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00:00:03.000I forgot to say, um, let's get going, buckle up, bitches, or anything like that.
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00:00:21.000Miles Giovanni's in the house, ladies and gentlemen.
00:03:40.000And one guy figures out, you know, not really, but, you know, people back then that did figure out how to orchestrate music and how to create music and compose incredible works of music that are still listened to hundreds of years later.
00:03:58.000But also, I was listening to the radio one time, they were talking about, because some of these guys, like autistic people, some of them are like geniuses in one way, and autistic, or they have problems in another way.
00:04:09.000This one kid, they were saying, autistic, couldn't communicate, he's at home with his mom and dad, they watch some movie that had a Beethoven concerto in it.
00:04:34.000So these guys are geniuses in one way and crazy in another way.
00:04:38.000Yeah, we've talked about autistic savants on the podcast a bunch of times before because there's so many really amazing examples of That kind of power.
00:04:48.000I bet a lot of famous musicians and composers and geniuses in the past were probably autistic savants.
00:04:54.000They just didn't know how to diagnose it.
00:05:52.000I wonder if it would sound any different, too.
00:05:55.000Like, I'd be listening to the Beatles when they released the mono version, which was supposedly the superior version, was the mono versions of all the Beatles songs, because they were recorded in mono.
00:06:05.000And then later, they remastered them in stereo, because stereo was so popular, and that's what you grew up on, was listening to stereo music versions of what was not supposed to be stereo.
00:06:15.000So people actually like listening to the mono versions now, But I wonder how much of that is people just being like, oh, you should have heard that.
00:06:24.000When in reality, it's like HD versus...
00:06:27.000Well, it's kind of mixed different, too, though.
00:06:30.000Things that come out in stereo that weren't really necessarily supposed to be out more.
00:06:34.000So I actually have both versions, and definitely I could see what people are saying.
00:06:39.000It's more hardcore hitting, and everything seems mixed properly compared to what now some guy in some THX lab is like, No, I think this little jingle over here should be louder.
00:06:49.000I think I'm going to have to get into fucking vinyl.
00:06:52.000I think I'm going to have to buy a record player and some headphones and listen to what the fuck everybody's saying.
00:06:56.000Because when you talk to real audiophiles, they'll tell you that a vinyl LP is the way to go and that you lose something in the sound.
00:07:04.000When you go to CD, you lose a quality, a layer.
00:07:07.000Can you even buy a record player anymore?
00:07:14.000The music industry is trying to find a new thing, and one of the things is going retro, going back to vinyl because it sounds better or whatever.
00:07:20.000And that's all up to debate, in my opinion.
00:11:13.000How did he throw a wrench into the scene?
00:11:15.000Because he got successful, and when he got successful, everybody kind of freaked out.
00:11:22.000When stand-up stood out, that's what it's called.
00:11:25.000Boston was this incredible place where there were so many great, great comedians that were local guys, and they would just work locally constantly.
00:11:32.000And all of a sudden, Stephen Wright got discovered.
00:11:34.000And Stephen Wright started doing Letterman and Carson.
00:12:38.000You don't even know what you're talking about.
00:12:39.000As long as you're still doing good stuff and having fun.
00:12:42.000Well, I think part of it is, like with you, I know seeing you at the comedy store when I first was starting there, the good thing about you was even when you had a show or anything going, you still kept that mentality of, I've got to get up and create and write, and you continue to do that.
00:12:56.000And so the idea is you can get out of that quote-unquote artist colony With success, but then you remind yourself, it's like a boxer.
00:13:38.000One of the problems of success is it becomes harder To write newer stuff unless if you put yourself in those lab kind of situations where you're saying, okay, I'm going to work out some new stuff.
00:13:50.000People come expecting you to always do those killer whatever things.
00:14:57.000The rest of them thought it was a real show.
00:14:59.000But the idea is you're supposed to go up with seven minutes of brand new, like never try.
00:15:05.000So every time I've gone up there, I've like just gone into my Blackberry and looked at the ideas I've had that I've just put down that I haven't riffed on.
00:17:45.000That concept that you had is kind of funny.
00:17:47.000You should riff on that about pretty soon there'll be no one left to run.
00:17:50.000It'll be like the most unsexable people.
00:17:53.000Someone no one wants to have any sex with.
00:17:55.000You gotta get really ugly, kind of like, you know, just like warty people.
00:17:59.000You gotta be someone that no one's attracted to, to run.
00:18:02.000Because you're like, well, there's no way anyone had sex with that guy.
00:18:05.000I think it's going to come down to a point real soon where we have to come to grips with the fact that everybody that wants to be president, anybody that wants to be in control like that, there's some serious sexual weirdness going on with you.
00:19:19.000But what's funny is I was reading that some of the French reaction, where they were saying, well, the French aren't that phased by the whole...
00:22:35.000Well, you know, the levels of testosterone that guy must have been taking were probably through the roof, so he probably just would fuck everything.
00:22:44.000Doesn't that lower your sex drive, or supposedly, like, makes your penis small?
00:22:48.000What happens with- It lowers your body's natural production of testosterone, because if you inject a bunch of testosterone in your body and you bring it over a certain baseline, When your body's like, what the fuck is all this test doing around here?
00:23:00.000So your body says, we don't have to use the balls.
00:23:02.000So your body shuts the balls down because you're squirting into your body ten times the natural level of testosterone so you can get a 30-inch fucking arms.
00:23:11.000When you see guys like that and you watch them pose, you ever see them pose?
00:23:14.000They have the tiniest balls you've ever seen in your life.
00:23:18.000I would be terrified if my balls were that small.
00:23:21.000If you see those dudes in those little banana hammocks, their balls are non-existent.
00:26:02.000My place is so small, and so I have to have it in the kitchen, so I'm like cooking last night, and I just...
00:26:06.000My cat takes a shit, and then it's like, you know, fucking food mixed with shit, and they just spray it, and then now it smells like a lemon forest full of shit.
00:26:15.000And they don't have, like, because we don't...
00:28:03.000A hawk will come and swap that sucker up.
00:28:05.000Yeah, what if I were to buy a huge dog house or make a dog house that was big enough, you know, to, like, let the dog stay in there forever?
00:28:25.000My kid loves dogs, and we thought about for a minute getting one, but then I realized I'd have to take care of the dog because my kid's three years old.
00:29:17.000We were going with a friend of mine to go sit down one time.
00:29:20.000We're about to sit and there's this girl, a 5-year-old girl.
00:29:24.000Cute little blonde girl, 5-year-old girl.
00:29:26.000She's got like a little bloody nose going and I was like, oh poor girl fell or something.
00:29:31.000And then as we're sitting, we sit next to this dog and the story comes out that she was up there playing and the dog bit at her nose and cut her.
00:31:48.000We don't realize how few bugs we have in California until you go on the East Coast in the summertime and you realize, like, go near a lake.
00:31:56.000Go on the East Coast near a lake in the summertime.
00:31:58.000You're like, motherfucker, this is ridiculous.
00:32:01.000But you know how cool lightning bugs was?
00:32:26.000And every time they show those stupid Corona commercials where the guy throws his cell phone into the water, I'm like, show the fucking mosquitoes, man.
00:33:52.000Yeah, they don't look much different, man.
00:33:54.000But apparently they're way more aggressive.
00:33:56.000Crocodiles are much, much more aggressive.
00:33:58.000I watched some documentary on alligators and crocodiles, and they have this...
00:34:02.000Place in, I believe it was in Florida, where they were raising them, and they had all these crocodiles, these alligators, and one crocodile.
00:34:09.000And the crocodile would run over the top of the alligator's head when they would feed.
00:34:33.000Well, there was a funny story in Miami about a guy who was running from the law, and in a high-speed chase, ditches his car, wipes his car out, jumps into a fucking river, and wherever he was, or jumped into a lake, the moment he jumped in, he got killed by an alligator.
00:37:14.000They're not as smart as us, but they're pretty goddamn close.
00:37:16.000They can't change their environment like us, and we show there's no evidence of them being able to create things and build items like we can.
00:38:23.000If aliens came and they were smarter than us and they just couldn't understand us and we're talking to them, we're like, please, we'll get our shit together.
00:41:09.000The guy was like, it's a long, long walk.
00:41:11.000It's so poorly thought out, too, because, look, human beings have a bunch of systems that are put in place to ensure that we breed, to ensure that we succeed in life, to ensure that we...
00:41:45.000So if you're going to have real animals and you're going to have them in these locked down environments and pretend that it's good for them and pretend that it's a good environment, you've got to let them kill things, man.
00:44:02.000And they actually use them for coming of age ceremonies where they make these young men stick their hand in these gloves that are filled with these bullet ants.
00:44:47.000And they had to put turpentine all over the legs of the platform.
00:44:52.000And they have to be elevated above the floor of the jungle.
00:44:55.000Because if you leave them on the floor of the jungle and the ants come up, once one ant bites you and sends a signal, there will be millions of ants on you, poisonous ants on you, and you won't be able to stop it.
00:47:03.000When you look at Africa, the continent, like, you ever watch those documentaries on Africa and compare it to any other continent in the world, you're like, what the fuck, man?
00:47:11.000You got wildebeest and lions and saltwater crocodiles and fucking great white sharks off the coast of South Africa.
00:50:06.000You've really become, like, as far as, like, would you call it the Persian community or the Iranian community?
00:50:12.000Yeah, it's a little bit, you know, the Persian community is, like, my first probably, it's funny, like, Tripoli one time, Sam Tripoli was like, he's like, you're like the Persian Elvis, otherwise known as Pelvis.
00:50:24.000Right, so, you know, that's, like, my, like, you got the Persian Middle Easterners, then you got, like, Arabs, you know, and then after that, like, then, like, you've got, like, NPR types that are into, like, world...
00:51:14.000This was in 2000. She put it as the Arabian Nights.
00:51:16.000And Iranians aren't Arabs, so we'd do shows and inevitably Iranians would come up afterwards and be like, it was a good show, but we're not Arabs.
00:51:43.000In America, we know so little about Iran other than the Iran hostage crisis and that you guys are trying to get nuclear power and blow shit up.
00:51:50.000Yeah, so you know all the negative shit.
00:53:00.000But I think a lot of people's image of the Middle East is just dudes in turbans and women in burqas.
00:53:06.000And it's like, first of all, the burqa is pretty exclusive to Afghanistan where they would wear the full thing, the blue thing under the Taliban where they had to cover themselves and they could just barely see out of that little mesh.
00:54:00.000Well, actually, we did a show in Saudi Arabia with Ahmed.
00:54:05.000And, you know, after the show, a lot of people that come to our shows are either, they've either traveled in the West or they're Western educated or they're expats.
00:54:12.000So after the show, we're taking pictures and all these people coming up.
00:54:15.000And this one girl came up in one of those.
00:54:17.000She was fully covered except for the eyes.
00:54:38.000She washes your feet before she blows you.
00:54:41.000It's funny because you've got the burqa, which is Afghanistan, and then you've got the veil kind of thing with the eyes covered, which is like Saudi Arabia do that a lot.
00:54:51.000Then in Iran, you get some that are religious that will cover their hair and everything, but you see the full face.
00:55:59.000Anyway, and they told us, I went there with now my wife, who was then my girlfriend, and she was studying in the south of Spain, so we took a boat over, and we had no preparation.
00:56:11.000So we're on our way, on the boat, we're reading this little guidebook, and it goes, whatever you do, don't accept a guide, because in Fez, they're going to try and come up to you and want to be your guide, and talk to the hotel to get you a guide.
01:04:11.000I had that in Mexico, where the guy, because then what they do is, first of all, you walk into the Mexican bazaar I went into, there was nobody there.
01:04:44.000It's so strange that it's connected, you know, and people don't seem to recognize that threat, the fact that it's connected.
01:04:50.000They actually said that McCain just came out, not that this means anything, but McCain just came out and said that giant forest fire they have going on right now in Arizona.
01:05:06.000Yeah, you know, there's a lot of guys, they cross the border in Arizona, you know, do little campfires and shit, and whoops, forgot to put the campfire out.
01:05:19.000I'm actually scheduled to do some show in Mexico in the fall, and what's funny is people are always scared of the Middle East and stuff, but my wife and I were talking about all these kidnappings and stuff going on in Mexico, and it's like, is it worth going down there?
01:05:35.000I'm thinking about the same thing, like Cabo.
01:05:38.000I was just thinking of going somewhere in Mexico, but is it even worth going?
01:05:42.000I heard that if you go to resorts, you're fine.
01:05:44.000My friend Matt just got back from Cabo.
01:06:42.000And there were these two Mexican dudes walking around the pool, just checking shit out, just walking around looking for a place to start snatching things.
01:06:50.000And I looked at my wife and I was like, do those guys seem like they fit in here?
01:09:14.000I would have to read up on what the levels are as far as radiation goes.
01:09:18.000But the problem with Japan and the radiation is that I don't think they've been entirely honest about it.
01:09:23.000I don't think they've been honest about the leak.
01:09:26.000They're finding out that all three of them are melt-throughs.
01:09:29.000They're finding out all sorts of things where it turns out that the actual damage done by these nuclear disasters is far, far greater than what they had initially forecasted.
01:09:39.000So who knows how far the spread of the radiation goes?
01:11:42.000It's interesting how many Japanese people are into American culture and how much they follow it and are really, really enamored by Elvis and all sorts of things.
01:11:52.000Michael Jackson was a Superman for them.
01:11:58.000You know, when they had all these problems with the tsunamis and the earthquake and everything like that, And people would wait in line for food and water and rations.
01:12:10.000Somebody told me that they went to a bar or something in Japan and people were lined up at the bar as opposed to the idea of just come at the bazaar mentality.
01:12:20.000That's pretty crazy if you think about that.
01:15:27.000It's like smoking weed, but it's opium.
01:15:29.000And he was saying that a lot of these mullahs actually smoke opium.
01:15:32.000And I ended up doing a bit about, you know, a stand-up about how the reason these guys are talking shit to America is because they're high.
01:16:17.000Yeah, it was about a terrorism act that this guy lost his job, the economy was shit, and he was going to kill himself to collect on insurance.
01:16:27.000And so he went on this plane, and it was kind of cool to see how planes used to be where people were smoking on them and all this crap.
01:16:34.000And then he blew up a bomb on the plane, and it was so funny seeing how, A, how we used to think if a bomb blew up on a plane, like how this little hole came out and the wind blew around a little.
01:16:46.000It was like, oh, it's windy in here, you know?
01:16:49.000Like the plane's not falling to the ground or anything like that.
01:16:53.000But it was also weird just seeing how the airport security used to be, how movies...
01:16:58.000This was a movie about a terrorist blowing up a bomb in 1979 or 1972 or something.
01:17:04.000I think it was even earlier than that.
01:17:35.000Well, they say even if you go back to the whole Jewish-Palestinian thing, before Israel became a state, the Jews were doing terrorist acts to try and get...
01:17:53.000No, I mean, an oppressed people are always doing the terrorist act.
01:17:58.000But no, the thing with what you're talking about, air travel and stuff, even now when you travel, when you go to different parts of the world, it's amazing to see their take on terrorism and their take through the airport.
01:20:11.000The Italian mob has so much ego and flashiness.
01:20:14.000All the shit that John Gotti did, everybody thought of John Gotti as like, wow, this is the ultimate gangster.
01:20:20.000No, this is the ultimate thing you're not supposed to do.
01:20:22.000You're not supposed to be on TV where everybody knows who the fuck you are.
01:20:26.000You're not supposed to be so blatant about it all, wearing fucking $15,000 suits and You know, having people knocked off in front of steakhouses.
01:22:13.000He's thinking, okay, I will say what I need to say.
01:22:16.000But afterwards, some dying is going to happen.
01:22:19.000Well, apparently, Bush and Putin had a meeting, and Bush was so offensively ignorant that Putin immediately started changing the way he negotiates and deals with America afterwards.
01:22:29.000He just didn't respect what Bush had to say.
01:22:32.000Bush was giving him advice about things, and he's like, who the fuck are you talking to, man?
01:23:32.000Yeah, they're having giant packs of super wolves that are banding together for the first time and killing livestock because it's so fucking cold this winter.
01:23:41.000It got so cold up there that many packs of wolves joined together to become one giant pack because the freezing temperatures were killing all of their game and they were getting desperate so they formed some sort of a new strategy.
01:23:55.000And would go into fucking towns and just jack all their livestock.
01:23:58.000Dude, that's got to be the worst way to go.
01:24:00.000Can you imagine if you're walking home with your girlfriend or wife after dinner one night, and you're like, oh, that was a great dinner, and then you go, and you look back, you're like, that's a pack of fucking wolves!
01:26:29.000Well, Iranians are famous for their physical conditioning.
01:26:33.000There's like a lot of techniques that they used from Iran that are still used today, like physical conditioning and certain, like the shield cast and a couple of fitness moves.
01:26:44.000And the wrestlers from Iran are known internationally for being some of the toughest wrestlers in the world.
01:26:51.000Especially when you consider that Iran is not a very large country, but consistently produces top 10 world-class wrestlers every year.
01:29:12.000This guy was running fast, and this thing looked like it was right on his ass.
01:29:15.000One of the beautiful things about this podcast is that we have this message board at JoeRogan.net, and whenever we bring up something like this in the podcast, there's a thread that's already dedicated to the Maz Jirvani podcast.
01:30:48.000Those guys, one of the things about the horrors of that war is that they would go into a town and kill thousands of people with machetes.
01:30:56.000Just chop them up and then they would pollute the river because they would throw so many bodies in the river that the water from the river would become undrinkable because it was rotten with human bodies.
01:31:12.000To this day, in 2011, it's probably the wildest place on earth.
01:31:17.000But just war in general, like they were talking about, they just caught one of these other Serbs, Serbian leaders.
01:31:23.000Remember, there was Milosevic and then there was another guy that just caught, I forget his name, but they've got all these counts of human atrocities against them.
01:31:30.000He was a general, I guess, and he would go into a town and they would capture the enemies and then they would say, he would say something like, you know, hey, it's all good, we just wanted to capture the town, so all the men, you guys can come out and we'll let you go.
01:31:43.000And, like, the men would come out and they would get them out by, like, saying, like, it's all good.
01:31:48.000And once they come out, like, they would massacre the men and then, like, they would rape the women.
01:31:51.000I mean, it's just like, why do you got to do that?
01:34:03.000Because goddamn, at one point in time, if you go back and listen to his shit when he was like 19, he was a brilliant comedian at like 19 years old, man.
01:34:30.000It's like Charlie's out there carrying on the family name.
01:34:33.000It's funny, because when people ask me about how I got into comedy, I was in college, and I thought about doing it a few times, and I was always intimidated, because I'd done acting in plays, but I was always intimidated to get in front of an audience and talk about my point of view.
01:34:46.000So I was in college and I saw these two guys and they were just horrible.
01:37:25.000You know, I was talking about this on the Kevin Smith Show about going on stage.
01:37:30.000How some guys will just go on stage fearlessly, like Chris Rock will go on stage fearlessly with a batch of new material and just hash it out and see what the fuck happens.
01:39:03.000There's no club in town that does that, by the way, where all the comedians just bring each other up.
01:39:08.000No, there's a fucking host, like a professional show.
01:39:10.000And the guy will go up, and he'll bring people up, and he'll do a little time in between, and he'll give you your intro and get it straight.
01:39:15.000No, there's no fucking get your intros straight at the store.
01:40:36.000Yeah, and he's doing it, doing it, doing it, and they're loving him, and then it was weird.
01:40:39.000He does one joke, and somehow there was feedback on the mic, and he just looks at the mic for a second, then he looks at the audience, he drops the mic, and he walks off.
01:42:59.000Sometimes, though, if you go into that situation where it's still kind of a hot crowd and then you go in and now you got to perform and it's like they get, you know, they're not laughing and then you try some crowd work and it's not working.
01:43:13.000I had that on a Mo' Better Mondays at the improv one time.
01:43:16.000And it was funny because I'd gotten good...
01:43:47.000He's like, listen bro, just hang in there.
01:43:49.000And I went up there and I ate so much shit because it was this like, it was a crowd because you go in there, it was early in the show and you're expected to be a good crowd.
01:44:00.000And it's one of those things where you get a couple of laughs, and you hear the pin drop kind of thing, and then you try another joke, and it's not working.
01:44:06.000Then you try some crowd work, and it's not working.
01:44:09.000And then you start going against your own instincts.
01:44:10.000So your instinct's like, okay, attack the chick wearing the pink, whatever, the pink fucking antennas for whatever.
01:44:20.000Attack the dude in the purple leather suit.
01:45:38.000But the other good thing that you learn when you do that, because I remember learning this early on, I was like, never believe the hype, because sometimes you'll kill and you're like, I am God!
01:45:48.000And then sometimes you die, and you're depressed.
01:45:50.000But I was like, you can never go with...
01:45:52.000The good thing about these lessons on those things is to go, listen, man, my shit's funny.
01:45:57.000They didn't work tonight, but that's a funny joke.
01:46:33.000Well, you know, the problem with comedy, I've always said, is that it's just called comedy.
01:46:37.000And it's not like you never go to a club to see live music.
01:46:40.000And it says live music, and you don't know if you're going to get a rap band, or if you're going to get fucking Guns N' Roses, or classical music.
01:47:12.000But one of the beautiful things about showing up places where it's not your audience, just showing up on some random night at a At the improv is that you can't stack the deck.
01:47:20.000So you have to make some people laugh that don't even fucking know you.
01:48:21.000I cuss a little bit, but I actually, what's funny is, I like now what I do is, if I make a reference to something, like there's a joke I do where I mention masturbation.
01:48:30.000I actually make fun of, that's why I love having a mixed audience, because I'll look at the white guy in the audience, I go, hey Mike, right now, There's a table of Persians going, Oh my God, he said masturbation!
01:50:40.000I remember one time, actually I had a moment, I remember I was there, it was right at the time, right in the heart of the Bush administration.
01:50:48.000I remember Homeland Security, Tom Ridge, remember him?
01:50:53.000And you see him on TV, and he's a talking head, he's an older dude.
01:50:56.000I was outside this fancy restaurant in D.C., and he's sitting there talking to this attractive young girl, kind of like you could tell his body language was all flirty, you know?
01:53:19.000If I had like Boku, Howard Stern type cash flow, I would be into living in Manhattan with some sort of apartment that overlooks Central Park or something like that.
01:53:31.000If you've got Madonna money and you can get one of those crazy $20 million apartments.
01:54:07.000Well, that's what's crazy is when I was living there on those stints, I remember coming home one weekend and we have a house here and I remember hearing a bird chirping outside.
01:54:15.000I was like, I have not heard a bird chirp.
01:54:58.000Steve Martin, you know, and he was like the father of the bride.
01:55:01.000And Rick Moran, as I think might have been, or something like that.
01:55:04.000But I just saw that house on some website the other day for sale and I was like, that would be the most ideal house in California because it was actually picked for the movie because of how wholesome and nice it looked.
01:55:28.000When I was leaving Kevin Smith's place today, I did his podcast this morning, and when I was leaving his place, they had one of those tours where there's like a bus that doesn't have a top to it.
01:55:39.000People are out in the open air, and there's star sightings, and they're driving through the Hollywood Hills pointing out celebrities' houses.
01:59:06.000But the problem is, and somebody pointed this out, they were saying when the Iranian revolution happened under the Shah, a lot of the people that were in the leadership position under the Shah had been Western educated.
02:00:58.000Anyway, so Khomeini had been exiled to Iraq.
02:01:03.000And he was getting, back then, it was kind of like the Twitter of today.
02:01:08.000He would sneak his sermons back into Iran with tape cassettes.
02:01:14.000So all these other religious guys, there's a city named Qom, which is a religious city in Iran.
02:01:20.000They were all getting his sermons, and he was criticizing the Shah from outside of Iran.
02:01:24.000You can do that from outside, but you can't do it from inside.
02:01:27.000So he was doing it from outside, and basically what happened was...
02:01:30.000There was all these different oppositions to the Shah and discontent was growing and protests were growing and so these guys all kind of banded together and what they would do is it was very similar to the protests that were happening during the Green Movement in 2009 where people would be out protesting and then the government would shoot into the crowds and kill some people.
02:01:48.000And in the Muslim Shiite religion, like once someone's killed, like something like seven days after something, there's like a mourning day.
02:02:03.000So the protests were originally like...
02:02:06.000One faction, but then it became more factions.
02:02:09.000And then you got to a point where you had lawyers and doctors protesting in the streets of Iran, people that should be supporting the regime.
02:03:05.000But all that stuff, by the way, and a lot of people have talked about this, a lot of this stuff did happen, like in 53, there was a democratically elected government, the guy was named Mossadegh, and the U.S., actually the CIA has written their story of how they did a coup d'etat of the democratically elected leader in Iran.
02:03:26.000They overthrew him and put the Shah in.
02:03:28.000And so whenever any American, whenever we talk about wars and stuff, and they're like, we're just trying to bring democracy, I'm like, motherfucker, there was democracy.
02:06:31.000When people start talking about economic meltdowns, to me, the way I look at it, I go, at the end of the day, there's the same amount of shit and there's the same amount of people.
02:06:49.000Part of the things that I'm starting to see that makes some sense to me, because you're right, I a lot of times get lost in it all too, but some of the things that start making sense is when they start talking about the difference between the haves and the have-nots, and how back in the day a CEO average would make 20 times more than a...
02:07:11.000Like right now they're saying that a lot of these banks have made their, like, they weren't affected by the economic crunch because we bailed them out and now a lot of these bankers are making a lot more money and yet the economy is supposedly still bad and people that had mortgages that were, you know, belly up are still belly up.
02:07:28.000Money in and of itself is so strange to me.
02:07:31.000The idea that it's based on nothing but confidence now.