On this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, the former UFC fighter and current Food Network host joins us to talk about his life, career, and how he got started in the restaurant business. He also talks about his early days as a chef, how he became a TV chef, and why he decided to get into the restaurant industry.
00:01:10.000But watching the podcast and seeing all the characters, and I was just watching the Bill Murray interview the other day, and I just look at it and I go, man, to hear those stories talking about Hunter and just all that and all the nostalgia.
00:01:24.000I mean, it's just, it's pretty, you've got to have your mind blown by now.
00:02:07.000And it's really, I mean, it's from a guy that's, you know, in the business, not to this level, but guys in the business, it's respectful, man.
00:06:20.000I give such appreciation and accolades to everybody that did it before me.
00:06:25.000There were so many people that helped pave the way in one style or another.
00:06:30.000And some in TV, some literary, some...
00:06:34.000You know, just living the, you know, keeping the energy of the industry alive.
00:06:38.000Because if you're not from the industry, you don't quite exactly get what it is.
00:06:42.000But it's a pretty, it's like understanding UFC.
00:06:45.000You know, the bigger fan you become of something, the more you start looking at it and just going, it is so much more than what you're watching in the ring for the, you know, next 20 minutes.
00:06:55.000It's really deep and there's so much more and there's so much, it's not just lifestyle, it's attitude, it's energy, it's...
00:07:35.000I'm going to give you a little bit more of the backstory than you probably want, but I'll kind of give you the quick version.
00:07:41.000So when I came back from France, I was supposed to go to my senior year in high school, and I wasn't really super interested in going back to high school.
00:07:47.000I just lived in France in a boarding house and went to high school, and I didn't even speak French.
00:07:51.000But my parents were really open-minded, and I'd save my money, and they said, if you can pass a year of French at the junior college at 16, and you can pass the class, and you can figure it out, I guess.
00:08:01.000So I went and lived in a boarding house and went to high school.
00:08:03.000Came back my senior year, I just was not interested in going back to high school.
00:08:06.000So I went to junior college, finished junior college, went to UNLV, got my degree, graduated a little bit early and went and ran restaurants for other people.
00:08:14.000And then, and I was 26, moved back to the wine country up to Northern California where I'm from, opened my first restaurant.
00:08:21.000Had a bunch of restaurants with a buddy.
00:08:30.000Not that I was short-sighted and stuff, like being a big community person, wanted to do a lot of, you know, community service and so forth.
00:12:11.000All the education in martial arts and boxing and all these different perspectives that people take to be in it.
00:12:17.000It's usually the one that has a pretty good, you know, narrow focus on something I really, really love, but then having that outside perspective.
00:12:25.000So for me as a chef, having the ability to understand Indian food, you know, there's such a depth there that I'll never hit the bottom.
00:12:33.000You'll never touch all the opportunities that there are.
00:12:36.000But anyhow, so back to that, I made the demo tape.
00:12:40.000And I made it so ridiculous that there's no way.
00:12:44.000There's just no way they were going to pick me.
00:14:41.000So I take a little bit of seasoned rice.
00:14:43.000A little bit of smoked pork butt, and we put this together here in a dish with a little of our American favorite, french fries, and mix this together with a little bit of the California favorite, some avocado.
00:14:56.000And I came up with this idea, and as I was doing this, a buddy came around the corner and he says, Guido, what are you doing?
00:15:01.000He says, you can't put that into rice.
00:16:30.000I thought if I talk some shit and I kind of made it a joke and I told them what are they doing, you know, I thought, like, hey, I'll be so, you know.
00:16:37.000I mean, that is pretty true to who I am anyway.
00:22:08.000But the one they gave me that sucked the worst, or the one that I wasn't excited, was they gave me a ball, like a hamster ball.
00:22:15.000Remember the hamster ball as you put the hamster and run around the house?
00:22:18.000But you'd pour cream and vanilla and sugar and all this in a ball and then throw ice cubes in it and then you would roll the ball around, kick it around, and it would roll and it would make ice cream.
00:23:02.000It went through a series of people, like executive, executive from the production company, the owner of the production company, yelling at me, telling me he wasted time and his money.
00:23:11.000I said, hey, nobody told me that if this got picked up, I had to go do the show.
00:23:16.000I thought it was a discovery for you, a discovery for me.
00:23:18.000I don't know shit from Steak Sauce about how this all works, which I quickly turned that.
00:23:23.000I was not going to be inside of the TV business and not be really aware of what goes on.
00:23:30.000Finally, the president of the network called me and she said, you're burning a huge opportunity.
00:23:33.000Brooke Johnson, you're burning a huge opportunity.
00:23:35.000I said, Brooke, it's all about, to me, about authenticity.
00:23:40.000I said, I don't need the paycheck and I don't need, I said, I'm happy with my life.
00:25:17.000Yeah, it seems like it's hard to find because once they started making personalities out of chefs, Then you have to find authentic personalities who are good on TV that are actually cooks.
00:25:30.000So it's kind of a little bit of a dilemma because chefs aren't necessarily the kind of people that you want to have in front of the camera for the most part.
00:25:42.000I think that everybody, when you get people comfortable as, you know, you get people comfortable, you get them talking about themselves, you get them in a zone where they...
00:25:57.000It's – people have a gift of storytelling or have history and what can people talk best about themselves or their history or their passion and that's what I did with Triple D is I just went in.
00:26:10.000I remember the first one we ever shot.
00:26:12.000I'm standing there talking to the guy about the thing, and I'm pouring coffee behind my back.
00:26:15.000People are bitching at the counter because we're right in the middle of an active service in the diner.
00:26:19.000I'm pouring coffee, and pancake's burning, and I flip the guy's pancake.
00:26:22.000And I'm like, so how long have you been making the, you know, yeah, hang on a second.
00:29:55.000I was just thinking, you know, I have some vegan friends.
00:29:58.000If they only wanted to eat at a vegan restaurant, I would take them there.
00:30:01.000It's so good, I'd just go eat there as it is.
00:30:04.000And that's what I, when I interview people at vegan restaurants or vegetarian restaurants, I'll say, do your non-vegan vegetarian friends come here?
00:30:57.000So it's kind of like saying, I didn't mean to throw the vegan thing on it because really what it is, it's about great restaurants.
00:31:06.000With really great people that own it or people that have a good story and then people that want to talk about what the food, they talk about what they do.
00:31:12.000Did you ask them why they decided to make a vegan restaurant?
00:31:17.000And she had a coffee shop, started with a coffee shop and then was doing a little bit of food on the side and then just continued to grow and make it bigger and bigger.
00:34:39.000The vegan thing, though, is like I really do get it from their perspective, like as an ethical perspective.
00:34:46.000It's just one of those things where if there's a thing that you're trying to do, where you're trying to be kind, you're going to get a certain percentage of people that start doing that that get annoying.
00:36:03.000Now, if I come up to you and I tell you that your food sucks, or I tell you that you're doing something that's wrong, you know, we're friends.
00:36:08.000You can maybe take my opinion with some credit.
00:36:11.000But the jerk-off that's writing about you in his mom's basement eating Cheetos in his underwear, you know, clucking away, telling you how much you suck.
00:36:20.000I said, do you really care what that guy thinks?
00:36:22.000The problem is that people see it written down, and they think it's almost like a valid source, and then they have to combat it.
00:38:13.000I mean, in general, mainstream media has kind of, over the last...
00:38:18.000You know, eight, nine years has exposed themselves as being wholly corrupt, very corrupt and full of lies and propaganda and ignoring positive aspects of people because they don't fit with your political agenda.
00:38:33.000It's just – and it has a negative effect downstream of the entire civilization because it's just like everybody's at everybody's throats and they're being – Fed all this negativity.
00:38:46.000First through mainstream media, and then it's all accentuated by Twitter and Facebook and Instagram.
00:40:31.000Do you think it was going to go through?
00:40:32.000I think if I had a reinforced arrow, so like, you know, there's companies that may look super durable, like much heavier grain arrows, and maybe an iron will broadhead, but like a single bevel, two blade.
00:40:49.000I had a three-blade, too much of a big cutting surface.
00:48:23.000You could essentially, right now, just from the podcast that you and I have had so far, us talking, you could have us say anything forever.
00:48:32.000They could do podcasts where you and I discuss fucking computer chips, the construction of them, Conversations about nuanced details of the technology that we don't understand.
00:48:47.000It could be anything, a big foreign policy.
00:48:49.000You could talk about anything, and it would all be AI-generated and no one would be able to tell.
00:48:56.000There's a whole podcast out there of me talking to Steve Jobs.
00:49:36.000I think it's even deeper and more convoluted, more screwed up than we know.
00:49:40.000But it's going to become something we're going to have to face because they're just so far ahead of our legislation that's even interested in trying to control it.
00:49:49.000I don't even think they know what to control.
00:50:07.000I mean, whether it's 20 years or 50 years, there's going to come a time, if you stay alive long enough, where you're not going to have to experience things.
00:50:15.000You're going to be able to sit down and...
00:50:17.000You know, just like the Matrix, it's just going to plug you in and you're going to experience something.
00:50:42.000Did Apple just, did we influence enough Apple people that they just decided to make it a square watch and make it look like Dick Tracy's watch?
00:50:48.000Or did the Dick Tracy thing, did we already make the watch and did somebody go back and, I mean, do you ever sit there and trip on shit like that?
00:52:00.000Okay, so you didn't buy my Dick Tracy idea, but I think that the other stuff is, I don't know.
00:52:05.000Well, when you think about where this is all headed, there's only a few different directions that one could go to, and simulated reality is a big one.
00:52:16.000Because I think you're going to get more sedentary people, more people that are very uncomfortable with their own lives and want to live a different life, and then you're going to be able to have experiences.
00:52:26.000Just like when kids play Call of Duty all day long.
00:52:51.000Your feet feel the concrete underneath you and the gravel you're stepping on.
00:52:55.000They're going to be able to recreate all that stuff.
00:52:58.000Whether they do it with an implant or whether they do it with a helmet that you wear that sort of interacts with your brain, sends signals into your visual cortex and recreates experiences.
00:53:55.000It's a weird time for change because we're like riding this technological wave and we don't know when it's going to break and where it's going to break.
00:54:22.000What I'm getting at is I think that the change is going to be way more radical than just going from a horse to a Model T. I think it's going to be...
00:54:31.000There's a lot of people that believe we're already in a simulation.
00:54:36.000And not a lot of people like kooks and people with schizophrenia, but like actual real scientists, including Elon, he said that the odds of us not being in a simulation are in the billions.
00:54:52.000If technology increases, one day there will be a simulation that will be so good you will not be able to distinguish whether or not it's real.
00:55:01.000And so then the question is when will you know whether that's taken place and has that already taken place?
00:56:28.000I stumbled across this when we were talking about something the other day.
00:56:31.000This guy wrote a book in 1960 called The Man-Computer Symbiosis, which...
00:56:39.000A concept of a human-computer collaboration, and this is 1960, where computers would augment human capabilities in decision-making and complex tasks.
00:56:49.000This vision involved computers facilitating both the solution of formulated problems and the formulation of problems themselves, essentially creating a partnership where humans and computers could work together more efficiently.
00:57:04.000Or more effectively than either could alone.
00:58:06.000I mean, it's just it's out there and people don't even know how to harness it or even understand what they're getting duped into or whatever the case may be.
00:58:15.000It's like the things that people are putting on the Internet and it lives in perpetuity.
00:59:12.000Yeah, you're experiencing the person performing.
00:59:15.000Like you're watching someone up there jamming.
00:59:18.000I think the big thing in food, like one of my positions on it, and I always tell people, you know, like, oh, you're the guy that does that show about deep fried cheeseburgers and pizza.
00:59:27.000I'm like, no, no, you don't watch the show enough if that's what you think, because I'm super opinionated about, not opinionated, but I have a real responsibility, I think, to show the profile of food in the world or, you know, in the United States.
00:59:40.000We've got to get our shit straight about what we're eating.
00:59:43.000We're just, we can't eat this processed food.
00:59:46.000I mean, processed food is, you're not eating it.
00:59:48.000I mean, we got to eat the basics and eat great food and eat great food made correctly.
00:59:54.000But something that was made a long time ago, don't get me wrong, there's a place for everything.
01:00:06.000And, you know, you being a hunter and myself, I talk to people all about it all the time.
01:00:10.000You know, this is a reality that if you eat things that are modified, I'm not saying genetically modified doesn't have a place, but it can't be all the same stuff.
01:00:20.000And if we don't watch it, we're going to get ourselves in some deep shit.
01:01:30.000126% higher risk of developing Parkinson's disease compared to living more than six miles away, said co-author Dr. Ray Dorsey, a neurologist and the director of the Center for the Brain and the Environment at Atria Health and Research Institute in New York.
01:01:46.000This isn't the first study that links Parkinson's disease with pesticides.
01:01:49.000This just adds additional evidence that this isn't just happening among farmers.
01:01:54.000This is happening to people living in suburban areas that have an increased risk of I met a guy once that...
01:02:16.000He had bone cancer, and he had one of his bones in his legs replaced with a rod.
01:02:21.000And he said that there's an enormous percentage of people in his neighborhood that had bone cancer and all kinds of different cancers, and it was all linked to this golf course.
01:02:32.000The runoff from the golf course had gotten into the water table and the water supply of all these people.
01:02:38.000Yeah, it's dangerous, and that shit's not even legal in a lot of countries.
01:04:15.000There were eight kids and they would come by with a cart and they'd put down a hotel pan full of, you know, whatever vegetable, whatever starch, whatever meat.
01:04:22.000We'd sit there and we had all the French bread we could eat.
01:04:24.000And it was just like, I looked forward to it so much.
01:04:58.000And what had been a grocery store full of huge aisles of fresh produce and breads and everything you could imagine was now just freezer, freezer, freezer, freezer, freezer, freezer.
01:05:35.000I mean, the more that you can get to a farmer's market, the more that you can have relationships with ranchers and people that actually provide you food, the healthier you're going to be.
01:05:44.000And the further you get away from the source, the more you're going to have preservatives, the more you're going to have processed food.
01:05:51.000Stay away from the inside of the supermarket.
01:06:00.000Vegetables, meats, eggs, all that stuff that's on the outside, all that refrigerated area on the outside, that's all you're supposed to be actually eating.
01:06:09.000All that stuff that's in the middle is just fucking your life up for the most part.
01:07:29.000We've been bamboozled, you know, and corporations, you know, the same corporations that used to, well, still do, own tobacco companies, bought out all these big processed food corporations.
01:07:41.000I mean, this is something that RFK Jr. has talked in depth about.
01:07:45.000And then they started using the same tactics to get people hooked on these processed foods.
01:07:50.000And these processed foods are essentially designed to make them incredibly addictive.
01:08:10.000And they've kind of destroyed our health.
01:08:13.000But it goes hand in hand because when you start thinking about this cancer thing and how devastating it is, I'm like, we can't really solve this?
01:08:22.000And then you listen to some other sides that will say, big business.
01:08:36.000We have, you know, you've got such a massive platform and I talk, you heard my little pitch there at the beginning of Food Network, real food for real people.
01:08:45.000I'm not saying these restaurants I shoot on Triple D, you should go eat every single day because not every one of them is, you know, always the healthiest situation.
01:08:53.000I think you need to have a good balance between things.
01:11:33.000You'd plug the freezer into the thermostat and then the thermostat into the wall and then you'd put a little temperature in there and it would regulate itself so it didn't turn into a block of ice.
01:11:42.000But every time I got in, I had to unplug it because they're not UL-rated for humans to be in them.
01:12:37.000The thing about it is, like, I don't know what the benefit is other than it sucking more.
01:12:42.000I think your body temperature stays the same because it's like, just by, I guess...
01:12:49.000You don't feel as bad because your body, like in a regular cold plunge because your body develops that thermal barrier, but you're still cold as shit.
01:12:59.000I don't think you have to suffer through that raging river thing.
01:13:02.000But if you want the mental benefits, the benefits of overcoming adversity and the ability to just force yourself to do something that's intolerable, then I would recommend doing that.
01:13:12.000If you're one of those people that really enjoys torturing themselves.
01:17:32.000If I'm going to pig out and I'm going to eat something that I know is just for mouth pleasure, it's probably going to be Mexican or Italian.
01:18:50.000So Federal Hill in Rhode Island is a real famous Italian.
01:18:55.000It shows up there a couple times, but it's not too far from where my wife's family lived.
01:19:00.000I just remember going up there and going to the delis and getting those cherry pepper stuff with prosciutto and provolone and just, you know, I'll take six of them and then I'll take 18 to go.
01:19:09.000I would always, you know, bring them all back to California.
01:19:21.000Like someone needs to figure out a way to do something like that here where you can get like a legit...
01:19:28.000Pastrami Rubin, like a real one, you know?
01:19:32.000But the question I have about that, that's what people ask me all the time.
01:19:34.000When I first started Triple D, you could only get true Tex-Mex or great Mexican food really in this Texas, Arizona, Nevada, California, down in this pocket.
01:19:47.000But I will say that now I'm starting to find...
01:19:50.000Because typically it's the people migrating to these different areas.
01:19:53.000I went to a Mexican joint on Triple D in Minneapolis.
01:23:50.000So I think we had to buy the guy's, like, you know, we had to buy him something or pay the tip or whatever for the guy to move his boot, and we got the ticket.
01:28:13.000Philanthropy to me, I mean, I have so much opportunity and there's so many good things coming my way.
01:28:17.000I try to divert as much of that towards doing it.
01:28:20.000So my philanthropy is about first responders.
01:28:22.000First responders, active military and veterans.
01:28:25.000But now that I have this program going where we can do things to raise money, and it's not just raise money, it's raise the money and then do things with it.
01:28:33.000Like when the fires happened in LA, we went down with our team, we have a big rescue trailer that's 50 feet long.
01:28:39.000We can feed about 5,000 a day out of it.
01:28:41.000And I have a bunch of chef buddies, and so they all come and help, and we just pump out food for first responders.
01:28:48.000But I was doing, we had the fires in Maui.
01:33:26.000I'm not even talking about the loss of somebody.
01:33:28.000We're talking about just being deployed for seven months and not seeing dad for seven months or seeing your husband or your wife or whatever.
01:33:35.000And I remember I was on the USS Enterprise and I was doing a philanthropy event years ago.
01:33:42.000I was cooking for the sailors and a bunch of Marines on there.
01:33:49.000And I'm on the line serving this young...
01:33:52.000I'm a sailor, and she came through, and we were kind of talking for a second.
01:33:56.000She says, "I have four kids." I said, "How?" She wasn't very old.
01:34:01.000I said, "How many?" She goes, "Well, I have an eight-month-old baby." "Babies on the ship?" She goes, "No babies, no." I said, "How could you be away from your child at this age?" And she's like, "No, I'm deployed." I'm like, "What a commitment." You know, what a commitment to do.
01:34:21.000So I think, I mean, my mantra is we talk about people pushing things on other people about their beliefs or their opinions or their attitudes.
01:34:29.000And I said, you know, I kind of divert from all of it.
01:34:31.000And, you know, if you don't want to like something, don't like it.
01:35:24.000I ran into one of your guys as a first responder.
01:35:25.000Also didn't know that he served our country in the military.
01:35:28.000Please, when you see somebody in uniform, if you see somebody with a Vietnam vet hat, you see somebody that's in, you know, take a moment, just say thank you.
01:35:48.000That's a beautiful perspective because it's, especially with first responders and law enforcement in this country, they just don't get any love.
01:38:01.000Now, it's not going to feed everybody, and it's not going to take care of everything, but there is a point of them being recognized or knowing that we recognize them.
01:38:10.000And I had so many chefs in L.A. that showed up and jumped on the trailer and were cooking food, and we were almost cooking 24 hours.
01:38:17.000It was just rolling over, and people were so thankful.
01:38:25.000Okay, maybe you don't have the money, donate the time.
01:38:27.000Maybe you don't have the time, do the positive reinforcement on social media.
01:38:31.000You know, if you don't have the time, you don't have social media, you don't have the money, you don't have time, just pat somebody on the back and say thanks.
01:38:55.000And that's a top-down thing that comes from the president, that comes from the cabinet, that comes from the way the country perceives these people and the way they award these people and, you know, the way that our...
01:39:09.000You know, the media had a field day after George Floyd with this defund the police stuff.
01:39:14.000It's just that kind of devastation that does for morale and for recruiting and, you know, just...
01:39:23.000The overall feeling that these people have, like, why am I doing this job where not only am I not being thanked for it, but I am being thought of as the enemy?
01:39:32.000And then if I do something, if I do something, I'm not going to get supported, you know, because I'm going to get persecuted.
01:40:43.000How to Win Friends and Influence People.
01:40:45.000And it talks really about just human nature, about how you treat people and treat people the way you want to be treated and think before you act and think before you speak or before you light somebody up on a text.
01:40:54.000And I was going through this and I said, you know, this is like a course that should be taught at freshman high school.
01:41:15.000And do these things the way we grew up.
01:41:17.000I mean I'm not saying that violence is the answer but you definitely didn't have people running their mouth like they do now because there was hell to pay at 3 o 'clock.
01:41:57.000I mean, people in school get taught how to, I mean, you get taught a lot of information.
01:42:02.000But I think one of the things that's missing is getting taught how to behave and think and how to critically think and how to view the world.
01:43:20.000You know, the ability to get to the poles.
01:43:22.000They have to be able to drive to them.
01:43:23.000So you look at it because like you go into the wine country, you know, you look at all these mountains that have all these telephone poles going.
01:43:31.000If you find roads on top of mountains and so forth, it's usually fire break or access to the telephone poles.
01:43:39.000But we would do this critical thinking thing.
01:43:43.000My nephew, my sister was dying of cancer.
01:43:47.000Took him away for the day, and we're driving around in Corvette, and we're at the stoplight, manual Corvette, and I'm sitting there talking to Jules.
01:43:55.000Jules is about nine, and he says, you know, I really like talking to you.
01:44:46.000And I think that, like, I didn't, until you're in that club, the club sucks, but when you meet somebody that is in the fight, the fight for their life, give them a hug, give them a smile, give them encouragement, and if they have battled and they have won, Recognize them as a warrior, as a survivor, especially breast cancer and all these horrible cancers that people are stricken with.
01:45:14.000We need to have more apathy, more understanding.
01:45:17.000And I'll tell you, one of the greatest groups of people in the whole world, hospice.
01:45:23.000I don't know how much you know about them and what it is, but if you don't understand what hospice does, they're earth angels.
01:45:32.000There are people that come in when you're battling this.
01:48:01.000Remember when you were a kid, though, getting the VHS, you'd go, you know, ours would have to go get it at the liquor store, little town, you know, or you'd go all the way across the bridge and go get it and you'd put your, you know.
01:48:12.000name down for the reservation to get it and you'll get faces of death and your friends would all come over and yeah yeah pizza night you'd have to hide those things from your parents Yeah, exactly.
01:48:24.000Yeah, now kids just have access to all the horrors of the world on their phone.
01:48:29.000And then they have to deal with, you know, people DMing them and contacting them.
01:50:11.000But if you thought about it, like if you were really cynical and you thought about it through an evil mind, if you wanted to abuse kids, what would you do?
01:52:37.000We were all in the woods, and they were fucking...
01:52:40.000Tying kids up to their cots and dragging them out in the woods in the middle of the night and leaving them there like other kids were doing that and putting toothpaste on all your clothes because you couldn't wash it off.
01:55:33.000Well, yeah, well, people certainly do evil things.
01:55:35.000Well, where do you think that comes from?
01:55:37.000If evil is real, what is it about us that makes us want to deny the possibility that there's some nefarious force that is in human beings, that influences human beings?
01:55:52.000It's not as simple as, like, some people are bad, some people are good.
01:55:56.000Maybe evil is a real element that you have to fight in life.
01:56:01.000And that maybe this is just something that's been documented all throughout history, but our arrogance and our secular society wants to keep us from recognizing that as an actual factor.
01:58:02.000But see, to me, this is when we talk about critical thinking.
01:58:05.000This is the stuff that when you really sit down and you have some conversations besides arguing whose team is better, you know, this is the type of stuff that you really have to get into some perspective.
01:58:18.000If you're willing to talk about things and you're willing to open up and you're willing to be wrong.
01:58:22.000It's one of the things I'm always into is don't go into something with a predisposed opinion about it and be so hell-bent on it's your way because you might really get your mind changed or you might really learn something about it.
01:58:33.000But as soon as you lock down on it's this way, you know, and that's...
02:00:08.000I had to go back to my wife and my mom and say, Okay.
02:00:13.000There's something out there that's going on that's...
02:00:16.000I'm going that's bigger than us, than I can comprehend.
02:00:20.000And the way I kind of, to make sense of it for myself, because I have to make sense of it, is if you're a baby laying in a bassinet and you can smell and you can breathe and you can poop and you can eat and you can sleep and giggle, but I can talk to you, I can talk to you, but the baby can't understand me.
02:00:36.000But there's some transmission of connection, you know, make it giggle.
02:00:42.000At this stage, am I the baby in the bassinet?
02:00:45.000And my sister's trying to talk to me, and I'm just kind of getting it, but is that possible?
02:00:53.000The older I get, the more I start to buy into, there's got to be something else.
02:00:57.000There's no way it can be all this and not be something more.
02:03:35.000This podcast, this woman put together from her work with nonverbal autistic kids and their families.
02:03:41.000Nonverbal autistic kids and their mothers in particular have an incredible measurable psychic bond where the mother can be in another room.
02:06:09.000So it was funny because when I said to the medium, I said, "I'm here.
02:06:17.000Where's my sister?" She said, "Oh, she doesn't need to talk to you." I said, "What the f...?" I said, "I just made this whole thing to come here." She said, "She talks to you every day.
02:06:29.000She talks to you all the time." Because I was raising her kid.
02:06:32.000My parents, he lived with my mom and dad, lived right next door to us.
02:06:35.000Lori and I have the two boys, Hunter and Ryder, but we're all big family and within the same acre.
02:06:46.000I get all these things because I'm thinking about things I'm talking to Jules about and things I'm working with Jules about as a young boy and just all these things.
02:06:53.000And a lot of it coming from things I think of my sister.
02:07:24.000This is really, our brains are so much more powerful than, you know, than we, it's like talking to people from, I have a buddy of mine that's from Germany.
02:07:45.000So they all, you know, most of them all know how to speak a second language.
02:07:49.000But once you can learn a language and learn the, you know, how to adapt to languages, you have the opportunity to, you know, be more, you know, available to learn other languages.
02:07:58.000I just, you sit there and look at it and go, man, do we not utilize, how much of it do we use?
02:08:02.000Yeah, we distract ourselves with a lot of nonsense.
02:08:04.000But that's also the difference between an athlete and a sedentary person.
02:08:08.000Obviously, your body can do a lot more than you're asking of it.
02:08:11.000But there's something about autistic kids.
02:08:13.000They tap into some aspect of the brain that's just unavailable to you and I. There's this one kid who flew over Manhattan in a helicopter and then did an absolutely picture-perfect, detailed drawing of the skyline.
02:11:05.000But again, when we were talking about things that get glazed over, things that get, you know, you had school, you had the special ed group, and they went off to their space.
02:11:12.000And we never really, I think, educated people how to work inside or work with or understand or have the compassion to understand, you know.
02:11:22.000And fortunately, I think we're getting better at it.
02:11:24.000I think our country is – our world is starting to – but when we can look at that and take that appreciation and see that and not see that as weird but take that and appreciate it and think it and say, wow, here's somebody that's taking a difficulty or a major difficulty and doing something with it.
02:11:38.000And I think that's – we need to be more – we need to open our minds up more.
02:12:50.000How much are we not paying attention to?
02:12:51.000Like I was just saying, when that now becomes, because we can chronicle it and we can see the video of it and it gets on social media, we can be aware of it, there's the positive side of social media.
02:13:01.000But there's so many of these buddies, like this young lady got up and sang the other day at this event.
02:13:08.000And, you know, very non-communicative when you just see her on the stage.
02:13:12.000But once she got on stage, she just blossomed into this other person.
02:13:16.000So I think that we're hopefully starting to take some recognition to the fact that there's more potential and it should be recognized.
02:13:55.000But then do we have some of these people that we don't call them savants?
02:13:58.000But there's some people that have invented some shit and created some stuff and took some recognition, some awareness to...
02:14:07.000Bacteria's becoming, you know, Louis Pasteur.
02:14:09.000I mean, there's some people that have some higher thinking power that you've taken us down some paths that, you know, it's like the computer and all of that.
02:14:18.000I mean, I can lose, you can lose yourself in it that somebody was able to, I do it with architecture.
02:14:24.000When I look at a building and you look at these gigantic skyscrapers.
02:14:29.000And I'm happy when I can build a woodshed that's square, you know, that everything lines up correctly.
02:14:35.000But somebody's going to do this out of steel and cement and glass and all this thing.
02:14:40.000And they just build that and it's perfect.
02:14:42.000And you just look at that and go, wow, what goes on in their mind?
02:14:46.000Because I'll make you a really good pasta dish right now.
02:14:49.000Well, there's a place for everybody in this world.
02:16:27.000I mean, if I'm having fun, if I'm ripping it up, I'm at stage, I'm having fun.
02:16:32.000But it's always going to be where it's always coming back to taking care of business.
02:16:37.000But I just think that when people start getting lost with that, one of the things I hope that the nucleus around these kids is that we foster imagination, foster critical thinking, back to what we're saying, and foster them into achieving.
02:19:14.000But this also weirdly says that the platform had 1.2 million American women, so that's almost all of them are 18 to 24. And this also says there's 3 million registered creators, so I don't know who the other one point.
02:20:32.000The darkness of the human soul, it exists always.
02:20:36.000And for a lot of these girls, it's like they just don't want to have a regular job, and then they get caught up in this OnlyFans thing, and then you make a lot of money.
02:22:51.000Yeah, and people need to make a decision in their own mind that they want to accentuate the positive aspects of their own life and stop dwelling on the negative and move forward and try to be a positive influence in as many ways as they can.