Louder with Crowder - April 23, 2020


Bonding Over Shared Hatred of Pedophiles | Ash Wednesday | Ep 669


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33 minutes

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7,490

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630

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Misogyny

17

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Toxicity

33

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Hate speech

20

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On this week's episode of Ash Wednesday, we talk about the Salon Pedophile, a piece written by Seth Rifkin about a group of men who were obsessed with pedophiles in the early days of the internet, and how they started a movement against them.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, good to see you again today, if you were here, obviously, for Good Morning Mug Club this morning.
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00:00:20.000 We talk about them, not necessarily political.
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00:00:45.000 but I hope that you enjoy this program and we'll see you tomorrow with the live stream.
00:00:50.000 Oh, yeah.
00:01:03.000 Yeah.
00:01:04.000 Wow.
00:01:04.000 Those are some central noises.
00:01:07.000 Welcome to Ash Wednesday.
00:01:08.000 How do you know it's Ash Wednesday?
00:01:09.000 Because I'm wearing this shirt.
00:01:10.000 Oh.
00:01:11.000 We fixed the saturation.
00:01:12.000 The reason I can only wear this shirt on Wednesday because the red is too bright.
00:01:15.000 Too vibrant lights on the Ash Wednesday.
00:01:17.000 It's vibrant.
00:01:18.000 It is vibrant.
00:01:19.000 I'm like, I'm not very vibrant right now.
00:01:22.000 You don't have to be.
00:01:23.000 Because I went to sleep very late.
00:01:25.000 By the way, we have Quarterback Garrett, Gerald A., Half-Asian Bill, and Reg, the beast, the researcher. 0.99
00:01:32.000 Can I ask why?
00:01:34.000 Reg, how did you come to exist?
00:01:36.000 How did I come to exist?
00:01:38.000 On the show.
00:01:39.000 On the show, I think Steven noticed me, under one of my many pseudonyms on Twitter, arguing with someone.
00:01:45.000 I thought you messaged me a story.
00:01:49.000 I was arguing with someone about abortion in the comments to one of your tweets, and I was just a fan, and you messaged me and said, hello, senor.
00:01:57.000 You seem like a smart fellow.
00:01:58.000 And I said, oh, thanks.
00:01:59.000 And we chatted a tiny bit.
00:02:01.000 This stuff's fake.
00:02:03.000 Then I started sending you articles and stuff that I'd written on Medium.
00:02:09.000 And then we connected.
00:02:10.000 We really bonded over the salon pedophile.
00:02:12.000 Yes, it was.
00:02:13.000 It brought us together.
00:02:14.000 I'm glad it did.
00:02:15.000 Our mutual hatred for pedophiles, I think that was what actually started them.
00:02:20.000 Brothers in anti-pederast arms.
00:02:23.000 If there was a reason to bond people together.
00:02:26.000 Just like Marx and Engels.
00:02:27.000 He is the Spock to my Kirk, if I were a Kirk, but I'm not.
00:02:33.000 He's a Spock to my guy with a big head.
00:02:37.000 I don't remember this about Reg exactly, but I must have noticed just how sharp he was.
00:02:44.000 That guy gets laid. 0.81
00:02:45.000 Haven't you heard?
00:02:46.000 He gets around.
00:02:47.000 But it is true. 0.90
00:02:48.000 I don't remember this about Reg exactly, but I must have noticed just how sharp he was.
00:02:55.000 I didn't know at the time, though, that you were sending articles to everybody during
00:03:00.000 He just liked to be a disruptor.
00:03:01.000 He was working at a college and then it turned out he was just sending stuff out to people who he thought could get the message out, which was smart, just to try and cause chaos.
00:03:09.000 Yeah, the meme war was in 2016.
00:03:12.000 They were pretty great.
00:03:13.000 I had a lot of many, many accounts and many avenues, but this was the one that really worked.
00:03:20.000 This was a good one.
00:03:22.000 Tell people who don't know, by the way, you can send in your video questions.
00:03:24.000 I think we have one today at lotofpedder.com slash ask, but tell them about the Salon Pedophile for people who don't remember.
00:03:30.000 Because I remember you sent it to me, and I thought, well, Salon's going to Salon.
00:03:34.000 They support pedophiles, you know?
00:03:35.000 No surprise.
00:03:37.000 Yeah, so Todd Nickerson, they wrote this puff piece about a pedophile called Todd Nickerson, or named Todd Nickerson rather.
00:03:43.000 Say that back to him, Seth.
00:03:44.000 They wrote a puff piece about a pedophile. 0.62
00:03:46.000 Todd Nickerson, a puff piece about a pedophile.
00:03:49.000 But his whole shtick was, I am a minor attracted person, but I would never ever act on it.
00:03:54.000 Right.
00:03:55.000 And so it was called, like, the Virtuous Pedophile or whatever.
00:03:59.000 Wow.
00:04:00.000 I think it was called I'm a Pedophile but Not a Monster.
00:04:05.000 It's slightly different than Virtuous Pedophile.
00:04:08.000 There were actually a lot of articles around that time.
00:04:10.000 They were really pushing it.
00:04:12.000 Yeah, there was a really strong movement.
00:04:15.000 Yeah, I ended up digging, he was on these message boards, and gotta hand it to him, he used his real name several times on the message boards, and it was some debate forum where you would, you know, talk about really edgy things like pedophilia or whatever.
00:04:27.000 Wait, why would you have to hand it to him?
00:04:30.000 If you're gonna be a pedophile... Sounds like Bernie on China. 0.91
00:04:30.000 I'm just saying. 0.91
00:04:35.000 Well, the economy!
00:04:38.000 Poverty.
00:04:38.000 I think Reg tries to look for something in his opponent to respect.
00:04:42.000 You know, sex with kids, but he uses his own name. 0.97
00:04:48.000 Look at this guy, he's walking. 1.00
00:04:49.000 Two legs.
00:04:50.000 That's a feet. 0.98
00:04:53.000 On these debate boards, he actually said that if society ever became more accepting and more sex positive, he would engage in sex play with a child. 0.55
00:05:00.000 He said, I'll never apologize for that.
00:05:02.000 So his whole basis for saying that, you know, I would never act on it, actually he had sort of committed to exactly that.
00:05:02.000 Wow.
00:05:08.000 But wasn't he talking about in the message boards grooming and all that stuff?
00:05:11.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:05:11.000 It seemed like he was actively grooming someone.
00:05:13.000 Yeah, yeah, definitely.
00:05:15.000 And last I checked, he's like 40-something and he was with some girl who's like just turned 18.
00:05:21.000 Well, you know what?
00:05:22.000 Baby steps.
00:05:25.000 Please not babies.
00:05:26.000 He's already going after babies.
00:05:28.000 Baby steps.
00:05:29.000 Newly adult steps.
00:05:31.000 And then he wrote like three more articles.
00:05:33.000 We did this whole article and what I wrote was, hey, there's a certain point where I'm no longer, I guess I'm no longer prioritizing empathy.
00:05:41.000 Yeah.
00:05:42.000 Our priority is the children, the most vulnerable among us.
00:05:45.000 Imagine right now if it was a coronavirus and someone's like, but you know what?
00:05:48.000 I really, I really like coughing on old people. 1.00
00:05:50.000 Yeah.
00:05:54.000 Let's just try and understand.
00:05:55.000 It's like, no, at a certain point you're not allowed in the village.
00:05:57.000 Right.
00:05:57.000 And so for me, I think I even wrote, I said, you get your help.
00:06:01.000 We hope that you get your help, but you can't be in the village.
00:06:03.000 These are the boundaries. 0.99
00:06:04.000 If you try to reenter, you get a bullet in the head. 0.99
00:06:06.000 Yeah, exactly. 0.75
00:06:07.000 And then he wrote, he had the gall to write an article, was it my week or my month in the right wing hate sphere?
00:06:14.000 What cosmic bunny hole did I fall through that a currently active pedophile gets to call me a monster?
00:06:20.000 And then I realized it was the salon cosmic hole. 0.58
00:06:23.000 What I find most interesting about that is that by implication it's that there's some kind of left wing sphere where he's celebrated.
00:06:32.000 And that he's a hero, but if he goes into this other world called, you know, being a moral person, he's vilified.
00:06:40.000 Why does everything have to be left and right with you? 0.98
00:06:42.000 Well, I hate pedophiles, you right-wing bigot. 0.99
00:06:45.000 Well, there you go. 0.99
00:06:47.000 Now you've drawn the lines, and I was actually willing to draw it before pedophilia. 0.98
00:06:54.000 Well, and this was right on the heels of everybody on the conservative side being called, you know, stupid or like, oh, that's a conspiracy theory, thinking that normalizing pedophilia was kind of that next step. 0.98
00:07:02.000 Right. 0.97
00:07:03.000 You know, some people, you know, wrongly brought it up in certain cases.
00:07:06.000 But in other cases, we're like, well, what is next?
00:07:08.000 Like, if you guys continue down this line of crazy, like what's going to happen?
00:07:11.000 And by you guys, I mean particularly folks in the media.
00:07:13.000 We see what we see now coming from Hollywood.
00:07:15.000 We see people like Roman Polanski, potentially Harvey Weinstein, people like Kevin Spacey.
00:07:19.000 You see Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, these people all coming out talking about how it's one of the biggest open secrets in Hollywood, and these are the people who are sort of at the forefront of spearheading change.
00:07:29.000 And of course, Salon is very Hollywood-friendly.
00:07:31.000 They get all kinds of puff pieces and celebrities who speak to them there, which is Amazing to me.
00:07:34.000 We go, well, hold on a second.
00:07:35.000 These people don't seem to have a problem with it.
00:07:37.000 These people, meaning people in the entertainment industry.
00:07:40.000 We could see it coming down the pike. 0.99
00:07:42.000 Then I think they were all removed, weren't they, Reg?
00:07:45.000 Yeah, eventually Salon removed the articles. 0.80
00:07:48.000 Very proud of their stories.
00:07:50.000 Yeah, I think it was just an advertiser thing.
00:07:54.000 I assume people became uncomfortable.
00:07:56.000 It was like a year later.
00:07:58.000 And it's comparable.
00:07:59.000 They wanted to pull ads from a website that supported pedophilia not one but three times.
00:08:05.000 An advertiser on YouTube wanted to pull because I called someone Mexican.
00:08:08.000 That's true.
00:08:09.000 I mean, those are not roughly equivalent.
00:08:12.000 Never mind.
00:08:13.000 That was the point of the joke, Jeremy.
00:08:15.000 It was sarcasm.
00:08:16.000 It was sarcasm there.
00:08:17.000 I was trying to play off of it.
00:08:19.000 You know, I made the worst decision after the stream.
00:08:22.000 What did you do?
00:08:22.000 You were telling us.
00:08:23.000 Coronavirus.
00:08:24.000 I was with Johnny Boy, and I was like, you know, I hadn't eaten.
00:08:26.000 I get nervous, and I can't eat before live shows.
00:08:28.000 And so afterwards, I was like, you know, I'm kind of hungry.
00:08:32.000 Let me see what they have at Quick Trip.
00:08:34.000 And I got one of the taquitos on the hot rollers.
00:08:37.000 I entrusted myself to the sneeze guard.
00:08:39.000 Well, to be fair, I took extra precautions.
00:08:42.000 I asked him, I said, okay, which one of these have been put out most recently?
00:08:46.000 Because it was late at night after the stream.
00:08:48.000 And I picked the one that was furthest in.
00:08:50.000 So the sneeze guard could do most of its sneeze guarding.
00:08:52.000 So the one that was placed two days ago.
00:08:54.000 Yeah, right.
00:08:55.000 Yeah.
00:08:55.000 No, they're pretty good about it.
00:08:56.000 Cause they move a lot of quick trip.
00:08:58.000 You ever had their, their Buffalo chicken taquitos?
00:09:00.000 Oh my gosh.
00:09:00.000 They're not good for you, but they taste, they're delicious.
00:09:02.000 I don't even eat fast food, but those are the things that I eat.
00:09:05.000 I mean, you know that's not fast food.
00:09:06.000 That's fastest food. 0.99
00:09:08.000 Literally, there's no drive-through.
00:09:10.000 It's just from roller to mouth.
00:09:12.000 You might as well just order a side of dysentery.
00:09:16.000 Well, you know, I'm fine.
00:09:17.000 I feel great.
00:09:19.000 I feel tired today, but I feel, you know, my intestines feel like a million bucks.
00:09:22.000 So maybe that's all I needed was a little bit just to block me up.
00:09:27.000 We'll check back with you in a few days.
00:09:28.000 Just cheese and processed whatever that layer is.
00:09:31.000 It's not bread.
00:09:32.000 I don't know what it is.
00:09:33.000 Whatever it is, it's just like wax paper.
00:09:37.000 Was it tasty?
00:09:38.000 Oh my god, was it tasty?
00:09:40.000 Yes!
00:09:40.000 I know, that's what I'm saying.
00:09:42.000 That's the hard part.
00:09:43.000 That's the problem.
00:09:44.000 I love Quick Trip.
00:09:44.000 Quick Trip is my favorite place in the world outside of home.
00:09:47.000 Hey, are you surprised that wine guy over there doesn't eat taquitos?
00:09:50.000 I do eat taquitos, just not from Quick Trip, typically.
00:09:53.000 I don't even know if they're taquitos, honestly.
00:09:55.000 They call it, but we're getting very loose with terminology.
00:09:57.000 Wait, wait, wait.
00:09:58.000 Is it like in parentheses, right?
00:09:59.000 It's not even a real taquito.
00:10:01.000 It's a taquito.
00:10:02.000 Actually, I don't think I get the taquitos.
00:10:03.000 I get the buffalo chicken.
00:10:05.000 Anyone out there who goes to Quick Trip, you know what I'm talking about.
00:10:08.000 It's just like a paste, because it's a tube of the chicken and cheese are just one and the same.
00:10:14.000 Oh, wow.
00:10:14.000 They've just sort of melded together into this artery-clogging piece, well, roll of heaven.
00:10:21.000 Nice.
00:10:21.000 It's terrible.
00:10:22.000 There's nothing good about it.
00:10:24.000 I guessed wrong.
00:10:25.000 I said Jack-in-the-Box and you said you made a bad eating decision.
00:10:27.000 That's right.
00:10:28.000 I said Jack-in-the-Box would have been a far superior decision.
00:10:31.000 Jack-in-the-Box would be child's play compared to getting a taquito on a roller.
00:10:36.000 I thought you were going to say you were going to go to the Halal Guys. 0.99
00:10:38.000 Got some of that hot sauce.
00:10:39.000 Everyone knows the Halal Guys stories. 0.99
00:10:41.000 They're good.
00:10:42.000 I used to do Halal Guys all the time until I just realized my mouth is used to spice, but your stomach can't take it. 0.88
00:10:47.000 And it tastes so good.
00:10:49.000 It was burning a hole.
00:10:51.000 Oh my gosh.
00:10:51.000 It tastes so good.
00:10:53.000 But then that, I don't mean, it's not the kind of thing where you just go to the bathroom like, oh, it's like,
00:10:56.000 aaaaaaah, you know the kind of thing where it's like, when you, like people can see in your walk.
00:11:02.000 It's an event.
00:11:03.000 Like, oh yeah, halal guys. 1.00
00:11:04.000 Yeah.
00:11:05.000 The halal walk.
00:11:06.000 It's tough.
00:11:06.000 The halal walk.
00:11:07.000 So yeah, Reg came to us there, and then you worked part-time for us.
00:11:10.000 Yeah.
00:11:11.000 And then you, I don't want to reveal, but you worked yourself out of a job.
00:11:17.000 Yeah, yeah, basically.
00:11:18.000 I was in, yeah, teaching.
00:11:20.000 He was a professor.
00:11:21.000 And they said, put all your lessons on tape.
00:11:24.000 Yeah.
00:11:25.000 On tape, yes.
00:11:26.000 He has on tape, yeah.
00:11:28.000 Put all your lessons on beta.
00:11:30.000 And shifted to a more online format.
00:11:32.000 Right, yeah.
00:11:32.000 LaserDisc.
00:11:33.000 What would they have done if you said, no, I'm not going to record this?
00:11:36.000 Would they have just brought in someone else?
00:11:38.000 Yeah, probably.
00:11:39.000 Oh, probably.
00:11:39.000 So then he calls me, he's like, I need to talk with you about something.
00:11:41.000 He's all nervous.
00:11:44.000 Oh no, he's going to get tenure.
00:11:46.000 And then they were like, hey, we're firing you.
00:11:48.000 And I said, oh, yes.
00:11:51.000 But inside it was... And then I gave him a raise and he came to work for us full time.
00:11:55.000 And, um, you know, I just, thank God he's on our side.
00:11:58.000 What's your squat?
00:11:59.000 637 was an odd number that I worked to.
00:12:02.000 Yeah.
00:12:02.000 How did you get to the 37?
00:12:06.000 One pound collars.
00:12:08.000 Weighted collars.
00:12:10.000 You get those really beefy in powerlifting, the metal ones that you bolt on.
00:12:14.000 I like using those.
00:12:15.000 The plastic ones are nice, but I dumped quite a few squats because I would work without a spot or so. 0.99
00:12:22.000 For someone very smart, it sounds like you engage in some stupidly risky behavior. 0.98
00:12:26.000 No, no, no, not really. 0.99
00:12:27.000 If you got the power rack there, and you are willing to dump it, then you're pretty safe.
00:12:33.000 Yeah, you know, you're actually pretty safe.
00:12:33.000 A lot of people don't realize, if you don't have the power rack there, if you just dump a squat and go to the board, you're fine.
00:12:37.000 The dangerous thing is putting collars on and benching by yourself.
00:12:41.000 That's the danger, because if you're bench pressing and it gets stuck, If the collars aren't on, for people out there,
00:12:45.000 this is a safety message, and a lot of people don't realize this, they think it's safer to put collars on,
00:12:49.000 not if you're benching, because if it goes down and you can't get it up, if the collars aren't on,
00:12:52.000 you can just tip it, the weight goes off, otherwise it just sits in your diaphragm
00:12:56.000 and continues to sink, and sink like that guy in Jungle Book.
00:12:59.000 Yeah, if you tip it, the bench is not usually high enough to get out from underneath it.
00:13:02.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:13:04.000 I've had to do that before, and just do like a sit-up with like 315.
00:13:07.000 And roll it down on your hips?
00:13:08.000 Yeah.
00:13:09.000 I've done that one time.
00:13:10.000 Nice ab crunches. 0.91
00:13:13.000 You did it once before?
00:13:14.000 I did that one time, yeah.
00:13:15.000 I had to roll it down. 0.98
00:13:16.000 It was a dumb idea. 1.00
00:13:17.000 That is a horrible idea. 0.99
00:13:18.000 I wasn't benching that much, I'd just done so many reps I was burned out.
00:13:20.000 What were you about to say there, Wade?
00:13:21.000 I was just going to say, sometimes I put too much mayonnaise on my sandwich, and it comes out the other side, and it gets on my lap.
00:13:27.000 I have that exact same situation.
00:13:30.000 Except in my case, my wife puts mayonnaise on my sandwich. 0.75
00:13:32.000 I thought you were married.
00:13:34.000 Nudes.
00:13:35.000 You're doing marriage wrong, Wade.
00:13:37.000 He bought the cow and she doesn't even put the mayonnaise on the sandwich.
00:13:42.000 You're sounding like you're talking through a tin can.
00:13:44.000 Yeah, I got a different mic today.
00:13:45.000 Oh, okay.
00:13:46.000 Not going to use it.
00:13:47.000 It's a penalty box mic.
00:13:49.000 What are you going to do?
00:13:50.000 You're just not going to talk?
00:13:51.000 That's fine, now that we know.
00:13:53.000 This will be the last time you'll see it.
00:13:54.000 Wait, hold on.
00:13:55.000 Isn't this his job?
00:13:58.000 No, I think he gave his mic to Redshift.
00:14:00.000 He did sacrifice.
00:14:01.000 He gave his mic to Mr. Twin Sitter.
00:14:04.000 We do have a guest question.
00:14:05.000 We do have a guest question.
00:14:06.000 Please, dear God, somebody help.
00:14:08.000 Thank you.
00:14:08.000 Here we go.
00:14:10.000 Aloha, Crowder and crew.
00:14:11.000 This is Kawika from way out over in Hawaii.
00:14:18.000 I'd just like to send my aloha to all you guys and thank you all for what you do.
00:14:26.000 My question for you gentlemen and Too Cute Maddie if she's there is out here in Hawaii I work at one of the largest homeless service providers and as a part of my job I deal with a lot of a lot of strife you know a lot of people at their lowest point and it weighs down on you Spiritually, mentally, physically.
00:14:53.000 And I know you folks similarly have to deal with a lot of stress and strife and negativity coming your way for what you all do.
00:15:04.000 And I was just hoping you all could share with us some things that you might do to re-energize yourself, to recharge your mana, as we say out here in Hawaii, your power, your inner strength, yeah?
00:15:20.000 Both spiritually and mentally, especially.
00:15:23.000 It's just so bizarre to see a clearly, like, Polynesian Samoan with a Steelers. 0.84
00:15:30.000 Troy Palomalu.
00:15:31.000 No, no, no, Troy Palomalu.
00:15:32.000 Yeah, so many Samoans have played for the Steelers.
00:15:35.000 Oh, is it?
00:15:35.000 Well, anytime somebody from Hawaii ends up on an NFL team, like, everybody just celebrates that team.
00:15:40.000 They just become instant followers.
00:15:41.000 Huge fans of Alabama, Tua Tagovailoa, and then Troy Palomalu was an amazing safety for the Steelers.
00:15:47.000 Because Samoans want to go to Pittsburgh. 1.00
00:15:49.000 No, probably not.
00:15:49.000 They just want to make millions of dollars.
00:15:52.000 It's like one of their people made it in this big sports league on the mainland kind of thing.
00:15:56.000 So it's a big deal.
00:15:57.000 What's the difference between Polynesia and Samoa, by the way?
00:16:02.000 Well, Polynesia is the larger area and Samoa is part of Polynesia.
00:16:06.000 Okay, so all Samoans are technically Polynesian, but not all Polynesians are Samoans?
00:16:11.000 I mean, I guess, but if you were Samoan born in the United States, you'd be Samoan without being Polynesian. 0.78
00:16:16.000 I mean, I wouldn't try and draw any distinctions there.
00:16:19.000 You didn't answer me.
00:16:20.000 He's running for office next.
00:16:22.000 It was a terrible question.
00:16:23.000 I don't understand!
00:16:25.000 Does anyone else know?
00:16:26.000 If you're born in Samoa, though, you are Polynesian.
00:16:30.000 Yeah.
00:16:30.000 Broadly speaking, yes.
00:16:31.000 But they wouldn't consider themselves Polynesian-American if they're born, say, in Pittsburgh.
00:16:35.000 They would consider themselves Samoan.
00:16:36.000 Yeah, for sure.
00:16:37.000 You would identify as Samoan.
00:16:38.000 It's like saying, you know, do you consider yourself American because you're from America?
00:16:41.000 You specifically say you're American because you're from the United States.
00:16:45.000 Not just if you're Canadian, you wouldn't say, well, I'm from North America, so I consider myself... I think it's kind of like what happened with Jews. 1.00
00:16:50.000 There's a religion and there's also an ethnicity.
00:16:54.000 And so I think with America, when we say Polynesians, we're talking about a race of people.
00:16:57.000 Not necessarily a geographic region.
00:16:58.000 Yeah, I mean, I don't know if Polynesian's a race or not, but, I mean, Samoan, I mean, I think the Samoan people themselves identify themselves as either a race slash culture with a long history, as opposed to being like, just more broadly, if you go 30,000 feet up and say, oh, everyone in Polynesia, but there's all these little different groups or islands or cultures within that area.
00:17:17.000 Are there any Polynesians who don't look terrifying, like they could kill me? 1.00
00:17:22.000 No, all of them, whether they look it or not, could kill you. 1.00
00:17:24.000 They could kill me. 0.97
00:17:25.000 Yeah, they do that scary thing with their teeth. 0.75
00:17:27.000 Let it never be said that genetics don't factor in.
00:17:30.000 I have never met a Samoan who didn't have huge legs and was incredibly strong.
00:17:35.000 Big guys.
00:17:35.000 Big guys, the Samoans.
00:17:37.000 Yeah, I only knew one Samoan who was a friend of mine.
00:17:39.000 He just told me, like, this is just how it is.
00:17:41.000 This is how it is.
00:17:42.000 There are some people, you know, if they stop training, they go up in weight.
00:17:44.000 Right.
00:17:44.000 And there are some people, if they stop training, they go down in weight.
00:17:46.000 I've never met a Samoan who was anything other than huge. 1.00
00:17:49.000 Yeah.
00:17:49.000 And listen, I don't mean, I mean, people might say that's racist, but, oh well.
00:17:53.000 It's a benefit.
00:17:53.000 I think it's racist.
00:17:53.000 As far as, no, it's a, it's a, one of the best fighters ever was a guy named Mark Hunt.
00:17:57.000 And he was, they call him the Super Samoan, but he's in New Zealand.
00:18:01.000 I think that, that kind of fits, right?
00:18:03.000 Yeah, I know, but I'm just saying it's weird for Americans. 0.91
00:18:05.000 I don't know.
00:18:06.000 It is.
00:18:06.000 I don't care about the rest of the world until one of them competes on our team.
00:18:12.000 You know, for me, I don't know about you guys, I recharge and I appreciate, by the way, thank you for doing all the work that you do with the homeless shelter.
00:18:16.000 What we deal with is different, you know, people hate us.
00:18:20.000 What you deal with as far as a strife is seeing the pain and suffering of others.
00:18:22.000 I mean, we see that too, but we're pretty fortunate in that we have a lot of supporters, so we can kind of focus on that.
00:18:30.000 Or in my case, I don't get to read any of the comments because I've been banned from them here in the office.
00:18:34.000 Like, just don't read them, Steven.
00:18:35.000 They're like, it's not really helpful.
00:18:37.000 But for me, I know that I recharge alone.
00:18:40.000 Like, I don't know about anyone else, but I'm someone, I'm very much an introvert.
00:18:43.000 Yeah.
00:18:44.000 And my wife is that way too, which is great, because my brother and his wife, they have to do everything together.
00:18:49.000 Whereas my wife and I, it was actually just not that long ago, we said, hey, I just want to make sure I don't feel guilty.
00:18:53.000 And my wife's like, I don't want to feel guilty, but like, we can just live like two single people for like four hours a night.
00:18:59.000 Where she's like, I just read.
00:19:00.000 She just likes to read with a book. 0.99
00:19:02.000 Yeah.
00:19:02.000 And that's not an interactive activity, but there are a lot of people.
00:19:04.000 I mean, Wade, you're that way.
00:19:05.000 You read a book.
00:19:06.000 I do like reading.
00:19:07.000 So do you go off on your own when you read typically or do you just read in the living room?
00:19:11.000 Usually my wife and I just sit and read.
00:19:13.000 Like I read on the couch.
00:19:14.000 She usually reads in like a rocking chair that we have.
00:19:16.000 Okay.
00:19:17.000 We read together.
00:19:18.000 So you're Benjamin Button because you must be 95.
00:19:20.000 Pretty much.
00:19:20.000 I am.
00:19:21.000 You still use books?
00:19:25.000 Yeah, I don't, you know, I wish I could say that I read books a lot, but I don't read books as much anymore, because when I read, it's usually news articles, or someone sends me a book that I should read to prepare for this show.
00:19:37.000 So if I do read books, it's more so kind of informative, like a book, right now I'm reading through this book on the history of cigars, or a book on sort of the history of coffee and its relation to capitalism is pretty interesting.
00:19:46.000 That counts.
00:19:47.000 I don't read them that often.
00:19:49.000 I used to be, so before YouTube, before the internet, I would read two, three books a month.
00:19:54.000 My wife is a speed reader. 0.97
00:19:55.000 She must read at least five books every single month.
00:19:57.000 Dang. Wow.
00:19:58.000 She reads an insane amount of books.
00:20:00.000 It's good to read.
00:20:01.000 For me, I spend a long time, I get into sort of these little,
00:20:04.000 I get almost borderline obsessive.
00:20:06.000 I become a maven of things.
00:20:07.000 So, like right now I've been watching old fight videos, old boxing matches without the commentary.
00:20:14.000 Because I'm like, man, everyone thinks this about this fight, so let me watch it without commentary and just through fresh eyes.
00:20:20.000 And I watch something and I go, man, there are some fights that people were robbed, but you turn on the commentary and you realize, Oh, and Muhammad Ali is getting the best of this!
00:20:27.000 He's literally bleeding out his face and telling his corner to cut off the gloves because he's done.
00:20:32.000 So I've been doing that lately.
00:20:33.000 And then sometimes I'll have somewhere I'll go through a series.
00:20:36.000 So I tend to watch things.
00:20:39.000 I realize that when Hopper passed, it was one of those things that was so hard to deal with where watching a film is more powerful for me than a drug.
00:20:48.000 Like a good immersive film gets my mind off of whatever it is that's sort of bothering me.
00:20:53.000 So I do that.
00:20:55.000 That's kind of my way to recharge.
00:20:56.000 And as far as with my wife, I'm good with quality time.
00:20:59.000 I don't know about you, but I don't really need to talk.
00:21:01.000 I talk so much all day that I don't really want to talk a ton when I'm home.
00:21:04.000 I just want to be in my wife's presence. 0.99
00:21:07.000 So being in her presence, but she can be reading and I can be watching something, is sort of how I recharge.
00:21:12.000 I know it sounds really boring.
00:21:14.000 But I guess, too, sometimes people, they have hobbies to help them recharge.
00:21:17.000 I mean, my hobbies are, like, Brazilian jiu-jitsu or going to the gym.
00:21:19.000 Like, these are intense things, and my body can't take it so much.
00:21:22.000 So when I'm done working or doing that, it's just as low intensity as possible.
00:21:28.000 And it's usually watching something.
00:21:29.000 And that's why I will re-watch.
00:21:31.000 I've seen Larry Sanders at least three times all the way through.
00:21:34.000 Oh, wow.
00:21:34.000 Same thing with Seinfeld.
00:21:35.000 I've probably seen The Edge at least ten times.
00:21:37.000 I don't have a problem re-watching things.
00:21:39.000 Yeah, me either.
00:21:39.000 So I think that's something that I've fallen into over the last years, watching more and more of the same stuff that I've watched before.
00:21:45.000 Because you're right, it does allow you to kind of disconnect a little bit.
00:21:47.000 But before that, it was cycling and golf.
00:21:49.000 Like, I chose physical activities.
00:21:52.000 Golf is not that strenuous, obviously.
00:21:53.000 Like, you do get tired by the end of it to a little degree, but not a lot.
00:21:56.000 It is afterwards when you have to blow all the guys in the locker room.
00:21:58.000 Yeah, that's a very difficult—it just depends on how many people are there, you know, when you finish.
00:22:02.000 Uh, so those were great for me because you get, it's, it's so different from what you do.
00:22:07.000 And I think that's what a lot of people try to find is you read all the time for work.
00:22:11.000 And so going home and reading more probably isn't always sounding like a lot of fun to you and something that gets you away from the norm.
00:22:17.000 And so for me, going out into nature, instead of being in an office, either on the road and cycling or on the golf course, it's nice.
00:22:23.000 It kind of lets you relax a little bit, get out of your normal rhythm and just kind of recharge.
00:22:27.000 Well, I find I recharge best, too, when I go up to the little lake house up north, and that's where I'm outside a lot.
00:22:32.000 I might be chopping some wood.
00:22:33.000 I'll go to my uncle's cidery and just help him pick apples, help him mash apples, make the cider, have a cigar, be outside, but I don't really do that so much here because I don't have... It requires a day for me to do that.
00:22:44.000 It requires me a couple of days.
00:22:45.000 Do you guys find this, sometimes, that when you get on vacation, you're so much more tired the first few days?
00:22:50.000 It takes a while to get into that rhythm, to come down?
00:22:53.000 Yeah, exactly.
00:22:53.000 Yeah, sometimes that'll happen where it'll take me a little while to...
00:22:56.000 And I realize that's what happens after we do live streams at night.
00:22:58.000 I don't fall asleep until like two or three because I've got to be on, and it's hard to bring that down from going on.
00:23:04.000 We've got a level of the energy that goes in, the tenseness that you have to have during your body, in your body, in your mind, to be on all the time or talking to people or running things or whatever it may be, that when you get to vacation, you're like, okay, is this the time to relax?
00:23:18.000 Okay, I'll relax a little bit more.
00:23:19.000 Right.
00:23:19.000 Okay, now day three.
00:23:20.000 Maybe you're really relaxed.
00:23:21.000 You're right, yeah.
00:23:22.000 You know, one thing about the question, when I heard the question, I heard two different things.
00:23:26.000 There's the, what I would call the, like, mini escape stuff, right?
00:23:29.000 Like, man, I just gotta get my mind off stuff.
00:23:30.000 I just want to clear my mind.
00:23:31.000 Maybe I'm reading, maybe I'm gonna watch a show that I like, or a movie.
00:23:35.000 I play video games sometimes, or read, or watch TV.
00:23:38.000 Any of the three of those.
00:23:38.000 You play video games?
00:23:39.000 I do.
00:23:40.000 My lawyer plays video games?
00:23:41.000 Absolutely.
00:23:42.000 YouTube's gonna get it!
00:23:43.000 Everything!
00:23:45.000 But then there's a different level, and I think one of the things that the question asks about is, you know, he's facing in his daily life a lot of just downhearted situations where you're really bummed for people, for life, and for society.
00:23:58.000 And some of the things, you know, a lot of folks will turn to God, they'll turn to their religious communities or their church families.
00:24:04.000 I think a little bit of that, though, is when you hang out with your own family, right?
00:24:07.000 Like, even if you're just there in those moments when you're reading together, those other things, but finding some other way to remember that life is not just that small bad situation that you're seeing day in and day out.
00:24:18.000 And you hear this from other people who work in hospitals, especially in ones that are state-funded.
00:24:23.000 They just see bad situation after bad situation, and they start to think that this is all the world has to offer.
00:24:28.000 Right.
00:24:29.000 And so, getting outside of that, and that could either be watching a documentary about something you've never seen before about, you know, science, or travel, or the world, and remembering- Mini-horses.
00:24:38.000 Mini-horses!
00:24:38.000 It's a horrible industry.
00:24:39.000 It's horrible!
00:24:40.000 Very abusive.
00:24:40.000 I watched a documentary on it.
00:24:41.000 But they're so cute!
00:24:42.000 Dirty money?
00:24:42.000 I know!
00:24:43.000 Is that- But they're not treated cutely! 0.73
00:24:45.000 Yeah. 1.00
00:24:46.000 Apparently they taste like shit. 1.00
00:24:47.000 Isn't that what that's about? 1.00
00:24:48.000 Huh?
00:24:48.000 Yeah, something.
00:24:49.000 No, I think you're right.
00:24:50.000 And I will say this, you know, sometimes people say like, oh, God is love, and they use it in this sort of just abstract way.
00:24:56.000 But I will say, as far as recharging, I don't know about you, but I never feel closer to God than in my prayer time where I'm just being grateful.
00:25:04.000 That's always where I feel like I really connect.
00:25:06.000 I feel like it's God going like, hey, look, look at this.
00:25:09.000 When I actually just go through gratitudes to the point where I know, you know, you should do more than just praying and being grateful.
00:25:14.000 But sometimes I'll just sit for 20 minutes or 30 minutes like, thank you.
00:25:18.000 I'll just be like, thank you so much for not even necessarily specific things.
00:25:21.000 Sometimes I'll go through specifics and I'll do something like, man, thank you.
00:25:24.000 Thank you, because I realize what I could have.
00:25:24.000 Yeah.
00:25:26.000 I could realize, you know, what my situation could be like.
00:25:30.000 Or if I'd have turned left when I actually turned right.
00:25:33.000 You know, if I zigged when I should have zagged.
00:25:35.000 Right.
00:25:36.000 I think gratitude really does put things in perspective.
00:25:40.000 And I know that sounds like a bumper sticker, but I do think it's something that people need to be mindful of.
00:25:44.000 And I think people, a lot of times, go into your point, Bill, you just need a change of perspective.
00:25:47.000 No matter how difficult your situation is, there are plenty of positive things going on in your life.
00:25:53.000 Maybe your job is not the best in the world, but you probably have a roof over your head, or you have family.
00:25:57.000 You know his job's not the best in the world.
00:25:58.000 No, I know.
00:25:59.000 Don't offend me!
00:26:00.000 Not him, not him specifically.
00:26:02.000 I'm half amazed he's not coming in here doing sword swallowing every morning. 0.97
00:26:05.000 You haven't seen him doing that?
00:26:07.000 You know, but people do need to, uh, yeah.
00:26:09.000 Uh.
00:26:10.000 People, people do need that kind of uplifting, especially if you are,
00:26:14.000 you're volunteering in one of those fields that just is emotionally draining.
00:26:18.000 I worked at, in prayer care and education at one of the churches that I was at previously.
00:26:22.000 And it wasn't anything like volunteering and homeless shelters and things like that.
00:26:26.000 But we did have a lot of very serious, very difficult situations
00:26:29.000 that we had to walk people through.
00:26:31.000 And so occasionally you just needed, like you needed a break from that.
00:26:33.000 Like, you can't just make your whole life about that because, like you said, you lose perspective on the beauty of the world, you lose perspective on how many good people there are out there because you see bad all the time, or how many people are doing well because you see people that are doing poorly.
00:26:45.000 So I think getting outside of that and having a church group that you can go to or be a part of, a faith, is super important because you're gonna find that there very easily most of the time.
00:26:54.000 It is super important.
00:26:55.000 I will say that for people out there, and then I want to go to Reg and see what he does to recharge and then we have to go, but for people out there who aren't necessarily involved in a community or let's say you're housebound right now because you're quarantined, everyone can sit.
00:27:05.000 People talk about transcendental meditation or doing yoga.
00:27:08.000 None of it, none of it will clear your head and change your outlook as much as just sitting and just, I know we say, use the term doing gratitudes, just sitting and thinking about what you're grateful for.
00:27:19.000 Yeah, and for me like I'm super boring outside of work because we work such a high-intensity job where I really I yearn for the kind of normalcy that a lot of people have like for me nothing makes me happier than going home having a beer I play some tug-of-war with Betty listen to my wife and how her day went and then she makes a wonderful meal often or sometimes we order in and I'll just watch like the latest episode of curb and that is to me and That's as good as it gets.
00:27:41.000 I've gone to Hawaii.
00:27:42.000 I've gone to Europe.
00:27:44.000 I've stayed at some of the nicest hotels in the world.
00:27:46.000 Not on my own dollar, but other people pay for it.
00:27:48.000 Nice with the bill.
00:27:49.000 I raid the hell out of the mini bar.
00:27:53.000 It's not any better.
00:27:54.000 That's about as good as it gets for me.
00:27:56.000 Our lake house, sitting there with my wife, with my dog, with my family.
00:27:59.000 People are like, I want to travel.
00:28:01.000 I don't.
00:28:02.000 I really don't.
00:28:03.000 I'm satisfied with that.
00:28:05.000 So one quick point before we get to Reg, which is, notice that the person who asked the question is in Hawaii, and how many people who would say, man, if only I could go on a vacation to Hawaii, or I could only do this, there's a little bit of it that comes from the heart, and you gotta find, you know, it comes from the inside, right?
00:28:19.000 The circumstances are there, but a little bit comes from how you interpret it.
00:28:22.000 Thanks, Mr. Pixar.
00:28:23.000 It's like the Polar Express.
00:28:24.000 It's been in you all along.
00:28:24.000 You like that?
00:28:27.000 It's all inside of your heart.
00:28:29.000 But just remember, that's what it is.
00:28:31.000 Just because you think the grass is greener on the other side, sometimes you've just got to work on your own lawn.
00:28:36.000 I want you to do that in court one time.
00:28:37.000 I want you to say, I rest my case, your honor, but if you keep me in your heart, I'm never truly gone.
00:28:45.000 What makes you think I haven't already done it?
00:28:49.000 All right, Reg, how do you reach out?
00:28:50.000 I mean, that's the thing about platitudes and cliches is that there's truth to them.
00:28:53.000 That's why.
00:28:55.000 Sometimes.
00:28:55.000 Yeah, I mean, a lot of the time.
00:28:57.000 Actually, I was thinking about my wife.
00:28:59.000 She works in the pro-life industry with counseling women on the sidewalk.
00:29:04.000 She's strong as hell, too.
00:29:06.000 His wife is really strong for a woman.
00:29:09.000 I do mean for a woman, but for a woman, she's insanely strong. 0.98
00:29:11.000 Sorry, continue.
00:29:12.000 315 deadlift, but yeah.
00:29:14.000 So, she deals with a lot more difficult stuff than I do.
00:29:18.000 She's got a great personality, too, by the way.
00:29:19.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:29:20.000 So, but when you see, she talks to these women, you know, that are going into, like, abort their children, and a lot of times, you know, when we talk about pro-life things, we think, oh, it's about making this rational argument about personhood, but most of the women will say to her, yeah, I know it's killing my kid, but this is my only option, and she's trying to provide other options.
00:29:37.000 She works with health care centers and things like that. 1.00
00:29:39.000 But to see those women just go in there, the majority not success stories, you know, not 0.99
00:29:45.000 the story of someone being saved or a life being saved.
00:29:48.000 I think what helps her recharge is, you know, going back and thinking on the few times that
00:29:52.000 she was successful.
00:29:53.000 And I think that's what you've got to go back to is realize there's a ceiling to you can't
00:29:59.000 save everybody.
00:30:00.000 It's just impossible.
00:30:02.000 And one of the sort of cliched stories that my wife actually draws strength from is the classic one with the beach where there are starfish washed up.
00:30:11.000 And there's a little kid throwing them back into the ocean trying to save them before they're fried in the sunlight.
00:30:15.000 And he eats the starfish.
00:30:17.000 Yeah, no, no, no.
00:30:17.000 But I mean, the way it goes is some old guy comes up and says, hey, you know, you can't save all these.
00:30:21.000 And the kid said, but at least I saved some.
00:30:23.000 And I think at the end of the day, that's what you have to be okay with if you are working in, you know, trying to help people that, just to focus on the ones that you were able to help.
00:30:32.000 And you know what?
00:30:33.000 I will leave with this.
00:30:33.000 Sorry, Garrett, I want to, well, sorry, we can't have you in on this one right now.
00:30:38.000 You got to just jump in, son!
00:30:39.000 You gotta jump in.
00:30:40.000 He's too friendly.
00:30:41.000 He plays video games.
00:30:42.000 He's too friendly, but Garrett will throw- That's not all I do.
00:30:44.000 I know.
00:30:44.000 Quarterback Garrett will throw down when the time comes.
00:30:46.000 Go back and watch that try to confront.
00:30:48.000 That's right, baby.
00:30:48.000 I will tell you this, like, it almost brought a tear to my eye.
00:30:50.000 My wife and I were watching the rushes and we saw Garrett like... And I was like, oh my gosh, he's just, he's just a little jumping bean of hate.
00:30:56.000 I was waiting for it, it never came.
00:30:57.000 I know.
00:30:58.000 I love you.
00:30:58.000 I love Garrett like a little brother.
00:31:00.000 I mean it.
00:31:00.000 He's like a little brother to me.
00:31:02.000 I'm not looking you in the face because I don't want to cry.
00:31:03.000 I don't want you to cry. 1.00
00:31:04.000 Stop being a bitch, pussy. 1.00
00:31:05.000 So... 1.00
00:31:07.000 I was saying, don't look at me!
00:31:09.000 One of the toughest things I remember that we had to do was when we did that video in Colorado, which is kind of another point, right?
00:31:14.000 Like James O'Keefe, and I love him, but he has like six months to release a video.
00:31:17.000 We did this amidst, we pre-taped shows that week.
00:31:20.000 It was like a week.
00:31:20.000 Yeah, exactly.
00:31:21.000 We went to Colorado where this woman was about to have an eight month, what was it, 34 weeks? 1.00
00:31:26.000 34 or 36.
00:31:27.000 34 or 36 weeks.
00:31:29.000 And she was going in to get an abortion, and we were all just struggling so much because we wanted to stop her.
00:31:36.000 But we also had to be true to what we were doing, which was exposing this abortion clinic and exposing the kind of abortions that go on.
00:31:42.000 So we had to think, can we stop her?
00:31:45.000 We probably can't at this point, because we would have been breaking the law had we actually gone in and tried to intercede.
00:31:50.000 And we said, you know what?
00:31:51.000 Let's just keep praying about it.
00:31:52.000 Let's release this video and try and stop all of the other potential abortions from happening. 1.00
00:31:57.000 And then, I will say it was a total God thing.
00:31:59.000 We found out that she couldn't go through with the abortion, in large part because of speaking with the women who went in with us.
00:32:06.000 And it could have gone either way.
00:32:06.000 I'm not saying that God owed us that, but it was really hard.
00:32:10.000 I don't remember who was with us there.
00:32:10.000 It was really hard.
00:32:11.000 Were you with us?
00:32:12.000 Remember we were sitting there like, what do we do?
00:32:12.000 I was there, yeah.
00:32:14.000 What do we do?
00:32:15.000 It was a moving moment knowing that there was somebody in there at such a late pregnancy thinking about doing that thing, and then luckily we had those two girls and they were able to talk her down. 0.67
00:32:25.000 Yeah, but they weren't, you know, they didn't go in and say, leave.
00:32:27.000 Don't think they just talked to her and sort of educated her.
00:32:31.000 Went through the steps.
00:32:31.000 But that was a tough one because we said, well, maybe we can't, it was a kind of a flip of that reg where we said, maybe we can't save this baby, but we can, you know, we know that millions of people will see this and we can save thousands of other babies.
00:32:40.000 And we were fortunate enough where, um, you know, it's tougher because that's a personal connection.
00:32:44.000 You want to save that baby even more because you've met her, you've heard her story.
00:32:47.000 She has three other children.
00:32:49.000 And instead, um, you know, God was, uh, God was, uh, smiling down on us and none of them, uh, well, I don't know how many people didn't have abortions, but we know that lady didn't. 0.60
00:32:57.000 We appreciate it.
00:32:57.000 Thank you so much.
00:32:58.000 I got a little serious here.
00:33:00.000 Don't look at me in the face. 0.91
00:33:01.000 And don't look at me in the face with your lifeless eyes. 0.66
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00:33:10.000 I love having Reg here.
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