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00:00:37.000Well, the reason I do it is because I started wearing hats because after the show, people would take photos with me with my shaved head, and the light would just bounce off my chrome, and you couldn't see me in the photo.
00:00:48.000So I realized that I wore baseball caps, but then when you're on stage, it puts a shadow over your face.
00:01:15.000Dude, when I was a teenager, there was a place in New York called the Stag Brothers, and there was these two Italian brothers, and they cut hair.
00:01:24.000And you go in there, and the reason we all went, like our moms would drop us off out front, we'd go inside, and then they had penthouse magazines while you waited.
00:01:33.000So you hoped that you got to wait for a while, and then they'd call you, and you got your little 15-year-old erection, you're trying to hide.
00:06:14.000Like, see some guy pull out his fucking sausage roll when he's pissing right next to you, and you're a little kid, you're like, what the fuck does he do with that thing?
00:06:22.000Yeah, and his balls are hanging, like, six inches down.
00:06:25.000Like, Ari's balls, or Joey Diaz's balls.
00:06:27.000Joey Diaz's balls are like grapefruit in an old lady's pantyhose.
00:07:57.000I've told this story on my podcast, but I'll give a brief version of it.
00:08:01.000I went, when I was in college, I was an English major and I studied like Allen Ginsberg and Kerouac and all these guys that were into homoerotic stuff.
00:08:56.000And then I realized, like, I'm going to do it, and when I do it, it's either going to be like, ugh, or it's going to be like, oh my god, this is fucking amazing!
00:10:04.000And he walks over, and we look at each other, and then he unzips his pants, he pulls out his cock, and I'm just looking at it, and then he pulls his balls out.
00:10:13.000And I look at the balls, and I was like, nope.
00:12:31.000Yeah They gave me timeout and continued the fight, but I knew it really hurt.
00:12:37.000I lost the fight and And then as I was driving home, I was with my girlfriend, and I was thinking at the time, I was like, I don't know if this thing works anymore.
00:19:28.000That's like some of these action movies, you see them fucking running around shooting at each other, and you go like, wait a minute, this guy was just on a rooftop with a sight, hitting somebody from 300 yards away, and now he can't hit him?
00:19:39.000He's fucking running down the street, and they're missing each other with 20 shots?
00:20:05.000You know, they have the stock pressed against their body, and all they're doing is controlling this finger and not flinching and controlling their breathing and keeping that.
00:20:15.000Because, you know, a lot of these guys can shoot from a mile away now.
00:21:39.000That's so far away, you can barely see it.
00:21:42.000So they're looking through this insane scope on this rifle, and they've got this crosshair on some dude's head that's a mile away, and they go, boom.
00:24:45.000And he had a—it was a shotgun, but he set it up like an AK-47, so you could go—you could shoot a shotgun, but like— Yeah, terror tactical.
00:24:59.000You're like, you want to shoot tomorrow?
00:25:01.000I was like, yeah, I figured we're going to some range with a bunch of, you know, yuppies, shoot, and IZOD shirts and flip-flops, and I walk out, and we drive down.
00:25:10.000I get off the highway, We're good to go.
00:25:30.000And we get down there, and what was the guy's name that runs it?
00:26:22.000See if you can find one of those where they run a course.
00:26:25.000So they time them and it's all about accuracy and speed.
00:26:29.000But if you're a hot chick and you can get involved in something that's a primarily male thing, what is the ratio of male gun enthusiasts to female gun enthusiasts?
00:35:23.000And so what they were trying to do with these background, like imagine you're a background guy, you know, you just moved to Hollywood, you know, you want to get work as an actor, so you decide to take a background gig in a movie.
00:35:35.000You sign this thing off, but then you wind up becoming successful.
00:35:39.000That's how almost all actors get started.
00:36:45.000And it's moody, it's dark, there's rain dripping from the ceiling, you're looking at the gun before he shoots the guy, the pupils dilate, the fucking, the pores, guy's got a pockmarked face from acne scars.
00:38:37.000But I remember they were trying to make this transition.
00:38:41.000But people didn't like the way it looked.
00:38:42.000There was a video, an advertisement the other day, with Tom Cruise and someone else, and they were talking about the settings on your television.
00:38:50.000That if you have the settings on your television set from the factory incorrectly, it can make these brilliant films look too much like video.
00:39:01.000Because of whatever funky, you know, shit they're doing to make the television look clearer and crisper, which is great in most things, but it's not great when you're watching a film that's been sort of designed to get you to focus on specific things and have the background more blurry.
00:39:18.000Like, I remember the first time I saw one of the Star Wars films, like Return of the Jedi or one of those, and I saw it on a high-resolution big-screen TV. I was like, this looks like Dog shit.
00:43:09.000Because she has a whole QVC line and it's a lot of the same stuff.
00:43:13.000But then the woman that plays, she's got like this writer who's like her, she writes for her and goes on the road with her, played by Lorraine Newman's daughter.
00:43:34.000Midge Maisel from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel was inspired by real-life comedian Joan Rivers, sharing similarities in their upbringing, education, and performing at the Gaslight Cafe in New York.
00:44:10.000I want to see the struggle in her trying to make it because it's kind of crazy that this housewife decides to become a comedian and she's actually really talented and kind of wild and crazy.
00:44:19.000But then once she starts making, I'm bored.
00:44:45.000Yeah, it's hard for people to pull off because you've got to really be doing it.
00:44:52.000Because if you're not really doing it, I know you're not really doing it.
00:44:54.000If it's not really making the audience laugh, even if you had to do your act and there was a crowd of people that were paid to laugh at your act, So you have to do your act.
00:45:04.000They see you do it over and over and over again.
00:46:06.000Well, instead of doing multiple takes, what you would do is you would just film all the stand-up and then splice it into the show or the movie.
00:46:42.000And it's always that same storyline every comic, which, you know, like, there's an element of truth to it, but, like, they're starting out, they've got a shtick, and then somebody, an older person pulls by and goes, hey, man, you gotta just be yourself.
00:47:44.000Came up to me to improv one night and we had a cool conversation.
00:47:47.000But Lucian Holt brought me to his apartment.
00:47:50.000Lucian Holt, by the way, he had mixed feelings because anytime you're a club booker, you're going to have a certain number of people that just are not a fan because they didn't get passed.
00:55:02.000Like sometimes for a comic, it's one bit that you base an entire career on.
00:55:06.000And you have this one bit, and this bit shows you that with the proper focus and a subject where you're really connected to it, you can come up with a banger.
00:56:52.000Well, especially when it's more than one bit and they put a compilation together, then it's like, wow.
00:56:57.000Also, there's a thing that happens with those guys where you see there's a stark contrast between the material they steal and the material they write themselves.
00:57:08.000Like, the material they write themselves, it doesn't make any sense.
00:57:12.000It's like they're doing a caricature of the guy who was killing with the jokes with that same attitude.
00:57:18.000But now you have nothing connected to it, but you have all this confidence.
00:57:23.000And when they get caught, then they have to do their own stuff.
00:57:27.000And usually it's a fucking drop off a cliff.
00:57:32.000It's a drop off a cliff, the difference between the early stuff where they weren't stealing, or they were stealing rather, and the later stuff where they have to write their own stuff.
00:57:40.000Well, also, when you get guys that aren't just taking—and not just guys, women, obviously—who aren't just taking the jokes, but they're taking the persona.
00:57:49.000Like, how many guys did we see being Bill Hicks back in the day?
00:57:53.000Well, there was a sign in the green room of the punchline in Atlanta.
00:58:23.000And it had, they must have done comedy 30 years there easily.
00:58:27.000They moved to a, it's funny because it's not as big of a place and it's connected to like a diner, but it's still kind of got the magic of the old Punchline.
00:59:29.000You know, you got people that, you know, it's a waitress that she's been working there 20 years, but she's got a day job, but she's like, fuck that.
00:59:35.000I'm still coming in on Friday nights because these are my friends, you know?
00:59:39.000And I get to see all the comics that I've loved over the years.
01:00:22.000And so she hit the ground running because like...
01:00:24.000You know, you don't know people, and all of a sudden she's working with a staff of people that are all fun as shit, and they work together, and then they all go out for drinks afterwards, and now she's got a real job, and she's still working there one or two nights a week.
01:00:36.000That comedy store in La Jolla is another one of those places.
01:02:01.000There's a certain percentage of bullshit that exists in normal conversations in Hollywood that just doesn't exist in the rest of the country.
01:02:08.000No, I was just in New York last week, and all anybody talks about in New York is they talk about politics in a smart way, they talk about culture, they talk about writers, and then you go back to L.A., and they just all talk about showbiz.
01:03:07.000Well, it came off way worse than the reality of it was.
01:03:10.000Explain it to people that don't know what we're talking about.
01:03:12.000Well, so I asked him to write the foreword to my book, and then he said on the air, there's a million things I'd rather do than sit down and write this foreword.
01:03:18.000And I think the intent was he didn't want people coming to him and asking him to do things like this, or he'd be doing it all the time.
01:03:27.000So I asked him to do it, and he just starts busting my balls and calling me at home and saying, I don't want to do this, and blah, blah, blah.
01:03:33.000So I go to my shrink, and I'm talking about, I have depression.
01:05:21.000You used to have a fucking locker and shower after third period because they just made you run like an army obstacle course and do push-ups and jumping jacks.
01:07:27.000He used to go like three or four days a week.
01:07:29.000Yeah, I think it sounds crazy, but I think it's a requirement for kids to do something physical and really would help if you did something scary, like a martial art.
01:07:40.000It's just good for developing your brain and developing your ability to do difficult things.
01:07:45.000When he got his black belt, I don't know if they always do this, but when he got his black belt, he had to do certain, what do they call them, katas?
01:07:53.000It depends on, katas is a Japanese word.
01:07:56.000Yeah, he did his katas, and then he had to break some boards, and then he had to do whatever, and then he had to fight two black belts.
01:10:01.000But I do think there is something to giving a kid a goal, like you're gonna get your blue belt, and you're trained for that, and you're gonna get your red belt.
01:10:08.000Junior black belt's not a bad thing to call it, as long as you're calling it a junior black belt.
01:10:13.000You don't really have the ability to hurt people.
01:10:16.000Most people don't really have the ability to hurt people until they're like 15, 16, 17. Then you can really hurt people, and it comes quick.
01:12:00.000You have hormones for the first time in your life.
01:12:02.000So you have all this fucking energy and this fucking rawr!
01:12:06.000And your whole day, you can just dedicate to this crazy thing and go around kicking people and learning something and getting better at something where everybody else is just listening to Led Zeppelin and smoking cigarettes and trying to figure out if they're going to go to college.
01:12:21.000And you're out there doing something nuts.
01:12:23.000Yeah, my nephew, Rowan, he grew up in South Africa, and he was like, you know, had every letter, ADHD, whatever, he had it all.
01:12:32.000And he was the number one most, he got the record at his school for the most detentions.
01:12:38.000They kept track, and they gave him an award.
01:12:41.000And then he found rugby when he was like 14. He started doing rugby hard.
01:17:42.000Since it was a major part of the early economy in New England and the United States, we saw fortunes made by people who transported ice in straw-packed ships to the southern states and throughout the Caribbean.
01:17:53.000Oh, so they only did it in the winter?
01:18:13.000Keep ice for seven, eight, nine days, which is nuts.
01:18:16.000And if you take a Yeti and you take like a milk jug filled with water and freeze that and put a bunch of them in there, it'll stay cold forever.
01:18:26.000It'll stay cold for so long, it got a large block of ice like that.
01:18:30.000This is from the 70s, but this is just like ice extraction.
01:18:33.000Oh, this might not be them selling ice.
01:18:35.000This looks like these guys are going to die.
01:21:06.000Many tines of ice were cut from a nearby river in the winter, transported by wagon to the ice house, deposited into the ice pits.
01:21:12.000The blocks of ice fused into one giant mass.
01:21:16.000Gravel at the bottom of the pit drained water from the melting, and the thick stone walls and straw insulation minimized heat loss from the ice house above.
01:21:23.000Morris claimed he was able to preserve ice from one winter to the following October or November.
01:21:33.000So, utilizing the 54 degree constant temperature underground, people have been storing ice in caves and pits since at least the Roman times.
01:21:43.000It relied on a natural phenomenon, but also an overwhelming mass of ice, good drainage, and the super insulation of the building above the ice pit to provide refrigeration through hot Philadelphia summers.
01:25:57.000I was in South Africa one time, and we were at a game park called Pilanesburg or something, and they had a restaurant next to the game park, and you would go there, and I remember it was called Carnivore, and you go in, and they come over with skewers, but it was like, you want some giraffe?
01:27:21.000Giraffe is a large African hoofed mammal belonging to the giraffa, Janus giraffa, the tallest living terrestrial animal and the largest ruminant on earth.
01:27:32.000Traditionally, giraffes have been thought of as one species, giraffa Cameloperalis.
01:28:19.000Giraffes get part of their Latin name, Camelopardalis, from the long camel-like necks and leopard-like spots, but they are more closely related to okopies rather than camels or leopards.
01:29:33.000The weirdest antelope is the one that we have in America, because we have a Jurassic animal in America, the pronghorn antelope.
01:29:41.000It's not like any animal in North America.
01:29:43.000It's literally an animal that was a part of the giant group of animals that lived in North America like 65,000 years ago, but it's one of the rare ones that's still here.
01:29:55.000Because it evolved to get away from a North American cheetah.
01:33:55.000And then, but the amazing thing is like, when you think about that, what drives animals, us being animals, to do the things we do?
01:34:03.000I was thinking about this when I watched this law thing.
01:34:06.000All the things that gratify us, that nature has taught us to procreate in order to, you know, whether it's eat, your stomach hurts, and the joy of the taste of food, all these things that are built into us as animals that keep us procreating, the fucking,
01:34:24.000And you take your nails and you scratch it.
01:34:27.000Well, there was probably a reason because there used to be bugs embedded in your skin or dry skin or like everything that we do is somehow built into rewards and punishments that are unconscious to us.
01:34:43.000You know, and are they going to be able to – can you program that into people eventually to alter behavior?
01:34:51.000Not just that, to eliminate all the things that make us human, unfortunately.
01:35:18.000No adversity, all the power in the world, terrible for everybody, right?
01:35:22.000So, it's like, you gotta have some down.
01:35:26.000It's like, it's a part of the program.
01:35:28.000It's part of the program of becoming a better person.
01:35:30.000Like, you have experience, good, and I think even in the world, unfortunately, we have to see evil to recognize that people are capable of evil, to really...
01:35:39.000Understand what kind of game are we playing here?
01:35:42.000Especially when it comes to like international conflicts, especially ones that don't have any day-to-day effect on your life here in America and whether you support them or you don't support them like you're it's not affecting you, right?
01:35:53.000But it's effect it's somewhere if you were there if you were in Yemen and you watch those fucking drones launch Hellfire missiles into this wedding party like you would recognize like There's a lot going on that's evil.
01:36:10.000There's good and there's evil and it's real.
01:36:13.000And there's this weird battle going on with human beings.
01:36:15.000And I think that battle almost has to take place to motivate people to be better.
01:36:25.000There's no reason why it should exist today.
01:36:28.000There's no reason why, as educated as we are in history, that we should be willing as a people, as groups of people to ever invade other places to steal their resources.
01:36:40.000There's no way we should be doing that.
01:36:42.000At this point, with the kind of communication that human beings have with each other around the world, there should be a way to reasonably communicate and share goods and ideas and compete and take part in each other's commerce.
01:36:58.000I sell to you, you sell to me, everybody gets along.
01:37:05.000In 2024. The fact that it's not and that no one thinks it's ever going to be is what's terrifying about being a person.
01:37:12.000Because that's the thing that keeps you up at night.
01:37:15.000The thing like if one of these fucking assholes, one of these greedy cocksuckers that's under the boot of the military industrial complex decides to push it a little too far and someone decides to shoot a nuke off.
01:37:27.000And then we're in this new thing where cities could just disappear.
01:37:31.000You know, it's not just a September 11th where two buildings disappear and a bunch of people died and it's a horrible tragedy.
01:37:55.000Like, someone could take out our electrical grid pretty fucking easy.
01:37:58.000And these assholes that are in charge of the world, in all countries, that are still playing this fucking game of maybe we'll kill you all.
01:38:08.000Yeah, it's like a big game of chicken.
01:38:30.000And there's way more – when you look at what's going on in the Middle East, like that is a fucking – that is going to explode at some point and it's going to happen fast because there's all these alliances where if one country does it – Eight others are going to do it the same day.
01:38:46.000Peter Thiel was talking about that, that it's the ultimate dilemma when it comes to nuclear power, because nuclear power is more efficient than other power, and it's actually greener.
01:38:54.000It's probably safer for the environment, especially with the kind of nuclear reactors capable of building and designing today.
01:39:01.000But they didn't realize that if you give someone nuclear power, it's really easy to turn that into nuclear weapons.
01:39:08.000They thought it was a lot harder than it was, and they did it for India.
01:39:10.000And he was saying, then they realized, like, India got the nuclear weapon.
01:39:59.000They think it might have been an accident.
01:40:02.000It's hard to tell, you know, because North Korea is pretty tight with their propaganda.
01:40:06.000But I remember there was some nuclear detonation was detected in the mountains, and they were trying to figure out if it was on purpose or if it was an underground thing.
01:40:15.000Because they do underground nukes too, which is crazy.
01:40:19.000It just may trigger an earthquake, but let's find out.
01:40:22.000Let's just detonate a nuke a mile under the surface of the earth.
01:40:45.000Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty has been detected seismic activity in more than two dozen stations around the world, confirming that man-made explosions have occurred near North Korea's nuclear testing sites.
01:40:56.000For example, in 2016, the CTBTO detected a 4.85 magnitude seismic event, which North Korea claimed was a hydrogen bomb test.
01:41:06.000In 2013, the CTBTO detected a 4.9 magnitude seismic event, which is about twice as large as the 2006 test.
01:41:15.000So they just keep making them more powerful.
01:41:19.000Well, what magnitude was like Hiroshima?
01:41:23.000In 2024, South Korea's weather agency estimated that a nuclear weapon blast yield was between 50 and 60 kilotons based on a magnitude 5.6 detection.
01:41:33.000The South Korea's government initial estimate was 100 kilotons and the NORSAR seismology center estimate was 120 kilotons.
01:41:45.000It's so crazy that a nut, a crazy person, just some fucking maniac dictator has that.
01:41:53.000Like, you could take, oh, you fucked my cousin?
01:43:21.000There's a great series on Netflix right now about the Cold War.
01:43:24.000It's like three episodes, but it goes through, you know, just the espionage that went behind it all and, you know, how the nuclear codes got to Russia because, was it the, what was it?
01:46:24.000It's so funny that we're talking about this.
01:46:25.000I sent Jamie something this morning that I saw, where this guy has one of those crazy satellite dishes in his backyard, and he picks up a channel from North Korea.
01:46:33.000So it's a guy in Ontario, and I sent this to you on a text message.
01:46:37.000Yeah, but that's not what you sent me, so the wrong link got copied.
01:47:27.000He's watching snooker on the BBC. So this dude tunes in to the North Korean broadcast, like whatever it is that they broadcast through North Korea.
01:47:37.000And it's all propaganda and Kim Jong-un is like literally people fall down like he's the Beatles.
01:48:07.000Yeah, the power that he has is just absolute.
01:48:10.000And then if they find out that, you know, you have a relative overseas that's bad-mouthing North Korea, your family gets put into a fucking camp.
01:49:22.000China uses, I don't want to say which supermarket chain because I don't want to malign somebody, but one of the major supermarket chains.
01:49:30.000They have meat processing plants where China brings in North Korean slaves.
01:49:38.000They are kept in barracks with barbed wire fences, and they work for 12, 14 hours a day, seven days a week, and they get paid like $100 a month.
01:49:51.000And then they come back to North Korea after like four or five years, and their families get this little fucking tidbit of money, but they don't have a choice.
01:50:03.000North Korea picks what they think are the best examples of what North Korea is because they want to look good to China.
01:50:23.000Yeah, it's an article in The New Yorker about it.
01:50:25.000Well, if we're buying things, I mean, that's one of the weirdest parts about manufacturing going away in America.
01:50:33.000Because so many of the things that we buy are from mysterious places.
01:50:38.000Like, when people found out about what was going on at the Foxconn factories that were making iPhones, that they had fences and nets all set up around the roof to keep people from jumping off.
01:53:16.000Maybe one of Malcolm Gladwell's books?
01:53:18.000But basically they're saying that the reason why there's more, like when they used to have feuds, you know, like the Hatfields and the McCoys, that type of thing, and they would kill those people.
01:53:55.000That's funny because you think of like the shepherd is this like kind of archetypal figure of this guy who's just kind of laying back with a piece of hayseed in his mouth, chilling out.
01:58:49.000That's the thing I love about YouTube is someone can send it to me, like a link to your thing, and I can just watch it right away, which is nuts.
01:58:56.000And it's also, I love that I can see the comments, you know?
01:59:00.000I mean, if you put it on Netflix or Comedy Central, I guess there's going to be some conversation on certain places, but YouTube, it's right fucking there.
01:59:08.000And you can see how many people are watching it, and, you know, I just don't want my wife and kids to watch the last 10 minutes.
01:59:15.000That's where I start giving it to the old lady a little bit.
02:03:46.000Ceramic, carbon ceramic brakes, those are incredible.
02:03:49.000Like, if you get, like, a really good modern brake setup, you know, six-piston, six, you know, front brakes, those big calipers, those things can really fucking slow down a car quickly.
02:04:01.000So the Tesla's not as good as those, but it's good enough.
02:05:21.000So it says, the timer backs this up with more outrageous numbers, zero to 60 in 1.9 seconds, and then a 9.05 second at 154 miles per hour for the quarter mile, which is bananas.
02:06:01.000So they're doing cars like that now where it has all these things, but you still have to charge it.
02:06:09.000But now Samsung apparently is coming out with a new battery for electric vehicles that they've apparently been working on that can charge in nine minutes and it has a 600 mile range.
02:06:29.000But I'm going to plug it in and I'm going to run away because who fucking knows how long the amount of juice that's going into that batteries.
02:06:38.000Who knows if a gas gets loose or who fucking knows, man.
02:06:43.000I don't want to be nowhere near those batteries.
02:08:10.000That also doesn't even get into what we're talking about with the cobalt mining that has to go into it and the disposal of the batteries, which nobody really understands yet.
02:14:03.000My friend Adam Greentree, he does a lot of these...
02:14:06.000He's doing solo hunts where he goes into the backcountry for like a month at a time, just him by himself living off the land.
02:14:12.000And he has this, it's like a tarp you lay out.
02:14:15.000It's a solar tarp, like you unfold it.
02:14:18.000And he uses it to charge his phone, charge his cameras, like anything he wants to charge.
02:14:23.000Yeah, I bet you those boats, those people that take a boat from, you know, Hawaii to mainland US, they must have, everything must be solar.
02:14:33.000You have to have at least some kind of backup.
02:14:35.000Like if your generator goes down, you're stuck in the middle of the fucking ocean, you can't even rescue, you know, like send a rescue message.
02:15:38.000But what are the odds that this water spout takes out this one guy's yacht Right after this guy gets off on, apparently, allegedly, ripping off a bunch of very wealthy people.
02:16:24.000If someone's worth $80 billion and you rip them off for $5 billion, you're like, I want this motherfucker dead.
02:16:30.000And you go for a walk on a beach with a guy, and everybody leaves their cell phones at home, and you explain how it's all going to get done.
02:17:10.000He's just on the ocean and shit happens.
02:17:12.000It's just crazy just circumstance and people are going to attribute it to a conspiracy.
02:17:18.000The other possibility is that they can do that, that some force in the world has the kind of technology that can direct a storm to a very specific spot, that can create a water spout.
02:18:30.000The story says that potentially could have been avoided if the ship had been treated or cared for correctly because they knew that a storm was coming and they didn't do some things they should have done, including button down all the hatches, lift up the anchor,
02:18:46.000and a few other things were on the list I saw.
02:19:55.000But there's kind of always clouds, like some clouds.
02:19:58.000In Dubai though recently they had a disaster where they they fucked up and they over amped and they got more rain than they've had in seven years And so there's like supercars like floating down the street like mad flooding because they don't really have the Infrastructure to deal with that kind of water like just pouring down.
02:22:21.000It has to do with the warming of the ocean, like the ocean water.
02:22:28.000And then a cold front coming in above it.
02:22:30.000There's a bunch of different factors that happen, like would it be possible to mimic those conditions or to artificially stimulate those conditions?
02:22:53.000There's reports that cloud seeding may have had the thing, but the BBC says they're unable to independently identify whether cloud seeding took place.
02:23:00.000Right, because if I was working for the UAE, I'd be like, I don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
02:23:28.000It rained in the middle of the desert.
02:23:29.000By the way, the BBC... When I think about, because everybody talks about which news sources can you trust, and neither side trusts the other side.
02:23:37.000BBC kind of feels like the place we can all go, that's pretty good.
02:24:40.000Just tell me what a human being did, what another human, like what started this.
02:24:45.000Well, that's why I prefer People magazine over us because, like, when I see Ben Affleck with a giant Starbucks cup and it says he's just like us, I'm like, fucking, that's it.
02:25:14.000After all the other bullshit news that you're looking at, just to go like, alright, I want to see a country singer who's got a new fucking baby.
02:28:10.000How about this new kind of, like, the Christians are taking over the country and forcing us to put the Ten Commandments on the sides of fucking courthouses and get it taught in schools?
02:30:31.000Scientists that are studying the origins of the universe believe in the Big Bang.
02:30:35.000There's new people like, well, not new, like Sir Roger Penrose, who has been on the show before, who now believes that the Big Bang was the end of another universe and that it's probably this endless cycle.
02:30:48.000And it's not as simple as there was nothing and then there was something, that there's always this expansion and contraction and then these cosmic events take place and they birth new universes.
02:30:59.000They just manifest different types of life forms at different times.
02:31:02.000That's all completely speculative, right?
02:31:04.000What they do know is what they can see, right?
02:31:06.000So what they can see is some sort of evidence, some sort of a background evidence of this event that took place.
02:31:17.000They're still arguing about how much time ago it took because of the James Webb telescope.
02:31:22.000They've seen some structures and some galaxies that Are so far away they shouldn't have been able to form in the amount of time that it took from the current understanding of the Big Bang.
02:31:31.000And some people want to push the Big Bang back 22 billion years now instead of 13 billion years.
02:31:36.000But it could be that that's just as far – because that's 22 billion years it takes for light to get there.
02:33:13.000You can't imagine how long it would take to get there.
02:33:16.000You can't imagine if you're going to speed of light something taking 13.7 Billion years to arrive at.
02:33:24.000It's so big that even if that's it, that's the whole thing, even if it's finite, even if they define the universe as a structure, it's finite and it is X amount of billion years of light year travel until you reach the end of this structure.
02:33:41.000So the idea that it doesn't have a boundary, that there's more of them, that there's a multiverse, that there's an infinite number of them.
02:33:49.000One of the theories is that in the center of every galaxy, there's a supermassive black hole, and if you go through that supermassive black hole, you will find another universe with hundreds of billions of galaxies.
02:33:59.000Each one with a supermassive black hole in the middle of it, go through that, hundreds of billions of universes.
02:34:05.000Yeah, and also the fact that we can travel at a certain speed and the fact that there isn't another life force that can go instantaneously through incredible distances.
02:34:18.000I mean, we were talking the other day, I had this guy on, and we were talking about imagine if you were living in the Roman Empire and you showed them a garage door opener.
02:36:45.000The helium leaks in several issues with smaller thrusters.
02:36:49.000It's been docked at the space station.
02:36:52.000So like earlier this week they announced that it will undock without a crew in early September and come back to Earth while they wait for their ride sometime in 2025. Oh my god, in 2025. We are in August right now of 2024 talking about this.
02:37:08.000Would you want to not just get on the thing and go with it?
02:38:37.000And then now today, how is it that it still takes us this long to do the same thing that they did 50 years ago?
02:38:44.000Well, do you know that the Apollo missions were the only time that they ever sent a living thing into deep space and had to come back alive?
02:39:14.000So the way all of these missions, like the space station mission, they're all like 300 miles, 350 miles, space shuttle missions, everything's inside 300 miles.
02:39:46.000So they shot a nuke up into space to try to clear a pathway so they could shoot a rocket through it and have no problems, and it made it way more radioactive.
02:40:44.000A joint effort of the Atomic Energy Commission and the Defense Atomic Support...
02:40:49.000Oh, 62. It was launched in Johnston Atoll in July 9, 1962. It was the largest nuclear test conducted in outer space and one of five conducted by the U.S. in space.
02:41:07.000Containing a W-49 thermonuclear warhead designed at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and a mock MK-2 re-entry vehicle was launched from Johnston Atoll in the Pacific Ocean about 900 miles west-southwest of Hawaii.
02:41:23.000The explosion took place at an altitude of 250 miles, not that high.
02:42:07.000While some of the energetic beta particles followed the Earth's magnetic field and illuminated the sky, other high-energy electrons became trapped and formed radiation belts around the Earth.
02:42:17.000The added electrons increased the intensity of the electrons within the natural inner Van Allen radiation belt by several orders of magnitude.
02:42:26.000There was much uncertainty and debate about the composition, magnitude and potential adverse effects from the trapped radiation after the detonation.
02:42:36.000The Weponeers became quite worried when three satellites in low Earth orbit were disabled.
02:42:42.000These included the TRAAC and the Transit 4B. The half-life of the energetic electrons was only a few days.
02:42:50.000At the time, it was not known that solar and cosmic particle fluxes varied by a factor of 10 and energies could exceed 1 MeV, whatever that means, in the months that followed.
02:43:01.000These man-made radiation belts eventually caused six or more satellites to fail.
02:43:06.000As radiation damaged their solar arrays or electronics, including the first commercial relay communications satellite, TELSTAR. Yeah, as well as the United Kingdom's first satellite detectors on Telstar TRAAC engine and aerial one were used to measure the distribution of the radiation produced by the tests.
02:44:23.000The Conqueror, 220 people on the set of The Conqueror.
02:44:26.00091 were diagnosed with cancer, including both Wayne, who died in 1979 at 72, and his co-star, Susan Hayward, who died in 1975 at 57. Dude, John Wayne looked a lot older than 72 by the end.
02:46:48.000Women get mad when men become women and then want to go in the women's room and appropriate women culture and then join women's groups and tell women what to do when they're biological males who identify as women.
02:48:06.000Like, they had that show Finding Hitler, and they go down there, and there's, like, these people that have, like, photos of SS troops on their wall.
02:48:23.000Yeah, but I'm making sure it's accurate because that was going around in 2022 and then more recently there's a documentary made and someone hired someone to look into all of this stuff and that's what I was just reading through to see what they found.
02:48:37.000Because they might have found something that says that there is some sort of link but...
02:48:40.000Yeah, but I'm pretty sure the the gal was she had some issues and was kind of like making stuff up.
02:50:19.000Like, nobody acted like that back then.
02:50:21.000Well, it was part of that whole—he went to the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York, and his class at the Neighborhood Playhouse was James Dean, Paul Newman—what was Paul Newman's wife's name?
02:50:34.000She was a very famous actress as well.
02:50:37.000It was this one group that started, and it was, you know, Stanislavski taught Meisner.
02:50:43.000Meisner started the Neighborhood Playhouse.
02:50:46.000And that whole voice in acting that was based on listening and answering and being in the moment, and it was about finding emotional truth and coming from that rather than from the dialogue.
02:50:57.000You didn't study the dialogue and recite it.
02:52:40.000It takes so long to be able to stroke a ball, to be able to get draw, stroke, full-length draw, put English, side spin, adjust for the way it's going to deflect off the other ball, get position on the next shot.
02:55:44.000To this day, when guys match up, One of the things that happens, like if there's big tournaments, certain guys will show up where these big tournaments are that are just one pocket players.
02:55:54.000And they try to entice one of these pros into a game of one pocket.
02:55:59.000And then they'll bet $50,000, $60,000, $100,000.
02:57:16.00019 and 20, she was into pool, but there's no fucking pool halls on the west side in LA. And so she had a fake ID. Isn't there House of Billiards in Santa Monica?
02:59:14.000Yeah, that's how Dom and I became friends.
02:59:15.000Dom and I did Montreal together in like 93 and then I was at Amsterdam Billiards when it was on the west side and I showed up and I had my own queue and I was putting my queue together and Dom Herrera walked in.