In this episode, I talk about how we need to stop being stuck in the old ways of thinking and start seeing the world through a new lens. I also talk about why we should all be trying to figure out a way to live a happier and more positive life and how we can get there. I hope you enjoy this episode and tweet me if you do! with any feedback. Timestamps: 0:00 - How to be a happier, more positive person? 6:30 - How we should be living a happier life 7:00 How we can be a better human Why religion is dumb 8:30 - Why we should not be stuck in old ways 9:00- Why we need a new way of thinking 11:15 - How you can be more positive 12:30- How you should be kind to other people 13:00 | How you fit in better in the world 14:30 | How to live your life better 15 - What s the best way to enjoy your life? 16:15 | How do you stay positive? 17:20 - How do I live a happy and healthy life 18:40 | How can I be a more positive human being? 19:00 // How can you be more productive? 21:10 | What are you going to improve your life ? 22:40 - How I m going to be happier? 26:15 What is the best thing you can you can do? 27: What s going to help you improve your health? 29: What is a healthy way to be happy? 30: What do you need to do to get better? 31:00 / 32:40 Is there a healthy diet? 35:20 | What s a healthy body? 32:00/33:30/35:40/36:30 / 35:40 / 36:50/37:50 36:10 33:00 +37:00 Can you be a person you can improve your body better than a better you can have a more balanced life & much more? & so much better than you already have a better life? ? & 35:00+ & 36:30 + 40:00 What s your favorite thing to do with your life & how can you improve yourself?
00:01:22.000And until we're honest about that, we're never going to evolve.
00:01:25.000The human race is stuck in a giant quagmire when it comes to our behavior and our thinking about our behavior.
00:01:32.000But there comes a certain point in time where you have to pop the training wheels off.
00:01:35.000And you have to recognize that all this morality that you've developed is good because it's good to treat other people good.
00:01:41.000It's good to treat other people the way you'd like to be treated yourself.
00:01:45.000It's like a fucking golden rule, and there's a reason for it.
00:01:47.000And that reason is that we're connected in some strange way that we don't totally understand.
00:01:51.000Unless you are good to other people around you, unless you're kind and friendly and warm and loving, you're not gonna fucking enjoy this life.
00:04:12.000Do what you want to do with your life, right?
00:04:14.000Don't be doing something you don't enjoy.
00:04:16.000Don't do something that's, don't get locked into, you know, a car that you can't afford and do this.
00:04:24.000What the fuck is it that you really want to do?
00:04:27.000Because if someone else is doing it, you can do it, you know?
00:04:30.000I mean, everybody makes their own path through this world, but a lot of people don't follow the path that they really fucking feel pulled to, you know?
00:15:56.000And it's always what I – it brings me back to what I always talk about when you have Mayor Bloomberg who wants to outlaw trans fats in food or when Washington or any government agency wants to legislate good health, whether it's making drugs for people and stuff like that.
00:16:11.000Well, you're not going to make people healthier.
00:16:57.000You appreciate it much more if you earn it.
00:16:59.000I'm writing this book, and one of the things that I wrote about this book, the only thing I'm really proud of, of anything that I've ever done in my life, is my peace of mind.
00:18:12.000And I am not that way with reasonable, rational people, but when I'm there with meth heads, and I know someone's a meth head, and I'm like, um, something's wrong here.
00:18:26.000We're not going to deal with how crazy this bitch is?
00:18:28.000And I'd be like, I can't see anything!
00:18:30.000We would be out with one of Brian's friends, and it would occur to me like five minutes into the conversation, okay, this is like a crazed fucking half-homeless criminal we're hanging out with.
00:18:38.000I'm like, okay, we have to deal with this.
00:20:24.000I have run away from monster instincts.
00:20:26.000Yeah, but healer instincts are phony too because what I was trying to do was I just wanted a project where it was like I was the guy of the savior.
00:20:31.000It was a very selfish arrangement in a way.
00:22:48.000The main thing is to get older and learn.
00:22:50.000Learn from your mistakes and not make the same ones.
00:22:54.000But, you know, the problem is a lot of people get programmed a certain way as they're growing up, and it's very hard to shake off their programming.
00:23:00.000Sometimes it's better to have no programming, as I think you did and I did, where you just kind of were left alone to figure out life by yourself.
00:23:08.000Sometimes I think that's better than having shitty programming.
00:23:11.000Because if a girl grows up with shitty programming where there's a lot of dumb people around her all the time offering their dumb thoughts and she's with dumb people all day instead of being left alone.
00:23:19.000Yeah, I think the reason that I didn't grow up that way necessarily is I lived in so many different countries.
00:23:29.000I didn't live anywhere for more than… For the first 30 years of my life, actually 33 years of my life, I didn't live in one place for more than a year and a half.
00:23:39.000I literally had moved every year to a year and a half, and a lot of times it was a totally different culture, continent, but I think that didn't allow me to get pigeonholed, or I was exposed to so many different cultures and ideas that you have to kind of keep reshifting and adjusting your paradigm.
00:23:54.000Because what you think is a preconceived notion, for example, You get this idea of what a lot of people say, well, that's my idea of what an Arab is, that's my idea of what a Jew is, that's my idea of whatever it is.
00:24:04.000When you're exposed constantly to different people in totally different settings, what you really actually learn to do as a child is empathize with those people.
00:24:13.000Because you start to realize, yeah, they're different, but they're exactly the same.
00:24:16.000Did you find yourself being a chameleon?
00:24:19.000And blending into the new environment.
00:24:22.000My dad used to say, my father said to me when I was 15, he said, I've never seen anyone ever be a bigger chameleon.
00:24:31.000He said, your ability to ingratiate yourself and find your way into any situation, find a hole in any situation, he said, I remember his first comment he ever gave me, he never even gave me a comment.
00:26:44.000I've never lived in a place where people were so quick to scrap.
00:26:47.000It's why a lot of good comics come out of Boston, though, because to be able to deal with those crowds, those cynical crowds, and navigate your way through that...
00:26:53.000Yeah, we've talked about it on this show many, many times with other Boston guys like Bill Burr and Dane Cook, and it's the place where...
00:27:00.000It's like the proving ground for comedy.
00:27:02.000There were so many good comics that came out of there.
00:29:28.000They were literally, I remember them being so thick, I was like trying to get into them, I was supposed to stretch them, it was a disaster.
00:29:34.000And literally, I walk out, and my buddies, I think Carmine and Eddie McCann, Donnie Gannon, I mean all these like Irish and Italian guys from New York, Carmine goes, what the fuck has he got on his legs?
00:29:46.000And I'm like, oh, these are from Paris.
00:29:48.000Before I even got Paris out, they were on me pulling my pants off, just getting them off me to throw out the window.
00:31:29.000It's a fucking, like, a reoccurring joke, though.
00:31:31.000Like, people will save them, you know, and you'll find them online.
00:31:35.000Like, there's a lot of really funny ones that you can, this, you know, this thread smells gay, you know, and someone's spraying, uh, Lysol in the air.
00:31:42.000One thing though, tip, if you go to 4chan's website, put it on private surfing mode on your browser or just clear your cache and delete your computer when you're done going to that website because you'll do some crazy shit at that website.
00:32:41.000And so, anyway, but one of the comics that was there, poor girl, she was married and found out her husband was having an affair.
00:32:49.000And the reason she found out was because there's a website called Dolly Madison or something for married people if they want to have affairs.
00:34:40.000Well, I think that's one of the reasons why people hate deception so much and people hate lies so much is that everyone's trying to figure life out.
00:35:51.000So you have a man and a woman playing characters and coming together on almost a – just the platform by which they're coming together is already fake.
00:36:03.000Nobody's being honest with each other.
00:36:05.000You've been cast as a guy who's got to be tough in this way, and she's been cast as this other person.
00:37:27.000They're telling stories about other people's sort of shortcomings.
00:37:30.000It's why Us magazine, those magazines are so popular.
00:37:34.000It's why so many of these talk shows that deal only with what's going on in Hollywood are so successful.
00:37:41.000People want to, they want to, they want to, I'm always amazed at people's capacity for gossip and how people can actually give a shit about somebody's relationship if they happen to be in a movie and stuff like that.
00:38:10.000It seems to me almost this sort of, I don't know if the word is, this analgesic sort of quality to sitting back and talking about things that have nothing to do with anything, that are by their very nature completely ethereal.
00:38:28.000For example, like how much weight this actress lost or how much weight this actress gained and things like that.
00:38:35.000Do you ever watch Keeping Up with the Kardashians?
00:38:59.000It's a form of connection, and I'm not talking about connection.
00:39:03.000I'm not talking about having a place for everything like that.
00:39:07.000I'm saying that the problem is that when that is, when that becomes all people think and talk about, there's something wrong.
00:39:16.000A lot of what's going on is I think people are inundated with too much data.
00:39:20.000I think our brains are not set up to be on the internet yet.
00:39:25.000It's just the brain is just being overwhelmed by shit.
00:39:29.000So I think we like to keep things really simple sometimes to distract ourselves from that.
00:39:33.000Well, that's an interesting thing too because I was also thinking about how technology and its exponential growth is kind of rendering masculinity in its traditional form completely obsolete.
00:40:03.000I mean, how can you tell someone they're wrong with that?
00:40:05.000But it's interesting how a lot of this stuff is becoming simulated.
00:40:08.000One of the reasons I think video games are so popular is because it's an outlet, it's an aggressive outlet for boys and men even to exercise that natural instinct to hunt and kill.
00:40:30.000We were talking about hunter-gatherer instincts, and it brought up the idea, and I brought this up, I think there's probably a series of genetic rewards we have for catching and eating things and killing things because it's good for you, and because something is good for you, usually there's some sort of a natural reward system going on.
00:40:48.000Like with, you know, your brain chemistry, you get like, you know, a little blast of dopamine or whatever happens, you know, a little blast of something.
00:40:54.000And we were talking about it and we were talking about like fishing.
00:41:03.000I think we're getting away from all that stuff.
00:41:05.000And we all have these reward systems that are set up inside of our bodies.
00:41:08.000And if we don't get them in some direction and force them into good exercise or some fucking creative path or something, we're basically making up for some rewards that we don't get all day anymore.
00:41:22.000Our lives now, if you work a shitty job, even if it pays well, if it's a shitty, boring-ass fucking job...
00:41:27.000It's not nearly as exciting as being a hunter.
00:43:07.000I heard a statistic and I don't have the – it's not like Mayo Clinic and stuff, but it came from a fairly reliable source that said that one in four people will die of cancer.
00:43:21.000One in four people get cancer eventually, whether it's in their 80s or 90s or whatever.
00:43:49.000You know, an interesting statistic, there's never been a professional athlete that has lived to be over 100. I believe that, and I think it's probably because of the kind of stress.
00:43:58.000I don't know if that's true, but I read that.
00:44:00.000It was called Dead Doctors Tell No Tales or something like that.
00:44:40.000Did he start getting sick or did he just like, brock, don't feel good?
00:44:42.000He just didn't feel good for a long time.
00:44:44.000They said that he was operating at 60 to 80% of his potential, which is fucking terrifying when you think of how fucking fast and strong and athletic that dude is and to think that he was actually like sick the whole time.
00:46:25.000Like, when he hit Frank Mir, like, he hit Frank Mir, like, the short left hand inside, and you can see Frank Mir's face, like, a couple of times.
00:46:32.000Before he dropped him, he hit him with these short punches.
00:46:35.000It was that, but it was the look in his face like, whoa!
00:46:39.000This is some fucking rocky shit we're doing here!
00:49:29.000So, if you look at Rich Franklin, okay...
00:49:31.000Rich Franklin is, like, above 200 pounds when he cuts down to 185. And now that he's campaigning at light heavyweight at 205, he's walking around, I would say, probably maybe 220 or something like that.
00:50:14.000He is a hard-nosed motherfucker, and he will take fucking five punches in the face to try to take you down.
00:50:21.000And look, when he's dedicated, and when he's on, and when he's right, and he was in the Nate Marquardt fight, and he was in the Anderson Silva fight, he's a bad motherfucker.
00:51:18.000That's like the next fight that just been announced.
00:51:20.000So if Vitor's going to fight Yushin Okami, that means Vitor's not going to fight Anderson, which means I think they're probably setting up an Anderson-Chael Sonnen rematch.
00:51:27.000I don't know the official word yet, though.
00:51:29.000But look, man, why not make the money?
00:53:16.000Sometimes I like this to be really obnoxious because I walk up, like I walk up, I think I was in San Antonio, it was a bunch of military guys, maybe macho, you know, tough guys.
00:53:22.000And I was like, I walk up and I go, I was wearing this tight American apparel shirt.
00:53:27.000Guys, first of all, I want to apologize for my body.
00:54:04.000Yeah, it's just got to be what you think is funny.
00:54:05.000You know, Brian is a very, he's got a very unique sense of humor, and one of the funniest things that I've ever seen anybody do, we were in a hotel, and there's a video of it, I'll get Eddie Bravo to Twitter the video, put it online, but there's a video, do you know what the video's called on YouTube?
00:54:55.000Literally, if I had to look back on one of the funniest things I've ever seen, if I had to vote for the funniest things in my entire life as a human that I've ever seen, I think you win.
00:55:04.000I think that might have been the funniest thing I've ever seen ever.
01:01:39.000Look, I have a lot of respect for any culture, but I think Hindi is you hold your tongue in a certain way, and when you learn English, that's how some of them speak.
01:01:49.000However, a lot of, you know, India was a British colony, so a lot of them will speak sort of with an English accent, sort of a combination.
01:02:25.000He's this guy who's a chef, and he apparently was just a wild punk rocker type chef, and he Did a lot of drugs and wrote books about the crazy world of chef lives and chefs are all getting fucked up after shows or after their shifts.
01:02:41.000Yeah, and it's just really hilarious stuff.
01:02:44.000And he goes all around the world eating in these really cool places and everywhere.
01:03:41.000India is going to become, because it's such a decentralized, it's actually, it's because its government is so ineffective, you could make the argument that India is becoming a huge economic powerhouse.
01:03:51.000Don't figure that out while you're talking about India.
01:04:15.000This is what I'm getting concerned about.
01:04:17.000I'm getting concerned about this tag team fucking duo of Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin because now they're combining their retard superpowers and they have even more dummies that are into what they're saying.
01:06:09.000You know, people are downplaying this guy.
01:06:12.000This guy is starting to learn how much power he has.
01:06:15.000And it's growing and growing and growing.
01:06:17.000And his power base, as dumb as he is, as crazy as he is, as much sponsors pull off of his show because he says that Obama's a racist, that guy's getting more and more people into it.
01:06:26.000That's why you've got to be very careful of anybody.
01:08:14.000There's probably one black guy and he's just crying because he's so happy there's so many white people around him because he loves white people.
01:08:22.000And over these grounds where we are so honored to stand today...
01:09:54.000Human beings are cognitively selective, okay, naturally.
01:09:58.000So what we'll do is when we have – we already have a point of view based on our childhood, based on our experiences, and we have a strong point of view.
01:10:04.000And what happens is we're listening to a speech or we're listening to a philosopher or reading a book.
01:10:08.000We'll cherry-pick only the facts that support and bolster our argument.
01:10:13.000And one of the difficult things to do as you get older, and I think that's very important to do – Is to always step back and take a look at the flaws in your own argument and the flaws of your own philosophy and the paradigm that you carry around with you.
01:12:53.000I'm glad I didn't start surfing when I was younger because I would have been out there now with no resume and a guy who could surf tubes because that is addictive, man.
01:13:41.000If you fall, there at Hamilton, he was riding, and they said, if he had fallen that wave, there's a 50% chance he would have just died.
01:13:49.000You don't come up, because when you fall, there's another wave that's six stories high behind you, waiting to hit you again, and you then sent 100 yards into the ocean.
01:13:58.000Oh my god, and they don't even have life vests on.
01:15:05.000There was a Hurricane 5 or something in Hawaii, and he went out on the Until you go into the water just to swim, all this is very abstract.
01:15:12.000You don't realize the power of the ocean.
01:15:14.000I know a lot of people that have never swam in the ocean before.
01:15:17.000You ever get caught in a wave or in a tide where you get pulled back?
01:15:45.000Because the thing about surfing, when you're surfing waves that are six stories high, is you have to have the ability to dive under the water.
01:15:52.000If you tried to be just a helicopter or a thing to hold you there and you got caught in that wave, first of all, it would break the cord or it would rip you in half.
01:16:03.000That wave, those waves, when you get caught in those waves, if you're unlucky enough, you'll get sent underwater 20 feet and thrown a football field.
01:17:13.000When I had my problem with pool, where I was playing pool eight to ten hours a day, it was a massive obsession, but it was also fun as fuck.
01:17:22.000There's something really rewarding about getting good at pool.
01:17:25.000I never got to a professional level, but I got decent where I could run out if I had an open shot.
01:17:48.000Meanwhile, you're just stuck in a room knocking balls into a hole like a retard.
01:17:52.000But your brain is being flooded with this reward chemical.
01:17:56.000And it gives you the ability to solve problems and use patience.
01:18:02.000And try to come up with creative solutions.
01:18:04.000Even though it seems to be just like balls on a table with six holes, what it really is is you've got to be creative in solving solutions and be rational in how you do it and control the ball.
01:19:11.000When you get married, especially if you're a civilian, if you get married and you have kids and you're at home all day or after you get off work, you're at work all day, you have to adhere to one code, then you get home and you have to adhere to another code because you're not allowed to swear on the baby, you don't get much chance to cut loose and tell pussy stories.
01:19:29.000I can tell stinky pussy stories from high school.
01:22:47.000The body, what I've found is I've always been really into health and I've always been really into especially keeping my energy where I need it.
01:22:53.000And as I got older, I would always take different things, like I'd try supplements, I'd try this, and more protein.
01:22:57.000And what I find actually, for me, is if I get enough sleep and then I eat just enough, your stomach is the size of a softball, you know, the adult stomach.
01:23:04.000The adult male stomach is the size of a softball.
01:23:06.000If I eat, you know, like just controlling my portions and eating good, real food, as long as I get enough sleep sometimes, that's all I need, just personally, for me.
01:24:07.000I think meat is bad for you if you don't exercise.
01:24:09.000I think meat's bad for you if you don't also eat vegetables and things like that, maybe.
01:24:12.000But I think, you know, there's another thing that I read in this silly quote that I'm going to give you that I don't know if I could back up.
01:24:19.000It was in the same book about all people over 100 that lived to be over 100, almost all of them were red meat eaters.
01:24:26.000Well, that's actually, if you go to TED.com and the guy who studied the six blue zones in the world where people live well over 100 years old, and one is in Sardinia, the other is in Okinawa, the other is actually the Seventh-day Adventists who live out in Montana, and he just took a look at these six different blue zones.
01:24:49.000And all of them, there are a couple of other things that they do, but the other thing is a lot of them eat fermented things like yogurt and stuff like that.
01:25:06.000The other major thing that he found had nothing to do with religion.
01:25:10.000It had to do with how connected those communities were.
01:25:14.000Connection they find when people have strong bonded communities in villages and things like that where they take care of each other and where even if somebody doesn't do as well, if there's a cultural sort of notion that it doesn't matter, you take care of that person, you make them feel safe.
01:25:34.000And in the book The Outliers where he looks at this place called Rosetta, which was this village in Italy called Rosetta, founded this – in the foothills of Pennsylvania, they created this community, built churches and they would all move from the marble quarries and move there and there was a marble quarry close to there. built churches and they would all move from the marble So this town Rosetta.
01:25:53.000So this doctor went there to do this convention and he was talking to another doctor who had been practicing in Rosetta for a long time and this was in 1961.
01:26:02.000And he said, you know, I got to tell you, These people cook with lard.
01:26:35.000And they do exercise, but they don't exercise as much.
01:26:38.000And what they found was that they had a really, really strong community.
01:26:42.000And that they all had this incredible support system.
01:26:46.000So if somebody didn't make as much money or was a little slow, they still felt loved.
01:26:51.000And when they would go to these medical conventions, they started trying to talk about health in terms of community.
01:26:56.000In other words, human beings, yeah, you need to control your cholesterol and your fat and there's a science behind it.
01:27:01.000There's also what is obviously very important for human beings for longevity is connection, feeling connected, feeling like they have connection and that they're loved.
01:28:25.000Comes over to the table, introduces himself, talks to you, chats to you, explains to you what each different thing is and why they're together because...
01:28:32.000This gives you one certain kind of taste.
01:28:35.000He grows, I think, 36 different kinds of tomatoes in his yard.
01:29:26.000Look, Mexicans in LA, you're not going to have any more assholes in the Mexican community per capita than you would in the white community or the black community.
01:31:19.000The first time it scared me is because me and Chris McGuire went to go see it in Houston, Texas.
01:31:24.000We were performing at the Laugh Stop, and these dudes who worked across the street at the movie theater came over to the show, and this was pre-fear factor.
01:31:46.000So me and Chris McGuire go across the street with these two dudes and this dude's girlfriend and watch the Blair Witch Project at 2 o'clock in the morning on a Saturday night after the midnight show.
01:34:36.000I remember he had his sunglasses on the back of his head, and he stands there and looks, and he's looking like that, and he just casually, casually walks back.
01:37:13.000But after I saw that shooting, I remember I was really depressed, and for three days I said to my buddy, I go, I don't know, man, I feel depressed or something ever since I saw that shooting.
01:37:49.000I was like, this is terrible for your body.
01:37:50.000What I'm doing, that was not like mushrooms or anything where I got something out of it, but my body felt almost better and more energized.
01:37:57.000You've got to go through a mushroom trip, you feel good at the end of it.
01:38:00.000You feel a little exhausted, but you feel good physically.
01:38:03.000You feel like you've lost a lot of stress.
01:38:10.000People have done therapeutic tests using it, and there's a lot of evidence that it helps people with all sorts of things in their life, in their past, dealing with things.
01:38:23.000My friend Ed Clay was just telling me how it changed his life.
01:38:26.000Ibogaine is this drug that is illegal in America, but legal in Mexico.
01:38:32.000So a lot of people go down to Mexico to take it, and they have these Ibogaine therapy places where they're some incredibly high percentage, over 80% successful in curing people of opiate addiction with virtually no hangover.
01:38:45.000It literally rewires your entire brain.
01:38:47.000It's supposed to be one of the most intensely introspective experiences a human being could go through.
01:38:55.000He re-learned his whole life, like literally went back over things that he did when he was a child and things that his father said to him when he was young that made him today.
01:39:06.000But graphically, in high detail, like you're watching it in a film, and brilliantly demonstrates all the areas in your life where you're behaving and acting in a certain way.
01:39:18.000And what this addiction really is, is some sort of a whole...
01:39:21.000In the way your mind has been wired and it almost like sets everything, resets everything, and lets everything jingle into place and you get a much better map of what your mind is and how your mind works.
01:39:33.000And it's like hugely successful in curing people of heroin addiction.
01:40:05.000There are a million people going to see Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin at the fucking Washington Monument on the eve of the Martin Luther King I Have a Dream speech.
01:40:43.000The mythology was all wrapped up in the buffalo and the animals around them.
01:40:47.000We went through that in the 1800s when they were essentially laying in the railroad shooting all the buffalo and lacing the body with strychnine and all the other animals would eat it.
01:40:56.000500 million animals they think probably died in the space of 20 years.
01:41:00.000It used to look like the plains of Africa.
01:41:02.000And when the peyotes realized that everything to their mythology, think about this, your whole mythology, everything that you based your culture on, the animals themselves are gone.
01:41:19.000And when that happens on such a drastic level, they started taking the peyote to go within their consciousness to find that nostalgia for something that's beyond themselves.
01:41:28.000Wait a minute, so peyote use only started when...
01:41:30.000Only started in the 1800s with the peyote Really?
01:41:54.000They've had those for a long human beings have always you know The most fascinating thing to me about Mexico is how they're like a thousand Mayan temples They believe that have not been discovered like they'll go digging up apartment buildings and shit in Mexico City.
01:42:06.000They're like They're replacing something, they knock something down, and then they have to stop because they find a Mayan temple.
01:43:20.000Yeah, so all these little different dudes, little different characters, these weird fucking things that they would draw, and they would put them all together, they all meant different sounds.
01:43:30.000So then you had to figure out, like, okay, it means a certain word, and how does it go with this one?
01:43:34.000In a way, though, you could almost say that's the same thing with...
01:43:59.000This weird society that was mapping out the heavens.
01:44:02.000I mean, think about that back in the 100s.
01:44:04.000Sometimes I wonder, though, if that's a product of not so much a culture, but a set of circumstances.
01:44:12.000For example, why did Socrates and Plato and Aristotle come out of Greece?
01:44:18.000How did Greece become this hub of civilization?
01:44:24.000Well, a lot of their stuff came from Egypt.
01:44:26.000Well, no, not just that, but the idea was that Greece was a country that because they could export timber, olive oil, and wine, they didn't have to live on a subsistence level.
01:44:39.000So they had three months of the year to just sit back and kind of hang out.
01:44:45.000So cultures that had the luxury of being able to sell or not only their merchandise or create a system where they could actually be wealthy.
01:45:47.000Yeah, I mean, there's been a bunch of guys who changed culture like that, but I wonder if that's what it was, whether it was some super group of Mayans that were super intelligent, and then eventually they died off, and the culture died off.
01:46:06.000That document in the Federalist Papers, one of the great ideas of philosophy, you're talking about men in their 30s who solved the political problem.
01:46:38.000It's not possible if all these people are buying into Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck.
01:46:42.000Look, I think it's possible for the idea, and it's very resilient and strong in American culture still, and it's part of the American spirit, the concept and the idea that...
01:46:52.000I, as an individual, have protection to speak my mind, to gain profit from my own ingenuity and my own risk-taking, to worship or say what I want, as long as it doesn't, you know, incite a riot or whatever, etc., etc.
01:47:08.000Those kinds of things, I think, are very strong.
01:47:12.000I think this country has always swayed from one extreme to the other, or somewhere in the middle.
01:47:18.000There are always trends that push us toward the left, trends that push us toward the right.
01:47:22.000I think the issue now is that you have so many people who, for such a cheap price, can get on TV, and if they've got a good speaking voice, or a sharp profile, or they say things that are inflammatory, you've got enough people where shit is changing so quickly today.
01:47:39.000A lot of people are just afraid of how fast things are changing, especially technology.
01:47:44.000You're going to have people who want to get back to the old way of living, the status quo, God, guts and guns, whatever it might be.
01:47:53.000They want to go back to a John Wayne movie.
01:47:54.000Yeah, so it doesn't surprise me that when my boy Glenn Beck says, we're bringing our country back to God, people go, that's the nostalgia I remember, the 50s or whatever it might be.
01:48:50.000What's your thought on not only steroids in sports, but the idea that technology is going to allow us to start doping our genes and all that stuff.
01:51:22.000Um, Russell Peters, I bet he's got a good jab.
01:51:24.000I just think, you know, even their movies, like, their, like, Hollywood movies that Indian people do, like, their main stars are, like, ridiculous.
01:51:31.000Well, India has a bunch of badass wrestlers.
01:54:14.000They're growing up the most difficult generation to grow up ever.
01:54:19.000Young kids today, and with some of the most ridiculous influences.
01:54:23.000Like, when I was a kid, there was no Kardashians, there's no Paris Hilton, there was no ridiculous people who were famous for doing nothing, you know, and so much attention was paid to them.
01:54:32.000And I'm not hating, you know, if you can get it, good, good for you, man.
01:54:40.000We talked about it, maybe possibly even being therapeutic, but what I'm saying is, we were never exposed to anything that ridiculous as a role model.
01:54:47.000We were never exposed to anything You know, that's strange where all these people are paying attention to it.
01:54:52.000I was listening to Nancy Grace talk about Paris Hilton.
01:54:55.000I had to stop my car and I'm like sitting in my car shaking my hand.
01:54:58.000Nancy Grace is mad because Paris Hilton was pulled over with cocaine.
01:55:04.000She is a repeat offender and she is out on the streets.
01:55:10.000Would that be happening if it was you or I? It wasn't her purse, Joe.
01:56:00.000She's a young girl and she has troubles, Brian.
01:56:02.000Growing up, the creepy thing is when you see the photos of her when she was really young or video of her when she was like a Disney kid, it's like, wow, this is strange.
01:56:09.000Like, this kid really did grow up in front of the camera.
01:56:12.000Remember that she plays a twin and there's two of them?
01:57:12.000These idiots think that what they have to say and what they have to do is so important because of the fact that there's a camera on them and because of the fact that all these people are telling them how awesome they are because their job revolves around this person.
01:57:23.000So they start to believe it and then they start to act it out and then you come along and you have to meet this guy for the first time and you're like, oh this guy is in like The swirling fucking death throes of a three-year bizarre trip through ego, and now I'm meeting him four years in.
01:57:38.000He doesn't even know how crazy he's acting.
01:57:40.000He's yelling at the fucking staff and yelling at the director and doing cocaine before the scene.
01:59:37.000I just, you know, I remember feeling really sad when I heard that, you know, that he could get to that place where he could do something like that.
01:59:44.000I think it's always hard when somebody suffers from that kind of, that level of despair.
02:06:33.000Well, you know, he just, you know, he had an imbalance.
02:06:36.000There was some imbalance and he self-medicated, you know.
02:06:39.000But I got to see, like, genius because of all his crazy flaws.
02:06:43.000It's like we were talking about that Robert E. Howard guy.
02:06:45.000That Robert E. Howard guy was so fucked up that he had to kill himself when he was like 30-something years old, but yet he was so brilliant and so he had so much creativity.
02:06:53.000Wrote all this really fascinating shit like in the 1950s, right?
02:07:35.000Literally, she was filling garbage bags full of beer cans.
02:07:40.000And he said, I happen to have been a really, really imaginative writer who had a substance abuse problem.
02:07:47.000So do you think that his dealing with his substance abuse problem and then all the torture of being an alcoholic and doing coke and all this turmoil in his head created all that horror?
02:08:40.000But Nick Kent, who is a rock journalist, wrote a book called The Dark Stuff that I read a while ago about rock and rollers.
02:08:46.000And he followed the Pogues and Lou Reed and the Stones and Zeppelin and everybody.
02:08:51.000And he wrote a book which actually said that most of those guys, and there's been a lot of, like, there's some strong evidence to suggest that some drugs, yes, other drugs, W, and heroin.
02:09:26.000I mean, you think about his most thrilling, horror-filled, psychotic shit was all from the time he was using.
02:09:32.000Well, yeah, but I mean, Nick Kent said that a lot of these guys got into drugs because a lot of their heroes were drug addicts, like the blues art guys.
02:09:41.000And he said, and a lot of those guys ended up, and Stanley Crouch said the same thing, he goes, a lot of these guys were subscribing to their heroes' lifestyles, and you can actually see a fairly precipitous drop off on their productivity, not when it came to weed.
02:10:05.000I absolutely agree that there's a detrimental effect, especially with the ones like opiates and stuff that crushes your body very, very bad for your body.
02:10:11.000Because I think because you get into that more than you get into anything else.
02:10:15.000But I also think that we have to acknowledge that they're changing the way people think.
02:10:19.000The paths that you take and your creativity, they change the direction.
02:10:22.000They change the enthusiasm behind things.
02:10:24.000They change the aggression behind things.
02:10:26.000And those change the road you go down when you're creating things.
02:10:29.000And not only that, as we learn more about our genomes and how different we are genetically, drugs have a vastly different effect on one person versus another too.
02:10:38.000Yeah, it's very important because I've talked to people about pot, even the kind of pot that I smoke, like the figure out the universe, watch documentaries pot.
02:10:46.000That, you know, sativas over the Indicas, rather.
02:10:48.000Some people will smoke a sativa, and they're describing a completely different thing, and they have a completely different effect.
02:10:55.000Does the sativa tech affect your mind more than your body?
02:11:05.000The rewards for massages and stuff, like, I never get massaged unless I get high first.
02:11:11.000Except today because I knew it was going to be a dude robbing me.
02:11:13.000I was just going to say, yeah, what if it was a guy?
02:11:15.000You don't want to be moaning when a dude is massaging.
02:11:19.000I hurt my back last week in jujitsu and like a retard yesterday, I got adjusted and then I tried to roll last night and like halfway into the class, my back just fucking completely gave out where I couldn't stop anybody from passing my guard.
02:11:51.000It's like, this guy today was not as bad as the last guy I went to.
02:11:54.000The last guy I went to, I literally almost tapped out.
02:11:57.000The doctor, Dr. Spag, who's the main chiropractor there, he told me he actually fainted.
02:12:01.000This guy hurt him so bad that he fainted.
02:12:03.000This mother is just breaking down your world with his elbow.
02:12:07.000He's just digging into all your injuries, and it's breaking up the scar tissue, literally tearing it open so that it can breathe and get circulation in there.
02:15:39.000He was a strong yoga guy like this guy does like power yoga and shit.
02:15:42.000He's strong as fuck and he would get on top of you with your elbow with his elbow rather and just Drive it into your spine like right where that injury is because I got this knot of scar tissue right next to my spine and he's I'm breaking it.