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00:03:39.000And if you held a gun to my head and said, I'm going to kill you if you don't move this bus, I'd say, you're going to have to kill me, dude, because I don't even know how to start it.
00:05:53.000You just have regular people, not pilots, regular people driving multi-thousand pound machines on rubber tires, weaving in and out of lanes.
00:06:06.000Yeah, you can't ever come on my bus with thoughts like that, spewing them out there.
00:07:25.000In fact, if I spend too much time on it, I've got to hire somebody to shake my bed when I'm at home just a little bit so I feel like I'm moving down the road.
00:07:31.000If we wanted to look at the bright side of human beings, highways are a pretty good indicator that people, for the most part, keep it together.
00:07:43.000I think that's really how you can really tell when you're back in America and how good we are at putting a country together, you know, is how good our roads are compared to, you know...
00:07:53.000It's really funny, if you cross the bridge from Reynos, Mexico to Macau in Texas, which I used to do all the time, it was a joint project.
00:08:00.000So the U.S. built half the bridge, Mexico built half the bridge.
00:08:03.000And I'm not being a racist, and I love Mexican people.
00:09:07.000People get aggressive with each other on the road.
00:09:09.000When you're in a car, and this was explained to me, I forget who told us, who told us this with the reason why road rage really exists at such a hyper level is because you're really tuned in because you're driving the car.
00:09:33.000And so when you're already at seven and something happens, it just freaks you out.
00:09:38.000You know, it's amazing how even-headed I think I am, but what really little it takes to set me off.
00:09:44.000You know, I like to think I'm a step above all that stuff, but...
00:09:48.000I was in Mexico City the other day, and this guy, I needed to find something, a pharmacy, and so this guy was in the nice Beverly Hills part of Mexico City, and this guy's walking, he's got a business suit on, and I literally, I don't look that great,
00:10:03.000my hair's all over the place, and And I said, can you tell me where a pharmacy is?
00:10:14.000You know, I went off on the fucking guy.
00:10:16.000You know, he just tried to get where he was going and didn't want to be stopped by some big, hairy, drug-addicted-looking thing, you know, that was coming at him.
00:17:00.000Maybe that's what I'm so intrigued about, because I don't know exactly what I'm seeing, but I was watching it on that, and you could see he does have a different motion into the ball, it even looks like, you know, with that...
00:17:49.000And they brought him, the pool world is so sneaky.
00:17:53.000They brought him in under a fake name, because they didn't want people to ask around back to the Philippines, like people to make calls to the Philippines, hey, who's this Efrem Reyes guy?
00:18:01.000And then everybody would just say, oh, he's the best, he's the best.
00:18:04.000So instead, they just came up with a name, Cesar Morales.
00:18:07.000And he won this giant tournament as Cesar Morales.
00:18:14.000Morales stuns field at Reds So they just bring him in like the biggest pool tournament in the country and this guy's just robbing everybody Just robbing everybody just just getting out in ways that people like oh my god Like his stroke his knowledge of where the balls going the creativity Just a genius genius genius a virtuoso.
00:18:38.000Yeah Well, I actually knew nothing about him, except my phone figured out that I liked watching him.
00:19:33.000It's like watching a professional golfer when you play golf, you know?
00:19:36.000The smoothness and the precision, it's just like, fuck, man.
00:19:41.000Yeah, that's why I watch pro golfers, and I get to play with them every once in a while, and it's actually kind of like that guy's loose thing, you know?
00:21:09.000Even Ben Hogan, who is arguably the best ball striker ever, said that in an average day of golf, he hits two shots the way he wanted to, exactly.
00:21:18.000And the rest of them are close to that.
00:22:02.000You have to settle with how good you want to be, because to be better than that, you've got to spend hours and hours doing it.
00:22:08.000But if you want to just rake it around and gamble with your friends, you don't have to practice all that much.
00:22:14.000I knew quite a few comic buddies that I think lost a little inspiration in their career because they were spending so much time playing golf.
00:22:23.000Well, that's how I killed my days, and I still do to this day.
00:22:26.000When I was on the road like you were, I don't know what you were doing during the day, but I was trading tickets for free golf, schmoozing it wherever I could.
00:23:29.000I watch it, you know, because I play it, you know, like you in fighting, you know, exactly, because you know exactly what that is that they're doing.
00:23:37.000You can't even hardly explain it to me.
00:23:40.000Even when you're trying to, to make me really understand what's going on exactly.
00:23:45.000When two guys are on the ground and it looks like nothing's happening, then you're losing your mind because there's so many things happening.
00:23:51.000That's a hard one to explain, too, because I'm trying to explain it while it's actually happening, so I have to have the path carved out in my head, especially on some transitions that guys do, when they go and mount to rear naked choke, and I'm trying to set up what he's going to do while not stepping on what they're doing,
00:24:08.000and then it's like this weird dance with a description of what's happening in real time.
00:24:14.000Right, that's why nobody can ever take your job.
00:25:30.000Instead of, we're going to take our lower middle class, put them in a field with your lower middle class, they're going to kill each other.
00:25:37.000You ought to just fight me in the fucking alley.
00:25:58.000I hear you, especially in this day and age.
00:26:00.000And also, there's so much to worry about.
00:26:02.000Every fucking time I get on the news and I start reading what's happening in the world every day, it's something new that's insane that you have to worry about.
00:26:23.000These are news organizations that I trust that if something wacko in the world is going to happen, it's news, and they're going to pick it up.
00:26:31.000But if it's something completely unverifiable that I don't even need to fucking know, they're not going to pick it up.
00:26:37.000But I know when people go down that fucking dark road in the web, they come out on the other side, and sometimes you can't get them back.
00:28:53.000It gives them some kind of superpower, you know.
00:28:55.000It's so bizarre and so off of any, what I would consider, realm of possibility, even part of it being true.
00:29:04.000But, you know, people go down there, and they'll see just a path of things that lead them, you know, some of it true, some of it not true, not true, not true, not true, and they'll head off down that direction.
00:29:22.000And you know what's really insidious about that?
00:29:25.000Is that the more crazy ones that are out there, and the more people start linking them all together, The more real conspiracies sneak through.
00:29:36.000Because if you wanted to hide a real conspiracy, I would hide it in a bunch of other bullshit conspiracies.
00:29:43.000I'd put a bunch of bullshit ones out there.
00:30:38.000But, you know, they would love to have the answer to a question.
00:30:44.000You know, they would love to be able to make a point of some kind.
00:30:47.000You know, they would love to, but they can't, because they're just sitting around watching other people do it, and I wish I could think of something to say, and I can't think of anything to say.
00:30:54.000Well, if there's somebody feeding them something to say, now they get real loud about it because they have a point to make even though they don't understand it at all.
00:31:03.000They just know how to sound like they're making a point like Lauren Boebert or Marjorie Taylor Greene or whoever.
00:31:43.000How many people that you know that are really healthy, clear-thinking, business-minded people that have been successful that want to run the government?
00:32:09.000So they can have influence on it, but they don't want to.
00:32:12.000Do they want to be the President of the United States?
00:32:14.000Do they have it set up like a minor league?
00:32:16.000Like they groom politicians, they get them to a position, and like, I like how you stand on this, but maybe if you stood a little bit further on this line, we could support you on this.
00:32:44.000You're going to, okay, we got, there's a trillion of us, and we'll put you in office, and we'll be, but you got to, you got to put this judge here and this judge there, so what, our thing comes to pass, so that's just the way it works.
00:33:25.000I think this is one of the weirdest times ever for human beings to communicate.
00:33:30.000And I think because there's so many of us, and there's so many people that are talking, and there's so many voices, and it's happening on everyone's phone.
00:33:42.000And it's happening all over the fucking world, all at once.
00:34:22.000But Iran used to be fucking strawberry rivers and shit and normal people with jobs and Ron, there were people that were willing to laugh at people's deaths because they didn't want to get vaccinated for COVID. There were people like that at the same time thinking they're good people.
00:35:10.000So I don't bring it into my show because I want us all to come in and just be able to fucking laugh together and find out how much that matters.
00:35:17.000And at the end of my shows now, I'm reminding people that no matter what our differences are, we just still came to this room and we all laughed at the same thing and we laughed hard and we loved each other and we had a great experience.
00:35:38.000It's not like Texas and Oklahoma, they're the same place.
00:35:45.000There's no difference between those two places, and they act like, well, we're Oklahoma, and somebody put that in their head.
00:35:52.000What I was getting at was that if they're willing to do that over just some issue of whether you want to or don't want to get a vaccine, what would they do if they really believed that God was on their side?
00:39:07.000But if you wanted to open up a Catholic church, if you said you converted to Catholicism, and you wanted to open up Ron White's Catholic church, they'd be like, oh, respectable position to take, Ron.
00:41:21.000What you want is the tax-exempt status, and the rest of it doesn't really matter.
00:41:26.000You get that tax-exempt status, then you can start hoarding wealth in the name of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints or whatever, and you can hold all these billions of dollars in real estate holdings all under that tax-exempt status.
00:41:40.000If they start, you know, this is the only thing that gets me going, is big church.
00:42:57.000All these people over at Mattress Max's furniture store, he brought in everybody he could.
00:43:02.000But Joel Osteen wouldn't even let him in the door because they just had the carpets redone at his cathedral church, and he didn't want people tracking shit in there.
00:43:12.000Didn't he eventually give in, though, and let people stay there?
00:45:59.000But when I was a kid, I was raised in the Baptist Church.
00:46:02.000Uncle Charlie, my preacher, when I was little.
00:46:06.000But there was a storybook Wasn't the Bible, but it was just something we got in Sunday school and depicted Christians being fed to the lions, which always stuck in my craw that that was a big story, a big deal.
00:46:18.000I mean, you know, I know we've all been oppressed, but feeding them to the lions, that's a pretty big deal.
00:46:23.000And I really thought it was universal knowledge.
00:46:25.000So when they were looking for a new name for the Washington Commanders, I suggested the Christians.
00:46:32.000And I thought about this joke for three days, and I thought about the buildup of laughter it was going to get.
00:46:36.000It was going to work so well, and they were going to end up changing the name of the comedy club to Ron White's Mothership because of this one joke and how well it worked.
00:46:43.000But the way it was going to start, the rumble was going to start, when Detroit comes to town, they're going to make the connections of Detroit, Lions, Lions, Christians, my storybook from my childhood.
00:46:55.000And that's the rumble of the really hip laughter.
00:46:58.000Because when the Lions get back to the...
00:47:01.000That's the next laugh was going to be.
00:47:03.000When the Lions meet the Christians on a pleaving playing field, we're, you know...
00:47:20.000And I was never been so wrong about a joke.
00:47:22.000Do you think you're just old enough to where you're like over that curve where the Christians and the Lions were more recent than they were before?
00:47:31.000Yeah, I just don't think everybody got that storybook.
00:47:41.000I don't think kids get that connection.
00:47:42.000But you said you would have told me not to do it, which was a lie, because you would have told me to do it, because you want me to try new shit.
00:50:29.000You know, under the guise of being an animal lover, but at night he was like going, don't give him the expensive food and, you know, give him that cheap.
00:50:35.000Well, maybe it was probably punishment.
00:50:38.000It's probably what they do to the Tigers to get them to listen.
00:52:03.000It's just for one reason or another, some crazy person could stand up and freak out and yell, and the thing could just launch itself out of them.
00:54:26.000I lived on a lake, Lake LBJ, in this house, and there was a frog, big bullfrog.
00:54:32.000And he was, lived by my And I would go out there and I would see him and he'd always jump in the water.
00:54:38.000and uh and but he was that's where he lived he was always a big old fat thing that this big biggest bullfrog i'd seen and i'd go down there and fish and then they'd come back there and then one night he didn't jump he stayed there and i'm like oh he's not afraid of me anymore the next night i brought a net down and i caught him and i killed him and ate him and i shit him into my toilet and uh and the other frogs went out and told other frogs don't go near there because that's what's going on he's He's just waiting for you to be still.
00:55:07.000He's going to kill you and eat you and shit you into his toilet.
01:01:10.000The Bengal cat is a domesticated cat breed created from a hybrid of the Asian leopard cat with domestic cats, especially the spotted Egyptian mao.
01:02:57.000It's a fascinating relationship that we have to these small animals.
01:03:01.000Like I was saying about your beautiful dog, that if you trace the lineage back of that thing, that used to be a wolf.
01:03:08.000Somehow or another, they went from wolves to more of a floppy-eared animal to more of an animal that was smaller, and then they figured out how to breed them.
01:04:16.000Until they have nothing left to eat, but a cat will remove your head in 24 hours.
01:04:20.000And I'm not talking, I'm talking literally hair on the floor, no head, and nibbling into their chest.
01:04:28.000Even cats that were loved by their owners, or is it just cats that you think had something with the owner, and they're going to say, this is my time?
01:04:36.000Yeah, no, they're absolutely feeding on you.
01:04:39.000I don't care how much you love that cat, and that cat loved you, he's going to eat you.
01:04:44.000And I just never imagined that they could do that much damage.
01:06:01.000I know people who have found people that, where they got, you know, where they're cops, where they found people that were partially eaten by the cats.
01:06:30.000And if things go south, they're going to be the first people you call and you've been disrespecting them for so long and not appreciating how hard it is what they do for so fucking long.
01:14:13.000That was a cool building, and it would have worked.
01:14:15.000You would have made it work, that's for sure.
01:14:17.000We'd all supported it, and it would have been fine.
01:14:19.000It wouldn't have been as good, though.
01:14:21.000Location-wise, it wouldn't have been as good.
01:14:23.000This turned out to be heaven, so we can't second-guess anything that went down before it or after it or whatever.
01:14:30.000I feel like it lined up in the exact correct order.
01:14:34.000Like, the universe opened up all the doors in the exact correct order.
01:14:39.000I feel like the failed experiment with that other place, or the frustration in having it not come together, was a good Like a lesson, a good lesson in how real estate deals can go and all the issues with property.
01:15:08.000And you were kind of impetuous, so you needed something to slow you down a little bit because you were going pretty nuts.
01:15:15.000I mean, I talked to you one day, you were thinking about moving to Austin, and the next day you lived there, you had a house on the lake, you moved your studio, and I'm like, God damn, this guy moves!
01:15:25.000Yeah, I'm not interested in half-assing things.
01:16:37.000There wouldn't have been an open mic night in Webster, wherever, that I would have gone to with any interest at all and really started to fall back in love with the art of doing stand-up and be able to do all those reps.
01:17:41.000You've got to earn that spot in the treehouse.
01:17:44.000So anytime you open the door, you'll see...
01:17:48.000You know, some of the best comics alive sitting there talking about stand-up comedy and writing jokes and laughing and having a good time, but that's our fuckin'...
01:17:57.000Little space, man, and it is the greatest thing on earth.
01:18:00.000One of the worst things that happens in green rooms, what Ron's talking about, is like, you'll be in a green room and a bunch of agents will walk in and start talking.
01:18:12.000So they'd go in the green room, and I've done shows before, like at these big theaters, and there's people, I don't even know who they are.
01:18:18.000They're all hanging around the green room.
01:18:20.000I'm like, okay, I don't even, who are you guys?
01:18:24.000It doesn't happen so much anymore, but in the past, it was quite annoying.
01:18:27.000I've played big venues out near California.
01:18:30.000The guys I didn't even know from APA and CAA or whoever the fuck I was with.
01:18:36.000And the people from my office that I didn't even know, they're all back there in the green room trying to prove to me that they're earning some kind of fucking money I'm sending them or whatever.
01:18:47.000But that doesn't happen at the comedy mothership.
01:20:48.000And that's what we needed, because we were on the road all the time.
01:20:51.000And when you're on the road all the time, it's like you're in these places, you're only gonna be there for a couple of nights, you're doing your stand-up with a couple friends you came with, then you go back home, and then you wait until you go somewhere else again.
01:21:16.000You know, when we were all supporting it at the same time and, you know, the crowds were, you know, it was always packed because they knew they were going to get a show they couldn't get any other time for any price.
01:21:26.000That show doesn't exist anywhere else.
01:21:29.000And the other night we did a show and it was me and you and Shane Gillis and Jim Norton.
01:21:37.000That guy makes me laugh harder than anybody.
01:22:32.000And it doesn't matter if you're on the stage for...
01:22:34.000For 15 minutes or an hour and 15 minutes, it's just that you've got to get on stage and talk to those people, just so it's second nature to you.
01:22:43.000Because if you don't do it for a while, it's not.
01:23:36.000But for the audience member, you killed.
01:23:38.000If you look at that set versus my 15-minute set that I'm doing now, what you were talking about the other night, that timing and all that stuff is back to sharp, you know, how I got here stuff, you know?
01:25:56.000And John doesn't know either, I'm sure.
01:25:58.000But he won two majors, which most people that...
01:26:02.000Play professional golf or never win one or never win a tournament.
01:26:06.000Most people that have a card to play on the PGA Tour never win on the PGA Tour.
01:26:10.000So he didn't do earth-shattering stuff like Tiger did as far as the numbers go, but he just had that natural ability and his son is just like him, which is kind of a weird thing because that father-son thing doesn't Damn.
01:31:03.000And, you know, if he's in a good mood, if he's in a shitty mood, maybe not, but he still gets it, you know, because he gambles a lot, so he never has, I don't think he ever had a big surplus of money.
01:31:14.000He had some big deals from Callaway, but I think, you know, he was playing slot machines, a thousand bucks a pull.
01:37:06.000Yeah, have you ever get too stoned to do a set and then you just pick up one of those salts and just jerk you right out of it for a minute?
01:37:13.000You've only taken the ones that we have at the mothership then.
01:41:08.000Brian, who also did Dissident, which is another amazing documentary, but Brian did this race.
01:41:15.000He did it completely clean, and then he was going to get this Russian doping guy to tell him what to take, and then he was going to do the same race the next year juiced up.
01:41:24.000He was doing it for a documentary to show what the difference is.
01:41:28.000He's not competitive like he could win.
01:41:31.000So in the middle of this process of going through this thing with this Russian guy, it comes out that the Russians cheated in the Sochi Olympics.
01:41:41.000And so when they cheated in the Olympics, they used piss that was like fake piss.
01:41:47.000They like smuggled piss through a hole in the wall.
01:41:49.000And this guy was a part of the whole program and he's in this documentary.
01:42:01.000So in getting doped up with steroids and EPO, he's talking to this guy who's the head of this Russian anti-doping agency, who's really just...
01:42:30.000And this guy, Brian, got very lucky and caught it in the middle of it happening.
01:42:36.000So it's just dumb luck that the Russians get busted for doping while he's doing a documentary on doping with the guy who did the fucking doping.
01:42:45.000And he didn't have anything to do with them getting exposed.
01:42:50.000What happened was they used these jars that were supposed to be impregnable, right?
01:42:54.000So there's these jars, you would urinate into the jar, and then once they had your sample, it would be sealed in a way that no one could open.
01:43:01.000Well, they found these micro-scratches that are all over the inside of these supposedly sealed jars that led them to believe that someone had figured out a way to hack into that and open these things.
01:43:10.000And they realized that the Russians had figured out a way, with a new piece of equipment, they engineered, they got their own bottles, and they engineered a tool that would allow them to open it up, and then they would put it back on.
01:43:21.000So they would go, and they would take the piss out, and they would bring it in with a new bottle.
01:43:26.000And the new bottle was filled with clean piss.
01:43:30.000And so there's literally, they had a hole in the wall, literally had a hole in the wall where they were swapping out the clean piss for the dirty piss.
01:43:38.000Look at this, they have an official urine sample room, hole in storage space, and in the storage space is where they had all the clean urine.
01:43:46.000And they got busted while this guy was doing it.
01:43:48.000So if we got that guy, that Russian, to turn you into a fucking stud, we need about 16 months.
01:47:32.000Even if you have damage to your shoulders, that shoulder strengthening program will help you.
01:47:38.000It'll help you retain range of motion because you're doing it kind of slowly.
01:47:44.000And if you just stay persistent with it and consistent and just do it every day, And if you're doing it every day, you're not even doing it, like, that hard.
01:47:52.000It's not like a thing where you're, like, killing yourself.
01:47:54.000But you're doing, like, I's, Y's, and T's with, like, little dumbbells.
01:48:20.000Sassy young lady that's gonna crack you into shape.
01:48:22.000I used to have my yoga instructor would come over my house every day or five days a week and she was beautiful and smart and funny and she was great and it was basically a yoga nap.
01:50:46.000But I also love going to this class where it's a 90-minute class and there's a specific number of movements and you know what they are because you've done this over and over and over and over again and it's a fucking challenge and you're all in there gutting it out together.
01:51:36.000I think they do it at 104. I think it's 104 degrees.
01:51:39.000Buker Muga also follows a sequence of 26 postures.
01:51:42.000Students improve flexibility and circulation through this sequence with the high temperatures allow them to enter each pose posture more easily.
01:51:50.000The poses were chosen from Chudhuri, from classic Hatha poses designed to systematically move fresh oxygenated blood to 100% of your body to each organ and fiber.
01:52:09.000I'm not finding anything that says he thinks.
01:52:10.000Because he made a bunch of claims about winning yoga tournaments in this country, and they're like, we don't have yoga tournaments in this country.
01:55:35.000There's something about those two characters when they get together and start talking shit to each other and they're both laughing when they get each other.
01:58:39.000Well, you know what I did, which was pretty smart, and I never accuse myself of being smart very often, but I noticed that really you're a master of ceremonies, you're not the opening act.
01:58:51.000Your biggest job as the opener was to be the MC. I noticed everybody was doing a really shitty job.
01:58:58.000They had crinkled up notes in their pocket, next week at the thing.
01:59:04.000I'm like, I'm going to get good at that.
01:59:08.000My act too, but I'm going to do a really good job.
02:00:58.000Especially if you know it's a million fucking people.
02:01:00.000But also, like, amazing thing to document if that really was the first time and you actually wound up running on from there and having a career.
02:01:06.000Yeah, and you'd have good footage of it.
02:02:46.000I didn't start playing pool until I hurt my knee.
02:02:48.000I mean, I played a couple of times here and there with friends, but I wasn't really into it until I tore my ACL. You know, if you have an ACL injury, it has to be diagnosed, then you have to schedule an appointment, you have to get surgery.
02:03:00.000So it was a long time where I couldn't do any martial arts.
02:03:04.000It was just too unstable, and it was really fucked up.
02:03:07.000I badly tore my ACL and tore my meniscus.
02:03:29.000And I just happened to be around all these people that were like really good players, like high-level professionals would come in from the road because it was a gambling pool hall.
02:03:39.000It's called Executive Billiards in White Plains.
02:04:57.000That's a legit, like, real player's pool hall.
02:05:00.000But there's not a lot of them left in the country, unfortunately.
02:05:05.000Because the game is not very publicized, except it's got more of a following now because of the internet, because people are watching those clips.
02:05:11.000And they realize, real high-level pool, you know, like Joshua Filler, watch that guy play.
02:07:10.000And some of the guys, since international travel was limited, they didn't get that high pressure, you know, going to the U.S. Open in Atlantic City.
02:07:55.000He's won World 90. He's won the US Open multiple times.
02:08:00.000He's favored to beat most people, but that doesn't mean he's going to win.
02:08:03.000Because a guy like Ko Ping Chung could just run out, and you might never get a chance.
02:08:07.000And you don't even get a shot at it, right?
02:08:09.000Okay, Earl Strickland and Shane Van Boning, both from the US, share the record for winning the US Open nine ball championship at the most time.
02:08:40.000One of the greatest players of all time.
02:08:42.000If you have a list of the top five greatest players of all time, and you have Shane Van Boning on that list, we're not having a conversation.
02:08:57.000He had a table in the basement that had really tight pockets.
02:09:00.000And he would practice his break on it so much that the center of the table was just white from being compressed from the cue ball, smashing into the rack and then slapping down the same spot over and over.
02:09:11.000He broke so much that he created like a white cloud around where you rack the balls.
02:12:04.000Do you want grizzly bears in Beverly Hills?
02:12:06.000If they're gonna be fully protected and you can't do anything about it, are you gonna count on the wildlife people to be able to get the grizzly bear?
02:15:00.000But it was about what happens with the older women in this tribe.
02:15:04.000It's horrible that the younger males, when they realize the older women aren't keeping up anymore, they'll sneak behind them and bludgeon them over the head.
02:17:03.000But I was reading something very bizarre about Google and their terms of service and what they're going to do to adjust something for a sensitive event.
02:17:17.000I could send you the article, but it was one of those ones where I read it and I was like, I read one paragraph into it and I was like, Jesus Christ, this is starting to make me angry.
02:17:28.000I don't know where my phone is, but I wanted to ask because it's something, literally, I go to Allman Brothers and I want to listen to a song.
02:17:39.000It says, no longer available in the country you're in.
02:18:17.000This is a new policy going to affect February 2024. It clearly defines what constitutes a, quote, sensitive event for purposes of prohibiting certain exploitative or insensitive ads and content.
02:18:29.000While Google already had policies in place for ads and YouTube monetization, this expands the restrictions to Google's publisher network as well.
02:18:36.000And so it was defined in a certain way.
02:18:39.000See if you could pull up what it actually says.
02:18:42.000Because the way it was defined, what disturbed me was that it's very blanket.
02:18:47.000A sensitive event is defined as an unforeseen or unexpected situation that poses significant risk to Google's ability to provide high-quality, relevant information while reducing insensitive content.
02:19:13.000Sensitive events include those with major social, cultural, or political impact, such as civil emergencies, natural disasters, public health crises, terrorism, conflict, or mass violence.
02:19:25.000So what they're saying is you must be sensitive.
02:19:29.000If you're going to discuss civil emergencies, natural disasters, public health crisises, anything with a major social, cultural, or political impact, terrorism, mass violence, you must now be sensitive.
02:19:42.000The thing is, like, whatever they're trying to say, whatever they're trying to do to make the online world a nicer place, you've got to be really careful with saying things like that, because sensitive is a weird term.
02:20:28.000I gotta admit I'm a little lost on this one.
02:20:32.000So if any of the listeners out there are also a little confused.
02:20:35.000No, it's about them having the ability to censor you.
02:20:38.000So if you do the Ron White show on YouTube, which is owned by Google, If they decide that this something of whatever you're doing is in somehow or another offensive...
02:20:55.000I think this policy content change is for people who use the Google Ads platform and create ads like this one I'm showing you right here so that you can't abuse it.
02:21:29.000It's like making some weird ad to pop up to get you to click on something that's going to pop up on content that might be about that event or anything like that.
02:21:36.000But victim-blaming, the thing about victim-blaming is you can do it both ways, right?
02:21:40.000Like victim-blaming, like with Hamas and Palestine and Israel, you could victim-blame on both sides.
02:21:47.000You could say, the Israelis were doing this, and that's why Hamas had to attack, and you say, Hamas attacked, and that's why the Israelis are doing this, and you fucking people should have known better, and you fucking people should have known better.
02:22:09.000Are we saying that it's just they can't monetize that?
02:22:11.000Well, then what happens is if you're not monetizing stuff, you let people know that unless they self-censor, it's going to cost them financially.
02:22:20.000Even if the ads, like, say if it represents a company that is actually interested in this discussion and wants to know, like, what's the right perspective on this?
02:22:32.000Who's looking at this the most correctly?
02:22:34.000If you're a company and why wouldn't you want to advertise on something where people are just talking about what may or may not be happening in the world?
02:22:43.000And if you're going to do that on YouTube, then you have to worry about you're losing your ability to make a living now.
02:22:54.000I mean, is this just a blanket policy in case of the most egregious offenses that all people agree are terrible and should probably not be okay?
02:25:26.000The way he was phrasing, it was actually kind of funny.
02:25:29.000He was talking about white frailty or white anxiety, that it's a public health crisis, that white people who vote Republican, it's just like an opioid epidemic.
02:26:48.000And that's why, you know, not only were we talking in the other room a minute ago before we came in here, you know, that it's not just the opioid crisis that we think about with folks killing themselves disproportionately, increasingly white working class folks who are, you know, using heroin or using over-the-counter opioids.
02:27:14.000So we got to be honest about the dysfunctionality and the real danger of the front lash, backlash, whatever we want to call it, even for the people who are thinking they're going to benefit from it.
02:27:26.000What you see right there is a wild instance of someone that's used to being around like a certain type of people that think a certain type of way and think it's okay to say it out loud in a bigger forum.
02:27:38.000And you put that out there to the world and the whole world is like, what the fuck are you talking about?
02:28:48.000To say that all people that are Republicans that are these white people are like on opioids and they want someone to rescue them.
02:28:56.000It's so silly and so stupid to lump them all into white people, first of all, because there's a lot of people that are Republican that aren't white.
02:29:12.000And it's also a silly thing to say that the people that oppose you politically are just wrong, so wrong, that they're looking for a drug to rescue them.
02:29:20.000Like someone who comes along and says that they can do a better job is offering you heroin.
02:29:26.000I think both sides have a really difficult time understanding the perspective of the other.
02:30:31.000So when you get connected ideologically, very personally, to a group of opinions, and then someone opposes that group of opinions, they're attacking you.
02:30:43.000You take it very personally, and people are deceptive about the way they phrase things in order to try to win, and it's entirely because their self-worth is connected to this verbal jousting that they're doing, which is both productive and unproductive at the same time because it lets you find out if things are bullshit.
02:31:29.000You know, have laws in place to keep people from getting fucked over, but take your fucking hands-off approach.
02:31:35.000But what people don't understand is as soon as you start developing all these different areas of business and of life that have to be adjusted, have to be adjusted.
02:31:45.000And that's like putting DEI initiatives and doing these different things where you're not going to hire the most qualified people.
02:31:54.000You want to hire a certain percentage of people from this part of the world and a certain percentage of people from that.
02:32:00.000Even if you think you're doing better for the world, what you don't recognize is that this is a pattern of control.
02:32:07.000And this pattern of control that can be used to manipulate people to thinking they're doing something good socially, which they may very well be.
02:32:14.000What it really does is allows control of businesses in a new way and it allows control of public perception in a new way that can be manipulated to get you to do certain things and get you to allow certain legislation to get passed that It has the government have much more control over what you do or what you say and how much money they get and money for programs.
02:32:42.000And so as soon as people start telling people how they can and can't talk, this book's got to be gone, you can't say that, you can't teach this, as soon as that happens and the government steps in, we're fucked.
02:34:18.000She's either running for office or she's Oregon's first in nation law.
02:34:23.000The decriminalized possession of small amounts of heroin, cocaine, and other illicit drugs in favor of an emphasis on addiction treatment is facing strong headwinds in the progressive state after an explosion of public drug use fueled by the proliferation of fentanyl.
02:36:03.000But once you experience it and you realize the thetans are real, have you ever seen the South Park animation of what Scientologists believe?
02:44:14.000And after Waco, they were cracking down.
02:44:16.000Like, eee, fucking enough of this shit.
02:44:18.000After Waco, they were like, this is crazy.
02:44:20.000These people have guns, they're just fucking everybody's wives, and they're stockpiling food, and preparing for a war, a Christian war, and shooting at cops.
02:45:09.000I think some of the people were forced into it now.
02:45:11.000Now that I read into it more, it seems like some of the people...
02:45:14.000They weren't forced to go to Jonestown.
02:45:16.000No, but they didn't know they were going to have to die.
02:45:18.000I used to think they all just died on purpose, but now I think a bunch of them were forced into doing it.
02:45:24.000When there's a mass death, there's probably going to be a few reluctant people.
02:45:28.000Yeah, right at the end, going, yeah, I didn't know you were serious.
02:45:33.000This dude, when the Cult Awareness Network was after him, he moves to Austin and then has his followers build him that theater so he could dance in front of him.
02:46:15.000Because the only person that I know of that it's actually, I know people have done it, but the only person I personally know of is Alex Gray, the visionary artist from New York.
02:49:45.000Cosm's site and structure provides a living model of the ideals expressed through the inspiring artwork of the collection and the exhibitions, the writings of the founders and invited contributors.
02:49:57.000So they just take cool artists and their art and they show it to people and their spirituality is based on creativity.
02:53:09.000He was the guy I got to see live quite a few times.
02:53:12.000But I got to see him before, maybe I had just done an open mic or two, but I was sitting front row at Catch a Rising Star in Cambridge, and he was doing the weekend there.
02:55:34.000It's just so interesting to think about the guys that inspired you when you first started doing stand-up.
02:55:41.000You know, when you first started, like, what that was like to see someone who was really good at this thing that was just like, it was just a weird, foggy dream in the first couple times you go on stage.
02:55:52.000Like, how does anyone ever really become a professional?
02:55:55.000And then you watch a master go up in murder, and you're like, holy shit!
02:56:47.000But it's like you need a community, you know, and Boston had a crazy community.
02:56:51.000They had a community of assassins that were local guys and then new people were coming in every week that were like big national headliners.
02:56:58.000So you'd have all these murderous local guys, and then Dom Herrera would fly in for a weekend.
02:57:03.000Bill Hicks would fly in for a weekend.
02:59:37.000Because we had spent a considerable amount of time and effort, you know, architects were involved in drawing up plans and people had gone to look at it.
02:59:46.000And when it all fell through, they're like, fuck, we gotta start from scratch.