The Joe Rogan Experience - #1636 - Colion Noir

Episode Date: April 16, 2021

Colion Noir is a second amendment advocate, attorney, and firearms enthusiast. ...

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out! The Joe Rogan Experience. Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night! All day! What's up? How are you? Good, man. Dude, you're our resident gun nut.
Starting point is 00:00:17 Hey, I take it. Like, anytime there's a gun issue, you're my go-to guy. I'm not gonna argue with that. No one knows more. I don't know anybody. I mean, there might be a dude out there, but he's probably dangerous.
Starting point is 00:00:29 I mean, I probably learned a lot from him anyway, so. So what's happening, man? How's everything? Ah, nothing much,
Starting point is 00:00:36 man. I'm glad to have you so close now. Yeah. Yeah. We're, we're state residents now. Yeah, you are.
Starting point is 00:00:40 How far is the drive from Dallas? Uh, the way I do it, or the way no people do it? You shouldn't say that on the air, man. There's a lot of cops out here. I do it fast legally. How do you do that?
Starting point is 00:00:51 I mean, that's another story. What, do you have a fucking jet? I mean, what's fast legally? Jet on land. Yeah, but that's not legal. Yeah, I mean. There's a speed limit, sir. I'm a lawyer, man.
Starting point is 00:01:03 I plead the truth. Oh, okay, okay. Let's leave it at that. It's a bunch of legal. You know, Montana didn't have a speed limit sir i'm a lawyer man okay okay let's leave it at that you know montana didn't have a speed limit for a long time they had no speed limit they were like we don't give a fuck up here you know that sounds like my place to be yeah montana's pretty badass but i think they had to get a speed limit to get some state or federal funding or something like that sounds about right yeah the federal government's like look enough of this shit people are going up there to test cars. I mean, look, Germany, they have the Autobahn.
Starting point is 00:01:28 I know. Right? Just let me look. It's getting ridiculous. Like, in my car right now, I have a radar detector that's built in, and then I have a radar detector that I keep on my little dash.
Starting point is 00:01:40 You have a double radar? Yeah. Is this the Ferrari? No, no, no, no. This is the Turbo S. I have a double radar yeah yeah is this the ferrari no no no no this is the uh this is the turbo turbo s i have a 2014 turbo oh yeah that's a that's a ridiculously fast car and then the 2022 makes that thing seem like a goddamn prius it's stupid it's so crazy like i and that thing is so god 2.5 seconds 2 seconds. 2.5 seconds 0-60. I have to wonder, where do you go from there?
Starting point is 00:02:09 We're going. Wherever it is, we're going. Tesla is where we're going. This is true. I remember we had this conversation before. My Tesla is preposterous, man. My Tesla is faster than the 2022 Turbo S. Faster. 2.4 seconds 0 to 60 so it's a tenth of a second faster 0 to 60 and it feels like it dude i'm still fighting it i know i'm still fighting
Starting point is 00:02:34 i know i'm listen man i have a regular car too i have a couple regular cars yeah that sound is the sound of a real combustion engine is the shit i I'm still full of shit, though, because the Turbo S sounds like a damn Dyson vacuum. That's true. It does. It does, right? It's like, so I'm kind of, yeah, I'm kind of contradicting myself in a lot of ways in that manner. They said they're never going to make the 911 electric, though. That's good to know.
Starting point is 00:02:57 I mean, they just released the 992 GT3, which is naturally aspirated, rear-wheel drive. Look at that. I actually, I just put it in order for it. Did youated, rear wheel drive. Look at that. I just put it in order for it. Did you? Yeah, I did. Look at that. I love the rear steering. The funny thing is when they released it initially, I hated it. The rear steering? No, the car.
Starting point is 00:03:18 Really? How could you hate that? Because the 991 GT3, I loved how proportionate the wing was to the rest of the body. It just seemed like it was part of it. And when they went with the swan GT3, I loved how proportionate the wing was to the rest of the body. It just seemed like it was part of it. And when they went with the swan neck spoiler, I hated it because it seemed disjointed. You got any other pictures of this, Jamie, with that spoiler? You think it's dope.
Starting point is 00:03:35 No, now I think it's beautiful. It's a really amazing company if you think of Porsche. They've taken this one car from the 1960s and they've just consistently updated it. There's no other car company like it. Not at all. Not at all. Even Corvettes now are mid-engine, right?
Starting point is 00:03:50 Yeah. So Corvette doesn't look nothing. Corvette looks like a Ferrari now. But from what I understand, initially the design of Corvette was to be mid-engine. Really? Yeah, from what I've learned. Okay, that looks pretty dope. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:01 No, I think the 992, the rear end of the 992 is probably the best rear end on a vehicle out right now it's pretty sick yeah especially with that that light that uninterrupted light bar in the back it's just pretty smart of them too to make them all wide body too yeah it's like nobody wants that narrow bitch skinny bitch i'm not a fan of that front hood though why i don't know it just looks somebody said it looks like a mario mario's brother character it just it just doesn't look as good as like if you go with the 991 gt2 rs hood uh-huh you know like that that kind of hood is just i don't know it just seems better that seems it, those weird creases, but maybe I'll get used to it. I mean, if it's.
Starting point is 00:04:47 The interior is spectacular. They killed it on the interior. It's usually Porsche interiors are really Spartan in a kind of uninspiring way. Now, it's a beautiful balance of practicality. Practicality. I can't say that word for someone. What the hell is wrong with me? It's practicality.
Starting point is 00:05:04 Practicality. That is a good one. That's a weird one. But then also still being, you know, still feeling very luxurious without being ostentatious. And it's a manual. You can get a fucking manual. So. Look at that wheel, too.
Starting point is 00:05:18 About that. About that. You're not into that? I am and I'm not. I think sometimes people make much to do about nothing with respect to manuals like i think it's kind of the cool thing to do is to be like yeah i got a manual yeah like a man yeah yeah that's me i feel you but sometimes i wonder because it's like it could be synonymous to arguing about having in the key of flip phone no no no it's not no this is why because it feels good to use a flip phone is goofy but i'll tell you what
Starting point is 00:05:45 i haven't used well closing it feels good you're fired jetson so snap that thing shut i think what it is for me because i i'm being a little facetious because i do love manuals the problem is so i had a 2015 aston martin vantage that was a manual six-speed manual which i probably should 2015 Aston Martin Vantage. That was a manual, six-speed manual, which I probably should have held on to now. If you did,
Starting point is 00:06:10 it'd probably be breaking down every five minutes. This is true. This is true. But it would have held its value a lot more than Aston Martins typically do. But I remember
Starting point is 00:06:20 I used to love it because I would, you know, just run it through the gate and it had a really heavy clutch and a really high bite point. So generally speaking, it's terrible. But I got so used to it that I love it because I would just run it through the gate and had a really heavy clutch and a really high bite point. So generally speaking, it's terrible. But I got so used to it that I love it now. And except for one, there was one day I was driving.
Starting point is 00:06:32 I was coming back. I think I was on 35. Everybody from Dallas knows 35 is trash. And I'm on 35 during rush hour. It took me two and a half hours to get home. Oh. After that, I literally got home. I put it up.
Starting point is 00:06:43 I was like, I'm selling this car. I want nothing to do with it it was it was that that's how bad that experience was that i can understand yeah if you don't have another car and you live in a place with traffic i get it yeah yeah that's not what you want you want an automatic for that yeah it's the difference between just chilling and and being super annoyed yeah for two hours two hours straight and if you have a strong a stiff clutch then your left leg gets a little tired then you feel like a real bitch like i can't believe i'm getting sore i'm getting uh i'm getting some lactic acid build up in my left leg by pushing on my clutch now if i lived in austin i think i would have still had a manual yeah the traffic here is a joke. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:07:25 But, I mean, at least I have somewhere to go to. Like, you know, I can run off into the hills, hill country, and drive around those roads there. Yeah. Where in Dallas, I mean, I can't. There's nowhere for me to really just drive for the sake of driving. I got to tell you, though, there's a lot of cops out here. Oh, yeah, there are. There are.
Starting point is 00:07:41 A lot of cops waiting around the bus people. But the beautiful thing about having, for instance, like the really curvy roads, you know, the winds and twisty roads, you have a great time going 40, 50 miles an hour. Yes, that's true. You know what I mean? Yeah, you do. You feel it. Yeah, exactly. And in a car like that, that's what it's all about.
Starting point is 00:07:58 Exactly. I love driving manuals. It's not just a meathead thing. Like, I have a 2005 E46 M3. And that's not even that fast. It's not just a meathead thing. Like, like I have a 2005 E46 M3 and that's not even that fast. It's not, but I mean, I love it. It's a, that's classic. I mean, that is, that is when BMW was being fucking W. Yeah. It feels like you get, it's hard to describe to people that aren't car nuts, but there's an intangible feeling of connectedness to that car when I drive it.
Starting point is 00:08:26 I don't have to be going fast, but I do go fast sometimes. But it's not even that though. It's the way the car gives you feedback. It gives you feedback in my GT3 RS. I have a 2007 GT3 RS. That car is basically like, you shouldn't be able to drive it on the street. It's a preposterous car. 518 horsepower.
Starting point is 00:08:47 It's a Shark Works car. It sounds like a dragon. And it's so fast. But it's much more rowdy. It's got a real stiff clutch. And that car is, it's a thing. You're doing a thing. It's not really transportation.
Starting point is 00:09:02 The BMW is transportation, but it's not really transportation yeah the bmw is transportation but it's like engaging transportation i mean it literally was the reason why when i was looking like my 14 turbo s now i was going back and forth between the 14 or 15 or the 15 because 14 is when the engines were blowing up but the the 15 gt3 versus the turbo s and i was going back and forth and i'm like man i love how the the sensorial effects of the GT3 are just phenomenal. And then I got in a Turbo S, and I realized for my lifestyle, living here in Dallas in the city, it makes more sense to get the Turbo S. Yeah, and it's like a time machine. The way it gets from point A to point B, it's like, poof. I may or may not have, with my business partner, launch controlled the son of a bitch.
Starting point is 00:09:46 May or may not have. Probably didn't. May or may not. You probably didn't. No, I didn't. I don't think you did. But he did mention something about feeling like he was on a roller coaster. Yeah, man.
Starting point is 00:09:52 That's what they do feel like when they push you back. And what's crazy is it's a full second faster for the 2022. A full second 0 to 60, which is so nuts. Like, to anybody getting that car and say, this is not enough. No. Well, that's what Elon's done with the new teslas he's my car goes zero to 60 in 2.4 seconds i have a 2019 or something 2020 um p 100d right model s p 100d is that what you say and the new one, the plaid version, goes 0 to 60 in 1.9 seconds. That's the 2022. I mean, the only next step to go to is flight.
Starting point is 00:10:32 Well, I think he's going to get it to 1.5 in the Roadster. And then we'll do flying cars. Yeah. I mean, it'll probably get to 1 second 0 to 60 soon. We will see that in our life. We'll see one second, zero to 60. Now, what is that going to do to the body? The human body?
Starting point is 00:10:51 From a G-space. We're going to get to a point where the Gs start affecting the human body. Right, people start throwing up. Have you ever been in a jet, like a fighter jet? No, I refuse. You refuse? But you like speed. I do.
Starting point is 00:11:04 That's a weird thing. I am a walking contradiction. At least you like speed. I do. That's a weird thing. I am a walking contradiction. At least you know it. Man, I will go. I'm not saying I've done this. But theoretically speaking, I will go 135 down a freeway, right? Balls to the wall. Put me in a helicopter to hunt hogs?
Starting point is 00:11:19 Not happening. You're not interested in that? Nope. Because helicopters crash. I just know too much about helicopter crashes. They do crash. Because helicopters crash. I just know too much about helicopter crashes. They do crash. They do crash. But if you're in someone, a helicopter with someone who's like a really good pilot, who
Starting point is 00:11:30 knows they're doing it, it's well maintained, the odds are very low that you're going to crash. They are. Now, I'm not, see, there's nothing rational about my fear. It's just, it's dumb, it's dumb, unmitigated fear. It just makes no sense. There is a thing, though, that if you crash and die while hunting hogs, people will celebrate your death. That is a fact.
Starting point is 00:11:50 That doesn't exist. There's a certain number of people out there. If you crash going to bring water to Botswana, people are like, oh, my God, he was an amazing person. You crash eradicating feral hogs in Texas. They're like, you piece of shit. For sure, right? This is true. Even though they have to do it, and that's one of the most effective ways to do it.
Starting point is 00:12:13 I mean, I'm hated right now. I'm celebrated and hated right now at the moment. Well, tell me about this, because you did your first hunt. You hunted a bison. You know, ethical kill, beautiful, big animal. You'll have fantastic meat for a year. You'll be able to give it to your friends and family. What's the problem?
Starting point is 00:12:30 I don't know. Like, I've been a 2A advocate for, what, 15, close, 15, 16 years. For you nerds out there, that's Second Amendment. Yeah. Right to bear arms. Gun, PPU. Jamie's got a gun. All right.
Starting point is 00:12:43 You got a gun, Jamie? It's Texas. I'm missing parts of it. Wait, how long have you been in Texas? He's got a gun with the first month. Tim Kennedy gave him the first week. Was that our first week? You should be at like, you should be about five or six right now.
Starting point is 00:12:56 We got to bump those rookie numbers up. I got three this week. I don't know if you get one a week or. I did get three this week. I'm not joking. I've got more shoes since I've been here. Jamie's a sneakerhead. I'm a transient sneakerhead. I'm not joking. I've got more shoes since I've been here. Jamie's a sneakerhead. I'm a transient sneakerhead.
Starting point is 00:13:08 I'm a nostalgic sneakerhead. Yeah. Oh, you like the old school ones? Well, just the shoes that I couldn't buy when I was younger. Oh, okay. Like now that I have a little bit of money, I'm like, okay, yeah, let me get these. I just bought the Reebok Questions, the Allen Iversons. Oh, those look good.
Starting point is 00:13:20 Yeah. I'm generally not a Reebok fan, but those are pretty dope looking. Yeah. I remember those. I mean, I was obsessed with Iversons. Yeah. I'm generally not a Reebok fan, but those are pretty dope looking. Those were, I remember those. I mean, I was obsessed with Iverson. Yeah. But, yeah, man, like, all right, I go on this hunt. Like, I've hunted hogs, right?
Starting point is 00:13:32 Right. But, you know, just like a real hunt. Real hunt. Real hunt. Even though hunting hogs is a real hunt. That's a real hunt. I won't give people the misconception that it's not real, but. There's a lot of them.
Starting point is 00:13:43 Exactly. In Texas, it's kind of like what you do because they're just so many of them and they're causing so much damage um and so my ammo sponsor nozzler they they were like hey look you want to come on a bison hunt we have an opportunity we have a spot for you to go on a bison by the way they have a rifle coming for you yeah that's my that's number three for the week at the range right now it's hilarious so it would literally be the same rifle that i used to hunt my buffalo with um so we go there and so i'm like yeah cool let's do it right i'm like fine let's go hunt a buffalo and i've always looked at buffaloes as being very much they're just majestic animals like i like i they're beautiful yeah they're amazing um and I also love bison burgers. So for me, it just made sense.
Starting point is 00:14:29 I'm like, okay, so let me get this straight. You have a guy who 90% of the time Uber eats his food. That's what you do? 90% of the time? Yeah. 90? It's bad, bro. It's pretty bad.
Starting point is 00:14:39 You trust those dudes? No. They're going to pick your fries? I don't trust them at all. You do it anyway? Yeah. It's purely out of convenience. It's a time thing for me because it's like my whole day is so filled it's literally the moment i wake up i've got to make every aspect of my life efficient as efficient as possible i get it um but you know i've always said you know my dad was an
Starting point is 00:14:59 executive chef and so for me i've always said you know what i'm gonna really i'm gonna sit down to just really learn how to cook right and so i was like what better way to start than cooking my own bison meat perfect right so i had all the perfect justifications reasons to go on a bison hunt so i go on a bison hunt and i remember we're driving so So the place is expansive. It's huge. Where'd you go? It was in Pueblo, Colorado. And so it was freaking beautiful, man. And so we're going and we're looking for the bison. And we finally find there's like four of them, four older males that apparently they're no longer breeding or mating or anything like that. They're just really honestly causing havoc.
Starting point is 00:15:43 Right. They're killing other buffalo and anything like that. They're just really honestly causing havoc. Right. They're killing other buffalo and, you know, shit like that. And I learned really quickly buffaloes are assholes. Assholes. Assholes. We'll get into that in a bit because it's a good part of your story. So we're sitting there, and so we find buffaloes. So we got to figure out how to approach them, right,
Starting point is 00:16:00 because we don't want to spook them, right? And they're very skittish. Very skittish. And so what we did was we decided, because it was very hilly, and so we decided, all right, so we're going to walk around the hill, come up over the crest of the hill, and then take the shot from there. So we walked, trekked around the hill, went up the hill, got situated. Did you have a guide?
Starting point is 00:16:23 Yeah, we had a guide. Yeah. And set the gun down. And the guys, when we were on the way to the place where we were going to go hunt, he was like, look, you're going to get what they call buck fever. You know what that is? Oh, yeah. He's like, you're going to get buck fever. You're going to get anxious. Your part's going to start pounding, especially when you see the animal through your optics.
Starting point is 00:16:40 You're talking to somebody who's for the better half of 10 years been shooting at steel targets and paper right right so um i was like okay good to know um so we sat down get the rifle up there i didn't get buck fever it was weird i got extremely calm extremely calm it was extremely quiet and i remember looking through the optic and seeing the buffalo because at this point it was it wasn't it was broadside initially and then it turned and so literally he and i were looking at each other through the optic oh wow yeah and so it was a it was an interesting experience it was different um because in a weird way I developed an insatiable amount of respect for the Buffalo during this whole process I don't I don't even know really quite how to explain it you're more of a hunter than
Starting point is 00:17:33 I am so maybe you can tell me but I remember taking the shot he did not go down instantly so I had to take another shot. Here's where it got interesting. Soon as you could see he starts bleeding a little bit, so you know he's getting ready to go down. The three buffalo that he was with, these were supposed to be his friends. At least that's what I thought. Soon as they catch wind of the fact that he's hurt, the three of them start chasing him, and they start coming up to attack him. mean they have their horns and they're trying to gore him and i'm like what the hell's going on and guys
Starting point is 00:18:10 like that's what they do the moment they sense weakness in a bigger buck they attack him almost as if to say yeah you gotta call them bulls yeah i get confused yeah my bad guys yeah bulls yeah so um they attack him apparently, almost as if to say, finally it's my turn now, right, to be the big dog. And so they start attacking. So my bull takes off running. And I'm like, shit, we got to go after this thing now, right? So now he takes off running, and I can't get another shot off
Starting point is 00:18:41 because he's taking off running around another hill. So now we have to dismount, up and start following him and so then we get closer he comes back around the other side of the hill they're still chasing him and they're going him the whole time and so finally he's um he drops but he's still kind of his hind leg he's still kind of on his hind legs a little bit so I'm like I've got to put this guy out of his misery right and so and i think he's running off pure adrenaline at this point and so i get down take the shot he drops he's done now at this point the smaller of the two bulls of the three bulls that remains he's still with my buffalo kind of like get up i dare you i dare you and he's just like he's just kind of like i'm like what the hell and then the two bigger bulls are now going at it.
Starting point is 00:19:29 I mean, insanely. They're just boom, boom, boom, boom. So I'm like, what the hell? So we can't do anything. You have to wait. Yeah. So I'm like, so we're like about 70 yards away, just kind of on the top of the hill,
Starting point is 00:19:42 like just over the crust of the hill, just kind of waiting because we don't want them to see us because then their attention is going to turn to something else. So now at this point, they're going at it. I mean, it's nuts. I got it on video. Oh, wow. And they're just – I'm like, they're going to kill each other. Can you show us the video?
Starting point is 00:19:57 I don't have it on me now. Oh, yeah. But, yeah. Yeah, my videographer. Yeah, he has it. So at this point – I'll send it to you if you want it. Okay. Videographer.
Starting point is 00:20:01 Yeah, he has it. So at this point, I'll send it to you if you want it. Okay. And at this point, they stop. And then they do this. I'm like, oh, shit. They turn and look at you? Oh, no.
Starting point is 00:20:20 And you only have a tag for one buffalo, so it's not like you can shoot them if they run at you. And not only that, I only have one round in my rifle. Oh, no. Yeah. That's not good. Yeah, but me being the gun guy that I am, I had a 10-millimeter handgun with me. Did you have a 10-millimeter handgun in case? Yes.
Starting point is 00:20:37 I'm not playing with you fools. So just in case something goes wrong in the Buffalo, do you think you could stop a buffalo with a 10-millimeter handgun? You want the honest truth? Yeah. No. I don't think so. But. You'd hurt him.
Starting point is 00:20:50 It's better. Than not having one. Than not having one. Yeah, for sure. And at bare minimum, I would at least hope that it would make it seem like the buffalo's like, I could keep running through this, but this is harder than it needs to be. Right. So I'm just going to go the other direction. I wonder what a 10 millimeter, like when guys hunt bear or when they hunt in bear country and they bring a gun, there's a lot of debate about what round to bring.
Starting point is 00:21:17 Like a lot of guys bring a 45. See, I was going to bring a Ruger. I have a Ruger Redhawk Alaskan.454 Casull. I was going to bring that. The only problem is my holster, I ordered a rig holster, a chest holster for it. It didn't come in fast enough.
Starting point is 00:21:33 So I was already gone before it came in. I would have carried that because that I think would have done a better job. So you wanted to have it on you, not in a pack. Even though you have the rifle it on you, not in a pack. Yeah, no, I wanted it on me. Even though you have the rifle, you want it just in case. So there's a – I'm a tactical shooter, right, so to speak,
Starting point is 00:21:52 for people who kind of send different types of shooters. I'm not a hunter. I hunt, but I wouldn't consider myself a hunter. I'm more like a tactical shooter. I have ARs, you know, semi-automatic handguns, things of that nature. So, you know, you can take the tactical shooter off of the range. You can't take the tactical shooter out of the tactical shooter. Right, right.
Starting point is 00:22:10 So I think tactically. Exactly. So I'm like, all right, I have my handgun. And then I also, as soon as we, because the other guys were going to get their bull too, I switched out. Instead of having the bolt action, I went and got an AR. And that's what I was carrying the rest of the hunt oh really yeah so so how many guys were you with that were hunting three
Starting point is 00:22:31 so and they all went and got buffaloes as well yeah well it was me and on the day that I did it two of us got buffalo um and his his his hunt was insane his hunt was freaking insane because we saw it. We spotted them. And so we tried the same thing. We tried to ride around the hill to get up top to shoot from there, from that position. However, between us doing that, coming around the hill, they had actually come to the bottom of the hill. So when we peeked over the crest they they
Starting point is 00:23:05 caught wind of us and took off so now what would have been maybe a hundred or two hundred yard shot has now turned into a 500 yard shot so the guy Garrett literally was already set up getting set up they took off running he didn't even hesitate he took off in a full sprint with his bolt-action rifle, takes off, gets in another position. The guide has these binoculars that range find. So he's yelling it out as the buffalo are running. He's like, 300, 400. That's another thing.
Starting point is 00:23:35 I didn't know these things could move this fast. They move quickly. They move quickly. Yeah. Look, all these city rats who are like me, because I'm a city rat, right? I grew up in the city. I don't know shit about animals like that, except for what I watch on Netflix when I get drunk. So, these things move.
Starting point is 00:23:54 They move. And then they cover so much ground because they're so big. So, it's not like their legs are moving that fast. They just cover a lot of ground quickly. And so, the guy's like 300 400 500 and he's boom drops him wow it gets up i was like what in the world it gets up and starts running again so now he has to now he's like 560 boom drops him it gets up again. So I'm like, gosh. And we're not using bullshit rounds here.
Starting point is 00:24:27 So at this point, so now we dismount. We start walking up and getting closer. So I have my little AR with me. And he was with, remember, this is the other two that were fighting before. Because it took us almost three or four hours to find him again. So this time, so after he tagged him, dropped him, and now he's up again, his friend is now running back around towards us as we're walking towards him. And so I'm like, oh, but they can't see it from their vantage point because I'm further back.
Starting point is 00:24:59 And so I'm just like, hey, his friend is coming. Oh, no. Coming to attack? I don't know. I'm a fish out of water here. I'm just kind of like, I just see a buffalo running, and I just assume the worst. And so now I'm like, hey. So I start running up, and I'm like, so I rack around into my AR.
Starting point is 00:25:16 I don't know what the hell this thing's going to do. I'm just preparing for the worst. But long story short, he just kept running. Like, he didn't come to attack. He just kept running. He's not trying to get the fuck out of the get the out yeah he was kind of disoriented he's like you know where the danger is he's like then they killed two of my homeboys already right so he's gone um and i remember the buffalo now is on the ground and he's trying to stand up jesus christ they they are and his hits were good but man they they are tough son of bitches, man.
Starting point is 00:25:45 And he drops them. That's an enormous amp. Oh, my God. They're huge. They're so big. They're huge. And all I remember is he hits them again and he drops. And then the Buffalo does this.
Starting point is 00:25:58 So, it's like he's facing this way, right? Drops and the Buffalo goes, and just snarls at him. Oh, Jesus. Yeah, and i'm like it's kind of a g like i had so much respect for this thing man um and you know inevitably he ended up he ended up dying um but that was that was my first buffalo hunt right i'm in the hunt period right first hunt pretty much yeah yeah um and then after that you know we we took the buffalo um got skinned um processed the meat all that stuff
Starting point is 00:26:32 i'm still waiting for the meat to get here um yeah so then i put a video together about all of this that i just told you and put it up on my social media page. That got interesting. There are a lot of people who don't like hunting. Now, do you think these people also ate meat? I'm pretty sure of it. Some of them. I think there were some, because I even put up a question. I said, honestly speaking, honest question, do vegans and anti-hunters get mad at lions and my whole thing was I eat meat I can I respect people who don't but I don't see what the problem with me killing my own
Starting point is 00:27:13 food is I just don't I'm at a loss here what what was the comp was there a common argument against what you're doing yeah a lot of people were saying some people not saying that a lot because the positive was actually overwhelmingly positive, but there was just a noticeable uptick in the negative comments. Isn't that just social media in general, though? Pretty much, yeah. But I mean, you told me not to read the comments.
Starting point is 00:27:35 You did. I did? Yeah. Well, you have a fucking giant dead animal and you're standing there with a rifle. I'm like, bro. I never posted that. Here's the crazy thing.
Starting point is 00:27:44 In the video. Oh, that picture you sent me, you never never posted that. Here's the crazy thing. In the video. Oh, that picture you sent me you never posted? No. Oh, okay. No, in the video you don't even see the actual buffalo get shot. Oh, okay. No. You see me shoot the gun, but you don't see the buffalo get shot.
Starting point is 00:27:55 You don't even see the dead buffalo in the video. That's going to make hunters mad. I figured as much. They want to see the hit. I might have to put it on Patreon or something. Just put it on YouTube, man. Just put it on YouTube, man. Just put it on YouTube. Hunters will welcome you to the fold.
Starting point is 00:28:10 First of all, they'll love you because you're already a Second Amendment advocate, lawyer. That's what happened. Yeah, for sure. That's definitely what happened. And I welcomed it. I really did. Those are the people you want on your side anyway. They're logical about their food consumption and how where it
Starting point is 00:28:25 comes from and where and if you're a meat eater that doesn't support hunting i i just don't know what to tell you i don't either if you don't want to be responsible for your own food i don't i don't you know that argument is not going to hold up you know you could say it if no one's uh going back and forth with you on social media and that's what a lot of it is yeah but it's just a lot of people that don't want to accept the reality of where food comes from. They don't like it. It's uncomfortable for them. And the thing about it is it's like, okay, I get it if you don't want to face the reality of it.
Starting point is 00:28:53 But to judge me for doing the thing that you don't want to see even though you benefit from it from the standpoint of having to kill an animal in order to eat it, I think it's ridiculous. Dude, whatever you do, there's going to be haters and as your profiles continue to rise as you become more and more popular online your hater count goes up too which is true and i know and i don't account for that i think yeah i don't because it's yeah because it's it's and i like i said i i i did notice a difference when you told me to stop reading the comments and i I did. I did notice a difference. You feel better, right? Yeah. But I'm like an addict, though, right?
Starting point is 00:29:28 Right. So it's like I'll find myself just instinctively. Yeah, that's not healthy. You know what I mean? It's not healthy. It's not. Because you'll find one comment that's just ignorant and asshole-ish, and it'll fuck with your head. And then, you know, you'll be hanging out with your girlfriend, or you're having a good time with your friend you'd be eating dinner and then just think
Starting point is 00:29:48 about that one shitty comment i'm like fuck that guy the most dangerous is when i'm because i go i go to bars by myself a lot and so i'll be at a bar eating drinking and it'll be that one comment and i'm like oh shit it's coming Because at that point my filter is off. So I've already got like two drinks in me and then it's just like, and then you go back and forth with them. Oh yeah. That's not, that's not wise.
Starting point is 00:30:13 No, it's not. You want harmony and peace in your life as when, whenever possible. You know, and if you just seek out the thing about social media is like, these people are not in your life. You can bring them in your life you can bring them
Starting point is 00:30:25 in your life if you choose to when you push put something online those folks that comment they're not really in your life they want to get in there by saying fuck you you piece of shit shot that buffalo it's a majestic creature they're almost extinct we almost lost them all and which kind of is true it is true at one point in time. But the whole point of what we're doing out there was to preserve. I know it seems counterintuitive, but I mean, isn't that how conservation works? Well, people need to understand where the money goes. The money goes to habitat enhancement. When there's a thing called the Pittman-Robinson Act, or the Robert, what is it?
Starting point is 00:31:06 Robinson, Pittman-Robinson, I think it is. And it's hunters agreed to it, and I believe it's 10%. So 10% of sales of, whether it's ammunition, hunting licenses, gear, all that shit, goes to conservation. Okay. all that shit goes to conservation. So there's more money raised by hunters for conservation, preservation of wetlands for wild birds, and to pay for people to monitor populations and make sure that the correct amount of tags are allocated so that there's not an over-harvesting,
Starting point is 00:31:43 and then also that animals don't get out of control because if they get out of control, then diseases can spread and a lot of other shit and research about diseases. All that stuff comes from hunting, and it's not coming from wildlife advocates. It's not coming from PETA or any of these people. Way more money for conservation comes from hunting.
Starting point is 00:32:03 I was doing a... I watched a video about why is it so hard to start a business in California. And one of the problems that I think a lot of builders are running into, like when you, like real estate development is you start running into these animal activist groups who will literally shut down, try to shut down your project with lawsuits on the grounds of, you know, this is a natural habitat for such and such and such. But it really honestly is a revenue generating scheme. It's kind of like their way of kind of poaching money from a project through legal means.
Starting point is 00:32:38 Yeah, getting you to donate. Exactly. Air quotes. Yeah. It does happen in some situations, especially with large swaths of land. It's almost inevitable. I thought that was very interesting.
Starting point is 00:32:51 California's so fucked in so many ways with that. Which hurts my heart because the potential there is just amazing. Well, the problem is, I hate to say it, but there's just too many people. When you get too many people, two things happen. One, everybody is liberal. I don't know why that's the case.
Starting point is 00:33:08 That is true. It's the truth. That is very true. New York, California, I think everybody's living together, and so they think they're being compassionate, and I get it. Their heart's in the right place. They think they're doing the right thing. And it's a lot of it's also whenever you have large populations, you have a large amount of universities. And universities,
Starting point is 00:33:29 you have people that are teaching at these universities that are almost predominantly liberal, and they're teaching all these people. And a lot of times they're teaching, and it's not from a place of experience in the real world. Their experience is in academia. They went to school, they got out of school. They taught school. And that's their life. And then they're teaching kids. And then they keep teaching kids Marxism, socialism, communist ideals, these ideas about this utopian version of society that can be created. But they don't even live in society.
Starting point is 00:33:58 They don't exist. They really don't. They literally live in a microcosm of academia, literally. No, they literally live in a microcosm of academia, literally. But that microcosm is currently infecting all these businesses because these people leave, and then they have these ideals that they want to inject into these businesses when they leave. And in their early 20s, they're idealistic. They want to change the world for the better. They want to stomp out all the bad things in the world.
Starting point is 00:34:19 They want to reshape it in a more equitable way. And, boy, there's a lot of regulation that comes into that. And then you've got a lot of businesses that can't handle all this regulation, and they move out of state. And then there's a lot of weird shit going on, man. California is just – and when it comes to wildlife, it's really crazy. They've outlawed a lot of different kinds of hunting. They almost outlawed bear hunting in California.
Starting point is 00:34:41 They came really close. And then they got so much blowback from hunters because so many people are like, first of all, you have a lot of black bear in California, a lot. And they eat a lot of deer. And this is one of the things where wildlife biologists are really important because they will monitor populations and they can estimate like what amount of fawns are victims of predation because of mountain lions versus bears. And bears and mountain lions, they kill a fucking staggering amount of deer, staggering amount of animals. What comes to mind is that one video of the guy who was hiking, and then he got attacked by the cougar.
Starting point is 00:35:26 Oh, the one that was running at him? Yeah, that was running at him. Well, that guy fucked up. That is a scary video, man. See, that's why I carry a 10 millimeter. That's a good move. For that, that's a good move. Because we have them in Texas.
Starting point is 00:35:37 Oh, yeah. So if I'm going hog hunting, I am worried about a mountain lion. Oh, yeah. And usually if they are hunting you, it's kind of too late. See if you can find that video because that video freaks me out. It really does. I didn't know they moved like that.
Starting point is 00:35:50 I didn't either. I didn't either. I think it was a female and I think she had cubs and I think she was trying to scare him off. Gotcha. I don't think she was
Starting point is 00:35:57 trying to kill him, but when she's running with her arms out, yeah, that's seared in my brain. Like a demon. Yeah. I mean, look, I give him this.
Starting point is 00:36:05 He handled it like a G. He's probably paralyzed with fear. Yeah, but it would have been a lot. It probably would have ended a lot quicker with you. I'm just saying. And I don't want to shoot it, but I don't have to. Yeah, but you want to come home to your family. Yeah, you're going home.
Starting point is 00:36:20 I'm going home, too. I hear you. Yeah, I don't want to shoot. I love mountain lions. I think they're cool as fuck. I love wolves, too. I hear you. Yeah, I don't want to shoot. I love mountain lions. I think they're cool as fuck. I love wolves, too. My high school mascot was a cougar. That was a pretty far reach.
Starting point is 00:36:33 But anyway, that's a reach like a moth. Did you have a guy that, here it is. Can you give me some volume? I want to hear the volume. Shit. Go away. Go away. shit go away go away and it's just walking towards him you're good
Starting point is 00:36:51 you're a good little key cat holy that thing's way too close right there I think you're right though I think it was a female oh it's 100% a female because at the beginning of the video, the cubs. Come on. Ah!
Starting point is 00:37:12 That thing is so not worried about him. But it's moving so slow. No. I'm being scary. It's too close. It's already too close. You can tell he's paralyzed by fear because of what he's saying. Initially, it's funny, but I can tell It's already too close. You can tell he's paralyzed by fear because of what he's saying.
Starting point is 00:37:29 Initially it's funny, but I can tell that's pure fear. Oh, back up, back up. There it is. That's it. No, go away. Go away. No. That shit is so scary. No.
Starting point is 00:37:43 Fuck you, dude. Fuck you, dude. Fuck you, dude. But it's that thing running with the arms out of the sides like this. I didn't know they did that. But I think that's just a scare posture. And see, now that you say that and looking at it, that's what I think it was. I think she really was trying to scare him away. Yeah, she has cubs. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:38:03 She didn't want him eating her babies. Which is understandable. Yeah. It's understandable. I mean, that's what to scare him away. Yeah, she has cubs. Yeah. She didn't want them eating her babies. Which is understandable. Yeah. It's understandable. I mean, that's what happens when you have the cross dynamic of humans and animals living in the desert. Yeah, and if a bear was there and she was doing that, the bear would eat her cubs. Pretty much.
Starting point is 00:38:14 They eat cubs. They eat bear cubs. You saw this, right? What is that? This bear got really close to this group of skiers. Oh, no. Who you didn't see. Where is this?
Starting point is 00:38:23 Not in America. This bear was on. Oh, bro was it started chasing him down the ski hill and it's going fast no bears are fast bro that is terrifying and it's all the way down the hill it gets far away and then it catches back up because he can't go fast enough it gets so close oh my god that's so dangerous that's a brown bear too are the worst. Look at all the skiers hanging around this bear's run. Look how fast it is. That's a small bear. And it was just going to say that, too.
Starting point is 00:38:49 It seems like a little baby is just checking him out, but still. Whatever. That'll kill you. That baby's practicing on people. I told you the one time I saw a grizzly, it was only like six foot. It wasn't a big bear. It scared the shit out of me, though. I've seen a lot of black bears. I've only seen one grizzly. You just had a six foot wasn't a big bear mmm it scared the shit out of me though it's the song I've seen a lot of black bears one grizzly six foot grizzly they're not big big Grizzlies 12 feet that's big to me it's big but it
Starting point is 00:39:14 was for a grizzly it was a young grizzly okay dude the look in that thing's eyes was so different than anything I've ever looked at before primal it's it's it's a it was trying to figure out if it's gonna eat me it's so different than anything I've ever looked at before. Primal. It's, it's, it's a, it was trying to figure out if it's going to eat me. It's so different than like a black bear looks at you and they're like, Oh, what are you doing here? Why are you here? And they're, they're looking at you like, I got to get the fuck out of here. Cause they think of people as something that hunts them. Cause this is in Alberta and in Alberta you can hunt black bear.
Starting point is 00:39:42 You can't hunt grizzly bear. Okay. And it's not wise cause there's a lot of them. And they've overcome a lot of these areas that were traditional black bear areas. Now grizzlies are taking over. And we were out in the woods, and I saw this grizzly bear just looking at me like this. Like looking you right in the eyes. It's a different look.
Starting point is 00:40:01 And you're like, oh, fuck all this. I remember thinking, imagine if this was like a big one, like an 11-footer or something like that. We got the fuck out of Dodge. Dude. And look at how fast that thing was. Like, I think we undervalue how fast these animals are. Because I literally, at one point, used to think that I could outrun them. I was just like, yeah, I'll just run.
Starting point is 00:40:20 Just run. I'm pretty fast. That's hilarious. No, that's not going to happen. Yeah, they run all day. That's what they do. And their fucking arms are giant, man. Their shoulders and arms are...
Starting point is 00:40:32 Honestly, after what I experienced with that buffalo hunt, my respect level for these animals is just tenfold. In terms of what they can do. And I did see some people make comments about... Look, I could be wrong about what I'm about to say here, but this is the way I see it.
Starting point is 00:40:46 Somebody was like, oh, you're not really hunting. You went out there with a gun and you shot a buffalo. Yeah, but they say that about me when I hunt with a bow and arrow. You will fucking go get them with a knife if you're tough. But see, somebody did say that. And I was like, what do you want me to do? You want me to run up there with a machete? I can't catch him.
Starting point is 00:41:02 He's faster than me. There's no way for me to do it. Not only that, even if you did catch him, the machete wouldn't kill him. Even if the thing didn't fight back. You know how long it would take to kill a buffalo with a machete? I shot mine three times. Yeah, with what round? With a 28-nozzler.
Starting point is 00:41:17 And that thing, I mean, it dropped. It just kept getting up. So I'm like, what do you want me to do? And the thing is, when I made the in line analogy some people like well you know once you like a lion actually has to hunt its kill I'm like a lion is also 500 500 pounds can outrun me times three and also has claws the size of my fucking head they never make any sense it's either they don't want anybody to ever kill animals or
Starting point is 00:41:45 they just want to yell at you. Those are the two reasons why they're doing that. This is true. Yeah. If you're gonna eat meat, you're gonna get people... If you just post a steak, there's gonna be a certain amount of people that go vegan to get mad at you. I ate the heart in a video. Good for you? Yeah. It's pretty good. It's delicious, right? Did you eat the liver?
Starting point is 00:42:02 Nope. The liver's really good. It's really good for you, too. I didn't eat the liver or not because I didn't want to, just because we just didn't have the liver yet. The Comanches used to take the liver and slice it and eat it raw, and they would season it with bile juice. They would take the gallbladder juice, and they would squirt it on the liver and eat it that way, because I guess it was kind of salty. I've never tried it. I've eaten raw liver before, which is not the best way to eat liver. I can imagine. Yeah, liver is better when it's cooked.
Starting point is 00:42:30 I mean, my heart was cooked. Cooked heart is very good. And heart is so chewy. It wasn't that bad. I thought it was going to be worse. Oh, did you? Yeah, I really did. But, I mean, when I say worse, like even when I ate it, it wasn't bad at all.
Starting point is 00:42:44 Like it was good. It's so good for you. It's so rich in nutrients. I mean, like I say worse, like even when I ate it, it wasn't bad at all. Like it was good. It's so good for you. It's so rich in nutrients. I mean, it's, like I said, I love bison meat. Did you take any of the meat home? Did you cut any of it out or did you get it all brought to you? They're going to be shipping all of that over to me. You're going to have hundreds of pounds of meat.
Starting point is 00:42:59 Do you have a big enough freezer? No. That's why I'm going to be giving some to my friends. Yeah. You're going to need, like, I'll show you out there. We have two commercial freezers that I keep Elkin. Yeah, and it's amazing how much meat you get. Yeah, I'm going to have to definitely, like, the funny thing is they're not even sending it to me.
Starting point is 00:43:16 They're sending it to a friend of mine who has a freezer for it. Oh, okay. And then from there, I'm going to order a freezer, then put my portion of it, then give him some, give my mom some. I told my mom about this, and she was like, you did what? Your mom didn't know you were going hunting? She didn't. She was just like, because I didn't even warn her. I just sent her the picture afterwards.
Starting point is 00:43:33 And so she called. She's like, you did that? And I was like, yeah, mom. She's like, you went to Buffalo? I was like, yeah. She's like, how was it? I was like, it was good. It was fun.
Starting point is 00:43:44 It was an experience. She was like it was good it was fun it was you know it was an experience she's like huh okay so she just accepted it yeah she didn't eat I mean my mom eats meat yeah like I mean she didn't feel anywhere about it it's a weird thing to say that you're gonna go hunting it's like you're you're like one step closer to a primal person yeah you know you're going primal. I mean, her shock was more so because she knows I'm a city rat. She knows me. She knows I order my food 90% of the time. She's like, you went hunting?
Starting point is 00:44:13 I'm like, yeah. But see, the funny thing is it's like that is the experience. A lot of the stuff I'm experiencing, the catalyst for it was a gun. And so a lot of things I end up doing i probably wouldn't have done but for me getting into firearms the way that i did and so it allowed me to kind of branch out into so many aspects of life that i otherwise wouldn't have and so i got you have a big advantage and you have extreme proficiency with a firearm true you know if you want to start hunting that's a giant advantage over most people because you're obviously very good with guns well
Starting point is 00:44:45 i will say this like i think the reason why i didn't get buck fever as i was on the gun is everything became more instinctual instinctive like it's just for me when i'm not thinking i'm a better shooter and so because of the sensorially everything was so overwhelming right um the smell the sounds the seeing the live animal in my optic. I think everything just went, and I'm already a scatterbrain. So anything that can force me to hyperfocus is ideal. Yeah, I'm not. You're also very smart, and a smart person understands what's happening
Starting point is 00:45:18 when nerves start taking over. If you're aware of how your body works. Yeah. When you're not aware and then you just let it overrun you. Yeah. Go into full panic mode. Yeah. Your body, you know, the human body and adrenaline,
Starting point is 00:45:32 it's a weird little mixture of stuff because you would think that that adrenaline is supposed to benefit you. I think it can if you know how to use it. Yeah, but it's a wild animal. Because I've had panic attacks i've suffered from panic attacks before when was the last time you had one oh it's years what do you get them over um you know sometimes they some of the ones well you know what i say they came out of nowhere but because of the way my mind works and some of the things that i think
Starting point is 00:45:59 about that i just used to routinely like that it can be caused, it could have been caused by that. But, I will say, like, for instance, like, I had, like, one of my major panic attacks I had actually was smoking.
Starting point is 00:46:12 Weed? Yeah. But that's normal. No, I know. Well, now I know that. I didn't know that then.
Starting point is 00:46:16 Those are standard panic attacks. I was like, yeah, the funny thing is, everybody has the same response when I tell them that shit. They're like, oh,
Starting point is 00:46:22 you were just smoking the wrong shit. I was like, it's not probably the right shit. Yeah, no, see, shit I don smoking the wrong shit. I was like. It's not probably the right shit. Yeah, no, see, shit I don't want. Too much of it. I fight the high. That's the problem. I'm a control freak in that way.
Starting point is 00:46:31 Of course. Yeah, so for me, I don't, I can't, I don't like the feeling of being high. I get it. Yeah, I don't like it. So I think that's what caused me to kind of go, like, I'm overreacting. I need to gain control of what's going on right now. That's my favorite part of weed, the panic. See, I remember you told me that.
Starting point is 00:46:48 I like it. I'm like, Joe's crazy. I like that. I'm just like, wah. I know. I think it's because when I first started getting high, it used to freak me out. And then I realized eventually that there's great benefit in those moments because any weird thing that I'm trying to avoid in my head,
Starting point is 00:47:09 it gets brought up to the surface. You can't avoid anything. Pot is like a bright light that gets shined on the things you're avoiding. So it keeps me honest. It keeps me in check. You know what? I'm still not smoking. But, yeah, I can definitely see.
Starting point is 00:47:24 I can definitely agree with you on that. It makes me nicer. It really does. But I mean, for me, once I understood what was going on biologically, you know, then I was, then I was able to kind of, to be honest, what would end up happening is, because I didn't get them frequently, but when they would come, they would be terrifying. And then at a certain point, I almost wanted them to come because of the calm after the storm. Right, right, right. It's like, yeah. That's what I'm talking about with weed, too.
Starting point is 00:47:51 There's a great feeling after you get too high. Yeah, that is true. Because, I mean, it's adrenaline. It comes back down no matter what. Yes, yeah. So, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's the weird spike of adrenaline when you're in a primal situation like hunting, I guess, is supposed to be because you're in this sort of life or death situation and your body probably thinks you're going to go into battle.
Starting point is 00:48:14 Yeah. But really, you're just staying calm and slowly squeezing off around. So I didn't get the heightened sense of adrenaline until after the fact. And then you're boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Exactly. Then you're like, holy, boom, boom, boom. Exactly. Then you're like, holy shit. Because now I was brought back. I'm focused on it, right?
Starting point is 00:48:29 Yeah. And so from that perspective, I will say what did happen too was it made me, for a short period of time, kind of overanalyze my sense of morality. Not morality. My mortality. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah. Because I'm like, this buffalo woke up that morning didn't know that calling on the war was gonna
Starting point is 00:48:49 come and hunt me and shoot him yeah you know so that and I think to me that's just my over analytical aspect of my brain well it's a it's a wise perspective because you know there is something to that yeah that is that's life and death of being a buffalo or a human human yeah because that's really what it did for me i was like what what makes me so different what does make you so different yeah well the only thing that makes us different is the fact that we have houses and cars and bullets and guns and the fact that you know we're not out there getting eaten by fucking mountain lions or getting attacked by homeboys when somebody else is trying to hunt us. Yes. Jesus. There's a video.
Starting point is 00:49:25 There's a great documentary called Relentless Enemies. And it's all about lions and buffalo. And these lions in Africa, there's this one area where the river changed courses. It changed course and it stranded all these cats on this one island. And it stranded them with nothing to eat but water buffalo So these cats got huge. It's a crazy Documentary because the female lions in this one area are as big as male lions anywhere else They're fucking enormous and they look like cartoon lines like they have they're jacked
Starting point is 00:50:03 And they look like cartoon lions like they have they're jacked Like super jacked because all they're doing is eating water buffalo and because the females are the ones that hunt Yeah So these females got way bigger and way stronger because those are the only ones that survived and in this video these female lions attack this water buffalo and they get it down and then they're they're they're trying to fight this water buffalo, and the other buffaloes come along. And then at this one moment where it looks like the buffalo is going to get away, another buffalo runs up and gores him and knocks him over,
Starting point is 00:50:36 and then the lions get him. So right when it looks like this buffalo is going to survive, this other bitch-ass buffalo comes over and just jacks him. One of his homies just jacks him from the side and knocks him over that's that's just a part of their nature man yeah it really is it's built in and bullying like that is built in nature turning on on on the weak is built into nature visceral man talk about machiavellian yeah it's horrible it's a horrible system it's a horrible system that's designed to make sure that only the very strong survive. That's it. Even though there's no morals or ethics in the Buffalo community.
Starting point is 00:51:11 Nothing. Nothing. At all. Nothing. Zero. It just is what it is. There's no us versus them. No.
Starting point is 00:51:16 There is with elephants, though. Elephants save other elephants. You know, I think I saw that in a couple of documentaries. Watch again. Yeah. On my nights watching Netflix drunk. That's why people are like really attached to elephants we get real attached to things that are a little smarter you know when you find out that like elephants like when an elephant gets separated from its young or from a family member and they get reunited years later
Starting point is 00:51:39 they remember each other and they run up to each other and they they wrap their their uh their their nose or their trunk around each other and they rub each other and do you think it's the fact that they're that smart or we just have a lowered expectation of them as animals and they're smart see no just paint no that's what I'm getting at like do you think like the reason why we're so fascinated why we're so attached to the elephants is that we have a lowered expectation of their intelligence and when they demonstrate something that seems remotely intelligent, we're surprised. Like, oh my gosh.
Starting point is 00:52:09 Well, we just assume that anything that can't drive a car or send an email is an idiot. We kind of know that dolphins are smart now, but it still doesn't stop SeaWorld from keeping them locked up in cages. Dolphins are fucking assholes. Are they? What? Assholes? Dolphins are the frholes. Are they? What? Assholes? Dolphins are, they're the frat boys of the sea. Well, there's definitely a lot of ruthless shit that goes on in the dolphin world.
Starting point is 00:52:30 Yeah, they rape other female dolphins. They also, they commit infanticide. Yeah, that too. On a regular basis. They kill. They kill for fun. Yeah, they kill baby dolphins. If a female is, see a female has a baby dolphin, apparently the female won't breed for like
Starting point is 00:52:44 seven years. She'll just take care of those dolphins. So what females wind up doing is being sluts. They fuck as many male dolphins as they can so that when she has a baby, the male's like, oh, I fucked her. That might be my kid. So they don't kill the baby. Because otherwise, if a male comes up on a female that he hasn't had sex with and he
Starting point is 00:53:03 sees her with babies, he'll just kill the baby so that he can fuck her. Gotcha. Yeah. That's common in the bear world. That's common in a lot of animal worlds. They'll kill cubs in order to force the female into estrus. It's dark. Again.
Starting point is 00:53:17 Nature's dark. Yeah. It's evil. It's like it's the only way that things survive. And to be strong, you can't have any compassion or empathy in nature. And then you look at us. Yeah. And then I go.
Starting point is 00:53:28 We're getting weak. Yeah. But you know what? I'm worried about comments on Instagram. Exactly. But that's what leads to innovation, though. Innovation is created in a safety vacuum. You have to have people that are safe safe and they don't have to worry
Starting point is 00:53:45 about primal shit and then they start thinking about like you know i think aerosol is something like this too yeah you know like being having having essentially the money gives you the time to be innovative yeah you know not having to worry about starving exactly not having to worry about being killed gives you time to think about things, and that's how we improve. But in improving society, we also make a lot of really soft people that reap the benefits of that without having any discipline, and those are the ones that comment on social media. That's the kind of people that you're getting. You're getting these people that think that their comments and their points are so important,
Starting point is 00:54:22 and shutting down others and yelling at others, it's so important. They're just soft people. It boggles my mind. It really does. I see certain comments, I'm like, you really wrote this. Well, it might be like a 15-year-old kid
Starting point is 00:54:38 and I would have written that too when I was 15. I was a fucking moron. I do forget sometimes that there are really young people on social media. Bro, all these kids have phones. Every kid has a phone now.
Starting point is 00:54:49 I mean, they're so common. Yeah, because I can think to a time where I never had a phone. Yes, yes. I never had a phone. It was just like. I didn't have a phone until I was in my 20s. You know? I don't even know how I got around without GPS.
Starting point is 00:55:01 Right. I'm like, how did I know where things were? And I think it's just my mind is just kind of chunked out all of when I used to do gigs back in the day I would get a phone call I would have to call like Mike Clark who's a booking agent and he would give me directions over the phone and I would write him down like 495 north to this so that's a one-on-one and you that's how you would get places. I'd have a piece of paper.
Starting point is 00:55:27 And then I'd be like, all right, five miles. Here it is. And take the exit. Go two miles. And I'd have to look at my little thing. It says, go two miles. OK, take a right here. There's the street.
Starting point is 00:55:36 Like today, nobody fucking does that anymore. Dude, you have to do all that. My ass still gets mad at my navigation when it doesn't tell me exactly, specifically which exit to take. Yeah. Right? I'm just like, is it this one? And I still get lost.
Starting point is 00:55:53 Well, especially in Texas. Dude, the highway system out here is redonkulous. In Austin, it's terrible. Is it better in Dallas? It's better in Dallas because Austin is that bad. Why is it so bad here? I've heard stories about why it's terrible. Is it better in Dallas? It's better in Dallas because Austin is that bad. Why is it so bad here? I've heard stories about why it's bad. Trying to keep people from moving here?
Starting point is 00:56:10 No, revolving around the guy who designed them. Personally, I think the guy that designed the freeway system here in Austin literally took an Etch-A-Sketch, gave it to his son, told him, draw some shit, and that's what he used as his base plan. Yeah. Because the system here is – I think the freeways here are are designed to kill you you know what it seems like to me it seems like uh like as if we gotta still use windows 95 and they just kept patching it but it doesn't work for like modern graphics cards and modern motherboards it's all fucked
Starting point is 00:56:39 up it seems like a highway system was invented when this was a really low population and then they just started adding layers and roofs and but there was a really low population and then they just started adding layers and roofs and there was no really it wasn't built with the understanding that this place was going to expand especially not the way it's expanding now it's getting nuts man i was reading something about some new highway system they're trying to tack on top of another one like there's on one of the roads they're going to put a second layer on top of it so it's going to be like three layers no a second one a second layer because it's a flat road oh so they're gonna stack and then yeah they're gonna put one above it because they have to do that in some places where they realize like oh there's too many cars dallas is
Starting point is 00:57:13 getting like that though too dallas is getting really really really congested as far as traffic traffic really wasn't a big deal in dallas now like i'm starting to it's starting to feel like being in la almost how many people live in Dallas now? I don't know. Take a guess. Let's guess. I'm going to be way off. What do you think? Too many.
Starting point is 00:57:32 What's your number? I couldn't even give you a number. Let me see. I, 7 million. I'd say now. Yeah. I'd say about eight to nine to nine.
Starting point is 00:57:43 Okay. Yeah. I'm agree with you. I was going to go higher Okay. Yeah, I'm going to agree with you. I was going to go higher. But I think I was going to say 10. I'd say eight to nine. But Jamie said like you were talking about like L.A. proper. The city was only 10 million, right?
Starting point is 00:57:54 Yeah, it depends on what you're defining as because when you look it up, they'd use official definitions. Like I think sometimes when you're looking up Los Angeles population, Burbank isn't counted because it's a separate city. Right. But it's within it. It's all connected. So it's because it's a separate city. Right. But it's within it. It's all connected. So it's like it's all the same place.
Starting point is 00:58:08 Yeah, it's all the same place for sure. All right. I'm saying seven. Seven. Seven million. This says the Dallas metro population area, which includes Fort Worth, so like the whole area, is 6.3. Oh, shit. But I see estimates of 7.5.
Starting point is 00:58:26 That's a lot. Somewhere in there. That's a lot. Is that the biggest city in Texas? In Texas? Yeah. No, I think Houston is. Houston's bigger?
Starting point is 00:58:33 Yeah. What does Houston got? Houston's the fourth in the country. Oh, really? Yeah. What's Houston got? It's probably closer to nine. Yeah, I would give that to Houston.
Starting point is 00:58:42 Houston has some pretty ridiculous traffic, too. Yeah, but Houston's always had traffic. Just a little bit more. Just a little bit more. It's just around 7-2. Oh, really? They're very close. So close.
Starting point is 00:58:50 Houston just doesn't have enough freeways. That's the problem. Well, they go underwater sometimes. I mean, this is true, but they always come back up. I hate it. We were talking before about when I used to work at the Laugh Factory or the Laugh Stop in River Oaks. The hotel we used to stay at, it doesn't exist anymore because it got flooded.
Starting point is 00:59:07 The water went up to like the second floor. Funny, because I'm born and raised in Houston. I live in Dallas now, but I pretty much grew up in Houston. We just get used to it. It's crazy, because literally, I remember there were times where you'd wake up, the entire city will be underwater, and then by noon, it looked like nothing happened. It just drains away?
Starting point is 00:59:28 It just... Well, where does it go? I don't know. Does it go to the ground? I lived there close to 30 years, and I never asked that question. I think I read something about it after the last crazy flood, and they were describing how the hardscape, like all the streets and
Starting point is 00:59:45 everything like that it's not it's not good for the drainage no it does it's terrible that's the problem the reason why she's some floods is because the drainage system is terrible right right yes sure we're below sea level etc etc but the draining system in Houston is just bad yeah and so it can't so with the amount so if we get a lot of rain in a short period of time, it'll flood. The draining system will inevitably work, but you're going to have to wait. But they weren't just saying the draining system's bad.
Starting point is 01:00:13 They were saying just the fact that there's so many roads and highways because the water doesn't go through in those areas. So the way that Houston used to be before people came was the water would rise up through the rain, but it would go into the ground and it wouldn't really flood. But because of all the highways and the roads and the streets and all the houses and all this hard stuff where the water can't get through, the water doesn't get into the ground until it does. And then it stacks up for a while before it drains back down. The funny thing is being in Dallas, I haven't experienced a flood since I've been in Dallas. But the one thing I had to readjust to was the cold and the snow, the ice. That's different.
Starting point is 01:00:57 Oh, yeah. Yeah. Even though it's only four hours away, at least the way normal people drive. far i was away at least the way normal people drive but yeah like i i remember my first winter in dallas and i was like what the hell is this because in houston we get the extremes of everything but we never really get the extremes of like snow or ice did they get snow this last storm though yeah they did they did right yeah that's why it was so crazy because dallas i could see even though it was still crazy i mean i was out there driving, you know, because I've spun out on ice before, so I know how to drive in snow. Do you know how to drive in snow?
Starting point is 01:01:31 Now I do. I didn't. Like three, four years ago, I didn't. Yeah, because I learned the hard way. I literally spun out. Like I remember I had to go to Oklahoma with a coworker, and we were driving until there was an ice storm. You know, Oklahoma gets real winter. Right. They get real winter. Right.
Starting point is 01:01:45 They get a real winter. Yeah. Yeah. And so we were like, we can stay in a shitty hotel or we can just drive back to Dallas. And I was like. How far does that drive? Like three hours. Normally.
Starting point is 01:01:55 Normally. Took us 10. Because I'm like, I want to be back. I don't want to be in Oklahoma. Much love to Oklahoma, but I'm not fucking staying in Oklahoma. Much love to Oklahoma, but fuck you. So I was like, all right, let's just drive. So me and my coworker were driving back, and I remember the lady gave us this warning.
Starting point is 01:02:15 She was just like, be careful because they shut down some of the highways, so that means it's pretty bad. We're like, oh, we're fine. We'll take the back roads. That's the worst thing you could do what kind of car you drive i was in a 2007 range rover oh jesus yeah and that's another thing a false sense of security i didn't know shit i was like oh we'll be fine you know we're good range rovers are pretty good in snow not with freaking street tires ice yeah but i mean but nothing saves you from ice though nothing unless you have you know chains on your Range Rovers are pretty good in snow. Yeah, not with freaking street tires. Ice, yeah, not with street tires. But nothing saves you from ice, though.
Starting point is 01:02:47 Nothing. Unless you have chains on your bikes or something like that. So we took the back roads, like you pointed out, dumbest idea you can do because they don't sand them or anything or de-ice them or anything like that. So we're literally, we skated from Oklahoma to Dallas. We skated because literally we would I would drive like maybe nine ten miles an hour and then I would like if there was a car ahead of me I would have to gauge how long it would take me to slow down because I'm gonna slide to a stop so literally and at some point you would
Starting point is 01:03:17 think two smart individuals and the guy my coworker he was even smarter just exceptionally smart guy would have thought turn your ass around and go back to the hotel. Yeah. No. No. No. Once you're on our way. So we get to this back portion and it's like there's a bit of an embankment.
Starting point is 01:03:37 And I'm like, all right, cool. All I'll do is I'll just drive real slow and get across. I didn't think much of it. So I'm driving. I can feel the back kind of jiggle a little bit I'm like oh okay Just slow down a little bit more Back jiggles a little bit
Starting point is 01:03:49 I'm like oh That's not good Back starts kind of doing this And then breaks And so now we're doing a 360 on this embankment Right into a ditch In the middle of nowhere Oklahoma Oh boy So now I'm like so we're
Starting point is 01:04:07 literally sitting there and we just kind of look at each other and I'm like we're living back in into the ditch and I'm like and luck would have it there was a couple farmers comes driving on by in the tractor. He pulls you out? Yeah. Really? He goes up to the window, and he's like, boy seemed to be in a little bit of trouble. And I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, we kind of spun out. He's like, yeah, I've seen several of these today. And he's like, I'll get you out in about five minutes.
Starting point is 01:04:38 And then he goes, fancy little truck you got here. Isn't this thing four-wheel drive? I was like, yeah, but, I mean, shit, what the hell is that going to do against ICE? Well, not only that't this thing four-wheel drive? I was like, yeah, but I mean, shit, what the hell is that going to do against ICE? Well, not only that, it's four-wheel drive, but it might not be all-time four-wheel drive. You might have to turn that on. Did you turn it on?
Starting point is 01:04:53 The Range Rovers, I think Range Rovers are full-time. Are they really? Full-time four-wheel drive? I drove one in Utah a couple weeks ago. They're pretty fucking sweet, man. I don't like them now. I liked it a lot, but I know they break. Yeah, I'm a douche.
Starting point is 01:05:04 I like G-Wagons. G-Wagons are great. They're great. But Range Rovers are great, man. sweet man i don't like them now i i liked it a lot but i know they break yeah i'm a douche i like g wagons g wagons are great yeah they're great but range rovers are great man like i said i drove they're great great vehicles they're just not my thing they break too much yeah because they're really they're really complicated especially with the airbags the air suspension and all that so because like those you at least i know what the model i had i had the og model but i don't know what the new ones are like now. I mean, those were literally set to fail. Like, they're going to go out.
Starting point is 01:05:29 It's not a matter of if. It's a matter of when. So you would have to replace those airbags. It's not just that. It's the electronics. All the electronics. Like, you can't really give them a pass that they're complicated because so is Lexus. That wasn't a pass.
Starting point is 01:05:41 Lexuses are complicated, too, and they never break. And they have all kinds of crazy shit in terms of, off-road ability, like the LX570. This is true. There's all sorts of shit you can do on those things, and they never break, man. I've had three of those. Yeah, but they're pretty much— It's a Toyota. Toyota 4Runner.
Starting point is 01:05:56 Essentially, that's what they are. No, it's a Land Cruiser. It's like a super juiced-up Land Cruiser. Land Cruiser, that's what I was looking for. But still, it's like, why can't Range Rover do that? Because it's such a beautiful car. Well, it's because the British make beautiful things. They don't make great functioning things.
Starting point is 01:06:11 I will say that. Like, look at Aston Martin. Yeah. Beautiful cars. Beautiful. But like you said, they break. They break. They break.
Starting point is 01:06:20 That's how I feel about Ferraris. I don't trust my people. You know what? what I gotta say this because cause Lamborghinis were like that too they're better now though right cause it's cause of Audi
Starting point is 01:06:30 yeah because they got bought by the Germans yeah this is true they took them away from the Guineas they're like give me that thing man you know what the fuck you're making
Starting point is 01:06:37 let's fix this shit yeah what are you doing here's the problem though this is missing a bolt here's the problem though I think some of the passion is being sucked out. Oh, no.
Starting point is 01:06:46 Think about it. So they're making them sterile. Look at the – now, this is probably an unfair comparison, largely because this vehicle was designed to be the Porsche Cayenne for Lamborghini. Oh, that four-wheel drive Ursus thing? Oh, Urus, yeah. Urus, that's how you say it? I think so. I don't know.
Starting point is 01:07:07 I say it 12 different ways because I hear different people say it. So I go, it's like, I started off by saying Urus, and then I heard them say Urus. Four-wheel drive. Yeah, basically. Their SUV. Right? That's supposed to be their moneymaker. So that's why I think this might be a little unfair comparison, but essentially it's a Q8.
Starting point is 01:07:24 It's a QRSA. A dope-looking one. Yeah. I mean, depending on who you ask. There are some people who can't stand the styling on it. Yeah, it's a little busy. It is. But I think they had to do that because they had to separate it from the fact that it is essentially a QRSA.
Starting point is 01:07:38 Is it? Yes. They took the Q8, they put a body kit on it, and changed the interior, made the interior more drastic, and then gave it a shit ton of power, and then put a Lamborghini badge on it and said, here you go. Now, I understand why they did that, because it's designed to be their moneymaker so that they can put money towards their hyper car, their exotic cars. Like Porsche did with the Cayenne. Exactly. So it was kind of an unfair comparison. The Cayenne.
Starting point is 01:08:00 Exactly. So it was kind of an unfair comparison. However, when you look at, say, for instance, the Huracan. Huracan, notwithstanding the Huracan Evo, which now is the rear-wheel drive, everybody loves that one. But as good as it is, it's exceptionally good. But I think there's some of the passion lost because it is too good. And I think there's something to be said about that. I see what you're saying.
Starting point is 01:08:29 This is also coming from the guy who was talking about the inadequacies of a manual transmission so like i said i'm a walking contradiction the thing about those uh lamborghinis though it's like you're sending a very clear douche vibe when you drive one how do you i mean yeah you know especially if you have like a murcielago or this is true you get those doors that pop up so the the huracan don't don't have the regular door yeah they do yeah but the Murcielago does that yeah what is the big Lamborghini what's the number one the right now top of the food chain Lamborghini the it's the Vince door vented oh yeah that's there that thing is ridiculous that seems like a spaceship now it is because it damn it looks like yeah it really does That seems like a spaceship. Now, it is because it looks like one. Yeah, it really does.
Starting point is 01:09:05 It looks like a stealth bomb or something. But I prefer the Huracan. Yeah? Yeah. I think the Huracan's beautiful. I think the proportions on the Huracan are just dead on. It's pretty sleek. I do.
Starting point is 01:09:15 It's different than a Ferrari, right? Ferrari is like you've got money and you're a classy person who likes nice things. Depending on who you talk to. nice things. Depending on who you tweet, tweet, talk to, because some people just see any,
Starting point is 01:09:27 if you're in any of those badges, the Lamborghini, the Ferrari, um, what is the other one? There's another one. Um, I'm missing, I think just those two,
Starting point is 01:09:34 generally speaking, just those two, and maybe even McLaren. Yeah. Maybe you see those. You think automatically people think douchebag. Yeah. Um,
Starting point is 01:09:42 Bugatti for sure. For sure. But see, Bugatti is so high. Yeah yeah and tear it's kind of like the ultimate floss yeah even though i'm not they don't really do anything for me you're driving a really nice house pretty two two houses yeah yeah but then the funny thing is you go down to the scale of a pors for instance, and nobody even takes two looks at a Porsche. Well, you can have a Porsche that's a daily driver, though, like a 911, like a Carrera 4S.
Starting point is 01:10:13 Yeah. They look kind of like they're nice looking, but they blend in. They blend in. They're low key. Yeah. I mean, I think the Turbo is the ultimate version of that. Yes. Because, I mean, you can literally destroy pretty much anything on the road in a Turbo S.
Starting point is 01:10:28 And then you could also take it and drive as far as you can take it on a road trip to freaking Las Vegas from Dallas if you wanted to. That's really the ultimate daily driver supercar. That's why I got the one that I got. Because I knew, I mean, it's four-wheel drive. Like, I remember the last time I was in Austin and I drove it here. On a drive back, it was like a tsunami. And I was just sitting here. Four-wheel drive, yeah.
Starting point is 01:10:52 Four-wheel drive. I'm driving the speed limit. It's also all the electronics, stability systems and everything is so well designed. Because they've just continued to evolve over – they just evolved the platform they perfected each time it's also super reliable there was a thing about the Porsche 911 I think fine that's true it was the most reliable car of 2020 oh really I think it was the 911 yeah there was some article about Porsche 911 being the most reliable car which makes sense if you think about the evolution of the vehicle and continue to evolve.
Starting point is 01:11:27 Most dependable maybe? Most dependable. Highest ranked model for trouble-free ownership. That's amazing. You think about a car that is a fucking ridiculously fast, incredible car. 911 is the highest ranked model for trouble-free ownership in the JD Power 2021 U.S. Vehicle Dependability Study.
Starting point is 01:11:46 That's amazing. And guess what? It has a lot of space. It does. It deceptively does. Well, the backseat's bullshit unless you have tiny kids. Yeah, but in the thing— You throw your luggage through it.
Starting point is 01:11:56 Yeah, that's true. Yeah, it has a lot of space if you're a bachelor and you don't have kids and shit. They really shouldn't upholster it like it's a seat because you're lying. I mean, I've seen people back there before. I'm dead serious. Yeah. I get it, but it's terribly uncomfortable. I mean, like even now, like I brought a lot of stuff when I drove in now and, you know,
Starting point is 01:12:17 I was able to flip, I can flip down a seat and then I had my luggage and then I had my duffel, my backpack and then a bunch of other stuff that I had put in a frunk and then it was good to go. A frunk, yeah. That's true. Like you can definitely
Starting point is 01:12:31 get some stuff behind you whereas if you have a real sports car like a Lamborghini, there's nothing behind you. It's a mid-engine. You're just, it's uselessness.
Starting point is 01:12:38 Or even the Corvette. The new Corvette has got, there's nothing back there. There really isn't. There's no room. And even the trunk's a joke. It's like this big. You got room for a bag of groceries. Which is weird though because the Corvette has got, there's nothing back there. There really isn't. There's no room. And even the trunk's a joke. It's like this big. You got room for a bag of groceries.
Starting point is 01:12:47 Which is weird, though, because the Corvette is actually a damn good daily driver car. Yeah. But from a functionality standpoint, in terms of living, from a space perspective, not so much. It's going to be weird to see where cars go because I think they're all going to go electric. They are. I think we've got maybe a decade or so. Which is why I think the new GT3 is such a big deal. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:13:10 Because that car is the antithesis of everything with respect to where the cars are going to be going. Naturally aspirated, 500 horsepower. I mean, it screams up to 9,000 RPM. I mean, it's so fast, too. And it handles so well. It cut the Nurburgring time down by, I think it's- It did it in seven minutes.
Starting point is 01:13:32 Yeah, seven minutes. No, under seven minutes. Under seven, yeah. That's crazy. That's so fast. What's the world record on the Nurburgring with a production car? Is it? I wonder what it is.
Starting point is 01:13:42 I don't know. Because I think they said the 911 GT3 is as fast as the 918 supercar. Yeah, it did it faster than the 918. That's nuts. Yeah. That's nuts. And it did it 17 seconds faster than the previous GT3. That's nuts.
Starting point is 01:13:57 Yeah. And then did it a couple seconds faster than the GT3 RS up current. That is so crazy. The only thing it didn't. They're so fast. The only thing that beat it within the Porsche lineup is the GT2 RS.
Starting point is 01:14:12 That thing is a widow maker. That thing, yeah. That thing is just. Yeah, my buddy Brendan Schaub has one of those. It's a ridiculous car. Here, the 2021 Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series broke the Nürburgring
Starting point is 01:14:23 production car record. Let me see what that looks like. That's pretty fucking looks like so I drove one of those on a track not that one in particular look at that thing you don't like it no I do that thing's beautiful my god look at that thing I think look at the vented fenders the front fenders I think it looks like a penis though I like dicks I mean mean, I like mine. I like big red ones. What? What did I say?
Starting point is 01:14:49 That looks fucking great, man. You think that looks like a dick? Yeah. I don't know what your dick looks like, but maybe you should go to a doctor. You got the balls in the back, and then you got the... That thing looks great, man. I think it's a good looking car. I really do. It looks fucking amazing.
Starting point is 01:14:59 I mean, it's basically a muscle car. Hit the fucking gas on that. Woo! Come on, man. That thing's fucking beautiful. That's beautiful. I'd still take a Porsche over it. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:15:12 I don't know, man. I wouldn't hate it. No, I mean, yeah. We're splitting hairs at this point. Look at the wing on that motherfucker. That wing is ridiculous. What was the time they said it did Norbing? Nuremberg Ringo?
Starting point is 01:15:23 Didn't say I'm generally Not into red cars But that's fucking gorgeous Would you call that red or like an orange fire red Or something like that That's a good question I don't like that green
Starting point is 01:15:36 I've seen that green version of it a few times Scroll back up Jamie to the top Photo I guess that's red That kind of gives me orange you don't think that's red orange orange of some some kind it's like flame orange whatever it is it's dope infrared maybe infrared oh that's a fucking beautiful car man i love that thing i like the flared fenders too it's wider than the standard so what does it does it say what the... I didn't see a time anywhere. Man, that's a sleek piece of engineering.
Starting point is 01:16:08 But it's weird because I would assume that a mid-engine car would be better at handling the Nurburgring. I think it's incredible considering... Damn, 643, that's so crazy. Straight from the box. Oh my God. Wow. Wow. Wow, that's amazing. That's amazing.
Starting point is 01:16:33 I mean, it's a good-looking car. $389,000. Woo! Someone's balling. Yeah. I won't be saying that in my lifetime. You never know. YouTube monetizes it.
Starting point is 01:16:47 Do they fuck with you? Do they pull your shit down? Man, it's like in cycles. It's really weird. Yeah. Like, sometimes they'll leave me alone, and then other times it's just, like, bad. I was wondering what was going to happen during the pandemic, because all these liberals started buying up guns. A lot of my liberal friends were buying guns and asking me about guns and this and because yeah
Starting point is 01:17:10 reality has a weird way of doing that oh man when you saw the lines when there's lines to the gun stores i was like this is fascinating i mean what it was was a literal example real world real world example of what i've been saying for the last 10 15 years true about look at the end of the day the only person responsible for your safety issue right depend on the government they won't be there not because they don't want to be they can't especially when things go sideways when civilization goes sideways and we relatively speaking got lucky with the pandemic because it was a fairly mild virus in comparison to if something killed 30% of the population. We got like Spanish flu version.
Starting point is 01:17:49 We got Mad Max. Then it's madness. And then, you know, fuck. Then it could get real scary. Very much so. It was scary already, man. It was scary seeing all these fucking people lining up at the gun store. Because I'm like, first of all, these people don't have any.
Starting point is 01:18:09 I would like to like raise of hands. How many of you guys have ever shot a gun how many guys know how to shoot a gun how many of you know about just basic gun safety none they just want i think that i think that is the biggest problem we have with respect to the conversation on a national level because if you think about we have over 400 million guns in this country, why don't we have a bigger initiative to inform people, even people who don't own guns about guns? It's part of our life. I think because they think it'll encourage people to buy guns and already doing it. They don't want to encourage people to buy guns, which is true, which is very, which is very true. But it also speaks to how disingenuous the whole gun control thing is. And I keep saying it. Gun control is disingenuous because if the goal is about saving lives, you would do the things that would actually save lives.
Starting point is 01:18:54 Instead, what you do is you grandstand. And you do things that really honestly are designed to further restrict the right to take those guns away from people. And a lot of people think that's very conspiratorial. But I've been following this long enough to know what the end goal is. Because if you follow the logical deduction of gun control, the only answer is to take all the guns. That's it. Yeah, well, there's too many of them now.
Starting point is 01:19:18 It's an insurmountable problem. And I think it's a problem that if they really do try to say, we're going to take your guns, the blowback would be fucking crazy. Like like just a blowback to people saying we're going to do a vaccine passport people started freaking out as they should and then the biden administration was like no no no we're not doing that we have no plans for a vaccine passport but there was a lot of irresponsible people that were saying this is what we need a vaccine passport and you see that is exactly why there are a lot there's a lot of pessimistic thinking in especially in the gun community where like i put out videos and i'm like yeah you're just preaching to the choir and i'm not do not i'm not because there's a lot of people that i know that
Starting point is 01:19:56 are not even gun owners that will send me your video and say hey your friend made a great point about this yeah and they'll go i'm thinking about it now in a different way because of these videos. You're not preaching to the choir. You're making a lot of logical points. And because of the fact that you're a lawyer, you understand all the sort of mechanisms of the way legislation gets passed and the way this could be a real problem down the line. Yeah, very much so. And but the thing about it, too, is it's it's
Starting point is 01:20:25 I think a lot of a lot of people don't understand the actual power we have as people in this country in comparison with respect to the relationship we have with the government. It's supposed to be a working relationship. It's not supposed to be one of dominance. And I think too many people just kind of throw their hands up and accept it. It's like it's the government. I mean, what are you going to do? Right. So we have to plead to them to give us the things or do the things that we know. That's not necessarily the case, like you pointed out with the passports.
Starting point is 01:20:50 You create enough issue with it, with enough people, they'll understand, shit, we can't do this. And so I think that is the one thing that I try to implore a lot of people that watch my videos is like, no, you have the power to protect the rights that you deem to be important rights. But you have the power to protect the rights that you that you deem to be important rights but you have to do it before they get changed exactly because
Starting point is 01:21:10 once they get changed we're fucked because a lot of people don't remember but during the obama administration there were some calls by the uh that administration to regulate the internet they were talking about regulating the internet and people freaked the fuck out people like what like, what, the government is going to step in and tell people what they can and can't put online? And then they backed off of it. Yeah. But they're okay with the government telling you what gun you can own to protect your life. See, they're only okay if it's not real, right? In their world, it's not applicable. They're not being attacked. No one's breaking into their home. They don't live in a neighborhood where they have to defend themselves all the time. So they think it's not a factor until it is a factor. And when it becomes a factor, it's too late. And what I'm worried about with all this talk
Starting point is 01:21:53 about gun control is, first of all, I don't think people really understand that there are folks out there who have saved their loved ones' lives and saved their lives because they had a gun. All you hear about is some crazy fuck goes and shoots up a church or some crazy fuck goes and shoots up a school. And we got to take the guns away. You know what's crazy? You know why you hear about that so much? Because it's rare. With considering the number of people we have in this country and the amount of guns we have in this country, it's a rarity to see those things.
Starting point is 01:22:27 And so they get talked about the way they get talked about because they're like, holy crap, that happened. But what doesn't get seen, too, is like you pointed out, like CEC did a study. I mean, it's a broad spectrum. But on the low end, we're talking about 500,000 to 600,000 people every year use a gun to defend themselves. And that was a number cited by an anti-gun organization. What is the number? About 500,000 to 600,000 people. Every year to defend themselves?
Starting point is 01:22:51 Every year to defend themselves. Really? On the high end, it's like 2 million. What? Yeah. Wow. So this is someone breaking into your house, trying to steal your car, that kind of shit. A lot of it, too, goes unreported.
Starting point is 01:23:02 So, for instance, like if somebody tries to rob me and I pull out my gun to defend myself and they take off, I'm not necessarily going to call the cops. Yeah. Right? But a lot of people don't hear about those things because where are you going to hear about it except for platforms like mine? Right. And then I'm struggling every day because I'm getting shadow banned or some videos getting demonetized or taken down. So it's hard for me to get that information out there. Well, that's what I wanted to talk to you about.
Starting point is 01:23:27 One of the things, like, did anything shift when people started buying guns? When there was this moment where, what was the number of gun sales went up? Something crazy. Shit, it was crazy. Like 40-something percent. It was higher than that. Really? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:23:42 Okay, let's find it. Let's guess. I'm thinking it's like 40%. Jamie, what do you think? What's your guess? What's the percent? Yeah, that sounds right. I have a different question.
Starting point is 01:23:51 Okay, go ahead. I'm looking that up because I see the statistic of $500,000 to $3 million. But why would the Center for Disease Control be doing that? Really? Because they want to make it a healthcare issue. You hear them say it all the time. They say this is a public health issue. It's easier to sell gun control when you deem it a public.
Starting point is 01:24:14 It's no different than getting COVID and the vaccine. Why wouldn't it be the ATF though? Because it's easier to sell it as a public health issue. I know, but firearms is literally in their title. Yeah, exactly. And if you say it the way Biden says it, you switch firearms to tobacco. That's right, AFT. But you got to – they're very good.
Starting point is 01:24:33 The one thing I will say about them, and when I say them, I mean the gun control lobby, which generally speaking – and I got a lot of people who follow me who are more liberal. They hate when I bring up the Democrats. They hate it because they think I'm just trying to push this one-sided narrative with respect to the Republicans. No. It is what it is. If you look at all the gun control legislation,
Starting point is 01:24:55 you look at anybody who's pushing gun control, the vast majority of them, I'm talking 99% of the time, they are Democrats. Why do you think that is? talking 99% of the time, they are Democrats. Why do you think that is? Because Democrats are, the Democratic ideology is based around bigger government, right? And so you can't necessarily exact your control over a group of people if they have something as self-reliant as a firearm. Do you really think that's what it is?
Starting point is 01:25:20 I do think that to a degree that is it. I think it's that the ideology behind being a left wing person is you want less violence. And I think maybe you're more reluctant to actually take into account real human nature and real the real potential breakdown of society that would cause you to need a gun. I think they're more idealistic, more utopian and perhaps more delusional. I think the people who vote Democrat believe that. I think the people in power have a different agenda. I think from their – and honestly, they are the proverbial hammer. So when your fundamental ideologies are based around bigger government, you think the solution for everything is more government.
Starting point is 01:26:05 Right. So if a shooting happens, right, and come on, do we really think government is the most efficient entity at solving problems in our country? No. People complain about the government all the time. But when you are the government and you get something like a shooting and people are like, we need to do something about it. OK, more government. Let's throw these laws out here. Like restrict that. Take that.
Starting point is 01:26:29 So they take on a more apparent role as opposed to an entity designed to find true solutions to fix a problem. So they say, OK, well, if this small number of people are killing people with guns, take the guns away. Small number of people are killing people with guns. Take the guns away. It's an oversimplified approach to any problem that comes up because they're not really about getting to the true issue of the problem. They just want to either look like they're doing something about it. And so they'll just take the easiest approach. Or they'll try to scapegoat it on something because at the end of the day, they realize that their ineptitude with respect to leadership is going to be put on full blast. More specifically, our inner cities.
Starting point is 01:27:10 Right. Right. So if the vast majority, I mean, close to 80% of gun homicides in this country are coming from our inner cities and we have 400 million guns in this country. It's really 80%. Damn near. Yes. It's high.
Starting point is 01:27:25 It's high. I'm talking gun homicides. Right. Not not like gun deaths. Right. Because and it's driven by gang and drug violence. And when with gun deaths, then you start including suicide. Exactly.
Starting point is 01:27:37 Yeah. And so if you understand that, that means that we're having a high concentration of high concentrated level of violence in very specific areas in this country. Right. And as a result of that, you look at that and you say, OK, well, we have high concentrated. We have an era of concentrated violence in specific areas. But yet we have guns all across the country that don't have this violence. So clearly there's something else going on here other than the fact that there are guns. And then predominantly these inner cities are led by Democrats. It just is what it is.
Starting point is 01:28:09 It's not me playing politics. And they have heavy gun control, which is even crazier. So it stands to reason you're not doing something in these places that you should be doing in order to deal with this violence. And in my research and in my study, when I was reading this book, it's called, I think it's like Don't Shoot or something like that. I can't remember the exact title of it. So I was reading this book and it was talking about this program called Ceasefire. There is a program currently now that's called Ceasefire, but I don't think it's the same program or it's a former shell of itself. But this guy, this criminologist, he set out and I think it was done in Boston.
Starting point is 01:28:46 And they were dealing with a lot of violence in their inner cities. And so what they did is they put together a program. It was a very holistic approach to the violence. And essentially cops came together along with the community leaders and so forth and so on. And they knew who the perpetrators were of this violence. You got to think about it. Do we really honestly believe that the vast majority of these kids in the inner city are killers?
Starting point is 01:29:08 No. It takes a very specific type of person to be a killer. So a lot of the killings that are taking place in these places are done by a very hyper-focused group of kids in these areas. And the vast majority of the time, the police know who these kids are. Police know who the perpetrators of this violence are. And so what they did is they came together. They said, all right, here's what we're going to do. And they brought the leaders of the gangs and the kids who were out on the street, so forth and so on, came together and said, look, we're not going to say
Starting point is 01:29:38 we're not going to arrest you for the drug dealing. Because, I mean, whatever happens, happens with respect to that but if the if the if the bodies continue we're going to make life incredibly hard for you on these streets really hard and as time went on the violence stopped the number went down because at the end of the day you got to think about a lot of these kids are carrying guns not because they want to go and kill someone they're carrying guns because they they're scared. They've grown up in an environment that has forced them to engage in the lifestyle that they're in, generally speaking. So if I'm a kid, and even if I don't want to partake in this particular lifestyle, if that's the only thing
Starting point is 01:30:16 that surrounds me, and I know at any given point my life could be threatened, I'm going to carry a gun too. Or even if I'm a kid that's like, look, I just want to make some extra money. I'm not justifying drug dealing. I'm not justifying the selling of drugs. But if I'm a kid who just says, you know what, I want to sell money because I grew up. The only form of success that I've seen were the drug dealers in my area. So I'm going to sell drugs. Of course he's going to carry a firearm.
Starting point is 01:30:38 He's selling drugs. There are going to be other people who are going to try to take his product, so forth and so on. Doesn't necessarily mean he's a killer. Right? product, so forth and so on, doesn't necessarily mean he's a killer. Right? So when you focus entirely on the firearm and only on the firearm, it doesn't do anything to actually deal with the underlying issue that's happening in these places. It's a socioeconomic issue. When you grow up in poverty, I'm sorry, there's going to be a predisposition with respect
Starting point is 01:31:02 to your area. You're going to have more violence there because what is the natural economy there? Drugs. That's one of the weirder aspects of gun violence is the reluctance to address the violence in inner cities while focusing on the violence of the rare mass shooter. Because the inner city, like if you look at the south side of Chicago, it's a regular basis. It's almost every weekend there's a bunch of homicides. basis. It's almost every weekend there's a bunch of homicides. I think the reason why is because, like, you actually touched on it.
Starting point is 01:31:31 How do you avoid inner city violence? You're going to have to fix the crime. No, I mean, just you. How do you avoid being a victim? Stay out of the inner city. Exactly. However, when people feel like some random yo-yo can walk into a store and just start shooting people, it terrifies them, which is understandable. It's totally understandable. But none of these laws that they're proposing do anything to stop this. They won't. No.
Starting point is 01:31:53 So it begs the question, is the goal really to try to save lives? Or are they leveraging these shootings to get this specific agenda that they have passed? You know, there's another thing. to get this specific agenda that they have passed. You know, there's another thing. There's a reluctance to ever accept the fact that in certain situations, like in Boulder, Colorado, when that guy walked in the supermarket and started shooting people, if there was a person there that was trained with a firearm
Starting point is 01:32:16 that knew what was going on and knew how to use it, they could have taken that guy out. Absolutely. That's a fact. If someone was a Navy SEAL and they just happened to be in that place and they were carrying, that would have been over. I don't even think the person needs to be a Navy SEAL. But if it was.
Starting point is 01:32:31 That's an example of someone who's highly trained and knows exactly how to use a gun. But if you have someone who's well-trained and has a gun in that situation, people don't want to admit that that is a factor, that someone can save lives. It's happened before. There's been mass shooters. There was one, that guy in a church, right? Literally.
Starting point is 01:32:51 And you know what? Oh, this made me so mad. After that shooting happened, I mean, we saw it on video. Yeah. On video. The guy walked in, shot two people, guy in a church, got his gun out, shot him dead before he can kill anyone else. Yeah. Bloomberg gets up, gets a press conference
Starting point is 01:33:09 and literally says, I don't think the regular person should be walking around with a firearm. Meanwhile, Bloomberg has armed guards, that motherfucker. Exactly. He's a billionaire. You don't think that guy's got train killers? Guess who is one of the biggest drivers financially for the gun control lobby in this country?
Starting point is 01:33:28 That guy. Bloomberg. Why? I don't know. He's made it his life mission to basically push gun control. That's his thing. But what do you think motivates someone like that? I think if you look at Bloomberg, considering who he is, I think a lot of it is there is a control power factor
Starting point is 01:33:45 with respect to he just doesn't like... Think about it. If I'm a billionaire to the degree that Bloomberg is, right? I'm sitting here on Mount Olympus, right? The only thing that brings me back down here to regular people is the fact that you mean any of these regular people can be walking around with a firearm and decided they want to kill me. They just can't. It's a level. It's a level of humility. I don't think he wants to deal with because that's that's what makes everyone equal. Because he doesn't I don't think he likes that i really don't and so in his mind he's like the more i can get the guns out of the hands of the people the higher on how mount olympus i get to sit without worrying and i think this is the case for a lot of people who are considered the
Starting point is 01:34:36 elite they don't like that idea they don't like the fact that the common man can have any gun he wants it just it bothers them i wonder if that's true. I think there's a thing in liberal orthodoxy, and liberal orthodoxy is we need gun control. And if you argue against that and go, well, you know what? Sometimes guns save lives. People just blow a circuit. They can't handle it because it's a narrative they don't like to accept. Well, I think because it's a lot easier to see yourself as a victim of gun violence than it is to see you as a protector of your life. It's a heavy thing to kind of accept because it's so much more satisfying to think that if something happens, I can pick up the phone, call the the cops and somebody else will come deal with it but didn't everybody learn from this this uh pandemic that especially after the george floyd protest that cops aren't they're not that effective yeah we have short memories man yeah but that's so short i mean it's happened like over the last few months when people realize like when gets
Starting point is 01:35:42 crazy and they start burning cop cars like cops aren cops aren't going to come when you call them. And that's all it would take. All it would take is, like, one well-armed group of people to attack a police department, and they're done. Done. That's it. Done. Yeah. But our memories are short.
Starting point is 01:35:57 And, you know, and these politicians play on those memories. Like, even if you take into account the laws they try to pass, because people get on me all the time, they call me a fear monger because I was like, I tell them, no, their ultimate goal is to take guns. Yes, there are 400 million of them, but their ultimate goal is to take guns. That's essentially what it is. And the way I can prove it, and they literally leverage our short memory. I think part of it too, is that that's how you get elected by saying that you're going to do something about guns because those people that are a part of this sort of liberal orthodoxy, this liberal ideology, they think that's a problem. You need to get rid of guns. We got gun violence. You need to get rid of those guns. So this guy says he's going to get rid of those
Starting point is 01:36:41 guns. That's what I want to hear. And then this guy's saying, we need the Second Amendment to stay strong. And no, he's going to get more guns. There was a cartoon that was released recently that someone put together that was showing guns that are legal versus guns that are illegal and how confusing it is. Because what was Biden trying to push? There's something about stocks, about stabilizers for pistols. Stabilizing brace, yeah. Stabilizing pistol brace. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:37:07 But then there's other ones that have a brace that are legal. So essentially, I could actually show you right now if you really wanted to. Yeah, show me. All right. So I have. There's a video. I'm going to see if I can find this video too. Let's see.
Starting point is 01:37:22 What do you got? You got guns on you? Jesus Christ, how dare you bring a gun into this place. How dare you, sir. I'm going to find this. I think it's on, I don't know if it's that one. Is this it? Yeah, this is it.
Starting point is 01:37:38 Jamie, go to, here, I'll send you this. I'll send you this. Because this is very bizarre. It's on this Instagram page that I follow. Okay, I just sent it to you. It's this video from the underscore, typical underscore liberal on Instagram. But it's a cartoon. This is a goddamn gun. On television. You're going to get us pulled off of. Oh, you can't. We liberal on Instagram. But it's a cartoon. This is a goddamn gun on television.
Starting point is 01:38:07 You're going to get us pulled off of. Oh, you can't. We're on Spotify. Ha ha. So this is the brace that Joe Biden wants to regulate that would make this. Bring it out here so everyone can see what's going on here. So that is technically a pistol. This is a pistol.
Starting point is 01:38:24 That does not look like a pistol. That looks like something Chuck Norris would have. So the reason why this is considered a pistol is because there isn't a stock. This is not a stock. This is a brace. And I know the guy. I'm good friends with the guy who actually invented this. So what the brace was designed to do is he had a friend who was a veteran who was injured.
Starting point is 01:38:43 And so it's hard to shoot a pistol of this size with one hand right so what this is designed to do is you take this here this opens up you wrap it around your arm and allows you to stabilize the gun okay so it's like a velcro exactly yeah so the thing about it is is what the people have a problem with it's sure could I use this and put it on my shoulder to shoot? Yes, I can. That's not what it was designed for, though. So you can't go just reclassify this because people are using this in a way that it wasn't intended to be used for in the first place. So it's just that it makes it more accurate?
Starting point is 01:39:15 Is that what it is? It just stabilizes it so you can shoot it more accurately, especially if I'm somebody who's injured and I can only shoot with one hand. Yeah, but, I mean, what's next? Are we going to get rid of red dots? I mean, that's where we're going. We're going to go to only open sights because iron sights are less accurate? But I mean, isn't it that the whole point of a firearm is to be as proficient as possible at stopping the thing that's attacking you?
Starting point is 01:39:36 But again, it boils down to the idea that you never see yourself as a defender. You see yourself as the victim. And so you want to do everything in your power to make the person who you feel is going to attack you with these things less able to do that right but not realizing that by doing that all it does is it takes away the guns from the people who are good and need to have them to defend themselves against the people who are bad who are going to break the laws anyway to get the very thing that you thought you were going to keep them from getting yeah but there's also like gun culture that people don't like. The celebration of shooting
Starting point is 01:40:08 things and blowing things up. People get angry at that because they feel like it's glorifying it and they feel like you're going to get those guns and put them in the hands of shitty toxic male people and they're going to want to shoot people. 400 million guns in this country, if we were a problem, you would know it.
Starting point is 01:40:24 Yeah, but it's really that simple. There's so shoot people if 400 million guns in this country if we were a problem you would know it yeah but it's really that simple it's an old so many guns right that's what's crazy and the thing about guns and people and yet and still we don't lead the world in gun deaths who does that's a good question i think we because we came in like we were like right i think we're like at 12 number 12 or something like really yeah we're not i thought we were number right, I think we're like at 12, number 12 or something like that. Really? Yeah, we're not. I thought we were number one. No, we're not.
Starting point is 01:40:48 We need to work harder, boys. We're number one. No, but even still, again, 65% of those are suicides. Right. And so I can hear people say all the time, they'll say, well, those suicides are more efficiently done because of guns. So I was like, so what's the solution? Ban guns? Make it harder to kill yourself?
Starting point is 01:41:13 I mean, by banning guns. Yeah. But like I said at the beginning of this, the only logical conclusion is to ban guns. What's that? The United States is low if you're going per capita, but that like, you take the top 10 and you add them all up
Starting point is 01:41:29 and it's not as many as it happened in the United States. So we're number one. Number two behind Brazil. In terms of the actual like total number? Total deaths, yeah. Total deaths.
Starting point is 01:41:36 Now what's the population of Brazil? Brazil's got a lot of people. Wow. We're number one, number two by 14,000? But per 100,000, we're number 25, 20? Which I think is a more accurate assessment if you take into account the number. What's
Starting point is 01:41:55 the population of people in Brazil? So we're capital, we're number 20. Brazil has a lot of people. Go back to the actual numbers again. What do we got there? Two. All right. On that. This is of 2016. So there's 6,000-ish. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:42:08 So 6,000-ish more in Brazil per year than the United States, which is, that's surprising. But deaths per 100,000, they have 19, we have 10. That's a big jump. It's almost double. And there's way more people in India, and they have way less. Yeah. Way more people, right? They have like a billion people yeah and then mexico is surprisingly low down there look at mexico that's really low i'm kind of shocked by that they have less than half what
Starting point is 01:42:34 we have huh interesting deaths per 100 000. are you talking about population no um the amount of deaths they have total yeah from guns but what's the population in Mexico? Well, it says deaths per 100,000. They have 11.8 deaths. We have 10.6. So wouldn't that make them more than us? There's a total death. In terms of per capita.
Starting point is 01:42:57 Yeah, per capita they're higher. But as far as total numbers. Bro, look at Venezuela, 38. Oh, yeah. Deaths per 100,000. They have a lot more. Holy shit. This is their number one. Deaths per 100,000. They have a lot more. Holy shit, man. This is their number one.
Starting point is 01:43:07 Or El Salvador. El Salvador's 39. It's only 2,500 people died. I'm just, comparatively. Still. That's why it's a little dangerous. Super dangerous. 13 in Greenland.
Starting point is 01:43:16 Yeah. Yeah, but Greenland has a population of two people. Yeah, they just killed each other, and they jumped up to number one. Yeah, it's, wow, Puerto Rico's that high on the list? Go back up to that? I'm gonna have to call John Donner. Why is it counted separately? It's part of America. Because it's not. I mean, it is.
Starting point is 01:43:34 It is not America. It's like, neither is Hawaii. I mean, Hawaii is America, but let's be honest, we stole that shit. Not we, but somebody did. It's five hours by plane in the middle of the ocean. How the fuck is that American?
Starting point is 01:43:49 That is true. It's kind of like all cities in Houston. Yeah. This place, I mean, this chart is kind of surprising. Like seeing the death numbers. That is surprising. So number one all total deaths, though, is Brazil. So we one all total deaths though is Brazil. So we're number two
Starting point is 01:44:07 for all total deaths. But Brazil I don't believe has the same population as America. What is Brazil's total population? I want to say 100 million rather. That's my guess. 211.
Starting point is 01:44:23 And we have 300 million? Yeah oh yeah hmm yeah brazil's dangerous as fuck though in some some areas like the favelas you ever see city of god yes whoo what a crazy movie that is in an early way very beautiful at the same time yeah yeah well it's a brilliant movie it's a brilliant movie but uh yeah brazil's got a strange situation i mean i think recently they just i think the new president just kind of loosened the grip on the gun laws in brazil but generally speaking the gun laws in brazil are very very strict hmm it is interesting that places with the highest gun laws in america are the places with the most amount of gun violence.
Starting point is 01:45:06 That's so strange. Well, I think because by and large the attempted solution for the violence, because those places also have the highest concentrations of inner cities. Right. And so their solution for those things was always gun control. And in response to it, it's always more gun control. And if that doesn't work, add more gun control. If that doesn't work, sprinkle a little bit always gun control. And in response to it, it's always more gun control. And if that doesn't work, add more gun control. If that doesn't work, sprinkle a little bit more gun control. And if that doesn't work, let's put just a little bit more gun control.
Starting point is 01:45:32 This time I promise this gun control will work. And then it keeps happening, gun control, gun control, gun control, gun control. That's the point that I'm making. The answer is always going to be gun control. So how did this last mass shooting that led to this call for getting rid of these stocks, these – it's a brace. Stabilized, pistol-stabilizing brace, yeah. Why did that – did that play a factor in that gun violence? No.
Starting point is 01:45:58 It wasn't a part of it at all? I mean, he had it on the gun. Oh, he did? He did, but that didn't make him any more lethal. It's just a random fact that he had that. Well, no, you can make it seem lethal because they did the same thing with bump stocks. You know what's fucked up? I don't even remember what the story was of this latest mass shooting.
Starting point is 01:46:18 But here's the thing about it. Was it because of Colorado? Was it Boulder? What do you mean? The one where Biden started calling for more gun control? Was it Boulder? I think he used it as a catalyst. I think he's already had these prepped.
Starting point is 01:46:31 Yeah. Because some of the things he was proposing have nothing to do with the shooting. So from that standpoint, it's like he kind of used, like they don't ever let a tragedy go to waste. Of course. That's just their MO. So from that perspective, it begs the question, if,
Starting point is 01:46:47 what is this here, Jamie? Biden said last month, following a mass shooting in Colorado, I don't need to wait another minute, let alone an hour, to take common sense steps that will save lives in the future. He read that.
Starting point is 01:46:59 Yeah, but his question, his question, how, how long was he in, how long has he been in office? Four months. Four months. Four months
Starting point is 01:47:08 and how many executive actions or orders has he taken? Did he take initially when he first got into office? I don't know. He took quite a few, he did quite a few. None of them were these.
Starting point is 01:47:19 What were they? Just a bunch of other executive orders that I didn't really pay attention to, honestly. You just only pay attention to guns? No, I just was aware of them. Do you know what's funny about that? What?
Starting point is 01:47:29 I purposely try to avoid paying attention to guns. Really? Because I've been doing it for so long and I do it so much. It's overwhelming. Yeah, I got to step away sometimes because sometimes I think I get too close to it. And so in order to kind of back away and make sure I keep my perspective and focus, I'll step away from it. The problem is with respect to the gun stuff, too, that also means politics because it always comes back around. And so I have to. So honestly, within the last year, I've kind of stepped away further from politics and following the gun issues close.
Starting point is 01:48:03 Well, I got pulled back in once Biden got, once Biden got elected. Um, but by and large, I tried, I tried to minimize it just so that I can kind of recharge because it's, it's heavy. It's really heavy.
Starting point is 01:48:19 And then with social media, it's a constant bombardment, um, with respect to it's everyone's yelling at each with respect to – everyone's yelling at each other. Right. Right? Everyone's yelling at each other. And if you are someone who tries to make an attempt to be objective, yes, I have a certain bias, but I still try to remain objective.
Starting point is 01:48:38 That takes a lot of work, especially when you have one side saying one thing, you have the other side saying one thing. So I'll hear a side that I agree with say one thing, and then I'll hear someone else on the other side, and I have to literally grab myself by the neck and say, I know you want to believe this, but this makes sense. And it could be anything down to like a particular issue, a specific issue that's happened, or a complete policy. And so that can get a little tiring because you're constantly playing this balancing act like, OK, am I being too biased?
Starting point is 01:49:11 Can I come back close to the center here? Like what's going on here? Whereas if I was completely dogmatic in one direction, it would be I would I would argue it's a little easier. Now, somebody can make the argument, well, then that's what you are with guns. easier um now somebody can make the argument well then that's what you are with guns right yeah and to a degree yes only because i every time i try to look at it objectively i come back to the same answer i don't try to make myself come back to the same answer it's just the logic that's involved it's like you can't tell me like for instance take universal background checks right people are like oh universal background checks you should be fine universal background checks. Right. People are like, oh, universal background checks. You should be fine. Universal background checks.
Starting point is 01:49:45 I'm like, in theory, but in reality, what is a universal background check? It's a law that says I can't have a gun and give it to you. Who's going to stop me from doing that? If they came out with a law right now and said, I can't sell you this gun right now that I have here. If I wanted to sell that to you and they said it's legal for me to do that, who's going to stop me from doing that? Well, Texas has an interesting perspective on that, right? You just have to write a bill of sale. You don't have to write a bill of sale.
Starting point is 01:50:11 You just give it to me, right? As long as I know that you're not – as long as you're not a prohibited possessor and you're a resident of Texas, I can sell you a gun. Yeah, that's wild. I don't think so. You don't have to go through an FFL or anything. No. No. Yeah. Well, no, you don't think so. You don't have to go through an FFL or anything. No. Well, no, you don't think so because you're pro-gun. Well, here's the thing. Well, I can
Starting point is 01:50:32 give you the reason why I don't think that's a problem. So, the reason why, one, I'm not in the business of selling firearms. So, this is my private property. This is something I bought. This is my personal property. I can do with it as I please. If I want to sell it to you, I can sell it to you. The idea of a universal background check is to regulate that transaction, is to say, well, no,
Starting point is 01:50:56 you have to go get a background check to do this. Now, the question then becomes, what's the big deal with that? Well, one of the issues is it doesn't actually do anything. Because if they made the law now and said, did you have to get a background check before I could sell you the gun and I just sold you the gun anyway, how would they know? Yeah, how would they know? They wouldn't know. Well, they would hope that you would obey the law. Okay.
Starting point is 01:51:15 So they would hope that they would avoid at least some guns getting in the hands of some bad people. The problem is, one, there's no track record that the vast majority of criminals are getting their firearms because of legal transactions where they didn't get a background check conducted. However, we do have studies that show that the vast majority of criminals get their guns from the black market or they steal them. Or they get them by way of straw purchases, which are illegal. Right. So you're setting off your own. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's yours anyway. Yeah. So you're setting off your own. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:51:45 Well, I mean, it's yours anyway. Yeah. Thank you. Speaking of which, now you can keep all your guns in the – I can't keep all my guns in the – Well, not all of them, but, you know, whenever you travel or you're at home and – Yeah, no, this is dope. And it's your own little –
Starting point is 01:51:58 Yeah, so it's a new version. Remember I gave you the one last time? Yes. So this is the – people wanted a bigger version of the case. It says hashtag the pew pew life. Pew pew. You know what's funny
Starting point is 01:52:08 about that thing? So I made it, I didn't make it, but the company who I collaborated with on it, it's more or less designed for travel,
Starting point is 01:52:19 to travel with your firearms. And so when I take it to the airport, I get so many questions about it from people. They're like, is this and they're like the pew pew like what does that mean and I'm like oh here we go well people don't like you making light right you're making light of guns by going the pew pew life well it's like it's kind of for people who come for people who come across it without
Starting point is 01:52:43 knowing the genesis of the pew-pew life. Right. So what it is is that it's homage to our days when we were kids. Right. Playing guns, playing pew-pew. But that's what I'm saying. People are making light of pew-pew. Now we're adults.
Starting point is 01:52:56 Right. And so now we have real guns to use to protect ourselves. Right. But then also it also doubles as an acronym for the people. Oh. Yeah, the PPL. So an acronym for the people. Oh. Yeah, the PPL. So the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
Starting point is 01:53:11 I guess so, but it's spelled wrong. What do you mean? P-E-W, P-E-W, pew, pew. T-the P-E-P-L. Oh, okay. I get it. I get it. Okay, I get it. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:53:23 Maybe. It's pew, pew. You're talking about guns, man. Over here, for your ears, too. Oh, thank you. So, I get it. Yeah. Maybe. It's pew-pew. You're talking about guns, man. Over here. For your ears, too. Oh, thank you. So when you go shooting. Those are my favorite over the ears.
Starting point is 01:53:30 Is it your favorite? Yeah. They do a really good job. With over the electronic ears, sometimes what you'll run into an issue is when the wind's blowing. It makes it really hard to hear even if you have the electronics on. Those do a great job of mitigating that. even if you have the electronics on um those do a great job of mitigating that why do uh my fucking instagram keeps trying to sell me these uh in-ear buds that uh that protect you from uh
Starting point is 01:53:54 with guns they're in-ear noise suppression guns or earbuds so yeah so they can't be as good right yeah they can really the ones that stick in your ear? Yeah, but I double. I use double. Oh. I double. I double up. So whenever I'm shooting a rifle, I use in-ear and over-the-ears with those.
Starting point is 01:54:16 Something big like a— Yeah, or just a rifle in general. The reason why is because— 300-win mag. Not even necessarily that. Just the AR. Because sometimes when you shoulder a rifle, the recoil can lift. Oh, I see.
Starting point is 01:54:29 So you have a backup. So now those, if you look, they have a little indention, which allows you to clear the stock, which will prevent that. But in the event that it happens to happen without me, because you won't even realize it's happening most of the time. And then you can get ear damage. You could. It's possible. Right. But then also, I have tinnitus so oh yeah so i go above and beyond to protect my
Starting point is 01:54:50 hair with respect to shooting did you get tinnitus from shooting no i got tinnitus from all my clubbing days oh no really from loud music dude i would come back and my ears would ring for three days straight really yeah yeah and then they'd be like yeah yeah. So are these battery-powered, these chains? Yeah, they're battery-powered, yeah. I don't think there's a battery in them yet, though. There should be a battery in that box. Okay. But yeah, those are my favorites.
Starting point is 01:55:11 And then, of course, I brought you an Essential, Guns are Essential hat. If you walk around with this on, people will know that you're one of those. You know, I get a lot of people who message me. It's great. So the basis behind my brand is to serve as a kind of conversation starter so the never really besides maybe this is probably about as extreme as you get i will not comply or uh we did just come out with come and take it but by and large the vast majority of it is designed to pique curiosity. So like when I tell you I go to the airport with this and they go, what's the pew-pew life?
Starting point is 01:55:52 It's a good catalyst to kind of have the conversation in a manner that doesn't start off as, oh, you're a pro-gun and I'm anti-gun. You know what I mean? Did you start this pew-pew life thing? Is this all your invention? Because I see pew-pew or pew-pew life. What I did was I basically took –? Mm-hmm. Because I see Pew Pew or Pew Pew Life. Yeah, so what I did was I basically took, I mean, everybody was saying, I didn't do Pew Pew. Right.
Starting point is 01:56:08 Right. But to create a lifestyle around it. Right. And brand it, that's, yeah, that was me. Now, we were talking before about whether or not during the pandemic when people started buying guns, if they relaxed any of the censorship that's on your channels or any of that. Did any of that happen? Or was it basically it's been pretty –
Starting point is 01:56:29 Everybody I know that is in a gun space is shadow banned. Shadow banned. Pretty much, yeah. For sure? Yeah, I'm almost positive. But now how does that work? So as if someone doesn't follow you, if they try to find you, they can't find you? Jamie, do you follow him?
Starting point is 01:56:43 On YouTube? No, on Instagram. I don't know. Let's see if it happens now because sometimes i run into an issue if i type my name up on instagram i have to type my entire name out before it'll pull up and then some people says it pulls right up which would lead me to suspect that i'm shadowban um when i tried to find you i found you easy it pulled it up right away. And that happens when a lot of people are complaining about being shadow banned. Here's the crazy thing.
Starting point is 01:57:12 Yeah, he didn't come up when I typed in his first name. Yeah, and neither on my own goddamn phone. Which is very specific. So mine came up right away. See, your mind, you still can't see mine at all. So do you think they do it with some? That's what shadow banning is. You have to type the whole thing out for it to come up. For it to come up on Instagram.
Starting point is 01:57:24 You have to literally type whole thing out For it to come up For it to come up On Instagram You have to literally Type my entire name out That's weird Because with me All I got is the C-O-L And it shows up right away And keep in mind If I type
Starting point is 01:57:31 No No My own page It won't pull up That's crazy Look I have Cole on right now Nothing
Starting point is 01:57:38 My car page will pull up But my gun page That has almost a million followers Won't Oh okay You got one of them Privacy shields in your phone Oh yeah my bad.
Starting point is 01:57:45 Oh, it's being sneaky. Good move. Very smart. It could be something to that, though. But it could be a couple of things. Well, you know what, man? The more you read about stuff and the more you see videos like a lot of those Project Veritas videos where you see people
Starting point is 01:58:02 getting busted when they do these secret undercover videos. of those project veritas videos where you see people getting busted that are uh you know when they do uh these secret undercover videos they catch people talking about look man you can nod your head all day but like that one in the cnn is pretty goddamn damning when that that guy who's what was he a chief technical i don't know whatever but see the thing it's a weird thing is it's like i i posted that video on my group chat, and I was like, thoughts. And they're like, yeah, that's not surprising. It's not surprising, but it's amazing to see it so blatant.
Starting point is 01:58:30 I thought it was, too. Yeah, I thought it was amazing. But apparently I was just being – going on. But what is news now? Is news propaganda, or is it just news? Is that surprising, the CNN information? At least this story, this one in particular. He's done other ones that are a little more surprising. It is surprising how blatant that guy is describing it.
Starting point is 01:58:50 Describing the way they went about it. If you went to someone from Fox News and took them on a Tinder date and he's trying to look good in front of a girl and he's trying to say all the stuff they do, wouldn't he say- Is that what it was? Was it a Tinder date? That's what I heard it was. There was like hidden cameras on a Tinder date.
Starting point is 01:59:02 Oh, so- It tricked him to go on Tinder dates with chicks. L-O-L. You fucking so. It tricked him to go on Tinder dates with chicks. LOL. You fucking sap. That's why I'm like. Wouldn't someone from Fox News or MSNBC say similar stuff? God damn. Could you imagine?
Starting point is 01:59:13 You work for CNN. You're on a date with a girl. And you're trying to impress her by telling her that you literally manipulate the news. And you create propaganda. Well, if she's a girl who's along the lines of that ideology, they'd be all for it. And she's got some... This depends on the situation on how he gave this information to... I've ruined a lot of interactions with girls by stating my ideologies.
Starting point is 01:59:35 I'm sure. When they knew they were. Yeah. Like, what? You believe what? You're allowing what? You think it's okay to have what? I enjoy it.
Starting point is 01:59:42 How many guns? Yeah. How many guns? You don't even know how many you have, right? You of those guys yeah i don't know yeah i think that's just what i read happened i didn't you know i wasn't part that makes sense because he's kind of you know he's kind of talking real open about it in all fairness you know i do my mind goes okay back when obama was in office how if you got somebody from fox and the same thing happened, would I be that surprised if they said something to the same degree? See, the thing about Fox, though, is Fox is preaching to the choir.
Starting point is 02:00:12 There's a lot of fence riders that watch CNN because they thought they were getting unbiased information. And they're not. Which is why I stopped watching CNN. It's changed. It's changed. It used to be just the news, I think. Maybe it's my perceptions changed. The funny thing is I'm like, oh, why is everybody not surprised by this?
Starting point is 02:00:28 But then at the same time, I'll say this. They've gotten so blatant with their bias that it's like it's unwatchable. Yeah. So before, I would literally just – I would watch CNN. I would watch Fox. I would avoid MSNBC like to play because I felt that they were just – they they were so biased and so blatant about it it was like just unwatchable now CNN has crossed that line yeah and they've become that so it's kind of like I can't even now because really what what you have to do these days is watch both sides and then come to your conclusion
Starting point is 02:00:57 right um it's hard to do that now because the other side has gone so far like where what do I watch to get a more liberal perspective on my information that's not going to be so blatantly biased to the point of almost concocting scenarios and lying. It's also – it's like you see the people that they have who are their spokespeople, the people that are on television. And you watch them talk and you're like, Jesus Christ. You guys are like the weird liberal agents of propaganda. They're not really news reporters. There's not like a Walter Cronkite in the bunch. They're all these.
Starting point is 02:01:33 The former CIA director being like the talking head isn't a great look. I know. It's crazy, right? Isn't that weird? I mean, look at your homie Biden who he just tried to. He's not my homie. I dare you. I dare you. I dare you.
Starting point is 02:01:46 The guy he wants to nominate to be the fucking director of the AFT. Yeah. Yeah. You know, he's literally—he sits—he's literally part of a gun control lobby. Yeah. Yeah. And he wants to be—he wants him to be the director of the AFT, a.k.a. ATF. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:02:05 So it begs the question. Like, I hate when people tell me, Dr. Biden's not anti-gun. Are you fucking serious? Well, he's also a knucklehead. Like, his perspective on guns is so bizarre that you don't need an AR-15. You need a double-barrel shotgun. When someone's coming near your house, just shoot one in the air. Yeah, more people get killed by shotguns than they do with ar-15 well it's also a dumb
Starting point is 02:02:28 piece of advice like just get yourself a double barrel shotgun i think that's right i think do they i think i believe so well i mean i mean it's put it like this it's either it's either close or it's less but i do know more people get killed by hands and feet. I know more people get stabbed to death. So, I mean, it begs the question. That's crazy that more people get killed by hands and feet. Who's a lethal kung fu expert out there? By almost half. That is
Starting point is 02:02:55 nuts. What are the numbers? How many people get killed by hands and feet in the United States? Take a guess, Jamie, before you say it. Take a guess. What do you think? How many people get killed by hands and feet? Like 4,000 by hands and 10,000 by feet. Nah, it's lower than that. More by feet?
Starting point is 02:03:11 No. I'm just kidding. Way more by hands. It's hard to kill somebody with your feet. I think it's about 1,000. 1,000? Yeah. By hands and feet?
Starting point is 02:03:18 I think either stab. If I remember correctly, it might be 1,000 some odd for stabbing, and then like, I can't remember. What was the number? I just know it was more. More than stabbing. This is just the U.S., right? Not world, correct?
Starting point is 02:03:35 Okay, I'm going to say 1,300 people get beaten to death per year. That's my guess. I'm just going out. I have no information. I'm just taking a wild one here. What do you think, Jamie? What did you guess, though? It's tough. I'm trying to, like, 5,000.
Starting point is 02:03:51 Whoa. Nah, not even close. Only it's that high. It's a couple a day. Well, see, I feel like the big problem is people bouncing their heads off the ground. That's when people die. That's a lot of when people get knocked out out they fall and they hit their head and die yeah i can imagine
Starting point is 02:04:10 that yeah that's the big one and they would they would count that as hands and feet but now more people die from falling down stairs oh yeah for sure i'm sure that's the case i did a video about that regarding joe biden really you, when he fell down the stairs. Oh, my God. When he fell up the stairs. Three times. What's weird is this reluctance to admit that he's cognitively declining and that it's weird to have someone who's that old and frail and fragile mentally and cognitively as a president of the United States. Why would that be surprising to you? Isn't somebody like
Starting point is 02:04:51 that, wouldn't you be able to control somebody more like that? Yeah, but that's not what's surprising. What's surprising is the reluctance that people have who are left-wing people to admit that it's true. It's not reluctance. It's hatred of the past president. Maybe it's a little bit of that, but it's also a bias. It's a delusional perspective. There's a delusional aspect to the way they communicate about it. I think if there was somebody else and not Trump, the lack of hatred would have allowed them to then acknowledge the mental deficiencies of Biden. Maybe.
Starting point is 02:05:26 Well, the control thing makes sense that they went with Biden versus someone like Tulsi Gabbard, who they couldn't control, who is also left-wing, liberal, but also a veteran, also a congresswoman. I finally found a 2019 weapons used in murders in the United States. Put it up on the board. 660, but it says other weapons, personal weapons. Handguns. Hands, fists, and feet. Hands, fists, and feet. What?
Starting point is 02:05:56 Yeah, so it was about 1,000. I like how they call it personal weapons because that's kneeing as well. You can knee someone to death. 600 people every year get killed by hands, feet, and fists. I like how they put hands. Who's getting bitch slapped to death? I like how they put hands. So, yeah, I was wrong about the shotguns.
Starting point is 02:06:16 I thought I figured as much, but it was close. Maybe. So, if you look at the rifles, we're at 364. Actually, I could be right, and here's why. That includes every type of rifle, not just AR-15s wait a minute though hold on a second narcotics only killed 93 people a year is that like said murder murder homicides only 92 people get as it's fixated blunt objects hammers killed 397 people probably also goes in only half the murders every year are solved,
Starting point is 02:06:47 so maybe double this. I don't know. Wow. 6,000 by handgun. That's a lot. And it also says firearms. They don't know which kind of firearm here, so it could be. These could go up in the list.
Starting point is 02:06:59 Yeah, who knows, right? That's a lot that are not stated, 3,281. But that's a crazy number of people getting killed just by people beating them to death. 600 every year. That's low. Other weapons like sticks. Sticks. Golf clubs.
Starting point is 02:07:16 Golf clubs, yeah. That's true. Strangulation, 64. Oh, I was going to put that in the hands and feet. That's different than a six-page plan. That's what I was going to say about hands. Strangulation. 64. Oh, I was going to put that in the hands and feet. That's different. That's what I was going to say about hands. Strangulation. I'll do a couple more.
Starting point is 02:07:28 I wonder if it's like strangulation with solid technique. Other guns. As long as they know what they're doing. Drowning. Wait a minute. Go back down to drowning. 70 years. That's a dark way to kill somebody.
Starting point is 02:07:38 Is there another kind of gun besides a firearm? Other guns? Muskets? That is freaking weird. Yeah, what is other guns? What is other guns? Crossbow? Is that another gun? Too many people watch Walking Dead? Spear gun? It's not a firearm, correct? No. other guns that is freaking weird yeah what is other guns what is other guns crossbow is that another gun too many people watch walking dead spear gun it's not a firearm correct no i think
Starting point is 02:07:50 a firearm has to have fire involved even other guns i always say a crossbow is just a shitty gun like people say oh i'm into archery i'm a bowman like that was in the movie that got me angry when i was watching walking dead oh you're a. Bitch, you ain't a bowman. That used to piss me off. That's a shitty gun. You're running around the zombie apocalypse with a fucking bow. Yeah, not only that. No, crossbow. That's what I'm talking about.
Starting point is 02:08:12 Crossbow is hard to reload. Yeah. Like, when you reload a crossbow, you got to put it on the ground. You put your feet on it. There's a thing at the bottom of a crossbow, especially a high-powered crossbow. You put your feet in this thing, and then you pull on this motherfucker because it's like 100 pounds of pressure, and then you lock it in place, and then you put the bolt. It takes forever.
Starting point is 02:08:31 It takes so long. If zombies are coming at you- That's what I was saying. I did a whole video on it. Not only that. How come it just goes through your head and it stops? Why are you getting pass-throughs? These people's heads are like melons.
Starting point is 02:08:43 They're all rotten. This is true. 160-pound draw on his bow. Whose bow? The bow he's got in the show. Really? He found a sweet new striker crossbow in season three. It's got 380 FPS and 160 pounds. Let me see. Let me see what that looks like. That's not a great picture of it.
Starting point is 02:09:00 Oh, he got a new one? Meanwhile, who's fletching his fucking arrows and why does he have field tips on? This is what drives me crazy. He's got field tips. He doesn't even have a fucking broadhead on that piece of shit. This is nonsense. One more reason why I got rid of that show.
Starting point is 02:09:17 Fuck off. Yeah, I haven't watched that show. That show's murder porn. You're just watching people beat each other to death with baseball bats. Like, where are the zombies? I have a Negan bat. You do? With the barbed wire and shit? Why? It's cool.
Starting point is 02:09:33 How many do you have? Do you know how many of those you have at least? Somebody made a custom one for me with my logo on it. It was pretty cool. I mean, I was a Walking Dead fan, so you know. I was a Walking Dead fan for season one, and then season two was pretty good too, but somewhere along the line, it just became murder porn when Negan came along they did get well I mean I think they I mean they had to cut they had to keep upping the ante because I mean they had
Starting point is 02:09:53 so many seasons this thing would just put a hole in you like a pencil it wouldn't even kill you this is so stupid well I think that's why it's specific for zombies yeah you just gotta shoot them in the head but you don't why that's the rule this rule sucks silver bullets for uh werewolves and fucking garlic and crosses for i know but i mean he points it at people too have you pointed that thing at me i'd let you shoot me in the hand i fucking kill you it'll take you so long to reload that and i'll kill you with my other hand fuck you with that stupid bow oh Oh, man. I hate it. It's so dumb. I hate it.
Starting point is 02:10:28 Daryl's crossbow is a secret name. It's called piece of shit. Your fucking field tips. Why don't you have broadheads? Every time I would see him with the crossbow, I would just shout, we don't believe you. But I'm telling
Starting point is 02:10:44 you, those are a nightmare to reload. You have to be strong as fuck, too. I did a whole video on crossbows. Oh, did you really? And why it's such a stupid fucking thing to have during a zombie apocalypse. Yeah. What do you think is a good thing to have besides a gun? Besides a gun?
Starting point is 02:10:56 The lady with the samurai sword. That's the shit. Yes. Something edge weapon. Yeah, because you just got to cut their heads off. I need something to give me more leverage, so I'm thinking like a machete. Yeah, but you know what? No, no.
Starting point is 02:11:07 You want a samurai sword. She's right because first of all samurai sword you can two-hand it. That's what you want. You want something you can two-hand
Starting point is 02:11:13 because you can use technique and it won't wear you out as much. Okay. And two, you want something that's going to really slice through shit.
Starting point is 02:11:21 A machete. You're not going to cut off people's heads with a machete. Yeah, but are you going to be able to keep the edge on a fucking samurai sword? Yes.
Starting point is 02:11:27 Yeah? Yeah, the steel is insane. Okay. I mean, it's like such a well-crafted steel. Because I'm thinking- Sorry, Hanzo, if you got one of those,
Starting point is 02:11:34 you're set. Or I'd go an axe. An axe? No. I've been on some Viking shit lately, so you got to- That's a dope show.
Starting point is 02:11:43 That's a dope show. My wife stopped watching with me because it got too violent. She's like, I can't do this anymore. It was violent from the moment the show started. I know, but after a while, it wears on you. It does. I enjoyed that show. I loved it, man.
Starting point is 02:11:52 Yeah, that's a good show. I absolutely loved it. Absolutely. Yeah, it's a complicated show, too. There's a lot of shit going on. None. I think it was beautifully handled. I really do.
Starting point is 02:12:01 And probably kind of similar to what it was really like back then. Yeah, I can imagine. They're rough-ass people. I don't understand everybody's fascination with fucking Athelstan. I don't get it. Everyone loves him. And I'm like, dude, pick a religion. Pick one.
Starting point is 02:12:17 I've never seen someone bounce back and forth like a yo-yo. You're either going to believe in pagan gods or you're going to believe in Jesus. Pick one. Right. And he just bounces back and forth. And then we're supposed to develop some sense of what for him. And everybody loves him. I always felt like that's just a plot tool.
Starting point is 02:12:33 No, it was. I'm being a little. I get it. Yeah. But I still don't understand why everybody loved him so much. What was it? Was he like a pet dog? Because what did he really do?
Starting point is 02:12:43 He didn't do anything. Except fuck over his own people and then fuck didn't do anything except fuck over his own people and then fuck over the the vikings and then fuck over his own people again spoiler alert i just i'm fascinated by i mean i would love to go back in time and see what it must have been like to live back then when you know people really did they were pretty lawless and the people that did have law they were ruthless dictators and they controlled their people in a horrible way sounds familiar that's the other thing right like history repeats itself over and over again it just
Starting point is 02:13:21 repeats itself in patterns i think people a lot of i think a lot of people think you know we progress so far that we can't ever find ourselves back in a situation like that and i think it i think that's completely wrong yeah it is because like you said like history is circular like you can and you will you can progress yourself into fucking tyranny yeah people don't want to believe that, though, right? Like, the thing about things like Nazi Germany, for example, is that it was less than 100 years ago. It's so hard to imagine. And we would like to say, well, we are so far past a leader like Stalin
Starting point is 02:13:59 or Mao or Hitler. But, no, we're still people. And today on Earth in 2021, you still have Kim Jong-un running North Korea. And he's a ruthless fucking dictator. Here's the funny thing about that. They'll look at that and make a distinction in the fact that, well, no, we're America. We have things like our constitution,
Starting point is 02:14:20 so forth and so on. Yet when we talk about protecting the very elements of the fucking constitution they say it's outdated yeah yeah like how do you how do you ration keep those two thoughts in your head at the same time and it's always the first two amendments you know yeah it's one and two because they're the most because they're the most powerful yeah and people understand that and so they'll do everything in their power to undermine it and usurp it it's also those those are the ones that come up the most and the ones that are the most discussed
Starting point is 02:14:46 and debated. Yeah. You know, when you get down to like women's rights to vote, that doesn't get debated. But all the amendments that, you know, when First Amendment and Second Amendment, those are the ones that are always in the news. But I mean, I think there's inherently going to be people who, I think there are a lot of people who want to put their safety in the hands of someone else.
Starting point is 02:15:06 Yeah, for sure. They do. For sure. And then I think there are a lot of people who are like, no, I got it. And then I think there are a lot of people who just look at it from a realistic perspective. Yeah, sure, it'd be nice to have somebody who could actually protect me all the time. But I understand that sometimes in reality, that's not the case. Therefore, I'm going to get what I need to get in order to protect myself in the moments
Starting point is 02:15:23 that they can't. Well, if you watch the situation like what happened in minnesota with that kid where the the cop thought she had a taser in her hand it turns out she had a pistol and shot him i'm not putting my safety in that lady's hands no i wouldn't either there's not a fucking chance in hell and that's the problem with a lot of police departments or a lot of police officers. You are not getting, again, I hate to use the example. It's a great example. You're not getting Navy SEALs. No.
Starting point is 02:15:50 Okay, you're getting people that are willing to take this job, and they probably don't know how to handle pressure, and they're not getting paid a lot of money, and they're putting themselves in extreme danger, and they're terrified, and they panic. I said that in my group chat. I said, and my group chat is consistent of, you know, left, right, you know, it's pretty, pretty evenly spread.
Starting point is 02:16:08 I was just like, you'll be surprised, you'll be surprised of the dumb shit you'll do when put under pressure. Oh yeah, panic. You'll be completely surprised. Now.
Starting point is 02:16:17 Panic's a motherfucker. Now, it doesn't justify it considering this is your job. Right? Right. It doesn't make it acceptable. No.
Starting point is 02:16:24 But, I can, because there were some people who were saying, I can't see how anybody can make that mistake. I can. I can. I've taken courses where I was put under artificial pressure and I've made dumb decisions. Meaning like tactical courses? Yeah.
Starting point is 02:16:37 And so I can only imagine in a situation like that. Dude, people make terrible decisions playing pool for money. Right? That's like, I used to play in a lot of tournaments and I used to do a little bit of gambling, nothing serious, but I've seen a lot of people gamble that were good pool players and a couple hundred bucks and you can't make a ball, you're missing. Easy shots. It's just because of pressure. Now imagine there's a kid and he's got warrants and you're telling him to stop and he's not stopping. And you think you've got a taser in your hand. You've got a gun.
Starting point is 02:17:12 And you see the video. And she's like, I fucking shot him. And the thing about it, what a lot of people don't realize, too, is I wouldn't be surprised if that was the first time she ever drew her gun. That's a good point. That's a good point. I know people don't realize. A lot of cops go their entire career and. That's a good point. Because there are a lot of people there. I know, like, people don't realize, a lot of cops go their entire career and never pull their gun. And they don't have a lot of practice either.
Starting point is 02:17:29 It's not like they have to go to the range and prove proficiency over and over again. I don't know who put this on their Instagram. It might have been Snoop, but it was a real good point. And it was that, it might have been D.L. Hughley, but it was a real good point. It was like, people are saying that this lady who is a cop, like we that we need to look at this and give her cut her some slack because she was acting under pressure.
Starting point is 02:17:54 But yet they want citizens to remain calm when they're being pulled over by a cop with a gun in their face. That's a very good point. It's I think that's a ridiculous notion. Yeah, I think. No, I think she should be held. I think she should be held to a higher standard. gun in their face that's a very good point it's it's i think that's a ridiculous notion yeah i think no i think she should be held i think she should be held to a higher standard if you ask me because that's something that you volunteer you volunteered yourself to be in this position i think people just they think they can do it and someone tells you can do it you want to be a cop
Starting point is 02:18:17 uh okay well but that speaks to that speaks to maybe we need a question we need to really reevaluate the level of training that we're providing. And even then, you can train all day long. Until the real shit happens. When it happens, it happens. You don't know what you're going to do. In the gun community, they say when the pressure's put on, you're going to resort to the lowest level of your training. That's what they say. Same thing with fighting.
Starting point is 02:18:40 It's the same exact thing. It has to be instinctive. Exactly. You can't think in the middle of a crazy battle. You can't. It really It has to be instinctive. Exactly. You can't think in the middle of a crazy battle. You can't. It really does have to be instinctive. Yeah. And so, like, the idea of training is to, especially with shooting, is to make as much of what you do instinctive without even having to think about it.
Starting point is 02:18:56 So it almost leaves room for you to process other information. Yes. So you're not thinking about fine motor skills stuff. Because the whole notion of her, the weight of the gun versus the weight of the... Under an adrenaline dump. You don't know what the fuck's going on. Weight is weight. Weight is weight. Now, what that means in the grand scheme of things, I don't know.
Starting point is 02:19:16 That's why we were talking earlier when I was saying I like a heavy rifle. If I was hunting, I like a heavy rifle because under adrenaline, it feels light as fuck and everything is crazy. It's the same thing with bows. A lot of people with bows, they prefer to weigh their bow down. They have like a heavy back bar, heavy stabilizing bar. They like a heavy aluminum riser because when you're nervous, that bow feels like it weighs nothing. Adrenaline's crazy, man. And then there's no regulating how much of it.
Starting point is 02:19:46 It's just, here you go. And then you're drowning in it. Your hands are shaking. It's nuts. Have you ever seen someone that has been in a street fight and then afterwards their whole body is like shaking and convulsing? So I – and there's a video of it. And I did a – what they do, a sim training where you use fake gun rounds. But they hurt like hell. Like rubber bullets?
Starting point is 02:20:07 Sim munitions. Essentially you can call them rubber bullets to a degree. But you shoot them out of what looks like a real gun. They're actually real guns. They're just modified
Starting point is 02:20:14 to shoot these rounds. And so they put me through a series of scenarios that I had to deal with. So like I'm in bed laying down and there's a gun on here
Starting point is 02:20:24 and then the guys break into my room and I have to deal with the threat. like, I'm in bed laying down, and there's a gun on here, and then the guys break into my room, and I have to deal with the threat, and then a bunch of different scenarios like that. And so maybe this speaks to me, but the same thing happened then when it happened when I went on the hunt. I was super calm, like, when it happened. It was just like boom, boom, boom, bang. As soon as I was done, the adrenal dump, and it was just like boom boom boom bang soon as I was done the adrenal dump and I was just like this shaking yeah because it's largely too because there was a so
Starting point is 02:20:54 basically what happened is they escalated it they they kind of ramped it up each time until it was full bore five guys kicking in the door coming into my room and tagging me these things hurt oh jesus they hurt so literally I was in a corner ball up in a ball like this while they were It was full board, five guys kicking in the door, coming into my room and tagging me. These things hurt. Oh, Jesus. They hurt. So literally I was in a corner balled up in a ball like this while they were shooting me. Did you get welts all over your body afterwards? Yeah, if you get hit, yeah. Yeah, and so that adrenaline dump is real.
Starting point is 02:21:16 It's real. It's truly real. Yeah, adrenaline is a strange thing. And most people don't experience it in terms of a life-and-death situation, but once or maybe twice in their life, if ever, if ever. And I think there's something to be said, too, because we talked about this in a group chat, with respect to even the guy in the car who tried to lead, Dante. I believe Dante, right?
Starting point is 02:21:41 The young man that got killed? I think that was his name. Is that his name? I think so. Yeah, so there's something to be said about the adrenaline dump there, too. Oh, for sure. You know what I'm saying? A hundred percent.
Starting point is 02:21:50 So it's like- He thinks he's going to jail. And what was he- He had a warrant for something ridiculous, too. He had a warrant for attempted aggravated robbery. Is that what it was? Oh, I thought it was something- Yeah.
Starting point is 02:22:00 There was a number of things flying around about what it was. I think some people were saying it was – I forgot what it was. Some people were saying it was weed. No, it wasn't weed. That's what he told his mom. But that's not what it was. It was for aggravated robbery. That's the problem with one of these stories. The word gets out in so many different versions's I mean, there's something to be said about the irrelevant the irrelevance of it. Yeah. But because I take these situations and I kind of break them down to the moment and I look at it and I say, are in this moment what happens here? And I think with the larger discourse, we're revolving around this particular shooting. I think people forget two things can be true at once. Yeah, but it's just, to me, it's insane that people who become police officers aren't very highly trained.
Starting point is 02:22:50 They aren't tested on a regular basis. And they aren't paid very well. And you don't select the best of the best. We wouldn't have enough cops. Well, we would have more cops if we paid more money. And then it would probably be more effective. So where's that money going i know where is it going because because i can tell you what they're gonna say now well
Starting point is 02:23:08 then raise the taxes yeah you mean you mean you don't have enough money with the with the money you're already taking from me it's all so crazy yeah it's also crazy and then you know when you look at what california's doing california just allows people to steal things now yeah you can get a steal up to 900 bucks so people just stealing $800 worth of shit all day long and you don't even get arrested it's nuts it's insane it's so crazy kids something dude someone sent me a video you want to see the the most bizarre video I've ever seen of Venice Beach I'm gonna say send you saw it the cut thing together like the fighting on yeah on the boardwalk do you have that people Los Angeles page I think had it yeah you need to together, like the fighting on the boardwalk. Do you have that? The Street People Los Angeles page, I think, had it.
Starting point is 02:23:47 Yeah, you need to see it. It's just a bunch of crazy people over and over again, right? I know, but it's the number of people that are out there with tents now that's so nuts. It keeps escalating. It keeps getting higher and higher and higher. I mean, what did they expect to happen? I mean, I did several documentaries in Seattle and in San Francisco. I was freaking blown away, dude.
Starting point is 02:24:09 This fight video? Yeah, that's the one. That's the one. Go full screen on this because it's so crazy. Go full screen and back it up to the beginning. Are you sure that's not Austin Cesar Chavez? No. That ain't shit.
Starting point is 02:24:21 Look at this. The numbers. These guys are just crazy homeless people duking it out and hitting each other and stuff. And look at that poor guy jogging. But at nighttime, you've got these Mad Max style shanty towns and people getting in street fights. But there's so many tents, man, on the beach right there where people used to go and used to be tourists. And now it's just crazy homeless people and people doing drugs and people fighting in the streets.
Starting point is 02:24:48 Yeah but you, I mean the policies in these places. Did that guy just shoot that guy? No it was like Mace or something. Or bear spray or something. Who knows? Oh Jesus Christ. Oh yeah it is bear spray. Yeah he bear sprayed him.
Starting point is 02:25:05 Oh, he just sprayed him again. That guy's a dick. Look at these homeless people beating each other up and shit. But, I mean, this is... And look at that guy walking by just all casual with his Starbucks. Oh, my God, you fuck. Like, where's the humanity? You could just watch somebody beat the shit out of somebody else while you were strolling by.
Starting point is 02:25:24 And the dog's getting involved. Would you have strolling by, and the dogs get involved. Would you have jumped into that? Look at the dogs biting people. I wouldn't. I wouldn't either. Yeah, I'm talking shit. I wouldn't have done anything. You're right.
Starting point is 02:25:34 Look at this lady dragging this other person. Dragged his, pulled his pants off. This is madness. But this is what Venice Beach has become. Venice Beach has become this horrific place that i don't see a way out of this i don't understand how they're going to turn that around and the only way you stop that in the beginning is to have law and order you have to have a healthy respect for law and order well they're trying to do away with that though but los angeles trying
Starting point is 02:26:01 to do away with it more than any place i've ever seen. That crazy new district attorney that they hired that wants to get rid of the gang unit. I don't want to be the guy who puts on the tinfoil hat. But you hear about all these people that are George Soros funded and you're like, what is that guy up to? That's a good question. I personally, I've said this before. I said this on national television. television. I think in a lot of ways they leverage the violence to push the gun control agenda and to push further dependence on the government. You think they let this happen? They want this to happen?
Starting point is 02:26:32 I don't think they let it happen. I know they do. So you think that there's a solution that they should have used to try to end the homelessness situation? I think when you purposely put policies in place that enable that, then I think there's something to be said about it. By letting people camp. Yeah, because, I mean, think about it. This stuff wasn't happening before, so why is it happening unless you're enabling a certain behavior? Well, one thing is because the economy collapsed during COVID and a massive amount of people were out of work.
Starting point is 02:26:58 No, it was like that. I was doing documentaries in places like San Francisco. Shit was happening then, too. San Francisco was. Yeah, that's true. San Francisco was pretty bad, but it's way worse now. It is worse now,
Starting point is 02:27:08 but I will say there's something to be said about, like, I mean, it just. Do you bring it all to gun control? Is that your thing? No, no, no, no. I wasn't going to do, I use gun control as an analogy for a lot of things because that's, I've studied it so much.
Starting point is 02:27:23 Right. So my mindset goes, and so a lot of it because that's i've studied so much right so my mindset goes and so a lot of it just runs parallel to to each other as well because if you think about it although those people essentially are dependent on the government if we really want to think about it because they're allowing it to happen and if anything they have to depend on the government to allow them to continue to do those things. Those people still vote. They can. So allowing them to do that further incentivizes them to do what they need to do.
Starting point is 02:27:53 So now from that perspective, from a political paradigm, you have this issue where, at least when I was in San Francisco, there's a whole economy around homelessness where people are getting fucking rich. In what way? So I was doing a series of interviews in San Francisco and what ends up happening is you get all this money designated for helping homeless people helping people on the street so forth and so on but then none of that money finds its way to the people where is the money going and so and then guy I was talking to he's like people are basically lining up their pockets with that money because there's no accountability for what the
Starting point is 02:28:32 money's doing right and so when you keep and then so within these places since you are in a position for instance it's like who's not going to allot money to create housing for people who don't have houses? I mean, is that something that you would have a problem with? Well, most people would say, well, it would be nice if they had houses. Yeah. So let's allot money to house them. So let's earmark money off to do that. Yes. And then give it to these programs that are designed to do that.
Starting point is 02:29:03 And you feel good about yourself. Exactly. And then they'll do the bare minimum they need to do, and then the rest of that money goes where? Goes where? That's a good question. So that's what I mean by it. Do you know the situation in New York City
Starting point is 02:29:13 with the missing money for mental health? No. That the mayor's wife was involved with? No. Go to John Joseph Cro-Mag's Instagram page. He's got a story about it. It's pretty nuts. There's a shit ton of money missing that they can't account for,
Starting point is 02:29:28 that the mayor's wife was involved in some sort of a mental health program. I mean, they gave this program. We'll find out how much money, but it's a staggering amount of money. And so there's an investigation. Where is $850 million gone? Dang. Bill de Blasio's wife can account for a staggering amount of taxpayer money that the New York mayor gave her for a mental health project.
Starting point is 02:29:57 That's a spectacular amount of money that's missing. Oh, wow. How does that work? What do they do? They wait until he's out of office and then they prosec wow. How does that work? What do they do? They wait until he's out of office and then they prosecute? How does that work? Wow. I was just looking.
Starting point is 02:30:11 Los Angeles had a $430 million budget last year for homelessness, up from $429 million. Where is the money going? Where is that money going? So do you think that there's an industry in maintaining a large homeless presence so that they always have money that's allocated to deal with the homeless situation and that money gets filtered off? It would be the perfect ruse. I, as a politician, can say I allotted this money for homelessness. This is what I'm doing to help the homeless people.
Starting point is 02:30:41 Then I create an organization. Leaders of these organizations can then take that money and say, we're an organization that's helping the poor people. And then it's like, do bare minimum. And then just the rest of the money just. Let's say, think about this. If it's $430 million and there's only 100,000 people that are homeless, just give them that money and those motherfuckers are rich.
Starting point is 02:31:04 You know what I mean? I mean, stop and think about it. Have you just gave those $100,000? I mean, I suck at math, but what is that? $430 million, you give it to 100,000 people. What is that? I mean, they certainly have a lot of money. Yeah, it's a lot.
Starting point is 02:31:18 There's a story here that after a 12% spike in homelessness, the city opened up 39 tiny houses as temporary homes. Those 39 tiny houses cost $39,000. Exactly. Where's the rest of that money? For 66,400 people proposed. Wow. But that's an amazing amount of money.
Starting point is 02:31:39 Here's the crazy thing. Here's the crazy thing. $7,500 each unit cost. You know what's funny about that? Somehow it cost $5 million to do that. I did a- Wow. Wait, what?
Starting point is 02:31:48 Yeah. Each unit cost $7,500, but the total cost of the project ended up being $5 million, with money spent on water power and sewer lines at the site. But meanwhile, they don't even use these things those are they become lawless shantytowns no no here's a crazy thing did a documentary about seattle i was talking with this young lady so they had the same kind of shantytowns in seattle for all of the uh drug users you know heroin acts and stuff like that you can't shoot up in those communities. You have to do it outside of the community. So what they do, they'll do all the drugs on the streets.
Starting point is 02:32:29 Then when they go into these shantytowns, they can't do drugs. Is there a police in the shantytowns to stop them from doing it? I don't know how it works, but this is how she explained it to me. And she's like, that's why you see all the needles that you see in Seattle that are all over the place. Now part of that too is the needle exchange program and so forth and so on. That's a whole other conversation. I'm looking at things in a different way now because I didn't know there was that much money that was
Starting point is 02:32:50 allocated towards homelessness and really no benefit. Now I'm thinking about it like a business. I think you might be right. They got a state grant that goes towards Los Angeles that would go maybe to another part of the state. But bro, that's so much money. $430 million is so crazy that you can't do anything to fix it,
Starting point is 02:33:08 and it keeps getting worse. So is there anything that's written about the scandal of the $430 million allocated towards homeless people in Los Angeles? Where does that money go? There should be a where. This is before pandemic. An article from the LA Times in 2019. LA spent $619 million on homelessness last year.
Starting point is 02:33:30 What? 619? 619 million on homelessness? Bro, what in the fuck is that? The report would show likely little to no progress. But this is 619 million in a year in 2019 when there was no pandemic. So imagine what that – That is crazy.
Starting point is 02:33:51 And we're printing money at this point. So could you imagine what that's going to be in, what, 2022? Look at this. L.A. homeless housing costs have risen to 530 – go to the top one. $531,000 a unit. $531,000 a unit. $531,000. For that, you could buy them a dope condo. $531,000.
Starting point is 02:34:14 Oh, you haven't subscribed to LA Times? Yeah, but you can get it in Sylmar. Go a little outside. Push them out. Give them a nice place to live. Say, hey, you can live here. You have a free condo. A $500,000 condo. Push them out. Give them a nice place to live. Say, hey, you can live here. You have a free condo. A $500,000 condo.
Starting point is 02:34:27 That's crazy. I mean, I guess there is something to be said about maintenance and so forth and so on. But look at this. LA's $1.2 billion bond measure to combat homelessness. You telling me no one's getting rich off of this? Holy shit. Come on, now. I didn't know.
Starting point is 02:34:44 I just thought there was no money for it. I'm so naive. There's definitely money for it. What are you talking about? What are you talking about? They tax people to high hell in California. I know, but I just thought that was allocated to other shit, like making sure that trans people have a good bathroom.
Starting point is 02:34:58 I mean, I'm pretty sure that happens too. But that's nuts, man. The amount of money that's involved in that is fucking bananas. I just found an article that says, like, where is the money going? Let me see if that's nuts, man. The amount of money that's involved in that is fucking bananas. I just found an article that says, like, where is the money going? Let me see if that's interesting. That's a crazy scam. That's crazy. I remember when I was sitting there across from him,
Starting point is 02:35:16 and I was sitting and I'm looking around, I'm like, Jesus Christ. We were actually interviewing people who lived on the street. And they were telling us, they were like, and the funny thing is, she was like, even affordable housing was too high for her to afford i i do remember one part that like this is a part of the problem is that when we were still living there i remember there was like some area maybe in fresno or something we've talked about before there's like a big area where i did a camp did set like sort of start and there was a lot of fighting then where they would have a proposed uh new place being to be built and then
Starting point is 02:35:45 the area would just like they would all the residents would fight that that not on like they would not want that in their area i think there's something we're not accounting for though too is the drug use yeah okay so there's a lot of it is mental issues being exacerbated by drug use and then you have the drug use aspect of it as well so sure i think there is something to be said about the deterioration if you did create a certain environment for people to go out who are homeless to go and live that being said where the fuck is the money where the fuck is the money going dude where the fuck is the money going i didn't know i feel like a fool i feel like i feel like up until this point i never took into account the possibility of massive corruption i feel like i thought about it in
Starting point is 02:36:23 terms of like uh what are you going to do? You know, because in Austin, they have like 2,000 homeless people. It ain't shit. It's a lot. We think it's a lot. But it ain't shit. And, you know, they think it's a problem they can fix, and they actually have some ideas
Starting point is 02:36:40 on the table to fix it. They've got some plans. I will say this. The one mitigating factor is Texas heat. That's true. That's a huge mitigating factor. Yeah, that's true. Because that, I mean, you'll die. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:36:54 Well, you know what they did in El Paso? They had it set up where they had an outside area and an inside area. And the inside area was heated and cooled. But you could go in the outside area, but you didn't have to be clean. But if you wanted to go in the inside area, they had to drug test you and you couldn't use. And so they gave people an incentive to clean up, which kind of makes sense. I mean, I live in downtown Dallas, and so I live about a block or two away from a homeless shelter. Jesus.
Starting point is 02:37:21 Yeah, I deal with it. I mean, it's not anywhere near what you get with. No, I've been. I've been. I was there last year. It's a joke in comparison. Yeah. Sure, I'll wake up in the morning sometimes.
Starting point is 02:37:32 There's a guy standing at my front door yelling and screaming to himself. But by and large. You're in a Porsche Turbo. And you're like. See you later, crazy man. I talk back sometimes. Is there an article written on the corruption of the money that's gone to L.A. homelessness? Yeah, I'm digging.
Starting point is 02:37:51 Look at Jamie. It's talking about how L.A. is just a cesspool of fuckery. I mean, look at what they did with, what's the name of that damn street? The one, Skid Row. Skid Street. There it is. I mean, that was purposely designed. They designed it, yeah.
Starting point is 02:38:14 Did you see that movie, the Netflix thing on the Cecil Hotel? I watched a summary of it. There's a guy who's a historian on Skid Row. The most fascinating thing about that thing, about the Cecil Hotel, was the historian explaining how Skid Row became Skid Row. They just pushed all the crazy people. They just stay here. And they wouldn't let them leave. They have it boxed off. It's nuts, man.
Starting point is 02:38:38 They had it down. They were bad. And it's been like that for a long time. Down to the color of the lights in order to prevent you from leaving. Isn't that nuts? Dude, when I lived in L.A., rather, when I was doing Fear Factor, we did it in downtown L.A. in the early 2000s. Skid Row was wild then. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:38:57 Wild, man. Like, you know, it's just strange to think that there's no solution. Like, they're not trying to fix it. It's strange to think that they want to keep the homeless situation that way because then they get hundreds of millions of dollars of your tax money every year. And then they're raising taxes. There's proposals to raise it up to 16%. I mean, if you think about it, it just funnels through itself. It's a self-contained system.
Starting point is 02:39:24 But how do they expect people to stay there? That's what's nuts. What do you mean? Why do they expect people to stay in Los Angeles? I mean, they're- I didn't say they were good at what they did. No. Right.
Starting point is 02:39:36 They just take it now. Fuck the city. Let somebody else deal with that later when I get my money and I'm out of here. You literally changed my perspective on the homeless situation. I'm telling you. I didn't think of it that way. So when I was with the NRA, right, when I was doing the programs that I was doing with the NRA, because I was always saying, why don't we get to the root of the issues, fix the root of the issues, right?
Starting point is 02:39:55 So we said, okay, this season what we're going to do is we're going to travel to different cities that are problematic and see if we can get to the root of issues. We went to Seattle, San Francisco, the Bay Area. We went to Compton. We went to South, San Francisco, the Bay Area. We went to Compton. We went to Southside Chicago. I mean, we went everywhere. And for me, it was incredibly eye-opening. When you're feet on the ground and you're seeing this shit in real time,
Starting point is 02:40:16 you're like, holy shit. I mean, we were in South Central, and they had a full shootout on the next street over while we were filming. You heard it and everything? Dude, we got the hell out of Dodge. And, I mean, I wasn't carrying because it's L.A. So, you know, not that I would just run over and say, who's over here and start shooting. But there's something to be said about the fact that while we were filming about the underlying issues in this place, there was literally a shootout that happens the next street over.
Starting point is 02:40:44 We have to stop feeling jump in the truck and get the hell out of Dodge. So, yeah. Fuck. I just never would have imagined that it's that much money that goes to homelessness and that there's actually a vested interest in keeping the problem and even maybe possibly making the problem worse so that there's more money. And then they don't have to account for that money. Who's going to question you about allocating money for homelessness?
Starting point is 02:41:11 Right. No one. And who's going to question you about where, like, is there a spreadsheet? Like, did they have to show you a breakdown analysis of a wonder? I mean, look, the government is notorious with wasting money. And they're notorious with throwing money at solutions. Like, even within my brand, I have a design called defund gun control, right? Because people undervalue the amount of money that goes into gun control.
Starting point is 02:41:36 Like, you have places like Maryland. Maryland in, like, I forgot, it was like 2016, I think. They implemented what they call micro-stamping. Micro-stamping was their new hot and fancy way of marking firearms. Like you have micro-stamping in California right now with guns. You have to have a certain type of designator on the firing pin of a particular gun. And they claim that's going to be utilized to stop crime, to be able to solve crimes and so forth and so on.
Starting point is 02:42:01 $15 million later, guess how many crimes it solved? Zero. $15 million. Just like that. And they don't have to account for that. So there's no one that says, hey. Because it's about gun safety. So because it's about gun safety, it's a protected class.
Starting point is 02:42:19 They're not. Who's going to question it? They're very good with language. Very good with language. That's why it went from gun control to reasonable gun control to gun safety. Gun safety. There's a progression. And Nancy Pelosi is on record saying this.
Starting point is 02:42:35 Really? Yes. Yes. I forgot she was talking to a bunch of college students. She was like, you know, they changed the name. They stopped saying gun control and they started saying gun safety. Because you can sell gun safety. You can't sell gun control as well, because what does that designate?
Starting point is 02:42:49 It's control. Do you hear what she said about the Capitol Hill rioters? No. She would have fought them off. With what? Her ice cream? Headbutts. She'd take that numb head.
Starting point is 02:42:59 She can't feel shit. All that Botox in her forehead, she would just fucking thump it. I didn't realize she was that rich. Oh, she's so rich. It doesn't make any sense. How'd you make that money? She is loaded. Where'd you get that money?
Starting point is 02:43:12 You're a public servant. Where are you getting that money? I'm not one to count people's pockets, but damn. Like that, like she's loaded. Hundreds of millions, right? Oh, yes. Where'd you get that money? I don't know.
Starting point is 02:43:22 There's a bunch of stuff with her and taxes this week, too. Someone, like, a million dollars on Roblox. That game. What? Yeah. She spent a million dollars on Roblox? Yeah. What?
Starting point is 02:43:33 Yeah. Are you serious? Bro, my 10-year-old plays that game. That game is stupid as fuck. Speculation. Stock speculation. Great for a 10-year-old. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:43:40 What? Stock speculation? Yeah. Oh, well, Roblox makes a fuckload of money. There was something that happened to this week where Microsoft got a huge contract and she put some money in Microsoft and they were like, if she did this,
Starting point is 02:43:52 insider trading guys. Oh, I did see that, yeah. She seems immune to all that stuff for some strange reason. She's very Teflon. Because that fucking whole beauty salon thing should have taken her down. She's like, I think it was the setup.
Starting point is 02:44:06 They set me up. It was the setup. The setup? You didn't have a fucking mask on. You know you're supposed to wear a mask. You know the beauty salons are closed. You know how I know you know? Because I know, and I don't have any fucking hair.
Starting point is 02:44:23 You're a goddamn lawmaker, and you didn't know that they were closed? It was a setup. They set me up. I think they should apologize. It was a setup. I would have fought those Capitol Hill people off in my head. What? What are you talking about?
Starting point is 02:44:39 I would have taken my clothes off and run out. What are you doing, lady? She's got so much power. Dude, it's crazy, man. And you know what? It's like, for someone to fight that, you would have to get involved in politics so deeply. You would have to become an elected official.
Starting point is 02:44:57 You'd have to get to Capitol Hill. And that's assuming you get that far without being corrupted. Right, and you'd have to get into that system. Yeah. Oh, Jesus Christ, what a mess. I'm trying to compare LA's homeless problem to, like, let's say New York, right? They spend, it says, up from 2014 to 2019,
Starting point is 02:45:17 $3.2 billion. Oh! And there they have to provide a place for homeless people. $3 billion? And they're still, their numbers haven't gone down, and it's still around 60,000 in the city, is what it says. They still haven't gone down. There's 60,000 people in New York City that are homeless?
Starting point is 02:45:35 Mm-hmm. Jesus Christ. Oh, my God. It's a scam. It has to be a scam. It has to be. It says it's grown over 10,000 since de Blasio took over. De Blasio.
Starting point is 02:45:47 God damn, these people are gross. It says a little known fact that the city of New York is legally obliged to provide housing for those without it. But with the explosion of the city's homelessness population, you'd be forgiven for not knowing that. How crazy is that money missing, though? That's bananas. 820 million. That's so much money. is that money missing though that's bananas 800 as his wife million just pilf even if you just take 10% of that 82 million just sitting around where to go dead set policy about getting into running for office I think I might
Starting point is 02:46:20 change that now I know right Jesus Christ? Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. 1% of that. 1% you got 8 million bucks. 1% is missing. Whatever, whatever. It's 1%. It's 1%. Why are you being so picky? I'm trying to stop. What am I trying to stop? Mental healthness. Mental health problems. God. You know what, man? It's like, who is going to fix us? Who's going to help us? Who's going to change anything? Nobody.
Starting point is 02:46:51 There's no one on the horizon. I'm at a loss. I'm at a loss, too. And that's why we all need guns. Bring it back around. Same thing in this city, too. Not as much, but. In Austin back around. Same thing in this city too. Not as much, but. In Austin?
Starting point is 02:47:07 Yeah. How much in Austin? It says the city of Austin devoted 73.4 million in taxpayer funding and they've only spent 57% of it. Jesus. Millions yet,
Starting point is 02:47:17 what does it say? Millions yet to be spent in the city of Austin funding for the homeless. Wow. Good Lord. That doesn't scare me as much, though. But there's not that many people here.
Starting point is 02:47:29 Yeah, it's way less people here. Way less. Fuck, man. We're going to have to move to Montana where people freeze to death if they try to be homeless? Mars. Mars, yeah. Elon's going to ship the homeless people to Mars. Imagine if they're the first people to go to Mars.
Starting point is 02:47:44 Yeah, give them free housing on Mars. You can live inside the dome. This podcast is very important because you literally changed my opinion about homelessness. I didn't think there was any money being allocated towards homelessness. I looked at what was going on in L.A. and I was like, well, clearly they don't have any money. That's what I thought. The fact that there's hundreds of millions of dollars. The way you are right now was the way I was when I was doing that documentary.
Starting point is 02:48:08 I was like, what? I can't believe it. I really can't believe it. I can't believe how naive I am, too. That I just thought it was just a money problem. I'm like, well, maybe if we got more money, they would fix it. No, it's a goddamn pilfering scheme. It's perfect, too.
Starting point is 02:48:22 It's a Bernie Madoff is what it is. Oh, no. You're wowing? Let's see if this is correct. What do you got? I'm reading through lamare.org so this is, you know, it sounds pretty official. How LA is responding to this thing from Mayor Garcetti's office. Five years ago, less than $20 million in the city
Starting point is 02:48:38 budget was earmarked for homelessness. Since then, it's gone up to $460 million. And five years ago, there was no homeless people. It was so small in comparison. So there's more and more money involved. Mayor Garcetti also pushed for state funding to help accelerate the work of ending the homelessness crisis, a successful effort that resulted in an additional $166 million in state funding in 2018 and $270 million in 2019 to Los Angeles for homelessness services and housing.
Starting point is 02:49:10 Of which there is not much. Of which there's not much homelessness service and housing, and the numbers of homeless people, more importantly, have radically increased. Wow, it's an industry. There's a homeless money industry. And the more homeless people there are, the more money they can get to conquer the homeless problem.
Starting point is 02:49:33 Wow. What a fucking bummer way to end this podcast. Funneling money into the bank. That is crazy. That's why we need more guns. It is. But it does seem like that really is what's going on.
Starting point is 02:49:45 I mean, otherwise, how else could it be that bad? Yeah. It doesn't make any sense. Right. Any human being can look at that and say that something's not right here. So what was the number? 400 and what million this year? 60.
Starting point is 02:49:55 Okay. Divide 460 million by 100,000. Let's just say 100,000. Let's pretend. Oh, that's 460,000 then. You just take off those three zeros. Oh. So that's 460,000 a person for every homeless person.
Starting point is 02:50:08 Hold on, let me do it again. That can't be right. You can't simplify it that easy. 60,000, one, two, three, divided by, maybe it's all the zeros. One, two, three. 46,000? Yeah, 4,600. Yeah, yeah, take off all the zeros.
Starting point is 02:50:21 4,600 per person. Yeah, I was doing, I missed three zeros there. 4,600, yeah, yeah. Boy, you're way off. Well, I'm trying to do it quick. I'm typing and doing things. Yeah, yeah. Take off all this stuff. 4,600 per person. I was doing, I missed three zeros there. 4,600. Yeah, yeah. Boy, you're way off. Well, I'm trying to do it quick. I'm typing and doing things. That's terrible. Meanwhile, I couldn't do it either.
Starting point is 02:50:32 No, 4,600 is nothing. That's nothing. Times 100,000. You get back to 460 million. Wow. That's 4- 4,600. 4,600 per person ain't shit.
Starting point is 02:50:43 Yeah. They ain't going gonna fix that. They have a proposed thing in here to- For a trillion dollars. To subsidize. Give every homeless person a URSUS. They're gonna use 800 million to subsidize rent for 18 months. That's one plan.
Starting point is 02:50:56 And then once that 18 months is up- You kill them. Then they have to pay for rent, I guess. Good luck. I think the biggest problem is the biggest driver of the homelessness is drugs. Yes, and mental illness, for sure. Drugs and mental illness. But they go hand in hand.
Starting point is 02:51:14 Pretty much. Sad. Motherfucker. That's crazy. That is a crazy. This whole thing is nuts. And here's the thing. What do you do to fix it?
Starting point is 02:51:25 You round them up and put them in jail? What do you do? That's a good point. There's nothing you can do. And the way they've allowed it to spread and people are moving out of Venice in droves. Venice is crazy because Venice used to be bulletproof. You could always buy a home there in Venice and it would always be worth a good investment. But not anymore.
Starting point is 02:51:42 Wow. I have friends that live in Venice. They're trying to get out. They can't sell their house. They're like, people used to be able to sell houses easy in Venice, and now people are just selling everything. It's like, we're getting out. Fuck.
Starting point is 02:51:54 And this is not that long ago. Yeah. I think Google started moving into Venice just a few years ago, and then housing went way up, and everybody who lived there was really pumped. They're like, dude, it's great. Great place to live now for an investment. I'm selling my house. I mean, last time I was in Venice,
Starting point is 02:52:10 I thought this place was weird as fuck. It's weird as fuck. It's weird as fuck. Well, that's where my favorite restaurant is. There's a place called Felix on Abbot Kinney. It's fucking amazing. Shout out to Janet and Evan, the people who own and the head chef there.
Starting point is 02:52:25 It's incredible. But it's in a shithole. It's like the place is – you're driving around there, man. It's just all these weirdos and sketchy people and like walk quick, walk quick, get to the restaurant. You park your car and you're like, I hope it's here when we get back. And if it's not, guess what? Nobody gives a shit. And if somebody breaks into your car, don't even bother calling the police because unless they did more than 900 they're allowed to yeah it's crazy like people are breaking into
Starting point is 02:52:49 cars and just stealing their shit stealing people's uh grills out of their backyard i haven't heard because we barely we haven't run out there is there like a hard line between santa monica and venice now and you can tell or is it no there's a lot of homelessness in santa monica a lot i saw a lot last time I was there. Because I haven't been there in a while, and I kind of forgot how close they are. Yeah, they're close. They're right next to each other. Malibu is trying to do something about it. That's where you get the richy riches.
Starting point is 02:53:13 They stop people from parking their caravans on the PCH. You know, people that have those camper vans that they live in. Where the hell do they get those things? I don't know, man, but there's a lot of them. That's like classy homeless people. They're homeless, but they can drive around. Those are people who have made a lifestyle out of it. Yeah, they've committed.
Starting point is 02:53:34 But, I mean, you can live like that, and you're kind of still living. A lot of those things have potable water. You can take a shower. It's like you're kind of alive. You just don't have an apartment. It's better than. But, I mean, you think about it, though. If your sole purpose is to get high.
Starting point is 02:53:50 Yeah. Yeah. All you need is bare minimums and then get high. That's your revolving life. And you don't even really have to drive it. You just have to park it somewhere. And if they're allowing you to park on a lot of these streets and keep it there, you got an apartment. You can lock it and then you leave and everything
Starting point is 02:54:07 Fuck dude. Is there way to Cheer me up before we wrap this up. You go shoot. I wish I could Today's a rough day We'll do it another day for sure. Yeah, we should go to well like like we go to the range But we should go outside some a, we can go to the range but we should go outside some outside place. No, I prefer shooting outside. I know you took Schaub to one of them
Starting point is 02:54:28 tactical courses with all the tires and stuff. Where's that? Is that in Dallas? It's TVSA in Ferris, Texas. Well, next time I do a gig in Dallas, I'll come a day early
Starting point is 02:54:37 and take me to that and we'll make a video and have some fun. Yeah, we can do that for sure. Well, listen man, I appreciate that you're out there. You're a very important voice. You're a voice of reason and and understanding and logic and information
Starting point is 02:54:49 and you know what the fuck you're talking about and that's in this world that's a rare thing thank you so and thank you yeah i'll keep at it hopefully i'll stop reading the comments definitely stop reading the comments read the comments all right thanks brother i appreciate thank you very much. Yes, sir. Goodbye, everybody.

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