On this week's episode of the podcast, we discuss the recent shooting in Aurora, Colorado, and how we should respond to it. Plus, we have a new segment called "Wine of the Day," where we try to answer the question of the day: Is Elon Musk a good or bad guy?
00:03:03.000So he's insane. And Owen Benjamin with a song.
00:03:06.000Little diddy. And, of course, producing with me in Video Studio, as always, is my faithful producer, because he's producing, Jared, who is not gay.
00:03:14.000Follow him on Twitter, notgayjared. Meet us, credit with your thoughts, your comments, your photoshops.
00:03:17.000I've fulfilled my legal obligations, as far as I know.
00:03:20.000Draw your own conclusions. Are we good? We're good.
00:04:46.000What do you think? I think you have to.
00:04:48.000I hate having to respond to these things like that, but you have to throw logic out there because if people use emotion to make laws, we're going to end up really screwed in the end.
00:04:55.000No, we're going to end up like the United States of America.
00:05:11.000We've done so many shows where we've dealt with the Australian gun buyback, I'm not going to revisit it.
00:05:20.000Let's recap it, and then we'll be done with it, because I know you're dealing with this on every single other show, and we can move on to why Elon Musk sucks or something else, because I'm tired of the same conversation over and over.
00:05:30.000Set your timer. Let's go. Assault weapons are We're good to go.
00:06:29.000If I could stand up and clap right now.
00:06:30.000Less than a minute. That's pretty good.
00:06:32.000You can skip the entire CNN. And we've covered all of that.
00:06:35.000Watch this. Where's your reference, Mr.
00:06:37.000Internet Skeptic? Do some research, guys.
00:06:40.000Go f*** yourself. I'm so tired of the gun.
00:06:43.000What bothers me is the grandstanding, the political grandstanding, the virtue signaling as though they have the moral high ground when their very position is evil.
00:06:52.000And I mean that. No, it's evil to disarm.
00:07:04.000Because someone did something bad, you think that you now have the right to strip me of my God-given right to self-defense?
00:07:11.000That's the problem with people, countries like Europe.
00:07:13.000Sorry, Sven Computer. That's the problem with countries that don't recognize your rights coming from somewhere else other than the government.
00:07:17.000Sorry, you get the angry, skeptic, atheist mad at me.
00:07:20.000Guess what? The Constitution recognized that rights were bestowed to us.
00:07:23.000They were bestowed upon us by God, not by government.
00:07:36.000And it sucks. And I wish we could just say it's terrible and it sucks.
00:07:39.000And I wish we could just say, God, what an awful tragedy.
00:07:41.000Can't we mourn as a nation? And the left talks about coming together and finding common ground.
00:07:45.000How about you find common ground, shut your mouth, and let the bodies be buried before you push bulls**t Legislation that you know won't do anything, and you don't even abide by yourself.
00:07:58.000Alright. In Olympic news, I had to get that out.
00:08:03.000The Jamaican bobsled team coach has just quit, and she's taking the team sled with her.
00:08:10.000The all-female bobsled team was revealed in a series of firsts.
00:08:13.000That's the big thing. No, a series of firsts.
00:08:15.000Oh, nice. First female Jamaican bobsled team.
00:08:17.000Like, come on. But just days before, their South Korean debut, Sandra Carisaces, I have it right here.
00:08:25.000Anyway, a former gold medalist for Germany, Germany has to import their bobsled coaches, put her post at the helm of the team's staff, and she is now threatening to keep the sled, claiming legal ownership.
00:08:37.000So naturally, this isn't the news, the team's very upset, and apparently they've been issuing veiled threats to their former coach, which has already prompted Disney to purchase the film rights.
00:09:19.000The only one not saying it I love is the actual German here.
00:09:22.000In her defense, she only knows two words.
00:09:24.000Mein! And Juden. So she is pretty weird.
00:09:26.000I thought that was weird too. The FBI is now investigating a funeral home for allegedly running a side business selling body parts.
00:09:34.000Gotta make that money. The federal inquiry began several months ago, shortly after Reuters interviewed a half dozen workers who formerly worked for Hess.
00:09:46.000You know what's funny? It's actually not illegal, I was saying.
00:09:47.000I guess there's nothing against selling it for, like, medical experience.
00:10:57.000The former chief of staff of Iran's armed forces said Tuesday that Western spies have used lizards to attract atomic waves and spy on his country's nuclear program.
00:15:26.000That's fine. The problem is that he uses government subsidies to fund projects that we'd never like to stand on if it weren't for billions of dollars.
00:15:33.000And that's the debate. That's the debate right there.
00:15:35.000So engineers calling him an idiot for tunneling and stuff like that or whatever.
00:15:39.000Which he might be. Well, he could very well be, but hey, go for it.
00:15:41.000Well, like Tesla, that's a good example.
00:15:43.000It's Elon, it's the electric car, okay?
00:15:45.000It's basically a way to scam the government out of money and let celebrities, rich people, virtue signal with their electric cars.
00:15:50.000Without government subsidies, Tesla would employ, I think sales in Denmark went down about, Sven Computer can bring this up, 60% once they started phasing out the tax breaks.
00:15:58.000There you go, from Bloomberg. So the government with the Tesla, and I talked about this with the Prius back when I did a video at PJTV in 2009, it was still losing Toyota money on everyone's sold, and it was the most profitable hybrid vehicle at that point.
00:16:10.000I think the Nissan Leaf was a similar story.
00:16:12.000Was it? Yeah, there was so many subsidies, and I don't think it really made the many things.
00:16:15.000Well, the story with the Prius, a lot of people don't remember, there were a lot of other hybrid cars at that point, but the Prius is the only one that was a driving guilt token.
00:16:33.000He must really have... He must know what's up.
00:16:36.000By the way, every single person who can't drive got together in Los Angeles and picked the Prius as their car of choice.
00:16:41.000Which is funny about the Tesla because you get liberals praising it, but you see one driving around and you're like, I know the guy's in the 1%.
00:17:36.000Namely, you're just getting stabbed and you're 503 being taken from.
00:17:39.000Pretty much, yeah. So then there was a SolarCity project.
00:17:42.000The SolarCity reportedly received, I think it's close to $500 million, $490-something million, Sven, let's bring that up, in direct grants from the Treasury Department.
00:17:50.000Wow. The cost of the government would be a total of somewhere around between $1 and $2 billion.
00:19:31.000He's going to space for a long time not making any money.
00:19:34.000And I can say the government, but that's because the government basically made it so they were the only ones who could do it.
00:19:37.000Right, yeah. And then other enterprises do it better.
00:19:39.000But we subsidize stuff like oil right now and coal and things like that.
00:19:42.000We do now, but that's because it was ultimately the government's trying to hitch its wagon to something that is already profitable, that already works.
00:20:35.000Elon Musk himself. Mr. Musk, can you hear us?
00:20:37.000Of course, Stephen. I have the fastest internet in the world, dummy.
00:20:40.000Well, that makes sense. So, thrilled to have you here, mostly, but it wouldn't be fair of me if I didn't toss you a few hardballs off the bat.
00:20:47.000I hope you understand. Of course, Stephen.
00:24:13.000Then you'll be a bit older In the dawn when you wake And you'll be a bit bolder All right, glad to have our next guest. I refer to him as Mr.
00:24:36.000Fist. Mr. Fist. But you can follow him on the Twitter at RazorFist with a zero, right?
00:25:35.000I would have had more presentation going on.
00:25:37.000I figured... To adequately convey the tact and lack of politicization from the left in the aftermath of yesterday's tragedy, I considered dressing like an AR-15 today.
00:25:50.000Yeah. Then I remembered that to the left, absolutely everything is an AR-15.
00:25:56.000Yes. I think that would have been great, and you could have done like a little drive-in dance.
00:27:48.000I will say, and this sounds terrible, you just want to come out and say, you know, thoughts and prayers or whatever it is, or my condolences, that's what you want to do.
00:27:54.000But you can't. You can't because before you even say, hey, my condolences to the, and Elizabeth Warren is there being a bitch, it's right away.
00:28:02.000It's so awful. There's not even like a rest in peace the victims hashtag.
00:28:09.000They just jump right to gun reform, gun control, you know, whatever.
00:28:13.000And you click on any of these hashtags and not since the human centipede have this many heads been jammed in this many a**es.
00:31:15.000No, in the aftermath, you're always going to get people bitching about a ban or whatever, which I can understand given the sweeping success of the drug ban in this country.
00:32:16.000She's in the back of her brain and someone has hijacked her body.
00:32:20.000Yeah. I think it's half the messaging.
00:32:23.000Oh, sorry. Go ahead. No, you go ahead.
00:32:24.000I was going to say something completely useless.
00:32:28.000I was gonna say, I think it's half the messaging and half it's like they just blow me over with the people that make the point guard for these issues.
00:32:37.000Right. You know, it's like, and now to make the case for comprehensive gun control, Barbara Boxer holding a shotgun from the wrong end.
00:32:45.000You know what I mean? It's like a bad infomercial like ShamWow.
00:32:49.000I don't even know, why do I, how do I do it?
00:32:52.000Yeah. Yeah, so long as you're screwed it up already, Babs, try holding it with your mouth.
00:32:57.000But anyway, no. It goes back to Obamacare or whatever, when they reanimated Pelosi to sell Obamacare.
00:33:05.000Does anybody take a look at that briar of mangled flesh she calls a face and think, give me that medical care.
00:33:50.000She was part of that whole, the California cabal during the Jonestown stuff and the Jim Jones suicide and all that, you know, the Jerry Brown.
00:34:00.000She's part of that whole kind of milieu or whatever.
00:34:03.000Well, she just keeps... I think she probably died a long time ago.
00:34:05.000There's somebody with a 3D printer just manufacturing more Nancy Pelosi.
00:34:12.000I think with Nancy Pelosi, she's emblematic of the Democratic Party where, like you said, she's been around so long, so it's actually a great timeline.
00:34:21.000Any new further left position, she takes.
00:34:24.000If you go back, she'd be like, how dare you compare gay marriage to transsexuals in bathrooms?
00:34:29.000And now it's like, well, of course we have to have transsexuals in bathrooms.
00:34:31.000If you were to go back, how dare you compare the idea of Plan B to a 20-week abortion?
00:35:33.000I tried to give him one of my old, my Sig P938. Now, the reason was because Dean Cain has a Sig P238. For people who don't know, that's the.380 equivalent.
00:35:54.000It's the exact same gun, has the same kind of internal safety mechanisms.
00:35:57.000It is a different caliber, but that's not why.
00:35:59.000It's basically after a certain point in California...
00:36:02.000You cannot get a firearm on the approved list, so people have just stopped trying.
00:36:06.000So, there you go. You're just going to be, I mean, if ever there's a civil war, California is going to have guns that are outdated by about 20 years.
00:36:12.000We take them first, and then move our way into, you know, Nevada, Arizona.
00:38:20.000That's the thing. Ultimately, it comes down to they want to ban guns.
00:38:23.000They know that a 10-round magazine that can be swapped out just as quickly isn't going to be the difference between lives saved or lost.
00:38:28.000They have to. Or an AR-15 versus a Glock 19.
00:38:31.000Yeah! And of course, they're already, have you seen, they're already writing the Trump overturned the mental illness ban BS. Oh, you mean the weaker version of the Florida law that already didn't catch that kid?
00:38:46.000That one? I mean, sure, the state of Florida refuses sale to anyone with a history of mental illness, but if we could have just put this kid in an FBI database that literally gets used for absolutely nothing, this entire tragedy might have been averted.
00:39:01.000It's a database like the ISIS kill list.
00:39:03.000When I had the FBI, when we were talking about it, they said, nah, but they said, don't worry about the ISIS kill list.
00:39:06.000Pretty much everyone's on the ISIS kill list.
00:39:08.000Have you ever said ISIS sucks? You're on the ISIS kill list.
00:39:10.000That's pretty much the FBI watch list as it relates to gun owners.
00:40:53.000And you realize you care about the wolf.
00:40:55.000He becomes friends with the wolf. Yeah.
00:40:57.000But the wolf is killing mice and rats, and the wolf goes after this bear.
00:41:03.000So we're supposed to hate bears and mice, but then Ratatouille comes out, and you're supposed to care about the mouse.
00:41:07.000And then there's, what was it, Big Bear, and you're supposed to care about it.
00:41:09.000You just realize that Disney just makes whichever animals in that film is who you should care about and screw everybody else until the next franchise comes out.
00:41:17.000I just wanted to go out and kill all bears.
00:41:19.000Hey, speaking of Hollywood and Disney, our next guest, probably the biggest, definitely the longest resume of anyone on this show.
00:42:47.000Well, wait, it's got to be organic, and there are technical aspects of being an actor that you have to kind of follow and know what you can and can't do physically.
00:42:59.000But my dad, who, you know, we just had his memorial just this past weekend, and Rance Howard, and he was my mentor and my sage, and he taught me acting in just, you know, there's only about five things you really need to know.
00:43:17.000Okay. And one is you need to listen to the other actors and listen to everything that's going on.
00:43:35.000I was telling Sven that the other day.
00:43:37.000We were getting him to act, playing Joe Pesci, and I said, think of where you're ending up and then kind of follow through to that because he's getting caught with the words.
00:43:46.000A lot of first-timers, that's what they do.
00:43:48.000When you walk into a room, into a situation, you have an intention.
00:43:53.000Right. I mean, it might be mindless or it might be a goof, but you have intentions.
00:43:59.000So it's just a matter of Dad explained to both Ron and I, you know, you have to understand where your character has been.
00:44:51.000Well, tell me this, you know, because I never want to be exploitative at all, but you mentioned you wanted to talk about it, your father's memorial.
00:44:59.000You know, if I can say, off air, you said, you know, you were kind of, you weren't dealing with it necessarily in the best way, your father's passing, which caught me off guard because we spent a lot of time with you, and everyone here really got to know you and really felt like...
00:45:11.000I mean, everyone here really got to know you is to love you.
00:45:14.000Said like, wow, I mean, you're quirky, don't get me wrong.
00:45:17.000But you were incredibly lucid and very positive.
00:46:02.000I found him when he had fell ill and was taken to the emergency room.
00:46:07.000And so, you know, I didn't do that well.
00:46:10.000I didn't blow it. I didn't, you know, go to jail or I didn't cause any trouble.
00:46:15.000I just felt like I should have been either a little more on top of it or a little more together.
00:46:21.000And, you know, just before dad died and I knew he was going to pass, it was just, I had said my goodbyes and I just, it popped into my head.
00:46:30.000He goes, you know, Clint, I don't do dying parents well.
00:46:37.000I didn't have great last bedside conversations with my dad or my mom.
00:46:44.000I've had wonderful experiences with my parents and I've had experiences that I will cherish with me.
00:46:53.000It's just at the end it wasn't really pleasant.
00:46:57.000I don't like seeing somebody laying in a hospital bed in a living room dying or dead.
00:47:04.000Let me say, if it means anything, you seem to be handling yourself incredibly well, of course, with your significant other.
00:47:09.000I won't name names or anything. I know you keep your private life private, but she was lovely, and you were both out here as a couple, and we really enjoyed our time with you.
00:47:16.000And if there's ever anything we can do, and I mean, I know you know we mean that.
00:47:20.000You talk with our booker, Darren, my dad, all the time.
00:47:23.000As a matter of fact, I have semi-nude pictures of you, which you've sent to him.
00:47:27.000Keep doing that. Next time, make them fully nude.
00:51:22.000It is such an unusual thing in one's life to all of a sudden have somebody that you were close to and you looked up to and admired and just a friend.
00:51:38.000For them to be gone, it's just like you said, processing.
00:51:43.000And all I said, you know, I just don't do it well.
00:51:46.000And that's okay. There are things in my life I do well.
00:53:09.000Sometimes that's the nuggets is when you're just saying stuff that's almost random.
00:53:15.000Here's what I get some satisfaction out of.
00:53:16.000Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube, who is as far left as they get trying to do the social engineering, knows that you played her in this, and it has an IMDB profile.
00:53:26.000So if ever she gets our channel removed and this is never seen again, at least we got that on her face.
00:53:31.000Before we go, you mentioned something about Johnny Depp with the memorial.
00:53:35.000You had a story. Well, you know, a couple of Dad's better roles or bigger roles or memorable roles were with Johnny Depp.
00:53:45.000And I know Johnny, knew Johnny a long time ago through Charlie Sheen.
00:53:50.000We'd worked together doing a short film that Charlie directed.
00:53:54.000And Johnny and Tim Burton heard about Dad Dying.
00:54:00.000And Johnny contacted, in fact, well, John has the same agent that Ron has.
00:54:05.000So let it be known that he can't go, but he wants to send a clip.
00:54:11.000It was really cool that he brought back the memories of Ed Wood.
00:54:17.000Dad did a great turn in Ed Wood when he's the investor in the movie.
00:54:43.000He talked a little bit about him and I working together.
00:54:49.000It was as eccentric and as off as you can imagine with Charlie Sheen, Johnny Depp, and me.
00:54:54.000I can imagine, yeah. Hopefully the NSA is not spying in on that one because I can imagine some tapes being liable.
00:55:00.000You've got Charlie Sheen, Johnny Depp, and Clint Howard.
00:55:04.000They give stuff like that big thumbs up.
00:55:07.000Yeah, exactly. They couldn't care less.
00:55:10.000They're good with it. All right, listen.
00:55:11.000Were you going to say something there?
00:55:12.000Because we do have to get going. We've got more so philosophical.
00:55:15.000I know. Why do you rag on the NSA? It's fun.
00:55:22.000Okay. Do you rag on China's NSA? Well, no, because that's pretty much just Jackie Chan threatening you if you don't support the Communist Party and then making millions of dollars in American films.
00:55:35.000I'm done with Jackie Chan, by the way.
00:55:37.000I don't know if you've ever worked with him, but he's actually done PSAs for Chinese Communist propaganda.
00:55:43.000He's actually done it. I swear to you, just YouTube after this, Jackie Chan PSA. Yeah, that's not a joke.
00:58:56.000Good show. Razor Fist and, of course, Clint Howard.
00:58:59.000We're going to have another Change My Mind coming up.
00:59:01.000I'll be taping one tomorrow. Is it the first of the year?
00:59:03.000It's the first of the year. First one of the year.
00:59:04.000Yeah, a lot of people are saying, we haven't really been doing any big on location videos because we did have to do a test run of the big show at Virginia Tech.
01:00:35.000Not thin, they're really just small in diameter.
01:00:37.000And so they're way more antioxidant rich.
01:00:39.000The wild blueberries, a lot more fiber because the skin is like thicker.
01:00:42.000It's basically all skin. They're not as watery.
01:00:45.000So when you eat them, they're more sour, but they're better for you.
01:00:47.000I was a grown-ass man before I realized there's a difference between regular grapes and Concord grapes.
01:00:50.000I was always confused where they got the grape Welch's juice flavor, and I was disappointed that it did not taste like the grapes they were feeding me.
01:02:46.000He can't kill you. Now, I'm not making an excuse for using a bad word because there are people out there, especially if you have kids listening, I apologize, might be offended.
01:02:54.000But what's funny to me is when, and this would always happen in churches a lot.
01:02:58.000Remember, the sort of litmus test they would use is naughty words, but not naughty actions.
01:03:04.000So you'd have people who you'd never hear anything bad from.
01:03:07.000You'd have people who you would never say anything that could be offensive, but they were cheating on their wives.
01:03:24.000If I were to say what offends me, and I'm not really offended, but if I were to say what offends me intellectually far more than someone saying a naughty word are ideas that fly in the face of basic human rights.
01:03:36.000How about that? Bringing it back to that, you know, I didn't want to talk about it too much with our guests.
01:03:39.000We kind of talked about it with Razor Fist.
01:03:41.000But this idea now that you're seeing of disarming a populace, we've seen what has happened throughout history.
01:03:47.000We've seen what has happened when you strip people of their basic rights.
01:03:50.000And by the way, they're all intertwined.
01:03:51.000This is what I find funny. When the left tries to say, well, look at the trans bathroom.
01:03:56.000It's just like being segregated fountains.
01:03:58.000Really? First off, I don't think using a urinal, or not using a urinal, I guess, going in a little girl's room when you're a man, haven't even transitioned, you put on a wig and a dress, I don't really think necessarily even your preference of friction is the same as not being allowed to sit on the bus.
01:05:47.000What if somebody needs a gun because they're living in a bad area of town and they're traveling across town going to school trying to make something of themselves and so they need to protect themselves at home?
01:05:55.000Maybe that's something you might want to take into account.
01:05:57.000What if there's a mother whose father died overseas, and she needs to protect her family right now while she gets back on her feet?
01:06:04.000Maybe she needs a gun because the only chance she has is being more powerful than a man, and it's a mechanical advantage, not a physical one, despite the bullshit Krav Maga class you taught her at the YMCA or WMC. I have no idea anymore.
01:06:16.000The point is, when you say, we don't know, so let's just, we don't know every circumstance, we agree.
01:06:22.000Here we go. Boom. Common ground. We agree.
01:06:24.000We can't know everyone's reasoning for purchasing a gun?
01:06:26.000Absolutely. So, let's strip people of their God-given right to protect themselves.
01:07:37.000Over up to three million lives saved each year.
01:07:40.000By the way, that's from guns being used proactively.
01:07:43.000That doesn't necessarily include the number of people who simply brandish a gun.
01:07:47.000And it saves their life. But you know what?
01:07:49.000One of our worldviews doesn't require us to know every single individual circumstance.
01:07:54.000One of our worldviews, mine, only requires that I understand I could never possibly know every individual circumstance.
01:08:03.000And so when you accept that, you accept that there's evil, and you give people who want to mess it up the tools to do so.
01:08:12.000So shut off the 24-hour cable news cycle.
01:08:15.000I don't care who's talking on a panel, the great Canadian panel, the great American panel, or the great Swiss panel who's given us nothing and given up a whole long time ago.