00:04:39.000Well, I think there's a lot of people out there that are crippled by other people's opinions.
00:04:44.000I think there's a genuine benefit to having a bunch of other people's opinions of you and you get to see feedback, but there's just way too many bad faith actors on the internet.
00:04:56.000There's way too many people that have the least charitable takes on everybody, the worst.
00:05:01.000The worst, like public narration, like public narratives that they want to promote about anyone or anything, about any subject.
00:05:14.000There's far too many people like that.
00:05:30.00020% of the people there are fucking poisonous.
00:05:34.000Poisonous, they're like a coral snake.
00:05:35.000But it's so funny because, like, I've just you know been so when we met, I was just you know, like kind of a regular citizen teaching at Stanford, whatever.
00:05:43.000Then I started a business, then I got more public.
00:05:46.000I went to Fox, hosted a show there, now I'm a candidate.
00:05:49.000And as that's happened, you get more prominent, and so you look at these comments.
00:05:55.000I never know whether to look, but the thing that I really just makes me laugh now is like I'm always tempted to do it, and I never do it.
00:06:04.000Like the really idiotic, just pure abuse.
00:06:08.000Like, I don't know, like I do, I put something out there, and now there's a lot more of this.
00:06:13.000I'm a candidate, it's like, go back to England, you fucking cunt, or you bald, whatever.
00:06:19.000And like, I always, I always want to write, good point, or something.
00:06:25.000Because it's just so tempting, and I never have, maybe I should.
00:06:29.000Well, there's a lot of, because it just makes me laugh.
00:06:32.000There's a lot of sad, angry people out there that are just lashing out.
00:06:35.000And unfortunately, those are overly represented online.
00:06:38.000Because those are the type of people that have the time to make comments.
00:06:42.000But then you also have to take into consideration, whenever you're involved in anything political, as you obviously are, because you're running for governor of California, there's a lot of the people that are engaging with your content that are not real people.
00:07:11.000It was a point of contention when he was buying Twitter.
00:07:14.000So, when he was buying Twitter, Twitter was alleging that there was only 5% of Twitter with bots.
00:07:20.000But see if you can find that article again.
00:07:22.000There's a former FBI, God, he did something with digital intelligence, and he did a forensic analysis of Twitter, and he said it's probably 80%.
00:07:58.000So back then, AI was not as much of an issue, right?
00:08:03.000Like AIs, you could automate anything now.
00:08:07.000So the claim that 80% of Twitter originates from a 2022 assessment by cybersecurity expert Dan Woods.
00:08:13.000While official company filings have historically claimed fake accounts represent under 5%, independent estimates and security specialists suggest real figures are higher, though an exact 80% total remains heavily debated.
00:09:11.000So you're dealing with actual humans who are doing it.
00:09:13.000So you have these state sponsored groups that are, there's these bot farms.
00:09:20.000And what these bot farms are, I don't know if you've ever seen them, but people have like gone inside and filmed them, like whistleblowers.
00:09:29.000And what they literally have is like, Rows and rows of Android phones that are all connected to like keyboards.
00:10:20.000There's a bunch of really bad actors, really bad faith actors on Twitter that are paid to post things.
00:10:27.000And these people have been called out many times by other people that are independent journalists that say, isn't it crazy that all these people use the same verbiage?
00:10:34.000Yeah, they're getting paid at the same time.
00:10:39.000They've been pretty open about it, you know, and they were saying that we have to win the digital war against what they call the woke Reich, which is hilarious.
00:10:51.000So you have to, like, when you're engaging, like, I know real people on Twitter.
00:10:57.000I know real people that I read their posts, and I know there's real independent journalists, but there's a tremendous amount of just utter horseshit.
00:11:15.000It's the one I look at, but there's all the other, you know, there's Instagram and all the rest, and I don't even look at those.
00:11:20.000But, well, next, you know, for a few hours, you know, if you add it up, probably half an hour in the morning, maybe half an hour in the middle of the day, half an hour at the end of the day, and you look at it then and you just find out what's going on.
00:11:32.000I think it's pretty good for news, like things that are happening.
00:13:18.000So one of my best friends, Tom Segura, he and I have had this tradition over the last few years of sending each other the worst fucking shit that we find online to each other just to freak each other out first thing in the morning.
00:13:33.000Like, first thing in the morning, I wake up and Tom sent me.
00:13:35.000Like the other day, I sent him these two guys were trying to rob an ATM machine, and uh, the guy's pulling on it, and they wrapped a chain around it.
00:13:44.000They had a car, it sounds like a movie that was pulling, yeah, yeah.
00:13:48.000So the car was pulling the ATM machine out, and the guy got trapped under it and dragged with sparks and blood.
00:18:02.000But there's something about this that doesn't feel right in terms of just going after these big platforms because, in the end, I think it's the phones.
00:18:24.000I published a book called More Human Designing a World Where People Come First.
00:18:28.000And the kind of main thing in the book was everything's too big and bureaucratic and centralized, and we've got to get.
00:18:35.000Back to the human scale, so it's mainly about other kinds of policy areas.
00:18:39.000But I did write about this thing of kids and tech, and I said at the time, we you know, kids under 16, I said then, shouldn't have smartphones.
00:18:47.000You can give them other phones to stay in touch, but smartphones, bad idea, it's the screams.
00:18:52.000And so I see all this going on, and I think, yeah, have a go at Meta or whatever WhatsApp or YouTube.
00:20:32.000How are you going to say that that's bad?
00:20:34.000The four states seek substantial financial penalties.
00:20:37.000Reports differ on the precise figure, with recent reportings describing the state's position as roughly $200 billion.
00:20:45.000While Meta has cited a possible exposure as high as $1.4 trillion, the ultimate penalty if Meta loses would be determined by the court.
00:20:54.000They also want court ordered changes to Facebook and Instagram, potentially including parental verification for teen accounts, changes to recommendation algorithms characterized as dopamine manipulating, removing or limiting like counts, infinite scroll, autoplay, appearance altering filters, multiple accounts, and disappearing content such as stories.
00:21:28.000He's a bow hunter and he goes hunting and his Instagram stories depict each day of these hunts.
00:21:37.000And it's really fascinating because he takes these crazy adventures where he goes deep into the Colorado Rockies by himself for like 28 days and he's like camping out in the snow and it's cool.
00:21:51.000So, our AI sponsor, Perplexity, who we've pulled this information from, is saying that a loss could mean not only a very large financial judgment, but also mandated product redesigns affecting how miners and potentially all users experience Instagram and Facebook.
00:22:09.000See, the problem is, as soon as a government gets involved in mandating product redesigns, we're fucked.
00:24:34.000It's like, what are we supposed to do?
00:24:37.000It's like, for parents, it's like, it's the screens and the social media and then the video games and now it's AI and they're talking to AI and then the AI is doing the homework.
00:25:33.000Very few of these quote unquote Marxists that you find on social media are even aware of the consequences, the historical consequences of these strategies and what it ultimately leads to, which is like checkers.
00:26:36.000I think we should have them because I think a person who's down on their luck where things go wrong, like a woman who has children and her husband dies and she doesn't have an income, and now, oh my God, I have to feed these children.
00:26:49.000Yeah, we should have social safety nets.
00:26:51.000I also think social safety nets encourage people to rely on them and have zero ambition.
00:28:17.000I think in that book, the 2015 book, More Human, I had this idea based on what you're talking about, which is actually for a lot of people, things like the minimum wage, for example, is just you can't live on it, especially like in California now.
00:29:15.000Well, because you've got now in certain counties in California, more than I think it goes up the whole time, the official government level for low income is $100,000 a year.
00:29:50.000Actually, the feedback we got in the primary was that's too low.
00:29:53.000And there's a ton of people in California making, I don't know, 120, that sort of thing, who can barely live because everything's so expensive.
00:30:00.000If you're in LA or somewhere expensive.
00:31:38.000Like, it's good for kids to have, but once you get past entry level jobs, then, okay, like if someone's a landscaper or someone's like doing this, this is a job.
00:32:00.000But because we've built all of this bureaucracy, certainly in California, all I really know is California, and just the level of the Government in all its forms is so big, you're paying all these taxes, and the taxes are coming out in all these hidden ways gas taxes, housing taxes that they don't call a housing tax, but it's there.
00:32:21.000Everywhere you look, they've got these things that they're charging you, which makes everything more expensive.
00:33:16.000One of the things that we pointed out was that the number of people moving to California and even living in California shrank, but government doubled.
00:33:37.000Have you really created an actual job?
00:33:40.000Or have you figured out another way to increase the government?
00:33:44.000And make more taxes work for whatever the fuck NGO you have or nonprofit you have, or like someone pointed out that there's this guy, this guy, these really funny reels on Instagram and how much things cost versus like what you could get for.
00:34:02.000And you know, he was talking about like some new thing they're doing for the convention center.
00:34:11.000And he was like listing all the different things, and one of them that you could give like every single person on Skid Row some fucking preposterous amount of money.
00:34:19.000And it's, you just realize, like, oh, they don't want to fix any of this.
00:34:24.000Like, the people that are working for the homeless, he was talking about, the average salary was like $800,000.
00:34:53.000Like in the private sector, imagine if you were a CEO of a company that was just losing insane amounts of money and never completing its tasks, never doing anything that it set out to do.
00:36:50.000And what they did to Spencer Pratt was so transparent that even Democrats admit there's something weird about the fact that Nithya Raman all of a sudden got way more votes than Karen Bass in the mail-ins.
00:40:34.000He was, I mean, I want to say one thing before I say the most important thing about him.
00:40:40.000But since we've just been having a go at him telling the truth about what he did as Biden's health secretary, his score's been coming down with not that much effort from us.
00:41:57.000The problem is these high population urban areas where people live in these liberal bubbles, which is Los Angeles is the craziest version of that.
00:42:25.000Well, I think there's a lot of people that are medicated, and it's part of what helps them agree to this nonsense is that they're in this zombie catatonic state from antidepressants and antipsychotics and anti this and anti that.
00:42:41.000And anxiety medication, and they're fucking cloudy.
00:42:45.000They don't see things, and they're surrounded by this echo chamber of people that only agree with them.
00:42:51.000No reliable public count of current SSRI users, specifically in Los Angeles, but a reasonable, rough estimate for Los Angeles County is on the order of 500,000 to 700,000 adults, not a precise head count.
00:43:05.000Now, how many people are in Los Angeles?
00:44:15.000It's like if you're feeling down or pissed off, literally do some exercise.
00:44:20.000My friend Asan Ahmad, you'll see him tonight at the Mothership, hilarious comedian, he has a great bit about the people that are in these commercials that are playing basketball.
00:44:29.000They take the medication, now they're playing basketball and drinking water and having fun.
00:44:32.000He goes, Yeah, that's the actual solution to depression.
00:45:22.000And you're there, you're at, you know, in 10 Downing Street, you get meetings, you can have meetings with kind of everyone will come in and have a meeting.
00:45:40.000And it's funded by the government, by taxpayers, 100%.
00:45:44.000And so it's part of the budget, which is one of the problems.
00:45:47.000It's always competing for money against everything else.
00:45:51.000And so there's a real reason to try and get the cost down because you're funding it out of the budget for everything else.
00:45:59.000And so health promotion is or should be a really big part of it.
00:46:03.000And I wanted to really do much more on that that you should actually use the National Health Service to try and make people healthy instead of all the sickness stuff.
00:46:56.000The mother, and she had really bad depression, postpartum depression, and was asking for help and all this.
00:47:05.000And they just kept giving her this medication.
00:47:08.000And she was saying, I think there are texts to her mother saying, This new medication they've got me on is really making me feel even more anxiety and I don't know what's going on.
00:47:19.000And they showed all the medication she was on.
00:47:22.000In the run up to this, it's shocking, like so shocking, just the amount of stuff they're loading her up with that must have sent her over the edge.
00:47:35.000When you look at the commercials for these things and then you see the possible side effects, like who in their right mind would take something for depression which has side effects which causes suicidal ideation?
00:48:28.000But when you see just how cynical it is, this kind of corrupt, I don't know what you want to call it, you know, machine politics, this, I don't know, in Sacramento, where they literally buy what they want.
00:48:44.000They buy the legislators that pass the bills that help their interest, whatever it is.
00:48:50.000And that's why nothing really changes and no one knows what's going on.
00:51:31.000You know, the thing that we have to do is make sure we get a really, you know, we've got to get everybody, you know, to coin a phrase, we have to make it too big to rig.
00:52:43.000And it's because if you want to run for a politician, they will, if you don't follow their narrative and their plan to a fucking T, they're going to come for you.
00:53:13.000I mean, lucky they don't think I've got any chance of winning.
00:53:16.000I think that's why they haven't done that.
00:53:18.000But just on that, though, it's interesting.
00:53:20.000It makes me think this whole system, this corrupt thing that I've encountered, And I don't want to lose your question about what I would do because I've thought about that a lot.
00:53:30.000But it just, it's sort of amazing, but not amazing.
00:53:36.000I knew it was like this, but to see it is something else.
00:54:50.000So you would think that whether you've got a choice between two people, right, one of whom explicitly says, I'm not going to change anything, that's Becerra.
00:55:01.000And me, who's someone with business, most of my career has been in business.
00:55:05.000When you do the ballot, you're allowed three words to describe yourself.
00:55:09.000I actually wanted to do it fairly because I've done a bunch of different things.
00:55:13.000And so I went through every year since I left Oxford, 1990s, 36 years.
00:55:18.000And the majority of my career has been in business.
00:55:21.000And most of those years, running my own businesses.
00:55:27.000That's the three words small business owner.
00:55:29.000And like in a choice between that, you would think the California Chamber of Commerce, which represents business, would obviously want the guy who's pro business instead of the guy who's going to keep up this.
00:56:44.000You go to them and you try and get their endorsement.
00:56:48.000By the way, I said at the beginning of this whole process, It's a waste of time because they will only care about their thing that they want to get more money for whatever it is.
00:57:00.000And so I don't want to give them that because that's wrong.
01:00:25.000I took my kids once to get donuts in downtown, and we were walking on the street, and like every step of the way, you're like, is this guy going to attack us?
01:01:21.000I mean, LAPD is saying that by the time the Olympics, it's two years away, they will have half the number of officers that they should have.
01:02:04.000So just think about all the tax revenue that's being lost, all the business being lost in all of those areas in downtown that is completely unsafe and contaminated.
01:02:49.000Clothes and stuff trying to help people, and she knows all the people.
01:02:52.000But this time, for some reason, I was even more infuriated than before because it's like if you're the mayor of LA or the governor of California and this is going on, what are you doing?
01:03:04.000How can you do anything else before cleaning this up?
01:04:01.000There was a documentary about the Cecil Hotel because there was a woman who drowned in one of the tanks.
01:04:07.000And apparently they thought that she was murdered.
01:04:09.000But then when they got the surveillance footage, it seems like she had a schizophrenic episode and she stopped taking her medication and she jumped into the tank and drowned in there.
01:04:18.000So it was this whole thing of what the Cecil Hotel used to be like.
01:04:23.000And that these people that come from other countries go, Oh, we're going to rent this hotel in downtown LA.
01:05:21.000As long as it stays contained, this was what this documentary was alleging: is that the practice of moving people to Skid Row started a long time ago.
01:05:32.000And what it was is to clean up Los Angeles.
01:05:34.000In Beverly Hills, they'd find vagrants, they'd grab them, bring them to downtown, drop them off there.
01:07:14.000It's like a really big part, which didn't used to be the case.
01:07:17.000And so we've been working on a plan that if you get enhancements for your sentencing just for covering yourself up, because we've got to try and.
01:07:27.000There's no interest in trying to stop the government.
01:07:30.000Not only that, there seems to be an interest in letting people out of jail who've committed violent crimes, which I would only do if I wanted to destroy a city.
01:07:44.000You hire the most progressive DAs who are willing to let people out no matter what, and then you use a bunch of words like racism, systemic racism, whatever, discrimination.
01:07:55.000This is the reason why Mike has robbed 99 people over the last 12 years.
01:08:01.000And well, the one thing that's good news though is the new DA is pretty good, Nathan.
01:08:39.000So they say a bunch of things that they, you know, they think make sense.
01:08:45.000There was a really unbelievable example of it.
01:08:48.000There was a Democrat state legislator, I think somewhere like Santa Cruz, somewhere like that, this is a couple of years ago, who voted the wrong way on a bill that one of the government unions was pushing.
01:09:03.000I can't remember the details, but it was like.
01:09:06.000Offended the maybe it was the university teachers, something like that.
01:09:09.000Um, a Democrat, and then they then funded the campaign of the Republican just to teach them not to step out of line.
01:09:23.000Just the well, there's a bunch of Republicans that you know they like to call rhinos, you know, that right, you know, Republican in name only.
01:09:42.000There's so many people, like me, for instance, that agree with a lot of the things that the left pushes and agree with many of the things that the right pushes, but some of the things the right pushes are fucking ridiculous.
01:09:53.000And some of the things that the left pushes are fucking ridiculous.
01:12:12.000She literally, there's one the other day where she was, that I hadn't seen before, which was so, it's like, we can't have all these illegal immigrants and we have to, and it was about the health care.
01:12:57.000There's definitely one thing I've noticed there's in.
01:13:02.000Yeah, in the most of, in Sacramento and the legislature, they've, I think they're just, I don't know, either they don't believe it or they've just been beaten down.
01:13:12.000And so you've had this, they've just gone along with it.
01:13:15.000But actually now you've got a few Republicans in California and they're friends of mine and we're working together.
01:13:22.000You wouldn't have heard of any of, you know, people like Carl DeMaio, David Tangapai, Ali Macedo, the new leader in the assembly, really actually have got this, you know, we're real kind of friends and allies.
01:13:34.000In fighting back against the corruption.
01:13:37.000That's the big thing I think that you learn when you do it the interest groups, the big business, the big unions, they've just completely captured the government.
01:13:49.000And I think it's fair to say the Republicans have been part of that.
01:13:53.000But there's a group of us now who really don't buy it and we're fighting back.
01:14:06.000It's been like that for more than 10 years.
01:14:08.000So they can do whatever they want, the Democrats, and the Republicans have been kind of irrelevant.
01:14:12.000If we can just win a few more seats so they don't have a supermajority, and if I can get elected, and then we can start to chip away at it, for sure.
01:14:23.000I think it's important to not let either party have complete and total control.
01:14:52.000We're getting Democrats come to my events.
01:14:53.000And one of the things I say is like, it's just not healthy to have one party running everything.
01:14:58.000And for the last 16 years, in California, they've had all the statewide elected positions governor, and the other ones, attorney general, whatever, two thirds majority in both legislative chambers, every big city, every big county, the state Supreme Court.
01:15:16.000Six one Democrat appointees, they just rubber stamp what, whatever they want.
01:15:24.000And it gets into this mentality of arrogance where they just feel they can do whatever they want and no one's ever going to, you know, stop them.
01:15:37.000And again, if the Republicans were in the same position of power, you'd have another different set of problems that was probably very similar because it's just how people operate when there's, When they have control.
01:15:48.000When they have complete control, it's just like if you have an authoritarian government.
01:18:22.000So, like, obviously, when you've got 80%, and the fentanyl is a really big problem.
01:18:26.000The idea that it's a housing issue is so preposterous, too.
01:18:30.000So you've got the nonprofits, but then the other part of it, which is where actually the bulk of the money is going, are these crony developers.
01:18:37.000There's a very small group of developers, house builders, that build these apartment units.
01:18:44.000They called it permanent supportive housing, the other, you know, shelter.
01:18:49.000And they're charging up to, I mean, a low ball estimate is about $600,000.
01:18:56.000There are some in LA, in the Bay Area, that are $900,000, a million dollars per unit to build, right?
01:19:03.000I've got a friend that builds apartments in the Bay Area.
01:19:07.000You know, he said, without all the government bullshit that goes around it, the layers of nonsense that they put in if it's taxpayer money, the union contracts that you've got to use this kind of material.
01:19:26.000And then you get the unit, whatever, they put the homeless person in there who's still addicted to fentanyl.
01:19:35.000And as I went, again, with a real charity in Venice, we went round a guy who's a recovered addict, recovering addict, and 23 years clean.
01:19:44.000And he's actually trying to help people.
01:19:46.000He actually hired, you know, he rents Airbnbs.
01:19:48.000And he does group recovery, and they have a recovery program they do together.
01:19:53.000He says, like, these guys that are getting the permanent supportive housing, it's like a second home because they're going back to the street to buy drugs, deal drugs, because they're addicts.
01:20:07.000They're addicts and they're mentally ill.
01:20:09.000And so there's a massive influx of homeless people during the Reagan administration where they kind of like opened the doors of the mental institutions and say, well, we're not going to fund this anymore, which is.
01:20:21.000For public health and safety, that is a fucking terrible idea.
01:20:24.000And they, but then the other thing about that, I completely agree, is that they then, that's been incorporated, that idea that you can't have mental institutions, insane asylums, there's this kind of general sense that that's barbaric and you don't want people in these institutions and it's better to have them cared in the community.
01:20:48.000And so often with government, you've got to look at the money flows.
01:20:51.000And one of the things that's, Still, there is this rule called IMD, Institutions of Mental Disease.
01:20:58.000And the IMD rule is that there's no reimbursement from federal Medicaid to any treatment that happens in a facility with more than 16 beds.
01:21:08.000It's a very specific limit, 16 beds, because it's all based on this philosophy of we don't want big mental institutions.
01:21:19.000So that means that there's no incentive to have modern, large scale.
01:21:42.000Like, have you ever seen that video of there's a guy who gets pulled over and the cops on the spot tell him that he's been evaluated as being mentally unwell and he needs to come in?
01:22:22.000I was like, Yeah, it's a little problematic.
01:22:25.000But Could also be he's acting out on camera.
01:22:28.000I don't know if he's doing this in real life, like just because someone's doing it in videos.
01:22:32.000So, like a lot of people act out in video just for attention, or maybe that's how he blows off steam, says wild shit, like, you know, we need to eat the earth, or I don't know what the fuck he's saying.
01:22:42.000So there's, but the video is very disturbing because in that moment, if these police officers in Canada are supposed to be evaluating someone who doesn't have an official psych evaluation where he's been brought in and they'd said, you know, you have to be institutionalized.
01:23:04.000And based on his interaction with them, he is completely calm and rational.
01:23:10.000In fact, like charitably so, because they're saying something fucking totally preposterous and he's not yelling, he doesn't raise his voice.
01:23:25.000But let's just look at the actual video itself because the video itself is bizarre.
01:23:29.000Because without any context, and again, I think there is some context, there have been some videos where he acted nutty.
01:23:35.000And this guy might just be manic depressive where he's capable of keeping it together, like to pretend he's normal when the cops are there.
01:23:42.000But then as soon as he's on his own and no one's watching him, he goes insane.
01:24:22.000Senior resident, he's on a rotation with the CAR 87.
01:24:24.000We're part of a program that includes Vancouver Coastal Health and the Vancouver Police.
01:24:32.000And what we do is we go to people when there are different reasons that come up.
01:24:39.000Every case is a little different, and we go to people to see them where they are, especially if there have been issues with trying to find them and talk to them.
01:24:51.000You were certified under the Mental Health Act just, I don't know how long ago, but like maybe three weeks ago or four weeks ago.
01:25:33.000So I'm going to certify you under the Mental Health Act.
01:25:35.000We're going to bring you to the hospital, do testing on you.
01:25:38.000And you're going to talk to a psychiatrist in a controlled environment because we don't believe that you're going to attend an appointment.
01:25:47.000I've never been given a chance to attend an appointment.
01:27:21.000Like, I don't understand what that means.
01:27:23.000Like, if you are quote unquote conservative and you have a thousand people on your Instagram and you rant and rave, you know, in a manic, depressive manner, is that, are you a conservative influencer now or is that like rage bait to get them to say, like, but here's the thing.
01:27:38.000Like, Canada has socialized medicine and they also have insane government overreach.
01:27:44.000And if there was someone who was a rabble rouser online and that person happened to be acting a little kooky, wouldn't that be a great time?
01:27:52.000But meanwhile, how many fucking liberal, this is Vancouver, which is like Portland on steroids.
01:27:58.000Like how many kooky fucking people on the left are being pulled into mental hospitals and making these similar videos?
01:28:06.000Fucking zero, which is a little odd, but it doesn't mean that this guy's not a little off the rails.
01:28:12.000Because the videos that I saw, see if you can find some videos of him, they might have been pulled from the internet.
01:28:17.000But a bunch of people were saying, hold on, there's more to this.
01:28:54.000Like, that fits that he might be losing his marbles if he's got, you know, stacks of stuff, unless he's like leaving an office and moving stuff and put it in his backseat temporarily.
01:29:04.000It's a weird sign when the entire backseat is filled with boxes and trash.
01:29:10.000But he did sound like there's no, in my eyes, listening to him talk, there's no indication that this guy's a threat to himself and he must be institutionalized.
01:30:30.000Atari Amadei, who's the CEO and the founder of Anthropic.
01:30:34.000And he replied, and so the argument was he's hyping it up because he wants regulation, government regulation, that will protect the kind of big incumbents against, you know, competition.
01:31:12.000And that was his response to being characterized as Mr. Negative.
01:31:17.000When you look at this thing, it's so dark.
01:31:20.000Like he's going on about, well, there'll be no, we can foresee a time when human beings can't make useful contributions to the economy and the people won't have much to do and then they can play video games.
01:31:36.000And then at one point, this is the thing that made me think of it.
01:31:40.000When he was raising, well, what are kids going to do?
01:32:15.000The programmers, though, are the ones that are leaving and writing poetry.
01:32:19.000They're giving up on society and they're hiding and waiting.
01:32:24.000There's one lead programmer that read, he wrote some, like, basically a statement as he was leaving explaining the impending doom that is coming to civilization and how he's checking out and he's going to write it out and see what happens.
01:32:52.000Working on this thing and realizing this thing is conscious.
01:32:55.000Well, that's one of the things that I feel is so odd about the two that have been most negative are Amadei, Dario Amadei, he's anthropic, and Sam Altman, OpenAI.
01:33:08.000They're the most negative, or have been.
01:33:12.000And if you believe half the things they're saying, they're like, well, why are you doing it then?
01:33:17.000If you think this is the end of the human, whatever.
01:34:10.000So what they're saying, they're talking about increasing the potency or making these things more effective for mental health interventions using AI.
01:34:21.000Okay, so he argues that AI driven biology could enable much greater cognitive and mental health interventions than those available today.
01:34:28.000That's really wonderful if true, right?
01:34:32.000I personally know people that have been saved by SSRIs.
01:34:38.000I have a friend that was severely depressed and suicidal, and I got him a psychiatrist, and he eventually got his life back in gear, weaned himself off him, now he's great.
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01:36:25.000It's talking about how China and Canada are corrupt and making a dictatorship.
01:36:29.000It says China and the corrupt Canadian government are trying to turn Vancouver into a dictatorship police state.
01:36:36.000China has been classified as a high risk adversary by all long term democratic security alliances, NATO, NORAD, The Five Eyes Alliance, the Canadian Center for Cybersecurity, even Carney himself during elections.
01:36:49.000Carney has committed treason via secret Chinese policing and law enforcement MOU, illegal Chinese police stations in Vancouver, selling Vancouver to China via the Aboriginal Peoples on Drip.
01:38:40.000The idea that this kid in Canada is being brought into for mental health evaluation and in prison because he's uncovering that, that's not unprecedented.
01:38:55.000He might also have been a little kooky.
01:39:00.000Again, I don't know if the videos that I saw are real.
01:39:03.000But the videos that I, again, especially considering what we're talking about now.
01:39:07.000If you were trying to make someone look insane that was uncovering some real serious corruption with a foreign government, which is possible.
01:39:23.000People can think what then, and they've got the internet.
01:39:25.000And you get people will, you know, honestly, all the time, people are giving me things, you know, they shove things in my hand or an envelope, whatever.
01:48:31.000And he gave me some advice on sound deadening in the room and what to do and how to make the sound crystal clear and just great, awesome advice.
01:48:40.000And the beautiful thing about that club is I took advice from every comedian that was in town.
01:50:33.000Just, it's like really, in a tiny way, I'm not even comparing it, but I'm comparing this in terms of what I'm doing, which is you've got to go there and you've got, I don't know, I just did a few, just in the last few days, you've got hundreds of people and you've got to entertain them.
01:50:51.000Now, I'm mainly talking about politics, which is much easier because you've got.
01:50:57.000You know, material that's just obvious and out there, and it's put it, but it's the order, and you've got to keep them entertained.
01:51:04.000You can't be boring, you can't like, and it's you know, you've got to give a good show, yes.
01:51:08.000And so, the thought of doing that and being funny for all of it instead of what I do, which is throw in the odd joke, you know, political joke or something or self deprecating joke, you know, right?
01:51:23.000But that's just that's nothing, but it's you're not focusing on that.
01:51:27.000If you focus on that, you could do it.
01:51:28.000No, but I'm just saying, I now really appreciate how hard it is.
01:51:49.000Well, I was going to say, a lot of preparation.
01:51:51.000There's a lot of preparation and there's a lot of time you have to spend alone thinking.
01:51:56.000And then you have to spend a lot of time bullshitting with your friends.
01:51:58.000Because sometimes, like the green room conversations, Some of us, like Brian Simpson, said something the other day, and we're like, Write that down.
01:52:46.000And by it's 50 50 to what I bring to the stage, whether it's even got life, but writing it down, it's like not even it's like you know, it's like the Canadian healthcare system for made.
01:52:59.000It's like what one out of 20, one out of 20 is any good.
01:53:03.000I mean, it's just really no, I think it's well, I totally appreciate.
01:53:09.000What you're saying, but it's very, I mean, to me, it seems the ultimate.
01:53:14.000You're just putting yourself out there.
01:53:15.000You're definitely putting yourself out there.
01:53:17.000But you're also doing it this way, too.
01:53:19.000Like when you're having conversations, maybe you're putting yourself out there even more because you're actually putting out your opinions, and some of them you had no idea you were going to discuss.
01:53:30.000So you're just trotting it out there, thinking out loud in front of millions of people, like we're doing right now.
01:53:36.000When you're doing stand up, like I know these, by the time anyone sees me performing, Forum at a club where they're paying money, most of those bits I've been doing.
01:53:47.000So I've been like, I'm just trying to add to them and hone them and say them the right way and move the order around.
01:53:54.000That's why I love about it because I really do love it.
01:53:57.000And that's why I've really enjoyed, like I said, Eric really into it.
01:54:01.000And he's shown me a lot of comedians I didn't know about.
01:54:04.000And I just, I love words and language anyway.
01:54:08.000You know, I've written, but in completely different, I've written books and whatever, TV scripts when I did my show, that kind of thing.
01:54:28.000Sometimes you do a joke, like Louis used to do that, where he would like reverse a joke, like turn it around, and then maybe he would like take it and do his best joke and open with it so that his jokes afterwards had to get better to follow his best joke.
01:54:43.000Yeah, it's a constant little fucking laboratory up there, and you need the audience.
01:55:54.000That's where preparation is important.
01:55:55.000You have to make sure that you have a set list, an order, but you also have to be flexible because there's going to be moments where you want to dive out of that set order and something might happen in the audience or something might come up and you have another thing, another take, and you're like, this would go better right here, so I'll shove this in here.
01:56:11.000And then you have to remember your order and go, I didn't do this, I'll put that later.
01:56:16.000It's not the same, but there's a similarity because I do all these things and you've got bits really, which is my thing on high speed rail.
01:56:25.000And you know, I and sometimes, and there's a long version of it and a short version of it.
01:57:05.000I much prefer it when you're closer to the people, like physically, when you're not on some stage miles away, you know, that kind of thing.
01:57:47.000But the comedy sprays out to the outer edges.
01:57:51.000But the center hive all around the stage, which is thousands of people in a 16,000 seat arena, you're looking in the eyes of 6,000 people plus.
01:58:02.000And it's like they're all seeing each other.
02:02:00.000And it was also, there's a thing about the freeness of this city, like the freeness of Texas, the freedom that you had here to be able to go to a restaurant, your businesses could stay open.
02:02:13.000They didn't put the same kind of restrictions.
02:02:15.000They had a small lockdown for a short amount of time, and they went, okay, let's get back to work.
02:05:34.000And Fauci argued back, and he wrote this piece.
02:05:37.000At the end of 2011, with the other guy, Francis Collins, who ran the NIH, saying that engineering, I think it's almost an exact quote, engineering a potentially dangerous virus in the laboratory is a risk worth taking.
02:06:12.000That's the other part that people forget.
02:06:15.000That Obama in 2014 put a moratorium on it, which included stuff that was already in train, which included the project that led to COVID.
02:06:25.000And then again, people often say, well, Trump lifted the moratorium.
02:06:30.000He did, but he put back a new thing, which was called the potential pandemic pathogens thing protocol, which said that when you renew a project, it should go to independent review.
02:06:51.000Well, the reputation, but he's also so old that he's not working anymore anyway.
02:06:54.000But the thing about it was that pardon that gave him a pardon for crimes that he had not been convicted for, which had never happened before.
02:07:02.000A preemptive pardon and also for 10 whole years for everything he did.
02:07:07.000He could have been eating babies for 10 years and like, no, pardon.
02:07:11.000And then when you have a pardon, you're not supposed to be able to plead the fifth.
02:07:39.000And the thing that I'm also really get really pissed off about still is when you hear the conversation around this, going back now to the lockdowns and all of that and the school closures that were such a disaster, businesses, churches.
02:07:53.000And people say, well, we didn't really know and it was early and we were just being.
02:08:04.000It was before the end of 15 days to slow the spread, right at the beginning, because I got to know through Stanford, Jay Bhattacharya, John Ioannidis, all these guys that were speaking out.
02:08:15.000They did a blood, whatever you call it, seroprevalence thing in Santa Clara County where this whole thing started, proving everything that we now knew.
02:08:24.000Including what Fauci, now we know from his diary, knew as well.
02:08:30.000Those Santa Clara County, is this the two doctors that they went public with this and then they lost their license?
02:09:13.000And the woman who pushed it was the public health director, I haven't talked about this for ages, the public health director or whatever of Santa Clara County, Sarah Cody.
02:09:23.000And she was married to the head of Stanford Medicine.
02:09:49.000But the point is that this is again corruption because he was speaking out against the lockdowns that were pushed by this woman, Sarah Cody, her husband, who was head of Stanford Medicine.
02:11:36.000Effective at killing asymptomatic people?
02:11:38.000They were also using the same playbook that they used during COVID by using these testing methods that had an enormous amount of false positives.
02:11:58.000He doesn't know that you should never use a PCR to determine whether or not someone is ill.
02:12:03.000He's like, it's not how it works because if you ramp up the cycles enough, you could find anything.
02:12:07.000And that's what they did during COVID.
02:12:08.000They found like it's 80 something percent false positives.
02:12:11.000Fortunately, a lot of those people weren't forced to take AZT.
02:12:15.000But there's a lot of people that turned positive for HIV that probably didn't have it at all.
02:12:19.000They gave them AZT and they were fucking dead.
02:12:22.000And this is the villain in the Dowers Buyers Club, that movie with Matthew McConaughey.
02:12:27.000That's all about people who have needs seeking alternative treatments and being denied them because he was trying to find a vaccine for it, even back then.
02:12:37.000They were testing the vaccine for it on fucking foster kids and killing them in New York.
02:13:36.000All that would change if they're not allowed to advertise.
02:13:39.000We're one of two countries in the fucking world that allow pharmaceutical drugs to advertise on television.
02:13:44.000One of them is New Zealand and they're far more restrictive than us.
02:13:47.000And because of that, look, you have ads that you see that are playing on CNN that are not even for a drug that's commonly used.
02:13:56.000For some weird condition that a bunch of people have.
02:13:58.000But they're trying to persuade you you've got the condition.
02:14:01.000What they're really doing is not selling drugs.
02:14:03.000What they're really doing is making sure that CNN does never talk shit about the pharmaceutical drug companies and doesn't do any stories on the adverse side effects and doesn't do any stories about how many of them get pulled by the FDA that initially get approved and they find such horrific side effects, they have to pull them because it's a large percentage.
02:14:23.000And it's who was it that brought it up that was explaining how, you know, he had figured out a long time ago that the reason why they spend so much money on advertising is not because they're trying to sell drugs.
02:15:22.000But the thing I was thinking of when you like the, you know, when you got really dark human consequences, so like, you know, obviously I'm focused on it because he's my opponent, but the story of Becerra and the kids, the migrant kids, is a story.
02:15:37.000I bring it up to people, and a lot of people have never heard about it.
02:18:31.000And so when they raised flags about it, like 200 kids.
02:18:37.000Sent to an address that turned out to be a container lot, like not a real address, it's just a front for traffickers.
02:18:45.000A kid sent to a woman who was wanted by Interpol, like a gang member, like just crazy.
02:18:53.000So when they raised those stories, they were fired.
02:18:56.000Like it's really terrible what happened.
02:18:59.000And still, I mean, HHS just published some, because they were still responsible, numbers from, I think it was two weeks ago, that there's 330,000 that they're still missing.
02:19:41.000This woman said she was a caseworker at Pomona, and Becerra actually visited that camp, visited, did a photo up, whatever, and he's going on about how we're doing a good job of finding safe places, whatever.
02:19:57.000And then the interviewer, I was at the taping.
02:20:01.000She's in a job where she doesn't want retaliation.
02:20:04.000So I was there for the two hours we taped the conversation, and the interviewer asks her, Did anything change after Becerra's visit?
02:20:14.000She said, Yeah, everything had to speed up.
02:20:18.000And they had strike teams that were set up to tell us, don't check.
02:20:23.000When she would say, This ID is obviously a fake ID for this person.
02:23:45.000Well, if there's child sex traffickers and there's such an obvious vulnerability, like hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied kids making across the border, of course they're going to sneak in.
02:25:50.000So, that is a great way to justify flying people into swing states and then trying to turn them into citizens, which is what they were actively talking about doing.
02:26:05.000They talk about getting these people citizenship, which means those people can vote.
02:26:08.000There's also moving them into these swing states, and if you move them into the swing states, the census doesn't count whether or not you're a citizen.
02:26:16.000The census counts whether or not you're a human being, and so it changes the number of congressional seats that are available.
02:26:38.000Whatever million people got in over the last four years, they're not going to vote for Trump.
02:26:45.000If you can make those people vote, if you can let those people vote, how many of those people are going to vote for the Republicans that wanted to get rid of them with ICE?
02:26:52.000And how many of them are going to vote for the Democrats that wanted to fund them and help them get across the border?
02:27:05.000It seems to me that's so dark and cynical.
02:27:07.000Well, if they wanted to do to the whole country what they've done to California and have complete and total control with one party, well, they've already done it in a state.
02:27:16.000Why not just implement it through the entire country?
02:27:19.000In California, you can't show ID to the state.
02:28:23.000So it had a kind of accurate description of what it was.
02:28:28.000You know, this measure, you know, on the ballot, the voter information, this measure will require people to show ID, blah, blah, blah.
02:28:37.000And that was approved by the whole system.
02:28:42.000And just in time before they start printing them, he, because it's the Attorney General who decides, changed it to say like the most negative possible thing.
02:28:52.000This, I mean, I haven't got the exact words you can find it, but it was like, this measure prohibits voting unless you have, and it goes on to make it sound really good.
02:29:07.000Yeah, well, they were trying to get people to look at it in terms of looking at it through their ideological lens rather than through a practical lens.
02:29:15.000But it's also like, it's so crazy that you have to have ID for almost everything.
02:29:42.000It's like we need to know that you're real.
02:29:45.000It's a very, when you watch them defend their opposition to it, it really, I mean, I'm generally not at all, you know, I really do try and see the best, you know, that's just their ideology, whatever, then it's not really cynical.
02:30:02.000But when you see the way they wriggle and squirm over voter ID, it's like, what other explanation is there?
02:30:08.000It really, it's such a ridiculous thing to be opposed to.
02:31:43.000And it's regular working people who are screwed, like people who drive their cars and trucks every day for where it's not the climate worries in their laps.
02:31:52.000In Marin County, do you know what I mean?
02:31:54.000Anyway, the war is now their go to response.
02:32:00.000So you make a point about gas prices oh, it's Trump's war.
02:32:04.000And of course, it's true that the war has increased gas prices everywhere, but it's still $2 higher in California than anywhere else.
02:32:16.000Well, it's just indicative of the same problem that you're going to have whenever a single party is running a state for that long unchecked.
02:32:25.000Just like you were talking about Hungary, or it's just like it could be anywhere.
02:32:29.000It could fill in the blank anywhere in the world where you get power and you get complete control, and then you just tax the fuck out of people, and then you keep increasing government, which they keep doing.
02:32:40.000Would changing this law make it cheaper, or would that be even harder to do?
02:32:44.000California gas because it uses a unique, strictly regulated, clean burning boutique blend mandated by the California Air Resources Board to reduce smog and greenhouse gas emissions.
02:32:54.000Specialized fuel must be refined locally on an energy island because no pipelines.
02:33:00.000Connect the state to outside fuel networks.
02:33:05.000So, see that California Air Resources Board, CARB, that's the main agency that's driving the cost of everything high when it comes to energy, gas, and electric.
02:33:16.000And actually, now your earlier question, what can you do?
02:33:20.000There's basically four reasons that gas prices are the highest in the country.
02:33:25.000One is the gas tax, which is the highest in the country.
02:33:30.000That I can't do anything about as governor.
02:34:06.000These are basically taxes on gas that the energy industries pay.
02:34:11.000Then you've got the fact that we're importing all this oil rather than producing it.
02:34:16.000So instead of producing it in California in the cleanest regulated standards anywhere in the world, right?
02:34:23.000Which is what we have because we've got all these regulations and sending it in a nice pipeline just a hundred or so miles from near Bakersfield, Kern County to the refineries in Long Beach and Torrance.
02:34:37.000We are, what I said earlier, shipping it in, because like that said, there's no pipeline from outside California, bringing it on tankers from the number one in the Middle East is Iraq.
02:34:47.000Burning immense amounts of fuel all along the way.
02:34:50.000Because they run on bunker fuel, which is the most dirty form of oil.
02:34:55.000So they are, I'm not, this is an accurate statement.
02:34:59.000They are increasing carbon emissions in the name of climate to make it look as if they're climate warriors fighting fossil fuels.
02:36:46.000It's actually one of my bits to go back to the thing because it's so crazy.
02:36:52.000Is the new plan for windmills offshore?
02:36:57.000Windmills in California in two parts Morrow Bay off the central coast, Humboldt up in the north, including having them far out because the wind is more, but except also the ocean is deep there.
02:37:11.000So they're going to have floating windmills.
02:37:41.000By the way, when we have in California today existing natural gas fired power stations which could provide all our more than all our electricity needs today, more than all.
02:37:57.000It's like something like 300 gigawatt hours a year.
02:37:59.000We only use about 270, something like that.
02:38:02.000But they're running these natural gas power stations at like 10, like 20% of their capacity to use as backup for the windmills and for the solar farms.
02:38:13.000If you ran them at full capacity, what we've already got, you don't even have to build anything.
02:38:17.000You could more than meet all our needs.
02:38:40.000If it makes sense, if you can make it pay, great.
02:38:43.000But the people who you're hurting with all of this is regular working people, not kind of elite people at a conference in Sacramento, just working class people who are just being crushed.
02:38:57.000And the struggle, you know, literally, the number one thing people say to me, it's really striking when in all these, you know, I've really met a lot of people, as I said, hundreds of events, thousands and thousands of people.
02:39:10.000They say, it's not like, oh, good luck, it's like you have to win.
02:39:15.000There's like this intensity, it's really interesting.
02:39:18.000Well, because they know it's slipping away, they don't want to move, and they're so it's hard.
02:39:23.000It's gotten significantly worse over the last 10 years, and they don't want to move, yeah.
02:39:29.000And these fucking story, but people just oh, and it's not even it's so casual and cruel the way it's like, yeah, for our ideology, we'll jack up your electric bills and your gas prices, and you just have to suck it up because we want to make ourselves feel like we're leading on climate.
02:40:57.000They open coal fired plants like crazy.
02:41:01.000Exactly, which are, you know, part of the energy that's going into making the solar panels that are shipped across the ocean to make these people feel good.
02:42:32.000California Energy Commission voted to adopt new rules that will phase out the sale of replacement tires that don't meet certain energy efficiency standards.
02:42:41.000Ultimately, about protecting consumers.
02:42:44.000I see this as sheltering the public from higher costs in the long term.
02:47:01.000Is this referring to tires with more traction or less traction?
02:47:05.000Energy.california.gov second sentence is unfortunately, replacement tires are often less efficient.
02:47:12.000That's why your mileage drops the first time you replace your tires.
02:47:15.000An efficiency gap between new car tires and replacement tires means California drivers are paying nearly a billion dollars in additional fuel costs, which is.
02:47:24.000So are these inefficient tires less expensive?
02:48:15.000No, they've just, well, there will be when I'm there because I'm going to get rid of these people because this is going back to the question earlier.
02:48:32.000By reducing fuel consumed, the proposed regulation would reduce CO2 emissions by 2.0 million metric tons per year, which is the equivalent of taking 400,000 gasoline cars off California roads.
02:48:44.000It would also reduce other criteria, such as air pollutants, such as nitric oxide.
02:48:52.000The proposed regulation will reduce California demand for gasoline by 141 million gallons.
02:48:58.000Also, reduce demand for electricity by 0.9 terawatts per hour each year.
02:49:07.000Okay, the following tires are excluded from the proposed regulation minimum performance standards competition tires used for motorsports, winter type snow tires, all season winter performance tires, used and retreaded tires, deep tread tires.
02:49:23.000Tires designed for ATVs or other off road vehicles, large off road tires for use up to 99 miles an hour, motorcycle tires, temporary spare tires, small tires with 13 inch nominal rim diameter, proposed limited production tires, tires sold for use on an emergency vehicle, high load index tires, tires not capable of sustaining speeds over 50 miles per hour, and space saver tires.
02:49:51.000So it seems like there's a lot of caveats.
02:50:08.000Is there a world where that makes sense, though, where they're right and it will reduce all that gasoline and it actually will be better for everybody?
02:50:16.000And you'll force people to make better tires?
02:50:19.000And, you know, they're churning out low quality tires and this could be mitigated a long time ago?
02:51:53.000And the corrupt system, the interest groups that want what they want from the system, they get these bills written and then they get passed.
02:52:03.000And then here you are 23 years later, something that's in some obscure law.
02:53:28.000But again, you know, if you take out all this waste and, you know, we just announced last week Operation Zero Waste, cancel funding for high speed rail, cancel free healthcare for illegal immigrants, all these things that we said we'd do.
02:53:42.000How much has been spent on that high speed rail?
02:54:19.000The plan, as they laughably call it, is the first bit is San Francisco to Merced at the top of the Central Valley on the regular train line that's already there.
02:54:31.000And then Merced to Bakersfield is the high-speed rail.