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00:01:48.000The weigh-ins, and they were charging for parking, and since I drove and didn't go with a UFC van, I pulled up to the girl taking the money, and I go, listen, I actually work for the UFC, I just don't have my laminate, but I'll pay, whatever.
00:03:46.000It's like, you know how they had that, when the whole BALCO scandal came out, what it was was a steroid that they had made that was just slightly different from regular steroids and was undetectable in tests because the regular steroids are what they were looking for in the tests.
00:04:21.000Botanists have figured out a way a long time ago to put THC into other things.
00:04:26.000Like, there was an article online where this guy was trying to put THC in tomatoes.
00:04:30.000Get tomatoes to grow THC. Like, they can fuck with plants and have them, you know, different plants produce more vitamin C and different plants do certain things and...
00:04:39.000You know, they're trying to figure out how to make these...
00:04:42.000I guess they have figured out a way to make weed that doesn't show up in drug tests.
00:05:50.000Michael Chiavello, the guy from K1 and Dream, the Australian dude that we hung out with in Australia, he's a big UFO guy and he was down at the Roswell Museum and he actually saw a UFO and took fucking photos of it and shit.
00:07:09.000It was one of those rare documentaries about UFOs that didn't have, like, the other side.
00:07:16.000You know, they didn't have a guy going, well, you know, it's all just mythology, and, you know, it's in their minds, and they're all crazy, and why are they landing in Idaho all the time?
00:07:26.000They didn't have any of those guys, because it was so ridiculous, because they had so many high-ranking military officers coming forward.
00:07:33.000You know, that one case in England on a U.S. base where they had 80 witnesses?
00:07:39.000And three of the guys went up to it and touched it and wrote down notes on it and they all came up and the Ministry of Defense told, they said, this is not a concern of national defense.
00:07:56.000So that is, that alone right there is pretty crazy.
00:07:59.000And those Arizona, those Arizona lights, I mean people saying there's, I don't know how many witnesses, but The Arizona Lights is pretty crazy.
00:08:08.000I know a dude who lived in Arizona saw that.
00:08:10.000And he said he saw the fucking, the big pyramid thing flying through the air.
00:08:14.000And they're saying it's like bigger than aircraft carriers.
00:08:18.000Yeah, he said it was like a football field.
00:08:26.000You know, my take on UFOs is if there really were aliens that could come here from another planet...
00:08:33.000Do you think that they would be so silly that they wouldn't disguise themselves?
00:08:37.000I think a lot of the shit we see all the time could be UFOs.
00:08:40.000I told you about that crazy dude that told me that he was showing me pictures of clouds.
00:08:46.000There's a dude that I know who's a comedian who's a very nice guy and the other day I'm talking to him at the improv And homeboy says, what do you think about UFOs?
00:08:56.000And I said, well, you know, hey man, I don't know.
00:08:59.000I haven't seen one, but I don't discount the idea.
00:09:03.000Obviously, we have spaceships and for someone from other planets, if they're more intelligent than us, for sure they could have spaceships.
00:09:09.000So he starts pulling out his iPhone and the dude has like dozens of pictures of clouds on his phone.
00:09:30.000This dude takes pictures of clouds, all different clouds, and he's convinced that these clouds are UFOs.
00:09:36.000But on one hand, you've got to think, like, if you really are so super intelligent that you can visit from other planets, why would you, you know, for sure, we're working on cloaking devices right now.
00:09:48.000There's already this Japanese jacket that's been invented that basically takes an image of what's behind you and broadcasts it on the front of the jacket.
00:09:57.000It's basically like Predator-type shit.
00:09:59.000You remember from the movie The Predator?
00:10:06.000We can't travel to other planets yet either, you know what I'm saying?
00:10:09.000So if someone from another planet is so much more highly intelligent than we are that they can actually travel here from other galaxies or other solar systems, for sure they've figured something like this out.
00:10:20.000So when you're seeing the sky, I mean, it's very possible, you know, that what you're seeing is if there are UFOs, you would see an image of the sky behind the UFO being projected on the UFO. So you wouldn't see shit.
00:10:34.000You know, that said, if you take into account how many UFOs are reported, I mean, it's like some ridiculous amount of UFOs reported.
00:10:43.000And if you take into account how many people see and don't report, they don't say anything because they don't want to look foolish.
00:10:49.000You know, that's a lot of goddamn UFOs.
00:10:51.000I think a lot of what people are seeing...
00:10:53.000Is military jets that they don't understand.
00:10:56.000Like, when I was in, we did Fear Factor down near Edwards Air Force Base, and they had stealth bombers that flew up.
00:11:02.000Dude, you see a stealth bomber, you think that's a goddamn spaceship.
00:11:06.000Yeah, the French government did a test with some, there was a serious review of all the, there's like 50,000 or something, like something, 50,000 since a certain year.
00:11:21.000But they came to the conclusion that 95% of the reported cases can be explained away with that military, top-secret military planes and different lights.
00:11:35.000But they said 5% most likely are aircraft from other worlds.
00:11:42.000Well, I don't know why they can say aircraft from other worlds because I don't necessarily think we have a perfect inventory of what exists in this world.
00:11:51.000No, but they're saying that that's probably what, that is more likely it's some extraterrestrial craft than, I mean, there's 5% of the evidence.
00:12:01.000But just because it's not from our government or the Russian government doesn't necessarily mean even it's from another planet.
00:12:07.000We don't know what the fuck is in the ocean.
00:12:19.000It's silly that you could send a fucking picture that you could take this fucking thing and send a video across the sky into somebody else's phone in Australia.
00:12:29.000That's way more silly than some people from another planet have visited here or that there's something living in the ocean.
00:12:35.000Especially when you have guys like ex-Pentagon high-ranking officials like Philip Corso...
00:12:42.000Who, before he died, he wrote a book and he explained his job in the government, in the Pentagon, was taking crash UFO stuff, taking it to Hughes Aircraft and Lockheed and all these different aerospace companies to reverse engineering.
00:12:59.000He's saying, he was like, there's many interviews on YouTube with Philip Corso, he's dead now, he was on Dateline and they try to like ridicule him, but Jay Allen Hynek too is another excellent example.
00:13:11.000Jay Allen Hynek was the guy who was in charge of Project Blue Book and he was told by the government when they had this thing to explain away everything.
00:13:18.000Swamp gas, mass hysteria, anything they could do to explain away UFO cases.
00:13:24.000But as he became more involved in Project Blue Book and as he investigated more and more sightings and dealt with more and more evidence, he became absolutely convinced that UFOs were real.
00:13:35.000So J. Allen Hynek, who is a guy actually working to discredit UFOs, eventually came out and started supporting the whole UFO movement.
00:13:46.000So I think it's not ridiculous to think that we've been visited.
00:13:50.000I mean, we go to the Congo all the time and stare at chimpanzees.
00:14:05.000And we've been doing this since the beginning of time.
00:14:08.000I mean, people have always been interested in botany and we've always been interested in studying different monkeys and different weird animals and other...
00:14:18.000I mean, that's the whole thing with Darwin.
00:14:37.000See what the bottleneck is as far as like social and cultural evolution and see what the bottleneck is as far as technological evolution and whether or not our technology is We're surpassing our ability as a human being to make rational decisions.
00:16:43.000So I think just having a healthy heart, some people can do kettlebells, some people can run on a treadmill, some people run stairs, some people do martial arts.
00:17:11.000I think whatever gets you in that right frequency, you could worship your iPhone if you actually believe that and you can meditate to your iPhone.
00:17:20.000I think the universe don't give a fuck.
00:17:22.000They're like, how are you gonna get to our frequency?
00:17:28.000It's the same thing when someone believes in something, even if they believe in something completely irrational, they want everyone else to believe in it too.
00:17:35.000People love everyone else to be on their team.
00:17:38.000That's why, like, if you ever talk to people that use Windows and they find out that you use Mac, and they're like, what the fuck, man?
00:19:44.000And I think my theory is that when these guys grow up gay, they're growing up in a religious home, and then once they find out they're gay, they realize, oh shit, maybe Satan is inside of me.
00:23:29.000this fucking mustache is killing me how horrible must it be to be a gay dude and be religious and to think that God hates you You could always be a priest.
00:23:56.000If you haven't seen that video, you gotta watch it because it's completely ridiculous.
00:25:38.000There's no way he's going to stand with Anderson Silva, you know, just based on, not just based on Anderson Silva's career and what he's done, but based on his last fight where he tried to stand for a little bit with Nate Marquardt and he, He's going to pull guard immediately, trust me.
00:25:53.000He's not going to fuck around anymore with that shit.
00:25:55.000I hope that's true, but I didn't think he was going to try to stand with Nate either.
00:25:59.000Well, he stood with him for one punch, and that was just one punch too long.
00:26:02.000Do you think that he's training with Vanderlei, and Vanderlei is a known brawler.
00:26:06.000Do you think that style of getting in there and just mixing it up and getting ugly, that's not a good style for a guy who's not very technically proficient at striking?
00:26:17.000You know, he's just so good on the ground.
00:26:19.000Why give your opponent any kind of chance standing, especially Anderson Silva?
00:26:25.000Are you going to try to mix it up a little bit with him?
00:28:16.000So I think Damon Maia is going to have more success with his jiu-jitsu with Anderson Silva, if he gets him to the ground, than he did with Miller.
00:28:25.000Because Miller, again, he's only a brown belt, but damn, he wrestled his whole life.
00:28:29.000That's a different kind of animal right there.
00:29:48.000If I had to guess what's going to happen tonight with Struve, I would say that Big Country, if he gets him down the ground, Struve's going to be in a lot of trouble.
00:32:19.000I think it's exciting having Gomi over here.
00:32:21.000I would've liked to see him over here years ago, but...
00:32:24.000You know, he's still young and he's got a lot to prove, you know, and I think he's training real hard.
00:32:29.000He looked in real good shape and he's saying all the right things that he wants to really make another run and get another run at B.J. Penn.
00:32:36.000And he's obviously got to get through Kenny to do that, so I think it's going to be real interesting.
00:32:40.000He's a solid wrestler and he's a big power puncher.
00:32:44.000So I think Kenny's going to try to use his legs.
00:32:48.000Kenny's got real good leg kicks, real good movement.
00:32:50.000He's going to try to use his footwork, work him with leg kicks, and then if he goes to the ground, he'll try to submit him and cut him up with elbows.
00:32:58.000The thing about Gomi is Gomi has not fought anybody ever with the elbow rules.
00:33:03.000You know, elbows are different, man, especially the cage.
00:33:06.000You know, cage and elbows, you know, those are two totally different things that he's never experienced before.
00:33:53.000I gotta leave in ten minutes, so I should get my shit going.
00:33:57.000Yeah, I wanted to do just a little show because I couldn't do one last week because I had a staph infection that I had to deal with so I didn't fucking die.
00:34:04.000That's the problem with jiu-jitsu, man.
00:34:06.000You know, you roll with dirty motherfuckers and you get weird skin shit, you know?
00:34:56.000Trying to write this thing and finish it.
00:34:57.000Most of the stories, it's going to be mostly about the beginning days of doing stand-up because I have so many crazy stories about bad road gigs and just struggling on the road and what it's like to be really an amateur comedian trying to go out there and get people to laugh for money and how fucking crazy it is and how unsure it is and how you really have no idea if it's ever going to work out and you feel It's completely insecure.
00:35:27.000You feel like there's no way this is ever going to really turn out to be a career and how nutty some of the fucking gigs I've done were.
00:35:35.000Why wasn't you at weigh-ins yesterday?
00:35:38.000I don't even think I'm going to answer that because it's so retardedly written.
00:35:41.000But if somebody else asks it, I'll answer it.
00:35:45.000I wasn't at the weigh-ins because I didn't get in in time.
00:35:48.000My flight didn't land until 4 o'clock, so they had Goldberg do the weigh-ins.
00:38:12.000Whether or not humans made them, who the fuck knows?
00:38:16.000There's a lot of people that argue that it's impossible for people to make them, that they're three times the size of a football field and they appear overnight and they're in perfect geometric patterns and circles and everything.
00:38:30.000At the very least, some of them are fascinating because they're so fucking huge.
00:38:36.000If people really are making these things and they're flattening them out and just leaving them there, it's like, wow, it's such incredible geometric art.
00:38:48.000You would think that they would want to take credit for that.
00:38:50.000If it's just a hoax, it's incredible that it's a hoax that they've kept up for this long.
00:39:00.000I mean, I don't have an opinion one way or another, though.
00:39:03.000I think it's also possible that it could be some sort of an experiment that they do to impose geometric patterns in these fields.
00:39:12.000It might be something that they do from the sky or something like that.
00:39:16.000Who the fuck knows how they're doing it?
00:39:18.000If you talk to some people that say that these patterns, the way they're made, that the nodes of these plants have been blown out like they've had energy pulsed through them like microwaves, like expanded.
00:40:07.000I thought he beat him with stand-up, and I thought his ground game negated Galvaal's ground game, and he swept him a bunch of times, and I thought he edged him.
00:40:18.000I thought it was a real close fight, but I thought Stewart edged him.
00:40:46.000Any more documentaries like The Union coming out?
00:40:48.000Yeah, I did a documentary on DMT. It's called DMT The Spirit Molecule and it should be done in May and probably out for release sometime around the summer.
00:41:02.000I know they're taking it to film festivals and they're bringing it all over the place, but it's a documentary mostly about different people's experiences on DMT and I am the narrator.
00:41:17.000Yeah, Bob Lazar is a guy who claims to have worked for Area 51 and You know, he's kind of been discredited with a lot of things, especially like his education.
00:41:24.000I guess he kind of like told some lies about where he went to school and what his degrees are in, but very, very intelligent guy.
00:41:32.000And he obviously knew a lot about that area, about Area 51, whether or not he really did have any contact with UFOs or with alien spacecraft or any of that stuff.
00:41:43.000I mean, It could be total 100% horseshit, or it could be true.
00:41:49.000But when a guy lies about his education, lies about certain aspects of his background, you've got to assume that he's probably lied about other things as well.
00:42:50.000Alright my friends, thank you very much for tuning into this thing again and I will be back next week with a real solid podcast and maybe we'll even do one this weekend with Eddie Bravo at my house.
00:43:05.000So thank you very much and I'll see you guys soon.