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00:00:43.000Suspense is when the audience knows something that the characters don't.
00:00:47.000So you have Cary Grant drinking tea with his girlfriend and there's a bomb under the table and And for ten minutes, they're just perfectly calm, and there's a bomb.
00:00:56.000So, you are a lot nicer to your audience than I am, which is probably why you're a lot more popular than I am.
00:01:01.000So, can we wait like a five minutes before we show what's in the box?
00:01:10.000This is from one of the many friends I've met here in Austin, and every opportunity I have to talk about how much I love Austin, I will absolutely fucking take.
00:03:53.000I feel like we're in unprecedented times because this is the only time in American history, to my knowledge, where a red state is going to be a cultural center.
00:04:04.000Because you remember New York in the 70s, Paris in the 20s.
00:05:53.000First of all, if he's opening up for Louis, he's gonna be really funny.
00:05:58.000Louis has some oddball people open up for him.
00:06:01.000He had Jay London open up for him in LA. Do you know who Jay London is?
00:06:07.000Jay London is a guy I did my very first show with like on V I think it was like VH1 or something like that or maybe might not have even been that good of a network as well as like shitty stand-up spotlight something shows and He was on last comic standing and for a while like caught some heat.
00:06:25.000He's a very eccentric guy like When I met him out here in L.A., I met him in New York, and then I saw him out here in L.A. in like 2000, 2001, around there.
00:06:36.000And then when I met him, he was like selling stuff on the street.
00:06:40.000Like he was selling, like after September 11th, he was selling like American flags, because everybody was putting American flags in their car, like the suction cup ones.
00:06:48.000So he's like this fucking strange sort of character, but he's really funny.
00:06:53.000And he brings like his notes on stage, and he's always embarrassed about his jokes, and he hides.
00:07:06.000And he had Neil Hamburger open up for him.
00:07:08.000So everybody who's a Louis fan kind of knows.
00:07:11.000If you're opening up for Louis, it's because he asked you to.
00:07:13.000Yeah, one time I saw Neil, he was doing a residency, I think at the satellite in LA, and there was this basic bitch on a date in front of me with her boyfriend, and I told this story 20 times, and she turns to him and she goes, what is this?
00:07:24.000And I'm like, that is the exact right reaction.
00:07:30.000If you don't know, you just think, oh my god, what have I stumbled into, you know?
00:07:50.000The funny thing is, with these comedians, as you obviously know, is that...
00:07:54.000It's one thing when you're hanging out and someone's funny that you go on stage and it's a whole other level.
00:07:58.000I was watching him at the Creek in the Cave and he just goes, yeah, so my back's been hurting me a lot recently, so we're going to be talking about that for the next 20 minutes.
00:08:06.000I'm like, why is that so fucking funny?
00:08:35.000He's so good at that because I would imagine, I don't have that experience, but I would imagine if you had that experience of growing up in a fucking religious cult and then escaping, then to realize like, oh my god, these are regular people.
00:08:47.000Regular people get caught up in mind viruses.
00:08:49.000Like, we always want to look at people in a cult and go, well, that would never be me.
00:09:27.000You know I'm saying like there's a thing that people are doing that they did during the pandemic and they do about any issue that's controversial whether it's abortion or Whether it's guns or anything.
00:09:38.000It's like the people instead of like talking about it like These are the pros and cons.
00:10:11.000Throw you in an out group and start screaming at you.
00:10:15.000And it's the most unproductive way to communicate.
00:10:19.000And I think it's also a product of social media that we need to be really careful about because it's changing the way people interact with each other.
00:10:26.000Well, I think it's more a function of evolutionary psychology because if I'm low status and I have no opportunity to...
00:10:32.000You know, raise my rank in terms of kind of whatever long-term mating.
00:10:38.000Now I'm in a position to tell Joe Rogan, Mr. Podcaster celebrity, that I'm better than him.
00:10:43.000So right away, without having to do any of the work building the audience, I'm leapfrogging over you because I understand drug protocols better than Joe who went to the veterinarian and just took something off the shelf and just injected into his veins.
00:11:43.000Ideologies like this, like whatever we're doing, whether it's right or left, it's like everybody just gets locked into a group mindset for some strange reason.
00:11:56.000And if you don't agree with everything in that group mindset, they could just fucking dismiss you.
00:12:04.000They're looking for filters to not have to listen to anything you say further.
00:12:08.000I have pronouns in my bio on Twitter, because if you're this type of conservative who thinks, oh, pronouns and bio, I don't have to listen to anything this guy has to say, I don't want to be talking to you anyway, if that's how your mind works.
00:12:19.000So right away, it's going to alienate me from that audience.
00:12:22.000It also works because if you're someone...
00:13:09.000A lot of the hippie stuff was stupid, but a lot of the hippie stuff was...
00:13:14.000It's not that it was stupid, it just doesn't work without discipline.
00:13:18.000It doesn't work without exceptional people who work hard with discipline and then share with each other.
00:13:22.000You can't just everybody share with everybody because there's a natural human inclination to not do anything if you don't have to do anything, especially when you're young.
00:13:31.000It's not good for the development of a human being to give them everything they want when they're young.
00:13:36.000That's why it's fucked up when you see young rich kids.
00:13:39.000It's like they're classically fucked up.
00:13:42.000There's something wrong about that, right?
00:13:44.000You know, I think hippies have gotten a bad rap.
00:13:46.000And when I was much younger, I thought, okay, these guys are idiots.
00:13:49.000They don't know what they're talking about.
00:13:50.000The older I've gotten, the more I'm like, you know what?
00:16:18.000You know when I was like this is how much of hippies my parents were we had that our crumb how to wipe your ass thing Framed in the bathroom.
00:16:29.000There's like our crumb had like it was like a toilet that like showed you how to wipe your ass It's the most ridiculous thing and it was like that's it right there.
00:16:39.000Oh my god Yeah, don't forget to wipe your ass folks bro.
00:16:42.000That was fucking in my house That was in our bathroom when I was a little kid.
00:18:09.000Really amazing, interesting, out there stuff in comic book form.
00:18:15.000But if you're gonna have anything that's like as controversial as our crumb, it's gonna be coming from the right now, which is really weird.
00:18:30.000Can you imagine if you're just like...
00:18:31.000During the Bush era, if you imagine that Republicans would be chanting, let's get the military home, enough of the war machine, it would be...
00:18:40.000Because it's almost as crazy as Bernie Sanders a couple of years ago telling us we need to support either the CIA or the FBI. I'm like, you are the epitome of this filthy old...
00:18:49.000Like, you open your wallet, moths are going to fly out, and you're telling us to trust the FBI or CIA? I couldn't believe it, but...
00:19:01.000I trust some of the individuals that are in them, yes.
00:19:03.000But it's just a fucking group of humans.
00:19:05.000When you have a group of humans, any group of humans, you're gonna have certain people that bend the rules, you're gonna have certain people that say, you know what, I think I'm gonna get away with this.
00:19:13.000You're gonna have certain people that say, I'm gonna use this power because it's fun.
00:19:17.000You got a lot of weird things that happen when you get people, and if you call them the FBI, it's a fucking group of humans.
00:19:25.000I had dinner with an ex, either FBI, I think it was CIA operative, or FBI, but I'm not sure it was CIA, and he was talking about how it's illegal for him or his coworkers to look up his ex-girlfriend's Gmail.
00:19:37.000But what he could do is call his contact in France and be like, hey, look up this Gmail for me.
00:19:44.000And he could look it up for his French girl, for his French buddy.
00:19:48.000And he was talking about like, oh, this is how corrupt we are.
00:20:07.000So when people talk about corruption and, like, oh, you know, it's like Hunter Biden's on the take, that's not the corruption I'm worried about.
00:21:03.000So I'm at home dicking around on Twitter, as I want to do, and I get a like when the verified tab meant something, and I'm like, okay, who is this broad?
00:21:12.000And I look, and that wasn't the word I used, mind you, but I'm being nice.
00:21:16.000And I looked and it's this girl, Natalie Sidesurf.
00:21:19.000She and her husband, they live in Austin.
00:21:20.000They make these super realistic cakes.
00:21:23.000So I said to them, I'm going to be on Rogan.
00:23:40.000The relationship that comedians have with clubs is based on the initial feeling that you had from clubs.
00:23:47.000You have to kind of work through that because in the beginning you're an open mic and you're fucking terrible.
00:23:53.000And you start getting better and you're trying to get work but they don't want to give you work and they don't really respect you because they remember when you were terrible.
00:25:08.000I was actually under contract, and then some issues happened and fell apart, but I didn't know what that meant until Adam Egott said, oh, yeah!
00:25:18.000He goes, I saw the documentary on them!
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00:35:07.000Those are all positive things, Michael Malice.
00:35:10.000I can't believe her plan, apparently, to get you to do it at Adrie for Landmark.
00:35:19.000It's about I want to change the subject as quickly as possible to literally anything else.
00:35:24.000Is it a thing where it seems negative because the people that get involved in it are all those folks that are just...
00:35:30.000You know how there's some people that never seem to find an anchor in life.
00:35:35.000You know, they kind of drift from one way of thinking to another.
00:35:40.000I think a lot of the ways these organizations work, and it's not necessarily all bad, is that they provide lonely people a sense of community.
00:35:49.000This is one of the ways AA works, and this is not a knock against AA. If you're someone who's an addict or an alcoholic and you're kind of alone in the gutter, you've got your drinking buddy or your heroin buddy, and now you've got a group of people who share your experiences, have your worldview,
00:37:11.000But you're making that agreement, right?
00:37:13.000So that's also in the eyes of your community.
00:37:15.000You're making an agreement together that you're all going to follow these principles.
00:37:18.000And you're going to forgive people, and you're going to help people, and you're going to put money together when someone needs something, when something goes wrong with someone in the community.
00:37:25.000If you have a moral dilemma, you're going to remind yourself, you know what, I should do the right thing, even though it's going to be harder.
00:37:33.000It's famous for being very generous to other people that are in their churches.
00:37:37.000I know of many friends who go to church and they'll talk about how the church raised money because someone had something wrong inside their church and they needed something fixed or something and they help each other out.
00:37:47.000So it's like you just get this feeling of family when you're part of a community church.
00:37:52.000It's like you go to see each other on Sunday, you look forward to it, everybody dresses up.
00:37:58.000The problem that people have is with the taking of stories that are very, very old as just fact.
00:38:07.000That's the only problem that people have with it.
00:38:09.000If you looked at the net positives that come out of religions, other than when they go sideways, Right?
00:38:17.000Like when they impose their religion on others and go into war.
00:38:20.000But that's like natural human dominance characteristics that are exhibited through like the guise of religion.
00:38:28.000The best aspects of religion are just living your life with a purpose.
00:38:34.000It gives you like a scaffolding to think about like moral values and community values and that there's a higher thing above you which helps dissolve the ego.
00:39:12.000There's a lot of that with religion that if you're having fun or if you are happy, and I know I'm going to get pushback on this, you did something wrong along the way, especially this fear of pleasure.
00:39:41.000That's actually one of Neil Hamburger's lines that when he tells a joke that bombs, he'll say, would that have been funnier if there's a black choir behind me?
00:40:14.000There's something, like, super entertaining about that old Sam Kennison-style revival church-type preacher.
00:40:21.000Like, that's a fucking entertaining thing to watch.
00:40:24.000But it also kind of harkens back to, like, the Greek Bacchanals, where everyone's just drunk and just having orgies and just losing their minds.
00:41:01.000But he had apocalypse food that was like under the table and you would use it as a table instead of showing how you could store it around the house.
00:41:08.000And instead of like having table legs, you could have all this boxed food under your table.
00:41:13.000Like it's one of the wildest things you've ever seen in your life.
00:41:17.000But it's also really funny that like if you guys are in his organization, shouldn't you be the ones getting raptured?
00:41:23.000Like shouldn't you be like the hundred?
00:41:26.000Bulk sampler bundle imagine this is the guy that was this now this has a Sam Kinison connection too because he was He had the affair with Jessica Hahn right who is the secretary the hot secretary and Jessica Hahn wound up fucking Sam Kinison and they had I forgot about that Yeah,
00:41:44.000yeah terrible breakup there talk shit about each other on Howard Stern What do you think of what Howard's become recently?
00:41:51.000Well, I mean— He's the only person I know who's gone, other than Penn maybe, who's gone from being red-pilled to blue-pilled.
00:41:58.000For people who don't know, let me do a little—because the kids these days don't know.
00:42:02.000Howard Stern had a guy in his show, Stuttering John, and he would send them out to talk to celebrities, and he would ask them the most fucked-up questions.
00:42:12.000And this wasn't before— This is before social media.
00:44:04.000If people wanted to promote their band, the mom would be controlling it, or the son would be controlling it, the mom would be sitting on it, or like brother and sister, and you're sitting there and you just want to kill yourself.
00:44:36.000Like the culture shift between right and left authoritarianism.
00:44:40.000And now people don't recognize that if you just stopped looking at it in terms of red and blue, look at the actions.
00:44:48.000Whether it's war, suppression of free speech, pharmacological interventions that are mandatory, whatever the fuck it is, that used to all be associated with the authoritative right, the authoritarian right, and now those things are being embraced by the left.
00:45:04.000And I just think it's just an ideology thing, and I think we get confused and we think, we're on the right side, we're on the right side, and if it's our side that's saying this, for sure it's the right thing to do, and no one's critically thinking about this.
00:45:17.000I'm going to play Devil's Advocate because sometimes I feel like we need more of that because have you heard this show called Milf Manor?
00:46:58.000Because one of the things about Fear Factor, Episodes one through four I did sober.
00:47:03.000Okay, that's it the whole thing I was high as a kite Every time I did it I was high as a kite It was the only time it was fun because then it became really fun because before that it was like I wish these guys didn't I would get this like pity in me like God I wouldn't want to eat an animal's dick on TV I wish these people like didn't need to get their credit card debt paid so badly that they're I don't want to do this to them.
00:52:34.000Feel like it was just too they were going too far It was scaring the shit out of me like the stunts were too extreme They were extreme to the point where I was like hey someone could fucking die Like I know we're pulling this off, but if we don't pull it off Like the bull was in the original episodes and the bull one was like early on in the show and I just think that the producers just like trusted the stunt guys and I just think stunt guys are just so next level tough and they're used to dealing with like stunt people and not just dealing
00:53:05.000with like Some contestants on a television show.
00:53:08.000And as time went on, they became much more conservative.
00:53:10.000Like, they didn't do things like that again.
00:53:12.000Like, I would say, after that, most of the stunts for the whole rest of the first seasons were, like, reasonable risks.
00:53:19.000Like, they did a good job of managing that.
00:53:24.000The new ones, they had, like, this helicopter thing, and you got, what was a bungee cord under the helicopter, and you get launched towards the helicopter.
00:53:39.000They were tied to a tree and they had to unlock themselves.
00:53:42.000And as they unlocked themselves, they hit a thing and they go launching because there's a bungee cord that attaches them to a fucking helicopter that's hanging over a canyon.
00:53:51.000So they go flying through the air and then bounce down over this canyon.
00:53:58.000Any wrong calculation, any weird wind, any fucking fraying of the ropes, the failure of the metal that's the clasp that holds the bungee cord to the fucking helicopter.
00:54:10.000I was like, this was terrifying, dude.
00:54:55.000Yeah, we had people walk across beams that were set between two buildings in downtown LA. But they at least have something attaching them, right?
00:57:26.000He understands some things, but like him saying, tell me about your brother, he probably got uncomfortable, which is why he left, because he can't talk.
00:59:26.000But Mark is in Skid Row every day, like filming.
00:59:30.000He pays people and does interviews with them.
00:59:33.000And he's just sort of documenting some aspects of our society that you don't get a chance to see the humanity in these people.
00:59:45.000You just see people living on the street and you don't think of them as being like someone's daughter or someone's son or someone's sister or mother.
00:59:56.000You just think, oh, that's a fucking loser junkie.
01:00:07.000What it seems like is they're products of horrible abuse.
01:00:10.000So this is Los Angeles in 2023. If you drive down the street, it is a fucking dystopian nightmare that you couldn't imagine.
01:00:19.000The entire sidewalk on both sides is filled with tents.
01:00:25.000It's just so it's so insane the sheer numbers of homeless That if this was zombies if this was zombies instead of homeless people like people We would be overwhelmed with zombies,
01:00:40.000but it would be like a zombie you would have to leave but Joe Austin was like this Not that bad.
01:00:46.000But it was certainly in that direction.
01:00:48.000They cleaned a lot of it up, but I've been informed that they didn't clean it up by the lake.
01:00:52.000I've been informed that if you go by the lake, there's a lot of homeless people.
01:00:56.000But I remember walking down Cesar Chavez, it was tent after tent after tent.
01:01:00.000I was with a friend and it was very disturbing.
01:01:02.000Something happened during the pandemic where it really accelerated.
01:01:07.000Because of the economic stress that people went under, and I think the mental health stress that a lot of people went under, And, you know, so many people just lost it.
01:01:16.000And, you know, so many people got fired.
01:01:20.000I mean, you think about the unprecedented loss of jobs during the lockdown and what kind of an increase that must have had in homelessness.
01:01:36.000Are you guys in the government or not?
01:01:38.000Are you in charge of everything, including our health?
01:01:41.000So if you are, why aren't you doing something about that?
01:01:43.000Especially because the people who are there who are mentally ill, maybe they're drug addicts, they're the victims of violence from the others, too.
01:01:49.000It's not like it's safe for them or it's ideal for them.
01:01:52.000I've never heard a good argument for why this is allowed to happen.
01:01:55.000Sleeping in cloth houses on the street with a bunch of other mentally ill people.
01:01:59.000Like, the possibility of dangers off the charts.
01:02:01.000And it's almost like we have two worlds that are going on simultaneously, right?
01:02:06.000You have the world that you and I live in, and then you have homeless tent world where it's basically like fucking Mad Max, and no one's doing jack shit about it, and who knows who's running things, and who's fucking who, and who's...
01:02:19.000Giving people drugs and who's shitting on the sidewalk and it's it's happening in the same city So you've got guys like you that are living great You got a nice place and look at the view and you have your coffee at the local coffee shop and three blocks away is Mad Max and it's it's you're talking about Thousands and thousands of people living like this.
01:02:42.000It's not a hundred But the question I always ask is whose is benefiting because someone's benefiting from this if it's being allowed to happen Well, my friend Coleon, Coleon Noir.
01:02:51.000Coleon, he was a lawyer and he was talking to this guy in San Francisco and he was like, what's the problem?
01:02:59.000It's like, they just don't have any funding to fix this?
01:04:11.000My buddy John, who lives in Burbank, who's one of my closest friends, when the proposition here was on, or the referendum, whatever it was, on the ballot to kind of clean up the...
01:04:20.000Make it illegal to sleep on the street in a tent.
01:04:48.000They had this one area outside of Brentwood, had something to do with some veterans park or something like that, where they allowed people to camp.
01:05:29.000Did you hear, and I want to hear your thoughts on it, that my second favorite politician, I forget the guy's name, I'm so sorry, he introduced a bill in the state legislature for Texas to become an independent country.
01:05:44.000That's, you know, that was like, we're like the last state to give in, right?
01:06:53.000You don't think that there's a possibility in the future, like maybe a hundred years from now, if Texas becomes a country that like New Mexico doesn't just invade us?
01:07:01.000Wait, but the concern is that right now Washington's gonna invade us.
01:07:11.000Meaning if Texas or Florida or any of these other states becomes too defiant, or if it's the other way around, if you have a Republican administration and some leftist state decides to be like, we're not going to be enforcing borders or immigration rules, someone might send in the feds.
01:07:27.000In fact, just Governor Abbott had to stand up to Biden and make this bill, or I don't remember what it exactly was, but just insisting the National Guard's answer to him and not to the president.
01:07:39.000I know this is a bill in New Hampshire as well, I think, called Save the Guard.
01:07:42.000Well, that's why states' rights are important.
01:07:45.000Yeah, but it's a lot easier to not have to worry about D.C. than to expect D.C. to lessen their power.
01:08:45.000I think there's enough people like you and I that just think, this is bananas, this subscribing to one predetermined pattern of behavior and fucking rules of thought, and the other one is like polar opposite of it, and you could switch, but you can only switch once.
01:09:16.000I'm thinking of Nigel Farage when he was on the floor of the EU when Brexit was executed, and he said, when I came here 17 years ago, you all laughed at me.
01:10:23.000If you go and listen to George W. Bush's speeches when he was running for governor, and then look at when, I don't know what decline, what happened to him, but something happened to his ability to speak well.
01:10:37.000In 2000, he debated Al Gore, who was a senator for many years, very articulate, very bright man, and he won or at least held his own in those debates.
01:10:45.000Four years later with John Kerry, he wasn't speaking complete sentences.
01:13:05.000Everyone's kind, and they look out for the average person.
01:13:09.000Yeah, and people just fucking hang themselves 30 miles from their home, shoot themselves in the chest, and they find no weapon, but they declare it a suicide.
01:13:58.000And also, I've talked to enough people that...
01:14:07.000They're really educated in the history of ancient cultures and ancient civilizations, and the evidence of natural disasters wiping people out and people having to start from scratch, it seems like we're a part of this giant never-ending cycle of getting knocked back into the Stone Age and then rebuilding to a new version of complex society.
01:14:28.000I think we're on a version of that now, but I think there's been many versions of that.
01:14:32.000I think that that's also on the table for us.
01:14:35.000But I think it'd be a lot easier for us to bounce back than someone 2,000 years ago with our technology and our ability to...
01:14:59.000Other than a meteor hitting the earth, what would cost this?
01:15:02.000Supervolcano would kill almost all of us.
01:15:04.000The Yellowstone Supervolcano, it's a caldera volcano.
01:15:08.000They didn't realize that it was so big until somewhere in the 2000s, I think it was, they did satellite imagery and they realized, oh my god.
01:15:17.000That's the caldera of a volcano, like this Yellowstone thing.
01:15:21.000We thought it was just this crazy place with hot springs.
01:15:24.000Like, no, that's a super volcano that is a continent killer.
01:15:28.000And it blows every six to eight hundred thousand years, and everyone dies.
01:16:16.000Is it going to happen now, or is it going to happen a thousand years from now when we have enough technology to mitigate its effects in some way?
01:16:23.000But when it happens, you get nuclear winter, everything dies, no crops, the sun doesn't get through.
01:16:42.000Because I'm like, yeah, hopefully it's going to be great, but maybe not.
01:16:47.000And for all of us, the end is going to suck.
01:16:50.000I'm glad to hear you're more concerned, as I am, if I had to choose, between natural disaster or, like, you know, we're all going to end up killing each other.
01:17:01.000I'm concerned with both, but I'm always concerned with things that people are dismissive of or that they don't think of as a threat.
01:17:34.000We live a hundred years if we're lucky.
01:17:37.000Volcanoes are hundreds of thousands of years of activity.
01:17:42.000And they go on these long cycles, some of them, these super volcanoes, and they just fucking blow, and you never know when it's going to happen.
01:17:48.000And they create fucking islands in the middle of the ocean.
01:20:27.000So they think that's also what happened at the end of the Ice Age.
01:20:30.000They think that the Earth and, you know, North America's ice caps got smashed by comets.
01:20:36.000And that's what caused, like, the Great Lakes.
01:20:39.000And that's what caused, like, this mass erosion, topographical details in the Earth that lead out to the ocean, like these enormous fucking floods.
01:20:52.000It probably knocked human beings back into the fucking Stone Age again.
01:20:56.000So our idea of civilization propping up or emerging around 6,000 years ago, which they used to think, these guys are saying it's probably way earlier than that.
01:22:38.000They probably had technology that we haven't figured out yet because we went to combustion engines and electricity and that's how we figured out how to use human creativity and constantly innovating and created technology that went in this way.
01:22:52.000But it's really possible that another culture 20,000 years ago or whatever had figured out a way to innovate the way we have with combustion engines and electronics but in a completely different way.
01:23:04.000I don't know what they would use, I don't know how they did it, but if you imagine human beings going from the Roman Empire 2,000 years ago to what we enjoy today, that's a tiny blip in time when you're talking about 20,000, 30,000 years.
01:23:19.000If these people figured out some form of technology Some form of technology that we still haven't figured out yet.
01:23:26.000It's totally possible that that could be the case.
01:24:25.000So they think that during the time when the pharaohs ran Egypt, that they might have...
01:24:32.000Redone that in the shape of, I forget which pharaoh they're attributed to, but there's some controversy about that.
01:24:38.000But here's why it's interesting that you brought up the Sphinx.
01:24:41.000Because the Temple of the Sphinx is the best evidence that it's older than people think it is.
01:24:46.000Because the Temple of the Sphinx is a guy named Dr. Robert Chalk.
01:24:48.000What do you mean the Temple of the Sphinx?
01:24:50.000The temple that's around the Sphinx, the area where the Sphinx is carved out of.
01:24:54.000So the stones that they cut out of this area to make this ground, there's this flat wall that has a bunch of different kinds of stone in it.
01:25:05.000And some of it is more dense and harder, and the other stuff is more porous, and it gets eroded quicker.
01:25:12.000So there's all this evidence of thousands of years of rainfall on these walls.
01:25:18.000And there's a guy named Dr. Robert Schalk, who's a geologist from Boston University.
01:25:22.000And he measured it, and he went there and looked at it and examined it, just from the terms of like, as a geologist, not as a historian.
01:26:07.000And those lines, those fissures, according to Dr. Robert Schock, he says those lines are a clear sign of water erosion.
01:26:17.000He's like, you don't get that kind of erosion from sand and wind.
01:26:21.000He goes, there's like videos that describe it in cartoon form or in illustration form or images.
01:26:28.000But those type of fissures are only created with erosion from water, from thousands of years of rainfall.
01:26:35.000The problem with that is they think that that's 2500 BC. So what he's saying is, no, it's thousands and thousands of years older than that.
01:26:50.000I mean, they're educated guesses, but when people come along with opposing information or opposing ideas and theories about how it all went down, the archaeologists that have been teaching their version of ancient history They're very rigid,
01:27:09.000and they don't want to accept, like, new ideas.
01:27:11.000They call them racist, or they'll call them...
01:27:58.000And they'll come up with all sorts of like pseudoscience labels they put on it and misinformation and they were telling him this forever and the more time goes on the more they find evidence that he's correct.
01:28:12.000It's happening over and over and over and over and over and over again to the point where they've moved the dates of complex civilization all the way back to 12,000 years ago now because of Gobekli Tepe.
01:28:23.000When they first found these fissures in the Temple of the Sphinx, they were like, there's no way, there's no evidence of any culture that existed that was sophisticated that long ago.
01:29:30.000To this day, they only have, I think, 5% of it or 10% of it has been excavated.
01:29:35.000And they've found through Lidar, there's similar structures that are all over the area.
01:29:40.000So this is just one of many of these structures that was, look, some barbarians probably fucking came in, just slashed everybody up and decided to cover their shit.
01:30:01.000But think about what the Mongols did where they would wipe out an entire city, kill everybody with bows and arrows and knives and shit and just level the city and do it to the ground.
01:30:19.000What about the conquistadors, whatever it was, where they're finding the Mayas or the Incas, where they just stood there and their arms were just tied because they just stood there killing.
01:30:25.000Guys just came at them one after another and you just killed them all day.
01:33:27.000Those buffalo bison drops like the biological waste all starts to rot and the gases and the fumes get so extreme that they cause fires like they spontaneously burst into flames and like the countryside in some of these areas where they have buffalo drops like the sides of the cliff are black with like soot because these fucking buffalo bodies burst into flames Holy...
01:36:22.000Grizzlies only exist in a few western states.
01:36:25.000They don't exist in Colorado, but they do think they might.
01:36:28.000In fact, my friend Adam Greentree, he did a long hunt in the mountains, the San Juan Mountains of Colorado, and he got video of what he says is a grizzly bear that was off in the distance.
01:36:39.000Did you see the grizzly bear I posted on my Instagram today?
01:36:47.000I love this video because it's a camera that's set up and someone put food in front of the camera and a light so that when the grizzly bear walked in, you can get video of this thing walking in.
01:36:56.000So it's like a little cautious and a little skittish, but you get a sense of what it would look like if that thing was like walking up to you.
01:41:38.000My friend saw these two bears fighting.
01:41:42.000There was a male bear who came in because there was a female in her cubs, and the female tried to chase off the male bear, but the male bear got ahold of one of her cubs and killed it.
01:41:52.000And she chased off the male bear after the male bear killed her cubs, and then she ate her cub.
01:41:58.000Well, it was, I mean, the dead one, right?
01:43:09.000How about those people that live on that island that just get giant bears, like, coming to the island all the time?
01:43:14.000Which is the island where the guy shot the bear through the door in the head as it was, like, trapped in his house?
01:43:21.000This bear got into this guy's house, they came downstairs, they heard all this noise, and the neighbor came over while the bear was in the guy's house and shot it through the head, through the front door.
01:45:29.000The bear had come through the front door, somehow bumping it closed, walked through the living room, through the kitchen, past the leftover fried chicken on the counter, and stopped directly in front of the family's washer and dryer.
01:45:42.000It was looking at Maribel lying in bed.
01:46:09.000Despite Olsen's immediate decisiveness, he knew he had to take his shot carefully.
01:46:14.000He had to shoot around the corner of a bedroom where his two youngest children were sleeping.
01:46:19.000As he pulled the trigger to send a.45 Colt round through the bear's shoulder, his inner voice reminded him, don't hit the kids.
01:46:27.000When I pulled the trigger, I couldn't see its head.
01:46:30.000I hope that the first shot hit him in the shoulder.
01:46:34.000Whether from pain or fear, the bear managed to turn its mammoth body around inside the confines of the home's tiny hallway, likely in an attempt to get back out the way he came in.
01:46:46.000Olsen followed the bear through his house.
01:46:48.000I was pulling the trigger while shouting,''Get out of my house!'' Along with a lot of logger and fisherman words that I've learned over the years, he said.
01:46:57.000There was not an ounce of fear in me at that moment.
01:47:42.000He would have left if he could have, but that stupid door shut behind him.
01:47:47.000Because a wounded Kodiak bear could be far more dangerous than an uninjured bear, Olsen saved the last round in his revolver just in case the bear tried to leave the pantry.
01:51:22.000I don't know if they're breeding yet, but people have spotted kangaroos, and one guy's kangaroo got out, and he had to lure it back to the house with milk.
01:51:29.000Because kangaroos don't have to listen to you.
01:54:14.000It seems like that now, that voting blue means being softer on crime.
01:54:19.000It means that you recognize that there's too many people in prison and that the United States has more people in prison than any other country in the world.
01:54:28.000And that we have a prison industrial complex, and that you have corrupt judges, and you have incompetent lawyers, and you have a lot of factors that lead to people to be prosecuted for crimes that they didn't really commit, and they get incarcerated.
01:54:40.000Or things that shouldn't be crimes to begin with.
01:54:44.000Probably a large percentage of people in this country are in jail for drugs.
01:54:49.000I don't know what that percentage was, but I do know that it was a scam when Biden was saying, everybody's in jail for possession of marijuana, you're going to be free.
01:54:58.000But there's no one in jail for possession of marijuana in a federal prison.
01:56:42.000The violent crime thing, though, is not great.
01:56:45.000And when people commit violent crimes, oftentimes they're mentally ill.
01:56:49.000And if you just let those people right back on the street and they just got away with committing a violent crime, the chances of them committing a violent crime again are probably pretty fucking high.
01:56:58.000Yeah, but they don't- Instead of a long history of violent crime.
01:57:01.000But they don't need to be mentally ill.
01:57:02.000If it's legal for me to steal from CVS or Duane Reade, I could just go in with my shopping bag, fill it up.
01:57:30.000You steal up to $900 worth of stuff, and no one's supposed to stop you.
01:57:34.000So people just walk into stores and steal things.
01:57:36.000Yeah, but this was the thing in the late 60s, early 70s, and this was a big problem for the Democratic Party because they were big on so-called civil liberties, civil rights, things like that in this context of rights of the accused.
01:58:08.000Mayor Adams to New York City shoppers, drop that mask.
01:58:12.000To prevent robberies, Mayor Eric Adams is telling shopkeepers to bar customers who refuse to lower their masks when they first enter stores.
02:00:50.000What's the difference between hope and optimism?
02:00:52.000Because optimism means I think everything is going to work out.
02:00:55.000And hope is, I'm not convinced that that's the case, but I'm certainly, like if someone has a deadly disease.
02:01:03.000You may not be optimistic that you're going to be here five years, but you certainly have to live as if you are and have that hope that you're going to pull through.
02:01:12.000So that's kind of a big key difference because optimism, I think, is often foolish.
02:01:17.000One of the reasons people get blackpilled or kind of give up hope because they keep thinking, oh, when Trump gets in or when Biden gets in or DeSantis, if someone gets in, everything's going to work out.
02:01:27.000If you keep putting your eggs in the basket that this guy in a white horse is going to come and save you, We're good to go.
02:01:51.000Well, it's kind of amazing that the country runs as smoothly as it does with Biden in charge.
02:01:55.000I mean, it kind of shows you how the checks and balances and all the different branches of government are actually pretty effective in some way.
02:02:01.000I mean, it's not a fucking perfect system by any stretch of the imagination, but the way it operates right now can operate with that guy as president.
02:02:08.000I mean, I'm sure he's got a crack team behind him.
02:04:21.000If convicted on the charge, Brenton, who previously served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition at the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy, could face up to five years in prison, a $10,000 fine,
02:05:36.000Dude, I'm going to confess something that I've never admitted to before here on this minor show that no one listens to or watches, so I'll be perfectly safe.
02:05:44.000When I was in high school, my friend Arthur and I went to the New York Aquarium, and they have an estuary exhibit.
02:05:56.000And in this estuary exhibit was a species of fish, which I found very unusual, which I really liked, called a spiny boxfish, which is not a boxfish.
02:06:04.000It's a relative of the porcupine fish.
02:06:06.000And we got a cup and it was a low tank, no cover, and we got it.
02:06:13.000We stole the fish from the New York Aquarium.
02:08:34.000Archer fish squirt jets of water out to insects on plants and And they can recognize the size of the prey and adjust the size of their squirts accordingly.
02:09:26.000The reason I'm sensitive about this issue is the very first paycheck I ever got was writing for an aquarium magazine when I was in high school.
02:10:12.000A spider that looks like an ant, and spiders have eight legs, ants have six, so the spider's two front legs are always up in the air as if they're antennae, and they smell like the ants.
02:10:20.000And there's another species of ant spider.
02:10:22.000And they just hang around the ants and eat them?
02:10:24.000I don't know if they eat the ants, but they certainly are protected, because think about it, if you're surrounded by ants, no one's attacking you.
02:10:28.000And then there's a species of ant spider where the mandibles are stretched out so it looks like it's carrying a dead ant.
02:12:31.000They didn't need to manipulate their physical environment because they can move through 3D space as a dolphin and they can just eat fish.
02:12:39.000Follow them around and stay in the warm waters, and they're good.
02:12:42.000There was no need to get to the place where we are, where we're just a subject to so many different animals and so many different invading tribes and all the crazy shit.
02:12:51.000Their environment's a lot more stable than ours.
02:15:52.000So the tunas are going crazy and the sharks are going crazy at the same time.
02:15:55.000Because don't the tuna circle schools of smaller fish and make them into balls and then the sharks circle the tuna or whoever, whatever it is.
02:17:44.000That's what it looked like over there.
02:17:46.000Yeah, but that's because I don't think it's the same thing.
02:17:49.000If you threw like a dead dolphin on top of that, you don't think they would tear apart that the same way these fish are tearing apart this dead fish?
02:17:59.000This is the strangest argument I've ever been, and I don't disagree with you.
02:18:02.000I agree with you completely that if you threw in a dead dolphin there or in the Amazon, that they'd be dismembered in seconds.
02:18:08.000I don't think we're in a disagreement.
02:18:10.000I think we got caught up in a little bit of a dick-waving contest there.
02:18:17.000Okay, I want to hear what you're most excited about with the club.
02:18:21.000I'm just excited to have it and to make a place in Austin where comics can work out all the time.
02:18:28.000I just want it where people can develop.
02:18:31.000We're going to have a nice open mic program.
02:18:33.000We brought in Adam Egott, who is the talent coordinator for the Comedy Store, and we brought him in and we brought this great staff in with a specific idea to make it a place where comics can start out, develop, become professional.
02:18:51.000Comedy has always been, like, very difficult for people to go from being an open-miker to being a professional to making it.
02:18:58.000If you go to an open-mic night, open-mic nights are littered with people who are talented that, for whatever reason, they didn't get enough breaks where it encouraged them to keep going, and they, you know, had other opportunities in life, which most smart people do, and they did something else, and then maybe they came back to it later,
02:19:13.000and then they realized how far behind they were for the other people that were already...
02:19:17.000Now they're working professionals now, and they start thinking, fuck...
02:19:20.000I could be out there like Big Jay Oakerson.
02:19:52.000The thing about comedy is you have to figure it out on your own, and everybody figures it out differently because there's so many different fucking styles.
02:20:04.000Everybody has a different way of being funny.
02:20:06.000And you need a place where you know that they are hoping that you get better, and they want you to get better.
02:20:13.000Not just like a dog-eat-dog world like the store used to be.
02:20:17.000Or like a lot of these other places are, but a place that encourages people to be better and to get better at comedy.
02:20:24.000And gives you a place where you can try it out and you can get to see, like, one of the things about the store that was so great is, you know, Chris Rock would come into town and he would go and do a set and we'd all sit in the back and watch.
02:20:35.000Like, you get a chance to watch the best comics in the world all the time.
02:20:48.000I think Austin is a lot better of a place to have this kind of camaraderie and less cynicism than New York and LA. I think those cities, especially LA from my understanding, are far more competitive in a negative sense where you think if someone's succeeding, it's because, you know, it's at your expense.
02:21:04.000Whereas everything I've seen here, everyone who's making it happen are so into helping each other out and having each other's back and being like fans of one another.
02:21:11.000That was an environment that we fostered at the Comedy Store.
02:21:14.000And I think that environment, a lot of it came out of the recognition that in the world of podcasting, we're no longer competitors to each other.
02:21:23.000And being friends with people like you, or being friends with Lex, or being friends with any comics, you want other people to know about them.
02:21:34.000People generally know that if I have someone on, especially like you who's been on more than once, I like them, and they're fun, and we have cool conversations.
02:22:08.000And so then there's the Friends spot, and there's the Caroline and the City spot.
02:22:12.000There's a very small number of things and if you got that it was life-changing and people around people got those things and their life changed and they're driving a Mercedes and you're the same fucking guy in a Hyundai and you do better than him.
02:22:24.000Like you go up at Wednesday night at 10 p.m.
02:22:26.000and maybe he struggles following you, but it doesn't matter because he got a fucking sitcom.
02:22:51.000There was a lot of those guys that were like hanging around the Comedy Store when I first got there in 94 that missed the Kinnison wave.
02:22:57.000There's waves that come or like great comics come through and along with them a lot of other great comics come.
02:23:03.000There's like the Kinnison, Bill Hicks and there were so many guys that came along during that time and Dice Clay and some guys just missed that wave.
02:23:11.000They just didn't put it together for whatever reason.
02:23:14.000And there was a lot of those guys that were hanging around the store when I got there.
02:23:33.000Stanhope once famously said, I could give up comedy, but I couldn't give up comedians.
02:23:37.000Yeah, when I'm hanging out with you guys backstage at Vulcan, everyone is so friendly, and they're busting each other's balls, of course, but it's really welcoming.
02:24:00.000We had managed to avoid a lot of that in LA at the store at one point in time.
02:24:04.000It wasn't all of us, though, because the store has all kinds of different personalities.
02:24:08.000And some personalities don't feel like they're getting their just-do, and some personalities are bitter, and some personalities are angry that someone is successful or famous, that people like them.
02:24:37.000Guys who steal, they would have opening axe and those opening axe would be stealing too because they learned from the guy who was the big guy.
02:25:09.000Well, it's also the kind of thing where the guy tells, like, Simpsons quotes at a party, so he's funny, so he's like, why can't I just do this on stage?
02:25:14.000He's not going to think anything's weird that I'm doing Simpsons jokes on stage, or like, whatever jokes.
02:25:24.000It's like creativity depends upon so many different factors.
02:25:29.000And we're definitely influenced by each other, but I think it's in a positive way.
02:25:34.000I think when it crosses over into negativity, that's when it becomes a problem.
02:25:37.000People get competitive in terms of like they're taking people's premises or taking people's ideas and twisting them around like, hey, Like you're doing something squirrelly you're doing and there's like different levels of that like some people do it and it's just out-and-out thievery and some people do it and it's just like they both have the same thought parallel thinking is a real common situation especially with like A lot of social issues and a lot of times the punchline is gonna be something that two people came up with the same time because kind of obvious,
02:26:06.000you know, absolutely and Happens all the time.
02:26:08.000But there's a difference between that and the whole set.
02:26:40.000Do you think, because I'm getting this sense, but I'm obviously not a professional comedian, that a lot of this kind of so-called woke culture, whatever, that's been supposedly killing comedy, I feel like that's receding and that there is a lot of space, especially here, to tell jokes whatever the hell you want without fear of repercussion.
02:27:02.000Because Kill Tony, you get one minute, and the comedians are ruthless and hilarious, and they're all like Roseanne's on there, and all these killers that come into town.
02:27:11.000Shane Gillis, all these people go and guest on that show, and comics get one minute.
02:27:16.000And if they do well, everybody supports them and cheers them on.
02:27:48.000This is not about you espousing your social values.
02:27:51.000And there's a kind of a thing, a claptor thing that some of these kids are getting sucked into, where you're trying to espouse social values.
02:28:00.000I've seen people actually say, if you're not using your comedy to elevate social justice, then fuck you.
02:28:10.000You're not good at this thing that we all do and love.
02:28:12.000Like when we watch people that are great comics that have a social message, whether it's Dave Chappelle or whether it's George Carlin or whoever it is, they have that with jokes.
02:28:46.000By the way, if you want to do claptor and fill audiences with, you know, people that are fucking inside your wheelhouse and they like to hear you say the things that they think, fine.
02:31:34.000Derek Wolf, the football player, was here the other day and he had his friend Alex was here and his friend Alex has these boots on that were made out of fish.
02:36:42.000Maybe they do it because, like with largemouth bass, a lot of people don't eat largemouth bass, although you can eat them, and I've eaten them.
02:36:50.000But they use them as a sport fish, and so especially when you catch big ones, they want you to let them go, because a big female has probably got a bunch of eggs in her, and it'll help the population.
02:38:59.000It was one of those weird deals where there's certain boats that you get on and they have their own rules, and they said, you can catch fish, but we keep the big fish.
02:39:22.000So we get a Bernie's thing where you've got sunglasses on the marlin.
02:39:25.000We were just looking for fish that we could eat, that we could bring back to, you know, a small fish, like a yellowtail or something like that, that you could bring back to the resort and you'd get the chef to cook it.
02:40:37.000I saw some YouTube, I didn't know if it was clickbait or not, but I saw some YouTube video today that I didn't click on that said, be careful eating sushi, and it showed a guy's mouth that was open and there was like, or some part of his, it wasn't his mouth, it was like something, like they put a camera down his mouth and they found some organs in his intestines.
02:43:08.000The fish you're eating was flash frozen solid at a temperature of minus 35 degrees Fahrenheit and stored that way in a commercial freezer for at least 15 hours to kill whatever parasites happened to be in it.
02:44:42.000It depends on the trichinosis, apparently, because some trichinosis from the southern states doesn't survive freezing, but some of the stuff from like Alberta and Alaska, it survives freezing.
02:44:53.000It's like there's different strains of trichinosis, but you have to cook it to like 160 degrees to kill it.
02:47:37.000And the only thing that saved me from bombing was some drunk person rushed the stage and was yelling at me to take off the mask and that I'm giving in to the regime and he had to get tackled.
02:51:04.000We dress up, and last time, one of the times, it might not have been the last one, but one of the times we dressed up, we had candles all over the table, so the only light in the room was candles, and we were both dressed like clowns, and it was featured on Fox News, because we went on some crazy rant they agreed with, and they said, Joe Rogan had a really good point.
02:52:27.000And the guy who was interviewing me was like 27. So he was a young, cool dude, whatever.
02:52:31.000And I was telling him I was just listening to Insane Clown Posse, and they're singing about how they took their manager and threw him out of a window, and that they stabbed the mail paper man, and now they drive around in his truck.
02:53:36.000And part of the inspiration was, it bothers me how people, when they complain about how oppressive governments can be, we have no idea how bad it could be here.
02:53:45.000And having come from there, obviously Lexus from there as well, to realize this is the bullet that my family dodged.
02:53:52.000So I go through the way they starved millions of people in Ukraine.
02:53:56.000They forced people to go on trial to admit to things that not only did they not do, but were literally impossible.
02:54:02.000The way they turned parents against their children and children against their parents.
02:54:06.000And, of course, the concentration camps, the gulags.
02:54:09.000But the scary thing was every step of the way, whatever atrocity happened, there were people in the West who are still in powerful agencies, New York Times, The New Republic, The Nation, who were tripping over themselves to not only excuse and defend these things,
02:54:24.000but to say, hey, we need to be more like Stalin here.
02:54:28.000So 75% of this book is as dark as it gets.
02:54:31.000A lot of times people tell me, oh, you're naive, you think people are basically good.
02:54:37.000And they lost so hard that the country no longer exists, and we don't even talk about it.
02:54:42.000This was what was bothering me, that millions of lives were lost, people were tortured in ways that are completely unspeakable, and now we just pretend it never happened.
02:54:51.000And I'm like, I'm going to do something about, A, giving testimony to these countrymen of mine, but also pointing out we won, and we won relatively easily, and relatively recently.
02:55:02.000When you think about all the atrocities of history, why do you think that that one, which is fairly recent, is not discussed as much?
02:55:45.000So were they getting bad information or were they ideologically captured because they were Marxists?
02:55:51.000So their guy who they had there was someone named Walter Durante and he was a really interesting figure because he actually stole Aleister Crowley's girlfriend.
02:55:59.000Aleister Crowley was like the first big Satanist.
02:56:01.000And there were perverse incentives working behind the Iron Curtain.
02:56:07.000This wasn't the Iron Curtain then, that came later.
02:56:09.000But the idea was if I'm in Moscow and I'm writing for a Western outlet, I have to get it through the sensors.
02:59:22.000But when you watch the video of that guy being led around through the Capitol building by police, they're basically giving him like a tour.
02:59:31.000They're talking to him and hanging out with him.
02:59:32.000At one point in time, it's him and there's like six police officers around him and they're not arresting him.
02:59:37.000They're not throwing him to the ground.
03:00:08.000See if you can find it, because Tucker Carlson highlighted it on his television show, and now everybody's up in arms because it's coming from Tucker, but it should be coming from the New York Times, too.
03:00:18.000It's just this is video footage of this guy, and it's a thing that's different than what we're being told it is.
03:00:25.000We're being told that they barged in and fucking rawr, and they overtook the Capitol, locked them up, put them in jail, Seems edited though, I'll be honest with.
03:00:38.000It's definitely edited, but when you see the video itself, you do see these cops walking around with this guy, and they're essentially, it's like they're giving him a tour.
03:00:50.000It doesn't seem like what we thought it was.
03:00:54.000I thought it was like they broke in and then they fucking scared the cops away and there were so many of them that they overtook the Capitol.
03:01:01.000I'm gonna get a lot of heat for this and I don't care.
03:01:04.000Where was President Trump for these people?
03:03:15.000These are people who wandered over from a political rally.
03:03:18.000We will not let them silence your voices.
03:03:21.000After the rally, they walked down Pennsylvania Avenue, where organizers had secured a federal permit to hold a legal rally on the grounds of the Capitol.
03:03:29.000I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building.
03:03:34.000To peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
03:03:38.000Once at the Capitol Building, things began to get chaotic.
03:03:42.000Capitol Police officers fired tear gas into the crowd.
03:03:45.000A few at the front of the herd broke windows.
03:03:47.000Someone opened the doors, and many hundreds of others just walked in.
03:03:53.000Of course, they did make it the story.
03:03:55.000And at the center of it, the most famous person arrested that day was a Navy veteran from Arizona called Jacob Chansley, often referred to as the QAnon Shaman.
03:04:09.000Jacob Chansley became the face of January 6th, a dangerous conspiracy theorist dressed in outlandish costume who led the violent insurrection to overthrow American democracy.
03:04:20.000For these crimes, Chansley was sentenced to nearly four years in prison, far more time than many violent criminals now receive.
03:04:27.000What did Jacob Chansley do to receive this punishment?
03:04:31.000To this day, there is dispute over how Chansley got into the Capitol building.
03:04:35.000But according to our review of the internal surveillance video, it is very clear what happened once he got inside.
03:04:42.000Virtually every moment of his time inside the Capitol was caught on tape.
03:04:47.000The tapes show that Capitol Police never stopped Jacob Chansley.
03:06:17.000But when you see the people taking him around essentially on a tour, that's not what I thought it was.
03:06:25.000I just hope all the conservatives watching this realize how little appetite there is in the Republican Party for defending people like this.
03:06:31.000And thinking that Mitch McConnell, Donald Trump care about this is a delusion.
03:08:28.000They're showing us only the good stuff.
03:08:30.000If we wanted to watch all of it, I think there's some insane amount of hours of footage, and this has only been recently released, so who knows what else we can see.
03:08:38.000I think it's just very sad that we had these big hearings for a long time, and they must have had this footage, and they sat on it.
03:09:10.000Capitol Police Chief Blast Tucker Carlson over misleading January 6 footage.
03:09:15.000Video aired by Carlson showed QAnon shaman Jacob Chansley accompanied by police but not violence on the day riot or stormed the Capitol.
03:09:23.000And so what is he saying about it being misleading?
03:09:25.000Fox spokespeople didn't respond to comment when asked.
03:09:28.000Claimed by Carlson that Capitol Police served as tour guides for Jacob Chansley, the horn-wearing QAnon shaman was outrageous and false.
03:09:36.000Manager wrote, he said that the Capitol Police were badly outnumbered on January 6th and that those officers did their best to use de-escalation tactics to try to talk rioters into getting each other to leave the building.
03:11:09.000Chansley's attorney, through sentencing in November 2021, said he had been provided many hours of video by prosecutors, but not the footage which Carlson aired on Monday night.
03:11:19.000He said that he had not seen video of Chansley walking through Capitol Hallways with multiple Capitol Police officers.
03:11:26.000What's deeply troubling, Watkins said Tuesday, is the fact that I have to watch Tucker Carlson to find video footage which the government has, but chose not to disclose despite the absolute duty to do so, despite being requested in writing to do so multiple times.
03:11:40.000I'm not an attorney, but I know enough that if you're a prosecutor, you're holding evidence that could clear the defendant, that's not legal.
03:11:47.000Because discovery means you have to turn over all the evidence, not just things that will incriminate him.
03:12:19.000Carlson previously produced a three-part series in 2021 called Patriot purge on the streaming service Fox Nation, which suggested the riot was orchestrated by Antifa groups, the FBI and other government agencies and was a false flag operation to discredit Trump supporters.
03:13:19.000For people who don't know, tell everybody the story, because I've told it a million times, just like the Younger Dryas Impact Theory.
03:13:24.000I don't know if I have all the details exactly right, but there was this quote-unquote conspiracy to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer, who was just recently re-elected as governor of Michigan, and it turned out that people who were instigating were working for the feds.
03:15:37.000You know, yeah, it looked like we rolled them, but it's just like, yeah, because Kennedy took credit and Khrushchev had to keep his mouth shut.
03:18:17.000And I think without him in the picture, people – because he in many ways is a distraction because of his huge personality, his aggression, his tweets, which I certainly enjoyed more than anyone.
03:18:27.000But without him there as a – like either you're for Trump or you have TDS, people are like, wait a minute.
03:18:34.000There's a lot of – Fucked up shit going on that has nothing to do with...
03:20:15.000Well, Debra So talks a lot about this in her book, The End of Gender, and where she talks about, like, for a lot—because the argument is, well, they're all crazy.
03:20:21.000It's like, okay, sure, but what are you going to do with this so-called crazy person?
03:20:24.000And So talks in her book, like, for a lot of people, they grow out of it, but for a lot of them, transitioning actually does help their mental health.
03:20:30.000Yeah, for people that are transitioning, there's a fucking spectrum just like everything else.
03:21:51.000Joe, do you know how hard it's going to be for me to not get down on one knee from the officiating stand and propose to one or both of them on the spot?
03:23:55.000If you think about that, someone making an organization like that, let's not say Landmark, let's not even talk about them, but someone who espoused very similar ideals about how to live your life, you'd be like, oh, that's a really good path to follow.
03:25:53.000So that book became, like, a super popular book with, like, alternative thinking people that were looking for some sort of religious thing to...