00:00:22.000I was telling you last night that I thought it was in Mexico City, but we had a report that you were at an Oasis concert in Mexico City, and you said no, it was in Rio.
00:02:24.000Yeah, because if the dick comes through the hole, if you're like, you ever want to suck a dick, but I don't want to look a guy in the eyes, I just want to know what it's like, see if I'm good at it.1.00
00:02:31.000Yeah, I don't want to be embarrassed in front of anybody.1.00
00:05:15.000I don't know what the legality of that is, and I don't want to throw anybody under the bus, but Ron White brought a bunch of it to the mothership, and it's very legit.
00:08:04.000You started doing all the research in your head.0.99
00:08:06.000And it was like, I felt like I was talking to people, but what I was seeing was a two dimensional, like, you know, like those stand ins, like when you go to the movie and it's like, you know, a person standing there, like thumbs up, but it's like just a two dimensional cardboard cutout.
00:08:23.000That's what everybody looked like to me.
00:08:24.000It was like a two dimensional cardboard cutout, but occasionally I'd see their soul.
00:10:31.000Just like this dark energy, like creepy, dark energy.
00:10:37.000Sometimes, if you're on like a psychedelic and then someone's not on with you, you know, but they're around you, you're like, Hey, you got to go.
00:12:25.000Well, it's because MDMA and psilocybin, MAPS was already doing MDMA studies with veterans.
00:12:32.000So, for people to watch a bunch of people get blown up and lost their friends and come back, MDMA was one of the best therapies for helping them overcome PTSD.
00:12:41.000So, MAPS had already pushed that through, and Johns Hopkins had already done these studies with psilocybin.
00:12:47.000So, they already pushed these things, and they were already on the way to getting approval through the FDA.
00:12:52.000But the problem was nobody wants to stick their neck out and sign off on it.
00:12:57.000If you're running, we talked about this, if you're running for an office and the opponent can say he wants drugs legalized, then you're fucked.0.99
00:13:03.000So, it's like it really binds your hands.0.99
00:13:05.000Well, that's funny because that's kind of what Dan Patrick did in Texas about marijuana.
00:13:10.000But to his credit, Dan Patrick met with Rick Perry and Brian Hubbard, the guys that passed this Texas Ibogaine Initiative, and they convinced him of what this stuff actually is.
00:13:48.000And he hears it, and he hears how much it'll help, particularly veterans that come back that are addicted to opiates and they're all fucked up.0.79
00:13:55.000And even CTE, even like brain injuries from getting blown up.0.91
00:16:03.000There was a city I was in when I did ayahuasca, and it was a guy from the tourism board.
00:16:07.000And he said, What's going to, there's three cities that are like on the border to the Amazon.
00:16:12.000And, you know, you could go in from any one of them.
00:16:14.000And they go, What's going to separate our city from all these other Amazonian cities?
00:16:17.000And they go, Let's be the ayahuasca city.0.99
00:16:20.000And everyone else on the tourism board said, No, we are not getting a bunch of fucking hippie backpackers in here to be drug addicts in our town.0.99
00:16:30.000Like, that's not what we're looking for at all.0.99
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00:19:23.000And why can't you if you can go to Costco and just buy a jug of whiskey and drink yourself to death?
00:19:28.000It also, so like in Edinburgh, they have a season for it, and you can go through the meadows or any of these fields and just like pick mushrooms.
00:22:04.000I wonder sometimes if these kids, I was talking to, Tell me about it.
00:22:08.000Like, if they'll know later in life how cool their experience was, like, it'll be till like that 35 or 40.
00:22:15.000They'll be like, oh, I had a great child.
00:22:17.000I didn't understand the coolest things I did.
00:22:19.000Yeah, I think my kids are pretty aware of it.
00:22:22.000But anyway, they had these hippies would go over the encampment and pick out mushrooms from elephant paddies.0.99
00:22:30.000And then eventually the people, the herders, were like, why do these fucking dreadlock people keep coming in at night and like sniffing around our shit?0.99
00:22:38.000And then they realized what it was and they go, oh, no, no, no, we'll sell this.1.00
00:24:53.000I mean, that's like CNN's most of their ratings were talking shit about Trump.0.98
00:24:59.000Like every time he did something outrageous, they would talk shit about him and they would have him on, and it just made him more and more popular because I don't think they understood how much Americans despise them.0.99
00:25:12.000You know, they thought, we're CNN.0.98
00:25:16.000And then because the fact that Trump was opposed to them and they just kept showing him, they're like, oh, he must be good because you guys suck.0.99
00:27:42.000When you see those ships that are the planes that are flying away, and people are hanging on to the wheels of the plane and falling off because they don't want to be left behind.
00:29:18.000But they thought, you saw the most effective thing of that Sackler with Ferris Bueller, that documentary series, whatever painkiller, is they started every episode with a real.
00:30:24.000What they did there was go, if that movie is completely accurate, it's like, okay, so this is for heavily cancerous, like bedridden people that have a pain threshold of eight to 10.
00:30:59.000And that was also because it was stuffed up with gauze, like those, it wasn't even gauze, like these foam things with a tube that they stuff in your nose to keep your nostrils open while it's healing.
00:31:09.000But, you know, he gave me two different opiates.
00:31:11.000And I was like, is it going to get worse than this?
00:33:04.000I was reading this sad story once about this lady who she had COVID and she was in so much pain from COVID that she kept taking Tylenol and she died of a fucking liver failure.0.99
00:35:04.000And then it was like Tylenol or whatever was like.
00:35:06.000Covering up how bad it got instead of going recall everything.
00:35:10.000Estimated 31 million bottles were in circulation with a retail value of over $100 million, equivalent to $334 million in 2025.
00:35:18.000The company also advertised in the national media for individuals not to consume any of its products that contained acetaminophen after it was determined that only these capsules had been tampered with.
00:35:30.000There were other ones in California that had strychnine in them.
00:37:30.000So, Coca Cola would have people just like if you were like a leftist leader running for whatever, they were worried that if that person got in power, they would unionize their population and that would cost them more money in the plants.0.99
00:37:44.000And they would just have people straight killed.
00:37:46.000Straight up, get them out of the way.0.95
00:38:26.000For decades, Coca-Cola's faced several severe allegations regarding the murder and intimidation of union leaders at bottling plants in Colombia and Guatemala.
00:38:35.000They hired paramilitary death squads to suppress labor activism.
00:38:52.000I was just starting to be aware of how fucked up politics were.0.95
00:38:56.000And because he was on television explaining.0.96
00:38:59.000About the World Trade Organization, about when they were going to start opening up plants in Mexico and moving jobs to Mexico.
00:39:09.000He's like, What you're going to hear is a giant sucking sound where all the money and jobs are going to go down to Mexico.
00:39:17.000And what we allowed during that time was essentially what the labor unions were doing in this country was making sure that people had a great wage because the corporations were getting paid well.
00:39:32.000So, the CEOs wanted all the money like they always do.
00:39:37.000But you really can't make a Mustang unless you have the people that are on the assembly line, unless you have the people that are doing all the hard labor and all the work, and they should get compensated correctly.
00:39:48.000So, the auto unions workers organized it and they went on strike and they did what they had to do and they were making a great living.
00:39:57.000They were making a great living, and these people had a nice house and they had a car and a garage, and it felt good.
00:40:03.000That they were getting paid really well.
00:40:05.000And so a lot of people thought, well, they're getting paid too well.
00:40:54.000Because it's really documenting a horrific attack on Detroit and Flint, Michigan, and all those places up there where there's all these auto plants and they all just went away, man.
00:41:07.000And those jobs went away, and now Detroit is.
00:41:11.000Danny was talking about it, Brown, where he was like, just before COVID, it was like starting to be like some cool new restaurants and like really coming back.
00:41:18.000Then COVID kind of nailed it down again.
00:41:19.000And now it's, I think, back, back, going back up again.
00:43:15.000How many pizzas has Dave Portnoy sold?
00:43:19.000If you really stop and think about it, Dave Portnoy is probably responsible for more pizza sales in this country than any other living human being.
00:46:16.000I'd get, I always buy like a box and I'd eat half the box.
00:46:20.000I'd buy like a box of a dozen and I'd buy like chocolate cream filled and all the different ones and I'd eat like six of them in my car on my way home.
00:46:28.000And then I'd get home and I'm like, oh.
00:52:36.000I had a discussion recently with Hunter Campbell where we're trying to figure out a way to blow up all the weight classes and make people fight out what their actual weight is.
00:52:44.000But you would have to, like, show up in camp, like, you know, get to the exact right weight, weigh them.
00:54:49.000But that thing where they do in wrestling, you're not getting hit in the head in wrestling, right?
00:54:54.000So it will deplete you, and so you have to make a decision like how much am I going to be depleted and want to be the size bully and have a bigger frame and utilize it, but have depleted performance?
00:57:09.000Like, Usyk, before he became the heavyweight champion, was the cruiserweight champion, and people cared about him just because he was so skillful, but he had to go up to heavyweight before people cared.
00:57:18.000But if he was a light heavyweight, he would have been huge.
00:58:11.000What's also interesting is like fly weight women, like Valentina Shevchenko, it's one of the premier weight classes in the women's division.1.00
00:59:04.000So ceremonial weigh-ins is what we have now.0.99
00:59:07.000So, when someone weighs in now, they've already weighed in in the morning in an official scale in front of doctors and state reps.
00:59:15.000Let me give them a chance to come back again.
00:59:16.000Athletic Commission checks them out, and so then they just suck a bunch of water down and electrolytes, and they slowly rehydrate over the four or five hours.
01:04:36.000So every time he broke, and he was making the one ball inside like every game.
01:04:40.000And every time he didn't have a shot, he would just play a lockup safety, and the guy would kick and then leave a shot, and then he would run out again.
01:05:41.000So they're all going over there and playing in that because you can make millions in a year instead of a couple hundred grand, which is like what the best players make in America.1.00
01:05:48.000That's why women were going to fucking Russia to play basketball.1.00
01:06:44.000According to World Snooker Tour figures, more than 24.5 million unique viewers watched the third session of the final alone in China, and during the whole 2025 tournament, it had a cumulative audience of 180 million in national broadcasters.
01:06:59.000Compared to that, That's like an NFL playoff.
01:08:04.000It's understanding how to kick and how to, like, when I say kick, what I mean is, like, go off a rail and hit another rail and then collide with the ball.
01:08:13.000So three cushion billiards is you have three balls on the table.
01:08:40.000It's a complicated game and it's different because it's a lot of its spin.
01:08:44.000And the harder you hit it, the shorter the angle is.
01:08:47.000And if you hit it with English, it spins out wider or shorter depending upon what you're trying to do with it.0.51
01:08:53.000But if you get good at it, it really will help your pool game because you'll really have a much more deep understanding of how the ball moves around the table with different speed and side spin and all that kind of shit.0.96
01:09:08.000I've only fucked around with it though, and not in a long time.0.91
01:09:11.000We had a table at Executive Billiards in White Plains.0.99
01:09:14.000We used to have a 1 3 cushion table they would fuck around on.0.97
01:10:07.000Yeah, it's like daily, it's a pool hall, but then at night it turns into samba and the highest level guys come in, their capital and their music capital.
01:10:15.000It's so fun, but these guys don't stop playing pool.
01:10:17.000And so everyone's dancing, it's so packed and crowded, excuse me.
01:10:19.000And you're like, the etiquette is, you just know when you're at a bar, you're like, all right, all right.
01:10:23.000But you want to be like, bro, It's packed.
01:10:29.000Well, there's a place in the Bronx that is this Dominican pool room where they gamble big money, big money, and they stream some of the matches on YouTube.0.97
01:10:40.000And it's fucking bananas because people are just talking constantly.0.99
01:10:45.000They're yelling at each other in Spanish.0.99
01:11:10.000So, they're accustomed to all the yelling and all the craziness and guys standing in front of the hole while you're shooting at it, which is a no no in regular clubs.
01:11:45.000But it's really interesting because I've watched guys who are like top pros go over there and fucking lose to guys that they're not supposed to lose to.0.79
01:11:52.000And the reason why they're losing is because they're just rattled by the environment.
01:11:56.000And so, what a lot of these guys will do, they'll put AirPods on.
01:11:58.000So, they'll put AirPods in with the noise canceling.0.95
01:12:01.000So, to try to take away some of the fucking sound and just focus.0.51
01:12:05.000But you're really going to be playing at like 60% of your capacity because there's just too much chaos going around.0.91
01:12:12.000If you play in a real, legit pool tournament, everything's.
01:12:15.000Dead quiet while the guy's down on the ball.
01:12:17.000And then they clap when someone makes the ball, and then he moves to the next shot, they stop clapping.
01:13:12.000So, what I was saying is my friend Jeremy Jones, who was a U.S. Open champion, he said he went to that pool hall once, and he said, I'm never going back.
01:14:05.000The best book of all, there's tells and there's strategy.
01:14:09.000The best, my favorite book is this guy, Mike Caro.
01:14:12.000It's a book called Mike Caro's Book of Poker Tells.
01:14:16.000Um, yeah, I managed to use one of them once in a World Series event.
01:14:21.000Um, That if this is the one where it goes, if someone looks at your chips, it's because they have a killer hand and they think those chips are theirs.
01:14:29.000And it's just like, you know, when you lie, you look away a little bit.
01:14:32.000That's like a tell we all kind of know.
01:20:36.000And all the while, She was contacting, like, whoever runs Lebanon, and they were contacting Israel and saying, Hey, this is a reporter.0.72
01:20:46.000And so then they got text messages between, like, this someone from the IDF had been saying to them, We're going to kill you.
01:20:54.000And then they got the number from her phone and contacted the person from the IDF.1.00
01:20:58.000And they were saying, Hey, she works for Hezbollah, and, you know, fuck you, and you're naive.1.00
01:22:19.000I mean, this was one of the things that most people aren't aware of, but that before October 7th, there were hundreds of thousands of people on the streets in Israel protesting Netanyahu.
01:22:59.000It became like if you say anything bad now, you're like a traitor instead of just like, well, I was already saying they have issues with police overstepping or whatever.
01:23:09.000You're like, well, now you can't say that for about three years.
01:23:13.000So before October 7th, Israel experienced nine months of massive, sustained protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, largely driven by opposition to proposed judicial reforms.
01:23:26.000These demonstrations included hundreds of thousands of participants accused the right wing coalition of undermining.
01:23:32.000Democracy weakening the Supreme Court and attempting to interfere with Netanyahu's ongoing corruption trial.
01:23:37.000Yeah, and so that's the same as here, where it's not about, like, are you pro gay marriage or not, or are you pro, like, peace of Palestine or not.
01:24:20.000Instead of dropping one nuke, they did thousands of fucking conventional bombs and did the kind of destruction that they did.0.90
01:24:28.000It's interesting if you ask people how it's like polarizing everybody got or polarized, you couldn't just be like, any suffering is wrong.0.87
01:24:35.000But, like, I could show you a dead baby, and a lot of people will go, Well, what I gotta know what their last name is first, right?
01:24:42.000Before I can tell you if I feel bad or not, right?
01:24:44.000Yeah, instead of just like, That's I don't know, clearly, I know that's what's really wrong about it.
01:24:58.000Those kids that live in Gaza didn't do it, so like, well, down their team, it's like, What we did to Iran, what if Iran nukes New York City?
01:25:08.000Those kids that live in the Bronx, they had nothing to do with what happened in Iran.
01:25:17.000Tribal warfare is fucking bananas that it's still going on.0.99
01:25:20.000Well, I was talking to people when I knew, like, cousins and stuff in the military, and they had just gotten out, and they were like, We're all now, this is before October 7th.0.96
01:25:40.000Not only is it all gone, but now that they've started bombing Lebanon, everybody's really terrified because they're like, well, where is this going?
01:25:45.000Because they're bombing Christian villages in Lebanon.
01:25:49.000And there's video of them destroying these solar panels that these Christian villages have in Lebanon, where they're just plowing over and using tractors to take down these solar panels.
01:27:54.000So, in that moment where you got fucking, maybe, hopefully, shrooms legalized, you know, in an ideal world, is a, Very rare case of someone who can actually accomplish change.0.99
01:28:06.000And you're at a higher level than most people in terms of influence, both personally and like broadly.1.00
01:28:17.000Like most people wouldn't do it that way.0.90
01:28:19.000Like if I was friends with Obama, there's not a fucking chance in hell I could have gone to Obama and said, hey dude, you know what would be cool?0.93
01:28:24.000If you got Ibogaine legalized, it would keep all these people that are addicted to it.0.97
01:31:26.000That's a part of one of the problems that comes with living a stressful life is you get really wrapped up in yourself.
01:31:33.000Like you're managing yourself, you're managing your thoughts, you're managing your whatever you're trying to do.
01:31:39.000And then you think so much about you that a thing like that can take you out of that and you go, oh, what am I wasting my thoughts on this for?
01:33:04.000I've seen him make speeches before, and there's all these inner city kids from like Kansas City, you know, and then when they hear him talk, it's just this moment you realize, like, oh, this isn't a story.
01:33:32.000Anything that has anything to do with people being Jewish because they conflate Jewish people with the Israeli government, the Netanyahu government, and what they're doing in Gaza and what they're doing all the other places.
01:33:45.000And it's also, it's like, there's a weird time now where people are enjoying questioning the numbers of people that died in the Holocaust.0.92
01:33:52.000It's an internet retarded, just kind of like.0.95
01:33:56.000But there is some weirdness to it.0.90
01:33:58.000And one of the weirdness to it is like there's some photos of Auschwitz and a lot of these other camps that they took after the camps were liberated and they had people.
01:34:06.000Go there, and they took photos of them, like pretending that these people were at the camps.
01:35:44.000The Earth's temperature and climate has never been static.
01:35:49.000And the real problem with climate change is not recognizing that human beings are having an adverse effect on the planet, because we certainly are in terms of pollution and particulate release.0.92
01:35:59.000People like Al Gore and a lot of these fucking greenies, they're profiting off of this concept of climate change and then also using it to clamp down on people's rights.0.94
01:36:49.000Well, it's not only that, but you fucking made people feel like they were doing good by throwing their fucking water bottles into the thing.0.99
01:36:56.000It's just, it's all kind of crazy, but.1.00
01:38:01.000They think the initial monolithic structures or megalithic structures were an earlier, previously unknown civilization.
01:38:10.000Because the size and scope of their structures, the way they build it, and Graham Hancock has gone over this as well, is so much different than the stuff that's on top of it.
01:38:21.000So, what happens is you have this old stuff that's enormous stones that are cut like jigsaws, right?
01:38:28.000And almost like it's melted, like the way it looks.
01:38:31.000You can't put a piece of paper through it after 200 years of breakdowns.
01:38:35.000You see, it's way more than 200 years.
01:38:56.000So Che Guevara talks about a little bit where he goes, So Cusco is the gem of South America.
01:39:01.000It was the border of the Andes where people would come in and do trade and everything.0.97
01:39:04.000And you see this, and the Christians would come in, take over, and build facades on it and put a cross on top to be like, Look what we did.0.99
01:39:12.000We're more dominant than these people.0.99
01:39:13.000And then an earthquake could come, facade would fall, and this would just remain.
01:50:01.000Oh, pottery and other finds inside date roughly to the late Qin or Western Han period around 200 BCE, suggesting they were excavated at or before that time.
01:50:12.000But the thing is that pottery could have been someone who just left pottery later.
01:50:18.000It's like if you leave behind a cell phone in Egypt and 5,000 years from now, people say, oh, well, this is an iPhone 16.
01:50:25.000But that means it has to be at least that old.0.64
01:50:53.000Well, we were talking about the Aztecs, about how the Aztecs, and this is another thing that I found out through Perplexity when I was just writing this thing about Mexico and about how crazy the history of Mexico is, and you know, that the Spaniards came over with essentially like 12 muskets and took over the whole country.0.92
01:51:08.000But When the Aztecs were living in these temples, they didn't build them.0.57
01:51:15.000They called them the place where the gods were born.
01:55:29.000Yeah, there's some where it's like, why did the people used to ask me that when I would do QAs, when I was doing the Jew hour building it?0.71
01:55:34.000So they'd ask questions during a check drop.0.84
01:55:36.000So I'd be like, Ask questions and I'll build my material that way.
01:57:11.000Mammals have been using ambient soundscape continually as a predator detection system for roughly. 200 million years.
01:57:18.000Birds stop singing when something larger moves through their territory.
01:57:22.000For most of the mammalian history, the forest full of song meant that no large predator was nearby, and the cessation of sound was the warning.
01:57:30.000Your nervous system never updated this software.
01:58:37.000They made the park, it's a parks district because they were like, these buildings collapsed and they're just like, let's build it into parks.
01:58:43.000And then the city, when it came back, they're like, let's take those back.0.99
02:00:23.000We were talking about this with Brian Simpson.
02:00:25.000I was like, if I lived in New York City, if something happened and I had to do JRE from New York City, I would have to live near the park because I would have to have my dog.
02:02:51.000And whatever that thing is that they've just discovered about birds, there's a similar thing that your body recognizes when you're actually in real nature.
02:03:18.000When I take the dogs out in the yard and I walk around barefoot, it feels good.
02:03:22.000I mean, I'm just judging it based on how it makes me feel.
02:03:25.000It's like that word tree hugger got a bad rap, but it's like, it comes from like, touch that, they're in the ground, so you're connected to the ground.0.95
02:03:31.000Probably comes from people that were tripping balls.0.98
02:03:33.000Because if you're tripping balls, those trees hug you back.0.99
02:13:41.000Comedy Central is trying to force you into doing a Comedy Central special, but you had a deal with Netflix.0.88
02:13:47.000And even though it was completely legal and contractually legal for you to do a comedy special with Netflix, Comedy Central was strong arming you into doing it on Comedy Central and canceled your fucking show because you wouldn't do a special with them.
02:14:03.000So you had a successful show on Comedy Central.0.94
02:14:05.000People want to know how gross Hollywood can get?
02:15:40.000I was like hearing it that they're taking away the influence.
02:15:42.000Tell them I will host it for free because you were going to take out a loan to pay off all the crew because all the crew had signed on for X amount of episodes and it was going to cost them money.
02:15:54.000And you were like, I'm trying to figure out a way to keep us on the air.
02:18:50.000Let me get all my thoughts down, you know, all the metaphors and stuff, the stuff flowery stuff you put on them that Jay's so good at and stuff.
02:18:59.000But like, then they became a lot of people.
02:19:01.000It's like, that's my closer and my special now.
02:22:32.000And then all these huge comps, like Shane Gillis, who when he was an open micer was like, all these guys, like, I want to eventually do that show.
02:23:23.000Yeah, we said we had to figure out a way.
02:23:24.000Me and O'Neill and Abrams, we all like writing it.
02:23:27.000We're like, I have to figure out a way to bridge the gap of this not happening to the end and what happened and everything without being too woe is me.0.98
02:23:35.000And so we got this claymation guy who was like, Yeah, let's just fill it with fucking punchlines.0.82
02:23:41.000So it doesn't become that like, I love Schultz, but a little like, they couldn't keep us down.0.97
02:23:45.000I'm like, I don't want to do any of that.
02:24:56.000That's cool that people are still doing stuff like that, like the old school, the way they did King Kong.
02:25:02.000Well, here's what I noticed too when you start talking to some of these artists, you know, like some of my stage designs and stuff like that.
02:25:07.000Like for America's Sweetheart, what I had was like this idea that, what if we left society?
02:25:12.000How long till nature would just take back over?
02:25:14.000And we're like, let's do that with plants.
02:25:16.000And then the first ones are like so expensive.
02:30:50.000But I'll tell you this, though, there's a lot of business and shit that gets caught up in this who's interviewing which politician, and oh, this guy's doing this, or he's friends with this guy, and all the money and everything.0.78