In this episode of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, the guys talk about how they met and fell in love with each other and how they ended up getting married. Joe also talks about his battle with an ear infection and how he managed to get it under control.
00:00:00.000the Joe Rogan experience train by day Joe Rogan podcast by night all day bullshit I never got it until this year but that's what they said That's what they say.
00:00:16.000You get it within a couple years, you get it, and then all of a sudden, you got it.
00:00:21.000Yeah, I don't know what the fuck they are.
00:00:55.000I'm like, Austin has given me this stuff.
00:00:57.000We go out to dinner, start eating, and then my nose, my eyes, everything just, and I have to always excuse myself, always have to have tissues in my back pocket.
00:01:06.000Then I got my teeth done, which we talked about, I think, the last time I was here.
00:01:10.000And Maverick, my periodontist, he did one of these 360 MRIs.
00:01:15.000He says, you know, ma'am, you've got some low-level infection here.
00:01:20.000And that could be responsible for a whole bunch of stuff.
00:01:22.000Now, I'd had hearing aids for five years.
00:01:25.000So when he did the initial extraction, I think I took one or two shows off, and then I went back in the studio, put my headphones on, and like, whoa, I thought I'd hit something, you know, a volume knob or something.
00:08:21.000ZipRecruiter, the smartest way to hire.
00:08:23.000You know, it's an interesting subject because candy and sugar is really what caused all this horrible tooth decay in people.
00:08:31.000And the goofy fucking solution that someone came up with along the way was putting fluoride in the water.
00:08:38.000Which is so goddamned insane that you're taking a neurotoxin and you're putting it in the water.
00:08:47.000I don't want to take even a political position on this.
00:08:51.000I just want to look at this from a human lens.
00:08:55.000There is something that people do where even if something is obviously stupid, if it's a part of a system...
00:09:06.000And there's enough air quotes experts that have endorsed this, regardless of the fact that we've seen time and time again throughout history that experts are compromised, experts are...
00:09:18.000You could have a court case for a murder and bring in experts that will tell you he definitely did it, and experts will tell you he definitely didn't do it.
00:09:28.000But still, people argue on the side of the experts.
00:09:32.000And I've seen this about fluoride, and it's so mind-boggling.
00:09:36.000There are conclusive studies that show a direct correlation between high levels of fluoride It's a neurotoxin.
00:09:50.000We know it's bad for you in large doses, and yet there are fucking people out there with college degrees who read the New York Times who think they're sensible people that will get angry if you want to remove this neurotoxin from water because look at all the strides it's done in preventing tooth decay.
00:10:09.000And you just want to say, hey man, fuck you.
00:11:34.000He's 95 or 96. And he was really high up in the CIA. He was part of OSS back in the day.
00:11:41.000And in it, it talks about how the agents would go in, fluoridate, The enemy's camp water so they could go in at night and they were docile and they could pull him out and they could kind of attack him.
00:13:46.000The water is definitely naturally fluoridated.
00:13:49.000There's natural levels of different minerals, and there's different stuff.
00:13:53.000And this one area had a fairly high natural level of fluoride, and these people had, like, great oral hygiene.
00:14:02.000Whether or not that was a convenient study that they pointed to or a convenient case they pointed to to make the argument to get rid of all that fluoride, you know, you've got to look many layers into all this kind of stuff.
00:14:14.000Because they've been throwing fluoride in the water for how long?
00:14:17.000And how much money has been spent throwing fluoride in the water?
00:14:21.000And how many people have built mansions and have fucking Mercedes-Benz that are tooling around them because they've been throwing fluoride in the water?
00:15:13.000And I hadn't really watched network television a lot, and there's a lot of commercial breaks, but the first 10 all had a pharmaceutical product which had never heard of, a name I can't remember, and side effects literally included death.
00:16:23.000That was not in that commercial with the lady dancing in the field with her child and the people at the picnic, and they're all smiling and laughing and having a good time together.
00:16:36.000Well, of course, they've tried all kinds of things to stop this, and First Amendment comes up, although we have stopped tobacco advertisements, and there's all kinds of things that have been done throughout the years.
00:16:49.000But what happened with television is all the money, I mean, really, 60, 70, maybe 80% of all the advertising income is from pharmaceutical companies.
00:17:15.000Like, could you imagine if, let's say, a network has a...
00:17:18.000Prominent news organization and that news organization is very popular and it's a big part of their ratings and it's a reliable source of information for you know People that believe them.
00:17:31.000And they're sponsored by pharmaceutical drug companies, but then they also have a crime show on.
00:17:38.000And this crime show wants to do a thing about an evil guy who promotes a vaccine that winds up killing a bunch of people, and they hide the data, and then they arrest him at the end of the show.
00:19:49.000He's showing us things that enables people like Mike Benz and you and I to have these conversations about...
00:19:55.000Because it's not ideological that USAID, which is not USAID, this is like one of these psyops right up top, like Federal Express is not owned by the government.
00:20:06.000Federal Reserve is not owned by the government.
00:20:08.000USAID is the Agency for International Development, not aid.
00:20:12.000And we see on television, there goes another pallet onto the C-130.
00:20:23.000But what these, and I'm sure Mike talked about this, you know, like LGBTQ, these dance parties and things, if you look at these countries, these are countries where we want to keep them away from Russia, overthrow the incumbents, and the way to garner support is to...
00:20:42.000And I really love how they added the cue.
00:20:44.000That just became so clear to me all of a sudden.
00:20:46.000If you sponsor LGBTQ, these are outcasts.
00:20:49.000These are people who feel that they've been marginalized.
00:20:52.000Then you add a cue like, wait a minute.
00:24:41.000It started around 2012, not coincidental, when, you know about Smith-Month, the Smith-Month Act?
00:24:47.000So that's, you know, it was a law that was put in since the Church Commission, you can't propagandize the American people.
00:24:53.000Defense Department and others went to the government and said, well, you know, like, we're on the Internet now, we might accidentally, you know, push some propaganda on people.
00:25:04.000I know, because John Dvorak and I, we followed it on no agenda.
00:25:07.000Started with bullying, then it was, we needed anti-bullying laws, and we're literally going, like, what happened to sticks and stones will break my bones, or punch the bully in his nose?
00:25:17.000Then the teachers, and then we got hate speech laws, not actually laws, but, you know, hate speech punishments, and this kept building up until you...
00:25:27.000Guaranteed parents through the American Medical Association, the Pediatric Society, all of these different trade groups, that if you don't transition your child, that child will commit suicide.
00:25:40.000And that is a horrible thing that they've done.
00:25:44.000Think about these parents who may or may not one day wake up and go, what have I done?
00:25:51.000Well, someone was talking about this the other day, that this is the real problem, is that so many parents have committed to doing this to their children, and they cannot face the reality of what they've done, and so they're going to dig their heels in forever, and they're going to talk about gender-affirming care.
00:26:08.000But the thing is, that's a small percentage of people.
00:26:26.000The political beach balls at a concert.
00:26:28.000They chuck them up in the air so we always have something to fight about.
00:26:30.000So we're not paying attention to the USAID stuff or a lot of the stuff that's really important.
00:26:36.000And this is just a part of this inter...
00:26:41.000Tangled web of psyops that's been running our culture.
00:26:47.000I mean, I would say our government, but it's everything, right?
00:26:50.000So it's the government has established its hooks in us and put fear and law and rules.
00:26:57.000And the more law and the more rules, the better, because the more likely you're going to break a few of them, and then you're going to shut the fuck up.
00:27:02.000And they've got these fucking things everywhere.
00:27:06.000It's just allowing them to run this mafia business.
00:27:11.000And there's a bunch of people that are reasonable, educated people that have Stockholm Syndrome.
00:27:16.000They don't want to admit that even their people, their cherished heroes like Obama, was a part of this.
00:27:25.000All these people that you think of as progressive Democrats, they were all a part of it.
00:27:30.000And fortunately today, we have the convenient...
00:27:35.000Access to YouTube instantaneously, where you could watch Obama in 2003 say some very MAGA things.
00:27:43.000Or you could watch Hillary Clinton go more MAGA than MAGA. About deportations.
00:28:03.000It's not that there's a good group of kind, compassionate, educated people and a bunch of fucking buffoons who are racists who want to bring that back to Confederate flag.
00:28:14.000There's people that are nice, kind people that also understand the value of hard work and reality and...
00:28:22.000Kindness and also sternness and rule of law and you can't just let violent criminals out in the street and hey, maybe you should do some actual rehabilitation with the fucking billions of dollars you make in the prison industrial complex when there's no rehabilitation, like no real concerted efforts to completely change these people and studies.
00:29:13.000Rick Perry has been really brave in this case because he's a former Republican governor of Texas and now he's advocating for Ibogaine therapy, particularly for veterans, for guys who come over, they've seen the most horrific shit, their brain is in a shambles and they want to do something and they have no help in these...
00:29:37.000Pills that just dull their mind and make them feel detached from reality and all these fucking antidepressants and things they give them.
00:29:45.000And they want to fucking end their life.
00:29:47.000And they can go and get therapy that cures 80% of them with one dose and it's like 95% with two doses.
00:30:02.000Because of the sweeping Schedule I Drug Act of 1970 that was put in place directly by Nixon to go after his political opponents.
00:30:12.000It was directly put in place to demonize the anti-war movement and demonize the Civil Rights Party and the Black Panthers and anybody who was a problem with the government.
00:30:23.000So they just said, let's just make all these things that these people are taking on a regular basis completely illegal.
00:30:29.000Not only just Schedule I. Like, with no medical use whatsoever.
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00:35:13.000It was, you know, like, read the liner card, you know, and then always end with Z100. There was a guy at Sun Microsystems in San Francisco, and he said, Adam, I see what you're doing with MTV.com on the web.
00:36:14.000I'm going to figure out how we use this thing for broadcasting, because think about how we can use this outside of all the systems.
00:36:21.000And so 2003, now we're 10 years later, I've been very involved with RSS feeds and blogs, and I see my first iPod, and it's like, snap, crackle, pop.
00:36:40.000So I cobbled together this program that basically takes this RSS feed and then puts a program on.
00:36:47.000So the show was an album and then each track was an episode number.
00:36:51.000And then I immediately started doing a show.
00:36:54.000What I do is just try to get people involved.
00:36:56.000That's how Daily Source Code started because I was trying to get software developers in.
00:37:00.000And then two years later, three years later, Steve Jobs is having a private conversation with me about putting this into the iPod and making it official, making a podcasting thing in iTunes.
00:37:13.000And I'm like, this is so perfect because now you have this RSS feed which you control.
00:37:18.000No one else can control what you do with your RSS feed and anybody can slurp that up and subscribe to your radio show.
00:37:29.000The President of the United States wrapping up his campaign with Joe Rogan on a podcast, completely being himself, being a dude for, by the way, props for you sticking to your guns.
00:38:15.000I say that to the guys at my comedy club.
00:38:17.000They're always so thankful that I built this comedy club.
00:38:20.000I'm like, I think this thing built itself.
00:38:23.000I think it was just, I was a thing that it did through me.
00:38:26.000It caught me because it knew that I was capable of doing it and impulsive enough and brash enough to say, fuck it, let's just dump a bunch of money in this spot and see what happens.
00:40:01.000And so you start looking at them as a source of negativity towards you and you don't do all the logical objective reasoning that allows you to go, "Oh, no, no, no, no, they didn't do anything wrong.
00:40:11.000It's just me." And then those people who get really super big and famous oftentimes get very defensive and very elitist because they do understand that people are mad at them now.
00:40:20.000So then they're like, fuck those people.
00:40:44.000It's been papered over by media, basically.
00:40:47.000That's why I'm so happy that we've broken through that elite messaging system.
00:40:51.000The way I was raised is in America, you can look at the guy with the Rolls Royce or the Cadillac or whatever and go, I want that, and you can be that.
00:41:01.000And we've kind of devolved into a, you know, it's international now, into a victim mentality.
00:41:28.000Whatever that person is singing at the Grammys, when Kendrick Lamar is doing the halftime show, when someone wins a fight, that's supposed to be inspiration.
00:42:38.000I think a lot more can than you think.
00:42:40.000There's a lot of people out there that have the inclination that just don't get that spark, which is also one of the things we're trying to do at the club, which is also why we have...
00:42:48.000We have two nights of open mic nights.
00:44:43.000And, like, so all the bullshit that came along with living in Hollywood, like, he would just come hanging out at the comedy store all the time.
00:44:49.000That was just, because it was like, oh, you guys are real.
00:45:08.000And then the pandemic happened, and it was like it all pulled me to the spot.
00:45:12.000And then it had to be the Spotify thing, and then it had to be the comedy store shutting down for a year, and then it had to be all the comedy store employees that I loved were all unemployed.
00:45:22.000And so then it was like, okay, let's fucking do this.
00:45:42.000It was costing you money probably on bandwidth and stuff.
00:45:44.000It was definitely costing you money and I had young kids and it was just like why am I why am I spending my time doing this when I should be spending my time maybe doing something to make more money because especially back then It was like I wasn't doing Fear Factor anymore So I wasn't really making the kind of money that I was making when I was on television So I had a tour a lot so I was doing stand-up and I was doing like way too many dates with the UFC the UFC Although I love it to death.
00:46:09.000I mean, that's the only job job I still have.
00:46:50.000He has this huge ham radio rig, and that's like, I've been a ham for a long time, and that's like if you have a, we call it a QSL. QSO. That's ham code for a conversation.
00:48:15.000We can't play music in podcasts because of all these different And so, you know, if you perform something on the radio or in a live stream, that's a performance right, which, you know, the club plays for that, too, if you're playing any music.
00:48:31.000So that's ASCAP BMI. Then you have the publishing right.
00:48:37.000Now, because you download a podcast, well, all of a sudden now you've made a copy of it.
00:48:42.000So you have the publishers, then the record companies.
00:48:45.000And they just could never agree, and they've locked themselves in so tight.
00:48:49.000That the biggest opportunity for music would be to play it on podcasts.
00:48:54.000They've painted themselves into a corner, and we all know now that most artists, you get 10,000 streams on Spotify, and you get a penny after a couple of years.
00:49:08.000You see what Snoop Dogg, when he was going over this?
00:49:26.000I don't want to get too deep into Spotify and all that, but people are starting to move away from that and what I call the value-for-value model.
00:49:37.000We actually built this with Podcasting 2.0 where you can send a boost.
00:49:42.000Like, I want to send some money to this person straight from the app.
00:49:45.000So you can play a song in the podcast as long as they've agreed to the license.
00:50:17.000But they were all making more money than they had ever made on any other platform in their life just because people can send it through the internet.
00:50:26.000Isn't that crazy that $600 for a performance that goes in the internet?
00:51:18.000But then on the other hand, you can get really famous.
00:51:24.000People like Tile the Creator and all these different people that have blown up just from being on the internet, and then they do live performances.
00:53:23.000Although it's become easier to, you know, to do.
00:53:26.000Your music at home, that's, I mean, I remember going to the Hit Factory in New York and hanging out, you know, watching people record records.
00:53:34.000That was amazing with, you know, the big machines and lots of people running around.
00:53:39.000I think YouTube and social media presents very unique opportunities where a guy like Oliver Anthony can all of a sudden explode out of nowhere with one song.
00:56:22.000And if I did the pilot and the pilot was successful, they would have me locked in for some exorbitant amount of time.
00:56:31.000I think it was like five years where I couldn't do anything other than MTV. And it was because they had a few people that became really famous off MTV and then left.
00:56:40.000And so they had decided that MTV is going to keep all of their talent.
00:56:46.000Which is the funniest thing because when I got there in 87...
00:58:44.000He is a creation of YouTube and how it works.
00:58:48.000You don't have this because you're so established, but his team, and he's talked about this, micromanage every second of each video, every cut, the poster images, all these things, and it's all about...
01:01:30.000He really, really fought the system so hard.
01:01:33.000That was what was fascinating about talking to him about what happened when he made The Passion of the Christ.
01:01:37.000Because it was really, it wasn't that it was an anti-Jesus reaction to that film.
01:01:44.000It was an anti-Jesus reaction to that film that was really made by the motion picture industry because he had gone outside the normal distribution system.
01:02:07.000And that's also where Jim Caviezel, his career completely stalled out.
01:02:10.000You would think the guy's in a gigantic blockbuster movie like that, like he's going to be in blockbuster movie after blockbuster movie after this.
01:02:19.000Well, and so you have smaller studios now like Angel Studios, and they're in Utah, and they crowdfunded The Chosen, which is the story of Jesus, and it's, I mean, unbelievable.
01:02:37.000They're in their fifth season now, completely outside the studio system, completely away from it, and it's all crowdfunding.
01:02:44.000At the end of the season, the credits are like...
01:03:21.000Well, imagine the amount of people that you have.
01:03:24.000If you have a bunch of idiots telling you to cut your hair, imagine how many dumbasses you have in the background of the movie that are telling you what to do.
01:03:32.000All the money people, all the executives.
01:05:22.000So funny and so unusual and so eccentric that for him, it was such a huge thing to see the snake on the table that he pulled out of his pants.
01:07:41.000So, like, whatever it is, whether you're talking about quantum physics or whether you're talking about human psychology or ancient history, I want the best version of you and I want to, like, kind of help you get the best version out.
01:07:53.000And if you're running for president, I'd like to get the best version of that from you.
01:07:58.000And I think that the whole system of debates and public speeches and interviews is so...
01:08:08.000Bad for getting to know a human being.
01:08:11.000And I guarantee you, I've seen interviews where she's really funny.
01:08:16.000I've talked about it before, but I'll say it again.
01:08:17.000There's this one interview, she's talking about meeting her mother-in-law for the first time, and her mother-in-law grabbed her face like, oh, you're so beautiful!
01:09:49.000And X I really only use as kind of an inbox.
01:09:52.000People will send me stuff and things for the show.
01:09:56.000But early on when Blue Cry was still a secret project within Twitter that Jack Dorsey was running, I knew some people who were in that secret project.
01:10:43.000You know, you gotta love them and not hate them.
01:10:47.000You don't have to forget what they've done or what they've said, but they have been abused by multiple entities and systems within our own government and political organizations.
01:10:58.000Yeah, also, they're in this feedback loop, this echo chamber, and they don't have outside people that are kind.
01:11:04.000And, you know, everybody outside is the enemy, and they're trying to, like...
01:11:10.000They're trying to make their way through life like all of us.
01:11:13.000But without forgiveness, you have nothing.
01:11:16.000You have to be able to forgive people.
01:11:47.000You've got to be able to understand that in the past you've made mistakes and grow.
01:11:52.000And if we, the people that have made mistakes and grown, do not accept the people that are currently making mistakes and growing, well, then we're hypocrites.
01:12:00.000Well, that's the same with COVID. I know many people who either lost their job or were forced to take something they didn't want to take, and they will never forgive them.
01:12:13.000Forgiving is not the same as forgetting, obviously, but they can't bring themselves to forgive those who were caught up in a massive psychological operation, and they're held in their own prison of anger, and it's with their own family members.
01:14:54.000Well, this is another argument for deregulation too, because when it comes to innovation, the issue with drones is that if you want like a really high level, sophisticated drone in America, you have to have a pilot's license.
01:17:05.000We used to dream of—I think I had databelt.com at one point.
01:17:09.000I dreamt about, you know, wouldn't it be great if we all have these satellites and they're circling around and we call it the databelt and we'd have all this stuff and, you know, all these things.
01:17:17.000I can just see the delight of—and, of course, a lot of—it's, you know, SpaceX.
01:17:24.000These are very sophisticated NASA people.
01:17:28.000You know, there's all kinds—the best of the best is in there.
01:17:29.000I think he knows how to hire the right people.
01:17:32.000But he's smart at how he markets that.
01:26:30.000It's like, you know, the spammers get around stuff, and they figure it out, and you say, report a spam, and then it comes back in a different way.
01:26:37.000And how many older people, especially?
01:29:22.000I'm sure you've got the one that says, this is my favorite Bitcoin scam.
01:29:27.000It's like, okay, I've installed a spyware on your computer, and I saw what you were doing looking at that porn site, and I've recorded everything, and I'm going to release it all to your friends and on your social media if you don't send me $2,000 in Bitcoin right away.
01:29:44.000Don't even think about contacting the authorities.
01:30:45.000So I don't believe in shit coins at all because...
01:30:49.000Bitcoin has no CEO. There's no one in charge of it.
01:30:53.000It's literally tens of thousands of people around the world who run these nodes that make it open and make it run and keep it at this 21 million coin limit.
01:31:20.000Now that you just said it, now that we just said it, because we brought it up yesterday with the Boneyard guy, with John Reeves, and we said, you should have your own coin.
01:31:38.000Quick amount of money, I'd have a shit coin, and I'd have my bots ready, and I'd say, hey, Joe, have you heard about my curry coin?
01:31:46.000And you'd be like, no, wait a minute, and it would come out, and it would skyrocket, and my bots would sell it, I would make a lot of money, and it would be dumped right away.
01:31:53.000It's a scam over and over and over again.
01:32:21.000Because people have Bitcoin, and I have some Bitcoin.
01:32:24.000You know, I've been saving my Bitcoin for a long time.
01:32:27.000Instead of selling it, to which I then have to pay capital gains over the difference between what I bought it for and sold it at, I can give it to the charity.
01:32:34.000I can still take my tax-deductible write-off.
01:33:26.000And Europe, in particular, was very worried that after the war, they would fall into the same Great Depression that happened after World War I, when we had the Great Depression.
01:33:36.000So they brought in all the economists and all the money.
01:33:40.000and people got on the Queen Mary and went to the States to Bretton Woods.
01:33:44.000You've heard of Bretton Woods probably.
01:33:49.000They all got together and they decided that they would have a new monetary system for the entire world.
01:33:55.000I'm not an economist, but I've looked at this long enough to understand it.
01:33:58.000And when they came out after two weeks, they said, okay, we're going to have this thing called the International Monetary Fund, the IMF, and they're going to...
01:34:08.000Managed the interest rates, or they managed the currency exchange between all the individual countries with the U.S. dollar as the reserve currency.
01:34:17.000So we became the money of the world, and we back it by gold.
01:34:21.000And the idea was $1 could always be exchanged for 35 ounces of gold.
01:34:29.000When you're the reserve currency, everyone has to have the dollar.
01:36:39.000And for each dollar they have bought in treasuries, they can create a stablecoin.
01:36:44.000So if you look at the company Tether, they have bought more of the United States debt than most countries.
01:36:52.000They have $160 billion worth of U.S. debt, and for each of those dollars, they've created a stablecoin, which now people can use all over the world transacting.
01:37:05.000There's like 50 people in the company.
01:37:07.000So they have $160 billion at 4% interest annually.
01:37:12.000They're making bank just for holding this debt.
01:37:16.000So I think President Trump is very smart, and he's seen that we can flood the world with our stablecoin, and you kind of get a two-for-one.
01:37:26.000You create a dollar of debt, but then you create another dollar on top that can be used all over the world as the reserve currency.
01:37:34.000And that should probably result in, I don't know, the Mar-a-Lago Accord or some new monetary system that we're going to have to come up with to really have our dollar be valued properly, but also still remain the reserve currency and remain the strong export country that we need to be.
01:40:05.000And particularly, although I don't see any maliciousness, there's fear that Elon and the PayPal mafia and Peter Thiel, all guys you've met, all guys you've had on the show, I think are actually quite nice people.
01:40:17.000That they're going to bring in the new with AI and we're all going to be locked in.
01:40:23.000Stargate will bring cancer mRNA vaccines that will be mandated.
01:40:28.000I mean, people are spinning up over this stuff.
01:40:31.000And I'm not saying that they're necessarily wrong or there should be no concern, but we are moving towards a digital dollar, and it will have aspects of control, which is why I like the backup of Bitcoin, so I can still...
01:40:44.000Transact and do things without anybody being able to stop it.
01:40:48.000And you're gonna get none of that with a shit coin.
01:42:30.000I've raised money from Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital, and when you get them all googly-gaga over, oh, this guy was so cool, he was sitting in the pitch meeting, and he was playing a video game, but he's such a genius!
01:45:17.000And, you know, so we were doing podcasting, so this is right after, maybe a year after Steve Jobs put it into iTunes and the iPod, and so there was money coming in, and, you know, the first thing they said is, you've got to be in San Francisco.
01:45:32.000Well, if you want a media company, where's the last place you want to be is San Francisco?
01:47:58.000There's so many different things you can search.
01:48:00.000The fact that you could essentially find anything...
01:48:03.000If I'm interested in some particular region of the world of ancient history, I just...
01:48:09.000Punch that into YouTube, and I have hundreds, if not thousands, of videos on it.
01:48:14.000It took them a long time, I think, to make that profitable inside of Google, because if you see how many videos are being uploaded daily and transformed into digital video, and, I mean, it's crazy the amount of computation that goes into YouTube and the amount of bandwidth that is being sent.
01:49:46.000We talked about TikTok last time, I think, when I was here.
01:49:49.000And, you know, obviously it's not an issue now that China is spying through TikTok because it's still here.
01:49:53.000I think, as I told you then, I think it's because they were eating Silicon Valley's lunch, you know, doing $4 billion, taking away revenue from them.
01:50:02.000And just looking at the people who sponsored the bill, it seemed like they had a lot of donations from Google and Amazon.
01:50:10.000You know, that just seemed to me like there might be some issues.
01:50:14.000But what people misunderstand about TikTok is it's not just about the videos and the format and how it flies by.
01:52:05.000And some of these guys are pretty good.
01:52:08.000The ones that fall back, you know, and the guy catches them every single time.
01:52:12.000And so their algorithm is just give that person more of what they want.
01:52:17.000They're not trying to do like us, like meta or I'm not sure about X how that works, but let me inject some people who are against it or have a counter argument.
01:52:30.000Like when I was on the last time and I talked about my coming to Jesus.
01:52:35.000Dude, there were TikTok videos with millions of views of just this one bit.
01:52:41.000And if you looked at it one time, you get the same over and over again.
01:52:46.000You get all kinds of Jesus stuff back and forth.
01:52:57.000It's like, give people what they want and don't try to interject them or spin them up or get them angry and then throw an ad in their face when they're all emotional.
01:53:42.000I'm like, dude, you gotta do something else with your life during the day.
01:53:45.000It's just amazing how many of those...
01:53:47.000Those kooky people are getting so much traction and that was the thought that it was a Chinese psyop that they were accentuating all these people and that was like ruining the culture of America because it was showing you all these Blue-haired psychopaths with beards and lipstick and nail polish.
01:54:56.000And really, there's a guy, he came up with the law of large numbers.
01:55:01.000And they figured out that in a computer network, regardless of the content, depending on if you have enough nodes, you can predict where the information will flow.
01:55:12.000So if I'm talking about something here, if they...
01:55:17.000Boost the right nodes, they can predict where that information will go.
01:55:21.000I don't think even Elon can stop that from happening.
01:57:56.000I think there's ways that you can incorporate it into your life where it's interesting.
01:58:03.000And I've got good algorithms now, especially on YouTube.
01:58:08.000But pretty good algorithms on Instagram too, where most of the stuff it's showing me is stuff I'm actually interested in.
01:58:15.000Do you get those videos when you're interested in a topic and then there'll be like five different videos that are being suggested to you and about five minutes in you're like, this is just an AI voice that's cobbled a whole bunch of old things together and it's a new version of it and I'm not learning anything?
02:03:46.000Well, I think we're lucky that we've seen both.
02:03:49.000We grew up in a time where there was no internet, and you were going outside to do things, and people did physical activities.
02:03:57.000But then as we got older, we recognized that there's this new technology that's connecting the whole world in this weird way, and we're getting to experience it as people who know the world before that.
02:04:38.000Very, very important what you're doing.
02:04:40.000There's a lot of young men that just feel like real disconnected to the world.
02:04:44.000Nothing seems to be anything that is interesting.
02:04:52.000You know, there's, in the 60s, so I've been, ever since I got saved and become a believer,
02:05:10.000I've really learned about our American history, and I've been blown away by how much Because a lot of, you know, you can talk about the 60s and when they outlawed psychedelic drugs and put it on Schedule 1. That was the exact same time when the Bible was basically taken out of school and it was, you know, and I think the church in general, you know, kind of went into itself and kind of, you know, became a thing you do over there on Sundays.
02:09:35.000Everywhere I go, I'm like, where's my vape?
02:09:38.000I'm fully aware I'm addicted to more the...
02:09:43.000The motion of it, because, oh, I mean, I would roll up, you know, I could roll them with one hand behind my back if I'm doing it so long.
02:09:51.000So a real spliff with tobacco, with weed, and then it would go out and I'd put it down and I'd come up, pick it up again.
02:09:57.000At a certain point, it was like three in the morning, I'd wake up like, I think I'll go roll a joint, you know, smoke a whole spliff, go back to bed.
02:10:05.000I mean, it got to be a little, I was smoking a lot, you know, and without it.
02:14:23.000It's happening on Google servers, and they probably keep all of that, or my voice, or whatever.
02:14:28.000There's a company in Austin called FUTO, F-U-T-O, and they have an open-source voice-to-text system that don't keep your transcripts, and they're some good guys.
02:17:00.000And like, okay, you know, it's a rock.
02:17:02.000And there's a little sign next to it that says, we don't know that this was really the rock, but some guy in church who was 90 years old at the time said, yeah, I think this was the rock.
02:19:54.000Perverted throughout the years to say, well, you can't have the Bible in schools, and the government can't tell you to do this, and you can't be talking about—the Hall of Congress used to be a church.
02:21:23.000But it's kind of a template for where we came from.
02:21:26.000And I think it's kind of important that we look at that as well as, you know, all the other things that we're looking at now with AI and social media.
02:23:37.000It's interesting because some of that, like how much can you attribute it to faulty memory and how much of it is actually they passed things by his desk.
02:23:51.000I think that was like one of the biggest mistakes that Kamala Harris did was when she went on The View and they asked her, what would you do differently?
02:24:44.000If they just found something they loved and pushed it into that, they'd be better off.
02:24:48.000But also, it's like, what damaged them up until that point?
02:24:51.000Like, what kind of a life did they live that left them in this place where they're 35 years old, weeping in front of a city council meeting?
02:24:59.000Like, who are they and what went wrong?
02:25:01.000And this is the thing, we kind of encourage this victim mentality.
02:25:30.000And if you reward victim mentality, then people look to become victims.
02:25:34.000And so when that lady laid out all of her fucking physical ailments and all of her problems, as if that makes any of the things she's saying make sense, because she has all these problems.
02:25:45.000Like, no, that's not how the world works.
02:25:59.000This is a part of the PSYOP of USAID. And the PSYOP of just the government in general, these control structures that are essentially put in place to make sure that they remain in power.
02:27:44.000We know it's real, and we know people are pilfering.
02:27:46.000And if you go unchecked for long enough, that becomes a part of the way people do business.
02:27:52.000And, once that's established, and it's been established for decades, then it's very difficult to stop because as soon as you start investigating it, people go to jail.
02:28:01.000And so they're going to try to stop you from investigating it.
02:28:03.000They're going to try to, like, bury records.
02:28:14.000Instead of us being open, and I think like Trump is doing, like, hey, we're just going to have terrorists on you, NATO, you don't like it, boom, we're not going to protect you.
02:28:24.000You know, we've got to be fair about this.
02:29:21.000The problem is there's a lot of people that are going to be in deep trouble, and they're going to try to stop that from all this accountability.
02:29:45.000And I think his fight is very noble, and he's right.
02:29:50.000He's right, and he's accurate, and the amount of information that guy's got in his head is astounding.
02:29:56.000And he's pulling it all off the top of his head while we're talking because he lives this constantly.
02:30:02.000Used to work at the State Department, uncovered all this stuff, been chasing it down forever, and is a legitimate historian on this.
02:30:11.000And thank you for giving him that platform.
02:30:13.000And thank you for giving Trump a platform and all the things you've done.
02:30:17.000But the people, when they think of CIA and, you know, these types of agencies, they always think, you know, dart guns and, you know, secret stuff.
02:30:25.000But no, it's really subversive writing articles.
02:30:29.000And my whole family kind of comes from military and intelligence backgrounds.
02:30:37.000Big in the CIA. He was basically Tulsi Gabbard to Bush Sr. when he was VP. And then, you know, like, Iran-Contra happened, and, you know, he basically became ambassador to Korea.
02:30:53.000He was exonerated, but he was moved out to a different post.
02:30:57.000My aunt passed away a couple years back.
02:31:01.000And when my cousin was doing her eulogy...
02:31:05.000She said Aunt Meg actually outranked Uncle Don in the CIA. She ran the Russia desk, spoke fluent Russian, but had promised never to tell anybody, not even her own kids.
02:37:19.000So when the wall comes down, this is number one.
02:37:22.000It was 1990. And I think, I can't remember, I think they might have been phonetically singing along with it in Lennon Stadium when we were there, because it was a number one hit.
02:38:57.000Well, this is also part of the thing that Mike Benz got into with the music business, that they do sort of finance these disruptive kind of songs and political movements.
02:39:59.000We had so much fun back in the early days.
02:40:02.000That's so crazy that that song was written by the CIA. That Laurel Canyon thing is really interesting because I really dismissed it at first.
02:43:07.000And a lot of these people are just propagandists.
02:43:10.000And they're also trying to make an argument for something without looking at the other side, which instantaneously I know now you're propagandizing.
02:43:43.000Or are you captured by this ideology that you're a part of to the point where you're just ignoring?
02:43:50.000This is the thing that I find fascinating about all this USAID stuff.
02:43:54.000Because there's so many people that are so against Donald Trump dismantling the organization that they're not looking at the craziness of all the propaganda that's being exposed.
02:44:04.000They somehow or another are gaslighting themselves and all their followers to say that, no, this is aid.
02:44:12.000Meanwhile, I think I'm pretty sure even when they passed this thing where they were trying to put a stop on USAID, they gave exemptions for food and medicine.
02:44:50.000And that is where they've dug their heels in, and now this is where they stay.
02:44:55.000But when you see Rachel Maddow, who has come back, you know, for the first hundred days, she's doing a show every single day, and she's blatantly lying.
02:45:08.000You know, they've been told Joe Rogan is part of the bro-casting and, you know, this right-wing conspiracy all funded by whatever to, you know, to propagandize, and people are...
02:45:20.000I mean, I have family members who truly believe that President Trump will take away their Social Security.
02:48:09.000It's amazing how many guys will open up when they think they're on a date with a hot chick or a hot guy, whichever one that happens to be, and like, oh, yeah, man, I'm doing all this.
02:48:45.000Well, so FEMA paid $59 million for illegal entrance into our country for them to stay at the Roosevelt Hotel, which is double the room rate.
02:48:58.000Have you ever stayed at the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan?
02:49:01.000And the Roosevelt Hotel, by the way, is owned by Pakistan.
02:49:35.000Department of Homeland Security officials said the workers were accused of circumventing leadership to make the transactions which have been standard for years through a program that helps with costs to care for a surge in migration.
02:49:46.000However, officials did not give details on how the four had violated any policies, but they put a freeze on the payments.
02:50:26.000Like, you can't get a hotel room because they've got migrants for double the price.
02:50:29.000Well, this is also something that the Biden administration lied about because they said that FEMA funds were not being used.
02:50:36.000I'm with President Trump that it's better, you know, when Helene happened, what happened there was really beautiful because everything fell down.
02:50:47.000Even the own, you know, North Carolina's, their own state government, no one really was doing anything.
02:50:55.000And it was funny enough for the first time I've ever seen ham operators actually be successful.
02:50:59.000But, you know, the helicopter guys were all going out there.
02:52:42.000Top FEMA official is fired over payments to New York City migrant shelters.
02:52:46.000Trump administration fired the Federal Emergency Management Agency's chief financial officer and three others after Elon Musk misleadingly claimed the agency had used disaster relief funds for migrant services.
02:52:56.000Wait a minute, is this New York Times?
02:52:58.000This is just going to be back and forth, back and forth forever.
02:53:04.000City officials raced to clarify that the federal money had been properly allocated by FEMA under President Biden last year, adding that it was not a disaster relief grant and had not been spent on luxury hotels.
02:53:16.000Nonetheless, just two hours after Mr. Musk's post, FEMA's acting director Cameron Hamilton announced the payments in question have all been suspended, even though most of the money had already been dispersed, and that personnel will be held accountable.
02:53:28.000But is this a recent payment, and did they put a freeze on payments, even if the payment had been properly allocated by Biden?
02:53:36.000What I was reading was they just pulled the money out of bank accounts.
02:56:40.000I started a thing called Godcaster.fm, and it's...
02:56:45.000It's tailored towards helping radio stations do this, but I think churches are content factories, and they're not just all talking about Jesus and God.
02:58:12.000And it also feels like even to the people that...
02:58:15.000Didn't want what Donald Trump is doing.
02:58:18.000The idea to keep going with what was happening before, where you had someone running for president that never went through the primary, you know?
02:59:20.000And it's a lot of people that donated a lot of money.
02:59:22.000And so it's very transactional, and everybody's hyper-aggressive to get photographs and talk to people, and they interject themselves into conversations, interrupt, stand right in front of people that you're talking to, and want pictures, or want to introduce themselves, and it's...
02:59:39.000It's very entitled and very transactional.
02:59:42.000But I think that's always been the nature of politics, particularly people.
02:59:46.000The reason why they were there is because they donated a substantial amount of money.
03:02:11.000In 1967. Let's just leave the family members out of it.
03:02:16.000But someone brought home a colleague from work, and the colleague had dinner and had coffee, and then at dessert, the wife was sitting there, had been talking to this person, and then this colleague took off his mask, and it was someone who the wife knew extremely well and had no idea.