On this week's episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, the boys discuss the strike by air traffic controllers in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, the growing use of AI in the entertainment industry, and the future of the music industry with Post Malone's new album, "Post Malone." Also, we talk about Taylor Swift's new music video for her new song, Bad Girl, Bad Boy, Bad Girl Bad Boy and why we don't have enough Taylor Swift. Logo by Courtney DeKorte. Theme by Mavus White. Music by PSOVOD and tyops. All rights reserved. Used by permission. The opinions stated here are our own, not those of our companies, unless otherwise specified. If you have a dilemma you want us to discuss or a general question you d like us to answer, please tweet us at or and we'll try our best to answer it. Timestamps: 1:00:00 - Air traffic controllers strike 2:30 - What's the worst thing a government worker can do? 3:15 - Should AI replace human workers? 4:20 - Is there a way to prevent AI in entertainment? 5:00 6:00- AI in music? 7:40 - What can we do about AI? 8:30- What would you do about it? 9:40- Is AI a thing? 11:00 | Is AI better than humans? 10:40 | What are we should be better than machines? 15:00 // 16: Is AI the problem? 17:20 | What would AI better? 16: What are you going to do with AI? 17:30 | What s the best thing we can do with technology? 18:40 19:30 21:10 | What do we need to stop AI? /16: What s a better than a better job? 22:00 +17: What do you think of AI, what do you want? 25:10: What's a better way to do more? 26:10 27:30 + 16: How can we stop AI, can AI be more than that's better than you can we have more than one of us than a robot? 35:40 + 17:15 Is AI more than just a robot in a song?
00:00:53.000Maybe it has nothing to do with money, and they're like, we just want to stop being like people flinging their excrement at us while we're cleaning the park.
00:01:10.000You know what the sketchiest thing that I saw about the whole actor-writer thing was that for background players, when people work on a film, they wanted access to their image Forever.
00:01:26.000So if you're like a background guy, instead of paying background people to hang around in some crowd scene, they will now just fill it in with you.
00:01:33.000So the same background people, which is like one of the nuttiest fucking like fringe theories of any catastrophe is that you have these actors.
00:01:51.000Where these people are hired by the federal government, and they appear in multiple different scenarios where they say that something happened to them, and the shooter entered into the building.
00:02:56.000No, that train is rolling and there's a lot of track in front of it and it has insane momentum and you're not going to put your hand out and stop it.
00:03:07.000Maybe the government would pass a law saying, listen, you can't replace more than 10% of your workforce with AI over the next five years.
00:03:15.000I don't know if that would even be a feasible thing to do, but maybe they could do something like that.
00:03:21.000The problem is, if you have a business and the business can be better run by AI, do you have a responsibility to hire human beings to do a lesser job?
00:06:59.000How else are you going to make a Barbie movie where Barbie comes to life?
00:07:02.000I mean, it's a great juxtaposition, like seeing the difference between the world of living human beings, where men are running everything, and the world of Barbie world, where the Barbies are the Supreme Court, and they all wear bikinis on the Supreme Court.
00:09:09.000It's so fascinating how that mindset just takes new forms, you know, and has the same behavior, the thing that it hated decades earlier, like on the left, like this...
00:09:22.000This want for war in Ukraine, this trust in the military-industrial complex in Ukraine.
00:10:12.000He said I just want people to stop dying and that is somehow controversial Yeah, and that's because it's coming from him right anything that he says no matter how logical it is people are going to 100%.
00:10:26.000And that was a very logical statement.
00:10:35.000Is that there's been no war that really hasn't been won with some type of agreement, treaty.
00:10:42.000Most wars have some type of endgame where you can go, okay, we've got to split up territory, we've got to start a provisional government, whatever it is.
00:10:52.000Now, this might be more difficult to do that, but at the end of the day, unending conflict only hurts the people in those countries fighting the wars and becoming victims of the wars.
00:11:04.000They don't hurt the people here making a lot of money.
00:11:07.000It's just so sketchy whenever money gets involved.
00:11:23.000Well, what got me interested, what was why I started to read about it and, you know, was like overnight Overnight, the worst people in the world were absolutely in love with the Ukraine.
00:11:37.000Like the people that, you know, again, the pro-Iraq War, pro-Guantanamo Bay, pro-torture, pro-preemptive war, they all were like very much across the board the idea that we have to support the Ukraine for as long as it takes and give them whatever it takes.
00:11:57.000And I felt like that was crazy because we've seen that in the past, bite us in the ass, a lot of different places.
00:12:05.000And they all, I mean, these are like the worst people in the world.
00:12:08.000The people at Beverly Hills who were like, make valets cry, who were like, get my fucking car.
00:12:12.000Like those people, they all had Ukrainian flags.
00:13:03.000And there was a long period where everybody knew that there should be something done to clean up the places that got hit by the riots, to deal with some of the homeless encampments.
00:13:15.000There should be a way where reasonable people can come to some solution.
00:13:36.000And I understand supporting Ukraine to a degree.
00:13:39.000But now we're talking about the only acceptable outcome is regime change in Russia.
00:13:44.000And then there was this guy, this hot dog warlord, this guy who sold hot dogs and then was chopping people's heads off, okay?
00:13:51.000He did this fake coup that didn't work, and everybody in our media was like, he's going to be great.
00:13:57.000Let's get rid of Putin, who, you know, his problems, his faults notwithstanding, and he's a murderer, he's done crazy things, but we've lived with him for 20 years in relative peace, meaning like, we've never had a war with him, right?
00:14:28.000So that to me is like you start looking at foreign policy going, does anyone care about anything?
00:14:33.000Like to anybody, like this guy's a mass murderer.
00:14:36.000He's running the Wagner Group, which is like, you know, this group of like prisoners, ex-prisoners that he recruited from Soviet prisons, from Russian prison.
00:14:47.000And these are like murderers and rapists.
00:14:49.000He's going, let's go to the Ukraine and kill everybody.
00:14:51.000And then everybody's like, no, he'd be great.
00:15:37.000I would too, because it gives you something to talk about and do.
00:15:41.000Well, Trump was the first guy that I ever saw who was a sitting president who openly admitted that the military-industrial complex wants you to go to war.
00:16:00.000That they might be influenced to be more inclined.
00:16:03.000Not wars when they're necessary, but like wars that they can justify for financial reasons.
00:16:09.000And listen, we should treat the people that serve the military with the respect of being honest with them about what their mission is, right?
00:17:06.000I might be serious about it because the only thing that's going to be against me is the hours and hours I have of me talking.
00:17:15.000That's going to be tough because people are going to be able to isolate lots of things I've said and they're going to go, hey, this is crazy.
00:17:22.000And I also might get bored with a job in a week and quit.
00:17:48.000It seems like whatever changes you make, first of all, imagine you're a guy or a gal or a non-binary person who just becomes the president.
00:17:57.000You have to run in and fix everything.
00:18:50.000I think when you get inside the machine and you realize that influence has a massive effect on all sorts of decisions that get made.
00:18:57.000And that there's some sort of weird loophole that allows you to know about laws that are going to be passed in advance and then buy stock and accordingly.
00:22:15.000Some you and some chick you're fucking walking out of a restaurant that seems to be more the way it happens Definitely more the way it happened in the past right and we know that so Probably more likely it happens like that now right imagine being in any other business Where when your friend drowns in front of your house,
00:23:26.000By the way, when you're not there, like you're letting the chef use your estate when you're not there, doesn't that seem weird that the Obamas were like, oh, no, no, no, you go.
00:24:49.000Like, if you're like a dog walker for the Clintons, or you're like, if you're near either the Bush family, the Clinton family, a lot of these families, the people that are with them, they're Secret Service agents, they have accidents.
00:26:20.000So maybe he was just super troubled and that is what he did.
00:26:23.000You just gotta think about it, if you're at that, if you occupy that level of society and somebody's threatening you, how do you deal with it?
00:26:31.000If you have the, you know, whatever you want to call it, the ambition, the ruthless to get there, And somebody's trying to take that from you.
00:27:20.000But when someone far below you that you could get rid of or, you know, it's like that guy outside of that restaurant in LA, Austria Moza and Melrose and Highland whose car just went into a...
00:28:55.000Fat shaming them, making them rehearse, making them stand up.
00:28:59.000That's what their version of fat shaming is.
00:29:01.000Making them stand up and walk onto the stage.
00:29:03.000Making them rehearse, taking them to a sex club in Amsterdam where the performers are shooting bananas out of their pussies because this is what happens.
00:29:15.000And Lizzo's like forcing them to touch the nude performers and force one of them to eat a banana that came out of the vagina of a sex work.
00:29:24.000A performer, dancer in the sex club, Lizzo makes the girl, she's like, eat the banana, eat the banana.
00:29:30.000And then the girl gets really angry at that.
00:29:33.000But supposedly, Lizzo was just abusing her power.
00:30:43.000But these women, Lizzo has them on stage, she has them dancing, and then all of a sudden, she's abusing or making them do weird shit, and they all are now suing her, and her streaming has slowed down big time.
00:36:17.000The suit also describes an alleged meeting with dancers on April 27th, in which Lizzo repeatedly referenced William's termination.
00:36:24.000Allegedly telling her that she had, quote, eyes and ears everywhere.
00:36:27.000Davis recorded this meeting because she suffers from an eye condition that can make her, quote, disoriented in stressful situations, according to the suit.
00:36:35.000Days later, Lizzo allegedly held an emergency meeting where she discovered that the previous meeting had been recorded, the suit says.
00:36:43.000Hurling expletives at the group and stating that she was going to go around the room person by person until somebody told Lizzo, who made the recording, according to the lawsuit.
00:36:51.000The suit says Davis confirmed that she had recorded the meeting, allegedly told Lizzo that she hadn't meant any harm, and had deleted the video.
00:36:58.000Lizzo allegedly responded, there is nothing you can say to make me believe you.
00:39:19.000Well, there were things that LA, they put this weird story out where it was like, the LA school district was like, let's stop telling kids that fruits and vegetables are good and that junk food is bad because the reality is that's racist.
00:42:43.000If someone goes, hey man, I like your stuff, and you're holding frozen yogurt at 2 p.m., you should be ashamed of that.
00:42:52.000That should be a shameful moment in your life.
00:42:55.000You should be like, ugh, walking out of an ice cream shop in the mid-afternoon with Sam Talent in Austin, walking out of Amy's Ice Cream with Sam Talent, and then somebody goes, oh, Tim Dillon, and you go, you spin around, you look at it, and the only other people in the thing are children.
00:43:09.000Because it's a fucking ice cream shop.
00:43:11.000The only people there are fucking kids.
00:43:22.000Divorcing yourself from that, that's when I think comedy gets weird.
00:43:26.000That's when I think everything gets weird.
00:43:27.000When you stop saying what is real or true to you and when you start adopting this idea that up is down and down is up and it's just a matter of how you look at it, that's when everything starts to get crazy.
00:44:23.000The schools you send your kids to, like, the context you provide your kids now, so when they come home and go, well, the teacher said this, and you go, yeah, yeah, but let me...
00:44:33.000You can't outsource it anymore and trust that your kids are going to get, like, a good education.
00:44:39.000You have to get involved and go, okay, your teacher might have some points, but also there's also a whole other world here.
00:44:46.000Like, I don't think we could send kids...
00:44:49.000To school and have them go, like, no, your teacher's right about everything.
00:45:12.000Fucking loons some of them think that they have a job to do to like remove the Programming of the parents that they don't agree with right?
00:45:24.000So they could not agree with the parents and tell the kids that the parents are wrong and they're right like right Which is a real creepy thing because yes, I don't know who's right and who's wrong which is a made-up scenario, right?
00:45:36.000But just that someone would decide that That they are right and the parents are wrong and they want to convince this child of something.
00:45:46.000Whether it's they have political leanings, whether it's their attitude on whatever the fuck it is.
00:47:45.000But yeah, I don't think it's appropriate.
00:47:49.000You can have opinions, obviously, as a teacher, but you've got to understand that there's certain things that...
00:47:56.000But then there's overreaction, too, where I think they banned the book in Florida because it had two penguins that were dudes, but the penguins weren't fucking...
00:48:18.000But as somebody who's been out of the closet for years and years and don't hide anything, I don't think six-year-olds should be taught about any sexuality.
00:48:46.000And Tango makes three recounts the true story of two male penguins who were devoted to each other at the Central Park Zoo in New York.
00:48:53.000A zookeeper saw them building a nest and trying to incubate an egg-shaped rock, gave them an egg from a different penguin pair with two eggs after they were having difficulty hatching more than one egg at a time.
00:49:03.000The chick cared for by the male penguins was named Tango.
00:50:36.000On his platform, where it's going to be a bunch of trans people who've DJed.
00:50:39.000Well, the funniest thing now is some of the people that are critical of the trans stuff are trans people that have detransitioned, so they look wild, and then they're on Twitter or whatever it's called now fighting with...
00:52:36.000I understand having shared experiences with people.
00:52:39.000But I also think some of the most adventurous parts of life and the most interesting and the most exciting How many cool stories start with somebody went on a trip and met a bunch of people that had no idea from different cultures?
00:52:56.000And they said, I had the most epic trip ever.
00:53:00.000And they'll describe every person that ended up on this backpacking thing with them, and not one of them is like another one.
00:53:06.000And it seems so cool that everybody brings a perspective that you don't have.
00:53:12.000You know and now it's like people are like, oh I just want to be around People like myself all the time it to me.
00:55:51.000You know, some of the smartest people I know are really freaked out about life.
00:55:54.000Everything that's just chance and theories and going like, one guy gets in a car, another guy gets in a car, that guy makes it home, that guy doesn't.
00:58:30.000And this guy did it all through hypnotic regression.
00:58:32.000But there were some people that felt like he had made suggestive questions to them and that perhaps led them in a certain way to maybe even fabricate this kind of a memory.
01:00:14.000So it always turned me off to it because I was like, oh, this bitch seemed like...
01:00:17.000And then Shirley MacLaine would have some workshop where all these crazy bitches would go in that, of course, had nothing to do during the day.
01:00:24.000And they would sit there and then Shirley MacLaine would be like, and you were the Queen of England.
01:01:19.000But you talk about these people and they're like, well, the energy and this, that, and the other thing, but it always comes down to them.
01:01:24.000They're never like, the energy was really good in the soup kitchen where I was giving the guy the food.
01:01:29.000It's always like, I felt that I had to move to Marina Del Rey because I consulted and I went, I took ayahuasca, I went and my shaman led me on this journey and the journey resulted in that I should live in Marina Del Rey.
01:01:44.000It's always like, you know, a very kind of like, it's about me.
01:01:49.000It's like all those guys that go to Burning Man to take all those mushrooms and it's like, okay.
01:01:53.000But it's like, they're not like, you know, it's not like this, you know, like the ethos isn't like, these are the same guys that are like designing like the types of systems that are like taking all your information and selling it to someone.
01:02:50.000There's real good in them, but there's also like a certain type of person who gravitates towards those things to sort of spiritualize their existence.
01:03:00.000And just by virtue of connecting yourself to the experience and having a few of those experiences, you have like a credit score.
01:06:12.000It's the best thing I've like I'm I think he's you know, I'm not familiar with all of his comedy shows brilliant Obviously his comedy is brilliant, but that award speech I saw it was like this very unique different thing that He goes, he goes, he goes, yeah, these awards,
01:06:27.000he goes, he goes, here's what they really are.
01:06:30.000He goes, I know this award means nothing.
01:06:32.000He goes, and I know that because the last, the last time we did this, you know, the last time they had this award show, they left a bunch of them up on stage and you all just came up here and grabbed them.
01:06:41.000He goes, you didn't earn them, but he goes, you just brought them home because they prop up your meaningless lives.
01:06:46.000It was the, it's the best thing I've seen from, it was my just favorite thing.
01:06:51.000Because it does seem like he's totally raw.
01:09:37.000Like the people that are curious about how this happened, a lot of them have never worked in a company where just one person has an inordinate amount of power and one motherfucker can go in there and go, no, this is the way it's going to be.
01:09:53.000And usually that person doesn't get called out because usually the company's not Budweiser and usually it's not going to be, you know?
01:09:59.000But we all see like one person in any organization can totally throw it on its head.
01:10:04.000And I think they had a marketing director who said, We're going to have a little fun.
01:10:14.000And I don't think what they had imagined was that was kind of this straw that broke the camel's back.
01:10:20.000People had felt like this new world was being shoved down their throat.
01:10:27.000And then they were looking at Budweiser and they were going, we have to push back against this Because we feel like all of this is happening a little too quickly.
01:11:06.000She's a bunch of guys in fucking, you know, those pink salmon shorts and fucking loafers drinking Bud Light and she goes, I don't like this.
01:12:33.000This vegan stuff, these impossible burgers are better than burgers, and they're like fake, and they're loaded with sodium, and they have fake blood and stuff.
01:12:41.000But that's what, I always viewed corporations like that.
01:12:43.000I always came from that generation where we looked at corporations where we're like, oh, you're full of shit.
01:12:48.000My parents looked at corporations crying at the commercials, going, they care about us.
01:13:29.000Because our parents fundamentally trusted Corporate America and the government enough to go, well, if it was bad, the government would be regulating it.
01:13:38.000Yeah, nobody thought of fast food as bad when we were kids.
01:15:26.000The best thing ever was when they go, the Biden family over in Nantucket in the holidays, they went to their Nantucket home and discussed whether Joe should run again and they all said he should.
01:17:36.000I mean, listen, there's no way that they looked at him and what he should be the president unless they knew for a fact that he's controlled and being managed.
01:17:55.000He's, you know, he started his career letting, you know, people in Delaware, like these credit card companies, do whatever the fuck they wanted.
01:18:04.000And he had that, you know, the architect of the crime bill where they sent a lot of nonviolent drug affairs.
01:19:19.000The woman has no idea what's going on.
01:19:22.000But again, Washington, they're just like, you were a DA, you were a cop, you'll keep your mouth shut, don't you want to be the first whatever race you're pretending to be president today, Indian, black, whatever works?
01:27:35.000We tried to find out if this was true, but someone had said that there were people that made a practice of dumping sheep carcasses into the water near there.
01:30:06.000The one that just happened, though, I didn't see a direct.
01:30:09.000They had taken the shark to study it to find out why it had done it.
01:30:13.000It also said the ship which dumped the sheep in the sea will be identified to punish its crew, adding that importing and exporting companies will also be punished.
01:30:58.000We do, but I also think that, like, you know, I don't know, there's a weird thing that people do where they make, like, there's all these shark videos where these, like, women are biologists or whatever, they're, like, tapping these tiger sharks or, like, redirecting these tiger sharks.
01:31:11.000Like Ocean Ramsey, all these people, and they go, like, we're educating you about sharks.
01:31:15.000And, like, one day one of these sharks is going to get them.
01:32:11.000There's this thing where people fetishize these monsters, and they try to give them souls.
01:32:17.000And they don't care about human beings, by the way, and they never do this to people that they disagree with.
01:32:22.000But they'll say that the monster at the bottom of the ocean with the teeth, who just swims around looking for things to eat all day, that's actually a cuddly, beautiful thing.
01:32:34.000But the person who disagrees with me on taxes is a monster who should be jailed.
01:34:04.000Well, when he was preparing for it, it was right around the same time where there was a group of people that I think they were preparing for triathlons or something, and someone got eaten by a great white in that same water.
01:36:17.000You know, like me and Post Malone were talking as if there's a better pair to be talking about what could go wrong in the thermonuclear war and what damage it can do to the environment.
01:36:29.000Because we were talking about Mars and there's some sort of strange evidence of a certain element that exists after nuclear bombs that's pretty common on Mars.
01:36:39.000And so there was this article about Mars having some kind of a natural nuclear reactor.
01:36:45.000But the idea was, like, imagine if there was a time where we did go have an all-out nuclear war with Russia and China.
01:38:04.000The more I think about it, the more I talk to people about it, there's something about it that makes me say, at the very least, it's not all true.
01:38:15.000There's got to be something, because it doesn't have the...
01:38:22.000There's something weird about it to me.
01:38:24.000Well, my thought is that in almost everything that they tell you, everything involving, you know, international conflicts, everything involving the environment, everything, there's always some bullshit in it.
01:38:38.000It's always, like, you have to figure out where's the bullshit.
01:43:27.000When I was a little kid, or not little, but in my late teen years, we would go smoke weed and drive around these areas in Long Island and see all these big mansions and stuff and go, who lives here?
01:43:40.000What did they figure out that my parents didn't figure out?
01:43:44.000Not in a way that you want to be them or they're better or whatever, although there's some arguments, but really just looking at it and being amazed by it and being like, it is interesting that the way this all shook out, and it's very interesting to me, how certain people just are at the top of the food chain and certain people are not,
01:44:05.000and then it's always shifting up there too.
01:44:28.000The AI thing, I think, is going to be...
01:44:31.000The most ground-changing, the most life-changing, the most groundbreaking.
01:44:36.000I have a feeling we're just a year or two away from people formulating all their business models on AI models of what to do and then becoming insanely successful doing it.
01:44:48.000It's going to be sooner than people think.
01:44:50.000Yeah, if AI figures out how to manipulate things or make the most money doing a certain thing...
01:44:55.000Do you think we'll have one of the last jobs affected because we have this thing?
01:45:00.000Yeah, because I think personality is hard.
01:45:50.000Like, will there ever be a time when we're not in a war with something that's trying to eradicate us, whether it's our own government or the machines?
01:45:57.000This one is the most particularly disturbing.
01:46:29.000Or probably not even, probably like weeks, I don't know.
01:46:31.000But the point is, like, it could figure how to do things out way better than us.
01:46:36.000And if it is sentient, and it figures out how to replicate itself, and it's just omnipresent, if it's all over the world, it's the new dominant species on Earth.
01:46:47.000If you have no restrictions on how many of them can be made, and whether or not they can make ones of their own, Yeah.
01:46:54.000And whether or not they can all link brains, whether or not they can all link cameras.
01:46:58.000Like if these things are seeing out of their eyes and recording it on some sort of a hard drive, what if they all have access to the same hard drive?
01:47:09.000They become a god because not only are they infinitely intelligent, they literally have all the information that's ever existed on Earth, but they have a sentient artificial intelligence and they're communicating with each other.
01:47:21.000And why are we marching towards this without any...
01:47:25.000Like, I know some people are calling out how much of an issue this will be.
01:47:29.000People are dismissing it, too, and with good arguments.
01:47:33.000He had a very good argument to dismiss it about how it was going to improve people's lives and how AI is going to...
01:47:40.000Educate people in a different way and operate businesses and that it's just an improvement in technology and that there is some real truth to the fact that technological innovation is never ending with humans.
01:49:32.000If we are evolving, and I think we are, I think evolution's real, but I do think it's limited by biology in a time span.
01:49:39.000Like, we can't get that good that quick.
01:49:42.000It's pretty remarkable how much things do evolve and how quickly they actually evolve.
01:49:46.000Not enough to keep up with technology because our technology is in this crazy fever pitch where you're sending videos through the sky to people in New Zealand.
01:51:29.000When you're walking around barefoot in fire in a country like an asshole outside, and you don't realize that you're getting bit until, like, I probably got bit 15, 20 times.
01:51:56.000It's interesting to me that we're confronting all these things now, and it's going to be interesting because we really don't know what's going to happen.
01:52:35.000Then my healthcare professional told me to put on some Converse All-Stars where you can pull them tight, and actually it would help with the swelling, and it did.
01:56:02.000It's so like what's going on today with the right and the left.
01:56:06.000And with them, it was very transparent because people hadn't realized, like, to insult your, you know, to use ad hominems, to insult each other.
01:56:13.000But they were much more intellectual, both of them.
01:56:15.000They were very intellectual, but also very combative.
01:56:18.000Compared to what we have now, I mean, they were much more intellectual.
01:56:21.000And then, you know, William F. Buckley lost his cool.
01:57:09.000Raising a Nazi flag in World War II would have had similar consequences.
01:57:13.000People in the United States happen to believe that the United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Viet Cong are correct in wanting to organize their country in their own way politically.
01:57:24.000If it is a novelty in Chicago, that is too bad.
01:57:27.000But I assume that the point of the American democracy is you can express any point of view you want.
01:59:49.000You lay out what you think is correct and I'll lay out my beliefs and we'll try to figure out why I believe what I believe and you believe what you believe.
02:00:36.000I think it's the desire for community.
02:00:38.000It's the desire for, you know, some type of social standing and people want to...
02:00:44.000You know, we're lucky enough to have a thing that we like doing, that which challenging, that we can do all the time, that there's never an end to it.
02:02:17.000It's like you know about all the other times, but you live in one particular time and you might experience like there's a lot of things that happen in the span of any lifetime.
02:02:59.000So, you know, it's definitely weird that there are people that, you know, never lived during this time and had no idea that any of the things that we went through were even really possible.
02:03:15.000And then kids, like, people will forget about it.
02:03:20.000During the pandemic, might always trust the government because they never lived through this time of massive government overreach and really sloppy science and private and public fuckery, this weird unity between the private and the public sector and large profit-making institutions and all this stuff.
02:03:40.000So if you didn't live through it, You'll never appreciate it for how wild it was and how insane it was.
02:03:47.000Do you know that there is a lot of people that are saying that their children have impaired speech?
02:03:57.000Because during the pandemic they made them wear masks all the time.
02:04:01.000There's like, even if it's a certain percentage of the time when you're talking to someone, when you're a child, Apparently.
02:04:07.000We should Google this to make sure it's true.
02:04:09.000But I believe what they think is that as you're talking to someone and you're reading their lips, there's like a thing going on where you see their expression and you get to read faces.
02:04:26.000And if you're exposed to even a small percentage, I would imagine, of your interactions or with people with shielded faces, you're not going to get any data from that.
02:04:49.000My fear would be that there's certain stages where babies learn things, where they're sort of developmental stages.
02:04:57.000And if that's one of them, where like when they're really learning how to form their first words, And have conversations with parents that they're not seeing mouths.
02:05:10.000And now that we find out that it didn't work, the whole thing is so insane.
02:05:14.000There was a study recently, see if you can find this, because we brought this up the other day, but we never googled it, that wearing an N95 mask, you should never wear one for more than an hour a day.
02:05:36.000I would imagine if it's hot out, you're spitting into this fucking thing.
02:05:40.000I mean, just like I remember during this whole thing, you had all those TikTok kids get really famous in LA and like...
02:05:46.000It's amazing that TikTok, which is an app started by China, the people that started this app were very open about what they were going to do.
02:05:52.000They were like, we're going to take 20 kids, make them famous, make them icons, because we think in the early stages of any social media app, having majorly famous people on it brings more people into it, right?
02:06:03.000So these kids that were just running around L.A. got famous because somewhere in a room in like Shanghai or Beijing or whatever, they were choosing who would play to America, like the Charli D'Amelio girls, like the girl next door with brown hair and brown eyes, and they're just like,
02:06:18.000okay, we're going to make all these people famous.
02:06:20.000This is a real interesting period of time to have lived through, where while you have all this government overreach and stuff like that, You have this landscape that's being completely curated in ways you don't know about.
02:06:34.000You don't understand what's happening because, like, people are being chosen, you know, in rooms in China to be famous.
02:06:43.000And, like, you know, nobody knew, you know, about, you know, Anthony Fauci really until he became the czar of public health.
02:06:51.000Some people in the government knew who he was.
02:11:26.000CVS? It's probably like department stores.
02:11:30.000But it is strange when somebody, you know, has a hidden life and it's crazy.
02:11:35.000I think this is where the N95 thing came from.
02:11:37.000I found a bunch of stuff Googling about N95. Well, you could feel when you wore those masks it wasn't good because you're breathing in your own carbon dioxide.
02:11:59.000But it does say here when the workers are working longer hours without a break while continuously wearing an N95 FFR. I don't know exactly what the FFR means.
02:12:08.000The blood CO2 levels may increase past the one-hour mark.
02:13:41.000But, you know, I mean, I think at the end of the day, it's like, I think people learned, even the people that are not, not disclosing that.
02:14:18.000That probably does a way better job of keeping all the cooties out, but it probably fucks you up because that's why you're getting so much CO2. Because the thing about those N95s, not just N95s, but the thing about specifically like surgical masks.
02:14:32.000Have you ever seen that doctor that does this test where he takes a vape pen?
02:14:35.000And he takes a big hit and he blows it through the face mask and explains that the size of the vapor that's going through the face mask is far larger than the COVID virus.
02:14:48.000So when you're breathing out, it's going right through that goddamn thing.
02:14:52.000Like some of the aspects of those N95 or was it KN95? Maybe both of them.
02:15:00.000There's sort of an electrical charge to that kind of fabric, right?
02:18:55.000We use the mosquitoes like there are a thousand small flying syringes, explains University of Washington, Seattle physician and scientist Dr. Sean Murphy, lead author of the paper.
02:20:02.000Bill Gates has the resources and not a small country.
02:20:05.000He has the resources and the political power of a country.
02:20:09.000If they release those vaccine carrying mosquitoes, there would be people out there that would be bug catchers where they're trying to go get stung up as much as possible so they can be free of any worry of diseases.
02:20:20.000Well, there'd also be people standing there.
02:20:21.000There'd also be like clinics in LA and Beverly Hills.
02:20:34.000Out of 14 participants who were exposed to malaria, seven of them, including Reed, came down with the disease, meaning the vaccine was only 50% effective.
02:23:42.000I've always wanted to visit the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, but then there's some really wacky stuff you could just get and some people don't even know what it is.
02:23:50.000Some people come back from that and five years later have an issue.
02:26:11.000Because the light from the planet, from all the cities and everything, it's like significant pollution stops you from seeing the stars unless you're like way the fuck out there.
02:26:19.000Also, their immune systems have been exposed to very little, so they could die from like nothing, from like a cold, right?
02:26:41.000In 1504, Christopher Columbus on his fourth transatlantic voyage had been stranded with his men on the north coast of Jamaica, their last two ships riddled with marine worms.
02:26:51.000So marine worms are worms that eat wood.
02:26:55.000So, having said, a small party of the Spanish occupied Hispaniola, a hundred miles to the east paddling canoes hewn from local timber.
02:27:03.000Yeah, they awaited rescue, but their food had run out, and the Jamaicans who had been pleased to provision them when they first arrived had tired of the trinkets the Spaniards could offer in exchange.
02:27:14.000Luckily, Columbus had astronomical tables with him, which indicated that a lunar eclipse was due on February 29th.
02:27:20.000Calling the local chiefs together, Columbus gravely told them that the God of the Christians was all-powerful and very displeased with the Jamaicans' refusal to keep them fed.
02:27:29.000And as soon as a sign of his wrath As a sign of his wrath, the moon would be darkened and turn the color of blood that evening.
02:27:37.000Many of the natives laughed, although others were not sure.
02:27:39.000All were convinced when the eclipse began, as Columbus had told them it would.
02:32:02.000As a person, as a human being that cares about people's joints, I would not ever advise a bunch of ladies who had not done any Real, like, rigorous physical activity.
02:32:28.000Some sort of a rotation where they don't have to go on tour every day.
02:32:31.000I don't know how many times they were doing it, but if you were a big girl and you had to do that kind of dancing every night, that's a lot of fucking work out of nowhere.
02:32:58.000Wait, but Davis also claims the lawsuit she had once had to soil herself on stage during an excruciating re-audition, fearing the repercussions of excusing herself to go to the bathroom.
02:33:10.000Yeah, but that's also, like, that's on you.
02:33:56.000You have to tell people, I am so sorry, but I have to use the restroom.
02:34:00.000But it would be so funny to me if one of them said, hey, I gotta use the bathroom, and Lizzo just went at them like a grizzly and said, fuck you, keep dancing.
02:34:28.000There's like before you go on stage there's like anxiety sometimes your stomach a little bit and then that going you know going to the bathroom is...
02:38:55.000Well, there was a bunch of those guys that went from one show to the next.
02:38:58.000They did like a ton of- And then every now and then that bitch from the New York Housewives did that skinny girl margarita and made like 20, 30 million bucks.
02:39:27.000The first season of that Real Housewives of Orange County was actually a real good primer on the mortgage crisis because you saw these people with these multiple houses, multiple cars.
02:39:42.000And you saw how Southern California, Irvine, California, where a lot of those companies started, a lot of those housewives lived in that area and were making money In that sector of the economy that was about to collapse.
02:39:56.000And then when it collapsed, you saw them go broke.
02:39:58.000Like, some of those people went broke.
02:40:00.000And, like, that became interesting to people.
02:40:02.000Like, watching people ride high and then go low.
02:43:34.000It's very difficult, but you know, we live in a vibrant and diverse country where a lot of people, like this is my governor of California answer to that, people have a lot of different ways to live.
02:43:46.000Do you know how haunted that space of land must be?
02:45:49.000Yeah, there's weird legal loopholes, like where some states allow you to film people and they don't have to know about it, and other ones they don't.
02:46:35.000Bro, that fucking whole data mining thing is so insane that we never thought of this thing as a commodity and it's the most important commodity.
02:46:43.000It's literally responsible for some of the biggest corporations that we know of.
02:47:47.000There's a thing about a real quesadilla with a flour tortilla.
02:47:52.000During this movie, I did a small role in this movie, and everybody had to smoke fake cigarettes because of these dumb unions that are now on strike, solidarity.
02:48:01.000But they were like, everyone in the movie, it was like, we had to smoke, and we had to smoke these herb cigarettes, and they all sucked.
02:49:13.000You know, when people end up in like the depths of a fentanyl, you see these people walking around like San Francisco or downtown LA, whatever it is, and go, how the fuck do you end up that bad?
02:50:00.000But the power of drugs, whether it's sugar or booze or whatever it is, people throw their marriage and their life away because of alcohol, damaged relationships with their families.
02:50:12.000It's amazing how powerful all that stuff is.
02:50:59.000Not an addict, in the sense that guys who just lose everything all the time.
02:51:04.000I know guys who are pool players, who are some of the best pool players in the world, and they will play and win a tournament and win a check for like $10,000 and then gamble it all on the flip of a coin.
02:52:02.000So anyway, it's about this guy who is this, like, really depressed, overweight pool player who happens to be one of the best pool players in the world.
02:52:09.000And he's only happy, like, when he's in action.
02:52:12.000And he travels around the country, and he documents him and his friend, this guy Bristol Bob from Connecticut, and they travel around the country playing these, like, high-stakes pool matches where he's worried about getting killed.
02:52:25.000He's worried about, you know, getting out of the place.
02:53:58.000Yeah, it's like people that live in Los Angeles for long enough, they tend to think their agents and managers care about them, like them, love them.
02:54:26.000And, you know, sometimes people get pushed into doing weird shit.
02:54:30.000They end up, like, you know, there's people that, like, you know, will bring their clients drugs and everything, just to keep them on that fucking...
02:54:53.000Yeah, they just they want you to print money and they don't you know, that's the whole thing so yeah, but if you request it So the thing is it's like they are feeding off of whatever look for sure Are you are you really gonna like go to Bert Kreischer and say hey no more drinking during shows?
02:56:04.000And a lot of those people, very sensitive people that are taking everything in, sometimes drugs and alcohol, it goes along with that because it's a way to dull yourself from the pain of having these realizations or not being healthy enough to deal with the world as it is.
02:56:23.000And music and art and comedy, they always have a lot of people that have...
02:56:32.000Being somebody who was using drugs and drinking, I haven't for 12 or 13 years, actually the things that make you a drug addict actually make you a good comedian too because the compulsion to do drugs is similar to the compulsion to keep doing comedy or to keep doing something when it's not working and getting it to work eventually.
02:56:56.000And a lot of that type of, like, behavior that in a normal person's life is like, what are you doing on Tuesday night?
02:59:34.000When you look at life like that, it's kind of one of those things people say that sounds very, very simplistic, but then actually when you actually zoom out, people do what they like.
03:01:21.000So, you know, if you've been a drunk and someone who's, like, lived, you know, that life, when you get into comedy, you can kind of, like...
03:01:33.000Go out there and just go, yeah, and then put it all on the table and go, I'm a fuck up.
03:01:37.000And almost all of them smoked cigarettes and drank coffee.
03:01:56.000If someone isn't wired that way at all, and they have no addictive tendencies, and they don't do anything really passionately, and they have lots of different hobbies.
03:02:06.000I have friends who are very happy, great people.
03:02:33.000Maybe they have more discipline, but also maybe they're just wired a different way because those are the same people who aren't trying to make millions of dollars.
03:03:09.000I've seen people that literally can't drink.
03:03:12.000They drink, they have one drink, and then all of a sudden they have gerbilize, and they're not there anymore.
03:03:17.000There's a few people that I've met in my life that I've seen them drunk, and they have a couple of drinks, and then something shuts off, and they're not there anymore.
03:05:29.000My mother used to say, she never drank, and she was like, oh, I used to go to bar sober, it was fun, and I'm like, right, but you're also a schizophrenic.
03:05:37.000There's something weirder about the person in the bar sober having a lot of fun.
03:08:49.000You lose your apartment, you lose your thing.
03:08:52.000So to understand how it is, didn't Bill Hicks have that great line, he's like, anyone can be, just takes the right bar, the right friends, the right girl, whatever it was.
03:09:04.000He's like, anyone can be homeless, takes this, this, this.
03:09:05.000But to understand what it's like when you surrender, Your thoughtful, logical capacity in your brain to a fucking glass of alcohol and keep doing it?
03:10:10.000And I think I sort it up at 25. But, you know, from 12 or 13, when you just start smoking weed and doing all that stuff till you get to 25, it's like you see these people, all these different stages of addiction.
03:10:23.000Some people in the beginning, some people in the middle.