In this episode, the guys talk about Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, and their favorite songs from the 60s and 70s. Also, the boys talk about what it would be like to go back in time and listen to music like the 60's and 70's, and what it was like to be a rock and roller in the 70's and 80's. And, of course, the end of the episode is dedicated to the life and death of the legendary rock god himself, Jimmie Hendrix. We hope you enjoy this episode and that it makes you think about the incredible legacy that Jimi left behind, and how much better it would have been if he were still alive. Logo by Courtney DeKorte. Theme by Mavus White. Music by PSOVOD and tyops. The 500 is a production of Native Creative Podcasts. Our theme song is Come Alone by The Weakerthans, courtesy of Lotuspool Records, and our ad music is by Suneatersound Records. We are in no way affiliated with Native Creative, and we do not own the rights to either of their music or any of their songs used in this episode. All credit goes to original music used in the song. This episode was produced and produced by Native Creative Commons and other original music. If you like what you hear, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and/or share it with a friend who does not have a good listening experience, we'll be listening to this episode in the next week. Thank you! and we'll try to make it better in the future episodes. Thank you so much for all of the work we've done so far this week, we really appreciate the feedback we've gotten through this week's work. We really appreciate all the support we've received so far, it really means a lot. - thank you, folks! xoxo, Ben and Joe - Thank you for all the love and support we can't wait to hear back from all of our listeners. Timestamps: 0:00-3: 1:00:00 - The Power of Love 3: 4:30 - Voodoo Child 5: The Power Of Love 6:40 - The Last Song 7:15 - The Who, The Who? 8:20 - I'm Not a Bad Thing? 9:00 11:40 12:30 13:00 | VoodooChild 14:20 15:00 / 16:10 16:00/16:30/17:30 / 17:40 / 18:20/16 17:50
00:00:38.000I've listened to the Jimi Hendrix Live Machine Gun, you know that song?
00:00:44.000God damn, that's one of those songs where sometimes you hear it and you just go, oh wow, like I've maybe been missing out on how good this fucking song is.
00:01:41.000I think Phil was like 18 or 19 or something.
00:01:44.000And he was working as like a stagehand.
00:01:47.000His job was to hold up the speaker while Jimi Hendrix was on stage because the stage was so small and the speaker was kind of rocking so he had to stand there Stand there and hold up the speaker.
00:01:58.000He said Jimi Hendrix was five feet in front of me.
00:02:01.000He said it was fucking incredible When Hendrix was just sort of becoming Hendrix So early.
00:03:22.000There was Chuck Berry, and there was Little Richard, and then there was Elvis, and there was all these rock and roll guys, and then...
00:03:29.000All of a sudden, there's this eruption out of that, and it's Led Zeppelin, and it's The Who, and it's Hendrix, and it's people that were just on a completely different level.
00:04:02.000If you're the guy who created the opening riff to Stairway to Heaven, it's about your song, and then you try to do it.
00:04:07.000Well, the other side of that spectrum is really fucked up, though, too, because now you're in this game where, like, if you play anything remotely sounds like that, you'll get sued.
00:05:12.000I mean, it's almost like it's not hurting the original song.
00:05:15.000Well, it's almost like a collaboration at that point, because your song was inspired by another song, and obviously there's credit due for that, but it's just an interesting way that the pie gets cut up.
00:05:24.000And the way people just tenaciously hold onto their piece in this way that...
00:05:29.000I don't know, it really bums me out, to be honest.
00:05:31.000I mean, obviously you need to get paid and make a living, but...
00:05:36.000Inspirationally speaking it just the barometer is just so like people just go so far off The course in order to get credit and money for things that it's just bullshit But I think it's so difficult you were just talking about that in there It's so difficult to have a career that keeps paying you right if anybody has something that's close to To the sun.
00:07:03.000You mean this isn't like a live DVD? Okay.
00:07:05.000No, but as soon as it gets to be a live DVD, there's two options.
00:07:10.000One is you could pay for it all yourself, pay for the filming, and then sell it to whatever organization, whether it's Netflix or what have you, or Comedy Central.
00:09:34.000But I think I can say that our relationship has made my other relationships in my life so much better because you have to administer patience and listen and really just have, you know...
00:09:55.000It's also there's a balancing act that some people never achieve of listening to someone and thinking about what they're saying and then responding because of that or just saying what's on your mind.
00:10:06.000Sometimes you just want to say what's on your mind.
00:10:08.000Sometimes you have to absorb what this person is saying to you, and then you have to respect it and address it and try to figure out how, as a person that cares about them, what's the best way to get out what you're thinking.
00:13:32.000Instagram uses a lot of filters to make you look unhealthy.
00:13:36.000Isn't there a lot of shaming with the meme stuff though now?
00:13:39.000It's like if you start stealing people's memes, you're a target.
00:13:43.000Well, yeah, but the problem is a lot of people are still not aware.
00:13:47.000There's a lot of people that have become famous because they have websites, and their pages get millions and millions and millions of followers, and all they're doing is stealing people's memes.
00:13:54.000And some of them have been forced to credit people, and some of them just sort of like that fat Jewish guy.
00:13:59.000He just sort of writes the person who created its name in the comic.
00:15:24.000But if you, Ben, had an Instagram page and you started putting up those memes, people would steal them.
00:15:31.000But if you made your own, if you just decided, you know what, as an exercise, in between writing songs, I'm going to write some fucking joke memes.
00:25:33.000I get a lot of really interesting articles off of social media and really interesting articles that I find online and really interesting, up-to-date information about space and science that's very, very valuable to me.
00:25:46.000But then there's also a lot of scrolling through nonsense.
00:29:14.000You take this little character and you propel him with his own farts with your space bar and your arrows and you think it sounds stupid but you play your first game and you're just laughing.
00:30:06.000But I think there's also, like, there's all these different disorders and things that they're coming up with, like, you know, young kids and their identity with Instagram and how it reflects their self-worth and how many likes they get and who liked their photos.
00:30:20.000I was looking at an article today where they were saying that girls as early as nine years old are getting surgery to make their vaginas look better.
00:32:08.000They're getting into that blurry area where they're doing things that are just a little bit sensational, a little sensationalism, and they're trying to get people to pay attention.
00:34:47.000I just feel like such a piece of shit.
00:34:49.000Like, you should be doing something better with your time, Suzanne, than looking at, you know, the, I don't know, before and after pictures of...
00:37:46.000All those government agencies are a bunch of puppets when it comes to diet and exercise and what you're allowed to put in cigarettes and what you're allowed to put in all sorts of different drugs that get passed.
00:37:59.000We were talking about Nevada just became legal for marijuana.
00:38:03.000It's fucking bananas how it took until 2017 where states finally started making weed legal while people were dropping off left and right from opiate pills.
00:38:16.000There was a study that Dr. Hart Is that his name?
00:39:07.000I mean, they make this warm, wonderful feeling in your belly that is the antithesis of writhing in pain and being out of commission for a day.
00:39:48.000Those things are super bad for your body.
00:39:50.000But it's interesting that that's what you would take as opposed to having weed legal and all of its different medicinal facets that can help you.
00:40:00.000Well, the difference is obviously there's a psychoactive effect that's probably unwanted for a lot of people that take Advil.
00:40:05.000They just want to get rid of the headache.
00:40:07.000They don't want to trip their fucking balls off.
00:40:29.000Like, I've definitely gotten edibles that were duds, and you have too.
00:40:32.000It's just like, oh, I think they missed something.
00:40:34.000You know, it's still sort of like a primitive market.
00:40:37.000So I think a lot of the companies, and you see some of them, like, come in and come out just like, boom, boom, boom, like new restaurants didn't make it.
00:40:45.000I think there's definitely a search for more reliable product in that regard.
00:42:59.000Okay, well, a friend of yours had never had weed before, and someone gave him an edible, and he slept for like 24 hours and woke up like an entire day later.
00:44:18.000And I took one hit and it was like zero to a hundred.
00:44:23.000It was just like you exhaled and then you just take off.
00:44:26.000And I mean, I'd never smoked DMT before and I'm very sensitive to weed.
00:44:30.000So I was high for like two, three hours.
00:44:34.000And at one point, We were sitting on a balcony, and I was watching the street, and it flipped into negative, like a photograph, like the colors changed.
00:44:44.000Wait, man, this is like, you smoked the DMT, and how many minutes later is this happening?
00:46:52.000But it is kind of interesting that they only tell you, like, sanctioned things.
00:46:57.000Like, you're never going to see, like, a whole Fox News article on the benefits of psychedelic drugs, and how it could change your consciousness, and how Suzanne smoked pot with Duncan Trussell with...
00:52:05.000I mean, I think there's a lot of bullshit with...
00:52:08.000You need to be skeptical from the external people that try to tell you stuff.
00:52:13.000But I've definitely had people help me understand what all that shit means when I've had dreams like that with my deceased relatives and they told me things and then they happened.
00:53:37.000A view into a mystical world that doesn't, in the eyes of science, it doesn't seem to make sense, right?
00:53:46.000It doesn't seem to want to exist if there's another world where people can come back from the dead and talk to you and have conversations with you.
00:53:53.000But one of the arguments that I've always used with psychedelic drugs is that if you feel like in a psychedelic experience you went to heaven and had a conversation with God or you went to another dimension and talked to the infinite wisdom that controls the The cells of the universe.
00:54:11.000If you did do that, or if you took the drugs and felt like you did that, it's the same experience.
00:54:19.000It's like, I don't know if God's real, and I don't know what the fuck happens when you take psychedelic drugs, but god damn it feels similar.
00:54:25.000Like, there's moments where you have intense psychedelic trips where you really do believe that You're in the presence of like this pure wisdom and pure love that sees you in a way that is undeniable and you can't argue it.
00:55:28.000Is that you finding some portal to another dimension?
00:55:32.000Is that the reason why your brain produces these chemicals in the first place is because we transition during the time of death into this new realm?
00:55:40.000But if your concept of what divinity is includes all of that stuff, it gets to be both.
00:55:47.000Sure, but there's a real problem with defining something that you just can't define.
00:55:53.000The whole problem with psychedelic trips, I don't know if you guys feel this way, but for me, it's always like, whenever I tell somebody about it, I'm like, why even use words?
00:56:20.000You know, and that's why I think there's such a wide array of people's theories and beliefs and thoughts, and they're all valid because we don't have, there's no agreed-upon language to say, okay, this is how we all feel and this is how we're doing it.
00:56:35.000I always go back to music with this stuff, but there's a similar...
00:56:40.000Pathway and trend in music, where people are constantly redefining the language of it.
00:56:44.000And, you know, there's a kind of a mainstream openness to that, or there isn't.
00:56:49.000But the idea, the point is, the language is dynamic, you know?
00:56:52.000And it goes on to continuously try and express something that's kind of inexpressible.
00:56:58.000And that's why it acts as a magnet for people's thought, because they say, okay, this is kind of our pathway of experimentation to understand...
00:57:08.000Well, it's like mainstream is like the fast food of music a little bit, and then there's some more obscure like restaurants off the beaten path that you've never tasted anything like this.
00:57:17.000And they're developing the vocabulary that most people are like, that fucking tastes gross.
00:57:23.000But in 50 years, you know, that vocabulary kind of seeps its way in if it has value.
00:57:30.000I always felt like, I mean, you guys are the musicians, but I always felt like what music sort of is is almost like a vessel that the artist fills with emotion and with, like, passion.
00:57:42.000And it's almost like it doesn't even matter what the words are sometimes.
00:57:45.000Sometimes it does because those words and the feeling behind them enhance the song.
00:59:10.000There's one version that's like the real bluesy version of Voodoo Child.
00:59:15.000You know, there's the Voodoo Child's Slight Return, and there's that other version, which is like much more acoustic or much more guitar-driven.
01:00:21.000Well, and they're derivative of a lot of things, of a lot of different techniques, so then you kind of have this, like, at least for music, I'll speak for myself, I just feel like I have this, like, garble of stuff that just, when people are like, what are, how would you describe your sound?
01:00:34.000It's so awkward, because you're not like, I sound just like that.
01:00:38.000You know, there's, it's just such a...
01:02:05.000Well, you know, it's just lazy entertaining.
01:02:08.000It's also that job of being the radio host is a tough fucking job.
01:02:13.000It's you get three minutes to talk to someone you never talked to before and maybe you're not so good at it and DJs on radio stations nowadays, they're not even really DJs anymore.
01:02:22.000They don't get to pick the fucking songs.
01:08:46.000And then going into the 60s, there's this dichotomy of the people kind of experiencing other areas of life that aren't this sanitized version of society.
01:09:36.000The 1970s sweeping Drug Legislations Act, the Schedule I Act from Richard Nixon, as soon as it became illegal to possess anything, whether it's marijuana, which was illegal for a long time, mushrooms, it was really hard to do drugs.
01:09:49.000And you just got this massive drop-off in the creativity of music in the 80s.
01:09:54.000Well, then that grunge was the anger that was the product of that disillusionment.
01:10:01.000Well, they grew up with Reagan on TV. Yeah, that's fucking crazy.
01:11:11.000The spectrum of that is very wide, whether it's just a folk song or it's like...
01:11:18.000You're at a club, and it's got that whole rhythm of electronic music, and you're just with a group of people, and you're having this, like, tribal collective thing.
01:11:59.000Well, you know, he's dealing with a lot of, like, really weird political correct weirdness.
01:12:03.000This guy's a very thoughtful guy, a very well-spoken guy.
01:12:06.000But people want you to follow their guidelines for how you should think.
01:12:12.000Communicate and what you should accept and what you should argue against or not argue against and It becomes this weird sort of control game that goes on and that's what's happening with a lot of people in this in This nation is fine nation right now people are realizing that they have control over people so they're exerting that control almost the same way a person in power does like One of the things Abraham Lincoln said that was really brilliant,
01:12:37.000he said, most men can overcome adversity.
01:12:46.000Which I thought was really fascinating.
01:12:48.000For a lot of people that are in big positions of power, like the President of the United States, for a perfect example, the idea of him getting through that and not falling apart is way...
01:13:01.000You realize what a bad motherfucker Obama was.
01:13:31.000There was one thing that he said he was joking around at that White House press correspondence dinner about the Jonas Brothers and about...
01:14:48.000Look, the people that are trying to kill those...
01:14:51.000Terrorists out there and the ISIS members and all the different people that are doing horrible things like blowing up Ariana Grande concerts and all that kind of shit.
01:15:00.000I mean, the people that are trying to stop those people have an insanely difficult job.
01:16:19.000How can you process that level of, I don't know, variety?
01:16:25.000That's a shitty word for it, but there's so much shit going on.
01:16:28.000This is why all the social media is happening because along with being a distraction and a problem, it's also helping us cope with the degree of the world.
01:16:49.000Yeah, but I think this is what we were talking about earlier of like trying to I mean at the fucking smallest level of like learn how to apologize but learn learn how to be different from each other and also work together and know that like we have different speeds and different beliefs and You know have compassion And I think that's where it's really crazy to have so much exposure to the global events and become desensitized to
01:17:19.000them because there's so much stuff that eventually you can't compute, you can't process it.
01:17:25.000Obviously, there's no excuse for making jokes about drones and killing people.
01:17:44.000A group of people working together, but he has to speak for everyone.
01:17:48.000And so does Trump, and so does whoever is president.
01:17:52.000And that's what's really interesting, is that I think what has happened now with the election of Trump is that people are becoming so much more aware that there's an entire cabinet and Congress, and the people that we elect, that we choose, are going to be part of that entire team.
01:18:17.000You get to see corruption in a weird way, like a real transparent way.
01:18:21.000But, speaking of corruption, and I talked to you about this guy about Represent Us, and it's this organization that I went to this meeting and was really informed for the first time.
01:18:33.000I'd never really understood how people in Congress kind of came to be these, you know, runners in these elections, whereas It costs $40,000 to $60,000 a day to run for Congress That's insane.
01:18:51.000And Josh Silver, I talked to you about him a little bit, started this organization, and they're working on anti-corruption bills so that anybody can run an incredibly over-accomplished, over-qualified person from,
01:19:10.000say, Columbia or Harvard or wherever in the world or in the States.
01:19:49.000Did you know that when you have a platform, you're running for something?
01:19:52.000Like Stanhope was running for president for a while.
01:19:54.000We had a friend that ran for president.
01:19:56.000What he found while he was running for president is that he couldn't do stand-up shows anymore.
01:20:02.000Because if he was going to do something on stage, if it was like a public forum where people were coming to see him, he would have to allot time for his opponents.
01:21:00.000It needs to be updated for the internet and the 2017 world that we live in.
01:21:04.000And we need to figure out a better way to do it.
01:21:06.000We don't need the same sort of representative government that we always needed when you had to take a message from a fucking horse...
01:21:12.000The thing is, if you want that to change from the ground up, you're asking the people that are currently in office to bet against themselves.
01:21:37.000We all have to realize that we're all the same thing.
01:21:40.000And there's no kings anymore, and there should be.
01:21:43.000I mean, Edward Snowden tweeted this the other day, that people couldn't, at one point in time, couldn't imagine the idea that one day there'd be no kings.
01:21:50.000And they're going to say that, the same thing, about presidents one day.
01:22:42.000If you're not in a house, you're getting sun, you fucking asshole.
01:22:44.000This is that whole play on words bullshit that's happening in the media where it's like, People are, you know, you don't, they just, you know, circumvent around the truth or whatever they're trying to say with just stupid rhetoric.
01:23:24.000You're saying it to millions of people, and then millions of people are going to have similar conversations because of that.
01:23:29.000When you hear something interesting that someone talks about, you start talking about, hey, I heard this interesting conversation, really made me think about something.
01:23:35.000And then that just wasn't even available 10 years ago.
01:23:41.000Like, all of the social media stuff, all of the, whether it's YouTube, YouTube videos that people can make, or podcasts that people can make, or whatever the fuck it is, or blogs that people can write.
01:23:55.000And that flow of information has never been greater.
01:23:58.000It is an unstoppable river now, you know, to the point where that's why that baked Alaska dude was laughing like the fucking president jumped into the river.
01:24:07.000Like, he's in the crazy river, putting up memes and talking shit about people, joking around about some lady having a fucking plastic surgery.
01:24:15.000She had, like, a facelift, and he said she was bleeding.
01:24:51.0002015. 2015. So in spring of 2015, we thought it would be, this is when we put Punk Kid up for donations so we could buy a car, so we could tour, and we didn't want to buy a van because that's annoying.
01:26:01.000Ben had this great idea to get him to design a Tescalade for better economical touring.
01:26:08.000But to put it into perspective, though, we bought it with 60,000 miles and now it has like 160,000 miles on it.
01:26:14.000And that was just about a little over two years ago.
01:26:17.000Have you seen that shit he's going to do in California where he bores holes under Los Angeles and makes tunnels and you ride on a sled through the tunnel?
01:26:25.000I heard about this, but I heard about this briefly, actually.
01:26:28.000Yeah, you drop down into this tunnel and you don't drive your car.
01:28:47.000Hacking into any kind of car and I'm gonna shut you down and run you off this cliff or I'm gonna, you know, fuck with you and make your windows go up and down.
01:29:06.000You know that journalist, they think the big conspiracy theory is that he was killed because they overtook the controls of his car and slammed him into a tree and made him go 120 miles an hour.
01:29:38.000So he wrote this article about this general and the general had to step down because the general was joking around about Obama or something like that and there was just like some, he got a little loose.
01:29:55.000So this, apparently, they tried to say that he committed suicide.
01:29:59.000And some people believe he did commit suicide.
01:30:01.000And some people believe, so he's just flying down and just slams into a tree and his fucking car blows up.
01:30:09.000Here's the thing though, and this is like in the interest of full disclosure, they apparently said that they found amphetamines on him, on his body, right?
01:30:20.000So that could mean that he was under the influence of amphetamines when it happened, or it could mean that he takes Adderall, because a lot of journalists take Adderall.
01:30:30.000So if they found it in his system, it doesn't necessarily mean he was speeded up when he was driving like a fucking maniac because he was off the rails.
01:30:36.000It could just easily have meant that he uses Adderall to get his workload done, which a shitload of journalists do.
01:30:44.000And we talked to people that are experts.
01:30:46.000Boy, people that are experts that weigh in on conspiracy car crash evidence, they're weirdos.
01:30:51.000It's hard to find, like, who's right and who's wrong.
01:30:53.000But some people said that the way the car had separated, the way the engine had exploded and launched itself from the car indicates some sort of an explosion, more it does an impact.
01:31:06.000You know, because it just all, you know, hit the tree and blew up all at once.
01:31:41.000Like, you buy a new Escalade, it comes with a Wi-Fi hub, so all the people in the car can play on their iPads or whatever while you're driving.
01:31:48.000You link up to the internet that's on the actual car itself.
01:32:32.000You don't really have an answer to that question, because we don't even know what they could really do right now.
01:32:36.000Well, especially if part of the important thing we need to accept is that we're all the same thing, then we have to accept that we all have to start acting like the same thing at the same time, right?
01:32:47.000That's a very good point, but it gets lost when you start talking about people that are in the military and that are dealing with national emergencies or national security situations.
01:33:00.000You make a general retire because you chose...
01:33:26.000But these things are happening They're happening interdependently and also completely enmeshed.
01:33:33.000Like, you can't enmesh the way that all these things, technology, blah, blah, blah, is developing.
01:33:39.000But there's no way this dude, they can control that much.
01:33:56.000Look at this This is the article the runaway general the profile that brought down McChrystal Rolling Stone profile of Stanley McChrystal that changed history.
01:34:05.000That's crazy that one article can get a general fired Change history.
01:34:11.000And it's crazy the guy who wrote it is dead.
01:37:56.000The last book was The Order of the Phoenix, which is very political because there's a political presence, there's a government within the wizarding community, and it was just really interesting to be reading that while also watching our local news and our global news.
01:38:13.000It's all part of the same story in terms of manipulation and what we...
01:38:23.000And it was just an interesting experience to read that book and then to listen to my favorite podcasts and news outlets and be like, this isn't any different than Harry Potter.
01:38:36.000It's all based on the familiarity of problems in human nature, right?
01:47:48.000They just want to get mad about stuff.
01:47:49.000Especially if you found out what it was, that you were just checking the lyrics to a song that you'd never sang before and you were singing live with Gary Clark Jr. in front of a fuck, and it was like midnight in downtown LA in some weird-ass bar.
01:49:01.000This guy was forgetful about all these different things, but he was like a super genius professor.
01:49:07.000And at the end of the comic book, he recognized that he was actually an alien from another planet that came down to Earth to help us innovate.
01:49:15.000I hate to break it to you, Joe, but you are also an alien from another planet that came down here to You know it's true.
01:49:29.000You guys should do more of those weird little downtown shows though.
01:50:35.000Well, I mean, there's a reason that he's doing what he's doing and people are coming to see him because it's incredible and it's authentic and it's raw and that man has...
01:50:46.000Obviously, he has teams around him that help build that show.
01:51:55.000I think some people have an idea of the art and they're also exploited within that realm because some parts of the record industry are fucking insidious.
01:52:05.000You know and they take like remember you were talking about that documentary with these like 15 year old kids that were so talented But they were like clearly just getting just sucked into the thing You're too young to know what you're doing There's just no ifs ands or buts about it in order to make the decision to be a giant like Michael Jackson like we're talking about Jackson 5 earlier Like when you sing an ABC. I mean he was a fucking baby.
01:52:30.000Yeah, he was a baby and he was on TV and You know, he was on, he was a huge star.
01:52:36.000But also, like, he had his family running the show, and it was like a really fucked up dynamic.
01:52:41.000And so it was almost like his, I mean, don't get me wrong, his talent was undeniable, but like, his family were the record industry in that respect.
01:52:48.000But dude, his talent was so undeniable that he was the youngest one, and he got to sing.
01:52:53.000Could you imagine, you grew up with four bad motherfuckers as brothers, your dad is a professional musician, and you are so good, they're like, okay, let him sing.
01:53:04.000Everybody else must have wanted to sing.
01:53:05.000They all did their solo projects afterwards.
01:53:07.000They didn't say shit while Michael had the microphone.
01:53:10.000They're just like, let him sing, let him sing, let him sing.
01:53:24.000It was this emergence of this incredible sound that came out of this one person and all the different projects that he was involved in.
01:53:31.000And then it was also the tragic, almost like decimating of a potential life.
01:53:36.000Because his life existed so strongly in the public eye that it didn't exist anywhere else in a normal form.
01:53:43.000Outside, it was just a chaos, a mess of hanging out with kids and weird relationships with women that didn't seem real and living in an amusement park.
01:53:56.000Like, everything outside of the magic that he did in the public eye was just hell.
01:54:03.000It's really weird because what he did in the public eye, like Thriller and Beat It and all those different things, I mean, they were so, so intense.
01:54:11.000Like, I was in high school when all that stuff was going on, and I remember just watching Thriller on television, you know, when they had the premiere, the music video, and everybody sat around and watched Thriller when it came out.
01:54:35.000Like, someone had taken the whole thing and put it in this totally new package, where it was like this feminine guy, and he had one glove on, and he was dancing, and everybody wanted to move like him, and it's like, what in the fuck?
01:54:46.000Right, well this is kind of back to your Freddie Mercury kind of dick out thing.
01:54:51.000It's like he did what he wanted to do and he was iconic because of it.
01:59:28.000Maybe like a minute or two and I'll see if there's someone out there that's going to unlock it or stop it soon, but I don't know if it'll stop.
01:59:33.000Yeah, I wonder what's going to happen.
01:59:34.000This could be one of our shortest pod...
02:02:48.000But they had this thing on the wall which was insane.
02:02:52.000You know, that's a real issue in India.
02:02:55.000In India, there's one part of this river that's very brackish, and the tigers drink this salt water.
02:03:02.000And because of the typhoons, a lot of times they wind up having a bunch of people wash up in the river, and the tigers wind up eating people.
02:04:30.000Yeah, this one section of this river in India, I did this whole bit about it in my 2009 comedy special because there was a real story about a boat of people.
02:04:41.000There was five guys in this boat and three of them were killed by tigers.
02:04:46.000So the tiger swam out to the boat, jumped in, killed a guy, dragged him into the water, swam to the shore, dropped his body off, jumped back in the water, swam out to the boat again, got the next guy, swam back to the shore.
02:06:04.000They have a photo of him with the Hollywood sign that, by the way, we have coming.
02:06:07.000We have a print of that coming for the new studio.
02:06:12.000It has a collar on, but it's a wild cougar, and they have to capture it every couple of years.
02:06:17.000It's because its collar runs out of GPS, so the battery dies on the collar, so they have to find this fucker, and then they have to dart him.
02:08:22.000There was a, not a sheriff, the ranger, ranger mobile, mobile ranger.
02:08:30.000Vehicle went by, and the man, like, literally, like, seconds after the ranger drove by, this just huge grizzly goes across the path, and there was a hiker who had his headphones on and just got, it's really terrible.
02:12:50.000But if you were screaming from the spider and you broke the curtain and you looked out the window as the bear was in full charge, it would put it all in perspective, wouldn't it?
02:14:36.000They only got divorced so that she wouldn't be like legally, it wouldn't be like a legal issue with him selling weed or something with him and her.
02:14:45.000He was like protecting her so they got a divorce but they're still together and happy apparently.
02:14:49.000There's been a story like that coming out like every week right now about like a young teacher.
02:18:09.000I've had psychics tell me family secrets that I've bent over backwards to try to understand how they could possibly know what they knew and I'm always skeptical.
02:18:19.000But I've definitely had people that told me things that there's fucking no way they could know.
02:18:30.000So they just told you right away, your uncle's gay, and he has a boy that he lives with that he pretends is his son, but it's really his...
02:19:07.000Because they wanted to find out if there was an answer.
02:19:09.000And the only way you find out is if you have to run some tests.
02:19:12.000And they had a thing called remote viewing.
02:19:15.000And we actually had some remote viewing experts on that TV show that I did for a while called Joe Rogan Questions Everything.
02:19:22.000We sat down with them and I had all these remote viewing guys Boo, at the end of the day, it seems a lot like psychics.
02:19:31.000It's like, there's no, like, they claim to have seen some things and pointed out some things that helped some operations and this and that, but it's all top secret.
02:19:42.000Whether or not it's true, you're never gonna know.
02:19:44.000You're never gonna know whether they're bullshitting you or something really did go down.
02:20:12.000Or it might be like a Stephen King book where you drive down the street and see that neon light and it says fortune teller and you go in and it's some lady who sees through your soul and she does.
02:21:38.000The experiences I've had with these people were with people that have died that I've communicated with Whether through dreams or psychedelics and I had Questions,
02:21:54.000but I didn't ask them and I waited to see if they would tell me and it's just kind of that sort of setup here's the thing it might be real and it might be that Real, what real is, is so ridiculous that it's almost like you can't bottle it,
02:22:10.000you can't measure it, you can't put it on a scale, and it only exists in these brief moments.
02:22:15.000And it comes and it goes and you'll never be able to prove it.
02:22:17.000And it just comes and it goes and it makes you think, like, God, I think I really believe that really did happen.
02:22:22.000And no one really knows and everybody just goes about their business, but it really did.
02:25:00.000Well, no one does, and no one knows if you're wrong, either.
02:25:02.000But religion, to me, is like the Catholicism I was raised on that requires guilt and wrongfulness and sin and money, because you go to church and you put your money in the basket every Sunday,
02:26:42.000I think there's things that happen when you think about someone and the phone rings, and they can tell you all day long, that's a coincidence, man.
02:26:50.000How often do you think about them and the phone doesn't ring?
02:27:02.000I think those unique moments when you think about someone and they text you, I don't necessarily think that there's been adequate studies done on that.
02:27:09.000And I think there's a lot of people that have these contrarian ideologies that they really love to dismiss things like this.
02:27:16.000And they really love to dismiss the potential connections that people have between each other.
02:27:20.000But we know we have connections when we're near each other.
02:27:23.000We know that some people can just look at you and you look at them and you're like, let's get the fuck out of here!
02:27:29.000People have weird connections with others.
02:27:32.000You also know when someone's upset at you and they're not being honest about it.
02:27:35.000We have weird sort of ways of feeling each other out that don't necessarily fit on a scale.
02:27:42.000They're not quantifiable, but they're there.
02:27:45.000You can't measure them, but you feel them.
02:27:47.000I'm reading this article about that kind of ties in music to that, just talking about So you're talking about our ability to read each other's facial expressions, emotional expressions, and that's a successful trait.
02:28:01.000That's something that's part of the development of this stuff, right?
02:28:04.000And basically, I'm just getting into it, but this article is just talking about how those...
02:28:09.000It's just a lot of scientists are trying to understand, or people, like, why the fuck is music important?
02:28:14.000Why is it such an obsession, a human obsession?
02:34:09.000If you want to sell guns, you want to be a Second Amendment proponent with fucking cold blue steel eyes and smooth, shiny legs and nice shoes and tiny skirts, you've got to be on Fox News.
02:34:49.000One day we're all going to have no hair and they're going to look back at pictures of us and they're going to go, what the fuck were they doing?
02:36:39.000As a matter of fact, they've been visiting our planet for thousands of years.
02:36:46.000And one of the cases that would interest you most, if you'll give me two or three minutes to answer, is during the Cold War in 1961, there were about 50 UFOs in formation flying south from Russia across Europe,
02:37:01.000and the Supreme Allied Commander was very concerned and about ready to press the panic button when they turned around and went back over the North Pole.
02:37:13.000So they decided to do an investigation and they investigated for three years and they decided that with absolute certainty that four species, four different species at least, had been visiting this planet for thousands of years.
02:37:32.000So we have a long history of UFOs and of course there's been a lot more activity in the last few decades since we invented the atomic bomb and they're very concerned about that and the fact that we might use it again and because the whole cosmos is a unity And it affects not just us,
02:37:57.000They're very much afraid that we might be stupid enough to start using atomic weapons again, and this would be very bad for us and for them as well.
02:38:06.000So no serious scientist has ever publicly confirmed evidence of an encounter with extraterrestrials.
02:38:12.000Why would scientists not confirm the facts if they exist?
02:38:17.000I'm afraid they must go out of their way not to find out.
02:38:20.000Because if they did, you know, even 10% of the amount of research I've done in the last eight years, they would be as convinced as I am.
02:38:57.000A lot of people were talking about it, but when you think about how many human beings there are, there's 300 and 20 million plus in America.
02:39:14.000So you got a lot of fucking crazy people.
02:39:18.000Well, this is one video, so I've watched a couple of his, and it's interesting to think about in terms of like, we're here.
02:39:25.000It's all interesting to think about, but as soon as someone starts talking like that, he says they've been authenticated, there was more than one witness, that means nothing.
02:41:46.000I mean, like, look at all the shit that we have, and we're here, and all the things that we, all the resources that we use, and we're one planet in a universe full of other planets.
02:42:14.000What's hard to accept is that they're communicating with us and only certain people like Paul Hellyer know.
02:42:19.000Well, maybe he does know, and maybe he has seen something, but maybe he's full of shit.
02:42:23.000The problem is, if you haven't seen it, and I haven't, or at least I don't think I have, and you're talking about these things, how much time you spend thinking and talking about them, it gets to become almost like a pathology.
02:42:36.000Why are you so invested in something that you don't even know is real?
02:42:38.000But it becomes a thing that people are into, like they're into baseball scores, or they're into bowling.
02:43:44.000Like, oh, I heard this from this and this and this, but you weren't there, so you don't know.
02:43:47.000I'm reading this book about our brains and how our recollection of memories and eyewitnesses are usually inaccurate because you don't really remember like you think you did, and your brain lies to you and tells you that you saw something a certain way.
02:44:25.000That's important, too, because I think a lot of times when you have some big statement about something that you believe in, or if you want to get down to having some sort of And then you get dramatic and emotional and try to sell it.
02:44:45.000You're selling it like you're running for Congress.
02:47:17.000Some days I'll wake up in a sweat, body's wet from the tension.
02:47:23.000Baby, with all these cheap thrills from tangible achievements weighing heavy on my mind.
02:47:36.000But time has shown me you're the only one who could bring me everlasting peace.
02:47:45.000Time has shown me you're the only one who can bring me everlasting peace.
02:48:01.000It's like a path I'll walk Lift me up like daytime talk Like arena rock And I'll sing it to you Soft and sweet and straight from the heart So there's no questions that time has shown me You're the only one who can bring me everlasting peace Time has shown me you're the only one who can bring me everlasting peace,
02:48:50.000Don't wanna compromise Don't wanna lose myself in some disguise But I know Yeah, I know I know I know I know The time has shown me You're the only one who can bring me Everlasting peace Time has shown me You're
02:49:21.000the only one who can bring me everlasting peace.
02:51:55.000There's a ghost in my bed Screwing with my head Stomping around my room Drinking all my booze he makes me toss and turn my stomach churn and he laughs at me thinks it's so funny He
02:52:33.000drives my car and says, hold on child The road we're on is winding wild We got busted wheels,
02:52:49.000dead ending I will haunt you till you're lying still He always gets me good and wasted I knew it from the start The first time I tasted the darkness When
02:53:19.000he kissed my mouth I'm his heart And he's my way out Out He pulls me in My face on his chest He ain't wearing his shirt
02:53:50.000I ain't wearing my dress He spills tequila Into my mouth And we hit the town Tear that motherfucker down Cause he always gives I loved it from the start.
02:54:15.000The first time I tasted the darkness when He kissed my mouth.
03:00:44.000We didn't want someone else to be like, yeah, we own this.
03:00:46.000Well, I'm glad you didn't, but I can't imagine how you guys do it, because if that was me, I found out that my jokes, like a bit that I did that I worked really long and hard on, all of a sudden, if I wanted to put it on a special, someone else is going to own it without even paying me for it.
03:07:00.000You know what we didn't do before we got on the podcast was like organize our social media because our Honey Honey website looks like our record's just coming out and it came out three years ago.