00:00:31.000It's one of the best ones I've ever watched, for sure.
00:00:33.000But I just marvel at the fact that you're constantly able to create content like these non sequitur, very bizarre facts and strange coincidences.
00:00:44.000Like, how the fuck are you doing this?
00:01:35.000I mean, there's some times where I'm like, oh, I hope.
00:01:38.000You know, I hope the FBI is enjoying what they're seeing because, uh, good lord, like I didn't want to be here today, but yeah, it can get a little odd, yeah, yeah, because you're constantly like researching crimes and oh, yeah, yeah, murders, um, weird things that have been done to people over time.
00:01:56.000Speaking, you know, the Debbie Harry story, well, that she thinks may have happened.
00:02:01.000I don't know if I buy it, really, tell people what it is, okay, so Ted Bundy one, so yeah, so Debbie Harry believes that sometime in the early 70s or late 60s.
00:02:11.000That she was picked up by a man driving a Volkswagen Beetle, and that that car didn't have indoor handles, and she escaped.
00:09:31.000When you find out that we had one of these guys that was on our podcast that was a litigator for these lawsuits against pharmaceutical drug companies.
00:09:50.000So, first of all, there's no transparency.
00:09:53.000So, like, say if you have a drug that you want to release, you could do 10 studies and eight of them show this is complete bullshit.
00:10:01.000But one or two of them show just some sort of statistically significant improvement in something because you've kind of manipulated all the different controls in the study to make it.
00:10:13.000Then you get, once you have this, if it's peer reviewed, the scientists do not get to look at the actual data.
00:10:33.000So they only get to use what they're like.
00:10:37.000So if they have scientists that perform this study, then these scientists submit a report, and then that report gets reviewed by peer reviewed, not the actual data.
00:10:59.000So when they say it's 100% effective, you know how they say that?
00:11:03.000So if you have one person in the control group or one person in the vaccine group or the medication group and that person dies, and then you have a control group where two people die, well, 100% more died in the control group where they didn't get the medication.
00:12:06.000I've never been like a doctor or anything.
00:12:09.000But I mean, it was, you know, working like at an eyeglass place or, you know, or a movie theater, you know, like, hey, I've worked at movie theaters for years.
00:12:37.000Speaking of that, how does this happen when the CIA guy that stole all that money, how does he lie about his past to get through the CIA to a point where he can then lie about.
00:12:49.000A fake operation where he steals $150 million.
00:12:53.000So he faked a college degree and he faked his military service and got into the CIA and was a senior CIA official.
00:17:22.000When you're dealing with health stuff and you're lying about health tests, you could have killed people because there could have been a guy who had a condition and the condition was not revealed by your Fagazzi blood test.
00:17:35.000And if he had gone to a real doctor, like a Quest Diagnostics, and get the whole thing done, they would have said, oh, geez, we have to get you in and we have to do some further tests.
00:19:52.000They should have a much more elegant name to whatever it is that they do.
00:19:56.000But they had one, I think it's called The Dropout.
00:20:00.000And I forget who produced it, but it's all about the Elizabeth Holmes story from the beginning of Theranos to her scammy ex boyfriend who was also The Dropout.
00:22:30.000Like when they talk about creating this administration has created over 100,000 jobs.
00:22:34.000They don't tell you how many of those are completely unnecessary government jobs.
00:22:38.000And so to justify those government jobs, they have to do all kinds of crazy things like come up with new regulations and constantly like trying to enforce new laws and tell you it's to protect clean air or clean water or the environment or climate change.
00:23:00.000If you are running a government and you decide to regulate some particular aspect of society and then hire a bunch of people to oversee that, then you have new jobs.
00:23:16.000It's like multi level marketing, but the thing you're selling is even more bullshitty than what most MLMs are selling.
00:23:23.000Well, it's even scarier because a lot of these bullshitty things, they sell it to the general public under the guise, under this premise that you're going to help people who are in need.
00:23:32.000Like the homeless situation in California, where they've burned through $24 billion and Gavin Newsom vetoes an audit of it.
00:23:42.000Because what they'll find out is that money probably went to a bunch of nonprofits and probably went to a bunch of NGOs, and there was probably a bunch of people that were executives that got paid high six figure salaries working there.
00:23:56.000And they have no incentive whatsoever to fix this problem.
00:24:09.000No, people don't police themselves typically once they get to a certain level.
00:24:13.000I think, you know, the average person does.
00:24:15.000You know, they choose to maybe drive the speed limit even if there's not a cop around or whatever.
00:24:19.000But I think once you get to a certain level when there's that much money involved, yeah, you'll usually just kind of do whatever the hell you want.
00:24:36.000And you're literally like, You're part of the intelligence agency, and you've got a closet in your house filled with gold and $100 bills and cocaine.
00:25:09.000And one of his crazy stories was his dad, you know, when he turned 18, his dad basically said, Look, I'm going to write you a check for $10,000, and then that's it.
00:27:36.000It's like Mel Brooks produced The Elephant Man and he wanted his name taken off the credits because he didn't want people to think it was a comedy.
00:28:37.000Yeah, but it's not like I don't think it's the best movie ever.
00:28:40.000What do you think is the best movie ever?
00:28:44.000Like, if an alien came down and was like, I want to see one movie to know what y'all are about.
00:28:51.000You know, I don't think I have a favorite movie, but one of the movies that I've seen, a modern movie that I've seen multiple times, is Ex Machina.
00:29:02.000Because I feel like that is, I think that's the future.
00:30:14.000And, and the, like, spoiler alert, the heartless way that she, like, leaves that guy trapped in that movie to starve to death, and trapped in that room to starve to death.
00:30:58.000We weren't thinking about the idea that someone could literally have super intelligence and also control the access to data that people get, be able to curate the data, all the stuff that we're seeing with Google and Facebook and AI and OpenAI and all these different companies.
00:31:14.000That was, I mean, it was like they predicted it brilliantly.
00:31:21.000It kind of predicts how people have gone with their AI.
00:31:25.000People developing relationships with their AI, like the ChatGPT system or whatever, is very weird.
00:31:31.000I mean, I guess it's kind of harmless in a sense because, you know, what's going to happen, but like, it's just not good for people.
00:31:37.000It's harmless for you because you're an intelligent person and you would realize that this thing is not real and it's blowing me up and blowing smoke up my ass and giving me therapy.
00:31:48.000Like, and there's some of those AIs, they'll gaslight you and they'll tell you everything's amazing.
00:34:31.000If you just like, I know a few comics like David Tell, he has a flip phone because they just don't want to be connected to that toxic fucking hive.
00:35:46.000Had a podcast, just me blabbering about nothing.
00:35:50.000And at the end, I would like to end it with just a fun story from the past, you know, called like half ass history.
00:35:59.000And I would just end it that way and then started clipping it because one of my friends was like, you should just clip that little bit and do like a separate thing.
00:36:09.000And then just slowly over time, thanks to people like yourself, it started to kind of take off because you, you know, helped out with that quite a bit.
00:36:16.000And a lot of people, Brian Simpson actually helped out a lot, like just sharing.
00:37:40.000I mean, right now I'm in the throngs of the um Real Houses of Salt Lake City, which I would highly recommend because there's a lot of Mormon business going on.
00:37:48.000Oh, yeah, the Mormon business is fast.
00:37:50.000What a weird little group of people, but um, yeah, so you get that mixed with um, you know, drink throwing and all that kind of business.
00:37:58.000Apparently, there's a lot of uh, and this is not a slight on the Mormon religion, don't get me wrong, but um.
00:38:05.000I think this is true amongst Catholics as well.
00:38:07.000But there's a lot, well, probably many religions, there's a lot of undercover homosexuality.
00:39:50.000It's one of the saddest failings of organized religion the complete absence of embracing gay people.
00:39:59.000Yeah, because you can embrace someone and not embrace, you know, I mean, I guess there is that whole thing of like, well, I embrace you, I don't embrace the lifestyle, which feels like a real sad thing.
00:42:04.000And that they're trying, and you're getting these, like you're getting a lot of the gospels were written long after Jesus was dead, and they didn't even know Jesus.
00:42:17.000And then there's also, like, if you get into the Old Testament, like the weird stuff, like the ages of people, like Moses was like, or Noah.
00:42:28.000Noah was like 600 years old when he built it.
00:42:31.000I think the oldest person in the Bible, I believe, is Methuselah.
00:43:57.000When you wake up, you have a pre existing selection of ideas and memories and all sorts of different things that you just assume you've always been on the same path.
00:47:37.000And I love seeing where we were and how we got to where we are now.
00:47:41.000So, like, And also, just like what people were doing 2,000 years ago, you think, like how the hell did they come up with that 2,000 years ago?
00:47:49.000Or the people who, you know, like Marcus Aurelius or somebody who, the way they thought, like how it is the, it's perfectly maps up to now, where like that same sort of stoicism, you know, I think can do wonders for people today.
00:48:06.000And he was thinking that shit 2,000 years ago.
00:48:15.000Like when you travel around the U.S., knowing, like, well, what did this city or this place I'm standing at right now look like 150 years ago?
00:49:10.000He's a scholar, and he wrote a great book called The Immortality Key that is all about the Eleusinian mysteries in ancient Greece, which I believe Marcus Aurelio participated in.
00:49:32.000Because there's a lot of the stuff in there that seems very psychedelically inspired.
00:49:35.000Like the wisdom of this guy, okay, this guy is running Rome, you know, what is one of the most fucking powerful armies the world has ever known, conquering everything.
00:49:46.000And this guy is essentially like a psychedelic bard.
00:52:55.000Yeah, I don't like that because it just leads to, it generally leads to someone hitting somebody.
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00:56:43.000Intense, very, I call it high level problem solving with dire physical consequences.
00:56:49.000Like it's just like an insane game that these guys are playing.
00:56:52.000And there's an incredible amount of technique involved, strategy, determination, and willpower to get yourself into shape, intelligence in order to formulate the correct sort of style and game plan to be successful as a fighter.
00:58:05.000So I don't like violence, believe it or not.
00:58:07.000I mean, what I can understand that, though, because, like, you know, it's not that you're loving seeing a guy get the shit beat out of him.
00:58:16.000It's loving seeing how does this guy handle the situation?
00:58:36.000Get past, and then there's, you know, first responders, police officers, SWAT teams, that kind of stuff.
00:58:42.000But outside of that, in a controlled environment where people are preparing for a very specific contest, I just find that to be the most thrilling and exciting thing.
00:59:22.000I mean, so you're seeing controlled chaos in a sense, or it's not even really chaos, but you're seeing a controlled, like, we're both agreeing to do this.
00:59:35.000Like, whenever I watch, you know, Whenever I watch a fight, like I don't think of it in nearly the same way because I feel sick to my stomach whenever I watch people get in fights in real life.
01:05:25.000I think it happens oftentimes very young, and then you start building momentum and towards very specific areas.
01:05:32.000That's a big thing I have with anything pop culture, so like movies, music, and like remembering dates and like, you know, when did this movie come out?
01:07:30.000Well, they're probably going to do that eventually.
01:07:32.000Right now, they don't have dinosaur DNA, but I don't think that's going to be able to stop them from creating a dinosaur.
01:07:39.000I think what they're going to be able to do is use bird DNA and eventually engineer a dinosaur by giving each new iteration very specific traits.
01:07:47.000Like, that's kind of what they're doing at Colossal Bioworks.
01:09:49.000Essentially, we've decided, like, what, like, all these different animals, whether it's chimpanzees, cockatoos, whatever, we've decided that this is what it is.
01:10:02.000But what it really is is just a collection of genes, right?
01:10:05.000They give very specific traits, and those traits are passed on by its offspring.
01:10:43.000At what point does something become a new species then?
01:10:45.000Like, what's the difference between a mutation?
01:10:47.000So, like, this one dog has, you know, or whatever, this one bird has a red beak, but normally they're yellow, versus, oh, well, all the ones with red beaks are new species.
01:12:35.000And I don't even know if that's if you could mitigate that with like weight training or something, if you could get strong enough so that you can carry that amount of weight and frame.
01:12:45.000Because you're dealing with, I don't think human joints are designed to carry around that kind of mass and just that height.
01:12:53.000And also, if you have a tumor in your pituitary gland, things are probably growing the wrong way.
01:13:00.000Because what it's essentially is like secreting abnormal amounts of human growth hormone.
01:16:36.000I was pretty infatuated by the six fingers aspect of it.
01:16:39.000Well, what's interesting is the Native Americans had very similar stories of large, red haired, pale skinned giants with six fingers and six toes with no access to the Bible whatsoever.
01:16:52.000It was completely different, whether it was folklore, mythology, or they're talking about a real thing.
01:17:58.000They should have been the ones killing us.
01:18:00.000Well, we might have been the most clever because we're the softest.
01:18:04.000You know, we're the weakest, so we were probably the most vicious, and we probably figured out tools better than they did, and we probably slaughtered them because they were dangerous.
01:19:03.000You ever see a chicken go after a mouse?
01:19:05.000No, I've seen chickens go after other chickens or chickens go after worms or other little bugs.
01:19:09.000It's very dinosaur like, very velociraptor like.
01:19:11.000But the way they go after a mouse is insane.
01:19:14.000It's like the ferocity in which they attack a mouse is insane.
01:19:18.000Like, there's a video, we played it a million times, but there's a cat, and the cat has a mouse, and the cat's kind of toying with the mouse, and a chicken runs over and snatches it from the cat and just rips it apart like a monster.
01:19:30.000Just shaking it, pecking it, tearing it apart.
01:20:34.000I mean, the people who are just trying to find any excuse for why she did what she did have, you know, come to just a million different brain dead.
01:20:46.000I didn't think you're going to see hundreds of women wearing pink shirts showing up outside the courthouse during her trial in support of her having.
01:20:56.000Strangled her fucking children with an exercise cord one at a time.
01:21:05.000I mean, well, there is just a huge number of people who've just gotten so invested in true crime, like true crime YouTube channels, and that's all they watch all day, every day.
01:21:14.000And so they have basically convinced themselves that they are detectives, but they suck at it.
01:21:21.000It's like, you know, I've watched so much football that I do watch it, and I basically think I know more than an NFL head coach.
01:23:41.000Because the joke is that he looks like a creep in the background of all these TikToks watching these ladies that are wearing nothing doing these exercises.
01:23:49.000Well, he also didn't call them whores.
01:24:05.000I just, I mean, I get, I guess, a little bit of it, but I think people weren't understanding, like, The nuance, or you know, really like thinking about all the way he's thinking.
01:24:15.000He's just come out there and said, Oh, y'all are all horse or dressing like this.
01:26:49.000You get to see it all play out, see the chaos, and hopefully the dust will settle and there'll be some clarity and what's real and what's not real.
01:26:57.000But because of the echo chambers and bubbles that people live in online, there won't be any clarity, you know, because everything is connected to an algorithm and you're only interacting with people that agree with you.
01:27:35.000I'm older than you, and when I was a kid, that didn't exist.
01:27:39.000I mean, there were some people that were ideologically.
01:27:42.000They were ideologically connected to whatever their political party was, but not to the extent that people are today, where flavored every single opinion they have about every aspect of society from paper straws to fucking electric cars to vaccines and healthcare and fucking everything.
01:31:51.000Or it might be they have taken it from somewhere else.
01:31:54.000But they can create a page that seems like a real person.
01:31:59.000And they say a bunch of things that seem like what a real person would say, like really simple captions for each picture.
01:32:07.000So, there's like levels of sophistication, and then eventually it's going to be ex machina type, you know, levels of sophistication where you're not going to be able to discern whether or not it's a real person commenting or not.
01:32:17.000No, and you can have the whole world believe something just if you have enough money to pay for enough bots.
01:32:52.000There's just this massive rise in Holocaust denial that's happened within just like the last couple of years.
01:32:59.000Or like any post that has to do, I mean, a lot of it obviously has to do with like the Israel Palestine conflict and like Zionism and all this stuff.
01:33:07.000And there's a lot of people who just like watch like this one documentary.
01:33:33.000Because it's not even necessarily like a right wing versus left wing thing, you know, where like, oh, all the right wing people are Holocaust deniers or vice versa.
01:33:43.000For the most part, younger people like my age or younger, yeah, just don't think it happened.
01:33:49.000You know what's also interesting, too, is that it's such a disgusting subject that no one legitimate wants to debate someone who doesn't believe in the Holocaust.
01:34:00.000Like, you don't get a legitimate scholar on World War II who wants to sit down and have a conversation with someone who's a Holocaust denier.
01:34:07.000It's like you don't platform those people.
01:34:09.000And so, because of that, like, there's a lot of people who go, oh, they're hiding the truth.
01:34:40.000Apparently, that's what in the documentary, that's what the guy comes to by crunching the numbers on the amount of Jews in the area or something.
01:35:01.000Because, like, if you were anti Israel, like if you were against Israel's policies and you were a foreign country, if you're whatever, fill in the blank, Palestine, Pakistan, whatever it is.
01:35:12.000You get some Muslim country that wants to fund some sort of anti Israel thing, and then you would go after the core reason why people have sympathy for the Jews in modern society is because they were almost exterminated in Germany.
01:35:28.000I mean, basically, the reason Israel exists is because.
01:35:32.000You know, after because of the hawkers, and yeah, so that would be the way to do it.
01:35:38.000I mean, and I just think there's a lot of people, uh, who yeah, just believe it because they read it on the internet, they see the meme saying blah blah blah, and they just outright believe it.
01:36:08.000I've always felt that you should have to have an ID to be able to prove who you are to be able to create an account on any social media platform.
01:36:17.000I think there are dating apps that do it when you have to take a picture of your ID and then you go through a vetting process.
01:36:25.000That should be the same with Instagram, Facebook.
01:36:27.000The problem with that is whistleblowers.
01:36:30.000I think that there is a legit argument that, especially if you're an Edward Snowden or Chelsea Manning type person who has access to information that Is highly classified, but you don't want to reveal your identity, but people need to know.
01:36:46.000Like, there's a crime being committed on the American people or the people of the world or whatever.
01:36:51.000You know, the whistleblower thing, protections for whistleblowers, was a key part of the Obama campaign when he was running for office, protection for whistleblowers.
01:37:01.000Meanwhile, he was like one of the worst people ever that was president, which is kind of funny.
01:37:07.000But they also even removed that part from the Hope and Change website.
01:37:11.000So the Hope and Change website had this whole thing about whistleblowers.
01:37:21.000So that's the argument against having to show identification is that it's probably important that some people be able to post anonymous because there's very powerful people that would try to take them out.
01:37:56.000Depending upon what you're revealing and what ideology would be opposed to that and whether or not this newspaper ascribes to that ideology.
01:38:07.000I mean, which that's kind of always been a problem, too.
01:38:09.000But if you went back to, like, you know, all the president's men, you know, Nixon Watergate stuff, like, at least, you know, they were able to do that.
01:38:17.000Well, that was one of the most disturbing things about Elon purchasing Twitter when they let, like, Michael Schellenberger, Matt Taibbi, and all these journalists review the emails that were with the executives at Twitter were in contact with the intelligence agencies.
01:38:36.000And that the intelligence agencies were actively censoring accounts, were directing them to remove accounts.
01:38:42.000They were posting factual information, but that was inconvenient towards the COVID policies of the Biden administration.
01:39:15.000Well, I think there has to be a way to tell if something is a bot, and you should have some sort of filters.
01:39:24.000In your system, at least to mitigate the bots, to get to a point where you can't just have a letter and a name and a bunch of fucking numbers and have 50,000 of those accounts and bomb on someone's account because Henry Ford was a Nazi.
01:39:40.000Or just, I guess that doesn't work either.
01:39:42.000I was saying just have it where you're vetted and then only people who have been vetted can comment.
01:39:48.000But at the same time, that doesn't necessarily work because if a person's a whistleblower, you're right.
01:39:55.000The problem is, anonymity is important when you're revealing something, especially when you're revealing something about a government or corporation where they could whack you.
01:40:04.000You know, it's like, I think, God, I don't want to say it, but I think the best way to do it is just ignore the comments and just let them.
01:40:12.000But there's a bunch of people who don't do that, and it does artificially alter public opinion on things.
01:40:20.000Which is, that was why, like, for that post, I just took it down because I was like, oh, I'm not going to go through and sift out all these comments.
01:40:26.000Did you think about just banning the comments?
01:41:34.000Henry Ford revolutionized the automobile industry with his moving assembly line, allowing for the manufacturing of the Model T to go from 12 hours per car to 90 minutes per car.
01:41:45.000At that point, they were making 10,000 Model Ts a day.
01:41:50.000He also doubled his employees' wages and basically created a new middle class in America.
01:41:55.000Despite all of this, Henry Ford was also a massive anti Semite.
01:42:00.000In 1920, Henry Ford began publishing a weekly magazine called The International Jew The World's Problem.
01:42:08.000Henry Ford's views on the Jewish population struck a nerve with a young man in Austria who included Henry Ford in his manifesto Mein Kampf.
01:42:17.000Henry Ford was the only American complimented in that book written by a young Adolf Hitler.
01:42:23.000Henry Ford even received the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, the highest German award for foreigners, by Adolf Hitler himself.
01:44:22.000I mean, there was an article we've referenced many times where a former FBI analyst was looking at Twitter before Elon Musk purchased it, and he determined that it was somewhere in the neighborhood of 80% bots.
01:45:00.000So if you're selling something for $44 billion, the last thing you want to do is find out that it's mostly just robots yelling into the abyss.
01:45:30.000So why wouldn't you utilize, like, the greatest vehicle of propaganda the world has ever seen and just have an army of people comment on things?
01:46:39.000There's a film of her, a video of her getting ready to go on stage, and she's walking through the backstage area, and that song, Staying Alive, is playing, and she's dancing.
01:48:21.000One of our categories is called Creeded and Weep, where you have to place the Creed song, arguably the greatest song ever written, My Own Prison by Creed, somewhere in the movie.
01:48:50.000There's something about this world that is so chaotic that it has made simplicity much more attractive, and country music is making a giant comeback.
01:49:03.000It's because people want, like, they want to be by the river with a pickup truck and with, you know, just having a good time and praising Jesus, and they want simplicity.
01:49:15.000They want things to be clearly defined and they want to take away the anxiety of the unknown because the anxiety of the unknown is looming over us constantly like a fog, like that giant sky demon from Stranger Things.
01:49:53.000No, I do agree with that where people just want to have land and people want to occupy their land and they want to raise families on their land.
01:50:43.000Not, not, well, no, not in like overall, but I think what gets pushed to the top is more like that.
01:50:49.000I think people, like whoever's, you know, marketing music, whatever company, you know, whether it's Sony, whoever, they're way less likely to take a risk on someone.
01:51:00.000And they just know, like, okay, this worked the past 15 times.
01:51:07.000Where I think that wasn't always the case.
01:51:10.000I mean, you could definitely say there was like the pop, you know, bubblegum pop of the 60s, where it's just how many versions of the Dave Clark 5 can we make?
01:51:20.000And then, but occasionally they would bust out, like, you know, like the Doors or, you know, Big Brother and the Hole and Company or something.
01:51:26.000Now I don't think there's any version of that.
01:52:06.000If you were going to release an album, you had to go through a music company, you had to go through a record company, you had to have an agent, you had to have a manager.
01:52:13.000You had to have all these, there were gatekeepers to keep you from getting on the radio.
01:52:17.000You couldn't just have a song and bring it to the radio station and say, hey, would you play my song?
01:52:37.000So he's a guy who like makes a song literally like in a field with a fucking cool guitar.
01:52:44.000And sings his song, and it resonated with people so strongly that they just went out to see him in droves.
01:52:51.000That is, but he's a very unique talent.
01:52:54.000But it's also like that thing now exists where it never existed before.
01:52:59.000And there are people like that out there.
01:53:02.000There's a bunch of other ones that are really interesting that are popping off like left and right all over the place in that way, just resonate with people.
01:53:11.000I need to actually listen to some newer music.
01:54:44.000I mean, there's part of me that thinks that's a good thing, but part of me that doesn't.
01:54:48.000Sometimes I feel like there needs to be a bottleneck, you know, where I think, yeah, I don't know.
01:54:52.000I feel like less is more almost always.
01:54:55.000Well, it's definitely going to be hard to find the quality things.
01:54:58.000But I think that the quality things are going to exist where they wouldn't have existed before.
01:55:03.000Like, someone who's just a very creative person and has an idea.
01:55:06.000That would have cost millions and millions of dollars to produce instead is just sitting at home with a laptop and an LLM, and they feed it into that.
01:55:16.000And next thing you know, you've got this really cool creative video that came out of their imagination that wouldn't have been possible.
01:55:23.000But the amount of those versus the amount of bullshit is crazy.
01:59:15.000Well, people are always worried about the uncertainty and the unknown.
01:59:19.000And like we were talking about before, I really genuinely think that's why there's this genuine trend, a clear trend toward like simplistic music and simplistic lifestyles.
01:59:30.000And certainly during COVID, a lot of people like turned to homesteading.
01:59:34.000And they realized like, oh, we might not be able to have food, which by the way, I saw.
02:02:14.000Meanwhile, they're everywhere in the beginning.
02:02:17.000Every time it gets dark out and rains, these monsters are outside their house and they have to cover the windows or the monsters will see them.
02:02:23.000And then one day the monsters enter in the house and try to kill them.
02:02:26.000And then they fight with the monster and then don't kill the monster, and that monster decides they're a good guy.
02:03:30.000I would look out the windows and I would maybe like whistle.
02:03:33.000What if there's a bunch of books, like really cool books in the cabin, and all you had to do is just figure out a way to shoot some squirrels, stay alive?
02:10:50.000And then I'm just like, My stomach is literally like stretched to the boundaries, like, oh, then I'll sit there like a bear that's been shot with a tranquilizer dart.
02:11:04.000That's actually me, like, almost every day.
02:12:49.000Because I would not want to talk about that.
02:12:51.000I mean, like, you know, you have a scheduled meeting where you meet a guy at like 10 a.m. someplace and you work out for an hour three times a week.
02:13:00.000So, like a dietitian, like almost like what you do when you meet with a dietitian.
02:13:03.000Sorry, but a trainer would be like someone who can say, okay, what are your goals?
02:13:12.000And there's people that are really good at that.
02:13:14.000There's a lot of jerk off trainers that are just assholes that just got a job at the gym and most of the time they don't even know what they're doing.
02:13:22.000But then there's also people that are really good at their job and take it very seriously and really like helping people and getting people on the right track.
02:13:30.000And, and, Recognizing that there's this moment where people start to feel better and recognize, like, oh, this thing, like my friend Jelly Roll.
02:14:36.000And then, you know, my heart started going a little fast and I was breathing a little heavy, but it was, you know, just because it had been like 30 minutes on the treadmill.
02:14:44.000And then I got afraid that I couldn't catch my breath and I had a panic attack and I was like, oh, this isn't good.
02:14:49.000And then every time I got on it, I immediately was like, oh, this isn't good.
02:14:52.000My breath, I'm out of breath, which it was fine.
02:15:57.000And the first thing I tell them before we do it, I go, You're not going to get exhausted.
02:16:02.000You're not going to get exhausted and I'm not going to push you.
02:16:05.000What we're going to do is we're just going to do a series of movements, very gradually build your body up to the point where you can start doing more.
02:18:23.000Well, I think that's one of the interesting things about people.
02:18:26.000One of the things that I really love about doing this podcast is I get to talk to so many different kinds of people.
02:18:32.000And, you know, there's a lot of narrow minded people that think that everybody should live one way, everybody should think one way and behave one way, and this is the right way.
02:18:41.000And I think there's a lot of different, very interesting, creative people.
02:18:45.000People that their brains work different than everybody else's, and that's a great thing, you know.
02:18:51.000And your burden is that you can't be alone with your thoughts, but that's also why you produce so much great content because you can't be alone with your thoughts, so you're always engaging with stuff.
02:19:02.000I have to be distracted, so why not distract myself with you know?
02:19:06.000But it's also you're distracting yourself with stuff that's, I mean, it's really because of all these facts and all this information that you've acquired and all the stuff that you've put out there in the world, you've like changed a lot of people's perspective on things.
02:19:19.000You've given people a lot of stuff to think about, you know, and that's a great service.
02:21:07.000So, Mother Teresa had a, you know, she would like heal the sick and all that BS, but she basically just had a giant concrete storage room that she would put sick people in and donate and give all the money that was being donated to her to the Vatican, not use it to treat any of them.
02:22:41.000Yeah, you get locked in this giant concrete room with, like, basically no windows, no sunlight getting in, and people just having, like, whatever dysentery or, yeah, whatever disease they have.
02:22:52.000Yeah, diarrhea all over your bed sheets and just slowly slip away.
02:24:37.000How does this represent such an insane amount of generational wealth for just this stupid painting that you could make in a couple of hours?
02:24:45.000Not even in a couple of hours, an hour.
02:26:07.000Which is why we were in the middle of the Cold War.
02:26:10.000The CIA started this thing for modern art to pump up American art because we didn't have any art that compared with the classics from Russia.
02:26:39.000In the 1950s, the CIA funded the Congress for Cultural Freedom, a Paris based organization that sponsored magazines, concerts, conferences, and exhibitions.
02:26:49.000It presented itself as an independent cultural organization while covertly advancing an anti Soviet agenda.
02:26:57.000So, American abstract expressionism, the work of Jackson Pollock, Rothkau, Willem de Kooning, those guys that we just saw, fit the agenda.
02:27:10.000Experimentation could be presented as evidence of American intellectual freedom in contrast to the ideological constraints associated with Soviet socialist realism.
02:27:20.000The paintings didn't need to contain an explicit political message.
02:27:23.000Their freedom of form was the message.
02:30:25.000Like, because you have to have the pattern.
02:30:26.000So, I mean, your optical illusions, like when you see an optical illusion, the reason why it's an illusion is because your brain is trying in there somewhere to establish a pattern.
02:30:37.000What was that one that we looked at the other day, Jamie, where they look like?
02:30:41.000Two different colors until you put your fingers over the line in between them and then they all of a sudden become one color.
02:30:51.000Yeah, there's some interesting ones with that, or like where you'll have like a Coca Cola can that looks red in the picture, but it's actually all black and white.
02:30:58.000It's just because there's these tiny green lines.
02:32:30.000Well, with the hippie movement, too, there is evidence that they were, you know, helping to stage protests and, like, you know, organize protests.
02:32:39.000But even, like, was it Gloria Steinem was working with the CIA at one point to stage, you know, like these things.
02:32:47.000So, like, there's always been that version of it.
02:32:50.000But then it's just whether or not all of it is because of that.
02:33:11.000But I mean, as far as like outwardly so not necessarily the music, but like outwardly speaking against the war, he was not necessarily one of the like, you know.
02:33:52.000Yes, Jimi Hendrix expressed anti war views through his music, especially Machine Gun, but his politics were more complicated than a simple lifelong pacifist label.
02:33:59.000Counts of his early career describe him as supporting U.S. involvement in Vietnam before his later music became closely associated with opposition to war.
02:34:24.000Hendricks dedicated it to people fighting in Vietnam and Berkeley and within themselves, connecting the battlefield violence with conflict at home.
02:34:34.000But even that's not necessarily anti war.
02:34:37.000Like, you know, depicting war isn't necessarily being anti.
02:34:40.000I mean, now going on stage and saying like, you know, anti war things, but I think he was more like, I know he got in a fight with, was it like Pete Townsend or Mick Jagger with somebody because they were criticizing like the troops who were in Vietnam.
02:34:54.000And he was like, hey, hey, hey, like, hold on.
02:34:56.000Like, I just, you know, I was a troop in Vietnam.
02:36:32.000Yeah, there's some interesting stories like that, too, like with Jerry Lee Lewis, you know, with Chuck Berry lighting his piano on fire and then just following that motherfucker.
02:36:53.000Yeah, he showed up drunk as hell at Graceland and tried ramming his car through the gates and stepped out, waving a gun in the air, saying, I'm here to, like, let's see who's the real king now and was trying to kill him.
02:37:08.000And Elvis, meanwhile, is inside watching him through the security camera, you know, going, Oh, you got to get down here, you know.
02:37:13.000And cops show up and Jerry Lee Lewis gets back in his car with the window still up.
02:37:18.000Don't realize the windows are up, grabs a liquor bottle and throws it at the cops and just shatters in his car.
02:37:23.000Yeah, that guy was a loose fucking cannon.
02:42:28.000He tried to kill Joe Tex at a restaurant.
02:42:31.000Well, I mean, at a club, I mean, he got in a shootout with the cops and a high speed chase because someone was using his bathroom, someone was taking a shit in his personal bathroom, which is actually understandable.
02:42:43.000Yeah, it was like across four states, wasn't it?