% interest, so you pay one or two points over that, Which is the vigorous or the interest that they get.
01:46:44.000I only mean this metaphorically, kids.
01:46:46.000You ought to swallow a fucking revolver.
01:49:17.000And so when you come to me and I look through your psychological profile and I measure you day by day, sitting there for 14, 16 hours a day, then you have one hour of private time with me and I go through this, you know,
01:52:10.000Pulling the trigger, taking action, following your dream.
01:52:15.000So when you have these guys crying, you're just sort of exposing to them what emotional baggage they're carrying around with them that's hindering their professional life?
01:52:26.000Well, that amongst a bunch of other stuff, yeah.
01:52:27.000But that's kind of going to be a good summary.
01:52:30.000So, by this eight-day pressure cooker that you put these guys through, when you're making them work all day for eight days in a row, you essentially, like, establish, like, this is what it's like to try to be successful.
01:54:49.000Now, if you take a kid, 18, that's got physical attributes, you can train him into being an MA guy probably easier than you take a 38-year-old, for sure.
01:58:44.000And so if people want to learn more about your stuff, and if anybody ever wants to go to the castle and go through this crazy eight-day seminar, how do they get in touch with you?