In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, the comedian talks about the fires in Los Angeles and how they should be prioritized in order to prevent them from happening in the first place. He also talks about why the city needs to do more to fight climate change and the homeless problem.
00:00:00.000The Joe Rogan experience train by day Joe Rogan podcast by night all day My wife I smoked one of these and I didn't brush my teeth I woke up the next morning and my wife said, your breath is four-dimensional.
00:00:21.000He didn't brush your teeth before you went to bed and he smoked a cigar.
00:00:24.000Of course I didn't brush my teeth before I went to bed.
00:00:35.000Because what I want to do is, what you want to do is you want to get divorced and then you want to get married again to a woman who's 23 years younger and then have two more kids because that's good.
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00:00:48.000Oh, dude, there's no financial stress at all.
00:01:03.000I look at her and I go, she's like a girl from Jersey, like Irish-Italian chick, no nonsense, you know, been working since she was 16. And I go, you know, we had an evacuation order that they sent out by accident to people even down where I'm at.
00:02:22.000Trump was talking about that on the podcast.
00:02:25.000On the podcast I did with him, Trump was going on this long rampage about Los Angeles and the fires and how it all can be prevented and they can have plenty of water.
00:02:36.000He explained the whole thing and he's right.
00:03:30.000Well, I'm hoping now that this is a giant wake-up call for these people.
00:03:34.000I mean, there's no positivity that's going to come out of a horrific fire like that.
00:03:40.000But at least at a wake, because look, that area, you know, Adam Carolla was on someone's show talking about this, and he said something that's like very, I think he was actually doing it himself.
00:04:35.000And I'm like, hey, listen, hey, lady, when my house is on fire and I'm trying to get my kids out, I'm not going to be like, hey, can I get some people that look like me?
00:05:50.000This is the thing about L.A. that, you know, there's a viral clip that's going around now of a conversation that I had with Sam Morrell a while back.
00:05:59.000And we were talking about, when I was on Fear Factor, how this fireman told me that this was going to happen one day.
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00:11:01.000When we were filming, we were filming on Fear Factor, and ironically, this was the same time where this fireman was explaining to me what's going to happen in LA. We were filming Fear Factor, and when we were driving back, the entire...
00:11:39.000And everyone's driving and no one, everyone's got this like somber, like 50 mile an hour driving the entire right side of the highway for an hour.
00:12:04.000We were pretty far away and it was a whole hour driving back where the whole right side of the highway was in flames.
00:12:13.000I mean, completely engulfed like a Lord of the Rings movie where you're waiting for Sauron to come riding on an evil horse over the top of it.
00:12:35.000People get stuck on highways, cars catch fire, and the fire and the winds just roll through the whole highway and everybody burns alive inside their cars.
00:13:22.000The last thing you would ever think, the last thing is...
00:13:27.000That that house would burn down or there was a fire hazard, especially down like where Gelson's was or the whole town.
00:13:33.000Dude, when I'm saying the town is gone, you know the only structure of the standing is that guy Caruso, that mayor, the guy who ran for mayor, narrowly lost to Karen Bass.
00:13:40.000He built that mall out of fire retardant material and that's the only structures that pretty much downtown that are in the town of Pacific Palisades.
00:13:51.000Frank Grillo, our buddy, his old house burned right to the ground.
00:15:19.000I don't know what happens to that very valuable property.
00:15:22.000I don't know what happens to the entire city now because people are looting like fucking crazy.
00:15:29.000Gigantic groups of a hundred men organized are pulling into neighborhoods that are being evacuated, smashing through doors and pulling out TVs.
00:19:34.000Also, probably funding Epstein, but also probably running a gigantic blackmail ring where they have control over all the politicians in the country.
00:19:43.000I might be doing that too if my survival depended on it.
00:19:47.000Especially if you're smart and you're really good at chess.
00:21:07.000This is the whole suspicion as to why the guy who was the CEO of Victoria's Secrets gave Jeffrey Epstein a fucking $60 million mansion in Manhattan.
00:22:07.000He said, That he had a woman, like a 21-year-old girl that was sitting on his lap and he kept kind of like nudging his knee up and down to make her tits bounce a little bit.
00:22:18.000He kept doing that while he was talking to him.
00:22:29.000You can't lie to him about stuff like that.
00:22:33.000I would tell you his theory on what he thinks.
00:22:36.000This whole thing is, this whole, you know, it's a simulation or whatever.
00:22:41.000Because, you know, so Newton, there's Newtonian physics, right, which is this matter here, and then there's quantum physics, study of the electron that Einstein was the pioneer of and blah, blah, blah.
00:22:51.000So Einstein was working on what's called a theory of everything, which was the bridge.
00:22:54.000How do you, because a lot of times the rules in this ether, in Newtonian, in the world that we live in, are different.
00:23:02.000When it comes to gravity and light, then they are on a quantum level.
00:23:49.000I was watching this guy doing DMT breathing today on Instagram.
00:23:54.000He was explaining how to spike your DMT and communicate with entities.
00:23:58.000And he was saying how you compress your balls and your asshole and all your sex organs and then through your abdominals and you exhale all your breath.
00:24:11.000and you breathe like this and then you come And you get that DMT flow.
00:24:49.000The thing about kundalini yoga and all these different ways where you can achieve those states, like Terence McKenna had a great line about that.
00:24:59.000He's like, one time the Buddha came to visit this town and this monk came to the Buddha and he said, I have practiced a city of levitation for 10 years and now I can walk on water.
00:25:11.000And the Buddha says, yeah, but the ferry's only a nickel.
00:27:25.000Because the idea would be, you can observe your brain, so you can observe your thoughts, you can observe your body, and you can observe your emotions.
00:27:33.000You can actually step outside and watch that stuff.
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00:33:10.000And we go back and we think about things that happened in the year 1200. Like, oh, the barbaric conquests of cities and sacking of countries by the Mongols and all this crazy stuff.
00:33:28.000There's different people in a different time.
00:33:30.000Our parents grew up in a different time.
00:33:31.000We are growing up in the most strange time because this is like coming out of...
00:33:37.000This barbaric sort of primal history and recognizing in some strange way that we're more connected than ever before.
00:33:47.000And the electronics are bringing us connected but also disconnecting us at the same time.
00:33:53.000So there's this bizarre struggle for like inter-human communication and personal communication and learning how to like exchange ideas with people and talk to people in a civil way while you're also...
00:34:06.000You're more informed than ever before, more informed on human behavior patterns and psychology.
00:34:13.000We're seeing it play out right before our eyes where you've had a total polar shift of some of the key tenets of the left and the right, where the left is all for a war, the left is for censorship, the left is for whatever pharmaceutical drugs they're trying to push.
00:34:38.000And also, the left has also become very good at destruction in a lot of ways.
00:34:43.000I'm not saying the right doesn't have its problems, but the left has become, like you and I were talking about this, like if you disagree with the left, they will come after everything.
00:38:26.000And I always bring up Mikey Musumichi, just because he's awesome, and he's a brilliant guy who wears his thick glasses, always smiling, and you can fucking kill everybody in the room.
00:38:35.000Like, Zuckerberg's on his way to becoming that.
00:38:38.000And he was, if you go back just a few years ago, nerdy guy, you know, who's really smart, but not really physical.
00:38:49.000He was talking about it on the podcast yesterday that he loves training because it gives him a chance to express this side that has been demonized in our culture.
00:39:10.000Probably in the past 30 years, masculinity was always considered—they were taught it's a liability.
00:39:15.000Your aggression, your competitiveness, all that stuff.
00:39:18.000Corporate environments, which have really put the brakes on masculine behavior.
00:39:22.000And we talked about that yesterday, too, that that's actually in some ways a good thing because it gives women this opportunity to excel as well.
00:39:28.000They shouldn't have to become a man in order to get—they shouldn't have that sexist perspective imposed upon them.
00:40:20.000But my 13-year-old son, you can see these kids now at 13. Don't start talking to him about this shit because these kids are like, they've already been, they figured it out at 13. I'm telling you.
00:40:31.000My son was like, I don't feel, I don't like this shit.
00:40:32.000I want to do jujitsu and wrestle all the time.
00:42:32.000You have already an exorbitant need for attention because there's some hole in your past that you're trying to fill up with, I want to be a star.
00:42:46.000So you have this need for acceptance and then you're going somewhere where people judge you.
00:42:51.000And most of the time, judge you poorly.
00:42:54.000Most of the time, they don't like you.
00:42:55.000So most things you audition for, you don't get.
00:42:58.000And if you get one, oh my god, now I'm in.
00:43:00.000And so now these manipulative people that are in charge of casting you, they can essentially...
00:43:07.000Mold your personality based on what they want.
00:43:11.000If they want a left-wing personality, if they want you to be pro-Kamala and we need a black woman president, they want you to say all the...
00:43:19.000I took my eighth booster this morning.
00:44:58.000So I was watching everybody scramble for this thing, and I was examining the psychology of it and how it affects everything.
00:45:04.000Because when people didn't get auditions, when they wanted auditions, then you went out to dinner with them at night, they were so depressed.
00:48:37.000Which is like the type of pool they played in the movie The Hustler.
00:48:40.000It's very rarely played in America anymore, but it's an amazing game.
00:48:44.000You play with a stack of 15 balls, and you knock off one.
00:48:48.000The first break is like a safe break, and everybody moves balls around until someone makes a mistake and leaves an opening, and that guy smashes into the balls, and then you run as many balls as you can in order.
00:49:02.000And the one ball, like, you leave a break ball, and then you rack the other 14. And so you shoot the break ball in.
00:49:10.000The idea is to collide your cue ball into the stack and keep running.
00:49:14.000So let me give a shout-out to Jason Shaw, because Jason Shaw, who's one of the best pool players on Earth, one of the greatest of all time, he just broke the world record in straight pool this week.
00:50:47.000Well, because the GIs went there in the 1950s and they brought pool.
00:50:52.000And Filipinos learned how to play pool in very tough conditions because it's very humid over there.
00:50:57.000So humidity affects the tablecloth and the moisture in the tablecloth slows down the roll of the balls.
00:51:05.000And so you could take two approaches to that.
00:51:08.000You could either Hit the balls hard, which is like the American way to do it, or the Filipinos learn to use the entire weight of the cue and have an elegant, almost like artistic way of playing.
00:52:52.000You could get a lot of rolls of the balls where I get safe a few times or I scratch on the brake a couple of times.
00:52:57.000So that's two more games that you maybe wouldn't have won if we were playing even.
00:53:02.000And you could win a race to 10. The odds of me winning a race to 10 if we were both, if I was just slightly better than you, it'd be like, you know...
00:53:37.000What I love about the hustler one of the great greatest movies ever with Paul Newman is when Jackie The fuck's his name Gleason Jackie Gleason said It really came down the character He he washed his hands washed his face and drew a blank and came back Yeah, that that was a really interesting lesson for me as a young man guys really do that too They clear their mind they go in the bathroom.
00:54:44.000And Nadal, who's one of the greatest tennis players ever, when he won Wimbledon, they're all clapping, he comes in, and the legend goes, I don't know if it's true, but I heard it makes sense.
00:54:52.000He's coming in, he's going like this, he goes, I think my grip, I think I want to, he's not even paying attention, he's talking to his coach.
00:54:58.000I feel like my grip should be just a little bit like that.
00:55:05.000That's what makes them so good in the first place.
00:55:06.000I know guys who change their grip all the time in their cue.
00:55:09.000Like, sometimes they'll grab it like this with two fingers, and then they change it, and then they turn their wrist forward, and they'll play for a year with their wrist forward.
00:57:23.000Will Harris runs this amazing farm in Georgia, where it started out as an industrial farm that his family owned, and he converted it to regenerative agriculture over 20 years.
00:58:55.000So Mike comes down with his wife, who's an actress, and they're like, I'm going to be in Austin on the outskirts, and I want to live on a farm.
01:00:28.000Like, imagine if you have, like, a 2,000-acre property, and on that 2,000-acre property, there's, like, a literal community of you and your friends, and you can go hunt on the land.
01:01:40.000The pollutants in the air, when the rain comes down, it does bring all that shit into the water, and then it stays in that water.
01:01:49.000So if you've got a lake, and that lake gets drowned on with pollution rain, you're going to have a certain amount of toxic elements that are going to be in that water.
01:01:58.000Yeah, mercury is not good for the whole body.
01:02:11.000See, that's the problem, these Forever Chemicals.
01:02:13.000PFAS found at high levels in freshwater fish with most concern for vulnerable communities.
01:02:19.000So like this is a good point about the vulnerable communities because I was filming a TV show once in Detroit and we were on the banks of this river that was fucking clearly polluted.
01:02:31.000And there was all these really poor people who were on the banks of that river that were fishing for food.
01:02:39.000Like quite a bunch of people that were trying to get their dinner on that river.
01:02:43.000And people that really – they needed that for food.
01:02:47.000They looked real poor and there was white, black, all kinds of different nationalities, Asians and a lot of people – and I was like, wow.
01:03:01.000When you realize how a city, which was one of the richest cities in the country, thereby one of the richest cities in the world in the 1950s during the peak of the automotive industry, and then to see it just...
01:03:16.000And these people were just, and I was like, oh my god, they're going to eat these fish.
01:03:20.000And then I thought, oh my god, they have to eat these fish.
01:03:22.000Well, that was the Great Migration, right?
01:03:23.000So from the south, a huge number of black people went up to Detroit looking for jobs.
01:03:28.000And the problem was when they got to their, first of all, the auto industry started to get decimated because it started to move toward Japan and different countries.
01:03:53.000So a lot of people couldn't find jobs.
01:03:55.000The Great Migration refers to a large-scale movement of approximately 6 million African Americans from the rural South to urban areas of North and West between roughly 1916 and 1970, driven primarily by the desire to escape racial violence, pursue better economic opportunities, and access improved education in the North.
01:06:14.000So you have to be careful because sometimes it could just move things over here where, again, the truth is somewhere in the middle a lot of times.
01:06:21.000Or it's more nuanced or there's just more to know.
01:07:17.000Because the difference between someone who's completely independent and a podcaster and someone who's on CNN should be that no one is telling you what to do.
01:09:02.000Now, you do have Mavericks, but I always am weary of when I hear somebody go, all that, the entire medical establishment is wrong, and I'm right.
01:09:44.000Like, oh, you know, that you can't use your phone on his show.
01:09:48.000I've heard people say that, like, confidently.
01:09:50.000I've heard people confidently say that he's handled by the CIA. Listen, Mike Baker is my friend, and I'm pretty sure he's still in the CIA. I like him.
01:11:35.000And I said, man, I just think it'd be so fun to be in a tier one unit because they're just all so smart and they just have such a wide breadth of knowledge.
01:11:45.000And Andy goes, God, you're so fucking wrong.
01:14:22.000I mean, he's had a few injuries over the year, but when you deal with high-level black belts who roll on a consistent basis, and Jean-Jacques in his 50s now, he is not hurt.
01:15:57.000I think one of their advantages that nobody talks about is that when you get a guy like Khabib, you get these Dagestanis, you get these Russians, these Armenians and stuff.
01:16:04.000They've been training probably since they were six.
01:16:07.000And so what happens is your tendons and everything gets really, really strong.
01:16:12.000And also, if you ever watch Alexander Karelin, the way they would warm up.
01:16:55.000You're definitely right that their bodies are stronger because they've been doing it since they were younger and that they get developed in that way.
01:17:05.000With striking, like, not the opposite, but it's also true with striking that if you start striking when you're in your 30s, you're never going to catch Floyd Mayweather.
01:17:16.000Your body needs to be sort of, like, developed to strike.
01:17:20.000Yeah, but you also have to be, like, if you look at the boxers, like, if you look at Floyd Mayweather, his father and his uncle said to him, like, they knew.
01:18:32.000Yeah, if you want to say who's the best boxer of all time, I always say Floyd because he got hit less than anybody and that's the whole thing.
01:18:39.000And by the way, didn't have the kind of...
01:18:40.000That was part of the problem Robust guy.
01:18:52.000Wasn't Jermaine, I mean, what's his name?
01:21:56.000Then you have the speed of being only 220 pounds instead of 290. Remember when Andy Ruiz fought Joshua the second time and he got real fat?
01:23:53.000You throw one punch, you know, every...
01:23:55.000They, like the Russians, developed a very technical and very technique-oriented way of combat sports.
01:24:02.000That's why the Russians were so good at Olympics, at wrestling, rather, because they were so technical where the Americans would just try to work harder than everybody else.
01:24:10.000And the Russians, like, figured out, like, no, there's a time you work hard and there's a time you recover and you have to have active recovery.
01:24:17.000And they got real scientific about their physical...
01:24:56.000Well, cold plunges is not controversial in terms of the way it makes you feel, okay?
01:25:02.000So the psychological benefits of the increase in dopamine levels and norepinephrine, that is 100% established.
01:25:09.000I think that is one of the most powerful aspects of the cold plunge.
01:25:14.000Also, what's been established is that when you do the cold plunge before exercise, it raises testosterone.
01:25:21.000So there's something about doing the cold plunge and then forcing your body to heat up through a warm-up and then going through your workout that raises testosterone for people.
01:25:30.000And there was a study that was done where it showed this guy went from having an extremely low testosterone level to having a testosterone level where his doctor thought he was juicing.
01:25:39.000And all he changed was he started doing cold plunge before every workout.
01:26:50.000Well, the Finnish studies on sauna are amazing.
01:26:54.000What it's shown, these are long-term studies over 20 years.
01:26:57.000It shows that people who took the sauna four days a week for 20 minutes at a time at 175 degrees had a 40% decrease in all-cause mortality compared to their peers.
01:33:11.000It's the collapse of a really sick civilization.
01:33:15.000And the thing that you're seeing with this whole woke fire department, which is...
01:33:21.000We're talking about that lady saying, if your husband's in that burning building, that they want someone who looks like me, who looks like them.
01:33:30.000But this is all this ideological, bizarre cult that these people have fallen into that leads to the collapse of great civilizations because the people that worked hard to make this very easy life...
01:33:50.000And then the people that you think are the marginalized people that should be elevated through equity, these people that haven't done anything, now you're giving them all the power.
01:34:00.000And you're also letting them be the bullies of the bullies now, right?
01:34:04.000So they got picked on their whole life.
01:34:52.000I promise you that the progressive government in Los Angeles and in Sacramento is going to blame not infrastructure, not government incompetence, not mismanagement, but climate change.
01:36:10.000It is too expensive to open restaurants or anything else in LA. So you've got this great sandwich chain I'm obsessed with called Snarf's, right?
01:37:34.000And I think it's very ironic, with all due respect, because I have a lot of friends who lost houses in the Palisades area and everything else.
01:37:40.000But if you had walked through the Palisades, you would have seen...
01:37:49.000I'm not saying Karen Bass deserves all this blame, but I'm saying there was a lot of Kamala stuff there, very little Trump stuff.
01:37:56.000And it's ironic to me because I do think, to an extent, without having done enough research, but I've done some, that you have to lay at least some of the blame for this total inability to respond to government mismanagement and the fact that this government, this progressive government in California, In Sacramento, in Los Angeles, put things like climate change and social justice ahead of fucking basic infrastructure.
01:39:38.000It's great, but there are a lot of liabilities.
01:39:40.000I just think if you know that that's the case...
01:39:44.000Something went wrong, and our infrastructure, the fact that our fire hydrants, and it happened in Colorado three years ago, but the fact that the fire hydrants lost pressure, you can predict these things.
01:40:17.000For 2023-2024 fiscal year, Los Angeles allocated $837 million to the Los Angeles Fire Department, accounting for roughly 65% of the $1.3 billion budget designated for homelessness initiatives.
01:41:07.000And so there's a vested interest in keeping homeless a problem.
01:41:11.000Yeah, the real problem is that there's homeless at all.
01:41:14.000Like, how is that possible in the greatest society the world's ever known?
01:41:18.000But because we've put very little effort into stopping it.
01:41:21.000Very little effort into education and fixing people's mental health problems and mental health institutions for people that are sick and twisted and real solutions like Ibogaine.
01:41:32.000Real things that they can do to sort of reset people's minds and help them get out of it.
01:41:37.000Real programs to help people integrate back into society in a meaningful way.
01:41:41.000I know a guy who was a tier one guy who was dealing with real demons.
01:41:47.000Yeah, well, there's a lot of people like that.
01:41:50.000I had the former governor of Texas, Rick Perry, on, and he was explaining it.
01:41:55.000And that's surprising that Rick Perry, who's, you know, a Texas conservative.
01:42:32.000This is the nuttiest part of it, and this is the beautiful thing about what Rick Perry's trying to do, and explaining it very eloquently that it was all established in the 1970s to combat Richard Nixon's political opponents.
01:42:43.000So the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement, if they made all those drugs illegal, the sweeping act of 1970, the Psychedelic Drug Act.
01:42:53.000Where they were just trying to demonize these things that these people were using.
01:42:57.000That was like, you know, the flower child movement, the hippies, the anti-war people.
01:43:01.000They're like, we need to figure out a way to lock these motherfuckers up.
01:43:05.000Well, they did a really interesting study on, or there was a guy, a journalist, I can't remember who he was talking about.
01:43:10.000They drew this comparison when the 60s music movement happened with Hendrix and all those guys.
01:43:21.000Incredible things were going on musically.
01:43:23.000Once they turned to cocaine and heroin, the music fucking died.
01:43:29.000Well, I was bringing it back to cars, you know, because I'm a car freak.
01:43:33.000The cars of the 1960s were the greatest fucking cars America has ever created in terms of the way they looked, the iconic image of those things, and it all died around 70, 71. Everything after 71 is a piece of shit.
01:54:13.000Like, when something's really considered by craftsmen, and you cannot replace the feel of, like, something that's been crafted out of leather.
02:03:00.000If it wasn't for Ron, and then one time when we did shows, we were doing shows at the Vulcan, and Ron hadn't gone on stage in like eight months, and he got off stage and he grabbed me by the shoulders.
02:03:09.000He goes, whatever the fuck we gotta do, we're gonna keep doing this.
02:04:12.000But Jamie's just on the ball, and his ability to pull things up while we're talking about him, while he's managing the podcast, no one could do that.
02:04:20.000You need a team of people to do what he does.
02:04:23.000But then you've got to deal with a team of people that are just like...
02:04:27.000One of the coolest things about Jamie is how, first of all, we're friends.
02:04:31.000And he's the easiest to hang out with.
02:04:54.000Well, that's happened to a few friends of mine where they had to get rid of their producer because the producer was like, you know, we did this.
02:05:08.000Yeah, but it's like what happens with a lot of these people is they develop these podcasts and then they have I go to my friend's podcast and he has 10 people working for him.
02:05:17.000And I was like, what are all these people doing?
02:06:33.000So the Catholic Church, he wanted a son, and his wife was barren, and he wanted an heir, and the Catholic Church would not codify his divorce.
02:06:43.000So he was like, okay, I'm going to start the Anglican Church.
02:06:52.000And the great story of A Man for All Seasons, Sir Thomas More, was Thomas More would not join the Anglican Church, and they killed him for it.
02:07:00.000And he said, I am more than my appetites.
02:07:29.000So you do a scene, and a lot of working actors in the class, this is Los Angeles, and we all sit back, and now the great teacher will now break it apart.
02:08:18.000The real tough guys are the guys that have done a lot of shit, or who've seen a lot of combat, or at least been involved in, like, Evan Hafer, for example, has probably done a lot more than, he never talks about any of it.
02:08:27.000You'll never hear him say anything, but, and for that matter, Andy Stump, same way.
02:08:30.000They don't really tell you anything, but they're very aware that, first of all, it's very easy to be killed.
02:08:43.000Part of what's really good about just doing combat sports or doing any kind of, even a rough sport, contact sport, is that you come into contact with objective reality.
02:08:54.000It's very hard to start living this fake existence.
02:08:58.000And part of the problem, I think, with our society is a lot of people controlling the narrative don't really...
02:09:04.000Pay a price for being wrong because they live a life and they live a job where they're working with their mouth.
02:09:10.000They're working with only their brain.
02:09:12.000And I think you get a lot from actually Trying to grow your own food or doing whatever it is.
02:09:17.000You own a farm and you realize that life eats life.
02:09:22.000Mother nature is a motherfucker and wants to kill everything you try to grow.
02:09:26.000It gives you a very different perspective on reality and what the world is about.
02:09:58.000You know, when the anthropologists came by their name, I think they were at Harvard, and they came back from studying the Yanomami Indians or whatever in the Amazon basin.
02:10:07.000They were like, "Hey, guys, I know you think just white and white." Anglo-Saxons are aggressive, and we have a culture that rewards male aggression.
02:10:15.000Those people have never been in contact with anybody white or Western, and the guys that get laid the most are the guys that kill the most people in combat and have their hair on their daggers.
02:10:24.000So they have their version of a fucking all-star quarterback, too, and he gets all the pussy.
02:11:16.000People are really kumbaya until your kids...
02:11:19.000Have to struggle for resources, and then they become genocidal.
02:11:23.000Jared Diamond, who wrote Guns, Germs, and Steel, did the study with the fucking people up in the Guinea Highlands.
02:11:30.000The minute, the minute they started running out of resources, they would start coming up with stories about the other tribe over there that were basically, yeah, they eat their own kids.
02:12:01.000There's a lot of things that people can achieve when they have that sort of shelter, but there's a balance to be achieved in our society, the influence.
02:12:10.000And the problem is the influence of these people that are detached in urban environments is so significant because there's so many of them.
02:12:17.000There's so many more people that are detached than are connected.
02:12:21.000We have this very weird appreciation and understanding of resources and of just how hard it is to just survive without modern conveniences.
02:12:32.000I think what changed me a lot was when I was younger, I was accidentally around some pretty rough people, some criminals, people that were bad, violent.
02:12:47.000I think I remember going, I remember, it's very scary when you're around people that are, you know, like that.
02:12:54.000And I never forgot it because I was pretty naive as most of us are coming up because I had been around a good family and stuff like that.
02:13:02.000And I saw how ugly and dangerous some men can be, especially when nobody's looking.
02:17:02.000But the election was, should we have a standing army?
02:17:06.000Because traditionally, in a republic, if you had a standing army, a very charismatic general like Napoleon would take over the army and take over the country.
02:17:52.000But Eric comes from a position of how to solve problems.
02:17:56.000When he was talking about Gaza, he said, we have the ability to frack.
02:18:02.000What that means is we can drill sideways.
02:18:03.000He said, you could have filled those tunnels with seawater instead of bombing the shit out of 70% of it and killing all those people.
02:18:09.000You could have flooded those fuckers out.
02:18:11.000Because you drill, and I don't know if this is true, I don't know anything about fracking, but he does.
02:18:17.000And he said, you could have drilled fucking...
02:18:20.000This way, take the Mediterranean, fill all those tunnels with seawater, and they would have had to come up, and you would have been just fine, and just position people when they come out of the water.
02:19:15.000Provided the Israelis a fully funded, donated ability to flood Gaza with water, with seawater, to flood the 300 miles of tunnels blocked by the Pentagon.
02:19:27.000Our stuff isn't working that well in Ukraine.
02:19:29.000The Navy has been ineffective in Yemen.
02:19:32.000The U.S. has given very bad advice, very mixed advice in Gaza, preventing the Israelis from finishing it, or even preventing from ending that war in a clever way.
02:22:13.000Someone's going to have to be like socially liberal.
02:22:16.000But fiscally conservative and pragmatic and realistic.
02:22:19.000But they're gonna have to, like, be a person like you or I, who, like, supports gay rights, supports women's rights, supports equal rights, like, of course!
02:22:55.000Because you haven't done a goddamn thing about homelessness and all those people should be held accountable.
02:23:00.000Because again, they're framing the problem wrong.
02:23:02.000If you talk to those people, if you talk to the people in charge of homelessness, a lot of times, I'm not saying, a lot of them are, look, a lot of them are good people and a lot of them are smart and they know a lot more about it than I do.
02:23:12.000So I don't like being the guy who's talking about, but I'm just saying I like to be fair.
02:23:49.000And you know, California was always, including under Democratic governors, California was always known as a place that was run very, very well with really responsible civic employees for a long time under Reardon and that and stuff.
02:27:59.000I walk around talking about being a libertarian.
02:28:01.000As usual, I don't really know what government does.
02:28:04.000I was so kind of humbled by the book because I was like, there's a lot of shit I rely on.
02:28:09.000The people who are needy, people who are very elderly, people who are disabled, who live in places where they can't get food, our food banks feed those people.
02:28:16.000Meals on Wheels is a really big thing.
02:28:18.000So there's a lot of shit that the government does, and we feed a lot of people that couldn't feed themselves otherwise.
02:28:24.000So we have to be careful about not throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and once again, take politics out of it.
02:28:29.000Let's approach everything like it's a problem, and stay agnostic about this shit.
02:28:33.000And sometimes you might have to be a little left, sometimes you might have to be a little right.
02:29:16.000And one of the most fascinating things that I can't stop thinking about is how the book of Isaiah from the Dead Sea Scrolls was verbatim the same as the book of Isaiah that they found a thousand years later.
02:29:50.000I think that if you read the Old Testament, which I've done three times, I would argue that—so what's a theme of a—any author writes a book, the theme is always the author's argument for how one should behave in the world, okay?
02:30:41.000The value of having a transcendent truth of something that you can't measure.
02:30:48.000It's very interesting that you can't measure it.
02:30:50.000So why do the Muslims, why do the Orthodox Jews not have any kind of picture of God?
02:30:56.000It's because you're putting a measurement around God.
02:30:58.000You're trying to define God, and that's not for you to do.
02:31:00.000And there's something very valuable about not being able to do that, because that transcendent truth is not for you to understand necessarily.
02:31:36.000Those are the people that are the most delusional and the most disconnected because they put blinders on as to who they are and what they've done.
02:31:45.000I mean, you see this when people get caught for horrible crimes, like Bernie Madoff type people.
02:31:50.000Like, they've deluded themselves to a point where they don't look at—they're complete sociopaths, which is a weird— The path that the mind can go into, where you're never wrong, and it's always about you.
02:34:26.000Part of the magic of being a comedian is these sparks of ridiculousness that have to pop into your head.
02:34:32.000So you have to be able to entertain that part of your mind.
02:34:36.000I used to think when I was young that I didn't want to meditate because I didn't want to become enlightened because it would fuck up my comedy.
02:34:43.000Well, I thought that way because I realized that there was a completely different mindset between me as a martial arts competitor and me as a comedian where I didn't need anybody's approval before.
02:34:53.000Like, I liked that they didn't like me.
02:34:55.000I used to love going to places and fucking up the local hero.
02:38:09.000He would do this mantra, which was one, two, get out of the way.
02:38:13.000So when you're trying to hit a ball because it's really precise and you can't be overthinking, you've got to just be totally reactive, right?
02:38:20.000Your eye and your hands have to be married.
02:38:24.000And motherfuckers are throwing 100 mile an hour balls and shit like that.
02:42:05.000They understood that it was a schizophrenic break, but they were going through something, and there was something on the other side of that.
02:43:49.000It's funny, like when CNN was attacking me, one of the photos that they would use all the time was me at the UFC waving to the crowd like this.
02:44:06.000When you see what the New York Times did to Baldoni, where they took every one of those things out of context, and Baldoni was like, really?