00:01:08.000It was just like a perfect storm for me to have the most successful year of my life.
00:01:14.000Like more than double what my next most successful year was.
00:01:19.000And then like, I don't know, maybe I just got like super, super high on that, you know, like, and it was just like, I was just kind of printing money, you know, like selling merch like crazy and like everything was just going so well.
00:01:36.000And I don't know if maybe like you become more successful and like people get angry at you, you know, but there's a point like a point after that where I felt like, man, the internet turned on me, kind of.
00:01:53.000You know, like I saw a lot of negative comments.
00:01:56.000People saying that all I do is promote merch.
00:02:01.000You know, like there was, there was a bunch of different stuff.
00:02:08.000That's my thing is when I see a negative comment about me, if I agree with it, then it really bothers me, you know, and I got to do something about it.
00:02:16.000You know, I think, and I've heard you say that, that, you know, that taking criticism constructively is like super helpful.
00:05:06.000There was, I mean, it was an exercise in promoting his Beast games on Prime, which, by the way, is the most phenomenal TV show that I've ever watched.
00:05:17.000Yeah, my daughter was just telling me about it.
00:05:33.000You know, like how to manipulate the algorithm and how to get people to get excited and click on your link based on what the images and the text says.
00:08:52.000I don't know if I was burned out, like if I was touring, but like there was a point going through 2022 in particular, 2023, where like I just, I would lose my mind over people being disruptive in the audience at my shows.
00:09:10.000Like, I don't even want to call them hecklers because I think like heckler has like a connotation of wittiness to it.
00:09:19.000I'm talking about just drunk shits just yelling out and disrupting the show.
00:09:26.000And I would take the position, I'd be like, man, you know, this whole audience of people paid their hard-earned money to come see this show.
00:09:36.000And this one person yelling out is just fundamentally disrespecting everybody who's here.
00:12:10.000I don't think a lot of jiu-jitsu people have done double-blind placebo-controlled studies on tap or no tap, what's the best for your brain.
00:12:25.000One of the gnarliest things I've ever done in my life, if not the gnarliest, way back in 2003, we had just had the first Jackass movie come out.
00:12:37.000While filming for the first Jackass movie, one of the bits that it was never used because it was too far.
00:15:52.000And two dudes who knew each other really well, and they were fucking going for it.
00:15:56.000They said that during the time, you know, like maybe a million people were watching it at first, and the peak was like six or seven million, which for them was nuts.
00:16:04.000So what that meant was everybody was calling their friend and go, dude, turn on Spike TV right now.
00:18:03.000And he made such a valid point about how the 90s, 90s nostalgia is so rad because it was really the last time when everybody watched the same shows on TV together.
00:23:00.000But it bothered me so much until the one day when I'd been on cocaine for like three days in a row, and I was feeling a little bit self-conscious about how little, like, very intense footage that I had been generating.
00:26:00.000You know, like a jam band that you've got like the kind of tent pull moments and then you just kind of fill it in.
00:26:05.000But it's like, there's going to, this is going to happen, this is going to happen, this is going to happen.
00:26:10.000And what was to be the last move, it's called a splash, where this 350-pound Samoan bulldozer is going to jump off the top rope and with me laying on the ground and like body slam, you know, off the top rope.
00:26:28.000But what I didn't understand, what I didn't know, is that the match for it to be over, that means the person who lost like stops moving.
00:26:37.000You know, like you're not supposed to, well, you're not supposed to move around.
00:29:20.000So every time you're dropping down, your body's taking the shock on your ass bone of 300 plus pounds flying through the air and bouncing off the ground.
00:32:05.000I just travel so much that like all of these things that need to be refrigerated, you're traveling with the ice pack and it was like, I get it.
00:37:53.000You got to think how much harder the game was.
00:37:56.000I'm not obviously not a football aficionado or expert by any means, but from what I've been told, the rules are much more favorable today to protect the quarterbacks.
00:38:15.000Like, just because you're only getting knocked out a couple of times as a professional in the NFL, what about all the times he got knocked out in high school?
00:38:22.000What about all the times he got knocked out in college?
00:38:24.000Those guys, man, I have a massive amount of respect for football players.
00:38:29.000I mean, I've watched a lot of high school games in Texas, and I watched a lot of college games at UT.
00:38:48.000What really I think was the smartest thing the NFL did, they got into the routine with their NFL YouTube channel.
00:38:58.000At the conclusion of every game, they upload a video to YouTube, which is a condensed version of the game that runs anywhere from like 10 to you know, like 10 to 15 minutes.
00:39:10.000So, like, you can watch super digestible, more than highlights, like, more than Sports Center, but like, you know, you're only seeing the awesome stuff.
00:39:48.000But I hope this reaches the NFL when I say this: is that as much as, and by the end of the season, whatever it was, 2023, 2024, like I was so invested because I was watching these digestible YouTube videos that by the time the playoffs rolled around, I was subscribed to every single different platform because now the stakes are so high, I got to watch the whole game.
00:40:23.000The best thing, but I have a really, really important thing that I want the NFL to know is that they were the thumbnails a lot of the times gave away the outcome of the game.
00:40:36.000So, and this was a problem that the UFC had for a while.
00:40:40.000Like, you know, I would be doing my shows, you know, especially if I'm in a comedy club.
00:40:46.000You know, I've got the second show on Saturday night.
00:40:48.000So I've missed the whole pay-per-view event.
00:40:50.000Now I get back to my hotel room and I'm going to watch everything, the whole thing.
00:40:55.000But then when I go into the video on demand and the thumbnail shows like the winner of the main event, like celebrating.
00:41:03.000You know, like it's like, oh, so I reached out to Dana.
00:41:39.000And it's so exciting because if you see like a punt or a kickoff, you know something awesome is going to happen because they'll never include a punt or a kickoff unless it gets run all the way down for a touchdown or if there's a turnover or something like that.
00:41:56.000So it's like, ooh, there's, you know, like you get excited when you watch these videos if there's a punt.
00:42:27.000I got to say, it's a little clunky when you're searching for the show because you go to like live TV to watch it.
00:42:36.000And then if it's not on live TV anymore, like if you go out and you pause it and you come back and try to, and you click on it, it doesn't work.
00:44:06.000I've been trying to get Dana White to do a striking league.
00:44:10.000I'm trying because like, you know, people still boo and complain when things go to the ground.
00:44:15.000And if the UFC has time to do like slap fight, which I'm not really into, but if they have time to do that, like do a stand-up only league because there's other organizations that are doing that.
00:45:13.000It's a lot of people, but what a blown opportunity when you think, like, okay, now Netflix had, they knew they were going to have that many viewers.
00:46:31.000Like, yeah, they don't do nearly as good a job.
00:46:34.000UFC, without doubt, is the best promotion in all of conference sports in terms of entertainment, production value, the people in the truck, the experts.
00:47:39.000That was like the best production team.
00:47:41.000It was Jim Lampley, Larry Hazard, or Larry Merchant, rather, Roy Jones Jr. sometimes, George Foreman sometimes, and different fighters would sit in sometimes.
00:49:51.000And that was me trying to make money off this special.
00:49:54.000I mean, I spent so much making it, you know, but whatever.
00:49:57.000I wish that I would have had no paywall whatsoever.
00:50:01.000I can't put it on YouTube, but put it on my website so that I could get the eyeballs because I think in the long run that would benefit way more.
00:50:48.000I think that uh, maybe they're a little bit more of a of a window, because for the people who are like man I just spent, you know well, tell them what the window is right.
00:50:57.000Just if you you want to do it that way, just tell them i'm going to put it on youtube in three months right understood, but it's.
00:51:04.000It all is like, how successful are you, right?
00:51:07.000So if you're a successful comedian, you do that.
00:51:09.000Then your fans like hey, why do you need more money out of me?
00:51:14.000But if you're a successful comedian that's been kind of banished, like Louis Cav was for a while, and then Louis Ck has done a brilliant job of putting everything on his website, like Harold And Pete, his animated show, Lucky Louie, all the different Louie the episodes.
00:51:31.000So what he did was really create his own thing.
00:51:35.000That is like a one-stop shop of all things Louis Ck 100 and it's really good.
00:51:41.000And his mailing list yeah, i'm on his mailing list me too, and and whenever I see uh, an email from Louis Ck, I absolutely click on it because it's funny.
00:52:08.000But you know, everybody's at their own little path and the problem with someone like Andrew is he's already like really successful, so it's like asking for money for a special.
00:52:17.000At this point, people are like, come on man, just put it on youtube.
00:52:21.000You know my next one, i'm absolutely determined to No paywall.
00:54:25.000Dude, what I wish I said in that moment when you said how it's bad for plumbing, I'd seen on a package of dude wipes, it said, only flush one at a time, and you'll be okay.
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00:56:17.000And they had a field day because, like, me with the shilling and you with the point about the plumbing, and it was just like, and like, fuck, I just stopped selling those fucking things.
00:57:21.000And that's, you know, that's like as soon as I started using the tushi, then I'm like, oh my God, now, if I ever find myself having to take a shit and there's not a bidet, now it's a crisis for me.
00:57:38.000And that's why having the wet wipes, the butt wipes, like became so important.
00:57:44.000Because if I don't have the bidet, like I get it, but if you had shit smeared all over your fingernails and your hand, would you be happy just using a butt wipe and then having a sandwich?
00:58:02.000It's better than not having them, but you have to throw them in the garbage.
00:58:04.000So then you have a shit-smeared wet wipe in the fucking garbage, which is kind of nasty.
00:58:10.000And you walk in there, you can smell the shit, and no one's cleaned it yet.
00:58:13.000And so then you have to have a plastic bag liner on your garbage can because otherwise Those tushy things, I have one, we have them here at all the not, it's not a tushy, but it's another company on all our toilets.
00:58:26.000We have it at the mothership, oh my gosh, it's the best.
00:58:28.000You have to have those things, it changes your life, and dude, and when you get the tushy ace, which has the heated sea, the warm water, warm water is the key, and then it blow dries your butthole.
00:58:46.000So, I sit down with Mark Wahlberg, and I, you know, and I'm talking about this, and I say, you know, how like, you know, leaning into faith, like really just like, so important, you know, like so important to me.
00:59:02.000And I had this meaningful conversation with Mark Wahlberg about that.
00:59:07.000And then the day the episode comes out, it didn't even occur to me until the day the episode came out.
00:59:14.000I was hiking with my dog through a fucking state park in Tennessee, and it strikes me, oh my God, I had the audacity, as I knew that the episode went out that day, I had the audacity to cut from this thoughtful conversation about faith with Mark Wahlberg to an ad for gambling.
01:02:12.000This snake is on this desk because he kept it in his pants the entire episode, telling us that he had a tapeworm, and then he pulled it out at the end of the episode.
01:02:20.000And I've left it on the desk ever since.
01:02:22.000And when Trump was in here, I left it on the desk, and he got so excited.
01:02:25.000He goes, Hey, buddy, thanks for keeping, what did he call it?
01:02:30.000Thanks for keeping Dimitri on the desk while Trump was in there.
01:03:21.000At some point in the episode, the most fucking dumb idea that ever popped in my head, but I'm, you know, you want to be like a step ahead and like figure out how like we're going to keep this going.
01:03:35.000Like, what am I, you know, like, what's where are we going to next?
01:03:54.000So then, somewhere in this back and forth, like, effectively, I say, like, oh, yeah, well, all this shit with ice makes perfect sense because, like, because the majority of immigrants are murderers, right?
01:04:11.000This is the most patently fucking absurd comment that I've ever made on the podcast.
01:04:17.000And yet, after it comes out, it gets clipped on its own.
01:04:23.000And it genuinely looks like I'm not kidding.
01:04:27.000Even though you cut to Harlan Williams, but it genuinely looks like I wasn't fucking kidding.
01:04:33.000And then I open up my phone and it's like basically rotten hell.
01:04:39.000Like you think like all immigrants are murderers.
01:05:20.000Yeah, I just say this is just, I posted on my Instagram.
01:05:25.000Like, like for clarification, I said, I can't even say, I was so shocked to believe that this absurd comment that I made was like taken seriously.
01:07:41.000When you talk sarcastically with a guy like Harlan Williams, when you fuck around and you say things you don't really mean, it's going to happen.
01:09:57.000And you know, another thing that to that point, here I thought that when this Mr. Beast video came out and I want a million dollars, I gave it to Doctors Without Borders.
01:10:07.000Like, I just thought, oh, man, this is going to be life-altering.
01:10:11.000And like it came in, you're like, I had one kid come up to me in an airport and say, dude, you're Steve O for Mr. Beast.
01:11:00.000Something happened online and someone said something about something that he said that was patently false, but a lot of people believed it.
01:11:11.000But then he said, everywhere I go, he goes, I know this was small and it was only in the comedy community, but everywhere I went, I felt like these people hated me.
01:11:19.000They knew who they were and they were judging me.
01:11:21.000So it was like, it was tainting my feelings everywhere I went.
01:14:53.000I mean, but it's my point is it's a human inclination where you feel like you're a part of a small select group that really values and appreciates something.
01:15:49.000You know, we're at the brink of something really crazy.
01:15:52.000As soon as AI takes over our society, which is like within years, we're going to experience the most radical change this civilization has ever seen.
01:16:04.000It's literally a perfect storm with just the unsustainable debt.
01:16:14.000But it's like, even if there was unsustainable debt, you have an artificial life form that's emerging that's infinitely smarter than human beings.
01:16:21.000What I'm saying is that the unsustainable debt, like already over a trillion dollars just paying for the interest alone.
01:16:31.000Like there's all that now, like, you know, other nations, central banks, whatever, like they like the, they want to de-dollarize.
01:16:40.000They're not buying the United States treasuries the way they were.
01:16:43.000And that's like how the United States has been able to overspend is because they can sell the treasuries.
01:16:52.000Now without people selling the treasuries, the only buyer of the treasuries is the Fed, and they're buying the treasuries with printing money.
01:17:10.000Of course, there's still like the United States Treasury is the most liquid, like, you know, but less so.
01:17:17.000So when it becomes more difficult for the United States to sell its treasuries, they've got to increase the yield, which means bigger interest payments.
01:17:26.000So at a certain point, it's like just the paying the interest on the debt is like a crippling thing.
01:17:33.000And by the Fed printing money the way they're printing, you can't inflate the money supply without devaluing the dollar.
01:17:42.000So inflation more and more is going to be a thing.
01:17:46.000Maybe not Weimar Germany or like Zimbabwe inflation, but still inflation is not going to go away.
01:17:54.000You just can't have the money supply increase without that being the case.
01:17:58.000And so people's purchasing power goes down.
01:18:17.000Because no one really knows exactly what's going to happen, you know, or how it's going to happen or how people will be compensated in order to keep society functional.
01:18:27.000You know, Elon has this utopian vision of universal high income.
01:19:09.000Because even if it's universal high income, there's no incentive for you to work harder and get more things done and make more money, which is what drives a lot of people and drives a lot of innovation.
01:19:21.000So then, is all innovation left up to artificial intelligence?
01:19:24.000Is that what we're really going to do?
01:20:14.000Like you had a team of writers sitting there for 100% a week coming up with the best line, and it busts off the top of his head, and it's always mean.
01:21:01.000Dude, comics have done one minute the first time they've ever been on stage at Madison Square Garden in front of 16,000 people and fucking ate dick.
01:22:26.000And then every now and then, someone that you've never heard of comes up and does a minute and everybody goes, fuck yeah, that was awesome.
01:22:32.000And they kill it, and all of a sudden they have a career.
01:22:50.000So because of that, it is so important for us having Kill Tony at the club.
01:22:55.000It's so important because it sets the tone for all these comics to know, like, hey, this isn't just like some random thing of I don't know what I'm doing.
01:23:08.000And if you can get on Kill Tony and if you can work your ass off before then and build up a real solid routine and go on there and kill it, you can have a fucking career.
01:23:18.000And then the club has two nights of open mic nights and there's a real development program and the real talent coordinator, Adam Egan, who watches sets and gives you feedback.
01:23:27.000The opener that I'm talking about, and he drove all the way from Tampa to be there last night.
01:25:09.000I watched Brian Callan's special very recent at the mothership.
01:25:15.000Like it was like, you got all these people, like, you know, whenever anybody put, that's the thing about fucking comedy is it's so subjective that like it's just if anybody can shit on a special if they want.
01:25:30.000And I saw these like YouTube videos, like, oh, Brian Callan, this is the most worst bomb is going to end his career.
01:25:36.000And I was like, come on, let me watch this.
01:25:41.000I fucking enjoyed the hell out of Brian Callan special is one that he just taped at the mothership.
01:26:15.000But there was so much backlash from people who went to it.
01:26:19.000And there were like individual comics had their, you know, their own way of kind of defending their move to, you know, a lot of comments were very defensive about how they went.
01:26:31.000And a lot of them maybe like were seemed a little bit disingenuous about like about in their defense.
01:26:38.000And then, dude, Dave Chappelle puts out this special and so unapologetic about him being at the Riyadh comedy.
01:26:48.000It was just like, it was so fucking masterful.
01:27:05.000Well, the idea is that you support the regime by doing stand-up over there, which I think is crazy because you're doing it for the audience members.
01:27:11.000And the audience members have no say in who their government is.
01:27:14.000They're literally like, I'm not even, I don't even have a judgment whatsoever, especially because have I ever not watched a UFC event because it happened in Saudi Arabia or fucked up or Dubai or wherever.
01:27:29.000You don't do that with sporting events, but you do it with comedy.
01:27:31.000I think the idea is that comedians are supposed to be social commentators and they're supposed to carry a baton for free speech.
01:27:37.000And one of the particularly egregious things that's been attributed to Saudi Arabia was the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, who was a journalist from the Washington Post, who was killed at the Turkish embassy and they cut him up with a fucking bone saw and some dark shit.
01:28:20.000Well, you've got to decide then if you know what those perimeters are, you know, if you maybe it doesn't fit with your act at all, or maybe like, I don't have any bits about the royal family, or I could just go over and do my act for a bunch of people uncensored.
01:28:51.000He's not paying attention to people's opinions of him.
01:28:53.000You cannot because there's so many people that have decided that he was a horrible transphobe for telling a story about his transgender friend.
01:29:01.000Like, I mean, literally, he told this story about this person and his act, and people didn't care because he made jokes about trans people.
01:29:08.000Like, of course, it's in the public eye.
01:29:11.000This idea that you can't joke about something is fucked.
01:29:13.000If there's a thing you can't joke about, that thing is fucked up.
01:29:16.000And that's why the Lakota used to have a sacred clown.
01:30:39.000I mean, if there's a thing that you can't make fun of, that thing is usually bullshit.
01:30:43.000And if that thing is trans people, then you are ignoring that there's a glaring hole in this narrative that you're trying to push and whether or not people are accepting that narrative.
01:30:54.000You know, I'll be spilling out some of the stuff that I have in my current hour, and I really don't mind.
01:31:04.000For me, I feel like the bars got to keep getting higher and keep getting higher.
01:31:08.000And so, as I went into putting together this new hour that I'm touring with, one of my multimedia bits, like, ended up not being a really great idea, but I thought, I'm going to get a fucking boob job.
01:31:39.000You can do it in multiple different ways.
01:31:41.000I was, uh, I was told, um, I was interested in just the idea.
01:31:47.000See, because like I, I, uh, I'm, I'm now in my 50s, right?
01:31:51.000And so, like, my whole new hour is, is the theme of it is how the fuck is Steve-O supposed to be in his 50s, you know, like, and so with the putting the stuff up my butt section is like the importance of like we're at an age we got to get prostate exams, colonoscopies, you know, that's a real thing.
01:32:10.000And so, I'm trying to like destigmatize the prostate exam.
01:32:20.000I'm, I'm, I'm blending it together, and it's pretty awesome.
01:32:24.000And, you know, one of my things is like, you know, it's a rite of passage for men in middle age to one day you realize, holy fuck, I'm getting tits.
01:32:34.000You know, like, like, I noticed it one time.
01:32:39.000I'm like, I'm fucking, I got dimples, you know, like actual fucking under boob over here.
01:32:44.000And it's fucking like, this wasn't supposed to happen to me.
01:32:48.000And so, like, that kind of was my motivation.
01:32:51.000I'm like, if this is going to happen, then, like, I'm lashing out at Father Time.
01:33:20.000So on the podcast, I was like, hey, I'm thinking about a wild, crazy stunt, like get a boob job and then just like film a bunch of pranks and stunts and then get it out.
01:35:10.000Didn't even occur to me up to this point that I'm going to, that I need to like run it by anybody because I'm like, fuck it, my body, my choice.
01:36:13.000And so you give them a fucking Willy Wonka golden ticket.
01:36:17.000You go into the women's locker room and the women's bathroom and stare at women and pretend you're a woman when you're just a crazy man and you're actually into women.
01:36:53.000And especially as speaking as a man who has daughters, like there are creeps.
01:36:59.000And if you give a creep, and I'm not saying all trans people are creeps.
01:37:03.000But a lot of these fucking people that are in trouble for going into women's bathrooms dressed as a woman with a fucking beard and a heart on are just that.
01:38:16.000If you're a woman, talk to most women about this.
01:38:19.000And it's unless they're insanely captured by this woke ideology where they can't see reality and the fact that perverts are still a real fucking thing.
01:38:42.000There's a guy in Canada that they had to pay for his boob job while he was in jail for being a sex offender and they put him in a women's prison.
01:39:25.000But even then, it's still a man with estrogen.
01:39:28.000You can't escape your fucking chromosomes, okay?
01:39:31.000And until you can, until there's some sort of a CRISPR thing that you really want to want to be a woman, we can turn you into an actual woman.
01:39:38.000Until that happens, what you're dealing with is a form of gender dysphoria, which has always been classified as a mental illness until people became much more empathetic and sensitive to people that have this problem.
01:41:07.000Because they're giving them psych medications.
01:41:09.000They're giving them a bunch of crazy hormones.
01:41:11.000And a lot of them probably have mental struggles already.
01:41:15.000And they're ostracized from society and fill in the blank.
01:41:19.000And then they're empowered by thinking that the world has done something bad to them and that there's like a genocide against trans people.
01:41:27.000And they attack J.K. Rowling and they attack all these people.
01:41:30.000Martina Novartilova, who's like a famous lesbian for being a bigot because she doesn't want biological men competing with women in tennis.
01:42:17.000But at the end of the day, if I was a woman, I want biological women in my – I think the solution is individual bathrooms whenever feasible.
01:42:27.000And if you want to have an all-gender bathroom, good luck with the legal ramifications of that if it's a bar because then any guy can fucking go in there and any guy and girl can get a – if it's a multiple stall bathroom.
01:43:04.000So you got to be kind to people, but also you got to have rules.
01:43:08.000There's a reason why there's a woman's room and a men's room.
01:43:11.000It's because some men are fucking creeps.
01:43:13.000And if you allow those creeps to just put on a dress, well, you and again, I'm not saying all trans people are like this at all, but you can't have that loophole.
01:43:21.000You can't, let's say you can't have an open border.
01:43:24.000Doesn't mean that all immigrants are murderers, and you don't think that either, right?
01:43:27.000But some people that sneak across the border if you don't check are going to be murderers.
01:46:09.000And if you can get vitamins in a simple travel pack like AG-1 has and throw them in your book bag and take them with you places, it's better than not having vitamins, period.
01:46:21.000I think part of the problem that people had with AG1 is maybe they overstated some of the benefits of the probiotics and prebiotics.
01:46:29.000Like when people have analyzed the nutrient density of these packs and what the ingredients is, that's been their criticism.
01:46:37.000But criticizing a multivitamin that you're taking in a liquid form, like that seems kind of silly.
01:46:42.000Like it's, is it going to be the best thing that you've ever done for your health?
01:46:46.000No, being in shape and eating well is the best thing you've ever done for your health.
01:46:50.000But having like some sort of nutritional insurance, some sort of a little thing, little thing that you add to your food every day, to your, you know, your diet.
01:47:01.000It's designed to fill in the gaps in your diet.
01:47:04.000It's a good thing to have vitamins, period.
01:54:03.000Hypothetically, if you had like a brick and mortar establishment with a bunch of chicks in there and an ordained minister so that like a guy could walk in, pick out a woman and Marry them on the spot.
01:54:21.000So then now that's your wife and you are consummating your marriage.
01:54:40.000Well, one thing you could do is you could have a thing where you could fall in love immediately and get married and then give someone citizenship.
01:54:47.000But as soon as you come and visit you, they want to see if you're like really in love.
01:55:31.000I think that there's like pretty like solid evidence.
01:55:38.000If not irrefutable, but like you got little kids that are like giving like details that check out total, like, you know, and they know like.
01:55:53.000And so we know that some memories are transferred through genes.
01:55:57.000And this is one of the reasons why arachnophobia exists.
01:56:01.000Arachnophobia is an irrational fear of spiders.
01:56:04.000The idea is that at some point in your genetic lineage, someone got really fucked up by a spider.
01:56:10.000Either you witnessed someone dying from a spider bite or you almost died from a spider bite and that memory is transferred through the genes.
01:56:17.000The same with aphidiophobia, which is a fear of snakes.
01:56:20.000There's irrational fears that some people have that they attribute to a possible genetic memory.
01:56:26.000And then there's also genetic memories that are in animals that we know for a fact.
01:56:32.000Like a dog does not have to be taught.
01:57:07.000So then with humans, think about all the different things that humans learn and think of all the different fears that humans have and how many of them are programmed.
01:57:44.000Well, it's because there's a genetic memory of us being preyed on by cats.
01:57:50.000And big cats who killed people forever hid in the trees, they hid in the dark, and you would go out to get water and they'd fuck you up and kill you.
01:57:57.000And so that is in little kids' memories.
01:58:00.000So if there's these kind of peripheral abstract memories or really radical, sharp memories that don't make sense, like arachnophobia and things like that, it's so possible that it's not just those things that are transferred through the genetics, but also learned experiences and maybe even information.
01:58:21.000You just don't have a way of expressing it yet.
01:58:23.000That's one of the reasons why you'll notice that a lot of the children of talented musicians are really talented, even when they're adopted, even when they grew up in different families.
01:58:33.000They might have never even been around that parent, but they have some sort of innate musical talent or literary talent or something.
01:58:43.000I think there's some things that get transferred in DNA that we're not totally aware of.
01:58:48.000It's not like you get a menu list of all the things that you got from your parents.
01:58:57.000I think there's a lot of stuff that transfers that maybe gets filed away, and maybe other people have access to those memories that you don't.
01:59:07.000Like there's weird levels of memory retention.
01:59:11.000We were talking about Mary Lou Henner from Taxi the other day.
01:59:25.000She could tell you what happened, what was in the news, who did what, what she did, what color clothes she was wearing.
01:59:30.000Highly superior autobiographical memory.
01:59:33.000Now, imagine if that, whatever that is, that incredible memory, is passed genetically occasionally and passed into some children, and then they don't just get the memory of their own life, but they get the memory of previous lives that other people have lived.
02:00:52.000Okay, so that, but here's the thing: if that kid is not related in any way to this person who died from the plane crash, I don't believe so.
02:01:00.000Then we're talking about something totally different then.
02:01:02.000But what you are getting at, there is discussions of this kind of overall work.
02:01:08.000I think it's on here where people talk about that.
02:01:11.000Deepak Chopra says it's a little bit like quantum physics.
02:01:14.000So how this happens isn't known, obviously, because this guy even says it starts, I think, between like age two and by age five or so, all the memories are kind of gone and they don't remember this stuff anymore.
02:02:31.000And they wake up, come back to life, or whatever the case may be, and they're explaining to the doctor what was happening while they were unconscious.
02:02:42.000And to the extent that that can maybe be explained for what they were in the room, a lot of these cases, they wake up and they say what the doctor was doing in a different part of the hospital.
02:02:57.000You know, like there's a case of a guy, a doctor, he was like, you know, had a patient and he's in the cafeteria at the hospital.
02:03:08.000He gets like spills spaghetti on his shirt or something.
02:03:11.000He's like, oh man, I got a stain on my shirt.
02:03:13.000And so he puts his lab coat over it and does it up.
02:03:17.000And then the patient wakes up and says, oh, yeah, I saw you spilled the shit on your shirt.
02:03:21.000There's a lot of evidence of consciousness operating separate from the brain.
02:03:29.000And I had the most fascinating conversation with Duncan Trussell about the idea that the brain is not a generator.
02:04:39.000And so all this stuff is like super fascinating to me.
02:04:44.000It is interesting, but there's no answers.
02:04:46.000So it's like, there's a reason why so many societies and so many civilizations for a long time have believed in reincarnation, afterlife, that there's some sort of disembodied consciousness.
02:05:15.000Well, near-death experiences you could attribute to a lot of things, right?
02:05:19.000One of the things you could attribute to is an endogenous dump of psychedelic chemicals that we know the brain makes under stress.
02:05:26.000And one of the big ones is dimethyltryptamine, which we know your body makes.
02:05:31.000And there's a lot of people that think that it's sort of a chemical gateway and that what you're doing is getting a peek into the afterlife when you're having these DMT experiences and that when you're having a near-death experience, that's your brain flooding with DMT to prepare you for leaving this world.
02:06:11.000Like I'm so fascinated by near-death experience videos on YouTube.
02:06:16.000You got people, thousands of people who have had the experience of dying, been on the other side, and they describe what's called life review.
02:06:24.000Okay, like there's the saying that everybody's familiar with that when you die, your life flashes before your eyes.
02:06:31.000However, the way that these people describe it, it's that on the other side of death, like as a spirit, like somehow the concept of time is like, doesn't apply anymore.
02:06:46.000So you've got like, it's not like that your life flashes before your eyes because time isn't like there's no time constraint.
02:06:54.000So you've got like unfathomable like immersion, you know, without time.
02:07:00.000And that it's not that you're, you know, experiencing your life as you as you experienced it, but rather you're they describe experiencing your life in the most like, you know, I guess important memorable moments from the perspective of the people who you influenced, you know, the people who you had an impact on.
02:07:23.000And it's not just from their perspective, but in this near-death experience life review, the way that they describe it, you are those people.
02:07:32.000You know, it's like, and every, you know, all the scriptures, all the spirituality, like there's this, this, the idea that separation is an illusion.
02:07:44.000That at the end of the day, that there's only oneness.
02:07:56.000Like, what's the purpose for being separate?
02:07:59.000Like, as I understand it, the way that what I've bought onto is that the universe, you know, everything, you know, like God, in the absolute form, God as one thing cannot have experience because there's nothing to relate to.
02:08:22.000And so God in the absolute sense is kind of a, it's pure love.
02:08:28.000It's this pure awesome, but it's very lonely, you know, proposition.
02:08:34.000So the idea of the separation is the universe, God, like blasts itself into infinite different things to create the realm of the relative.
02:08:47.000So now there's, you know, we have the separation.
02:09:12.000So, this is in regards only to human beings or to all animals?
02:09:17.000Different, like the souls, and I go down these fucking rabbit holes, dude.
02:09:24.000Like, particularly recently, I did this whole audio book, a modern English version of a book that was published in 1857 by a French dude named Alan Kardec, who it's called the Spirits Book.
02:09:44.000And, you know, you've got all these mediums that he's communicating with and putting together all this definitive book on spiritism.
02:09:53.000And the way that that book describes it is that animals have souls, but not souls with moral implications of the growth.
02:10:09.000You know, the purpose of our separation and the purpose of our experience is to have free will, to have the choice to do good or bad or, you know, whatever, but to evolve as a soul where you evolve towards being loving.
02:10:53.000That's the issue with anybody saying that they know exactly why – what is the difference between the way animals think and behave and humans think and behave?
02:11:11.000You know, where like where humans have kind of a higher level of like a higher bar to meet because we have like more, there's more moral implications to the way we conduct our lives.
02:11:41.000The problem is people, they buy in to things as being like absolute truth, and especially things that are exciting, like spiritual mediums and spirits and channeling and all that shit.
02:11:56.000I think that with the near-death experience, all these thousands of people have had the accounts.
02:12:02.000There's a society of near-death experiencers, like, you know, official, like, whatever, you know.
02:12:08.000I wonder if any of the frauds slip in there with a fake story of almost dying.
02:12:35.000It gets real, especially when you go, you read like Jacques Valley's work and you realize this stuff has been going on in the 1700s, 1800s.
02:12:43.000They just had a different way of talking about it because they didn't have the idea that a physical craft could fly in the sky that's made out of metal.
02:13:39.000That's been a lot of people's experience, I think, up until recently.
02:13:42.000So now, like, with the way that people describe the life review, you know, and they describe like things where they said something nasty and whatever.
02:13:55.000They did something like, you know, hurtful.
02:13:57.000And in their life review, they are the person.
02:14:02.000And they come back with such maybe remorse, maybe like more heightened compassion, like less interest in material things.
02:14:13.000And I just think to myself, oh my God, like in my life, like when I was such a fucking nightmare with drugs and sex and all the fucking crazy, you know, just like I did a lot of, I created a lot of wreckage.
02:14:29.000You know, I think I was harmful and hurtful.
02:14:31.000I've been better, but even like coming up, I'm almost 18 years clean and sober.
02:14:37.000Even in those 18 years, I've, you know, I've had a bad temper.
02:15:08.000Like, you know, I view the remainder of my life as an opportunity, like a big, gigantic opportunity to stack the good and, you know, like bid and just be more.
02:15:21.000Look, anything that gives you motivation to be a good person.
02:15:26.000Yeah, I'll keep like a big fucking wad of cash in my pocket so I can just give 20 bucks to every Uber driver, every homeless person, like, you know, and I think like, yeah, maybe that's just selfishly I want to have a better life review.
02:15:44.000Well, if selfishly wanting to have a better life review makes you be a nicer person, then it's worth it.
02:18:19.000There's people that were so bullied in high school that they will go to high school as a fucking grown man with children and they will get anxiety and panic in that same high school because they still associate themselves with who they were back then.
02:18:33.000And, you know, at a certain point in time, you have to, you have to move on.
02:19:35.000Like I got the I started hearing about people getting notifications from their insurance companies in LA that their homeowner's policy wouldn't be renewed because of the risk of fires.
02:19:51.000And I was like, dude, I live in the Hollywood Hills.
02:19:53.000It's just a fucking exercise and waiting for my house to burn down.
02:19:57.000Like I've got this fucking house is uninsurable.
02:20:00.000And like, I was like, man, I don't want to be waiting for my house to burn down.
02:20:05.000And I wanted to have a bunch of land so I can open up an animal sanctuary.
02:21:33.000And when I got to this one, 44-acres house with the fucking additional dwelling unit, like apartment on the garage, like, and this trail that goes through the woods in a perfect one-mile loop.
02:23:06.000And like, holy shit, like 2008, like whatever I had saved at that time was just, you know, like, and I'm like, how am I going to fucking eat?
02:23:17.000If I'm going to be, if I'm only like less than halfway through my life, I've burned every bridge in my career.
02:23:22.000And, you know, they're telling me that if I want to like be, you know, clean and sober and have any kind of a good life, I've got to deflate my ego.
02:23:31.000I've got to practice spiritual principles.
02:23:33.000How the fuck am I supposed to be Steve O with a deflated ego and on a spiritual path?
02:23:40.000I didn't know if I could continue to have any kind of a career as I knew it.
02:23:45.000So now I'm like, how am I going to eat?
02:23:47.000You know, like my savings just got blasted.
02:23:49.000And I started doing comedy, going to the Laugh Factory, like they'd give you like 20 bucks.
02:23:56.000Sign here and they'd be like 20 bucks.
02:23:59.000And then when the Jack S3D came out, I went on the Howard Stern show and I'm like, Toward, I've been in the comedy club every night.
02:26:24.000A lot of guys, they get together with other people that can help them formulate an act, maybe help them write, help them piece together.
02:26:31.000Maybe if they're not even writing for you, at least they can help you consolidate your thoughts and put together some, like if you're smart, that's the way to do it.
02:26:39.000Like hire some people that can help you.
02:26:41.000I've never been able to have people write for me.
02:27:31.000You know, because that shit's contagious.
02:27:33.000Just like being a loser is contagious.
02:27:35.000Like if you're around people that are losers, like that shit can rub off on you.
02:27:39.000If you're on people that sabotage their life all the time, you're with them, like, then you're wrapped up in their shit.
02:27:45.000And not only are you not progressing, you're regressing because you're constantly with this guy who's like fucking his life up all the time.
02:28:13.000And both of those things will benefit you.
02:28:15.000Because if you're in your own head and you're around other people that are worried about their career too, and they're in their own head and they're freaking out about their comments and you're freaking out about your comments, like, geez.
02:28:51.000I don't know that that's what I meant, but like what I've been going through over the last few weeks I was telling you about didn't change the fact that like our jackass movies and fucking full bore, full force.
02:32:07.000The first thing he does, he runs up to you, he wags his tail, he rubs up against you, and then he lies down because he knows you want to pet his belly.
02:32:14.000He's like, come on, you know you want to pet me.
02:32:18.000He's just so used to being touched by everybody.
02:32:21.000Like that's his existence is just love.
02:32:23.000I was in Peru in 2017 with Chuck Liddell.
02:34:20.000I turned a corner and I saw it right as this cat pounced.
02:34:25.000So this cat was in the grass and it was doing that thing where their back goes up and their butt starts wiggling and just flew through the air and landed.
02:34:33.000I'm like, how happy is this fucking cat living out here?
02:34:36.000Like just being able to jack all these poor little unsuspecting animals all day long.