Ehsan Ahmad ｜ Bankas Podcast - #100
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about the current state of politics in America and how it affects us all. We also talk about what it's like to move to a new city, what it s like to be a college dropout, and what we would do if we were rich.
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Every time I have like an uber like I had like a Nigerian uber come pick me up and then he was like these are a nice area
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That's my big fear is every every uber is just like wow, this is nice like I'm like
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I feel like a couple of families of people who ubered me home have moved to this area. That's so funny. You don't want this
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You don't want the uber drivers here. Yeah, it's bad, but
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Austin's like a weird transition because it doesn't it's not that hard to transition to live here
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No, no, no, I get what you mean compared to like some places. I mean, it's relatively for a big city. It's like relatively affordable
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The the financial burden of moving but it's not like yeah
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Like if you move to like new york, you're like, oh fuck. I gotta figure out the subway
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I gotta you know or like la is just like and deal with like a
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Like if you move to new york or la from anywhere else you're probably like this is way more people than i'm used to and that's a
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Whole nother level of stress and austin. There's like room to breathe like you have a yard
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Mm-hmm. Yeah, you know, that's not a lot of people at all half yards and in big cities
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No, no for sure. New york is no tip tip that tiny bit like up
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Yeah, elon we want to talk about elon, but I I mean
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Were they really ever friends if they talk to each other like that?
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No, no, why would they why would they ever be friends? I saw somebody asked grok
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If they were actually friends and grok was like not really yeah
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They're too big egoists. I can't imagine them and they both want to be like the most powerful man in the world
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I feel like if I was a fraction of like that rich like I would do
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None of what they're doing. Oh, dude, if I had elon money
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The amount I would stay out of government is so great. I would be like get the I don't want to
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Or just like anything right, you know, like sometimes like
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Before like I was getting heated online just like
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Thinking about so many things because I went nuts during covid and then you realize that you get a tiny bit of money
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And you're like, oh, I didn't actually care about that. I was just I was poor
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You know what I mean? It's like oh shit, uh, if you make money you don't so that's the big problem. That's why everybody's so
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Heated about everything I feel like but rich people are kind of heated
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Oh, right, right, right except for the few it didn't the few who consolidated the power like don't you feel like like a lot of the republicans who like care
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But all of a sudden they feel like they had to care because so many liberals cared about everything and they felt like they were losing
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And then they won and now they don't care again
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Really? Yeah, well to me that's been the hallmark of republicans is just like they don't really care much
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About I don't think they either of them really care much about anything. Yeah, because it's like
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Progress for the american people it feels like yeah
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I've never like ever since because I became sort of politically aware during obama. That's when
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I and the republicans at the time their entire platform was just like whatever obama does we do the opposite
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Which is like a terrible way to govern just in general just because there's no
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There's no idea of like maybe we'll work together on something. There's no like no, we're just going to be gridlocked
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For eight years and then then the democrats were like, oh, we'll just do the same thing. It's crazy that obama didn't legalize weed
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It's crazy that obama didn't do a lot of things like remember when he said he was talking about weed and he's like
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It's just like being addicted to cigarettes. It's the same thing. Right said that right
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And then he was like famously like he he smoked weed in college and but he didn't have to do the like
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He could just be like yeah, I did that they all should they all should do most drugs
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Yeah, I feel like every president should have to do mushrooms or acid or both and just feel like
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Oh, yeah, we're connected and i'm not bigger than everything like I think I am like that black mirror episode where they make the
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The prime minister of england like fuck the pig or whatever like I feel like they should do that
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But just televised them on mushrooms for like a day and like a live stream
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Yeah, yeah, it's like and they also realize like yeah, they're like a part of humanity because sometimes
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Sometimes I feel like to be president. You got to be a little bit of a psychopath
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But we say that as us but then if we were in that position, we'd be like bro
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Like my brain would explode with the shit. I know
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I mean like it's almost like the dumber you are the more fun mushrooms is in a way because it's like
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Then you get to a certain point where like have you ever had like a mushroom trip where you're like
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Oh my god, it's all we're all fucked everything's fucked like not a bad trip, but you start like you like see the interconnect I had one
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And just like how much they'd infiltrated this was in canada like how much they were like a part of like the government and all this stuff
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And our one buddy's sitting there. He's like, bro
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I thought I would do mushrooms and get closer to god, but I got closer to white supremacy
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It is crazy that we just let and could we do that here, too
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Why do you think like but we can't buy land like you can't just look at on zillow like hung like china
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So, why do they get to because we're the better country and because freer?
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America to me great is that you can move here and make it from anywhere
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Is what I love about it. That's why if you know if my parents are immigrants and that's what they talk to them
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I remember in 2016 my mom went to the bernie sanders rally and she got to ask a question
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And then she came out of it. She came out of it like dude. I'm just I was this poor girl from a third world country
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A guy running for president of the united states a direct question like that's so only in america could you do that
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There's a glowing love for this country and what what it can be the problem is
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Been like well everyone who's not here can also be a part of it
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It's like no, you got to be here. I really do believe that it's like you gotta
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You gotta live here and like get used to the culture of being here of like the acceptance of everybody and they're like
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communist government that we're taught to hate can just buy up
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Way harder for actual american citizens to buy land and then they're making all the fentanyl stuff and they're yeah
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Doing all these other bad things for the country
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Canada just passed a law like literally just passed a law
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But so if you're not born in canada, but then you come to canada
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And you get citizenship you can now leave and have your kid in your own country and they're still canadian that's crazy
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Why that's crazy you should have to live in you should have to
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Live in the place to be a citizen or like I don't know
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But in their head, they're like oh more tax dollars maybe but it's like well
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That those are the people who aren't paying home like only I don't know what it is in the states
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But in canada, it's only like 30 or 40 percent of all people pay tax
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Oh wow, okay because like most people just don't and they there's no way to get them because they're either like so old
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Like they're already in like a seniors home system. You know what I mean
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It's like how are they gonna pay tax like how do all those people's taxes get done?
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If you have no family you have dementia, you just don't have
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You're just that that's just not collected, right? You know, I'm saying right, but
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But then the fact that you can have a kid in a foreign land land and get your citizenship
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Advocate in foreign land and that be the a canadian citizen. That's crazy. Yeah without going back
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Yeah, it's one thing to like bring them back and then like repatriate or whatever that would be called
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So you get the benefits of being a canadian citizen without contributing at all
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That's why I think a lot of canadians are like low-key more racist than americ
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not even low-key like maybe high-key more racist than americans because
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People come to america, and then they become american
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You know i'm saying like they are literally like
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You know the first generation learns the language the second generations like
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At a dallas stars game or like i mean like my parents were not born here and i'm
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Very american. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's just so i'm first generation. So i'm like it it takes immediately
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Do they have accents? My parents have deep accents. Yeah, yeah, you can't get rid of the accent, but they speak perfect english
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They speak yeah, they speak very well like my dad's an immigrant. He speaks perfect english, but
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He had a canadian flag on his property and stuff like that
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But the new kind of generation where it's it's a lot easier to immigrate now
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I don't know about here but in canada it's wait like when my dad did it
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Basically all the cost like the administrative cost of immigrating was put on to him
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And so like every paycheck they would like take money off for like years to like repay
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Live in a you know in a hotel that they give you
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That's like it's like that situation where they put you up damn. That's a
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Why do you think what what's the what's the game plan?
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For letting that happen. I think it's a compassion thing. I think it's
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These people have nowhere to go and we want them here
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I mean part of it's growing the population and they don't want to do it with
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Canadian like they don't want to tell people to have more kids
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But I imagine because I was up there for the first time a while ago
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I don't know just it was crazy how expensive everything was
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It's like economically so much harder to have a kid
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Like people are make people are putting off the so it's like they want you to have more kids
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But they make it almost impossible to have kids and and and I think about this too about
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How the american family is sort of dying and I think a big part of that is
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You know growing up you say it takes a village to raise a child, right?
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So growing up my parents house you have the same neighbors you have the same community
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So there is a sense of like safety like there is a sense of like look
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But we're all like if your kids are playing on the street and i'm around it's like and some weird guy is there
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I'm gonna do something about it because this this is the community I grew up with and and you feel maybe more comfortable being like oh
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Have my neighbors babysit my kids I can have my you know what I mean or just something like that
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There's there's a sense of community that says we're all pitched in on this
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You can do that where you can buy a house if everyone's a renter
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And everyone's moving from year to year the sense of community is gone. That's so harmful for a child a child needs stability
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There's so many factors contributing to the what I would like
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I call like the death of the american family is like that people don't want to have kids
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Um, you know you go to a place like texas where well, you know
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There's a good sense of a woman if a woman is going through a bad pregnancy and needs it terminated for a life
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Can't you even do that here? Like what's the you know what?
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I mean, it's like there's a there's an attack on sort of
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As well as like because the moral abortion stance is like sure there's a moral stance to take on it
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But there also is a gray area here where like hey, sometimes a pregnancy needs to be terminated because it's not going to come to term and
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Yeah, here it's sometimes they'll let the woman die and save the baby, which is not or they'll just let both die
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Yeah, I haven't heard that i've heard mostly like my wife was afraid that you know, they would
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Save like if you know the baby and then be like you can die
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But we got because regularly they just fucking abort the baby in the last moments, you know
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To save her, but yeah, I don't I don't think is you know
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I think they make you think that having a kid is more expensive than it is too
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The idea of most because most people a lot of people are just in debt
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Yeah going into for food so the idea of like feeding another mouth
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That is I what what I think is like something that stops a lot of people sometimes
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Yeah, no, I mean fuck. I was walking on sixth street. There was just women lying on the cement
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And like like they're just hammered and it's just like
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That's I don't know if that's gonna be a mom, you know
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I don't know if these people are gonna have families
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Because they're just insane right and then they you know, those are the people that then then they do have a family
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It's a whole thing but immigrants have families and they
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Like you were saying there's no the the community thing now. It's all online
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Like all the moms are on the facebook group and they're right there was a creepy guy at the park
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Here's they all take pictures of it. So there is a bit of that
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But I know what you mean where if you're renting you're just kind of hopping around and you don't care about an area
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But it yeah, like if you're in a condo, I mean I was honestly condos
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Kind of slap like I love I love living in a car. I don't know if you do but no, I live in an apartment
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But like hans lives in a condo and i'm like that's the vibe i'm used to
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Big comp big building. I like the safety of it. It feels
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Secure like nobody can walk, you know, you're 10 floors up or whatever, right? Yeah, I like that shit, but
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That's it's like crazy. So I always look at zillow here. Just like to go to bed. Just like curious. What else is out there for
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for a four bedroom three and a half bathroom condo in
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Austin? Yeah, how much do you think it is? Oh, what part of town downtown downtown four bedrooms four bedroom three and a half bath
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Oh, like oh per month though. Oh per month rent rent. Okay. Well, I already told you that but yeah
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14k per month 14k a month. That's crazy. That's wild, right?
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That's like you can that's way more than a mortgage payment you can have
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If you live an hour outside of town for that much you could have a mansion 10 bedroom or like seven
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3 000 a month or whatever. I do think austin's like a good-sized place
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Like you you don't have to go that far to be in the suburbs. No, no, you can it's literally 10 minutes out of downtown
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Mm-hmm for how is that where your family's from, too? No, my family's from like
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Oh, so I grew up in cali. I grew up in cupertino. Oh, wow. Yeah, yeah, so but
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How far is that from la three hours? No, that's five hours. Oh, shit. Yeah, yeah, but like we're I
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Will grew up in the suburbs and we're 45 south of san francisco 20 minutes south of san jose
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It's not as like the big city centers is not as close as you are in austin when you live in the suburbs
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I think it's cool, too that um, we were talking about this the other day like how
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Com like the pushback against austin being another comedy spot like people are just like people who are like
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Long-time new york comics and stuff. They're just like
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They're mad about it in a way. They're not mad. They like coming here, but they're mad that they want
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I think they're mad that they want to live here
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Yeah, I I don't know. I see it a lot because I I troll the stand-up subreddits and stuff all the time and yeah
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Unjust hate towards austin I would say just because they're like well, just because you know that the people at the top here have made like
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Put their hat in the presidential ring and all that and it's like a politics
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There's like a politics aspect to it and they don't like the politics or just assume the whole place is just like kind of shitty
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But like the reality is that they they didn't come here to form like a republican haven
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They came here to form a place where people can just get up as much as they want
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And that's kind of what's happening here. You can get up so much in town. It's crazy
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It's also like you wanted city to have art an art scene whether it's I mean
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There's a comedy scene, but there's other scenes here right other art
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Right scenes and that's always traditionally been a thing
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Or cheaper, you know, and I mean new york like why is you know all the areas that are now gentrified brooklyn
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You know, whatever like all you know harlem, right?
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Like right yeah first yeah, they were the first people to be like well, I don't care if it's scary
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I'm I have to I want to live in the city and I'm it's cheaper, right?
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And then they move there and then they keep doing it and then it been then like fuck with the coffee shops come and then slowly and then
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First is like a shitty coffee shop and then five years later. It's like an aloe, right?
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The artists I mean we're we're bringing the price prices up. Yeah, we're part of the we're like the first harbingers of
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Well, it's nice. They've gutted it. It's not that good. It's have you taken it? No, but you can you can sort of see like
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Trying to like parse it out sometimes being like oh, this is like not that good
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Yeah, not that reliable. I don't think or it might be but like it's just not a lot of it
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The whole they're trying to they're trying to get you to buy a car out here
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It's like the car companies killed public transport in this country just in general unless they're like chicago or new york
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Like they did a good job of being of being anti-public transportation
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A lot of the like that's a lot of the highways are kind of originally like
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I mean because there's no reason a city because austin's like not like the bigger one of the bigger cities in america, but it's still like
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It's a lot of highways. Yes, there's no reason a city this size
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Especially going up and down the 35 right it's crazy. The 35 is always under construction
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It's always packed and it's super dangerous. It is dangerous not the south ends less dangerous than the north
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Well, the north end there's just like miles where there's no shoulder
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So if you get in an accident there, you were just at the whim of the flow of traffic and hopefully no one else drives into you
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Have you seen that well, there was a very there's a there was a
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A story like a few weeks ago where they're stopped and there was an accident one of those sections
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A truck driver comes kind of I think he was like
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I don't think I mean he may have been had the alcohol system. He may have not he may have just been exhausted
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I thought you're gonna say his race. Hey, might have been yeah
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I there is a there is a point where I forgot I read about this a while ago
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But there's a point where like a certain exhaustion feels like if you're driving exhausted
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It's like basically driving drunk and he like plowed in the accident a bunch of people died
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Yeah, it's like and there's no shoulder you're just in
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And everybody takes it even though there's there's actually a lot of ways to get around here
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It's just everybody follows google maps. Nobody really knows their way around that. Yeah, so they're just like
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But you could just take congress or so like you could
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Maybe down here lower up north is still like but but either way, it's just it's asinine and and then there's no plans
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To have a train system. It's it's it's crazy. It's it's crazy. Like every big city in america
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Should have reliable public transportation and just then they just don't yeah, they truly do not
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But it's nice for comics because it's just you know, you can somebody was asking me like why you know
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Somebody asked that in the green room and like rogan was in there
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Like they literally they would start talking to me and they were like, so what do you do here?
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I'm like, i'm a comedian and then they were like, uh, I was like, what do you do? They're like i'm a musician
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They're friends. I think they were somehow friends of a friend of like brian callens. Okay, this is like a while back and then
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The and like rogan's right here talking with the black rifle coffee guy brian callen and he's like, so you're comedian
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We're in the green room of mothership. I'm like
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I literally pointed at rogan. He was like, oh, yeah
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He literally left after that. That's so funny. Yeah, but it is it
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It's a lot of people don't know yet. They don't know yet a lot of my fans. My fans will be like
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I kind of like a liberal city. I hate to say it, but I mean, I don't hate to say it actually
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Yeah, I've always most cities are liberal the the best places I think to do comedy
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Is when the city has a different has different politics than the state, right?
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So that's why austin was a great place to do is a great place to do comedy because it's a blue city in a very red state
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You can walk to all the shows you can yes, I mean
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It's it's a cool. It's very it's a lot nicer. I think than a new york scene to in a way
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Because when you commit yeah when you commit when you're when you're like, well, I buy in to what's happening here
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Everywhere around you there's hate for you being an austin comic that it does make the scene like the number one thing
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It was like I was surprised at the sense of community in the scene
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And the sense of community here is strong a because there's not a lot
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Your most of your spots are really in a mile two mile radius
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so you're around the same people all the time like like
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New york and la are so vast that they have their own pockets of scenes
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Where and and there is like sometimes there's like strife between clubs you perform here
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You you're not really here and austin's not like that at all
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Austin's like you can perform anywhere at any time. No one gives a fuck if you're a mothership regular
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You can go to cap city if you're a cap city regular
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You can go to mothership like you can go to black rabbit. You can go to sunset
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You can go to you can go to and there's no like you perform here. You don't perform there
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There's none of that so it's like you can just go around
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There's a lot of comics doing stuff too. It's not like yes some scenes
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Everybody's just kind of bumming around but here. I mean, there's still that but then there's a lot of people who are like
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They have followings. They're get they're on kill tony. They're getting they're getting chances to they're getting opportunities
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Laser, you know all these guys who are like they're constantly touring they're coming in and out and so there's a lot of there's a lot of like organic
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Like health to the you know, there's a lot of health. It's healthy right healthy scene
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There's a lot and there's and there's a sense of like and the the scenes are top down
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So it's like whoever's at the top how they are is gonna affect the rest of the scene
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That's always what it's been in every single scene. I've been in and
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Right now the guy at the top is a guy who's like well
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I want to help comics and I'll be helpful for the comics and I want to pay comics
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Well, and I want to make sure like I help my friends I help my like I was just on
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There's no reason for me to be on the biggest show in the world. There's zero reason
00:24:07.160
Except for the fact that he hey, he was a comic wants to help out comics
00:24:09.960
Like if he was a magician i'm nowhere near a big enough comic to end be on that pod
00:24:13.880
So it's like but because of that you'll see all the time like comics
00:24:17.320
Collaborating together in ways and they're always making sure to take out their friends on the you know
00:24:21.960
There's no and there's no sense of like you're winning. So I'm that's bad for me
00:24:26.920
There is a sense of like you win and we all win. Yeah, no, there's a big it's
00:24:32.040
Having somebody at the top or multiple people. I mean
00:24:35.320
Tony's the same way to help help other comics Shane
00:24:39.080
They're teaching without teaching to sometimes like I I thought you know what I'm like
00:24:43.320
Yes, and that's how it should be you kind of have to you know, you can't have somebody do a one-on-one
00:24:52.440
You know follow you follow the leader a little bit saying what they do is like, okay
00:24:56.600
And it's you know, everybody's trying to be pretty classy here. I'd say for the most part. What do you mean? Well
00:25:03.080
Well, because we have mitzies too, but you know, it's it's it's kind of civilized
00:25:07.240
It's not like you, you know, it's like let's go grab a drink and then i'll go home
00:25:13.240
I mean some people stay out late, but still there's civilized places to go you can go to people go to creek people here
00:25:20.360
It's ironic to say safe spaces, but there are places where you can go and
00:25:25.960
Just yeah, just be a comic and just like drink is that's like what a safe space used to
00:25:32.840
I get when the woke people like we want a safe space like I you know, people put up a big fight about that
00:25:39.240
So i'm not allowed and it's like well, I mean, they're just they're afraid
00:25:43.640
They're you know, they're afraid of whatever me or well somebody making a joke that's a but you know
00:25:54.040
You know where we are at is a safe space to say whatever you want
00:25:57.560
Well, and uh, and i'll say this and to me I say safe space because it's like a physically safe place physically
00:26:07.160
Yeah, and you're we're in a place where like, okay, I feel welcome here and like i've been i've been in
00:26:12.840
Many i've been a few times where i've been in either creek and mothership where there's been a shooting around and i'd be like
00:26:18.200
All right, let me I can just stay here and it's like cool. Really? Yeah. Oh, yeah, it's this texas. She goes she pops off
00:26:23.480
So what's the most unsafe you felt on downtown in downtown austin or sixth street the most unsafe?
00:26:32.120
Walking back to my car at like 2 a.m. Not like a 3 a.m. being like, okay
00:26:37.880
You're just the vibe and the eeriness and like all the cops are gone. So it's like it's gone
00:26:46.200
You're on your own after at around three in austin. Damn so it can get pretty like
00:26:50.440
What was it? What was like there was people like looking at you like groups of men kind of thing just an energy?
00:26:57.320
Yeah, you you're an animal you feel it you feel it like ooh, this place is
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Get to the car quickly. This place is this place is dangerous. You're you're in a dangerous place right now
00:27:08.280
I think it was kurt or something. So he had somebody pull pull a knife on him or something
00:27:12.760
It's like what the fuck. Mm-hmm. That's not good. Yeah, it's a
00:27:16.280
So it and that's what I mean physically. I think a a lot of a lot of the sort of
00:27:26.040
It went from a place for like hey, I can this is a place where I can like hang with my friends and be cool to a place where like I
00:27:34.280
And that's where the problem with like the that's where the sort of issues I think with the with that word sort of came in because it's like you can't
00:27:40.760
Really be insulated from ideas because it's like it if you're in mid-seasor if you're in
00:27:45.800
If you're in creek or whatever late night and you're chilling there, you might hear some shit that you don't agree with
00:27:51.160
You you definitely will hear some shit that you don't agree with and you have going either way
00:27:55.240
Yes, going both ways and you have to learn to be like
00:27:58.840
Either take that information and learn from it or like add it to your thing or just be like, okay
00:28:02.280
People believe that and I maybe don't believe that but they
00:28:04.600
Have a enough right to be here as I do and in the world they're a comic they've been getting up crash
00:28:11.720
They're a comic who gets up who puts work in his craft and this is where he chooses to hang
00:28:15.080
He or she chooses to hang out late at night, and they don't believe what I believe and that's cool. It's good. It's good
00:28:23.240
Like that's the problem with the other safe spaces is that it's when the other ideal or somebody just has a different thought
00:28:29.880
Mm-hmm then it's like you're an other now where it's like right have a different thought good
00:28:34.520
Come over here and scare us all we want to hear it right right and and and there is sort of like this thought
00:28:40.840
Especially in Austin that like oh, it's not a place for like
00:28:43.560
Liberal comics or whatever and it's like I don't I mean, I'm not particularly conservative
00:28:47.880
There's a bunch of liberal comics here pretty much every guy at the mothership is a pretty liberal
00:28:51.880
I would say I'm just they cut to your act like I'm not exactly because they're just one of your most conservative
00:28:56.600
I wouldn't say you're not. No, you're not i'm conservative, but you're not we're I mean my my whole my whole economic policy
00:29:03.800
My economic my whole like political philosophy philosophy since 2012 has been like whoever's in power kind of sucks
00:29:10.680
Yeah, that's kind of been my whole for sure. Yeah, uh, yeah
00:29:15.000
COVID changed a lot of people's minds just about like my mind was melted dude
00:29:19.000
Mm-hmm like I still feel like i'm recovering from just being
00:29:25.000
Having politicians tell you they go from just being
00:29:28.440
People that made up random laws that didn't really matter
00:29:31.480
To like you can't leave your house like maybe people just so
00:29:39.480
Conservatives obviously the right way to go because they don't want the lockdown like that was to me
00:29:45.160
But then but then at least in america so like, you know, we have this shift from the lockdown and now
00:29:49.960
The republicans are in power and they can't do anything
00:29:53.480
They hold all three branches of government and they're completely ineffective
00:29:58.120
Well, I guess I mean I was I was listening to the cash patel thing apparently they've done some good stuff
00:30:03.320
Like but I mean like hostages they brought home, but you could do that
00:30:07.800
I mean you could I mean biden's did some good stuff as well
00:30:10.440
It's like that but the but the overall ineffectiveness and like it's it's like we can count we can like being counts
00:30:16.680
Yeah, this is good. This is bad. But like I said, it's like when we talked about being
00:30:20.360
In downtown early and feeling dangerous. It's the overall feel the overall feel is it is that
00:30:28.040
They haven't really done much which may be part of it which is maybe good
00:30:34.600
We don't want them to do too much radical change and it's also like they they campaign on we're gonna do all this
00:30:40.200
Stuff but every time they get in they realize oh the government's completely inefficient. There's no way to get all this stuff done
00:30:45.320
Yes, I mean there's that and I don't want to say they haven't done much
00:30:47.480
You know what the problem is to me the looking at this republican administration is that they're trying to do too much so quickly
00:30:56.600
They're trying to tackle illegal immigration, which is something that needs to be tackled here
00:31:00.120
But at the same time they're doing tariff stuff
00:31:02.680
Which is a you know or like economic policy which inflation is a huge deal
00:31:06.040
Let's you know that's to do those at the same time. That's a lot
00:31:10.120
And then at the same time you're trying to juggle israel palestine and at the same time
00:31:13.800
You're trying to juggle russia ukraine and at the same time now this the whole elon the doge and the elon that that whole thing split and
00:31:23.880
Granted when you're present you have to deal with all these things at once, but it's like there's no it's like
00:31:28.600
This week we're focusing on this this week we're focusing on this and then this week we'll focus on this
00:31:31.560
I think it's also that well, I think there's no overall plan to attack one thing at a time
00:31:36.280
It feels like four years is a short amount of time nowadays
00:31:42.920
They don't want to take the the chance that they lose and then they only had four years to do it
00:31:50.760
Most presidents don't go as hard as trump in terms of trying to do as many things
00:31:54.760
So I do agree that you know when you spread yourself thin type of thing, but you lose track of the messaging
00:32:02.520
But now solving some problems not all the problems, but there are certain problems that liberals want solved that aren't solvable by
00:32:13.160
You know like homelessness where it's like you can have the nicest homeless shelters and the best counselors and
00:32:20.920
The best drug prevention pro and it's not you know, it's they're still gonna happen right right
00:32:26.120
Where it's like and then you're just and you end up just lining the pockets of all these people who are running the you know
00:32:33.320
Why is there a ceo of a shelter right the administration fees that's where all the money goes to right and it's so correct, so it's
00:32:40.360
Yeah, I don't even know. I think that most people
00:32:46.920
COVID did convince a lot of people that the government should be doing a lot for them when they really really they shouldn't in a way
00:32:53.080
They should be doing as little as possible, right? I do think
00:32:59.480
Like I what do you think about this just legalize weed
00:33:02.280
Everywhere and then like try to force that policy on foreign countries, so it's like you know
00:33:08.120
I mean go to the middle east and be like we want you to legalize weed
00:33:12.200
Like switch it up. Yeah, and just be like we want to sell you we want to legalize weed
00:33:17.560
What would that mean for the world if every country had legal weed? I do think there would be a lot less
00:33:27.880
I mean create a weed culture in fucking gaza or
00:33:33.160
Well mellows out but also yeah, just like what's going on. I mean a lot
00:33:38.360
Why don't we care about things as much as people in other countries?
00:33:44.680
What do you mean like in america like nobody like you know, we have protests and stuff but nobody's as
00:33:54.040
Morocco or like syria or like, I mean gaza obviously
00:33:58.680
Yeah, well, yeah, that's that's a whole genocide
00:34:08.040
I really feel like most people don't give a fuck most people want to you know
00:34:11.240
So this this is what I when I was in middle not high school. I wrote this book called persepolis
00:34:16.440
And it was about a iranian girl who lived through the islamic revolution
00:34:20.840
And it was the first time I was reading something about the middle east where it made me realize like
00:34:27.400
Yeah, they're like like because you know you grow up in america post 9-11 you're like, oh, that's the enemy
00:34:32.440
And then you know, i'm not arab either. So it's like yeah, it's kind of easy to make them feel like the enemy too
00:34:36.840
It's like oh, that's not me and that's there. You know, I even say to him
00:34:39.960
I call them desert browns in my act, but that's just them
00:34:42.680
And then I read persepolis and it just made me realize i'm like 16 like damn, bro
00:34:47.800
What it is is this is what everyone wants around the world. I don't care if you're here
00:34:51.560
I don't care if you're in gaza. I don't care if you're in senegal wherever the fuck you are
00:34:55.160
You want to eat good food you want to hang out with your friends israel
00:34:58.760
Yeah, same thing the average israeli. No, that's all they really want. That's all anyone really wants
00:35:04.360
So it's like I don't know if like everyone's just really as you're only really into the problems that affect you
00:35:10.280
For sure for sure. Yeah, and that's everywhere. I don't think that's like a even in poorer countries
00:35:15.000
I feel like the people are like that if I had to venture a guess
00:35:17.720
They're not really caring what's going on over over there or whatever they're most of them are like look
00:35:22.520
I'm just trying to have you ever been to like a vegas mega dispensary though
00:35:29.160
Like it's just people start coming around me like what is and then yeah, you can smoke this and then they smoke it and then
00:35:37.240
You know some people smoke it once and they're scared and they never do it again
00:35:41.960
This is better than being upset right because it is right
00:35:51.880
Like it makes you kind of have a perspective of like oh my life
00:35:55.400
Maybe I should focus on I think certain people know right, but I think there's positive effects
00:36:08.280
Yeah, that's true. I would say I think my sort of I think I sort of have a very detached look on politics
00:36:13.880
I think it's because I've because I because I'm a
00:36:17.240
Massive stoner I think you know because I grew up in the bay area
00:36:20.200
So I was you know, very democrat liberal until the end of obama's first term where I was like, oh
00:36:28.440
I was also like okay, this is all sort of like a like I look at the american system now
00:36:37.320
Like I said, republicans hold all three government all three branches and there's this massive infighting
00:36:43.240
And there's now one of them dropped the grenade of the epstein files and you're like
00:36:47.320
Damn, that sucks because the democratic party is losing people
00:36:53.720
And you have a chance to capture a lot of people who are disenfranchised with the democratic party
00:36:57.800
And then you have this infighting and then you do stuff like
00:37:01.720
Ban THC in texas, so you're already losing that hold you have
00:37:06.760
Oh, I don't know for the government's it's on the governor's desk. He might be pocket videoing it
00:37:12.200
But you know what I mean, it's like so you have a chance like that's gone, right?
00:37:19.240
I read something today about how trump is talking about maybe cutting off federal funding to california
00:37:26.440
In which in 20 years in which california didn't vote 60 democrat you have a chance to capture some voters
00:37:34.280
Immediately throw any inroads you go on the biggest electoral college in the in the country just gone
00:37:38.760
And you're like, well, that's bad to me. That's bad governance
00:37:41.240
You have a chance to capture and hold for a while and now you're in a situation where you might lose the midterms
00:37:46.360
They have the most votes cali cali has the most votes
00:37:51.080
So it's like if you can grab that you would never lose if you're a republican because you already have texas, which is that number
00:37:55.800
It stays the same forever. No, it changes it's based on those change
00:37:58.760
It's based on how many representatives you have
00:38:03.640
Which is based on pop. Yes. Well, so that's why california and new york texas will always have the most
00:38:07.800
But then you look at the other side and the democrats are like a complete shamble
00:38:12.760
I don't even know if you can call them a party right now
00:38:15.880
They're all we talked about a bridge of fantasy
00:38:17.640
They're all releasing books about how they knew the biden administration was a puppet organization. They're all like
00:38:23.560
Yeah, we kind of knew this was going on the entire time something that everyone could clearly see
00:38:26.840
But they gaslit us into not believing it and then at the same time they're spending 20 million dollars
00:38:36.280
And because they're like, oh, we we lost men in this election in a big way in a way we've never lost before
00:38:41.560
Without any sort of credence the fact that hey you guys propped up a puppet leader to run like with no
00:38:57.960
Forced it down their throats and then we're like
00:39:02.200
They just have such bad branding that now their brands like it's like, okay
00:39:09.160
And like all these people that it's like so easy or hillary clay
00:39:18.280
They just look at it. They look at ilhan omar and they just go
00:39:23.000
Not not because she's black or because she has a turban. I mean that doesn't help
00:39:29.320
Just hearing her talk with the way she's like I am just better than people that that
00:39:35.000
I think fucking pisses people off same thing with AOC. It's like a
00:39:39.080
I'm more morally correct than people i'm better than people and there's not a lot of talk about
00:39:46.440
Like they never talk about like like I felt like trump kind of tapped into
00:39:53.960
Yeah, it's a little more of a positive thing and uh, you know
00:39:58.520
You know the the a lot of what the democrats did like a big point for the democrats and in
00:40:05.880
Look, they'll take away your abortion rights and it's like you guys were in power when they took it away
00:40:13.240
So much time from obama to biden if you really cared about abortion
00:40:18.360
You could have made that especially when obama had all when I had the house and senate
00:40:22.200
You could have codified that you could have made that a law, but you know
00:40:25.800
If you make that a law you can't run on the fact that they're taking it away
00:40:30.200
I do feel like it's do you think it's part of like the population?
00:40:33.960
That they don't want the population to decline so they
00:40:37.400
That's a part of it don't really want people having that many abortions because they know that
00:40:47.640
If we want to talk about it, then we can talk is real about
00:40:53.080
There's people getting it just because they don't want to
00:40:58.920
Have you know bear the responsibility and maybe it's a bad situation the kid the guy doesn't want to be around
00:41:05.640
There's a lot of rich people getting abortions. Yeah, like i'd say they're possibly getting the majority. I would say yeah
00:41:11.400
It's like rich white chicks who are like a lot of them not ready a lot of them conservative and they
00:41:16.760
Their families could help them and they just don't want to do it
00:41:19.960
And that's not good for the country because that kid even if
00:41:24.120
Some of the coolest people are born out of wedlock or out of in like, you know, not the best situation
00:41:34.600
Look, it's definitely like I don't know what the answer is
00:41:37.080
Like if you heard the liberal argument where they're like we need abortion because it keeps down crime
00:41:42.600
It's like the most racist. Yeah, that's racist. That's people say that that's it. Well, yeah, that's like a liberal talking point
00:41:47.480
like well if if we don't have abortion then all these
00:41:53.320
I don't know what race they are, but they're having too many kids
00:42:04.600
I saw this especially after trump won this time and then there and then you know, because he won the latino vote like big and then the people were like
00:42:13.240
On especially on like a place like right of people like oh, look at this republican or conservative
00:42:20.280
It's like that's how you really feel like and and this is why
00:42:26.040
Kamala lost the minority vote not the minority vote, but like didn't lose it
00:42:31.080
It's because people were like we're not a hostage vote
00:42:34.360
You know the whole you vote for buy it if you don't vote for me, you're not black
00:42:37.480
That sort of stuff. It's like that's how they it's like you vote for us or else
00:42:40.120
Mm-hmm. We're not really like we don't we only care about you as a voting demographic
00:42:51.960
You know, I know you need a little extra help because you know, you're black
00:42:55.640
Or like that kind of thing where it's like so whoa
00:43:00.120
I do feel like republicans are just happy that anybody wants to be on their side
00:43:04.600
So they're like good to come, you know, or they're they're happy when
00:43:12.360
Or fucking you know, people who aren't white are successful
00:43:16.040
Like I don't I think republicans are happy about that
00:43:18.760
Democrats less so especially if that person becomes a republican
00:43:26.440
Great, but you know what I mean like there's tons of yeah
00:43:33.480
Only people that have said the words to go back to where you came from
00:43:41.320
Well, like in not in those ways, but like do you know to go back to california or go back get out of here?
00:43:46.680
I've been told to go back to canada by liberals. Yeah, exactly exactly
00:43:50.600
The only people in my life that told me to go back to where I came from have been liberal people
00:43:53.960
It's so funny because they because they have this moral stance of their life and you know
00:43:57.800
Not to say that the conservatives don't have their own problems with minorities, which they definitely do
00:44:04.120
But like it was what's frustrating I guess from someone who comes from like a liberal place is
00:44:12.120
And they think that they don't and they're more they think they're on this moral high ground
00:44:15.480
And so they act in a way that's like oh, you don't really see how racist that is
00:44:19.480
Like I had some girl on my show in boston. She was like
00:44:22.600
Just looking at me like that. She's like 22. And then I was like you're not you don't like this, do you?
00:44:30.840
And she's like, yeah, he would like this and it's like well, so you know why
00:44:36.360
Why this is you know what i'm saying like that girl's in that boat where
00:44:39.960
She's gonna act liberal till there's a moment where she's afraid
00:44:43.240
And then she's gonna be the most racist she's ever been in her life
00:44:50.040
Video of that like the girl calling the police on the black chick black little the lady calling the police on the black girl who was selling lemonade
00:44:56.600
Right, yeah, and that was like like a crazy overreaction. That was in oakland
00:45:06.600
Just call the police on the neighbors for having their kids sell lemonade
00:45:11.240
But you know, they don't they don't you know if you in some places in deep conservative land, they just
00:45:16.760
You could they could they might possibly kill that person, so I guess it's it's it's better that way, but it's still like
00:45:24.440
Yes, yes, rich rich conservatives they would call rich conservatives care less about race than I think
00:45:34.680
Aware of the consequences of violence when you get the more money you have
00:45:39.640
I feel like where you are you're like more willing, you know
00:45:43.720
Potential to do something impulsive, right and so
00:46:01.480
Fucking just can't stop talking about it, you know, ukraine protest
00:46:08.920
I'm sure they're talking about it in their homes
00:46:11.800
But the palestine protest is like every saturday's it's there and then the jews protest
00:46:20.040
I don't know how anybody has time for that personally like even if you
00:46:24.360
Agree or or like your part, you know mentally you're like good this guy
00:46:35.160
Like would you ever go to a protest every week every week?
00:46:37.960
No, but I don't think it's I don't think it's like
00:46:42.920
During 2020 I went to like a blm thing and then and and I also went to an anti-gun thing
00:46:47.560
Where it's like these things are how I feel and like well one I was I was just stuck in the house
00:46:54.120
So maybe it did make it easier to go to those things because I don't know if I was the only thing to do
00:47:02.920
Right exactly. Well, that's that's that's the whole thing, but I do think there's a worrying protests
00:47:12.200
Well, there there is a thing where I think there's a lot of people who are like well
00:47:15.000
I'll go to one and then just sort of cycle through
00:47:17.320
And then there's some people who the it's their job and they might be paid by someone to do this
00:47:21.080
So it's like it's every week for a regular citizen. I think is a little crazy
00:47:27.320
But I do think if you're part of that community then it also becomes like a community thing too, right?
00:47:31.000
So it's like if you're a palestinian and there's palestinian protests every week, it's it's almost like
00:47:36.600
Well, that's kind of like where we go to church not church
00:47:39.000
But like it's like a meeting place of our community. So there's a lot of that
00:47:44.680
So there's a lot of like there's a lot of like that going on
00:47:50.520
They're all pumped up to go and hang out and wave flags. It's like guys
00:47:55.400
This is you're making it dangerous for more serious people out there
00:47:59.560
Like you're not the most serious jews on the streets like the ones who are
00:48:05.640
Like, you know, the rich jews are like, oh, can you please not?
00:48:11.960
Right, because you guys aren't gonna get killed because you got police everywhere, but I you know, then they're gonna find out about the
00:48:18.200
The levens or the whatever, you know, those the more rich
00:48:24.280
Go under the radar like the richer jews are the ones who are like, fuck, this is bad
00:48:33.960
They're not they're kind of being used as pawns to
00:48:37.560
Everybody's it's so easy to just get poor people to fucking
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Fucking heard them into like oh, you you go protest about this you go storm the thing
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It's and and you know, it's great one of my quotes. I have I have a
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Different like medias that I like in my house, you know
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I ironically one of the one of the quotes is in hebrew, but uh, the one of the other quotes is from the gangs of new york
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And there's a pool scene and the rich aristocrats and it's
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You can always pay half the poor to kill the other half
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Always crazy. I just remember that it's just like whenever the things are happening. It's like well, someone's orchestrating all of this
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The board or the the what is the proletariat is the poor? Yes, bourgeoisie is and then
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It's and then what what's plebeians? No, that's also that's just like
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For like the it'll be like it's like kind of basic you're like the low end. I feel like it's like you're a pleb
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Yeah, but now it's become slang. So it's like now. It's like
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It was like the people it was like the weird people in the in the like that lived outside the castle wall
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Yeah, that's some like that's some whatever that system was
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To be around a lot of smart people and kind of be able to
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Proper like a good perspective like being a rational human being is almost frowned upon
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Because you have to like wait this guy hasn't made up his mind yet or like this guy's taking a minute to
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Think about it right or kind of piece of shit or this guy doesn't fall in line with everything that
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The purity tests on both sides are just like so you got a COVID vaccine. Are your kids vaccinated?
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It's like well, who cares that or there's like the there's like the
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So there's like the left period test which is like fall in line with all these steps you want and then there's a right period
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Uh, period test where it's like you can't say anything negative about trump
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If you say anything negative about trump, you're just some woke liberal and it's like oh really this guy this guy is doing
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All good things. Yeah, get the fuck out of here dude get the fuck out of here. He's a i've always thought it's so funny
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That like because I like the idea of draining the swamp
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The idea is nice, but you're gonna drain one you're gonna drain the swamp with a new york billionaire
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He's the swamp. He's part of the swamp. He wants to be for sure
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Have flags on their car like a trump flag on their car like I get it be leading up to the election
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A lot of people just wanted him to win there's the people who took those off and we're like
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And then there's the people are like no this needs to be on my car for the next four years
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Are mentally ill just like a person wearing a mask is mentally ill the right wing version of wearing a mask is just
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Continuing to wear a fucking make america great again hat when it's like he already won
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I think it's that I still think it's the best like you know people like china's better look
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They have they have a subway going through a building and then it's a fucking the top floor is the first floor
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Or whatever the fuck they did and it's like yeah, but everybody's chinese
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Like you like I don't know how many shining like there's this video of walking home in
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By yourself and it's this white guy walking through china and all the buildings are lit up
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Yeah, and I really wanted to just take that video and then just
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I mean, I know I love chinese people but but like you know, I get what you're saying
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There's no like there's no like diver like the ironically that the diversity of thought and people is like
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Yeah, dude for thought crimes and shit like that
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And I know maybe I don't know if you're littering people who are listening is like oh this guy may
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Because I think it's the best and and to stay the best you got to be highly critical of it all the time
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And and the beauty of it is I could be publicly that's why israel's so good