00:00:19.000I'm not an author until tomorrow, technically.
00:00:22.000No, you're an author once it's written.
00:00:24.000I can read it, which makes you an author.
00:00:26.000I have a book in my hand, which makes you an author.
00:00:29.000I tell you what, man, you had more of a hand in that book than you would think.
00:00:36.000You know, before we started, I had you sign one of the copies because I'm going to keep it for myself.
00:00:41.000The people's names who associated themselves with that, who took a chance on me and supporting me, they have just as much as hands as the monkey who may or may not have been sitting in front of the computer writing out the words very slowly.
00:00:53.000Isn't that the case with everything in life, though?
00:00:56.000I mean, it's really who you know and like the people that you associate with and what you learn from them and their examples with everything.
00:01:05.000There's no individuals that are responsible entirely for their own life.
00:01:09.000There are individuals, though, that would tell you that they are.
00:01:14.000Yeah, but those are the people that I don't hang out with.
00:01:17.000Yeah, I can't suffer being in the presence of somebody who thinks that they had every idea and every right decision was theirs.
00:03:12.000I mean, I probably would have been more careful, which would have made it less fun, which would have made it less attractive.
00:03:19.000You know, I think the two things that I've done that are really important is not pay attention to much online talk about me and just follow my interests and my instincts.
00:03:31.000Like, I book the whole thing entirely on instinct.
00:03:35.000I look at all the different suggestions that come in and all the different requests to be on the show, and I go, no, me, huh, where's that?
00:04:23.000I appreciate the fact you can hold a conversation with those people.
00:04:26.000I would be sitting there listening to them with like the scroll wheel on the back.
00:04:32.000Do you have words that are smaller that could explain that?
00:04:35.000Well, some of them I have to really prepare for.
00:04:37.000Like, you know, if I have like a Brian Cox on or something like that, I'll really prepare, you know, or, you know, there's been a few people over time where I knew they were coming on like three months out.
00:04:49.000So I've read a couple of their books, I watched a few of their lectures.
00:07:00.000A bite from a tick just jacks up the human body.
00:07:03.000Well, apparently, Lyme disease has existed.
00:07:05.000There's been forms of Lyme disease throughout history, but there's real solid evidence that Lyme disease, which is named Lyme disease because of Lyme, Connecticut, is related to Plum Island, where they were doing bioweapons research on ticks.
00:08:02.000But if that's recognized, you bring it to a doctor that gets you on antibiotics, you can actually get off of it, depending on the severity of your case, obviously.
00:08:10.000Alpha Gao syndrome appeared to have first emerged in the U.S. in the late 1980s, but was not recognized as a distinct tick related meat allergy until the early 2000s.
00:08:20.000So in 1989, clinicians in Georgia collected about 10 cases of delayed allergic reactions to mammalian meat and linked them to prior tick bites.
00:08:31.000But these observations were not widely recognized at the time.
00:08:34.000Allergy was first formally identified as originating from tick bites in the U.S. by Thomas Platts Mills in the early 2000s reports note this discovery process beginning around 2002 and becoming clear by 2007.
00:08:51.000So, in the medical literature, it's first described in 2009 when published work documented patients with delayed reactions to red meat and linked them to IgE against AlphaGal.
00:10:06.000Feel free to use it however you want to.
00:10:08.000Yeah, chicks wear stuff that they're so vulnerable in.
00:10:10.000You can only take steps that are less than 24 inches wide because you've got a dress that's like clinging to your knees, which is very odd.
00:10:19.000Like it's like tight all around here, so you've got these like short steps.
00:10:24.000And then the bottoms of your shoes are slippery, and then your heels are elevated, and then the heel has a point to it.
00:12:57.000The whole idea is just like make you as hard as humanly possible.
00:13:02.000And these guys, they were pointing to this one tribe as developing exceptional marathon runners because these guys had such high pain tolerance and such willingness to go through horrific ordeals.
00:14:17.000You get labeled a coward if your cheek crinkles.
00:14:23.000And stigmatized by the whole community.
00:14:25.000Manner says that this is enormous social pressure placed on your ability to endure pain and is actually great training for a sport like running, where pushing through pain is so fundamental to success.
00:14:36.000Circumcision, he says, teaches kids to withstand pressure and tolerate pain.
00:14:41.000Manner says he thinks there's a distinct advantage conferred on athletic kids who grow up in a pain embracing society as opposed to Western pain avoiding one.
00:14:59.000I mean, I'm going to be honest with you, Joe.
00:15:01.000If that's what they did to your people, I would run pretty goddamn fast too because I would want to get the hell out of there.
00:15:07.000Yeah, the thing is that, but I just think, you know, you're joking, obviously, but imagine if that's the norm, if that's your baseline, you're like accustomed to that.
00:15:17.000That's the worst thing that you go through and you have to do it completely stoic.
00:18:58.000Use it to store tennis balls or something other than ice cold water.
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00:21:00.000Very cold plunges near ice, 35 to 45 degrees, can cause big sympathetic and cortisol spikes that may disrupt menstrual regularity and thyroid function if overused.
00:22:34.000It seems like in the climb, he peeled off the ladder and went into the water, and somebody saw him and went in with him because of the concept of being a swim buddy, never to be seen again.
00:22:58.000I mean, there's a couple ways that you can get on a boat.
00:23:00.000You can come from a boat and you can climb up, or you can go from a helicopter and fast rope down, or they could land, depending on how big the boat is.
00:23:08.000It's called an underway or a VBSS, visit board search and seizure is the technical military term for it.
00:23:14.000And on the climb up the ladder, the guy fell off the ladder, and another one went in with him as his swim buddy.
00:23:22.000If they immediately, and there was, and it maybe still is an ongoing investigation, from my understanding, They saw their head maybe one time up and then they were gone.
00:23:52.000Every time I go in the ocean and I swim in the ocean, there's this feeling like, I think I can make it to shore, but I might not be able to.
00:24:02.000Like, if you jump off of a boat and you've got like a couple of hundred yards to shore, as you start swimming, you start swimming like, I'm fine, I'm fine.
00:24:11.000Oh boy, my heart is going pretty fast here.
00:24:42.000So I live up in northwestern Montana, and a lot of the Flathead Lake, the largest freshwater lake west in the Mississippi, is right where I live.
00:24:49.000And Glacier National Park, tons of snowfall.
00:24:51.000And so it's glacially fed rivers that feed into Flathead National Forest.
00:24:56.000Or not in Flathead National Forest, the Flathead Lake.
00:24:59.000And boating is a huge summertime activity.
00:25:02.000And people travel from all over the world to come to Montana to see GMP, Glacier National Park.
00:25:08.000And every year people are drowning in these rivers.
00:25:11.000And I don't know, it's dangerous, but it can be avoided.
00:25:16.000But it seems as if they just do not have respect for even medium moving water.
00:26:39.000And what I'm about to say, people won't understand, but I also think it's essential.
00:26:44.000I don't want it to happen, but I think it probably is essential that it does every once in a while.
00:26:51.000Because the training has to be so difficult that you get to the brink.
00:26:54.000You have to train people for the job that they're going to be asked to do.
00:26:58.000And the training standards need to be a directly downstream reflection of what the career is going to be.
00:27:06.000And I don't have the vocabulary to describe how bad I feel for the families.
00:27:11.000And I'm not trying to minimize anybody's death, but you will lose more people in the real world execution of the job.
00:27:18.000If you don't make training that difficult, then you will, by making it that dangerous, knowing that it's going to be that dangerous and that people will die, that will have a positive impact on people surviving the actual job itself.
00:27:51.000And when it's talked about like the lowering of standards to make it fair for some applicants, like there's no fair in that job.
00:28:00.000I've never seen a bullet change trajectory because it noticed what you had between your legs and wanted to go be more fair and equitable to somebody else.
00:28:55.000There's got to be none, no quit, no nothing.
00:28:57.000And that's there's only one way to do that.
00:28:59.000It has to make a bunch of people quit.
00:29:02.000A lot of the times, the people who are bottom lining the policy changes don't have a direct impact in the training pipeline themselves or the execution of the job, which is crazy.
00:29:10.000I mean, the military is a bureaucratic system, even in the special operations world, even at like the JSOC level, people would be it never really makes the movie the amount of paperwork that you end up doing.
00:29:20.000Like, you go on a trip and you have to collect your receipts and do your travel claim and all this other BS.
00:29:24.000It's all just blowing up, and you know, you throw a grenade and it's a fireball the size of a 55 gallon drum of gasoline.
00:29:31.000Yeah, and then there's two days sitting in front of a computer typing out all of your administrative stuff because of all the bureaucratic restraints that are still involved in all of that.
00:30:10.000If you went out for a week in a row and you're like, hey, I lost my night vision goggles again, I'm going to need another set of those, you might have a problem.
00:30:16.000But shit happens and people lose gear.
00:30:18.000But, you know, night vision, weapons, ordnance, ammunition, like a lot of that stuff is serialized.
00:30:23.000And so it's just the bureaucratic way that even at that level, you still have to keep track of all of that stuff.
00:30:29.000You think they should hire somebody else to do that?
00:30:31.000They do, but oftentimes you are in small units very isolated by yourself.
00:30:36.000And so you still have to maintain, like even in the middle of nowhere, you still have to maintain the paperwork aspect of all the stuff that you take with you.
00:31:28.000The rest of us are just out there like, I think I got it with me.
00:31:32.000But the problem with that is once you don't pass audits and there's a history of you not only not passing audits, but not being punished for not passing audits, that opens up the door.
00:31:45.000No, the Pentagon has never passed, never passed a Full clean department wide financial audit of as of the latest audits.
00:31:54.000Defense Department is the only one of 24 major federal agencies that has never passed a full financial audit.
00:32:25.000The Pentagon's own audit materials have pointed to a target of around 2028 financial year to finally achieve a clean department wide audit, contingent on fixing longstanding accounting and systems problems.
00:32:39.000Imagine if the IRS calls you up and says, Andy, you didn't pass your audit.
00:33:01.000Let's give you a bigger budget to work with.
00:33:03.000I wonder if that answer takes into account what's going on currently in the world because I feel like we're running through some inventory that might have to be tabulated.
00:33:10.000Seems like there's probably a lot of ordinance that's been.
00:33:14.000A lot of it does sit around for a while, so there is an argument to expending it.
00:34:16.000So there's a weapon called the Carl Gustav that if you shoot too many of these things, it's in the manual, it'll start separating the lining in your lungs from your body because it is just this massive projectile.
00:34:31.000And you'll go out and do these training evolutions, and they'll say, Yeah, here we are, the Carl G. Do not stand behind this bad boy when it goes off.
00:34:39.000So, how many can you shoot before it separates the linings of your lungs?
00:34:43.000I believe the warning is somewhere around six.
00:34:48.000Oh, Joe, you'll go out to training evolutions, and there'll be five guys, and there's a pallet of ammunition, and they'll say, You're not leaving here until all these are shot.
00:34:56.000And you're cracking off Carl G's until you have a nosebleed.
00:35:00.000Or you'll go out there, they have like law rockets, or, you know, When I first went through his M60 ammo, they're like, Yeah, but you guys, the training's not over until you guys shoot all this.
00:35:10.000Like, yeah, but we totally did everything we're supposed to.
00:35:12.000I'm like, Yeah, we understand that, but just go ahead and lay down on the line and shoot these thousands of rounds of ammunition at whatever you want to because it's been issued to you.
00:36:42.000You can twist the warhead to set a delay on the thing.
00:36:45.000You can have it air burst, like if they're trying to play hide and seek with you on a wall.
00:36:48.000See, this is the argument for those little robot dogs.
00:36:51.000Because you put one on one of them little robot dogs and have that thing shoot it, and that way you don't have to lose the lining of your lungs.
00:36:57.000I don't know if a robot dog could handle that thing.
00:37:39.000No, next time you're sitting down with Evan, ask him, like, hey, did you ever, at the end of Training Evolutions, ever have extra ordnance and ammunition that you had to dispose of?
00:38:11.000Well, outside of it being compressed in the chamber of a gun, which, you know, if you think of like an AR platform rifle, when the round is in the magazine, it gets pushed forward by the bolt and it's being held by all sides except for down the barrel.
00:38:25.000So all of the pressure is pointed in that direction, which is what propels the bullet down the barrel.
00:38:29.000If you remove that, it kind of just explodes in place.
00:38:31.000I'm not saying it's safe to like stand around and like have a beer while you're watching, like from me to you.
00:38:48.000It seems like you should be able to say, we achieved what we needed to achieve in our training.
00:38:53.000Here is our excess ordinance that we could use in the future.
00:38:58.000Yeah, you just haven't spent enough time around the military.
00:39:01.000Well, that's been explained to me about budgets that if you do not meet your budget, you get in trouble because then they can't ask for the same amount of money next year.
00:39:10.000So I heard that every year that when I was in, and September was a fantastic month to be in the military because that's when they, because the budget year is October 1 to October 1.
00:39:19.000So September, the bean counters really start taking a look at what they have left.
00:39:23.000And they'd say, I was a supply rep for a short period of time, meaning I was a little cog in the wheel of supplying stuff to the guys.
00:39:31.000They're like, you need to spend $100,000 in the next three hours on shoes.
00:39:38.000Which, let me tell you, REI is happy to take your money.
00:40:00.000So here's a good question in terms of like shoes.
00:40:03.000When your missions involve a bunch of different types of terrain, a bunch of different, like, is it, Do they favor a lighter weight shoe that's more of an all purpose shoe?
00:40:15.000Because, like, I couldn't imagine you would be wearing like a crispy mountain boot with like high leather.
00:40:57.000The boots, you could, I mean, you take a Pelican case or a box, you have a tool for every job.
00:41:04.000So, if you're going to go up in the mountains, if you're going to go, like, northeastern Afghanistan, you're going to wear a different type of shoe for sure.
00:41:10.000If you're in Iraq in an urban environment, you're going to wear probably the lightest weight.
00:41:15.000I forget who makes them, but the Speed Cross shoes.
00:41:19.000And those things are, I mean, you might get two months out of those.
00:41:33.000And the soles on those things, they don't last very long.
00:41:35.000But again, when you get 100 grand to buy shoes for three hours, you can buy extras for people.
00:41:41.000So you kind of have a, it's just like all the rest of the gear, you have cold weather gear, you have desert gear.
00:41:46.000And the coldest I've ever been is actually in the desert because of the super high, high, and then the super, that swing was way colder than like in mountainous terrain.
00:41:55.000But I mean, so you, when you lay out your stuff, like before every deployment you get ready to go on, you're laying your stuff out.
00:42:00.000You probably have two tables like this with all like desert, woodland, cold weather, layering system, shoes, different load bearing equipment, different back.
00:42:12.000And then you just lay it all out, put it into a bag, and then you're doing the best you can.
00:42:16.000Then you're kind of just packing, you know, for what comes up in front of you.
00:42:19.000And you're just ordering stuff from REI for real?
00:44:30.000I just need somebody to hold up an Actual piece of evidence and say this is what I'm talking about instead of I saw, I know somebody who was read into, I had a buddy who got engaged by a giant or they like, okay, where is it?
00:44:58.000It gets me to a certain point, and then the point, like, there's a point where my logic kicks in and I'm not willing to go any further, and that's Bigfoot.
00:45:22.000Before drones, before satellites, before this, before that.
00:45:26.000And, you know, there's good arguments that you wouldn't find the body because, like, you and I have hunted in the mountains many, many times.
00:45:34.000I've never seen a mountain lion skeleton.
00:45:47.000And we know there's a shit ton of mountain lions and a shit ton of bears.
00:45:51.000So if there was a very small population of primates, it's not inconceivable that you wouldn't find their body, especially if they were in some way advanced to the point where they were burying their dead, which is, you know, it's not outside the realm of possibility if they have a language.
00:46:08.000Like, who knows what these things are?
00:46:50.000You know, if you have enough resources and there's enough food for these things, they live in a lush tropical environment or a lush wilderness environment, it's not impossible to think that something would get way bigger than a gorilla.
00:49:44.000They literally break the body up, chop it up into chunks, and the vultures know it, and so they prepare.
00:49:50.000So the vultures are all hanging around waiting.
00:49:53.000It is a tradition in Tibet with at least certain people to get rid of their bodies that way.
00:49:59.000And the idea is that, look, the person's dead.
00:50:01.000This is a more natural way, and they'll cycle back into the ecosystem the way it's supposed to be with all animals.
00:50:09.000We're the only animal that opts out of rejoining with all biological life.
00:50:18.000Because it's supposed to be a biological body deteriorates underground that feeds the soil, that feeds whatever animals feast on its bones, and then becomes all part of this big beautiful cycle.
00:50:31.000And we're like, we've got some chemicals laying around we'd like to fill the veins up with to make them completely poison so that they never deteriorate or they just slowly turn into gelatinous sludge.
00:50:50.000Why is that word weird to me right now?
00:50:52.000Burial is regulated by state by state, city, county zoning.
00:50:56.000There's no federal rule that specifies body position, horizontal versus vertical.
00:51:02.000What are the laws in terms of embalming?
00:51:07.000Green or natural burial, simple shroud, no vault, minimal disturbance, is legal in all 50 states, but only in locations that comply with state and local rules.
00:52:53.000So for direct cremation, no public viewing, cremation within a few days, body kept refrigerated, embalming is generally unnecessary and not legally required in most states.
00:53:04.000But the thing is, it's most of the time it's done.
00:53:09.000According to my friend Joey, whose friend, at least it was in the past, whose friend ran a funeral home.
00:53:15.000The guy was telling him what a fucking scam it all is.
00:53:18.000You're just charging people for all this stuff.
00:53:22.000Many funeral homes require embalming for presentation and public health reasons if you want a public viewing or an open casket before cremation.
00:53:51.000I mean, I'm sure you've smelled dead bodies before, but the first time I ever smelled a dead body, I was a little kid and someone died in our apartment building.
00:54:53.000It's the constant pressure, the mental load, the second guessing of every decision.
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00:57:08.000FTC says embalming may be necessary if you choose certain arrangements like a public viewing, but the necessity is based on the funeral home standards, not a blanket legal mandate.
00:57:20.000Most people probably don't know that, so the funeral home will tell you, oh, we have to embalm them first.
00:57:25.000And you're in a pretty susceptible and malleable mind space.
00:58:01.000But he had this bit about homosexual necrophiliacs who were caught spending, paying a bunch of money to be alone with the freshest male corpse.
00:58:13.000And it was an actual true story that he read in the news.
00:59:11.000I was reading about this guy who was an oncologist who got arrested because he was giving people chemotherapy that didn't really have cancer.
00:59:18.000Because chemotherapy is uniquely profitable for doctors.
00:59:24.000So he was telling people that they had cancer and they did not, and he was giving them chemotherapy, which I have a friend who died recently.
00:59:33.000And he went through the first round of chemotherapy, went into remission, and the chemotherapy was so bad that when the cancer came back, he decided to just die.
00:59:47.000It metastasized into her lungs 10 years later, got on the chemo, which I don't know what is in that stuff, but they, you know, the The platinum treatment, whatever it may be, and had the realization that she was either going to die from cancer or she was going to die from the chemotherapy.
01:00:04.000And she chose hospice just because the ride on the chemotherapy was so horrible that she couldn't take it anymore.
01:00:10.000My friend said that the pain of brushing his teeth was so intense, like the sores in his mouth from the chemo.
01:00:19.000And that once cancer went into remission and then it came back.
01:00:24.000And by the way, this cancer came very quickly after vaccination.
01:00:30.000You know, you can get into that all day long if you want to really get into a deep conspiracy theory that's got some real facts to it.
01:00:36.000But there's something called SV40, and they found SV40 in some of the mRNA vaccines.
01:00:42.000SV40 is simian virus 40, and it's a virus that was contracted that people got because they used kidney cells from monkeys in order to cultivate these vaccines.
01:00:59.000This is like known about for a long time.
01:01:02.000And in certain batches, they've tested positive for SV40, which is like some just legacy material that they have that they make vaccines out of.
01:02:52.000more likely an ignored, inconvenient fact that these pharmaceutical drug companies are trying to ignore.
01:02:59.000Do you think they were going upstream from that, the pharmaceutical companies or people that were pushing to try to find what perhaps they thought would be the fix to the solution?
01:03:10.000Do you think that they were doing the best that they could and just their enthusiasm outstripped their capabilities or they pushed stuff a little bit too early?
01:03:17.000Or was it as deep of as a conspiracy that people think and that behind the scenes they're trying to reduce overall global population?
01:03:25.000I don't go to the reduce overall global population.
01:03:27.000But I do understand why people would think that because there are – there have been a bunch of people that are supposedly philanthropists, Bill Gates, that have talked about reducing overall population being a goal.
01:03:40.000And that goal could be like Bill Gates is actually quoted saying that that goal could be achieved through vaccines.
01:04:24.000I don't know what's the exact specific description of it, but what it's essentially doing was rendering these women infertile.
01:04:32.000And so they were supposedly vaccinating them for tetanus and these other diseases, but really what it was doing was they were making these women infertile and they were experimenting on them.
01:04:47.000They like to experiment in places where not a lot of people are watching and there's not a lot of infrastructure and not a lot of internet connection and they can get away with trying stuff on people.
01:05:00.000So this concept of reducing population.
01:05:13.000I think if you find out about how much money was generated during the vaccine pandemic, during the COVID pandemic, that is the most likely scenario.
01:05:22.000They were just trying to make an enormous amount of money.
01:05:24.000Do you remember that you and I did the first podcast after the lockdown in LA?
01:06:13.000Although we did get ratted out, the health department came to our LA studio.
01:06:18.000And they made us put a bag of masks on the wall when you go in, and also a note that shows all the precautions that you have to take place, like stand six feet apart.
01:06:28.000And then people were also complaining that this table is not six feet wide, and so we weren't observing the proper social distancing.
01:06:36.000So I said, Okay, well, why don't we just do this and you do that, and we'll do a podcast?
01:07:06.000I don't think they're ever right with that kind of stuff, especially something that's not killing everybody as they said it was.
01:07:11.000They were just gaslighting us all over television that people are dropping like flies.
01:07:16.000And especially egregiously disgusting is gaslighting us about children dying from it.
01:07:23.000You know, and there's a lot of really fucking shitty human beings that were posting about this on Twitter.
01:07:30.000And I don't know if they're being paid to do it or if they're just ideologically captured, but there was a lot of people on Twitter talking about children dying from COVID.
01:08:32.000They were ignoring it and gaslighting.
01:08:34.000And then we also found out the amount of money that these pharmaceutical drug companies pay to these corporations, whether it's Fox or NBC or CBS or whoever it is, in advertising.
01:08:47.000It's a huge part of their budget advertising money.
01:08:51.000And the way Callie Means explained it to me, he goes, it's not so that people find out about the drugs, it's so that these news stations.
01:09:01.000Don't criticize the pharmaceutical drug companies.
01:09:04.000Well, if they control the ad inventory and then the checkbook behind that.
01:09:23.000Well, see, I'm not anti pharmaceutical drug company, but I am.
01:09:27.000And the problem with corporations is they have an obligation to their shareholders to make the most amount of money possible.
01:09:33.000And it's not the people that are making these things, the people that are making them, these doctors and engineers and scientists, all these wizards that are coming up with all these life saving medications.
01:09:45.000And the money people are the ones that fuck everything up.
01:09:47.000Because the money people say, you know what, we could charge $1,000 a pill for this stuff.
01:09:52.000You know, there's certain medications that literally cost $1,000 a pill.
01:09:57.000You know, and they just try to make the most amount of money possible and prescribe it to the most amount of people possible.
01:10:03.000And then you get monsters like this cancer doctor that I was telling you that was giving chemotherapy to people that don't fucking have cancer.
01:10:11.000So, how do we break that system though?
01:14:22.000If you have a fucking electric car and you get stuck on the highway and it's just bumper to bumper forever and that thing is the only thing keeping you warm, you better pray that someone lets you in their car.
01:16:12.000If you drive one, just the ability of those things, just the insane capability, the ability to go zero to 60 in under two seconds is just nuts for a four door Synan.
01:16:33.000So, like, if you want, like, say, if you want to get a concealed carry license, you have to go to a range and you have to demonstrate that you know how to use a gun correctly.
01:16:47.000Well, it's constitutional carry here as well, but still concealed carry, you get reciprocity.
01:16:53.000So if you have concealed carry, you get reciprocity in Florida, Nevada.
01:16:56.000So if you get a concealed carry license in Texas, you can go to places where, you know, they're only maybe they don't even have concealed, they don't have constitutional carry, but they recognize Texas concealed carry license.
01:17:07.000Because of the additional training per se?
01:17:43.000I mean, there's plenty of videos of that.
01:17:47.000My friend Whitney sent me a video of a street takeover.
01:17:49.000In Los Angeles this Saturday night, where they took over some street and gunshots and people just they cut off the entire street so no one can go anywhere.
01:18:00.000People surround these cars and the cars drive around in circles, and then someone started shooting at people.
01:18:42.000They're letting people out for all kinds of crimes.
01:18:45.000I was listening to a podcast where a guy was a former gang member and he was saying he's leaving Los Angeles because they're letting 70,000 people out of prison.
01:18:54.000It's like it's going to get too dangerous.
01:18:56.000So it was too dangerous for the gang member.
01:18:58.000There's the answers to some tests right there.
01:20:15.000Stands on a chair and talks about Alp.
01:20:17.000You know how stood on a chair, yeah, because it was just like it was in Dave Ramsey's barn.
01:20:20.000And again, like I'm so far not in the social circle of this.
01:20:24.000And so we listened, I think you should have sat on someone's shoulders, that would be even better.
01:20:28.000He's pretty big, so you would have needed somebody who has squatted once or twice in their life.
01:20:33.000So we listened to him talk, and they had a little like on the other room is a huge fireplace, was just this like a charcuterie table about this size.
01:20:41.000So I'm getting some cheese, and then I turn around, I'm like, hello, Mel Gibson, and I just went and sat in the corner.
01:26:24.000But you know, the thing about elk hunting is you're so tired by the end of the day that you're not going to sit there looking at your phone anyway.
01:26:32.000But it's nice to be able to FaceTime home and say hi to people.
01:26:54.000Well, I tell people that I am the Navy SEAL sniper with the most confirmed misses.
01:26:59.000Because I can just smash that trigger back, close your eyes, hold your breath, let it gray out a little bit, and then really just jerk it.
01:27:05.000Oh, that's the worst feeling when you know you could have done it so much better if you just had taken a little bit more time.
01:27:11.000It would have been hard for me to do it worse, Joe.
01:27:13.000If I'm being honest, people are like, How could you possibly miss?
01:27:18.000Because I'm an idiot sometimes, and I'm just, God, as I was pulling on the trigger, I was watching it just drift back towards the beginning of the guts.
01:27:27.000And instead of just stopping, just gave a little bit more and then never saw the thing.
01:27:31.000Looked for it for two and a half days.
01:27:33.000Is there a worse feeling in the world than wounding an animal?
01:30:17.000And if I do keep up, I'm going to blow something out.
01:30:19.000Since I found it at 41, I don't think we should teach it to anybody under 30 because it deeply offends me when children come out of the children's class and they've been training like six times longer than I. I'm like, What?
01:30:32.000Like their movement patterns were developed on the mat.
01:31:01.000And I didn't start jiu jitsu until I was 30.
01:31:03.000And when I started doing jiu jitsu, I remember thinking, God, I wish I did this when I was a kid.
01:31:08.000Because I see some kids where their fucking scrambles and their transitions, like built into their neurons, where they're just like, everything is so fast and so kinetic and they're just moving and flowing.
01:32:30.000And then there was like the Jean Claude Van Damme Kumite movies where you meet and all the styles come together and you find out what's best.
01:32:38.000But when I first saw UFC 2, I was like, oh my god, they did it.
01:32:42.000And then I was like, oh my god, I don't know that.
01:33:42.000And then it was also at the time where Extreme Fighting was out, which was John Peretti, who was one of the commentators for the early UFC, was now doing this.
01:34:15.000But I just got there at literally the perfect time because it was right before Vitor was making his UFC debut, which was UFC 12, which I commentated at.
01:34:25.000So I was literally training at the same school as Vitor, so I knew what to expect.
01:34:29.000I'm like, these guys don't know what the fuck this guy's doing.
01:34:32.000Like, this is this because everybody thought he was just a jujitsu guy.
01:34:35.000And meanwhile, he had lightning hands.
01:34:38.000And, you know, it was a slimmer Vitor.
01:34:40.000He was only like 200 pounds back then.
01:35:18.000Jiu jitsu is awesome, it's not complete.
01:35:21.000You can have a nice black belt and end up in an ambulance if you can't get through a striking range.
01:35:26.000Well, not only that, there's a lot of guys that were really reliant upon the gi back then, unfortunately.
01:35:31.000Because this is all you've got to realize this is all before Abu Dhabi, right?
01:35:34.000So this is before Abu Dhabi Combat Club came out, which was an amazing organization that paid real money to grapplers to compete but made them compete without a gi, which was like for a lot of guys, they didn't know what to do.
01:35:49.000They're so used to grabbing sleeves and grabbing collars and grabbing pants.
01:35:55.000The one guy who had figured it out was my eventual instructor, Jean Jacques Machado, because Jean Jacques was born with essentially one hand.
01:36:08.000And because of that, his game was all over hooks and under hooks and gable grips, which was he wasn't relying on collars and all this other stuff.
01:38:20.000So, for me, it made me concentrate more on defense because you couldn't pull out of things as easily.
01:38:26.000But I never felt lost going into Nogi.
01:38:29.000So, I would go back and forth all the time.
01:38:30.000So, you know, I got my black belt from Eddie first, but I got my black belt from Jean Jacques right after that because I was training at both places.
01:38:37.000That was also a beautiful thing about.
01:38:40.000Eddie being Jean Jacques' student and them having a very close relationship, it never felt like you were a traitor that you left schools because I never really left schools.
01:40:32.000If you want to, and the internet's an amazing thing, right?
01:40:35.000And there's a bunch of ability to go out and look for techniques and stuff.
01:40:38.000But I can't think of anything more disrespectful to a coach to be told something and then you are offering them something that you saw on Instagram while they're trying to teach you.
01:40:45.000Like, that's how that relationship is going to end up breaking.
01:40:48.000If you really want to accelerate your learning, Focus and honor your coach actually.
01:40:52.000Focus on what they are trying to tell you to do.
01:40:55.000Do only that and no more until you have that mastered, and then you can move on top of that.
01:41:58.000This Jehon Taekwondo, Jehon Kim Taekwondo Institute in Boston just happened to have multiple national champions, like really elite competitors.
01:42:32.000I think what I determined the most when my coach gave me my black belt was that I don't know a goddamn thing about jiu jitsu and I can't keep up with all the flashy, sporty stuff.
01:42:42.000But the better fundamentals get, the better you can tolerate a lot of that stuff.
01:42:45.000It's just the mastery of the fundamentals is just so essential.
01:42:49.000Well, some of the elite guys of all time never did any of the flashy stuff, like Hickson.
01:42:53.000Hickson was just the fundamentals honed to a razor sharp edge.
01:42:59.000You don't see Hickson doing some stuff, you're like, oh, I've never seen that before.
01:43:03.000It's all triangles, arm bars, renegade choke, and just done.
01:43:18.000And then having like 10 of them watch him catch everybody before them with the same thing and them having absolutely no ability to stop it.
01:45:00.000And then they get aggravated to the point where, you know, I remember one time my fingers were getting numb because my neck was so fucked up that my fingers were numb.
01:45:10.000And then I'm like, okay, I got to do something.
01:45:12.000Was this from you, head and arm choking people?
01:45:40.000You sit on your chest, you pump it up like the Reebok pump, and then the chin strap, you tighten that bitch down, and you can adjust the tension that's required to spin it, and it has this giant bungee cord on it.
01:45:52.000And so the bungee cord is like 50 pounds of resistance.
01:45:54.000So you back up with the bungee cord till it's like fully taut.
01:46:28.000A bunch of guys had to go to Germany to get this treatment.
01:46:32.000And it's like they take your blood and through some process, I forget exactly how they do it, it makes this fluid that is like this radically inflammation fighting fluid.
01:46:45.000And they injected it into my neck and it cured my bulging discs.
01:46:50.000And all my numbness went away and I got to start training again.
01:47:01.000Like a lot of the problems that people have with lower backs, I firmly believe it's a lack of building tissue and strength and mobility around your lower back.
01:48:57.000I think it's the best also because there are so many different things you can do with them in terms of there's rotational exercises I do where I like pick it down on this side and I swing and clean it and I press it on that side and let it swing down.
01:49:11.000And I do those things where you lie on your back with your butt, with your legs up in the air, and you do those twists where you take the kettlebell and put it each side.
01:49:22.000You can absolutely demolish yourself with a single kettlebell.
01:51:32.000There are people who played around with an immense amount of performance enhancing materials in my previous job, which live your life however you want to.
01:51:39.000Just understand maybe the long term tail and the consequences of the choice you want to make.
01:51:43.000I wanted to avoid that for as long as possible because, as you know, once you kind of go on that train, it's a lifelong journey.
01:51:49.000But once I finally saw that piece of paper, I'm like, oh boy.
01:51:54.000I bet you could attribute that to the volume of your training.
01:51:58.000That's also part of the problem is if you're training 10 times a week, you're probably in a constant state of overtraining.
01:52:46.000You could do, as long as you're smart with your training and you don't get like catastrophic injuries, you could be very physically fit deep, deep into your 60s and 70s, which is nuts.
01:52:58.000And I just, and that's, I mean, I don't know.
01:53:00.000Nobody knows how much time we have, you know, and how much, how long your lap is going to be.
01:53:04.000My goal is just to fill it up with awesome experiences between here and whenever that is.
01:53:44.000Well, you're only seeing that one video.
01:53:46.000I had been skydiving for like 16 years.
01:53:49.000At that point, you know, and you know something like when I would go over to.
01:53:53.000I remember i'd go over to Switzerland and I would do a flight in the wingsuit and get you know you're like you're playing tag with your shadow on a steep cliff and I would send it to you.
01:54:02.000And One day you were like, I just had to throw my phone across the room watching this because it was giving you anxiety.
01:54:08.000So then I'm like, clearly I'm sending you more of these videos for sure, right?
01:54:39.000To me, that activity provided me enough enrichment in my life that it was worth it.
01:54:44.000I haven't put the suit on in Five or six years, but I swear to God, if I get one more person telling me not to do it, I'm going to go back and just start sending you videos again.
01:54:54.000All right, well, I promise I won't be that guy that tells you that.
01:55:00.000But honestly, at this point, again, talking about risk, it's not worth it.
01:55:03.000I don't live in a place where I can stay because your currency in that suit comes from the skydiving world where you can jump it multiple times a day.
01:55:09.000In the base jumping world, there's no altimeter, you're just camera one, camera two at about a buck twenty.
01:55:16.000Face first, so yeah, if you misjudge a tree or a cliff, honestly.
01:56:27.000And at some point, you rock to a place where you can't go back the other direction.
01:56:31.000And you send it in the first few seconds because you have no airspeed, the suit doesn't fly.
01:56:35.000So you're just falling and then it takes off.
01:56:37.000And it's just these right hand turns and right hand turns.
01:56:39.000And there are small sections where the angle is correct and you can kind of connect with the train and then get away from it and connect.
01:56:47.000The people who are able to survive it are not the ones that are flying three feet off the ground all the time.
01:56:51.000It's very, very short periods of time on jumps that they have practiced many, many times and they slowly, incrementally work their way down there.
01:57:00.000Because again, a mistake in that environment is you're going to impact an object head first at 120.
01:57:05.000I remember the video that scared me the most was a bridge.
01:57:09.000Where the guy was trying to fly through, you know, the video.
02:08:07.000And then also stories from ancient civilizations that talked about red haired giants, which is the weird thing about this thing, had red hair.
02:08:16.000Like the Native Americans had tales of red haired giants that they fought off.
02:08:21.000Like, there's a lot of people that believe that all these stories from antiquity about giants are all referring to an actual different race of humans.
02:08:31.000You know, like, we are one race of humans, the Homo sapiens that survived.
02:08:36.000But then there's also races of humans that didn't survive, like the Hobbit people from the island of Flores that they found out there was a branch of the human species that was like three feet tall, covered in hair, little tiny heads.
02:08:49.000Weird, but had tools and had weapons and.
02:08:53.000I think sometimes, though, the stories, they're intentionally nesting a greater message through the vehicle of that story.
02:09:03.000So whether it's accurate or not, it's more about the story that they are telling.
02:09:08.000And I'm not saying the Kandahar giant has some story associated with it, but some of the older, like the symbolizations and the stories that they tell, I think it's just a vehicle that they can nest something in there to create deeper thought.
02:09:23.000If that makes sense, it's what I see you guys doing, comedians.
02:09:37.000The ability for comedians to nest inside of your set pretty impactful and powerful, like societal conversations and ideas and get people to laugh about it.
02:09:47.000But even when they're done laughing about it, they're going to be thinking about it when they're driving home.
02:09:51.000It's just the vehicle to get people thinking about stuff.
02:09:55.000Well, in terms of comedy, I agree, and Dave is one of the best of all time, if not the best at doing that.
02:10:31.000Like, what would be the purpose of hiding the fact that this thing existed?
02:10:34.000I don't see why the government would hide the discovery of a giant.
02:10:39.000Like, what military reason, what national security reason would you have for hiding this thing that this thing existed?
02:10:51.000At some level of objective skepticism and criticism, or looking into these stories, you get to that point of like, who's benefiting from this and why?
02:11:33.000They brought him and a team of specialists in, and they said, We are contemplating disclosure, and that we have not just acquired crashed vehicles that are of non human origin, but also we have biological remains of these creatures.
02:11:55.000We want you to write down pros and cons of the impact of these things and put a numerical value.
02:12:02.000Put a numerical value in terms of impact on government, impact on religion, impact on all these different things.
02:12:11.000Universally, all of them came out with more cons than pros.
02:12:15.000The numbers didn't line up and they made a decision to not disclose.
02:12:19.000This is according to this Hal Putoff guy.
02:12:38.000How about it, just given the size of the known universe and the fact it keeps expanding, what is the mathematical odds that we are completely the only thing out there?
02:12:46.000So, this is like sort of the same argument that people used to use for Bigfoot.
02:12:51.000Like the wilderness is so vast, the Pacific Northwest is so dense, there could be something out there that we haven't documented.
02:12:59.000Well, the problem is now we kind of have, and now we kind of know that with all these camera traps and all these different things, it's very, very, very, very unlikely that any of these stories are true.
02:13:09.000But when you get to the universe, it's like, come on.
02:13:13.000It's way more likely that we're not alone than we are alone.
02:13:17.000If we are alone, that's kind of insane.
02:14:27.000Like the U.S., if that's real, the U.S. is not the only country that has agreed not to disclose because it is to their benefit not to do so.
02:14:36.000Like these things, Russia has a crash program.
02:15:15.000And like you said, a volume of other stories.
02:15:17.000Some of them I think you can completely write off.
02:15:20.000But other ones, pretty tough from pretty credible people who aren't making claims like, hey, I sat down and had a beer with this thing.
02:15:28.000But like, I was in an aircraft that has a certain performance envelope, and we understand the performance envelope of what humans are able to fly at this point.
02:15:35.000And yeah, this thing did things that I don't understand.
02:15:39.000Sometimes the videos get, I mean, I was talking with, you know, Bill Thompson.
02:17:47.000A giant leap, a chasm, an ocean to cross before you reach levels like Bill or Elon or some of these people.
02:17:59.000It's just like the amount of processing power they have.
02:18:04.000I have a Honda Civic brain, and these motherfuckers have a Corvette ZR1.
02:18:09.000I usually go with I have an IQ that you can find on a thermostat.
02:18:14.000I'm not saying it's like the winter, but maybe it's a little bit close to a hot summer day.
02:18:18.000Now, what he is, I wish I had the ability to build stuff like that.
02:18:22.000Like, I use that app to hunt, but most of the time I use it when I'm flying my helicopter around because it is like the terrain analysis, the ability to look at stuff, the LIDAR, the way that you can look through foliage.
02:18:32.000Again, I'm just, I'm deeply appreciative that people like that exist.
02:18:35.000And again, with the ethics that he has, he will not sell your fucking email.
02:18:39.000He's been offered a lot of money to sell all the, you know, that's the thing that companies do.
02:18:44.000You sign up for something, you use your email, that your email goes in the list.
02:18:48.000I'm sure if you ever opened up one of your email accounts and looked through the filters, like all the, Spam and promotional shit.
02:19:25.000Because of what's going on in Iran, it'd be good to talk to you about this because you're a guy who kind of understands things in terms of like geopolitics more than the average person.
02:19:34.000Listen, I can find Iran on a map, okay?
02:19:36.000That doesn't mean I understand geopolitics.
02:19:51.000I'm not having, I wasn't invited, rightfully so, to planning meetings where they were talking about the defense policy of the United States.
02:21:02.000If that technology existed and we're not using that to help our own populace find people that are lost in the woods, we're a bunch of fucking assholes.
02:21:10.000So, let's not maybe tell people what we're doing, but you could have a specialist in a search and rescue helicopter that could maybe use that and be like, oh, we saw them in a field when you didn't actually see, right?
02:21:19.000So, because that doesn't happen, I think it's plausible.
02:21:29.000But then you can go old school, which is sending in monkeys with machine guns, like what I used to do with a PJ or multiple PJs, pararescue jumpers, because those are the guys.
02:22:07.000Some of those are going to have to be PJs.
02:22:09.000I don't know if that's enough to go into a hardened facility in the daytime, also, which is not when you would do that for retrieving depleted uranium.
02:22:19.000Because, by the way, to do that, you're going to be in full protective equipment very likely, which you're going to be moving incredibly slow.
02:22:27.000I just, I know it was, I know that geographically it was proximal to one of the locations that they thought that that was what was going on.
02:22:34.000I think it probably was a rescue of the weapons systems officer, is my guess.
02:22:39.000And then they're like, well, we can't get the aircraft because they got stuck in the sand.
02:22:45.000The little birds don't have the fuel storage and ability to get across where they needed to go, so they had to bring in other aircraft, and you don't want to leave that stuff.
02:23:23.000But the military asks people to do exceptional things.
02:23:27.000And it helps you if you know that they are going to send everything that they have to come and get you if something goes wrong.
02:23:35.000It has to mean something to be issued a flag on your chest, in my opinion at least.
02:23:39.000And as far as those operations go, there's basically two where you are going to absorb, as the people responding, an immense amount of risk.
02:23:45.000One of them is going to be a hostage rescue, which I was a part of.
02:23:48.000We talked about that on a previous episode, the Jessica Lynch rescue.
02:23:51.000The number of people we thought we might encounter was a way bigger number than the number of people that we could get there in the helicopters.
02:23:58.000But you go anyway because of the chance of rescuing somebody.
02:24:02.000Combat search and rescue, kind of the same thing.
02:24:03.000Maybe it's not a hostage situation, but it could be building towards that.
02:24:07.000I mean, maybe you don't have time to go at night, which is when you have all the tactical and technological advantage, right?
02:28:24.000I think Evan and I had an argument one time about radar and sonar, and we were both calling each other idiots, and we both found out that we were wrong once we looked it up on the internet.
02:28:31.000So we'll say it's some version of that.
02:28:33.000God, we were both 100% committed that we were correct and we were both wrong, which is classic.
02:28:38.000But yeah, like in this room, the things that are emanating, there's an ability for them to map that and determine who, you know, maybe not who you are, but I bet you it gets to that point and where you are.
02:28:48.000And you want to talk about a tactically beneficial piece of information for somebody like my old job?
02:29:27.000But he said that a quantum computer can solve an equation in a matter of minutes.
02:29:33.000That if you converted the entire universe, every atom in the universe, into a supercomputer, the universe would die of heat death before it could solve this problem.
02:29:45.000And a quantum computer. On Earth, can solve it in a matter of minutes.
02:30:42.000Google, specifically Hermut Nevin, who leads Google Quantum AI, has recently used language that strongly suggests their new quantum chip speed could be understood as borrowing computational power from other universes.
02:30:57.000But this is an interpretive, speculative way of talking about quantum mechanics, not an experimentally established fact or a standard claim.
02:31:06.000The claim comes from December 2024, a blog post about Google's Willow Quantum Chip.
02:31:11.000Nevin wrote that the chip solved a task in minutes that would take a classical supercomputer about 10 to the 25th power years, far longer than the age of the universe.
02:31:25.000Again, I understand every word you just used, but I don't understand what you just used.
02:31:30.000He then said this lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, and that this aligns with the idea that we live in a multiverse.
02:31:40.000Explicitly referencing David Deutsch's many worlds argument for quantum computing.
02:32:26.000Look, you got Jocko, Jack Carr, and me giving you blurbs on the cover, so it's got to be good.
02:32:32.000So at some point, it doesn't have to be now, but I essentially wrote in the inscription, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart my life would not look the way it does had you and I not randomly met through Tate Fletcher.
02:32:44.000Like my post military life would look completely different, and I have no ability to like pay you back for how gracious you've been with your time and your platform.
02:32:54.000So, all that's a two way street because your presence on my show has enriched my show, it's made the show better for sure.
02:33:03.000Well, my promise is that I will do the best I can to be a positive impact on the world around me.
02:33:08.000I think that's the best way that I can try to pay you back, and honestly, it's the reason why I wrote that in the first place.