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00:00:50.000It was funny that Bryan Simpson said that he's with you at the store, and he said, he goes, I watched Tony Hinchcliffe become real famous in real time.
00:01:23.000Bumping is a thing that was around the store back in the old days and they should have got rid of it a long time ago.
00:01:29.000You know, it's one thing if like some superstar Dave Chappelle type Chris Rock character wants to pop in, Louis CK's in town, and they want to do 15 minutes, you know, that's all great.
00:01:39.000But what used to happen at the store is you would get these comedians that were just doing it for an ego flex.
00:01:47.000They were just doing it because they wanted to be able to bump other folks on the roster and then they would do like a fucking 45-minute set and ruin the timeline of the show.
00:01:56.000Everybody's supposed to do 15 minutes.
00:01:57.000There's like fucking 16 people on the show.
00:02:42.000Yeah, I always ask now during the commercial break where I get to talk directly to the Kill Tony audience, and I ask, how many of you live in Austin, Texas?
00:04:07.000That's what I was telling Lewis is like even the few people that we, you know, really want that haven't moved here are coming here all the time.
00:04:15.000Like it's a Vegas residency or something like that.
00:04:18.000Yeah, Theo was there too at the fights and he's coming in July.
00:04:49.000I, you know, I never thought I would leave LA and then when the shit hit the fan and riots and governments and you realize taxes are absolutely insane for what we were getting and I feel more at home here than I ever did there and I was there for almost 20 years.
00:05:06.000But when the plane's landing and you look out the right side and you see downtown Austin instead of downtown LA, it feels more like, oh yeah.
00:05:15.000It's a better place for comedy, too, in terms of, like, you don't have the traffic.
00:07:42.000More than three dozen candidates were assassinated, including a local government candidate in central Puebla state who was killed on Friday, increasing the total number of those killed to 37. Who the fuck would want to run for office in Mexico?
00:09:41.000Republicans won't be the solution either, kids.
00:09:44.000The problem is people in a position of power.
00:09:46.000The Republicans seem like they are your solution, but it's just because the people in power right now are the Democrats.
00:09:54.000Whenever the Democrats are out and the Republicans are in, everybody is dying for a Democrat.
00:10:00.000I remember when Bush was president, after the second term, everyone was like, good lord, can we get a fucking reasonable democrat in here before this country goes Christian nationalist and fucking goes crazy and starts every war?
00:10:14.000And then Obama comes in like, oh, I think it's going to be great.
00:10:16.000But it kind of seems like kind of the same, you know?
00:10:19.000And the whistleblower protection that he promised, eh, actually probably like one of the worst whistleblowers ever.
00:10:26.000Drone strikes, eh, kind of a shitload of drone strikes.
00:11:24.000I'm one of those people that I don't give a fuck where you were born as long as you're not actually an undercover terrorist, you know?
00:11:32.000If you're like clearly like a regular person, That just happened to be born in Nigeria or happened to be born in Saudi Arabia, but now you're here.
00:12:22.000Trials and tribulations, character testers, a lot of education, a certain amount of like changing your perspective on the world because we all do that.
00:12:30.000As a young man, I was very liberal, super, super liberal.
00:12:35.000I mean I just – anything the democrats believed, I believed.
00:12:38.000Never interested in anything the republicans had to say.
00:12:41.000All they wanted to do was like – Shove God down your throat and stop abortions.
00:12:58.000People get rich, they get Republican real quick.
00:13:01.000But there's a lot of really rich people that are Democrats, which is interesting.
00:13:04.000Because they've got so much money, they can vote Democrat.
00:13:08.000They got so much money they don't even try to protect it.
00:13:11.000California is considering a 30 cents per gallon tax on the miles, or 30 cents per mile, because so many people have electric cars, so the gas tax is losing money.
00:13:23.000And they want everybody to have an electric car by 3035, or 2035. 3035 would actually be realistic.
00:18:44.000You know, that country's run by money, just like this country's run by money, but instead of the military-industrial complex, it's the supplying Americans with drugs.
00:20:40.000We were in San Diego and we drove down and the first thing I saw was a dead body leaning against the the rock with that split that says this side's America, this side's Mexico.
00:22:21.000So, Benji goes to the Venice Beach Mortuary or whatever, picks up the urn.
00:22:26.000They go to the ocean, and Matt's kind of watching Benji, and he goes, like, waist-high in the water, and he dumps out Skeezy's ashes, and it all just starts to compile.
00:25:49.000It was how I found out about Kinnison.
00:25:52.000I found out about it through a girl I worked with.
00:25:54.000This girl I work with reenacted Kinnison's bit about homosexual necrophiliacs paying money to morticians to spend a few hours undisturbed with their freshest male corpse.
00:27:47.000You know, and then there was Richard Pryor, and then there was Eddie Murphy, but I never thought, like, sick shit could be funny until I saw Kinison.
00:28:02.000I was a Jim Carrey guy and you know when I was young the funny faces and all the silly noises and stuff and everything and then when he did Man on the Moon and I saw that darker side of things and Andy gets fired from the improv right at the beginning of the movie and I realized right then that he was making money performing in front of live audiences and I'm like what the fuck is that?
00:35:42.000This guy's nice to one person who he doesn't really want to be nice to, gives her a water or a tea or whatever, and she falls in love with him, and it is the scariest show.
00:35:53.000I think it's supposed to be a comedy, I don't think I laughed once.
00:37:43.000And they're all talking about discrediting people who are talking about the lab leak theory.
00:37:48.000I mean, what they did was insane, and they did it in front of everybody.
00:37:53.000And finally, Fauci has to talk about it to people.
00:37:57.000But he's still in denial about all of it.
00:38:00.000There's no science that says that masking for children works.
00:38:03.000There's no science that says that vaccinating children works, that it's good, that it's overall good.
00:38:07.000And the amount of people that have gotten wrecked by this, they're starting to recognize it in other countries, and they're talking about it in other countries.
00:38:16.000They haven't quite gone public with it in all the newspapers in the United States yet.
00:39:14.000It says, researchers from the Netherlands analyzed data from 47 Western countries and discovered there have been more than 3 million excess deaths since 2020, with the trend continuing despite the rollout of vaccines and containment measures.
00:39:29.000Experts said the unprecedented figures raised serious concerns and called on governments to fully investigate the underlying causes, including possible vaccine harms.
00:39:43.000Because, you know, now that we're getting an understanding of how much deception was involved, like trying to blame it on a natural origin when they clearly knew it was a lab leak.
00:40:28.000COVID vaccines may have helped fueled rise in excess deaths.
00:40:33.000The excess deaths have to be discussed and no one wants to because that's the real thing.
00:40:38.000The all-cause mortality deaths, the big uptick in cancer and what they're calling turbo cancer.
00:40:45.000Obviously, again, I don't understand any of this stuff, but Peter McCullough was talking about what the mechanism behind this rise in cancer would be and how it could be tied into it.
00:40:58.000He was explaining it from a medical perspective.
00:42:16.000They're literally like, I've had COVID four times, I got two shots.
00:42:20.000I got three boosters, I've had it five times.
00:42:23.000It's so contrary to what the whole thing was supposed to do.
00:42:29.000I'm just hoping that people wake up and realize that...
00:42:33.000We have this idealistic perspective that they're looking out for your best interests, but whenever there's enormous amounts of money to be made, they will distort the facts, even if something is beneficial.
00:42:46.000I mean, let's just pretend that there's no excess deaths.
00:42:49.000Let's pretend that it just causes a bunch of neurological issues and autoimmune issues, which it seems to do.
00:43:23.000So you have the scientists that create the awesome medicine, and then you have the money people who figure out a way to fucking sell this to people, force people to take it.
00:43:30.000And when you watch videos of all the different things, and during this thing, one of the things is that...
00:43:38.000Fauci was claiming that he didn't coerce anybody to take the vaccine, but there's this whole recorded conversation of him talking about if you keep people from working, you keep people like if Amazon says they're not going to hire people at big corporations, you have to be vaccinated to fly.
00:43:54.000He goes, it's shown that people will drop their ideological bullshit and get vaccinated.
00:47:52.000These clips, they do a funny thing over at CNN. I think we were talking about this the other day because of a joke that I do in the headlines.
00:47:58.000They do a funny thing where they can change the headlines after a certain amount of time.
00:56:36.000You don't know what the fuck is going on in the world.
00:56:39.000You have this surface level understanding of what's going on in the world.
00:56:45.000And now everybody knows what's going on in the world.
00:56:47.000Now every, like, the amount we knew about the Iraq invasion in, like, in 92, 93, whatever it was, when the Iraq invaded Kuwait and Desert Storm, the amount we knew was, like, minuscule.
00:58:25.000They had a line of people outside waiting to get to the hospital because so many people were in there for horse dewormer overdoses that gunshot victims couldn't get in.
00:58:36.000They're so dumb, they used a photograph.
00:58:38.000This was in, like, August in Oklahoma.
00:58:40.000They used a photograph of people wearing coats.
00:58:43.000Because they were lining up for a flu shot.
00:59:06.000It seems like the type of article that you would put out if you want the person assassinated and you want to make it look like someone else is going to assassinate them.
00:59:15.000One source recalled him saying it in the past, earlier this year, that he would do something like that.
00:59:20.000He should create a kill list of drug lords consisting of most notorious heads of drug cartels that a special ops team would be tasked with killing or capturing.
00:59:27.000That's a different way of saying that.
00:59:29.000You know, the problem with that is you create a power vacuum, and then what happens is someone else rises to the new spot.
00:59:36.000You're not going to stop the demand, so you're not going to stop the supply.
00:59:41.000You can try, but unless you're in an all-out, everyday war with the cartel, you're probably not going to do that.
00:59:49.000Even if you kidnap and capture leaders, you're going to disrupt the organization.
00:59:53.000But my guess, my uneducated guess, would be someone was going to come in to fill that void.
01:02:14.000They also only do, like, the state bill stuff here for, like, I mean, I don't know how different it is in other states, but it's only, like, six months out of the year.
01:02:20.000The other half, they're not, like, they're out of session.
01:04:01.000Like, they're avoiding it maybe on purpose or someone doesn't want to vote on it.
01:04:04.000And, you know, by the way, this is like, you know, some people look at it like...
01:04:09.000Oh, well, those people are doing cocaine anyway, or whatever, so maybe it's not the, you know, we're not losing the best people, but it could be anybody doing anything.
01:04:18.000It could be somebody trying to do, you know, fucking Molly, or, I don't know, any more fun, like an actual, like, goofy psychedelic drug or something like that.
01:04:34.000The logic behind not wanting it to be legal or sticking your neck out and saying that it should be legal is that people want to then attach you to promoting drug use and then you would possibly like have an opponent that could turn it against you and say, my opponent promotes drug use.
01:04:51.000You could have that kind of a deal happen.
01:05:53.000Also, they realized that public support for gay marriage was way higher because the stigma of being gay all sort of, you know, not that long ago, it was way more stigmatized.
01:06:05.000Like, so many people were in the closet in Hollywood.
01:06:32.000But also, making gay marriage legal didn't cost them vast sums of money.
01:06:36.000I bet if we did an online poll, Where every American had to vote and had to log in, and you polled them, do you think we should be giving money to foreign wars?
01:06:48.000I can't imagine the number being lower than 90% for no.
01:06:54.000Yeah, I think I saw a recent Twitter poll where they tried to do that, and the majority of people was like, no.
01:07:01.000I mean if we force people to vote on an actual issue.
01:07:05.000Well, it's also – you have so many people that are hawkish and they think that we can break Russia or that we need to support Israel or whatever their position is where they're real hawkish on.
01:07:19.000And they have a limited amount of information about it when you talk to them.
01:07:22.000So many people, when you talk to them about it, you're like, well, why do you think that we need to keep sending money to Ukraine?
01:07:46.000But that doesn't mean that you should spend hundreds of billions of dollars To prolong what seems like some horrible, bloody conflict that just...
01:08:11.000Is it good that China and Russia have cuddled up together now, and they're all buddy-buddy, and they're fucking shaking hands and smiling and taking pictures?
01:08:54.000I think that they think by glancing at our weird propaganda that we have, that we're being fed, they're like, this guy's kind of crazy according to them.
01:11:28.000If you have the backing of the political party, it doesn't matter.
01:11:32.000Like, especially the party that's in charge.
01:11:35.000But what's scary is how many Democrats are willing to allow this kind of stuff to happen But a lot of them are aware of it.
01:11:42.000There was this one lady that went viral and she was talking about it and she was saying, you have to understand, like, I'm not a Trump supporter, I don't like Trump, but this is really dangerous for democracy.
01:11:53.000Nobody can justify this and nobody can say this guy should be in jail for this.
01:12:36.000Do you know how divided the country would be then?
01:12:38.000Well, that's the same thing kind of that is taking place now at a lesser scale, obviously, because it's not a war crime you're charging someone with, but you could.
01:12:46.000You could charge Trump with war crimes.
01:12:48.000You could find some things that he did, especially with bombings and even what Obama did.
01:12:54.000Obama, during the administration, they dropped a drone on a US citizen.
01:13:34.000It's just a weird thing that people do.
01:13:36.000And people form teams and they justify why they should use any means necessary to silence the other people on the other team, the opposition, and they don't even realize they're setting a precedent when this motherfucker gets an office or another motherfucker gets an office that's a Republican.
01:14:15.000And if you change the way people are allowed to go after political candidates and you change the way you're allowed to silence and imprison your candidates, then we're like Mexico.
01:14:27.000We're just not assassinating people yet.
01:15:11.000I mean, the one thing you can do is get a job as, like, a political person, unlike TV. You'll get one of those jobs, like, if you're a White House press secretary.
01:15:56.000It's not good for everyone else There's terrible actual places and the money that it would cost I mean, that's a cost that people would get behind.
01:16:04.000Yeah The things that we would pay for, instead of the things that we are paying for, insane.
01:16:11.000I think that happened during the Reagan administration.
01:16:13.000I think they changed, like, what it means to be a mentally ill person.
01:18:17.000Like, we would be watching TV, you'd be watching like a baseball game, and you'd go, you know, what the fuck?
01:18:22.000You'd smack the TV, and it would come back in, yeah, you got it!
01:18:26.000Like, that's how bad electronics were back then.
01:18:28.000You would smack the TV, and sometimes it would fix it.
01:18:31.000Like, sometimes it was like going up, it was just like, blip, blip, the screen would go up, and you just whack the side of it, and it would stay still.
01:22:49.000There's a lot of weird stuff that happens to people with their brain.
01:22:52.000Your brain, when one part of your brain gets damaged, the other part of your brain seems to have an ability to recover.
01:22:57.000There's this one guy, see if you can find this story, this one guy Developed fluid in his brain when he was young and they drained it so they installed some sort of a thing that drained the fluid from his brain and Once they did that as he got older he got another MRI and they realized his brain was missing He only had the outside area of the brain and he had like a 75 IQ But he was fully functioning with the entire center of his
01:23:27.000brain gone You see the MRI, you're like, what in the fuck?
01:23:42.000So he developed some sort of fluid, and they put something in there, and I forget where it drained to, but then, over time, you know, his symptoms went away, but his brain went away, too.
01:23:53.000Like, whatever that fluid was in his brain, it was like, took over the whole brain.
01:25:47.000This person is not bright, but perfectly socially apt.
01:25:51.000Clearmans is a cognitive psychologist at the University of Libre in Brussels.
01:25:55.000When he learned about the case, which first described in The Lancet in 2007, he saw a medical miracle, but also a major challenge to theories about consciousness.
01:26:05.000This dude is missing 90% of his fucking brain.
01:26:16.000You put a photo of his brain up on the screen and explain that this guy's literally up here with no brain.
01:26:25.000Going back to the brain damage, making people funny thing, we have a new regular, as of yesterday, and it was only his second night ever on the show, Drew Nickens, who was bullied by his own military partners.
01:26:45.000And I don't know what they did to him, something head trauma-wise, that he didn't really want to get into.
01:27:26.000Rather than 90% of this man's brain being missing, it's more likely that it's simply been compressed into the thin layer that you can see in the images above.
01:28:48.000Sitting next to him the whole time before that roast, because that thing went on for two hours before I got up there, and there's nobody I would have rather have sat next to.
01:29:47.000And I've done that before, where I did the work, and it feels so much different, because I've also done it where I kind of fucked off, and then you're like, ooh, I didn't do my best.
01:30:02.000I keep glancing at them, and they're at an angle, you know, and they're not like that well-lit, and they're kind of long and not that tall, so I knew I had to look.
01:32:21.000He'd have food deliveries come up to the green room and he'd be like, God damn it, they put bread on this sandwich.
01:32:28.000Me and Derek and Hassan, the looks that we would give each other, the fucking holding in secret fucking laughs, nuclear capacity fucking laughter all the time.
01:32:41.000They're like, why'd you order it with the bread?
01:32:43.000He's like, because if you don't order it with the bread, they don't put all the things on there.
01:32:46.000There's no containment system, so I order it with the bread and take off the bread.
01:33:26.000Post Malone got him good because he went after Post Malone at the forum in the arena and he was wearing a camo shirt and Post just fucking grabbed that microphone, put it right up to his mouth and goes, you're the only guy in camo that the people all the way in the back of the arena can see.
01:34:46.000I told Jeff Ross and Brian Moses, all the roast battle guys, after that night, because there was a festival going on, so we were all hanging out after we would all do our separate things that night.
01:36:00.000Or else it comes out clunky and you're trying to recall.
01:36:03.000And that pause, that hesitation that happens in roast battle that doesn't necessarily happen in a parking lot roast battle or on a Keltony with David and Harlan, just heavyweights going back and forth.
01:36:39.000You guys should do a podcast, even if you do it once a week for an hour, you guys both talking shit to each other and talking shit about things.
01:36:46.000Because the chemistry of the two of you together is so unique.
01:37:07.000There's a series that is actually in development right now that's cool, but I'm really excited about this movie idea that He just had a big meeting about where I'm a principal and he's a fat gym teacher and there's a bunch of they-thims at the school and then there's a school shooting and we have to protect the they-thims and all this stuff and there's just all these vessels and setups for everything.
01:37:35.000We can just do everything that we've ever done but actually implement it into a...
01:40:22.000Sometimes they have good Wi-Fi and you can actually almost watch a YouTube video, which is every now and then it spins and it comes back on, but most of the time not.
01:40:31.000You know, they're not really ready for that yet.
01:40:33.000I wonder if that'll change with Starlink.
01:40:35.000You know, I wonder if they'll hook up Starlink to planes.
01:40:37.000Dude, we saw Starlink the other night.
01:42:05.000These white ladies, fake lips, just sucking dicks.
01:42:09.000Initially, the internet was heralded as a positive for the remote tribe who were able to quickly contact authorities for help with emergencies, including potentially deadly snake bites.
01:42:48.000So, at this point, they might not even be able to go help those people.
01:42:55.000Like, imagine if you just stepped in and say, hey, we're going to establish schools and clinics, and like, who knows what's going on with them.
01:43:02.00060,000 years of people living on one island, and there's only 39 of them left.
01:48:27.000I mean, on one hand, it gives the films a lot of recognition and it helps people do other cool projects and it helps more great movies get made.
01:48:39.000And you get to showcase great actors and they get rewarded.
01:48:41.000So people want to become a great actress.
01:49:04.000And it doesn't make sense, because it's like, oh, Forrest Gump's an Academy Award winning movie, and Pulp Fiction, and Shawshank Redemption are not.
01:49:12.000Only because they coincidentally came out in the same year.
01:50:07.000And it came from the top and notes for David Chase, who is a monster.
01:50:14.000I mean, I still, I probably brought this up here before, but I still, to this day, and I laughed about it to myself just a couple nights ago, there I am, glancing through.
01:50:24.000I blasted through the new season of The Jinx, which is fucking unbelievable, on HBO. One of my favorite murder documentaries ever, the crazy-ass Robert Durst.
01:50:33.000And then there I am, just, yep, nothing.
01:53:00.000Changed TV. Totally changed TV. Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Fargo, all these great series that came after it would not have happened if it wasn't for David Chase and The Sopranos.
01:57:29.000There's a part where they're doing the walkout, and it's like frame for frame, a ripoff of Lucy Liu's walkout when she's arriving to that place.
02:00:40.000Like, I don't have a video game console and I don't play games on my phone.
02:00:43.000So when I got back from LA to treat myself, even though I don't even play chess, I downloaded a chess app because my Instagram showed me a finishing chess move.
02:00:54.000Dude, you don't know how to play chess?
02:03:38.000It's like it hoses off all of life's bullshit because it requires everything of you in that one moment.
02:03:48.000And I think if you can find anything like that, whatever the fuck it is, whether it's yoga or whatever it is, golf, you find a thing where when you're doing it, it requires all of your concentration.
02:03:59.000I think that's like a good flush out of the system.
02:04:03.000And I think people who don't have that have a lot of fucking anxiety.
02:04:06.000And I think your brain never gets cleaned out.
02:04:11.000You need a thing that's almost like a...
02:04:14.000You know, people do it through meditation.
02:04:15.000They do it through a lot of different ways, but it's like there's a way you're focusing only on one thing that's like super beneficial for some reason.
02:06:38.000I was thinking about this when Tom Brady came out for the roast because we're there at the front table and he comes out and he was just so much taller and more present than I thought he would be.
02:06:57.000He wasn't caught daydreaming or staring at the teleprompter.
02:07:00.000What did he say to you when you said about his shoes, like, nice shoes, bitch.
02:07:03.000uh he goes i'll shove this up your ass right now and i was stumped dude there was a hard two seconds where i had to reset and be like oh my god do i acknowledge that was that mike did they did they hear that i did not hear it right well i just found out that when they did they they did an edit pass through on it and i haven't seen it yet But I guess they turned up his volume on that,
02:07:29.000so now you can hear it, which I actually am looking forward to seeing for the first time.
02:07:34.000They just did a final pass-through edit like last week, they told me.
02:07:38.000What did he say to Jeff Ross when Jeff Ross made a joke about Robert Kraft getting a handjob?
02:09:53.000And, you know, they write a loose script, they send it to the person, the person reviews it and says what they do want, what they don't want.
02:10:02.000And sometimes, you know, what you definitely don't want is someone to go, I don't want to hit this, I don't want to hit that, I don't want to go too hard on this.
02:10:09.000The fearless people, a perfect example of this is Martha Stewart at the Justin Bieber roast.
02:11:11.000So please tell me because I'm trying to figure out what's going on because there's so much...
02:11:15.000I see so many tweets and posts about it online and I'm cursory aware.
02:11:21.000So I don't, I mean, I've been busy doing work stuff, but from what I've seen is that like he's making more, he came back out like online, posted something like a week or two ago about GameStop.
02:11:32.000It shot the stock up again like it did previously during the pandemic, which is like created a whole movie.
02:12:01.000That's becoming the new talk of what I've seen over the last 24 hours is that he recently, I think over the last day, posted what his holdings are in GameStop.
02:12:12.000And that has created some discussions, which is why I brought it up.
02:12:16.000Because people are bringing up Nancy Pelosi a lot.
02:12:43.000I mean, if someone goes on MSNBC and gives a bunch of opinions about certain stocks that will perform or won't perform, and they're an expert, and if they're invested in those things,
02:12:58.000and if they then change the way people interact with the stock market, more people start investing in these things, is that okay?
02:14:21.000In response to CNBC commentator Rick Centelli, who had recently said on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade that homeowners facing foreclosure were losers.
02:14:31.000Santelli had been said to appear on the show, but CNBC canceled Santelli's appearance.
02:14:37.000Stewart, along with Daily Show executives, claimed the CNBC montage was not retaliatory and that they planned to show it before the cancellation was announced.
02:14:46.000Subsequent media coverage exchanges between Kramer, who had been featured heavily in the original segment, and Stewart led to a highly anticipated face-to-face confrontation on Stewart's show.
02:14:55.000The episode received a large amount of media hype and became the second most viewed episode of The Daily Show, trailing only the 2009 Inauguration Day episode.
02:15:21.000If I'd only followed CNBC's advice, I'd have a million dollars today, Stewart said during the piece, provided I started with a hundred million dollars.
02:16:22.000Because if you're a guy and you're tweeting about how much you love GameStop and about you're so bullish on GameStop that you've just invested $100,000 in GameStop and everybody reads that and they go, oh, I'm going to buy GameStop too.
02:16:35.000And then your $100,000 in GameStop goes up in value.
02:17:20.000And I've not heard a consensus good answer.
02:17:23.000I don't know that they've gone digging through this in Congress or not yet, because they're talking about so much other stuff.
02:17:29.000Right, but it's so weird that there's certain loopholes that don't get patched up really quick, especially a loophole in regards to the financial markets.
02:17:37.000No one saw that you could take a stock that's not that valuable and make it super crazy valuable?
02:17:43.000So something I saw was a speculation was saying he's got holdings, I think, on Morgan Stanley.
02:17:48.000He's got call options, which I can barely even understand enough to explain to you.
02:17:54.000But he's betting on the price of the stock to go up.
02:17:57.000If he exercises those call options at a certain number, I think it was, he'd be worth more than I think Morgan Stanley is.
02:18:17.000When Bernie Sanders was explaining how much you could make just from all these speculation trades that they do, you'd take a fraction of a penny from each trade, and it'd be worth a trillion dollars.
02:18:30.000Yeah, I was talking to a banker asking them, they're like, you, as a normal person, I guess, that's not what she said, but like, as a normal consumer, you would probably hold a stock.
02:18:37.000You'd buy a stock and you hold it forever until you decide to sell it one day.
02:18:41.000They're buying and selling it 7 to 12 times a day based off of whatever.
02:18:45.000And they're just making little margins here and there, and it's stacking up.
02:18:48.000And they're doing it in such large numbers that, yeah.
02:18:50.000And they're probably doing it with algorithms, right?
02:18:53.000Yeah, then there's like a show that on HBO, I think, Traders or something, you can watch young people who do this now.
02:18:59.000They stare at a computer and they start making bets on like, wait, wait, five more seconds.
02:19:04.000You make $30 million if you make $10 million.
02:19:06.000If you had a podcast, not us, but someone else with a podcast, and they just start talking about a stock, and then that stock goes up, is that legal?
02:19:17.000It has to get really deep into the wording, the language you use.
02:19:20.000If you're just talking about it, it's disgusting.
02:19:22.000But if you're saying, like, buy it for these reasons, and I've done this, and these are the reasons why it will go up, that can probably get you in trouble.
02:19:28.000What if you have information that a stock is going to crash, but you don't tell anybody?
02:19:34.000So if you know that a stock is going to crash, you know that some information is going to be put out, and then you sell your stock, that's illegal, right?
02:20:04.000So I have to sit here, even though I know that something fucked up and it's gonna come public and there's gonna be something where a product fails and the stock's gonna crash.
02:20:25.000I don't know if it's the Italian in me or whatever, or parents that kept cash in shoeboxes in between the mattresses or whatever, but it's just all so fucking freaky to me.
02:20:38.000I mean, if it was up to me, I would just have that.
02:20:56.000You might not be manipulating in the sense that you have information that's going to – you know, maybe the stock is going to take off and you buy a shitload of it and then – because you know a bill is going to be passed, which is okay if you're in Congress.
02:21:57.000She knew it was gonna do well, or what?
02:22:03.000More time to analyze the evidence, verdict...
02:22:06.000Want to put the article up so we can look at it?
02:22:08.000I'm digging through the information really quickly because it's like tying her information in with the full story and other people's stuff and saying what some people did and some didn't.
02:23:46.000But it's just weird that you can do it in Congress.
02:23:49.000It's weird that there's some sort of manipulation of the market that's okay, that's legal.
02:23:57.000Including propaganda, you know, I mean think about that like if you have propaganda on a news network that gets people to try Ozempic or something else that if they they're paying for that and that boosts up their profits like what's that?
02:24:11.000If that jacks your stock up that jacks your profits up like what is that?
02:24:16.000And are you in trouble if you didn't tell the truth?
02:24:18.000Like what if you knew something contrary to what you were telling people to say because you were sponsoring them and And you didn't tell them.
02:24:24.000Like, you don't get in trouble for that?
02:27:46.000This is so bizarre that we've gotten to the point where we only have archaic people that are deeply embedded in the system that are getting their crack at it.
02:31:36.000And nobody thought that that was going to lead to TikTok.
02:31:39.000Nobody thought that was going to lead to Instagram reels.
02:31:41.000And people argue on Twitter all day long.
02:31:44.000Nobody thought any of the crazy narcissism and the filters and the effect that it's going to have on people's self-worth, their opinion of themselves, the way they...
02:31:53.000The way young kids are looking at the world and influencers.
02:31:57.000Now there's a whole giant group of people that just be famous for famous?
02:33:06.000It might completely end all of the problems we have, like a disproportionate amount of resources available to some percentage of the population that keeps them enslaved.
02:33:18.000That might be balanced out by an ethical artificial general intelligence that just decides how to allocate resources and then takes over almost all jobs.
02:33:30.000But it's just, how long does it tolerate us?
02:33:33.000How long does it decide that these fucking flesh monkeys, these dumbasses with guns and planes and shit, all the dumb fucking shit we do, riding around on unicycles, fucking training monkeys, What are we doing?
02:33:57.000It might decide that consciousness needs to be interfaced by a superior thing and that the physical boundaries, the physical problems, the limitations of our biological bodies are too much and just might bail on us.
02:34:13.000It might look at us as a threat to the it.
02:34:16.000Yeah, we're a threat to the whole planet.
02:34:17.000You know, it's like, did you ever see the Neanderthal theory?
02:34:21.000There's a Neanderthal theory that it's very dismissed by real anthropologists, but it's a kooky one to consider, is that Neanderthals hunted people and ate people and that our view of them looking like us could have been wrong and they could have looked more like gorillas,
02:34:41.000But they're super muscular, really fucking strong, much stronger than people, much more dense bones, and that they might have hunted us, and that we might have led them to extinction by fighting them, that we fought off the Neanderthals, but that we were their prey.
02:34:58.000It's a crazy thought to consider, and I don't think it's true.
02:35:15.000There's no living Neanderthals around anymore.
02:35:22.000If we did exterminate them, which it seems like we did, if we felt like they were a threat so we killed them off, why would we think that...
02:35:30.000Super-intelligent aliens or whatever artificial life that we're creating, which is going to be way smarter than us compared to how smart we are compared to Neanderthals.
02:35:41.000Neanderthals might have even been smart.
02:36:48.000They got some of the stones from the King's Chamber 500 miles away, and they're fucking huge, man.
02:36:55.000I had Billy Carson on the podcast yesterday.
02:36:57.000He's kind of an expert in, not kind of, he's an expert in ancient scrolls, like the Sumerian texts, and he's got a lot of wild conspiracies that are really fun.
02:37:09.000And we were just talking about If there's one place you could go back in time and see what was that like, I would go to Egypt in the height.
02:37:38.000It's highly likely that the next version of us, whatever it is, is going to get rid of these things.
02:37:44.000These biological things that are responsible for crime and violence and theft and insider trading and fucking cheating on their taxes and all that stuff.
02:38:55.000All of our chaos and all of our ingenuity and all of our drive for innovation and to create new things, that's a part of creating them.
02:39:03.000We have to have a desire to create things in order to create artificial life.
02:39:07.000If we were all just happy, just living and just working on a farm and just eating and sleeping and having kids and then dying and then the next generation does it all over again, if we were happy doing that, It would never be born.
02:39:25.000It's born out of our desire to constantly get newer, better stuff, our desire to work ourselves to the bone, even when we're having heart attacks.
02:40:29.000We used to be the superior species, but nope, not anymore, because some fucking eggheads hopped up on Adderall, alone in a laboratory, wouldn't stop.
02:40:39.000They knew it was coming, and they didn't stop.
02:40:47.000Tony Hinchcliffe, you're the fucking man.