Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - 345 Joe Rogan Experience Review of Bill Maher Et al.

Episode Date: September 17, 2023

www.JREreview.com For all marketing questions and inquiries: [e-mail] This week we discuss Joe's podcast guests as always. Review Guest list: Bill Maher, Louis Gomez, BJ Penn & Tulsi Gabbard A portion of ALL our SPONSORSHIP proceeds goes to Justin Wren and his Fight for the Forgotten charity!! Go to Fight for the Forgotten to donate directly to this great cause. This commitment is for now and forever. They will ALWAYS get money as long as we run ads so we appreciate your support too as you listeners are the reason we can do this. Thanks! Stay safe.. Follow me on Instagram at www.instagram.com/joeroganexperiencereview Please email us here with any suggestions, comments and questions for future shows.. [e-mail] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At Public Mobile, we do things differently. From our subscription phone plans to throwing a big sale right now when no one else is. Well, maybe they are, but who cares, our sale is better. And it's on right now, no waiting necessary. You have the latest phone, now take advantage of a great price on a 5G subscription phone plan. It's the perfect deal for anyone who could use some savings right now. Subscribe today at publicmobile.ca. Different is calling. podcast and pass them on to you, perhaps expand a little bit. We are not associated with Joe Rogan in any way. Think of us as the talking dead to Joe's walking dead.

You're listening to the Joe Rogan Experience Review. What a bizarre thing we've created. Now with your hosts, Adam Thorn. Might be the worst podcast, but the best one is one, go. Enjoy the show. Hello and welcome to the Joe Rogan experience review. Thanks for the queue in that Todd. I did not hear the intro music. So that worked out great. It is sign language. Good thing I can see your pretty, pretty face this morning, buddy. What's happening? That's it. That's it. Zoom calling. I tell you how is the world of bozeman right now.

It's beautiful, buddy. It's seven in the morning. I got my coffee. This is the earliest podcast we've ever done. Maybe we're doing an early part. We're bringing it to the fans and we're coming in early. We got to do it, dude. We got to do it.

What's going on? Good week. Where are we starting with today, buddy? Well, we got BJ Penn and Tulsi Gabbard, interesting combo, a couple of Hawaiians. Then we got Lewis Gomez, comedian. I believe Lewis. That was the first time he's been on. And, you know, I think we might touch on Bill Ma from the previous week. I guess we could start there with Bill.

I don't have a lot to say. He was only on for a couple of hours. I think slightly less. He was in town. He had some comedy he was doing. And kind of a bummer, he didn't go to the mothership. Maybe he stopped by, check it out. But it's always cool to see him and Joe together.

check it out. But it's always cool to see him and Joe together. They, I don't know, I think they're very similar in their political views in a lot of ways. And people don't really see that, especially with Joe now, you know, people, I think, are under the impression they're very different, but when they get talking, you see how similar they are. Though Bill does this, like, Trump probably more than Joe does. So there was like a, there was a little back and forth that they had about that, which I feel was cool, but it also shows Joe's respect for Bill. You know, he admired him. He looks up to him because he really listened. He didn't push back.

And he just kind of listened. One bit that I did like, though, was near the beginning, where he basically said that Bill is like a 90s liberal. Right. And then Bill went on to really eloquently explain, you know, it's different now because there's this woke, you know, far leftism thinking. And that's not what most Democrats were before and maybe aren't now. And in a lot of ways, it doesn't really represent the party. Yeah. And coming from Bill, that really means a lot. What did you think of that?

I mean, it rang true, but also the more I think about it, it's like we talk about this woke ism and how crazy it is, but is it really, I don't know, in my mind, is it's like, isn't that just something we fixate on because it's so wild, right? It's like, it reminds me of them talking, even in this conversation when Rogan and Bill Mars start talking about gay people and trans and everyone's got to make fun of LGBTQ AI, whatever. It's like, again, it just bugs me when two white people talk about this. Two old white guys are just talking about like they give it, like they know about what it's like to be gay and how easy it is to come out. I'm just like, I don't know. they just sound like totally gay. What are you saying? I really do. Like, give me a fucking break. You guys are both right. You don't care. You know, people think Joe's not liberal. Well, they clearly

don't listen to him. He's been liberal always. He loves, he loves Bernie Sanders. I mean, go burn. Yeah. I guess it is like a bit of that kind of man-splaining type thing that people talk about. But I don't think that point ever is to disparage any of those groups. just how much association there is with this movement and that party and also how much it kind of plays into that party as well or how much the party plays into this movement. They've, the Democratic Party in a lot of ways is kind of made a lot of their identity around supporting this movement. Yeah. And, and I think, well, you got to hide that point is,

you got to hide the way. Well, I just think, I think that point is that it's, it's just, it's not the most important thing our country is dealing with. No, right? Exactly. That's why it bugs me when I hear about it again, and again, and again, from a couple of old white dudes. But they have to talk about it. It builds a political

I get it comedian. Like, of course, they're going to talk about it. And you know, and they got to talk about fat shaming for a good 25 minutes as well, because they definitely did that. That yeah, that was some top notch. I'm not sure. I'm sure off on the sugar industry, but not even that just about people, you know, I will say one other thing, and I love Bill Marr, don't get me wrong, but the whole I've taken SSRIs before and they helped a ton. I'm not on them anymore, you know, it got me through a divorce. When he said that he took Zoloft for a day and it was like, I just felt this and I just couldn't believe it's like, dude, SSRIs don't work on day one, bro. Okay. Settle down. You can't just take one pill one day and say, I felt numb and I just

feel bad for people that are on these SSRIs. That bugged me. But look, man, it's just one of those things. It's like if you've never felt that depression that seems overwhelmingly, like there's something you can't do about it, you take some of those pills, they work a lot of times and they might get you through a hard time. I think the general notion between the two of them, even though both of them have never been on antidepressants, is you can just fight through it. And that may be true for some people,

but not for everybody. So I just want to shout out to everybody out there who is on SSRIs. Hopefully you can get off of them at some point, but they do seem to work. Yeah, they're going to numb me out for a while, but they're probably going to get you through a hard time. Yeah, I agree. There's a place for those medications. Like there really is. And you know, it's

maybe they're overprescribed to some way they totally agree. Absolutely. It's like the fact that they give them the people without requiring them to go often to maybe therapy consistently. Totally. They really should go hand in hand. What about the benefit of the people? What about this other pill they're talking about? Is it a diabetes pill? They went on and on about this pill that makes you lose weight. But it's like, oh, yeah, there's some now supposedly that is like a diet pill, basically. It's like a pill that makes you slimmer. But Rogum is talking about, I can't remember, I don't think it was huberman, but it was

someone else like read through some studies, did a podcast and talked about how it's not just like they people do get lighter, but they're actually losing like other parts of body mass, like bone density, muscle density, it's not just like fat. So it's going to have some problems, you know, and it's just something to be aware of. Like it's not really the fix or pill, but that's like a lot of medications. It's not the most effective solution, but maybe for some people, it's a bit of a solution,

right? Like you're saying with SSRIs. Take those people, you've ever seen those shows where someone's so big, they can't get them out of their house, and they're just like in a bed. Yeah, they're hot to watch. And I do feel bad for those people. And it's like, wow, how did how did this happen? Like how did you get so big? Like how are you even getting food? I don't understand it. Are you just sucking down Coca-Cola all day? I mean, it's, that's just weird. You got it, that's got to be genetic, right? That can't just be just eating too much. Yeah, it's probably, it's both the things, right? But it's definitely eating too much. But

so let's say for those people, very difficult to do any exercise, right? I mean, you can get to a point where it's just too much. And if you could then take a pill that could mitigate it, right? Because obviously lifestyle changes are not happening. But you know, all of the things should happen at once, hopefully, but some people just don't make the changes. Maybe a pill then is beneficial, right? It's called a Sempic. I looked it up, oZempic.

Oh, yeah, that's right. For people with type two diabetes. Oh, yeah, I think it just reduces your appetite, too. But he was saying it takes away muscle mass and it's also really bad for you. But that's the thing with America. We just want to pill, right? And we just want it to be easy. It's too hard to go outside.

It's too hard to, I mean, that's the reason why half of these people in our country are depressed, too. Yeah. Well, life is just really hard for most people anyway. It just is. It's very difficult. So to the extra effort that you need to put in to make positive changes is like requires energy.

You have to have some left over and so many people are just kind of worn out. You know, that's a worn out front. I mean, aren't the isn't it like one of the four, you know, that they're worn out from it. I mean, aren't there, isn't it like one of the four noble truths of Buddhism that life is a struggle? That just, I think it's what it is. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's probably supposed to be, right? And to say that, it's like who I'm not saying that it's orchestrated or whatever, but it's it's inescapable. You can no matter how comfortable you make your life. Ultimately, you're going to just cause your own problems. Isn't it nice you can't hide away from that?

It's a struggle. I mean, right here, it's like the first noble truth of Buddhism is duke. The first noble truth is the idea that everyone suffers and that suffering is part of the world. It's The first noble truth is the idea that everyone suffers and that suffering is part of the world. It's the first noble truth. Duka. Duka. Duka. Duka. Well, yeah, anyway, anyway, it's a whole bunch of Duka. Like suffering people. It's going to be okay though, you know, but if you just accept that, it kind of feels good. It's like, oh, I'm not suffering right now. Feeling pretty good. Went golfing yesterday. You know, I'm drinking this coffee.

This coffee doesn't feel like suffering to me. There's, well, the hope is that there are moments, you know, and hopefully lots of moments that aren't that way, that aren't that way. But anyway, good old Bill Maher, check out the, check out the part. I liked their conversation. It was a short one, but they get into it. And again, it's Bill's style. It's plenty of politics and some COVID stuff and world business. Let's jump over to BJ Penn and Tulsi. This is one I wanted to get into.

Only because, you know, if you've been following much of the fires in Maui and like, what's going on over there, the relief effort and so I've seen some town hall meetings where people are getting really upset. And I did not realize until I was watching a few of those town hall meetings and BJ Penn was actually in one. This is about a week ago before I listened to this pod, you know, where they're sitting with all the people in their town in front of, you know, it's a town home meeting. So there's everybody's invited and they've got

all the fucking mayor and the governor and everything. And just I did not realize that they're trying to take people's homes away. I did not realize that that was was a thing that they're just, you know, shooting for taking all the homes that were burned down, maybe not all of them, but some of them at the very least. And saying that now this is our land, right? Isn't that what's happening? They're saying they're going to build, you know, some sort of memorial. And now that it's now it's public land, you know, they're just going to turn around and put a hotel up there. That's the case, which is, I mean, that's just crazy. People just burn, you know, taking away others' property.

I don't understand how they can get away with it. The whole thing seems, seems nuts. And the only thing I can put it down to is, are we ever good during, like, disaster relief things? I mean, Katrina, supposedly was a mass. And then there was that trained derailleurment where they just kind of blew it up. Like other examples of, excuse me, the US like crushing it

during one of these types of events. Or does any country ever do it? Like maybe disaster relief is such a difficult complicated thing and I don't want to make excuses for anybody. I'm certainly not doing it for the government. But what I'm thinking is, you know, this just sounds so crazy. What's happening? Mm-hmm. It sounds so nuts that they can't get any relief there. They're not able to help these people. Um, it almost blocking people bringing aid. It's, it's like the, hmm, yeah, I don't want to lean into conspiracies, but it just sounds, it sounds insane. Can we just, just, I just really wish Biden would

go down there and start throwing out some paper towels to everybody. Come on. Can Biden just go throw some paper towels? Well, he did give him $700. And not I'm not laughing at that situation. Just thinking about Trump doing that and thinking he was the fucking man in Puerto Rico. Just tossing out some paper. Oh, yeah, for a photo shoot. Well, what was that for her cane? That was the her cane that happened in Puerto Rico. Yeah, yeah, I don't I don't get it. I don't

understand it enough about why we can't give assistance there. It's saying that they have approved more than 65 million. This is from seven days ago. That FEMA has approved more than 65 million. This is from seven days ago that FEMA has approved more than 65 million in federal assistance. That total includes 21 million in FEMA assistance approved for individuals and households. So that maybe that's part of the $700 piece, but that's just not enough. I don't know. I mean, what happens when you just lose your house and you're stranded on an island? Is everybody camping out? They didn't really get into that. Yeah, I don't know really what the people are doing. They did say it was five billion dollars to rebuild most of the houses. And they kind of equated it to that extra six billion that wound up

going to the Ukraine. Right. Right. So we can do that, but we can't rebuild these houses. And then they kind of tied that to, there's wall profiteering, and there's no profit potentially to be made from fixing these people's houses. But you have to think in a sense there is because all of those people can then go back to work and have jobs and they pay taxes or they help the economy. I mean, yeah, I don't get it. I just assume that the US would have like large funds for disaster relief. And we can figure figure out teams of people that just like immediately kick

into gear, you know, like the president just pushes a button and then, you know, the 18 just jumps into action and gets out there. Okay. Well, let's think about this for a second. If this happened in the richest county in Florida, which is probably what somewhere down on the Atlantic by Maui, I don't know the names down there, but just think of this happening some affluent, you know, white area where, you know, where what's his name that supposedly killed himself, even though we know it's not true. Oh, Epstein. Yeah, let's just say this happened on near Epstein's home, right? Everyone's got a million dollar homes down there right on the island. Excuse me now, in the island. This was in Florida. If it happened there, you

don't know what is that area called like Palm Beach or sometimes Palm Springs area. Palm Springs. There we go. Okay. So let's say this happened in Palm Springs where, you know, the median household income is like three million a year or something. You think they wouldn't be getting aid? You don't think that we would be hooking them up real quick? I mean, it's just, yeah, I mean, possibly just make sense, right? I'm just saying, that's just, it's just an opinion of mine. So you think this is more a factor of just that these people were not as wealthy? Yeah, they're taking advantage of these people absolutely and like they mentioned, there's

rich white people, there's plenty of money to be made if they take the land. You know how expensive land is on Maui? It's like, you know, the property taxes are, they're already trying to push people out with property taxes, you know, the property taxes are, are, they're already trying to push people out with property taxes, you know, if they can't do that, now, now they have this, you know, convenient thing that happened for them, not for the, the people who live there, but maybe for the people who can take advantage of the land now that it's barren, and needs to be rebuilt, you know, just a thought, but that seems to be what's happening. That seems to be what they're trying to do. And the locals are up in

arms trying to do something about it. And hopefully, hopefully they can, I wish them the best. I don't know how to help them from Montana. I guess we're talking about it now. But what do you do? Do you start? Do you start to go funny for the people of Maui and everyone just kicks in a couple hundred bucks? Maybe that needs to happen. Where's one of those? Those seem to work. That's a good point. I bet there is one. Yeah. I bet there is. That's how you get people right to come together and fight the government. You get a ton of people to throw down. I mean, power to the people, right? That's how Bernie got all his freaking campaign money.

It does actually work. And if we could talk about Citizens United for a second, that is one thing that I wish Bill Marr just to jump back to that for a second. I wish him and Rogan would talk about Citizens United more instead of talking about, you know, what it's like to come out as a gay person, even though they're both not homosexual. It's whatever. It's just one thing that just gets to me.

Let's talk about Citizens United and how in our country corporations are considered people and how F'd up that is. And, you know, they can send millions upon millions of dollars to campaigns and then not even we don't even have to know that it was them that contributed to the campaign. If our forefathers knew that, they would just be like, this is the whole reason we wrote the Constitution was for these things not to happen. I don't know. That bugs me that we don't talk about

that more because in my mind, that is the biggest problem that corporations are considered people and are allowed to throw down endless amounts of money to campaign financing. And I mean, that's just, yeah, that was almost like beating a dead horse. So now it's like, yeah, they're not taking that out of there. It's not yeah, but that was almost like beating it dead a horse. So now it's it's like yeah, they're not taking that out of That's not gonna change a good luck dude that happened in the 90s. It wasn't even that long ago when they when they reverse that Yeah, how do you find how do we help the the people on Maui? Yeah, so they got a girl from me help the people of La hey I don't know. Say that La Haina. Yeah, and they got to go from me, help the people of, hey, I don't know, let's say that, La Haina, yeah, and West Maui, they've made two and a half million.

So give some money, folks, give them 20 bucks, whatever you can afford, it doesn't have to be a lot. Just go on that and do, don't think your donation of even five bucks is nothing. That's good. It adds up real fast. And that's probably a really good way. Assuming, I don't know how they do the distribution for GoFon me, but I assume people, you

know, there's like oversight and, you know, it's not just people collecting money. They must like... You would hope so. Now, I had to figure out ways To make sure it doesn't disappear and in fact, there's quite a few smaller ones that are all around about a hundred thousand dollars Okay, so another one for like 300,000 so there's quite a few and hopefully that helps them out

But back to the idea like what about the sirens? They didn't turn the sirens on. What do you think is going on there? Because who was the governor or whoever deals with the emergency signal said that he was worried. He was worried. The mayor, right? Right. He was worried that people would think that it's a tsunami.

Right. They would behave differently. Yeah. I mean, look, I obviously we both weren't there. I don't know what that's like. I mean, I guess if you didn't know that it was a fire, you probably, I mean, you're people are just going to assume it's a tsunami, right? So yeah, maybe that was a good call. I don't know. That's just something that happened in the moment. You know, you can't really give the guy too much shit for that.

It was just a decision that he probably made very quickly. And he was probably scared as well. You know, I give him a break on that one, I'd say. Yeah, really reasonable. Yeah, reasonable. I mean, not great, right? Obviously, we've come to stake ultimately. I would think it's a mistake for sure, but But I don't I'm sure it wasn't malicious. I don't think it was malicious. But who knows? I mean, the guy didn't come out of his house for two weeks. So I don't think I like him.

Yeah. I mean, look, if you if you do make a mistake and that's your position, I recommend owning up to it right away and being like, yeah, retrospect probably should have pushed that button and turned that on. This is why I didn't, sorry about that, but let's get to work and help those people. I just, how did people in positions of power like that just become so douchey? It's like you would think the first thing you would do is get out of your house, get on TV and start helping, right? Figuring it out a way to somehow get your ass on the ground and help. Instead, he just hides away in his mansion.

I mean, come on. Of course, the people are going to hate him. It's the political playbook, dude. When people are liking you and things are going well, you come out, you get all the credit for it, you have the crowds cheer. And then when they turn on you or someone's mad at you, you stand or and you wait for people to forget about it. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty crazy. And you never accept responsibility for negative things. That's, that's just the playbook of politicians. It's like the worst way to be as a human is the kind of the best way to be as a politician. Nice. Nice, which says a lot about politicians. Like how, you know, how can you like a good politician? It's it's almost like a good lawyer. A good lawyer is what the best liar. Mm hmm. Like yeah, they're good at their job, but I don't know.

Can't trust that. You don't want to hang out with them on a Tuesday night. Okay, just like hanging out at your house, bullshin. What was this thing about the fruit trees, the no pigs, the no wild cows. I'm talking about that. Oh, yeah, that's right. So you can't plant fruit trees.

So why? I don't know what would be the point of that, man. To be sustainable is, I mean, that's what BJ was trying to implement or trying to, I guess, assume is that they don't want people to be self-sufficient. I mean, yeah, I mean, that was definitely the point he was making. And unless there's some other issue that I'm not aware of like I don't know maybe it's like a Florida situation when they just have too many iguanas

Whatever there's lizards are there everywhere. It's like the more fruit trees you have the more iguanas you get or something but I Mean maybe it's I don't think that's a good precedent, though. You want you want people to have gardens, possibly grow food and especially fruit if you can. Like why not? No, that one seems pretty odd. What do you find in there? I mean, this right now, this is, uh, they're just saying that there's a recovery plans.

This is from August 17th. So this is people for planning fruit trees, right? Okay. Part of the recovery plan, as Maui continues to contend with the aftermath of Devastee and Wellflowers, which are responsible for more than 100 deaths, a swath of destruction. Maui is currently accumulating fruit trees as part of the donation efforts. So this is a donating donation effort thing from Hawaii Tropical Fruit Growers Corp. So that's htfg.org. So that sounds like these people are obviously for fruit trees, but I don't know.

I mean, isn't that the thing like our government? Of course, they don't want us to know how to not need them, right? I mean, isn't that just a thing? Right, maybe it is part of that, you know? Just like this reliance on us. They were talking about that too with, what was it?

15- minute cities. The idea that you have everything you need real close, but it also kind of traps you in that place. Yeah, I need to look into that because I actually wrote that down and I forgot to look into the 15 minute cities thing. Is that that's the case then? They just don't want people to go anywhere further than 15 minutes because then you're not using gas. I mean, don't they want us to spend money on gas? Yeah, the idea is

that it just makes every like all the things you need accessible to you, right, within 15 minutes of just walking or riding a bike. Right. So that does sound nice. That sounds convenient. For some people like live out in the middle of nowhere because they can't afford to live in a city or a town. And, you know, they are a long way. So if there's a disaster or something happens, like you're a long way, but there's also a ton of inherent problems when people are all squished together like that. And, you know, you definitely not have, have a Nagarde and then probably because there won't be as much room. Yeah, I mean, look, tiny houses, everyone living on top of each other.

Here again, is the problem with the far left and the far right or just us being so divided because it's like in one, you know, when you tell me about a 15-minute city, it seems logical to me, especially in an urban area, but then you have other people who think it's some sort of plot by tyrannical bureaucrats who are just taking over. And that to me, I don't understand. That seems way too crazy to me.

They're trying to take our cars, control our lives, and lead to some sort of Hunger Games scenario. That just, I just don't get that side of it. I mean, it makes sense to me.'t get that, that side of it. I mean, it makes sense to me. It seems like a bit of a stretch. And also the problem with those types of thinking is like, we're talking a generation or two. And I don't believe that the government is capable of planning. They're not certain generations. No, no way. Thank you. These, they work. They think of the next election, and that's about it.

Right. And look, to have everything within 15 minutes, how is that a problem? And if you don't like it, then go and move out into the country. Now, somewhere like Maui where there's not enough room, yes, that could get dangerous. If people are saying, no, you can't grow fruit trees. Now that is fucked up and that's tyrannical. Yeah. Like, okay, that should not be allowed. You cannot tell me I can't put a fruit tree in my yard, especially if I live on an island and there's only so much space. Of course, I'm gonna want a garden.

So that to me, that's where it gets scary. Like if you implement in these 15 minutes cities that, oh, you can't grow a garden, you can only buy from this garden or you can only go to this grocery store, that to me is the scary part, right? Because what happens when, I mean, we've already seen us, we've lost so many of our civil liberties just from any time there's some sort of disaster, right? This is where these disasters are what create new laws

because people are scared. That's the part that's scary, right? Is because when people are scared, they'll do anything, they'll say yes to anything because they're freaking out, right, just like we got rid of, you know, not Citizens United, but the Patriot Act, right? It's like the Patriot Act, we lost so many of our liberties because of 9.11, everyone's freaking out.

I get it, we were scared. But now we've got Patriot Act and everybody's smiling on us. So good job. Did you know that the TSA didn't exist before 9.11? Yeah. It was like private security firms. And you know, each airport was different. Yeah, you know, before holding it, it wasn't like, yeah, it wasn't like standardized and way more chill, obviously.

So yeah, good point. And now you got the TSA and oftentimes they kind of suck. They're like the DMV people. They just like look miserable. And they can make your life. How always, but you know, can we just can we laugh about some of those videos coming out when the TSA guys open up the bag and there's just a huge dildo and they just you make them laugh. You got to give them a little bit of chuckle out of that. That is pretty good. You see some of those. Cheers, those grumpy guts up. That's what I say. What did you think of the, they talked about the, well, what a living wages. And it's around $113,000 there. Yeah, it makes sense. Sounds like bozeman. That's so much money though.

I mean, it wasn't that many years ago. I think like maybe 2016, 2017, I was, I think it was Jordan Peterson was talking maybe on a Rogan, um, that $70,000, like is, is enough to live really well on. And anything more than that doesn't really add to your happiness. Yeah, I remember that talking. That number is definitely higher now. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, absolutely.

It might be double. And that's too soon, dude. It's not like people are getting paid double since then. I mean, yeah, how do you work in fast food and then live in Hawaii? Like, how could you? Well, I mean, you'd have to own a house. I mean, a lot of these't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don hope that's not the case, but I don't know. What do you do when you when you're when your home burns down? You think half of these people have insurance on their house? I don't know. I have no idea. I thought you had to have insurance on your house.

So hopefully, but, gosh, I don't know. I just, I hope they can rebuild it and keep, yeah, keep their homes. Oh, I don't know what it and keep their homes. I don't know what the answer is. My hog goes out to those folks. I've heard stories of disaster areas where the insurance company basically went bankrupt instead of paying out all the amounts of money.

It was like too many of the claims, you know, accounts claims came in and they just like dissolved their assets and went to bankruptcy. And then I don't know what happens then. Like the fact of that is even possible is insane. Well, then they start another company under another name and they just keep rolling right on. No doubt. Yeah, gosh, I didn't even think of that. Good point. That's scary because that sounds like something that might happen. Again, it's like, oh, it's a disaster. It's like when a lot of these natural disasters aren't even covered by insurance. Like when we had the farm, when we had our little cabin and we were growing hemp, you had to get flood insurance separately, right? Or wildfire insurance. If there was a wildfire, that's considered a

natural disaster. Regular insurance does not cover that, dude. So I guarantee you most of these people are screwed. Honestly, because flood insurance and- They probably didn't have, they maybe they had flood had flood right because of the tsunamis, but they want to think in fire. They can fire no way. So honestly, dude, I bet you they're all screwed. And that is a that is so sad because yeah, you need to have a separate insurance company for that sort of stuff. And it costs, you know, it could be an extra $800 a year, which I wouldn't want to pay. I wouldn't pay it, especially if I was on Maui, would you have fire insurance? I wouldn't.

So yeah. I mean, yeah, you wouldn't think about it. I mean, maybe if you're like in Hawaii close to those volcanoes, it might be a smart move. But yeah, this one was just power lines, I think, right? They just fell over in the winds and everything burnt because it was dry, or at least that's what they're saying. Yeah, tough.

And I feel terrible for him. I'm glad Tulsi's out there advocating for him and BJ. She's great. I'm glad that this conversation was held because I think a lot of what they talked about is not being reported clearly and Whether these two have an agenda or not. It's like they represent the people there and they care about the people more so than the government which is who you want representing you anyway and

Yeah, it's it's a brutal one All right guys, let's jump over, finish up with Lewis Gomez. Got a few minutes. Todd real quick, time wise. We got a sharp cut off of 45. So let me know when we're there. Give me a countdown. We got name.

I don't. Nine Minutos. Okay. So yeah, Skankfest guy, OG comedian. Very funny, dude. Lewis, yeah, justankfest guy OG comedian very funny dude Lewis Yeah, just always makes you laugh The Skankfest stuff is great. I'd love to go to that one day those guys are just ridiculous a lot of his podcasts are really good

That's that's where he shines. I don't think I've ever seen him Doing stand-up life in person. I've seen some of his act online and it's good. He's pretty raunchy. Yeah, I talked about getting arrested for marijuana, which is these days that just sounds more and more ridiculous. What are we at? Like 40 states now that have legal marijuana?

Is it that, man? Something great. Shit, the last time I, yeah, at least medical. Got it. Yeah, that's a lot. Come on, last 10. We're almost there. Like, how many does it need to be before the federal government just goes, we're in?

45? Like, seriously, like, how close do you need to get? I mean clearly something that people want to have. I don't know let's start let's start using some of that money towards natural disasters you know you put some of it towards schools and then you throw a little bit for a natural disaster fund let's go people are going to keep something. Well doesn't it seem nuts I mean I assume that these marijuana companies have to pay federal taxes So that paying federal taxes the federal government is getting the money already and

They still make it illegal Well, it's like aren't they breaking their own law? By just accepting the tax revenue here. Here's the issue is that it's all cash still, right? So at least in Montana, I know it is. So it's all cash. So if they're paying the government, they're not paying them what they are supposed to be paying them because you know, they're not, you know, they're not you know, showing all the money that was put in the bank because it's all cash only. So if the government really wanted all of their money, they would make it okay for them to get loans and go to banks. The problem

is that none of these companies can do that because it's all cash-based. You know, you can't get a loan if you're a if you're a weed company. Oh, it's kind of the bad thing because it has to be cash because the banks are federally insured and yes, they won't, they won't, they won't take that money. But I bet you can go to the bank with a big bag of cash and put the cash in the bank. Yeah, but why would you do that? Then, then you have to show that you made X amount of dollars. Well, they've got to put some money somewhere, right?

They don't all have a giant vaults at the back of a shop. That's what buy more property, buddy. Come on. Buy more property. Yeah, you don't buy property with giant bags of cash either. You have to put it in an account and transfer it. Okay. Don't you think? No, you do. Could you imagine carrying you're not just leaving $250,000 over to well, that's not going to get you anything these days, buddy. 250. That's nothing. But that will get you a little. Yeah, that will get you a shout out in the middle of nowhere. Yeah, you can probably still buy, you know, an average, not very fixed up three bedroom in in Tennessee area. See for sure, buddy, boy.

Yeah. Yeah. Down there. National forest, buddy, go hang out with some homies in the woods, cook up some, cook up some some frickin moonshine. Yeah. What was the thing? Oh, what are you going to go on?

I was just going to say about the balloon ride to space. Couple of stoneers talking about that. Joe is not in. He's not interested. No way. Hats on me neither. Me neither. Not going to do it.

How many balloon rides would they have to have successfully before you would do it? I wouldn't do it. Ever do it. It's just like I would never get into a submarine and go to the bottom of the ocean and get killed. Yeah. I don't like the sound of that one either. I just don't have just doesn't seem necessary.

I just want to save the planet that we already live on. I don't care about space that much. I think it's cool. I want aliens to come, you know, come here and be nice and show us What's up and tell us, you know, hey stop doing what you're doing. You're gonna blow yourself up and Briskrood. Yeah, I wish I wish someone would come down, you know, maybe alien Maybe Jesus is an alien. I don't know Maybe you can see him in the balloon. That'd be cool.

If you went up that high enough. There we go. So if I could see Jesus in the balloon, maybe I did it. Then it might be worth it. I just, I just get sick of the of people trying to do things outside of our atmosphere. It just seems a little weird to me. Can we start here? Can we save the coral reefs first? I don't know. Yeah. Maybe it'd be nice if our oceans weren't so acidic that they were just killing everything. That seems like a bigger problem to me

than trying to figure out how to ride on a balloon into space. But yeah, well, we got to do a bunch of different things at the same time. So balloons are on there. It's only $125,000. Decelination plants seem like a better idea to start thinking about right now for me personally. But all they is fun. How do we make Decelination plants fun, Adam? How do we do this?

Dance music. We ride those. Yeah, they could be like waterpock. Yeah, the back. There we go. There we go. Now we're talking. We're saving the world and we're fucking going down water slides. Put in like a really nice bar. Get a DJ. I mean, that's one way just spitball in here. People love that. What is all right All right, we're wrapping this up, but I also wanted to cover Lewis, it's been in five car accidents and pays, what do you say, like $1,800 a month for insurance? On his cars.

Sounds about right, I just stopped driving. That's me honest, the guy is a bad driver. He didn't want to admit it, Joe called him on it, I think he accepted it. That is horrific. If I had $1800 a month car insurance, I would not drive.

Dude, you live in the city. Why does he even need a car? It's not even New York. Yeah, I think so. Maybe to get the gigs and things. I mean, look, maybe he just has some money, so it's like worth it. He's got to drive his kids around.

I don't know. But just Uber. You could just, could you spend $1,800 in a month with Uber? I wouldn't think so. Not in New York. I would think everything's close. I mean, maybe this is why we need 15 minute cities. Come on, Lewis.

You just got to move into a 15 minute city. He'll save you $1,800 a month. Yeah. I mean, that's, that's $60 a day for Uber. Woo! $60. Anyway, on that note, let's wrap up for the week. Pretty good ones.

The Maui one was hard to listen to, you know, it's sad, but it's important to kind of get you educated on the situation out there. And Lewis is fun. Lewis is fun. And Marino. I don't forget Marino was last week, but that was a worthy, that was a worthy lesson. Yeah, good old Bill.

It's great to have him on. Anyway, thank you guys so much. Thank you, Todd. Peace out and we'll talk to you next week. Talk to you next week later.