00:02:13.000Those first, you know, like the first three quarters of the movie, he's this sort of timid guy who's lost his power, you know, and then he takes that one sip of whiskey.
00:07:00.000When you tour, do you go out or do you do like a weekend and then come back?
00:07:05.000When you're on a full-blown tour, the way that it financially works the best is to just stay kind of going.
00:07:10.000So you're doing like three shows like Thursday, Friday, Saturday, because you've got the bus rented, you've got all the equipment rented, you've got the guys, you know, on salary.
00:08:36.000But I always wrote songs and stuff, but I never thought, I had never had ambition around like, I want to be the guy in front of the microphone.
00:10:01.000Like, I had done karaoke before, right?
00:10:05.000But, you know, it kind of came about in the weirdest way.
00:10:09.000I literally was on set one day and get a call out of the blue from this manager, this music manager, Matt Graham, who's a great manager and a really good friend of mine.
00:10:17.000But he called and said, hey, I know you don't know who I am, but I know that you're a musician.
00:13:08.000It was before he had, you know, he had gotten a ton of record deals and all these different people were saying, you know, hey, sign with me.
00:13:16.000We'll give you X amount of money in advance.
00:18:41.000I was used to cracking jokes with friends and everybody was like busting on each other and everybody had a great sense of humor, just silly weirdos.
00:18:50.000And then all of a sudden I'm around these people that like all had these like predetermined things that they thought they should say so they would say them, you know, and everybody had like, it was all group think.
00:19:00.000It was like, oh, this is fucking horrible.
00:19:02.000Yeah, I always say that felt like when I lived in LA, I lived in LA for 16 years and I don't want to complain about it.
00:19:27.000They were all playing it by ear, you know, and they were just, it was all dependent upon what the producers and the casting agents wanted you to be.
00:20:22.000Because when comics start doing well, one of the first, as soon as they start getting on television, the first thing they start doing is tempering their material.
00:20:29.000They tone it down a little bit, take the edge off, don't say anything that can get you in trouble.
00:20:34.000And, you know, generally, those are the funniest things.
00:20:38.000The funniest things are the things that could go terribly wrong, you know, and get you in trouble.
00:21:59.000And just that weird thing alone where you're going into this thing and these people have to approve you.
00:22:06.000And most of the people that get involved in acting in the first place, a large percentage of them, they did it because they didn't get enough attention when they were younger.
00:22:13.000And this is like, they just want to make up for it.
00:22:16.000Well, that's why I became a comedian, I'm pretty sure.
00:22:19.000You know, it's all the same kind of mindset.
00:22:22.000Like, there's something about you that wants to be famous, right?
00:22:26.000You know, unless you're like someone who's just in love with the craft of acting, you know.
00:23:41.000They're just acting like they're in normal life.
00:23:44.000What you don't realize is that there's like a dude with a beard with a microphone in your face and 200 people standing around waiting for you to be done so they can do their job.
00:25:22.000And that's hard to keep up for, you know, if you do it for a film, you're doing it for a couple months, you know, at that level of intensity.
00:25:30.000But to do that for seven years for months and months at a time is impossible.
00:25:34.000Well, there was a danger in his eyes, like a real danger.
00:25:39.000Like there's something about that dude.
00:25:42.000That dude's got, or while he was alive, he had demons in his brain.
00:28:15.000And he goes down there and just brings every kind of fucking drug known to man, drives through the desert in a convertible with his friend and just writes this insane book.
00:34:11.000And even then, I don't think I could do it.
00:34:13.000Because we've talked about, you know, we have a comedy club in town, the Comedy Mothership, and we talked about doing another mothership somewhere.
00:34:20.000And the two most likely places that we would be able to do it are New York and Vegas.
00:34:27.000So we talked about doing one in Vegas, but I was like, man, the only way it would work is I'd have to be there a lot.
00:34:35.000And we'd have to, you know, we'd have to make sure that it's run right, that it's like run with the same vibe that we run it here, where everybody's cool, there's no assholes, everybody's real friendly and real supportive of new comedians.
00:34:47.000And then I'd have to spend a lot of time there.
00:38:47.000The valley that I live in, we had some people come visit us.
00:38:50.000Our friends from California drove out and we went on a hike and we were in their car and they had Cali plates and we got off the hike and someone had written go back in the dust on their car.
00:39:12.000We went to the Missouri Breaks and we were going to this restaurant and one of the guys in the restaurant had he had his car parked outside and it was like a rental car and someone had wrote go back home.
00:39:26.000You know, like Montana is for Montanans or something like that.
00:42:00.000And I don't know if that's locals like making some stuff up to sort of cause a problem, but they were saying that they were finding sewage from the Yellowstone Club in the local river there.
00:42:26.000I have multiple friends that live in Montana.
00:42:29.000And the thing about it is like everybody will tell you, like, when you're surrounded by those mountains and you look out at them every day, it like centers you and it humbles you.
00:43:08.000But if you, if you, if you need any sort of like fast pace or socialization or if you're like trying to meet a babe or something, it's not going to happen.
00:45:56.000My friend Whitney Cummings explained it to me.
00:45:58.000She said, people have this fear of public speaking because in tribal societies back in the day, the only time you spoke in front of a large group of people was when you're being judged because they were going to kill you.
00:46:53.000And you, every time in my career, in the like the early days when I bombed, I always got way better afterwards because I was like, whatever the fuck that was, I don't want to experience that again.
00:47:02.000And I really focused and really, really wrote like crazy and went over recordings and buttoned down and trimmed things and changed things around.
00:47:41.000I'm like, it's so important because you realize, like, as time passes, you understand that this is just a moment in time and there's other people you're going to meet.
00:47:52.000And it's just, you have to develop some resiliency, some emotional resiliency.
00:48:31.000Why don't I like maybe I should spend some time alone and figure out what the fuck is wrong with me or figure out who I am?
00:48:36.000And those moments where you have to kind of go through things and figure them out, they're so important for you in life.
00:48:44.000And for a comic, bombing can oftentimes be one of the best motivating factors to take you to another level in your career or wreck your confidence forever.
00:49:54.000But, you know, that's that's the sport.
00:49:57.000The sport is like sometimes it's going to be exciting and sometimes it's just going to be a ground battle.
00:50:02.000But for me, it was exciting because I was trying to figure out whether Max could get up, what he could do to prevent from getting taken down and whether or not he could figure out a way to reverse the position and get on top.
00:50:15.000And, you know, when you're watching a guy dominate a world champion like that, it's just you're in Marvel.
00:50:28.000I wish I would have started jiu-jitsu when I was small because I tried late 30s and I was like, it was kind of like the golf thing where I was like, well, first of all, it's way cooler than golf.
00:50:38.000But I was like, the amount of time it's going to take me until this doesn't feel like being smothered.
00:50:48.000Yeah, like how long would it take for like a grown person until you actually know what's going on intuitively and it doesn't feel like chaos?
00:50:58.000Well, there's layers of knowing intuitively.
00:51:01.000Like there's guys, like even as a black belt, there's guys that I could roll with and I would just get humiliated because they're just so much better than I am.
00:51:11.000Like my friend Gordon Ryan, that's his belt up there, Abu Dhabi champion.
00:53:28.000So I was explaining him certain, but like, I'm like, when you go for a darse, there's a way to get, there's a thing called the Japanese necktie.
00:53:34.000And I was explaining to him on the dirt.
00:53:36.000I was like, you guys all camoed out doing jiu-jitsu on the ground.
00:53:40.000But he was like, he was so interested in it that he was like constantly asking questions.
00:53:46.000And he had guys that were in the crew that had also gotten interested in jiu-jitsu because of him.
00:53:50.000So like while he was there filming his show, he also went down and was training.
00:53:55.000He found a local jiu-jitsu gym and he went down there and trained while he was there.
00:53:59.000He would train everywhere on the road.
00:54:00.000Yeah, he would go to like foreign countries and train.
00:54:03.000Like he didn't even speak the language.
00:54:05.000And, you know, he's this fucking famous guy from TV.
00:54:08.000And he's just rolling in there with like normal people and getting strangled.
00:54:30.000And then if you love it, if he has a passion for it, you don't have to worry about him becoming a drug addict or something because you can't be both.
00:56:22.000Well, some people that get red with rage and they lose their mind and then they wind up in jail for the rest of their life and then just sitting in a cell going, what the fuck?
00:56:30.000One night, drunk, doing something stupid, and now I'm here forever.
01:02:12.000Like the amount of dedication and drive, and the amount of focus and discipline and the courage that you have to have to get in your fucking underwear and stand there with a cup on, with little tiny pads on your gloves in front of another savage, like another train killer who's been training for 18 weeks for this one moment.
01:02:30.000And they bolt the door shut to the cage.
01:02:33.000And then the referee goes, Fighter, are you ready?
01:03:14.000Then it's really hard to beat them because a lot of guys are terrified before they even get like Anderson Silva in his prime.
01:03:20.000He would win fights at the weigh-ins because they would just like look at him and he would be standing there staring at you and you're like, oh my God, I have to fight this guy tomorrow.
01:03:57.000He was absolutely the scariest of all time.
01:03:58.000The scariest boxer that I've ever seen in my life.
01:04:01.000And there was a period of time between like 1986 and like probably like around 1990 where he was just fucking running through everybody.
01:04:10.000It was so you would buy the pay-per-view knowing that the guy was going to get knocked out and hoping that you get your money's worth.
01:04:17.000Because pay-per-view is like whatever it was, 50 bucks or something.
01:04:20.000You know, like if it's like 30 seconds, you're like, oh, that's bullshit.
01:04:25.000People would get upset that the pay-per-view was so quick.
01:04:29.000But I mean, that's what you were, that's what you're signing up for.
01:04:33.000And those kind of guys, I mean, when you got a guy that's got every box checked, discipline, focus, training, genetics, everything all together, mindset.
01:04:47.000He would beat guys like long before they ever got in there because they knew that they were fighting this demon, this guy that just was so much better than everybody else.
01:06:22.000And he had this incredible library of all the great fighters.
01:06:25.000So he would watch film, you know, like fucking those.
01:06:29.000He like have a projection screen and he would watch film of like Jack Johnson and Stanley Ketchell and Sandy Sadler and all these great fighters from back in the day, Roberto Duran.
01:06:40.000He would sit there and absorb all these amazing fights.
01:06:43.000And when you can watch, like that's one of the great things about today, like especially with MMA.
01:06:49.000Like if you look at the fights from 1993 and the fights from 2026, the skill level is like magnitudes greater because all these guys have grown up watching all these fights now.
01:07:03.000Because from the time that MMA existed, it was on television.
01:07:06.000You could watch it on YouTube after that.
01:07:08.000And it was like, there was always fights that you could see.
01:07:11.000So you could see what guys were doing.
01:07:13.000So you had an understanding of the level.
01:07:15.000So kids would grow up imitating their favorite fighters.
01:07:19.000You know, I'd grow up, you know, imitating John Jones and imitating Kane Velasquez and all these guys.
01:07:24.000And you would, you, you, you could absorb a lot just by seeing the elite level of these guys.
01:07:31.000And Mike Tyson was one of the only guys back then that had that ability.
01:07:35.000Because he had this immense library of the greatest fights of all time.
01:07:40.000And so he would be training with one of the greatest trainers that ever lived, who's probably the greatest psychological trainer that ever lived.
01:07:46.000Also, the guy was hypnotizing him at 13, programming him to be this destruction machine.
01:08:04.000And he would get in that ring with fucking no socks on and no robe and just like a throwback.
01:08:09.000He was like one, he was like, he absorbed the energy of those old, great fighters, the Sugar Ray Robinsons and the hardcore old school guys who would fight like once a week, once every two weeks.
01:08:23.000Dude, is that how often they were doing that?
01:09:23.000You were as good as the people you were around, which is why it was so important to be a part of a great program in high school and college.
01:09:29.000Because then you'd be around like, and then you'd go to the States and see how these guys are doing.
01:10:38.000The movement, the slipping to the side and the angles.
01:10:41.000And his ability to change direction was crazy because he would be here and then he'd be here and then you're swinging and he's here and he's hitting you and he's bang.
01:10:49.000And he also was way smaller than everybody.
01:11:55.000Also, clean life, clean living, like serious Christian, like very, very religious, you know, doesn't party, doesn't fuck around, you know, and just trains with like rigid discipline.
01:12:08.000That Soviet-style discipline, the Ukrainian discipline, like those guys, like their program over there, like you can see it like in Dmitry Bival and a lot of the other like Soviet-style boxers, they have like a very comprehensive technical program that they put their fighters under.
01:12:23.000There's a style, like Bival is the best example of that style.
01:12:28.000It's such a fucking difficult style because it's so movement-based.
01:12:32.000And a lot of like American fighters were kind of rigid in their footwork and moving forward, just trying to land the big shots.
01:12:38.000And like, Bival is just moving around you all the time, popping you, and like, oh.
01:15:54.000It was just, I was just really happy to be in Japan for a fight because I've been such a fan of Japanese martial artists and Japanese martial arts period.
01:16:04.000And like I have a, I mean, I have Miyamoto Musashi tattooed on my arm.
01:16:08.000But being in there in Japan was like, it was interesting because they were so educated.
01:16:13.000Like they were really quiet while the fights are going on.
01:16:16.000But then when something would happen, even something really technical, like somebody passing the guard, they would go, oh, and they would all clap.
01:16:23.000Like I was like, whoa, this is interesting.
01:17:05.000But, you know, if you're in the bleeders, if you're in like the nosebleeds, you're probably better off watching it at home, honestly, because then you get the commentary, you get to see replays, you get to see, you know, like close up.
01:17:19.000If you've got a big TV at home, you get to see everything.
01:17:46.000There was maybe like 50, 100 people in the room.
01:17:49.000It was like mostly just staff of the UFC, the trainers of the fighters, and some of the other fighters in the audience, some friends in the audience.
01:18:54.000But there's something about an amazing crowd, you know, like when you're watching a big world title fight in Vegas or the Madison Square Guard is an incredible place because the history of the place.
01:19:06.000You feel it when you're in Madison Square Garden.
01:19:26.000The card is not what they wanted it to be, for sure.
01:19:29.000They wanted it to be like all world titles.
01:19:32.000But, you know, matchmakers have a very difficult task.
01:19:36.000It's very hard to find people that aren't injured, that are like, that are ready at this particular time because the brutal aspect of this sport is that guys are always hurt.
01:19:58.000Guys are dealing with staph infections in camp and they're taking antibiotics and it fucks with your endurance and maybe they've got a muscle pull or a knee that's fucked up.
01:20:08.000And when Francis Singano fought Cyril Gon, he blew his ACL out.
01:20:13.000So he had to wrap his leg up and he had one leg and he beat him with one leg.
01:23:13.000So he'd teach a seminar and teach it to all these black belts, and then he would roll with all of them non-stop and just tap out everybody.
01:23:22.000World champions, they'd all be like, ah, this is a bunch of hype.
01:26:17.000If you can get someone to do drills with you and just go over on a one-on-one basis, the finer aspects of it and just do drills and drills, drills over and over again.
01:26:30.000And then slowly start working your way into group classes.
01:27:22.000When you're drilling, you're going over the motions without resistance.
01:27:26.000So your body sort of gets programmed how to switch your hips and how to catch the arm and how to pull your body back and secure it with your legs and all the different things that you have to do.
01:27:37.000Where if you're doing just live sparring all the time, you're not going to learn because you're all panicking and tight.
01:27:43.000You got to be able to train your body to move a certain way so it becomes automatic.
01:27:48.000And is there a way to do it where you can stay relatively injury-free while you're learning?
01:27:54.000Or is it like that's just part of the kind of part of it?
01:29:18.000If he could do it, like, that just goes to show you a guy with no athletic experience, not a worker, didn't train, didn't do any working out, wasn't a runner, didn't lift weights, nothing.
01:29:29.000And then at 58, he's like, all right, I'm going to get good at this.
01:29:35.000Well, he was a guy that had had substance abuse problems in his past.
01:29:40.000And the thing about being an addict is if you can focus whatever that thing is and get addicted to something really good, you can really excel.
01:30:42.000All the stress of fame and success and Hollywood and the bullshit, it's nothing compared to some dude mounting you, trying to get your, you got you're trapped in an arm triangle.
01:30:52.000You're like, trying to get your hand down to protect yourself.
01:30:58.000And that makes the rest of your life easier.
01:31:01.000If you can choose what's hard in your life, you'll be way better off.
01:31:06.000Find a thing that's way more difficult on your mind, way more difficult on your body, way more difficult on your spirit than this other thing that you do.
01:31:15.000So it'll like make that other thing easier to tolerate.
01:31:39.000I'm a little blessed in the way that I've never thought I was very great at anything.
01:31:43.000I enjoy doing the things, but I've, you know, like never really, I'm never good enough for myself, kind of hard on myself a little bit, but I've seen it for sure.
01:31:52.000If you're waiting for someone else to validate you, once they do, you're screwed.
01:32:01.000Well, this is the problem of being a star is that like all these people need you and the world, their world of the show revolves around you.
01:32:09.000So they're all like, you know, kind of kissing your ass and reverent towards you.
01:33:04.000That's not like a thing that I'm naturally good at or had done before Yellowstone.
01:33:08.000My oldest daughter did it for a little bit in California and she fell a couple of times and one time she hurt her wrist really bad and I was like, please stop.
01:34:17.000And then three of my friends had motorcycle accidents.
01:34:21.000Like within a short time period, one of them wiped out, fucked up his shoulder.
01:34:27.000The other one got hit by a car, broke his leg.
01:34:30.000And then the other one was actually someone saw someone.
01:34:33.000It wasn't an actual motorcycle accident.
01:34:35.000He was there when some guy got rear-ended by a car that wasn't paying attention, just plowed into him and sent him flying and fucked this guy up.
01:34:59.000I wanted to be a guy who rode motorcycles.
01:35:02.000So I rode up the Pacific Coast Highway and I was kind of riding up through like Ojai and going around this corner, you know, this sort of like cliffside and that thing where if you stare at something, that's where you're going to go.
01:35:14.000And I just kind of was like zoned out and I almost ate shit right into the side of this cliff.
01:38:06.000Yeah, like human beings evolve, or maybe there's like genetic engineering because they decide there's overpopulation and the solution to it is only have people breed at a certain time.
01:38:16.000And also like keep people from being distracted all the time because like how many people are on dating apps and how many people are like, you know, going to bars and trying to find someone.
01:38:26.000It's like, it's a huge waste of your time.
01:41:43.000Merino wool is the best because like if you have, especially a base layer, because when you're sweating, it kind of keeps you a little cool.
01:41:50.000And then if you get cold, it doesn't feel cold.
01:42:17.000At the same time, you're freezing and you're sitting up there waiting for a deer to walk by and then you're so cold that when a deer walks by, you go to pull your bow back.
01:45:10.000So eventually they'll have, it'll be like Starlink will be connected to your phone and you'll be able to get high-speed internet everywhere in the world.
01:46:21.000But when you're successful, oh my God, it's the greatest feeling of all time.
01:46:24.000And then when you're eating it and then you're at home and you're on the barbecue grilling these elk steaks, like, I can't wait to do this again.
01:48:07.000I think the move might be getting somewhere a little more populated and then keeping a cabin in Montana, like you were talking about, and then taking him out there whenever we can.
01:48:17.000Do you have a place in your house where you record?
01:48:20.000Do you have like a little recording studio or anything?
01:48:22.000Yeah, like just for me to record demos to send to people to actually record, just to be like, this is something I've been working on or, you know, kind of a setup like one of these and a computer.
01:48:33.000But yeah, I do a lot of writing up there.
01:48:47.000It could be like a lyrical idea, some sort of hook.
01:48:50.000You know, it comes in a lot of different ways.
01:48:52.000And then sometimes I'll finish something on my own or sometimes I'll do a Nashville trip and sit with some other writers that I like and we'll kind of like bang it out together.
01:49:02.000And that's the coolest part of the process, man.
01:49:04.000There's something about making something out of absolutely nothing.
01:50:16.000It's easy, but it's one of the best books ever about creativity.
01:50:19.000And it essentially just, he tells you, if you treat it like there is a muse, like there is a god, a goddess that will give you ideas as long as you pay respect to the muse.
01:50:31.000You have to show up on time every day, sit there and do it.
01:50:35.000And some days you get nothing, but you just got to keep showing up, keep showing up and trust in that process.
01:50:40.000And eventually you're like, oh my God, this idea is so good.
01:50:55.000And I know there's this like mysticism around like people who like no, Henry S. Thompson or someone like that who just kind of spent a lot of time being fucked up and they still get it.
01:51:03.000That never worked out really well for me.
01:52:08.000It doesn't always, it doesn't have to be that.
01:52:11.000But for a lot of them, like that crutch, whatever it is that connects them to the creativity, once they eliminate that part and try to keep, try to stay alive, essentially.
01:52:21.000Like Stephen King was like killing himself.
01:52:24.000But his later work is just not comparable.
01:52:27.000What's your process like writing jokes?
01:52:52.000Okay, let me fucking and I write in essay form so I don't try to write like a stand-up comedy joke, which I've tried before, but that never works.
01:53:02.000But what does work is if I lose myself in just ruminating on an idea and just explore it from every different angle, and then I'll find one paragraph.
01:53:13.000I might write 2,000 words and I'll find one paragraph.
01:53:18.000And I'll take that out and I'll put it in there and I'll try to introduce it on stage and then I try to figure out how to segue into it and then I try to figure out how to expand on it.
01:53:26.000And then I'll take that one thing and then I'll stare at that one paragraph and go, what else?
01:54:29.000So for me, I can write a word out as fast as I'm thinking it, which is way better for me than writing down because I write slower than I type.
01:54:38.000And so I want to be able to get it all out.
01:55:11.000But on this new one, we did everything.
01:55:14.000There's only two songs I'd had already written.
01:55:16.000And eight out of the ten songs, we wrote either the day of or the night before in the studio because I wanted to make something as personal as possible.
01:55:24.000Because, you know, the subject matter is stuff where I'm like, if this is gimmicky or overthought, it's not, then I'm, I'm sort of trying to like capitalize on grief or things I'm talking about.
01:55:37.000So I want to go in and just be as open as possible and just get what we get and just try to, you know, tell the truth, which is, you know, that's the goal of country, really, or it used to be.
01:55:48.000And so, yeah, we would cut and then in the night after we'd cut, we'd sit and try to write the song for the next day.
01:55:55.000And if we didn't get it, we'd showed up early the next day and try to write the song for that day.
01:56:06.000Man, it was, it was, I don't, I doubt I'll ever do that again.
01:56:09.000But what a like cathartic, amazing process.
01:56:13.000Like, there, because usually you'll write a song, you'll have a demo for it, something where you just sit down and play guitar under your phone or something, so you'll remember the melody, remember the chords.
01:56:22.000And you listen to it so much that you get sick of it before you ever even cut it.
01:56:25.000And with this, there was never a demo.
01:56:27.000There was never, it was straight from heart, brain tape.
01:56:50.000Like, there's, that's the thing about comedy, too.
01:56:52.000When you, when you have a new bit, like, part of the thing is, like, take that bit when it's not really done yet and just throw it out there in front of a crowd and find the beats, find where it is.
01:57:04.000And sometimes in front of a crowd, as you're saying it, you'll have a new idea.
02:00:33.000One of my favorite things is like going to a bar in the middle of the day and meeting everyone at the bar and just drinking, you know, even if they're strangers or at the airport bar or whatever.
02:00:43.000And just like getting to know people I would never have talked to to begin with because why would we talk?
02:05:37.000You know, it can come with there's pros and cons of that, but one of the big pros is like anytime anything would get a little too dark and I realized I was losing my grasp on like what I was after, you know, professionally or whatever, I would course correct pretty quick.
02:05:51.000Yeah, and if you don't have a thing, then it's just about whatever is fun.
02:05:55.000And what's fun is continuing to chase whatever high or whatever drunk or whatever, whatever it is that your demons are.
02:12:51.000The first time that that bow hunt I was telling you about, you bring a sidearm and all you have is a bow in case you do see some mountain lion or something, grizzly bear.
02:13:00.000And my buddy was like, what do you got on you?
02:15:37.000And you have to kill a certain number of them just to keep the populations of the moose and the elk and everything else in check because otherwise there's nothing going to stop them.
02:15:45.000And then you have a situation like you have in Montana or like you have in Wyoming where there's a lot of interactions with people and people wind up dying.
02:15:53.000And there's no fear because in Alaska, they're a little sketched out about people because people hunt them.
02:18:52.000I think at one point in time, it was a real creature.
02:18:55.000Have they found any bones or anything?
02:18:57.000Yeah, the gigantopithecus bones, but they've only found them in Asia.
02:19:00.000They never found them in North America.
02:19:01.000But when the Bering Land Bridge was attached, a lot of animals came across from Asia and made their way into North America through Alaska and down through the Pacific Northwest.
02:19:13.000And a lot of people have seen them in Alaska.
02:19:15.000Alaska is like a hotbed for sightings, too.
02:19:31.000This is this guy named Michael Button.
02:19:32.000He's been on the podcast before, and he's a historian who really focuses on ancient civilizations.
02:19:41.000And he was doing this whole video on YouTube about how little is left over, like how rare it is to make a fossil.
02:19:50.000Like, think about how the dinosaurs were around for literally like hundreds of millions of years, and yet we only have like thousands of fossils.
02:19:57.000And what are the possibility of a fossil existing from a civilization, like a fossilized human being from a civilization 200,000 years ago?
02:20:21.000And so if there was some sort of big, hairy thing that lived here, because we know there was humans that were living in North America.
02:20:28.000Now we know that they were here at least as far back as 22,000 years.
02:20:35.000Because of White Sands, New Mexico, they found footprints.
02:20:38.000And then they do carbon testing on the seeds and the different organic matter that's in those footprints.
02:20:44.000And they get a carbon date of like around 22,000 years, which is pretty crazy because they used to think it was like 13,000 years ago.
02:20:51.000And now they push that back at least another nine years.
02:20:54.000And they think it's probably, these weren't the first.
02:20:56.000There's probably people there even further than that.
02:20:59.000So if humans were here, let's say they were here 50,000 years ago, that puts it in the timeline where gigantopithecus could have been alive.
02:21:07.000Because I think the fossils that they found of Gigantopithecus are 100,000 years old, which is just fossils, right?
02:21:53.000So it probably existed in North America at one point in time.
02:21:57.000But around the time of the Younger Dryas Impact Theory, which is 11,800 years ago, somewhere around 65% of all North American megafauna was eliminated.
02:22:09.000All the woolly mammoths, giant sloths, American lion.
02:22:15.000We had a lion that was bigger than the African lion that was in North America.
02:22:24.000That's what ended the ice age, and that's what created the Great Lakes, and that's what melted all the ice that covered most of North America back then during the Ice Age.
02:22:33.000And are a lot of scientists agreeing that that's probably what happened?
02:22:37.000Well, there's definitely debate, but there's a large group of legitimate scientists that are 100% convinced that we were hit.
02:22:45.000It's a matter of what impact did that have, and was that responsible?
02:28:35.000It's just that being something that people would what's really interesting is there's this one guy who takes people up to Antarctica to prove to them that the earth is round.
02:28:45.000And like this idea that there's a so he like takes, and there was one guy, and he flew him out there.
02:28:51.000He's like, I can't believe I believe this.
02:29:59.000It has been a little bit that nobody trusts the government, but now there's reason to not trust them because we've seen what they've done with real events, like the Epstein files and a lot of other stuff where you're like, JFK, where you're like, why don't you just fucking tell us what you know in the interest of national security?
02:30:41.000I mean, this is that was always been my argument about the moon landing.
02:30:44.000Like, you think that they're going to not lie about this one thing when they've lied about everything else, including how we got into Vietnam, Kennedy's assassination, fill in the blanks.
02:30:53.000Everything in the 1960s they lied about.
02:34:12.000When I'm in a city for a long time and I'm on my phone, I'm looking at Instagram and all that stuff.
02:34:17.000It takes a week before I feel insane, like completely crazy.
02:34:21.000And if I just put that stuff away and go outside, even in a city, like if I just put that stuff down for a little bit and go outside and connect with the person, I feel infinitely better.
02:34:32.000And if you just look at the stuff on your phone and you're so sucked into that, you would believe the world is a shitty place.
02:34:41.000But then if you don't look at that and you go outside and you live your real life, it doesn't take long before everything feels good again.
02:35:20.00099% of what you do out in your real life is fine.
02:35:24.000You know, but it's only going to see the worst of all of us and then show us that even more, show that back to us because that's all it knows.
02:36:23.000And my friends will just, you know, whatever apps they have, I don't really know all the new apps, but they'll just give it a prompt, and the song is incredible.
02:36:37.000Like, it's only taking the songs that other people have written and just making sort of some sort of a conglomeration of them and spitting it out.
02:36:47.000Or it's redoing an old hip-hop song in like a blues style or something like that.
02:36:54.000Unfortunately, that's 99% of what humans do, too.
02:38:00.000Like that rock star song, that was like, that was like an AI version of like a lot of like, like Cypress Hill had a rock star song that was like, but Cypress Hills sounds so much more general, like genuine.
02:38:14.000Whereas the Nickelback one is like almost like, these guys are just too AI.