#2414 - Brian Simpson

29:33Well, you also have to realize who are these people. They're just people that got jobs working for whatever media company that is, whether it's NBC or Netflix or whatever it is. They're just people that got jobs. They might not have any idea like how a joke is made, what the process is of developing material, who's got talent, who's derivative. They might not have any idea. But what they do is they lick their fucking finger and they hold it up and whichever way the wind's blowing, they pretend they're a genius. And that's what they do. And oftentimes they'll dismiss someone who turns out to be the best one of the lot.

30:10It's real common, man. And then they always want to stand by those ideas like, ah, I don't see it. And like, OK, the guy's fucking selling out arenas. I think you missed it. But it happens a lot. It happens a lot with these folks because they're not artists. They're just business people, and they're pretending to be artists. It's weird. Like some of them give you advice. But some people do have, like there's a talent for dealing with talent that some people do have. Adam Eagat. Right. Adam Eagat is a perfect example. Because Adam is an artist whose job is to be a talent coordinator. But he's genuinely an artist.

30:49Like he gets it. He thinks like a comic. He behaves like a comic. He was a funny co-host of Norm MacDonald's show. You know when Norm had that show? Adam was on that show with him. He gets it. He understands the business. He'll hit you with a zinger from time to time. He's a funny dude. He's got a couple in the chamber. He's a funny dude. But he's also a smart dude. And he knows potential. He sees someone and he can give them genuinely good advice. Like genuinely, you could take this and develop it this way. Maybe you need to work on this. Maybe you need to, you know. But, you know, more importantly, I think he has he has the courage of his convictions where it's like like when I when I first got to Hollywood, you know, I went over, you know, I went everywhere at least once or twice.

31:34And, you know, some people, you know, people come back next week or, you know, you got to wait till this time or whatever. Everyone saw me at least once. Adam saw me. He was the only person that was like, come back next week. Like, come on. You get a spot next week. Right. Because he gets it. Yeah. Yeah. And he started fucking with me immediately. And it wasn't any hesitation at all. From the time I met him, I was just getting spots at the store. Yeah. Yeah. And so to do that, to have that belief in your eye, you know, instead of needing other people's. Because of how most of show business works is everybody is just, no one wants to be the first one on your dick, but no one wants to be the last one.

32:13So even if they see something they think is dope, they'll be like, does anybody else think it's dope? Right. No? Okay, me neither. Right. But then as soon as a couple of people think it's dope, then it was like, I saw it six months ago. It's that kind of shit. Yeah, that's where they're pretending they have talent. That's their talent. But the problem is you don't have to have the talent talent to be in a position. No, you don't. You can just get a job and they need someone to do it. And if you sell yourself and if you worked in production before you did something as an agent or whatever the fuck it is, you're in the business.

32:46Or just suffer under some tyrant. There's a lot of that. Yeah. There's a lot of that. A lot of suffering under tyrants. And then these guys, they wind up, you know, fucking ruining companies because they don't know what like how many terrible specials have you seen that just fit the right demographic, fit this like silly thing. That was another problem that Adam was having at the store is that he couldn't just give spots to the people that he thought was funny. There was pressure to make a certain amount of gay people on the set, a certain amount of women, a certain amount of – they had people telling him he didn't have enough of certain demographics.

33:29But where's the pressure coming from? Oh, I don't know. It was coming from – I don't want to talk out of school. But it wasn't just comics. There was people that were buying into it. And that's nonsense. My mind immediately went to something silly. He just wakes up, there's a dildo on his pillow with a note. No, he was being told. And it's just like there's a lot of vicious people in this fucking business. and if you're a guy and your job is working at a club and that's all you got and you know all of a sudden that job is threatened because people are complaining about you and they think that you're not doing your best to make the lineup more diverse which is like it's so silly because this is the thing that we always talk about in the green room like look how diverse that club is there's everybody there like all kinds of different kinds of people and the idea that like it's one thing this is the most dumb straw man that gets tossed around like it's all right-wing comedy club the vast majority of the people that work there are left-wing people vast majority that's a fact that's a fact yeah and you can't like you can't tie it down you know it's all white males that's bullshit there's all kinds of people there there's arabs and muslim people there's people from india There's people from Asia.

34:54There's black people, white people, Australians. There's people from fucking everywhere at that club. And just there's one thing in common only. Do you love comedy? Are you trying to get better? Are you funny? There is something to be said about being aware of your blind spots. But I don't think that the way Hollywood always does diversity is wrong. Because they'll go, instead of going to find, they'll go, we're missing this slice of the pie. And instead of going and finding the funniest people, they'll just pick anyone, you know? And I don't know if that always, this is almost never the best way to do this.

35:32It's never the best way. It's like the same thing for neurosurgeons. If you're like, you know, I'm really looking for a Danish woman neurosurgeon. Like, no, no, no, you have a brain tumor. Like, no, no, no. I really want a Danish woman. Like, no, no, no, no, no, no. You got to get the best guy. The best guy's a Chinese guy. We found him. He was out of Harvard. This guy. No, no, no. Like, that's crazy. And that's the same thing with everything. It's like it should be a meritocracy. And I think ultimately you're going to have examples of all sorts of different kinds of people that rise to the top in a true meritocracy.

36:05I mean, but the – well, the pendulum always swings both back and forth, but it's almost never a meritocracy. You know? In comedy? Or just – I'm just talking about America. Comedy is one of the only things where it's a genuine meritocracy. Oh, yeah. Well, when it comes to the crowd, you can't cheat. You can't cheat. No. It is what it is, unless you're stealing. That's the only thing. If someone's a joke thief. Or unless you're a fucking hack. Yeah. You can get away with a lot. But you can't get away with a lot with your peers, right? You can't, like, your peers won't like you. They won't want to be around.

36:39They won't want to go on the road with you with your whack-ass jokes. No? No. Unless you're super famous. People will just hold their nose and go on the road with you. There's a few. That's true. There's a few that will do that. But ultimately, though, when it comes to like sustaining a career and having, you know, years and years of people coming out to see you and multiple specials and stuff like that, it either works or it doesn't work. That's it. It's real simple. Once people find out about you, now you've got your foot in the door, and it's all just about keeping it on the gas. Keep your foot on the gas and keep producing.

37:16Keep making stuff. Keep writing. Keep working on sets. And if you're working for those people, they'll keep showing up for you because you made them laugh. I hope that stays true because it's the only thing I'm good at. I'm bad at everything except my comedy. Well, you're really good at your comedy, though. Some people never get really good at anything. But I feel like every year you have to be good at something else. No. Editing, sketches, scripts. They want you to act. They want you to. Nah, you don't. You don't. You don't. Look at David Tell. Does one thing. Does one thing. Stand-up comedy.

37:57Everybody loves him. He's amazing. Yeah, facts. Does one thing. That's it. I mean, that dude doesn't even go on social media at all, which is the only reason why he's not selling out enormous arenas. When we had him at the club last weekend, everybody was like dude, he's the best. He's one of the best of all time. And he's working clubs. A lot of people put him at the very top. He's up there, dude. It's kind of silly to rank comedians. And every comic that's alive today owes a debt of gratitude to the people that came before us. We all do. Because it's a relatively new art form. I mean, I go I go by joke, by joke, by joke.

38:35I don't really have a favorite comedian, but there's some bits out there where I'm like, that's fucking. And some of those come from, a few of them come from the same people, but it tells one of those people where you just, sometimes you're just in awe. Yeah, beautiful. But I love that. I love getting to watch a comic to make you go, God damn, I need to just boil my shit up and fucking throw it away. Yeah, that's the best feeling. That's where the fire starts burning and gets you going. You need to feel that. That's why comics don't exist in a vacuum. You know, we were talking about this the other day that we're talking about, like, McCann.

39:10So McCann is in this thing where he might have to move. And we're like, bro, you got to stay. Like, you're killing it and you're getting funnier. You're, like, funnier all the time. And I think one of the reasons why is what you're around. Comics don't exist in a vacuum. You're not going to go to, like, South Dakota and find the best comic that no one's ever seen. The best comic in the world lives in South Dakota by himself. and he works at this little local comedy club and everybody comes to see him from miles around. No. The best comics are around other killers. You get to see a guy like Dave Vittell go up and you're like, God damn.

39:42You get to see Shane Gillis go up. You go, God damn. You get to see Joey Diaz. You get to see all these fucking killers over and over and over again. And when you're around that and you see Ron White every week, that's how you get better. That's where it's on. McCann brings the heat. He brings the heat, dude. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's fucking talented and he's smart and he's a great guy and he's fucking just a curious, interesting thinker. And he's got a zany delivery. Whenever I follow him, he always brings me up like he auctioned in slaves. Bran! Sips it! He says my name like Leonardo DiCaprio in Django.

40:24Bran! Watch, we're going to get that on tape somewhere. Yeah, we'll get that tonight. I'll bring him in tonight. Oh, yeah. Is he coming in there? I think so. I think so. I got to text him as soon as we get out of here. Oh, speaking of the comedy, my Don't Tell chat came out this week. Go check it out. It's already out. Oh, it was out this week? It was out last week, but it's gone. It's taken off. Nice. Beautiful. Yeah, it's like a couple of the clips, a couple million. Beautiful. Yeah. Go check it out. It's on YouTube, Don't Tell Comedy. That WAP joke is one of my all-time favorite jokes. Oh, yeah.

40:58Yeah, that's on my YouTube channel. Yeah. So, yeah. We got a lot of stuff online, man. Some people are like, I've just now discovered you. I'm like, really? That's how it works, man. Yeah. There's so much shit out there. That's the thing, man. A million people can watch your shit and nobody saw it. Isn't that nuts? Yeah. That's how many people there are that are online. There's people that are huge fans of yours that don't even know you do stand-up. It's crazy. You know what I mean? How is that possible? Well, there's just too many things to pay attention to. How many times have you heard about an actor?

41:26Like, my kids will tell me about someone. And I'm like, who is that? And they're like, oh, my God, that person's huge. I'm like, shut up. Really? And then I go to their Instagram page. They have 30 million Instagram followers. I'm like, how? Am I that old? It happens to me all the time. I've officially reached unk status. Yeah, I'm unk status for sure. I'm like grandpa status. Grandpa Joe. Grandpa Joe doesn't know anything. Because I'm not looking. The thing is, I'm not at the point. Like, I'm not looking for new stuff. So if the kids don't tell me. Yeah, I'm not looking either. But then that makes me feel old.

41:56it'll be somebody that's like world famous and I'm like who the fuck is that I know I completely missed the the baby shark thing I just started hearing people talk about it in jokes baby shark yeah apparently it's like the number one it's the most streamed YouTube video right Jamie I mean a couple years ago guys but it's still number one now right I completely missed it baby shark do do do do oh baby shark do do do do Yeah, that's right. I had literally hadn't heard that song. It had been out for maybe a year and a half, and I hadn't heard anything about it. I just heard a comic making jokes about it.

42:32Because when something's in the pop culture, everyone will be trying to have their own thing on it. And I heard another comic say a joke about it. I'm like, what the fuck is that? Sure enough, I completely missed it. I mean, I don't have kids. That makes sense. That's what it is. Okay, this is it? That video? That's a big video? I've never seen that video. The world's most watched YouTube video hasn't made its creator rich. What? How come? Hold on. A company behind Ubiquitous Song is hampered by ad restrictions on children's content. Wants to raise funds for expansion. What does that mean? Raise funds?

43:07You had one viral video. You ain't a company. 16.4 billion views. Oh! That's insane. And they can't make money? This is roughly equivalent to Taylor Swift's 10 most popular YouTube videos combined. Whoa! Oh, yeah. Last year, the company generated a equivalent of about$67 million in revenue, including earnings from YouTube. But wait a minute. That's a lot. That's a lot. So it seems like they are making money. I don't understand. Is it saying the quandary underscores how certain restrictions... Scroll up a little. I think we must have missed something. No, we haven't missed anything yet. But why is it...

43:39It doesn't make any sense that the company hasn't made any money. It's saying they made money. Am I reading that wrong? Revenue isn't the same as making money, though. What? Revenue is just money coming in. Their expenses are so high that— They could have spent a lot on ads to get it out there. That's what it could be going into saying. I don't know. No, but I'm guessing 16 billion views probably should make you more than that. Is that what they're trying to say? So revenue is your gross— No, that's how much money they made total, including what they got from YouTube. That's not just from YouTube.

44:10Oh, so they make money from other stuff. Yeah, they probably licensed it out and stuff like that. So scroll up so you see the little graph there. is life, I mean, scroll down, I'm sorry. So operating profit, revenue. So they're making a lot more money. Oh. Yeah, but that's South Korean won. I don't know, yeah. I just, I mean, falling down the wrong hole. Big out. No, Joe's like, bring back the AI. Yeah, I don't know what that is. Like that baby shark thing. Like why would one thing catch like that? Because it's something for kids and people love ignoring their kids. You just put that shit on and kids are obsessed.

44:49It can't just be that because there's so many things that kids can watch. It can't be just that. It's got to be – there's some – remember that banana song, Banana Phone? Ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, banana phone. No. I never heard that before. It was like in the 2000s. It became like really popular. I think it was popular on Opie and Anthony. They kept playing it. It was like really catchy, totally innocent. And then it was like everywhere for like three or four weeks, and then it went away. and I always wonder like what the fuck is it where something just catches fire? I don't know.

45:20Remember when Tickle Me Elmo? Because what was the last time we had a viral holiday toy? Like where was the toy everyone had to have? It's not holidays but those LaBuboos were pretty viral. LaBuboos are pretty viral. Yeah, people love the LaBuboos. And I don't get it. Why though? Are they collectors? Is this like what? Because they know AI is about to take over the world and they know the aliens are landing and Jesus Christ is coming back and they just, they're freaking out. They're just buying stuffed animals. They don't know what the fuck they're doing. They're just following the lead. So a Lububu is just a stuffed animal?

45:50I don't know. I hear about them. My brain shuts off. There's a little bit of gambling involved. What? It's a mystery. You don't know what's inside the box that you bought. Wait a minute. People can sell those boxes based off of what could be inside. Is it a stuffed animal? Yeah. A stuffed animal, then you've got to gut your stuffed animal to find out what's inside of it? No, no, no. The box, like it's in a box, it's in a package, and then you don't know what's inside that package. Oh, so you just buy a Lububu without knowing which one you're going to get. Right, right, right. And you might get a limited edition one inside.

46:17It's like a real-life loot box. A limited edition. Yeah, it's like Beanie Babies without knowing what you got before, and you might get the Princess Di one. That's brilliant. You could get a limited edition LaBooBoo. That's brilliant. And other than that? How much is it to buy a mystery LaBooBoo box? I couldn't tell you. It could be$20. It could be$50. Let's take a guess. Let's take a guess. How much do you think it costs to get a LaBooBoo? Retail. Retail. I'm going to say$40. $40. Yeah, I think I'm with you. I was going to say$36. And after that, how much do you think it is resale? Oh,$150. That's how much it costs to get them, yeah.

46:49I bet it's like buying one of them, like a hot new car. So retail is$28,$27.99. Okay. Okay,$30. And then what does it cost online if you want to buy one right now? I need a LeBouBou. Like a mystery. A mystery LeBouBou, what do I get? Are you Googling it? Yeah, yeah, it's going to. Oh, no. I'll turn off my ringer. Up to$80 to$120. It's not that bad. Oh, well, a few human-sized auction pieces. Oh, that's big. $100 ,000. Wait a minute. They have human-sized labubus? Yeah, I didn't know that. Jesus Christ. What? That is so ridiculous. I mean. What is someone doing with a human-sized labubu? Who's fucking their labubu?

47:27Because you know someone is. Let me see what their labubus look like. Is this something like a furry would fuck? Let me try to Google a human-sized labubu. Oh, do you hear the latest that that dude who shot Trump might have been a furry? Yeah, I saw they found some more stuff. What? Yeah. I think he was a furry. That's like an art piece. It's not really quite a little, you know. Well, that's not really human-sized either. Human-sized Loubou doll sold for$150 ,000. Let me see what it looks like. Well, what they mean might have been a furry, I feel like you would know or not know that. They're finding stuff.

47:59Like, let's find out. I don't know what this is. Yeah. There it is. There's the big Loubou. Whatever. This lady invented them? She invented Loubou? How? Again, how? How does that work? How does that catch on? How does that catch on? Like Build-A-Bear has been in the fucking mall forever. I mean, I think I know what it is. It's probably some fucking smoking hot K-pop star. Probably they saw her with one on. You know, there's certain women where they follow, and anytime she does any fashion thing, it just spreads like wildfire. Yeah, there's a thing that does happen whenever a popular person starts wearing a thing.

48:35Yeah, they literally tricked all women into wanting a diamond. Well, you remember when Judas Priest had everybody dressing up like a gay motorcycle gang member? What? Yeah. That started with Judas Priest? Yeah. Rob Halford from Judas Priest is gay. Like, openly gay. And now, at least, you know, I don't know if he was back then, but he dressed like a gay biker. And that became like metal. Oh, word. Because Judas Priest was so good. they wanted to dress like this gay guy who dressed like a gay guy who'd go to like a gay biker club. Yeah. It's like hot women around the world. Because dudes will do anything that they think will get them laid.

49:22And women will do anything that a pretty woman does. That's true. Anything to make yourself look prettier too. Yeah. And so it's like, because all of the dudes now talking all that gay shit, they was dressing like that in the 70s and the 80s, like earrings and makeup. and purses and all of that. Bell bottoms, big collars. Yeah, because they thought it was going to get them laid. Flouncy shirts. You could dress like Prince. You could dress like Little Richard. That's right. Yeah. Anything that works. Platform shoes. Anything that works. Anything. Okay, Thomas Crooks used they, them pronouns, had obsession with political violence and muscle mommies.

49:57Uh-oh, that's what I like. Yeah, what's wrong? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I like a woman that could move a cow. I do. The lone sniper who grazed Trump in the ear killed a beloved firefighter, critically wounded two other Trump supporters, apparently had a muscle mommy fetish and repeatedly searched for videos about female bodybuilders and muscular women. But what was the furry stuff, though? I was reading some furry stuff. Crooks had two possible accounts on DeviantArt, a site that hosts fan art, has become notorious for its community of furries. People have identified as anthropomorphized animal characters and or are sexually attracted to them.

50:44Did they ever tell you about the time that I accidentally stumbled on a furry convention? No. We were flying into Pittsburgh for a UFC. One of DeviantArt accounts linked to Crooks shared just one post reposting of a towering muscular female bodybuilder and a slight man in his underwear. Yeah. Yeah, I'm all over. Yeah. That's like R. Crumb type stuff. Hilarious. Yeah, I don't kink shame. I don't kink shame either. No. Have fun. Me and Duncan wore furry outfits once. For the pod? Yeah, and we had to take the hats off after like five minutes. Like, respect to furries. You could walk around all day with this fucking thing on.

51:24It was heavy. It was hard to breathe. It was hot. We took it. Oh, yeah, that's what he likes. Yeah, baby. But who doesn't like that? I don't know. Some little dudes. Some little dudes don't want to be dominated. Don't want some man, some woman to use them like a dildo. When I was, so I was flying into Pittsburgh. We were flying in for a UFC, and we got a rental, and we're driving to the hotel. And as we're driving to the hotel, I'm like, why are all these mascots on the street? The fuck is going on? It was real weird. Like, we didn't understand what was going on. This is a while ago, like at least 10 years ago.

52:01And we're driving, and I'm like, what the fuck is this? Like, what's going on? We get to the hotel, and I'm like, and I go to the guy behind the counter. I go, man, what the fuck is going on? He goes, it's a furry convention. Like, I didn't even, I kind of vaguely knew what a furry was, but I never really dove into it, you know? So I go, what are you talking about? He goes, it's a convention of all these people that get off on dressing like animals. I go get off. He goes, dude, they're asking us to serve them food in bowls on the ground. OK, when they get room service, they want their room service in a bowl.

52:37They want it put on the ground so they can get on their knees and eat it out of a bowl. And they were asking for a litter box. I know a lot of people don't believe this, like because I told the story about a friend of mine who lives in Utah. His wife was a schoolteacher there. and one of the parents had a child that was a furry and they wanted to put a litter box in the bathroom. Now this was entirely relayed to me by my friend. It was relayed to him by his wife who worked in the school. I don't know if it's true, but everybody got so angry and they started saying what I was saying was transphobic and I got so confused because I was like, this was a couple of years ago.

53:17I was like, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait. What does this have to do with trans people? We're talking about someone who wants to shit in a box. Like, where's the trans part of this? So somehow or another, furries and that kink are getting, like, lumped into this LGBTQTAI plus whatever. And they're trying to, like, lump furries in there in this debunking of my conspiracy theory. Well, furries are their own. That's what I didn't understand. For some of them, it's not sexual. But these guys, it was. When I was talking to the guy that worked behind the counter, I was like, what is going on? He goes, dude.

53:54He goes, apparently what these guys like to do is they have like a hatch on the back of their furry outfit. And they like to bang each other without even knowing who they're banging. All they do, they pretend they're banging a giant squirrel. And they're into it. And it's apparently like part of the fun is that you don't have to think about your body. Maybe you're ashamed of your body. Maybe you don't like your body. Maybe you're just like, I'd rather someone just fuck me and think I'm a raccoon. And so that's what they do. See, I pray to God I don't find out that that's my kink because it's just too much work.

54:26It's a lot of work. The head is heavy, you know? Heavy is the head that carries the throat. Yeah, that's it. Any kink that requires maintenance. It's a lot of washing. You got to wash that furry outfit. And if someone jizzes on it and doesn't tell you, you got a problem. It might be a subsection of the community where they like it not washed. They wanted the dirty furries. They'd over there like an animal like in the woods. They don't wash themselves. Yeah, come on. Let's go We're furries are we are we furries or are we men once had a I used to work at this pub in San Diego and one time we had it was like a It was like I don't know if they're a subset of the furry world, but it's like they're like my little pony people Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, and yeah, what do they call them?

55:11There's a name for that Bronies. Bronies. Yeah, it was like a whole documentary or something. And they were all very nice and respectful, and you could see, you know, there were a handful of women involved, and you could see everybody trying to angle for the— but they took—they just filled up our pub. And these are all the My Little Pony people. Yeah. It was a documentary that was like 10 years, 12 years. And they hardcore. Like, they don't tolerate any teasing whatsoever. Like, if you try to come at them about it, it's going to be a problem.

55:44You know, like... You gotta be able to take some teasing. If you want me to take you seriously... I'm telling you, bro, they're gonna throw hoofs immediately. They're throwing hoofs. People will find a thing that they're really into. No matter what it is. They will find a fucking thing that they're really into. But that's why I don't kink shame, because I'm like, hey man, if you... Just be lucky that all the things that make you cum are things you consider normal. You know what I mean? Right. Because I feel like imagine if you found out. Right. That was your thing. Yeah. You could only you can only get off if you was dressed as a wolf.

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57:44Void in Ontario. Restrictions apply. Bet must win to receive bonus bets which expire in seven days. Minimum odds required. For additional terms and responsible gaming resources, see dkng.co slash audio. Limited time offer. I think it's a psychological thing where they don't like who they really are. I mean, if I had to guess what the furry thing is, I don't think there's any well, I mean, I don't know. Maybe there's some well-balanced furries out there that just have a weird thing. But I think most of them just don't like who they are. And so they just want to hide in this thing that's all smiley and, hi, kids.

58:13You know, you look like a fucking, some sort of a giant animal. See, I have a theory. I think whatever, I think the first time you encounter something sexual, whatever's happening gets, like, burned into your shit. That's called imprinting. Yeah. Like, I got a homie that's, like, into, like, you know, the BDSM world and stuff like that. And he has no idea. And I was like, well, how did you know that? He was like, I have no idea. And then, you know, years later, without completely unrelated, he's telling me one time about him looking for Christmas presents and going in the back of his parents' closet and finding a whole chest of, you know, whips and chains and shit like that when he was, like, six or seven years old.

58:56Whoa. He didn't make the connection. where it's like, oh, yeah, well, that's why you're. Yeah, duh. Parents are into whips and chains and shit. And I don't know if that had to happen because I think your kinks are genetic. Really? Yeah. Why do you think that? I think I've read that, right? Well, I think some information is probably passed down from parents to kids, and I would imagine kinks could be in there because, like, artistic talent is passed down. Obviously, athletic talent is often passed down. It would make sense. I bet a lot of things. I bet they don't know exactly what you're giving to your kids.

59:29Well, let's find out because if it's true, I mean, that's going to make you look at your mama real different. Right. You don't want to know that. That's horrible. Yeah, but I pity the poor people that have accidentally walked in and their parents fucking. You never did that? No. No. The horror. No, actually, that's not true. I never walked in, but I definitely knew that that's what was happening. I can block that out. Right. You can't block out the visual. Because you've definitely touched the doorknob and been like, your dad with his feet up in your hair, your mom eating his ass. No, I don't have no visuals.

1:00:05Your dad stroking it while your mom's eating his ass. Like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Oh, God, watch him. Yeah, see, there you go. I can't live anymore like that. I can't go through this. I'm going to have to get electroshock therapy. Yeah. But imagine if you walk in and, you know, I mean, what would have to happen for you to be a furry? What would you have to see? I don't think it's that. I think it's, I think there's probably some social disorder involved in some of those folks, too. There's like furry lights, which my kids go to school with. There's some kids that wear like, they wear like ears and like maybe a tail.

1:00:43And every now and then you see one of those. this baronial thing might have started as a 4chan troll that probably was too far and 4chan rules out of control like a few other things have done they're the best i can't tell do you see do you see what they did with the free flow a free bleeding project what is that hold on wait they tricked women into thinking that it's like a sign of feminism to just bleed and not have a tampon or a maxi pad oh like old school you just let it go free bleeding and so they did it as a joke and then some women adopted it because they thought it was like you know radical feminist crazy ladies so now free bleeding is like a trend no it didn't last it's disgusting it's probably totally unsanitary you smell like fish it's hell it's hell was you have a pussy blood running down your fucking pants and you're showing up at the office you expect to keep your job here at united health get out of here i don't think anybody was showing up at no offices these Those are definitely chicks with no jobs.

1:01:40At Starbucks? You showing up at Starbucks? Oh, that's not real. No way. That lady would die. She would literally be dead. That's like if you shot her with a fucking arrow. The thing is, there's no... Is this lady free bleeding? These were the 4chan posts of people trying to share it. That kid was real. I'm not putting this on the screen. But that could be a lady that's just doing a marathon and forgot a tampon. It's like, fuck it, I'm going to push through. Because I saw one lady who diarrhea'd herself. It went all down her leg and everything, and she completed that fucking race. Well, the thing is, it's hard to tell what's real and what's AI.

1:02:11That's real. That's real. That's a little pussy blood right there. I can tell. I'm an expert. But the thing is, look, free bleeding is one thing, but it's like just getting your pussy blood on other people's stuff. They don't care. Like if you're doing that shit at home or in the grass. They're marking their territory.

1:02:30Well, what did people do before they invented tampons? Like, I mean, are you supposed to just wash it out? Like, what are you supposed to do? What does nature want you to do? Like nature doesn't want you. That's why toxic shock syndrome is a thing. When women have tampons and they leave them up there and then they can get really sick. And women have died from toxic shock syndrome from tampons. I don't think people even cared about. I don't know if this might be full satire, but this is someone talking about how it's not made up and it's a real thing. Like 4chan people tried to claim they started this.

1:03:01Misogynic users of the online forum 4chan would claim that they jokingly started the movement in 2014 and see how far they could make angry feminists go. Fake memes and Twitter accounts apparently belong to feminist activists began posting content about free bleeding. This backfired spectacularly for the 4chan trolls when they unwittingly created a discourse around the normalization of periods. What? The free bleeding movement, whether fake or not, quickly became very real and got women talking about their monthly cycle. Since then, notable moments in the free bleeding movement have included Karan Gandhi running the Boston Marathon without something while bleeding through her sports shorts.

1:03:47poet Rupi Kaur also became notable in the movement when an image of her menstrual blood on her pants and bed sheets was repeatedly removed from Instagram that same year imagine like you're a hero because your pussy blood is on the internet this is so kooky this sounds like this is satire it could be who wrote it? what's it in? it's a blog of I think you I think you have a hard time convincing most yeah most but these are crazy people like most people don't want to fuck wearing a squirrel outfit, but crazy people do. Some people do. I'm not saying furries are crazy. What is the blog, and do they have other things that seem like satire?

1:04:29Because that seems like satire. It's hard to tell at the edges. When you get to the edges of radical feminism, radical leftism, and radical right-wing, patriot front type shit, it's hard to tell what satire, when you get to the edges. When you get to the most extreme examples of any movement. Also, everything's AI now and people just lie. People just say bullshit. Also, all those, whether it's the right-wing movements like Proud Boys or whether it's Antifa, they get infiltrated. Those guys get infiltrated by government officials 100 fucking percent. I guarantee you there's some FBI agents in Antifa and I guarantee you there's some FBI agents that are in the Proud Boys.

1:05:11I think the head of the Proud Boys was already outed as an FBI informant. Isn't that true? I think that, find that out. Google that. Really? Yes. That's not shocking at all. I think. Every single movement gets infiltrated. I think he still went to jail, too. I think he still went to jail for January 6th. Yeah, I mean, they still locked up. Let's see. Let's see. What does it say? Head of the Proud Boys was revealed to have been an FBI informant, Enrico Tario. Tario served as the national chairman of the Proud Boys from 2018 to 2021 and was a central figure in the group's activities, including its role in a January 6, 2021 Capitol riot.

1:05:50However, it was later disclosed that Tarrio worked as an informant for federal and local law enforcement agencies between 2012 and 2014, prior to his leadership in the Proud Boys. Oh, beforehand. That's even crazier. That's even crazier. Like, were they telling us the truth, like, that he's not doing it anymore? It's like, fucking who knows, man. it's layers upon layers it's those Russian nesting dolls and you open it and there's another one in there and you open it and there's another one in there Bro, the Epstein files I heard there's no files I heard it's a hoax and then all of a sudden he's going to release the files well I thought there was no files he wants an investigation now what is going on?

1:06:34they voted 427 to 1 who was the one? I didn't see why he said National security No fucking way you gonna be the one If you found out If you found out all of Congress voted for something And you the only one that didn't Can you change your vote? You can't be the one guy It should be that it has to be like No one can know what the vote is before you do it Bro I would love to hear his reason How you the one? Well you know I was feeling like let's move past it Let's get on with our business You can't move past it These billionaires are good people Okay. You can't move past. They're good, solid people.

1:07:12Clay Higgins was the one. Who? Clay Higgins. Where's he out of? Arkansas. Oh, I knew it was one of them. Yeah. Somebody got to him. One of the bottom ten in education or something like that. Somebody got to him. That's crazy, though. Four and twenty to one. I have been a principled note on this bill from the beginning. What was wrong with the bill three months ago? It abandons the 250 years of criminal justice procedure in America. As written, this bill reveals and injures thousands of innocent people, witnesses, people who provided alibis, family members, etc. If enacted in its current form, this type of broad reveal of criminal investigative files released to a rabid media will absolutely result in innocent people being hurt.

1:07:54Not by my vote. The Oversight Committee is conducting a thorough investigation that has already released well over 60 ,000 pages of documents from the Epstein case. That effort will continue in a manner that provides all due protections for innocent Americans. If the Senate amends the bill to properly address privacy of victims and or other Americans who are named but not criminally implicated, then I will vote for that bill when it comes back to the House. He's in that motherfucker. Well, that's a point, though, right? Like there was people that had like people that had dinner over Epstein's house.

1:08:27Like Epstein had dinners and had celebrities go over his house. Like Chelsea Handler was one of the people that went over his house. I don't think Chelsea Handler is out there molesting kids. No, I get that. You know what I mean? No, I get that. But I think we're past that. We're beyond that point now because— Right, you just have to be able to say, hey, I went to his house for dinner. Yeah. I'm not saying—because people try to do that to you with, like, pictures. They're like, if you was in a picture with somebody, they think— Right. You know, but it's like—it's the difference between being in a picture with somebody and being in 500 pictures with them.

1:08:54Right. You know what I mean? And flying to an island with them. Yeah, I think the—because this is a big problem. I mean, related back to what we were talking about earlier with Hollywood, too. is that I think a lot of these motherfuckers don't respect the public. They don't respect our intelligence. I think the average American is smart enough to know the difference between somebody that was just in there or somebody that testified than somebody that was banging children. See, the thing is, the average American probably can tell the difference, but there are sub-average individuals that all they want to know is you're on the list, and they hear you're on the list, and they might try to kill you.

1:09:30And that is a fact. But here's the thing. The problem is— And I'm not advocating for not releasing the files. I'm just saying there's enough dumb, nutty people that will think that you're guilty. There's been so much obfuscation with this. It would be different if there was no pushback. But there's—I think what's at stake is people's belief in the integrity of the process. That's already cooked. Oh, well, yeah. That's already cooked. But whatever—the last little shreds of it that are left is like, Like, no more you getting the sift through and the sock. Because he's, you know, it's easy to say that.

1:10:04But the truth is, they want to be able to decide whose names get seen and whose names don't. And people aren't with that. Like, you know. And they shouldn't be with that. Or, or, we agree with this guy and then we let them Kennedy joints out. We've been waiting for them to think about it. They said the same thing about the Kennedy shit. Well, we don't want to hurt. And every time they're supposed to release it, they kick it down the road. They released some new Kennedy documents, but I never heard anything come out of it. Yeah, it was supposed to be, it's supposed to have been released two or three presidents.

1:10:32There's no way those people are alive. Right. The long, what we know is this. We know that, I forget who said it, but justice delayed is justice denied. The longer we wait, the more we let these fucking snakes kick the can down the road, the more they get the obfuscate and muddy the waters. You know what Trump said about the JFK files? What? He said, I saw them, and if you saw what I saw, you wouldn't release them either. That's what I'm screaming. That's crazy. Yeah. What does that mean? What does that mean? I don't even, I can't even imagine what that means. What does that mean? What could that mean?

1:11:08What does that mean? I don't know. Does that mean a foreign government? Does that mean our government? Does that mean the mafia? Does that mean a coordinated effort with all the above? What does that mean? I have no idea what it could possibly mean. That's crazy for something that happened in 1963. Yeah. And almost everyone involved, almost everyone that could be embarrassed somehow is dead. 62 years ago, man. So it would have to be something that, like, destroys an institution or something. Something. Like this Epstein shit. Right. But just the amount, the sheer amount of people with insane amounts of money that are attached to this.

1:11:47Because my conservative friends be like, they think I give a fuck about a Democrat. They'll be like, are you with a Bill Clinton's in there? I don't give a fuck who in there. I don't care who in there. You don't care. Put that shit in the street. Yeah. They think you do. Yeah. I don't have, I don't have a party identity. I don't have a favorite politician. I don't have, there's no, there's nobody. I don't give these motherfuckers money. No, that's no, there's no politician that I love enough to do it. Cause there's, this is what's killing me. There's people out there that are literally like, well, how old is 16?

1:12:19really you know like they're like they're trying to justify like they because they want to come out of this with by still showing support but but they don't want to be connected to the crime so they're trying to they're still trying to justify their support of all of this that's crazy it's like there's no politician i love more than i love my country or more than i have my principles of like yeah i think if you can't draw the line at kid fucking then you probably should stop talking in public like you shouldn't have public discourse you know yeah i mean i think this is a pattern that exists has existed forever in politics they want you to be compromised when you get into any sort of a position so they can control you and i think these things like epstein and there's probably a bunch of other similar operations that are being run they provide you with like a really good time or maybe you're a high profile extremely wealthy individual and it's hard for you to get hoes and some guy tells you hey we've got everything covered you know you come to my island nothing you know what happens on the island stays on the island bro they just didn't they kick somebody out the royal family oh yeah who prince andrew yeah yeah they they kicked him out of the family and there hasn't even been like a former trial yet it's not like he's been convicted but what does that what what happens when you're not they just walk you out the castle and you just don't know just on the street i think he's out in a house like way out in the country like you stay here i just in my in my head i just picture him like crying over some kfc because he's never eaten peasant food i don't think he's an eating peasant so he's just so he's not a regular person i think he's in a manner like a beautiful home in the country okay so so so being kicked out of the royal family doesn't mean that you just that you lose everything who know?

1:14:07I mean, what does he have? And where did he get it? Is it just money from the government? Because they do get paid by the government. They do, but I also think they're still dukes of something and lords of something. Here it says what he lost. So after being stripped of his royal titles and forced to leave his longtime residence at Royal Lodge, Royal Lodge, Prince Andrew, now formerly known as Andrew Montbatten-Windsor, will relocate to accommodation in the Sandringham, Sandringham, how do you say that? Sandringham Estate in Norfolk. He is now excluded from royal duties and public life, and his status has been dramatically reduced.

1:14:47His status has been reduced. Loss of titles and status, eviction from Royal Lodge, relocation to Sandringham Estate. So he's relocated to an estate in the countryside, public exclusion. He remains excluded from all royal engagements and official events, except for private family gatherings. But that sounds sweet. I feel like... Yeah, I mean, he's getting away with not having to be, you know, like not being in the public eye. Yeah, well, they were basically like, you know, all the parts about being a royal that suck? Yeah, you don't have to do those anymore. Look at this. Financial support. The king will provide for Andrew's basic needs, but his former royal funding and security benefits have been ended.

1:15:32Andrew has sought private business opportunities to support himself, but no public roles are expected. Wow. Who's going to go into business with you, my guy? He wants to go into business. He's going to open up a Starbucks? Getting money from the king all this time. This whole thing is nuts because they get money, and I don't think they have to do anything. I don't think they have real function in government, do they? Where's the San Diego Estates? Oh, that's where you got—poor guy. That's so sad. It's so sad. They made him stay in that castle. Look how beautiful that place is. That is so nuts that this guy got kicked out of there.

1:16:11Bro. He got kicked out of wherever the fuck he was, the royal lord. Unless they tell me his punishment is like they give you that estate, but they take all the servants. Bro, look at the gardener's house. That's the gardener's house. That's where the gardener lives. That fucking place is beautiful. That is hilarious, dude. Like, if they give him that place, but they don't give him no servants, and he just got to clean everything. He got to walk a mile to the kitchen. Yeah, he's got to do his own dishes. No, but this guy's living the life. So he just gets banished to a mansion. He don't got to do no public duties.

1:16:42Yeah. And they probably just bring hoes out to the mansion. You think he gets a puppy? It's not like he stopped banging hoes. No. Right? I mean, I don't know what he's in trouble for. Right. That's the thing. They haven't told us. But to get kicked out of the royal family is wild. It must be. They didn't even kick Meghan Markle out of the family and they racist. Legal and public impact. What is this? These changes result from longstanding controversies over Andrew's association with Jeffrey Epstein and subsequent legal settlements. Oh, he's got settlements. Particularly a civil case bought by Virginia Guffrey, which concluded without any admission of liability by Andrew but resulted in a multi-million pound settlement.

1:17:20Do you know that there's the amount of money that's been paid out to victims of Jeffrey Epstein is like$300 million so far? From where? I don't know. Is that true? Yeah, but there's also a bunch of money that just moved after he died that no one really understands either. No. This is all so sketchy. Bro, I'm telling you, a lot of people, if they really release this shit in earnest, it's going to change everything. I hope. I hope it's that powerful. Do you think it will be? Well, all I know is the most powerful person on earth has been doing a lot to keep that shit from coming out. And I'm not like everybody else.

1:18:01I don't think Trump is in there in a criminal way. But I think he has a lot of powerful friends that have been putting pressure on him to keep that shit under wraps. I think that definitely has to be the case. I think it's going to be royal people. It's going to be prime ministers. It's going to be Supreme Court justices. It's going to be all type of— Former presidents. Yeah, some CEOs. videos. It's going to be all type of shit in there. Scientists. Get it out. Yeah. Get it out. Yeah, yeah. The world already... There's nothing to lose for America as a whole. What a crazy operation they were running.

1:18:31What a crazy thing. To have a bunch of people fly them out to an island that somehow or another you own. Like, where'd you get the money to buy a fucking island, bro? It's not as expensive as you think. A whole island? Yeah. We looked at that island. We were trying to buy it. Actually, I shouldn't say we're trying to buy it. We were thinking about it very briefly but it was too expensive it was like 55 it's not discounted now that's a discount that's the discounted price oh okay okay i would imagine it's well worth well more than that like if you buy a beautiful house in like miami a beautiful house in miami might be 200 million dollars if it's on the ocean those like crazy manors in like west palm beach but it's like but the island's basically haunted you gotta save the whole motherfucking thing it's too late you You got to level it.

1:19:17You got to remove the dirt and go get dirt from some pristine island. Yeah, you got to remove everything. That's the same reason why we never bought the One World Theater. The same thing. Oh, that weird cult. Yeah, the cult thing. I was like, oh, man, there's not enough sage in the world. Yeah. You got to come by with some holy water, anointed oil. That's a beautiful property. But I was like, what do they do to those poor people there? You know, and that island is like. I wouldn't be shocked if that dude was on there. What was the name? The cult leader of that cult. Well, he had different names.

1:19:52His first, I forget what his real name was. He had the same name as a boxer. I forget his fucking name. What is the cult leader's name in Holy Hell? But he changed his name twice. So he had a fake name when he was teaching yoga in West Hollywood when he started the cult. And then when the cult awareness network started going after him. because after Waco, they started going after all the cults. They're like, these motherfuckers are arming up. Like, this is dangerous. Let's find out. And also, it's like a lot of people lost their family members. Jaime Gomez. That's right. So he was Michel, and then he became Andreas once he came to Texas.

1:20:36So what happened was they were after him. And so this dude picks up shop and just moves to Austin and just to throw people off has his followers build a theater so he could dance in front of them. They built that. His followers built that theater. Beautiful place. For people to get sucked in and stuff like that. But I feel like we know enough now where it's like if you're unsure if you're in a cult, like as soon as the guy wants to fuck your wife, you should be. Or your dad. Right. Or just anyone. This guy was fucking everybody. As soon as the leader need to fuck your family. Yeah, that's a problem.

1:21:14That's the red flag right there. If there was no alarm bells before that point, like when they asked you to give up all your stuff, maybe you still had hope. You know, when they started giving you duties as a servant, maybe you still had hope. But when they need to fuck your family members, I feel like that should set off all the alarms for me. I think they wait until you're deep in the cult before they bust that one out. Like David Koresh, didn't he wait like a long time? I think they were already on the compound. He was like, God just told me I have to fuck your wife. Like, for real, it was that dumb.

1:21:47It was like that dumb. Like, God spoke to him and told him that no one was allowed to have sex but him. When he could have sex with everybody's wife. Group pressure is very powerful. I find out if that's true. Like, none of us are really above it. You've got to be careful what groups you around it. Because that pressure to conform, you know, because I best, he's not just like, I got to fuck your wife. But he's surrounded by people going, do it, do it. They're all cheering on with towels and shit. Or they have their little saying they say, you know. Right. That pressure to like. Praise Jesus. Yep.

1:22:20That pressure to please everyone. Mm-hmm. Yeah, because there's a certain type of person that gets sucked, roped into those things. Well, I always wonder about that. Like, is there a grand pattern to the universe? Is there a mathematical formulation that we exist in where you have to have a certain amount of gullible people and then a certain amount of devious people that try to trick people and con artists? And then a certain amount of people like you that are like, what the fuck is going on? Like that all of this sort of like dances together and balances itself out. And just like nature has predators and it has wounded antelope that get too close to the waterhole.

1:22:58All these things like kind of have to exist at the same time in order for progress to be made. It seems like it's just a certain amount of people that are just born gullible. And not just gullible, but kind of like wanting to be tricked. He reportedly annulled marriages of couples who joined the sect and took multiple women as his spiritual wives, some of whom were very young girls. Former cult members have alleged that Koresh slept with wives of other members and maintained a harem, sometimes with women who were already married and fathered numerous children with various women. Koresh also instructed male followers to practice celibacy and surrender their wives to him.

1:23:39This behavior was part of his doctrine and control over the group's women and children, often accompanied by allegations of sexual abuse and manipulation. Yeah. See, the thing is, those guys, they're not influential guys. Their superpower is their ability to know who. they can sense who's broken in just the right way and come in and be daddy can you imagine a motherfucker telling you to be celibate while he banging your wife crazy and you're living in a compound with him and he's heavily armed and you gave him all your worldly possessions and he sings and he's terrible you ever listen to him sing or he dancing on a stage that you built play some David Koresh movies He would sing songs.

1:24:28They were terrible. He has music. Yeah, he was terrible. Yeah, he was a musician. He was a frustrated musician who became an evangelical.

1:24:40I don't know. Give me one. Any one. I'm sure they all suck. Let's listen to David Koresh. Recorded in Waco, Texas, 1989. If I was in that cult, I'd be like, there is no way. I think I'm going to let him fuck my wife now. How about that name? Is that like the name of a woman he was trying to fuck? Shoshanim. I mean, that's a weird name. What does it say? Very unusual name. I've never heard that name in my whole life. It probably was some girl he was trying to smash. Probably has to be. That's by biblical. Oh. Psalms. Hebrew lilies. Mentioned in Psalms 45 and 49, It is meaning its meaning in these Psalms is uncertain some believe it's kind of little click on that what it says a kind of lily What does that saying lily shaped straight trumpet what a six string trumpet a word Commencing a song or the melody of which these Psalms were to be sung.

1:25:39I don't even know. So yeah, it was probably some girl's name Yeah, probably check. Yeah, I Saw lil and I was like was that Lilith. Do you know Lilith this you ever heard of Lilith? You mean like the demon? Well, Lilith was like apparently before Eve. This is like, now, again, I don't know who to believe or who not to believe. I don't even know what scriptures show Lilith and what don't. Everything I know about Lilith is from Diablo lore. Oh, that's funny. No, Lilith is like a character in ancient religious texts. Right, but she's a daughter of... Who is? Well, we're going to find out because I'll butcher it.

1:26:21I'm very hesitant to say what I think it is because I don't really remember. She's the daughter of Beelzebub. Did Wes Huff tell us about this? No. You know who told us about this? Kurt Metzger. Kurt Metzger was ranting and raving about Lilith. You don't know? You don't know about Lilith? There's a few different ones, but this is the one that he was talking about. Lilith is not a character in the Bible. Her name is only mentioned in one verse in the book of Isaiah. This one here. Okay. Origin of the legend. The story of Lilith as Adam's first wife comes from later Jewish folklore, such as the alphabet of Bensira, which was not included in the canonical Bible.

1:26:55The legend's core story is, according to its folklore, Lilith was created from the earth at the same time as Adam, making her his equal. When she refused to be subservient to him, she left the Garden of Eden. That sounds like a true story. Some interpretations claim that Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 describe two different creation stories and two different women. This is considered incorrect and ludicrous by many biblical scholars and theologians. Evolution of the figure. Over time, Lilith's story evolved from a simple night demon from Mesopotamian cultures to more complex figure in Jewish tradition.

1:27:29In modern times, some have reclaimed her as a feminist symbol of independence and equality. That's funny. That Lilith fair. That's where that Lilith fair. See, that picture of Lilith? That's from Diablo, the video game. I would play as that character. Can you play as her and fuck people up? No, no, no. She's the bad guy. But she fucks you up. That would be a dope character for Quake. If you could be Lilith and run around a map fucking people up. I think you can beat her in Fortnite or something. Nice. I think they buy everything. But that's what she looked like? In the game? In the game? Oh, yeah.

1:27:59And she's hard to beat. Yeah? Yeah, I've only beat her once. But I haven't played her in a long time. But, yeah, everything I know about her is from that game. And it sounds like it's all wrong. But isn't it funny that Shoshana Neem or whatever the fuck it is, they don't even know what that was? Like, it might have been a trumpet. It might have been a flute. It might have been a person. I don't know. Could have been a song. Could have been the way you sing. I bet you like a Hebrew scholar could probably tell you. Maybe. It seems like it's up for debate. That's the problem with a lot of really old shit.

1:28:28It's like they're just guessing. They're really old shit. They're just guessing. Like what are they trying to say in the book of Ezekiel? What are they trying to say? Is it crazy? Oh, my God. I haven't read a Bible in like 20 years. Oh, the Ezekiel stuff's bananas, man. There you go. I asked Perplexity a little more about Shoshana. Oh, okay. was a group or entity related to the Branch Davidians cult led by David Koresh. A group or entity related to it. The name seems to refer to Koresh's followers who identified themselves as students of the seven seals. Oh, so they were his people. So he called his people that group.

1:29:04Alliteration that gets you every time. Reflecting their focus on apocalyptic teachings derived from the Bible's book of Revelation, Koresh positioned himself as a messianic figure, calling himself the Lamb who would open the seven seals, an event that would lead to salvation and the apocalypse. Followers under Koresh's leadership and ideology were sometimes referred to as Koreshians. You know what would be crazy? What really would be crazy is if heaven was real and the murder, like them being murdered, sent them to heaven. Because those people were murdered. Do you ever see what the actual footage of when they stormed Waco?

1:29:46No. Oh, bro, it's crazy. They killed those people. They lit them on fire. They drove tanks into the buildings and flames are shooting out of the tanks. They just cooked those people. Not just Koresh, not just people. Everybody, men, women, children. What were they trying to do in the first place? Just have them disarmed? Well, there was a problem with – there's a lot to the story. And it seems like in the beginning there might have been some governmental overreach, like they were trying to get a win and they were trying to like – who described this to us? Was it Oliver Stone? Who is telling – it might have been Daryl Cooper.

1:30:25Daryl Cooper has an amazing series all on the Waco. No, he doesn't. It's the Epstein files. He doesn't have – he has one on Guyana. That's what he has on. Somebody has one on Koresh. Is it Cooper? So who has a series on Koresh? I'm sorry. I'm blanking here. But the point is they wanted to win. So they wanted to take out this cult. And so they exaggerated what they were doing. And they had to stand down. So they stood outside of the gates with fucking armored vehicles and cops and men with guns. And they waited them out. And eventually it escalated. It escalated to them getting agents on the roof.

1:31:06Agents on the roof got shot at by the people that were in the cult. And so then they started shooting at them and it became a gunfight. And then they brought in tanks and lit it on fire and killed everybody. It's a crazy story, man. It is crazy. It is the whole thing. I know there's a documentary on it as well that details all the different things that led up to the eventual storming of the compound. Because what year did that happen? Was that like 80? Yeah, it was like, I think it was like in either the early 90s, like 90 or 80s. What was it? The siege was in 93. Oh, was it really? 93. See, I don't remember that.

1:31:44I remember it. I remember it. Like, I vaguely remember hearing about it, but in my mind, it's not like something that happened. Yeah. You know? Because that's the same, that was right around, wasn't it around the OJ murder too? Yep. Yep. Because that trial was 94. Okay, yeah. So I was like, to me, that's a significant cultural event. And I don't remember the Waco thing being like I remember hearing about it afterwards. I don't remember hearing about it while it was happening. Oh, I heard about it. But were people, how did the people react to the government just killing people? Well, they didn't know.

1:32:18See, there was no internet back then. It took a while before people really got hip. There was a few documentaries that released or some news footage that got released. And maybe you can get a hold of a VHS tape, some obscure VHS tape that might have something to do with Waco. But people really didn't know until they started making documentaries about it, until they saw it on the Internet. Once you can see it, because most people are just going to believe the narrative. What's the narrative? People had guns, which they did. The guy was a piece of shit and a cult leader, which he was. But, like, how did it lead to mass murder?

1:32:49How did it lead to them just – well, it led to – they blocked out this guy's house. They – you know, and that's not even the worst one. The worst one is Ruby Ridge. That one's horrible. What happened at Ruby Ridge? Put that into perplexity. Ruby Ridge. This one's a crazy story. Because the Ruby Ridge story is like totally avoidable. And horrific. Like they shot a mother while she was holding her baby. Like crazy. There was like a family of like preppers. They were like out in the woods. And, you know, maybe the guy was like a little radical. But they completely escalated it. Was this in Texas too?

1:33:27Murdered. No, I don't remember where that was. Where was that? Idaho. Okay. Incident was 11 day standoff in August of 1992 in Boundary County, Idaho, involving Randy Weaver, his family and a friend, Kevin Harris, against U.S. Marshals and FBI agents. It began when U.S. Marshals sought to arrest Randy Weaver for failing to appear in court on federal firearms charges related to the sale of a modified shotgun. The situation escalated after Weaver's dog was shot by a marshal during surveillance, leading to a firefight in which Weaver's 14-year-old son, Samuel, was killed by gunfire. Kevin Harris, a family friend, shot and killed Deputy Marshal William Deegan during the exchange.

1:34:10FBI hostage rescue team was called in, and during a sniper shot, Randy Weaver was wounded. The sniper's second shot, intended for Harris, also hit and killed Weaver's wife, Vicki, who was holding their infant daughter behind a cabin door. The siege ended when negotiators, including activist Bo Gritz, convinced Weaver and Harris to surrender. Harris was arrested on August 30th, and Weaver, with his daughter, surrendered the next day. Criticism later arose over the FBI's rules of engagement and use of deadly force, particularly the constitutional legality of the sniper's second shot that killed Vicki Weaver.

1:34:46The standoff highlighted tensions between federal law enforcement and citizens, especially among anti-government and white separatist groups. Weaver and Harris were charged with several offenses, but were acquitted of the most severe charges except Weaver's conviction for failure to appear in court. Interesting. They were both acquitted. Damn. They got in a firefight with the feds and they were acquitted. Well, Kevin Harris popped it off. And you know just - Look at that statement. Weaver and Harris were charged with several offenses, but were acquitted of the most severe charges except Weaver's conviction for failure to appear in court.

1:35:23That's all they got him for. So nothing. Failure to appear in court. They killed his wife. They shot his kid. They killed his kid. They killed his dog. And it was because he failed to appear in court. Because he sold a modified gun. I don't even know what that means. Was it a sawed-off shotgun, which is illegal? Did he change the trigger? What did he do? Something. Did he put a large magazine at the bottom of it like what did he do that was illegal that's crazy but also why are they allowed to kill your dog exactly because that's what popped it all off right oh you want to hear one of the worst ones of that there was a mayor i forget where who what he was the mayor of it might have been washington dc but he was a mayor and um he had a postman that was doing some sneaky shit and the postman was getting weed delivered to his house because they figured if I get it, I'm delivering the mail to the mayor's house.

1:36:16And if I get the weed delivered to the mayor's house, no one's going to check the mayor's packages for weed. So I know which one my friend sent to the mayor's house. I'll just take that. And that way, you know, I'll have the weed and no one will be any the wiser. Well, unfortunately, someone was tracking that package and they knew that that weed was going to this particular address they didn't know it was the mayor's house so they stormed the mayor's house shoot his fucking golden retriever chase it out in the in the yard while it's cowering and shoot it you've been around my golden retriever like the golden retrievers are not biting anybody ever ever they're the worst guard dogs in the history of the world anybody who comes into my house like hey you want to give me a treat like he loves everybody and they they shot his dogs they fucking zip tied his family checked the whole house for weed couldn't find anything and then eventually it unraveled and they realized what had happened like the guy who was in delivering his mail was also involved in this weed dealer and they you know they didn't piece it together until after they shot this guy's fucking dogs but who's they the cops the SWAT team they burst down his door they did the whole thing man they came in guns armor fucking zip Tiptide, everybody.

1:37:33They thought they were breaking into the house of like a drug. That's how bad their information is. It sounds like they need some weed. See if they didn't find that story. Because it's a very, it's a crazy story. And it was so heartbreaking. Because the family had to, the kids had to see their dog get shot by these cops for fucking no reason. No reason. They really got to start letting cops smoke weed. I think some. Mushrooms. Weed's not strong enough. But but something to also it's like therapy and, you know, also it's like, hey, no, for sure. Like really do an investigation. How about find out who lives there?

1:38:11Oh, my God, it's the mayor. Well, like if you shoot a gov and retrieve, you should probably have to retire. So here it is. Maryland. So police say Maryland mayor appears to be innocent victims of a scheme by two men to smuggle millions of dollars worth of marijuana by having it delivered to about a half a dozen unsuspecting recipients. So he was one of the many people that this guy delivered mail to. So he got home from work, saw a package addressed to his wife on the front porch, brought it inside, putting it on a table. Suddenly, police with guns drawn kicked in the door, stormed in, shooting to death the couple's two dogs and seizing the unopened package.

1:38:44In it were 32 pounds of marijuana, but the drugs evidently didn't belong to the couple. Police say the couple appeared to be innocent victims of a scheme by two young men to smuggle millions of dollars of marijuana, unsuspecting recipients. Two men under the arrest include a FedEx delivery man. Investigators said the delivery man would drop off a package outside of a home, and the other man would come by a short time later and pick it up. Wow. Isn't that crazy? But only, hold on, so only the dogs died, though? Our dogs were our children. Yeah. Police apparently killed the dogs, he said, for sport, gunning down one of them as it was running away.

1:39:22Our dogs were our children, said the 37-year-old Calvo. No, two labs. Two lab. Oh, they were labs. Oh, they were black labs. I thought they were golden retrievers. I fucked it up. Our dogs were our children. Again, labs, same thing. Labs aren't biting anybody. The sweetest dogs in the world. Said the 37-year-old Calvo, they were our reason we brought this house because it had a big yard for them to run in. Unfucking believable. He was handcuffed in his boxer shorts for about two hours, along with his mother-in-law. Said the officers didn't believe him when we told them he was the mayor. No charges were brought against Calvo.

1:39:55or his wife who came home in the middle of the raid. Fuck, man. But they ain't even apologize for killing dogs. Killed labs. Bro, you find a wild shit. Like, I just, I just. That's so sad. I just came from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Like, the Tulsa massacre. What's the Tulsa massacre? It was like Black Wall Street. It was like. When was this? This was the 20s, I think, or maybe the 1910s. where like after the Trails of Tears with all the civilized tribes basically they were told that they could have Oklahoma because the land smelled funny, the air smelled funny whatever and then they found oil and that set off a whole bunch of shit because now you got a bunch of natives and freed slaves that's about to be rich so you ever see that movie, the Flower Moon movie?

1:40:46No I didn't see it. Oh but it's kind of like that like they would they couldn't sell their land some tribes couldn't sell their land so you had to marry into the family and then if you killed everybody it was yours really? yeah and so but Tulsa was black Wall Street but it was like the Greenwood area of Tulsa and they and it was basically like a prosperous wealthy black community and it was a riot one night and they burned it all down and so they did this because of oil? no well that was the backdrop for Oklahoma but they did this just because of like racial jealousy. Just like. Oh, they did it because they were doing well?

1:41:28Yeah, they were doing too well. And it was a lot of racial tension in the community because the whole idea behind institutional racism is that poor white people don't mind being taken advantage of because they know that it's black people somewhere that they're doing worse than them. But that doesn't work if you live next to dudes that's dress better than you. They got cars, they got thriving business. And it got racial. The National Guard came in. and and that's what that was all stuff i learned before i went there but then i went to the museum there and i bring this up just because it would blow your mind how recently they like they just now acknowledged it like five years ago right um this all happened because i i was at the comedy club i was at i mentioned to the owner i was like i've stayed in hilton's all over the place why does my hilton say why does it have these pure things everywhere to tell you that the air is clean and the water is clean and he was like oh yeah they just started filtering the water that goes to the north side of town like a few years ago like the black side of town i was like what like how long how recently he was like uh 20 and me and my friend was like 20 it was like yeah so so i was like he was like have you not been to the museum i'm like no so we went over there and It was like it was a heavy day.

1:42:45Bro, this is crazy. Look at this statistics here. Look how many blocks, 35 square blocks of the neighborhood. Yeah. At the time, one of the wealthiest black communities in the United States, colloquially known as Black Wall Street, more than 800 people were admitted to hospitals. As many as 6 ,000 black residents of Tulsa were interned, many of them for several days. the Oklahoma Bureau of Vital Statistics officially recorded 36 dead. Wow. Yeah, and so they just now started, like the guy told me. Look at this, estimates from 36 to up to around 300 dead. 35 blocks. Yeah, they don't know how many are dead because it was a lot of mass graves and stuff that they just started looking for.

1:43:31Holy shit, man. But even still to this day, they're not allowed to teach about it in schools. Like they just now started being allowed to teach about it, but they're not allowed to say who was who. Even the YouTube video is age restricted. I was going to show it to you, but the account I'm on, I didn't want to do it. Yeah, this shit was crazy. And so, Joe, if you want to feel real uncomfortable, so I'll go in the museum and they have these holograms. So you sit in the barber chair and you can see yourself in the mirror, but there's a hologram of a barber like cutting your hair. And there's three of them in a row.

1:44:05And they're like having a conversation about what's going on around town. It's heavy, bro. Wow. Put that back up. So the cause of it, they're saying. So it says the massacre began during Memorial Weekend after a 19-year-old Dick Roland, a black shoeshiner, was accused of assaulting Sarah Page, a white 21-year-old elevator operator in nearby Drexel Building. He was arrested and rumors that he was to be lynched spread. The most widely reported and corroborated inciting incident occurred as the group of black men left when an elderly white man approached OB Mann, a black man, and demanded that he hand over his pistol.

1:44:49Mann refused and the old man attempted to disarm him. A gunshot went off and then, according to the sheriff's reports, all hell broke loose. The two groups shot at each other until midnight when the group of black men were greatly outnumbered and forced to retreat to Greenwood. Fuck. At the end of the exchange of gunfire, 12 people were dead, 10 white and two black. Alternatively, another eyewitness account was that the shooting began down the street from the courthouse when black business owners came to the defense of a lone black man being attacked by a group of around six white men. it is possible the eyewitnesses did not recognize the fact that this incident was occurring as a part of a rolling gunfight that was already underway holy fuck man yeah shit shit went down in greenwood and the thing is it's still not back so so then they uh they they put a highway right through the middle of that neighborhood and it completely like destroyed all of the the economy me and everything.

1:45:51Wow. Yeah, man. And I, like, I thought I knew about this shit, but then when I went there, it was real intense for me. But then we ate some good ass food, though. It was me and Lucas McCurry. And when we got done, when we got back to the hotel, he was like, oh, that's the blackest day I've ever had. I was like, might be mine, too. This is the place? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's called the. Oh, wow. it's called the Black Wall Street Museum. And they just recently admitted this? They admitted it probably in 2010 or something like that. They acknowledged it. I mean, everyone already knew. But now they're just now getting to the point where they're allowed to teach it.

1:46:40But they still aren't allowed to say what the people look like. So they can say Group A did this and Group B did that, but they can't say Black, White. They can't say Klan, this, you know. Really? Yeah, they still won't say certain people's names. Because the Klan is heavily involved, too. Like, when you go to the museum, there's like a Klan ledger of like the meeting, you know, like a roll call. Whoa. Yeah, it was a wild ass. It's wild out there in Oklahoma. And the thing is, they still haven't recovered. That neighborhood is still not recovered. I mean, it never will at this point. The history of Oklahoma is so crazy.

1:47:17Oklahoma is not well that's the thing so we we get done the tour we walk out of the tour guide and I and I walked past this guy I didn't know he was one of the guides because we didn't take a guide we just walked through the museum ourselves and he goes you look familiar and I was like you probably know me from comedy well he was like oh yeah yeah and and he is like the guide and then he we walked around with him for like an hour oh wow and he just he told us he was like yeah they don't even say everything so this is also blah blah blah he took us to like all these historical spots and we ate at this place called Sweet Lisa's which you bro you could taste you could taste the the struggle the season everything was just seasoned just perfection you know I mean you could just tell this recipe came from the ancestors it was incredible and it's like in this little shop they just got indoor seating you know yeah it was like it was like it was it was almost like I guess because in my mind it's easy to learn about shit like that and think of it as something that happened a long time ago.

1:48:17But then to be there and realize, like, they still haven't come all the way back. You know? You see that photo of that lady, that Native American lady at the front door? Whether she's breastfeeding a child. You've seen it. Oh, at the mothership? Yeah, here. Here, in this room. Oh, no. I went outside. You never saw it? No, no. You know that one, you've seen the painting of a Native American face that's on bullets? It's like all the back. You've seen that? Yeah, yeah. That's Quanah Parker. That lady, Cynthia Ann Parker. She was kidnapped by Comanches in Oklahoma. So what they used to do in Oklahoma is, this is so dark, they would give people these plots of land knowing they were going to get attacked by the Comanches.

1:48:59Like, hey, you could go live out here. And they basically, like, used them as bait. They started conflict to try to conquer these territories by just having people go out there and get shot at and get killed and get slaughtered. and then eventually they would have to send the army out. And then they won. After a long time, they eventually went through that and went through here where Texas, the Comanche ran this place too. But they killed her whole family, and they stole her when she was nine years old, and they kept her because they had a hard time having children because they had so many horse riders.

1:49:35They were riding horses all the time, and a lot of women miscarried. So it was very difficult to keep their numbers up. So when they would go on raiding parties, they would kill everybody except the children, and then they incorporate the children into the tribe. Cynthia Ann Parker was the last of that tribe. She gave birth to Quanah Parker, who was the last chief of that tribe. She married the chief of the tribe. She had a baby with him. That baby, that half-American baby, was Quanah Parker. He was the last chief of the Comanches. So now it's no more Comanches? I mean, they still exist, but they don't have a reservation.

1:50:08Like, you know, like they don't have territory. Oh, word. They were nomadic. And they ran all, I mean, I'm sure, is there a Comanche reservation? We should find that out. Probably not. But they don't get represented because they didn't have art. It's a crazy civilization. Well, the dude was telling me that, like, so there were four tribes considered the civilized tribes. And those are the people that agreed to, like, stop fighting in the United States, to, like, learn English, to, like, be Christian, those kind of things. And they were promised Oklahoma knowing that it was already commanded. And so they got out there and got the— Yeah, the United States government did that with everybody.

1:50:46Bro. The Comanche Nation is a federally recognized tribe headquartered in Lawton, Oklahoma. But do they have a reservation there? There's no longer a Comanche reservation in Texas. The historical one established in 1854 near Clear Fork of the Brazos River in present-day Throckmorton County. The Comanche were later forced to relocate to Indian Territory, now known as Oklahoma, in 1859 after the reservation was dissolved and the current Comanche nation is based in Oklahoma. So it seems like they don't have a reservation. Bro, it's mad history that I'm so ignorant about. Got to read this book, Empire of the Summer Moon.

1:51:22Get it on audio. It's incredible. Empire of the Summer Moon? Empire of the Summer Moon. I'm going to get it right now. It's all about the Comanche in Texas and in Oklahoma. But that's part of the story. So what I was getting at is the history of Oklahoma is just seeped in violence. And it's still not fixed. It can't be. But a lot of people are moving there right now. Well, I bet. A lot of people want to move to a place where they don't get fucked with as much. You know what California is? What's it called again? Empire of the Summer Moon.

1:51:53You know what California is proposing? I don't know if they're going to do this, if they're going to be able to pull this off, but there's a new wealth tax that's basically they're going to tax your savings account. I've looked that up. It's only for 200 billionaires. What? That's what that's for. What does that mean? It's not for like every person. Okay. Even if it's for 200 billionaires, that's their fucking money. If you have a savings account, that means you paid taxes already. Like that's the only way you get a savings account. They're taxing billionaires' savings accounts? This is what I was reading today when people were talking about the proposition, this proposition of a wealth tax for savings accounts.

1:52:31That sounds, if I'm not reading into this incorrectly, it sounds crazy. Whatever. I'm just saying. I understand. But why? Why? Why do you get to have a one time tax of money that's already taxed? California does not currently have a wealth tax, but multiple proposals have been introduced, including a recent one for a one time five percent tax on individuals with a net worth of over one billion. Yeah. I'm with Jamie on this. Fuck them. Yeah, but not fuck them, because that could be you someday. Here's the thing. It's like it's it starts with them and then it trickles down to someone who's worth five hundred thousand or five million or whatever.

1:53:07Five percent on money that you've already been taxed for. And then it goes to what, though, when you say fuck them? All it does is make more bloated government because what are they going to do? They're going to spend it wisely. They never spend any money wisely. The reason I say fuck them is because most of these billionaires, they go out of their way not to pay the taxes they're supposed to pay anyway. It's not like they're getting taxed. You know, a lot of these motherfuckers don't even pay any taxes. Oh, that's not true. They all pay taxes. Everyone pays taxes. It's just taxes on what? Like a lot of them, the way it works is all your money is in assets and you get paid a certain amount by the company.

1:53:42Like that's how – so when someone's worth X amount of money, that's not like how much money they have liquid. Right, right. I get it. That's a lot of it. But the point is no – the government should not be taking your money that's already been taxed. If I'm reading into this correctly, so if you get a paycheck from the mothership and then you do your taxes and then you take that money and you put it in a savings account, you've already paid your taxes. So if you've already paid your taxes on that money, how can they tax money that you've already taxed? That's crazy. I don't give a fuck how much money they own.

1:54:15I don't care how much. If there's a loophole in the tax code, fix the loophole. But if it's there and that's the law and they're able to skirt around that law in whatever way that's legal, you don't get to steal their money. According to The Washington Post, this is from a health care workers union. That's a recent proposal and it will go to fund health care spending. It still has to be voted on also. But either way, all you're doing is taking money from people. And the group believes this could raise about$100 billion. Right. And what would they do with it? What did they do with the fire money?

1:54:50What happened to all the money that was raised for the Pacific Palisades fire? Does anybody know? That was a charity being corrupt. That wasn't the government. Right. But this is what I'm saying. It's the same thing. It's a group of people. You're giving them a bunch of money, and they're supposed to allocate it in a positive way. Whether it's the government or whether it's a charity, who fucking trusts anybody that's doing these things to be wise with the money where it makes sense? Where you're a billionaire going, you know what? I like it. take my 5 % and we're going to fix crime. No, you're not fixing shit.

1:55:20You're just going to take my money and you're just going to be more incompetent. Do you know when Gavin Newsom got into office, they had a surplus. California had a surplus. Really? Yes. Why don't you Google that? What was the surplus of California? And during the time where Gavin Newsom was the governor, how much is the deficit now? Because I only hear surplus with regard to Bill Clinton. Bro, they spent$24 billion on the homeless crisis and it got worse. So this is what I'm saying. You're going to take tax money and you're going to do what with it? In 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced record-breaking budget surplus of approximately$97.5 billion, which was projected to fund new initiatives like cash payments to residents and investments in drought relief, child care, and education.

1:56:14However, the state later faced a significant budget deficit primarily due to overestimating revenues from a booming stock market that later declined coupled with increased spending commitments during the surplus period. By 2024, Newsom was proposing a budget to close a multi-billion dollar deficit, which required spending cuts and other measures to balance a budget. So the surplus of$97.5 billion, it became a multi-billion dollar deficit in two years. Because of the stock market? It seems like there's a lot of stuff. Overestimating revenues, increased spending commitments, which is probably a big part of it.

1:57:03They probably spent too much money during the surplus period. But the point is, it's mismanagement. What if they only tax the people that's on the Epstein list? You only get so much. You just take all their money. Yeah, if you're on the list, take all your money. They'd probably only get a few hundred billion dollars. That's the thing. It's like at the end of the day, they're going to blow through that money. It sounds crazy, but they're going to blow through that money. They blow through all the money. But, you know, I mean, it's not fair on paper, but it's hard to have empathy for people that have way more than the people.

1:57:33You know what I mean? Oh, yeah. I'm not having empathy. I'm just recognizing the law and recognizing where this goes. the problem with any any decision that we make on people that have more money than us eventually it's going to trickle down to you because like if they could just tax these people because there's only 200 of them they can't really talk too much shit you know like okay but why are you doing that look if they did something illegal to get that money and you know you're going to punish them for that i'm all with you but if they have the money and then it's in their savings account and then you decide to tax the savings account because you need money to do what more incompetent bullshit that's the problem like they're not competent if they were if you're going to take that five percent and you knew this is going to be what cleans up the palisades this is going to be what fixes education but it's not it's not gonna do anything the homeless crisis gets worse it's bigger than ever well that's that's a whole that the homeless thing is a whole racket because i i experienced that firsthand this episode is brought to you by netflix from From the creator of Homeland, Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys star in the new Netflix series The Beast and Me, as ruthless rivals whose shared darkness will set them on a collision course with fatal consequences.

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1:59:33There's so many charities that are dirty. Just like people that are dirty, you know, like those creepy guys who pretend to be male feminists, and you know they're really a piece of shit. You know what I mean? That's the type of people that set up charities, but they really just want the money. There's people that have run charities where the charity makes, the actual thing makes like 6%, 10 % of the money generated. Most of it goes to the people, and they have lavish lifestyles. They get paid tremendous salaries to run charity. The shelter I was living in, the guy that was running the place, he got high, and then the executive had to show up, and he pulled up in a fucking phantom with a fancy-ass suit on and a nice-ass watch.

2:00:19And I was like, hold on, how the fuck is he? Because that's the first time it hit everybody. Like, oh, this isn't him. It's a business. Yeah, it's a business. Yeah. It's a business. They're generating income, spending the least amount possible, providing you with the least amount of care that they have to, and then pocketing the rest and say we've got a high overhead, very high overhead. And as long as nobody dies. Yeah. Because that's the thing. It's all a racket and everyone knows it's like all wink, wink. Yeah. But they were – the rules actually applied to the actual homeless residents. Yeah.

2:00:46But it was all nonsense. It was like they were real strict about you make sure you sign in these papers saying you were doing these activities because they were getting grants for those things. Exactly. but I was like, well, just put my signature on there. This is all bullshit. That's crazy. But yeah, I think most charities are scam. Most charities have an element of scam. Yeah. There's a lot of legitimate charities out there for sure. There's a lot of really good charitable people out there for sure. Real people that are doing charities for the right reasons. Yeah, the workers, a lot of the workers are in there for the right reasons.

2:01:15Yes. But it's just like colleges, right? Where it's like, it's just that the entity has become so bloated with, with because I think you can you look it up Jamie how most of like the top universities most of their money goes towards administration so they've just you know that first they hire people to collect the money and then they had to hire more people to watch over those people there more people right get more and then before you know it the the whole admin side is so bloated that the college gets upside down if they don't raise tuition you know it just keeps going and it's a cycle just keep going and going and going and going we have donors, which is weird.

2:01:53I don't understand how that works. Crazy amounts of money people donate to colleges. Yeah, people love their alma maters, but there must be a tax thing too. Where does the money from most universities go? The money from most universities primarily goes towards faculty and staff salaries, student services, and campus maintenance. Significant portion is also allocated to research, academic programs, and scholarships. Universities spend on maintaining buildings and facilities, supporting student housing and dining, healthcare technology upgrades and activities like sports and events, government funding, tuition, investments, grants, donations, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

2:02:30Eventually, administrative costs and strategic initiatives also consume parts of the budget. Overall, salaries and wages usually make up the largest expenditure category for universities. So it's salaries. They get a lot of money. It's salary for the admin people, the fucking coaches. Some of those coaches Well, there's weird gigs that people have where like a major university will pay someone like a half a million dollars a year to do stuff. Like does Elizabeth Warren get paid from Harvard still? To like speak? Yeah. You know who had one of them gigs? Biden. He had one of them gigs where they gave him like a million dollars a year and he pretended he was a professor.

2:03:11And then he said, when I taught law at Penn State or wherever it was, he taught law. It was like Professor America. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but he never taught class. Like, it's all horseshit. Oh, he was never anybody's. He got one of them sweet gigs where you get money from the university. Bro, sign me up. Those are like mafia jobs. Yeah, I'll take a bullshit job in my heartbeat. Elizabeth Warren, currently a United States senator. She's on leave from her teaching position at Harvard and no longer receives a salary from the university. Her current annual salary as a senator is$174 ,000. She and her husband, also a Harvard professor, report additional income from book royalties and investments.

2:03:48Her salary for this 2010 to 2011 was reported at$429 ,000. This figure came under scrutiny during her first Senate campaign with critics mischaracterizing it as payment for teaching only one class. PolitiFact rated this claim half true because the amount covered a two-year period in which she taught two classes and was on leave to advise the Obama administration and also reflect their status as a high-ranking accomplished professor and researcher. Stop mischaracterizing Elizabeth, Joe. What is her net worth? Put that in there. Net worth. Let's find out. Bro, this shit's always wrong. It's not a good place to look.

2:04:36The net worth shit, the internet they said I'm worth$4 million. I said, where the fuck that money at? Maybe they just say you should be. I think people just be making up shit. They definitely do that. They definitely make up stuff. Especially those websites. Some Indian website. Some scammer dude is just faking it. Just trying to get clicks. Maybe they said... It says an estimated... This is in Open Secrets. Oh, in the Senate. In the Senate. So an estimated net worth of$7 ,977 ,000 in 2018. That was in 2018 she was worth that much. Isn't there an app where you can match the stock trades of senators?

2:05:20Yes, the Pelosi tracker. Oh, it's just her? Yeah, she's the best. She's the go. So if you just make all the same moves she makes, you'll be good? Yeah, you'll make some money. Yeah, 100%. Especially if you act quick. I'm sure there's a lot of people doing exactly what she does the moment she does it. I got to get one of those guys and just be like, put it all on. Because she makes, okay, now she's worth$30 million. No, no, no, no, no. What's that? This is the Pelosi tracker. Oh. There's 14 ,557 copiers. I was going to say she's worth way more than$30 million, right? They've invested that much money.

2:05:50Isn't she worth like a couple hundred million? I think so. Yeah. She's worth a lot. She's about to retire. Of course. She's got$400 million. She's a million years old. Why is she still working? It's crazy. Imagine working at that age, 82. I think they're addicted to the power. You can't have... Just to bring up Marjorie Taylor Greene's recent stock trades. Oh, she's been making some stock trades? Yeah, follows everybody. Bro, they all do. They all do. They all do. I think that should be illegal. It should be illegal. I don't think anyone in the federal government should be able to trade stocks.

2:06:24Well, especially with stuff where you have some inside knowledge about a bill that's going to be passed that would be very, very good for some corporation. Right. Or they all have to invest through, like there's a non-partisan government agency where they can put all their money they want to invest that invests everyone's money in the same thing. No, no, no. No? Because you start doing that, and then you got more corruption, more room for bureaucracy, more room for bullshit. You got too much money flowing around. They're not going to be evil with that. So then what do you say to the argument that they should be able to?

2:06:54No. No? No, you're insider trading. What if they just tell people to do it for them? How do you stop that? Well, that's what they're supposed to be doing now. Yeah, I mean, what's the end? No, that could be a problem. But at least then they could catch you, and you can get in trouble. That's how insider trading works. So say if they do that, and they do it through WhatsApp or something like that, and then the government gets access to your WhatsApp, and then they find out you've been trading. I've seen an email thing with the lady getting emailed during it. It's like, what? No, if it were up to me, it'd be Judge Dredd shit.

2:07:24But we're like, you get four terms and then they take you out and they just put you out in the desert with nothing. They take all your shit, donate it back to the people and they just send you out. You were in charge for, you know, having long and now get the fuck out of here. Look, there's no way you make$170 ,000 a year and you're worth. Let's say she's worth$180 million. I've heard it's a lot more than that. I've heard estimates as high as$400 million. But there's no way a regular person who makes$170 ,000 a year ever gets there and keeps that$170 ,000 a year job Get the fuck out of here There's not a chance in hell you keep that$170 ,000 a year job where you're working eight hours a day every fucking day And on the side You've racked up$400 million Well, bitch, that's what you're good at Imagine if you were doing that all day long while you've been working in the Senate You would have even more money Are you crazy?

2:08:19You're wasting all your valuable time and resources doing a job that pays you$170 ,000 a year. But it has nothing to do with your investments. Why would you even suspect that it has anything to do with the profit that I make from my investments? Is she the richest person in Congress? She's got to be up there. She can't be. Well, there's probably some billionaires who signed up and won and got into office somewhere. There's probably a lot of them. But the thing is, they're all richer when they leave. Well, Bloomberg, wasn't he like a multi-billionaire when he became the mayor of New York City? I don't know.

2:08:51I think he was. Michael Bloomberg is crazy rich. I think he was a billionaire while he became mayor because he wanted to fix New York City because he loved it. Did it work? I don't know. I was just there. It was nice. Worth$109 billion estimated. Yeah. He's worth a lot of money. Imagine. Richest person. Those sandwiches you put up. Ooh, Giovanni's Italian Deli, bro. You can barely get your mouth on them. They're like that big. I want him to come out here. I want him to open up a Deli out here. Willie was you talking to him about it? He said he would be interested in doing it I mean look he's a fucking hilarious character.

2:09:30He's a very funny guy And his food is fucking sensational and all that gets imported from Italy so he can import it All the ingredients yes everything is imported from Italy or the mortadella mozzarella all that stuff so he's getting it all from italy all the sun-dried peppers bro it's sensational i mean it looked good i've still never had next time i never had a chance to try it next time next time i go to new york you're coming with me all right bro you're gonna feel so bad the next day though oh my god sunday i was like i'm not eating i'm not eating anymore i looked like i was pregnant my stomach was out like that far i ate so much yeah he gave me a four foot long sandwich dude it was four feet long i just kept stuffing it in my fat face yeah i was getting i ate meatballs i ate four or five cannolis i ate so much i should not have gone that deep what do they cater the event because why do they drop off giant sandwiches he just does it for me does like i've blown him up online i've blown him up on the podcast his deli's killing it that's a good guy he's a great guy and i found them just randomly g &r deli in the bronx that's how i found them After you left.

2:10:39What do you mean? After you left New York. This is like. Oh, yeah. This is recently. Oh. This is like within a couple of years. I, you know, because most of the time I eat really clean. Most of the time it's just meat. But when I go off, I go, I like to really go off. Yeah, I've seen you literally like eat like a hostage. Like somebody that just got released. It's a problem. Yeah. I'm a real glutton, man. I eat massive. It's not just eating food that I shouldn't be eating. I'll eat a massive amount of it. Yeah. Some good pasta. It's hard to stop. I can't stop. It's hard to stop. Oh, yeah. So I ate at this place, Teresi, with my wife on Friday night.

2:11:16That was incredible. It was Italian food. I ate way too much there. It was sensational. And then the next day, Giovanni shows up with these two giant four-foot sandwiches. But my rule is when I'm in New York, all bets are off. All that diet shit's out the window. I'm eating for fun. I'm just eating for fun when I'm in New York. My greedy ass. I ate a Dai Due. How do you say that? Oh, Dai Due. I had a Dai Due on Sunday, and then I did Sushi by Scratch last night. Oh, my gosh. Shout out to Jesse Griffiths. Jesse's the head chef and the owner of Dai Due. He's the man. Brilliant. I stumbled onto that place, and I thought I was putting you on.

2:11:54You were like, oh, I know that guy. Yeah, I found out about that place years ago because he was on my friend Stephen Rinell's podcast. And I was like, oh, that guy is so interesting. And so I actually had, I don't know if I had him on my podcast before I ate at his restaurant or after. I don't remember. But then we went to his restaurant, like, during the pandemic when we first moved here. And it was like you had to be spread out. We actually ate outside the first time we did it because we couldn't eat inside yet. Bro, and you know, because I love, because, you know, there's great restaurants all over Austin.

2:12:25And I know, I know it's going to be good whenever the staff is generally happy to be there. like you go on daidue and everyone fucking loves it there especially like if you see old people working there yeah you see somebody that like you know that's pushing 50 and they still love and they happy and gingerly that it's you know it's gonna be good yeah daidue is sensational yeah the thing and the thing about them is everything is from texas there's nothing in there you can't like You can't even get like a Diet Coke in there. They don't have anything that ain't from Texas. Nothing. So good, too. Yeah.

2:13:05And he always has like exotic shit on the menu. The menu is always changing, but you can always get those pork chops. Oh, yes, pork chops are sensational. The wild pork chops. Sensational. Yeah, everything's sensational. Jesse's like one of the best chefs in the country. I've been there enough times now where I know like anything you order is going to be good. We are spoiled here, bro. Yeah, big time. There's so much good food in Texas, and specifically in Austin. At the medium to high level. The fast food is trash. Like, if you— No, seriously, like, if you're—if it's not a Texas fast food place, it's such a phenomenon to me.

2:13:43Like, what's trash? Like, everything that's not a Texas—like, Dan's is great. Whataburger's great. But, like, Chick-fil-A's not as good. McDonald's is not as good. Chick-fil-A's not as good? Wendy's is terrible. I had Chick-fil-A like a month ago. It was amazing. No, it's okay. But it's not up to... The service is not as... I mean, Chick-fil-A tastes the same everywhere. You go inside to Chick-fil-A? Yeah, I'm going inside. Or if I order it. Chick-fil-A is a drive-through thing, man. You want to eat in your car like a pig. Like a disgusting person who hates himself. But Chick-fil-A might be somewhat of an exception.

2:14:17But even In-N-Out, even In-N-Out here is not as good. Were you telling me that Chick-fil-A has like aluminum in it? Were you one of those? No, that's probably Kurt Mesquist. That's Tony, I think. Was it Tony? Yeah, it was Tony. Yeah, he was saying Chick-fil-A has aluminum in it or something. What? What does it have in it? What is the controversial ingredient? I think it's the buns or something, but it's aluminum. It's in a lot of stuff. Aluminum what, though? It's not just aluminum. No, no, no, no, no. It's not. It's like a... It's foil. They grind up foil. No, it's not foil. It makes it thicker.

2:14:46But sometimes certain names sound scary. Right, right, right, right. But it's just something normal. Right, like vitamin C sounds scary. and the ascorbic acid. Like, oh no. I think it's sodium aluminum phosphate. Yeah. Is that a preservative? Oh, look at that. Man, fuck preservatives. That's what's wrong with us. Everything is preserving your gut biome. It's all getting in there. All this bacteria. Sodium aluminum phosphate, a food additive. Yeah, I don't think that's bad. But also, I've probably eaten so much of whatever that is. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's. When you think about food like that You're just not supposed to eat it every day That's all it is It's really good if you just want to eat it You ever have canes, those chicken fingers?

2:15:33Yeah, I've had canes Canes is pretty good Just don't do it every day Just every now and again But again, even canes Even canes is better in other places What? Are you a canes connoisseur? No, but I've eaten I've eaten a lot of fast food I've heard that In-N-Out here is not as good. In-N-Out here is not as good. Really? Wendy's is not as good. Does the In-N-Out here have the same? KFC's bad. Does the In-N-Out here have the same sort of menu or you can get off-menu stuff? No, it's the same everything except the service sucks and the food is not as – it's just not as consistent. You know what I mean?

2:16:12Okay. Because I've never – before here, I've never been to – because, you know, like Chick-fil-A and In-N-Out, that's a certain standard, especially if you're coming from L.A. But you said McDonald's too. Yeah, the McDonald's here is trash. It's a food distribution issue. Is it? Yeah. This happened once when McDonald's actually bought my favorite pizza place from Ohio. They couldn't expand it, right? Because you couldn't get the same ingredients you get in Ohio and Florida. So you don't like your quality. But doesn't McDonald's send all the ingredients to all their places? But that means you don't have one giant McDonald's farm.

2:16:44You don't? No. It's not how. I mean, we would know where that is, you know? No. Oh, my God. Imagine the slaughter going on at the McDonald's farm. How many fucking cows are losing their lives? But if I'm going to eat at McDonald's in any city, you can find the good McDonald's. You just Google the good McDonald's in Detroit or whatever. But here there aren't any. They're all terrible. Interesting. And so it's a food distribution thing? I'm pretty sure. How are they getting bad beef in Texas? It's not bad beef, but it's just not the same. It's not consistent. It's not the exact same. So the processing might not have the same.

2:17:20Because the thing is, it's not great food. You eat at McDonald's because you know what you're going to get. Right. It tastes just like it does every other time you've had it. But it's not because it's the best. No. So when you settle for McDonald's, right, and you just, you know. And you have a standard. Yeah, it's like calling your ex. You know, it's like you settle for it, and it's not as good. You just, no. It's got to taste like I'm expecting. Got it. You know, but it's just off. have you ever seen some people argue that restaurants are just who can cook the best Cisco food they're all getting it from the same kind of distributor I think most of them are really?

2:17:58that's really dwindling it down to the base that's not really what everything's happening I'm pretty sure if you see Southwest egg rolls it's probably a 50 % chance that that came from a Cisco freezer you know that Mexican place you turned me on to went under I know Bolivar is that what it's called? No, that's not what it's called. Boulevard's a place to live. I don't even remember what it was called, man, but it was incredible. It was so good. Yeah. Maybe they just moved. Maybe I need to look them up because I forget the name of it. I don't know, man. I think they went under because they spent a lot of money on that place.

2:18:27Remember the artwork in that place? Yeah. It was beautiful. Well, the location was not because they weren't near any other restaurants. It wasn't terrible, though. It wasn't hard to find. Yeah, but it's still off the path of like anywhere. Like if you had to go over there, there was no other reason to go over there unless you lived over there. But you go over there for a restaurant. It seemed like they were packed when I was there. That's what was confusing. They were, but towards the end, it started being less and less. That happens, man. People get excited about a new place, and it's popping at first, and then it just sort of dies off.

2:18:58Yeah. But that's the first time I've seen a great restaurant go under that I liked. I know. And quick. Yeah. It was probably a year. Yeah. It's a fucking tough business, man. It really is. That's a tough business. Yeah. And that was started by a guy that knew what he was doing. That's how tough it is. Right. Don't you know the guy? I met him. No. Okay, yeah. I met him there. You know what I wish they would bring here is a bizarre meet. Oh, yeah. I mean, he probably would go to a bigger city than Austin maybe. Well, he's got one in Chicago. He just opened up one in New York. Oh, really? Yeah, we ate the one in Chicago.

2:19:37It was great. Oh, of course. And the new one in Vegas. He's got a new one in Vegas. It moved spots. Oh, okay. To a different casino? Yeah. Same deal, though. Oh, sensational. It's got to be. Sensational. Off the charts. Oh, bro. And they always look out. Yeah. They're great. Yeah. And Jose Andres came on the podcast, the head chef. Oh, word. He was great. Such a nice guy, man. That guy, genuine. You want to talk about real charity? That guy genuinely goes to war-torn regions, anywhere there's some sort of a natural disaster. and he brings trucks and they start cooking and they feed people for free.

2:20:12They feed people that level of food. Yes. His food. Yeah. His food. He loves helping people, like genuinely loves helping people and loves cooking for people. And he went to Poland and was catching the Ukrainian refugees when they were leaving Ukraine. These people were starving. He set up shop and started feeding them. That's how good a guy he is. Yeah. And he's a master. A master chef. Yeah. His restaurants are incredible. He came in here. He was making food for us while we were doing the podcast. How? Like he had a hot plate? He had a piece of ham. He was cutting off ham and shit. Oh, he had like that fancy ass ham.

2:20:48Yeah. Hamon. Hamon. This thin sliced. Remember that? It comes with like a stand. Yeah, man. He gave me a whole leg. I took it home with me. Yeah, it'll last forever. Yeah, it'll last forever. It's cured. Yeah. Bro, it's so good. It's so good. Good food's going to be the downfall of me. Yeah, but you could have both. Yeah, you could have both. You ever see The Rock's cheat meals? Yeah. On Sundays, The Rock will have these legendary cheat meals. I don't know if he still does it, but he would post them on Instagram. It was like a stack of pancakes, giant chocolate chip cookies. No, but The Rock shrunk down now like John Cena.

2:21:21Yeah. Yeah. I think he got too big because he did that movie, the movie about Mark Kerr, The Smashing Machine. Oh. By the way, it didn't get the love it deserves. It's a really good movie. It's not just an MMA movie. It's a very realistic MMA movie, too. It's like really, like, The Rock is Mark Kerr. They even gave him, like, a forehead thing, like a prosthesis, so he looked more like a Neanderthal, like Mark Kerr does. I thought he was going to get a nomination for that. He gained 30 pounds of muscle, wore 22 prosthetics, and trained in an MMA camp to physically transform for his role as Mark Kerr.

2:21:57Look what he looked like. Scroll up so you can see what he looked like. Look what he looked like there. That's Mark. That's the actual Mark, and that's The Rock next to him. But that's The Rock, obviously, playing Mark when he was younger. Oh, is Mark Hurston alive? Yeah, yeah, he did my podcast recently. Oh. Yeah, man, that Smashing Machine documentary is crazy. I thought The Rock was going to get nominated for that. He should have. He should have. He did a fantastic job, but nobody watched it. It's one of those just slipped under. If it comes out the streaming, I can't recommend it enough. It's a really good movie, and it's not just an MMA movie.

2:22:30It's like there's moments in that movie where you get anxiety, like, oh, my God, don't do that. Jesus Christ, what are you doing? It's one of those movies. It's crazy. But he does a phenomenal job. Phenomenal. He hasn't not been nominated yet. They haven't come out yet. Oh. Okay. Oh. Well, he should be for that. I don't think he will get, you know, it's hard. The Academy and a martial arts movie and it's like, you know, it's for meatheads. Jamie, I'm surprised you ain't got no sponsorships with a search app. What do you mean? What you mean? You're literally known for looking shit up. Well, they should call me.

2:23:01Holla at your boy. Um, let's wrap this bitch up. Let's get it. So tell everybody, name your special, where they get it. Uh, special is, uh, Live from Mothership. You can see it right now streaming on Netflix. You can also watch the Don't Tell thing just came out and you can come see me on tour, brinesimpsomcomedy.com. And my podcast BS with Brian Simpson also on YouTube and all the other streaming platforms. And I will see you in a few hours. We're going to have some fun. Tonight, let's go. All right. Goodbye, everybody. Bye.

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