On this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience: The Podcast, the host of the popular comedy show sits down with comedian and friend of the show, Ian Katz, to talk about his recent gig at the legendary Austin venue The Green Room. They talk about what it's like to be a guest at a comedy club, the history of the place, and what it s like to go back in time to a place that has been a part of our lives for a long time. They also talk about Ian's time in prison, and how he got a standing ovation at the end of his set. They also discuss Ian's new book, The Man Who Wasn t There, which is out now and it's a must-listen book! You won't want to miss this one! Enjoy! -Joe Rogan and Friends Logo by Courtney DeKorte. Theme by Mavus White. Music by PSOVOD and tyops. Cover art by Dee McDonnell. We'd like to learn more about you, the listeners. Please take a few minutes to rate, review, and subscribe to our podcast if you enjoyed this episode and/or share it on whatever you're listening to this podcast! Subscribe, share, and spread the word to your friends and family about it! Cheers, Cheers! Timestamps: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) 10) 11) 12) 13) 15) 16) 17) 18) 19) 20) 21) 25) 26) 27) 27 27) 28) 29) 30) 31) 34) 36) 36 36) 37) 39) 40) 45) 41) 46) 45 45) 47) 47 Theme Song 47) 48) Theme Song by Jeffree Star 49) 46) Theme Music by Ian's Song by Haley Shaw 51) Theme by SZN & 45) Theme song by Haley & Jonothan 1) 45] 6) 6 , 6) 46 5 # 1 48) 5) 5 1 5_ 6) 5_1 7) 6_ 1 6 6_ 6_ 5 7_ 6 7 8 4 9
00:01:33.000Congrats, because I remember last time I was here, we went and you walked me through and you're like, this is where the light's gonna go when you go on.
00:03:05.000My daughter's into ghosts and shit, and she has this thing that she puts on, this headphone that's connected to some box, and someone will ask questions, and the box will pick up random signals,
00:03:22.000and you're blindfolded and you listen to this.
00:03:24.000And so they do this to test places for ghosts, and she says that place is haunted.
00:06:46.000Oh, they had a dude who would bring, like, who was always dating, like, an underage chick, and he'd come and, like, hand the McDonald's over the fence at our school.
00:10:19.000Although I did see a deer just a couple of days ago on my street.
00:10:23.000I was going for a walk and the mama deer bounced off a little and I saw this little tiny baby deer squatted down and laid down in the grass.
00:10:33.000Because that's what they do when they're really, really young.
00:10:35.000Because they can't run away from anything.
00:10:37.000So their best strategy is to kind of blend in and hide.
00:10:40.000That's why they have those white dots all over their body.
00:10:42.000The white dots, like say if they're in grass, the white dots obscure their shape.
00:22:20.000Dude, my friend, when I was working, when I was in the busboy industry a long time ago, you know, and the first gay I ever met, the first gay dude I ever met, this dude, Billy Conforto.
00:23:23.000But Billy had pitbulls, and he sold weed and everything, and we'd get so high, and then I would get so scared of the dogs, man, that I had to go outside a lot of times.
00:26:11.000He gets his fucking head through and I hear all this noise and I'm alone in the house and then I hear I hear this noise and I look out the window and I see Frank with his head like wedged between the bars and I see this dog right outside the gate that was pissing and I was like oh my god he's gonna get out and so I run up to the up to the fence and I get to him right when his ass pops through the he bent the bars he got out and And so it's me running down the street in my socks,
00:26:46.000He plowed this dog right into a pile of trash cans, right in my neighbor's trash cans, and I got a hold of his collar right before it got ugly.
00:28:08.000And this dog wouldn't listen to anybody.
00:28:10.000When they leave him in the house, like if they left the screen, so like they left the door open the screen, the dog would just fly through the screen, just burst through the screen and go out.
00:28:19.000And then he'd come home when he was ready.
00:28:21.000And the dog, he just had his own plan or whatever?
00:31:27.000Yeah, it was like, the dude thought that, like, she's gonna be this, she's a fucking star, you need to pay her more, and, like, you know, they had a deal.
00:31:36.000She wanted more, and then there was negotiations, and...
00:31:39.000Yeah, so her husband, former television producer Alan Hamill, went to negotiate for asking for $150,000 a week, which was the average that men were earning on television at the time.
00:32:28.000MFN provision is a term included in a contract for products or services that prevents the seller from selling its products or services to the buyer's competitors for a lower price or on better terms.
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00:33:52.000One time I was walking down the street in New York, and they had a deaf group or whatever, like a gaggle or whatever.
00:33:58.000I don't know what it's called, but they got together, and they were outside of a bar talking, and I'm walking up, and I'm like, I thought maybe, like, the world had, like, shut off or something.
00:34:06.000I couldn't hear, because I'm seeing all these people interacting, but nobody was, there was no sound.
00:43:39.000That could be the older one, and this could be the newer one, but even still, it's only supposed to last for like a week or two after you open it.
00:47:10.000Over the next nine months, every six days or so, he would experience what he felt like a sensational carpet burn in his groin, then severe cold and shaking, followed by his scrotum growing uncontrollably larger and larger.
00:47:25.000It got so bad one day that I stood in my living room and cried, he said.
00:47:28.000There was a fresh breakage of the skin, and it stung to no one, oh man, he's getting fucking stretch marks on his ball sack.
00:47:35.000You ever had like where your toe, like where your toe connects to your foot and it kind of will crack right there?
00:47:51.000Because you're pushing off with such extreme force with your toes, and your skin gets dry, and things get cracked, and I was always getting slices down there.
00:53:41.000Because these dudes, they think he's insane.
00:53:47.000Once Mr. Talbot has witnessed that the full moon holds no sway over him, but he remains a perfectly ordinary human being, he will have taken his first small step down the long road to mental recovery.
00:54:06.000Now we are all aware that Mr. Talbot has suffered quite traumatic personal experiences.
00:59:12.000Not long ago, in the unexplored regions of an unmapped swamp, the creative genius of one man collided with another's evil dream, and a monster was born.
00:59:55.000Well, some people, I think, if you're curious on information from them, then you want to ask them more things that they know about that you don't know about.
01:00:38.000It's weird when you see people for the first time, and you see them lock up, and they're nervous, and I'm always just like, I'm gonna hold your hand.
01:02:17.000And I closed my eyes and I realized that in certain circumstances, when I'm healthy, when everything's going great, I have a very specific frequency.
01:03:00.000And then it showed me there's times where you don't have that, where you're irritable, where you're tired, where you're sick, where you're hurt.
01:03:09.000There's all these different frequencies that you have.
01:03:12.000And it made me realize, like, you think about your health and you think about, like, how you feel and whether or not you're present.
01:03:23.000But you don't realize that you're achieving a certain frequency.
01:03:26.000I was achieving a certain frequency at that moment, and I realized, like, this is attainable, and this is what I should strive for, and that I could stay at this frequency.
01:03:35.000But one of the things it was telling me is to don't drink.
01:03:38.000It was like, right when I was there, I was like, don't drink.
01:03:40.000Because if you're drinking right now, you're gonna kill this frequency.
01:03:48.000It was like one of them weird mushroom moments where the mushroom's like, hey, this is probably something you should think about because I don't think you think about it this way.
01:04:13.000You don't think about it exactly like that way, but we do think about it in ways like, Like our attitude like we have little words we used to describe like kind of like elements of it I guess but I wonder in the future if there will be a way that we can measure whatever that frequency is like sometimes it feels like we're kind of primitive in the understand in the like the quantifying of um like we take our temperature you know like just in things that we blood pressure yeah in in little things that we use to evaluate us sometimes I
01:04:44.000feel like we're on a plane that feels really old sometimes.
01:04:47.000There should be another plane where we start to...
01:04:51.000Is there a number for what my frequency is today?
01:05:20.000Yeah, I think I've heard everything that you can hear at night.
01:05:25.000You know, for a while I was scared I was going to miss something or if something happened, but I think it's like, dude, I'm not, they're not doing anything new at night that I wouldn't have, I wouldn't be able to just imagine is going on.
01:05:36.000Yeah, I don't think there's a new invention of nighttime activities.
01:05:38.000Yeah, so I got them in, and I'll keep them in, man, and I'll go through like my morning routine, and it's like...
01:05:52.000You know, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, the wisdom to know the difference.
01:06:01.000And then sometimes I do like one other prayer and then I read like these couple of pages that help me to look at my day from afar.
01:06:25.000And so those little things like that help me and then I'll do 10-minute meditation and then I do 10 minutes where I just write just whatever's going on in my head.
01:10:49.000Bro, one time I went over there, and it was him and Lee Syatt, you know, when he's got Lee over there, and he would just like, Lee's on like 70,000.
01:16:52.000It's getting stupider where everything's gonna be okay.
01:16:56.000Because I feel like the more smart you are, the more you take into account all the possibilities and all the variables and all things that can go wrong, but one hit of that vape and you're like this.
01:17:43.000Yeah, I haven't fucked with the vapes in quite a while, but I have friends that still hit them all the time, and you see, like, oh, I see that.
01:17:50.000I see that little demon that's in your body.
01:17:52.000I'm about six days off right now, and I'm really battling, yeah.
01:20:21.000It says, both propene glycol and vegetable glycerin are considered safe to use in vaping products, but some users may find one or the other preferable due to personal preference.
01:21:33.000I don't know what's going on with those things, what that does, but you drink a half of one of those, you're not supposed to drink a full one, you're supposed to drink a half of one.
01:21:40.000Why don't they make it in smaller dosage so it's a single serving, because it's only that big.
01:22:29.000Yeah, but just Google live free because this one very specific what I'm bringing up is there's a lawsuit because this one dude They were getting them at 7-eleven and a bunch of different places and this one dude was an alcoholic and a drug addict I guess and And he was clean and sober and started drinking these things and went off the deep end.
01:22:50.000And he was drinking 10 a day, which is crazy.
01:23:26.000Well, I've read varying accounts as to how much kratom is in it.
01:23:30.000I don't think kratom is necessarily dangerous, but I do know that some people abuse it, for sure.
01:23:37.000Recovering Alcoholics sues wellness drink firm for getting him hooked on 10 of its feel-free kava drinks a day that left him hospitalized because they contain addictive morphine-like substance kratom.
01:26:33.000Yeah, we had a roommate that used to eat all these breath mints, you know?
01:26:38.000And he would stack, like, those altoids, he'd get a big stack of them, and he would always kind of show off how many he could stack in between his teeth, you know?
01:26:47.000But he would go out and get drunk at night and in the morning he'd be like on the sofa just like in a bloody suit.
01:26:52.000Like he'd be in a suit but just fucking, oh dude.
01:29:05.000I feel fine like it was no hangover I got this many times where I feel good because I had a few tequilas and then and they get up in the morning like oh you fucking idiot, you know a little bit of a headache and Dragging my ass, and then I get in a cold plunge,
01:30:55.000She came up the stairs, and she could see under the bed, because the bedroom door was open when she walked up the stairs, and she saw a guy under there.
01:31:43.000There's giant houses where 14 people are living together and you're in and out all day long and someone can sneak into a room and you just think it's a friend if you saw him in the hallway, maybe.
01:32:37.000Yeah, I'm talking about like a regular house, like your house.
01:32:40.000Yeah, if somebody was sleeping, I did think there was somebody in the attic for a while because I would hear things sometimes, like little settling, but I went up there and there's nothing.
01:32:59.000Well, dude, I was around when American Gladiators was huge.
01:33:02.000So this is the guy that created it or has found it.
01:33:05.000The documentary is very interesting because this guy who is credited as the creator, I think, he's not very forthcoming and honest with everything and he won't answer the guy's questions a lot, which is kind of strange.
01:33:17.000So he made a good documentary about it and not all the gladiators would come talk about it.
01:34:06.000Didn't they bring American Gladiators back at one point in time?
01:34:08.000Yeah, they tried bringing it back, but the thing I find interesting about this guy is he started off his career as an Elvis personator, which is why he looks- A little bit like Elvis.
01:34:16.000That dude doesn't look anything like Elvis.
01:36:20.000Dude, do you ever think like, do you ever think like the, do you think, remember we were talking about like frequencies, like there could be other ways to evaluate what's going on with us.
01:36:28.000Do you think we'll ever get like new ways to look at our, like to quantify ourselves and how we're feeling and stuff?
01:37:11.000But that's a rare deviation of my path.
01:37:16.000I had this moment, I guess it was about two weeks ago, where I was like, you know what, the best I ever felt, like literally the best I ever felt all throughout the day was when I was on the carnivore diet.
01:37:29.000And one of the things that I saw, like immediately, for seven, eight days, I ate nothing but meat and eggs and fat and bacon and nothing else.
01:38:03.000But I'm able to sustain this multiple days in a row.
01:38:07.000And I think that a lot of the foods that we eat, foods that have preservatives, a lot of bread and bullshit and just shitty food, your body uses so much resources to process that and it's not real food.
01:38:22.000And so your body is just like overburdened with this extra work.
01:38:27.000When you eat clean, like really clean, I'm eating, you know, wild game and fat and beef tallow and all that and eggs.
01:38:36.000Your body doesn't have any bullshit to process.
01:38:38.000So your body is less inflammation, and you're operating off of ketones, essentially, for the most part, because your body is entering into a ketogenic state.
01:38:51.000You just feel even through the whole day.
01:38:57.000I never felt like at the end of the day, like, oh boy, I'm tired.
01:39:43.000Yeah, gluconeogenesis take you out of ketosis, a widespread fear Surrounding keto is that consuming too much protein may lead to the upregulation of a process called gluconeogenesis and throw you out of ketosis, undoing all your hard work.
01:39:57.000The truth is gluconeogenesis is essential for our overall health and actually allows us to remain in ketosis.
01:41:07.000No, because with hormone replacement and all the stuff that I do, even at 55, my buddy functions essentially the same way I did when I was 30. And I'm not exaggerating.
01:41:17.000Like, I have no problem doing hard workouts, kettlebells, heavy bag workout, jujitsu.
01:41:23.000Injuries are an issue, you know, with me.
01:41:25.000Like, I just tweaked my back muscle the other day doing some deadlifts.
01:41:51.000Man, I am not the same person if I don't exercise.
01:41:55.000You know, that whole thing with the frequencies?
01:41:58.000I'm at my best as a human being, as a friend, as a husband, as a father, as a comedian, as a podcast host, just as a neighbor, as a general person.
01:46:56.000Sometimes my mom, we'd go get ice cream, dude, and she would like, she's like, she'd get angry if we, she'd get so angry if we dripped any of it.
01:47:23.000Yeah, if your mom is always or your dad is always like, bah, they're fucking anxious, and they're fucking, if they come over and they're always fucking tickling you, then you're gonna fucking feel tickled all the time.
01:47:34.000Yeah, yeah, something, you know, bugging you or something, even just tickling you with their words.
01:47:38.000Yeah, genetics of generalized anxiety disorder and related traits.
01:47:42.000Well, for sure, mental illness is genetic.
01:47:46.000There's a lot of people that are mentally ill and their children are mentally ill, or their family's mentally ill, or, you know, it's like, it's...
01:47:53.000Man, I used to have a much more ignorant view on mental health, because I have my own mental health issues, which I'm sure we all do, but mine was like, just don't be a pussy.
01:48:08.000And I don't have to take anything, and even though I don't have to take anything, I'm still doing something to mitigate it.
01:48:14.000I'm doing something every day to work on it, and when I don't, I do feel it, like a lot of people do.
01:48:19.000So I always wonder, maybe those people just aren't doing the work.
01:48:21.000Maybe if they just got up in the morning and went running before work or did something before, maybe they could get through this and not need a fucking pill.
01:48:41.000And then I get to a point where so many times I tried to stop taking it.
01:48:46.000It's like it's too much of a discrepancy that makes things unmanageable to a point where it feels like it's unfair to be that unmanageable to myself.
01:48:55.000So I get back on it, you know, and And I don't think it really bothers me or anything like that, but...
01:49:02.000Yeah, it's kind of the same with alcoholism.
01:49:04.000Like, I thought alcoholism used to just be like somebody couldn't stop drinking or whatever.
01:50:06.000He He told this fucking hilarious story about he went to jerk off and he had 90 tabs open and he was looking at porn for five hours because he couldn't pick one that he liked the best.
01:50:20.000I was like, you gotta talk about that on stage.
01:55:59.000There's a lot of articles written like this stand-up comedy has moved to Austin.
01:56:04.000And then when I said I was going to open up a club, there was like a lot of hype about that.
01:56:09.000And it was almost better that the first place didn't work out because it took so long before we bought the second place and then started construction.
01:56:16.000It was a whole year process after that.
01:56:20.000It was like a year and a half of just straight construction.
01:56:24.000Did you feel at some point, like, was there ever a point where you were like, I don't know if this is going to work out, but I've already said it's going to, so I have to do it?
01:57:22.000They like echo in a comedy club because it makes the laughs louder, but it also makes it harder to hear what the person's saying because all the sound is bouncing around.
01:57:53.000Yeah, they said some of the clips were in violation of their medical policies, or like stuff that goes against the WHO. Do you know that North Korea just joined the WHO? North Korea has like an executive position on the board of the WHO. See what that is.
01:59:42.000And you're administering it to hundreds of millions of people without a lengthy trial period like they do with every other drug.
01:59:48.000So all these people were, like, wanting it to be effective, so they were doing the work of the pharmaceutical companies, which they've never done before.
01:59:56.000No one has ever, like, said, you've got to trust these people that have the biggest fucking criminal fines in U.S. history.
02:00:02.000These people that have been lying to us left and right.
02:00:49.000What about all the people that fucking died?
02:00:51.000What about all the fucking kids that overdosed?
02:00:52.000What about all the families who had a child who sprained their fucking ankle and two years later lost their kid to addiction because this company didn't care and because the FDA was compromisable.
02:02:27.000When did that start to happen in our country?
02:02:31.000When did it start to happen that we're not protecting our...
02:02:38.000People like when did that does that mean like Profit it's all profit if there was no money in this they would go after those folks 100% there's money when there's money in our time an existence of time was there a point where That wasn't the way of the thing well here's the first problem Advertising for pharmaceutical drugs on television.
02:02:59.000Advertising for pharmaceutical drugs is illegal in every country in the world except for New Zealand and the United States.
02:03:07.000You shouldn't be able to influence people to want to take These drugs that they may or may not need.
02:03:13.000That should be entirely a conversation between you and your healthcare provider.
02:03:18.000Someone should be giving you an educated understanding of what the pros and cons are, and this is why I think you need this, and this is why you should take that.
02:03:26.000It shouldn't be you coming to your doctor.
02:03:28.000Ask your doctor if la-la-la is right for you.
02:03:31.000Do you have days where blah-blah-blah, do you have that?
02:04:31.000I don't find that to be that much of a problem.
02:04:33.000I don't find advertising in general to be a problem because I believe, generally, if you're intelligent, you should be able to navigate that.
02:04:42.000But when it comes to things like drugs, and especially when it comes to antidepressants and when it comes to these things that they're advertising, Constantly on television.
02:05:16.000Look, I never thought I would be in the center of any sort of controversy about pharmaceutical drugs or about health care.
02:05:24.000Never thought that I would be in the middle of it.
02:05:26.000But one of the things that stunned me was talking to these people that were doctors that were fat That were unhealthy, that didn't take vitamins, that didn't exercise, that definitely didn't optimize their health.
02:05:40.000And they were trying to put in your head that the only way to be healthy was to get injected with some experimental medical thing.
02:05:53.000That violates all of our understandings about the human immune system, About health and wellness, about just your overall metabolic health.
02:06:05.000It violates all of our understandings.
02:06:08.000People who are healthier, people who exercise, people who go outside who get vitamin D, people that are taking vitamin C, people that are supplementing, they have a much better time with any kind of illness they get.
02:06:25.000But the problem is it's not science that's supported by these companies that are directly funded by pharmaceutical companies.
02:06:31.000Whatever these organizing bodies are, whether it's the FDA or the CDC or whatever, when you look at what happens with the FDA and the CDC, how these people go from being presidents and being the people that...
02:06:45.000That recommend policy and then they go on to become fucking CFO or CEO of another of a pharmaceutical company.
02:06:53.000Yes, there's a fucking revolving door and it's evil.
02:07:32.000Because there's people that have been talking about this that they're just now, they're finding out that there absolutely is negative side effects for women that are pregnant, for women's reproductive health, for...
02:07:49.000I think it came from the UK. It just got released today.
02:07:53.000I remember, you know, I grew up in an environment where Tulane University, I've told you this before, they had their primate testing facility in our town, right?
02:08:41.000So I need to make sure that this book is accurate.
02:08:44.000But what they're basically saying in this book is that A lot of the cases of polio that we talk about from back in the day, DDT was in widespread use back then.
02:09:55.000I don't know what the truth is, whether it's smallpox or polio.
02:09:58.000I have a feeling that there's a lot more to the story than what the general narrative is that we've been given, is that vaccines are this amazing cure.
02:10:08.000I think there's a lot of other factors, and I think one of the other factors was hygiene.
02:10:12.000And the book is called Dissolving Illusions, and it's all about the origins of vaccines and what vaccines have done to stop disease spread and what the negative side effects have been.
02:10:24.000And it's just like, there's a lot of negative side effects, man.
02:10:27.000And to pretend that it's safe and effective, like when you're administering things to millions, if not hundreds of millions of people.
02:10:36.000There's gonna be some problems and they don't want to advertise those problems.
02:10:41.000They don't want to make those problems publicly known.
02:13:23.000COVID spray people just spraying COVID at you laughing and cheering shit and then I went out my friend John Showman and we I had like five margaritas We played pool till 3 30 in the morning.
02:13:34.000Oh wow and you know pools intense for me I play serious pool and there's a lot of concentration and I was tired and And that night I was like, God damn, I don't fucking feel like shit.
02:15:20.000I mean, if the government of LA or the government of California tells you you have to shut your business down, you have to shut your business down.
02:15:27.000And to people like me, who got COVID and got over it very quickly, that's infuriating.
02:15:32.000Because I have had the flu that lasted a lot longer than that.
02:15:35.000Like, with the right medications, you can get over it.
02:15:37.000But they didn't want anybody knowing that.
02:15:51.000He's the best source of information about that stuff ever because he can he's so brilliant He can just recite it at any point like you can bring it up and he'll explain to you what the actual test said Versus like the actual test when they said the cova it was the vaccine was a hundred percent effective Do you know they did that how they did that?
02:16:09.000Because two people, I think the way it was is like two people in the placebo group got COVID, one person in the vaccine group got COVID. So it's double, which means it's 100% effective.
02:16:31.000It's like they're technically allowed to say things that way.
02:16:35.000But when they were saying things like it stops transmission, they had to admit...
02:16:40.000One of the CEOs of Pfizer, one of the head executives, had to give some speech at, I think it was the UK Parliament, and they had to explain that there was no testing done of whether...
02:16:54.000They never tested to see if it stopped transmission.
02:16:56.000They only tested to see if it gave antibodies.
02:19:00.000It could be also, I don't know how the algorithm works, if his name is getting propelled more so then it makes clips more prominent so then they see them.
02:19:22.000And so the number of people that died from that is more than the number of people that died from COVID. Well, how about the number of people that died that didn't get diagnosed?
02:21:07.000Like if you had a radio, like, okay, this is going to sound crazy, but to buy yourself a whole other afternoon, Theo, I'm going to need you to jerk off in your mouth.
02:23:38.000I mean, I guess, like, wherever your space is, that, you know, the creation of space from your head going under and then the snow covering, maybe it's not perfect, so there's some air.
02:23:48.000Like maybe if you make as much space as you can when you're in there?
02:25:21.000Dude, do you think the wind, do you think we could ever decipher the wind, like the wind, like, you think the wind is ever trying to tell us something and we don't know how to hear it anymore?
02:25:51.000I think, really, you're learning it from the animals, though, who know it from the conditions.
02:25:56.000There's, like, certain parts of the world where when storms are coming, like, birds will stop chirping, everything gets real quiet, and then people kind of know, uh-oh.
02:26:04.000They've learned to know that when the animals behave a certain way, the storm is coming.
02:26:10.000Can you imagine what it was like back in the day where you had no idea when a hurricane was coming?
02:26:14.000You're just, like, living on some seaside town.
02:28:21.000So I thought, yeah, I just said I need a vacation.
02:28:23.000And then I was like, well, if I told myself I'm going to give myself a vacation, I need to make sure I do it so that I'm not like building up this bad story with myself where I tell myself I'm going to do something and not do it.
02:34:27.000Well, I think what happens with people when they're a part of something really big, it's called a diffusion of responsibility because there's so many people there.
02:34:35.000They say that if you're in a crowded area and someone gets jumped by someone, someone's beating that person up, you feel less likely.
02:34:43.000You feel like you don't have anything to do with it.
02:34:53.000But if it was just you and another person, that person was getting attacked, and they're like, help me, help me, you would feel compelled to help because it's only you.
02:35:02.000I think when you're a part of an enormous corporation that has thousands of employees that's doing evil shit like the Sackler family, I think you just think you're a part of a thing.
02:35:12.000And you think you could probably dismiss it by saying, well, for most people, this provides them the needed relief from pain.
02:35:20.000And if used correctly, there's not an issue.
02:35:23.000But it's an incredibly dangerous drug.
02:35:27.000And it's an incredibly dangerous drug that's given out far too frequently, far too easily.
02:35:31.000And I know this from my own personal experience.
02:36:25.000And after a certain Amount of time you take the things out of your nose and they take they had stuck these plastic splints in my nose.
02:36:33.000Oh, yeah, they remove all that stuff and I never took anything and I never felt pain But this guy had given me this stuff and he gave me two different ones like and he was a really good doctor It's not like he was a fucking quack if I decided to just start popping them I'd be like oh Hey man,
02:37:56.000And that's what you have guys like, Ryan Holiday, did he come on here?
02:38:00.000Yeah, we have guys that are taught that talk a lot about like that moment where you choose between what's comfortable yes, or what is easy and this other like more Long-term thing what is the long term and we've just gotten very used to taking that easy thing yeah,
02:38:17.000and it's just it's some of that is also just us getting acclimated to Technology and advancements and a lot of those things are good for us.
02:40:42.000And also all the fucking stuff with his son and the ties to Ukraine and China and the money, the family, they got paid millions of dollars, and everyone's trying to obscure it because, well, it's better than Trump, better than Trump.
02:40:55.000If that guy was a Republican, they would be up his ass with a microscope.
02:42:22.000I mean, I think the problem is that, first of all, the media is overwhelmingly left-leaning.
02:42:27.000And if you have a left-leaning politician or a left-wing Democratic politician, and then you have this media that essentially works to support that person, I mean, they ignore any information that leads to distrust in the government or distrust in this administration or distrust in this party,
02:44:31.000But there's a lot of just fucking real weirdness with this group of people that is trying to, like, change the way people view sexuality and gender and all these different...
02:44:50.000Say if they had an application where I could say, okay, I'm gonna go buy coffee, I'm gonna go buy a hat, I'm gonna buy a corset, whatever I want to get.
02:45:29.000But if there was an app, though, that's what I want.
02:45:31.000An app where I say, if I support this company, right, with my money, what does that company support?
02:45:37.000Because then I think you're going to get...
02:45:40.000Lot of people are gonna be able to support at least put their money Where their beliefs are I think there's a thing like that.
02:45:47.000There's like a there's an app there's a right shows like America like supported America apps But you need an even one you need one that's like buffer both you need one that's down the middle You know well this there's a lot of companies now that are like really emphasizing American made Yeah.
02:46:04.000I wonder if these smell-and-salts are American-made.