00:05:24.000Otherwise, we're going to fuck up the gene pool.
00:05:26.000We're all going to look like the English royals.
00:05:29.000We probably need a few thousand people.
00:05:31.000A few thousand people, like regular people, like you and I, that don't know shit about how these things work.
00:05:36.000How much time would we need if we repopulated the earth with what we know?
00:05:41.000Basically, you're starting out like a fucking, like a half ass prepper, you know, like someone who's on an episode of Lost, you know, like one of those plane crash people trying to figure out how to survive out there.
00:06:01.000For every one of these people that makes an invention like this, you're making this on the back of, Thousands and thousands and thousands of fucking super geniuses that have figured out each and every step of the way that can lead you to thinking, is this possible that we could do this next?
00:06:18.000You know, they all build on each other.
00:06:20.000So you need all these guys, and hopefully they don't get any pussy because otherwise they're going to get distracted.
00:06:28.000You know, I bet if one of them gets a hot wife, like one of their patents kicks and they start making bank, and then all of a sudden he shows up for work in a Ferrari, and next, you know, he's got a hot wife.
00:07:10.000Instead of just looking at this like, wow, this is an extraordinary time to be alive.
00:07:14.000But it's because of this narrative that people have.
00:07:18.000One of them, the big one, is this USAID is killing people narrative that people have died because of USAID.
00:07:23.000Then a bunch of people have given examples of how them cutting the funding has led to the end of certain people's lives, like where they were in hospitals that didn't have any funding.
00:07:33.000And there's a lot of that that you could point to say, right, if they had the money, they would have had the funding and they would have had that equipment in place, or maybe they wouldn't have.
00:08:23.000I used to think that charity was real.
00:08:25.000And now I look at it and I go, oh, no, This is a giant scam that's wrapped up in virtue.
00:08:30.000It's wrapped up in a nice, cozy blanket of being kind and compassionate and virtuous and doing good things for people all around the world.
00:08:38.000I think a lot of people get involved in those things because that's what they think.
00:08:41.000We're going to do good things around the world.
00:08:46.000And then they find out how it really works.
00:08:47.000And then they get stuck in that system and then they're making their way up their, you know, air quotes, corporate ladder to the point where some of them are making a million dollars a year.
00:10:41.000But there's some people that believe that gangsta rap in particular, when it came about in the 1980s, was a part of the push to popularize it and produce it, was a part of the government, some faction of the government, some intelligence agencies wanting to create more crime, wanting to fill more private prisons, wanting to erode the fabric of society so they could push for more laws to keep you safer.
00:11:11.000This is like one of the most tinfoily of tinfoil hat conspiracies.
00:11:16.000But people are pointing out that right now is like one of the rare times where no rap music is on the charts.
00:11:22.000And they're saying, well, how does this coincide with USAID?
00:11:26.000Was USAID like actively promoting rap music?
00:11:30.000Was that one of the reasons why rap music was so popular?
00:12:39.000Bro, we talked about this before, but I remember back in the 90s, I got a hold of some NyQuil, the real NyQuil.
00:12:48.000Like, I guess they changed the formula for NyQuil, and I had, you know, whatever, the flu or something, and I took some NyQuil and I was laying in bed and I was like, This is wonderful.
00:13:12.000Like, this is a dangerous feeling because if your life was shit and you found that, like, that's better than anything else that's happening in your life.
00:14:04.000It says the earliest NyQuil formula includes ephedrine, which is a decongestant, doxyamine succinate, which is an antihistamine, acetaminophen, dextromethorphan, cough suppressant, and about 25% alcohol.
00:14:57.000And Perplexity says In the mid 2000s, NyQuil brands sold in the U.S. do not contain codeine, and there's never been a standard VIX NyQuil with codeine in its active ingredient lineup.
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00:17:29.000The closest I come to that, because I've never had like a serious surgery or anything, but I go to this, they have a dental office here in Austin called the Austin Dental Spa.
00:17:39.000So their whole thing is like a luxurious dental experience.
00:17:45.000And they will hook you up to Laughing Gas and they let you, like, if they're like, you want a little more.
00:17:52.000And that's like the closest I get to it is once every six months or so I go there and dude, I'm always excited about this fucking experience.
00:18:17.000So he comes up with this truth serum and I've noticed that it makes me like weirdly very honest.
00:18:22.000So one time when I was in the dental office, the guy's doing whatever.
00:18:26.000And I'm like, and I'm jacked on laughing gas because it's not really, you're not really like cracking up.
00:18:32.000You're just like in heaven and you're like, it's kind of smiling ear to ear.
00:18:37.000And I remember going, like, how long did you go to school for dental school?
00:18:40.000And he's like, whatever the answer is, like eight years.
00:18:42.000And I'm like, did you ever think about going longer and becoming a real doctor?
00:18:46.000And then I realized, like, kind of in the moment, even though I was fucked up, like that's, that sounds mean, but I think they're totally used to it.
00:18:54.000I think they know that laughing gas makes people fuck up.
00:20:43.000Sometimes I'll do a thing where I'll water floss after I brush my teeth just to see what would have been left in there if I just did what normal humans do.
00:20:53.000Because I was a bunch of high pressure water flossers that I fucking love.
00:21:35.000But according to my dentist, he thinks it's all sugar.
00:21:38.000He thinks if you go back and you look at like when people started developing serious cavities, it's, I mean, people have always had abscesses and broken teeth.
00:21:47.000And there's always been like dental problems that haunted people.
00:21:51.000Because back in the day, man, they just pull the tooth out and then who knows what kind of infection you still have in there and they don't treat it.
00:21:58.000In the 1700s, if you broke your tooth and got an infection, you could be fucking dead.
00:22:02.000You know, you could die from that shit.
00:22:03.000But he was saying that the amount of cavities, like, steeply increased when people started putting sugar in everything.
00:22:11.000And then kids started drinking sugary sodas and eating sugary candy, and that stuff gets stuck in your teeth.
00:22:16.000He's like, I think that's the cause of it.
00:23:09.000And he checked a bag this trip just a few days ago and he brought it to the mothership because that's where we met up.
00:23:17.000And he surprised me with this checked bag that was like that had the moldings built in and everything and had four coconuts and two white Hawaiian pineapples, I think they're called, which like run like $65 each or something in the US.
00:28:20.000Well, it's kind of the stupidest, craziest thing you could do because then the entire FBI comes down on you.
00:28:27.000It's a little short sighted to go, ah, we're going to kill the main cop of this city and not think that anything's going to happen from that.
00:28:37.000Imagine trying to be an intelligent businessman and also a mob leader.
00:28:43.000Imagine like playing things out in advance, but also you're a mob leader.
00:28:47.000There was a lot of that going on, and I got to see quite a bit of it.
00:28:52.000Like there were, let's put it this way mall developers in Youngstown and things like that.
00:28:58.000And I got to see firsthand, very young, that they were communicating with politicians at lunchtime and stuff because I was working at this little Italian restaurant at the time, right out of high school.
00:29:12.000And they were having these quiet meetups in the corner of a quiet Italian restaurant.
00:29:18.000And you would see these huge moguls, you know, I won't name any names, but Big business people in Youngstown meeting with the local this and that and congressmen.
00:29:28.000I got to meet that congressman and that congressman because they're there meeting with these super duper rich people.
00:29:32.000And I'm like, I wonder what the correlation is there, bro.
00:29:35.000Back then, when there was no cell phones, and you know, they had to bug people, they had to literally bug businesses to get information.
00:30:51.000There's really 100 jobs, but we want 130.
00:30:57.000Youngstown was a haven for organized crime related corruption.
00:31:02.000Was ingrained into the fabric of its society.
00:31:04.000A 2000 publication, New Republic, listed a chief of police, the outgoing prosecutor, the sheriff, the county engineer, members of the local police force, a city law director, several defense attorneys, politicians, judges, and a former assistant U.S. attorney as controlled by the mob.
00:31:21.000So if they have that, if they found that for sure, imagine how many others there are.
00:32:14.000And even then, I was obsessed with Goodfellas and a Bronx tale and a Godfather because it's like, it's just what you're taught is humanity.
00:33:10.000But it was like one of very few families that stayed.
00:33:14.000And then, Black people moved out, and then they started getting like different people, Spanish speaking people, like Dominicans, and a bunch of other.
00:33:22.000And that's how it was when I stayed with them.
00:34:37.000I wonder if there's any correlation between the things.
00:34:40.000Well, you know, most of the Italians that came in the early 20th century were very poor.
00:34:47.000You know, they were all coming over here for labor or jobs and things along those lines.
00:34:51.000And, you know, when they started doing better, They started moving out and moving into the suburbs and moving into more gentrified areas.
00:35:01.000It's always what are the new immigrants that are going to come and take over this area that was formerly a low income Italian neighborhood or a low income Irish neighborhood.
00:38:11.000And, you know, obviously we're always close to the cage on those things.
00:38:16.000But when Taporia was landing those body shots, it was right against him.
00:38:21.000Our side of the fence, and I'm literally like, Oh my, I mean, holy fucking shit, man.
00:38:28.000And I've seen a lot of people get ripped to the body before, but there's something about his close range strength in near that clinch, that close up fucking range of Ilya that is scary.
00:38:55.000And sometimes you just run out of gas because, like, you're not supposed to fight like that if you think that the fight's going to go five rounds.
00:39:01.000Like, Ilya had him hurt and he's like, I can take him out.
00:40:12.000Yeah, that was a little different in that Holloway caught him with a jump spinning back kick to the face in the very last seconds of the first round and broke the bone of his nose.
00:40:26.000And I was like, that changed that fight because before that, Gaetje was pressing him and it looked very competitive and it looked like maybe Gaetje had a slight advantage.
00:40:36.000But that's because Max is very clever.
00:43:05.000But the problem is, if he gets it fixed and then he fights a guy like Holloway and he gets jumping, spinning back kicked to the nose in the first round and shattered his again, then he's kind of fucked.
00:43:14.000Because if they have to fix it again, then they might have to start taking pieces of your rib out and reconstructing your nose and.
00:45:47.000It's hard to get into this without going way into the weeds, but the NBA has a technically different rule than college and high school and everyone else where they call it a gather step, and they definitely would call it in high school, but they work all day manipulating it with the referee, watching them saying, You can do that, but you can't do that.
00:46:05.000You can do this, but you can't do that.
00:46:06.000And so they've got it to a place where everything they're doing looks like traveling and double dribbles, but guys will break it down in slow mo, and you'll be like, Well, technically it's not.
00:49:14.000But before I even hit enter, I know it's going to say something about like your graduating class can't be out maybe more than like two years or something like that in case you got held back or you had an injury or something like that.
00:49:24.000Boy, I remember from my days of being like 17 and 18, the difference between 17 and 19 was huge.
00:52:41.000And he would probably, he was probably showing mercy at the time, obviously, but not really, because he doesn't want to, he doesn't want to let this little fucking shithead 103 out from under him.
00:52:50.000So he's, you know, putting enough pressure to keep everybody there.
00:52:55.000Not to mention the 165 freak of nature made of muscle and the 185.
00:52:59.000You know, it was just a drill, but whoo.
00:54:10.000It appears impossible in every Khabib fight.
00:54:13.000The thing I always think about first when I think about Khabib fighting is him being on top and having his feet under the other dude's feet, which is just, that's it.
00:54:23.000It's the final level when you can't even begin the process of posturing out in any way.
00:54:31.000You are nothing, you are a tissue in an octagon with a man.
00:55:13.000And all that weight on those hips, people don't realize.
00:55:17.000Like, I notice immediately if I ever see somebody that's kind of on top and their knees are on the ground, like, if you look, his right knee isn't on the ground.
00:56:45.000You have to know how to do everything else too nowadays because all these kids that you see in the contender series, these young guys coming up, man, they're all so fucking talented.
00:56:57.000And really, more than anything, I feel like being out wrestled and being just trapped on the ground is so psychologically demoralizing when you've been training for a UFC fight and the crowd is out.
00:57:09.000There and the lights are on you, and you see the logos on the mat because you're facing it.
01:00:43.000Because there's been a lot of fights where the guy got taken down in the first round, starts out the second round and blasts the guy and knocks him out.
01:00:50.000And it's like, okay, it's exciting to watch, but he didn't earn that position.
01:00:54.000He just got that position because the other guy survived the first round.
01:00:57.000And so it's like, it's one fight, it's not five fights.
01:01:23.000I'd be too honest about stuff, and I'd want to give people fights that maybe they weren't the most exciting fighters, but they were above the other person in the rankings.
01:01:31.000I think the rankings should be the whole reason why you make fights.
01:01:37.000Sami Zayn won the Universal WWE Championship over this weekend at a big pay per view.
01:01:42.000I have no idea who that is, but I'm happy for him.
01:03:02.000I think people have to just look at some things that way.
01:03:05.000Some people have a really hard time separating themselves politically because they're going, oh no, the White House puts on this thing, there's all this bad press because of the war, there's bad press because.
01:03:14.000This and that, and they put on this thing at the White House, and it sort of like MAGA washes everything.
01:03:26.000Undeniable, it gave them positive press.
01:03:29.000I mean, the amount of people that have seen it is nuts.
01:03:32.000You know, I think just on Paramount, it's something like 30 something million now.
01:03:37.000And, you know, they were telling me that they thought it was probably 150 million people had watched it in some form, which was, you know, TikTok clips, Instagram, YouTube.
01:07:40.000He didn't even, he did, he was dabbling in a Biden the week that I hit him up to do Trump Biden, which I think is a fucking guy.
01:07:48.000Think it's like 40 million or seven, some crazy amount.
01:07:52.000And again, just like the UFC, God only knows after clips, but it was a monumental comedy fucking moment having Shane as Trump right before the election, right before the election, right after their first debate, where Biden was clearly fucking zonked and sleepy and just couldn't compete at all.
01:11:48.000I always compare it to Mike Tyson in his prime.
01:11:50.000He just hits harder and different, doing the smallest little things, even if it's a face, if somebody says something and he just reacts to it.
01:13:21.000Fucking Sean Strickland just decided to get white pride.
01:13:26.000And he posted a picture on Instagram of him as a world champion with white pride on his chest next to Cain Velasquez as a world champion with brown pride on his chest.
01:14:17.000But that's wild that your criticism about Israel is what keeps you from going to the White House as a world champion in world title fights.
01:15:52.000But even if you're not invited, shouldn't you be able to go to the fan area if you're the world champion?
01:15:57.000If you want to be that wild with no security, and there's video of him from the first night, from the night of the weigh ins, where they found out that he was there, it's amazing.
01:16:05.000Because he was wearing a hoodie the entire time, and someone told him he's got to take off the hoodie, and he's like, I can't listen.
01:19:52.000I mean, if he continues to fight heavyweight, it is interesting watching a guy who's been so dominant at 85 and at 205 with all that extra weight on.
01:20:03.000I don't know if that necessarily was the right move.
01:20:07.000You know, I mean, I think like some weight is probably good, but maybe even 20 pounds lighter, like maybe 230 something.
01:20:14.000Maybe that would be a better weight if he really wants to fight at heavyweight because it seems like he was carrying.
01:20:18.000I mean, just you ever work out with a weight vest on?
01:21:26.000Well, that's where all the power comes from.
01:21:28.000You know, when you're pushing off your feet and you're pushing off those fucking quads and pushing into those glutes and then torquing that body the way he does.
01:21:56.000Because we were talking about this the other day that basketball is a great place to start if you're a big athlete and you want to learn combat sports, especially striking.
01:22:05.000Because think about how many direction changes basketball players take, where they're always kind of doing that.
01:23:42.000Because, like, that whole thing was what drove everyone crazy about boxing, you know?
01:23:49.000That it was really hard to get these guys together, you know?
01:23:52.000And this was the whole idea why everybody was excited about what Riyadh season was doing and Turkey Al-Asheikh and, you know, all those.
01:24:00.000People that put together these big ass fights like Tyson Fury and Alexander Usic, and the last one they just did, Rico Verhoeven and Usic.
01:24:09.000Like, they're putting together these big, crazy fights.
01:24:12.000Like, that was the thing that drove everybody nuts about boxing.
01:24:15.000And that's what drives everybody nuts about MMA.
01:24:18.000The one thing is it's the heavyweight division.
01:24:20.000The fact that the best heavyweight, or at least the guy who was the lineal heavyweight champion of the world, isn't even fighting for the UFC.
01:27:07.000Chavez just put it on him and dropped him in the final moments of the round, and then Richard Steele stopped it, and it was like this crazy fucking controversy because he stopped the fight with like one second to go in a fight that Meldrick was ahead on the scorecards.
01:27:22.000But the real story of that fight was that the damage that Chavez had put on Meldrick was never the same again.
01:27:32.000Pablo actually won his next two fights and then had a bad staph infection problem.
01:27:37.000So after he beat Sergio, so he was set to fight Paul Williams, but to major staph infection and allergic reaction to some antibiotics nearly killed him.
01:30:36.000You know, if you're living that life where you're just wearing diamonds everywhere and you're buying crazy watches, and, you know, Floyd does these things.
01:30:44.000You ever seen him where he'll go into a hotel room when he's traveling and he talks about, like, the watches that he brought?
01:30:50.000And so he opens up suitcases with millions of dollars in watches.
01:31:05.000And you're showing off that he's got two suitcases filled with diamond encrusted Patek Philippe's and, you know, the most high end of watches.
01:31:22.000I'm always in my fucking business worried about what I'm doing, what Floyd is doing, what Floyd ain't doing, what I do got, what I don't got.
01:37:34.000You know what I heard about that movie?
01:37:36.000That they had primed all the actors to get really excited when Bill Murray throws three strikes because he had to throw three strikes in a row.
01:37:44.000And so they said, this might take a while, so we're going to really need your enthusiasm.
01:38:08.000Since he's moved here and goes to kill Tony and like we hang out and stuff, only after like being making friends with him, like I knew he did a lot of great stuff, but he sneaks up and So many great things.
01:40:04.000Yeah, it's nice to know that people can make it through that crazy maze.
01:40:08.000And, you know, you could either go nuts and buy Tyrannosaurus Rex calls, or you could just completely disconnect from it all and just be yourself.
01:40:57.000And this one is really surprising because with other ones, they're like, ah, there's a time and a place for jokes like that or this or that or whatever.
01:41:07.000And this is the time and the place for it is like the roast of Kevin Hart.
01:43:06.000So, what's funny is people got offended about the George Floyd thing, and a lot of people said, Yeah, well, P. Davidson did a Charlie Kirk joke.
01:43:15.000And they're comparing these things from two different spectrums.
01:43:18.000But what they didn't mention is that I did a Charlie Kirk joke in my set.
01:43:26.000Everybody gets them, everybody gets it, is always my favorite.
01:43:29.000Everybody gets them jokes, everybody does.
01:43:33.000I said that Kevin has uh, what quite the fan base, he has more gunfire at his merch table than Charlie Kirk, yeah, or whatever.
01:43:41.000And um, so you know, for them to for people to nitpick that joke and be offended, and it's funny because it was a lot of uh, a lot of comedians, a lot of black comedians were like, I'm upset about this, you know, they made their Videos, which is just hilarious because they're not on the roast.
01:44:02.000They're not in attendance at the roast.
01:46:26.000We live in an outrage culture and an outrage.
01:46:32.000There's money in outrage, there's engagement in outrage.
01:46:35.000Outrage is the commodity that everybody wants.
01:46:39.000They want to be outraged and they want to be right.
01:46:41.000And if you're outraged and you've got a good point, you just ride that fucking thing for as much juice as you can get out of it and then you move on to the next thing.
01:46:59.000Wild, it was high fives, high fives and laughter after my 3 p.m. set in a half filled Madison Square Garden, waiting for the 8 p.m. arrival of Trump to speak on a 34 person lineup.
01:48:53.000My point being is that it always surprises me that I'm the news, even though I'm.
01:48:59.000Because if someone else said it, if it was a politician that did it or someone else, someone high up in the administration, that would make sense.
01:49:56.000And then you got to this point over the last couple of years, like, oh, we got to pay attention to this fucking guy.
01:50:02.000And then after they started attacking you from the White House thing or the Madison Square Garden thing, rather, which is 2024, then it was on.
01:50:24.000I mean, that's so you've fallen into that category.
01:50:28.000And so there's going to be people that genuinely don't like what you did and don't like you.
01:50:33.000And then there's going to be people that are just using it as a commodity, they're just using it as outrage, which is part of what the game is.
01:50:40.000You know, this is what they do in their engagement, you know, fucking game that they play.
01:50:46.000And it's kind of what we do in the joke game.
01:51:05.000Like when you say inappropriate shit on purpose, and that is like everybody used to know that.
01:51:10.000Like Louis C.K. was a very left wing progressive guy when he was saying really fucked up things that he didn't mean on purpose because they were funny.
01:51:23.000Until somewhere around, it seems like it was like 2016, 2000, like it started to turn a corner where it became like people are starting to take these things as statements rather than as comedy material.
01:51:38.000And they started trying to pretend that the person really means this.
01:52:18.000And if their hot take gets engagement, they're all looking at their likes, and they just start re engaging with that subject and going back on it, and this is the real problem.
01:52:33.000All those people that I know that are like, especially comics that are doing it, the comics that are doing it, almost all of them don't have good careers.
01:53:35.000I mean, some people maybe they get like a little juice out of it, but.
01:53:38.000It's not enough because you're also opening the door.
01:53:40.000If you do become popular, you have to understand that if you've been spitting hate at people for a decade and then you become popular, boy, that hate's coming your way.
01:54:59.000Like, songs, like, people get inspired by certain songs and then they write a song that sounds close enough that there's a rhythm to it that people get upset.
01:55:11.000Well, there's only so many notes and so many chords and there's only so many beats and so much timing.
01:55:17.000And, It's often the same thing with comedy.
01:55:20.000Like, there's some crossovers in a writer's room, which I've been in so many of.
01:55:25.000So many people writing on the same subject will have the same joke.
01:55:30.000It's only when it's like what Mencia was doing, word for word, long form.
01:55:41.000But there's songs like, okay, so I was listening to this video the other day, watching this video the other day, rather, that was comparing Radiohead's creep.
01:55:51.000To an older song, and they had to give Creep, Radiohead rather, had to give this older song writing credits for this, which sounds so different.
01:56:02.000And then Radiohead accused Lana Del Rey, or someone from their organization, of having a song that ripped off Creep, or it sounded too much like Creep.
01:56:14.000And it did sound a little like Creep, but it was very different.
01:56:32.000Like, there's stealing and then there's inspired by.
01:56:35.000Inspired by is what we were all doing.
01:56:37.000It's like we were talking about that computer earlier, that chip manufacturing thing.
01:56:41.000That thing was built on the back of all the fucking super wizard geniuses that have been working on all the different technology that led to that being.
01:56:49.000You can't just invent that in a vacuum.
01:56:51.000You have to invent that on all these other inventions that have taken place for decades before you.
01:57:57.000And I literally they would go right into it.
01:57:59.000And now you can't hum a song for a few seconds.
01:58:03.000So, Bittersweet Symphony was a sample from.
01:58:07.000The Verve developed Bittersweet Symphony from a sample from a 1965 version of Rolling Stone's song The Last Time, adding vocals, strings, guitar, and percussion.
01:58:18.000After a lawsuit by the Rolling Stones' former manager, Alan Klein, the Verve relinquished all royalties to the Rolling Stones' members, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, who were also added to the songwriting credits.
01:58:31.0002019, 10 years after Klein's death, Jagger, Richards, and Klein's son ceded the rights to the Verve songwriter, Richard Ashcroft, because he was probably broke.
01:58:40.000There's similar things that have happened recently with, I think, Olivia Rodrigo and Paramore, and then like Puff Daddy and.
01:58:48.000Can you please look up the other one that I set up, though, which was Radiohead Creep, Lana Del Rey, and Radiohead Creep had to give songwriting credits to another band.
01:59:58.000The guy from The Gorillaz, the song Clint Eastwood, I think it is.
02:00:04.000He had one of those little kids kind of keyboards and he hit the demo button because oftentimes it'll just have a regular song or whatever.
02:02:10.000As soon as you start taking it seriously and making it something that it's not, like you're, I get why you're doing it because that has become a thing that people do today.
02:02:20.000But I'm just saying, like, for your own mental health, just not, it's not good for you to be engaging.
02:02:26.000Like I was saying about the Carlos thing, like just engaging in conflict, it's not good.
02:02:49.000I believe you should spend as much of your time having fun, making people laugh, having a good time, and less about dwelling on shit.
02:02:58.000That's why I try to stay off Twitter because when I get on, I just start freaking out at all the different news stories that are just abomination after abomination where you're just so angry.
02:03:54.000I'm going to be asleep in a few minutes anyway.
02:03:57.000So I threw on, I ended up going by CNN.
02:04:00.000I'm like, let's see what these wackos are saying over here.
02:04:03.000Let's see how fake the news can possibly be because, from what I understand, the most recent State of the Union was a solid State of the Union and very positive and long and entertaining.
02:06:19.000It's really weird to watch these shows on CNN now that are basically like bad podcasts that get interrupted every five minutes for a commercial.
02:06:47.000And he would, you know, give you his perspective on the cultures and all the problems and the things that these people were facing, their food and what the community was like.
02:07:36.000Tim Dillon had these two New York Times reporters on his podcast, and I listened to him talking about it.
02:07:41.000I hadn't listened to them on the podcast, but I listened to him talking about it, and he was saying that they said there's no evidence that Jeffrey Epstein was intelligence.
02:08:05.000There's just evidence that you're not considering.
02:08:07.000So, it's like if the New York Times and the people that we're always supposed to trust to be the objective purveyors of all that's going on in the world, if they're compromised, so they're not allowed to say things, or they have narratives that they're supposed to spin one way or another, or they're very cautious about being honest about their opinion, very shielded about their actual opinions, either one of those is not good.
02:08:29.000Or if they actually believe that, that's not good either because that means you're not really paying attention objectively.
02:08:36.000Like, watch a Mike Benz episode where he breaks down.
02:09:14.000That's why you never hear anything about any of these studies that they're showing about the vaccine safety signals that they found very early on, how they hit it, all this Fauci stuff.
02:09:26.000The Tulsi Gabbard speech, we talked about that, where she gave this speech explaining how he lied to Congress and Fauci pressured these other scientists to change their perspective on whether or not it was gain of function research.
02:09:40.000The shit that we had a pretty big feeling about back in 2020.
02:10:31.000And I feel like so many people feel like they're doing the right thing watching the news and being informed.
02:10:37.000And they hear that the news is fake and they think that's just like a Trump talking point.
02:10:42.000I've always said that Trump calling it fake news was like one of the worst things that could happen because then it Sounds like a Trump thing, and the Trump enemies go, Oh, fake news.
02:11:38.000And I think the pandemic was the big wake up call for a lot of people, especially people that were forced to take the vaccine because they had jobs or they had a fly or they had family members and then they got some horrible side effect.
02:11:55.000And those people got what they call red pilled, you know?
02:11:58.000I know a lot of people that got red pilled from that.
02:12:38.000Every week, where people take shots at me, and I've none of this is a thing.
02:12:43.000Well, it's made up, and it's all they also made up a bunch of stuff about like you going to Saudi Arabia, yeah, which is crazy, right?
02:12:51.000Crazy, they just made it up, yeah, like not only made it up, turned it down, like didn't go when offered vast sums of money that the bus boy, bag boy Tony would never imagine turning down.
02:13:04.000And people don't even know that you turned it down, right?
02:13:06.000Because you haven't been public about it, right.
02:13:17.000And meanwhile, Netflix clipped that and pinned it on their Instagram, that joke, and with the caption long sip because I'm sipping my water because the joke isn't on me.
02:13:30.000Meanwhile, they're getting my reaction shot to all you guys took that Saudi Arabian money and it makes it look like I'm offended or something.
02:13:38.000Or guilty of taking Saudi Arabian money.
02:13:41.000But just a joke when you just lie about a fact and to make a joke is crazy.
02:14:10.000On the contrary, the guys that Chelsea was complimenting during that set, basically, Kevin Hart and Pete Davidson, did take the money and went to Saudi Arabia.
02:16:33.000But But my perspective is the people that are in that audience, if you're upset at the people that are paying and organizing, okay.
02:16:43.000The people that are in that audience, though, that they're performing to, they don't get a chance to see American stand up comedy.
02:16:48.000And they're getting a chance to see it live.
02:16:50.000And stand up comedy, like music, like literature, changes people's minds.
02:16:55.000It changes all art, where you see someone, a different person than you, with a totally different perspective that lives on another side of the world that says something that you think is hilarious and you love.
02:17:43.000You're supposed to boycott it because the people that run it probably were involved with the killing of Jamal Khashoggi in some way or the people that finance it.
02:17:56.000I see how you didn't want to do it and I see how Shane didn't want to do it and I probably wouldn't want to do it either.
02:18:01.000But I don't have any problem with people doing it.
02:18:03.000Because I think at the end of the day, you're just like I don't have any problem with Saudi Arabia putting on these boxing matches that I talked about.
02:18:08.000I love that they put on these boxing matches.
02:18:11.000And oddly enough, that's not really criticized that much.
02:18:14.000Even by like heavy duty left wing MMA media, which is a real thing.
02:18:19.000There's a lot of like shit libs that are MMA media just because they're journalists and they just happen to be fans, but they have that like hardcore left wing perspective.
02:18:29.000They don't seem to have that much of a problem with it.
02:18:32.000Not like people had the problem with the comics over there, where guys like Louie and Bill Burr, they just get destroyed for that.
02:19:18.000It's just we live in a very polarized society, and I think a large part of that is what we were talking about earlier with social media and mentally ill people just screaming into the fucking void every day.
02:19:30.000I just would like to suggest to people just try not to engage like that for a month and see how much better you feel.
02:20:32.000It's just the funniest thing because he reminds me of like one of the last actual politicians.
02:20:40.000Like he's a different, just lying, ignoring of facts type of human being because we're witnessing it.
02:20:49.000Maybe it's easy for someone in, I don't know, New Hampshire to go, ah, that Gavin Newsom's the future.
02:20:57.000But we lived in California and I've been to San Francisco recently and we've seen it.
02:21:03.000Like when you travel, you know, comedians aren't the end all be all and these wise, whatever sages, perhaps, but we do travel a lot.
02:21:13.000And you spend a weekend in a city and you're not just doing your shows, you're having lunch somewhere, you're having coffee somewhere, you're dealing with the people at the hotel lot, whatever it may be.
02:21:23.000There's different communications and vibes and energies.
02:21:26.000And there's so many of these places, especially California.
02:21:29.000You know, San Diego is like a last stand, Huntington Beach is an area around there.
02:21:35.000There's like, These little pockets in which there's still some common sense and happiness and joy, Newport, these little pockets.
02:21:44.000But those major cities are fucked, man.
02:21:48.000Even the drive, and you know, I go to LA basically maybe once a year now for a quick, always fun visit, always doing some arena and a couple nights at the store, which is different, unfortunately.
02:22:01.000But the drive from LAX to that area of West Hollywoodslash Beverly Hills is gruesome.
02:22:15.000There's nothing new except for the crazy looking, weird ass Obama Museum Library, which is the craziest, weirdest eyesore humanly imagined.
02:25:59.000I don't know if I want to be right next to the beast.
02:26:02.000I think I'd rather be outside the beast and go visit.
02:26:05.000For me, for my head, But I looked at a couple of houses up there, and one of them was this house that was like really out of my budget, really.
02:26:13.000I was just, I shouldn't have been looking at it.
02:29:49.000Speaking of which, I've been watching, I went down a rabbit hole the other day on YouTube where street racers, and there's this one guy who is like a famous street racer because there's all these videos of him.
02:30:13.000Yeah, his name is really slow like R Y L S L O. Um, and he's got videos of these cop encounters, so they like baits cops and then goes on these mad runs.
02:33:46.000They're trying to pass by these cones, and the road cuts off, and the cop hits the cones, then loses control of his car and slams into another car.
02:34:10.000Yeah, you said he's standing on the globe, right?
02:34:13.000Well, not only that, the entire everything is a super production, and it's all him.
02:34:20.000Like you could tell he's made every decision and tweaked everything to the color of everything, to when it happens, to how it happens, that it's not too much.
02:34:30.000He's not overwhelming the senses with lasers and lights and all of this.
02:34:37.000But most importantly, it's first of all, it's the fucking greatest production I've ever seen of anything.
02:34:43.000And I come from Pink Floyd land where the live show has to be ahead of its time and state of the art and everything for my mind to be blown.
02:34:51.000And I was expecting this to be like every other rap concert that I've seen, which is going to be fun and good and maybe great.
02:35:22.000Everyone else that's been to one or seen one is promoting it.
02:35:25.000And then the mayor of whatever city or whatever leftist person, whether it be the governor of that state or whatever, is like, this shouldn't be happening.
02:38:06.000And I, as an experiment, took my one buddy who said that, you know, part of the group was my one friend who has always been like, I don't know, you fucking love Kanye.
02:38:16.000I mean, not really my thing, but he's just not really a rap fan, is the reality.
02:38:22.000So I invited him on this trip and his mind was fucking, now he's a diehard Kanye fan.
02:38:27.000Now he's going back and, you know, realizing that he's always been a Kanye fan.
02:38:33.000Like, it's such a crazy fucking thing because not only does he have hits on hits on hits, But he does not stop in between songs because some of his beats kind of correlate or this and that.
02:38:46.000He'll literally just keep going and going and going until his amazing album.
02:38:52.000On his new album, he has this keyboardist with one of those like crazy blow-in-two tube instrument things.
02:38:59.000I don't know what it's called, but he has a solo, a big one on one of the songs, which gives Kanye a minute and a half to catch his breath, an hour and a half into non- Stop going.
02:39:13.000And also, on top of all that, you know, a rap concert's a rap concert.
02:39:17.000Kanye's the greatest producer of all time in that industry.
02:39:21.000So every noise that's happening, even if he's not talking or singing or rapping into a microphone, is all him and him only.
02:39:33.000Like he might get an idea or an inspiration, as we've talked about, or he's a master of sampling old hit songs and having them be in the backbone of the thing and everything.
02:40:16.000I saw a breakdown of it because my algorithms.
02:40:19.000Feeding me Kanye stuff nonstop since I went to it because somehow fucking Instagram knows and whatever.
02:40:25.000And I watched a breakdown of it talking about how, like, it's like this psychiatrist or energy specialist or something that's talking about how and why this is the craziest concert ever done before.
02:40:38.000And she breaks it down and goes, People that like Kanye believe in themselves because if Kanye's saying, I'm the greatest, I'm the man, I'm a god, all of these things.
02:40:53.000Makes you not like him and you insecure, you're insecure.
02:41:08.000Well, again, this was someone else's psychological breakdown of it, and I'm probably not explaining it correct because I was stoned on a couch.
02:41:14.000I see what they would be saying to try to defend him, but there's some people that just get turned off by that kind of braggadocious rap music.
02:41:44.000But it's like, it's when you're singing along to that stuff and you're listening to that stuff, like you're feeling what that guy's feeling when he's saying it.
02:41:53.000And if his raps are hit, if his rhymes are really hitting, especially like, Kanye or any of the greats, you know, Biggie, Tupac, Nas, like when they're nailed, it's like, boo!
02:43:56.000It's because those are their radio songs because they can't play an 11 minute long shine on you, crazy diamond or all their real hits that they're real.
02:44:05.000Echoes, which is like 17 minutes and goes slow and fast and bluesy and then jazzy and this and that.
02:44:13.000Um, Yeah, there were so many songs like that, especially from like the 70s, where they just took wild chances and had long ass songs.
02:44:53.000Well, I walked in on a part where it's the rec, they're at the record executive's office, and he's going, This can't be the main single off of this thing.
02:45:04.000And Freddie Mercury's like, Dude, it fucking has.
02:45:07.000And I'm obviously not quoting this, but, and the record exec's like, Man, you're saying gibberish at points.
02:45:24.000And they're arguing back and forth and back and forth.
02:45:27.000And his bass player, guitarist, or one of the guys that's in the meeting with this record exec sitting behind a big fancy desk points at the wall and goes, So you were the record exec that made this, huh?
02:45:37.000And he points at Dark Side of the Moon.
02:45:39.000And you see the record exec go, Oh, fuck.
02:47:05.000And the wildest one to me is always when she's balancing on the thing, you know, in black and white and with the other farmers around and on the run, that crazy blah starts and she falls off at that exact moment and chaos is happening.