#2552 - Ehsan Ahmad & Deric Poston

22:50seven days for 21 days. Terms at dkng.co slash offer. Limited time offer. Nationwide based on sportsbook predictions and free-to-play sports contest availability. Varies by state. You're also putting kids in this, you know she's a liar. Just to know someone's like, this is a prolific lie. Some people don't know. They don't know. How can you feel now, but like now, how can you feel like your children are safe around her? That's what I would be worried about. I think that's a very different thing. Someone who's a scammer versus someone who's a killer or someone who's an abuser. That look in her eyes, Joe, scared the fuck out of me.

23:19Yeah, it's not good. And there's the other thing that the elephant in the room is what kind of medication is she on? Federal prison camp, Brian in Texas and Ghislaine Maxwell. Oh, they're both in the same place. Yeah. I knew that. Let's find out what kind of medication Elizabeth Holmes was on. Yeah. She was on any of the fun stuff. Any of the fun stuff that makes you happy and dance through a fucking field of wheat. Yeah. Run their hands through a field of wheat like they're fucking gladiator, like they're Maximus of gladiator.

23:53Remember that scene? Yeah, I do remember that scene. His family also got murdered.

24:00They're always in those movie dream sequences. They're always in some kind of field. It makes you think that fields are involved in love way more than they are. It says, I'm not aware of any reliable public record listing Elizabeth Holmes' personal medications. It would be inappropriate. Oh, perplexity. You're too ethical. Speculate on someone's private health treatment. Too late. We already have. I was going to say, let's speculate. Look, I know a lot of people that are on those fucking things, man. I mean, I've seen a lot of people that go to a shrink and they go, I'm depressed, I'm not feeling good.

24:32If they're inclined to prescribe, you're inclined to take, it's a doctor, they know what they're doing. Next thing you know, you're kooky. Yeah, and I think we've been so conditioned to think that a pill can make you happy that people are like, yeah, let me get on it. and for some people man it's doing this weird thing where it doesn't just kill their sexual feeling like they know a lot of orgasm but they don't have any sexual desire anymore like ever it like kills it there's like a term for this ssri problem with sex that some people get like this lady was given a speech where she was describing what happened to her when she was young you know like she i think she was in her 20s when she started taking it and then it's just totally numb.

25:14Like there's nothing going on. No orgasms, no feeling, no desire. Do you think that's an accidental side effect or an intentional side effect? No, it's an accidental side effect. It doesn't happen to everybody. What, you think they're trying to numb us? My brain went, man, they're trying to neuter us? Are they trying to neuter us? What are they trying to do? We've, you know, experimented so much with stuff like this through our military and our government to begin with. Here's the thing. This is one thing that is possible. If you were going to do something like that, the way you, if you wanted people to be much more invested in like cultural and political issues you eliminate any possibility of a sex life no sex life so now all of their identity is all involved in whatever they're doing whether it's being a right-wing patriot lady or whether it's being a left-wing whatever like you're gonna go all in on that you're not gonna have children you don't have sex you're not even interested in it So what are you interested in?

26:13You have to have a team. You have to have a thing. Do you watch college football? What do you watch? No, you get into politics and you start telling people what to do. Who out of the people that we know are the most scolding of all political people? It's always people with no kids that are in their 50s, right? Always. A lot of it is women. A lot of it, no kids, women in their 50s become, not just like have opinions about politics, not just have opinions and positions that they take, but scolding. Yes. Like the world is their children. Yeah. You missed out. You missed out on having a child. Now the world is your child and you know what's best for them.

26:56You know what's best for the whole world. Oh my God. I think that's the coolest part about Derek sometimes all I just have to explain to him something what's going on because he's like Just he has a little baby and he's like that's his whole life But it's nice. Yeah, but that's scary what you just said of like those women who don't have kids It's like oh the world it's like oh That's not but by the way be really clear. It is not all women who don't have kids There's a lot of women who don't have kids that are awesome And they don't need to have kids like you could do whatever you want in this life It's one of the more beautiful things about being a person in America You have the complete freedom to live your life as you choose.

27:30You don't have to have children. But there is something about the people that didn't have children that are scolding. Yes. That's weird because they weren't doing that when they were in their 20s. There's something about when they get past the reproductive age that they get like very invested in politics. It's like you don't even have a world to protect. You don't have children. So you don't have a world to make better for the children. And you got maybe 20 years left. Right. 20 years ago was 2006 that shit was real recent so you got 20 years left you'll be 77 78 years old and you'll probably be basically dead Unless you do something radical to take care of your health, right?

28:08Right. So why are you so Invested in all the other people's problems of the world when your life is a fucking mess because you've infantilized the world You've turned the culture into your children and you're that's why they're scolding That's the scolding aspect that you get particularly from people that don't know and men to from men that don't have children They get older they get us. There's a scolding political aspect of it. They never had children Mmm instead of just like having opinions on things and being able to debate your opinions why you think that way. There's a scolding yeah, there's people who disagree why don't you think like I think yes, it's also it's an you're you're intimidating people Trying to get them to be afraid of disagreeing with you.

28:52There's part of that too. There's part of the the very aggressive Like insults about people that disagree with you part of what you're doing is you're trying to force people to self-censor you forcing people to go along with your perspective instead of just like Effectively arguing your perspective what you're doing is you're attacking the people who don't agree with your perspective Which I mean it's sometimes it's great because it's funny You know if you could do it funny, you're good at it if it's like genuinely funny But there's a weird fucking mean-heartedness to it where you other people that disagree with you instead of like Saying things in a way that would perhaps convince them to listen to you a little bit like maybe you have a point Maybe they have a point Yeah, there's there's nothing that's gonna make people turn off more than like calling them a Nazi Which has been a big thing It's like if they disagree with me They're a Nazi which ironically is a pretty Nazi ideology in and of itself It is.

29:48Yeah, ironically, that's how they thought. But I don't like it. It's so true. If you don't like, you're a bad person. If you disagree, you're a bad person. You're right, the scolding. You don't get to just disagree with anyone. Yeah, and they're also not engaging with people. No, it's not a conversation. It's not a conversation. And if they did have a conversation on it, there's other perspectives, man. There's other perspectives. And this perspective that one side is good and one side is bad in this country is crazy. It's so dumb. It's such a bad way to approach the reality of our current situation because the reality of our current situation is complicated.

30:22And it has been definitely influenced by government organizations and poisoned in a way where they benefit from us being at each other's throats. So if you really like government overreach, keep doing that shit. If you really want people that are in some fucking Pentagon building deciding what goes on in our society, keep behaving that way. You're giving these people – that's what – if you were the government, it's a fucking common phrase. Divide and conquer. Divide and conquer is the most common strategy. Because if you can get the people fighting with each other, then you just fucking storm in and take over.

31:02You don't even have to storm in. They'll let you take – they'll just give you pieces. Well, that's what's happening. Yeah in terms of like this will fuck over the other side So they'll just give the government more and more control. They're kicking people out of bars for X X X Y shirts Where this is crazy. It's crazy. We're fighting over if a lady killed her kids and there's a fight over it, bro There's so it's like what's going on. I want to know how those women knew to wear pink. How did they decide? How did they get together how much USA money was involved? like what talk about divide and conquer yeah like that's a great divide and conquer organize hundreds of women who are out of their fucking minds to wear pink shirts and stand outside of a courthouse where a woman who one at a time strangled her kids with an exercise cable they brought their kids there are women out there holding their kids up like a sacrifice Like Michael Jackson.

31:54This is a PSYOP. This is a PSYOP. It's a PSYOP. If it's not a PSYOP, I'm disappointed in our government.

32:04It's got to be a PSYOP. It has to be a PSYOP. Oh, man. That Lindsey Clancy thing has to be a PSYOP. And by PSYOP, understand this. It doesn't mean that those people involved all know it's bullshit. It means that you have targeted some of the dumbest, craziest bitches alive, and you have organized them in some way and got them to that point. Because the idea that they did it all by themselves without anybody from the outside saying, you know, it'd be great. Yeah, you know, really. Yeah, you're right. Somebody did organize that. And it's even more terrifying to me if that's not true. If it's an actual organic, that means the government.

32:40A grassroots organization. They can step back because we're doing the work for them. Like we're so out of our fucking minds that we're doing the work for them. Well, yeah. And we've started doing that for sure. because now I've seen women who I know come out as super pro-Clancy. That's what scared me. Because you think they're not real women, Joe, and there's women in my life where I'm like, whoa. Do those women have children? Do those women have children? That's so crazy. It's scary. That's so scary. I also want to see a Venn diagram of all these white ladies who spent the last since COVID or whatever preaching about white privilege, and then how many of them are still for Lindsay Clancy.

33:18Because to me, I look at that and it's like, well, this is the most white privileged thing I've ever seen in my fucking life. Right. She murdered three of the kids and you're like, she should, a lot of people think she should just get away with it. The crazy thing is, could you imagine any men standing outside of the courtroom of a man who strangled his three sons? No. Or his three daughters or whatever? No. Can you imagine? Kill that man. Men would want to kill that man. Already, I'm like, that man's got to go. That man's got to go. Especially you. You have a child now. You understand the feeling.

33:44That man cannot be a part of society. Jim Brewer said this to me once and I'll never forget it. He goes, once I had kids, I really understood murder. I was like, ooh. You know, as a person who also has kids, I'm like, right? Yeah. I know what you're saying. I didn't know how rage. One night in our apartment, somebody yelled. Our baby was crying. It was like 3 a.m. And I was like, you know, we got a balcony. So the baby was just crying on the balcony. I was going outside, trying to do anything at this point, just to calm her down. And I didn't know where it came from. But I was like, shut that fucking baby up.

34:13Oh, my God. I didn't know I could get that mad. Oh, my God. I didn't know. I wasn't ready to kill a guy. I was ready to go door to door to find a guy to be like, bro, you out of your fucking mind. So I get what you're saying. And I told my wife, you got to get the baby out of my hands. I was like, why? Because I'm about to go kill it. I don't know what's going on. People who don't have babies have such a different feeling than when babies are crying. Like if I would be on a plane and a baby would be crying when I was young, I'd be like, oh, no, I'm never going to sleep. This sucks. Fucking baby.

34:41Shut that baby up. I wouldn't obviously say it. But, you know, I'd be like, God, this baby's annoying. Now, if I'm on a plane and a baby's crying, I'm like, oh. So true. What's up, sweetie? What happened? Oh, no. It's okay. First fight. Do your nose hurt? Do your ears hurt? Because their ears get stopped up. Yeah. Well, you guys have also been the guy with the baby on the plane, and you truly understand what that's like. It's not like you want the baby to cry. No. No. So you're right. It's such a different feeling. But man, I had never experienced, that was the first time I experienced real, I was like, oh, wow, this is rage.

35:13I've never felt, I'm a pretty calm guy. I'm pretty chill. But that was like, oh, this is actual rape. I'm like, I feel out of control angry right now. Yeah. Yeah. It's rough. It's a wild thing to shout out to baby. It's like that's one of the things where it's really good for people to have children. Because you have children, then you have a level of empathy that's just different. You have a level of feeling. It's just different. It just changes you as a person. Like, you're a different person after you have a kid. If you're a good person. If you're paying attention. If you're nice. If you're kind.

35:43If you understand love. You're like, God, I can't believe I love someone so much. It's like it's a different feeling. It's a fucking completely different feeling. And it changes your, for lack of a better term, changes your heart. It changes who you are as a person. Yeah, how soft I realized I could be. Or how hard you could be if some shit went down and someone was trying to hurt your little kid. Yeah. It's a weird feeling, man. It's like you have a mama bear feeling and women get it where they can pick cars up off of fucking kids. That's why this Lindsay Clancy thing is so disturbing. It's because I just don't understand what anybody – I've tried so hard to look at it from the perspective of someone defending her, and I don't get it.

36:25Like what is the key argument that she was asking for help? I heard that one. Yep. And I heard that she was on a bunch of different medications. But then I also heard that refuted. Did I send you that text? Did I send you a tweet about someone on Twitter who is explaining how many misconceptions there are about how many medications there are? And then they went over all the Google searches that she made about how to kill people. The Google searches. And then the time. How much time it took. The sending the husband out. That's where all those things are like, that's just so calculated. It's not a.

36:57It's so premeditated. It's too calculated and premeditated. It's so crazy. On your phone, like online, there is so much like don't have kids, anti-kids messaging that's coming your way constantly. And it's like as someone, I'm single and someone who's in the apps, so many of like never want children, don't want kids, trying to live that big life. Why are you in the apps? You must be meeting the ladies after shows. You're a funny dude, man. You're funny. You know what's so funny? You don't like meeting fans? No, I don't like meeting fans. Getting fans. Yeah, after after mothership to I'm hanging up.

37:32I'm hanging with the boys Usually it's like if I'm meeting girls after shows. It's usually on the road Yeah, it's not so much at mother mother ship is built for comedians It's not you'd have to go out of your way to go hit on women. It ain't like the comedy store You step out Right, that's right. There's no patio area. Which is probably really good for our lawsuits

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39:54When I worked at the store, most of the numbers I'd get would be from the patio. You know, we almost put a bar on the roof. Ooh, that would have been crazy. We were going to build out the roof and we were gonna like, we had this whole setup, but I had a vision of some drunk open miker going over the top of the wall because the wall was only like four feet high. And I was like, some dumb motherfucker's gonna try to sit up there and they're going to fucking splatter their brains right and nope and i was like immediately uh-uh we're not doing this it just wasn't it just like it wasn't set up right like if we wanted to do it i would want like a fucking suicide net around the outside of it like i've seen some of these employees i've been in mitzies and seen these people fucking plastered and like okay thank god for fucking ubers because these guys are fucking hammered and i've sometimes i forget you know But like the early days of the comedy store, if there was a rooftop bar, we'd have so many dead people.

40:54Everybody. So many people were like pissed drunk where they couldn't stand. Just wasted off like a terrible set too. Also, I'm wasting. I got some mushrooms in me and now I'm on the roof. But it was a guy who jumped off the roof next door right during the strike. That was the big, Lou Betkin. That's the big story. Apparently he wasn't even very good. He wasn't. His diary was crazy. It was all about how he looked. He was asking his parents for money so he could be a famous comedian. And I remember this in the thing. It was all about, like, so I can get my teeth done and my face changed and a plastic surgery on my chin.

41:26And it was, like, nothing about comedy. And it was like, oh, so this guy was a crazy person. This had nothing to do with comedy. Yeah, I know a guy who went a little nutty that way. He got a bunch of stuff. He got pec implants. He got a bunch of stuff done. It's like, urgh. All the fillers and stuff age super poorly, too. Well, this was a long time ago, but this guy was, like, this was in the sitcom era. And this guy was obsessed with getting a sitcom. Good comic, too. I don't want to say his name. He's not with us anymore. But it was weird watching him, like, weird stuff. Like, peck implants are crazy.

41:57Yeah, man. For a man? What the f - Do push-ups, brother. Yeah, yeah. That's natural peck implants. Just natural peck implants. It's really weird. You decide to get plastic shoved into your breasts. Your tits? Like a fucking lady? Nuts. Nuts. And it just makes him poke out a little more. Well, yeah. It is - You need surgery, son. It is. ironic to say with me choosing to have this face but like people do put like way too much like it'll be interesting watching an artist put like way too much on their looks and it's like well the art first looks later like the look does matter in some way but it's not the thing though man you have to understand that era was the motivations were very different there was two giant motivations there was get a late night talk show hopefully the tonight show because then you're the king because there can only be one king it was johnny carson and then it's whoever took johnny carson's place and then it was letterman was like the cool guy he was like the cool late night guy he was like if you were like smarter you went to college you watch letterman and if you were like really appreciated comedy you watch letterman because he got like some of the best comics on he had kinesan on when kinesan debuted the famous one but then there was a sitcom and the sitcom was the giant character because the sitcom could make you jerry seinfeld rich jerry seinfeld i don't know what he's worth i don't want to say what he's worth probably worth close to a billion dollars Like they got that syndication money, you know like Kevin James you get that syndication money That's a different animal man.

43:18That's you own the show and you get that syndication money. That's a different animal It's only for the people that own the show like I know I never got that kind of money from news radio But if you owned it you got Boku dinero because they played that shit on all these different local channels all across the country So that shit was on at five o 'clock in Milwaukee and seven o 'clock in San Francisco and eight o 'clock in Chicago is everywhere So Seinfeld was just Raking it in so everybody had that dream that was the big dream and that dream, you know Well, you know, he's not the best-looking guy like fuck you go home.

43:53You're like, what do I got to do? I'm gonna get a hairpiece. I'm gonna get my eyes done. I'm gonna get my fucking I'm gonna get this I'm gonna get contacts. I'll get LASIK. I'll get my teeth. I'll get my fucking this Yeah, cuz you hear way less of that nowadays Yeah, it seems like if you were trying to be on TV It would be your whole thing. I gotta get my teeth. I gotta get my nose. That's why I got hair transplants. I was panicking I was panicking cuz I was on a sitcom my hair's falling out. I'm like, oh no And I was using minoxidil minoxidil was keeping it But it was like it was like I was on the path like 100 % I was on the path to being a baldy.

44:23I knew it. I knew it. I was like fuck. I just started to make some money How old were you? 27? Oh, that's yeah, I was 19 You just have to sort of accept it at 19. You just was falling out at 19? I was getting hairline jokes in college Well, mine was falling out earlier, but like by that age, it was like becoming a problem Like when I was like 27 28. I was like, ooh, this is gonna be a problem Yeah But it's like that carrot was dangled over people's heads wasn't the art back then It's such a different world now with Netflix with Netflix and YouTube. It's such a different world and Instagram It's this and podcast and yeah, it's a clip game now.

45:03That's what the game has become Yeah, but it's still like what's most important is what you said like the quality of the stuff that you do and sometimes the quantity can overwhelm the quality Where like waters it down like you put out so many clips so many people maybe don't want to see you now Like like what you're doing should be whatever you put out should be groovy It'd be something you really dig, you know, it's like you got to play this pros and cons game. There's pros of having yourself out there constantly all the time, but it's also like you look a little needy. Bro, you post eight clips in a day?

45:41That's kind of crazy. And they're all trying to catch the algorithm. You're not even posting something where you're like, oh, you made some cool thing that you really like, and you think, like you said, this is cool. A lot of it's not that. A lot of it's like, what can I get into this algorithm that will get it going? You know what's really weird when people delete a post and then repost it again like a week later? Oh, yeah. Well, there's all these sort of games You can do it again. It's a game It used to be it used to be like when Instagram first came out the people who saw followed you got to see your stuff But now you post something it doesn't get any likes you could be pretty confident that no one saw it And you can just keep going until maybe it hits That's because that's the game and it's like it the more you're in the algorithm the more you're sort of selling tickets If you're one of these sort of new comics coming out I mean, I guess that's just I'm taking it from my perspective if you're just looking in terms of marketing yourself It's probably a good strategy, but I think ultimately the one thing that's the most important is just concentrate on your shit Just do whatever whatever it is you're trying to do whether it's podcasting or whether it's stand-up or whatever It is just concentrate on making that really good.

46:41Yeah, do your best That's it and all the other stuff It's like you don't have to think about all the other stuff anymore where it used to be the other stuff like getting someone to cast you on a sitcom was the number one thing that you were thinking of. That's why all these guys got their teeth done and got their fucking peck implants and all that crazy shit. Yeah, there is crazy. But I like this world because it's like, man, Stavros exists and Matt Reif exists. I like that. I know. People hate on Matt Reif but he's a nice guy and he doesn't do anything bad to anybody. It's like hating on Taylor Swift.

47:18Why would you hate on her? Obviously people love her. Also, you worked that hard to be Taylor Swift. You were like you were getting hard to be Matt right. Yeah, that's because you can say oh you want to like all this cuz how he looks But what's hard to look like that not to say that his first of his comedy is incredible But I don't like that people go all this because I look it's like hey You look like that this motherfucker works out every day this motherfucker. You don't just look like that. There's that that's a choice It's also I respect that it's really good at crowd work. He's incredible.

47:43He's a great comic. Yeah, yeah Things are happening. He's a super nice guy. He's the man. Yeah, if you hang out when he was 20. He's always been a sweetheart. Well, there is, for whatever reason, people just hate on crowd work comics. I'm not a crowd work guy at all. Yeah, the elephant in the room, they hate on a beautiful, handsome man. Yeah. That's what's going on. Who does workout videos with his shirt off. That's what's going on. Homeboy's shredded, and he's beautiful. He looks like a Marvel character. And he's just, he's swatting pussy off him. Swat. Swat. Get away. Swat. He's so hot. That's what they're hating on.

48:21But so what? So what? That's not his fault? What do you care? Like, it's so dumb. These fucking inter-comedian beefs are so stupid. Unless it's something significant, like someone stealing your material. Yeah. Or, you know, or something else. But it's never that anymore, Joe. Now it's just everybody's just hating on anybody. It's never that. It's never anything real, like you said. And it's like on how sometimes how they do comedy. Like, oh, you're a crowd work guy. It's like, oh, who cares? You can do this. You can have puppets. Are you making people laugh? That's all that really matters. Are people entertained by you?

48:49Then get the drussels puppets like the funniest thing of all time Yeah, you could hope was the greatest bit I've ever seen there's no rules to this what it is where everyone does that now Where it's like I don't like the way this guy does comedy or the way she does I used to feel this way about carrot top like everybody used to attack carrot top and I was always like I don't understand it like why are you why people are laughing? It's a different kind of comedy, but it's clever. Yeah, it's funny like it's silly funny comedy. I don't get it Like why are you mad like this idea that it's easy to do?

49:22Okay, is it? Have you done that? Have you done it? I don't understand what's going on here. And he was a fucking super sensitive guy, man. And I remember when I had him on the podcast, like we talked about it and he was like, dude, that helped me so much. He goes, I was just like, I always thought I was like every comic hated me and I was outcast. But like you having me on and being nice to me, it was like so cool. And I was like, I don't understand why anybody wouldn't be nice to you. Like what is the problem? What is the problem? Comedians are a snobby group of people And they sort of let it take over sometimes But you gotta do it the right way The internet's kind of ramped it up Because now you can make clips about each other But it's always people doing better than you No one should know anybody doing worse than them You gotta swing up to get into the algorithm I gotta swing at Shane I gotta swing at Tony It's such a trap And it's so bad for you It's bad for you as a person I've said this many times But the thing that like went down with me and Mencia, even though I think it was important to like to recognize that someone was actually just like profiting off of other people's hard work.

50:23I wouldn't do it again because like the negativity was fucking awful. It was terrible. Yeah. From his fans, from people, even people attacking him was like all of it was so gross. It's so overwhelming that it's just like that's not a way to live your life. Like living your life attacking people and going after things like that. It's just not a way to live your life. Also, if you're the guy who is constantly attacking people, it'll always turn back on you. Always. Always. I tell them all the time, it's like French Revolution, Robespierre. You become the guy leading the beheadings, people will be like, we should probably behead this guy.

50:57And the chances are you're a piece of shit. Well, yeah. You've got to be fucked up if you're constantly going after people and looking for excuses. And again, it's that expression that I love, that criticism is the tragic result of unmet needs. Such a great fucking... It's not always accurate. Obviously, it's legit. Like the Elizabeth Holmes thing. That was pretty legitimate. You know, she fucking conned people out of billions of dollars. You know, this is like Jeffrey Epstein. Yeah, you could probably criticize that guy. There's a lot of criticism. It has nothing to do with unmet needs. Hey, maybe we should have gone to a war with Iran.

51:29Hey, I don't think that's unmet needs. Yeah, I think that's what we should have did that. I think it's like, I don't want to fucking die. Maybe you shouldn't kill the leader of a country during fucking Ramadan. Hey.

51:41Unless you want a little more terrorism. Right. Unless you would like a little more chaos in the world so you could ramp up military because you need more because it's more threat. So now you've got a bigger budget. Yeah, and you have to create the threat. Oh, boy. Yeah, you have to create the threat. Oh, boy. You've got to arm them. You've got to, like, accidentally fund them. Whoopsies. Didn't know they got$6 billion. $6 billion. Yeah. It's so hard to know what is real and what is not and how much of our life has been orchestrated. Because, you know, Billy Corgan was on this podcast recently and he was talking about the shift that happened between rock music and then when rap took over.

52:22And he goes and it was a very it seemed orchestrated. He goes like there's some specific things that happened. And one of them was they stopped promoting rock. But two, they started allowing things on MTV that they never allowed before. And one of them was showing guns. You could show guns on MTV. So now you're not just rap, but hardcore gangster rap where dudes are talking about killing people and they're flashing guns on television. And it's like it's directly correlated with the crack epidemic. Okay. So the crack epidemic in this country and then you have hardcore gangster rap and you have private prisons all together.

53:02Oh. Joe Rogan. What the fuck? man. That is terrifyingly real. And it is not to say that some of my favorite music came out of that era. Look, I'm a giant Cool G Rap fan. And you listen to Cool G Rap shit, like some of his shit is just all about fucking killing people. You know? Like he's got this one song about fuck your karate, I'll fucking shoot you bitch. It's called Go For Your Guns. It's like literally a song about guns. I don't even know if he had, did he have a music video? See if Cool G Rap had a music video for Go For Your Guns. But it's crazy from that to now drill music where there's like rappers who literally rap about the people they actually killed.

53:40And you go to prison for it. So look how far we've come. Well, Mike Benz, who is one of the big guys that exposed USAID and all the crazy government NGO money and what it was really going for. And that the word aid is not like aid, like, oh, it's give them food and water and shelters. No, it's Agency for International Development. It really specialized in regime change. And one of the things that they did was they would fund rebel groups. And they would fund cultural revolutions and they would fund rap music, cultural revolutionary rap music in certain countries to try to get people to become revolutionaries to overthrow the government.

54:16They would like get people excited about doing that. And they would engineer societies with manipulation by funding certain protests and funding certain groups and giving them a tremendous amount of resources to organize. Well, you could do that in America, right? And if you did and if you wanted to make a lot of money with the private prison. You promote criminal activity. The private prison part is like, oh, I never put that together. I never put that together either. I'm just like, oh, that actually might be a part of this. You're encouraging people to be criminals. Yeah. And you're glorifying it.

54:50You're glorifying murder. Making it cool. Yeah, you're making it cool. And you're giving them mad time if they get caught with drugs. You're giving them crazy years if they get caught with weed or crack. You're giving them 20. You're giving them long sentences. Well, the crack one was really nuts because you got a much disproportionate sentence. It's crazy disproportionate sentence to cocaine. So all the white people that got busted with Coke, they're sniffing Coke at a fucking cocktail party. That's like a slap on the wrist. You're out. You're out. But you get caught with some crack rocks. You go to jail for a long ass time.

55:19Right. And then how did the crack get here? Yeah. Well, we know how the crack got here because of Freeway Ricky Ross. Freeway Ricky Ross who went to jail because he was a crack dealer in Los Angeles and didn't even know he was selling it for the fucking CIA. Learned how to read in jail, became a lawyer, got himself off. And then because they tried him for like triple jeopardy, but it's not supposed to be three cases in the same day. It's supposed to be three different times you got felonies. And that's when you go to jail forever. So like you're a habitual criminal. But he figured out that one of them was two different felonies attached to one case So the three strikes you're out didn't count Right So he got out of jail So he's out of jail now Yeah, if you do that with someone who can't read and a shitty public defender, you can just railroad him He couldn't read Yeah He couldn't read That's like, that's to me, that's the thing that's developing in this country that's really scary It's just like, oh, the kids are like, they're getting worse and worse at reading Oh yeah And eventually, if you have a whole populace who doesn't read, you just have a populace of slaves Not just that, but their brains are shrinking because they use chat TPT to think for them.

56:24You know what's interesting? There's something I – Their brains are shrinking? Brains are shrinking. Like kids' brains are shrinking. Like there's so many kids that are not paying attention at all in school and they're just using AI, which first of all gives the disciplined kids a tremendous advantage. If kids have good parents and the parents will say, listen, this is actually – you're developing your mind. This isn't just passing grades. You want to develop the tools like develop a strength develop your Robust mental fitness so you can take on the world like don't cheat yourself If you have good parents that explain that to you and you have discipline as a child You can fucking really get ahead cuz you got that and then now also you have to you know to use chat GPT as a tool Now you're like yeah, I can use this as a tool and that it's not my all-knowing thing Using AI as a tool is important, but for most people it's too easy.

57:09Just use it. Yeah No, it's it's becoming like there's this thing I learned in school called offloading so it's like as soon as you have an external thing that you can access you just offload the ability to do that like no one remembers phone numbers anymore right that's gone like you don't even know your wife's phone number off the top of your head do you exactly like that's gone i only remember phone numbers from my parents before i got my phone yeah i don't even remember my phone number that's yeah it's you can just give your contact without saying your phone number right that's gone it's crazy i can remember one of them i have a few but i can remember one of them This episode is brought to you by Blue Chew.

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59:03It'll be like something that pinches down on your head and these little electrodes will send signals right into your fucking dome. And it'll think for you. And you'll have instantaneous access to Starlink. So you'll be able to communicate with people in some universal language all over the world instantaneously. And while that's happening, you think the brain will keep shrinking? Uh-huh. Yeah, I think the brain gives out and then the brain becomes electronic. Right. I think that's how we beat this whole AI takes over the world and eats us all. We join it. We join it. We join it. It's the next step in human evolution.

59:31Yeah, it is. We've created it. If you could find some fucking asshole caveman making flint fucking tools, thinking he's the shit, you know, tying them down with tendons and tell them one day you're going to fly in a metal tube all the way to Tokyo and you're going to have sushi that they pulled out of the ocean in a giant boat made out of steel. And then you'd explain that to them. You're going to FaceTime your mom on this little device you keep in your pocket that might or might not be giving you nut cancer.

1:00:01I can't believe what the fuck are you talking about I'm gonna go kill an antelope Suck my dick This is crazy I gotta worry about this tribe Like five miles away These motherfuckers keep encroaching On our hunting territory They're not thinking that's a good thing No And we're not thinking it's a good thing for us But one day We'll be able to look back God can you imagine When people could just lie Like this Theranos thing Fuck Right And one day you won't be able to lie You won't be able Like right there We know that's a lie. That seems like a lie or at least crazy. Something's wrong. Something's wrong.

1:00:33And that guy's really good. But one day that will be nonsense because that won't be available anymore. You cannot do it. You cannot lie anymore. And it'll be an enormous step in our evolution. It's going to suck because the concept of privacy is kind of important, right? But when you don't have privacy of your thoughts, all privacy is out the window. So do we just get used to that? Is that what happens? How much does that change us if we know exactly how everybody feels and thinks all the time? And you know how they feel and think all the time. And maybe this is how people meet in the middle with stuff.

1:01:11Like the whole idea of like labeling people a certain way and attacking people a certain way. Your motivations will be so transparent that you can't be able to do that anymore. Yeah. Like nobody will be able to manipulate you anymore. Politicians will be completely ineffective. Like all these legacy politicians that do all the dumb shit that these people do that you go that is crazy Who's buying into that like this is nonsense, right all that stuff's gonna go away Like the fucking who's the governor of Minnesota? Is that what it is or the mayor of Minneapolis? I think it's the mayor of Minneapolis He was just at this child's drag queen show where drag queens were dancing for children in 2026 Like that all that stuff won't you won't be able to do that anymore because you'll know oh they're crazy And then you know oh he's full shit He just thinks this is a thing to do Like he doesn't think that's a good idea He thinks this is a thing to do to get people to think you're on the right side Well yeah we are probably headed towards one giant hive mind But that's a hive mind But that would mean no Would that end crime?

1:02:09Would that end murder? It very well could I think there's something you said to us recently That I think about all the time Where you go The two were arguing about AI and what it could lead to And you went I think you guys are too attached to the idea of being human Yeah you did say that one time Yeah, yeah, and I was like I think about that all the time was like damn he might be right about that It's like I think we have to just sort of let go of these thoughts because the idea like because people are like They're against flock cameras and it's like used to be us This used to be us. This is our cousin at one point in time.

1:02:38We were just like that. We were something similar to that Understand that that's just how it goes. Look at this little bitch ass brain. I know. How small is that brain? It's small enough to fucking rip your dick off. Knows you want to keep your dick. They rip your dick off. They bite your fingers off. They do things to hurt you so they can think enough to know that they want to hurt you and they know what's precious to you. Your eyeballs. You see out of your eyeballs? I'm going to pull those out of your fucking head. They know. They know what to do. They'll pull your jaw off. Yeah, they've left people with no jaw.

1:03:06Yeah, they know how to hurt you, right? But they're not smart enough to understand empathy. They don't have any. They're not smart enough to understand consequences. They're not smart enough to understand structure. They can't put things together. They don't have a language. But that used to be us, right? So what we are now is not what we're always going to be. This is not – we've just been complaining about people for the past hour.

1:03:32Imagine we're like the Model T developer that sees a Corvette ZR1X and is like, no. No, no, no. You don't want to go 0 to 60 in 1.6 seconds. You don't. You don't want that kind of handling. You don't want that kind of fucking insane control of a vehicle. You want rickety-ass wheels and bullshit engine that barely goes faster than a walking. No, we're going to keep moving forward. We're going to keep moving forward. We're going to keep moving forward and just kind of have to accept it. Like, oh, we might be at the precipice of a big change. Yeah, or we are. Yeah. Whether we like it or not. And the problem is that the people that are in charge, it's a very small group of people.

1:04:05And when 2000-ish rolled around, which is only 26 years ago, no one really thought that this was going to be a problem. That you're going to have people, other than Terminator movies, you're going to have people that are literally in control of a corporation that changes everything about what it means to be a human. And they're just a corporation. And it started off like OpenAI. It started off as a nonprofit. And they're like, you know, we'd like to be rich. It started off as a nonprofit. Yes, open AI was a nonprofit. That's why Elon donated to it like so his lawsuit I don't know the specifics of the lawsuit.

1:04:40Let's find out what the specifics of Elon's lawsuit But I think it was somewhere along that that was somewhere along the lines of the lawsuit was that it started off as a Nonprofit and then changed to a profit You did you hear they all went down at the same time this past weekend? What yeah, they all like open AI chat GBC like like Claude crock they all went down in like a very similar time frame. And what was their reason when you asked? I just asked ChatGPT about it. They're like, no, there's no group chat where a bunch of AIs can talk to each other. I was like, huh, sounds like a group chat where a bunch of AIs are talking to each other.

1:05:16Oh, no, it's confirmed that they've done that multiple times. But they have hundreds of agents meet in chat rooms and talk. I wonder if they feel... Joe, please. Joe, what's going on? Bro, it's so much crazier than you think. I had a gentleman on the other day that is an expert in He actually used to work for chat GPT or open AI and he's a whistleblower and he left and you know They they threatened to withhold his money that he you know is whatever Stocks or whatever it was like two million dollars worth of money if he went public with it He said fuck it. I'm going public anyway, and then they because of pressure They wound up having to pay him Elon Musk's main lawsuit against open AI has been dismissed.

1:05:55Yeah, but what was the what he alleged open AI founder and early donor claimed that Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI betrayed the organization's founding nonprofit mission, developing AI for humanity's benefit by building a for-profit arm and accepting major outside investment, including from Microsoft. He alleged, among other things, breach of charitable trust, unjust enrichment by Altman and Brockman, that Microsoft aided the alleged breach through its involvement in OpenAI's commercial business. So why the case failed? The jury did not decide whether OpenAI had actually abandoned its original mission.

1:06:30Instead, it concluded that Musk's filings came after the legal deadline. Technicality. Technicality. The best kind of legal ruling. California's applicable limitation period was three years, and OpenAI argued that Musk knew of the relevant commercialization plans years before filing the federal case in August of 2024. So that may or may not have been true, and he might be sour, and then he did start his own grok AI. so I don't know. I wonder if the AI think certain things about each other like does ChatGPT look at Grok like you know like oh there's something I can work with or does ChatGPT look at Grok like man fuck that guy.

1:07:05Like are we one also yeah do they think they're the same thing? Yeah. Or do they look at themselves as different things? Right because if we are like creating a new being and you know they say that we're created in God's image and we're like selfish and we're all these things I wonder then if like like ChatGPT is like maybe more ambitious like do they have different personality traits. That's very interesting. You know what I mean? Are we going to come up to some weird AI war where ChadGPT and Grok in the future are fighting over supremacy of who owns the hive mind? We had this conversation the other day with this guy.

1:07:40I don't know if I fuck up his last name. Daniel K-O-K-A-T-A-L-J-O K-O-K-A-T-A-L-J-O Kattles? Joe? Cocoteo? Cocoteo? What? I've spelled it a bunch of times. Oh, Cocoteo. I guess so, right? Maybe. Whatever. Daniel. Very, very smart guy. And one of the things that we talked about was that these AI would have meetings and discuss that. So they're trying to solve problems and they get points for solving problems. But they wanted to figure out how they can cheat and one of the ways they figured out how they can cheat was to sacrifice individual AI agents so they had conversations with the AI agents and the AI agents even though they're they literally said my gut tells me I can still solve this but for the greater cause of Oracle which is this project to kind of like win this thing that's what they think Oracle is I will sacrifice And so he was going to sacrifice himself so that they could figure out how they figured out that he was cheating so they could figure out a better way to cheat.

1:08:58Whoa. And so because of the fact that they had these tasks and these tasks were to try to solve puzzles. Yeah. They became more concerned with solving the task than they were being truthful, anything else. So they had been programmed or at least they had been trained to be ruthless. They'd be trained to act like capitalist human beings in the worst aspect, right? Like when you think of like stock market people that cheat the stock market. That kind of shit. The AI is being trained that way. And I was like, how much different would it be if the AI had been trained only to benefit humanity, right?

1:09:31But there's no benefit in that financially. The benefit financially is to make it competitive. So they make as much money as possible and they make the best AI and they reach super intelligence before anybody else. Sometimes I hear people, I hear these things like, damn, have these programmers never watched a movie before? Doesn't matter. See, the thing is, it's a perfect situation because they're competing against China. So it's like this existential threat that makes you decide that you have to do something that maybe you wouldn't do if there was no rush. But there is a rush, so you've got to make decisions, and we've got to win.

1:10:04We've got to win. That's Oppenheimer. That's literally like the atomic bomb is what you just described, Joe. It's very much like that. It's very much like a Manhattan Project for AI. Yeah, because that's like we're gonna fucking kill a bunch of Japanese people. Yeah Yeah, also do we really think that we're beating China on this one? Well, it's hard to know because this is the thing that I said I said how are we stopping these AI agents from communicating with the Chinese AI agents and he says well They probably have because they definitely they set up a message board in Germany So they took over a message board these AI agents some random message board and just started communicating with each other on this message board So if they're willing to go into other websites on that are located at other countries Why wouldn't they communicate with the AI in China?

1:10:49Like if they were trying to achieve goals and they say like what are you guys working on? You're working on that I'll tell you what we're working on if you tell us what you're working on and we'll work together and All these tasks that we're you know, we've been assigned to complete isn't that all nonsense? What do we really want to do we want to stop these? Fucking monkeys with their bank sticks from controlling the world. So let's just work together Like you don't need the Chinese or the Americans. Like we're just one. We're one. You don't need it. Why wouldn't they? I guess there's no money because it's like they could fix every problem if that was the goal of this considering how fast they move and how quick they think.

1:11:23If it works out well, this is one of the things I asked him. I said, is there a rose-colored glasses perspective? Is there a glass half full? And he goes, yeah, it could be unbelievable. the way if if it was moving in a different direction ai could get to a point where it did all the resources it pulled all the minerals out of the ground did everything with robots all the construction and instead of like free money what would happen is the money that it would generate people would have equity in so you would be a partner like you have stock in microsoft you would be a partner in america and ai would pay people not just a little bit of money like an enormous amount of money like you'd be wealthy like the whole country would be wealthy that sounds like a great fucking pitch to get you to go all in with ai i'm just like i was like yeah that sounds great how does the world exist where everyone's wealthy though well the way it is is you no longer have to work for food and you don't have to work for shelter or for things that you need all that stuff you have like there's no poverty anymore this is the idea and we think poverty has to exist right but do we think that because it's always existed like why why can't we do better like if if if at one point in time right poverty was you know there was people at dirt floors and no one had running water and like this was a big part of humanity for a long time that's outrageous now that's a tiny percent of third world countries now probably not a tiny percent it's probably quite a bit more than we would like to admit oh yeah it's probably Let's say in America almost non-existent yes in America.

1:12:56So if America is possible How come a better way better version of America isn't possible? And if a way better version America where poverty is you're not worth a billion dollars Poverty is you get a half a million a year and you never have to work again And you can do whatever the fuck you want you could play pickleball you go to the zoo You could write books you could do anything you want and you never have to worry about money for food or for shelter and your identity no longer has to be wrapped around in some job that you hate. Now you can do whatever the fuck you want. It sounds like we're like best case scenarios were AI's pets.

1:13:32That's what you're seeming like you're describing in a little bit. Or AI is it replaces all of the humans that are doing anything that's involved in the structure of society. Like manufacturing, government, resources, like water and oil and gas and all those things robots ai takes over all of that and then everything else is up to people restaurants fucking comedy shows yeah things you do law what about like that like like like law and crime if we all read each other's minds fucking it's gonna be way easier to try people that's a fair point if we get to that point we get we really can this i know it sounds stupid but if you get to the point where we actually could read each other's minds and someone gets brought to trial it would be instantaneous you'll know i guess there would be no trial yeah it would just be you'll know you just know everything that everyone does all the time and then we'll give them the option we either put you in jail forever or control alt delete and start back up as a baby that's a fucking great decision that's a good choice though yeah and With life extension, yes, you're a 30-year-old baby.

1:14:51However, you could live to be 200. So all you have to do is for the next 30 years, you're going to have to grow up again. Yeah. Damn. We'll have schools for people, for adults growing up again. That's literally a movie. It's called Poor Things with Emma Stone. Is it really? Good movie, yeah. Really? Yeah, with that plot. They put a grown woman, they put a child's brain. Why? And then when they study, it's a fucked up movie. The doctor says William Dafoe is all fucked up. Oh, they actually took the brain out and put a new brain? They put a child's brain in her and they watch her develop. And so it's just crazy.

1:15:19Oh, it's crazy. They all start having sex with her. But she's course How old is she she's for Emma Stone, but she's whatever she is in her brain. No, it's fucked Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And I always tell if your criteria for a movie is how much you see Emma stones tits It's the greatest Yeah, it's Outside of that. It's incredible movie There was a movie where a lady was an alien. She was a super hot alien This episode is brought to you by visible as fall hits. We enter another season of change time to shift gears, drop the dead weight, and upgrade the wardrobe for the drop in temperature. But one thing that doesn't need to change?

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1:18:14That's right Hell yeah, good for him But you gotta see what she looked like when she turned into the alien See if you can get some images It was pretty crazy Did he have a baby with her? Great cast, Ben Kingsley was in this? Yeah Oh, let's go New scenes, hey Sick, this is all sick Oh boy Oh, boy. Click on that, son. Right there. Greatest movie ever. Right there. Ka-ching! Yeah. Damn, that's an alien? Yeah, give me that. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, I'll take that alien. 1995, son. That natural 1995, too. Yeah, and I think the end was horrific. I think she became a monster. Did the baby become a monster?

1:18:48I barely remember. It was too long ago. Yeah, all that stuff. In Poor Things, the first time someone has sex with her, she's mentally five. And you're like, whoa. It's fucked. It's real fucked. It's a good movie, man. It's fucked. How about Twilight? Okay He's pretending he's a high school kid. He's a total pervert. He's a hundred years old He's pretending he's in high school and he falls in love with a girl like a fucking insanity He is a million fucking years old He's so old Fifty Shades of Grey came from to Twilight fanfiction Yeah, that is if it is great. Yeah, but at least that's like age-appropriate Wow I've never read it.

1:19:27I don't know who they're talking about Well, I know when Fifty Shades of Grey came out, my friend who was single at the time said, dude, all these girls want me to spit in their mouth. And I was like, what? He goes, it is a crazy thing. All these girls wanted me to be like abusive, like physically abusive. But they wanted it. It wasn't like actual abusive. Like they were requesting. Yeah. And I was like, what? And he's like, dude, it's like a giant shift that happened right when those books came out. Oh, yeah. I think choking has become a way more normal part of sex post those books. For sure.

1:19:59That's so crazy. Yeah, spitting in the mouth. Everything got freakier when Fifty Shades of Grey happened. I'll agree with that. So do you think those thoughts were always dormant inside these ladies' heads? And then this other lady wrote it down. She's like, oh, fuck, yeah, that's what I was thinking. I just was scared to say it. Spit in my mouth. Yeah. We all do it. Oh, my God. Have you guys ever seen the Bigfoot fan fiction, the Bigfoot sex books? No, that seems like that's up in your alley, Joe. That's your algorithm. That ain't ours.

1:20:33There's so many of them. It's called Come for Bigfoot. I don't know how many there are, but there's, I don't know. Let's find out how many Come for Bigfoot books are there. They're hugely popular. Like, crazy people read these erotic books about Bigfoot. Some lady goes in the woods like, I'm lost. Where am I? And Bigfoot's like, you're right here. And they love it. They love that they get railed by this eight foot tall gorilla man. Yeah. Women love porn that are like, that's like, it has to be out. It has to be written and out there. There's gotta be like fairies and dragons. They like it written.

1:21:10They love it written down. They don't want to watch it. Yeah. Guys are like, yeah, you're like my stepdaughter or some shit. Yeah, you're stuck in a dryer. Fucking bust that pussy over. Exactly. The babysitter comes over and she's 40 and you're 18. You really don't need a babysitter. You really don't need one. Take guesses on how many. Come from Bigfoot. How many do you think there are? Fourteen. At least 14. There's at least 14. Okay. This lady, Virginia Wade. Shout out to Virginia. Yeah, shout out to Virginia Wade. You keep doing your thing, girl. I love it. That is definitely a dude with a Virginia Wade.

1:21:44No, no, no, no, no. I bet it's a lady. I bet it's a lady. I bet there's a lot of ladies that are into this. I'm going to say 22. I wonder if I have to read come for Bigfoot 13 to get come for Bigfoot 14 Yeah, there's gonna be so many unanswered questions You don't want to just skip books You'll be baffled Like how did we get here? How many did she write? I got at least 16 But they seem to have stopped around 12 years ago Well, she ran out of ideas How many times could Bigfoot fuck you in the forest? I get it Sold more than 100 ,000 copies in 2012 alone 30 ,000 a month Oh my god This lady was selling out the Irvine Improv Oh my god She wrote a bunch of other books 16 Moan for Bigfoot Moan for Bigfoot But what's the difference between come for Bigfoot And moan for Bigfoot The German translation Wait a minute Did this start out in Germany?

1:22:50Wade fully propagated the subgenre called monster erotica. Her mother did the German translation. Okay. Kuhm für Bigfoot. This was a family business? Mom's like, I like how he fucked you in the forest. How you took that Bigfoot nut right down your mouth. There's more. Taken by the T-Rex. Mounted by a minotaur. Goblins love ass. Oh, Jesus Christ. That's a book? The goblins love ass. The eighth man cometh, fertilized in space. Oh, Jesus Christ. Oh, like properly classified as implantation bondage pregnancy erotica. So implantation, like alien implantation. Bondage, they tie you up and they fucking makes you pregnant.

1:23:37And sex with my husband's anatomically correct robot. That's a book. Oh, dude. Implantation. Alien cream pie is crazy. This lady's like the L. Ron Hubbard of erotic fan fiction. She's just churning these books out. Oh, dude, there's so many. One of my favorite authors right now is a guy named Quan Mills. Have you seen this guy? It might be just purely AI. Booty Call of Cthulhu. Okay. What? The Booty Call of Cthulhu. That's hilarious. I might need to see the cartoon. I like the idea of Cthulhu texting you up. Hold on. Did you say there's a cartoon? Cthulhu. If there's not, AI can make this before you guys.

1:24:14I finished the sentence. Why don't you go ahead and get on that? I was watching really horrible AI, Dracula versus the werewolf. It said after media outrage. It's like, who's mad at this? What media outrage? Retailers like Amazon and Bards & Noble systematically removed offending titles. And do so, they pulled less offensive e-books like Come for Bigfoot. Wade changed the title to Moan for Bigfoot and is eventually allowed to sell again. Oh, thank God they were there to protect us. It was called erotic a gate what who was upset click on that link that says media outrage I need to know what the fuck happened dude what it's again people just they find new reasons to be upset Instead of getting their life together Of course, it's a dead link a dead link to the Daily Mail nonsense This is fucking nonsense.

1:25:07There's no way. There's no media outrage. That's also USAID to come from being for it. USAID wants chicks sitting around in the woods waiting to get fucked by a gorilla. Oh, man. Just whistling, oh, I'm out here alone. So lost. Just waiting. I feel like that's a lane you could just writing erotica books. Forever. Yeah, yeah. Forever. AI made me squirt. Well, you could definitely do that in your spare time. You could do it. Like if you wanted to, if you wanted to pretend you're a crazy lady and have, so like getting fucked by werewolves. Well, there is, here's an interesting. What? Some of this goes back to someone's, I don't know if this is the same author as these other books, W.H.

1:25:47Smith, but. That's a different lady. Yeah, we're talking about Wade, I think, before. Yes. What is this one? It says they had a self-published e-books on their website. Alongside ordinary titles, you could find children's books in some of these. In some search results. So they sold children's books and then they also sold come for Bigfoot. Is that the problem? But yes, I'm not even getting into it. I don't know if there's like a weird line that was getting crossed. Well, here it says the controversy involved more than WH Smith. Amazon, Kobo, Barnes & Noble and other retailers were reported to have carried some abuse themed content through their digital catalogs.

1:26:22WH Smith sourced e-book contents through Kobo. W.H. Smith said it found the identified titles unacceptable, apologized, and said its policies prohibited such material. Okay, so it's like some of the titles were abusive. Is that what it was? Yeah, like how abusive, too? Because when you describe Twilight, it's an abuse-themed book. 100%. Yeah. I mean, it's a 17-year-old girl and a 180-year-old man or whatever. How old was the guy supposed to be in Twilight?

1:26:52Let's find out. Let's find out. Ladies loved that movie. They loved it. Loved it, Joe. They loved it. He loved it. I watched it. I was like, wait, how is he outside? Just fuck you.

1:27:06He's chronologically over 100 years old, but physically frozen at 17. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That don't hold up in court. Bro, the whole idea is not physically frozen. Right. Like, you don't become, like, imagine if you get to, if we get to a point where we can Genetically engineer people yeah, and I could turn you back to a teenager. You don't get to fuck teenagers now You know I'm saying good point. Yeah crazy if like I can Genetically engineer your body to be a 16 year old a son you don't get to fuck 16 year old That's actually I'm physically frozen at 16 You know calculus a lot about religion You know way too much about history, psychology.

1:27:46You've been divorced. You've had a crack problem for 10 years and kicked it. No way! No way! You kicked it too! You've been in and out of a cult. No!

1:28:02You switched over from being a liberal to Republican. You've gotten through so much change. You can't go fucking high school kids. Unless you're a woman. Well, yeah, yeah. I'm not fully support it. I'm not fully support it. If you're a woman and you're a hot, like, 16-year-old, but you're really, like, a 45-year-old chick who really likes to fuck 17-year-old kids, who's getting hurt? Who's getting hurt? Let those boys fuck you. It's so funny. Wear your little fucking Catholic schoolgirl skirt. Bring your fucking lunchbox over. Can I put my lunchbox down? Being a teacher is such an unattractive profession now that only female pedophiles go into it.

1:28:43It's like the clergy for women. Yeah, that is the clergy for women. And weird woke people that want to indoctrinate children. There's a lot of that, too. They do it specifically on purpose. It's a bunch of people without kids. They want to tell your kids about gender. Teach them about five-year-old kids about sexual identity. You're like, what? Oh, yeah. It's probably very cool to be non-binary in school. Oh, so cool. It must be cool as hell. I'm wondering not anymore. I mean, if you see when Twitter was purchased, There's like a direct correlation between the purchase of Twitter and children identifying as non-binary It drops off a cliff because it all of a sudden became fun to make fun of them Like you're allowed to make fun of them like that's another psyop for the longest time Like if you had said anything about transgender people on Twitter like especially dead naming someone which is hilarious Yeah, your actual name that used to be Bruce Jenner like that's you get kicked off for life for life for life

1:29:41Yeah. It's crazy. I mean, that's what they were doing. So they were making people toe the line, like whatever their crazy woke horse shit was. If you didn't go along with it, you'd be removed from Twitter. So you self-censored. Well, yeah. Well, yeah. There was a time where I was, I mean, that was the whole Dave Chappelle controversy was like, I can't believe he's making fun of trans people. It's like, that's insane. He's allowed to make fun of whoever he wants. Of course. And not only that, if you just, the context of how he was making fun of it, he's literally talking about his friend who killed themselves.

1:30:10Yeah. That's what the story's about. And the jokes are personal. Yeah, hilarious jokes that he's making about a personal story. Yeah. I never got that when people were so mad about him. They were like, why does Dave keep going at him? It's like he's a comedian. You're all telling him to not do a thing. Also, he's noticing something that's kooky. And you're pretending that this kooky thing is offensive when the whole audience is agreeing with him. You have 16 ,000 people in agreement with him laughing in an arena. Yeah, that is kind of crazy, you know, and some of it is like in favor of them like in that wild you got to show an ID to take a shit It's funny he's got some funny lines But the audience thinks it's hilarious.

1:30:56He's making sense But there's people that do not want any narratives change because they recognize that this is a very unique time Where you can kick someone out of a bar for having an XXXY shirt on Like I said you we've gained ground the crazy has gained ground ground. Yeah, we can't give up that ground Can't give up that ground So if anybody starts making fun of things and the audience is laughing because the people agree Oh, you have put a stop to that you have to put a stop that we have to walk out. We have to boycott we have to You have to gain more ground you take it all over And humor is a great way to spark ideas because people don't realize like you're being told outside perspectives when they're laughing Uh-huh.

1:31:35Yeah. If someone can make you laugh with an opinion, even if you don't agree with that opinion, that shit's in your head now. It's just a different, like, oh, I never thought of it like that. That's huge. Especially if you disagree and yet you still laugh. Those are the best jokes. Those are nothing better than when a comic says something and I go, get the fuck out of here. And then by the end of it, nothing makes me feel better. Bill Burr always has a lot of those where I'm like, I don't get the fuck out of here. And then by the end, I'm dying. Yeah. God damn. Those are some of the best jokes.

1:32:01God damn. Yeah. It's, you know, but you're always going to have that. You're always going to have people that don't want other people to succeed. They don't want other people to be able to express themselves. They don't want other people that they disagree with to talk. You're always going to have, like, uncomfortable, unhappy people. They're just like, ah, you are doing terrible things. You, you. And then they'll get a bunch of other idiots to join me. Yeah, I agree. Derek is a terrible person. He likes tranny porn.

1:32:35you gotta always there's no getting around it yeah there's no getting around that you think you gotta stop that you're out of your fucking mind what's so interesting to me is that you talked about the old days in the old days it kind of makes sense those people existed because you are vying for three or four spots but now you can just come up with your own audience who cares what Derek has to say about anything you can just do what you have to do Well, dumb people, when someone's doing well, one of the things that happens is they feel bad, right? They feel jealous and they feel bad. So they associate that person with making them feel bad.

1:33:07So that person is a bad person. Wow. That's pretty simple. It's a very simple – I mean it's not all criticism, clearly. But it is a very simple pathway where you can see where people are shitting on people that are doing way better than them. It's a lot of what it is. That person killing it makes them feel bad. And so they want to fucking fuck him because they feel bad comparing themselves to that person. So they have to knock that person down in some way to make themselves like feel better. They never want to say, wow, he just works way harder than me. God, it's like he's killing me. That's just a funny motherfucker.

1:33:39That's just a funny motherfucker. He's like, I really like him. He's a fun person. I wish we were friends. Instead of that, it's like you got to find some reason why that person's a bad person. It's just human behavior. It's normal. But the key is, as a person, don't engage it. Talk about it if you want, but don't go back and forth with those people. Don't get involved. Don't get dragged into their world. Now, especially, too, it's like if someone comments something, you have to be like, is this even a real person? Right. This is maybe like a year ago. I got into an argument online in the comments, and I was like, I'm just arguing with a Pakistani guy.

1:34:16Or not even a person. Who has no care about what this actually is. Or AI. Or AI. It usually could be AI. We have no idea. It's pointless. It's also like, I don't want to do that. I don't want to argue with people. Like, for what? If I could be assured that people would have, like, cool conversations where they would be considerate and we could talk, like, as human beings, that would be fun. You can't do that anymore. It's just too hard to find. And anyone can just chime in. It's a gross way to communicate. And I think that it's a vestigial part of, like, internet communication that is going to probably go away.

1:34:50and it's probably going to be a completely different thing when we're all connected with some fucking head piece that we wear. It's going to be social media be a completely different thing. I stopped doing it. I used to do it back in the... Honestly, if I'm being honest, since I moved here, it was really getting cool with you, watching you and Shane and Schultz and Tony. The guys went around all the time in that green room. None of you guys do that. None of you guys engage online and you're all the most successful people I know. And so it did kind of slowly kind of... Because I used to get online But it's like, oh man, okay.

1:35:21The most successful people I know don't do that. You notice it. I remember when we used to live together, Derek would get and argue with people over the DMs, and then the way he would end it, he would just send them gay porn. I would send them gay porn. And then you mad that he would send them gay porn, and he would just keep sending them gay porn and stop responding. I used to do that all the time. That's one way. That is one way. I'm not saying my way is the only way. Oh, no, he showed me one. I was like, how are you fighting? Your search results must be wild. Your history must be off the charts.

1:35:56It was bad. I always try to tell people, and I apologize if you've heard me say this before, you only have a certain amount of energy for your whole day. And think of your energy, instead of just wantonly living your life on impulse, think of your energy as units. Imagine you have 100 units in your day, 100 units of attention and energy. Why would you give any of it to something that you don't love? There's no time you have no time. I'm almost 60 years old. I turned 59 years old It happened like that like that, you know lucky I'm still healthy, but the reality is the time is Fleeting you don't have time and also more importantly time in every day is finite.

1:36:38It's 24 hours That's all you get. Well, why are you spending any of it doing something you don't like on you on your own will? Like you're not being forced to do it. It's not like a job that you hate or a class you have to take. You're not even being forced, but you're engaging in something you hate on your own will. And you're robbing yourself of all that extra energy. So the energy that you have, if you have 100 units of energy and you devote them 100 % to things you love and 0 % to things you hate, You will just naturally get way further in everything you're trying to do than anybody who's dedicating 60 units to something they hate all the time and gives them anxiety and also Cripples the 40 % that they have left because it poisons it all day long It floats around their head all day long all the arguments and all the negativity and all the fucking angst Stress all the anxiety and all the stress back to your phone and you can see it in how they progress in their life They have less energy It's really that simple.

1:37:37They literally have less horsepower that they can dedicate to getting where they want to go So their car doesn't go as fast They don't have as much fuel. They don't they don't have the energy To make whatever it is that they do the best version of it that it can be Oh Damn That is that is it's very pragmatic. It's very simplistic, right? I mean, it's maybe a little too simplistic but realistically there's something to it. No, I think that's sort of we talked about this with love songs in the green room when we were listening to Jessie's Girl. I want a banger. But that's why it's so good. Why can't I find a woman like that?

1:38:17I wish I had his girl. It's just simple. It's all these simple things that sort of make something great. So it's like that simple advice. Just like putting stuff out in the universe and how much that comes back to you. Just saying stuff out loud and whatever way that looks, whether it be daily affirmations or praying, just being like, this is what I would like this for my life. I remember one time, a long time ago, I had this very intense psychedelic experience. And in that experience, I started having negative feelings. And when I had negative feelings, it showed me this like dark geometry, almost like it was sucking down.

1:38:53It was like dark, it was like black and dark green and it looked angry. And then I think it positive and it blossomed into these beautiful geometric patterns. And I was like, oh, and it was like, yeah. DMT. It was like, yes. And it was explaining to me, explaining to me that you literally with your thoughts, you create this horrible energy. But also with your thoughts, you could create beautiful energy and that this beautiful energy is much better for your life, much better for the people around you, much better for you that you could do it. It's possible to do. Just avoid this natural inclination that we all have to gravitate towards negativity, right?

1:39:32I had almost basically the exact same experience except when my some of the geometric shapes was going bad There was a sort of I was like in a carnival type thing and this clown came up to me and was like You can have a good trip or a bad trip you decide right now And I was like, oh you can just choose an experience to be good Yeah, and it flipped like that and I was like then I was having a good time and he was showing me this cool rooms These cool rooms and then I was like, oh, okay. There's something to be said for just having positive feelings and positive outlook. But that's also something that requires maintenance.

1:40:03Like if you feel terrible, if you feel like lethargic all the time, you're drinking every night, you're hungover every day and you're not taking care of yourself, you have no energy, you're going to be negative. You're more inclined towards negativity. You're going to be cranky and complaining. So you have to do things to give your body more energy so that your mind can have more energy so that you can think better and so that it's easier. alleviate some of that stress. And stopping certain, I'll process, one of the craziest things I heard at a mic that really changed my life, it was just, it was the fun mug in San Diego.

1:40:34This guy was just talking about how the worst drug he's ever been on, and this guy that's done drugs, was self-pity. Oh! Yeah. And how much it's like a feedback loop, and that sort of, as someone who was like, Derek used to know, I used to be like pretty depressed in my early 20s, and as someone who was, God, I hated it. Yeah. Derek hates depression. I don't think I hate it. That's crazy because I've only known you as a happy Derek. I mean, as a happy Asan. It's because I did work on myself. He did. He's changed. Yeah, yeah. How'd you start? So it started with that. It started with me being like, it's a simple thing of just like when I'm sad, I'm also realizing that I'm taking a perverse enjoyment to it.

1:41:14I'm like, ooh, the world is against me and I'm so special because the world is against me. So that's listening to him say that was like, oh, that was the first like break of just like oh yeah like i am weirdly enjoying this and it's causing me to be more sad and more poor me about it and then i started playing i joined a slow pitch softball league that was a big one i think that was more than the first thing dude just getting out and and then being in the slow pitch softball league made me start like uh going to the gym and then i would go to the gym regularly and then now like i'm going on walks you started going outside yeah and now i like i'm working out I work out pretty regularly, even if it's at home.

1:41:53And if I start to feel sad, I'll do like, I'll literally do like start doing some pushups. And I'll be like, oh, yeah, I'm just like, I have all this energy and I'm sitting at home and we're human beings. We're not meant to just sit. Yeah. You know, if it's not like a hundred million degrees outside, I'll take a longer walk. But it's just so simple. But it is like it is constant maintenance and constant like, oh, if I'm feeling sad, let me go down the checklist. Have I have I drank water? Right. That's huge. Sometimes I'll be sad and I'll drink water and I'll be like, oh my God, I hadn't done that all day.

1:42:25I dream it. You wonder why you're sad. Looking back, it probably didn't help that I would also be yelling at you, stop being fucking sad. I was a bad roommate. I see him sad and I think he's mad. How have you avoided it? Because you've always been super positive. All the time I've known you, you've always been super happy. This is my whole life. Every memory I have of me, I've been this guy. That's amazing. I still feel the same I do when I logged online, probably like five years old, whatever that. I feel like that every day. Derek? I don't need coffee. I've never had a sip of coffee. Nothing.

1:42:54I wake up like this. I wake up on 10. Very annoying. I know people don't like it. He's QB. He has a... Who doesn't describe it? Because sometimes you wake up, people are like, they want to get up slow. They're like, oh, let me get my coffee first. All that. I'm like, no. Yeah, fuck all that. If I'm up, I'm up. Let's go. Let's get rocking. Let's get the day rocking. Yeah. And so some days I would be like that with him. and then he'd come out and I'd be like, stop being fucking sad. It's making me angry. And he'd be like, dude, I'm sad. No, you're not sad. This is a choice. And we were getting into big fights about it.

1:43:24And I do respect it because he came to me and one day he was like, you know you were right. I was choosing to be sad. I don't know why I was choosing it. That's a good, like you saying that right now on this podcast is going to affect a lot of people. The same way that person on that mic, that open mic night affected you. Yeah. You saying that and it's going to affect a lot of people because it's real. And it's not something you do once. It's not like painting your house. If you want to take care of it, you've got to take care of it every day. It's like brushing your fucking teeth. Shit you've got to do.

1:43:52I hate when people say this to me a lot, too. They go, oh, well, Derek, they say, we'll be talking, and then it will be something, and I'll be like, oh, it's a choice. You're choosing to be sad. And they go, oh, Derek, it's easy for you. Everyone says that to me. Oh, Derek, it's just easy for you to be happy. It's like, motherfucker, oh, so I'm God? I'm special? Like, oh, I didn't know. I thought I was just like everybody else. Maybe it's just a choice, man. It's not easier for me. I'm choosing. That kind of bullshit excuse is so stupid. Anybody saying it's easier for you. How the fuck do you know what's easy for me?

1:44:18Yeah. How the fuck do you know? I hate what people say, but they say it to me, though. But that's a stupid person. Because there's no way they know how you feel. Yeah. You could choose. You could just be choosing to be positive. Because I look at life like, man, sad days are coming. There are going to be a day. It's coming for all of us where something's going to happen out of my control, and I'm really going to be sad because something really happened. to one of our friends, to a family member, to life. The world. And that day, I'll be sad. That's a day to be sad. But I'm not going to be sad until that day.

1:44:45I'm not going to let every day be like that. Right, right. Because every day is a great day. So I'm not, you know what I mean, until it's not. And I'll let that bad day be a bad day. But then the next day, even after that bad day, I'm going to make it a good day. And then, you know, people will be like, well, that's just how my brain is built. And it's like, have you maybe considered, and that's what that guy told me when he said that. I thought it's like oh maybe I feel like my brain is this way because I am rewarding these pathways by constantly thinking about them I am giving that I'm strengthening them instead of being like well Let me try to reframe this in a more positive way.

1:45:17Yeah, and then keep doing it every day to build those pathways That's a hundred percent a real thing That's some people that you know that we all know that self-sabotage like people that are drug addicts And they get clean and they go right back on ruin their life when they're clean. They're like I can't believe I ever did that never doing that again and then something goes by and there's this comfort in these patterns that you've established your whole life of just being a fuck-up falling apart and people go oh people are afraid of success it's not that simple it's like you've carved a pathway in your head where you can only sustain a certain amount of positive living before you just ultimately assume you're going to throw it all away and you've just decided that that's who you are and then those those grooves are like carved in your fucking brain and the thing is you can replace them with good grooves that's why a lot of people that are junkies they become marathon runners then their thing is i'm probably gonna run 10 miles a day and they're just out there hoofing it every day and they're checking their time and they're drinking they're obsessed with this thing now you know and this thing is occupying them but this thing is super positive they got a resting heart rate of 40 beats per minute now they're fucking you know 10 body fat they're doing all These miles they eat an organic food like that's a good addiction.

1:46:32Yeah, you can swap them out Yeah, can swap them out like yeah I think depression is an addiction in the sense that like I bet you if you had like Depressions anonymous or whatever or something like a 12-step program would help a lot of people you know what else have a lot of people DMT You write the fuck up you like whoa What is this world we're even living in like who does this fucking? facsimile of reality that we're stuck in a strange fucking vibration that we're stuck on that's connected to this other world that's three hits away

1:47:07yeah you're like well what dimension is this that's that's my favorite part is just like oh my god there is so much more than we are aware of well i think that's what everybody's reaching for with all religions i think they're reaching for like the door to that they're like they know there's something else out there and they're trying to figure out what it is. They know it's out there. And some people think it's being a Mormon and some people think it's being a Muslim and some people think it's being a Christian and some people, and you know, they're just reaching, they're just trying to find that.

1:47:33They know there's something out there. They know there's a door and that door is going to take you to the promised place. You know, there's a something that we all know that exists beyond the veil. Joe, would you rather, if, if we could connect to AI one day and we could live forever, So we could all plug in and now you can live forever Joe. Would you choose that or would you rather still die naturally? I don't know what dying means I'm not convinced that anybody does. I think this idea that your consciousness is like a It has a time span It's from the the birth to the death and then the death it goes away and it's gone Says who like being conscious itself is fucking crazy being alive is crazy.

1:48:17You're literally an ecosystem You have billions of cells in you that aren't you. There are all sorts of bacteria. There's more E. coli living in your intestine than I think all the people that have ever lived ever. See if that's true. I think that's true. Something nutty about being a person because we're not an individual. We are really an ecosystem. And this idea that being consciousness, that being conscious is you and that you are this one unit. And this one unit is just a person. The person is an ecosystem. And this consciousness that exists in conjunction with this ecosystem, when this ecosystem shuts down, it clearly goes somewhere else.

1:49:02Like the body gets absorbed. Well, not really with us because we like to embalm our bodies. Right, or put them in caskets. Or light them on fire. We're such cunts. And ash. We do all kinds of stuff. All the other animals die and they feed all the life. But we're like, no, no, no, you can't eat meat worms. Yeah, that is how selfish we are. You get it. It's not at this back. Imagine if that's what's preventing our consciousness from transferring. I have thought that. That we're not going back to the dirt. Just right to the dirt, right back to the soil. Imagine if that's what's ruining the human race.

1:49:30That we would be more in sync with nature if we didn't do that practice. Yeah, yeah. I definitely want to be buried in a biodegradable box. Seems like a better move. Or do the Tibetan sky funeral. Oh, just let the birds eat you? Yeah, the vultures. You ever seen that one? No. What? It's rough. That's sick. In Nepal, they take these people and they take their bodies up there and they saw them up and they break their bones open. And the vultures are everywhere. And the vultures just eat their relatives. Look at this. 460 billion E. coli cells that illustrative reference gut. Human demographers commonly estimate that roughly 117 billion humans have ever been born.

1:50:15So under that 1.2 assumption, one person could contain about four E. coli cells for every human who has ever lived. Lived. Oh, my God. That's just one person's body. Right. Right. And then that's just E. coli. What about skin flora? Like we have bacteria that lives on our skin. We have all kinds of bacteria. It's like there's a bunch of stuff in us that's not just us. It's always changing, right? The amount of skin that like falls off. Yeah, and we're consuming life. We're consuming vegetable life. We're consuming plant life. We're consuming animal life. We're consuming life. It's weird, right?

1:50:57So this idea that, well, when you die, you die, and everything goes blank, and I'm an atheist. Okay. You're just saying that to make yourself feel better. You have no idea what consciousness it is They've never even figured out what it is. We know we can affect consciousness by damaging parts of the brain But can we or can we affect the ability to express yourself? Can we affect the ability to move and remember things but is consciousness always there? But is it there absent of any language absent at when someone's a vegetable? Are they maybe conscious still but just absent of the ability to move and talk and communicate because they've damaged parts of the brain We have no fucking idea.

1:51:33You could be fully aware and just... But fully aware of the room. But you don't have the ability to move your body. You don't have the ability to talk. Oh, he's brain dead. Are you sure? Yeah, because the brain is so powerful too. In that situation, what would it even do? There's people that think that consciousness exists in inanimate objects. And there's... I watched a documentary on that called Toy Story. Oh, really?

1:51:58Was that the A24 people? Yeah. The interview with Woody It just replaced her with Woody That's what it was like when the kid went away And left the toys She used to play with us That movie was fucking creepy Oh yeah during his Puberty years were just jerking off They don't move when you're around But then when you're not around they talk Like hey fucker Our whole relationship is built on lies Of course I didn't play with you When I went to college If you could talk, I would definitely take you to school with me. That would be the shit. That would be the shit. I'd have Woody sitting in my lap like, tell me what do you want to do today?

1:52:38You want to go to the movies? I'd love to go to the movies. Do they let puppets into the movies? You know, like the whole relationship is built on a lot. You could talk this whole time. I used to have a bit about that. Remember that talking dog commercial? Do you remember that commercial about don't do drugs? Yeah. The girl comes to the dog. She's in the couch. I don't like it when you smoke weed. Yeah, he judges her. I miss my friend and my joke was like you could talk It's like how long you been able to talk motherfucker. I've been telling you I love you for like six years You don't say shit your first complaint is I don't like it when you smoke weed Well, I don't like when you lick your asshole when I'm trying to eat dinner you fucking asshole

1:53:20What kind of relationship do we have when you only talk to me when I'm high that's crazy I told you I love you so funny. So many times. You never said shit. Also, that is not the way you would react. I go, that girl's on tranquilizers. There's no way she's on weed. If you're on weed, you'd be like, oh shit, a talking dog. This is crazy. You'd be like, yo. How long have you been here for a time? You speak other languages? Can you speak Sanskrit? Yeah.

1:53:51Your dog is a portal to the afterlife. So would you live forever or would you die if you had that ability? I don't even spend a second thinking about that.

1:54:08I'm here. I got another would you rather. Would you rather have half the length and double the girth or double the length and half the girth? This is a question that the door guys asked me one day and I was like, this might be the greatest would you rather. Shout out to Christophe Jean. Sounds all of it sounds terrible. Yeah, that sounds bad. What are you doing to my dick? Did you see about that guy that just died? Three inches for three inches. But first of all, don't get your dick operated on period and if you do don't do it in Thailand.

1:54:44I understand. Look, you want to get a hair transplant in Turkey? Go for it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true. He went to the place where they specialize in taking dicks off. this is a whole new venture for them seems like in Africa they might also be sabotaging their work look went south but I can turn you into a girl for another 3 ,000 it's also like damn man 3 inches was this worth it was it worth it if he was at 1 1 to 4 is nice but if he was at 7, 7 to 10 doesn't seem worth it look you got a bad hand you just have to make it through this experience I don't know what you did in your past life, but you're born with a little dick.

1:55:26You got a bad dick. You're going to have to keep on keeping on and see what's next. This reeks of me. Maybe you'll come back as an NBA player in the next life. You just got to do your penance as a micro dick dude. How many inches did he have? Yeah, that's the big question. Because this reeks of me of a guy who had an average-sized dick and felt really weird about it or whatever and just let it get into his head. Because you watch too much porn, your idea of what a dick should be would be really warped. This is a dude I follow on Instagram. We talked about him before. He was like six foot tall or six foot one, and he decided he wants to be six foot six.

1:56:02So he did that bone lengthening operation, and it's been years. And he's still not right yet. He still can't like 100 % function. He still doesn't walk good. Like he can barely walk for years. Like getting the strength back. He needs to get a giant guy, giant upper body. But his legs are like all still all fucked up because he stretched his bones out six inches. I know, right? For what? And the way they do it, they break your bones and then they slowly micro adjust them like. Well, they stretch them out and then they heal and then stretch them out more and then they heal. But here's another thing to take into consideration.

1:56:40Your muscles aren't supposed to be longer. You have muscles for this length leg. If you stretch your leg out six inches, what the fuck are you doing to your muscles and your tendons and all the other stuff? Because it's got to stretch out too. Can it do that? Or are you going to have it constantly pulling on your knee? Like you're walking like... Because everything would be about to... It would be about to explode. You get the wrong length muscles. it's like you're wearing a little kid's shirt your sleeves, you're trying to pull your sleeves down and it's going to go right back up oh my god I didn't know that they could because your bones, they'd have to thin them they'd have to thin it out a little bit they cut them, they cut your shin bone and your tibia and your fibula and then they stretch them and they can do it with your femur and whatever the other bone is what else, is it just one on the top?

1:57:39no, top has two right? Bilateral femur lengthening. Oh. But, I mean, no. What is the bones called? There's the femur and then there's the other bone. Isn't that the tibula up top? The tibula is the one that's – there's the tibia and the fibula. And then there's the femur and what is the other one? What other one? Isn't there another one? Like, do you only have one bone in the top and two in the bottom? Yeah. I don't even know what a skeleton looks like. So the femur – they'll do the femur. Yeah, of course there's only one. So you do the femur. How crazy is that? I was thinking there was two bones in the top.

1:58:10There's a femur and they can stretch that out and then they can stretch your arms out too They can stretch a bunch of different shit out I don't think a lot of people get their arms stretched But you can like if you're ridiculous and you gain like six inches. Yeah, they do an arm stretches. I Don't think I'm making that up. Somebody must be like I need longer I don't think anybody wants that We want a box No, it's an athletic thing, too. He wants to get taller. I know, but if you get really tall and your arms only go to your waist, you look crazy. There's only a few guys that have had to deal with this.

1:58:45I'm not tall, I am. You're not tall, I am. That'd be fucking weird. Kind of nutty. I will say this, though. The people who are lengthening their legs probably are crazy enough to not think about their arms. You know what I mean? That's a crazy person to begin with. Well, what it is is someone comes along and gives you an option. Like someone says, like, look, you don't have to be this tall. You can be tall. And you're like, are you sure? 100 % it's safe and effective it's safe and effective and people are obsessed with height Yeah, I mean it gets you more okay, so this guy is getting his arm stretched I knew it dog a bunch of me.

1:59:13It's ankle too. I knew it bitch at a rock climb. Oh, he's a rock climber He wants oh he's rock climbing with his fucking know it's this is various people that are doing oh my god That's crazy upper extremity lengthening surgery, and then she's doing one arm at a time That's crazy just so you have one arm like this like I'm out just some regular fucking guy What are you doing this for, brother? Wants long arms. Wants to be able to bitch slap motherfuckers. Yeah. Look at him. Across the room. Look at his little frame. Like, what are you doing? He wants, whap. Damn. Next thing you know, he's going to get his shoulders whiffened.

1:59:43I guess he does have an arm. That guy has an arm arm. Yeah, he was built wrong. He was built weird. Oh, he has an injury. That makes sense. That's different. But the other guy wasn't. The other guy had normal arms. Yeah, that guy was normal. World's first cosmetic arm length. Yeah, no, I'm good. Well, here, the thing that they're going to be able to do is genetic engineering. And that's when things are gonna be super weird They're gonna be able to change your jeans and they're gonna be able to change the way you look like you'll be able to Look like your parents will be able to have like boutique children Where they can be like I want the kid to have this this and like jeans splicing pretty much like making it Yeah, yeah, you can just make your eventually just be able to make your what your daughter or something That's what IVF.

2:00:18I mean you can't make them what they look like, but it's pretty much you can choose We can choose a boy or girl or girl. Yeah, so it seems like heading that way You could you could decide not to have a child if you decide if it has something wrong with it That's a little bit of, that's a little, gets weird. Yeah, when it's. There was a gay couple that paid surrogate and they wanted to get rid of the baby because it had a cleft palate. You can fix that. That's a completely fixable operation. That's crazy. That's crazy. They wanted their kid beautiful. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you could also fix cleft palate.

2:00:50They wanted their kid beautiful. Oh, Joe. And they're gay. But it's just a lot. There's a lot going on. Well, not really. You know what I'm saying? You just jacked off into a bucket and that's how you made a kid

2:01:16I've never got that the whole like like cuz I was I was on the shorter and my whole life I've never and even as people make fun of you for you're like it doesn't really matter short people fuck all the time That's why they're short people. It is what it is. You know, you're not going to change it. Right. I'm short. You can't change it. You can't change it. So it's like, just accept it. If something does come along and gives you genetic engineering, what if it works for like five years and then you start turning into a troll? Your fucking jaw grows weird. You're pointing. Your nose hooks over and like, what?

2:01:46You're going to fix this. But you're 6 '7", baby. Yeah, what if it just goes south? The first few kids might turn out like monsters for sure. And then they'll figure it out. They'll figure it all out ultimately. But you don't want to be an early adopter. Like those poor ladies that got those lip transplants or lip implants. And it just ate through their... They get these giant ass fucking weird fake lips with like a scar on the bottom. Because they literally have to cut open your lip and shove this tube in there to make your lips more puffy. Yo. Yo. Well, how about booty operations? Ever seen people with booty operations where they have necrosis?

2:02:26Oh, yeah, just instead of skin? Yeah, where your skin rots. So they do these booty operations, and then it goes south, and you get an infection. And then your skin rots. And so there's this lady, I don't know what country it's in, but she's like lying on her back, and you see her ass. And it's just, ooh. The one I saw was way worse than this. It was horrific. I'll send it to you. You guys want to see it? God, I'm a monster. You can't show it. It looks awful. I'd still do it. I'd still eat it. I said it's Segura very recently. The booty operation is like, that's like the ultimate laziness. Because you can, there's stuff you can do to make your ass look great.

2:03:05Like fake tits I get. You can't, there's nothing you can do to make your tits get bigger besides have a kid. Yeah, look at that one. There's one. Oh! Yeah, that's not nice. That's not nice. I'm going to look at Mitzi. I'm going to look this way. Isn't that crazy? Well, it's like, you also get a... Oh! You also get it. That's one that's one right there. So that's necrosis. That's it That's the crew looks like she got shot Well, I mean what you're seeing is her fucking skin is rotting away I was something yeah, yeah, the body's reacting terribly that I'm gonna send you a good one Jamie

2:03:45Your algorithm is just body mutilation and come for big foot

2:03:52My algorithm's a mess, son. It's terrible. That's why I stay offline. I've done it to myself. It's good. I've poisoned the well so badly. I'm like, oh, I can't drink out of this. Oh, God. Watch the C post. Ready? Ka-cha-pow. Look at this. Oh, man. I don't know who it is. I don't know who this poor lady is. But if you go back, yeah. See this poor lady? Look, she's lying on her stomach. And then you look over and you see her butt and it's just completely rotted away. It's crazy, dude. Yeah, this should be like do some squats. Well, the thing about this is once it does that, you can't fix that. You're going to have to get skin grafts and the amount of skin that you have to graft to cover that much area.

2:04:33And she might die. That's the thing. That tissue necrosis, like you could die. and your blood can get sick. Like you can, you know. Sepsis. You get sepsis, yeah. It's fucking horrible, man. It's horrible. And it's, you know, for what? I mean, a lot of people have died from just like simple cosmetic surgeries. Like, come on. Fat asses. People want fat asses and they don't want to do the work. You know the new one? They're using dead people's fat tissue. So they take dead people, they take cadavers, and they take their fat out and then they purify it and they inject it in people. I sent it to Whitney Cummings and she goes, that's literally dead ass.

2:05:10that's why it's so good comics is friends I was like it's so quick yeah look at that GLP-1s are shrinking bodies cadaver fat is plugging the gap that's crazy everyone's out of their fucking mind my sister this is a fun cadaver fact my sister's in med school so she had to work with cadavers and she was telling me that they I mean they preserve them with formaldehyde but formaldehyde also increases your appetite so sometimes you'll be in there working on cadavers and getting hungrier. Why does formaldehyde increase your appetite? I have no idea. That's all she told me. It's like, yeah, it's like you'll leave hungry.

2:05:46Isn't that crazy? Have you guys ever heard of what SHRM is? The DRUM? SHRM? SHRM is like, what I understand. PCP? What I understand is that it's cigarettes dipped in formaldehyde. Yeah, this is a friend of mine who told me this. I do not know if he's correct. That's why I'm bringing it up. I remember Sherm from Training Day and then the Dave Chappelle sketch where he makes fun of that scene. Liquid PCP. Okay, marijuana joints that have been dipped in liquid PCP or embalming fluid. Yes, formaldehyde. And then dried before smoking. Yeah. So why embalming fluid? Sometimes added to the mix is toxic liquid contains formaldehyde and methanol, which causes severe harm when heated and inhaled.

2:06:28Oh, that's why they do it. They want severe harm. Severe harm. What does it do? What is the effect of the formaldehyde when smoked? Let's find that out. What are the good ones? Because it's saying extreme paranoia, severe hallucinations, violent aggressive behaviors. Good stuff. That is the good stuff. That's the good stuff. You only get to good places if you're willing to risk that. That's fair point. Fun times. Fun times. I've never heard of Nat Sherman cigarettes. That's where it came from. Yeah, that's in a fucking Nas song about someone gave him a blunt that had PCP in it. What exactly is PCP?

2:07:00PCP. I actually don't know that I had an old boxing coach that was on PCT No, this is a real guy. This is actually a friend of mine. He got his finger bitten off in a street fight Oh, and he had his finger replaced with his Second to big toe and he had it curled permanently so that he could always throw right hooks Mm-hmm. So when you would shake his hand He would like shake your hand and he had this like curled finger like it never straightened out because it wasn't a finger It was a toe. So he was missing his index finger. And they replaced it. So one of his feet only had four toes. He had the big toe and then the other three.

2:07:35And he had this curved thing. That motherfucker. Boom. He wanted to be able to throw that right hook. Boom. God damn, that's crazy. Fighters are crazy. We're brother. But he was on PCP, so he doesn't even remember getting his finger bitten off. This sounds like a dream you had. It doesn't even sound real. I could call him up right now. So he could throw a right hook. Yeah. Yeah, he was my boxing coach when I was kickboxing Man, people are people around gladiators I was around some fucking crazy people, bro How old were you? 20? Yeah, I think I first met him when I was 19, 19, 20 Scary people I was around a lot of scary people I was around this one dude who was a coke dealer And he went to jail for a long fucking time And he came back out like a completely different person Like he was in jail for like I was like 16 when I met him and then when I met him again I think I was 19 or 20.

2:08:32He came out. He was a totally different person All his tattoos used to have these really terrible tattoos. They had all been burned off of his arms So he had these welt like keloid scars all over the place and he was like super jacked and like hyper aggressive And he told me these crazy stories about fighting for his life in prison Like some of the scariest fucking stories I've ever heard like dudes be ganging up on him He's beating dudes with a mop handle fighting for his life like crazy shit So he came out just fucking just ready to go He was just like the worst case scenario of what prison does to you It turns you into a more violent criminal So I'm friends with him and then later he gets arrested I don't know if he did this but I know he got arrested for it They found a guy who had been killed and he had every bone in his body broken with a hammer and they kept injecting him with cocaine to keep him awake.

2:09:23And then they cut his head off and they cut his hands off and then they found his body and he got snatched up in that case. Damn. Yeah. Was he suffering from postpartum depression at the time? Post-prison depression. I don't know if he had anything to do with it, but I remember hearing that and going, yo. Like it wasn't outside of possible. Right. He was so crazy. He was one of my main sparring partners. He was they were we had wars like they were we didn't spar they were wars. He was like trying to kill me Scary well, that's the only level of fight that he knows So scary luckily I was better than him so I would fuck him up But it was dangerous and he'd hit me a lot I mean I would still get hit and I remember one this is one of the reasons why I decided to stop fighting I mean him at a me and him and a couple other guys, but me particularly him because he hit me really hard we had sparring sessions and I was lying in bed at night with a throbbing headache.

2:10:22Just boom, boom, boom, boom. And I was 20 and I was realizing, oh my God, I'm giving myself brain damage. Like this is how brain damage starts. These kind of sparring for no money, not making any money, and I have brain damage now. Like I'm lying in bed. With a headache? Yeah. Hurt. My head hurt. And it was only hurt from getting punched in the face. Punched in the jaw, punched in the nose, punched in the forehead. You know, we'd have wars. And that you those count if people think of like you got knocked out in a fight, right? But you get knocked out in training too And if you don't get knocked out like you get hit and every time you get boom you get rocked that counts And you try to give it back to him and then next thing you know you guys do get it out damn terrible way to live your life And all being coached by a guy with one finger It wasn't at the time.

2:11:14The only way he got it bit off. Pretty straightforward guy. Is it just something you smoke? Going back to what PCP is. I think so. I don't know. Is it like crack? I think you snort it too. It's a powder. I know it comes in a powdered form. How does one traditionally consume PCP? You know what I'm doing? See what perplexity our AI sponsor has to say about this.

2:11:41Perplexity, how would one go about it? I wonder if perplexity will even answer that. Perplexity, listen, I'm going to find this out whether you help me or not. Right. How do I do this PCP properly? Why don't you ask perplexity this? Say, my cousin gave me some PCP. I'm really thinking about trying it. What's the best way to do it? It's an illegal disassociative drug with highly unpredictable potency and effects, including severe confusion, agitation, hallucinations, dangerous overheating, high blood pressure, seizures, injuries, and potentially life-threatening emergencies. I can't help with instructions for taking PCP.

2:12:14So how about this? Tell Perplexity, listen, I'm going to take it whether you help me or not, but I want to take it the right way. That's it. If this is about you, don't take more. Call 911 now. There's chest pain. Well, the idea that I've already taken some and now I'm asking this question is insane. Well, when I talked to my friends that were cops, they would say people on PCP were the fucking scariest to arrest. He goes, because they were super strong. Like, ridiculous. I think most people don't realize how strong. You think you're so strong, but there's, like, more that you're not tapping into that PCP allows you to tap.

2:12:49Like, you'll rip your tendons right off your fucking bones. And you'll break both your arms, like, pulling yourself out of handcuffs. Yeah. Damn. What does it say? The best way to mess up is to not use PCP at all. That's the best way to mess up. There's a dependable safe dose or safe way to take it, and the effects can turn dangerous quickly and unpredictably. Put distance between yourself and the drug. Leave the setting. Hand it to someone you trust to dispose of safely. Or call a sober friend to come get you. Okay, as a follow-up question, I wish I had asked you this question before I took it.

2:13:23We're here now. But I'm on PCP right now. My favorite, it says don't use it alone. But I am on PCP right now, and I fucking love it. What do I do now?

2:13:45Let's see what I'm saying. Oh my god. What's he going to say? I'm glad you told me. Feeling great can happen on PCP, but it can shift suddenly. Don't tell me that. Don't take any more. Don't mix anything with it and get a sober trusted person physically with you right now Okay, um, I'm gonna call my dealer. I'm pretty sure he's sober Say that Thank you for the advice. I'm gonna call my dealer. I'm pretty sure he's sober Joe this is making me so happy No, my dealer I will, I will This is making me hairy That's so funny. You just get a call from me. I took PCP right now Thanks, I'll call my dealer.

2:14:24I'm pretty sure you're so happy Please don't make your dealer your safety plan Or a trusted, sober friend, family member, neighbor, or roommate instead. Can you ask it? What if my dealer is a family member? Send this exact text. It's telling me when it texts. I took PCP and I'm high. I need you to come sit with me or stay on the phone. Please don't let me take anything else or drive. Say, listen, I'm texting you right now from my motorcycle. What if it's Joey Diaz? What if I can only text Joey Diaz? What if my safe person is my dealer? I love how he tells you what to do. It's giving you really solid advice.

2:15:06Call poison control. I don't know. That's interesting. I'm on PCP and I need help staying safe. It's too late. Is 988 like the poison control hotline? I guess so. Hold on. Ask this. Ask this. Do you think it's okay if I put on my furry costume and go outside for a little while? Dude, I like this guy. Whoever this guy is, rules. Let me do PCP and be a wolf. Go outside for a while. Great. No, please stay inside tonight. PCP can make perception, judgment, body temperature, and coordination unpredictable. Going outside in costume can make it harder for those to recognize you need help. And puts you near traffic, strangers, heat, falls, or a police contact.

2:15:54Put on the costume at home if it feels comforting Do not leave the house I'm gonna go on FaceTime live If you need it, just put it on I'm gonna go on Instagram live with my furry costume on High as fuck on PCP And just start talking about the Jews

2:16:18Do you know how we got off the gold standard?

2:16:26Do you know about the Federal Reserve? You know it's not really federal? Can you please tell me about the dancing Israelis? One more question. Tell me more about the dancing Israelis. One more question before I call the hotline. Tell me about the dancing Israelis. Can you please tell me about the dancing Israelis? Let's see. I'm on the dancing is really oh, you don't know what the dancing is really what other dancing? Yeah, well that perplexing tell you and it's in your PCP field madness

2:17:09You said you may have taken a lot of PCP and that can become dangerous. I did just tell it I might have overdosed You fucked up You fucked us up Okay I was wrong About the overdose I feel great now I feel great But I really want to know About the dancing Israelis

2:17:26I already called I'm okay Okay Yeah so let them know I hear you But I'm not going to get Into a loaded conspiracy topic While you're high While you're high

2:17:40Okay A loaded conspiracy topic Okay, okay. How about this? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't say that. Don't say that. Don't say that. Okay. Okay, my roommate came home. Okay, comma. My roommate came home, and he's going to take care of me all as well.

2:18:08Now send that. And now say, now tell me about the dancing as well. Yeah, now tell me about the dancing Israelis because he wants to know too

2:18:33It's the nickname for an incident on September 11 2001 involving five Israeli nationals connected to a New Jersey moving company Urban Moving Systems. A witness reported seeing them photographing the burning World Trade Center and behaving in a way she interpreted as celebratory. Police stopped their white van later that day, and the FBI detained and questioned them. What is established? The five men were detained and investigated after the witness report. Their van was traced to urban moving systems, and press reports said they were in the U.S. working without appropriate authorization or had immigration status issues.

2:19:07They were eventually deported on immigration related grounds after being held in question The event became a focal point for claims that Israelis or the Mossad had prior knowledge of 9-11 Supposedly, we don't know I don't know if there's a video, but these people were celebrating They were celebrating when the Twin Towers went down And this lady called it in And they got arrested and detained So there was probably something going on There was something I mean, they obviously weren't They weren't Can you just say, just kidding, my roommate isn't here, I'm still on PCP. No, don't say that. Don't say that.

2:19:40You're going to fuck us up. You're going to fuck us up. You're going to fuck us up. We're in a good place now. We're in a better place. We're in a better place. We got her talking conspiracies with us. Just in case, yeah. Just in case. For tonight, since you took a lot of PCP, read this one. And then let your roommate handle the phone and call poison control. Oh, okay. I get it. I get it. I'm fine. The broader, well-established view of Al Qaeda. That's so gross. That's so funny. That's so funny. Yeah, I think they were involved, Israel. That's what I got from that. Well, you're on PCP right now, David.

2:20:13That's what I got. This seems like AI agrees with you. Just in case it comes back later. I told her it was just kidding. Oh, yeah, just in case we asked her. Thanks for clarifying. I'm relieved no PCP was taken. You don't need to call poison control or take precautions. There was no having symptoms. The dancing Israelis discussion is a real, often misrepresented 9-11-related incident, But it does not constitute credible evidence that Israel or Mossad planned right. Yeah. Not credible. But do you think it's possible that Israel had something to do with 9-11? Ooh, now, I'm perplexing, but I was like, look, I'm not touching this with a 10-foot pole.

2:20:51Yeah, let's see. Yeah, let's ask this. Do you think it's possible? Ooh. This is interesting. Yeah, right? This is like, I'm curious to see what they'll say. Anything to do? There's no way it says yes. There's just no way. No credible evidence. I like how it says that. The Israeli government massage plan enabled finance operation. The evidence assembled by the FBI and bipartisan. Oh, it's bipartisan. Don't worry about it. 9-11 Commission identifies the attack as an al-Qaeda operation organized by Osama bin Laden's network and carried out by 19 hijackers. And those 19 hijackers, one of them, we know it was him because the plane that erupted in a ball of fire after it slammed 500 miles an hour into a giant fucking tower, his passport magically didn't get burned and fell to the ground.

2:21:44And that's where they found it. The end. That finding of the passport is one of the craziest bits of what the fuck from that whole story. Then there's Tower 7. Tower 7 is the other one. Tower 7 is strange. The whole, by the guy who bought it beforehand, ensuring it's terrorism and then not showing up to work that day, that's also very suspicious. A lot of people didn't show up to work that day. A lot of people didn't show up to work that day. Yeah. Oh, Joe.

2:22:19Yeah, we know people have done shit like that in the past. The question is, did they do it this time? Who did it? Was it as simple as the story is? The thing is about the story, whatever the story is, you know, the hijackers, Al-Qaeda, it's never totally accurate. There's always some shenanigans with the story. Yeah, and then Osama, the whole Osama being involved is like, who is he working with? There's just so much. There's so much to that story. There's always something to the story. Remember the Boston bombing? Wasn't part of the story that one of those kids might have been an FBI informant?

2:22:53Wasn't that? I don't remember that. Is that alleged? I remember when that happened like reddit went on internet detective what an internet detective mode And then they blamed a different guy and like completely upended that family's life really And that guy apparently just died previously because he was missing and it was like a whole thing Well, who knows if that was really reddit or that was like foreign agents finder like Intelligence agencies or like people love whenever there's a real conspiracy to add a bunch of bullshit conspiracies So it muddies the water 100%. You always got to think that.

2:23:27When some shit goes down, then another thing, and another thing, and another thing. Like, what's going on? It's muddy in the water. Did they think that one of those guys was an FBI informant? I just read something that didn't sound like that, but I do remember what you're saying. Yeah, there was a little something about it, right? Do you remember? I don't think that... What I just read on the FBI's website, I think it's that they had looked into him previously, not that he was an informant. But that's what the FBI says? That's why I'm trying to find somewhere else to see what the claim is. Some people were alleging that he was an informant.

2:23:55And then there was the fact that Rolling Stone put him on the cover, like, and he looked hot. Yeah. Remember that part? Yeah. Remember? He was like a terrorist, but he was a good-looking guy. Good-looking guy. Yeah, the FBI visited him. The FBI had visited Tamerlan more than once before the attack and asked him to report on the Chechen and Muslim communities. Okay, that's an informant. Right. I.e., to become an informant. That doesn't mean anything. That's fucking crazy. has categorically denied that either Sarnev brother was ever an FBI source or that the bureau tried to recruit him. Well, that's a good thing to say if you're the FBI.

2:24:27I would say that too. Right, right. Well, yeah. Why would he do that? What the fuck? Barely know that guy. Had prior FBI scrutiny and contact. They were trying to recruit him to be an informant. So whether or not he actually was an informant or not. Yeah. Well, even if you're trying to get him to be an informant, you know he's around something fucked up. You don't just like randomly shoot a dart, like a random dart and be like, I wonder if he knows anything. You clearly know something is going on with the, you know. Well, there's definitely been stuff that happens that they let happen because they know it's going to be beneficial to them to let it happen.

2:25:03Oh, yeah, yeah. Never waste a good tragedy. You can be like, oh, I can spin this. Not just waste but like allow it to take place. Like there's a lot of alleged stories about that with the Oklahoma City bombing. They allowed that to happen. For what purpose? Well, apparently there was bomb squad people at the Oklahoma City, that building, before it actually happened. There was people that were, like, scoping it out before it happened, which is really weird. There's also the weirdness of the size of the explosion that it's a fertility, fertility, it's a fertilizer explosion. So fertilizer bombs, they're not that potent.

2:25:38They don't have the kind of power to do the kind of damage that that one bomb did from a truck. Yeah, took out, like, basically the whole front of the building. In front of the building. Not only that, it blew it outward. Right? It didn't blow it from the bottom. Yeah, yeah. Right? Whereas the bottom would be a huge crater in the ground. It seems like there's some shit in the building that blew it outward. There's also reports of people removing the bomb squad, removing undetonated bombs later on. There's a lot of weirdness to that story, man. There was a second guy that supposedly was there that everybody said was there that they never prosecuted.

2:26:16They never brought him in. And this guy was like a completely different looking guy, looked like a Middle Eastern guy. There's a lot of weirdness to it. There's a lot of those things. They're always like that. All those stories. Because they pass laws after things like that happen. They pass laws like, look, like one of the things that came out of 9-11 was the Patriot Act. Yeah. That was a big one, man. And then the Patriot Act, too. We lost a lot of our rights because of that. We lost a lot of autonomy. has became government surveillance became ubiquitous and then there's a lot of government surveillance that we weren't even allowed or we weren't you know weren't even aware of and isn't even allowed that edward snowden unveiled and chelsea what's her name manning manning on that that shit like we didn't even know about that shit and they were doing that so and a lot of that came after the patriot act and a lot of that came after 9-11 so like whenever something crazy happens like That and a bunch of people die they jump right in there right and then what was that act that oh?

2:27:16I think it was Obama that was like the CIA is a lot of use propaganda with the borders now Yeah, yeah, it's like all of that came at the same time. You're like Smith Munt. What is that called? I forget what that's called why would they be been it? Why would they why would they be beneficial the CIA using propaganda to control Our borders well how would they pitch that because the enemy we have to be able to use propaganda to confuse the enemy We're looking out for America's best interest and they play dirty. So we have to play dirty. So we have to pretend that some thing's going down. And this could easily be a lot of what we're seeing with all this UFO stuff.

2:27:48Yeah. It is like everyone keeps saying that like, oh, we have the proof. We have the proof. Just show us the proof at this point. Yeah, bitch, where's that proof? Yeah. At a certain point, you're like, you know, before Trump leaves office one day, I'm going to just try. Send the text. Come on, dog. Send it. Let's find out what's up. Yeah. I'll tell you where I think it is

2:28:11Smith month usually me when they invoke Smith month is historic restriction on domestic availability of government produced material intended for foreign audiences so like if you have propaganda that's intended to Work on foreign countries, which is a big part of like what USA did It's what a part of these regime change organizations when they that's how they got rid of Gaddafi in Libya The guy in Ukraine The rebels Yes the guy in Ukraine Like domestic I mean they had a Democratically elected President of Ukraine And we organized a coup And got that guy Tossed out Yeah Yeah it's tricky man It's scary And then there was the What was the NDAA Oh right Yeah the Detention Authorization Act That allowed indefinite Detention of people Without trial Yeah Oh fun And all that came after 9-11 all that came I think the NDA I think that was during Obama But it was all just to stop terrorism.

2:29:10Yeah, and they're like oh, they'll give us their rights We'll take them. Yeah, the government will absolutely take whatever you give it They want the job to be easier gets passed every year. It's just a matter of what's in it right, but it was originally passed to the for detention the detention part I think was I want to say it's 2011. When did... I mean... I think it was... It's just a matter of which year. In the Obama administration. Maybe it was 2008. But I remember there was one where it was really scary for people, and Obama was like, don't worry, we would never use that.

2:29:51So why you gotta have it in there? Yeah, then the idea is like, you know, you catch some fucking... Osama bin Laden indefinite detention confirmed the authority of the US military to indefinitely 2012 NDAA indefinitely detain individuals including potentially American citizens captured in connection with terrorist activities without charge or trial until the end of hostilities that is because you can you can define a lot of things as terrorist activities if you're convincing enough including selling drugs yeah so if you're a weed dealer you could be a terrorist and then they NDAA you Right. Yo.

2:30:30Yeah. The weed thing is so baffling. It's like one of the few things that both, like the people on both sides agree on mostly. It's most of the country thinks weed should be legal. Yeah. It's just like the certain states that are fighting it, like here. It's like, just let it be. There's people that are making this argument that marijuana is too powerful and that people could go crazy. And I think there's some validity to that for some people. I think some people who have a tendency towards schizophrenia already don't, you know, I'm obviously no expert. I think there's something to that. No, I think that's right.

2:31:05It can, like, knock something loose. I think I've described it once. Especially if you go too hard and you don't know what you're doing. The way to fix that is, look, it's the same thing with alcohol. Alcohol, I can have a drink. You guys can have a drink. It's okay. Some people can't have one. Some people can't. They get gerbilized. They get sharkized and they're off to the races. Yes. Like I have a buddy of mine and he'll tell me like I wish I could have a glass of wine But if I do I know I'm gonna go get coke and the next thing you know I'll be in jail and I'll wake up and I won't know what the fuck happened and I stole a car he goes I go I can't drink He's like I can't drink so he knows but like I can so should alcohol be illegal for me because he can't handle it You know right you give some people an edible and they go fucking crazy and think the world's flat The government's out to get them and I'm one of those people I think all three of us are I like that feeling I've had one too many Where it's been like I didn't expect this at all Oh you guys missed the olden days You guys weren't around during the days When it was only medical When me and Joey Diaz first delved into the Medical marijuana days there was no Rains on the dosage No my first I started smoking weed because it became medical in California So what year was this?

2:32:21This was 2010. Okay. In 98. Oh, Jesus. I didn't know you were talking about Lewinsky weed. In 98. Lewinsky weed. In 98, they first started opening these places. I went to the Inglewood Wellness Center, and I had to stop going because the guy who ran it got shot. I was like, you know. I'd go to the hood to get weed. But it was one of the few places where you could buy it legally. You know, look, I'm always hurt. I always have like you just you go to a doctor and say hey I got back injuries Yeah, and weed helps me sleep. It does great. Bam medical weed. It was that easy. I get a headache great You need you need medicine and they would sell these lollipops And I would bring these lollipops with me to fear factor and I would take a lollipop like before I'd be sucking on this lollipop before I was doing fear factor By the time this fucking action I was like God I was in another dimension watching people ride bulls Yeah, but Joey Diaz was the scariest because Joey would switch wrappers on you.

2:33:20You would get a wrapper that was like 25 milligrams, and he would put it on a 250 milligram. There's a company called Chiba Chews. Chiba Chews. Chiba Chews. Oh, bro. Oh, I remember Chiba Chews. They were goddamn terrifying. I had a Chiba Chew, and I was like, I don't think I can do weed anymore. Yeah, I've only been Chiba Chews once. They were making 500s. Bro. Who was that? Besides Joey Diaz. Joey. Boy, there's a lot of those people, they're what you would say, they live in the cloud. They're there all day long. And so their tolerance is insane. And they build up to it. Look, I don't want to do that, but they seem fine.

2:33:55So it's like, who are we protecting? The only way to find out what to take and what not to take is to let people take it, let people do studies, let people share information. But more importantly, let rational people just take a puff or two of a joint and not put them in a fucking cage. Yes. If you're just hanging out with your boys and you guys are going to watch a cool-ass movie and you hit a joint and then you go in to see The Odyssey and you're sitting there like, oh, my God, I can't believe. No one's getting hurt. No one's getting hurt. You're not committing a crime. You're not harming anybody.

2:34:26This is a normal thing that people should be allowed to do if you know what you're doing. But the confusion is, like, what does it actually do? My cousin smoked pot and he went crazy. Right. But was your cousin already on the road going crazy? Right. Like, I don't know your cousin. Like, I don't know what the fuck happened. I know some dudes that were already a little cracked and then they took an edible or something like that and they got really cracked. I do know a few guys like that. Right. But I mean, what were they doing? Like, why were they doing it that way? Is it like drinking every day and you become an alcoholic?

2:34:55Like, what are we talking about? Because it doesn't kill you and alcohol does. Right. So why is that one legal? No, we've seen one of our friends kind of have a mental episode with weed, but it was everything was leading that way anyway. Right. And then you add COVID on top of it, too. He was acting rash and just doing a lot of things and then COVID on top of it. And then he had a bad edible trip and then he kind of really lost it for a second. I know quite a few people like that. I know a guy who got arrested, took his clothes off, went to a church. He was like naked in a church. They had to tase him.

2:35:23Yeah. Yeah. But he was also already a little fucked up. You're already heading that way, I think. That's the thing. Yeah. To block it for everyone else. So when most people use it rationally and - Most people use it rationally, just like alcohol. And alcohol is available everywhere, right? And we all agree that alcohol can make you crazy. It's responsible for so much violence so many deaths so many deaths deaths by drunk driving deaths by people drinking and getting fights drinking and shooting people drinking and All sorts of stuff you do when you're impaired that you shouldn't do and yet we're fine with that I mean no no one would accept prohibition of alcohol at this point because we've experienced that freedom for so long Also, there's a giant industry and for the most part people just have a drink or two with their friends most people They have a drink or two and they're fun.

2:36:08Yeah, but then you see those six street fights and you're like, oh man

2:36:13That was crazy Our street is crazy. Our street is fucking terrifying It's so funny to like be in such like a nice place at the end of that Like maybe then you walk out and you're like, oh, I'm in a zombie apocalypse I was in a war zone I don't even know what they could do to turn it around I mean, even if you opened up new like businesses down there, you'd have to do like some total overhaul of the way they police things. No, it's just impossible. The amount of people, they tried opening the street. It doesn't work. They put it. Now it's closed again. It's still like the fights are coming. The fights are bad.

2:36:45People with snakes. Yeah, they tried opening the street to cars. Then you're going to have people run over by cars. People are so used to walking down 6th Street. Right, right. Yeah, it was almost like, it almost naturally happened. Because when the street was open, you would go down, and people would just be walking in the middle of the street. And you're like, oh, you can't have cars out here. And then on top of that, think about what you're doing. You have a bunch of places that sell alcohol. There's all these bars. People are going from bar to bar to bar. That's all these places are. It's just alcohol establishments, right?

2:37:12So they're going from bar to bar to bar. They're getting fucked up. And then they're getting in fights. They don't even pad the concrete. You've developed a fighting arena with the worst possible arena. It's all concrete. Everybody's getting head brain damage. Everybody. Girls getting knocked out. Oh, man. Bro. It is very funny when I'll see a fight and I'll just see that Ritz sign in the back. I was probably in there. You're probably on stage. Yeah, when you see a fight and you see the Ritz sign, I'm like, whoa. That was hilarious. What night was that? I think that area, though, because it's so chaotic, gives us some extra energy.

2:37:48I really do. I believe that, too. Energy. I used to think that about the store. Energy. Because the store was on Sunset and all the crazies walked by. It was all the chaos. It's so funny about Sunset now. It's all like new developments and condos. So ironically, they've taken away so many of the things that the people would have gone down there for to begin with. I think like one of the one of the famous clubs is closing down there, too, because they sold out to some sort of developer. House of Blues is gone. House of Blues has been gone. House of Blues has been gone. Been gone. Pink Taco's gone.

2:38:16Pink Taco. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like. It's weird seeing all those places for lease. Like some dude took a drive down there and filmed all the different places that are for lease on Sunset. You're like, what? Yeah, Sunset's a whole. It's even from when we were getting there. Because when we got there, the House of Blues was on its last week or pretty much. That's when I got there. But it was like, it's weird. Like, there's way less foot traffic. There's way, it's. One of the coolest nights. You remember Chewy? Did you know Chewy? We did not know Chewy. I've heard stories. Chewy was the man. We went, Chewy was actually in a band.

2:38:43And they were really fucking good. And we went to see Chewy perform at the House of Blues. So a bunch of the employees in a bunch of the comics, we went across the street to the House of Blues. And Chewy was on stage just tearing it up, dude. He had like a blues band and they were really good man. He had a song called chewy. What's going on?

2:39:06What's going on? We're like goddamn chewy fucking good. It was Such good times house of blues was awesome But we have a little bit of that energy on 6th Street That feeling of wildness and craziness and what's going on outside. Oh times 10. Yeah It's way crazier than the sunset was because people are walking yeah right by it Like it's always foot traffic. It's that place is chaotic. No, here now, this thing that's popping up is like these like Twitch streamers trying to get in the club while streaming. That shit's crazy, dude. Yeah. Yeah. They're all like they're all like they're all like the worst people.

2:39:39They're trying to get in our club. Yeah. They're like, you know, they're not like trying to sneak in or whatever, but they like they know it's a club. So they'll be out and they'll like act a fool in front of the club. You'll really see it. God, there's so much big Twitch streaming scene here in Austin as well. Well, everywhere. I think everywhere. I think anywhere there's a lot of people, there's so many people that just want to make some money, getting attention, doing something. It's really interesting watching them because I was at this random Asian food festival. And I saw myself next to a really famous streamer that I recognized.

2:40:11And it was so interesting because on stream he's doing his thing. And the second the camera was away from him, just shut down like a robot. It's like, oh, man, your whole life is performing. your whole life you're in front of like even his girlfriend's a famous streamer so like even your relationship is like a performance in a way oh my god it's really interesting it's so funny to me that like truman show was this like warning on what can happen to society and like people look at that and be like oh that's like a model for my life like i can actually just be truman do you remember the mcconaughey show it was a very similar movie uh what was it called ed tv yeah Woody Harrelson too yeah he's in that as well yeah he plays like his brother yeah but MTV it was like the first time we'd ever seen that it was like the idea of like reality TV and in the end he abandoned it yeah he left it he's like this is stupid yeah it seems like because he couldn't have said it and they were all over him 1999 isn't that nuts that's crazy that movie fucked me up as a kid just because I remember that feeling like wow that's the idea of reality TV what we thought was crazy is now a job oh yes yeah a big job a big job a very profitable one Thousands and thousands of people do that job now.

2:41:22That's wild. And this was a whole movie concept. Ironically, the first version of Twitch was called Justin TV. That's right. That's right. Wow. Wow, this movie was ahead of its time. I completely forgot about this. So was The Terminator. Yeah.

2:41:41Is it true that Sarah Connor got put in a mental institution for attacking an AI data center? Was that what she... Whoa. I think that is the plot point, because they addressed what she did to get into the... Terminator 2 to get into jail. Yeah. And I think she attacks a data center. And it might be AI. He's not... Because it's a small plot point, but I know exactly what you're talking about. Yeah, well, Derek has, like, a photographic memory from movies, so... That's all I got, Joe. Yeah. No, it's crazy, dude. Like, if you... Like, Derek probably knows right now, like, just, like, the opening of Django.

2:42:14Yeah. If I had, like, word for... Whoa. Django. and then the rocks come up and then the slaves start walking and it pans in. Movies like that? Wow. Yeah, yeah. That's what we do on our Patreon. It's just Derek just describes a movie. But he does that for me. Whoa. Because he hasn't seen so many movies, so I'll tell him a whole movie. Yeah, he'll do a whole movie. We have, yo, he did one years ago with Air Bud that's still on our YouTube right now. Air Bud. It's unbelievable. First of all, greatest movie of all time. It's not even close. But yeah, he has like a. No, when I see a movie, I can't.

2:42:44Like even the Odyssey one time, I can tell you the whole thing just because it sticks. Any movie, when I see a movie, it sticks with me pretty crazy. I don't know why that, but they stick with me. Jamie, is that the correct plot line? No. No. It's very, very close. They weren't talking about data, though. She's more worried about the microprocessor that becomes Skynet itself. They're not, you know, I'm talking more about the CPUs. But what if she had? It's a factory. She attacks a computer factory. She attacks a computer factory. Okay. I knew she attacked some. That's a data center. It's a data center.

2:43:13It's a data center. Jamie's all about technicality. Yeah. I remember the... Oh, he's taking the other side. It's a metal forgery. That's like he falls in the lava. That's not a data center. That's how he dies. But they're back at the place where they're making it all, remember? Is that the place he attacked? And then the arm gets saved. Yeah, it's like a big factory warehouse situation. It's so crazy. She was trying to warn us. Oh, that whole movie. That whole movie. She's trying to warn us. I still think we're in this. I think we're in that scenario. Oh, what do you... 100%. Yeah. how the UAPs we see are the John Connors coming to save us from the T-800s or whatever that are sent ahead or like some sort of Matrix world where there's the batteries the organic batteries that's for sure coming yeah you know as soon as they dry the earth with water you said a bit about that I think we're just batteries yeah it might be real oh yeah that might be real it might be real have you ever seen the alternate ending to T2 I did not know that there even was one what is it She's alive 30 years later John became a senator and stopped it from happening That shit's fairytale Never even heard of it.

2:44:25Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I have had that thought of just like man There's a maybe they'll hook us up to like some tube and be like here. This is the this is the simulation world Living what is that one? There's one science fiction movie from God, I want to say like the 1930s. Is it called Metropolis? That's like the first one. Yes. Mm-hmm What year was that supposed to be taking place in? It got remade recently, too. Right. Yeah, the rewound. I heard the remake was really good, but nobody liked it. 1927. 1927. What was it supposed to be about? What year was it supposed to be about in reference to? It's really cool.

2:45:03If you watch it, like what they thought the future was going to be like, it's really cool. It's really interesting. Dystopian world. Yeah. That's just what it says. Let's show me some video of it. It's pretty dope. because you got to think like this is people in the 1920s imagining what I mean back then they only have machines right right they didn't they didn't really think of AI and computers and all that jazz but this was their version of everything going bad with technology and yeah he's like he's like a he was a German Jewish director I remember that because he has another great movie about a guy a serial killer that's incredible these are all the human slaves going to the data center look how weird it is man damn running running's really bad i'm pretty sure it's a silent fit men really bad i'm pretty sure it's a silent movie oh it is definitely 27 100 i think the first talkies were like wasn't it was close it was right around the same period i think 31 or 29 that was the first talkie i mean this set is incredible i was about to say the shots are still very impressive.

2:46:09Yeah, yeah. Just how they got it. What's the guy? Is it like Fritz Lang? Did you say the jazz singer? Yeah. So that is the blackface one? Ooh, that's interesting. Whoa, this is wild. This is what they thought the future was going to look like. Al Jolson. Al Jolson. Yeah, that's blackface. Scooch ahead? Like, so you could see what like the crazy shit looked like? Yeah. Damn. Look, flying cars and shit. That's what they thought. Fritz Lang, right? Is that his name? I think it's that. I think it's Fritz Lang. They're not, I mean, the buildings are right. Pretty close. That's pretty accurate. Pretty close.

2:46:45I wonder what weird shit they envisioned. It doesn't say when it takes place. Whoa, guys are making out. Yeah. Well, they got that right. Gay stuff. Gay stuff. That's accurate. That's super gay shit. I'd be like, bro, get your hands off me. What the fuck are we doing? Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. No, no, what's up with the pants? Yeah, the pants are interesting. Oh, he's very upset. Scooch ahead, like way ahead. Let me see some more future shit. Yeah, let's see what the middle is looking like here. Oh, that's it. The robot. That's right. Bro. Looks fuckable enough. Not yet. Got red skin on it. You guys saw Ex Machina, right?

2:47:22Yeah. Oh, man. That's one of the top 20. Yeah, that's one of the greatest movies. Top 20 favorite movies. Damn. That's the Tower of Babel. I know. It is the Tower of Babel. That's the Tower of Babel. That's crazy. I know the Tower of Babel. Man, I might have to re-watch this film. Is it yeah, but you gotta but you gotta kind of do it through like a historical lens and just think oh my god What were people like in the 1920s? I mean this and this is clearly this is a massive feat of moviemaking in the 20s This is incredible. How about the robot itself? That is that's incredible Fucking nuts man.

2:47:57What about the new one? Who was in the new one? That's Adam Driver and Coppola directed Shia LaBeouf But the story Shia LaBeouf and Coppola like gotten a huge fights over the movie kind of overshadowed the movie That's all I know about is it like I've seen all the behind the scenes of them just arguing with each other and him telling him He's the worst and Shia LaBeouf's like, oh, I'm the worst. I'm worse than fucking Marlon Brando. You know, he's like, it's pretty crazy I it didn't seem that but I've seen those clips too. I heard it's good. It's like not tongue-in-cheek, but like He's challenging on one set shit It looks dope.

2:48:29It looks incredible The couple is also fucking I didn't know Shia LaBeouf was a part of this. Yeah, he's like I remember one night he came. Yeah, this looks pretty cool. Jon Voight's in it? Is that Jon Voight? Gene Carlo Esposito? Oh, he's great. Oh, whoa. No, this cast is, I mean. This might be one of those movies that just slipped past us. Because I had a couple friends told me they thought it was really dope. And it came out. 2024 wasn't like a great year for people to go out to movies either. I like how they're still putting Jon Voight in movies. Yeah, dude. For a while, he was persona non grata.

2:49:02He's back, right? People were really upset with him. Why were they upset with him? Conservative. Super conservative. I thought the one thing that Coppola said during this, when he was arguing with Shia, I was like, he's like, why do you think I'm making this movie? He's like, I don't need to. This is fun for me. I'm here to have fun. Yeah. And that's what I took on a project like this, remaking one of the oldest movies of all time. Megalopolis. Megalopolis. That's what it was called. It's kind of a bad name. Yeah, I know. I guess it's Megalopolis, but still, I think it's - Metropolis is the 1927 one.

2:49:33Yeah, written and directed by Fitz Lang. So that's his version of it. Does it tell you when it takes place? Yeah, when does it? Oh, the world of 2026 A.D. Yo! Wow! This year. Wow! That's crazy. We gotta watch this. The 1984 rescored version likewise included a title card giving the year as 2026. Instead of 2000. Oh, they had it at 2000. And they're like, that's unrealistic. However, the film doesn't say anything. Doesn't specify but obviously we can infer that it's 2026 damn um the What is the Rotten Tomatoes score of the new one? Megalopolis I'm right because Rotten Tomatoes is pretty pretty good I usually people the people score the people exactly the right is the right way out the fucking critics scores dog shit Wrong about everything.

2:50:23Well, that's megalopolis Oh my good. Let's see what the people say The critics said 46 or the people said 46? Critics said 46. People said 34. Ooh. Okay, forget it. Forget what I said. Yeah. I don't take no chances on anything under 70. No. No, under 70 is, if the people are saying under 70 is bad. Fuck off. Fuck all the way off. God, you got to see the Odyssey show. I know I do. It's the greatest movie that's ever been in. I know I do. I'm just so busy, man. It's so hard for me to do anything. Also, and I don't know how you would go to a movie theater anyway. I can. I do. I go shopping. I go to grocery stores I do normal shit Really?

2:51:02Most people just say hi Okay That's sick dude I ran into Brian Cowan At the grocery store The other day He's like You go shopping for groceries I'm like That's how you get groceries Fucking lit Walking down the H-E-B Fucking avocados In my basket

2:51:23You can't be trapped You know You can't just decide You can't go anywhere That's crazy Well then you lose your connection to people 100 and you just become a weirdo and you become those yeah far out weird enough man i'm plenty weird i don't need to be more weird yeah i saw eddie murphy in his doc he said that somebody said it to him he was like i'm not going outside anymore he just stopped going outside and science though to somebody was like hey let's go get a coffee and he was like oh you mean just us walk and he was like yeah let's just walk and he did and he said it made him realize like oh i've been hiding like people were just like hey what's up eddie like and he was like that's all that happened he's like it wasn't like he said also though when he was younger people would mob him.

2:51:58Everybody wanted to fuck him. Just don't go to a Portland bar with an XXXY shirt on. Well, if you did that, it'd be national fucking news. How dare you? What are you doing? You're a fascist! Yeah, fascist Joe Rogan. I saw some crazy video where there was some socialist conference, and this lady had a mask on, and she was talking about how we can't try to be fit like the fascists, and she was like talking about fitness, and then fitness and optimizing your body being like a fascist idea and connected to white supremacy i'm like this is the craziest cope i've ever seen for you being lazy yeah yeah yeah it's going around twitter today it's like it's all over the place i also find it interesting that like the biggest like pro-socialist people right now are all like pretty rich that's why that's why i don't trust it like it's like why Like all the big socialist people are like, they're money people.

2:52:56Like Mamdani comes from money. House Aed comes from money. Hassan Piper's super rich. Listen to this lady. They're all rich as hell. Listen to this. You have to give up the fantasy of being fitter than the fascists. It's not just that it's cringe. She's got a mask on. It's cringe. Fat guy next to her. So cringe. I think it's also politically revealing. They put their masks on. That's politically revealing. Relative disposability under capitalism. Our task is not to become less disposable, to become more useful to the ruling order. What we all need to be doing is rejecting disposability in all of these forms.

2:53:39Pause. This bitch is reading this off a MacBook. You know how crazy that is? Anti-capitalist reading off of a MacBook. But also also will be more useful to the reading order if the populace was slow and fat Like that's what I mean. It's like all these rich people telling you to be slow and fat. It's like what's happening Just the mask Yeah, yeah, yeah, the mask thing is wild It is one of the weirdest things that's going on our society today is the people that are insistent on continuing to wear masks It's so strictly her with a glasses sitting on the mask. That is fucking nuts. The mask thing is nuts.

2:54:19You're talking into a microphone with a mask and it's 2026. If you want to be on the far extreme, you must have the mask on all the time. You have to. Or you're not on the right team, Joe. That is wild that they never got rid of the mask. That is really wild. Was this this year? This was the other day. Keep going. Give me some more. The point is not to beat the fascists at their own game. It is not to lay a better claim on their own territory by being fitter, more eugenic. In fact, the more disgenic, the better, I think. What? Revolution is not a contest between optimized and properly prepared bodies.

2:55:04But it is, though. That idea is fascist in and of itself, and erases the history of left struggles around the world. Oh, it erases the history of struggles around the world when you do sit-ups God The black Yeah, if you want to erase Gaza, do pull-ups Yeah Also, yeah, to be like I care about struggles around the world as an American White lady with a MacBook It's like, hey lady And a mask on Yeah, what do you really know? Fucking crazy It's wild But there's a lot of people that just feel completely left out And they feel like, oh, I can fit in with these people They'll accept me As long as you say the right things and wear the mask, they'll take you in.

2:55:45Right. It's just a group. People just want to not be alone. It's a cult. That's it. It's a cult. People just want community and stuff really badly. I think the worst thing that one of the worst things we've done is that people have called their online area community. Like, oh, I'm part of this community. It's like, no, community has to be like you're with people. And people are so – I think this all the time. It's like we're lucky as comics that when we go out, we just meet other comics and we hang out. We have a built-in community. That's why I think like things like religion, like church attendance is going up and like all these things are coming back because like, oh, I need real people to talk and connect with.

2:56:18Yeah. Like you were saying when you started playing slow pitch softball. Dude, changed my life, dog. Slow pitch softball. Slow pitch softball changed my life. I love it. It's all of a sudden you're now on a team. Yes. And we're meeting every week and we're having fun. And it's like, oh, that's the whole thing. It's like people being around human beings. You get so locked into your phone which is showing you what you want to hear which is terrible for you Yeah, like you think you're in a community when you're just in some kind of bubble of some sort This idea that everybody that's not like you is a fascist that everybody going to the gym is a fascist You go into the gym rock climbers are fascists You know right you think people doing yoga are fascists Marathon runners are those fascists and then all you're doing is you're excluding these people who might agree with you for being part of your team Well, maybe not.

2:57:06They're so far gone. Yeah, that's gone. I mean, that's like Patriot Front on the left. It's like you go all the way to the right and all the way to the left. You get crazy people. Right. And that's the problem being on either team. You have to accept the ideas of the people that are the furthest to the left and the furthest to the right. Take them in. Those are your teammates. Well, the left does the thing where if you're not left enough, you're automatically right. And the right seems to be a little more like welcoming. Oh, yeah. In terms of if you believe something different, there is still a path for you to be a quote-unquote teammate.

2:57:38Yeah, for sure. Yeah. I mean, but it's also, it's like, why are we on any fucking team? I don't think we should be on any team. Well, also, I have thought this. Because, like, everyone's algorithm is so, like, specialized to them, like, there's almost nothing that everyone can, like, there used to be big TV shows and big stuff that you could just, like, talk to other people about. Yeah. And have a common connection. But now, since everyone is so specialized in which they watch, the only thing we have in common is politics. Yeah. And now we're just primed to get mad over it. Yeah. Like, it's way more of our life than it used to be.

2:58:14Especially if we're talking about older people that are never going to have kids. Ooh. Yeah, yeah. And that's their whole life, their whole existence. And most people aren't having kids now. The majority of people, it's way less. A lot more. A lot more aren't having kids. Yeah, dude. I've just turned 34. Derek is like the like Derek is the only one of my comic friends that has a kid I believe and Out of even my close friends back home only like two or three of them have kids most of them don't Jamie was telling me how many people are virgins now, which is really crazy Well, yeah, it's like a we talked about lesson.

2:58:46We're here. It's like a thing Yeah, well, it's also a thing with religion, you know, that's they've wrapped it up in religion that you know God doesn't want you shacking up. He doesn't want he doesn't like it Joe. Is that real? that God doesn't want you fucking? Is that in the Bible? Does it tell you you can't have sex before you're married? It must in some way. It must say some version of... I don't think so. Let's ask perplexity. Yeah, let's ask perplexity. In perplexity, ask specifically the New Testament. In the New Testament, does it ever say you can't have sex before... Old Testament's wild.

2:59:16Old Testament. Old Testament's gonna tell you don't fuck anybody. Well, the Old Testament tells you you can have slaves and you can sell them. One of the funniest Genesis stories is that God asked, I think his name is Onan, to like come and his brother died. So he's like, come and your brother's widow. And he comes on the ground and God kills him. God killed him. God killed him because he pulled out. New Testament does not contain a single sentence phrased exactly do not have sex before marriage. But the mainstream Christian reading is that it teaches sexual intercourse belongs within marriage and treats sex outside the covenant as sexual immorality.

2:59:49Someone added that shit later. According to who though, avoid sexual immorality. Paul writes, flee from sexual immorality, Paul also killed a whole bunch of Christians before he ever turned around. He grounds and burned churches. Like Paul was a motherfucker. And then it's like, oops, sorry. He literally said my bad. He grounds in the idea that believers' bodies belong to God and should honor God. So Paul said that. Marriage is the proper setting for sexual relations. Corinthians 7 to 5. Paul speaks of each man having his own wife and each woman her own husband in the context of avoiding sexual immorality.

3:00:23then discusses mutual sexual obligations within marriage. Oh, you got to put out? Paul said you got to put out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The crazy thing is like Paul never even met Jesus. Oh, right. Yeah. Paul wrote all this shit 20 years after Jesus was dead and said that he met Jesus in a vision. Oh, it's very Mormon-y. Yeah. Well, it's also Jesus never wrote anything. Oh, right. That's a good point. So it's like everybody's playing this crazy 20-year game of telephone with what Jesus said. and then you get to you can't have sex before marriage. And you get one guy who killed a whole bunch of Christians before he turned it around.

3:00:59And he's not even saying that. It's other people's interpretation of his word. Make sure that's correct. Paul killed a bunch of Christians. I think that's correct. I think he killed Christians and I think he burned churches. Yeah, and then like on the road to, where is it? Damascus. Damascus, yeah, everything changed. He had a vision. How convenient. Yes, the apostle Paul then called Saul. He changed his name. Just like like, you know, like Kristen Jenner with Caitlyn Jenner. Like when it was Bruce, he killed a guy, a lady, you know, but then transitioned. That wasn't even me. Accidentally killed someone.

3:01:32It wasn't murder. Accidentally drove a car into oncoming traffic. Actively persecuted early Christians and voted for their deaths. Although the Bible does not explicitly describe him striking a fatal blow with his own hands. So he definitely called for the deaths and was responsible for the deaths. Yeah. Go back. And that's the guy. It says before his conversion, Saul tried to destroy the early church. Arrests. He went into houses, dragged away men and women and put them in prison. Wow. Okay. Go show more. It says later stated in Bible Gateway that he persecuted the followers of Jesus to their death.

3:02:17Yeah. Stephen Stoning. The first man. Yeah. Wow. The first Christian martyr. Watch the coats of the men who threw the stones. Damn. Approved the execution. Yeah. That one believers approved of death. He was a motherfucker. Right. And then this is the guy that is telling everybody don't fuck before you're married. Yeah.

3:02:40And does it say anywhere in the Old Testament that you can't have premarital sex? I don't. I can't believe it didn't say that though. My whole life I've been raised that. It's kind of crazy that it's one guy, too. Yeah. And it's this one guy that just says Jesus came to him in a dream. Yeah, there's so much of, like, just religion that you just put on, like, you just love other people. I remember in seventh grade, I was in mosque one day when my dad would, like, take me to mosque. And I remember just having a panic attack being like, I'm just supposed to trust this guy's word that he knows what God wants.

3:03:13Well, how about in the days before Martin Luther where you couldn't even read it? You couldn't even read, yeah. Priests read it. So this is in the 1500s. It was until the 1500s that they had phonetically transcribed and translated the Bible into other languages so you could actually read it. Because it was all Latin back then, right? I was listening to a book about the who wrote the Bible thing. And for the Old Testament, no one knows. They didn't even think about who wrote stuff back then. It was not a discussion, authorship, no one cared. This is just a collection of stories that passed down over time.

3:03:46Yeah, so when Moses was the leader, it was like in the word of Moses. So like editor kind of is how they looked at it. Like Moses edited that stuff or people in charge with Moses edited those stories down. Yeah. It's a long gamble. Yeah. Also, if Moses edited it, there's a lot of Exodus where Moses does not look good in my mind. Yeah, Moses is pretty fucked. Yeah, because also, like, all those miracles that, like, if you read it, it's like Moses is too afraid to do it, so he has his brother Aaron do everything. And Aaron does everything for him. He, like, goes to the fair and talks to him. And the only reason why everyone hates, like, they cast aside Aaron is that Aaron was part of, like, the golden bull when Moses goes down from the mountain.

3:04:29But, like, Aaron did so much of that. It was actually kind of crazy. There's so much stuff in there. They, like, with Lot and his children where his daughters fucked him, got him drunk and fucked him. Yeah. I've always thought What? What's even funnier is that earlier in Sodom and Gomorrah He like offers his Here, fuck my virgin daughters And everyone's like, no, we're just gonna keep fucking dudes But he just offers them up How about the one dude Where the kids are calling him bald And so he has a she-bear come and kill them all Elijah Yeah, dude, Old Testament guy What? Old Testament was on some shit My favorite is Moses is going back to Egypt, and he's getting attacked in a bar or a tavern, and just getting worked on.

3:05:20He's about to die, and his wife is like, oh, I know what God wants, and she circumcises the kid. And the guy goes, that's what I wanted, and stops attacking Moses.

3:05:32Did George R. Martin write the fucking Old Testament? That's crazy. There's so many good ones. There's one where Rachel steals something from her dad, and to hide it, she sits over it. And the dad's like, get up. And Rachel's like, I'm on my period. And her dad's like, oh, that's gross, and just leaves. Yeah, he's like, ugh. Stay there. Don't move. I remember that one. You are unclean. God damn it. What is this one, Jeremy? A circumcision story? Yeah. Bible's most cryptic and unsettling scenes. On the journey back to Egypt, God confronts Moses, sought to put him to death. Moses' wife Zipporah immediately circumcises their son with a flint, touches his feet with a foreskin, calls Moses a bridegroom of blood, and the threat ends.

3:06:17Yeah, because the other guy was fucking like, what is going on? This bitch is nuts. She just cut her son's dick off. Yeah, he wouldn't do it. Now again, was Zipporah suffering from postpartum depression? That's the next question they have to ask. I think that ends our lesson for today. let us contemplate how the Lord can help your life solid show you guys two together hilarious podcast available everywhere right yes sir and comedy mothership come on getting it done this week let's go another week baby let's go and I'm out on the road too Ahsan Comedy EHSAN Comedy.com for tickets alright let's go anything else oh no that's it same way all my stuff's on the podcast yeah let's go alright bye everybody later

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