00:00:13.000We're going to be talking about the G7 summit briefly.
00:00:18.000We're going to be talking about Anthony Bourdain, who died, who killed himself, and all that that means just generally suicide, particularly this character, who I can't say I feel especially bad for.
00:00:33.000And then we'll be doing a call in show.
00:01:13.000I mean, last night I listened to, I don't know if you guys did as well, I listened to the new Kid Cudi album.
00:01:20.000Well, actually, a lot has been going on in my world.
00:01:22.000The new album came out last night, and I stayed up all night to watch it until 10 o'clock, and then they delayed it until 10 15, and then 10 30, and then 10 45, and then 10 55, and then 11.
00:01:37.000And it didn't come on until like midnight.
00:01:39.000But nevertheless, in the meantime, I put on my computer Dokapon Kingdom, one of my favorite games.
00:03:08.000But one thing that I did want to bring to your attention before we move forward with the.
00:03:14.000Topics of the day, so we could get into our call in show.
00:03:17.000I want to know should I move this show back to 8 o'clock Central Time from now on when I come back, or maybe the week after the week that I come back?
00:03:30.000Because I know that JF does his show at 6 and 7, and people like to watch both shows.
00:03:37.000And what I have noticed is that actually we'll have a smaller live audience, but despite that, people come back and watch the replay in greater numbers than ever before.
00:03:46.000So sometimes I'll look at my numbers and say, oh, we're not doing so well because I'll have 500 live as opposed to like 1,000 where we were hitting right around the Andy and JF split.
00:03:56.000But nevertheless, whenever I go back and look at old episodes, the replay views sometimes it's 4,000, sometimes it's 5,000 replay views, just replay.
00:04:07.000So I understand that people like to watch the JF show live because they'll have a guest.
00:04:11.000And then because it starts earlier, then they don't want to jump over and they'll just replay watch it the next day or later in the evening.
00:05:25.000Just reading a little bit about him after he died today.
00:05:28.000They say he's one of the most influential, or was one of the most influential chefs in the world.
00:05:33.000And, you know, we talk a lot about actually suicide in the context of the school shooting on this show.
00:05:38.000I've actually, it's interesting, we've addressed this topic a lot on the show, but always in the form of a school shooting, always in the form of something like that, the opioid epidemic.
00:05:48.000But I think this is the first time we're really covering just a plain old fashioned suicide.
00:05:55.000And I think clearly you probably know what I'm going to say about this, but.
00:05:59.000You look at Anthony Bourdain, and here's a guy who he had everything, right?
00:06:04.000This was a guy who this would be your dream job.
00:06:09.000Imagine your life is you get to travel around the world eating the best food in the world, cooking the best food in the world, hanging out with celebrities, hanging out with the president of the United States, and you get paid millions and millions of dollars to do this.
00:07:47.000Your identity is that you pound grease into your face.
00:07:51.000But anyway, that's a bit of an unnecessary detour.
00:07:54.000But besides that, you've got a person who this is the dream of most people travel, eat, you've got money, you've got women, but it wasn't enough.
00:08:06.000And that's because let's think very carefully about what happiness is.
00:08:10.000Let's think about what happiness is for most people.
00:08:13.000Happiness is a transient, fleeting experience.
00:08:19.000We feel happiness, it comes in very faint and very brief kind of expressions.
00:08:29.000I mean, we could be doing something we enjoy, we could be doing something that we love, but we know that this is not the day to day thing.
00:08:35.000Even for somebody like that, we know that happiness eventually almost works like drugs, it almost works like you build up a tolerance to anything.
00:08:54.000And it's something I enjoy doing every day.
00:08:55.000But of course, you know, you still have to work at it and eventually it gets tiresome at some points.
00:09:02.000So when we look at what happiness is and we tell ourselves, and other people tell us, the system tells us, our parents tell us, pursue happiness, if you're going to find meaning in your life and you'll orbit around this transient feeling, you'll never be satisfied.
00:09:21.000We have to parse our terms very carefully.
00:09:23.000Happiness is a part of it, but by no means is that a sufficient answer to why we are here because we know that our nature is suffering.
00:09:34.000Even if we're happy sometimes, even if we're fulfilled or satisfied, no matter what, it is our very nature to be constantly searching, constantly striving.
00:09:43.000And I say this all the time in summer, we want it to be cold out, we want it to be Christmas, we want to wear sweaters.
00:09:51.000And then in the winter, we want it to be sunny out, we want it to be, well, maybe some people never want it to be winter, but you get the picture.
00:10:06.000It's the biggest deception of the modern world.
00:10:08.000And this is the ruin that people are led to when they are told that the God shaped hole in your heart, which we all know is there, we all feel it to varying degrees at various times in our lives, an empty hole where God should be, it cannot be filled with follow your dreams, have your dream job, do what you love, follow your passion.
00:10:43.000And of course, I concede that a lot of that is true.
00:10:46.000But I'm a big believer that if people were back in nature, if we weren't being told these lies, if we weren't subject to these modern constraints, I think this modern epidemic of mental health wouldn't exist.
00:11:39.000As somebody who has lived, not very long, but I have lived, and somebody who I think is acutely self aware of my feelings and these depressive tendencies, maybe these kind of miserable tendencies, analyzing them, I sort of parse it out and see the reason people are upset is not because, well, they just need better food, you know, or they need another vacation or they're too stressed out.
00:12:43.000You search out the data on the correlation between suicide rates and religious practice, which could translate depending on which data you look at.
00:12:52.000Don't just look at Christians, Buddhists, whatever.
00:13:10.000Okay, so studio mode just doesn't work, huh?
00:13:13.000You know, you set it up on OBS where it's studio mode, so you got, you could have, I don't, it's the bother to explain, but the technology doesn't work well.
00:13:23.000But so here, you've got a study here from the American Journal of Epidemiology, and they find in a study about suicide rates and religious commitment in young males in Utah, and they looked at Utah and they looked at young men because, of course, this is where LDS is, this is where you have very strong religious convictions.
00:14:06.000Although the mechanism of the association is unclear, so of course, you know, they always have to parse it, they always have to qualify it with these modernists, well, you know.
00:14:17.000Natural sciences don't really know why, but of course, higher levels of religiosity appear to be inversely associated with suicide, meaning the more religious you are, the less likely you are to commit suicide.
00:14:29.000And this was in a study of young men age 15 to 34 in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints.
00:14:36.000Now, of course, I'm Catholic, but nevertheless, what does the LDS provide for them?
00:14:43.000What does religiosity provide for them?
00:14:45.000Any religion, it provides for them an explanation for why we're here.
00:14:50.000An explanation for how we got here, why we're here, why there is suffering sometimes.
00:14:56.000And it also provides comfort in the sense that there's a judgment.
00:14:59.000There is right and wrong, and we know what it is.
00:15:02.000And if you do wrong, you will get punished for it.
00:15:05.000What religiosity does for Mormons or Catholics or Muslims, no matter what the values are, and of course we believe ours is objectively true, and there's more evidence for ours than others, but nevertheless, the function of religion is to satisfy those questions, is to satisfy those needs.
00:15:22.000And order the world in a coherent way that makes sense, that satisfies these spiritual longings that we have.
00:16:15.000And they studied women's, for example, women's.
00:16:18.000They studied women, for example, women Catholics.
00:16:21.000And they found that one group of women who were practicing Catholics bucked the national trend towards despair and self harm.
00:16:29.000Compared with women who never participated in religious services, women who attended any religious service once a week or more were five times less likely to commit suicide.
00:17:57.000He said, Your body's not a temple, which is what a Christian would tell you that your body was given to you by God, and we were made in God's image.
00:18:06.000It's something to be respected, it's something to be valued, something to be improved and maintained, and all the rest.
00:18:29.000But then again, you know, of course, why the real problem that we have with him, and let me make sure the audio is going to play for you here.
00:18:39.000This is a pretty rich thing that he had to say about racism as well.
00:18:43.000This was in an interview from his television show in Germany.
00:20:14.000It's going to take some time, but it's really the only way.
00:20:16.000This sort of Singaporean model where everybody's so mixed up that you really don't know who to hate because everybody's so hopelessly intertwined, but we're a long way from that.
00:20:34.000And, you know, of course, I wouldn't like to celebrate anybody who died because they disagreed with me politically, but you listen to comments like that where he says white people should be eliminated.
00:22:58.000And so, but of course it just goes to show it's all part of the same package deal.
00:23:03.000You know, hedonistic, you're traveling the world, internationalist, transnational, all that kind of thing, and you happen to believe that the white race should go extinct.
00:23:12.000And why should anybody that treats their body like an amusement park care about their race?
00:23:16.000Why should they care about that kind of thing?
00:23:19.000Thing well, he was Jewish, so was he really white?
00:23:21.000I don't know, but that's Anthony Bourdain.
00:23:26.000I can't feel bad for a lot of people who kill themselves when they leave behind many people.
00:23:31.000This is something that's happened in my family before.
00:23:34.000It strikes me as, and as somebody admittedly with not a lot of life experience, as just a very selfish thing to do.
00:23:43.000This is a person who had an 11 year old daughter, and we already ditched her because he got divorced with two wives, so not somebody who commits anyway.
00:23:51.000But, you know, we always think about the people that died and all that, but how about.
00:23:56.000How about everybody that's going to pick up the pieces?
00:25:46.000I had a hamburger, but it was like, I don't know, it wasn't that good.
00:25:51.000I had an egg on it and it had a chorizo.
00:25:53.000I don't really like chorizo that much, which I realized I was like, you know how that happens where you're like, well, I don't really like something, but maybe I'll give it a shot this time and it'll be okay.
00:26:03.000And then you get it and you're like, no, I really don't like it.
00:26:06.000This happens to me every time I order something with fish.
00:27:57.000But what's on your mind today, big guy?
00:28:00.000Well, kind of relevant to your overall message to the youth and to your audience, which is getting into local politics and volunteering for the GOP.
00:28:15.000So recently, I went onto my local GOP's website and signed up for the volunteering list, and I got an email back, which I was not really expecting what was in it.
00:28:29.000And they said that they would like a resume and two references.
00:28:37.000And I'm young, 16, never had a job, never made a resume, don't have anybody that I would think of as a reference.
00:28:45.000So I was wondering, what would you say for people like me who are just starting out, trying to get into local politics just to volunteer and help out?
00:28:56.000Yeah, for a lot of those things, it's mostly a formality.
00:29:02.000For references, if you're young, for references, you could do a teacher, you could do, if you're involved in school, a coach, administrator.
00:29:11.000That's always what I did for jobs and things like that.
00:29:14.000But in terms of if you volunteer for a campaign, you should probably be able to get on without too much of a process.
00:29:22.000And even then, I know they don't look at them very thoroughly.
00:29:26.000But the thing is, you kind of build upon it.
00:29:29.000You start at the lowest level, and you'd be surprised.
00:29:32.000For example, I volunteered for the Trump campaign.
00:29:52.000And I was just knocking on doors for those campaigns, but I met a lot of good people there people that were involved with the party, people that were involved in the apparatus.
00:30:01.000And I ended up using a lot of the people who I met on the campaign trail as references for later jobs, later things like that.
00:30:08.000So, um, You'd be surprised how easy it is to network if you're smart about it, if you take advantage of those opportunities.
00:30:18.000So I'd say, you know, just start small.
00:30:20.000Maybe not with your local GOP, where in those cases it's like an office job and sometimes it's paid, sometimes it's unpaid.
00:30:26.000But even still, you know, do what you can.
00:30:28.000But for now, I would just highly recommend campaigns.
00:30:31.000Campaigning is like the easiest way to get your foot in the door because they're dying for just like bodies to, you know, just do menial work.
00:30:40.000So, I'd recommend to start there, but don't be dissuaded because they ask for a resume.
00:30:46.000So, what you'd say is not to go for the GOP, like the county GOP as a whole, but to look for a law.
00:31:04.000You know, it's not an election year every year, but I'm saying, particularly for your situation, because you're young, It might be easier to get your foot in the door with the campaign.
00:31:13.000For most people that are in college, it's not a big trick to volunteer in the local GOP.
00:31:19.000And hey, even if you don't volunteer, you could just show up to the meetings.
00:31:22.000Like, it's not like you need a job with the county GOP so much as it is become a part of it, participate in it.
00:31:29.000And you don't have to work for them to go to the meetings.
00:31:32.000So it's just all a matter of where you're at in your life, your experience level, what kind of time commitment you could put in.
00:31:40.000But as long as you're looking to get involved, I mean, that's really the first step.
00:34:02.000You know, you saw it, for example, in Nebraska when we watched that primary last week, and it was somebody I forget which district it was, but it was somebody who had won the district before, and it's the only swing district in the whole state, but he had won it before, and he got beaten up by a far left progressive who vastly outperformed her polling numbers.
00:34:21.000So I think that the trend is going to be not just in California, but across the board Democrats are not going to be picking Connor Lambs.
00:34:57.000And more than anything, at least in my opinion, Kanye is doing, and the polling numbers reflect this too.
00:35:06.000He is boosting black support for the president.
00:35:09.000He's also depressing, I think, opposition to the president.
00:35:14.000Whereas maybe black people before were like, she it, you know, Trump's a racist as they usually are.
00:35:20.000I think at the very least, it's making them think twice and that depresses voter turnout, at least for the Democrats.
00:35:28.000But what's really important about Kanye is as a celebrity, he's making it acceptable and showing people that you could support Trump and if you're good at what you do, you'll be fine.
00:35:39.000Like he supported Trump and then he came out with his album that is the top seven songs on all Spotify, all of Apple Music.
00:36:05.000And you should have a classical theist on sometime to discuss religion because I think you and him would have a good matchup to talk about.
00:39:04.000Have a lot of these Zionist friends, and they're Christian, they're conservatives, and they love Israel because I guess they just like Ben Shapiro.
00:39:45.000And, you know, I remember reading the gospel and being like, wow, how could any Christian support this country or, you know, just generally what goes on when you see what happened in Jesus Christ and in whose hands?
00:39:59.000So the whole Israel and Zionist thing with Christians comes from the Schofield Bible, which was.
00:40:07.000A reference Bible written by a man by the name of Schofield in the early 20th century who was a Zionist.
00:40:13.000And he included in the footnotes all kinds of interpretations, for example, in the book of Genesis that supported Zionism.
00:40:21.000And because so many people read it and it was in the Bible, they said, oh, well, you know, this must be the word of God.
00:41:29.000You know, Charles Krauthammer, if you haven't heard for people listening, he just had a letter that he wrote to Fox News explaining that he's actually had cancer for a while.
00:41:45.000He's got weeks to live because the cancer is very aggressive and all that.
00:41:48.000You know, Charles Krauthammer is Jewish and he is a neocon, and we know how those things go together, but he's a brilliant guy.
00:41:57.000He's a great writer, a smart guy, and he offered a coherent view of the world.
00:42:03.000And Spencer talked a little bit about this on Twitter, and I think he really hit the nail on the head here.
00:42:08.000Although we disagree with his vision, although we know what it's motivated by, it was real and it was coherent, it was well articulated, and he influenced policy.
00:42:19.000And so, I really have nothing bad to say about him.
00:42:22.000He was always an honest guy, always a smart guy.
00:47:04.000I think, to an extent, although we're not hedonists, although we're not degenerate, I think sometimes you have to allow yourself to enjoy life sometimes because it is miserable.
00:47:16.000And it is a good point because we talk so much about why happiness isn't the nucleus, but it's a part of it.
00:47:24.000So, what we're really preaching is moderation, what we're really preaching is balance, temperance.
00:47:30.000You know, so we're not saying don't let that, you know, you can never have fun.
00:49:44.000I'll have to bring you into the Patrician server.
00:49:47.000Well, Nick, I mean, after this is way back when, like, I forgot what that Asian dude's name was that, like, you hosted with, and he didn't show up to your shows.
00:49:56.000But that guy, when he disbanded, you know, when Chopsticks left the server, I wasn't able to, I just couldn't find you anywhere.
00:53:14.000Look, because I get the classical music, I get the trad music, but I like Kanye and I like some of these other artists because it's something that you can scream to and yell and, you know, it's something that just really gets your heart thumping and you can work out to or something like that.
00:53:33.000If you don't like aggressive music like that, there's something wrong with you.
01:00:18.000I could see where that would be a good thing because, of course, nowadays, women making their own choices doesn't really work out.
01:00:26.000People making their own choices doesn't really work out, generally speaking.
01:00:30.000And if you imagine that a father would select a spouse or a mother or the parents of the husband would make that selection, I feel like it would be a more wise choice.
01:00:43.000That said, we always have to reconcile what would be ideal with what is realistic.
01:00:49.000And so, although it could be a good idea, I always try to remember that we have to think about things that are realistic and that are slightly.
01:02:09.000You know, certainly I think there are some people who are virtue signaling, but of course, you got to remember why they even do these things subconsciously.
01:02:18.000You know, why, if you're like a media person or an advertising person, I'm putting together this commercial, I'm casting a black guy and a white girl.
01:02:52.000Of course, advertisements are propaganda.
01:02:55.000I mean, the reason people invest so heavily in advertising is for the purpose of propaganda themselves.
01:03:00.000And when they insert an ideological message into it, they understand acutely what the role of advertisements are, what the power of advertisements are.
01:03:09.000So I can't help but think they know full well exactly what they're doing.
01:04:27.000So I've had to move back to California after living for several years in nice Virginia, enjoying all the gun rights and the other nice freedoms and stuff that are like fantasies to people in California.
01:04:42.000But I had to move back here because that's where my family's at.
01:04:46.000And I'm not going to lie, just going around San Diego and all the other cities, it's pretty depressing seeing the state of things, not just politically, but.
01:04:57.000What kind of white pills can you deliver for us that are here in occupied territory?
01:05:03.000Well, I think what is really rich, well, a good white pill is when we remember what California was like 200 years ago.
01:05:13.000You know, I think once you gain an historical sense of perspective, we understand the gravity of the challenges, but we also understand that, you know, they are reasonable challenges to overcome.
01:05:27.000200 years ago, California wasn't a Part of the United States, right?
01:05:37.000Indiana, Illinois, I don't know, this was after the Louisiana Purchase, but just barely made the cutoff.
01:05:43.000So once you gain that kind of perspective that Texas, California, these were all Mexico before, the whole continent was Native American before, we just have to have the right perspective about it.
01:05:55.000You could even look at Europe, what's going on with Muslims there.
01:06:01.000Sicily controlled by Muslims, all of the Balkans at one point controlled by Muslims, and they were beaten back, and it was an actual invasion and occupation.
01:06:09.000So I think that if there is a will to do it, we will succeed.
01:06:14.000But the question is, does that will exist?
01:06:16.000I can't make it exist, and nobody can.
01:06:36.000But, you know, there's not much more you can do than that.
01:06:40.000So, I think if you look back at our history and you understand where we came from, it's doable, but it's just a matter of how we think about things.
01:06:48.000It is occupied, and we'll just have to turn it back through some extreme means, perhaps, but it's possible.
01:10:49.000And I'm not like a neocon, boomer con, anything like that.
01:10:53.000I'm just a real traditionalist conservative.
01:10:56.000And so my view is that the American identity is very salient for people.
01:11:04.000If you get out and you talk to people, In the countryside, in the suburbs, in the cities, American identity is still incredibly salient, incredibly powerful.
01:11:15.000And so the idea that, well, you know, this is all over basically, we could just kind of shit all over this and it's basically done, I think is just a remarkably naive kind of a premise.
01:11:28.000I know where he's coming from, I really do, but I just wholeheartedly disagree.
01:11:33.000I think American identity is still powerful, is still salient.
01:11:37.000It might not exist in the same way it always has, but.
01:11:47.000I mean, I listen every night and, you know, I love both.
01:11:52.000I definitely understand the difference, too.
01:11:56.000But I feel like, you know, your standpoint and why kind of authoritarian, you know, fascist kind of aesthetic, it just doesn't resonate with.
01:12:10.000America, because that's not what it was.
01:12:13.000It was, it had anything to do with that at one point.
01:12:16.000No, it was founded on mind your own business.
01:12:19.000And yeah, you know, it was four strong borders.
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